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The militarization of our children We all affect eternity, as we never know where our influence ends. Each generation is called to pass onto our children what is best from the past, while remaining open to new teachings envisioning a world of compassion for all humankind. Erwin and Reynolds high schools and other local schools include the U.S. Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program. On the surface, it reflects sound educational goals in developing citizenship, leadership, self-esteem and team building, along with other goals building military skills. Personally, I say “No” to the militarization of our youth despite good intentions. We can do better than that with the ideals that reflect peace or at least make war less likely. There are programs with educational goals of building self-esteem claimed by the JROTC; not as glamorous or as exciting as wearing a uniform, but powerful in the effort to bring a better understanding of good citizenship, reconciliation, creativity, empathy and compassion. These ideals emphasize what is best in humankind. Educational programs throughout the USA address serving the wider community: peacemakers, conscien-

tious objectors and the great thinkers, artists and philosophers — emphasizing the awesome nature of humankind — not a perfect world, but a better world that helps us to respond to the difficulties with a more positive view and faith in humankind. I’m impressed with the intelligence and insights of our youth. My advice to them is to go to college with the motivation to engage in learning that brings a larger purpose to life than a military career. Read and learn biographies of the giants whose shoulders we stand on. Change will come from outside politics when we the people demand funding of our schools on a level that goes into JROTC. We can include history, science, the arts and community programs to create an awareness in peacemaking, conscientious objectors and the great thinkers, artists and philosophers who make life worth living, emphasizing the awesome nature of humankind. — Ed Sacco Asheville

Effect of ICE raids is shocking The article on the recent area ICE raids and immigrant arrests in WNC was very powerful. To hear of people

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in our community with no criminal records cowering in fear of going to the grocery store is shocking. Kudos to the good folks at BeLoved House for helping to alleviate some of their fears and suffering [as reported in the April 20 Citizen Times article, “Asheville Volunteers Work to Feed Families Hiding from ICE”]. Make America great again? These days I can hardly recognize this country. Land of the free and home of the brave? Maybe the Trump Team should manage their little hypocrisy problem here by covering the Statue of Liberty with a “huge” shroud. At least that would be honest. — Charlie Flynn Weaverville

No rhyme or reason to development approvals In December 2017, local neighbors living off of Aiken Road in North Asheville were outraged when the [Buncombe County] Board of Adjustment approved a conditional use permit to Atlanta-based Hathaway Development to build an apartment complex on 29.5 acres of land near the intersection of Aiken Road and Country Oak Drive. As with so many homeowners in northwest Buncombe County, I was opposed to the 296-unit, high-density Aiken apartment complex and, perhaps more importantly, the process by which it was decided. The people in this community showed up in force with strong concerns about traffic along Aiken Road, a narrow two-lane road connecting Weaverville Highway and New Stock Road with limited visibility in many spots and one of the most dangerous roads on a typical day with the already-heavy bottlenecks on the entrance to I-26. We were also concerned about additional noise and light, the destruction of bear and deer habitat, and the reality that this apartment complex does not fit in with the surrounding neighborhood. Unfortunately, the Board of Adjustment felt the manipulated traffic study recruited by Hathaway was reasonable enough to approve the complex. Perhaps having a member of the BOA as a partner with Hathaway helped to approve a project much too large for this quiet neighborhood with single-family homes that have dotted the bucolic countryside for many generations. The destruction to the area 6

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and the danger of the traffic on this road will reverberate forever. In contrast, it was recently announced that “amid wide-ranging criticisms” from neighbors, “Buncombe County officials shot down plans for a proposed 214unit housing development in East Asheville,” [according to an April 11 Citizen Times article]. [The article continues,] “Buncombe County’s Board of Adjustment voted 5-2 against issuing a conditional use permit to developer Michael Posey of Spartanburg, South Carolina-based RAB Builders LLC for a project planned on the site of 423 Moffitt Road in East Asheville near the Swannanoa River.” … The Aiken Road project is not close to any hotel or commercial properties, has far less buffer to the neighborhood and is a traffic nightmare waiting to happen. I can’t help but wonder why they would say no to the East Asheville development but approve a another development that mirrors it in so many ways, especially in regard to one neighbor’s concern: “This road is a narrow, curvy, dangerous road,” the neighbor said [in the Citizen Times article]. “People speed on it; they’re in your lane 50 percent of the time. There’s nowhere to go.” Our neighbors expressed the same issues. And the Aiken Road project was approved. Why the difference? Is it because there is a higher-end demographic in East Asheville neighborhoods versus Aiken Road being a small, rural neighborhood? Is it because no one on the BOA is a partner in the development company, and they have no stake in the profits? The people of this East Asheville development, [according to the article], “hammered the project for lacking in specifics for its stormwater design, the height of the proposed buildings — which would sit high off the road and slope down with the natural terrain — and its impact on traffic, among other issues.” Well, so did we. Exactly. What is the difference? I encourage everyone to take a ride out Aiken Road and look at this neighborhood and envision what a 296-unit apartment complex will look like. Why yes to this Hathaway project and no to the East Asheville project? Money? Profit? We still have many issues with this BOA and I am hopeful for the day when there is a system in place that is fair and objective in regard to responsible growth and development in our county. — Marilyn Ball Asheville

C A RT O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N Editor’s note: Xpress contacted the Buncombe County Planning Department, which offered the following response to a summary of the letter writer’s points: “County boards follow North Carolina laws relating to member conflicts of interest. Accordingly, in all cases, boards evaluate potential conflicts of interest and recuse members as appropriate to ensure, among other things, that no voting member has a financial interest in the outcome of any matter. The Board of Adjustment sits as a quasi-judicial body. In such proceedings, seemingly similar cases can sometimes have different results depending on the facts and evidence presented to the board. In all cases, parties in interest have the right to appeal the board’s decision. Buncombe County Planning and Development is committed to maintaining orderly and responsible growth in an ethical and transparent way through its administration of land use ordinances written for the community as a whole rather than any individual. It respects, appreciates and encourages input from its community through, among other things, participation in board meetings and letters to local publications.” X MOUNTAINX.COM

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Look west BY NAN K. CHASE News that the city of Asheville failed to meet waste and carbon reduction goals [“City Sustainability Efforts Fall Short of Annual Goal in 2017,” April 18, Xpress] sent me to an unlikely place for solace: Gatlinburg, Tenn. Gatlinburg, like Asheville, has a thriving hospitality industry going back generations; Gatlinburg also has a beautiful mountain setting, a stock of historic buildings and a legacy of fine handicrafts. And Gatlinburg, like Asheville, welcomes more than 10 million visitors a year. The difference is that Asheville has a year-round population close to 90,000, while Gatlinburg has just 3,900 residents. Yet Gatlinburg makes environmental and economic sustainability for its tourism economy the communitywide priority — air and water quality, pedestrian-friendly practices, wastestream and energy-use reduction, even automation. One benefit of this constant innovation has been to free up the city’s maintenance staff for other tasks in a tight labor market. Such productivity boosts are helping public and private sectors alike. Asheville’s city employment rose 6.5 percent over two years, while Gatlinburg’s city staffing remains at least 10 percent below peak pre-reces-

Asheville can learn from Gatlinburg’s sustainability progress

NAN K. CHASE sion levels, according to City Manager Cindy Cameron Ogle. “We try to be as lean and mean as we can be,” she says. Total full-time employment is 257; Asheville’s is 1,185. During late April, officials in Gatlinburg organized half a dozen onsite interviews for me so I could get a close look at sustainability methods. Most amazing is Gatlinburg’s pioneering waste processing plant, which attracts observers from around the world and turns the idea of recycling on its head.

Operating two sets of trucks — garbage and recycling — and collecting two sets of bins is just not energy smart or environmentally friendly because more trucks are costlier and produce more pollution. Even in a progressive city, I learned, as little as 20 percent of the population may actually participate. In the Gatlinburg area, trash and recyclables are processed together, aerobically “cooked” in gigantic rotating drums for three days, then chopped and sifted and aged a month to become Grade A compost. As unlikely as it sounds, 150 truckloads a day of mostly bagged garbage — with jars, bottles, cans and a lot more included — are fed into the drums, along with some already composted material to act as “starter.” Ridges inside the long drums help break up plastic and other noncompostables, and by the end of the screening and chopping process, nothing larger than a quarter inch remains in the new soil, which is like dirt with a lofty, slightly paper-enhanced feel.

Sixty percent of trash and recyclables become composted soil, which then goes to farmers, landscapers and other bulk users. It’s free to residents. Another 10 percent of the waste stream is brush and limbs, which are also processed on-site and used in part to filter composting odors. (Building waste and major commodities are not included in this waste collection stream.) Two employees — the workforce numbers 21 — are close to perfecting a new technique for reclaiming aluminum cans from this composting process for resale, and that could produce significant income. Removing aluminum, tin and plastics would get this plant’s “capture rate” to 90 percent, leaving just 10 percent as landfill. Plant managers say that lab analysis shows the composted soil is safe for home and agriculture, despite the occasional can of paint that goes through the system. Overseen by a multijurisdictional board, Sevier Solid Waste Inc. serves Gatlinburg, Sevierville, Pigeon Forge, plus Sevier County, Dollywood and the

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park, as well as commercial clients from as far away as Atlanta. The incoming waste stream, excluding wastewater treatment sludge, totals 300 tons a day, according to General Manager Tom Leonard. Gatlinburg’s trash, like Asheville’s, is rich in leftover organic material from restaurants, perfect for the drum system. The facility cost $25 million to build, the same amount that Buncombe County will spend on repairs and renovations to Asheville High School. By comparison, a $20 million multijurisdictional project, completed in 2014, was Gatlinburg’s recession-busting Rocky Top Sports World public venue, a sports tournament destination with both indoor and outdoor facilities that’s projected to yield $40 million in visitor impact this year. Both the city of Gatlinburg and at least one top tourist destination, Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, realize big savings in Bigbelly trash cans for the busiest public spaces. These $5,000 receptacles feature solar-powered compactors: When trash reaches a certain volume, a GPS sensor signals a trash truck or maintenance employee (earning raves for efficiency). Ripley’s Aquarium invested in eight Bigbellies, and the city

leases several but put expansion plans on hold after the 2016 wildfires. At Gatlinburg’s convention center complex, a quarter million square feet cleverly tucked away downtown, Assistant Building Supervisor Scott Murphy showed me how a close look at lighting led to big energy and labor savings. Adjustments in lighting procedures — involving turning lights off in nonpeak hours rather than lowering them for ambiance, and reducing indoor temperatures — saved over 1 million kilowatt-hours of energy a year, while changing fixtures in the main hall from 400-watt halogens to 250-watt induction lighting, with similar step-downs elsewhere, halved energy use in the room. The payback period, using some matching grants, was about four years. Everywhere I looked, the takeaway was the same: The big changes needed to meet ambitious sustainability goals take big financial investments. Not once, but year after year. Nan K. Chase is the author of Asheville: A History. She serves on the board of the Friends of the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library. X

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PRICE POINTS Asheville

Homebuyers stymied by Asheville’s high cost look beyond the city limits In the last five years, however, both home sales and prices have climbed in those areas as well. In Candler, for example, the median selling price jumped 45 percent during that period, and sales increased 62 percent. In Leicester, prices climbed 74 percent, and sales were up 112 percent.

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BANG FOR YOUR BUCK: High housing prices in Asheville are pushing many homebuyers to outlying areas, where their dollars tend to stretch a bit further. Images courtesy of Town and Mountain Realty

BY DAVID FLOYD dfloyd@mountainx.com It’s no news that Asheville-area housing costs keep climbing. In the last five years, the median sales price for sitebuilt, single-family homes in Asheville jumped from $210,000 to $315,000, according to Multiple Listing Service data. That’s left many longtime city residents shaking their heads in wonder, and even some new arrivals may be surprised by what they find here these days. One strategy for homebuyers is simply to spend more. “People will call me all the time and be like, ‘I want a house on the side of the mountain with a view and an acre and 2,500 square feet for $300,000,’” says Hadley Cropp of the Asheville Realty Group. “I’m like, ‘That’s a unicorn; it doesn’t exist.’” Typically, she says, her clients then re-evaluate and end up increasing their budget. But that’s not an option for a lot of folks. And for many buyers, part of the problem is the disparity between local incomes and home prices. According to an economic snapshot by the N.C. Justice Center’s Budget & Tax Center, 36.5 percent of Buncombe County residents are considered low-income. The living wage for the county, says local nonprofit Just Economics, is $13 an hour ($11.50 with employer-provided health insurance), and many local workers earn below that figure. “For most people that are making just that ‘living wage,’ homeownership is out of reach,” says Executive Director 10

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Vicki Meath. “One of the reasons that Just Economics is in existence is the disproportionately high cost of living, particularly housing and low wages.” Those factors, she says, “are quickly causing gentrification in our city. And it’s pushing further and further out into the county.” Of course, for buyers who’ve just moved here after selling a home in a more expensive market, Asheville real estate may still seem like a bargain. And retirees who bring their income with them don’t have to worry about local wages. Increasingly, however, first-time homebuyers and those on tighter budgets are venturing past the city limits into outlying areas of Buncombe and beyond. “Prices in the city of Asheville have gotten so out of hand that people are going out into the county, out into Woodfin, Weaverville, places like that,” says Mike Miller, co-owner of Town and Mountain Realty. That’s particularly true, he notes, “for first-time buyers or people in the $200,000 to $350,000 range.” Neal Hanks, president of BeverlyHanks & Associates in Asheville, believes Buncombe’s quick recovery from the 2008 recession has contributed to the tightening of the local housing market. “As that [existing] inventory has been absorbed, it makes it harder for folks to find what they’re looking for, particularly in their price range,” he points out. “We’ve had faster appreciation in Buncombe County and Henderson County than we’ve had in the surrounding markets, so the surrounding counties are catching up.”

FULL-TIME JOB After a fruitless search in Asheville, local artist Anna Johnson found a home in Woodfin that met her specifications. “My budget was under $200,000, and I wanted to have the option to have a roommate, so I was basically looking for anything that was two-bedroom, onebath,” she explains. Johnson, a jewelry maker, also wanted a yard and a setup that would enable her to work from home. A small, separate building on her Woodfin property now serves as her studio. The artist says she looked in West Asheville, but most of the homes in her price range would have needed immediate work. “I wanted to be realistic, in that I wouldn’t be able to buy a house and instantly drop $5,000 or $10,000 on things,” she explains. That was two years ago, though — and even then, she says, the amount of work it took to find and buy a house felt like taking on a second full-time job. Meanwhile, prices in Woodfin have also increased: The median selling price for a site-built, single-family home is now about $280,000. As a result, more folks are shifting their focus to other parts of the county. Cindy Ward, who owns Weaverville Realty, says she sees many people who move here with their hearts set on Asheville but end up looking elsewhere. “That’s where we’re starting to see the attention for the outlying areas: Candler, Leicester, Weaverville and Fairview,” she says, adding, “There’s no shortage of beautiful spots in Buncombe County.”

Other buyers, meanwhile, are extending their search beyond the county line. Brian Cagle, president of the Haywood Realtor Association, says his area typically sees two kinds of homebuyers: retirees and overflow from Western North Carolina’s biggest city. Asheville, he points out, “is very close, and for people that are used to living in urban areas, a 30-minute drive is nothing. If you live in Charlotte, you’re going to drive that far or longer to get to work.” In Haywood County, notes Cagle, the total number of single-family homes sold has increased significantly over the past few years, from 743 in 2014 to 1,079 in 2017. Meanwhile, the number of days a house stays on the market has dropped sharply, from 241 in 2014 to 152 in 2017, and the median sales price has jumped from $151,500 to $194,000. Scott Barfield sees a similar phenomenon playing out in Henderson County. “City planners and folks nationwide label certain markets as these incredibly trendy places to live, and Asheville qualifies as one of those,” says Barfield, who is president of the Hendersonville Board of Realtors. “And so the … communities around it begin to catch that flavor also.” Like Hanks, Barfield says the impact of Asheville’s quick recovery from the recession has gradually spread to neighboring counties. “Henderson’s market has recovered to where it’s very common for us to see three offers on the same house,” he reports. Between 2016 and 2017, the county’s average sales price shot up about 12 percent — a far cry from the typical 2 or 3 percent change, he says, calling it “a showstopper.” BUSTLING BUNCOMBE That doesn’t mean the Buncombe County market is down, however. Between March 17, 2017, and March 16, 2018, 3,572 homes were sold, according to MLS data — by far the most

FACING REALITY: Amanda Hunsucker, a certified financial and housing counselor with the nonprofit OnTrack WNC, works with hopeful homebuyers Jessica Turner and Robert Forbes. Image courtesy of OnTrack WNC of any county in the region and up 40 percent from five years earlier. Buncombe is also seeing healthy growth in housing stock. Between 2012 and 2017, the total number of building permits issued per year for single-family homes grew by more than 100 percent, from 398 to 891, according to information provided by Buncombe County. Multifamily residential construction has shown a similar trend. During the same period, the number of such permits issued per year jumped from one in 2012 to 25 last year. The total number of residential units in those developments also spiked dramatically, from four in 2012 to 512 five years later. Over that time span, the peak year was 2016, with 43 buildings featuring 1,136 units. Asheville has also seen steady growth in the number of construction permits issued for single-family homes, climbing from 204 in 2012 to 392 in 2016 before dipping to 331 last year. Permits for multifamily developments have been more erratic, peaking at 65 in 2013 before plummeting to just 10 three years later. At the same time, however, both the city and county have seen significant declines in the number of homes for sale, even as the median sales price has continued to rise. In any given year, the number of active listings for single-family homes tends to fluctuate, typically peaking during the summer and slumping in winter. But between January 2013 and January 2018, the number of active Buncombe County listings shrank by 25 percent, from about 2,000 to fewer than 1,500, MLS data show. FIRST-TIME HOMEBUYERS Kathryn Beach, a certified financial and housing counselor with OnTrack

WNC, sees a lot of first-time homebuyers come through her doors. Before sitting down with Beach, these clients have already taken the nonprofit’s homebuyer education classes. One single mom from Asheville has been scouring the city for a suitable house that fits her roughly $180,000 budget. “She’s been looking for, I think, two to three years now and hasn’t been able to find anything in that price range where she wants to live,” says Beach. “She’s perfectly qualified — she has great credit, she has the income there and not a lot of debt — but the issue is just finding the price here.” Those rising prices reflect the city’s increasing popularity, and for longtime residents, that growth has seemed dramatic. “Explosive is an understatement,” says Jordan Barlow, a catering and conference services manager at Biltmore Estate. “When I was younger, you could lay out in the middle of downtown Asheville or on the city streets and nobody would run you over. Nowadays you can’t do that: too many people.” Barlow, a single female in her 20s, recently bought a home in Henderson County, benefiting from a course she took at OnTrack WNC and a small subsidy she received from her employer. She wanted a place in Asheville but had trouble finding anything that fit her roughly $220,000 budget. “Within the next 10 years, when I look to upgrade, I definitely anticipate getting a little bit closer to the city,” she explains. One way to offset the rise in prices is to redefine the type of home you’re looking for. “For many first-time buyers, manufactured homes are all they can afford, so that is what they buy,” notes Steve Heiselman of Town and

Mountain Realty. “These homes have also become popular for retirees on fixed incomes who are relocating to our area and downsizing.” But manufactured home values are much more volatile, he cautions, and in the long run, they “will be a less lucrative investment than site-built homes.” In Candler, for example, “Site-built homes have appreciated about 18 percent since 2008, and manufactured homes have appreciated at a rate of 5 percent, including the market bubble depreciation and recovery.” Clearly, however, not everyone is getting priced out of Asheville. First-time buyers Ferrell and Koral Alman recently bought a house in West Asheville. The couple, notes Ferrell, had rented for two years “to kind of decide which neighborhood we wanted to end up in permanently.” The Almans were considering homes in a couple of different price points — something in the mid-$200,000s that they’d have to put some work into or something in the mid-$300,000 range that would be move-in ready. They opted for the latter. Having moved here from Los Angeles, where a two-bedroom, onebath house downtown could cost $1 million, “It was relative to us when we moved to Asheville and people were talking about the exorbitant housing prices here,” Ferrell explains. So while he concedes that there’s a big disparity between wages and home prices in Asheville, “For us, we didn’t have as much sticker shock.” LOOKING AHEAD But with demand remaining strong, don’t expect local house prices to drop anytime soon. The area, says Cropp of the Asheville Realty Group, has what her clients are looking for: a temperate climate and panoramic mountain views. “Even though it seems like it’s getting more expensive to us, it’s still affordable

in their eyes because they’re coming from Miami or New York, where prices are just insane.” And many of those clients are retirees who can afford to buy a home here without needing a mortgage. Often, they’re downsizing or are what she calls “halfbacks.” “They started in New York, they retired down to Florida, Florida was too hot for them so they’re coming halfback: halfway up the East Coast.” Hanks, meanwhile, thinks the spillover to neighboring counties is also likely to continue. “The surrounding counties, which for decades have been very rural in nature, are more and more becoming suburbs of Asheville, and I think that trend’s just going to continue,” he points out. “You’ve just got a whole lot more room to grow.” But for folks who are determined to live in Asheville proper, there’s another potentially effective strategy that may require more patience than money. By repeatedly buying and selling homes — and timing those transactions to turn a profit and build equity — those with sufficient stamina (and a bit of luck) may eventually get what they’re looking for. When Jenn Clary, for example, bought a home in South Asheville, it was her seventh home purchase. Without the equity built up through those prior purchases, Clary believes it would have been hard for her to afford the South Asheville house. She recently moved again, however, wanting to be closer to Hendersonville, where she works as a physical therapist assistant. Prices being where they are, Clary foresees first-time homebuyers having difficulty breaking into the Asheville housing market. “I have a 19-year-old son,” she says, “and I have pretty much told him, ‘If you’re not lucky enough to get something from your father and I … you’re probably not going to have access to buying a home if you want to be somewhere like Asheville.’” X

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Offering something for pretty much every outdoor sports enthusiast — from those who get their thrills barreling down a steep trail aboard a mountain bike to families with strollers and tricycles in tow — the Mountain Sports Festival returns to Asheville’s Carrier Park from Friday, May 25, to Sunday, May 27, for its 18th year. With an estimated annual draw of 10,000 people, the free festival is something of a local institution. Beginning in 2001 with competitive events held in downtown Asheville and around the region, the festival subsequently spread its wings and relocated to Carrier Park alongside the French Broad River, adding a host of complementary outdoor

adventure sports and a full-fledged music festival to the mix. The event’s growth and viability, however, weren’t always smooth or guaranteed. In 2005, the city took the reins and ran the event until 2010. When the event’s board of directors resumed command, they struggled to manage the logistics and costs of such a large, oncea-year production. Last year, the event beefed up its logistical capacity and secured a three-year strategic event partnership with the city, a relationship that provides $5,478 in in-kind support, such as security and trash pickup services, to offset the cost of running the festival each year.

That support, say festival organizers, will free up some profits and allow the event to likewise support nonprofit organizations that promote active engagement with the outdoors. NEW UNDER THE SUN “This year the Mountain Sports Festival is doing something different,” says festival coordinator Leslie Grotenhuis. “Typically, the festival has thrown an umbrella over other events that are happening that weekend — this year we are going to produce them.” All-new events this year include the Dirty Asphalt Urban Assault, the Asheville Beer Mile, the Festival

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Frenzy 5K and 1K Fun Run and the Beer City 20K Relay. “The Dirty Asphalt Urban Assault is a mountain bike race through town. It leaves from Carrier Park on Saturday morning. It’s on roads and hits urban trails at the Kolo Bike Park, Richmond Hill and the Beaucatcher Greenway area,” says Grotenhuis. The Asheville Beer Mile takes place Saturday afternoon at the Carrier Park track. “The premise is simple,” says Grotenhuis. “Drink a beer, run a lap, drink a beer, run a lap. Three laps — three beers.” To state the obvious: Participation is limited to those 21 and older. “Then in the evening, we have the Festival Frenzy 5K. It’s a flat, fast, family-friendly 5K race in Carrier Park,” says Grotenhuis. “The race will go right through the middle of the festival, with the finish line inside the festival village.” Despite the title of Sunday’s Beer City 20K Relay, runners may want to stay sober for this one. “You can run the 20K by yourself, or you can have a team of two and each runs a 10k relay, or a team of four running a 5K as a relay,” explains Grotenhuis. “All of the running events are part of Asheville Beer Week, which starts on the 25th,” says Tim Grotenhuis, festival director and husband of Leslie Grotenhuis. “Asheville Beer Week is a sponsor of ours. They are sponsoring us, and we are sponsoring them.” Returning happenings include favorites like the Kross Kickoff cyclocross competition, a BMX street jam, disc golf and Ultimate Frisbee events, the 50-mile Collier Lilly bicycle ride to benefit the N.C. Outward Bound School, the Bellyak for a Cause race to benefit Our VOICE and the Downriver Dash, a 13-mile stand-up paddleboard race that launches from Glen Bridge Park in Arden.

unique. You’ve got all these events right within this music festival. It’s really a music and sports festival.” The headlining musical acts are scheduled to coincide with the major races and sporting events each evening or afternoon. The sounds of Josh Phillips & A Big Band will enliven the Friday Night Kross Kickoff, a combination of road and mountain biking and running. During Saturday night’s Festival Frenzy 5K, modern funk outfit Eufórquestra will lay down a groove for runners. Funky blues-rockers Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats will wrap things up on Sunday afternoon as cyclists take to the Carrier Park velodrome for the inaugural Rumble on the River criterium bike race. DIFFERENT STROKES Carrier Park is adjacent to the French Broad River, home of the festival’s Water Zone. Aquatic events include the Downriver Dash; the very Asheville stand-up paddleboard yoga class; and the Bellyak for a Cause race.

Something like a cross between a traditional kayak and a stand-up paddleboard, the bellyak is the creation of Asheville local Adam Masters and his production team, Tim Grotenhuis explains. Those curious about the innovative watercraft — you lie on your stomach to paddle it, much like a surfer paddling out to catch a wave in the ocean — will have ample opportunity to try it and a dizzying array of other outdoor toys and gear throughout the weekend. This year the festival’s Kid Zone is being sponsored by the Asheville Adventure Center’s Zipping for Autism program. Planned activities include a kid-safe zip line, bounce houses and games for the younger crowd. Leslie Grotenhuis says: “The festival is super family-friendly because it doesn’t cost anything. Kids can just go and hang out, do the bounce houses, and parents can be hanging out, listening to free music ...” “Drinking a beer while their kids are all contained in Carrier Park!” Tim Grotenhuis interjects.

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BLOWING THEIR OWN HORNS: A variety of musical acts will help keep the energy level high throughout the Mountain Sports Festival. Photo courtesy of Mountain Sports Festival “It’s a safe space,” agrees Leslie, who stresses that the Kid Zone is a place for parents to spend time with their kids, not a child care offering. GIVING BACK With multiple sponsors and a grant from the city, the Mountain Sports Festival is pumped about past and future donations of some of its profits to local charities and

awards. This year, the festival has created its own charitable fund. “In the past, the purpose of the nonprofit was to highlight Asheville and its mountain sports. We would donate some of the proceeds to a local nonprofit that also helped support sports and outdoor life in the area, like Connect Buncombe and RiverLink,” says Leslie Grotenhuis. “We no longer feel like we simply need to exist to highlight Asheville.

Music lineup The array of bands soundtracking this year’s sport festival all bring upbeat, heartpumping sounds to the stage. Fort Collins, Colo.-based headliner Euforquestra (whose name is a mashup of the words euphoria and orchestra) has been touring its self-described “Afro-Caribbean-barnyard-funk” around the world. Local acts round out the rest of the roster, performing many variations and mashups on the themes of roots, rock, funk, soul and folk. Josh Phillips & A Big Band headline Friday night while Saturday’s offerings include up-and-coming youth musicians Uncle Kurtis. Rockers Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats promise to wrap up the festival Sunday afternoon with an athletic set.

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Friday: • Dub Kartel (reggae and classic dub), 5-7 p.m. • Josh Phillips & A Big Band (reggae, folk-rock), 7:30-9:30 p.m.

• Window Cat (neo-soul, jazz, funk), 5:30-7 p.m. • Euforquestra (Afro-Caribbean funk), 7:30-9:30 p.m.

Saturday: • Uncle Kurtis (psyche-punk), 2:303:30 p.m. • The Stump Mutts (indie-rock), 4-5 p.m.

Sunday: • Ben Phan (indie-folk), 1:30-3 p.m. • Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats (indie-rock), 3:30-5:30 p.m.

