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Why isn’t governor pushing to fix HB2? I have a question. A recent executive order issued by Gov. Pat McCrory adds sexual orientation and gender identity to the list of classes (such as race) against which North Carolina cannot discriminate in its own personnel practices. The governor’s action makes sense because discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is just as bad as racism. In fact, it only makes sense if such parity is the case. The state law known as HB2 established a list of classes (such as race) against which private-sector discrimination is now unlawful in North Carolina. The governor proclaimed this new statewide policy with much fanfare. He thought it was a real accomplishment. Almost as good as the recent Civil Rights Act of 1964. Yes, yes, I know. The law is toothless because it’s not supported by a right to sue in state court, but that’s not what I want to fuss about here. Here’s what I want to fuss about: The list of protected classes in HB2 inexplicably excluded sexual orientation and gender identity. This is one reason (though not the only one) why what could have been a

beautifully cosmetic advance in state civil rights law is called Hate Bill 2 (or worse) by everyone familiar with its provisions. And the state is losing tons of business and good will as a result. So now the question: If the governor sincerely believes that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity is just as bad as racism, why isn’t he pushing as hard as he can to get those groups added to HB2’s list of protected classes? It cannot be because he thinks that state government has no business regulating discriminatory practices in the private sector. HB2 already does that. As does federal law. It can only be because he thinks either that LGBT people are less worthy of fair treatment or that they are less discriminated against in everyday life. But the governor says no such things. He’s all sweetness and light on that score. Indeed, nary a supporter of HB2 will confess to any animus toward the LGBT community or any disrespect for their legitimate concerns. The law, they claim, is about other matters entirely. So what gives? ... I’ve raised this question with supporters of the law, and I have heard only evasions and bumptious sarcasm in reply. ... — Peter Robbins Marshall

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In response to the overwhelming judgments of transgendered people by “normal,” aka “cis” people, I do believe that these judgments are a fundamental misunderstanding of what it means to be transgendered. I am writing this as a cis female who has known few transgendered people and has educated myself on the deeper stories of who they are. One very notable commonality I have found is that the parents of these folks will tell you that their children have always identified as the opposite sex since they were toddlers. Now this is not the case 100 percent of the time, as I understand it, but it is a very common trait in transgendered people. They shun the clothing and hairdos and toys of their birth sex, and only seem happy when engaged in activities the opposite sex would enjoy, and when they look in the mirror and can see the girl that they feel they are to the core, even though they were born male. Or vice versa. This deeply affected me when I learned that this starts for people when they are very young, at their first sense of awareness of self. And just to be clear, I do not think this invalidates people who realize they identify as the opposite sex later in adolescence. I think it takes a long time to know yourself and find your own path sometimes. And I don’t believe anyone would choose to be transgendered just to be contrary to society. It looks to me like one of the hardest roads a person could walk, and all the hatred and misunderstanding certainly doesn’t help. Maybe we as a society could open our hearts to these people as being our fellow human beings, regardless of gender identity. — Lauren Loiacono Asheville

Where’s sensibility in locker-room scenario? I should think that the last thing a transgendered male would do in the locker room would be to swing her Johnson [“What About Locker Rooms in HB2 Issue?,” April 27, Xpress]. Come on folks, where’s sensibility? — Margot Kornfeld Asheville

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Thanks for HB2 commentary … A resounding thank you [to Ivy Hill] for your kind and clear [commentary] to us North Carolinians who aren’t afraid of restrooms, bigoted legislators or our own shadows [“A Community in Danger: Why Bathrooms Aren’t the Issue in HB2,” April 27, Xpress]. The climate of hate, fear and violence darkening our beautiful state will clear as the rest of us find the courage to stand up and speak up for all of God’s children. Bless your good heart. — Joan Tidwell Arden

Comply with law in short-term rentals I have been a real estate broker, property manager and investment property owner since 1984. I agree completely with Alan [Escovitz, “Neighborhood Group Opposes Expansion of Homestays,” April 27, Xpress]. There is nothing wrong with shortterm rentals. As a matter of fact, I currently own a vacation rental home at Lake Keowee. When I was searching for the property, the zoning was as important, or more important, as any other property feature on my must-have list. I bought in an area zoned for short-term rentals. I didn’t try to sneak into The Cliffs or restricted developments, then try to rent my home by the week. If I had, the community would issue a cease and desist [order], then impose a stiff fine, just like the city of Asheville should be doing. Zoning is enforced in every major city that has a growth plan. Without zoning, buying anything would always be a crapshoot. The city of Asheville already has single-family, residentialuse zoning. They just need to enforce it. No one should have the right to open a hotel-like business in a family-zoned neighborhood unless a zoning variance is issued. If you want to make extra money in short-term rentals, please go right ahead. Just comply with existing law and buy in the county or in an area zoned for that purpose. The law of highest and best use for zoned property defines location when buying real estate. — Tommi Crow Asheville

Asheville should ‘walk the walk’ with bulk recycling I have been in Asheville for nine years, long enough to witness accessible neighborhood recycling stations disappear. The recycling station behind Westgate Shopping Center: gone. The recycling station behind Asheville Pizza and Brewing on Merrimon Avenue: vanished. And the recycling station in the River Arts District: missing. I do try to think of Asheville as a green and environmentally conscious town, but, in this case, we are not backing up our persona with easy access to bulk recycling. If you think curbside recycling meets all of our recycling needs, just go to the Woodfin recycling station on Sunday evening to see an overflow of cardboard, bottle, cans, etc., strewn around the overfilled and glutted four recycling containers. I have lived in towns — not at all touted for their “green” ethos, even some would say with less-than-progressive values — that have figured out how to have accessible recycling wisely distributed in targeted neighborhood or city sections. I am sure this has its complexities and fiscal obstacles, but it does still seem like a foundational necessity in any environmentally conscious and responsible town. In its present state, however, and unfortunately, we seem to be “talking the right talk,” while not “walking the walk.” — M. Chambliss Asheville

Feeding pets raises conundrum of compassion Not too many thousands of years ago, for reasons about which there is much speculation, humans domesticated the carnivorous primogenitors of today’s cats and dogs. Although their bodies have undergone much change as a result of domestication and breeding, felines and canines have maintained and carried forward one distinctive trait: They are naturally designed to kill and eat other animals to survive. For conscientious individuals, those who are serious about a plantbased diet, the thought of killing animals and eating parts of their remains

c art o o n B Y B r e n t Br o w n is not a tenable way to go about life on Earth. A natural extension of the choice to be plant-based is this question: If I am unwilling to kill animals or to have them killed, rendered, cooked and put on my plate, then how is it justifiable for me to kill animals or to have them killed, rendered and put into the food bowl of a carnivorous companion animal? This is the crux of the conundrum of compassion that underlies Rowdy Keelor’s desire for “uncompromised compassion” toward all sentient beings and his desire to protect all animals [“Spreading the Word: Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Launches Asheville Vegan Outreach Initiative,” April 20, Xpress]. I wish it were otherwise, but unfortunately in keeping a cat or a dog, you have to participate in the exploitation and/or destruction of other animals. We believe that we display compassion by taking home a rescue animal. But who’s going to rescue all of those animals that will be put to death to feed the animals we have rescued? So, how does one deal with this problem? ... If you are making your dog or cat eat a vegetarian diet, are you being compassionate toward your companion animal? And how about Brother Wolf? Does Brother Wolf feed animals to other

animals? If the answer is yes, then that’s one very problematic answer. A few thousand years ago, a sage walked the Earth, and this saying is attributed to him: One is not called noble who harms living beings. By not harming living beings, one is called noble. It turns out that the question Mr. Keelor posed is a very good one for Mountain Xpress readers and for Mr. Keelor himself to consider: How can we love some (animals) so much but have this huge disconnect from others who are just as sentient and just as smart and want to live just as much? — Jim Brown Arden

Hearing-loss group offers information [Mountain Xpress’] issue of May 4 has articles about many local nonprofits. I’m writing for the Asheville chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America. I wish we could have been included. Fundraising is an enormous problem for us, as is securing an adequate number of volunteers, even though we have an excellent group of core organizers. May is Speech and Hearing Month. Our chapter is still very young and small, having met for just over a year.

We’d love to see or hear from you, and we’d love your help in maintaining a productive schedule for education and support. Those who have attended our meetings (third Saturday most months — not October — at 10.30 a.m. at Seymour Auditorium, Care Partners, 68 Sweeten Creek Road) will agree that we have had some excellent presentations by noteworthy speakers. Among the topics have been hearing aids, cochlear implants, services offered by the state’s Asheville office serving deaf and hard-of-hearing people, assistive listening devices that help in hearing alarms as well as speech or music in various personal and public settings, captioned telephones and communication tips. We’ve also had some good supportive discussions, including a panel about family communication when one member has hearing loss. On May 21, Ethel Meadows, our deputy president, will present on “Closed Captioning for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.” On June 18, Charles Spencer, loop installer, will speak on “Assistive Listening Devices: Getting More from Your Hearing Aids.” On July 16, Dr. Holly Godfrey, AuD, VA Medical Center chief of audiology, will discuss “Veterans and Hearing Loss” and on Aug. 20, attorney Holly Stiles will address legal rights of the hearing impaired.

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‘Miles Ahead’ insults Davis’ artistic legacy It’s understood that subjectivity comes into play when both viewing and reviewing a movie. Having said that, I must offer a strongly contrary opinion to Ken Hanke’s five-star lauding of Miles Ahead (April 27) [“Cranky Hanke Reviews & Listings”]. A simple definition of biopic is a “biographic movie,” yet the overriding storyline in the period it claims to represent bears little resemblance to Miles Davis’ actual life. Miles had a fascinating and absorbing life on its own merit. Why would [Don] Cheadle feel compelled to, as Miles might put it, “just make sh*t up?” Why toss in a totally fictitious narrative about a stolen tape, bring in characters that never existed, and for the love of God mix in a ludicrous chase scene (talk about a clichéd cheap trick!) and shootout?

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Seriously — Davis staggers into a prize fight with a gunshot wound and punches out some guy? Surely the biopics on Johnny Cash and Ray Charles, to choose two other iconic musicians, took some liberties with fact, but nothing like this debacle that looked more like “Shaft Meets Miami Vice” than a representation of reality. The most egregious falsehood was implying that some made-up 20-something junkie inspired Miles to return to music, when in fact it was his former wife Cicely Tyson who coaxed him out of his self-imposed years of drug-fueled darkness. I’ll give credit to Cheadle for portraying Miles’ prickly demeanor quite well; Emayatzy Corinealdi was terrific as Frances Taylor; and the music closing the film was superb. But aside from that, this film, in my opinion, is a disgrace and insult to Miles Davis’ legacy as an artist. — Eddie LeShure Asheville

Near-death experiences book will amaze Thank you for the near-death experience article [“Worlds in Collision: Near-death Experiences in WNC,” April 13, Xpress]. I will be interested in reading some of the books mentioned, because one particular book is not mentioned. Your readers who enjoy this sort of thing will want to first read the most complete and fantastic accounting of a NDE that I know of: Embraced by the Light, by Betty J. Eadie, a 1992 book. It will stun and amaze you, and make you wonder what, if any of it, is actually true! Happy reading, Mountain Xpress readers. — Billy Warlick Candler

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The Gospel According to Jerry I shot the sheriff by Jerry Sternberg The Buncombe County sheriffs in my lifetime have truly been an eclectic bunch. The most powerful officials in the county, they were responsible for keeping law and order — and (along with the clergy, of course) for protecting us from our sinful ways. Most of our sheriffs were very personable guys, but some suffered from addiction to the same sins they were supposed to be keeping under control. We had some very professional lawmen, but we also had alcoholics, gamblers, womanizers and one most unfortunate sheriff who made such bad decisions that he paid a tragic personal price. In the latter case, the county is still suffering a serious financial setback due to having to make amends to falsely accused persons who spent many years in prison. From the time I was born, in 1930, until I was 30 years old, I thought “Sheriff Brown” was one word, since I didn’t know any other sheriff. Lawrence Brown was generally a pretty good sheriff, and with Asheville and Buncombe County under the control of a powerful Democratic political machine, he ruled with an iron hand. Once, as a young teenager, I was out driving with my daddy — I believe it was in Swannanoa — and we passed a pasture where scores of beautiful Black Angus cattle were grazing. I was so impressed that I asked my daddy who the farm belonged to. Sheriff Brown, he said. I mused awhile and then asked my daddy how much money did we pay the sheriff. He said $8,000 a year. I then asked him how he could own such a big farm with so many fine cattle on such a low salary, and my daddy said, “He just manages his money well, son.” A strange series of events brought about Sheriff Brown’s downfall. When World War II and, later, Korean War veterans started coming back home, they formed a local chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce. We were starting new lives, new jobs and new businesses and were very concerned about the politics and general well-being of both Asheville and Buncombe County — particularly the good ol’ boy, “business as usual”

Jerry Sternberg political system that had been in place for years. There were some very bright and dedicated young men in the group, which produced many of Asheville’s leaders for the next 50 years. They worked hard to improve the community. Like most of those who came out of the military, however, we were not choirboys: We were concerned about the rampant racketeering, much of it owned and sponsored by local gambling kingpin Vaughn Cannon, that was expanding unchecked and giving the community a bad name. Cannon had grown so powerful that he’d started his own newspaper, which had riled up the editor of the Asheville Citizen-Times. The C-T was also bringing pressure to shut down Cannon’s empire, which operated gambling machines in little juke joints and beer halls around the city and county, and the implication was that the sheriff wasn’t doing enough in this effort. The incident that was the catalyst for change took place somewhere around 1960 in a little beer joint on Riverside Drive owned by an infamous local personality named Birdeye Plemmons. In the back of the joint were a number of illegal slot machines. Some drunk who’d arrived there by cab apparently won a jackpot on one of the machines, and it didn’t pay off. He got into an argument with Birdeye, who wouldn’t pay him, and the guy just picked up the machine and threatened to walk

out the door. Even though the guy had no way to transport such a heavy machine, Birdeye, in his infinite wisdom, pulled out a gun and shot him. Ladies and gentlemen, that was the shot was heard over the entirety of Buncombe County. The local chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce was outraged by this incident and heaped criticism on the sheriff, saying this is what happens when illegal activity is allowed to proliferate. The sheriff thought he could show these young whippersnappers that they couldn’t mess with Lawrence Brown. A few weeks later, the Junior C of C hosted the state association’s annual meeting here in Asheville. It was considered a very prestigious affair and a great honor for the city. The final event was a Saturday night dinner dance held in the basement of the Civic Center for a couple hundred delegates and their wives. Around 10:30, some 10 or 12 sheriff’s deputies showed up and started arresting out-oftown guests for illegal possession of alcohol in the Civic Center, while refusing to arrest the local JCC members. We knew all these guys: We’d grown up and gone to school with them, and several of us demanded that we be arrested along with the other guests. One of the deputies told me, “Oh, Jerry, just shut up and go have a drink.” The whole purpose was not to enforce the law but to discredit our organization statewide. All of us locals marched down to the jail and raised hell till the lawyers in our group got all our guests out of jail around 2 a.m. As you can imagine, this humiliation totally galvanized the Junior C of C against Sheriff Brown, and the battle was on. Next time, the rest of the story. Asheville native Jerry Sternberg is a longtime observer of the local scene. His new book, The Gospel According to Jerry, 85th Birthday Edition, is available at the Grovewood Gallery, Gallery of the Mountains at the Grove Park Inn, the Estes-Winn Antique Car Museum and the Battery Park Book Exchange. The price is $25 per copy, and all proceeds will be donated to Helpmate. The book can also be ordered directly from Helpmate, either online (email aflynn@ helpmateonline.org) or by mail (P.O. Box 2263, Asheville, NC 28802). X

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CyClinG ‘FinAl Four’ Arrives Collegiate Road National Championships return to WNC

Over the tOp: Gretchen Stumhofer (University of California, San Diego) makes the winning move on the climb and wins the Women’s Division I Collegiate National Championship road race, Marshall, NC. Photo by Weldon Weaver

BY Joshua cole joshuacole34@gmail.com Teams from across the country will soon descend on Western North Carolina for the 2016 USA Cycling Collegiate Road National Championships. After years of dominance by Western locales, last year’s event was held here under a two-year contract with

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USA Cycling. This year’s edition, slated for Friday to Sunday, May 13-15, will see top college athletes face off in Division I and Division II competition in Madison County and nearby Burnsville. “It’s like the Final Four of cycling,” says volunteer connie molland, who’s been heavily involved in organizing both the 2015 and 2016 events. “This is our equivalent in the cycling community.”

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Until recently, the West Coast was widely considered the go-to U.S. cycling destination. Increasingly, however, the Southeast is in the spotlight for national championship events. The 2016 Criterium & Team Time Trial National Championships took place in Greenville, S.C., April 16-17, and in early January, the weeklong 2016 Cyclo-Cross National Championship was staged at Biltmore Estate. Later this month, the Masters & Para-Cycling

Road National Championships (May 24-28) and the Road Race & Time Trial National Championships (May 27-28) will both be held in Winston-Salem. Here in WNC, three separate competitions will play out over the weekend: a road race on Friday, a criterium on Saturday, and the team time trial on Sunday. Amateur, noncollegiate criterium and time trial races will take place as well, and a 5K

charity run will be held in Burnsville before the criterium. After Sunday’s finale, the teams whose men and women have performed the best will be declared the national champions in their respective divisions. Criteriums feature some of the most exciting, high-speed, adrenaline-filled bike racing around. Racers compete for a specified amount of time, usually 50-70 minutes, on a course that’s less than a mile long, typically in a city, town or parking lot. In the cycling format that most closely resembles NASCAR, racers fly through tight corners on the edge of traction, occasionally resulting in crashes; bumping elbows is commonplace. ecOnOmic impact But racers and cycling enthusiasts aren’t the only ones who’ll benefit. The presence of the athletes, spectators and others coming in for the weekend will give local businesses a big boost. Last year’s road nationals brought in 77 teams and 388 athletes, says Kevin loughery of USA Cycling. “Most riders did at least two, maybe three events. This means they likely stayed for an average of three nights.” And for Zuma Coffee in Marshall, that resulted in “our best weekend that we’ve enjoyed in the last 14 years,” notes owner joel friedman. The town, he says, has begun to make a name for itself as a cycling destination. On weekends, large groups of cyclists are a common sight, and many stop in for an espresso and a snack. Molland, who serves on the local organizing committee as the community relations director for Madison County, has been a huge advocate for both the county and the town. An informal economicimpact survey she conducted after last year’s road nationals revealed that the event was a real boon for local small businesses. “Connie Molland has been spectacular in bringing the community together; she’s been quite a champion for the area,” says Friedman. Shining a light On Wnc hugh moran, who was Mars Hill University’s cycling coach from 2008 until last August, says road nationals had been held out West for so many years that he felt it was time for the Southeast to highlight its own beautiful roads and trails. Coincidentally,

in 2013, the Asheville Bicycle Racing Club and the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission had been hoping to hold the Masters National Championships in Asheville but missed the application deadline. Moran, who also serves on the local organizing committee, saw an opportunity to elevate collegiate cycling in the region. He shared his ideas with the sports commission, which subsequently mounted a successful bid for the 2015 and 2016 Collegiate Road National Championships. Local organizing committee member tom ratajczak was a key player in the unsuccessful push to get the masters nationals. Thanks to his experience helping to promote the French Broad Cycling Classic, he’s been able to advise the committee on logistical issues. Last year, the road race and time trials were held in Marshall, while the criterium was staged in downtown Asheville. The challenging road race included a good mix of climbing and flat-to-rolling sections, offering something for every type of racer, says Moran. It didn’t make sense to change a good thing, so those events will be basically the same this time around. Last summer, though, the sports commission, recognizing that it wouldn’t be able to host the event again this year for financial reasons, decided to step down. But with the road nationals’ return to WNC in doubt, the local cycling community came together to avert the crisis. The Madison County Tourism Development Authority stepped in and, together with the WNC Bicycle Dealers Association, supplied a generous sum of money, says Moran. Meanwhile, he and Molland worked on raising additional funding. reScuing the race alan brookshire of the Ashevillebased VeloSports Racing Team has been deeply involved in the cycling community throughout the Southeast for over 15 years. He has three kids who race both collegiately and professionally; he also serves on the local organizing committee. jimm mcelroy, one of VeloSports’ lead members, heads up the committee. Brookshire spoke to him last summer, proposing that the racing team become the 2016 road nationals’ primary organizer. VeloSports had been heavily involved with the previous year’s event. Team members, including Brookshire and his family, worked tirelessly — helping with course

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racing the french brOad: 2015 Women’s Division I Collegiate National Championship road race, Marshall, NC. Photo by Weldon Weaver setup, serving as marshals and assisting race officials — to help ensure the weekend’s success. One of the most active teams in Asheville, VeloSports stages the annual Ring of Fire criterium series, which runs throughout the spring and into the summer at the Carrier Park “Mellowdrome.” “We didn’t want our local cycling community to look like we weren’t capable of hosting national-level championship events, so we decided to step in as the main organizing force,” McElroy explains. Because it was a two-year contract with USA Cycling, VeloSports felt that allowing the event to leave the area was simply unacceptable, says Moran. “Madison County and the town of Marshall stepped in and said, ‘This was such a positive experience for us that we really want to see it back.’” The organizers say they’re excited about hosting a national championship-level event in two communities that have shown so much enthusiasm about collaborating with the cycling community. fOrging neW partnerShipS Things couldn’t stay exactly the same as last year, however, since the local organizing committee needed to find

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a new site for the criterium. Due to logistical difficulties and other concerns, downtown Asheville didn’t seem interested in hosting it again. So, after talking with a number of municipalities, the organizers settled on Burnsville. The only condition was that they work around the Fit Families 5K, an established event that benefits Graham Children’s Health Services. VeloSports and Fit Families organizer schell mccall saw an opportunity to create a mutually beneficial partnership. “We’re helping them out by making the event a little bit bigger,” says McElroy. “Schell has been a huge help in terms of connecting us with local people, giving us ideas on how to make the event more successful, more smooth in terms of where we can host things, and who to talk to to help facilitate things. brian buchanan, the police chief, has been amazing as well; all the Town Council in Burnsville and the mayor have been extremely supportive,” notes McElroy. “They were so excited when we came to them in January. They really rolled out the red carpet for us, asking what we need and really being on top of things. Burnsville has just been a pleasure to deal with.” McCall says her organization’s goal for the 5K “is to get the entire com-

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munity active, healthy and connected, particularly children, so anyone under 18 can run for free.” She believes the two events are a good fit. To create a family-friendly atmosphere, McCall and VeloSports are jointly sponsoring a free kids bike race in between the Saturday morning run and the criterium. Sierra Nevada is one of USA Cycling’s biggest sponsors, and a beer garden featuring its products will be set up adjacent to the town square, where spectators can cheer on the racers. The expo area will include a bike rodeo for kids as well as space for local racing teams, many of which will be providing volunteers throughout the weekend. Retailers including Youngblood Bicycles, Liberty Bicycles, Asheville Bicycle Co. and Solstice Cycles will be represented along with local cycling product manufacturers like Cane Creek and DeFeet. Mars Hill University is providing affordable housing for collegiate racers, coaches, family members and USA Cycling officials. The campus is mere minutes away from Marshall, and Burnsville is not much farther. The school will also be serving a hot breakfast for racers before their events, and Asheville resident and Olympic med-

alist lauren tamayo, the recently crowned women’s national criterium champion, will speak at the Saturday evening banquet. The return of the Collegiate Road Nationals is just the latest evidence of a growing trend. These days, says McElroy, “WNC is one of the biggest cycling meccas in the country.” X

To learn more… Events of this size require a lot of volunteer support. Those interested in lending a hand can sign up at VolunteerSpot.com/login/ entry/12189293320124. To view the weekend schedule, visit USA Cycling’s events page. On Twitter or Instagram, use the hashtag #2016CollNats. X

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cOllabOrative camaraderie: Corey Bullman and Julien Melissas, co-owners of Craftpeak Collective, say their Walnut Street offi ce offers all the professional amenities of a traditional office but at a lower price and without a long-term commitment. Photo courtesy of Craftpeak Collective They’re hardly a new concept, either locally or nationally, but co-working environments are surging in popularity in Asheville. The idea is simple: Instead of renting an entire building, you pay for a portion of an office when you need it, thus reducing your overhead while still having access to the necessary professional infrastructure. A look at Tessier Associates’ website shows downtown Asheville office space costing anywhere from $9 to $17.50 per square foot, with a six-month, oneyear or longer commitment required. Co-working spaces, on the other hand, can be rented month to month, a boon for freelancers who may not have a contract six months down the road. In 2014, nearly 8,000 Buncombe County professionals reported that they

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worked at home, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Avl Coworking owner derek robinson hopes to tap into that pool of potential customers. His Haywood Road location is slated to open June 1. Monthly rents will range from $45 to $230, depending on how many days a week the client needs to use the space; the higher figure covers every weekday in the month. Besides providing access to such amenities as a conference room, fiber-optic-based Internet, a kitchen and lockable storage, notes Robinson, having a professional office space fundamentally changes the game. “When I tried to work at home, I’d always think, ‘I’ll just run a load of laundry real quick; I’ll watch the news for a bit; I could stain the deck.’

