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Return lodging tax dollars to city I would like to comment on Stephanie Brown’s letter [“Lodging Tax Supports Local People,” May 15, Xpress]. While she paints a rosy picture about the benefits of the hotel boom, there is something that matters at least as much as money: quality of life. While I have no doubt many locals are reaping the rewards of the influx of tourist dollars, I suspect the big winners are the corporations.

While those people who are coming here to “launch and live their dreams” may be bringing fresh ideas and assets, how many of them can actually afford to live here? How many locals can find a parking spot to enjoy the local venues they have supported for years?

How many mountain views have disappeared from the city? While all of that tax money goes to bring even more tourists here, who is footing the bill for public services, street repair and rising real estate taxes?

Has the city imposed a 1% fee on new buildings for public art? Do we have to wait until someone dies falling from the beer cycle because of a giant pothole to get it fixed?

It seems ironic to me that, now you talk about sustainability? Now, as the city and county are finally, maybe, starting to emerge from a greed-induced stupor. With a zoning board that never met a variance they didn’t like and a planning commission that apparently

doesn’t know the meaning of the word planning, you want to talk about sustainability. I fear your sustainability is going to come on the backs of the residents. It’s like a developer bulldozing an orchard to build cookie-cutter houses and then naming the development “The Orchard.” It just might be too late.

I agree with you, Ms. Brown, [Asheville] is an awesome town with a rich diversity of unique businesses and activities. That is why most of us live here. However, this is not Disney World.

When the tourists leave, we don’t take off our Goofy costumes and head home.

We live, work and play here and are left to clean up the trash, accidents, puke and exhausted, underpaid and underappreciated service workers who take great care of us and our visitors.

My suggestion is that you return at least half of the $23 million to the city for pothole repair, public services and maybe even some wage assistance. I have no doubt you could still promote our town quite successfully with $11.5 million.

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As best I can reconstruct their argument, these protesters are following this logic: Abortion services are equivalent to murder, and protest is likely to both deter people from seeking those services and change the legal climate which allows these services to be offered.

I take no position on the first premise. It is the second premise that has perplexed me. On bright, sunny days, protesters are more numerous. They are in around 7:30 but clear out before 5, occupy the space exclusively on Saturdays and are very careful to stay within the confines of the law.

The last straw was a sign that read, “Remember, everything Hitler did in Germany was also legal.” The Nuremberg trials disagree. Moreover, the actions of these protesters are also legal. People who were concerned about the actions of the Nazis did not carefully navigate public property to avoid interactions with police. People protesting Jim Crow laws were sprayed with fire hoses as they struggled for recognition as human beings. They did not go home when it started drizzling.

From my observations, one of two things is true. One, these protesters are moral cowards of the highest order.

They have what they believe to be a government-sanctioned mass murder, but are too afraid of arrest, cold or damp to do anything serious. Two, these protesters are using an imagined sense of moral superiority, an artfully constructed victim narrative and a position of incredible social power to bully women. I can find no other explanation. The people who obstruct that bus stop once a week are cowards, bullies or both.

So, stop it. Go home. Pay your taxes.

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Reducing animal deaths on I-40 I have been following for some time the efforts led by the National Parks Conservation Association to provide landscape connectivity — ways for wildlife to cross major highways — in the Interstate 40 gorge of Western North Carolina and other areas. The Pigeon River Gorge Connectivity Project covered in your article [“Bear Right: Collaborative Works to Reduce I-40 Animal Deaths,” May 1, Xpress] represents an exciting beginning in bringing connectivity projects to our area as we experience more and more encounters between human motor-

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ists and the animals who live in our national and state parks as well as private lands.

We are privileged to live in an area with one of the largest areas of protected forestland in the Southeast, and it’s important that we start these efforts to both protect animal and human life now. I would encourage NCDOT to start by building in wildlife-friendly features into the upcoming replacement of bridges in the Pigeon River Gorge, and for us as citizens to advocate with our representatives for future measures to provide bears, elk, deer and other creatures safe passage over or under our ever more busy highways.

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Man of the hour The rise of Mark Meadows

Thoughts on the Movies section What exactly happened to the movie column? I was so proud to have helped vote the movie column to the No. 1 favorite column of the entire Mountain Xpress last year only to see it gutted beyond recognition earlier this year. Bummer.

Francis X. Friel made an excellent point on the website that highlights the murky motivation behind this restructuring. I even heard that Scott Douglas posted a comment to a previous letter to the editor and that comment was immediately removed from the newspaper’s website and never even mentioned. Why censor, when the only apparent reason would be to keep the public in the dark as to what actually happened to these much-loved movie reviewers?

I personally believe the community was best served by those “one or two authoritative reviewers,” as anyone can have an opinion about a movie, but very few know what they’re talking about. I used to learn something when I read the reviews, now I only learn what a treasure we had and lost.

More than ever I am thankful for Ken Hanke and what he provided us with the Asheville Film Society, where I can not only see fantastic, life-changing films, but hear the voices of the real movie guys.

— Mara Anderson Woodfin Editor’s response: We always appreciate hearing from our readers. Prior responses about the changes to the Movies section can be found on our website at mountainx.com, along with our policy for online comments.

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BY MILTON READY If you believe John Boehner, the Republican former speaker of the House of Representatives, Mark Meadows is “an idiot.” A great many in Washington, even in his own party, share that view and worse. Still, many people reading this will know him as North Carolina’s 11th District congressional representative, the leader of the conservative Freedom Caucus and one of Donald Trump’s closest allies. To others, however, he’s a status-anxious person who desperately wanted to replace John Kelly as White House chief of staff.

Yet in many ways, Meadows’ rise to power represents not only the Trumped up times in which we live but also the state of North Carolina today.

First and foremost, Meadows isn’t really from North Carolina but from Florida. He’s a businessman with little political experience and no public service before 2013, all hallmarks of a new class of politicians in American life.

A lot of Floridians and retirees have moved to Western North Carolina since the 1980s, probably in larger numbers than Hispanics, and politically they are far more important, at least for now.

He also represents the “greed is good” credo of Gordon Gekko in the 1987 movie Wall Street and the dominance of business values in American society.

Meadows opened Aunt D’s, a small restaurant in Highlands, later sold it, and subsequently founded a real estate and development company in the Tampa, Fla., area. In 2011, he moved to Glenville in Jackson County, just outside Cashiers, and then to South Asheville. You will find Meadows’

name associated with real estate and development businesses in and around Macon County.

Like many outsiders, Meadows quickly recognized the fragility and vulnerability of North Carolina’s political parties and structure, easily becoming the chair of Macon County’s Republican Party and a delegate to state and national Republican conventions. In 2012, he ran for office, seeking to represent North Carolina’s recently gerrymandered 11th Congressional District: the safest and reddest in the state. He was elected, and there he has remained.

Yet perhaps the most interesting detail about Mark Meadows’ rise can be found in his opportunistic nexus with the takeover of North Carolina by hard-right Republicans in 2010.

The two are conjoined twins. At the heart of all the gerrymandering, voting suppression and outright fraud now prevalent in North Carolina lie the selfinterest of people like Meadows and the self-deception of their supporters.

Consider this: Since 2010, Republican legislators have gradually ensured that, by hook or crook and despite an almost evenly divided electorate, Democrats will win only three of the state’s 13 congressional districts — the 1st, 4th and 12th — usually by overwhelming majorities. Meanwhile, the other 10 will be reliably won by Republicans, if with smaller margins. The 11th generally delivers approximately 60% of the vote to the Republican candidate, the largest percentage of any “safe” district in the state. North Carolina Republicans knew how to stop the 2018 blue wave and the inevitability of demographics, albeit with a slight hiccup in the 9th District. So egregious was the voter fraud there that the state Board of Elections overturned the results and ordered a new election.

Oddly enough, the future of the Republican stranglehold on North Carolina and the nation can be glimpsed through Meadows and the 11th District. Western North Carolina’s growth has largely been driven by an influx of Hispanics, second-home developments, tourism and older transplants, mostly around the Asheville/Hendersonville corridor. Surrounding mountain counties like Macon, Mitchell, Madison and

C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N Graham have either declining or stagnant populations and economies. As one wit observed, the only growth there is in cemeteries.

Without rural voters and the almost entirely white South Asheville suburbs, Republicanism in Western North Carolina dies a slow death.

Currently, the 11th is approximately 90% white, 47% urban and 53% rural, all percentages sure to change as the region becomes more urbanized and Hispanics replace shrinking and aging white populations in counties like Mitchell. Factor in the looming 2020 census and an inevitable if delayed redrawing of congressional districts, and urban areas like Asheville, Raleigh, Charlotte and Durham-Chapel Hill, which are now effectively marginalized, will play a greater role in future elections while mountain counties like Macon and Mitchell will have lesser ones.

Yet Hispanics, the “shadow population,” might hold the key to both the 11th’s and the state’s future: Now you see them, now you don’t. North Carolina has the 11th largest Hispanic population in the nation, perhaps as much as 1 million overall. Roughly half are legal citizens, but only 3% of those are registered and approximately 2.4% vote, the lowest percentages in the nation. Meanwhile, over 80% of the state’s registered whites vote.

With a collective purchasing power of approximately $385 million, Hispanics have substantially propelled the state’s recent economic growth. As of 2012, they owned 34,900 businesses, and that number has only increased since then; more than half of all new businesses launched in North Carolina since 2016 were Hispanic-owned. The demographics show that they tend to be younger, and in counties like Henderson, they account for perhaps 25% or more of the workforce. You can see similar impacts seasonally in counties like Macon.

Yet Hispanics have no representation either in the General Assembly or locally, making them the only sizable “voiceless” minority in the state.

In many ways, they constitute a new, modern form of slavery brought on by an increasingly regionalized and globalized economy.

Mark Meadows will probably survive another election cycle or two as long as gerrymandered districts and voter suppression persist. Yet he’s likely to be remembered more as an anachronism, an artifact of the Tea Party’s dominance in North Carolina, than as someone who bettered residents’ lives overall. X Retired UNC Asheville history professor Milton Ready lives in the mountains of Western North Carolina.

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The legacy of Asheville’s racial real estate covenants

BY JON ELLISTON jonelliston@gmail.com It’s rare that Drew Reisinger, Buncombe County’s register of deeds, is surprised by any historical outrages that turn up in the public records under his care. After all, it was at his direction that the county became the first one in the country to digitize its archives of deeds documenting the local ownership and sale of slaves.

But one day in 2013, as he reviewed a title search for the home he and his wife would ultimately buy — a medium-sized rancher on Wendover Road in West Asheville’s Malvern Hills neighborhood — one of the restrictive covenants listed in the property records left him cold. Scripted in 1939 by a now-defunct homeowners association, it read: “No lot … shall be leased or permitted to be occupied by a negro, or person of any degree of negro blood, or any person of bad character.” The covenant went on to clarify that “This shall not prevent the employment of servants of negro blood, nor their occupancy of servants quarters.”

“I was shocked and saddened,” Reisinger remembers. “I can only imagine what it would have been like to find that kind of message if you were a black person thinking about joining this neighborhood, how unwelcoming and even scary that would be.”

RUNNING WITH THE LAND Tucked into real estate deeds and other lengthy legal documents regulating property use and maintenance, aesthetic standards and the like, such racial restrictions were once preva-

FINE PRINT: Buncombe County Register of Deeds Drew Reisinger was shocked to discover racist language lurking in the property records for his house in West Asheville. Though unenforceable today, restrictive racial covenants remain “buried all over the place” in Buncombe County’s historical real estate documents, Reisinger says. Photo by Jon Elliston

lent in states throughout the nation.

According to The Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston, “Most covenants ‘run with the land’ and are legally enforceable on future buyers of the property.” Owners who violated the terms of the covenant risked forfeiting their property or, in some cases, incurring significant fines.

And though both the courts and federal housing law long ago ruled such covenants unenforceable, they remain on the books in many communities to this day. In the Malvern Hills case, a quorum of neighborhood property owners rescinded the ban on black residents in 1963 as the civil rights movement was gaining steam.

A search of old Asheville property deeds turns up many such vestiges of institutionalized racism. One that was rescinded by the Biltmore Forest Co. in 1970, for example, used almost the exact same language, banning any “negro or person of any degree of negro blood.” Likewise, a covenant in East Asheville’s Beverly Hills neighborhood, not revoked until 1983, stressed that “No persons of any race other than the Caucasian race shall use or occupy any building.”

And in North Asheville’s Lake View Park development, even a 1940s welcome pamphlet for property owners touted a ban on black residents, alongside details about such amenities as Beaver Lake and its boating, fishing and swimming opportunities.

The development’s current website contains assorted historical documents including the pamphlet, with a note indicating that it was produced in the “pre-civil rights period.”

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“This is a history we obviously haven’t taken a very close look at, and that’s something we need to do.”

— Drew Reisinger, Buncombe County register of deeds subject to racial covenants, and to find out would require exhaustive research in Buncombe County’s land records.

“These things are buried all over the place,” says Reisinger. And while he’s glad to find that many neighborhoods did eventually officially renounce those restrictions, he adds, “This is a history we obviously haven’t taken a very close look at, and that’s something we need to do.”

ROOTED IN RACISM Even before many of the local covenants were written into property deeds, Asheville was an early adopter of racial housing restrictions. In 1913, for example, the city enacted a segregation ordinance creating separate black and white residential zones. But subsequent Supreme Court cases shed light on the way both racism and legal efforts to combat it can evolve over time.

Buchanan v. Warley, a 1917 decision concerning a similar law in Louisville, Ky., declared such municipal racial zoning unconstitutional. That didn’t eliminate the underlying prejudice, however: It simply morphed into a different form.

In Asheville, for example, assorted prominent citizens endorsed a sweeping new blueprint for the city’s future in 1922. Prepared by John Nolen, a noted urban planner who also designed Lake View Park, the Asheville City Plan stated, “It is in most respects a distinct advantage to the negroes to be separated from the white population” — provided that black residents had good schools, homes, stores and recreational areas.

Reflecting such sentiments, many of the Asheville subdivisions built during the 1920s boom barred black ownership, notes local real estate attorney William Reed. “At the time, it was a clear reflection of some of those white communities’

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COLOR LINE: An excerpt from the Malvern Hills covenant prohibiting people of color from living in the neighborhood, except those who were employed as servants. Document provided by Drew Reisinger racial beliefs and preferences,” he says.

“They were unabashed about the fact that they didn’t want people of color as their neighbors.”

Accordingly, private racial restrictions — i.e., those not issued by a unit of government — proliferated nationwide. North Carolina was one of 14 states whose supreme courts upheld the legality of racial covenants when they were challenged, according to historian Richard Rothstein’s 2017 book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. And in 1926, the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Corrigan v. Buckley upheld those restrictions’ validity. Rothstein is an authority on institutionalized discrimination.

By 1948, however, the court’s position had shifted. That year, the landmark Shelley v. Kraemer ruling dealt racial covenants a theoretical deathblow, declaring

them unconstitutional and unenforceable. But as Rothstein notes, the Federal Housing Administration “continued to subsidize projects that penalized sellers of homes to African Americans,” and new racially restrictive provisions still crept into legal documents pertaining to some residential associations and housing developments, even decades later.

