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In an action that appears less than aboveboard, the town of Woodfin annexed 114 acres of Asheville property abutting the ridge of Elk Mountain. There are now plans to build 184 condos and 12 singlefamily residences on that property (known as Cornerstone).

Why did Woodfin annex that property? Asheville has stringent steepslope requirements; these were enacted in 2007, both for safety and aesthetic reasons. Woodfin has no steep-slope requirements.

If this property were still within the city limits of Asheville, the owner could not possibly obtain permission to build that high-density development.

This is not affordable housing; these are residences in a gated community, and they are expected to cost from $750,000 to $1.7 million each. All property taxes will go to the town of Woodfin, and all costs will be borne by Asheville and its residents.

There are two roads leading to Cornerstone, both within the city of Asheville; these are winding, narrow, potentially treacherous streets — and they will have to be used for years to accommodate heavy con-

struction equipment — and thereafter by perhaps an additional 400 cars per day.

The Cornerstone land has been examined by the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality and has been classified as having moderate to high landslide potential. Existing downslope homeowners will face major risks — and are unable to purchase landslide insurance.

In addition, many of the Cornerstone units are only 10 feet away from existing residential property lines.

Beaver Lake Dam is classified as a “high hazard dam” by the N.C. Division of Water Quality; it poses a significant and deadly flood risk to area residents upon failure. Runoff from Cornerstone may well cause that dam to fail.

I urge all Asheville residents interested in both safety and aesthetics to attend the July 11 meeting of the Woodfin Planning & Zoning Committee from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. It is currently planned at the Woodfin Town Hall, 90 Elk Mountain Road, but it may be moved to another venue to accommodate the numbers of people expected to oppose this development.

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I reference your article of April 3 concerning opposition to the impending consideration of the Cornerstone development in Woodfin [“Updated: 196-unit Development Proposed for Elk Mountain Ridgeline,” Xpress].

Upon reading in the media about a 24-unit housing development proposed in Woodside Hills in West Asheville, I see some vast differences in the developer’s approach. The developer there is being transparent as to his intentions. He has a name and is willing to meet with the community to discuss his intended development. The property in question is already zoned for 18 units, and he wants to add six more. The objections by the homeowners are decreased property values and increased traffic.

As for the objection to the proposed Cornerstone development on Elk Mountain ridge, there is a major difference in scenario. There is total confusion as to whom the developer/LLC actually is. The land sale depends on approval of the project from [the town of] Woodfin and the zoning [board]. No meetings have been called to actually explain anything to the neighborhood involved. No contracting firm with experience in building on a 49 percent slope has been named.

Because of that slope percentage, the neighborhoods of Sherwood Heights and Lakeview Park face drainage and erosion problems to properties and possibly excess silt impacting the Beaver Lake dam. Safety of access for possible Cornerstone owners is limited to two public access streets connecting to two narrow, winding mountain roads which feed into Merrimon Avenue, already a traffic nightmare.

Yes, the neighborhood faces the same quality-of-life issues as the aforementioned Woodside Hills, but the stakes here are higher: safety, environmental impact and unstable construction on a steep slope.

Development in Asheville and surrounds is inevitable, but there are too many unanswered questions with Cornerstone and too many risks to northern Buncombe County for this development to be approved.

— Elizabeth W. Hill

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Dogs’ rights supersede barefoot humans Apparently dogs have more rights than human beings in Asheville.

I live and walk barefoot. A couple of years ago, I broke my L5 vertebra into pieces. The doctor told me it is better for my back if I do not wear shoes. Not wearing shoes greatly reduces my back pain. My religion also requires that I remain as close to the earth as possible.

Going barefoot opens up a whole new world of experience. It is like opening up a sixth sense: the warmth of the earth or cool wetness of a muddy stream bank, the soft crunching of last year’s winter leaves underfoot — so many feelings shoe-wearers miss out on in their lifetimes. I chose not to wrap my feet in animal and petroleum byproducts as many others do.

I have been confronted by librarians at Pack Memorial, managers at stores and discriminated against by Asheville Transit. I ask them why their policy allows a filthy animal such as a dog (and I love dogs, but they are filthy, poop-, carrion- and garbage-diggingand-eating creatures) into their establishment, whereas I, a human who does not track around feces or poop after digging it up to eat, am not allowed to go where the dogs can.

I have no problem with service dogs going into any establishment. I have a problem with my rights as a human being infringed and not being able to relieve my back of pain because of some unfounded stigma against people who choose not to wear shoes for their own reasons. This not only violates my constitutionally guaranteed rights to happiness and religion, but it also discriminates against me because of my disability.

When was the last time you washed your shoes? I wash my feet every day.

I have people come up to me saying that I am in violation of North Carolina health codes by not wearing shoes. This is completely false.

North Carolina health code and North Carolina law do not ban bare feet from any establishment, but in fact protects myself and others from discrimination based on religion or disability. I wonder why the library, Asheville Transit and businesses want to continue to violate my rights due to my disability and my religious preference.

— Michael Sheasly

Asheville Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter appears at mountainx.com.

Dog breeders’ hostility was appalling On May 29, several members of the Asheville/American Voice for Animals and I held a peaceful protest at an event sponsored by the Hendersonville and Spartanburg kennel clubs. We are opposed to kennel clubs’ support of breeders.

Breeding brings yet another dog into the world when there are already 7.6 million entering shelters every year. Roughly half of these dogs will never find homes and will be euthanized. Adopting a dog from a rescue or shelter instead of a pet shop or breeder saves a life. If anyone still prefers to own a purebred, I would let them know that about 25 percent of shelter animals are purebreds who need homes just as much as other dogs.

While we were spreading this message to the public, I was appalled by the hostility of some of the kennel club members. Many of them stopped their cars to curse and make rude hand gestures at us.

The worst abuse, however, came from the breeders. One breeder came up to us and swore and yelled in our faces, while another drove off the road to nearly hit us, all while she was blowing the horn and holding up her middle finger.

If breeders show so little regard for people, I can only imagine how they treat the animals! The bottom line is if you or someone you know is considering adding an animal companion to your family: Don’t breed or buy while pound pups die!

— Jeremy Sagaribay Eighth-grader Asheville

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BY SIDNEY R. FINKEL North Carolina’s last several elections have produced a state government that has centralized all power — including those issues that have traditionally been under local jurisdiction. In order to reclaim our rights, the time has come for the people of Western North Carolina to secede from Raleigh and seek admission as the 51st state.

Part of what leads me to this conclusion is the Legislature’s recent passage of HB2. Extending far beyond the question of bathroom use, the new law takes away local governments’ ability to enact laws and regulations pertaining to daily life in their communities and provide basic protections for residents.

Over the last several years, state lawmakers have repeatedly intervened in local governments’ affairs.

And going forward, it appears that if any local governmental unit in WNC enacts laws that don’t reflect the political positions held by a majority in the Legislature, it will not only void those laws but will impose the desired view in place of what local residents actually want.

The state’s varied geography and cultures clearly demonstrate that there’s no logical reason why Western North Carolina should be joined in political union with the Piedmont and coastal areas. If the WNC counties weren’t already part of the state, there would be no movement for them to join North Carolina. The fact that they are is a happenstance of history, not a deliberate plan for effective democratic governance.

In every western county, the median household income is below the

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SIDNEY R. FINKEL national level. Meanwhile, the men and women who passed HB2 — and the governor who signed it into law late in the evening of the specially convened, one-day legislative session back in March — are among the economic winners in North Carolina. Their opportunities, their income and their lives really aren’t much affected by a law that prohibits localities from raising the minimum wage or prohibiting certain forms of discrimination.

But the same cannot be said for the men and women of Ashe, Avery, Cherokee and all the other WNC counties. Simply put, Western North Carolina cannot afford to remain a part of North Carolina.

The new state of West Carolina would logically include the mountain counties along the Tennessee border,

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It’s time for us to go the more populated, centrally located areas and everything in between.

West Carolina would have a population just under 1 million and would cover an area of just over 8,000 square miles. It would be entitled to two U.S. senators and one member of the House of Representatives.

Currently, there are seven states that have a single House member; of those, only Montana would have a larger population than West Carolina. The new state would be comparable in size to Vermont, which it might resemble in many ways. West Carolina would be Republican-leaning, even though its largest city, Asheville, is strongly Democratic. So Republicans would be the favorites to win a majority of the statewide elections.

But if Democrats nominated wellknown local figures, they’d be competitive and should prevail in a fair share of races. In many cases, the deciding factor would be not party affiliation but how well the candidates identified with voters’ needs and concerns — which, of course, is the way it’s supposed to be.

There is one major educational investment that West Carolina would need to make: a medical school. In fact, WNC needs such a school anyway, regardless of its statehood status. But that won’t happen as long as this area is ruled by Raleigh.

It’s obvious that the state of West Carolina would be far stronger economically than the western region is today.

Creating a new state capital would, in and of itself, stimulate growth. It’s not difficult to envision the Asheville metro area as a budding Austin or Portland.

One word distinguishes WNC’s economy from its counterpart in the eastern portion of the state: potential.

Increased tourism heads the list of reasons why. To open up the far western regions, a way needs to be found to build a parkway through or around Nantahala Gorge while still preserving the area’s beauty and wildness. The Carl Sandburg Home and the wonderful regional theater in Flat Rock, along with Hendersonville’s farms, orchards and historic downtown, offer vast untapped opportunities.

With increased visibility, easier access and more accommodations, the craft, hobby and arts schools in places like Brasstown and Penland could help them become growth centers.

The isolated, sparsely populated rural counties to the north, along the Tennessee border, would pose the biggest economic challenge. But given their distance from Raleigh and lack of political influence, those residents would still have better economic prospects as part of West Carolina.

The new entity’s motto could be “The Environmental State.” And while West Carolinians would still develop their environment for economic purposes, it would be based on preservation, not destruction. By increasing prosperity and quality of life while preserving local governments’ autonomy, this would clearly benefit all of the region’s inhabitants.

Asked about the idea, City Council member Brian Haynes had this to say: “I don’t know about the feasibility of Mr. Finkel’s proposal, but I certainly could support such a plan.

He makes a valid argument for the creation of a new state. Asheville the capital of the 51st state — I love it!”

Retired professor Sidney R. Finkel has a doctorate in economics from UNC Chapel Hill and has taught at various colleges and universities. The Fairview resident’s bucket list includes becoming the first person registered to vote as a West Carolinian. X

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GAME NOT OVER The long road home for veterans with PTSD

BY DAN HESSE dhesse@mountainx.com “I still don’t celebrate Christmas anymore,” reveals Vietnam veteran Alan Brett. It was 5 a.m. on Christmas Day when he was wounded, and now, the holiday means he gets depressed, uncomfortable and “bitchy.” “I made it hard for my kids, growing up,” says Brett, who’ll be a presenter for an upcoming posttraumatic stress disorder town hall at A-B Tech sponsored by the N.C. chapter of the Vietnam Veterans of America (see box, “Get the Facts”).

“We had Christmas, but it wasn’t a pleasant one. After my kids grew up and left, I stopped celebrating Christmas. It’s just easier.”

North Carolina is home to some 775,000 veterans; about 110,000 live in the 23 western counties, including roughly 20,000 in Buncombe County.

Veterans, particularly those with PTSD, often face stigma, obstacles to gaining employment, troubled home lives, a propensity for substance abuse and self-imposed isolation to avoid potential triggers. According to the Department of Veterans Affairs, between 11 and 20 percent of vets returning from Iraq and Afghanistan has PTSD. And more than 2 in 10 of all vets with PTSD have a substance abuse disorder.

Like war, PTSD is nothing new, but it’s had as many names as misconceptions. Variously known as “soldier’s heart,” “shell shock,” “combat fatigue” and “delayed stress response syndrome,” it’s been a moving target. The American Psychiatric Association didn’t recognize the diagnosis until 1980, leaving many people stuck wondering what was wrong with them.

There are many reasons veterans avoid getting diagnosed. Social worker Ray Scurfield, who’ll also serve on the panel at the upcoming town hall, runs a private practice treating vets with PTSD. The Vietnam veteran says there are both internal and external obstacles to reaching out for help. “You have vets who deny or minimize PTSD issues because they don’t see themselves as

VETS HELPING VETS: Vietnam veteran Allan Perkal organized the upcoming PTSD town hall meeting at A-B Tech. “There’s no magic bullet,” he notes. “There’s no cure: It’s a lifetime of management.” Photo courtesy of Allan Perkal disabled, or they don’t want to admit to themselves how much they might have been negatively impacted by their military experiences,” Scurfield explains. In addition, he continues, “For a number of vets, the process feels very dehumanizing. They feel like they’re being discounted — like they’re almost on trial.”

Brandon Wilson, deputy director of the North Carolina Division of Veterans Affairs, says another huge barrier is the military culture itself.

“They teach you that you don’t have a problem: You’re on the front line, so you need to toughen up, suck it up and move forward. Most military personnel, particularly your combat veterans, have that instilled in them.”

Vietnam veteran Allan Perkal, who organized the PTSD town hall on behalf of the N.C. State Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America, says societal attitudes also create barriers.

For some people, he notes, “Psychiatric labels have an unhealthy connotation.”

Others distrust “psychotherapies and the systems providing the therapies.

It’s just a fear of the unknown, the fear of actually opening up those experiences and talking about what might happen.” For those and other reasons, Perkal continues, “Most people try to cope with it either by avoiding the issues, putting it on the shelf, selfmedicating or just moving on like it doesn’t exist. But as we’ve learned from the past, these memories don’t go away, and they have an impact on the individual’s and the family unit’s quality of life.”

In the ’70s, adds Brett, it was hard enough just being a Vietnam vet without tacking on the stigma of a mental health label. “People stopped putting that they were in

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Vietnam on job applications. They just said they were in the military.

And back in the day, everyone was afraid that if you got a diagnosis you were crazy. So they avoided that.”

PTSD COLORS EVERYTHING But as Brett can testify, unchecked PTSD can creep into all aspects of your life. “I kept my family sort of isolated and pushed away. Having someone close to me felt dangerous, and eventually they got the hint and left,” he says.

Work was no picnic, either. “I had trouble dealing with what little work I did have,” he recalls. “I had trouble with supervisors that were younger, and if they gave me an order that I perceived as being dangerous, I just wouldn’t do it. I was probably drinking a little too much at the time.”

For Carroll “Spider” Trantham, getting sober was a wake-up call.

“During my recovery from alcoholism, it finally dawned on me that I had some sort of PTSD, because I was always angry for no real reason,” remembers Trantham, who’s the president of the Ashevillebased Vietnam Veterans of America Chapter 124. He recommends talking with people who’ve had similar experiences. “If you can get with a veterans group, you can unleash some of the pent-up aggravations and see how other people have dealt with PTSD,” he points out.

Western North Carolina says Perkal, is a good place for veterans seeking help with PTSD, in terms of available resources, a strong veteran community and a receptive VA Hospital. But it’s also a great place for people to hide from their problems. “I think the nature of the mountains provides isolation and anonymity for the individual,” he points out, “and they live in areas that aren’t as accessible to the institutions providing care, whether it’s community-based or the VA. So the veterans are out there, and we’re trying to reach those who haven’t been reached and are fearful of those institutions.”

Wilson, an Iraqi Freedom veteran, says finding common ground can make all the difference. “I’m sleeved: I’ve got tattoos on my arms. So if I know I’m meeting a veteran like that, I’m not going to wear my suit and tie; I’m gonna take my jacket off and roll my sleeves up because, automatically, it’s a culture thing.

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COPING STRATEGY: Alan Brett suffered a war injury in Vietnam early one Christmas morning that makes the day difficult for him. He says, “After my kids grew up and left, I stopped celebrating Christmas. It’s just easier.” Photo courtesy of Alan Brett all tatted up, and there’s a trust factor.

With that trust there, I’ve got a better opportunity to reach and communicate with them.”

Financial incentives can also help launch someone on a healing path. “I’m getting them the care that they need,” he explains. “They may be going just for the money, but all of a sudden, the therapists and groups can open their eyes. Now they’re getting the care that they deserve and need without them really realizing it’s happening. Then all of a sudden they say, ‘Hey, this is good: I’m healthier, my family life is healthier, my wife’s happy with me, and I’m playing with my kids because of this.’”

Not everyone finds help through traditional avenues. Substance abuse often leads to trouble with the law, and sometimes, that can be a good thing.

Sentencing options, notes Perkal, can give vets an incentive to start treatment. “The system says, ‘You’ve got to take responsibility, but we’ve got this program.’ In lieu of incarceration, a vet can have the option, depending on the crime, of entering a program. That could be their first foray into treatment.” (See “On a Mission” on page 14.)

LETTING GO But while it’s good to get help with PTSD, there are valid reasons for some veterans’ hesitance and fear. “The

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problem is,” notes Scurfield, “they’re holding on so tightly because they’re afraid if they start crying, they won’t be able to stop. If they remember too much, they won’t be able to get it out of their head. Most vets with PTSD are trying not to be around things that remind them of their issues, so they tend to stay away from people. There’s a sense that isolation protects them — and others, if they’re in that small group that has impulse-control issues.”

Nonetheless, finding a safe environment can be tremendously beneficial, and being around other veterans can help build trust. “We started talking about things, and it started to make sense,” remembers Brett. “I really didn’t know why I was that angry at something.

I found a therapist that was actually a veteran, and I was able to start to talk some things out. I could see where my anger was coming from, and the more I understood why things were the way they were, the easier it was to manage.”

Managing PTSD is the key to not letting it sabotage people’s lives. But it takes understanding on the part of employers and the community at large.

Brenda Ploss of the NCWorks Career Center in Asheville, helps veterans build résumés and hone interview skills to overcome employment barriers. She also connects them with PTSD specialists. A combat veteran herself, Ploss understands her clients’ struggles. “Sometimes the biggest thing I see is trying to avoid certain situations,” she explains. “But that may go against what a veteran’s skills are, which puts them at a disadvantage in looking for work. They tend to avoid going back into something they may love to do, because it has too many triggers for them.”

Those triggers can also lead to misunderstandings in the workplace. Some people, notes Ploss, associate PTSD with violence, but in most cases, it simply means “They may have slight memory loss, and that’s why they need to have things written down. They may have lack of concentration; they may already have some coping mechanisms.” For these reasons, employers may need to make special arrangements for some PTSD workers. “Sometimes they need a place to go and be quiet. The main thing,” she stresses, “is education. Veterans have a wealth of information to offer and soft skills, and with some reasonable accommodation they can be your most effective and best employee ever.”

Still, that fear of the unknown is hard to overcome. Some employers, says Perkal, may think the person they’re hiring “is a trained killer — and what will happen when this individual is on our worksite and loses it?”

But in fact, says Scurfield, “If they’re a threat to anyone, it tends to be toward themselves.”

Admittedly, there are extreme cases that render a particular veteran unsuited for jobs involving certain types of triggers. Scurfield cites the case of a bomb scare involving a huge container of gasoline that it was feared had been rigged with explosives. In the end, it turned out that there was no bomb, but the damage had been done. A veteran working there as a heavy equipment operator, says Scurfield, had to lift the container while the bomb squad investigated, and he “ended up having a phobia about any kind of container that might have something explosive in it.

He did everything he could to avoid being around trains, container cars, 18-wheelers on the highway, storage facilities that contained gas. Anytime a large vehicle like that was in the vicinity, he would take evasive action and turn onto a side street to get away from it.”

Ken Ray of NCWorks focuses on finding and educating employers who are willing to hire veterans with PTSD. Overall, he says, Western North Carolina’s business community has “a lot of sympathy toward veterans, especially with PTSD. They keep up with what’s been going on since 9/11, and they understand that we’ve got a lot of folks coming back that have been in some pretty strenuous situations.” PTSD, he notes, is not a onesize-fits-all disorder, and not everyone needs the same level of accommodation. “Sometimes it might be a situation where an employee can’t work well in large groups or around others.

In some cases, employers set up a location where the employee can not be surrounded by a lot of noise and people.” Ray says he works with a variety of businesses, including manufacturing, retail, restaurants and others. “If it’s an industry in this area, there’s a good chance they’ve heard from me.”

Ploss adds that it goes beyond just getting a job, “One of our focuses is finding gainful employment, not just finding employment. … I want to find what they really want to do in life and how we can get them there.

It may be baby steps, but we may be able to get them there faster than they thought originally.”

THE NEXT WAVE Having watched society’s attitudes toward veterans and PTSD gradually evolve, many Vietnam veterans have a strong desire to help those coming home from today’s conflicts find acceptance and the resources they need. And despite the generation gap and differences in the various wars, says Trantham, “The young men and women are the same identical people we were 40 years ago. They think, ‘We don’t need any stinking help — just leave me alone’ when, in fact, they do need help. What we would love to do is get the information out. And maybe we can keep one veteran from committing suicide, keep one marriage from going down the tubes or keep one vet from starting a drinking problem.”

The military culture, too, is becoming more proactive, says Brett. Newer veterans “start talking about PTSD in the military, so it’s not as bad as it used to be, where you couldn’t talk about anything. They get out and they’re automatically connected with the VA, go through a screening and can come out with a PTSD diagnosis. That never happened before.”

At the state level, notes Wilson, Gov. Pat McCrory created a cabinet-level Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. “So now, in the governor’s weekly cabinet meetings, we have a representative there. That’s a large step.”

Beyond that, however, “Community awareness is key. There needs to be more education so communities can say, ‘Hey, people with PTSD aren’t crazy. They’re suffering from a disability incurred by protecting our freedoms, and we need to help and embrace them.”

To that end, the upcoming town hall will provide information about the various community, state and federal resources available for PTSD and related issues. Perkal says he hopes the event will reach vets who’ve avoided dealing with their issues for too long.

“There are people from the Vietnam generation that are still struggling: In a sense, they haven’t come back from the war zone. Part of them died in the war zone, and the part that came back hasn’t been successful.”

Trantham, too, wants younger veterans to know about the resources available and realize that the older generation knows what they’re going through.