There’s something about physically removing yourself from the home environment and being somewhere that motivates you to work and stay task-oriented.” taking care Of buSineSS Craftpeak Collective member dan jaworsky agrees. “When you work from home, there are definitely good benefits, but, you know, you just get weirder and weirder,” he says, laughing. “It’s good to be able to get out.” Now 2 years old, the collective is about a year into a bigger space on Walnut Street. Co-owners corey bullman and julien melissas say the downtown co-working space

tech time: Base Camp AVL hosts an event that brings different disciplines of the tech industry together for networking and ideas sharing. Photo by Nathan Silsbee has operated at or near capacity since it opened. Professionals, says Bullman, want an environment that’s conducive to taking care of business. “We asked ourselves if this space is going to be more fun or more work, and we definitely made the distinction that it needs to be professional. This is where you come to work: We don’t have pingpong tables and video game consoles, and we did that by choice, so you can come here and not be distracted.” The collective offers the usual office amenities, and monthly rents range from $150-$250. “The ability to rent from Craftpeak is definitely preferable to being locked into an expensive, long-term lease that I would have to manage

myself,” says Craftpeak member lydia roberts of Lydia Roberts Design. “As with any business, it’s important that I, as a freelancer, keep costs as low as possible, so the flex desk plan is perfect for me.” nathan silsbee, the director of Base Camp AVL (formerly Open Space AVL), says his facility attracts people from a variety of disciplines: nonprofit workers, event coordinators, artists, startup businesses and the ubiquitous tech sector workers. The 5,500-square-foot former recording studio on Church Street houses about 15 flex workers and five larger organizations, including the Asheville Tool Library. Rents here range from

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ness sometimes needs a professional front that neither his home nor a public space can provide. “A lot of clients want to see that you’re not a fly-by-night operation, so having a conference room is helpful. You want to present an image to premium clients that makes them want to do business with you.” And once you’ve established a business relationship, says Craftpeak Collective member adam smith, “People trust you more when they have a place they can reach out to you and it’s not a bother.” When you work at home, notes Smith, who owns the software business aCodeSmith, “It’s that weird mentality of wondering, ‘Is he on his computer or is he making pancakes?’ They don’t know what you’re doing.” running a little faSter

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$80 a month for five weekdays to $200 for all the weekdays in the month; there are also more expensive private office options. beSt fOOt fOrWard Coffee shops have long been the remote worker’s best available alternative to home, providing open space, caffeinated goodies and Wi-Fi, but they’re not always ideal for making a good first impression, notes Robinson. “They’re loud, and I feel like anytime I have a meeting, there’s a kid screaming. A lot of times I’m meeting someone I’ve never physically seen before, and I show up and there’s 40 people there.” Beyond that, says Silsbee, there’s a lack of continuity. “You go to a coffeehouse and you see different faces” every day. Co-working environments, on the other hand, offer opportunities for collaboration. “The coolest thing about this place is the community,” he continues. “We have so many people from different backgrounds, and everyone here has become tightknit.” Base Camp AVL member chris gragtmans, the co-owner of Dragonfly Live, says his drone photography busi-

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Of course, many freelancers and remote workers choose that path precisely for the lifestyle it provides. There’s something to be said for being able to work in your pajamas on a Monday morning or run errands at off-peak hours when there’s minimal traffic. For those reasons, Roberts says she’s not ready to completely abandon working from home. But she also appreciates the advantages Craftpeak offers. “I like to come here on days when I’m having trouble focusing at home, or I want to bounce ideas around with someone else,” she explains. Idea bouncing, in fact, is a large part of co-working’s appeal for those who mostly work alone. Drone photography, notes Gragtmans, relies heavily on technology that isn’t necessarily his specialty. At Base Camp AVL, he says, “There’s a strong tech presence, and I think they’ll have some helpful feedback for me on the aerial media business.” Even just seeing how others conduct day-to-day operations, he maintains, can be beneficial. “It’s interesting to see how other people bid on projects, invoice clients and do other aspects of running a business.” Kirk watson, who owns Causeway Interactive, says being around people in different disciplines is a great way to broaden your horizons. “Your perspective can get very narrow when you’re in your own industry,” he points out, and Base Camp AVL “is attracting

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animalS aSheville humane SOciety 828-761-2001 ext. 315, ashevillehumane.org • TH (5/12), 6-8pm- “Yappy Hour,” adoption event, pet mingling, and appetizers. $5. Held at Asheville Food Park, 219 Amboy Road carOlina pOOdle reScue 850-766-8734, carolinapoodlerescue.org • SA (5/14), 10am-3pm Poodle adoption event. Free to attend. Held at Petsmart, 3 McKenna Road, Arden

benefitS are yOu Smarter than an elementary Student? childrenfirstcisbc.org • TH (5/19), 5:30-8:30pm Proceeds from this trivia fundraising event and silent auction benefit children First/communities in schools (cis). $30 for audience members/$300 for a team of 6. Held at The Millroom, 66 Ashland Ave.

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paddle the french brOad: MountainTrue is offering $10 guided day-paddles on the French Broad River that, over the course of a few months, will allow participants to see the river. The excursions offer the opportunity to see farmland, wildlife, portage dams, run rapids and experience everything the river has to offer. Attendees can bring their own boat, or they can rent gear for an extra $10. The next paddle is on Saturday, May 14, beginning at the Pisgah Access and ending at Pleasant Grove Road. For more information or to register, email anna@mountaintrue.org or call 258-8737, ext. 212. Photo courtesy of MountainTrue (p. 23)

authOrS fOr actiOn ashevilletheatre.org • WE (5/18), 7:30pm - Proceeds from this author event with Sara Gruen, Charles Frazier and Joshilyn Jackson benefit the aclu of nc, campaign for southern equality, tranzmission, and equality nc. VIP cocktails at 5:30pm. $20-$50. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. blue ridge healerS WithOut bOrderS benefit searrajade.com • TU (5/17), 7:30pm - Proceeds from this concert featuring Searra Jade & the Jazzy Folk benefit Blue ridge healers without Borders. $3. Held at The BLOCK off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St. bullingtOn gardenS 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville, 698-6104, bullingtongardens.org • SA (5/14), 9am-4pm - Proceeds from this plant sale benefit Bullington gardens. Free to attend. cradle tO grave 30k & 10k race cradletograverace.com • SA (5/14), 8am - Proceeds

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from this trail run in Pisgah Forest benefit the cradle of Forestry. Registration suggested. $70 for 30k, $50 for 10k. Held at Cradle of Forestry, Route 276, Pisgah National Forest earthfare 5k and fun run gloryhoundevents.com/event/ earth-fare-5k • SA (5/14), 8:30am - Proceeds from this 5k race and fun fun benefit the asheville track club healthy living Fund. $35/$5. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road hayWOOd cOunty artS cOuncil 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville, haywoodarts.org • SA (5/14), 7pm - Proceeds from this old-time music concert honoring the late Trevor Stuart benefit the Junior Appalachian Musicians program. $25/$20 advance. hOminy valley criSiS miniStry pancake breakfaSt • SA (5/14), 8-10am - Proceeds from this pancake breakfast benefit the hominy Valley

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kiWaniS 15k/5k biltmorekiwanisclassicrace.com • SU (5/15), 7:15am - Proceeds from this 15k and 5k race benefit Kiwanis charities. Preregistration only. $66.40 for the 15k/$48.47 for the 5k. Held at The Biltmore Estate, 1 Lodge St.

rainbowcommunityschool.org • WE (5/18), 8-9am - Proceeds raised at this “Strive not to Drive” commuter station with coffee and treats benefit rainbow mountain community school. Free to attend. Held on the Rainbow Community School sidewalk, 574 Haywood Road

muSic makerS blueS revue + bbQ hickoryart.org • SA (5/14), 5:30-8:30pm Proceeds from this BBQ dinner and blues performance benefit the hickory museum of art. $10-$12 for dinner plates/ Free admission for music. Held at Salt Block Auditorium, 243 Third Ave. NE, Hickory

reaSOn tO hOpe alzheimer’S luncheOn • TH (5/12), noon-1pm - Proceeds from this luncheon benefit the alzheimer’s association western carolina chapter. Registration: 800272-3900. &nbsp; Held at The DoubleTree Hotel, 115 Hendersonville Road

partnerShip fOr paStOral cOunSeling anniverSary • SA (5/14), 5:30-8pm - Proceeds from this anniversary celebration and reception with silent auction and raffle benefit the partnership for pastoral counseling. Admission by donation.

WOmen’S empOWerment & Self-defenSe WOrkShOp kendamullert.com/selfdefense • SA (5/14), 8:30am-6pm - Proceeds from this Rape Aggression Defense System workshop benefit the swannanoa Valley montessori school. $50-$100. Held at Carver Community Center, 101 Carver Ave., Black Mountain

buSineSS & technOlOgy a-b tech Small buSineSS center 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (5/11), 3-6pm - “An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Bridging the Digital Divide,” seminar. • TH (5/12), 6-8pm - “Evaluating the Potential of Your Natural Products,” seminar. • TU (5/17), 5:30-8:30pm - “How to Start a Nonprofit Entity,” seminar. • WE (5/18), 10-11:30am - “Doing Business with the Government,” seminar. • TH (5/19), 11:30am-1pm “Financing Your Small Business,” seminar. g&W inveStment club klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden

mOuntain bizWOrkS 153 S. Lexington Ave., 253-2834, mountainbizworks.org • TH (5/12), 9-10am - “Fostering Success for Your Existing Business,” workshop. Registration required. $20. • FR (5/13), 9am-noon - “Brand & Content Marketing for Small Business,” workshop. Registration required. $20/$35 for both. • FR (5/13), 9am-noon - “Digital Strategies for Small Business,” seminar. Registration required. $20. • TU (5/17), 9-11am - “Growing Retail Sales by Delighting Your Customers,” seminar. Registration required. $20. One milliOn cupS Of cOffee 1millioncups.com/asheville • WEDNESDAYS, 9am - Presentations by local highgrowth startup businesses for entrepreneurs. Free. Held at RISC Networks, 81 Broadway Suite C

claSSeS, meetingS & eventS the beSt mOSaic inStructiOn in Wnc! (pd.) Laura Rendlen: Building a Landscape with Color and Texture, May 14-15 • Linda Pannullo: Picassiette Planter workshop, Sunday, June 12 • Carol Shelkin: Tempered Glass Mosaics, July 16-17. For more information call Linda at 828-337-6749. Email :linda@lindapannullomosaics.com Website:lindapannullomosaics. com aSheville parkS and recreatiOn 259-5800, ashevillenc.gov/ Departments/ParksRecreation.aspx • SA (5/14), 1-4pm - “Storytelling and Garden Treasures.” Storytelling of Shiloh with presentations about the Shiloh Legacy Art Trail and the natural playscape project. Free. Held at Shiloh Community Center, 121 Shiloh Road buncOmbe cOunty public librarieS buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • WE (5/18), 4pm - “Coloring and Conversation,” adult coloring group. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa ethical humaniSt SOciety Of aSheville 687-7759, aeu.org • SU (5/15), 2-3:30pm - “GMOs: Benevolent or Malevolent?” presentation by Patricia Grace. Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road

gOOdWill career training center 1616 Patton Ave., 298-9023, goodwillnwnc.org/trainingCenters. cfm • TU (5/17), 9am-noon Community job fair. Free. gOvernOr’S WeStern reSidence Spring Open hOuSe 45 Patton Mountain Road • SU (5/14), 9:30am-1:30pm - Open house and refreshments. Free. henderSOn cOunty public library 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - Apple Users Support Group. Free. ikenObO ikebana SOciety 696-4103, blueridgeikebana.com • TH (5/19), 10am - Monthly meeting and presentation by Emiko Suzuki on Tatehana, an early style of Ikenobo. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville laurel chapter Of the embrOidererS’ guild america • TH (5/12), 10am-noon - Monthly meeting with presentation regarding ZigZag bracelet beading. $7 kit fee for each bracelet. leiceSter cOmmunity center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook. com/Leicester.Community.Center • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering general meeting. Free. Ontrack Wnc 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (5/11), 5:30-7pm “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it.” Seminar. • MO (5/16), 5:30-7pm “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it.” Seminar. • MO (5/16), noon-1:30pm “Budgeting and Debt Class.” • WE (5/18), noon-1:30pm “Planning for your Financial Future,” seminar. ShOWing up fOr racial JuStice showingupforracialjustice.org • 3rd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Coalition building session. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road tarheel piecemakerS

Quilt club tarheelpiecemakers.wordpress. com • WE (5/11), 10am - General meeting and presentation on “Circle of Nines.” Free. Held at Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville

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c Ommunity c ale ndar fOOd & beer dOWntOWn WelcOme table haywoodstreet.org/2010/07/the-welcome-table • SUNDAYS, 4:30pm - Community meal. Free. Held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. fairvieW WelcOme table fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway 74, Fairview leiceSter cOmmunity center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 7743000, facebook.com/Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table meal. Free. • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm - Manna FoodBank distribution, including local produce. Free. Sanctuary breWing cOmpany 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville, 595-9956, sanctuarybrewco.com • SU (5/8) & SU (5/15), 1pm - Community meal. Free to attend.

gOvernment & pOliticS buncOmbe cOunty republican men’S club 712-1711, gakeller@gakeller.com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 7:30am - Discussion group meeting with optional breakfast. Free to attend. Held at Corner Stone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road

WOrd prOblemS: “Writing is a political act,” says Melanie McNair of Mapaprop’s Bookstore and Café. “And a lot of writers want that aspect of their writing to be known. One of the reasons people write books is they want to bring awareness about something.” That’s the change-making spirit the shop hopes to harness through its new Authors for Action events. Image courtesy Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe. what: A literary fundraiser to fight House Bill 2 when: Wednesday, May 18, at 6:30 p.m. where: Asheville Community Theatre why: When acclaimed author sherman alexie canceled his North Carolina book tour stops in protest of the controversial House Bill 2, Malaprop’s Bookstore and Café general manager linda-marie barrett penned a response that was published by The New York Times. “This horrible legislation goes against what we stand for: human rights, tolerance and inclusiveness. ... But now we’re being made to pay a price for a law we vehemently oppose” — both financially and culturally, she pointed out.

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Local author sara gruen stepped up to fill the empty slot, though, prompting the development of a new event series by the bookstore. Authors for Action pairs literary figures with similarly minded nonprofits. “It [is] a way for us to formalize something that we already do,” says melanie mcnair, assistant manager and author events coordinator. “We create the space for people who want to raise awareness of issues and connect with readers and talk about those issues in a safe place. I wanted to take it one step further, though, and connect that conversation with the people who are actually working for change.” The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina, Campaign for Southern Equality, Tranzmission and Equality NC will benefit from the inaugural iteration called Kill the Bill. It’s main attraction:

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roughly a dozen Southern-based authors (charles frazier, joshilyn jackson, jake bible, wiley cash, mary laura philpott, beth revis, denise Kiernan, joe d’agnese, Kim michele richardson and jamie mason among them) will respond to the same writing prompt that’s loosely connected to the Bathroom Bill. Still, McNair expects the evening’s overall tone to remain “fun to zany with a dash of earnestness mixed in.” “These are a lot of New York Times best-selling authors on the stage together and [it’s] a really unusual event,” she says. “This really should be the literary event of the year.” Kill the Bill tickets are $20 (VIP includes an author cocktail party and premium seating for $50). Visit malaprops.com for details on all Authors for Action events. X

buncOmbe cOunty SeniOr demOcratS 274-4482 • TH (5/12), 6pm - Potluck supper, general meeting and keynote speaker, Brownie Newman. Free/$5 if no potluck dish. Held at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road

kidS anam cara theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 10-noon - Tiny Tots Circus Playtime with aerials, clowning, balance and acrobatics. Children up to 6 years old. $5. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B aSheville art muSeum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TU (5/17), 10:30-11:30am - “Tot Time,” with activities for young visitors. Admission fees apply. attic Salt theatre cOmpany 505-2926 • SATURDAYS through (5/21), 10am - Tricky, Tricky Trickster Tales. $5. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. buncOmbe cOunty public librarieS buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (5/11), 5pm - Afternoon Anime: Steamboy. For ages 12 and up. Held at

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Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (5/13), 4pm - “Recycled Crafts for Kids.” Presented by Greenworks. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • FR (5/13), 4pm - “Teen Cosplay Club.” For ages 13 and up. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • FR (5/13), 9am - “The Great Stuffed Animal Sleepover.” Register and drop off stuffed animals to spend the night. Children will receive a certificate and photo of their stuffed animal at the sleepover. Pick up: Saturday, May 14, noon. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • SA (5/14), 3-4pm - Puppet Show: Tales of Wisdom with Grayson Morris. Reservations: 250-4738. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • SA (5/14), 1-4pm - Youth Dungeons and Dragons. For ages 12-18. Registration required. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SU (5/15), 2pm - “Giants and Witches and Frogs - Oh My!” Jack and Br’er Rabbit tales with storyteller Becky Stone. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • WE (5/18), 10:30am - Dollywood Players present Old Bear and His Cub. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • WE (5/18), 4pm - Dollywood Players present Old Bear and His Cub. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • WE (5/18), 3:30pm - “Become an ecoEXPLORER,” children exploration activities sponsored by The North Carolina Arboretum. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (5/19), 10:30am - Dollywood Players present Old Bear and His Cub. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TH (5/19), 4pm - Dollywood Players present Old Bear and His Cub. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville BuncomBe county RecReation SeRviceS buncombecounty.org/Governing/ Depts/Parks • SA (5/14), 8:30-11:30am - Kids 15 and under fishing tournament. $10. Held at Lake Julian Park, 406 Overlook Road, Ext., Arden FletcheR liBRaRy 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free. GRace lutheRan chuRch 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com

• Through MO (6/20) - Open registration for Henderson County Churches Uniting vacation bible school taking place June 27 through 30 from 9am to noon. For children ages 4 through 5th grade. Register online: bit.ly/ grace-vbs. Free. handS on! a childRen’S GalleRy 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-8333 • Through FR (5/13) - Pet themed crafts & activities for kids. Admission fees apply. • WE (5/11), 11am - “Book n’ Craft,” book reading and craft activity. Admission fees apply. • TU (5/17) through FR (5/20) Presentations and activities about butterflies. Admission fees apply. • TU (5/17), 11am - “Mad Scientists Lab – Don’t Bug Me!” science activities for children 3 and up. Registration required. $7. lake JameS State paRk 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • SU (5/15), 1pm – “Wildflowers Magnified,” ranger led wildflower walk with magnifying glasses. Registration required. SpellBound childRen’S BookShop 640 Merrimon Ave. #204, 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

outdooRS aSheville SailinG cluB ashevillesailing.org • SA (5/14), 11am - Open house and information session. Free. Held at Lake Julian Park, 406 Overlook Road Ext., Arden hendeRSon county puBlic liBRaRy 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • TH (5/12), noon - “Literary Lunch,” featuring Johnny Molloy, author of over 57 guidebooks on hiking, camping, and paddling. Free. lake JameS State paRk 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • FR (5/13), 9:45am & 1:45pm “Eagle/Osprey Nest Tour,” ranger led boat tour. Registration required. • FR (5/13), 7pm - “Centennial S’mores and Amphibians,” campfire program about amphibians. • SA (5/14), 9am - “Long Arm Cemetery Tour,” ranger led tour of historic cemetery. mountaintRue 258-8737, wnca.org

• SA (5/14) - Paddle the French Broad Series: Pisgah to Pleasant Grove Road. Registration and details: secure.mountaintrue.org/ page/contribute/section-the-fbpaddle. $10/$10 equipment rental. piSGah aStRonomical ReSeaRch inStitute 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 862-5554, pari.edu • FR (5/13), 7pm - Night sky observation and tour. Reservations required. $20/$15 seniors/military/ Free for children under 10. piSGah centeR FoR WildliFe education 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 877-4423 • WE (5/11), 10am-3pm - “On the Water: West Fork Pigeon River,” fly fishing skills practice for ages 12 and up. Registration required: ncwildlife.org/Learning/ EducationCenters/Pisgah/ EventRegistration.aspx. Free. • MO (5/16), 9am-3pm “Introduction to Fly Fishing,” for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • TU (5/17), 10am-3pm - “Casting for Beginners: Level 1,” for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. piSGah chapteR oF tRout unlimited pisgahchaptertu.org/New-Meetinginformation.html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville thomaS WolFe memoRial 52 North Market St., 253-8304 • SA (5/14), 10am-noon - “Look Homeward, Riverside Cemetery,” tour of Riverside Cemetery focused on Thomas Wolfe. $5. tRanSylvania county liBRaRy 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 8843151 • TH (5/12), 6:30pm - Presentation by filmmaker Chris Gallaway on his personal thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Free. Wnc SieRRa cluB 251-8289, wenoca.org • SA (5/14) - Easy to moderate hike at Avery Creek/Twin Falls. Registration required: janelaping@ sbcglobal.net or 772-0379. Free to attend.

puBlic lectuReS hendeRSonville SiSteR citieS hendersonvillesistercities.org • WE (5/11), 6pm - East Henderson High graduate Maria Morava presents about her gap year in Senegal. Free. Held at Henderson

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County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville tranSylvania cOunty library 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 • TH (5/12), 6:30pm - Presentation by filmmaker Chris Gallaway on his personal thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. Free.

