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Eyes in the sky Thanks to high-resolution cameras and relatively modest cost, drones are considered a game changer for things like airborne surveillance and photography. But with FAA regulations many months away, numerous concerns remain unresolved. covEr dEsign Elizabeth Bates

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Is Asheville becoming Boomtown, N.C.? “Paris of the South,” “Beer Town, USA” — is “Boomtown, N.C.” next? daniel hall’s “No Room at the Inn” [May 13, Xpress] is a much-needed discussion on what is unfolding before us here in Asheville. … While there is no doubt that Asheville is in need of more lodging for the increasing number of tourists, the concern is, “How is it going to be accomplished?” Indeed, what will Asheville look like in a decade or two? One would hope that foresight and wisdom might prevail, especially when building in the historic core of downtown. … Besides the current number of hotels being built and planned, those located in the downtown area should be of special concern. Location, height and design should all be carefully scrutinized by the city’s officials when considering plans. … When we talk about Asheville’s attributes … we should also be recognizing the architectural gems of [Douglas] Ellington, [Rafael] Guastavino, [Richard] Sharp Smith and others that make walking around town a pleasure and draw tourists here. No offense to BB&T, but no one comes to town and ogles that building and exclaims, “What a lovely rectangle!”

Worrisome, too, is when a 12-story hotel right across from the historic Grove Arcade (and Flat Iron Building) gets approval from City Council, and the developer is quoted as saying, “A box would be a very simple thing to do.” Hopefully, the design plans for a structure that will rise too high above the [Grove Arcade] will be more complementary than what was allowed to be built on Biltmore Avenue. The Aloft Hotel may be a fine hotel (great service and all), but the mod-box design, cinder-block base, blue-green stripes and neon is better suited to Myrtle Beach or some other coastal town. In my opinion, this was a mistake and is totally incongruous to everything going on in Asheville and especially on a main street. Complementary it is not. How does this happen? In a town rich with unique buildings from the 1920s (closing in on 100 years old), shouldn’t there be stronger laws on the book that ensure that new structures that are built in the central business district (how about renaming it the central historical district?) are complementary in architectural style and not so high that they dwarf what people came to see in the first place? Otherwise, that decade or two down the road, we will have killed the goose that laid the golden egg. — Brad Dawson Barnardsville

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Let Asheville residents benefit from tourism With such a strong and growing tourism industry and a city average hotel room occupancy of 70 percent, the concern and resistance from the hotel and bed-and-breakfast industry about individual residents listing rooms for short-term rental on Airbnb or other similar sites is overstated and unwarranted. Why not formally allow Asheville and Buncombe County residents to list and offer shortterm rentals and collect and submit the same 4 percent occupancy tax required by hotels and B&Bs? Isn’t there enough to go around and everyone benefit? Mr. [daniel] hall’s article [“No Room at the Inn,” May 13, Xpress] discussed how tourist spending filters throughout the greater community at large. Why not allow individual residents to benefit more from the growing tourist industry? — David Frechter Asheville

Create more bike lanes for safety’s sake I have long been an advocate for biking as a form of transportation. Often, a bicycle is vehicle enough to get where we need to go for our daily activities. Generating no pollution, riding a bike doubles as an excellent fitness program and allows for enjoyment of the environment around us as we go. I have one request: Please create the infrastructure for bicyclists that is safe. Putting bikers on a road designed for auto traffic is a hazard — to all parties involved. Bikers need their own lanes. This becomes even more important if we will be encouraging more biker tourism in the area [“Putting Bikes in Beds,” May 13, Xpress].

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Please — help there be fewer individuals needing a Ride of Silence in their memory. — Dr. Mary Ann Iyer Asheville

Don’t risk children’s health with Duke Energy substation As a grandmother of a child who will be attending the new Isaac Dickson Elementary School in the fall, I’m very concerned that Duke Energy is planning to build a large, 115-kilovolt power substation — 200 feet from the school property line! The electromagnetic field, a form of radiation, is a health risk for the 500-plus children enrolled at Isaac Dickson. Valid studies have shown an increased risk of childhood leukemia and other cancers in children exposed to EMFs. There are a number of other dangers. In October 2014, in Florida, a boy was killed when he scaled the fence of a power substation — built next to a park! — to retrieve his basketball. There have been situations where children have climbed fences surrounding EMF substations and have been electrocuted. [Earlier this month], in Candor, a substation exploded into flames and billowing smoke! This is not a structure that should be built anywhere near a school or where children gather! The Isaac Dickson PTO has strongly objected to the location of this substation because of health and safety risks for the students. The Asheville [Board of Education] has written a resolution due to its concern about this location of a Duke Energy substation. City officials also need to be advocates for the safety and wellbeing of Asheville children. — Marge Renfroe Asheville

Build apartments for homeless veterans This is my reply to Mayor [Esther] manheimer’s, Homeward Bound’s and alan ditmore’s letters that were published in the Mountain Xpress about ending veterans’ homelessness in Asheville [“City of Asheville Works with Partners to House Veterans,” April 29; “Homeward Bound Works to End Veteran Homelessness,” May 6; and “Asheville’s Restrictions Help Cause Homelessness,” May 6, respectively].

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I agree with Alan Ditmore’s statement that the mayor did not completely answer my question, and really, there is no way, because of the lack of affordable housing in Asheville, that she can live up to the challenge by [first lady] Michelle Obama that she accepted. I am a veteran and at one time got a HUD-VASH voucher but was unable to find affordable housing with it. This is why I have been repeatedly saying that if the city of Asheville really wants to fulfill the mayor’s promise to Michelle Obama to end veterans homelessness, it is going to have to figure out a way to fund and build a veterans apartment building or create some affordable housing for veterans another way. Right now, Homeward Bound has a letter both in Mountain Xpress and the Asheville CitizenTimes pleading with landlords to come forward with apartments for veterans with HUD-VASH vouchers, and I predict that very few will because many don’t want to accept the vouchers, don’t want veterans in the program in their apartments and can get more money from

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Kudos to Harris Teeter, shoppers for supporting troops This May, we want to salute Harris Teeter and the Asheville location for its continuing efforts to help support the military during Military Appreciation Month and honor the men and women of the armed services. This cause recognizes all that North Carolina’s military families give to our state and our country. The proceeds that are generously given to the Asheville’s Harris Teeter “Support our Troops” campaign will help the families and service members of the Army National Guard detachment 2211th Military Police Company located in Hendersonville. Through the help of Asheville’s Harris Teeter “Support Our Troops” campaign, their patrons help both the

USO and Wounded Warrior Project (WWP) ― two organizations committed to supporting our troops and their families and, in many cases, saving lives. Funds raised in North Carolina will stay in North Carolina. The USO of North Carolina salutes the Harris Teeter associates for asking and their customers for generously donating $1, $3 or $5 to “Support our Troops” at their local store’s checkout register. Last year alone, this community-based donation campaign hosted by Harris Teeter raised more than $1 million in a given month; with over $376,000 raised for USO of North Carolina and over $587,000 over three years. This enabled us to expand critical resiliency programs around posttraumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, as well as essential transition assistance programs vitally needed for our troops and their families. The USO of North Carolina offers a wide variety of impactful support programs across the state to help North Carolina active duty troops, National Guard and Reserves,

including our wounded warriors. For nearly 75 years, the USO has supported America’s military and families not only during times of conflict, but also as they heal from both visible and invisible wounds of war and reintegrate into their communities and civilian workforce. The USO of North Carolina provided over 575,000 innovative, effective programs and services to troops and their families in North Carolina. We could not do this without the support of partners like Harris Teeter and their patrons. … Thank you to Harris Teeter for its partnership on this critical campaign, and thank you to all the North Carolinians who help improve the lives of our military. John W. Falkenbury President, USO of North Carolina Concord

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The Gospel According to Jerry Sin City History 101 Eventually, this trafficking spawned a new industry: NASCAR, whose roots were in the informal races held on dirt tracks scattered around Western North Carolina and beyond. There, young drivers like Junior Johnson competed for the bragging rights for best driver and fastest car.

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Of course, much like the stories of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, this whole illegal industry was romanticized and glorified by songs and movies such as Thunder Road, filmed right here in Asheville in the late ’50s with Robert Mitchum in the lead role. The filming generated much excitement, and many locals served as extras. Several appeared in the classic scene at the Sky Club (a famous nightclub up on Beaucatcher Mountain — but more about that in a future column). The only liquor runner I ever actually knew was a wonderful black man with a big, toothy smile and a great sense of humor. “Willie” told me about a time in his younger days when he was hauling stoh-bought likker out of Newport, Tenn., a notorious supply center. He was running up old U.S. 25 toward Asheville — a narrow, winding road — and just as he

based on the car registration, telling the judge how the driver had abandoned his car and run up a mountain. The judge took one look at Willie and, concluding that a man on crutches couldn’t possibly do that, dismissed the warrant and gave Willie back his car. In his later years, Willie worked for Harry’s Cadillac doing road repairs. Once, he was called to fix a flat tire on a hot summer day for a woman who lived on Kimberly Avenue. She was very unhappy about the flat tire and berated Willie mercilessly. Finally, he’d had enough. Grabbing the ice pick he’d used to remove the hubcap, Willie unceremoniously drove it into his cork leg — right in front of her. The lady fainted. This is the first installment of Sin City History 101. Your homework is to rent and view Thunder Road. X

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And it came to pass that the population of the pristine, pious pueblo of Asheville became pitifully parched following the 1919 ratification of the 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the manufacture and sale of alcohol for consumption. After Prohibition was repealed in 1933, states were given the option of legalizing alcohol, but most Bible Belt states continued the ban. It was said that as long as voters could stagger to the polls, Oklahoma would remain a dry state, and the same could be applied to North Carolina. None of this was lost on a group of ambitious, skillful, courageous road warriors who braved the threat of law enforcement and the dangers of death-defying, high-speed chases over wicked mountain roads to supply our mountain community with the distilled fruits of our great American agricultural output. These drivers delivered two different classes of products: “stohbought likker,” sold legally in other states but illegal in the Old North State; and our own homegrown product, made from fermented corn. “Moonshine” was produced by the light of the moon, to prevent law enforcement from detecting the smoke from the fire required to distill the resulting alcohol. All that was needed to distribute joy and pleasure (or pain and suffering, depending on one’s viewpoint) to consumers was a delivery system. Accordingly, these young adventurers became highly skilled drivers and mechanics, altering their car engines to produce more speed and power in an effort to outrun the sheriffs and revenuers with whom they were constantly at war. Enforcement of liquor laws was spotty and, as with all prohibited social sins, often tarnished by politics and corruption.

crossed the Buncombe County line, the revenuers were waiting for him. Realizing that he couldn’t outrun them, Willie pulled around a curve out of sight, jumped out of his car and ran up the mountainside. The revenuers didn’t make a great effort to find him in the dark, content just to confiscate his car and the illegal hooch. Willie waited till they’d left and then hitchhiked back to Asheville. When he got home, Willie took off his cork leg, pinned up his pants leg and fetched his crutches. He caught a ride to the courthouse and hobbled into the magistrate’s office to report that his car had been stolen. The revenuers had just finished swearing out a warrant for Willie

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With the Federal Aviation Administration still many months away from issuing rules on the commercial use of drones, Western North Carolina entrepreneurs are eager to offer customers a bird’s eye view. Thanks to high-resolution cameras and relatively modest cost, drones (aka unmanned aircraft systems) are considered a game changer for things like airborne surveillance and photography. Those commercial applications are in limbo till the rules are finalized. Despite the FAA ban, however, some local businesses are already using drones. “Aerial photography is now spectacular AND affordable,” proclaims dragonflylive.com, the website for nathan silsbee’s Asheville-based company. Silsbee says he’s shooting weddings, real estate, adventure sports such as skiing and other commercial applications. “Traditional photography and videography are very much used in the media today,” he explains. “Those types of angles are becoming a little bit boring. When you see something from the air, it’s really unique. We’re excited to offer that commercially; the possibilities are endless.” Aiming to prevent aviation disasters, the FAA issued draft rules in February governing who can fly drones and under what conditions. Commercial operators would have to pass a written test, register the drone and pay about $200 in fees. Businesses could fly only during daylight hours, and the devices would have to stay in sight of the operator or other observer charged with monitoring the drone. They could fly no more

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than 100 mph and would have to stay below an altitude of 500 feet to avoid collisions with other aircraft. But a public comment period on the proposed rules is expected to last at least until early in 2017, and in the meantime, it’s illegal to charge money for flying drones. Once the regulations are finalized, the agency anticipates that more than 7,000 operators will obtain drone permits within three years. “I think it’s important that it’s regulated and that people have qualifications to fly them commercially, because they can be dangerous,” notes Silsbee. “Whether the FAA gets their ducks in a row or not, people are going to be flying them. It’s very important that they finalize those regulations, so people like us can promote our services on a large scale.”

a nEw pErspEctivE: “Aerial photography is now spectacular and affordable,” declares Nathan Silsbee’s website, dragonflylive.com. Photo by Nathan Silsbee

Meanwhile, the rapidly evolving technology has privacy advocates worried about overzealous governments spying on citizens. privacY concErns Last August, the N.C. General Assembly passed legislation setting guidelines for the use of drones by police and other public agencies. The American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina opposed the measure, which was tucked into a budget

bill approved in the session’s waning hours. sarah preston, the organization’s acting executive director, says she worries about ever-present “eyes in the sky.” No law enforcement agency in the state is using drones yet, says Preston, but it’s inevitable that some will. “Our concern is that law enforcement is going to start using drones to surveil people while they’re on their own private property and while they’re at First Amendment-type activities like rallies or protests,” she explains. “Essentially, what we would like is for the use of these drones to be subject to the same restrictions as any other type of surveillance — that law enforcement needs to get a warrant to surveil or track an individual or to basically keep an eye on somebody’s private property.”

But the state legislation, she points out, allows drone surveillance of public gatherings on private property. “So if I invited a large group of people over to my house for a barbecue, let’s say, law enforcement could then use a drone to surveil my property without the property owner’s permission and without a warrant.” Police, notes Preston, could also use drones to monitor public rallies or protests, employing biometrics or facial recognition technology to track who’s attending such events and what sort of political affiliations they have. And unlike other kinds of aircraft, she explains, drones “can be incredibly small and very quiet, so it’s unlike a helicopter, which is going to be some distance from your property just by the nature of how it’s flown. Drones can get very, very close to your property — it can get close-ups of your property, of you on your property — and for that reason it poses a special privacy risk.” Asheville activist barry summers calls the state’s law enforcement provisions “a step toward eroding a free society. Anyone you meet, any rally you go to, there could be a drone overhead collecting video and audio on anyone who’s there.” Any time someone is on public property, “They can follow you with a drone without a warrant.” But Summers’ concerns don’t end there. “The real creepy one,” he continues, “is that anything a law enforcement officer can see within his field of vision, they can put a drone there without a warrant. So if he’s standing on the sidewalk and can see your backyard, they can fly a drone over your backyard. Imagine if an aggressive law enforcement agency decides to push the envelope on that.” potEntiaL appLications An FAA waiver allows the NextGen Air Transportation Center, based at N.C. State University, to test-fly drones at sites in Butner, Moyock and Hyde County, N.C. The testing includes photographing farmland as a potential way to assess crop damage. Kyle snyder, the center’s director, estimates that the drone industry could create more than 1,100 jobs by 2025. He told a legislative panel last year that state law enforcement agencies, the Department of Transportation and

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the Department of Environment and Natural Resources are all interested in using drones. In 2013, the General Assembly imposed a moratorium on governmental use of drones and established a study commission after the city of Monroe announced plans to buy a drone for its Police Department. The state’s chief information officer, however, can issue waivers. Under the 2014 state law, drone operators would have to be at least 18 years old, have a valid driver’s license and pass a skills test. But those requirements won’t take effect until the FAA finalizes its own rules. Meanwhile, Asheville resident ty hallock says he’s working to help organize a local drone flash mob. The idea would be to fly about 40 drones equipped with LED lights at

night, creating a showy visual display that would underscore the need to deal with the drone issue. “There’s not really legislation in place to allow us to move forward with these entrepreneurial ideas,” he says. Hallock foresees using drones for things like checking water quality in streams and rivers or delivering vaccines to remote areas. But first, the rules of the game need to be in place. “The opportunities for the entrepreneurial community in places like Asheville and Silicon Valley can do a lot better if we have proper mechanisms,” he maintains. a popuLar hobbY The FAA already has basic rules for hobbyists in place. Those drones must be kept below 400 feet in altitude, within sight of the operator and away from airports. About a year and a half ago, clark cross bought a small drone at an Asheville hobby shop for $99. He took it home, flew it for about a week and was hooked. Soon, he had to have a bigger one. “The appeal is definitely getting a bird’s eye view of stuff,” he reports.

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“It’s getting video and photos that until now you would not be able to get without a helicopter. You can fly over animals without spooking them. “I went to Devil’s Courthouse, up off the Parkway, and I was able to sit in my jeep in the parking lot and fly all the way to the base of the mountain and then pan all the way up to the observation deck. It’s just beautiful.” Cross, who owns a garage door company, says he’d like to get into the drone photography business. He’s got friends in real estate and contracting who could use such services. “A lot of them want me to get some aerial footage of their listings or their finished houses,” he reveals. “I haven’t charged for anything like that yet. I think it would be a pretty easy source of income, especially given how much easier they are to fly now.” commErciaL appEaL Low overhead and relatively inexpensive equipment are part of drone photography’s appeal for budding entrepreneurs. “It’s kind of crazy,” says Cross. “For $1,000 you’re getting an HD camcorder that shoots 1080p video, 13 megapixels, that you can send 1,500 feet into the air. I learned pretty quickly how to repair them, because if you fly them you’re going to crash them.” Local drone enthusiast dan caylor spent about $1,200 for a DJI Phantom, plus another $100 for an extra battery. The popular model is the same one a man crashed near the White House recently. Thanks to advances in GPS technology, notes Caylor, operating these devices is “super easy. If you take your hands off the controller, it will just sit there and hover. It’s so easy just to take it out of the box and get it up flying.”

