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Interwoven Tucked away on the campus of Mars Hill University, the refurbished Rural Life Museum pays tribute to the talented women who launched a cottage industry — and whose legacy is still being felt today. COVER DESIGN Megan Kirby PHOTOGRAPH courtesy of the Rural Life Museum, Mars Hill College

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70 years old and still up for outdoor adventures In regard to the article about a grandmother ziplining ["Leap and the Net Will Appear," May 14, Xpress], please allow me to boast. Last year, at the age of 70, I went ziplining at The Gorge, in Saluda, which is the most difficult course in the area. It consists of 11 lines, and the participant has no control over her speed. She goes slamming to a stop, which is provided by a braking system just yards from the platform. Let me add that doing this was entirely my own idea and was something I was wanting to do since I first heard of ziplining. AND after my initial fear wore off, I was pretty darned comfortable with the whole idea. No screaming from me. Only the bridge gave me some misgivings, which I slowly made my way across. I have also walked on fire (three times), and next month I plan to go on a hot-air balloon ride. In the not-too-distant future, I hope, I will experience a lifetime ambition to skydive (in tandem), and very soon I hope to do another zipline course. One thing I will NOT do is go bungee jumping. It simply does not look like fun to me. I am not a natural-born daredevil. Quite the contrary, as a child I was very fearful. I've become more daring

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Van Duyn and 'Moral Mondays' taking us in wrong direction Terry Van Duyn, who was picked to replace state Sen. Martin Nesbitt, who passed away, is up to her eyeballs with the “Moral Mondays” protests, begging and demanding increased monies for North Carolina social programs. Along with Rev. William Barber, the head of the N.C. NAACP, they want unlimited unemployment insurance and Medicaid expansion. In other words, “socialism,” plain and simple. But there is a deafening noise of any mention of meaningful employment. WORK. I have yet to find out the salary for Barber. Maybe minimum wage, ya’ think? I have about as much respect for this man as I do Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. It's my honest opinion that the NAACP has about as much to do with the advancement of people of color as my chance of being the first Homo sapien to walk on Mars. We need to feed the poor in this nation, and yet we are the second

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Ride-free day showcases Asheville’s transit system

May 19 was Transit Rider Appreciation Day and Asheville’s buses were free, so I rode as many routes as I could, viewing the city through the windows. It was foggy as I waited for the S3 inbound on Hendersonville Road. I was beginning to think I’d missed it when the driver spotted me in the fog and picked me up. The fare box bore a sign announcing the free day, part of Strive Not to Drive Week. An ART official (Asheville Redefines Transit) said the city was footing the bill, encouraging folks to leave their gas-guzzling, smog-spouting beasts at home in favor of the bus. But the really big news for local riders is “Next ART,” a new service that tells people precisely when their bus will arrive. If you have a cellphone, you can call or text the ART, punch in your stop number and get the arrival time, because the GPS always knows where the buses are! Each stop has been assigned a three-digit number, posted on round signs added to the rectangular ones denoting the stops. At the ART Station on Coxe Avenue, staff were handing out brochures about the service. They were also giving away “breakfast”: several packaged biscuits, an apple and a tangerine. I consumed mine on the spot while deciding which of the buses waiting in their assigned slots to board next. I chose the E1, which I’d never ridden. It wound sinuously eastward via Tunnel Road and Swannanoa River Road. Most of the dozen or so passengers were black men, veterans headed to the VA hospital. One boarded clumsily, his artificial leg bending the wrong way. He needed a seat quickly so I gave him mine. Clearly

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this route is essential: Every day except Sundays and some holidays, it makes 24 round trips between 7 a.m. and 10 p.m., sometimes running every half hour. Almost all the ART routes are like that: They start downtown and end at some special place. The S2 wiggles south through Kenilworth en route to the Social Security office in East Asheville. The N heads due north to the Grove Park Inn. Several routes converge on Biltmore Village; one zooms straight south to the airport and the WNC Agricultural Center. Two buses serve UNC Asheville at 15-minute intervals through most of the day. The A-B Tech bus runs hourly between 6:35 a.m. and 7:35 p.m. The 170 stops at Warren Wilson College on its way to Black Mountain. The W3, one of several West Asheville routes, terminates at the most elaborate Goodwill store I’ve ever seen. It was so attractive that I got off and shopped for an hour until the next bus came. The C line, the only route I haven’t ridden yet, doesn’t go to the ART Station. A feeder system, it loops from the northwest to the southeast,

connecting with many other lines along the way. The shortest route, the N3, entered the Hillcrest Apartments: blocks and blocks of neat brick dwellings with white trim and grassy front yards. Despite the no-fare day, we picked up no passengers there. After making the circuit through the publichousing complex, the bus returned to the terminal. One of the drivers, a “floater” who goes wherever she’s needed, recommended the N1, so I took it, and it is lovely. Heading north on Merrimon, it circumnavigates the UNCA campus, then continues around Beaver Lake — the only large body of water in the city. Free schedules for each bus route are available online or at the ART Station, along with a map showing the whole system. Like an octopus, its routes extend through most of the city, though there are some unserved pockets. Still, I was glad to have seen the sights of Asheville this way, and I recommend it to everyone, even if you have to pay. Asheville retiree Dewitt Robbeloth writes a blog at up2pee.com. X

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INTERWOVEN Rural Life Museum celebrates region’s women, crafts, ballads BY CAMERON HUNTLEY

Never underestimate what a few talented women can do. “Frances Goodrich was the one who started it off,” says Les Reker, director of Mars Hill University’s Rural Life Museum. “She was a missionary from New York, and she came down here to, you know, do what missionaries do,” continues Reker, indicating a black-and-white photo of a spindly, sharp-eyed woman. “But she discovered that the area had this tradition of weaving, and she teamed up with a few of the ladies to create Allanstand Cottage Industries. It was designed to give women their independence, really: It provided industry to the region and money to the women, and pretty soon this little cottage industry was gaining nationwide acclaim.” Reker, a walking encyclopedia of history and folklore whose career has spanned locales as far apart as Texas and Pennsylvania, is providing a guided tour of “Interwoven: Coverlets, Ballads, and America’s Discovery of Madison County Folklife,” the museum’s first exhibition since its grand reopening on Sept. 28. The modest space is housed in Montague Hall, a squat, fortresslike stone structure. Constructed in 1918, Montague Hall is one of the oldest buildings on campus. “It was built as the college’s library,” Reker explains. “The Montagues provided the funding, but the community believed so deeply that the college should have a library that they brought the stones themselves.” Reker and his staff (“three full-timers, a few work-study students and one intern”)

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have clearly taken pains to maximize the use of the limited space. On the right is a replica half-cabin, complete with roof, fireplace and flooring. In the center of the floor sits a large, ornate, fully functional loom. The exhibit explores the intricate history of craft in Madison County and the rest of Western North Carolina; weaving and cloth work played a key role in bringing national attention to the area. Asked how much cloth such a loom could produce, Reker says, “Several of the students have been working on this; I’d say we can get about 8 inches per day.” A small, black radio in the corner plays a soothing tune that crackles in the unmistakable manner of old recordings. I learn later that the singer is Emma Hensley Shelton. Her mother, Rose Hensley, was one of the Allanstand Cottage Industries weavers, whose melodious singing voices and fondness for ballads are the exhibit’s second focus. “This gentleman, Cecil Sharp, came to the mountains and discovered that all of these women sang while they were weaving, and they sang very well, and they were singing old English ballads,” Reker explains, pointing to another photo high up on on one of the exhibit’s large display boards. “The ladies called them love songs, but they came from England. And Sharp was amazed, because the way these women sang them was the purest form of the song he’d ever heard, including in the British Isles. That’s where ‘Interwoven’ comes from: this interplay between the weaving and the song.” The recording in the loom house — one of only a few in existence of a Madison

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TRUE WEAVE: Cloth work and weaving played a key role in bringing national attention to Western North Carolina in the early 20th century. The “Interwoven”exhibit at the Rural Life Museum highlights that history. Photos by Tim Robison

County native singing these ballads — is “quite a big deal,” says Reker. “This copy actually came from the National Archives.” The thick, blue-gray display boards, maybe 10 to 12 feet high, convey most of the exhibit’s information. “Maintenance built these for us,” Reker reveals, adding, “Takes about four guys to move them.” Spread throughout the premises, they’re covered with black-and-white photographs: a woman dyeing cloth; a group of women in stifling, full-body dresses. A particularly memorable photo shows an older lady looking mischievously at the camera as she plays an accordion. Scattered among the displays are original artifacts pertaining to the history of weaving and fabric craft, including a number of specialized spinning wheels. One, for example, was used to spin linen. “Linen is made from flax,” notes Reker, “and flax is very brittle. You have to keep it wet the whole time, and there’s a contraption on this spinning wheel that allows for that.” A few of the displays feature pictures of the various plants used to create cloth and dyes. A bundle of actual flax does indeed look very brittle, and a kids table in the corner, covered with scraps of bright construction paper, explains how to make a paper weave. “That’s all there is to it,” says Reker, gesturing toward a couple of completed ones on display. “With construction paper or with cloth, it’s the same basic principle.”

THEN AND NOW Montague Hall served many functions over the years, even housing a radio station before the original Rural Life Museum was established there in the 1970s. “It wasn’t really open to the public then,” notes Reker. “Tours were by appointment only.” Things continued that way for the next three decades. But by 2006, the former library building was seriously decrepit, and the school had to shut it down. The big-

gest problem was that ancient enemy of all preservationists and historical artifacts: water damage. Museums must maintain very specific atmospheric conditions, including temperature and humidity, and the aging structure wasn’t suitable for that. The restoration process would take nearly seven years, but after significant investment by the school, abundant community support and a couple of grants, the renovated space finally reopened last September. “Interwoven” was a logical first exhibit, considering its subject’s rich history, importance to the region and deep connection to the locals: Many of the families who produced work through Allanstand are still in Madison County today. “People don’t realize what this little weaving industry grew into,” says Reker. “Frances Goodrich stepped aside in 1930, and afterward the Allanstand Cottage Industries became what’s now the Southern Highland Craft Guild. It brought a lot of attention and rediscovery of craft to the region. I mean, this gained national recognition. A couple of members, the Walker sisters, decorated a room in Woodrow Wilson’s White House. It’s been redesigned since then, but I wouldn’t be surprised if some of those hangings are still there.”

Shop at the Folk Art Center. IF YOU GO... Located at Milepost 382 on The Rural Life Museum at Mars the Blue Ridge Parkway, the center also serves as Hill University is open 1-5 p.m. archive, gallery, museum and daily except Mondays, and by headquarters for the orgaappointment; there’s no admission nization. But the range of charge, and tours can be arranged. crafts on offer has evolved “Interwoven: Coverlets, Ballads, significantly since Goodrich’s and America’s Discovery of Madison day. The Allanstand store, County Folklife” runs through for example, now sells such Saturday, Aug. 2. For more informawide-ranging artifacts as tion, contact museum director Les handmade cutlery, furniReker (689-1400; lreker@mhu.edu). ture, jewelry, leather-bound journals, wooden toys, metalwork, jewelry boxes, wooden cowboy hats (you read that right) and ornate beeswax candleholders that somehow don’t melt when put to use. Despite the flood of cheaper, mass-produced products, handmade craft remains a good, if not booming, business. “Oh, I’d say on a busy day in October we’ll do about $10,000 in business,” Nance estimates. “People respond to things that are useful and beautiful, and we’ve really seen a shift away from mass-produced items: 250,000 people come through our stores per year. I think people just want items of enduring quality. Asheville has this thing about going local — well, we’ve been promoting local since 1930.” “All the attention this area gets for its fine crafts, from furniture to brooms to folk art, started with this cottage industry,” stresses Reker. With a quarter-million people shopping local for local crafts in the area, it’s no surprise that interest in the history is high. In the first couple of months after the reopening, the Rural Life Museum saw upward of 2,000 people come through its doors. Since then, it’s averaged several hundred a month. Many groups from schools, senior centers and the university’s own classes have come out to view the pieces and take tours. Reker says he hopes to average 8,000 to 12,000 visitors per year.

AN ENDURING LEGACY The legacy of Goodrich’s work with Allanstand Cottage Industries is still felt strongly today through the Southern Highland Craft Guild, a major presence in the region. “The guild is a member-run organization,” Public Relations Officer April Nance explains. “We have 930 members throughout nine states, although there is a concentration around Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.” The group’s mission is “bringing together the crafts and craftspeople of the Southern Highlands for the benefit of shared resources, education, marketing and conservation.” In keeping with the standards first established by Goodrich, becoming a guild member isn’t easy. Applicants first submit photographs of their work to a jury of guild members; if the jurors find the items to be sufficiently high-quality, they invite the artisan to come in person and bring the pieces for close examination. “Guild membership is very advantageous,” says Nance. “It allows members to sell in all of our shops and craft fairs, including our semiannual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands that we put on at the U.S. Cellular Center.” The guild buys members’ work outright and then sells it in six retail outlets, including the Allanstand Craft

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HISTORY MAJOR: Museum director Les Reker says he fell in love with WNC’s culture and history, from the rich legacy of its cloth industry to its ballads.

FULL CIRCLE “This is the coolest thing,” says Reker, indicating an elaborate wooden device that looks like a Ferris wheel crossed with a birdhouse. “This is called a spinner’s weasel. They used these to wind up their yarn into a bundle called a skein,” he explains. “You turn it 40 revolutions and you would have one skein, which equals about 80 yards. Well, there’s a little mechanism inside here that makes a noise once you finish those 40 revolutions, so after you had a skein, the weasel ‘popped’: Pop goes the weasel. That’s where we get the nursery rhyme. Which is also an English ballad, to bring everything full circle.” Reker expects this to be the last stop in his peripatetic career: “Oh, I’m not moving again,” he declares. “I bought a farm in Alexander, and we’re staying put.” Reker’s family visited the area several times when he was a child, and his daughter attended Warren Wilson. “I just fell in love with the culture and the history. North Carolina is the best place I’ve ever lived: Great landscapes, great people.” Meanwhile, Reker and his staff are committed to making the museum — the only one in Madison County — the best it can be. To that end, they’re carefully planning for future exhibits. “Those are pieces from another collection we’re gathering,” says Reker in response to a query about a small loft section in the back of the building. “The downstairs is not quite ready yet, but we’re working on it.” In addition, the museum is designed to be easily reconfigured to accommodate new exhibits (though the four maintenance people needed to move a single display board might take issue with the word “easily”). “Interwoven” will be on display until this fall, after which the museum will focus on a different aspect of the county’s rich history. Plans call for two exhibits per year, and Reker says he has plenty of ideas. “We have a great relationship with the Eastern Band of the Cherokee,” he says. “There’s the history of African-Americans in this area. We’ve got an idea about the train system and how much that changed the region. I mean, the thing that brought the Vanderbilts to the mountains was the train system, and look how much that changed Asheville.” Museums, he continues, “tell stories about people using objects. Above all, I hope this will allow people to recognize the value of mountain history and to tell the story of Western North Carolina: both the rural life of the region and the lives of the great mix of people who worked to carve out their lives here.” Freelance writer Cameron Huntley can be reached at cameron.huntley1@gmail.com.X

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advanced features and building online community, and include talks by some of Asheville’s top talents as well as experts from across the U.S. Due to the software’s easily modifiable structure, “People are constantly trying to stretch the limits of what you can do and what you can customize,” Roberts explains. One of those local innovators speaking at the conference is WordPress developer Steven Slack, who owns S2 Web. He’s attended six WordCamp events in bigger cities, and is hopeful the Asheville event could provide a creative spark for the area. “I know there’s a large desire on the part of people in the local tech community to make Asheville a more tech-friendly place,” he says. “My hope is that bringing in a WordCamp will get people excited about the tech community and the tech scene in Asheville.” In addition to learning experiences, Slack reports that he’s gained new business from attending WordCamps elsewhere. “You create these relationships around this common bond of working in the same area. And sometimes those people call you up,” he says.

Locally, Roberts says that Asheville WordCamp “could lead to new businesses as people form connections or it could lead to new projects.” While tickets are sold out and there’s already a long waiting list, Roberts says Asheville WordCamp is hopefully just a start of more things to come. All profits from the event will go toward improving the local WordPress meet-up group and their future WordCamps, which Roberts says is likely to become an annual event. But you don’t have to wait until next year to learn WordPress skills and network with peers. All the Asheville WordCamp classes and panels will be videoed and posted online for free viewing later this summer. And the local group invites anyone interested to attend their monthly events. “For me it’s really been great to become closer to some of the other fellow geeks, fellow developers and people who make their living off of WordPress,” says Roberts. “It’s really nice to feel that connection with people.” For more information on WordCamp Asheville, visit 2014.asheville.wordcamp.org. For more about the Asheville Area WordPress group, visit meetup.com/ Asheville-Area-WordPress-Group.X

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Amid allegations of cheating, Marc Hunt was declared the winner of the “Crosstown Rumbler,” a May 20 race that pitted members of Asheville City Council against each other as they biked, bussed and drove from the UNC Asheville campus to City Hall. The multimodal race was promoted as a highlight of the week’s Strive Not to Drive campaign, which aims to encourage residents to find ways of traveling other than riding alone in cars. Hunt completed the roughly 2-mile route first, clocking in at a time of 9 minutes and 36 seconds. Council member Jan Davis, who drove his car, finished second with a time of 11 minutes, 17 seconds. Council member Gwen Wisler, who rode her bike, came in third, at 14 minutes, 10 seconds. And in a photo finish, Council member Gordon Smith, who rode a city bus, arrived just 2 seconds behind her as he ran from the bus exit to the City Hall entrance. The spread between all the racers was less than five minutes. And the idea behind the friendly competition was to highlight the feasibility of different local transportation options, said organizer Jim Grode, who chairs the city’s Multimodal Transportation Commission. “We’re excited about this opportunity to show people that multimodal transportation is a viable option for commuting to work,” he said. However, Grode’s declaration that Hunt won the race on his bicycle was disputed by Davis, who beat his colleague last year by driving his car. “Marc cheated,” Davis said flatly as he walked up to the finish. He charged that Hunt took off from the UNC Asheville start line about a minute before the bus had pulled up and seemed to be breaking the campus speed limit as he charged down the hill. Even more damning evidence, which Davis cited (and this reporter witnessed and documented with the photos):

READY TO RUMBLE: City Council members Gordon Smith, Jan Davis, Marc Hunt and Gwen Wisler (left to right), raced downtown via bikes, a bus and a car. Photos by Jake Frankel

As Davis prepared to pass Hunt near the corner of Broadway Avenue and Woodfin Street, Hunt darted into the left side of the road, pedaling toward oncoming traffic in order to avoid a red light that stopped Davis. The rules stipulated that racers should abide by all traffic laws. North Carolina law gives bicycles the same legal status as vehicles, requiring bikers to ride on the right in the same direction as other traffic. “That’s exactly the kind of biking behavior that really pisses drivers off,” said Davis as he observed Hunt zipping onto the Woodfin sidewalk. Later at the finish line, when confronted by the move, Hunt replied: “When I normally

ride my bike, when it’s not a race, I don’t offend any drivers.” Beyond their finishing times, Grode also developed a new weighted scoring system that took into account factors such as cost, health, convenience and environmental benefits when ranking the racers’ chosen transit mode. By those measures, Hunt maintained his firstplace position, with Wisler coming in second, Gordon in third, and Davis in last. Knowing that the ranking system was stacked against him and his car, Davis joked, “The bikers won even before we started the race.” Although in the end he admitted that “there are tremendous benefits to biking,” Davis again declared with a laugh: “But Marc did cheat.”X

As the city of Asheville continues to put more resources into encouraging multimodal transit, the debate over how drivers and cyclists should best share the streets has become a hot topic. And in the days since May 20, the racing incident sparked a lively online discussion about appropriate cycling and driving behavior. Here’s a look at some of what’s being said: VIA MOUNTAINX.COM “I publicly apologize for what, in retrospect, was cycling a more creative route than is appropriate for urban cyclists. No doubt I was caught up in the competitive spirit of what is intended as a fun event. I carefully considered the route I took in advance, and honestly believed it not to be illegal. Again, my apologies to Jan and the community. Let’s cycle safely and obey the rules.” — Marc Hunt “Completely irresponsible of you to break the law. I am an avid bike commuter and bike racer and that is EXACTLY why drivers try to run us down, yell at us, and throw stuff!!” — Adambikes “This is really disappointing. For crying out loud, so many cyclists just don’t get it?!?! I ride my bike everywhere. We must respect the rules of the road if we want to be respected in return. Marc Hunt has just added fuel to the cyclist-haters’ fire. Thanks a lot. Cheaters are not winners.” — Ceastburn “Lighten up Ceastburn. I also ride my bike everywhere and my priorities are 1. My personal safety and 2. Convenience of travel. On some roads I feel safer riding on the sidewalk. … I also almost never stop at stop signs and will occasionally ride through a red light. … Rules for bikes should be different than the rules for a car. If I were to roll through a stop sign and hit a vehicle, the only person that will be injured is myself. So, if you are comfortable with a roll through, you should take it. Also, if there is a convenient shortcut through a parking lot, then take it! Bikes are one of the most economical, environmentally friendly, and convenient modes of transportation. We

should be breaking down barriers to bike use, not ridiculing someone for riding creatively.” — Adam VIA FACEBOOK “Infrastructure is not built for bicycles, we are simply “ALLOWED” to use it. Bicycles don’t belong in the same places as cars, much in the same way that homemade ultralight airplanes don’t belong in the same space as 747s. But until ‘Merica decides to invest the same kind of money into bicycle infrastructure that it has in automotive infrastructure, we’re STUCK. It’s the obligation of the cyclist to protect him/herself, and sometimes that means operating outside of car-rules, i.e. running a stoplight.” — Phil Shaw “Infrastructure or not ... what we have is what we have and what we have are current traffic laws and a majority that drive cars. Follow the laws and gain more respect. It is pretty simple. Stop at lights, don’t split lanes ... don’t pass on the right ... don’t blow through stop signs and stop lights. ... In the interest of promoting equality on the road, obeying traffic laws is exactly what one should do. … I am very much an advocate of bikes ... but the majority of people drive cars, and until the majority sees cyclists abiding by the same laws, they will never respect them.” — Ben Wiggins

Marc Hunt darted into the left side of the road, pedaling towards oncoming traffic in order to avoid a red light that stopped Jan Davis. The Strive Not to Drive “Crosstown Rumbler” sparked lively discussion about cycling and driving behaviors.