As the festival grows, we would like our profits to encourage a new generation of outdoor enthusiasts.” This year the festival is raising money for Streets to Peaks, a program that provides gear and camping skills to kids from the Boys and Girls Club of America who would otherwise have a hard time finding the means to get out into the wilderness. “It’s this cool program that gets kids who really wouldn’t get the opportunity to get into the outdoors and helps them to get out there. It provides gear, there’s a camp, they go out and learn to kayak and climb. It’s a yearlong program,” says Tim Grotenhuis. “We’re also creating a Sponsor a Youth Athlete grant, which a youth athlete can apply for if they need help with something. Say a youth cyclocross [athlete] needs money to get to a national event; they can apply for us to donate money for a plane ticket or something, and that would come out of the fund.” Mountain Sports Festival has also created The Golden Backpacker Award, which will be a cash prize for an exceptional outdoor enthusiast.

“We are going to honor an individual who has been instrumental in promoting the outdoor industry or lifestyle here in Western North Carolina,” says Tim Grotenhuis. If you are a fan of live music and outdoor sports, Tim Grotenhuis can’t imagine a reason you would want to miss the Mountain Sports Festival. “Beer, music, food, sports,” he says. “What else could you ask for?” X

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• Ultimate Frisbee High School Tournament, Carrier Park, 10 a.m.7 p.m. • Asheville Beer Mile, Carrier Park, 1 p.m. • Bellyak For a Cause, Hominy Creek Put-in, 2 p.m. • Festival Frenzy 5k and Fun Run, Carrier Park, 6 p.m. • Ultimate Frisbee Showcase Tournament, Carrier Park, 7-9 p.m. Sunday: • Beer City 20K Relay (20K solo runners, teams of two 10K runners, teams of four 5K runners), Carrier Park, 10 a.m. • Ultimate Frisbee Middle School Tournament, Carrier Park, noon-5 p.m. • Rumble by the River: Track and Criterium Bike Races on the Mellowdrome, Carrier Park, 2 p.m. • Ultimate Frisbee Community Pickup Game, Carrier Park, 3-5 p.m. Full info at Mountainsportsfestival.com

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Police accountability and transparency focus of City Council meeting The Rev. Amy Cantrell, founder of the intentional community and homeless support nonprofit BeLoved Asheville, left strong words hanging in Council chambers as public comment drew to a close at Asheville City Council’s May 15 meeting. “The soul of our city has been laid bare and found wanting,” she proclaimed. “We are in a crisis.” Cantrell’s remarks came as she criticized the inclusion of additional funding for the Asheville Police Department in the city’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2018-19, one of the many policerelated issues that dominated discussion at the meeting. Nearly three months after the leak of body camera footage showing white former APD officer Chris Hickman beating black Asheville resident Johnnie Jermaine Rush after a stop for alleged jaywalking, both residents and Council members continued their calls for changes to policing in Asheville. The most immediate result of this dialogue was Council’s decision not to dissolve the Citizen’s Police Advisory Committee. As part of the meeting’s new business, Sarah Terwilliger, deputy city clerk, presented a staff report recommending that Council eliminate CPAC due to redundancy with the newly forming Human Relations Commission. She also referenced APD’s efforts to better engage with residents, including its new community liaison program and regular neighborhood meeting attendance. After Council member Keith Young moved to dissolve CPAC and Brian Haynes seconded, Sheneika Smith urged her colleagues to rethink their decision. “I believe that, in theory, the HRC is going to take up these community concerns, and I believe that in its new formation, that is a bad idea,” she said. “I believe that CPAC should stay in place to be an intermediary committee to hear public safety concerns.” Smith argued that given the present tenor of the community, the HRC would be overwhelmed with public safety issues and thus unable to fulfill its broader mandate of ensuring racial equity and eliminating discrimination across the city. She added that in its current incarnation, CPAC hadn’t fully realized the duties and responsibilities laid out in its founding resolution. “From 1991, I’m reading the function of

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opposite ends of thought, but we talk,” he said. “There’s a lot of people here in the audience tonight that, without CPAC, I would’ve never met and would’ve never had a conversation with.” GROWING TEETH

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CPAC, and I’ve never seen them operate at this potential.” The community comment that followed was unanimous in its support for keeping CPAC. Carmen Ramos-Kennedy, president of the Asheville-Buncombe NAACP, suggested that based on her own experience with city committees, the HRC would need at least a year to become fully operational. Resident Ashley Cooper agreed that CPAC should stay in place to cover the transition, while Sabrah n’haRaven suggested the group be rolled under the HRC as a subcommittee specifically devoted to policing concerns. Rondell Lance, president of the Fraternal Order of Police in Asheville and recent candidate for Buncombe County sheriff, also lent his voice to preserving the committee. “I’ve gone to those meetings and met people who may be on

After public comment, Young withdrew his motion, adding that the city’s Boards and Commissions Committee might be able to refine CPAC’s scope and role over the transition to the HRC. However, Council still plans to eventually replace the group: In an announcement not listed on the meeting’s public agenda, Mayor Esther Manheimer said that the city would be suggesting legislation at the state level to establish what she called “a CPAC that has the teeth that the community is concerned about.” If this legislation passed, Manheimer explained, the new citizen review committee would have powers to submit binding decisions, issue subpoenas, review personnel records and watch body camera footage, the latter under a confidentiality agreement. She said the proposed bill would apply to Asheville specifically but was modeled after the broader House Bill 165, which failed to pass after being introduced in the last legislative session. While Young applauded the city’s effort to move forward on police oversight with the help of the General Assembly, Council member Vijay Kapoor expressed grave concern over the process. “This is the first time I’m seeing this. I want to be collegial here, but these are significant legislative priorities, and as a Council member, this wasn’t even on the agenda,” he said. “I understand there’s timelines, but this could have been shared with us before.” Smith agreed, noting that the lack of advance notice on the legislation was not an isolated incident. “There have been a couple of times this year where we really haven’t been clued in on things before we’ve had to make a decision,” she said. “As a new Council member, I would like to sit with things a lot longer so I can ask the appropriate questions to constituents and have time to figure out things early.” Manheimer said that the legislation would be put on the agenda for discussion at Council’s next meeting on Tuesday, May 22, but recent City Council candidate and community advocate Dee Williams added her thoughts during the evening’s public comment. She criticized Council for urging action at the

state level before making local changes such as written authorization for consent-based searches during traffic stops, which she had suggested as part of the NAACP’s Criminal Justice Reform Committee. “Don’t go down to Raleigh; we need to start right here,” Williams said. In another item not included on the agenda, interim City Manager Cathy Ball announced that the city had hired Chicago-based consultancy 21st Century Policing LLC to review the Rush beating and its subsequent investigation. Consultant Sean Smoot said his group would be in the city throughout the week to examine APD’s professional standards, policies and other aspects. DELAYED GRATIFICATION As part of its unfinished business, Council heard a report from staff concerning the city’s progress on making APD information available as open data. Council had ordered the review in response to a petition at its April 24 meeting by civic technology advocacy group Code for Asheville, presented by volunteer Patrick Conant. Jaime Matthews, assistant to the city manager, and Scott Barnwell, business and public technology manager, walked Council through the current status of the request. They explained that some data, such as crime reports and the APD manual, would be released soon, while other data sets, particularly citizen complaints and use-of-force information, would require additional staff review. As soon as the presentation ended, Council began expressing its frustration at the speed of the release. “I thought this was going to move a lot faster — I was hoping we’d be addressing these things and voting on them within a month,” said Haynes. Manheimer and Young echoed his remarks, garnering a cacophony of approving snaps from members of the audience. When asked about staff’s specific issues about releasing the data, Barnwell said that the technical side of the equation was relatively uncomplicated. “The question is really with the Police Department and their concerns,” he said. In public comment on the report, Conant countered that staff should be documenting its concerns in writing to give better transparency to the process. He also called for specific timelines and additional Council involvement in the decisions over what information to release. In response to criticism from both Council and the public, Ball defended her staff’s efforts, saying she didn’t

have the manpower available for personnel to work on open data concerns full time. “We have to do this responsibly so we don’t end up getting sued, we don’t end up having issues,” she said. “I know that’s not popular; I know that there’s

not fingers to clap. I understand that, and I’m OK with that.” Manheimer called for staff to present more details at Council’s June 19 meeting, but it was Smith who closed comment on the issue. “The message is

this: We’re in a crisis here in our city concerning public safety,” she said. “If there were a crisis in any area of our city that really impeded our economic success, we would put all of our eggs in a basket.”

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ON A HIGH NOTE: Clerk to the Board Kathy Hughes will retire on June 30 after 35 years of working for Buncombe County. The Board of Commissioners has offered the job to Lamar Joyner, who works as the deputy director of the Board of Elections in Forsyth County. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County

The proposed budget is based on the current tax rate of 53.9 cents per $100 of assessed property value, and it includes additional funding requested by the Buncombe County and Asheville City school systems and A-B Tech for salary and benefit adjustments, textbooks, graduation initiatives, new behavioral health positions and utilities. Part of the funding for the local school systems is contingent on the state’s final budget, which is expected to be passed in June. The county has increased its contribution to public schools by $20 million over the last five years. “This is almost $4 million a year in increases,” Stone said. “It has, if you look over that same period of time, outpaced your growth, and if that level of growth in the increase continues, it will take increasing your property tax rate to support that.” The part of the funding set aside for salary supplements, which helps keep pay for local public school teachers competitive with other systems in the state, increased by about $6 million between FY 2014 and FY 2018. In FY 2018, $20.3 million was set aside for salary supplements. The proposed budget also contains an $8.6 million reduction in the amount drawn from the county’s fund balance. The current year’s adopted budget includes $15.4 million allocated from the fund balance, but the county anticipates that it will end FY 2018 with that funding largely intact. To comply with its own policy, the board must set aside at least 15 percent of its revenues for emergencies, an amount equal to 2 1/2 months of operating expenses. “We have got to learn to reduce our reliance on appropriated fund balance,” Stone said, “and this budget does that.”

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N EWS In the past, Newman says, the county has factored a significant amount of its fund balance into its budget calculations, but hardly ever ended up spending the budgeted money. “We actually spend about the amount that we take in,” he says. “We need a budget that accurately forecasts what we’re really going to spend in different departments and on different priorities and then do it and really stick to it.” The county’s proposed general fund budget for next year is $318,720,851, which marks a 3.6 percent ($12,014,537) decrease over last year’s general fund budget. The proposed budget also includes $107,849,894 in spending outside the general fund, a broad category that includes fire service districts and transportation. NEW CLERK Commissioners have decided on a replacement for Clerk to the Board Kathy Hughes, who has served in the position since January 1983 and will retire on June 30. The county received 209 applications for the job and interviewed

12 applicants before narrowing the search to six finalists. During the meeting on May 15, commissioners thanked Hughes for her service to the county and voted to offer the job to Lamar Joyner, who has worked for the last 11 years as the deputy director of the Board of Elections in Forsyth County. He also has an engineering degree from North Carolina A&T State University. “When we think about the qualities necessary for the clerk, we were looking for somebody with an attention to detail,” said Lisa Eby, the county’s director of human resources. “In his current position, he has to make sure he’s compliant with all state laws, all federal regulations … which is a very important aspect of this position [county clerk].” If he accepts the job, Joyner would serve in an interim position until Hughes retires. According to salary information available on the county website, Hughes receives $122,840 per year. Joyner’s base annual salary would be $80,000, according to the employment agreement offered to him by the county.

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HONORING SACRIFICE: The Asheville-Buncombe County Memorial Day observance takes place on Monday, May 28, 2:30-4:30 p.m. at Pack Square Park, 80 Court Plaza, Asheville. Photo by Virginia Daffron VENTURE LOCAL FAIR KICKS OFF MAY 26 A city-owned lot at 68 Haywood St. in downtown Asheville can look a little ... empty much of the time, but beginning on Saturday, May 26, that won’t be a problem on the fourth Saturday of every month through October. From noon-7 p.m., the free Venture Local Fair will transform the open space into a miniature version of Asheville with local vendors, food trucks and music to highlight and promote the area’s small businesses. Event organizers from the Asheville Grown Business Alliance are also known for the Love Asheville Go Local campaign and advocating the importance of locally owned, independent businesses. More information is available at venturelocalfair.com. ASHEVILLE SEEKS INPUT ON CITY MANAGER SELECTION To provide additional opportunities for residents to weigh in on the qualities Asheville’s next city manager should embody, a fourth public input session

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has been scheduled for Thursday, May 24, 6-7:30 p.m. at the Grant Southside Center, 285 Livingston St., Asheville. Childcare will be provided for ages five and older. Interpretive services will also be available. Residents’ input will help form a profile of the ideal candidate. This profile will be used in a nationwide recruitment effort which will determine the pool of candidates from which City Council will choose. Residents can also provide input in the following ways: • Survey: Take a survey online at Open City Hall Asheville (avl.mx/4z7). Or fill out a paper copy of the survey, available at city recreation and community centers. • Hotline: Leave comments at 828-259-5900. • Email: Send comments to citymanagersearch@ ashevillenc.gov. A timeline and more detailed information are available at ashevillenc. gov/citymanagersearch. CITY AND COUNTY OFFICES CLOSED FOR MEMORIAL DAY City of Asheville and Buncombe County offices and the Buncombe County

library system will be closed on Monday, May 28. The city will collect trash, recycling and bulky waste (but not brush) on May 28; there will be no scrap metal collection that week. Recreation Park Pool will open at noon on Memorial Day and will operate until 6 p.m. that day. All city parks will remain open, while city recreation centers will be closed. The Buncombe County Landfill and Transfer Station will be open on a regular schedule. Emergency and mandated services will also operate as usual. RIVERLINK HOSTS PUBLIC INPUT SESSION ON KAREN CRAGNOLIN PARK On Wednesday, May 30, RiverLink invites community members to the future site of the Karen Cragnolin Park at 190 Amboy Road, Asheville. In case of bad weather, the meeting will take place at RiverLink’s offices at 170 Lyman St., Asheville. The 4:30 p.m. gathering will be a chance for the public to weigh in on the conceptual design of the park. Formerly the home of the EDACO auto salvage operation, the 5.33-acre parcel was contaminated by diesel fuel and oil that was spilled as the result of car-crushing operations. RiverLink has implemented remediation efforts on the site to reduce contamination to a level designated as safe under federal brownfield development standards. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects will lead the design effort, and preliminary plans are expected to be completed in early 2019. For more information, visit riverlink.org. X

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BREAKING BOTTLES: On Oct. 8, 1907, Asheville voted in favor of Prohibition. This undated photo, believed to have been taken on the bridge over the French Broad River at Riverside Park, captures a rally in support of the new law. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville An advertisement in the Sept. 28, 1907, edition of The Asheville Citizen promised a great Prohibition rally and parade that day. The event was set to begin at 11 a.m. at the auditorium and would feature the First Regiment Band. Following the march, speeches would be delivered by Judge J.C. Pritchard and former Sen. (and future Gov.) Craig Locke. The advertisement declared: “All men, women and children in the county who oppose the manufacture and sale of liquor in Asheville are invited and urged to come prepared to join the parade and help us drive liquor from our city.” The following day’s paper featured the entire transcript of Pritchard’s speech. In it, the judge proclaimed: “The good people of the city of Asheville are engaged in a determined effort to drive bar rooms from the midst.” Tourism was one of the leading arguments against Prohibition. Businessmen asserted travelers would not venture into dry areas. But Pritchard disagreed. “How many men and women are attracted to Asheville by whiskey?” he asked. “Is it our whiskey, or is it our beautiful scenery and excellent climate which attract annually thousands of the best people of other sections to the ‘Land of the Sky?’” Pritchard went on to characterize drinkers as a “bloated lot of sots.” And despite its appeal to visitors, he described Asheville as being “as wicked as any city” he had seen. Such a reputation, the judge argued, damaged the area’s appeal to manufacturers. And with a growing population of 22,000, Pritchard insisted residents could not risk turning away such opportunities. Near the end of his talk, Pritchard alluded to his former days spent in Madison

County, an area once nearly ruined by alcohol. Pritchard asserted: “For years that county was cursed by the sale of whiskey. Affairs became so intolerable in that county on account of the many crimes that were committed that some of the newspapers spoke of that section as ‘bloody Madison’ but now that prohibition prevails, the tables are turned and this community might be properly termed ‘bloody Asheville.’” Much debate ensued, both in print and on the streets. In that same day’s paper, an unnamed resident wrote in opposition to Prohibition. The writer insisted the law had less to do about alcohol and more to do about class. The article read: “The prohibitionist does not pretend that the success of their movement will prevent the rich and well-to-do man from getting and drinking all the wine, whiskey, brandy, beer and absinthe he wants.” But for the working man, the writer contested, such thirst would go unsatisfied. Another article in that day’s paper claimed Prohibition would “hurt the cause of Christianity.” The correspondent, known only by the initials A.S.M., asked proponents of the law: “Why did God give us the ten commandments, my esteemed prohibition advocate, and why would He give us these ten commandments unless it was to resist evil by observing them? You, gospel minister, tell me if Christianity would have dared to say, ‘We will not need them, O God, for we will destroy the evil that would tempt us to break them.’ That is exactly the import of your prohibition laws, and that is why you do not succeed and will never succeed with prohibition.”

On Oct. 5, 1907, opponents of Prohibition filled the county courthouse. The following day’s paper included excerpts from speeches offered that evening. Among the speakers was resident Alfred S. Barnard. He called Prohibition “the ultimate destruction of human liberty. You hear the same old slogan, ‘Save the people from themselves.’ Prohibition is a species of tyranny to which the people of Asheville will not submit.” Despite Barnard’s assertion, the city did submit. On Oct. 8, votes were cast. The following day’s headline in The Asheville Citizen read, “Avalanche of ballots rides prohibition on crest of victory’s wave.” While women did not yet have the right to vote for the measure, they, along with their children, played a crucial role in discouraging (and in some instances blocking) antiprohibitionists from the ballot box. The paper read: “Seizing the polls at daylight, active, alert, well organized, the women and children absolutely captured the city and there never was a moment from daylight to dark when they did not dominate the situation. As a demonstration of their resistless power yesterday’s election will be a monument. Singing, praying, cheering, hundreds of them at the polling places blocked the streets and swept in a stream of votes as resistless as the Atlantic tides.” On May 26, 1908, North Carolina followed in Asheville’s footsteps, becoming the first state to pass a referendum on Prohibition. Eleven years later, with the ratification of the 18th Amendment, Prohibition went into effect across the nation and would remain so until Dec. 5, 1933. X

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ANIMALS ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 14 Forever Friend Lane, 828-761-2001, ashevillehumane.org • SA (5/26), 1:30-3pm Behind-the-scenes tour of the animal shelter. Free. FEED & SEED 3715 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher, 828-2163492 • SA (5/26), noon-3pm Low-cost rabies and shot clinic. Information: 828553-5792. $15-$25. FULL MOON FARM WOLFDOG RESCUE 828-664-9818, fullmoonfarm.org • SA (5/26), 3-6pm "Howl In," event featuring a tour of the wolfdog sanctuary and a potluck. Bring a side dish to share and stuffed animals for the new wolfdog puppies. Register for location. $5. LIVING WEB FARMS 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 828-505-1660, livingwebfarms.org • SA (5/26), 9am-2pm - "Bird & Birdsong Identification," workshop with Luke Cannon.

WNC AGRICULTURAL CENTER 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, 828-687-1414, mountainfair.org • FR (5/25) through SU (5/27), 8am-3:30pm, MO (5/28), 8am-1pm American Kennel Club dog agility trial. Free to attend.

BENEFITS YARD SALE AT GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH (PD.) 954 Tunnel Road, Asheville. To be held Friday, June 1. Hours 9 am-6pm & Saturday, June 2 from 7am-2pm. ASHEVILLE GREEN OPPORTUNITIES 828-398-4158, greenopportunities.org • TH (5/24) - Proceeds from "Pints for Power," solar power learning event with Sugar Hollow Solar benefit Asheville Green Opportunities. Bring your power bill. Free to attend. Held at The Wedge Studios, 129 Roberts St. • WE (5/30), 6-9:30pm - Proceeds from the Gaining Ground fivecourse farm dinner

prepared by Chef John Fleer benefit Green Opportunities. Registration online. $79. Held at Yesterday Spaces, 305 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester ASHEVILLE YOUTH ULTIMATE FRISBEE BENEFIT ashevilleultimate.org • WE (5/23), 6:3011pm- Proceeds from the Youth Ultimate Frisbee Fundraiser with raffle, silent auction and games benefit local youth ultimate frisbee teams. Free to attend. Held at Hi-Wire Brewing Big Top, 2A Huntsman Place COLLIER LILLY HALFCENTURY RIDE bit.ly/2rQdoLK • SA (5/26), 8:30am - Proceeds from this 50-mile bike ride benefit North Carolina Outward Bound. Register online. $55. Held at The Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundy St. MUSICWORKS! ASHEVILLE 828-318-8174, musicworksasheville.org • FR (5/25), 6pm - Donations at the "Sounds of Unity" concert featuring student performances from MusicWorks Asheville, the African Percussion Ensemble and Mars Hill University benefit MusicWorks Asheville. Free to attend. Held at Trinity United Methodist Church, 587 Haywood Road PRINCESS CHARITY BALL

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CONNEMARA TUNES: On Monday, May 28, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site in Flat Rock hosts the 32nd annual Carl Sandburg Folk Music Festival. The Memorial Day gathering features live music by The Resonant Rogues, Pat Corn & Buddy Davis, Jon Shain, David Holt and Josh Goforth, and Steve and Jean Smith in a large tent near the barn area. The folk festival aims to honor Sandburg and his preservation of traditional folk music as found in his collection The American Songbag. Polly Angelakis, the park’s new superintendent, will also be in attendance. Free. For more information, visit nps.gov/carl. Photo of David Holt and Josh Goforth courtesy of the National Park Service (p. 21) BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (5/23), 11:30am1pm - "Tax Tips for Small Business," seminar. Registration required: ashevillescore.org. Free. Held at Lenoir Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. • WE (5/23), 5:308:30pm - "How to Start a Nonprofit," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TH (5/24), 10am-noon - "Starting a Better Business," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at Montford Recreation Center, 34 Pearson Drive • TH (5/24), 6-9pm "Snapchat for Small Business Owners," seminar. Regsitration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech

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CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS CLASSES AT VILLAGERS (PD.) • Making Floral Leis. Wednesday, May 30. 7-8:30pm. $20. • Food Waste Reduction through Composting and Vermicomposting. Sunday, June 3. 5:30-6:30pm. Free. Registration/Information: www.forvillagers.com EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Restorative Stretch on Mondays 7:15pm. Pilates on Thursdays 4:15pm. Beginning Pole on Sundays 3:30pm, Mondays 6:00pm, Tuesdays 1:00pm and 7:00pm, Thursdays 8:00pm, and Saturdays 11:30am. Ballet Barre on Mondays 6:00pm. Aerial Yoga on Thursdays 5:15pm

and Fridays 5:15pm. EMPYREANARTS.ORG * 828.782.3321 THIRSTY THURSDAY AT CALYPSO! (PD.) Join us for Women In Conversation ALL DAY. Laid back atmosphere, sample tropical St. Lucian flavors and bottomless Mimosas for $15. 18 N. Lexington Ave. at Calypso Restaurant. 828-575-9494. YOGA WITH GOATS WEST ASHEVILLE (PD.) Enjoy the benefits of yoga in a lovely meadow with our Nigerian Dwarf Goats. Classes for beginners to advanced. Call Cynthia at 828 333 8486 for more info. ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 828-254-7162, ashevillescience.org • FR (5/25), 5:30-7pmAMOS Science Pub: "Visualizing Sound," presentation by guest speaker Michael Ruiz, professor of physics at UNC Asheville. Refreshments

provided by Asheville Brewers Alliance. $10/$20 per family. Held at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401 BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-6263438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm Community center board meeting. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (5/24), 5:30-7pm "Stitch it, Don't Ditch it," mending workshop. Bring a clothing item you want to repair. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. MEMORIAL DAY FOCUSED EVENTS • SA 5/26), 8am-noon Free fishing event and hotdog lunch for veterans by Buncombe County Recreation Services. Veterans can bring family or a fishing buddy to the

event. Bring your own fishing supplies. Information: buncombecounty.org. Free. Held at Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa • MO (5/28), noon Weaverville Memorial Day observance with live music, rifle salute and presentation by Joe Root. Free. Held at Lake Louise Park, Doan Road, Weaverville • MO (5/28), - City of Asheville Memorial Day Ceremony with wreath presentation and military band. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ASHEVILLE 828-273-4948, mcl.asheville@gmail.com • Last TUESDAYS - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen, and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (5/23), 5:30-7pm & TU (5/29), noon-1:30pm - "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Registration required. Free. • TH (5/30), 5:30-7pm "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required. Free. • THURSDAYS, (5/31) until (6/14), 5:30-8pm "Money Management and Credit," class series. Registration required. Free. TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT

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FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115, firestorm.coop • 4th SATURDAYS, 5:306:30pm - Asheville Vegan Runners, open group meeting. Free to attend. FOOD NOT BOMBS HENDERSONVILLE foodnotbombshendersonville@gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 4pm Community meal. Free. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St. Hendersonville LIVING WEB FARMS 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 828-505-1660, livingwebfarms.org • TU (5/29), 6-7:30pm "Koji in Every Kitchen," workshop exploring the science, history and practical application of koji culture in the home kitchen. Registration required. $10.

FESTIVALS CARL SANDBURG FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL nps.gov/carl • MO (5/28), 11am4pm - Festival honoring Carl Sandburg and his preservation of traditional folk music. Featuring live music and storytell-

ing by The Resonant Rogues, Pat Corn, Jon Shain, David Holt and Josh Goforth. Admission fees apply. Held at Carl Sandburg Home NHS, 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock MOUNTAIN SPORTS FESTIVAL mountainsportsfestival. com • FR (5/25) through SU (5/27) - Outdoor sports festival with live music and food vendors. See website for full schedule. $15. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BUNCOMBE COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY buncombedems.org • TH (5/24), 6:30pm "Bridging the Broadband Gap," presentation by Buncombe County Young Democrats with NC House Representative Brian Turner. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 610-002 Haywood Road

venturelocalfair.com • 4th SATURDAYS, noon7pm - Outdoor festival featuring makers, artists, collectors, musicians, chefs, entertainers and inventors. Free to attend. Held at 68 Haywood Outdoor Space, 68 Haywood St.

HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 828-692-6424, myhcdp. com/ • SA (5/26), 11:30am3pm - Luncheon and awarding of the “Good Apples” awards in the field of education, civil rights and community service. Featured speaker is Anita Earls, candidate for North Carolina Supreme Court. Held at Hendersonville Country Club, 1860 Hebron Road, Hendersonville

WHITE SQUIRREL FESTIVAL whitesquirrelfestival.com • FR (5/25) through SU (5/27) - Outdoor festival featuring parades, live music, art and craft vendors, boxcar derby and run. Visit website for schedule and more information. Free to attend.

HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • TH (5/31), 11:30am1pm - Lunch and Learn: "Robert's Rules of Order and Parliamentary Procedure," presentation by Hendersonville Mayor Barbara Volk. Free to attend. Held at

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UP ON THE ROOF: Attendees enjoy a 2017 Live@Aloft rooftop concert at Aloft Asheville Downtown. The series returns May 27 and continues the last Sunday of each month through October, featuring a new musician and nonprofit beneficiary each time. Photo courtesy of McKibbon Hospitality WHAT: A monthly concert series to benefit Asheville area nonprofits WHEN: Sunday, May 27, 5-8 p.m., continuing the last Sunday of each month through October WHERE: Air Level rooftop space of Aloft Asheville Downtown, 51 Biltmore Ave. WHY: Summer 2017’s Live@Aloft concert series raised more than $4,000 for a variety of area charities and gave the Aloft Asheville Downtown hotel staff a chance to interact with diverse groups of hotel guests and locals. The success inspired organizers to add more events to the series for its 2018 edition and bring in new local talent to the Air Level rooftop space the last Sunday of each month through October, starting May 27. “This year, we are mixing things up by adding the Rock Academy [NC] as our first musical act. They are a local music school that teaches kids how to rock and perform on stage,” says David McCartney, general manager of Aloft Asheville Downtown. “We are also partnering with the Asheville Humane Society and encouraging people to bring their pets to the June event, and the July event will feature a fashion show.” In lieu of purchasing a ticket to attend each performance, guests are asked to make a donation to the nonprofit being featured that night. The hotel’s executive team meets to discuss the charities that have reached out to Aloft for support throughout the year and decides on a final list from there. 22

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“A large factor we take into consideration is how the charities align with Aloft’s passions: music, animals, hospitality and community,” McCartney says. “We also ask our team about charities to which we may have personal connections, such as Project Pink Ribbons since we know many people who have been affected by breast cancer.” In addition to the Rock Academy NC show, which benefits the organization itself, artists and nonprofits include Special Affair and the Asheville Humane Society (June 24); DJ Abu Disarray and Hope Chest (July 29); Jordan Okrend Trio and the A-B Tech Scholarship Foundation (Aug. 26); Jesse Barry and the Jam and Blue Ridge Public Radio (Sept. 30); and Eleanor Underhill and Friends and Charlie’s Angels Animal Rescue (Oct. 28). In the event of inclement weather, the show will move to the Aloft’s W XYZ bar. Local breweries are invited to sponsor the events and showcase their beers and each Sunday also features custom craft cocktails created specifically for the occasion. “Since members of the Rock Academy’s band are school-aged children, we will feature a few nonalcoholic beverages for them to enjoy,” McCartney says. “The event benefiting Project Pink Ribbons will feature some pink cocktails.” Live@Aloft takes place Sunday, May 27, 5-8 p.m. at the Air Level rooftop space of Aloft Asheville Downtown, 51 Biltmore Ave. Admission by donation. aloftashevilledowntown.com X

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KIDS ASHEVILLE MUSIC SCHOOL 126 College St., 828-252-6244, ashevillemusicschool.com • SU (5/27), 1-4pm - Summer camp music placement auditions for ages 4-18. Camps include: Teen Pop Camp (July 9-13), Rock Band Camp (July 23-27) and Chamber Ensemble Camp (Aug 6-10). Registration: gabrielle@ ashevillemusicschool.org or 828-252-6244. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • WE (5/23), 4pm - "Exploring Reptiles and Amphibians," activities for kids ages 5-13 with the NC Arboretum. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (5/24), 3pm - "Dinosaurs," all ages talk about dinosaurs with a hands-on dinosaur exhibit by the Asheville Museum of Science. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (5/25), 4pm - Read with J.R. the therapy dog for 15-minutes. Registration required: 828-2504758. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. HANDS ON! A CHILDREN'S GALLERY 828-697-8333, handsonwnc,org, learningisfun@handsonwnc.org • WE (5/23), 4-5pm - "Science on Wheels," science activities forkids. Registration required: 828-6974725. Free. Held at Hendersonville Public Library, 301 N Washington St., Hendersonville • TU (5/29), 11am - "Mad Scientists Lab: Ragin’ Racin’ Scientists," activities for ages 3 and up. Registration required. Admission fees apply. Held at Hands On! A Children's Gallery, 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville • WE (5/30), 11am - "Book and Build," reading of the book Dreaming Up and building activities. Admission fees apply. Held at Hands On! A Children's Gallery, 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • TU (5/29), 9-11am - "Nature Nuts: Fishing," outdoor activities for ages 4-7. Registration required. Free.

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OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal Discovery Den and 404-foot waterfall. Plan your adventure at chimneyrockpark.com BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov • FR (5/25), 10am - "Historic Mountain Hideaway," rangerguided, 1.5 mile hike at Rattlesnake Lodge. Free. Meet at MP 374.4 BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 828-295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • SA (5/26), 7:30pm - "Wilderness Skills: What to do When," ranger presentation about wildlife encounters. Free. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TU (5/29), 6:30pm - "WNC Wildflowers," presentation by nature photographer and mountain hiker, Scott Dean. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa RIVERLINK 828-252-8474, riverlink.org • SA (5/26), 10am - "Birds of the French Broad River," guided canoe trip. Registration required. $25.

PUBLIC LECTURES ACLU OF WNC acluwnc.wordpress.com • TH (5/24), 6:30pm - Presentation about LGBTQ equality, the first amendment and nondiscrimination laws by the the Cato Institute and the law firm of Deutsch and Gottschalk. Free. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115, firestorm.coop • SU (5/27), 6:30-7:30pm "Legalize Freedom," lecture by Art Myers regarding personal freedom. Free to attend.

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and to explore

new interests through a program of varied social, cultural, and outdoor activities. Visit www.ashevillenewfriends.org ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS ashevillenewfriends.org • TU (5/29), 9-11:30am - Threemile group hike along sometimes rocky and steep woodland trails at Sleepy Gap Overlook. Wear boots, bring poles. Carpool meetup at 9am outside Restoration Hardware at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE • FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (PD.) Meditation is fully effective when it allows you to transcend—to effortlessly settle inward, beyond the busy or agitated mind, to the deepest, most blissful and expanded state of awareness. TM is a tool for personal healing and social transformation that anyone can use to access that field of unbounded creativity, intelligence, and well-being that resides within everyone. NIH research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced stress and anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened mental performance. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828254-4350. TM.org ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com. ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. GROUP MEDITATION (PD.) Enjoy this supportive meditation community. Mindfulness meditation instruction and Buddhist teachings at Asheville Insight. Thursday evenings at 7pm and Sunday mornings at 10am. ashevillemeditation.com. INTUITIVE READINGS (PD.) Listen to your Spirits messages for you. For your reading, or for more information, call 4pm-7pm, 828 551-1825.

SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community. By donation. 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala.org CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 828-258-0211 • 4th FRIDAYS, 10am-noon Contemplative Companions, meditation. Free. • Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm - Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation. Admission by donation. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Through MO (5/28) - Open registration for the women's sum-

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SPORTS BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/Governing/ Depts/Parks/ • Through TU (6/5) - Open registration for adult league sand volleyball. Registration: buncomberecreation.org. $25.

VOLUNTEERING TUTOR ADULTS IN NEED WITH THE LITERACY COUNCIL (PD.) Dedicate two hours a week to working with an immigrant who

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Mantra, mindfulness, transcendental, spiritual, walking — while the practice of meditation aims to quiet the mind, choosing from its many different forms can be a mental challenge in its own right. Asheville’s abundance of meditators and meditation centers each take a unique approach, but what do all of these types of meditation have in common? According to the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, four elements unify the majority of meditation practices: “a quiet location with as few distractions as possible; a specific, comfortable posture (sitting, lying down, walking or in other positions); a focus of attention (a specially chosen word or set of words, an object, or the sensations of

the breath); and an open attitude (letting distractions come and go naturally without judging them).” Sharon Lovich, resident teacher at Je Tsongkhapa Kadampa Buddhist Center in Asheville, suggests that the different types of meditation also share common misconceptions. Many non-meditators, she says, believe that practitioners must be calm to meditate. “It doesn’t matter where you’re starting from. Your mind doesn’t need to be calm in order to meditate,” she says. “The calm comes from meditating. You don’t need any special trait, any special body type, any special characteristic” to succeed at meditation. Another common error of novice meditators, Lovich continues, is believing that they can develop a successful meditation practice all on their own. For most people, she says, a community practice pro-

vides much-needed support. “The group energy carries you,” she says. At home, she points out, there are always distractions: “Your refrigerator is always there.” MINDFULNESS AND MEDITATION Ronya Banks, founder and lead teacher of Asheville Insight Meditation, defines meditation as “a formal practice where the meditator engages their intentional, open, unadulterated attention.” While all forms of meditation can focus intentional attention, Banks says, her preferred practice of mindfulness meditation is one of the most common found in Asheville. Mindfulness meditation, Banks explains, is a form of meditation in which the meditator “is focused on awareness of one’s internal and external experience.” By emphasiz-

ing self-awareness, Banks says, this approach differs from other forms of meditation that focus on external elements like a mantra or the breath. But mindfulness doesn’t necessarily involve meditation, notes Dr. Brian Lewis of Integrative Family Medicine of Asheville. When he speaks to his patients about mindfulness, Lewis asks them to consider what brings them ”a sense of wonder, awe and gratitude.“ For many patients, Lewis says, mindfulness comes from simple things like playing with their dogs or spending time with friends. He works with patients to “grow that feeling” by incorporating those activities into their regular routines. That’s sufficient for some patients to reap the benefits of mindfulness, he says, but others may want to go deeper through incorporating a formal meditation practice. However, Lewis cautions people interested in starting meditation to consider the type they will practice. ”Some kinds of meditation foster a dissociative state [in which meditators experiences a sense of separation from their body], which can be

counterproductive“ for some people, he says. Lewis often recommends somatic meditation, which focuses on feelings and sensations in the body. This practice, he says, can help people reacquaint themselves with their bodies and provide relief for many health conditions related to dysregulation of the autonomic nervous system, including fibromyalgia, posttraumatic stress disorder and anxiety. “Meditation can help address the general state of overwhelm experienced by our society,” he notes. Yet somatic meditation’s emphasis on the mind-body connection, says Lewis, can also raise problems for certain individuals. “For people with intense past experiences of overwhelm, helplessness, hopelessness, or feeling trapped, that journey back to embodiment can be really intense,” he points out. He suggests that people begin their meditation journey with the help of a skilled facilitator who has a long practice history and an active role in a peer group of practitioners.

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Meditation’s popularity continues to rise, even as experts disagree about its helpfulness. In an October 2017 article in Perspectives on Psychological Science titled “Mind the Hype,” psychologists and cognitive scientists suggested that the hype around meditation is outpacing the scientific evidence. The researchers cited a review indicating that “only around 9 percent of research into mindfulnessbased interventions has been tested in clinical trials that included a control group.” Although some research has indicated meditation’s effectiveness at combating conditions such as chronic pain, high blood pressure, irritable bowel syndrome, anxiety and depression, according to the

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Storing power key to expanding use of renewable energy Mount Sterling includes a small battery charged by a 10-kilowatt solar array. Sipes says the Mount Sterling project taught Duke Energy two things: “We demonstrated that a microgrid could be more economical than traditional methods of providing service to our customers. By serving that tower the way we are it is lowering cost. We also demonstrated that we can provide more reliable service.” HOT SPRINGS AND BEYOND

STORAGE LOCKER: At Duke Energy’s 153-megawatt Notrees wind farm in West Texas, the utility installed a 36-megawatt battery storage facility in 2013 and upgraded its technology in 2016. The batteries work with an electronic control system to either dispatch stored energy to increase frequency or absorb energy to decrease frequency, helping to smooth and balance peaks and valleys on the grid. Photo courtesy of Duke Energy

BY KIM DINAN dinankim@gmail.com Buncombe County and the city of Asheville have big plans for increasing the area’s use of renewable energy while moving away from fossil fuels. By 2042, a majority of Buncombe County commissioners declared in December, the entire community will run on renewable fuel sources. And the city has been working toward its goal of reducing its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2039, announcing last year that a 31 percent reduction from 2001 levels has been achieved so far. The will to embrace renewable energy sources like solar and wind power is clearly there, but how about the way? The success of the county’s and city’s energy goals, say local experts, hinges on the availability of battery storage — and lots of it. “Battery storage is a critical part of having a 100 percent renewable energy grid,” says Phelps Clarke, a co-founder of Fairview-based Sugar Hollow Solar, which has completed over 150 solar installations collectively generating over a megawatt of solar capacity since its launch in 2010. “That’s because renewable energy sources are intermittent.

The sun doesn’t always shine, and the wind doesn’t always blow. We have to have a way to store energy to use when we need it.” Local energy activist and Energy Innovation Task Force committee member Ned Ryan Doyle agrees. “Investments in energy storage are a key component to a more reliable and resilient grid,” says Doyle. “It provides a foundation for the expansion of true clean energy sources.” CHANGING TO BATTERIES Duke Energy, which provides the majority of Western North Carolina’s electricity, says it’s making progress in ramping up its battery storage capacity. But despite the utility’s breathless press releases, only one installation is operational as this article goes to print — and there’s no way to describe its size as anything other than tiny. “Our first project was to install a microgrid at the top of Mount Sterling,” notes Robert Sipes, a Duke Energy vice president who heads the company’s Western Carolinas Modernization project. Located in the Cataloochee area near the Tennessee border, the peak is home to a National Park Service radio

transmitter. Keeping the station supplied with electricity has long been a challenge, Sipes says, since the line that powered it “ran 6 miles through some of the most rugged terrain we have in our system. When we had storms, we would have a bunch of outages. It would take a long time to get them back on because you can’t drive to get to that line; you have to hike in.” A microgrid, Sipes explains, is a way to segment the electrical system into smaller parts and isolate one part from the rest of the system to provide more reliable service. The compartmentalized system on

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With the Mount Sterling project under its belt, Duke Energy set its sights on a facility in Hot Springs that will be “the largest microgrid that we have ever installed by the time we have it in service [in 2019],” Sipes says. Featuring a 3-megawatt solar array and a 4-megawatt battery, the new station will provide backup power for Hot Springs, which Sipes points out shares many characteristics with Mount Sterling. “It’s served by a line that runs 10 miles through very rugged terrain and it’s the only line that we have that provides service into Hot Springs,” he explains. “When something happens to that line, those customers are out for a long time.” The battery backup could sustain the town’s peak energy load of 1 megawatt for four hours, according to Jason Walls, Duke’s Asheville-area community and government relations manager. But in real-life conditions, he continues, “the battery should last much longer because the load will likely be much lower.” In such a situation, Duke Energy would notify customers of the need to conserve energy until perma-

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G RE EN S CE N E nent service could be restored and the solar system could also contribute generating capacity, he explains. Asheville will get its own utility-scale battery installation in 2019 when Duke Energy adds a 9-megawatt lithium-ion battery system at an existing substation in the Rock Hill community near Sweeten Creek Road. That setup will help the electric system operate more efficiently by providing “frequency regulation and other grid support services,” according to a press release. Sipes says it’s not only the cost savings associated with improvements in battery technology that make these projects more viable than in the past. Increasing sophistication in the control systems and related technologies required to operate batteries also plays a role. “As batteries have become more viable options to use on the power system, the systems to operate them have had to evolve as well,” Sipes says. It’s likely that the company will continue to do more of these projects in the future, Sipes tells Xpress. “We are actively looking at other opportunities to use battery technology as part of the solution in Western North Carolina,” he says. Duke Energy previously announced plans to install a solar farm as part of upgrades at its Lake Julian power station, and Walls says the company is evaluating the possibility of including a battery storage component on the site. The solar array will be located where a 41-acre coal ash storage pond is being excavated and removed. Adjacent to the coal ash pond, two 280-megawatt natural-gas-fired generating units are now under construction, with completion scheduled for 2020.

SMALL YET MIGHTY: The power line serving an emergency radio tower atop Mount Sterling near Cataloochee experienced frequent outages related to bad weather and downed trees, so Duke Energy decided last year to replace it with a self-contained microgrid consisting of a solar array and battery system. Photo courtesy of Duke Energy

ON THE HOME FRONT While utility-scale battery storage may be the wave of the future, some local power consultants point out that batteries have been used since the early days of the solar industry in this area. Weaverville’s Sundance Power Systems, for example, was founded in 1995 and today serves over 1,000 customers in the region. Battery backup has always been an important part of Sundance’s capabilities, says Dave Hollister, the company’s CEO. From the beginning, batteries “provided a place to put the energy that the solar panels produced during sunny daylight hours,” he explains. “The batteries would provide the energy during nighttimes and cloudy periods.” In 2005, the N.C. Utilities Commission established net metering rules that 28

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allow an individual homeowner or business to use the power grid as temporary storage for any excess energy that isn’t needed right away. Even with net metering as an option, plenty of people still want to have a battery system, says Hollister. For many, the appeal is having a sustained backup power source. “You can run a generator for a few days, but if you run a generator for a week or two, you will run out of propane,” he says. “If people are trying to organize some level of autonomy in their home, they can sustain their home through significant power outages with a battery.” Some people may invest in batteries because they are worried about the possibility of changes in the regulatory environment. House Bill 589, signed into law by Gov. Roy Cooper in July, initiated a review of net metering laws in North Carolina. With net metering under the microscope, “Batteries could make a lot more sense in a few years,” says Sugar Hollow Solar’s Clarke. Finally, people invest in batteries because they want or need to live off-grid. “If someone is building a house and the utility provider can’t get power to it, or it costs a lot of money to run power to it, or if they can’t get right of way, they’ll install batteries,” Hollister says. PIECE OF THE PUZZLE Despite the promise of batteries to make wider use of renewable sources of energy feasible, they’re not a silver bullet for all of Western North Carolina’s energy needs. “Batteries aren’t the solution,” says Sipes. “They are part of the solution. There is not a model out there that shows how batteries alone can address our elec-

trical needs today. There are other pieces that need to fall into place.” Because the availability of solar energy varies with the time of day and cloud cover, Sipes continues, the amount of battery capacity required to ensure a continuous supply of power would be “hugely expensive.” Cost isn’t just a factor at the utility scale; it’s a factor in residential battery storage as well. “There is not a huge economic case for individuals investing in battery storage in their homes right now,” says Clarke. He points out, however, that those who are invest-

ing in battery storage are playing an important role in driving the industry. “Solar is great, and you are doing your part,” says Clarke, “but if you want to be a pioneer, you should try out batteries. These are the investments the industry needs to push things forward,” says Clarke. Hollister is certain that a future with adequate battery storage is possible. “There are several ways batteries can be used,” he explains. “You don’t necessarily need solar panels. You can use a battery system, and if the economics are right based on the utility, you charge the battery during off-peak times and use the battery during onpeak times and you’re just another peaking power plant.” But Hollister, who has used a solar and battery storage system at his home for 23 years, points out that the real freedom comes when battery technology is coupled with renewable energy. “When the power goes out, I don’t even know it,” he says. “It feels terrible to have your power go out and realize, ‘I have no water. I don’t have any heat,’” says Hollister. “Batteries are critically important to be able to store the power when you have production and use it when you don’t. It all comes back to that basic equation,” he says. “Energy is what makes everything happen,” says Hollister. “The energy storage revolution is upon us.” X

BACKSTORY For more information on local efforts to transition to more sustainable, cleaner sources of energy, see other recent Mountain Xpress reporting, including: • “Two Years In: Energy Innovation Task Force Leaders Cite New Marketing Campaign, Dedication from Duke as Positive Action,” Xpress, April 18, avl.mx/4yq • “City Sustainability Efforts Fall Short of Annual Goal in 2017,” Xpress, April 18, avl.mx/4ys • “Power Down: County Looks for Tangible Ways to Accomplish Sustainability Goals,” Xpress, Feb. 28, avl.mx/4yr • “Power Play: Duke Sparks Debate with Request for 15 Percent Rate Hike, Xpress, Sept. 6, avl.mx/4yu • “Full Speed Ahead: Smart Meters Coming to WNC,” Xpress, April 12, 2017, avl.mx/4yv • “Wired: Heat Pumps Drive Rapid Growth in WNC’s Peak Electricity Demand,” Xpress, Jan. 18, 2017, avl.mx/4er • “The Gas Man Cometh: Duke Energy’s Planned Power Plant Tied to Fracking,” Xpress, June 29, 2016, avl.mx/4yw X

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BY LIZ CAREY lizcarey@charter.net Instead of trashing your potato peels and apple cores, why not put them to work in the garden? To that end, Asheville GreenWorks and Villagers will present a free workshop on reducing food waste and boosting soil nutrition through home composting Sunday, June 3. Led by GreenWorks AmeriCorps Project Conserve member John Connelly, the free, hourlong program will dig into some tools and techniques for turning kitchen scraps into fertilizer, either outside or indoors. Connelly will talk about how to build a compost bin and where to put it, what goes into good compost and how to keep your compost happening in both the heat and the cold. The workshop will also cover vermicomposting, which employs earthworms for processing food scraps into soil-enriching compost.

The goal of the event, says Connelly, is to offer attendees information that can help them move to a more sustainable lifestyle. “Composting is important for a sustainable environment,” he says. “It’s a great way for individuals to reduce their carbon footprint and recycle nutrients back into the soil.” Connelly, who has an educational background in environmental engineering, explains that compost not only boosts the health of plants but also “holds water well so it reduces stormwater runoff into our local waterways.” Turning our uneaten food into fertilizer also benefits the environment by redirecting food waste away from the county landfill and reducing greenhouse gases. “If more people compost at home, we’re sending less waste to the landfill, which conserves landfill space,” he says. “Once our landfill is full, we’ll have to build a new landfill or haul

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Cider Co., a lychee and bourbonvanilla ginger beer from Ginger’s Revenge, and a dragon fruit and Haw Creek Honey kettle sour from Bhramari Brewing Co. In addition to food and drinks, there will be a $5 raffle with prizes that include a free massage from Just Relax, a free tour from Asheville Food Tours and a gift card pack to local stores that sell goods produced by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project members. Live music from the Stevie Lee Combs Ensemble will start at noon. There will also be a fundraising component to the event: Blue Dream will donate 10 percent of its sales that day to ASAP, which

works to help local farms thrive and connect communities with local food. Sutherland says this is part of the restaurant’s greater goal of giving back. “We’re really excited to be here,” he says. “We’re very grateful for this community and all the gifts it has brought to us. I think that’s what keeps it going for everyone that is here.” The third-anniversary party runs 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, May 26, at Blue Dream Curry House, 81 Patton Ave. The event is free to attend. For more, visit avl.mx/4yb.

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Bold Rock Hard Cider will celebrate Memorial Day with a barbecue where veterans and service members will eat for free. The allday event will feature pulled pork sandwiches, hot dogs and hamburgers plus live music. The barbecue runs noon-8 p.m. Monday, May 28, at Bold Rock Hard Cider, 72 School House Road, Mills River. Service members who present valid ID will receive a free meal. For more information, visit avl.mx/4y7. MAKE A CAKE IN A MASON JAR The Garage on 25, a vintage store and coffee shop in Fletcher, will host a baking class on Tuesday, May 29. Chef Byron Ellen Shaw will teach participants how to make a cake in a Mason jar. All materials will be provided. Make a Cake in a Mason Jar runs 6:30-9 p.m. Tuesday, May 29, at The Garage on 25, 3461 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher. Tickets are $35 per person. To learn more, visit avl.mx/4y8. GAINING GROUND FARM DINNER A five-course beer- and foodpairing dinner to benefit Green Opportunities will take place at Yesterday Spaces in Leicester on Tuesday, May 31. Catawba Brewing will provide the evening’s brews, while chefs John Fleer of Rhubarb and Gene Ettison of the Green Opportunities Kitchen Ready program will prepare the dishes. Menu details were not available at press time, but the evening will feature local meats, as well as organic vegetables provided by Gaining Ground Farm. Proceeds from the event will

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benefit Green Opportunities, a nonprofit that works to train, support and connect people from marginalized communities to sustainable employment pathways. Gaining Ground Farm Dinner runs 6-9:30 p.m. Tuesday, May 31, at Yesterday Spaces, 305 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester. Early bird tickets are $69 through Wednesday, May 23. Tickets the week of the event are $79. For more information, visit avl.mx/4y9. FILIPINO FOOD AT BUXTON HALL BARBECUE Two James Beard-nominated chefs will team up for a pair of popup, a la carte dinners at Buxton Hall Barbecue’s Remingtin Room on Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2. Chef Tom Cunanan of the Washington, D.C.-based restaurant Bad Saint and Buxton’s pitmaster, Elliott Moss, will collaborate to create a menu inspired by Filipino barbecue. Seating is limited. For those who are unable to secure a spot at the table, an after-party will be held the final night. The party will be free to attend and will feature special drinks and small plates. The Bad Saint pop-up runs 6-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2. To reserve a seat, send an email to reservations@buxtonhall. com. The Saturday night after-party begins at 11 p.m. To learn more, visit avl.mx/4ya. FOURTH LOCATION FOR GREEN SAGE CAFE Green Sage Cafe has announced plans to open a fourth location this fall in the building formerly occupied by Atlanta Bread Co. at 633 Merrimon Ave. The latest addi-

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tion brings with it a new company mantra: “Eat pure food.” The menu will include numerous plantbased options, cold-pressed juices and a gluten-free bakery. Green Sage also plans to partner with a local chef to create an online ordering app. The new site will also serve as headquarters for the company, which has plans to expand regionally. Green Sage has locations at 5 Broadway, 1800 Hendersonville Road and 70 Westgate Parkway. The new site will be at 633 Merrimon Ave. For more, visit greensagecafe.com. CONTINENTAL LOUNGE Continental Lounge is the latest concept from Vijay Shastri, former owner of Mr. Frog’s Soul & Creole

Kitchen. The new eatery, which will be at 77 Biltmore Ave., the former home of Local Provisions, will focus on comfort food. The restaurant plans to open later this month. RISING STAR CHEF OF THE YEAR On May 7, Asheville native Camille Cogswell was named the 2018 Rising Star Chef of the Year at the annual James Beard Awards. Cogswell attended Asheville High School, where she was enrolled in its culinary arts classes, and did an internship at West End Bakery. She is now the pastry chef at the Isreali restaurant Zahav in Philadelphia. X

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BY BILL KOPP bill@musoscribe.com Burlesque has a long and storied history, but for many years it has existed on the fringes of the arts and entertainment world. But thanks to the efforts of dedicated practitioners, the often risqué art form — encompassing dance, comedy, political commentary, magic and other elements — is experiencing a renaissance. The 12th annual Americana Burlesque & Sideshow Festival takes place Friday, May 25, to Sunday, May 27, at The Grey Eagle and The Orange Peel. The art form’s racy reputation leads some to miss its empowering qualities. “Asheville’s burlesque boom has been explicitly feminist from the start,” says event organizer Lauren “Madame Onça” O’Leary. She notes that burlesque focuses on body positivity and ideals of empowerment, visibility, history and social justice. “Asheville was ahead of the wave of this festival-in-every-town movement,” O’Leary says. “When ABSFest started, there were few [burlesque] festivals in the world. Now they’re spread through the West and beyond, with festivals in Iceland, Amsterdam, Italy and more.” O’Leary launched ABSFest in Asheville a dozen years ago, inspired by burlesque’s qualities of immediacy, interaction and reciprocation. “Every woman in this culture gets blasted with brutal, critical messages that they are ‘too much’: too skinny, too fat, too loud or too mousy, too brown, too pale, too tall or differently abled or slutty or matronly, too assertive or dykey or too vanilla.” She points out that society sends a very mixed message: Women are supposed to look sexy and/or feminine, but if doing so draws unwanted attention, it’s somehow the woman’s fault. “Instead of collapsing inward from the pressure, burlesque and sideshow acts have set out to make different rules,” O’Leary says. Those new rules reframe the too-this-or-that characteristics as assets, “things to share with confidence.” She notes that burlesque empowers and encourages “people of all genders, ethnicities and body types” to participate. “We work hard to get them all up onstage.” “And,” she emphasizes, “Asheville loves the weird stuff.” This ABSFest showcases nearly three dozen performers; headliners include magician and 34

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storyteller David London, sideshow performer Alex Doll and Oregon Burlesque Fest “Keepin’ it Weird” award winner Natasha Riot. IN CONTROL May Hemmer — known professionally as “The Cocoa Barbie,” a nickname bestowed upon her by fellow burlesque dancer Vita Devoid — tops the bill. Hemmer points out that she is one of relatively few performers of color (her ancestry is African, Puerto Rican and Cherokee) in burlesque. Hemmer’s background is in ballet and jazz dance, but before launching her burlesque career in New Orleans in 2000,

she worked in the corporate world. “I was in banking; I was the only female in my department,” she says. Burlesque gives her more self-determination: Her lavish performances often begin with her garbed in an elaborate gown and end with her wearing little more than a pair of pasties. “But I’m in control,” she says. “I dictate what I want to do. You might not get to see anything that’s underneath my gown, or feathers or whatever.” Hemmer recently moved back to her home state of North Carolina. She works less frequently now than she did in New Orleans, but, as a wife and mother, she appreciates the ability to be more selective about choosing gigs.

