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Flatiron Building should not become hotel [I am urging Asheville City Council to] please do not keep destroying the core of the city by converting the Flatiron Building to a hotel. Asheville residents have no obligation to enrich the owner of the building by his Cadillac proposal that injures the residents and tourists and hurts our quality of life. Quit destroying the downtown experience to enrich the wealthy. If he wants to sell, let him sell at market value, and the next person can fix up the building. The building is worth what it is worth and has been under his management. It is his responsibility to keep it up — or sell it in its present use or possibly slight modification. In Asheville, we should be protecting our valuable parking for tourists and those doing business with downtown merchants — not passing something that could take hundreds of spots away. For any proposal to be allowed, we must insist upon 100% parking provided by the hotel, including all hotel room guests (some having two cars), all staff, all restaurant workers and even convention or conference parking needs. The existing parking belongs to the Asheville city businesses and residents. Neither wants to see the spots taken by a hotel, causing those doing business to go spend their money elsewhere — where parking is available. I sure don’t want to be taxed to provide more park-

ing when this hotel needs the limited spaces already paid for by us. Hotels belong on the periphery, even though the city allows them in the core. (The “up not out” policy: That is flawed.) We need to have hotels a few to quite a few blocks away from the core. Those hotels again must provide for all parking needed — and the guests can walk or take short transit to town — avoiding the need for parking in the core. The small boutique businesses in the Flatiron are wonderful — they add huge character to the city. Again, if this is not working for him, let him sell it, and we will likely see the same or similar use be continued. It appears by the article in the paper that changing to a hotel will be hurting many small businesses as they “close” in the Flatiron Building. That is a real loss to Asheville. That area is special. We go there often. I understand that on another street years ago, probably Lexington Avenue, was proposed a mall. The modern mall was not approved, and the street remained the character we see now, as Asheville flourished. We are now faced again with mall/hotel or keep the character of Asheville. We hope the decision can be for keeping the special character. The traffic downtown is terrible, so why add to this congestion? What is our benefit? We need to know this: How do we benefit from this hotel? We don’t. The City Council has no obligation to approve this, to enhance the wealth of a wealthy man. The Council is to help the city — the people — to keep Asheville in character and build upon what we have that is good.

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Asheville residents: Does the proposal make Asheville better? No, it does not. It makes Asheville worse. Please do what you can to stop this destruction of a very special area in Asheville. Thank you for reading this. — Jerry Hinz Candler (moving to the city this fall)

Forget developers and use bonds for affordable housing [On] April 12, Asheville’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee met to discuss a proposed policy on selling or donating city land to developers as an incentive to build affordable apartments. The theme: Don’t scare off the developers. Even donating or discounting city land wasn’t enough to guarantee apartments that stay affordable for 30 years. The AHAC reduced the goal to 15 years, citing risks to developers. The kicker: Developers get $80,000 of subsidy on average for each affordable unit. This gets the city an apartment that won’t stay affordable forever, and city doesn’t see a cent of the rent charged. Not to mention that $80,000 approaches the construction cost of an affordable apartment. This strategy is corporate welfare, and it isn’t working. Rents skyrocketed 10.7% last year. More people are cost-burdened than ever: Over one in three Asheville households are paying more than 30% of their income on housing. While city efforts are admirable, they haven’t produced results on the scale needed. We’re paying too much money for not enough apartments because the city’s approach is all about private developers. It’s time for a different approach. Instead of giving away money to wealthy developers, the city can issue bonds to build its own affordable, public housing. Instead of begging developers to make 20% of their units affordable, we can build the amount we need, and keep them affordable indefinitely. With its AAA bond rating, Asheville is in a perfect position to build public housing with low-interest bonds. Since the city would own this housing, the rents could pay off the bond payments without new taxes. Asheville residents overwhelmingly support bonds: The 2016 bond referendums all passed with about three-quarters of the vote. Asheville is ready. Let’s stop giving away money to developers and invest in our city instead. — Shane McCarthy Asheville 6

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Bitz had huge impact on no-kill movement I would personally like to thank Denise Bitz for her extraordinary contribution to the animals of Asheville and Western North Carolina [See “Moving On: Brother Wolf Recruits New Director,” March 27, Xpress]. She had a huge impact on the no-kill movement in Asheville and beyond. Prior to Brother Wolf, it was business as usual with large numbers of dogs and cats being euthanized. Very few recognized the problem. Any volunteer organization I have ever been involved with for the past 40-plus years has had controversy. The larger the organization, the more room there is for such. Brother Wolf evolved in a very short time from a basement project to a multimillion-dollar organization. Denise should be proud of her accomplishment. I wish her well. I hope Brother Wolf continues for a very long time. — Jane Finneran Cullowhee

Vegetable protein may be dog diet culprit While I appreciate her drawing our attention to this issue, Catherine Ashe [“Beware of Canine Diet Trend,” April 10, Xpress] left out the most important detail from the FDA’s dog-diet warning. Concerning taurine-deficiency dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) the alert reads, “Diets in cases reported to the FDA frequently list potatoes or multiple legumes such as peas, lentils, other ‘pulses’ (seeds of legumes), and their protein, starch and fiber derivatives early in the ingredient list, indicating that they are main ingredients” and that they “appear to be more common in diets labeled as grainfree.” That is the FDA’s warning to pet owners: Be concerned if your dog’s diet is high in vegetable protein. The original warning is available here: [avl.mx/5xj]. — David Bloom Swannanoa

We care about pets and their health In response to Catherine Ashe’s letter to the editor in the April 10 issue of Mountain Xpress [“Beware of Canine Diet Trend”], which is riddled with inaccuracies: I am the owner of Patton Avenue Pet Co. We have been serving tens of thousands of pets in the WNC area for the last eight years. I started my business after getting a degree in

C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N animal science from the University of Vermont, with a concentration in companion animals. I have a comprehensive background in companion animal nutrition, and I ensure that all my staff undergo extensive training on pet nutrition before consulting customers on diets. I do what I do because I care deeply about pets and their health; the insinuation that pet stores like mine are only in it for the money is incredibly insulting. We offer a wide range of foods, including diets with and without grains, and including proteins ranging from chicken to kangaroo. All of the diets we sell are AAFCO [Association of American Feed Control Officials] approved, as are almost all commercially available pet foods; the presumption that we or any other local pet store would sell untested and unapproved diets is intentionally misleading and absolutely false. And, to our knowledge, only one of our thousands of customers’ pets has been diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy, which is to be expected in a sample size this large. DCM is a real issue. But, as the prior letter writer expressed, the cause is currently unknown. The FDA is investigating, and I, as a pet parent and lover of all dogs, am following all reports and studies closely. The initial report that blamed it on “BEG” diets (read: non-Purina or Hills brands) showed that 236 dogs had been diagnosed with possible diet-related DCM, out of a total of 22 million dogs in

the United States being fed a grain-free diet. That is an occurrence of 0.001%. Coincidentally, many of the articles that have been shared about DCM have been written by vets with a monetary connection to, or directly working for, Purina, which has lost a large amount of market share to these diets as consumers become more educated about proper pet nutrition. Meanwhile, the rates of canine cancer, diabetes and urinary issues have seen a huge rise in recent decades, but no fingers are pointed at high-carbohydrate diets that contribute to these issues. We do not specifically advocate for grain-free foods but, rather, for highmeat content foods. These diets provide dogs, which descended from carnivores, with the nutrients that they thrive on. We promote these low-carbohydrate diets not because it’s a fad, but because dogs’ bodies are not designed to digest large amounts of carbohydrates. They lack the intestinal length, enzymes and other biological factors that make humans and other omnivores able to consume both meat and plant matter equally efficiently. In fact, if we were just in this industry for profit, there are a number of very popular, lower-quality brands that we could be selling for much higher margins, but we wouldn’t be able to sleep at night knowing that we were doing a disservice to dogs. — Jenna Yarosh Wilson Asheville MOUNTAINX.COM

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A shady proposition BY STEVE RASMUSSEN Last year, simply by living, the trees lining the curb of our little West Asheville residential lot stopped 3,720 gallons of stormwater from eroding our and our neighbors’ yards and flooding down our streets and storm drains into our neighborhood creeks. That’s nearly the same amount of water as four large fire engines blasting their hoses till their tanks are empty or me soaking in a 10-minute shower every morning for six months. And if my wife and I can protect our grizzled old American holly and skyscraping bald cypresses from chainsaw-swinging marauders for another year, they’ll sequester enough CO2 to reduce our household’s carbon footprint by nearly 1 ton — not to mention how much fossil fuel they’ll save us from paying for by sheltering us from winter winds and shading us from summer sun. Our trees and their arboreal cohorts all across Asheville could be —should

be — our city’s most effective and affordable defense against the dangerous flooding, erosion and temperature extremes that climate change is increasingly inflicting on us. Their umbrellas of branches and leaves intercept and moderate excessive precipitation and solar radiation, while their spreading, twisting networks of roots wick up surplus groundwater and knit together rock and soil particles to prevent them from washing away downhill. (Thanks to scores of national environmental studies, these and other benefits can be quantified for nearly any tree outside your door — right down to dollars and cents — at webpages such as avl.mx/5xe, where I calculated the figures for our trees.) But it isn’t easy to save a tree in this town. Back in 2008, for example, after two now-disgraced county officials, Wanda Greene and Jon Creighton, arranged the controversial sale of public parkland where a pair of landmark magnolia trees stood in front of City

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STEVE RASMUSSEN Hall to would-be Parkside condo builder Stewart Coleman, hundreds of residents had to rally repeatedly around the trees — and my wife, Dixie Deerman, and I had to camp out for months under their branches — just to rescue them. Thankfully, those magnolia trees are still standing. In the decade since their rescue, however, this city has lost its urban tree canopy at an unsustainable rate of as much as 10%, according to current estimates — mostly at the hands of developers who see trees as obstacles rather than assets and clear-cut the lots on which they build or fatally damage the roots of any trees left standing because, well, that’s just what you do when you don’t care or don’t know any better, and there’s no law being enforced to stop you. CONFRONTING THE CRISIS The powerful hold that rich developers have long had on our lawmakers has kept Asheville’s tree-protection ordinances few and weak. One prevents tree clearing on steep slopes — a direct cause of landslides — but only at elevations above 2,350 feet. The others require obtaining a permit before removing trees on a commercial property or in a local historic district (see avl.mx/4u9). Even these limited measures stood to be gutted earlier this month by a Republican-introduced bill in our state Senate. Until it was amended in the face of statewide opposition by municipali-

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ties and urban foresters, SB367 would have forced Asheville and 38 other North Carolina cities to let developers cut any tree that “interferes” with their project — as long as they replaced it with a spindly sapling. So, Asheville’s Tree Commission, its Tree Protection Task Force (which is open to the public; I’m a member), and the nonprofit Asheville GreenWorks have together taken the lead to confront our city’s tree-loss crisis and act on effective ways we as a community can stop it. For example, task force volunteers have reinvigorated the Treasured Tree program, and GreenWorks has begun training volunteer city residents to be Neighborhood TreeKeepers. We’ve consulted with nonprofits such as TreesCharlotte and Trees Atlanta to learn about the steps their cities have taken to reverse the deforestation accompanying their development booms, which began several decades before ours. Task Force Chair Ed Macie (who is both a certified arborist and urban forester) has produced a set of guidelines for protecting trees during infill development — the kind of intensive, small-scale homebuilding in existing neighborhoods that city planners are prioritizing but that threatens the big, mature trees that are the pride and joy of so many older neighborhoods unless that development is done sensitively. We made sure the officials and consultants who crafted the city’s new Comprehensive Plan understood how crucial trees are to one of its key goals, planning for climate change. The completed plan (avl.mx/5xf) is seeded throughout with recommendations such as more tree planting (“monitor and grow the number of street trees on all street types to ensure a lush tree canopy,” Introduction, p. 113) and warnings about the dangers of tree loss (3,308 Asheville families and 14,510 households with members over 65 are vulnerable to “a potential extreme heat event” because they live in “areas with a high percentage of developed land cover and low tree canopy,” as mapped in Appendix D: Planning for Climate Resilience, p. 80). URGENT RECOMMENDATIONS In 2017, at the Tree Commission’s urging, the city took its first significant step toward protecting its trees: City staff worked with the commis-

sion and an independent consultant to conduct an Urban Forest Sustainability and Management Review of all city programs and policies that affect our urban forest. The results were presented to City Council in February 2018. This “gap analysis” compared our existing programs and policies to an optimum set of these, and then made recommendations for appropriate changes and improvements to close any gaps between the two. Following one of its recommendations, the city this year is contracting a state-of-the-art “canopy analysis” of our urban forest that will record how the tree cover within our city limits has changed over the past decade and provide a tool we can work with for the future. The two most urgent and powerful recommendations the gap analysis report made to City Council are these, according to Tree Commission Chair Stephen Hendricks: • Hire a full-time urban forester to oversee our city’s tree canopy and provide adequate staffing to assist him or her. • Institute strategic planning for urban forest protection, including development of a comprehensive urban forest master plan and updated ordinances.

Hiring an urban forester and developing an urban forest master plan will require City Council to budget some money. Now is the time they need to do it — especially since HCA Healthcare’s acquisition of Mission Health will begin flooding the city’s coffers with property tax income, some of which rightfully should be invested in providing for Asheville’s long-term health, safety and survival through the unavoidable crisis of climate change. During the entire time that Dixie and I were battling developer-tilted city and county bureaucracies to save those magnolia trees, we bitterly noted the hypocrisy of the “Tree City USA” flag the city flew at that time in front of the very planning-and-development building where these beloved trees were being railroaded into extinction. We would like to see that flag fly high again — and this time, we want our city to mean it. X Steve Rasmussen, a former Xpress reporter on environmental issues, is a clergy member with Dixie Deerman for Coven Oldenwilde, a Wiccan nonprofit, and can be reached through www.oldenwilde.org. To connect with Ashevilleans who are passionate about trees, visit avl.mx/5xg.

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Mass incarceration in Asheville and beyond

BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com “Each of us is more than the worst thing we’ve ever done,” writes Bryan Stevenson in his best-selling 2014 book, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption. For over 35 years, the Harvard Law School graduate has worked to challenge poverty and racial injustice while arguing for equal treatment in the criminal justice system. Since establishing the nonprofit Equal Justice Initiative in 1989, Stevenson has become a national leader in advocacy and public education on issues related to mass incarceration. On Thursday, April 25, the attorney will give a talk in UNC Asheville’s Kimmel Arena. Stevenson will explain his organization’s mission and ongoing projects, including last year’s launch of The National Memorial for Peace and Justice. Located in Montgomery, Ala., the memorial honors the country’s more than 4,400 known lynching victims. The site leads visitors along a historical timeline connecting past injustices to present-day mass incarceration rates (see “Lynching Memorial Confronts Our Country’s Past,” Aug. 31, 2018, Xpress). According to Stevenson’s work, state and federal spending on jails and prisons totaled $6.9 billion in 1980. By 2014, that number had skyrocketed to nearly $80 billion. Meanwhile, the author continues, between 1990 and 2005, a new prison opened in the United States every 10 days. What many of those prisons have in common, writes Stevenson, is “the extreme overrepresentation of people of color.” Add in “the disproportion-

TAKING THE STAGE: On Thursday, April 25, lawyer, activist and best-selling author Bryan Stevenson will give a talk in UNC Asheville’s Kimmel Arena. Photo by Nina Subin ate sentencing of racial minorities, the targeted prosecution of drug crimes in poor communities, the criminalization of new immigrants and undocumented people, the collateral consequences of voter disenfranchisement,” he maintains, “and the barriers to re-entry can only be fully understood through the lens of our racial history.” Some would frame the argument in far simpler terms: Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. But as Stevenson emphasizes throughout Just Mercy, the

justice system is far from blind. Again and again the book cites court cases in which a person’s guilt or sentencing was determined less by evidence than by their race or financial situation. “We’re supposed to sentence people fairly after fully considering their life circumstance, but instead we exploit the inability of the poor to get the legal assistance they need — all so we can kill them with less resistance,” Stevenson writes. COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT In preparation for Stevenson’s upcoming talk, UNCA faculty, staff and students have worked to gather and distribute over 300 copies of Just Mercy to more than a dozen local organizations, churches and school groups. For professor Patrick Bahls, the director of UNCA’s honors program, the donated books are part of the university’s broader community focus. “If UNCA is to be an anchor institution … that serves as a hub for thought, big ideas and leadership … we can’t bring these big speakers to campus and not have the community engaged in some way,” he says. More than a third of the distributed books were paid for by the proceeds

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from a fundraiser organized by UNCA juniors Alayna Graves and Alexis Moon. The two students helped raise nearly $1,000 in less than a month — enough to purchase 115 books. Their dedication, notes Bahls, exemplifies another aspect of the university’s mission. “I think that’s the highest aim of a liberal arts education: to prepare good citizens,” he declares. “It sounds old-fashioned, but I think asking what you can do to contribute to your community ... is crucially important.” Moon agrees. Although she and Graves had little prior fundraising experience, she says, their desire to help spread the book’s message helped motivate them during the fundraiser’s slow start. “It was really eye-opening to face the sort of outreach difficulties that we did,” she reveals. But the campaign gained momentum thanks to both online and on-theground efforts. The apex, says Graves, came when UNCA writer-in-residence Wiley Cash helped promote their project via social media. In retrospect, says Graves, “It was a unique experience to try and figure out ways to connect with different aspects of the community that I wasn’t connected with before.” BY THE BOOK United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County received some of those donated books. Throughout April, United Way staffers and other area residents have been reading and discussing Just Mercy as part of the nonprofit’s Learn United book club. In the last two years, the program has partnered with various local organizations to promote important works in advance of their authors’ coming to Asheville. The list includes J.D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, Matthew Desmond’s Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, Robert D. Putnam’s Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis, and Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness. Elisabeth Bocklet, United Way’s director of marketing and communications, says Learn United helps participants achieve a deeper understanding of problems many local residents face. From racial inequity to hunger, from housing policies to education, each session is a chance

to gain greater insight into some challenging social issue. Learn United participant Zack Goldman, the community schools learning and evaluation manager at United Way, cites a passage in Stevenson’s book that particularly struck him. “An absence of compassion can corrupt the decency of a community, a state, a nation. Fear and anger can make us vindictive and abusive, unjust and unfair, until we all suffer from the absence of mercy and we condemn ourselves as much as we victimize others.” BEYOND THE SILO In 2014, Kimberly Eggett, digital lead teacher at Claxton Elementary School, met with Mark Ackerman, the school’s counselor. “We really felt strongly that we wanted more conversations around inclusivity and cultural awareness in our own building,” says Eggett. Out of this initial conversation, the school’s Social Justice League was born. Today, the league’s team includes representatives from each grade level, as well as four parent representatives. Besides organizing school and community workshops that address implicit

bias and microaggression, the league hosts two annual listening sessions aimed at parents of color. “We provide a meal and we ask them questions,” Eggett explains. “This is not a talk-at-them [event]. They give us feedback on how we’re doing.” Eggett is one of many local teachers who are taking part in the communitywide book club that’s been reading Just Mercy. Her particular group, she notes, comprises both teachers and parents from Claxton, as well as two Isaac Dickson Elementary School teachers and an Asheville High assistant principal. “Sometimes we have these conversations in silos,” says Eggett. “The fact that we’re connecting with Dickson and the AP at the high school … to have these conversations about justice and our justice system and what it means for us as educators is really great.” KEY STRATEGIES Tiffany Iheanacho, coordinator of Buncombe County’s Justice Resource

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According to a fact sheet assembled by county staff in partnership with the Justice Resource Advisory Council, the jail’s female population could exceed capacity by 2020. An even more pressing issue, however, is the current length of stay for pretrial defendants. In 2017, such detainees made up 64.9% of the jail’s population, spending an average of 13 days behind bars. Those aren’t the only big concerns, however. According to the fact sheet, 38% of those incarcerated in Buncombe County have mental health issues, and racial disparities in local incarceration rates are astronomical. African Americans account for 26% of the county’s jail population, despite constituting only 6.4% of its overall population. Over the next two years, “The county intends to implement four key strategies aimed at addressing system inefficiencies and disparities, meeting the needs of those with behavioral health and substance abuse issues, and instituting non-jail options for lower-risk offenders,” notes the Justice Resource Advisory Council’s website. In addition to advising local policymakers, the group has been working directly with clients.

The early results seem promising. Since last October, the council’s Justice Resource Center has served more than 376 individuals, providing everything from case management to education and career navigation. Iheanacho describes the center as a “one-stop shop for people involved in the criminal justice system who are seeking professional services.” Moving forward, the group also wants to explore restorative justice approaches and to develop a criminal justice racial equity action plan, she says. BOLSTERING SELF-WORTH Every Monday night, Regine Criser, an assistant professor of German at UNCA, drives an hour east to the Avery-Mitchell Correctional Institution near Spruce Pine, where 15 inmates are enrolled in her three-hour seminar on student success. The course is one of three the school offers there through its Prison Education Program. A $195,000 grant from the Laughing Gull Foundation that UNCA received earlier this year will finance the pro-

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N EWS gram for the next three years. The focus is on liberal arts core classes, with an entrepreneurship angle. “I think there is immense power in bringing education to incarcerated individuals,” says Criser. “It allows them to turn this time inside the prison into something that is productive.” Robert Surls agrees. The 28-year-old Charlotte native is in the third year of a 6 ½- to 9-year sentence for seconddegree rape. A father of nine, Surls says he applied to the program to better himself while showing his kids that “you can change if you want to change.” Surls, who never completed middle school, says one of the program’s immediate benefits has been bolstering his sense of self-worth. In prison, he explains, it’s easy to fall into selfloathing or despair. That hopelessness, he notes, stems in part from the stigma that he knows will be attached to him. Once a felon always a felon is how many people look at it, says Surls. His enrollment, though, has helped change both his perception and outlook. Upon completing the program and getting out of prison, Surls plans to apply to UNCA, where he intends to earn an MBA in business management.

