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Kudos to Parks and Rec I would like to give a big thankyou and a round of applause to the city of Asheville Parks and Recreation Department. Due to the ceaseless rainfall over the [week of May 14], much of the French Broad River Greenway path flooded. By Sunday night, although the water had receded, mud and debris covered a lot of the greenway. First thing Monday morning, however, the crews showed up with heavy equipment and pressure washers and had the greenway all cleaned up by midday. As a regular user of the greenway, I really appreciate the hard work from the women and men who keep it looking nice. Just another reason why Asheville is a great city! — Philip Weisenhorn Ashevillle
Progress was happening 40 years ago A letter in the May 2 edition [“Williams Should Continue his Good Work as DA,” Xpress] credited the present district attorney with hiring the first black assistant DA. This is not accurate. I was an assistant DA in Buncombe County for five years starting in 1975, under Bob Fisher and Ron Brown. During that time there were two
black assistants: Ken McDaniels and Howard McGlohon, and I’m not sure they were the first. On the public defender side, Robert Harrell served for many years until he became a District Court judge. This correction is not intended as a criticism of the district attorney or his hiring plans, but to show that progressive things were actually being done in Asheville 40 years ago. — Arthur E. Jacobson, U.S. administrative law judge, retired Independence, Ohio
Civil War historians should face reality I was in town for a few days, acting like a tourist since my wife was attending a conference. I’ve seen Asheville from the “outside” and wanted to learn more about the city. I picked up a copy of [the May 16] Mountain Xpress and read, with interest, the article on Karen Cox, “Dixie’s Daughters.” Cox joins the long list of haters who would sell their souls to get people to buy her books. In addressing the Confederate monuments, she says that they “should never have gone beyond cemetery gates.” She criticizes the United Daughters of the Confederacy’s efforts at providing accurate information to the children of the future about the War for Southern Independence. For a historian, Cox has much unbiased research yet to do.
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It was heroes, not haters, who fought for the South’s independence. They were farmers and shopkeepers, most all of whom had no slaves. They gave up everything, everything, to ensure freedom for the South. Just as in the Revolutionary War some 80 years earlier, the South was being overly burdened with taxes in an effort at pressurizing them to buy Northern machinery instead of trading with France and England. At the time of the war, does Cox know that slavery, as bad as we know it is, was legal! It was legal by the Congress of the United States, by the Constitution of the United States and by the Supreme Court of the United States. How is it that Lincoln, with no authorization from Congress, invaded the Southern states, causing the deaths of over 600,000 Americans? This was the same president who issued the Emancipation Proclamation that freed not one slave! Now, people like Cox, by her writings and lectures, have incited individuals to do such things as to deface the plaque to Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Vance Monument. Lee, by the way, was more anti-slavery then most Northern politicians or citizens. Compare him to
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the racist Lincoln who tried and tried again to move all blacks to colonies in the Caribbean or in Africa. It’s time for the likes of Cox to face reality. Lincoln and the North’s actions in the war were as illegal as anything every done in America. Will she now call for the removal of all plaques honoring the veterans of the Vietnam War — after all, that too, was a “lost cause.” How about the many streets, towns, buildings and monuments raised to honor Washington or Jefferson, both slaveholders? In closing (I could go on forever), remember the words of Sir Isaac Newton, that for every action there is an equal but opposite reaction. When our flag was attacked, sales of that Southern icon skyrocketed, the ranks of organizations such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans swelled, and a new awareness was begun to defend our noble and God-given right to remove ourselves from a corrupt nation. Yes, we lost, but the truth will never lose, despite the words of the haters, such as Cox, and her words are helping in this new awakening. — Brian Weber North Augusta, S.C.
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MAKE ME A PERFECT MATCH Asheville ramps up search for next city manager SEEKING ENGAGEMENT
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ON THE HUNT: Jaime Joyner, assistant director of the city’s Human Resources Department, explains the role of the city manager in a public input meeting at the Skyland Fire Department in South Asheville. Photo by Daniel Walton profile for the position and attract a partner who understands its particular desires. City staff has even hired a matchmaker, the Texas-based consulting firm Springsted|Waters, to provide further guidance throughout the search. The process is expected to stretch over a full three months, however, so the city isn’t rushing into a commitment that could set the tone of its administration for the next decade or more. Jackson, for example, had served as city manager since 2005 before being fired in March in the aftermath of a police beating scan-
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dal. And the legacy of Weldon Weir, the city manager from 1950-68, still resonates today through his leading role in such projects as the Asheville Regional Airport and the municipal water system. “It’s not every day that you hire a city manager,” says Jaime Joyner, assistant director of the city’s Human Resources Department. “Ultimately, the decision is going to be with City Council, but we’re going to try to get as much input as we can. We want to hear from residents about what they want in a city manager.”
The search kicked off May 10 with a public input survey that ran through May 27. The brief questionnaire, available online through the Open City Hall forum and in paper copies at city recreation and community centers, consisted of two open-ended queries. One asked what skills and leadership qualities the ideal city manager should have; the other inquired about groups, teams and organizations the manager should be aware of. “We really wanted to not tell the residents what they should want,” notes Joyner, adding, “They’re very open-ended questions.” In addition, city staff hosted four workshops where residents could raise their concerns directly. Back-to-back meetings took place in the afternoon and evening of May 10 at the Skyland Fire Department in South Asheville; a May 19 morning session convened in the Public Works Building downtown; and a May 24 evening event was held at the Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center. Those sessions were lightly attended: The two Skyland events drew a total of 10 residents, another six took part in the downtown gathering, and eight came to the Southside gettogether. Joyner, however, says the city is open to further engagement as needed. A comment hotline remains open at 828-259-5900; input can also be emailed to citymanagersearch@ ashevillenc.gov. City staff got its own chance to weigh in on May 17, with three sessions throughout the day to accommodate employees working different shifts. Joyner’s own preference is for a visionary with a creative approach to the city’s growing pains. “We know we’re experiencing growth; we know we have, in some areas, competing priorities,” she explains. “We need someone who can come in, look at those things strategically and say, ‘OK, how can we do our best to meet this group’s needs and also that group’s needs?’” The city’s Communication and Public Engagement Department, says Joyner, will summarize the results of all the input sessions and publish a report of its findings. The idea is to confirm the public’s priorities before
they get incorporated into the profile for the job posting. Actual recruitment is slated to begin by early June. WORDS OF WISDOM Emerging from the different strains of public input is a consensus that the new city manager should be highly skilled in the bedrock of all healthy relationships: communication. Multiple commenters pointed out the job’s unique position as the bridge connecting elected officials, city staff and community groups. Transparency and a willingness to foster broad citizen involvement in the city’s decision-making were also identified as key criteria. In a representative response to the online survey, resident Eric Jackson summarized his take on how the new manager should approach the job. “Asheville needs to join other leading cities, both in the U.S. and abroad, in fully embracing the imperative to build solutions with, not for, the community,” he wrote. “To enable this, Asheville’s government must learn to operate with full transparency, allowing processes to unfold publicly rather than simply
presenting results formulated by staff behind closed doors.” Several survey respondents, including resident Mike Lewis, said the new manager should be willing to venture beyond the walls of City Hall in an effort to understand Asheville’s needs. “To borrow management guru Tom Peters’ phrase, the new city manager should practice ‘management by walking around,’” wrote Lewis. “Go out and see where the potholes are. The new manager should be visible at venues other than Council meetings.” At one of the Skyland sessions, David Carr, who works as the Asheville Way facilitator for the city’s Human Resources Department but was attending as a private citizen, said that some of the city manager’s most important communications involve explaining the workings of government to Council members. As an unofficial “chief education officer,” he explained, the manager helps elected officials who don’t necessarily have an administrative background understand their responsibilities. “People on Council run on two or three specific issues, and then they
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get into it and find out they’ve got this $180 million budget and 14 different departments,” said Carr. “I think that’s a key responsibility of the city manager, to help people who come on Council understand the complexity of their job.” A number of commenters, however, took issue with the survey’s second question, which asked about prospective community partners. “This question assumes that the average Asheville citizen can list multiple groups, teams and organizations currently operating in Asheville. This is a question for insiders and makes me wonder how much the survey writers value the input of the average citizen,” wrote one anonymous resident. “The city manager should be eager and capable of working with ALL groups, teams, organizations and departments within the city.” Another unnamed resident said the groups the new manager should be aware of include “all the ones NOT on other respondents’ lists. She should never be satisfied with a pat list of ‘stakeholders’ but should understand that all our residents are stakeholders in our city, and should work to make sure we all feel listened to, respected and valued by our local government.” CASTING THE NET At least some of those opinions will find their way into the materials that will be assembled and distributed by Springsted|Waters. The consultants will place ads in professional publications, on websites and in local print media. They’ll also post the position on their own website, send it out to a custom mailing list and reach out personally to potential applicants who aren’t actively seeking new employment. Using an outside consultancy will help the city reach the widest possible range of candidates, says Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler, citing the firm’s extensive experience with city manager recruitment. “We think it was important to make this a national search,” notes Wisler, who’s coordinating the effort. “Knowledge of the community and the city’s culture can be a real benefit; on the other hand, [local candidates] sometimes don’t have quite as much of the benefit of experience from how other cities do things.” Although Springsted|Waters staff could not be reached for comment, the company’s proposal to the city listed a broad range of positions it has recruited for in the past, including eight for North Carolina municipalities since 2013. Work for Tar Heel cities of at least Asheville’s size has included Raleigh’s city manager position, Cary’s town
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manager and a Greensboro assistant city manager. That expertise comes at a price, however. The estimated $24,500 fee covers 150 hours of work, including advertising the position, identifying and screening candidates, conducting reference and background checks, and facilitating face-to-face interviews with finalists. The cost is in line with that of other, similar recent searches. In 2017, Springsted|Waters charged Virginia’s Albemarle County $24,000 to recruit former Asheville Assistant City Manager Jeff Richardson as its county executive; the same year, Asheville paid The Hawkins Co., a California-based consulting firm, $25,000 to recruit Kimberlee Archie, the city’s first equity and inclusion manager. THE FINAL CUT By late June, Springsted|Waters is supposed to have assembled a list of candidates and weeded out those who are obviously unsuitable; City Council will then further winnow the pool by reviewing resumes, assisted by a panel of key community leaders who’ll offer their own recommendations. Panel members, notes city staffer Polly McDaniel, a communications specialist, were chosen by Council to ensure “inclusion in terms of gender, ethnicity and the variety of type of organizations, from businesses to nonprofits to our county and partner agencies.” And although Council will hold the ultimate decision-making power, she says, the community group will provide an additional level of public input. Interviews are slated for July 23-27, followed by final selection and due diligence during the week of July 30-Aug. 3. The new city manager is expected to be announced in August and begin work in October or November. Wisler says she’ll be paying particular attention to the candidates’ experience in creating collaborative programs. “I believe that government in the modern age, we can’t do everything by ourselves,” she explains. “It’s important that we build and create and encourage partnerships with citizen groups, business and other government agencies.” Mayor Esther Manheimer, meanwhile, stresses the need for a sometimes unconventional approach. “We’re a progressive city, interested doing some things outside of the box,” she says. “I think the role of cities is changing and evolving ... and we need someone willing to embrace that.” X
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SCIENTIST FOR A DAY Botanist Bob Gale has spent his 45-year career working in and studying the outdoors. Still, there’s always something new to discover. That happened last year when Gale, who serves as ecologist and public lands director for the environmental nonprofit MountainTrue, got involved in a project cataloging the insect larvae that serve as a crucial food source for trout in area streams. “In all my years, I had done a lot of things outside, but I had never done that particular thing,” Gale recalls. “It was like I was a novice. It was the most exciting thing.” On Saturday, June 2, local nature lovers seeking a similar thrill of discovery can take part in the Blackrock BioBlitz, a citizen science program that will pair residents with more than a dozen expert naturalists to document the diverse flora and fauna of Sylva’s Pinnacle Park and its highest point, Blackrock Mountain. “A bioblitz is a one-day event where experts in a particular field gather with nonexperts to collect as much science data as possible,” Gale explains. Anyone can take part, he continues, and the data collected can provide important insights for scientists and land stewards. MOUNTAIN HIGH Protected by the Mainspring Conservation Trust in 2007 using funding from the state’s Clean Water Management Trust Fund, Pinnacle Park encompasses a watershed that formerly provided Sylva’s water. The nearly 1,100-acre property rises from 3,000 feet in elevation at its base to over 5,800 feet. Part of the Plott Balsam mountain range, the park includes 7½ miles of streams and adjoins Waterrock Knob on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Dennis Desmond, stewardship coordinator for the Mainspring Conservation Trust, says this will be the first broad survey of biodiversity in Pinnacle Park. He’s hoping the effort will “find some new species we don’t know about on the property.” That knowledge, continues Desmond, will help the town of Sylva monitor rare plants and animals to ensure that they’re not disrupted during, for example, the construction of new trails. Education and awareness are also key aspects of the event, adds Sharon Fouts Taylor, the trust’s executive
MountainTrue to host BioBlitz at Pinnacle Park in Sylva
SEARCH PARTY: Experts and citizen scientists who participated in MountainTrue’s 2016 BioBlitz of Bluff Mountain in Hot Springs were on the lookout for rare plant and animal species. Photo courtesy of MountainTrue director, since no one-day blitz can aspire to catalog every component of the study area. “Just to get people out there on the ground is equally important, to have them understand the natural resources and appreciate them,” she says. “We’re going to be documenting a broad range of life at Pinnacle Park, including butterflies, beetles, aquatic invertebrates, vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens, birds, mammals, mushrooms and more,” says Josh Kelly, MountainTrue’s public lands field biologist. And when it comes to a bioblitz, notes Gale, “You never know what you’ll find.” RARE FINDS That’s what happened on Bluff Mountain in Madison County in 2016 and 2017, remembers Gale. Located within the Pisgah National Forest and traversed by the Appalachian Trail, the area includes old-growth forest and valuable habitat. “We found a potentially new species of katydid, a rare lichen that
is disjunct from Canada, a population of brown creeper (an uncommon songbird) and North Carolina’s largest population of the rare heart-leaf hedge nettle,” says Kelly. Those findings were shared with the U.S. Forest Service, which later proposed a special-interest area for Bluff Mountain as part of a forest
plan revision that’s currently being reviewed by stakeholders. In addition, notes Kelly, MountainTrue provided rare species data that came out of those surveys to the North Carolina Natural Heritage Program, which will preserve it as a resource for possible future scientific research.
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N EWS FUN IN THE FOREST On June 2, each group of five to 10 citizen scientists will be matched with an expert before fanning out to survey the area. Families with small children in tow, or anyone who prefers a more relaxed pace, can take part in activities closer to the base of the mountain; more ambitious hikers can choose to focus on areas around the summit. Participants are encouraged to bring at least 2 quarts of water, rain gear, sturdy footwear and lunch. The show will go on even if it rains, but dangerous weather would result in a cancellation, says Kelly. To reduce the impact on the ecosystem, participation is limited to 50 people. This kind of activity, notes Gale, “gets people out of their offices and away from their computers, spending time with their families and making a connection with the land.” They’ll also have the satisfaction of knowing that the results of the event will contribute to efforts to better understand and protect wild places. “It’s something that would normally take researchers working on their own days and days, or even weeks, to do,” Gale explains. “You can get a whole lot
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of information about an area in a very short time.” Retired Western Carolina University biology professor Dan Pittillo will be one of the experts on hand. Although he hasn’t been part of a public bioblitz before, Pittillo expects to use a sampling procedure that’s similar to methods he’s used in his academic and consulting work. And despite his long experience in the field, he says, “I’m in this to learn more than to teach.” After the survey wraps up around 4:30 p.m., those who’ve worked up an appetite and a thirst can meet up at Mad Batter Food & Film in Sylva for a post-blitz social. PITCHING IN But the bioblitz is only one of a number of ways that MountainTrue encourages members of the public to get their hands dirty while benefiting the local environment. Volunteers, for example, have pounded thousands of live stakes — sticks cut from river-dwelling tree species, Gale explains — into the banks of the French Broad River, where they sprout and eventually help control erosion.
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Citizens also regularly collect water samples in tributaries of the French Broad. If testing of those samples reveals a concern, MountainTrue’s staff tries to identify the source of the contamination and reports the problem to state authorities. And through the Stream Monitoring Information Exchange, volunteers assess riparian health by sampling for pollution-sensitive insects at assorted stream sites in the French Broad River basin. MountainTrue volunteers, notes Gale, have also contributed to efforts to protect the region’s ash trees from the emerald ash borer, a non-native pest that can kill the trees in five years or less. Through the Save Our Ashes campaign, volunteers collect data on the trees’ locations and distribution, helping land managers identify areas where chemical treatment might be an economically viable option. And if you’re curious about the upcoming event, says Kelly, the Pinnacle Park BioBlitz “is a great chance for citizens who are interested in nature to learn from experts and one another. Citizen science is leading to a huge increase in knowledge worldwide.” At the same time, he continues, “It represents a democratization of sci-
ence, in large part due to the advances of the digital age. The prevalence of digital cameras and digital communication allows everyday people to make observations that are valuable to scientists. Participating in a bioblitz is a great way to learn, make a contribution and meet friendly people who are passionate about nature." X
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CENTER OF ATTENTION: Asheville City Council member Keith Young, center, made three motions on policing practices at Council’s May 22 meeting, including one ordering Interim City Manager Cathy Ball, far right, to direct the Asheville Police Department to require written consent for voluntary searches of vehicles and personal property. Photo by Daniel Walton To call Asheville City Council’s May 22 meeting a marathon session would be an understatement — the average runner in the New York City marathon, for example, finishes in just over 4 1/2 hours. In comparison, Council required a full six hours to complete its work for the evening. By the end of the night, Council had approved multiple items showing an unprecedented level of urgency for policing reform. The action began as Council was poised to pass the meeting’s consent agenda. When Mayor Esther Manheimer called for public comment, recent Council candidate and community activist Kim Roney marched to the podium, trailed by a retinue that filled the aisle. She asked that Council add a resolution directing staff to adopt the policy recommendations suggested by Code for Asheville at Council’s April 24 meeting (see “Asheville Council Takes Step Toward Police Data Transparency,” Xpress, May 2). Roney proceeded to read a poem by local artist and Hood Huggers founder DeWayne Barton, saying that she and her group of 25 supporters would continue to occupy the podium for their maximum allowable time until Council added the motion to the agenda. The public filibuster continued as filmmaker and Asheville FM DJ Andrew Vasco read a passage from Kurt Vonnegut.