A victim of domestic violence many years ago, Hemmer says that dance allows her to convey ideas “that I can’t express in words.” Doing so takes a lot out of her emotionally: “I’m sometimes a crying mess when I get offstage, but I can bare myself to people because I do so in the manner that I see fit. It’s freeing and liberating: I’m female, and if I want to take my clothes off, I will.” On Saturday, at ABSFest, she’ll begin costumed in a 1920s-style dress. “It’s an homage to a historical figure, Stephanie St. Clair. She was the first African-American bookie in Harlem,” Hemmer says. St. Clair used some of the profits from her numbers running to help her community and to fight against police brutality. Hemmer’s routine earned her the Miss Montreal Burlesque title in 2017. On Sunday, she’ll present an example of nerdy burlesque. “With my Princess Tiana number,” she explains with a laugh, “I’ll ruin your Disney childhood!” Hemmer adds, “It’s not about taking your clothes off as fast as you humanly can. It’s the tease of it.” Burlesque is “fun, funny, irreverent and sexy,” says O’Leary. “It’s a form of activism that can engage people from many walks of life, and on many levels.” She says that the performers focus on presenting material that’s relevant to them. “We explore everything from sexuality and circus skills, the #MeToo movement and the right to decide which bathroom is right for us.” Burlesque is “an art form largely by and for women who want to see and do something new,” O’Leary says. “And everyone else is invited to enjoy the ride.” X

WHAT Americana Burlesque & Sideshow Festival WHERE The Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Ave. theorangepeel.net and The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Friday, May 25-Sunday, May 27 See website for shows, workshops, parties and ticketing

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BREAK ON THROUGH: Tyler Jackson, aka Musashi Xero, is half of the local hip-hop duo Xero/God, but he also puts out solo projects, including his latest EP, The Otherside. That release, produced by Cliff Worsham of RBTS WIN, explores Jackson’s idea of “the other side” through music. Photo by Andrea Coon Tyler Jackson, known onstage as Musashi Xero, is half of the local hip-hop duo Xero/God, a collaboration with producer Panther God. Their most recent album, Bandidos, was released last October, but Jackson has been busy in the meantime. “I’ve always done solo EPs in between the big Xero/God albums,” says Jackson. “This project is my third EP.” On Saturday, May 26, the Asheville Beat Life Collective hosts a free “psychedelic beat showcase” and album release party for the latest Musashi Xero EP, The Otherside, at The One Stop. The three songs that make up The Otherside were produced by Cliff Worsham of local electro-soul outfit RBTS WIN, under his producer moniker Mother Hood. “[Worsham] and I connected over a year and a half ago and started cutting records,” says Jackson. “We made four songs and decided to go with these three, which I tried to tie up into a brief conceptual idea about ‘the other side’ — this somewhat vague

idea of basically getting where you’re trying to be, becoming who you’re trying to become, getting what you’re trying to get, the trials and tribulations that come with that, and the determination to get there.” According to Jackson, the album is not only conceptual in a lyrical sense, but it also explores his idea of “the other side” in a musical sense as well. “It has a really strong aesthetic, because [Worsham] lends his vocals to two of the tracks. I wanted to give the album a progression, so the first track is just me, the second track features me and a little bit of [Worsham], and then the final song features a lot of [Worsham] and myself going back and forth,” says Jackson. Each song ends with a spokenword outro narrated by Jackson and manipulated by Worsham. At the end of the first song, the vocals are clean, but the vocal effects increase as the EP progresses, which Jackson says was done to reinforce the concept of moving to the other side. “It gets more dark as the project goes on,” he

says. “I wanted to tie a couple ideas of this progression to the other side within the music itself. It’s just a brief conceptual thing.” The Otherside was finished a year ago, but Jackson held off until now to release it to prevent it from conflicting with the Xero/God album he was working on at the time. In the interim, he made a music video for “Grew into a Script,” the second track on his solo EP. “The song is the most introspective on the album,” says Jackson. It’s “about my progression in trying to grow into the script of who I saw myself to be, and what I wanted to achieve, or where I wanted to go with what I was doing.” The video was filmed and produced by local videographer Andrew Anderson and features scenes filmed at several Asheville-area locations, including The Foundation Spot skate park in the River Arts District, an abandoned gas station in West

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“It’s a big lineup,” says Jackson, who is also enthusiastic about the general current state of hip-hop in Asheville. “I think there is a superstrong roster of artists who have put in the work and built their fan bases, built their followers, their sound and their live performances.” He adds, “There’s a great pool of talent right now.” X

WHAT Beat Life Collective Psychedelic Beat Showcase and Musashi Xero EP release party with Mother Hood, Musashi Xero, Slow Drip, Joe Grisly, Lavier and SIIDS WHERE One Stop 55 College St. ashevillemusichall.com WHEN Saturday, May 26, 10 p.m. by donation

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‘We Made Ourselves a Home’ by The Rough & Tumble The Rough & Tumble is the folkAmericana duo of Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler. These days, the pair consider themselves at home on the road, but in the Rough & Tumble’s bio, the nomadic musicians admit they “used to say they were from Nashville.” And before that, Graham (who was born in Pennsylvania) and Tyler (originally from California) got their musical start in Black Mountain. The duo return to Asheville for a Saturday, May 26, show in the lounge at Isis Music Hall. Beginning in 2011, the duo recorded a string of EPs; the most recent is a seven-song collection, Cardboard and Christmas Lights (2017). Recorded in Nashville, The Rough & Tumble’s first full-length album, We Made Ourselves a Home When We Didn’t Know — released in February — features nearly all new material; only one tune, “Take Me With You,” is recycled from last year’s EP. The duo’s sound is clean and straightforward, placing the vocals of Graham and/or Tyler front and center in the mix. But The Rough & Tumble doesn’t shy away from studio techniques like vocal overdubbing; the disc’s opening cut, “Wildfire,” features multiple tracks of Graham’s supple voice (with a subtle bit of Tyler mixed in) atop an instrumental backing of little more than plucky banjo and what sounds like either accordion or harmonium, and bits of tinkling bells and bass drum. Those elements are all that are needed to create a sympathetic soundscape for the vocals. The uptempo, countrified “Complications” employs a more pop-leaning arrangement, with bass guitar and a small (but full) drum kit providing solid rhythmsection backing. Even when the pair’s lyrics take an occasional turn toward the melancholy, there’s an underlying sense of happiness (or at least optimism) that leavens the vibe. And the voices of Graham and Tyler — both of which avoid the affected, mannered tone so prevalent in much of today’s Americana — combine seamlessly. The romantic “Barney” is a showcase for The Rough & Tumble’s favored sonic approach:

then pauses for effect), and — surprise — does just that to wrap up the album. Even more surprisingly, doing so somehow doesn’t feel at all out of character with the other music on this understated and wonderful record. While on the road, Tyler and Graham find time to author a food blog, a literary blog and maintain a well-stocked Instagram account. And they are already hard at work on a sophomore album, due in 2019. X

WHO The Rough & Tumble WHERE Isis Music Hall lounge 743 Haywood Road isisasheville.com WHEN Saturday, May 26, 7 p.m. $10

MAKE YOURSELVES AT HOME: The debut full-length from The Rough & Tumble — a nomadic Americana duo that started out in Western North Carolina -— is as cozy, comfortable and inviting as a well-worn couch. Photo courtesy of the band The subtle instrumentation is both note-perfect and essential to the song, but it’s delivered in a manner that never competes with the singing. “Viroqua, WI” is a road song; whether the story chronicled is true or not is wholly beside the point. The duo’s extensive travels have informed their songwriting. And, once again, the pair’s strong vocal blend is supported by a crystalline arrangement. Tyler takes his first lead vocal on “Baggage.” His voice is every bit as pure and unaffected as is Graham’s. Tyler’s warm and friendly delivery conveys a refreshing sense of honesty, and the tune’s use of whistling is quite effective at setting a mood. “Take Me With You” is from an earlier recording session, but it still fits effortlessly into the context of the new album. “Appalachia Greener” makes use of ambient sounds to establish its feel. The song builds gradually, folding additional instruments into the mix, but the duo studiously avoid overstuffing the tune. Judicious bits of electric

guitar find their way into the song’s second half. “Better for You” dials the vibe down; it’s the closest The Rough & Tumble come to modern country (the good kind) on We Made Ourselves a Home. The quiet bits when the instruments drop out – leaving only the two singers — are beautiful. “Steel in My Blood” is breezy pop-country with understated pedal steel deep in the mix. “Cohabitation Physics” is a bit of romantic and lighthearted philosophy featuring a Tyler lead vocal. “Tiny Moses” — the advance single from We Made Ourselves a Home — is a gentle, melodic and brief entry point into the duo’s work. “Bobby & Joanne” is a heartfelt duet that explores relationships in a clear-eyed, realistic (but ultimately hopeful) manner. The album closes with “Let’s Get the Band Back Together,” a tune that finds Graham and Tyler singing in unison, one an octave above the other. It’s as sunny and bright as anything on the album. The duo sing of rock ’n’ roll (and MOUNTAINX.COM

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SKILLS FOR A LIFE ALREADY LIVED The Cabbage School announces its first full season of workshops As if to balance the digital age and its downsides of isolation and media overwhelm, craft programs are on the rise. Warren Wilson College recently announced its Master of Arts in Critical & Historical Craft Studies. This spring and summer, The Center for Craft continues its series of Friday night crafting events. And The Cabbage School in Little Sandy Mush has announced its first full season of workshops, which will launch in June. “One of the things we were inspired to do differently [than other programs] was to teach these skills within the context of our ongoing lives and offer the classes in a way that weren’t just skill-based but also helped to usher in a shift of focus toward how the skills can integrate into a life already lived,” says Cabbage School founding member Jessica Green. “I think the key is that we are folding varied educational approaches into a larger conversation of how and where we learn,” says fellow founding member Lydia See. She will lead a photography workshop that includes foundational analog and digital skills. “But we will also make site-specific cyanotypes and experimental photographic exposures using only the moon.” See adds, “The range of skills which will be covered in the workshop is wide — from 19th-century processes to the present — but the learning process will be shaped by the rural location, immersive nature of the workshop and experimental context.” That class, held Saturday, June 9, to Monday, June 11, kicks off the Cabbage School’s offerings. Other courses

EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION: With an array of workshops ranging from the practical (explore the fundamentals of the design process in Two Week Shack) to the heady (Counter Logistics and Communist Measures), The Cabbage School shares its “thoughtful, radical, skill-based approach to learning.” Photo by Lydia See

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include Body Weather (“part aerobic workout dance party, part mind-body integration, our focus will be on coordination, motion, whole-body perception and embodied intimacy with self, other, environment and group,” according to the website), Pizza Oven Building, Coopering: Traditional Wooden Buckets, and more. “We wanted to keep the course offerings limited this first year while still representing the diversity of disciplines and perspectives that we hope to represent as a school,” says Andy McFate, also a founding member. “We feel that it is important to let practice define us, so we want there to be enough space in our first season to allow us to learn and adapt.” He continues, “We want our school to be a forum for conversation about community and practice. To us, that means inclusivity, honesty, consistency, mutual support, growth and resilience, among so many other things. I suppose our target audience is anyone who wants to join in that conversation, whether with affirmation, criticism or curiosity.” The Cabbage School, which describes itself as a “rigorous skill-based fool school,” takes inspiration from educational communities such as Rural Studio (an undergraduate program of the School of Architecture, Planning

and Landscape Architecture at Auburn University) and Black Mountain College. Like those models, The Cabbage School is located away from the city center and, as such, out of range of cellphone reception. There is no internet at the school, either, but there are 17 acres of pasture and forest with a creek and a large vegetable garden. “The property itself is a primary character in the experience, [and] the sense of place is embedded in the process,” says See. “Being present without cell reception or internet access allows us to totally immerse ourselves in a very focused way. … Last summer, during our pilot session, one class built a library for the school, so I find myself looking up recipes in cookbooks, or using our thesaurus rather than Google. It seems like a small shift, but it absolutely makes a difference in the overall experience.” One of Green’s hopes for the school is to offer “the simple possibility of a life lived without constant frenetic connectivity,” she says. “I want the Cabbage School to be a place where we plant the seeds for a time better than our own, where we rekindle a sense of heritage and being of this planet. … We started a school because we don’t believe that folks should abandon their lives and do something different. We thought of the Cabbage School like

breath — folks come and breathe life and new ideas into this place, and they go back to their lives filled with the breath they encountered here.” Green’s Wednesday, June 13-Sunday, June 17 workshop, Making/Practice, calls together “creative geeks and geniuses to encounter our autonomous authority and a rooted voice within our work.” Green is a weaver, but nonweavers are welcome. And there are opportunities to experience The Cabbage School beyond its workshops. As the institute’s fourth founding member, Saralyn Bellmer, notes, “We want the school to be a place where all people feel welcome. It is important to us that we have community events, potlucks, work parties and an open invitation for absolutely anyone to be involved in the things we program. At the same time, we have an open door policy for new ideas or events coming from individuals or groups that want to collaborate with the school.” “That’s part of what we mean when we talk about a resilient and dynamic community,” says McFate. “People coming to gather constantly, with opportunities for folks to engage in ways that feel accessible and meaningful to them.” Learn more about The Cabbage School and find the complete list of workshops at thecabbageschool.net. X

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‘Guys and Dolls’ at Hendersonville Community Theatre

A GOOD BET: The acclaimed musical onstage at Hendersonville Community Theatre, is about love among saints and sinners. The stars of Guys and Dolls, are, from left, Luke Haynes, Tasha Pepi, Craig Conner and Jen Heeder. Photo by Janice Guazzo Gamble on love rather than riches, and the elusive happy ending might appear. Such is the premise of the rollicking revival of Guys and Dolls at the Hendersonville Community Theatre that runs through Sunday, June 3. Two couples seem unlikely to find love. Still engaged after 14 years, Miss Adelaide (played by Jen Heeder) yearns to give up the life of a showgirl and settle into marriage and children with Nathan Detroit (Craig Conner). He would rather run his craps games and elude the police, all the while professing his love and promising that, one day, he and Adelaide will marry. Sky Masterson (Luke Haynes), a high-stakes gambler, finds himself in a bet with Detroit. For $1,000, Masterson has to convince the missionary Sister Sarah Brown (Tasha Pepi), who is on Broadway trying to root out sin and vice, to go to dinner with him in one of the most hedonistic cities, Havana. In the “jungle of sin,” the Save-ASoul Mission looks for sinners, and there are plenty. Both Sister Brown and Sky Masterson must reconsider their rigid ideas about the ideal partner. The song “I’ll Know” is tinged with irony when Pepi and Haynes demonstrate growing doubt that they know anything about love. One of the strengths of the production is the live music performed onstage. The

well-cast as opposites who actually want the same thing. Audiences will be very satisfied with the versions of the beloved songs from this musical that garnered numerous awards and several Broadway and London revivals since it first opened in 1950. This is a chance to see a talented local cast breathe new life into such songs as “A Bushel and a Peck” and “Luck Be a Lady.” At its heart, Guys and Dolls is a story about the redemptive power of love. The clash of religious morality and the amoral streets of New York never overshadows the lightheartedness of the story. Everyone succumbs to the desire for love and its illusions to triumph, at least until the curtain comes down. X

WHAT Guys and Dolls WHERE Hendersonville Community Theatre 229 S. Washington St. Hendersonville hendersonvilletheatre.org WHEN Through Sunday, June 3 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Sundays a 2 p.m. $15-$26

piano, accordion, woodwinds, trumpet and drums add immediacy to the show. All of the elements came together in Act II when Nicely Nicely Johnson (Colby Coren) and cast unleashed “Sit Down, You’re Rockin’ the Boat.” Originally written to include the stylized language of hustlers, gangsters and conmen of the 1920s and ’30s, Guys and Dolls could be dismissed as an example of problematic sexist attitudes toward women, marriage and morality. But here’s why this production transcends such a critique: Embedded in this musical are the artistic and directorial decisions to poke fun at people who prejudge. Take, for example, the idea of a single girl as equivalent to a woman with a chronic cold. Heeder as Adelaide is subversive with a tough exterior, yet still conveys sincerity when she cries over an elusive wedding date. It’s being single, not being a sinner, that ruins the health of even the most confident showgirl. The production also allows the audience the space to assess hidebound ideas about marriage and gender roles. Sarah and Adelaide’s duet of “Marry the Man Today” is about setting a trap called marriage. It will resonate in new ways with audiences. They sing this duet with a sly wink. No one is really fooled by the notion that marriage can change anyone, or are they? Pepi and Heeder are strong vocalists and were MOUNTAINX.COM

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Creative Voices for Social Justice Corey Flood

Hailing from Philadelphia, rock band Corey Flood is named in honor of Lili Taylor’s character from the Cameron Crowe film Say Anything. But while Lloyd Dobler’s best friend boasted of writing 63 songs in one year about her ex-boyfriend Joe, the four selfdescribed “despondent rockers” stick to four tracks on their debut EP, Wish You Hadn’t. The dark-pop compositions harken back to identified influences Liz Phair and Helium while providing a relaxed yet still engaging alternative to the increasingly homogeneous indie rock of their peers. Corey Flood plays an all-ages show at Fleetwood’s on Friday, May 25, at 9 p.m. Opening sets come courtesy of Secret Santas, the new project from members of Asheville rockers Kitty Tsunami and Shaken Nature, and post-hardcore noise band Mouth Breathers. $5. fleetwoodsonhaywood.com. Photo by Emily Lyon

In the lead-up to the showcase Creative Voices for Social Justice, visual artist Joseph Pearson provided a dozen of his paintings, each focused on social justice and inequity, to Word on the Street, an Asheville-based bilingual online arts and culture magazine by and for youths. Local poets Devin Jones and Indy Srinath then facilitated writing workshops in which the young writers of color offered creative responses to Pearson’s works. The results will be shared Friday, May 25, 6-8 p.m., at the YMI Cultural Center. “It is important to me to help engage young people with art in general, and my art in particular, because it allows them to communicate ideas — socially, politically, spiritually or philosophically,” Pearson says. “We live in a confusing world today, and artistic expression allows us to make some sense of it.” A community conversation and light refreshments will follow the performances. Free. ymiculturalcenter.org. Photos by Janet Hurley

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The Stump Mutts

Writer/director Rodney Smith calls his play, Full-Tilt Boogie at the Big Bang Diner, “a comedic love letter to all levels of pop-culture fandom.” In it, humanity faces off against an unknown menace while “a couple with a secret, their disaffected daughter, her clueless fiancé and a snarky waitress” choose between saving the world or settling “on the recipe for the perfect iced tea.” The work stars Darren Marshall, Karen Covington-Yow, Carrie Kimbrell Kimzey, Hannah Williams-Beaver, Chris Kingsley, Emma Heisey and Jason Phillips and will have its world premiere at The Magnetic Theatre. Performances begin Thursday, May 24, and continue through Saturday, June 9, with shows at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. $12 preview performances May 24-25/$16 for May 26-June 9. themagnetictheatre.org. Photo by Rodney Smith/Tempus Fugit Design

The four men who make up the Asheville-based rock band The Stump Mutts are all fathers, and three of them have daughters in middle school. Fed up with gun violence in schools, Neal Ward (lead vocals/guitars), Derek Allen (guitars), John Lindsey (bass/keys/synth) and Patrick Wells (drums) wrote the song “#SaveMe” the day after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla. All proceeds from the song’s online sales will be donated to the nonprofit group Everytown for Gun Safety, as will funds raised at the group’s This is Not a Drill concert Sunday, May 27, at 3 p.m. at Salvage Station. Local grunge rock duo The Styrofoam Turtles and teen rockers Uncle Kurtis open. Suggested $15 donation. salvagestation.com. Photo by Aubrie Shramko

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ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS

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Free to attend. Held in Downtown Brevard

ART AT WCU wcu.edu • TH (5/24), 6-9pm Bark basket workshop. Registration required: 828-227-7129. $35. Held at Western Carolina University Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, Cullowhee HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-4520593, haywoodarts.org/ • TH (5/24), 11am1:30pm - "Talk About Art: Find Meaning in Artworks," class regarding criticism models with Melba Cooper. Registration required. Free. • SA (5/26), 6:30-8pm "RoadWorks," traveling WCU student exhibition featuring a live molten aluminum pour, drum painting tent and display of student work. Free.

KENILWORTH ART STUDIO TOUR 828-785-2644, kenilworthartists.org • SA (5/26) & SU (5/27), 10am-5pm - Self-guided tour of art studios in the Kenilworth neighborhood. Map and information online. Free to attend.

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PRITCHARD PARK 4 College St. • SA (5/26), 10am-4pm - Oooh La La Market, outdoor art market with live music. Free to attend.

EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. • Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee. Information: ashevillemovementcollective. org

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Brevard 4th Friday gallery walk with open galleries, art stores, restaurants, live music and refreshments.

LEARN TO DANCE! (PD.) Ballroom • Swing • Waltz • Salsa • Wedding • Two-Step • Special Events. Lessons, Workshops, Classes and Dance Events in Asheville. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715. natu-

ralrichard@mac.com • www.DanceForLife.net ASHEVILLE BUTOH COLLECTIVE ashevillebutoh.com • MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - Butoh dance practice. $15-$20. Held at 7 Chicken Alley ASHEVILLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE 828-254-2621, acdt.org/ • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/27) - Alice in Wonderland, dance theatre. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 3pm. $18/$15 advance. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St.

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Saturdays 5pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm.

KENILWORTH STROLL: Over Memorial Day weekend, studios in the Kenilworth neighborhood will be open to the public for the annual Kenilworth Artists Association’s selfguided tour. On Saturday, May 26, and Sunday, May 27, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. each day, serious art buyers and casual browsers alike may see where local artists work and take in a range of mediums, including oil, watercolor and acrylic paintings, as well as jewelry, pottery, ceramic tile, glass beads, fiber, furniture, mixed-media, photography, paper and collage. Free to attend. For more information, visit kenilworthartists.org. Image of painting by Ursula Gullow courtesy of Kenilworth Artists Association (p. 42) Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY BAND ashevillecommunityband. com • SU (5/27), 3:30pm Memorial Day concert. Free. Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway ASHEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 419 McDowell St., 828350-2500 • TH (5/31), 7pm Asheville High School A Capella Club, spring concert. $5/$3 seniors and students. BRIDGE PARK 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva • FR (5/25), 7-9pm - Ian Ridenhour, alternative

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rock/pop outdoor concert. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • SA (5/26), 2pm - Up Jumped Three, jazz concert. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (5/26), 6pm - The Café String Quartet, jazz concert. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-3579009, floodgallery.org • MONDAYS, 6-7pm - Didjeridu lessons. Admission by donation.

SLY GROG LOUNGE 271 Haywood St., 828-552-3155, slygrog.wordpress.com/ • SUNDAYS, 7pm Open-mic for storytellers, poets, musicians and all kinds of performance artists. Sign ups at 6:30pm. Free to attend. TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (5/24), 7pm Sunset Series: Zoe & Cloyd, outdoor Americana/folk concert. Free to attend. • TH (5/31), 7pm Sunset Series: Dan Keller Jazz Trio, outdoor concert. Free to attend.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE LAND OF SKY TOASTMASTERS 828-274-18659 • TUESDAYS, 7-8am - Event to improve speaking skills and grow in leadership. Free. Held at Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Center Blvd. BLUE RIDGE TOASTMASTERS CLUB blueridgetoastmasters. com/membersarea/, fearless@ blueridgetoastmasters. org • MONDAYS, 12:151:30pm - Learn-bydoing workshop in which participants hone their speaking and leadership skills. Free. Held at Asheville Area

Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (5/24), 6pm Swannanoa Book Club: Kings of the Wyld by Nicholas Eames. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • SA (5/26), 10am3pm - Book sale. Free to attend. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828254-6734, malaprops.com • TH (5/24), 6pm Jenny Milchman presents her book, Wicked River. Free to attend. • SA (5/26), 6pm - Tessa Fontaine presents her memoir, The Electric Woman. Free to attend. • SU (5/27), 3pm - Jon Pineda presents his book, Let's No One Get Hurt. Free to attend. • TU (5/29), 6pm - Graham Hoppe presents their book, Gone Dollywood: Dolly Parton's Mountain Dream (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in

Appalachia). Free to attend. • WE (5/30), 6pm Kaitlyn Sage Patterson presents her young adult book, The Diminished and Ashley Poston presents her young adult book, Geekerella: A Fan Girl Fairy Tale. Free to attend. • TH (5/31), 6pm Kevin Patterson presents his book, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities. Free to attend. • TH (5/31), 7pm Works in Translation Book Club: Translation as Transhumance, by Mireille Gansel, translated by Ros Schwartz. Free to attend. ODDITORIUM 1045 Haywood Road, 828-575-9299, ashevilleodditorium. com/ • SA (5/26), 9am-noon - Babs Mountjoy, writing as Lyndi Alexander, presents her new young adult fantasy, The Lost Chord. Free to attend. THE WRITER'S WORKSHOP 387 Beaucatcher Road, 828-254-8111, twwoa.org

• FR (5/25), 6-8:30pm Potluck dinner and writers' group. Bring a dish and piece of writing to share. Registration required: writersw@ gmail.com. Free.

THEATER FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/25) until (6/9) Clue: the Musical. Wed.-Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $20 and up. HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/3) - Guys and Dolls, musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $26/$20 students/$15 youth. MAGNETIC 375 375 Depot St., themagnetictheatre. org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (5/24) until (6/9), 7:30pm -

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NC STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, 828239-0263 • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/31) until (6/10) - As You Like It, NC Stage's new Ensemble Community Tour. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $20/$10 student. SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE 828-689-1239, sartplays.org • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (5/31) until (6/17) - Don't Dress for Dinner, comedy. Thurs.-Sat.:7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $30/$18 students. Held at Owens Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill

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LIZ AND CORNBREAD: American Folk Art & Framing first brought folk artists Liz Sullivan of Western North Carolina and Georgia’s John “Cornbread” Anderson together over a decade ago for a dual show, sparking a bond that endures today. The artists will reunite at the gallery for a new joint show that runs Thursday, May 31, to Thursday, June 21. There will be an artists reception Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. Image of Dogwood Over a Creek by Anderson courtesy of American Folk Art & Framing ALCHEMY 62 Clayton St., 828-575-9419 • Through TH (5/31) - Dream Notes, exhibition of abstract mixed media, watercolor paintings and film photographs by Amanda Schaaf. AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828-281-2134, amerifolk.com • TH (5/31) through TH (6/21) - Spring Reunion, exhibition of artworks by Liz Sullivan & John "Cornbread" Anderson. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8pm. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 175 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, 828253-3227 • Through SU (9/30) - Red Hot in the Blue Ridge, group glass art exhibition. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8pm. EPIONE INTEGRATED CLINIC 19 Zillicoa St, Unit 3, 828-7716126, epioneintegratedclinic.com • Through FR (8/31) - The Sacred Is Creative, exhibition of work by Desiree DeMars.

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FOLK ART CENTER MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 828298-7928, craftguild.org • Through SU (6/24) - Exhibition of work from the graduating class of Haywood Community College’s professional crafts program. GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com/ • FR (5/25) through SA (6/30) Spring into Summer, exhibition of paintings by Karen Weihs and works by silversmith Alexandria Reznikoff. Reception: Friday, May 25, 5:30-8pm. GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828-2537651, grovewood.com • Through SU (6/3) - Interactions, contemporary ceramic sculptures by Taylor Robenalt. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • Through SA (5/26) - Creations in Oil and Handcrafted Mugs, exhibition featuring 12 local artists. MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 North Lexington Ave.

• Through (6/23) - Exhibition featuring paintings by Michael Barringer, ceramic works by Jeannine Marchand and sculptures by Michael Sirvet.

• Through FR (5/25) - Ten Days in May, exhibition of works from counselors and clients at the Black Mountain Counseling Center.

OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER 217 Coxe Ave. • Through FR (6/29) - Piece by Piece: A Show of Works in Collage and Assemblage, exhibition of works by Open Hearts Art Center artists.

TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (6/16) - Glass on Fire, exhibit featuring glass work by eight glass artists from Yancey and Mitchell counties. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville

PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (6/24) - Negative Capability, solo exhibition of works in acrylic and mixed media by Joyce Thornburg.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (6/8) - Brevard - Where Music Meets the Mountains, group art exhibition.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through FR (6/1) - Fake Field Trip, exhibition of artwork by Fian Arroyo, Rosy Kirby and Julie Armbruster.

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • Through FR (6/15) - Synergy, exhibition of works by student and instructors.