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Caylor says he’s used his drone at weddings, but he mostly considers flying it and shooting video from up high as just a fun hobby. “To me, it’s just being able to get up there and get a different perspective on the world, a bird’s eye view. It’s just really cool.” Asheville Multimedia owner bob peck says he’s been using a drone to get what he calls an “establishing shot” for his wedding videos. But he’s careful not to violate the FAA ban. “It’s one of those fine lines you have to walk,” he explains. “I tell people that a drone shot is just a part of what you’re getting; it’s not what you’re paying for. It’s just like one shot in the video. The FAA will actually fine people, but there are so many people out there flying those, it’s kind of hard for them to police everyone and shut everyone down.” Peck concedes that there are dangers associated with flying drones, adding that he tries hard to avoid them. “I’m always super cautious about not flying over people or buildings or property,” he reveals. “I don’t want to damage anything or hurt anybody. I’ve flown a drone where the battery just quit and it just shut down. It’s kind of scary to think that it could fall on somebody, especially from a high elevation.”

if You fLY thEm, You’rE going to crash thEm: Dan Caylor with his drone at Memorial Stadium in Asheville. Photo by Clarke Morrison

potEntiaL pitfaLLs A YouTube video depicting a mishap at a wedding went viral last year. “The couple was, like, kissing and posing,” says Peck. “The drone was sweeping toward them, and it totally ran into the bride and kind of knocked her over. That’s totally not cool.” Peck says he recently shot an event at The Omni Grove Park Inn

and began using a drone to get an exterior shot of the hotel when he was stopped by a security guard who cited privacy concerns. “I respected that and brought it down immediately,” he notes, adding, “I’m not using it for any nefarious purposes.” But there’s no doubt that drones offer a photographic

perspective that can’t be had otherwise, Peck maintains. “I think it’s a great opportunity for people like me and other people out there who use it for other reasons. There are just marvelous shots you can’t get any other way. It’s opening up all kinds of creative outlets.” To learn more about drone use, visit http://www.knowbeforeyoufly.org. X

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If the creek don’t rise Flooding, money and politics in the River Arts District

City plans to improve infrastructure, expand public space, increase access and encourage private development in the River Arts District have triggered considerable controversy. In connection with New Belgium Brewing Co.’s $175 million commitment to build a new facility directly across the river, the city broke ground on its Craven Street Improvement Project last year, which includes pedestrian and bike facilities, stream restoration, greenways and parking as well as stormwater management and water line improvements. Since then, however, public debate has raged over the long-term plans for the river corridor, with city officials, prospective developers, concerned property owners and RAD businesses all weighing in. Opponents argue that increased development in the low-lying district will heighten the risk of flooding, while supporters claim that steps are being taken to mitigate flood risks. It’s a complex question: The entire area sits in the flood plain, there’s a long history of large, destructive flood events, and increases in impervious surface will necessarily affect water levels. With all this in mind, Xpress reached out to the city, RAD business and property owners, and organizations involved in the now flourishing area’s revitalization to try to answer some key questions. What are the risks? How might new construction affect them? And what are the various levels of government, community members and private investors doing to mitigate the risk of property damage the next time the French Broad takes a notion to spill over its banks? In the first of a two-part series, we take a look at the district’s history, some current plans — and what opponents are saying about them. high watEr historY Any consideration of flood risks in and around the RAD must begin

high watEr marKs: The 2004 flood caused more than $200 million in damage, despite cresting well below the 1916 flood level. Xpress file photo. INSET: A view of the 1916 flood, taken by Herbert Pelton from below Smith’s Bridge and the Cottom Mill. Photo courtesy of North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, N.C.

with the great flood of 1916, when a succession of hurricanes clobbered the Southern Appalachians. In July of that year, heavy rains falling on already saturated soil triggered a massive flood that caused widespread destruction in the city and across the region. Asheville alone saw roughly $1 million in property damage (about $23 million in today’s dollars) as infrastructure was washed away or buried by subsequent landslides, and some 80 lives were lost. History repeated itself in September of 2004, when hurricanes Ivan and Frances swept across the Blue Ridge, dumping heavy rains on the area. With water piling up behind the dams at the Bee Tree and North Fork reservoirs, the city decided to open the floodgates, and the combined impact of those events caused both the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers to spill over into Biltmore

Village and other areas. While not as deadly as its predecessor, the 2004 flood caused 11 deaths and more than $200 million worth of damage. “From Black Mountain to Biltmore Village, the floodwaters tore out trailers, stranded livestock and motorists alike, inundated businesses and ruined livelihoods,” Xpress reporter brian postelle wrote in a 2007 account of the catastrophe. The article documented the experiences of business owners, who suffered from lack of insurance coverage and lost revenue. In the wake of the disaster, the city and partner organizations like RiverLink to ramp up efforts to address flood concerns and mitigate future threats. Earlier that same year, both the city and county had officially adopted the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay plan, developed by RiverLink over the course of two years. Building on such earlier efforts as the 1989

Riverfront Plan and 1991 Asheville Riverfront Open Space Design Guidelines, the RiverWay plan calls for 17 miles of greenways along the French Broad and Swannanoa rivers, with biking and walking paths, strategic development zones within the river corridor, and a reevaluation of transportation and infrastructure needs in the RAD. Against that background, RiverLink helped secure Federal Emergency Management Agency funding that enabled the city to purchase floodprone properties in the RAD and laid out plans for mitigating future risks, says Executive Director Karen cragnolin. “The Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Master Plan was developed to demonstrate best practices along the river corridor,” she explains. “It has attracted over $100 million in funding and is the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization’s No. 1 priority project.” Cragnolin maintains that “flooding for WNC is not an ’if,’ it’s a ’when,’ and we must be honest about that.” In the future, notes Cragnolin, developers and the city must plan carefully, using the latest approaches to manage stormwater runoff, including limiting the amount of impervious surfaces in and around the RAD and replanting buffer zones in flood-prone areas. Asheville native Jerry sternberg, a developer and longtime resident who owns property in the corridor, applauds RiverLink’s renovation efforts, though he acknowledges that he’s often butted heads with Cragnolin and the organization. “There’s always a dichotomy between the gentrifiers and the antigentrifiers,” he notes. “Before they started doing all this, Depot Street was a ghost town and the River Arts studios were just shack-ety old warehouses. I don’t know if they get brownie points for saying we’ve gone this far and don’t want to go further: It’s hard to stop progress.” Structural improvements to the Smith and Pearson bridges, Sternberg maintains, have reduced the potential for flooding somewhat, and replacing Norfolk Southern Railways’ aging trestle across the French Broad could make a significant difference. “When they

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In recent years, the long-running efforts by RiverLink, the city and others to convert an industrial wasteland into a vibrant community have succeeded spectacularly. Beginning with an influx of artists seeking cheap studio space in the 1990s, the district has blossomed into one of Asheville’s main tourist draws. Local business ventures like the Wedge Brewing Co. and 12 Bones Smokehouse have become attractions in their own right, gaining national attention and encouraging city and state agencies to support RiverLink’s ongoing cleanup efforts. “Twenty years ago, very few could imagine the French Broad as it is today,” Cragnolin wrote in a 2014 commentary in Xpress. She points to the many artistowned businesses, rising property values and the arrival of New Belgium as signs of a bright future for the district.

Sternberg concurs, saying, “It’s working out pretty well. We have the new container restaurant going in down there, and they turned a lot of it into parks, mostly in the flood zone.” Meanwhile, projects such as Mountain Housing Opportunities’ Glen Rock Apartments and Clingman Lofts have dramatically increased both the number of residents in the area and the support services available to them. The RAD Lofts, a proposed housing complex on the former Dave Steel property on Clingman Avenue, promises to further swell that tally; last August, City Council approved a $764,000 incentive package for the private project. And further planned public investments could spur additional interest in developing the area. In an interview on “Good Morning America” earlier this year, pauline frommer of Frommer’s Travel Guides praised both the revitalization efforts to date and the additional improvements planned, saying things finally seemed to be looking up for the formerly “sketchy” waterfront. Nonetheless, some RAD property and business owners are beginning to question the wisdom of such rapid expansion in a historically flood-prone area — and the amount of public and private money being invested in the district without proper long-term planning.

wash-out: A number of business owners in the RAD, such as 12 Bones Smokehouse’s Brian King, have expressed concerns that the city’s plans for new development in the district could raise floodwater levels around existing businesses. Photo via Xpress.

dEvELopmEnt fEars and propErtY rights “Let me be very clear: We are not opposed to greenways, bike paths, parks and the general overall improvement of the River Arts District,” declares mari peterson, chief reporter for the watchdog site ashevillerivergate.com. She and husband chris peterson, a longtime local business owner and former city vice mayor, have been vocal opponents of recent proposals to invest millions of taxpayer dollars in what she calls a potential “money pit.” As part of their efforts to resist the city’s plans, they launched the website in March. “We are property owners and experienced the 2004 flood and the smaller floods before that,” she explains. “There are still substantial flood concerns, and in fact, they’ve gotten worse.” The Petersons’ concerns stem, in part, from a May 14 announcement by the Asheville Area Riverfront Redevelopment Commission that the city has hired Austin, Texas-based contractor Code Studio to develop a “form-based” zoning plan for the RAD. Established in 2010, the joint city/county body is charged with: making policy recommendations to local governments, promoting investment in the district, reviewing plans for major developments, and working with neighborhood stakeholders. Form-based zoning focuses

on appearance and design rather than on a property’s specific use (see box, “What’s Going On?”). The Petersons and Asheville River Gate are among a number of RAD community members who are questioning the city’s proposals for improving the area, which Mari Peterson says will increase flooding. “I’m not an expert, but you can read any basic flood information and it basically says that by increasing the amount of impervious surfaces, you increase flood issues,” she adds. Peterson cites the RAD Lofts and a planned parking deck as examples of the kinds of developments that will increase stormwater runoff and raise water levels in the river corridor. The city, she notes, expects to see roughly $200 million in private investments in the district over the next few years. And one of those projects, alleges Peterson, might be sited on property in the flood plain that the city purchased, using FEMA funding, specifically to prohibit development. Asked about the charge, stephanie monson dahl, director of the city’s Riverfront Redevelopment Office, says a consultant hired by the city had pointed out that building a hotel on the 10-acre parcel directly across from New Belgium would give the highest return on taxpayer dollars. “It

was one of four scenarios, and it’s not the scenario the city is pursuing. The city is not pursuing a certificate to get the restrictions removed, as has been reported.” Dahl also stresses that the suggestion “wasn’t about breaking federal laws; it was about getting the restrictions off the lands. ... The reason you can’t build on it was because of the funding that was used to purchase it. It wasn’t because it’s in a floodway.” “At this point, the city is not interested in building hotels,” Dahl adds. “The private sector is on top of that.” Peterson, however, also raises other concerns, claiming that the city and the Riverfront Redevelopment Commission “want to go from 50,000 square feet of developable space to 1 million,” within that protected area. And any developer building on that parcel, she maintains, will want incentives to cover their losses when the next big flood happens. “The entire area is within the 100year flood plain, and if you read up on that, it doesn’t mean that it will take another 100 years to happen,” she notes. “It means there’s a one in 100 chance that a flood of that size will happen each year.” For bryan King, who bought 12 Bones in 2013, the specter of flooding is a constant concern. “Whenever it rains continuously, we worry and must keep a close watch on the river level,” he says , citing statistics from the North Carolina Flood Risk website. “Our address is rated high, with an 85 percent chance of flooding in the next 15 years,” notes King, adding that building more structures around the restaurant will only increase those odds. “An 85 percent chance within the next 15 years sounds pretty high to me.” Chris Peterson owns the property where King’s restaurant sits, which

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The tailgate on tom riddle’s 19-year-old truck catches the attention of passers-by as he cruises the streets of Western North Carolina. The tailgate, custom-painted by andrea martin in February, features a replication of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., altered to show the names of those veterans from the WNC region, as well as throughout the state, who died in the war. “She put the names of five of the men that I served with on there,” says Riddle. “She did a lot of homework and found all the names from Western North Carolina.” The list of names also includes six soldiers with whom he attended grade school in Henderson County, he adds. Martin, a Hendersonville native, is currently working on her third custom-painted tailgate project to honor veterans. A floor-plan designer for Deltec Homes, Martin says her mother is an artist, but Martin never tried her own hand at painting until 2014, when a family friend, charlie hardin, asked her to paint the tailgate of his truck. “I’m possibly the most patriotic person you’ve ever met,” Hardin says. “I love this country and I love the people that serve it, so I guess that’s how I came up with the idea.” Hardin, an Army veteran, says he wanted his tailgate to depict the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and the rolling hills at Arlington National Cemetery. He hopes to commis-

sion Martin to paint scenes from World War I, World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars later this summer. “A lot of people might see [my tailgate] and think, ‘Well, that’s really nice,’ but they may not know what it stands for,” says Hardin. “It stands for the people who gave their lives for this country. There’s people buried in that cemetery from every conflict that this country has had.” For Martin, painting the tailgates is an opportunity to extend her gratitude to all veterans, she says. “He [Hardin] told me stories about how, whenever they got home from Vietnam, they told him, ‘Don’t wear your uniform. Don’t be known because you’re going to get spit on, you’re going to get attacked,’” she says, and then adds, “I don’t want them to think they’re unnoticed.” Her grandfather had a career in the Army, which included tours in World War II and the Korean War, earning him a Bronze Star and Purple Heart, she notes. As a result, her father instilled a love of country in her, and she says she hopes to pass that on to her 9-year-old son, brayden martin. For spring break this year, she says, they went to Washington, along with Hardin, to tour the war memorials. “I want him to have a great appreciation. We have an amazing life, me and him, and it’s not free,” says Martin. “I told him when I was painting these tailgates, I

said, ‘Brayden, this man still deals with pain from our freedom that he fought for 40 years ago. You can never take that for granted -- never, ever, ever.’” Martin and her son volunteer with Sheep Dog Impact Assistance of WNC, a branch of the national nonprofit that focuses on supporting military members and emergency personnel. Through these experiences, she says she’s gained more awareness about the struggles facing veterans. “One thing I’ve learned this past year and a half, getting to know the veterans, is it never goes away. Even if they’re alive 40 years after the Vietnam war, there’s a veteran who has a hard time sleeping,” says Martin. “It never goes away. They deal with it every single day.” Riddle, who was drafted into the Army in 1966, says he still copes with the loss of his brothers-in-arms. “I can live with it, but it took me a long time,” he says. “I still see every one of their faces, to this day.” He says he hopes Martin’s artistry inspires the public to be kinder to veterans. According to him, his family members were the only ones to welcome him home when he returned to Haywood County in 1968. “I’m proud of what they’re doing for our veterans now that are coming home. The Vietnam veterans never got that,” says Riddle. “I just want to recognize the Vietnam veterans. It’s way past due.” Martin, who says she never anticipated becoming a painter, says she is honored to be a part of these mobile memorials and treasures the bond she’s fostered with Hardin and Riddle. There is one text message, she says, she will never delete because it means so much to her. “It says, ‘Everybody that passes me on my way to the shop slows down to take a look. One car from South Carolina, I had to pass him three times because he kept going back and forth,’” she reads from her cellphone, “‘I know it hit home with him. I’ve got to go, I’m getting tears. Thank you. You just gave justice to all who served, and the 58,220 we lost.’ That was powerful for me.” X

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Men’s Garden Club of Asheville 683-1673, mensgardenclubofasheville.org • TU (6/2), noon - Monthly meeting. $11. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. N.C. Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • SA (5/30) & SU (5/31), 9am-4pm - Asheville-Blue Ridge Rose Society exhibition. Admission fees apply. Sand Hill Community Garden sandyhillcommunitygarden. blogspot.com • SU (5/31), 4pm - Community pot luck and garden tour. Bring a chair and a covered dish. Free to attend.

Festivals Mills River Day 708-7388, millsriverwater.org • SU (5/31), 2-5pm - Festival on the theme “The River Connects Us,” with music, food, raffle and educational activities. Free to attend. Held at North River Farms, 3333 N. Mills River Road, Mills River Asheville Flea for Y’all

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ashevillefleaforyall.com • SU (5/31), 9am-4pm — Vintage, Antique & Art outdoor flea market. Food trucks and craft beer by the river. 468 Riverside Dr at Salvage Station.

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WHAT: Relay For Life WHEN: Saturday, May 30, 4-10 p.m. WHERE: 220 Amboy Road, Asheville WHY: Teams of fundraisers will be taking laps inside the Carrier Park velodrome this weekend to raise money for the American Cancer Society. While at least one team member is walking, the others will be hosting a variety of sales booths to raise funds. There is no size limit to the teams, many of whom host other events throughout the year to help ACS, such as lunches and fashion shows. “Relay For Life is an annual celebratory event for people to come together to support families, caregivers and cancer survivors,” says Relay For Life community manager Sandra Dennison. In addition to team-sponsored booths, other fee-based activities and opportunities to support the cause will be available, such as a

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dunking booth, dime toss, beanbag toss and a corn hole tournament. While guests are busy raising money, they will be entertained by a diverse musical lineup, including Eddie Rose & Highway 40 (bluegrass), Matthew Curry & The Carolina Two (Johnny Cash covers), PAR III (hits of the ’70s-’90s) and Thankful Hearts, who will perform gospel during a luminaria ceremony, held in memory of loved ones affected by cancer, which helps close out the evening. Memorial luminary candles can be purchased for $10. All proceeds will be used to support the American Cancer Society’s cancer research and programmatic offerings like patient resource navigators, the “Road to Recovery” program where volunteers provide rides to and from treatment, and “Look Good, Feel Better,” which helps provide wigs, skin care and counseling to cancer victims. For more information, contact Dennison at 342-4931 or visit relayforlife.org/buncombenc. — Michael McDonald

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Leicester Community Center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook. com/Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - The Leicester Welcome Table offers a hot meal and fellowship. Open to all. Free.

Government & Politics ACLU of WNC acluwnc.wordpress.com • SU (5/31), 5pm - Annual meeting. Free. Held at Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St. League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe 258-8223, abc.nc.lwvnet.org • SA (5/30), 11:30am-2pm - Annual Meeting. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University Asheville, 36 Montford Ave. The French Broad River MPO brmpo.org • TH (5/28), 12:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Henderson County Courthouse, 1 Historic Courthouse Square, Hendersonville

Kids YOUTH FILMMAKING CAMP (pd.) At NYS3 with award-winning filmmakers begins next month! One and two week camps begin June 15; progression will be offered again beginning August 3. Register: www.nys3.com; (828) 276-1212; info@nys3.com FIRST Lego League Robotics Team 258-2038 • WEDNESDAYS, 3-5:30pm - All boys and girls ages 10-14 welcome. Free. Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave. Kids’ Activities at the Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • TH (5/28), 6:30pm - Pajama Jam Sleepy Story Time. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (5/29), 3pm - LEGO Builders Club for ages 5 and up. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • SA (5/30), 10am-noon - Summer Library Fest: Summer reading program kickoff. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road Spellbound Children’s Bookshop 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free. • SU (5/31), 4pm - First in Series Book Club: Ferals by Jacob Grey. Free.

