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Is this the downtown progress we want?

I have rented office space in the Flatiron Building for my counseling practice for the last four years. I love my sunny sixth-floor office with a southern view over greater Asheville.

But losing my office space is not my greatest concern. I am not just concerned for the 80 small businesses in the Flatiron — and some businesses have been there for over 40 years — I am concerned for all of us who will never again enter the building once it is a hotel.

I have an average of 20 clients weekly who come see me at my office. It is common conversation that it is exciting for them to be in this beautiful, historic building. It is a building where we go to see a lawyer, for business consultation, to get a facial or a massage, see a therapist, buy insurance, consult with graphic designers, visit our chaplain or activist organization. Hundreds of Asheville residents visit offices in the Flatiron daily. That’s not even counting the high volume of tourists that visit the Skybar.

It’s true that many have been leaving their offices, pre-empting what seems inevitable. The defeatist attitude is telling. I hear my Flatiron neighbors upset about the change, but see it as business as usual for a city that doesn’t care about its residents. It’s tragic to see

how fellow residents are used to being let down by city governance and say that fighting is futile.

This particular City Council was voted in specifically to help preserve some of Asheville’s livability. We voted in members who boasted a care for affordable housing and sustainability.

Having a downtown that residents have no reason to enter is not sustainable. I understand that we’re not supposed to stand in the way of progress, but is a downtown that serves tourists at the expense of residents the progress we want? When is enough enough?

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I am a local 18-year-old Asheville High School senior and just returned from my second trip to Haiti with a local nonprofit called Consider Haiti.

We were there to set up four pediatric clinics for Haitian children. My job was to give deworming medicine to all the children who came through our clinics.

This was my second trip traveling with Consider Haiti. I was prepared for the work in front of me, but you are never truly emotionally prepared for what you see in Haiti. Malnutrition, bellies bloated with worms, scabies and skin rashes are a few of the issues our medical team treats each year.

This year, we saw a young girl with second-degree burns on her hand.

She had burned her hand in a fire on Friday but had to wait until Monday when our first clinic of the week was open. If waiting that long wasn’t bad enough, she had to ride on a motorcycle for four hours to get to our clinic.

For most children in these remote villages, this is their only access to medical professionals for the entire year. This is something we in our region and the United States as a whole take for granted.

After visiting one of the poorest nations in the Western Hemisphere, you realize how important access to quality health care is. Many of the symptoms diagnosed were preventable in nature by having clean water, sustainable nutrition and early access to health care.

One of the many contrasts between the two countries is that in America, if you have a medical condition, more than likely there is a treatment for that condition, and you will recover.

In Haiti, people experience the same amount of trauma and disease, if not worse, but they have to live with the fact that they will never have access to health care. Can you imagine not having the ability to visit your doctor on

an as-need basis or being able to call 911 at any given time?

Asheville is surrounded by the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains and, although traffic can be crazy here, our town has the infrastructure to allow us to easily get to wherever we need to go. The mountains add so much to our community. In Haiti, the rugged terrain and lack of infrastructure mean that remote villages do not have access to clean water, supplies and medical care. I see Asheville in a whole new light for all of its beauty and charm.

For me, my experiences in Haiti have given me a true appreciation for the access we have to health care, clean water and sustainable nutrition, which are the fundamental goals of Consider Haiti. For that, I say, thank you, or as they say in Haiti, mesi!

— Gracelyn Ross Asheville Editor’s note: Ross reports that she has been accepted to UNC Charlotte’s prenursing program and will begin studies in the fall. She hopes to use her degree to continue to help children everywhere. For more information on Consider Haiti, visit www.considerhaiti.org.

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HEARTBREAK HOTEL

Nearly 8,000 rooms and counting — how much lodging is too much?

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON & BROOKE RANDLE As Asheville awaits the Tuesday, May 14, culmination of a battle royal over the proposed conversion of downtown’s iconic Flatiron building from offices to an 80-room boutique hotel, the time seems right to check in on the local hotel scene. From now through the end of the year, 465 new rooms are expected to join the nearly 8,000 already operating in Buncombe County. With many more approved and under construction in 2020 and beyond, just keeping track of what is being built where and by whom is no small challenge.

In response to community concern that the pace of new hotel construction had gotten out of control, on Feb. 14, 2017, Asheville City Council changed the standards for hotels and large buildings seeking approval within city limits. Whereas most projects up to 175,000 square feet and 145 tall had previously been approved by the city’s Planning & Zoning Commission, the changes meant that hotel projects of more than 20 rooms and any building over 100,000 square feet in size now require Council approval.

How much difference the shift has made, however, is hard to gauge.

While the increased level of scrutiny may have discouraged some developers from bringing new projects forward, many have run the gauntlet to receive Council’s approval. Since the new rules went into effect, Council has given the nod to seven of the eight new hotel projects that have come before it.

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OFFICE V. HOTEL: Asheville City Council will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, May 14 on the proposed conversion of the historic Flatiron Building to a boutique hotel. If Council approves, the small businesses now located in and on the ground level of the building will be displaced. Photo by Cindy Kunst

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ed members Gordon Smith and Cecil Bothwell. In December 2017, Council members Vijay Kapoor and Sheneika Smith filled those two seats.

Here’s how the votes went down: • Hotel Krish, 86 rooms, 1500 Tunnel Road, approved July 25, 2017, by 6-1; Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler voted no.

• Innsbruck Hotel by Candlewood Suites, 49 Tunnel Road, approved Aug. 22, 2017, by unanimous vote.

• Boutique hotel, 95 Roberts St., approved Oct. 24, 2017, by 5-2; Wisler and Gordon Smith voted no.

• Hilton, 390 Airport Road, approved Jan. 23, 2018, by 5-2; Brian Haynes and Kapoor voted no.

• Mainstay Suites at Brevard, 511 Brevard Road, approved Oct. 9, 2018, by 4-2; Haynes and Julie Mayfield voted no; Kapoor was absent.

• Extended stay hotel, 324 Biltmore Ave., approved March 12, 2019, by 4-3; Haynes, Wisler and Keith Young voted no.

• Family Lodge, 155 Biltmore Ave., approved March 26, 2019, by 4-3; Haynes, Sheneika Smith and Wisler voted no.

The most consistent hotel opponent has been Haynes, who has voted against approval five times; Wisler has voted against approval four times.

The sole hotel denied under the new rules, a 170-room project at 62 Fairview Road on the outskirts of Biltmore Village, failed on a 6-1 vote, with Wisler in opposition.

Lodging facilities outside city limits, of course, are not subject to City Council’s review and are considered under county zoning ordinances, which are less restrictive.

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ON THE RISE: Lodging sales in Buncombe County have more than doubled over the past six years, from $186,273,880 in 2012 to $390,818,248 in 2018. Graphic by Hillary Edgin; data provided by Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority

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In what the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority describes as an “unprecedented” move of self-imposed industry taxation, hoteliers in 1983 advocated for the creation of an occupancy tax, which was passed into law by the N.C. General Assembly. The industry wanted the tax revenue to be invested in marketing and advertising efforts aimed at placing “heads in beds.” What began as a 2% tax rate increased over the years, jumping to today’s level of 6% in 2015. Visitors also pay a local 7% sales tax, totaling 13% tax for each night of stay.

The occupancy tax also applies to rooms or houses rented out for stays of fewer than 30 days, often through online companies, including Airbnb.

Asheville’s growth as a national tourism destination has been a boost for

the occupancy tax, which generated $23 million in revenue last year.

Three-quarters of the revenue is designated for advertising and public relations efforts to increase tourism and overnight stays. The remaining 25% flows into the Buncombe County Tourism Product Development

Fund, which provides grants to projects with the potential to boost tourism throughout the city. So far, the BCTDA-directed agency has awarded $44 million to 39 different tourism-based community projects, including improvements and updates to the YMI Cultural Center and the Grove Arcade, renovating and expanding the Diana Wortham Theatre and developing an African American Heritage and Cultural District that aims to connect downtown Asheville to the city’s historically African American neighborhoods.

The TDA announced earlier this year that it will pause new funding awards from the TPDF while it undertakes a yearlong Tourism Management and Investment Plan process to examine the role of tourism in the community.

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ECONOMIC ENGINE: Two factors led to a significant bump in occupancy tax collections in 2015: Airbnb began paying the tax and an additional 2% room tax was added at the very end of that year. Graphic by Hillary Edgin; data provided by Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority 10

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BETTER LATE THAN NEVER? Asheville residents question water bill delivery, fees When Adam Parrish first relocated to West Asheville in early 2018, the software engineer wanted to handle his city utility bills, like so many other aspects of his life, online. He filled out Asheville’s e-bill registration form, waited for the first month’s total — and had the notice go straight to his spam email folder, making him miss the payment.

Parrish switched back to paper, but trying to get a physical copy of his water and sewer bill brought on a new set of headaches. The next month, he says, brought a mailed delinquent notice but not the bill itself. And his business partner, another recent West Asheville transplant, said he’d experienced the same situation twice.

A post on the social media site Nextdoor revealed that Parrish was not alone. Residents from Falconhurst, Wilshire Park, Malvern Hills and East West Asheville all chimed in, saying they hadn’t received actual utility bills before getting the associated delinquent notices. “A lot of people said, ‘Yeah, I’ve noticed some weird things too, but I just assumed it was me,’” he says.

In January, Parrish emailed Asheville City Council about his experiences, and City Manager Debra Campbell replied that “we are very interested in solving this problem.” He also submitted an open data request for the total amount of money Asheville collects through delinquent fees, and

by February he had an answer: over $820,000 annually since at least fiscal year 2015-16. After forwarding that figure to city officials, Parrish says, he’s heard nothing in response.

“There’s a reverse incentive for them to fix this,” Parrish suggests.

“It costs them money to fix it, and they collect less money as a result.

But we are their citizens; they’re not a for-profit business.”

DELINQUENT DOLLARS On Asheville’s SimpliCity open data platform, the city’s Water Resources Department lists its adopted “Delinquent & Interest Fee” revenue for the current fiscal year as $830,000.

However, in response to questions from Xpress, city spokesperson Polly McDaniel clarified that this line item

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RING MY BILL: Numerous Asheville water system customers have complained about receiving late notices without first receiving their actual bills. consists solely of individual $15 delinquent fees, with no interest included.

McDaniel said that the city does not track the average number of delinquent notices sent to customers each month, the percentage of customers that number represents or where in its service area those customers live. Dividing the $830,000 total by $15 yields over 55,300 late fee payments; Asheville’s water system serves roughly 60,000 accounts.

“The rates or late fees are designed to cover the cost of the additional mailing expense and other associated costs of a ‘late notice,’” McDaniel said. “The further notice is a benefit to the customer, and there is no profit gain with the process.”

The Water Resources Department’s Customer Service Division, which manages billing and delinquent notices, has a total fiscal 2018-19 budget of roughly $1.5 million, the lion’s share of which is over $1.3 million in employee compensation and benefits. Based on this figure, dealing with delinquent bills accounts for over 55% of the department’s customer service expenses. Xpress asked the city for confirmation of these numbers.

“Your calculation is correct. The delinquent fee also covers costs for the time to make courtesy calls, time for calls from customers concerned about the delinquent fee, postage, printing of the letters, envelopes, etc.,” McDaniel responded.

Postage and printing are not listed in its current budget, but the Customer Service Division is slated to spend $7,000 on “copying and duplication,” $25,000 on “supplies — other” and $32,300 on “telephone.” Together, those expenses represent less than 8% of the total late fee income.

COMPARE AND CONTRAST Although the city did not provide its own figure for the monthly delinquency rate, an even yearly distribution of the total fee revenue over 60,000 accounts would give an estimate of 7.68%. According to John Buchanan, finance director for the city of Hendersonville, that’s more than double the rate for Asheville’s southern neighbor.

Buchanan reports that Hendersonville averages 940 late payments a month, or 3.32% of its total accounts. Like Asheville, the city charges a $15 late fee; also like Asheville, he says, “We have had complaints about [customers] not receiving bills.”

But according to Hendersonville’s fiscal year 2018-19 budget, the city collected $202,000 in water and sewer late fees while serving over 65,000 residents and businesses. With roughly 125,000 people

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in its service area, Asheville collects more than twice as many late fees per person served.

In Waynesville, says town accounting technician Sharon Agostini, an average of 1,441 bills are delinquent each month, representing about 20% of the town’s utility customers, who receive a 1% late penalty. “Complaints on mail delays may be received due to holidays, inclement weather, incorrect name or addresses, possible equipment issues, etc.,” Agostini says. “We will provide our customers with the best possible customer service and solutions in a timely matter.”

Angela Reece, Black Mountain’s town clerk, says her municipality also has a higher rate, with 698 of 3,612 accounts — over 19% — “delinquent or showing a balance” in April. Customers are charged a 5% late fee on their total bill.

However, Reece adds, she has received only one complaint of a mailed bill not reaching a customer on time.

Black Mountain uses SouthData as its billing platform, while Asheville, Hendersonville and Waynesville all use Munis by Tyler Technologies. When asked via email about the pattern of missing mailed bills in local cities that employ Munis, Tyler spokesperson Nina Minney responded that the software was “operating as expected” and that there were “no known defects” in any of those municipalities. Minney did not respond to a query about any similar complaints Tyler had received from users in other cities.

CHECK MY FLOW In a November email to Parrish, the new resident hit by late fees, Asheville Water Resources Director David Melton noted that “staff has gone through our internal processes and did not find any issues.” McDaniel, responding to an Xpress query in April, confirmed that the city was not researching a new billing system or improvements to its current approach.

For Parrish, that answer isn’t good enough. He references a piece of mail he received from the water department — with postage stamped upside down — as evidence that something may remain amiss. “Somehow, your system generated a stack of envelopes that actually had a stamp on the window,” he speculates.

“A whole batch of mail could’ve been printed that some huge percentage of it didn’t get delivered.”

The city could also do a better job of making its water billing more userfriendly, Parrish says. Text billing reminders, credit card autopay and a longer window to pay the bill before being assessed a late fee, he suggests, could all help customers avoid inadvertent charges.

While Parrish was able to get his own fees revoked, he’s concerned that elderly or low-income residents may not be able to contest delinquent charges they receive after not getting a utility bill. “I expected more out of Asheville,” he says. “I thought this town took better care of its citizens, and I worry about the underserved folks that might live here that doubt that it’s the city’s fault.” X

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Draft county budget pushes fund balance limit How low can you go? That’s the question Buncombe County Manager Avril Pinder posed to the Board of Commissioners at its April 30 budget work session regarding the county’s projected fund balance — the difference between its assets and liabilities — for the next fiscal year.

The board’s current policy, Pinder pointed out, requires the county to keep a fund balance of at least 15%, or $47.35 million. However, the projected fiscal 2020 budget would put the balance at 14.76%, and if a $5.25 million sale of county property on Ferry Road is delayed or falls through, the balance could drop to as little as 13.09%.

As presented by Jennifer Barnette, the county’s budget director, Buncombe would need to dip into its reserves because projected expenditures for fiscal 2020 exceed projected revenues by $19.89 million. Major new spending items in next year’s budget include about $3.56 million more for A-B Tech, city and county schools; $2.65 million for early childhood education; $2.44 million for early retirement incentives; and $2.33 million for affordable housing.

Commission members were generally comfortable with taking a more aggressive tack to the fund balance, noting that the county had reduced

BACK TO SCHOOLS: Buncombe County’s proposed fiscal year 2020 budget includes about $3.56 million in new education spending for A-B Tech, city and county schools, part of $19.89 million in expenses that exceed projected revenues. Photo by Virginia Daffron the gap between revenue and expenses by nearly $6.3 million over the course of the current fiscal year, which ends June 30. Barnette confirmed that Buncombe now only expects to spend approximately $212,000 in fund balance for fiscal 2019.

Commissioner Joe Belcher gave his approval while expressing trust in county staff to manage the budget wisely. “The fund balance is a tool,” he said. “We get what y’all do: Y’all work within that to make sure that the needs are met and the taxpayers are protected.”

Chair Brownie Newman, however, seemed more hesitant to sign off on

a budget that projected a use of fund balance in violation of county policy, at least on paper. “I definitely don’t want it to actually go below 15%,” he emphasized. “I would only be open to considering that [budget] if there’s a very clear understanding that active

management of the budget will result in staying above 15%.”

The commission did not take a formal vote on the fund balance issue, but its guidance led Pinder to say she would bring a recommended budget including a lowerthan-15% projection to the board’s Tuesday, May 21, budget session.

Members of the public will be able to comment on the budget during the board’s 5 p.m. meeting on Tuesday, June 4, in Room 326 at 200 College St. in downtown Asheville.