RED HOUSE STUDIOS AND GALLERY 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-699-0351, svfalarts.org

UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 828-8592828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (6/15) - Looking Away: Arden Cone and Glen

Miller, exhibition of paintings by Glen Miller. • Through FR (6/15) - Repressed Beauty: Recent Works, exhibition of works by Patti Brady. WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • Through TH (5/31) - Exhibition of the works of Cathy Nichols and Sylvia McCollum. YMI CULTURAL CENTER 39 South Market St., 828-2524614, ymicc.org • WE (5/30) through TH (6/7) - Exhibition of artwork and photography by Asheville High School honors and AP students. Reception: Thursday May 31, 5:30-7pm. ZAPOW! 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101, 828575-2024, zapow.net • Through SA (6/30) - May The 4th Be With You, group exhibition. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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DUST OR BUST: On the track “Honey I Love You” (and its sweetly creepy accompanying video), The Dustbowl Revival ramps up its roots and Americana sound with a dose of groove and funk (and a guest appearance from Keb’ Mo’). That song is one of 11 on the band’s self-titled album — which came out last year — a record rife with horn blasts, Stax-style soul and infectious rhythms. The eight-piece collective got its start more than a decade ago when guitarist and vocalist Zach Lupetin posted an ad on Craigslist in hopes of gathering likeminded musicians for a project. Kind of like those rare couples who meet online and find happily ever after together, The Dustbowl Revival has been building its fan base, creative reach and organically evolving catalog ever since. The group returns to Asheville for a Tuesday, May 29, 8 p.m., show at The Grey Eagle. Photo by Talley Media WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Adi the Monk (jazz), 5:30PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL The Slick Skillets of New Orleans (ragtime jazz & burlesque), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Drayton Alridge & The AllNighters & DJ David Wayne Gay, 9:00PM FUNKATORIUM John Hartford Jam w/ Saylor Bros (bluegrass), 6:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Music on the Lawn Series: Gypsy Guitar, 6:30PM Chris Moyse & Kirsten Maxwell (singer-songwriters), 7:00PM Christie Lenée, Jenn Cornell & Searra Jade (singer-songwriter), 8:30PM

PULP The Styrofoam Turtles w/ Sane Voids & Mouth Breathers, 9:00PM

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

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM

LAZOOM ROOM Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Salsa Night, 8:00PM NOBLE KAVA Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PMsign-up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM My Blue Hoodie (rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY

ONE WORLD BREWING Riverbend Reunion (southern rock jam band), 9:00PM

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

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Bradley Carter, 5:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Chris Watts, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Ruby Boots w/ Fwuit, 9:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Weird Wednesday Jam, 8:00PM THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Redleg Husky (country, blues), 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Mama Danger, 5:00PM Soungwriters in the Round: Laura Blackley, Krista Shows & Valorie Miller, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Ruby Boots w/ Fwuit 9:00PM THE PHOENIX & THE FOX Jazz Night w/ Jason DeCristofaro, 7:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM

CORK & KEG One Leg Up, 8:30PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night, 7:30PM

CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 9:00PM

THURSDAY, MAY 24 185 KING STREET Nikki Talley, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST Grateful Asheville Music Experience, 8:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM BANKS AVE Bass Jumpin w/ DJ Audio, 9:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (live jazz), 9:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE The Big Deal Band (bluegrass jam), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Loserz Duo, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Jordan Okrend, 8:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Living Dog, Okapi, Shutterings (pretty math rock), 8:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER Open Mic (6:00PM sign up), 6:30PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB West End Trio (folk, Americana), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Billy Litz (roots, soul), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:30PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS AIC Improv Jam, 7:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Roots & friends open jam (blues, rock, roots), 6:30PM Riverbend Reunion (southern rock), 8:00PM

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Concert on the Lawn Series: Rahm Squad, 6:30PM Jonn Del Toro Richardson (guitar, blues, Americana), 7:00PM Sidewalk Chalk (hip-hop, soul, jazz), 8:30PM

Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 14 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night THE SUNDAY SOCIAL LUB C IC ON THE P MUS ATIO @ 4:30PM

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Hope Griffin Duo

WED 5/23 6:30PM-8:30PM–MUSIC ON THE LAWN GYPSY GUITAR (FREE) 7PM–CHRIS MOYSE AND KIRSTEN MAXWELL 8:30PM–CHRISTIE LENÉE, JENN CORNELL, SEARRA JADE

(acoustic rock, folk)

FRI. 5/25 DJ MoTo

(dance hits, pop)

THU 5/24 6:30PM-8:30PM–LAID BACK THURSDAY CONCERT ON THE LAWN WITH THE RAHM SQUAD (FREE) 7PM–JONN DEL TORO RICHARDSON 8:30PM–SIDEWALK CHALK

SAT. 5/26 The Big Deal Band (bluegrass, classic hits)

FRI 5/25 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES LARA HOPE & THE ARK-TONES: NY ROOTS ROCK N’ ROLL & ROCKABILLY TWANG! (FREE) 7PM–NUEVO FLAMENCO ENSEMBLE ED STEPHENSON AND THE PACO BAND

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SAT 5/26 7PM–THE ROUGH & TUMBLE RETURN W/ NEW RECORD 9PM–SATURDAY NIGHT DANCE PARTY W/ JIM ARRENDELL

SUN 5/27 5:30PM–MISTY MOUNTAIN STRING BAND 7:30PM–RUSS WILSON PRESENTS GIVE THE DRUMMER SOME!

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TUE 5/29

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7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

(bloodshot records)

WED 5/30

w/ fwuit

6:30PM-8:30PM–MUSIC ON THE LAWN CHRIS JAMISON’S GHOST (FREE) 8:30PM–SETH GLIER AND BRAD COLE

5/24 thu pillorian

w/ shadow of the destroyer, all hell

THU 5/31

5/25 fri mary lattimore w/ simple machines

6:30PM-8:30PM–LAID BACK THURSDAY CONCERT ON THE LAWN WITH THE RAHM SQUAD (FREE) 7PM–NIKKI FORBES CD RELEASE SHOW

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5/27 sun a place to bury strangers w/ prettiest eyes, lacy jags

5/28 mon breathers

w/ giant giants, superbody, celia verbeck

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LAZY DIAMOND Unholy Trio (rock 'n roll, country), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Lau Magie and the Moon Dogs, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Aaron Lebos Reality (jazz, funk), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Gruda Tree (psychedelic blues, soul), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Descendents w/ Radkey & Cusses, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Red Leg Husky, 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Hope Griffin Duo (acoustic rock, folk), 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Fwuit, 7:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Sam Bush & Billy Strings, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Eric Congdon, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE A.B.O.P Art Brut Open Projector Event (film), 8:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Craft Karaoke, 9:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Rupert Wates, 7:30PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Stevie Lee Combs, 8:00PM

FRIDAY, MAY 25

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Open Mic, 7:00PM

185 KING STREET Joe Taylor, 8:00PM

SUMMIT COFFEE ASHEVILLE Open Mic w/ Dylan Moses, 6:00PM

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

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Micah Thomas & Friends (jazz jam), 5:30PM.

AMBROSE WEST The Fine Colombians: A Steely Dan Tribute, 8:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE James Carothers & Dallas Moore, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (classic rock n' roll), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Pillorian w/ Shadow of the Destroyer & All Hell, 9:30PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE GypsyGrass Trio, 10:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Ashli Rose, 6:00PM TOWN PUMP Momma Molasses, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chris Wilhelm & Friends, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Stop Light Observations, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM Marquee Mayfield, 10:00PM BYWATER Miss Cindy & The Knockin' Boots, 9:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL DJ Abu Disarray, 9:00PM CORK & KEG The Barsters, 8:30PM

CROW & QUILL Resonant Rogues (swing jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Brody Hunt & The Handfuls (classic country), 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Ragtime Jack Radcliffe (piano), 7:00PM Corey Flood, Secret Santas, Mouth Breathers (synth rock), 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Jordan Okrend Experience (soul, jam), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Old North State (Americana, bluegrass), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Shannon Hoover, 8:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Life Like Water (contemporary folk), 7:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Copernicus, 7:00PM Universal Sigh w/ Log Noggins, 9:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Music on the Lawn Series: Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones, 6:30PM Ed Stephenson & the Paco Band (nuevo flamenco ensemble), 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Sirius.B (Gypsy folk funk), 9:00PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Dana & Susan Robinson, 7:30PM

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Universal Sigh w/ Log Noggins, 8:00PM

THE WINE & OYSTER Jesse Barry, 7:00PM

185 KING STREET Kenny George Band, 8:00PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Vince Junior (modern blues), 9:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Salsa Shark, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Tessia, 4:30PM Carver & Carmody, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Styrofoam Turtles, Sane Voids, David Webb's Burning Bush, Sleepy Poetry (punk, pop), 9:00PM STATIC AGE RECORDS Pansy Fest Benefit, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Cayenne The Lion King: African Liberation & Cultural Reggae Celebration w/ DJ Selecta Red Iyah, 9:30PM THE GREY EAGLE 12th Annual ABSfest: Friday Burlesque FanDom Show, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM

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ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step Jam - Great Standards of Swing, 4:30PM Jody Carroll (roots, blues), 8:00PM

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BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Billy Litz (neo-soul, blues), 7:30PM

12TH ANNUAL ABSFEST BURLESQUE BRUNCH SHOW, 12-2PM

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Off With Your Radiohead presents: In Rainbows w/ Ok Computer, 9:00PM

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TWIN LEAF BREWERY Singer-Songwriter Showcase Series, 7:00PM

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AMBROSE WEST Robert Finley (roots, soul), 8:00PM

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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Justin Cody Fox, 7:00PM HILLMAN BEER Steelin Time, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Rough & Tumble Album Release (folk, Americana), 7:00PM Jim Arrendell (Motown dance party, soul, oldies), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The 502's, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

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ORANGE PEEL 12th Annual ABSfest: Americana Burlesque & Slideshow Festival, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Todd Cecil & Back South, 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN The Big Deal Band (bluegrass, classic hits), 9:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE WNC Solidarity Concert Series benefiting Planned Parenthood w/ Jason Decristofaro, Aaron Price, Jesse Jr., Linda Mitchell & Carrie Morrison. 2:00PM Saturday Salsa & Latin Dance Party Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes, 9:30PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR King Garbage, 7:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE The Lost Chord: Moody Blues Tribute Band, 8:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Phuncle Sam, 9:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Nest Egg w/ Ex Gold & Smoke Bellow, 9:30PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Peggy Ratusz Trio, 8:00PM

THE WINE & OYSTER Robert Thomas, 7:00PM

SALVAGE STATION The Fritz Presents: The King of Pop Meets The Purple One, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Shrapnyl, 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Vaden Landers, 3:00PM Fin Dog, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Vic Crown, Electric Phantom, Howling Giant (metal, rock, punk, funk), 9:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Rebecca O Quinn Trio 7:30PM What The Funk (modern funk, dance), 10:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Gathering of The Goses, 12:00PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Robin Bullock Plays Bach (guitar, mandolin), 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE The Andalyn Lewis Band, 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Circus Mutt, 8:00PM ZAMBRA Miss Cindy Trio, 8:00PM

SUNDAY, MAY 27 185 KING STREET Sunday Sessions Open Electric Jam, 4:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Sparrow & Her Wingmen (oldfashioned originals), 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Musicians Jam & Pot Luck, 3:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Eric Congdon, 2:00PM CORK & KEG James Leva, Leo Shannon & Clarke Williams (old-time), 4:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM Gypsy Jazz Sunday Brunch, 11:00AM GOOD STUFF Open Mic w/ Fox Black & friends, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Misty Mountain String Band (oldtime, Americana), 5:30PM Russ Wilson, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Traditional Irish/Celtic Jam, 3:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch w/ Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LAZY DIAMOND Punk Night w/ DJ Chubberbird & Frens (killer punk vinyl), 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Drew Matulich & Friends, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA DJ REDiyah (reggae), 2:00PM ODDITORIUM Gabbie Rotts, The Velvet Wolves, Seven and a Half Giraffe (rock, punk), 9:00PM

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MONDAY, MAY 28 185 KING STREET Open Mic hosted by Christ Whitmire, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Mondays, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Roll'n for Beers: A Blue Ridge Roller Derby Benefit feat. UniHorn, 6:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM The Jauntee (rock, jazz, bluegrass), 4:00PM GOOD STUFF Bingo Wingo Thingo, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Game Night, 4:00PM

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BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Groovy Tuesdays (boogie without borders) w/ DJs Chrissy & Arieh, 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Old time-y night, 6:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Nikki Talley, 7:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Stage Fright Open Mic, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Rock & Metal Karaoke w/ DJ Paddy, 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque w/ Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday night funk jam, 11:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30PM

STATIC AGE RECORDS Barren Heir, Gnarl Scar, Rev. Reach-Around (metal), 9:00PM

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

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/ Kristy Cox, 7:30PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic Night w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM

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NOBLE KAVA Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM signup), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Open Mic Comedy Hosted by Tom Peters, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesday, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Awolnation w/ Missio & Irontom, 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Experience Music AVL, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Taco and Trivia Tuesday, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE

Swing Asheville & Jazzn-Justice Tuesday w/ Sparrow & Her Wingmen 9:00PM, (intermediate lesson at 7:00PM, beginners swing dance lesson, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE The Dustbowl Revival w/ The Lowest Pair, 8:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Rat Alley Cats, 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Ruby the Rabbitfoot w/ Carly Taich & Discofreque, 9:00PM THE SOUTHERN Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 8:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Funk Jam hosted by JP & Lenny (funk, jazz), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY MEGA Trivia, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Adi the Monk (jazz), 5:30PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Dog Whistle & DJ David Wayne Gay, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Mouton, Sane Voids, The Styrofoam Turtles & BEX, 8:00PM FUNKATORIUM John Hartford Jam w/ Saylor Bros (bluegrass), 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Music on the Lawn Series: Chris Jamison's Ghost, 6:30PM Seth Glier & Brad Cole, 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Open Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Salsa Night, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Daydreams & Nightmares Dance Party, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Kind Clean Gentlemen (rock, blues, soul), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Flatbush Zombies w/ Kirk Knight & Nyck Caution, 9:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY El Dub, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam 6:30PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Weird Wednesday Jam, 8:00PM THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Redleg Husky (country, blues), 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Laura Thurston, 6:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM THE PHOENIX & THE FOX Jazz Night w/ Jason DeCristofaro, 7:00PM THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night: Maddy Winer & Vince Lewis, 7:30PM

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M A X R AT I N G Xpress reviews virtually all upcoming movies, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print. You can find our online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include: BOOK CLUB

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Ryan Reynolds returns to dish out more ultra-violent superhero satire with Deadpool 2.

Deadpool 2 HHHH DIRECTOR: David Leitch PLAYERS: Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Zazie Beetz, Julian Dennison, Stefan Kapicic, Brianna Hildebrand, Eddie Marsan SUPERHERO ACTION COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: Deadpool returns, this time going up against a time-traveling commando to protect an obnoxious teenage mutant. THE LOWDOWN: Somehow sillier and yet more socially conscious than its predecessor, this cynically minded sequel earns its R rating by delivering more of the raunchy metahumor that made the original such a surprise hit. Love it or hate it, it’s not hard to understand the appeal of Deadpool. In an era oversaturated with overstuffed, overfunded superhero selfseriousness, the irreverent nosethumbing of Marvel’s “Merc With a Mouth” stands out as a sorely needed counterpoint amid an industry built

on excess. While Deadpool 2 may lack the element of surprise that allowed its predecessor to slip under the radar when it seduced audiences and critics alike two years ago, it benefits from the establishment of audience expectations by subverting them. If you like penis jokes, pop culture references and gratuitous violence, then Deadpool 2 is the movie for you — and based on its box office numbers, those traits can apparently be ascribed to a vast swath of moviegoers. Yes, Deadpool 2 is everything you loved — or hated, as the case may be — about the original, turned up to 11, but it never misses a chance to poke some self-aware fun at that fact. Ryan Reynolds, every inch as excellent as last time, reprises his franchise-building turn as the filth-spewing font of one-liners Wade Wilson, aka Deadpool, but here he’s suicidal over a first-act death that sets the plot in motion. As inciting incidents go, it’s pretty standard fare, but the film isn’t shy about pointing this out. The acerbic script, courtesy of Reynolds

and co-screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick, consistently lampoons the predictability of its narrative without forgetting to tell a story in the process, and the result is surprisingly effective from a story and character standpoint. The plot itself is best left unspoiled, but it involves Deadpool’s X-Men “buddies,” Colossus (Stefan Kapicic) and Negasonic Teenage Warhead (Brianna Hildebrand) trying to drag him out of the doldrums by taking him on a mission as an X-Man “in training,” as the script repeatedly points out. This draws him into conflict with the time-traveling Cable (Josh Brolin) over the fate of a young mutant who’s given himself the mockable monicker Firefist (Julian Dennison). Both Dennison and Brolin are exceptional, as is Zazie Beetz as Domino, a member of Deadpool’s “X Force,” a name chosen for its gender neutrality and aptly mocked as derivative. And that last point sums up Deadpool 2 in a nutshell. This is the first superhero movie I can think of

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with openly gay characters, and yet it makes a joke of that very fact. It’s a film that makes concerted efforts to be racially inclusive but cracks wise about Black Panther and white supremacists. It’s a movie that devotes a portion of its third-act climax to the undeniable similarity between “Papa, Can You Hear Me” from Yentl and “Do You Want to Build a Snowman” from Frozen and makes it an actual story beat. Director David Leitch, stepping in to replace Tim Miller, keeps the action set pieces coming, but that’s not the point — this is a ludicrous movie that, at its core, is about the very ridiculousness of its own necessity. It’s like an ouroboros of absurdity, from its James-Bond-ripoff title sequence to Reynolds’ victory lap of a midcredits stinger, infinitely feeding on its own inanity. Lucky for us, there’s no Graham Chapman proxy to step in and shut the whole thing down for being too silly. Rated R for language, sexuality and violence. Now Playing at AMC Classic River Hills 10, Carolina Cinemark, Regal Biltmore Grande, Epic of Hendersonville.

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Sweet Country HHHH DIRECTOR: Warwick Thornton STARRING: Hamilton Morris, Sam Neill, Bryan Brown, Natassia Gorey Furber, Gibson John DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: After killing a white man in self-defense, an aboriginal man flees into the Australian outback. THE LOWDOWN: A stark, often brutal movie that doesn't rely on shock and ugliness, but humanity instead. I think it’s fair to start by comparing Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country to John Hillcoat’s The Proposition (2005), namely because they share a setting (the Australian Outback) and a sensibility (stark, unflinching realism), not to mention a genre (one influenced by the American Western). But, where Hillcoat’s film was aggressive in its violence and outright grunginess, Thornton has made a film that’s no less stark, but quieter and more emotionally affecting, making for a more powerful moviegoing experience. It’s tricky for me to call Sweet Country quiet, however, because I think this denies its actual power. Besides Sam Neill belting out a very off-key rendition of “Jesus Loves Me,” the film has no music, something that’s noticeable and makes for a desolate, nearly joyless tone to the movie. And this is fitting, since the movie is dealing with death, violence, injustice, slavery and racism while juxtaposing these things against the backdrop of Western “civilization” as it encroaches on aboriginal culture in Australia. The film touches on the subjects (well, everything but the vio-

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lence and racism) with a deft hand, never feeling preachy — one of the ways the movie’s quiet tone makes for a nuanced result. The setup isn’t superoriginal, centering on Sam (newcomer Hamilton Kelly), an aboriginal worker who justly kills a drunken, violent white man (Ewen Leslie, The Railway Man) and escapes into the wilderness with his wife (Natassia Gorey Furber). On their trail, among others, is Sgt. Fletcher (Bryan Brown, Cocktail) and Sam’s devoutly Christian boss, Fred (Neill). While it doesn’t sound like much as a jumping-off point, it’s what Thornton and company do with this foundation that makes the film powerful. As I said, this is a quiet movie with bursts of violence, set in a world that’s nearly lawless and which seems lacking in justice, even when justice is served. It’s pertinent in this way without being heavy-handed, since a film about Australia 100 years ago can still feel topical today. Almost all of the violence is foreshadowed in quick flash-forwards that create a sense of tension and dread within the movie since much of Sweet Country is centered on the idea that terror is always around the corner. But it also leads to some of the film’s briefest, most beautiful moments, like Fred feeling rain for the first time at the end of a drought. As a whole, for a movie that’s so desolate and even occasionally frighteningly grotesque, there is a sense of humanity and hope at the edges. Not much, but it is there. None of it adds up to a film that I’d call entertaining by any means, at least not traditionally. It’s pacing is slow and it’s subject matter, which really digs at Australia’s unclaimed history of slavery and racism, is not light. But, as a complete piece of work, it’s a film that has a rare ability to stick with you. Rated R for violence, bloody images and for language throughout. Now playing at Grail Moviehouse. REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM

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Prequel spinoff directed by Ron Howard, starring Alden Ehrenreich, Donald Glover, Emilia Clarke and Woody Harrelson. According to the studio: “Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future co-pilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian in a journey that will set the course of one of the Star Wars saga’s most unlikely heroes.” Early reviews positive. (PG-13)

The Rider

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An Autumn Afternoon HHHHH

DIRECTOR: Yasujirô Ozu PLAYERS: Chishû Ryû, Shima Iwashita, Keiji Sada, Mariko Okada, Teruo Yoshida DRAMA Rated NR. In Brief: It has been said that Yasujirô Ozu’s films are all the same, and while that’s a thematically valid point, it’s not technically true. Nowhere is this more obvious than in his final film, An Autumn Afternoon (1962), which is essentially a reworking of his 1949 film Late Spring. They have similar plots, the same star (Chishû Ryû) playing variations on the same character, and the tone is much the same — though not exactly. This is also a less overtly emotional film, a more resigned work — one that seems to accept the changes in society (an Ozu constant) as not merely inevitable, but quite possibly for the better. Strangely compelling and indescribably sad in its sense of longing for so many things. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Feb. 14, 2012. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present An Autumn Afternoon on Friday, May 25, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.

Eyes Without a Face HHHHH

DIRECTOR: Georges Franju PLAYERS: Edith Scob, Pierre Brasseur, Alida Valli HORROR Rated NR. Georges Franju’s poetic masterpiece of fairy-tale fright, 1960’s Eyes Without a Face, is a horror film that very nearly constitutes a genre unto itself, somehow gruesome and graceful in equal measure. A film of almost unparalleled aesthetic beauty (within the genre, at least), this is possibly the best-remembered work of Cinematheque Française co-founder Franju despite being almost universally reviled by critics on its initial release. Massively influential and vastly ahead of its time, Eyes is deeply disturbing, profoundly unsettling and has managed to convince people that it’s far gorier than the facts support for over 50 years. One of my all-time favorites and the first film I programmed for the AFS back in 2014, you need to lay eyes on this film at least once in your life — faces optional. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Eyes Without a Face on Thursday, May 24, at 8 p.m. at The Black Cloud, located on the lower level at 723 Haywood Road, with an introduction by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

The Apartment HHHH

MOVIE THEATRE FOR RENT Vintage Event Space for Rent, 1947 Movie Theatre perfect for private Movie Screenings, Corporate Events, Birthdays and Anniversaries. Complete Sound System, Video and Facebook Live Broadcasting. 828-273-8250. shelleyhughes@gmail.commarshillradiotheatre.org.

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ROOMMATES ROOMMATES ROOMMATE NEEDED Mature roommate needed, nice room, lovely home. Great location. $500/ month plus deposit. Smoker ok. No pets. Personal interview and background check required. Please call (423) 358-3055.

EMPLOYMENT GENERAL FRIENDS OF THE WNC NATURE CENTER SEEKS BIRTHDAY PARTY HOST Friends of the WNC Nature Center seeks parttime Birthday Party Host who loves working with kids and families, and has stellar customer service skills. Apply to friends@ wildwnc.org by May 18. friends@wildwnc.org wildwnc.org FRIENDS OF THE WNC NATURE CENTER SEEKS RETAIL ASSISTANT Friends of the WNC Nature Center seeking experienced retail customer service staff for part time (16-32 hours/weekly) position. $13.50/hour.

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DIRECTOR: Billy Wilder PLAYERS: Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray COMEDY DRAMA Rated PG. Potentially Billy Wilder’s most cynical comedy (if far from his most cynical film), The Apartment (1960) dealt with material that was particularly daring in its era. That the film still packs ample dramatic weight and resonance nearly six decades later is a testament not only to Wilder’s directorial prowess, but also to the emotional honesty of his script, co-written by I.A.L. Diamond. This tragicomedic examination of extramarital assignations, toxic corporate culture and suicidal ideation is potentially even more prescient when viewed in the context of contemporary sexual politics and modern attitudes toward sexual harassment, and it gives stars Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine and Fred McMurray an opportunity to do some of their best work. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Apartment on Sunday, May 27, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Aries poet Anna Kamieńska described the process of writing as akin to “the backbreaking work of hacking a footpath, as in a coal mine; in total darkness, beneath the earth.” Whether or not you’re a writer, I’m guessing that your life might have felt like that recently. Your progress has been slow and the mood has been dense and the light has been dim. That’s the tough news. The good news is that I suspect you will soon be blessed with flashes of illumination and a semi-divine intervention or two. After that, your work will proceed with more ease. The mood will be softer and brighter. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Do you know what you are worth? Have you compiled a realistic assessment of your talents, powers and capacities? Not what your friends and enemies think you’re worth, nor the authority figures you deal with, nor the bad listeners who act like they’ve figured out the game of life. When I ask you if you have an objective understanding of your real value, Taurus, I’m not referring to what your illusions or fears or wishes might tell you. I’m talking about an honest, accurate appraisal of the gifts you have to offer the world. If you do indeed possess this insight, hallelujah and congratulations! If you don’t, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to work on getting it. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Now is a favorable time to worship at the shrine of your own intuition. It’s a ripe moment to boost your faith in your intuition’s wild and holy powers. To an extraordinary degree, you can harness this alternate mode of intelligence to gather insights that are beyond the power of your rational mind to access by itself. So be bold about calling on your gut wisdom, Gemini. Use it to track down the tricky, elusive truths that have previously been unavailable to you. CANCER (June 21-July 22): “A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned,” wrote poet W. H. Auden, paraphrasing poet Paul Valéry. I think the same can be said about many other kinds of work. We may wish we could continue tinkering and refining forever so as to bring a beloved project to a state of absolute perfection. But what’s more likely is that it will always fall at least a bit short of that ideal. It will never be totally polished and complete to our satisfaction. And we’ve got to accept that. I suggest you meditate on these ideas in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Paradoxically, they may help you be content with how you finish up the current phase of your beloved project. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I highly recommend that you spend the next three weeks hanging out on a beach every day, dividing your time between playing games with friends, sipping cool drinks, reading books you’ve always wanted to read and floating dreamily in warm water. To indulge in this relaxing extravaganza would be in maximum alignment with the current cosmic rhythms. If you can’t manage such a luxurious break from routine, please at least give yourself the gift of some other form of recreation that will renew and refresh you all the way down to the core of your destiny. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Contemporaries of the ancient Greek philosopher Pythagoras told colorful stories about the man. Some believed he was the son of a god and that one of his thighs was made of gold. When he crossed the Casas River, numerous witnesses testified that the river called out his name and welcomed him. Once a snake bit him, but he suffered no injury and killed the snake by biting it in return. On another occasion, Pythagoras supposedly coaxed a dangerous bear to stop committing violent acts. These are the kinds of legends I expect you to spread about yourself in the coming days, Virgo. It’s time to boost your reputation to a higher level.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): My counsel may seem extreme, but I really think you should avoid mildness and meekness and modesty. For the immediate future, you have a mandate to roar and cavort and exult. It’s your sacred duty to be daring and experimental and exploratory. The cosmos and I want to enjoy the show as you act like you have the right to express your soul’s code with brazen confidence and unabashed freedom. The cosmos and I want to squeal with joy as you reveal raw truths in the most emotionally intelligent ways possible. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): French novelist Honoré Balzac periodically endured intense outbreaks of creativity. “Sometimes it seems that my brain is on fire,” he testified after a 26-day spell when he never left his writing room. I’m not predicting anything quite as manic as that for you, Scorpio. But I do suspect you will soon be blessed (and maybe a tiny bit cursed) by a prolonged bout of fervent inspiration. To ensure that you make the best use of this challenging gift, get clear about how you want it to work for you. Don’t let it boss you. Be its boss. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Ancient civilizations waged war constantly. From Mesopotamia to China to Africa, groups of people rarely went very long without fighting other groups of people. There was one exception: the Harappan culture that thrived for about 2,000 years in the Indus River Valley, which in the present day stretches through Afghanistan, Pakistan and India. Archaeologists have found little evidence of warfare there. Signs of mass destruction and heavy armaments are non-existent. Art from that era and area does not depict military conflict. One conclusion we might be tempted to draw from this data is that human beings are not inherently combative and violent. In any case, I want to use the Harappan civilization’s extended time of peace as a metaphor for your life in the next eight weeks. I believe (and hope!) you’re entering into a phase of very low conflict. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Every human being I’ve ever known, me included, has to wage a continuous struggle between these pairs of opposites: 1. bad habits that waste their vitality and good habits that harness their vitality; 2. demoralizing addictions that keep them enslaved to the past and invigorating addictions that inspire them to create their best possible future. How’s your own struggle going? I suspect you’re in the midst of a turning point. Here’s a tip that could prove useful: Feeding the good habits and invigorating addictions may cause the bad habits and demoralizing addictions to lose some of their power over you. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s own castle,” said author Franz Kafka. I suspect this idea will be especially relevant to you in the coming weeks, Aquarius. And more than that: In addition to books, other influences may also serve as keys to unfamiliar rooms in your inner castle. Certain people, for instance, may do and say things that give you access to secrets you’ve been keeping from yourself. A new song or natural wonderland may open doors to understandings that will transform your relationship with yourself. To prep you for these epiphanies, I’ll ask you to imagine having a dream at night in which you’re wandering through a house you know very well. But this time, you discover there’s a whole new wing of the place that you never knew existed. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Just for now, let’s say it’s fine to fuel yourself with comfort food and sweet diversions. Let’s proceed on the hypothesis that the guardians of your future want you to treat yourself like a beloved animal who needs extra love and attention. So go right ahead and spend a whole day (or two) in bed reading and ruminating and listening to soul-beguiling music. Take a tour through your favorite memories. Move extra slowly. Do whatever makes you feel most stable and secure. Imagine you’re like a battery in the process of getting recharged.