Outdoors Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted. • SA (5/30), 7pm - “Coyotes,” presentation. Held at Julian Price Picnic Ground, Milepost 296 Blue Ridge Parkway • SA (5/30), 7pm - “Yell Fire,” wildland fire presentation. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, Milepost 316 Blue Ridge Parkway • SA (5/30), 7pm - “Dinosaurs and the Blue Ridge Mountains,” presentation. Held at Crabtree Falls Campground Amphitheater, Milepost 340 Blue Ridge Parkway

Parenting Jewish Community Center 236 Charlotte St., 253-0701, jcc-asheville.org • MO (6/1), 7pm - A dialogue for high-school students and their parents about dealing with antisemitism at college. Free.

Public Lectures Buncombe County Public Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (5/27), noon - “Hungry for History: The Guastavino Family in Asheville and South America.” Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

Spirituality ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) The most effective meditation is also the most effortless. Learn how TM is different from other meditation practices (including common “mantra” methods). TM is a simple, natural, non-religious technique for going beyond the busy, active mind to access your deepest inner reserves of calm, clarity and happiness — dissolving stress and connecting you to your higher self. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. NIH-sponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or TM.org or MeditationAsheville.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, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (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. AWAKENING WISDOM (pd.) Realize the promise of Zen meditation and mindfulness for peace, wisdom and everyday life effectiveness while experiencing true spiritual connection. Individual, group and telephone sessions available with consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Very affordable. For Info contact healing@billwalz.com, (828) 258-3241. Visit www.billwalz.com CRYSTAL VISIONS BOOKS AND EVENT CENTER (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts. Event Space, Labyrinth

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and Garden. 828-687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com EXPERIENCE A HUG LIKE NO OTHER! (pd.) Amma will hold free programs on June 28-29 at the GA International Convention Center in Atlanta. More info at http:// amma.org/meeting-amma/ north-america/atlanta. OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you. Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org Adult Forum at FCC 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (5/31), 9:15am - Thirty Days: Immigration, documentary with discussion to follow. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville Shambhala Meditation Center 19 Westwood Place, 200-5120, shambhalaashvl@gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 10am-noon - Sitting and walking meditation. Free. • 1st THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Food, conversation and meditation. Free. St. Mark’s Lutheran Church 10 North Liberty St., 253-0043 • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 12:301:30pm - “A Service for Service,” service-industry worship.

Spoken & Written Word Blue Ridge Books 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • TH (5/28), 6:30pm - Mary Alice

Monroe discusses her books The Lowcountry Trilogy. Free to attend. City Lights Bookstore 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • FR (5/29), 6:30pm - Timothy Spira discusses his book Waterfalls & Wildflowers in the Southern Appalachians. Free to attend. Hendo Story Slam avl.mx/0wj • WE (5/27), 7:30pm - Storytelling Open Mic on the theme “First Times.” Free to attend. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted. • TH (5/28), 7pm - Works in Translation Book Club: Visitation by Jenny Erpenbeck. • MO (6/1), 7pm - Steve Inskeep discusses his book Jacksonland. $15. • 1st TUESDAYS, 7pm Enneagram relationships workshop. • TU (6/2), 4-6pm - Sherri Lynn Wood discusses her book The Improv Handbook for Modern Quilters. • TU (6/2), 7pm - Cindy Henry McMahon discusses her book Fresh Water from Old Wells. • TU (6/2), 7pm - Women in Lively Discussion Book Club: The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd. • WE (6/3), 1pm - Autism Book Club: The Asperkid’s Secret Book of Social Rules by Jennifer Cooke O’Toole. • WE (6/3), 7pm - Malaprop’s Book Club: The House of Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne. • TH (6/4), 7pm - Normandi Ellis discusses her book Imagining the World into Existence. Open Mic Night nothingsopowerful@gmail.com

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Volunteering LITERACY COUNCIL SEEKS VOLUNTEERS (pd.) Volunteers are needed to tutor adults in reading, writing, math and English as a Second Language. Tutors receive training and support from certified professionals. Learn more by emailing us (volunteers@litcouncil.com). American Red Cross of WNC 203 2nd Ave E, Hendersonville, 258-3888 • TH (5/28), 11:30am-1pm Volunteer Fair with information on various opportunities. Literacy Council of Buncombe County 31 College Pl. Suite B-221 • WE (5/27), 9am - Orientation for volunteers interested in reading program for low-income children. • TH (5/28), 6pm - Orientation for volunteers interested in reading program for low-income children. • FR (5/29), noon - Orientation for volunteers interested in reading program for low-income children.

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MountainTrue 258-8737, wnca.org • TU (6/2), 5:30-7:30pm - Information session for potential volunteers. Held at Southern Appalachian Brewery, 822 Locust St. Suite 100, Hendersonville Sandhill Community Garden 58 Apac Circle, 250-4260 • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm & SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Volunteers are needed to help with growing produce for donation in this nonprofit community garden.

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When donna marie todd’s husband died, she was 55. “People my age aren’t expecting their spouse to die, especially not a healthy, very active spouse,” she says. “My husband had no illnesses before his stroke; he was an avid mountain biker, runner and marathoner — the picture of health. Then he stroked and wasn’t.” Todd spent 10 months caring for her husband before he passed. Married for 23 years, she had a lot of unanswered questions about what her life would look like in the future. Bereavement counseling helped her begin to heal and understand her grief, but she found a lack of resources when she set out to rebuild her life. A professional storyteller, singer, writer, teaching artist and retreat leader from Black Mountain, she decided to create a one-day retreat for women — A Widow’s Tale. “There were things that talked about grieving,” says Todd, “but in terms of learning how to re-create your life as a single person after having been married for a while, there were no resources available for that.” As she submerged herself in research, she began to see a need to let other women know what she found. The idea for A Widow’s Tale evolved from her own experiences so that she could guide others through the healing process and help them learn ways to establish a new single-person identity. “When your spouse dies, you find yourself in this weird transitional time,” she says. “After about six months or so, you are done with all of the paperwork, such as the filing of the federal estate tax return and all of the county documents, going through the will and sorting through things in your house.

rEcLaiming LifE: After losing her husband at age 55, Donna Marie Todd created A Widow’s Tale retreat to help other widows heal from the loss of a spouse. Photo courtesy of Donna Marie Todd

“Then you find yourself in a very new place where you are now a single person again,” says Todd. “How do you reclaim your life? How do you identify your life without the other? How do you build a new life?” “The retreat offers women a place to find the tools and strategies to rebuild a life without [their significant] other,” says Todd. And this happens in a setting where the other women are supportive of what you are trying to do and why, she adds. The name for the retreat came from Todd’s passion for storytelling. “Every widow has a tale,” she says. “I want to help women claim their stories, so they can claim their healing.” “We will hold sacred space for each other,” says Todd. “There are things about being widowed that only another widow can understand.” Todd applied for and received a grant from the National Storytelling Network, which

underwrites the research she was doing and helps her develop materials for the widow-centered retreat. “The more I have gotten into the research and talked to other widows about their experience, the more I feel that these retreats are meeting a larger need instead of a smaller one,” she says. From the one-day retreat, women can expect to share their stories, learn about the science behind grief, explore techniques and exercises on how to stop fearful thinking, participate in small- and whole-group work, dabble in art and even talk about the way dating has changed over the years. “Participants leave with a plan,” says Todd. “They leave with a workbook filled with ideas, with realizations, with ‘I am’ statements, and with the support of other women that they have gotten along with.” Participants can also expect to have a lot of fun, she adds. amy arrendell, an independent real estate property manager in Asheville, lost her husband of 17

years three years ago, when she was 62. She attended the first Widow’s Tale retreat in January, searching for additional support. “The grief process doesn’t end in one year,” says Arrendell. “The retreat gave me support when hospice and other things were over. “I took away from the retreat more confidence about my progress in my grieving process,” she says. “I took away this experience of creativity that I can use anytime to bring me into the present moment, and that’s when we are happy — when we are in the present moment.” Arrendell said she really connected with the creativity part of the retreat. “We had this very simple art activity where all we did was use pieces of cloth to decorate the front of our folder that held our handouts,” she says. “Being able to experience my creativity was not something that I had done since Robert died, and I found so much

what A Widow’s Tale retreat. The cost for the one-day retreat, which includes lunch, snacks and all retreat materials, is $129. To register, call 664-1657. whEn 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Saturday, June 13. whErE Christmount Conference Center, 222 Fernway, Black Mountain morE info donnamarietodd.com/programs

satisfaction and happiness out of that very simple art activity.” Karen-Eve bayne, 58, of Hendersonville, said the biggest thing she took away from the January retreat was that she was not alone in the process. “Other people had found ways to be happy and thrive, and so could I,” says Bayne, who lost her husband 10 years ago when she was 42 years old. “I took away a hopefulness of how to move through it, honor it and move on. “I feel as though I had been given the tools to understand how grief and absence works in the mind, in the body and in the heart,” she says. “Having an understanding of that leads me to peace of mind and has enabled me to take action in life, such as dating.” Who should attend the retreat? It’s geared towards women of all ages, although younger widows may find it more helpful than those over 75, says Todd. “I think this retreat is helpful for anyone who has lost their partner,” Arrendell says. “I encourage women to attend whether that loss has been recent or it has been many, many years.” Bayne says that she thinks the retreat is best suited for women 18-24 months after a death, so they have had time to process the grief aspect of it. “If someone is really stuck and they need to be in the grief process for five years, they might not be ready for this,” says Bayne. “The retreat is for people who want to move on and learn how to process what happened to them in a positive way, and to go forward and to reclaim their life,” she says. X

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French Broad River MPO 2015-2025 TIP Adoption and Public Hearing French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization will take up for adoption the 2015-2025 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) during the May 28, 2015 MPO Board meeting. The proposed FBRMPO 2015-2025 TIP and the full set of proposed amendments may be viewed at http://www.fbrmpo. org/ There will be opportunity for public comment at a public hearing during the FBRMPO Board meeting on Thursday, May 28th at 12:30 PM at the Historic Henderson County Courthouse at 1 Historic Courthouse Square in Downtown Hendersonville. Interested parties may submit comments in person at the meeting or in writing through Wednesday, June 24th. Comments may be submitted to mpo@ landofsky.org or by phone (828)251-6622.

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The public transportation section of the MTIP also fulfills the Federal Transit Administration’s Program of Projects requirement for the City of Asheville. FBRMPO meetings are open to people of all ages and abilities. Please let us know 48 hours in advance if you require special meeting accommodation or translation services. It is the policy of the French Broad River MPO to ensure that no person shall, on the ground of race, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be otherwise subjected to discrimination under any program or activity as provided by Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other Civil Rights laws and authorities.

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City announces 400 parking spaces of affordable housing ASHEVILLE, MONDAY — Anxious to provide “workforce housing” for Asheville’s working-class residents, city ofﬁcials recently cut a ribbon that was stretched across a parking space, supported on either end by a Land Cruiser and a BMW, both with outof-state plates.

Scientists: Proposed “selfhealing clothes” could allow people to remain permanently behind fashion trends Haywood County police chase ends with a truck in a golf course pond, and a tragic triple bogey by one distracted duffer City marks 150th anniversary of Battle of Waynesville,’ which pitted Southern Baptists against outspoken Methodists over the proper exuberance level for both ﬁddling and carousing ‘The Kite Runner’ returns to school reading lists, after school board experts consult someone who can read without moving lips

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Harvesting peace of mind First Step Farms uses agriculture to overcome addiction bY carriE Eidson Send your sustainability news to ceidson@mountainx.com

arnold hughes spends his day surrounded by plants. From petunias and ferns to tomatoes and peppers, the retail store he manages on Smoky Park Highway is crammed full of flowers, fresh vegetables and canned goods — so much so that even after five years of walking around the store and its greenhouse, Hughes still knocks his head on a hanging basket or two. “All these flowers and all these tomatoes are great, but we don’t really need them,” Hughes notes as he walks around the shelves and coolers filled with jellies, honey, vegetables and blooms. “We’re here to grow people, not plants.” The store that Hughes manages is part of First Step Farms WNC, which includes the retail store and two farmsteads, both located on historic farmland in Candler. One site grows vegetable starts that supply small farms in five states. The other grows flowers that have been used at weddings, school graduations, local businesses and even Dollywood. But the farms’ primary purpose goes beyond agriculture — the two sites are home to a substance abuse recovery program that uses farming to build vocational skills, encourage physical health and restore self-confidence. The goal of the farms, Hughes explains, is to take people who are broken and build them back up. Residents come to stay on the farmsteads, living together and working the land. They’ll also take shifts in the retail store, selling what they grow as well as goods from regional farmers. For Hughes, it’s an experience he knows firsthand as he came to First Step to overcome his own addiction back in 2010.

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“When I hit my bottom, I was at the hospital, and they told me, ‘You’re a drunk,’” Hughes recalls. “Well, of course I knew that. But beyond that, I didn’t really know what I should do. I heard about this place, and I knew I liked to garden. I knew I liked to work with plants.” First Step Farms opened in 1976 to “meager beginnings,” says executive director mike plemmons, though it quickly grew. The 17-acre farm that holds the men’s facility was purchased in 1977, and the 32-acre farm that holds the women’s facility was added in 1992, purchased from a family that still lives next door. The women’s farm has 11 greenhouses and living space for 15 residents, while the men’s facility offers 19 greenhouses, an additional 15 acres of land leased from neighboring farmers and room for up to 22 residents. At both sites, tending the earth serves as the foundation for the 12-step-based program led by on-site counselors, Plemmons notes. In fact, farming and therapy are so interlinked that the counselling staff and their families live on the farms too, in homes located near the residence halls. “Farming is such a structured thing, and that’s what they’ve really lost,” Plemmons says of First Step’s clients. “They lose their family; they lose their jobs. They need the counseling, but they also need the structure of going to work again.” The farms themselves, both located up sparely populated, serpentine roads and surrounded on all sides by mountain ranges, offer a chance at serenity, Plemmons adds. The program requires a minimum stay of 90 days, but most residents will stay for six months to a year — long enough to see seeds they’ve planted grow and be harvested, Plemmons notes. “When I was a kid, everybody would have spent some time on a farm — even if you were just visiting your uncle or your grandfather,” Plemmons says. “Now, that’s not the case. A lot of the people we get are from cities, and they’ve never been around any farming. But then they get out there, and they feel the sun and the fresh air and hear the birds singing — it’s like a new beginning.”

finding somEthing Lost: A sense of serenity and a connection to others are two of the things often lost in addiction, notes Craig White of First Step Farm. But those are also the very two things this farm-based recovery program seeks to grow. Photos by George Etheredge

The program is also about relearning social responsibility. Participants earn a wage for their work and pay for their room and board. They do chores in their living quarters, make their own meals with the help of resident chefs and go to work every morning either at the farms or at the retail store. “They’ve learned to take pride in what they’re doing, but also to take fiscal responsibility and gain fiscal security,” notes women’s facility supervisor and counselor amy Kasdorf. “It feels good to have that sense of accomplishment returned to you.” All the residents of First Step have already been through their initial treatment and are referred to the farm by licensed substance abuse facilities, Kasdorf adds. This is a place to come once you’re ready to move past the addiction and transition back into the world. “You hear sometimes in recovery the phrase, ‘Do you need it or do you want it?’” Kasdorf says. “We’re looking for people who want it.” Central to that theme of transition is First Step’s belief that residents have

to move out of their own isolation, says men’s program director craig white. That’s a key idea, White explains, because the connection to others is one of the primary things lost in addiction, as ties to jobs, friends and families are often damaged or severed. At First Step, that means building relationships with fellow residents through shared effort, but also creating ties to the greater community. Community members interact with residents both at the retail store and at an annual pig picking held at the men’s farm every fall. Candler residents will drop by the greenhouses to purchase flowers or follow the tractor as it comes in from the fields with fresh produce. Some even pick up residents to take them to church on Sunday. Though the farms are populated by addicts in recovery, there’s never been a sense of apprehension or suspicion from the community, White says.

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growing morE than pLants: “We try to take a person who is broken and build their confidence, their self worth and their stability,” says Arnold Hughes. “We try to empower them as much as possible.”