SeniOrS invitatiOnal SeniOr art exhibit graceridge.org/art • Through FR (5/13) - Open submissions for the 2nd Annual “Creative Age Senior Art Exhibit.” Contact for full guidelines: graceridge. org/art/. leiceSter cOmmunity center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 7743000, facebook.com/Leicester.Community.Center • MONDAYS, 4:30pm - Christian based yoga for seniors. Free.

Spirituality aSheville inSight meditatiOn (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com. Open heart meditatiOn (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you. Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 OpenHeartMeditation.com. Shambhala meditatiOn center (pd.) 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, 200-5120, ashevilleshambhala.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10-midnight, THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 10-noon - Meditation and community. Admission by donation. VOICES OF WISDOM • MAY 21 AND 22 (pd.) Is a weekend gathering led by traditional elders Diane Longboat, (Mohawk) and Wanbdi Wakita (Dakota), May 21 and 22. For more information, please contact Scott Sheerin: 828

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645-1003, email ssheerin@ sacredfirefoundation.org or visit our website: sacredfirefoundation.org aSheville center fOr tranScendental meditatiOn 165 E. Chestnut, 254-4350, meditationasheville.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm - Introductory talk on the Transcendental Meditation technique. Online registration. Free to attend. aSheville meditatiOn center mipsm.org, meditate@mipsm.org • SA (5/14), 2-5pm - Meditation workshop. $30. Held at OM Sanctuary, 87 Richmond Hill Drive aSheville SOund healing 776-3786, ashevillesoundhealing.com, info@ashevillesoundhealing.com • SATURDAYS, 11am & SUNDAYS, noon - Healing concert with crystal bowls, gongs and chanting. Free to attend. Held at Skinny Beats Drum Shop and Gallery, 4 Eagle St. grace lutheran church 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • WEDNESDAYS through (5/18), 5:45-7pm - “John: The Gospel of Light and Life,” class. Free/$5 optional dinner. • 2nd FRIDAYS, 1pm - Healing prayer gathering. Free. Jubilee cOmmunity church 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • THURSDAYS through (5/12), 6:30-8pm - “Bringing Zen to Life: A Six Week Series to Empower Practice for Challenging Times,” zen meditation, teachings, discussion and practice presented by Windhorse Zen Community. Admission by donation. Om Sanctuary 87 Richmond Hill Drive, 505-2300 • SATURDAYS, 11am-noon Meditation session. Admission by donation. Sai maa enlightened living grOup 279-7042, facebook.com/ groups/1385824208412583 • WE (5/18), 6:30-8pm Meditation, energy blessing and Sai Maa’s Padukas. Free. Held at Ravenscroft Suites, 29 Ravenscoft Drive

Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com ur light center 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • SU (5/15), 1-2:45pm - “Toning for Peace & Transformation,” with Yvonne Rainbow Teplitsky. $12.

SpOken & Written WOrd cOme Write nOW! (pd.) Join 2012-14 US Poet Laureate Natasha Trethewey and expressive writing authors, pioneers, practitioners, and fans. Journal Conference 2016, May 19-22 near Asheville. Day rates. Events@journaltherapy.com. Web: bit.ly/Jc16writers aSheville harry pOtter alliance thehpalliance.org/asheville_ harry_potter_alliance_chapter • WE (5/18), 4pm - Harry Potter Trivia Challenge and book drive for Accio Books which sends the donations to a community library in Uganda. Free to attend. Held at the Haywood County Library-Canton, 11 Pennsylvania Ave. , Canton aSheville StOrytelling circle 274-1123, ashevillestorycircle.org • 3rd MONDAYS, 7-9pm. Free. Meets at Asheville Terrace, 200 Tunnel Road barneS & nOble bOOkSellerS aSheville mall 3 S. Tunnel Road, 296-7335 • FR (5/13), noon-2pm - Scotty McCreery signs his book, Go Big or Go Home. Free to attend. black bOx StOrytelling theater 808-1150, davidjoemiller.com • WE (5/18), 7pm- “Three Storytellers Walk Into a Bar,” storytelling theater with David Joe Miller, Pete Koschnick and Charlie St.Clair. $12/$10 advance. Held at Buffalo Nickel, 747 Haywood Road buncOmbe cOunty public librarieS buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • SA (5/14), 3pm West Asheville Book Club: Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • TU (5/17), 7pm - Black Mountain Mystery Book Club: Monkey’s Raincoat by Robert Crais. &nbsp; Held at Black Mountain Public Library,

105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (5/17), 7pm - Fairview Evening Book Club: The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TU (5/17), 6:30pm - “Young Storytellers Performance” with 3rd and 4th graders from Weaverville Elementary Storytelling Club. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (5/19), 2:30pm - Skyland Book Club: Independence Day by Richard Ford. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TH (5/19), 6pm - Swannanoa Book Club: The American Claimant by Mark Twain. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa city lightS bOOkStOre 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com • FR (5/13), 6:30pm - Fred Chappell presents his fantasy novel, In A Shadow All of Light. Free to attend. • SA (5/14), 6:30pm - Jason Miller presents his book, Origins of the Dream: Hughes’s Poetry and King’s Rhetoric. Free to attend. • SA (5/14), 3pm - Paul Willis reads poetry from his collection, Reflections of a World War II Veteran. Free to attend. fireStOrm cafe and bOOkS 610 Haywood Rd., 255-8115 • WE (5/11), 6:30-8:30 - Queer Women’s Book Club: Discussion of Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters. Free to attend. • SA (5/14), 6:30pm - Laura Boffa’s presents her book, Writing Home: The Story of Thomas Wolfe. • SU (5/15), 3pm - “Genocide, Capitalism & Racism, and Resistance,” presentation by author John Cox, director of the Holocaust & HumanRights Studies Center at UNC Charlotte. Free to attend. fletcher library 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm Writers’ Guild. Free. • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am Book Club. Free. hayWOOd cOunty public library haywoodlibrary.org • TH (5/19), 7pm - Haywood County Public Library Annual Meeting with keynote speaker author Sharyn McCrumb. $10. Held at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, 556 S.

Haywood, Waynesville henderSOn cOunty public library 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • TU (5/17), 6pm - Authors Visit: Presentations by authors Nicholas Warr, Tom and Polly Davis, Cindy Henry McMahon followed by a question and answer session. Free. malaprOp’S bOOkStOre and cafe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com • TU (5/17), 7pm - Photographer Sally Mann presents her memoir, Hold Still. Free to attend. nOrth carOlina WriterS’ netWOrk ncwriters.org • 3rd MONDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Open Mic. Writers have 5 minutes to read their prose and 3 minutes for poetry. Free. Held at Hendersonville Public Library, 301 N Washington St., Hendersonville Synergy StOry Slam avl.mx/0gd • WE (5/11), 7:30-10pm Storytelling open-mic night on the theme “Coincidence”. Stories told in 10 minutes or less. Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road thOmaS WOlfe memOrial 52 N. Market St, 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (5/12), 5:30pm - Short Story Book Club: A Prologue to America and The Promise of America discussion led David Madden. Free.

SpOrtS aSheville ultimate club ashevilleultimate.org, ashevilleultimateclub@gmail.com • Through TU (5/17) - Open registration for mixed adult summer leagues. More information online. $40.

vOlunteering literacy cOuncil Of buncOmbe cOunty tutOring adultS (pd.) Information sessions for volunteers interested in tutoring adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and ESOL on May 25th from 9-10:30am or May 26th from 5:30-7pm at the Literacy Council office. Email (volunteers@litcouncil.com) for more information.

eliada 2 Compton Drive • Through (5/16) - Open registration for the TIPS-MAPP preservice training for prospective foster parents through Eliada. Classes held on Mondays, 6-9pm from May 16 through August 1. Registration: 7135423. Free. handS On aShevillebuncOmbe 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org Registration required. • SA (5/16), 6-8:30pm - Help bake homemade cookies for hospice patients and their families at CarePartners’ John Keever Solace Center. Register for full guidelines. • SA (5/14), 10:30-noon Volunteers will help create book packages for people recently placed in new housing by Homeward Bound of Asheville. Register for full guidelines. • SU (5/15), 1-2:30pm Volunteers knit hats to be given to newborns and mothers in the WNCCHS Pediatric Program and adults at the A HOPE Day Center. Register for full guidelines. • SA (5/16), 4-6pm - Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise at a nonprofit fair trade retail store. Register for full guidelines. hOmeWard bOund Of Wnc 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 11am “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population. Registration required. Free to attend. mOuntaintrue 258-8737, wnca.org • 2nd SATURDAYS, 9am-1pm - Urban Forest Workdays: Richmond Hill Park invasive plant removal work days. Held at Richmond Hill Park, 280 Richmond Hill Drive • SU (5/15), 11am-4pm - River clean-up. Registration: mountaintrue.org/event/mountaintruenoc-river-cleanup/. Held at the Jean Webb River Park, Riverside Drive Sandhill cOmmunity garden tabbybrickley@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm & SATURDAYS, 9-11am Volunteer in the garden. Held at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 APAC Drive For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

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Unclear on the Concept

The eye-catching Vietnamese model and Playboy (Venezuela edition) Playmate Angie Vu complained to the New York Daily News in April that her five-plus months in jail in Brooklyn have been "torture" and "cruel" because of her lack of access to beauty care. Vu is fighting extradition to France for taking her 9-year-old daughter in violation of the father's custody claim and is locked up until a federal judge rules. Among her complaints: "turning pale" in the "harsh light"; lack of "Guerlain's moisturizer"; inability to look at herself for months (because glass mirrors are prohibited); and "worrying" about being hit on by "lesbians" (thus causing "wrinkles"). At least, she told the reporter, she has found God in jail and passes time reading the Bible.

• "Zero tolerance" claimed another victim, in Charlotte, N.C., in April, when Jaden Malone, 12, came to his bullied friend's aid, was knocked down himself and repeatedly punched in the head by the bully, and pushed the boy off of him to avoid further damage — but was himself suspended for three days by his charter school Invest Collegiate. A school official pointed out that the bully got five days, and besides, the policy against "all" physical violence is very clear. (After having Jaden treated for a concussion, his mother promptly withdrew him from the school.) • Ms. Madi Barney, 20, courageously publicly reported her own rape accusation recently in Provo, Utah, and as a result has been disciplined as a student at Brigham Young University for allegedly violating the school's "honor code." (She is barred from withdrawing from courses or re-registering.) Whether the sex was consensual must be investigated by Provo police, but BYU officials said they had heard enough to charge Barney with the no-no of premarital sex. (Critics decried the advantage BYU thus gives rapists of BYU females — since the women face the additional fear of university reprisals irrespective of the criminal case.)

Questionable Judgments • Chef Mahbub Chowdhury pleaded guilty in April to food and hygiene violations in Swindon (England) Magistrates Court after inspectors found "brown fingerprints" in the kitchen at his Yeahya Flavour of Asia carry-out restaurant. Chowdhury was candid about his "cultural" habit of bypassing toilet paper and using his hand to clean himself. The plastic bottle with the fingerprints, Chowdbury said, contained water that he normally used instead of the toilet paper, and his lawyer argued that since the bottle was never actually lab-tested, the brown spots could have been "spices." • England's Brighton and Hove City Council, striving to be progressive, issued a directive to parents of new school students (kids as young as age 4) calling on them to mark the gender identity they prefer — and notes that any child who identifies as other than male or female should leave the space blank and consult with officials individually. (Critics, according to The Sun, expressed that school should be for "developing" such identities without the necessity of declaring them so early in life.)

Latest Religious Messages • Idaho's law protecting fundamentalist faith healers regained prominence recently in the case of Mariah Walton, 20, who was born with a routinely repairable heart defect but who received only prayer and herbs because of her parents' religious rejection of doctors. Walton's now-irreversible damage leaves her frail and dependent on portable oxygen, and she will likely need lung and heart transplants to survive. Idaho and five other states immunize parents from criminal prosecution if they reject medical care on the ground of religious teachings. • Latest From Evangelicals: (1) Christian political activist David Barton told his "WallBuilders" radio audience recently that Disney's

anthropomorphic characters (e.g., Bambi) are simply gateways to kids' learning Babylonian pagan worship. (2) Brooklyn, N.Y., "prophet" Yakim Manasseh Jordan told followers recently that he has arranged with God to bring people back from the dead if they — cheerfully — offer a "miracle favor cloud" of gifts as low as $1,000. (3) James David Manning, chief pastor of the Atlah Worldwide Missionary Church in Harlem, in a recent online sermon, stepped up his usual anti-gay rhetoric, warning "sodomites" that God would soon send flames "coming out of your butthole." (A gay and transgender support group is fundraising to buy Atlah's building and set up a shelter.)

Police Report • The Tap Inn bar in Billings, Mont., released April 11 surveillance video of the armed robbery staged by two men and a woman (still on the lam), showing two lip-locked customers at the bar, lost in affectionate embrace during the entire crime, seemingly oblivious of danger. The robbers, perhaps impressed by the couple's passion, ignored them — even while emptying the cash register just a few feet away. • Andru Jolstad, 26, was arrested on April 16 and charged with using a pry bar to break into the cash boxes of four machines at Zap's Arcade in Mesa, Arizona. Following citizen tips, a cop arrived to find Jolstad on his knees alongside one machine with his arm still inside. His total take from the spree was $18, and he'll likely be sent back to prison from an earlier charge.

Yee-Hah! (1) Transportation Security Administration announced on April 27 that its screeners had confiscated 73 guns from passengers' carry-ons — in just the previous seven days! (Sixtyeight were loaded, and 27 had a round in the chamber.) (2) Federal regulators were deliberating in April whether to stop Minnesota's Ideal Conceal from rolling out its two-shot, .380 caliber handgun disguised as a smartphone. Several police chiefs, and two U.S. senators, have expressed alarm. (3) Jeffrey Grubbs, 45, was charged with two felonies in March following a school's 4-H Club carpentry project at which he (lacking a hammer) pounded a thumbtack into wood with the butt

of his loaded handgun. (He subsequently realized the danger and removed the bullets.)

Perspective California's forests host major marijuana-growing operations (legal and illegal), and though the product has its virtues, cannabis farming creates massive problems — guzzling water (23 liters per day per plant — state drought or not) and needing the protection of a dangerous rodenticide. A state wildlife official told NBC News in April that the cannabis sites "use massive amounts of fertilizers, divert natural run-off waters, create toxic run-off waste and byproducts, remove large amounts of vegetation and trees, ... create ... unstable soils and kill or displace wildlife."

Drugs! Is There Anything They Can't Do? (1) Police in the Augusta, Ga., suburb of Hephzibah arrested a meth-addled Ray Roye for battery and family violence against his wife in March. Roye was yelling about custody of their child, but his wife informed police they don't have a child. (2) Johnnie Hurt, 38, was arrested after reportedly eating mulch from a motel's landscaping in London, Ky., in April while missing a court-ordered drug test. When police arrived, Hurt was found in his wildly trashed a motel room.

A News of the Weird Classic (March 2012) Each year, the town of Chumbivilcas, Peru, celebrates the new year with what to Americans might seem "Festivus"-based (from the Seinfeld TV show), but is actually drawn from Incan tradition. For "Takanakuy," during background singing and dancing, all townspeople with grudges from the previous 12 months (men, women, children) settle them with often-bloody fistfights so that they start the new year clean. Said one villager to a Reuters reporter in December (2011), "Everything is solved here, and afterward we are all friends." X

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Around The Fire

Indigenous elders gather for community conversation in Weaverville

BY emilY nichols emilynicholsphoto@gmail.com “The wisdom of the past is the seed of the future,” says scott sheerin, local volunteer and event coordinator for the Sacred Fire Foundation, a nonprofit that works to preserve and promote indigenous wisdom traditions around the globe and in the Asheville area. On Saturday, May 21, the group will host elders Wanbdi Wakita and Diane Longboat for a special event, Voices of Wisdom. The program will be held at the Council House, a fireside gathering spot near Weaverville. Wakita, a Dakota elder in his 70s from Sioux Valley, brings his experience as a wicasa wakan, or holy man, and three decades of work imparting traditional indigenous wisdom to men in prisons. He also oversees the Sundance ceremony as Sundance chief. Longboat, a Mohawk elder from Six Nations Grand River Territory, will be joining him. She leads Soul of the Mother, a nonprofit designed to share indigenous teachings, rites and ceremonies with First World Nations and those yearning for a deeper connection to the Creator. “They are the living embodiment of traditions that have lived connected to the world for thousands of years,” says Sheerin. “They are precious beacons. We do events like Voices of Wisdom to bring people like [them] to [our] community hearths.” Last year, Sacred Fire initiated the Voices program as a shorter version of Ancient Wisdom Rising, a two-day regional event that pairs open ears with indigenous elders willing to share their perspectives. Ancient wisdom, says Sheerin, includes the ideas, viewpoints, ways of life and beliefs that the people of indigenous cultures value and live by. The foundation aims to preserve the knowledge systems that have kept these cultures “deeply connected and in a relationship with all of life for hundreds of thousands of years,” he says. Sacred Fire hosts gatherings and open dialogues with elders from various traditions; awards grants

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light my fire: Mohawk elder Diane Longboat of Canada will speak at the Voices of Wisdom fire in Weaverville on Saturday, May 21. Photo courtesy of the Sacred Fire Foundation to initiatives that protect and promote indigenous lands, worldviews and languages; and confers awards for lifetime achievements to elders. In Asheville, a local chapter of the Sacred Fire Community, the foundation’s sister organization, has been gathering once a month for the last 15 years around a fire in the Council House, an octagonal structure set on an idyllic knoll just north of town in Weaverville. The Asheville chapter is just one of 80 affiliated communities around the world. In North Carolina alone there are five — in Greensboro, Chapel Hill, Hillsboro, Maggie Valley and Asheville. Sheerin suggests that the staying power and presence of the community speaks to its importance and value in people’s lives today — people who have iPhones, cars, jobs and more things to do than time to do them. Why fire? Sheerin says that in almost every wisdom or religious tradition, the element of fire is present and sometimes central. “The idea is to reintroduce the very ancient practice of sitting in circle by a fire, talking and listening,” he says.

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There is no one philosophy or agenda, Sheerin emphasizes. “It’s about learning how to listen to the heart, and fire is the energy of heart.” On Saturday, Wakita and Longboat will speak in turn, with a short break in between and a potlock dinner afterward, he explains. There is no set agenda or topic, says Sheerin; instead, the elders will offer the wisdom needed in that moment. “There’s always humility, there’s always humor, and there’s always a real-time connection to the divine,” he says of the elders. For those wishing for more, a Sunday sunset gathering will be offered for reflection and discussion. “On Saturday you get a ... sense of the energy of the elders and their perspectives,” Sheerin says. “On Sunday we don’t gather until around sunset for the fire. So people come back to the fire after 24 hours of sitting with what may have been stirred in them.” The two visiting elders won’t be part of the Sunday event, he notes. Instead, the additional program provides an opportunity for participants to talk as

a community and ultimately bring the wisdom of such elders home, says Sheerin. He adds, “It’s very natural that being around a fire is a practice of being in connection, in a connected state with the world.” X

what Voices of Wisdom where Sacred Fire Council House, 90 Rocky Hollow Road, Weaverville when Saturday, May 21, noon to 8 p.m., including potluck dinner, and Sunday, May 22, 7 to 10 p.m. contact Scott Sheerin, 645-1003 or ssheerin@sacredfirefoundation.org register Pre-registration required. www.sacredfirefoundation.org

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Are you reAdy?