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WELLNESS WRITER/NETWORKER Mountain Xpress is seeking an experienced writer to spearhead our coverage of wellness, healthy living and spirituality. The ideal candidate will have a passion for wellness, from the conventional to the fringe, along with a bent toward building relationships throughout the local wellness community with the goal of bringing the latest trends and information to our readers. A solid grounding in AP Style, or a willingness to learn it, is essential. Photography, web-posting, editing experience and social media skills are plusses. Email cover letter, resume and a minimum of three published clips to writers@mountainx.com.

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7 Hockey great whose jersey number rhymed with his name 8 Headlight 9 “Fat chance!” and others 10 Kingdom that’s spread throughout the world 11 Highway patrollers 12 Quick rundown 13 Tuna cut 17 Suffix with right 18 Items at an emergency shelter 25 Get ready to fight, say 26 Key of Pachelbel’s Canon: Abbr. 27 Meeting point 28 Those, in Madrid 30 “Definitely!” 31 Rock’s Kings of ___ 34 Weighty work 35 Swiss miss, maybe: DOWN Abbr. Taking off, as business 37 Singles, doubles and 46 Hypothetical Pet from a pet shelter, triples particle that travels e.g. 38 Colorful, conical candy faster than light Groening who created on a stick “The Simpsons” 47 Location of “Yellow 39 Camera setting Wan Submarine” on the 41 “That HURTS!” album Make more alluring “Yellow 43 Like leopards and Frank who was a cohort of Al Capone dominoes Submarine” ANSWER TO PUZZLE XPRESS

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Seasonal pisgah brews unique dinner pairings musical guest Come to The Farm in Candler, for an amazing evening of fine food, craft brews and live music. Pisgah Brewing and The Farm’s Executive Chef Mike Ferrari have collaborated on seasonal small plated paired with exclusive cellar releases. Enjoy live music from Leeda “Lyric” Jones.

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2018 AVL BEER WEEK OFFICIAL GUIDE

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ROYAL TREATMENT: Wicked Weed Brewing’s annual Ménage-a-Freak Triple IPA release party is a longtime AVL Beer Week favorite. Photo courtesy of Asheville Brewers Alliance In line with the selection of flagship, seasonal and one-off batches found at Asheville-area breweries on any given day, AVL Beer Week is likewise rooted in an exciting blend of reliable and experimental offerings. For the seventh annual celebration, attendees will find favorites like the Just Brew It festival, spotlighting creations by some of the region’s top homebrewers, and Burial Beer Co.’s Skillet Six Ways, in which a half-dozen variations of the brewery’s beloved Donut Stout are served in a flight and paired with six samplings from Vortex Doughnuts. Also on the schedule are such new entries as the Plow to Plate dinner at Smoky Park Supper Club, which brings together the skills of five North Carolina farms, chefs and breweries, and Twin Leaf Brewery’s Gathering of the Goses, featuring five small-batch takes on the refreshing summer style, themselves

matched with selections from DoughP Doughnuts. (May we go ahead and plan on 2019 being AVL Beer and Doughnut Week?) The mix of cherished standards and new entries primed to work their way into AVL Beer Week lore makes each iteration special and is perhaps best exemplified by this year’s twist on the Asheville Brewers Alliance collaborative beer. Instead of combining forces on a single official brew for the week, ABA members were invited to make any IPA they desired, be it solo or in tandem with fellow brewers, to pour at their respective establishments. The pivot is the latest sign that innovation remains at the core of the local brewing industry and suggests AVL Beer Week will be around for many more years. — Edwin Arnaudin, beer coverage coordinator

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A TRUE HOME BREW Asheville beer industry nearing self-sufficiency for core four ingredients BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com Water, barley, yeast and hops are at the core of nearly every beer. And as the Asheville area’s brewing industry continues to grow and evolve, local craft beverage makers can increasingly source all four ingredients from neighborhood businesses, almost to the point of self-sufficiency. The access to fresh products not only results in better-tasting products and keeps more money in the local economy, it also accelerates the innovation key to keeping Asheville at the forefront of the nation’s beer providers.

THE GRAIN GAME Brent Manning and Brian Simpson started Riverbend Malt House in 2010. In search of an encore career after the housing market collapsed, the environmental consultants took a close look at Asheville’s beer industry — which then had a total of 12 breweries — with a desire to improve the sustainability of one of its sectors. At the time, there were only a couple hundred pounds of hops grown annually in North Carolina, but the limited number of varieties that grow well and aren’t trademarked made investing in them a dicey endeavor. Land and infrastructure were also needed yet absent, though the opposite was true for small grains. Combine that corner’s potential with the lack of an area malt house and a light bulb went on for the business partners. “North Carolina grows hundreds of thousands of acres of small grains for a variety of different industries, including human food consumption, so the quality piece was there [and] the infrastructure was there,” Manning says. “There was an ag extension network of researchers studying everything and improving upon the quality every year, so we said, ‘Wow! OK, maybe this could make sense. Maybe we can use some of these locally sourced grains to make malts, and we’ll provide our breweries with truly local ingredients. I feel like we were in the right place at right time with the malt house idea.”

WOLFPACK GRAINS: N.C. State University’s Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River is one of six sites across North Carolina conducting trials of established and experimental barley, including Calypso 2-row, right. Photos by Brent Manning Riverbend has grown high-quality 2- and 6-row barley on the Biltmore Estate as part of a partnership, and Manning notes that the property has some of the best farmland in the Asheville Basin. He says barley also can grow in the Mills River area, but it’s fairly challenging because of the narrow bottomland and the impact of the mountains with regard to the morning fog not clearing out of the valley. In turn, moisture creates conditions in which fungal growth can occur, which is bad for barley quality. “The surrounding area — the farmland around Shelby and that part of the world — provides a perfect complement to the craft beer industry because they’re close in proximity, but have broader, flat land that’s more conducive to growing highquality grain at scale,” Manning says. Riverbend has cultivated relationships primarily with family farms of less than 300 acres. In the mutually

beneficial partnership, it purchases winter grains grown in the offseason (October-June), a time when farmers would normally have a cover crop, which Manning says doesn’t add monetary value to the land besides cheap fertilizer and maintaining topsoil. As a result, the farmers receive a second or third paycheck out of their land management. As for working with breweries, Manning says it’s the most exciting part of his job, especially the expanded collaborative approach to making malt and delivering unique products made possible by Riverbend’s new 70,000-square-foot facility and cutting-edge equipment. He adds that 2 million pounds of malt a year are used by South Slope breweries. Riverbend can theoretically provide that amount if every brewery bought all of its malt from the malt house, but due to cost constraints, that’s not the case. He compares the

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choice to eating at a nice restaurant versus a fast-food establishment as far as the different price points, not the quality of mass-produced malt, which he says is excellent. The main difference, however, is that the latter is made in enormous batches and trucked in from long distances, thereby creating a sizable carbon footprint. “The closest major malt house is in Chilton, Wis. — 1,500 miles away. That’s Briess Malting, and Briess sources a majority of their barley from the Big Horn Valley in Wyoming, which is another thousand miles west, so now we’ve got 2,500 miles in between farmer and fermenter,” Manning says. “Riverbend sources 100 percent of their ingredients from a 500-mile radius, and for 2018 we’re hoping to shrink that a little bit by tapping into some growers in the Shelby and Hickory areas.”

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FOCUS ON INNOVATION: As White Labs develops new and exciting yeast products at its Asheville location, local brewers are the first to have access to them in the Southeast. Photo courtesy of White Labs

MICROSCOPIC DISTANCE One of the world’s leading producers of brewer’s yeast, White Labs had been shipping its products to numerous Asheville area breweries from its San Diego headquarters. In 2017 when the company opened its eastern U.S. location in Asheville, a few blocks away from the South Slope brewing district, those same clients could walk or take a short drive to pick up their yeast and take advantage of the facility’s other offerings. “When we made the announcement, more breweries and homebrew stores called us up and said they wanted to work with us,” says Chris White, president, founder and CEO of White Labs. “The support we got from the local community was way more than we ever expected. There was so much excitement, and we’re just trying to live up to that now.” When searching for a building, many possible locations were situated outside of downtown Asheville and therefore didn’t interest White. He and his colleagues knew the facility’s

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will-call area, through which brewers can place individual orders and pick them up that day, would be popular and therefore wanted the new White Labs to be a destination with easy access. He notes that a White Labs box can cost $50 or more to ship, and those savings add up for local breweries. “Every beer needs yeast. It doesn’t have to be ours, of course, but we make a big selection, and with us making a lot of fresh yeast right there, it makes sense for a lot of brewers,” White says. “A lot of times, brewers know exactly what they want. They just call us, we have a talk about when they can get it and within days we have it right there in Asheville. A lot of it’s about the availability, but it’s often about what strain to use, too.” As White Labs develops new and exciting products in Asheville, local brewers are the first to have access to them in the Southeast. White also sees the operation’s tasting room and its rotation of different yeast strains as a resource for brewers to go and explore fresh ideas.

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FRIENDLY FACE: With hops unable to grow on a commerical scale in North Carolina, many local breweries turn to Ashevillebased account manager Beau Evers of Crosby Hop Farm for fresh hops from Oregon. Photo courtesy of Crosby Hop Farm “There’s so many brewers to collaborate with, not only in our own individual little projects but theirs. When you’re trying to develop and innovate something, it’s superhelpful to have people around to help with that, whether in the testing part or participating in other ways,” White says. The Asheville facility “opened last January, so we’re a year and so many months in and still, in my mind, in its infancy. It’s still getting going, so that’s the stuff that I’m really excited about for the future is innovation and development of new things there.”

THE HOPS CONNECTION Beau Evers, Crosby Hop Farm account manager for the Southeast and Rocky Mountain districts, identifies mildew as the No. 1 killer of hops. Due to North Carolina’s moist air and consistently humid summers, it’s been difficult to grow the crop on a commercial level within the state. “Hops don’t really like that, and that’s what’s essentially a catalyst for that mildew,” Evers says. “When you have a downy mildew, it stunts the initial binds coming up, and the nodes are really short. You want the nodes to be really long so it can grow higher.”

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Evers says over 99 percent of the yearly U.S. hops crop comes from Oregon (where Crosby is headquartered), Washington and Idaho. In lieu of area production on a significant scale, he provides breweries a local human connection with a wide variety of fresh hops from the Pacific Northwest. “All these hop varieties were bred either by Oregon State [University] or Washington State [University] through the USDA public program, and those hops have been bred for the Pacific Northwest. That’s where they were crossed and put in greenhouses and inoculated with mildews, separated between male and female and they figured out all the different agronomics that were going on with that,” Evers says. “So ultimately, if certain regions of the country want to succeed in growing hops, you have to breed for certain regions.” The Nashville native spent six years in Oregon but felt a calling to come back and be closer to family and friends. Once Crosby grew to the point where it could have regional account managers, Evers could have lived anywhere in the Southeast but chose Asheville as his base for the craft beer culture. He compares the community to Portland with its many neighborhood

breweries and, though he’s been here six months and is on the road 50-60 percent of the time, is already seeing the benefits of face-to-face dealings with Asheville brewers with whom he’d been doing business from afar for five years. “There’s a certain osmosis effect: If you’re not based in an area, you’re going to miss it. You’re not going to be able to go to your local beer fest and be part of the guilds or the Asheville Brewers Alliance. You miss out because you’re inherently not around,” Evers says. While farmers can and do grow Cascade and Centennial hops in North Carolina, Evers says the current low yields typically make the undertaking not viable for business. As for the potential of genetic modification aiding the state’s growing power, he says the hops industry — whose lone product is beer — doesn’t produce enough global revenue for a company like Monsanto to become involved.

BASE LIQUID In selecting the Asheville area as the home for its East Coast operations, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., New Belgium Brewing Co. and Oskar Blues Brewery have all cited the

region’s high-quality water as a major determining factor. According to David Melton, interim director of the city of Asheville’s Water Resources Department, the city’s primary sources of water are located in eastern Buncombe County. Water flows from pure mountain streams into two pristine lakes that are surrounded by 20,000 acres of highly protected forests owned by the city. Proactive management of the watershed ensures the high quality of the source water, which in turn yields a very high-quality treated water product. “The watershed is surrounded by the Pisgah National Forest, which is also protected and managed,” Melton says. “The Water Resources Watershed Team manages the health of the forest surrounding the reservoir, which prevents erosion and other factors that can affect quality.” The reservoir is completely nonrecreational, and the team ensures that it remains undisturbed. The active management decreases the susceptibility to potential contaminants, and both the source and finished water are consistently monitored and rigorously tested for changes in pH, alkalinity, turbidity, total organic carbon, bacteria, pathogens and other factors. The finished water meets and/ or exceeds all state and federal regulated standards — just what brewers want to hear. “Interactions with breweries or prospective breweries primarily include sharing information related to water quality, water chemistry and water delivery in the early stages,” Melton says. “The ongoing maintenance and operation of the water system by highly trained staff keeps the quality consistent upon delivery.”

ALL ON THE FARM On Sideways Farm & Brewery in Etowah, owners Carrieann and Jon Schneider are working to provide all of the core ingredients — and then some — themselves. Sideways currently uses Hendersonville city water, but the Schneiders are looking into putting a well on the property, which they say will involve lots of testing to make sure the quality of the water is up to the brewery’s standards. They will also be working with White Labs to learn how to harvest their own yeast from the farm. “There’s ways that we can do it on our own, but to get a

reliable culture we’d like to involve them,” Carrieann Schneider says. Likewise on the locally sourced front, though slightly less orthodox, Sideways plans on using the two types of brewer’s yeast that N.C. State University scientists discovered in the microbes of a wild bee and wasp, respectively. And as for hops and barley, the business is receiving help from N.C. State’s Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River. “They have some experimental hops that they want to have us test,” Jon Schneider says. “What they’re doing out there is splicing a particular hop that has done very well in their trials with some of the other hops varieties that we’re using in hopes that they can capture that growth of the one particular into the others.” The Schneiders have also run one trial using two different barley varieties. Though neither grew very well, they’ll do more trials next winter and will otherwise source extensively from Riverbend. Leaning on local businesses for sourcing has been at the forefront of their decision-making — even before they bought the Sideways property in early 2015. And in line with Manning’s hopes that within five years, hops-knowledgable craft drinkers will have a favorite malt, and Evers’ desire for buyers to demand sustainably sourced hops, the Schneiders see the increased education of craft beer consumers as an exciting development. “A lot of the other breweries are starting to get it, where they’re using local farms. Rayburn Farms, for example. But I think consumers still think of beer as more of an industrial product,” Carrieann Schneider says. “When you go to a winery, you go out to the farm and you have that experience and you start to make those connections. There’s not a lot of breweries in the area that you go to that you make the connection that beer is an agricultural product. So for us, it’s about starting with the consumers and having them make that connection, which will in turn hopefully cause them to care a little bit more about the sustainability of water and farms that are producing the barley and hops and what kinds of things they’re using on those farms.” X

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BEYOND BREWERIES AVL Beer Week events highlight a range of craft beverages through partnerships with local bars, cideries and distilleries

LET’S TALK ABOUT IT: Oak & Grist Distilling Co. of Black Mountain joins the AVL Beer Week celebration with an invitation for visitors to learn more about the production of whiskey and gin. Pictured is the company’s president and head distiller, William Goldberg. Photo courtesy of Oak & Grist

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Although the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum is still in its development stages, it will have a presence at this year’s AVL Beer Week. Organizers will highlight the effort at the Beer City Festival downtown on Roger McGuire Green on Saturday, June 2, says Asheville Brewers Alliance Executive Director Kendra Penland. But the museum will be about more than just beer — it will showcase the gamut of Tar Heel-made craft beverages, including ciders, wines, spirits and soft drinks. A website and social media sites have already been launched, says the museum’s executive director, Kimberly Floyd, and the next step is to raise money for a traveling exhibit. “We hope to open our permanent location in 2021,” she says. “We took in our first set of artifacts from Jimi Rentz at Barley’s.” And like the museum concept, the 2018 AVL Beer Week encompasses more than just area breweries. This year, two local distilleries, one cidery and a couple of cocktail bars will also join the festivities with drink specials and activities. Asheville’s H&H Distillery will team up with Post 70 cocktail and tapas bar to serve shandies made with a locally made lemonade and H&H Highway 9 Gin, says distillery co-owner Leah Howard. H&H, which has been open since 2015 in East Asheville producing both gin and Hazel 63 rum, sees AVL Beer Week as a good way for local distilleries to connect with a broader audience. “The beer industry here has paved the way [for craft distilling], and we have learned a lot from that,” she says. “This is a good way to reach out to people who may not have heard of us.” Bold Rock Hard Cider in Mills River has long been a player on the craft beer scene: Bold Rock’s products can often be found in beer tasting rooms, and the cidery has offered local beers in its own taproom. “We don’t make beer, but we love and support craft breweries,” says taproom manager Dylan McLean. To celebrate AVL Beer Week, Bold Rock will serve snakebites, which will include

area beers mixed with Bold Rock ciders. Available blends will include Asheville Brewing Co.’s Ninja Porter with Bold Rock’s Carolina Draft and Green Man Brewery’s ESB with Orchard Frost cider. Bold Rock will also offer cider specials throughout Beer Week, McLean says. Other interesting beer mixes can be found at Sovereign Remedies. The downtown craft cocktail bar will offer a variety of boilermaker specials 2 p.m.-2 a.m. weekdays and 10 a.m.-2 a.m. weekends throughout AVL Beer Week. The specials begin Friday, May 25, with a choice of Allagash Belgian White, Ommegang Three Philosophers Quad or Mother Earth Weeping Willow Wit accompanied by a shot of Old Forester Bourbon. Other highlights from the lineup include a Mikkeller beer with Elijah Craig bourbon on Saturday, May 26; a Burial Beer with a yetto-be-announced tequila on Sunday, May 27; and a Highland Brewing Co. beer with Jim Beam bourbon or rye Thursday, May 31. Oak & Grist Distilling Co. plans to bring an educational element to AVL Beer Week with the intention of shining a light on the connections between craft brewing and spirits-making. The Black Mountain distillery will offer discussions about its production process, which begins with malted barley from Asheville’s Riverbend Malt House, 2-3:30 p.m. Friday, May 25, and 1-2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 26. Oak & Grist brews a single-malt beer that later becomes its whiskey and gin, explains owner William Goldberg. Visitors will be able to taste that beer during the discussions, and the gin will be available for purchase. “I think this will be an eye-opener for people,” he says. “I don’t think a lot of people realize a lot of the same science that goes into the manufacture of beer also goes into making spirits.” For more on the North Carolina Craft Beverage Museum, visit ncbevmuseum.com. For more details on featured drink specials and activities, visit avlbeerweek.com. — Tony Kiss X

THE PEOPLE’S CHOICE Just Brew It promotes homebrew community, living wage at new venue

JUST CAUSE: Now in its ninth year, the annual Just Brew It homebrew festival attracts some of the area’s best amateur beer-makers while promoting organizer Just Economics of Western North Carolina’s mission of encouraging employers to offer a fair living wage. Photo courtesy of Just Economics Asheville’s popular Just Brew It homebrew beer festival will have a new look and vibe on Saturday, May 26, as it moves from the original Wedge Brewing Co. to the new Wedge at Foundation development, just down the French Broad River. The new location will offer significantly more parking than the previous space and won’t interfere with the businesses around the original Wedge. The popular 12 Bones Smokehouse barbecue restaurant next to the new Wedge, which always brings a lot of traffic to the Foundation property, isn’t open on Saturdays, freeing up even more parking.

Much about the 2018 festival is the same, though, starting with its mission. It’s still presented by Just Economics of Western North Carolina, which encourages employers to offer a fair living wage. Just Brew It also continues to feature locally homebrewed ales and lagers. These are creative beers not sold in area taprooms and unavailable outside of this annual event. Attendees also technically can’t buy a ticket to Just Brew It, as it’s open only to members of Just Economics. But the group will happily enroll new members online prior to the event at $30 for a basic member-

ship that includes festival admission; $40 for a standard membership which covers festival admission and a souvenir glass and raffle ticket; or $60 for a VIP membership that comes with one-hour-early festival admission, the glass, raffle ticket and a food truck voucher. No one will be enrolled at the gate. Now in its ninth year, Just Brew It “raises some important funds for our organization and celebrates the culture of homebrewing in Asheville,” says Vicki Meath, executive director of Just Economics. She’s expecting 40-50 homebrewers to take part in the 2018 edition. Brewers may bring whatever beers they choose to the festival, and Meath says she’s seen a wide variety of styles over the years. Moving to the new Wedge brewery site provides more room for beer drinkers, which typically total 400-600 people. “And when you add the brewers involved, it gets higher than that,” Meath says. The festival has also brought substantial attention to Just Economics. “Our mission is to educate, organize and advocate for a just and sustainable local ecnomy that works for all in Western North Carolina,” Meath says. “We work on the issue of living wages, better transit and affordable housing. We have the largest living wage certification program in the country. And we work on public policy at the local level and the state level. We are committed to working with people who are most impacted by economic injustice.” Meath says the Just Economics living wage standard is “a more just number than the minimum wage.” In 2018, the Asheville and Buncombe County living wage is set at $13 an hour if the employer doesn’t offer health insurance, and $11.50 per hour if the insurance is provided. Even that level of income makes it difficult for many employees to support themselves, though Meath calls it “a starting point.” The organization has been operating in Asheville since 2007. “We have around 400 employers that are certified,” Meath says. To qualify, every full- or part-time worker at those businesses must be paid the liv-

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ing wage, though there are exceptions for interns or apprentices. There’s also a process to determine if tipped employees make an average living wage. “We’ve been able to work with new businesses every month,” Meath says. “We do outreach to new employers, and there is also peer-to-peer encouragement to become Living Wage Certified. And sometimes employers find us.” She continues, “When we talk with employers, we talk about the benefits of our program, such as being marketed as a living wage employer. And there is increased productivity that comes along with workers who are not constantly looking for another job or having to take multiple jobs just to put a roof over their heads.” Several of the area’s breweries have been Living Wage Certified, including Wedge, Hi-Wire Brewing, Burial Beer Co. and Oskar Blues Brewery in Brevard. Wedge has long been Living Wage Certified and is a big believer in the program. “Just Economics is really important for Asheville. We pay a living wage and always have,” says brewery owner Tim Schaller, who’s looking forward to once more hosting Just Brew It. “The homebrewers have helped make Asheville ’Beer City.’ They are really educated drinkers.” — Tony Kiss X

WHAT Just Brew It homebrew festival WHERE Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundy St. justeconomicswnc.org WHEN Saturday, May 26, 2-5 p.m. with 1 p.m. entry for VIP members of Just Economics of Western North Carolina. $30 basic membership/$40 standard membership/$60 VIP membership. No memberships sold at the gate.

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STRANGE BREW The Odditorium celebrates five years with new events and concoctions

Hot Sauce Company CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: “We always say, ‘It takes a village to run this place,’” says Amy Marshall, left, who owns the West Asheville venue with her partner, Tamy Kuper, right. By taking over the venue five years ago, the couple were able to honor their roots: “the odd, the unusual, the queer.” Photo by Cindy Kunst

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amarshall@mountainx.com With additional reporting by Edwin Arnaudin It’s not every bar that lends its outdoor space to a monthly summer-season yard sale, hosts regularly occurring vintage markets and medieval-themed bazaars or houses a museum of curiosities. But The Odditorium — as its name suggests — is not every bar. “We always say, ‘It takes a village to run this place,’” says Amy Marshall, who owns the West Asheville venue with her partner, Tamy Kuper. While many other local watering holes benefit from large budgets and staffs, The Odditorium receives support, in part, through random acts of kindness from its community. “One of our patrons put up speakers in our lounge,” says Marshall. “We’ll come in, and somebody’s fixing our picMOUNTAIN XPRESS

nic tables or installing doorstops.” For those small assists, Marshall and Kuper want to thank Asheville, but they’re also celebrating the major business milestone of The Odditorium’s fifth anniversary, which happened on April 1.

ALL THAT GLITTERS IS NOT BEER Among the festivities is a forthcoming beer collaboration with UpCountry Brewing Co., located just across Haywood Road. The two businesses previously dreamed up a popular brew made with edible glitter that sold out quickly and is slated to be back on tap in time for AVL Beer Week. The second beer will be a modified version of an existing UpCountry beer with glitter addition. “We’ve always had a great relationship with The Odd. Since we’re the closest place to get food, and a lot of our employees like to go over there for a

drink after work, it’s a good situation for both of us,” says Zac Voeller, field rep for UpCountry. “It’s not bleeding-edge craft innovation, and most brewers will probably groan if you bring up edible glitter, but we really wanted to do something special for our closest neighbors.” Calling glitter beer “such a perfect fit for [The Odditorium] that there was no way our brewers could say ‘no,’” Voeller says UpCountry experimented with a light Kölsch and a dark, malty Schwarzbier, choosing the latter for its superior ability to hold the glitter. “We’re going to keep making it just for The Odditorium. No other bar or pour room will have access to anything glitter-related from us,” he says. “The naming process is still underway, but with ideas like Dark and Not So Normy and Tears of the Last Dying Unicorn, you can tell how much fun we’re all having with it.”

The Odditorium and UpCountry will also co-host a collaborative dance party during AVL Beer Week on Wednesday, May 30, during which patrons of both establishments will be able to walk back and forth enjoying the vibes at both dance floors. “I think it’s great that an outdoorsy, jam-band-oriented brewery and a punk music, burlesque-showing joint can get on so well,” Voeller says. “We’re really thrilled to be working with such a unique and beautiful place that so well embodies the fun and freedom of West Asheville.”

ODD ONES IN The Odditorium’s calendar includes an array of rock, punk and alternative shows (Cloud City Caskets and The Shrunken Heads on Friday, May 25; Chew, Gostdog and Luxury Club on Saturday, May 26) as well as recurring events. There’s Tuesday night comedy, hosted by Tom Peters since the venue’s inception, and Risque Monday Burlesque, hosted by Deb Au Nare. A weekly drag night will launch in July, and a monthly community yard sale, held the last Saturday of each month, kicks off May 26. But the clientele drawn to The Odditorium — a mix of regulars, adventurous newcomers and occasional tourists — come for more than the bands. An older British couple, who traveled to Asheville after the Masters Tournament, “ended up here for storytelling night,” says Marshall. Swing dance nights bring out seniors, too. “You saw our building and got out of your car and are in? That makes me warm,” Marshall jokes. In fact, with its sideshow-themed murals and quirky art, The Odditorium is living-room cozy (albeit, with an unorthodox aesthetic). And there’s a growing group of fans (including the bar’s staff, some regulars and a few visitors) who’ve gotten The Odditorium’s logo — a hand with an eye on the palm — tattooed on their bodies. Those who show their ink to Marshall or Kuper are rewarded with free entry to The Odditorium’s shows. But early on, the vibe — left over from dive bar The Get Down and Cowboy’s Nightlife, both of which previously occupied 1045 Haywood Road — was rougher. Marshall and Kuper decided to take over the space because they were looking for a project to do together. At The Odditorium they were able to honor their roots: “the odd, the unusual, the queer,” says Marshall. “That includes the gay community.”