At the end of her presentation, Barnette noted that the spending from fund balance still wouldn’t fully fund departmental requests for personnel, salary and operating expenses. The budget omits 44 requested new staff positions, including six administrative assistants at the Board of Elections, 11 library assistants and two sheriff dispatchers.

Finally, Barnette added, pulling money from the fund balance isn’t a long-term solution to Buncombe’s needs. Planning for the next fiscal year, she said, “has not identified a sustainable revenue source to balance the budget.”

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Her family, gathered around our table.

Asheville Gazette-News reported a growing enthusiasm for the holiday’s second iteration, to be “liberally observed here tomorrow.”

By summer, word spread that another holiday was in the works. On July 14, 1910, The Asheville Citizen reported: “Mothers’ day has won a place among the annual celebrations in the United States, but any day in which to give father a pat on the back has not been met with loud cheers. This is not to be. It is wrong and Mrs. J. B. Dood, of Spokane, Wash., is going to make it her business to see that father gets a kind word once a year at least.”

Though The Asheville Citizen does not mention Dood hosting a celebration earlier that year, History.com reports she launched Father’s Day on June 19, 1910.

Four years later, on May 8, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed an official proclamation that called for “government officials to display the United States flag on all government buildings, and the people of the United States to display the flag at their homes, or other suitable places on the second Sunday in May, as a public expression of our love and reverence for the mothers of our country.”

Another 58 years would pass before President Richard Nixon signed a similar declaration, officially recognizing Father’s Day in 1972.

On May 10, 1914, two days after Wilson’s proclamation, The Sunday Citizen reported on the city’s latest Mother’s Day celebration, declaring:

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WITH LOVE AND GRATITUDE: On May 9, 1909, residents in Asheville partook in the city’s first formal celebration of Mother’s Day. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville In the early 1900s, a woman by the name of Anna Jarvis began advocating for a holiday that would recognize and celebrate the nation’s mothers, both living and dead. By May 1908, according to History.com, Jarvis led the inaugural Mother’s Day gathering at a Methodist church in Grafton, W.Va. The following year, on May 3, 1909, The Asheville Citizen informed readers that local religious organizations planned “to observe the second Sunday in this month as Mother’s day.” The purpose of the holiday, the paper continued, “is to recall the memories of the mothers that are gone and by loving words and love care to

brighten the lives of those that remain.”

On that day, the article added, white flowers would be worn “in honor of the pure life of the best mothers who ever lived[.]”

Not strictly a religious movement, The Asheville Citizen noted that prominent citizens and publications were “actively interested in making the day a success.”

By article’s end, the paper predicted mothers would receive plenty of “love letters and telegrams from boys and girls who are away from home.” Further, the paper declared, “It will be a day long remembered by all those who observe it.”

The city’s inaugural celebration appears to have been a success. On May 7, 1910, The

“The white carnation, typifying the virtues of motherhood, will be in evidence here today, when Asheville ‘mothers’ boys and girls’ will wear the flower in observance of the day set aside as ‘Mother’s Day.’ The flowers whiteness symbolizes purity; its form represents beauty; its wide field of growth, charity; its lasting qualities, fidelity; its fragrance, love. Thousands of flowers were acquired yesterday and last night and the wearers today will include boys and girls, men and women who will wear the carnation for the sake of their nearest, dearest and best friend.”

History.com reports that in 1920, Jarvis disassociated herself from Mother’s Day, denouncing its commercialization.

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR MAY 8 - 16, 2019

CHURCH YARD SALE • SA (5/11), 8am-1pm - Proceeds from this church yard sale benefit MCC Sacred Journey.

Free to attend. Held at MCC Sacred Journey, 1735 5th Ave W., Laurel Park

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ANIMALS ANGEL PETS CONFERENCE (PD.) Asheville, Saturday, June 8, Renaissance Hotel, 8-5pm (Salon A).

Senior pet care needs, end-of-life care, grief healing. Great for pet parents and pet professionals. Eventbrite Code:LovePets 20%off.

AngelPetsConference. com ANGEL PETS EXPO (PD.) Angel Pets Expo Asheville, Saturday, June 8, Renaissance Hotel, 10-6pm (Salons B/C). All things pets!

CLOWN NUN DRAG GAMESHOW • FR (5/10), 9:30pm Proceeds from a Clown Nun Drag interactive gameshow, benefit the Beer City Sisters. Tickets: sistersgameshow. brownpapertickets. com. $10. Held at 27 Club, 180 Patton Ave.

Presentations. Open to public, $5 at door.

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BENEFITS BREWS+BEARS • FR (5/10), 5:30-8pm - Proceeds from "Brews & Bears," after hours event with drinks, music, food trucks and up close experience with black bears benefit the WNC Nature Center. $10/$8 members. Held at WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road

INTO THE FOREST I GO: Buncombe County Recreation Services hosts a Sampler Hike Series. All skill levels are invited to attend any of these popular day hikes, which are free and led by trained Buncombe County staff on Saturday and Sunday mornings. All hikes begin at 10 a.m. On Sunday, May 12, the hike will be led at Craven Gap. This 2.5-mile out-and-back easy hike features wildflowers, wild mountain mint and prickly pear cactuses. Meet at Craven Gap parking area (Blue Ridge Parkway milepost 377.4 in Swannanoa). Photo courtesy of Timmy Wesley (p. 17)

DRAG YA MAMMA TO BRUNCH • SU (5/12), 12:30pm - Proceeds from Drag Ya Mamma to Lunch, Mother's Day drag show brunch benefit the Beer City Sisters work with local charities. Tickets: ashevilledragbrunch. com. $20. Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave.

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GORDON PILAND BENEFIT CONCERT • SU (5/12), 2-6:30pm - Proceeds from this live music event featuring Riyen Roots, Jlad and the Paul I. Tosh Band benefit money to support Gordon Piland release and re-entry. $5-$10. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. ITALIAN DINNER • FR (5/10) 6pm Proceeds from this Italian dinner benefit the United Methodist Men missional outreach. $10 per plate/$5 per child plate/$25 family plates.

Held at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road LUPUS CHARITY DRIVE • SA (5/11), 2-4pm - Proceeds from the Lupus/Autoimmune Charity Drive with purple beer, raffle, fairy hair and Lupus talk benefit The Lupus Foundation of America.

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Tickets: adventhealthgala. com or 828-681-2421. $150 and up. Held at Signature Flight Support, Asheville Airport, Terminal Drive, Fletcher WILD EDIBLES HIKE • SA (5/11), 1pm Proceeds from the Wild Edibles Hike with David Grasty benefit Fines Creek Community Association to support community needs. Registration: 828-400-5790. $15. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde WRESTLING BENEFIT REMATCH AND PUNK SHOW • SA (5/11), 7pm Proceeds from the wrestling match and punk show benefit Queer Impact, weekend of sex ed workshops in July 2019. First match at 8pm. $5-$20. Held at Fleetwood's, 496 Haywood Road

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-3987950, abtech.edu/sbc • TH (5/9), 5:308:30pm - "How to Start

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• SA (5/11), 9am-noon - "SCORE: Basics of Bookkeeping," seminar.

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• TU (5/14), 3-6pm - "An Entrepreneur's Guide to Bridging the Digital Divide," seminar. Registration required. Free.

TECH TUTOR • FRIDAYS, 3pm - Sign up for a 20 minute session with a tech teen.

Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) AERIAL KIDS on Wednesdays 4:30pm.

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16TH ANNUAL TOURISM WEEK • SU (5/5) through SA (5/11) - 16th Annual Tourism Week, event with displays featuring NC heritage sites, attractions and accommodations.

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CONSCIOUS PARTY YOUR MOUNTAIN IS WAITING: Proceeds from the Wild Edibles Hikes for beginners benefit the Fines Creek Community Association to support community needs. Foraging hikes are led by David Grasty of WNC Bushcraft and Survival, who is an instructor at the Piked Antler Project Survival School. Hikes last for an hour and a half and are designed for people with little to no knowledge of wild edibles from our region. Hikes are offered the next two Saturdays, May 11 and 18 at 1 p.m. Registration is required; call 828-400-5790. Tickets are $15. (p. 17)

AN EVENING FOR WOMEN VETERANS • WE (5/15), 6:30pm "Creating Community Together," dinner and dessert event for women veterans. Registration: 828-299-2554. Free. Held at Charles George VA Medical Center, 1100 Tunnel Road ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Beginners lessons available.

Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASHEVILLE NEWCOMER'S CLUB • 2nd MONDAYS, 9:30am - Monthly meeting for women new to Asheville interested in making friends and exploring the community. Free to attend.

Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. ASHEVILLE TAROT CIRCLE • 2nd SUNDAYS, noon General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road BINGO NIGHT • 2nd SATURDAYS, 6pm - Bingo night. .25 per game. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (5/8), 11am - Bingo, all ages event. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • Every other TUESDAY, 4pm - Basic computer skills class. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • WEDNESDAYS, 4:30pm - A quick refresher to brush up Spanish skills. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

DIY @ THE LIBRARY PRESENTS: MAKE YOUR OWN LOTION! • FR (5/10), 9-10am - "Make Your Own Lotion," class with Rachael Austin of Relaxing Ewe Naturals.

Registration required: 828-336-2507. Free. Held at Waynesville Library, 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville GENEALOGY CLUB • 2nd TUESDAYS, 3pm - Genealogy Club. Free.

Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free. Held at Hominy Valley Recreation Park, 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler ISRAELI-PALESTINE JOINT MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY • WE (5/8), 6-8pm - IsraeliPalestine Joint Memorial Day Ceremony. Co-hosted

by American Friends of the Parent-Circle and Family Forum. Free. Held at LenoirRhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. KOREAN WAR VETERANS CHAPTER 314 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Association, General Frank Blazey Chapter 314, general meeting. Lunch at noon, meeting at 1pm. Free to attend. Held at American Legion Post 77, 216 4th Ave. W., Hendersonville LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm Public board meeting. Free.

• 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting. Free.

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • TH (5/9), noon-1:30pm - "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required.

Free.

• FR (5/10), noon-1:30pm "Preventing Identity Theft," class. Registration required.

Free.

• WE (5/15), 5-7:30pm - Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar. Registration required. Free.

• TH (5/16), noon-1:30pm - "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required.

Free.

PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM • TUESDAYS through (6/18), 6:30pm - "Find Peace in Your World," inner peace video-based drop-in educational program presented by Peace is Possible NC. Information: pep.asheville@gmail.com.

Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road WNC CIVIL WAR ROUND TABLE • MO (5/13), 7pm - Presentation by Michael Hardy on Civil War raids in Western North Carolina. Free to attend. Held at Waynesville Inn Golf Resort & Spa, 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE • 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview INFUSED IN HISTORY: A TEA EXHIBIT • WE (4/24) through SA (9/28) - Learn about tea and

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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING • TU (5/14), 5pm - City Council Public Hearing.

Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza

tea history with displays and informative panels in each of Smith-McDowell House period rooms. Admission fees apply. Held at SmithMcDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road WELCOME TABLE FREE MEAL • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am1pm - Welcome Table, community meal. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

FESTIVALS NATIONAL TRAIN DAY • SA (5/11), 9am-3pm National Train Day, event with locomotive, motorcar, caboose, telegraph system, 3 model railroads, railroad artifacts, a switching layout and presentations.

Admission by donation.

Held at Apple Valley Model Railroad & Museum, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville OPEN STREETS • SA (5/11), 3-8pm - Open Streets Festival, car free event on Brook St. behind Folkmoot Friendship Center. Event includes a bicycle rodeo, live music, raffles, races, street games and food and drink vendors. Free/Bring your bicycles, roller skates and skateboards. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville WHOLE BLOOMIN’ THING FESTIVAL • SA (5/11), 9am-4pmWhole Bloomin’ Thing Festival, event with plant sales, farmer's market, live music and children's activities. Free to attend. Held at Frog Level Brewery, 56 Commerce St., Waynesville

BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB MEETING • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting.

Free to attend. Held at Gondolier Restaurant, 1360 Tunnel Road CIVICS 101 • TU (5/19), 6:30-7:45pm - Panel discussion about how to communicate issues and advocate for things like city infrastructure, community services and affordable housing.

Registration required: avl.mx/5sh. Free. Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. DEMOCRAT WOMEN OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY • TH (5/15) - Monthly dinner meeting, registration: 5:15pm, dinner: 5:30pm, program 6pm. $15. Held at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road UNDERCOVER AGENT IN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD AND HAMAS IN ASHEVILLE FEB 12TH, 2019 • TH (5/16), 6:30pm Presentation by Chris Gaubatz, undercover researcher in post 9/11 undercover operations in the US. $5. Held at Skyland Fire Department, 9 Miller Road, Skyland

KIDS ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM HOMESCHOOL PROGRAM • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am-12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4. Registration required: 253-3227 ext.

124. $4 per student.

Held at Asheville Art Museum, 175 Biltmore Ave.

ASTON PARK 336 Hilliard Ave. • SUNDAYS, 3-4pm - New players learn fundamental tennis skills through six weekly clinics, ages 7-17.

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• SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - One hour clinic and one hour of open play for middle school.

Registration: avltennis.com. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (5/8) & (5/22), 11am - Yoga class for kids. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TH (5/9), 11am Mother's Day themed storytime, followed by a special art project with the Asheville Art Museum. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • SA (5/11) - Asheville Art Museum hosts fun with artists Eleanor Annand, Josh Copus and Valeria Watson, to be featured in Appalachia Now! includes storytelling, music, printmaking, mixed media and stamping clay bricks. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (5/11), 11am - Read with JR the Therapy Dog. Free.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • SA (5/11), 1-4pm Family art party, with hands on art activities with artists and storytelling. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages. Free. Held at

Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (5/14), 4pm - An introduction to botany, the study of plant and a short plant walk. Join our crew of ecoEXPLORERS, find out how you can earn your Botany Field Badge, ages 5 to 13. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • WE (5/15) - One stuffed animal per child, each child will receive a certificate and a photo of their stuffed animal at the sleepover.

Free. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road FLETCHER LIBRARY • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free.

Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher HOMEWORK DINER PROGRAM • THURSDAYS, 5:307pm - Homework Diner Program a strategy to support students and their families with tutoring, building parent-teacher relationships, a nutritious

meal, community resources and workforce readiness.

Free. Held at Owen Middle School, 730 Old US Highway 70, Swannanoa MISS MALAPROP'S STORY TIME • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. SATURDAY STEAM: EYES • SA (5/11), 2-4pm Saturday STEAM Series: "Eyes," activities about eye anatomy. Admission fees apply. Held at Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave. SNAKE, RABBIT AND SNAIL BOOKMOBILE • SA (5/11), noon - Educational lecture for children on Hellbenders. Free. Held at Montford Community Center, 34 Pearson Drive ‘THE VELVETEEN RABBIT’ • SA (5/11), 10am - The Velveteen Rabbit, best

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OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Join a Park Naturalist for a moderate Spring Wildflowers hike just in time for Mother’s Day on Saturday, May 11 from 9:30am-12:30pm. Preregistration required. Info at chimneyrockpark.com BOATING SAFETY COURSES • WE (5/15) & TH (5/16), 6-9pm - Boating safety courses, participants must attend both evenings.

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Free. Held at Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (5/9), 6:30pm - Bearwise discussion on how

to live safely with black bears in your community.

Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TU (5/14), 6:30pm - Bearwise discussion on how to live safely with black bears in your community.

Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler CRAVEN GAP HIKE • SU (5/12), 10am-12:30pm - Guided, 2.5 mile easy hike at Craven Gap. Free. Meet at Craven Gap parking area, Blue Ridge Parkway, MP 377.4 CYCLE SMART • 2nd SATURDAYS until (10/12), 10am-1pm - Cycle Smart, in-class instruction, skills course and group ride. Registration: cyclemsmartbuncombe. org. $15/$7 each additional family member. Held at Senior Opportunity Center, 36 Grove St. GUIDED HIKE • TU (5/14) - Guided hike near the Smoky Mountain National Park eastern

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OPEN STREETS @ FOLKMOOT • SA (5/11), 3-8pm - Brook Street, behind Folkmoot, is open for activities like bike rodeo, live music, anythingthat-rolls races, yoga and other street games.

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Free. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend.

Held at Ecusta Brewing, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 3, Pisgah Forest WILD EDIBLES HIKE • SA (5/11), 1pm Proceeds from the Wild Edibles Hike with David Grasty benefit Fines Creek Community Association to support community needs. Registration: 828400-5790. $15. Held at Fines Creek Community

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PARENTING CELEBRATE PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH • SU (5/12) & (5/19), 1-5pm - Three-session, 12-hour childbirth course offers essentials of labor, childbirth and the care of newborn. Free. Held at AdventHealth Hendersonville, 100 Hospital Drive, Hendersonville FOX FLOWER MONTESSORI SCHOOL • MO (5/13), 5pm - Fox Flower Montessori School information session for grades 1-6. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road STROLLER WALK LOCAL HISTORY TOUR • WE (5/15), 10:30am - Guided stroller walk and historical tour of Downtown Asheville. Free.

