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OUR 22ND YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 22 NO. 40 APRIL 27 - MAY 3, 2016

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Neighborhood group opposes expansion of homestays The Grove Park Sunset Mountain Neighborhood Association opposes the expansion of the recently enacted Asheville city ordinance regarding homestays to include accessory dwelling units or ADUs. We believe the city of Asheville should be run first and foremost for the majority of the citizens who live here. We should encourage tourism, but not at the expense of those who live and work here.

Everyone agrees there is an extreme shortage of affordable housing in Asheville to accommodate the many wage-earning workers who help make our town what it is. Asheville cannot sustain its strong tourist economy without affordable housing for the people who work in the many restaurants, attractions and hotels.

Who would be best served by allowing accessory dwelling units to be used for short-term rentals?

Answer: tourists and a small number of property owners.

Who would be most negatively impacted? Answer: the working population of Asheville who needs the affordable, long-term rental liv-

ing space that would undoubtedly be redirected to short-term rental for use by tourists.

Who would suffer the commercialization of their neighborhoods with greatly increased flow of strangers from transient guests? Answer: neighboring homeowners.

Attractive revenue potentials from short-term rentals could result in significant new construction of ADUs in back or side yards, changing the character of established neighborhoods.

Commercial owners of multiple properties would be possible, even likely.

Long-term renters become neighbors, part of the community. Transient strangers never do.

Tourists are outsiders with no attachment to the neighborhood — creating a perpetual series of one-night stands. Who wants that next to their house? That’s the purpose of zoning.

Seldom is any public policy solution perfect for all concerned. There should be a balancing of interests with the other people who would be hurt by opening up ADUs for short-term rentals by tourists.

Owners of ADUs can continue to rent them out for terms of one month or more.

Changes to homestay requirements are too recent for a clear evaluation of their impact. More time should be allowed before further changes are considered.

— Alan Escovitz President Grove Park/Sunset Mountain Neighborhood Association Board

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In response to the letter of March 30 concerning the removal of Zebulon Vance’s name from the obelisk downtown [“Remove Vance’s Name From Downtown Monument,” Xpress], it is wise to remember that he was a product of his time as we are of ours.

He was, it is true, born into a family that owned 18 slaves, but he left home for an education and lived his life as a politician and attorney. As governor during the Civil War, he fought against many of the repressive edicts of the Confederate States of America, including keeping the right of habeas corpus and leaving North Carolina the only state with a working court system during the war.

As a U.S. senator and reconstruction governor, he pushed hard for education, laying the groundwork for North Carolina (until recently) to be considered the most progressive Southern state.

In his later years, he toured with a speech named the “Scattered Nation,” which called for religious tolerance and freedom for all Americans. He was 35 when slavery ended and lived another 29 years; it hardly seems fair to summarize him as a “horrific slave owner.” Eighteen presidents, including, strangely enough, Ulysses S. Grant, owned slaves.

If we remove everything named Washington, Jefferson, Madison, etc., we have a lot to do. I am all for never seeing a Confederate flag again, but we need proper context for our precedents who lived in a world so different from our own.

— Steve Woolum Asheville

What about locker rooms in HB2 issue?

All the talk and protests about HB2 seem centered on people using restrooms that correlate with their new chosen gender, but what about locker rooms and locker-room showers?

I personally could care less if a female comes into my locker room looking like a dude and walking like she’s got a package; hell, I would even give her pointers [about] how to get that manwalk looking good if she were ask. I’m all about helping folks.

My concern is when a male dressed like a woman enters the female locker room and starts swinging his Johnson around when young kids and spouses are present. How do you explain that to your 8-year-old daughter and have your friends and loved ones exposed to that?

I don’t want to see transgendered people’s rights violated in any way, but given

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the transgendered make up only around 0.03 percent of the U.S. population, what about the rights of the other 99.7 percent? Just asking.

— Keith Buckner Weaverville

Converting chicken manure into chicken salad I wanted to thank the Mountain Xpress for the recent cartoon opportunity [“Carlvin and Stomps,” Brent Brown, April 20]. As a tired, old, white, conservative, Christian male, it was gratifying to have yet another opportunity to garner much-needed attention for my depleted soul.

I also appreciated the additional attention to the harms of sexual misconduct in public parks; the failure to follow legal procedure (and good judgment) in placing a rainbow flag on City Hall; and the pretense of free-range bathroom access as a social justice issue.

I was especially grateful for yet another example of the capacity of our community’s progressive-liberal-socialists to convert chicken manure into chicken salad.

— Carl Mumpower Asheville

Story of survival was powerful, positive Thank you for publishing this awesome article [“Worlds in Collision: Near-death Experiences in WNC,” April 13, Xpress].

I really appreciated the story by Sandra Bear Davis [“The Angel Wrapped Around Me”]. I live pretty close to where her accident was, and it really upset me when it happened. I read about how her son, daughter-in-law and grandchild were killed and felt pity for this woman. I couldn’t imagine wanting to keep living.

Hearing her story of survival and about her angel guides was very powerful and positive. It truly moved me.

— Ivey Lamos Swannanoa

Thanks for near-death experiences article I want to thank Mountain Xpress for the excellent article on near-death experiences [“Worlds in Collision: Near-death Experiences in WNC,” April 13]. I also want to express my gratitude

to those individuals who shared their intensely personal stories. I trust that this article will generate discussions regarding NDEs and, more generally, the nature of consciousness and its relationship to the brain.

David Chalmers has defined the nature of consciousness as the “hard problem” of philosophy of mind and suggests that it may take a century to solve this problem. This is not to say that the other challenges of cognitive science, such as detailing the many intricate relationships between the brain and consciousness, are easy. It is just that, given sufficient research, these problems seem amenable to solutions.

Like most individuals who have studied this area, I have adopted a world view of materialistic monism. As to the hard problem, I am simply agnostic. However, your article on NDEs, and similar articles on other aspects of parapsychology, have made my agnosticism more open and sincere.

Cognitive science has established a large body of evidence regarding the intimate relationship between the brain and consciousness. Just as the reality of NDEs must be respected, so must the work of these scientists. I believe that to make claims of life after death, based on very real NDEs, is going too far too fast. It is one thing to have an intense, personally transforming experience and quite something else to make an ontological claim about that experience. One problem with this claim is that it implies a fundamental dualism, a philosophical position filled with difficulties.

Central to the process of scientific inquiry is an openness to new data. It appears that our scientific models cannot adequately deal with the data from NDEs and similar events. Perhaps doing this will involve an evolution of our current models, or even the creation of entirely new models. The scientific and philosophical work on these problems will move forward deliberately and methodically, the only path to real progress and knowledge.

— Richard Winchell Weaverville

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Boundary issues

area or zoning jurisdiction or water service district differ from the city limits, but they do.

I raise the question “Where is Asheville?” because this community will soon be asked to consider the question “Where is Asheville going?”

As of this writing, City Council was poised to approve a contract to launch the big kahuna of city planning efforts: updating the comprehensive plan. In

BY BLaKe esseLstYn Here’s a question that may seem simple, though the answer is anything but: Where is Asheville?

I’ll bet most locals, if given a map showing just streets and street names, could place a dot on the center of town — a point like the Vance Monument or City Hall. But how many could come close to drawing the outlines of Asheville?

It doesn’t help that the official municipal boundary traces a shape like a psychedelically distorted question mark. Or that a crow could fly just 1 mile from City Hall’s roof and be outside the city limits (in Chunns Cove) but could fly a dozen miles from that same roof in another direction and still be under city jurisdiction (at the airport).

Years ago a local reverend told me, I think rightly, that many Buncombe County families understand the geographic extent of the school districts better than that of the municipalities. So does the “Asheville City” school district approximate the city limits? Not even close. In fact, more of Asheville falls outside the “city” school district than falls within it, and a good chunk of the school district lies outside the city’s boundaries.

I’ve surprised many a resident by pointing out that technically, Biltmore Estate is not in Asheville.

Yet the company’s marketing materials use phrases like “located in Asheville.” And if I had a dollar for every time a Woodfin, Candler or Fairview housing development has touted its Asheville location in an ad, I could buy a house.

Maybe some of these companies should be forgiven because their location has an Asheville mailing address. And if the U.S. Postal Service says they’re in Asheville, how can you argue with that? Well, for every ZIP code, the postal service assigns a default city and asks that we use it “whenever possible.”

Asheville is the default city for the ZIP codes immediately north, south, east and west of 28801, encompassing an area much larger than the city proper (see map).

So if you Google “Biltmore Forest Town Hall,” the search engine will serve up the USPS-preferred

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Where does Asheville end? other words, creating a blueprint for how development will affect Asheville over the next 20 years.

But if it’s an official city of Asheville plan, what area should the blueprint cover? After all, burning issues such as housing choices, livability, equity, transportation, safety and character don’t stop at any administrative boundary. And while city ordinances may apply to only a limited

BLAKE ESSELSTYN Asheville address. Do note, however, that this goes both ways: Some taxpaying residents of the city of Asheville are asked to use an Arden or Candler mailing address.

If that weren’t bad enough, road signs add to the confusion. For example, if you’re driving north on Interstate 26 “West” from Henderson County, once you’ve passed the airport and Biltmore Park (which are both in the city), you’ll see a sign saying Asheville is still 11 miles away.

The next interchange you’ll encounter — in just 4 miles — is in the city, but the sign indicates the driving distance to downtown Asheville.

If you see a headline saying “City Jobless Rate Lowest in NC,” the odds are good that it’s actually talking about the Asheville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes all of Buncombe County, as well as Madison, Henderson and Haywood counties. But don’t mistake that label for yet another Census Bureau designation, the Asheville Urban Area, which is stitched together out of fragments of the same four counties, plus a tiny bit of Transylvania County.

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OUT OF SHAPE? Assessing what kind of shape Asheville is in can be tricky, since different entities assign different shapes to the place they call Asheville. Map created by Blake Esselstyn. Graphic courtesy of Blake Esselstyn

area, the planners will have to think regionally in order to achieve credible policy solutions.

In other words, city staff and their consultants will have to cross borders and work with neighbors. No matter how well-crafted the eventual plan may be, arbitrary geographic limits will hinder its effectiveness.

The muddled lines described above serve some purpose within their respective parochial contexts, but when we’re looking at the big picture, let’s color outside the lines — well outside them.

Asheville resident Blake Esselstyn is the founder of the FrontWater consultancy. X

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Why bathrooms aren’t the issue in HB2

BY ivY hiLL House Bill 2 is about so much more than restrooms. We could talk about the other public accommodations it can deny folks access to, or how it gives businesses the right to discriminate, or how it takes away municipal power to protect local citizens, or how bad it is for business.

But I think there’s a deeper issue to talk about here.

As a transgender person, I know how painful it is to have your identity up for debate in the public square.

That feeling of shame is so hard to overcome when you turn on the news and hear personal attacks on your community and unfounded stoking of fear. But that’s exactly what’s happening right now with HB2, a dangerous and discriminatory new law that attacks the LGB — and especially transgender — community in North Carolina.

Gender is not only a deep piece of our personal identities; it’s also deeply ingrained in nearly everything we do both consciously and subconsciously. Think about what happens when someone says she’s pregnant — invariably, one of the first questions is, “Is it a boy or a girl?”

The answer shapes the way you think about that child. What toys should you buy? What careers will he or she be interested in? What will he or she wear on his/her wedding day?

We socialize folks to fit in these two neat little boxes of “male” and “female” from inception all the way through the end of life. Gender affects nearly every aspect of our lives. For many people, that works out just fine, and they may not even think about it very often. But for me and many other transgender folks, that’s not the case — we are constantly navigating a rigid gender binary many of us do not fit into.

It’s exhausting (think about having to explain the most basic parts of who you are many times a day), and it’s often scary (the real issue with bathrooms is the high rate at which trans folks are harassed and attacked in them). This is part of why transgender folks disproportionately experience disparity in so many areas from housing to employment to suicide rates to violence, to name a few.

Research shows that 41 percent of transgender people attempt sui-

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IVY HILL cide – a staggering rate compared to the national average of 4.6 percent, according to a January 2014 study by researchers with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law. New research shows that invalidation of identity is one of the leading causes of suicidal ideation/ attempts in the trans community.

Why does that matter so much right now? Because anti-trans bills and laws like HB2 have a teaching effect, and they sanction bias and even violence against trans people. That threat to people’s physical safety and their mental health grows exponentially when such laws are implemented. It’s no wonder that the Trans LifeLine, a suicide hotline, has seen double its typical call volume from North Carolina since HB2 was introduced.

Conversely, we also know that trans children who receive support and affirmation of their gender identity from their families experience significantly lower rates of depression and anxiety.

A University of Washington study that was published in February shows that these children’s risk of suicide is comparable to their nontransgender peers.

Knowing all this, what can we do?

What can you do?

We can listen to trans folks and our stories about how HB2 affects our lives,

and the danger it puts us in. We can listen to the stories of trans children and how this legislation targets them and puts them in jeopardy.

We can speak out. We’ve been trained not to talk about gender variance or trans folks’ existence. It’s easy to let the fear of saying something wrong paralyze us to a point where we remain silent, because it feels like the safer thing to do. But remaining silent is the furthest thing from safe.

Yes, these can be complex concepts. Yes, you’ll fumble over pronouns and make mistakes. Yes, it’s not always going to be comfortable.

But we have a responsibility as a community to show up for each other and to speak up when someone is in danger. Our transgender community is in danger. As long as we center our words and actions on these principles, we don’t need to be afraid of saying the wrong thing.

What we need to be afraid of is saying nothing, of doing nothing.

Ivy Hill commutes to Asheville from the Greenville, S.C., area to work as LGBT Rights Toolkit coordinator for the Campaign for Southern Equality. Hill also serves as program director of Gender Benders, based in the Upstate. X

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NEwS “I think this is the wrong execution of the right idea,” said DeBruhl, who joined her fellow Republicans in voting against authorizing the task force at the commissioners’ April 5 meeting.

Large and in Charge 16-member task force to chart WNC’s energy future

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BY viRginia DaFFRon vdaffron@mountainx.com At hearings before the state Utilities Commission earlier this year, Duke Energy pledged to make every effort to slow the growth of power demand in the region.

To keep that promise, the utility provider has now entered into a groundbreaking collaborative partnership with the city of Asheville, Buncombe County and members of the Western North Carolina business and nonprofit communities to create new approaches to meeting the region’s future energy needs.

While similar partnerships have yielded promising results for reducing energy use and minimizing new fossil fuel power plants elsewhere in the country, the local partnership will be the first of its kind in North Carolina.

Since Duke Energy announced plans last May to replace its coalfired Lake Julian power plant, the company has encountered significant community opposition to its modernization proposals.

In November, Duke’s initial scheme to run a new high-voltage power line into the region was scrapped in the face of public concerns about the impact of the lines on views and property values.

The utility then presented a revised plan calling for two new gas-fired units at Lake Julian, with a third to be built by 2023 if electricity demand continues to grow.

Activists successfully lobbied the N.C. Utilities Commission to withhold approval of the third unit, but the other two were given the green light on Feb. 29.

Avoiding or delaying the need for the third unit, says jason walls, Duke’s local government and community relations manager for the Asheville area, is the main objective of the new Energy Innovation Task Force.

Achieving that goal, he notes, will require reducing growth in both overall and peak demand. This could be done through a combination of strategies,

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EMPOwErEd: The members of the collaborative Energy Innovation Task Force represent a broad spectrum of business, nonprofit and government perspectives. such as increased promotion of existing energy-efficiency and demand-reduction programs, creating new incentive programs, and making strategic investments in renewable energy with utility-scale battery storage.

“That’s in principle,” Walls explains, adding that the exact strategies haven’t been determined yet.

The Energy Innovation Task Force comprises 16 members representing a wide variety of interests: environmental advocacy, nonprofits, institutional and industrial customers, devel-

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opment, tourism, finance, alternative energy, higher education and manufacturing, in addition to local governments and Duke Energy itself.

Both the Asheville City Council and the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners have passed resolutions recognizing the task force, though not without some controversy in the latter case. Commissioners miranda debruhl, mike fryar and joe belcher expressed dissatisfaction with what they saw as a lack of openness in the process of determining who would serve on the committee.

Duke Energy’s promise to explore new strategies for reducing energy demand, says task force member sonia marcus, has created the opportunity to inject “some real substance and funding into our clean energy programs.” Marcus, the director of sustainability at UNCA and the chair of the city’s Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment, led an effort last year to jointly develop a joint Community Clean Energy Policy Framework with the utility.

Asheville City Council member julie mayfield will represent city government on the task force. As co-director of MountainTrue, a local environmental group, Mayfield was deeply involved in the nonprofit’s efforts to defeat Duke’s transmission line project last year. Her organization also partnered with the Sierra Club and the Southern Environmental Law Center to file documents with the Utilities Commission opposing some aspects of Duke’s proposed modernization plans.

In the wake of the resistance the utility encountered, it now recognizes the need for “taking real action” to address consumers’ demands to reduce reliance on fossil fuels, says task force member brownie newman, the vice chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners.

Newman previously worked for FLS Energy, which bills itself as “a full-service solar energy provider.” Last year, he launched his own company, Headwaters Solar.

To avoid any conflict of interest, Newman says his business will have no involvement in any Duke Energy project related to the task force’s work. “I am serving on this task force because I’m passionate about creating a sustainable energy future for this region,” he explains. “I will represent my Buncombe County constituents on the task force, not my business.” wE’rE IN BUSINESS New Belgium Brewing’s jim spencer won’t have to worry about

provides loans to low-income business owners to finance energy efficiency improvements that also improve the bottom line, she says. Self-Help has provided seed funding for startup companies in the alternative energy industry, continues Hatley, including FLS Energy and Blue Ridge Biofuels.

High-level task forces are often made up of members drawn from a select fraternity, she observes, adding that she sees the new group’s inclusiveness as a positive sign.

ENVIrONMENTAL PErSPEcTIVES

INVErSION LAYEr: This smokestack plume and the surrounding inversion layer of clouds (taken of the Lake Julian power plant when it was still owned by CP&L) demonstrate what happens when carbon-based emissions are released in a valley, says Grant Goodge, formerly of NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville. Photo courtesy of Goodge separating his business interests from his role on the task force, since he’s representing industrial customers that use a lot of electricity. “Businesses have a responsibility to implement and measure clean energy solutions in our own operations,” says Spencer, New Belgium’s director of engineering.

In his work with the task force, he’ll draw on the company’s experiences as a partner in the public-private FortZED initiative in Fort Collins, Colo., where the brewery’s energy demand management has contributed to significant reductions in peak powerloads citywide. sonya greck, a senior vice president at Mission Health, will represent large institutional customers on the task force. “As Mission Health embarks on the largest facility development in its history, the Mission Hospital campus consolidation project provides a unique opportunity to invest in infrastructure that will improve energy efficiency and encourage innovation,” says brian moore, the organization’s executive director of public policy and regulatory relations.

Other task force members representing business interests include

paul szurek of Biltmore Farms, hotelier himanshu Karvir (serving on behalf of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority), toby weas of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, and a yetto-be-named representative of GE Aviation.

UNdErSErVEd cOMMUNITIES For lower-income consumers, utility costs make up a larger portion of monthly household expenses. And as george jones of Green Opportunities points out, the housing stock in disadvantaged communities is often older and less efficient than newer construction.

Accordingly, says Jones, the local nonprofit’s executive director, he’ll focus on helping Duke Energy design and promote programs that lower energy bills for consumers in underserved communities while reducing overall power demand. He’ll also urge the utility to train and hire workers in those communities for well-paying jobs in the alternative energy industry. jane hatley of the Self-Help Credit Union will be another voice for those communities.

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Anyone who doubts that task force members hold widely varying views hasn’t talked to dave hollister, president of Sundance Power Systems. “The process for approving Duke’s two new gas plants was a completely unconstitutional process that rammed those things down our throats,” Hollister maintains — and he’s just getting warmed up.

“The Legislature passed a special bill which upended the normal public process and commits billions of dollars to putting our community on an unsustainable course for the next 30 to 40 years,” he continues. “So unless we acknowledge that, we can’t talk with an honest face about what’s happening here.”

With that disclaimer out of the way, though, Hollister’s tone becomes more hopeful. “The opportunity we have now is to figure out how we can become more efficient and utilize demand-side management, energy storage and renewables to make sure we have a reliable supply of energy that doesn’t destroy our planet,” he says. And while Duke’s part in the process can’t be overstated, the public also has an important role to play.

“People in this region have the lowest rate of participation in energy programs in the state,” notes Hollister, though he also says the programs offered here are cumbersome and difficult to use. His own company, continues Hollister, tried to use a Duke program to offset the cost of some energy upgrades at Sundance Power’s offices. “We’ve been put through the wringer,” he complains, saying that months after the project’s completion, Sundance still hasn’t seen any of the promised reimbursement. “There are programs in other parts of the country that people want to use, but customers have to see enough benefit. We’re going to have to share responsibility and step up our game to be successful,” Hollister concludes.

sam ruark-eastes, executive director of the WNC Green Building Council, says his organization brings know-how about creating and implementing successful local energy efficiency programs. Since 2005, he points out, “We have certified over 1,150 homes in the Green Built NC rating system and 262 LEED homes.

Each of these has a much lower energy footprint than a code-built home.”

Ruark-Eastes previously oversaw the implementation of a successful energy efficiency program in Sonoma County, Calif. The local utility there funded incentives, energy audits and project management to support improvements aimed at reducing energy demand. Ruark-Eastes says he’s looking forward to bringing the fruits of that experience to the task force’s work.

The Sierra Club’s Kelly martin will also represent environmental interests on the committee.

KIcK-STArTINg THE PrOcESS Seeking good ideas, seven task force members are attending the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Electricity Innovation Lab Accelerator April 24-27 at the Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah.

The Boulder, Colo.-based nonprofit promotes “the efficient and restorative use of resources,” according to its website.

Representing the city of Asheville will be Mayfield and cathy ball, executive director of planning and multimodal transportation; Newman will represent the county. Longtime community energy activist ned doyle will attend, as will Duke Energy executives robert sipes, jon landy and Walls. The program costs $1,300 per participant, plus airfare.

The city and county have paid the registration fees and expenses for their representatives.

In an email to task force members, Walls said the event presents an opportunity to “work with some of the best in the business around energy innovation and ways for collaborative efforts to succeed.” He added that he hopes to leave with “a map to how we can find some mutually beneficial solutions to reduce peak energy demand in our region.”

With WNC’s energy future on the line, the stakes could hardly be higher. “There is a lot of goodwill, good energy and good brainpower going into this initiative,” says Marcus of UNCA. “The trick is not to squander that.” X

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“Quite frankly, it’s a safety and security issue,” says Sheriff van duncan.

“We had a lot of folks who were posting on Facebook and other [social media] real-time information about where we were and what officers were doing in the middle of looking for suspects.”

A particular incident, a robbery of Jared — Galleria of Jewelry, led the sheriff to realize officers needed a more secure way of communicating. “[Suspects] were on the loose in the Leicester community,” Duncan recalls, “and we were in contact with the community, but somebody was posting as they usually did, verbatim, we were doing, NEW & everything PRE-OWNED AUTOS real time. ... That causes some real security issues for officers and also HONDA: 242 Underwood could work negatively towardRd our efforts if we are after a wanted perPRE-OWNED: 195 Underwood Rd son or somebody weNC think could be Fletcher, dangerous to the public or danger828-684-4400 ous to our officers.” appletreeautos.com BCSD regularly ran into problems with real-time social-media postings, according to Duncan. He adds that the department has, in the past, also encountered suspects crafty enough to use scanners to keep tabs on the police pursuing them. Another key reason, he says, for encryption was to protect private information, such as vehicle registration details.