By the end of Vasco’s 10 minutes, Council member Sheneika Smith moved to place the resolution on the consent agenda. Smith, Manheimer, Keith Young and Brian Haynes voted to approve that addition, while Vijay Kapoor, Julie Mayfield and Gwen Wisler voted against the motion. However, Manheimer noted her confusion about the resolution’s wording: “I voted for it; I will just add that I don’t know what it means, exactly.” In the discussion that followed, Council and city staff tried to hash out what new action the resolution would compel. Interim City Manager Cathy Ball said her team was still working out safeguards so that the data would not interfere with potential criminal cases or internal investigations. She added that the resolution, as written, was asking staff to adopt an open data policy that already exists. “I think the expectation of the request is to make a formal motion so that we can guarantee that [the data releases] would move forward,” Smith said. “I don’t think it puts any illegal expectations or anything that we don’t feel comfortable with, but I think making the motion and allowing it to be in this public setting actually makes it a little more actionable, rather than having conversations between advocates and staff and leaving it there.”
After considerable debate about both wording and proper parliamentary procedure, a new version of the resolution passed unanimously. The final language supported the release of the Code for Asheville data sets “except for legal and personnel information not being disclosed.” Speaking with Xpress after the decision, Roney said the resolution would give Code for Asheville additional power as it continues to meet with the city about its petition. “What we had before was a request to staff, and now we have a very clear instruction,” she explained.
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ducing his proposals. Taken together, the resolutions directed the city manager to take action that would require written consent for voluntary searches of vehicles and personal property, eliminate criminal records and suspicious behavior as rationales for consent searches and deprioritize stops for regulatory issues such as expired vehicle registration. During his presentation, Mance noted that other North Carolina cities had found implementation of written consent to mark a “turning point” in police-community relations. Hooper countered that her department’s use of body cameras already ensured accountability over voluntary searches, adding that recently implemented policy requires footage for every consent search to be reviewed by a police supervisor. Hooper continued to resist adoption of a written consent policy by arguing that consent searches are a tool in the APD’s battle with the ongoing opioid crisis. But Smith argued that written consent could serve as a “peace treaty” between the APD and the broader community, improving cooperation to deal with opioid issues, gun violence and other concerns. “We can’t continue to come with our fists closed, because that means it’s a fight, and we continue to face off year after year,” she said. Young cut debate and public comment on his proposals short by calling the question, a parliamentary motion that brings an issue up for immediate vote. While Robert’s Rules of Order, the procedural manual used by Council, requires such a move to be approved by a two-thirds majority vote or unanimous consent, no such vote took place. Each of the motions passed by a 5-2 vote, with Kapoor and Wisler voting no. Kapoor explained that his vote was meant to show his extreme disapproval of Council’s process on the motions. By not placing these changes on the agenda in advance so members of the public could prepare to come to the meeting and comment, he said, his colleagues had shown that they were not committed to “transparency and the democratic process” in all situations. “What many of us criticize Congress and the North Carolina General Assembly for doing, we just did tonight,” said Kapoor. “I am embarrassed and I would like to apologize to the citizens of Asheville. Regardless of how you feel about the substance of that issue, how this was done tonight will be a black eye on this Council for years to come.” Police representatives in the audience also expressed their concern over being cut out of the conversa-
tion. “Police officers need to be heard too,” said APD Officer Rick Tullis. Addressing Manheimer, he added, “You acquiesced to Councilman Young [about public comment], and I’m just wondering who’s in charge? Is it you, mayor?” Council’s actions have continued to generate controversy beyond the meeting. On May 25, the N.C. Police Benevolent Association sent a letter to Manheimer and Council saying that the motions may have “violated policy, procedure and law” and suggested that legal action may follow if the measures were not rescinded (avl.mx/4zx). TAKING IT TO THE STATE Council’s last set of policing-related items was on the agenda, after being introduced by Manheimer in a surprise move last week. Members debated whether to suggest three pieces of legislation for consideration at the state level that would together abolish the Civil Service Board and create a new citizen review board with subpoena, oathing and disciplinary powers; permit the APD to release body camera recordings to Council and the new review board; and let the city manager release the results of disciplinary hearings against police officers. While the suggestions on laws for body camera recordings and disciplinary hearings passed unanimously, Council was strongly divided about the citizen review board. Mayfield and Wisler expressed concern about the suddenness of the change. Young, however, argued that he’d been advocating for personnel reforms since joining Council but hadn’t gotten traction until the city’s police beating scandal emerged earlier this year. “This isn’t something new to me,” he said. Kapoor pointed out that the new citizen review board would have broader powers than even City Council regarding personnel matters. Both Rondell Lance, president of the Fraternal Order of Police in Asheville, and Scott Mullins, head of the Asheville Fire Fighters Association, echoed those concerns during public comment. When Council finally did take a vote on the citizen review board proposal, the resolution passed in a 4-3 split decision. Young, Smith, Haynes and Manheimer voted in support, while Wisler, Kapoor and Mayfield were opposed. The suggested legislation now goes to Raleigh, where the General Assembly will decide whether to make it into law.
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NEIGHBORHOOD HERO: Asheville City Council member Vijay Kapoor presented Renee’ White’s Volunteer of the Year award. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville WHITE NAMED VOLUNTEER OF THE YEAR East End/Valley Street Neighborhood Association President Renee’ White has been named the second recipient of the city of Asheville’s Volunteer of the Year award. White received the recognition during the May 22 meeting of Asheville City Council. “The East End is a historically AfricanAmerican neighborhood that celebrates and clings to its roots in the everchanging Asheville development boom,” said resident Amanda Broderick in a city press release. “Renee’ leads the (neighborhood) organization with inclusiveness and welcomes all residents, whether they are newcomers or have lived a lifetime in the East End.” White has organized neighborhood cleanups, a fall festival and yard sale and a Neighborhood Watch program; she has also promoted cleanup of derelict properties in
her neighborhood. Her resume includes numerous other civic activities with political and and charitable organizations.
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The YMCA of Western North Carolina announced its new Military Appreciation membership program for active service members, veterans and families. Along with reduced membership rates, no joining fee is required. The YMCA of WNC will continue to participate in the Military Outreach Initiative, which provides free Y memberships to deployed military families through the Department of Defense. More information can be found at ymcawnc.org/ military-memberships. Applications are available at any YMCA location to get the Military Appreciation program rate. Requirements include a valid military or
The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, in conjunction with six other area chambers, will visit Raleigh Tuesday, June 5, and Wednesday, June 6, to discuss issues with legislators and state agencies vital to our regional business environment. Events include meeting with the North Carolina House and Senate leadership, meeting with the new director of the Outdoor Recreation Industry Office, observing a Republican and Democratic political strategists’ debate, as well as an evening reception with the WNC legislative delegation. Anyone may register to attend. For more information and to register, visit avl.mx/4zt. X
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In 1886, electricity was in the air and on the minds of local residents. According to the Jan. 31 edition of The Asheville Citizen, the city’s aldermen had convened earlier that month to discuss the possibility of electric streetlights. The paper declared: “The authorities are giving very serious consideration to this important matter, and will only take action after the fullest investigation. … They are determined to give the city better lights, however.” Throughout the country, the gradual shift from gas to electric lights had been underway since 1880. Six years into the national transition, Asheville was by no means falling behind. Still, hints of anxiety stirred. On Feb. 19, The Asheville Citizen boasted about the area’s superior weather, describing a resident’s recent travels north. According to the paper, the traveler reported only two days of sunshine throughout the monthlong journey. The article proclaimed: “While we have not the electric light yet; and while we do not ride or walk on Boulevards covered with asphalt pavement, we do enjoy the finest climate in the country; and we shall continue to publish the fact!” But sunny days could not mitigate the growing desire for technological advancements. On June 10, 1886, The Asheville Citizen included a letter to the editor advocating for the switch to electric lights. The unnamed resident wrote: “Free from odors, not superheating the atmosphere nor filling it with noxious fumes, it is incalculably the superior of gas as an illuminant. The spirit of the time points unmistakably to electricity as the system of illumination
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which shall prevail. Do the citizens of Asheville, so progressive in other directions, wish to be behind the rush of the world in this matter?” The answer from the city was a resounding no. On July 15, the paper reported that the Jenney Electric Light Co. of Indianapolis had been contracted to construct a series of light towers. Upon completion, the paper declared: “[O]ur city of a thousand hills will have her lights so shining that wayfaring men, though fools, may run and read on any of our majestic highways.” By October, downtown was aglow. Benjamin Elberfield Atkins, president of the Asheville Female College, described the new streetlights in a diary entry. (His words were later published in a 1947 book titled Extracts from the Diary of Benjamin Elberfield Atkins, available at the North Carolina Room at Pack Library.) On Oct. 21, 1886, Atkins wrote: “Tonight for the first time Asheville was lighted by electricity. These lights consist mainly of four iron towers 125 feet high with four globes on each tower. These towers are located as follows: one in front of the court house; one at the junction of Woodfin and Locust streets in the rear of the college; one on Merrimon avenue and one at the junction of Haywood and Academy streets. In addition to these there are drop lights at various points in the city. The light is brilliant and gives general satisfaction.” The following day’s paper recounted the inaugural event, as well. It reported:
“After a hard struggle, everything was made ready, and last night, about 8 o’clock, the lights were turned on, and the square was flooded with brilliantcy never contemplated by our people. Only the four towers were lighted, but these gave light unto nearly every part of the city, not hidden by dense shade or the undulation of the earth. It was a grand sight, and the whole community looked upon it with gladsome wonder.” Beyond admiration, the towers also appear to have captured the town’s sense of adventure. Within two days of the first lighting, an ordinance was passed prohibiting unauthorized persons from climbing the structures. The penalty for doing so was steep: a $25 fine and 20 days’ imprisonment. Updates on the new towers continued throughout the year. On Nov. 12, The Asheville Citizen informed readers that “[t]he electric light, except for the stores and hotels, is having a rest during the bright nights of the full moon.” Six days later, on Nov. 18, the paper reflected on the city’s newest feature: “The dark rainy nights make us thankful for the electric lights. They beam out the full glories of a full moonlight and cast their long shadows just [as] the celestial luminaries do, and they do it while the heavens are wrapped in darkness and the rains descend and the winds blow, and all outside of the glow of electric light is densest gloom and darkness.” Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents. X
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BENEFITS MCC SHARED JOURNEY YARD SALE (PD.) Home decor, music CDs, outdoor, books, kitchen, clothing and more! June 2nd 8AM to 2PM-1735 5th Avenue West, Hendersonville, NC ADVENTURE CENTER OF ASHEVILLE 1 Resort Drive, 828-2475539, ashevilletreetopsadventurepark.com • SU (6/3) - Proceeds raised from donations for the "Zipping for Autism" ziplining event benefit autism services and programs in Western North Carolina. Information: zippingforautism.com. ASHEVILLE GREEN OPPORTUNITIES 828-398-4158, greenopportunities.org • WE (5/30), 6-9:30pm - Proceeds from the Gaining Ground fivecourse farm dinner prepared by Chef John Fleer benefit Green Opportunities. Registration online. $79. Held at Yesterday Spaces, 305 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester ASHEVILLE OUTLETS 800 Brevard Road, shopashevilleoutlets. com • SA (6/2), 5-9pm - Proceeds from donations at the "Stop the Pain Concert," featuring a raffle and live music by Southern Halo, Brian Buckner, Sons of Ralph, Cash Creek and Jody Medford benefit families who have lost loved ones due to suicide. Free to attend.
ASHEVILLE VEGAN SOCIETY meetup.com/ The-Asheville-VeganSociety/ • SU (6/3), 2-5pm Proceeds from this "Mini Veg Fest," at a animal rescue farm with art vendors, vegan food and beer vendors, live music and speakers benefit Sweet Bear Rescue Farm. Register for location: minivegfest.brownpapertickets. com. $25/$50 VIP. FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN BRANCH LIBRARY rutherfordcountylibrary. org • TH (6/7), 11am Proceeds from this luncheon featuring presentation by author Susan Boyer benefit the Mountains Branch Library. Registration required. $25. Held at Lake Lure Inn and Spa, 2771 Memorial Highway. Lake Lure MANNA FOODBANK BLUE JEAN BALL MANNAFoodBank.org • SA (6/2), 7-11pm - Proceeds from this "aloha" themed costume ball featuring live music and an all-youcan-eat small plates and desserts from 20 of Asheville's top chefs benefit MANNA Food Bank. Registration required. $95. Held at MANNA FoodBank, 627 Swannanoa River Road MOMS DEMAND ACTION momsdemandaction. org • SA (6/2), noon-4:30pm - Proceeds from "Foos For Our Future," family friendly foosball tournament on an inflatable, giant, foosball court, benefit Students Demand Action Against Gun Violence.
RHODODENDRON RAMBLE: Few plants signify summer in the mountains quite like the vivid pink Catawba rhododendron, and Grandfather Mountain is center stage for this spectacular annual blooming display. To showcase the beauty and significance of this native plant, Grandfather Mountain naturalists are hosting the Remarkable Rhododendron Ramble from Friday, June 1, through Saturday, June 9, at Grandfather Mountain. The event includes guided walks at 1 p.m. daily June 1-8 and culminates June 9, 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m., with a native plant festival, kids craft activities and hikes for all skill levels. For more information, visit grandfather.com or call 800-468-7325. Photo courtesy of Grandfather Mountain (p. 18) In solidarity with National Wear Orange Day/Gun Violence Awareness Day. Free to attend/$75 per student team/$100 per adult team. Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway MONTMORENCI UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 89 Old Candler Town Road, Candler, 828-6671211 • SA (6/2), 11am-7pm Proceeds from this "All for Noah," barbecue dinner and silent auction, benefit Noah McFall, a local child who needs a liver and possibly double lung transplant. $10 per plate/$5 for children under 12. SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY 828-253-0095, appalachian.org • TH (5/31), 5-8pm - Proceeds from "Appalachian Spring," featuring live music by Daniel Shearin and friends, barbecue dinner
(with vegetarian options), gift cards and presentations about conservations success stories, benefit the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. $40/$35 advance. Held at Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN susangrable2@gmail.com • SU (6/3), 4-6pm Proceeds from this reception with silent auction and raffle benefit the American GEM Fund. Registration required: asheville-nc.aauw.net. $50. Held at Fernihurst Mansion, 16 Fernihurst Drive, A-B Tech THE HOPE CHEST FOR WOMEN 828-708-3017, hopechestforwomen.org, director@ hopechestforwomen.org • SA (6/2), 7pm Proceeds from "Iditarod Without Dogs: 1,000 Miles to Nome on Foot," slideshow presentation and talk by Pete Ripmaster, benefit The
Hope Chest for Women. $10. Held at Wright Creative, 795 Haywood Road
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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech. edu/sbc • TU (6/5), 1-4pm - "How to Find Merchandise to Sell through Your Online Business," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TH (6/7), 12:30-3pm - "How to Grow Your Exports," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler DEFCON 828 GROUP meetup.com/ DEFCON-828/ • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security professionals, students
FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13 • Black Mountain, 828-357-9009, floodgallery.org • THURSDAYS, 11am5pm - "Jelly at the Flood," co-working event to meet up with like-minded people to exchange help, ideas and advice. Free to attend. WNC LINUX USER GROUP wnclug.blogspot.com, wnclug@main.nc.us • 1st SATURDAYS, noon - Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road
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RE:Views of Asheville & WNC
DOUBLE VISION: Terry Taylor’s “Architectural Reverie” depicts a version of the original two-building proposal for Asheville’s city plaza. It and over 150 revisioned postcards compose the “Re:Views of Asheville & WNC” exhibit, June 1-2, proceeds from which benefit Friends of the North Carolina Room projects. Image by Terry Taylor WHAT: An exhibition and sale of revisioned vintage postcards to benefit Friends of the North Carolina Room projects WHEN: Friday, June 1, 7-9 p.m., and Saturday, June 2, noon-5 p.m. WHERE: 305 Hillside St. WHY: Local artist and self-described “amateur history sleuth” Terry Taylor has collected postcards all his life. Some he purchased from the Asheville Post Card Co. in the late 1970s, while others he’s acquired from antique shops, postcard shows and, more recently, eBay. Once they’re in his studio, he puts his own inventive spins on them. “Using illustrations cut from vintage dictionaries, I create vignettes of Asheville that could have existed,” Taylor says. “I cut and paste — I cut apart and stitch cards together as I am moved to do so.” In 2017, Taylor used this approach to made a series of “eclipse” views of Asheville and Western North Carolina, crafting 40-50 postcards that he mailed to friends prior to August’s total solar eclipse. He then spent the winter creating over 150 new pieces, each with an Asheville or WNC connection, which will be on display and for sale Friday, June 1, and Saturday, June 2, at the 305 Hillside 16
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St. private artist’s studio that occasionally presents small exhibitions. Titled Re:Views of Asheville & WNC, each card in the exhibit is unique and encased in a hard sleeve that protects the creation. For the show, they will be pinned to the wall and sold for $35 each or three for $100. They are suitable for framing. Fifty percent of proceeds will benefit the Friends of the North Carolina Room’s projects at Pack Memorial Library. Taylor is a board member of the Friends group and says the funds will “help us continue to present our well-received, free lecture programs and purchase needed equipment and supplies for our Community History projects in the branch libraries. This year’s project is in the Fairview community. Last year’s [was] North Asheville.” The artist’s studio was built in the 1920s as a neighborhood grocery store. One of the Friends’ upcoming lecture programs in June is on neighborhood groceries, which is why Re:Views of Asheville & WNC is being held there. Re:Views of Asheville & WNC takes place Friday, June 1, 7-9 p.m., and Saturday, June 2, noon-5 p.m. at 305 Hillside St. ncroom.buncombecounty.org X
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CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS BLACKSMITH CLASSES: WEAVERVILLE (PD.) Knife making, May 26 / 9:30-4:30. Chef's Knife, June 4, 6, 8 / 6pm-9pm. Candle Holders, June 9 / 9:30-4:30. 828-9896651 / velleca@hotmail. com. 19 Young Road, Weaverville, NC 28787 CLASSES AT VILLAGERS (PD.) • Food Waste Reduction through Composting and Vermicomposting. Sunday, June 3. 5:306:30pm. Free. • Edible and Medicinal Wild Food. Sunday, June 10. 5:30-7:30pm. $20-30. Registration/Information: www.forvillagers.com EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Restorative Stretch on Mondays 7:15pm. Pilates on Thursdays 4:15pm. Beginning Pole on Sundays 3:30pm, Mondays 6:00pm, Tuesdays 1:00pm and 7:00pm, Thursdays 8:00pm, and Saturdays 11:30am. Ballet Barre on Mondays 6:00pm. Aerial Yoga on Thursdays 5:15pm and Fridays 5:15pm. EMPYREANARTS.ORG * 828.782.3321 THIRSTY THURSDAY AT CALYPSO! (PD.) Join us for Women In Conversation ALL DAY. Laid back atmosphere, sample tropical St. Lucian flavors and bottomless Mimosas for $15. 18 N. Lexington Ave. at Calypso Restaurant. 828-5759494. ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE SUBMARINE VETERANS ussashevillebase.com, ecipox@charter.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Social meeting for U.S. Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held
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at Ryan's Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK main.nc.us/wib • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil. Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA 828-686-8298, egacarolinas.org • TH (6/7), 10am Monthly meeting and program focusing on finishing techniques for the cross stitch tape measure cover taught by Roberta Smith at the May meeting. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe MOMS DEMAND ACTION momsdemandaction.org • FR (6/1), 5:308pm - "Wear Orange Scavenger Hunt," event in which participants receive clues and instructions for a downtown scavenger hunt in recognition of National Gun Violence Awareness Day. Co-sponsored by Students Demand Action Against Gun Violence. Participants are encouraged to wear orange. Free. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (5/30), 5:30-7pm "Budgeting and Debt," class. Registration required. Free. • THURSDAYS, (5/31) until (6/14), 5:30-8pm "Money Management and Credit," class series. Registration required. Free. PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZED WOMEN powhendersonville.com • TU (6/5), 5-5:30pm - “Medicare For All,” outdoor public rally cosponsored by People for Healthcare for Everyone. Free. Held at 1 Historic Courthouse Square, Hendersonville
SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, 10amnoon - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT tranzmissionprisonproject.yolasite.com • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Monthly meeting to prepare packages of books and zines for mailing to prisons across the U.S. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road VETERANS FOR PEACE 828-490-1872, VFP099.org • TUESDAYS, 5pm Weekly peace vigil. Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square YOUTH OUTRIGHT 866-881-3721, youthoutright.org • SA (6/2), 7-10pm "Let’s be Crystal Queer: It’s YO Prom" youth OUTright 9th annual prom with decorations, catered buffet, photobooth, DJ and performances. For youth ages 14-20. Registration: bit.ly/2IIaD9N. $10/$7 advance. Held at DoubleTree by Hilton, 115 Hendersonville Road
FOOD & BEER ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL BLACK JAR HONEY CONTEST chbr.org/ 2016HoneyContest.aspx • TU (6/5), 5:30-7:30pm - International honey tasting and cocktail event. $35 cocktail event/$50 honey tasting and cocktail event. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. BEER CITY FESTIVAL beercityfestival.com • SA (6/2), noon-5pm - "Beer City Festival," featuring live music and local and regional
beer tasting with over 30 breweries. Proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC and the Asheville Brewer's Alliance. $45 wristband with unlimited samples/$25 option includes five beer tokens. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.