Ashevillage’s Community Resilience Challenge tests residents’ skills, resources

ready fOr actiOn: A group of friends participate in a resilient-living workshop at Ashevillage Institute. Photo courtesy of Ashevillage Institute

BY aBle allen aallen@mountainx.com “Be prepared” goes the Scouting movement’s mantra. And being able to face any challenge is often a goal of institutions. But the question is always: How? How can we be best prepared for whatever may come? The Boy Scout carries his pocketknife. Emergency services train for possible scenarios. Young people study to pass the big test. Families

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save money for a rainy day. What these acts all have in common is that they help build skills and resources that can be called on one day in response to potential problems. The folks at Ashevillage Institute are leading a charge this spring for a holistic approach to community preparedness known to the scientific community as resilience. They are throwing down the gauntlet to residents with their Community Resilience Challenge. The Challenge, as it’s called for short, was planned in collaboration with Daily Acts, a California-based nonprofit, and

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other groups across the country. The idea is to mobilize community members and inspire a chain reaction of groups and individuals pledging to take such actions as saving water, growing food, conserving energy, reducing waste and community building actions such as volunteering with a nonprofit or getting neighbors together for a potluck. Similar projects have sprung up around the country, dating back to Daily Acts’ 2010 Garden Challenge for Sonoma County, which itself began as a spinoff of other efforts to plant, expand and revive residential

food gardens. The following year, it expanded to include actions homeowners can take, such as energy efficiency measures, and it has been growing in scope and participation ever since. This is the first year for a locally led Challenge in Asheville. Organizers here have set a goal of 828 actions pledged or taken by participants that contribute to regional and national resilience. Janell Kapoor, founding director of Ashevillage, reports the project has taken off quickly, and

after nearly 400 actions were registered in the first week, they are on track to easily exceed that number before the monthlong registration period is over. The Challenge is meant to be “a mobilization of acknowledgement of all the acts people are already doing,” Kapoor says. For some she says it will be “cataloging of actions,” but for others, she describes it as, “a call to action,” for people to be inspired to do more than they otherwise would have. “In our area,” says Kapoor, “what’s already happening is so powerful.” Any one person planting a tree or growing food is great, she says, but “what if everybody in our city or county did something? Even if it’s just one more thing, when people often do as many as 10 or 20 actions, then we can start to see and track the difference that we are making.” She also notes that the chemistry of competition can catalyze increased action. “Not competitive, like ‘I’m gonna beat you,’” she explains, “but there’s something about [seeing if] we can raise the stakes! How far can we take it this year. And what about next year?” Resilience is not a new concept, but it’s been gaining traction recently among some activists around the country. In January, Mountain Xpress looked at some “big ideas” [See In Asheville and beyond, creative problem solvers are hatching new solutions Mountain Xpress, January 20, 2016] this community has come up with to respond to local and global-scale problems. In that article, agriculture scientist and author laura lengnick described resilience theory as it applies to agricultural methods, especially in the context of being prepared for things like climate change and economic shifts. As a consultant and board member at Ashevillage, Lengnick has been helping develop programs that teach resilient living skills such as foraging, fermenting and making herbal medicines. She is also one of the organizers of the Challenge. Lengnick explains that resilient systems have three essential qualities: diversity, self-reliance and “a balanced portfolio of high-quality assets.” Assets come in five types: natural, human, social, financial and technological. To gauge success, it is important to look at how we are situated with each category. “Our own Asheville or regional resilience is only going to be as good as the least of those,” says Lengnick. “We really

need to advance all of them together to create a resilient community.” The Challenge is asking people to register their actions to promote these assets. Things local people are pledging to do include: plant small food gardens; install rain barrels and/or drip irrigation for existing gardens; turn off cars anytime they idle for more than 20 seconds; use alternative transportation, such as bike, bus or carpool to and from work or school regularly; buy in bulk and avoid individually wrapped items; shop locally whenever possible; transfer money out of big national banks to community banks and credit unions; volunteer with a nonprofit organization, among other things. A lot of these habits are common practice for some Ashevilleans, but you might find a few surprises if you survey the list of action ideas. “That’s why something like the Challenge is really a different thing,” Lengnick points out, “because [as] we are hopefully teaching [people] a little bit about resilience, they become more aware of it. And when they go to check out what other people are doing, if they register, they are going to see all kinds of other actions, maybe ones they never thought of.” Kara sweeney co-founder of the Asheville Tool Library, a sponsor of the Challenge, is excited to see the actions that people and organizations come up with and invites them to prevent waste by using the tool library. “A lot of the projects people are registering for the Community Resilience Challenge will require tools, whether it’s a bunch of gardening tools or tools for making a rainwater catchment system, or making your home more energy-efficient. We can provide those tools so that people don’t need to buy them; they can just borrow them.” Kapoor emphasizes that an important part of the Challenge is building partnerships. “We are growing this as a huge community partnership.” She encourages people to connect with the different groups in town, some of which are sponsoring the challenge, to offer support in whatever way they can. There are lots of groups working to improve the community in various ways, but it isn’t about picking and choosing. The point of the Challenge is to put it all together and see where the community stands. “In the last 40 years, we have had all these different social movements that have been working in paral-

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Pieces of resilience Let’s face it: most people already recycle, but there are some other ways to contribute to a prepared region. Folks in the community have already pledged hundreds of actions toward the goal of 828 resilient acts that will grow food, save water, conserve energy, reduce waste and/or build community. In the first week of Asheville’s Community Resilience Challenge, some of the things locals have done or have pledged to do include:

digging it: Asheville Greenworks volunteers plant trees along the French Broad River. Photo courtesy of Asheville Greenworks lel, but with not a whole lot of overlap or integration, and I think this idea of resilience really helps integrate all these different efforts,” Lengnick explains. “That’s because resilience

pulls together all these different threads and different groups and gives them a common purpose.” Find out more about the Community Resilience Challenge in the local com-

munity at ashevillage.org/communityresilience-challenge. Registration of acts goes through the whole month of May. It is free to register and takes just a few minutes. X

• Add a locally-grown, in-season dish to their weekly meal plan • Learn a new food preservation skill (can, dry, ferment, pickle, etc.) • Discuss with their condo association the use of Roundup on grounds that could support permaculture plantings • Help insulate a house occupied by a low-income resident • Build a pizza oven for community gatherings • Donate, sell, or trade lightly used unwanted items • Install a heat pump water heater • Lower the thermostat on their water heater to 120 degrees • Hand out LED bulbs to other people • Record their monthly water use and look for places to reduce • Buy in bulk and avoid individually wrapped items and (new) packaging • Get off junk mail lists and “go paperless” for monthly statements • Host a potluck to share food, ideas, and resources with your neighbors • Improve soil health in their garden so that more water is absorbed during heavy rains

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Two plant sales for the spring gardener e-z gardenerS plant Sale raiSeS mOney fOr SchOlarShipS Plants are popping up for a good cause in the River Arts District this Saturday, May 15. The Asheville E-Z Gardeners is holding their fifth annual pop-up plant sale, and hopes to raise $1,000 from plant sales for college scholarships to support students pursing horticultural studies. Hundreds of mountain-grown plants will be on sale, with prices starting at $2. Plants offered this year include iris, hosta, lily and daylily, lambs’ ears, comfrey, crocosmia, hellebore, Solomon’s seal, liriope, paw paw, sedum, aster and dozens of other selections — all grown by E-Z Gardener members and potted over the winter. The Asheville E-Z Gardeners was founded six years ago with two goals: to have fun and do short-term community gardening projects. In addition to the annual pop-up plant sale, the club does community landscaping and weeding, litter pick-up, and educational talks and demonstrations. The sale takes place in the parking lot of All Souls Pizza on Clingman Avenue, Saturday, May 15, from noon-4 p.m. For more information about the club visit facebook.com/groups/ AshevilleEZgardeners/ Spring fling plant Sale: rOSeS, perennialS, nativeS, Oh my! The Buncombe County Extension Master Gardeners, in partnership with the Asheville Blue Ridge Rose Society, is hosting a spring plant sale from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the American Red Cross parking lot at 100 Edgewood Rd. Not only can plant seekers expect to find roses, perennials, natives, pollinator favorites, vegetable starts and garden accessories, but they can also get gardening questions answered at the “Ask-A-Gardener” information table. Extension Master Gardeners will be available to help shoppers find the right plant for their unique space and needs. In addition, attendees can buy $2 raffle tickets (or three for $5) for a chance to win a rustic plant tool organizer, dried flowers and seeds. For more information visit buncombemastergardener.org or ashevillerosesociety.org. X

gardening fOr a cauSe: The mission of the Asheville E-Z Gardeners is “to

improve our community and our lives through gardening.” The group’s annual spring plant sale offers shoppers the opportunity to fi nd unique plants for the garden, get gardening advice and support local horticulture students at the same time. Photo courtesy of the Asheville E-Z Gardeners

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Booms, busts and local culinary culture BY Jonathan ammons jonathanammons@gmail.com From the “Land of the Sky” to today’s “Beer City” and “Foodtopia,” Asheville has seen its fair share of incarnations. For more than a century, the ebb and flow between hard times and periods of great prosperity have helped create a city that’s both resilient and brimming with possibilities. And those complex dynamics have been, and remain, inextricably bound up with the city’s food and drink scene. “Pack Square was the social, economic and political hub of Western North Carolina,” remembers 88-yearold Asheville native joe bly. “My family used to go to the S&W when it was the greatest cafeteria on the planet. And the art deco inside is still in there, and it is gorgeous.” In the ’50s, “there were stores all the way around the square. There was Quality Bakery, Peterson’s Grill, there was a hardware store and a movie theater, and Pack Library was there,” the lifelong local resident recalls. That period was far from the city’s high point, however. The Great Depression had taken a brutal toll on Asheville, and between 1929 and the 1970s, the city stagnated. The population stayed stuck at about 50,000 until the ’60s, and what tourism there was was largely limited to Biltmore Estate. That, of course, did little to bolster the local food scene. The advent of urban renewal in the ’50s and ’60s sparked other major changes that rippled through the city’s fabric, particularly the AfricanAmerican neighborhoods. On the South Slope, home to today’s flourishing beer scene, hundreds of black families were removed to what was supposed to be “temporary” public housing while their neighborhoods were restructured. In many cases, however, that simply never happened, and in the meantime, former small-business owners were reduced to earning wages in the limited opportunities available to them — or else relying on public assistance. Celebrated local photographer andrea clark, notes Bly, “took thousands of photographs of Southside and Mountainside,” documenting community life both before and after urban

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up nOrth: North Asheville has long been a thriving neighborhood, with its own restaurants and bars. Today the tradition continues with successful businesses such as Nine Mile, which now has a second location in West Asheville. Photo by Cindy Kunst renewal. A few of those photos formed the basis of “Twilight of a Neighborhood: Asheville’s East End, 1970,” a multifaceted project partly funded by the North Carolina Humanities Council. Bly, however, says, “When I asked her what she’d intended to call the book, had she chosen the title ... she said,

‘I would have called it The Negro Removal and Redistribution of Downtown Asheville.’” Ironically, urban renewal and the civil rights movement combined to sound a death knell to many black-owned restaurants and other businesses.

high tea On Wall Street Meanwhile, the ’60s also saw major highway projects that devastated neighborhoods, displacing additional homeowners and vivisecting oncevibrant areas. The road construction triggered significant demographic shifts, as residents moved to outlying parts of west, east and south Asheville. Particularly in the latter two areas, farmland was being converted into burgeoning suburbs. At this time, North Asheville was a thriving neighborhood for what Bly calls “the old money.” It had its own movie house, the Merimon Twin Theatre — which would eventually become Two Moons Brew-N-View and, later, Asheville Brewing Co. West Asheville had its own slew of diners, theaters and pool halls. Meanwhile, the opening of the Asheville Mall in the early ’70s accelerated the trend. And with downtown’s population shrinking, major department stores like J.C. Penney and Sears — not to mention the beloved S&W Cafeteria — closed or relocated to Tunnel Road. In time, that left the city center a virtual ghost town, with few residents and limited business activity after the workday ended. Between 1970 and 1980, the city’s population actually dropped by 10 percent. But these dramatic shifts also created opportunities, as people with more imagination than money took advantage of low rents to launch new eateries and other businesses. nancy orban opened the High Tea Café on Wall Street in 1974. “When I first started, downtown was deader than a doornail,” she recalls. “That was right after all the big stores moved to the mall.” Having relocated from San Francisco, the adventurous young woman decided to take a chance on a quaint little city with a lot of empty buildings. “Rent was only $60, so you could really try anything. And it seemed safe to open up a restaurant,” she continues, because apart from The Mediterranean, “There really wasn’t much else.” pete apostolopoulos, who took over The Mediterranean in 1975, remembers those days well. “Back in the mid-’70s and up to the early ’80s, you wouldn’t be caught dead downtown after 5 o’clock. Lexington Avenue had some beer joints, and it was a strip for the hookers,” he said in a 2014 interview with Xpress. “I remember, where the Green Sage is now, it was an X-rated peeping hole joint. And up on the square, there was one of those X-rated,

eaStSiderS: The Copper Crown, opened a few months ago by Zambra chef Adam Bannasch, adds a new neighborhood gathering spot to East Asheville’s gradually evolving restaurant scene. Photo by Cindy Kunst put-the-quarter-in kind of places. It was getting bad. There wasn’t a tree downtown anywhere.” feet On the Street In 1976, Asheville finally retired its Depression-era debt. “They even burned the mortgage,” remembers Bly. “I went and saw them burn it at the Civic Center.” (The “mortgage” was actually a bond note.) Around that time, the city entertained a proposal to convert a large swath of downtown into another mall. But a coalition of pioneering entrepreneurs and others smitten with a vision of a revitalized central business district rebelled. A referendum turned thumbs down on the mall plan, and in the wake of that, the city began looking at ways to capitalize on its core of historic structures. In the process, the seeds of today’s thriving downtown food scene were sown.

By 1979, strategies had been hatched to bring locals back downtown. They included funding festivals like Bele Chere, which drew thousands of people to the city center. “It wasn’t that there wasn’t much here back when Bele Chere started — it was just that people didn’t know about any of it,” says Orban. “But once they started the festival, people found out, and they came back all the time.” In the ’80s, Bly retired from the post office while ramping up his long-running efforts to promote traditional music and dance via events like Shindig on the Green. Meanwhile, the outlying areas had been taken over by chain stores that priced out many local businesses. “If you were a young man back in those days, you cruised up and down Tunnel Road between Shoney’s and Buck’s, and if you picked up a fight, you go over to Surfside on Patton and fight it out,” remembers Apostolopoulos, holding up his fists like a boxer.

real fOOd arriveS Despite those early efforts, the downtown food scene was still in its infancy. “We moved here in ’81, and there wasn’t a whole hell of a lot here,” remembers longtime local restaurateur vijay shastri, whose various ventures have included The Flying Frog Café, the Frog Bar & Deli and The Latin Quarter. “In the late ’80s up through the ’90s, Tunnel Road really became chain central. Downtown, at that point, was mostly boarded up, and my parents bought our first place, The Windmill, in ’84, and then my sister and I opened Café Bombay in ’88.” The Windmill served an intriguing combo of German and Indian cuisine, reflecting Shastri’s own mixed heritage. The unusual menu, how-

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heart Of the city: “Pack Square was the social, economic and political hub of Western North Carolina,” remembers 88-year-old Asheville native Joe Bly of the 1950s. However, urban renewal in the 1960s and the opening of the Asheville Mall on Tunnel Road in the early 1970s caused many downtown restaurants and shops to close or relocate. Photo from the early 1930s of Pack Square at the corner of Broadway courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library ever, seemed to satisfy the evolving Asheville palate. Originally located in a now-demolished building on Haywood Street, it eventually moved to the more heavily trafficked Tunnel Road. “The big difference in Asheville, more so than its growth, is just the type of people that were here. That’s really what helped spur the restaurant culture in this town,” says Shastri. “Years ago, The Market Place was around, Flying Frog, even in the old days when 23 Page was still there, and we had Richmond Hill. We had, at that time, a group of folks that were quite well-traveled and relatively worldly for a little mountain town. But time takes its toll, and unfortunately, we lost a bunch of those folks all within basically eight to 10 years. You see the next generation come in, and it’s their kids and the younger generation.”

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grOWing pOpularity But the downtown revival had a ripple effect: Between 1980 and 1990, Asheville’s population increased by 14 percent, and many of those newcomers washed ashore on the south side of town. “Back then, there was no reason to come to South Asheville unless you lived out there,” says Asheville native lance carter, who spent 15 years working in management at McDonald’s while saving up money to open his own restaurant. Taking advantage of a growing suburban area, his Southside Café opened in 1990. Hendersonville Road, remembers Carter, “was still under construction to be a five-lane highway. It was just me and the Black Forest Restaurant. Everything else was fast food. At that time, Airport Road wasn’t even developed at all. There was nowhere to shop, no attraction to

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draw people, so we had to rely on repeat business, and we had to keep our prices reasonable. We always tried to be cheaper than the Biltmore Forest Country Club. And we got a lot of their customers because we had better food for a little bit cheaper.” michael parker moved to Asheville in the ’90s and began writing about food and wine for Rapid River Magazine. “A lot of things popped up in pretty rapid succession,” he recalls. “It seemed like everyone that hung out downtown back then was right around their 30s. Everyone was single; it was just fun. That was the worst part about Asheville growing so much: all my friends getting married, having kids and moving to South Asheville, where we’d never see them again. Why come to Asheville in the first place if you’re going to move to a f**king suburb?” Even West Asheville, known to locals as “worst Asheville” for decades, began

to blossom in the early 2000s with the opening of places like Westville Pub and Burgermeister’s. And by the time the Great Recession hit in 2008, Asheville was in the middle of another big growth spurt, with a population of nearly 70,000. Shifting ecOnOmicS When the recession hit, says Carter, “People were scared; they just didn’t want to spend their money. And then Biltmore Park opened — and that’s pretty much all chains — and we were still busy on the weekends, but people just stopped going out during the week.” The Southside Café closed in 2010. The following year, Shastri’s Flying Frog Café and Frog Bar, downtown anchors for more than a decade, also closed. “A lot of what I think has changed in this town closed the Frog,” says

Shastri. “A huge amount of larger-spending corporate dollars are gone.” Volvo’s departure in 2009, he notes, took with it 228 jobs. “It’s virtually impossible, at a local restaurant, to replace a corporate dollar with a local dollar. They’ll spend $3 to every $1 a local will spend. How do you replace several hundred people who made $100,000 to $300,000 a year and had corporate entertainment budgets? With what? With a bearded brewer making $40,000 to $50,000? How do you replace the corporate dollars themselves when the locals don’t spend that same amount?” But the recession also triggered a cultural sea change in how Americans eat, and it wasn’t just in Asheville: New York chefs like David Chang and Wylie Dufresne began creating affordable menus of high-quality food. “You used to go out to eat for the overall experience,” says Carter, looking back to the days of fine dining. “I think people go out now just to socialize, and you don’t have to spend that kind of money to socialize anymore. You can go to a West Asheville bar, or go to 5 Walnut to meet someone and talk, and you don’t have to spend $60 a head. A lot of younger people don’t have that kind of disposable income, and that’s who’s here now.” Shastri agrees. “It used to pretty much be that your higher-end restaurants were the only places to get any sort of decent real food,” he recalls. “Most everything else was little diners or cafés. Now there’s a ton of inexpensive real food.” paying the price But what about those who say local restaurant prices are too high? “I’m going to be brutally honest, because I don’t know a nicer way of putting it,” continues Shastri. “Anyone that thinks the food in this town is expensive doesn’t actually get out. I travel a lot: I get out, I see what’s out there. We don’t have a massive Indian community and whole neighborhoods that are owned by Indian families, so we aren’t going to have a dosa place and get a meal for $7. Things cost a little bit more because of the size: If you want your town to stay small, you’ve got to be willing to pay a little bit for it.” The high cost of living puts a further damper on many folks’ ability to patronize high-end restaurants,

Bly maintains. “There are people living together who don’t even know each other, because they have to. In 1944, my mother made $13 a week, and the lady who boarded with us made $18 a week. At that, we lived better than a lot of folks [in the service industry] are living here now. And we’d just pulled out of the Great Depression. ... That’ll keep people from going out.”

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clOSe tO hOme One thing just about everybody interviewed for this story seemed to agree on is how much Asheville has changed — and will continue to. The city, notes Apostolopoulos, “has evolved. It’s amazing. I come downtown sometimes on the weekends, and I just look around and remember what it used to be like.” And as downtown parking becomes an increasingly scarce commodity on weekends and rents continue to rise, it seems likely that more and more locals will revert to spending the bulk of their time in their own neighborhood. To some extent, that seems to be happening already, as new restaurants open in formerly underserved areas and established local eateries retool or are bought up. Expanding from its West Asheville base, Rocky’s Hot Chicken Shack opened a second location in South Asheville in 2014, and the East Village Grill recently acquired the former Black Forest Restaurant property (the Black Forest’s second location in Hendersonville is still open). In East Asheville, the chef from downtown’s Zambra has opened the Copper Crown, and in the evenings, Filo bakery and coffee shop morphs into the Post 70 Indulgence Bar. Meanwhile, the owners of The Admiral, a key player in the West Asheville renaissance, have purchased the Tastee Diner — said to be the oldest continuously operating restaurant in Asheville. For his part, Parker waxes nostalgic over what’s been lost, while also foreseeing a bright future for the area and its food culture. “I’m very pleased that Asheville is a successful city; I’m pleased that hundreds of thousands of people come here and have a good time,” he explains. “But part of that is that I was here before it got big, and I could enjoy things as they came in gradually. I got to enjoy that old Asheville crowd when everyone was single, and it was just fun. “And I miss those times, but this is a city with a lot of value, and if you have a million-dollar idea in this town, there are a lot of resources here that will back you up.” X

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children ages 2-18. Asheville City Schools provided 4,613 free meals through a similar program. And MANNA FoodBank made nearly 900 food deliveries to children each week during its 10-week Summer Pack Program. Even with these numbers, none of the organizations are content. “We really are trying to get some different things passed, as far as making sure that we can reach more children in the future,” says sheryl harris, the Summer Food Service Program administrator for Buncombe County Schools. “We know that there’s more of a need

out there, and we want to reach as many children as possible.” Part of the struggle for all three organizations is awareness. According to a November 2015 U.S. Department of Agriculture report, 55.86 percent of Buncombe County students were considered economically disadvantaged. Of this percentage, only 12 percent received free summer meals this past year. “There’s a huge awareness issue among parents and a huge awareness issue among organizations,” says tamara baker, the program manager and communications director of No Kid Hungry North Carolina. To better promote these programs, No Kid Hungry created a texting program in 2012. While the option has been available for several years, Baker notes it has “taken a while for people to understand the opportunity.” The system itself is simple. Students or parents text “FoodNC” to 877-877 and receive the location of the closest summer site in their area. The service is available in both English and Spanish. Open sites for the Buncombe County Schools program will be located primarily at public pools and open June 13 to Aug. 19. “You don’t have to go to the pool to get the free lunch,” Harris says. Nor do students need to provide any identification to receive a meal. The only stipulation for these sites is that meals must be consumed on premises due to USDA regulations. Closed-site locations, which typically include church and school camps, are not open to the public. Both hot and cold items will be served at all BCS open sites. “One exciting addition to this summer [menu] is a walking taco salad kit,” says Harris. Each meal will also come with a cup of fresh fruit or vegetables. “And, of course, milk,” Harris adds. Asheville City Schools will kick off its fifth annual Summer Food Service Program on June 13 as well. “We get better at it every year,” says beth palien, the school nutrition director. While smaller in scale than the BCS program, ACS offers three open sites, which are at the following community centers: Hillcrest, Lee Walker and Pisgah View. “We do things like cheese burgers, Chick-fil-A sandwiches, turkey cheese wraps [and] fish sandwiches,” says Palien. Children are also provided with produce, including baby carrots, celery sticks, fresh fruits and raisins. Meals are free to all children, ages 2-18, but food and drink must be consumed at the site where it’s provided.

in the bag: Healthy options like carrots, potatoes, bananas and apples will be among the many edibles provided to students this summer. Photo courtesy of Feeding America Meanwhile, MANNA FoodBank’s Summer Pack Program will offer weekly food deliveries to children outside Buncombe County. “We include fresh produce every week,” says beth stahl, the youth programs manager at MANNA. “Last year we did eight counties.” Unlike BCS or ACS — both of which are federally funded through the USDA — MANNA’s summer program is grant- and donation-based. “That’s one of the challenges on our side,” says Irani. “Funding is everything for what we do. A dollar in is three meals out the door.” MANNA hopes to add a ninth county (Avery) this year, if funding permits. At present, it plans to serve the following counties, which Stahl selects based on existing partnerships and need: Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Jackson. Macon, Madison, Mitchell and Transylvania. “We work with the working poor,” says Irani. “These aren’t people sitting around at home doing nothing. They are working two jobs to barely make ends meet, if that.” Lack of transportation is a major obstacle in all eight counties served.