While the move will keep civilian listeners from causing problems for the sheriff’s department, it also is now keeping some other agencies from being able to hear their traffic. “The Asheville Police Department does not currently have any encrypted radio channels,”

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Buncombe Sheriff’s Department encrypts radio traffic for officer safety

cOdE TALKEr: The Sheriff’s Department has replaced its radios with new Motorola units like the APX 4500, above, now in all their vehicles. The shift has allowed the agency to to encrypt its internal communications. The shielded traffic protects officers and operations, but it brings complications. Image from Motorola Solutions according to christina hallingse, the APD public information officer.

“Until our radios are reprogrammed, we are unable to communicate with the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office via APD radios, with the one exception of our DWI Task Force, which employs both Asheville Police Department and Buncombe County Sheriff’s Deputies.” natalie bailey, Hallingse’s counterpart at the sheriff’s department, seems to disagree. “Switching to an encrypted system has not hampered working with our partners at the Asheville Police Department or any other area law enforcement agency,” she says.

The Sheriff likewise maintains that, although the communication systems do not perfectly mesh, interdepartmental communication is not negatively impacted by the encryption. He says that because of a long-standing difference in radio systems, interdepartmental radio traffic has had to be patched through and similar processes are still possible.

The Asheville police does see value of secure communications. Hallingse says, “In order to ensure officer safety, the Asheville Police Department plans to transition to encrypted radio channels. However, at this time, we do not have a timeline for this transition.”

Whatever the state of communications between the two agencies, APD

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has been discussing BCSD’s planned switch for several months, according to Hallingse. gOOd FOr THE PUBLIc? Monitoring public safety traffic is legal, and many people find it useful. Western North Carolinians are no exception. In some cases, there’s a passionate following who — if not getting news directly from radio scanners tuned to emergency frequencies — are getting information from others who are trawling the radio waves [See Brave new (news) world Mountain Xpress, June 17, 2015].

Among those who make a habit of listening here in Buncombe, there is some debate as to whether encrypting law enforcement channels is a good idea. One’s point of view seems to depend on whose interests are at stake.

Many in the scanner-monitoring community support the decision because it protects officers, but others are concered about the flow of information to the public. Members of the Facebook group known as Asheville Area Radio Scanner Activity who responded to Xpress’ request for feedback on the Sheriff’s Department decision spoke mostly in support of the move. Many were underwhelmed by the decision.

“It is what it is,” several respondents

said. Most regarded the change as a positive one, for officer safety and because otherwise criminals may be listening in.

“As one of the admins on this group,” raymond joe pressley says, “I think it is a wise decision. Like Nick [another member] said, it keeps the criminals from hearing what is going on. It potentially could also save lives of officers. Sooner or later, all the organizations will be radiosilent for scanners.”

He could be right. In most of Europe, public safety units utilize Terrestrial Trunked Radio, which offers secure communication. Although according to an “All Things Considered” piece last month on NPR [http://ow.ly/4mZqSE], while most European police talk isn’t on open frequencies, American agencies are slow to move to encryption because of various concerns such as cost of equipment and “interoperability,” meaning ability to communicate with other agencies who may use other systems.

Irresponsible media use of the information is another argument for encryption of law enforcement radio traffic. Freelance photographers who track down emergency scenes and the sensationalist news model that thrives on their content are not the standard around here.

However, material that is disturbing and sensitive can be picked up on scanners and is then reported on social media if not the mainstream media. One anonymously sent email from a member of the local scanner Facebook group said he/she is “grateful Buncombe County has implemented an encrypted system of communication for the privacy of everyone.” The emailer works in a funeral home and reported being shocked to recognize the address of a shotgun suicide reported via scanner and social media while typing up the obituary. “Anyone on Facebook in that group and who knew the family found out, in a Facebook group, the nature of this young man’s death.

The family needed their privacy, and it was not anyone else’s business to post the nature of his death.”

On the other hand, mainstream media do rely on information coming from police radio talk, even if it isn’t firsthand. Some local TV and radio outlets get information from Total

Traffic Network, an Atlanta-based company that monitors scanners and follows up on such information to provide traffic reports.

At least a few local scanner enthusiasts don’t support law enforcement using encrypted radio traffic.

For them, the potential good does not outweigh the potential problems. steven briggs, an amateur radio operator with friends and family in emergency services, has been monitoring radio scanners for over 30 years, He finds the encryption move surprising because encryption may reduce the potential for civilians helping law enforcement with tips. He is also skeptical about the argument that criminals can use the information from scanners to outmaneuver police. “There are few [criminals] that do this in the first place, and those that have used a scanner in the commission of a crime and have ambushed, assaulted or killed an officer would be an even smaller percentage than that — if it has happened at all. I’ve never heard of it happening, anyway,” Briggs says.

He points out that the state’s largest counties, aren’t so secretive.

Wake County Sheriff’s Department only encrypts their Tactical and SWAT channels, according to RadioReference.com, meanwhile Mecklenburg County remains unencrypted. Their dispatch channels are clear, meaning anyone with the proper equipment can leagally hear them — unlike encrypted traffic, which is illegal (and thus far, basically impossible) for the unauthorized to decode. jason holland administers the Twitter account Asheville Scanner.

Until last week, when he was temporarily removed from the Asheville Area Radio Scanner Activity Facebook group, his Twitter feed distributed posts from that group.

Holland believes, “Information should be free.” He’s concerned that encryption will create a black market for access to the information.

He commented on Facebook, “An encrypted signal is going to bring people out of the woodwork looking to decode the radios (this is already happening).” He also warns, “The public and the media should be able to see how the police address the problems they’re faced with in real time. There’s also a public safety issue. If the media isn’t able to get real-time information from the scanner, it could prevent one from having the ability to get that information to a large community (think gas leak or mass shooting).” X

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a Cut aBove the rest Employees reduce waste at Industries For the Blind

Each day at work, harry umble stamps out elbow patches from rolls of fabric. The patches will be sewn on Army combat shirts. Umble, the 2012 Blind Worker of the Year at Industries for the Blind Asheville, is totally blind and slightly deaf.

Upstream from him, chad wilbur operates an industrial cutter that creates other fabric pieces. Wilbur is legally blind. He was named this year’s Blind Worker of the Year at IFB Asheville.

Wilbur is the only legally blind person who operates the cutter at IFBA, says randy buckner, director of operations for the facility at 240 Sardis Road in Asheville. “Typically, we’d have a sighted person running it, but Chad’s proven us wrong.”

And Umble is the first blind person to run his equipment, Buckner adds.

Laughing, Umble likens his machine to a biscuit cutter. “I really enjoy it. It keeps me out of trouble,” he says.

IFBA has provided services and resources for its visually impaired employees and the Asheville community since 1938. “IFB employs both totally blind and legally blind folks,” Buckner reports. “Through our Low Vision Center, we also provide services to the vision impaired, who may need assistance in improving their eyesight to restore some personal independence.”

The organization employs on average about 100 people, of whom, 75 to 80 percent are either legally or totally blind.

IFB produces a wide variety of materials — from repackaged household and military commissary items to office supplies, bags and apparel for military and government agencies — but there is very little waste thanks to a recently implemented recycling program.

IFBA’s recycling program, begun in 2011, has been limiting its impact on the environment, Buckner says.

Last year, the program kept roughly 536,000 pounds of reusable materials out of the landfill and created two full-time positions at its plant in the process.

Each piece of apparel is produced primarily by workers who are either

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OPENINg EYES: Workers at Industries for the Blind Asheville, such as 2016 Blind Worker of the Year Chad Wilbur, above, are

able to accomplish myriad complex industrial tasks around the facility by using technology to compensate for limited natural vision. Photo courtesy of IFBA

legally blind or totally blind, with some oversight from sighted employees.

“We provide the cut work here, what we call ‘cut kits,’” Buckner explains.

“Anything from cold-weather trousers to Army combat shirts,” which are then sent out to be sewn together by Federal Prison Industries employees

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and shipped across the globe.

Inside the Sardis Road plant, large swaths of fabrics lie draped over a long, perforated table that Buckner jokingly refers to as “the world’s largest air hockey table.”

When workers turn on the table, it floats the material, so a person can

move it into position to be cut, at which point the operator can set the table to vacuum mode, to hold the material in position to be cut.

The cutter, which looks like an industrial-size electric turkey carver attached to a mechanical arm, is computer-controlled.

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Before the implementation of the recycling program, most of that waste went to the landfill. Since introducing the recycling program, however, IFB Asheville has been able to recycle more than 90 percent of the waste it produces, including excess fabrics, cardboard, paper, and just about anything else for which a use can be found.

IFBA partners with several recycling companies, including American Recycling, about 1.5 miles from IFBA’s plant.

It’s a full circle,“ adds Buckner. ”You’re helping the landfill out, creating jobs and generating revenue in the area because they’re able to reuse that material and create other products to resell.“ walter chambers and wayne richman are in charge of sorting leftover fabrics from the sewing operations into several containers. Both men are legally blind but manage to sort through the materials based on what they can see and by feel.

“We have separate boxes for different materials like cardboard, colored paper and bag paper,” Richman says,

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cOMINg FULL cIrcLE: Since instituting its recycling program in 2011, IFB Asheville has managed to recycle more than 90 percent of the waste it produces. Walter Chambers, left, and Wayne Richman, right, are in charge of separating and bundling leftover fabrics from the company’s sewing operations. Photo courtesy of IFBA

dEFYINg THE OddS: Despite being completely blind and partially deaf, Harry Umble,

above, is the first blind person to run his work station, stamping out elbow patches, which will be sewn onto Army combat shirts. Photo courtesy of IFBA

demonstrating the procedure. “We keep them separate because stuff like the white paper is worth a little more than the colored paper, plus some of the materials are going to different places.”

He shows off a guidebook he devised to help new employees learn the difference in the materials. “I try to keep [the guidebook] updated all the time since the materials change pretty often.”

For his part, Chambers says he’s happy to have a job where he knows he’s making a difference. “It’s not the funnest job in the world, but it’s an important one and a job that has to get done,” he notes. “You’ve got to be able to do stuff, and you’ve got to enjoy what you do.”

Moreover, the entire facility makes a conscious effort to recycle what it can, notes Wilbur. “If we

have a beverage [container], it’s recycled,” he says. “There’s recycling bins all over the place. Our forklift driver won’t let us get away with throwing stuff out — she’s the environmental police!”

He adds that the recycling program is emblematic of IFB’s larger goals. “It’s awesome to work for a company that offers something like that,” he says. “You take people like Randy, and you see how passionate and driven they are. It’s a good example. And if I bump into something, they don’t laugh at me, because they’re used to it.”

For more information about Industries for the Blind Asheville, to learn more about employment opportunities and community outreach programs, or to find out how you can contribute to its services and fundraisers, visit wsifb.com. X

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NATIVE PLANT SALE ANd SHOw BENEFIT bountyandsoul.org • SA (4/30), 10am-4pm - Plant sale with expert gardeners, vendors, demonstrations, food truck and live music. 15% of proceeds from Ten Thousand Villages sales benefit Bounty & soul. Free to attend. Held at Moore Center Field, 303 Lookout Road, Montreat

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OPPOrTUNITY HOUSE 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville, 6920575, opportunityhouse.org • FR (4/29), 6:30pm - Proceeds from this panel discussion and film screening of the documentary Healing Voices benefit mental health programs in wnc. Information: HealingVoicesMovie.com. $5.

LOw-cOST VAccINE cLINIcS: North Carolina pet owners are required to keep rabies vaccinations up-to-date for cats, ferrets and dogs, and in order to help pet owners comply with the law, the Asheville Humane Society facilitates a low-cost vaccination and microchip clinic for pets once every month. The next clinic taking place Saturday, April 30, from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. at Hall Fletcher Elementary School. The cost of services varies between $10-$15, cash is the only accepted form of payment, and owners are encouraged to bring along vaccination records for their pets. (p. 22)

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dININg OUT FOr LIFE diningoutforlife.com/asheville • TH (4/28) - Over 100 local restaurants will donate 20% of their gross sales to the wnc aids Project. See website for full guidelines.

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FILM AT wcU 227-2324 • FR (4/29), 7pm - Proceeds from the “Controlled Chaos Film Festival,” featuring films created by WCU students benefit the motion Picture student Project Fund. $10. Held in the Bardo Center.

BLAcK MOUNTAIN STANd AgAINST rAcISM • SU (5/1), 2:30-4:30pm - Proceeds from this dialogue on race and live music event featuring Kat Williams and David LaMotte will benefit Kat’s fund for young black men and women. $10/$8 students.

Held at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain BULLINgTON gArdENS 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville, 698-6104, bullingtongardens.org • FR (4/29) & SA (4/30), 9am-5pm - Proceeds from this annual spring plant sale with native and non-native perennials, annuals, herbs, vegetable starts, and small trees and shrubs benefit the educational programs at Bullington gardens. Free to attend. dIANA wOrTHAM THEATrE 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SU (5/1), 7pm - Proceeds from this stephaniesid jazz, rock and pop concert benefit Diana wortham theatre’s Y.e.s.

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Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave. #101 ASHEVILLE SUBMArINE VETErANS ussashevillebase.com, ecipox@charter.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Social meeting for U.S. Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan’s Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road BUNcOMBE cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (4/28), 6-7:30pm - “Emotions and Spending: A Free Financial Literacy Workshop,” presented

by OnTrack WNC. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. PUBLIc EVENTS AT UNcA unca.edu • TH (4/28), 4:30pm - “Education Affects Us All: North Carolina and You,” panel discussion about education issues. Free. Held in the Reuter Center. rEcOVErINg FrOM rELIgION meetup.com/topics/recoveringfrom-religion/us/nc/asheville • TH (4/28), 7pm - General meeting.

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SHOwINg UP FOr rAcIAL JUSTIcE showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road

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sleep tight Kids envisions safe and cozy nights

A SYMBOL OF SAFETY: Three-year-old Will and his mother arrived at a women’s shelter without any personal belongings. But a stuffed animal from Sleep Tight Kids, which Will called his “wubby,” quickly became a source of comfort. Photo

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what: A fundraiser featuring kidfriendly activities and music by Grits & Soul when: Sunday, May 1, 6-9 p.m. where: Bold Rock Hard Cider, Mills River why: “When we started in 2009, we only gave out 70 things,” says Sleep Tight Kids founder jill schwarzkopf, whose nonprofit provides vulnerable children with unused bedtime amenities like pajamas, books, stuffed animals, blankets and dental hygiene kits. That number grew to 5,000 in 2015, when the Department of Social Services in multiple counties joined an existing list of partner distributors.

Though Schwarzkopf’s 2016 tally is already approaching 2,000 items dispersed, she’s set a goal of nearly 10 times that for the year. An upcoming benefit will help buy more creature comforts, spreading the sense of hope and safety further.

“We’re really trying to get the kids involved,” she says of the event, which features attractions like face painting, giant Jenga, ladder ball, horseshoes, Legos, sidewalk chalk and soccer balls. The raffle, too, promises kid-friendly loot: a gift card for Asheville’s Fun Depot, a summer camp certificate for The Little Gym, a Lego set from Bricks for Kids, a half-day pass at Zaniac and an oversized stuffed animal from O.P. Taylor’s toy store.

The event also offers a separate raffle for adults, live country and Americana music by Grits & Soul, and food for purchase from Chef Daddy’s Food Truck and Poppy Handcrafted Popcorn.

“My hope for the future is to get Sleep Tight Kids in other cities,” Schwarzkopf says, and right now, her volunteer-run operation has almost no expenses — just website upkeep and PayPal fees.

“So, about 98 percent of the money goes straight to purchasing items for the kids.”

Admission ($30 per person or $50 per couple in advanced and $35 per person at the door) includes light treats and one alcoholic or nonalcoholic drink donated by Bold Rock. Kids get in free. Visit sleeptightkids. org for information or tickets. X

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dANcE THEATrE 254-2621, acdt.org • FR (4/29) & SA (4/30), 8pm - “Motown Memories.” $18/$15 students & seniors. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. • SU (5/1), 6pm - “Motown Memories.” $18/$15 students & seniors. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. ASHEVILLE MOVEMENT cOLLEcTIVE ashevillemovementcollective.org • FRIDAYS, 7:30-8:30pm - Non-instructional, free-form dance within community. $8-$20. Held at NYS3, 2002 Riverside Drive Studio 42-O Loft I • SUNDAYS, 9am & 11am- Non-instructional, free-form dance within community. $8-$20. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway BUrTON STrEET rEcrEATION cENTEr 134 Burton St. • MONDAYS (except 3rd MONDAYS), 5:30pm - Groove dance. Free. dIANA wOrTHAM THEATrE 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • FR (4/29), 7:30pm - Blue Ridge Ballet presents “An Evening of Contemporary and Modern Dance.” $25/$20 students.

THE VANISHINg wHEELcHAIr 645-2941, vanishingwheelchair.org • Through MO (6/13) - Open registration for wheelchair bound dance classes beginning June 13 through July 25.

Registration: 645-6115. Free. Held at Dimensions Studio of Mars Hill, 7401 NC-213, Mars Hill

FOOd & BEEr dOwNTOwN wELcOME TABLE haywoodstreet.org/2010/07/the-welcome-table • SUNDAYS, 4:30pm - Community meal. Free. Held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. FAIrVIEw wELcOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway 74, Fairview LEIcESTEr cOMMUNITY cENTEr 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table meal. Free.

KIdS ANAM cArA THEATrE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 10-noon - Tiny Tots Circus Playtime with aerials, clowning, balance and acrobatics. Children up to 6 years old. $5. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B ASHEVILLE cOMMUNITY THEATrE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (4/29) until (5/1) - The Phantom tollbooth, performed by the Youth Production Class. Fri.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $5.

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ATTIc SALT THEATrE cOMPANY 505-2926 • SA (4/30), 10am - Newly Grown Tales. $5.

Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. BUNcOMBE cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (4/27), 4pm - “Bugs and Dust” with UNCA Biology professor Becca Hale. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • FR (4/29), 4-5:30pm - “Teen Awesome Group,” group to discuss library programs for 6th grade and up. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville FLETcHEr LIBrArY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free. grAcE LUTHErAN cHUrcH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • SU (5/1) through MO (6/20) - Open registration for Henderson County Churches Uniting vacation bible school taking place June 27 through 30 from 9am to noon. For children ages 4 through 5th grade. Register online: bit.ly/grace-vbs. Free.

HANdS ON! A cHILdrEN’S gALLErY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-8333 • TU (5/3), 11am-4pm - Blue Ridge Humane Society teaches about dog training and adoptable pets.

Admission fees apply.

• TU (5/3) through FR (5/6) - “Make a Mother’s Day card” kids crafting event.

Admission fees apply.

• WE (5/4), 10:30am-noon - Reading with Oreo and meet Callie, national pet week event. Admission fees apply.

HENdErSON cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • SA (4/30), 6pm - “El día de los niños/El día de los libros (Children’s Day/Book Day),” celebration with Mexican dancing, storytelling, crafts and refreshments. Free.

MLK YOUTH ScHOLArSHIP NOMINATIONS 281-1624, mlkassociation.org, ogsimmons@att.net • Through (5/6) - Nominations accepted for the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Association of Asheville and Buncombe County Youth Scholarship program for graduating high school seniors.

N.c. ArBOrETUM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • MONDAYS & TUESDAYS (2/29) through (5/24), 10-11:30am - Wee Naturalists program for ages 2-5 with crafts, exploration, stories. Registration recommended. $7 per child/$3 per additional child/Parking fees apply.

SAcrEd MOUNTAIN SANcTUArY Cove Road, Candler, sacredmountainsanctuary.org • SU (5/1), noon-3pm - May Day celebration with maypole dancing, games, crafts, music, storytelling, silent auction, face painting, and burrito bar. $5-$10 per family. Parking and shuttle from Beaverdam Community Center.

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

THE VANISHINg wHEELcHAIr 175 Weaverville Highway Suite L, 645-2941, VanishingWheelchair.org • LAST SATURDAYS, 3pm - “Birthday Magic” magic show for children. $5.

TwO SISTErS FArMSTEAd 218 Morgan Cove Road, Candler, 707-4236, twosistersfarmstead.org • SU (5/1), 1-5pm - May Day celebration and open house with music, games, planting, science activities, raffle and maypole dance. Free to attend.

YMcA OF wESTErN NOrTH cArOLINA 210-9605, ymcawnc.org, tweaver@ymcawnc.org • SA (4/30), 10am-2pm - 25th Annual “Healthy Kids Day” with family-friendly 5k fun run/walk, inflatables, face painting and giveaways. 5k starts at 8:30am. Free to attend. Held at the Corpening YMCA, 348 Grace Corpening Drive # A, Marion • SA (4/30), 10am-2pm - 25th Annual “Healthy Kids Day” with family-friendly 5k fun run/walk, inflatables, face painting and giveaways. 5k starts at 11am. Free to attend. Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville

OUTdOOrS ASHEVILLE ON BIKES ashevilleonbikes.com • TH (4/28), 6pm - Ribbon cutting ceremony for Asheville’s first bicycle corral. Followed by DJ celebration. Free to attend. Held at Westville Pub, 777 Haywood Road BrEVArd TrEE wALK tnaturally@comporium.net • FR (4/29), 5:30pm - Tree walk to learn about urban trees. Free to attend. Meet at Brevard City Hall, 95 W. Main St. crAdLE OF FOrESTrY Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • SA (4/30), 8:30am-5pm - “International Migratory Bird Day Celebration,” with bird walks with naturalist Bill Sanderson and live raptor program and activities for children. $5.

LAKE JAMES STATE PArK 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • FR (4/29), 9:45am - “Spring Boat Tour,” ranger led boat tour. Free. Registration required: 584-7728.

• SA (4/30), 9am - “Hike Paddy’s Creek Trail,” ranger led 2-mile easy hike.

TrANSYLVANIA cOUNTY LIBrArY 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 • TH (4/28), 6:30pm - Ben Montgomery presents his book about the Appalachian Trail, Grandma Gatewood’s Walk. Free.

PUBLIc LEcTUrES ASHEVILLE HIgH ScHOOL 419 McDowell St., 350-2500 • FR (4/29), 6-8pm - Students on the AHS/SILSA speech and debate team debate local lawyers on a variety of topics. Free. Held in the Arts Theater.

BUNcOMBE cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

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• WE (4/27), 6pm - “Save Downtown Asheville and the Wrap,” historical presentation. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. PUBLIc EVENTS AT UNcA unca.edu • TH (4/28), 6:15pm - 32nd Annual Economic Crystal Ball Seminar: “The Fed: More Tightening?” with presentations by economists David W. Berson and James F. Smith. Free. Registration required: 251-6550. Held in Lipinsky Auditorium.

• TH (4/28), 4:30pm - Panel discussion regarding risks to public education.

Moderated by David Feingold, General Manager WCQS Western NC Public Radio. Free. Held in the Reuter Center.

SENIOrS INVITATIONAL SENIOr ArT ExHIBIT graceridge.org/art • Through FR (5/13) - Open submissions for the 2nd Annual “Creative Age Senior Art Exhibit.” Contact for full guidelines: graceridge.org/art/.