“The problem is that bicycle advocates (whenever cyclists were given the “right” to operate on the roads) fought for us to follow the same rules, and then we all got screwed when they got what they wanted. Now it’s the law that we have to follow the same traffic laws as cars, even though it is completely ridiculous and life threatening. … What would be good is if more states would pass laws like Idaho, basically stop signs are yield signs, and red lights are stop signs (for bikes). This would solve a lot of problems; a: It just makes more sense, and b: then the car drivers wouldn’t get so pissed off if we were actually following the law.” — Adam James Winton Join the online discussion at avl. mx/0as. X

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In 1975, my husband Dennis and I drove our baby daughter and all our worldly belongings from Toronto to Halifax and back in our 1966 Volkswagen bus. Since then, we’ve owned a variety of Beetle models, Rabbit models and Squarebacks. That baby girl of ours later learned to drive in a diesel Rabbit! When ArtsNC created the ARTS license plate, I got one of the ﬁrst ones! VW of Asheville let me test drive a beautiful red tomato on the lot. I fell in love with yet another VW and it matched my arts plate perfectly! Bonus: the trunk had plenty of room for safely transporting artwork. As for me and my Jetta – a perfect match! Volkswagen is just part of our family legacy.

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SETTING THE STAGE: The Buncombe CRA board denied Moogfest’s initial grant application, but encouraged organizers to request funds from commissioners. Photo by David Simchock

CRA board recommends $1.17 million for nonprofits, denies Moogfest As Buncombe County’s June 30 deadline to finalize its budget draws near, the competition among local groups seeking public funding has reached fever pitch. The county’s powerful new Culture and Recreation Authority weighed into the debate May 20, drafting a list of 15 nonprofits it recommends funding to the tune of $1.17 million (see box, “Cutting the Pie”). One applicant that didn’t make the cut was Moogfest, which made headlines with a request for $250,000 mere days after the April event revealed that it had lost more than $1.5 million this year. The biggest winners were the Asheville Art Museum and Pack Place Education, Arts & Science Center, two longtime local institutions that are facing major change.

All told, the Culture and Recreation Authority’s recommended allocations add up to less than one-third of the $3.86 million sought by the 19 applicants — but more than twice what County Manager Wanda Greene is calling for. Amid a contentious campaign season that will determine which party holds a voting majority on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, the fiscal wrangling will come to a head over the next several weeks as the commissioners make final decisions on the grant requests. WAIT A MOOGMENT Moogfest sought the $250,000 grant from the CRA’s Community Development Fund to help pay for next year’s event. The technology, art and music festival began calling Asheville home in 2010 after several years in New York City, but organizers pitched the revamped, five-day 2014 version as having a strong economic development component. That argument garnered this year’s

festival about $180,000 in local government funding — the first time it had received such support. The county chipped in $90,000 several months ago, and the city of Asheville donated $40,000 plus another $50,000 worth of in-kind services. But for the most part, the 2014 event was privately funded. In March, Moog Music President/CEO Mike Adams, who owns both the local instrument manufacturer and the festival, told the county commissioners that he expected Moogfest to generate some $30 million for the local economy and $238,000 in tax revenue, more than repaying the govenment investments. The company’s CRA grant application did not provide data on the festival’s actual economic impact. Moogfest is working with the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County to produce a detailed assessment that should be ready in early June, said festival spokesperson Jill Lieberman. According to the application, the event had a $2.74 million budget. Adams had repeatedly stated publicly that he didn’t expect this year’s venture to make money, framing it as an investment in the future. Knoxville-based promoter Ashley Capps, who produced Moogfest from 2010-12 as well as a similar event called the Mountain Oasis Electronic Music Summit, said that only one of the four had been profitable. Capps was not involved in the 2014 Moogfest, and in March, he announced that he’d decided to discontinue producing such events here. The festival’s CRA grant application, however, painted a sunny picture of the event and its future. “By all accounts the most recent transformation of Moogfest was a success from many important aspects,” it states, noting that it had attracted several significant sectors: people with the means to invest in the area; “the world’s media,” which presented Asheville in “a very positive way”; and “large corporate sponsors who we hope will invest in the event in a meaningful way in coming years.” A survey of VIP ticket holders showed that 57 percent earned more than $100,000 a year and 52 percent worked in the technology sector.

“As a result of the success of the first-year event,” the application states, “we have seven legitimate candidates interested in underwriting: Google, SAS, Microsoft, Red Hat, IBM, Samsung and Intel.” It also reports that organizers are “confident” that they can cut at least $300,000 from next year’s expenses through “efficiencies associated with managing this event for a second time.” According to the grant application, Moogfest’s ultimate aim is to “raise the standard of living for every household in Buncombe County. Moogfest is loosely based on SXSW, which has directly contributed to the 28.5 percent GDP growth in the Austin area since 2008. … Moogfest brands Asheville and, by association, the state with a cool factor that other areas of the country would have a very difficult time matching. This gives our area a unique competitive advantage when it comes to attracting and recruiting new technology firms.” TRY AGAIN Moogfest was the only for-profit venture requesting a Community Development Fund grant this year, and it was three months late submitting its application. The deadline was Feb. 7, and Moogfest applied May 7, “respectfully asking for an exception,” said Lieberman. But CRA board members unanimously opted to deny that request. “They didn’t meet the deadline, which is a concern that I have,” said Buncombe County Commissioner Joe Belcher, who serves on the seven-member CRA board. “There’s not enough data to determine if it’s sustainable.” In March, Belcher and the other two Republican commissioners had voted against awarding the festival $90,000 in economic development funds. Meanwhile, the other two commissioners who serve on the CRA board made it clear that their rejection of the late application didn’t mean they’re opposed to the event. “I think it’s one of the better things we’ve ever done here,” declared David Gantt, who chairs both bodies. “I’m a big supporter of the festival,” added Ellen Frost. “But it’s an economic development matter: It needs to come before the Board of Commissioners.” She invited festival organizers to apply for more economic development funding in the future. The Culture and Recreation Authority was created last year to

manage the county’s libraries, parks and recreational facilities while also providing support for some community partners. The county allocates a portion of its property tax revenue to fund the new agency, and the commissioners have the final say on spending decisions. But Gantt told his colleagues on the CRA board, four of whom (a voting majority) aren’t county commissioners, “We will give great deference to the recommendations of the Culture and Recreation Authority. … So it’s not just a perfunctory type exercise here: It’s going to carry some weight.” PICKING WINNERS The CRA recommended giving the Asheville Art Museum $500,000 — more than any other applicant. The institution had requested $2.86 million to help fund a $24 million renovation of its downtown facility. Kim McGuire, who serves on the museum’s board, said it has already raised nearly $15 million, 70 percent of it from private sources. “But central to our success is significant civic support,” she told the CRA board. “The new museum will have a significant return on investment for the county,” she continued, citing a projected 200,000 visitors a year and $7 million in annual economic impact. But the county’s allocation for the ambitious project, which has been floated for a decade, would be “contingent on getting started: That means hammers and nails,” noted Frost during the CRA’s public meeting. (The CRA actually recommended adding another $250,000 to the $250,000 set aside for the museum last year, pending the start of construction.) On that basis, the agency’s board recommended the funding on a 4-2 vote, with Belcher and Matt Kern opposed and Vice Chair George Briggs out of town. In another major decision, the CRA voted 4-2 (again with Belcher and Kern in the minority) to recommend $409,076 for Pack Place. The money would be released in quarterly increments, and only if the organization remains “under its current business model,” said Frost, who lobbied colleagues to support the proposal. “The moneys are not transferable” to any other management entity, she added. The city of Asheville owns the building, which it leases to the nonprofit, and the county has traditionally helped cover operating and maintenance costs. But the

current lease expires May 31, and some City Council members have been pushing for changes in the arrangement. Several CRA members advised Pack Place board members to start preparing for changes in their management structure. “My strong, strong message to the Pack Place board is: start fundraising,” said Frost. Belcher sounded a similar note, saying, “You should reach out to every person you can to make it sustainable.” Frost explained later that she thinks demonstrating an ability to raise funds from other sources could help Pack Place address the city’s concerns. Many other local organizations sought much smaller amounts of county money, which the CRA board recommended with little discussion.

Cutting the pie

Here’s a breakdown of the $1.17 million Buncombe County’s Culture and Recreation Authority has recommended distributing to local nonprofits and government agencies: • $500,000 for the Asheville Art Museum • $409,076 for Pack Place Education, Arts & Science Center • $50,000 for Asheville GreenWorks • $45,000 for the Asheville Buncombe Regional Sports Commission • $32,245 for the Big Ivy Community Club • $25,500 for RiverLink • $21,000 for the YMI Cultural Center • $20,000 for the Asheville Area Arts Council • $16,657 for the Colburn Earth Science Museum • $15,000 for WNC Communities • $10,000 for Asheville Community Theatre • $10,000 for Black Mountain Recreation and Parks • $8,000 for the Environmental Quality Institute • $4,500 for the Historic Resources Commission of Asheville & Buncombe County • $4,200 for the Folk Heritage Committee

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Newsdesk Two months after receiving news that they had lost their lease at the Downtown Market building, Hi-Fi Café co-owners Aaron Gibbs and Katie Baird have decided to permanently close their small eatery this summer. Gibbs and Baird say they learned in March that the new owners of the building at 45 S. French Broad Ave. — Troy and Charlie Ball of Troy and Sons Distillery — would not be renewing Hi-Fi’s lease, due to redevelopment plans for the site. “After the turn of events, we honestly don’t have the heart to risk $30,000 in loans and spend another two to three years rebuilding. We just don’t want it badly enough,” says Gibbs. The couple estimates that with Hi-Fi’s closure, they stand to lose $80,000-$100,000. According to Baird, the pair initially viewed the loss as a sign to leave Asheville, but a groundswell of community support encouraged them to try a crowdfunding effort for relocating. The effort stalled, however, and the couple realized that even with a loyal customer base, there was no guarantee relocation would be successful, considering the fierce competition in Asheville restaurant industry. “Asheville’s food culture is just plain fickle, and we’re tired of fighting against that,” Baird says. “While it breaks our hearts to close our successful business due to circumstances beyond our control, it’s time to let go and move on.” For the time being, the couple plans to move to Efland, N.C., near Durham, where Baird’s mother owns 10 acres. They hope to spend their time there working on gardening and sustainability projects. “We are so grateful for an amazing three and a half years,” says Baird. “We’ve learned so much, and created deep friendships. I am proud to have built a business where ‘I love you’ is a phrase frequently exchanged across the counter, where hugs often come before food and coffee orders, and where we have truly built community around the quality and consistency of what we do.” If you want to get your fill of Hi-Fi’s much-lauded pizza and paninis, time is of the essence. Gibbs and Baird plan to maintain their current hours only through the end of July. For more on this

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story, go to avl.mx/0au. Hi-Fi Café is open 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Monday-Saturday. It is closed on Sundays. hificafeavl. com — by Gina Smith JUDGE HEARS ASHEVILLE WATER-SYSTEM CASE One year ago, the city of Asheville filed suit to block a state bill that mandates the transfer of the water system to the Metropolitan Sewerage District of Buncombe County. On May 23, Wake County Judge Howard Manning Jr. heard from both sides of the case. No matter the judge’s decision, an appeal is likely, freelancer reporter Kirk Ross reported for the online news site, Carolina Public Press. Manning didn’t set a date for his decision, but “according to a previous order, an injunction preventing the formation of the regional water system expires 30 days after Friday’s hearing,” CPP reported. Reps. Tim Moffitt, Chuck McGrady and Nathan Ramsey cosponsored a 2011 bill mandating the transfer — the latest in decades of disputes about a water system that serves Asheville, Buncombe County and part of Henderson County. Managed for more than a decade by a regional board that included representatives of all three local governments, the water system has been under city control for several years. Asheville officials argue that the city owns the system and its infrastructure. Not long after sponsoring the bill, Moffitt told Xpress that management of the water system should be approached “as an asset of the people, not any particular government body.” Asheville residents organized to fight the bill, and in early 2013, the N.C. League of Municipalities adopted the defense of local utilities as one of its top priorities. Forty cities and towns across North Carolina passed resolutions against state government taking municipal infrastructure, Xpress reported. Rep. Moffitt, who attended the hearing, told CPP, “whatever the decision is, one side — or both sides — will pursue an appeal.” Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer said, however, that she felt the city had a strong case, “given Manning’s focus on the constitutional issue.” For more, go to carolinapublicpress.org. — by Margaret Williams X

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PROM DRAFT A week before the National Football League held its 2014 Draft Day in May, a large contingent of junior and senior boys staged their own draft day at Corona del Mar High School in Newport Beach, California, “dividing up” the girls available to ask to the upcoming prom. The drafters “scouted” the draftees, and a “rule book” noted the boundaries (this year, sophomore girls are eligible). The girls, of course, can decline the invitation, but as in the NFL, the draft is designed to discourage a selected girl from being “poached” by “competing” boys. Many in the community expressed horror: The principal denounced it, urging parents to rein in their sons. But one “drafted” girl wrote that the whole thing was just “fun” and “is not, was never, and will never ever be used to objectify the girls.” CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE • The downfall of Russiasympathizing Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych in February (which eventually provoked Vladimir Putin’s retaliation against Ukraine) accelerated when his countrymen learned of his startlingly opulent lifestyle (gold toilets, private zoo) — including catching a video glimpse of a nude portrait he’d commissioned. Yanukovych, a not-particularly-buff 63-year-old, was portrayed reclining and with an undersized male endowment. Artist Olga Oleynik told Agence France-Presse news service that she’d done a similar (but more generously endowed) portrait of Putin but was “afraid” to show it in public or to disclose whether Putin had commissioned it.) • Skylar King, 28, filed a lawsuit in Clayton, Mo., in April against dentist Mark Meyers and his Same Day Dentures clinic for a 2009 session in which Meyers somehow obtained King’s consent to extract all 32 of his teeth and provide dentures immediately after charging $5,235 to King’s mother’s credit card. King, who was seeking treatment for

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an abscessed tooth, said Meyers had warned that he was at risk of “fatal blood poisoning” unless all teeth were yanked. Meyers insisted that King had actually requested the procedure, even though X-rays revealed that at least 28 of the teeth were treatable. • As of late March, the Sainsbury’s supermarket in Basford, England, still had an operational ATM on an outside wall even though its screen and controls were only 15 inches off the ground, forcing customers to bend over or kneel down to get cash. A Sainsbury’s spokesman, shown a photo of an uncomfortably squatting user, said no one had complained but that the store would look into moving the machine. The only explanation offered for the placement was that the store is on a hill. UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT • Wellma “Tootie” Shafer, 46, was fired as a cashier at the Last Chance Market in Russell, Iowa, after a customer reported her engaging in “sexual” banter at the register. Her boss, Rick Braaksma, explained, “We cannot ... talk about adult situations in front of other customers,” and when Shafer sought unemployment compensation, Braaksma challenged her application. According to an April Des Moines Register report, however, the market sells (among other items) Wake the F--- Up Coffee, The Hottest F---ing Sauce (noted, the label states, for its “assburning quality”), and The Hottest F---ing Nuts; a state administrative judge granted Shafer benefits. • Refresher Course on Buddhism Needed: In May, an unnamed 40-year-old man in Briec, France, was charged for a February incident in which his cat knocked over his Buddha statue, demolishing it. Enraged, the man tossed the cat into his washing machine and set the water temperature at 104 degrees F.

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THE CONTINUING CRISIS • Brazilian authorities told reporters in April that villagers in remote Ayopaya had tied two men who’d stolen three motorbikes to a “tree of woe” — a permanent host for ants whose venom has anti-inflammatory properties — for three days until their relatives paid compensation. Both men were hospitalized, one with kidney failure. • Underreported amid the April news saturation on the sinking of the South Korean ferry was that its destination, the recreational island of Jeju, is noted for its “LoveLand” theme park, a traditional honeymoon destination. Visitors enter between giant spread female legs, and most park mascots are anthropomorphic figures representing the male and female sex organs. The park’s 140 sculptures depict phalluses, labia, humans in sexual positions — and, reportedly, something called a “hands-on masturbation cycle.”

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ANIMALS BROTHER WOLF ADOPTION EVENT 505-3440, bwar.org • SA (5/31), 11am-4pm - Held at Blue Ridge Reef and Pet, 103 WNC Shopping Center Dr., Black Mountain PET LOSS SUPPORT GROUP 258-3229 For anyone who has lost or is anticipating the death of a pet. Free. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - 1 Edwin Place. Free.

BENEFITS GEM SCHOLARSHIP FUN-RAISER asheville-nc.aauw.net • SU (6/1), 4-6pm - Tickets to this dinner and silent auction benefit the AAUW's GEM scholarship fund. Held at Fernihurst Mansion on the A-B Tech campus. $45. JFS FRIENDS FEST 2014 253-2900, jfswnc.org

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SOUMU AT THE PEEL: “Soumu” is the West African term for an all encompassing party, say the organizers of the 2nd Annual Soumu: A Celebration of African Music, Dance, Food & Art. The event, held Thursday, June 5, at the Orange Peel, features live performances including Afropop band Zansa, Ivorian dancer Barakissa Coulibaly and folk dancer Lisa Zahiya (pictured), as well as traditional cusine, arts and crafts. A portion of the event’s proceeds benefit Mouaye, an arts refuge for children and young adults founded by Coulibaly in the Ivory Coast. Photo by Parker Pfister. (p.20)

• TH (5/29), 6-9pm - Entry to this food, music and dancing event benefits social services provided by Jewish Family Services of WNC. $50. Held at Millroom, 66 Ashland Ave. READ, WRITE AND RUN 5K buncombe.k12.nc.us/domain/5523, woodfin5k@gmail.com • SA (5/31) - Funds for this outdoor event benefit youth literacy and healthy living programs. $30. Held at Woodfin Elementary, 108 Elk Mountain Road. RUN FOR KIDS SAKE 5K 253-1470, bit.ly/1iJzPtu • Through (6/21) - Registration is open for this marathon benefiting Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC held at Warren Wilson College on June 21. $25 advance/ $30 after June 18. SOUMU: A CELEBRATION OF AFRICAN MUSIC, DANCE, FOOD & ART 774-2277, zansamusic.com • TH (6/5), 6pm - Tickets to this music, dance and cultural event benefit arts education in Ivory Coast. $15/$12 advance. Held at Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave.

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CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EASYBRIDGE!2 CLASSES FOR NEWER DUPLICATE BRIDGE PLAYERS (pd.) And ambitious social bridge players beginning Wednesday, June 11-August 13, 9-11am or 6-8:30pm at the Asheville Bridge Room, 800 Fairview Rd. Please call 828-407-8654 or e-mail ashevilleeasybridge@gmail. com ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 346 Depot St., 258-0710, ashevillearts. com • SA (5/31), 2-4pm - Workshop: "Using the Internet to Increase Exposure and Sales." Free. Registration required. ASHEVILLE MAKERS ashevillemakers.org • TUESDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Weekly social held at Asheville Pizza, 77 Coxe Ave. GOODWILL CAREER CLASSES 828-298-9023, ext. 1106 • TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS,

9am-noon - Adult basic education/ high school equivalency classes. Registration required. • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 5:308:30pm - ESL classes. Registration required. • ONGOING - Classes for careers in the food and hotel industries. Includes American Hotel and Lodging Association Certification. Call for times. $25. • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 12:303:30pm - Medical office support career classes. Registration required. LAND OF SKY TOASTMASTERS landofskytoastmasters.org • TUESDAYS, 7am - Meets at the Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Square Blvd. LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL 251-6622 or landofsky.org • Through FR (6/20) - Nominations will be accepted for the Friends of the River Awards, for groups or individuals who have worked toward the restoration and enhancement of the French Broad River.

LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA 654-9788, egacarolinas.org • TH (6/5), 9:30am-noon - Monthly meeting. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe NO ROOF LEFT BEHIND 628-0390, noroofleftbehind.com, hbalken@bellsouth.net • Through MO (6/30) - Community members may nominate deserving families or individuals in Buncombe, Henderson or Haywood counties to receive a new roof as part of this national campaign. WESTERN CAROLINIANS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST elizakeiser@aol.com • FR (5/30), 3:15pm - Monthly meeting. Held at Brooks-Howell Home, 266 Merrimon Ave. WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY wncpsr.org, info@wncpsr.org • TH (5/29), 7pm - Guest speaker: Ralph Hutchinson, coordinator of Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.

Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. WOMEN OF WISDOM 239-2986 • TH (6/5), 5:30pm - 25th anniversary party. Hosted by the NC Association of Women Attorneys. Held at The Venue, 21 N. Market St. WORDCAMP ASHEVILLE 919-259-0512, 2014.asheville. wordcamp.org • SA (5/31) through SU (6/1) - A conference teaching WordPress for beginners, bloggers, designers and developers. All skill levels. $40. YOUTH OUTRIGHT youthoutright.org • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Weekly meeting for LGBTQ youth and straight allies. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

DANCE BEGINNER SWING DANCING LESSONS (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $10/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www.SwingAsheville.com DANCE CLASSES WITH DANCECLUB (pd.) Mondays: 6pm, "Jazz/ Funk", Learn a dance to Pharrell's "Happy"! and Flashmob, Starts June 2nd • Tuesdays: 6:30pm: Dance and Sweat to Beyonce! • Wednesdays: 6pm, Beginner Modern, 4 Week Series starts June 4th. • Wednesdays, 7:30pm, Burlesque 101, Starts June 4th • Thursdays: 10am - Booty Camp exercise class! • Pre-register: (828) 275-8628 or danceclubasheville@gmail.com or DanceclubAsheville.com STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (pd.) Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 6pm Bellydance 1 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm West African • Wednesday 6pm Bellydance 3 • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 10am Bellydance Wrkt 4pm Kid's Dance 5pm Teen Dance 6pm AfroBrazilian 7pm West African • Sunday 5:15pm Yoga • $13 for 60 minute classes. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya. com :: (828) 242-7595

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING 350-2051 Free. • MONDAYS, 2:15-4pm Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road.

ECO SOUTHERN ALLIANCE FOR CLEAN ENERGY 838-254-6776, jennifer@ cleanenergy.org • WE (5/28), 5-7pm - Open house demonstrating energy efficiency improvements. Free. Held at 46 Orchard St. SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN WILDERNESS STEWARDS 258-3387, trailcrews.org • FR (5/30), 4-8pm - "An Evening of Wilderness Champions," a night of music and food to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act. Free to attend. Held at Pack's Tavern, 20 S. Spruce St.