Because of this, many of MANNA’s working partners deliver the meals directly to the homes of hungry children. Whether it’s church volunteers making weekly deliveries in Jackson and Clay counties or the Brevard Rotary Club doing its part in Transylvania County, the effort to end hunger is a shared responsibility by all parties involved. “Wouldn’t it be nice,” Stahl says, in discussing MANNA’s future summer program plans, “to work [ourselves] out of a job one day?” For details about food delivery locations or donating to MANNA’s Summer Pack Program, visit mannafoodbank.org. Those in the eight counties served by MANNA are also encouraged to visit their local school websites to learn additional information about times and locations of food deliveries. Both the BCS and ACS programs will run June 13-Aug. 19. Both programs will be open Monday through Friday, except July 4. For additional information on sites and food delivery times, text “Food NC” to 877877 or visit buncombe.k12.nc.us or ashevillecityschools. X

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regular crOWd: “It’s home,” says Fred Clark, center, of Mack Kells. Clark is a former manager and longtime regular at the Tunnel Road bar, which celebrates its 35th anniversary this week with a day of throwback specials, music and fun. Photo by Cindy Kunst Go into any bar in Asheville, and you’ll encounter all sorts of regulars. There are the early birds, the afterwork crowd, the after-dinner bunch and the late-night few who close it down. Those who frequent Mack Kells Pub & Grill on Tunnel Road, however, could end up feeling as if they’ve been adopted into a big family — many of whose members have been hanging out there since the place opened in 1981. On Friday, May 13, Mack Kells celebrates its 35th year in business, and everyone is welcome to the party. North Carolina liquor laws require the bar to charge a membership fee — normally $1 — which will be temporarily reduced to 35 cents, and throwback

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specials on select menu items will be offered throughout the day. Door-prize drawings will also be part of the fun, along with a disc jockey starting at 8 p.m. and karaoke beginning a couple of hours later. Owner danny eller reminisces about Mack Kells’ opening day — back when he was just a customer and a musician, not the guy in charge. darryl and jeff burleson, he says, opened the bar, which had previously been a Lum’s chain restaurant. “I went to high school with both of them,” he says. “They opened on a Sunday, and at that time you couldn’t open on a Sunday until 1 p.m. My best friend and I came in about 1:30 that afternoon, so I was probably

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the fourth or fifth person to come in here their first day, and I never stopped. It’s got to be getting close to being one of the oldest bars in Asheville.” Although Eller describes himself as “a musician first and foremost” (he began performing as a drummer at East Asheville’s old Sky Club when he was 15 and later toured with big bands for about 14 years), he has served plenty of time in the kitchen. He worked for many years at Fine Friends in North Asheville and at the nowclosed McGuffey’s before he joined Mack Kells as a bartender and cook. “I was real happy to get in here,” he says of his move to buy the business three years ago.

Since Eller bought the business, he has put a strong focus on offering highquality food. “We try some neat stuff with our daily specials that you don’t see at most bars,” he says. “Everything here, except for a few appetizers, is made from scratch. Our big night is wing night — every Thursday — which has been going on for 30 years. It’s usually a huge crowd.” In recognition of that, as part of the anniversary celebration, Eller will offer the bar’s popular wings for the throwback price of 10 cents each. “He’s a sauce master,” chimes in assistant manager leslie maxwell. She notes that the bar “had special T-shirts made up for the anniversa-

Culinary Cooking Experiences at ry that say, ‘Mack Kells — Proudly Serving Asheville’s Idiots for 35 Years,’ because I figured I could sell those,” she explains. But the word idiots is meant in a playfully teasing way. “This is one of the friendliest places you’ll ever come in,” she says. “The reason we don’t have fights in here isn’t because of our bouncer, it’s because of our customers.” Eller estimates that 70 percent of the customers consider themselves regulars and come in several times a week, if not every day, to eat, drink and socialize. “They all are looking forward to helping us celebrate our 35th anniversary,” he says. “We have such a diverse crowd that comes in here on any given day. We have a group of retirees who come in early to talk and hang out together.” “Once in a while tourists will come in, and they have this moment where you can see they’re asking themselves, ‘Do I really want to become a member?’ even though it’s only a dollar,” says Dulcie Williams, who’s been a regular at Mack Kells for about four years. “We see this as a very familystyle place, so if the bartender or the bouncer is busy when they come in, I’ll tell them they have to sign in. I’ve often suggested that people sign in next to me as my guest for the evening so they can come in and see for themselves what a great place this is. All of the regulars do that. We recommend things on the menu, since we know it well, and we make sure people feel welcome.” Eller mentions that Mack Kells is active with the local motorcycle community, acting as a stop on poker runs and hosting fundraisers. But he points out that the place is not exclusively a motorcycle bar. “You could come in on a Saturday afternoon and see six golfers sitting with five bikers and a hippie all at the same table having a great time together,” he says. “It’s home,” says Fred Clark, who, until recently, had been a manager for 16 years and has been a regular customer since the beginning. “Back when the bar first started, there were only three or four bars in Asheville, and now there’s what, 403? People change, people go. Downtown as the brew city is popular now, so your average blue-collar bar is harder to find. But that’s the cool thing about here — you know, you got office workers next to construction guys next to people who don’t do a thing; it’s a great mix, and it’s all family. You’ll find the worst cousin and the best brother you ever had in here.”

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Mack Kells Pub & Grill’s 35th anniversary celebration takes place starting at 11:30 a.m. Friday, May 13. Everyone who enters from 2-8 p.m. is eligible for door prizes, with a drawing happening at 8 p.m. Retro prices from 35 years ago will be applied to select menu items throughout the day — for example, wings will be 10 cents each, and hot dogs will cost 35 cents. Cocktail and beer prices will be reduced as well. New membership cards and renewals (normally $1) will be available for 35 cents. A disc jockey will be spinning tunes 8-10 p.m. followed by karaoke from 10 p.m.-midnight. Guest appearances from local musicians are expected. Commemorative 35th anniversary T-shirts will be on sale during the event. Mack Kells is at 160 Tunnel Road. Visit the bar’s Facebook page for details.

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Asheville vegFest returns After launching in 2011, Asheville VegFest took a four-year hiatus. “But this year, we decided to bring it back and see what we could do,” says ann green, president of the Asheville Vegan Society, which produces the free outdoor event. This second iteration takes place on Saturday, May 15. Plant-based edibles — offered both as free samples and for sale a la carte — will take the spotlight, with a lineup of mostly local vendors, including No Evil Foods, Plant, Scott’s Knots, Eden-Out, The Hop, Firestorm Café and Books, The BLOCK Off Biltmore, Udderly Not Cheese, Medea’s Espresso and Juice Bar, Addissae Ethiopian Restaurant and many more. Attendees can also visit the tents of Catawba Brewing Co., Sanctuary Brewing Co., Urban Orchard and Lenny Boy Brewing Co. (a Charlotte-based company that’s bringing its line of organic kombucha and gluten-free beers) for a creature-conscious buzz. While a key goal of the festival is helping consumers plot a mental map of vegan-friendly eateries for their own future reference, the expanse of food and beverage tents will be broken up by “an et cetera section,” according to Green, who lists pottery, soap and candles among the goods for sale. For kids, there’s an area with face painting, hula hooping and balloons, and musical acts Warm the Bell, Chris Sanchez, Lake Lawn and Leslie Blackshear Smith will play live sets above the sounds of munching and mingling. VegFest marks the last day of Vegan Awareness Week, which Mayor esther manheimer recently signed into existence after some prompting from Asheville Vegan Society. The group’s former president, joe walsh, drafted the proclamation that Manheimer later approved — an act that nudged veganism toward the mainstream, says Green. “During that week, we’re going to have various film screenings and speakers and invite the public to attend,” she says, noting a showing of documentary PlantPure Nation, a “Pig”nic party and pre- and postVegFest concerts. VegFest is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at Pack Square Park, 121

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river artS diStrict farmerS market The grassy field beside All Souls Pizza will again fill with produce, meats, cheeses, breads, sauces, chocolates, spices, soaps, herbal medicine and beauty products, plant starts, fine crafts and more, as the weekly River Arts District Farmers Market springs back into action this month. Patrons can browse the artisan items to the sounds of live music acts Blue Ribbon Healers (May 11), Searra Jade (May 18) and Asher Leigh (May 25). “We are a producer-only market,” reads the website. “Please excuse the dirty fingernails.” The market is open 2-6 p.m. Wednesdays at All Souls Pizza, 175 Clingman Ave. For additional information visit radfarmersmarket.wix. com/rad-farmers-market. X

fun and filling: This year’s VegFest highlights a smorgasbord of local vegan eats, including food from Plant, left, among many other meal options. Live entertainment from bands like Warm the Bell, bottom right, will aim to keep the principled festival light and fun. Photos courtesy of Plant and Asheville VegFest College St. Visit ashevillevegfest.com for more information on the festival and Vegan Awareness Week events, which take place at various times and venues.

The wine festival happens noon-5 p.m., Saturday, May 14, at The Inn at Glen Alpine, 105 Davis St., Glen Alpine. Tickets are $20/$25. For additional information visit facebook.com/ turkeytailwinefestival.

turkey tail Wine feStival Situated less than an hour from Asheville near Morganton, the inaugural Turkey Tail Wine Festival will feature local and regional products from Belle Nicho Winery at Howling Dog Farm, Grassy Creek Vineyard & Winery, Lake James Cellars Winery, Linville Falls Winery, Shadow Line Vineyard, Silver Fork Vineyard & Winery, South Creek Vineyards & Winery, Southern Charm Winery and more. Between tastings and paid full pours, guests can enjoy live music from City Rhythm (big band jazz) and Roadside Attraction (folk/ Americana) and peruse candles, jewelry, stained glass, antiques and other art — some with a wine theme. Poor Man’s BBQ Food Truck and My Local Bakery will provide food at the outdoor event, where lawn chairs and blankets are welcome.

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nO-till gardening claSS While many gardeners begin their growing season with a hard day of tilling, others subscribe to a method that’s easier on the back and the upper earth’s ecosystem. “Minimal disturbance is a key to thriving soils that are supportive of the best plants,” reads a description of Living Web Farms’ upcoming course on the gardening strategy. patryk battle will share no-till techniques that can be used on small plots, including information on equipment, cover crops, planting schedules and more. The workshop runs from 1:30-7 p.m., Saturday May 21, at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River. $10 suggested donation. Visit livingwebfarms. org for details or to register.

Food writer Jonathan Ammons lets us in on his favorite dish du jour. empanadas at el lemon: Tucked beside a smoke shop on U.S. 70 in Swannanoa, El Lemon is a signless mecca of handmade Mexican delights. With a selection of meat that varies daily, the airy and delicate pastries are quite different from the heavier Central American deep-fried, croissant-like empanadas most of us are used to. The tacos are good here too, but if you miss the empanadas, you’re missing out. Also, grab some fresh eggs from the family’s home farm while you’re there. — Jonathan Ammons

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Aldous huXley sinGs The Blues N.C. Stage hosts world premiere of Brave new World: The musical BY eDwin arnauDin edwinarnaudin@gmail.com When aldous huxley published Brave New World in 1932, he envisioned a future in which the populace would be so distracted by sex, drugs and other forms of entertainment, they could be controlled by those diversions. In that society, everyone is constantly connected to everyone else, no one is ever alone, and children are subversively conditioned to be perfect consumers. “Sound like any culture we’re familiar with?” asks bill russell, lyricist for a new musical adaptation of the novel, which makes its world premiere Wednesday, May 11, at North Carolina Stage Company. The show runs through Sunday, June 5. The seeds of the collaboration date to 2007 when N.C. Stage worked with a New York producer to help launch a national tour of Almost Heaven: The Songs of John Denver. Eight years later, one of the associates in the New York office, who now has his own general manager’s office, called charlie flynn-mciver, artistic director and co-founder of N.C. Stage, about Brave New World: The Musical. “They were looking for a place to work on the story and music for its first public performances, and he recalled his experience with us,” Flynn-McIver says. Also, N.C. Stage has gained more attention in New York from world premieres of Stalking The Bogeyman and Someone Else. After nearly a year of negotiations, an agreement was struck just before Christmas, bringing with it plenty of logistical challenges. Other than Hedwig and the Angry Inch in 2002, the second show for the then-fledgling company, N.C. Stage has done few productions involving music, largely due to its limited space. For Brave New World, the performers are miked, sound equipment is everywhere, and musicians are in a separate room with video of the conductor broadcast to the stage and vice versa. Though it all translates to a more expensive and complex show than N.C. Stage’s usual offerings,

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SOma thiS, SOma that: From left, Marissa O’Donnell, Justin Matthew Sargent and Robby Haltiwanger star in Brave New World: The Musical. The show has its world premiere at N.C. Stage, and performances are sure to shape future productions. Photo courtesy of N.C. Stage Flynn-McIver hopes to put on more such productions in the future, even if it takes convincing his loyal audience. “Sometimes we get pushback from subscribers or ticket buyers who say they don’t want to come to a musical, as if it’s trite or cliche or old-fashioned,” Flynn-McIver says. “The way music is used in a musical to express something that can’t be expressed with words alone is magical. It gets right to the heart of what the character is feeling and going through and is active in a way that is really compelling.” As in Huxley’s novel, Brave New World centers on World Controller Thomas Mond (played by justin sargent) and his struggle to maintain order when two of his genetical-

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ly superior citizens, Lenina (marisa o’donnell) and Bernard (jason edward cook), leave their chemically engineered utopia — the government controls the population with the pleasure drug Soma — to explore a savage reservation. They return with mysterious outsiders John (robby haltiwanger) and his mother, Linda (robin skye). ben andron, author of the show’s book, acknowledges that the structure of the novel doesn’t easily lend itself to the stage. In Huxley’s writing, automobile pioneer Henry Ford is essentially God — citizens say “Ford” instead of “Lord” because their society is modeled after his assembly line efficiency. So, to honor the source material while also creating a

compelling piece of theater, Andron came up with a celebration of Ford and the Model T as the show’s framing device. It’s accompanied by music that cocomposer john mcdaniel describes as “pop-rock in flavor, drawing on contemporary and often futuristic feels and vibes.” A crew of local designers including andrew manion (set), c.j. barnwell (lights), george martinat (costumes), matt nielson (sound), jessica tandy Kammerud (props) and aaron price (assistant to music department) are working with director thomas caruso and choreographer ryan Kasprzak on the collaborative vision. By far the largest show N.C. Stage has ever done, Flynn-McIver says Brave New World will stretch the performers, designers, crew and staff in ways they’ve yet to experience. It will leave them with an enhanced physical infrastructure and skills that will make subsequent shows better — and bigger, if they so choose. The expanded budget that comes with putting on a larger project also means more money will be spent in the local community. And if the changes made to Stalking the Bogeyman before its OffBroadway and West End runs, and to Someone Else prior to its upcoming Off-Broadway run this spring are any indication, future productions of Brave New World will be greatly shaped by its rehearsals and performances at N.C. Stage. That, in turn, should attract even more world premieres to Asheville. X

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the bard iS back: Montford Park Players haven’t staged The Asheville Shakespearience in fi ve years. The popular show, featuring some of Shakespeare’s greatest scenes, returns this month. Photo courtesy of the Montford Park Players Music snobs are quick to decry greatest hits collections as being far inferior to an artist’s or band’s individual albums, but as the Montford Park Players know, there’s a certain appeal to encountering the best of someone’s works in one sitting. Celebrating that mindset, the local acting collective opens its outdoor season Friday, May 13, at 7:30 p.m. in the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater. The production, The Asheville Shakespearience, is a collection of some of William Shakespeare’s most notable scenes. Directed by christine eide, caleb owolabi and adrian suskauer and starring many Asheville favorites and MPP regulars, performances are at 7:30 p.m. Fridays through Sundays until May 28. The shows are free and open to the public. Back by popular demand after a five-year absence, The Asheville Shakespearience not only provides audiences with an assortment of The Bard’s standout creations, but gives the actors a chance to stretch their onstage muscles in ways a single full-length play can’t. By experimenting with Shakespeare’s text and scenes through means often ill-fitted to the production of just one of his works, the Montford Park Players actors grow as performers and give themselves a creative head start on the season to come. Upcoming shows include Much Ado About Nothing (June 3-July 2), Titus Andronicus (July 8-30), Measure for Measure (Aug. 5-27) and Pride and Prejudice (Sept. 2-24). Make advanced seating reservations at montfordparkplayers.org. —E.A. X

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fine fOlk: Singer and activist Peggy Seeger, sister of the late Pete Seeger, is a former Asheville resident. Now based in the U.K., she accepted an invitation to this year’s SERFA conference, where she will give the keynote address. Photo by Vicki Sharp Although Folk Alliance International is, as its name suggests, a worldwide organization, one of its arms — the Southeast Regional Folk Alliance — has a local focus. That group, which represents 13 states, holds its ninth annual gathering at the Montreat Conference Center Wednesday, May 18, to Sunday, May 22. There, says founder and conference director Kari estrin, “We’re really aligning with and celebrating the Asheville community.” An Asheville Pass, available to Xpress readers, allows access on Friday from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. It’s for those who are “curious to know what we’re all about and to experience some workshops, programming and the environment of SERFA,” says Estrin.

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In 2001, Estrin was asked to chair a meeting about creating a regional arm of the Kansas City, Mo.-based Folk Alliance International. The first SERFA conference took place in 2008 at Middle Tennessee State University and honored Alice Gerrard of folk duo Hazel and Alice. Now, like then, “We have workshops for artists on all aspects of being an independent artist, from the craft of songwriting and performance to traditional workshops about the music of the Southeast, plus workshops on business and social media,” she says. “We cover a large range.” About 80 people attended that inaugural conference, including singersongwriter rebecca loebe. She went

on to appear on the first season of “The Voice,” and, says Estrin, will return to this year’s SERFA conference as a showcase performer. Other artists performing at this year’s official showcases (there will be 25) include bettysoo, si Kahn, letters to abigail and lowell levinger, aka Banana from ’60s rock band The Youngbloods. Though SERFA serves the Southeast, “Our official showcase artists are from Newfoundland, Ireland, Wales and all over the U.S.,” says Estrin. But that’s not the only place to find stars. Open mics and jam sessions are an option. Plus, guerrilla showcases, held after the official showcases, run from 11:45 p.m. to 2 a.m. to give more artists a chance to perform. And, while taking

of the late Pete Seeger, Peggy moved to Asheville in the ’90s with her partner, Irene Pyper-Scott. Again based in the U.K., she finally accepted an invite to the SERFA conference. Another award recipient is phil jamison, a local musician, educator and author of Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance. Jamison will be recognized for 40 years of calling dances. A native of northern New York state, “I was exposed to a lot of music pretty young,” he says. “My folks had records. We listened to Pete Seeger & The Weavers, the New Lost City Ramblers and Jean Ritchie.” As a teenager, Jamison started playing guitar. “Somebody let me play a banjo shortly after, and I loved it,” he remembers. In 1980, Jamison joined the Green Grass Cloggers and relocated to North Carolina to perform full time with that group. Two years later, he started The Old Farmer’s Ball, a popular weekly dance that has since moved to the Warren Wilson College campus. While Jamison enjoys contra dances — the style now associated with The Old Farmer’s Ball, these days they’re “all modern choreography,” he says. Though based on traditional dances from New England, the same contras can be found across the country while regional forms, such as Southern squares, fall by the wayside. Jamison says it’s become hard to find Southern square dances locally, though he hopes that the right venue would spark renewed interest in the custom. The good news is that Jamison will call a barn dance as part of the SERFA conference kickoff, and he promises traditional Southern squares in the mix. X

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Southeast Regional Folk Alliance hip tO be SQuare: Musician and writer Phil Jamison will be recognized for 40 years as a dance caller. A founder of The Old Farmer’s Ball, popular with local contra dancers, Jamison wants to preserve Southern square dances, traditional to this region. Photo courtesy of Jamison a break from conference director duties, Estrin started the Founding Presidents Award “to bring some high visibility people who I would like to honor to the conference,” she says. Though she’s currently running the show again, Estrin still makes a point to honor those she feels are deserving of lifetime achievement-type recognition. This year that award goes to jennifer pickering, founder of LEAF (which

recently celebrated its 20th anniversary and 40th festival) and jim mcgill, director of The Swannanoa Gathering, now in its 25th year. Folk singer and activist peggy seeger is both an award recipient and this year’s keynote speaker. A little-known fact: The Roberta Flack hit, “First Time Ever I Saw Your Face,” was penned by Seeger’s late husband, British singer-songwriter Ewan MacColl, for Seeger. The sister

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‘The GrAndeur oF The lAndsCAPe’ NewSong winners Max Hatt/Edda Glass share their debut album An unusual musical path led a guitar-and-vocal two-piece to play bossa nova, open for Frank Zappa’s son, win a songwriting contest and record their debut album in Asheville. But guitarist max hatt takes it all in stride. “ I don’t think things have changed very much, other than us having the opportunity to really refine what we’ve been doing all along,” he says. Known onstage as Max Hatt/Edda Glass, they’ll play an intimate show — only 50 tickets are available — at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall on Sunday, May 15. Hatt and vocalist edda glass first got together musically in Helena, Mont. There they formed a group called Rio to play bossa nova standards. “We worked as much as anybody else in the state,” Hatt says. But the duo’s musical aspirations went beyond their repertoire of songs by Brazilian jazz legend João Gilberto. Hatt and Glass won a grant that financed some demo recordings, and they began writing their own songs. Still, “there really weren’t any venues to play [them] in,” says Glass. The original songs of the duo “are very inspired by the West, the grandeur of the landscape,” the singer says. “People often comment on the amount of space in our music, that we don’t fill it up,” adds Hatt. “I think that’s reflective of the nature of the West, where there are a lot of open spaces, good places for selfreflection and introspection.” Though Hatt and Glass’ sound is informed by bossa nova, it ventures beyond that style. “All these songs were originally written as guitar jazz trio instrumentals,” Glass says. “Edda wrote all these beautiful vocals for them.” The guitarist compares the original music to the classics they still play at many shows: “They’re obviously in a different language, and the setting’s a little different — it’s not Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, it’s somewhere in rural Montana — but for us, the aesthetic is very similar.” Glass says that when she and Hatt relocated to Santa Fe, N.M., “Suddenly we started to find audiences who were actually interested in listening to a song start to finish, in a

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a WhiSper can be mOre effective than a ShOut: Max Hatt and Edda Glass, at right, recorded their debut album at Echo Mountain Studios with help from River Guerguerian, Pat Sansone and Clipper Anderson, from left. Photo courtesy of Gar Ragland more concert-style environment.” They decided to enter the annual NewSong Contest, hosted by the NewSong music group, whose Southern outpost is based in Asheville. Contest finalists perform at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. There, Hatt and Glass won the grand prize, which included a recording session at Echo Mountain Studios. pat sansone — a member of Americana outfit Wilco and leader of his own project, Autumn Defense — was one of the NewSong judges and quickly became an admirer of Max Hatt/Edda Glass. Sansone signed on to produce the album, titled Ocean of Birds, which will be released May 20. It features local percussionist river guerguerian. “He’s a super drummer and a positive person with great energy,” says Hatt. Glass agrees: “He really embodies the Asheville vibe. He brought a lot of great texture to the album.” The tracks on Ocean of Birds display a conversational quality. “My favor-

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ite way to hear them is as solo guitar pieces,” says the singer. “Before they have lyrics, they still have a sort of mystery attached.” But her clear, supple vocals add an extra emotional dimension to the music. The duo’s songs are subtle, contemplative and often melancholy; qualities that might not seem likely to go over well when opening for the electric guitar pyrotechnics of dweezil Zappa. “There was quite a contrast,” says Hatt. “I’ve been involved in a guitar workshop and festival that goes on every year in Montana. And last year, Edda was invited to be involved in a songwriting class with madeleine peyroux. Then we were asked to do a performance as an opener for Dweezil.” The open-minded audience gave Max Hatt/Edda Glass a warm reception. Hatt offers an idea of what to expect at the up-close and intimate Isis show: “We basically blend things. You’re going to get a little bit of bossa nova.”