LEIcESTEr cOMMUNITY cENTEr 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • MONDAYS, 4:30pm - Christian based yoga for seniors. Free.

SPIrITUALITY ASHEVILLE INSIgHT MEdITATION (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started.

1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com.

ASTrO-cOUNSELINg (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

OPEN HEArT MEdITATION (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you.

Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 OpenHeartMeditation.com.

SHAMBHALA MEdITATION cENTEr (pd.) 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, 200-5120, ashevilleshambhala. org • WEDNESDAYS, 10-midnight, THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 10-noon - Meditation and community.

Admission by donation.

by Abigail Griffin VOICES OF WISDOM • MAY 21 AND 22 (pd.) Is a weekend gathering led by traditional elders Diane Longboat, (Mohawk) and Wanbdi Wakita (Dakota), May 21 and 22. For more information, please contact Scott Sheerin: 828 645-1003, email ssheerin@sacredfirefoundation.org or visit our website: sacredfirefoundation.org ASHEVILLE cENTEr FOr TrANScENdENTAL MEdITATION 165 E. Chestnut, 254-4350, meditationasheville.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm - Introductory talk on the Transcendental Meditation technique. Online registration. Free to attend.

ASHEVILLE SOUNd HEALINg 776-3786, ashevillesoundhealing.com, info@ashevillesoundhealing.com • SATURDAYS, 11am & SUNDAYS, noon - Healing concert with crystal bowls, gongs and chanting. Free to attend. Held at Skinny Beats Drum Shop and Gallery, 4 Eagle St. AVALON grOVE 645-2674, avalongrove.org, avalongrove@gmail.com • SU (5/1), 3-4pm - Celtic Christian holiday outdoor service to honor Beltane. Free.

Held in a private home - contact for location. cENTEr FOr ArT & SPIrIT AT ST. gEOrgE 1 School Road, 258-0211 • FR (4/29), 7-8pm - “Singing Meditation,” contemplative service with harp, guitar and flute.

Free to attend.

• SA (4/30), 10am-2:30pm - “Singing the Labyrinth,” workshop teaching chants during labyrinth walks. $25.

FIrST cONgrEgATIONAL Ucc OF HENdErSONVILLE 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 6928630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (5/1), 10:30am - “Immigrant Rights Sunday,” on May 1 at 10:30 am. Free. grAcE LUTHErAN cHUrcH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 6934890, gracelutherannc.com • WEDNESDAYS (4/13) through (5/18), 5:45-7pm - “John: The Gospel of Light and Life,” class. Free/$5 optional dinner.

JUBILEE cOMMUNITY cHUrcH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • THURSDAYS (4/7) through (5/12), 6:30-8pm - “Bringing Zen to Life: A Six Week Series to Empower Practice for Challenging Times,” zen meditation, teachings, discussion and practice presented by Windhorse Zen Community. Admission by donation.

MOUNTAIN MINdFULNESS SANgHA mountainmindfulness.org • SA (4/30), 9:15am - “Climate Change as a Door of Awakening,” day of mindfulness. Registration required: su_phi@

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yahoo.com. Admission by donation. Held at Center for Art & Spirit at St. George, 1 School Road OM SANcTUArY 87 Richmond Hill Drive, 505-2300 • SATURDAYS, 11am-noon - Meditation session.

Admission by donation.

SPOKEN & wrITTEN wOrd cOME wrITE NOw! (pd.) Join 2012-14 US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and expressive writing authors, pioneers, practitioners, and fans.

Journal Conference 2016, May 19-22 near Asheville. Day rates. Events@journaltherapy.com. Web: bit.ly/JC16WRITERS 35BELOw 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (4/28), 7:30pm - “Listen to This Storytelling Series,” hosted by Tom Chalmers. $15.

ASHEVILLE wrITErS’ SOcIAL allimarshall@bellsouth.net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - N.C. Writer’s Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Cork & Keg, 86 Patton Ave. BLUE rIdgE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • SA (4/30), 3pm - Bryan Robinson presents his novel, Limestone Gumption. Free. to attend.

BUNcOMBE cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/ library • TU (4/5) through SA (4/30) - Half-price spring book sale. Free to attend. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa FIrESTOrM cAFE ANd BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • SA (4/30), 5pm - Pioneers Press author reading with Adam Gnade, Trace Ramsey and Emma Anti-Climax. Free to attend.

MALAPrOP’S BOOKSTOrE ANd cAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (4/28), 7pm - Katherine Soniat presents her book, Bright Stranger and Peter Cooley presents his poetry collection, Night Bus to the Afterlife.

• FR (4/29), 7pm - Tracey Rizzo presents her book, Intimate Empires: Body, Race, and Gender in the Modern World.

• SA (4/30), 7pm - M.J. Pulled presents her new novel, Regrets Only.

• SA (4/30) - “Independent Bookstore Day Celebration,” with poetry upon request all day.

NOVELS & NOVELTIES BOOKSTOrE 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-1870, fountainheadbookstore.com • SA (4/30) - National Independent

Bookstore Day celebration with activities and reception. Free to attend.

• SA (4/30), 2:30pm - Dr. Jason Miller presents his book, Origins of the Dream.

Free to attend. wAYNESVILLE BrANcH OF HAYwOOd cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArY 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville, 452-5169 • SA (4/30), 10am-4pm - “Library-Con,” comic book convention with workshops, costume contest, video game tournament and activities for kids. Free.

SPOrTS ASHEVILLE PANTHErS FAN cLUB facebook.com/groups/BeerCityRiot • FR (4/29), 7pm - NFL draft party & membership drive. Free to attend. Held at Buffalo Wild Wings, 4 Tunnel Road • FR (4/29), 7pm - Membership drive and NFL draft party. Free to attend. Held at Wild Wing Cafe, 161 Biltmore Ave.

VOLUNTEErINg BUNcOMBE cOUNTY SPEcIAL OLYMPIcS 250-4260 • Through TH (5/5) - Open registration for volunteers for the Spring Games to be held on Thursday, May 5.

Registration: buncombecounty.org/specialolympics.

HANdS ON ASHEVILLE-BUNcOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org • TH (4/28), 11am-12:30pm - Cook and serve a homemade lunch for veterans.

Register for full guidelines.

HOMEwArd BOUNd OF wNc 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 1st THURSDAYS, 11am - “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population.

Registration required. Free to attend. rIVErLINK 252-8474, riverlink.org • Through (5/6) - Open registration to volunteer at the RiverMusic concert on May 6. Registration: signupgenius.com/ go/10c0e4caea82ba1f49-may62016.

SANdHILL cOMMUNITY gArdEN tabbybrickley@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm & SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Volunteer in the garden. Held at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 APAC Drive For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/volunteering

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LEAD STORY — The Internet's Promise Fulfilled (for Men, Anyway) Japan's Tenga toy company appears to be first on the market with a virtual reality bodysuit (for use with the Oculus Rift "Sexy Beach Premium Resort" 3-D game) containing a genital stimulator and the sensation of "groping" breasts — sending "impulses all over the wearer's body to make it feel like another human being is touching them," according to one reviewer (who expressed dismay that the bodysuit might put sex workers out of business). Said Tenga's CEO, "In the future, the virtual real will become more real than actual real sex." Because of societal pressures, women are expected to be a less-robust market for the device than men.

Grown-Ups • In March, one District of Columbia government administrative law judge was charged with misdemeanor assault on another. Judge Sharon Goodie said she wanted to give Judge Joan Davenport some files, but Davenport, in her office, would not answer the door. Goodie said once the door finally opened, an enraged Davenport allegedly "lunged" at her, "aiming" her thrust at Goodie's neck.

• Tennessee state Rep. Jeremy Durham has such a reputation as a "dog" around women working at the capitol that the house speaker issued a directive in April relocating Durham's office to a less-populated building across the street. Further, Durham is allowed access only to certain legislative meetings and to certain staff (i.e., no free-ranging among female staff members). After interviewing 34 people, the state attorney general said he believed that Rep. Durham's unwanted sexual approaches and commentaries were impeding legislative business.

Awesome Governments!

(1) Chinese courts (according to figures reported by Amnesty International in March) dispense justice so skillfully that more than

watching pornography on his phone as he walked.

by Chuck Shepherd 99.9 percent of cases result in convictions (1,039 acquittals in 1.2 million cases last year). (2) During its first 33 years (through 2012), the U.S. government's applications for secret search warrants to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court have been approved all but 11 times out of 33,900 cases. (FISC defenders say that is because all requests are finely honed by guidance from the judges, but of course, both the Chinese and U.S. numbers, and reasoning, are, by designation, unverifiable.)

Leading Economic Indicators • "Who's a Good Dog?"/"Yes, You Are": Some are just blessed with doggy charisma, say owners who showcase their pet's charm on "personal" social media accounts, and now specialized marketers scour those sources to match the most popular pooches with advertisers seeking just the right four-legged companion for their image. As The Wall Street Journal reported in April, entrepreneurial dog owners have rushed to create popular Instagram accounts and Facebook posts (and now, even to put their photogenic pups on a live-streaming app called Waggle) to catch agents' eyes (and, they hope, lead to four- and fivefigure paydays from such advertisers as Nikon, PetSmart, Residence Inn and Heinz).

• New Jersey is a big state, but when just one man decided to move away, the state legislature's budget office director warned that the loss of that man's taxes might lead to state revenue problems. Billionaire hedge-fund manager David Tepper evidently pays a bundle, and the budget office director pointed out that the state's reliance on personal income taxes means that even a 1 percent drop in anticipated tax could create a gap of $140 million under forecasts.

• Among the names chosen for Internet start-up ventures (although — face it — the more sensible names are already taken): Houzz (home design and remodeling), Kabam (online interactive game company, formerly "Watercooler Inc."), Klarna (e-commerce company that pays the store for your purchases and then collects from you), MuleSoft (makes software to integrate applications)

and Kabbage (makes small-business loans online). Wired magazine reported in February that those ventures, and two dozen other inexplicably named startups, are all "unicorns" — with investors pledging at least $1 billion to each one.

The Job of the Researcher Researchers already knew that masked birch caterpillars "rub hairs on their rear ends against a leaf to create vibrations," according to an April National Geographic report, but a forthcoming article by Carleton University biologists describes that "drumming" as actually part of their "sophisticated signaling repertoire" to attract others — not for mating but for assistance in spinning their protective silk cocoons. The researchers' "laser vibrometer" detects sound likely inaudible to humans, but when the caterpillars feed, it's clearly, said one researcher, "Chomp, chomp, chomp, anal scrape. Chomp, chomp, chomp, anal scrape."

Police Report Micro-Crime: (1) According to surveillance video, a man broke into a Five Guys restaurant in Washington, D.C., in the middle of the night on March 18, cooked himself a cheeseburger and fled. (2) Ellis Battista, 24, was arrested for the February break-in at Bradley's convenience store in Las Cruces, New Mexico, in which he took only a pack of cigarettes — for which he left $6 on the counter. (However, he also damaged the door getting in.)

Undignified Deaths (1) A 69-year-old man was killed on March 17 while awaiting emergency care at Vidant Medical Center in Greenville, N.C. He had been seriously injured in an earlier accident and was in the waiting room when a 59-yearold driver's car crashed through the hospital doors and fatally struck him.

(2) A 55-year-old man was killed in Memphis, Tenn., on March 23 when a 15-foot trailer came loose and crashed into him on a sidewalk. The deceased, who had a lengthy criminal record for sexual assault, might have avoided the trailer if he had not been distracted by

Least Competent Criminals • Amanda Schweickert, 28, was charged with a felony and three driving offenses in March in Springville, N.Y., painted to sort of resemble a New York plate (but more likely suggesting the work of an elementary school art class). (New York also requires a front plate, but Schweickert had not gotten around to that yet.)

• Britain's annual Boring Conference (this year, July 5 at Conway Hall in London) brings together those who celebrate the mundane (previous topics include sneezing, toast, vending machine sounds, yellow lines, barcodes), and in anticipation, a BBC News commentator interviewed Peter Willis of the Letter Box Study Group. Willis, 68, was excited at having recently acquired access to a database of all 115,000 mailboxes served by U.K.'s Royal Mail and hopes, with the help of "splendid" mapping software, to visit and photograph each one, to examine the different styles. No doubt speaking for all members, Willis said the lay version of "boring" implies inactivity, but the obsessives in his study group (and in attendance at the Boring Conference) lead active lives, with a wide range of interests. (The conference, by the way, is sold out.)

A News of the Weird Classic (February 2012) Sri Lanka has, as an "unwritten symbol of pride and culture," the world's highest per capita rate for eye donation, according to a January (2012) Associated Press dispatch from Colombo. Underpinning this national purpose is the country's Buddhist tradition that celebrates afterlives. "He's dead," said a mourning relative of a deceased eye donor, "but he's still alive. His eye can still see the world." Doctors even report instances in which Sri Lankans consider giving up an eyeball while still alive, as a measure of virtue. A new state-of-the-art clinic, funded by Singaporean donors, is expected to nearly double Sri Lanka's export of eyeballs. X

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BY cinDY Kunst clkunst@clicksphotography.net The therapeutic benefits of wilderness came into sharper focus this month as mental health professionals gathered for the Regional Wilderness Therapy Symposium at the Crowne Plaza Resort in West Asheville April 13-15.

Symposium attendee will white says “Asheville was a natural fit” for this first Eastern branch of the symposium. Western North Carolina is already home to several well-established programs — Outward Bound in Riceville, SUWS Carolinas in Old Fort and Trails Carolina in Lake Toxaway. He also notes the relative availability of older campgrounds that have fallen out of use by other groups just waiting for repurposing.

“The proximity to wilderness and a large population of trained guides and therapists already living here make Western North Carolina an ideal area for further growth in the industry in the coming years,” says White.

Over 250 field guides, doctors, therapists and clinicians, many from Asheville and Western North Carolina, gathered for the symposium, which was presented by the Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Council based in Park City, Utah. These programs use extended backcountry travel and wilderness living experiences as prescriptive therapy combined with individual and family counseling.

“Wilderness therapy is very unique in that it combines the best that psychotherapy has to offer within an experiential and group-based context.

It is immediately applied and tangible, and happens in the here and now,” explains sandra newes, a psychologist at Clearview Psychological Services in Asheville.

Newes recently presented a lecture along with mary flora and rebecca gebb of Asheville Academy for Girls on “The Community Resiliency Model – Wellness-Based Skills for SelfRegulation”, to therapists and field guides at the symposium.

“This immediacy allows for more in-depth learning and application than often happens in a traditional office setting. It also brings the added benefit of outdoor education and the cognitive,

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SENSATIONS SPEAK: Mary Flora of Asheville Academy for Girls explains that intercepting sensations of distress with sensations of well-being creates a new template for awareness of the present moment. Photo by Cindy Kunst emotional and physical benefits of time outdoors in the wilderness,” says Newes.

“I do believe wilderness therapy will have significant growth in this area,” says Newes. “We have all the beauty of the wilderness all around us here in WNC, and with the myriad of creative ways that wilderness therapy can be applied — residential treatment, community-based, adjunctive to traditional psychotherapy — that I predict it will feed on itself, meaning that the more programs and practitioners there are, the more ideas of creative ways to utilize wilderness therapy will come out of that. There are also great opportunities for collaboration amongst professionals.”

In his book Stories From The Field, A History of Wilderness Therapy, White says modern camping “evolved as an antidote to the physical and moral decline of youth due to changing industrial society” in the mid-1800s. Co-founder of Summit Achievement in Maine, he chronicles this

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evolution and includes a detailed summary of the recent histories and fundamental differences of wilderness therapy methods beginning in the 1960s. Many of the current programs sprouted out of programs pioneered by Outward Bound in Colorado and Brigham Young University in Utah. Subsequent programs were founded on the concept that therapeutic interventions should not only leave the traditional office couch behind, but could thrive, and have more sustained impact, when clients were offered physical challenges in an unfamiliar environment.

Founded in 1996, the OBHC currently represents over 20 wilderness therapy treatment programs throughout the country. The council was created out of a need to create industry standards, share best practices and learn from other members about how to promote safety and success for their clients. The OBHC requires all members to become accredited through an independent third-party

program and regularly sponsors independent research and review of collected field data.

The Outdoor Behavioral Healthcare Center is a grant-funded, independent research group at the University of New Hampshire that specifically focuses on adventure-based therapy modalities. Center staff provides the council with documentation of the efficacy of wilderness therapy, risk management, program accreditation and identification of trends and success rates through data analysis.

Wilderness programs are designed to encourage self-discovery and actualization, resilience and a better understanding of personal responsibility through wilderness living experiences that challenge and engage participants. Field guides and therapists work together with young adults and teens to develop tools and coping skills for long-term solutions for a range of developmental disorders, including substance abuse, sexual abuse, anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. Clients learn to work and live together as a group and build selfesteem as individuals.

Many attendees at the symposium began their stay in Asheville on Wednesday evening with a special opening dinner and celebration honoring field staff at the Buffalo Nickel in West Asheville. paul wolf, the outdoor leadership program coordinator at Southwestern Community College in Bryson City, attended the symposium “to learn and keep current in my field, to reconnect with my professional colleagues.”

Wolf’s college program offers a wilderness therapy certificate as part of an associate degree in wilderness leadership.

“The networking reception helped us promote our program and meet with our peers to learn about their programs,” Wolf says. “The opening dinner reception at the Buffalo Nickel allowed me to meet many new people and to showcase West Asheville to folks from abroad.

“Western North Carolina offers a tremendous venue for treatment and healing in our beautiful surroundings. I think programs will continue to open and expand and find their niche as we learn more about the efficacy and successes that different treatment

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& Melanie modalities have to offer. As insurance companies began to realize and accept these programs for reimbursement, the growth could be staggering,” he says.

A few special off-site opportunities for short adventures around Asheville were also available during the symposium. derek daley of Legacy Outdoor Advenures from Loa, Utah, led a mountain biking session along with a discussion about “Integrating Opportunities for Efficacy: The Importance of Roles and Responsibilities” at Kolo Bike Park, a mountain bike park with trails and a pump track designed for skill training, that’s a part of the Adventure Center of Asheville at the Crowne Plaza Resort.

“I practice what I preach out in the field every week,” says Daley. “”For me, I’ve been doing this for 16 years. I started as a field guide for a wilderness group in Alaska. There’s something inherently simple, almost magic, about wilderness and that, in my opinion, triggers real change. People have been going to find healing in the wilderness for a long time before we started ever talking about ideas like therapy. But here’s what we do know: pre- and postprogram research shows that wilderness works, and it works better than most other therapy modalities, and we’re using the same tests and tools to measure that success with a client as other traditional practitioners do.“ There was also a hike Friday morning to Rattlesnake Lodge from the Blue Ridge Parkway led by local Appalachian Trail thru hiker jennifer pharr davis. Davis was the keynote speaker for the symposium. During her Thursday evening presentation, “The Next Step: A Journey of Self-Discovery and Empowerment on the Appalachian Trail,” she discussed the subjects of her books, Becoming Odyssa and Called Again, in which Davis relates many of her experiences and challenges hiking on the Appalachian Trail. She recalled her first time hiking on the AT was in 2001 as a young adult with no real hiking experience, trying to find her place in life, much like those who participate in wilderness therapy.

She compared this with her shift in perspective 10 years later as a professional hiker and guide when she returned, setting the record for fastest traverse of the AT in 46 days. What started out in her youth as “just a walk” led her outdoors and all over the world. She recommends that those involved in wilderness therapy define a path with personal goals, communicate with their support network, remain adaptable, be able to accept redirection and embrace challenges on and off

the trail. She offered this observation, viewed through the lens of her own her own experience: “Wilderness therapy works. People can’t truly heal unless they spend time outdoors.”

“I would love to see this type of intervention expand and become more widely accepted,” Newes says in a follow-up interview. “I also wish that more people were aware of the existing research that shows significant benefits from this type of intervention.

The most important part of the symposium is connecting with other likeminded professionals from a variety of different backgrounds who are doing their best to combine sophisticated clinical interventions with the power of the wilderness. There is so much talent and creativity in this group; it is really inspirational.” X

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BEHINd THE ScENES cLEANINg: The Metropolitan Sewerage District’s rotating biological contactors, left, use billions of microorganisms to clean wastewater sent to the plant.

Another step in the cleaning process involves rollers, right, that press water out of sludge, which is then incinerated. Photos by Cindy Kunst

BY cinDY Kunst info@clicksphotography.net Dental appointments make plenty of people nervous, but water pollution isn’t usually what they’re worrying about. According to Environmental Protection Agency estimates, however, dental offices are responsible for 50 percent of the mercury entering the nation’s wastewater. Dental amalgam is 49 percent mercury by weight, and dental offices discharge about 4.4 tons of it annually.

Mercury is toxic to humans, particularly fetuses, infants and children. It persists in the environment and can be absorbed when eating fish and shellfish. A neurotoxin, it can impair mental function and, in high doses, cause respiratory failure and even death.

For the last several years, the EPA has been developing stricter mercury regulations for dental practices and public sewage treatment systems.

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Metropolitan Sewerage District sent a letter and survey to dentists within its service area in January 2013 to determine who was using amalgam and how they were disposing of it. MSD’s facility, the letter explained, is “not designed to remove mercury from the wastewater or the solids generated from the wastewater treatment process.”

BrEAKINg dOwN THE NUMBErS According to the EPA, some 160,000 dentists working in over 120,000 dental offices nationwide either use amalgam or remove amalgam fillings, and almost all of these offices send their wastewater to publicly owned treatment facilities.

MSD’s letter and survey were sent to 81 local dental facilities. Of the 65 that responded, 40 said they did use dental amalgam, and 24 said they only removed amalgam fillings, replacing them with a biocompatible substance.

More than 40 local offices had some form of amalgam separator installed;

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11 said they didn’t yet but were planning to install them. Others that didn’t have separators planned to discontinue using amalgam. Ten offices said they used dental amalgam fillings, didn’t have separators and didn’t plan to install them.

“But the dentists are aware, and most of them are making strides to put in separators,” says MSD Field Operations Manager monty payne.

BUg FArMErS Imagine a countywide plumbing system serving more than 50,000 customers over 180 square miles, with about 1,000 miles of pipe and some 30 separate pump stations needed to battle gravity here in the mountains. The endpoint for all that sewage, including the wastewater from dental offices, is MSD’s treatment plant on Riverside Drive. Before 1967, when the plant came online, untreated wastewater was piped directly into the river. According to Asheville

author wilma dykeman’s 1955 book, The French Broad, “You could smell the river before you saw it.” Since then, however, thanks to the Clean Water Act and the efforts of nonprofits like RiverLink and MountainTrue, the North Carolina portion of the French Broad has been upgraded from a Class C water quality rating (which discourages extensive physical contact with the water) to Class B (suitable for swimming).

The MSD plant processes about 20 million gallons of sewage per day and can handle up to 40 million — hopefully with no blockages, pump failures or leaks. The goal, every day, is to put the water back into the river in as good, if not better, condition than when it entered the system, says Operations Manager roger edwards.

ON ITS wAY: MSD Operations Manager Roger Edwards pours out the end product of

MSD’s efforts — water deemed clean enough to go into the French Broad River. Photo

by Cindy Kunst From an office in the plant’s control tower, you can see the rapids just below Craggy Dam, where whitecaps speckle the water’s surface. On the walls are floor-to-ceiling maps of the county, with lights and markers indicating the pump locations. Up a short flight of stairs, a master control desk affords a full view of the plant. An array of video screens shows every stage of the treatment process, from headworks to effluent. You’d almost think you were in the basement of Batman’s Wayne Manor.