Nonetheless, he continues, “You don’t save all of them, by any means. They’re just as hardheaded as we were. But if we can get one or two, they in turn can tell other vets of their age, ‘Hey, I got help from the VA.’” X

Get the facts A PTSD town hall meeting sponsored by the Vietnam Veterans of America will happen Saturday, June 11, from 11 a.m.-6 p.m. at the Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center, 340 Victoria Road. The event is free and open to the public. For more information, visit VVA-NC.org or call Allan Perkal at 808-383-7877. X

Resources for veterans with PTSD NCWORKS CAREER CENTER - VETERAN SERVICES avl.mx/2m9 Buncombe County office 251-6200

NC4VETS, NC DEPARTMENT OF MILITARY AND VETERANS AFFAIRS avl.mx/2ma 844-NC4VETS

CHARLES GEORGE VA MEDICAL CENTER: asheville.va.gov 298-7911

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF VETERAN AFFAIRS va.gov

VETERANS OF AMERICA NC STATE COUNCIL avl.mx/2md 800- VVA-1316

VIETNAM VETERANS OF AMERICA, CHAPTER 124 avl.mx/2me

NORTH CAROLINA NATIONAL GUARD FAMILY PROGRAMS avl.mx/2mf 984-661-0565

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by Able Allen

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ON A MISSION

Special treatment court helps troubled veterans regroup

Military service is difficult enough, but for many, life gets even harder once they’re done. Over half of the 2.5 million soldiers deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan during America’s longest continuous period of war have returned with mental health conditions directly related to their time in uniform. Twenty percent have been diagnosed with posttraumatic stress disorder, and 1 in 6 struggles with addiction, according to Justice For Vets, a nonprofit advocacy group. Often, the two are related: More than 2 in 10 veterans with PTSD also have substance use disorder, according to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

And instead of getting the help they need, too many veterans wind up behind bars. In 2010, the Office of National Drug Control Policy estimated that 60 percent of veterans in the prison system were struggling with SUD, and about 25 percent of incarcerated veterans said they were under the influence of drugs when they committed their crime.

In the past year, however, a new program funded by Buncombe County and the Governor’s Crime Commission has begun offering a ray of hope fo some local, imperiled veterans. Operated in collaboration with the Charles George Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Veterans Treatment Court is helping some of those who are struggling the most find a foothold en route to a successful future.

TRAUMA TALES Mental health issues and addiction aren’t limited to those who actually saw combat. Some people entering the military already struggle with addiction, and both training and active duty offer ample opportunities for trauma. In addition, people often leave the military without any plan for the rest of their lives.

Nick Albizo was a boatswain’s mate in the Navy. He served for over three years, including time in Norfolk, Virginia, and in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake. And even though he never went to war, his experiences triggered PTSD. He was physically assaulted several times, both during training and later by resentful subordinates. To make

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SUPPORT SYSTEM: To avoid prison time, Nick Albizo, center, is working to get his life on track by confronting his drug abuse and mental health issues. Katie Stewart of the VA Medical Center, left, and Eric Howard of the Buncombe County Veterans Treatment Court are two members of a team that’s enabling him to find a new path. Photo by Able Allen matters worse, says Albizo, he worked up to 120 hours per week, sometimes under extremely stressful conditions such as severe cold. On one tragic exercise, he witnessed a fellow serviceman’s accidental beheading.

Albizo also had a history of substance abuse. While growing up in Shelby, N.C., he had surgery and developed

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a dependency on opioid painkillers after being prescribed “pretty much an unlimited supply.” He was supposed to use them as needed but says it’s inevitable that anyone in that position will end up abusing them.

In the Navy, Albizo couldn’t do the drugs so he switched to alcohol, essentially replacing one addiction with

another. He was discharged from the Navy several years ago for medical reasons involving alcohol abuse, PTSD and a benign brain tumor.

“They weren’t able to operate on it, so they didn’t know what to do.

They felt like I was more of a problem than I was someone they could help. I think that’s why they made

the decision to send me home and not even try to give me treatment,” he explains. Within 18 months, however, the Navy did see fit to give him an honorable discharge, making him eligible for VA benefits.

Albizo then returned to Shelby, where he began self-medicating for chronic hangovers with marijuana and then benzodiazepines. “The benzos is what really got me,” he reveals.

“I started doing benzos more than I should have, and I combined benzos with pain pills or opiates.” That, he says, resulted in a drug charge and subsequent probation, and when he got caught buying drugs he wound up in the Rutherford County Jail looking at potential prison time.

Albizo says his probation officer felt he needed a more comprehensive approach than standard rehab, so she reached out for information about Veterans Treatment Court.

Albizo moved to Asheville last November, and he’s now in a drug and psychological treatment program geared to his particular needs.

“I’m pretty proud of my story, because I’ve made it this far,” he notes.

TREATMENT VS. INCARCERATION Drug treatment courts got their start in the early ’90s. North Carolina came on board in 1995, and they’ve since grown in popularity across the state. According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, “Drug courts have a remarkable track record” over the last 20-plus years.

Even during difficult economic times, they’ve proved “to be a smart, cost‐ effective investment that helps put offenders on the road to recovery, effectively reducing recidivism.”

So far, the Buncombe County program specifically designed for veterans is looking very cost-effective. A February assessment by Jamie Vaske, an associate professor of criminology and criminal justice at Western Carolina University, extrapolated that even with just seven participants, the program had already saved taxpayers more than $213,000, compared with the cost of sending them to prison.

Currently, there are 12 participants, and according to Vaske, the court is saving either the county or the state (depending on where they would be doing their time) over $22,000 per year, per participant. With annual funding

of about $75,000, Veterans Treatment Court is designed to serve 30 veterans at a time; at full capacity, substantially greater savings could be expected.

Money aside, the program is a good fit with the respective missions of both the court system mission and the VA. Social worker Katie Stewart, a veterans justice outreach specialist at the local VA, says the “accountability offered by the court system” is a good fit with the VA’s desire “to decrease future criminal justice involvement with the veterans we serve and support their recovery from substance dependence and mental health disorders.”

The voluntary Buncombe County program is the only one of its kind in the state that’s tied to the Superior Court system, though there are others that work with lower courts. District Attorney Todd Williams discussed his desire for such a program during his 2014 election campaign. Williams also credits the programs presiding judge, Superior Court Judge Marvin Pope, whose passionate support helped get the program going and who now actively recruits qualified participants, including Albizo.

A TEAM EFFORT One impetus for Veterans Treatment Court, says Williams, is that although the local drug treatment courts are useful, they’re not necessarily the best fit for a veteran whose primary diagnosis is mental health-based, such as when substance abuse is an offshoot of a problem like PTSD. Social worker Eric Howard, the coordinator for Veterans Treatment Court, agrees. “The sole focus of drug treatment court is on the actual addiction,” he explains. “But from the research we’re looking at and from what I’ve learned about the veterans program, so much of the addiction is fed by some sort of PTSD from ... military service.” One program participant, for example, smoked meth in part because he didn’t want to go to sleep for fear of recurring nightmares.

With his background in social work and education, Howard (aka “Big E”) is a firm believer in a holistic approach to problem-solving.

He draws on resources all over the

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Follow orders of treatment and supervision • Biweekly visit with Probation Officer • Weekly engagement with veteran mentor • Random urinalysis testing and home visits • Obtain and maintain approved housing GETTING ON TRACK: The Buncombe County Veterans Treatment Court has two tracks, which are assigned to participants depending on risk and need. Currently, one participant is on the low-risk track, and the other 11 are on the longer track. Although each phase is marked with a minimum number of days, participants must comply with the terms of the phase and produce negative urinalysis screens for a certain number of days prior to advancing to the next level. This can lengthen the amount of time spent in each phase. Graphic by Scott Southwick county, but it’s the collaboration with the VA Medical Center, he says, that really makes the program work. “They have more of a socialized medicine model,” he explains. The veterans “have everything there, they have access to care,” with different departments focusing on addiction, homelessness and so on.

Howard also believes the combination of treatment, therapy, support and accountability could be equally helpful for plenty of folks who don’t have a military background but are facing similar issues, noting, “If only we could do that for all citizens.”

Stewart also sees the symbiotic relationship as key. “The involvement of our veterans in VTC seems to greatly improve engagement and commitment to treatment services,” she reports.

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Even veterans she met through jail outreach, continues Stewart, are more committed when their treatment program is bolstered by the support services the special court provides.

Part of that support comes in the form of a mentor assigned to each participant. Retired attorney Rich Schumacher, a former Buncombe County assistant clerk of court, coordinates the program’s mentoring component. Besides having a strong understanding of the legal system, he served three years in the Army, including a stint with the 1st Infantry Division in Vietnam from 1968-69. “Fortunately I got lucky and came back in pretty good shape,” he explains. Now he leads a small, all-volunteer corps

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go and a lot more milestones to reach, but he’s sober and living in a sober environment.

Has he had setbacks?

“Kinda sorta, I would say. But it wasn’t really major. I did relapse, but I bounced back from it the same day. I informed my P.O. and my coordinator and let them know what happened.”

He’s also broken curfew on occasion, but overall, Albizo feels he’s on track, and his confidence in himself and the people working with him is growing.

“I’ve still got my trust issues because of my past. But these guys, the whole team, they’re pretty hard-core. They’re

tough but they’re reasonable at the same time. I like ’em,” he admits. “Do I wish I had done stuff differently before it got to this? Yes. I wish I wouldn’t have gone down this road ... but I’m in this situation for a reason, so I’m gonna take it as a blessing and do what I gotta do.”

And as the program approaches its first anniversary, Williams, the DA, has high hopes for it. “Veterans Treatment Court is an exciting collaboration with a public benefit,” he says. “I just feel it’s our ethical duty to extend these services and to create this court to broaden our efforts in striving for justice.” X

Can you help a veteran?

The folks at Buncombe County Veterans Treatment Court are builders: They are essentially bringing the VTC program into existence from a void. Like most startups, they need resources, and are asking community members to contribute funds.

If you would like to donate money to VTC, you can send a check to ABCCM or stop by its offices at 30 Cumberland Ave., Asheville, NC 28801. When donating, be sure to specify in the memo line that the contribution is for Veterans Treatment Court.

If you operate a business and would consider hiring veterans participating in the program, or if you are a veteran and would like to become a mentor for participants, contact Eric Howard, VTC coordinator, at (828) 259-6601. X

Follow orders of treatment and supervision • Biweekly office visit with Court Coordinator • Biweekly visit with Probation Officer • Obtain and maintain approved housing • Obtain and maintain employment or schooling of veterans who do mentoring work with their assigned participant each week. “I’ve always been interested in veterans issues,” says Schumacher, but what really got his attention was the roughly 3 percent recidivism rate for such courts nationwide. I said, ‘Hey, this is a program that really does work.’“ Although the mentors aren’t part of the core treatment team, ”We are an integral part of the whole system,“ says Schumacher. And, unlike most treatment team members, they’re veterans themselves. That, he continues, ”gives the participants someone they can probably trust a little bit more, at least initially, because you have common experiences.“ Playing a role not unlike that of a sponsor in a 12-step program, mentors attend court dates and meet socially with participants.

Albizo’s mentor, Kevin Rumley, is a medically retired Marine who works as a veterans outreach coordinator and certified substance abuse councilor at NC Brookhaven Behavioral Health in Asheville. Rumley says he tries to help clients find replacements for drugs and alcohol and healthier ways to manage trauma symptoms.

Albizo, meanwhile, says he feels sufficiently inspired by what Kevin does that he’d ”like to pursue a career in that myself.“ That’s exactly the sort of buy-in that Schumacher says he’s looking for. In fact, as veterans complete the treatment court program and get their lives back on track, he hopes to recruit some of them as mentors.

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THE ROAD TO RECOVERY Although Veterans Treatment Court doesn’t focus on punishment, it is hardly a Get Out of Jail Free card. The challenging, intensive program combines therapy and self-improvement efforts with accountability provided by the judicial system and a tough, but fair, team of parole officers.

To ”graduate,“ participants must advance through four or five phases over a minimum of 12 or 18 months. By the end, they have to have put together some version of a sustainable life, including negative urinalysis screenings, approved housing and either employment or schooling.

Albizo is now about six months into the program and has entered phase two. He has a long way to

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COMMUNITY CALENDAR JUNE 8 - 16, 2016 For community calendar guidelines visit mountainx.com/calendar or call 828-251-1333 ext. 137

ANIMALS ASHEVILLE ALIVE 2016 ashevillealive.net • TH (6/16) through SU (6/19) - The 34th Annual Piedmont Paso Fino Horse Show. See website for full schedule. Free to attend.

Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 828-761-2001 ext. 315, ashevillehumane.org • TH (6/9), 6-8pm - “Yappy Hour,” animal adoption event. Free to attend. Held at Creekside Taphouse, 8 Beverly Road CAROLINA POODLE RESCUE 850-766-8734, carolinapoodlerescue.org • SA (6/11), 10am - Adoption event. Free to attend. Held at PetSmart, 3 McKenna Road, Arden CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 322-8169, catawbascience.org • Through (9/5) - Flutter-By Butterfly Habitat exhibit. Admission fees plus $1.

BENEFITS ART IN BLOOM GALA PREVIEW PARTY 669-0930, BlackMountainArts.org • FR (6/9), 6pm - Proceeds from this catered gallery viewing of the Art in Bloom exhibition featuring collaborative Ikebana and Western floral designs benefit the Black Mountain Center for the Arts. $50. Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain BLUEGRASS AND BAR-B-QUE goo.gl/Pnjvbe • TH (6/9), 5:30pm - Proceeds from this barbecue dinner and live music event with PacJAM and Buncombe Turnpike benefit the Tryon Fine Arts Center. $75/$120 Patron level. Held at the Peterson Amphitheater Park, 34 Melrose Ave, Tryon IMMACULATA CATHOLIC SCHOOL 711 Buncombe St., Hendersonville, 6933277, immac.org • THURSDAY through SATURDAY (6/16) until (6/18) - Proceeds from this rummage sale benefit Immaculata Catholic School. Thurs. & Fri.: 9am-2pm. Sat.: 9am-noon. Free to attend.

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‘TRI-X NOISE POP-UP’: On Saturday, June 11, from 6-10 p.m. at the Refinery Creator Space, The Asheville Darkroom is hosting a traveling pop-up photography installation that features Bill Daniel’s 35mm nondigital darkroom photographs as well as post-punk band, Ellipser, and thrash-metal band, Earth Collider. A self-proclaimed “hobo filmmaker and phototramp,” Daniel documents over 30 years of traveling through various subcultures, including punk, graffiti and freight hopping. The exhibit is a fundraiser to support The Asheville Darkroom’s move from the recently sold Phil Mechanic Studios into the Refinery Creator Space. Tickets are offered on a sliding scale from $5 to $25 at the door. For more information visit billdaniel.net/touring/. Photo courtesy of Bill Daniel. (p. 48)

benefit the Colburn Earth Science Museum.

RUN FOR KID’S SAKE goo.gl/V60rsW • SA (6/11), 8:30am - Proceeds from this off road 10 mile and 5K race benefit the Big Brothers Big Sisters program in Buncombe County. $50/$35 for the 5K. Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa

Held at The Boathouse at Smokey Park, 350

UNDER THE STARS BENEFIT 254-7162, colburnmuseum.org • TH (6/9), 6-9pm - Proceeds from this local food and beer reception and silent auction

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler unless otherwise noted • WE (6/8), 10-11:30am - “SBA: Programs and Services for Your Small Business,” seminar.

• TH (6/9), 3-6pm - “Build Your Business’ Website Using WordPress CMS,” seminar.

• TU (6/14), 6-8pm - “Small Business Bookkeeping for Natural Products,” class.

• WE (6/15), 10am-noon - “Business of Public

Contracting,” class.

• WE (6/15), 10-11:30am - “Doing Business with the Government,” class.

• TH (6/16), 10am-noon - “How to Develop and Screen Your Business Idea,” class. Held at A-B Tech South Site, 303B Airport Road, Arden G&W INVESTMENT CLUB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am - General meeting.

Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS ASHEVILLE’S SALT CAVE (pd.) Friday, June 10th, 6pm. New Moon Hand Pan Sound Meditation, $36. Call 828-236-5999 or go to www.ashevillesaltcave.com for details.

BILTMORE MASSAGE THERAPY WELLNESS DAY (pd.) SAT 6/18, 494 Hendersonville Rd. Bring a friend and meet our talented therapists.

Sample chair, Thai or Therapeutic massage, NeuroMuscular Reprogramming, raffles and discounted packages. BiltmoreMassageTherapy. com THE BEST MOSAIC INSTRUCTION IN WNC! (pd.) • Linda Pannullo: Picassiette Planter workshop, Painter’s Greenhouse, Sunday, June 12 • Carol Shelkin: Mosaic Jewelry and Tempered Glass Mosaics, July 16-17. • Linda Pannullo: Pothead Planter workshop, August 20-21 • For more information call Linda at 828-3376749. Email:linda@lindapannullomosaics.com Website:Lindapannullomosaics.com WEEK OF ACTING WORKSHOPS (pd.) 13 professional film, stage, and voiceover acting workshops over 5 days to kick-off the exciting Summer class schedule—only $15 for the week! Info/Registration: (828) 276-1212 www.NYS3.com ASHEVILLE MAKERS 207 Coxe Ave. Studio 14, ashevillemakers.org • TUESDAYS, 7-9pm - Open house & meeting.

Free.

ASHEVILLE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN ashevillenow@live.com • 2nd SUNDAYS, 2:30pm - Monthly meeting.

Free. Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. ASPERGER’S ADULTS UNITED facebook.com/WncAspergersAdultsUnited • TH (6/16), 4-7pm - General meeting and socialization. Free to attend. Held at Creekside Taphouse, 8 Beverly Road BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • 2nd MONDAYS, 7pm - Community club meeting. Free.

BLUE RIDGE CENTER OF LIFELONG LEARNING 694-1740, brcll.com, Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock • TH (6/9), 5:30-7:30pm - “25th Anniversary Bash,” with food and live music. Free.

• TH (6/16), 1-3pm - “Meet Rebel, A Working Rescue Dog,” presentation. $30/$20 members.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TU (6/14), 6:30pm - Adult coloring club. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WE (6/15), 4pm - “Coloring and Conversation,” adult coloring group. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Road, 296-7230

• Through FR (6/17) - “To Preserve the Blessings of Liberty,” exhibit of state constitutions of North Carolina. Free.

FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • 2nd SUNDAYS, noon-2pm - Discussion group on the tarot. Free to attend.

HELIOS WARRIORS, INC. 299-0776, helioswarriors.org, helioswarriorswnc@ gmail.com • SA (6/11), 11am - “PTSD Town Hall,” to educate those exposed to traumatic events while in the military, including information on the effects on the individual and family members. Free.

Held at A-B Tech College Mission Conference Center, 340 Victoria Road HOMESTEAD HOSPICE AND PALLIATIVE CARE 127 Sunset Ridge Road, Clyde, 452-5039, haymed.org/locations/the-homestead • SA (6/11), 2-4pm - “Celebration of Life,” hospice and palliative care event celebrating and remembering loved ones with live music, family activities and speakers. Free.

HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 242-8998, hvrpsports.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

JACKSON COUNTY NAACP jacksonncnaacp.org • MO (6/13), 5pm - “Moral Monday Gathering,” with speaker Reverend Dr. William Barber II. Free. Held at Bridge Park, Sylva LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 7743000, facebook.com/Leicester.Community.Center • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Public board meeting.

Free.

• 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering general meeting. Free.

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (6/8), 5:30-7:30pm - “Energy Efficiency,” workshop. $10.

• TH (6/9), noon-1:30pm - “Budgeting and Debt Class.”

• SA (6/11) & SA (6/18), 9am-12:30pm - “Manage Your Money Series.”

SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road TARHEEL PIECEMAKERS QUILT CLUB tarheelpiecemakers.wordpress.com • WE (6/8), 10am - General meeting and program on “table runners.” Free. Held at Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • SA (6/11), 3-4:30pm - “Celebrating All Families,” presentations and ice cream social to support LGBTQ families. Registration: eventbrite.com/e/celebrating-allfamilies-tickets-25493003259. Free.

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My Sistah Taught Me That

North Asheville 51 N. Merrimon Ave, Ste 117 828-252-7171 Mon.-Fri. 8am–5pm • Sat. 9am–4pm

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RUNWAY READY: Youths rehearse for a fashion show to support new mentorship program My Sistah Tought Me That. Photo courtesy of MSTMT WHAT: A fashion show fundraiser WHEN: Sunday, June 12, at 4 p.m.

WHERE: Celine’s on Broadway WHY: “There is a huge need for mentorship for young girls who are growing up in single-parent homes without their father. That’s the whole premise behind My Sistah Taught Me That,” says Leslie Council, who recently founded the female-focused branch of My Daddy Taught Me That. Council and a team of other local professional women will enroll 28 girls ages 11-19, beginning in July and ideally lasting through participants’ high school graduation and into their college years.

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lessons, including art workshops and belly dancing, that promote a positive body image.

“Once a month, we’re going to do some type of outing, and that means taking [the girls] out of their comfort zone. ... A lot of their experience is within the four walls of public housing, their school and some church. That’s it.” College campus tours or a simple hike up Mount Pisgah, Council says, will introduce the youths to assets in and beyond Western North Carolina.

And her team hopes to emphasize that many women “work here and have great lives” along the way.

To cover the cost of transportation, food and other supplies during year one, the volunteer-based organization will host a youth fashion show with applicants and others. Council, who

owns a fashion consulting business, has already begun coaching the models on how to show off three looks furnished by sponsors Versona and Charmed: accessories, casual wear and formal dress.

“They’re even learning some fundamental skills while we’re rehearsing,” Council says. “One of the girls was like ‘What if people yell out and talk about me while I’m walking down the runway?’ and I was like ‘Girl, you have to keep your head up, keep your chin up, keep your shoulders back, keep looking forward and just keep walking. Not only on the runway, but in life too, you keep walking.”