“The phone rings all day with people who want to engage with us,” White notes. “Obviously, the community needed us too. Just about everyone has had someone in their family who has some kind of problem with addiction.” Farming at First Step is in fullswing 11 months of the year, with January’s cold weather forcing one month of farming downtime spent in additional counseling. The farms produce around 3 million plants each year, White notes, and it’s work the residents are eager to engage in. “There’s such a strong work ethic in the Southern Appalachians,” White says. “Many of these guys have been unemployed for years due to their addiction, and when they get here, they’re ready to work.” The program also coordinates with Goodwill, A-B Tech and the N.C. Division of Vocational Rehabilitation to offer residents

vocational training, GED completion programs and financial assistance to attend school. The men’s facility has a certified kitchen where residents can obtain ServSafe certification and a licensed vehicle repair shop where they can learn mechanical skills. It’s all designed to facilitate the transition off the farm and into independence and recovery, White says. Then again, some people, like richard williams, come to the farm and never want to leave — though Williams says that was a surprise even to himself. “My dad’s people were farmers, so I knew, or thought I knew, that I hated farming,” he says. When Williams came to First Step in 2005, he was battling a decadeslong addiction that included alcohol, pills and heroin. He had tried rehab “15 to 20 times,” but nothing stuck. He realized he needed a long-term program and

came to the farm expecting to work with “cattle and horses and stuff like that.” But soon after arriving, Williams found that he could fulfill one of his own passions — and save the program some money — by servicing the farm’s equipment in the men’s facility shop. Today, Williams still runs that shop as a full-time employee of First Step, training residents as they work on equipment belonging to First Step or neighboring farmers. The shop also offers state safety inspections for its neighbors, most of whom are “widows and retired folks” who like to come to the farm to visit with the residents, Williams says. Downtime is spent working on Williams’ collection of miscellaneous projects that sit around the shop — an old motorcycle, a vintage muscle car and even a boat. “I didn’t want to leave, so I never left,” Williams says with a laugh. “You come to this place pretty beat up, on the verge of death really. But when a place saves your life, you can’t praise it enough — and I know, I know, this place saved my life.”X

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Getting grounded Pioneering food truck operator Suzy Phillips gets ready to settle down with a brickand-mortar business

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suzy salwa phillips, founder of Gypsy Queen Cuisine and a pioneer of Asheville’s food truck scene, will soon stop — or at least cut back on — her rambling ways. Phillips plans to open Gypsy Queen Deli & Market, a brick-and-mortar shop in West Asheville, sometime in August. Phillips will open her new venture at 807-A Patton Ave. in the space that once housed Nona Mia Market & Deli and later Zinger’s, a chicken and pizza place. She chose the property, she says, because of its existing kitchen and prime location. Still, she plans to make significant changes to the interior before opening for business and will therefore revisit the crowdfunding model she used when bringing her food truck to life several years ago. She has plans to launch an Indiegogo campaign to augment a small-business loan she received in mid-May, with a goal of

sit for a spELL: Gypsy Queen Cuisine food truck operator Suzy Salwa Phillips is close to achieving her dream of owning a storefront. Her new venture, Gypsy Queen Deli & Market, is scheduled to open in West Asheville in August. Photo by Jayson Im

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we have], but with the resources and the funding [available to me now], it’s not going to be my main vision.” In return for their support, Phillips will reward donors with free food, private parties and cooking classes. Phillips says the storefront will allow her to enhance her menu with items she cannot serve from the food truck. From traditional Lebanese dishes like tahini and savory pies to handmade yogurt and Middle Eastern desserts, she says she hopes to bring a little more of Lebanon and herself to the people of Asheville. She also plans to offer delivery from the storefront with delivery personnel and through Valet Gourmet. Another service the shop will allow Phillips to provide is a stock of fresh, ready-made,

Lebanese grab-and-go food items, which will make Gypsy Queen Deli & Market Asheville’s first Middle Eastern cuisine market. Gypsy Queen Cuisine has been a fixture on the Asheville food truck scene since Phillips rolled out her truck, Spartacus, in 2009. Although she is known locally for her involvement in the movement several years ago that persuaded city officials to allow food trucks downtown, Phillips originally had plans to open a brick-and-mortar restaurant when the economy collapsed in 2008 and her investors backed out. Now that she has come full circle, she says she is ready to have one set place she can call her own, noting that her truck broke down more than 20 times in the past four years. “He doesn’t live up to his gladiator name,” she says. Phillips also cites weather as another unpredictable aspect of the food truck business, with the winter seeing decreased foot traffic at the vendors lots. “If it’s cold, you don’t work,” she says. “If it’s raining, you kind of don’t work. A lot of people don’t come out when it’s cold.” To avoid an inconsistent customer base Phillips does regular updates on social media about Gypsy Queen Cuisine’s whereabouts, but she says having a storefront will solve that dilemma. “It’s going to be so much easier to turn one key and go in one spot and stay there until you close,” Phillips says. “It’s orgasmic, just the thought of it. I will boo-hoo cry when we cut the ribbon.” Although she has misgivings about operating a food truck, Phillips plans to keep the one that drove her dream of owning a brickand-mortar restaurant into reality. Despite its flaws, Spartacus will continue to operate with a different driver at spots around town, including New Mountain and the West Asheville Tailgate Market. “That’s my baby,” Phillips says. “It’s gotten me this far.” Gypsy Queen Deli & Market will open in August at 807-A Patton Ave. For details and updates, visit gypsyqueencuisine.com X

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The ‘libation engineer’ Noah Hermanson brings specialty cocktails to Sunny Point Café

Asheville Wine & Food Festival cocktail competition finalist noah hermanson has his own title for what he does behind the bar at the Sunny Point Café: “I’m not the bar manager,” Hermanson says. “I am the creativity behind the whole drink program. My title that I updated for myself is ‘ libation engineer.’” The West Asheville restaurant is known for its breakfast and brunch menu, but thanks to Hermanson and his staff, customers have more than comfort food to look forward to. “My love for the cocktail comes from my passion for food,” Hermanson says about running the café’s bar. “And for me, the way I set the bar up is more like a chef than most traditional bartenders. I start with fresh ingredients, and I make everything from scratch.” An Asheville resident for 15 years, Hermanson has been with Sunny Point Café for little over a year. Since his arrival, he has created the new bar program, obtained a liquor license for the restaurant and helped with remodeling that allows room for his and his staff’s creative style of mixing drinks. Hermanson says that before the new bar launched in January, the café had no liquor, but he was still experimenting with wine and sake cocktails. “ I first worked on the wine list and got the megamosas (extralarge mimosas) straight. And then in January — after our addition to the bar here — we brought in liquor, so that enabled us to do bloody Marys, of course, not sake bloody Marys, and then the rest of the drink program [came] with that. [And] since then we’ve been revamping all parts of our bar program.” The café crew is currently working on developing the outside waiting area, installing lighting and working on more comfortable seating for customers, he adds.

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Hermanson says the café also has been developing an “enticing incentive” that allows people to come and have a drink between 3 and 6 p.m. with “free nibbles” when they buy an alcoholic beverage. “This is the traditional way tapas are served in Spain,” Hermanson says. “We think people will fall in love with this concept.” The 2015 Asheville Wine & Food Festival was Hermanson’s third time competing in the event. His winning drinks included two of Sunny Point’s Café’s specialty drinks — the spicy bloody Mary and the Moscow mule — and three of his new concoctions: Red Rhu-str (Rooster), Mountain Medley and Hot Chihuahua (which was called the Odd Couple at the competition). This year, instead of a panel of judges, drinks were voted on

by the audience. Hermanson says he enjoyed this approach. “When there are judges involved, there is a lot of impressing the judges that’s needed. So drinks have to be weird. They have to have those ‘cool’ ingredients, or there has to be something about the drink that’s different to impress them. It’s almost like a competition to be different, and it takes away from what we’re really trying to do, which is to make a goodtasting cocktail.” In August, Hermanson will be competing in ELIXIR, the festival’s competition finals. The public will again be judging the entries. He mentions an upcoming event: Sunny Point Café will partner with Wedge Brewing Co. on Thursday, May 28, for an Asheville Beer Week dinner. Hermanson invites everyone to join them. Tickets are $60 per person with seatings at 6 and 8 p.m. X

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Paprika-colored walls, dark wooden tables and glowing jeweled pendant lamps will greet diners who enter the soon-to-open Blue Dream Curry House at 81 Patton Ave. With the addition of funky, soulful music, the ultimate goal is to create the vibe of a late-’60s British curry house, which co-owner chris cunningham describes as not quite polished, yet filled with a feeling of history and nostalgia. Owners Cunningham, sean park (who is also the chef) and James sutherland chose the name for

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Living thE drEam: James Sutherland, left, and Chris Cunningham stand in the main dining room of their new venture, Blue Dream Curry House, which features a mural by local artist Ian Wilkinson. Not pictured is co-owner Sean Park. Photo by Krista L. White

the business based on their love for the Blue Ridge Mountains and a longtime goal of owning a restaurant together. The menu will offer curries from Thailand, Japan, India and China. And, after the restaurant settles, the owners also intend to run specials that feature curries from other parts of the world, such as Jamaica. “We have taken the international journey of curry and brought it into Asheville,” says Cunningham. “The recipes were developed by chef Park and are based on traditional recipes but with a unique spin,” says Sutherland. For example, the green curry features roasted tomatillo. The menu offers diners a choice of spice ranges — from a Japanese curry that is slightly sweet and contains apples and honey to a hot and tangy vindaloo curry. For entrees, which range from about $10-$12 a plate, guests will be able to select a base curry plus a protein — braised beef, roasted chicken, paneer, seitan or tempeh. Sides such as naan nachos and seasonal salads will also be available — priced from $4-$7. Local sodas and beer will be on tap.

Cunningham says the restaurant is sourcing about 80 percent of its food locally or regionally, such as tempeh from Smiling Hara Tempeh, beef from Hickory Nut Gap Farm, chicken from Springer Mountain Farms in Georgia and produce from local tailgate markets. Also, Blue Dream’s naan is being made through a partnership with the Green Opportunities Kitchen-Ready project and Geraldine’s Bakery. “It’s all about supporting the local economy, it’s about keeping that dollar in Asheville,” says Cunningham. Service for the 65-seat restaurant will be fast-casual style, with patrons ordering at the counter on iPads before they take their seats. Staff will pick up from there, delivering food to the table, taking additional food and beverage orders and clearing away the plates when the meal is finished. “The biggest thing that we hope people take away from here is that they had the best service, that the food is great and that they would come back again and again,” Cunningham says. The restaurant is aiming for a soft opening the last week of May with a grand opening planned the second week of June. Hours will be 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday-Saturday and noon-9 p.m. Sunday. For details, call 515-1124, visit bluedreamcurry.com or follow @bluedreamcurry on Twitter. X

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on thE movE: Malena and Pablo Gomez recently opened Fresh Lunch, a delivery-only service that brings handmade sandwiches, wraps and salads to the downtown area. Photo by Pat Barcas

frEsh Lunch Having lunch delivered to the office is a fairly regular occurrence for many downtown workers. And with their new delivery-only business, Fresh Lunch, pablo and malena gomez are hoping to tap into that market for freshly made, convenient fare. Open for only a couple of weeks, Fresh Lunch features a simple but varied menu of eight different combinations, which all can be ordered as either a sandwich, a wrap or a salad. Originally from the European melting pot of Argentina, the couple drew from the diverse culinary influences of their upbringings to produce a menu that sparkles with combinations such as prosciutto-mozzarella or brie-green apple with arugula, honey and balsamic vinegar. Also available are classics like house-made chicken and tuna salad, roasted turkey and shaved roast beef. The sandwiches are served on handmade bread that

Malena bakes each morning from a recipe handed down from her grandmother, a native of Italy. All menu items come with chips and a drink, and prices are between $7.59-$9.89 for each combo. Delivery is always free, and there is no minimum order. The couple are keeping overhead low by renting kitchen space at the Days Inn on Tunnel Road, where Maleta also works. For the time being, since Pablo is the only delivery person, they are only serving the downtown and Tunnel Road areas, although they do have plans to expand soon to other nearby locations. But Fresh Lunch’s modest size is a good thing for customers. “We are very small, so we don’t just buy a lot of stuff and keep it in the fridge forever,” says Pablo, who is currently transitioning away from his job as general manager at Luella’s Bar-B-Que to focus on his own business. “We buy our ingredients every day,

Registration opens June 1 for the 2015 Beer City Cup soccer tournament. Sponsored by Oskar Blues, Pisgah Brewing, Asheville Brewing Co., Catawba Brewing Co., French Broad Brewery, Hi-Wire Brewing Co. and Green Man Brewing, the largest independent adult soccer competition in the U.S. will expand this year to include 84 teams from across the U.S. and Canada competing in eight divisions. The entry fee is $450 in June, increasing to $550 in July. The tournament will take place Sept. 5-6 in Asheville. Last year’s event sold out, so buy tickets early. To register and for ticket information, visit beercitycup.com. X

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Street smarts Woody Pines’ new record fuses busker performance chops with well-traveled musicianship

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Busking might seem, to some, like a jumping-off point for a career of ever-larger stages. But Nashvilleby-way-of-Asheville roots musician woody pines looks at street performance as an accompaniment to the concert hall. “We take the time to busk when we’re in neat places. Asheville would qualify as a special downtown. It’s pedestrian-friendly, which is really rare,” he says. “We’ve been lucky enough to spend a week at Martha’s Vineyard for the last couple of years. It’s pedestrian-friendly, so we play on the street there.” In fact, Pines, who returns to Asheville on Friday, May 29, for a show at Jack of the Wood, honed his craft on the streets of New Orleans. A palm reader foretold that his time in the Crescent City would affect the direction of his life for years to come. It has: Pines’ new, self-titled album, set to be released by Muddy Roots Music in June, delves even more deeply into the swing, ragtime, folk and jazz lexicons of the American songbook that define his sound. His French Quarter-learned performance techniques are intact.

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What’s not apparent on the record: Pines’ pre-guitar forays into music on novelty instruments like washboard and kazoo. “I actually started out playing a cheese grater,” he says. “I had a vision when I was starting out that when I was an old man with a beard, busking would be nice. I’ll either die obscure or set up in the south of France with my guitar and class up the place.” For now, Pines and his bandmates — skip frontz Jr. on standup bass and brad tucker on guitar — are keeping busy classing up other towns and stages. The trio recently toured Europe, where, Pines says, he knew it was going to be good as soon as he landed in Manchester. “I got invited to play an open mic, and before I knew it, there were six or seven people walking around town. It was after last call, so I invited them back to the hotel.” The resulting party led to the

tEamworK: “Do-it-yourself is kind of a misnomer because you can’t do it yourself,” says Woody Pines, left, with Brad Tucker and Skip Frontz Jr. The band’s new album is out on Muddy Roots Records. “You have to have people you trust.” Photo courtesy of the musicians

band nearly being kicked out of the hotel in true rock star fashion. The trio was on the road for 26 days and played every day except one, including daytime gigs at rural high schools. “We were the first Americans some kids had met,” Pines says. But the connection between traditional music from the U.K. and the Woody Pines repertoire is not so farfetched. “They hear their Celtic roots in our music,” Pines says.

“They even hear it in our stuff, which is blues and ragtime. ... I’m trying to learn to hear it. There are Scottish fiddlers who told me they traveled to Africa and found tribes playing onestring fiddle instruments, and they sound like Irish reels.” A more immediate connection between the U.K. and U.S. came from the band’s tour manager in the British Isles. Gerald Roche, a longtime roadie, not only helped out Pines and company but worked with bands like Fishbone and on the inaugural Lolapalooza tour. “Now he’s retired from the big rock bands and tours dysfunctional American bands,” jokes Pines. But such a connection is invaluable. “Do-it-yourself is empowering because you just have to start on your own,” says the musician. “But you have to build a team. So do-it-yourself is kind of a misnomer because you can’t do it yourself. You have to have the people you trust.”

Among Pines’ teammates is longtime collaborator Felix Hatfield and new label Muddy Roots Music. “I wanted to make something really good because you have someone behind you, someone willing to invest,” Pines says of the Nashville-based record producer whose catalog includes Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers and The Tillers. He adds, “We’re the only band that has the deal we have. ... I wanted to do them proud.” Pines’ well-curated eponymous album offers up a huge variety of sounds, from the swaggering “Make it to the Woods” to the tender, swooning “Little Stella Blue.” There’s plenty for dancers; plenty, too, for those who just want to hold hands and tap their wingtips in unison. The band will perform those songs (and have advance copies of the record for sale) at Jack of the Wood; they’ll play WNCW’s Studio B just before the Asheville show. X

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by Edwin Arnaudin

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Theater, Italian-style The Fox & Beggar debuts ambitious Tarocco

When Tarocco: A Soldier’s Tale debuts Friday, May 29 at The Orange Peel, it will mark the completion of a long and complex trail that began, appropriately enough, on a forest trail. In 2012, nat allister attended a Full Moon Gathering — a monthly Asheville tradition of hiking, staying up all night in the woods, dancing to electronic music and making art — where he talked with friends about crafting a circus based around the fool’s journey of the Tarot. “I wanted to attempt to create a narrative that might justify an artistic livelihood in a world so overwhelmingly fraught with brutality and thought that the fool’s journey was the perfect framework for such heavy subject matter,” Allister says. Once he started working on the script, however, the artistic director for local collective The Fox & Beggar Theater found that the Tarot wasn’t working for him. He craved something older, less accessible and less popular, finding all of that in the Tarocco Piemontese, a 500-year-old card game that predates the standard Tarot of Marseilles and is riddled with darker and stranger undertones.

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Allister further expanded his vision by incorporating his longtime obsession with the Italian Renaissance and his interest in the Italian theater tradition of Commedia dell’arte, to which he often turns for artistic inspiration. But for his fantasy story to feature an escape into the beauty of Venice, he realized that it would need to be juxtaposed against a much grittier reality. “And thus, my fool came to be born as an Italian World War I soldier, caught in the crossfire of one of the bloodiest — and arguably the most pointless — wars in the history of the world,” Allister says. “The world of the Tarocco becomes his escape out of a violent reality and into a beautiful fantasy world.” In autumn 2013, with the full concept taking shape in his mind, Allister and his Fox & Beggar collaborators came to the realization that they couldn’t produce Tarocco using their current resources (which included a modest Kickstarter campaign) without making countless compromises and creating what Allister calls “a weak shadow of my original vision.” So Fox & Beggar decided to table the production for a year and instead employed Allister’s play Animalia as the company debut. That production broke attendance records at the Hazel Robinson Amphitheater during its April 2014 run. Initially intended as a smaller endeavor, the production’s cast and crew of nearly 100 casts doubt on that modesty, but Allister says that it was a relatively low-risk venture and one that proved phenomenally educational as far as producing large-scale stage performances. “I learned how and where an audience watches action on a stage. I learned what kinds of subtleties an audience will pick up on and which ones might go over their heads unnoticed,” Allister says. “And I learned to respect the all-powerful Murphy’s Law, which is the only law you need to pay attention to when putting together such a technically complex stage production.” Another facet of Allister’s new knowledge involved the challenges

fortunEtELLing: “This is a character from the devil card,” says Nat Allister, director of multimedia production Tarocco. It’s “one of many characters our soldier meets on his metaphysical journey through the Tarocco Piemontese.” Photo by Rob Lenfestey

inherent to outdoor productions. Tarocco was originally envisioned on the sizable Hazel Robinson stage, playing to its large-capacity house and involving pyrotechnics. But sacrificing those perks for an indoor setting translated to control over everything that Fox & Beggar couldn’t influence in the open air. “The light. The sound. The temperature. The weather,” Allister says. “Last year, it snowed and rained during Animalia’s tech week, which meant that opening night was the first time we ever ran the full show. That was right about the time I vowed never to do an outdoor show again.” Safe from the elements on The Orange Peel stage, the contributions of Allister’s “dream team” of artists and volunteers shine in ways they never could outside. Among the many brilliant minds involved in the show are donovan zimmerman of the renowned Saxapahaw-based troupe Paperhand Puppet Intervention and set designer travis Eagledove, whose creations for the show include a 10-foot-tall medieval alchemical wheel that may be spun to simulate a Tarot reading. Arborist forest Kelly, who’s in

charge of the show’s aerial rigging, custom-welded Allister an aerial toy that he says has never before been seen in Asheville. Also part of the crew is video artist daniel sabio, creator of a piece of digital animation that will interact with the dancers on stage; local puppeteer madison cripps, who’s engineered a piece for the show’s final scene; and sneaky mcfly, who helped design a bit of stage magic that Allister says “should make the audience scratch their heads no matter how many times they see it.” X

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by Doug Gibson

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Telling her story, finding herself cindy mcmahon’s recently released memoir, Fresh Water from Old Wells, begins with the story of a conversation with a friend. That talk persuaded the author to overcome the resistance she felt to writing a book about her personal history. “I never really thought I would write a book,” says McMahon. She wondered, “Could I really do this? This feels like a huge undertaking.” She knew, too, that she had a difficult story to tell, one that would bring to light many dark moments in her family’s past. In particular, her story would reveal the truth about her domineering, often abusive and ultimately absent father, Al Henry. “I had been trained my whole life not to tell these stories,” says McMahon, who will read from and discuss Wells at Malaprop’s on Tuesday, June 2. “When you grow up in a family like mine, there’s a lot of deep crap that’s in there, and I was pulling it up by the roots. And I did shed a lot of tears in the process.” Finally, McMahon faced the challenge of revisiting the people and places involved in her family’s story. This meant reaching 40 years into the past to when her grandfather, Walter Moore, a prominent minister and a leader in the Southern Baptist Convention, was instrumental in the struggle to

desegregate Mercer College in Macon, Ga. It also meant retracing the long retreat from the world that forced Al Henry and his family from Whitfield, Miss., to Birmingham, Ala., and from inner-city Atlanta to communal farms deep in the Georgia countryside. But McMahon’s nine-year odyssey of research and reflection turned out to be a gift. “The power of place was really kind of transformative for me,” she says. Some of the settings that loom largest in the story: the church in Macon where her grandfather served as pastor and where his name still commands respect; the church in Birmingham where her father first heard the siren call of the civil rights movement; the house in Waynesboro, Ga., where McMahon’s aunt died as a child, struck by a car — and where, two days later, McMahon’s grandfather talked down a mob intent on lynching the black motorist responsible. “That is some powerful stuff right there,” the author says. “It really got down to the cell level for me.” In McMahon’s telling, these locations evoke the events that formed a backdrop to her inherited drama. “There were all these places where my family touched history and ways we sort of brushed up

against history and possibly guided it a little bit,” McMahon says. In particular, Wells explores Henry’s passion for the growing civil rights movement, and then details how, disillusioned and disappointed, he forced his family into a life of instability and near-poverty under the constant threat of his violent rages — a decline that, in McMahon’s words, “echoed the turmoil of the times.” But Wells is also McMahon’s own story, the story of a survivor and a witness to her father’s struggle. More than the memories of a family that fell under the influence of the turbulent ’60s and ’70s, it’s the story of how researching and writing moved McMahon toward healing and forgiveness. “I do think a lot of us carry around stuff from our childhoods,” McMahon says. “Lots of people just stuff that into the background and don’t face it.