FESTIVALS BREVARD BLUES N’ BBQ FESTIVAL brevardbluesfestival.com • FR (6/1), 5pm & SA (6/2), 2pm - Brevard Blues N' BBQ Festival, featuring local and national blues music acts and barbecue cookoff. See website for full schedule: brevardbluesfestival.com. $20 Friday/$35 Saturday/$45 weekend pass. Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard MERMAIDS IN MARSHALL • SA (6/2), 10am-7pm - Mermaid festival and parade with art and craft vendors, activities for kids, and food and beverage vendors. Parade at 6pm. Free to attend. Held at Marshall High Studios, 115 Blanahassett Island, Marshall WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIR MUSEUM 1340 Gilbert St., Hendersonville, 828-6982482, westernnorthcarolinaairmuseum.com/ • SA (6/2) & SU (6/3), 10am-5pm- "Air fair," featuring an open house, airplane rides, children’s ornithopter rides and antique cars and motorcycles. Free to attend.
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS ASHEVILLE ANARCHIST RAD FAIR facebook.com/ AvlRadFair, avlradfair@riseup.net • SU (6/3), noon-3pm Monthly gathering with grassroots activists and organizations working towards liberation on the basis of mutual aid, horizontalism, direct action and autonomy.
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BUNCOMBE COUNTY REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB 828-243-6590 • SA (6/2), 6-8pm - 65th anniversary celebration and candidate kickoff with guest speakers and barbecue dinner. Registration required: lisabaldwin4kids@ gmail.com. $10. Held at Biltmore Lake Clubhouse, 80 Lake Drive Candler
RIVERLINK 828-252-8474, riverlink.org • WE (5/30), 4:305:30pm - Event to meet the design team that will be facilitating the creation of Karen Cragnolin Park. Free. Held at Karen Cragnolin Park, 190 Amboy Road
CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • 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.
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HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, 828-6926424, myhcdp.com • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10. HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • TH (5/31), 11:30am1pm - Lunch and Learn: "Robert's Rules of Order and Parliamentary Procedure," presentation by Hendersonville Mayor Barbara Volk. Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Community Co-op, 715 S. Grove St., Hendersonville INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC Indivisible-sylva.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm -General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva PROGRESSIVE WOMEN OF HENDERSONVILLE pwhendo.org • FRIDAYS, 4-7pm Postcard writing to government representatives. Postcards, stamps, addresses, pens and tips are provided. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing
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over 90 percent of parents want sex education taught in schools. “Over the last 100 years [of sex ed] there has been an average of 2 percent parent pushback,” says Considine. “But those are the voices we hear.” Some of that resistance comes from a lack of understanding about what sex education really is, she says. But no matter how parents feel about sex education’s place in the classroom, many students begin having sex in high school, and some start even younger. According to the 2015 Youth Risk Behavior Survey, data collected from North Carolina high school students show that 44 percent of high school students reported having had sexual intercourse. In 2013, the same survey of North Carolina’s middle school students found that 11 percent had had sexual intercourse. In Buncombe County in 2016, there were 164 teen pregnancies among 15to 19-year-old girls, or 23.9 per 1,000 in that age group. That’s slightly higher than the nationwide average of 22.3 per 1,000 of girls ages 15-19.
dinankim@gmail.com When Asheville resident Kelley Johnson’s two children were younger, the information they received in the Asheville City Schools’ sex ed program “was a joke,” Johnson says. Johnson, who holds a Ph.D. in human sexuality and a master’s degree in public health, teaches sex ed at charter and private schools in and around Asheville. One of the basic tenets of sex education, Johnson says, is to avoid using euphemisms. The Asheville Middle School coaches charged with teaching the subject apparently didn’t get that memo. “The coach told the boys to put the helmet on their soldier before they went to war,” she says. “Which equates a condom as a helmet, their penis as a soldier and sex as a battle.” While parents of students in the Buncombe County Schools report a higher level of confidence in the sex ed their kids are receiving, the subject remains controversial. That’s unfortunate, say experts in the field, because sex ed is taught alongside a host of other health topics that otherwise don’t have a place in the curriculum. VOCAL MINORITY “There is so much stigma and fear around sex ed,” says Julia Considine, an Asheville-based health education consultant. Considine’s master’s thesis about the implementation of health education standards in North Carolina schools recently won a UNC Graduate School Impact Award for exceptional
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SEX ED IS HEALTH ED: Julia Considine, an Asheville-based health consultant, notes that comprehensive sex education needs to cover a wide umbrella of health topics. “Health is not a core class,” explains Considine, “so it’s not tested for. As a nation, we don’t prioritize health, so the education system doesn’t either.” Photo courtesy of Considine research that has had direct benefits in the state. Just last month, conservative activists in North Carolina organized a “Sex Ed Sit-Out” to protest how sex education is being taught in public schools. That
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Before 2010, the name of the sex ed game in North Carolina was abstinence from sexual activity. With the passage in 2009 of the Healthy Youth Act, classroom sex education became, at least in theory, objective and based on peer-reviewed scientific research. While still emphasizing abstinence, the change ushered in more comprehensive sex education beginning with the 2010-11 school year. The state’s program teaches that avoiding sexual activity is the best and most effective means of prevent-
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ing sexually transmitted infections and unwanted pregnancy. But instruction also includes medically accurate information on all FDA-approved contraceptives, characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, and the effects of culture, media and family values on decision-making. It also teaches students how to recognize sexual harassment and understand sexually transmitted infections such as human immunodeficiency virus and human papillomavirus. In addition to reproductive health and safety, the state’s Healthful Living Essential Standards cover the risks of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs; stress management; interpersonal communication; healthy relationships; mental and emotional health; nutrition and physical activity. The standards were created to provide guidance to educators, but as Considine discovered during her research, their implementation varies widely among school districts. “We have a comprehensive sex ed policy in North Carolina,” says Considine. “But what I found was that at the local level there wasn’t a real understanding about how to implement the standards or the Healthy Youth Act thoroughly or consistently.” BEST PRACTICES Sex education is most likely to be implemented according to state policy when a healthful living coordinator is involved, Considine’s research revealed. At Buncombe County Schools, the district employs Debbie Bryant in that role, as well as three dedicated reproductive health educators, who teach all reproductive health units in every county school. “We start fourth grade with a genderseparated hygiene class,” says Bryant. “The students are taught what to expect and what changes might occur in their body.” In sixth grade, she continues, the standards require that students learn about the gestational period of a baby and how babies are made. “We don’t teach them how to have sex,” explains Bryant, “but we talk about how sex does take place. We use medically accurate terminology. They see scientific diagrams of reproductive organs.” Seventh- and eighth-grade students learn about sexually transmitted infections, cybersafety, sexting and the difficulties of teenage pregnancy. “We talk about boundaries and how to resist,” says Bryant. “We talk about good decision-making skills.” In ninth grade, students learn about FDA-approved contraceptives,
personal safety, healthy relationships and sex trafficking. Emily Balcken’s oldest daughter is in seventh grade at Cane Creek Middle School, part of the Buncombe County Schools system. She says her experience with Buncombe County’s sex education program has been a positive one. “[Sex ed is] an opt-out system, which I think is a good thing,” she says. “They send the letter home and only if you want to opt out do you need to send it back. I have been 100 percent for anything they would teach at school,” says Balcken. Bryant reports that Buncombe County Schools have a 98.5 percent sex ed participation rate. “We do have parents who choose for their sons or daughters not to participate,” she notes. “We feel that they know their child better than anyone else, but we do try to stress that what [their child] learns in our classes is factual information, but what they talk about on the bus or playground or around the cafeteria table may not be.” In 2010 — the year the healthful living standards were implemented — 275 girls aged 15-19 had a pregnancy in Buncombe County. By 2016, that number had dropped to 164. “Since we have had comprehensive teaching standards, we have seen pregnancy rates drop drastically,” says Bryant.
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Bryant, among other parents and educators interviewed, expresses concern that sex education ends in ninth grade. “Unfortunately, in North Carolina we only have one required health and PE class for graduation,” she says. Chad Noteboom has boys in fifth, ninth and 12th grades at W.D. Williams Elementary School and Owen High School, both part of the Buncombe County school district. He agrees that sex education should extend past ninth grade: “As a parent, I think it would be good to go back over [sex ed] a couple more times and maybe as a part of
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TREACHEROUS WATERS WNC environmental programs and agencies could see more cuts in new state budget BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com Along with their colleagues from across the state, legislators from Western North Carolina have arrived back in Raleigh to take up their duties once again. While the N.C. General Assembly convenes in regular session biennially, lawmakers return in off years for the so-called “short session,” which mostly focuses on tweaks and amendments to the state’s adopted two-year budget. This year’s session, say local legislators and observers, promises to be one of the shortest of the short, allowing senators and representatives to get back home to their districts — and to campaigning in advance of the November elections. Possibly to that end, Republican leaders announced on May 22 that the budget will be presented as a conference report. Typically, the budget process allows members of both parties to participate in committees and offer amendments from the floor. This time around, says Rep. Brian Turner, D-Buncombe, “Not a single Democrat was named to the conference committee. So there’s not a single Democratic voice being heard in the negotiation of this budget, and no Democrats will be allowed to put forth amendments.” Those Republicans not sitting on the conference committee likewise may only cast an up or down vote, rather than participating directly in the negotiations. As top-ranking Republicans push their spending plans through the process, Xpress asked local legislators and environmental advocates to share their thoughts on which budgetary and policy decisions could have a big impact on WNC’s environment in the coming fiscal year and beyond. They cited issues including the state’s response to novel contaminants like GenX chemicals, the budget for the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality and funding for the Clean Water
PRICELESS PROPERTY: DuPont State Recreational Forest has received funding through the state’s Natural Heritage, Parks and Recreation and Clean Water Management trust funds. N.C. legislators are considering allotments to those funds, as well as other spending related to the environment, as they meet in Raleigh to finalize the state budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Photo by Rob Travis, courtesy of the Friends of DuPont Forest Management, Parks and Recreation and Farmland Preservation trust funds. EMERGING THREATS While the scary-sounding GenX — shorthand for a collection of industrial chemicals detected in the Cape Fear River — may be of greatest concern to those who live hundreds of miles away from WNC, local legislators say the sudden emergence of the compounds in drinking water and the air illustrate a growing threat statewide. “If GenX hadn’t shown up on the coast, we could have some other emerging contaminant being found somewhere else,” says Rep. Chuck McGrady, R-Henderson. Developed as a more benign replacement for PFOA, which is used in the process of making
the nonstick coating Teflon, GenX was discovered in the Cape Fear in June. A 2016 report by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment suggests that while GenX chemicals cause fewer reproductive issues than PFOA, they still have carcinogenic effects and are toxic to the liver. According to the DEQ, the compound threatens public water supplies for Bladen, Brunswick, New Hanover and Pender counties. “We are creating chemical compounds quicker than we can understand what their health implications are and even quicker than we can figure out how to get them out of the water if necessary,” McGrady says, adding that he’s not in favor of two Republican-introduced bills that seek to address the issue. According to McGrady, the proposed legislation would change how the state enforces the National
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G REEN S CEN E it to come up is the GenX issue,” he explains. In an email, Rep. John Ager, D-Buncombe writes, “I am supporting the [N.C. Gov. Roy] Cooper budget that includes $14.5 million for DEQ, personnel and equipment (spectrometer) to manage water quality related to GenX and other emergent chemicals.” EMBATTLED DEPARTMENT Brooks Rainey Pearson, a Raleigh-based lobbyist for the Southern Environmental Law Center, says the DEQ’s budget has been cut for seven consecutive years. Those funding reductions have resulted in the loss of 70 positions and a 41 percent reduction in staff devoted to monitoring and enforcing water quality regulations, Rainey Pearson says. “At this point, they don’t have enough staff to keep up with permitting activities, meaning polluters continue to operate under existing permits,” she continues.
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Many of those Xpress spoke with for this article emphasized the importance of ensuring that state dollars continue to flow into trust funds that pay for land protection. According to McGrady, all three of the funds — for clean water, parks and recreation and farmland preservation — received “nonrecurring” allocations last year, meaning that their funding could be reduced or eliminated for 2019. But McGrady says that’s not likely, since his goal is to “make sure we don’t incur any cuts in any of those trust funds.” The Clean Water Trust Fund is “particularly used in WNC,” he says, and the parks and recreation fund goes toward area treasures like the DuPont State Recreational Forest. The Farmland Preservation Trust Fund “is oftentimes used to bring matching federal funding to do some agricultural land protection,” McGrady says, making spend-
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ing to preserve agricultural land a good deal for North Carolina. Ager points out, “The governor’s budget includes a proposal to use part of the real estate stamp fee for property transfers to bring back a steady stream of revenue for the trust funds. I would support that concept.” Turner also advocates for providing recurring funding for land preservation, saying the trust funds are “but a shadow of their former selves.” The Clean Water Management Trust Fund’s 2017 allocation of $18 million looks generous, for example — until compared to the state’s previous commitments. A state report released in April 2014 noted that the General Assembly in 2000 “appropriated $40 million for fiscal year 2001-2002, and committed to appropriate $70 million for fiscal year 2002-2003 and $100 million per year until fiscal year 20112012 when the statutory language was changed, removing the commitment of $100 million.” According to news reports, however, the full appropriations were rarely if ever fully paid into the fund. HUNTING FOR VOTES A possible ballot referendum to enshrine the right to hunt and fish in the state constitution gives Turner, himself an avid outdoor sportsman, pause. “I don’t see there being threats to those sporting traditions. I would also hate to see a failure of that amendment at the ballot box and to possibly give people the idea that hunting and fishing aren’t that important to the state,” he says. Since the potential amendment isn’t part of the budget negotiations, McGrady says he hasn’t paid it much attention. At the same time, he says, “I have the sense that there’s quite a lot of members that would be quite willing to have that amendment put on the ballot. … I guess the thought is that, just like we have a provision in the constitution reflecting the fact that we have responsibility for protecting the environment, there’s a feeling that we need to state this in the constitution.” FUTURE VISION Julie Mayfield, Asheville City Council member and co-director of environmental nonprofit MountainTrue, says her organization’s legislative advocacy efforts
are focused on “the funding side of things” rather than major new policy initiatives. MountainTrue and McGrady have discussed restoring funding for landslide hazard mapping, a particular need in Western North Carolina given the region’s topography, Mayfield says. She also hopes the state will provide funding to monitor bacteria levels in WNC waterways, as it does for beach areas along the state’s coast. Dedicated funding is needed to enable DEQ to respond to environmental emergencies such as spills, Mayfield says. As things stand now, “They don’t have money unless they can tie a spill to an underground fuel storage tank. They have no money for other types of contamination.” The result, she explains, can be more widespread contamination, greater environmental impact and higher long-term cleanup costs. Earlier this year, for example, the DEQ’s response to a spill in the Watagua River near Boone was delayed when water quality officials could not quickly determine the source of the contamination. Corey Atkins, the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s vice president for public policy, notes that, for the first time ever, his organization is advocating for environmental stewardship as one of five policy focus areas. “Quite frankly, it was time, and it’s something we can help lead on as a business community,” he says. McGrady and Ager both point out the need to continue funding for protecting the region’s hemlocks from the hemlock woolly adelgid. Allocating more resources for state research projects to understand threats to pollinators is another longer-term goal, McGrady says. Ager wants the legislature to think more broadly, although he concedes that its ability to do so will depend on the outcome of November’s election. Climate change, he says, is “the most important issue facing our state and world that is being ignored in Raleigh.” The diversity of WNC’s ecosystem could allow the region to play a special role in adapting to higher average temperatures, he says. But for now, McGrady says, “There’s just a very clear sense that we want to come in, do work on the budget, address issues like school safety, like salaries for state employees and teachers, and then go home.” X
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ing topics like attracting and feeding mountain pollinators, maintaining a mountain landscape garden and new plant varieties. Steve Pettis, the Henderson County commercial and consumer horticulture agent, will teach two of the classes. “If you are newly arrived from Florida, where you are accustomed to gardening with tropical plants, growing tomatoes in two seasons per year and having flowers year-round, then gardening in Western North Carolina is going to
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be a gardening culture shock,” he says. “Our growing season is short; tomatoes can’t go into the ground until Mother’s Day, and gardenias freeze to death here.” The first class, on Thursday, June 7, will explore identifying, attracting and protecting insects that benefit humans because of their role as pollinators. Pettis will talk about which plants are best for enticing and feeding pollinators and how to build shelter for them. He will also focus on ways to get rid of unwanted insects without using pesticides. In another class on Monday, June 11, Pettis will share strategies for maintaining a mountain landscape garden that celebrates the natural beauty inherent to WNC. “I think mountain gardeners should think mostly native plants, work with the terrain and avoid invasive plants,” Pettis says. “It really bothers me to see a homeowner clear their lot of the native vegetation and plant a suburban garden — grass, one shade tree, a few hollies — as if they live in Raleigh or Charlotte. Why move to the mountains if you are going to spite the native flora? I encourage people to preserve the native plants on their properties while
enjoying noninvasive garden plants, native or exotic.” Finally, John Vining, former Polk County Extension Director and horticulture agent, will wrap up the series on Monday, July 9, with a look at new plant varieties that are coming out of the horticultural breeding program at N.C. State Mountain Horticulture Research Center. Pettis notes that although mountain gardening has its idiosyncrasies, the
WHAT Gardening for Pollinators in WNC
WHEN 6:30 p.m. Monday, June 11
WHERE Henderson County Extension Center 100 Jackson Park Road Hendersonville
WHAT New Plant Varieties for WNC
WHEN 6:30 p.m. Thursday, June 7
WHEN 6:30 p.m. Monday, July 9
WHERE Henderson County Extension Center 100 Jackson Park Road Hendersonville
Cost is $25 per class, due one week in advance. For details and to register, visit avl.mx/4zo. or contact Steve Pettis at steve_pettis@ncsu.edu or 828-697-4891.
ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • 1st THURSDAYS, 7pm - Eco-presentations, discussions and community connection. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 828-254-7162, colburnmuseum.org • TH (5/31), 5:30-7pm - Malaprop’s Bookstore & Cafe presents Mike Gunter, Jr., author of Tales of EcoTourist. Free. Held at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401 MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • SA (6/2), 9am - Citizenscience event that pairs participants with expert naturalists to document the diverse natural communities of Sylva’s Pinnacle Park and
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results are worth the effort. “You can grow so many veggies here,” he says. “And they last a long time. Last year, I saw lettuce in August; tomatoes in mid-October. You can grow rhubarb here. This feels like black magic to a gardener who is from south of here or closer to the coast. Usually it gets so hot in those areas that by July the garden is spent. Gardening in the mountains has its challenges, but the opportunities are great.” X
Blackrock Mountain. Bring water, rain gear, lunch and appropriate footwear. Free. Held at Bryson Park, 585 Chipper Curve Road, Sylva • TH (6/7), 9am-noon - Volunteer to remove non-native invasive plants from the greenway. Wear close-toed shoes, long pants and long sleeved shirts. Bring water, snacks and work gloves. Free. Held at Oklawaha Greenway, Berkeley Road. Parking Area (located to the bridge over Mud Creek), Hendersonville WNC SIERRA CLUB 828-251-8289, wenoca.org • TH (6/7), 7-9pm “Energy Innovation Task Force: Pathway to Clean Energy for WNC,” presentation by City Councilwoman Julie Mayfield, County Commission Chair Brownie Newman, and Duke Energy District Manager Jason Walls.
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FARM & GARDEN BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (6/1), 6pm Discussion with the Nutty Buddy Collective about developing sustainable, community-based forest agriculture in WNC. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. FLORA 428B Haywood Road • WE (5/30), 5:30-7:30pm - “Herbs for All,” potted herb growing class. Registration required: 828-252-8888. $20. HENDERSON COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OFFICE 828-697-4891 • TH (6/7), 6:30pm “Gardening for Pollinators
in Western North Carolina,” workshop by Steve Pettis, Henderson County commercial and consumer horticulture agent. Registration required. $25. Held at Henderson County Cooperative Extension Office, 100 Jackson Park Road, Hendersonville ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL 828-552-4979, organicgrowersschool.org • TU (6/5), 4-10pm - Proceeds from the family-friendly Hemp Hootenanny, with hemp workshops, demonstrations, panel discussions from North Carolina farmers, Dr. Bronners Magic Foam Experience, hempy foods and beer, live music and entertainment, and the geo hemp trivia challenge benefit the Organic Growers School. $20. Held at Franny’s Farm, 38 Came Sharp Road, Leicester
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EDIBLE GEMS WNC’s landscape is bursting with late-spring berries BY CATHY CLEARY cathy@thecookandgarden.com This time of year, the great berry breakfast shift happens in our household. Winter breakfasts often consist of raspberry, blackberry or blueberry jam on toast. But as berries begin ripening in the yard, I start to make a weekly batch of granola, and mornings begin by tiptoeing through wet grass to lift green strawberry leaves searching out the ruby-colored fruits or inspecting raspberry vines while trying to avoid the thorns. Freshpicked berries top the granola with a dollop of yogurt for a welcome change from wintertime jam-toast. If you are lucky enough to have berries in your yard, I highly recommend this morning ritual. But even if you don’t, you can still enjoy freshly harvested local berries this time of year courtesy of the city of Asheville. Amber Weaver, the city’s chief sustainability officer, is working with Kiera Bulan, coordinator of Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council, to map all the edible plants located on city property, many of which are serviceberries, also known as juneberries and locally as sarvisberries. As the name implies, these berries ripen in June and can be found in many a median and park throughout the city. Weaver explains that when Asheville adopted its Food Policy Action Plan about five years ago, “They began plopping serviceberries everywhere, which is why they are randomly placed. The city has no database for edibles that have been planted.” As long as the plants are growing on public land, everyone is welcome to harvest their bounty. Some of the city’s serviceberries can be found now by searching at ashevilletreemap.org. Weaver and Bulan will roll out a more comprehensive map later this summer. TASTE AND LEARN Serviceberries make a good choice for edible landscaping. The trees are bushy with pretty white flowers in spring and low-hanging, reddish-purple fruit in early summer. With a mild flavor similar to blueberries, serviceberries do contain small crunchy seeds
Downtown & Taproom Cafe, Wine Room, Butcher Shop BUCKET LIST: Each summer, Greg Garrison, co-owner of The Hop Ice Cream Café, uses hundreds of gallons of strawberries from Rayburn Farm along with other types of berries to craft creative seasonal flavors for the shop’s frozen treats. Photo by Cathy Cleary like those in a wild blackberry. The seeds can be strained out of the cooked-down fruit or just enjoyed as part of the fresh fruit experience. Jordan Diamond, FEAST cooking and gardening program coordinator at Vance Elementary School, loves having serviceberries as part of the landscaping on her campus. “They fruit right at the end of the school year, so for the last week or two of school, they are covered in edible berries,
and the kids are all over the trees,” she says. “Many kids have never picked and eaten straight from a tree.” The trees are so popular with students, in fact, that the school has had to take measures to safeguard them, putting up signs and assigning groups of children to act as protectors. The school has also put out blocks and steps so the kids can
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reach the berries without pulling down the upper branches. The Vance Elementary Peace Garden also gives kids plenty of other opportunities to taste fruit right from the plant. Diamond also grows strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and wineberries. Berries are a great thing to have in a school garden, Diamond explains, because “I don’t have to cut them up; [the students] can just go graze, pick and eat.” Most school gardens experience the challenge of dealing with fruits and vegetables that are ripe and ready to harvest when students are gone for the summer holiday. To address this, Diamond has developed a summer program called Weed and Feed, inviting parents, students and community members to help out at the garden on Wednesday and Thursday mornings in exchange for produce. However, Diamond hopes to harvest many of the prolific blueberries that will ripen in June and July. “I try to freeze berries that I can get in the summer, so I can talk [to students] about the plant they come from and seasonality,” she says. Blueberries are simple to freeze, needing no special preparation. As a matter of fact, all berries can be frozen raw in plastic bags or containers. When they thaw their texture changes and they release
much of their juice. But cooked into pie, or made into delicious jam straight from the freezer, berries never have to go to waste. Diamond typically makes smoothies with her students, which is a perfect ending to her lessons on the life cycle of plants. FROZEN FUN Greg Garrison co-owner of The Hop Ice Cream Café with his wife, Ashley, is very familiar with using frozen berries. He buys most of the berries for his ice cream, locally and in season, from Rayburn Farm in Barnardsville. The farm, he says, “planted an entire bed of strawberries just for us. Last year we got just under 200 gallons of berries.” Once the fresh berries arrive at The Hop’s production facility in West Asheville, they must be processed quickly — either frozen or turned into jam, which will get swirled into inventive ice cream flavors. Garrison’s team creates new flavors constantly, and fresh berries help to inspire mouthwatering combinations. A couple of flavors you can expect to see at The Hop during the height of berry season include Black Velvet (blackberries cooked in bourbon swirled into a chocolate base) and Berry Sunrise (red raspberry sorbet, black raspberry ice cream and carrot-orange ice cream swirled together).
Folks can taste some of The Hop’s most experimental flavors at Berry Flight Night, on Friday, July 27, at The Hop Ice Creamery. For that event, eight flavors will be available — including dairy-free ice creams and sorbets — all of them made using multiple kinds of local berries. “Berries actually do really well with the nondairy ice creams — pepita milk ice cream in particular,” Garrison says. “The flavor doesn’t have to compete with all that cow’s milk.” Garrison’s team has plans to include some ice cream with lesser-known berries, including serviceberries, which will most likely combine with Champagne in a sorbet called Berries and Bubbles. Look for more information this summer about where you can find local edible plants on city-owned property, and plan to harvest your own berries to make ice cream, smoothies, or simply to enjoy atop your morning cereal bowl. Look for the forthcoming map of the city of Asheville’s edible plants plus details about Asheville’s Food Policy Action Plan at ashevillenc.gov. The Hop’s Berry Flight Night happens 3-9 p.m. Friday, July 27, at The Hop Ice Creamery, 167 Haywood Road.X
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Purée the strawberries in a blender or food processor. Combine with all ingredients and mix well. Pour into your ice cream freezer and freeze according to the machine’s instructions
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Fourth Asheville VeganFest brings new events When it first launched in 2015, Asheville VeganFest was a single-day event. But over the last three years, as the gathering has continued to grow in popularity, so too has its footprint and offerings expanded. Now entering its fourth year, the celebration will span three days, Friday-Sunday, June 1-3. A majority of the events are free to attend, but for the first time, the festival will offer two ticketed shows at The Orange Peel. Proceeds from both performances will benefit the festival’s organizer, Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, a nonprofit, no-kill animal shelter. “It’s really a celebration of compassionate living,” says Caitlin Campbell, Brother Wolf’s community outreach manager. The festival, she adds, is a way “to help educate and inspire people around issues surrounding veganism, animal rights, healthy living and sustainability.” Free panel discussions and presentations comprise a majority of the schedule. Vegan experts and advocates from around the region, country and world will convene onstage at The Orange Peel to address topics that range from nutrition and diet to spirituality and youth activism. Plant restaurant will be on-site vending breakfast and lunch options as well. The benefit shows are set for Friday and Saturday night, with both evenings featuring comedian Lee Camp and the hip-hop/activist group Grey. Friday night’s show will also include Debrissa & Austn, a hip-hop jazz activist fusion. Saturday’s closing act will be Antibalas, an Afrobeat, jazz and funk band. On Sunday, there will be a market at Pack Square Park featuring over 75 food, beer, clothing, advocacy and lifestyle vendors. Last year’s celebration had an estimated turnout of 8,500 people. Campbell says the festival is a chance to connect people of all ages. Her particular interest is to provide young vegans a place where they can meet and feel empowered. It also offers curious carnivores insight on nonmeat options. “We have a really amazing selection of experts from around the country at the community’s fingertips for one weekend in June,” she says. “We encourage people to come out and have conversations and just enjoy themselves.” 30
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MUSIC NOT MEAT: This year’s Asheville VeganFest will include two benefit shows. Antibalas, featured here on their 2012 self-titled album cover, is a Brooklyn-based, Afrobeat, jazz and funk band. The group will headline the Saturday evening event. Photo courtesy of Brother Wolf Animal Rescue The Asheville VeganFest runs FridaySunday, June 1-2, at The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave., and Pack Square Park, 80 Court Plaza. For specific times and locations as well as ticket information, visit avl.mx/3s0. ALOHA FROM THE SWANNANOA MANNA FoodBank will host ALOHA from the Swannanoa, the hunger-relief organization’s 19th annual Blue Jean Ball. The evening will feature food
from over 20 local restaurants, including Rezaz, Ambrozia, Posana, Corner Kitchen and Chestnut, with dishes including a whole roasted kalua pig, beer-barbecued shrimp and seared mahi-mahi. The event will also include live music and drinks. “The average life span of a successful fundraising event is 10 years,” says Alisa Hixson, MANNA’s director of corporate engagement and signature events. “As we approach the 19th annual Blue Jean Ball, it underscores the event’s deep support from
the community, which continues to grow, not only in funds raised but the caliber of the culinary offerings.” ALOHA from the Swannanoa runs 7-11 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at MANNA FoodBank, 627 Swannanoa River Road. Tickets are $95. All proceeds benefit MANNA FoodBank. For tickets, visit avl.mx/4zc. RUTH’S CHRIS PATIO KICKOFF PARTY Ruth’s Chris Steak House will celebrate the beginning of the warm-weather season on Saturday, June 2, with its annual patio kickoff party featuring live music, games, food and beverages. Chef Pete Repak will prepare $9 grilled skewers with selections that include prime beef tenderloin with Creole spice rub, curry chicken with roasted pineapple, chili-garlic shrimp and peppers, and summer pesto veggies. The party runs 4:30-8:30 p.m. Saturday, June 2, at Ruth’s Chris Steak House, 26 All Souls Crescent. No reservations are required. For more, call 828-398-6200. MINI-VEGFEST LAUNCHES IN FLAT ROCK Sweet Bear Rescue Farm and the Asheville Vegan Society will team up to host the inaugural Mini-Vegfest on Sunday, June 3. The Hop Ice Creamery, Campfire Bakery, Fat Rabbit Catering and Garlik Vegan Café are among the participating food vendors. Musical performances, presentations by leading culinary and lifestyle experts, and a raffle will also take place. Tickets are $25. VIP tickets are $50 and include a tour of the sanctuary, a yoga session, access to the property’s swimming pool, two tickets for the raffle and a free beer for those 21 and older. All proceeds will benefit Sweet Bear Rescue Farm, a nonprofit animal shelter, as well as
Asheville VegFest, which takes place at Pack Square Sunday, Sept. 2. Mini-Vegfest runs 2-5 p.m. Sunday, June 3. The event’s location will be given upon ticket purchase. To learn more, visit avl.mx/4za. THE BLACK JAR HONEY TASTING On Tuesday, June 5, dozens of honeys from around the world will be available to sample at the annual Black Jar Honey Tasting event. Cocktails and hors d’oeuvres will also be served. The event accompanies the annual International Black Jar Honey Contest, which enlists a panel of local judges to evaluate local, regional, national and international entries in a blind tasting. Proceeds benefit the Center for Honeybee Research, an Asheville-based nonprofit dedicated to citizen science, pollinator research and finding solutions to protect bees and the environment. The Black Jar Honey Tasting runs 5:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 5, at the Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. Tickets range from $35-$50. For more information, visit honeybeeresearch.org. THE SOUTHERN KITCHEN AND BAR CLOSES The Southern Kitchen and Bar closed on Sunday, May 20. Joel Hartzler opened the restaurant in 2010, and in September 2016, sold it to George Hempenstall of Knoxville, Tenn. The eatery, known for its bloody marys and Yatch Rock Brunch, was popular among locals and tourists alike. A press release from the owners stated that the business closed due to “external issues” and expressed appreciation for the love and support of customers and hard work and dedication of staff. “The Southern was not just a business, it was a family,” the statement says. “We will miss this community more than words can say.” X
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Carolina beer road trip In Asheville, where breweries are literally across the street from each other, it’s easy to overlook beer adventures that are just down the road. In Western North Carolina alone, more than 70 breweries have set up shop. Throw in Upstate South Carolina, and the number is more than 80 within about an hour’s drive. “The number of [area] breweries has doubled in the past 2½ years, and a good portion of those are outside of the city of Asheville,” says Kendra Penland, executive director of the Asheville Brewers Alliance, which represents breweries and beerrelated businesses. Some of those brewers intentionally chose places not known as craft beer destinations, while others were looking for lower rents or property costs than those available in Asheville. Now that vacation season is here, it’s a good time to gas up the car and hit the road in search of great beer. It sweetens the deal is that some smaller breweries only sell their products in their own tasting rooms, adding an exclusivity element to the trip. With those factors in mind, here are a halfdozen western Carolina breweries worth a visit, including one that will open in early June. NEIGHBORS TO THE SOUTH Swamp Rabbit Brewery & Taproom in Travelers Rest, S.C., is an easy drive from Asheville down Interstate 26 to U.S. Highway 25. The brewery is near the popular Swamp Rabbit Trail greenway system located on a former railroad bed. The trail draws plenty of visitors to Travelers Rest, but brewery owner Ben Pierson — who previously brewed at Asheville’s Green Man Brewery and Lexington Avenue Brewery — says a good number make the trip for beer. “We see a lot of people come down from Hendersonville and Asheville,” he says. “And a lot of people are just cruising the country.”
Breweries are thriving within an hour’s drive of Asheville
ORNITHOLOGICAL CHOICE: Guests enjoy the courtyard at Birds Fly South Ale Project in Greenville, S.C. The brewery has earned acclaim around the region for its wild and sour ales. Photo by Ames Cashin Pierson’s American Stout recently won a silver medal at the World Beer Cup competition, but he says that brew is long gone from the taproom. Fortunately, Swamp Rabbit has plenty of its flagship Belgianstyle White Ale, a year-round märzen, an American pale ale, an IPA and a Scottish ale. Seating is available both indoors and outside, and the brewery is open daily except Mondays. RJ Rockers Brewing Co. in Spartanburg is known for such brews as Son of Peach American Wheat Ale, Patriot Pale and Palisade Pils. Along with the taproom, Rockers has a restaurant called The Silo. “Downtown is going through a boom right now,” says Rockers founder Mark Johnsen, who adds that a Marriott hotel near the brewery helps pull a lot of visitors. Rockers keeps 15 beer taps in the tasting room and a dozen in the restaurant, which opened in February. It’s open daily except Sundays and Mondays.