FESTIVALS ART IN OAKLEY FESTIVAL 772-1776, https://www.facebook.com/ArtInOakley • SA (5/30), 10am-7pm Includes entertainment, vendors and information centered around art, music & natural healing. Free. Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Hwy. ASHEVILLE SHAREFEST realcooperative.org, tom@ realcooperative.org • SA (5/31), 11am-5pm - A celebration of local sharing initiatives includes swaps, seed exchanges and an open performance space. Free. Held at French Broad Food Co-Op, 76 Biltmore Ave. SPRING FAMILY FESTIVAL 252-4781, fbca.net • SA (5/31), 2-4:30pm Includes music, inflatables and games. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

FOOD & BEER FUNK ASHEVILLE BEER FEST 575-9599, wickedweedbrewing.com • FR (5/30), 7-10:30pm - Samples of sours from breweries from across the

country. All proceeds benefit Pints for Prostates, which works to raise awareness of prostate cancer. $80. Held at Wicked Weed, 91 Biltmore Ave.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS DINNER WITH PROGRESSIVES 258-3327 • MO (6/2), 6-8pm - Held at Green Sage Coffeehouse and Cafe South, 1800 Hendersonville Road, Hendersonville

KIDS PRIVATE PIANO LESSONS • KIDS • ADULTS (pd.) Piano teacher with extensive pupil experience, graduate Brevard College, majoring in piano/minor in voice, now accepting students. Will travel to your home or mine. Call 606-0561. BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS ggapio@gmail.com • SA (5/31), 2pm - A presentation on skunks. Held at Julian Price Campground Amphitheater, MP 297. • SA (5/31), 7pm - A presentation on the training of a wildland firefighter. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316. DANCE CLASSES AT BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 669-0930, blackmountainarts. org 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. $40 per month. Registration required. • THURSDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm - Kids in Motion. Ages 3 to 5. • MONDAYS, 4-5pm & THURSDAYS, 4:30-5:30pm - Beginners Hip Hop. Ages 6-10. • SATURDAYS, 9am - Ballet. Ages 3 and up. • MONDAYS, 5-6pm - Tween dance. Ages 11-15. DOLLYWOOD PENGUIN PLAYERS 250-4700, https://www.buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • Through FR (5/30) - A musical production of singalong songs. Free. Held at Buncombe County Libraries. Contact for times and locations.

FRI MAY 30 ORGONE THE HORSE YOU RODE IN ON (funk/fusion/soul) FRI MAY 31 THE TREE TOP FLYERS THE RIVER WHYLESS (americana/roots) FRI JUL 11 THE BILLY SEA JEFF SIPE & RIVER GUERGUERIAN GLOBAL PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE ROBERT MAGNUM PARRISH ELLIS (progressive bluegrass) SAT AUG 9 PLANKEYE PEGGY SOLDIER’S HEART ASHLEY HEATH (riverfest) FRI AUG 29 THE ARTIMUS PYLE BAND ANDREW SCOTCHIE & THE RIVER RATS (classic rock/blues) FRI SEP 12 FRUITION THE FIRESIDE COLLECTIVE (stringbands)

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HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY YOUTH ORCHESTRAS 393-5222, hendersonvillesymphony.org.hsyo, hsyo@hendersonvillesymphony.org • SA (5/31) - Open auditions for the 2014-2015 season for youth up to age 21. Registration required. Held at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville TEK-KIDS COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CLUB 250-4700, tek-kids.com • SATURDAYS through (5/31), 1pm - For students of all ages. Bring a laptop or portable device. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. YOUTH GARDEN CLUB AT THE STEPHENS-LEE CENTER 350-2058, LMcDowell@ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS through (5/30), 4-5pm - Held in the George Washington Carver Edible Garden, 30 George Washington Carver Ave.

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A girl’s best friend WHAT: AAUW’s GEM ‘fun-raiser’ and anniversary celebration WHERE: Fernihurst Mansion on the A-B Tech campus WHEN: Sunday, June 1, from 4-6 p.m. WHY: The Asheville branch of the American Association of University Women will celebrate 12 years of the Gaining Education Momentum fund, which provides undergraduate scholarships to UNC Asheville and A-B Tech for women whose education has been interrupted or delayed. Pat Argue, president of the GEM fund, said GEM recipients are often single mothers and grandmothers who put off their own college education due to the critical needs of their families or loved ones. “We have women ages 23 to 57 that we’ve award scholarships to,” says Argue. “Their stories are incredibly touching, just thinking of the struggles they’ve had to endure to get an education.”

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Argue says in the last 12 years the fund has provided 58 scholarships or more than $55,000. “And of course, we look forward to doing more,” Argue adds. “Even our small awards make major differences in achieving their dreams of a college education.” Organizers of the benefit, held at the Fernihurst Mansion on A-B Tech’s campus, say guests can look forward to “19th-century ambiance while supporting 21st-century educations.” After all, they write, “diamonds aren’t a girl’s best friend; an education is.” The event will feature food, wine and a classical guitar performance by Brad Earnhardt as well as a silent auction and raffle, which includes custom pieces by local jewelry designer Suzanne Q. Evon and watercolors by local artist Wendy Whitson. Tickets are $45 and can be purchased at the AAUW’s office at 2 Nichols Hill Drive. For more information, visit asheville-nc.aauw.net or write to homcclintock@gmail.com.

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GROWING GODDESS • SUMMER CAMPS (pd.) Rites of Passage, when girls (11-14) are becoming women. Through supportive sisterhood we reveal each young woman’s inner gifts and authenticity. We inspire confidence, compassion, and motivation! www. EarthPathEducation.com BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 298-5330, nps.gov, gail_fox@ nps.gov • FR (5/30), 10am - A 3-mile hike to the ruins of Rattlesnake Lodge led by park rangers. Meets at the parking area on Ox Creek Road, Weaverville. Free. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Hwy. 126, Nebo, 584-7728. Free unless otherwise noted. • SA (5/31), 9am - Canoe excursion. Meets at Paddy's Creek Area boathouse breezeway. Registration required. • SA (5/31), 7:30pm - A hike to listen for night sounds of nocturnal animals. Meets at Paddy's Creek Area boathouse breezeway. • SU (6/1), 10am - A leaf identification hike. Meets at Holly Discover Trail.

PUBLIC LECTURES PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted. • FR (5/30), 5pm - "How to Train An Opera Singer." Reuter Center.

SENIORS ADULT FORUM AT FCC 692-8630, fcchendersonville. org • SU (6/1), 9:15am - WCU professor Rev. Harold Littleton begins two-part discussion of his book, Paul: A Would Be Apostle

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation. Learn about the authentic TM technique. It's not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice. It's an effortless, non-religious, evidence-based technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. • Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment? • Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org AIM MEDITATION CLASSES (pd.) Ramp up your meditation practice with AIM’s Meditation’s Classes: Mindfulness 101- Basics of Mindfulness Meditation, Mindfulness 102 - More advanced, intermediate class. Class dates and times: www. ashevillemeditation.com/ events, (828) 808-4444 AQUARIAN CONSCIOUSNESS FELLOWSHIP (pd.) Metaphysical program inspired by spiritual growth topics of your choice. Meditation, potluck, St. Germain live channeled piano music. • Second and

Fourth Wednesday. 6:30pm. • Donation. (828) 658-3362. ASHEVILLE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 2520538 or www.ashevilleccc. com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:00pm. ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Wednesdays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com ASHEVILLE OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience effortless techniques that connect you to your heart and the Divine within you. Your experience will deepen as you are gently guided in this complete practice. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org. 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. ECKANKAR WORSHIP SERVICE • “RECEIVE GOD’S BLESSINGS BY OPENING YOUR HEART” (pd.) “There is nothing wrong with striving for more as long as we remember to be grateful for the blessings we do have. Gratitude is knowing that the gift is already given and one has only to open himself to receive it. Gratitude not only opens the heart to receive the gifts of the Holy Spirit but allows the gifts to keep on coming. This is why it is so important.” • Experience stories from the heart, creative arts and more, followed by fellowship and a pot-luck lunch. (Donations accepted). • Date: Sunday, June 1, 2014, 11am to 12noon, Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. www. eckankar-nc.org

Nature’s Pharmacy GURDJIEFF: THE FOURTH WAY (pd.) In search of the miraculous? What are the possibilities of inner evolution? New groups forming for those who wish to pursue inner work. (828) 232-2220. http://www. gurdjieff-foundation-wnc.org INTRODUCTION TO MASTERING ALCHEMY (pd.) Free talk, Q and A, play with energy tools, much more. Everyone is invited. Come to this introduction to Mastering Alchemy and learn how to discover who you are, why you are here and how to live as a multidimensional being. • Big promise? Come see for yourself. Thursday, June 5, West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road. 6:30-8pm. 828 537-0727.AscensionMentor. com MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (pd.) "ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION Deepen your authentic presence, and cultivate a happier, more peaceful mind by practicing Insight (Vipassana) Meditation

in a supportive community. Group Meditation. Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm. Sundays, 10am11:30pm. 29 Ravenscroft Dr., Suite 200, Asheville, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com MINDFULNESS MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm: Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. Info: 258-3241. www.billwalz.com ASHEVILLE CENTER FOR TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 165 E. Chestnut, 254-4350, meditationasheville.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30 pm Introductory lectures on transcendental meditation. Free. ASHEVILLE HARE KRISHNA 506-0996, gopalonetwo@ yahoo.com

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ASHEVILLE SHAMANIC JOURNEY CIRCLE 369-0630, dreamtimejourneys.net • WEDNESDAYS, 6:309pm - Shamanic Journey experience required. $10. Registration required. CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING ASHEVILLE 2 Science Mind Way, 2317638, cslasheville.org • MONDAYS through (6/16), 7-9pm - "The Law of Attraction & Creation," with Dr. Barbara Waterhouse. Free to attend. ECKHART TOLLE DISCUSSION GROUP TreyCarland.com • MONDAYS, 7-9pm Meetings include viewing of video interviews with Eckhart Tolle, meditation and discussion. Held at Insight Counseling, 25 Orange St.

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GANDEN KADAMPA BUDDHIST CENTER EVENTS 668-2241, meditationinsouthcarolina.org • SA (5/31), 10am-1pm "Mindfulnes for Busy People" meditation workshop. Held in the Rhododendron Room at AB-Tech. $20/$15 students & seniors. • SUNDAYS through (6/15), 7pm - "Karma: A User's Guide." $8/$5 students & seniors. Held at Rainbow Mountain Community School, 574 Haywood Rd. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Through WE (6/4) Registration open for sevenweek women's Bible study course that begins June 16. $13.

Summer at the YWCA This week, Angel Redmond, outreach coordinator for the YWCA of Asheville, tells us about about summer volunteering opportunities. Mountain Xpress: What are the volunteering needs the YWCA has going into this summer? Redmond: There are a variety of ways you can volunteer this summer. If you love working with children, there are opportunities in our Child Care Center and our School-Age Department, which provides an after-school program and a summer camp for ages 5-12. Our Drop-In program has all ages of children and always has a need for readers and listeners. Volunteers may help with snack time, read stories, play games, lead craft projects, sing songs or provide homework help. In addition to volunteer opportunities that involve working with children, there are clerical and even building maintenance positions. A volunteer with our administrative team may take photos of events, archive media clippings or create fliers, though there are even more options depending on the talents of the volunteer.

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We also have a special need for Spanish speakers for our Salsa, Sabor y Salud program, developed by the National Latino Children’s Institute. Facilitators and volunteers will help parents and children incorporate healthy eating and physical activity into their daily routine by leading culturally relevant activities and discussing ways that families can make small steps toward their wellness goals. We will offer the program completely in Spanish, though Spanish fluency isn’t required to work with the children’s group — though previous experience working with children is. What are the requirements for being a volunteer? It’s quite easy! After filling out an application, you’ll receive an orientation where we connect you to a department where your gifts will be a good fit. Working with children requires you to be at least 16 years old, submit to a TB screening and pass a background check. To learn more about the volunteering at the YWCA of Asheville, contact Angel Redmond at 254-7206 x. 219 or at angel.redmond@ywcaofavl.org to discuss opportunities and receive an application.

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JUBILEE COMMUNITY CHURCH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TH (5/29), 6:30-8:30pm - Blessing Ceremony with John Lockley-Sangoma from South Africa. MAHA SHAKTI MANDIR 11 Sand Hill Court, facebook. com/mahashaktimandir • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm Arati, chanting and spiritual discourse. • SATURDAYS, 6-8pm - Shiva and Sri Chakra Puja. MOUNTAIN ZEN PRACTICE CENTER 450-3621, mountainzen.org, mountainzen@bellsouth.net • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Conscious compassionate awareness meditation and group discussion. Contact for directions.

•EC = Enka-Candler Library •SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) •WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 2506482) •WA = West Asheville Library (942 Haywood Road, 250-4750). • WE (5/28), 10am - Sewing club project. SW • FR (5/30), 4-5:30pm - Teen Awesome Group: Design a T-shirt. WV • MO (6/2), 10:30am Bounce 'n Books Story Time. EC. • TU (6/3), 7pm - Evening Book Club: Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya. WV. • TU (6/3), 7pm - Author talk with Will Harlan, editor of Blue Ridge Outdoors. WA. • TU (6/3), 6pm - Knit-nChain, a needlework group. SW. • TU (6/3), 7pm - Book Club: A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash. EC. • WE (6/4), 5pm Swannanoa Knitters. SW. • WE (6/4), 3pm - Afternoon book club: Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Just Can't Stop Talking by Susan Cain. WV. • TH (6/5), 6:30pm Book Club: We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler. EA. CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com • SA (5/31), 6:30pm Alexandra Duncan discusses her book, Salvage. • SU (6/1), 1pm - Joe Miller discusses his book, Adventure Carolinas.

BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville, 456-6000, blueridgebooksnc.com • SA (5/31), 3pm - Donna Glee Williams discusses her novel, The Braided Path.

FOUNTAINHEAD BOOKSTORE 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-1870, fountainheadbookstore.com Free, unless otherwise noted. • FR (5/30), 7pm - Corban Addison discusses his book, The Garden of Burning Sand. Purchase of book required, $15.99/$16.99 for 2 tickets.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: •EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738)

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Events are free, unless otherwise noted. • WE (5/28), 7pm - Salon discussion of Women Who Run With the Wolves by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes.

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• TH (5/29), 7pm - Corban Addison discusses his novel The Garden of Burning Sand. • SA (5/31), 7pm - Ben Montgomery discusses his book, Grandma Gatewood's Walk. • SU (6/1), 3pm - Poetrio featuring Emilia Phillips, Nick McRae and Zoe Harber. • MO (6/2), 7pm - Aaron Gwyn discusses his book, Wynne's War. • MO (6/2), 7pm - Bridging Differences Bookclub: HalfBlood Blues by Esi Edugyan. • TU (6/3), 7pm - Women in Lively Discussion Bookclub: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. • WE (6/4), 7pm - Monica Byrne discusses her novel, The Girl in the Road. • WE (6/4), noon - Autism Bookclub: The Autistic Brain: Thinking Across the Spectrum by Temple Grandin and Richard Panek. • WE (6/4), 7pm Malaprop's Bookclub: Stag's Leap, poems by Sharon Olds OPEN MIC NIGHT 575-9525 • SATURDAYS, 3-5pm - For poets and writers. Free. Held at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St. SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 7087570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am Storytime. Ages 2-6. Free. SYNERGY STORY SLAM morris.grayson@gmail.com. • 1st MONDAYS, 8pm - Different theme each month. Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road.

VOLUNTEERING HENDERSONVILLE CLEANUP DAY 674-3067, taraledbetter@ att.net • WE (5/28), 9am-noon - Volunteers needed to improve the appearance of the Seventh Avenue business district and surrounding neighborhoods. Meets at Depot Street, Hendersonville. For more volunteering opportunities, visit mountainx.com/volunteering

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Healing on the spiritual path WHAT: A public lecture by Dr. Barbara Wagner with the Medical Scientific Group of the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends on the medical viability of Groening’s esoteric healing methods. WHERE: Crystal Visions Bookstore, 5426 Asheville Hwy., Hendersonville WHEN: Wednesday, June 4 at 7 p.m. Free. WHY: Bruno Groening (19061959) believed humanity is surrounded by a divine healing force, or “heilstrom,” that is readily accessible to everyone who employs the proper methods. Groening was reknowned for his ability to heal others and became a controversial figure in his lifetime. At one point, he drew a crowd of 30,000 who sought to benefit from his powers, after which the German government imposed a “healing ban,” on his practices. Xpress spoke with Joe McIntosh and Loek Neisz, community leaders with the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends, to find out more.

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Mountain Xpress: What is unique about this healing method? McIntosh: Bruno compared a person to a battery that needs to be recharged. If new energy is not replaced, it results in fatigue, exhaustion, nervousness, anxieties and, finally, illness. [At the lecture] you will learn how to absorb this new energy. The human body is constantly surrounded by healing waves which only have to be absorbed. ... It’s such a very simple and natural technique that has been taught since ancient times. What is the mission of the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends? Neisz: As thousands of friends have received help and healing themselves, out of gratitude and experiencing this wonderful gift, the Circle of Friends is happy to share this knowledge to everyone who needs it. Many people are suffering from diseases or pain, which mostly no doctor can help anymore. But like Bruno Groening said: “Incurable doesn’t exist,” which is what many from the COF have experienced [having been] healed from incurable diseases.X

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There is no shortage of facts and figures about dementia. I n North Carolina, there are more than 170,000 adults with Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia. In Western North Carolina, over 20 percent of the population is 65 or older, compared with 13 percent in the rest of the state. But statistics rarely touch a person the way art can. This is why MemoryCare, a local nonprofit that provides care for families affected by dementia, seeks to educate people about progressive cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s disease not solely through lectures and pamphlets — but through theater. When MemoryCare put out a call for submissions, playwrights from around the country responded with one-act plays depicting the realities of memory loss and the true-tolife, often heart-rending scenarios that occur within a family affected by dementia. The three winning plays appear in the book The MemoryCare Plays. The first play, Steering into the Skid: A Play in Twelve Months, by Deborah Ann Percy and Arnold Johnston, is cleverly imagined and poignantly delivered. In it, we observe the interactions of an aging couple as the seasons change and as the husband’s Alzheimer’s disease — barely perceptible at first — progresses and shifts the dynamic of their marriage. In the Garden, by Matthew Widman, captures a family in crisis as three grown children gather at their family home to decide what to do about their ailing father. In the third play, Riding the Waves by L.E. Grabowski-Cotton, the ocean serves as a metaphor for the coming and going of a woman’s

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EDUCATION THROUGH ART: The MemoryCare Plays is a compilation of one-act plays that seek to educate people about dementia.

memories. The playwright weaves past and present together to illustrate a mother’s struggles to remember and her children’s struggles to accept their mother’s disease. All plays face the heavy topic of dementia head-on, but each play also possesses a certain sweetness as well as moments of humor. More than 200 people attended the first production of The MemoryCare Plays last May, perhaps speaking to the ever-growing number of local families impacted by dementia and memory loss. The plays are intended to be a tool for education, complete with discussion questions, and have found good use in support groups, book clubs and educational programs.

Xpress sat down with Margaret Noel, founder of MemoryCare and editor of the book, to learn more. Mountain Xpress: What inspired yu to use theater to educate people about dementia? Noel: The third part of our mission is to provide education on memory disorders for the general public and other professionals as well, and so throughout my career, I’ve often gone out and done the usual scientific lecture and presented the facts and figures and updated people on research findings and various things. But I do find that it’s often hard to communicate how this disease

really impacts a family in their day-today lives, what’s unique about it and how it affects not just how we think and remember, but how we function, how we can independently carry out our days and how we communicate. Those things really are almost better captured in an art form, in a dramatic way. I love one of the quotes in the book, from C. Robert Jones, a retired professor of theater at Mars Hill. He states that “art can sometimes reach people when science cannot,” and that’s what I love about these plays. I think they bring home the full impact that this disease can have on a family. MemoryCare put on a performance of the one-act plays last May before the book was released. What was the audience response like? I think the audience left more uplifted than I was perhaps expecting. I was concerned because it’s a heavy topic, and I was concerned about how people would respond when they’re facing these three plays covering really difficult areas and tensions within families. People left, though, with just a heart of gratitude, in the sense that they understood better, and it was not the oppressive feeling you might expect given the topic. I was so pleased with the [playwright’s] ability to show both sides. One of the reviewers who read these plays said, “These plays are full of sweat and sweetness.” And I think that was such an apt description of the balance. You see how hard the work is. How hard it is to both have a dementia as well as how hard it is to care with somebody with it, but you also see that sometimes there are blessings within that. There is an interdependency that can happen within the relationships because someone needs someone, and that person rises to the occasion to help them. All three plays do such a good job of illustrating various stages of memory loss and different family dynamics — romantic partnerships changing because of the disease, siblings bickering over how to best to care for their father. Is there one moment that rang especially true to you?