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PUBLIC LECTURES BUILDING OUR CITY • WE (5/8), 6-7pm - Building our City Speaker Series: Presentation by Asheville City Manager, Debra Campbell. Registration: bit.ly/2DvfJl6. Free.

Held at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401 COMMUNITY CHAT • WE (5/8), noon-1:30pm - Community Chat with Louis Negrón, CEO, United Way, Transylvania County. Free.Held at Pisgah Fish Camp, 663 Deavor Road, Pisgah Forest MEDICINAL FOREST PLANTS OF THE SOUTHERN APPALACHIANS • TU (5/14), 7pm - Dr. Dave Ellum presents on The Ecology and Management of Medicinal Forest Plants of the Southern Appalachians. Free.

Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview

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TOOLS TO CHANGE THE WORLD • TH (5/9), 6:30-8:30pm - "Tools to Change the World: Study Guide for Activists," presentation by author, Mirra Price.

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BY NATHAN STANDRIDGE nathan.standridge@gmail.com Over the last decade, rates of clinical depression and anxiety among adolescents ages 12-17 have risen across the country.

Melissa Wilson, a licensed clinical social worker and therapist, has been working with teens in the mental health field for close to 20 years. In settings ranging from day treatment programs in Oregon to her private practice of five years in East Asheville, Wilson has watched as the intensity of teenagers’ symptoms have increased over time.

“When I think back to my early experiences working with adolescents,” Wilson explains, “most of what we saw was a lot of oppositional behavior, or acting-out behavior, and less internalized behaviors. But I’ve seen a huge increase in the number of adolescents that self-harm or engage in self-injurious behaviors.”

According to a study by Ramin Mojtabai, a professor at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the

odds of an adolescent being diagnosed with clinical depression grew by 37% between 2005 and 2014, and research also shows that more dangerous behaviors, like self-harm, are increasing.

Based on their work with teens experiencing depression, Wilson and two other local professionals discussed their observations of a major factor that has changed in young people’s lives since 2005: near-universal use of social media.

ANXIOUS AGE “The unfortunate reality is the incidents and the prevalence of both the number of new cases each year and people who continue to struggle with depression are increasing for a variety of reasons,” says Dr. Craig Martin of Vaya Health. “It can be partly genetic and it can be partly environmental, and that’s where social media and some of the influences in our culture that affect youth growing up are different than they were 10 to 15 years ago.”

Martin is the chief medical officer for Vaya, an Asheville-based public

managed care organization, and he oversees the care of a large number of adolescents in need of mental health help, ensuring that Vaya therapists are using the appropriate sensitivity when handling differences in culture, beliefs, values and identities of the teens that they work with.

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WELLNESS “Back when I was growing up,” Martin continues, “the worst thing you had in terms of media was seeing a picture of a model called Twiggy, who had anorexia. [She] was on a cover of Life magazine, and people thought that that was what they should be. … Then, you’d worry about kids being given Barbie and Ken for Christmas because they were unrealistic in terms of their look and their body proportion.”

But in the age of Instagram and Snapchat, exposure to idealized and extreme imagery has increased dramatically. Sexting, cyberbullying and the ease of pressing “send” are all factors present in a modern teen’s life that were not present in the past.

A 2018 study by Pew Research found that 97% of teens participate in some form of social media, but 43% of those teens feel pressure to only post content that makes them look good or gets more “likes” than their friends, creating a deeply competitive and anxious culture — especially among teenage girls, who are more likely to post pictures of themselves online and normalize activities like self-harm.

“It’s like some of the protective insulation that we used to have in our culture has been stripped away with the pervasiveness of social media,” Martin says.

they might have never said otherwise.

One recent example came on March 21, when students at Asheville High School notified administrators of concerns about racially charged social media posts. Asheville City Schools Superintendent Denise Patterson explained what happened next in a message to parents on March 24; “Asheville Police Department determined that there was no credible threat of harm to any students. Asheville High School Principal Dr. Dingle and SILSA Principal Nicole Cush communicated to Asheville High School and SILSA families respectively via email and phone calls that an unfounded threat had been made against the campus. After looking into the situation, it had been determined that there was no danger.”

“I’ve seen things on kids’ phones that I had to report many times,” Dirscherl says. “We have to take it all seriously because violence is never OK in school on any level. From the very minor of ‘my boyfriend, your boyfriend’ to the very major of ‘there’s a gun involved…’

It’s the world that we live in.”

OPEN CONVERSATION “Given what we know at this point in time, in terms of brain develop-

ment in adolescents,” Wilson says, “there’s less of an ability to discern and fill in the rest of the picture.”

She believes teens need the active involvement of parents and other caring adults to make sense of what they are experiencing online.

Still, Wilson recognizes that keeping a watchful eye on teens’ use of social media is tricky. Often, she says, “Parents aren’t seeing it, or like with so many of the platforms, it’s there for a second and then it’s gone, so there are fewer ways to monitor it.”

Even though most teenagers might groan at the intrusion, Wilson stresses that parents should nonetheless ask questions about what their teen is seeing on social media and who are they interacting with. Head off a problem before it becomes a struggle by participating in open engagement on a daily basis. She also advises that parents set a limited amount of screen time during which teens are allowed to engage in social media.

“When I talk to adolescents,” Wilson says, “a lot of time they are wanting to engage with their parents but don’t know how to start the conversation. A cellphone is a tool, but you can overuse a tool.” X

SOCIAL MEDIA AT SCHOOL Jackie Dirscherl, a special education teacher at Owen High School, has seen many positive aspects of using technology in education, like Twitter being used as an educational tool to show students a world outside of themselves and Asheville. But when 97% of students are participating in some form of online communication, adapting to a world where online conversations often enter the classroom and cause conflict has been no easy task for teachers.

“It’s really easy to shoot somebody a text that says, ‘I hate you, and I hope you die,’” Dirscherl explains. “Which, if somebody says that I hate you and I hope you die, that’s superserious to me, but I can’t imagine a lot of these kids that would text that or Snap that would ever actually say that to somebody’s face. I think that [social media] takes away the person. It’s easy to send a Snapchat and just be really awful to somebody.”

For teachers like Dirscherl, making sure from day one that students know that cyberbullying is not acceptable in any form is the first step toward combating it. “Also,” Dirscherl says, “teaching kids what cyberbullying is. … What is bullying? What does bullying sound like? What does it look like?”

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BY KAY WEST kswest55@comcast.net It’s just past sunrise on the last Saturday in April; the sky is clear, and the air delivers a wake-up chill as morning light replaces streetlights in downtown Asheville. Market Street has been closed between Woodfin and Walnut streets since 6 a.m., clearing the way for the weekly ritual of staging the Asheville City Market, where between 8 a.m. and noon, nearly 50 farmers, bakers and makers will sell their wares from 10-by-10-foot spaces.

Market manager Mike McCreary, clipboard in one hand, cellphone in the other, maintains a brisk clip as he traverses from one side of the street to the other, steering vendors arriving in their trucks to their assigned spaces.

Assistant manager Trish Tripp is setting up the Appalachian Sustainable

Agriculture Project tent, from which she will serve as chief information officer, selling the $5 tokens many regular shoppers prefer for commerce. (The Asheville City Market and the South Asheville Market in Biltmore Park Town Square on Wednesday afternoons are operated by ASAP.) Vendors place tents, tables and signage. Produce picked the night before is removed from bins, flats of herbs and vegetable starts sorted, loaves of bread and blocks of cheese cut for sampling, coffee brewed, handcrafted earrings hung from display frames.

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FARM & G A R DEN greens they are known for. Danny McConnell of McConnell Farms has bundles of crisp asparagus stalks prominently displayed.

The minute the market opens, Asheville resident Annette Cocke makes her weekly produce purchase from McConnell. “I’m here early for Danny’s asparagus,” she says. “He’ll have the best berries later in the season.”

Just over a mile away on the campus of UNC Asheville, on a curve of pavement under a canopy of spring-leafed trees, market manager Shay Amber directs a similar scenario for the North Asheville Tailgate Market. The area’s oldest outdoor market started its 39th season on April 6 with about 50 vendors.

In Burnsville, Cheri Lee put up tents on the town square for the first day of the Yancey County Tailgate Market’s 27th season — with more vendors on opening day than at the market’s peak last year. And the Black Mountain Tailgate Market began its 25th season May 4. Manager Joan Engelhardt says it’s grown from two vendors in 1994 to about 40 now.

MARKET MODELS As interest in local, healthy, farmto-table eating and artisanal food products has mushroomed, so have area tailgate markets in both size and number. The 2019 Local Food Guide published by ASAP lists 11 markets in Buncombe, Madison and Yancey counties alone. Among them, they cover several Asheville neighborhoods and every day of the week except Monday and Thursday. (The WNC Farmers Market on Brevard Road is open daily and reserves one shed for grower-only vendors.)

While each tailgate market serves its own area and demographics, they all adhere to roughly the same model, policies and procedures, the logistics of which begin well before opening day and continue through the season.

Amber says the North Asheville market is the “exclusive producer-only” market in Asheville, though other managers dispute that, and almost all of the online application forms for local markets clearly state “producer- or groweronly” criteria for acceptance.

McCreary acknowledges there are some exceptions at Asheville City Market. “All of our farm vendors are grower-only, but we have some flexibility when you get into other categories,” he says.

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pasta producer who wanted to sell, they would come in, and I would have to decide if it was in the best interest of the market to also have this pasta from farther away.”

With most tailgate markets operating April or May through November or December, the application process for the regular season typically opens in February and cuts off for member status about 30 days later. Day vendors can apply throughout the season for week-by-week spots.

JOINING THE CLUB Benefits of being a member are financial — members pay an annual fee and anywhere from nothing to a nominal amount per market — and guaranteed placement, usually with the same spot week after week. “It’s good for vendors and shoppers for us to be in the same spot every week,” says Jonathan Price, owner of Crust Never Sleeps, who sells his sourdough loaves as a member of Asheville City Market and West Asheville Market.

Individual markets decide how many vendors of each particular product and category — member and day — they accept. Physical space is the primary determinant of the mix.

Most spaces are given to members — the North Asheville Market has only eight spaces for day vendors available per week. Indeed, the seeds for several of the in-town tailgates were planted because, with North Asheville members coming back year after year, there were limited options for other farmers to reach consumers. As one vendor noted wryly, “Somebody has to die before you can get membership at North.”

The West Asheville Market bylaws and budget cap the number of members at 25, but its fairly spacious location in the Grace Baptist Church parking lot on Haywood Road can accommodate as many as 50 booths, so often day vendors and newcomers gravitate there.

There are typically three to four categories of product: farmer and grower (produce, meat, eggs, plants, herbs); value-added foods (baked goods, cheese, fermented foods, spices, jams); body care products and crafts. In every market, farmers receive the highest percentage of spaces — 60-80% — with the remainder doled out to other categories.

MIXING IT UP “Product mix management,” as McCreary calls it, is an art and a balancing act that requires knowledge of customer base and sales patterns, and depends on the size and hours of the

market. As he sees it, the manager’s main job is to do what’s in the best interest of the market.

“Exclusivity can be a problem,” he says. “If I have an egg seller who wants to be the only egg seller, but they sell out at 10 a.m. and the market goes to noon, that is not in the best interest of the market.”

It’s imperative to monitor supply and demand. “Before I let a new bread vendor in, I check to see how our current bread vendors are doing,” says McCreary. “One year we had 13 bakers, but they were not making the same product, and they all did well.”

Like Price, Nathan Morrison sells his Simple Bread at the Asheville City Market and the West Asheville Tailgate Market plus the Weaverville market.

He has no concerns about the competition. “Why would I say no to more bread vendors?” he asks rhetorically.

“My bread is a certain kind of bread, Jonathan makes another kind, some people make gluten-free. If someone’s bread is not good, they won’t be there long. It’s quality more than quantity.”

Though for Engelhardt at the Black Mountain market, quantity matters.

“This year I had six people wanting to sell mushrooms,” she says. “If I give six of my 39 spaces to mushrooms, we’d lose something else. This is a tailgate market, not a mushroom market!”

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Product mix management and knowing each market demographic is also key for farmers who work in multiple markets. Price and Morrison bring fewer loaves to West Asheville than City Market because it opens for a shorter time frame. McConnell sends the bulk of his produce on Saturdays to the North Asheville stall and focuses at the City Market more on value-added items like jams and jellies that the tourists who flow through downtown can take home with them — or eat on-site, like the fresh, hot doughnuts he sells by the six-pack.

All the market managers agree that it’s the early birds who get the worm — and the mushrooms, strawberries, asparagus and arugula. “We have some regulars that come early and help us set up. But that is their ruse to get in and have first pick at the produce,” Cheri Lee says of her Yancey County shoppers.

Engelhardt agrees. “Our hard-core regulars come early, buy their stuff and leave. We’re getting lots of young families the last couple of years who shop, hang out, listen to music and let their kids play under the trees. Around 11:30 we get the people who have just woken up and want to know where the arugula is. People, you can’t show up half an hour before we close and expect to find arugula!” X

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BY LAURA HACKETT laurafaye15@gmail.com Welcome to Asheville, where you can celebrate Mother’s Day by brunching with drag queens, shopping for native plants or handcrafting a flourless chocolate framboise cake.

For those unsure of the best way to show appreciation for mom on this festive day, we’ve rounded up a collection of some of the most unique (and delicious) activities Asheville has to offer. (All events take place on Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 12, unless otherwise noted.)

BUFFETS AND MORE There are endless iterations of gourmet meals to enjoy around town on Mother’s Day, but a few venues are really stepping up their brunch game.

Hickory Nut Gap Farm’s Mother’s Day brunch buffet, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., will reel you in with a selection of carved meat, breakfast dishes, mimosas and charcuterie, and keep you there for

the idyllic farm scenery and baby animals. Tickets are $25 per adult, $6 per kid, and can be purchased online in advance (hickorynutgap.com).

Other hot brunch buffet destinations include: in South Asheville, Roux and its locally sourced spread of prime rib, shrimp and grits, and bananas Foster French toast (828-209-2715); in Flat Rock, Highland Lake Inn & Resort’s grand array of seasonal dishes and lavish desserts (avl.mx/5yy); and, in Asheville, the endless spread of soups, salads, desserts and breakfast fare at Omni Grove Park Inn’s Blue Ridge Dining Room (828-252-2711).

Or skip the buffet and do a full three-course brunch at Milton’s Cuisine & Cocktails, the restaurant at the historic Monte Vista Boutique Hotel in Black Mountain. The menu starts with green salad or gazpacho, offers a choice of entrées including poached salmon Nicoise, herb and dijon gnocchi, smoked pork tenderloin or grilled bistro filet, and finishes with fruit tart or beignets for dessert (miltonsblackmountain.com). Or at White Labs Kitchen & Tap in Asheville, you

can brunch and sip on fermented and beer-infused creations while participating in a silent auction to support breast cancer awareness and research.

White Labs will donate all auction proceeds and 18% of the profits from food sales that day to its nonprofit, Beer for Boobs (avl.mx/5yz).

For all the vegan (or hoppy) mamas, Hendersonville’s Sanctuary Brewing Co. will host the Burritos, Buns and Brews Brunch, pairing vegan delicacies with house-made specialty brews (avl.mx/5z0). Another fun option for foodies is Asheville Mountain Kitchen’s Chocolate Making with Mom class, where mom can learn trufflemaking and candy-making techniques, then bake and decorate the aforementioned framboise cake among other chocolatey creations (avl.mx/5z1).

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F OOD to Brunch fundraiser. Along with a full-service bar and bountiful brunch, this family-friendly, hourlong show, hosted by Asheville’s Bearded Lady: Divine (Divine Holeburn), will feature performances by professional drag queens. All money raised from the event will go to Youth OUTright, the only youth advocacy and leadership nonprofit organization in the region solely dedicated to empowering LGBTQIA+ youth ages 11-20. Tickets are $20 (ashevilledragbrunch.com).

Booze, food and tunes make for another sweet Mother’s Day combination. Check out UpCountry Brewing’s free Mama Tried: Mother’s Day Music show 3-7 p.m., featuring three local, country music-making mamas: Trisha Tripp, Anya Hinkle and Julia Sanders (avl.mx/5z2). Also on Sunday is a brunch with local Americana folk duo Brooke & Nick at Smoky Park Supper Club, starting at 11 a.m. and running through the afternoon (avl.mx/5z3). Looking for something on the jazzier side?