In the meantime, Surls says he and his classmates continue to hit the books. It’s a point of pride, he notes, to be among those enrolled. “When I go home, I’ll be able to say I did this while I was in prison. … I applied myself and did what it takes to get to the next point in my life.” RACIAL MYTHS In the final chapter of Just Mercy, Stevenson writes: “I believe that so much of our worst thinking about justice is steeped in the myths of racial difference that still plague us. I believe that there are four institutions in American history that have shaped our approach to race and justice but remain poorly understood.” Those four, he says, are: slavery, the reign of terror following the collapse of Reconstruction, Jim Crow and mass incarceration. One of this country’s major problems, Darin Waters maintains, is the culture’s inclination to ignore the past and focus on the future. “We don’t think in historical terms much,” says Waters, an assistant professor of history at UNCA. As a result, he continues,

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VOTE THROUGH APRIL 30TH ROMANCING THE TONE: Justin Belleme, left, took over ownership of the travel website RomanticAsheville.com from Mark File. Photo courtesy of Belleme founder of JB Media Group. According to a press release, “What began as a hobby in 2003 is now a comprehensive 800+ page travel journal that received 5.5 million visits in 2018 from 200 countries.” • Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants announced it will operate the 128-room Kimpton Hotel Arras, expected to open this summer, at 7 Patton Ave. • Owner Danielle Sewall opened Fresh Aire Spa and Salon, offering hair services, massage, skin care, manicures and pedicures, at 3A Florida Ave. in Weaverville in December. • Dietitian Ashley Lucas opened PHD Weight Loss at 1833 Hendersonville Road on April 11.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS Based on economic indicators for February, research analyst Max Olle commented on recent trends in an Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce newsletter on April 10. Total nonfarm employment continued to grow in the four-county Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area during February, he said, with the manufacturing and professional and business services sectors leading the way. The sectors had produced 1,300 new jobs each in January and February, while construction employment also remained strong, with 1,100 new jobs, he said. See more at avl.mx/5xb. X

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MUTUAL FEELING Survival of the fittest: The phrase brings to mind the flashiest examples of nature’s competition, red in tooth and claw. There’s easy drama in a tiger dragging down the slowest boar or a pack of wolves hounding a sick deer. And because of this highly visible struggle, says Zev Friedman, “competition gets all the press.” But Friedman, a Black Mountainbased permaculture educator and consultant, argues that nature’s most successful pattern is one of cooperation. Much of a forest’s strength, he points out, comes about by thousands of individual trees sharing nutrients and chemical signals through a network of fungi called mycorrhizae. As humanity faces the complex challenge of climate change, Friedman suggests, trees make better role models than tigers. That’s the impetus behind Co-operate WNC, an initiative he launched in February to connect individuals and organizations and build problem-solving capacity throughout Western North Carolina. While the project is still in its early stages, Friedman envisions eventually establishing a network of physical hubs throughout WNC that combine carbon-capturing agriculture with community services such as health care, access to credit and education. A community credit union, savings pools and other cooperative economic strategies would provide the support needed to make the operation sustainable. “This is giving us a way to organize at a regional scale around carbon farming and climate resilience,” Friedman says. “Us doing little stuff in our backyards is not adding up to climate resilience — I wish it were, but it’s not.” AID FOR ALL At the core of Co-operate WNC, Friedman explains, is the concept of mutual aid: people voluntarily combining resources at a level more than an immediate family or village but less than a formal government. This approach, he says, yields groups that are both large enough to benefit from economies of scale and small enough to stay truly accountable to their members. In the U.S., Friedman notes, mutual aid societies have often been formed by racial, cultural or religious groups in response to exclusion from the for16

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VISION OF THE FUTURE: Zev Friedman, permaculture educator and founder of Cooperate WNC, believes that mutual aid is key for the region’s adaptation to climate change. Photo courtesy of Friedman mal economy. During the Jim Crow era, he says, African Americans joined their individually modest wealth together in societies that could together purchase farmland, establish hospitals and provide legal aid to those in need. “That wasn’t vulnerable to the political whims of the federal government,” Friedman says. “It wasn’t funded by corporations or friendly businesses. It was funded by them pooling resources to do what needed to be done.” In contrast to these historical mutual aid societies, Co-operate WNC would be united not by a common demographic identity, but by a shared set of permaculture values: caring for the earth, caring for people and working toward economic and social justice. “It’s one of the most tender unknowns,” Friedman says, when asked if a strong mutual aid group can arise from a diverse membership without existing racial or cultural ties. “My theory is that we can work with that. One of the functions [Co-operate

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WNC] can serve is to respond to the demand of the times that we not be siloing ourselves by ethnic and cultural groups,” he continues. “This kind of effort can act as a connective circulation system between what had been siloed communities.” TOE IN THE POOL The initiative is currently hosting events such as a mutual aid learning circle and a planned August summit, but Friedman acknowledges that education alone won’t build the trust needed for Co-operate WNC to succeed. Among its first tangible steps, he suggests, could be the establishment of member savings pools. Under that framework, small groups of 10-30 people gather monthly to contribute a regular sum, then take turns withdrawing the whole pool for needs such as business seed capital or mortgage

payments. The regular meetings and frank discussion help members build community as well as wealth. “They’re coming to someone’s living room, having a meal, sometimes doing a work party, and then putting in money and talking about financial situations in their lives,” Friedman explains. Co-operate WNC has drawn local inspiration from the Emma community in West Asheville, Friedman says. The area’s large Hispanic, mostly working-class population has banded together through the PODER Emma Cooperative network, which uses savings pools to fund efforts such as purchasing mobile home parks to ensure stable, affordable housing for residents. “Many things have bloomed from this cooperation, economically, socially and culturally,” says Mirian Porras, co-coordinator of PODER Emma. “This network of co-ops has brought us together and is holding the space for the community to have the tools to change our lives and our future.” Porras says the network is now looking to plant sustainable gardens throughout Emma — an avenue to team up with Friedman and Co-operate WNC. In turn, she says, her community can share its own expertise on cooperative economics, laying the groundwork for even deeper collaboration to come. “I think society sometimes works in a way where people are alienated because we don’t spend enough time together,” Porras says. “I think trust is built on relationships and the time you spend with other people to learn, especially when there are different communities, culturally, ethnically and racially.” PARTNERS AND POTENTIAL Friedman admits there’s a long way to go — and millions of dollars — between small-scale savings pools and a regional network of mutual aid hubs. An anonymous donor and a Patreon campaign, he says, have allowed him to work full time on the project, but he’s exploring collaborations with other community groups to ramp up the initiative. Sam Ruark-Eastes, executive director of the nonprofit Green Built Alliance, says he’s spoken with Friedman about supporting Co-operate WNC with the group’s Appalachian Offsets. This voluntary carbon credit program, he explains, allows individuals and busi-

nesses to calculate their carbon footprint, then donate to regional projects that offset their carbon emissions. Co-operate WNC’s proposed demonstration sites for carbon-sequestering agricultural practices, Ruark-Eastes says, would be an innovative solution for Appalachian Offsets to fund. “Because we’re a local nonprofit, we have flexibility to be able to support projects that are unique and can be a model for other places,” he adds. Friedman has also been in talks with Jane Hatley, the WNC director for SelfHelp Credit Union and member of the WNC New Economy Coalition, about how Co-operate WNC might leverage savings pools as collateral to secure capital for larger projects like solar panels and health care facilities. While she stresses that the discussion is at a “very

informal and exploratory” phase, she’s encouraged by the effort. “These are all really exciting models to me, because it’s kind of working outside the system that exists, which tends to restrict the ability of certain groups to build wealth and assets,” Hatley says. “For our community, especially with the huge disparities, there’s got to be creative methods to answer the tremendous needs.” As the initiative works to gain its footing, Friedman says, he stays motivated by the responses he’s received from people throughout WNC. “Everyone is starving for community and starving for real, authentic, intimate connection and relationships,” he says. “If we can give a little of that possibility, a lot of people just leap at that feeling of being together in something bigger than ourselves.” X

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Kelly Holdbrooks leads plant conservation at Southern Highlands Reserve The Viewsite, one of eight “garden rooms” on the 120 conserved acres of the Southern Highlands Reserve Native Plant Arboretum and Research Center, is modestly named. From the stone-terraced clearing atop Toxaway Mountain, eyes open wide and heads swivel to take in 16 distinct mountain peaks. The extraordinary expanse mirrors the vision statement of the reserve, founded by Betty and Robert Balentine in 2002: to collect every single plant native to the Southern Appalachian Mountains. “When you get down to it, we’re just little plant nerds, doing the good fight and sharing everything we learn,” says Executive Director Kelly Holdbrooks. The reserve’s biggest public-facing project is its red spruce restoration effort, which has planted roughly 4,000 trees on public land since 2009 in conjunction with state, federal and nonprofit partners. That ambitious effort starts small: “We start every plant from seed here in our workroom, then to the greenhouse, then eventually to their forever home,” Holdbooks explains. Once planted, the trees help revitalize an ecosystem that provides food and habitat for rare species such as the federally endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel.

MAKE IT RAIN: Each of the roughly 4,000 red spruce trees planted by the Southern Highlands Reserve was nurtured from seed at its Lake Toxaway facility. Photo courtesy of the Southern Highlands Reserve At the reserve’s Chestnut Lodge, meticulous written records are kept of every plant collected since 2003. Reserve staff members have also studied the phenophases — first leaf, first bud show and fall color — of individuals from 31 plant species for 10 years to determine any changes over time. “We are monitoring specifically for climate change. Because of our high elevation, we could be the canary in the coal mine,” Holdbrooks says.

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First water, now sewer: McGrady, local officials disagree This may sound familiar: Rep. Chuck McGrady and government officials in Buncombe County are in the midst of a disagreement over legislation he’s pushing that would affect control over local issues. The debate this time is over sewer service and who sets policies for the agency that delivers it. That’s not as exciting as who owns the Asheville water system or whether Asheville City Council should be elected by district, topics McGrady and local officials have differed over before. But the outcome would affect how much residents and businesses in northern Henderson County pay for sewer and give residents there more say over policy decisions that can have a big impact on land development in the region. McGrady, a Henderson County Republican, on April 16 introduced a bill in the state House that would give Henderson commissioners a way to force the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County to add Fletcher, Mills River and some unincorporated areas of northern Henderson County to the MSD service district. The bill, which would apply to a handful of sewer providers across the state, would remove the power to approve or deny a county’s request for expansion from utilities like MSD and give it to a state board instead. The MSD board voted the next day to oppose McGrady’s bill. Members said it should be up to them, not the state Environmental Management Commission, whether to add northern Henderson County. They also said the proposed legislation would give Henderson resi-

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BOARD BATTLE: The Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County’s treatment plant in Woodfin treats sewage from 55,427 customers, 3,970 of whom are in Henderson County. The MSD board and state Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson, are at odds over a McGrady bill to give Henderson County residents more control over the utility. Photo by Mark Barrett dents more votes on the MSD board than their numbers warrant. Under a contract with Henderson County government, MSD today treats sewage from northern Henderson at the MSD plant downstream in Woodfin. Henderson owns the collection system, and differences in maintenance and related costs mean a typical residential customer in northern Henderson pays about $8 more a month for service than similar MSD customers do, says MSD General Manager Tom Hartye. Henderson commissioners want MSD to take over the collection system. The MSD board in December 2017 turned down commissioners’ proposal to expand the MSD district to do that and add three Henderson residents to the 12-member MSD board.

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McGrady says the current arrangement amounts to “taxation without representation” and Henderson residents should have a say in the body running MSD. His bill would add two Henderson County members on the board right away, then a third later. McGrady played an important role in passage of a law, thrown out by the state Supreme Court in 2016, that would have given ownership of the Asheville water system to MSD; he also weighed in on another law to elect most of Asheville City Council by district. He says worries stemming from the water issue were a factor in MSD’s 2017 decision to rebuff Henderson County. MSD board members say McGrady’s proposal would give Henderson too much representation. The county

accounts for 7.2% of MSD’s customers but would control 14.3% of the seats on the MSD board right away under McGrady’s bill, according to Hartye. When a third Henderson member joins, Henderson residents would make up 20% of the board — the same as Asheville, where 53.5% of MSD accounts are located. McGrady says the board’s membership is not proportional now and it is “crazy” to argue about the composition of a board where decisions are almost always unanimous anyway. In addition to Asheville’s three members of the MSD board, Buncombe County commissioners appoint three, and each of the county’s other municipalities and the Woodfin Sanitary Water & Sewer District pick one. That means Biltmore Forest and Montreat get one seat apiece even though they together account for only 2.4% of MSD’s customers. McGrady says he is willing to adjust the way a third Henderson member would be added. He says he approached Asheville and Buncombe County officials about satisfying Henderson County’s desire for consolidation and got no response. His bill, he says, would leave a decision up to the Environmental Management Commission because “we just need to do it. Let’s not go back through a political process.” Jerry VeHaun, chairman of the MSD board and Woodfin mayor, said at the board’s April 17 meeting that he doesn’t know whether the water battle is a factor in the sewer dispute but resistance to being dictated to by Raleigh definitely is. “While we’re not opposed to giving [Henderson] some representation,” McGrady is asking for too much, he said. “This needs to be … worked on together. Don’t just throw it on us.”

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Buncombe takes first look at FY 2020 budget If the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners passes its fiscal year 2020 budget as presented during the board’s April 16 premeeting, Sheriff Quentin Miller will be poised to rustle up a larger posse. Ten new Sheriff’s Office employees — six patrol deputies and four detention officers/intake specialists, at a total cost exceeding $700,000 annually — mark the biggest personnel addition in the nearly $341 million recommended expenditures budget. The law enforcement expansion represents only a fraction of the new employees requested by county staff. As explained by Jennifer Barnette, Buncombe’s budget director, departmental leaders had sought 69 new positions for the coming fiscal year, but the Finance Department recommended approving just 20. Combined with denied salary adjustments and reclassifications, she said, not hiring the new positions would save the county over $4 million from the initially requested budget. The county’s Department of Health and Human Services would also pick up nine new care coordination positions as part of a restructuring of how it manages two children’s health programs. Health and Human Services Director Stoney Blevins said that, because of the state’s 2019 transformation of Medicaid to a managed care model (for more information, see avl.mx/5xm), the county would save money by bringing its care coordination for children and pregnancy care management services in-house. Blevins emphasized that the change would be revenue-neutral because the county would pay for these positions using federal dollars that currently pass through to providers such as the Mountain Area Health Education Center. “It really will look like an increase in [full-time equivalent positions]; we just want you to understand that we’re not actually adding a new program,” he said. “We’re assuming responsibility for a program we were able to provide in a different way.” The only other personnel changes in Barnette’s recommended budget were a new General Services HVAC specialist and an assistant county manager noted

STAFFING UP: Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller looks to boost his office by 10 employees in fiscal year 2020. Photo by David Floyd

as a “reallocation of an existing position.” However, the county still expects to spend over $9.5 million more — a 7.07% increase — on salaries and benefits next fiscal year compared to this year’s budget. The new spending is largely due to higher state-required employer retirement contributions, growing health insurance costs and a 1.77% cost-ofliving adjustment. Altogether, Barnette said, the recommended budget represents a 5.24% increase over the FY 2019 total. Next to salaries and benefits, program support for education grew by the largest net amount: Over $6.2 million in new spending will support early childhood education and both Buncombe County and Asheville City school systems. Commissioner Al Whitesides praised Barnette and the budget staff for their clear outline of the county’s finances. “For the first time since

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Tuesday, April 30, in the First Floor Conference Room of 200 College St. in downtown Asheville. A public hearing will be held during the board’s regularly scheduled meeting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 4, in Room 326 of the same building.

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STONE AGREES TO CIVIL SETTLEMENT During the regular Board of Commissioners meeting on April 16, attorney Ron Payne announced that Buncombe County had reached a $171,241 settlement with former County Manager Mandy Stone over illegal kickbacks from contractor Joseph Wiseman Jr. and improperly earned county compensation. Stone joins former county employees Wanda Greene, Michael Greene and Jon Creighton in paying back funds misappropriated over a yearslong scheme to defraud taxpayers. Payne also explained that the county would collect $82,492 from an insurance policy to compensate for all of its legal expenses to date in the civil suits against its former employees. A suit remains pending against Wiseman, he said, but the policy would not cover those expenses because the contractor was not a county employee. The board unanimously approved both payments after meeting with Payne in a short closed session. “We greatly appreciate your work on this; you’ve done a great job,” said board Chair Brownie Newman. “The taxpayers of the county really appreciate all your efforts and the great progress you’ve made working for us.” X

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Bingham Military School relocates to Asheville, 1891 direct benefit to the majority of the city’s residents. Such money would be more wisely spent “in bettering the public schools we have,” the paper declared. The article concluded: “To get the Bingham school here will be a capital thing. It is needed to attract and hold the patronage of the well-to-do, so many of whom come to Asheville, and would be glad of the advantages afforded by a school of the high standard of this one. Then let the well-to-do and those who would the more decidedly benefitted from the securing of the Bingham school pay for getting it.”

PIGSKIN SQUAD: Seventy-five students were enrolled in Bingham Military School when it opened in Asheville in 1891. This photo shows the school’s 1895-96 football squad. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville In January 1891, news surfaced that Maj. Robert Bingham, superintendent of the prestigious Bingham Military School, was interested in relocating the private educational institution to Asheville. The decision came after a pair of fires at the school’s Mebane, N.C., location. Word about Bingham’s plans quickly spread, piquing the interest of cities throughout the state. On Jan. 8, 1891, the Asheville Daily Citizen reported that “Greensboro, Durham, Charlotte and Raleigh have already taken steps looking to the securement of Bingham school.” Despite competing locations, the paper asserted that Asheville remained the front-runner. “Major Bingham said that Asheville had advantages possessed by no other town in the state — first, by reason of its reputation as a health resort, and second, because it is the livest town in the state,” the Daily Citizen declared. Before the superintendent would commit to Asheville, however, the city was asked to pass a $50,000 bond to assist in the new school’s construction. Perhaps fearful of community backlash, the Daily Citizen cushioned the stipulation with plenty of praise for Bingham. This included comments from Lt. J.B. Batchelor, who noted the school’s strong reputation among highranking officials and Capt. Henry Wygant, who expressed reverence for the school’s “high standard of honor.”

Bingham, too, was quoted in that day’s paper. The major noted that the institution was two years away from celebrating its centennial. Wherever the school relocated next, he declared, it would remain there “for another hundred years.” The article concluded with an excerpt from a recent pamphlet issued by the National Bureau of Education. In it, the bureau described Bingham as “the oldest, the largest and the most successful male boarding school for secondary instruction in the south[.]” On Jan. 16, 1891, an unsigned letter to the editor was published in the Daily Citizen. Echoing earlier remarks, the writer lavished praise for “the famous school,” asserting that its arrival would help increase the city’s population. “[F]amilies thus attracted would be all of that enterprising kind which we most need to co-operate in building up our various interests,” the letter writer claimed. Despite these benefits, however, the author also expressed grave doubts regarding the proposed bond: “I am quite sure the sentiment of the people as a whole will be against it, and that the result will be a failure.” Throughout the coming days, similar letters were published. Soon enough, even the Daily Citizen expressed concerns over the bond. On Jan. 17, the paper opined that if put to a vote, the measure would fail. The reason was simple: there was no

The following month, a local committee formed, determined to do just that. Concerned that the majority of residents would vote against the bond, the fiveman group canvassed directly for funds, raising the required amount in a matter of 48 hours. Eight months later, on Oct. 1, 1891, Bingham Military School opened. The school included eight barracks, a mess hall, kitchen and gymnasium. In the following day’s paper, the Asheville Daily Citizen reported: “Major Bingham tells The Citizen that in spite of wind and weather, in spite of disappointments here and there, his buildings were completed and everything ready for the opening, which took place on time to the minute yesterday, with seventy-five young men in attendance. ” The school remained open for 36 years, before closing in 1928. According to records at the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library, the Bingham Military School was located on the west end of the French Broad River, near the intersection of Pearson Bridge and Bingham roads. Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from original documents. X

ON CAMPUS: A postcard, circa 1907, shows Bingham’s barracks. There were eight in total. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville

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ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS BENEFIT SHOW • SA (4/27), 7-11pm - Proceeds from this live music show featuring Ben Phan and the Jarvis Jenkins Band benefit Asheville Prison Books. $5-$10. Held at Upcountry Brewing Company, 1042 Haywood Road COLOR ME GOODWILL • FR (4/26), 7pm Proceeds from this fashion show featuring upcycled clothing benefit Goodwill. Open reception at 6pm. $20. Held at Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave. DINING OUT FOR LIFE • TH (4/25) - Twenty percent of proceeds from sales at over 100 local restaurants benefit the Western North Carolina AIDS Project. See website for information: diningoutforlife.com/city/ asheville. DREAM BREAKFAST • SA (4/27), 9-11am - Proceeds from the DREAM southwestern style breakfast and lecture series benefit DREAM scholarships in Henderson County. Tickets: 828-891-4521. $15. Held at St. James Episcopal Church, 766 N. Main St., Hendersonville EMPTY BOWLS EVENT • SU (4/28), 12:30pm, 3pm & 5pm - Proceeds from this Empty Bowls Event, featuring a meal in a handmade pottery bowl to take home, benefit the Flat Rock Backpack program. Tickets: 828-693-9783. $25. Held at St. John in the Wilderness, 1905 Greenville Hwy., Flat Rock FILTHY FRANKLIN MUD RUN • SA (4/28), 2-5pm Proceeds from the Filthy Franklin Mud Run with a dunk tank, cake walk, and refreshments benefit the Franklin School of Innovation. Information: bit.ly/2Hu6H8V. $25/$15 kids/$12 teens. Held at The Franklin School of Innovation, 21 Innovation Drive, (GPS address: 265 Sardis Road)

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FRENCH BROAD RIVER GARDEN CLUB PLANT SALE • SA (4/27), 9am-2pm - Proceeds from the French Broad River Garden Club plant sale with landscape plants, conifers, annuals, perennials, herbs, fine pottery, hand-forged iron and birdbaths benefit conservation and horticulture scholarships at schools within our region, as well as other projects within the US. Information: fbrgcf.org. Free to attend. Held at Clem's Cabin, 1000 Hendersonville Road JERRY'S BADDLE • SA (4/27), 9am-7pm - Proceeds from this kayaking, bicycling and climbing race and festival with live music, food and beer benefit the North Carolina ALS Chapter. $55/$15 spectator tickets. Held at Wilderness Cove Campground, 3772 Green River Cove Road, Saluda ODYSSEY COMMUNITY SCHOOL YARD SALE • SA (4/27), 7am-2pm - Proceeds from this community yard sale benefit Odyssey Community School. Free to attend. Held at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. OUR TURN TO PLAY SCHOLARSHIP LUNCHEON • WE (5/1), 11:45am1:30pm - Proceeds raised at the Our Turn to Play Scholarship Luncheon, featuring keynote speech by sports broadcaster, Lesley Visser benefit scholarships for female athletes at UNC Asheville. Registration required: bit.ly/2IpZytK. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive PAINTING WITH A PURPOSE • TU (4/30), 7-9pm Proceeds from Painting with a Purpose, sunflower painting event benefit Eblen Charities. Registration: paintingwithatwist.com. $35. Held at Painting with a Twist, 2 Towne Square Blvd., Suite 150

SALAMANDER SATURDAY: The Montreat Landcare Committee hosts a Native Plant Sale and Arbor Day Celebration, which includes seven local plant nurseries, talks and advice by gardening experts, and entertainment for kids on Saturday, April 27, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. at Moore Center Park, next to Lake Susan in Montreat. Informative programs are planned throughout the day, including presentations on keeping trees healthy, creative stormwater management and a presentation on hellbender conservation. Learn about chestnut and hemlock restoration and how to deal with invasive plants. Salamander Saturday includes a creek exploration program for kids and a Salamander Night Hike for adults at 9 p.m. (registration required). Visit avl.mx/5xi for the full schedule, information and registration. Admission is free. Live music will be provided by Rhiannon and the Relics. Photo courtesy of Joe Standaert (p. 36) POP UP SALON FOR HUMBLE HAIRDRESSERS • SU (4/28), noon-4pm Visitors can enjoy a beer, get a haircut, beard trim, plus face painting for the kids. Donations accepted to help the Humble Hairdressers provide no-cost services at area homeless shelters.. Held at Archetype Brewing, 265 Haywood Road SOUND EFFECTS BENEFIT CONCERT, THE BEATLES’ REVOLVER • TH (5/2), 6-8pm Proceeds from the seventh annual Sound Effects concert featuring Asheville Music School teachers and students performing the music of The Beatles, Revolver, benefit Asheville Music School. $18/$15 advance. Held at Isis Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road TAILS & TRAILS • SA (4/27), 10am Proceeds from Tails & Trails, two-mile roundtrip hike on Bearwallow Mountain for people and their pups, benefit Blue Ridge Humane Society and Conserving Carolina. Registration: bit.ly/2KOF5AD. $25.