MSD’s facility, believed to be the largest of its kind in the world, uses a two-part water treatment process that’s completely biological. For the billions of microorganisms that live on the 152 rotating biological contactors, wastewater is their food source.

Operating under white geodesic domes visible from the road, each RBC is covered with crevices and

crannies that create almost 3 acres of surface area. This is where the “bugs” live, says Edwards, adding that he and his staff are basically “bug farmers.”

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Wastewater first flows through wash screens that remove large particles like plastic, paper, baby wipes and that golf ball your 2-year-old flushed down the toilet as an experiment. After that, separating tanks allow the grit to settle and the grease to rise, culling the clean water in between. After going through three separate stages of RBCs, the water is pumped to the intermediate clarifiers, where more solids settle out.

The water then passes through a series of disc filters and continues on to waste treatment. Meanwhile, the residual sludge is injected with a polymer composite that bonds with the solids to make “cakes.” Rollers press the excess water out of the cakes, which then go to the incinerator. The water is sent back through the entire treatment process again.

Thanks to a $5.5 million smokestack scrubber upgrade in November, the incinerator system now keeps 90 percent of the mercury in the cakes from being released into the air — surpassing the current EPA standard. The captured mercury is deposited in a lined ash pond behind the plant.

But the overall removal rate for the mercury in wastewater remains a much lower 76 percent. “We remove around 5.5 pounds of mercury out of 7.3 pounds that we take in annually,” says Edwards.

“You might think of a 5-pound bag of sugar as a reference for size, but this is a very dense material, and the amount we remove annually is roughly the size of a 3-inch cube.” That leaves 1.8 pounds of mercury (about half a cubic inch) per year that ends up heading downstream.

It doesn’t come through as a lump, however, but as tiny particles a bit at a time. A gram of mercury is roughly the size of a grain of sand, which is why it’s so hard for the utility to catch it all — and why dental offices need amalgam separators.

“Every waterway in North Carolina is impaired by mercury pollution,” says French Broad Riverkeeper hartwell carson. There’s a statewide fish consumption advisory, he notes, due to methylmercury contamination.

“Three grams — 1/25 of a teaspoon — of mercury is enough to contaminate a 60-acre lake,” he reveals. And while “MSD generally does a good job of treating what they know is coming, which is human waste … I don’t believe their system is really designed to screen out the other weird things that get sent to it.”

Still, Carson, who works for local environmental group MountainTrue, isn’t blaming MSD. “They really are proactive about protecting and maintaining their system,” he says, “and are always looking for ways to improve it.”

But many smaller treatment plants along the French Broad, he points out, may not be as closely monitored due to budget and staff limitations.

Thanks to MSD’s new scrubber system, the incinerator is in full compliance with air quality regulations.

Meanwhile, the EPA and the American Dental Association are negotiating the final language of a rule requiring dental offices to use amalgam separators that remove 99 percent of the mercury from their wastewater. The rule is expected to be issued this summer.

“It’s a cooperative partnership all the way, with everyone that’s on our system,” says Edwards, including the general public. Because ultimately, even so-called “disposables” don’t just magically disappear: It all ends up somewhere. And at the treatment plant, he explains, things like baby wipes and cooking grease “block the flow and make a mess; then it just gets scraped off and sent to the landfill.” X

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Spring herb festival brings together people, plants and products With our growing season just getting underway in the mountains, we lucky enough to have the largest herb festival in the country about to take place right in our backyard.

The 27th annual Asheville Herb Festival has been billed as the biggest herb focused event of its kind in the Southeast for the past 15 years — but recently received its status as the largest in the U.S. and Canada, thanks to research from the Herb Society of America.

More than 35,000 visitors are expected to attend this year’s event, which is being hosted by the WNC Chapter of the North Carolina Herb Association. The larger-than-normal expected turnout is due in part to the presence this year of the Herb Society of America, which is holding its annual convention in Asheville over the festival weekend.

Herbs are definitely at the core of the huge family-friendly event — with a vast selection of plants and products from independent vendors.

Attendees will find herbs for cooking, gardening and medicinal use; herbal soaps, lotions, tinctures, teas, dried herbs and flowers, herb-related crafts, gifts and books. And if you

work up an appetite while walking through the maze of options that the festival offers, there will be vendors selling herbal-infused lunches, beverages and baked goods.

In addition to the knowledge provided by more than 65 vendors, there will be plenty of experts on hand to answer questions about planting, growing and caring for herbs.

The N.C. Agricultural Extension Service information booth will be staffed by local master gardeners certified by the Buncombe County Extension.

The Asheville Herb Festival takes place Friday through Sunday, April 29-May 1, at the WNC Farmers Market. Parking and admission is free, but the organizers suggest that you bring along cash for some of the smaller herb vendors that can’t accept credit or debit cards.

In addition, it is a good idea to bring your own tote bags, cart or even a wagon to carry your unique herbal finds.

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drINK IT IN: Asheville Cocktail Week events run the gamut from a weeklong bloody mary competition featuring a dozen local bars and restaurants to a Cinco de Mayo bar crawl to a Kentucky Derby mint julep party at the Smoky Park Supper Club. Revelers can even recover from the week’s celebrations with a bloody mary Hangover Brunch at The Imperial Life. Photo by Julie McMillan of Silver Birch Studio Photography

BY Jonathan ammons jonathanammons@gmail.com Seeing the explosive growth of the local cocktail scene over the past few years, the Asheville Wine & Food Festival has reacted in the best way imaginable, devoting an entire week to tipples and the spirits that make them so easy to imbibe.

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Sponsored by Jim Beam and showcasing regional distillers, Asheville Cocktail Week will host myriad events during the first week of May aimed at service industry members and everyday consumers alike. rob floyd will kick things off with a performance of his internationally touring Cocktail Theatre troupe sponsored by Effen Vodka. During the performance, the actor-turned-

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mixologist — best-known for his stint as beverage director at The Bazaar

by José Andrés in Los Angeles — will comedically present a number of cocktails to the audience. “I’ve been doing the shows all over the country and even in China,” says Floyd. “It’s just really great nights, with great spirits and storytelling.”

“Cocktail whisperer” warren bobrow, the author of Apothecary

Cocktails and, most recently, Cannabis Cocktails, will host a spirits dinner in collaboration with chef john fleer of Rhubarb. “When you have good ingredients and you cook them simply, with love, good things happen. And the same thing happens with cocktails,” says Bobrow, who’ll also do a book signing at Malaprop’s. That same night, Hornitos tequila will offer a Cinco

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at a past Asheville Wine & Food Festival event. The inaugural Asheville Cocktail Week and Southeastern Distilling Expo will bring bar professionals and 25 distillers from the Southeast to the Asheville area. Photo by Camilla Calnan de Mayo tequila tasting at Sovereign Remedies, kicking off a bar crawl that will continue to The Southern and wrap up at The Imperial Life.

Many Cocktail Week events will play out in the newly revamped S&W Building. The 1927 structure’s art deco style makes it a perfect Prohibition-era throwback for hosting large-scale events like Friday’s Southeastern Distilling Expo. Nearly 30 distillers, including Charleston’s Virgil Kaine, Fair Game Beverage Co. in the Triangle area and Kentucky’s Jim Beam, will showcase their spirits.

“We’ll have all of the participating distillers available to talk to service industry members, and we’ve invited industry members from Atlanta, Charlotte, the Raleigh-Durham area, and certainly the Asheville-area bartenders and restaurant owners,” organizer mary rich of Spirit Savvy explains. One of the largest gatherings for local distillers in the South, the expo will showcase a rapidly growing, if often overlooked, industry in the Carolinas.

“We’ve got about 25 distilleries participating, and we’ve really opened it

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up to the Southeast: We’ve got Jim Beam coming, we’ve got Cathead Vodka and some from South Carolina.

But it’s mostly going to be North Carolina distillers.”

Meanwhile, cocktail gurus such as Floyd, Bobrow, bob peters of The Punch Room in Charlotte and craig rudewicz of Crude Bitters & Sodas will also be leading seminars.

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with allergies who don’t do dairy, but with nut milks, he can add a little more depth to a drink,” notes Rich.

“We thought that a lot of the people who were already going to be here, like Warren and Rob, really had something to offer, and maybe the bartenders around town would like to hear from some of these out-oftown folks. It’s nice to see fresh faces come into the scene: We can all learn from each other.” Both the expo and the seminars are free but open only to service industry members, who will need to RSVP beforehand.

After the expo, the fourth annual Elixir cocktail competition will also be held at the S&W. Each of the 16 local bars and restaurants competing for the title will have to develop a cocktail that “speaks to the South’s bountiful growing region and has your forward-thinking twist,” according to the media release. “In a time of political turmoil and significant changes in societal norms, how are cocktails mixing up these ‘Old South’ ways of thinking?”

Judges for this year’s competition include Bobrow, Floyd, Peters, arianne fielder (known for her work at Ormsby’s and Seven Lamps in Atlanta) and craig nelson of Proof in Charleston. Favorite Asheville mixologists, including Cucina 24’s donnie pratt, Top of the Monk’s Kala brooks and Sovereign Remedies’ Katey ryder, will be among those competing.

Saturday has its own busy schedule, featuring a hangover brunch at The Imperial Life, cocktail tours by Eating Asheville, and Kentucky Derby and Old Fashioned parties. Being Derby Day, it’s only fitting for the Smoky Park Supper Club and Maker’s Mark to host a gathering in the green grass by the river. Fielder, Nelson and two local luminaries, erin hawley of MG Road and luke danner of Smoky Park Supper Club, will be stirring up juleps for the occasion. “We’ll be livestreaming the Kentucky Derby up on a big projector screen, and there’ll be our version of a horse bet going on, where people will draw a horse out of a hat. We’ll draw a winner, and they’ll get an engraved julep cup,” says Rich. “There’ll also be prizes for the best derby hat and for most dapper gentleman: Kip [Veno] from Hip Replacements will be walking around the party judging.” An Old Fashioned nightcap sponsored by Knob Creek will follow, just up the road at Ole Shakey’s.

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SOUTHErN AccENT: At this year’s Elixir cocktail competition, 16 local bars and restaurants will strive to create a drink that “speaks

to the South’s bountiful growing region and has your forward-thinking twist,” says a media release from the Asheville Wine & Food Festival. “In a time of political turmoil and significant changes in societal norms, how are cocktails mixing up these ‘Old South’ ways of thinking?” the release continues. In the photo, a rainbow of locally made cocktails awaits judging at last year’s event. Photo by Micah Mackenzie Park to Local Provisions, from THE BLOCK off biltmore to The Southern — will be vying for Best Bloody Mary honors. The public can vote on online, and the winner will be announced on Sunday.

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The combined efforts of Asheville Wine & Food Festival organizers like Kris Kraft have helped develop Asheville Cocktail Week into the area’s largest celebration of spirits in a town that’s often drowning in craft beer.

“This is as much a festival for the servers and bartenders as it is for any of the rest of us,” says Rich. “We tried to make this year a mix of fresh faces and highlighting what everyone is doing in Asheville.” X

warren Bobrow, the Cocktail whisperer “I’m late to the game,” admits cocktail historian warren bobrow, one of the headliners for the inaugural Asheville Cocktail Week. Bobrow spent nearly 20 years in the financial world before attending the French Culinary Institute, where he studied under famed New York Times food writer Alan Richman. The author of numerous books, Bobrow will host a dinner at Cucina 24 and a seminar at the S&W. He’ll also do a book signing at Malaprop’s to promote his latest work, Cannabis Cocktails.

“We’ll be talking about bitters and the stomach and healing,” he says of his planned discussion, noting that his other book, Apothecary Cocktails, deals with ailments that, up until the 1940s, people would have gone to an apothecarian to cure. “Bitters, acidulated beverages, shrubs, anything with vinegar played a huge role in that.

Gentian root, wormwood ... it was all

used for digestion, and they all go back to the early apothecary.”

The original apothecarians, Bobrow explains, blended ingredients that they had in their kitchens and grew in their gardens to create curative tinctures and remedies. “And some of them were really interested in healing, but in those days, the doctors were out in the field doing the curing for people who would break an arm or split their head open.

So the apothecarians became the formularies,” he says.

Bobrow believes it’s imperative that knowledge of historic healing practices, tonics and remedies not be lost. “Today you see all these bartenders pounding Fernet-Branca — and for a hangover, there’s nothing better — but all of these have a medicinal history in healing. But back then, most of those products had cannabis in them, and looking back, probably the only ingredient that actually did anything was cannabis.”

performance mixology with rob Floyd After cutting his teeth at New York’s famed Employees Only bar in the early ’90s, rob floyd left to pursue an acting career, starring in sci-fi shows like “Sliders” and James Cameron’s “Dark Angel.” But the 18-hour days left him precious little time for his family, and eventually Floyd migrated to the bar at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont hotel to step up its cocktail program.

After a while, however, it was time to move on again. “I didn’t just want to make money: I’ve always wanted to make people happy and leave them feeling entertained,” he explains. “While I loved the Chateau Marmont, I just felt like I wasn’t growing at all, and the opportunity to work at [The Bazaar] with José Andrés was a dream come true. I was lucky enough to get to work with their chefs and come to understand molecular gastronomy. So, building on a background of classic cocktails and being able to build all the way up to something more avant-garde.

“I felt like when you got to be 25, 30,

there was nothing fun to do: It was just go to a bar, taste stuff and that’s about it.

Nothing really made the night.” And that’s when Floyd decided to do something a little different. “I started writing these nights that I loosely termed ‘cocktail theatre,’ and I initially pitched [The Bazaar], who weren’t that interested, but they gave me one night per month. Before long, we were sold out months in advance.”

Since then, Floyd’s Cocktail Theatre company has toured places as far away as China and Spain. His Asheville Cocktail Week seminar, he explains, will focus on “coming cocktail trends and molecular gastronomy. One thing I learned from José is that when you give away secrets, it’s really OK. Learning about spherification and reverse spherification and ionic baths really changed the way I thought about things. And to be able to teach those things now, and to see students go from being bartenders to liquid chefs, always feels so good.”

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cHOcOLATE BUZZ: Asheville Kilwins owner Marcy Gallagher, left, and local clown Ash Devine deliver a musical lesson on chocolate to kindergarten students during a recent Kilwins Cares for Kids presentation at Leicester Elementary School. Photo by Cindy Kunst It’s a clear, breezy morning in early April at Leicester Elementary School.

With a cheery yellow sun overhead peeking from behind puffy white clouds that skip across a bright blue sky, and horses and cows dotting nearby pastures, the scene could easily translate to a child’s drawing. Inside, at the school’s front desk, the secretary calls kindergarten teacher tamara brown’s classroom to come to the office. “There are some really weird-looking people here to see you,” she laughs into the phone receiver. ash devine, a local musician and clown who studied with the famous Patch Adams, has teamed up with Asheville Kilwins Chocolates franchise

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owner marcy gallagher to create an especially sweet program for area elementary school teachers. The two have designed a presentation that teaches kids about where chocolate comes from and how it is made. Although Kilwins has locations in multiple states, Gallagher’s program is unique to the Asheville area and not offered by any other franchise.

Gallagher says she was inspired to develop the program after learning that many public educators have to use their own funds to provide rewards and incentives to their students. “As a local business owner, it is important to me to be involved in our community.” she says.

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born out of a desire to do something special for elementary school students and their teachers.”

Gallagher offers teachers free certificates of achievement in any quantity they want, and the teachers can give them as rewards to students who excel in one area or another. The certificates entitle recipients to a free kids ice cream cone at Kilwins, and Gallagher hopes they will give families an excuse to come downtown and make a day of it. Teachers can also request empty Kilwins ice cream tubs, which can be used for storage and other purposes in the classroom.

Brown has led Gallagher and Devine on a snaky path up and down stairs,

through a Hogwarts-style maze of hallways and high-tech locked doors requiring magnetic pass cards. The trail ends in a ring of almost 40 kindergartners who have combined classrooms for the presentation.

Devine, wearing a shiny, red plastic clown nose and a colorful outfit like a Dr. Seuss character come to life, looks around, timidly lifts her hand to reveal a toy rubber hand perched atop her index finger and waves hello.

“Does anyone here know that chocolate comes from a fruit that grows on a tree in the jungle?” asks Devine. Over the next 25 to 35 minutes, Gallagher and Devine take turns describing the process of growing, harvesting and

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Devine shows the children posters of cacao trees in lush green groves and explains that there are only a few places in the world along the equator that the trees can grow.

Then she asks the kids to list all the things they can think of that contain chocolate. “Candy!” “Cookies!”

“Ice cream!” The students have many ideas. Ashe nods and continues, talking about how the trees are grown on small family farms and how the people and trees work together to grow the cacao fruit.

The kids see enlarged photos of how the cacao farmers harvest and dry the fruit by hand until it’s ready to be ground into nibs, and Devine passes around a dried, brown cacao bean rattling with seeds. The fermentation process, she explains, is caused by “burps” from bacteria that eat the sugars in the fruit too fast.

As Gallagher talks about how the nibs are crushed then mixed with sugar and milk to make the flavor less bitter, she shows the children the bricks of chocolate that her downtown store melts and tempers in a special machine to make it soft enough for dipping

everything from apples to Oreos.

Near the end of the presentation, the pair hand out sample dots of white, milk and dark chocolate.

As Devine shakes her tambourine, the kids sample the dots one at a time, in order from light to dark. She encourages the children to describe the differences they can taste and asks if they can detect the “bacteria burps.” Then she pulls out the ukelele and sings a song about chocolate to the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” encouraging the kids to wave their hands, stomp their feet and sing along. ”My mentor, Patch Adams, says ‘Clowning is a trick to get love close,’ says Devine. “Perhaps, in this case, the same goes for chocolate: Chocolate is a trick to get education close. When I hear the kids singing about plants, small family farms and soil quality, I feel huge hope for our future.”

The Kilwins Cares for Kids program has done 10 school presentations so far this year. Dates are still available this spring, and signups are open for next school year as well. For details on scheduling a presentation, contact Marcy Gallagher asheville@kilwins. com or 252-2639. X

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“If we don’t carry it, we’ll research how to get it,” she says. “It’s all part of what we do. For example, I had a customer who was looking for a specific type of Hawaiian candy. While it was not cost-effective for me to order it, I shared what I had learned so the

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customer could order it herself. I like to connect people with products.”

Once a week, Domingo travels to the Atlanta Farmers Market. With 150 acres of vending space, it’s one of the largest markets in the world and serves as a marketing hub and distribution point for fresh produce in the Southeast.

“I’m like a kid in a candy store,” she says. “I enjoy seeking out exotic produce and ingredients from around the world.

If I find a new item we haven’t carried before, I experiment with it at home first before deciding whether or not to carry it in the store, so I can fully explain to people what they can do with it.”

Domingo stands at the counter surrounded by exotic fruit. She explains that the beautiful red dragonfruit tastes somewhat like a cross between a beet and a watermelon. She also points to a watermelon-sized, spiky durian, commonly called “stinky fruit.”

Although it’s popular in Asia, the formidable fruit lives up to its nickname, with an aroma that food

Eleven years ago, vadim and tatyana apolka opened the Euromarket of Asheville, an Eastern European grocery. Their spotless and spacious West Asheville store is home to some of the tastiest European chocolates around. In fact, each year during the holiday season, they sell about 500 pounds of these colorfully wrapped treats per week. They also offer a wide variety of smoked fish and meats, goat and sheep cheeses, olives, Turkish desserts, breads, black and green teas, and much more.

“We’re most proud of the fact that everything we carry is GMO-free,” Tatyana says. “That’s so important these days. We also carry the largest variety of organic herbs for cooking and healing.”

Tatyana splits her time between the Euromarket and Eurohealth, a body cleansing clinic that she started in 2010. She often refers customers to try foods from the market that she says are easier on the digestive system and have positive health benefits.

For example, her shop carries gluten-free buckwheat grain, which is dried in the sun and harvested at the peak time to provide maximum nutrients. There is also a bread from Lithuania — Amber bread — which is a pure rye. Available frozen at the shop, it is easy to digest and perfect for people who have gluten intolerance.

Some other hard-to-find items include gunpowder green tea, which is known for its antioxidant properties, and cold-pressed sunflower oil. “The sunflower oil retains its original smell,” she says.

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The business started out as a bakery, so it’s no surprise that delectable treats such as conchas, bolillos, tres leches and donas continue to be the couple’s top sellers. But there are many other things to sample as well.

Among the more coveted items are thinly sliced, Latin-style meats, dried beans from Peru and Brazil, Harina P.A.N. (white cornmeal flour used to make maize dough), dried chili peppers and Mexican candy.

Prieto, who comes from a long line of bakers, has been making cakes since he was a kid. He’s often found with flour on his hands greeting customers with a smile and something sweet.

ASIAN INFLUENcE Lee’s Asian Market is a selfproclaimed “mini-Chinatown in Asheville.” Owned by Kheng and larry lee, the market opened in 2013. Larry was a chef in California for many years, so he likes talking to customers about ways to cook the merchandise he carries.

When asked about his favorite thing to make, Larry smiles and walks to the area of the store where one finds ingredients to make tom yum, a hot-and-sour soup that is usually cooked with shrimp. It’s widely served in Thailand, Cambodia, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore, and has been made popular around the world.

In addition to shelves of sexy ingredients and refrigerator cases where shoppers can find everything from black salt and saffron to palm juice, lemongrass and galangal (a type of ginger root), Lee’s freezers are also stocked with colorful whole fish such as bonito, parrot, round scad and pompano, and whole, freerange chickens from California, which is one of their top-selling items.

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Two green sails signify the growth of a ramp in the dirt below. It’s a marker many scan for when foraging for the wild plant and a sight that’s sure to be flying proud at this year’s Ramp Convention in Waynesville.

The event runs Saturday-Sunday, April 30-May 1.

“It originated somewhere around 1930, and then 86 years ago is when the American Legion [Post 47] took it over,” says della cope, who cochairs the event committee along with her husband, david cope.

She’s been researching its history on the Internet and by speaking with local elders, though early details remain uncertain. At least for its inaugural year, the event was billed as a festival — the first in the nation to focus on ramps — but it became a convention with political leanings under the American Legion’s watch.

“This year, we’re trying to get it back to the old-fashioned way [like] when I was a little girl,” says the Waynesville native. “We’d come up on a Sunday ... and you would have your politicians, your food, vendors, music, clogging and everything.” Cope has invited local and state politicians of all parties to set up booths and mingle with attendees once again, though she’s not sure who exactly will show up.

Beyond that, the two-day event offers a mixture of indoor and outdoor activities, including a car show and karaoke contest (both with prizes), a clogging team show and live music by Moonshine Creek on Saturday. On Sunday, the festivities continue with a raw ramp-eating contest, the announcement of King and Queen of the Ramp, a pool tournament, more clogging and performances by the Mile High Band and the High Court Band. Both days feature vendors and plenty of food options (with and without the pungent produce), including a ticketed, volunteer-prepared ramp meal.

Cope points out that American Legion Post 47 is the only group with rights to harvest ramps from the Waynesville Watershed off Allens Creek with an appointment. So each year, multiple people venture out to collect enough for the big weekend. “That’s where 90 percent of our ramps come from every year, so they’re local,” she says.

Proceeds and donations from the event benefit area veterans, who are granted assistance through the American Legion or partner organizations like Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry’s Veteran’s Restoration Quarters.