But the primary focus is on originals from Ocean of Birds. The two styles complement each other: “The transitions are pretty smooth,” the guitarist says. Glass adds, “The overlap is just in terms of the harmonics and the underlying structure of the songs.” X

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CrAFTers For CriTTers The Ooh La La Curiosity Market brings local artists to Pritchard Park

a Warm gathering: Throughout the summer, Pritchard Park will be home to the Ooh La La Curiosity Market. Photo courtesy of Chelsea Morning “What I like about my market is that it’s intimate,” say chelsea morning, the creator and organizer of the Ooh La La Curiosity Market. “You don’t feel closed in and overwhelmed with stuff.” Entering its fifth year, the market launches for the season at Pritchard Park on Saturday, May 14. Throughout the 15-event summer series, painters, leather smiths, jewelry makers, potters, up-cycled crafters, clothing designers, photographers and others will set up beneath large umbrellas. Musicians will perform at each event, with acts ranging from blues and acoustic rock to solo saxophonists. A jewelry maker by trade, Morning dreamed up the Ooh La La Curiosity Market in 2011. At

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the time, her daughter volunteered at the Animal Haven of Asheville, and Morning was involved in running the fundraising program at her daughter’s school. “It made sense that if I was going to do this, why not make it a fundraiser as well as a fabulous local art market,” she says. The “La La” component of the event’s name stands for “Local Artists/ Local Animals,” and a portion of the vendor fees goes toward Animal Haven, a refuge for homeless and abused animals. “They do so much and are one of the lesser-known animal shelters in the area,” Morning says. In addition to the vendor fees, proceeds from a raffle basket filled with donated items from each artist participating in that week’s event go toward raising money for the shelter.

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trina hudson, Animal Haven’s cofounder and director of fundraising, says Ooh La La has provided huge financial help. “We don’t receive any city, county or state funding, so we rely on our fundraisers. It’s a winwin for everybody,” she says. “It gives exposure to the local artists and also to our organization, as far as outreach goes, all of which brings in volunteers and supporters.” Based on the market’s early success, in 2012, Morning opened The Curiosity Shoppe, a “unique boutique” located on Cherry Street in Black Mountain. Half of the boutique’s inventory is locally made items, many of which come from artists who participate in the market. Painter jerry long, aka Bongojerry, has been a vendor at

Ooh La La since its start. “I saw a call to artists on Craigslist, and I was one of the first to respond,” he says. Over the past four years, he’s watched the market grow both in size and scale. What began as six markets with a handful of artists has gradually turned into a seasonal gig. “If you sell well, you could make a living at it through the summer,” Long says. Like Morning, Long appreciates the venue’s intimacy. “It isn’t overwhelming,” he says. “I think because [of this], more artists are successful in selling their product, rather than being spread out so thin.” While a handful of the same artists partake in every market, Morning adds new vendors throughout the season to keep the experience fresh. She also makes it a point to invite emerging makers. “I really enjoy giving new artists who maybe aren’t quite ready to do a $400 festival an outlet to see where they can go with what they’re doing,” she says. Potter and longtime Ooh La La vendor william hunter offers some practical advice for those new to the circuit. “Don’t be shy. People are coming to get information and see new things,” he says. “Make them feel welcome. And talk up your work. You want to give them a good feeling.” He adds that Morning’s own concern and kindness toward both her vendors and those in attendance play a large role in the market’s success. “She really takes care of the artists and watches out for our interests,” he says. “It’s refreshing.” X

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Calmness and sadness share a slow pace. And that’s the intersection at which singersongwriter Garrett Sale operates. His musical project, William Wild, which shares its name with the homeless man who predicted and encouraged Sale’s eventual profession, melds vulnerably sung musings, acoustic strums and pedal steel into something as comfortably heavy as a stack of winter blankets. Recent single “When I’ve Been Gone” adopts the perspective of Sale’s father, who was homeless for years before his death — two days after Sale resolved to quit helping him. “I’m proud of this song,” he told American Songwriter. “I was so tempted to try and write redemption into the song, but it was a really big moment to decide not to.” The Knoxville-based artist plays a free show at the Town Pump Tavern in Black Mountain on Tuesday, May 17, at 10 p.m. facebook.com/thetownpumptavern. Photo courtesy of the artist

Foul-mouthed and famous for steering countless Hollywood careers, Sue Mengers’ personality is so compelling, it’s the only one needed for this one-woman play. The A-list agent invites viewers into her home (don’t mind if she indulges in a drink and a toke), where the scoop on Hollywood insiders unfolds during one witty monologue. The unlikely female tycoon, who is played by local comedic actress Betsy Puckett, built her success through the ’70s by ascribing value to others. But a recent firing by friend and top client Barbra Streisand has subverted Mengers’ reign. “On this evening,” reads a press release, “Sue is forced to face the inevitable truth: Shattering the showbiz glass ceiling might just get you cut.” Upcoming performances run May 13-22 at 35below. Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. $15. ashevilletheatre.org. Photo by Karri Brantley Photography

Josh Ritter “Give your love freely to whoever that you please / don’t let nobody tell you ’bout the who you ought to be / and when you get damned in the popular opinion / it’s just another damn of the damns you’re not giving.” Those are some of the latest freeliving lyrics — and perhaps the mantra — of Americana artist Josh Ritter, who thoughtfully pens melodic stories and delivers them with a hearty smile. The term singer-songwriter barely conveys Ritter’s literary aptitude, which once compelled him to turn a song into a full-fledged novel. The Idaho-raised traveler also churns out artsy music videos like the crowdsourced photo slideshow of fans’ hometowns (including Waynesville) that accompanied his recent single, “Homecoming.” The Steel Wheels open for Ritter at The Orange Peel on Wednesday, May 18, at 9 p.m. $20/$22. theorangepeel.net. Photo by Laura Wilson 54

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Claire Barratt While pursuing her master’s in fine arts, local ballet teacher Claire Barratt set out to develop a technique for creating and teaching performance art. Her method calls upon “the self as a raw material with which to create living art,” according to a press release. Over two days, Weaverville Yoga will host Barratt as she presents her Raw (Material) Project, which harnesses the natural world as another input for multimodal expression. Barratt’s initial dance performance on Saturday, May 14, at 7 p.m., will feature a guest musician and explore gestures and sounds inspired by nature. On Sunday, May 15, from 2-5 p.m., she invites participants into a workshop that uses bodily motions to prompt imagination. Later, at 6 p.m., she’ll screen her project video journal. And an hour before and after each session, a multimedia installation will provide glimpses into Barratt’s entire journey. Admission by donation. avl.mx/2i9. Photo by Matt Jamie

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• Through MO (5/23) - Appalachian Living craft and skills series: Bark basket workshop with biologist Jeff Gottlieb, Tuesday, May 26, 5:30-8:30pm. Registration: 227-7129. $25. Held in the Mountain Heritage Center Gallery in Hunter Library. river artS diStrict artiStS riverartsdistrict.com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am-6pm - Self-guided open studio tour through the River Arts District with artist demonstrations and classes. Free to attend. the raW-(material) prOJect cillavee@gmail.com • SU (5/15), 6pm - Video screening and installation. Admission by donation. Held at Weaverville Yoga, 7 Florida Ave., Weaverville

art/craft fairS fOlk art center MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 2987928, craftguild.org • SA (5/14) & SU (5/15) - Fiber weekend with fiber arts demonstrations. Sat.: 10am-4pm. Sun.: 1-3pm. Wearable Fiber Fashion Show on Sunday, May 15, 1pm & 3pm. Free to attend.

impreSSiOnS Of hayWOOd cOunty: The Haywood County-themed paintings of 94-year-old award-winning acrylic artist Mary Denise Keeney McCullough are on view in the Haywood County-Canton Library Visual Arts Center until August. McCullough started her career as a realist, though her style has evolved over the years into a mixture of abstract expressionism, impressionism and realism. For more information, visit www.haywoodarts.org. Painting by McCullough courtesy of the Haywood County Arts Council. (p. 57) art cOlOr mixing/theOry claSS in Oil (pd.) • 2 sessions: Monday May 16th and 23rd, 6:30-9pm. $100, all supplies included plus Free credit for a future Wine and Design studio class. Create custom color charts, exercises in theory and practice. Wine and Design, 640 Merrimon Ave., sign up at: 828255-2442 or www.wineanddesign. com/asheville appalachian paStel SOciety appalachianpastelsociety.org • SA (5/14), 10am-noon - “The Other Side of Art: Organizing and Promoting Your Artwork” presentation by Regina Burchett. Free to attend. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River art league Of henderSOn cOunty 692-9441, artleague.net

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• SU (5/15), 2pm - General meeting and presentation by Ray Cooper entitled “Beyond the Brush.” Free. Held at Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville artS cOuncil Of henderSOn cOunty 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-8504, acofhc.org • WE (5/18), 5:30pm - Volunteers information session regarding the planning and implementing of a public art project for downtown Hendersonville. Free. aSheville area artS cOuncil 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TU (5/17), 10am-noon - Artist Business Brainstorm Session: “Whats Your Brand,” with Jenny Greer Fares of Sound Mind Creative. Registration required. Free.

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aSheville art muSeum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • WE (5/18), 10am-5pm “International Museum Day,” with curator presentations, artist talks, open studio for families, and public input sessions. See website for full schedule. Admission fees apply. grOveWOOd gallery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • WE (5/18), noon-4pm “Introduction to Anticlastic Forging” demonstration by Alice Scott. Free to attend. OdySSey cOOperative art gallery 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am-5pm - Gallery open house with food, music and artists’ demonstrations. Free to attend. public eventS at Wcu 227-7397, wcu.edu

auditiOnS & call tO artiStS fOOthillS fOlk art feStival facebook.com/ FoothillsFolkArtFestival • Through (10/1) - Artist applications accepted self-taught artists for the October festival. Contact for full guidelines: cstarnes@hickorymuseumofart.org. lOcal clOth localcloth.org • Through (7/10), Textile submissions accepted for Local Cloth’s “Project Handmade 2016: Elements of Nature.” Full guidelines: localcloth.org. tedx tryOn 393-0182, tedxtryon.com • Through (6/10) - Submissions accepted for musicians, dancers, poets, humorists and street performers for September 10, 2016 event to be held at Tryon Fine Arts Center. Free.

cOmedy 35belOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (5/18), 7:30pm - “The SuperHappy Trivia Challenge.”

Local comics and personalities participate in a 1970’s style panel show. $12. henderSOnville cOmmunity theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FR (5/13) & SA (5/14), 8pm Gutbusters comedy presents comedian Sid Davis. $15.

muSic aSheville high SchOOl 419 McDowell St. • TH (5/19), 8pm - Band concert featuring flutist Caroline Beard. Free to attend. aSheville SymphOny OrcheStra 254-7046, ashevillesymphony.org • SA (5/14), 8pm - Concert featuring cellist Zuill Bailey and the works of Weber and Dvorak. $22 and up. Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. blue ridge ringerS handbell enSemble blueridgeringers.tripod.com • SU (5/15), 4pm - Blue Ridge Ringers concert. Free. Held at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 22 Fisher Road, Brevard celebratiOn SingerS Of aSheville 230-5778, singasheville.org • SU (5/15), 4pm - “Music in the Heart of the World,” spring concert featuring American and Spanish folksongs by Bob Chilcott and Andrea Ramsey. Free to attend. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. fireStOrm cafe and bOOkS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WE (5/18), 7pm - Dian Killian, Saro & Friends, acoustic mountain music. Free to attend. flat rOck playhOuSe dOWntOWn 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/12) until (5/22) - Music on the Rock: The Music of The Eagles. Thurs: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $28. muSic at unca 251-6432, unca.edu • SA (5/14), 6-8pm - Blue Ridge A Cappella Competition sponsored by RadioOctave. Information: ktavares8.wix.com/mysite. Held at Alumni Hall. $10/$5 students. muSicWOrkS! aSheville 318-8174, musicworksasheville.org, bwkellum@ashevillesymphony.org • FR (5/13), 7-8:30pm - “Young Voices in Bloom,” concert by

the Savannah Children’s Choir and the Asheville Youth Choir. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. tigg’S pOnd retreat center 111 Fiddlehead Lane, Zirconia, 697-0680, tiggspondretreatcenter.com • WE (5/18), 7pm - Martyn Joseph, folk/rock/soul/Americana. Tickets: brownpapertickets.com/ event/2499792. $20. trinity epiScOpal church 60 Church St., 253-9361 • FR (5/13), 7-9pm - PASTYME concert of contemporary songs and poetry. Free.

theater 35belOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/22) - I’ll Eat You Last. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15. fireStOrm cafe and bOOkS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • SA (5/14), 6:30pm - Laura Boffa’s presents her book, Writing Home: The Story of Thomas Wolfe. flat rOck playhOuSe 2661 Hwy. 225, Flat Rock, 6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/21) - Million Dollar Quartet. Wed., Thur., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $15-$40. mOntfOrd park playerS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/13) until (5/28), 7:30pm - The Asheville Shakespearience. $10. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. parkWay playhOuSe 202 Green Mountain Dr., Burnsville, 682-4285, parkwayplayhouse.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/21) - Steel Magnolias. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $20/$17 for seniors & students/$10 for children. Street creature’S puppet playhOuSe Hide Map 37 E Larchmont Road, Asheville NC • THURSDAYS (5/12) through (6/30), 7-9pm - Improv comedy class incorporating puppets. All levels. $10. the magnetic theatre 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (5/28), 7:30pm - Death of a Salesman. $24/$21 advance.

Thank you for voting us #1! gallerY D irectorY appalachian barn alliance appalachianbarns.org • Through TU (5/31) - Farmers’ Federation photography exhibit. Held at the offices of the News, Record & Sentinel, Back Street, Downtown Marshall art mOb 124 Fourth Ave. E., Hendersonville, 693-4545, artmobstudios.com • Through SU (6/12) - Miniature Art Show, juried exhibition. aSheville gallery Of art 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TU (5/31) - Earthlight, painting exhibition of the work of Karen Keil Brown. aSheville hiStOry center 253-9231, smh@wnchistory.org. • TU (5/17) through TU (5/31) - “History of the Blue ridge Parkway,” touring exhibition. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road bender gallery 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • WE (5/18) through WU (7/31) - Twelve Voices: International Jewelry, exhibit of 12 influential contemporary jewelry artists curated by Donald Friedrich. Opening reception: Thursday, May 19, 6-10pm. blue Spiral 1 38 Biltmore Ave., bluespiral1.com Opening reception: Thursday, May 5, 5-8pm. •Through (6/24) - The Halstead Challenge KINETIC, juried exhibition of 20 brooches with kinetic elements. • Through FR (6/24) - C. James Meyer exhibition of jewelry pieces that double as small sculptures. • Through FR (6/24) - Exhibition of the encaustic paintings of Dana Brown. • Through FR (6/24) - Exhibition of the works of Dean Allison (glass sculpture), Morgan Herrin (wood sculpture), Charles Ladson (oil paintings) and Mike Smith (photography). • Through FR (6/24) - Exhibition of recent works by eight regional artists. grOveWOOd gallery 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • TU (5/17) through SU (5/22) - Tom Reardon & Kathleen Doyle jewelry exhibition. Opening reception: Wednesday, May 18, 3-6pm. • TU (5/17) through SU (5/22) - Audrey Laine Sawyer lost-wax cast jewelry exhibition. Opening reception: Wednesday, May 18, 3-6pm. hayWOOd cOunty library-cantOn 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • Through WE (8/31) - Exhibition of the paintings of Denise McCullough. hickOry muSeum Of art 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (7/24) - Memories of Appalachia, paintings by Arlee Mains. Reception: June 23, 6:30pm.

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

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madiSOn cOunty artS cOuncil 90 S. Main St., Marshall, 649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com • Through TU (5/31) - Barns of Madison County, photography exhibition.

Downtown 95 Cherry Street North 828.258.2435

mark bettiS StudiO & gallery 123 Roberts St., 941-587-9502, markbettisart.com • Through FR (5/20) - Wedge Duos, exhibition featuring the collaborative art of 28 artists.

Arden 2145 Hendersonville Rd. 828.687.8533

metrO WineS 169 Charlotte St., 575-9525, facebook.com/MetroWinesAsheville • Through SU (7/31) - Vintage Ceramics, mixed media exhibition by Asya Colie. mOuntain gateWay muSeum and heritage center 102 Water St., Old Fort, mountaingatewaymuseum.org • Through (5/31) - So Great the Devastation: The 1916 Flood, multimedia exhibition. Free. OdySSey cOOperative art gallery 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery •Through TU (5/31) - Exhibition of the ceramic art of Chiwa Clark, Andrea Freeman, and Julie and Tyrone Larson.

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red hOuSe StudiOS and gallery 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 699-0351, svfalarts.org • Through MO (5/30) - Now and Then, Swannanoa Valley Fine Art League group exhibition. Saluda hiStOric depOt 32 W. Main St., Saluda, facebook.com/savesaludadepot • Through TU (5/31) - Saluda Art Legends-Past & Present, exhibition of over 17 artists. Satellite gallery 55 Broadway St., 305-2225, thesatellitegallery.com • Through TU (5/31) - Moet with Medusa, exhibition of multimedia art by Gus Cutty. the StudiOS Of flat rOck 2702A Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 698-7000 • Through SA (5/14) - WNC Design Guide Exhibition, featuring painting, basketry, wood and ceramics. Closing reception: Thursday, May, 12. zapOW! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • Through TH (6/30) - Space POP! Exhibition of space inspired art. zuma cOffee 7 N. Main St., Marshall, 649-1617 • Through TH (6/30) - Exhibition of portraits of women by Lois Simbach. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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clubland WedneSday, may 11 5 Walnut Wine bar Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5pm Les Amis (African folk music), 8pm 550 tavern & grille karaoke, 6pm altamOnt theatre Poetry open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 8pm ben’S tune-up Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm black mOuntain ale hOuSe Play to Win game night, 7:30pm blue mOuntain pizza & breW pub Open mic, 7pm claSSic WineSeller Liam Matthews (jazz, pop, easy listening), 7pm dark city deli Pool Tournament, 7:30pm dOuble crOWn Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm fOggy mOuntain breWpub Billy Litz (Americana), 9pm funkatOrium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm gOOd Stuff Jim Hampton & friends perform “Eclectic Country” (jam), 7pm grind cafe Trivia night, 7pm highland breWing cOmpany Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm iSiS reStaurant and muSic hall All You Can Eat Snow Crab Clusters w/ The West End Trio (swing, bluegrass), 5pm An evening w/ Carver & Carmody (blues, Americana), 7pm Jack Of the WOOd pub Old-time session, 5pm lazy diamOnd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm lex 18 The Patrick Lopez Experience (modern & Latin jazz piano), 7pm lObSter trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm mOuntain mOJO cOffeehOuSe Open mic, 6:30pm nOble kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm O.henry’S/the undergrOund “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm OdditOrium Synergy Story Slam (storytelling), 7pm The Melons & Abominable Creatures (rock), 9:30pm Off the WagOn Piano show, 9pm Olive Or tWiSt Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm One StOp deli & bar Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm Opposite Box w/ Glostik Willy, Transit Method & Squidlord (experimental, rock, funk), 9:30pm

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all in the family: Fort Collins, CO.-based SHEL have been immersed in the music world since birth. The indie-folk sister quartet has combined its classical training with hints of electronica and four-part harmonies to weave the aurally-rich landscape of their latest album, Just Crazy Enough, drawing rave reviews from outlets like the Nerdist podcast to The Atlantic magazine in the process. Catch the sisters of SHEL at downtown Asheville’s Isis Lounge on Thursday, May 12 beginning at 7 p.m. One WOrld breWing Redleg Husky (acoustic trio), 8pm Orange peel The New Stew w/ Corey Glover & Roosevelt Collier (Bill Withers tribute), 8pm piSgah breWing cOmpany 12AM Duo (jam, rock), 6pm

the millrOOm Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm the mOcking crOW Open Mic Night, 8pm

rOOm ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

the mOthlight Dendera Bloodbath w/ Saki Bomb, Polly Panic & Xambuca (experimental, darkwave, electronic), 9pm

Sanctuary breWing cOmpany My Feral Child (singer-songwriter), 7pm

the phOenix Jazz night, 8pm

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

the SOcial lOunge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm

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

the SOuthern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

SOl bar neW mOuntain ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm StraightaWay cafe Steve Weams, 6pm tallgary’S at fOur cOllege Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm the blOck Off biltmOre LEAF LIVE! w/ Barakissa (West African dance), 7:30pm the JOint next dOOr Bluegrass jam, 8pm

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timO’S hOuSe “Hump Day Mixers” w/ DJ Fame Douglas (R&B, hip-hop), 9pm

thurSday, may 12 185 king Street Earleine w/ Momma Molasses (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 8pm 5 Walnut Wine bar Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm altamOnt theatre An Evening w/ Martha Scanlan (old-time, traditional), 8pm aSheville muSic hall Modular Night w/ Badger & friends (instrumental), 9pm barley’S taprOOm AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm black mOuntain ale hOuSe Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm

tOWn pump Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm

blue mOuntain pizza & breW pub Redleg Husky (Americana), 7pm

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

club eleven On grOve All-star DJ Night, 8:30pm

treSSa’S dOWntOWn Jazz and blueS Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm White hOrSe black mOuntain Rock the Taste/Taste of Black Mountain, 5pm

creekSide taphOuSe Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm crOW & Quill Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 10pm dOuble crOWn Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

elaine’S dueling pianO bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

One WOrld breWing Tom Waits for No One (Tom Waits tribute), 8pm

fOggy mOuntain breWpub Fort in the Sky (folk), 9pm

pack’S tavern Lenny Pettinelli (acoustic rock), 8pm

french brOad breWery Bradley Carter (acoustic), 6pm

piSgah breWing cOmpany Dale & The Z-Dubs (dub, fusion), 8pm

gOOd Stuff Caveman Dave (Americana, folk, children’s music), 7pm grey eagle muSic hall & tavern The Deslondes w/ Hearts Gone South & Stalebread Scottie (country, soul, boogie-woogie), 9pm iSiS reStaurant and muSic hall SHEL (Americana, singer-songwriter group), 7pm Christine Lavin w/ Don White (singer-songwriter), 8:30pm Jack Of the WOOd pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm lazy diamOnd Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm lex 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7pm lObSter trap Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm market place Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm mOe’S Original bbQ WOOdfin One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz), 5:30pm

pulp Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic, 5pm purple OniOn cafe New 5 Cents Band (bluegrass), 7pm renaiSSance aSheville hOtel Jeremy Davall (acoustic, rock), 6:30pm rOOm ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm Sanctuary breWing cOmpany Billy Mac (singer, guitarist), 7pm ScandalS nightclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SOl bar neW mOuntain Electric Church w/ Will Newman & Zeplin (variety), 7pm Spring creek tavern Open Mic, 6pm tallgary’S at fOur cOllege Open jam night w/ Jonathan Santos, 7pm

trailhead reStaurant and bar Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm treSSa’S dOWntOWn Jazz and blueS Jesse Barry & Friends (blues, soul), 9pm tWiSted laurel Karaoke, 8pm Wxyz lOunge at alOft hOtel Caitlin Krisko of the Broadcast (acoustic, soul), 8pm