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BURTON STREET RECREATION CENTER 134 Burton St. • MONDAYS (except 3rd MONDAYS), 5:30pm - Groove dance. Free.

SEDUCTION SIDESHOW eductionsideshow@gmail.com • FR (6/10) & SA (6/11), 9pm - “Bound,” burlesque. $15. Held at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road

DOWNTOWN WELCOME TABLE haywoodstreet.org/2010/07/the-welcome-table • SUNDAYS, 4:30pm - Community meal. Free.

FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway 74, Fairview LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table meal. Free.

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ASHEVILLE VEGANFEST veganfest.bwar.org/event-schedule • SA (6/11), 9:30am-10pm - Vegan focused event with speakers, performers and reception. See website for full schedule. Free to attend. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. • SU (6/12), 11am-5pm - Vegan festival with speakers, music and over 100 vendors. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

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FESTIVALS BLUE RIDGE BARBECUE & MUSIC FESTIVAL BlueRidgeBBQFestival.com • FR (6/10) & SA (6/11), 10am-11pm - Family friendly festival with food, live music and arts & crafts vendors.Gates open at 10 am and close at 11 pm both Friday and Saturday. $8/Free under 13. Held at Harmon Field, 1 Harmon Field Road, Tryon BLUFF MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL Madisoncountyarts.com/events/2016-bluffmountain-festival • SA (6/11), 10am-6pm - Proceeds from this family friendly music and dance festival with food and art vendors and silent auction benefit the Madison County Arts Council. Free to attend. Held at Hot Springs Campground & Spa, 315 Briggs Road, Hot Springs CHEROKEE VOICES FESTIVAL visitcherokeenc.com/events/detail/cherokeevoices-festival • SA (6/11), 10am-5pm - Family friendly festival celebrating Cherokee traditions, dance, music, storytelling and art. Free to attend.

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville, 595-9956, sanctuarybrewco.com • SUNDAYS, 1pm - Community meal. Free.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BUNCOMBE COUNTY REPUBLICAN MEN’S CLUB 712-1711, gakeller@gakeller.com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 7:30am - Discussion group meeting with optional breakfast. Free to attend.

Held at Corner Stone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road BUNCOMBE COUNTY SENIOR DEMOCRATS 274-4482 • TH (6/9), 6pm - General meeting, presentation

by Anna Hitrova and potluck. Free/$5 without potluck dish to share. Held at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road CITY OF ASHEVILLE 251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TU (6/14), 5pm - Public city council meeting.

Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza COMMON CAUSE NC 919-836-0027, commoncausenc.org, contact@ commoncausenc.org • WE (6/15), 6-7:30pm - “Gerrymandering in NC: The Problem & The Solution,” free screening of Gerry-Rigged, documentary. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St

ATTENTION KIDS! FIBER ARTS SUMMER CAMP (pd.) Week-long camps begin 6/13/16. Ages 9-15. 9am-Noon, Monday-Friday. Have fun and learn: Tie-dye, printing, spinning, weaving, felting, sewing. Asheville. Information/registration: 828-222-0356. www.localcloth.org MOVERS AND SHAKERS SUMMER CAMP! (pd.) (6/9-8/26) at Asheville Community Movement. Engaging, active weekly sessions!

Activities include gymnastics, sustainable living workshops, archery, theater, dance, crafts, sports, music and much more! Info and registration: ashevillecommunitymovement.com (828) 254-6060 ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am-12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4. Registration required: 253-3227 ext. 124. $4 per student.

640 Merrimon Ave. #204, 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7.

Free to attend.

CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 322-8169, catawbascience.org • Through (8/28) - “When the Earth Shakes,” hands-on interactive exhibit that explore the science of earthquakes, tsunamis, tectonic plates and earthquake engineering. Admission fees apply.

WNC4PEACE wnc4peace.com • Through WE (9/7) - Submissions accepted for Buncombe County students creative works that promote the importance of peacemaking.

Categories include: poetry, video, artwork and essays. Entries sent to: wnc4peace@gmail.com.

For more information contact: 378-0125. Free.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library. hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time.

Free.

ATTIC SALT THEATRE COMPANY 505-2926 • SATURDAYS through (12/31) - Family theater performances. $5. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • TH (6/9), 10:30am - “Children’s Hour,” with storytelling, games and/or crafts. Free. Held at Cone Manor, MP 294

LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • SA (6/11), 10am - “Creek Sampling,” ranger led exploration of Paddy’s Creek. Wear water shoes. Free.

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buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • FR (6/10), 4pm - Teen cosplay club. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Through MO (6/20) - Open registration for Henderson County Churches Uniting vacation bible school taking place June 27 through 30 from 9am to noon. For children ages 4 through 5th grade. Register online: bit.ly/grace-vbs. Free.

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OUTDOORS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • SA (6/11), 7pm - “Magnificent Voyagers,” ranger presentation about waterfowl. Held at the Julian Price Campground Amphitheater, MP 296 • SA (6/11), 7pm - “The Bear Necessities,” ranger presentation about how bears and humans coexist, and what to do in a bear encounter. Free. Held at the Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 298-5330, nps.gov • TH (6/9), 7pm - After Hours Hikes: “It’s a Noisy World Out There,” easy 1.2 mile ranger-led hike to learn about light and noise pollution. Free. Meets at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, MP 384.

Bikes & Beer at Second Gear Sunday, June 12 from 12-6 • FR (6/10), 10am - Blue Ridge Parkway Hike of the Week: “Historic Homestead Hideaway,” moderate 1.5 mile ranger-led hike to the old Rattlesnake Lodge. Free. Meet at MP 374.4.

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FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES 452-0720, friendsofthesmokies.org, outreach.nc@ friendsofthesmokies.org • TU (6/14) - Classic Hikes of the Smokies: Guided moderate 10-mile hike from Charlies Bunion and down Kephart Prong Trail. Registration required. $35/$20 members.

OPEN HOUSE & GRAND OPENING ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION CENTER (pd.) Sat., June 18, 2-4pm. Prize Drawings, Snacks, Learn to Meditate, Tour NEW Meditation Center, Learn about Individual & Family Mindfulness Meditation offerings. 175 Weaverville Road, Woodfin, NC, 828-808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com, info@ashevillemeditation.com.

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LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Hwy. 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (6/11), 9am - “Canoe Excursion,” ranger led canoe paddling. Registration required.

• SU (6/12), 8:30am - “Canoe Excursion,” ranger led canoe paddling. Registration required.

MOUNTAINTRUE 258-8737, wnca.org • SA (6/11) - “French Broad River Section Paddle.”

Easy, flat-water guided paddle from Westfeldt to Bent Creek. $10/$10 rental.

PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 862-5554, pari.edu • FR (6/10), 7pm - Night sky observation, tour and presentation about “exoplanets.” Registration required. $20/$15 students/seniors/military.

SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (pd.) 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, 200-5120, ashevilleshambhala.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10-midnight, THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 10-noon Meditation and community. Admission by donation.

CLOUD COTTAGE 219 Old Toll Circle, Black Mountain, 669-6000, cloudcottage.org Cloud Cottage Community of Mindful Living • 2nd & 4th TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Mindfulness training class. Admission by donation.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • 2nd FRIDAYS, 1pm - Healing prayer gathering.

Free.

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/New-Meeting-information. html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting with keynote speaker Ken Harwick, fishing guide. Free to attend. Held at Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF HENDERSONVILLE 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville, 693-3157, uufhnc.org • TH (6/16), 7-8:30pm - “Move out of Stuck,” presentation by inspirational speaker Alice McCall.

Free.

RIVERLINK 252-8474, riverlink.org • TU (6/14), 5:30pm - “French Broad River: Past, Present, & Future,” presentation. Free to attend.

Held at Diamond Brand, 1378 Hendersonville Road

ZEN CENTER OF ASHEVILLE 5 Ravenscroft 3rd Floor, zcasheville.org • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Thirty minute silent meditation followed by Dharma talk & discussion.

Admission by donation.

PUBLIC LECTURES TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 • SU (6/12), 2pm - “Post-Civil War in Transylvania County,” presentation by Dr. Keith Parker hosted by the Transylvania County Historical Society. Free.

SPIRITUALITY ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com.

ASTRO-COUNSELING (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of

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SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD WRITING RETREAT INSPIRED BY NATURE (pd.) 6/19-6/21, Sourwood Inn, 810 Elk Mtn Scenic Hwy. Asheville commuter and overnight options.

Conducted by Paula Hartman-Stein, PhD, psychotherapist, educator & journalist Focus is on reflective writing using nature as a prompt for insight, creativity & meditation info: www.centerforhealthyaging.com BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • SA (6/11), 3pm - Lois Hollis presents her book, Emotional Revolution = Evolution. Free to attend.

BUFFALO NICKEL 747 Haywood Road, 575-2844, buffalonickelavl.com • WE (6/15), 7pm - David Joe Miller Presents: “Skinny Dipping and Other Life’s Lessons,” with storytellers, Martha Reed Johnson and Amy Holmes. $10.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (6/10), SA (6/11) & MO(6/13), 10am-4pm - Used book sale. Free to attend. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • SA (6/11), 3pm - West Asheville Book Club: All the

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Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • TH (6/16), 2pm - Skyland Book Club: Isaac’s Storm,

by Erik Larson. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St. , Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • FR (6/10), 7pm - NC Writers Network NetWest open-mic. Sign-ups begin at 6:45pm. Free to attend.

• SA (6/11), 3pm - Janet Joyner presents her collection of poetry, Waterborne. Free to attend.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers’ Guild. Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club. Free.

HIGHLAND BOOKS 277 N. Broad St., Brevard, 884-2424, highlandbooksbrevard.com • SA (6/11), 1-3pm - Marnie Muller presents their book, Borning In and Borning Out. Free to attend.

MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (6/11), 7-8:30pm - Marnie Muller presents their book, Borning In and Borning Out. Free to attend.

• TH (6/16), 7pm - Robert Burke Warren presents his novel, Perfectly Broken.

SYNERGY STORY SLAM avl.mx/0gd • WE (6/8), 7:30pm - Storytelling open-mic night on the theme “Blinders.” Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL 52 N. Market St, 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (6/9), 5:30pm - Short Story Book Club: Return of the Prodigal discussion led Dale Neal. Free.

THOMAS WOLFE SHORT STORY BOOK CLUB 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (6/9), 5:30-7pm - Discussion of Return of the Prodigal with Dale Neal. Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St. WNC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION wnchistory.org • Through FR (7/15) - Letters of nomination accepted for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award.

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WNC MYSTER WRITERS 712-5570, wncmysterians.org • TH (6/9), 6pm - Critique group informational meeting for potential new members. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave #101, Asheville

SPORTS AMATEUR POOL LEAGUE (pd.) Beginners welcome & wanted! Asheville, Arden, or Waynesville. HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. 828-329-8197 www.BlueRidgeAPA.com ONGOING – weekly league play BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/Governing/Depts/Parks • Through SU (7/31) - Open registration for fall adult kickball leagues. Registration information: jay.nelson@buncombecounty.org. $40.

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by Abigail Griffin VOLUNTEERING LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY (pd.) TEACH CHILDREN TO READ Would you like to help a child succeed at school? Become an Augustine Project tutor. To learn about this exciting volunteer opportunity, please contact Lily at lily@litcouncil.com to schedule an orientation.

Orientations will be held on Fri. June 10 from 12-1pm and Wed. June 15, 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. at the Literacy Council.

LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY:TUTORING ADULTS (pd.) Information sessions for volunteers interested in tutoring adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and ESOL on July 20 from 9-10:30am or July 21 from 5:30-7pm at the Literacy Council office. Email volunteers@litcouncil.com for more information.

HANDS ON ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org Registration required.

• SA (6/11), 1-4pm - Volunteer to assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise in a non-profit, fair trade retail store.

• SA (6/11), 10:30-noon - Volunteer to help create book packages for people recently placed in new housing by Homeward Bound of Asheville. Free.

• SA (6/11), 9am-noon - Volunteers at MANNA FoodBank to pack food items into backpack-sized parcels that are distributed to local schools. Free.

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 11am - “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population. Registration required. Free to attend.

MOUNTAINTRUE 258-8737, wnca.org • 2nd SATURDAYS, 9am-1pm - Urban Forest Workdays: Richmond Hill Park invasive plant removal work days. Held at Richmond Hill Park, 280 Richmond Hill Dr RIVERLINK’S RIVERMUSIC 252-8474, ext. 1, dave@riverlink.org • FR (6/10) - Volunteers needed for this outdoor music event. Registration: signupgenius.com/ go/10c0e4caea82ba1f49-june2. Free.

SANDHILL COMMUNITY GARDEN tabbybrickley@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm & SATURDAYS, 9-11am Volunteer in the garden. Held at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 APAC Drive WNC KNITTERS AND CROCHETERS FOR OTHERS 575-9195 • MO (6/13), 7pm - Gathering to make knitted items for local charities. All skill levels welcome.

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Ashevilleans bring children’s play activities to adults

SILLY TIME: It’s OK to be silly; in fact, it’s good for people of all ages, says Scribbles the Clown (aka Donna Hollinshead as Scribbles).

Photo by David Hollinshead

BY NICKI GLASSER nickiglasser@hotmail.com Donna Hollinshead’s alter-ego Scribbles the Clown invites play.

Dressed in pastel tie-dyed overalls, a profusion of bows and ribbons affixed to her hair and backwardfacing baseball hat, she sports a painted-on smile and a red dot on her nose. Clowning is all about play, and if Hollinshead and other local expert practitioners are right, adults need more of it.

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“It really speaks to the heart and kid in all of us. I see it more as that heart opening and an OK to be silly,” she says.

Being Scribbles was once a full-time job for Hollinshead, but these days she combines clowning with other passions — teaching yoga, being an artist and, most recently, creating an adult coloring book called “I Am Living Loving Laughing, a Coloring Journal for All Ages.”

Over the past several years, such books have been on the rise, as well as summer camps for adults, says

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Brady Gill. He’s director of play for Camp Grounded, which will hold two four-day sessions later this summer at Lake Pinnacle, near Pisgah National Forest (Aug. 19-22 and 25-28).

“These days there’s a big play deficiency in the ways that a lot of grownups live their lives,” says Gill. Many adults feel they have to be “masters of everything so that there’s no room for mistakes, there’s no room for questions, and there’s no room for play,” he says.

“As a country, we’re more depressed than ever. Our ability to be

creative and innovative is decreasing, our education system is changing, and more and more people are finding that play is not this superfluous thing, but it’s actually an essential component of growing and of happiness.”

Research supports such assertions. The Fun Conspiracy, an Asheville-based business that offers fun coaching, training and “playshops,” packs its website with books, studies, magazine articles and TED talks that highlight the scientific arguments that play is good for us.

“Getting away and playing gives objectivity and helps us to be more creative,” says Ginny Hunneke, founder of The Fun Conspiracy.

“Play is that state of timelessness, a lack of obligation that lights up the entire brain,” she says, referring to research that supports her conclusion. Task-oriented activities “light up” or engage only individual areas of the brain.

When the whole brain activates, we can be “far more effective in integrating the different hemispheres [of the brain], and we can access more information and more flexible thinking,” Hunneke says.

Studies have also shown that laughter causes the release of the hormone oxytocin, known as a bonding chemical, she notes.

“Mothers nursing their babies secrete oxytocin,” Hunneke says.

“It creates a sense of connection and joy. I believe we all benefit from sharing laughter, sharing joy, sharing social connection in a positive way that is not burdensome.”

On June 12, the group will lead an adult camp in Marshall. The one-day event will be about “coming together …. and just being in play, just being in connection with other people, in joy,” says Hunneke.

Hollinshead will be joining the camp with her coloring journal.

Other activities may include building forts, hula hooping, blowing bubbles, and putting on a toiletpaper-aluminum-foil fashion show — “things we don’t usually allow ourselves to do,” she says.

The group’s quick success is a testament to the growing interest in play. The Fun Conspiracy formed just two years ago; already they’re

Join Raphaela Fritz giving keynotes around the country, working with individuals and corporate coaching clients, and leading play-oriented workshops.

In May, The Fun Conspiracy had its first international audience at a European coaching conference in London and was highlighted in Asia Spa magazine.

Black Mountain-based laughter yoga teacher Karin Steinhaus says research further indicates that people don’t even have to know what they’re laughing about to reap benefits. “The body doesn’t know if something is funny, but if you start laughing, say you see someone fall down, it’s not necessarily funny, but it tickles your funny bone. You start laughing and feeling happy,” she says.

In laughter yoga classes, Steinhaus explains, “We pantomime goofy things.” For example, participants might pretend their classmates have won the lottery and go around the room looking each person in the eye and then offering congratulations. “But you’re not using words. You’re laughing instead and giving people high fives, and you almost feel as if you won the lottery. … It brings the whole group together,” she says.

Can play really change lives? Gill says play is largely about connection. At Camp Grounded, campers give up their cellphones and other devices at the start of the session and “fill the gap left by technology with play.”

Campers can choose from an extensive list of activities, including archery, swimming, yoga, arts and crafts, a climbing wall and group games such as color wars.

By the end of camp, participants are more connected to themselves, fellow participants and the natural world, Gill says.

Seemingly small things such as choosing a silly camp name can have a powerful impact on a person’s life, he adds. Gill shares a story about a woman who realized that Golden Dust, the name she chose for herself at camp, was her best self. “Now when she’s at home faced with a problem, is feeling scared or isn’t sure what to do,” he says, “she asks herself, ‘What would Golden Dust do?’” Gill adds that the alter-ego this woman created at camp helped her become a more courageous person in everyday life.

Hunneke, who goes by the title “Fun Coach and Head Conspirator,” says that play is “anything that brings a sense of joy and timeless-

ness and relief from anything that is taxing and challenging.”

Play cultivates opportunities “for all of us to be young at heart,” says Hollinshead. “When I was in [my Scribbles the Clown] costume on my way somewhere, it gave me the freedom to say hello, to smile, to make conversation where most people might not even make eye contact.

And people respond to a clown with a smile. So it’s definitely silly,” she says.

Laughter yoga followers take it a step further, saying laughter is a way to spread world peace, says Steinhaus.

Quoting the founder of the joyful practice, she adds, “Madan Kataria says laughter is the closest distance between two people, and once you’ve laughed with somebody, it strengthens the social ties.” X

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BETTER HEALTH THROUGH HEMP WNC residents explore healing effects of cannabidiol

A-POT-ECARY: Nature’s Vitamins and Herbs co-owner Bill Cheek sorts through his herb stock. Photo by John Mallow Jr. When Asheville resident Jon Griffith was 59 years old, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer after a series of prostate exams in the spring of 2015. Out of the 16 needles used in his biopsy, two came back positive for cancer.

His doctors recommended radiation treatment, but wary of the harsh side effects of the radiation, Griffith looked for other answers.

He began seeking alternative treatments for his condition, eating vegetarian and trying a multitude of supplements to cure himself holistically. That’s when a friend told him about cannabidiol, or CBD,

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a medically remarkable and legal cannabinoid found in the hemp and marijuana plants.

Since CBD can be found in legal industrial hemp and is not a scheduled narcotic, it can be sourced 100 percent legally in the United States, as long as the hemp it is extracted from contains less than 0.3 percent THC, or tetrahydrocannabinol, the ingredient in marijuana that causes euphoria and the high that users feel.

After learning of CBD’s legality and potential efficacy in treating his prostate cancer, Griffith found an online source for pure cannabidiol from a vendor in Southern California and

subsequently purchased six vials for $1,200.

“I began taking 0.2 grams two times a day in April of 2015,” Griffith says. “In early July of 2015, I had another biopsy that came back with no carcinoma.”

While his improved prostate health could be attributed to other causes, Griffith swears by the CBD supplement and recommends it to friends frequently.

“I recommend it to anyone I talk to about cancer,” Griffith says.

Although the cannabis plant has a long history of medical use in humans, modern cannabis pro-

hibition has limited research on the effects of cannabinoids in the treatment of illness until recently; most medical researchers have only been able to study the effects of CBD on cancer and other diseases for a few years.

As cannabidiol is not technically a medicine according to the FDA and not officially recognized as a cancer therapy by medical providers, patients cannot get their health insurer to cover costs associated with CBD treatments. So, people like Griffith are often stuck with the full cost of the plant extracts, which can be costly.

Though not currently able to afford the high dosage he was taking during his bout with cancer, Griffith continues a smaller daily dosage as a preventive measure against future prostate maladies.

LONG ROAD TO LEGALITY Even though hemp farming recently became federally legal, and cannabidiol can be bought in stores all over the state, it has not always been that way, and North Carolina hemp legislation is complicated.

In 2014, a federal farm bill passed that legally separated hemp and marijuana in the eyes of the Drug Enforcement Agency and allowed the federal government to begin programs to study the effects of hemp extracts containing various cannabinoids.

While hemp and marijuana are the same plant and contain similar profiles of cannabinoids, the difference lies in the concentration of THC. According to federal guidelines under the 2014 Farm Bill, hemp contains less than 0.3 percent THC, whereas marijuana can contain upwards of 20 percent.

Under that 2014 farm bill, states like Kentucky and Colorado started licensing farmers to begin growing cannabidiol-rich hemp for extracts, and these cannabidiol extracts were sold online and in stores around the country, as long as they fell within the federal limits of less than 0.3 percent THC per volume.

So North Carolinians could possess CBD extracts but not full-spectrum extracts containing a detectable amount of THC over that 0.3 percent limit, and they could not grow their own CBD-dominant hemp.

In July 2015, the N.C. General Assembly passed HB 766 allowing residents with intractable epilepsy to possess hemp extracts containing cannabidiol and other cannabinoids with a written prescription from a doctor or caregiver, as long as the extracts contained less than 5 percent THC. In August 2015, the Legislature passed a bill allowing hemp to be grown in-state once a hemp commission to license farmers had been set up and sanctioned by the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.