In Asheville, other types of housing discrimination appeared after restrictive covenants lost the force of law. Some of those practices, particularly “redlining,” continued on a large scale for decades, notes local racial equity consultant Marsha Davis. She’ll recount the city’s history of redlining — the refusal by banks and insurance companies to issue loans or policies in certain neighborhoods — at a Thursday, May 30, event hosted by financial counseling nonprofit OnTrack WNC (see sidebar). Her pre-

sentation will outline various steps taken to disenfranchise, displace and corral black communities.

A LASTING LEGACY Today, many homeowners may not even be aware that their property was once subject to racial restrictions — and if and when they do find out, they can be flummoxed about how best to respond.

In recent years, a few states, including California and Washington, have passed laws allowing individual owners to expunge discriminatory language from their deeds, but North Carolina has no such provision.

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doesn’t stop some present-day owners from seeking to erase what they consider a stain on their property’s history.

Reed cites a 2009 case in which he assisted a black couple buying a house in Lake Toxaway in Transylvania County. The couple were chagrined to learn that the 1961 property deed banned “any person or persons not of the Caucasian race” (with an exception for “servants”). With Reed’s help, after buying the home, they filed a “termination of restrictive covenant” document — an addendum to the deed that, at least symbolically, renounced the racial restriction.

The document noted that both federal and state law have long banned discriminatory housing practices and spelled out the couple’s rejection of the covenant.

“You might say there’s no need for such a declaration,” Reed points out, since the restriction was already legally invalid. “But they decided that it was a concrete way to say that the values of the old owners are no longer welcome, that we have new values now.”

Whether or not old racial covenants are disavowed, they still tell an important story, argues Durham resident Stella Adams, the North Carolina NAACP’s housing chair and a veteran fair-housing advocate. During the 2000s, she studied cities where the covenants had been widely used, including Asheville, Charlotte and Wilmington.

And despite racial covenants’ lack of legal standing, Adams says their impact remains evident, even now. “In so many of these communities, you can examine the racial makeup of when the communities were built, and it’s exactly the same today,” she says.

Davis, meanwhile, believes that an examination of practices like racial covenants and redlining must inform contemporary strategies for countering deep-rooted inequalities wherever they are found.

“When we look at the achievement gap, the wealth gap, health gaps — all these stark disparities between races — it’s impossible to discuss them without taking a clear look back,” she maintains. “You can’t solve a problem without knowing where it came from in the first place.” X

WHAT “Redlining in Asheville: Racism Disguised as Housing Policy,” presented by Marsha Davis of Davis Squared Consulting WHERE OnTrack WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave. 828-255-5166 ontrackwnc.org WHEN Thursday, May 30, 10-11:15 a.m., followed by the nonprofit’s annual Financial Literacy Awards Luncheon, 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

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BUNCOMBE BEAT

Buncombe plans in-jail opioid treatment program In the fight against an ever-worsening epidemic of opioid addiction and overdoses — one of Buncombe County’s six strategic priorities — jails are on the front lines, according to Sarah Gayton, detention programs director for the county Sheriff’s Office. At a May 21 meeting of the Board of Commissioners, she unveiled a plan for the Buncombe County Detention Facility to address the root of the problem while inmates with addiction are in custody through medication-assisted treatment.

In a MAT program, patients with an addiction disorder receive controlled doses of medication, such as naltrexone or buprenorphine, in conjunction with counseling and therapy to help them avoid returning to more dangerous substances such as heroin or fentanyl. While the Buncombe jail offers this treatment to pregnant females with opioid addiction, Gayton explained, it’s not currently an option for other inmates. Even those on a MAT regimen when admitted to the

UNLOCKING TREATMENT: The Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office plans to greatly expand the use of medication-assisted treatment for inmates with opioid addiction at the county jail.

Photo courtesy of Buncombe County facility, she said, are instead placed into detox.

“We’ve got not only the rhetorical captive audience, but we have a population at high readiness for change,”

Gayton said as she advocated expanding the use of MAT. Without intervention, she added, opioid users are at a 40% higher risk of overdose in the month after their release from jail.

Gayton noted that, although the treatment is considered a sciencebased best practice for opioid use disorder, only 11 county jails across the country currently have a “robust” MAT program; in North Carolina, pilot programs have been tested in Rutherford and Forsyth counties. She said that the state Department of Health and Human Services has identified seed money to support a full year of program development and that county staff are in “dynamic” negotiations to secure the funding.

However, Gayton did not present that amount or discuss how the program would be funded beyond its first year. Commissioner Mike Fryar said he was concerned that county taxpayers would pick up the tab once state grant money ran out; he also expressed skepticism about the value of the treatment.

“We can’t stand in here and make everybody in this county safe,” Fryar said. “You have to look at the reality. You’ve got drug addicts, you’ve got drunks, you’ve got alcoholics. It’s plain and simple: We can’t change them.”

“I would totally disagree with what was just said,” responded Brownie Newman, the commission’s chair. “This is one of the hardest issues that we face as a community and a society, but I think to just throw up your hands and say we can’t do anything is not the right approach.”

Other members of the commission also shared their support of the proposed initiative. Jasmine Beach-Ferrara said that county staff members were working “to bring hope and opportunity for healing and recovery,” while Al Whitesides argued that failing to support treatment efforts would cost more over the long run.

“We have a fiduciary responsibility as commissioners to represent the people of Buncombe County, our constituents,” Whitesides said.

“When I look at the figures of how many people we’re losing, and I talk to EMS personnel here in the county and they tell me how many calls they have because of the opioids — these are sick people. We can’t afford not to help them.”

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by Thomas Calder | tcalder@mountainx.com

In 1930, following the publication of his debut novel, Look Homeward, Angel, Thomas Wolfe received a $2,500 fellowship through the Guggenheim Foundation, permitting the author to travel, write and conduct creative research abroad.

Wolfe set sail for Europe that May. The following month, while living in Paris, he met fellow writer F. Scott Fitzgerald for the first time. The meeting was arranged by the authors’ shared editor, Maxwell Perkins.

On July 1, 1930, Wolfe wrote to Perkins, recalling his visit with Fitzgerald. According to Wolfe, the two writers spent much of the afternoon talking and drinking. The topics of conversation ranged from issues of the American spirit to more personal matters, including trauma. “[Scott] told me that Mrs. [Zelda] Fitzgerald has been very sick — a bad nervous breakdown — and he has her in a sanitarium at Geneva,” Wolfe informed his editor.

Later that summer, while in Switzerland, the two men crossed paths again. This time around, it was Fitzgerald who wrote Perkins about the meeting. Several times in the correspondence, Fitzgerald measured Wolfe’s talents against that of Ernest Hemingway, another of Perkins’ writers.

“You have a great find in [Wolfe] — what he’ll do is incalculable. He has a deeper culture than Ernest and more vitality, if he is slightly less of a poet and goes with the immense surface of wants to cover. Also he lacks Ernests quality of a stick hardened in the fire — he is more susceptible to the world.”

Fitzgerald and Wolfe remained on each other’s minds and in each other’s letters throughout much of the 1930s.

Such was the case on Sept. 25, 1936, when the New York Post published “The Other Side of Paradise, Scott

“I have read your letter several times and I’ve got to admit it doesn’t seem to mean much. … I may be wrong but all I can get out of it is that you think I’d be a good writer if I were an altogether different writer from the writer that I am.

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Despite Wolfe coming to Fitzgerald’s defense in 1936, the two authors would butt heads the following summer. On July 19, 1937, Fitzgerald wrote Wolfe from Los Angeles, offering unsolicited advice about his writing. Among his many suggestions, Fitzgerald advised Wolfe to “cultivate an alter ego, a more conscious artist in you.”

A week later, Wolfe responded to Fitzgerald, noting: “I was surprised to hear from you but I don’t know that I can truthfully say I was delighted.

Your bouquet arrived smelling sweetly of roses but cunningly concealing several large-sized brickbats.”

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The scathing profile and the subsequent gossip it generated led Fitzgerald to attempt suicide inside his Asheville hotel room.

On Oct. 14, 1936, Wolfe addressed the matter in a letter to fellow writer and friend Hamilton Basso. “I feel pretty bad about Scott,” he stated. “I had thought of asking my mother to go round and see him … but I don’t know how much good it would do.”

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“The poet-prophet of the postwar neurotics observed his 40th birthday yesterday in his bedroom of the Grove Park Inn here. He spent the day as he spends all his days — trying to come back from the other side of paradise, the hell of despondency in which he has writhed for the last couple of years.”

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

Presentations. Open to public, $5 at door. List of vendors and more info AngelPetsExpo.com BEARWISE • FR (5/31), 2pm Bearwise discussion on how to live safely with black bears in your community. Free. Held at Black Mountain Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain BEAVER LAKE BIRD WALK • SA (6/1), 8am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary, US-25 RABIES VACCINE CLINIC • 5-6:30pm - Bring dogs and cats needing vaccination to one of the following locations: (5/27) Canton Middle School, (5/28) Jonathan Valley School, (5/29) Waynesville Middle School, (5/30) Bethel Elementary School and (5/31) Riverbend

UNDERSTANDING THE MISUNDERSTOOD BLACK BEAR • TH (6/6), 6:30-7:30pm - Understanding the Misunderstood Black Bear, presentation by nature photographer, Bill Lea. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard

BENEFITS BEYOUTIFUL FASHION SHOW FUNDRAISER • FR (5/31), 7-9pm - Proceeds from the BeYOUtiful fashion show with a live DJ, cash bar and raffle benefit the Carolina Resiource Center for Eating Disorders.

Information & tickets: bit.ly/2Hjuf1E. $20. Held at Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road BUILT TO LAST FEATURING ANDREW SCOTCHIE & THE RIVER RATS • SA (6/1), 7pm - Proceeds from the Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats concert benefit Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity. $20-$40.

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CURTAINS UP: A GALA IN WONDERLAND • SA (6/1), 7pm - Proceeds from Curtains Up: A Gala in Wonderland with wine, beer, hors d'oeuvres and live and silent auctions benefit Asheville Community Theatre. 6pm for VIPs. $100/$150 VIP. Held at Celine and Company, 49 Broadway GOLDEN GARDEN PARTY XII • SA (6/1), 2-6pm - Proceeds from the Golden Garden Party XII with music, dinner and drink benefit Food for People. $30. Held at Stickels Residence, 32 Pine Hill Road, Fairview RAFTING FOR RIVERLINK • SU (6/2), 2:30pm Proceeds from Rafting for RiverLink with a half day float on the French Broad River and barbecue picnic supper benefit RiverLink.

Reservations: 888-4267238. $62. Held at Blue Heron Whitewater, 35 Little Pine Road, Marshall SISTERS DOIN’ IT FOR OURSELVES • TH (6/6), 7pm Proceeds from the music and comedy show, Sisters Doin’ It for Ourselves, benefit Helpmate Women’s Shelter. $20-$33. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. STONEWALL COMMEMORATION MONTH POOL PARTY KICK OFF • SA (6/1), 2pm Proceeds from the transgender, nonbinary and queer-friendly pool party benefit Tranzmission.

Registration required: avl.mx/631. $5. Held at Jewish Community Center Pool, 40 Clyde St.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-3987950, abtech.edu/sbc • SA (6/1), 9am-noon - SCORE: Building Your Business Strategy and Business Planning, seminar. Registration required. Free.

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• TH (6/6), 9am-4pm - Export University, seminar. Registration required. Free.

DEFCON 828 GROUP • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security professionals, students and enthusiasts. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road TECH TUTOR • FRIDAYS, 3pm - Sign up for a 20 minute session with a tech teen.

Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road VA JOB FAIR • TH (5/30), 10am7pm - Job fair with VA Medical Center. Free.

Held at Charles George VA Medical Center, 1100 Tunnel Road WNC LINUX USER GROUP • 1st SATURDAYS, noon - Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems. Free to attend.

Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

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

TRAPEZE (all levels) on Tuesdays 6:00pm.

AERIAL FLEXIBILITY on Mondays 6:00pm, Wednesdays 4:30pm, Thursdays 11:30am, and Fridays 1:00pm. INTRO to POLE FITNESS on Tuesdays 7:15pm and Saturdays 11:30am.

RELEASE & RESTORE on Wednesdays 7:15pm.

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APPALACHIAN DOWSERS QUARTERLY MEETING • SA (6/1), 1-3pm - Mary Eichorn talks on 'The Connection between Trees and Me.' Basic dowsing skills class,

TIC-TAC-TOE: Find craftspeople and artists working in nearly every medium at the selfguided Toe River Arts Studio Tour in Yancey and Mitchell counties. Meet the artists, see where they live and work all the while taking in mountain vistas. The tour takes place Friday, May 31, through Sunday, June 2. For more information, visit toeriverarts.org or call 828-682-7215 or email info@toeriverarts.org. Free to attend. Photo courtesy of Jenny Lou Sherburne (p. 37) 11am-12:30pm. $10/ free for members. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting.

Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St.

Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

ASHEVILLE SUBMARINE VETERANS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm Social meeting for US Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan's Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road

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BUDGETING AND DEBT CLASS • WE (5/29), noon-1:30pm Budgeting and Debt, class.

Registration required. Free.

Held at OnTrack WNC, 50 S. French Broad Ave.

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MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA • MO (6/3), 6pm- meeting to discuss current initiatives. Free. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. PEACE EDUCATION PROGRAM • TUESDAYS through (6/18), 6:30pm - Find Peace in Your World, inner peace video-based drop-in educational program presented

by Peace is Possible NC. Information: pep.asheville@ gmail.com. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation

• 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 5pm - Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

101 Stone Ridge Ave. • TUESDAYS through (7/11), 3:30-5pm - Conversational Spanish classes for ages 11-22. Registration: jtalexa2@uncg.edu. Free.

• TUESDAYS through (7/11), 5:30-7pm - Conversational Spanish classes for adults. Registration: jtalexa2@uncg.edu. Free.

TOOL AND KNIFE SHARPENING • SA (6/1), 11am-3pm Tool and knife sharpening event. Bring pocket knives, kitchen knives, axes, pruning shears, lawnmower blades or any other dull tools with a straight edge for sharpening. Free. Held at Asheville Tool Library, 55 Southside Ave.

TRIVIA NIGHT • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Trivia night. Free. Held at VFW Post 9157, 165 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain

FOOD & BEER ACTON UNITED METHODIST MEN BARBECUE • SA (6/1), 11am Proceeds from the Acton United Methodist Men Barbecue and silent auction benefit their mission projects. $10. Held at Acton United Methodist Church, 171 Sand Hill School Road ICE CREAM SOCIAL • SA (6/1), 12-4pm - Ice cream, live music, face painting, baby goats, tours, book sale, bouncy house and mega slide.

Free to attend. Held at Flat Rock Village Hall, 110 Village Center Drive, Flat Rock KITCHEN READY SHOWCASE DINNER • FR (5/31), 5:30pm & 7pm - Community dinner featuring soul food dishes prepared by the graduating students. $10. Held at Green Opportunities, 133 Livingston St. OLD-FASHIONED PICNIC ON THE LAWN • SA (6/1), noon - 3pm - Old-fashioned picnic with old-time music porch jam, lawn games, ice cream churning and house tours. Registration:

828-253-9231. $12. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road

FESTIVALS 3RD ANNUAL PRAMA DAY • SA (6/1), 8:30am-6pm - Health and wellness festival featuring yoga, dance, music, workshops, playshops, sound healing, nature walks, children's tent and vendors.

Lunch $15. Registration: avl.mx/62n. Free to attend. Held at Prama Institute, 310 Panhandle Road, Marshall LIBRARYCON • SA (6/1), 10am-4pm - Presentations by author Eric S. Brown and cartoonist James E. Lyle, cosplay and costume contest, art and trivia.