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5 Walnut Wine bar The Phantom Playboys (swinging rockabilly), 9pm altamOnt theatre An evening w/ Reasonably Priced Babies (improv comedy), 8pm aSheville muSic hall Downlink w/ Luce Wayne, DiscOh & Soul Candy (bass, electronic), 9pm athena’S club Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm baSic breWery Carolinabound (Americana, folk, country), 7pm ben’S tune-up Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm

the imperial life The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7pm

bhramari breWhOuSe Wild Card Trio (jazz), 7:30pm

OdditOrium The Demented Dolls of Sideshow (freakshow), 9pm

the mOthlight Mobile Deathcamp (metal, punk, thrash), 9pm

blue mOuntain pizza & breW pub Acoustic Swing, 7pm

Off the WagOn Dueling pianos, 9pm

the phOenix Dave Desmelik Duo (singersongster), 8pm

bOiler rOOm Rebirth 37 w/ DJ Luis Armando & more (electronic, dance), 10pm

Olive Or tWiSt 42nd Street Band (jazz), 8pm One StOp deli & bar Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6pm Russ T Nutz (Americana, dirty country, comedy), 10pm

timO’S hOuSe Thursday Request Live w/ Franco Nino, 9pm tOWn pump Laura Thurston (one-woman band), 9pm

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185 king Street Carolina Wray w/ Laurel & the Love In (Americana, indie, blues), 8pm

the blOck Off biltmOre Open mic night w/ Jonathon Santos, 7:30pm

O.henry’S/the undergrOund Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am

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

claSSic WineSeller Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John, James Taylor covers), 7pm club eleven On grOve Keepers of the Temple Ritual

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Bull Moose Party (partygrass, country), 6pm the admiral Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm The Gypsy Swingers (jazz, Latin, bossa nova), 8:30pmcOrk & keg The Gypsy Swingers (jazz, Latin, bossa nova), 8:30pm crOW & Quill Blue Ribbon Healers (gypsy jazz, swing), 9pm dOuble crOWn DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm elaine’S dueling pianO bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm fOggy mOuntain breWpub Copperbox (polka), 10pm french brOad breWery Devils in Dust (country, roots), 6pm gOOd Stuff Cortez Garza (Americana), 9pm grey eagle muSic hall & tavern Big Sandy & his Fly-Rite Boys (rockabilly, country, swing), 9pm highland breWing cOmpany Mosiac RIPL release party w/ David Zoll Quartet (rock), 7pm iSiS reStaurant and muSic hall The Press Gang w/ Hanz Araki (acoustic, Celtic, world music), 7pm An evening w/ Bill and the Belles & The Down Hill Strugglers (Americana, bluegrass, old-time), 9pm Jack Of the WOOd pub Red Dirt Revelators (blues, Americana), 9pm JeruSalem garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm lazy diamOnd Totes Dope Tite Sick Jams w/ (ya boy) DJ Hot Noodle, 10pm

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pack’S tavern DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30pm Sanctuary breWing cOmpany Sean Bendula (singer-songwriter), 7:30pm ScandalS nightclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm Scully’S DJ, 10pm SOl bar neW mOuntain SOL Vibes w/ Group Therapy, Captain EZ, BeatRex, Adam Bombthreats & Niko Grandé (electronic), 9pm Spring creek tavern Roots and Dore (blues, country, roots), 9pm StraightaWay cafe Bull Moose Party (partygrass, country), 6pm the admiral Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the blOck Off biltmOre Food Not Bombs show w/ The Brothers Wyatt, Darien Crossley & Young Pines, 7pm the mOcking crOW Karaoke, 9pm the mOthlight Speedy Ortiz & Hop Along w/ Two Inch Astronaut (indie, rock, alternative), 9:30pm the phOenix Cicken Coop Willaye Trio (prewar blues & jug), 9pm the SOcial Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm the SOcial lOunge Rooftop Dance Party with DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10pm tiger mOuntain Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm

lObSter trap Hot Point Trio (jazz), 6:30pm market place The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

tOWn pump The Paper Crowns (Americana), 9pm

neW mOuntain theater/ amphitheater Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 9pm

treSSa’S dOWntOWn Jazz and blueS Bygone Blues w/ Peggy Ratusz & Aaron Price (blues, jazz, R&B), 7pm The Shane Gang (blues, R&B, rock), 10pm

O.henry’S/the undergrOund Drag Show, 12:30am OdditOrium Western Medication w/ Slugly & Cold Solstice (rock), 9pm

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One WOrld breWing Jamison Adams Project (jam, funk, fusion), 10pm

timO’S hOuSe FREE AF w/ Deven Balsalm (house, trance, tribal), 9pm

Off the WagOn Dueling pianos, 9pm

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One StOp deli & bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm

zambra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

Saturday, may 14 185 king Street Morrowville (indie, rock), 8pm 5 Walnut Wine bar Alarm Clock Conspiracy Duo (indie, Americana), 6pm Carolina Wray (Southern pop, rock), 9pm athena’S club Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm ben’S tune-up Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsy-jazz), 3pm Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8pm black mOuntain ale hOuSe Zapato (funk), 9pm blue mOuntain pizza & breW pub Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm cataWba SOuth SlOpe Dave Desmelik (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 6pm claSSic WineSeller Lacy Green (Americana, country), 7pm crOW & Quill Valerie Meiss w/ Curtis Eller (circus music), 9pm dOuble crOWn Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10pm elaine’S dueling pianO bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm fOggy mOuntain breWpub Supatight (funk, groove), 10pm french brOad breWery The Blue Ribbon Healers (oldtime, swanky tonk), 6pm gOOd Stuff Mitch Haynes (singer-songwriter), 8:30pm grey eagle muSic hall & tavern The New 76ers w/ The Clydes & Chinquapin Duo (acoustic folk), 8pm iSiS reStaurant and muSic hall An evening w/ Wyatt Easterling & Tim Hildebrandt (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm

tWiSted laurel Live DJ, 11pm

Jack Of the WOOd pub Grand Ole Uproar (Americana, rock ’n’ roll, hippie tonk), 9pm

White hOrSe black mOuntain The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8pm

JeruSalem garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

Wild Wing cafe SOuth A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm Wxyz lOunge at alOft hOtel DJ Kyuri (vinyl), 8pm

lazy diamOnd Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm lex 18 The Duo of Dreams and Splendor (dreamy jazz, swing), 7:30pm

lObSter trap Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm market place DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm OdditOrium Binding Isaac w/ Black Hand Throne, Broad River Nightmare & Destroy the Facade (metal), 9pm Off the WagOn Dueling pianos, 9pm Olive Or tWiSt 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm One StOp deli & bar The Vegabonds (rock), 10pm One WOrld breWing One World Anniversary Party w/ Hustle Souls (R&B, soul, alt-country), 9pm pack’S tavern A Social Function (classic hits, rock), 9:30pm

White hOrSe black mOuntain The Belfast Boys (Irish music, Celtic), 8pm Wild Wing cafe Karaoke, 8pm Wxyz lOunge at alOft hOtel Resonant Rogues (gypsy jazz), 8pm zambra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

Sunday, may 15

ScandalS nightclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

altamOnt breWing cOmpany Anna Vogelzang (folk-pop), 8pm

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

baSic breWery Caroline Morrison, 3pm

bhramari breWhOuSe Sunday brunch w/ live music, 11am

Sanctuary breWing cOmpany Yoga with Cats, 10am Carver and Carmody (Americana duo), 7:30pm

black mOuntain ale hOuSe Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel & Friends, 11:30am

the admiral Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm the blOck Off biltmOre I-Triniti (reggae), 8pm the crOW and Quill Valerie Meiss & Curtis Eller (circus music), 9pm the mOcking crOW NC 63 (house band, rock), 8pm the mOthlight Jon Hatchett Band w/ Hearts Gone South, Alison Self & Deborah Swanson (country, honky-tonk), 9pm the phOenix StepChild (classic rock), 9pm timO’S hOuSe Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 9pm tOWn pump The Corey Hunt Band (country), 9pm trailhead reStaurant and bar Old Blues Browns w/ members of The Lazybirds (vintage country & blues), 8pm treSSa’S dOWntOWn Jazz and blueS The King Zeros (blues), 7:30pm The Michael Blythe Conspiracy (blues, dance, funk), 10pm tWiSted laurel Indoor & Outdoor Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone (electronic), 10pm

piSgah breWing cOmpany Sunday Travers Jam (open jam), 5pm

5 Walnut Wine bar Justin Ray Trio (jazz), 7pm

rOOm ix Open dance night, 9pm

StraightaWay cafe Jay Hammel Trio, 6pm

Orange peel Flatbush Zombies w/ A$AP 12vy & Remy Banks (hip hop), 9pm

185 king Street Sunday Funday Open Jam, 3pm

ben’S tune-up Sunday Funday w/ Captain EZ & DJ Bowie, 2pm Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm

Scully’S DJ, 10pm

One StOp deli & bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Sundays w/ Bill & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute, acoustic), 5pm

Sanctuary breWing cOmpany Eric Congdon (singer, guitarist), 3pm

purple OniOn cafe David Childers & the Serpents (singer-songwriter), 7pm

ScandalS nightclub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

Olive Or tWiSt Live blues band, 6pm

blue mOuntain pizza & breW pub Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm byWater Cornmeal Waltz w/ Robert Greer (classic country, bluegrass), 6pm cataWba breWing SOuth SlOpe Laurel Lee & the Escapees (classic country, Americana), 6pm

StraightaWay cafe Micah Gardner (folk), 1pm Hope Griffin (folk, Americana, singer-songwriter), 5pm tallgary’S at fOur cOllege Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm the blOck Off biltmOre AVS VegFest Afterparty w/ Leslie Blackshear Smith (New Orleans blues), 6pm the imperial life Ultra Lounge Listening Party w/ projections DJ Phantone Pantone, 10pm the mOthlight Screaming Females w/ Aye Nako & Desperate Pilot (punk, indie, altrock), 9:30pm the Omni grOve park inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

dOuble crOWn Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9pm

the SOcial Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

gOOd Stuff Jon Hatchett Band w/ Maggie Cramer (rockabilly, western swing, country), 6pm

the SOuthern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm

highland breWing cOmpany Reggae Sunday w/ Dennis “Chalwa” Berndt, 1pm Pizza Pandemonium w/ Kendra Warren, Andalyn Lewis & Hank West Band, 5:30pm iSiS reStaurant and muSic hall Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Max Hatt/Edda Glass w/ Pat Sansone (jazz, Americana), 5:30pm Phantom Pop (funk, jazz, pop), 7:30pm

timO’S hOuSe Bring Your Own Vinyl (open decks), 8pm Wedge breWing cO. Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz-swing), 6pm

mOnday, may 16

cOurtyard gallery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm creekSide taphOuSe Trivia, 7pm dark city deli Trivia Night, 7:30pm dOuble crOWn Country Karaoke, 10pm gOOd Stuff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm grey eagle muSic hall & tavern Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm Jack Of the WOOd pub Quizzo, 7pm lexingtOn ave breWery (lab) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm lObSter trap Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm O.henry’S/the undergrOund Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm OdditOrium Falcon Mitts w/ Googolplexia, Matt Harnish’s Pink Guitar & Snack Champion (rock), 9pm Olive Or tWiSt 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm Orange peel M.A.K.U. Soundsystem (folk, punk, funk), 11am OSkar blueS breWery Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm pulp Hunter Grigg w/ Noah Larssen (singer-songwriter, folk), 9pm

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SOl bar neW mOuntain Andy Frasco & the U.N. (party blues), 9pm SOvereign remedieS Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm the mOthlight The Go Devils w/ Carolina Wildmen & Sammy Guns (rock, psychobilly, punk), 9pm the Omni grOve park inn Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

tiger mOuntain Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

Jack Of the WOOd pub Irish session, 5pm

5 Walnut Wine bar Siamese Jazz Club (soul, R&B, jazz), 8pm

timO’S hOuSe Movie night, 7pm

lazy diamOnd Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm

550 tavern & grille Cornhole, 5pm

lObSter trap Hot Club of Asheville (swing ’n’ grass), 6:30pm OdditOrium Swallow the Sky w/ Waft & Wilted Spine (metal), 9pm Off the WagOn Piano show, 9pm

altamOnt breWing cOmpany Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm bhramari breWhOuSe Mexi Monday (jazz, world music), 5pm byWater Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8pm cataWba breWing SOuth SlOpe Musicians in the Round w/ Jon Edwards, 6pm

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the valley muSic & cOOkhOuSe Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm

185 king Street Open mic night, 7pm

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

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

tOWn pump Darlington (Americana, folk), 9pm urban Orchard Old-time music, 7pm

THU. 5/12 Lenny Pettinelli (acoustic rock)

FRI. 5/13 DJ MoTo

(dance hits, pop)

SAT. 5/14 A Social Function (classic hits, rock)

tueSday, may 17 5 Walnut Wine bar The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8pm altamOnt breWing cOmpany Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm aSheville muSic hall Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

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c l u Blan D back yard bar Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm ben’S tune-up Eleanor Underhill (country, soul), 6pm black bear cOffee cO. Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7pm black mOuntain ale hOuSe Trivia, 7pm blue mOuntain pizza & breW pub Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm blue ridge taprOOm Tuesday Tease w/ Deb Au Nare (burlesque), 8pm buffalO nickel Trivia, 7pm cOrk & keg Old Time Jam, 5pm creekSide taphOuSe Old School Low Down Blues Tues. w/ Matt Walsh, 6pm crOW & Quill Champagne Wilson & The French 75 Rowdy (New Orleans style jazz), 10pm dark city deli Ping Pong Tournament, 6pm dOuble crOWn Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western

w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm

8:30pm

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

One StOp deli & bar Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

highland breWing cOmpany Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 6pm irOn hOrSe StatiOn Open mic, 6pm iSiS reStaurant and muSic hall Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm Jack Of the WOOd pub Carpal Tullar (pop rock), 9pm lazy diamOnd Classic Rock ’n Roll Karaoke, 10pm lex 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (jazz ballads & standards), 7pm lObSter trap Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singersongwriter), 6:30pm market place The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm OdditOrium Odd comedy night, 9pm Off the WagOn Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm Olive Or tWiSt Tuesday Night Blues Dance w/ The Remedy (dance lesson at 8),

One WOrld breWing Trivia, 6pm Sanctuary breWing cOmpany Team trivia & tacos, 7pm tallgary’S at fOur cOllege Jam night, 9pm the blOck Off biltmOre Jazz-n-Justice Tuesday w/ Searra Jade & the Jazzy Folk (jazz, swing, bossa nova), 7pm the mOthlight Parquet Courts w/ B Boys (indierock, art punk, garage rock), 9:30pm the phOenix Singer-songwriter Night, 8pm the SOcial lOunge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm

urban Orchard Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7pm White hOrSe black mOuntain Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm Wild Wing cafe SOuth Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

WedneSday, may 18 185 king Street Vinyl Night, 6pm 5 Walnut Wine bar Matt Walsh (blues), 5pm Les Amis (African folk music), 8pm 550 tavern & grille karaoke, 6pm

timO’S hOuSe Tech Tuesdays (video game tournament), 8pm

altamOnt theatre Poetry open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 8pm

tOWn pump William Wild (singer-songwriter), 9pm

ben’S tune-up Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm

treSSa’S dOWntOWn Jazz and blueS Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm

black mOuntain ale hOuSe Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

blue mOuntain pizza & breW pub Open mic, 7pm claSSic WineSeller Liam Matthews (jazz, pop, easy listening), 7pm

iSiS reStaurant and muSic hall All You Can Eat Snow Crab Clusters w/ The West End Trio (swing, bluegrass), 5pm Shawna Caspi & Freebo (folk), 7pm

crOW & Quill Michael Luchtan (piano covers & originals), 9pm

Jack Of the WOOd pub Old-time session, 5pm

dark city deli Pool Tournament, 7:30pm

lazy diamOnd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

dOuble crOWn Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm

lex 18 The Patrick Lopez Experience (modern & Latin jazz), 7pm

fOggy mOuntain breWpub Chinquapin Duo (folk), 9pm

lObSter trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

funkatOrium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

lOOkOut breWery James Hammel (jazz), 5:30pm

gOOd Stuff Jim Hampton & friends perform “Eclectic Country” (jam), 7pm grey eagle muSic hall & tavern Fireside Collective (progressive folk, bluegrass), 6pm

mOuntain mOJO cOffeehOuSe Open mic, 6:30pm neW mOuntain theater/ amphitheater Blues & BBQ w/ Samantha Fish (blues), 7pm

grind cafe Trivia night, 7pm

nOble kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

highland breWing cOmpany Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm

O.henry’S/the undergrOund “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

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OdditOrium Watcher w/ NERMAL (punk), 9pm Off the WagOn Piano show, 9pm Olive Or tWist Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm One stOp deli & Bar Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm Orange peel Josh Ritter w/ The Steel Wheels (folk, rock, alt-country), 9pm pisgah BreWing COmpany The Clydes (bluegrass, Americana), 6pm rOOm iX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm sCully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm sly grOg lOunge Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm sOl Bar neW mOuntain ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm straightaWay Cafe Come On Man, 6pm tallgary’s at fOur COllege Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm the JOint neXt dOOr Bluegrass jam, 8pm the millrOOm Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm the phOeniX Jazz night, 8pm the sOCial lOunge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm the sOuthern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm timO’s hOuse “Hump Day Mixers” w/ DJ Fame Douglas (R&B, hip-hop), 9pm tOWn pump Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm trailhead restaurant and Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, oldtime, Americana), 6pm tressa’s dOWntOWn Jazz and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm White hOrse BlaCk mOuntain Wednesday Waltz, 7pm

thursday, may 19 185 king street Ashley Heath & Her Heathens (singer-songwriter), 8pm 5 Walnut Wine Bar Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm

Barley’s taprOOm AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm BlaCk mOuntain ale hOuse Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band (bluegrass), 8pm Blue mOuntain pizza & BreW puB Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7pm Blue ridge taprOOm Whitney Lane w/ Sarah Tucker (singer-songwriter), 8pm

One stOp deli & Bar Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6pm Mighty Mystic (roots, rock, reggae), 10pm Orange peel Yeasayer w/ Young Magic (experimental rock, pop, psychedelic), 9pm paCk’s tavern Steve Mosely Duo (acoustic rock), 8pm

CluB eleven On grOve One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz, Latin, swing), 8:30pm

pisgah BreWing COmpany Definitive Guide to Disc Golf (book signing & tournament), 4pm Frank Bang & The Cook County Kings (blues), 9pm

Creekside taphOuse Singer-songwriter night w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

purple OniOn Cafe Jon Shain (singer-songwriter, blues, bluegrass), 7pm

CrOW & Quill Driftwood Soldier& Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz, folk), 10pm

renaissanCe asheville hOtel Nikki Calloway (folk, acoustic), 6:30pm

dOuBle CrOWn Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

rOOm iX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

elaine’s dueling pianO Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

sCandals nightCluB Two Mediums: Tamara & Maura (evidential mediums, live readings, spiritual lecture), 7:30pm Two Evidential Mediums bring “Messages from Heaven” (psychic event), 7:30pm DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

fOggy mOuntain BreWpuB Poet Radio (Americana), 9pm frenCh BrOad BreWery Up Jumped Three (jazz trio), 6pm grey eagle musiC hall & tavern Luke Combs (country), 9pm isis restaurant and musiC hall Fayssoux McLean w/ The Blue Ribbon Healers (Americana, folk, jazz), 7pm Blue Highway (bluegrass, oldtime), 8:30pm

tallgary’s at fOur COllege Open jam night w/ Jonathan Santos, 7pm the BlOCk Off BiltmOre Open mic night w/ Jonathon Santos, 7:30pm the imperial life The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7pm

lazy diamOnd Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

the mOthlight The Moth: True Stories Told Live (storytelling), 7:30pm

lOBster trap Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm market plaCe Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm neW mOuntain theater/ amphitheater Leftover Salmon’s Blue Ridge Jam w/ Acoustic Syndicate, The Grass is Dead, Junto & more (bluegrass, Americana), 4am O.henry’s/the undergrOund Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am OdditOrium Naps w/ Brief Awakening & Sentiments (indie), 9pm Off the WagOn Dueling pianos, 9pm Olive Or tWist 42nd Street Band (jazz), 8pm

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spring Creek tavern Open Mic, 6pm

JaCk Of the WOOd puB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

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

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the phOeniX Mike Sweet (acoustic rock covers), 8pm timO’s hOuse Thursday Request Live w/ Franco Nino, 9pm tOWn pump If Birds Could Fly (Americana), 9pm trailhead restaurant and Bar Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm tressa’s dOWntOWn Jazz and Blues Jesse Barry & Friends (blues, soul), 9pm tWisted laurel Karaoke, 8pm White hOrse BlaCk mOuntain Max Hightower & Shane Pruitt (blues), 7:30pm WXyz lOunge at alOft hOtel Stevie Lee Combs (juke, Americana), 8pm

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Pick OF THe week

The Sing Street band shoots their first (very 1980s) video in John Carney’s frankly quite wonderful Sing Street, one of the best films of the year — and one of the most fun.

sing street HHHHH Director: John Carney (Once) plaYers: Ferdia Walsh-Peelo, Lucy Boynton, Mark McKenna, Jack Reynor, Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Don Wycherley Quasi-autoBiographical wish-FulFillment musical Drama RATED PG-13

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the storY: A 15-year-old Dublin boy decides to form a rock band to impress a slightly older girl. the lowDown: Good-hearted, charming, winning little movie with doses of genuine magic — and an authentic sense of time and place and youthfulness. It might restore your faith in the musical film. One of the very best — and most

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purely delightful — films of 2016 so far. Mincing no words, I absolutely love John Carney’s Sing Street. At the end of the year, you can expect to see it in the top five of my 10-best-of-2016 list. It’s that good, and I’m that sure that time is not going to diminish my feelings for it. It is the third (and supposedly final) film in Carney’s series of movies about the redemptive value of music — specifically pop music, and, in this case, 1980s New Wave music (with first-rate new songs, some by Carney and Gary Clark). It completely regains the scrappy charms of the first film, Once (2007), that were lost with 2013’s more ambi-

tious and mainstream Begin Again (though I now want to re-evaluate that). Gone are the movie stars of that second film (the biggest name in the cast here is Aidan Gillen, and he’s not in the film all that much). In their place are fresh-faced newcomers as the members of the band, aided by a few other far-from-name performers. And it all works, in part because Carney hasn’t so much made a movie about a bunch of teenagers in a rock band as he has created a rock band. It feels that authentic. The film is at least nor’ by nor’west autobiographical. That is to say this tale of 15-year-old Dublin boy Cosmo

(Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) is less autobiographical than it is the story of Carney’s life as he wishes it had been. Fair enough. After all, the movies are — among other things — where you go to make right in art that which you couldn’t in “real life.” What’s most interesting is that the much put-upon Cosmo doesn’t form the Sing Street band out of a commitment to music. He wants to impress an older (by a year) girl, Raphina (Lucy Boynton), who seems very worldly compared to him and who’s agreed to be in the band’s video. (I suspect this kind of motivation has launched more than a few artistic endeavors throughout history.) But then the music becomes important in itself. In this regard, Sing Street reminded me of an Irish-flavored We Are the Best!, a 2014 Swedish film about 13-yearold girls forming a punk band — only with better music and more emotional pull. Cosmo’s situation at the start of the film is precarious. His constantly battling parents (Aidan Gillen, Maria Doyle Kennedy) are suffering financially (along with most of Ireland in 1985, it seems) to the point where Cosmo has to endure being transferred to Synge Street school, a Catholic institution run by the Christian Brothers. It’s a rough place with a head bully, who zeroes in on Cosmo, and a creepy (possibly pedophile), sadistic, dictatorial headmaster, Brother Baxter (Don Wycherly), who constantly harasses him. The band — and the friendships he makes with his hastily assembled, but surprisingly adept, musicians — offers some escape from that. In addition, it gives some sense of purpose to Cosmo’s stoner brother (Jack Reynor), who has otherwise just given up but finds vicarious satisfaction mentoring Cosmo. No, Sing Street is not realistic. It doesn’t mean to be. But it does hold on to its gritty side in a nevermore-than-hopeful, but never-lessthan-treacherous, picture of the lives these kids lead. Sure, the songs are more polished and sophisticated than seems likely, but it’s worth noting that we are often hearing these songs as they sound to the kids making the music. We are, for a moment, allowed their sense of pleasure, accomplishment and the limitless possibilities youth fleetingly seems to offer. In a way, this is possibly more realistic than traditional notions of realism. It’s a part of the generous magic with which this entire wonderful film is imbued.