MEDICINE FROM THE EARTH Mike Rogers, who holds a Ph.D. in pharmaceutical sciences, and Bill Cheek, who has a B.S. in pharmaceutical sciences, co-own and operate Nature’s Vitamins and Herbs on Biltmore Avenue. Their store distributes various brands of cannabidiol products available without a prescription.

According to Rogers, his store has seen a huge demand for CBD oils and other CBD products as Asheville residents seek to mend their bodies and minds with this recently legalized cannabinoid.

“I’ve been a pharmacist for 40-something years, and no one has ever called me [before] and thanked me for dispensing a drug to them,” Rogers says. “We get calls almost every day with someone saying, ‘Thank you for recommending this to me.’”

Mainly, Rogers deals with customers battling anxiety and sleeplessness, but he also deals with customers who have more acute medical issues.

According to Rogers, CBD can be used to treat a host of medical indications, including seizures, inflammation disorders, anxiety, Crohn’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Huntington’s disease, chronic pain and multiple sclerosis.

“We have six to 10 patients using it for seizures,” Rogers says. “We actually have the University of North Carolina [at Chapel Hill] neurology department sending us patients to put on the CBD oil.”

According to Rogers, many of his customers are trying to escape the troubling side effects of their pharmaceutical medications and find a natural way to ease their symptoms.

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W ELLNESS C ALENDAR Particularly for anti-anxiety and seizure medications, Rogers says the side effects can be severe and include sedation leading to a “zombie” state.

“We have people wanting to get off all these drugs, all these sleeping pills and benzodiazepines that are so addicting,” Rogers says.

“The only side effect that we have seen [with CBD] is that it creates that calming effect for you.”

HARMONY’S HOPE One of the brands Rogers sells at Nature’s Vitamins and Herbs is Palmetto Harmony, manufactured

by Palmetto Synergistic Research out of Conway, S.C. Founded in 2015, the company’s brand is named after CEO Janel Ralph’s daughter, Harmony, who suffers from intractable epilepsy and benefited remarkably from the use of CBD to treat her seizures.

“Our company is made up of a group of parents who have children with different ailments, the majority of which is intractable epilepsy, but some of my business partners’ children have Crohn’s disease and autoimmune disorders.” Ralph says.

Motivated to help their sick children but wary of breaking the law, the parents banded together with others seeking quality CBD treatment, lobbied the South Carolina Legislature and eventually got CBD oil legalized in their state.

However, even with the CBD legislation on the books, the parents found they were unable to grow their own hemp for processing into CBD oil.

In addition, she and her business partners were unable to purchase hemp with high-CBD strain genetics from any reputable growers because of prohibitive laws preventing interstate sale of hemp or highCBD marijuana, according to Ralph.

“After we worked to get CBD legislation legalized, we found out that basically our fight was moot,” Ralph says. “We should have been fighting for a comprehensive hemp legislation so that we could obtain the CBD.” Unable to legally obtain CBD oil to treat their children but still legally allowed to possess and treat their children with the oil, the group turned to the black market.

“We were getting sold a lot of mislabeled products not fit for human consumption,” Ralph says. “It was not a good time.”

Fed up with the sketchy nature of CBD products on the black market, Ralph and her business partners decided to form their own CBD company to sell dependable, medicalquality hemp-based oils, and so arose Palmetto Synergistic Research.

Still unable to grow or process hemp legally in South Carolina, Palmetto Synergistic Research turned to a grower in Kentucky, where high-CBD hemp agriculture was federally legalized under a Kentucky Department of Agriculture program in 2014.

As soon as the first Kentucky crop was ready for processing, Ralph and her business partners filed incorporation paperwork and formed Palmetto Synergistic Research to purchase the CBD oil.

Now with a year’s experience, Ralph and Palmetto are expanding their product line to include topical salves, used to treat various skin ailments and arthritis, and vaporizer juice, used for quicker absorption into the body.

“We’re seeing a lot of people benefit from our products,” Ralph says.

“So many people have found relief, and that’s great to see.” X

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WNC’s budding hemp industry

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com It’s been seven months since North Carolina passed legislation allowing industrial hemp to be grown in the state for the first time in nearly half a century, and excitement is growing.

But an agricultural industry doesn’t bounce right back after such a long hiatus. Farmers must search out the best seeds and growing practices for their land. Hemp processing plants must be built within a reasonable distance of growers. And government regulators must be satisfied that hemp isn’t providing cover for its psychedelic cousin, recreational marijuana.

Senate Bill 313, which legalized hemp production in North Carolina and established the Industrial Hemp Commission, said the regulatory body wouldn’t become active until donations totaling at least $200,000 had been received. Hemp industry advocates, including Asheville-based consultant Timothy Sadler, mounted a statewide grassroots fundraising campaign, and on May 11, Agriculture Commissioner Steve Troxler received the required funds.

Now, however, the commissioners must be appointed, regulations drafted and public comment on them solicited and reviewed. If all goes well, says Eric Mathis of BioRegen Innovations, a farmer-owned seed cooperative, the state Legislature will approve the rules in time for farmers to plant North Carolina’s first commercial hemp crop next year.

And while farmers representing over 100,000 acres of agricultural land in the eastern part of the state form the core of BioRegen’s initial membership, Mathis says Western North Carolina has an important role to play in the emerging hemp industry. Asheville already boasts a strong medicinal herb and nutraceutical industry, which he believes positions this area as a prospective processing center for hemp-based foods, supplements and other wellness products.

And for farmers in the region, he continues, industrial hemp could eventually replace tobacco as a high-yield crop for small parcels.

LEGALIZED IT: North Carolina passed legislation allowing farmers to grow industrial hemp last year. Now that the state commission that will regulate the hemp industry has been funded, potential growers and entrepreneurs are working to build the infrastructure to develop hemp as a new cash crop. Photo courtesy of Vote Hemp NOT POT Although industrial hemp is a variety of the cannabis plant, smoking it doesn’t produce a high. Industrial hemp contains only trace amounts of THC, the substance that gives marijuana its psychoactive effects. Even so, the federal government lumps hemp in with marijuana as a Schedule I drug under the Controlled Substances Act, meaning the plant’s production and use fall under the watchful eye of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

According to a 2015 report to Congress, the DEA remains concerned that commercial hemp cultivation could hinder efforts to detect illegal production of high-THC marijuana, complicating the enforcement of drug laws.

Nonetheless, federal legislation passed in 2014 allows states to create their own regulatory systems to manage industrial hemp cultivation. Over half of all states now permit farmers to grow the crop, says Lauren Stansbury, public relations manager for the national Hemp History Week campaign, which was launched in 2009.

HEMP HISTORY WEEK At its May 10 meeting, City Council proclaimed June 6-12 Hemp History Week in Asheville. “It’s long past time that we returned to the days of our Colonial ancestors in embracing a crop that is really good for the world,” Council member Cecil Bothwell declared, noting that he’s advocated legalizing industrial hemp cultivation for at least 30 years.

Asheville’s Hemp History Week will include a Thursday, June 9, showing of the documentary Bringing It Home at the

Grail Movie House. Created by North Carolina filmmakers Linda Booker and Blaire Johnson, the film was inspired by Asheville resident Anthony Brenner’s quest to develop hemp building techniques. In 2010, he constructed the nation’s first house made primarily of hemp. A panel discussion will follow the

screening, and hemp-based treats such as hemp ale from One World Brewing, hemp milk ice cream from The Hop and hemp hummus from Roots will be served.

Industrial hemp, Sadler told Council, is “the love child of economic development and environmental protection,” citing the crop’s ability to improve soil quality and sequester atmospheric carbon dioxide while yielding a wide variety of valuable products.

Sadler introduced Will Oseroff, founder of the Blue Ridge Hemp Co., which manufactures products infused with cannabidiol. CBD, he explained, is a nonpsychoactive substance found in the cannabis plant; it has many therapeutic properties and can help relieve chronic pain. Selling, purchasing and using CBD became legal in North Carolina last August.

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Entrepreneur James Hammel told Council about his efforts to develop a state-of-the-art facility in Asheville to process raw hemp into various kinds of powder, oil and meal. Although he’s lived in Black Mountain for eight years, his manufacturing operation is in upstate New York. TerraVare processes ancient grains like chia, quinoa, amaranth and others for use in foods, supplements, body care and animal care products. Hammel hopes to relocate the plant to West Asheville by early next year and add hemp processing to TerraVare’s capabilities.

LOCAL PROSPECTS “This area has a deep appreciation for holistic wellness and food products,” notes Hammel, making it an ideal location for TerraVare. Asheville also boasts a well-educated workforce, and prospective employees can take advantage of food science and manufacturing technology courses at local institutions to train for skilled positions at the new facility.

Hammel expects his business to create between 50 and 100 jobs over the next several years. In addition to the skilled positions, he’s exploring collaborating with the nonprofit Green Opportunities and the Department of Veterans Affairs to train entry-level employees. And though Hammel hasn’t yet explored living wage certification, he says he believes in sharing with employees and helping them become company owners and leaders.

Certification, he says, “will be a good conversation to have when we’re located here.” Hammel’s handful of New Yorkbased employees, he reports, don’t intend to relocate with the company.

Hammel stresses that his plans aren’t final and “a lot of things still have to happen,” but he says he’s signed a letter of agreement with a building owner in West Asheville. He needs a specialized type of industrial space to comply with his operation’s strict manufacturing standards. “TerraVare is certified as achieving good manufacturing practices, as well as being organic, gluten-free, kosher and non-GMO. Not just any building will work for those requirements,” he explains.

To be ready to process the 2017 hemp crop, notes Hammel, his plans will have to come together quickly.

“We have to have the facility in place and functional by February. It’s quite an endeavor to move some pretty big machines.” His largest piece of equipment, a packaging machine, nearly fills a semitrailer all by itself.

To add hemp processing capability to his existing operations, Hammel will buy a dehulling machine, which extracts the heart of the hemp seed.

TerraVare plans to process hemp grown by the farmers of the BioRegen coop-

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erative, which Mathis says he hopes will eventually represent farmers in seven Southeastern states. Thus, comments Hammel, “Asheville is more centrally located than people think.”

And though his focus will be on processing raw hemp, Hammel also expects to continue working with ancient grains from a variety of sources. Having a diversified portfolio of suppliers, he explains, is just sound business practice. Eventually, Hammel expects to add CBD processing capabilities, but initially, he’ll focus on hemp-based food and supplement products.

Last year, the Las Vegas-based company Hemp Inc. purchased one of the nation’s only decortication machines — a specialized piece of equipment used in processing hemp for fiber — and installed it at a subsidiary in Spring Hope, N.C. STEP BY STEP Eric Mathis of BioRegen sees unlimited potential for the hemp industry to branch out into food, apparel, bioplastics and even energy markets. But pilot growing programs conducted last year, he concedes, yielded disappointing results due to higher-than-normal rainfall. Nonetheless, he says North Carolina offers ideal conditions for growing hemp, including loamy soil, high humidity and warm temperatures. The state’s sophisticated agricultural infrastructure and savvy farmers are also important assets, he continues.

BioRegen member Bert James, a farmer who’s the president of Homegrown Agriculture in Bethel, believes North Carolina could also become a center for developing different strains of industrial hemp seed. The state’s diverse climate, he maintains, could give seed breeders an optimal testing ground “for adapting their seed to a variety of environmental conditions.”

Most of the hemp seed now available to American farmers comes from Canada, which has been developing its industry since 1994. But while the Canadians are happy to sell seed to the U.S., it’s not yet clear, says Mathis, that those varieties will produce the same yields here. Even getting the seed to American farmers has proved tricky at times: The DEA has held up some shipments for additional testing, causing farmers to receive their seed after the recommended time for planting.

BioRegen, he continues, is working closely with the federal agency to ensure that its members can get seed in the ground next spring.

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from local farmers interested in hemp as a potential crop. This area, she says, is home to innovative small farmers who are eager to explore new markets. The trick will be figuring out the right cultivation methods and varieties for WNC’s smaller farms and hilly or mountainous terrain.

“We don’t have a lot of flat bottomland that’s accessible to cultivating or harvesting equipment,” she explains, so local farmers will need to find niche markets that are a good fit for their smaller yields.

Farmers are also asking about such logistical considerations as optimal row spacing, planting depth, soil fertility and strategies for managing pests and weeds.

“It’s virgin territory,” says Baker. “We know this crop was historically grown across the U.S., but that knowledge base has been lost.”

As with any new crop, Baker and her colleagues are advising farmers to start small. “We do want people to think ahead to new crops,” she says, but she also cauECO ASHEVILLE CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY citizensclimatelobby.org/chapters/ NC_Asheville • 2nd SATURDAYS, 12:30-3pm Open meeting regarding climate change solutions. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Ecopresentations, discussions and community connection. Free. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne Center for Graduate Studies, 36 Montford Ave. HENDERSONVILLE GREEN DRINKS facebook.com/hvlgreendrinks, 6920385 ext. 1004 • TH (6/9), 6pm - “Prioritization of Transportation Projects in North Carolina and Our Region,” presentation by the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization.

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tions growers to move slowly and make sure they have a plan for marketing their harvests. Baker says she expects that the state’s Agriculture Department and land-grant universities will launch pilot growing programs in 2017 to begin the research that will help extension agents answer farmers’ questions.

Mathis, however, emphasizes the critical role farmers have played in getting the new industry started. “They have spearheaded the fundraising effort to establish the regulatory commission, and they’re moving ahead in the face of the risks inherent in a developing market.”

Still, says Hammel, it won’t happen overnight. “This is a process, and it’s going to take some time. While there is a lot of excitement around industrial hemp, there are some technical issues we need to work through.

“Hopefully, this will be a big economic boost for the farmers who’ve struggled for the past 20 years.” X

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3rd-graders learn value of local agriculture Estes Elementary School third-grade Academically Intellectually Gifted students are working on a Farm Community Awareness Campaign. We want people to know more about farms, but we also want people to realize that farms are not just cows, pigs and other animals that you think of as basically boring.

Farms are more interesting than you might think they are.

Local farms contribute to local restaurants like Corner Kitchen, Vortex Doughnuts, Omni Grove Park Inn, Curate, Plant, All Souls Pizza, Farm Burger, Glass Onion, Eden-Out Meals, Mother Earth Produce, Mountain Food Products and more. Some farms even have classes where you can learn about farming!

Some farms have animals that you might not expect. In fact, some farms have llamas and alpacas to make fibers for knitting! Some farms even have cottages that people can stay in for a vacation. Some farms produce goat milk. Did you know that goat milk is better for you than cow milk?

Now that you know more about farms, we hope you think more highly about them. There are also many farmers markets here in Asheville, where farmers bring their homegrown food that is fresh and tasty for you to buy.

We really enjoyed this unit, and so did our classmates. “I liked harvesting crops of kale and spinach, then eating them when we made them into a smoothie,” says third-grade student Owen Johnson, after we returned from a field trip to Ivy Creek Family Farm. Connor Brown also enjoyed learning about local farms. He says, “I like having so many local farms in Buncombe County because the food is so much fresher than commercially grown food.”

We spent three to four weeks working on and researching local farms. This unit gave us the chance to learn about something important that we may not have ever known about. Our teacher, Mrs. Small says, “I think that it is important that kids learn at a young age where our food comes from and how it gets from farm to table. We want people to be aware of all the agricultural treasures that we have right here in our own backyard.”

Thank you. We hope you learned more about local farms and that you are able to visit many of them. X

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BY CARLA SEIDL carla.seidl@gmail.com Editor’s note: In 2014, writer, audio documentarian and singer-songwriter Carla Seidl launched the Earth Flavors project to celebrate local foods and food culture while promoting creative, delicious, earth-friendly cooking. Over a two-year period, Seidl interviewed many local growers and foragers about their work. Drawing on her own culinary experience and “bricolage” philosophy — improvising within the limits of whatever’s available — she then wrote 21 “flavor profiles” highlighting local ingredients in Western North Carolina. The fruits of the project are available on her website, earthflavors.net. In the following story, Seidl reflects on the experience and shares some of her findings.

It wasn’t hard to find local ingredients to profile in Western North Carolina. With fertile environs and a concentration of motivated, earthengaged folks, this area is a locavore’s delight. Here are some of the patterns that emerged from the Earth Flavors project — a few tenets, if you will, of our own locavorian terroir.

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In the 1970s, naturalist Doug Elliott moved to Burnsville from Maryland, attracted by two of WNC’s prime attributes: biodiversity and cultural integrity. He and his wife, Yanna Fishman, now live in Union Mills in Rutherford County. People in the Southern Appalachians, he says, “have been isolated from the mainstream for a little longer than most ... and so there can be a rich treasure trove of environmental info and info on how people relate to the natural world.”

Around the globe, mountain regions have been keepers of cultural knowledge. Elliott, who’s also a professional storyteller, sings a song about traditional, local creasy greens and points me in the direction of lore about the “air” (or “fairy”) potato. His wife, a conservation gardener, raises heirloom fruits and vegetables, including more than 100 varieties of sweet potato.

The two are not alone in drawing on the wisdom of the past. On land in Fairview that once belonged to his great-grandparents, Walter Harrill of

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FOOD OASIS: Carl Johnson, co-manager of Gardens United, shows off some Beauregard sweet potatoes grown in the garden at Pisgah View Apartments public housing community. The neighborhood is a food desert, meaning it lacks access to healthy, fresh food, but here, residents help with growing their own vegetables, herbs and other items. Photo by Carla Seidl Imladris Farm grows fruit for jam and raises rabbits. “Over and over and over,” he notes, “I find that we just keep circling back to the way things were done.”

For the millers at Carolina Ground in Asheville, that means bucking the impersonal mechanization of industrial grain production by stone-milling their own flour. Grinding grain has traditionally been a woman’s task, and both millers at Carolina Ground are women — a fact that founder Jennifer Lapidus believes helps them reconnect with intuition, tactility and social intimacy.

Some “earth flavors” point more directly toward history. Cedar Johnson of Goldfinch Gardens in Celo explains that the wild edible claytonia, her favorite winter salad green, prevented scurvy among miners during the California gold rush. Other flavors, like dandelion and lamb’s-quarters, are readily available in our natural landscape. “We put so much effort and resources into cultivating landscapes,” notes Chris Smith of Sow True Seed in Asheville. “In reality, there’s an abundance of uncultivated landscapes that already have great foods in them,” he says, while explaining how to make infused vinegars using wild spring greens.

CAN-DO ATTITUDE “You can do a lot with little if you pay attention,” proclaims Becki Janes of Becki’s Bounty, a prolific “farmette” in Black Mountain. She loves teaching her customers how to live more sustainably. “If you’ve got any bit of sunshine on even a little bit of a patio,” she says, “you can grow a tomato.”

And when fellow Black Mountain resident Linda Seligman found that there weren’t any goat’s milk processing plants in the area, she decided to design her own — guided only by a copy of the state regulations. Her company, Round Mountain Creamery, is now the only combined dairy goat farm and grade A goat’s milk processing plant in North Carolina.

Meanwhile, over at Meadow Cove Farm in Weaverville, Claudine and Paul Cremer strive to be as self-sufficient as possible. Pursuing a homesteading lifestyle that some might find daunting, they raise guinea fowl, grow shiitake mushrooms and harness solar energy, selling excess power back to the grid. “We’re trying to live our own convictions,” Claudine explains.

Of course, maintaining a can-do attitude is easier when you’re not economically disadvantaged. At the

SEEDS OF SUSTAINABILITY: “An educated public will make demands, and the industry will meet them,” says Carol Koury, founder of Sow True Seed. The company puts those principles on the line by providing empty packets with each order so customers can save their own seeds. Photo by Carla Seidl Pisgah View Apartments public housing community in Asheville, many residents aren’t able to share in the area’s local food bounty. “We’re in a spot that’s considered a food desert,” notes Carl Johnson, co-manager of Gardens United. “There’s a lot of people in these neighborhoods that are limited in what they can do.”

Johnson and his colleague, Sir Charles Gardner, have literally created a food oasis with their community garden, but it doesn’t stop there: They also involve community members in growing the food. “It gives them an outlet to earn money,” says Johnson, “to gain a sense of pride and some ownership over what’s going on in their neighborhoods.”

HEALING LARGE Central to the work of Gardens United is the aim of changing people’s diets to improve their health. Johnson and Gardner are trying to physically heal their neighbors, shifting them from convenience store junk to superfoods like sweet potatoes, kale and Jerusalem artichokes.

Health concerns loomed large in all the Earth Flavors interviews. Claudine Cremer, for example, pushed my concept of freshness when she pointed out that even tailgate market produce may have been picked 24 hours before it reaches consumers.

“Fresher food is shockingly more nutritious,” agrees wild foods educator Alan Muskat, citing research reported in Jo Robinson’s 2014 book, Eating on the Wild Side. Wildness, says Muskat, is also key. A single leaf of a wild plant, he likes to tell participants in his No Taste Like Home guided tours, contains 10 times the nutrition of a comparable portion of standard garden greens.

A desire to heal our fragile and compromised ecosystems is central to Paul Gallimore’s work at the Long Branch Environmental Education Center in Leicester. For over 35 years, he’s been backcrossing hybrids in an effort to restore the American chestnut tree as a keystone species in this bioregion.

Concern for both our physical bodies and the planet leads many local farmers, including Wendy and Graham Brugh of Dry Ridge Farm in Mars Hill, to raise their animals using no hormones, steroids or feed antibiotics.

Brook Sheffield of L.O.T.U.S. Urban Farm and Garden Supply in West Asheville believes aquaponics can help address climate change and food insecurity. The multilevel system employs filtration and bacterial processes to raise aquatic animals and grow plants like living lettuce while using about 90 percent less water than conventional methods.

And back at Imladris Farm, Harrill shows me a soil amendment called biochar, which he produces from burning raspberry canes in the absence of oxygen. The resulting charcoal remains stable in the soil for up to 3,000 years.

By acting as a sponge for nutrients, it lessens the need for fertilizer, thereby reducing water pollution.