I did the first calling — over 90 plays came through — and one of my criteria just to start bringing it down was how well do they accurately reflect the disease process itself? I think in the ones that were ultimately selected by the jury panel, all depict the accurate portrayals of the various things that people have to struggle with. In the first play, you’re dealing with the early stage of dementia, and you’re seeing that place where a caregiver is going: “Is this normal aging? Is this normal? Is there something wrong here?” You pick that up, and as you move along in the progression of the months, you become very aware that it’s not normal. But how skillfully the playwright was able to show the transition of a caregiver from the place of “This might just be normal” to “This is not, and we’re going to have to deal with it. We’re going to have to acknowledge it and change our lives because of it.” What is one thing that you really want to stress to families when

their loved ones receive a diagnosis of dementia? One of the most important things is to understand is that there is a brain disease present. I think the most frustration comes in the very early time when the caregiver tries to make that person come back to where they were, forcing them to try harder: If you just try, you’ll remember. If you just try, you’ll do these things. It sets up a tension within a relationship, and it’s terribly frustrating to our patients to always be called back to a level of performance that they can no longer achieve. So we try to help a caregiver come to a place and understand that this is a degenerative process within my loved one’s brain, they are doing the very best that they can and I’m the one who needs to change in order to be able to help them in the best way. All proceeds from the book go directly to families served by MemoryCare. MemoryCare will present the oneact plays again this summer. Visit memorycare.org for event information and dates. X

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If you walk through the Burton Street neighborhood in West Asheville, you’ll find something that looks a little strange — a hillside covered in metal structures, piecemeal art installations made of water jugs, plastic flowers and mannequin limbs, sinuous trails and canopies created desert-island style from salvaged metal. This is the Burton Street Community Peace Garden, founded by husband and wife DeWayne Barton and Safi Mahaba. Like any community garden, there are tidy rows of vegetables — with kale, lettuce and snow peas, all thriving thanks to this year’s “blackberry winter,” Mahaba notes. But this garden is known for growing something more than food — Mahaba and Barton say their garden works to grow connections in a community with a history of being intersected. TAKING OWNERSHIP

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“I grew up in a really small, rural community where everybody knew each other, but in the city, you don’t find that as much,” Mahaba says. “Part of that, in this community, was that people didn’t want to be outside much or couldn’t be outside much because there was a lot of drugs and a lot of gun violence.” Mahaba and Barton moved to Burton Street in 2001. For Barton it was a homecoming — he had lived in the neighborhood until he was 7 years old, and his mother and many other family members lived nearby. Mahaba, who co-founded the urban agriculture nonprofit Bountiful Cities in 2000, says both she and her husband noticed there weren’t many gardens in the neighborhood. Though they chewed on

A TRANSFORMED SPACE: What started as a vacant lot is now a garden, outdoor kitchen, classroom, performance space and community focal point. The neighborhood “wouldn’t be the same” without the garden, says Burton Street resident Gwendolyn Barton. “It’s a collaboration.” Photo by Carrie Eidson.

the idea of starting a community green space, it wasn’t until 2003, after the United States invaded Iraq, that Mahaba and Barton (a Gulf War veteran) began their peace garden, fulfilling a desire to be “a small counterbalance to war.” In a neighborhood beset with vacant lots, it wasn’t hard to find a spot for a garden — though the space that would eventually become the Burton Street Community Peace Garden did not transform overnight. “It was covered in saplings, one felled tree — and then 40-ounce bottles and liquor bottles,” Mahaba says. “We got enough to fill three 30-gallon trash cans just off a little spot in the front.” But in the 11 years since Mahaba and Barton began the project, the space has undergone a grand transformation. Today there are two vegetable gardens, as well as Barton’s found-object art installations and a nearly complete canopy covering reading and dining nooks. There are metal statues, color-

ful murals, a greenhouse, a fire pit, a pizza oven and an outdoor classroom under a pavilion — all of which Mahaba credits to connections made with different individuals and groups in the community, including Green Opportunities (which Barton cofounded), Asheville Design Center and artists from Asheville and the Southeast. “This space is a green space for the community,” Mahaba says. “People nap by the fire, folks come and take pictures. I see people just hanging out all the time.” The garden hosts community workdays where neighbors can come and harvest produce. The greenhouse grows plant starts for community members. Barton, Mahaba and their helpers also work to clean up the neighborhood’s sidewalks, removing poison ivy and weeds. And the best part, Mahaba says, is the garden actively engages the neighborhood’s teenagers.

shop. plant. feast! “We teach them about the plants and how to care for them,” Mahaba explains. “And in the process of doing that, we’re having discussions about how to care for each other.” AN OUTDOOR CLASSROOM Barton agrees that the peace garden’s focus is on working with young people. “We’re trying to build greater connections with all the schools,” Barton says. “That way, every day when the youth leave the school, there’s still a place in the community that reminds them that their schoolwork is important and can be applied in real life.” Barton says the garden is a place for building community relationships with local schools and universities, as well as strengthening connections between existing community resources. But primarily, the garden is a place for training young people. To that end, Barton has cultivated partnerships with local nonprofits just as much as he has cultivated vegetables. This summer, Green Opportunities will use the garden to host a pilot “green jobs” training program, helping teenagers to build skills and competence with tools, giving them an advantage in the job field. Jolene Mechanic will also bring participants in her summertime Concept Camp, held at the Burton Street Community Center, to work in the garden. Barton says he’s working with a charter school to hold regular classes in the garden’s pavilion, which was constructed in 2011 through a partnership with the Asheville Design Center. He’s hoping to create weather-resistant labels for the many native tree varieties that grow in the space — part of an effort to teach kids about native plant identification — and he’s collecting large alphabet letters to place on the trees as part of a project he’s working on with Hall Fletcher Elementary School’s Read to Succeed program. “I consider this an outdoor library,” Barton says. “I’ve been collecting the letters to teach kids how to read phonics in an outdoor atmosphere. It’s more engaging and fun when they can work on learning phonics, get up and run around, and then come back and work on their phonics some more.” Barton and Mahaba also pay the neighborhood teenagers for any

work they do in the community or in the garden. Part of that work has included delivering garden produce to neighborhood seniors — something Mahaba says teaches the kids about the history of their families and their community. “The kids deliver to the elders and, in the process, realize the elders know their moms and dads, aunts and uncles,” Mahaba says. “The neighborhood is historical and multigenerational, three or four generations back — though people might not realize it because they don’t get out and hang out with one another.” Mahaba says part of the garden’s mission is teaching kids about the history of Burton Street — a community that dates back over 100 years to when E.W. Pearson first purchased and developed the properties that would become a thriving black subdivision, business district and agriculture center, with Pearson’s annual Buncombe District Agriculture Fair drawing crowds nearing 10,000. “A lot of this is homage,” Mahaba notes. “As we built this garden, we started uncovering pieces of the history of the community. We didn’t know about E.W. Pearson when we started the garden, but then it just felt so right to honor him and that history.” A FOCAL POINT But the Burton Street Peace Garden doesn’t just serve as a testament to the past. It’s a focal point, Mahaba says, for organizing around current community issues, including the potential effects of the N.C. Department of Transportation’s plans for the Interstate 26 corridor, which may require the demolition of many homes in the neighborhood. Barton, a former president of the Burton Street Community Association, takes the neighborhood’s kids to visit the homes and other sites that would be affected by the I-26 proposals. He also sends the kids door to door to tell neighbors about community meetings that will discuss I-26 and, with the community association, brought in the Asheville Design Center to develop a community action plan. I-26 has defined and “hung over the heads” of the Burton Street community for decades, says Chris Joyell, executive director of the Asheville Design Center, the nonprofit founded, in part, to study the state’s alternative designs for the interstate. Joyell attributes many of Burton Street’s struggles — includ-

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ing the vacant lots, crime and social isolation — to being “bisected” by the construction of the highway in the 1960s and the expansion of Patton Avenue in the 1970s. And yet, “so many people point to Burton Street as an example of a neighborhood that can reinvent itself,” Joyell adds. “And the community itself pointed to that garden as one of the things that demonstrates how the community can rally internally.” Without the garden, the neighborhood “wouldn’t be the same,” says Gwendolyn Barton, DeWayne’s mother, who has lived on Burton Street for most of her life. “This place was liquor bottles, drug needles, poison ivy — it was a mess,” Gwendolyn says, noting that the peace garden has inspired the creation of two more gardens in vacant lots in the neighborhood. “It’s a collaboration,” Gwendolyn explains. “Everyone eats from the garden. It brings people to the community meetings, though I do wish more people would come. With I-26 coming through, we need to be on top of that, for real.” I-26 will continue to loom over Burton Street as NCDOT finalizes plans for the connector. Joyell says that in a community where many people rely on their neighbors to take them to the grocery store or to the pharmacy, even the loss of few homes may negatively impact the most vulnerable members of the neighborhood. With the possibility of years of construction or state seizure of homes, relocation may seem like a desirable option for many of Burton Street’s residents. But Joyell says many in the community do not have that liberty, and regardless, he adds, the community’s investment in itself is a sign that the residents don’t want to leave. “That garden is the centerpiece of that [feeling],” Joyell says. “It was really the first sign that folks intended to stay there, and they weren’t going to turn their backs to the problems of the community or just relocate — despite DOT, despite all the problems that neighborhood once had. It’s a peace garden, but it’s also a victory garden.” THE GRAND VISION

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When Mahaba and Barton first moved to Burton Street in 2001, the neighborhood was quiet. But now? “If you listen — you can already start to hear it, you’ll hear them

A GROWING LEGACY: The garden’s murals, by Asheville artist Ian Wilkinson, help to incorporate the history of Burton Street into the garden. “A lot of this is homage,” says garden manager Safi Mahaba. Photo by Carrie Eidson

not. He and other community members are working to get a solar panel installation and a technology center for the community center, using the savings from the solar panel to fund more community programs. He’s working with LEAF Schools & Streets to install a one-microphone recording studio in the community center to encourage neighborhood musical pursuits. And he’s involved with a community partnership with the Asheville Design Center that aims to create a greenway along Smith Mill Creek, with an entrance about half a mile away from the garden. For Barton it’s about making the peace garden and the whole Burton Street community a pilot program for “showing things communities can do to make themselves better.” “We want to encourage other communities to make green spaces like this,” Barton says. “We want it to draw a cross section of people of different ages and races to show how different people from under the same umbrella, the same neighborhood, can come together. Because once you get different people together, then you can start to build better relationships across the board.” To keep up with the latest updates from the Burton Street Community Peace Garden, visit burtonstreet.org.

more later in the afternoon or into the evening — but you’ll hear the kids out in the community,” Mahaba says while sitting in the garden’s pavilion. “I think the work we’ve done has contributed to making the place look better, which makes people feel better about their community.” “The more we’re all out — on the sidewalks, on the street, on our porches, in the garden — the more likely we are to see and create positive activity,” she adds. Looking to the future, Mahaba says her “grand vision” is to see Burton Street become a vibrant hub of urban agriculture, echoing its past and honoring the legacy of E.W. Pearson. Barton already has a laundry list of summertime plans for the garden, including adding solar lights, birdhouses, a composting toilet — all little things that the youths can work on to build their confidence in using tools, he notes. But if the garden’s construction plans are modest, Barton’s vision is

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A man’s world? Three successful women chefs share their experiences climbing the culinary ladder

BY LEA MCLELLAN

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It’s hardly breaking news that the food industry is a male-dominated field. What’s interesting is that the tides are reportedly changing: The number of women entering culinary schools is rising steadily, more and more women are working in the industry and a female executive chef is far from the jaw-dropping news it was 20 years ago. But even as the modifier “female” before the word “chef” becomes more annoying than warranted, it’s still the case that women are a minority in the industry and are less likely than men to fill leadership positions in the kitchen. It’s also less likely to see the names of female chefs in the headlines or winning the big awards. (Time magazine’s 2013 “Gods of Food” article comes to mind. You guessed it — not a single “god” was a woman chef.) This isn’t to say that there aren’t some seriously talented female chefs nationally and in the Asheville area

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who are filling those top-level positions. Katie Button of Nightbell and Curate, Michelle Bailey of Highlands Inn and Karen Donatelli of Donatelli Cake Designs are a few of those local rock stars — though none would go as far as to identify herself as such. Xpress spoke with each of them to learn more about the changing face of the food industry, their own experiences and how gender has (or hasn’t) affected their careers. Button, a 2014 James Beard Rising Star nominee, says her gender isn’t something she thinks about much (likely, she’s too busy being the executive chef and co-owner at her two downtown restaurants). However, she says, “The thing I do think about a lot is what you see is a huge drop-off of women making it past a certain level. … You see a lot of women working at that level [of] sous chef, things like that. But it’s making it to the chef de cuisine, executive chef, restaurant owner, that’s where you see a drop-off still. I hope that’s going to change.” Bailey, executive chef at The Highland Inn and winner of the statewide Fire on the Rock compe-

SWEET SUCCESS: Katie Button, Karen Donatelli and Michelle Bailey have all paid their culinary dues working in predominantly male kitchens. Photos (left to right) by Jayson Im, Nathan Metcalf and Highlands Inn

tition, has been steadily working through the ranks in the Asheville food scene since her graduation from A-B Tech in 2007. She also says that her gender hasn’t played a big role in her work and how she views her career. Even so, she says, “it is pretty obvious to anyone who’s been around kitchens or worked in this industry that there aren’t a ton of female chefs.” At any given workplace, she adds, “I’m always either the only [woman] or one of two. I guess I always thought this is the way it is.” Bailey has a staff of about 25 in her restaurant. She says a little less than a quarter of the staff are women, “which is pretty good for a kitchen,” she says.

“The whole thing is really interesting,” says Bailey. “If you go far back in time, it was the woman’s job to prepare food for her family … so it’s interesting this shift in the other direction. I don’t know what to think about that. Maybe the chef is the new rock star, and people are into that kind of thing. I certainly don’t think that for myself.” While clearly passionate about her work, Bailey is quick to point out that, on some days, her job description more closely resembles that of a janitor than a celebrity. Bailey isn’t the only chef who appears to have taken a bite of gourmet humble pie. Button noted that after attending the recent Cherry Bombe Jubilee, a conference held in March that celebrated women and food, she couldn’t help but notice all the famous female chefs downplaying their accomplishments and attributing their success to good fortune. “You hear all these women say how lucky they are,” says Button, “And we’re so much less likely to say, ‘Yeah, but gosh darn it, it’s because of all the hard work, dedi-

cation and passion.’ It’s not luck. Yeah, sure it plays a role in it. … But I think men are more willing to say this is mine and own it, and say, ‘I got here because of me,’ and I think that’s something that we can learn a little bit.” When asked if she falls under the “lucky” or the “owning it” category, Button admits that she “definitely leans toward the lucky side. It’s hard to break that. You don’t want to be arrogant. I think women are more apt to recognize what they don’t know. What I know is what we do at Curate and Nightbell, and what I don’t know is a whole world outside of that. I guess I should say I don’t know yet.” Donatelli has a slightly different take on the matter of good fortune — perhaps because her rise in the food industry came at a different time. While she is far from arrogant about her success, she says that her journey had less to do with luck and more to do with perseverance. She apprenticed at the Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach, Fla., while still in her teens.

“Women were not in the kitchen [at the Breakers Hotel] unless they were dishwashing or some other job,” says Donatelli. “But as far as the actual preparing, that was the man’s job.” Donatelli says she felt a pressure to prove herself much more than her male counterparts and was often given less-than-thrilling tasks such as chopping blocks of chocolate instead of the more complex techniques she longed to learn — many of those techniques, she says, she had to teach herself. Other people in her position would have likely quit, says Donatelli, but she was determined to stick it out. “The chef in the pastry department was a French pastry chef, very demanding, very European, classical. … Let’s just say it took a lot to stay, but that’s what I wanted,” she says. “I think it’s important that women are encouraged in business,” she says. “And I feel very strongly about that. Women have so many things that we have to do, whether it’s family, personal, trying to run a business — I think it’s important to empower women in whatever they choose.”X

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New staff at Noi’s Thai Kitchen hail from the old country Few Thai people are eager to leave their home country says Lenny DiMaio, owner of Noi’s Thai Kitchen in North Asheville. The warm, tropical climate; beautiful environment; and emerging economy encourage residents of Thailand to stay put. “They’re not looking to leave their country,” says DiMaio. “They only leave if they find a good opportunity.” When searching several months ago for new staff for his restaurant, DiMaio hoped to offer opportunities enticing enough to convince a few good Thai cooks to resettle in Asheville. His efforts actually began in 2000, with his wife, Noi. Thirty years earlier, DiMaio met Noi while he was stationed in Thailand during the Vietnam War. He re-established ties with her during a return trip to Thailand in 2000, and after trying for nine months, he finally persuaded her to move to the United States, where they married. Five years later, the couple opened Noi’s Thai Kitchen with Noi as the head chef. After Noi opened a second restaurant, Baan Thai Kitchen in South Asheville, DiMaio decided to see if he could bring other Thai people to Asheville to work at Noi’s Thai Kitchen

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The other farm-to-table concept A new exhibit highlights the art of silverware The word “silverware” is seldom used in reference to real silver. Instead, it’s typically applied to household utensils that are silverplated at best but more likely to be made of stainless steel, aluminum or even plastic. Still, the word does have legitimate roots in both the American home and the decorative arts. And nearly two centuries of that artistic and cultural lineage are on view in condensed form in Farm to Table: American Silver, an exhibit opening Saturday, May 31, at the Asheville Art Museum. Curated by museum staffer Luiza deCamargo, Farm to Table traces both the practical and the purely aesthetic evolution of foodbased American silver, as well as the periodic technical jumps in silversmithing. Works range from cups, ewers and trophies awarded at early 19th-century agricultural competitions to individual Tiffany ladles and full-service flatware sets from turn-of-the-century, postwar and contemporary American tables. The show’s oldest pieces are a group of julep cups, called beakers in regions unfamiliar with the beverage. One is engraved “1836 Bourbon County Agricultural Society Premium.” The cups are cast in coin silver, a type of metal often literally made by melting down domestic and foreign silver coinage. Each is roughly 90 percent silver with 10 percent copper added for strength — the same breakdown used in American silver coins until 1964. The exhibit explores silver’s cultural and material evolution. “Silver has always been a luxury good. But the decorative arts allow us explore the context of this art,” notes deCamargo. “By studying silver, we can learn

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STILL LIFE: “Oysters and Silver,” an oil painting by Pennsylvania-based painter Sarah Lamb, is among food-oriented artwork featured in Farm to Table: American Silver. Photo courtesy of Asheville Art Museum

about raw material, process, technology and taste as well as the makers, buyers and users.” For centuries, silver was available only to the prosperous. But a series of ore finds in the American West (such as the 1859 discovery of the Comstock Lode in Nevada’s Virginia Range) and the advent of silver plating and filling techniques made silverware accessible to a broader audience. This was particularly true after the turn of the last century, when whole wedding sets could be mass-ordered from catalogs. These advances also encouraged stylistic proliferation. The show’s flamboyantly ornamental peak hits shortly after the sterling standard of the 1870s was established. Ladles, pie servers and gargantuan trays are decorated with rich floral and garden patterns. Mere decades later, works exhibit art nouveau flourishes and arts and crafts stylings before transitioning into the geometric forms of 1920s art deco. Each style places the craft and the crafter in their time. The exhibit also features a series of food-and-ag-oriented paintings, prints

and drawings that provide an atmospheric backdrop for the silver. “Oysters and Silver,” an oil still life by contemporary Pennsylvania-based painter Sarah Lamb, depicts the detritus of a light yet indulgent meal: a lemon wedge and shucked oyster shells surrounding a polished julep cup. “Ruby,” a small 1830s oil painting of a prize-winning cow, is positioned near an 1837 julep cup engraved with the same name. Each work revels in its own midcentury glory. But what makes those stories even better: They’re both honoring the same cow. “Farm to Table: American Silver” is on view at the Asheville Art Museum through Sunday, Oct. 5. An opening reception will be held Friday, June 6, 5-8 p.m. During the event, local potters and glass artists will create a variety of drinking vessels, which will be available for purchase. For more information, visit ashevilleart. org.X

Farm to Table: American Silver cooking class series The museum will present several programs in conjunction with the Farm to Table: American Silver exhibit, including an opening reception and a cooking class series. For cooking classes, required materials will be provided unless specified in class details. Class sizes are limited and advanced registration is required. To register, contact the museum’s front desk at 253-3227 or visit ashevilleart.org. A full list of programs is available at ashevilleart. org/farmtotable/. COOKING CLASS SERIES From Field to Fork: Vegetarian Cooking with Michael Gentry: 2-6 p.m. Sunday, June 15, at the Garden Cabin at Warren Wilson College, 701 Swannanoa River Road, Swannanoa. Class includes

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by Thom O’Hearn

Fresh brew New websites and new businesses make their debut in time for Beer Week

Asheville Beer Week runs through May 31, and a few beer-related websites and businesses saw the week as a deadline of sorts. The Asheville Brewers Alliance launched its brand-new website at ashevillebrewersalliance.com and here at Xpress, the new beer landing page debuted at mountainx.com/food/beer. (Head there if you want to see the schedule for the last few days of ABW.) In the real world, Thirsty Monk quietly opened a new location in Reynolds Village before Beer Week with a grand-opening Belgian beer bash on May 23. While Thirsty Monk’s original downtown location has character built right in (even in Asheville’s funky downtown, it’s hard to miss a corner building that’s painted bright purple), when Thirsty Monk started opening new locations in strip malls and glossy “town centers” like Biltmore Park, it was unclear what parts of the formula would stay. Chall Gray, the vice president at Thirsty Monk and the man behind the recent openings, seems to have made it a mission to change as little as possible when it comes to aesthetics. In Woodfin, that means when you walk in, you’re greeted by a pub that feels like it has been there a while, and one that departs dramatically from the new construction of the exterior. You’ll see lots of reclaimed wood (much of which happens to be from the future New Belgium site in the River Arts District), and of course you’ll see the individual chalkboards for the beers. The beer list itself seems tailormade for the location. If you live in Woodfin or Weaverville, Thirsty Monk saves you the trip into town to get a taste of Wicked Weed and Asheville Brewing Co. It carries at least one beer each from all the area’s future “big”

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WEDNESDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Dave Desmelik (singer-songwriter), 9pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: All 7 Mystery Hop IPAs will be released at both locations; Wet Nose Wednesday: dog day at Coxe Ave. patio 5-8pm; $3.50 all pints at Coxe location FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: $7 growler fills HIGHLAND: Live Music: Lyric (acoustic, funk), 5:30-7:30pm

CHALK IT UP: The beer list at Thirsty Monk locations is displayed over the wall of taps. Photo by Thom O’Hearn

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brewers that you won’t see elsewhere this far north of Asheville proper. Of course, there are plenty of craft beers from farther afield as well. The pub is open for business, and now serving food, in the Reynolds Village development in Woodfin (around the corner from the YMCA) 4 p.m.-midnight Monday-Thursday, noon-2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and noon-10 p.m. on Sunday.

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ONE WORLD BREWING OPENS UNDER FARMBURGER Most new breweries try to build some sort of buzz ahead of opening, but One World Brewing owners Jay Schutz and Aaron Kastaner have kept a low profile — fitting for a subterranean operation. To get to the brewery, you have to walk around the entrance to Farmburger and into the alley between its building and Salsa’s. There, you’ll find a portal-like entrance and a couple of flights of stairs. Once you descend, you walk

through another set of doors and into a dimly lit space. The interior has plenty of wood and metal, with tables to the right and the bar at the left. The small brewing system, just 1.5 barrels per batch, is along one wall. Neon lit rooms housing the fermenters function like works of art along another. With a capacity of less than 50 people, the weekends can only get so crowded. Opening weekend did hit capacity, yet just a few days later only a handful of people were chatting at the bar. For now, that can give the place the feel of a private tasting room — the perfect setup to take your time and try a few new beers. However, with a prime downtown location and a built-in audience from upstairs, don’t expect that to last long. The initial beer list has about 10 beers with all the standards, including a few IPAs and an Imperial IPA. There are also a couple of beers off the beaten path, like a coconut porter as well as a

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THURSDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Hank West & The Smokin' Hots (jazz), 9pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: Mystery Hop winner announced on social media; $3.50 pints at Merrimon location FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: Live Music: CarolinaBound (folk, country), 6-8pm HIGHLAND: Pints 4 Patriots: Community Night benefit for Veterans Helping Veterans WNC, 4-8pm; Food Truck: The Lowdown OSKAR BLUES: Final Tapping: Sexy Fruit Double IPA (collaboration with Wicked Weed); Live Music: Sinners & Saints (folkrock), 6pm

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OSKAR BLUES: Live Music: Reems Creek Incident (bluegrass), 12:30pm; Food Truck: Little Bee Thai, 4:30pm

ASHEVILLE BREWING: 7th Mystery Hop in the series released at both locations FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: Live Music: Crumbsnatchers (indie), 6-8pm HIGHLAND: Seasonal Release: Razor Wit release party; Live Music: Jeff Santiago Y Los Gatos Negros, 6:30-8:30pm; Food Trucks: Mama Dukes & The Lowdown OSKAR BLUES: Live Music: Jesse Iaquinto & The Fireside Collective (progressive folk), 6pm; Food Truck: Little Bee Thai, 4:30pm WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia's Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales)

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Few things symbolize Asheville better than the intersection of culture and nature, and RiverMUSIC offers the best of both. Hosted by RiverLink, the free series presents five Friday night concerts at the Sculpture and Performance Plaza in the River Arts District, plus the Saturday afternoon RiverFest. Now in its third year, RiverMUSIC will feature both local and national acts — everything from funk to bluegrass to classic and Gypsy rock. Local craft brewers and food trucks will be on hand to enhance the experience. Kicking off the summer series on Friday, May 30, is the Los Angelesbased Orgone, a horn-and-percussion-heavy funk project. In an email interview, guitarist and bandleader Sergio Rios described the group as “an eight-piece funk juggernaut, a well-oiled machine whose individual parts combine into an undeniable engine for bodies to gyrate and bounce to — infectious dance music and deep grooves with honest, raw musicianship.” Orgone began as an instrumental band, but it has increasingly relied on sing-

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ers to help write songs and interact with the audience. The newest member, vocalist Adryon de Leon, is an especially thrilling addition. Rios calls her “an amazing and powerful soul singer who can take the audience into dizzying ecstatic heights — she’s a great balance and complement to the dirty, syncopated heat of the rhythm section and horns.” Asheville is lucky to have Orgone come to town for a free show — the band is booked all summer, crisscrossing the country a few times and hitting half a dozen summer festivals throughout the Northeast and Midwest. In between those tours,

RIVERSIDE RAMBLERS: Brooklyn’s Orgone promises “an eight-piece funk juggernaut” at the RiverMUSIC season kickoff. Photo by Daniel Dare

the group plans to complete work on a new album before heading down to Florida’s Bear Creek Music Festival in the fall. But Rios is excited about returning to Western North Carolina. “We’ve played in Asheville and Black Mountain about seven or eight times now,” he says, and the area is full of “lovely folks [and] won-

derful music fans — people ready to get down.” RiverLink, a nonprofit promoting the environmental and economic revitalization of the French Broad, initiated its summerlong concert series in 2012. “Part of RiverLink’s mission is to bring folks down to the French Broad River to discover its splendor,” says Dave Russell, the organization’s director of volunteer services. “For many years, the ‘too thick to drink, too thin to plow’ reputation of the French Broad as a dirty body of water was prevalent. The river has gotten much cleaner: It’s now a destination for tubers, boaters and swimmers.”