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cLEAN ANd grEEN: A group of American Legion members prepares this year’s ramp harvest for use as a featured ingredient in the upcoming Ramp Convention’s dinners. Pictured, clockwise from left, are Chris Perreault, Tim Lawrence, David Cope, Mark Leopard and Phillip Leopard. Photo courtesy of American Legion Post 47 Ramps are “just something that our ancestors were raised on,” Cope says of the historic connection to Waynesville, though she also calls the plant a loveit-or-hate-it type of food. “My brother used to eat them and then go to school.

The aroma was so bad, even using mouthwash, the kids would say, ‘Oh!’” The 86th Annual Ramp Convention is 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, April 30, and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, May 1, at American Legion Post 47, 171 Legion Drive, Waynesville. Admission is $6 per person per day or $8/$10 with one ramp meal ticket. A $15 pass includes admission to both days plus one meal. Kids 12 and younger may enter free. Visit avl. mx/2hs for details.

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tion with a 2,700-square-foot eatery in South Asheville. The new spot, which is projected to launch in early May, will be the chain’s second restaurant in North Carolina and its eighth in the nation. Nashville, Tenn., and Birmingham, Ala., are up next, but according to co-founder george frangos, Asheville “continues to be one of our favorite cities, with a community that shares our passion for good, local food.” The space will include patio seating, and the menu will feature Farm Burger’s existing lunch and dinner offerings including grass-fed beef burgers, sandwiches made with pasture-raised meats, veggie burgers, sides and drinks.

The new Farm Burger opens in May at 1831 Hendersonville Road. Hours will be 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday and 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. FridaySaturday. Visit farmburger.net for more information.

BELLY UP’S PAY-ITFOrwArd PrOgrAM Local food truck Belly Up recently launched its Put One on the Board initiative to help individuals in need of a meal. Customers can buy an extra meal ticket with their order, and later, when someone else doesn’t have the means to pay, it can be redeemed. “It has been amazing to see how many people in our city donate towardsfeeding others, and that each week, as we take hundreds of dollars of donated meals off the board, it fills right back up again by the following week,” reads a company media release. The owners hope similar concepts will spring up among other local businesses.

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Asheville Zine Festival showcases indie publications

BOOK rEVUE: “Like a lot of zinemakers I’ve met, I started making zines before I knew the word ‘zine,’” says Jessica C. White, left, who cofounded the Asheville Zine Fest with Shawn Scott Smith, right. The event, celebrating art books, chapbooks, comics and other independent publications, takes place at The Grey Eagle on May 1. Photo by Cindy Kunst

BY aLLi maRshaLL amarshall@mountainx.com When local artists jessica c. white and shawn scott smith moved to Asheville seven years ago, they hoped to find a zine festival. The couple both make their own zines — self-published periodicals released in limited editions — and White has been going to gatherings celebrating these publications for more than a decade. “There’s a community that happens there that never happens outside of zine fests,” she says.

When such an event didn’t materialize in their adopted hometown, White and Smith decided to do it themselves.

The inaugural Asheville Zine Fest launches at The Grey Eagle on Sunday, May 1.

What White and Smith hoped, by planning an event where artists could showcase and share their work, was that they’d meet the local zine community. So far, those indie artists have

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remained elusive. The Asheville Zine Festival’s 24 tables sold out quickly, but many were claimed by out-of-town collectives and individuals. Pioneers Press from Kansas is one group White is especially excited to have take part. The publishing house’s authors will also give a reading at Firestorm Books on Saturday, April 30.

But Asheville does have a zine scene.

Downtown Books and News stocks chapbooks and handmade publications from local and national authors on subjects ranging from gender and recovery to band tours and kombucha fermentation. cindy crabb, author of the perzine (personal zine) Doris lived in Asheville for a while. The ThrAsheville Zine, documenting the local punk scene, appears online and in print. White also published Letterpress Now: A DIY Guide to New & Old Printing Methods through Lark Books in 2013. While not specifically about zinemaking, the book taps that skill set and aesthetic.

“Like a lot of zinemakers I’ve met, I started making zines before I knew the

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word ‘zine,’” White says. “It wasn’t until college that I started to understand, in a bigger sense, what a zine or chapbook could be.” She went on to incorporate a zine project into her MFA in printmaking at the University of Iowa. And, though White — who currently teaches papermaking and book arts at Warren Wilson College — has created galleryworthy, one-off art books, a favorite zine project had the humblest of origins.

It was in high school. “I was hanging out with a bunch of my friends on a Friday night near Chapel Hill. There was a photo copier in the post office,” White remembers. “We put everything that was in our pockets on the photocopier … we made a bunch [of copies] and folded them up like books and distributed them around town.”

The online Zine & E-Zine Resource Guide estimates there are 20,000 zines in existence and therefore “can no longer be regarded as a strictly underground culture phenomenon, but must be accepted as a significant, if not perma-

nent, part of the American cultural landscape.” The guide’s author, fred wright, traces zines back to fantasy and sci-fi fan projects that, along with other independent works and artistic endeavors in the 1960s, morphed into “much more of a mongrel breed of publication.” The result, he says, is “often photocopied, frequently irreverent and usually appealing to audiences with highly specialized interests.”

While the DIY art form speaks to young creatives, in many instances with few tools or resources, White points out that zines aren’t relegated to photocopier undertakings alone.

She remembers that, with the advent of blogs, there was some concern that Web-based e-zines would spell the end of the paper chapbook and its ilk.

It turned out that every conceivable type of indie publication — from high art to low art, from virtual to hardcopy — has its own groups of makers and followers. “It’s so neat that in these little structures you can bring together words and images. It’s all about creating a whole that’s larger than the sum of its parts,” White says.

And the materials are as important as the substance: “Whether you make it into a zine or a fine press book or an artist’s book with handmade paper, it changes the content.”

The Asheville Zine Fest hopes to represent the full range of independent publications. Supported

by DIY, book- and craft-minded donors Big Crafty, Horse and Hero and Downtown Books and News, the event will also include readings, Hop Ice Cream and auxiliary events such as a pre-festival workshop and an art show, both at Asheville Bookworks (see the zine fest website for details).

In the future, White and Smith would love to expand the festival with more workshops and readings, but this year is about establishing a community of zine creators and fans and introducing them to each other. As White says, “A zine has a voice that’s different from any other book you can pick up.” X

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PUTTINg MUSIc wHErE THEIr MOUTHS ArE: Multidisciplinary vocal group Roomful of Teeth “explodes the idea of voice and vocal forms,” says Free Range Asheville’s artistic director Jeff Arnal. Photo courtesy of Roomful of Teeth “It’s all about the voice,” says brad wells, founder of Grammywinning Roomful of Teeth, a nineperson vocal ensemble dedicated to mining “the expressive potential of the human voice.” Through use of a wide array of supremely challenging and/or obscure vocal techniques, the group creates a sound like nothing else. The modern classical Roomful of Teeth comes to the Masonic Temple on Thursday, April 28, as this month’s marquee event in Free Range Asheville’s inaugural season.

“Pretty much all of us [in the group] come from a choral music tradition,” says Wells. And while classical choral music sometimes adds instruments, Roomful of Teeth records and performs unaccompanied. “A guiding principle of the project is [to high-

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light] what’s possible with the human voice in creating a ‘mixed martial arts’ instrument from a group of singers, where different styles are available to composers at the same time and place,” Wells says.

The Williamstown, Mass.-based group studies and employs Tuvan throat singing, Hindustani music, yodeling and many other exotic — and historically important — vocal styles to create its sound. The ensemble’s repertoire is built wholly on original material and commissioned works from celebrated composers.

Wells says that when working with Roomful of Teeth, those composers have a broad palette from which to draw. “They don’t have to cut and paste; they can just hear what somebody [in the group] can do, and trans-

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form it into their own compositional language,” he says.

Ensemble member caroline shaw was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for her “Partita for 8 Voices,” featured on the group’s selftitled 2012 debut album. “Partita” is also a favorite in the ensemble’s live set and will be a centerpiece of the show hosted by Free Range Asheville.

Wells says that awards and critical acclaim have certainly increased the ensemble’s visibility, which he says “results in more performances, more people interested in programming the group and more interest or openness from composers of note.”

Current and upcoming projects will find the vocalists working with names as diverse as julia wolf (another Pulitzer winner), the Seattle

Symphony and The National’s bryce dessner. Such projects “establish that this group is out there doing interesting music,” says Wells.

Roomful of Teeth’s second release, 2015’s Render, is highlighted by composer missy mazzoli’s “Vesper Sparrow.” Arguably, one doesn’t need to understand the song’s lyrics to experience the power and transcendence of the work. “My sense of that piece,” says Wells, “is that there are so few lyrics — they come in and out in a kind of dreamy way — that if you catch all of the words or none of the words, the spirit of the piece should still work.” Mazzoli’s “Vesper Sparrow,” along with caleb burhans’ work, “Beneath,” and other pieces, will also be on the program for the group’s Asheville performance.

“The idea of inventive repertoire choices is a throughline in our programming,” says Free Range Asheville’s executive director estelle woodward arnal. The local organization provides “a platform for research and discourse where local, national and international artists can engage and collaborate in performance and laboratory settings with other artists and organizations,” according to its brief. Recent programming sponsored by Free Range Asheville included performances by The Knights chamber orchestra, pianist jonathan biss being interviewed by dick Kowal of WCQS as part of the Creative Thinker series, and a performance by The Tesla Quartet.

“We fell in love with Roomful of Teeth years ago,” says jeff arnal, artistic director of Free Range Asheville.

“They are otherworldly. We all have a voice, breath and a resonating chamber — our body — and we all have experienced vocal music before, but Roomful of Teeth explodes the idea of voice and vocal forms.”

While serious about its art, Roomful of Teeth has wide appeal, a qual-

ity sometimes in short supply where classical repertoire is involved. Wells recalls a recent concert for a group of Westminster Choir College students.

“There was an energy in the room that was more ‘rock concert’ than you’d get with a string quartet or an early music ensemble: shouting, whooping, yelling and cheering, and at times when you wouldn’t necessarily expect it. We love the looser approach, and I think that’s something in the demeanor of the group.” X

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Lights, CaMera, eMpLoyMent Asheville acting and film production schools help students book work Thousands of aspiring actors and filmmakers across the country dream of finding work in the television and film industry. Ashevillearea schools that focus on performance and production are increasingly making those dreams a reality.

THE BUSINESS OF AcTINg Kevin patrick murphy, owner and instructor at The Actor’s Center of Asheville, not only teaches the craft of acting and how to work on camera, but also the industry’s business side. Every incoming student is put on an individual business plan that includes targeting agents, developing relationships with casting directors and creating their own work.

“I have a handful of agents here in the Southeast who I’ve sent students of mine to,” Murphy says. “[The agents] sign them and then [the actors] are fortunate enough to book a bunch of work, which makes it easier for me to send people to [the agents].”

A working actor himself who had a significant role in the recent season finale of “The Walking Dead,” Murphy trains his students to be at least day players with the goal of

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working up to being TV series regulars, typically a six- to eight-month job. Many productions on which they find work are based in Atlanta, but opportunities abound from Pittsburgh to New Orleans. To vie for parts across the region, actors must tape and submit auditions, which they record in The Actor’s Center’s soundproof, state-of-theart room. The quality of lighting and sound is of such a high professional level that when Asheville actor dave macdonald showed a recent audition to a New York-based acting peer, the friend was blown away by the clip’s all -around clarity and said its production value was far superior to what’s typically seen in his market.

These advantages helped MacDonald land a speaking role in the “House of Cards” season four finale and book a guest spot on the CBS drama “The Inspectors,” for which he was cast solely from a taped audition. The latter gig was the first time in his career — including a decade in Los Angeles — that he’s booked work without a callback. It was also an experience where his Actor’s Center training proved vital. Twenty minutes before shooting a scene on the Charleston,

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rEAdY FOr THEIr cLOSE-UP: The Actor’s Center of Asheville, owned by Kevin Patrick Murphy, right, readies its students for roles in front of the camera as well as production work. “Stress inoculation” class exercises help fledgling artists navigate a number of on-the-job crises. Photo by Kellin Murphy

S.C., production of “The Inspectors,” MacDonald was handed a script change with what he calls “supertechnical language” intended to make his FBI agent sound smarter. Thanks to Murphy’s “stress inoculation” class exercises that simulate these potential nightmare scenarios, MacDonald was amply prepared, able to calmly switch gears and nailed his new lines in a mere three takes.

AUgMENTINg THE TOOLKIT Open just shy of a year, Asheville School of Film offers introductory

courses that provide a solid groundwork of filmmaking knowledge and help students decide whether they’d like to pursue the craft as a hobby or profession. More advanced classes are designed to augment filmmakers’ toolkits, such as an early April weekend cinematography workshop that afforded camera operators, most of whose experience had been exclusively digital, the opportunity to shoot on celluloid.

“Understanding how to tell a story visually is the crux of all our classes,” says brad hoover, ASoF’s co-owner and primary instructor.

“It’s where technical and creative

sides meet. We look at what it is that connects your ideas in a physical way and make them into something that may be seen on the screen and understood in the sense of a story.”

In his 21 years of teaching, Hoover has had many students land jobs around the country as production assistants, a potential entry point into film and television that he’s seen evolve in recent years. Since North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia are nonunion states, productions aren’t required to pay union wages to PAs. Though these low-paid positions have traditionally been limited to grunt work like running errands, PAs now often find themselves tasked with jobs intended for trained tech workers, such as running sound or even shooting second-unit footage.

Those with that specialized knowledge may then separate themselves from the less-skilled PAs and gain an advantage, potentially advancing their careers. Hoover has both sent off prepared students for such work and provided additional training to former PAs looking for higher-paying jobs.

One of his former students is Kira bursky. The 19-year-old Ashevillebased filmmaker calls her tutelage under Hoover at Carolina Film Institute in Greenville, S.C., “an explosion of delightful film knowledge and possibility” and her catalyst into the film world. “He enlightened me on the technical, artistic and business sides of filmmaking.

From lighting to storytelling to producing, I went from making little videos on my own to being able to run a set and crew with understanding,” Bursky says.

Since studying with Hoover, Bursky has gone on to direct or codirect over 30 shorts and screen her films at festivals around the world.

She has been hired for freelance video work, most notably for Tesla Motors as a co-director and cinematographer on an instructional video.

The teacher and former pupil now collaborate on professional projects, with Hoover serving as cinematographer on many of Burksy’s shorts.

The two are currently in preproduction on Bursky’s second film for the Polish fashion eyewear company Massada Eyewear, on which Hoover will again be in that technical role.

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Death of a Salesman Actress Jane Hallstrom noticed the likeness between The Magnetic Theatre’s artistic director Steven Samuels and Death of a Salesman protagonist Willy Loman.

Around that time, the local theater group revised its moratorium on performing established works, citing benefits to audiences and those onstage. Revisiting Arthur Miller’s tale will mark the start of Magnetic’s new Masters Series to honor select classics. “The play moves in and out of different aspects of Willy’s life, filtering everyone and everything through his mind, blurring the lines between fact and fancy and creating a symphonic rendering of the interplay of thought and time,” says director Henry Williamson. His production, which features Samuels and Hallstrom alongside 10 additional stage mates, runs Thursdays-Saturdays, April 28-May 28, at 7:30 p.m. $16/$19 for opening weekend and $21/$24 thereafter (student discounts available). themagnetictheatre.org. Photo by Rodney Smith of Tempus Fugit Design

Woods Woods’ ninth album, City Sun Eater in the River of Light, makes attempts to be happy, with jazzy horns, fancy cymbal work and frontman Jeremy Earl’s sighing falsetto bubbling above the melodies. But there’s a weighty quality to the music, which tempers the ups with distortion and a dazed pace. The new songs wander further than their actual Brooklyn origin. Rattlesnake tambourines and periodic twangy instrumentals hint at a Southern state of mind, while “Creature Comfort” and latest single “Can’t See at All” invoke bouts of seaside soul-searching. Ultimate Painting opens for Woods when the band’s current national and international tour stops at The Mothlight on Wednesday, May 4, at 9:30 p.m. $12/$14. themothlight.com. Photo by Matt Rubin

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The Harlem Quartet formed in 2006 after the members won first prize in a competition

by Detroit’s Sphinx Organization. That nonprofit — in its mission to promote diversity in classical music — named the newly commissioned group after the historied neighborhood where early performances would take place. Notably, Harlem’s inner-city schoolchildren were the listeners that coerced a jazz side out of the otherwise polished classical musicians. Their online bio reads: “What started as a tool to be more accessible to the kids developed into a true affinity for jazz ... to the point that it shaped our artistic identity.” The band links this “stylistically bilingual quality” with its receipt of a 2013 Grammy Award for the song “Mozart Goes Dancing.” The masterful artists perform at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville on Sunday, May 1, at 4 p.m. $38. ashevillechambermusic.org. Photo courtesy of the band

Robin Tolleson is not your standard-issue DJ. “Rather than just spinning records, [his performance series] Spinterview, includes pieces of interviews — of which Tolleson has conducted over 300 — relating the musicians, engineers and producers to the music,” says Asheville Music School teacher Andy John. The journalist also shares anecdotes he’s amassed during more than 20 years contributing to publications like Billboard, Guitar Player and Modern Drummer.

The next iteration of his inside-out industry mashup explores pioneering German-based label ECM Records, which is known for its jazz prowess and experimental ethos. On the agenda are musicians John Abercrombie, Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Mark Isham, Nana Vasconcelos and Jack DeJohnette plus a check-in with ECM engineer Jan Erik Kongshaug. The action is at Asheville Music School’s The Loft on Sunday, May 1 (with another show Sunday, June 5), at 4 p.m. $5 ($2 students). ashevillemusicschool.org. Photo courtesy of Tolleson

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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com cOMEdY THEATEr AT wArrEN wILSON cOLLEgE inside.warren-wilson.edu/blogs/ theatre • TH (4/28) through SA (4/30), 7:30pm - Fuddy Meers, comedy. $10.

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‘MOTOwN MEMOrIES’: Sharon Cooper and Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre present new contemporary choreography set to the legendary sounds of Motown music. Motown Memories takes place at the BeBe Theatre Friday and Saturday, April 29-30, at 8 p.m. and Sunday, May 1, at 6 p.m. and features the sounds of The Temptations, Otis Redding and Edwin Starr. For more information visit acdt.org. Photo courtesy the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre (p. 24) ArT cOLOr MIxINg/THEOrY cLASS IN OIL (pd.) • 2 sessions: Monday May 16th and 23rd, 6:30-9pm. $100, all supplies included plus Free credit for a future Wine and Design studio class.

Create custom color charts, exercises in theory and practice. Wine and Design, 640 Merrimon Ave., sign up at: 828-255-2442 or www.wineanddesign.com/asheville 310 ArT 191 Lyman St. #310, 776-2716, 310art.com • FR (4/29), 4-7pm - Tenth anniversary celebration and gala party with refreshments and art demonstrations. Free to attend.

ASHEVILLE ArEA ArTS cOUNcIL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TU (5/3), 10am-noon - Artist Business Brainstorm Session: “Money Mindset,” presentation with Jen Aly. Registration required. Free.

ASHEVILLE ArT MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • FR (4/29), noon-1pm - Art Break: “Make It Speak: Stories from the Vault,” presentation by curators.

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SUrFAcE gALLErY 14 Lodge St., 552-3918, surfacegallery.com • SA (4/30), 5-8pm - One year anniversary celebration & exhibition featuring the work of Constance Williams. Free to attend.

TOM TUrNEr POrcELAIN 381 Turner Lane, Mars Hill, tomturnerporcelain.com • SA (4/30) & SU (5/1) - Studio art pottery sale with pottery from all over the world, antique tools, paintings, photos and prints. Free to attend.

AUdITIONS & cALL TO ArTISTS ArTS cOUNcIL OF HENdErSON cOUNTY 693-8504, acofhc.org • Through (5/2) - Artist applications accepted for the 57th annual Art on Main fine art and fine craft festival.

See website for full guidelines.

BIrdHOUSE BASH 476-4231 • Through (5/5) - Birdhouse submissions accepted for the 4th Annual Birdhouse Bash to support Daydreamz community artprojects & open Door community garden. Bring completed birdhouses to 2nd Blessing Thrift Store, 39 Conley St., Waynesville. Call 4764231 for more information.

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FOOTHILLS FOLK ArT FESTIVAL facebook.com/ FoothillsFolkArtFestival • Through (10/1) - Artist applications accepted self-taught artists for the October festival. Contact for full guidelines: cstarnes@hickorymuseumofart.org.

LOcAL cLOTH localcloth.org • Through (7/10), Textile submissions accepted for Local Cloth’s “Project Handmade 2016: Elements of Nature.” Full guidelines: localcloth.org.

MONTFOrd PArK PLAYErS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • SA (4/30) & SU (5/1), noon-6pm Open auditions for Titus Andronicus, Measure for Measure and Pride & Prejudice. Contact for full guidelines.   Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St.

BLUE rIdgE OrcHESTrA CONCERTS MAY 7 & 8 • HOMEcOMINg: VIENNA (pd.) Season Finale with Kathryn Gardner, violin, and Franklin Keel, cello. Beethoven and Brahms performed • Saturday, May 7, 7:30pm; Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road, Asheville • Sunday May 8, 3pm; UUCA, One Edwin Place, Asheville • $15 General Admission; $10 Friends of the Blue Ridge Orchestra; $5 Students. • Tickets available online and (cash and checks only) at Soli Classica, 1550 Hendersonville Road, and Musician’s Workshop, 310 Merrimon Avenue, Asheville • Further information: blueridgeorchestra.org ASHEVILLE cHAMBEr MUSIc SErIES 259-3626, ashevillechambermusic.org • SU (5/1), 4pm - Harlem Quartet plays Beethoven, Buena Vista Social Club and Mendelssohn. $38. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place ASHEVILLE cOMMUNITY SINg saralyncht@gmail.com • WE (4/27), 7-9pm - Open traditional group sing from old-time to hymns and sea shanties. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road ASHEVILLE MUSIc ScHOOL 252-6244, ashevillemusicschool.org, ryan@ashevillemusicschool.org • 1st SUNDAYS through (6/5), 4pm - “Sounds That Shaped Us Spinterviews” live mash-ups of vinyl and musician interviews by Robin Tolleson. $5 adults/$2 students.

Held at Asheville Music School Performance Loft, 126 College St.

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BUNcOMBE cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library.

• TH (4/28), 4:30pm - “Legendary Classical Performers from a Bygone Era,” presentation by Chip Kaufmann. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road

254-8111, twwoa.org • Through MO (5/30) - Submissions accepted for the “Hard Times Essay Contest.” See website for full guidelines. $25 per submission.

dIANA wOrTHAM THEATrE 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SA (4/30), 8pm - Aaron Goldberg Trio, jazz. $35/$30 student/$20 child.

THE ASHEVILLE dUdES ashevilledudes.com • Through SA (4/30) - Open auditions for this family-friendly, not-forprofit male dance crew. See website for full details.

FIrST UNITEd METHOdIST cHUrcH OF wAYNESVILLE 556 S. Haywood, Waynesville • SU (5/1), 4pm - Haywood Community Chorus performs “Songs of Peace and Freedom.” Free.

FLAT rOcK PLAYHOUSE dOwNTOwN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS (4/21) through (4/28), 7:30pm - The Music of the Beach Boys. $28 and up. $15-$28.

• FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (4/22) through (4/29), 8pm - The Music of the Beach Boys. $28 and up. $15-$28.

• SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS (4/23) through (5/1), 2pm - The Music of the Beach Boys. $28 and up. $15-$28.

MUSIc AT UNcA 251-6432, unca.edu • FR (4/29) & SA (4/30), 7pm - “A Legacy of Song.” The Reuter Center Singers perform hits by John Denver and The Carpenters. Free. Held in the Reuter Center.

MUSIc AT wcU 227-2479, wcu.edu • TH (4/28), 8pm - “American Idol” season seven winner David Cook and Secondhand Serenade perform. Free.

Held in the Ramsey Center.

• TH (4/28), 7:30pm - Performance by the University Chorus and Concert Choir. Free. Held in the Coulter Recital Hall.

ST. MATTHIAS cHUrcH 1 Dundee St., 285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com • SU (5/1), 3pm - Asheville Cello Choir concert featuring the works of Bach, Handel, Dvorak and Haydn.

Admission by donation.

TrYON FINE ArTS cENTEr 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • SA (4/30), noon-2pm - Master guitar class taught by Geoff Achison from Melbourne Australia. Registration: tryonarts.org/index.php/box-office/ event-calendar-detail/geoff-achisonsguitar-master-class. $25.

THEATEr ASHEVILLE cHrISTIAN AcAdEMY 74 Riverwood Road, Swannanoa • THURSDAY through FRIDAY until (4/29), 7pm - Mary Poppins, student production. $15/$10 children under 10.

BLAcK MOUNTAIN cENTEr FOr THE ArTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (4/29) & SA (4/30), 7:30pm Carry On, one-woman show starring Murphy Capps. $10.

• FR (4/29) & SA (4/30), 7:30pm Carry On. one-woman show starring Murphy Capps. $10.

BLAcK MOUNTAIN cOLLEgE MUSEUM & ArTS cENTEr 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • SA (4/30) & SU (5/1) - Faust Foutu, presented in collaboration with Anam Cara Theatre. Sat.: 8pm. Sun.: 2pm. $18/$15 advance/$10 BMCMAC members.

• SU (5/1), 2pm - Faust Foutu, presented in collaboration with Anam Cara Theatre. $18/$15 advance/$10 BMCMAC members.

BrEVArd LITTLE THEATrE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (4/15) until (5/1) - Angel Street (Gaslight).

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $16/$11/$5.50 under 12.

FLAT rOcK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (4/28) until (5/21) - Million Dollar Quartet. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm.

Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $15-$40.

J.E. BrOYHILL cIVIc cENTEr 1913 Hickory Blvd. SE, Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (4/28), until (5/1) - Foothills Performing Arts presents Jesus Christ Superstar. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $16.25/9 students & children.

PUBLIc EVENTS AT wcU 227-7397, wcu.edu • SU (5/1), 3pm - Magician Mike Super performs. Held at the Bardo Center. $21/$7 students.

THE AUTUMN PLAYErS 686-1380, www.ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • FR (4/29) & SA (4/30), 2:30pm - My Name is Asher Lev. $6. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. • SU (5/1), 2:30pm - My Name is Asher Lev, performed by The Autumn Players. $6. Held in the UNCAsheville Reuter Center.

THE MAgNETIc THEATrE 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (4/28) until (5/28), 7:30pm - Death of a Salesman. $24/$21 advance.

THEATEr AT wArrEN wILSON cOLLEgE inside.warren-wilson.edu/blogs/ theatre • SU (5/1), 2:30pm - Fuddy Meers, comedy. $10. Held in Kittredge Theatre.

TrYON LITTLE THEATEr 516 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2466, tltinfo.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (4/28) until (5/8) - Calendar Girls.

Thurs.-Sat.: 8pm. Sun.: 3pm. $16.

gaLLeRY D i RectoRY ArT AT MArS HILL mhu.edu • Through SA (5/7) - Kairos and Everyday Roles, exhibition of the paintings and photographs of Jessica Woodbury and the fabric art of Heather Styles. Held in Weizenblatt Gallery.

ArT AT wcU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu • Through FR (4/29) - Next Wave, exhibition of works by first-year students in the Master of Fine Arts Program.

Reception: April 29, 4-6pm.

Held in the Fine Art Museum.

ArT IN THE AIrPOrT 61 Terminal Drive, Fletcher • Through SU (5/1) - “Student Artwork Showcase,” exhibition of the art of WNC kindergarten through 12th grade students.

ArT MOB 124 Fourth Ave. E., Hendersonville, 693-4545, artmobstudios.com • Through SA (4/30) Exhibition of the paintings of Constanza Knight.

ASHEVILLE ArEA ArTS cOUNcIL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through (5/14) - Point of View Exhibition: Geezer Gallery: The Artful Life curated by Fleta Monaghan and Nadine Charisen.

• FR (4/8) through SA (5/14) - Exhibition of paintings

by Jane Allen Nodine.

BLAcK MOUNTAIN cENTEr FOr THE ArTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through FR (4/29) Exhibition of pinhole photography by Lynette Miller.

BUNcOMBE cOUNTY PUBLIc LIBrArIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • Through SA (4/30) Storybook Characters on Parade, exhibition of handmade dolls and figurines inspired by story book characters. On display in the Youth Services Department.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. grANd BOHEMIAN gALLErY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com

• Through SA (4/30) - The Last Magician, exhibition of the paintings of Chris Sedgwick. grEEN SAgE cAFE wESTgATE 70 Westgate Parkway, 7851780, greensagecafe.com • SA (4/16) through SA (4/30) - Uniquely Asheville Art Collection, exhibition of the photographic and acrylic art of John Haldane. Free to attend.

HIcKOrY MUSEUM OF ArT 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (7/24) - Memories of Appalachia, paintings by Arlee Mains. Reception: June 23, 6:30pm.

• Through SU (7/24) -We Are the Music Makers: Preserving the Soul of America’s Music, multimedia exhibition of photographs, audio recordings and video from Tim Duffy.

MArK BETTIS STUdIO & gALLErY 123 Roberts St., 941-5879502, markbettisart.com • Through FR (5/20) - Wedge Duos, exhibition featuring the collaborative art of 28 artists.

MOUNTAIN gATEwAY MUSEUM ANd HErITAgE cENTEr 102 Water St., Old Fort, mountaingatewaymuseum. org • Through (5/31) - So Great the Devastation: The 1916 Flood, multimedia exhibition.

Free.

OdYSSEY cOOPErATIVE ArT gALLErY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • Through SA (4/30) Exhibition of the ceramic art of Mary Jimenez, Melanie Dyel, and Libba Tracy.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & gALLErY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through SA (4/30) - April Fools, exhibition of the art of Fian Arroyo and Joshua Marc Levy.

SALUdA HISTOrIc dEPOT 32 W. Main St., Saluda, facebook.com/savesaludadepot • Through SA (4/30) Exhibition of the paintings of William H. Ryan.

SATELLITE gALLErY 55 Broadway St., 305-2225, thesatellitegallery.com • Through SA (4/30) - Mike Belleme photography exhibition.

SwANNANOA VALLEY FINE ArTS LEAgUE svfalarts.org • Through SA (4/30) - A Celebration of Springtime, member exhibition. Held at Red House Studios and Gallery, 310 W. State St., Black Mountain THE cENTEr FOr crAFT, crEATIVITY & dESIgN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (5/21) - The Box: A Contemporary Jewelry Challenge, jewelry exhibition curated by Platforma.

THE STUdIOS OF FLAT rOcK 2702A Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 698-7000 • Through SA (5/14) - WNC Design Guide Exhibition, featuring painting, basketry, wood and ceramics. Artist talk: Saturday, April 30, 3pm.

Closing reception: Thursday, May, 12.

TOE rIVEr ArTS cOUNcIL 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (5/7) - Giftshop exhibition featuring the work of over 160 artists. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville • Through SA (4/30) - 10th anniversary exhibition of metal work. Closing reception: Friday, April 29, 5-7pm.

Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine TrAcKSIdE STUdIOS & gALLErY 375 Depot St., 5452904, facebook.com/ TracksideStudios375 • FR (4/1) through SA (4/30) - Bloom! Exhibition of paintings.

TrANSYLVANIA cOMMUNITY ArTS cOUNcIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through MO (5/2) Transylvania County Schools student art exhibit featuring work from students in the county, grades K-12. Free to attend.

Contact the gallery for admission hours and fees

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cLUBLANd wEdNESdAY, APrIL 27 185 KINg STrEET Trivia night, 7pm 5 wALNUT wINE BAr Redleg Husky (Americana), 5pm Les Amis (African folk), 8pm 550 TAVErN & grILLE karaoke, 6pm ALTAMONT BrEwINg cOMPANY Dave Desmelik & Ashley Heath (Americana), 9:30pm ALTAMONT THEATrE Simrit (world), 8pm BEN’S TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm BLAcK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Play to Win game night, 7:30pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BrEw PUB Open mic, 7pm dArK cITY dELI Pool Tournament, 7:30pm dOUBLE crOwN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm FOggY MOUNTAIN BrEwPUB Chinquapin Duo (folk), 9pm FUNKATOrIUM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

Mon.-Thur. 4pm-2am • Fri.-Sun. 2pm-2am

87 Patton Ave., Asheville

gOOd STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform “Eclectic Country” (jam), 7pm grEY EAgLE MUSIc HALL & TAVErN Greg Payne & The Piedmont Boys w/ Dirty Grass Soul (outlaw country, honky-tonk), 8pm grINd cAFE Trivia night, 7pm HIgHLANd BrEwINg cOMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm ISIS rESTAUrANT ANd MUSIc HALL An evening w/ Grits & Soul (Americana, bluegrass, old-time), 7pm New Madrid (underwater psych-rock), 9pm

FRI 4.29

DAVID CHILDERS & THE SERPANTS

SAT 4.30

HEARTS GONE SOUTH w/ HONEY & HOUSTON

TUE 5.3 FRI 5.6

9PM $5

LAZY dIAMONd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

9PM $5

CARPAL TULLAR w/ KEVIN SCANLON TUE. MAY RESIDENCY

6PM FREE (Donations Encouraged)

LITTLE LESLEY & THE BLOODSHOTS w/ THE GO DEVILS FEAT. MEMBERS OF SOUTHBOUND TURNAROUND

9PM $5

SAT 5.7

THE RESONANT ROGUES 9PM $5

OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 3pm til ?

MONDAY Quizzo! 7-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm THURSDAY Bluegrass Jam • 7pm

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

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JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB Old-time session, 5pm

OdE TO PUrPLE: Asheville-by-way-of-New Orleans guitarist Marcel Anton shares many of the same affinities of rock ’n’ roll legends Jimi Hendrix and Prince Rogers Nelson - a love for theatrics, mercurial showmanship and exploration of the weirder side of music.

With the passing of Prince last week, Anton decided to expand his Hendrix tribute show on Saturday, April 30 at the White Horse in Black Mountain to include the works of both rock legends. Check out Marcel Anton’s 8 p.m. show for a chance to revel in what Anton calls “a shamanic channeling of psychedelic proportions.” Photo courtesy of White Horse

LEx 18 The Patrick Lopez Experience (modern & Latin jazz piano), 6:30pm

PISgAH BrEwINg cOMPANY Brothers Burn Mountain (blues, rock, Americana), 6pm

LOBSTEr TrAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

PULP DJ Audio (trap, hip hop, pop), 9pm

MOUNTAIN MOJO cOFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm

rOOM Ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

SANcTUArY BrEwINg cOMPANY Get Up Stand Up comedy showcase, 7pm

O.HENrY’S/THE UNdErgrOUNd “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

ScULLY’S Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

OddITOrIUM The Wham Bam Glitter Glam Show (burlesque), 9pm

SLY grOg LOUNgE Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

OFF THE wAgON Piano show, 9pm OLIVE Or TwIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm ONE STOP dELI & BAr Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm ONE wOrLd BrEwINg Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 8pm

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SOL BAr NEw MOUNTAIN ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm

THE BLOcK OFF BILTMOrE YWCA “Stand Against Racism” kickoff reception w/ The Jam Agenda, 5pm LEAF LIVE! Teaching Artists, 7:30pm THE cOVE Koat of Armor (gospel), 9am THE JOINT NExT dOOr Bluegrass jam, 8pm THE MILLrOOM Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm THE MOTHLIgHT The Tango Experience (formerly Asheville Tango Orchestra), 9pm THE PHOENIx Jazz night, 8pm THE SOcIAL LOUNgE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm

SOUTHErN APPALAcHIAN BrEwErY DJ Stylus (vintage wax), 6pm

THE SOUTHErN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

TALLgArY’S AT FOUr cOLLEgE Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm

TIgEr MOUNTAIN Kansas Bible Company (12-piece brass-anchored psych rock), 9pm

TIMO’S HOUSE “Hump Day Mixers” w/ DJ Fame Douglas (R&B, hiphop), 9pm

ISIS rESTAUrANT ANd MUSIc HALL An Evening w/ Dana Cooper (folk, bluegrass), 7pm Flatt Lonesome (bluegrass, old-time), 8:30pm

SOUTHErN APPALAcHIAN BrEwErY The Bill Berg Quartet (jazz), 7pm

TOwN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm

JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

SPrINg crEEK TAVErN Open Mic, 6pm

TrAILHEAd rESTAUrANT ANd BAr Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm

LAZY dIAMONd Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

TALLgArY’S AT FOUr cOLLEgE Open jam night w/ Jonathan Santos, 7pm

LEx 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (piano & bass jazz standards), 7pm

THE BLOcK OFF BILTMOrE Open mic night, 7:30pm

TrESSA’S dOwNTOwN JAZZ ANd BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

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

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MArKET PLAcE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

185 KINg STrEET Bread & Butter Band (bluegrass, folk, country), 8pm

BArLEY’S TAPrOOM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm BLAcK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band & River Rat Pint Night (bluegrass), 8pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BrEw PUB Larry Dolamore (acoustic), 7pm

THE MOTHLIgHT Muuy Biien w/ KONVOI & Votaries (noise, punk), 9:30pm

ELAINE’S dUELINg PIANO BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

TOY BOAT cOMMUNITY ArT SPAcE Tranzmission benefit, 8pm

FOggY MOUNTAIN BrEwPUB Zapato (funk, jazz), 10pm

TrAILHEAd rESTAUrANT ANd BAr Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

FrENcH BrOAd BrEwErY Ten Cent Poetry (folk, pop), 6pm

OFF THE wAgON Dueling pianos, 9pm

TrESSA’S dOwNTOwN JAZZ ANd BLUES Jesse Barry & Friends (blues, soul), 9pm

OLIVE Or TwIST 42nd Street Band (jazz), 8pm

TwISTEd LAUrEL Karaoke, 8pm

gOOd STUFF Uncle Jake & the 18 Wheel Gang (bluegrass, jug, folk), 8:30pm

ONE STOP dELI & BAr Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6pm Fletcher’s Grove (Appalachian jam rock), 10pm

wxYZ LOUNgE AT ALOFT HOTEL Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter, roots), 8pm

grEY EAgLE MUSIc HALL & TAVErN Shinyribs (alt-country), 10pm HOT SPrINgS cAMPgrOUNd & SPA French Broad River Festival, all day

FrIdAY, APrIL 29

ISIS rESTAUrANT ANd MUSIc HALL An evening w/ Bill Mize (acoustic guitar), 7pm Friday Night Dance Party w/ Jim Arrendell (oldies, R&B, urban), 9pm

OrANgE PEEL Kiefer Sutherland w/ Austin Plaine (country), 9pm

185 KINg STrEET Cletus Baltimore (psychedelic, rock ’n’ roll), 8pm

OSKAr BLUES BrEwErY Circus Mutt (bluegrass), 6pm

5 wALNUT wINE BAr Jason Moore & Trust Trio (jazz, funk), 9pm

PAcK’S TAVErN Rocky Lindsley (acoustic rock, funk), 7pm

ALTAMONT BrEwINg cOMPANY Jeff Sipe and Friends (jam, jazz), 9:30pm

PISgAH BrEwINg cOMPANY The Groove Orient (funk, blues, jam), 8pm

ALTAMONT THEATrE An Evening w/ Eric Eden (pop, singer-songwriter), 8pm

FOggY MOUNTAIN BrEwPUB Wild Card Trio (funk, jazz), 9pm

PUrPLE ONION cAFE The Moon and You (folk, indie folk), 7:30pm

FrENcH BrOAd BrEwErY Billy Litz & Tommy Moore (soul, roots), 6pm

rENAISSANcE ASHEVILLE HOTEL Carver & Carmody (country, southern rock), 6:30pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIc HALL The Werks w/ CBDB & Backup Planet (rock, jam, funk), 9pm

grEY EAgLE MUSIc HALL & TAVErN Iris Dement (country, singer-songwriter), 8pm

rOOM Ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

HIgHLANd BrEwINg cOMPANY Brew & Barre w/ Soundbarre Asheville (fitness, yoga), 6pm

SANcTUArY BrEwINg cOMPANY Emily Bodley (jazz, singer-songwriter), 7pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm

HOT SPrINgS cAMPgrOUNd & SPA French Broad River Festival, all day

ScANdALS NIgHTcLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

BHrAMArI BrEwHOUSE Les Amis (world), 7:30pm

crEEKSIdE TAPHOUSE Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm crOw & QUILL Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 10pm dOUBLE crOwN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm ELAINE’S dUELINg PIANO BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

Sognar Presents:

THU 4.28

AMH

Fletcher’s Grove

THU 4.28

ONE STOP

“Inside a Dream” tour:

FRI 4.29

AMH

WARez,

SAT 4.30

ONE STOP

FRI 5.6

AMH

The WERKS with cdbd and BACKUP PLANET L ive A n i ma l s ,

SAMBORGHINI

POSH HAMMER

with

Amythyst Kiah and Her Chest of Glass

cOrK & KEg One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz, Latin, swing), 8:30pm

TOwN PUMP Heidi Holton (Americana, blues, gospel), 9pm

ONE wOrLd BrEwINg Wild Card (organ, guitar & drum trio), 9pm

cLUB ELEVEN ON grOVE The House Hoppers (swing, jazz), 8:30pm

cLUB ELEVEN ON grOVE Hot Bachata Nights (monthly dance social), 9:30pm

THE MOcKINg crOw Joe Roads (folk, rock, blues), 7:30pm

dOUBLE crOwN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

OddITOrIUM Poverty Bomb w/ Death Trip, Swamprot & Niah (punk, metal), 9pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIc HALL An-Ten-Nae w/ Huglife (“acid crunk”), 9pm

cLASSIc wINESELLEr Mike Pilgrim w/ Don Mercz (gypsy jazz), 7pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Thursday Request Live w/ Franco Nino, 9pm

O.HENrY’S/THE UNdErgrOUNd Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am

ALTAMONT BrEwINg cOMPANY Patrick Dodd, Elspeth Trembly & Paige Albritton (soul, Americana), 8pm

BOILEr rOOM Rebirth 36 w/ DJ Luis Armando (electronic), 10pm

crOw & QUILL DJ Passe (live set of vintage 78’s spun on a gramophone), 10pm

SOL BAr NEw MOUNTAIN Diane Patterson, 8pm

550 TAVErN & grILLE Trivia night, 6pm Smoke-N-Mirrors (Southern rock, blues), 6pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BrEw PUB Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7pm

THE PHOENIx Chris Jamison (singer-songwriter), 8pm

MOE’S OrIgINAL BBQ One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz), 6pm

5 wALNUT wINE BAr Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm

BLAcK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Dave Dribbon Duo (Americana, rock), 8pm

JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB David Childers & The Serpants (singer-songwriter), 9pm JErUSALEM gArdEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

ATHENA’S cLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm

LAZOOM BUS TOUrS Asheville Aces (country, soul, blues), 3pm LAZY dIAMONd Totes Dope Tite Sick Jams w/ (ya boy) DJ Hot Noodle, 10pm LEx 18 The Resonant Rogues (Gypsy, old-time, swing), 6:30pm LOBSTEr TrAP Rob Parks & friends (bluegrass, swing), 6:30pm MArKET PLAcE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm MOE’S OrIgINAL BBQ Free Flow Funk Band, 6pm

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Wed •April 27

Woody Wood @ 5:30pm

Thu •April 28

Community Night feat. Veteran’s Healing Farm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

Tues-Sun

5pm–12am

12am

Full Bar

COMING SOON

WED 4/27 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH GRITS AND SOUL

Sun•May 1

Reggae Sunday hosted by Dennis Berndt of Chalwa @ 1pm

Tue•May 3

9:00 PM – NEW MADRID

THU 4/28 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH DANA COOPER 8:30 PM – FLATT LONESOME

FRI 4/29 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH BILL MIZE

Team Trivia with Dr. Brown @ 6pm

9:00 PM – SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY WITH JIM ARRENDELL SAT 4/30 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH BUDDY MONDLOCK 9:00 PM – DELTA MOON

SUN 5/1 5:30 PM – AN EVENING WITH

JESSICA MARTINDALE

7:30 PM – AN EVENING OF BLUES WITH

CHUCK BEATTIE

THU 5/5 – 7:00 PM AN EVENING WITH SARAH POTENZA

TAVERN DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

LIVE MUSIC... NEVER A COVER

8:30 PM – PAT DONOHUE

CD CELEBRATION

(acoustic rock, funk)

FRI. 4/29 DJ MoTo

SAT. 4/30 Grand Theft Audio

ONE STOP dELI & BAr Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Ross Osteen & Crossroads (blues, rock, soul), 10pm

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OrANgE PEEL Citizen Cope (alt-rock, soul), 9pm

ZAMBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

OSKAr BLUES BrEwErY Ryan Hutchens (folk), 6pm PAcK’S TAVErN DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits), 7pm PISgAH BrEwINg cOMPANY Citizen Mojo (blues, funk), 8pm SANcTUArY BrEwINg cOMPANY Redleg Husky (Americana), 7:30pm ScANdALS NIgHTcLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm ScULLY’S DJ, 10pm SLY grOg LOUNgE Disco Goddess (“analog-digital funk”), 9pm SOL BAr NEw MOUNTAIN SOL vibes w/ Ployd, D:Raf & Celebrity, 9pm

SATUrdAY, APrIL 30 185 KINg STrEET Ian Ridenhour (percussion), 8pm 5 wALNUT wINE BAr Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues, roots), 6pm Drayton & The Dreamboats (vintage jazz), 9pm

ALTAMONT THEATrE An Evening w/ Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 8pm

SUN 5/8

THE BLOcK OFF BILTMOrE Live Art Show w/ DJ Kutzu, 7pm

8:30 PM – CHRISTINE LAVIN & DON WHITE Every Tuesday 7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS Every Sunday

JAZZ SHOWCASE

THE PHOENIx Mike Sweet (acoustic covers), 9pm

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TIgEr MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm

gOOd STUFF Resonant Rogues (Gypsy swing, folk), 8:30pm grEY EAgLE MUSIc HALL & TAVErN Drake Murphy & Poet Radio w/ Unity (indie, alternative, pop), 8:30pm grINd cAFE The Original King Street Jazz Band, 7:30pm HIgHLANd BrEwINg cOMPANY Jay Brown (singer-songwriter), 3pm Letters To Abigail (Americana, country, bluegrass), 7pm HOT SPrINgS cAMPgrOUNd & SPA French Broad River Festival, all day ISIS rESTAUrANT ANd MUSIc HALL An Evening w/ Buddy Mondlock, 7pm An Evening w/ Delta Moon (Americana, Blues), 9pm

JErUSALEM gArdEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsyjazz), 2pm Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8pm