Free to attend. Held at Waynesville Branch of Haywood County Public Library, 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville SUMMER LIBRARY FESTIVAL • SA (6/1), 10am - Summer Library Festival, family-friendly morning of space-themed games, activities, and storytimes.

Free. Held at Oakley/ South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS CITIZENS-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. CLEAN ENERGY PLAN LISTENING SESSION • WE (6/5), 1-3:30pm - Public input meeting for the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality. Free.

Held at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401 CLOSING THE COVERAGE GAP CANDLELIGHT VIGIL • WE (6/5), 7-8pm - Candlelight vigil honoring those who have suffered or died as the result of lack of adequate and affordable health care. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY BREAKFAST • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10. Held at Henderson County Democratic Party, 1216 6th Ave. W., Suite 600, Hendersonville HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS NC FAIR DISTRICT REFORM • TH (6/6), 5-6:30pm - General meeting with a focus on the history of gerrymandering, bipartisan reform and proposed bills in the NC House and NC Senate. Free to attend.

Held at Hendersonville Community Co-Op, 60 S. Charleston Lane, Hendersonville INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUNDWNC • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva

MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE • MO (6/3), 6pm Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense rally to raise awareness and to help decrease gun violence. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. VETERANS FOR PEACE • TUESDAYS, 5pm - Weekly peace vigil.

Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

KIDS ICE CREAM SOCIAL • SA (6/1), 12-4pm - Ice cream, live music, face painting, baby goats, tours, book sale, bouncy house and mega slide. Free to attend. Held at Flat Rock Village Hall, 110 Village Center Drive, Flat Rock APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Open house featuring operating model trains and historic memorabilia.

Free. Held at Apple Valley Model Railroad & Museum, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (5/31), 3pm - Art Adventures for Kids: Pablo Picasso, kids ages 8-12. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • FR (5/31), 3:30pm Art Adventures for Kids, a monthly art club for ages 8-12. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • SA (6/1), 1pm - Kids stop by to practice their reading skills with JR

the therapy dog. Free. Held at Weaverville Library, 41 N. Main St.. Weaverville • SA (6/1), 1pm - Kids stop by to practice their reading skills with JR the therapy dog. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Mother Goose Time, storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • WE (6/5), 4pm - Lego building, ages 5 and up.

Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St. • WE (6/5), 11am - Yoga for kids. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon - Storytime and art project for preschool students. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Heroes Unlimited, role playing game for grades 6-12. Registration required. Free. Held at

Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview KIDS FISHING TOURNAMENT • SA (6/1), 8am-noon Catch and release fishing tournament for kids 15 and under. Bring your own pole.

Prizes for largest, smallest, most and casting skills. $10.

Held at Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-8774423 • MO (6/3), 9-11am - Nature Nuts: Frogs & Toads, class for ages 4-7. Registration required. Free.

• MO (6/3), 1-3pm - Eco Explorers: Canids, class for ages 8-13. Registration required. Free.

• WE (6/5), 10am-2pm - Outdoor Skills Series: Camping 101, class for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free.

PLAYDATES • MONDAYS, 9-10am - Playdates, family fun activi-

ties. Free to attend. Held at Whole Foods Market, 4 S. Tunnel Road STORIES AT THE FARM • WE (6/5), 10am - Preschool story and craft. $3 per child. Held at Historic Johnson Farm, 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville TRY TENNIS • SUNDAYS, 3-4pm - New players learn fundamental tennis skills through six weekly clinics, ages 7-17.

Registration: avltennis.com. $40 fee includes instruction, a racquet and towel. Held at Aston Park, 336 Hilliard Ave. VOICES IN THE LAUREL • MO (6/3) & (6/10), 4-6pm - Auditions for new choir members from 1st through 12th grade.

Registration: 828-564-3310.

Held at First Baptist Church of Waynesville, 100 S. Main St., Waynesville YOUTH ART CLASS • SATURDAYS, 10:30-noon - Youth art class. $10. Held at Appalachian Art Farm, 22 Morris St., Sylva

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy food and craft beverages sourced from the Hickory Nut Gorge during A Gorge-ous Evening Out for Annual Passholder on Saturday, June 1 from 7-9pm.

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Meet at south entrance of Tanbark Tunnel, Blue Ridge Parkway milepost 374.4.

FORREST FALLS HIKE • SU (6/2), 10am-12:30pm - Guided, 3 mile easy hike at Shope Creek. Free.

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Registration required. $30/$10 children. Held at Pisgah National Forest, Pisgah Forest SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS RESERVE VISITORS' DAY • TU (6/4), 10am - Firsttime guests tour Southern Highlands Reserve led by garden tour docent for moderate to strenuous hike. Registration: southernhighlandsreserve. org. $25. Held at Southern Highlands Reserve, 558

Summit Ridge Road, Lake Toxaway YOGA IN THE PARK SUMMER SERIES • SATURDAYS until (8/31), 10-11:30am - Proceeds from the all level yoga class benefit Homeward Bound and United Way of Asheville. Bring mat and water bottle. Admission by donation. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

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MOUNTAIN MINDFULNESS SANGHA • TUESDAYS 7-8:30pm - Mountain Mindfulness Sangha. Admission by donation. Held at The Center for Art and Spirit at St. George's Episcopal Church, 1 School Road

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“Shortly after that, I started having major health issues, but we never connected the two,” she explains. “It started with slight memory loss and being unable to understand simple mathematical problems, and it moved into stomach problems and migraines.” But it wasn’t until 2011, when a Brevard physician tested Refenes for Lyme disease, that she found out what the problem was.

“It came back positive, and I was finally diagnosed and was able to start treatment,” she recalls. “The most difficult feeling to comprehend is when you are happy about a diagnosis, but for me, I was going to feel better.”

Refenes is not alone. According to Buncombe County Health and Human Services, the county had 21 reported cases of Lyme disease in 2018. Western North Carolina is a hot spot for the disease as well as other vector-borne illnesses (those transmitted by carriers such as mosquitoes, ticks and fleas).

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time, and the other mosquitos can get infected by feeding on them, so we get this cycle going on.”

ENDEMIC IN WNC Byrd’s research focuses primarily on the eastern tree hole mosquito and the La Crosse encephalitis that it can transmit. WNC is one of five areas in the country where the disease is endemic.

Although there are more mosquitoes and mosquito bites in North Carolina’s coastal and piedmont regions, most La Crosse encephalitis infections turn up in the western part of the state, particularly among children younger than 15.

Every year, a dozen or more children end up contracting the disease, mostly between May and September, says Byrd.

Over the last decade, he notes, Lyme disease has also become endemic here, particularly in Buncombe and Henderson counties.

Psychotherapy for Individuals and Couples INVISIBLE ILLNESS By the time Refenes was diagnosed, WNC doctors had become more familiar with the disease and so were more likely to test for it. For her, however, the intervening years had been characterized by debilitating illness, memory loss and an inability to work. During that period, Refenes moved to California and then back to Hendersonville to be near her mother when her symptoms became too much for her to handle on her own.

Upon her return, however, Refenes says she felt alone and searched for a way to find friends who could understand what she was going through.

“Being chronically ill, unfortunately, you lose friends. People don’t understand why you can’t come out, and they give up on you,” Refenes explains.

“I joined Facebook support groups to talk to others like me, and I ended up meeting one of my very best friends through those. However, social media interactions weren’t enough: I wanted more support. I started my own Facebook group for locals to connect and eventually started having monthly meetings at Denny’s.”

This group now boasts dozens of members, including Jamie Farley, who was diagnosed with late-stage neurological Lyme disease in 2011 after seeing dozens of medical professionals and waiting months for answers.

When her symptoms were at their worst, remembers Farley, she was nearly bedridden, but she attended the group’s meetings when she was physically able.

“It was helpful to me to know that there were others who understood my daily struggle,” she says. “Living with an invisible illness can be isolating, because you don’t look sick. It helps to talk with others who know to look past your healthy appearance.”

Farley is currently in remission, but she remains active in the group to support and help others.

ANOTHER WORRISOME CRITTER Meanwhile, another disease-carrying predator, the Asian longhorned tick, is also attracting more attention locally. Little is known about the insect, says Byrd. First spotted

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“We’re not really sure how new it is: Now that we’re looking for it, we’re starting to find it in different places,” Byrd reveals. “This is a pretty fascinating tick and was discovered within the last couple of years but has probably been around a lot longer.”

It’s hard to say how the Asian longhorned tick will impact WNC’s human population, he continues, noting that up till now it’s mostly been found on animals.

FIGHTING BACK Whatever kind of insect one is dealing with, says Byrd, it’s essential to take preventive measures to protect against any diseases they may be carrying.

The most important basic precautions, he explains, fall under the three D’s: drain, dress and defend.

Because mosquitoes begin as aquatic life forms, Byrd recommends getting rid of any standing water, whether it’s in flowerpots or clogged gutters.

yourself and your children. It might seem silly, but it can save your life.”

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UNLOVED BUG: Brian Byrd displays a collection of mosquito eggs. Since a single mosquito can lay anywhere from 75-120 eggs in water, he recommends that homeowners eliminate all standing water. Photo by Karrigan Monk Eliminating those potential breeding places can reduce the number of mosquitoes around your home. Covering up bare skin also helps limit exposure.

Finally, he continues, use repellents to defend against insect bites.

Byrd recommends the Environmental Protection Agency’s “find the right repellent” online tool to determine the best option for your specific needs.

Refenes, who is currently in remission and doing well, wholeheartedly agrees.

“Lyme is more serious than you’d ever think: It’s dangerous, it’s deadly and it’s an absolute life-ruiner,” she declares.

“Take the tiny precautions when you’re hiking or just out for the day. Learn the proper way to remove a tick. Learn how to spot early Lyme symptoms. Educate

For Refenes, the initial symptom was memory loss, but Byrd emphasizes that the onset of vector-borne illnesses is often more subtle (see box, “Staying Safe”). What begins as a fever or simple aches and pains, however, can quickly develop into a dangerous brain inflammation.

If such symptoms appear during peak season (May through September), it’s important to explore the possibility of a vector-borne illness in order to catch the disease early.

Both Farley and Refenes say they had a hard time getting a diagnosis but were glad when they finally had some answers and could begin receiving treatment.

“If you think you may be struggling with Lyme disease or another undiagnosed illness, don’t give up until you find answers,” stresses Farley. “You have the right to compassionate care.

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At least when it comes to commuting, the automobile has remained king in the Asheville metropolitan area. A U.S. Census Bureau survey found that 87% of residents in Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Madison counties used a car to get to work in 2017. That’s down from the 92.3% who commuted by auto in 2007, but the difference has little to do with people choosing public transportation, walking or biking.

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Chart by Scott Southwick minutes in 2007 and 21.4 minutes in 2017. That difference is within the survey’s margin of error.

However, Osborne says, national real estate trends now show a move away from interest in living in suburban areas accessible only by car and demand for denser, more walkable neighborhoods.

“This is the way humans have lived throughout human history,” she says.

“The only time we didn’t live like that was the last 60 to 70 years, and the process has led to a system where we’re spending more and more time traveling to accomplish the simplest things. … I think people have run out of patience for it.”

More people would make that switch, Osborne argues, but many cities and towns have zoning rules that make the creation of new mixed-use neighborhoods difficult. As a result,

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Osborne advocates relaxing zoning to increase supply, a change she says would make homes in urban areas more affordable: “We should let the market get what it wants.”

Some of this region’s more rapidly growing areas have been in suburbia, and public transportation accounts for a tiny share of trips to work — just half a percent in the Asheville metro area.

But Rozelle believes residents need to be thinking now about how to connect areas where denser development is occurring or lies ahead.

“We’re to the point where we’re willing to say things like light rail and bus rapid transit are feasible and we can start these conversations,” he says. “If there’s one thing that interstate widening and construction has taught us, it’s that that’s not the silver bullet.” X

LOOKING AHEAD The Strive Beyond Summit takes place 3-5 p.m. Friday, May 31, at Sierra Nevada Brewing, 100 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River. Beth Osborne, director of advocacy group Transportation for America and a former U.S. Department of Transportation official, will be the keynote speaker. Other speakers include Wake County Commissioner Sig Hutchinson; Julie Mayfield, Asheville City Council member and co-director of environmental organization MountainTrue; Mary Sell, best workplaces for commuters coordinator at Durham-based Triangle J Council of Governments; and Tristan Winkler, director of the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization.

Admission is free. Those attending are asked to RSVP at avl.mx/62z, where information about shared transportation to the summit is also available. X

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There are many breathtaking gardens in Asheville, and most of the time, the secrets of their beauty remain a mystery to admirers. That is, unless a skilled gardener spills the beans.

On Saturday, June 1, the Buncombe County Extension Master Gardeners will do just that as members open to the public four of their personal gardens, along with a new learning garden for the annual Beyond the Garden Gate tour and fundraiser.

“What we’re trying to do is show the public that we’re normal people with gardens that aren’t perfect. Maybe we’ve had a problem with pests and trees, and we’ve all overcome certain obstacles to pursue our goal of gardening,” says master gardener and tour co-chair Amy Shumate.

Embarking from the Asheville Visitor Center, the gardens are within 12 minutes of each other. A $20 ticket provides each visitor with a brochure and map for the self-guided tours. At each garden, Shumate estimates there will be seven or eight master gardener docents ready to answer questions and share inspired moments of gardening.

This year, Shumate and co-chair Sandra Layton focused on curating an array of landscapes that are both educational and accessible from the road. Their selections include the Ever Evolving Garden, which celebrates the spirit of adaptation and change, and the Lotus Garden, which belongs to a gardener who tends to purchase her plants impulsively and includes sunny, shady, wet and dry environments. The Sentimental Garden features plants given to its keeper by friends and family, and the Shady Slope Garden has a recirculating waterfall system that illustrates how to cultivate plants in a steep and rainy landscape.

Two of the featured gardens are home to Asheville Treasured Trees

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Tour peeks into private gardens plant, what to plant in different scenarios, what to plant in sun and shade, how to plant on the vertical with a trellis. You can learn how to compost, care for flowers, take care of pests and identify invasive plants,” Shumate says.

Reflecting on the tour experience as a whole, she continues, “We hope our visitors go home inspired by what they have seen, learned and experienced — and that they take that inspiration home and use it in their own gardens.”

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WHAT Beyond the Garden Gate tour WHERE Begins at Asheville Visitor Center, 36 Montford Ave. bucombecountymastergardener.org WHEN Saturday, June 1, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., $20

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Rooted in the Sentimental Garden is a giant Southern magnolia, which dates to at least the 1950s. And within the Ever Evolving Garden sits an elegant sugar maple that is widely admired.

Also special to this year’s tour is the master gardeners’ new learning garden on Mount Carmel Road, which aims to further replicate situations gardeners may face at home. “You can see how to

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TIPPING LOCAL Asheville food and drinks businesses discuss the new reality of tablet gratuity

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The cashless economy is on the rise, and that’s particularly clear in the way transactions occur in the service industry. More often than not, when paying for counter service — whether it’s for baked goods, coffee or sandwiches — consumers who swipe a credit or debit card are now faced with a swiveling tablet and a decision to make while the cashier and other customers in line wait. Would you like to add a 15%, 20% or 25% tip?