Among this season’s performers, Russell says he’s especially excited to hear The Billy Sea on July 11, a trio featuring lapsteel player Billy Cardine. “He is a world-class instrumentalist best-known for his awesome Dobro licks,” says Russell. The percussionist River Guerguerian will also perform with Jeff Sipe’s Global Percussion Ensemble, the opening act. Additionally, Russell notes that former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer Artimus Pyle — a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee — will take the stage Aug. 29 with his band. “And let’s not forget Saturday, Aug. 9, when RiverFest features the Anything That Floats Parade,” adds Russell. Besides bringing free live music to the banks of the French Broad, RiverLink sees the concert series as another opportunity to call attention to its primary mandate: encouraging people to use, respect and love the river. Russell hopes more folks will arrive by bike and boat this year. “We have installed a river access point to accommodate those who canoe or raft or tube up to attend the show,” he says, and another local nonprofit, Asheville on Bikes, will be setting up bicycle parking corrals at every concert. Over its first two years, RiverMUSIC showed considerable growth and lots of local interest, and RiverLink hopes to continue calling attention to the French Broad while hosting excellent concerts throughout the summer. X

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Young at heart

SCHOOL OF HARD ROCKS: “This is our little life. And it’s a little weird at times, but it’s unique,” says Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond, far right. “It hasn’t all been great, but at the end of the day, it’s pretty great.” Photo by Eric Ryan Anderson

Old 97’s grew up. Then they got Messed Up

Halfway through our conversation, the phone line goes dead, and Old 97’s bassist Murry Hammond is cut off midsentence while answering a question about the writing process of Most Messed Up, the band’s 10th fulllength record in its 21 years. The tour for that album brings the band to The Grey Eagle on Friday, May 30. When we regain the connection, he picks up right where he left off, to the exact word, even. It’s a total professional move, I remark. “Well, I’ve never been accused of being professional before,” he laughs, his voice dripping with Texas twang. “But thank you.” Rock ’n’ roll’s governing mythos insists it’s the province of the young. It isn’t built to create professional lifers; it’s designed for those who live fast and, to paraphrase Pete Townshend, hope to die before they get old. It happened to Old 97’s’ second-wave alt-country con-

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temporaries; it happened to The Replacements, a band whose raucous cowpunk is a clear forbearer. (And whose Tommy Stinson guests on Most Messed Up, too.) But Old 97’s have been around longer — the group formed in 1993 — than some of their fans have been alive. Singer Rhett Miller is 43 years old; Hammond is pushing 50. But when they first started the band, Hammond says, “I knew it was special. I knew it could be something that could just kind of stay around for us. And I was right.” Just because Old 97’s have gotten older and more entrenched in rock ’n’ roll lifer-dom, doesn’t mean the band’s grown up. Most Messed Up finds the band as wry, rowdy and supremely catchy as it’s even been — bawdier, too (Miller says the F-word 11 times over Most Messed Up’s 12 tracks), and more revelatory of its own excesses. “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive,” the album’s sixminute, stream-of-consciousness opener, acknowledges the band’s longevity — “We’ve been doing

this longer than you’ve been alive / Propelled by some mysterious drive,” Miller deadpans — and proceeds to detail the immoderation and tedium of life on the road. There’s drinking (“Oceans and oceans” of alcohol), drugs (“Mountains of weed / a handful of pills / but none of the hard stuff / that sh*t kills”) and imprudent love affairs, buoyed by the occasional snarky self-damnation and malodorous dressing room. But rock ’n’ roll hasn’t killed Old 97’s, nor has its trappings. Rather, as Miller succinctly puts it on “Longer Than You’ve Been Alive”: “Rock ’n’ roll’s been very, very good to me.” “A band writing about rocking from town to town, it’s pretty cheesy unless you have a statement that this is all real life and jobs and lifestyles like everyone else has,” Hammond says. “This is our little life. And it’s a little weird at times, but it’s unique. It hasn’t all been great, but at the end of the day, it’s pretty great.” Although it became one of the most enduring bands in the alternative country-rock catalog, Old 97’s have spent the bulk of their career on the fringes of mainstream success despite sharp, smart songs and a pinup-worthy frontman. The band has issued albums that often drew warm reviews but never yielded a substantial hit. But that lack of mainstream success has allowed the band to explore freely, diving headlong into whatever sound its members choose. It’s all part of that mysterious drive Miller references, even if Hammond can’t fully expound on its nature. “Something about writing the music has just gotten under our skin, and at some point, we just sort of fixated on the relationship between living life and expressing that,” he says. Most Messed Up finds Old 97’s at their raucous, boozy best, as if the band rolled into the studio, got ripped, hit record, then let ’er rip. The casual insouciance recalls a much younger version of the band, circa 1997’s seminal Too Far to Care, as do many of the songs’ predilection for drinking, partying and puking. Songs

WHO Old 97’s with Lydia Loveless WHERE The Grey Eagle, thegreyeagle.com WHEN Friday, May 30, at 9 p.m. $18

like “Wasted,” “Intervention,” “Wheels Off,” “Let’s Get Drunk and Get It On,” and “Most Messed Up” hint at the kind of loutish narrators Miller likes to inhabit, but Miller keenly reworks old rock ’n’ roll cliches into winning portraits. And regrets? They’ve had a few, as introspective burners like “Nashville” and “The Disconnect” affirm. These aren’t heroes or anti-heroes; these are workaday men — some a stand-in for Miller himself — who possess an appetite for indulgence and bad decisions but who you just can’t help but root for anyway. “He’s always done that,” Hammond says of Miller. “He’s always been kind of a [Paul] Westerberg voice, sort of a lovable messed-up loser. And somehow, maybe he wins in the end.” It’s hard not to extrapolate that to Old 97’s as a whole. The band always seems to win, always seems to churn out alt-country barn-burners with a significant edge. And, unlike The Replacements, the 97’s didn’t die before getting old. “Maybe,” says Hammond, “we’re just a Replacements-type band that found a way to stay together.” X

World Party comes to Asheville It’s possible that the most famous World Party song is “She’s the One,” made a hit single by Robbie Williams in the late ’90s. But World Party founder and core member Karl Wallinger is no stranger to hits: “Ship of Fools” came from the band’s 1986 debut; Wallinger has also worked with Sinead O’Connor, was the musical director for the film Reality Bites and contributed to folk-rockers The Waterboys in the ’80s. “All this time later you get to the point where you don’t give a monkey’s, and you either believe in the music or not,” the musician says. “I still do.” A brain aneurysm in 2001 slowed Wallinger’s work, but after years of recovery he’s back to recording and writing. A tour brings him to The Grey Eagle on Tuesday, June 3. The current iteration of World Party is a trio with John Turnbull (The Blockheads) on guitar and David Duffy on fiddle and mandolin. Wallinger plays keyboards and

PARTY ON: “Everything changes all the time anyway,” Karl Wallinger says about music and life. Photo courtesy of the musician

guitars. “I’ve always done things differently live. I’ve never just played the record,” he says. In the past, Wallinger has toured with a band that he booked in Nashville. World Party has morphed from rock outfit to the present stripped-down trio. “After doing this for awhile, I’m getting a hankering for bass and drums,” he says. And, while the band does change from album to album and tour to tour, “There is a kind of floating crap game out there that is roughly an idea of World Party,” says Wallinger. He continues, “It’s an amorphous thing, and it just kind of changes, which I think is good because everything changes all the time anyway. And why the hell not?” One thing that hasn’t changed is Wallinger’s approach to making records. He says he’s never achieved fame on a large scale, but he’s always been able to follow his own vision. “I know the best thing to do is get out of the way,” he says of his creative process. “You have to make yourself disappear in order to write music. I try to get something from somewhere that I don’t control and make it manifest.” Though the process is hard to put into words, it continues to work. Wallinger is currently tracking a new World Party album. “The songs — people have got a soft spot for them,” the musician says. “They’re about real things, and I don’t mind singing them. I’ve been singing ‘Ship of Fools’ for about 30 years, really.” World Party performs at The Grey Eagle on Tuesday, June 3, at 8 p.m. Gabriel Kelley opens. $15 advance/$18 day of show. thegreyeagle.com — Alli Marshall

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ANIMAL PRINT: “He marveled that from something so quiet and unassuming, he should discover the patience and strength to carry on,” reads the text accompanying this artwork. Image by Andy Farkas

Narrative printmaking exhibition opens at Blue Spiral 1

Local artist Andy Farkas works primarily on engravings and Japanese woodblock prints known as moku hanga. The process, he says, results in “a more watercolor-y feel” — rather than rolling ink onto a carved block or plate, the woodblock itself is moistened and ink is added directly to it. “You have complete control over spot coloring and gradients,” says Farkas. He was invited to speak and lead a workshop on narrative printmaking at this year’s International Mokuhanga Conference in Japan (slated for September), and Farkas’ first local exhibition at Blue Spiral 1 opens on Thursday, May 29. Poetic phrases, added by letterpress, allude to a storyline. They offer a window into a plot that is

filled with possibilities. “I feel like there’s so much that words can say or that they’re good at saying,” says Farkas. The artist studied printmaking in school, but his current work is different from his student efforts. “When you get out of art school, you think you’re going to make artwork that artists should make,” says Farkas. His early pieces were well-received by the public and by galleries, and he was eventually invited to contribute to a project that would change his trajectory: illustrating a poetry journal. There, Farkas was given complete freedom. “For the first time in, I don’t know, forever, I did this bear wearing a parachute being lifted up into the clouds,” he says. The project was fun, and to Farkas’ surprise, it caught people’s attention. “That was something I didn’t expect. You know, cute animals are not in the realm of professional artists, but I have since changed my mind on that.”

The 16 or 17 pieces on exhibit at Blue Spiral 1 will have fantastical animal images alongside the text. Farkas steers clear of human figures in his work, focusing exclusively on animals. In his experience, viewers subconsciously assess human forms as male or female and ponder race, body type and other subtle valuations. “There’s just not as much baggage [with an animal] as a human figure,” Farkas says. Through the use of personified animals and in the airiness of the accompanying text, the lack of

WHAT Andy Farkas exhibition WHERE Blue Spiral 1, bluespiral1.com WHEN Opening reception on Thursday, May 29, 5-8 p.m. The show remains on display through July 26.

restrictions is important to the artist. “I think by creating an open-endedness, it makes it so somebody can carry [the story] where they want to, or ideally where they need to carry it,” he says. “When people come to my work, I want them to be able to bring to it what they have.” Even as he incorporates text, his “story prints,” as he calls them, leave room for a lingering mystery beyond the vignette. The unfinished storyline is a conscious choice, Farkas says. “If what I had to say was too specific, it was too limiting. It would either pigeonhole something, or it was preachy, or it would not be true enough to my own experience.” The artist has plans to restart his print subscription. That project, he says, can be viewed as single prints, but the grouping can be taken in as a whole and even rearranged. And Farkas is also working on an artist book — some of the prints included in it hang in the Blue Spiral 1 exhibition. Even though that loosely woven story has a beginning, middle and end, Farkas says, “I try to keep it as open as possible.” X

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by Kyle Petersen

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Howling at the moon

BARK AND BITE: Austin’s Ghost Wolves introduce punk rock and feminist subversion to blues singer patriarchy — and make you want to dance to it. Photo by Tina Machina

Austin duo The Ghost Wolves play primordial psychobilly blues

Technically, The Ghost Wolves are a young band. Composed of married duo Carley and Jonny Wolf, the group has been around for four years and is just now readying the release of its debut, Man, Woman, Beast. In another sense, this is a band that feels old, or at least haunted by rock ’n’ roll mythology. The duo’s music leans deeply into the mysterious forces underpinning rock ’n’ roll, invoking a dark and nightmarish atmosphere with its cackling distortion, stomping rhythms and cockeyed sneer. Using barebones instrumentation to filter a host of psychobilly and

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hill country blues influences into a sound that carries more weight than deceptively similar acts like The White Stripes or The Black Keys, the band somehow seems to exist apart from the myopia of the current moment. They return to The Odditorium on Wednesday, June 4. Jonny, who plays drums and sings behind his wife, credits their deep absorption of American roots music to the fact that they both grew up listening to the blues and rockabilly nestled in their parents’ record collections. “But we also work to make sure we aren’t ‘pasturbating,’” he says. “We want to make sure we are pushing it in a new direction as much as we can.” This involves, for the most part, meticulously crafting their sound and persona despite the limitations of a two-piece. “Carley has

worked really hard at finding the biggest guitar tone she can get, and the one-string guitar [she often uses] is just huge-sounding,” says Jonny. “When she plays it, it comes across like a cannon.” The power of Carley’s guitar parts is matched by the violence and sexuality at the heart of her lyrics, most of which introduce punk rock and feminist subversion to blues singer patriarchy. Inspired by the likes of Jessie Mae Hemphill and The Cramps’ Poison Ivy, song topics range from frying a man’s genitals for deception (“I Was Wrong”) and flipping Lolita power dynamics on their head (“Baby Fang Thang”). These are delivered with a voice that oozes sensuality as it slides from a come-hither huskiness to maniacal instability. And, although all of the songs are co-authored, Jonny admits that Carley’s personality is generally in the driver’s seat. “She’s just a complete monster of a woman. Very powerful, very strong,” he says. Somehow, there is a subliminal attractiveness to the Ghost Wolves’ music that is easy to decipher, to the point where the band’s debut is actually coming out on Plowboy Records. That small outfit, started

WHAT The Ghost Wolves with Ancient Whales and Chuck Falcon WHERE The Odditorium Ashevilleodditorium.com WHEN Wednesday, June 4, at 8 p.m. $5

by the grandson of country musician Eddy Arnold, is generally more geared toward legacy releases than up-and-comers. “It’s a big deal for us, to be such a young band and to get help from guys like that,” says Jonny, citing the combo of Dead Boys guitarist Cheetah Chrome and legendary country singer Bobby Bare as the kind of aficionado reputation that the label has. “They are also just great guys with a really small operation, and it’s all about the music. The primary focus is just on quality records.” Other evidence of the band’s appeal comes from its association with legendary broadcaster and musician BP Fallon. He played The Ghost Wolves on his radio show early on and eventually did a spoken-word guest spot on a limited-edition single during a break from rehearsing with his own band in Austin. “We were lucky that worked out,” Jonny says. “A friend of a friend owns a studio in Austin, where BP was rehearsing, and he just sort of just asked him if we could come over for a few hours and record with him.” More than anything, though, there’s a sense of otherworldliness about The Ghost Wolves that allows them to effortlessly reach back through a roots music history shrouded in smoke. They travel around with a wolf-hybrid as a pet and cultivate a mysterious, free-spirited character, making them enigmatic at worst and, perhaps, transcendent at best. Lucky for Asheville, Jonny says they consider the town a must-play spot on any East Coast tour they mount. “We’ve always had crowds that gave us a reason to come back,” he says. “Even if it wasn’t a gigantic crowd, they always want to dance. I think that’s a thing up there — you don’t see that everywhere.” X

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Ancient Voices “My art combines elements and sources to capture the essence of things that endure, things that last, ancient voices that speak to our hearts in modern times,” says Indianapolis-based wood artist Clay Foster. His fine-art wood sculptures will be displayed alongside local artist Brad Stroman’s contemporary realist paintings in an exhibition titled Ancient Voices. Stroman is similarly concerned with ancient times, particularly in regard to nature. “By incorporating the Japanese Zen Buddhist aesthetic of wabi-sabi, I can create a stage where both nature and man-made surfaces and objects play out their balancing act,” he says. An opening reception, with Stroman in attendance, will be held Saturday, May 31, 3-6 p.m at the Grovewood Gallery. grovewood.com. Pictured: Temple Bowl by Clay Foster

Grandma Gatewood’s Walk “I did it,” said Emma Gatewood on Sept. 25, 1955. “I said I’d do it, and I’ve done it.” The 67-year-old mother of 11 and grandmother of 23 stood on top of Mount Katahdin, the 5,267-foot peak at the northern terminus of the more than 2,000mile Appalachian Trail. Journalist Ben Montgomery’s Grandma Gatewood’s Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail is the first and only biography dedicated to Gatewood, the grandma who walked the route three times — bringing national attention to the Appalachian Trail and spurring vital preservation efforts. Montgomery will discuss the book at Malaprop’s on Saturday, May 31, at 7 p.m. malaprops.com. Photo courtesy of the author

Bombadil Back in 2009, just before Durhambased folk-pop outfit Bombadil released Tarpits and Canyonlands, bassist Daniel Michalak was diagnosed with neural tension. The condition made it impossible for him to brush his teeth, let alone play an instrument. The tour was canceled and the album fizzled. Happily, after years of treatment, Michalak and his bandmates were able to go on the road again in 2012. This June, Ramseur Records re-releases Tarpits and Canyonlands in a special double-vinyl limited-edition run, complete with printed lyrics and a download code for a bonus track. The band is performing songs from that album on its current tour, which stops at The Mothlight on Saturday, May 31, at 9:30 p.m. The Toothe also performs. $8. themothlight.com. Photo by Todd Cooper

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Afroman Joseph Edgar Foreman, aka Afroman, launched his career by selling home recordings of his raps to his eighth-grade classmates. His first tape, which moved 400 copies, was about a teacher who’d had him kicked out of school. “It was selling to teachers, students, just about everybody,” he says in a press release. “I realized that, even though I wasn’t at school, my song was at school, so in a way I was still there.” Afroman went on to earn a Grammy nomination and record hits like “Crazy Rap” and “Because I Got High.” (He’s also aligned with personal totems like a giant pot leaf necklace and a 40-ounce bottle of Colt 45.) Afroman plays Asheville Music Hall on Wednesday, June 4, at 10 p.m. Philo, Metaphonia and members of Empire Strikes Brass also perform. $15 advance/$18 day of show. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo courtesy of Afroman

DJ Equal Asheville native Elliot Heller (aka DJ Equal) is based in New York City, but makes regular visits back to his hometown where he not only catches up with family and friends, but throws dance parties. In an interview with Xpress last year, Heller said that he got started as a drummer. Then, “one day I happened upon a turntable at the back of Hip Replacements and asked if I could take a spin, and they said sure. It immediately felt comfortable, and I loved it.” These days, DJing has him traveling the world. “I think Berlin has impressed me the most as far as the local nightlife scene,” he says. “My other top places, if I had to choose, would probably be Tokyo and Iceland. Iceland is a must. It feels like being in outer space.” He plays The Millroom on Sunday, June 1, at 9 p.m. DJ Audio also performs. $10. ashevillemillroom. Photo courtesy of DJ Equal

Cobra Rock Boot Company and Bow + Arrow Apparel Local apparel company Bow + Arrow “was born of a desire to create something both lovely and wearable,” according to its website. “We ride bicycles, sit on curbs, roll down soft, grassy hills and jump spontaneously into refreshing bodies of water whenever possible,” and they design exactly the right clothing for all of that. Bow + Arrow announces a pop-up shop in collaboration with Marfa, Texas-based Cobra Rock Boot Company. That popular cordwainer will make available a limited selection of its coveted South Highland Boot (view it at cobrarock. com). “There is currently a yearlong waiting list for their boots, but you can walk out the door with a pair at the pop-up,” says a press release. Tuesday and Wednesday, June 3 & 4, 11 a.m.-7 p.m. at Shelter Collective (7 Brevard Road). shopsheltercollective.com/events. Photo courtesy of Bow + Arrow Apparel

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• Through SA (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest. Contact for guidelines.

MUSIC SONG O' SKY CHORUS (pd.) Tuesday 6:45-9:30 PM Song O' Sky Chorus Calvary Baptist Church (Chandler Center), 531 Haywood Road, 28806. Asheville's only a capella barbershop-style chorus! We welcome all women who love to sing! www.songosky.org or (866) 824-9547 Parking available behind the church.

THE BEST MEDICINE: “A handful of individuals have taken it upon themselves to save the human race, using the transformative power of… circus.” So say the performers of Emergency Circus, a coalition of volunteer performers working with Patch Adams’ Gesundheit Institute, who bring “an emergency shot of joy” to hospitals, homeless shelters, nursing homes, children’s wards and prisons — or “to the hurt, healing and undercircused.” Catch them at a benefit show at Toy Boat Community Arts Space on Saturday, May 31. (p. 52)

ART ART IN OAKLEY FESTIVAL • THIS SATURDAY (pd.) 10am-7pm, May 31, Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Hwy, Asheville, NC 28803. More information: (828) 575-3743 or www. artinoakley.com TWO WORLDS • AN EXHIBIT OF ABSTRACT WATERCOLORS BY MICK DONELAN (pd.) • Opening reception this Sunday, June 1, 5:308:30pm, Ambrozia Bar & Bistro, 1020 Merrimon Avenue, North Asheville. Through June. 350-3033. BENCHSPACE GALLERY & WORKSHOP 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org Benchspace Gallery • TH (5/29), 6pm - Workshop: "The Materiality of Sound: What Can Craft Learn from the Sound Industry?," includes a discussion of Creative Commons. Free. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (5/29), 7:30pm - Painter Jacquelin Gourevitch will discuss her time at BMC. CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION 692-8062, saveculture.org • SA (5/31), 7pm - Opening reception for Spring Mountain Art Show, an online silent auction of works by local artists to benefit the Center and ECO. Free to attend. Held at Hi-Art Studio, 415 Wall St., Hendersonville FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE tinahvit@charter.net Open to interested nonmembers. • 1st TUESDAYS, noon-3pm - Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road.