Over in Greenville, Birds Fly South Ale Project has emerged as a highly respected brewery, specializing in wild and sour ales. Founder and brewer Shawn Johnson recently added a 20-barrel brew house to expand production while sour beers are aging. “There are a lot more people here who enjoy wild and sour beers than we realized,” he says. “We are so close to Asheville, which is a progressive beer market.” The brewery is in an old cotton mill and has two bars, a patio and a green space. Asheville-based White Duck Taco has expanded across state lines and set up a shop next door. The brewery also hosts a yoga class every Saturday morning and various other happenings. “We always have music and events at the brewery,” Johnson says. “Every third Sunday we have a jazz brunch.” AROUND THE MOUNTAINS Mad Co Brewing Co. is in downtown Marshall, a popular destination with the outdoors crowd. During the warm-weather season, Mad Co draws a significant amount of tourists from Asheville, around Western North Carolina and Tennessee, says brewer
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Ian Yancich. “Marshall is a gorgeous little town,” he says. A back deck at the taproom offers an impressive view of the French Broad River and passing Norfolk Southern trains. The tasting room is open daily. Just inside the Rutherford County line, Hickory Nut Gorge Brewery opened in 2015 in the tourist town of Chimney Rock along the Rocky Broad River. “We do [beers] in an English, malt-forward style,” says brewer Matt Karg, who studied at the Craft Beverage Institute of the Southeast at A-B Tech. The Hickory Nut Gorge tasting room has four decks overlooking the river with a view of Chimney Rock, and is open daily. Karg says the majority of the brewery’s business comes from tourists. Peaks & Creeks Brewing Co. looks to open Saturday, June 2, in Brevard, in a development called The Lumberyard. Situated a few blocks from downtown, the brewery’s immediate neighbors include a restaurant, gallery, music venue and covered outdoor area. “We’re going to open with 10 beers on tap — a little bit of everything,” says owner Jon Bowman. He expects Waterfall IPA to be the biggest seller. “And I want to delve heavily into saisons, barrel-aged beers and Belgians,” he says. X
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Come Down,” which is performed during Juliet’s funeral. “Roots music might be the better term for the inspiration for those pieces,” says Snook. His mother is from Swannanoa, and he spent summers in the area while growing up, so he’s uniquely positioned to point out that one difference between the Chicago cast who workshopped the play earlier and the current Asheville cast is that the local group has “an inherent understanding of the music. They get there immediately.” The local lineup also includes two female leads, though not to forward a political agenda. The audition list was women-heavy, so “I told myself to cast the actors, regardless of gender, who are best for the roles,” says Snook. In another nontraditional twist, the play will be performed in Appalachian dialect. It suits the Hatfield and McCoy theme, but — despite those characters being three centuries and an ocean removed — “Shakespeare wrote his poetry for these sounds,” says Snook. “The Appalachian dialect and the Elizabethan dialect have more in common than they don’t.” He adds, “When you start hitting the Rs and elongating the vowels … it unlocks the poetry in a way you haven’t heard it before.” X
amarshall@mountainx.com When Aaron Snook was assigned Romeo and Juliet in graduate school, “Out of all the Shakespeare canon … my initial reaction was, ‘I really wish it was something else,’” he says. “I couldn’t relate to the young lovers. The height of tragedy didn’t seem earned.” But when he shifted his attention to the community surrounding the title characters, he found “tribalism, inherited hate [and] a tinderbox ready to be set off.” So Snook began to search for a time in American history with a similar feel and discovered plenty of parallels in the Reconstruction era — specifically, the legendary Appalachian feud between the Hatfield and McCoy families. Snook and his new-to-Asheville production company, The American Myth Center, present The Ballad of R & J, a revamped version of Romeo and Juliet, as part of the city of Asheville’s 68 Haywood Pop Up Program, opening Saturday, June 2. The show will also be performed in Grovemont Park at the Swannanoa Library on Sunday, June 17. After 13 years spent in storefront and black-box theaters, Snook’s relocation to Asheville forced him to shift his perspective. “I realized there are [limited] indoor spaces for shows, [but] there’s a bounty of outdoor space,” he points out. So instead of seeking a brick-and-mortar location, Snook collaborated with Alex Smith, who has a fabrication company in Old Fort. Smith took a theater designer’s renderings of a mobile, boxcar-style stage and turned it into a reality. The stage was funded through a combination of a GoFundMe campaign, private donations and grants from the Asheville Area Arts Council and the Awesome Foundation. It can be towed to a performance location (such as a park or other community space), giving The American Myth Center the ability to perform anywhere. “That could be installations, that could be a short tour,” says Snook. “Hopefully, the future propels us into other spaces. … Really, the sky’s the limit.” The Ballad of R & J performances at 68 Haywood St. are intended not only to entertain but to address other barriers to access. Snook wants to explore “rewriting the invitation to and definition of theater,” he says, “because I 34
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FAMILY FEUD: The Ballad of R & J sets Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers (and their warring communities) in the American era of Reconstruction, with an Appalachian soundtrack. The ensemble includes, from left, Anna Lyles, Sonia D’Andrea, Chloe Zeitounian, Carter Bostwick, Shawn Morganlander, Daniel Henry, Claudia Sturgel and Charlie Wilson. Photo courtesy of The American Myth Center think a lot of people don’t feel like that’s part of their life or don’t feel invited to it or don’t know the rules to it. … Everything from how to find your seat to how to act in your seat.” But one of theater’s great strengths is to bring the community together, and to achieve that, Snook endeavors to “present it nontraditionally.” Or, perhaps, supertraditionally. Snook believes that Shakespeare’s plays tend to be repetitive because audiences in the Bard’s day treated performances as social gatherings. People talked. They came and went. At 68 Haywood St., passers-by drop in and leave as they please (entry is free), and Snook hopes that street noise and other unexpected elements will become part of the show.
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“We know the material so well that a pub cycle shouting at us won’t bother us but could enhance the live moment,” he says. And the audience already knows the storyline of Romeo and Juliet, too, so laserfocus isn’t required. “People can have their cellphones out and take a selfie,” says Snook. “I want to create an environment that feels like a busking-corner-turned-block party.” Adding to that vibe will be live music both before and during the show. “I wanted to weave a ballad throughout the piece as a way for the characters to explain themselves,” says Snook. Musician Elizabeth Bagby composed an original ballad and arranged traditional pieces, such as “Satan, Your Kingdom Must
WHAT The American Myth Center presents The Ballad of R & J WHERE 68 Haywood St. WHEN Saturday, June 2-Saturday, June 30. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays with music at 6 p.m., show at 6:30 p.m. Free WHERE Grovemont Park 101 W. Charleston Ave. Swannanoa WHEN Sunday, June 17, 2 p.m. All donations benefit the Swannanoa Library americanmythcenter.org
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SHINE A LIGHT After more than 20 years in the music industry, Kawan “KP the Great” Prather is still excited when first experiences arise. The artists-and-repertoire veteran for LaFace Records, Columbia Records, Sony Urban Music, Def Jam and Atlantic Records toured through Western North Carolina in the early 1990s alongside Big Reese and Mello in the group Parental Advisory, part of the Dungeon Family collective that also includes Outkast and Goodie Mob. He’s also been through Asheville managing such touring artists as Alabama rapper Yelawolf, but when he opens for longtime friend Big Boi on Sunday, June 3, at Salvage Station, it will mark his local debut as a DJ. Prather calls his DJ show “a self-esteem set,” after which listeners should “feel better and that much more ready for Big Boi to come on stage because your energy is there.” He and the headliner went to high school together and have been friends for roughly 30 years. “All of us knew each other before there was a music business in Atlanta, so the bonds were made through all of us working to get all of us to this place. It’s a legitimate family. The Dungeon Family is a real thing for us. We really all slept in one house on floors, making records in the basement made out of red clay,” Prather says. “We made it to this point, and our crew is still all alive, we’re all still here. We haven’t had tragedy. We had problems and setbacks, but we haven’t had things that took anybody yet, so we’re really excited to be able to still be out here doing this stuff and at the level that we get a chance to do it.” Throughout his illustrious career as an executive, working on such Outkast albums as ATLiens, Aquemini and Stankonia, signing T.I. and John Legend and producing tracks with Malay for Big Boi (“Something’s Gotta Give”), Legend (“Green Light”) and Fantasia (“The Thrill is Gone”), Prather has always lived in Atlanta. He views the relaxed way of life in the Georgia capital as a major reason behind his multidecade success.
KP the Great opens for Big Boi at Salvage Station Prather says. “I was able to come in and gave an idea that made that hook what it came out to be. And Kendrick was able to take what was there and expound upon it in a way that neither one of us would have ever thought. … When the track was created, it was maybe two to three years prior and no one had a feeling for it. Kendrick heard it and brought an actual point to it.” X
WHO Big Boi with KP the Great WHERE Salvage Station 466 Riverside Drive salvagestation.com WHEN Sunday, June 3, 7 p.m. $25
MUTUAL BENEFIT: Through his A&R, DJ and production work, Kawan “KP the Great” Prather has established himself as a trusted source of honest musical feedback among his impressive circle of friends and colleagues. “They know that I’m absolutely pro-them, so it makes the criticisms come from a real place of caring and the advice as well,” he says. “And the beauty of that, I get the advice back from some of the smartest, most talented people in the world.” Photo courtesy of Theory Communications “The culture here, the pace here, the ability to have space to create without every eye on you — there’s a freedom here that you don’t have in L.A. or New York, creatively,” Prather says. “I like being able to duck off and be here to just make the music and do the experiments, and then you can leave Atlanta and show everybody.” Since 2015, Prather has been head of music for Pharrell Williams’ creative venture i am OTHER. The two were friends with a mutual respect for each other’s professional doings before they started working together. Prather says they talk every day about anything “from kids to Cardi B.” Consistent with those conversations and his varied resumé, Prather wears many creative hats in his current position and says the balance between his roles comes naturally. “It allows me to connect people that don’t always get to connect because I’m in so many different rooms. I feel like my job is to take that light and spread it around so
that the light stays in the places that’s beneficial for us as a culture,” he says. “I get to take artists like Kap G on the road with me when I DJ. I also get to write with Pharrell from time to time, and that’s worked out as well. The synergy of all my lives kind of just go together right now, so it doesn’t call for the compartmentalizing of what’s more important any more because it’s all music-related — it’s all entertainment, it’s all art.” Among those collaborators with Williams was Kendrick Lamar’s 2015 track “Alright,” which won the trio a Grammy the following year for Best Rap Song. Though Prather is reticent about delving deep into the creative process and assigning credit for each artist’s specific contributions, he says that without all three of them, it would have been a vastly different record. “Pharrell was in a session, doing some stuff. He had an amazing track and part of what I guess we would normally look at as a hook,”
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MAKING A SPLASH Marshall’s Mermaid Parade and Festival continue to grow in 11th year
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NIGHT SWIM: After the Mermaid Parade, many businesses in Marshall will host after-parties with more bands and performances. Photo courtesy of the Downtown Marshall Association The Mermaid Parade began, unofficially, more than a decade ago, during Marshall’s French Broad Friday, when a few enthusiastic participants dressed up like mermaids for the festivities. They were a hit, and every year more mermaids arrived until French Broad Friday evolved into The Mermaid Parade and Festival. This year, the 11th annual event of its kind, will take place Saturday, June 2. “The parade, the pièce de résistance, launches at 6 p.m,” says Hollie West, event chair and vice president of the Downtown Marshall Association. “I have a pirate ship on an 18-foot trailer that is built out of pallets — it’s the Queen Anne’s Revenge. Last year, I put the head of a red Chinese dragon on the hood of my truck. I was
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pulling the pirate ship, and I had two fog machines going. At one point, we pulled up in front of the courthouse, and I thought my engine was on fire, but the fog was just billowing from the head of the dragon, which made a great effect.” Last year, the Mermaid Parade grew from a Friday night promenade into a Saturday, daylong festival. Sponsored by the DMA, the town of Marshall and the Tourism Development Association, it is expected to draw more than 500 people to the town, whose population usually tops out at under 900, and to Blannahassett Island, in the middle of the French Broad River. West says that this year the festival will have more events and more live
musical acts than last year. The lineup includes Franklin’s Kite (roots rock and jam), The Sound Chase (blues), Dan Williams (country and bluegrass), the Brandon Quinn Trio (blues, jazz and Americana) and the Milagro Saints (roots rock and Americana). “We created a triangle to encompass as much of downtown Marshall as possible since we’re only two streets big,” says West, who adds that a shuttle running between the Ingles parking lot on U.S. 25/70 and downtown Marshall will help alleviate traffic and parking issues. “We are going to alternate between the arts and crafts vendor area outside Mad Co Brewing and the courthouse steps for seven hours of live music. And on the island — that is kid central.”
Blannahassett Island will become Splash Island, with an 18-foot water slide, a Slip ’N Slide and an inflatable bounce house. Boy Scout Troop 521 is grilling hot dogs and bratwurst for a fundraiser, and First Presbyterian Church is hosting a fish fry. “And we have local storyteller Tadd McDivitt telling pirate and mermaid stories,” says West. The biggest addition to the festivities is the seafood competition cookoff and canned food drive at the old Arts Council building at 90 S. Main St. The contest is for both professional and amateur chefs, and the judges are the attendees. “You get three gold doubloons to vote for your favorite chefs,” says West. With a $15 dollar entrance fee, the cook-off is the only ticketed event of the festival. “We are partnering with Beacon of Hope, a local food pantry and emergency shelter service,” says West. “For every can you bring, you get a dollar off of your entrance ticket.” The parade is interactive, with designated areas where the floats and the crowd will battle each other in massive water-gun fights. “There are three official ‘war zones,’ which
we will have banners up for,” says West. “So you will be alerted that you are going to get totally soaked.” However, the DMA is shying away from water balloons this year due to the mess they leave behind. According to West, anyone can be in the parade. She says it’s not a long walk, and there will be props available. “I’ve got 12 clear umbrellas for the jellyfish brigade, if you didn’t bring a costume.” She adds, “The Mermaid Parade is one of our favorite days in town. It’s one of the busiest.” X
WHAT Mermaid Parade and Festival downtownmarshallnc.com WHERE Downtown Marshall WHEN Saturday, June 2, 11 a.m.-8 p.m.; seafood competition, 2-4 p.m.; parade 6-8 p.m. Free
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ALWAYS COMING HOME David Wilcox releases ‘The View from the Edge’
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David Wilcox didn’t start his life in Western North Carolina, but once the singer-songwriter discovered the region, he knew he had found his place. Now, 37 years and 20-plus albums later, Asheville remains Wilcox’s home, and living here informs his music in myriad ways. In celebration of the release of The View from the Edge, his first album in four years, Wilcox plays The Grey Eagle on Sunday, June 3. “In 1981, I was on a long bicycle ride the whole length of the Blue Ridge Parkway,” Wilcox recalls. “Traveling by bicycle, you have to travel very light, and I missed being able to play guitar.” He asked some strangers if they could recommend a place where he could find an instrument and take part in a jam. They gave him directions to Warren Wilson College. When he cycled into the valley near Swannanoa, he knew he had found the place where he belonged. Wilcox soon transferred to Warren Wilson, staying through graduation. The Cleveland-born Wilcox easily acclimated to the Asheville area. His debut album, The Nightshift Watchman, was released in 1987, two years after his graduation. He landed a deal with A&M soon after. And even those early recordings display the ways in which Wilcox absorbed the character of his adopted home.
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“Subtle aspects of your personality are brought out by different locations,” he says. “For me, there’s something about this land: the friendliness of these mountains. There is something about my psyche that just sort of feels at home in these hills.” That easygoing and warm character is a foundational quality of Wilcox’s primarily acoustic-based music, and it’s on brilliant display on the 13 songs of The View from the Edge. Wilcox was a regular performer at McDibbs in Black Mountain up until its closing in 1992. That scene “made it possible for me to be a musician,” he says. He saw and heard many other musicians come through town. “It was great to be inspired by a lot of different performers.” Wilcox got to know and become friends with McDibbs’ owner, David Peele. “I offered myself as a lastminute call [whenever] somebody couldn’t make it,” he recalls. “If they wanted somebody to fill in, I would run over and start playing my guitar.” The singer-guitarist began to develop a following and leveraged that into a plan. “McDibbs used to be open Wednesday through Saturday,” Wilcox says. “I asked David, ‘What if you opened on Tuesday and made it supercheap?’” His idea was to use Tuesday nights as a platform to practice onstage while further refining his performance chops.
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ON A ROLL: Nearly four decades ago, David Wilcox discovered the Asheville region while traveling by bike, and the experience changed his life. The singer-songwriter’s music is immersed in the rich current-day culture of Western North Carolina. Photo by Lynne Harty Peele liked the idea but didn’t care for the low-cost angle. He had a better idea. “So we made this big sign that said, ‘Unconditional Moneyback Guarantee,’” Wilcox recalls with a laugh. And the gambit worked: In all the time that Wilcox played those Tuesday nights at McDibbs, only one customer ever asked for a refund. But when Peele held out his hand with the cash, the customer laughed and waved him off. “I just wanted to see if you’d do it,” the listener told the venue owner. Wilcox’s music continued to flourish in the welcoming atmosphere of WNC, and his songs continue to draw some of their character from the local vibe. He compares Asheville to the so-called Music City of Nashville, Tenn. “Here, it’s totally the opposite of a town where there’s a ‘music industry,’” Wilcox says. “You’re not here for that. You’re here to play for the people.” He says that means that the music and performance must be “more personal and accountable to the people who come.”