The past is a voyage of self-discovery in Cindy McMahon’s Fresh Water from Old Wells But I have found it very empowering to face it and to come to terms with it and to understand it.” McMahon jokes that sharing her story with the world turned out to be a little bit like taking her clothes off on Pack Square. But she hopes that it will inspire other people to look at the monsters under their own beds. X

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digging dEEp: “I had been trained my whole life not to tell these stories,” says local author Cindy McMahon. Her new memoir, Fresh Water from Old Wells, plumbs family secrets. Photo courtesy of McMahon

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by Dave Cantor

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Kosmische intentions Nest Egg releases krautrock-infused Respectable with a free show Unfettered freedom courses through harvey Leisure’s repeatopsych compositions for Nest Egg. The guitarist, though, has some pretty stringent ideas about how to put on a show, all of which could come to bear when the band plays its free record release show Friday, May 29, at The Mothlight. “Say you go to [a venue] … the music changes [and] the concept of each act is going to be different because they have their own personality. But it’s still the [same venue],” says Leisure (aka Jamie Hepler of local heavy-psych band Soft Opening). “If you totally alter

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what it feels like to be there, then it’s going to be more exciting, like you’re going to be somewhere else. It’s just nice for people to feel like they’re not at their usual spot.” A constituent of Leisure’s interest in obfuscation is his dedication to strobe lights and smoke machines used to adjust showgoers’ perception of place. And the pulsating tracks he’s worked up over the last decade, culminating in the release of Respectable, match that impulse almost effortlessly. Just like all those lights and haze helping to conceal a venue’s character, Nest Egg’s new disc offers a bit of bait and switch. Opening

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with three minutes of wavering synthesizer and muffled muttering, “Burling Coke Factory” follows, pushing back against the sedate nature of its predecessor with a compelling and persistent rhythmic backbone, enabling Leisure to expand on his kosmische intentions. The guitarist says that from recording to recording and show to show, compositions aren’t going to possess anything more than a passing similarity to one another. And for “Blues Lawyer,” included on both Respectable and on one of the troupe’s Demonstrational Tape series, distinct worlds emerge. An initial session finds the ensemble inhabiting a more ethereal, synthesizer-indebted world than the new album version, which takes on a tougher motorik stance. But the varied approaches to Leisure’s cache of compositions have helped Nest Egg attract devotees from outside the Asheville area. “I saw Nest Egg on a miniMidwest tour my old group did on our way to Cincinnati Psych Fest in the fall of 2013,” says Karissa talanian, who runs Chicago’s Eye Vybe Records, the label set to issue Nest Egg’s tour-only cassette. “[They’re] one of the more impressive groups I’ve gotten to play a show with.” For about the last 10 years, Leisure says, a cohort of players loosely affiliated with Nest Egg and other subterra Asheville groups has been gigging around town in various conglomerations. Personnel overlapped a bit with earlier project Soft Opening, and bassist ross gentry, the person behind Villages and Headway Recordings, has been involved in at least a few of Leisure’s endeavors. But the amorphous group seems to constitute an expanding and contracting musical universe ,with Leisure sometimes helming the mission and other times just playing a dedicated role. Bolstering what’s become a well-disciplined group of players capable of traversing countless routes through any of Leisure’s songs, though, is a concerted effort to detach from some of haughty music’s most unsmiling tendencies.

Last Laugh: “The song titles are basically … our shallow attempt at humor,” says guitarist Harvey Leisure of Nest Egg’s Bathetic Records release. “It’s fun to mess around; people get so serious.” Photo by Trent Lee

“The song titles are basically … our shallow attempt at humor,” Leisure says about tracks like “Set GPS to the Heart of the Sun,” an offering off the new Bathetic Records-released disc that clearly pokes fun at “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,” a 1969 Pink Floyd cut. “It’s fun to mess around; people get so serious,” says Leisure.

The indeterminacy of it all — the interchangeable parts and players, the loosely figured songs and all of Leisure’s snide song titles — might even help to keep Nest Egg around for a bit longer. Or at least just long enough to re-record a few of the same compositions in utterly new ways. X

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“I live in my comedy daily, with a wife and three kids — the newest only 2 months old,” says Aaron Kleiber. A veteran of the Pittsburgh comedy scene, Kleiber began his entertainment journey with childhood antics, eventually solidifying his place as a professional comedic actor, writer and film producer. The multitalented family man has also gone on to perform his stand-up act alongside comics like Bob Saget, Jim Breuer, Steve-O and his idol Sinbad in recent years. “I’ve been very blessed to make people laugh in every medium,” he says, “with improv, sketch, television, film and podcasts.” Now a touring headliner, Kleiber brings his stand-up routine to The Millroom on Saturday, May 30, at 8 p.m. $12/$14. ashevillemillroom.com. Photo courtesy of the comedian

One month after posting its proposal on Kickstarter, “Appalachiacana” band Tellico had amassed $12,248 from 160 backers to fund the rootsy quartet’s debut album. That financial support, says Anya Hinkle (guitar, fiddle, vocals), was just one part of a larger equation. “Psychologically, it made us feel that there was someone on the other end of this thing who was really excited to receive the final product, who believed in us enough to give us their hardearned money before they had heard a single note,” she says. “It can be a punishing business, but the good parts are magical.” The release performance for Relics and Roses, produced by Jon Stickley and engineered by Chris Rosser, takes place at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall on Friday, June 5, at 8:30 p.m. $10/$12. isisasheville.com. Photo by Jennifer Callahan

The Tallest Man on Earth That indie-folk artist Kristian Matsson (who performs as The Tallest Man on Earth) sticks to a black-and-white aesthetic when it comes to photos and videos is intriguing because his music is so textural, visual and even colorful. That the Swedish-born musician writes songs more eloquently in English — his second language — than most of us can communicate in our mother tongue is astonishing. Matsson’s newest release, Dark Bird Is Home, is described lyrically as “both comforting and alarming.” The album, according to Matsson’s bio, is “The Tallest Man at his most personal and direct, deeper and darker than ever at times, but it’s also an album with strokes of whimsy and the scent of new beginnings.” The Tallest Man on Earth performs at The Orange Peel on Thursday, May 28, with Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear. 9 p.m., $29.50 advance/$32 day of show. theorangepeel. net. Photo by Cameron Wittig

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The Crowin’ Hen “A whistling girl and a crowing hen will never come to any good end,” says local musician and award-winning playwright Tom Godleski, reciting the mountain saying that inspired his latest play. The production, Godleski explains, “blends storytelling and music with mountain traditions of home, family and community,” while following a Western North Carolina family’s plight to rid such a hen from its flock. The show also incorporates live tunes from Godleski’s bluegrass band, Buncombe Turnpike, and stars local actors like theatrical veteran Marlene Earp, Mark Casson of The Cheeksters and Godleski himself. The Folk Art Center hosts The Crowin’ Hen’s premiere on Friday, May 29, at 7:30 p.m., Saturday, May 30, at 2:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, May 31, at 2:30 p.m. $15 ($10 students). Buncombeturnpike.com. Photo courtesy of Godleski

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by Carrie Eidson & Michael McDonald Gallery DIRECTORY and jam time. Free. Held at Asheville Music School Performance Loft, 126 College St. Trinity Episcopal Church 60 Church St., 253-9361 • TH (5/28), 7-9pm - Mwangza Children’s Choir. Free.

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BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE: The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design will host Blue Mountain, an installation project exploring the theme of the Blue Ridge Mountains and “their role in Western North Carolina’s historically important and detrimental industries: tobacco, timber and textiles.” Vistors will be able to participate in the exhibit by creating their own interpretations of mountain landscapes from materials provided in the gallery. Photo courtesy of CCCD (p.42)

Art Asheville Area Arts Council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • W (6/3), 10am-noon - Brainstorm Session: “Successful Business Tips for the Creative Entrepreneur.” Registration required. Free. The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • FR (5/29), 7:30pm - “Process vs Product: Shifting Values in Art, Craft and Design,” presentation. Free. • SA (5/30), 10am-6pm - “Blue Mountain,” tobacco, timber and textiles installation. Public reception: May 29, 6-9pm. Free. Transylvania Community Arts Council 884-2787, tcarts.org • TH (5/28), 3-5pm - “Pricing Your Work,” artists workshop. Co-sponsored by Handmade in America. $20/$10 members. Held at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard Western NC Quilters Guild westernncquilters.org • TH (5/28) through SU (5/31) - Mountain Stitches, N.C. Quilt Symposium and Show. $5. Held at Bonclarken Conference Center, 500 Pine Drive, Flat Rock

Auditions & Call to Artists Bioflyer Productions rock684@hotmail.com • Through TU (6/30) - Submissions open for one-act plays on theme “Lovetown Liaisons.” Montford Park Players 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • SA (5/30) & SU (5/31), noon-5pm - Open auditions for actors for As You Like It. Contact for guidelines. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. • TU (6/2), 5-9pm - Open auditions for musicians and singers for As You Like It. Contact for guidelines. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St.

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The Writer’s Workshop 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through (5/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Hard Times Essay Contest. Contact for guidelines. $25/entry. • Through (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest. Contact for guidelines. $25/entry. • Through SU (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for short story or novel chapters. Contact for guidelines. $25.

Music RIVERMUSIC • FRIDAY JUNE 12 • 5PM (pd.) RiverLink’s RiverMusic series continues this Friday at the RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza in the River Arts District. • The rowdy Americana Missouri trio, the Ben Miller Band headlines with explosive bluegrass, delta blues and oldtimey “Ozark stomp”. The party starts at 5pm with Asheville’s alt-folkies, the Toothe, and tough electric blues by the Red Dirt Revelators from Hickory. www. riverlink.org Asheville Community Sing saralyncht@gmail.com • TH (5/28), 6:30-9:30pm - Sharing work songs, ballads, sea shanties, hymns and more. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road Asheville Young Musicians Club 681-9732, aymc2011@gmail.com • SU (5/31), 3pm - Classical music performance to benefit Asheville Chamber Music Series, Asheville Area Piano Forum and the Education Fund for the Children of Bethel. $20/$10 students. Held at Bent Creek Baptist Church, 1554 Brevard Road Crest Mountain 30 Ben Lippen School Road, 252-1277, crestmtn.com • WE (6/3), 7pm - Summer Concert Series: FORTE, cabaret. $25/$20 children/Free under 5. Guitar Coalition of WNC gcownc.com • SU (5/31), 4-6pm - Instructional presentations

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(pd.) Begins June 5. Classes in acting, dance, filmmaking, improv, and voiceover. Awardwinning faculty. Train, create, evolve, get work. Register at www.nys3.com; (828) 2761212; info@nys3.com 35below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (5/28), 7:30pm - “Listen to This,” stories and original songs. $15. Anam Cara Theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FR (5/29) & SA (5/30), 8pm - Staring Contest, an Accordion Time Machine production. $12/$10 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B Asheville Community Theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (5/30), 10am - American Tales and Tunes, folksongs and folktales. $5. Brevard Little Theatre 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/31) Moon Over Buffalo. Fri.&Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $16/$11 students. Flat Rock Playhouse 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through FRIDAYS until (5/31), 8pm - Always ... Patsy Cline, musical. $15-$40. Flat Rock Playhouse Downtown 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS (6/4) until (6/21), 8pm - Over the River and Through the Woods, comedy. $15-$40. • THURSDAYS, SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS (6/4) until (6/21), 2pm - Over the River and Through the Woods, comedy. $15-$40. Montford Park Players 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (5/30), 7:30pm - Romeo and Juliet. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. The Magnetic Theatre 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (5/28) until (7/4), 7:30pm - The Merchant of Asheville (A Locally Sourced Comedy). $23/$20 advance.

474 Gallery Studio 474 Haywood Road Suite 2, facebook.com/474gallerystudio • Through SA (5/31) - Group exhibition of streetand pop-art inspired works by Alli Good, Gus!, Erin Hardy, Ted Harper, Ishmael, Megan Kelly, Jeremy Russell and Dustin Spagnola. American Folk Art and Framing 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • TH (6/4) through WE (6/24) - Polka Dot. Dot. Dot, mixed media exploration of dots. Opening reception: June 4, 10am. Art at UNCA art.unca.edu • Through TU (6/30) - Homage to Life, works by Cecelia and Abigail Frederic. Held in Blowers Gallery. Asheville Area Arts Council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through MO (6/15) - Working Memory, mixed media paintings by Mark Flowers. Artist’s reception: June 5, 5-8pm. • Through TU (6/30) - Jodi John + Laura John: A Mother + Daughter Exhibition of Original Paintings. Asheville Art Museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (9/13) - From New York to Nebo: The Artistic Journey of Eugene Thomason. Asheville BookWorks 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through FR (7/3) - Beer City Prints, works from the Wood Engravers Network triennial juried exhibition. Asheville Gallery of Art 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through SU (5/31) - My Wonky World, paintings by Sandi Anton. • MO (6/1) through TU (6/30) - Recent Works, watercolor, pastel and pencil drawings. Opening reception: June 5, 5-8pm. Bender Gallery 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through SU (5/31) - Veiled Memories, metal and glass. Black Mountain Center for the Arts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through SA (6/20) - Paintings of floral designs shown in collaboration with Art in Bloom event. Fountainhead Bookstore 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-1870, fountainheadbookstore.com • Through FR (7/10) - Once Upon a Time, paintings and illustrations by Marcy Jackson. Grand Bohemian Gallery 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com • Through SU (5/31) - Impressions: The Great Smoky Mountains, expressionist paintings by Stefan Horik. Grateful Steps 159 S Lexington Ave., 277-0998, gratefulsteps.org

C L U B L A N D • Through SA (5/30) - Celebrating Color, paintings by B Adams. grovewood gaLLerY 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (8/30) - Surface & Texture: The Work of John Jordan, woodwork. hiCKorY MUseUM of art 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (9/6) - Woven Together: From Lesotho to Carolina, tapestries. Artists reception: May 29, 6-8pm. JaiL hoUse gaLLerY 115 E. Meeting St., Morganton, 433-7282 • Through FR (6/12) - Works by Appalachian Pastel Society members.

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JUdith dUff potterY 450 Cedar Lane, Brevard, 884-5258 • Through SA (5/30) - Works by visiting Asian potters Seungho Yang and Shozo Michikawa.

BLUe MoUntain piZZa & Brew pUB Open Mic, 7pm

MahoganY hoUse 240 Depot St., Waynesville, 246-0818 • Through TU (6/30) - Nature-inspired printmaking works by Dawn Behling and Myriah Strivelli.

doUBLe Crown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, Dave Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm

MiCa fine ConteMporarY Craft 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • Through TU (7/21) - Rock, Paper, Scissors, works by Lisa Blackburn, Bill Brown, and Thor and Jennifer Bueno. odYsseY Cooperative art gaLLerY 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • TU (6/2) through TU (6/30) - Ceramics by Ginger Graziano, Kat McIver and Diana Gillispie. pUsh sKate shop & gaLLerY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through TU (6/16) - Brainstorm, street-art inspired works by various artists. seven sisters gaLLerY 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through SU (8/2) - Photography by John Smith.

BUrger Bar Karaoke, 9pm

foggY MoUntain BrewpUB Trivia, 8pm fUnKatoriUM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm good stUff Karaoke!, 7pm greY eagLe MUsiC haLL & tavern Kalob Griffin Band w/ Natalie York (alt country, bluegrass, indie), 8pm grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm highLand Brewing CoMpanY Woody Wood Wednesdays (acoustic rock), 5:30pm

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

Root BAR No. 1 DJ Ken Brandenburg (old school, funk), 8pm

isis restaUrant and MUsiC haLL Miriam Allen & David Zoll (folk), 7pm

MoUntain MoJo CoffeehoUse Open mic, 6:30pm

sCULLY’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

JaCK of the wood pUB Old-time session, 5pm

noBLe Kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

LaZY diaMond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

o.henrY’s/the UndergroUnd “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

iron horse station Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm

toe river arts CoUnCiL 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through FR (6/5) - Works by artists who will participate in the 2015 Toe River Studio Tour. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine

LEx 18 French wine tasting w/ Simone Berhart & Frank Puzzullo (Edith Piaf & Cole Porter), 7:30pm

transYLvania CoMMUnitY arts CoUnCiL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (5/29) - Photography by members of Land of Waterfalls Camera Club.