Consider a Mother’s Day brunch in Hendersonville at Cask and Wine on Main with the melodic jazz duo Hester & Franklin, who will play 11 a.m.-3 p.m. (avl.mx/5z4).

DOWN TO EARTH Looking for something a little more zen? At 1 and 4 p.m., Jessie Dean of Asheville Tea Co. will host an educational Mother’s Day tea at Ivory Road Café & Kitchen in Arden. In addition to offering a proper afternoon tea, she will provide a tasting of her locally sourced and blended teas along with a discussion about the blends, the ingredients, the health benefits of each tea and more (ivoryroadavl.com).

Or you could head out to the Biltmore Estate’s Brunch at the Inn, an annual Mother’s Day meal prepared with fresh seasonal ingredients. Afterward, take a stroll through the estate’s dazzling springtime blooms, famous for a spectacular showing of tulips, daffodils and hyacinths. Want to take it a step further and bring some plants home? Spiral Roots Sanctuary will host a plant sale in Marshall outside Of Wand & Earth 10 a.m.-6 p.m., featuring a wide array of native and medicinal plants such as lemon balm, ginseng, pawpaw and elderberry. Tomato and pepper starts will also be available. X

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Brews and Bears On Friday, May 10, the Friends of the WNC Nature Center will launch its third annual Brews and Bears summer event series. As its name suggests, participants will have the chance to sip local beers while taking in the nature center’s animal exhibits. Tickets are $8 for Friends of the WNC Nature Center members and $10 for nonmembers.

“Our animals are most active in the morning or the evening,” says Kate Frost, director of development for the Friends of the WNC Nature Center. Because Brews and Bears takes place at night, Frost notes, “it’s a great opportunity for people to get to see our animals more engaged and active.”

The monthly event, which runs May through August, is also a good way to support the center. According to Frost’s projections, the four-part series has the potential to raise $40,000. Much of that, she notes, is due to the generosity of participating breweries and restaurants. “All of our food trucks and drink vendors either gifted entirely in kind, partially in kind or are donating proceeds to the event,” she says.

This year’s May 10 opening will feature Highland Brewing Co., Black Mountain Cider + Mead, Brinehaus Meat + Provisions food truck, Blunt Pretzels and The Hope Ice Cream.

Future participants include New Belgium Brewing, UpCountry Brewing, Oskar Blues Brewing, plēb urban winery, Cecilia’s Kitchen, Gypsy Queen Cuisine, Appalachian Chic and Suns Out, Buns Out Hot Dogs.

“It’s a casual time to hang out with your friends,” says Frost. At the same time, she adds, Brews and Bears “provides an amazing opportunity … for people to really take advantage of learning more about the native species of this area and to learn how to help conserve them for future generations.”

Brews and Bears runs 5:30-8 p.m.

Friday, May 10, at the WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road.

Additional dates include June 14, July 12 and Aug. 9. The event is intended primarily for adults, but children are welcome; kids age 2 and younger enter free. For more, visit avl.mx/5yu.

Honey tasting at Rhubarb Edible Asheville and Rhubarb are teaming up to celebrate local bees

Rocky’s pie at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. Chef Sean Fernandez of Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack has teamed with Asheville Pizza Co.’s Nick Izzo for the pizzeria’s latest collaborative dish. Rocky’s pie includes a peach pepper jam base topped with Rocky’s fried chicken, red onions, bacon, pimento cheese and breadand-butter pickles. A limited number of pies will be available each day throughout May. In a press release, Mike Rangel, Asheville Pizza & Brewing president, says future collaborations are in the works.

Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. is at 675 Merrimon Ave. For more, visit avl.mx/5ys.

Mountain Gateway Museum farmers’ market CANS AND CLAWS: Breweries and food trucks team up with the WNC Nature Center for the third annual Brews and Bears. The monthly event kicks off its latest series on May 10 and runs through August. Photo courtesy of the Friends of the WNC Nature Center and their keepers with Home Sweet Home on Thursday, May 9. The event will include a conversation with regional bee and honey experts, as well as honey tastings. Rhubarb will also serve a selection of small plates, with complimentary cocktail pours featuring Graybeard Distillery’s Bedlam vodka paired with local honey. Beer, wine and additional cocktails will be available for purchase. Tickets are $28.

Home Sweet Home runs 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Thursday, May 9 at Rhubarb, 7 SW Pack Square. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/5yo.

Food for Your Fingers Food for Your Fingers will celebrate its grand opening on Friday, May 10.

The food truck will debut its menu at Archetype Brewing Co. Highlights include fried macaroni balls, tacos, burger sliders, chicken wings and cake pops.

The grand opening runs noon-midnight Friday, May 10, at Archetype Brewing Co., 265 Haywood Road. For more information, visit avl.mx/5yp.

Crawfish boil at Southern Appalachian Brewery Culture SHOCK by Vieux Carré is heading south to Hendersonville to host a crawfish boil on Saturday, May 11. The event will be led by boilmaster Matthew Bambarger of Bebettes Beignets & Coffee. Pre-orders, which include 3 pounds of crawfish with corn and potatoes, can be made online for $35. During the event, MANNA Packs for Kids will be on site accepting monetary and canned food donations for local children experiencing food insecurity.

The boil runs 2-7 p.m. Saturday, May 11, at Southern Appalachian Brewery, 822 Locust St., Suite 100, Hendersonville.

For more, visit avl.mx/5yq.

Volunteers needed The Community Table, a nonprofit that works to serve nutritious meals to Jackson County’s residents in need is seeking volunteers to help unload a MANNA FoodBank truck delivery on

The Mountain Gateway Museum in Old Fort has launched a new farmers’ market, taking place every Thursday from 2:30-6 p.m. through Oct. 3. All spaces are free for local farmers to use; donations are accepted. Participants are permitted to sell locally grown fruits, vegetables, herbs, flowers, plants, meats, eggs, honey and other edibles from tailgates or from under self-provided tents. No craft items are permitted. Registration is required.

Spaces are assigned on a first-come, first-served basis.

The new Mountain Gateway Museum farmers’ market runs 2:30-6 p.m. every Thursday through Oct. 3 at 24 Waters St., Old Fort. For more information and to register, visit avl.mx/5yw.

Farewell Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues recently closed. Its owner, Tressalynn Thornton, made the announcement on Facebook, noting the venue’s “22 years of good times and great music.” Her statement was followed by a deluge of online comments and well-wishes from longtime patrons and musicians. X

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New life, old spaces The Asheville area has had the good fortune of seeing only a few breweries close over the past 25 years. Just as encouraging is that in the handful of cases when a brewery has decided to shut down, the space in which it crafted and served beers has quickly been filled — by another brewery.

The first instance in what’s recently become a trend occurred in November 2012 when Craggie Brewing Co. closed on Hilliard Avenue. Its lease was transferred and the brewing system was sold to Hi-Wire Brewing owners Chris Frosaker and Adam Charnack.

With neither business partner having any previous brewery experience, the circumstances allowed Hi-Wire to open in June 2013, which Frosaker estimates is a quarter of the time it would have taken had they needed to bring in a new system.

“While there are a lot of imperfections in that building and in that brewing system, it was an awesome

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Archetype and CANarchy continue a trend started by Hi-Wire and UpCountry Jon Bowman’s health issues, Cochran kept selling Bowman’s beer for the remainder of 2018 and gave him 100% of its sales, not just the profits.

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opportunity to step into a turnkey brewing situation,” Frosaker says. “It’s very rare where you can just walk in and everything’s hooked up and ready to go.”

The new tenants personalized the interior by tearing down an enclosed area and making an entirely new taproom that flows into the brewery side to create one cohesive space. New furniture and paint colors also made a big difference in establishing the new brand, as did the addition of another brite tank and a small bottling machine, which allowed Hi-Wire to package from day one.

In addition to reusing the building, they also kept on two Craggie employees who remain integral staff members: Nick Alwon, who started as a cellar man and is now head of production maintenance, and head brewer Luke Holgate. “We really leaned on them,” Frosaker says. “They knew the equipment in and out. They had brewed on it and experienced it and had their own ideas on how to improve processes there to make better beer.”

Their experience was essential in Hi-Wire overcoming people’s perceptions of the building and the beer that could be made there — a hurdle that Frosaker says was the hardest part of opening the brewery. Though he liked Craggie’s beer, he’s aware that a lot of people didn’t, and along with that opinion came a stigma behind the equipment, which just happens to be Highland Brewing Co.’s original brewing system.

Other brewers told Hi-Wire they were crazy for continuing to use the completely manual set-up, some falsely believing it to be infected. But over the next year, the fledgling company proved them wrong.

Now firmly established in markets throughout the Southeast, Hi-Wire will have five retail spaces among Asheville,

Durham and Knoxville, Tenn., by the end of May, all of which have been repurposed. “It’s kind of who we are,” Frosaker says. “I can’t picture us ever building a new, fancy building or anything like that. [We prefer] coming into old spaces and making them work with all their quirks.”

TWICE IS NICE The current king of brewery recycling is UpCountry Brewing Co. owner John Cochran, who’s converted the former Altamont Brewing Co. in West Asheville and Peaks & Creeks Brewing Co. in Brevard.

“It’s not my M.O. by any means. It’s just kind of a coincidence that it happened twice,” he says. “It’s not necessarily easier, but it’s a somewhat faster way to get started.”

Cochran notes the financial savings of using established brewing equipment and also points to the built-in customer base and the ability to consult the sales history of various beer styles in the space as advantages.

“The negative is actually the same thing: The equipment’s already there, so you may not be able to get exactly what you want,” he says. “You could also say the fact that it’s an existing business is a negative because you have to educate people and let them know you’re doing something different. It’s a process. I wouldn’t give it a huge plus or minus, but in both cases people were excited to see something new pop up.”

In both transactions, Cochran sought the former owners’ advice regarding the space, equipment and clientele, and has maintained excellent relations with them. With Peaks & Creeks, the closure of which stemmed from the co-owner

Originally intended for a late March opening, CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective — whose members include Oskar Blues Brewery and Cigar City Brewing — will debut its CANarchy Collaboratory in the former Lexington Avenue Brewery space in early June, according to Aaron Baker, senior marketing manager for Oskar Blues.

While intensive redesign and construction has delayed the Collaboratory’s opening, West Asheville’s Archetype Brewing was able to establish its second taproom in the old Habitat Brewing Co. spot in a matter of weeks this spring and will have its grand opening on Saturday, May 11.

Founder/owner Brad Casanova credits the quick turnaround to merely having to make cosmetic changes to the existing tasting room. He feels that he and his colleagues have set themselves up for success in the new location.

“I think not being apologetic about your own style is important, while still paying respect for what Habitat built in this space. We’ve definitely continued relationships with some groups that have used this space, but we’re going to do it our way,” he says. “We’re different and we wanted to change a few things. Visually, I think changing a few big things helps people recognize the change in style and ownership.”

Longtime friends of Habitat owners Jen and Matt Addis, Casanova notes there was a lot of interest in the building from local and out-oftown breweries as well as other businesses. Maintaining that relationship proved crucial in taking over the space, and he believes that carrying on the former owners’ ethos will allow Archetype to thrive.

“When it came time for them to vacate, we just kind of talked about our visions and there was a lot of overlap in that community aspect,” he says. “I feel very honored that they went with us without really exploring even further, because they felt good about who they were passing their customers on to, and I think that’s important.” X

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

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Tyler Ramsey plays a hometown album release show at the Masonic Temple

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com Before he was a husband and father, Tyler Ramsey used to do a lot of his songwriting at night. While living in downtown Asheville, he’d go to his little basement studio and work through melodies and lyrics as he found his musical voice.

Though he’s still up fairly late while out on tour, Ramsey enjoys being able to return to his current home life, including early wake-up calls courtesy of his young daughter.

The shift in schedule has become so thorough that it’s made its way into the title of his new solo album, For the Morning.

“Part of what inspired that song ‘For the Morning’ was the desperate feeling … of change and kind of going with it,” Ramsey says. “When you become a parent, you kind of lose yourself, so that had a lot to do with it. Not really the sleep schedule part as much, but it’s part of it.”

Now based in Candler, the longtime local resident plays what he calls “a proper local hometown album release show” on Saturday, May 11, at the Asheville Masonic Temple, sharing a dreamy, sonically rich set of songs that he’s elated to give the attention it deserves. That journey began in 2004 with his selfreleased, self-titled album, which he followed with 2010’s A Long Dream About Swimming Across the Sea, his first collection to come out on a label. He feels that his sophomore record’s release got off to a strong start with “an energy around it” and reviews and articles in national and international publications.

THE WOODSMAN: Deeply fulfilled by his current family and musical life, Tyler Ramsey says he’s occasionally tempted to live elsewhere but sees himself keeping a base in Candler. “This place will always be home,” Ramsey says. “I can’t get away from the mountains.” Photo by Jameykay and Arlie Photography

Immediately afterward, however, he joined Band of Horses.

“My touring ability fell off, and my focus shifted a little bit. And then I was fully in the band, and we were writing and getting ready to do Infinite Arms,” Ramsey says. “That was a great phase and a creative time for me. I think that was kind of a shift for that band, too, because it was me and Bill Reynolds contributing a lot of ideas and a lot of energy to that record.”

When he put out his next album, The Valley Wind in 2011, he didn’t have any time to tour it because he was immediately back on the road with Band of Horses. Released on Fat Possum Records, the album received decent attention, but with Ramsey unable to play solo shows or radio stations, the album all but evaporated from the cultural consciousness.

“I’m still kind of disappointed that I allowed that to happen,” he says.

“At the time, I kept with the band, and it was starting to taper off as a creative outlet. And by the time I had [For the Morning] starting and I started to feel like I had the energy to create a new record, I realized if I do that again, it’s a waste of my time to put a record out at all, as well as a waste of other people’s time.”

He continues, “If some label or a booking agent is waiting on me to do something and they’re excited about it and I’m unable to give it the time — I didn’t want to do that again. I didn’t want to have this record disappear again. All of it felt like a massive shift in what I wanted to do with my time and who I wanted to spend my time with. It was a big change, but it was time to make it.”

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Ramsey’s For the Morning demos were fairly fleshed-out. He also did some planning with Black Mountainbased musician Seth Kauffman (Floating Action), who rode up with him to La La Land studios in Louisville, Ky., in Ramsey’s gear-filled van. But mostly, Ramsey let the duo’s sessions with engineer Kevin Ratterman take a more natural course.

“I always feel like it’s better to kind of spring things on people,” Ramsey says. “I like the energy of someone hearing something and working it out a little bit more closer to the moment. [Seth] did have a couple things that he’d loosely charted out, like bass lines for songs. But I think everything kind of came together when we were actually in the room working on the record.”

While on tour playing these songs, Ramsey has built in various visual cues to strengthen his bond to the material. For example, the “White Coats” line, “You went out across the river to lay down in the sunlight where it filters through the pines,” is a visual image from Ramsey exploring his Candler property.

“It’s a way for me to connect with the song again if I’m performing it.

I really, really feel strongly that if you’re performing in front of people, you need to do whatever you can to make yourself feel that the meaning of the song that you’re singing or put yourself back in that moment of why that song was written,” Ramsey says.

“Because that’s performance.

That’s what you’re doing in front of an audience. If you’re just up there singing words and playing chords, that’s probably fine with some people, but I really do feel that for the songs that I’m singing, I like to be in the moment of the song so I can create a really cool atmosphere in a live setting and draw people into the song.” X

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Hedy Fischer will be the first to tell you that she’s no poet. But for several years in the early ’90s, the Pink Dog Creative co-owner worked for Poetry Alive, teaching and performing classical and contemporary works. The form, says Fischer, “has a special place in my heart.”

So, when local poet Laurie WilcoxMeyer approached Fischer about hosting a poetry exhibit in Fischer’s River Arts District space, the former performer was intrigued. Rather than focus exclusively on the written word, though, the two decided to pair 15 poems with 15 works of visual art.

On Friday, May 10, In Times Like These will open at Pink Dog Creative.

Immigration, greed, race, religion and the presidency of Donald Trump are among the topics explored on the page and captured on the canvas through the exhibit’s blind collaborations.

For participating Pink Dog artist Joseph Pearson, the process of creating a work inspired by a poem was a unique, challenging and introspective experience. Assigned Meta Commerse’s

“Black Echoes,” the artist says he spent many nights considering the work before deciding on a visual representation.

Ultimately, Pearson focused on the poem’s fifth stanza to guide his work: “To be black/is to douse the flames/ of your pride/constantly,/and to invent new ways/to look hatred in the face/for your child’s sake.”

Pearson, who is African American, says the stanza brought to mind an encounter that occurred more than 30 years ago, when his then 4-year-old daughter was initially denied access to the bathroom inside a gas station. Only after an extended exchange with the clerk, wherein Pearson pointed out that he had just purchased gas from the location, was his daughter admitted.