THE MOTHLIgHT BEATLIFE w/ Futexture, EmE, Koresma, Vietnam Jerry & Bobby White (future bass, IDM, downtempo), 9pm

FrENcH BrOAd BrEwErY Ellis Dyson & The Shambles (ragtime, swing), 6pm

ALTAMONT BrEwINg cOMPANY Northside Gentlemen (old school funk), 9:30pm

THE AdMIrAL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm

THE MOcKINg crOw NC 63 (house band, rock), 8pm Karaoke w/ Elite Entertainment, 9pm

FOggY MOUNTAIN BrEwPUB Skylight Heights w/ Persistent Shadow & Nailed Shut (metal), 9pm Cameron Stack Band (soul, blues), 10pm

JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB Hearts Gone South w/ Honey & Houston (country, honky-tonk), 9pm

SAT 5/7 8:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

THE dUgOUT Awake in the Dream (rock), 9pm

ELAINE’S dUELINg PIANO BAr Dueling Pianos, 9pm

550 TAVErN & grILLE Jason Whitaker (acoustic rock), 6pm

BASIc BrEwErY Astin-Hughes (duo), 7pm

5:30 PM – MOTHER’S DAY WITH DANIKA HOLMES FEAT. JEB HART (LOUNGE)

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wILd wINg cAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm wxYZ LOUNgE AT ALOFT HOTEL Ben Hovey (live souljazztronica), 8pm

THE SOcIAL LOUNgE Rooftop Dance Party with DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10pm

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wHITE HOrSE BLAcK MOUNTAIN Andy Cohen w/ Ash Divine (blues, folk-fusion), 8pm

ONE wOrLd BrEwINg Knaughty Pine (country, blues), 10pm

THE SOcIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm

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TwISTEd LAUrEL Sean Bendula (singer-songwriter), 8pm Live DJ, 11pm

STrAIgHTAwAY cAFE Train Whistle Tattoo (folk), 6pm

9:00 PM – THE CALIFORNIA HONEYDROPS

(classic rock)

OLIVE Or TwIST Live dance, 8pm

TOY BOAT cOMMUNITY ArT SPAcE The Actor’s Center Scene Night & Music, 7pm

SOUTHErN APPALAcHIAN BrEwErY Pleasure Chest (soul, R&B), 8pm

FRI 5/6 – 7:00 PM AN EVENING WITH REBECCA FOLSOM

THU 5/12 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH SHEL

(pop, dance hits)

OFF THE wAgON Dueling pianos, 9pm

TOwN PUMP Riverbend Reunion (Southern rock, Americana), 9pm

ATHENA’S cLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm

JOHN MCCUTCHEON

THU. 4/28 Rocky Lindsley

NEw MOUNTAIN THEATEr/ AMPHITHEATEr Random Rab w/ Cloudchord (electronic), 10pm

OddITOrIUM Crank County Daredevils w/ Dirtbag Love Affair (rock), 9pm

Letters to Abigail @7pm Jay Brown @ 3pm Supatight @ 7pm

Send your listings to clubland@mountainx.com

O.HENrY’S/THE UNdErgrOUNd Drag Show, 12:30am

Fri •April 29 Sat•April 30

cL u B L a n D

BHrAMArI BrEwHOUSE Hot Point Trio (jazz), 7:30pm BLAcK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE The Mug (blues, rock, boogie), 9pm cATAwBA BrEwINg SOUTH SLOPE Raising Cain (outlaw country), 6pm cLASSIc wINESELLEr Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor covers), 7pm cLUB ELEVEN ON grOVE Flavorz Kings & Queens R&B Dance Party (DJ), 10pm

LAZOOM BUS TOUrS Resonant Rogues (jazz), 3pm LAZY dIAMONd Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm LEx 18 Kid Dutch & Andrew J. Fletcher (1920s jazz duo), 8pm LOBSTEr TrAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm MArKET PLAcE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm NEw MOUNTAIN THEATEr/ AMPHITHEATEr John Brown’s Body w/ Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (reggae, Americana), 10pm OddITOrIUM Skylight Heights, Persistent Shadow & Nailed Shut (metal), 9pm OFF THE wAgON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE Or TwIST 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

cOrK & KEg Old-time jam, 7:30pm

ONE STOP dELI & BAr The Undrgrnd w/ Plugged In Present Warez, Live Animals & Samborghini (electronic), 9pm

dIANA wOrTHAM THEATrE Aaron Goldberg Trio (jazz), 8pm

OrANgE PEEL Post Malone (hip hop, R&B), 9pm

dOUBLE crOwN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10pm

OSKAr BLUES BrEwErY Todd Cecil & Back South (blues, rock), 6pm

PAcK’S TAVErN Grand Theft Audio (classic rock), 7pm PISgAH BrEwINg cOMPANY East Coast Dirt (rock, fusion), 8pm PUrPLE ONION cAFE Red Honey (blues, vintage rock), 8pm rOOM Ix Open dance night, 9pm SANcTUArY BrEwINg cOMPANY Yoga with Cats, 10am Carolinabound (Americana, folk, country), 7:30pm ScANdALS NIgHTcLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm ScULLY’S DJ, 10pm SLY grOg LOUNgE Volt Per Octives w/ Digital Caribbean & Blarg (electronic), 9pm SOL BAr NEw MOUNTAIN TOUCH Samadhi & Shenanigan Society present PSYCHOSIS (electronic), 9pm SOUTHErN APPALAcHIAN BrEwErY Meltdown Vintage Motorcycle Show w/ The Occasional Caucasians, Bryan Marshall and His Payday Knights & Sammy Guns (rockabilly, honky tonk), 12pm STrAIgHTAwAY cAFE The Big Deal Band (bluegrass), 6pm THE AdMIrAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm THE BLOcK OFF BILTMOrE Hurricane Bob Band (blues, country, swing), 8pm THE dUgOUT Flashback Sally (rock), 9pm THE MOcKINg crOw NC 63 (house band, rock), 8pm THE MOTHLIgHT Earth Collider w/ Behind The Sun & Veldtchasm (thrash metal), 9:30pm THE PHOENIx Jamison Adams Project (rock), 9pm TIMO’S HOUSE Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 9pm TOwN PUMP Cricket Creek Gypsies (jug band, bluegrass, folk), 9pm TOY BOAT cOMMUNITY ArT SPAcE Asheville Vaudeville, 7:30pm TrAILHEAd rESTAUrANT ANd BAr Ryestraw (old-time music), 8pm TrESSA’S dOwNTOwN JAZZ ANd BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7:30pm TwISTEd LAUrEL Motown Blue (Motown, soul, blues), 9pm Indoor & Outdoor Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone (electronic), 10pm wHITE HOrSE BLAcK MOUNTAIN Jimi Hendrix/Prince Tribute featuring the Marcel Anton Band (“a Shamanic channelling of psychedelic proportions”), 8pm wILd wINg cAFE Karaoke, 8pm wxYZ LOUNgE AT ALOFT HOTEL Window Cat (neo soul, funk, R&B), 8pm ZAMBrA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

SUNdAY, MAY 1 185 KINg STrEET Sunday Funday Open Jam, 5pm ALTAMONT THEATrE

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cL u B L a n D Writing Workshop w/ Minton Sparks, 10am Minton Sparks w/ David Joe Miller (spoken word, poetry, singer-songwriter), 7pm BEN’S TUNE-UP Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm BHrAMArI BrEwHOUSE Sunday brunch w/ live music, 11am

Featuring Largest Selection of Craft Beer on Tap • 8 Wines Music Trivia Every Monday- 7:30pm

May 5: Brooklyn Brewery Pint Night May 7: Bends and Brews Yoga- 1pm DJ Space Bass Transmissions @ 9pm May 14: Dog Fashion ShowBrother Wolf fundraiser @ 2pm ice cream beer floats and prizes!

On Tap! $4 Mimosa Sundays!

Serving food from Asheville Sandwich Company!

800 Haywood Road P o u r Ta p R o o m . c o m Monday - Thursday 12-11pm Fri. & Sat. 12-1am • Sunday 12-11pm

BYwATEr Cornmeal Waltz w/ Robert Greer (classic country, bluegrass), 6pm cATAwBA BrEwINg SOUTH SLOPE Cyndi Lou & the Want To (classic country), 6pm dIANA wOrTHAM THEATrE stephaniesid benefit for the Youth Education Scholarship (rock, pop, jazz), 7pm

4/30 sat 5/1

sun

mon

5/4

wed

5/6

THE SOcIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

gOOd STUFF Wonky Tonk (folk, rock, country), 6:30pm

THE SOcIAL LOUNgE DJ Kyusi on vinyl (old school trip-hop, deep house, acid jazz), 8pm

grEY EAgLE MUSIc HALL & TAVErN Asheville Zine Fest, 11am HIgHLANd BrEwINg cOMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt, 1pm ISIS rESTAUrANT ANd MUSIc HALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am An evening w/ Jessica Martindale (singersongwriter), 5:30pm An evening of the Blues w/ Chuck Beattie, 7:30pm JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB Irish session, 5pm

THE SOUTHErN Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm TIMO’S HOUSE Bring Your Own Vinyl (open decks), 8pm TOwN PUMP Nosedive (slide guitar), 9pm wEdgE BrEwINg cO. Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz-swing), 6pm wHITE HOrSE BLAcK MOUNTAIN Stand Against Racism w/ Kat Williams (jazz), 2:30pm Slocan Ramblers, Lindsey Lou and the Flatbellys & Tellico (Americana), 7:30pm

MONdAY, MAY 2

muuy biien

MOE’S OrIgINAL BBQ Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 12pm

ALTAMONT BrEwINg cOMPANY Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm

OddITOrIUM Sun Crusher w/ Moist Boy (punk), 9pm

BHrAMArI BrEwHOUSE Mexi Monday (jazz, world music), 5pm

w/ konvoi,votaries

beatlife w/ futexture, eme, koresma, vietnam jerry, bobby white!

OFF THE wAgON Piano show, 9pm

BYwATEr Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8pm

OLIVE Or TwIST Jesse Barry & the Jam Band (blues, jazzy swing), 6pm

cOUrTYArd gALLErY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

ONE STOP dELI & BAr Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Sundays w/ Bill & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute, acoustic), 5pm

crEEKSIdE TAPHOUSE Trivia, 7pm

PISgAH BrEwINg cOMPANY Sunday Travers Jam (open jam), 5pm

dOUBLE crOwN Country Karaoke, 10pm

SANcTUArY BrEwINg cOMPANY Izzy Hughes, 3pm

gOOd STUFF Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

Woods

ScANdALS NIgHTcLUB Miss Scandals Pageant, 9pm

grEY EAgLE MUSIc HALL & TAVErN Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm

asheville fm

SLY grOg LOUNgE Sunday Open Mic (open to poets, comedians & musicians), 7:30pm

earth collider

w/ behind the sun, veldtchasm

poliça

youth eternal

free!

w/ ultimate painting spring fund drive - donations!

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THE PHOENIx Blue Shiraz (tin-pan alley standards), 12pm

550 TAVErN & grILLE Cornhole, 5pm

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THE OMNI grOVE PArK INN Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

LOBSTEr TrAP Cigar Brothers (“y’allternative”), 6:30pm

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THE MOTHLIgHT POLIÇA w/ MOTHXR (synthpop, alternative, trip hop), 9:30pm

(formerly asheville tango orchestra)

w/ the spiral, shadow show

fri

THE IMPErIAL LIFE Ultra Lounge Listening Party w/ projections DJ Phantone Pantone, 10pm

185 KINg STrEET Open mic night, 7pm

w/ mothxr

5/2

THE BLOcK OFF BILTMOrE Rachel & Meredith (acoustic folk, soul, jazz), 7pm

LEx 18 Feast of Thrones Costumed Revelry & Viewing (ticketed event), 6:30pm

4/27 wed the tango experience

4/29 fri

TALLgArY’S AT FOUr cOLLEgE Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

dOUBLE crOwN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9pm

LAZY dIAMONd Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm

4/28 thu

STrAIgHTAwAY cAFE Ryan Guro, 5pm

SOUTHErN APPALAcHIAN BrEwErY The Dan Keller Trio (jazz), 5pm

dArK cITY dELI Trivia Night, 7:30pm

JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB Quizzo, 7pm LExINgTON AVE BrEwErY (LAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm LOBSTEr TrAP Dave Desmelik (Americana), 6:30pm

O.HENrY’S/THE UNdErgrOUNd Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm OddITOrIUM Evil Sword (experimental), 9pm OLIVE Or TwIST 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm OSKAr BLUES BrEwErY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm SOVErEIgN rEMEdIES Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm THE MOTHLIgHT Youth Eternal w/ The Spiral & Shadow Show (Americana, rock, indie), 9pm THE OMNI grOVE PArK INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm THE VALLEY MUSIc & cOOKHOUSE Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm TIgEr MOUNTAIN Tangerine (garage pop), 6pm Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm TIMO’S HOUSE Movie night, 7pm TOwN PUMP S.S. Hanoi (koto rock), 9pm UrBAN OrcHArd Old-time music, 7pm wHITE HOrSE BLAcK MOUNTAIN Take Two Jazz, 7:30pm

LOBSTEr TrAP Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

grEY EAgLE MUSIc HALL & TAVErN Jay Brown & The Everydays (roots, acoustic), 8pm

MArKET PLAcE The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

grINd cAFE Trivia night, 7pm

OddITOrIUM Odd comedy night, 9pm

HIgHLANd BrEwINg cOMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm

OFF THE wAgON Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm OLIVE Or TwIST Tuesday Night Blues Dance w/ The Remedy (dance lesson at 8), 8:30pm

ONE wOrLd BrEwINg Trivia, 6pm

MOUNTAIN MOJO cOFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm

SANcTUArY BrEwINg cOMPANY Team trivia & tacos, 7pm

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

TALLgArY’S AT FOUr cOLLEgE Jam night, 9pm

O.HENrY’S/THE UNdErgrOUNd “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

THE BLOcK OFF BILTMOrE Jazz-n-Justice Tuesday w/ Big Ron, 7:30pm

OddITOrIUM The Whappers w/ Clouds of Reason (rock), 9pm

Jazz night, 8pm

OFF THE wAgON Piano show, 9pm

Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm

THE PHOENIx Singer-songwriter Night, 8pm THE SOcIAL LOUNgE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Tech Tuesdays (video game tournament), 8pm

wHITE HOrSE BLAcK MOUNTAIN Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm

BAcK YArd BAr Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm

wILd wINg cAFE SOUTH Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

wEdNESdAY, MAY 4

BUFFALO NIcKEL Trivia, 7pm

185 KINg STrEET Vinyl Night, 7pm

cOrK & KEg Old Time Jam, 5pm crEEKSIdE TAPHOUSE Old School Low Down Blues Tues. w/ Matt Walsh, 6pm

550 TAVErN & grILLE karaoke, 6pm

crOw & QUILL Champagne Wilson & The French 75 (New Orleans-style jazz), 10pm

ASHEVILLE BrEwINg cO. Latin Night w/ Juan Benavides Group (flamenco), 8pm

dArK cITY dELI Ping Pong Tournament, 6pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm

dOUBLE crOwN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm

BLAcK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

IrON HOrSE STATION Open mic, 6pm ISIS rESTAUrANT ANd MUSIc HALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB Carpal Tullar w/ Kevin Scanlon (pop rock), 6pm LAZY dIAMONd Classic Rock ’n Roll Karaoke, 10pm

Woods w/ Ultimate Painting (folk, rock, psychedelic), 9:30pm THE PHOENIx

ONE STOP dELI & BAr Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIc HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm THE MOTHLIgHT

OLIVE Or TwIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

ALTAMONT BrEwINg cOMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm

HIgHLANd BrEwINg cOMPANY Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 6pm

THE MILLrOOM

LOBSTEr TrAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

PULP FTO & Live Garbage, 9pm

gOOd STUFF Old time-y night, 6:30pm

Bluegrass jam, 8pm

ONE STOP dELI & BAr Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

UrBAN OrcHArd Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm

BLAcK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Trivia, 7pm

Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm THE JOINT NExT dOOr

LAZY dIAMONd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

PISgAH BrEwINg cOMPANY The Paper Crowns (Americana), 6pm

BLAcK BEAr cOFFEE cO. Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7pm

ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm TALLgArY’S AT FOUr cOLLEgE

JAcK OF THE wOOd PUB Old-time session, 5pm

TrESSA’S dOwNTOwN JAZZ ANd BLUES Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm

TUESdAY, MAY 3

SOL BAr NEw MOUNTAIN

THE SOcIAL LOUNgE

THE SOUTHErN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm TIMO’S HOUSE TOUCH Samadhi Psychedelic Wednesdays (electronic), 9pm TOwN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm TrAILHEAd rESTAUrANT ANd BAr

rOOM Ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm ScULLY’S Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm

SLY grOg LOUNgE Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

TrESSA’S dOwNTOwN JAZZ ANd BLUES

ALTAMONT THEATrE Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 8pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BrEw PUB Open mic, 7pm crOw & QUILL Michael Luchtan (piano), 9pm dArK cITY dELI Pool Tournament, 7:30pm dOUBLE crOwN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm FUNKATOrIUM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm gOOd STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform “Eclectic Country” (jam), 7pm

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PICk Of THe week

Don Cheadle as Miles Davis in Cheadle’s brilliant directorial debut Miles Ahead — already a contender for one of the best films of 2016.

Miles Ahead HHHHH

DiRectoR: Don Cheadle

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the LowDown: A radical — but completely accessible and richly entertaining — approach to the much disdained biopic genre. Propelled by a towering performance by director, co-writer and star Don Cheadle, this is what movies ought to be all about. See this one!

the stoRY: Fantasticated — nearly phantasmagorical — biographical film on jazz great Miles Davis.

It’s early in the year, yes, but I’m ready to put forth Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead as a strong contender for best

PLaYeRs: Don Cheadle. Ewan McGregor, Michael Stuhlbarg, Emayatzy E. Corinealdi, LaKeith Lee Stanfield

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film of 2016 — I certainly can’t imagine it not making the top five. Yes, it’s really that good, and that’s why it’s not going to be “for everyone” (thank goodness). The poster’s tag line, “If you gotta tell a story, come with some attitude,” is dead on the money. Miles Ahead has attitude to spare in its screenplay (which Cheadle co-authored with Steven Baigelman), in Cheadle’s directing and in Cheadle’s performance as Miles Davis. In every aspect, this is a film that is overflowing with life and creativity.

Bear in mind that I do not — as many are wont to do — look down on the biopic. (I understand that Cheadle — not unreasonably — rejects the term biopic. And, well, The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936) or Walk the Line (2005)

this isn’t.) Sure, there are lousy ones and there are some deadly academic ones — something that could be said of every genre — but, at its best, the biopic can fly as high as any other.

And I haven’t been this blown away by a biopic since the golden age of Ken Russell in the 1970s. This is filmmaking. Cheadle has not attempted any sort of cradle-to-the-grave work.

Instead, he focuses on the period of time right after Davis’ five-year absence from the music scene — an approach that affords a wild (and fantasticated) framing story involving a MacGuffin tape recording, a duplicitous manager (Michael Stuhlbarg), a quasi-Rolling Stone reporter who turns driver, sidekick and confidante to Davis (Ewan McGregor in his best

role since The Ghost Writer in 2010), and plenty of room for flashbacks.

It’s almost two movies in one, except neither could really exist without the other. The admittedly over-the-top and contrived (but so very entertaining) framing story affords the film a shape on which to hang the more free-form flashbacks. Those who are more fancifully minded may be inclined to think of aspects of the flashbacks as jazz (or “social music” as Davis insists on calling it) riffs. It would not be inapt, especially in such moments as the easy fantasy of the boxing scene. It is — or should be — obvious early on that Cheadle isn’t interested in offering us “The Miles Davis Story” but in giving us a combination of a shaggy dog adventure yarn — with perhaps something of Davis as he was seen by the public — and a marvelous portrait (not story) of the man and his music.

Cheadle himself has been somewhat cagey about the film, saying, “There were wall-to-wall facts in that movie. They’re all jumbled around, but it’s truthful front to back.”

There’s a core of truth to that, yes, but it might be better to say that Miles Ahead is more true in spirit than in fact — and that’s just fine.

Without being able to prove it, I have a hunch this is a movie that its subject might well have enjoyed — both as the work of someone who “gets him” and as a wild ride, with Davis as a seemingly burned-out, cocainefueled, quasi-badass who can’t help peer out of that guise and let us know that he understands far more than the gun-waving, unfocused, belligerent character suggests.

I am not going to attempt to delve into the story much more than I have. I’ll say that much of what happens is grounded Davis’ loss of his wife, Frances Taylor (Emayatzi Corinealdi), when she left him after years of abuse, philandering and even forcing her to abandon her own art in the service to his. This is the thrust that drives both the flashbacks and much of the rest of the film. But that’s not so much the point of the film, nor the reason for its greatness and that of the beautiful, sad, ferocious performance of its star that rests at its center. Rated R for strong language throughout, drug use, some sexuality/nudity and brief violence.

Playing at The Carolina Cinemark and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

Elvis & Nixon

HHHS DIRECTOR: Liza Johnson PLAYERS: Michael Shannon, Kevin Spacey, Alex Pettyfer, Johnny Knoxville FACT-BASED COMEDY RATED NR THE STORY: Elvis Presley’s aides orchestrate a meeting with President Richard M. Nixon when the King decides he wants to become an undercover hippie-busting federal agent (or, if you believe his wife’s account, was convinced that a federal badge would allow him to carry guns and drugs with impunity while traveling).

THE LOWDOWN: Based on the most requested photograph from the National Archives, Elvis and Nixon banks on its premise bearing enough inherent comedy to carry the film.

While it falls short in this regard, excellent performances from Kevin Spacey and Michael Shannon (mostly) pick up the slack.

Many people who have seen the famous photo that provides the basis for Elvis and Nixon have marveled at the incongruity of these two iconic figures, seemingly diametrically opposed in nature, shaking hands in the Oval Office. While this premise is implicitly ridiculous, it happened nonetheless, and little factual record of the story behind the image remains to explain its existence. It is this background that the film seeks to mine for comedic fodder. While it succeeds more often than it fails, the end result is a little disappointing given the wealth of undefined material at the script’s disposal and impeccable performances from Michael Shannon and Kevin Spacey.

Both actors are in top form here.

Despite their physical dissimilarity to the historical personages they’re portraying, each manages to capture the essence of a man who has been previously depicted ad nauseam on film with varying degrees of success. In particular, Shannon’s Elvis bears little resemblance to the caricatures audiences have become accustomed to over the years, instead favoring a bizarre, if humanizing, approach that smooths out some of the incomprehensible

strangeness of Presley’s late-period antics, while keeping the details intact.

(The topic of impersonation-versusportrayal is broached briefly when an Elvis impersonator mistakes Shannon for a fellow mimic and criticizes his costume, an exchange that could be read as a metatextual comment on the film itself.) Spacey, too, seems to dig for the emotional core of Nixon’s deep-seated insecurities, delivering a nuanced interpretation while managing to avoid taking the whole thing too seriously. However, the supporting cast is largely wasted. Colin Hanks gives an adequate, if uni-dimensional, portrayal as Nixon aide Egil Krogh, and Johnny Knoxville is likable, yet significantly underutilized, as Memphis Mafia hanger-on Sonny.

As strong as its performances can be, Elvis and Nixon fails its cast when it comes to scripting and direction.