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ODYSSEY CENTER FOR CERAMIC ARTS 236 Clingman Ave., 285-0210, odysseyceramicarts. com • WE (5/28), 2-4pm - Creative Souls tour. Free. Info: 253-7472. OLD DEPOT ASSOCIATION 301-4347, olddepot.org, chabotseb@yahoo.com • SA (5/31), 10am-5pm & SU (6/1), 10am-4pm - 17th Annual Arts and Crafts Show. Free to attend. Held at 207 Sutton Ave., Black Mountain.

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7TH GENERATION SCHOOL 7thgenerationschool.com • SU (6/1), 1pm - Native American drum and chanting circle. $10/ $20 per family. Held at Heartspring Sanctuary in Alexander. Registration required. Contact for directions. AMICIMUSIC 802-369-0856, amicimusic.org • FR (5/30), 7:30pm - "Return of the Diva" with singer Jennifer Smith. $20. Held at White Horse, 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain • SA (5/31), 3pm - Short version of "Return of the Diva," featuring singer Jennifer Smith. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SU (6/1), 7:30pm - "A Short History of the Piano." $20/$15 advance. Held at White Horse, 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain ASHEVILLE MASONIC TEMPLE 80 Broadway, 252-3924 • SU (6/1), 4pm - Percussionist Mario Gaetano. $10. ASHEVILLE YOUNG MUSICIANS CLUB 681-9732, aymc2011@gmail.com • SU (6/1), 3pm - Benefit concert. $20/$10 students. Held at Bent Creek Baptist Church, 1554 Brevard Road.

ATTENTION ARTISTS • FESTIVAL THIS SATURDAY (pd.) Entrance fee $80 (10 ft x 10 ft space). You may share a booth and the fee. Call Bravo (828) 575-3743 or artbybravo@gmail.com

HENDERSONVILLE SWING BAND 912-484-5245, toadhall171@msn.com • SA (5/31), 7pm - "Bluegrass to Bach" concert. $15. Held at Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship of Hendersonville, 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville

AAAC'S REGIONAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANT ashevillearts.com • Through (10/14) - Applications will be accepted for this grant from the Asheville Area Arts Council to provide financial support for committed, accomplished artists.

RIVERLINK'S RIVERMUSIC 252-8474, ext. 1, dave@riverlink.org • FR (5/30), 5-10pm - Orgone and The Horse You Rode in On, funk. Free. Held at RiverLink's Sculpture and Performance Plaza, 144 Riverside Drive.

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (5/28), 6-8pm - Auditions for Driving Miss Daisy.

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN CHAMBER SINGERS 689-1304, mhc.edu/music/ensembles • SU (6/1), 4pm - Sacred music concert. Free. Held at Central United Methodist Church, 27 Church St.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TH (6/12) - Area artists may apply for membership. Contact for requirements. WRITERS' WORKSHOP EVENTS 254-8111, twwoa.org, prez@twwoa.org For beginning and experienced writers. • Through FR (5/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the "Hard Times" essay. Contact for guidelines.

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WILD ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY CHORUS 258-0675 • SA (5/31), 7pm - Spring concert. $7. Held at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. • SU (6/1), 4pm - Spring concert. $7. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5t Ave. W., Hendersonville

Mountain Xpress and Sherwood’s Music Present: Our new video series showcasing local musicians continues every Thursday. Check our website this week for a performance from Asheville band Minorcan at Sherwood’s Music.

THEATER 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org Located underneath Asheville Community Theatre. • TH (5/29), 7:30pm - Storytelling series Listen to This. $10. • FR (5/30) & SA (5/31), 2:30pm - Ghosts, performed by the Autumn Players. Held in UNCA Reuter Center. $5. BEBE THEATRE 20 Commerce St., 254-2621 • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/1) - Alice in Wonderland. Fri.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. $17/$15 advance/$12 students. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • TH (5/29) through SU (6/22) - The Last Five Years. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm; Thurs., Sat., Sun., 2pm. $40/$38 seniors 60 and oldder/$30 students. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (5/31), 7:30pm - Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. $15. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE 101 Fairview Rd. Suite B, 505-8659, toyboatcommunityartspace.com Toy Boat Community Arts Space • SA (5/31), 7pm - The Patch Adams’ Gesundheit Institute’s “Emergency Circus.” Entry of $5-20 benefits the nonprofit.

GALLERY DIRECTORY FOLK ART CENTER AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through WE (6/11) - Resolve and Transform, self-taught Southern artists. ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Exhibits on display in the Fine Art Museum, unless otherwise noted. • Through FR (9/5) - Flora, botanical themed prints. • TH (5/29) through FR (7/18) - Works by North Carolina art educators. Opening reception: May 29, 5-7pm. ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery. com • FR (5/2) through SU (6/1) - New Beginnings, sculpture. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 346 Depot St., 258-0710, ashevillearts. com • Through (6/15) - Look Again, a look at the byproducts of contemporary society. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart. org • SA (5/31) through SU (10/5) - Farm to Table: American Silver, handmade American silver objects. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegalleryof-art.com • SU (6/1) through MO (6/30) Espressioni, paintings by Ruth Ilg. Opening reception: June 8, 5-8pm.

MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 298-7928, craftguild.org • Through SU (9/14) - Haywood Community College Graduate Show. Opening reception: May 31, 3-5pm.

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GRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH 495 Cardinal Rd., Mills River, 891-2006, graceinfo.org • Through MO (7/7) - 2014 Appalachian Pastel Society Non-Juried Exhibition. GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Rd., 253-7651, grovewood. com • SA (5/31) through SU (9/1) - Ancient Voices, paintings by Brad Stroman and wood sculptures by Clay Foster. Opening reception: May 31, 3-5pm . HANDMADE IN AMERICA 125 S. Lexington Ave., 252-0121 •Through TU (8/19) - All Kinds of Quilts, works by Asheville Modern Quilt Guild. IZZY’S COFFEE DEN 74 N. Lexington Ave., 258-2004 • Through SA (5/31) - Innocent, collages by Adam Void. MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • SA (5/31) through MO (6/30) - Visual Cues, encaustic paintings by Jane Wells Harrison. THE MOTHLIGHT 701 Haywood Rd. • Through (5/30), 5pm-2am - Images by Ron Killian

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BELLA VISTA ART GALLERY 14 Lodge St., 768-0246, bellavistaart.com • Through (7/31) - Pastels by Nicora Gangi.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (5/30) - Walk On The Wild Side, depictions of animals in various mediums.

BENCHSPACE GALLERY & WORKSHOP 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (8/23) - Ctrl + P, 3-D printer works

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Rd., Tryon, 859-8323, tryonartsandcrafts.org • Through FR (5/30) - Craft Tryon, works by Tryon artists.

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BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 6690930, blackmountainarts.org • Through (6/12) - Art in Bloom, works from regional galleries.

UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through SU (6/20) - Textile Constructions, large-scale fabric works by Terry JarrardDimond. • Through (6/20) - Portraits, paintings by John D. Monteith. • Through (6/20) - New Faces, works by of seven emerging local artists

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BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • TH (5/29) through SA (8/23) - Site Reconstruction, paintings of the World Trade Center site by Jacquelin Gourevitch. CANTON BRANCH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • Through FR (8/1) - Fly Over, photography of WWII warbirds by Barbara Sammons.

WEST ASHEVILLE LIBRARY 942 Haywood Rd. • TH (5/9) through (6/30) - Jamaica People, photography by Jessica Rehfield. WINDOW 54 Broadway, windowcontemporary.org • Through (7/7) - re/production, re/presentation, photography by Lorne Blythe. Opening reception: May 30, 5:30pm.

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C L U B L A N D ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Sweet Life Society w/ Bümerang (swing, hip-hop, electronica), 10pm

WEDNESDAY, MAY 28 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Larkin Dodgen Sextet (jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Sinners & Saints (folk-rock), 6pm PACK'S TAVERN Steve Mosley Duo (acoustic rock), 9pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Dave Desmelik, Woody Wood & Mary Ellen Davis (singer-songwriters), 9pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bruckshot w/ members of Chalwa (reggae, roots), 8pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL 12 Bar All-Stars (blues), 9pm

POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm

BEN'S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass jam w/ The Deals, 9pm

PULP The Bipolar Express w/ Blayr Nais & Ryan Van Genderen (comedy), 9:30pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Billy Owens, 7pm

PURPLE ONION CAFE Red Hot Sugar Babies, 7:30pm

BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY TEAM Day Fundraiser w/ Jeff Michels, 6pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJ Dr. Filth (country), 10pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Jesse James, 6pm

DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm

THE GREEN ROOM BISTRO & BAR Local artist series w/ Simon George (jazz piano), 9pm

EMERALD LOUNGE Blues jam, 8pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Ohioan w/ Wes Tirey, Drunken Prayer & Many Trails (folk, experimental, country), 9pm

GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Acoustic Wednesday w/ Lyric, 5:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Paul Cataldo (Americana), 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Wednesday World Music w/ One Leg Up (gypsy jazz), 7:15pm

BLUEGRASS BREAKDOWN: Pisgah Brewing will host an Appalachian affair on Sunday, June 1, at 7 p.m., with an eclectic group of jam-style bluegrass musicians, including Bolder, Colo.-based Leftover Salmon. The $30 (day of)/ $25 (advance) show will feature Bill Payne of Little Feat, Jeff Austin and friends, and will close out with a late-night performance from the Jon Stickley Trio.

ODDITORIUM Desperate Pilot, Ryan Sheffield & The High Hills, Ben Trickey (rock, acoustic), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm 3 Cool Cats Band (vintage rock 'n' roll), 8pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic, 7pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Hank West & The Smokin' Hots (jazz), 9:30pm

TALLGARY'S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Pangea official pre-party w/ Pericles, KRI & Damascus (electronica, IDM), 10pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Diarrhea Planet w/ State Champion, Doomster (rock), 9:30pm

BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 9pm

THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Campfire Reverends (blues, Americana), 6pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7pm

THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm

BUFFALO NICKEL King Zeros, 9pm

PULP The Manifest Process (experimental, metal), 9pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

TIMO'S HOUSE Release w/ Disc-Oh! (bass), 9pm

DUGOUT Slumberjack (folk), 9pm

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM CarolinaBound (folk, country), 6pm

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

HAVANA RESTAURANT Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm

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TIMO'S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum 'n' Bass Collective, 9pm

URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Nikki Talley (Americana), 6pm

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.

THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm

THE PHOENIX Jay Brown (one-man-band, acoustic folk, blues), 8pm

URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm

FRIDAY, MAY 30 185 KING STREET Strung Like A Horse (bluegrass-punk), 8pm 38 N. FRENCH BROAD Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 9pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jamar Woods Acoustic Band (soul, R&B), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Red Honey (rock), 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Makayan & A Ghost Like Me w/ Jones for Revival (rock, jam, electronica), 10pm ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm

VANUATU KAVA BAR Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An Evening w/ Geoff Achison (funk, blues, jazz, soul), 7:30pm Kopecky Family Band (indie-rock), 9pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

BYWATER Woody Wood & Tony Holiday (blues), 9pm

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Great Barrier Reefs w/ Noal Stockdale (funk, jam), 9pm

CLASSIC WINESELLER Ben Wilson (60s, 70s, 80s), 7pm

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 7pm

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE DJ Jam (old-school hip-hop, R&B, funk), 9pm

MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

CORK & KEG One Leg Up (jazz, swing), 8:30pm

ODDITORIUM Grown Up Avenger Stuff & Gnarly Charlies (alternative, indie-rock), 9pm

DOBRA TEA ROOM BLACK MOUNTAIN Folk Jazz w/ Jun, Noah Stockdale & Ashe Tenderfire, 8pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Blue Dawg Band (blues, swing), 8pm

DUGOUT Flashback Sally, 9pm

THURSDAY, MAY 29 185 KING STREET 185 Blues Power Jam, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Four Year Anniversary Party w/ Delta House Band, Hank West & The Smokin' Hots, The Big Nasty and Jamar Woods Acoustic Band, 5pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm

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Getting Married Soon? EMERALD LOUNGE Divine Love Mission, Dr. Aqueous & the Fantastik Apparatus and Kent Purser (synth-pop, new wave), 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM CrumbSnatchers (indie), 6pm GOOD STUFF The Old Guard (folk, blues), 7pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Lake & Moore (folk, Americana), 6:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Old 97's w/ Lydia Loveless (alternative, countryrock), 9pm HAVANA RESTAURANT Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 7pm IRON HORSE STATION Barb Turner (R&B), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL stephaniesid (pop-noir), 7pm An Evening w/ Sanctum Sully & friends (bluegrass), 10pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Vollie McKenzie & The Western Wildcats (swing, honky-tonk, old-time), 9pm LOBSTER TRAP King Leo (jazz trio), 7pm MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm METRO WINES Stand up comedy w/ Disclaimer Comedy, 7pm ODDITORIUM Sex Knuckle, Dissent & The Days Remain (hard rock, metal), 9pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Utah Green, 6pm TALLGARY'S CANTINA Overhead (rock), 9:30pm THE GREEN ROOM BISTRO & BAR Whitney Moore (singer-songwriter), 9pm THE PHOENIX The Blood Gypsies (soul, blues, jazz), 9pm THE SOCIAL My Back Pocket (classic rock, R&B), 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Dr. Filth (soul, psych, punk), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Underground Unheard w/ Bobby FKN White, Vinnie the Creep, Maru Karu & DJ Whistleblower (hip-hop), 9pm TOWN PUMP Thicker Than Water (bluegrass, rock), 9pm TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Spotlight w/ Outside Suburbia, 7pm VANUATU KAVA BAR Steve Karla (gypsy jazz jam), 8:30pm VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WHITE HORSE Jennifer Smith & Daniel Weiser (classical), 8pm WILD WING CAFE A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

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OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Band (jazz, swing), 7:30pm Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

185 KING STREET Levee Daze (funk, blues-rock, psychedelic), 8pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Skee-Town Stylee w/ DJ Red Spinach & Big Ben (reggae, hip-hop, alternative), 10pm

38 N. FRENCH BROAD VibeSquad, GalaxC Girl, Quetzatl, Sugar Kane, Seraphim Arkistra, Stereospread, d:raf, Circuit Surgeon, Wicked Geisha Ritual Theater (live music, DJs, art, performance, vendors), 9pm

ORANGE PEEL Lucinda Williams w/ The Kenneth Brian Band (blues, country, folk), 9pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Gypsy Swingers (gypsy jazz), 9pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Jesse Iaquinto & The Fireside Collective (progressive folk), 6pm PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance, pop, hits), 9pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am SCULLY'S DJ, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Dave Desmelik & Betsy Franck (Americana, altcountry), 7pm SPRING CREEK TAVERN The Wilhelm Brothers, 8pm

CORK & KEG Vollie, Roger and the Western Wildcats (honky-tonk, country), 8:30pm DUGOUT Fine Line (rock), 9pm EMERALD LOUNGE (young) American Landscape, Electric Bird Noise & Silverscreen Orchestra (post-rock), 8pm

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FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Dave Desmelik & Betsy Frank (Americana), 6pm GOOD STUFF Straw Man (70s & 80s covers, rock), 9pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Andrew Snow (Americana), 6:30pm HAVANA RESTAURANT Pickin' on the Patio w/ David Serra (flamenco guitar), 12:30pm Billy Litz (singer-songwriter, one-man-band), 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Nuevo Montuno (Latin), 6:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Gran Torino (rock, funk, soul), 9pm Classical brunch w/ Amicimusic's Return of the Diva, 11pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Black Masala (world, gypsy, jazz, rock), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Riyen Roots Band (blues), 7pm MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm ODDITORIUM IT, Amnesis, The Creeps & Jacked UP Joe (metal), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST 3 Cool Cats Band (vintage rock 'n' roll), 7:30pm Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm Green Sunshine w/ The American Gonzos (funk, soul, rock), 10pm

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ORANGE PEEL Abbey Road LIVE! (Beatles from 1962-1966), 8pm

ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Big Nasty Jazz Band, 6pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE The Zealots (indie-rock), 9pm

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PACK'S TAVERN Howie's House Party (blues, fusion), 9pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons (Americana, folk, roots), 7pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Reasonably Priced Babies (improv, stand-up comedy), 8pm

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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY HelpHopeLive Fundraiser for Rick Beardsley w/ Ellen Trnka, Peggy Ratusz, Linda Mitchell, Eric Congdon, Garry Segal, Bill Altman, Carver & Carmody and more, 5pm

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SPRING CREEK TAVERN Pleasure Chest (R&B, rock, soul), 8pm STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Jam Boogie Band, 6pm

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TALLGARY'S CANTINA Carolina Rex (rock), 9:30pm

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THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm THE GREEN ROOM BISTRO & BAR Pierce Edens (Americana, songwriter), 9pm

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THE MOTHLIGHT Bombadil w/ The Toothe (indie-folk-rock), 9:30pm

FRI. 5/30 DJ MoTo (dance, pop hits)

THE PHOENIX Mike Sweet (acoustic rock), 1pm Matt Townsend & The Wonders of the World (folk, Americana), 9pm

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TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR DJ Devyl's Hands (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Island Fever: Disc-Oh! & The Knock Brothers (reggae, dancehall), 9pm TOWN PUMP Skunk Ruckus (garage, punk, rock), 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Emergency Circus benefit for Patch Adams Gesundheit Institute w/ Special Head & The Runaway Circus, 7pm My Gay Banjo, Hot Tears & Aneides (Americana, folk), 9:30pm

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LOBSTER TRAP Leo Johnson (jazz, swing), 7pm MILLROOM DJ Audio, 9pm

185 KING STREET 877-1850 5 WALNUT WINE BAR 253-2593 ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY 575-2400 THE ALTAMONT THEATRE 348-5327 APOTHECARY (919) 609-3944 AQUA CAFE & BAR 505-2081 ARCADE 258-1400 ASHEVILLE CIVIC CENTER & THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM 259-5544 ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL 255-7777 ATHENA’S CLUB 252-2456 BARLEY’S TAP ROOM 255-0504 BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE 669-9090 BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA 658-8777 BOILER ROOM 505-1612 BROADWAY’S 285-0400 THE BYWATER 232-6967 CORK AND KEG 254-6453 CLUB REMIX 258-2027 CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE 575-2880 ADAM DALTON DISTILLERY 367-6401 DIANA WORTHAM THEATER 257-4530 DIRTY SOUTH LOUNGE 251-1777 DOUBLE CROWN 575-9060 ELEVEN ON GROVE 505-1612 EMERALD LOUNGE 232- 4372 FIRESTORM CAFE 255-8115 FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM 277-0222 GOOD STUFF 649-9711 GREEN ROOM CAFE 692-6335 GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN 232-5800 GROVE HOUSE THE GROVE PARK INN (ELAINE’S PIANO BAR/ GREAT HALL) 252-2711 HANGAR LOUNGE 684-1213 HARRAH’S CHEROKEE 497-7777 HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY 299-3370 ISIS MUSIC HALL 575-2737 JACK OF THE WOOD 252-5445 LEX 18 582-0293 LEXINGTON AVENUE BREWERY 252-0212 THE LOBSTER TRAP 350-0505 METROSHERE 258-2027 MILLROOM 555-1212 MONTE VISTA HOTEL 669-8870 MOONLIGHT MILE 335-9316 NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB 581-0480 NIGHTBELL 575-0375 ODDITORIUM 575-9299 ONEFIFTYONE 239-0239 ONE STOP BAR DELI & BAR 255-7777 O.HENRY’S/TUG 254-1891 THE ORANGE PEEL 225-5851 OSKAR BLUES BREWERY 883-2337 PACK’S TAVERN 225-6944 THE PHOENIX 877-3232 PISGAH BREWING CO. 669-0190 PULP 225-5851 PURPLE ONION CAFE 749-1179 RED STAG GRILL AT THE GRAND BOHEMIAN HOTEL 505-2949 ROOT BAR NO.1 299-7597 SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB 252-2838 SCULLY’S 251-8880 SLY GROG LOUNGE 255-8858 SMOKEY’S AFTER DARK 253-2155 THE SOCIAL 298-8780 SOUTHERN APPALACIAN BREWERY 684-1235 STATIC AGE RECORDS 254-3232 STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE 669-8856

TALLGARY’S CANTINA 232-0809 TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR 407-0666 TIMO’S HOUSE 575-2886 TOWN PUMP 357-5075 TOY BOAT 505-8659 TREASURE CLUB 298-1400 TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ & BLUES 254-7072 VANUATU KAVA BAR 505-8118 VINCENZO’S 254-4698 WESTVILLE PUB 225-9782 WHITE HORSE 669-0816 WILD WING CAFE 253-3066 WXYZ 232-2838

TIMO'S HOUSE FTO, Robot Hilarious, Martin Snoddy + Alpha Lee (hip-hop), 9pm VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WESTVILLE PUB Trivia night, 8pm WHITE HORSE Bill Bares & Jonathan Scales (jazz), 8pm

TUESDAY, JUNE 3 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henry's (swing, jazz), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Bluegrass Tuesday, 8pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am Supatight w/ The Heritage (funk, reggae, roots), 10pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Reems Creek Incident (bluegrass), 12:30pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Leftover Salmon w/ Jeff Austin & friends and Jon Stickley Trio (bluegrass), 7pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY The Dan Keller Trio (jazz), 5pm THE SOCIAL '80s night, 8pm TIMO'S HOUSE Art show, 8pm VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WHITE HORSE AmiciMusic: Short history of the piano, 8pm

MONDAY, JUNE 2 185 KING STREET Monday Night Laughs (stand-up comedy) w/ James Hodge, Leah Garth & Josh Rosenstein, 9pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Moon & You (folk), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic, 8pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Old-time jam, 8pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Karaoke, 9pm BYWATER Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 9pm COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm DOUBLE CROWN Punk 'n' roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O'Neill, 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Trivia, 7pm BUFFALO NICKEL Trivia night, 7pm CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Dance, 8:30pm CORK & KEG Honkytonk jam w/ Tom Pittman & friends, 6:30pm DOUBLE CROWN Punk 'n' roll w/ DJs Sean and Will, 10pm GOOD STUFF Celtic night, 6pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN World Party w/ Gabriel Kelly (alt-rock), 8pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Bluegrass session, 7:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Singer-songwriters, 7pm Kevin Scanlon & The Villagers (folk), 9pm LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7pm MARKET PLACE The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm ODDITORIUM Comedy open mic w/ Tom Peters, 9pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Hannah Furgiuele & Rissi Palmer (country, soul), 8pm ORANGE PEEL Tyler, the Creator (rap), 9pm SCULLY'S Trivia night, 9pm TALLGARY'S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm THE SOCIAL Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Tuesday w/ Pauly Juhl & Oso, 8:30pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra dance, 8pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7pm