TRASHION SHOW • SA (4/27), 6pm Proceeds from the second annual Environmental Excellence Awards and Trashion Show featuring recycled designs benefit Asheville Greenworks. $50/$75 VIP/$40 members. Held at DoubleTree by Hilton, 115 Hendersonville Road

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • SA (4/27), 9am-noon - SCORE: Marketing Your Business, seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TU (4/30), 9am-noon - Outdoor Industry Entrepreneurship - Level 2, seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (5/1), 9am-4pm Using QuickBooks Online in Your Small Business, seminar. Registration

required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler ADVANCED MANUFACTURING JOB FAIR • TU (4/30), noon-5pm - Made in Henderson County Advanced Manufacturing Job Fair, hiring event with 30-manufacturing companies. Information: blueridge.edu/jobfair. Free/Bring resume. Held at Blue Ridge Conference Hall, 49 E. Campus Drive, Flat Rock CHOICE OF BUSINESS ENTITY • WE (4/24), 11:30am-1pm - Choice of Business Entity, seminar. Registration required: conta.cc/2UpOrU8. Free. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden

HAYWOOD COMMUNITY COLLEGE JOB FAIR • WE (4/24), 10am2pm - Job fair with local businesses. Free. Held in the library at Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde THE COLLIDER 1 Haywood St., Suite 401, 1828, thecollider.org/ • TH (4/25), 9am-12:30pm - First Flight Ventures Education Seminar: Winning SBIR/STTR Grants, seminar. Registration required: bit.ly/2UIRPgA. Free. • TU (4/30), noon - Lunch & Learn Series: Embracing the Entrepreneur Mindset to Achieve Purposeful Action, lecture by John Canter. Free.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS DROPIN CLASSES (PD.) AERIAL KIDS (ages 5-12) on Wednesdays 4:30pm. INTRO TO PARTNER ACROBATICS on Sundays 6:30pm. HANDSTANDS on Tuesdays 6:00pm and Thursdays 6:30pm. AERIAL FLEXIBILITY on Mondays

6:00pm and Fridays 1:00pm. INTRO TO POLE FITNESS on Tuesdays 7:15pm, Saturdays 11:30am, and Sundays 2:15pm. EMPYREANARTS.ORG. 828.782.3321. 32 Banks Avenue, #107&108. AGING VETERAN TOWN HALL MEETING • SA (4/27), 8:30am-1pm - Aging Veteran Town Hall Meeting, event featuring presentations and information tables. Registration at 8:30am. Presentations begin at 9:30am. Hosted by the Buncombe County Veterans Council. Free. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road AMERICAN LEGION POST 70 • LAST MONDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Dinner at 6pm. Meeting at 7pm. Free. Held at American Legion Post 70, 103 Reddick Road

ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon-1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. AUTISM SOCIETY COS PLAY PARTY • SA (4/27), 1pm - Autistics United cosplay contest and open mic. Free and open to the public. Held at The Autism Society, 306 Summit St. AUTISM SPECTRUMWIDE BOWLING • SU (4/28), 1pm - Bowling open to all ages and abilities, those on the Autism spectrum and their friends and family. $3/ game. Held at Sky Lanes, 1477 Patton Ave. CHEROKEE EVENING • WE (4/24), 6pm Cherokee Evening, event featuring stickball and fry bread presented by the Native American Student Association. Free. Held in the Community Life Pavilion behind Broyhill

Chapel, 338 Cascade St., Mars Hill GRADUATE STUDENT SHOWCASE • WE (4/24), 5-7pm - Graduate student showcase, featuring a multidisciplinary display of projects. Free. Held at Lenoir Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. INSTALLATION CEREMONY & RECEPTION • FR (4/26), 3-6pm - Installation ceremony and reception of the new UNC Asheville chancellor. Free. Held on the Quad at UNC-Asheville, 1 University Heights LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA • TH (5/2), 10am - Monthly meeting. Registration at 9:30am. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe

MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ASHEVILLE • Last TUESDAYS - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (4/24), 5:307pm - Introduction to Homebuying, workshop. Registration required. Free. • MONDAYS (4/29) & (5/6), 9am-12:30pm - Basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning, saving strategies and tracking spending series. Registration required. Free. • TU (4/30), 5:30-7pm - Budgeting and Debt, class. Registration required. Free. PROFESSIONAL CRAFT ARTIST SUMMIT • WE (4/24), 12:30-7pm Professional Craft Artist Summit: Your Creative Small Business

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CONSCIOUS PARTY STEEP THREE TO FIVE MINUTES: On Saturday, April 27, the Swannanoa Valley Museum and History Center hosts its second annual spring tea at Far Horizons, the Weatherford home at the Blue Ridge Assembly. Julia Weatherford, granddaughter of Dr. Willis Weatherford Sr., founder of the YMCA Blue Ridge Assembly, discusses the history of the Far Horizons home, her grandfather’s legacy and her grandmother’s life. Far Horizons, circa 1940, is open via this one-time arrangement with the Weatherford family and Blue Ridge Assembly. The tea will be offered in two seatings, from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and 2-4 p.m. Tea includes sweet, savory and scone courses as well as bottomless cups of freshly brewed tea. Music duo StrathSpan performs Scottish music on fiddle and cello. Tickets are $35 for nonmembers. Photo courtesy of Julia Weatherford. (p. 22)

Journey. Registration: sbc.haywood.edu. Free. Held at Creative Arts Building, Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 5pm - Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

FOOD & BEER ASHEVILLE VEGAN RUNNERS • 4th SATURDAYS, 5:306:30pm - Asheville Vegan Runners, open group meeting. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road CLAUDIA LUCERO AUTHOR EVENT • FR (4/26), 6pm - Claudia Lucero presents one-hour dairy free cheesemaking. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. FOOD NOT BOMBS COMMUNITY MEAL • SUNDAYS, 4pm - Community meal. Free. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville INFUSED IN HISTORY: A TEA EXHIBIT • WE (4/24) through SA (9/28) - Learn about tea and tea history with displays and informative

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panels in each of Smith-McDowell House period rooms. Admission fees apply. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road SPRING TEA PARTY • SA (4/27), 2pm - Spring Tea Party, event featuring tea and refreshments and live music. Registration required: 828-890-8065. $12. Held at Mills River Presbyterian Church, 10 Presbyterian Church Road, Mills River YMCA OF WNC 828-210-2265, ymcawnc.org • WE (4/24), 1:152:15pm - Feed Your Gut, workshop with a dietician regarding the importance of a healthy gut biome. $15/$10 members. Held at Woodfin YMCA, 40 N. Merrimon Ave., Suite 101 • TH (4/25), 5:30-7pm - Adult cooking class. Registration required: 828-575-2939 or lfurgiuele@ymcawnc.org. $25/$15 members. Held at YMCA - Asheville, 30 Woodfin St. • WE (5/1), 5:30-7pm - Spring Produce, cooking class for adults. Registration required: 828-575-2939 or lfurgiuele@ymcawnc.org. $25/$15 members. Held at Fletcher YMCA, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher • TH (5/2), 5:30pm Spring Produce, adult cooking class. Registration

required: 828-575-2939 or lfurgiuele@ymcawnc.org. $25/$15 members. Held at Ferguson Family YMCA, 31 Westridge Market Place, Candler

FESTIVALS GREENING UP THE MOUNTAINS 828-226-8652, greeningupthemountains. com • SA (4/27), 10am-4pm - Festival with over 200 arts and crafts vendors, local bands, children’s performances, heritage dances and a youth talent show. Free to attend. Held in Downtown Sylva. FESTIVAL OF HEROES AND MEDIEVAL MARKET • SA (4/27), noon-11pm - Curious Folk and the Warriors of Ash present Festival of Heroes and Medieval Market, includes singing, battles, performances, armoured combat demos, live music by Grendel’s Mother and evening Viking combat tournament. Free to attend. Held in the Montford Park Amphitheater, 92 Gay St. JOHNSON FARM FESTIVAL • SA (4/27), 10am-4pm - Johnson Farm Festival, event featuring live music by The Mountain Bridge Band, dance by the The Green Valley Cloggers, art and craft demonstrations, wagon-rides and children's

activities. $5/$3 childen/ Free under age 5. Held at Historic Johnson Farm, 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS CITIZENS-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE • 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. HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS • TH (4/25), 6-7:30pm - Program on NC Fair District Reform, the history of gerrymandering and the need for bipartisan reform. Free. Held at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva TOURISM DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY FORUM • WE (4/24), 6pm - ReImagine the TDA, public forum with the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority. Free. Held at Pack Memorial

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KIDS APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Open house featuring operating model trains and historic memorabilia. Free. Held at Apple Valley Model Railroad & Museum, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville ARTS OUTREACH FOR KIDS PRESENTS FREDDY COLE • FR (4/26), 10am - Arts Outreach for Kids presents Freddy Cole concert. $7/$3 students. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • MO (4/1) through FR (4/26) - Submissions accepted from students and homeschoolers in Fairview Area Schools grade K -12 for a book design challenge that represents their favorite element of a book. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (4/26), 3:30pm Art Adventures for Kids, a monthly art club for ages 8-12. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TUESDAYS until (4/30) - High school exam study hour in the NC Room. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon - Storytime + Art, storytime and art project for preschool students. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • 1st WEDNESDAY, 4pm - After school craft throughout the school year. Children ages 5

and up. Registration required. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Heroes Unlimited, role playing game for grades 6-12. Registration required. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview FISH FEST YOUTH FISHING CLINIC AND TOURNAMENT • SA (4/27), 1-6pm Sixth Annual Fish Fest Youth Fishing Clinic and Tournament sponsored by the Haywood Community College Wildlife Club. Registration: 828-627-4560 or jcarver@haywood.edu. $8/Free for ages 6-12. Held at Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde

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skills through six weekly clinics, ages 7-17. Registration: avltennis. com. $40 fee includes instruction, a racquet and towel. Held at Aston Park, 336 Hilliard Ave. UNITED WAY OF ASHEVILLE & BUNCOMBE COUNTY 828-255-0696, unitedwayabc.org Homework Diner Program a strategy to sup-

port students and their families with tutoring, building parent-teacher relationships, a nutritious meal, community resources and workforce readiness. Free. • THURSDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Homework Diner. Free. Held at Owen Middle School, 730 Old US Highway 70, Swannanoa • TUESDAYS, 5-7pm Homework Diner. Free.

Held at Asheville Middle School, 211 S. French Broad Ave. • TUESDAYS, 5:30-7pm - Homework Diner. Free. Held at Enka Middle School, 390 Asbury Road, Candler

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YMCA OF WNC 828-210-2265, ymcawnc.org • SA (4/27), 10am-1pm - Healthy Kids Day event featuring games, healthy

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crafts for kids. Free. Held at YMCA Youth Services Center, 201 Beaverdam Road • SA (4/27), 10am-2pm - Healthy Kids Day event snacks, dancing and crafts for kids. Free. Held at Patton Park, Asheville Highway, Hendersonville

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PATCH-A-PALOOZA AT VANCE BIRTHPLACE • SA (4/27), 1-4pm - Patch-a-Palooza, event featuring history focused craft activities, demonstrations, and games for children ages 6 and up. $5. Held at Vance Birthplace, 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • WE (4/24), 9amnoon - Fly-Tying for the Beginner, class for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • SA (4/27), 9am-noon - Tackle Rigging for FlyFishing, class for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. TENNIS CLASSES • Open registration through (4/26) for tennis beginners instructional program for juniors 7-17-years-old. Classes held Sundays (4/28) until (6/2), 3-4pm. Registration: Trytennis. net or AvlJuniorTennis@ gmail.com. $40. Held at Asheville Racquet Club, 200 Racquet Club Road TRY TENNIS • SUNDAYS, 3-4pm - New players learn fundamental tennis

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beer benefit the North Carolina ALS Chapter.

CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Join a Park Naturalist for a moderate Spring Wildflowers hike just in time for Mother’s Day on Saturday, May 11 from 9:30am12:30pm. Preregistration required. Info at chimneyrockpark.com

$55/$15 spectator tickets.

AN EVENING WITH GRANDMA GATEWOOD, PIONEER APPALACHIAN TRAIL THRU-HIKER • FR (4/26), 7pm - Actress Anne Van Curen brings to life Emma "Grandma" Gatewood, telling the story of the 67-year-old who became the first woman to solo thru-hike the Appalachian Trail. Free. Held at Hot Springs Welcome Center, 106 Bridge St., Hot Springs

Snowball Trail. Information:

JERRY’S BADDLE • SA (4/27), 9am-7pm - Proceeds from this kayaking, bicycling and climbing race and festival with live music, food and

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Held at Wilderness Cove Campground, 3772 Green River Cove Road, Saluda SNOWBALL TRAIL • SA (4/27), 10am-12:30pm - Three-mile, moderately strenuous, guided hike on bit.ly/2UpL0f8. Meet at MP 367.6, Blue Ridge Parkway WEST SIDE WALK FOR PEACE • FR (4/26), 10am - West Side Walk for Peace. Information: 828-747-9216. WILD EDIBLES HIKE • SA (4/27), 1pm - Wild edibles hike led by David Grasy. Registration $15. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde

PARENTING FORUM ON FAMILY HOMELESSNESS • MO (4/29), 9amnoon - Forum on family homelessness with a focus on youth needs. Registration required: bbranaga@tcsnc.org or kguice@wcca.org. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Community Health Services, 2579 Chimney Rock Road, Hendersonville MOTHERS CONNECTION • THURSDAYS, 11:30am1:30pm - Social gathering for mothers and their babies. Registration required. Free to attend. Held at Haywood Regional Medical Center, 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde SWAP IT LIKE IT’S HOT • SA (4/27), 2-4pm - Baby and children’s clothes swap for clean and gently used baby and children’s clothes (up to child size 12). Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview

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TOUR FOR PROSPECTIVE FAMILIES • TU (4/30), 9-10am - Franklin School of Innovation information and tours for prospective families. Free to attend. Held at The Franklin School of Innovation, 21 Innovation Drive, (GPS address: 265 Sardis Road)

PUBLIC LECTURES BORDERS, BARRIERS, AND BACKLOGS: IMMIGRATION POLICY 101 • WE (4/24), 7pm Borders, Barriers, and Backlogs: Immigration Policy 101, lecture by attorney and MHU instructor, Natalie Teague. Free. Held in Belk Auditorium, Mars Hill University FREE ENTERPRISE SPEAKER SERIES • WE (4/24), 5:30pm - Free Enterprise Speaker Series: Lectures by Phil Drake, entrepreneur and software pioneer. Registration required: speakers.wcu.edu/drake.

Free. Held in the conference room of Blue Ridge Hall, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee FROM LOOM TO LIVING ROOM • TH (5/2) 7pm - From Loom to Living Room, hear the history and stories behind Bunyaad Fair Trade Rugs, from dyeing the wool to tying the fringes. Registration: 828-254-8374. Free to attend. Held at Ten Thousand Villages, 10 College St. HOT TOPIC SERIES: SCHOOL SAFETY • TH (4/25), 6:30-8pm School Safety: What are the local County and City School Systems Doing to Keep Our Children Safe, discussion with local school leaders. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu • TH (4/25), 9-10:30am Liberal Arts and Sciences’ Vital Role for the Future of Our Democracy,

roundtable talk between Jon Peede, chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Drs. Lynn Pasquerella and Lawrence T. Potter. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Ballroom, 1 University Heights • TH (4/25), 2:30-4pm - An Essential Right: Health and Wellness Trends and Research, roundtable discussion between Drs. Rita Charon, A. Wesley Burks and Jeff Heck. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Ballroom, 1 University Heights • TH (4/25), 4-5:30pm Inclusive Excellence and Equity: The Power of Partnerships, roundtable discussion with Al Whitesides, Debra Campbell, Kimberlee Archie, Dr. Lawrence T. Potter and Frank Goldsmith. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Ballroom, 1 University Heights • TH (4/25), 7-9pm - Public lecture by Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative. Free. Held at UNC Asheville, Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive • FR (4/26), 9-10:30am - The American Dream:

Interfaith Leadership in a Religious Democracy, roundtable discussion with Dr. Eboo Patel, founder of the Interfaith Youth Core and UNC Asheville faculty. Free. Held at UNC Asheville, Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive • FR (4/26), 10:30amnoon - The Melting of the Arctic Permafrost: Climate Implications, roundtable discussion with Dr. Robert Max Holmes, deputy director and senior scientist at Woods Hole and UNC Asheville faculty. Free. Held at UNC Asheville, Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive • SU (4/28), 2-5pm - Faith and Conscience Convocation: A Call for Accountability for Torture, presentations and discussions hosted by NC Council of Churches, NC Stop Torture Now, ACLU of North Carolina, NC Commission of Inquiry on Torture and Carolina Jews for Justice. Registration: 919-828-6501 or para@ nccouncilofchurches.org. Free. Held in the Blue Ridge Room at

Highsmith Student Union, 1 University Heights UNITED WAY COMMUNITY CHAT • MO (4/29), 11:30am Community chat with the chief executive officer of United Way of Transylvania County to address community needs. Free to attend. Held at The Falls Café & Grill, 9 Toxaway Church Road, Lake Toxaway

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural, and outdoor activities. Visit www. ashevillenewfriends.org AGING VETERAN TOWN HALL MEETING • SA (4/27), 8:30am-1pm - Aging Veteran Town Hall Meeting, event featuring presentations and information tables. Registration

May 4, 2019 | 6-9:00PM | Historic Downtown Marshall, NC Emcee Joel Friedman, of Zuma Coffee, will pace us through jazz music performed by Steve Davidowski & Melody King, while you enjoy luscious food and libations, explorations of the historic warehouse, dazzling raff le packages and the Preferred Pairings Salon - with local wines, gourmet chocolates, & artisan roasted coffees

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at 8:30am. Presentations begin at 9:30am. Hosted by the Buncombe County Veterans Council. Free. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road CHAIR YOGA FOR SENIORS • THURSDAYS, 2pm Chair Yoga for Seniors. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville LAND OF SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL 828-251-6622, landofsky.org • MO (4/29), 2-4pm - A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls, class series to manage fall risks. Registration required: 828-251-7438 or stephanie@landofsky.org. Free. Held at Land-Of-Sky Regional Council Offices, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140 • TH (5/2), 10am-noon - A Matter of Balance: Managing Concerns About Falls, class series. Registration required: 828-251-7438 or stephanie@landofsky. org. Free. Held at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY SESSION (PD.) The authentic TM technique—it works for everyone. Scientifically verified benefits: reduced stress and anxiety, decreased insomnia, healthier brain function, improved clarity and focus, increased inner happiness. So natural and effortless, you can practice it anywhere. Personal instruction with a certified teacher. A lifetime of free follow-up, community, and support. Thursdays, 6:30pm-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut St. Register: 254-4350. TM.org ANATTASATI MAGGA (PD.) Sujata Yasa (Nancy Spence). Zen Buddhism. Weekly meditations and services; Daily recitations w/ mala. Urban Retreats. 32 Mineral Dust Drive,

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10 and 11. Register online: volunteerhendo.org. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIDS PROJECT • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 10am-noon - Volunteer to deliver food boxes to homebound people living with HIV/AIDS. Registration: 828-252-7489 x 315 or wncapvolunteer@wncap. org.