Beyond the physical and environmental issues, however, “I think people are hungry for heart and authenticity. ... That’s part of what we’re delivering,” says Lapidus. In the same room, miller Kim Thompson takes the time to handwrite quotes about bread on bags of Carolina Ground flour.

That kind of personal touch helps explain why Goldfinch Gardens, nearly all of whose customers live within a 5-mile radius of the farm, doesn’t feel the need to go through the hassle of official organic certification: Folks can come by and observe the growing practices for themselves.

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To the uninitiated, the aquaponics system at L.O.T.U.S. looks like something out of a science fiction movie. “I’ll be the first to admit that this is not the most natural looking thing,” Sheffield concedes. “But looks can be very deceiving. If you hang around the food and the fish long enough, this might feel more natural than a lot of other things you’re doing ... like driving your car, riding around in airplanes and hopping on the World Wide Web.” Or even, for that matter, buying conventionally grown supermarket produce.

For Jamie Ager of Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview, the fact that no one is successfully growing and selling organic apples in this humid region doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. Ager sees the apples as a way to help his farm become an even better model of sustainable agricultural practices. And if customers don’t want pesticides, he says firmly, they’re just going to have to deal with sooty blotch and flyspeck on their apples.

But WNC’s distinctive culture is actually a good fit with the idea of buying and consuming what’s produced locally, argues Jeff Frisbee of Addison Farms Vineyard in Leicester. “We’re fiercely and historically an independent lot,” he points out. “I think that’s one of the reasons the locavore movement has been so successful in this area.”

SHIFTING CONSUMER CONSCIOUSNESS These local growers and food suppliers aren’t content with merely making changes in their own lives: They’re out to influence the larger society. “An educated public will make demands, and the industry will meet them,” Sow True Seed founder Carol Koury maintains.

“It is very threatening to the industry for people to know where their food comes from.” And putting those principles on the line, her company actually encourages customers to save their own seed by including an empty seed packet with every order.

Claudine and Paul Cremer are also thinking big, envisioning a shift among consumers from shopping at grocery stores to patronizing local farms like theirs in the name of greater sustainability. “Everybody’s got a local grocery store that they go to,” Paul points out.

“So you could, potentially, have us as the local farm that you go to.”

And at that level, shifting consciousness may involve rethinking the whole idea of profit. Flat Rock Village Bakery, for example, boasts only a small indoor seating area and no bread slicer —

because, I’m told, there’s just no room. Still, manager and co-owner David Workman says he’s happy with the operation’s scale and feel and isn’t looking to expand. Meanwhile, Johnson of Gardens United says he loves passing on his knowledge to his 9-year-old daughter. “One of the most profitable things that a person can get into,” he maintains, “is learning how to grow their own food.”

GROUNDED IN GRATITUDE But whether they’re foragers, farmers or countercultural guides, all the people profiled in Earth Flavors display a gratitude that stems from their profound sense of connection with something greater than themselves.

Foraging, says Muskat, teaches us that we live in a Garden of Eden: We don’t need to struggle so much to meet our needs. For him, foraging is a way of “coming home,” and he tries to use wild foods education to help others feel more at home in their own lives as well.

Glenda Ploeger of Cane Creek Asparagus & Co. in Fairview has been efficiently filling weekly CSA boxes with produce for 15 years, but she knows that all her skill and experience can take her only so far. “One of the biggest gambles out there,” she says, “is trying to grow a vegetable.”

Because there are so many variables involved in farming, all the dedication and hard work in the world can’t eliminate the risks.

“How do you deal with those risks?” I ask.

“I suppose,” she responds, after pondering the question, “a lot of prayer.”

Ager takes a similar view, saying, “There’s the great mystery: That’s really the humbling thing. There’s so much more going on out here than we can understand completely, and it’s neat to pay attention to all that.”

Pay attention, these dedicated people seem to say, and gratitude may follow. Like my informants, I, too, am deeply thankful — for the forces and coincidences that brought me to this part of the country; for the time and knowledge local growers, foragers and educators have shared with me.

And, of course, for the opportunity to partake of so many of the area’s offerings. May the Earth’s diverse flavors continue to nourish and enrich us as we, in turn, discover, consider, appreciate and protect them. X

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BODY AND SOUL Terrence Rumpf, known to his friends as Harley, stretches out on the sofa at Kairos West Community Center, catching a little rest before dinner guests arrive.

He has helped set up for the gathering of people who want to know more about a unique café, and he will help guests understand that this place is about more than the food.

He lives on the street, but he finds refuge here in this place where he is respected as a person first.

“I’m human,” he says. “I have dignity. I’m honest, and I have value.”

In a town where tourists come for the food, people who live on the margins of society often feel unwelcome in restaurants, even if they have the money to pay for a meal. Here at 12 Baskets Café, they are welcome and valued.

The food comes from restaurants and other providers who have prepared food and are loath to just throw the leftovers away. The dinner served this night comes from India Garden restaurant and Mission Hospital’s cafeteria, all prepared earlier in the day and picked up that afternoon. The bread is from Annie’s Bakery, and there is enough to send guests home with a loaf each.

The café currently serves lunch on Thursdays at Kairos West Community Center on Haywood Road, but will open for lunch daily during the week in about a month downstairs from the Firestorm Café.

The goal is to expand eventually to two meals a day, seven days a week.

The Rev. Shannon Spencer, executive director of the Asheville Poverty Initiative, the parent organization of 12 Baskets, says the idea came about during a conversation with someone from Food Connection, which also distributes food that has been rescued from providers who have prepared it already. “Prepared food has no shelf life,” Spencer says. “You have to freeze it or eat it right away.”

Food Connection found that a lot of food was being wasted because there was no way to get it to people in need, and Spencer decided the food should get to where it could be used. Volunteers pick it up daily from some vendors (Mission Hospital, Earth Fare and India Garden) and occasionally from others (Chai Pani and Annie’s Bakery).

12 Baskets Café offers free meals and fellowship to all

ALL ARE WELCOME: Interns Lisa Freeman and Ben Kohan prepare the buffet for 12 Baskets Café’s recent “informational dinner.” The new West Asheville eatery offers meals at no charge to anyone in need. Photo by Leslie Boyd “We are a faith-based organization; we are Christian,” Spencer says. “That doesn’t mean the people we serve need to be Christian. Our actions are driven by our faith, which calls us to serve others.” The name, 12 Baskets, reflects Spencer’s faith — it is from the amount of food left over after Jesus fed the 5,000 — and, she adds, smiling, it sounds a little like 12 Bones (the popular barbecue joint).

The café will serve anyone who comes through the door at no cost, although diners can leave a donation to help cover the cost of running a restaurant. “This is a place where people can come to break bread together,” Spencer says. “That means more than just eating; it means getting to know each other, sharing our stories and creating community.”

Angel Frank has had a place to call home for three years now, but she says she still experiences rejection when

people find out she used to live on the street. “It’s like there’s something wrong with me, which there isn’t,” she says. “Anybody can wind up like I was.” Frank tells her story to all who will listen because she believes people need to hear the stories of those who live on the margins of society and to see them as people of value.

Donna Birch came to the dinner to hear that story and to offer her help at the café. She is a retired flight attendant who recently moved to Asheville from Chicago. “I’m used to serving people,” Birch says. “I think everyone deserves to feel like they’re being waited on, especially people who don’t usually get to feel that way.”

Kate Teal and Thomas Fisher came to learn more about how they can help. Teal has experience volunteering with Food Not Bombs in Buffalo, N.Y., and Fisher is a cook by trade. They hope to help in a number of ways and left the dinner even

More information Lunch is served 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursdays at 12 Baskets in the Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road. Meals are free, but donations are accepted. Once 12 Baskets moves, lunch will be served daily downstairs from Firestorm Cafe & Books, 610 Haywood Road. Volunteers are needed to pick up food from restaurants and caterers, to heat and serve the food and to do setup and cleanup for each meal.

To learn more, visit ashevillepovertyinitiative.org, or contact the Rev. Shannon Spencer at 231-4169 or ashevillepovertyinitiative@gmail.com. X

more excited about the prospect of serving than when they arrived.

Spencer prefers the language of companionship over that of volunteerism because saying someone is a volunteer implies that the person he or she is serving is somehow less than the volunteer. The word companion conveys equality. “The real lesson here is that there is an abundance,” Spencer says. “There is plenty to go around. The problem is with distribution, with those who have so much more than they need, and we’re all told that it’s OK to do that, to take as much as you can. …

But the more we get to know each other, the less we want to do things that harm each other.”

Everyone is welcome at the café, Spencer says. “Come and be a companion. Come and eat with us, and I promise you will leave with a sense that you have received a gift.” X

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Dance and dine at Hickory Nut Gap Farm For the last century, the Ager family has worked the land at Hickory Nut Gap Farm, a 90-acre property in Fairview. Creeks, apple trees, mountains and pastures make up the landscape. In recent years, Jamie Ager and his wife, Amy, have added cattle, pigs and chickens to the operation, selling the meat at local tailgate markets, in their on-site farm store and café and to more than 50 local restaurants.

Beyond this, the Hickory Nut Gap Farm hosts private events, holds classes and recently added a weekly public gathering to its calendar — the Friday Night Barn Dance. A stage and dance floor have been added to the event’s venue, the farm’s big

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“It’s something we’ve never done before,” says Kelsey Winterbottom, the farm’s director of marketing and customer relations.

Each week during the summer, local bands will perform a variety of styles of music to dance to, including bluegrass, swing, old-time, Cajun, jazz and zydeco. Those who are curious but unfamiliar with the type of music need not worry. “A lot of the music will have dances that are led,” explains Winterbottom. “Of course the square dances will have a caller, but we’ll also have a swing dance teacher; we’ll have a zydeco dancer. There will be dance instructions at the beginning of each show.”

A dinner menu will also be available during the events. Certain items, such as the pork barbecue sandwich, cheese burger and sausage dog, will be included each week. Ever-changing seasonal entrées will be featured as well. In addition, local beers from breweries such as Highland Brewing Co., Pisgah Brewing Co. and Catawba Brewing Co., along with a variety of wines will be for sale.

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We’ll see.”

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Admission does not cover the cost of food and drink. For more details, visit www.hickorynutgapfarm.com.

AMBROZIA BAR AND BISTRO ADDS LUNCH Ambrozia Bar and Bistro is now serving lunch 11 a.m.-2 p.m. TuesdayFriday. “The demand for lunch has been increasing over the past year, with several requests from guests and other local businesses,” says a media release from the restaurant. The lunch launch coincided with the restaurant’s three-year anniversary on Saturday, June 4. While Ambrozia’s menu is seasonal, there will be a handful of afternoon staples, including a grilled cheese sandwich with tomato bisque, the Cubano sandwich and an all -day breakfast special.

Ambrozia Bar and Bistro is at 1020 Merrimon Ave. For details, visit www.ambrozia-avl.com.

LITTLE SPARROW COFFEE AND KITCHEN SET TO OPEN IN WOODFIN Little Sparrow Coffee and Kitchen, a new café and bakery, opened Monday, June 6. “We’re using Penny Cup Roasting and we’ll have homemade baked goods,” says owner and operator Tina Crain. In addition to cakes, pastries and pies, the cafe offers breakfast and lunch menus.

“We’re going to do simple breakfasts with homemade biscuits and croissants and homemade subs and pimento cheese,” Crain says. Food and drinks are served in vintage china and teacups that Crain has collected over the years. Little Sparrow offers catering for events, including dessert bars for weddings.

Little Sparrow Coffee and Kitchen is at 50 N. Merrimon Ave, Suite 103, Reynolds Village, Woodfin.

Hours Monday-Friday 7 a.m.-6 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For details, look for Little Sparrow Coffee and Kitchen on Facebook.

BARBECUE COMPETITION AT BLUE RIDGE BARBECUE & MUSIC FESTIVAL Take a drive to Tryon and try out some of the Southeast’s finest barbecue at this year’s Blue Ridge Barbecue & Music Festival.

According to the event’s website, the festival is considered “one of the most popular sanctioned barbecue competitions in the United States.” In addition to food, the twoday event will feature live music from The Marcus King Band, The Steepwater Band, the Trongone Band and more. There will also be a juried craft show and classic cars.

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The Broadcast debuts long-awaited album From the Horizon

THERE FOR YOU: The Broadcast is well aware of music’s power to create community and healing. “We do what we do for other people,” says vocalist and songwriter Caitlin Krisko, “so they can discover themselves through an artistic platform.”

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BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com Three decades from now, a documentary filmmaker in search of her next rockumentary will come across The Broadcast and realize she’s hit pay dirt. The story of the local rock and soul outfit not only comes with its own high-octane soundtrack, it hits on all the key points: Challenges are overcome, miles are logged, performances are slain and an oft-jaded music industry is enticed. There’s dancing. There’s a love story.

There’s even a humble beginning.

“When I have doubts, I think about the sacrifices my mom made,” says frontwoman Caitlin Krisko, whose giant voice and creative vision drives The Broadcast. Krisko’s mom, a single parent, moved them from Detroit to New York City in a matter of weeks when Krisko auditioned for and won a place at the Professional Performing Arts School. The vocalist grew up around her father’s extensive classic rock collection but thought she was headed for a Broadway career

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until, in college at the Circle in the Square Arts Conservatory, a teacher asked if she’d ever thought about being in a band. It was prophetic. The Broadcast launches its latest album, From the Horizon, at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, June 11.

“When we moved to Asheville, we were so green,” says Krisko. “We had no experience with touring.” The group — no longer content in a rapidly changing New York City — had moved to Western North Carolina to take its career to the next level. Touring was at the top of the to-do list. And, though they were soon embraced by the local music-listening community, playing stages like Downtown After 5 to enthusiastic crowds, “Everyone [in the band] had a different experience with the move,” says Krisko.

By 2014, shifts in personnel and objective led to some serious soulsearching. It was around that time that Krisco’s relationship with guitarist Aaron Austin — who joined the band after the original Broadcast guitarist was hired to tour with Enrique Iglesias — evolved into a romance.

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backgrounds — Austin grew up in the farmland near the Outer Banks — they began co-writing and found a natural partnership. There’s a hint of that in From the Horizon: “As we drive down the highway / and we move around the sun / like the ones who came before you and me / it’s alright, it’s a passage / from a story that’s a classic / and I’m glad you’re sharing it with me,” Krisko sings on the funk-fueled “Double Down.” Even if the songs are fictional rather than autobiographical, the band’s joy is palpable.

“That was a turning point for the Broadcast’s sound,” says Krisko.

“That was when we decided we needed to make a record, and we started scouting different studios and producers.” The group (including E’Lon Jordan-Dunlap on bass, Tyler Housholder on percussion and Jaze Uries on drums) decided to “supershoot for the stars,” as Krisko puts it, and delved into their favorite albums featuring strong female vocalists.

Tedeschi Trucks Band, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Dixie Chicks all had at least one thing in common — producer Jim Scott.

An email sent to Scott’s manager came back with the surprising response: “I will make time for this record,” he told the Broadcast. “But we need to do this the right way.”

Krisko and her fellow musicians set about crafting their strongest material to date (Glen Frey was a major influence), whittling 17 or 18 songs down to 11.

“I was literally finishing the lyrics to one song when we were in the studio recording it,” Krisko says.

“We really wanted to be concise with what we said on the album.”

While the band road-tested songs before committing them to previous albums, From the Horizon is a clean slate, in a way. Its tracks are mostly previously unheard by listeners. From the come-outswinging intro, “Steamroller,” and the rocking Americana of “On the Edge,” to the expansive, organ-driven “Battle Cry” and the sweeping, aching “Electric Light,” all showcase the range of The Broadcast’s abilities. No longer an amped-up bar band belting swaggering covers, this iteration of the Broadcast is as powerful as ever but delivers listeners through an array of emotions and landscapes.

While an advance copy of From the Horizon was offered as an incentive to donate to the band’s successful Kickstarter campaign, that didn’t go quite as planned. Positive response to the album led to publicity and distribution deals (plus the group was named Band Ambassador by Asheville’s Convention & Visitor’s Bureau) — major scores for The Broadcast, but their patient fans had to wait just a little bit longer for the finished product.

Luckily, Asheville gets a first listen, with the band’s launch and extensive tour (including a date in Belgium, and more European shows to come) starting, fittingly, from The Broadcast’s adopted hometown. X

WHAT The Broadcast album release show with The Monbacks WHERE The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Saturday, June 11, 9 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show

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by Steph Guinan

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TRUE CRIME The Ballad of Frankie Silver debuts in Burnsville It’s a true story that goes back to the 1830s and has been told through the generations: In what is now Mitchell County, an 18-year-old woman named Frances “Frankie” Silver was convicted of murdering her 19-year-old husband. The crime was brutal. Charlie Silver’s body was chopped with an ax, charred in the fireplace and scattered around the farmstead. There are three side-by-side gravestones for the man who was buried as the pieces of his body were found. Frankie was arrested and taken to Morganton, where she was tried for the crime, convicted, and was the first woman to be hanged for murder in North Carolina.

This harrowing tale is the basis for The Ballad of Frankie Silver, a new production at the Parkway Playhouse, onstage through Saturday, June 18. The company’s artistic director, Andrew Gall, is also the playwright, adapting the script from a book of the same title written by New York Times best-selling author Sharyn McCrumb, who spent four years researching the novel.

The deaths in this story are certain, but the situation leading to them is filled with controversy. Many question if Frankie was acting in self-defense and if her conviction was biased.

“Looking at it from a 21st-century perspective,” says Gall, “the inequality with which she is treated from the standpoint of her gender, from the standpoint of where she comes from, and the sexism and the classism that factored into that, were things that really set my teeth on edge.”

Though Gall is personally opposed to capital punishment, his goal with the performance is not to cast blame. “I didn’t necessarily want to say if it was right or wrong, but I wanted [the audience] to really think about why this was happening. I really wanted them to think about what it would mean to tie some girl up at the end of a rope and then kick a bucket out from under her and watch her die for 15 minutes.”

The play, like the book, walks the audience through this nearly 2-century-old murder from the point of view of a contemporary sheriff. A parallel plot emerges between Frankie’s story and that of a murderer on death row who was apprehended by the sheriff.

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O DEATH: Roan Mountain native Shelby Ashley makes her Parkway Playhouse debut as the convicted murderess in the Western North Carolina-set Ballad of Frankie Silver. The production was adapted for the stage from Sharyn McCrumb’s historical novel. Photo courtesy of Parkway Playhouse While it may have been technically easier to focus on the singular plot of Frankie, Gall didn’t want the play to be reduced to a docudrama. “I really had to look very hard to figure out how to juggle these two, really three, different plotlines,” he says. “We see characters in 1998 who are looking back on the 1830s, and on top of that, characters in 1998 are also looking back 20-something years on a murder that happened in 1978.”

Gall had previously worked with McCrumb on Parkway Playhouse’s adaptation of her book Ghost Riders, another regional Appalachian tale, and the two were in conversation about a new

collaboration. Gall didn’t know of the Frankie Silver story and read McCrumb’s novel, which left him feeling unsettled by the story and the issues it brought up. “I really wanted other people to share that burden, as awful as it sounds,” he says. “I really feel like it was something we needed to talk about.”

McCrumb will participate in a series of events during the show’s opening weekend. At press time, the company is “precipitously close” to selling out its first weekend, says Gall. Advance ticket sales have already surpassed that of the just-completed production of Steel Magnolias, which the director considers popular and successful.

While Gall is proud of his work on productions such as Steel Magnolias, he notes that many of the shows like that one can be seen anywhere. But a play such as The Ballad of Frankie Silver is hyperlocal. “I’m sitting in the theater right now. I can get in the car, and I can be where all of that happened in about 15-minutes,” says Gall. “For some people, it’s still a very personal story because it involves their heritage — it involves their families, it involves people they might know.”

It’s a story that is a part of the community’s history and is still the subject of speculation. It looks at the possible disparities between justice and truth. It looks at issues such as the rural/urban division in North Carolina, a point that remains relevant.

“I get really interested in the stories that can only really be told by us,” says Gall. “I think people are hungry for those kinds of stories.

So I think it’s important to keep telling them.” X

WHAT The Ballad of Frankie Silver WHERE Parkway Playhouse 202 Green Mountain Drive Burnsville parkwayplayhouse.com WHEN Through Saturday, June 18.

Saturdays, June 11 and 18, at 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, June 12, at 3 p.m.; Fridays, June 10 and 17, at 7:30 p.m. $20 adults/$10 children

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TENDING THE SEED Frazey Ford talks soul music and personal groove

SOUL SISTER: While Frazey Ford has long loved Memphis soul artists and recorded her latest album in part in that city, the video to her anthemic single, “Done,” is set in Vancouver. “It’s about freedom and empowerment,” she says of the video. “It captures my community and neighborhood.” Photo courtesy of the artist It’s a long way from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Memphis, Tenn.

Nearly 2,000 miles, to be exact. But when Frazey Ford of The Be Good Tanyas made the journey in 2013, it was to bridge the distance between her background in folk and country, and the soul sounds she’s long been drawn to. “I like to deny my roots,” jokes Ford, whose sophomore solo album, Indian Ocean, was recorded at Royal Studios in Memphis with the Hi Rhythm Section. She’ll play The Mothlight in support of that album on Wednesday, June 15.

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Soul music is more like an embrace of Ford’s roots than a denial of them. In the decade since The Be Good Tanyas’ last studio album, Ford’s voice has blossomed into frontwoman proportions — rich, emotive, wild and expansive in its magnitude. She’s long loved and studied soul artists, though none more than Al Green.

The story is now well-chronicled: How Ford received a call from documentary filmmaker Robert Gordon — a friend of the Hi Rhythm Section, the house band for Green and other artists on the Hi Records label in the 1970s — inviting her to work with those musicians. But Ford still seems amazed by the experience.

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“Al Green’s band can be so groovy but without hitting you in the face with it,” she says. Though Ford grew up surrounded by music, she says that by exploring her own taste, and following her love of dancing, she was led to Green and his fellow artists. “These guys had this really refined way of creating so much groove and space, and that’s why not only me, but everyone in my band, has followed what they’ve done for a long time.”