“It was one of those situations where if you get nasty, if you get ugly — well, that’s not something you want to do in front of your child,” Pearson explains.

“So that was one of those instances that came to mind as I was thinking about this poem and the need to ‘douse the flames of your pride.’”

In response to the poem and his own personal association with it, Pearson has created a drawing of a black father consoling his young daughter. Love, says Pearson, was one of the principles behind the piece. The work is also a deliberate and direct challenge against the negative stereotype in popular culture that often portrays African American males as absentee fathers. “I particularly wanted to show a black father showing tenderness and love for his child,” the artist explains. “Because that’s who we are.”

Commerse, who is one of three participating poets reading work aloud during the exhibit’s opening, considers poetry her first means of expression. Born in Chicago, she says she began writing at the age of 9. “This is an African American tradition — using the written and spoken word to put and keep our concerns and needs on the table,” she explains.

Raised in the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s, Commerse remembers listening to her elders debate the meaning of creative expression. “Most of them believed it was the lifeblood of our community,” she recalls.

Now an elder herself, Commerse shares in this perspective: “There is no such thing as art for art’s sake. ... Where would we be as a society … without our artists and people working from their hearts to try to interpret as best they can the world that they live in?”

Participating poet Jessica Jacobs echoes this sentiment. Along with interpreting current events, she believes, “art plays an essential role in making sure that we don’t just retire to our separate silos and think about ourselves as us versus them.”

Her poem, “Beauty in a Broken Time,” juxtaposes the natural wonder Jacobs encountered during a 2016 trip to Greece with the events that unfolded back home. Police brutality, the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando, Fla., and the emerging possibility of a Trump presidency were among the major headlines.

“My job [as a poet] isn’t to debate someone to the point where they agree with me,” notes Jacobs. “My job is to ask questions and to listen to what someone with a different opinion has to say. And hopefully, in the act of doing that and making someone feel like their opinion is valuable ... maybe it creates some kind of opening in them, some curiosity.”

By the end of Jacobs’ poem, readers are left grappling with these two disparate realities — one of exotic beaches, the other of American turmoil and uncertainty.

In many ways, the questions Jacobs raises are echoed throughout the featured works of In Times Like These. The poets and visual artists want to know: How do we process the existence of so many contrasting realities? How do we hold onto individual joys in the face of social injustice and political upheaval?

And how do we go about making sense of a world capable of so much beauty but seemingly hellbent on destruction? X

WHAT In Times Like These WHERE Pink Dog Creative Gallery 348 Depot St. avl.mx/5yh WHEN Opening reception Friday, May 10, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Exhibit on view through Sunday, June 9. Free

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by Bill Kopp

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SHADOWS AND LIGHT The first recorded project from Gold Light & Snakemusk — the duo of former Kovacs and the Polar Bear multi-instrumentalist Joe Chang and singer-guitarist Beau Campolong — is a new album, Shadows in the Shallows. The duo digs deep into a country sound that recalls Johnny and June Carter Cash as well as Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris, but with all new and original material. Gold Light & Snakemusk will perform a pair of album release shows Friday, May 10, at Harvest Records and Static Age Records.

The new album comes nearly three years after the last collection of songs released under the Gold Light name. “I wasn’t really doing much music after my last record,” Chang says. That album — 2016’s Visions — was effectively a solo effort, following his usual practice of bringing in occasional musical associates on a few tracks. A 2016 single featured Chang on all instruments, with vocalist Grace Joyner on harmonies. That almost-but-not-quite-solo approach to recording also served him well on earlier Gold Light projects such as the 2015 Babe EP and a self-titled album released on cassette in 2013.

Though musically varied, all of those projects shared an indie-rock vibe. The new music heads in a very different direction, one that reflects the creative input of Beau Campolong.

By the time Visions was released, Campolong was playing guitar in the live lineup of Gold Light. Campolong asked Chang to take part in a benefit gig at the Double Crown in West Asheville, with a set that focused on country and western sounds. “That was a kind of a jump-start on a new

ONE THING AFTER ANOTHER: On his third album under the name Gold Light, Asheville multi-instrumentalist Joe Chang, left, joins forces with singer-guitarist Beau Campolong (aka Snakemusk). The result is a collection of story songs with a traditional feel. Photo by Charles McCurry musical path,” Chang says. “We started playing all these country-folk covers, and that led to this new project, which is a joint thing.”

Chang says the musical collaboration is a natural one. “We were friends before, then we started playing music; we share a lot of the same influences and interests.” He says that Campolong’s “fresh, different perspective” and “sweet, fragile voice” are great assets in the project. “I’ve only ever done stuff on my own, musically, within my own head and thoughts,” Chang says. “Beau brings to

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the table ideas on harmonies, arrangements, changing a lyric here and there, and a unique view on the world.”

The collaborative nature of the sessions that yielded Shadows in the Shallows led to consideration of a new name for the project. “But we never came up with something we really liked,” Chang says. Campolong was already performing under the name Snakemusk, “And really, whatever music I make, I want it to be consistent under the name Gold Light,” Chang says. So Gold Light & Snakemusk it became.

Film buffs and avid book readers may find the names of some of the songs on Shadows in the Shallows familiar. The opening tune (and lead single) “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter” shares a title with Carson McCullers’ 1940 novel. And the album’s second track, “The Last Picture Show,” has a title in common with Larry McMurtry’s novel as well as a 1971 Peter Bogdanovich film adaptation.

“I’m sure there’s some meaning behind that,” Chang concedes with a laugh. “On one level, they’re just really nice titles.

But on the other, it’s because I’m a fan of narrative-driven songs. So it makes sense to give them titles that share the names of books or films or what have you.”

That focus on storytelling lies at the heart of the album. And it’s in line with the sort of material for which many of Chang’s musical heroes are best known. He thinks of Hank Williams, Buddy Holly and Bruce Springsteen as the pillars of his musical inspiration: “Those are the Trinity for me.”

There’s a kind of universal utility to story-based songs, Chang believes.

“They’re all very simple in structure, and they could almost be any genre, really,” he says. “A love for old-time and folk songs — traditional kind of stuff — is how this album came together.”

Those who seek a label to apply to the album’s musical style may receive an assist from Campolong, who has gone on record describing it as “shallowpool” country. “I have no idea what that means,” Chang says with a laugh. “But we both thought it was a good way to describe it. It’s country, but not in the deep end; you’re just kind of getting your feet wet with it.”

That description makes more sense when Chang reveals that he’s already hard at work at not one but two more Gold Light records. He says the next one will be a stripped-down affair, “like my Nebraska,” he says, referring to Bruce Springsteen’s acclaimed 1982 back-to-the-roots album. “And then, after that, I want to make a really big pop album. I’m trying to span all the genres, get them all under my belt.” X

WHO Gold Light & Snakemusk (duo show) WHERE Harvest Records 415 Haywood Road harvest-records.com WHEN Friday, May 10, 3 p.m. Free ____________________ WHO Gold Light & Snakemusk (full band) with Drunken Prayer and Chris Head WHERE Static Age Records 110 N. Lexington Ave. facebook.com/static.agerecords.7 WHEN Friday, May 10, 10 p.m. $5

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NO HOLDS BARD It’s been 20 years since the film Shakespeare in Love had audiences swooning. The romantic comedy celebrates theater, love and poetry amid impossible romance, Queen Elizabeth’s court and mistaken identities, and it took home a cartload of awards, including the 1999 Academy Award for Best Picture. The screenplay, written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, was adapted for the stage by playwright Lee Hall in 2014.

Montford Park Players selected the popular production to kick off its 2019 season: Shakespeare in Love, directed by Julie Richardson, runs through Saturday, May 25, at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater.

John Russell, managing director of Montford Park Players, had his sights on the play for some time. “If audiences enjoyed [it] on screen, they can expect to enjoy the stage version,” he says. One requirement in producing the play is staying true to the playwright’s vision, so audiences can anticipate a straightforward interpretation. In relation to the film, Russell says, “It’s the same basic story with a few added scenes.”

For those unfamiliar, the story centers on poor, young Will Shakespeare, who is in debt, uninspired and suffering from writer’s block. He’s also overshadowed by the successful playwright Christopher Marlowe. But when Will meets Viola De Lesseps, daughter of a wealthy merchant, he’s found his muse.

Viola’s secret passion is to act, but it’s illegal for women to appear onstage.

She disguises herself as a man to perform in Will’s play because she believes his work is superior to Marlowe’s. Will and Viola begin to fall in love, setting fire to Will’s quill as he crafts his masterpiece, Romeo and Juliet, (although his working title is Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate’s Daughter). All this takes place against a ticking clock of Viola’s impending and arranged marriage to Lord Wessex.

The Montford Park Players have performed Shakespeare’s plays since 1973. In recent years, the group has incorporated other classically inspired works into its lineup, including original work and plays for young audiences.

Much thought and collaboration go into the selections, from appealing to a wide audience to covering Shakespeare’s blockbusters as well as lesser-known works. (The local theater group prides itself on being the

Montford Park Players opens the season with ‘Shakespeare in Love’ credits in large part to expanding the lineup and marketing to include youths. “Two years ago, we produced Peter Pan, our first attempt at theater for a younger audience, and our numbers grew immediately,” he says. It’s a win for everyone: “We also find that parents of these children are enjoying themselves and returning to see the more adult-themed shows.” X

WHAT Montford Park Players presents Shakespeare in Love WHERE Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre 92 Gay St. montfordparkplayers.org WHEN Through Saturday, May 25. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays at 7:30 p.m.

Free. Chair rentals available for $2

LOVE IS IN THE AIR: Fans of the Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes rom-com Shakespeare in Love can see the ’90s film brought to the stage — the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater stage, that is. Scott Keel stars as Will Shakespeare and Trinity Keel plays Viola de Lesseps in the Montford Park Players production. Photo by Rodney Smith/Tempus Fugit Design 14th company in the world to complete all of Shakespeare’s plays.) There’s also the consideration of the amphitheater space. “It’s a huge stage with multiple levels, much bigger than any indoor theater,” says Russell. “It definitely dictates our decisions.”

Two original works by local playwrights are featured this season. Robin Hood: Quest for Justice (June 28-July 27),

by Jeff Messer and Robert Akers, is the sequel to their original play — and last season’s hit — Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood. Young and mature audiences alike can expect a swashbuckling, action-packed adventure. And those who missed Robin Hood last year will have no problem jumping into this year’s sequel.

The other original offering is 16 Years Tried (Sept. 20-Oct. 5) by Travis Lowe. The play was a semifinalist in the Shakespeare’s New Contemporaries Competition last year at the American Shakespeare Center in Staunton, Va. The story covers the decade and a half skipped over in Shakespeare’s A Winter’s Tale. That classic play precedes (Aug. 30-Sept. 14) 16 Years Tried

on the Montford Park Players’ season lineup because “the idea is that you could insert it right into the middle of A Winter’s Tale,” Russell explains.

Audience members who attend the entire season will experience the connective tissue between A Winter’s Tale and 16 Years Tried, as well as Shakespeare in Love and its predecessor, Romeo and Juliet (Aug. 2-24).

The season also includes Shakespeare’s Henry IV, Part I (May 31-June 22), about the strained relationship between the titular king and his son while a rebellion gathers steam. The 2019 roster concludes with the Charles Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol (location and dates to be announced). The local company has performed the holiday-themed play every year since 1977 at various locations around Asheville, as the open-air Hazel Robinson Amphitheater is closed during winter months.

But the warm-weather nights of free theater under the stars are only growing in renown. The Montford Park Players increased their audience by 93% last year, a staggering growth that Russell

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Chicano Batman Since the release of its self-titled debut album in 2010, L.A.-based psych-soul quartet Chicano Batman has continued to grow its sound and message, most fully realized thus far in its politically charged 2017 album, Freedom Is Free. The sonic evolution continued last summer when the band collaborated with R&B superstar Miguel on the single “Black Lipstick,” which was recently turned into a Record Store Day release on 12-inch blue vinyl with an instrumental version and two unreleased tracks recorded during the Freedom Is Free sessions. On tour this spring with the fellow Los Angelenos of pop trio SadGirl, Chicano Batman heads to Salvage Station on Thursday, May 9, likely with a few new songs from its forthcoming album, slated for a late 2019 release. The music starts at 10 p.m. $15. salvagestation.com. Photo by Cortney Armitage

Asheville Symphony For its 2018-19 season finale on Saturday, May 11, the Asheville Symphony plans to go out in memorable style. The program begins on the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium stage at 8 p.m. with Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2, a piece inspired by the titular Cuban dance style, followed by a guest appearance from violinist Simone Porter for Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto No. 3. Last on the program is Stravinsky’s “The Rite of Spring,” which will unite the talents of almost 100 musicians. The substantial number of players required to properly pull off the legendary piece makes its performance a rare one on the local scene and one that will showcase the skills of music director Darko Butorac and his baton. $2469. ashevillesymphony.org. Photo of Porter by Emma Bella Holley

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Asheville prog-alternative band Galena quietly set itself up for success earlier this year with the debut of its foursong EP Sliced and has been steadily rolling ever since. The release was soon followed by Austin Wade’s provocative album imagery being featured on the Cover Art That Doesn’t Suck blog. Then, in late March, songwriters Melissa Pasciolla (vocals) and Max Miller (guitar) along with Joel Clark (drums) and Casey Waters (bass) welcomed new lead guitarist Tres Price to their ranks, and the rejuvenated ensemble was subsequently selected to perform at Xpand Fest in early June. Galena celebrates the official release of Sliced on Friday, May 10, at Sly Grog Lounge. The evening starts at 8 p.m. with sets by Roanoke, Va.-based instrumental prog rockers Kusa and Greensboro rock quintet Mightier Than Me. $5. slygrog.wordpress.com.

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David Wilcox Described by its host as a “spontaneous bliss portal,” Ashevillebased singer-songwriter David Wilcox’s Wilcox Weekend returns to the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville for its ninth iteration Thursday to Sunday, May 9-12. There, the winner of the grand prize at the 2018 USA Songwriting Competition, plus the Best Folk Song award, will perform tunes from his illustrious career, including some from his most recent album, The View From the Edge. Guest artists at the gathering include Grammynominated artist Beth Nielsen Chapman and Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Jean Rohe.

Once the festivities conclude, the three musicians will head to White Horse Black Mountain on May 12 for a 7:30 p.m. concert. $22 advance/$25 day of show. whitehorseblackmountain.com.

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A & E CALENDAR ART AAAC'S CREATIVE SECTOR SUMMIT • FR (4/20), 9am-4pm Creative Sector Summit event with a focus on the equity and inclusion of underrepresented artists in Buncombe County with presentations, group panels and discussions. See website for full schedule. $35/$25 for members.

APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY • SA (5/11), 10am-noon - "Go Bold in Pastel Landscapes," presentation and bi-monthly meeting.

Free. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • SA (5/11), 10am - Craft a bear-themed Mother's Day card. Free. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • TU (5/14) & (5/21), 5pm - Drawing class

for adults. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. DRAWING WORKSHOP FOR VETERANS • THURSDAYS, 9:30am-12:30pm - Joseph Pearson teaches the four basic steps of drawing.

Participants to bring three objects of personal significance. Registration: avl.mx/5wp. Free. Held at South College, 140 Sweeten Creek Road HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N. Main St., Waynesville, 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • TH (5/9), 10-11:30am - Artist coffee and chat.

Free to attend.

• SA (5/11), 2-4pm - Comic book illustration class with James Lyle. $25/$20 members.

LAST SUMMER, POP UP • FR (5/10), 5-8pm - Last Summer, a solo exhibition

by Zander Stefani. Free to attend. Held at Joyryder, 14 Lodge St.

SECOND SATURDAY MARKET • 2nd SATURDAYS, 6-9pm - Second Saturday Market featuring vendors, live music, dance lessons, food and beverages.

Free to attend/$10-$15 for dinner/$5 per dance lesson. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville SECOND SATURDAY OPEN STUDIO CELEBRATIONS • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am5pm - "Second Saturday Celebration," event with food, music and artist demonstrations. Free to attend. Held at Odyssey Cooperative Art Gallery, 238 Clingman Ave.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS SHOW & TELL SPRING POP UP SHOP (PD.) 5/8-19, 10am-8pm @ ASHEVILLE SOCIAL HALL. Shop local/indie craft, design, and vintage.

Opening party 5/9, 6-9pm w/ Bhramari beer,

Bread & Butter Co bites, dj, and fairy hair. showandtellpopupshop. com. 81 Broadway St., 28801.

Broad Sense, site specific time-based experimental performance art and dinner event. Information: revolveavl.org.