“I try to go do something else or just look past in the distance,” says Elyssa Melton, a cashier at Gypsy Queen Cuisine, with a laugh. “I’m not going to be like, ‘What are you tipping?’”

Melton has worked in the service industry for the last eight years and confirms that she’s seen an increase in tips as a result of the pay card reader’s prompts. That’s one of the reasons she’s enjoyed the new technology.

“I think they feel the pressure,” she notes. “As someone who works in the service industry, having the amount set is nice because a lot of people aren’t aware of what 20 percent actually is. But sometimes when I go to a coffee place, I wonder, ‘Do I tip 25% on a $4 drink?’”

“I think people tip more. It’s more convenient. It’s mindless. It’s more discreet. Overall, if you can appeal to more people, you’ll make more tips,” says Beth Saine, a barista at Double D’s Coffee & Desserts.

“It confuses the older generations, for sure,” says Adam Grabowski, a bartender at The Brew Pump.

“Sometimes they won’t even know what to do, and they’ll just walk away, which actually defers payments and cancels the transaction when it times out.”

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On the most popular apparatus, the Square device, operators can program the tip prompter however they please. Generally, the options are $1, $2 or $3 for a transaction under $10, and a choice of 15%, 20% or 25% for transactions above $10.

There’s also the choice of selecting

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TO THE POINT: Gypsy Queen Cuisine employee Dave Campbell is pictured with the restaurant’s tablet point-of-sale system. Campbell says he appreciates how the tablet keeps all customer transactions online and organized in a spreadsheet. Photo by Laura Hackett a smaller “no tip” button or typing in a customized number. The Square readers are best at processing simple orders and are used by many counter service establishments, food trucks and contractors such as massage therapists and tattoo artists.

So far, this major shift in tip technology has been heralded as a perk by many Ashevilleans, but it’s also elicited annoyance from service workers and consumers alike.

“What I like about the system is it’s fast and convenient,” customer Joe Schnellmann says over a pint

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of beer at The Brew Pump. “What I don’t like is it’s assumed that you’re going to do something [for gratuity], and it’s sort of forced a little bit. I don’t like to be persuaded. But in a way, it’s good because some people who are not usually tipping maybe are tipping.

“There’s instances where it’s like, yes, you’re tipping for service. And there’s certain instances where it’s like, just add it to the price and pay the people more,” he continues.

“When the transaction is simple, like a coffee and muffin, and the bill is already $7 or $8, and someone wants another dollar for that ... it seems a little like you’re taking advantage of the consumer. But I totally think if you’re working for your tips, you deserve it.”

Chris TeBeau, an event manager at The Hop Ice Cream Café, understands the value of a tip firsthand, but he also says he doesn’t enjoy how the card reader systems turn a gratuity into an obligation.

“It’s too in your face,” he says. “It almost feels like someone’s asking for money. A tip should be a gift for good service. If I’m being friendly or going out of my way to have nice conversa-

tion, a tip is a nice gesture of goodwill and humanity. It feels good to tip and be tipped, but it shouldn’t just be treated as part of the bill or essential to a worker’s wage.”

Deanna Maldonado, a server at UpCountry Brewing Co., worries what this new technology does to our everyday interactions. “I know how to think, but I feel like [the tablet’s tip calculator] is trying to think for me,” she says. “I just think it takes away from the engagement. People slide the card and flip it the other way, and there’s no ‘Thank you’ or ‘Goodbye’ or ‘Have a good day.’ It’s kind of just like, ‘Flip, bye.’”

While Blue Dream Curry House owner James Sutherland enjoys how his Square reader has streamlined tipping and automated the math work for customers, he doesn’t like the way Square “corners the market” and captures customer information in a separate database that it doesn’t provide to the business. “It would be nice to see more options and more competition among readers,” Sutherland says.

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Despite the existing criticisms, these pay card readers do not appear to be going anywhere. In fact, the global pay card reader market is expected to grow by about 44 percent during the forecast period 201723, according to a report by Market Research Future. Moreover, the tips garnered by these devices remain an integral piece of many service workers’ wages and play a large role in helping workers make ends meet.

“I’m happy about the tablets making it harder not to tip. I think it is a moral good that it’s now kind of an expectation,” says Clay Krollman, a barista at High Five Coffee. “I think that awkwardness is good. I think we should be forced to confront why we feel like a coffee shop might deserve less than a restaurant. I think we should be forced to deal with why we think service industry workers either do or don’t deserve a tip.”

Even at establishments like Gypsy Queen, where employees are guaranteed a living wage of $13.65 an hour, much of that income is still sourced from tips. “Even though we are living-wage certified, the way

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that works is basically two-thirds of our ‘employer’ is the tips. So although we do make higher than minimum wage, most of what makes us actually living wage is the tips that we get. And we all split them among the house,” Melton explains as she gestures at the “Living Wage” sign at her counter. “I think this sign is misleading because people think we make, like, $15 an hour without tips, and that’s not the case.”

So, to answer the question above, should we tip 15%, 20% or 25%? One, two or three dollars?

“I see 100 to 200 people a day, and the majority of people tip, and that’s wonderful. But I never expect everyone to do it, and I never judge people who don’t,” says Krollman.

When asked about how much he tips, Krollman reports that he tips 100 percent everywhere, whether that be at a coffee shop or a restaurant. “I am deeply socialist in my politics,” he explains.

The most common answer given by locals? When in doubt, tip around 20 percent for all counter service.

At coffee shops or breweries, $1 per drink. For a more complicated drink, consider $2 or $3. When it comes to

ice cream, TeBeau says that $1 is a nice gesture.

“I think there’s a misconception that because it’s counter service, you don’t have to tip. Fifteen to 20% is appreciated. Tips are a huge portion of the funds I make,” says Page, a cashier/cook at Rosetta’s Kitchen, who chose not to give her last name.

“With any aspect of service industry, even if it’s not table service, there’s still work involved. I think it should be a baseline thing people do, and I wish people realized that more.

Mostly, the people who do tip are younger, work in service industry themselves — they also realize how dependent everyone is on tips.”

“Twenty percent across the board, counter service or otherwise. Round up to the nearest dollar until everyone makes a living wage,” says Aaron Kreizman, a local real estate agent.

“Twenty percent is my baseline. I go up from there if I want to show genuine appreciation,” says local service worker Amalia Grannis.

“Keep tipping,” Grabowski recommends. “It goes a long way. People do get by a dollar bill at a time, even when it doesn’t look like it sometimes.” X

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The natural wine movement gains momentum in Asheville Revolution brought to the process of winemaking, you are left with something that is beautiful.”

Walk too fast down Biltmore Avenue past Manicomio Pizza, and you just might miss one of the most unconventional wine shops in the state. “I’m not allowed to have any signage on Biltmore,” says owner John Hale, who opened Crocodile Wine in December.

“Foot traffic is tricky, but I’m not really chasing it.”

Located in the lower courtyard under Manicomio Pizza, Hale’s basement shop is gleefully obscure, in part due to its unique inventory. Crocodile Wine only sells natural wines — in fact, it’s the only wine shop in North Carolina that does so.

Even to the novice wine drinker, the bottles that line the shelves at Crocodile look different. The labels are artful and eclectic; the color of the wine is at turns luminous and opaque. “Some of these white wines are really wild and funky,” says Hale. “The reds can be so bright, floral and fresh.”

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RAW RECRUIT: Crocodile Wine owner John Hale says he didn’t have much interest in wine in general until he began working with natural wines during stints at shops and restaurants in Brooklyn. “The whole energy around natural wine — the way you share it with friends, the connection to a place and the people who made it — it just doesn’t happen all that often,” he says. Photo by Thomas Calder momentum across the country, and here in Asheville, a robust community is beginning to take shape.

WHAT IS NATURAL WINE? Some call it “raw” or “real” wine, or even “low-intervention” wine, but the truth is there’s no official definition of natural wine. According to Hale, it’s made by farmers who grow grapes sustainably (using no herbicides or pesticides), then harvest them by hand and ferment using only native yeasts.

“Natural winemakers focus on farming and do as little as possible in the cellar and let the fermentation happen as it’s going to,” says Hale. As a result, these wines are inextricably linked to the time and place in which they are grown, which makes drinking them such an exciting, unique experience.

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wine in general,” Hale says. “But the whole energy around natural wine — the way you share it with friends, the connection to a place and the people who made it — it just doesn’t happen all that often.”

“Natural wines taste alive,” says Chris Thornbury, general manager of Table.

“It’s one human being working in conjunction with his or her environment instead of imposing upon it.”

These wines, he points out, benefit from not being subjected to extensive sterilization, filtering and refining. “They are imbued with an electricity that most conventional wines lack,” he says. “It’s hard to overstate the living aspect of these wines.”

Thornbury, now entering his third year at Table, came to natural wine by conventional means. “I sold big Napa cabs and trophy wines to the wealthy. I chased wines with big Parker scores [wine’s 100point rating scale],” he says, reflecting on his early career. “But I soon realized I was attracted to wines that weren’t manipulated, that were a true reflection of the place where they came from.”

He adds, “When you strip away all of the baggage that the Industrial

When brothers Geoff and Charles Alexander opened Appalachian Vintner in 2008, the term “natural wine” hadn’t gained prevalence.

“We’ve had the opportunity to sample dozens of wines basically weekly since we first entered the wine industry,” says Charles. “Through these tastings, we found that wines made in a natural style were purer, more alive, more complex and expressive. We started seeking those wines out.”

But it’s only within the last two years that natural wine has become of interest to the Biltmore Village shop’s client base, he adds. “Prior to that, our funky natural wine selection tended to stay on the shelf for a while.”

Later this summer, Burial Beer Co., along with partner Brian Canipelli of Cucina 24, is slated to open a restaurant at Burial’s Forestry Camp production facility near Biltmore Village. The eatery will showcase hand-selected collections from unique beer makers, distillers and coffee roasters — and a 100% natural wine list.

“Natural wine, to us, allows enough room for winemakers to utilize the flora of their vineyards, but to also use very minimal processing or sulfites,” says Burial co-founder Doug Reiser. “We want to see spontaneous fermentations and the terroir shine through.”

But natural wine is more than just an exciting new beverage trend. For enthusiasts and makers alike, it is akin to a lifestyle. “It’s a stance against chemicals and a stance against industrial agriculture,” says Hale. “It’s about respect for sustainable agriculture and the magic of nature and quality of life, joy, friendship and optimism.”

Thornbury looks forward to a time when the term “natural” doesn’t have to be attached to this type of wine.

“I’d like for us to get to a place where wine isn’t viewed as a commodity and manipulated into fitting a specific sales demographic,” he says.

As the American palate continues to mature and expand, Thornbury says, he hopes to see these wines “move out of obscurity to a place where they should be all along: in a place of awe and reverence.” X

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Golden Garden Party When it comes to Asheville, local is king, but that doesn’t mean city and county residents refrain from supporting causes beyond the mountains of Western North Carolina. On Saturday, June 1, locals will come together for the 12th annual Golden Garden Party. The yearly fundraiser benefits The Prem Rawat Foundation’s Food for People program, which provides clean water and nutritious meals to disadvantaged children in India, Nepal and Ghana.

“This event is very grassroots,” says Jake Frankel, the foundation’s executive editor. “It’s not organized by the charity itself, but by supporters of the charity.”

This year’s gathering includes dinner provided by Mela Indian Restaurant and Hickory Nut Gap Farm, as well as live musical performances by Armadilla, Isabel Castellvi, Madelyn Ilana and Sendero. In addition, there will be a raffle offering a number of local prizes. There is a $30 recommended donation.

Over its initial 11 years, the Golden Garden Party has raised more than $50,000 for the Food for People program, providing 2.5 million meals, along with agricultural training. The organization’s emphasis on the latter, notes Frankel, is what sets it apart from many other international feeding programs. “This is locally grown foods prepared in ways that the local people really enjoy,” he says, of the program’s three locations.

The same is true for the upcoming Golden Garden Party. With an ample supply of local bites and music, Frankel says he hopes folks will leave the event “with a belly full of delicious food and hopefully with their hearts full because they’ll go to bed knowing that they helped feed malnourished children.”

The Golden Garden Party runs 2-6 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at 32 Pine Hill Road, Fairview. For more information, visit avl.mx/62x.

Kitchen Ready Showcase Dinner Green Opportunities’ Kitchen Ready program will celebrate the culinary achievements of its most recent graduating class with its latest showcase dinner. According to the event’s Facebook page, the evening will feature soul food dishes, including sea30

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crumb cake and a hazelnut biscotti.

Tickets are $65. The second class, which runs 4-7 p.m., offers instruction on how to make a variety of crackers and breads ideal for cocktail parties.

The first workshop will include takehome samples; the second workshop will end with a happy hour featuring samples of all the baked goods. BYOB. Tickets are $70.

The two courses are offered Sunday, June 2, at Mountain Kitchen, 332 E. Sondley Drive. For more information, visit avl.mx/62r and avl.mx/62s.

YMCA family cooking classes

INTERNATIONAL IMPACT: For over a decade, local residents have come together to raise funds for The Prem Rawat Foundation’s Food for People program, which provides clean water and nutritious meals to disadvantaged children in India, Nepal and Ghana. The organization’s executive editor, Jake Frankel, left, stands with the gathering’s original co-host, Ron Clearfield. Photo courtesy of Frankel sonal timbale made with cheese grits, collard greens, sweet potatoes, roasted red bell pepper, goat cheese and pickled vegetables; apples and sausage; and pear and serviceberry cobbler. The dinner is first-come, first-served. The suggested donation is $10.

Dinner will be served at 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 31, at the Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center, 133 Livingston St. For more information, visit avl.mx/62p.

Flat Rock Ice Cream Social The annual Flat Rock Ice Cream Social returns Saturday, June 1, featuring free ice cream from Baabals Ice Cream Shoppe in Fletcher, live music, face painting, baby goats, tours, a firetruck bounce house and a book sale. Hot dogs and drinks will be for sale. Pets are prohibited.

The social runs noon-4 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Village Hall, 110 Village Center Drive, Flat Rock. For more information, visit avl.mx/62u.

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Great Rosé Tasting On Saturday, June 1, Metro Wines will offer guests samples of rosé wines from around the world. Featured bottles include Underwood Rosé Bubbles (Oregon); Rezabal Txakoli Rosé (Spain); Tinto Rey (California); Le Quattro Terre (Italy); Elicio (France); and Backsberg Pinotage Rosé (South Africa). All featured wines will be available for purchase that day.

The Great Rosé Tasting runs 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday, June 1, at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St. For more information, visit avl.mx/62q.

Scones, biscotti and cocktail snacks workshop Mountain Kitchen will host a pair of bread-making workshops on Sunday, June 2. The first course runs 10:30 a.m.1:30 p.m. with a focus on scone-making; students will also learn to bake blueberry

Throughout June, Lauren Furgiuele, nutrition director of operations and clinical integration for the YMCA of Western North Carolina, will lead a series of family cooking classes.

The first event will take place at the YMCA’s Black Mountain location on Tuesday, June 4. Participants will learn to make zucchini noodles with fresh tomato basil sauce, cherry salsa and energy bites. “Families should consider attending because getting children involved in the cooking process at a younger age makes them more likely to try new foods and eat healthier,” Furgiuele says. Group tickets are $55 for YMCA members and $75 for nonmembers, with a maximum of three members per family.

The class runs 5:30-7 p.m. Tuesday, June 4, at the Black Mountain YMCA, 25 Jane Jacobs Road. To purchase tickets and for additional workshop dates, visit avl.mx/62t.