That tastefulness and intrinsically funky aesthetic is clearly felt in lead track “September Fields.” There, acoustic strums lead to thick bass, sweeps of organ and the growl of saxophone. Gordon’s footage of the recording session — including guitarist Mabon “Teenie” Hodges, who passed away after the completion of Indian Ocean — serves as as the official video for that track. There’s a sweet moment where he and Ford, listening with closed eyes to a playback, both cup their faces in a mirror gesture of joy.

While Ford has often mentioned, in interviews, the unity of the Hi Rhythm Section — the way the three Hodges brothers, including organist Charles and bassist Leroy, seem to play as a single organism — she also stumbled upon their kryptonite: a decades-long argument over the correct way to play a particular chord. “It’s mysterious. It’s in the bridge [of Green’s song ‘I’m Still in Love with You’]. We were trying to record that song, and then it derailed,” says Ford.

“One of their friends was like, ‘You can’t play that song. They’ve been fighting over that one chord for 40 years.’” It’s notably absent from the album.

“It was kind of a relief to see how human they were,” she continues. To get back on track, Ford started showing one of the musicians the next song, “Weather Pattern.” Warm and relaxed in a criedout, post-storm way, Ford’s voice floats out of the shimmery keyboards, washes of brass and lush background vocals.

“That song is one of my favorites [on the album] because there’s a sort of coming back together and ‘we still love to play together’ [moment],” Ford says. “The high-drama moment created a beautiful feeling. … It was all kind of perfect, and I was glad for the whole arc.”

Despite the indelible mark of the Hi Rhythm Section on Indian Ocean, Ford doesn’t see it as a product of Memphis. North Carolinian Phil Cook, of Megafaun, also played all over the record. It was recorded in part in Vancouver. Ford, who self- or co-produces her projects, says, “I’ve always kept control over my recording process. Things can turn cheesy before you know it … so I like to keep it simple.”

But the musician is open to change, too, admitting she’s been thinking about getting away from playing guitar in order to focus on singing when onstage. Lately, she says, she’s been writing songs on piano. That’s not to say that a follow-up album is imminent: “I’m working on stuff, and things are happening,” Ford says elusively.

“Whenever I say, ‘I have this thing, and it’s solid,’ it seems to melt in my hands.”

She adds, “I was doing a lot of painting and sewing. Preceding [an album], I dive into a lot of other projects.”

On Instagram, Ford shares photos of clothes and crafts she’s made. “I have the seed, and I’m tending to it now.

Who knows when it will decide to make itself present?” X

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THINK INK Asheville Printmakers group show opens in Marshall

FOOTPRINTS: More than 15 artists’ works will be on display at the New Ink exhibit in Marshall. Print by Kato Guggenheim Needles are often used. As are acidic baths. And two rollers. And a flat bed.

And, of course, a lot of ink. In isolation, some of these details sound sinister.

When combined, it reads as more laborintensive. The outcome is an intaglio print — a process that involves scraping a copper or zinc plate to create patterned

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pits and grooves to hold ink that is later transferred to a high-quality cotton paper.

It’s an art form that first became popular in Europe during the 15th century and one that is still practiced today (although perhaps not as prolifically as, say, painting or photography). “The equipment is not terribly accessible,” says printmaker

Laura Ladendorf. “It’s harder for people to get working in the field.”

Kristalyn Bunyan, a fellow printmaker, agrees that the form can present challenges, but adds, “It can also rely on pretty basic processes.” She points to monoprinting and rubbings, which “can [be done] in your kitchen.”

Ladendorf and Bunyan are both members of an informal group of artists known as the Asheville Printmakers Group. Ladendorf works in relief and screen prints while Bunyan deals mainly in monotypes and gum arabic. Once a month, these makers meet at the West Asheville Library to discuss their various practices and projects. The group hosts its second exhibition, New Ink, at the Madison County Arts Center.

“I think the most exciting thing about this [exhibit] is a lot of the work is being created specifically for this show,” says Erich Hubner, program director at the Madison County Arts Council. “It’s not like a bunch of work that’s been sitting around. A lot of the work will debut at this show.”

New Ink runs through Friday, July 29, and will feature the works of more than 15 printmakers. These will include monotypes, relief, intaglio and alternative photographic prints. “I think that’s one of the most interesting aspects,” says Ladendorf. “You don’t see a group of printmakers have a show very often.”

An opening-night discussion included talk of the Asheville Printmakers collective. “We came up with the idea that it would be beneficial to get printmakers in the community to form an interest group,” says Kato Guggenheim.

She and her husband, Fred, spearheaded the organization two and a half years ago. “I think, as artists, we tend to work alone,” she says. “But we have a lot to learn from each other — ideas, techniques, materials, resources, event feedback and suggestions about our work, and friendships. Ours is not a competitive group but one that is there to respect and support each other and our work.” X

WHAT New Ink: Asheville Printmakers group show ashevilleprintmakers.org WHERE Madison County Arts Center 90 S. Main St., Marshall WHEN On exhibit through Friday, July 29

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The Honey Dewdrops The Honey Dewdrops’ latest album, Tangled Country, flows easily with simple roots instrumentation underscoring humble vocals by Laura Wortman and Kagey Parrish, who trade lead melodies and harmonies across songs. Though their backing music sounds are steeped in the heat of the South, the couple modernize the lyrical woes that typically come packaged with slow strums and the wilting notes of a pedal steel.

Parrish sings: “All my friends are hitched and having kids / we don’t light up the late nights like we did / so I get stoned alone in the flat screen’s light / with a hi-def Andy Griffith who don’t look right.” Catch the Baltimore-based, microphone-sharing duo at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall’s upstairs lounge on Thursday, June 9, at 7 p.m. $10. isisasheville.com. Photo by Trisha Bunce

Dawn Tripp It was at a retrospective art exhibit that Dawn Tripp first noticed the “startling difference between the revolutionary charcoals and abstract works that [Georgia] O’Keeffe created as a young artist, and the Southwest landscapes, flowers and representational paintings she is now most famous for,” according to a release from the author. That shift, Tripp found out through subsequent research, had much to do with O’Keeffe’s personal and professional tangling with photographer Alfred Stieglitz, an early exhibitor of O’Keeffe’s work and her eventual lover. Snippets from their relationship and O’Keeffe’s wider history informed Tripp’s new fictionalized book Georgia, which follows the protagonist on the bumping, swerving path from unknown to iconic. Tripp presents the novel at Malaprop’s on Tuesday, June 14, at 7 p.m. Free. malaprops.com. Images courtesy of the author

The Bluff Mountain Festival

Brief Encounters Last year, The Magnetic Theatre’s Brief Encounters show animated the imaginations of playwrights across the country, bringing new works to the stage in roughly 10-minute rounds. For its fourth iteration, however, the production will have a tighter focus and premiere slightly longer one-act works by five local talents: Adam Arthur, Peter Lundblad, Devin Brady, Cliff Yudell and Cody Magouirk. Selected for their clarity, purpose, humor and dramatic arc, according to a press release, the plays will “range from the comedic to the tragic, exploring the relationships between parents and children, aging and death, as well as truth and illusion.” Brief Encounters: New Magnetic Voices 2016 shows at The Magnetic Theatre Thursdays to Saturdays through June 25, at 7:30 p.m. $21/$24 (student discounts available). themagnetictheatre.org. Photo by Rodney Smith

In 1916, legendary folklorist Cecil Sharp arrived in Western North Carolina to record and publicize the ballad-singing tradition that had been echoing through Appalachia for generations. A century later, the 21st annual Bluff Mountain Festival is commemorating that historic visit with a ballad-heavy lineup. Celebrated Madison County traditionalist Sheila Kay Adams’ headlining performance will include an onstage interview about her local musical upbringing conducted by radio host and music teacher Paul Brown.

And between sets by openers like Betty Smith, Joe Penland and the Madison County Ballad Singers, festival guests can peruse even more mountain-flavored attractions: an arts and crafts market, food and a silent auction showcasing regional goods. Hot Springs Resort and Spa hosts the Bluff Mountain Festival on Saturday, June 11, from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free. Proceeds benefit the Madison County Arts Council. madisoncountyarts.com.

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Retail,” with Darren Green of Old Wood Company.

Registration required. Free.

• TH (6/16), 7-10pm - “Mix & Mingle- A sneak peek at The Refinery,” networking event with music and reception. Free. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • FR (6/10), 6:30pm - International mixed media artists Einar and Jamex De la Torre present new work. Free to attend.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (6/10) & SA (6/11), 10am-4pm Viewing of the Art in Bloom ikebana and painting collaborative exhibition. $5.

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am-5pm - Gallery open house with food, music and artists’ demonstrations. Free to attend.

RIVER ARTS DISTRICT ARTISTS riverartsdistrict.com • 2nd SATURDAYS, 10am-6pm - Selfguided open studio tour through the River Arts District with artist demonstrations and classes. Free to attend.

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EXHIBIT theashevilledarkroom. com • SA (6/11), 6-10pm - Proceeds from this one-night pop-up photo installation by Bill Daniel with music

by Ellipser and Earth Collider benefit The Asheville Darkroom. $5-$25.

Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave.

have accompanied, collaborated with, and written for the legendary jam band.

Headliners: Bloodkin, with a whiskeysoaked, guitar-driven Southern rock sound.

Also appearing, Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons and Randall Bramblett. www.riverlink.org ALTAMONT THEATRE 18 Church St., 274-8070 • FR (6/10), 8pm Haken Continuum Concert with Rob Schwimmer, Pallav Pandya, Edwin Eagan, Wayne Kirby, Sally Sparks. $10.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 1 Page Ave., 2580710, ashevillearts.com • Through (7/13) - Submissions accepted for organizations applying for the North Carolina Arts Council’s Grassroots Arts Program applications for Buncombe County. Information session: Wednesday, June 8, 5-6pm at The Refinery Creator Space, 207 Coxe Ave. Free.

LOCAL CLOTH localcloth.org • Through (7/10), Textile submissions accepted for Local Cloth’s “Project Handmade 2016: Elements of Nature.” Full guidelines: localcloth.org.

TEDX TRYON 393-0182, tedxtryon.com • Through (6/10) Submissions accepted for musicians, dancers, poets, humorists and street performers for September 10, 2016 event to be held at Tryon Fine Arts Center. Free.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through (9/17) - Applications accepted from curators, researchers, independent schol-

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CHEROKEE STORIES THROUGH ART: The Bascom Center for the Visual Arts exhibition, Of Land & Spirit: Cherokee Art Today, curated by Anna Fariello, author of the Hands of Our Elders book series, features works from current Eastern Band Cherokee artisans as well as rare historic pieces. The exhibition will be on display from Sunday, June 12, until Sunday, September 18. The public is invited to the opening reception on Sunday, June 12, from 5-7 p.m. For more information, visit thebascom.org. Photo of Booger of Rebellion by Joshua Adams courtesy of The Bascom. (p. 49) ars and graduate students for the Craft Research Fund.

See website for full guidelines.

ZAPOW! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • Through (6/11) - Submissions accepted for short stories about dreams.

Winners will be illustrated by a Zapow artist and included in an exhibition from July to August. Free to attend.

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COMEDY BLACKLIST IMPROV facebook.com/ blacklistimprov • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 8pm - Improv comedy show. $7. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St.

MUSIC THIS FRIDAY • RIVERMUSIC • 5PM (pd.) RiverLink’s RiverMusic offers “Friends Of Widespread Panic,” featuring 3 acts that

ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org, info@ashevilledowntown. org • SA (6/11), 6pm Steep Canyon Rangers Concert w/ Devils in Dust. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 862-2105, brevardmusic.org • SA (6/11), 7:30pm - Jazz concert by Brevard Music Center faculty and students. $25. Held at the Brevard College Porter Center.

FRUIT OF LABOR WORSHIP CENTER 611 Emmas Grove Road, Fairview, 713-3822 • FR (6/10), 7pm Jeremiah Yocom & Tour band. Free to attend.

NORTH MAIN MUSIC SERIES 692-6335 • SA (6/11), 5-7:30pm - Lynn Goldsmith & Jeter Mountain Band, blues/country. Free to attend. Held at Green Room Cafe & Coffeehouse, 536 N. Main St., Hendersonville PUBSING 254-1114 • 2nd SUNDAYS, 6-8pm - Gospel jam and sing-along.

Optional snack time

at 5:30pm. Free to attend. Held at French Broad Brewery, 101 Fairview Road RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES 233-3216, facebook.com/ rhythmandbrewshendersonville • 3rd THURSDAYS (5/19), 5-9pm Outdoor concert series. Free to attend.

Held between Allen & Caswell Streets, Hendersonville ST. MATTHIAS CHURCH 1 Dundee St., 285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com/ • SU (6/12), 3pm Grove Wood Wind Ensemble concert featuring works by Haydn, Brackett and Agay, Mozart and Gordon Jacob.

Admission by donation.

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 • FR (6/10), 7:30pm The Honey Dewdrops, singer-songwriters.

Free.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST FELLOWSHIP OF HENDERSONVILLE 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville, 6933157, uufhnc.org • SA (6/11), 7-9:30pm - Blue Grass to Bach Concert Series: Jun Luke Fosteran, classical piano. $15.

UR LIGHT CENTER 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 6696845, urlight.org • SA (6/11), 7:30-9pm - Richard Shulman and Jonn Serrie concert and laser light show. $18.

THEATER WEEK OF ACTING WORKSHOPS (pd.) 13 professional film, stage, and voiceover acting workshops over 5 days to kick-off the exciting Summer class schedule—only $15 for the week! Info/ Registration: (828) 276-1212 www.NYS3.com

ANAM CARA THEATRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (6/11), 8pm - And Everything Nice: A Purity Anti-Manifesto for the Stage. $18/$15 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/26) - La Cage Aux Folles, musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15-$25.

BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/19) - The Odd Couple.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 3pm. $16/$11 students.

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 2 S. Pack Square, 2574530, dwtheatre.com • SA (6/11), 3pm & 7pm - Asheville Performing Arts Academy presents, The Lion King, Jr. $25.

DIFFERENT STROKES PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTIVE 275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/2) until (6/18), 7:30pm - The Mountaintop, by Katori Hall, directed

by Steph Hickling Beckman. $21/$18 advance. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/16) until (7/9) - The Music Man, musical. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat., & Sun.: 2pm. $15-$40.

HART THEATRE 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/20) through (6/12) - Legally Blonde, musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $8-$26.

HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater. org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/12) - 4000 Miles. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $16.

MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/3) through (7/2), 7:30pm - Much Ado About Nothing. $15. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, 6824285, parkwayplayhouse.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/18) - The Ballad of Frankie Silver. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $20/$18 seniors and students/$10 children.

STREET CREATURE’S PUPPET PLAYHOUSE 37 E Larchmont Road • THURSDAYS (5/12) through (6/30), 7-9pm - Improv comedy class incorporating puppets. All levels. $10.

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAY through SATURDAY until (6/25), 7:30pm - “Brief Encounters: New Magnetic Voices,” one-act plays. $24/$21 advance.

GALLERY D I RE CTORY AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through TH (6/30) - The Color Red, exhibition of works by Michael Banks, Ellie Ali, and James A. Snipe.

ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Held in the Bardo Fine Arts Center unless otherwise noted.

• Through (6/30) - Vision and Vistas: Great Smoky Mountains, exhibition of images of the Great Smoky Mountains that helped inspire the creation of the national park.

ART IN THE AIRPORT 61 Terminal Drive, Fletcher • Through SU (9/4) - Reimagined, painting exhibition of local artists Carol L. MacAllister, Robert Mahosky, Hartley Meinzer, Wendy Newman and Elise Okrend.

ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TH (6/30) - Surrendering to Mystery, exhibition of the abstract art of Reda Kay. BASCOM CENTER FOR THE ARTS 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, 5264949, thebascom.org • SU (6/12) through SU (9/18) - Of Land & Spirit: Cherokee Art Today, exhibition of Eastern Cherokee art curated by Anna Fariello. Opening reception: Sunday, June 12, 5-7pm.

BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through WU (7/31) - Twelve Voices: International Jewelry, exhibit of 12 influential contemporary jewelry artists curated by Donald Friedrich.

ART MOB 124 Fourth Ave. E., Hendersonville, 693-4545, artmobstudios.com • Through SU (6/12) - Miniature Art Show, juried exhibition.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through SA (6/11) - Art in Bloom, juried exhibition of artworks to be paired with ikebana floral designs on June 9-11.

ARTWORKS 27 S. Broad St., Brevard, 553-1063, artworksbrevardnc.com • Through (6/30) - Sunshine, exhibition of the paintings of Sarah Sneeden. Reception: Friday, June 22, 5-8pm.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (8/28) - Grovewood Rocks! exhibition of artisan made rocking chairs by 11 American woodworkers.

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (6/25) - Antecedents, exhibition of photography assemblage by Jenny Bowen.

• Through SA (6/25) - A thing re | sembling a win • dow, exhibition curated by Dawn Roe. Panel discussion & performance: Thursday, June 9, 6-7:30pm.

HAEN GALLERY BREVARD 200 King St., Brevard, 883-3268, haengallery.com/brevard • Through TH (6/30) - Remembering Lew Wallace, exhibition of watercolor paintings of waterfalls of the late Lew Wallace.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796,

HICKORY MUSEUM OF ART 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (8/21) - On Common Ground: Pastel Paintings from the Mountains to the Sea, statewide juried pastel exhibition.

MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 90 S. Main St., Marshall, 649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com • Through FR (7/29) - New Ink, exhibition of new prints by members of Asheville Printmakers and invited artists.

lation by Sally Garner.

MORA CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY 9 Walnut St., 575-2294, moracollection.com • Through TH (6/30) - Exhibition of the jewelry of Joanna Goldberg.

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY

N.C. ARBORETUM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • Through MO (9/5) - The Magic of Western North Carolina, exhibit of the watercolors of James Scott Morrison.

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • Through TH (6/30) - Exhibition of the ceramic art of Ginger Graziano and Diana Gillispie.

Reception: Friday, June 11, 11am5pm.

PINK DOG CREATIVE 342 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through TH (6/30) - Perceptions the Black Male: images of Dignity, exhibition of the paintings of Joseph Pearson.

RIVERSIDE STUDIOS 174 W. Haywood St., 551-5045, britoie.wix.com/riverside-studios • Through MO (6/20) - Inspirations: The Artist’s View, exhibition of gallery artists.

SATELLITE GALLERY 55 Broadway St., 305-2225, thesatellitegallery.com • Through SU (6/26) - A Memory Rewound, crocheted VHS art instal-

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SEVEN SISTERS GALLERY 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through SU (8/28) - Exhibition of paintings by Billy Edd Wheeler.

CHOCOLATE & BEER PAIRING

822 Locust St. Suite 100, Hendersonville, 684-1235 • SA (6/11) through (7/31) - Intrinsic Flow, exhibition of paintings from three local artists. Opening reception: Saturday, June 11, 5-8pm.

1ST WED. OF EVERY MONTH

RED HOUSE STUDIOS AND GALLERY 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, svfalarts.org • Through SU (7/17) - Americana, Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League member exhibition.

THE VILLAGE POTTERS 191 Lyman St. #180, 253-2424, thevillagepotters.com • Through SA (7/16) - Apprentices: The Next Generation, exhibition of the pottery work of apprentices Sarah Thurmond, Jenay Martin, Hannah McGehee and Tori DiPietro.

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349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through MO (6/20) - Celebration of Waterfalls, exhibition.

WCQS 73 Broadway, 10-4800, wcqs.org • Through SU (7/31) - Exhibition of the paintings of Laura John.

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CLUBLAND TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5pm Les Amis (African folk music), 8pm

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

550 TAVERN & GRILLE Bike Night, 6pm karaoke, 9pm

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Core, 7:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 6:30pm

ALTAMONT THEATRE Haken Continuum Conference (fingerboard conference), all day event

THURSDAY, JUNE 9

BEN’S TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic, 7pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Kevin Smith & Logan Mason (folk), 9pm

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Open mic w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

ALTAMONT THEATRE Haken Continuum Conference (fingerboard conference), all day event

DARK CITY DELI Pool Tournament, 7:30pm

BARLEY’S TAPROOM AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

DOUBLE CROWN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Kevin Fuller (Americana), 9pm

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Station Underground (reggae), 8pm

FUNKATORIUM John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform “Eclectic Country” (jam), 7pm

ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Triptych Soul (jazz, fusion), 9pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Record Company (rock, blues), 8pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Jason Ager (blues, rock), 6pm

GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm

GOOD STUFF Modern Lady Fitness w/ Twin Quasars (rock, dark pop), 7:30pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL De la Noche (Argentinian tango experience), 7pm An evening w/ Jon McLaughlin & Elliott Blaufuss (indie, rock, alternative), 8:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm LEX 18 The Patrick Lopez Experience (modern & Latin jazz), 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

ORANGE PEEL HAIM w/ Bibi Bourelly (pop, rock, R&B), 8:30pm

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Triptych Soul (electronic, jazz, fusion), 8pm

LOOKOUT BREWERY James Hammel (jazz), 5:30pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Noah Stidham & Clay Shutte (bluegrass, Americana), 6pm

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Bluegrass jam, 8pm

MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm

ROOM IX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY My Feral Child (singer-songwriter), 7pm

O.HENRY’S/THE UNDERGROUND “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm ODDITORIUM Lunch Cult w/ Did Is Dead (punk, garage), 9pm

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ACROSS THE AGES: As a 15-time winner of the International Bluegrass Music Association’s “Dobro Player of the Year” award, Rob Ickes is an established vet in the music world. After meeting rising star Trey Hensley, the two combined their talents on 2015’s Before the Sun Goes Down, earning the praise of the late Merle Haggard and inspiring music archivist Mary Stuart to write that “In the ever changing world of country music, it’s comforting to know that the real deal still exists.” Catch Ickes & Hensley blend old and new on Sunday, June 12 at the White Horse Black Mountain, beginning at 7:30 p.m.