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GLASS HALF FULL Juice cleanses: miracle cure or passing fad? BY SHAWNDRA RUSSELL shawndra@shawndrarussell.com Juice has come a long way. American consumers by the millions once mixed frozen concentrate with water to make their morning orange juice, while busy parents doled out small rectangular juice boxes impaled by a slim white straw. These days, though, juice is an increasingly artisanal product. Shredded fresh fruits and vegetables — often in sophisticated blends that include ingredients like ginger and turmeric — are “coldpressed” by hydraulic equipment that rings out every drop of moisture, leaving behind a dry pulpy substance. Proponents say the cold-pressing method preserves the maximum amount of natural enzymes and other healthful substances in the produce, while older methods involving centrifugal force or grinding generate heat that subtly alters the finished product. According to the Global Wellness Institute, cold-pressed juices make up 14% of the massive wellness nutrition market, which represented over $700 billion in international sales in 2017. The popularity of the drinks has exploded since 2004, growing 58% over that period. While plenty of people consume cold-pressed juice as a snack or meal replacement, others take the idea further, replacing all food with juice for a period of time in an effort to detoxify the body and promote healing. Xpress asked a number of local experts for their thoughts on the juice cleanse trend. Are periodic cleanses a miracle cure for ailments from inflammation to depression, or are they another expensive fad that needs to disappear? GIVE IT SOME JUICE Elements Real Food is riding the wave of interest in raw and organic food and juice. Owners Zack and Jenni Bier started their business out of a food truck in 2013; by 2015, they were ready to open a brick-and-mortar cafe on South Liberty Street just north of downtown Asheville. 28

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DRINK UP: Cold-pressed juices that incorporate fresh fruits and vegetables are undeniably refreshing — and they’re also the foundation of the juice cleanse, an increasingly popular wellness practice that boosters say can help with a wide variety of health conditions and concerns. Others, however, question the safety and effectiveness of juice cleanses and urge health seekers to rely on a balanced whole-food diet for weight control and energy. The cafe offers three different juice packages, any of which can be used for one-, three- or five-day cleanses. Ranging from $58-$62 per day, the choices include juices with raw foods, juices with nut milks and a vegetable-heavy Just Greens version with only small amounts of fruit and ginger mixed in. Zack Bier notes some of the positive results his juicers have shared, which include “increased energy levels, clearer skin, weight loss, improved digestion and mental clarity.” Not surprisingly, he’s a fan: “Overall, juicing is a wonderful addition to a healthy diet for regular maintenance and self-care.” At the same time, Bier adds, “Participating in a cleanse is not for everyone. If you are not sure, talking to your health care provider is a good idea before starting a cleanse.”

A MATTER OF CHOICE Nicole DiDio Johnson, a local integrative holistic health coach, says she values Elements because of its use of all-organic vegetables and fruits. While there’s no one approach that’s right for everyone, she says, “We’ve seen it really comes down to each individual, the time of year/climate, stage of life, health history and health goals.” For those looking for weight loss, help changing poor eating habits, energy and access to raw vitamins and live enzymes, she says, “Juicing is an excellent choice.” Her husband, acupuncturist Chad Johnson, recalls a time one of Nicole’s juices helped him kick the flu. “It tasted like I was drinking liquid sun and was the turning point in my recovery,” he says. Chad cites a small study conducted by the Center for Human Nutrition in the department of medicine at the University of California Los Angeles.

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Bjonnes says. At the same time that the body is receiving high levels of nutrition, he continues, the body gets a break from the hard work of digesting solid substances. To ensure Prama’s guests receive care that addresses the full scope of their individual needs, Bjonnes adds, the center collaborates with doctors, nurses and addiction counselors.

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Marshall’s Prama Institute offers three- and five-day juice cleanse experiences that incorporate yoga, meditation and nutrition workshops. Ramesh Bjonnes, Prama’s director, credits juice fasting with healing his own chronic illness. Inspired by that life-changing experience, he studied at Ananda Marga Yoga Wellness Center in the Philippines before founding Prama Institute. “The main benefit of a juice cleanse is that it allows the body’s cellular structure to receive high amounts of nutrient-dense micronutrients in the form of vitamins, antioxidants, flavonoids, minerals, phytonutrients, etc.,”

Some practitioners, however, express reservations about the practice of juice cleanses. Dietitian Kyle Maiorana of Root Down Nutrition and the Funk’tional Nutrition Podcast says she doesn’t typically recommend juice cleanses because many of her clients are experiencing health issues that need to be addressed before a cleanse would be a good idea. And, she adds, “No amount of juice cleanses or supplements can make up for an unhealthy lifestyle.” Before considering a cleanse or other intervention, Maiorana urges people

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ment, including blood work, which she performs before recommending any diet. In some cases, people “may really thrive on the high amount of vitamins and minerals in fresh pressed or blended juices,” Petersen says. But juice contains a large amount of sugar, which can cause blood sugar levels to spike and then plummet. “In my functional medicine practice, I emphasize the importance of blood sugar stability, as research shows that strong fluctuations in blood sugar can pose health risks over time,” she explains. Petersen says she’s a proponent of therapeutic and intermittent fasting for patients with certain conditions, but in general, she focuses on helping patients “craft a sustainable way of eating for long-term health.” X

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BY LAURA HACKETT laurafaye15@gmail.com Mother Earth News has long been ahead of its time. The sustainable lifestyle magazine, founded in 1970, shared tips for self-sufficient and green-conscious living well before those ideas broke into the mainstream. Now the largest and longestrunning publication of its kind, the magazine hasn’t stopped looking forward for ways to spread its message: At this year’s Mother Earth News Fair, set for Saturday-Sunday, April 27-28, at the WNC Agricultural Center in Fletcher, attendees can expect to roll up their sleeves like never before. “The whole mission of the fair is bringing the magazine to life,” says organizer Andrew Perkins, who has helped develop the traveling fair since its 2010 inception. “We share the topics that we find are trending well though our editorial process and that people in our network are getting excited about. We’re always trying to come up with something new.” Along with more than 150 traditional workshops and seminars, six keynote speakers and hundreds of exhibitors, the fair now features hands-on and extended workshops that dig more deeply into an array of topics selected by the magazine’s editorial team. “Our typical stage workshop has a presenter and a demonstration, but you’re still just a member of the audience,” explains organizer Nancy Heeney. “We’ve found actually facilitating that process, whether it’s creating a different type of cheese or

GRAB IT AND GROW: Farming and homesteading education abound at the Mother Earth News Fair, which returns to the WNC Agricultural Center in Fletcher Saturday-Sunday, April 27-28. Photo courtesy of Ogden Publications making a charcuterie board or whipping up a batch of mead, gets people really invested in what they’re learning. It’s something we’re developing more at each fair.” ALL HANDS ON DECK For Ashevilleans, several of these hands-on instructors are familiar faces in the community. Frances and

Jeff Tacy, owners of local CBD store Franny’s Farmacy, will lead a Hemp 101 course geared toward folks who are interested in getting into the growing business. The duo, along with other industry experts, will walk would-be farmers through every step of cultivating and bringing a product to market. “It’s always a packed room for these presentations because people want information on growing, and that’s

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ing knives the old-fashioned way on a stone. On Friday, April 26, before the fair officially kicks off, there will also be a special introductory-level workshop devoted to triangle loom weaving. “Making something like that for yourself can be more difficult than buying it, but the reaction on people’s faces when they figure it out is amazing,” says Heeney, when asked why people enjoy learning how to make things that could easily be purchased. “That’s really what this fair is centered on: stepping outside your comfort zone or meeting someone who has gone through that trial and error process.” While a few of these workshops, such as Mushroom Cultivation for Everyone, Farmhouse Cheese Wheel and Grandma’s Soap for the 21st Century, are already sold out online, another allotment of tickets will be available at the fair on a first-come, first-served basis, according to Perkins.

KEY TO NOTE In addition to these in-depth experiences, Perkins says he is looking forward to the perspective of new keynote speaker Leah Penniman, an author and social justice advocate who co-founded Soul Fire Farm in Grifton, N.Y., in 2011. The farm’s mission is to end racism in the food system, and Penniman will share ways that attendees can get involved with that work. “Some of our most cherished sustainable farming practices, from organic agriculture to the farm cooperative, have roots in African wisdom,” says Penniman. “Yet discrimination and violence has led to our decline from 14% of all growers in 1920 to less than 2% today.”

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FLOWING TOGETHER: Rafael Moreno-Baron, left, and Steve Ambrose, right, use ancient stonework technology to manage water on modern landscapes. Photo by Lisa Soledad Almaraz “There is a way to pull off beauty and execution and really have the people be elevated to the respect of the craftsmen and artists that they are,” Ambrose says. “It’s really not only technical knowledge; there’s a great art to it. It takes a long, long time to get that touch.”

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GR EEN SCEN E Penniman says she will dig into this disparity, the disproportionate lack of access to fresh food black communities face and her involvement with a global network of farmers to “increase farmland stewardship by people of color, restore Afro-indigenous farming practices and end food apartheid.”

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As Travis Smith recalls, he and his partner were more than a little impressed when they stumbled upon the Asheville Tool Library after buying their fixer-upper house in Asheville four years ago. “When we discovered that this existed, our heads kind of exploded,” Smith says. “The idea of a community pooling their resources and sharing tools works amazingly well for us and with our house.” Similar to a literary library, the Asheville Tool Library provides access to a wealth of common assets; instead of books, however, patrons can borrow everything from lawn mowers to screwdrivers. Yearly memberships range from $50-$150, and the library offers scholarships to students or members of the community who can’t meet the cost. Smith, who now volunteers and serves on the library’s board, says the nonprofit has reached more than 300 paid members and is still growing. As a result, items such power washers and circular saws spend more time building and cleaning than they do collecting dust. “You have the reduced consumption of unnecessary cheap tools and less

COOL FOR TOOLS: Patrons and volunteers at the Asheville Tool Library circulate tools much like a traditional library handles books. Photo courtesy of the Asheville Tool Library people buying stuff that they’re rarely going to use and that’s going to end up in a landfill eventually,” Smith says.“I feel like the idea of the library really is smart from a sustainable perspective.”

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Discussion on cultivating cut flowers takes center stage at French Broad River Garden Club’s annual plant sale ing vegetables, berries and cut flowers using organic practices, the fields were used to grow hay for the horses on her grandparents’ dairy. Flowers have been part of their product mix since the beginning, and they continue to add to the farm’s floral production every year. Flowers play an important role in a garden mix for many reasons, says Perkinson, including the fact that they provide habitat for beneficial insects and pollinators. “I learned a lot about having a cutting garden from my grandmother, Elspie Clarke,” she says, noting that her grandparents lived in Sherrill’s Inn, the last house on Highway 74 in Buncombe County on the curvy road

BY BRIT WASHBURN floodingriver09@gmail.com The French Broad River Garden Club Foundation, chartered in 1927 and admitted to the Garden Club of America in 1930, states a goal of “promoting the conservation, development and intelligent use of the natural resources of North Carolina and elsewhere.” One way it executes its mission is by offering the community an opportunity to learn from experienced local growers at its popular annual spring plant sale. Scheduled for Saturday, April 27, at Clem’s Cabin in South Asheville, this year’s sale will feature guest speaker Annie Louise Perkinson of Flying Cloud Farm. At 11 a.m., visitors will be invited inside Clem’s Cabin to hear Perkinson discuss how to grow a cutting garden using sustainable methods, including crop plans and the most dependable flower varieties for spring, summer and fall in Western North Carolina.

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PUBLIC LECTURE AT UNCA • FR (4/26), 10:30amnoon - The Melting of the Arctic Permafrost: Climate Implications, roundtable discussion with Dr. Robert Max Holmes, deputy director and senior scientist at Woods Hole, and UNC Asheville faculty. Free. Held at UNC Asheville, Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive SWIM GUIDE VOLUNTEER • WE (4/24), 6pm Information session about becoming a swim guide volunteer for the French Broad Riverkeeper team. Information: Anna@mountaintrue.org or 828-258-8737 x212. Free. Held at MountainTrue, 611 N. Church St., Hendersonville

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that leads to Chimney Rock and Lake Lure. Her grandmother always kept cut flowers in her house, she continues, and was “very good at being creative with what was available.” The sale, which runs 9 a.m.-2 p.m., will feature landscaping plants, including conifers, annuals, perennials and herbs, as well as plants from members’ private gardens. Garden accents and accessories will also be available from more than 15 vendors. Proceeds will support conservation and horticulture scholarships at area schools. The café at Clem’s Cabin will have food items for sale until 1 p.m., and there will be live musical entertainment throughout the day. X

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• SA (4/27), 9amnoon - Discovering the Biodynamic Preparations as Forces, Not Substance, workshop. Registration required. $15. Held at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River • SA (4/27), 1:30pm - Savvy Tillage, tillage workshop. Registration required. $15. Held at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River MAKING AND USING COMPOST AT HOME • TH (5/2), 5:30-6:30pm - Making and Using Compost at Home, workshop. Free. Held at Skyland United Methodist Church, 1984 Hendersonville Road MONTREAT NATIVE PLANT SALE • SA (4/27), 9am-2pm Montreat native plant sale and Arbor Day celebration, event featuring programs, presentations and sales from seven local plant nurseries. Free to attend. Held at Moore Center Park at Lake Susan, 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat VEGETABLE GARDEN WORKSHOP • TU (4/30), 1pm - Get More From Your Vegetable Garden, workshop with a master gardener. Free. Held at Waynesville Library, 678 S Haywood St., Waynesville

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SUSTAINABILITY, STRAIGHT UP The fourth annual Asheville Cocktail Week highlights wholeness in craft and career BY AUDREY AND BILL KOPP audreybill@liquornerds.com The nose-to-tail concept is finding application outside the culinary world; sustainability-minded bartenders and mixologists are applying the “whole beast” approach wherever possible in the creation and preparation of mixed drinks. But for those in the high-stress career of bartending, sustainability extends further, into a concern for health and well-being. This year’s Asheville Cocktail Week — Monday, April 29, to Sunday, May 5 — shines a light on both kinds of sustainability. The only weeklong cocktail event in the region, Asheville Cocktail Week is celebrating its fourth year. Organizer Kris Kraft points out that this local event is different from the

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ELIXIR The centerpiece of the public component of Asheville Cocktail Week is the Elixir Craft Cocktail Competition on Thursday, May 2. Attendees at the interactive event will get the opportunity to sample new spirits without the risk of investing in a full bottle of something unfamiliar. Elixir pairs North Carolina distillers — many of whom run relatively small operations — with Asheville bartenders. Those attending can engage with those professionals. “Elixir gives attendees an opportunity to develop that relationship,” Kraft says. “You get to taste a drink made by someone who has experience making cocktails with that unfamiliar spirit. So you get the full experience from raw product to a cocktail that you’re familiar with.” Elixir’s local history extends further back than Asheville Cocktail Week. “Elixir started as part of the Asheville Wine and Food Festival,” Kraft says. After that festival went

on hiatus, Kraft negotiated to make Elixir part of the event she organizes. “We intentionally focus on our North Carolina spirits and North Carolina bartenders,” she stresses. “We want to celebrate what’s going on here.” SUSTAINABLE USE OF INGREDIENTS In keeping with trends worldwide, many local bartenders are already implementing sustainable practices behind the bar. Kraft cites the challenge of citrus fruits. “Citrus is actually one of the least sustainable products, and yet it’s one of the most used behind the bar,” she explains. “It takes almost 2 gallons of water to produce an orange and multiple months to grow it. And what do we do with an orange? We slice it, we stick it on a glass, and then somebody takes it off and throws it away.” But creative and conscientious bartenders make the most of the fruit. “We can make limoncello from the rinds,” Kraft says. “We use the juice in drinks. We use the rind and pits when making our own bitters.” Other sustainable practices — like finding uses for the stems of herbs used to flavor drinks and switching from disposable plastic drinking straws to paper or stainless steel ones — are finding more widespread use. Both industry and public events during Asheville Cocktail Week will highlight and showcase such efforts.

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SUSTAINING A LIVELIHOOD There’s a more immediate and important dimension to sustainability where the bar and restaurant industry is concerned, Kraft emphasizes. Even if a bar closes at 2 a.m., the staff may not be done with work until 4:30. “What’s our community environment at that point? Where are our outlets?” she asks. “Worklife balance is really difficult to have at 4:30 in the morning; there’s no one to call.” Relatedly, the website for food and beverage industry support group Ben’s Friends points out that the industry has one of the highest rates of substance abuse in the country. Kraft says the demands of the work environment lead very heavily to depression as well. “So let’s not make it taboo to talk about sustainability in the hospitality industry as a whole,” she suggests. To that end, the industry-only portion of Asheville Cocktail Week will focus on

providing support. Representatives from Ben’s Friends will facilitate dialogue about ways to create a sustainable balance of mental, physical and emotional health. The local chapter of the U.S. Bartenders’ Guild will also hold a meeting during the week, highlighted by national Courvoisier ambassador Zahra Bates speaking about peer mentoring. “Having a group of people who have shared language can help with reasoning skills, increased self-esteem, empathy and ultimately a greater feeling of autonomy and connection to one’s work,” Bates says. Kraft says the tragic death of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain is just the highest-profile example of a serious and far-reaching issue. “As an industry, we’ve seen so much loss,” she says. “We want people to know that there are resources that can help. And Asheville Cocktail Week is part of that.”

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Laurel, sponsored by Maker’s Mark bourbon,” Kraft says. (“Activation” is a food and beverage industry term for interactive, experiential marketing efforts.) With a mix of industry-only and public events, ticketed, RSVP-only and open-to-all activities, Asheville Cocktail Week 2019 is an event in motion; visit carolinacocktailweek. com for the latest information on locations, times and other details. X

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CULTURAL REVIVAL It is said that the only things new under the sun are those that have been forgotten, and the culinary method of fermenting with koji is, according to Meredith Leigh, currently enjoying just such a renaissance in the West. A self-described food and farming specialist, Leigh leads workshops at Living Web Farms in Mills River and is the author of the MFK Fisher Award-winning The Ethical Meat Handbook: Complete Home Butchery, Charcuterie, and Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore and Pure Charcuterie: The Craft and Poetry of Curing Meat at Home. She also travels extensively teaching regenerative agriculture and culinary fermentation, and on Saturday, April 27, will host a koji workshop at the Mother Earth News Fair in Asheville with Kirsten Shockey, co-owner of the Oregon company FermentWorks.

CULTURAL ARTS: Koji can be used to make a broad spectrum of fermented foods, including everything from charcuterie to miso. Here, koji-inoculated rice grains, soybeans and sea salt are transferred to wooden barrels for fermenting at the American Miso Co. in Rutherford County. Photo courtesy of American Miso Co.