I cannot imagine a better time at the movies. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, including strong language, some bullying behavior, a suggestive image, drug material and teen smoking. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemark and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

Captain America: Civil War HHHS DIRECTOR: Anthony and Joe Russo (Captain America: The Winter Soldier) PLAYERS: Chris Evans, Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie COMIC BOOK ACTION RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Captain America becomes an outlaw after Ironman sidles up to the U.N. to force superheroes to become registered government agents. THE LOWDOWN: A generally entertaining and faithful comic book adaptation that suffers from some spotty direction and too much superhero padding. We’re now eight years into the “Marvel Cinematic Universe,” a grand experiment in cinematic series-building that, for me, has been an uneven, and maybe exhausting, ride. I’ve enjoyed some of Marvel’s output: AntMan (2015), Thor (2011), The Avengers (2012); hated others: Captain America (2011), Thor: The Dark World (2013), Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015); and forgotten the rest. On a personal level, I seem to have pushed past my superhero movie fatigue and simply fallen into resignation. With all that said, Marvel’s latest, Captain America: Civil War, is the most comic book-y of them all, even above Joss Whedon’s The Avengers. It feels like an event (or at least of those big crossover events comics pump out every so often) with too many characters and too many fight scenes but

well-crafted enough to work as some sort of spectacle. I wouldn’t call the film fun per se (the best I could maybe say is that it’s occasionally jokey and cheeky), but it held my attention at the very least. Civil War moves in a slightly different direction than much of Marvel’s other films, forgetting the grand supervillain in exchange for a very minor, not very powerful sort of mastermind (Daniel Bruhl) who hatches a far-fetched plot for revenge for very personal, and even understandable, reasons. His endgame — which pits superhero against superhero, friend against friend — is, theoretically, what the people want. The film’s main focus is that, after the wholesale and reckless destruction of numerous cities and — in this film — a mistake by The Avengers that costs innocent lives, Iron Man Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), suffering from some daddy issues, a struggling relationship and some other generalized guilt, cuts a deal with the U.N. to make sure all superheroes have some sort of government oversight. Captain America, idealist and lover of freedom and justice that he is, bristles at the idea and instead goes on the run, partly to track down his brainwashed and framed best friend Bucky (Sebastian Stan). What all of this allows is a couple of things. First, the film likes to examine the consequences of all this big-budget destruction and razing of entire cities that now happen in so many films but always without consequence. Here, it’s handled intelligently. I’m not sure anything groundbreaking is discussed, but there is thought here, as the film gently attempts to deconstruct the superhero mythos. There’s only so much the film can do, however, which brings up the second thing allowed by the film: lots and lots of fighting. And not necessarily well-shot fighting, since returning directors Anthony and Joe Russo chop everything to bits and insist on too much high-speed shutter. Watching Captain America and Iron Man punch each other is the main event, but the “civil war” aspect of all this pulls in all these other Marvel properties. Some of this works better than others. The inclusion of yet another Spider-Man (Tom Holland) feels forced, while War Machine (Don Cheadle) is the most boring robot man imaginable, followed closely by Vision (Paul Bettany). Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) feels both out of place and fun, and new arrival Black Panther (Chadwick Boseman) gets all the good lines. Yes, it’s a lot of new and old characters alike, but it still feels less con-

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ning time. Rated PG-13 for extended sequences of violence, action and mayhem. Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Co-ed of Brevard, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. revieWed by JuStin SOuther JSOuther@mOuntainx.cOm

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cian Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) The Man Who Knew Infinity seem to fall into one of two categories: those who want more about mathematics (heaven forbid) and those who simply want a more narratively challenging film. In other words, they don’t so much dislike it for what it is as for what it isn’t. While I might have preferred a more daring approach — see Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead — I don’t mind this more biopicbasic take on the material. It’s not earthshattering, no, but neither has it been turned into a makeshift (and sanitized) romance like The Theory of Everything (2014). The Man Who Knew Infinity is an intelligent (but not impenetrable) drama of the cozy British kind with a degree of wit and characters who are easy to like. It has impeccable performances from its tony cast — Patel, Jeremy Irons, Toby Jones, Stephen Fry. It has an interesting, if somewhat sudsy, story to tell. It does what it sets out to do and does it well. I enjoyed it and was entertained. I can reasonably ask for no more. The story follows Ramanujan going to Cambridge, leaving his wife (Devika Bhise) and family behind, after math professor G.H. Hardy (Irons) sees samples of his work that Hardy at first thinks is a practical joke by his colleague, professor Littlewood (Toby Jones). In itself, this has all the making of every culture clash — both dramatic and comedic — imaginable, but The Man Who Knew Infinity softpedals this stuff. Some of it is certainly there. It would be impossible to deal with the story of an unschooled Indian math genius in England during the 1914-1920 era and not address the racism component. But the film doesn’t dwell on it, despite the fact that it’s always an undercurrent. It’s clear that the professor he casually outclasses is more appalled by the fact that a “wog” did it than anything else. (Even those sympathetic to Ramanujan sometimes evidence a pragmatic racism, as when Littlewood expresses his disbelief that “a dark face” will ever adorn the portrait walls at Cambridge.) There’s also a scene, handled tastefully and not in the least as a joke, where the vegetarian Ramanujan inadvertently takes a bite of a potato that’s been cooked in lard. The film is surprisingly adept in such matters. Much of the film hinges on the close — but almost invariably reserved — friendship between Ramanujan and Hardy. It’s an odd-couple pairing, sharing only a working-class background. We have the atheistic Hardy and the deeply religious Hindu Ramanujan, whose common ground is a love of numbers, viewed by the latter as his means of communicating with God. This almost — but only almost — makes Hardy rethink his position. At least he finds it as good an explanation as any of mathematics, which he consid-

ers an art. Ramanujan, it might be noted, thinks that Hardy does believe in God, but is convinced the supposed atheist merely thinks God doesn’t like him very much. In this the film finds much of its dramatic tension. Equations, answers and revelation just appear to Ramanujan, who finds the English obsession with proofs (to demonstrate how he arrived at these things) peculiar, pointless, annoying and even counterproductive. Where The Man Who Knew Infinity is on its shakiest ground in the biopic cliché department isn’t really its fault. Realistically, the film simply cannot be blamed for Ramanujan contracting tuberculosis, which happens to have been the most popular — and romanticized — disease of 19th century fiction (and sometimes fact). This time it isn’t the movie’s doing, but history’s. (Baz Luhrmann added the disease as a period detail in his 2001 film Moulin Rouge!.) However, writer-director Matt Brown can’t seem to resist using it in such a clichéd manner that it feels like we’re watching Cornell Wilde’s Chopin decorously cough up photogenic tubercular blood in that hoariest of biopics, A Song to Remember (1945). Certainly, it’s not enough to sink the film, but I’d be lying if I didn’t admit that it scored an unintentional laugh from me. Still, as I said, I was mainly entertained by this standard treatment that allowed me to enjoy actors I like in roles they excelled in. Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements and smoking. Starts Friday at the Fine Arts Theatre. revieWed by ken hanke khanke@ mOuntainx.cOm

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party like it’S 1989: The Carolina Cinemark is the local host for the sixth annual Grateful Dead Meet-up at the Movies on May 11. The screening includes the previously unreleased July 2, 1989, Dead show at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., and more. Image courtesy of Fathom Events • The Fine Arts Theatre presents a screening of Thunder Road on Wednesday, May 11, at 7 p.m. Filmed in and around Asheville, the 1958 classic stars robert mitchum as a Korean War veteran who returns to his hometown in Tennessee and inherits his family’s bootleg moonshine business, putting him at odds with the mob and federal agents. The event also includes special guest speaker michael gouge, lecturer of mass communication at UNC Asheville. Thunder Road was required viewing in Gouge’s firstyear colloquium Film, the Automobile and American Culture. Tickets are $8 and available online and at the Fine Arts box office. fineartstheatre.com • The Carolina Cinemark is the local host for the sixth annual Grateful Dead Meet-up at the Movies on Wednesday, May 11, at 7 p.m. The screening includes the previously unreleased July 2, 1989, Dead show at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Mass.; backstage footage from the first Dead & Company Tour; and an interview with Grateful Dead archivist david lemieux about the July 1978: The Complete Recordings box set (which will be released two days later). Tickets are $10.50 for children, $11.50 for seniors and students, $12.50 for adults and may be purchased online or at the Carolina Cinemark box office. avl.mx/2iq

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For Whom the Bell Tolls HHHS director: Sam Wood Players: Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou, Arturo de Cordova drama Rated NR Ernest Hemingway claimed that he wrote the character of Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls with Gary Cooper in mind — an interesting turn of events since Hemingway was no fan of A Farewell to Arms (1932), which had starred Cooper. Regardless, I guess we can assume this gives Sam Wood’s 1943 film of For Whom the Bell Tolls a special kind of legitimacy. One might, however, raise the question of whether Hemingway wrote the book with Sam

Wood in mind for its eventual filmization. Personally, I’m skeptical. Though Wood has several good movies to his credit, they mostly seem to be good for reasons having little to do with the direction. Sometimes Wood seems determined to live up to his name, and that’s somewhat the case here. In fairness to Wood, this is a solid enough film encapsulation of the novel about the Spanish Civil War and the romance between Robert Jordan and Maria (Ingrid Bergman), who has been ravaged by the enemy. It is also a little on the slow side (especially at 170 minutes) and just too darn respectful of the source material

to ever quite take flight. Perhaps Wood was just cowed by the material, but the results — apart from the irrepressible Katina Paxinou — have the look of something made by a director in deer-stuck-in-the-headlights mode. I can never watch it without thinking of Bing and Bob talking about it while awaiting execution in Road to Bali (1952) and remarking, “Very few laughs.” The Hendersonville Film Society will show for whom the bell tolls Sunday, May 15, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

The People vs. Fritz Bauer HHHHS director: Lars Kraume Players: Burghart Klaussner, Ronald Zehrfeld, Robert Atzorn, Lilith Stangenberg, Jörg Schüttauf fact-based drama Rated NR Before you roll your eyes over “yet another movie about Nazi hunters,” you should know that this third film in the 2016 Asheville Jewish Film Festival is something very different. The People vs. Fritz Bauer (2015) is a factbased work about the machinery behind both protecting and capturing Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. But it is probably not at all the film you expect it to be from

that statement. This movie, set in 1957, is much more than that suggests. It is, in fact, the most densely layered film I have ever seen on this kind of topic. It’s not just about the hunt; it’s about the time in which it occurs. It’s about a Jewish prosecutor, Fritz Bauer (Burghart Klaussner), with secrets and issues of his own, as well as about a government still riddled with Nazi holdovers, a society that has yet to face up to the reality of Germany in WWII, etc. It tackles all these topics — and some I haven’t mentioned, such as German law in 1957 still

clinging to Nazi edicts. (It’s interesting that the actual German title is The State vs. Fritz Bauer.) This is a heady stew reminiscent of espionage movies of the time in which it takes place and beautifully held together by the central performances of Klaussner and Ronald Zehrfeld (as his young assistant). If you see nothing else in this year’s festival, try to make room for this. The Fine Arts Theatre will show the people vs. fritz bauer Thursday, May 12, at 7 p.m., with an encore showing Friday, May 13, at 1 p.m.

Thunder Road HHHS director: Arthur Ripley Players: Robert Mitchum, Gene Barry, Jacques Aubuchon, James Mitchum, Keely Smith, Sandra Knight southern-fried drive-in drama Rated NR Tying into the article in last week’s Xpress on the making of the film, Thunder Road (1958) is back for one show at the Fine Arts Theatre. The drive-in perennial is locally famous for having been shot around Asheville (with the Asheville area playing the part of Tennessee). But its real claim to fame is that the film that gives you the most Robert Mitchum for your buck. Mitchum not only stars, but he wrote the story, pro-

duced, had a hand in the songs and brought in his son, James, to play his younger brother. (That last must be in deference to the idea of, “Gee, Bob, you don’t look old enough to have a grown son.”) It’s also not a bad little movie of its type, though one might reasonably question aspects of Jack Marshall’s musical score. (Marshall, of course, redeemed himself scoring his next project, The Giant Gila Monster.) Apart from the Mitchum factor and the location aspect, Thunder Road is really nothing more than an old-style gangster film set in the South and with moonshine at its center. Mitchum’s Korean War veteran

replaces what would have been a WWI vet in an early ‘30s gangster flick. Both the doting mother and the kid brother who must not fall prey to the moonshine-running lifestyle are also straight out of any number of ’30s films, as is the torch-singer Mitchum is hot for. Factor in the Mr. Big character trying to muscle in on the racket, and the tough federal man (Gene Barry) who grudgingly respects Mitchum, and this film is pretty much gangster basic. Xpress and the Fine Arts Theatre will show thunder road Wednesday, May 11, at 7 p.m.

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs HHHH director: Mikio Naruse Players: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai drama Rated NR I won’t say that seeing When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960) for the first time was a revelatory experience, but it was sufficiently rewarding that I’d like to see more of Mikio Naruse’s work (which dates back to 1930). If nothing else, it’s striking to see a filmmaker of that vintage fixated on the topic of the oppression of women. The film follows a period in the life of “Mama” (Hideko Takamine), the hostess of a bar in Tokyo. (The title refers to the fact that the bar — as most seem to be in the district — is

upstairs.) She’s getting on into her 30s and wants more out of life, but what can “more” mean to a woman in her position? A good marriage is one option, but her options are limited by her not entirely respectable profession. Moreover, she’s not interested in most of the patrons that might provide this solution. Opening her own bar is a possibility, but it would be just more of the same world that she detests — no matter how good she is at playing the part of the flirtatious hostess. That’s really all the story there is, but the film is mostly a character study. Not just of Mama, but of the whole range of the film’s characters,

most of whom are not quite who they seem at first glance. It’s also a look at the new Westernized Japan. The only instance of a glimpse of the “old” Tokyo occurs in the scenes at her family’s house in an unfashionable section of the city. In many ways, this new Japan is at the center of the film—that and how it balances (and doesn’t) with the past. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present when a woman ascends the stairs Friday, May 13, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 828273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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FReewiLL asTROLOGY arieS (march 21-april 19): Russian writer Anton Chekhov was renowned for the crisp, succinct style of his short stories and plays. As he evolved, his pithiness grew. "I now have a mania for shortness," he wrote. "Whatever I read -- my own work, or other people's -- it all seems to me not short enough." I propose that we make Chekhov your patron saint for a while. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you are in a phase when your personal power feeds on terse efficiency. You thrive on being vigorously concise and deftly focused and cheerfully devoted to the crux of every matter. tauruS (april 20-may 20): "Creativity is intelligence having fun." Approximately 30,000 sites on the Internet attribute that quote to iconic genius Albert Einstein. But my research strongly suggests that he did not actually say that. Who did? It doesn't matter. For the purposes of this horoscope, there are just two essential points to concentrate on. First, for the foreseeable future, your supreme law of life should be "creativity is intelligence having fun." Second, it's not enough to cavort and play and improvise, and it's not enough to be discerning and shrewd and observant. Be all those things. gemini (may 21-June 20): In Western culture, the peacock is a symbol of vanity. When we see the bird display its stunning array of iridescent feathers, we might think it's lovely, but may also mutter, "What a show-off." But other traditions have treated the peacock as a more purely positive emblem: an embodiment of hard-won and triumphant radiance. In Tibetan Buddhist myths, for example, its glorious plumage is said to be derived from its transmutation of the poisons it absorbs when it devours dangerous serpents. This version of the peacock is your power animal for now, Gemini. Take full advantage of your ability to convert noxious situations and fractious emotions into beautiful assets. cancer (June 21-July 22): "Clear moments are so short," opines poet Adam Zagajewski. "There is much more darkness. More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form." Here's what I have to say about that: Even if it does indeed describe the course of ordinary life for most people, it does not currently apply to you. On the contrary. You're in a phase that will bring an unusually high percentage of lucidity. The light shining from your eyes and the thoughts coalescing in your brain will be extra pure and bright. In the world around you, there may be occasional patches of chaos and confusion, but your luminosity will guide you through them. leO (July 23-aug. 22): "Dear Smart Operator: My name is Captain Jonathan Orances. I presently serve in the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. I am asking for your help with the safekeeping of a trunk containing funds in the amount of $7.9 million, which I secured during our team's raid of a poppy farmer in Kandahar Province. The plan is to ship this box to Luxembourg, and from there a diplomat will deliver it to your designated location. When I return home on leave, I will take possession of the trunk. You will be rewarded handsomely for your assistance. If you can be trusted, send me your details. Best regards, Captain Jonathan Orances." You may receive a tempting but risky offer like this in the near future, Leo. I suggest you turn it down. If you do, I bet a somewhat less interesting but far less risky offer will come your way. virgO (aug. 23-Sept. 22): "Some things need to be fixed, others to be left broken," writes poet James Richardson. The coming weeks will be an ideal time for you to make final decisions about which are which in your own life. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that are either too damaged to salvage or undeserving of your hard labor? Consider the possibility that you will abandon them for good. Are there relationships and dreams and structures that

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are cracked, but possible to repair and worthy of your diligent love? Make a plan to revive or reinvent them. libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Once every year, it is healthy and wise to make an ultimate confession -- to express everything you regret and bemoan in one cathartic swoop, and then be free of its subliminal nagging for another year. The coming days will be a perfect time to do this. For inspiration, read an excerpt from Jeanann Vernee's "Genetics of Regret": "I'm sorry I lied. Sorry I drew the picture of the dead cat. I'm sorry about the stolen tampons and the nest of mice in the stove. I'm sorry about the slashed window screens. I'm sorry it took 36 years to say this. Sorry that all I can do is worry what happens next. Sorry for the weevils and the dead grass. Sorry I vomited in the wash drain. Sorry I left. Sorry I came back. I'm sorry it comes like this. Flood and undertow." ScOrpiO (Oct. 23-nov. 21): According to the British podcast series "No Such Thing as a Fish," there were only a few satisfying connubial relationships in late 18th-century England. One publication at that time declared that of the country's 872,564 married couples, just nine were truly happy. I wonder if the percentage is higher for modern twosomes. Whether it is or not, I have good news: My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you Scorpios will have an unusually good chance of cultivating vibrant intimacy in the coming weeks. Take advantage of this grace period, please! SagittariuS (nov. 22-dec. 21): "Some days I feel like playing it smooth," says a character in Raymond Chandler's short story "Trouble Is My Business," "and some days I feel like playing it like a waffle iron." I suspect that you Sagittarians will be in the latter phase until at least May 24. It won't be prime time for silky strategies and glossy gambits and velvety victories. You'll be better able to take advantage of fate's fabulous farces if you're geared up for edgy lessons and checkered challenges and intricate motifs. capricOrn (dec. 22-Jan. 19): Author Rebecca Solnit says that when she pictures herself as she was at age 15, "I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one." Let that serve as an inspiration, Capricorn. Now is an excellent time for you to celebrate the heroic, messy, improbable victories of your past. You are ready and ripe to honor the crazy intelligence and dumb luck that guided you as you fought to overcome seemingly insurmountable obstacles. You have a right and a duty to congratulate yourself for the suffering you have escaped and inner demons you have vanquished. aQuariuS (Jan. 20-feb. 18): "To regain patience, learn to love the sour, the bitter, the salty, the clear." The poet James Richardson wrote that wry advice, and now I'm passing it on to you. Why now? Because if you enhance your appreciation for the sour, the bitter, the salty, and the clear, you will not only regain patience, but also generate unexpected opportunities. You will tonify your mood, beautify your attitude, and deepen your gravitas. So I hope you will invite and welcome the lumpy and the dappled, my dear. I hope you'll seek out the tangy, the smoldering, the soggy, the spunky, the chirpy, the gritty, and an array of other experiences you may have previously kept at a distance. piSceS (feb. 19-march 20): "A thousand half-loves must be forsaken to take one whole heart home." That's from a Coleman Barks' translation of a poem by the 13th-century Islamic scholar and mystic known as Rumi. I regard this epigram as a key theme for you during the next 12 months. You will be invited to shed a host of wishy-washy wishes so as to become strong and smart enough to go in quest of a very few burning, churning yearnings. Are you ready to sacrifice the mediocre in service to the sublime?

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