WESTVILLE PUB Blues jam, 10pm

LOBSTER TRAP Dave Desmelik (Americana), 7pm

WHITE HORSE Irish sessions --- Open mic, 6:30pm

ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam & Folklorika, 9pm ORANGE PEEL Summer Movie Series w/ The Big Lebowski (comedy), 8pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4 185 KING STREET HotPoint Trio (gypsy jazz, swing), 8pm

THE SOCIAL Hartford bluegrass jam w/ Ben Saylor, 8pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ Drayton & The Dreamboats (jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lil Lorruh & David Wayne Gay, 10pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Afroman w/ Philo, Metaphonia & members of Empire Strikes Brass (rap, funk), 10pm

5/28 Stone Soiree Guthrie • 8PM • FREE 10/25 Sarah 10/25(DONATIONS Sarah Lee Lee Guthrie ENCOURAGED] & & Johnny Johnny Irion Irion 5/29 IPA Flight W/ FOOTHILLS w/ Battlefield •• 9pm w/ BattlefieldNight 9pm $10 $10 BREWING & SIERRA NEVADA 8PM 10/26 Firecracker Jazz 10/26FREE Firecracker Jazz Band Band (DONATIONS ENCOURAGED] & HALLOWEEN Costume & HALLOWEEN Costume 5/30 Vollie McKenzie•• and Party & 9pm $8 Party & Contest Contest 9pmThe $8 Western Wild Cats 9PM • $5 10/27 10/27 Vinegar Vinegar Creek Creek •• 9pm 9pm FREE FREE 5/31 Black Masala 9PM • $5$8 10/28 Mustard Plug • 9pm 10/28 Mustard Plug • 9pm $8 w/ Banana w/ Crazy Crazy Tom Banana Pants 6/3 KevinTom Scanlon and Pants the Villagers 9PM 10/29 Singer Songwriters 10/29FREE Singer Songwriters (DONATIONS ENCOURAGED] •• 7-9pm in 7-9pm FREE FREE in the the Round Round w/ Tripi, Elise Davis w/ Anthony Anthony Tripi, EliseSpecials Davis Enjoy Delicious Food Mud Tea • 9pm FREE Mud TeaChef • 9pmJason FREE Brian from Open Open Mon-Thurs Mon-Thurs at at 3 3 •• Fri-Sun Fri-Sun at at Noon Noon SUN SUN Celtic Celtic Irish Irish Session Session 5pm 5pm til til ?? MON Quizzo! 7-9p • WED Old-Time MON Quizzo! 7-9p • WED Old-Time 5pm 5pm SINGER SINGER SONGWRITERS SONGWRITERS 1st 1st & & 3rd 3rd TUES TUES THURS THURS Bluegrass Bluegrass Jam Jam 7pm 7pm

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WEDNESDAY• MAY 28 ACOUSTIC NIGHT W/ LYRIC 5:30-7:30PM FREE

Wednesday, May 28th

ELO Blues Jam! 8PM • FREE!

Friday, May 30th

Divine Love Mission, Dr. Aqueous & The Fantastik Apparatus, Kent Purser•9PM Sunday, May 31st

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THURSDAY• MAY 29 PINTS 4 PATRIOTS 4:00-8:00PM FRIDAY • MAY 30 FOR LOVE OF BEER & MOUNTAINS - RAZOR WIT RELEASE PARTY MUSIC BY JEFF SANTIAGO Y LOS GATOS NEGROS 4:00-9:00PM SATURDAY• MAY 31 NUEVO MONTUNO 6:30-8:30PM

(young) American Landscape, Electric Bird Noise & Silverscreen Orchestra • 8PM

SHAKE IT: “Shake It Like A Caveman is no stranger to the highway. He’s a one-man-band dance party, thrusting somewhere between poolside film scores and early American work songs,” according to the one-man-powerhouses’ website. Shake It Like A Caveman will play at Good Stuff in Marshall on Friday, May 30, at 8 p.m. The night will open with a performance from Midnight Vampire.

Get your tickets @ emeraldlounge.com!

BEN'S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm

Open Mon-Thurs 4-8pm, Fri 4-9pm Sat 2-9pm, Sun 1-6pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass jam w/ The Deals, 9pm BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Dr. Filth (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm

thurs. May 29

the great barrier reefs w/ NOah stOCKDaLe

backstage • 9:30PM • $6 thurs. june 5

Dig Presents:1st thursDays w/ zoMbie Queen, Plank eye Peggy

WSIF 90.9 FM - Boone 92.9 FM Charlotte 99.1FM, 100.3 FM Greenville 97.3 FM

w/ Dresses, ashLey heath

CaLL the Next WitNess w/ Poet raDio, george terry

backstage • 9:30PM • $6 sunday

suNDay bLuegrass bruNCh frontstage • 12PM-3PM

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TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Nello Masci & Mark Sherren (ragtime, jazz, pop), 6:30pm

VANUATU KAVA BAR Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm

ODDITORIUM Ghost Wolves, Ancient Whales, Future West, Chuck Falcon (garage-rock, punk, grunge), 9pm ORANGE PEEL Black Star Riders (members of Thin Lizzy, rock), 9pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin' Hots (jazz), 8pm ADAM DALTON DISTILLERY Bridging the Gap (old school hip-hop, vinyl night), 10pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 9pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Hogtown Squealers (old-time), 6pm

BUFFALO NICKEL Mr. Gray & All One Music, 9pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Shampoo Duo WSG Jim Peterman w/ Shane Pruitt (blues), 6pm

CORK & KEG Square dance, 7pm

ROOT BAR NO. 1 Bread & Butter Band (bluegrass), 8pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic, 7pm TALLGARY'S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm

TIMO'S HOUSE Release w/ Disc-Oh! (bass), 9pm

URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm

LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm

backstage • 8:00PM • $15 thurs. july 10

TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm

GOOD STUFF Jeff Ruby (60s rock), 7pm

w/ firesiDe COLLeCtiVe,thiCKer thaN Water

Melanie Martinez

THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Even the Animals (acoustic, folk), 5:30pm

backstage • 9:00PM • $6 sat. june 7

THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm

EMERALD LOUNGE Blues jam, 8pm

backstage • 9:30PM • $6 FrI. june 6

breaD aND butter baND

THE MOTHLIGHT Páciens Trine, XIAN INTL, Nick James & Lambodoorz (experimental, house), 9:30pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm GOOD STUFF Finer w/ Justin Payne (rock), 8:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Whitey Morgan & The 78's w/ J.P. Harris & The Tough Choices (honky-tonk, country), 8pm

HAVANA RESTAURANT Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm

DUGOUT Fine Line (rock), 9pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Bernie Worrell Orchestra w/ Brushfire Stankgrass (rock, funk, bluegrass), 8pm

GOOD STUFF Steve Gilbert (singer-songwriter), 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen w/ Melody Walker & Jacob Groopman (bluegrass), 9pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 7pm MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm MILLROOM Matrimony (alt-folk, pop), 9pm NEW MOUNTAIN Seven Handle Circus (bluegrass), 9pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish 'n' Chips (Phish covers), 6pm ORANGE PEEL Soumu: a celebration of African music, dance, food & culture w/ Mande Foly, Juan Benavides & Zansa, 7pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Michael McFarland (singer-songwriter), 6pm PACK'S TAVERN Jeff Anders & Scott Raines (acoustic rock), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Jeff Sipe Trio w/ The Shack Band (funk, jazz), 9pm

GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Carrie Morrison & Steve Whiteside (Americana), 6:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Crazyhorse & Colston birthday smash w/ Antique Firearms, Danielle Soul & Matt Anderson (hip-hop, alternative, experimental), 8pm HAVANA RESTAURANT Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 7pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Green Boys (Americana, alt-country), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Bread & Butter Band w/ Fireside Collective & Thicker Than Water (bluegrass, rock), 7pm

METRO WINES Stand up comedy w/ Disclaimer Comedy, 7pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

THE GREEN ROOM BISTRO & BAR Local Artist Series w/ Scott Murray (pedal steel), 9pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm All-Star No Moore Voter Appreciation Party (Todd Williams congrats party), 8pm ORANGE PEEL Failure (post-grunge rock), 9pm

THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY West End String Band (bluegrass), 6pm

TIMO'S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ DJ ODI, Crux, Secret, Klose (drum 'n' bass), 9pm

PACK'S TAVERN DJ OCelate (pop, dance, hits), 9pm

TOWN PUMP Jun (indie-folk), 9pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm

SCULLY'S DJ, 10pm

URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Drunken Prayer (indie, blues, country), 8pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm

THE GREEN ROOM BISTRO & BAR Jamie Laval (violin), 9pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jamar Woods Acoustic Band (funk), 9pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL MANG (Ween tribute), 10pm ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BYWATER Pierce Edens & The Dirty Work (Americana), 9pm CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers (jazz, Latin, swing), 8:30pm

A True Gentleman’s Club

MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

ODDITORIUM GirlsRock benefit, 9pm

201 S. MAIN ST. (HENDERSONVILLE) Music on Main Street w/ Tuxedo Junction (oldies, R&B, rock 'n' roll), 8pm

Over 40 Entertainers!

LOBSTER TRAP Mark & Aimee Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm

PURPLE ONION CAFE Cabo Verde, 7:30pm

185 KING STREET The Woodgrains (psychedelic-rock), 8pm

Every Week

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Jonathan Scales Fourchestra CD release (jazz), 9pm

MILLROOM Bengt Washburn w/ James Hodge (stand-up comedy), 7:30pm & 9:30pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 6

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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Point & Shoot (Americana, indie-rock), 6:30pm

POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm

THE MOTHLIGHT The Featured Creeps w/ Fritz Beer & The Crooked Beat, Daniel Sage (alt-rock, Americana), 9:30pm

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THE SOCIAL Skylark (swing, jazz), 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Dr. Filth (soul, psych, punk), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Dark Room w/ In Plain Sight & Red Tree (house), 10pm TOWN PUMP Michael McFarland (alt-pop), 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Anam Cara: Roadkill Confidential (comedic theatre), 8pm VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WILD WING CAFE A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 7 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Patrick Fitzsimons (jazz), 6pm What It Is (funk, blues), 9pm

OPEN MON-SAT 12PM-8PM EXTENDED HOURS DURING SHOWS FOR TICKET HOLDERS

OPEN AT 5PM FOR SUNDAY SHOWS

fri 5/30

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w/ lydia loveless 9pm • $18

An Evening with:

sun 6/1

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wOrlD PArty w/ Gabriel Kelley

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whitEy morgAn & the 78s w/ J.P. harris and the tough Choices

fri 6/6

8pm • $18 Advance $20 Day Of • $50 V.I.P

8pm • $15/$18

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crAzyhorsE & colston: officiAl birthdAy smAsh w/ Antique Firearms, Danielle soul & matt Anderson 8pm • $8/10

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GYPSY BRASS: An eight-piece gypsy-jazz, world-indie-rock group from D.C., Black Masala will drop by Jack of the Wood on Saturday, May 31, at 9 p.m. to perform an electrifying show, drawing from both Eastern European and New Orleans brass band sounds. “Expect a party,” according to the band’s Facebook.

ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm

ODDITORIUM Radiant Beings of Light, Birth, Crook (metal), 9pm

ANDREWS BREWING CO. River Whyless (rock, pop, folk), 6pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL ILL-Esha w/ Subsqswad, In Plain Sight, Mydriasis & Spaghettiman (, 10pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm Signal Fire w/ Nice Bison (rock, reggae), 10pm

ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm

ORANGE PEEL Houndmouth (indie-rock), 9pm

BREVARD MUSIC CENTER Brevard Blues Festival, 3pm BYWATER Zansa (world), 9pm CORK & KEG Country Pride (country, old-time), 8:30pm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

12am

Tues-Sun

5pm–12am

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WEDNESDAY WORLD MUSIC W/ ONE LEG UP, DINNER WITH Wed FOOD AND WINE PAIRINGS OF THE FRENCH PERSUASION

5/28

Full Bar

(there will be room for dancing) 7:15 PM

AN EVENING W/ GEOFF ACHISON $10 • 7:30pm (lounge) KOPECKY FAMILY BAND 9 PM • $8/$12 (music hall) Fri 5/30 STEPHANIESID PRESENTS: ID WEEKLY IN MAY $5 • 7pm (lounge) Fri AN EVENING WITH SANCTUM SULLY & FRIENDS

Wed 5/29

5/30 Sat 5/31

(CD Release Celebration) 10 PM • $10 adv. (gets you FREE copy of CD at the door)

SATURDAY CLASSICAL BRUNCH FEAT. AMICIMUSIC’S “RETURN OF THE DIVA” $15 one seating at 11am Sat ALL GO WEST & ISIS PRESENT GRAN TORINO $25/$30 • 9PM 5/31 Thur FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN w/ Melody Walker 6/5 & Jacob Groopman $12/ $15 • 9pm Every Sunday JAZZ SHOWCASE 6pm - 11pm • $5 Every Tuesday BLUEGRASS SESSIONS 7:30pm - midnite

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CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Bread & Butter Band (bluegrass), 7pm GOOD STUFF Dana & Susan Robinson (folk, Americana), 7pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Nello Masci & Mark Sherren (ragtime, jazz, pop), 6:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Twin Forks w/ Chris Carrabba (folk-rock), 9pm HAVANA RESTAURANT Pickin' on the Patio w/ Mande Foly (African), 12:30pm Nomadic (funk, rock), 10pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Blue Dragons (rock, blues, Americana, jazz), 6:30pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL All Go West Festival w/ Rock Academy, Brown Bag songwriting winners, The Horse You Rode In On, The Get Right Band, Invisible III, Hank West & The Smokin' Hots, Eef Barzalay, The Hermit Kings, Doc Aquatic, Strut, GFE, Cee Knowledge & The Cosmik Funk Orchestra, 11am-1am JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel from California w/ Todd Day Waits Pigpen (psychedelic rock), 9pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Serious Clark (folk-rock), 6pm PACK'S TAVERN The Nightcrawlers (R&B), 9pm PURPLE ONION CAFE The Bad Popes, 8pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SCULLY'S DJ, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY The Get Right Band (funk, rock, reggae), 8pm THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm THE GREEN ROOM BISTRO & BAR Blood Gypsy Trio (rock, blues), 9pm THE MOTHLIGHT All Go West w/ Onawa, Albert Adams, Ancient River, Nest Egg, Delicious, tHE pOLES, Free Radio, Comet West, The Tills, Hello Hugo & Cusses, 2pm-1am THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR DJ Devyl's Hands (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Agobi Tribe & Electrochemical (jam, electronica), 10pm TOWN PUMP Sister Mary (singer-songwriter), 5pm Stephen Lee (alt-country, punk), 9pm

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Anam Cara: Roadkill Confidential (comedic theatre), 8pm

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 7pm

VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm

WHITE HORSE Bil Lepp & Andy Irwin (storytellers), 8pm

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PICK OF THE WEEK

THEATER LISTINGS

Cold in July

FRIDAY, MAY 30 THURSDAY, JUNE 5

HHHHS

Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

DIRECTOR: Jim Mickle (We Are What We Are) ASHEVILLE PIZZA & BREWING CO. (254-1281)

PLAYERS: Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw, Wyatt Russell, Nick Damici

Please call the info line for updated showtimes. Muppets Most Wanted (PG) 1:00, 4:00 Noah (PG-13) 7:00, 10:15

NEO-NOIR THRILLER RATED NR THE STORY: After shooting an intruder, a rather ordinary man finds himself plunged into a labyrinthian criminal underworld where little is what it seems. THE LOWDOWN: A striking, startling breakthrough film for director and co-writer Jim Mickle. An always suprising, intense and completely satisfying neo-noir thriller that may remind you of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple. Essential viewing.

The neo-noir thriller Cold in July is the sort of movie that might make a director’s career. In the case of Jim Mickle, it’s the kind of movie that could launch him into the mainstream and out of the horror genre niche he’s already carved. Yes, it really is that good. It has a lot of the same feeling and freshness that the Coens exhibited with Blood Simple in 1984. It’s not as stylish as that minor classic, but it has a good deal of the same quirky humor and penchant for ever-darker twists and turns. Also, like Blood Simple, it’s not a particularly deep film, but it’s one that takes the viewer through a labyrinthian chain of events that provides a wild ride that won’t soon be forgotten. It has no loftier goal — apart from announcing the presence of Mickle and his writing partner Nick Damici to a wider

CARMIKE CINEMA 10 (298-4452) CAROLINA CINEMAS (274-9500)

SAM SHEPARD, MICHAEL C. HALL, DON JOHNSON in Jim Mickle’s terrific neo-noir thriller Cold in July.

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moviegoing public as forcefully and unpredictably as possible. Michael C. Hall plays Richard Dane, a not particularly notable or quick-witted picture framer with a business in a small Texas town, circa 1989. (The date helps explain the film’s echt-1980s electronic soundtrack, although it also turns out the soundtrack is an homage to John Carpenter’s 80s films.) The movie starts with Dane nervously shooting and killing an intruder in his house. This event makes him an accidental hero to a lot of the town. He takes no pride in this, especially since it turned out the intruder was unarmed, but he also gets more than he bargained for when Russel (Sam Shepard), the father of the man he killed, engages him in a cat-andmouse game of revenge. Right about this point, the viewer is thinking that this is pretty thin stuff for a feature. This, I suspect, is a deliberate ploy by Mickle, who constantly leads us to believe we’re watching one kind of story, only to have it turn out to be something very different. That’s certainly the case here when Dane learns he shot someone other than Russel’s son, a fact the cops dismiss, but then the cops also try to engi-

neer the accidental death of Russel — who is rescued by Dane. What follows — after digging up the dead man and proving to Russel that it isn’t his son — is the strange teaming of Dane and Russel to get at the truth and find the supposedly dead son. Why Dane gets involved has more to do with his own curiosity than anything. Telling his wife (Vinessa Shaw) a bizarre fabrication about a business trip, Dane sets out with Russel to find the old man’s detective buddy Jim Bob (Don Johnson). Jim Bob — and his bright red Cadillac festooned with steer horns — is not only the man they need, he’s the outrageous seasoning the movie needs to take us on the increasingly intense, grisly trip that leads to what can best be described as carnage on a grand opera scale. It pulls no punches, yet it’s more exciting and strangely satisfying than outright gruesome. Mickle deftly creates the atmosphere of a nightmarish criminal underworld, often disguised as the blandly normal. (Yes, there’s an element of David Lynch here.) He also creates the sense of oppressive Texas heat — and it really is a creation since the film was mostly shot

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in rural central New York, but you’d never guess it. In a sense, the movie is a dryly humorous odd-buddy road trip to hell. But it’s more than that, because there are serious undercurrents to it all, and the stakes are very real. Like the twisty narrative, what starts out as one thing keeps making unexpected and sometimes unsettling turns that make Cold in July fascinating, compelling and, yes, essential viewing. Not Rated, but it’s definitely not for children. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Blended S DIRECTOR: Frank Coraci (Here Comes the Boom) PLAYERS: Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Bella Thorne, Kevin Nealon COMEDY RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Two single parents and their kids end up on the same African safari. THE LOWDOWN: An unsurprisingly puerile and needlessly sentimental comedy from Adam Sandler. 6/20/14

It’s been nearly two decades since the first true Adam Sandler vehicle, 1995’s Billy Madison, came out. For Sandler, who’s now 47-yearsold, not a whole lot has changed. Besides occasional stabs at more serious roles and the banishing of Rob Schneider from measly cameos, there’s never been a ton of deviation in Sandler’s movies. His latest, Blended, is no different. The humor is all predicated on random throwaway gags, bizarre, childish views of sex and the usual last-ditch effort at waxing sentimental as a means of making all this junk seem OK. Blended is especially lathered in the latter, since this is supposedly a “family” film — one that just happens to ooze stunted, ugly sex jokes. If his sense of humor is any indicator, Sandler is a man who views the human body as either a source of derision, the end of a punchline or simply a germ for simpleminded, tongue-wagging lust. I’m fairly confident that the first time

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I encountered the word “sophomoric” was in regards to a review of an early Sandler film, and guess what? Nearly 20 years later, zero has changed. Of course, in the scheme of things, this sameness isn’t such a big deal. After all, Sandler has made a fortune on his modus operandi, but the facade is starting to show cracks; throwing Blended into the thresher up against X-Men: Days of Future Past and Godzilla shows a certain lack of faith. Nevertheless, the thing still exists and features Sandler as Jim, a single dad who goes on a disastrous blind date with Lauren (Drew Barrymore), a single mom. After establishing that they intensely dislike each other — which takes about half an hour to set up — the two and their families end up stuck on a free trip to an African resort with one another. The Sandler/Barrymore team-up is the film’s lone point of interest, since they last came together to make the not completely, but pretty close to awful 50 First Dates (2004). But that was a decade ago, and I doubt a ton of people were clamoring for these two to link up once more (besides Barrymore, of course, whose career is currently hovering right around her Poison Ivy (1992) days). Lots of far-fetched hijinks happen, while the two — spoiler alert — start to fall for each other. The film can’t help itself and follows the usual rom-com formula of the break-up and eventual make-up, and everyone lives a fantastic life. The end. But no one’s here for plotting or storytelling. They’re here for — well, I’m not sure why they’re here. Maybe there’s an appeal in the various cameos of Adam Sandler’s buddies and welfare cases, or the familiarity born of Sandler’s lazy style of comedy. A better idea might be simple nihilism, but even that feels optimistic when faced with the prospects of a new Adam Sandler movie. You might have noticed I haven’t really said much about the actual movie. That’s because, at this point, what is there to say? It’s just more of the same — an endless parade of garbage. Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content, and language. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher. reviewed by Justin Souther

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Chef HHHS DIRECTOR: Jon Favreau (Iron Man) PLAYERS: Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Sofia Vergara, Emjay Anthony, Bobby Cannavale, Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey, Jr. COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: An upscale chef finds himself when he quits his job and starts his own food truck business. THE LOWDOWN: An unfailingly pleasant little comedy that would benefit from more conflict and a sharper tone, but it’s a proven crowd-pleaser that will play well to food and foodtruck aficionados.