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Koji, explains Leigh, is the Japanese name for the mold Aspergillus oryzae, which has “fermentative and enzymatic capacities” that are used to elevate “flavor, texture and processing across many applications in the kitchen.” The spores are typically inoculated into grains like rice or barley, where enzymes convert the grains to sugar. The inoculated grains are then added to other foods for a secondary fermentation — in Asia, this is the process that’s traditionally used to ferment rice, barley and beans in recipes for miso, sake, soy sauce, tempeh and more. “Koji is potentially the most exciting thing I’ve worked with in the kitchen,” says Leigh, noting that it was first marketed as a digestive aid. “It represents, in one package, the incredible interplay of the natural world in the kitchen environment.” QUICK CURE Leigh says she’s still learning about koji’s capabilities in living foods and how to best harness them for optimal flavor and texture, but koji-cured charcuterie is an area in which she’s certainly done a lot of experimentation. Pure Charcuterie contains a section on curing meats

with koji, and she often teaches classes on this subject. Curing meat at home is economical, she noted in a 2017 blog post for New Society Publishers, because large quantities of lesser cuts can be processed at home. And it preserves the purity of the meat by eliminating the need for the added sugars and colors typically found in mass-produced charcuterie. And curing meat uniquely connects us to the processes of nature. “There is a wonder and a reverence that charcuterie engenders in the home cook,” Leigh wrote. “A respect and a humility at the power of nature and its mechanisms that I have encountered in almost every person I have met who practices any kind of food preservation.” Research suggests koji may provide a host of health benefits, including anti-carcinogenic, antiallergy, and anti-anxiety properties. But it’s the flavor, as much as anything, that compels chefs such as Patrick O’Cain of Gan Shan Station and Gan Shan West to offer dishes like his tender, koji-aged sirloin that keep diners coming back. This winter, O’Cain and his chef de cuisine, Will Cisa, cultivated koji for a butternut squash miso, making use of the squash skin and leftover pulp and substituting black-eyed peas for soybeans to give it a Southern spin. The chefs also like working with the secondary koji ferment shiokoji. Part of shio-koji’s appeal for O’Cain and Cisa lies in its subtlety of flavor in comparison with miso when added to sauces and broths. Shio-koji provides “that savory umami flavor in a vegan, probiotic way,” says O’Cain. The chefs also use shio-koji as a marinade for meats, both as a seasoning and brining agent, and also as a tenderizer. “Koji has protein-digesting enzymes — proteolytic — that help make meat tender without making it mushy,” he says. “When we had a bavette steak dish on the menu, we would marinate the steaks with [shio-koji] for this effect, allowing us to ‘age’ steaks in a matter of days.” His and Cisa’s use of koji isn’t confined to the savory: They use amazake (a koji ferment with a sweeter flavor profile) to make a sweet rice porridge, and amazake

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JAPANESE TRADITION Miso, a salty, umami-bomb paste made from fermented soybeans, is another koji-fermented food that can be made at home — for those who have the time and patience. For those who don’t, there’s a locally made product, Miso Master organic miso. Marnie Mikell of the Rutherford County-based American Miso Co. says the term “koji” can be used to refer to koji spores, which she describes as “the actual culturing agent that inoculates the grain

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French-Canadian cuisine at Sawhorse As a child growing up in Albany, N.Y., chef Dan Silo was fascinated by his Canadian neighbors — especially those living in Quebec. Every time he visited the province, its French influence made him feel as if he’d been transported across the Atlantic Ocean rather than the U.S.-Canadian border. Silo, whose culinary skills have landed him in kitchens throughout the country (including a two-year stint as sous chef at Buxton Hall Barbecue), opened Sawhorse last week on New Leicester Highway. Similar to his childhood travels north, he hopes to transport diners’ taste buds to a different region through his menu selection. Sawhorse pays homage to both Silo’s family recipes, as well as Quebec’s French-Canadian cuisine. Not surprisingly, one key ingredient featured in many of the restaurant’s breakfast, lunch and dinner options is maple syrup. Silo considers the sticky, sugary substance a lifelong obsession. “Basically anything I can put a whole lot of maple syrup on makes me really happy,” he notes. And happy is the chef. From maple eggs to the restaurant’s meatloaf sandwich (which features maple ketchup) — there are plenty of plates to feed Silo’s maple fix. Meanwhile, Sawhorse’s décor creates a sense of stepping into an old family cabin. Skis and snowshoes decorate the restaurant’s wilderness-green walls. An electric meat grinder sits on display in the dining room, as does an old ceramic vessel that belonged to the chef’s great-grandmother, who worked as a lumber camp cook in the Adirondack Mountains. A desire to create a homey feel, says Silo, was a key factor in choosing the site’s location (formerly Leicester Family Restaurant). “I always wanted Sawhorse to be a neighborhood restaurant,” he explains. “That was really important to me — to just be away from downtown and away from the main drag of Haywood Road in West Asheville, so I could just be an all-day place, available to Asheville locals anytime.” Sawhorse is at 101 New Leicester Highway. Hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For more, visit avl.mx/5wy. 44

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Azalea Bistro opens Three-time James Beard Foundation-nominated chef Garrett Tallent will open his latest venture, Azalea Bistro, on Friday, April 26, on Main Street in Saluda. The restaurant will serve lunch, dinner and Sunday brunch with a focus on French and Southern cuisine. Menu highlights include shrimp and grits, goat cheese tart, escargot and braised short ribs. Azalea Bistro opens 11 a.m. Friday, April 26, at 40 E. Main St., Saluda. Lunch hours are Tuesday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Dinner is Monday-Saturday, 5-10 p.m. Sunday brunch runs 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For more, visit avl.mx/5wu.

Ramen pop-up MAPLE, MEATS AND POUTINE: Chef Dan Silo celebrates the opening of his restaurant, Sawhorse. The venue specializes in French-Canadian cuisine. Photo by Thomas Calder

Dining Out for Life Blue Mountain Pizza, Button & Co. Bagels, Laughing Seed Café, White Duck and Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian are among the 100 local restaurants participating in Dining Out for Life. The annual event, happening Thursday, April 25, helps raise funds for the Western North Carolina Aids Project, which helps local community members access HIV prevention tools, engage with medical care and find additional resources. By day’s end, each restaurant will donate 20% of its total sales to the fundraiser. Dining Out for Life takes place Thursday, April 25. For a list of participating restaurants, visit avl.mx/5wv.

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the French Broad River. The ticketed event will feature tastings of cider, wine and mead, as well as small bites, music and dancing. Throughout the weekend, over 50 additional happenings will take place throughout Henderson County. Participating venues include Appalachian Ridge Artisan Cider, Bold Rock Hard Cider, Burntshirt Vineyards, Point Lookout Vineyards & World’s Edge Meader, Saint Paul Mountain Vineyards and Wine Saga & Gourmet. The weekend is a combination of ticketed and free events. Cider, Wine and Dine runs ThursdaySunday, April 25-28. For more information, visit avl.mx/5wr.

Empty Bowl in Sylva The Community Table in Sylva will host the latest Empty Bowl fundraiser, which benefits MANNA FoodBank, a local nonprofit that aims to educate and unite people in the work of ending hun-

The Broth Shop and Wedge at Foundation are teaming up for an evening of ramen on Saturday, April 27. The event will feature two bowl options, lobster red curry or shoyu pork belly. Each bowl comes with one vegetable and one pork belly onigiri, plus two beer pairings. Tickets are $35. The pop-up runs 6-8 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundry St. For more, visit avl.mx/5ww.

Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest The fifth annual Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest takes place Sunday, April 28, at Highland Brewing Co. Early entry tickets have sold out, but general admission tickets are still available at $14. Online sales end at noon, Saturday, April 27. Day-of tickets are $20 at the door. General admission to the Carolina Mountain Cheese Fest runs 1-5 p.m. Sunday, April 28, at Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway. For more, visit avl.mx/5wx. X

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GARB FROM GARBAGE

Trash becomes treasure on the runway at eco-fashion shows

BY LAURA HACKETT laurafaye15@gmail.com On the last weekend of April, two area nonprofits will send their latest batch of eco-fashion designs down the runway to raise awareness around sustainable concepts such as reusing materials and recycling clothing. On Friday, April 26, Goodwill hosts its fifth annual Color Me Goodwill upcycled fashion show at The Orange Peel. The following evening, Saturday, April 27, Asheville GreenWorks kicks off its second Environmental Awards and Trashion Show at the DoubleTree by Hilton Asheville-Biltmore. TWICE AROUND “In each of the four previous Color Me Goodwill shows, six designers presented collections,” says Sarah Merrell, who has been the Color Me Goodwill show director since it launched in 2015. “This year, the pool of designers was so competitive that we decided to expand to seven collections.” Each of the seven designers is assigned a color and given $125 to shop for supplies at area Goodwill stores. The designers then deconstruct and rebuild with those materials to create color-inspired collections. The show features local models, stylists and makeup artists who all volunteer their time, along with clients from Goodwill’s employment and job training programs. The firstplace winner, who is selected by a panel of expert judges, receives a $500 cash prize. There’s also a $200 audience choice award.

WEAR IT WELL: One of designer Leanna Echeverri’s Marie Antoinette-inspired gowns, left, made from layers of bedsheets and other materials found at Goodwill, was part of last year’s Color Me Goodwill recycled fashion show. Asheville GreenWorks’ Trashion show also sends eco-fashion down the runway, such as the two designs pictured on the right. Color Me Goodwill photo by Max Ganly, Asheville GreenWorks photo courtesy of the organization

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“Color Me Goodwill has been standing room only every year,” says Pam Anglin, Goodwill’s vice president of marketing and communications. “We’re excited about continuing to showcase the talented fashion professionals working in Asheville. And the event reminds the community of the unique finds available in Goodwill stores and of how those purchases support Goodwill’s employment programs.” When the designers source their materials, they don’t just stay in the clothing section. Anglin says that shower curtains, pieces of metal and accordion shades have been used in the past. Last year’s firstplace and audience choice winner, Leanna Echeverri, fashioned a Marie Antoinette-inspired blue collection that was created almost entirely from bustling layers of bedsheets. Echeverri, who also runs the clothing company Grateful Threads, will return to the runway this year with a milieu of red creations. Jon Pierce, another featured designer, made his show debut in 2018 with a Pokémon-inspired collection. This year he’ll present a militaristic look in black. Birgeta Mannikan, who recently began transitioning to fashion after designing handbags for seven years, is making her debut this year with a blue collection. Another new face is Art Blue, known for his reconstructed vintage-inspired line that sells at Vintage Moon, Hip Replacements, Honeypot, Twice Round and The Downtown Market. How has the community responded to the fashion shows? “We are seeing an increase of really good donations to the stores, and now people are donating more besides clothing. They’re thinking more about donating electronics and other materials before trashing it,” says Anglin.

NOT JUST ONE AND DONE For Dawn Chavez, executive director of Asheville GreenWorks, landfill awareness is everything. Of the 63,000 pounds of litter her volunteers have collected by hand, she says most of it is lightweight plastic. “It’s an enormous amount of waste that’s not just ugly but is also disrupting the ecology of our system,

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A &E poisoning our fish and not breaking down,” she says. Chavez adds that since China, which was processing about half of the world’s plastic, has stopped taking the recyclables of other countries, the plastic problem has become even more serious. “If we can help people reduce the overall plastic they use, there would be less plastic to recycle or deal with,” she says. “Instead of the three Rs, we think of the five Rs: refuse, reduce, reuse, rot, then recycle.” It’s fitting that this year’s theme will again be plastic. In addition to the Environmental Excellence Awards ceremony, the show will feature more than a dozen local designers who craft will clothes from landfill items. A few fashion highlights from last year included “Game of Thrones”-themed apparel and a flamenco dress made of coffee filters. Chavez sees the show as a way to avoid “preaching to the choir” while creatively raising awareness about plastic. The stage design, sponsored by local marketing company Gigantic, will feature a set of reclaimed metal trees with plastic bags and bottles for leaves. The Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre will perform its Death

by Plastica, and guest speaker Crystal Dreisbach of Don’t Waste Durham will discuss her work on reducing plastic waste in restaurants. “After last year, people were so excited and begged for another event,” Chavez explains. “But one of the things we learned is we don’t want it to just be one and done, where we build excitement and then we go back to our lives.” This year’s show kicks off Mind Your Plastic May, a 30-day commitment that asks people to reduce reliance on single-use materials such as plastic bags, straws and lids. It’s also an opportunity for the audience to learn and support the efforts of the Plastic Reduction Task Force that GreenWorks recently spearheaded in Asheville. In a time when the environment is seeing some of its greatest challenges, Chavez says the participation from the community in these initiatives is what gives her hope. “When we launched the Plastic Reduction Taskforce, we thought we’d have about 15 people,” she says. “We ended up having 40 and had to move our meeting location to New Belgium to accommodate everyone. Our volunteers have really risen to the challenge.” X

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by Bill Kopp

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CLOSE TO HOME Queen Bee and the Honeylovers release their ‘Asheville’ album

DREAMER’S WALTZ: Rather than simply re-create the hot and swing jazz favorites of the past, Queen Bee and the Honeylovers produced Asheville, an album of new music that’s steeped in local history while addressing contemporary concerns. Photo by Joe Bruno Traditionally, concept albums have been almost exclusively within the rock idiom. But Asheville-based singer and songwriter Whitney Moore has breathed new life into the form by applying it to a very different musical style: jazz. Celebrating the release of the local history-themed Asheville, Moore’s band, Queen Bee and the Honeylovers, will play a show at Isis Music Hall on Saturday, April 27. Moore formed Queen Bee and the Honeylovers with double bassist Trevor Stoia in late 2016. From the beginning, the band focused on early and swing jazz. “This was right after the [presidential] election,” Moore recalls. “And sweet, nostalgic music was very healing and therapeutic in an otherwise dark moment.” But rather than exclusively playing classics from the pre- and postwar jazz eras, Moore decided to take Queen Bee and the Honeylovers in a different direction. “I love writing, so any project I had was going to have some original music,” she says. “And as we started to write music, I was looking 50

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around for inspiration.” She found it close to home. “I grew up next door to my grandparents; I grew up hearing their stories about old Asheville,” Moore says. “It was very soothing and healing for me to take some of their stories and turn them into songs, and then go even farther down that rabbit hole of researching Asheville history.” Helped along by a grant from the N.C. Arts Council, the product of those endeavors is Asheville, a 14-track disc filled with songs whose titles make their inspiration clear to those familiar with the city’s history. “Beacham’s Curve” is a love story set against the backdrop of the streetcar line that used to connect West Asheville with what’s now the River Arts District. “I love having a project that allows me to immerse myself in the history of this place and of my ancestors,” Moore says. “I’m reminded that this is just one small moment in the timeline of society and that our ancestors went through stuff just as bad — if not worse — and they persevered. They

worked really hard to get us as far as we are now.” Moore says that the act of researching and writing lyrics about Asheville’s past helps her put things in perspective. “When you see a map of the universe, we’re this one little speck,” she says. “That’s kind of the same feeling that it gives me to study the history of this place.” And her appreciation of Asheville’s history has colored her perspective on its present and future. “I see it blowing up,” the Asheville native says. “There’s a new hotel every day; there are people moving here from all over the world. I’m really glad we have the industry of tourism to keep us alive economically; we need that. And I’m also sad to see the displacement of the communities and culture that was already here. Folks like my family are kind of getting pushed out, so I wanted to preserve some of those stories and keep that old Asheville alive.” Queen Bee and the Honeylovers aren’t completely immersed in the past; Moore’s historically based lyr-

ics cover themes that are universal, and many are relevant to presentday Asheville. As the music video for “Beacham’s Curve” makes plain, the song is about a same-sex romance. And, while “Logan and Moore” is ostensibly about the Pack Square tailor shop that Moore’s grandfather ran, its theme is timely as well. “It’s also a song about the everongoing, forward march of ‘progress’ destroying small businesses and mechanization,” Moore says. Taking a swipe at a recently defunct chain (while pointing at online retailer Amazon as well), “Logan and Moore” includes the lyric, “Maybe Sears and Roebuck can make it cheaper, but what price can you put on a community’s livelihood?” The Honeylovers include Stoia, with Moore on vocals and snare drum, pianist James Posedel and guitarist Matt Frick. For the album release show, the band will be joined by local jazz notable Russ Wilson on drums and guitarist Steve Karla, both of whom also play on the album. The expanded group will also feature violinist Drayton Aldridge of Drayton & The Dreamboats.

The evening is designed to underscore the historical nature of the music. Conda Painter from the West Asheville History Project will give a presentation, and Marla Milling, author of Legends, Secrets and Mysteries of Asheville “is going to come and share some old Asheville stories,” Moore says. Stories are at the heart of the new album. “I try to tell at least two stories at once,” Moore says. “If you’re just gonna tell one story, then you could just say it. But if you want to tell multiple stories at one time, you make art about it.” X

WHO Queen Bee and the Honeylovers WHERE Isis Music Hall 743 Haywood Road isisasheville.com WHEN Saturday, April 27, 8:30 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show

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SOUNDS UNFAMILIAR

Neo-Pastiche Festival celebrates experimental music traditions

When people talk about American music traditions, particularly in the Southern Appalachians, they’re usually talking about the interplay between banjo and fiddle, that danceable romp that’s folded into well-documented genres like Americana, folk, bluegrass and old-time. But experimental musical styles, which are less easy to categorize, have roots that are just as deep. Black Mountain College, which operated 1933-57, challenged the scope of traditional higher education, attracting students who had a predisposition toward the unconventional. The college may have been closed for more than 60 years now, but its legacy has left a lasting mark on Asheville and its environs. So, it makes sense that Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is the location of a new festival celebrating uncategorizable music, running Thursday-Sunday, April 25-28. Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music will offer attendees four days of programming which, according to

CRITICAL LISTENING: Phenoma, the collaboration of Elizabeth Lang and Kimathi Moore, pictured, is one of the local acts on the roster for the Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music festival. The three-day event, at the Black Mountain Museum + Arts Center, features “presentations by living American composers and performers whose work comes from outside standard academic or popular music context,” according to organizers. Photo courtesy of Lang and Moore the festival website, “will feature musicians working under the headings of experimental music, both improvised and composed, electronic and computer musics, contemporary dance music, Appalachian string music, honky-tonk, speech and text-based musics, video art and more.” More than a dozen artists will share their sounds. Co-sponsored by other local organizations, including UNC Asheville and the Media Arts Project, the weekend was conceived by composers Alec Sturgis and Jack Callahan. (Both are now based in New York City, though Sturgis lived in Asheville for seven years.) Sturgis says the pair dreamed up the event through years of conversations about their need for more venues for their styles of composition. They guessed that such a thing could do well in music-loving towns like Asheville, where fans of the arts generally have an open mind. “[Jack] and I both come from backgrounds in conservatory composition,” Sturgis says. “We were both seeking 52

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alternative pathways for our own music, which led us to get involved in more experimental and interdisciplinary practices. … We’d been thinking for a long time about the lack of representation for a lot of the music that our friends [make] in experimental music circles, or in other less publicized areas of the American music circuit. We just really wanted to try our best to put together an interesting program that tries to represent a wider context for underrepresented music in the U.S. — not just computer music or avant-garde composition, but a lot of other different approaches to making music outside of standard institutional support.” Among the weekend’s performers are several Asheville locals, including Elizabeth Lang and Kimathi Moore, who call their collaboration Phenoma. The duo’s dreamy, transporting soundscapes can make listeners feel as if they’ve entered a different dimension, as the performers employ drone and ambient music.

“I try to always work with source material that I have a personal relationship with,” Moore says in a video for local electronic instrument creator Make Noise Co. “[It] can be from cooking eggs to a vacuum cleaner, from a specific model that I like. It could be a refrigerator sound. I have a lot of kitchen sounds. I have an old kitchen, so I have some interesting humming sounds that come from the pipes.” It may seem unlikely that a vacuum cleaner and the hum of a refrigerator could be spliced together into anything resembling music, but that is where the artistry resides. Moore makes it sound easy, as if these other worlds are just waiting for us in the kitchen. Indeed, if one digs into the musical sounds inherent in American folk music, whether musical saw, spoons or washboard, it ceases to feel like much of a leap to make music from refrigerator pipes and vacuum cleaners. Shane Parish, meanwhile, works with the more conventional instrument of acoustic guitar. Nonetheless, his soundscapes are no less visionary. Perhaps best known as guitarist for local avant-rock band Ahleuchastistas, Parish will be appearing solo during Neo-Pastiche. His fingerstyle technique creates dreamlike instrumental music, and he says he’s looking forward to being part of such an imaginative group of artists. “Folks [who attend NeoPastiche] should expect a program of rich and diverse musical continuums, lovingly curated with curiosity and enthusiasm,” Parish says. “They should expect to attend the festival with this same sense of openness and be ready to feel more alive. I am most looking forward to the expansion of my ability to listen deeply and be present.” X

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by Alli Marshall

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‘USING ART TO BUILD THE REBELLION’ Emma G brings her Superhero tour to Asheville “I’ve always been one of those people waving my freak flag,” says singer-songwriter and musician Emma Ghaemmaghamy, aka Emma G. The Washington, D.C.-based artist (by way of New Zealand) was born with health issues that led to numerous surgeries, “so I’ve always been a little bit weird anyway. … I’ve always been the person who sees the beauty in being truly, authentically yourself and celebrating your weirdness.” That spirit of authenticity is on display in Emma G’s new single, “Superhero,” from her most recent album, Taking Flight. On the companion video, a young, aspiring busker is heckled by an angry adult who doesn’t appreciate raw talent. Emma G, striding through a city in a sparkling dress, sings, “If I could free you from this burden, I would / If I could make you feel deserving of everything good,” while clips of rebel flags, police brutality and civil unrest flash across the screen. Emma G and her band (percussionist Joey J and DJ Reality Check) are currently on tour in support of this single and another, “Smile,” set to drop in May. They played The Crow & Quill earlier this month and will swing back through Asheville, for a stop at ZaPow Gallery, on Friday, April 26. “I love Asheville. I [have family] in Asheville, and every time I go there, I just love the place more and more,” she says. Plus, Emma used to work at an outdoor program in Connecticut with the husband of ZaPow! owner Lauren DeWorde. But, six degrees of Kevin Bacon aside, Emma aims for more universal connections through her music. “The reason [for] this single in particular,” she says of “Superhero,” is “when I started working on the album, the election hadn’t happened yet. … I kind of feel like we’re living in a reality TV show and the world is waiting to wake the f**k up.” Emma moved to the U.S. four years ago. Her mother is from Pennsylvania, and her father is from Fiji. “Moving here and learning more about the country my mother is from was really important to me,” she explains. “But, as a political activist, it only made sense for me to move to D.C. … As I’ve navigated through living in America as a brown-skinned human, it’s like a bizarre social studies experiment.”

individuality from corporate America — to say … ‘It’s OK to be yourself, it’s OK to be vulnerable, it’s OK to feel, it’s OK to smile at a stranger.’ … It’s something that’s really important to me.” The musician does have big ambitions for her career. “I like to have large, improbable goals,” she says with a laugh. Performing on “The Daily Show with Trevor Noah” makes that list. And — not a pipe dream — Emma and her band will perform in Palm Springs, Calif., at the screening for a documentary film about the Author Incubator organization, for which Emma wrote the theme song. “It’s something I put out to the universe,” she says. Apparently, the universe was listening. But she also intends to remain true to her roots. “I love busking,” Emma says — it’s how she got her start in the U.S., and it’s what her group plans to do between shows while on tour. “It’s one of the ways you can really connect with and see a city.” X

WHO Emma G with Stephen Evans, Tommy Yon and YellowTie Guy WHERE ZaPow Gallery 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101 avl.mx/5u0 WHEN Friday, April 26, 6 p.m. $10/$15 VIP

FREE YOUR MIND: Of her start as a busker in buttoned-down Washington, D.C., singer-songwriter Emma G says, “It was my job to draw out that love and that individuality from corporate America — to say … ‘It’s OK to be yourself, it’s Ok to be vulnerable, it’s OK to feel, it’s OK to smile at a stranger.’” Photo by Anthony Williams She continues, “When the election happened, my friends and I looked at each other and said, ‘Well, what the f**k do we do? Should we move somewhere else?’” Then Emma discovered the term “artivist” (artist + activist), which she describes as “using our art to build the rebellion. …. Music is one of the few languages we have to overcome differences.” Before making the move from New Zealand, Emma was already a rising star — though her Kiwi band, Static Era, was very different from her current aesthetic.