Co-written by actor Cary Elwes, the script too often veers into memory lane pandering and consistently confuses its quirky premises with actual jokes. A thoroughly unnecessary and uninteresting subplot, involving Elvis aide Jerry Schilling (Adam Pettyfer) trying to catch a plane to meet his girlfriend’s parents, frames the only character development to speak of in the entirety of the script, yet does nothing to advance the plot. Director Liza Johnson composes shots with all the self-important dramatic flair of a sixth grader playing with dad’s camcorder, and viewers could be forgiven for assuming the editing was handled by exactly such a person. So profuse are the film’s hackneyed visual transitions that I almost expected to see a “star wipe” pop up at some point.

(Mercifully, such a nadir of amateurish incompetence is never quite achieved, at least visually. The score, on the other hand … ) Thankfully, the audience’s patience with Elvis and Nixon is rewarded once the two are finally in the Oval Office together, although it takes an hour to get to that payoff. As fun as the third act can be at times, it accomplishes little more than raise the question of whether this story mightn’t have been better served as a short showcasing its central scene, rather than being stretched into a feature that feels overlong even at 86 minutes. Elvis loved guns and drugs, while Nixon seems to have hated damned near everything (except for Dr. Pepper and M&Ms, apparently). Is the fact that these men spent a half hour together in the White House of sufficient interest to warrant an hour-and-a-half of screen time?

Certainly not. That said, the film does

THEATE R L ISTINGS Friday, APRIL 29 Thursday, MAY 5 Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. (254-1281) Kung Fu Panda (PG) 1:00, 4:00 The Lady in the Van (PG-13) 7:00 The Witch (R) 10:00

Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) Carolina Cinemas (274-9500) Showtimes not available at press time Barbershop: The Next Cut (PG-13) The Boss (R) Criminal (R) Everybody Wants Some!! (R) Eye in the Sky (R) Green Room (R) Hello, My Name Is Doris (R) A Hologram for the King (R) The Huntsman: Winter’s War (PG-13) The Jungle Book 3D(PG) The Jungle Book 2D (PG) Keanu (R) Mother’s Day (R) Papa Hemingway in Cuba (R) Purple Rain (R) Ratchet & Clank 3D (PG) Ratchet & Clank 2D (PG) Zootopia 2D (PG)

Co-ed Cinema Brevard (883-2200) The Jungle Book (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

Epic of Hendersonville (6931146) Fine Arts Theatre (232-1536) Apples from the Desert (NR) Thu., May. 5, 7:00 Everybody Wants Some!!

1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late Show Fri-Sat 9:40 Miles Ahead (R) 1:00 (no 1:00 show Fri, Apr. 29), 4:00, 7:00 (no 7:00 show Thu., May 5) Purple Rain (R) Late show Fri-Sat 9:30 Rosenwald (NR) Fri., April 29, 1:00

Flatrock Cinema (697-2463) (R) Mother’s Day (PG-13) 4:00, 7:00 (Closed Monday, no 4:00 show Sunday)

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movies have a few comedic high points, and watching two of the best actors currently working in American cinema play off each other goes a long way to justifying the existence of this picture. Rated R for some language.

Playing at The Carolina Cinemark and Regal Biltmore Grande. rEVIEwEd BY ScOTT dOUgLAS JSdOUgLAS22@gMAIL.cOM

Green Room

HHHHS DiRectoR: Jeremy Saulnier PLaYeRs: Anton Yelchin, Imogen Poots, Alia Shawkat, Patrick Stewart, Joe Cole, Callum Turner hoRRoR thRiLLeR RATED R the stoRY: Desperate for money, a touring punk band takes an illconsidered gig playing a neo-Nazi compound where they accidentally witness a murder that pits them in a struggle to survive against overwhelming odds. Predictably, most of them do not. the LowDown: A brutal and relentless film, Green Room is a remarkably well-crafted genre effort still likely to polarize audiences.

Writer-director Jeremy Saulnier is rapidly establishing himself as a genre filmmaker of note. Saulnier’s previous film, 2013’s Blue Ruin, was

a moody revenge tale that found tension in its small moments and understandably garnered critical praise.

Rather than going back to the same well, Green Room eschews restraint for excess so thoroughly that, were Saulnier’s stylistic and thematic fingerprints not so indelibly ingrained on both films, the casual viewer could be excused for assuming the two could have been made by different hands.

Saulnier’s directorial signature presents a number of indications that his work may be that of a nascent auteur, as his visual vocabulary and narrative interests have thus far remained consistent. Long aerial tracking shots harken back to Blue Ruin and serve a similar semiotic purpose, while Green Room’s examination of identity provides a thematic echo of, if not outright juxtaposition to, Ruin’s exploration of the topic. Under pressure, the characters at the heart of Green Room find their easily adopted affectations of nihilistic bravado tested to the breaking point and beyond. Despite what they say about the integrity of their art and punk-rock lifestyle, when confronted with the imminent threat of almost certain death (and the bad men intent on delivering it), these are really just suburban kids who might secretly prefer listening to Creedence Clearwater Revival than The Damned. But, once the pretense has been stripped away, some of these characters, who seem to be playing at a toughness beyond their experience, might find a hard edge they never knew existed.

Green Room manages to elevate its slasher-movie trappings by testing conventions while never losing sight of why they became conventions in the first place. Yes, there are the perfunctorily sequential deaths and the claustrophobic setting with boogeymen at every door, but there is a greater degree of creativity on display than basic genre tropes would suggest. Like the early punk bands who set out to take arena rockers down a peg, this film’s aim isn’t to reinvent the wheel but to strip away the bloat and detritus found in the vast majority of post-modern horror, maintaining only those aspects that are absolutely essential. There are very few wasted beats in this film and even fewer chances to pause for air. The script is so expertly structured, it even manages to signal the audience on the one potentially appropriate bathroom break in its 94-minute runtime. The dreaded “second-act drag” is practically nonexistent here, feeling more like a brief and welcome respite from the carnage of the mid-film nadir and leading into a third act that gratify-

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ingly delivers on every plot thread with a deft efficiency.

Beyond Saulnier’s visual acumen and proficient plotting, Green Room is also bolstered by solid performances from a talented cast. Patrick Stewart is the obvious standout here, conveying an appropriate sense of menace without overplaying his scenes. The younger members of the cast hold up their end of the bargain as well, with Anton Yelchin and Alia Shawkat providing the emotional heart of the film, and Imogen Poots delivering an unnerving turn as an unhinged Nazi forced by the film’s inciting incident to reexamine her associations. As solid as most of the performances are overall, the pleasant surprise of watching Blue Ruin star Macon Blair steal several scenes in a small, but pivotal, role suggests that his career prospects might outstrip even those of his director.

Green Room is not a perfect film.

Character development is on the scant side, the level of violence can be exhausting, and no one is likely to accuse the filmmakers of being subtle.

But those willing to wade through some gratuitous gore will find a fast-paced and well-thought-out film with a depth that far exceeds its superficial shock value. Only time will tell if Saulnier will continue to produce work at this level of quality, and genre enthusiasts can only hope that he does not abandon low-budget independents for more commercial fare. Should he move away from his roots into more profitable pastures, he will likely still find future fortunes, but it would certainly be a loss to those of us with an affinity for heavier films and the lighter budgets that go along with them. And, in all honesty, as promising a talent as Saulnier might be, I can’t imagine the man that made this film transitioning into romantic comedies. Rated R for strong brutal graphic violence, gory images, language and some drug content.

Starts Friday at The Carolina Cinemark. rEVIEwEd BY ScOTT dOUgLAS JSdOUgLAS22@gMAIL.cOM

The Huntsman: Winter’s War H

DiRectoR: Cedric Nicolas-Troyan PLaYeRs: Chris Hemsworth, Charlize Theron, Jessica Chastain, Emily Blunt, Nick Frost FantasY aDventuRe RATED PG-13 the stoRY: As two supernatural sisters attempt to take over the Enchanted Forest, a group of daring fighters tries to stop them. the LowDown: Despite a good cast and some neat visuals, a pointless attempt at forcing a new series on the world, one that simply doesn’t have the verve or story to be of note.

As we slowly descend into the summer movie season, with its sequels and reboots and superheroes and CGI cities being razed, we kick things off with The Huntsman: Winter’s War. Remember 2012’s Snow White and the Huntsman? Of course not. Sure, it seemed to be a moderate success (or at least make its money back), but it’s not like anyone was clamoring to return to this world of beefy dudes and revisionist fairy tale nonsense. (If you were, I apologize. And bless your heart). So, while the idea of a Huntsman sequel certainly feels superfluous, here we are!

Though this time around, Snow White (originally played by Kristen Stewart) is nowhere to be found, as the film decides to focus — as a sort of combo prequel-sequel — on our titular Huntsman, Eric (Chris Hemsworth). It’s not like anyone believes the exclusion of Stewart could make or break this type of big-budget fantasy flick, but moving away from Snow White in favor of the story of some guy feels like a step back. Regardless, a lot of questions no one was asking are answered, like how the Huntsman came to be, along with a plot involving Eric and his love Sara (Jessica Chastain) being separated. There’s also the basic thrust of the film: the Ice Queen (Emily Blunt) is introduced and has designs on taking over the Enchanted Forest with the help of her (mostly, sort of) dead sister Ravenna (Charlize Theron).

The gist of the film henceforth is — in theory — a lot of elegant CGI and a handful of requisite fantasy battles (i.e., lots of axes and arrows). The problem is that first-time director Cedric NicolasTroyan has spent the majority of his career as a visual effects coordinator. The Huntsman is fine on a technical level, but, beyond that,

it’s a rough, stonefaced venture through a few reels of not-veryfun action and a lot of wasted talent. Hemsworth and Chastain have about as much chemistry as two loaves of white bread. Blunt looks lost. Theron — who seems to be the only person in the film with the sense or capability to have fun with this schlock — is hardly in the movie.

Sure, The Huntsman looks slick once in awhile, but it’s all washed away in an overly complicated plot and a lazy screenplay that leans too much on rote exposition. The entire time I watched it, I just kept coming back to the thought of what this movie’s purpose is. It’s not entertaining, and it’s not invigorating in any sense of the word, while the story it wants to tell is just so superfluous. Although the reasons for ditching Stewart and her Snow White exist outside the artistic realm (probably due more to tabloid junk with Stewart and Snow White director Rupert Sanders), this budding franchise is still shorn of its most recognizable character, conveniently replaced with some bubble-headed fantasy badass. Here we have yet another grand action epic that need not exist in the first place.

Rated PG-13 for fantasy action violence and some sensuality.

Playing at Carmike 10, The Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. rEVIEwEd BY JUSTIN SOUTHEr JSOUTHEr@MOUNTAINx.cOM

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ALL SMILES: Maryedith Burrell and Steven Samuels rehearse Burrell’s one-woman show, “#OUCH! An Accidental Comedy,” in 2014. The acclaimed screenwriter and actress leads a workshop on writing for TV and film on May 7 at NYS3. Photo courtesy of Samuels • On Friday, April 29, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., the Oakley/South Asheville Library hosts Anime and Art Afternoon, featuring a screening of Summer Wars. The 2009 anime film from director mamoru hosoda (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) is rated PG. It follows Kenji, a teenage misfit who spends most of his time hanging out in the all-powerful, online community called OZ until Natsuki, the girl of his dreams, convinces him to pose as her fiancé at her family reunion. Meanwhile, a late-night email containing a cryptic mathematic riddle leads to the unleashing of a rogue AI intent on using the virtual world of OZ to destroy the actual planet. As Armageddon looms, Kenji and his new “family” set aside their differences and unite to save both worlds. Art supplies and pizza will also be provided. Free for kids in sixth grade and up. avl.mx/2ho • NYS3: The Meisner Acting Conservatory for the Southeast will be the site of an intensive workshop taught by acclaimed screenwriter maryedith burrell on Saturday, May 7, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The workshop is intended for anyone interested in the basics of writing for TV and film and will cover three-act dramatic structure, cinematic vocabulary and the power of picture.

Burrell is an Emmy- and Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter who has worked with ron howard, francis ford coppola and tim

burton and done projects for Disney and Pixar. The successful actor and comedian began her performance career improvising with the groundlings and the second city, collaborating with steve martin, andy Kaufman, larry david, robin williams, tina fey and jon stewart. She then went on to roles in “Seinfeld,” “Fridays,” “Saturday Night Live,” “Home Improvement” and the early-’90s iteration of “Parenthood,” in which she acted alongside a young leonardo dicaprio.

The cost of the workshop is $100.

Spaces are limited, so early online registration is encouraged. avl.mx/2hp • With less than 10 hours to go before the end of its Kickstarter campaign, Mechanical Eye Microcinema met its goal of raising $6,850 on Sunday, April 17. Had the amount not been reached, the organizers would not have received any of the donated funds. The project’s success means all of the money — a total of $6,963 was given before the campaign concluded — will go toward creating a permanent community filmmaking home in the Asheville Area Art Council’s The Refinery Creator Space and building a resource library that will include 16 mm and Super 8 cameras, editors, rewinds, splicers, viewers, an animation stand and an ongoing collection of digital media tools. mechanicaleyecinema.org X

Comedians Key and Peele take their TV sketch comedy to the big screen in this movie (which seems to have nothing to do with Keanu Reeves), where the duo pose as drug dealers in order to rescue the titular kitten. It appears to be a cross of an R-rated action comedy with a stoner comedy and a cute cat video. It is the only movie with early reviews — mostly positive — but then the competition is...well, read on. (r)

Mother’s Day Garry Marshall continues working his way through holidays with this one — yet another star-studded ensemble piece described thus: “Bringing together Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts along with Jason Sudeikis, it’s a celebration of mothers everywhere. This big-hearted comedy invites us all to enjoy the laughter, tears and love as three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother’s Day.” Yes well... (pg-13)

Ratchet & Clank “Ready to kick some asteroid!” screams the poster for this out-ofnowhere animated sci-fi flick, which is described as “the story of two unlikely heroes as they struggle to stop a vile alien named Chairman Drek from destroying every planet in the Solana Galaxy. When the two stumble upon a dangerous weapon capable of destroying entire planets, they must join forces with a team of colorful heroes called The Galactic Rangers in order to save the galaxy. Along the way they’ll learn about heroism, friendship and the importance of discovering one’s own identity.” This does not appear to be the weekend for new mainstream movies. (pg)

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A Shot in the Dark HHHH director: Blake Edwards players: Peter Sellers, Elke Sommer, Herbert Lom, George Sanders, Tracy Reed, Graham Stark comedy Rated NR Designed as a follow-up to the original The Pink Panther (1963), A Shot in the Dark (1964) finds Blake Edwards and co-author William Peter Blatty turning to Harry Kurnitz’ play of the same name as a basis for the sequel. Using the play as a springboard gave the film the kind of form and structure that’s lacking in so many of Edwards’ films. Giving the film more form than usual — not to mention an unusually worthy cast of comedic foils — also brought out the best in Sellers. His completely misplaced self-confidence and his mangling of the English language as Inspector Clouseau seem less forced here than they often do in later entries. Simply to watch the billiard game he has with George Sanders (one of the suspects in a murder case) is a testament to how well the film works. Rarely had Sellers such a worthy screen opponent, and no one but Sanders could have pulled off the scene with the kind of world-weary sangfroid he manages to display despite Seller’s stumbling antics. Sanders even manages to help set up at least one gag with no apparent attempt at being funny. (Admirers of Sellers’ work on the radio’s The Goon Show can’t help but revel in seeing Sellers play against Sanders, who served as the obvious model for Sellers’ villainous Hercules Grytpype-Thynne on the show.) All in all, it’s the jewel in the Pink Panther series. The Hendersonville Film Society will show A Shot in the Dark Sunday, May 1, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Il Posto HHHH director: Ermanno Olmi players: Loredana Detto, Sandro Panseri, Mara Revel, Guido Spadea, Tullio Kezich drama Rated NR By the time Ermanno Olmi made Il Posto in 1961, the Italian neo-realist movement (born more of circumstance than a desire to change film) was pretty much a thing of the past. His choice of making a film more or less in that style, however, seems more grounded in his work as a documentarian than an adherence to the neo-realists. And his rather charming little movie sometimes feels like it owes as much to the burgeoning French New Wave than anything else. The story is simple. It charts the course of a young man, Domenico Cantoni (Sandro Panseri), leaving his rural home to go to the city (Milan) and secure a position (presumably for life) with a large company. That’s it. The film simply recounts that experience and explores just what it might mean to become swallowed up by this kind of corporate “family.” In many ways, it’s a downbeat story — most of the scenes paint a dreary picture of settling into this kind of life. The ending is particularly disconcerting, but there are so many flashes of humanity that it stops short of being a total downer. Even the grim New Year’s Eve party that climaxes the film is not devoid of a sense of something human beneath the inhuman surface. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Il Posto Friday, April 29, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 828-273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

Rosenwald HHHH director: Aviva Kempner players: Peter Ascoli, Julian Bond, Stephanie Deutsch, Richard J. Powell, Maya Angelou documentary Rated NR The opening-night film for this year’s Fine Arts Asheville Jewish Film Festival is Aviva Kempner’s Rosenwald (2015), an appealing film about the Jewish philanthropist Julius Rosenwald. The film is very much of a piece with Kempner’s Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009), which had the advertising tagline, “The Most Famous Woman You Never Heard Of.” That’s exactly the case here, with Rosenwald as an unsung hero of the civil rights movement — and the man who turned Sears and Roebuck into a commercial giant. Why is this man, who partnered with Booker T. Washington (and local communities) to help build 5,300 black schools, unknown? Well, he died in 1931, meaning he’s ancient history to a lot people. But it has as much to do with the fact that Rosenwald — who also helped build public housing and supported African-American art — chose to remain, if not anonymous, then at least in the background. The resulting film provides reasonably compelling — if fairly straightforward — viewing. The biggest drawback is that it leans toward hagiography, since in the film Rosenwald is never less than a mensch, and that’s hard to completely believe about such a titan of business. At the same time, there’s no denying that Rosenwald would not have been welcomed with open arms by the stars of TV’s Shark Tank. The Fine Arts Theatre will show Rosenwald Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m., with an encore showing Friday, April 29, at 1 p.m.

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TAUrUS (April 20-May 20): You're in a phase of your cycle when you'll be rewarded for your freshness and originality. The more you cultivate a "beginner's mind," the smarter you will be. What you want will become more possible to the degree that you shed everything you think you know about what you want. As the artist Henri Matisse said, if a truly creative painter hopes to paint a rose, he or she "first has to forget all the roses that were ever painted." What would be the equivalent type of forgetting in your own life? gEMINI (May 21-June 20): "Am I still a hero if the only person I save is myself?" asks poet B. Damani. If you posed that question to me right now, I would reply, "Yes, Gemini. You are still a hero if the only person you save is yourself." If you asked me to elaborate, I'd say, "In fact, saving yourself is the only way you can be a hero right now. You can't rescue or fix or rehabilitate anyone else unless and until you can rescue and fix and rehabilitate yourself." If you pushed me to provide you with a hint about how you should approach this challenge, I'd be bold and finish with a flourish: "Now I dare you to be the kind of hero you have always feared was beyond your capacity." cANcEr (June 21-July 22): "We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible," declares psychotherapist Thomas Moore. I agree. Our mental health thrives when we can have candid conversations with free spirits who don't censor themselves and don't expect us to water down what we say.

This is always true, of course, but it will be an absolute necessity for you in the coming weeks. So I suggest that you do everything you can to put yourself in the company of curious minds that love to hear and tell the truth. Look for opportunities to express yourself with extra clarity and depth. "To have real conversations with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion," says Moore, "but it involves courage and risk."

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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I watched a video of a helicopter pilot as he descended from the sky and tried to land his vehicle on the small deck of a Danish ship patrolling the North Sea. The weather was blustery and the seas were choppy. The task looked at best strenuous, at worst impossible. The pilot hovered patiently as the ship pitched wildly. Finally there was a brief calm, and he seized on that moment to settle down safely. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you may have a metaphorically similar challenge in the coming days. To be successful, all you have to do is be alert for the brief calm, and then act with swift, relaxed decisiveness.

VIrgO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Show me a man who isn’t a slave," wrote the Roman philosopher Seneca. "One is a slave to sex, another to money, another to ambition; all are slaves to hope or fear." Commenting on Seneca's thought, blogger Ryan Holiday says, "I'm disappointed in my enslavement to self-doubt, to my resentment towards those that I dislike, to the power that the favor and approval of certain people hold over me." What about you, Virgo?

Are there any emotional states or bedeviling thoughts or addictive desires that you're a slave to? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to emancipate yourself. As you do, remember this: There's a difference between being compulsively driven by a delusion and lovingly devoted to a worthy goal.

LIBrA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "Everyone who has ever built a new heaven first found the power to do so in his own hell." That noble truth was uttered by Libran philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, and I bet it will be especially meaningful for most of you during the rest of 2016.

The bad news is that in the past few months you've had to reconnoiter your own hell a little more than you would have liked, even if it has been pretty damn interesting. The good news is that these explorations will soon be winding down. The fantastic news is that you are already getting glimpses of how to use what you've been learning. You'll be well-prepared when the time comes to start constructing a new heaven.

ScOrPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Zugzwang" is a German-derived word used in chess and other games. It refers to a predicament in which a player cannot possible make a good move.

Every available option will weaken his or her position. I propose that we coin a new word that means the opposite of zugzwang: "zugfrei," which shall hereafter signify a situation in which every choice you have in front of you is a positive or constructive one; you cannot make a wrong move. I think this captures the essence of the coming days for you, Scorpio.

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SAgITTArIUS (Nov. 22-dec. 21): "We have to learn how to live with our frailties," poet Stanley Kunitz told The Paris Review. "The best people I know are inadequate and unashamed." That's the keynote I hope you will adopt in the coming weeks. No matter how strong and capable you are, no matter how hard you try to be your best, there are ways you fall short of perfection. And now is a special phase of your astrological cycle when you can learn a lot about how to feel at peace with that fact. cAPrIcOrN (dec. 22-Jan. 19): How do plants reproduce? They generate seeds that are designed to travel. Dandelion and orchid seeds are so light they can drift long distances through the air.

Milkweed seeds are a bit heavier, but are easily carried by the wind. Foxglove and sycamore seeds are so buoyant they can float on flowing water. Birds and other animals serve as transportation for burdock seeds, which hook onto feather and fur. Fruit seeds may be eaten by animals and later excreted, fully intact, far from their original homes. I hope this meditation stimulates you to think creatively about dispersing your own metaphorical seeds, Capricorn. It's time for you to vividly express your essence, make your mark, spread your influence.

AQUArIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): "It is a fault to wish to be understood before we have made ourselves clear to ourselves," said philosopher Simone Weil. I hope that prod makes you feel a bit uncomfortable, Aquarius. I hope it motivates you to get busy investigating some of your vague ideas and fuzzy self-images and confused intentions. It will soon be high time for you to ask for more empathy and acknowledgment from those whose opinions matter to you. You're overdue to be more appreciated, to be seen for who you really are. But before any of that good stuff can happen, you will have to engage in a flurry of introspection.

You've got to clarify and deepen your relationship with yourself.

PIScES (Feb. 19-March 20): "I have never let my schooling interfere with my education," said writer Mark Twain.

That's excellent advice for you to apply and explore in the coming weeks. Much of the time, the knowledge you have accumulated and the skills you have developed are supreme assets. But for the immediate future, they could obstruct you from learning the lessons you need most. For instance, they might trick you into thinking you are smarter than you really are. Or they could cause you to miss simple and seemingly obvious truths that your sophisticated perspective is too proud to notice. Be a humble student, my dear.

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