To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed / To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue / Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Hayley Benton at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland / Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed / The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues / Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. This is a firm deadline.

Upstairs artspaCe 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (6/19) - Storytellers, paintings by Arden Cone, Margaret Curtis, Dawn Hunter and Anna Jensen. west asheviLLe LiBrarY 942 Haywood Road • Through TU (6/30) - Photos and digital paintings by Ron Morecraft. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees.

icE brEaKErs: Brooklyn-based Crushed Out will bring its retro-brand of honky-tonk surf-rock back to Asheville in support of the band’s new album, TEETH. Described by Paste Magazine as “forward thinking” and “never adhering to genre lines,” the husband-wife duo of Franklin Hoier and Moselle Spiller promise to “melt cold hearts and set folks to dancing in the aisles” when they perform at Tiger Mountain on Friday, May 29th, at 9 p.m.

odditoriUM Derek Poteat & Konvoi, 9pm off the wagon Piano show, 9pm oLive or twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stop deLi & Bar Scattered Hamlet w/ Gutterhound & The Damned Angels (rock), 10pm one worLd Brewing Billy Litz, 8pm pisgah Brewing CoMpanY Dennis Berndt (reggae, roots, folk), 6pm poUr taprooM Karaoke, 8pm reJavanation Cafe Open mic night, 6pm rooM iX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

sLY grog LoUnge Trivia, 7pm straightawaY Cafe Searra & the Jazzy Folk, 6pm

white horse BLaCK MoUntain Wednesday Waltz, 7pm Comedy Shorts (short films, improv skits, sketch), 7:30pm wiCKed weed John Hartford Tribute Jam, 6:30pm wiLd wing Cafe soUth Party on the Patio! w/ J Luke, 6pm Karaoke, 9pm

taLLgarY’s at foUr CoLLege Open mic & jam, 7pm the Joint neXt door Bluegrass jam, 8pm the MothLight Hellafun Asheville, 9pm

thUrsdaY, MaY 28 185 KINg StREEt Farmer John Aid (benefit for Southern Shepherd Farms), 8pm

the phoeniX Jazz night, 8pm

5 waLnUt wine Bar Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm

the soCiaL Marc Keller, 6pm Karaoke, 9:30pm

BarLeY’s taprooM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

the soUthern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tiger MoUntain Sean Dail (classic punk, power-pop, rock), 10pm tiMo’s hoUse Spectrum AVL w/ Jericho, Ixnee, Kri & guests, 9pm town pUMp Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm tressa’s downtown JaZZ and BLUes Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

Beer CitY tavern Karaoke w/ DJ Do-It, 9:30pm BUrger Bar Old school metal night w/ Schrader, 9pm CatawBa Brewing tasting rooM Old time jam, 7pm CLUB eLeven on grove Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm The Low Down Sires (folk, jazz, swing), 8:30pm Postal Express Street Riders Dance

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JACK

cLubLand

Send your listings to clubland@mountainx.com

OF THE

WOOD PUB

fri 5.29 SAT 5.30 fri 6.5

WOODY PINES w/ DAYDREAM CREATURES AMERICAN

ROOTS MIXED WITH FOLK AND THE NEW WAVE SOUTHERN GOTHIC 9 p.m. $7

THE STRAIGHT 8’S ROCK – A – BILLY SURF MUSIC BLOW OUT w/ THE KREKTONES 9 p.m. $5 FIRST FIRKIN CASK BARREL FRIDAY WITH SIERRA NEVADA

Party (hip-hop, soul, funk), 9pm doUBLe Crown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm eLaine’s dUeLing piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm frenCh Broad BrewerY Scott Low (indie-rock), 6pm green rooM Cafe & CoffeehoUse Keep the Music Playing benefit w/ Elise Pratt & Mike Holstein, Evalina Everidge & Marty Balash, Lake & Moore and Carrie Morrison & Steve Whiteside, 5:30pm

BREWERY COME TAP THE FIRKIN A SPECIAL DRY HOPPED TORPEDO EXTRA IPA AND ENJOY SPECIAL FROM THE KITCHEN AND CHEF JASON BRIAN 5 p.m. free (Donations Encouraged)

isis restaUrant and MUsiC haLL Jeff Thompson (singer-songwriter), 7pm

fri 6.5

MANGAS COLORADO

JaCK of the wood pUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

SAT 6.6

RED DIRT REVELATORS

(BLUEGRASS, FOLK-ROCK /AMERICANA BAND FROM CULLOWHEE NC.) 9 p.m. $5

NORTH CAROLINA BASED ORIGINAL AMERICAN BLUES AND ROOTS BAND. COME PLAY IN THE DIRT!

9 p.m. $5

LaZY diaMond The Replacement Party w/ Dr. Filth, 10pm LEx 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (piano, bass, jazz), 7pm

OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON SUNDAY Celtic irish session 5pm til ? MONDAY Quizzo! 7:30-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st & 3rd Tuesdays THURSDAY Bluegrass Jam 7pm

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

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

new MoUntain Sean Patton (comedy), 9pm

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

MarKet pLaCe Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

o.henrY’s/the UndergroUnd Gayme Night w/ Xandrea Foxx, 9pm odditoriUM Thundercock & The Dark Shave (rock), 9pm off the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm oLive or twist Cha cha lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 7:30pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm one stop deLi & Bar Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Piano. (rock, blues), 10pm

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one worLd Brewing Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 8pm orange peeL The Tallest Man On Earth w/ Madisen Ward & the Mama Bear (folk, indie), 9pm osKar BLUes BrewerY Pierce Edens (country, rock), 6pm paCK’s tavern Lenny Pettinelli (jazz, rock, funk, folk), 9pm piano eMporiUM Just Jazz: Piano Trio concert series, 8pm pUrpLe onion Cafe David Childers & Bruce Piephoff (singer-songwriters), 7pm rooM iX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm sCandaLs nightCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

sLY grog LoUnge Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm

CorK & Keg Drayton & The Dreamboats (string, jazz, folk), 8:30pm

taLLgarY’s at foUr CoLLege The Rat Alley Cats (jazz), 7pm

Crow & qUiLL Andy Ferrell (country, folk), 9pm

the MothLight Doomster w/ Snoozer, Lady Bones & Pompos (rock, punk), 9:30pm

doUBLe Crown DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

the phoeniX Red Leg Husky Duo (Americana, folk), 8pm

dUgoUt Andy Buckner (Southern rock), 9pm

the soCiaL Kolkata, 9pm

eLaine’s dUeLing piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

the soUthern Throwdown Thursday w/ Jim Raves & Nex Millen (DJ, dance party), 10pm

foggY MoUntain BrewpUB The Wilhelm Brothers (folk-rock), 10pm

tiMo’s hoUse TRL w/ Franco Nino (dance party, requests), 10pm town pUMp John the Revelator (guitar), 9pm tressa’s downtown JaZZ and BLUes The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm UrBan orChard Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm wiLd wing Cafe soUth Jason Whittaker (acoustic-rock), 6pm wXYZ LoUnge at aLoft hoteL Caromia (blues, soul, roots), 7:30pm

fridaY, MaY 29

frenCh Broad BrewerY Murmuration (groove-rock), 6pm good stUff Scott Low (Americana, folk), 9pm greY eagLe MUsiC haLL & tavern Aaron Lafalce w/ Drake Murphy & Poet Radio (soul, rock, rnb), 9pm highLand Brewing CoMpanY David Zoll Quartet (rock), 7pm isis restaUrant and MUsiC haLL The Grahams (Americana), 7pm Goldie & The Screamers w/ CaroMia Tiller (soul, neosoul), 7:30pm JaCK of the wood pUB Woody Pines (roots, folk, Southern Gothic), 9pm JerUsaLeM garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

185 KINg StREEt Wrenn w/ Le Masterpiece Music, 8pm

LaZY diaMond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

5 waLnUt wine Bar Lyric (acoustic soul), 9pm

LEx 18 High tea w/ Bob Strain (piano), 1:30pm Michael John Jazz (jazz), 6pm Frank Puzzullo Duo (jazz), 8:30pm

550 tavern & griLLe Modern Day Society, 9pm aLtaMont theatre Diana Durrett & Steff Mahan (singer-songwriters, blues), 8pm athena’s CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Ben’s tUne-Up Woody Wood (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm BLaCK Bear Coffee Co. Calvin Get Down (classic funk, rock, jam), 6pm BLaCK MoUntain aLe hoUse Dan River Drifters (bluegrass, Americana), 8pm BLUe MoUntain piZZa & Brew pUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

LoBster trap Hot Point Trio (Gypsy jazz), 6:30pm MarKet pLaCe The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm nightBeLL restaUrant & LoUnge Goodbye Dulítel Party w/ Dulítel DJ & Ephraim Dean (electronic), 10pm noBLe Kava Carl Schmidt & The Buncombe County Boys (jazz-fusion), 8:30pm odditoriUM Thrilla in Ashevilla (punk/metal fest), 5pm off the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

BoiLer rooM Rebirth XI (electronic), 10pm

oLive or twist Westsound (Motown), 8pm

BUrger Bar Juke Joint Blues w/ Rare Burger Band, 9pm BYwater Jumped Up Three (jazz), 8pm

one stop deLi & Bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Bones Jugs N’ Harmony w/ The Brummy Brothers (jug, bluegrass), 10pm

CLassiC wineseLLer Arvie Bennett (Americana, rock), 7pm

orange peeL Tarocco: A Soldier’s Tale (variety), 8pm

osKar BLUes BrewerY One Leg Up (jazz), 6pm paCK’s tavern DJ MoTo (pop hits, dance), 9pm piano eMporiUM Just Jazz: Piano Trio concert series, 8pm pisgah Brewing CoMpanY Amandla w/ Claude Coleman Jr., 8pm riverwatCh Bar & griLL Garry Segal (blues, rock), 7pm Root BAR No. 1 Dulci Ellenburger (indie-folk), 8pm sCandaLs nightCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sCULLY’s DJ, 10pm soUthern appaLaChian BrewerY The Pea Pickin’ Hearts (rockabilly, Americana), 8pm

satUrdaY, MaY 30 185 KINg StREEt Cody Siniard, 8pm 5 waLnUt wine Bar The King Zeros (delta blues), 6pm Mande Foly (electric African folk), 9pm 550 tavern & griLLe After Midnight, 9pm aLtaMont theatre Charles “Wigg” Walker (funk, soul), 8pm athena’s CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm Ben’s tUne-Up Gypsy Guitars, 2pm BLaCK Bear Coffee Co. Matt Jackson w/ Mike Alvarez (acoustic pop, rock, alternative), 6pm

spring CreeK tavern Resonant Rogues (Euro-folk), 9pm

BLaCK MoUntain aLe hoUse Hustle Souls (soul, alt-country), 9pm

straightawaY Cafe Carver & Carmody (Americana, country), 6pm

BLUe MoUntain piZZa & Brew pUB Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7pm

taLLgarY’s at foUr CoLLege Unit 50 (rock), 9:30pm the adMiraL Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the MothLight Nest Egg w/ Holy Wave, Jovontaes & Warm Deltas (experimental, psychedelic), 9:30pm the phoeniX The Zealots (indie-rock, Americana), 9pm the soCiaL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm tiger MoUntain Crushed Out w/ Pleasure Chest (rock ’n’ roll, garage-blues), 9pm Soul dance party w/ Cliff, 10pm tiMo’s hoUse Dungeon 2 w/ Crux, Secret_nc, d:raf (deep minimal), 10pm town pUMp Blue Hyperbole (jazz, classics), 9pm tressa’s downtown JaZZ and BLUes Nikki Calloway & friends, 7pm Westsound (Motown, soul), 10pm white horse BLaCK MoUntain Michael Jefry Stevens Electric Jazz Band, 8pm wiLd wing Cafe Scott Raines & Laura Michaels, 8pm wiLd wing Cafe soUth A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm Luke Kaufman, 11:30pm wXYZ LoUnge at aLoft hoteL Ben Hovey (soul-jazz-tronica, trumpet), 8pm ZaMBra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

BUrger Bar Bike Night w/ DJ Johnny Be Good (70s rock), 9pm BYwater Fritz Beer & Crooked Beat (Americana, rock), 8pm CLassiC wineseLLer Jacob Johnson (neo-acoustic, folkfunk), 7pm CorK & Keg Buddy Davis & The Session Players (honky-tonk, country), 8:30pm doUBLe Crown Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm dUgoUt Flashback Sally (rock), 9pm eLaine’s dUeLing piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm foggY MoUntain BrewpUB Third Nature (experimental, groove), 10pm good stUff The Twinklebees, 8:30pm highLand Brewing CoMpanY Alex Krug Combo (rock, Americana), 7pm iron horse station Scott Lowe (Americana), 7pm isis restaUrant and MUsiC haLL Saturday Classical Brunch, 11am Acoustic Blues w/ Peggy Ratusz, 7pm JaCK of the wood pUB The Straight 8’s w/ The Krektones (rockabilly, surf), 9pm JerUsaLeM garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LaZY diaMond Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm

LEx 18 High tea w/ Bob Strain (piano), 1:30pm Michael John jazz (jazz), 6pm Frank Puzzullo (jazz), 8:30pm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

Tues-Sun

5pm–12am

Full Bar

12am

LoBster trap Crossroad String Band (bluegrass), 6:30pm MarCo’s piZZeria Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6pm MarKet pLaCe DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm MarshaLL Container Co. Rough Draught (experimental community lecture series), 7pm MoJo KitChen & LoUnge Dine ’n’ Disco (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm new MoUntain Electrochemical w/ Bombastic & Cigarette Umbrella (psychedelic, funk), 9:30pm nightBeLL restaUrant & LoUnge DJ Celebrity (electronic), 10pm noBLe Kava Donovan Punch (progressive acoustic), 8:30pm odditoriUM Thrilla in Ashevilla (punk/metal fest), 5pm off the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm oLive or twist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm orange peeL Tarocco: A Soldier’s Tale (variety), 8pm osKar BLUes BrewerY Max Gross Weight (rock), 6pm paCK’s tavern The House Band (rock ’n’ roll, classic hits), 9pm piano eMporiUM Just Jazz: Piano Trio concert series, 8pm pUrpLe onion Cafe Lonesome Road Band (bluegrass), 8pm riverwatCh Bar & griLL Carver & Carmody (Americana, country), 7pm rooM iX Open dance night, 9pm Root BAR No. 1 Junto (honky-tonk), 8pm sCandaLs nightCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sCULLY’s DJ, 10pm

WED 5/27 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH COMING SOON MIRIAM ALLEN & DAVID ZOLL 8:00 PM– TAYLOR MARTIN AND AMANDA ANNE PLATT WITH FRIENDS ON THE PATI0 (AMERICANA)

THU 5/28 7:00 PM– JEFF THOMPSON IN THE LOUNGE 7:00 PM - LAID BACK THURSDAY WITH DEVIL IN DUST (SWAMPY BLUES)

FRI 5/29 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH THE GRAHAMS IN THE LOUNGE 7:30 PM GOLDIE AND THE SCREAMERS ON THE PATIO (SOUL/NEO-SOUL)

SAT 5/30

BB KING OF THE BLUES THE VINTAGE YEARS WITH PEGGY RATUSZ A TRIBUTE TO BB KING (BLUES)

9:00 PM–

WED 6/3

7:00 PM– THE

GAMBLERS

THURS 6/4

7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH DAN TEDESCO IN THE LOUNGE

FRI 6/5 7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH

WISEWATER

8:30 PM– TELLICO CD RELEASE CELEBRATION

WED 6/10

7:00 PM– THE GAMBLERS IN THE LOUNGE

THURS 6/11

7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH

JAY BROWN

9:00 PM– GRASS IS DEAD

FRI 6/12

9:00 PM– AARON BURDETT CD CELEBRATION

SAT 6/13

7:00 PM– AN EVENING WITH

DULCI ELLENBERGER & ANNA VOGELZANG WED 6/17 7:00 PM– THE GAMBLERS IN THE LOUNGE 8:45 PM– AN EVENING OF WESTERN SWING W/

CAROLYN MARTIN

Every Tuesday

7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

Every Sunday

6pm–11pm

JAZZ SHOWCASE

soUthern appaLaChian BrewerY Ellen Trnka w/ Howie Johnson & Craig Woody (blues, rock), 7pm straightawaY Cafe The Mug (blues, boogie-rock), 6pm taLLgarY’s at foUr CoLLege A Social Function, 9:30pm the adMiraL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

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

THE

the Bar Upstairs/ashLeY’s Upper rooM Karaoke, 10pm

isis restaUrant and MUsiC haLL Jazz showcase, 6pm

the MothLight Aunt Sis w/ Luke Norton’s Sugarfox (folk, Americana, rock), 9:30pm

JaCK of the wood pUB Irish session, 5pm

the phoeniX Mike Sweet (acoustic), 1pm Stepchild (rock), 9pm the soCiaL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

WEATHER IS N A ND I C E THE PATIO IS OPEN

tiMo’s hoUse Thank You Asheville v.01 w/ Blueprint, Supastition, Bobby White & Appaloosa (hip-hop, turntablism), 9pm

THU. 5/28 Lenny Pettinelli (jazz, rock, funk, folk)

FRI. 5/29 DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits)

(rock&roll, classic hits) ST OF BE

Tasting room closed for private event

one stop deLi & Bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Reggae Sundays, 9pm

wiLd wing Cafe soUth Joe Lasher Jr. (Southern rock), 8pm

piano eMporiUM Just Jazz: Piano Trio concert series, 2pm

wXYZ LoUnge at aLoft hoteL LP3 (funk, rock, soul), 8pm

pisgah BrewerY History trivia, 4pm

ZaMBra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

poUr taprooM Open mic, 8pm

straightawaY Cafe David Zoll, 5pm

BUrger Bar Bike night w/ DJ John Black (’70s rock), 9pm

taLLgarY’s at foUr CoLLege Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

BUriaL Beer Co. Jazz brunch w/ The Mandelkorn George Project (funk, soul), 12pm

the MothLight The Resonant Rogues w/ The Screaming J’s, Nathan Rivera & Shine Delphi (Gypsy jazz, folk, blues), 9pm

David Zoll Quartet

highLand Brewing CoMpanY Ben Bjorlie Trio (jazz), 1pm

Alex Krug Combo

Pour. Can. Go!