The guitarist in that project, she says, was influenced by Iron Maiden and Metallica, while “I grew up listening to everything from The Spice Girls to The [Mighty Mighty] Bosstones.” Emma’s current songs are more popleaning, underscored by the singer-songwriter’s blues-flavored growl. And, on her videos and publicity photos, Emma flaunts body positivity and free-spirited flair. “Washington, D.C., is very uniform,” she explains. As a street performer, “It was my job to draw out that love and that MOUNTAINX.COM

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IT’S A WASH: Siobhan O’Loughlin comes clean in the intimate performance of Broken Bone Bathtub. The show is being staged in private bathrooms around Asheville. Photo courtesy of O’Loughlin An unusual art-meets-theater event has arrived for a limited run in the Asheville area. The intimate and immersive performance piece, Broken Bone Bathtub, continues through Sunday, April 28. It comes as no surprise that local Asheville Fringe Arts Festival founder Jim Julien played a significant role in bringing this show to local audiences. Everything about Broken Bone Bathtub, which is staged in the bathrooms of private homes, fits within the Fringe model of quirky, often intimate performances that defy the expected boundaries of traditional theater. Katie Jones, the co-artistic director of The Magnetic Theatre, discovered the show and brought it to Julien’s attention. While endearing in many ways, this production is not for passive 54

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audiences who like to simply sit back and be entertained. Siobhan O’Loughlin’s creation is part performance, part confessional and part therapy session, and viewers find themselves included in the act. O’Loughlin places herself in a bathtub in someone’s home, which limits the size of the potential audiences for each show. There is secrecy about the performance: Audience members are emailed the location only days before it happens. And while there’s something a little odd about showing up at strangers’ homes and sitting in their bathrooms, that feeling quickly fades. The setting lends an inescapable intimacy to Broken Bone Bathtub. Yes, O’Loughlin is naked in the tub when the audience arrives. It’s disarming but not unsettling. She’s

exposed and in a somewhat helpless state. Having broken her arm in a bicycle crash, she finds herself having to rely on others to help her with the simple task of bathing. Because she’s single and feels alone and isolated, the experience brings up a churn of raw emotion that comes spilling out for her. Once the audience is seated in the small space, O’Loughlin begins talking about her situation. The action quickly becomes unscripted as she poses questions to each person there, finding commonality and compassion from them in different ways. Two of the viewers are asked to help her scrub her back or wash her hair. While unpredictable, the theatrical journey is well crafted by O’Loughlin. To her credit, she is ready and willing take divergent paths with the viewers, who can find themselves opening up and revealing details in a need to connect and relate to the funny, emotional and sincere lady in the bathtub. It could, of course, veer wildly into a group therapy session if the viewers take self-indulgent advantage of the situation. O’Loughlin has done

this show enough to know how to maintain control of the narrative and gently steers the conversation back to the intended narrative. An hour quickly passes, and there is a real sense of connection between performer and viewers by the end. While much of theater is understood to be make-believe and the audience is removed as they view it, Broken Bone Bathtub strips not only the performer, but also the veneer of theatricality, and achieves something more honest and human than expected. It has the power to be an emotionally satisfying catharsis for those who open themselves to the experience. X

WHAT Broken Bone Bathtub WHERE Various bathrooms around Asheville brokenbonebathtub.com WHEN Saturday and Sunday, April 27 and 28, at 7 p.m. $30

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Asheville Butoh Festival

Erin McKeown

Established in 2000 by Julie Becton Gillum and the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, the Asheville Butoh Festival enters its 13th season with its most ambitious offerings to date. Celebrating the unusual dance form that ranges from grotesque and absurd to playful and humorous, the event is the longest-running butoh festival in the U.S. and brings globally renowned butoh artists to Western North Carolina. The 2019 edition includes workshops and performances by international guest artists Yuko Kaseki and Mari Osanai, and solo evening offerings by local dancers Jenni Cockrell and Constance Humphries. The festival runs April 25-28 and May 2-5 at BeBe Theatre and includes second opportunities to take in each performance and workshop. Tickets to individual shows are $18 students and seniors/$20 general admission. Workshops cost $40 each. ashevillebutoh.com. Photos courtesy of the performers

An out, proud advocate for feminism and LGBTQ rights, Erin McKeown has also amassed a catalog of 10 albums and multiple EPs over her 20-year musical career. Her music incorporates folk, rock, swing and pop styles. She wrote the song “Baghdad to the Bayou” via text message with her friend, MSNBC host Rachel Maddow, in 2013. Then, in 2018, McKeown’s debut musical, Miss You Like Hell, opened off-Broadway at The Public Theater. The work was named the year’s Best Musical by The Wall Street Journal and was nominated for five Drama Desk Awards. McKeown brings those skills to Isis Music Hall on Thursday, April 25, at 7 p.m. In promoting the event on Facebook, she describes the performance as an “intimate solo set in one of my favorite towns.” $12 advance/$15 day of show. isisasheville.com. Photo by Jo Chattman

Dungeon Family

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In early January, Big Boi from OutKast announced that he’d purchased the Atlanta home where, in the gritty basement studio known as The Dungeon, he and Andre 3000 recorded their group’s first three albums. Also the creative hub for Goodie Mob and producers Organized Noize, the Lakewood Heights space turned out a series of Southern rap classics before operations were moved to Stankonia Studios in the late 1990s. Big Boi and other key members of the appropriately named Dungeon Family are taking their history on the road this spring. Guaranteed performers at Salvage Station on Saturday, April 27, are Big Boi, CeeLo Green and Goodie Mob, though others from a rotating cast of Sleepy Brown, Organized Noize and KP the Great could appear. A fellow ATLien, rapper King Za, kicks off the evening with an 8 p.m. opening set. $25. salvagestation.com. Photo of Sleepy Brown, left, and Big Boi by Merrick Ales

Psych-rockers Axxa/Abraxas have been commanding stages in Asheville since 2014 and are in the midst of an especially productive month. On April 5, frontman Ben Asbury self-released the band’s third LP, Get Weird or Die Boring, and opened a monthlong art installation, Continental Drift/Lunar Eclipse, at Harvest Records of paintings he created in conjunction with the album. A multiweek tour of the East Coast followed with colleagues Grand Vapids from Athens, Ga. — Asbury’s home before Asheville — awaits, but first, the two groups will celebrate the new Axxa/Abraxas album with a record release show on Saturday, April 27, at The Mothlight. Fellow Asheville acts Hug and Knives & Daggers will warm up the stage beginning at 8 p.m. Free for ages 21 and over/$5 for under 21. themothlight.com. Photo courtesy of Asbury

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A & E CALENDAR art and mixed media. Free to attend.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS 'BROAD SENSE' • Through MO (6/3) Submissions accepted for Broad Sense, site specific time-based experimental performance art and

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• Through (5/17) White squirrel photo contest. Information: 828-884-2787 or tcarts@comporium.net. Held at Transylvania Community Arts Council, 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard

Offering Ballroom, Latin and Swing group class for all levels. No partner needed. Ballroom technique class at 2pm on Wednesdays. All classes $10/person. Full schedule for Dance and Yoga at www.waveasheville.com.

• SA (4/24), 1-3pm & 5-7pm; SU (4/28), 2-5pm - Auditions for Urang Durang?, directed by Beth Bristol, held at the Main Stage Auditorium. Information: casting@ hendersonvilletheatre.org. Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre,

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BEYOND THE BEANSTALK: Jack Tales came to Appalachia via the British Isles. The tales are about a clever but lazy farm boy named Jack who achieves success either by his wits or by sheer luck. Many of the Jack Tales were collected from oral histories taken from the Council Harmon family of Beech Mountain and published by Richard Chase in 1943. The Mars Hill University theater arts department performs the Jack Tales at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 27, at the Owen Theatre on the Mars Hill University campus. Tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for students and free for Mars Hill University students and staff. For more information, call 828-689-1389 or email boxoffice@mhu.edu. Painting by Charley Frye, photo courtesy of Mars Hill University’s theater arts department (p. 58)

ART BHRAMARI BREWING COMPANY WELCOMES ASHEVILLEFAIRYHAIR. COM (PD.) Wednesday, April 24th, 5-7:00pm. Get SPARKLED with Real Finklepott's Fairy Hair! Not tinsel. at Bhramari Brewing Company. Sign up here to reserve your Sparkling Session: AshevilleFairyHair.com FRANCESCA'S WELCOMES ASHEVILLEFAIRYHAIR. COM (PD.) Thursday, April 25th, 5-7:00pm Get SPARKLED with Real Finklepott's Fairy Hair! Not tinsel. at Francesca's Asheville Outlet Mall. Sign up here to reserve your Sparkling Session: AshevilleFairyHair.com DRAWING WORKSHOP FOR VETERANS • THURSDAYS, 9:30am-12:30pm - Joseph Pearson teaches the four basic steps of making a drawing. Each participant is asked to bring three objects of personal significance to the session. Registration: avl.mx/5wp.

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theme. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St.

GRASSROOTS ARTS PROGRAM INFORMATION SESSION • TH (4/25), 5:30-6:30pm - Information session for the North Carolina Arts Council’s Grassroots Arts Program grants. Held at Asheville Area Arts Council, 1 Page Ave.

UNCA STUDENT CERAMICS SALE • SA (4/24), 10am-4pm Functional and decorative pottery made by UNCA students is on sale with a portion of the proceeds benefitting the Department of Art and Art History. Cash or checks. Free to attend. Held at UNCA Foundation, 838 Riverside Drive, Woodfin

MARVELOUS MONDAY STUDIOS • MONDAYS, 9:30am12:30pm or 1-4pm - Marvelous Mondays, beginner and up, includes watercolor, oils, acrylics, drawing and mixed media. Registration required. $27 and up. Held at 310 ART, 191 Lyman St., #310 TRIUMPH & STRUGGLE IN THE QUEST FOR HOME, FAMILY, COMMUNITY & CULTURE • MO (4/29), 5:30pm - MLK Jr Association, YWCA and adé Project present Triumph & Struggle in the Quest for Home, Family, Community & Culture, an exhibit of local art in the Stand Against Racism

WATERCOLOR CLASS WITH LOCAL ARTIST JOAN DOYLE • SA (4/27), 2-3:30pm Watercolor painting with local artist Joan Doyle, materials provided. Registration required. Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS BREVARD’S 4TH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-8pm Brevard 4th Friday gallery walk with open galleries,

art stores, restaurants, live music and refreshments. Free to attend. Held in Downtown Brevard Held at Transylvania Community Arts Council, 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard POP-UP MARKET • SA (4/27), 10am-6pm Pop-up market featuring 15 local artists and live music. Free to attend. Held at The Weave Event Space, 115 N. Main St., Weaverville WEAVERVILLE ART SAFARI Main St., Weaverville • FR (4/26), 6-8pm - Weaverville Art Safari Spring Studio Tour Preview Party at three galleries: Artisans on Main, Mangum Pottery and Miya Gallery. Preview party includes a silent auction, raffle and door prizes, beer, wine and snacks. $10. • SA (4/27) & SU (4/28), 10am-5pm - Weaverville Art Safari Spring Studio Tour, 50 artists working in ceramics, glass, photography, sculpture, painting, jewelry, furniture, wood art, drawing, fiber

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A& E CA LEN DA R LEARN TO DANCE! (PD.) Ballroom • Swing • Waltz • Salsa • Wedding • Two-Step • Special Events. Lessons, Workshops, Classes and Dance Events in Asheville. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715. naturalrichard@mac.com • www.DanceForLife.net ASHEVILLE BUTOH FESTIVAL • TH (4/25) through SU (5/5) - 13th Annual Asheville Butoh Festival. Performances featuring Constance Humphries, Yuko Kaseki, Jenni Cockrell and Mari Osanai. Workshops by Yuko Kaseki and Mari Osanai. See website for schedule and tickets. $20/$18 students & seniors/$40 workshops. BAILEY MOUNTAIN CLOGGERS SPRING CONCERT • FR (4/26) & SA (4/27), 7pm; SU (4/28), 3pm - A Million Dreams: A Celebration of Humanity, Bailey Mountain Cloggers spring concert. $10. Held in Moore Auditorium, Mars Hill University, 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill COMMUNITY BARN DANCE, OLD TIME SQUARE DANCE • SA (4/27), 7-9pm CommUnity Barn old time Square Dance called by Aaron Ratcliff with stringband Cullowheezer. Free. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville DE LA NOCHE TANGO • SU (4/28), 7pm - De la Noches playing Argentine tango music for dancing.

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Dance lesson at 7pm, live tango orchestra at 8pm. $12. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

• 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm - Ole Tyme Pickers, bluegrass concert. Free. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER

SPRING 2019 DANCE SHARING • FR (4/26), 7-8:30pm - UNC Asheville dance program’s Spring 2019 Dance Sharing, featuring student work and works by director Celia Weiss Bambara. Free. Held at Belk Theatre, UNC Asheville Campus, One University Hts, CPO1700

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. www. skinnybeatsdrums.com ASHEVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 828-259-3626, ashevillechambermusic.org • FR (4/26), 8pm - Ying Quartet and cellist Zuill Bailey play works by Bach, Schumann and Schubert. $40. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.

120 College St., 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (4/25), 7pm - Part of Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival. Concerto for Piano and Orchestra by John Cage performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble. $12. • FR (4/26), 7pm - Part of Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival. DeForrest Brown, Jr. and Theodore Cale Schafer. $12. • SA (4/27), 7pm - Part of Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival. Jeff Witscher, Jaclyn Miller and Macle by Julius Eastman performed by the S.E.M. Ensemble. $12. • SU (4/28), 2pm & 7pm - Part of Neo-Pastiche: Changes in American Music Festival. S.E.M. Ensemble performs for Philip Guston by Morton Feldman. $12. BLUE RIDGE ORCHESTRA blueridgeorchestra.com • WE (4/24), 7-9:30pm Open rehearsal. Free. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane BLUE RIDGE SYMPHONIC BRASS

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• TH (4/25), 7:30pm - Blue Ridge Symphonic Brass concert. Free. Held at Porter Center at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-257-4530, dwtheatre.com • TH (4/25), 8pm - Paul Thorn Band, concert. $30-$35. • SU (4/28), 7:30pm - Graham Parker with Adam Ezra on the Cloud Symbols CD release tour. $29.50/$35.50. ‘FROM MOZART TO POP CHART’ • THURSDAY through SUNDAY until (4/28) From Mozart to Pop Chart. Thurs.: 7:30pm, Fri.: 8pm, Sat.: 2&8pm, Sun.: 2pm. $20-$54/$17 child. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock HANDEL’S MESSIAH: PASSSION & RESURRECTION • A (4/27), 7:30pm - Handel’s Messiah performed by Asheville Symphony Chorus. $25. Held at Arden Presbyterian Church, 2215 Hendersonville Road, Arden HAYWOOD COUNTY JAZZ FESTIVAL Tuscola High School, 564 Tuscola School Road, Waynesville, ths.haywood.k12.nc.us/ • SA (4/27), 4pm - Tuscola High School Band, 4:30pm - Waynesville Middle School Band, 5pm - Enka High School Band, 5:30pm - North Buncombe High School Band, 7pm - Pisgah High School Band, 7:30pm - Blue Ridge Big Band 8:15pm - Western Carolina University Band. Free. JAZZ HOUR WITH UP JUMPED THREE • SA (4/27), 1pm - Up Jumped Three, jazz

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Maggie Valley Band • Shane Meade and the Sound Darren and the Buttered Toast • Ol’ Dirty Bathtub Swim in the Wild • Nick Prestia • Bird in Hand Troy Underwood • Fuzzy Peppers Geoff McBride and Scott Baker

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concert. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. MUSIC AT UNCA Lipinsky Auditorium, 300 Library Lane, 828-251-6432, unca.edu • TH (4/25), 7-8:30pm - UNC Asheville Wind Ensemble concert with the Smoky Mountain Brass Band and James Curnow. $10. • SA (4/27), 8am-5pm - Concert featuring the University Chorale and Asheville Singers. $10. • SU (4/28), 3pm - UNC Asheville’s student Percussion Ensemble concert. $10. MUSIC OF THE RINGS CONCERT • SA (4/27), 7:30pm - Music of the Rings, sound healing concert featuring Billy Zanski, Chandra Passero and Julie Hanson. Tickets: bit.ly/2KMS1qJ. $20/$15 advance. Held at Rainbow Community School Auditorium, 58 State St. SLY GROG OPEN MIC • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Openmic for storytellers, poets, musicians and all kinds of performance artists. Sign ups at 6:30pm. Free to attend. Held at Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St. THE CATAMOUNT SINGERS & ELECTRIC SOUL • TH (4/25), 7:30pm Made in America, concert featuring The Catamount Singers and Electric Soul Student Ensemble. $15/$5 students. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • SA (4/27), 8pm - Living legend Freddy Cole concert. $35 and up. • TH (5/2), 6:30pm Sunset Series: Silver Travis Band, outdoor concert in the Peterson Ampitheater. $10.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD COLORFUL PAGES PROJECT • SA (4/28), 10:30am - Colorful Pages Project is

educators, counselors and parents, passionate about racial equity. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road LISTEN TO THIS: STORIES ON STAGE • TH (4/25), 7:30pm Listen to This: Stories on Stage, stories and songs. $15. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • TH (4/25), 7pm - The Emissary by Yoko Tawada, translated by Margaret Mitsutani. Free to attend. • SA (4/27), 6pm - NCLR writers celebrate indie bookstores, poetry month and the release of the 2018 online issue with readings by Amber Flora Thomas, Catherine Carter and Sally Thomas. Free to attend. • SU (4/28), 3pm - Ann B. Ross presents her book, Miss Julia Takes the Wheel. Free to attend. • TU (4/30), 6pm - Merina Ty-Kisera presents her book, Accupressure with Essential Oils: A Self-Care Guide to Enhance Your Health and Lift your Spirit. Free to attend. • WE (5/1), 7pm - Discussion of Sailing Alone Around the World by Joshua Slocum. Free to attend. NC WRITERS' NETWORK • TH (5/2), 6:30-8pm - The Writer’s Life – Encouraging Ourselves, and Others. Free to attend. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-3294190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road POETRY SLAM • TH (4/25), 7pm - Poetry slam competition for student spoken-word poets. Free. Held in Ponder Atrium of Ferguson Math and Science Center, Mars Hill University.

PURPOSE COLLECTIVE OPEN MIC • TU (4/30), 7pm - Open Mic Night welcomes songs, poems, comedy bits, magic tricks or anything you like, sign ups 6:30pm. Held at The Purpose Collective, 101 Stone Ridge Ave. SANDBURG POETRY READING • SA (4/27), 9am-4pm - Community reading of Carl Sandburg’s poem, The People, Yes. Community is invited to read 5-minute segments of the poem throughout the day. Registration: nps.gov/carl/planyourvisit/ tpy.htm. Free. Held at Carl Sandburg Home NHS, 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock SOUTHERN STORYTELLING WITH LEE WOODS • TH (4/25), 6pm - Southern Storytelling with Lee Woods, author of Growing Up on Hazel Creek and in the Fontana Basin. $18/$10 for students includes dinner. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville UN-JOURNALING WORKSHOP • WEDNESDAYS (5/1) through (5/15), 10-11:30am - UnJournaling, workshop to review journals and gather material for potential use in memoirs. Registration: HCPRD.com. $30. Held at Henderson County Parks and Recreation Center, 708 S. Grove St., Hendersonville

THEATER 'A TURNPIKE SUNSET' • SA (4/27), 7:30pm Historical fiction acted out by bluegrass band, Buncombe Turnpike, storytelling and music. $15/$20 at door. Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W Campus Drive, Flat Rock 'BROKEN BONE BATHTUB' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (4/28) - Broken Bone Bathtub, one-woman show by Siobhan O'Loughlin. Fri. & Sat.: 7 & 9pm, Sun.: 2 & 4pm. Reservations:

brokenbonebathtub. com. $30. ‘JACK TALES’ • SA (4/27), 7:30pm - Jack Tales, performance by the MHU theater arts department. $10/$5 students. Held at Owens Theatre, Mars Hill University, 44 College St., Mars Hill ‘ON THE RAZZLE’ • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (4/25) until 4/28) - On the Razzle, allages comedy. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $10. Held at Kittredge Theatre, Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa 'PLAY ON!' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (4/12) until (4/28) - Play On!, comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $18/$12 student/$6 children. Held at Brevard Little Theatre, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard 'THE WARP & THE WEFT' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (4/28) - The Warp & The Weft, 60-minute mosaic of puppetry, live music, video and physical theater for ages 8+. Fri.: 7pm. Sat. & Sun.: 1pm. Thurs.: 5pm. $23/$12 student. Held at Magnetic 375, 375 Depot St. THE AUTUMN PLAYERS 828-686-1380, www. ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • FR (4/26) & SA (4/27), 2:30pm - The Constant Wife, a comedy of manners by Somerset Maugham, directed by Anita Chapman, readers theatre style. $7. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. • SU (4/28), 2:30pm The Constant Wife, a comedy of manners by Somerset Maugham, directed by Anita Chapman, readers theatre style. $7. Held at UNCAsheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road

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• Senior art exhibition featuring the work of eight students graduating with degrees in the visual arts. April 24-May 10 79 Cascade St., Mars Hill

GROVEWOOD GALLERY • All Together Now: A Pediatric Patients' Art Show. April 6-April 30 111 Grovewood Road HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • Inspired Art Ministry, exhibition of work by Char Avrunin and students. April 5-April 27 86 N. Main St., Waynesville

ART AT WCU 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee • MFA thesis exhibitions. Reception: Thursday, April 25, 5-7pm. April 9-May 3 • I Want You! How World War I Transformed Western North Carolina, exhibit featuring wartime images and artifacts. Reception: Thursday, April 25, 4:30-6:30pm. April 16-April 26

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ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave. • A Visual Contemplation: Land, Sea and Sky, exhibition of works by Karen Keil Brown and Gayle Havens. April 1-April 29 • The Color of Rain, exhibition featuring the paintings of Cheryl Keefer. May 1-May 31 BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS • Becoming Whole: A Study of Art and Healing, exhibition of works focused on mental health curated by The Black Mountain Counseling Center. April 12-May 10 225 W. State St., Black Mountain CARL SANDBURG HOME NHS • Let a Joy Keep You, exhibition of Henderson county youth art. April 17-May 22 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock

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MARK BETTIS STUDIO & GALLERY • 828, exhibition of works by five local artists with over 50 8x8 works. April 13-May 11 123 Roberts St. MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT • Art walk and open house featuring work by Sondra Dorn, Terry Gess and Bryant Holsenbeck. April 5-June 17 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville

UNDER A SPREADING CHESTNUT-TREE: The 13th annual Fire on the Mountain Festival sponsored by Spruce Pine Main Street, Penland School of Crafts and Toe River Arts Council will take place Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. in downtown Spruce Pine. All month a blacksmith exhibit has been running at the Toe River Art Council Gallery showcasing works from all across the nation. A public reception is planned for Friday, April 26, 5-7 p.m. at the gallery, offering a chance to meet the exhibiting blacksmiths. Awards will be announced at 6:30 p.m. At 7 p.m., this year’s master blacksmith, John Rais from Philadelphia, will hold a public lecture and presentation. Rais designs and creates one-of-a-kind furniture, sculpture and architectural forms. For more information, call 828765-0520 or visit toeriverarts.org. For more information about the Fire on the Mountain Festival, visit downtownsprucepine.com.