Photo courtesy of White Horse Black Mountain

SCULLY’S Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

SOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Hustle Souls (Southern rock, soul), 6pm

ONE WORLD BREWING Redleg Husky (acoustic trio), 8pm

TALLGARY’S AT FOUR COLLEGE Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm

JUNE 8 - JUNE 14, 2016

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THE MILLROOM Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm THE MOCKING CROW Open Mic, 8pm THE MOTHLIGHT Des Ark w/ Adam Torres & Cowboy Crisis (rock, punk), 9pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Dungen w/ New Madrid (indie, psychedelic, rock), 9pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL The Honey Dewdrops (tangled country), 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm LEX 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm O.HENRY’S/THE UNDERGROUND Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am ODDITORIUM Daniel Ouellette & the Shobijin w/ Tokusatsu (rock, indie), 9pm OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm

THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm

OLE SHAKEY’S Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10pm

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm

OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Band (jazz), 8pm

THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm TIMO’S HOUSE On the Roxz for RoxZandra Rockheart (art opening), 8pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6pm Bald Mountain Boys (“smokin’ mountain grass”), 10pm

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm

ONE WORLD BREWING Paleo Sun (alt-roots rock), 9pm

ORANGE PEEL Ibeyi w/ The Secret B-Sides (soul, R&B, electronic), 9pm

SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul), 6pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Andrew Tufano (folk, soul), 6pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY BBQ, Hops & Tunes fundraiser w/ The Stipe Brothers (acoustic), 5pm

PACK’S TAVERN Jeff Anders and Steve Mosely (acoustic rock), 8pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Bob Sinclair Trio, 7:30pm ROCKY’S HOT CHICKEN SHACK The King Zeros & Josh Singleton (blues), 6:30pm ROOM IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Open Mic, 6pm TALLGARY’S AT FOUR COLLEGE Open jam night w/ Jonathan Santos, 7pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Thursday Request Live w/ Franco Nino, 9pm TOWN PUMP Albi & The Lifters (jazz), 9pm TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Open mic night, 7:30pm

Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, soul), 9pm

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7pm

TWISTED LAUREL

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Matt Jackson (singer-songwriter), 7pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Joe McPhee & The Omnipotent Egyptians (free jazz), 9pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

THE PHOENIX Carolina Bound (singer-songwriter), 8pm

Karaoke, 8pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH DJ dance party, 9:30pm WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Pam Jones (jazz), 8pm

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Wed •June 8 Woody Wood @ 5:30pm

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

Tues-Sun

5pm–12am

12am

Fri •June 10

Full Bar

Lost Cove release party featuring Peter Karp @ 7pm

Sat•June 11 Steepwater Band @ 7pm Sun•June 12 Reggae Sunday hosted by Dennis Berndt of Chalwa @ 1pm

Tue• June 14

COMING SOON

AND FRIENDS (THE DIGS)

7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

SAT 6.18 MON 6.20

TODD CECIL & FRIENDS

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JUNE 8 - JUNE 14, 2016

O.HENRY’S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30am OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Zen Cats (blues), 8pm

ONE WORLD BREWING Richard Barret & Jackson Dulaney (bluegrass), 8pm DJ Alien DNA (house), 10pm

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Gamma Gamma Omega Sorority Presents: A White Party: A Night of Pearlfection (DJ), 9pm

ORANGE PEEL Claypool Lennon Delirium w/ Chicano Batman (psychedelic, pop, rock), 9pm

WED 6/15

5-9 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS : $35 MUSIC BY WEST END TRIO ON THE PATIO

7:00PM IN THE LOUNGE WITH JOSHUA FIALKOFF (BARRELHOUSE BLUES, TRADITIONAL SWING, & STRIDE)

8:30 PM – AN EVENING WITH

SARAH CLANTON AND THE BLUE BETTYS THU 6/16 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

KIRA SMALL

CORK & KEG The Puddle Jumpers Stringband (old-time), 8:30pm CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Andy Ferrell (Americana, roots), 8pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Simon and Company (jazz, funk), 10pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz), 6pm PACK’S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Yess-I (reggae, dub), 8pm SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Hunnilicious (Americana, country, folk), 7:30pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm

SAT 6/18

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Paper Crowns (indie, rock), 6pm

8:30 PM – DAVID HOLT AND

GOOD STUFF Jeff Ingersoll (acoustic, bluegrass), 9pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Straw Man Band (melodic rock), 6pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Sam Holt Band w/ Jerry Joseph (country), 9:30pm

THE ADMIRAL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm

7:00 PM – FORLORN STRANGERS

JOSH GOFORTH: CD RELEASE “GOOD MACHINE” Every Tuesday 7:30pm–midnite

9PM FREE (Donations Encouraged)

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

MCCREERY PARK The Secret Band (classic rock, Americana), 7pm

SAT 6/11

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 5pm til ?

MONDAY Quizzo! 7-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old Time Jam 6pm THURSDAY Bluegrass Jam • 7pm

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

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

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE The All-Arounders (delta blues), 6pm

THE SWING ERA, VOL. II

EARLY SHOW by CANYON COLLECTED

9PM $5

ATHENA’S CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm

LOOKOUT BREWERY Tom Savage, 5:30pm

“BOUND!”

7:30 PM – HISTORY OF JAZZ:

BRYAN MARSHALL & THE PAYDAY KNIGHTS HONKY TONK BAND

LOBSTER TRAP Hot Point Trio (jazz), 6:30pm

BOILER ROOM VIBE (electronic), 10pm

SUN 6/12 5:30 PM – VA SCHENCK

7PM $5

550 TAVERN & GRILLE Bad Habits (country, Southern rock), 9pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Jimmy Riddlin & The Grasshoppers (funk, blues), 10pm

“BOUND!”

THE FREEWAY REVIVAL w/ THE FLATLAND TOURISTS

LEX 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

9:00 PM – SEDUCTION SIDESHOW:

FRI 6.17

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Matt Townsend (indie, folk, rock), 9pm

6:30PM CONCERT ON THE LAWN WITH CAROMIA TILLER AND THE SIAMESE JAZZ CLUB 9:00 PM – SEDUCTION SIDESHOW:

CASSIE AND MAGGIE MACDONALD

9PM FREE (Donations Encouraged)

THE SOCIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm

THE HONEY DEWDROPS

7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

TODD CECIL & FRIENDS

LAZY DIAMOND Totes Dope Tite Sick Jams w/ (ya boy) DJ Hot Noodle, 10pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 7pm

A NIGHT OF UNRESTRAINED BURLESQUE

MON 6.13

185 KING STREET Blue Cactus (country, Americana), 8pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Zebbler Encanti Experience & Living Light (psychedelic bass music), 8pm

6:30PM PATIO MUSIC WITH RAM MANDELKORN

w/ MEMBERS OF THE FRENCH BROAD PLAYBOYS 9PM $5

THE PHOENIX John Trufant & Friends (Americana), 9pm

7:00 PM – DE LA NOCHE: TANGO EXPERIENCE 8:30 PM – AN EVENING WITH

THU 6/9

BARSTERS BLUEGRASS BAND

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 10

MUSIC BY WEST END TRIO ON THE PATIO

5-9 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS : $35

FRI 6/10

SAT 6.11

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ALTAMONT THEATRE Haken Continuum Conference (fingerboard conference), all day event

WED 6/8

JON MCCLAUGHLIN AND ELLIOTT BLAUFUSS

Team Trivia with Dr. Brown @ 6pm

CL U B L A N D

743 HAYWOOD RD 828-575-2737 ISISASHEVILLE.COM

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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Lost Cove Kolsch release party w/ Peter Karp (roots, folk, blues), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Seduction Sideshow (burlesque, cabaret), 9pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Copernicus (bluegrass), 8pm

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jordan Okrend (rock, soul, singer-songwriter), 8pm

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Rooftop Dance Party with DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10pm TIGER MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE DJ Deacon (electronic), 9pm TOWN PUMP Ellerbe’s Own (rock, soul, funk), 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Lauren Calve (Americana, blues, roots rock), 7:30pm Bobby Thompson and his Band (jazz), 10pm TWISTED LAUREL Phantom Pantone (electronic), 11pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Kat Williams Tribute to Nina Simone (blues), 8pm WILD WING CAFE Vintage, 9pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Ben Hovey (live souljazztronica), 8pm ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 11 185 KING STREET Kevin Reid Trio w/ Dalton Johnson (blues rock), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Lyric (acoustic soul), 6pm Alarm Clock Conspiracy (indie rock), 9pm 550 TAVERN & GRILLE J Luke (pop, rock), 9pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Tommy Guns (honky tonk), 9:30pm ATHENA’S CLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm BEN’S TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsy-jazz), 3pm Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Crackerjack (rockabilly, soul), 9pm

THE MOCKING CROW Karaoke, 9pm

BYWATER Captain Midnight’s Skimpy Outfit (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

THE MOTHLIGHT N.P. Presley & The Ghost of Jesse Garon (rock ’n’ roll), 9:30pm

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Virginia & the Slims CD release (blues, jazz, swing), 7pm

CORK & KEG Fiddlin’ Earl White Stringband (old-time), 8:30pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Todd Cecil & Back South (blues, rock), 6pm

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Dave Desmelik Duo (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 8pm

PACK’S TAVERN The Tailgators (rock, bluegrass), 9:30pm

DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Lauren Cole Band (rock), 10pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The LeMasters (folk, rock), 6pm GOOD STUFF Lillie Lemon (indie, electro pop), 7pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Broadcast w/ Major & The Monbacks (Americana, soul, rock), 9pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Steepwater Band (rock ’n’ roll), 7pm HOT SPRINGS CAMPGROUND & SPA 21st Annual Bluff Mountain Festival, 10am

185 KING STREET Sunday Funday (open jam), 3pm

RIVERWATCH BAR & GRILL Roots and Dore (blues), 7pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Red Hot Sugar Babies (hot jazz), 7pm

ROOM IX Open dance night, 9pm SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga with Cats, 10am Bob Zullo (acoustic), 3pm Carver & Carmody (Americana), 7:30pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Race To The Taps (running & beer), 11am King Possum (Americana, folk), 8pm STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Bull Moose Party, 6pm THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm THE MOCKING CROW Live music, 8pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Barsters Bluegrass Band w/ members of The French Broad Playboys, 9pm

THE PHOENIX Jamison Adams Project (classic rock), 9pm

LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm LEX 18 Maureen Renihan & Dan Keller (jazz, blues, swing), 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm ODDITORIUM Hip Hop/Rock Show, 10pm OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Moonshine District (newgrass), 10pm ORANGE PEEL COPA AMERICA: United States vs. Paraguay viewing party (benefit for ABYSA), 7pm

SUNDAY, JUNE 12

PURPLE ONION CAFE The DanBerrys (Americana, prog. rock), 8pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An Evening w/ Cassie and Maggie MacDonald (Celtic), 7pm Seduction Sideshow (burlesque, cabaret), 9pm

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Burlesque Academy of Asheville Graduation Show, 10pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 9pm TOWN PUMP Michael Daughtry (singersongwriter), 9pm TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Adam Tanner’s Roots Review (old-time, bluegrass, country), 8pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7:30pm Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, funk, rock), 10pm TWISTED LAUREL Indoor & Outdoor Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone (electronic), 10pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Riccardi Duo (musical cabaret), 7pm WILD WING CAFE Karaoke, 9pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Karma Dogs (rock), 9pm WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Caribbean Cowboys (rock), 8pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Sunday Funday DJ set, 2pm Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Sunday brunch w/ live music, 11am BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel and Friends, 11:30am BYWATER Cornmeal Waltz w/ Robert Greer (classic country, bluegrass), 6pm CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Pleasure Chest (rock ’n’ roll), 6pm CORK & KEG Vollie McKenzie (swing, jazz, country), 3pm CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Keegan Avery (originals), 2pm DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Joshua Radin w/ Gary Jules (acoustic, folk), 8pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am VA Virginia Schenck (jazz), 5:30pm History of Jazz Series: The Swing Era, vol. 2, 7:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm LAZY DIAMOND Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm LEX 18 Moulin Rouge Musical Dinner Show (ticketed event), 6:30pm

TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

LIVE MUSIC... never a cover THU. 6/9 Jeff Anders and Steve Moseley (acoustic rock)

LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville (swingin’ grass), 6:30pm

FRI. 6/10 DJ MoTo

OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9pm

(dance hits, pop)

OLIVE OR TWIST Zen Cats (blues), 6pm

SAT. 6/11 The Tailgators

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Sundays w/ Bill & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute, acoustic), 5pm

(rock, bluegrass)

ORANGE PEEL Waltz night, 6pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Vince Junior Band (gritty soul), 2pm

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“FRIENDS OF WIDESPREAD PANIC DAY”

6/10 Sam Holt Band

+ JERRY JOSEPH (RIVERMUSIC AFTER PARTY)

6/11

22ND ANNIVERSARY PARTY THE BROADCAST

7PM DOORS 8PM DOORS

W/ NEW MADRID

8PM DOORS

DUNGEN

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Canaan Cox (country, pop), 3pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Sunday Open Mic (open to poets, comedians & musicians), 7:30pm

8PM DOORS

The Record Company

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Arts for Autism Benefit w/ The Stipe Bros and Dan Ruiz, Eric Congdon Electric Trio, Howie Johnson, Ellen Trnka & Garry Segal, 4pm

(ALBUM RELEASE SHOW) W/ MAJOR & THE MONBACKS

6/12 6/14 S A I N T

JOSHUA RADIN (SOLO ACOUSTIC) W/ GARY JULES

MOTEL

W/ COIN

7PM DOORS

6/8 6/9

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Sunday Travers Jam (open jam), 5pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Barstool Sailors, 1pm Ryan Goro, 5pm

7PM DOORS

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SAT

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WED

CL U B L A N D

TALLGARY’S AT FOUR COLLEGE Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

6/15 ROBBIE FULKS 6/16 FISHBONE 6/17 TONY JOE WHITE

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Connell Sanderson (Celtic music), 8pm THE IMPERIAL LIFE Ultra Lounge Listening Party w/ projections DJ Phantone Pantone, 10pm THE MOTHLIGHT Sarah Louise, Josh Berman and Keefe Jackson, Parish, Libramento & Rodriguez (horns, singer-songwriter, multi-genre), 9pm

6/8 Wed 6/9 thu

Featuring

Largest Selection of Craft Beer on Tap • 8 Wines Music Trivia Every Monday- 7:30pm

Sat 6/11- DJ Space Bass Transmissions 9PM Wed 6/15- Karaoke with Host Pizza! 9PM Thu 6/16- New Belgium Fat Tire Event 7PM

$4 Mimosa Sundays!

Serving food from Asheville Sandwich Company!

800 Haywood Road P o u r Ta p R o o m . c o m Monday - Thursday 12-11pm Fri. & Sat. 12-1am • Sunday 12-11pm JUNE 8 - JUNE 14, 2016

joe mcphee and

THE PHOENIX Ellen Trnka (Singersongwriter), 12pm

w/ adam torres, cowboy crisis

the omnipotent egyptians n.p. presley & the ghost of jesse garon

6/11 sat deb au nare presents

burlesque academy of asheville graduation show

6/12 sun sarah louise / josh berman & keefe jackson / parish, libramento, & rodriguez 6/13

mon

free monday!

w/ big ups, petey, & votaries

free!

6/15 Wed frazey ford w/ lilli jean

6/16 thu the moth:

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THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

THE SOUTHERN Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm TIMO’S HOUSE Bring Your Own Vinyl (open decks), 8pm TOWN PUMP Rue Snider (singer-songwriter), 9pm WEDGE BREWING CO. Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz-swing), 6pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley (country blues), 7:30pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Jazz Club (soul, R&B, jazz), 8pm 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Cornhole, 5pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm

THE PHOENIX Jeff Thomson (singer-songwriter), 8pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

BYWATER Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Movie night, 7pm

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Jon Edwards Musicians in the Round play the songs of John Prine, 6pm COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Trivia, 7pm DARK CITY DELI Trivia Night, 7:30pm DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke, 10pm GOOD STUFF Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7pm Todd Cecil & friends (Americana, blues), 9pm LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm O.HENRY’S/THE UNDERGROUND Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm ONE WORLD BREWING Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm ORANGE PEEL Summer movie series: Fargo, 8pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Sunday Funday w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

SOVEREIGN REMEDIES Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm

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THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Mexi Monday (jazz, world music), 5pm

w/ sankofa electrofolk & coconut cake

Details for all shows can be found at

THE MOTHLIGHT Big Ups w/ Petey (punk), 9pm

THE VALLEY MUSIC & COOKHOUSE Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm

WICKED WEED Summer Concert Series, 4pm

minsk 6/18 sat World dance party!

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE An evening of visionary music w/ S h a n t i, Sacred Sound, Infinite Geometry & Murkury, 5pm

ALTAMONT THEATRE Manifest Pussy (one woman rock musical), 8pm

w/ bloodiest, niah

fri

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THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Jazz Brunch w/ Katie Kasben, 12:30pm

185 KING STREET Open mic night, 7pm

SOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN Playing Games with Hearts Tour w/ Professor ShyGuy, Super Guitar Bros, the Last WordBenders, Juan Holiday & Fame Douglas, 9pm

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6/17

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Ethan Hawke and Greta Gerwig in Rebecca Miller’s off-beat romantic comedy Maggie’s Plan — a terrific showcase for Gerwig.

Catherine Frot and Michel Faut in Xavier Giannoli’s Marguerite — a barely fact-based take on the world’s worst opera singer that manages to be both amusing, sweet and even heart-breaking. A must see.

Marguerite HHHHH DIRECTOR: Xavier Giannoli PLAYERS: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret, Denis Mpunga, Sylvain Dieuaide, Aubrey Fenoy, Sophia Leboutte FACT-BASED DRAMA-COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: An almost completely fictionalized account of an historic character who insisted on singing opera, despite having a terrible voice.

THE LOWDOWN: A real-life story (which gets its own film later this year) is turned into a tragi-comic film of startling beauty and complexity.

Unless you’re utterly allergic to subtitles, this is a must-see.

With Xavier Giannoli’s exquisite Marguerite, the top echelon of my potential Ten Best list is getting crowded. I had missed this film’s very existence until Friday, when the Grail Moviehouse announced it would be

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opening this week — and thankfully set me up to watch it just in time. This is a deeply wonderful film on any number of levels. The story may sound familiar to you because it is based on the same woman as Stephen Frears’ more publicized Florence Foster Jenkins with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant, which is coming our way sometime in August. I haven’t seen the Frears film, but I have the impression it is more of a biopic and more overtly comic. Giannoli has instead taken the basics — a wealthy woman and patron of the arts who can’t sing a note but insists on doing so anyway — transported them to Paris in 1920, crafted his own story, and created something at once comic and surprisingly thoughtful — a work of great delicacy and generosity.

In Giannoli’s film, the character has been rechristened Marguerite Dumont — and the reference to the grand dame foil of Marx Brothers fame is hardly accidental. When her husband, Georges (André Marcon), manages to carefully arrive at the very end of her recital by faking car trouble, the allu-

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sion to Groucho circling the block in a horse-drawn cab in order not to hear the opera in A Night at the Opera is clear. Catherine Frot plays the film’s Marguerite, and while she is as absurd as our lady of the Marxes, she’s also tragic in her delusion that she can sing.

(An early exchange on her screechy singing runs, “Does she always sing like that?” answered by, “No, she’s come a long way.”) At the same time, there’s a magical, almost luminous, quality to Frot’s portrayal. And she’s strangely admirable — rather like the Tim Burton version of shlock movie maker Ed Wood — in her insistence on pursuing her dream, despite a complete lack of talent. You may laugh at her — or wince — at first. By the end, chances are you will love her.

When the film opens, she’s about to give a performance for her music club — a group of society music lovers who tolerate her singing because of her generosity to the arts. So long as her fantasy is limited to this world — and dressing up as every opera heroine known to music and being photographed by her inscrutable butler Madelbos (Denis Mpunga) — this is safe enough.

But the world intrudes in the form of critic Lucien Beaumont (Sylvain Dieuaide — who bears more than a passing resemblance to out-of-makeup Charlie Chaplin) and his anarchist artist friend Kyrill Von Priest (Aubrey Fenoy).

They conspire to foist her on an unsuspecting public. Why? It’s partly a lark — dressed in raves about her (undoubted) oblivious authenticity — but for Lucien, at least, it becomes something more.

For Marguerite, it adds a mission to her life, one that may or may not be grounded in getting her husband’s attention.

Soon the film is full of scandals, plot twists, a flamboyant washed-up gay opera singer (Michel Fau) blackmailed into tutoring her — there’s even a bearded lady fortuneteller (Sophia Leboutte) in her entourage. But at the center of it all is La Dumont. Yet what makes it work so completely is the astonishing complexity of all the relationships. No one is quite what he or she seems.

Those with seemingly admirable motives have another side. Those who appear mercenary or cruel may not be so easily read. Late in the film, Georges Dumont tells Beaumont, “I don’t like you very much,” and Beaumont responds, “Neither do I.” And what of Marguerite herself? She remains slightly enigmatic, more so when reality and fantasy are blurred after a very brief moment of glory.

The beauty and greatness of it all is that Giannoli has given Mme. Dumont a cinematic grand opera for her story. She is both victim (as much of herself as anyone) and heroine, a figure of not unkind fun and a larger-than-life tragedienne. Marguerite Dumont was clearly no opera star, but she was magnificently operatic all the same. This is what the film — and Catherine Frot — gives her and us, and it’s pretty remarkable. Rated R for brief graphic nudity and sexual content, and a scene of drug use.

Starts Friday at Grail Moviehouse.

REVIEWED BY KEN HANKE KHANKE@MOUNTAINX.COM

Maggie’s Plan

HHHHS DIRECTOR: Rebecca Miller PLAYERS: Greta Gerwig, Ethan Hawke, Julianne Moore, Bill Hader, Maya Rudolph, Travis Fimmel, Wallace Shawn ROMANTIC COMEDY-DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A young New York academic decides to have a baby by artificial insemination and finds love, though not with the donor.