Serviceberry season On Tuesday, June 4, the Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council, in partnership with the city of Asheville’s Office of Sustainability, will celebrate the arrival of serviceberry season with the unveiling of an Asheville Edibles Map denoting public locations where the berries can be found. In addition, a free serviceberry workshop will be offered that day that will provide tips on identifying the berry, along with harvesting and cooking techniques.

Reservations are required.

The workshop runs 5:30-7 p.m.

Tuesday, June 4, at the Senior Opportunity Center, 36 Grove St. To RSVP, visit avl.mx/62v. X

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‘WORLD OF CONSTANT TRAVEL’ Resonant Rogues’ new album is both expansive and personal

ART AS ACTION: “I think the personal is one of the only ways to communicate with people about the political,” says Sparrow, far right, with Resonant Rogues band members, from left, Kristen Harris, Daniel Iannucci and Keith J. Smith. The group’s new album, Autumn of the World, addresses gentrification and addiction, but also themes of travel, community and craft. Photo by John Gellman

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com Performing music from someplace else — such as Turkish music for an American audience that had

never heard it before — is one of Sparrow’s favorite things. “Playing the banjo in Istanbul was so cool,” says the mononymous Ashevillebased multi-instrumentalist, who fronts Resonant Rogues with her

husband, Keith J. Smith. “To learn the traditional music from folks there was an incredibly enriching experience, and then to be able to share the music from where I live, as well.”

Sparrow, who grew up in Colorado, is quick to note that Appalachian music is not part of her native culture. But, after 15 years, it’s become an important element of her repertoire. In fact, she learned banjo while living in Oakland, Calif., and missing Western North Carolina.

A note on genre: “I play acoustic music that is inspired by vintage traditions. I feel like every type of music is folk music in its way,” Sparrow explains. Punk, jazz and Motown can all be considered folk styles: the music of the people. “I do think folk is place-based [but] that’s changing in our world of constant travel.”

Appalachian instrumentation, global folk flavors and themes of home, travel, loss and craft patchwork Resonant Rogues’ new album, Autumn of the World, which the group will launch at The Mothlight on Friday, May 31.

The record takes its title from a track Sparrow wrote just before a fall Samhain ritual at The Hawk & Hawthorne in Barnardsville. “I had a dear friend who, at the time, was deep into heroin addiction, and it was heavy on my heart,” she says. “Thinking about friends I’d lost … it was a hard time for me, emotionally.”

Also, she adds, the human collective pushed the planet to the limit, environmentally. “It feels

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A &E like we might be coming to a more difficult time in human history,” she says. “We just have to have faith that spring will come again.”

While that sense of hope is palpable throughout the album’s 13 tracks (including the gorgeous, semihidden final instrumental — a brief waltz struck through with bittersweet wonder), the musicians aren’t afraid of addressing hard truths. “The House That Condos Stole” is a story-song from real life.

The chorus goes, “And in they’ll come, with cranes, it’s done, they’ll doze it to the floor / And those who already have enough will keep on making more.” While this particular tale of a beloved home lost to developers took place outside Asheville, it serves as a cautionary tale for this city in its current flush of expansion.

“I definitely think that housing is a big crisis all over, and I think has a lot to do with the consolidation of resources into the hands of a few,” says Sparrow. In Asheville, as in desirable and arts-centric locales across the country, “For the people who have resided, for generations,

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in these places, it’s become unaffordable to live there.”

But she also has positive things to say about her adopted hometown: “It’s become possible for me to be a full-time gigging musician here in Asheville, and I like how the tourist industry has supported the music industry in that way.”

That’s not to say that the life of a full-time musician is an easy one.

“It’s a legitimate career. … It takes a lot of tenacity and belief in what one is doing,” Sparrow says. “It takes an enormous amount of research, compiling information, and also skills. … It definitely requires a team to make that happen.” Sparrow and Smith have that in each other — not only in their ability to play and travel together, dance a mean Lindy Hop, give feedback on each other’s songwriting, and inspire each other to show up for the creative work each day — but they also make formidable business partners.

The couple recently launched an indie company for the computerbased end of their music career, such as management, booking, photography and writing press materials. Once they’re back from their

upcoming tours — including a jaunt through the U.K. this summer — they hope to offer their services and expertise to other musicians.

One of the talents Sparrow has picked up is video editing. “I was able to direct my artistic skills in a way that helped our career as musicians,” she says. “Image goes with sound.” Fellow local artist Ben Hovey gave her a tutorial, and that, along with a combination of trial and error and Google-searching, led to engaging visuals culled from the band’s travels.

But the Resonant Rogues don’t exist in a DIY vacuum: “We’ve been lucky to have collaborations with some incredible filmmakers,” Sparrow notes. One is David Saich of Fiasco Pictures, who made both of the band’s first official music videos (including “Long Way to Galway,” which won for best cinematography at the 2017 Music Video Asheville awards) and “Autumn of the World,” which premiered on the Xpress website last week.

Community-building, a spirit of sonic and global exploration, and an extensive figurative and literal toolbox aside, the Resonant Rogues are

ultimately about the songs. Sparrow says that she writes hers “in kind of a journal entry; I journal in poems” and “I feel like two-thirds of my songs are written by some sort of water. In the shower, by a pond. …

I really like rivers.”

Smith, on the other hand — and perhaps in perfect balance — “has more of a process. He spends more time working and rewriting his songs,” Sparrow says. “I feel like his songs are incredibly poetic.” X

WHO Resonant Rogues album release show with Bill and the Belles WHERE The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Friday, May 31, 9 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show

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VIBING AND THRIVING “I want every creative, free art program to be a success,” says Johanna Hagerty, the founder and executive director of economic development brand Xpand and its namesake festival.

However, in recent months LAAF, Mountain Sports Festival and All Go West announced plans for discontinuation or hiatus. Hagerty, a longtime local arts event producer in Asheville, has worked with some of those groups in the past. Bringing Xpand Fest, now in its third year, on board as those other institutions were facing transitions helped her understand how to give her fete more flexibility. To succeed, “We have to find the viable models, especially in the changing landscape,” Hagerty says.

This year’s Xpand Fest takes place Saturday, June 8, in the South Slope neighborhood. Nashville-based funkrock collective Dynamo headlines a lineup of otherwise Asheville-area entertainment, such as The Get Right Band (indie-rock), April B & The Cool (indie-soul), The Digs (nu-soul/funk), Eleanor Underhill & Friends (eclectic folk), Magenta Sunshine (indie-soul) and many others. An after-party follows at Ben’s Tune Up with Sister Ivy (soul-jazz). Daytime festivities include a scavenger hunt, lantern parade and drop-in day care.

The location of the festival is intentional: Three years ago, the South Slope “was an up-and-coming area and was needing some light shone on it,” says Hagerty. “It was also an area that had a lot of diversity unrest — it was historically a black community, and then it was gentrified.”

While the lasting effects of redlining and urban renewal still need healing, these days the south end of Coxe

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COLLABORATION STATION: Local poet and educator Daniel Suber, left, and City Councilwoman Sheneika Smith took part in last year’s Community Media Mixer at Xpand Fest. This year’s event includes a wide array of bands, art activations and installations, vendors and more. Photo by David Simchock Avenue and surrounding streets are “vibing and thriving,” in Hagerty’s view. She’s open to the idea of moving the festival to other locations, such as deeper into the Southside neighborhood (of which the South Slope is a part).

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Right now, “diversity and equity are in the hot seat, as they should be,” Hagerty says, both of the local arts scene and citywide conversations. “Finding organic ways of being diverse and bringing in all types of populations and communities has been our work from the getgo.” This year, she says, is yielding even more such contributions — from artists of color mounting installations to AARP (the interest group known for empowering aging people) and BeLoved Asheville (a nonprofit seeking to end homelessness, poverty and racism) among groups producing engagement activities.

“All of these different pockets of people realize there’s merit in community building,” says Hagerty. “And there’s merit in using Xpand Fest’s blank canvas.”

A significant brushstroke on said canvas is the headlining band. Booking Dynamo, a nationally touring act with top billing was a strategic move: “We want a little bit of nationwide recognition for what we’re doing” in terms of press

potential, Hagerty explains. “It brings more attention to the local Xpand Fest, and everything else [we] get to talk about is how the money stays here or goes to local vendors or goes to local performers.” (Over half of the festival’s finances go to pay its artists, and the plan for proceeds is to fund arts access grants for underserved communities.)

Last year’s heavyweight was Big Sam’s Funky Nation. That band’s namesake trombonist reported that “all small festivals should pay attention to what Xpand Fest is doing,” according to Hagerty — a sentiment she hopes the musician will share on his travels.

But the main intent is to draw attention and support to the Asheville-area art scene and, Hagerty is learning, the best way to do that might mean evolving the free festival model. “We’re figuring out how to bring customers directly to [our sponsors] through the thousands of people we’re bringing here,” she says. Inspired by the 2017 Entrepreneurial Impact of Asheville’s Outdoor Special Events study, “I want to be able to capture return on investments for businesses in the footprint, for vendors at the event, for performers who get onstage.”

Sponsors and nonprofits at Xpand Fest don’t just hang a banner over the stage or set up a table full of brochures. They have a chance to interact meaningfully with festivalgoers. This year, activations (a term being used at events nationwide to describe connection-building activities), will be enacted

by Octopus Garden, Empyrean Arts, Street Creature Puppets, The Adé Project, Toybox Theatre, Mountain Circus Arts and others.

“It’s really important for me to see, behind the scenes, how the economy is being driven by the arts,” Hagerty says. “Because that’s how we’ll keep it going.” X

WHAT Xpand Fest xpandbrand.org WHERE South Slope neighborhood WHEN Saturday, June 8, noon-10 p.m.

Free to attend; donations encouraged

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MORE THAN JUST LAUGHS

“Where Your Drink Makes a Difference!”

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Comedian Elvira Kurt takes the stage for Helpmate Growing up in Toronto, Elvira Kurt spent much of her time in front of the bathroom mirror delivering jokes. Her hairbrush doubled as a microphone and, though the mirror reflected a single set of eyes, she imagined a live audience watching in rapt attention.

The only child of Hungarian immigrants, Kurt says her parents disapproved of her comedic aspirations.

“Their whole thinking was, ‘We gave up everything to come to the new country, to the New World. So you’re going to be a lawyer or a doctor — something that will allow you to take care of us as we get older,’” she says. “‘You’re certainly not going to tell jokes for a living.’”

Yet for nearly 40 years, that’s exactly what Kurt has done. On Thursday, June 6, the internationally acclaimed comedian will take the stage at Diana Wortham Theatre, where she will participate in Sisters Doin’ It for Ourselves, a benefit for Helpmate.

Other artists include indie-folk duo Tina and Her Pony, singer-songwriter Kathryn O’Shea and drum collective Wild Bodema.

“I’ve been doing fundraisers and benefits for organizations that support survivors of domestic abuse and violence since I started performing,” Kurt says. The work, she adds, is just as important today as it was back then. “Until we drastically change the culture we live in, until we raise our children in ways that include valuing consent and believing survivors, organizations like Helpmate are needed.”

The local nonprofit provides free emergency shelter, counseling and support for over 2,700 survivors of domestic abuse in Buncombe County each year, according to Helpmate’s executive director, April BurgessJohnson. The upcoming benefit show, she says, is a great way for the community to show its support and commitment to ending the cycle of domestic abuse.

Lisa Garrett, the event’s organizer, also sees the show as a source of inspiration. “It’s going to be women on the stage the entire night, and that feels unique,” she says. “I hope that everybody who attends feels empowered by that very basic foundation.”

Empowerment, Garrett adds, is manifested in Kurt’s comedy. “Her

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faced and just really open about her life as a lesbian.”

Kurt, who came out 35 years ago, still considers the decision monumental, especially as it relates to her craft. Only after opening up about her sexuality, she says, “did I begin telling jokes from a more truthful perspective.”

Therapy has also played a major role in Kurt’s life and career. It has helped the comedian find a deeper level of appreciation for her work. Audience approval, she notes, is no longer her sole reason for taking the stage. “I love making people laugh, but my self-worth isn’t tied up in it,” she explains. “I do comedy because I love it and because I’m so attracted to the craft. … That’s the difference that doing the work in therapy has made.”

Not surprisingly, therapy, lesbianism and her upbringing are among the topics Kurt regularly addresses in her performances. The entertainer, who has a teenage daughter and a 9-year-old son, also explores the trials and tribulations associated with motherhood.

For Garrett, what continues to impress her about Kurt’s career is the quick rapport she develops with audiences. “I’ve seen her in various venues and with different groups, and she just has a very warm, genuine way of connecting with people’s lived experiences,” she says.

“It’s lovely to watch and to witness and then to laugh with her.”

Shared laughter is one of the greatest benefits of comedy. “What I do with my comedy is I get reassurance that I am not special,” Kurt says. “That’s something I continue to learn in therapy all the time, too. And so, in my comedy, it’s very satisfying to have a roomful of people laughing in recognition at a very personal story because it reminds me that I am not alone in what I’m going through.” X

SHARE THE LAUGHTER: Comedian Elvira Kurt has been in the comedy business for nearly 40 years. Her humor, often autobiographical, examines motherhood, lesbianism and therapy. Photo courtesy of Kurt humor is irreverent and autobiographical,” she says. “She’s also very honest about some of the challenges she’s

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Erica Witsell A native of Maine, Erica Witsell was raised in Florida and lived in Connecticut, California, Ecuador and Italy before moving to Western North Carolina in 2004. The former high school teacher and current English as a Second Language professor at A-B Tech is also a mother of three and a published author whose debut novel, Give, will be available on June 1. The story follows West Coast sisters Jessie and Emma, whose struggles to adjust to adulthood are complicated by the reappearance of their estranged mother, Laurel, who seeks a second chance at being part of their family. Along the way, issues of motherhood, sisterhood, queer identity, polyamory, infertility and infidelity are explored. Witsell will read from her book at its launch event on Thursday, May 30, at 6 p.m. at Malaprop’s.

Free to attend. malaprops.com. Author photo courtesy of Witsell

Cold Mountain Music Festival Now in its third year, the Cold Mountain Music Festival continues to attract talented artists to the gorgeous 300-acre property at Lake Logan. The latest two-day, family-friendly gathering kicks off Friday, May 31, at 4 p.m. with Americana band The Travelin’ Kine, followed by sets from Joe Lasher (country), Ruby Velle & The Soulphonics (funk/soul) and a rare full-band performance by folk outfit The Milk Carton Kids. The fun continues the following day at 1:30 p.m. with singer-songwriter Logan Ledger, who’ll give way to Driftwood (folk rock), J.S. Ondara (folk rock), Kat Wright (soul), Yonder Mountain String Band (bluegrass) and desert-noir duo Calexico, whose superb collaborative album with Iron & Wine will be released June 14. A variety of outdoor activities, food and beverages will also be available. $20-$100. coldmountainmusic.org. Photo of the Milk Carton Kids courtesy of the band

The Singing Out Tour

BeYOUtiful Fashion Show Based in Asheville, the nonprofit Carolina Resource Center for Eating Disorders serves as a support network for individuals and families, health care providers, educators and the general public. To help raise funds to further its lending library, educational outreach programs, support group sessions and other offerings, the organization has created its inaugural BeYOUtiful body diverse fashion show, set for Friday, May 31, at Ambrose West. “We hope that this show will not only speak to our standards and values as an organization but will also serve as a platform of overall body acceptance and respect, both in our society and the fashion industry, in showing that all bodies are beautiful,” says volunteer Ellise VanGilder. Asheville-based model and actress Sarah Merrell will emcee the event, which runs 7-9 p.m. $20. crcfored.com. Collage courtesy of the event organizers

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True to its Pete Seeger-ish and LGBTQ-referencing name, the The Singing Out Tour is a spotlight for queer musicians with a passion for social justice.