DISTRICT WINE BAR • James Daniel drawings and paintings. April 4-May 4 37 Paynes Way, Suite 9

Reception: Saturday, April 27, 6-9pm. April 27-May 26 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain

DOWNTOWN BOOKS & NEWS • Noble Beasts, exhibition of oil paintings by Elizabeth Albright. April 5-April 30 67 N. Lexington Ave.

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FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER • Domestic Blissss, exhibition featuring the artwork of Connie Bostic, Brenda Coates, Linda Larsen, Marya Roland and Alice Sebrell.

• Light 'Em Up, exhibition of lamps and lighting fixtures from seven artists in a variety of mediums. April 19-May 17 14 South Main St., Marshall GALLERY 1 • Exhibition of photographs by Jennifer Robin. April 5-April 30 604 W. Main St., Sylva

GRACE CHURCH IN THE MOUNTAINS • Icons in Transformation, traveling exhibition featuring work by Ludmila Pawlowska. April 28-May 26 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY • Exhibition of paintings by Stefan Horik. April 12-May 10 11 Boston Way GREEN SAGE CAFE WESTGATE • Breathless, exhibition of underwater photography by John Highsmith.

MOMENTUM GALLERY • Dissolution, two-person, mixed media exhibition featuring works by Seth Clark and Jason Forck. Reception: Thursday, May 2, 5-8pm. May 2-May 30 24 North Lexington Ave. MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN • People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters, exhibition featuring works by over 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation. April 6-May 11 589 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS 67 Doras Trail, Bakersville • Compose | Decompose, a mixed-media sculpture and sound installation. March 30-April 30 • Simple Things, Joseph Pintz’s functional and sculptural ceramic works. March 30-May 5 RAMP STUDIOS • Three WCU MFA candidates exhibit their theses. April 13-May 3 821 Riverside Drive REVOLVE • My Place, or Yours?, collaborative works of over 18 artists curated by Cara Hagen. April 17-May 22 821 Riverside Drive, #179

SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE MUSEUM • Infused in History, exhibition regarding tea and tea history. April 24-May 22 283 Victoria Road SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM • Beacon Manufacturing Company operated in Swannanoa from 1924 – 2002 and was once the largest blanket manufacturer in the world. Exhibit about the Beacon blanket mill and its impact on the Swannanoa Valley. April 13-Nov. 1 223 W State St., Black Mountain THE WEDGE STUDIOS • Grasses and Marsh, pastels by Elise Okrend. March 1-30 129 Roberts St., Second floor THE TRYON DEPOT ROOM • Exhibition of the paintings of Gary Cooley. Reception: Friday, April 26, 5-8pm. April 3-April 30 22 Depot St., Tryon TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL • Toe River Arts’ 13th Annual Blacksmith Exhibition. Reception: Friday, April 26, 5-7pm, followed by master blacksmith, John Rais' lecture and presentation. March 30-April 27 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY • Upstate, exhibition of photographs by Tema Stauffer. April 12-May 10 188 Coxe Ave. UNCA • 16th Annual New Media Student Show features work by UNC Asheville students. Juried by Dave Pruiksma. April 19-April 29 Zeis Hall, second floor lobby, 1 University Heights YMI CULTURAL CENTER • Examine the Past, Create the Future, exhibition of works by Joan E. Gardner and Alvin C. Jacobs. April 30-May 28 39 South Market St. ZAPOW! • May The Fourth Be With You, exhibition of space related art by local artists. April 19-May 22 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101

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THE MOST IMPORTANT MEAL: Japanese Breakfast is the stage name of Korean American composer, video game designer, author and musician Michelle Zauner. Her second solo project, Soft Sounds From Another Planet, began as a self-described “science-fiction musical” concept album. The project got more personal when she used her signature shoegaze to process the loss her mother to cancer. Japanese Breakfast performs at The Grey Eagle Friday, May 3, at 9 p.m. $20. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Jackie Lee Young

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT WINE BAR Karoake w/ Kitty Savage, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chili Slaw Sessions w/ Tom Kirschbaum & Friends, 6:00PM BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Bhramari Brewing Company Welcomes AshevilleFairyHair.com, 5:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 9:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society, 9:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 12th Annual Music Video Asheville, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Steelin' Time + DJ, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Marc's Groovy Movie Night, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Gypsy & Me w/ Bird in Hand, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE Blue Ridge Orchestra Open Rehearsal, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Duran Duran Listening Party, 8:00PM

PULP The Dirtyboys w/ Aftermeth & Sinker, 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Kind, Clean Gentlemen, 6:30PM

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

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Foxy & Co. Electronic Skills Class #2, 5:30PM Get Weird Wednesdays at Sly Grog! Electronic collaboration, 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Squidling Bros Circus Sideshow, Viva Le Vox, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West:Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue), 9:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night: Jukebox Nite w/Patrick Lopez and Bill Berg, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Three O’Clock Train w/ Mack MacKenzie (alternative country) 6:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM

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C LUBLAND THE GREY EAGLE Shake The Baby Til The Love Comes Out, Shutterings, Jaeb & Lowercase Numbers, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Movie Trivia: Casey's Cinememory Recall Challenge, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David, 9:00PM

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THURSDAY, APRIL 25 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT WINE BAR Sad Baxter, Reality Something, Styrofoam Turtles, 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Canned Heat Vinyl Night, 5:00PM

MILE TWELVE

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SAT 4/27 7:00PM–ROD PICOTT WITH RACHEL SAGE

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL BoomBox w/ BomBassic, 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP SakeOke (karaoke), 8:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN METHODIST CHURCH Spring, Music and Community w/ the Wild Asheville Community Chorus, led by Suzannah Park, 7:30AM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM

QUEEN BEE & THE HONEYLOVERS 8:30PM–QUEEN BEE & THE HONEYLOVERS“ASHEVILLE” ALBUM RELEASE PARTY SUN 4/28 7:00PM–BETH SNAPP BAND & GREG KLYMA

TUE 4/30

7:30PM–TUES.BLUEGRASS W/ THE THOMAS CASSELL BAND

WED 5/1 7:00PM–THE HOLLANDS! CD RELEASE 8:30PM–JEFF MIX & THE SONGHEARTS W/ THE TRIPPIN’ HARDIE BOYS

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BYWATER Open Electric Country Jam hosted by John Duncan, 7:00PM CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins, 10:00PM DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Paul Thorn Band, 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN OLD GOLD w/ DJ Jasper (killer rock n' soul vinyl), 10:00PM

FOLKMOOT FRIENDSHIP CENTER Southern Storytellers Series: Lee Woods, 6:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Gabriel Wiseman's Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Thursday Night blues w/ The Patrick Dodd Trio, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL Mile Twelve w/ Zoe & Cloyd, 8:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Mile Twelve w/ Zoe and Cloyd, 8:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Erin McKeown, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZOOM ROOM Home-Groan Pun Battle, 8:00PM LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION (80's dance party), 10:00PM LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE Concert: UNC Asheville Wind Ensemble with the Smoky Mountain Brass Band and James Curnow, 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM MAGNETIC 375 The Warp & The Weft, 5:00PM NOBLE KAVA Hip Hop Night, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul Weekly Drag, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: El Dub, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Funk Jam, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Corey Smith: The Great Wide Underground Tour, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Conservation Theory, 6:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Culture Shock!, 9:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker & Jeff Anders, 8:00PM

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Drayton & The Dreamboats, 6:30PM

WED

24 PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Tom Waits 4 No Man, 8:00PM PLEB URBAN WINERY Leeda ‘Lyric’ Jones, 5:30PM PURPLE ONION CAFE The Moon and You, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Cousin Earth, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Billy Litz, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE The Power, North by North, Tin Foil Hat, 8:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Spin Sessions w/ DJ Stylus, 6:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM

WEAVER HOUSE April B. Duo (R&B, funk), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, APRIL 26 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Pimps of Pompe (gypsy jazz, hip-hop), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Hustle Souls + Downtown Abby & The Echoes + Stevie Lee Combs, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Bity City Blues Jam with host Chicago Don, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Andy Frasco & the U.N. w/ Trongone Band, 9:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Honky Tonk Night w/ Vaden Landers, 5:30PM

BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz trio), 7:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM

BELK THEATRE, UNC ASHEVILLE CAMPUS Spring 2019 Dance Sharing, 7:00PM

THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Patrick Lopez's The Music of Winton Marsalis, 8:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Michaela Anne & Todd Albright, 8:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM

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

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Canaan Cox, 6:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Supervillian w/ Rye & Sane Voids, 9:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Rainbow Kitten Surprise, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Linda and the Live wires, 9:00PM

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TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam, 9:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Dave Desmelik Trio, 7:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Rock n' Soul Obscurities w/ Wild Vinyl DJ, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Drinkard Sisters, Austin Stambaugh, Hannah Berken, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Africa Unplugged (soul), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Tennessee Champagne, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bull The Barker, 8:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Jim Swayzee (folk, blues, rock), 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Sister Antics, 7:00PM HOPEY & CO Open Mic Night hosted by Heather Taylor, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Micah Scott, 7:00PM Charlie Traveler Presents: An Evening w/ Jonathan Edwards, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Wobblers, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Reese McHenry, Shaken Nature, Raygun (rock n roll), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Fermata (dark ambient), 8:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Andrew Scotchie- Solo Acoustic Show, 6:00PM MAGNETIC 375 The Warp & The Weft, 7:00PM

THU

SAT 27 EVERETTE

SHAKE THE BABY TIL THE LOVE COMES OUT, SHUTTERINGS, JAEB, LOWERCASE NUMBERS

W/ REBEL UNION, 8PM

NOBLE KAVA Noble Pursuits: An Evening w/ Jason Moore, 9:00PM

MICHAELA ANNE

ODDITORIUM Asheville After Dark Presents: Perversions (kink), 9:00PM

26 BURLESQUE

FRI

HEROES AND VILLAINS

FRI

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM The Kind Thieves, 10:00PM

SAT

SALVAGE STATION Evan Button & Sons of Paradise, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Matt Walsh & The Movers, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Akris, Cavern, Then Came Dragons, Last Frost, Wasting, 7:00PM

CORK & KEG One Leg Up, 8:30PM

MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Gary Macfiddle, 7:00PM

CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (western swing and hot jazz), 9:00PM

NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Szlachetka (singer-songwriter, roots), 5:30PM

THE CUT COCKTAIL LOUNGE JR junior CD release party, 8:00PM

BoomBox w/ BomBassic

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W/ THE WHISKEY CHARMERS

OPEN MIC NIGHT

LOST DOG STREET BAND W/ MATT HECKLER

WEST ASHEVILLE

520 HAYWOOD RD Wed. 4/24

9pm- Latin Night w/ DJ Oscar

Thu. 4/25

9pm- West Side Funk Jam $3 Selected Pints

Fri. 4/26

9pm- Mrs. Dubfire featuring members of Brushfire Stankgrass

Sat. 4/27

9pm- An Evening with Pink Mercury

Mon. 4/29

8:30pm- Jazz Jam

$3 Select Pints All Day!

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Utah Greene, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE In the Pocket w/ Paula Hanke: Rockin’ Swingin’ Blues Dance Party, (dance lesson, 6:30PM), 7:30PM

MON

FT. DJ MAD SCI, 11:45PM

ORANGE PEEL Color Me Goodwill Fashion Show & Benefit, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Barnes Sanders & Rhodes, 8:00PM

SUN

LATE NIGHT DANCE PARTY

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Mrs. Dubfire w/ members of Brushfire Stankgrass (reggae, dub), 9:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR 3 Cool Cats, 6:30PM

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Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia - 6:30pm

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THU

Tuesday Night Funk Jam - 11pm Turntable Tuesday - 10pm

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TUE

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PET SOUNDS: Crushed Leaf Studios and WTZQ host the Rock & Roll Truth Music Fest, which benefits the Blue Ridge Humane Society. The all-local lineup includes Appalachian Renegades, Pieces of Pisces, 28 Pages (pictured), Daddy Rabbit, Hustle Souls, Zuzu Welsh, Scoundrel’s Lounge, Fret Dreams and others. The Rock & Roll Truth Music Fest takes place at the Artisan of Flat Rock in Hendersonville. Music starts Friday, May 3, at 5:30 p.m. and Saturday, May 4, at 4:30 p.m. $15 per night. flatrockartisan.com. Photo by Tim Smith

THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Awake in the Dream, 8:00PM

AMBROSE WEST An Evening of Improv Comedy with Reasonably Priced Babies, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Jordan Okrend Experience, 7:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Black Garter Revue - Hero & Villains, 10:00PM Zodiac Dance Party Series: Taurus Night w/ DJ Mad Sci, 11:30PM

ARDEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Asheville Symphony Chorus Presents Handel's Messiah: Passsion & Resurrection, 7:30PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr Jimmy, 4:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Rod Picott, 7:00PM Queen Bee and the Honeylovers: “Asheville” Album Release Party, 8:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Laura Jane Grace & the Devouring Mothers w/ Mercy Union & Control Top, 7:30PM TOWN PUMP morgans mill, 9:00PM

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TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Bill Mattocks & The Strut, 10:00PM US CELLULAR CENTER Asheville Tattoo Arts Convention, 2:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY JLAD (Jimmi Lang's Almost Doors), 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Roberta Baum, 8:00PM ZAPOW! Emma G: The Superhero Tour w/ Stephen Evans & Tommy Yon (singersongwriter), 6:00PM ZAMBRA Chuck Lichtenberger Trio (jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, APRIL 27

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB West King String Band, 9:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Music Trivia, 6:00PM Shane Parish, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Cookie Tongue, Tiny Wonder, Toybox Theatre (variety) The Shrunken Heads, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Foundation.DnB, 9:00PM

KITTREDGE THEATRE On the Razzle, 7:30PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: A Magikal Night w/ Pink Mercury, 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Lyric & DJ Nex Millen, 10:00PM

LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Drew Lausch, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Midland: Electric Rodeo Tour w/ Desure, 9:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Saturday Swing-a-ling w/ DJs Arieh & Chrissy, 10:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Grand Theft Audio, 9:30PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Laura Blackley and the Wildflowers, 7:00PM

LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE UNC Asheville’s University Chorale and Asheville Singers in Concert, 8:00AM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step band, 5:00PM Virginia and the Slims, 8:00PM

CORK & KEG The Big Dawg Slingshot, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL The Maggie Valley Band, 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Spring, Music and Community w/ the Wild Asheville Community Chorus, led by Suzannah Park, 7:30PM

27 CLUB 27 on the 27th!, 9:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Airshow (bluegrass, jam), 10:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR King Garbage, (indie soul), 9:00PM

FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Emmy Law, 7:00PM

LIVING WEB FARMS Savvy Tillage, 1:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Live Synth Saturdays, 7:00PM XOR, Nomadic War Machine, Fatal Comfort, 8:00PM MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM MAGNETIC 375 The Warp & The Weft, 1:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Hi-Wire Brewing Tap Take Over w/ Big Ivy Project, 7:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Chris Jamison, 6:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Jauntee, 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Joseph Hasty & Centerpiece, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Dungeon Family Tour: Big Boi, Goodie Mob & more, 7:00PM Random Animals, 10:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Letters to Abigail, 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Paco Ship & Dave Zoll, 6:00PM SYLVA, NC Greening Up the Mountains (music, food, crafts, 5K), 10:00AM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE CommUNITY Salsa/Latin Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes, (lesson at 9:00PM), 9:30PM

THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Power Toolz, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Everette & Rebel Union, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Axxa Abraxas Album Release w/ Knives & Daggers, Grand Rapids & Hug, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Bluegrass Tribute, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Red Echo Lab, 7:30PM Ruby Mayfield & The Friendship Train, 10:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM US CELLULAR CENTER Asheville Tattoo Arts Convention, 11:00AM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY OMSN IV w/ Jarvis Jenkins Band & Ben Phan, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Moody Blues Tribute: On the Threshold of a Dream, 8:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SUNDAY, APRIL 28 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Furstenberg, (Americana), 7:00PM AMBROSE WEST Songful Sundays w/ The Bald Mountain Boys, 2:00PM Worthwhile Sounds Presents: Joe Purdy w/ The Honey Dewdrops & Smokey and the Mirror, 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Bluegrass, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibe Sundays w/ DJ Oso Rey (reggae), 3:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison, 7:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Graham Parker w/ Adam Ezra Cloud Symbols CD Release Tour, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TIM O, 10:00PM FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ASHEVILLE Earth Day Vigil and Labyrinth Walk"Walking the Path", 5:30PM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST Spring, Music and Community w/ the Wild Asheville Community Chorus, led by Suzannah Park, 4:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Comedy Island: Asheville, 8:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM

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THU. 4/25 Jason Whitaker & Jeff Anders (acoustic rock)

FRI. 4/26 DJ MoTo

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SAT. 4/27 Grand Theft Audio (classic hits)

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM HILTON ASHEVILLE BILTMORE PARK Live at Roux, 11:00AM ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Greg Klyma, 6:00PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Game of Thrones (screening, food, costume contest), 9:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch: Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LAZY DIAMOND Punk Night w/ DJ Chubberbird, 10:00PM LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE UNC Asheville Student Percussion Ensemble Concert, 3:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Drew Matulich and Friends, 6:30PM MAGNETIC 375 The Warp & The Weft, 1:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Totally Rad Trivia, 5:00PM ODDITORIUM River Kane, Earth Collider (metal), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Blue October w/ Mona, 8:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam hosted by the Travers Brothers, 6:30PM

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CLU B LA N D SALVAGE STATION The Mars Hill University Big Band, 4:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Mr Jimmy, 1:00PM

17 Taps & Domestics • Nightly Drink Specials

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SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog & Mad Props Foxy Fashion Flea Market, 10:00AM Sly Grog Open Open Mic, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Lucky James, 1:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Chuck Lichtenberger’s Piano Hang, 1:00PM UNCA Jazz Jam, 4:00PM De la Noche Tango (live tango orchestra, lesson at 7:00PM), 8:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Open Jam, 6:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Tools on Stools, 3:00PM THE GREY EAGLE The Music of Prince for Kids, 12:30PM Ana Egge & The Sentimentals w/ The Whiskey Charmers, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM US CELLULAR CENTER Asheville Tattoo Arts Convention, 11:00AM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz, 8:00PM

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LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and Friends, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Ladies Night Showcase, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jazz Mondays hosted by Ray Ring & Jason DeCristofaro, 8:30PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays Open Jam, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM STATIC AGE RECORDS Macula Dog, Spaceheater, Secret Diary (experiemental, performance art), 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesday, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Elle King w/ Barns Courtney, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team Trivia w/ Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM STATIC AGE RECORDS Gardener, Bill Baird (experiemental, drone), 9:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night, 6:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing AVL Dance w/ The House Hoppers, (swing lessons: advanced, 7:00PM; Beginner, 8:00PM), 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Lost Dog Street Band & Matt Heckler, 8:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT The Cheeksters w/ Many A Ship, 8:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Monday Night Bluegrass Jam, 8:00PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Open Mic hosted by Clint Bussey, 8:00PM

TUESDAY, APRIL 30 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT WINE BAR Open Mic Tuesday Nights, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR The Travelling Pilsburys, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia Night, 6:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by The Thomas Cassell Band, 7:30PM LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk vinyl), 10:00PM LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE ContinuuCon Electronic Music Conference, 5:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Rat Alley Cats, 6:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Steve Gunn w/ Gun Outfit, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Funk Jam, 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE Urban Xcape - Monthly Challenge (team trivia), 6:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 1 ALLEY CAT WINE BAR Karoake w/ Kitty Savage, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chili Slaw Sessions with Tom Kirschbaum & Friends, 6:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 9:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, Turkish party band), 9:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Vaden Landers Band + DJ, 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Free Open Mic Comedy, 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM

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Amazing Grace HHHHH DIRECTORS: Alan Elliott, Sydney Pollack PLAYERS: Aretha Franklin DOCUMENTARY/CONCERT FILM RATED G Don’t bother seeing Amazing Grace if you plan to shush other people in the audience or even if you plan to stay seated. But if you do manage to remain quiet and still during this 90-minute tour de force, that would also be amazing. The movie documents the recording of then-29-year-old Aretha Franklin’s first full gospel album — her best-selling collection and widely regarded as the greatest gospel record ever made. In January 1972, she and her team set up at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in the Watts community of southern Los Angeles for a two-day live recording of gospel classics, including the title song, “Mary, Don’t You Weep,” “What a Friend We Have in Jesus” and Marvin Gaye’s “Wholy Holy.” Franklin was backed by the Southern California Community Choir, led by the legendary Rev. James Cleveland — often called the King of Gospel. Everyone involved, Franklin included, takes a deferential role to Cleveland. And even though Sydney Pollack (Tootsie) was credited as the documentary’s official director, Cleveland takes that role de facto,

instructing the choir, Franklin, the crowd and even Pollack’s crew over the course of the filming. Yes, the experience is a recording of an album, Cleveland notes as he welcomes everyone. “But I’d like for you to be mindful, though, that this is a church, and we’re here for a religious service.” And this movie is indeed a full-on service, with people swaying, getting the spirit and singing along — including a young Mick Jagger, clapping and praising in the front row. Amazing Grace has languished since its filming because technicians couldn’t sync the sound and images, rendering it unreleasable. But even after the syncing issues were solved with modern technology under the guidance of former Atlantic Records A&R employee Alan Elliott, the film’s release was further delayed by a lawsuit from Franklin. Her reasons remain unclear, although control of her likeness and image were mentioned over the years in which her injunction against release was in effect. It’s a shame that Franklin, who died last August, didn’t live to see audiences today connecting with this service, as surely as the people in New Temple’s pews did as it happened in front of them. By the time of the filming, she already had five Grammys and 11 No. 1 singles

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on the pop and R&B charts. But the church was her home, where she was raised and where she was evidently most humble. Her father, the Rev. C.L. Franklin, tells the crowd how proud he is of his daughter, who’s been singing in church since she was 6 or 7 years old. “I saw you crying and I saw you responding, but I was about to bust wide open,” he says. “You talk about being moved.” Amazing Grace is church: black church, gospel church, Baptist church. But you don’t need to believe in anything to enjoy this gift of a movie — just the power and soul of Aretha Franklin. Starts April 26 at the Fine Arts Theatre

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STARTING FRIDAY Amazing Grace (G) HHHHH (Pick of the Week) Little Woods (R) HHH JUST ANNOUNCED Avengers: Endgame (PG-13) The universe’s surviving superheroes assemble once more to battle the evil Thanos.