JOHN C. CAMPBELL FOLK SCHOOL FRIENDS & FAMILY DAY • SA (5/11), 10am-4pm - Friends & Family Day, for a fun day of making and discovering more about the 94-year old Folk School. Free. Held at John C. Campbell Folk School, 1 Folk School Road, Brasstown

MADISON PUBLIC ART SCULPTURE • Through WE (5/15) Proposals accepted for a permanent piece of artwork for the Madison Manufacturing Public Art Park. Information: bit.ly/2Zy6fPq. Held at Town and Mountain Training Center, 261 Asheland Ave.

SECOND SATURDAYS • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am4:30pm - River Arts District gallery walks and open studios featuring more than 200 artists. Information: riverartsdistrict.com.

Free to attend/Free trolley.

Held at River Arts District Studio Stroll, Depot St.

STUDIO TOUR LOGO CONTEST • Through (8/1) - Submissions accepted for The Studio Tour Logo Contest.

Information: haywoodarts. org/logo-contest. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS 'BROAD SENSE' • Through MO (6/3) Submissions accepted for

WHITE SQUIRREL PHOTO CONTEST • Through (5/17) - White squirrel photo contest.

Information: 828-884-2787 or tcarts@comporium.net.

Held at Transylvania Com-

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DANCE AMERICAN TANGO (PD.) Join Wave Dance Studio for a 3-week series:American Tango.

May 15, 22, and 29.

All levels welcome, but knowledge of basic steps/ style of Tango is highly recommended. $30/ person for series.

No partner required.

Call to Register 828-575-0905.

2-HOUR DANCE CLASS: LEARN COUNTRY TWOSTEP (PD.) Saturday, May 11th 12-2PM at Grey Eagle, Asheville. No partner needed. Online discount $20 at www.

Danceforlife.net, $25 at door. 828-333 0715.

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All ages welcome. Free.

Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road • THURSDAYS, 7:3011pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $8/$7 members/$1 Warren Wilson Community. Held in Bryson Gym Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa MUSES OF TERPSICORPS • SA (5/11), 7:30pm - Muses of Terpsicorps, classical and contemporary dance by up and coming young dancers. $15. Held at

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MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm.

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums. com ACMS PRESENTS ASHEVILLE’S SCHUBERTIADE • FR (5/10), 8pm Chamber music concert featuring Noah BendixBalgley, Peter Wiley and Robert Levin performing works by Franz Schubert. $40. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BLUE RIDGE RINGERS • FR (5/10), 2pm - Blue Ridge Ringers, handbell concert. Free. Held at Henderson County Public

Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville BLUES CONCERT • WE (5/8), 7-9pm - Blues concert featuring Ash Devine and Andy Cohen.

Admission by donation.

Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain COUNTRY ROYALTY: HANK WILLIAMS AND PATSY CLINE • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/12) - Country Royalty: Hank Williams and Patsy Cline, tribute. Wed. & Thur.: 2 & 7pm, Fri.: 8pm, Sat.: 2 & 8pm, Sun: 2pm.

Tickets: 828-693-0731, toll-free 866-737-8008 or flatrockplayhouse.org. $25-$60. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH 22 Fisher Road, Brevard, 828-883-3680, lutheranchurchbrevardnc. com • SA (5/11), 7:30pm - "Trios Three Ways," clarinet, cello and piano concert featuring Christopher Tavernier, Aaron Chen and Aaron Lipsky. Tickets: clarinetandfriends.com. $20/$18 advance.

• SU (5/12), 2pm - "Trios Three Ways," clarinet, cello and piano concert

featuring Christopher Tavernier, Aaron Chen and Aaron Lipsky. Tickets: clarinetandfriends.com. $20/$18 advance.

JOSH GOFORTH STORYTELLER AND MUSICIAN • TU (5/14), 7pm - Josh Goforth storyteller and musician performance.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville MASTERWORKS 7: MÁRQUEZ, SAINTSAËNS, STRAVINSKY • SA (5/11), 8pm Masterworks 7, orchestral concert with violinist Simone Porter Márquez and featuring works by Marquez, Saint-Saens and Stravinsky. $24 and up.

Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. MUSICKE ANITQUA • TU (5/14), 7pm - Musicke Anitqua, a consort of early instruments including recorders, viols, percussion and spinet.

Free.Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave.,Hendersonville OLE TYME PICKERS FRIDAY BLUEGRASS • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm - Ole Tyme Pickers, bluegrass concert. Free.

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munity Building, Willow Road, Hendersonville PUBSING • 2nd SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Gospel jam and sing-along. Free to attend.

Held at Zillicoah Beer Co., 870 Riverside Drive, Woodfin RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES • TH (5/16), 5:30-9:30pm - The Screaming J's and The Broadcast, outdoor concert. Free to attend.

Held at South Main Street, 200 South Main St., Hendersonville TRIOS THREE WAYS • SA (5/11), 2pm - "Trios Three Ways," clarinet, cello and piano concert featuring Christopher Tavernier, Aaron Chen and Aaron Lipsky. Tickets: clarinetandfriends.com. $20/$18 advance. Held at Freeburg Pianos, 2314 Asheville Highway, Suite D, Hendersonville TRUE COLORS SPRING CONCERT • FR (5/10), 6-7:30pm True Colors, MusicWorks student concert with Laura Blackley & the Wildflowers. Admission by donation. Held at Trinity United Methodist Church, 587 Haywood Road TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (5/9), 6:30pm Sunset Series: Hot Point Trio, gypsy jazz. $10. Held inPeterson Amphitheater.

• TH (5/16), 6:30pm Sunset Series: Lecrectia & ThunderRoad, country and southern rock. $10. Held in Peterson Amphitheater.

WILL STRATTON CONCERT • MO (5/13), 8pm - Will Stratton with Ben Seratan and Sprouse, concert. $10. Held at Revolve, 821 Riverside Drive, #179

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (5/8), 4pm - Creative writing exercises and a supportive environment, share a 300-500

word piece of your writing. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • SA (5/11), 11am Nonfiction Book Club: The Right Stuff

by Tom Wolfe. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • SA (5/11), 3pm - West Asheville Book Club: Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • MO (5/13), 3:30pm Hola, Asheville is a group for bilingual/bicultural families to get together and play, read and socialize in Spanish. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (5/14), 5:30-7:30pmGary Kauffman, USDA Forest Service Biologist, program on Buck Creek Serpentine Barren in the Nantahala Forest. Free.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • TU (5/14), 7pm - Josh Goforth, storytelling and music. Registration required. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TU (5/14), 7pm -Mull it Over: Librarian Led Book Club discusses Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann. Free to attend.

Held at High Five Coffee, 13 Rankin Ave. • WE (5/15), 3pm - History Book Club: Dr. Mutter's Marvels by Cristin O'Keef Aptowicz. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TH (5/16), 5:30pm - Friends of the South Buncombe Library Book Club: The Increment by David Ignatius. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115, firestorm.coop • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 2:30pm - Wild Words writing group. Free to attend.

• TU (5/14), 6:30pm - Chiapas Book

Club: When a Woman Rises by Christine Eber.

Free to attend.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync. org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild.

Free.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (5/8), 6pm - Delia Owens presents his book, Where the Crawdads Sing. Free to attend.

• TH (5/9), 6pm - Brian Panowich presents his book, Like Lions. Free to attend.

• MO (5/13), 6pm - Sarah Stacke presents her book, Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum. Free to attend.

• MO (5/13), 7pm - Tena Frank discusses Ordinary Grace by William Kent Krueger. Free to attend.

• TU (5/14), noon - The pick for May is Photos Day or Night: The Archive of Hugh Mangum by Sarah Stacke. Free to attend.

• TU (5/15), 6pm Edward Espe Brown presents his book, The Most Important Point, in conversation with Danny S. Parker. Free to attend.

• TH (5/16), 6pm - Peter Guzzardi presents his book, Emeralds of Oz: Life Lessons from Over the Rainbow. Free to attend.

• TH (5/16), 7pm - The May reading is Black Tudors: The Untold Story

by Miranda Kaufmann.

Free to attend.

SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS SERIES • TH (5/9), 6pm Southern Storytellers Series: Ron Rash. $20/$10 students. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville WRITERS AT WOLFE WITH BRUCE JOHNSON • TH (5/9), 5:30-7pm Writers at Wolfe Series:

"Tom, Scott and Zelda," presentation by Bruce Johnson. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St.

THEATER 'ALONG ABOUT SUNDOWN' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/18) - Along About Sundown, musical.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 3pm. Reservations: parkwayplayhouse. com. $24/$13 kids. Held at Parkway Playhouse, Burnsville 'BUNCOMBE TOWER' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/10) until (6/2) - Buncombe Tower, satire. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $22/$10 students. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. 'OLEANNA' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/3) until (5/12) - Oleanna. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $20/$15 students and youth. Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville 'POTTY PEOPLE' • SUNDAYS (5/12) through (5/26), 7:30pm - Potty People, one woman show with Zoey Laird. $15/$10 students.

Held at Magnetic 375, 375 Depot St. 'SPEECH AND DEBATE' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/26) Speech and Debate, dark comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm & Sun.: 2:30pm. $20. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. 'STONES IN HIS POCKETS' • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (4/24) until (5/19) - Stones in His Pockets, dark comedy.

Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. Saturday matinees on May 11 and 18, 2pm. $17-$36/$10 students.

Held at NC Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane

GALLERY DIRECTORY 310 ART • Large Works, group exhibition.

May 2-June 30 191 Lyman St., #310 ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY • Senior art exhibition featuring the work of eight students graduating with degrees in the visual arts.

April 24-May 10 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 1 Page Ave. • Beyond Knowing, exhibition curated by David Sheldon.

May 10-June 21 • Postcards From the Edge, traveling exhibit of postcard-sized artwork.

May 2-May 31 • Vance Elementary School 5th Grade artwork exhibition.

May 2-May 31 ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART • The Color of Rain, exhibition featuring the paintings of Cheryl Keefer.

May 1-May 31 82 Patton Ave. AVENUE M • Eye to Eye and Heart to Heart, drawings and paintings by Jared Massanari.

May 7-May 31 791 Merrimon Ave. BENDER GALLERY • Everything is True, Nothing is Permitted, solo exhibition of ash and charcoal paintings by Tom Pazderka.

May 3-May 31 29 Biltmore Ave. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS • Becoming Whole: A Study of Art and Healing, exhibition of works focused on mental health curated by The Black Mountain Counseling Center.

April 12-May 10 225 W. State St., Black Mountain

FLOW GALLERY • Light 'Em Up, exhibition of lamps and lighting fixtures from seven artists in a variety of mediums.

April 19-May 17 14 South Main St., Marshall FOLK ART CENTER • Exhibition of works from Haywood Community College’s Professional Crafts program graduates.

May 5-June 23 MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway GRACE CHURCH IN THE MOUNTAINS • Icons in Transformation, traveling exhibition featuring work by Ludmila Pawlowska.

April 28-June 16 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY • Exhibition of paintings

by Stefan Horik.

April 12-May 10 11 Boston Way GREEN SAGE CAFE WESTGATE • Breathless, exhibition of underwater photography

by John Highsmith.

April 17-May 22 70 Westgate Parkway HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • Elemental, exhibition of wood, metal, glass, fiber and clay art.

May 3-June 1 86 N. Main St., Waynesville MARK BETTIS STUDIO & GALLERY • 828, exhibition of works by five local artists with over 50 8x8 works.

April 13-May 11 123 Roberts St. MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT • Art walk and open house featuring work by

Sondra Dorn, Terry Gess and Bryant Holsenbeck.

April 5-June 17 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville MOMENTUM GALLERY • Dissolution, twoperson, mixed media exhibition featuring works by Seth Clark and Jason Forck.

May 2-June 22 24 North Lexington Ave. MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN • People of the Clay: Contemporary Cherokee Potters, exhibition featuring works by over 60 potters from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and Cherokee Nation.

April 6-May 11 589 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee ODD'S CAFE • Allowed in the House, exhibition of paintings

by Nicolette Leigh Yates.

Reception: Friday, May 10, 6:30-8:30pm.

May 2-May 31 800 Haywood Road OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER • Does Size Matter?, exhibition of works from Open Hearts artists.

Reception: Thursday, May 16, 5-7pm.

May 16-May 31 217 Coxe Ave. OVER EASY CAFE • Mer, group art exhibition curated by Justine Briggs.

May 3-May 31 32 Broadway St. PINK DOG CREATIVE • In Times Like These, exhibition of contemporary poetry and visual art curated

by Laurie Wilcox-Meyer, Cherry Lentz Saenger and Hedy Fischer.

Reception: Friday, May 10, 5:30-7:30pm.

May 10-June 9 348 Depot St. PUBLIC EVENTS AT A-B TECH • A-B Tech student art exhibition. May 3-May 29 16 Fernihurst Drive REVOLVE • My Place, or Yours?, collaborative works of over 18 artists curated by Cara Hagen.

April 17-May 22 821 Riverside Drive, #179

SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE MUSEUM • Infused in History, exhibition regarding tea and tea history.

April 24-May 22 283 Victoria Road SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM • Beacon Manufacturing Company operated in Swannanoa from 1924 – 2002 and was once the largest blanket manufacturer in the world. Exhibit about the Beacon blanket mill and its impact on the Swannanoa Valley.

April 13-Nov. 1 223 W State St., Black Mountain

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THE VILLAGE POTTERS • Bob Brotherton: Humble Pots from a Gentle Man, exhibition of pottery by Bob Brotherton. Reception: Saturday, May 11, 5-7pm.

May 11-July 6 191 Lyman St., #180

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TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY • Upstate, exhibition of photographs by Tema Stauffer.

April 12-May 10 188 Coxe Ave. UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon • Disrupted Narratives, exhibition of works

by Caren Stansell and Miranda Mims Sawyer.

May 11-June 21 • Pop to Pattern, exhibition of works by Mark Brosseau, David Cedrone and Mark Holland.

May 11-June 21 YMI CULTURAL CENTER • Examine the Past, Create the Future, exhibition of works by Joan E. Gardner and Alvin C. Jacobs.

April 30-June 5 39 South Market St. ZAPOW! • May The Fourth Be With You, exhibition of space related art by local artists.

April 19-May 22 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101

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CARL SANDBURG HOME NHS • Let a Joy Keep You, exhibition of Henderson county youth art.

April 17-May 22 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock

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

April 27-May 26 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain

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ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: Folk duo Ordinary Elephant (husband and wife Pete and Crystal Damore) was the 2017 Folk Music Awards Artist of the Year and competed in last year’s LEAF Festival Singer-Songwriter Competition. The group’s sophomore effort, Honest, reflects on the couple’s past, surroundings and triumphs, and nods to inspirations such as Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings. Ordinary Elephant launches that album at Isis Music Hall on Sunday, May 19, 6 p.m. $12 advance/$15 day of show. isisasheville.com. Photo by Olive & West

WEDNESDAY, MAY 8 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, 8:00PM ALLEY CAT WINE BAR Karoake w/ Kitty Savage, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Bity City Blues Jam w/ host Chicago Don, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 9:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society, 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners & Brody Hunt & The Handfuls, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S The Sore Losers, 7:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER Andy Cohen w/ Ash Devine, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Saylor Brothers Bluegrass, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL Woven Green, 7:00PM

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ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Woven Green, 7:00PM Hubby Jenkins, 8:30PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque Chamber-Folk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show w/ Chris Wilhelm & Friends, 5:00PM Big Sandy and His FlyRite Boys, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam, 7:00PM Dyke Nyght, 9:00PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singersongwriter), 6:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Day & Dream w/ Luxury Club & Wyla, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE AMS Music Series 7:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Open Mic with David, 9:00PM

PULP Colby Dietz, 8:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH The Realtorz, 8:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Moonfish 2, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays at Sly Grog! Electronic collaboration, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, MAY 9 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Canned Heat Vinyl Night, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Jody Carroll (deep roots and blues), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Con Brio w/ April B. and the Cool, 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP SakeOke (Karaoke), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Electric Country Jam hosted by John Duncan, 7:00PM CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Zombie Takeover Day, 5:30PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (Swing & Western Swing), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN OLD GOLD w/ DJ Jasper (killer rock n' soul vinyl), 10:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FOLKMOOT FRIENDSHIP CENTER Southern Storytellers Supper Series w/ Ron Rash, 6:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Ben Saylor, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Thursday Night blues w/ The Patrick Dodd Trio, 7:00PM

WED

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series w/ Whistlepig, 5:30PM Acoustic Eidolon, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAKE EDEN Spring LEAF Festival, 4:00PM LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION (80's dance party), 10:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Pati Show w/ 5J Barrow, 5:00PM Choir!Choir!Choir!, 8:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo & Grant Cuthperson (American songbook, jazz), 6:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (rock n' roll), 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Skeletonwitch w/ Soft Kill, Wiegedood, Portrayal of Guilt, 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM Party Foul Weekly Drag (18+), 9:00PM

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Kozak & The Poets, 8:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Frazier Band, 10:00PM

THE WINE & OYSTER NC Songsmiths: Will Franke (electro-acoustic violin), 8:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Random Animals Trio, 9:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic hosted by Cody Hughes, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN The Caribbean Cowboys (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Dave Desmelik, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Chicano Batman, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Queer Punk Cake Off, 7:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Make Music Not Walls, 9:00PM Phantom Pantone (house beats), 11:00PM

THIS WEEK AT AVL MUSIC HALL & THE ONE STOP!!!

THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM

TIGER MOUNTAIN Retro Dance Party w/ DJ Nexmillen & Apollo Blaq, 10:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, MAY 10 5 WALNUT WINE BAR J.J. Hipps, (blues), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Farewell Party: Jordan Okrend Experience w/ Jamie Berlyn & Friends, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Galactic's Shamar Allen w/ Ashley Health & Her Heathens, 10:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz trio), 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM

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

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Frankie Boots w/ Nick Shoulders & the Okay Crawdad, 9:00PM

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

DOUBLE CROWN Rock n' Soul Obscurities w/ Wild Vinyl DJ, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Broke Jokes, Tony and the Haircuts, Fixed Faces, 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Tom Mackell Quartet, 8:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: 5j Barrow, 9:00PM

GINGER'S REVENGE Bob Barrick (folk), 4:00PM David Matters (contemporary folk), 7:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jesse Barry & The Jam, 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY AJ Ghent, 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Son Volt w/ Ian Noe, 9:00PM

HISTORIC BURKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE LAWN Morganton TGIF Summer Concert Series, 6:00PM

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Debbie Young, 1:45PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Brian Ashley Jones Duo w/ percussionist Richie Jones, 7:00PM Josephine County, 8:30PM

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

FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Red Dirt Revelators, 7:00PM

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NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Miles Nielsen and the Rusted Hearts, 5:30PM

ODDITORIUM Burlesque Benefit for The Legends of the Burlesque Hall of Fame, 9:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Purple (R&B, soul), 10:00PM

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CROW & QUILL Pimps of Pompe (hot jazz covers), 9:00PM

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LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville, 6:30PM

CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolet Set, 8:30PM

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LAZY DIAMOND Hot n' Nasty (rock n' soul vinyl) w/ DJ Hissy Cruise, 10:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Circus Mutt, 7:00PM

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C LUBLAND THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Flashback Friday Dance Night w/ Albi and The Lifters, (American Swing and French Chanson, lesson at 7), 7:00PM

COMING SOON WED 5/8 6:00PM–MUSIC ON THE LAWN: FWUIT

7:00PM–A MYSTICAL EVENING W/ WOVEN GREEN 8:30PM–HUBBY JENKINS

THU 5/9

6:00PM–MUSIC ON THE LAWN: WHISTLEPIG

7:00PM–ACOUSTIC EIDOLON

FRI 5/10

7:00PM–BRIAN ASHLEY JONES

(DUO WITH PERCUSSIONIST RICHIE JONES)

THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Blake Ellege Super Jam, 8:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Fleetwood's Lo-Fi Farmer's Market, 12:00PM Wrestling Benefit Rematch and Punk Show, 7:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Circles Around the Sun, 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM The Sweet Lillies w/ Jeff Mosier, 8:00PM

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

GINGER'S REVENGE

THE MOTHLIGHT Old Time Relijun w/ Okapi, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Paul McIntyre Trio, 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE Big Ivy Project, 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Phil Alley Trio (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

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SATURDAY, MAY 11 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Old North State, (southern pop/rock), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr Jimmy, 4:00PM

ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES 9:00PM–ELLIS DYSON & THE SHAMBLES

SUN 5/12 6:00PM–KRISTA SHOWS WITH DRUNKEN PRAYER 7:30PM–BILL STAINES

TUE 5/14 7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS HOSTED BY UNSPOKEN TRADITION

WED 5/15 6PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: QUEEN BEE & THE HONEYLOVERS

7:00PM–MONICA RIZZIO WITH JP PARSONS

THU 5/16 6:00PM–MUSIC ON THE LAWN: WHISTLEPIG

7:00PM–HOLLIER WITH JULIA SANDERS

FRI 5/17 7:00PM–MITCHEL EVAN & SAM RAE 9:00PM–JAMIE MCLEAN BAND

SAT 5/18 7:00PM–HOUSE OF HAMILL 8:30PM–JOHN MCCUTCHEON

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FINES CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER Bingo Night in Fines Creek, 6:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Jody Carroll (blues), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Dr. Bacon w/ Metaphonia, 10:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Lyric & DJ Nex Millen, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Tall Tellers, 7:00PM CECIL PARK, BILTMORE PARK TOWN SQUARE Concerts in the Park Series, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Zydeco Ya Ya, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Joseph Herbst Quartet (swing jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM

SCOTT BIANCHI (SINGERSONGWRITER), 2:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY All the Locals, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Ellis Dyson and The Shambles, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Jangling Sparrows w/ Modern Strangers, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Jenn Snyder, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Saturday Swing-aling w/ DJs Arieh & Chrissy, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Live Synth Saturdays, 7:00PM MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM NOBLE KAVA Michael Jefry Stevens Trio, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: GrudaTree, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Black Hole Sun: A Musical Celebration of Chris Cornell, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Grass Catchers & Crossfire, 1:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Grand Theft Audio (classic hits), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Laura Blackley & The Wildflowers, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Eggy, 9:00PM SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO. Lauren Anderson (roots, rock), 2:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE The Mug, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE CommUNITY Salsa/ Latin Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (lessons at 9:00), 9:30PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Soldado, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Porch 40 w/ Sanctum Sully & the Company Stores, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Vintage Comedy Show, 9:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Asheville Symphony: The Rite of Spring, 8:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY In It To Wynette: A Tribute to Tammy Wynette, 8:00PM WEAVER HOUSE The Paper Crowns (Appalachian folk, bluegrass), 7:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Flashback Band, 9:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM ZAMBRA Killawatts (jazz), 8:00PM

SUNDAY, MAY 12 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Roots & Dore, (Blues/ Roots), 7:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Society Meeting & Player's Circle, 1:00PM Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:30PM BYWATER Sunday Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Alex Culbreth, 6:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TIM O, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Larkin, Oragami Ghost, Jon Charles Dwyer, 8:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Krista Shows w/ Drunken Prayer, 6:00PM Bill Staines, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Game of Thrones (screening, food, costume contest), 9:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch: Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LAZY DIAMOND David Wilcox, Beth Nielson Chapman, Jean Rohe, 9:30PM

TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 15 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night THE SUNDAY SOCIAL LUB C IC ON THE P MUS ATIO @ 4:30PM

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ODDITORIUM Paladin, Nemesis (metal), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Soul Jam, 6:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Sound Traveler & Slight Departure, 1:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Open Mic Night w/ Laura Blackley w/ Lo Wolf, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Tash Sultana w/ Pierce Brothers, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Spring Arts Festival, 1:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Mic, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Lucky James, 1:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Roots, Rock, Reggae Prison Benefit, 2:00PM Sunday Blues Dance, 7:30PM THE BARRELHOUSE Open Jam, 6:00PM

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THE GREY EAGLE DRAG Ya Mamma to Brunch! (drag show), 12:30PM Patio Show w/ Katie Sachs, 5:00PM

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

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THE MOTHLIGHT Daughter Dear w/ Isabel Castellvi & Tyler Sound, 7:00PM

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UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Mama Tried: Mother's Day Music, 3:00PM Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz, 8:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM

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MONDAY, MAY 13 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club, (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round, 5:30PM DAYS INN & CONFERENCE CENTER Guitar League Asheville, 6:00PM

UPCOMING SHOWS: DOORS 8PM

MAY 10

FARWELL CONCERT FOR JORDAN OKREND EXPERIENCE

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JOSH BLAKE'S ACOUSTIC BAND "NOTHING'S IN THE WAY"

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DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Negro Terror (punk documentary and band) Asheville Premiere, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7:30PM Open Mic, 9:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and Friends, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Open Mic Night (7:30 Sign Up), 9:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Music Video Asheville: Take 2, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Porch Magazine's 531 - Five Stories, three songs, one community., 6:30PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Shutterings Album Release w/ Early Branch & Jaeb, 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Monday Night Bluegrass Jam, 8:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Salvage Station & Safety First Nursing: Fundraiser for Rose (music, raffles, Haitian artwork), 5:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team Trivia w/ Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Monica Rizzio, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing AVL Tuesday Dance w/ The Low Down Sires (lessons at 7, 8), 9:00PM Blues Dance, 11:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Sugaray Rayford, 8:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo & Grant Cuthperson (American songbook, jazz), 6:00PM

ODDITORIUM The Emotron, Andy the Doorbum (art/experimental), 9:00PM

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

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Billy Litz (MultiInstrumentalist), 9:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM

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

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Lee Ross (funk), 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Gypsy Jazz Jam w/ Steve Karla & Phil Alley, 8:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Inter Arma w/ Thantifaxath & Harsh Realm, 9:00PM

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

TUESDAY, MAY 14

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia Night, 6:30PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

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SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays at Sly Grog! Electronic collaboration, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM

FLEETWOOD'S Queer Comedy Party ft.

Annick Adelle, 9:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, (African folk music), 8:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Chris Jamison, 6:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by Unspoken Tradition, 7:30PM

ALLEY CAT WINE BAR Karoake w/ Kitty Savage, 8:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Asheville's Most Wanted Funk Bandits, Kazz & Unk, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Honky Tonk Tuesday w/ Tom Pittman, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Mystery Girl & Tony & The Haircuts (77 punk), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Synth Club, 7:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jazz Mondays hosted by Ray Ring & Jason DeCristofaro, 8:30PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays Open Jam, 6:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesday, 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Free Open Mic Comedy, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chili Slaw Sessions w/ Tom Kirschbaum & Friends, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, Klezmer, and Turkish party band), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Gracie Lane + HonkyTonk DJ, 9:00PM FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque Chamber-Folk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 5:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Pup w/ Ratboys & Casper Skulls, 8:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singersongwriter), 6:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Marc Rebillet w/ Toybox Theatre, America's Favorite Cartoon Witch, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE AMS Music Series at Social Lounge, 7:30PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM

MOVIE REVIEWS

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Lane’s film unpacks the fascinating legal, personal and, yes, religious — untraditional as the temple is in that regard — stories behind the debate, focusing on the witty and extremely likable members of the temple. The standout is figurehead and founder Lucien Greaves, who traces the history of Satanism (which is not about worshipping the devil, but rather celebrating individualism and progressive thought) and its stakes in today’s political landscape as it faces down “Christian privilege.”

The story is compelling, and the film itself is fun and inquisitive, interweaving footage from Fox News, government hearings and the Westboro Baptist Church with biblical cartoons. Also in the mix are clips from The Ten Commandments, whose director, Cecil B. DeMille, drummed up a publicity stunt for the film that inspired many of those Ten Commandments statues all over the U.S. Through it all, Greaves and his cohorts retain their poise in the face of some serious bigotry. The world right now needs more people like them. And, frankly, that Baphomet statue would look great if they ever manage to put it up.

Now playing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY ALI MCGHEE ALIMCGHEE@GMAIL.COM

REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

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DIRECTOR: Jonathan Levine PLAYERS: Charlize Theron, Seth Rogen COMEDY RATED R The line “It’s Pretty Woman, but she’s Richard Gere and you’re Julia Roberts” didn’t make it from the Long Shot trailer into the film’s final cut, but the sentiment is nonetheless evident throughout.

Though worthy of a laugh in trailer form, the summary statement was perhaps deemed too obvious by director Jonathan Levine (50/50) and his talented cast and crew, whose resistance to spelling out the theme is one reason why their film is a truly great comedy.

Bolstered by Seth Rogen’s typical potent combination of pop culture references and evergreen comedy that continues to feel fresh and exciting with each new film, Long Shot stars the polarizing actor as journalist Fred Flarsky. Mired in a sudden career funk, he randomly crosses paths with his former neighbor/baby sitter/crush Charlotte Field (Charlize Theron), who just so happens to be the U.S. secretary of state, as she is about to announce her presidential candidacy and needs a speechwriter.

As the pair makes eyes from the getgo, it’s no mystery that they’ll become romantically entangled, but thanks to the smart balance of female/male humor from screenwriters Liz Hannah (The Post) and Dan Sterling (The Interview), their evolving relationship plays out as a lighthearted male fantasy rendered delightfully believable.

Credit goes to Theron and the writing team for positing Charlotte as a beautiful, smart woman, capable of making genuine, emotional connections with people and favoring those relationships over mere physical ones.

After a decade-plus of being relegated to serious roles in the wake of her Oscar-winning dramatic turn in Monster, Theron’s sharp work here and in 2018’s Tully and Gringo suggests filmmakers are finally tapping into the comedic potential she flashed in season three of “Arrested Development” (2005).

Read the full review at ashevillemovies. com

Hail Satan?

DIRECTOR: Penny Lane PLAYERS: Jex Blackmore, Nicholas Crowe, Lucien Greaves DOCUMENTARY RATED R In 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that student-led prayer at public-school sporting events needed to stop. For me, an Asheville teen who had eschewed Christianity in the fourth grade, that decision was a breath of fresh air and a stand against the blatant disregard of the separation of church and state that I saw on a regular basis.

But the winds of change didn’t quite make it down to the South.

Prayers continued, my math teacher railed about the sins of being gay, and “We Still Pray” bumper stickers popped up on cars all over town.

I wish the Satanic Temple had been around then. With that savvy band of merry pranksters demanding equal representation for all religions, those invasive prayers might have ended. That’s the effect the Temple has in the documentary Hail Satan?, which chronicles the group’s rise and entry into the political sphere.

You may be familiar with the temple’s attempts to erect Baphomet statues at several state capitol buildings in response to legislators pushing to install stone tablets featuring the Ten Commandments. Penny

THIS WEEK’S CONTRIBUTORS

Sunset (R) HHHH Tolkien (PG-13) HHHS JUST ANNOUNCED. Detective Pikachu (PG) The titular Pokémon and his missing detective partner’s son team up to solve the disappearance.

The Hustle (PG-13) A remake of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson.

Poms (PG-13) A group of women form a cheerleading squad at their retirement community.

Red Joan (R) A British widow is accused of selling government secret to the Soviets. At Grail Moviehouse.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS Amazing Grace (G) HHHHH Ask Dr. Ruth (NR) HHHHS Avengers: Endgame (PG13) HHHHS Breakthrough (PG) HHS Captain Marvel (PG-13) HHHS The Curse of La Llorona (R) H Dumbo (PG) HS Hail Satan? (R) HHHHS(Pick of the Week) How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (PG) HHHHS The Intruder (PG-13) HHS Little (PG-13) HHHH Long Shot (R) HHHH The Mustang (R) HHH Penguins (G) HHH Pet Sematary (R) HHH Shazam! (PG-13) HHH They Shall Not Grow Old (R) HHHS UglyDolls (PG) H The Upside (PG-13) HHHH Us (R) HHHH

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Sunset HHHH DIRECTOR: László Nemes PLAYERS: Juli Jakab, Evelin Dobos DRAMA/FOREIGN FILM RATED R The unfortunately ambiguous title of Sunset refers to the European aristocracy in the years before World War I. The central character is Írisz Leiter (Juli Jakab), a young woman who has returned to Budapest from her boarding school to get a job in the high-end millinery shop that still bears the name of her dead parents. Írisz soon learns she has a brother she

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didn’t know about, and he’s some kind of criminal or anarchist, and she starts searching the dark reaches of the city to learn more.

The camera follows her like a shadow, peering over her shoulder, taking her point of view or skittering backward in front of her as she walks, fixed on her face. This filmmaking style will be familiar to anyone who’s seen Son of Saul, the Oscar-winning first feature by Hungarian director László Nemes, set in a Nazi death camp.

While Saul was a nightmare, Sunset is more of a fever dream. It’s generally mesmerizing, and lead actress Jakab holds the audience’s attention as she goes out on her usually unexplained explorations. The growing chaos and a series of disturbing, violent events are portrayed as sometimes out-of-focus backdrops for Írisz’s search for herself.

It’s pointless to try to summarize more of the plot because much of it remains ambiguous. Everyone in Sunset peppers everyone else with questions, and never are any of them directly answered.

Nemes favors craftsmanship over storytelling and mood over clarity, weaving a haunting tapestry of impressions and inference.