Sun • May 31 Ben Bjorlie Trio 12:30 - 2:30

YES.

WNC 2014

the phoeniX Up Jumped 3 (jazz), 12pm the soCiaL Karaoke, 9:30pm the soUthern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm

Now offering craft beer to go.

PLEASE.

800 HAYWOOD RD,

ASHEVILLE, NC POUR YOUR OWN DRINK • PAY BY THE OUNCE • 46 CRAFT BEERS • 8 WINES • PATIO SEATING • PRIVATE EVENTS • DOWNSTAIRS GAME ROOM

800 HAYWOOD RD, ASHEVILLE, NC • MONDAY-THURSDAY 12-11PM • FRIDAY & SATURDAY 12-1AM • SUNDAY 12-9PM maY 27 - JunE 2, 2015

the oMni grove parK inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10pm

tiger MoUntain Seismic Sunday w/ Matthew Schrader (doom, sludge, drone, psych-metal), 10pm tiMo’s hoUse Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm

ST OF BE HALL OF FAME

soCiaL LoUnge & tapas In the Biz Networking Night w/ Patrick Lopez (acoustic, piano, pop, open to everyone), 8pm

BLUe MoUntain piZZa & Brew pUB Larry Dolamore (acoustic), 7pm

doUBLe Crown Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

7:00-9:00

sCandaLs nightCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

soUthern appaLaChian BrewerY BlueSunday w/ Garry Segal & special guests (blues), 5pm

BYwater Josh Harty (Americana, singer-songwriter), 5pm

Sat • May 30

riverwatCh Bar & griLL Hope Griffin (singer-songwriter), 1pm

BLaCK MoUntain aLe hoUse Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel, 12pm

Fri • May 29 7:00-9:00

oLive or twist DJ (oldies rock, swing), 8pm

wiLd wing Cafe Karaoke, 8pm

Ben’s tUne-Up Jazz Brunch, 2pm

Thu • May 28 Meadow Open!

new MoUntain Eve To Adam w/ i-Exist, The Beard & Copestoned (rock), 6:30pm

off the wagon Piano show, 9pm

5 waLnUt wine Bar Xpresso w/ Patrick Lopez (Latin jazz), 7pm

5:30-7:30

LoBster trap Hunnilicious (country), 6:30pm

tressa’s downtown JaZZ and BLUes Pattrick Dodd, 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues), 10pm

SUNDAY, MAY 31

Wed • May 27 Woody Wood

LEx 18 Michael John Jazz (smooth jazz), 7pm

odditoriUM Thrilla in Ashevilla (punk/metal fest), 5pm

WNC

20 S. SPRUCE ST. • 225.6944 PACKSTAVERN.COM

LaZY diaMond Honky Tonk Night w/ DJs, 10pm

town pUMp Jonny Monster band (rock, blues), 9pm

white horse BLaCK MoUntain Sleeping Bee (acoustic), 8pm

SAT. 5/30 The House Band

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white horse BLaCK MoUntain Carlos Funk (Latin blues), 7:30pm wiLd wing Cafe soUth Party On The Patio w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

MoNDAY, JUNE 1 185 KINg StREEt Open Mic, 8pm aLtaMont Brewing CoMpanY Old-time jam w/ John Hardy Party, 6:30pm

Beer CitY tavern Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam & storytelling), 8pm BLaCK Bear Coffee Co. Carver & Carmody w/ Sean Bendula (acoustic, folk), 6pm BLaCK MoUntain aLe hoUse Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 7:30pm

Patrick Lopez (acoustic, piano, pop, open to everyone), 8pm sovereign reMedies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm the MothLight Kitty Tsunami and the beach Ballz w/ Bob Band & Cold Solstice (surf, pop, rock), 9pm

BUrger Bar Honkytonk ladies night w/ Brody, 6pm

the soCiaL Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm Salsa Night, 9pm

BYwater Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8pm

tiMo’s hoUse Movie night, 7pm

CoUrtYard gaLLerY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm Crow & qUiLL Los Abrojitos (Argentine tango), 9pm doUBLe Crown Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Dave & Rebecca, 10pm

tUesdaY, JUne 2 aLtaMont Brewing CoMpanY Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm asheviLLe MUsiC haLL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

good stUff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

Ben’s tUne-Up Eleanor Underhill (acoustic), 5pm

greY eagLe MUsiC haLL & tavern Contra dance, 7pm

BLaCK Bear Coffee Co. Big Block Dodge (rock, blues, soul), 6pm

JaCK of the wood pUB Quizzo, 7pm LaZY diaMond Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm LeXington ave BrewerY (LaB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm LoBster trap Dave Desmelik (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm o.henrY’s/the UndergroUnd Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm odditoriUM Haochi w/ Bleeth & Moistboy (punk), 7pm Basement Benders, Nana Grizol & Desperate Pilot, 9pm

BLaCK MoUntain aLe hoUse Trivia, 7pm

MarCo’s piZZeria Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6:30pm MarKet pLaCe The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm odditoriUM Odd comedy night, 9pm off the wagon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm one stop deLi & Bar Turntablism Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm one worLd Brewing DJ Brandon Audette, 8pm poUr taprooM Frank Zappa night, 8pm Root BAR No. 1 Cameron Stack (blues), 8pm taLLgarY’s at foUr CoLLege Jam night, 9pm

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DIRECTOR: Denny Tedesco PLAYERS: Tommy Tedesco, Herb Alpert, Hal Blaine, Glen Campbell, Carol Kaye, Leon Russell, Mickey Dolenz, Brian Wilson, Cher

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MUSIC DOCUMENTARY RATED PG

Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452)

THE STORY: A documentary on the session musicians who helped shape American pop and rock music in the 1960s and ’70s. THE LOWDOWN: It doesn’t reinvent the documentary — nor does it try to — but this look into a largely unknown aspect of pop music is a treat as it celebrates the faceless musicians behind some of the biggest hits of an era.

It has been argued that Denny Tedesco’s documentary The Wrecking Crew — concerning the story of perhaps the greatest group of session musicians rock music ever had — is uneven, old-fashioned and out of date, owing to the length of time it took to make it and get it to the screen (paying for the music rights took a Kickstarter campaign). The most important charge against it — that it’s out of date — seems curious, since the story of the Wrecking Crew has been over since the late 1970s and hasn’t changed with the passage of time. That it’s uneven is probably more the result of the fact that it’s really two movies at once — the story of the loosely defined group and an intimate portrait of Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco. Considering the film was made by Denny Tedesco — Tommy’s son — that’s not surprising.

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Tommy Tedesco (with mustache) and Carol Kaye in the delightful music documentary The Wrecking Crew, which chronicles the glory years of the most famous (in the industry) session musicians of the 1960s and early 1970s.

As far as The Wrecking Crew being old-fashioned, I have to admit that I don’t expect much in the way of style out of documentaries as a rule. When I encounter it, I’m pleasantly surprised, but I don’t expect it. The truth is that this looks like it was mostly shot with TV in mind. Most of the interview footage is in the old TV screen ratio, but it’s been given a kind of theatrical varnish with graphics and titles that spill over into the rest of the screen. I was conscious of it, but I didn’t mind it — any more than I was bothered by footage of dead people among those interviewed. (Maybe this last is partly the result of watching bits of interviews with dead folks used as promotional filler on TCM with a great deal of regularity.) And I don’t think most viewers will care either. What will grab them is the story the film tells — and the way that story rewrites some of our notions about popular music of the era. Except for putting names — and faces — to the musicians, there’s no surprise that the Monkees were (at least at first) neither playing their own instruments, nor were they responsible for their sound. We

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knew that long before the group was a thing of history. Mickey Dolenz is quite upfront about the fact that he didn’t think of himself as a musician, but as an actor playing one in a fantasy show about the fantasy life of this imaginary band. Similarly, I don’t think anyone thought about people like Nancy Sinatra or even Sonny and Cher as musicians, but neither did we pay much attention to who actually was playing the music. It was not an era of copious credits. Surely, no one thought the Beatles (not really a part of this particular story) were playing the strings or horns on their later, more complex records, but apart from crediting Alan Civil as the horn player on “For No One” and George Martin with playing piano on “In My Life,” I can’t think of a single non-Beatle musician being listed on an album. What surprises here is more the revelation that these musicians were who we heard playing for the Byrds and the Association — and more to the point, the degree to which they helped shape the sound of everything from Phil Spector’s famous (or infamous) “wall of sound” recordings to helping to realize Brian Wilson’s

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later, more ambitious Beach Boys works. How many of you know that bassist Carol Kaye was responsible for the bass line that made “The Beat Goes On” a hit for Sonny and Cher? The film is full of this kind of information — and more. Perhaps the most incredible aspect of the film is how so little of it has any bitterness on the part of the musicians. More often than not, the admiration is a two-way street (thensession-musicians Leon Russell and Glen Campbell have nothing but praise for Brian Wilson). But beyond that the Wrecking Crew seems mostly grateful to have been an integral part of a moment in musical history — and to have had the steady employment it provided. After all, how many musicians can assert, “At one time I was making more than the president of the United States”? Well, Carol Kaye can — and does. That they’re receiving credit now, however, is heartening all the same. Rated PG for language, thematic elements and smoking images. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Poltergeist HS dirEctor: Gil Kenan (Monster House) pLaYErs: Sam Rockwell, Rosemarie DeWitt, Saxon Sharbino, Kyle Catlett, Kennedi Clements hauntEd housE horror ratEd pg-13 thE storY: An angry spirit kidnaps a young girl after her family moves into a house built upon an old cemetery. thE Lowdown: Obviously superfluous, but dull and lacking in scares on top of it all.

The obvious question, when it comes to Gil Kenan’s Poltergeist remake, is why? Why does this movie exist, exactly? If you want to be a smartass, you can say that about every movie, but this is especially pronounced when we talk about a movie as superfluous and bland and unimaginative as this version of Poltergeist. This movie

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exists to make money, and not on any of its own merits, but because it shares a title with a movie that was popular three decades ago, with the same (though mildly updated) plot. It doesn’t exist as art or as entertainment (at least, if this movie was supposed to exist as entertainment, it failed), meaning it went about making money in the most tedious and boring ways imaginable. And I’m not even a fan of the original Poltergeist (1982), nor am I necessarily averse to remakes or reboots on principle. It’s my belief that if a director is worth his or her salt, something good (or at the very least interesting) will come out of any project they work on. So in theory, at least, Poltergeist has the foundation of being entertaining since Kenan’s made one really solid, really fun haunted house caper in the past with the animated adventure Monster House (2006). The problem is that Monster House is what Poltergeist should’ve been — in a word, fun. Instead, what remains is a movie that’s too geared toward adults to have the necessary amount of flippancy and imagination to be truly fun, and too enamored with the family friendly nature of the original and keeping a PG-13 rating to be scary. Poltergeist falls apart at the seams in this respect, just wallowing in mediocrity with no identity of its own. This last part is a major problem, since the film follows the original Poltergeist extremely closely. A family moves into a house, finds out it’s haunted and loses their youngest daughter (Kenndi Clements) to one angry spirit who drags her through a portal to purgatory. It’s up to the family to figure out a way of getting her back. All Kenan and company manage to do with the story is update it vaguely — now there are iPads and GPS tracking devices and reality TV shows, window dressing that doesn’t really add to or comment on the original. On top of this, the stakes have been raised since the original film was released. Compare it to a film like James Wan’s Insidious (2010), which has a similar plot but is more cognizant of its genre, its history and its cliches. Poltergeist cares nothing for this, instead ignoring 33 years of horror filmmaking to just make the same movie over again. And it doesn’t work because there are better movies to compare the concept to now. Just look at the cartoony CGI netherworld Poltergeist

HHHHH = max rating trots out compared to the genuinely creepy and eccentric one in Insidious and you get an idea of how Kenan’s film wants to cut all the corners. Rated PG-13 for intense frightening sequences, brief suggestive material and some language. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Justin Souther advertise@mountainx.com

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fiLM asheviLLe Jewish fiLM festivaL ashevillejewishfilmfestival.com • WE (5/27), 7pm - Dough. $8.50. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. • TH (5/28), 1pm - Dough. $8.50. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. MoUntain peopLe’s asseMBLY info@mountainmoralmonday.org • TU (6/2), 7-9pm - Fracking Stories, six short documentaries on the public health and environmental consequences of hydraulic fracturing. Free. Held in Ferguson Auditorium at A-B Tech. oUr voiCe 252-0562, preventionintern@ourvoicenc.org • WE (5/27), 3:45pm - The Hunting Ground, sexual assault documentary. Free. Held at Asheville High School, 419 McDowell St. • TH (5/28), 7pm - The Hunting Ground, sexual assault documentary. Free. Held at Asheville High School, 419 McDowell St. pUBLiC LiBrarY sCreenings buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TH (5/28), 6:30pm - Documentary Film Series: Catfish. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TH (6/4), 3pm - The Third Man, film noir. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. revoLve 122 Riverside Drive • FR (5/29), 6:30pm - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, screening and pajama party for kids. Discussion of nightmares follows. Free.

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• The East asheville Library continues its free documentary series on Thursday, May 28, at 6:30 p.m. with a screening of Catfish. Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the film follows Schulman’s photographer brother Nev and his relationship with Abby, a woman with whom he connects online after she sends him a painting. Though the debate persists whether or not the 2010 film is a true documentary, the final product is a fascinating look at social media and human behavior. The film is also the inspiration for the hit MTV show of the same name, hosted by Nev Schulman. PG-13, 87 minutes. avl.mx/0v7 • Black Mountain-based filmmaker chris gallaway is about to launch The Long Start to the Journey, a feature-length documentary based on his 2013 thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail. The film looks at how the adventure “shaped my life and my relationship with my then-girlfriend, now-wife Sunshine,” says Gallaway. “It also looks back at the origin story of the Appalachian Trail and how the vision and values of the trail founders molded what the trail has become today.” DVD and VOD will be available later this summer, but a public screening takes place at asheville community theatre on Saturday, May 30, at 7:30 p.m. $7. theatmovie.com • A group of graduate students at wake forest university has produced the Hollerin’ Contest at spivey’s Corner, a 15-minute documentary about the eponymous Hollerin’ Contest in Sampson County. The film follows three competitors, 1977 ladies hollerin’ champion Iris Turner and 1978 junior hollerin’ champion Robby Goodman — both of Fayetteville — and five-time hollerin’ champion Tony Peacock of Siler City. The filmmakers launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to raise $1,000 for festival submissions, but have stretched their goal to $2,500 in order to produce a soundtrack of the entire A group of graduate students at 2014 National Hollerin’ Contest. Wake Forest University has produced The crew of brian gersten, Liv The Hollerin’ Contest at Spivey’s dubendorf and geoff groberg has Corner, a 15-minute documentary. recorded every holler from that parImage courtesy of the filmmakers ticular competition but still need to, in their words, “edit it, perfect it and sweeten it.” Their goal is to make the soundtrack available on iTunes, Amazon or another appropriate platform. If the new amount is reached by Wednesday, June 3, all backers will receive a digital copy of the soundtrack. avl.mx/0wq • The new 12-minute documentary inclined Minds examines how creativity can be a source for social change in Asheville. The film’s website calls the city and its surrounding region “an incubation steppingstone, one that embraces healthy conversation between creatives, activists and entrepreneurs.” Among those individuals featured in the film are performer/writer tom chalmers; N.C. Stage Company’s charlie flynn-mciver; The Magnetic Theatre’s chall gray; minister/educator howard hanger; Buncombe County Commissioner holly Jones; Asheville Area Arts Council Executive Director Kitty Love; Mojo Coworking’s craig mcansh; Pack Place Managing Director heather nelson; musician/producer Josh phillips; LEAF Executive Director/Founder Jennifer pickering; Mountain Roots Management’s bob robertson; and food entrepreneur John swann. The project’s founders — local filmmaker christopher gaspar receives the “Story by” credit — also note that their “continued goal is to highlight intersections between innovation and social outreach, hoping to measure that impact and develop programmatic solutions for underserved community needs.” inclinedmindsac.org Send you local film news to ae@mountainx.comX

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The Salt of the Earth HHHH dirEctor: Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado pLaYErs: Sebastião Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Lélia Wanick Salgado documEntarY ratEd pg-13 thE storY: Documentary on the life and work of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado. thE Lowdown: Glorious to look at — at least when it sticks to black and white — and keenly perceptive, this isn’t your standard documentary for most of its length.

I have only one serious reservation with The Salt of the Earth, and, no, it has nothing to do with addressing the question of the “morality” of photographer Sebastião Salgado’s work. I think the question of whether or not his photojournalism is playing on human suffering or is “grief porn” is ably answered by the film without any need for discussion. No, my problem is strictly one of style. When the film sticks to black and white — often producing shimmeringly silver, razor-sharp images almost the equal of Salgado’s still photographs — it is a beautifully immersive experience. It’s like seeing the world and the photographer’s life through the lens of his own camera. The moment it shifts to color it becomes just another documentary, not an experience at all. Fortunately, enough of the film sticks to black and white to keep it going along, but every time color intrudes, it becomes less than it was. To touch briefly on that “grief porn” business, we know early on that co-director Wim Wenders doesn’t subscribe to it, since his initial response to seeing a Salgado photo was that it was taken by a “man who loves people.” The film — which is essentially a portrait of Sebastião Salgado by Wenders and Salgado’s son, Juliano

Ribeiro Salgado — then spends most of its length demonstrating the correctness of Wenders’ judgment. It offers us a surprisingly complex picture of a man whose own soul becomes so overwhelmed by the suffering he’s seen and photographed that he can take no more and retreats into a very different world, which I’ll leave to the film to depict — along with the results of that retreat. This is the story of a man who started out studying to be — and even working as — an economist and became a photographer entirely by happenstance — and at a fairly late time. There is never any question that Salgado is a born photographer. The images he produces are so startling and detailed and so right that you immediately know this wasn’t so much learned as it was a natural progression — even a kind of magic. It gave the already politically aware and socially conscious Salgado a voice to speak with — and with a clarity that goes beyond words. But if it all takes its toll on Salgado, it also takes its toll on the viewer. That’s to say that the film can be something of a downer. What rescues it from being singularly depressing is its last section — one that provides a sense of hope and rebirth to counter all the suffering or at least prove that there’s more to the world than the suffering. Much of the film’s strength comes from Salgado’s photographs, which generously adorn the proceedings throughout. Wenders and the younger Salgado treat these photos with respect for their artistry. There are none of the attempts so beloved of modern documentaries to make the pictures other than they are. We have no panning across the images. There’s no lame attempt to convey a sense of movement. The photos are just there — seen as single, often very complex, images. The film allows the viewer to study them as if looking at them in a gallery — allows the photos to draw the viewer in without cinematically editorializing them. They are often breathtaking, often heartbreaking — and sometimes they’re both things at once. I have never seen a better film depicting imagery in this way. By all means, this is worth your while. Rated PG-13 for thematic material involving disturbing images of violence and human suffering and for nudity. Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke

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Tomorrowland HHS dirEctor: Brad Bird pLaYErs: George Clooney, Hugh Laurie, Britt Robertson, Raffey Cassidy, Tim McGraw, Kathryn Hahn, Keegan-Michael Key fantasY sci-fi ratEd pg thE storY: An upbeat teenager and a disgruntled older man become involved in the world of Tomorrowland. thE Lowdown: Yes, there are some bright spots in it, but the story is poorly constructed, the payoff is too slight, the thematic implications are between confused and alarming — and the final result little more than an empty bromide.