Through the Southeast, over to Illinois and up into Pennsylvania and New York, the traveling show features Virginia-based Americana/blues artist Crys Matthews, winner of the 2017 NewSong Music Performance & Songwriting Competition.

She shares the bill with Washington, D.C.’s Heather Mae, a pop-piano performer whose lyrics address such topics as body positivity and racial equality. Backed by percussionist JJ Jones and multi-instrumentalist Joe Stevens, the artists play Isis Music Hall’s mainstage on Sunday, June 2, at 7:30 p.m. $15. isisasheville.com. Photo of Matthews courtesy of the artist

A & E CALENDAR ART ACRYLIC POUR PAINTING CLASS • WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - Acrylic Pour Painting Class includes paint, canvas, supplies and instructions. Registration: riittathrall@aol.com. $40.

Held at Aloft Hotel, 51 Biltmore Ave. ART TALK WITH MELBA COOPER • TH (5/30), 10am-noon Melba Cooper discusses art criticism models.

Free to attend. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville ITCH TO STITCH • MO (6/3), 10am-noon - Itch to Stitch, a casual knitting and needlework group for all skill levels.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. DRAWING WORKSHOP FOR VETERANS • THURSDAYS, 9:30am12:30pm - Joseph Pearson teaches the four basic steps of drawing.

Participants to bring three objects of personal significance. Registration: avl.mx/5wp. Free. Held at South College, 140 Sweeten Creek Road LEICESTER COMMUNITY ART NIGHTS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Community art night for children and adults.

Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester PRESERVING A PICTURESQUE AMERICA • TH (5/30), 9:30am5:30pm - Preserving A Picturesque America, gathering for artists, writers and history buffs to paint, write and learn about the history of Harry Fenn. Sponsored

by Preserving A Picturesque America.

Information: 828-2735383. Free to attend.

Held at Hickory Nut Gorge Brewery, 461 Main St., Chimney Rock

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART & ARCHITECTURE TOUR • SA (6/1), 9-10:30am - Art and architecture tour of downtown Hendersonville. Free.

Held at Woodlands Gallery, 419 N. Main St., Hendersonville RIVERVIEW STATION ART WALK • SA (6/1), 4-9pm - 40+ artists with workshops, live music and refreshments. Free to attend.

Held at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St. TOE RIVER ARTS JUNE STUDIO TOUR • FR (5/31) until SU (6/2), 10am-5pm - Self-guided tour through artist studios in Mitchell and Yancey counties. For more information or studio maps visit the website. Free to attend.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS 'BROAD SENSE' • Through MO (6/3) Submissions accepted for Broad Sense, site specific time-based experimental performance art and dinner event. Information: revolveavl.org.

STUDIO TOUR LOGO CONTEST • Through (8/1) - Submissions accepted for The Studio Tour Logo Contest. Information: haywoodarts.org/ logo-contest. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville TEDXASHEVILLE SPEAKER APPLICATION • Through FR (5/31) Applications for speakers at TEDx on Sunday, Sept. 8. Theme is Challenging Assumptions, Breaking New Ground.

Application: tedxasheville.com. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave.

DANCE LEARN TO DANCE! (PD.) Ballroom, Swing, Waltz, Salsa, Wedding, TwoStep, Special Events.

Lessons, Workshops,

Classes and Dance Events in Asheville. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715, naturalrichard@mac.com, www.DanceForLife.net YOUR FIRST LESSON IS ON US (PD.) Book your free private Ballroom Dance Lesson today! No partner necessary. Call 828-575-0905. www.waveasheville.com 'COPPELIA' • FRIDAY through SATURDAY until (6/1) - Copelia, by Ballet Conservatory. Fri.: 7pm, Sat.: 3pm & 7pm. $14-$28. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. CON/TEXTURED MOVEMENT WORKSHOP • SU (6/2), 1-4pm - Con/ Textured Movement, workshop led by Dana Lova-Kog sponsored by the Asheville Butoh Collective. Information: elementalvessel.com. $30. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE • TUESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - International folk dancing, dances from around the world.

No partner needed. Info: 828-645-1543. Free. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB • SA (6/1), 6pm - Welcome Summer dance.

Advanced dance at 6pm.

Early rounds at 7pm. Plus squares and rounds at 7:30pm. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville THE SUBJECT TONIGHT IS...

LOVE: AN AERIAL PERFORMANCE • SA (6/1), 5pm & 8pm - An aerial and acrobatic meditation on love with four acrobats moving through an intimate, contemporary, feminist circus. $15. Held at Empyrean Arts, 32 Banks Ave., Studio 108

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

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums. com WHAT ABOUT DAD? (PD.) Honor and treat your DAD, HUSBAND, GRANDDAD!! You come to. It’s Father’s Day Eve, June 15th. Music, comedy and family fun.

Asheville High School Auditorium, 7pm.

Ashevillebarbershop.com ASHEVILLE BAROQUE • SU (6/2), 3pm - London Bridge: Spanning the Baroque to Classical Eras, Asheville Baroque concert featuring period instruments. $25/$20 advance. Held at St Giles Chapel, In the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community, 1617 Hendersonville Road ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. CONCERTS ON THE CREEK • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Concerts on the Creek series Memorial Day through Labor Day. For lineup: mountainlovers.com.

Free. Held at Bridge Park Pavilion, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva DEFIANT REQUIEM • SA (6/1), 7:30pm - Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín, live performance interspersed with historic film, testimonies and narration of WWII concentration camp prisoners featuring the Asheville Symphony and a local chorus. Tickets: bit.ly/2M1FUXn. $25.

Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. FIRST MONDAYS CONCERT SERIES • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free. Held

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Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard FOUR SEASONS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA • SU (6/2), 3pm - Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra spring concert featuring Appalachian Spring by Aaron Copland. $10.

Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville ISIS LAWN SERIES • WEDNESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Concert on the lawn including bluegrass, blues and jazz. Free to attend.

Held at Isis Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road SUNSET SERIES: SHAUN HOPPER & J KLEIN • TH (5/30), 6:30pm - Sunset Series: Shaun Hopper & J Klein, guitar concert. $10. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Community chorus rehearsals open to potential members.

Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD BANNED BOOK CLUB • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend. Held at Blue Ridge Books, 428

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Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (6/4), 7pm - Evening Book Club. Free.

Held at Weaverville Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TU (6/4), 5:30pm Queer Book Club: I’ll Give You the Sun. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TU (6/4), 7pm Evening Book Club: A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline.

Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road • WE (6/5), 3pm - Daytime book discussion.

Free. Held at Weaverville Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (6/6), 6pm - Four session Spanish class led by a native speaker.

Register online. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TH (6/6), 6:30pm - This month’s pick, The Overstory by Richard Powers. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 828-586-9499, citylightsnc.com • FR (5/31), 6:30pm - Thomas Rain Crowe presents the collected poems of Yvan Goll that he edited, The Inner Trees. Free to attend.

• SA (6/1), 6:30pm - Benjamin Cutler presents his book, The

MUSIC MAGIC: Isis Music Hall kicks off the summer season with free outdoor concerts in West Asheville every Wednesday and Thursday, 6-8:30 p.m. From bluegrass to blues and jazz, the summer series brings local acts to the outdoor stage. For the full schedule, visit isisasheville.com. Photo courtesy of Two Birds Marketing (p. 38)

Geese Who Might Be Gods. Free to attend.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • TH (5/30), 6pm - Asheville local Erica Witsell presents her debut novel, Give. Free to attend.

• TH (5/30), 7pm - Works in Translation, May's pick is Beyond Sleep by Willem Frederik Hermans. Free to attend.

• SU (6/2), 3pm - Poets Becky Gould Gibson, author of Indelible, Willie James King, author of To Be the Difference and Susan Underwood, author of The Book of Awe. Free to attend.

• MO (6/3), 7pm - LGBTQ Book Club, this month’s pick Passing by Nella Larsen and Emily Bernard.

Free to attend.

• TU (6/4), 6pm - Mason Deaver presents his book, I Wish You All the Best, in conversation with Becky Albertalli. Free to attend.

• WE (6/5), 6pm - John Ross presents his book, The Forecast for D-Day and

the Weatherman Behind Ike's Biggest Gamble. Free to attend.

• WE (6/5), 7pm Malaprop’s Book Club, this month’s pick The Reader

by Bernhard Schlink. Free to attend.

• TH (6/6), 6pm - Jared Yates Sexton presents his book, The Man They Wanted Me to Be. Free to attend.

NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-329-4190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS' NETWORK • TH (6/6), 6-7:30 - Prose and poetry open mic. Free to attend. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. POLITICAL PRISONERS LETTER WRITING • First SUNDAYS, 5pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend.

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STORYTELLING SERIES 'LISTEN TO THIS' • TH (5/30), 7:30pm - Storytelling series, stories and songs from Asheville’s writers, performers and citizens. $15. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. WOMEN IN LIVELY DISCUSSION • TU (6/4), 6:30pm This month the club is reading Gradle Bird by J. C. Sasser.

Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101

THEATER 'AUGUST OSAGE COUNTY' • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (5/31) until (6/9) - August Osage County, dark comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $25/$15 children/$20 students. Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville 'BRIGHT STAR' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/30) until (6/16) - Bright Star, bluegrass musical.

Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $34 premium/$29 standard/$18 students & children. Held at Owens Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill

'BUNCOMBE TOWER' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/2) - Buncombe Tower.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 3pm. $22/$10 students. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • FR (5/31), 6:30pm The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, performed

by The American Myth Center. Free. Held at 68 Haywood Outdoor Space, 68 Haywood St., Asheville • SA (6/1), 2pm & 6:30pm - The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, performed by The American Myth Center. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. HAWLEY MAGIC • SA (6/1), 7pm - Las Vegas style magic and illusion show with Hawley Magic. $20/$15 student. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon ‘PROPOSALS’ • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/1) - Neil Simon’s Proposals, comedy. Wed. & Thu.: 2pm & 7:30pm, Fri.: 8pm, Sat.: 2 & 8pm, Sun.: 2pm. $17-$57.50. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock

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FUNKY KINGSTON: Salvage Station hosts legendary reggae act Toots and The Maytals on Sunday, June 2. The Jamaican group, which originally formed as a trio in the early 1960s, was known for mixing ska with American R&B. The current lineup still includes vocalist and frontman Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, who recently celebrated the 50th anniversary of the group’s song, “Do The Reggay.” Asheville’s own Dub Kartel closes the evening on the indoor stage. 7 p.m., $29. salvagestation.com Photo

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WEDNESDAY, MAY 29 27 CLUB Easy on the Ears Vol. 3: Foul Mouth Jerk, DJ Jet & Almuten, 9:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Asher Leigh & Laura Boswell, 7:00PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 5:00PM

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

THE GREY EAGLE Crawfish Boil w/ Sierra Nevada feat. Brody Hunt and the Handfuls, 6:00PM

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

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM

ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kitten Savage, 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chili Slaw Sessions w/ Tom Kirschbaum & Friends, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, Klezmer, &Turkish party band), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Riley Downing, Steelin' Time, & Kristina Murray, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Marc's Groovy Movie Night, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Saylor Brothers Bluegrass, 6:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (postpunk, new wave, synth), 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Fuckin Basterd, Kadre (punk), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latinx in the South: Con Mijente, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays at Sly Grog! Electronic collaboration, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Circus Mutt, 6:00PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Mr. Jimmy, 7:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singersongwriter), 6:30PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE AMS Music Series at Social Lounge, 7:30PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 7:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Richard Shulman Jazz Trio, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE J. Luke, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, MAY 30

ARCHETYPE BREWING Canned Heat Vinyl Night, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP SakeOke (Karaoke), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ionize, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Electric Country Jam hosted by John Duncan, 7:00PM CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (swing & western swing), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Gospel Night w/ Roy & Revelation, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Chips & A Drink Comedy at Fleetwood's, 9:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Gabriel Wiseman's Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM

AMBROSE WEST Worthwhile Sounds Presents: An Evening w/ Charlie Parr & Phil Cook, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Thursday Night blues w/ The Patrick Dodd Trio, 7:00PM

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C LUBLAND ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Pimps of Pompe, 6:00PM Kate Kelly, 7:00PM Julian Pinelli Album Release, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

COMING SOON WED 5/29 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: RAHM AND FRIENDS 7:00PM–ASHER LEIGH & LAURA BOSWELL

THU 5/30 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES: PIMPS OF POMPE 7:00PM–A NIGHT OF ORIGINAL MUSIC WITH KATE KELLY AND SISTER IVY 8:30PM–JULIAN PINELLI ALBUM RELEASE

FRI 5/31 7:00PM–ANDALYN

LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION (80's dance party), 10:00PM LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE ContinuuCon Electronic Music Conference, 5:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Hip Hop Night, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Morbids, Totally Slow, Saucer, TV Set (punk, indie), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Magus & the Movers w/ Mad Mike, 10:00PM

JOSEPHINE COUNTY KATE LEE & FORREST O’CONNOR

8:30PM–KATE LEE & FORREST O’CONNOR WITH THE WILDMANS

SUN 6/2 6:00PM–WYATT EASTERLING AND JOE NEWBERRY

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown Armadilla & Ritual Talk, 9:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic hosted

by Cody Hughes, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Bean TreeRemedy (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB DJ Lexx (hip-hop, top 40, dance, trap), 10:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Ben Phan, 7:00PM

CRYS MATTHEWS 7:30PM–THE SINGING OUT TOUR: HEATHER MAE & CRYS MATTHEWS WITH JOE STEVENS AND JJ JONES

TUE 6/4 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS HOSTED BY THE DARREN NICHOLSON BAND

WED 6/5 7:00PM–MICHAEL GULEZIAN

THU 6/6 7:00PM–EARSIGHT 8:30PM–CAROLINE SPENCE “MINT CONDITION” RELEASE TOUR: BRIAN DUNNE OPENS

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Paper Crowns Duo, 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Ellen Trnka & Dan Keller Trio, 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jamie Gorsuch, 7:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Make Music Not Walls w/ Phantom Pantone, 9:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE The Hillbilly Diamonds, 6:00PM Mary Ocher & Your Government w/ Bank of Christ, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions, 9:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo (rock, pop, jazz, blues), 7:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Rahm Squad w/ Josh Acoustic Duo, 8:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Hope Griffin (Americana, folk), 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Random Animals, 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dave Desmelik Songwriter Series with Leigh Glass and Kevin Fuller, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Roots Ramble w/ Joe Medwick, Crystal Bray, Tom Leiner, & Steven Cohen, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Jeff and Justin, 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Kessler Watson Trio (jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, MAY 31 27 CLUB AVL Underground Music: Sursee & Jericho, Shyguy & Phobia, 10:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Tom Waits 4 No Man, (blues, rock, folk), 9:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Burlesque Girl Power, 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST BeYOUtiful Fashion Show Fundraiser, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL G.A.M.E. (Grateful Asheville Music Experience) hosted by Spiro, 10:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