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INSIDE STORY The couple, both from creative families, also put their artistic skills to work in the museum — a series of displays in the venue’s lounge that hold curios such as skulls, creepy dolls, fetal animals in jars of formaldehyde, old photos, masks and magical implements. “Because we both love art and the strange and curious we wanted to … not just have a bar or an event space,” says Kuper. “We wanted to bring in things that make us smile and have a story.” Marshall adds, “They create conversations. People who [came in] just to tour the museum stay for a drink and to talk about our Chinese binding shoes.” These days, The Odditorium’s art and collectibles are mostly curated by Justyn Travers of Dark and Deviant Oddities, and most items are for sale. Travers also sells his wares online and at The Odditorium’s yard sale Early on, Kuper and Marshall imagined taking long weekend trips to search for curios. But, “It’s hard to go out into the world and collect while you’re trying to do payroll and manage the bar,” says Marshall. But relinquishing that bit of creative work has freed up time to introduce other fresh ideas to the venue. Cannabidiol oil will also soon be available, and a line of medicinal tinctures is about to be launched. “You can add them to any drink or concoction,” says Kuper. There are remedies to address anxiety or promote wellness and love. This particular initiative has been in the works for three or four years. “We want to do it like an old-school apothecary,” says Kuper, because “bartenders are like therapists a lot of time.” It’s the kind of touch that will likely create more of a feeling of magic and belonging to the loyal-if-disparate crowd that already frequents The Odditorium, and will attract more of the sort of visitors who gravitate toward queer bars and oddities museums and, some might say, are honorary Ashevilleans. In fact, when such visitors find their way to the Haywood Road watering hole or purchase something from the museum or strike up a conversation about the human skull in the display case, “it reminds me of why we did this,” says Kuper. “We just wanted our little piece of Asheville.” “And our little piece to give back,” says Marshall. “It has stayed true to that.” X

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BREW YOUR OWN Kyle Brown reduces his environmental footprint by making his own beer

BREW CREW: Kyle Brown, left, and Emmet Leahy mill grain for homebrewed beer. Photo by John Kepchar When Kyle Brown was in graduate school, he made a friend in the environmental science program who brewed his own beer. “He grew a bunch of barley and malted it. He was trying to brew what he called ‘carbonneutral beer,’” explains Brown. This was nearly 15 years ago, when small-scale microbreweries were a rare find. “At the point that I was introduced to homebrewing, craft beer wasn’t the thing that it is today. You could either buy imported beer or beer that was made by a big company and brewed far, far away,” says Brown. Brown brews his beer at his home in Asheville and buys his ingredients from local homebrewing shops. His setup is pretty simple. “There’s a scale,” he says. “You can make beer with only a plastic

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bucket and a lid and some pots and pans from your kitchen.” To bottle the beer, he saves bottles from used six-packs, buys reusable swing-top bottles or uses a simple keg setup. “That’s where it’s at,” Brown says. While the effort may seem small, by brewing his own beer Brown is reducing waste and saving the resources it takes to transport beer brewed in other parts of the country to stores in Western North Carolina. And while he may have never reached the carbon-neutral beer goals of his first homebrewing friend, he knows that his efforts make an impact. “It takes a lot of energy to ship a finished product, especially liquid, all the way across the country,” Brown says.

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Rayburn family farm keeps local beer industry flavorful

BREWERY MARKET: Rayburn Farm specializes in growing herbs and vegetables for local breweries. Pictured are Lauren Rayburn and son Elijah. Photo courtesy of Rayburn Farm When Michael and Lauren Rayburn began farming in 2014, they didn’t know that 80 percent of their market share would one day come from local breweries. “I stumbled into the brewery market,” Michael says. “And once I did, I just kept going with it.” Rayburn Farm, located in Barnardsville, grows herbs, spices and a few select vegetables for breweries like Wicked Weed Brewing, Hi-Wire Brewing, Green Man Brewery, Asheville Brewing Co. and more than a dozen others. “I just started knocking on doors and asking [brewers] if they would want me to grow them anything,” Michael explains. Today, he introduces up to 10 new crops to brewers every year. “I say, ‘Hey, have you tried this? Do you want to try this?’ I go around with samples and ask them what they think. Most of the time, they like what I’m bringing.” While Michael acknowledges the sustainability and economic advantages of using local crops to flavor 14

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local beer, he also warns against falling into a hyper-local trap. “You have to keep in mind that there are things that aren’t sustainable for us to grow and produce here but they can be grown just a few counties away in North Carolina, Tennessee or South Carolina,” he says. If we allow crops to be grown where they grow best, he adds, it “frees up more area for the things that grow well here.” Of course, Michael’s specialty is determining what does flourish in this area and then growing it. Take, for example, Italian basil. “We tried several varieties of Italian basil until we found one from Rwanda that is grown for the oil industry,” he explains. “[Brewers] don’t need your standard sweet Italian basil. They need basil that will really come through in the beer.”

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BREWERIES IN BUNCOMBE COUNTY A rundown on the breweries in Asheville and Buncombe County by neighborhood

DOWNTOWN Lexington Avenue Brewery, 39 N. Lexington Ave. The popular foot-traffic destination combines a brewpub with a spacious restaurant serving snacks, sandwiches, salads and entrees. 11:30 a.m. until last call Monday-Saturday, noonmidnight Sunday. lexavebrew.com One World Brewing, 10 Patton Ave. Access to the underground taproom with a speakeasy vibe is at the end of a short alley separating Farm Burger and Salsa’s restaurants. 2 p.m.-midnight Monday, 4 p.m.-midnight TuesdayWednesday, 2 p.m.-midnight Thursday, noon-midnight Friday-Saturday, noon10 p.m. Sunday. oneworldbrewing.com Thirsty Monk, 92 Patton Ave. Known for its big selection of Belgian beers, the pub also features house brews by Norm Penn. 4 p.m.- midnight Monday-Thursday, noon-1:30 a.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-10 p.m. Sunday. monkpub.com Wicked Weed Brewing, 91 Biltmore Ave. The combination restaurant and brewery is famed for sour and barrel-aged beers. 11:30 a.m.-11 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 11:30 a.m.11 p.m. Thursday, 11:30 a.m.-1 a.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-11 p.m. Sunday. wickedweedbrewing.com

NORTH ASHEVILLE BEER NEAR BILTMORE: Hillman Beer and Rise Above Deli opened in spring 2017 on Sweeten Creek Road near Biltmore Village. Pictured, from left, are brewery co-owners Brad Hillman, Brandi Hillman and Greig Hillman. Photo courtesy of Hillman Beer

SOUTH SLOPE Asheville Brewing Co., 77 Coxe Ave. The new home to the brewery’s production operations includes a covered patio, house beers, full liquor bar, restaurant serving pizzas, burgers and more. 11 a.m-11 p.m. Sunday-Wednesday, 11 a.m.-midnight Thursday-Saturday. ashevillebrewing.com Ben’s Tune-Up, 195 Hilliard Ave. Just around the corner from the downtown Asheville Brewing, Ben’s has house beers and sakes, plus tasty Asian eats like dumplings and egg rolls. 4 p.m.2 a.m. Monday-Friday, 2 p.m.-2 a.m. Saturday-Sunday. benstuneup.com Bhramari Brewhouse, 101 S. Lexington Ave. Located behind The Orange Peel music venue, it has a big selection of house beers, full restaurant and a parking lot. 11 a.m.-midnight Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. FridaySaturday. bhramaribrewhouse.com Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave. Multiple new beers join popular returning creations each week, so be prepared

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for a range of fresh, exciting tastes. Burial is soon adding a second location near Biltmore Village at 16 Shady Oak Drive. 2-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-10 p.m. Friday-Sunday. burialbeer.com Catawba Brewing Co., 32 Banks Ave. The Morganton brewery was one of Western North Carolina’s pioneering craft breweries. 2-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-10 p.m. Sunday. catawbabrewing.com Eurisko Beer Co., 255 Short Coxe Ave. One of Asheville’s newest breweries strives to craft a range of styles that reflect the standards of tradition while playing with modern processes. 4-10 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, 2-10 p.m. Saturday, 2-8 p.m. Sunday. The Funkatorium, 147 Coxe Ave. Wicked Weed Brewing’s second location offers a wide variety of sour and barrel-aged beers in a cool, Old World ambiance. 2-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-midnight Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday. wickedweedbrewing.com/ locations/funkatorium

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Green Man Brewery, 23 Buxton Ave. With a predominantly English and Irish style of brewing, one of the Asheville brewing scene’s originators has greatly expanded and now has a top-floor balcony area next door to the original Dirty Jack’s taproom. Greenmansion: 2-10 p.m. MondayThursday, noon-11 p.m. FridaySaturday, noon-10 p.m Sunday. Dirty Jack’s: 2-9 p.m Monday-Thursday, noon-11 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Sunday. greenmanbrewery.com Hi-Wire Brewing, 197 Hilliard Ave. The circus-themed brewery’s original location and home to its specialty and small-batch beers. 4-11 p.m. MondayThursday, 2 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday, noon1 p.m. Saturday, 1-10 p.m. Sunday. hiwirebrewing.com Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. Tim Weber runs this 10-barrel system and neighborhood pub. 3-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 2 p.m.-midnight Friday, noon-midnight Saturday, 1-10 p.m. Sunday. twinleafbrewery.com

Asheville Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave. The brewery’s original location remains active, thanks in part to its discount movie theater and family game room. 11 a.m-11 p.m. SundayWednesday, 11 a.m.-midnight ThursdaySaturday. ashevillebrewing.com Ginger’s Revenge, 829 Riverside Drive, Suite 100. Nestled in an unassuming warehouse, the welcoming space offers alcoholic ginger beer plus grain-based beers. 4-9 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday, 4-10 p.m. Friday, 2-10 p.m. Saturday, 2-8 p.m. Sunday. gingersrevenge.com Habitat Brewing Co., 174 Broadway. The neighborhood pub serves both house and guest beers. 3-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 3 p.m.-midnight Friday, noon-midnight Saturday, noon10 p.m. Sunday. habitatbrewing.com Zillicoah Beer Co. 870 Riverside Drive. Located along the French Broad River, one of Asheville’s newest players specializes in open-fermented farmhouse ales and lagers. 2-10 p.m. Monday-Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday, noon-8 p.m. Sunday. zillicoahbeer.com

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AVL BEER WEEK SOUTH ASHEVILLE Catawba Brewing Co., 63 Brook St. The Biltmore Village tasting room was the brewery’s first Asheville property. 4-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 3-10 p.m. Friday, 2-10 p.m. Saturday, 2-9 p.m. Sunday. catawbabrewing.com French Broad River Brewery, 101 Fairview Road. One of Asheville’s oldest breweries frequently offers live music at its taproom. 1-8 p.m. daily. frenchbroadbrewery.com Hillman Beer, 25 Sweeten Creek Road. This small, family-owned brewery focuses on classic styles. 11 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayThursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday, noon11 p.m. Saturday, noon-10 p.m. Sunday. hillmanbeer.com Hi-Wire Brewing, 2 Huntsman Place. Affectionately dubbed The Big Top, the brewery’s production facility is also home to such festivals as fall’s Stout Bout. 4-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 3 p.m.-midnight Friday, noon-midnight Saturday, 1-10 p.m. Sunday. hiwirebrewing.com Sweeten Creek Brewing, 1127 Sweeten Creek Road. Owned and operated by Joey and Erica Nelson, who both previously worked at Highland Brewing Co., it also includes a popular sandwich shop. 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m. TuesdaySaturday, 11:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Sunday. sweetencreekbrewing.com Thirsty Monk, 2 Town Square Blvd. The Biltmore Park pub offers copious outdoor seating. Noon-midnight MondayThursday, noon-1:30 a.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-10 p.m. Sunday. monkpub.com

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Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway. Asheville’s first craft brewery has a big indoor tasting room, a rooftop space and a meadow with live music. 3-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, noon-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-6 p.m. Sunday. highlandbrewing.com Turgua Brewing, 27 Firefly Hollow Drive, Fairview. This small farmhouse brewery uses locally sourced ingredients in its beers. 4-7 p.m. Thursday, 4-9 p.m. Friday, 1-8 p.m. Saturday, 1-6 p.m. Sunday. turguabrewing.com Whistle Hop Brewing Co., 1278 Charlotte Highway, Fairview. The brewery is built inside old railroad cars and includes a patio. 4-10 p.m. Thursday, 3-10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday, noon-9 p.m. Sunday. whistlehop.com

RIVER ARTS DISTRICT New Belgium Brewing Co., 21 Craven St. The city’s biggest brewery ships its beer throughout the eastern U.S. The Liquid Center tasting room overlooks the French Broad River and a greenway. 11 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday,

noon-8 p.m. Sunday. newbelgium.com/ Brewery/asheville Wedge Brewing Co., 37 Payne’s Way and 5 Foundry St. Both located in the River Arts District, the original Payne’s Way brewery has a great view of a Norfolk Southern railroad line. The Foundry Street location on the Foundation property is next to 12 Bones Smokehouse. Both locations: noon-10 p.m. daily. wedgebrewing.com

BLACK MOUNTAIN Lookout Brewing Co., 103 S. Ridgeway Ave. The small-scale brewery turns out a big lineup of beers and is a popular local hangout. 2-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 2-10 p.m. Friday, noon-10 p.m. Saturday, 2-7 p.m. Sunday. lookoutbrewing.com Pisgah Brewing Co., 150 Eastside Drive. Famous for its pale ale, the brewery books big musical acts and local performers for its outdoor stage and inside the taproom. 4-9 p.m. Monday-Wednesday, 2-11 p.m. Thursday-Friday, noon-11 p.m. Saturday, 1-10 p.m. Sunday. pisgahbrewing.com

WEAVERVILLE Blue Mountain Pizza and Brewpub, 55 N. Main St. The popular downtown café has a small brewery with house beers. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, 11 a.m.10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday. bluemountainpizza.com Eluvium Brewing Co., 11 Florida Ave. The new downtown operation serves four house beers at a time alongside guest offerings. 4-9 p.m. Thursday, 2-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday, noon-8 p.m. Sunday. eluviumbrewing.com Zebulon Artisan Ales, 8 Merchants Alley. Just off Main Street, the brewery serves small pours and flights in its modest tasting room, as well as chilled 750-milliliter bottles that are also available to go. 1-6 p.m. Friday-Saturday. zebulonbrewing.com

WEST ASHEVILLE Archetype Brewing Co. 265 Haywood Road. The spacious taproom features a variety of beer styles, including recent forays into barrel aging. 3-10 p.m. MondayThursday, 1 p.m-midnight Friday-Saturday, 1-9 p.m. Sunday. archetypebrewing.com Oyster House Brewing Co., 625 Haywood Road. Famous for its Moonstone Oyster Stout, brewed with oyster shells, the neighborhood brewpub offers a nice selection of seafood. 3-11 p.m. MondayThursday, 3 p.m.-midnight Friday, 11 a.m.-midnight Saturday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday. oysterhousebeers.com UpCountry Brewing, 1042 Haywood Road. Operated by John Cochran, cofounder of Terrapin Beer Co. of Athens, Ga., it includes a restaurant. 2-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 2 p.m.-midnight FridaySaturday. upcountrybrewing.com X

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COLLABORATIONS, PROMOTIONS AND SPECIALS The following events will take place throughout AVL Beer Week 2018, Friday, May 25, through Saturday, June 2.

12 BONES AND OSKAR BLUES AVL BEER WEEK THROWDOWN G 12 Bones South, 3578 Sweeten Creek Road, Arden, prices vary 12 Bones South will serve barbecue and sides infused with beer from Oskar Blues Brewery throughout AVL Beer Week — excluding Sunday and Monday when the restaurant is closed. Selected pairings, Oskar Blues swag giveaways and a beer can cooler takeover will also be featured.

SIERRA NEVADA TAPROOM AVL BEER WEEK MENU G Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 101 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River, prices vary The Taproom at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. will debut a special AVL Beer Week menu featuring the four ingredients of use in brewing beer — malt, hops, yeast and water.

POST 70’S H&H DISTILLERY SHANDY SPECIAL Post 70, 1155 Tunnel Road, $TBD Post 70 will feature a shandy cocktail special made with H&H Distillery Highway 9 gin and local lemonade.

ASHEVILLE BREWING COLLABEERATION WEEK Asheville, Brewing Co., 77 Coxe Ave. and 675 Merrimon Ave., prices vary Celebrating 20 years of friends and film, Asheville Brewing Co. will release five small-batch beers during AVL Beer Week. All beers will be available only on draft starting at 5 p.m. There will also be limited availability at the Tacos & Taps drive-thru next to the Merrimon Avenue location and Asheville Pizza Co. South, 1850 Hendersonville Road, Suite A. • Friday, May 25: Bantha Milk Blueberry Milk Stout re-release • Saturday, May 26: Zillicoah Beer collaboration — Brett IPA

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• Wednesday, May 30: Mad Co. Brewing collaboration — Beet and Hibiscus Mixed Culture Saison • Friday, June 1: Oyster House Brewing Co. collaboration — Oyster Seaweed Gose • Saturday, June 2: French Broad River Brewery collaboration — Pilsner

BOILERMAKER SPECIALS AT SOVEREIGN REMEDIES Sovereign Remedies, 29 N. Market St., prices vary During AVL Beer Week, Sovereign Remedies will feature daily boilermaker specials with a different beer and shot each day. • Friday, May 25: House Belgians (Allagash Brewing Co. White, Brewery Ommegang Three Philosophers Belgian-style Quad, Mother Earth Brewing Weeping Willow Wit) and a shot of Old Forester bourbon • Saturday, May 26: Mikkeller Beer with a shot of Elijah Craig bourbon • Sunday, May 27: Burial Beer Co. beer with a shot of tequila (TBA) • Monday, May 28: Oskar Blues Brewery Pinner IPA and Dale’s Pale Ale with shot of George Dickel whiskey • Tuesday, May 29: Hi-Wire Brewing beer with Jim Beam bourbon • Wednesday, May 30: Clown Shoes Beer beer with Old Overholt rye whiskey • Thursday, May 31: Highland Brewing Co. beer with Catoctin Creek Roundstone rye whiskey • Friday, June 1: Wicked Weed Brewing beer with Four Roses bourbon • Saturday, June 2: Grimm Artisanal Ales Castling Farmhouse Saison with High West whiskey

TRICKY MONK BEER COCKTAIL SPECIAL AT TOP OF THE MONK Top of the Monk, 92 Patton Ave. Cocktail maven Kala Brooks has created a special beer-infused cocktail featuring Tricky Monk Tripel that will be available throughout AVL Beer Week at Top of the Monk in downtown Asheville.

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EVENTS THURSDAY, MAY 24 AVL BEER WEEK THIRSTY THURSDAY 5:30-10:30 p.m., McCormick Field, 30 Buchanan Place, $25-40 Kick off your AVL Beer Week experience with an Asheville Tourists’ Thirsty Thursday baseball game and $2 craft beers. Game starts at 7:05 p.m. Leap Frog Tours will offer its Thirsty Thursday shuttle, with locations and pickup times as follows: 5:30 p.m. — Waynesville — Leap Frog Tours office, 419 N. Haywood St. —$40/person 5:45 p.m. — Canton — Ingles parking lot, 630 Champion Drive —$40/person 6:15 p.m. — Asheville — Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. —$25/person 6:30 p.m. — Asheville — Aloft Hotel, 51 Biltmore Ave. — $25/person *Shuttle price includes a reserved-seat game ticket. Arrive 15 minutes before the shuttle pick-up time. For tickets, visit avl.mx/4yc.

FRIDAY, MAY 25 AVL BEER WEEK KICKOFF PARTY AT THE SOCIAL 7:30 p.m., The Social, 1078 Tunnel Road Get AVL Beer Week off to a fun start with live music and local beers.

MOUNTAIN SPORTS FESTIVAL Starting at 5 p.m., Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road The weekendlong event features competitions in paddling, adventure racing, cycling, running, disc golf, ultimate frisbee, climbing, skateboarding and more. There will also be live music, vendors, food and beer.

SIERRA NEVADA SUMMER ALE RELEASE Starting at noon, 101 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River This is Sierra Nevada’s AVL Beer Week Summer Ale, a easy-drinking, juicy-hopped IPA with Chinook, Citra and Simcoe. It will be on tap at the Mills River brewery taproom throughout AVL Beer week.

HIGHLAND BREWING CO. BRUT HOP CHAMPAGNE RELEASE Starting at noon, 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Suite 200 Highland Brewing Co. releases its most recent small batch — Brut Hop Champagne — in celebration of AVL Beer Week. This is a crisp tropical beer with hints of mango, pineapple and stone fruit, dry-hopped with Azacca, Ekuanot and Hallertau Blanc.

BREWING FOR WHISKEY PRODUCTION 2 p.m., Oak & Grist Distilling Co., 1556 Grovestone Road, Black Mountain Did you know that the process of creating craft whiskey first means brewing a beer? Oak & Grist’s craft whiskey is made from a wort containing 100 percent malted barley from Riverbend Malt House. This informative tour will show attendees how brewing a singlemalt beer is a necessary precursor to the production of whisky, and highlight parallels between the brewing and distilling industries, including equipment names, ingredients and processes.

FREE FOOD FRIDAY AT MILLS RIVER BREWERY G 4-8 p.m., 330 Rockwood Road, Unit 103, Arden Free Asian tacos and more than 20 signature brews.

HIGHLAND SAMPLING AT OMNI GROVE PARK INN 4-6:30 p.m., 290 Macon Ave. The Omni Grove Park Inn is the backdrop for a tasting of seasonal and year-round offerings from Highland Brewing Co.

MEET THE BLENDER WITH NEW BELGIUM BREWING 5-7 p.m., Tasty Beverage Co., 162 Coxe Ave., Suite 101 Instrumental in the progression of NBB’s 20-year-old sour program, Lauren Limbach, head blender and sensory analyst at New Belgium, will share her knowledge and experiences.

SALUTE TO SOURS: New Belgium Brewing Co. celebrates its 20-year-old sour program with multiple AVL Beer Week events. Photo courtesy of New Belgium

SATURDAY, MAY 26 RELEASE PARTY FOR NEW ENGLAND IPA AT MILLS RIVER BREWERY G Starting at noon, 330 Rockwood Road, No. 103, Arden Mills River Brewery will release its first New England IPA for AVL Beer Week. This hazy Citra and Mosaichopped juice bomb is a must for the IPA lover. Fresh seafood and oysters will be available with live music provided by local singer-songwriter Jonathon Cox. Food begins at 1 p.m., music at 6 p.m.

EXISTENTIAL RHYTHM RELEASE AND GATHERING OF THE GOSES FESTIVAL G 11 a.m., Bhramari Brewing, 101 S. Lexington Ave. Join Bhramari Brewhouse and Twin Leaf Brewery as they celebrate the release of their collaboration Existential Rhythm, a margarita-inspired, goseMOUNTAINX.COM/BEERWEEK

style ale brewed with lemongrass, Makrut lime leaves and lime basil. Noon, Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. Be a part of the very first Gathering of the Goses Festival. Twin Leaf will showcase five small-batch goses on tap and release its first bottle collaboration with Bhramari Brewing. There will also be a beer and doughnut pairing flight all five goses paired with five specialty mini doughnuts from DoughP Doughnuts.

CLOUD COVER HAZY IPA SERIES RELEASE NO. 2 G Noon-11 p.m., 32 Banks Ave., Asheville and 63 Brook St. Join Catawba Brewing Co. to celebrate its second limited release from the Cloud Cover Hazy IPA Series. Rebellion Roads Hazy IPA is cloudy, intensely hopped, hugely flavorful and less bitter than traditional West Coast IPAs. Three Eggs Cakery will host a pop-up shop 2-6 p.m. at the 32 Banks Ave. location with sweet treats specially crafted to pair with this beer. 2018 AVL BEER WEEK OFFICIAL GUIDE

BEER EVENTS SOURS ON THE SOUTH SLOPE Noon-2 p.m., Burial Beer, 40 Collier Ave. Join Burial Beer for a double bottle release of two special sour beers. Brewers will be on the scene to provide tastes of other beers in the sour program.

BRUISIN’ ALES 2018 CUSTOMER APPRECIATION DAY Noon-9 p.m., Bruisin’ Ales, 66 Broadway Free tasting All Day – Noon-9 p.m. Sample Bruisin’ Ales Golden Glove Beers: Pisgah Je Ne Sais Quad and Green Man Olde Hearty Ale, plus staff favorites. Receive a 10 percent discount on Golden Gloves Beers, all staff favorites and all Bruisin’ Ales merchandise all day. Vintage local beers tasting – 1 p.m. Sample Pisgah Hellbender Barleywine (2008), Highland Imperial Black Mocha Stout (2008), French Broad Wee Heavy-est. Giveaways will include vintage local bottles, a Bruisin’ Ales hoodie and Bruisin’ Ales merchandise package. There will be a 10 percent discount on local large-format bottles 1-4 p.m. Vintage Trappist Ales – 4 p.m. Sample Westvleteren 8 and 12, Rochefort 8 (2012, magnum), Achel Extra (2009). Giveaways will include a Westy 8/12 two-pack, Rochefort 8 magnum (2012), Achel Extra 750-milliliter bottle (2009), Bruisin’ Ales Golden Gloves gift pack, Bruisin’ Ales T-shirt. Take a 10 percent discount off all Trappist beers 4-7 p.m. New IPAs – 7 p.m. Sample four of the freshest and newest IPAs in the shop. Giveaways inlcude a $50 gift card, Bruisin’ Ales hoodie and Bruisin’ Ales merchandise package. Take 10 percent off all IPAs 7-9 p.m.

ASHEVILLE’S OFFICIAL BEER MILE 1-1:30 p.m., Carrier Park Velodrome, 220 Amboy Road, $20 Each competitor drinks three cans of beer and runs three laps. For tickets and details, visit avl.mx/4z8

JUST BREW IT 2-5 p.m. (VIP entry at 1 p.m.) Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundy St., $30-60 Just Brew It, a homebrew festival to benefit Just Economics’ living wage initiative, moves to a new location

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this year. The festival features more than 100 beers and more than 40 of the finest homebrewers in the region. Admission is limited to Just Economics members, so join the organization now. Basic membership is $30 and includes entrance to Just Brew It with unlimited beer samples. Standard membership is $40 and includes admission, unlimited samples, a souvenir tasting glass and a raffle ticket. VIP membership is $60 and includes all of the previous perks along with early entry at 1 p.m. for a chance to beat the crowds, plus a food truck voucher. For tickets and details, visit avl.mx/4xw.

MENAGE A FREAK TRIPLE IPA RELEASE PARTY 5 p.m.-close, Wicked Weed, 91 Biltmore Ave. Expect stilt walkers, tarot readers, jugglers, magicians, acrobats and more. Highlights include music from the Gypsy Swingers 5-7 p.m., aerial trapeze 7-7:30 p.m. and 9:30-10 p.m., music by Mayhayley’s Grave 7:30-9:30 p.m. and music from Drayton and the Dreamboats 1 p.m.-midnight.

SOUR SYMPOSIUM WITH LAUREN WOODS LIMBACH G 5-8 p.m., New Belgium Brewing Co., 21 Craven Street, $65 In this Sour Symposium created for Asheville Beer Week, New Belgium’s wood cellar director and blender, Lauren Woods Limbach, will lead a slideshow and open discussion on the genesis of wild ales such as La Folie, Le Terroir and Biere de Mai, with a focus on the blender’s art and techniques. This will be followed by a hands-on blending workshop where guests will be led through the process of experimenting and creating their own blended beer using samples of single-barrel unblended beer from New Belgium’s Foeder Forest. Light bites will be provided by chef Brian Canipelli of Cucina 24. Seating is limited. RSVP at avl.mx/3v1

FLIGHTS AND BITES AT HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS G 7-9 p.m., 174 Broadway, $27 Chef Dan Silo will create a special menu of four small plates to pair with four Habitat brews. This is a seated beer dinner event, so tickets are limited. A percentage of ticket sales will

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benefit Hood Huggers International, a social enterprise that provides opportunities for young people while helping to spark more grassroots economic development. For tickets, visit avl.mx/4xt.

MILLS RIVER BREWERY AND ECUSTA BREWING AVL BEER WEEK IPA RELEASE Noon-7 p.m., 330 Rockwood Road, Arden, and 49 Pisgah Highway, No. 3, Pisgah Forest Mills River Brewery and Ecusta Brewing Co. have joined forces to create a delicious New England Session IPA, brewed specifically for AVL Beer Week. An easy-drinking beer brewed with Citra and Belma hops, this IPA will be released at both breweries.