Much has been made over Jon Favreau returning to his indie roots with Chef, and, of course, if you’re comparing the film to an Iron Man outing, then, yeah, it’s pretty indie. But with 20-plus credited producers, executive producers, co-producers and associate producers — not to mention a cast of famous names — it’s clearly on the highend of indie-ness. The result, in any case, is a small, consistently pleasant movie with a degree of charm. It’s a film that is almost impossible to dislike. It has nice characters, good production values, lots of lovingly photographed and appetizing food — and almost no dramatic tension. This isn’t the movie’s only problem, but it’s the one that keeps it, for me, from being anything more than pleasant. It just never feels like there’s anything really at stake here, making it hard to be all that invested in the characters. Pleasant only takes you so far. At least, it only takes me so far, because a lot of folks seem to love Chef. That’s a leap I can’t make. But others, I suspect, can. In many ways, Chef is a liveaction — and R-rated (mostly for language) — variation on Pixar’s Ratatouille (2007), right down to its nasty food critic (here played by Oliver Platt), albeit one who is treated a bit more fairly. (Bear in mind, a critic just made that assessment.) And like the animated film, it requires the viewer to adapt to

certain lapses in reality, especially as concerns business permits, food truck regulations and child labor laws — any one of which might have profitably offered the film a degree of genuine conflict in its particularly meandering second half. Also, not in its favor is Chef’s heavy leaning on social media in general and Twitter in particular (to the point of product placement) — things that will one day make the movie seem quaint, and not in a good way. Favreau stars as upscale chef Carl Casper, who is also a workaholic, divorced dad. (The workaholic aspect is essential for any neglectful movie dad.) Carl is at loggerheads with his boss (Dustin Hoffman) who insists he stick to the tried-and-true menu — a stance that causes Carl to be raked over the coals by bignoise food blogger Ramsey Michel (Platt). After becoming involved in a Twitter war with Michel, Carl promises to show him a new menu if he’ll come back, but the boss nixes this, demanding the same old thing. Unsurprisingly, Carl quits to strike out on his one. (Any similarity to Favreau breaking away from making big-budget blockbusters with this little film are hardly coincidental.) Since Carl’s very public battle — and meltdown — with Michel, he finds the world isn’t beating a path to his door, leaving Carl no choice but to let his ex-wife, Inez (Sofia Vergara), set him up with a food truck in Miami thanks to her first husband, Marvin (Robert Downey, Jr.). Right there, the story pretty much stalls as it sails along a series of predictable events built around driving the food truck back to Los Angeles with his attention-starved son, Percy (Emjay Anthony), and his sous chef, Martin (John Leguizamo). Will Carl and his son bond? Will the food truck (mostly due to Percy’s Twitter campaign) be a success everywhere they go? Will Carl and Inez patch things up? Will there be smiles all around? Will there be a not-very-surprising twist? What do you think? As I noted, it’s all pleasant and good-natured. Some of the casting is a little wasteful — Dustin Hoffman has little to do, and Downey’s role is more odd than funny. There are few big laughs, but the movie has a consistently amusing tone, and that counts for much. Rated R for language, including some suggestive references. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Locke HHHHS

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See review in “Cranky Hanke.” DIRECTOR: Steven Knight PLAYERS: Tom Hardy, (Voices of:) Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Ben Daniels DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A man risks — and may have lost — everything in order to drive through the night to be with the woman who is bearing the child he fathered. Not because he cares for her, but because he believes it is the right thing to do. THE LOWDOWN: What seems like a limited stunt concept turns out to be one of the most intense — and cinematic — experiences of the year, anchored to a brilliant performance by Tom Hardy.

I saw Steven Knight’s Locke at one of those press screenings where the distributor thought it worth their while to send a representative to get the critical response. I have never really understood the practice and hate being expected to spit out an automatic review a few seconds after the lights come up. However, my knee-jerk response: “Absolutely compelling, but I’m damned if I know how to sell it,” is still true, and, yes, Locke is good enough that I would like to sell it to you. I think people should see it. Oh, I can tell you that it’s garnered 123 positive reviews (vs. 16 negative ones) on Rotten Tomatoes — even though I detest the idea that art can be reduced to percentages. But as soon as I tell you that the film consists of 80 minutes of Tom Hardy (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy) driving while talking on his handsfree cell phone — other characters are heard but never seen — at least half of you have probably ruled it out. And I can’t blame you. I felt the same way until I saw it. It sounds deadly dull, and it sounds like a harebrained stunt. It may be something of a stunt, but it’s not a harebrained one, and it is anything but dull. Hardy plays Ivan Locke, a construction manager in a job he excels at and loves doing. The film takes place on the evening before his biggest job — one of historically noteworthy size. He also has

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a wife and two children he dotes on and with whom he’s supposed to spend the evening watching a football (soccer) match on TV. But all this changes because of a phone call — a phone call that causes him to make a sudden drive from Birmingham to London, shunting the big job off on an ill-prepared assistant, angering his boss, disappointing his sons and placing him in a position where he has to confess something to his wife. He realizes he expects to be fired, and he knows his life will never be the same. He’s driving to be with a woman he hardly knows and for whom he cares nothing, but she is

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having — prematurely — the baby he fathered. His sense of doing what he thinks is right is strong enough that he’s doing this. His oft-repeated phrase is, “I’ve made my decision,” but we only learn the reasons behind that decision over the course of the movie. If you want more plot than that, you’ll have to see the film. I know this doesn’t sound exciting, but it turns out to be one of the most suspenseful and emotionally complex films of the year. No, you won’t forget that you’re watching the kind of one-man show that might seem more at home onstage or as a radio play, but writer Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Eastern Promises) has — as both writer and director — crafted a compelling drama that he presents in a startlingly cinematic manner. The choice of staying with Locke and not cutting away to the dramas occurring on the other end of that phone may sound restrictive, but it isn’t. If anything, staying with this man while his life unravels and he tries to hold it (and himself) together, turns out to be shocking in its intensity. Knight also makes it an almost real-time, increasingly hallucinatory trip through the night — an always fascinating world of glowing lights, reflections, double exposures, rain-streaked windows and abstract patterns of out-offocus car and street lights. At the center of it all is Tom Hardy’s riveting performance — a performance some have likened to the pre-booze-soaked Richard Burton (in part because of Welsh accent he affects). But it really isn’t a performance that invites comparisons, nor does it need them. Hardy comes across as a man of barely contained volatility, a man so used to being in control of himself and his emotions that he has come to believe he can will things right. But as events progress and things start coming apart, the cracks start showing. There are a couple of moments where he cuts loose with an epithet that are as jarring as any shock effect you’ve ever seen. At the same time, he retains, without asking for it, a degree of sympathy. This may sound very bleak and even nihilistic, but it’s ultimately not at all. It’s also very likely the opposite of what you probably think it is. Rated R for language throughout. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

X-Men: Days of Future Past HHHHS

DIRECTOR: Bryan Singer PLAYERS: Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawremce, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page COMIC BOOK SCI-FI ACTION FANTASY RATED R THE STORY: Wolverine is sent from the future to 1973 to rewrite history in order to prevent the implementation of a program that means not only the extermination of the X-Men, but a great part of the world. THE LOWDOWN: Intelligent, witty, exciting, emotionally effective — and all those things that comic book movies almost never are.

Apart from a rock-’em-sock-’em opening (that prepared me for the worst), Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past is that rarest of things: a seriously intended superhero movie that’s actually good. It’s serious without being dour (yes, I am looking at you, Christopher Nolan). It lives. It breathes. It has a sense of humor. It is very probably the best comic book movie since Singer gave us X2: X-Men United back in 2003. It may even be better, but that requires another look at X2, which I haven’t had the time to do. It helps that X-Men is perhaps the most interesting of all comic book series. It is certainly the one with the greatest room for subtext and political and sociological readings — things that have been endemic to Singer’s previous films, and this one is the same. The mutants are once more fantasticated counterparts for anyone who is born somehow different. In the Singer films, that difference is not very coded code for gay. X2 was the most overt statement on being gay and the persecution of gays. (Ian McKellen even said the film was about being homosexual.) Days of Future Past doesn’t seem less obvious on this score so much as it assumes it as a given. The film opens in a not-too-distant apocalyptic future where the mutants have been nearly wiped out by the Sentinels, a police force of oversized robots that were created for this task, but have gone

beyond this to create widespread destruction. A handful of surviving mutants — chiefly Dr. X (Patrick Stewart), Magneto (Ian McKellen), Wolverine (Hugh Jackman), Kitty Pryde (Ellen Page) — are holed up in a Himalayan temple, where the plan is conceived to send Wolverine back to 1973 to change history. Why Wolverine — apart from the fact that he’s the most popular character? He’s the only one whose mind, with its instant healing powers, can survive the trip. Yes, it’s pretty convoluted, but it plays more smoothly than it reads, and it’s certainly a cunning way to blend the new generation characters of the X-Men: First Class (2011) and the original cast together in one movie. The accent is, however, clearly on the young blood — plus, Wolverine — since the other characters (or their older selves) are back in the Himalayas while the film is in 1973, and no amount of intercutting changes this. Overall, though, there is no reason for complaint. The 1973 section is both an effective and affectionate look at that era with its lava lamps, cool clothes and Roberta Flack, Alice Cooper and Jim Croce on the soundtrack. Croce gets the best work out via “Time in a Bottle” in the big scene where Quicksilver (Evan Peters, TV’s American Horror Story) helps break Magneto out of prison (in the Pentagon no less). I won’t describe it, but it’s a scene that manages the not-inconsiderable feat of being slightly cheesy and altogether wonderful. It is not the only clever, light touch in the film — it’s the showiest and probably most memorable. It’s the kind of just plain cool moment that a film like this — with its high stakes and intense emotional content — needs to make it ... well, human. The film’s inevitable big climax is surprising in its intelligent use of special effects and its decision to replace the smackdown mentality that has come to rule the superhero genre with a suspenseful stand-off that plays for drama rather than fisticuffs and property damage. (Oh, there’s property damage, never fear, but it’s more specific than the willynilly nonsense we’ve come to expect.) It’s an intelligent ending that manages to settle the future without taking quite the path we expect. The big question — for those inclined to ponder it — is what this does to the earlier movies, all of which, except X-Men: First Class, take place after 1973? Do they no longer exist, at

least in the form we knew? (OK, in the case of 2006’s dismal X-Men: The Last Stand, that wouldn’t be so bad.) That happily is a concern for the filmmakers to wrestle with. For now, we should just enjoy a comic book movie that’s actually good — maybe great. Rated PG- 13 for sequences of intense sci-fi violence and action, some suggestive material, nudity and language. Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Co-ed of Brevard, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Ken Hanke

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Belle HHHH

Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson, Sam Reid, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Sarah Gadon, Penelope Wilton Biographical Drama Fact-based story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, a bi-racial woman raised as an upper class lady in late 1700s England. Beautiful to look at, Belle is that rare thing — a costume drama of warmth, wit and humanity that isn't in the least dull or stuffy. Rated PG

Godzilla HHHS Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Ken Watanabe, Elizabeth Olsen, Bryan Cranston, Sally Hawkins, Juliette Binoche, David Strathairn Giant Monster Sci-Fi Action Godzilla rises from the watery depths to do battle with new horrors. It's solid and good looking, but it's also overlong and suffers from too many uninteresting humans and not enough monsters — plus, it lacks the crude power of the 1954 original. Rated PG-13

Million Dollar Arm HHS Jon Hamm, Suraj Sharma, Madhur Mittal, Lake Bell, Pitobash Uplifting Sports Drama A struggling sports agent tries to take two kids from India and turn them into baseball pitchers as a last ditch effort at becoming a success. A generally harmless movie with a skewed emotional center and milquetoast plotting. Rated PG

Fading Gigolo HHHH John Turturro, Woody Allen, Vanessa Paradis, Liev Schreiber, Sharon Stone, Sofia Vergara Comedy-Drama A money-strapped man talks his best friend into becoming an expensive male prostitute — and positions himself as pimp. Both very funny and surprisingly moving, Fading Gigolo scores bonus points for the inspired teaming of John Turturro and Woody Allen. It has at least one major problem, but that's easily overlooked for all the things it gets very right. Rated R

God's Pocket HHHS Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, Eddie Marsan, Caleb Landry-Jones Drama When his no-account stepson is killed, a small-time crook has to come up with the money for the funeral. A good cast elevates this uneven look into the lives of the inhabitants of a low-class neighborhood called God's Pocket. Grubby and darkly comic, it's a film that gets better as it goes along, even if it never really rings the gong. Rated R

Legends of Oz: Dorothy’s Return S (Voices) Lea Michele, Martin Short, Bernadette Peters, Hugh Dancy, Dan Akroyd Animated Musical Adventure Dorothy returns to Oz to save its inhabitants from an evil court jester. A chintzy, corny little animated movie with zero spark or inspiration that totally relies on the reputations of other movies. Rated PG

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Particle Fever HHH

Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Brian Huskey

Martin Aleksa, David Kaplan, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Monica Dunford, Fabiola Gianotti

Raunchy Comedy It's all-out war between a young married couple with a baby and the noisy, wild frat boys who move in next door. Supposedly riotous and theoretically shocking R-rated tomfoolery is just more of the same from the raunchy comedy style of filmmaking. Your mileage may vary, judging by the box office and the positive reviews. Rated R

Physics Documentary Documentary about finding the Higgs boson with the aid of Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. It is made by physicists and made for physicists — or at least pretty hard-core science enthusiasts. For that audience, it's fine, but the uninitiated may find it something of a slog. Rated NR

Only Lovers Left Alive HHHHS Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Anton Yelchin, Mia Wasikowska, John Hurt, Jeffrey Wright Horror Romance The love story of two ancient lovers who happen to be vampires. An unbelievably atmospheric and elegant film that is deeply suffused with both sadness and beauty. Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive belongs on your must-see list, even if you don't like horror movies. Rated R

The Railway Man HHHHS Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, Jeremy Irvine, Stellan Skarsgård, Hiroyuki Sanada, Sam Reid, Tanroh Ishida Biographical Drama Decades after the fact, a former World War II prisoner of war suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder faces up to his past. The kind of adult, thoughtful and solid entertainment that is little seen these days, The Railway Man is first-rate filmmaking with terrific — and terrifically human — performances throughout. Rated R

Blue Ruin HHHS Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, David W. Thompson Revenge Thriller A man sets out for revenge, only to become entangled in an even more treacherous mess. A curious little movie on the difficulties of vengeance that has some good ideas, but eventually does little to set itself apart. Rated R

My Toxic Backyard HHHH Tate MacQueen, Aaron Penland, Dot Rice Documentary Documentary about the local fight to get the old CTS manufacturing plant cleaned up. The issue is ongoing — two decades after the problem was reported to the Environmental Protection Agency. Strong, sharply focused, straightforward activist documentary that allows its anger to be simply conveyed by amassing the facts and letting those directly impacted speak for themselves. Gets in and does the job with admirable speed. Rated NR

The Amazing Spider-Man 2 HHHS Andrew Garfield, Emma Stone, Jamie Foxx, Dane DeHaan, Colm Feore, Felicity Jones, Paul Giamatti Comic Book Action Fantasy More SpiderMan action, more villains and a surprisingly effective human story in the middle. As so-called event movies go, this latest Spider-Man opus is at best average, but the relationship between Peter Parker and Gwen Stacy makes it above average — at least when it has the chance. Rated PG-13

Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago HHH Documentary The travels of disparate pilgrims on the Camino de Santiago, a famous spiritual path in Spain. A gentle, well-meaning documentary that will appeal to those interested in the Camino but few others. Rated NR

Brick Mansions S Paul Walker, David Belle, RZA, Catalina Denis, Ayisha Issa Action In dystopian Detroit, an undercover cop and a criminal with a heart of gold must bust into a cordoned off slum and deactivate a nuclear device. Dumb, convoluted actioner that manages to be incredibly boring in the bargain — despite all the fistfights and car chases. Rated PG-13

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how it's a learned response. It is not, however, preachy and is largely played for clever comedy. Rated PG

The Other Woman H Cameron Diaz, Leslie Mann, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Kate Upton, Don Johnson Comedy A woman finds out the man of her dreams is actually married, and she and the wife become reluctant friends. An overlong, unfunny and eventually despicable shot at the raunchy, femalecentric comedy. Rated PG-13

The Quiet Ones HHH Jared Harris, Sam Claflin, Erin Richards, Rory Fleck-Byrne, Olivia Cooke Horror An unorthodox researcher gets more than he bargained for when he tries to cure a supposedly possessed girl. It is rich in atmosphere, undeniably creepy and reasonably intelligent, but there's an over-reliance on loud noises where the scares ought to be and a certain amount of cheese along the way. Rated PG-13

A Haunted House 2 S Marlon Wayans, Jaime Pressly, Gabriel Iglesias, Cedric the Entertainer, Essence Atkins Horror Parody A man finds himself haunted by a demon. A crass, obvious and generally stupid send-up of popular horror movies. Rated NR

Finding Vivian Maier HHHHS John Maloof, Mary Ellen Mark, Phil Donahue, Vivian Maier, Duffy Levant, Joe Matthews Documentary Documentary about the work of recently discovered street photographer Vivian Maier, combined with the efforts to track down the story of this enigmatic woman. Altogether captivating, fascinating and even moving documentary chronicling the work of and trying to understand a mid-20th century street photographer. If you only see one documentary a year, this should be it. Rated NR

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Faith-Based Drama The story of a young boy who claims he went to heaven after nearly dying in surgery and his father’s (who is also a pastor) struggle to accept the tale. A surprisingly theologically even-handed film that’s unfortunately dull, with no dramatic push behind it. Rated PG

Ernest & Celestine HHHH (Voices) Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy Animated Fantasy A young mouse becomes the improbable friend of a very large bear. A film of immense charm and pleasingly non-gooey sweetness that also carries a solid theme about prejudice and

Joe HHH Nicolas Cage, Tye Sheridan, Gary Poulter, Ronnie Gene Blevens, Brian Mays Southern Gothic Melodrama An excon forms an attachment to a troubled 15-year-old boy with an abusive alcoholic father. Highly acclaimed in many quarters, Joe feels both disjointed and falsely sentimentalized to me, despite containing a strong performance by Nicolas Cage. A fondness for Southern gothic melodrama is essential. Rated R

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L’age d’Or HHHHS Director: Luis Buñuel Players: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst. Joseph Llorens Artigas, Lionel Salem SURREALIST COMEDY DRAMA Rated NR When it debuted in 1930, L’age d’Or caused a riot. The theater showing it was vandalized by scandalized patrons, the producer was threatened with ex-communication and the film was effectively banned for 49 years. For that matter, it would be almost 20 years before Buñuel made another film. While it is unlikely that the film could provoke such anger today, it has certainly lost none of its power to startle the viewer with its almost nonexistent narrative, surreal flourishes, attacks on society and less than respectful views on Christianity and the Church. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present L’age d’Or Friday, May 30, 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.

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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) "When I was young," wrote French author Albert Camus, "I expected people to give me more than they could — continuous friendship, permanent emotion." That didn't work out so well for him. Over and over, he was awash in disappointment. "Now I have learned to expect less of them than they can give," he concluded. "Their emotions, their friendship and noble gestures keep their full miraculous value in my eyes; wholly the fruit of grace." I'd love to see you make an adjustment like this in the coming months, Aries. If you do, the astrological omens suggest you will experience a comparable blessing. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) Some earthquakes happen in slow motion. These rare events occur 22 to 34 miles down, where tectonic plates are hotter and gooier. Unlike the sudden, shocking jolts of typical temblors, this gradual variety can take many days to uncoil and never sends dishes flying off shelves up here on the earth's surface. I suspect your destiny will resemble this phenomenon in the coming months, Taurus. Your foundations will be rustling and rumbling, but they will do so slowly and gently. The release of energy will ultimately be quite massive. The realignment of deep structures will be epic. But there will be no big disturbances or damages. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) When I slip into a meditative state and seek insight about your future, I have a reverie about a hearty sapling growing out of a fallen tree that's rotting on the forest floor. I see exuberant mushrooms sprouting from a cowpie in a pasture. I imagine compost nourishing a watermelon patch. So what do my visions mean? I'm guessing you're going through a phase of metaphorical death and decay. You are shedding and purging and flushing. In the process, you’re preparing some top-notch fertilizer. It won't be ready for a while, but when it is, a growth spurt will begin. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) "Dear Diary: Almost everything that could possibly change has changed these past 12 months. I am not kidding and I am not exaggerating. Getting just one of my certainties destroyed would have been acceptable; I long ago became accustomed to the gradual chip-chip-chipping away of my secure foundations. But this most recent phase, when even my pretty illusions of stability got smashed, truly set a record. So then why am I still standing strong and proud? Why is it I'm not cowering in the corner muttering to the spiders? Have I somehow found some new source of power that was never available to me until my defenses were totally stripped away? I think I'll go with that theory." 70

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GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) I suspect that some night soon you will dream that you’re standing onstage, naked, in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked. There’s a strong possibility you’ll be wearing pink-and-green striped socks and a gold crown. And it gets worse. In your dream, I bet you’ll forget what you were going to say to the expectant crowd. Your mouth will be moving but no words will come out. So that’s the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that since I have forewarned you, you can now do whatever is necessary to prevent anything resembling this dream from actually occurring in your waking life. So when you are called on to show what you’ve got and make a splashy impression, you’ll be wellprepared.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) About 32,000 years ago, squirrels in northeastern Siberia buried the fruits of a flowering plant deep in their burrows, below the level of the permafrost. Then a flood swept through the area. The water froze and permanently sealed the fruits in a layer of ice. They remained preserved there until 2007, when they were excavated. A team of scientists got ahold of them and coaxed them to grow into viable plants. Their success has a metaphorical resemblance to a project you’ll be capable of pulling off during the next 12 months, Virgo. I'm not sure exactly what form it will take. A resuscitation? A resurrection? A recovery? The revival of a dormant dream? The thawing of a frozen asset or the return of a lost resource? LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) For German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, the good news was that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times. The bad news is that he never actually won. Actor Richard Burton had a similar fate. He was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never took home an Oscar. If there’s anything that even vaguely resembles that pattern in your own life, Libra, the next 12 months will be the most favorable time ever to break the spell. In the next few weeks, you may get a glimpse of how it will unfold. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) "I should have kissed you longer." I hope you won't be replaying that thought over and over again in your imagination three weeks from now. I hope you won't be obsessing on other such mantras, either, like "I should have treated you better" or "I wish I’d listened to you more deeply" or "I should have tried harder to be my best self with you." Please don't let any of that happen, Scorpio. I am begging you to act now

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PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) Now is an excellent time to transform your relationship with your past. Are you up for a concentrated burst of psycho-spiritual work? To get the party started, meditate your ass off as you ponder this question: "What fossilized fixations, ancient insults, impossible dreams and parasitic ghosts am I ready to let go of?" Next, move on to this inquiry: "What can I do to ensure that relaxed, amused acceptance will rule my encounters with the old ways forever after?" Here's a third query: "What will I do with all the energy I free up by releasing the dead weight I’ve been clinging to?"

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