WED

29 BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Flashback, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE 5j Barrow, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Hard Drive, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Vaden Landers Band (honky tonk & blues), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rotating Rock 'n' Soul DJs, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Rahm and Friends (funk, soul), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Ben Phan, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Songs from the Road Band w/ South Hill Banks, 8:00PM GASTRO PUB AT HOPEY Open Mic hosted by Heather Taylor, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Sidecar Honey, 7:00PM HISTORIC BURKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE LAWN Morganton TGIF Summer Concert Series, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL Kate Lee & Forrest O’Connor w/ The Wildmans, 8:30PM

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

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Andalyn, 7:00PM Kate Lee & Forrest O’Connor with The Wildmans, 8:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Severed Heads of Guion Pond (Celtic fusion, Irish rock, folk), 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM Pisgah-ha-ha Comedy Showcase, 8:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Microgroove w/ DJs Brycon, Philo, & Bad Samta (funk & soul), 10:00PM LAZY HIKER BREWING COMPANY Chicken Coop Willaye, 8:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hillbilly Diamonds, 6:30PM

MAD CO BREW HOUSE Steve Barnes & Ronald P. Knight, 6:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Skribe (garage folk), 5:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM TUB w/ Self Help, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Bitches of the Sun, 9:00PM

PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Latin Night w/ Latin DJ sets (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Reggaeton, Latin Trap), 10:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function, 9:00PM

FRI

SLY GROG LOUNGE Liquid Culture presents: Zen Selekta w/ Murkury b2b Makak, 8:30PM SPRING CREEK TAVERN Roots and Dore, 8:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Cycles w/ Doctor Ocular, 9:00PM

W/ BANK OF CHRIST

31 CYCLES SAT

1

3

OPEN MIC NIGHT

TUE

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 5PM

TUE

STEPHANE WREMBEL

4

W/ DOCTOR OCULAR

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 3PM

4

SWAMP RABBIT RAILROAD

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 3PM

LOGAN MARIE

LAURA THURSTON

“THE DJANGO EXPERIMENT TOUR”

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AUX BAR DJ New Millen (dance party), 11:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB The French Browns, 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST Built to Last: Habitat For Humanity Benefit Featuring Andrew Scotchie & the River Rats, 7:00PM

Painting & Pints

ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy, 4:00PM

Monday, June 3rd

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Jody Carroll's Last Spring Show, 8:00PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE The Wild Card Trio, 6:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM

WEDGE BREWING CO. Kon Tiki Reunion, 7:00PM

2

THE HILLBILLY DIAMONDS

AN EVENING WITH

MAC ARNOLD & PLATE FULL O’ BLUES

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Todd Cecil & Back South (roots rock), 9:00PM

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

TOWN PUMP When Particles Collide, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Steel Panther w/ Wilson & True Villains, 9:00PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 1

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Niels & Neshan w/ Metro Rock Opera & Ryan Ashley, 10:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Resonant Rogues Album Release Show w/ Bill and the Belles, 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Upland Drive, 9:00PM

MON

30

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Flashback Friday Dance Night w/ The Super 60s, 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM Asheville After Dark Presents Perversions (kink, 18+), 9:00PM

MARY OCHER + YOUR GOVERNMENT

WILD WING CAFE New South Rising, 9:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE The New Rustics, 6:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Noble Pursuits: An Evening w/ Jason Moore, 9:00PM

THU

PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Life Like Water, 8:00PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP NeoElph, 8:00PM

SUN

30

SALVAGE STATION Casey Kristofferson Band, Devils in Dust, Electric Violets, 8:00PM

1

BRODY HUNT & THE HANDFULLS

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 6PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Andy Buckner & Band, 8:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Lazybirds, 8:00PM

SAT

WITH SIERRA NEVADA

THU

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Sound Traveler (Spruce Pine, NC), 1:45PM

ZAMBRA Hot Club Of Asheville (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

CRAWFISH BOIL

6:30pm-8:30pm See FB for details

Cider Tasting & Sensory Analysis pt. 2 Tuesday, June 11th

BYWATER Poelico Arts & Music Festival, 9:00PM

6:30pm-8:30pm

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Hearts Gone South, 7:00PM

Tickets available on FB

CROW & QUILL Old Time Jam, 8:00PM House Hoppers (swing jazz), 9:00PM

MAGUS & THE MOVERS

GAME (Grateful Asheville

w/ Mad Mike

Music Experience)

THU, 5/30 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $ @ THE DOOR

FRI, 5/31 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $

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AMH & OHP Present:

TUB & Self Help FRI, 5/31 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $ @ THE DOOR

NI ELS & NESHAN w/ Metro Rock Opera & Ryan Ashley

SAT, 6/1 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $ @ THE DOOR

RED DRESS AMY & PONCE SAT, 6/1 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $ @ THE DOOR

disclaimer comedy - 9:30pm

Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia - 6:30pm

FRI

Tuesday Night Funk Jam - 11pm

THU

Ethan Heller & The Gremlinz [Psych Funk/ Rock] 10PM

WED

TUE

UPCOMING: 6/7 - Cosmic Charlie (Dead Tribute) • 6/8 - Mike T’s HOT MESS Bday Bash • 6/21 - Moon Hooch w/ Nathan-Paul & The Admirables • 6/26 - Little Tybee, Rotem, Daniel Shearin (of River Whyless) • 7/4 - 4th of July AVL all-stars tribute to The Band

F ree Dead F riday - 5pm

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HOSTED BY

CAROLINA RESOURCE CENTER FOR EATING DISORDERS

MAY 31

DOORS 7PM

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT

SHOW 8PM

DOORS 7PM

THE GET RIGHT BAND FEATURING OPAL STRINGS

SHOW 8PM

DOORS 7PM

DIRTY LOGIC

SHOW 8PM

JUN JUN FEATURING 1 ANDREW SCOTCHIE & THE RIVER RATS 1

JUN 2 JUN 14

JUN 2

“A STEELY DAN TRIBUTE”

JUN 14

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SHAKE IT OFF: Peggy & Paula’s Summer Lovin’ Thursday Dance Party, a new, weekly event at The BLOCK off Biltmore, seeks to fill a little bit of the void left when Tressa’s closed. Peggy Ratusz and Paula Hanke perform blues, funk, Motown and disco. The two musicians have been collaborating for years while also advocating for platforms for local voices and women artists. The series launches Thursday, June 6, at 8 p.m. $5. theblockoffbiltmore.com. Photo by Scott Treadway

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DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Matron, Mordaga, Space Grandma, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Miss Cindy and the Knockin Boots (honky tonk, folk), 10:00PM

WEST ASHEVILLE

520 HAYWOOD RD Wed. 5/29

6pm- Latinx IN the South: CON Mijente

Thu. 5/30

9pm- West Side Funk Jam $3 Selected Pints

Fri. 5/31

9pm- Upland Drive 9pm- Free Flow Band

Sat. 6/1

(Old School Funk & R&B)

Sun. 6/2

4pm: Aaron Woody Wood and the Love Drugs

Mon. 6/3

8:30pm- Jazz Jam

FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Paper Crowns, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Vacation Manor, 8:00PM

PACK’S TAVERN Grand Theft Audio, (classic hits), 9:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Peggy Ratusz, 7:00PM

PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Grown & Sexy w/ DJ Lexx ("30 Plus" event, 80's, 90's dance), 10:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 3:00PM Upland Drive w/ The Knotty G’s (soulful funk), 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Shari Diaz, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Hot Blooded Funk w/ DJ Bogart, 10:00PM

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PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Coy Wolf, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Papadosio Summer Seequence w/ Toubab Krewe, Natural Born killers, 6:00PM SALVAGE STATION Sol Rhythms, 8:00PM

LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE ContinuuCon Electronic Music Conference, 5:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Daddy Rabbit, 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE CommUNITY Salsa , Latin Night w/ DJ Edi (lessons at 9:00), 9:30PM

NOBLE KAVA The Kavalactones (space rock, drip noise), 9:00PM

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ORANGE PEEL Fade to Black: A Tribute to Metallica, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Dollar Brothers & Thistle Dew, 1:00PM

MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bald Mountain Boys, 7:00PM

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ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL First Saturdays w/ Uncle Kurtis & Friends, 5:00PM Red Dress Amy & PONCE, 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Party Foul Drag Circus, 9:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Riftshifters, 6:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Swamp Rabbit Railroad, 3:00PM Mac Arnold & Plate Full O' Blues, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 10:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT VIA Album Release w/ Spirit System & Thom Nquyen, 9:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Defiant Requiem: Verdi At Terezin, 7:30PM TOWN PUMP Lunchbox Junkies, 9:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Paleface with Old Sap, 8:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Bear Banter + Brews, 5:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN True Grass, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Appalachian Renegades, 9:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibe Sundays w/ The Dub Kartel, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison, 7:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Lo-Fi DJ & Brunch (all ages), 11:00AM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Andy Ferrell, 6:00PM DAPHNE AT TWISTED LAUREL Soul Brunch Sunday, 11:00AM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TIM O, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Local Sunday in the Meadow w/ DJ Kutzu & Chalwa (music, vendors, farmers market), 12:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Lyric (blues, roots), 7:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Wyatt Easterling and Joe Newberry, 6:00PM The Singing Out Tour: Heather Mae and Crys Matthews with Joe Stevens and JJ Jones, 7:30PM

AMBROSE WEST The Get Right Band feat.

Opal Strings, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM

JARGON Sunday Blunch: Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM

SUNDAY, JUNE 2

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:30PM

LAZY DIAMOND Punk Night w/ DJ Chubberbird, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Shutterings, Pullover, Normal State, Mike Martinez (indie), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Waltz Night (lesson at 6:00p.m.), 7:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Jerry, Mike & Bill & Tru Blu, 1:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Open Mic Night w/ Laura Blackley, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam w/ the Paper Crowns, 6:30PM SALVAGE STATION Yacht Rock Karaoke, 1:00PM Toots & the Maytals, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Sunday Jazz w/ Mr. Jimmy, 1:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE June '19 Pop Up Music Co-Op Showcase!

Hosted by Pop-up Music Co-op, 2:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Peter Fraser, 1:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Burlesque, Bubbles & Bites hosted by Queen April, 1:00PM Sunday Blues Dance w/ Gravyhouse Storytellers, 7:30PM THE BARRELHOUSE Open Jam, 6:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Logan Marie, 3:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM WEDGE BREWING CO. Rogue Duo, 5:30PM WHOLE FOODS MARKET Burgers & Brews, 1:00PM WICKED WEED BREWING Joseph Herbst Quartet, 4:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM ZAMBRA Andrew Platt Trio, 7:00PM

MONDAY, JUNE 3 27 CLUB Monday Mayhem Karaoke hosted by Terra Ware, 9:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round, 5:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Early Tuesday Jam, 8:00PM

HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (postpunk, new wave, synth), 10:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Slushii w/ Nitti Gritti, 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM

PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Turntable Tuesdays w/ Vinyl Time Travelers (dance, pop, hip-hop throwbacks), 10:00PM SALVAGE STATION Trivia, 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7:30PM Open Mic, 9:30PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team Trivia w/ Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Dave Desmelik, 6:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing AVL Dance, 7:00PM Late Night Blues, 11:00PM

ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays Open Jam, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night, 6:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM

TUESDAY, JUNE 4 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Evening of Classical Guitar - 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Luke Wood, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia Night, 6:30PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM CROW & QUILL 3 Cool Cats, 5:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by The Darren Nicholson Band, 7:30PM LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk vinyl), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE Crunk Witch, Convalescent, Sane Voids, 10:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Laura Thurston, 5:00PM Stephane Wrembel: The Django Experiment Tour, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Open Mic hosted by Clint Bussey, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL Open Mic w/Riyen Roots, 8:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Team Trivia Night, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kitten Savage, 8:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL AND KITCHEN 743 Michael Gulezian, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Devastation on the Nation (metal, rock, goth), 6:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Fwuit, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Monthly Monster Maker, Exquisite Corpse, 6:00PM Get Weird Wednesdays at Sly Grog! Electronic collaboration, 9:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Mr. Hotcakes feat. Tim Marsh, 6:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singersongwriter), 6:30PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Anika w/ Astoria, 9:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Laurel Lee & The Escapees + Honky Tonk DJ, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM

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

THU. 5/30

THE GREY EAGLE Grace Christian, 5:00PM Sunny Sweeney w/ Josh Morningstar, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Chili Slaw Sessions w/ Tom Kirschbaum & Friends, 6:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Supervillain, Bad Banker, Deathbot, 5:00PM

TAVERN

Bean Tree Remedy (acoustic rock)

FRI. 5/31 DJ RexxStep

(dance hits, pop)

SAT. 6/1 Grand Theft Audio (classic hits)

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MOVIE REVIEWS

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Aladdin HH DIRECTOR: Guy Ritchie PLAYERS: Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott ADVENTURE/MUSICAL RATED PG

Brightburn HHHS DIRECTOR: David Yarovesky PLAYERS: Elizabeth Banks, David Denman, Jackson A. Dunn HORROR/SCI-FI RATED R For most of us, adolescence is tough.

Flooded with emotions and hormones, we struggle to make our way in an unfamiliar and hostile world where we’re beset by bullies, pressures of school and family, and, above all, our own awkwardness. We realize that the dream of childhood was indeed an illusion and that we’ve been tossed out on a violent ocean — and maybe we are the most violent things in it.

Imagine feeling all of this and having superpowers, and you’ll get at the core of Brightburn, the new film from director David Yarovesky (The Hive) and producer James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy). We’re used to superhero origin stories, where future caped fighters for good typically stumble upon their extraordinary abilities while being model children, where even a tragic childhood, like Batman’s, can’t force true heroes to the dark side.

That’s not the case for young Brandon Breyer (Jackson A. Dunn, Avengers: Endgame), who discovers his superhuman abilities just before his 12th birthday. At first, he’s worried, interested in his powers, but exploring them cautiously and — much like teenagers everywhere — privately. But things escalate quickly, aided by a mysterious spaceship 44

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hidden on his parents’ property and the strange, Lovecraftian language it teaches him. Not even Brandon’s loving adoptive parents, Tori (Elizabeth Banks) and Kyle (David Denman, NBC’s “The Office”), can coax him back into being the sweet, adoring son they once knew.

The film’s best moments are in its portrayals of the central family. Brandon’s lies to his parents get easier as his horrific acts escalate, and even though they know he’s lying, what teenager doesn’t tell a few fibs now and then? The camera shows us Brandon’s shifting eyes, his briefest of pauses over what he’s been up to, and, at first, we get it. Individuation is part of growing up, and kids don’t stay innocent forever.

But Brandon quickly becomes unsympathetic, racking up violent kills the way some kids, I’m told, collect Pokémon. I have to applaud the F/X team here for the convincing brutality of the death scenes, though I do hope Brandon will eventually upgrade to a better costume. The red sock, anteater-snout look doesn’t quite work. And while he slips into sociopathy convincingly (a strength of Dunn’s acting), it would have been more interesting if the change was more nuanced. But that’s not how supervillains roll, is it?

Read the full review at mountainx.com/ movies/reviews REVIEWED BY ALI MCGHEE ALIMCGHEE@GMAIL.COM

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There’s no doubt that Disney sets the cinematic gold standard for spectacle. But for Aladdin, the company’s latest live-action twist on one of its beloved animated films, it takes the powers of Will Smith to save the project from a creative tailspin. Directed by Guy Ritchie (Sherlock Holmes), this new Disney venture pilfers its classic 1992 predecessor for some great music and a few rough character sketches — but that’s it.