SUNDAY, MAY 27 BEER CITY 20K RELAY 10 a.m-noon, Carrier Park Velodrome, 220 Amboy Road, $25-60 Choose to run a 20K race solo or in teams of two (10K each) or four (5K each). For tickets and details, visit avl.mx/4z9

BREWERY VOLLEYBALL TOURNAMENT Noon-5 p.m. Creekside Taphouse, 8 Beverly Road Some of Asheville’s finest breweries will bring their game out to the sand court for some fierce competition. Smack-talking rights and a lifetime of glory are all at stake, so naturally there will be beer specials and plenty of fun to be had. Come out and cheer for your favorite beer purveyor as Hi-Wire, Highland, New Belgium, Sierra Nevada, Oskar Blues, and Pisgah face off to see who is the top gun.

TOTAL SUMMER ECLIPSE: DARK BEER DAY AT THE WHALE 2-10 p.m., The Whale, 507 Haywood Road Total Summer Eclipse is a day to celebrate all beer that is dark. Staff favorite dark beers from around the world will be served all day. Discounts will be available.

20 YEARS OF SOUR CELEBRATION 2-6 p.m., New Belgium Brewing, 21 Craven St. Celebrate 20 Years of New Belgium’s wood-aged sour program and the return of La Folie Sour Brown Ale into its beloved cork-and-cage package.

EXPERIMENTAL HOP IPAS WITH STAN HIERONYMUS 5-7 p.m., Zebulon Artisan Ales, 8 Merchants Alley, Weaverville, $30 Stan Hieronymus, author of Brew Like A Monk, For The Love of Hops and Brewing Local, joins Zebulon Artisan Ales for a tasting and lecture about IPAs brewed with rare, experimental hops varieties. These hops are not yet available to brewers, so you can be one of the first to sample them. Space is limited. RSVP to gabe@zebulonbrewing.com

LIVE AT ALOFT WITH OSKAR BLUES 5-8 p.m., Aloft Hotel, 51 Biltmore Ave., $5 suggested donation at door An evening of raffles, beer from Oskar Blues Brewery and a rooftop concert with all proceeds going to Give to the Music.

MONDAY, MAY 28 SOVEREIGN REMEDIES AND OSKAR BLUES BOILERMAKER BARBECUE G 4 p.m.-2 a.m., Sovereign Remedies, 29 N. Market St. Sovereign Remedies and Oskar Blues will team up for an all-day boilermaker barbecue. Select Oskar Blues beers will be paired with the infamous George Dickel No. 8 for boilermakers and there will be barbecue on the patio.

DETOX TO RETOX YOGA WITH THE ASHEVILLE BREWER’S ALLIANCE 11 a.m.-noon, The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave., $17 Please arrive 15 minutes early to get settled in. Bring a mat and a water bottle. Be prepared to work it in Vinyasastyle flow and jam out to some great tunes. For tickets, visit avl.mx/4xu.

AMERICAN BEER IN THE 1800S WITH STAN HIERONYMUS 1-3 p.m., Zebulon Artisan Ales, 8 Merchants Alley, Weaverville, $30 Author Stan Hieronymus will talk about the history of American brewing from Colonial times to the turn of the 20th century. Swankey, Brilliant Ale and Kentucky Common are just a few of the early-American beers you will be able to sample during this lecture and tasting. Space is limited. RSVP to gabe@zebulonbrewing.com

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Try one or try them all. GOOD FOUNDATION: Wedge Brewing Co.’s Foundation location will host both the annual Just Brew It homebrew festival and a Riverkeeper Beer Series river float and cleanup event during AVL Beer Week. Photo by Cindy Kunst

MEMORIAL DAY KEG HUNT BENEFITING BLUE RIDGE ROLLER GIRLS

AVL Beer Week. The Asheville Brewers Alliance will receive 15 percent of sales from this IPA throughout the day.

1-10 p.m., starts at Hi-Wire Brewing, 197 Hilliard Ave., $120 per team ($20 per person) Hi-Wire Brewing collaborates with Conundrum Escape Adventures to present the Memorial Day Keg Hunt benefiting the Blue Ridge Roller Girls. Ten teams of six people will be sent into downtown Asheville with the mission of following a series of clues leading them to a final secret destination, where there will be free Hi-Wire beer, food and live music. The first team to complete the challenge will receive a free keg from Hi-Wire Brewing to be used at a future date. Additional raffle prizes will be given out at the after-party to all participating teams. All proceeds from registration and door donations will benefit the Blue Ridge Roller Girls. The scavenger hunt is 1-6 p.m., the party is 6-10 p.m.

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AVL BEER WEEK IPA RELEASE AT CATAWBA BREWING 2 p.m. 32 Banks Ave. Based out of Argentina, Güira brewing Co. and Beata Brewing have teamed up with Catawba to create a double dry-hopped, fruity IPA recipe based off of Güira’s popular Bomber IPA for

5-10 p.m., 1042 Haywood Road Beer and food pairings will highlight new menu options at Upcountry Brewing, with the weekly Bluegrass Jam starting at 7 p.m. Pairing options include: • UpCo Mountain Lager with elote pizza, a play on the Mexican street food with charred corn, crumbled cotija cheese and chili-lime powder. • Isoprene Hazy IPA with sticky beef ribs and sweet potato fries • Mangose with tangerine-chili shrimp salad and lime cilantro vinaigrette • TBA Porter with bacon jam breakfast burger For details, visit avl.mx/4yg.

LAGERS FOR LIFE 5-10 p.m. Burial Beer, 40 Collier Ave. Join the Burial Crew to celebrate Memorial Day with music, munchies and a double lager release. Cans of Innertube will be fresh off the can line and released alongside the fourth Ambient Terrain Lager, brewed in collaboration with Oxbow Brewing Co.

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6-10 p.m., Asheville Music Hall, 31 Patton Ave. By donation Hi-Wire’s flagship brews will be the spotlight as the Asheville Music Hall hosts an early evening of fun and fundraising for the Blue Ridge Rollergirls. Asheville’s funk Frankenstein group, UniHorn, will jam as members from Dub Kartel, Empire Strikes Brass, Laura Reed and Deep Pocket and more set the stage for a fun night. Local and national beers will also be highlighted. Proceeds go to the Blue Ridge Rollergirls. This is an all-ages show.

BEER WEEK TRIVIA AT THE CASUAL PINT 6:30-9 p.m., The Casual Pint, 1863 Hendersonville Road Celebrating the camaraderie of the Asheville beer community, the Casual Pint and Hi-Wire Brewing will tag team for a “Friends”-themed AVL Beer Week trivia challenge. Prizes will include swag from Hi-Wire and The Casual Pint. There will also be a raffle for two general admission tickets to the Beer City Festival.

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TUESDAY, MAY 29 SIERRA NEVADA PILOT BREWERY TOUR 2-3 p.m., Sierra Nevada Brewing, 101 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River, $20 In honor of Celebrate American Craft Beer Week (May 14-20) and AVL Beer Week, Sierra Nevada will offer a detailed tour of its pilot operation, where its 20-barrel Kaspar Schulz pilot brewing system creates “heartbreaker” and “audition” brews that are only available at the source. Tour includes beer samples and a free empty growler. Open to ages 12 and older. RSVP required. Visit avl.mx/4yh.

BURIAL BEER CO. AND ONE WORLD BREWING AVL BEER WEEK BRETT IPA RELEASE 2-10 p.m., Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave. To fully celebrate the spirit of Asheville, Burial will release a funky Brett IPA in collaboration with One World Brewing. This rustic, full-bodied IPA is brewed with a blend of pale barley, local wheat and lactose.

EXPLORING ARCHETYPES: Archetype Brewing co-owners Steve Anan, left, and Brad Casanova participate in this year’s AVL Beer Week IPA theme with the release the brewery’s The Explorer IPA on Friday, June 1. Photo by Cindy Kunst

SIERRA NEVADA TAILGATE MARKET AVL BEER WEEK FEATURE

BARLEYWINE RELEASE AT EURISKO BEER CO.

4-8 p.m., Sierra Nevada Brewing, 101 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River Brewers will demonstrate the process for creating Sierra Nevada’s signature Pale Ale in the parking lot during the Sierra Nevada Tailgate Market. The market takes place 4-7 p.m. Tuesdays on the brewery’s Mills River campus.

THIRSTY MONK AVL BEER WEEK FARMHOUSE IPA RELEASE AND PINT NIGHT 4-10 p.m., Thirsty Monk South, 2 Town Square Blvd. Thirsty Monk Biltmore Park will release its Farmhouse IPA in celebration of AVL Beer Week. Tickets will also be available for the Not So Big BIG Beer Fest for the following evening. Every full pour of Farmhouse IPA comes with its own limited edition AVL Beer Week Thirsty Monk tulip glass.

‘FERMENTED’ BEER DINNER AT WHITE LABS 6-8:30 p.m., White Labs, 172 S. Charlotte St., $60

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MALT TALK WITH RIVERBEND AT BHRAMARI BREWING 7-8 p.m., Bhramari Brewing Co., 101 S. Lexington Ave. Learn about artisanal malts with Riverbend Malt House. Sample a hot steep (malt tea) to experience all the flavor, color and aroma of different malt styles.

AVL BEER WEEK MEGA TRIVIA 8-10 p.m., Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. In addition to its weekly trivia, Twin Leaf Brewery hosts a MEGA monthly trivia event with double the prizes. This month’s MEGA Trivia Night will celebrate AVL Beer Week with trivia for beer nerds and enthusiasts as well as pop culture history and more. Competition is free and starts at 8 p.m. with Tuesday pitcher specials and food from Smash Box Kitchen.

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4-10 p.m., Eurisko Beer Co., 255 Short Coxe Ave. Eurisko Beer debuts its first barleywine, Mops and Brooms. Expect notes of toffee, caramel, turbinado sugar and a hint of booze.

PINT NIGHT AT WESTVILLE PUB WITH OSKAR BLUES 5-8 p.m., Westville Pub, 777 Haywood Road Oskar Blues drafts are the focus of this Pint Night with surprise giveaways and brewery swag.

THIRSTY MONK’S NOT SO BIG BIG BEER FEST 5:30-9:30 p.m., Thirsty Monk Warehouse, 92 Thompson St., $12-20 The fifth annual small-scale beer festival features Haw River Farmhouse Ales, Founders Brewing, Jolly Pumpkin Artisan Ales, Brewery Ommegang, Birds Fly South Ale Project, Allagash Brewing and more plus several unique beers curated by Thirsty Monk. Regular admission of $12 includes a souvenir Thirsty Monk Festival tasting glass and one Thirsty Monk 750-milliliter growler to go. General admission tickets are avail-

able at the door without this special to-go growler. The $20 deluxe admission includes the previous perks plus three tokens redeemable for either beer pours or food. Tokens are available for $4 each, or three for $10 and can be redeemed for festival pours or food options. Tickets and details are available at avl.mx/4yi.

CRAWFISH BOIL WITH SIERRA NEVADA AT THE GREY EAGLE G 6-9 p.m., The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave., $20 The Grey Eagle collaborates with its brewery of the month, Sierra Nevada, to celebrate AVL Beer Week with a crawfish boil on the patio plus live music. Proceeds benefit MountainTrue. Open to all ages.

GAINING GROUND FARM DINNER G 6-9:30 p.m., Yesterday Spaces, 305 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester, $79 The annual Beer Week Farm Dinner will feature chef John Fleer of Rhubarb and chef Gene Ettison of the Green Opportunities Kitchen Ready program collaborating on a five-course beer and food pairing. Proceeds benefit Green Opportunities.

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BEER EVENTS SOUTH SLOPE BEER AND MUSIC PAIRING, ACT II

WHAT THE BRETT?! BLIND BEER TASTING

6-8 p.m., Tasty Beverage Co., 162 Coxe Ave., Suite 101 Tasty Beverage, Burial Beer Co. and Hi-Wire Brewing will team up to pair tunes with beers from the participating breweries. First, Bryan Smith of Tasty Beverage, Tim Gormley of Burial and Chris McLain of Hi-Wire will choose songs to pair with three specialty beers from each brewery. Following the curated portion of the event, guests will be able to put in requests for pairings.

6:00-8:30 p.m., Archetype Brewing, 265 Haywood Road, $15 Expect Brett, mixed-culture, barrelaged and everything in between during this blind taste test. Archetype brewers Steven Anan and Erin Jordan will describe each beer with house tasting notes then answer questions.

MEET THE BREWER AND BEER TRIVIA AT MILLS RIVER BREWERY 6:30-8:30 p.m., Mills River Brewery, 330 Rockwood Road, Arden Join Mills River Brewery for its first Meet the Brewer event. Master brewer and co-founder Joey Soukup and assistant brewers will host a special beer trivia for AVL Beer Week starting at 7 p.m.

GUIDED FLIGHT TASTING AT BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE 7-8 p.m., 101 S. Lexington Ave. A guided flight tasting with certified cicerone Dan Allen. Learn how to experience and articulate all the flavors, aromas and mouthfeels of different styles of beer.

OPEN MIC NIGHT AT TWIN LEAF BREWERY 8-10 p.m., Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. Hosted by Thomas Yon, expect good beer, music, poetry and comedy at this open mic night.

BITES AND BREW: With AVL Beer Week food events, sometimes beer is paired with food, and sometimes it’s in the food. Photo courtesy of Asheville Brewers Alliance

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THURSDAY, MAY 31 SOUR BEER AND PICKLES PAIRING G All Day, Bhramari Brewhouse, 101 S. Lexington Ave. Discover new flavors with this pairing of a sour beer flight and a flight of the chef’s pickled vegetables. All day at the brewery.

3:30-7:30 p.m., Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive, Asheville Float participants will meet at the Cascade Lounge, 219 Amboy Road, at 3:30 p.m. sharp, then put in at Carrier Park to float down to the Salvage Station. Bring your own floating device or use one of Highland’s. At the end of the trip, expect Highland favorite brews plus some tasty one-off and specialty offerings.

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4-8 p.m., Burial Beer, 40 Collier Ave. Six variations of Burial Beer’s Skillet Donut Stout will be paired in flights with six mini-doughnuts from Vortex Doughnuts. Cans of Skillet will be released for purchase in the taproom only.

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Noon-10 p.m., Catawba Brewing Co., 32 Banks Ave. and 63 Brook St. Catawba releases a new beer every Thursday through its Passport Loyalty Program. This week the brewery releases a thirst-quenching Hefeweizen at all four tasting rooms, including its South Slope and Biltmore Village locations in Asheville.

HILLMAN BEER BRITISH GOLD RELEASE Sweeten Creek Road

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4-9 p.m., Craft Centric Taproom & Bottle Shop, 100 Julian Shoals Dr., Arden Cupcakes from 3 Eggs Bakery will be individually paired with four Asheville beers. For tickets, visit avl.mx/4z5

5-11 p.m., UpCountry Brewing, 1042 Haywood Road, Asheville Friends of the Smokies is the designated nonprofit for this special AVL Beer Week Pint Night. Ten percent of the sales of each Miracle Pint will be donated to this local charity. Live music from Dave Desmelik begins at 7 p.m. with no cover.

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5:30-8:30 p.m., Smoky Park Supper Club, 350 Riverside Drive, $60 Join Asheville Ale Trail, The American Pig and Asheville Date Night Guide for a flavorful evening featuring five tables, each hosting a North Carolina farm, chef and brewery. Each table’s team will collaborate to serve a small plate highlighting locally grown ingredients paired with a craft brew. The event is designed to showcase the creativity and partnerships that make Western North Carolina’s culinary community one of the nation’s most celebrated. Profits from Plow to Plate will benefit Bounty & Soul, a local nonprofit dedicated to creating a health and wellness movement in underserved communities in Buncombe and McDowell counties. For tickets, visit avl.mx/4y0.

PIG ON A WIRE BARBECUE SAUCE COMPETITION G 5-7 p.m., Hi-Wire Brewing Big Top, 2 Huntsman Place Judging of the fourth annual Pig on a Wire Barbecue Sauce Competition presented by Luella’s Bar-B-Que and Hi-Wire Brewing is free and open to the public with live bluegrass and a specialty menu available from Luella’s. Winners will be announced at 7:30 p.m. Entries in the categories of tomato, mustard and anything “gose” (pun intended) will be evaluated by a panel of guest and celebrity judges. There is a limit of one entry per category. All entries must have Hi-Wire beer in the sauce.

Entries must be submitted by 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 29. More details and registration information is available at avl.mx/4y1. Send questions to events@hiwirebrewing.com.

BEER DINNER AT HICKORY TAVERN G 5:30-7:30 p.m., Hickory Tavern, 30 Town Square Park Blvd., $40 Hickory Tavern will host a threecourse beer dinner with Oskar Blues Brewery. Further details not available at press time.

ARCHETYPE BREWING AND AUX BAR BEER DINNER G 6-9 p.m., AUX Bar, 68 N. Lexington Ave., $45 Four courses prepared by chefs Steve Goff and Mike Moore will be paired with some of Archetype’s signature brews. For more information, contact Jen Gordon at jen@ auxbar.com. Tickets are available at avl.mx/4y2.

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THROWBACK THURSDAY WITH HIGHLAND BREWING AT FAIRVIEW TAVERN 7-11 p.m., Fairview Tavern, 831 Old Fairview Road Celebrate the ’90s with live band karaoke and a Highland Brewing Co. tap takeover featuring limited-release beers. Dressing up encouraged!

CRAFT KARAOKE AT TWIN LEAF BREWERY 9:30-11 p.m., Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. Elijah Wayne will host a night of karaoke and craft beer on the South Slope.

PISGAH BREWING AND THE FARM PRESENT: A PAIRING OF THE FINEST G 6-10 p.m., The Farm, 215 Justice Ridge Road, Candler, $55 The Farm’s on-site kitchen staff will offer a tapas menu expertly paired with beers from Pisgah Brewing Co. For details, visit avl.mx/4yk.

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CATAWBA BREWING PEACH OF MIND PEACH GRISETTE RELEASE

UPCOUNTRY BREWING’S GRAND REOPENING PARTY

Noon-11 p.m., Catawba Brewing Co., 32 Banks Ave. Catawba will wrap up AVL Beer Week with the release of Peach of Mind Peach Grisette, inspired by the 19thcentury southern Belgium ales. Brewed with a generous portion of flaked wheat, then amplified by the addition of fresh South Carolina peaches during secondary fermentation, this refreshing session beer showcases the fruity esters of its farmhouse ale yeast strain. Peach of Mind will be released within its five-state distribution on draft and in six-pack cans by the first week of June.

ARCHETYPE THE EXPLORER IPA RELEASE 1-11 p.m., Archetype Brewing, 265 Haywood Road This bold, brazen pale ale is hopped with a combination of fruity Mosaic, Azacca and El Dorado. With piney spice from Chinook hops and rye malt, it’s complex and bold with a 6.3 percent ABV.

HABITAT BREWING AND HOMEPLACE BEER CO. ABW COLLABORATION RELEASE 5 p.m.-midnight, Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway Habitat Tavern & Commons and Homeplace Beer Co. have collaborated to create a Southeastern IPA for AVL Beer Week.

ONE WORLD TAP ATTACK AT TASTY BEVERAGE 5:30-7:30 p.m., Tasty Beverage Co., 162 Coxe Ave. Limited-release specialty beers on tap from downtown’s One World Brewing.

COLD WAR KIDS AT ORANGE PEEL WITH OSKAR BLUES 8-11:30 p.m., The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave., $25-28 Cold War Kids will perform at The Orange Peel sponsored by Oskar Blues Brewery. Doors at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. Tickets are available at avl.mx/4ym.

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All Day, UpCountry Brewing, 1042 Haywood Road Wrap up AVL Beer Week and celebrate the grand opening of UpCountry Brewing’s new tasting room and outdoor space with a full food menu, corn hole, outside bar and with live music all day from Asheville’s Virginia Dare Devils and Kaizen. No cover charge. Friends, family and pets all welcome.

SEASONED SKILLET AND DIPA RELEASE 11 a.m.-5 p.m., Burial Beer, 40 Collier Ave. The release of Burial Beer’s annual batch of Seasoned Skillet, its bourbon barrel-aged Skillet Donut Stout, along with a surprise DIPA.

BEER CITY FESTIVAL Noon-5 p.m., Roger McGuire Green, 121 College St., $25-45 Asheville’s premier downtown craft beer festival brings the best local and regional breweries together for a great day of beer and music. This year’s event features over 30 breweries, all of which are members of the Asheville Brewers Alliance. Live music will also be part of the celebration. Tickets are available at avl.mx/4yn.

WEDGE BREWING FRENCH BROAD FLOAT AND CLEANUP 1-6 p.m., Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundy St. Join Asheville GreenWorks, MountainTrue, 98.1 The River, and French Broad Outfitters at the Wedge at Foundation for the next great installment of the Riverkeeper Beer Series. Come ready to float, clean up our river and taste the release of the Riverkeeper Beer at the after-party. Participants will meet at the Wedge at Foundation to be shuttled to the Swannanoa River, where they will float back to the Wedge with boats full of trash. Boats and paddling gear are provided, but folks are welcome to bring their own. This section of river is flatwater and suitable for all paddlers. The first 10 folks to register will receive the 2018 Recover Brands Riverkeeper Beer Series shirt. Everyone will have a chance to win prizes from the Asheville Gear Builders for finding the weirdest trash, most tires, creepiest trash and best overall trash haul. More details are at avl.mx/4yo.

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EVENT VENUES SOVEREIGN REMEDIES 29 N. Market St., 919-9518

SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB 350 Riverside Drive, 350-0315

SWEETEN CREEK BREWING 1127 Sweeten Creek Road, 575-2785

TASTY BEVERAGE CO. 162 Coxe Ave., 232-7120

THE CASUAL PINT 1863 Hendersonville Road, Suite 145, 385-4677

THE FARM 215 Justice Ridge Road, Candler, 667-0666

THE GREY EAGLE 185 Clingman Ave., 232-580

OH, THE PLACES YOUâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;LL GO: From farms to bars to restaurants, AVL Beer Week events move beyond breweries to diverse locations, such as this 2015 Catawba Brewing Co. beer dinner at Hickory Nut Gap Farm. Photo courtesy of Asheville Brewers Alliance

THE ORANGE PEEL

12 BONES SOUTH

THE SOCIAL

CATAWBA BREWING CO., ASHEVILLE TASTING ROOMS

LEXINGTON AVENUE BREWERY 39 N. Lexington Ave., 252-0212

1078 Tunnel Road, 298-8780

63 Brook St., 424-7290, 32 Banks Ave., 552-3934

MILLS RIVER BREWERY

THIRSTY MONK

CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM & BOTTLESHOP

MCCORMICK FIELD

265 Haywood Road, 505-4177

100 Julian Shoals Dr., Unit 40, Arden, 676-0075

NEW BELGIUM BREWING

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE

3578 Sweeten Creek Road, 687-1395

ALOFT ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN 51 Biltmore Ave., 232-2838

ARCHETYPE BREWING

31 Patton Ave., 255-7777

AUX BAR 68 N. Lexington Ave., 575-2723

APPALACHIAN VINTNER 745 Biltmore Ave., 505-7500

ASHEVILLE PIZZA AND BREWING CO. 77 Coxe Ave., 255-4077 675 Merrimon Ave., 254-1281

BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE 101 S. Lexington Ave., 214-7981

8 Beverly Road, 575-2880

EURISKO BEER CO.

330 Rockwood Road #103, Arden, 585-2396 30 Buchanan Place, 259-5800 21 Craven St., 333-6900

OAK & GRIST DISTILLING CO. 1556 Grovestone Road, Black Mountain, 357-5750

255 Short Coxe Ave., 774-5055

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FAIRVIEW TAVERN

290 Macon Ave., 800-438-5800

831 Old Fairview Road, 505-7236

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY

HABITAT BREWING CO.

342 Mountain Industrial Drive, Brevard, 8832337

174 Broadway St., 484-6491

HIGHLAND BREWING CO. 12 Old Charlotte Highway, 299-3370

HICKORY TAVERN 30 Town Square Blvd., 684-0975

Biltmore Park, 2 Town Square Blvd., 687-3873, Downtown, 92 Patton Ave., 254-5470 Warehouse, 92 Thompson St.

THE WHALE CRAFT BEER COLLECTIVE 507 Haywood Road, 575-9888

TOP OF THE MONK 92 Patton Ave., 254 5470

TWIN LEAF BREWERY 144 Coxe Ave., 774-5000

UPCOUNTRY BREWING CO. 1042 Haywood Road, 575-2400

WEDGE BREWING CO.

150 Eastside Drive, Black Mountain, 669-0190

5 Foundry St., 253-7152 37 Paynes Way, 505-2792

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PISGAH BREWING CO.

1155 Tunnel Road, 298-9777

91 Biltmore Ave., 575-9599

POUR TAPROOM

WHITE LABS KITCHEN & TAP

2 Hendersonville Road, 676-2588

172 S. Charlotte St., 828-974-3868

25 Sweeten Creek Road, 505-1312

ROGER MCGUIRE GREEN

WESTVILLE PUB

HI-WIRE BREWING

Pack Square Park, downtown Asheville

777 Haywood Road, 225-9782

220 Amboy Road

2 Huntsman Place, 738-2448 197 Hillard Ave., 738-2448

SALVAGE STATION

YESTERDAY SPACES

466 Riverside Drive, 407-0521

305 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester, 777-6948

CASCADE LOUNGE

INNOVATION BREWING

SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO.

ZEBULON ARTISAN ALES

219 Amboy Road, 232-7095

414 W. Main St., Sylva, 586-9678

100 Sierra Nevada Way, Fletcher, 681-5300

8 Merchants Alley, Weaverville

BURIAL BEER CO. 40 Collier Ave., 475-2739

CARRIER PARK

101 Biltmore Ave., 398-1837

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1. Feathers at Scandals 5. Quick goodbye on the Double D’s bus? 9. Notorious Ugandan leader 13. Hop-drying kiln 14. Three beers to two? 16. “Forbidden” Polynesian lager 17. Praise-lending addition to girl or boy 18. Arizona college town 19. 32-across, downstairs at 20+61 across 20. Parched part of a legendary pub (serving local 32-across upstairs) 22. Como te ____? 24. Expected score at Richmond Hills 25. “Who knows?!” 26. Element of One World Brewing logo 31. Wine popularized by Nina Simone? 32. 19-across, upstairs at 20+61 across 33. Request a treat? 36. Telephonic spelling aid 37. Readies a field 39. “Around” (prefix) 40. Revolutionary Turner 41. Frog friend 42. Moviehouse serving 32-across 43. Where to find Burial beer? 46. Oils a 61-across? 50. UNCA, in Bristol 51. Small part of the Arboretum? 52. Biggest fans of Twin Leaf Brewing? 57. Hot stage of a 25-down process 58. Delightful member of the Asheville Mushroom Club 61. Pious part of a legendary pub (serving Beligian 19-across downstairs) 62. Unrepeated 63. Releases 64. 55-down opposite 65. MTN Merch wares 66. Headlamp lights

Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio • 15 TV’s Sports Room • 110” Projector • Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

35 Beers on tap

l mostly local & regiona

Check out our NEW beer flight specials:

67. Old guy at Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary?

DOWN 1. Wedge passerby? 2. Vow 3. Italian source of bubbly beverages 4. Lookout Observatory sight 5. “Rat” follower, on a door 6. Their homophone 7. Masc. counterpart 8. Post-32-across “move” 9. Tourist opportunity? 10. Disfigures 11. BB&T building reno element 12. Slowly consume a 32-across 15. Thinks better of? 21. Hopeful sort of building? 23. Mr. Cowardly Lion 25. Make 32-across 26. Construct a brewery itinerary 27. One White of White Labs 28. Landed 29. Artist Goldin 30. Abbey, for a 61-across

33. ___catcher Mountain 34. Home of Guiness, poetically 35. Overdo, lily-wise 37. Frances, for example 38. Dudes drinking Wee Heavy-er? 39. Expert at Biltmore Forest Country Club 41. Melt at Loretta’s 42. Dour 44. Handsome in the mountains 45. Sweet Blue Ridge metamorphic rock 46. 61-across boss 47. “___ here gets out alive” 48. Like a backyard wedding keg 49. 34-down and her neighbors 53. Apple introduced in 1998 54. Serving 19-across to a 20-year-old 55. 54-down opposite 56. Asheville Vaudeville offering 59. mountainx.com, e.g. 60. French in an obituary

WNC IPA FLIGHT

PACK’S PRIDE FLIGHT

Asheville Brewing Co. Shiva IPA Catawba Brewing Hop-ness Monster Green Man Trickster IPA Lost Province Citra IPA

Hi-wire Lager Pisgah Pale Ale Highland Gaelic Ale Asheville Brewing Co. Ninja Porter

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