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DIRECTOR: Roxann Dawson PLAYERS: Chrissy Metz, Topher Grace DRAMA/FAITH-BASED RATED PG

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Except for some condensing of events into a shorter time frame, the faithbased film Breakthrough follows the real-life story that inspired it rather, um, faithfully. In January 2015, 14-year-old John Smith and two pals fell through the ice into a frigid lake in St. Charles, Mo. The friends were rescued with few ill effects, while John spent 15 minutes under water and was pulled out without a pulse, his apparently lifeless body rushed to the hospital. Roxann Dawson’s film is an inspirational, Christian-targeted one, so you know where it’s going. There will be prayers and a candlelight vigil. Doctors will issue grim pronouncements that parents will refuse to believe. A rescue worker will question his atheism. A miracle is inevitable. And yet for all that, Breakthrough is a relatively straightforward movie with an A-minus-list cast presenting the story in a grounded, human context rather than as some kind of supernatural spectacle. In real life, John Noble — the wannabe hip evangelical preacher played by Topher Grace — reported a vision of angels in the boy’s hospital room, “putting his brain back together.” Wisely, the movie omits the angels and leaves it to the audience to draw their own conclusions.

Breakthrough (PG) HHS The Brink (NR) HHHH Captain Marvel (PG-13) HHHS The Curse of La Llorona (R) H Diane (NR) HHH Dumbo (PG) HS Green Book (PG-13) HH Hellboy (R) HHHH High Life (R) HH Isn’t It Romantic (PG-13) HHH Little (PG-13) HHHH Missing Link (PG) HHHH The Mustang (R) HHH Penguins (G) HHH Pet Sematary (R) HHH The Public (PG-13) HHH Shazam! (PG-13) HHH Us (R) HHHH Wonder Park (PG) HHH

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an overearnest biblical adaptation and is primed to provide warm comfort to family audiences, people of faith and anyone exhausted by superheroes and supernatural horror. REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

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Yes, there’s plenty of sincere, vocal praying and talk of God’s love and mercy, but that’s just who these people are, especially John Smith’s mom, Joyce (Chrissy Metz, NBC’s “This Is Us”). The screenplay, written by Grant Nieporte from Joyce’s ghost-written memoir, isn’t exactly warts and all, but it’s effective storytelling, presented in a visually routine package that’s consistent with Dawson’s extensive experience as an itinerant TV director. Predictable as it may be, Breakthrough benefits from being released in the first spring in several years without

DIRECTOR: Nia DaCosta PLAYERS: Tessa Thompson, Lily James, Luke Kirby DRAMA/CRIME RATED R Much like last week’s Diane, Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods sees its strong performances and decent yet predictable story hampered by amateurish, anonymous filmmaking. Steering the narrative is orphaned Ollie (Tessa Thompson, Annihilation), who’s days away from being off parole after being caught trying to traffic opioids. Paired with this positive countdown are the time-sensitive pressures of her house about to be foreclosed and an abortion that her adopted sister Deb (Lily James, Baby Driver) can’t afford,

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and it’s not difficult to guess what steps Ollie will take to resolve the conflicts. In additon to a distracting, ill-defined setting later revealed as North Dakota, the film’s various relationships are likewise vague. Chief among them is Ollie and Deb’s mysteriously fraught dynamic that only hints at why the latter and her young son have been living in a camper instead of with her sister all along — an important detail that one early line of dialogue could have straightened out. Still, it’s refreshing to have two women as the agents of change, played by actresses as naturalistic and magnetic as Thompson and James. Their exceptional chemistry is especially welcome in the company of uniformly flat supporting male roles. Despite DaCosta’s cheap, hand-held camerawork, these stock characters collide and spark a fair amount of powerful dramatic moments, occasionally supplemented by simple yet stirring natural scenery that gives Little Woods some much-needed personality. Read the full review at ashevillemovies.com Starts April 26 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

Penguins HHH DIRECTORS: Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wilson PLAYERS: Ed Helms DOCUMENTARY RATED G If you’re a fan of Disneynature films, you won’t want to miss Penguins, the company’s latest foray in anthropomorphic documentaries. But if you, like me, haven’t seen any of its previous works and are expecting something comparable to PBS’ “Nature,” you may be in for a bit of a surprise. Directed by the team behind Chimpanzees and Monkey Kingdom, Penguins follows the coming-of-age story of an Adelie penguin named Steve and his travails in life, love and family. Ed Helms (The Hangover) narrates the film and gives voice to the lovable creature. At times, the vocal work seems a little awkward, but more often than not, it’s quite funny and relatable as Steve struggles with some of the same things that people struggle with, like dating, mating and parenthood. A fun soundtrack that includes REO Speedwagon’s “Can’t Fight This Feeling” adds a few chuckles to the pro-

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SCREEN SCENE ceedings and works with the linear story and voice-over to spoon-feed information about Adelie penguins to a target audience that may not otherwise take in a documentary. If this contrived formula helps introduce more people to our natural world, then I’ll give it a pass, but I think the manufactured story and anthropomorphizing of our little hero actually undercuts the herculean work of the filmmakers. Co-directors Alastair Fothergill, Jeff Wyatt Wilson and 11 other cinematographers spent four years working on this project, and the footage is truly spectacular. (Be sure to stay for the end credits so you can also marvel at how they did it.) They could easily have told a more powerful, organic story like the one in March of the Penguins, but then it wouldn’t have been a Disneynature film. For my money, I’d rather increase my sustaining membership with UNCTV and enjoy next week’s episode of “Nature.” But critical complaints aside, Penguins is beautifully filmed and edited. It’s super kid-friendly and fun for the whole family. And maybe, just maybe, some of those kids will be inspired by what they see and learn. REVIEWED BY MICHELLE KEENAN REELTAKES@HOTMAIL.COM

The Brink HHHH DIRECTOR: Alison Klayman PLAYERS: Steve Bannon DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED What if you got to follow a prominent, polarizing political figure around with a camera for a year and discovered mostly that he’s just a schlub who doesn’t seem to know what he’s doing? You’d have the documentary The Brink, which wants to raise the alarm about the racist nationalism taking hold in Western democracies and instead makes right-wing strategist Steve Bannon out to be a bumbling, occasionally volcanic doofus who’s well-read but largely unable to assimilate information that doesn’t support his prejudices. Which is not to say he’s not dangerous in the eyes of those who oppose his anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim, antiglobal agenda. But if he has a strategy deeper than spreading fearmongering propaganda, the documentary doesn’t reveal it. The historical moment has certainly buoyed him, but the film demonstrates that his reading of history past and present is remarkably blinkered. Filmmaker Alison Klayman (Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry) shadowed Bannon on and off from just after his August 2017 ouster from the Trump White

House through the 2018 midterm elections. She captures a lot of disconcerting private moments as Bannon woos European nationalists and is himself wooed by struggling U.S. candidates, but she avoids any talking-head interviews apart from her subject. Dissenting voices come chiefly from a few ballsy journalists who challenge Bannon and a lot of audio lifted from news coverage of the events that most impact him. The result is both revealing and discomforting. Bannon and his fellow nationalists come across as craven and generally uninterested in the lives of the common people they hope to appeal to, as well as in willful denial about the racism of their rhetoric. Still, a bull in a china shop is no less destructive just because he doesn’t know what he’s doing. Now playing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

The Curse of La Llorona H DIRECTOR: Michael Chaves PLAYERS: Linda Cardellini HORROR RATED R The Curse of La Llorona might have worked better as a comedy, inviting the audience to laugh with (or at) the ineptness of those who should know better than to turn around suddenly or look behind a curtain when someone (or something) might be in the room or go up into an attic when running away from a ghost. Haven’t these people watched any horror movies? OK, two of those characters in this film are kids, so maybe we can cut them a break on the possibility that their mother might not let them watch scary movies. Mommy shouldn’t let her children watch The Curse of La Llorona, either, but not because it isn’t creepy. There is some haunting imagery, especially if ghosts in bridal dresses make you clench. And there are a whole lot of jump scares — too many, really. Director Michael Chaves clearly wasn’t confident that his movie was frightening enough, so he amps up the scares with quick cuts, shrieking musical cues and an evil spirit reaching out to attack her prey. BOO! La Llorona, or “The Weeping Woman,” is based on a Mexican folk tale in which a woman drowned her children in revenge against her unfaithful husband. As the legend goes, her spirit has been routinely abducting young children for the past 300 years, attempting to get back the young ones she killed. In this story, social worker Anna Tate-Garcia (Linda

by Edwin Arnaudin | earnaudin@mountainx.com lowed by the workshop itself with readings and exercises designed to immerse writers in dramatic form. The group will break for lunch (not provided), 12:30-1 p.m. The workshop costs $85 and registration is available online. avl.mx/5x4

DEBUNKED: A still from the documentary Immigrant Prisons, which Grail Moviehouse will screen on April 28 in conjunction with the YWCA of Asheville’s Stand Against Racism campaign. Photo courtesy of Brave New Films • Maryedith Burrell leads the workshop Adaptation: Or a Book, an Agent and a Screenplay Walk Into a Bar ... on Saturday, April 27, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. at the The Flatiron Writers Room, 5 Covington St. The actor, writer, producer and Western Carolina University professor will advise participants on the distinct qualities of prose and dramatic narrative, and help writers decide whether undertaking the project themselves or letting someone else handle it is the best route. Attendees are invited to bring a notebook, pen and/or a charged laptop. There will be a short lecture to start the day, fol-

FILM 'HIDDEN RIVERS' • MO (4/29), 6:30-8:30pm - Hidden Rivers, film screening and discussion with the filmmakers. $10. Held at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401 BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (4/25), 5:30-7:30pm - Reliience: The Biology of Stress and The Science of Hope, film screening. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (4/30), 6pm - Grizzly Man, documentary about grizzly bear activists Timothy Treadwell and Amie Huguenard, who were killed in October

2003 while living among grizzly bears in Alaska. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-357-9009, floodgallery.org • FR (4/26), 8-10pm - Classic World Cinema Series: Turtles Can Fly, the 2004 Iraqi-Turkish border drama. Admission by donation. GRAIL MOVIEHOUSE 45 S. French Broad Ave., 828-239-9392, grailmoviehouse.com • SU (4/28), 4pm - Four short stories: Immigrant Prisons, Immigrants for Sale, No More Detention:

Cardellini, Green Book) and her two children are the latest to be haunted by the ghost after one of her cases reaches a tragic end. This may have been a practice run for Chaves, who’s set to direct The Conjuring 3. Hopefully, he’s learned that movies can actually frighten

• As part of the YWCA of Ashevile’s 2019 Stand Against Racism campaign, Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave., hosts a screening of the documentary Immigrant Prisons on Sunday, April 28, at 4 p.m. The film is composed of four short stories — “Immigrant Prisons,” “Immigrants for Sale,” “No More Detention: Free Pastor Noe” and “Trauma at the Border” — that, according to the event description, expose “the abuse of the detention and deportation industrial complex by exploring conditions inside these prisons in substandard medical conditions and other abuses.” After the film, there will be a panel discussion with local community advocates, moderated by Paulina Mendez and featuring Cocó Eva Solange Alcázar, Mirian Porras and Marisol Jiménez. Free to attend, but $5-$10 donations are appreciated. grailmoviehouse.com X

Free Pastor Noe and Trauma at the Border, about exposing the abuse of the detention and deportation industrial complex. Panel discussion includes: Cocó Eva Solange Alcázar. Mirion Porras Rojas, Marisol Jiménez and Paulina Mendez. RSVP: avl.mx/5wz.

MUSIC VIDEO ASHEVILLE • WE (4/24), 7:30-10pm - Music Video Asheville, local music video screening and awards event. Networking party: 5-7pm. Screening: 7:30-9pm. Awards: 9-10pm. $20/$40 VIP. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave.

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NO MAN'S LAND FILM FESTIVAL • TH (4/25), 6:30pm Proceeds from No Man's Land Film Festival benefit MountainTrue. Ticketed indoor screening includes seating, hors d’oeuvres, and a beer. Weather permitting, films will also be screened for free on the lawn in front of the Brewhouse. $20. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St.

• SU (4/28), 2pm Hendersonville Film Society: Stanley Donen's 1962 comedic mystery Charade, starring Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn. Screened in the Smoky Mountain Theater. Free. Held at Lake Pointe Landing, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville

people without cheap gimmicks that jolt them in their seats. At least the chair you’ll be jumping in this time around will provide a soft cushion with so many luxury recliners now in our local theaters. REVIEWED BY IAN CASSELBERRY IANCASS@GMAIL.COM

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the U.S., the day after Thanksgiving typically features a spectacular shopping orgy. On “Black Friday,” stores sell their products at steep discounts and consumers spend their money extravagantly. But the creators of the game Cards Against Humanity have consistently satirized the tradition. In 2013, for example, they staged a Black Friday “anti-sale,” for which they raised their prices. The coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to try something similar. Is it possible you’re undercharging for your products and services and skills? If so, consider asking for more. Reassess your true worth and seek appropriate rewards. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Whether or not you believe in magic, magic believes in you right now. Will you take advantage of the fancy gifts it has to offer? I guess it’s possible that you’re not interested in seeing deeper into the secret hearts of those you care for. Maybe you’ll go “ho-hum” when shown how to recognize a half-hidden opportunity that could bring vitalizing changes. And you may think it’s not very practical to romance the fire and the water at the same time. But if you’re interested, all that good stuff will be available for you. P.S. To maximize the effects of the magic, believe in it. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In 1815, the most ferocious volcanic eruption in human history exploded from Mount Tambora in what’s now known as Indonesia. It flung gas and ash all over the planet, causing weird weather for three years. Sunlight dimmed, temperatures plummeted, skies were tumultuous and intense storms proliferated. Yet these conditions ignited the imagination of author Mary Shelley, inspiring her to write what was to become her most notable work, Frankenstein. I suspect that you, too, will ultimately generate at least one productive marvel in response to the unusual events of the coming weeks. CANCER (June 21-July 22): For over 40 years, Cancerian musician Carlos Santana has made music that blends rock and roll with Latin and African rhythms. In the early years, his creations sold well, but by the mid-1980s his commercial success declined. For a decade, he floundered. His fortunes began to improve after a spectacular meditation session. Santana says he was contacted by the archangel Metatron, who told him how to generate material for a new album. The result was Supernatural, which sold 30 million copies and won nine Grammy Awards. I mention this, Cancerian, because I suspect that you could soon experience a more modest but still rousing variation of Santana’s visitation. Are you interested? If so, the next seven weeks will be a good time to seek it out — and be very receptive to its possibility. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Expergefactor” is an old English word that has fallen out of use. In its original sense, it meant something that wakes you up, like an alarm clock or thunderstorm or your partner’s snoring. But I want to revive “expergefactor” and expand its meaning. In its new version, it will refer to an exciting possibility or beloved goal that consistently motivates you to spring out of bed in the morning and get your day started. Your expergefactor could be an adventure you’re planning or a masterpiece you’re working on or a relationship that fills you with curiosity and enchantment. In my astrological opinion, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to identify and fine-tune an expergefactor that will serve you well for a long time. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): We live in a cultural moment when satire, sarcasm, cynicism and irony are prized as supreme emblems of intelligence. If you say that you value sincerity and earnestness, you risk being considered naive and unsophisticated. Nevertheless, the current astrological omens suggest that you will generate good fortune for yourself in the coming weeks by making liberal use of sincerity and earnestness. So please try not to fall into the easy trap of relying on satire, sarcasm, cynicism and irony to express yourself. As much as is practical, be kindly frank and compassionately truthful and empathetically genuine. (P.S. It’s a strategy that will serve your selfish aims quite well.)

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Most people don’t find their creativity,” mourned Libran author Truman Capote. “There are more unsung geniuses that don’t even know they have great talent.” If that describes you even a little bit, I’m happy to let you know that you’re close to stumbling upon events and insights that could change that. If you respond to the prompts of these unexpected openings, you will rouse a partially dormant aspect of your genius, as well as a half-inert stash of creativity and a semi-latent cache of imaginativity. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Do you know the word “sfumato”? Its literal meaning in Italian is “smoked.” When used to describe a painting, it refers to blurred borders between objects or fuzzy transitions between areas of different colors. All the forms are soft and hazy. I bring this to your attention because I suspect the coming weeks will be a sfumato-like time for you. You may find it a challenge to make precise distinctions. Future and past may overlap, as well as beginnings and endings. That doesn’t have to be a problem as long as you’re willing to go with the amorphous flow. In fact, it could even be pleasurable and useful. You might be able to connect with influences from which you’ve previously been shut off. You could blend your energies together better with people who’ve been unavailable. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You have a right to experiment with your life,” declared author Anaïs Nin. I agree. You don’t necessarily have to be what you started out to be. You can change your mind about goals that you may at one time have thought were permanent. I suspect you could be at one of these pivot points right now, Sagittarius. Are there any experiments you’d like to try? If so, keep in mind this further counsel from Nin. It’s possible “you will make mistakes. And they are right, too.” CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You have one main task to accomplish in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It’ll be simple and natural if you devote yourself to it wholeheartedly. The only way it could possibly become complicated and challenging is if you allow your focus to be diffused by less important matters. Ready for your assignment? It’s articulated in this poem by Rupi Kaur: “bloom beautifully / dangerously / loudly / bloom softly / however you need / just bloom.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When the forces of the Roman empire occupied the British Isles from the years 43 to 410, they built 2,000 miles of roads. Their methods were sophisticated. That’s why few new roads were built in England until the 18th century, and many of the same paths are still visible and available today. In this spirit, and in accordance with astrological omens, I recommend that you make good use of an old system or network in the coming weeks. This is one time when the past has blessings to offer the future. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I’m not enigmatic and intriguing enough,” writes a Piscean blogger named RiddleMaster. “I really must work harder. Maybe I’ll start wearing ankle-length black leather coats, billowing silk scarves imprinted with alchemical symbols and wide-brimmed hats. I’ll listen to Cambodian folk songs and read rare books in ancient Sanskrit. When someone dares to speak to me, I’ll utter cryptic declarations like, ’The prophecies will be fulfilled soon enough.’” I understand RiddleMaster’s feelings. You Pisceans need mystery almost as much as you need food. But I believe you should set aside that drive for a few weeks. The time has come for you to show the world who you are with crisp candor.

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41 Like the posts at the top of a blog, typically 43 Growling dog 44 Showy neckwear 45 Fifth book of the New Testament 46 Works like an antiaging serum 49 West Coaster’s summer hrs. 52 Fed-up feeling 53 Certain library loan 54 Lessen, as fears 56 Liquid evidenced by the answers to this puzzle’s italicized clues? 60 Tiny bit 61 Off the table? 62 Part of N.B. 63 First word of many California city names 64 “___ Anatomy” 65 General ___ chicken

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7 Last year before A.D. 8 1931 boxing movie for which Wallace Beery won a Best Actor Oscar 9 “___ on it!” 10 “Yeah, whatever” 11 & 12 Actress Joan whose last name consists of two different conveyances 15 Contraction that starts “Jabberwocky” 17 Cat or top hat, in Monopoly 18 Oil crisis? 24 Completely jumbled 25 Wiped out 26 Ralph who wrote “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!” 27 Not stay the same 30 Split tidbit 31 Grounds for discussion? 32 Alliterative ice cream flavor 33 H, as in Athens 34 Highest-grossing film before “Star Wars” 35 ___-12 (N.C.A.A. conference) 37 “As you wish,” to a spouse

42 Allen or Hawke 44 Rush-hour sound 45 Actress Hepburn 47 The Krusty ___ (SpongeBob SquarePants’s workplace)

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56 Letters at a filling station? 57 Org. with ties to Sinn Fein 58 Part for tuning a guitar 59 Connections

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