The Aladdin-ish parts of Aladdin cast that old Disney spell perfectly. We meet the man himself (Mena Massoud, Amazon’s “Jack Ryan”) on the streets of Agrabah, and his devil-may-care attitude is instantly captivating and dangerous. The bones of the ancient folk tale are all here: a mysterious villain convinces our hero to go into a cave and steal a magic lamp. Seeing this familiar tale unfold with crisp cinematography and contemporary visual effects is a wonderful treat. But all that starts to dissolve as a very different movie asserts itself into the one in progress.

Instead of a swashbuckling adventure, the film highlights an administrative drama between Princess Jasmine (Naomi Scott, The 33) and Jafar the vizier (Marwan Kenzar, Murder on the Orient Express) to see who will become sultan. (Yes, the princess and the villain have the same goal.) While mildly interesting, this plot simply needs more time to cook. Jafar’s ambition to invade friendly nations has no apparent utility or end game (not even for a villain), while Jasmine’s future vision, aside from being a benevolent dictator, is also a mystery. Go figure it out, kids!.

Simply put, the movie needs more Will Smith. After all, he’s the real Fresh Prince, and he’s also the movie’s saving grace. Smith manages to kindle a warmer humanity in the character of the Genie that Robin Williams, perhaps given the constraint of voice performance, could not bring in the animated version. Embodied partially in computer graphics, Smith also manifests

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in human form and interacts with the other actors.

While he doesn’t rap in the opening song, “Arabian Nights,” rest assured his hip-hop roots shine through later in “Friend Like Me.” Let’s hope Disney releases an extended Smith Cut of the film so we can have more rapping, more dancing and more old-school talent.

Read the full review at mountainx. com/movies/reviews REVIEWED BY CHRIS MAIORANA STANORDAN@GMAIL.COM

Non-Fiction HHHS DIRECTOR: Olivier Assayas PLAYERS: Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet DRAMA/COMEDY RATED R Rebounding nicely from the supernatural worthlessness of Personal Shopper (2017), Olivier Assayas returns to meditations on art, commerce and flawed celebrities with Non-Fiction.

His philandering publishing industry characters discuss e-books, celebrity-read audiobooks and print media’s relevance — subjects that arguably double as ones on the state of modern cinema.

But Assayas’ overarching message seems to be that so-called tastemakers are as human and screwed up as everyone else and that personal opinions should be as individually cultivated as possible.

As with many of his films, however, the themes are a bit underdeveloped, though Assayas’ noble artistic intentions are likely to stir strong emotions within certain viewers.

Read the full review at ashevillemovies.com Starts May 31 at the Fine Arts Theatre REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

The White Crow HHH DIRECTOR: Ralph Fiennes PLAYERS: Oleg Ivenko, Ralph Fiennes, Adèle Exarchopoulos BIOPIC/DRAMA RATED R

SCREEN SCENE The White Crow, directed by Academy Award nominee Ralph Fiennes, is gorgeous and frustrating.

It’s like a sumptuous buffet of perfectly presented but unseasoned food.

Fiennes also co-stars in the film, based on the true story of Rudolf “Rudi” Nureyev (newcomer Oleg Ivenko), a Soviet ballet star who gets a taste of freedom while on the road and undertakes a dramatic defection in a Paris airportw. Fiennes’ direction is solid and finessed, and the story flows smoothly, considering the multiple languages spoken, frequent time shifts and use of subtitles.

Ivenko is a real ballet dancer who, of course, dances wonderfully and is serviceable in his first acting role.

He takes us from Nureyev starting ballet school at the “old” age of 17 to his groundbreaking style of dancing as he saw ballerinas traditionally do: with emotion, sensitivity and expressiveness intertwined with their power. He doesn’t want to serve merely as a platform who lifts his partners into the air. He also wants to soar.

This dream seems an outlandish one for a person born into nearstarvation poverty — on a TransSiberian train in 1938, no less. We see Rudi’s harsh early life in blackand-white flashbacks as the main story is presented in muted jewel tones during in the late 1950s. It culminates in 1961, when he becomes the first Soviet artist to defect.

Fiennes plays the role of Nureyev’s adored mentor and ballet teacher, Alexander Pushkin. With notable ease and calm, he embodies the role of a man considered a saint in the ballet world. (As young Rudi puts it, Pushkin’s class is “two holy hours.”) He was known to have incredible patience with his dancers, which is starkly put to the test

by Nureyev, even before he’s proved himself in any real way.

Pushkin and his wife, Xenia (Chulpan Khamatova, Good Bye Lenin!), feed and board Rudi without hesitation, even though they live in a one-room apartment and his dance skills are frequently noted as clumsy, inadequate and lacking control. But people are nonetheless drawn to Rudi because of his “perfect spirit.”

And this is, unfortunately, where the movie hits the skids — because Rudi is a jerk. He’s a jerk to nearly every person he comes into contact with: lovers, waiters, office workers and teachers. Though seemingly true to history, it’s as if Ivenko’s only notes for the role

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were, “sneer, scowl and yell.” George Lucas gave us more reason to empathize with Darth Vader.

Read the full review at mountainx.com/ movies/reviews Now playing at the Fine Arts Theatre REVIEWED BY MELISSA WILLIAMS

STARTING FRIDAY Non-Fiction (R) HHHS JUST ANNOUNCED. Godzilla: King of the Monsters (PG-13) The mighty creature faces off against other behemoths.

Ma (R) A lonely middle-aged woman forms a strange relationship with a group of teenagers.

Rocketman (R) An Elton John biopic, starring Taron Egerton (Kingsman: The Secret Service). At Grail Moviehouse

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS Aladdin (PG) HH Amazing Grace (G) HHHHH Avengers: Endgame (PG13) HHHHS The Biggest Little Farm (PG) HHHH Booksmart (R) HHHHS Brightburn (R) HHHS(Pick of the Week) The Chaperone (NR) HHHH A Dog’s Journey (PG) HHHS Hail Satan? (R) HHHHS The Hustle (PG-13) HHS The Intruder (PG-13) HHS John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum (R) HHHH Long Shot (R) HHHH

CRITICAL CONTEXT: Film historian and WCQS classical music host Chip Kaufmann is retiring May 31 and moving to Hilton Head, S.C. “I have never thought of myself as a film critic,” he says. “I’m always trying to bring up older movies. I want to expand or broaden people’s film horizons.”

Photo by Edwin Arnaudin With Chip Kaufmann’s retirement and subsequent move to Hilton Head, S.C., Asheville will lose one of its brightest cinematic minds. The film historian recently taught his final class on silent movies for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at UNC Asheville, hosted his last classic film screenings and discussions with Buncombe County Public Libraries and the Hendersonville Film Society and, on Friday, May 31, will sign off for the last time as WCQS’ morning classical music host, a position he’s held for 36 years.

The Greenville, S.C., native grew up watching films with his mother and developed a passion for the art form’s craft and history while attending the University of South Carolina. He credits professor Benjamin Dunlap with programming diverse offerings at the student union, showing him that all films have value and instilling in him the importance of historical context.

“Film is the only time machine that man has invented. It’s been around since

1897, and you can go back and look at those older films and see how life was,” Kaufmann says. “Those people are long gone, but we have them forever captured.

We will always have [Humphrey] Bogart’s voice — all of these things. That’s why the movies are so wonderful, because they are a reflection of society at the time when they are made.”

In 1979, Kaufmann was a volunteer with South Carolina Public Radio station WSCI in Charleston when he was told that his love of film and radiofriendly voice would make him an excellent fit for filling some of the three-tofive minute gaps between programs. His contributions were soon given the title The Capsule Critic.

After moving to Asheville in 1983 to work with a short-lived dinner theater in the basement of Cahoots on Grove Street, Kaufmann volunteered at WCQS (then WUNF) and was later hired. In 2003, he found a home in the local film critic scene alongside peers Ken Hanke and Marcianne Miller as judges for the inaugural Asheville Film Festival. Along with fellow critic Michelle Keenan, Kaufmann then started reviewing films for Rapid River in 2005, work that earned him membership in the Southeastern Film Critics Association.

Reflecting on his time in Asheville, Kaufmann fondly recalls the “amazing experience” of Hanke and filmmaker Ken Russell in conversation at the 2005 Asheville Film Festival, and attending the weekly Asheville Film Society screenings, where he’d occasionally spar with the late Xpress critic over the likes of A Clockwork Orange and Tetro.

In Hilton Head, where he’ll live at the condo his family has owned since the early 1980s, Kaufmann plans to teach through USC Beaufort’s OLLI and continue to review classic and silent films on Amazon.com. He’ll take at least 1,000 films from his personal library with him — nearly half of which are silent titles — and is donating nearly everything he owns that was made after 1968 to the Hendersonville Film Society and his fellow cinephile friends. X

Missing Link (PG) HHHH Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (PG) HHH Poms (PG-13) HHS Red Joan (R) HHHHS The Sun Is Also a Star (PG-13) HHH Us (R) HHHH The White Crow (R) HHH Wild Nights with Emily (PG-13) HHHHS

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In the coming weeks it will make good sense for you to travel down winding paths replete with interesting twists and provocative turns. The zigzags you’ll be inspired to pursue won’t be inconvenient or inefficient but rather will be instrumental in obtaining the healing you need. To honor and celebrate this oddly lucky phase, I’ll quote parts of “Flying Crooked,” a poem by Robert Graves. “The butterfly will never master the art of flying straight, yet has a just sense of how not to fly: He lurches here and here by guess and God and hope and hopelessness.

Even the acrobatic swift has not his flying-crooked gift.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A Libran blogger named OceanAlgorithms wrote, “I’m simultaneously wishing I were a naturalist whose specialty is finding undiscovered species in well-explored places; and a skateboarding mathematician meditating on an almost-impossible-tosolve equation as I practice my skateboard tricks; and a fierce forest witch who casts spells on nature-despoilers; and a gothic heroine with twelve suitors; and the sexiest cat that ever lived.” I love how freewheeling and wide-ranging OceanAlgorithms is with her imaginative fantasies. In light of current astrological omens, I encourage you to do the same. Give yourself permission to dream and scheme extravagantly.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Has a part of you become too timid, docile or prosaic? Is there an aspect of your beautiful soul that is partially muzzled, submissive or housebroken? If so, now is a favorable time to seek an antidote. But listen closely: The cure isn’t to become chaotic, turbulent and out of control.

It would be counterproductive to resort to berserk mayhem. Here’s a better way: Be primal, lush and exciting. Be wildly playful and unpredictably humorous and alluringly intriguing. Try experiments that rouse your rowdy sweetness, your unkempt elegance, your brazen joy and your sensual intelligence.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Geologists aren’t exactly sure why, but almost 6 million years ago, the Strait of Gibraltar closed up. As a result, the Mediterranean Sea was cut off from the Atlantic Ocean, and within 1,000 years, it had mostly disappeared. Fast forward 600,000 years. Again, geologists don’t understand how it happened, but a flood broke through the barrier, allowing the ocean to flow back into the Mediterranean basin and restore it to its previous status as a sea. I propose that we invoke that replenishment as a holy symbol for the process you’re engaged in: a replenishment of your dried-out waters.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I prefer live theater over movies. The glossy flawlessness of films, accomplished by machines that assemble and polish, is less emotionally rich than the direct impact of live performers’ unmediated voices and bodies and emotions. Their evocative imperfections move me in ways that glossy flawlessness can’t. Even if you’re not like me, Gemini, I invite you to experiment with my approach for a while — not just in the entertainment you choose, but in all areas of your life. As much as possible, get your experience raw and unfiltered.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I’ve got a message for you from Cancerian poet Tyler Knott Gregson.

Please read it every day for the next 15 days, including when you first wake up and right before sleep. Here it is: “Promise me you will not spend so much time treading water and trying to keep your head above the waves that you forget, truly forget, how much you have always loved to swim.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 2003, a group of thieves in Antwerp, Belgium pulled off the biggest jewelry heist in history. To steal the diamonds, gold and other gems, together worth more than $100 million, they had to outsmart security guards, a seismic sensor, a protective magnetic field, Doppler radar, infrared detectors and a lock. I mention this, Leo, because I suspect that in the coming weeks you will have a comparable ability to insinuate yourself into the presence of previously inaccessible treasures and secrets and codes. You’ll be able to penetrate barriers that have kept you shut off from valuable things.

(P.S. But I hope that unlike the Antwerp thieves, you’ll use your superpowers in an ethical manner.)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the northeast corner of Spain, bordering France, is an area known as Catalonia.

With its own culture and language, it has a long history of seeking complete autonomy. On four occasions it has declared itself to be independent from Spain. The most recent time was in 2017, when 92% of the Catalans who voted expressed the desire to be free of Spain’s rule. Alas, none of the rebellions have succeeded. In the latest instance, no other nation on Earth recognized Catalonia’s claim to be an independent republic. In contrast to its frustrated attempts, your own personal quest to seek greater independence could make real progress in the coming months. For best results, formulate a clear intention and define the precise nature of the sovereignty you seek. Write it down!

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I invite you to meditate on this proposal from freelance writer Radha Marcum: “The spiritual definition of love is that when you look at the person you love, it makes you love yourself more.” I hope there’s a lot of that kind of action going on for you in the next four weeks. According to my assessment of life’s secret currents, all of creation will be conspiring to intensify and deepen your love for yourself by intensifying and deepening your love for other people. Cooperate with that conspiracy, please!

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Is there a creature on earth that’s more annoying than the mosquito?

I’ve never heard anyone gaze upon one of the pesky monsters sucking blood out of her arm and say, “Aw, what a cute little bug.” And yet every year there is a town in Russia that holds a jokey three-day celebration in honor of the mosquito. The people who live in Berezniki even stage a “most delicious” competition, in which people allow themselves to be pricked by mosquitoes for 20 minutes, with an award going to whomever accumulates the most bites. I highly approve of the spirit of this approach for your own use in the coming weeks, Capricorn. If you have fun with the things that bother you, I bet they won’t bother you as much.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): It’s the Forever Season, Aquarius. You have a poetic license to act as if your body will live for 100 years and your soul will live for all eternity. You are authorized to believe that in the coming decades you will grow steadily wiser, kinder, happier and wilder. During the Forever Season, you may have dreams like flying over a waterfall at sunset, or finding the lost magic you were promised before you were born, or discovering the key to a healing you feared would always elude you. As you careen through this unpredictable grace period, your understanding of reality may expand dramatically. I bet you’ll get practical epiphanies about how to express yourself with greater effectiveness.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A musical historian from Cambridge University decided it would be amusing to perform forgotten songs that were written in the Rhineland 1,000 years ago. His research wasn’t easy, because musical notation was different back then.

But he ultimately reconstructed the tunes in ways that he felt were 80% faithful to the originals. He and other musicians subsequently performed and recorded them. I propose a somewhat comparable assignment for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. You will benefit, I believe, from trying to recover the truth about events that occurred a long time ago and/or by trying to revivify old beauty that has new relevance.

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29 Obama ___ 30 Put 10,000 hours into, it’s said 33 Forgets to include 35 *1961 musical for which Rita Moreno won an Oscar 38 “Wouldn’t that be nice!”

39 Word often repeated with a different pronunciation 40 ___-Manuel Miranda, creator of “Hamilton”

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