Wilcox says that when he’s onstage locally, he enjoys “being immersed in the energy of that particular night. I let the music be shaped by that.” He says there’s something special about playing his original music for a local audience. “When I’m done playing and I’m packing up my guitar,” he says, “I always feel like it was worth it in terms of, ‘Do I feel better about music in general? Do I feel better about what’s possible when I am brave with other humans?’” The musician concludes, “I just get more optimistic after a good gig in Asheville.” X
WHO David Wilcox WHERE The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Sunday, June 3, at 7 p.m., $22
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Craft City Approachable DIY projects led by local makers is the focus of the Center for Craft’s summerlong Craft City series on the first Friday of each month through August. The kickoff workshop takes place Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m., when Grace Gouin of Echoview Fiber Mill will teach participants how to make a mini-macramé plant hanger, using locally made, organic cotton lanyard yarn. Other series offerings include rubber stamp greeting cards with Eleanor Annand (July 6) and etched glasses and candleholders with the N.C. Glass Center (Aug. 3). Craft kits are $12 each and include all the materials needed to complete one craft, plus a voucher for a fully loaded hot dog (or tempeh dog) from Foothills Local Meats’ hot dog cart. craftcreativitydesign.org. Photo courtesy of the Center for Craft
For his current tour, Americana singer-songwriter Justin Townes Earle is showcasing solo acoustic performances of songs from his 2017 album Kids in the Street, the first record he’s written since getting married. While the positivity from that union has made its way into his latest compositions, his writing also touches on such subjects as gentrification and inner-city strife, both of which Earle is keeping tabs on in his hometown. “Nashville has really changed for the worse, and it’s not the same place it was,” he says. The son of Steve Earle and namesake of Townes Van Zandt plays The Grey Eagle on Friday, June 1, at 9 p.m. Fellow legacy musician Lilly Hiatt — daughter of Nashville legend John Hiatt — opens. $17 advance/$20 day of show. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins
Opening Eyes Long a champion of dynamic local art, The Satellite Gallery hosts the exhibition Opening Eyes: New Asheville Painting, featuring recent works by Asheville-based contemporary artists. The show combines the talents of Mark Flowers, Nava Lubelski, Randy Shull, Ralston Fox Smith, Aaron Tucker and Jeremy Phillips, who also curated the exhibition. According to the gallery’s statement on the show, the collection is “meant to highlight the riches of contemporary art being made right here in Asheville” by artists who “share a common rootedness in the American modern art traditions that incubated at Black Mountain College and that have continued to define, inspire and challenge art-making in America.” An artist reception takes place Friday, June 1, 6-9 p.m. A panel discussion led by Diana Stoll takes place Sunday, June 10, 3-4 p.m. The exhibit runs through Saturday, June 30. Free. thesatellitegallery.com. Image of “Snarl” by Nava Lubelski, courtesy of The Satellite Gallery
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María Chávez A native of Lima, Peru, María Chávez was born deaf but received treatment to restore her hearing upon immigrating to the U.S. with her family at the age of 2. Now an abstract turntablist, sound artist and DJ based in Brooklyn, she describes her aesthetic as a combination of “recorded sounds from vinyl records with the electroacoustic sounds of vinyl and needle in various deteriorating phases” in which “accidents, coincidence and failures” serve as overarching themes. An improvised late April show at the University of Richmond saw her using broken records dropped atop intact vinyl, employing the turntable’s needle to scratch them, and tapping the edge of the mechanism with her fist to add bass. Chávez presents a solo turntable performance and workshop Tuesday, June 5, at 7 p.m. at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center. $5 for BMCM+AC members and students/$8 nonmembers. blackmountaincollege.org. Photo by Jaime OBradovich
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ON WITH THE SHOW The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre summer season is a full slate of diverse shows, kicking off with the raucous comedy Don’t Dress For Dinner, opening Thursday, May 31. “We wanted to do shows that showcase SART’s talents,” says SART’s board president, Jim Brown. “We also wanted to do shows that were funny, uplifting, engaging and meaningful ... shows that people wanted to see and wanted to produce. Don’t Dress for Dinner is a great show and enables SART to showcase the comedic talents of our actors.” The play is a farce in which a weekend in the country is turned upside down by mistaken identities, affairs and a crazy cook. The infidelities and fabrications to keep them secret spiral out of control with comical results. But that show, and the entire upcoming season, almost didn’t happen. Last year, after four decades as one of Western North Carolina’s more venerable summer theater companies, SART was about to close its curtain for good. Two years of being unable to access Owen Theatre on the Mars Hill University campus, due to the construction of a new theater arts building, had dwindled SART’s finances, audience and support base. Last year would have been the first in the theater’s history that no shows were announced — it appeared that SART was closed for good. To many, that just felt wrong. Amanda Sayles was a former Mars Hill graduate and theater professional whose personal passions for SART helped save the company. She was a driving force in making sure there were performances under the SART banner in 2017. First, longtime SART veteran Randy Noojin staged his one-man Woody Guthrie show last summer as a fundraiser. Expectations were conservative, so when the company brought in $28,000, it realized it had supporters. The success of that show allowed SART to produce The Sanders Family Christmas in December, which played to sold-out houses and brought in about 1,000 patrons. “Out on Highway 19/23 there are two large brown cultural arts signs that read, ‘Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre,’” Sayles says. “The remaining members of the board of directors knew that if they closed SART, those signs would have to come
SART announces a new season and future plans tunities to see selected performances on a pay-what-you-can rate,” Brown says. “We want to reach out to single moms, young families, senior citizens and others to experience what we have to offer. This is all part of the new vision of SART.” X
WHAT Don’t Dress for Dinner WHERE Owen Theater Mars Hill University Campus 44 College St. SARTplays.org WHEN May 31-June 17, Thursdays through Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.; matinees on Saturdays, June 9 and 16, and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. $25-30
DRESSED FOR SUCCESS: Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre returns for a full summer of performances in what it’s calling a season of reNEWal. First up is Don’t Dress for Dinner. The cast includes, from left, Lee Wilson, Randy Noojin, Amanda Ladd and Beverly Todd. Photo by Michaela Hall down. It would be a tremendous loss for the town of Mars Hill and Madison County. It would have been a loss for Mars Hill University. This was a loss the SART board was not willing to take.” As summer arrives, SART can boast a full slate of shows and an assembly of classic favorite performers (Amanda Ladd, Beverly Todd and Noojin, to name a few) and a crop of fresh young faces (Lee and Natalie Wilson among them). Offerings include Noojin’s Seeger: A Multimedia Show about Pete Seeger (opening Thursday, June 21), Working: The Musical (Thursday, July 12) and I-Ya-IYa-O, a world premiere directed by SART founder Jim Thomas (Thursday, Aug. 2). “With a [44]-year history behind us, it’s difficult to say that this is a fresh start,” says Brown. “SART will always have that legacy to carry us through to the next venture. My goal is to modernize
SART as a committed and fully recognized part of the economic development of Madison County and WNC, and move the level of professionalism and artistic quality beyond what SART has done in the past.” Looking toward the future, the company has secured the exclusive rights to the WNC-set musical Brightstar by Edie Brickell and Steve Martin. An all-day bluegrass festival around that production is planned for 2019. SART is hoping to go year-round, with a calendar that includes a summer season kickoff festival, SCRIPTfest (an annual playwrighting competition and conference) and a Christmas show, Sayles says. And, “we want to introduce a children’s theater camp, in addition to a children’s theater series.” “To address the issues of affordability, we want to provide locals with the opporMOUNTAINX.COM
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DRONECHOIR: A rare performance by composer Arone Dyer’s Dronechoir comes to Revolve on Wednesday, June 6, at 8:30 p.m. The unique experimental performance combines unfamiliar collaborators in an unrehearsed performance that continuously reshapes itself through site-specific movement directions. The evening also includes musical performances by Special Strength and Spitgod as well as a movement and music piece by Salomé Navarro, Kimathi Moore, Isabel Castellvi, Sophia Ahmad and Becca Spritz. Tickets are available at the door for $8. For more information, visit missarone.com or goo.gl/hyTc3f (p. 43) ART ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • MONDAYS through (6/11), 2-4pm - Weaving class for veterans. Registration required. Free. Held at Local Cloth, 207 Coxe Ave. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-4520593, haywoodarts.org/ • SA (6/2), 1-4pm Demonstration of gold and silver leafing technique on jewelry by Melissa Enloe Walter. Free to attend. THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-7851357, craftcreativitydesign.org/ • FR (6/1), 5-8pm - Craft City Workshop to make a mini-macrame plant hanger. $12.
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ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS downtownashevilleartdistrict.org. • 1st FRIDAYS, 5-8pm Downtown Asheville First Friday Art Walks with more than 25 galleries within a half mile radius of historic downtown Asheville. Free to attend. Held at Downtown Asheville, Biltmore Ave/ College St. PRITCHARD PARK 4 College St. • SA (6/2), 10am-4pm - Oooh La La Market, outdoor art market with live music. Free to attend. TOE RIVER SPRING STUDIO TOUR 828-682-7215, toeriverarts.org/ studio-tour/ • FR (6/1) through SU (6/3), 10am-5pm - Selfguided driving tour of artist studios in MItchell and Yancey counties. Free to attend. See website for map of open studios. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5:30-7:30pm at the
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AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • MO (6/4) & TU (6/5), 6:30-9:30pm - Open auditions for Bloomsday. Full guidelines online. ASHEVILLE YOUTH CHOIRS ashevilleyouthchoirs.org • TH (5/31) & TH (6/7), 4-7pm - Auditions for the Asheville Youth Choir. See website for full guidelines.
DANCE EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. • Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee. Information:
ashevillemovementcollective.org 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 BALLET CONSERVATORY OF ASHEVILLE 828-255-5777, balletconservatoryofasheville.com • FR (6/1), 7pm & SA (6/2), 3pm & 7pm - Swan Lake. $24-$28/$14-$16.50 children. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. BREVARD HIGH SCHOOL 609 N Country Club Road, Brevard, 828-8839025 • SU (6/3), 5pm - Brevard Ballet presents Cinderella and Raymonda. $22/$11 students.
COMMUNITY APPALACHIAN RIVER DANCE card.org • 1st TUESDAYS, 7-10pm - Community dance with live music by Julia Weatherford and Pearl Mueller-Shirley. Events include contra, circles, squares and waltz dancing. $5. Held at Marshall High Studios, 115 Blanahassett Island Marshall HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com • 1st MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm - "Salsa Dancing for the Soul," open levels salsa dance. Free to attend. SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 828-697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (6/2), 6:30pm - "A Black and White Night" themed 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
MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Saturdays 5pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com ASHEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL 419 McDowell St., 828-350-2500 • TH (5/31), 7pm Asheville High School A Capella Club, spring concert. $5/$3 seniors and students. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 828-3508484, blackmountaincollege.org • WE (6/6), noon-10pm - John Cage 33 1/3, performed by María Chávez and audience. $8/$5 members. BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 828-862-2105, brevardmusic.org • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free. Held in the Porter Center at Brevard College, 1
Brevard College Drive, Brevard
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CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • THURSDAYS 5-7pm - Pritchard Park singer/ songwriter series. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.
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CONCERTS ON THE CREEK mountainlovers.com • FR (6/1), 7-9pm - Train, classic hits, outdoor concert. Free. Held at Bridge Park, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13 • Black Mountain, 828-357-9009, floodgallery.org • MONDAYS, 6-7pm - Didjeridu lessons. Admission by donation. MONDAY NIGHT LIVE! CONCERT SERIES 828-693-9708, historichendersonville.org • MO (6/4), 7-9pm Outdoor concert featuring Virginia & The Slims, blues/swing. Free. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville REVOLVE 122 Riverside Drive • WE (6/6), 8:30pm - "DroneChoir," performance created by Arone
an unrehearsed choir of fed instructions through headphones. Includes a movement and music piece by Isabel Castellvi and Salomé Navarro. TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 828-884-3151 • FR (6/1), 7:30-8:45pm Summer Concert Series: Outdoor concert featuring the April Verch Band, fiddling/stepdancing. TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (5/31), 7pm - Sunset Series: Dan Keller Jazz Trio, outdoor concert. Free to attend. WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE womansong.org • FR (6/1), 7:30pm & SA (6/2), 3pm - "We Are One," 75-member women's chorus concert. $20/$12 for children under 12. Held at Warren Wilson Presbyterian Church, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa
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SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (5/31), 7:30pm "Listen to This" storytelling series hosted by Tom Chalmers and featuring stories and original songs from locals. $15. ASHEVILLE LAND OF SKY TOASTMASTERS 828-274-1865 954-383-2111 • TUESDAYS, 7-8am - Event to improve speaking skills and grow in leadership. Free. Held at Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Center Blvd. ASHEVILLE WRITERS' SOCIAL allimarshall@bellsouth.net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - N.C. Writer's Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (6/5), 7pm - Book Discussion: Dead Wake by Erik Larson. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (6/6), 3pm - Book Discussion: Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115, firestorm.coop • First SUNDAYS, 5pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend. LENOIR RHYNE CENTER FOR GRADUATE STUDIES 36 Montford Ave., 828778-1874 • SA (6/2), 9am-12:30pm - "From Page to Stage," storytelling workshop with David Joe Miller and Scott Whitehair. Information: bit.ly/2IMPozE. $39.
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MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • WE (5/30), 6pm - Kaitlyn Sage Patterson presents her young adult book, The Diminished. Ashley Poston presents her young adult book, Geekerella: A Fan Girl Fairy Tale. Free to attend. • TH (5/31), 6pm - Kevin Patterson presents his book, Love's Not Color Blind: Race and Representation in Polyamorous and Other Alternative Communities. Free to attend. • TH (5/31), 7pm - Works In Translation Book Club: Translation as Transhumance by Mireille Gansel, translated by Ros Schwartz. Free to attend. • FR (6/1), 6pm - Dreams that can Save Your Life: Early Warning Signs of Cancer and Other Diseases. Free to attend. • SU (6/3), 3pm "Poetrio," poetry readings featuring Maura Way, V.P. Loggins and Lynn Stanton. Free to attend. • MO (6/4), 6pm - Steve Mitchell presents his book, Cloud Diary. Free to attend. • MO (6/4), 7pm LGBTQ book club: Ash by Malinda Lo. Free to attend. • TU (6/5), 6pm - Andrew Lawler presents his book, The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke. Free to attend. • TU (6/5), 7pm Current Events Book Club: Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money, and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win by Luke Harding. Free to attend. • TU (6/5), 7pm - Women in Lively Discussion (WILD) Book Club: The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry. Free to attend. • WE (6/6), 6pm - "Pride," event featuring Susan Green, Robin Phillips and Lynn Ames presenting parallel stories of love and the struggle for civil rights. Free to attend. • WE (6/6), 7pm Malaprop's Book Club: Under the Udala Trees by Chinelo Okparanta. Free to attend.
• TH (6/7), 6pm - Caleb Johnson presents his book, Treeborne, in conversation with Denise Kiernan. Free to attend.
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NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS 828-329-4190 • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-3294190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road
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WRITER IN YOU 828-776-8248 • MO (6/4), 10am2pm - Writers group. Participants bring something they are reading, six copies of something they are writing and a packed lunch. Free. Held at First Presbyterian Church, 40 Church St.
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youth. MAGNETIC 375 375 Depot St., • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (5/24) until (6/9), 7:30pm - Full-Tilt Boogie at the Big Bang Diner, comedy. $16. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/1) until (6/30), 7:30pm - A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. NC STAGE COMPANY
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THE AMAZING ACROCATS FEATURING TUNA AND THE ROCK CATS (PD.) Real Rescued Acrobatic Housecats! Including the only all cat band in the entire world, live! (Wed) 6/13 7 p.m. Diana Wortham Theatre ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/1) until (6/24) - The Full Monty, comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. Thursday performances on June 14 & June 21, 7:30pm. $25-$30.
• THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/31) until (6/10) - As You Like It, NC Stage's new Ensemble Community Tour. Thurs.Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $20/$10 student. SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE 828-689-1239, sartplays.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/31) until (6/17) - Don't Dress for Dinner, comedy. Thurs.Sat.:7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $30/$18
FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/25) until (6/9) - Clue: the Musical. Wed.-Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $20 and up.
students. Held at Owens
HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-6921082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/18) until (6/3) - Guys and Dolls, musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm.
The Perfect Murder. $7.
Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill THE AUTUMN PLAYERS 828-686-1380, www.ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • FR (6/1) & SA (6/2), 2:30pm - Readers Theatre Showcase Series presents Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. • SU (6/3), 4pm - Readers Theatre Showcase Series presents The Perfect Murder. $7. Held at UNCAsheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road
GALLERY DIRECTORY 14 RIVERSIDE DRIVE ARTS & CULTURE CENTER 14 Riverside Drive • SA (6/2) through MO (10/8) North Carolina and the Studio Glass Movement, group exhibition. Reception: Saturday, June 2, noon-4pm. ALCHEMY 62 Clayton St., 828-575-9419 • Through TH (5/31) - Dream Notes, exhibition of abstract mixed media, watercolor paintings and film photographs by Amanda Schaaf.
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AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828-2812134, amerifolk.com • TH (5/31) through TH (6/21) - Spring Reunion, exhibition of artworks by Liz Sullivan & John "Cornbread" Anderson. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8pm.
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ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 175 Biltmore Ave, Asheville, 828-253-3227 • Through SU (9/30) - Red Hot in the Blue Ridge, group glass art exhibition..
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ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 828-255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • TH (6/7) through SA (7/28) Secundo, exhibition of works by local artists working in book, print and mixed media. Reception: Friday, June 7, 5:30-7pm. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • FR (6/1) through SA (6/30) - Color Our World, exhibition of paintings by Reda Kay. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8pm. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • FR (6/1) through SA (8/4) - Shared History, exhibition highlighting the museum's partnerships, collaborations, programs, exhibitions, conferences and {Re}HAPPENINGs over the past 25 years. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5:30-8pm. DISTRICT WINE BAR 37 Paynes Way, Suite 9 • SA (6/2) through SA (6/30) The Legend of Rosebud, exhibition of paintings by Joyce Thornburg and Ken Vallario. Reception: Saturday, June 2, 6-9pm. EPIONE INTEGRATED CLINIC 19 Zillicoa St, Unit 3, 828-7716126, epioneintegratedclinic. com • Through FR (8/31) - The Sacred Is Creative, exhibition of work by Desiree DeMars. FOLK ART CENTER MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 828-298-7928, craftguild.org • Through SU (6/24) Exhibition of work from the graduating class of Haywood Community College’s professional crafts program.
210 Haywood Road, West Asheville, NC 28806 (828)744-5151 www.urbanorchardcider.com INTERCONNECTION: The Asheville Area Arts Council’s newest exhibition, Interconnected, features “visionary” artwork from curator and artist Ka Amorastreya, as well as nine other artists, through Friday, June 15, at The Refinery Creator Space. The exhibiting artists express interconnection in differing ways — through representations of the plant and animal kingdoms, the realms of spirits, fairies and devas, the outer reaches of the cosmos and sacred geometry. There is an artist reception and performance by Amorastreya on Friday, June 1, 5-8 p.m. For more information, visit ashevillearts. com. I dreamt I was made of nectar, by Ka Amorastreya courtesy of the Asheville Area Arts Council
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WEDNESDAY 30 MAY: GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY 11 Boston Way, 877-274-1242, bohemianhotelasheville.com/ • Through SA (6/30) - Spring into Summer, exhibition of paintings by Karen Weihs and works by silversmith Alexandria Reznikoff. GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828-2537651, grovewood.com • Through SU (6/3) - Interactions, contemporary ceramic sculptures by Taylor Robenalt. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • FR (6/1) through SA (6/30) Freedom: An Artist’s Point of View, group exhibition in conjunction with REACH. Reception: Friday, June 1, 6-9pm.
• Through FR (6/29) - Piece by Piece: A Show of Works in Collage and Assemblage, exhibition of works by Open Hearts Art Center artists. PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (6/24) - Negative Capability, solo exhibition of works in acrylic and mixed media by Joyce Thornburg. PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through FR (6/1) - Fake Field Trip, exhibition of artwork by Fian Arroyo, Rosy Kirby and Julie Armbruster.
MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 North Lexington Ave. • Through (6/23) - Exhibition featuring paintings by Michael Barringer, ceramic works by Jeannine Marchand and sculptures by Michael Sirvet.
SATELLITE GALLERY 55 Broadway St., 828-305-2225, thesatellitegallery.com • FR (6/1) through SA (6/30) Opening Eyes: New Asheville Painting, exhibition by the Asheville based Contemporary Artists Group. Reception: Friday, June 1, 6-9pm. Discussion: Sunday, June 10, 3-4pm.
OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER 217 Coxe Ave.
THE REFINERY 207 Coxe Ave., ashevillearts.com
• Through FR (6/15) Interconnection, exhibition of visionary art curated by Ka Amorastreya. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8pm. • FR (6/1) through FR (7/27) - Process, exhibition of works by Erica Stankwytch Bailey, Asheville Makers, Bright Angle and Emily Rogstad. Reception: Friday, June 1, 5-8pm. TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (6/16) - Glass on Fire, exhibit featuring glass work by eight glass artists from Yancey and Mitchell counties. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY 188 Coxe Ave. TraceyMorganGallery.com • SA (6/1) through SA (7/28) - Lost Utopias, exhibition of photography by Jade Doskow. Reception: Friday, June 1, 6-8pm. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (6/8) - Brevard - Where Music Meets the Mountains, group art exhibition.
UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 828-8592828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (6/15) - Looking Away: Arden Cone and Glen Miller, exhibition of paintings by Glen Miller. • Through FR (6/15) - Repressed Beauty: Recent Works, exhibition of works by Patti Brady. WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • Through TH (5/31) - Exhibition of the works of Cathy Nichols and Sylvia McCollum. YMI CULTURAL CENTER 39 South Market St., 828-2524614, ymicc.org • WE (5/30) through TH (6/7) - Exhibition of artwork and photography by Asheville High School honors and AP students. Reception: Thursday May 31, 5:30-7pm. ZAPOW! 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101, 828575-2024, zapow.net • Through SA (6/30) - May The 4th Be With You, group exhibition. Contact the galeries for admission hours and fees
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ENCOURAGING RACKET: Clottie Cream, Rosy Bones, Naima Jelly and L.E.D. are the four female rockers forming South London’s Goat Girl. They’re currently touring North America in support of their self-titled, debut LP. London plays a main character on the album, both positively and with devolution: The band signed its record deal the day Britain voted to leave the European Union. Goat Girl’s subsequent album is 19 bold tracks that question political accountability while offering playful, scrappy tracks bolstered by early-’80s punk swagger. The record — an energetic, 40 minute spectacle — is as enlightening as it is pointed. Lead singer Clottie’s dark, whip-smart storytelling asks, “How can an entire nation be so f**king thick?” The quartet opens for current touring partners Parquet Courts. That nationally recognized indie-rock group is promoting its danceable sixth album, Wide Awake, produced by Danger Mouse. More energetic tracks meet self-awareness, here, with frontman Andrew Savage declaring, “Nothing reminds the mind of power like the cheap odor of plastic.” Both bands play The Orange Peel on Tuesday, June 5, at 9 p.m. Photo Courtesy of Holly Whitakerit is pointed. Lead singer Clottie’s dark, whip-smart storytelling asks, “How can an entire nation be so f**king thick?” The quartet opens for current touring partners Parquet Courts. That nationally recognized indie-rock group is promoting its danceable sixth album, Wide Awake, produced by Danger Mouse. More energetic tracks meet self-awareness, here, with frontman Andrew Savage declaring, “Nothing reminds the mind of power like the cheap odor of plastic.” Both bands play The Orange Peel on Tuesday, June 5, at 9 p.m.
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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Asheville Music School Band: Failure is an Option, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Adi the Monk (jazz), 5:30PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Dog Whistle & DJ David Wayne Gay, 9:00PM
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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Chris Jamison's Ghost, 6:30PM Seth Glier & Brad Cole, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Open Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZOOM ROOM Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Salsa Night, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Daydreams & Nightmares Dance Party, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Kind Clean Gentlemen (rock, blues, soul), 9:00PM
ORANGE PEEL Flatbush Zombies w/ Kirk Knight & Nyck Caution, 9:00PM
TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM
OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Andy & Mandy (rock, blues), 5:00PM
TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM
PISGAH BREWING COMPANY El Dub, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Weird Wednesday Jam, 8:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night, 7:00PM THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Redleg Husky (country, blues), 9:00PM
WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night: Maddy Winer & Vince Lewis, 7:30PM
THURSDAY, MAY 31 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ALOFT HOTEL Lincoln McDonald, 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST Sultans of String (world music), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM
THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM
ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mama’s Broke, Lost Dog Street Band w/ Heather Taylor & Sean Jerome (single release celebration), 8:30PM
TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/Billy Presnell, 9:00PM
BANKS AVE Bass Jumpin w/ DJ Audio, 9:00PM
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W/ YELLOW FEATHER
JUSTIN TOWNES EARLE
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SOLO TOUR W/ LILLY HIATT
(ALBUM RELEASE SHOW)
FREE PATIO SHOW, 5-7PM
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JESSE DAYTON
W/ CYNDI LOU & THE WANT TO
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OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Hot Point Trio (Gypsy jazz), 6:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ Cody Hughes & Ryan Cox, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Eric Cogdon (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Open Road, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bobby Miller & The VA Daredevils, 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Get Right Band, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Appalachian Spring Celebration w/ Daniel Shearin, 5:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Anthony Wayne, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Tomato Calculator, 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Open Mic, 7:00PM SUMMIT COFFEE ASHEVILLE Open Mic w/ Dylan Moses, 6:00PM
THIS WEEK AT THE ONE STOP:
THU 5/31 FRI 6/1 SAT 6/2
Lost Dog Street Band w/ Mama’s Broke + Heather Taylor & Sean Jerome THU 5/31 - S HOW : 8 : 30 pm (D OORS : 8 pm ) - adv . $ 8
TUESDAY:
Turntable Tuesday - 10pm
A VERY JERRY
Midsummer Night’s Daydream
ASHEVILLE SOUND & STAGE GEAR SWAP
SAT 6/2 - N OON -5 pm FRI 6/1 - S HOW : 10 pm FREE admISSION (D OORS : 9 pm ) - T ICKETS $10 (E ARLY PICK : 11am-NOON ) - $5
WEDNESDAY:
THURSDAY:
FRIDAY:
Evil Note Lab
Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia 6:30pm
F ree Dead F riday
9:30pm
5pm
Saturday Night Jive
w/ Marley Carroll LYD set SAT 6/2 - 10 pm $ 5 S UGGESTED D ONATION
SUNDAY: Bluegrass Brunch
ft. Bald Mountain Boys + Aaron “Woody” Wood and Friends - 10:30am-3pm
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Justin Trawick & The Common Good [Americana] El Dub - [Funk/Reggae/Blues/Jams] The Ellameno Beat - [Reggae]
UPCOMING SHOWS - ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL:
6/2 6/9 6/14 6/15 6/16
LITZ - [Funk/Psychedelic/Jam] Saturday Night Jive w/ Oso Rey The Hip Abduction w/ Boulevards Supatight & Groove Fetish Saturday Night Jive w/ DJ AVX
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BACH AND BRAZIL:
AN EVOLUTION OF SOLO VIOLIN REPERTOIRE Doors: 2:30pm | Show: 3pm $10 Presale and $15 Door www.bachtobrazil.eventbrite.com OPAL STRING QUARTET PRESENTS
Doors: 7:30pm | Show: 8pm $20 Presale and $25 Door www.opalstringquartet.eventbrite.com
GRACIE AND RACHEL WITH SPECIAL GUESTS STACE & TINA AND HER PONY
Doors: 6:30pm | Show: 7pm $18-20 Presale and $22-25 Door www.gracieandrachel.eventbrite.com CAROLINA MUSIC PLANNER HELPMATE BENEFIT CONCERT
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COMING SOON
BEETHOVEN’S LAST QUARTET
FEATURING: TINA AND HER PONY, THE MOON AND YOU, JEFF THOMPSON, & ALEX KRUG Doors: 6pm | Show: 6:30pm $10-15 Presale and $15-20 Door www.helpmatebenefit.eventbrite.com
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WED 5/30 6:30PM-8:30PM–MUSIC ON THE LAWN CHRIS JAMISON’S GHOST (FREE) 8:30PM–SETH GLIER AND BRAD COLE
THU 5/31 6:30PM-8:30PM–LAID BACK THURSDAY CONCERT ON THE LAWN WITH THE RAHM SQUAD (FREE) 7PM–NIKKI FORBES CD RELEASE SHOW
FRI 6/1 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES CHRISTY LYNN BAND (FREE) 7PM–THE CHEEKSTERS :: IN THE LOUNGE 9PM–SEDUCTION SIDESHOW PRESENTS: PRIVATE PRACTICE (NIGHT ONE)
SAT 6/2 7PM–HOUSE OF HAMILL 9PM–SEDUCTION SIDESHOW PRESENTS: PRIVATE PRACTICE (NIGHT TWO)
SUN 6/3 5:30PM–CHASING JONAH & HANNAH KAMINER 7:30PM–GOODNIGHT MOONSHINE FEATURING MOLLY VENTER WITH MAYBE APRIL
TUE 6/5 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS
WED 6/6
5/30 wed mothers matter:
an intimate evening of birth near death stories
5/31
thu
black sea beat society *ep release show!
6/1
horse feathers
w/ livingdog
6/2 6/3
sat sun
THU 6/7 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES UPLAND DROVE (FREE) 7PM–ANDREW MCKNIGHT 8:30PM–THE EVERLY BROTHERS EXPERIENCE & A RETURN TO PETER PAUL AND MARY
w/ les amis, mistresses fri
6:30PM–MUSIC ON THE LAWN ROB PARKS AND FRIENDS (FREE) 7PM–DAMSEL & DISTRESS 8:30PM–DAVID RAMIREZ: BOOTLEG TOUR (LIVE ALBUM RECORDING)
a tribute to manu chao - live! sannhet
FRI 6/8 6:30PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES THE MATT FASSAS TRIO (FREE) 7PM–NIGHT TREE
w/ self defense family, planning for burial
6/4
mon
6/5
tue
6/5
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party knüllers x jaimie branch earthless
SAT 6/9 free!
7PM–AMICIMUSIC PRESENTS TREMENDOUS TRIOS 8:30PM–THE APPALACHIANS AND LADYBIRDS DUAL CD RELEASE
SUN 6/10
w/ here lies man
**at the masonic temple** angel olsen w/ dick stusso
Yoga at the Mothlight
Tuesdays and Thursdays- 11:30am Details for all shows can be found at
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ISISASHEVILLE.COM DINNER MENU TIL 9:30PM LATE NIGHT MENU TIL 12AM
TUES-SUN 5PM-until 743 HAYWOOD RD 828-575-2737
THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Early Jazz Jam w/ Micah Thomas & Friends, 5:30PM Westsound (R&B, soul), 8:00PM
MAD CO BREW HOUSE
THE GREY EAGLE Doctor Ocular, 6:00PM Whiskey Myers w/ Yellow Feather {SOLD OUT], 9:00PM
MAGGIE B'S WINE AND
THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (classic rock n' roll), 9:00PM
Anniversary Block Party
THE MOTHLIGHT Black Sea Beat Society (EP release show) w/ Les Amis & Mistresses, 8:00PM
Company, 5:00PM
TOWN PUMP Mama Danger, 9:00PM
MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ
WILD WING CAFE Rigged (80's, 90's, and today), 9:00PM
TOWN PUMP Zabuls, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Craft Karaoke, 9:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Kenny Capps Celebration, 7:00PM
Cynthia McDermott (gypsy jazz, swing), 6:00PM
SPECIALTY STORE Maggie B's 11 Year w/ Whitewater Bluegrass
WOODFIN
ODDITORIUM Tripping the Mechanism, Coffin Torture, Covenator (metal), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC
Free Dead Fridays w/
5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Secret B-Sides Trio (soul, R&B), 9:00PM
members of Phuncle Sam,
ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening w/ Joy Williams w/ Anthony da Costa [sold-out], 8:00PM
El Dub (funk, reggae),
ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Vince Junior Band, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL A Very Jerry Midsummer Night's Daydream, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers (up tempo jazz, bossa nova, 30s pop), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Vendetta Creme (sultry cabaret), 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Kangarot, Lower Interiors & Andy Loebs (music about noise), 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Cynefin (Americana, folk), 10:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Wes Hight, 8:00PM HOPEY & CO 3 Cool Cats, 8:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Christy Lynn Band, 6:30PM The Cheeksters, 7:00PM Seduction Sideshow presents: Private Practice (Night One), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Roots & Dore, 9:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon, 6:30PM
THE GREY EAGLE Justin Townes Earle & Lilly Hiatt (Americana), 9:00PM Justin Townes Earle w/ Lilly Hiatt, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Horse Feathers w/ Livingdog, 9:00PM
Circus Mutt, 7:30PM
HALL
FRIDAY, JUNE 1
Rhoda Weaver & The Soulmates (R&B, Motown), 9:00PM
5:30PM 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Cold War Kids w/ Arlie, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Tonk (country), 6:30PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Tempst, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Gruda Tree, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Carrie Morrison, 4:30PM Matt Walsh, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Blueprint (hip-hop, rap), 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Steam Colors Opening Reception w/ DJ Lou, 6:00PM
SATURDAY, JUNE 2 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Matt Walsh (blues, rockabilly), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Saturday Night Jive w/ Marley Carroll, 10:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Kevin Lorenz, 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7:00PM CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM CORK & KEG Rebecca O’Quinn & the Reckoning (swing, jazz, country), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL House Hoppers (swing jazz), 9:00PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Saturday Night Rock Show w/ The Stump Mutts, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Rich Girl Poor Boy & Friends, 8:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Station Underground (reggae), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Max Hightower, Shane Pruitt & Dave Desmelik (southern roots, Americana), 6:00PM FRENCH BROAD OUTFITTERS - HOMINY CREEK Chalwa (reggae), 5:00PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS WORD Story Slammers Showcase, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Laura Blackley, 7:00PM HILLMAN BEER The Groove Shakers, 7:00PM
MANNA FOODBANK Shaka at the Luau: MANNA FoodBank's 19th Blue Jean Ball, 7:00PM MG ROAD Late Night Dance Party w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE 2nd Annual Buccaneer's Ball w/ Franklin's Kite, 7:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Paper Crowns, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Timothy Eerie, Bad Molly, Sane Voids (rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Ellameno Beat, 10:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Pickled Holler (bluegrass), 6:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Up Jumped Three 7:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Shana Blake Band, 8:00PM REVOLVE Hot Heat A Dance Party, 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION Corbitt & Clampitt, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jeff Thompson, 3:00PM Resonant Rogues, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Blitch CD Release Party w/ Tombstone Hwy, Electric Phantom (women in rock n' roll), 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Saturday Salsa & Latin Dance Party Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes, 9:30PM THE GREY EAGLE Courtney Logan & Kelly J., 6:00PM Idlewild South w/ Bruce Katz & Lamar Williams Jr. (benefit), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT A Tribute to Manu Chao, 9:30PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Grand Re-Opening Party w/ Bobby Miller & The Virginia Dare Devils and Kaizen, 5:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Hank Penny and the Current, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Free Flow Band! (funk, disco), 9:00PM
ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 House of Hamill, 7:00PM Seduction Sideshow presents: Private Practice (Night Two), 9:00PM
185 KING STREET Sunday Sessions Open Electric Jam 4:00PM
LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM
5 WALNUT WINE BAR Justin Ray Trio, 7:00PM
SUNDAY, JUNE 3
ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Society Player's Circle, 1:30PM Musicians Jam & Pot Luck, 3:30PM ASHEVILLE MASONIC TEMPLE Bach and Brazil: An Evolution of Solo Violin Repertoire w/ Moises Bonella Cuhna, 3:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Desilu ATX Black Basements ATX FuzzQueen D.C., 9:00PM FUNKATORIUM Gypsy Jazz Sunday Brunch, 11:00AM GOOD STUFF Open Mic w/ Fox Black & friends, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Pure Fiyah, 12:00PM Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Chasing Jonah & Hannah Kaminer, 5:30PM Goodnight Moonshine w/ Molly Venter & Maybe April, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Traditional Irish Jam, 3:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch w/ Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Fashion Bath, MJ Lenderman, Blueberry (rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass Brunch, 10:30AM
THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Manifest Your Month w/ Sound & Movement & DJ InfiniteC, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE David Wilcox Album Release Show, 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Sannhet w/ Self Defense Family & Planning for Burial, 9:00PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, jazz, blues), 7:00PM TOWN PUMP Chris Frisina, 9:00PM
Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 14 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night THE SUNDAY SOCIAL LUB C IC ON THE P MUS ATIO @ 4:30PM
THU. 5/31 Eric Cogdon (acoustic rock)
FRI. 6/1 DJ O’Celate
(dance hits, pop) MONDAY, JUNE 4 185 KING STREET Open Mic hosted by Christ Whitmire , 6:00PM
SAT. 6/2 Flashback (classic hits)
5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Mondays, 7:30PM GOOD STUFF Bingo Wingo Thingo, 6:00PM
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HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Bailamos! Free Salsa Dancing for the Soul, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Game Night, 4:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Trivia Night, 7:00PM Open mic, 9:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Dave Desmelik, 6:30PM
ORANGE PEEL Waltz Night, 6:00PM
ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque w/ Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM
OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Foster (Americana, country), 3:00PM
OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays, 6:00PM
PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Open Mic Night w/ Laura Blackley & Jon Dwyer, 7:00PM
PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Ashley Heath, 7:00PM
PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam, 6:30PM
TAVERN
SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Takes All Kinds Open Mic w/ Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM
SALVAGE STATION Big Boi, 7:00PM
THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night, 6:00PM
SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY True North, 2:00PM
THE IMPERIAL LIFE Ghost Pipe Trio (jazz), 9:00PM
SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Mic, 7:00PM
THE MOTHLIGHT Party Knüllers X Jaimie Branch, 9:00PM
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TUESDAY, JUNE 5 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, 8:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE John Pizzarelli Duo, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Brad Hodge & Friends, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday night funk jam, 11:00PM
BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM GOOD STUFF Old time-y night, 6:30PM
185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM
HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 6:00PM
5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM
ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by The Clydes, 7:30PM
CARMEL'S KITCHEN AND BAR Adi the Monk (jazz), 5:30PM
JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Industry Night, 8:00PM
CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM
LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE NC Songsmiths w/ June Bunch & Galen Stickels, 6:00PM ODDITORIUM Open Mic Comedy Hosted by Tom Peters, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Turntable Tuesday, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Parquet Courts w/ Goat Girl, 9:00PM
MAY 31ST: AIC Presents: Beer Week Improv! 8pm
JUNE 1ST: Southeastern IPA Release Collaboration w/ Homeplace Beer
Baa’d Sheep Burritos will be here
SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Taco and Trivia Tuesday, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Record Prophets, 7:00PM Josie McQueen, 10:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing Asheville & Jazzn-Justice Tuesday w/ the Community Jazz Jam, 8:00PM
ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Rob Parks & Friends 6:30PM Damsel and Distress, 7:00PM David Ramirez: Bootleg Tour, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Open Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZOOM ROOM Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Salsa Night, 8:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM
JUNE 4TH:
THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Rat Alley Cats, 7:00PM
Bailamos! Free Salsa Lesson + Dance, 7pm
THE MOTHLIGHT Earthless w/ Here Lies Man, 9:30PM
THE GREY EAGLE The Dickies 40th Anniversary Tour w/ The Queers & Pleasures of the Ultraviolet, 9:00PM
THE WINE & OYSTER JCC Fundraiser, 4:00PM
THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM
TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Funk Jam hosted by JP & Lenny (funk, jazz), 9:00PM
THE MOTHLIGHT Post Animal w/ Paul Cherry & Shaken Nature, 9:30PM
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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM
Live music from Love and Valor beginning at 8pm
WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM
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DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Todd Day Wait's Pigpen & DJ David Wayne Gay, 9:00PM
THE GREY EAGLE Jaeger Wells, 5:00PM Jesse Dayton w/ Cyndi Lou & The Want To, 8:00PM
TWIN LEAF BREWERY Team Trivia Tuesday, 8:00PM
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WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Clogging Night, 9:00PM
OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Owen Grooms (bluegrass), 5:00PM
TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night, 7:30PM
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REVIEWS & LISTINGS BY SCOTT DOUGLAS, FRANCIS X. FRIEL & JUSTIN SOUTHER
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Alden Ehrenreich leads a fun but inconsequential addendum to the Star Wars universe in Ron Howard’s Solo.