Tomorrowland — vaguely based on the Disney theme park attraction — is a mess. Structurally, it’s a nightmare. Dramatically, it only occasionally comes to life. Technically, it’s sometimes impressive and sometimes a thing of 1930s-level matte paintings and CGI that’s so cartoonish it’s hard to remember it isn’t an animated film. Thematically, it’s such a bizarre farrago of mismatched “philosophies” and ideas that it’s hard to tell what it’s supposed to be. I’d like to call it a “noble failure,” but I’m not at all sure that it’s noble. I am sure, on the other hand, that so far as I’m concerned, it’s certainly a failure. Put on a very simple — and even charitable — level, Tomorrowland feels like science fiction grounded in Rev. Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking — minus the God stuff. The basic idea is that our own fixation with bad news, gloomy prognostications and dystopian fiction is the driving force that is taking the world to hell in your proverbial handbasket. If only we looked on the sunny side, etc. All in all, it’s not a bad notion — just a simplistic one. But what approach have director Bird and his co-writer Damon Lindelof taken to deliver this message? Why, of course, they’ve come up with a story about — wait for it — overthrowing a dystopian government/parallel universe — complete with all the trappings of

the very things Tomorrowland constantly shakes an accusatory finger at us for buying into. While it lectures us about being optimistic, it’s blithely incinerating people with ray guns, blowing things up and even treating us to giant Rock-’em-Sock-’em robots. But if we put on a happy face, all this will change. After all, the mere presence of one upbeat teenage girl (Britt Robertson, Cake) makes the prospect of our impending doom move from 100 percent certainty to a chance of a happier scenario. All that’s lacking is Shirley Temple showing up to sing “Be Optimistic.” The problem — one of them — is that what Tomorrowland offers is more bromide than anything. And when it does offer something more, that something is an unwieldy mix of Ayn Rand and populism. The whole concept of Tomorrowland is about a millimeter away from Galt’s Gulch in Atlas Shrugged — a utopia for the select few — and its recruiting program is interchangeable with John Galt’s approach. Worse — and this gets into the realm of spoilers — its final answer is to return to the same old elitist policies Tomorrowland was using in 1964 of bringing in “just the right people.” The kindest thing I can say is that the film is on the regressive side and bathed in the antiseptic worldview of Disney. Even if you can overlook all this — and a lot of folks will just because of the movie’s “positive” message — the film is a shambles. We have to wade through an utterly pointless and annoying onscreen narration (gotta get Clooney up there right away) and two protracted backstories to get to the actual plot. The film does improve once it clears away the setup, but the tone remains inconsistent. Enjoyable bickering between Clooney’s disillusioned dreamer and his perpetually 14-year-old former mentor (Raffey Cassidy, Dark Shadows) sits right next to clunky villainy and ham-handed preachiness. A brilliant steampunkish sequence involving an antique rocket hidden in the Eiffel Tower (a nod to

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Disneyland Paris) is all but obliterated by the rarely convincing depiction of Tomorrowland itself. For that matter, the film is incapable of selling its central premise of DNA-coded Tomorrowland pins. If the right person touches the pin, they’re whisked away to a magical world that looks like a Terrence Malick movie with an Emerald City-like matte painting of Tomorrowland on the horizon. Only not really. It’s just a vision hemmed in by the logistics of the real world — unless you move to the wide open spaces. This somehow not only allows you to get to Tomorrowland, but to interact with its inhabitants. How? I have no idea, and I doubt the filmmakers have either. The film is not devoid of merit. But its merits — ranging from some terrific visuals to excellent work from Clooney and young Raffey Cassidy — just aren’t enough to save it. Even allowing for the possibility that it’s all well-intended — if wooly-minded — the approach is so adamant about forcing positivity on you that it has all the charm of being stuck for two hours in a room with an endless loop of “Don’t Worry, Be Happy” playing. Ultimately, I can’t get away from the sense that what I sat through was essentially the world’s most expensive TED talk. That’s an awful thing to have to say about any movie. Rated PG for sequences of sci-fi action, violence and peril, thematic elements and language. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Flat Rock Cinema, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Aloha Bradley Cooper and Emma Stone head up an all-star (but Danny McBride) cast in this latest attempt by Cameron Crowe to recover the luster that has largely eluded him since Almost Famous (15 years ago). According to the blurb, “Bradley Cooper stars as a defense worker who teams up with a pilot (Emma Stone) to stop a satellite launch in this romantic comedy from Cameron Crowe.” Reviews? Well, there aren’t any of those pesky things yet. (pg-13)

The Salt of the Earth See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

San Andreas It’s the return of the disaster movie with director Brad Peyton re-teaming with his Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) star Dwayne Johnson. As the blurb puts it, “Brad Peyton steps into disaster movie territory with this 3D film surrounding an earthquake that hits the West Coast.” (Apparently, there’s a truly immersive version of this — moving seats, misting water, etc. — in 133 special theaters, none of which are in Asheville.) Also trapped in the disaster are Carla Gugino, Paul Giamatti and Ioan Gruffudd. There are no early reviews, but expect it to be noisy — very noisy indeed. (pg-13)

The Wrecking Crew See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

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dirEctor: Federico Fellini pLaYErs: Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Bruno Zanin, Luigi Rossi, Maria Antonietta Beluzzi comEdY drama fantasY Rated R If anyone ever asks why Federico Fellini is one of the greats of filmmaking, all that should be necessary is to direct them to his 1973 film, Amarcord. (If that fails, I suppose you might try 8 1/2 (1963), and if that fails, give up trying to reason with them.) Amarcord and 8 1/2 strike me as the most perfect of Fellini’s films, though I give a slight edge to Amarcord simply because of its generosity of spirit. This is Fellini’s Oscar-winning autobiographical, phantasmagorical reminiscence of what life was like — or how it seems from a perspective nearly 40 years later — in the small town of Rimini, where the director was born. Rich, comic, gorgeous to behold and thoroughly entertaining. A master filmmaker at his best. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Amarcord Friday, May 29, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

dirEctor: John Goldschmidt pLaYErs: Jonathan Pryce, Malachi Kirby, Ian Hart, Philip Davis, Pauline Collins comEdY-drama Rated NR The closing film for this year’s Asheville Jewish Film Festival, Dough, is an unlikely delight. On paper — and to a certain degree, in practice — this sounds like a movie that packs every culture-clash and generation-gap cliche imaginable into one small space. Jonathan Pryce plays Nat, an elderly Jewish baker who refuses to give up his faltering — and beleaguered (yes, there’s a villain trying to put him out of business) — bake shop, despite the urgings of his son (Daniel Caltagirone) to retire. (For his part, Nat considers his son a disappointment for not going into the family business.) When Nat’s assistant defects to his competitor, Nat ends up hiring a young Muslim, Shaun (Malachi Kirby), whose mother is an old customer. This is not a match made in heaven — or so it seems. However, the bakery becomes unexpectedly successful — all because Shaun drops a bag of marijuana into a batch of dough. And, yes, this all plays out pretty much like you expect, but that’s not factoring in a screenplay (by Jez Freedman and Jonathan Benson) that’s actually witty, and it’s certainly not factoring in the chemistry between Pryce and Kirby. Somehow this becomes at once utterly predictable and wholly charming and entertaining. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. It shouldn’t work, but it does. The Asheville Jewish Film Festival and the Fine Arts Theatre present Dough for two showings — Wed., May 27, at 7 p.m. and Thu., May 28, at 1 p.m. at Fine Arts Theatre.

Bad Day at Black Rock HHHH dirEctor: John Sturges pLaYErs: Spencer Tracy, Robert Ryan, Anne Francis,Walter Brennan, Dean Jagger, Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin drama Rated NR Clocking in at a tight 81 minutes, John Sturges’ Bad Day at Black Rock (1954) is everything you don’t expect from a John Sturges movie. It’s taut, tense, and it doesn’t dawdle. The film is an expression of the increasingly leftist slant that MGM had taken after Dore Schary had managed to oust right-winger Louis B. Mayer from controlling the studio. (The idea of a movie dealing with an embittered war hero coming to Black Rock and uncovering a racially motivated murder and a conspiracy to cover it up under Mayer was unthinkable.) Spencer Tracy is uncommonly good, and the whole cast is strong — even if Borgnine’s role seems like reheated William Bendix. Though the film suffers from being an early Cinemascope production — there’s not a single close-up in the movie — Sturges evidences a clear understanding of composing for the wide-screen. It isn’t quite a great movie, but it’s a very good one. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Bad Day at Black Rock Sunday, May 31, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Only Angels Have Wings HHHHH dirEctor: Howard Hawks pLaYErs: Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Richard Barthelmess, Rita Hayworth, Thomas Mitchell, Sig Ruman advEnturE drama comEdY Rated NR I first saw Howard Hawks’ Only Angels Have Wings (1939) at two o’clock in the morning on the second day of a marathon festival of films from Columbia Pictures in a packed theater at the University of South Florida about 40 years ago. It had never to my knowledge popped up on any TV station in my range, and I knew nothing about it except that Hawks had made it and that it starred Cary Grant and Jean Arthur, but that was enough to get me there. I was pretty completely blown away by the film’s mixture of comedy, tragedy, romance and action. That might seem a not uncommon mix now, but it was then — and it was even more so in 1939. Stripped to its bare essentials, it can be assessed as a post-code (read: cleaned up) variant on Red Dust (1932), with airmail carriers in South America replacing people on a rubber plantation in French Indochina, and Grant, Arthur, Richard Barthelmess and Rita Hayworth taking over for Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Gene Raymond and Mary Astor. But the story is much more complex, the tone more serious and the melodrama toned down. Red Dust is fun, but this is a masterpiece — and quite possibly Hawks’ best film. An essential if ever there was one. The Asheville Film Society will screen Only Angels Have Wings Tuesday, June 2, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

The Tenant HHHHH dirEctor: Roman Polanski pLaYErs: Roman Polanski, Isabelle Adjani, Melvyn Douglas, Shelley Winters, Jo Van Fleet psYchoLogicaL horror Rated R Roman Polanski’s 1976 psychological horror film about a Polish immigrant (Polanski) losing his own personality to that of the woman who previously lived in his apartment (and who committed suicide by throwing herself out of the window) may well be the director’s best film. It is certainly his creepiest — and made all the more so when you realize its story is both personal and obsessive. His picture of a not entirely likable — almost personality-free — immigrant descending into madness (that may or may not be related to the actions of his xenophobic neighbors), though not entirely appreciated at the time of its released, is utterly chilling. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Tenant Thursday, May 28, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Keith Moon played drums for the rock band The Who. He was once voted the second-greatest drummer in history. But his erratic behavior, often provoked by drugs or alcohol, sometimes interfered with his abilities. In 1973, The Who was doing a live concert near San Francisco when the horse tranquilizer that Moon had taken earlier caused him to pass out. The band appealed to the audience for help. “Can anybody play the drums?” asked guitarist Pete Townshend. “I mean somebody good?” A 19-year-old amateur drummer named Scot Halpin volunteered. He played well enough to finish the show. I suspect that sometime soon, Aries, you may also get an unexpected opportunity to play the role of a substitute. Be ready! TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The weta is a very large insect whose habitat is New Zealand. It looks like a robotic grasshopper, with giant black eyes on a long red face, enlarged hind legs bearing spikes and floppy, oversized antennae. The native Maori people call it “the god of the ugly things.” Please note that this is a term of respect. The weta’s title is not “the most monstrous of the ugly things,” or “the worst” or “the scariest” or “the most worthless of the ugly things.” Rather, the Maori say it’s the god — the highest, the best, the most glorious. I suspect that in the coming days, Taurus, you will have a close encounter with your own version of a “god of ugly things.” Doesn’t it deserve your love and welcome? CANCER (June 21-July 22): Only one fear is worthy of you. Only one fear is real enough and important enough to awaken and activate the numb part of your intelligence. So for now, I suggest that you retire all lesser fears. Stuff them in a garbage bag and hide them in a closet. Then put on your brave champion face, gather the allies and resources you need and go forth into glorious battle. Wrestle with your one fear. Reason with it. If necessary, use guile and trickery to gain an advantage. Call on divine inspiration and be a wickedly good truthteller. And this is crucial: Use your fear to awaken and activate the numb part of your intelligence. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming nights, try to see your shadow as it’s cast on the ground by the moon. Not by the sun, mind you. Look for the shadow that’s made by the light of the moon. It might sound farfetched, but I suspect this experience will have a potent impact on your subconscious mind. It may jostle loose secrets that you have been hiding from yourself. I bet it will give you access to emotions and intuitions you have been repressing. It could also help you realize that some of the deep, dark stuff you wrestle with is not bad and scary, but rather fertile and fascinating. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The ancient Greek statesman Demosthenes was regarded as a supremely skilled orator. His speeches were so powerful that he was compared to a “blazing thunderbolt.” And yet as a youngster, he spoke awkwardly. His voice was weak and his enunciation weird. To transform himself, he took drastic measures. He put pebbles in his mouth to force himself to formulate his words with great care. He recited poems as he ran up and down hills. At the beach, he learned to outshout the pounding surf. Take inspiration from him, Virgo. Now would be an excellent time for you to plan and launch strenuous efforts that will enable you to eventually accomplish one of your long-range goals. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Long-distance flirtations may soon be just around the corner or across the street. Remote possibilities are taking shortcuts as they head your way. I swear the far horizon and the lucky stars seem closer than usual. Is it all a mirage? Some of it may be, but at least a part of it is very real. If you want to be ready to seize the surprising opportunities that show up in your vicinity, I suggest you make yourself as innocent and expansive as possible. Drop any jaded attitudes you may be harboring. Let the future know that you are prepared to receive a flood of beauty, truth and help.

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gEMINI (May 21-June 20): You have successfully made the transition from brooding caterpillar to social butterfly. Soon you will be in your full, fluttery glory, never lingering too long with one thought, one friend or one identity. Some heavy-duty, level-headed stalwarts might wish you would be more earthy and anchored, but I don’t share their concern. At least for now, having a long attention span is overrated. You have entered the fidgety, inquisitive part of your cycle, when flitting and flirting and flickering make perfect sense. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I suspect that marriages of convenience will begin to wither away unless they evolve into bonds of affection. Connections that have been fed primarily on fun and games must acquire more ballast. In fact, I recommend that you re-evaluate all your contracts and agreements. How are they working for you? Do they still serve the purpose you want them to? Is it time to acknowledge that they have transformed and need to be reconfigured? As you take inventory, be both tough-minded and compassionate. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Petrarch was an influential 14th-century Italian poet whose main work was Song Book. It’s a collection of 366 poems, most of which are dedicated to Laura, the woman he loved. For 40 years he churned out testaments of longing and appreciation for her, despite the fact that he and she never spent time together. She was married to another man and was wrapped up in raising her 11 children. Should we judge Petrarch harshly for choosing a muse who was so unavailable? I don’t. Muse-choosing is a mysterious and sacred process that transcends logic. I’m bringing the subject to your attention because you’re entering a new phase in your relationship with muses. It’s either time to choose a new one (or two?) or else adjust your bonds with your current muses. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “The soul moves in circles,” said the ancient Greek philosopher Plotinus. Modern psychologist James Hillmans agreed and added this thought: “Hence our lives are not moving straight ahead; instead, hovering, wavering, returning, renewing, repeating.” I bring this to your attention, Capricorn, because you’re now in an extra-intense phase of winding and rambling. This is a good thing! You are spiraling back to get another look at interesting teachings you didn’t master the first time around. You are building on past efforts that weren’t strong enough. Your words of power are crooked, gyrate, curvy, labyrinthine and corkscrew. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s no coincidence that your libido and your mojo are booming at the same time. Your libido is in the midst of a deep, hearty awakening, which is generating a surplus of potent, super-fine mojo. And your surplus of potent, super-fine mojo is in turn inciting your libido’s even deeper, heartier awakening. There may be times in the coming week when you feel like you are living with a wild animal. As long as you keep the creature well-fed and well-stroked, it should provide you with lots of vigorous, even boisterous fun. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early,” quipped 19th-century English author Charles Lamb. I invite you to adopt that breezy, lazy attitude in the coming weeks. It’s high time for you to slip into a very comfortable, laidback mood ... to give yourself a lot of slack, explore the mysteries of dreamy indolence and quiet down the chirpy voices in your head. Even if you can’t literally call in sick to your job and spend a few days wandering free, do everything you can to claim as much low-pressure, unhurried spaciousness as possible.

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arts/Media graphiC designer needed for the Mountain Xpress production team. We are seeking a community-minded individual who wants to put his/her skills to work creating compelling advertising for the area’s burgeoning eclectic mix of businesses, creating fliers and marketing materials, and by helping design the pages of Mountain Xpress The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, works well in a collaborative environment, is exceptionally organized and deadline-driven, and has excellent communication skills, strong attention to detail, an exceptional creative eye and a desire to ensure high quality output. You must have the proven ability to create original, effective advertising and marketing materials, and to assist in the layout of our weekly print publication and guides. Candidates must: • Be able to simultaneously handle multiple projects • Be proficient in Adobe CSC programs (inducing, Illustrator, Photoshop and Acrobat) • Be able to prepress and troubleshoot a variety of file types and to work interdepartmentally to organize,

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