Read the full review at ashevillemovies. com Opens May 10 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

The Intruder HHS DIRECTOR: Deon Taylor PLAYERS: Meagan Good, Dennis Quaid THRILLER RATED PG-13 The home invasion film isn’t new, and neither is a movie featuring a charming and charismatic murderer. You wouldn’t have to search hard to find a better one than The Intruder, either.

If you’ve seen the trailer, you know the story already. Annie and Scott (Meagan Good and Michael Ealy) buy a house in the country. The former owner Charlie (Dennis Quaid) won’t stop popping by uninvited. Then Charlie turns out to be a crazy murderer.

That’s a good enough story for a thriller, and Quaid’s portrayal looked sublimely loopy in the preview. Everyone loves a casting choice in a movie that makes you think, “Wow, this could be good — or really, really bad.” Remember Heath Ledger’s Joker casting for The Dark Knight setting the internet ablaze?

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SCREEN SCENE Quaid dives right into this role headfirst, but the film gives his psycho character little else to do besides unsolicited lawn mowing and sharing some Napa Valley grape juice with Annie. That is, until the buckshot starts flying and really devaluing his beloved former home.

I was going to say the movie could have benefited from a good twist to spice up a rather run-of-the-mill story, but then I remembered there is one. Or, rather, a loose downward spiral leading right to an obvious conclusion about Charlie’s dearly departed wife. (Hey, I’m not spoiling! It’s all there in the trailer!)

The film teeters on good old-fashioned camp but seems to butt heads with itself with its equal share of bland contemporary sleekness. Credit is apparently due to director Deon Taylor, whose “vision is iconic” according to his (self-written?)

IMDb bio. Iconic here, however, means he uses other people’s iconography. Can you say, “Here’s Johnny!”?

Though all new releases daring to oppose Avengers: Endgame this month are being sweetly put to rest, I do feel The Intruder could live a happy second life as a home video/streaming nugget — something to share with friends over pizza and numerous beers. Choice cuts of dialogue like “I gotta get my ass back to Napa” help, plus the fact that Ms. Good’s hair is, well, not so good.

(Someone is bound to invent a drinking game based on her bonkers wardrobe as well.)

If only the film leaned into its own inherent campiness, I think everyone would be happier. Maybe then, Charlie & Co. could find a place to call home.

REVIEWED BY CASEY ELLIS C.DALTON.ELLIS@GMAIL.COM

Tolkien HHHS DIRECTOR: Dome Karukoski PLAYERS: Nicholas Hoult, Lily Collins BIOPIC/DRAMA RATED PG-13 A respectful portrait of the writer of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings as a young man, Tolkien doesn’t change the literary biopic game but stands apart from much of its competition as a wellmade, honorable presentation of the author’s formative years.

The latest feature from Dome Karukoski (Tom of Finland) also takes certain noncorny approaches regarding geniuses and their inspirations that more entries in this subgenre would be wise to follow, though the rarity of risks on display and the fairly tidy overall package in which Tolkien is wrapped unfortunately keeps the film firmly in safe cinematic territory.

Two years after playing J.D. Salinger in the insulting and unimaginative Rebel in the Rye, Nicholas Hoult finds a

movie about an iconic fiction-penning, PTSD-suffering war veteran worthy of his talents.

Whether debating art and life with his three devoted school chums, endearing himself to love-interest Edith Bratt (Lily Collins, Mirror Mirror), or reflecting on his time with these cherished individuals during the Battle of the Somme, Hoult’s Tolkien is a deeply appealing figure and one for whom viewers wish nothing but success — perhaps to a fault.

Compensating for his lack of depth are the real-world experiences and emotions that will color Tolkien’s beloved fantasy stories, decrying the notion that creativity is rooted in a simple one-toone correlation with autobiography.

Were its regal, no-fuss filmmaking willing to match the script’s daringness, Tolkien might be something truly special, but in its current form, it’s still well worth seeing.

Opens May 10 at the Fine Arts Theatre REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

UglyDolls H DIRECTOR: Kelly Asbury PLAYERS: The voices of Kelly Clarkson, Nick Jonas ANIMATED/MUSICAL RATED PG Whenever my daughter and I go out to the movies, she always gives a “thumbs up” or a “thumbs down” to the trailers we see. For months, Kelly Asbury’s UglyDolls has been getting a big “thumbs down.” That is until she started seeing commercials for the accompanying toy line on TV. Suddenly, the movie had her interest, and she couldn’t wait to go.

She may not have seen through the toy pusher’s blatant cash grab (she’s only 4), but I certainly did. If there’s one thing UglyDolls succeeds at, it’s being exactly what I expected it to be: a 91-minute stuffed animal commercial.

The ugly dolls of Uglyville live a happy, nearly utopian life. When Moxy, the pluckiest of them all (voiced by Kelly Clarkson), decides to see what lies beyond their society of reject toys, the adventure begins. She (and a band of fellow misfits) discover the Insitute of Perfection — a training ground for “perfect” dolls. Trouble ensues, songs are sung, and everything wraps up in a nice, emotionally manipulative package that, at best, will end with plush toys under Christmas trees come December. As long as something better doesn’t come along in the meantime, anyway.

Aside from the obvious and distasteful marketing ploy, UglyDolls also isn’t very fun. (When a 4-year-old doesn’t laugh, you’re in trouble — regardless of whether their thumb is up or down.) It fancies

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NURSE’S AID: Asheville-based filmmaker Rod Murphy, left, and Tamera Pearson, center, of Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing review a script with family nurse practitioner Jennifer Lewis during filming for a video series related to the opioid epidemic. Aiming to assist WCU students and area primary care health providers, the videos will be ready for viewing in June. Photo courtesy of Western Carolina University • Tamera Pearson, a professor in Western Carolina University’s School of Nursing, is working with Asheville-based documentary filmmaker Rod Murphy to produce a video series related to the opioid epidemic. The goal of the collaboration is to enhance classroom instruction for WCU’s nurse practitioner students and assist area primary care health providers, who are often tasked with addressing their patients’ acute or chronic pain issues without contributing to the opioid problem.

Filming on the three-part series began the weekend of April 13 at WCU’s Biltmore Park campus, and the production combines insights from experts on the topic, along with dramatic scripted scenes. Funding is being provided through a U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration grant that was awarded to the School of Nursing, and the videos will be ready for viewing by late June. They will be distributed at WCU and the Mountain Area Health Education Center for use in training programs. Those interested in viewing

FILM 'BENT ON SOMNOLENCE' • SA (5/11), 6pm - Bent On Somnolence, screening of a short film

by Timothy McCarthy.

Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road 'IMPRISONING A GENERATION' • WE (5/15), 6pm Imprisoning a Generation,

documentary film screening and presentation regarding the "No Way To Treat A Child," campaign. Sponsored by the Joint Legislative Committee of Just Peace for Israel/Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace Asheville. Free. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. 'THRIVE' • FR (5/10), 6-8pm Thrive, movie screening.

itself in the same category as Toy Story or Monsters, Inc., but, of course, it isn’t.

Those films at least have an emotional center and some character depth.

UglyDolls has tedium and predictable monotony. There was room in the story for some interesting thematic elements,

or using the videos in their groups are invited to contact Pearson at tlpearson@ wcu.edu. wcu.edu • Asheville Parks and Recreation’s Movies in the Park series returns to Pack Square Park on Friday, May 10, with Cars 3. Family-friendly activities begin at 6:30 p.m., and the movie will start at dusk on a giant outdoor screen on the park stage. Attendees are encouraged to bring snacks, chairs and blankets. Free to attend. ashevillenc.gov/departments/parks • In preparation for its production of the musical Hands on a Hardbody (June 7-30), Asheville Community Theatre hosts a screening of the source documentary by the same name on Tuesday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. S.R. Bindler’s 1997 film chronicles the endurance test among two dozen small-town Texans to see who can remain standing the longest with one hand on a new pickup truck and thereby win the vehicle. Tickets are $5 and available online and at the ACT box office. ashevilletheatre.org X

Free. Held at Waynesville Creative Thought Center, 449-D Pigeon St., Waynesville FLOOD GALLERY WORLD CINEMA: 'MY LIFE AS A DOG' • FR (5/10), 8-10pm - World Cinema: Lasse Hallstrom's 1985 Swedish dramedy My Life as a Dog. Admission by donation. Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center,

850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain SUMMER HISTORIC DOCUMENTARY SERIES • 3rd THURSDAYS through August, 5:30pm - Summer Historic Documentary Series, event featuring film screenings on historical topics.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Swannanoa Valley Museum, 223 W State St., Black Mountain

but the scattered script and erratic pacing derails any possibility of this at every turn.

Add to that the completely forgettable songs, and UglyDolls quickly becomes a waste of time.

REVIEWED BY JAMES ROSARIO JAMESROSARIO1977@GMAIL.COM

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Time to shake things up!

In the next three weeks, I invite you to try at least three of the following experiments. 1. See unusual sights in familiar situations. 2. Seek out new music that both calms you and excites you. 3. Get an inspiring statue or image of a favorite deity or hero. 4. Ask for a message from the person you will be three years from now. 5. Use your hands and tongue in ways you don’t usually use them. 6. Go in quest of a cathartic release that purges frustration and rouses holy passion. 7. Locate the sweet spot where deep feeling and deep thinking overlap.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According to science writer Sarah Zielinski in Smithsonian magazine, fireflies produce the most efficient light on planet Earth. Nearly 100% of the energy produced by the chemical reaction inside the insect’s body is emitted as a brilliant glow.

With that in mind, I propose that you regard the firefly as your spirit creature in the coming weeks. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you, too, will be a dynamic and proficient generator of luminosity.

For best results, don’t tone down your brilliance, even if it illuminates shadows people are trying to hide.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s a message from author Susan J. Elliott: “This is not your week to run the universe. Next week is not looking so good either.” Now here’s a message from me: Elliott’s revelation is very good news! Since you won’t have to worry about trying to manage and fine-tune the universe, you can focus all your efforts on your own self-care. And the coming weeks will be a favorable time to do just that. You’re due to dramatically upgrade your understanding of what you need to feel healthy and happy and then take the appropriate measures to put your new insights into action.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next three weeks will be an excellent time to serve as your own visionary prophet and dynamic fortune-teller. The predictions and conjectures you make about your future destiny will have an 85% likelihood of being accurate. They will also be relatively free of fear and worries. So I urge you to give your imagination permission to engage in fun fantasies about what’s ahead for you. Be daringly optimistic and exuberantly hopeful and brazenly self-celebratory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo poet Stanley Kunitz told his students, “You must be very careful not to deprive the poem of its wild origin.” That’s useful advice for anyone who spawns anything, not just poets. There’s something unruly and unpredictable about every creative idea or fresh perspective that rises up in us. Do you remember when you first felt the urge to look for a new job or move to a new city or search for a new kind of relationship? Wildness was there at the inception.

And you needed to stay in touch with the wildness so as to follow through with practical action. That’s what I encourage you to do now. Reconnect with the wild origins of the important changes you’re nurturing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I have no complaints about the measures you’ve taken recently to push past unnecessary limits and to break outworn taboos. In fact, I celebrate them. Keep going! You’ll be better off without those decaying constraints. Soon you’ll begin using all the energy you have liberated and the spaciousness you have made available. But I do have one concern: I wonder if part of you is worried that you have been too bold and have gone too far. To that part of you I say: No! You haven’t been too bold. You haven’t gone too far.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dreamt of a past that frees its prisoners.” So wrote Meena Alexander in her poem “Question Time.” I’d love for you to have that experience in the coming weeks. I’d love for you be released from the karma of your history so that you no longer have to repeat old patterns or feel weighed down by what happened to you once upon a time. I’d love for you to no longer have to answer to decayed traditions and outmoded commitments and lost causes. I’d love for you to escape the pull of memories that tend to drag you back toward things that can’t be changed and don’t matter any more.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Desire is a profoundly upsetting force,” writes author Elspeth Probyn. “It may totally rearrange what we think we want. Desire skews plans and sets forth unthought-of possibilities.”

In my opinion, Probyn’s statements are half-true. The other half of the truth is that desire can also be a profoundly healing and rejuvenating force and for the same reasons: It rearranges what we think we want, alters plans and unleashes unthought-of possibilities.

How does all this relate to you? From what I can tell, you are now on the cusp of desire’s two overlapping powers. What happens next could be upsetting or healing, disorienting or rejuvenating. If you’d like to emphasize the healing and rejuvenating, I suggest you treat desire as a sacred gift and a blessing.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who never really loved us.” My Sagittarian friend Ellen made that sad observation. Is it true for you? Ellen added the following thoughts: So much of what we learn about love is taught by people who were too narcissistic or wounded to be able to love very well; and by people who didn’t have many listening skills and therefore didn’t know enough about us to love us for who we really are; and by people who love themselves poorly and so of course find it hard to love anyone else. Is any of this applicable to what you have experienced, Sagittarius? If so, here’s an antidote that I think you’ll find effective during the next seven weeks: Identify the people who have loved you well and the people who might love you well in the future — and then vow to learn all you can from them.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Capricorn fantasy novelist Laini Taylor creates imaginary worlds where heroines use magic and wiles to follow their bliss while wrangling with gods and rascals. In describing her writing process, she says, “Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs and fascinating religions.” She adds, “I have plundered tidbits of history and lore to build something new, using only the parts that light my mind on fire.” I encourage you to adopt her strategies for your own use in the coming weeks. Be alert for gleaming goodies and tricky delicacies and alluring treats. Use them to create new experiences that thrill your imagination. I believe the coming weeks will be an excellent time to use your magic and wiles to follow your bliss while wrangling with gods and rascals.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “I was always asking for the specific thing that wasn’t mine,” wrote poet Joanne Kyger. “I wanted a haven that wasn’t my own.”

If there is any part of you that resonates with that defeatist perspective, Aquarius, now is an excellent time to begin outgrowing or transforming it. I guarantee you that you’ll have the potency you need to retrain yourself: so that you will more and more ask for specific things that can potentially be yours; so that you will more and more want a haven that can be your own.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m not a fan of nagging. I don’t like to be nagged and I scrupulously avoid nagging others. And yet now I will break my own rules so as to provide you with your most accurate and helpful horoscope. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you aren’t likely to get what you truly need and deserve in the coming days unless you engage in some polite, diplomatic nagging. So see what you can do to employ nagging as a graceful, even charming art.

For best results, infuse it with humor and playfulness.

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BEER WEEK 2019 GUIDE

COMING MAY 22!

15 Annual mystery writer’s award 16 Pageant topper 20 ___ access 21 Still in one piece 22 Kind of pork on a Chinese menu 23 “… am I right?!”

26 Sch. system with campuses in Pullman and Spokane 27 Big part of an elephant 28 Aromatherapy spot 29 Droop 30 Seattle-based retail DOWN giant 1 Goose ___ 31 Magic creatures of 2 Reine’s husband Jewish lore 3 One issuing red 32 Pass slowly and cards, for short carefully 4 The “C” of F.C. 37 Time to remember Barcelona 39 Bit of Oscar 5 Others, in a Latin list recognition, 6 Wait informally 7 Length of a quick 40 French article tennis match 41 Something to 8 Favorable outcome confess at a 9 Prez or veep confessional 10 Lucy’s man 44 Where’s it’s happening 11 Deuce follower 46 Kind of fly 12 Abstainer’s portion 14 Peacock’s walk 49 Competitor of Target

48 *Howard Carter, 1922 53 Heart and ___ 54 Ver-r-ry small 55 Google returns … or the answers to the four starred clues 62 Partner of part 63 Enhances, as an original recording 67 Old British biplanes with an apt name 68 Home of the Titans 69 Pick on 70 Unwanted blanket 71 Chicken ___

50 “Ben-___” 51 Bells and whistles, maybe 52 Exams 55 Dust-up 56 Overhang

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57 Verdi’s “La donna è mobile,” for one 58 Some HDTVs 59 Appear 60 “Let me think … huh-uh”

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61 Helmut of fashion 64 Topic in parapsychology, for short 65 Vintage car inits.

66 Possible reason for an R rating

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1 Goof 4 Mexican resort area, for short 8 Car body option 13 Bets everything one’s got 16 Bond wore a white one in “Goldfinger” 17 Commercial holiday mailing 18 Strands at a ski lodge, say 19 *Louis Pasteur, 1885 21 Losing poker player’s declaration 24 U2 can call it home 25 *Roald Amundsen, 1906 33 Street cleaning day event 34 “Stat!”

35 Where Apia is found 36 Queens’s Arthur ___ Stadium 38 *William Herschel, 1781 42 Half of square dance participants, typically 43 One-named Latin singer 45 “I’ll do that job” 47 Letter above a sleeping toon

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