Solo: A Star Wars Story HHHS DIRECTOR: Ron Howard PLAYERS: Alden Ehrenreich, Joonas Suotamo, Woody Harrelson, Emilia Clarke, Donald Glover, Thandie Newton SCI-FI ACTION ADVENTURE RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Recalcitrant rogue Han Solo falls in with a bad crowd when his plan to work his way back to a lost girlfriend runs afoul of both the Empire and a band of outlaws. THE LOWDOWN: Han shoots first, but you’ll ask plenty of questions later. Backstory can be a funny thing, not unlike booze at a compulsory party: If you don’t get enough, you’ll leave disappointed; get too much and you’ll regret that you came at all. Ron Howard’s Solo definitely falls into the latter category, filling in the blanks of an iconic character in such a way that nothing is left to the
imagination, and even less remains in the annals of nostalgia. While Solo is fun enough in its way, it strips the character of its inherent appeal, distilling all the mysterious charm of Harrison Ford’s star-making performance into predictable pabulum and stretching that one note for more than two hours. Are you the kind of Star Wars fan who absolutely has to know what the Kessel run was and why making it in less than 12 parsecs was a big deal? Ron Howard has your answer. This is a movie dedicated to addressing questions that most of us never asked, like where Han got his blaster or how he rooked Lando out of the Millennium Falcon. Are these questions interesting? Sure, as far as that goes. Do they warrant 2 hours and 15 minutes of exposition? Probably not. Yes, it’s fun to see how Han first met Chewbacca — but to what end? Questionable necessity aside, Solo is a relatively fun and engaging film, even
if it feels superfluous in the broader context of the Star Wars canon. Filling in for ousted directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller, Howard proves a competent, if somewhat uninspired directorial voice for a film that feels distinctly outside his stylistic wheelhouse. Solo falls short of the grandiose visual spectacle that characterizes the Star Wars franchise as a whole, and the script penned by Jonathan Kasdan and Lawrence Kasdan lacks the comedic sensibilities that were such a welcome surprise in The Last Jedi. Whether or not the blame for these shortcomings should be laid strictly at Howard’s feet is something we’ll most likely never know, but he is ultimately responsible for turning in a film that falls distinctly short of its predecessors. It’s more likely that star Alden Ehrenreich will bear the brunt of fans’ ire — but such gripes would be misplaced, as Ehrenreich is more than passable as the young Solo, even if he
fails to quite fill Harrison Ford’s shoes. The supporting cast is tremendous, with Woody Harrelson, Thandie Newton, Paul Bettany and Emilia Clarke elevating the potboiler heist narrative they’ve been handed. Unsurprisingly, the real crowdpleaser here is Donald Glover, fleshing out Lando Calrissian in ways that Billy Dee Williams never got the screen time to even consider. Glover’s Lando is equal parts sleaze and charm, and the actor’s magnetic screen presence gives Solo a much-needed boost in the charisma department. If Solo has fallen drastically shy of both box office projections and fan expectations, it’s still not as bad as it could have been. Disney has fine-tuned its box office behemoth to such an extent that it’s doubtful the studio will turn out a truly pan-worthy tentpole anytime in the foreseeable future. Still, after his ignominious fate in The Last Jedi, Han Solo deserved a better resurrection than this. Rated PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi action/violence. Now Playing at AMC Classic River Hills 10, Carolina Cinemark, Grail Moviehouse, Biltmore Regal Grande, Epic of Hendersonville, Strand of Waynesville, Co-Ed Brevard. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM
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Filmworker HHHHS
DIRECTOR: Tony Zierra PLAYERS: Leon Vitali, Stanley Kubrick, Ryan O’Neal, Matthew Modine, Danny Lloyd, Stellan Skarsgård, R. Lee Ermey DOCUMENTARY RATED NR THE STORY: The life and career of Stanley Kubrick’s longtime personal assistant Leon Vitali is explored, exposing a depth of obsession rivaled only by the great auteur himself. THE LOWDOWN: A revelatory documentary that sheds light on the unsung hero behind Kubrick’s final three films, painting a portrait of unparalleled devotion and self-sacrifice. I don’t know if I’ve ever loved anything as much as Leon Vitali loves Stanley Kubrick. Don’t get me wrong, I do love Kubrick — enough that I devoted an entire summer semester in college to a class that pored over every inch of extant film that the man ever shot — but given the opportunity, I doubt I could have turned over my entire life to helping him realize his creative vision. That’s exactly what Vitali did, and with Filmworker, documentarian Tony Zierra has finally given Kubrick’s unheralded right-hand man his much belated due. For a filmmaker about whom so much has been written, little has been said about the incalculable contributions Leon Vitali made to every Kubrick film from The Shining onward. Since this is Kubrick, that means only three completed films, but it also means that attending to the director’s obsessive needs was a 24-hour-a-day job. Sure, I was familiar with Vitali’s story, at least in passing — an up-and-coming young British actor who landed a dream gig as the closest thing Barry Lyndon had to a villain, only to give up his promising career to become Kubrick’s personal assistant — but it turns out I didn’t know the half of it. Zierra delves into Vitali’s personal and professional narrative to such an extent that his centrality to Kubrick’s work is beyond doubt, and his story is both heartwrenching and inspiring. Now in his late sixties, haggard and world-weary, Vitali wouldn’t look out of place on stage with The Rolling Stones. Hearing him describe falling in love with Kubrick’s work on seeing A Clockwork Orange or the rare approval he received from the director for his work as Lord 52
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Bullingdon in Barry Lyndon, one gets the sense of a widower recalling a dearly departed spouse. And in many ways, Vitali’s relationship with Kubrick was closer than even that, with Vitali’s children describing their father sleeping fully clothed on a doormat so that he wouldn’t sleep through an emergency call from his lord and master. Vitali’s devotion to Kubrick is indeed cultish, but the relationship wasn’t entirely one-sided. Under the auspices of his role as Kubrick’s go-to fixer, he filled the role of half a dozen production executives, handling everything from location scouting to casting to foley design to coaching first-time performers like Danny Lloyd and R. Lee Ermey. But he was also designing surveillance systems that allowed Kubrick to monitor an ailing cat and fielding angry responses from studio executives who had received demanding letters penned by Kubrick but signed with Vitali’s name. If Vitali’s dedication to Kubrick sounds unrewarding, his life after the filmmaker’s death is downright criminal. Functionally broke after years of service to one of the greatest auteurs to ever live, Vitali has been reduced to borrowing from his kids because nobody in Hollywood will hire him, despite his mind-boggling skill set. When LACMA organized a Kubrick retrospective, nobody bothered to call him — but ever the acolyte, he led dozens of tours of students and industry bigwigs through the exhibit anyway. And that’s a perfect metaphor for Vitali’s work — selfsacrificing and utterly devoid of ego. When I got the chance to program the premiere of Filmworker as a part of the Asheville Film Society’s June schedule, I jumped at the chance without having seen the movie. Having watched it, I couldn’t be more confident that Vitali’s story deserves as broad an audience as possible. I had initially considered showing Filmworker as a double bill with Barry Lyndon, but it might make a more appropriate counterpoint to Rodney Ascher’s Room 237, a film that mythologizes Kubrick almost to the point of absurdity. If Room 237 examines the cult of Kubrick, Filmworker comes across as the confession of that cult’s high priest. By focusing on Vitali himself and never claiming to delve into “the real Stanley,” Zierra’s documentary provides more invaluable insight into the genius — or madness, depending on your perspective — of Kubrick than any other film on the subject. Not Rated. One screening only, Tuesday, June 5 at 7 p.m., presented at Grail Moviehouse by Asheville Film Society curator and Xpress critic Scott Douglas. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM
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Action comedy starring Johnny Knoxville. According to the studio: “Knoxville stars as D.C., the crackpot owner of a low-rent, out-of-control amusement park where the rides are designed with minimum safety for maximum fun. Just as D.C.’s estranged teenage daughter Boogie comes to visit, a corporate megapark opens nearby and jeopardizes the future of Action Point. To save his beloved theme park and his relationship with his daughter, D.C. and his loony crew of misfits risk everything to pull out all the stops — and stunts.” No early reviews. (R)
Adrift
Romantic drama based on a true story, starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin. According to the studio: “Tami Oldham (Woodley) and Richard Sharp (Claflin) couldn’t anticipate they would be sailing directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. In the aftermath of the storm, Tami awakens to find Richard badly injured and their boat in ruins. With no hope for rescue, Tami must find the strength and determination to save herself and the only man she has ever loved.” No early reviews. (PG-13)
How to Talk to Girls at Parties
Adaptation of the Neil Gaiman short story, directed by John Cameron Mitchell. According to the studio: “Enn (Alex Sharp) is a shy suburban London teenager in 1977, sneaking out with his best friends to after-hours punk parties. One night they stumble upon a bizarre gathering of sexy teenagers who seem like they are from another planet. In fact, they are from another planet, visiting Earth to complete a mysterious rite of passage. That doesn’t stop Enn from falling madly in love with Zan (Elle Fanning), a beautiful and rebellious alien teenager who, despite her allegiance to her strange colony, is fascinated by Enn. Together they embark on a delirious adventure through the kinetic punk rock world of 1970s London, inadvertently setting off a series of events that will lead to the ultimate showdown of punks vs. aliens and test the limits of how far each of them will go for true love.” Early reviews mixed. (PG-13)
Upgrade
Sci-fi thriller directed by Saw writer Leigh Whannell, in which a man paralyzed in a brutal mugging turns to an experimental technology in order to get revenge. Early reviews mixed. (R)
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DIRECTOR: Henry Hathaway, Howard Hawks, Henry King, Henry Koster, Jean Negulesco PLAYERS: Fred Allen, Oscar Levant, Charles Laughton, Anne Baxter, Marilyn Monroe, Farley Granger DRAMA COMEDY Rated NR For O. Henry’s Full House (1952), 20th Century Fox brought in all the star power it could muster (mostly from the studio’s roster of contract artists), five name directors and the literary clout of no less than John Steinbeck to introduce the five episodes that make up the film. In doing so, the studio actually managed to make a credible job of bringing a quintet of O. Henry stories to the screen. In fact, this may be the second most successful portmanteau film of the studio era — edged out slightly by Julien Duvivier’s Tales of Manhattan, made for the same studio 10 years earlier. As with all such films, the interest level is entirely dependent on the individual stories — and four of the five are very good indeed. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Feb. 7, 2007. The Hendersonville Film Society will show O. Henry’s Full House on Sunday, June 3, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
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RETURN OF THE KID: The late, great Prince gets the birthday treatment from Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. with two showings of Purple Rain on June 7. Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. • The McDowell Arts Council Association, 50 S. Main St., Marion, presents a screening of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde on Friday, June 1, at 7:30 p.m. in the Greenlee Theatre. The 1920 silent film stars John Barrymore and will be hosted by pianist Nathan Shirley, who will also provide live music accompaniment. Tickets are $5 and available online. mcdowellarts.org • On Saturday, June 2, at 8:30 p.m., Vintage Kava, 141 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville, will show Detour. The 1945 film noir from director Edgar G. Ulmer follows a hitchhiker who assumes a dead man’s identity. Free to attend. vintagekava.com • Highland Brewing Co. continues its monthly superhero series on Wednesday, June 6, at 6 p.m. with Thor: Ragnarok. Taika Waititi’s 2017 action-comedy finds Thor (Chris Hemsworth) attempting to win back his home planet of Asgard from his vengeful sister Hela (Cate Blanchett).
FILM CITY OF HENDERSONVILLE cityofhendersonville.org • SA (6/2), 8pm - Movies in the Park: Outdoor screening of The Secret Life of Pets. Free. Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville
The screening takes place in the brewery’s event center. Attendees are invited to bring blankets or camp chairs. The Tin Can Pizzeria food truck will be onsite. Free to attend. highlandbrewing.com • Deadlines to submit films for the Micropolitan Film Festival are approaching. The new film festival produced by the McDowell Arts Council Association is set for Aug. 10-12 in Marion. The festival’s mission is to showcase the work of filmmakers living in areas of 10,00050,000 people that don’t easily fit into any niche genre, category or competition. Submissions may be any genre and are encouraged to feature original takes on small-town life experiences or draw inspiration from the filmmaker’s smalltown roots. Films must have a running time of 30 minutes or less, including credits. The regular deadline is Friday, June 1, for $25; the late deadline is Friday, June 15, for $30; and the final extended deadline is Sunday, July 1, for $35. filmfreeway.com/MFF • Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave., hosts a screening of Purple Rain on Thursday, June 7, at 7 and 10 p.m. in honor of Prince’s birthday. Tickets are $3 and available online and at the venue’s main bar. ashevillebrewing.com X
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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): A critic described Leonardo da Vinci’s painting the Mona Lisa as “the most visited, most written about, most sung about, most parodied work of art in the world.” It hasn’t been sold recently, but is estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Today it’s kept in the world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris, where it’s viewed by millions of art lovers. But for years after its creator’s death, it enjoyed little fanfare while hanging in the bathroom of the French King Francois. I’d love to see a similar evolution in your own efforts, Aries: a rise from humble placement and modest appreciation to a more interesting fate and greater approval. The astrological omens suggest that you have more power than usual to make this happen in the coming weeks and months. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): These days, many films use CGI, computer generated imagery. The technology is sophisticated and efficient. But in the early days of its use, producing such realistic fantasies was painstaking and time-intensive. For example, Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film Jurassic Park featured four minutes of CGI that required a year to create. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will summon equivalent levels of old-school tenacity and persistence and attention to detail as you devote yourself to a valuable task that you love. Your passion needs an infusion of discipline. Don’t be shy about grunting. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On February 17, 1869, Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleyev had an appointment with a local cheese-making company to provide his expert consultation. But he never made it. A blast of inspiration overtook him soon after he awoke, and he stayed home to tend to the blessed intrusion. He spent that day as well as the next two perfecting his vision of the periodic table of the elements, which he had researched and thought about for a long time. Science was forever transformed by Mendeleyev’s breakthrough. I doubt your epiphanies in the coming weeks will have a similar power to remake the whole world, Gemini. But they could very well remake your world. When they arrive, honor them. Feed them. Give them enough room to show you everything they’ve got. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Ninety-five percent of your fears have little or no objective validity. Some are delusions generated by the neurotic parts of your imagination. Others are delusions you’ve absorbed from the neurotic spew of other people’s imaginations. What I’ve just told you is both bad news and good news. On the one hand, it’s a damn shame you feel so much irrational and unfounded anxiety. On the other hand, hearing my assertion that so much of it is irrational and unfounded might mobilize you to free yourself from its grip. I’m pleased to inform you that the coming weeks will be an excellent time to wage a campaign to do just that. June can and should be Fighting for Your Freedom from Fear Month. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During the next four weeks, I’ll celebrate if you search for and locate experiences that will heal the part of your heart that’s still a bit broken. My sleep at night will be extra deep and my dreams extra sweet if I know you’re drumming up practical support for your feisty ideals. I’ll literally jump for joy if you hunt down new teachings that will ultimately ensure you start making a daring dream come true in 2019. And my soul will soar if you gravitate toward the mind-expanding kind of hedonism rather than the mind-shrinking variety. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Everyone has a unique fate that’s interesting enough to write a book about. Each of us has at least one epic story to tell that would make people cry and laugh and adjust their thoughts about the meaning of life. What would your saga be like? Think about what’s unfolding right now, because I bet that would be a ripe place to start your meditations. The core themes of your destiny are currently on vivid display, with new plot twists taking your drama in novel directions. Want to get started? Compose the first two sentences of your memoir.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Dear Oracle: I find myself in the weird position of trying to decide between doing the good thing and doing the right thing. If I opt to emphasize sympathy and kindness, I may look like an eager-to-please wimp with shaky principles. But if I push hard for justice and truth, I may seem rude and insensitive. Why is it so challenging to have integrity? — Vexed Libra.” Dear Libra: My advice is to avoid the all-or-nothing approach. Be willing to be half-good and half-right. Sometimes the highest forms of integrity require you to accept imperfect solutions. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You have waited long enough to retaliate against your adversaries. It’s high time to stop simmering with frustration and resentment. Take direct action! I suggest you arrange to have a box of elephant poop shipped to their addresses. You can order it here: tinyurl.com/ElephantManure. JUST KIDDING! I misled you with the preceding statements. It would in fact be a mistake for you to express such vulgar revenge. Here’s the truth: Now is an excellent time to seek retribution against those who have opposed you, but the best ways to do that would be by proving them wrong, surpassing their accomplishments and totally forgiving them. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Marketing experts say that motivating a person to say yes to a big question is more likely if you first build momentum by asking them smaller questions to which it’s easy to say yes. I encourage you to adopt this slant for your own purposes in the coming weeks. It’s prime time to extend invitations and make requests that you’ve been waiting for the right moment to risk. People whom you need on your side will, I suspect, be more receptive than usual — and with good reasons — but you may still have to be smoothly strategic in your approach. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): I bet you’ll be offered at least one valuable gift and possibly more. But I’m concerned that you may not recognize them for their true nature. So I’ve created an exercise to enhance your ability to identify and claim these gifts-in-disguise. Please ruminate on the following concepts: 1. a pain that can heal; 2. a shadow that illuminates; 3. an unknown or anonymous ally; 4. a secret that nurtures intimacy; 5. a power akin to underground lightning; 6. an invigorating boost disguised as tough love. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): When I was a kid attending elementary schools in the American Midwest, recess was a core part of my educational experience. For 45 minutes each day, we were excused from our studies so we could indulge in free-form play — outdoors, if the weather was nice, or else in the gymnasium. But in recent years, schools in the U.S. have shrunk the time allotted for recess. Many schools have eliminated it altogether. Don’t they understand this is harmful to the social, emotional, and physical health of their students? In any case, Aquarius, I hope you move in the opposite direction during the coming weeks. You need more than your usual quota of time away from the grind. More fun and games, please! More messing around and merriment! More recess! PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For many years, actor Mel Blanc provided the voice for Bugs Bunny, a cartoon character who regularly chowed down on raw carrots. But Blanc himself did not like raw carrots. In a related matter, actor John Wayne, who pretended to be a cowboy and horseman in many movies, did not like horses. And according to his leading ladies, charismatic macho film hunk Harrison Ford is not even close to being an expert kisser. What about you, Pisces? Is your public image in alignment with your true self? If there are discrepancies, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make corrections.
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