THE LOWDOWN: A little film of considerable charm and some degree of depth, the real joy of Maggie’s Plan lies in the role it affords Greta Gerwig.

One of the most underappreciated treasures of the movies is Greta Gerwig. Despite having starred in Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress (2012) and two Noah Baumbach films — Frances Ha (2012) and Mistress America (2015), both of which she co-wrote with Baumbach — Gerwig seems not to have been wooed much by mainstream Hollywood. That may be her own choice — forays into the mainstream like Arthur (2011) have not paid off — but I suspect it has much to do with Hollywood not knowing what to do with her. She’s hardly your typical movie star. (That’s a compliment.)

She has this incredible knack of being ungainly and graceful, and natural and affected at the same time. She is unique, and Hollywood is never comfortable with that. Thank goodness for movies like Rebecca Miller’s Maggie’s Plan. It may be a minor treat, but it is a treat and a terrific showcase for Gerwig — and what it affords Ethan Hawke and Julianne Moore ain’t bad either.

Maggie’s Plan is a little on the New York indie-com basic side — something that’s exacerbated by Michael Rohatyn’s often annoying musical score — and it hews pretty closely to the conventions of what that means.

It even includes Maggie (Ms. Gerwig) having quirky best friends (Bill Hader and Maya Rudolph). The story itself about Maggie deciding to have herself artificially inseminated is hardly groundbreaking, but it’s a workable starting point. Though her choice of a socially awkward, uncharming artisanal pickle maker (and school math whiz) from Brooklyn, Guy (Travis

Fimmel), doesn’t sit well with Tony (Hader) for the reasons stated, Maggie barges ahead with her plan. Barging ahead is in her nature.

The problem is that right before the event Maggie meets (a “meet cute,” naturally) and falls for married (of course) professor John (an uncommonly likable Ethan Hawke), who — because he’s the movie idea of a New York academic — has an unfinished novel he’d like her to read the first chapter of. John showing up at her door right after she’s inseminated herself is a masterpiece of bad timing. (It does, however, provide Gerwig with the best physical comedy gag in the film.) It isn’t long before John has left his forbiddingly intellectual (and more successful) wife, Georgette (Julianne Moore sporting a supposedly Danish accent and an array of provocative clothes), and two children behind for life with Maggie.

Needless to say, things do not go according to plan — neither Maggie’s, nor anyone else’s. After three years — and a child of their own — bliss with Maggie isn’t entirely blissful for either of them. This, of course, is what drives the rest of the film, as Maggie’s plan could be said to become pluralized. While a case could be made that Miller has deliberately set up a standard romantic comedy only to subvert it, that case isn’t entirely convincing, and isn’t all that original either. What is unusual and noteworthy about it is the level of self-awareness (and attendant blind spots) of these unusually intelligent characters.

All of them think they have things more under control than they do, and that in itself makes them more likably human.

By the time Maggie’s Plan gets to its ending — which may or may not have anything to do with Maggie’s machinations — even supporting character Tony is allowed a moment of introspection, noting that one day Maggie will turn Felicia (Maya Rudolph) and him into characters in a book “and we won’t look good.” That also clues us in on the distinct probability that Maggie will find a way to continue “controlling” things, even if it’s on paper. Whether or not that makes the practice any safer is left to a future that we don’t see.

While it would be a mistake to go into this thinking it’s any kind of great film — though it is a great vehicle for Gerwig — I have to say that it has stayed with me in a surprising way. That makes me suspect I will come to value it more with the passage of time. We’ll see how that goes, but it’s certainly a little movie worth your time and attention. Rated R for language and some sexuality.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemark and Grail Moviehouse.

REVIEWED BY KEN HANKE KHANKE@MOUNTAINX.COM

Me Before You HH DIRECTOR: Thea Sharrock PLAYERS: Emilia Clarke, Sam Claflin, Janet McTeer, Charles Dance, Matthew Lewis ROMANTIC MELODRAMA RATED PG-13 THE STORY: A recently paralyzed man and his shy caretaker find themselves falling for one another.

THE LOWDOWN: A cliché-filled romance of the tear-jerking variety that goes on too long and does nothing new, but is barely sort of saved by a solid cast and a degree of complexity.

When Ken emailed me to tell me I’d be watching Thea Sharrock’s Me Before You, he took a moment to compare its potential to that of a Nicholas Sparks film with Brit accents. Since I’ve seen approximately an infinite amount of Nicholas Sparks adaptations (since it’s likely they’ll never stop, this is metaphysically true) and disliked all of them on some level, this is obviously not what one would call an endorsement.

This did have a welcome effect, however, since my hopes and expectations were sufficiently lowered to the point where I wasn’t miserable watching Me Before You. Being better than a Nicholas Sparks adaptation is no great achievement, of course. While the dearth of aw-shucks wholesomeness and North Carolina beaches are removed, the film — based on Jojo Moyes’ novel, which she also adapted for the screen — is not afraid of the treacly romantics itself. What makes it work are likable (though, I fear, forgettable) leads and an amount of ethical and emotional complexity. This does not, unfortunately, mean that the movie isn’t overlong and solely concerned with making the audience reach for its tissues in the most manipulative of ways. The small amount of things that the film gets right are always quickly swept under a rug woven of tragic romance clichés.

The Hunger Games franchise’s Sam Claflin plays Will, an affluent man (his family is disgustingly rich) who’s recently become a quadriplegic, a state that leaves him unable to live the life he wants and wanting to end it all via assisted suicide. As he gets closer and closer to ending his life, Lou (Emilia Clarke, TV’s Game of Thrones) — an awkward, sheltered, yet eager caregiver — enters his life. Since the two are polar opposites in numerous ways, romance, of course (by the laws of Romance 101), blossoms. But in its

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As one would expect from this type of film, Lou gradually draws the sullen Will out of his depression and hopelessness, and the two learn about life and love and so on and so forth. None of this is particularly surprising or interesting. First-time director Thea Sharrock (whose previous career was in the theater) is professional and uninteresting, filming everything with an amount of unfortunate inertness. What saves things — to a small extent at least — is that the film goes for an ending that doesn’t quite tie up happily ever after. Will’s wish for ending his life on his own terms adds weight to a movie in dire need of it, while also managing to challenge the genre’s ideas that love can solve all problems.

Disappointingly, the ideas are played up for maximum bare-faced manipulation, while the film’s coda is an awkward and somewhat cynical attempt (at least if you don’t personally find wealth on equal footing with genuine happiness) at a feel-good ending. While Clarke and Claflin aren’t some great romantic duo, they have a modicum of charm and chemistry, enough, at least, to make the emotional resonance almost resonate.

Faint praise, I know, but they at least make the thing mostly watchable, if you can stomach the saccharine slant and find the idea of “at least it’s not Nicholas Sparks” enough of a reason to watch a movie. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and some suggestive material.

Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

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Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping S DIRECTOR: Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone PLAYERS: Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, Akiva Schaffer, Sarah Silverman Tim Meadows, Imogen Poots PURPORTED COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: When his second solo album flops, an egotistical, idiot pop star tries to regain his following with disastrous results.

THE LOWDOWN: High on my list for worst movie of the year. Unfunny, charmless, noisy and tedious.

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Until this week I had never even heard of The Lonely Island. Now I know that they are a “comedy” group composed of Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. I wish I could go back to that blissful ignorance. I have now had the experience of seeing them in Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping. I chose this out of a completely unenticing week of mainstream releases. I chose it because it ran 86 minutes — about 30 minutes shorter than either of the other two movies opening. This was a mistake on my part. The last time I spent 86 minutes that lasted this long, dental work was involved. In its favor, I didn’t have to write a sizable check after the ordeal was over. Otherwise ... well, I was left with a prime candidate for my worst movie of 2016.

Granted, humor is probably more subjective than anything. I once sat through the Marx Brothers in Duck Soup with a girl who laughed once during the whole film — the laugh, she said, was because it was “so stupid.” (This relationship was doomed to grotesque and horrible failure.) That was in 1973. More recently, we can look at the fact that Popstar has 74 positive (some downright gushingly so) and only 21 negative reviews on Rotten Tomatoes as I write this. Much like my girlfriend of 40-odd (and some downright peculiar) years ago with Duck Soup, I laughed once at Popstar. A day later I have no idea what I laughed at.

(The idea of a gay pride song where the singer keeps stressing that he isn’t gay is amusing. The execution isn’t.)

What we have here is a feature-length movie stretched out of a sketch’s worth of material that might have been on a weaker episode of Saturday Night Live.

It is meant to be a satire on the current music scene with the charisma-challenged Mr. Samberg playing an invincibly stupid, endlessly arrogant, self-absorbed pop star.

In other words, he’s more or less playing Justin Bieber. The problem with this is it’s virtually impossible to caricature Bieber, who’s a caricature to begin with. So this unfocused mess of a movie mostly is comfortable to replicate Bieber’s more famous escapades with uninspired twists and a raft of random gags. (In the world of modern comedy, things are considered funny just by being random, I think.) Throw in some SNL alumni and other “guest stars” as filler.

Some enthusiasts like comparing Popstar to This Is Spinal Tap (1984). Well, maybe, but the truth is it has more in common with the TV film The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978), which also had SNL underpinnings and SNL guest stars (John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray).

But this Beatles parody was the brainchild of Eric Idle (from Monty Python) and Neil Innes (from the Bonzo Dog Band). The difference was All You Need Is Cash is actually funny and clever. More, it was made by people who loved the Beatles and knew their

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story (and music) forward and backward.

There is no sense of this in Popstar, which merely comes across like tabloid headline retreads — with a puking turtle added. I’m sure there’s an audience for it. It isn’t me.

Rated R for some graphic nudity, language throughout, sexual content and drug use.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

REVIEWED BY KEN HANKE KHANKE@MOUNTAINX.COM

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows H DIRECTOR: Dave Green PLAYERS: Megan Fox, Will Arnett, Tyler Perry, Laura Linney, Stephen Amell, Stephen “Sheamus” Farrelly, Gary Anthony Williams, Tony Shaloub, Brad Garrett CGI SCI-FI ACTION RATED NC-17 THE STORY: The Turtles return to stop Shredder and his extradimensional ally Krang from taking over the Earth, or something to that effect — the script isn’t particularly clear on the details.

THE LOWDOWN: Yet another nostalgia-driven waste of time and money from Michael Bay’s cronies.

For a film not directed by Michael Bay, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows somehow manages to showcase all the director’s myriad deficiencies and misguided proclivities. Exploitation of an intellectual property beloved by children 30 years ago? Check. Underdeveloped characters and blunt exposition? Check.

Excessive explosions and incomprehensible spatial geography? Check and check.

Egregious oversexualization of Megan Fox in the first 10 minutes? Well, you see where this is going.

For characters with three decades of history, our protagonists are woefully underdeveloped here, despite the extra attention they’re granted over the first film in this series. The original independent comic books that spawned the Turtles were created by Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman to be a tongue-in-cheek take on Frank Miller’s gritty reimagining of Marvel Comics’ Daredevil. While a blind lawyer beating up ninjas with his cane would seem to be an easy target for satire, the early TMNT books proved to be something

far more personal, a deeply considered examination on adolescent ostracization and brotherhood. This film is not an adaptation of those stories. This isn’t even an adaptation of the popular late ’80s cartoon/pizza commercial. Instead, TMNT:OOTS feels more like an attempt to bring the action figure line based on the cartoon to the big screen, and if I wanted to watch someone act out an ill-conceived story with brightly colored toys, I would’ve spent more time with my nephew when he was growing up.

That said, this film and its 2014 predecessor were not conceived with me in mind — they were built for tweens. And therein lies the problem, because the film is too mature for its intended audience and too juvenile for anyone else. The language, sexuality and violence are all decidedly PG-13, but the lack of coherent narrative building would be more appropriate to a film aimed at audiences 8 and younger. Modern kids fare has become a delicate balancing act, engineered to appeal to young and old alike while offending no one in a quest for the fabled four-quadrant film. TMNT:OOTS fails to walk this razor’s edge and falls into the abyss of purposelessness. If Somerset Maugham had been responsible for writing this version of Leonardo and Donatello instead of Larry Darrell, his titular razor would’ve referred not to a verse from the Upanishads, but to the one he would’ve been compelled to employ in the slashing of his own wrists.

While the script is often offensively nonsensical, the cast can’t escape its share of the responsibility for a film this bad. Megan Fox is every bit as soulless and vapid as ever, Will Arnett is utterly wasted, and how poor Laura Linney wound up in this film is anybody’s guess.

Stephen Amell delivers a particularly weak performance but looks positively Brandoesque next to Fox’s flaccid attempt to sound like an officious TV news reporter in one of her character’s few noncheesecake scenes. Tyler Perry and pro wrestler Sheamus at least seem to be in on the joke, but their relentless hamming is too infrequently featured to provide a healthy distraction from two hours of turtle tedium. The voice and motion-capture actors portraying the central cast are competent but underwhelming and never imbue their CG avatars with anything remotely resembling personality or pathos. Fred Armisen, initially cast as Krang, was replaced at the last minute by Brad Garrett, and apparently Johnny Knoxville did not return to play Leonardo in this sequel, but in all honesty, I was too busy looking at my watch to take much notice. If we truly live in a world where Johnny Knoxville and Fred Armisen can afford to turn down roles while Laura Linney cannot, something has gone terribly wrong.

M OV IE S It’s difficult to determine who deserves the blame for this abomination, but there’s plenty to go around. Director Dave Green clearly favors spectacle over sensibility and, with only the similarly dismal Earth to Echo under his belt as a feature director, lacks the experience to express anything beyond the confines of Bay’s stylistic shadow. Returning writers Josh Applebaum and André Nemec clearly have their formula hammered out, if the aim of that formula is to do as little writing as possible before handing the script off to the animation team to have them fill in the blanks with action set-pieces. A brief scene in which Bay’s Transformers films were referenced left me quaking in terror that I might be looking at the inception of a “Michael Bay Shared Cinematic Universe,” a prospect that sent me into a cold sweat.

When all’s said and done, a film is only as good as the sum of its parts, and this one is a Frankenstein’s Monster composed of gangrenous limbs and a murderous intent to drown small children, not in a pond, but in a sea of stupidity. Rated PG-13 for sci-fi action violence.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

FILM BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (6/10), 4:30-6:30pm - Alien Invasion Film Series: The Cat From Outer Space. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • SA (6/11), 2pm - Rock and Roll Musicals You May Have Missed Series: The Wiz. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (6/14), 7pm - “Silent Film Sampler,” viewing of The Great Train Robbery, A Trip to the Moon, Silent Shakespeare, hosted by Chip Kaufmann. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville GROOVY MOVIE CLUB 926-2508, johnbuckleyX@gmail.com • SU (6/12), 2pm - Where To Invade Next, comedy-documentary. Potluck at 1pm. Register for location. Free. Held in a private residence.

MOVIES IN THE PARK kperez@ashevillenc.gov, ashevillenc.gov/Parks Sponsored by Asheville Parks and Recreation • FR (6/10), 6:30pm - Children’s craft activities followed by the screening of Finding Nemo at dusk. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • FR (6/10), 7pm - Environmental & Social Justice Films Screenings: Prodigal Sons, documentary. Free.

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ANN AND MAEBY — THE EARLY YEARS: Mae Whitman, left, and Alia Shawkat starred in the series State of Grace from 2001-03. The show, co-created by Asheville’s Brenda Lunsford Lilly, will have a cast and crew reunion Sunday, June 12, in Austin, Texas. Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Co. • The Grail Moviehouse presents a screening of Bringing It Home, followed by a filmmaker panel discussion, on Thursday June 9, at 7 p.m. The award-winning documentary extols the global uses of industrial hemp and asks why the U.S. is lagging behind on the cultivation of the beneficial crop. The event features a special-edition hemp ale from One World Brewing Co., hemp-milk ice cream from The Hop, hemp hummus from Roots, plus cannabidiol goods and Rocky Mountain High hemp-infused beverages from Carolina Hemp Company.

Tickets are $10. avl.mx/2mp • The City of Asheville Parks and Recreation Department’s 2016 Movies in the Park series continues Friday, June 10, at Pack Square Park with a screening of Finding Nemo.

Children’s craft activities begin at 6:30 p.m., and the movie begins at dusk on a giant screen on the park stage. Free and open to the public, but bring a chair or a blanket. avl.mx/g6 • Pearl’s Jam, the second feature from local filmmaker Hank Bones, premieres Saturday, June 11, at 8:30 p.m. at Wedge Brewing Co. The 70-minute caper centers on a record collector/singer who finds a rare 78 rpm disc in a junk shop. Soon his bandmates at 5 Walnut Wine Bar, the owner of the club and a

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radio DJ begin plotting to capitalize on what could be the most important unknown record. Meanwhile, a Dixieland trombonist who sits in with the band becomes an internet sensation as the world’s oldest rapper. The film features an all-Asheville cast and was shot on location at 5 Walnut, the Desoto Lounge, The Wedge and Camp Rockmont. Free and open to the public. Bring a folding chair. avl.mx/2mr • Asheville native Brenda Lunsford Lilly’s former TV series, State of Grace, will have a cast and crew reunion at the ATX Television Festival in Austin, Texas, on Sunday, June 12.

Set in the fictional town of Ashmore, N.C., in 1965, the show follows the exploits of wealthy 12-year-old Grace McKee (Mae Whitman) and her shy Jewish best friend Hannah Rayburn (Alia Shawkat) with narration from Frances McDormand as adult Hannah. It debuted in 2001 on Fox Family Channel and ran for 39 episodes until the network was sold to Disney in 2003.

Lilly, currently a professor at Western Carolina University’s School of Stage and Screen, will be joined by Whitman, Shawkat, co-creator Hollis Rich, former Fox Family Channel Vice President Nancy Redford and castmates Michael Mantell, Faye Grant and Bonnie Bailey-Reed. avl.mx/2mq X

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And Then There Were None HHHHH DIRECTOR: René Clair Players: Barry Fitzgerald, Walter Huston, Louis Hayward, June Duprez, Roland Young, Richard Haydn, Mischa Auer MYSTERY Rated NR It’s rare that Agatha Christie’s books have been given a break on the movie screen, but René Clair’s 1945 filming of And Then There Were None definitely did right by Dame Agatha. For that matter, it also did right by its splendid roster of great character actors, and it gave French filmmaker Clair one of his few wholly successful English-language films. While much of what makes the movie work stems from the screenplay by Dudley Nichols (best known for his work with John Ford), this is one of those rare movies where a great deal of the wit is conveyed visually. This is a film without a wasted shot or a careless composition. It’s a master class in how to shoot a movie.

Of course, it helps no end that the source novel — and Christie’s revamped stage version of the story — offers such rich material. I’d be surprised if there’s anyone out there not familiar with the story — not only is it Christie’s best-selling novel, but there are at least eight other film versions of it. But just in case, here’s the premise: Ten people are lured to an isolated island where they’re informed — via a phonograph record — that they’ve been assembled to be punished (executed) for crimes they’ve previously gotten away with. And sure enough, their unknown host — almost certainly one of them — starts making good on his or her threat, following the pattern of the “Ten Little Indians” nursery rhyme, as one victim after another meets his or her “deserved” end. The Asheville Film Society will screen And Then There Were None on Tuesday, June 14, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse and will be hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

Le Havre HHHHH DIRECTOR: Aki Kaurismäki Players: André Wilms, Kati Outinen, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Blondin Miguel, Quoc Dung Nguyen COMEDYDRAMA Rated NR A pitch-perfect little movie from Aki Kaurismäki, Le Havre (2001) feels much more simple and old-fashioned than it is upon examination. Sure, the story of a reasonably shiftless French shoeshine man who befriends an illegal immigrant black boy is aimed at playing on our sentimentality, but it does so with piercingly deadpan wit and sly cinematic touches that are far more clever than they appear. A sweetly human and humane film, Le Havre has everything to recommend it and nothing — apart from subtitles and a lack of easily marketed names — working against it. Its shaggy, often improbable story has an immediate appeal that only grows as the film moves along in its almost defiantly old-fashioned way. There’s nothing flashy about it even though Kaurismäki slyly gooses nearly everything with subtle cinematic touches that are likely to go unnoticed, but not unresponded to by his audience. It’s the kind of movie that can be called “feel-good” without any sense of derision due to its utterly deadpan presentation. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Le Havre Friday, June 10, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

Now You See Me 2

The first one was not loved by the critics, but worldwide it grossed a tidy $340 million. You can see why there’s a sequel with pretty much the same cast — Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Dave Franco, Woody Harrelson, Michael Caine — with Daniel Radcliffe added.

There’s a new director (Jon M. Chu).

The studio assures us this is a “mindbending adventure, elevating the limits of stage illusion to new heights and taking them around the globe. One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their Robin Hood-style magic spectacles, the illusionists resurface for a comeback performance in hopes of exposing the unethical practices of a tech magnate.

The man behind their vanishing act is none other than Walter Mabry (Daniel Radcliffe), a tech prodigy who threatens the Horsemen into pulling off their most impossible heist yet.” You have their word for it. (R)

Another videogame turned into a movie. The only surprise is that it’s from Duncan Jones, who is not usually associated with such. It stars Travis Fimmel, Ben Foster and Dominic Cooper. Early reviews have been brutal, but Universal claims it’s “a 3D epic adventure of world-colliding conflict based upon Blizzard Entertainment’s globally-renowned universe.” You don’t think they would stoop to taradiddle, do you? (PG-13)

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Since the first film was James Wan’s biggest commercial and critical hit, a sequel was inevitable — and let’s face it, Wan is the biggest name in horror directors out there. The early reviews on the further adventures of ghost/ demon hunters Ed and Lorraine Warrens suggest another critical hit, and probably a commercial one, too.

According to the blurb this time, the Warrens are in for “one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, [when they] travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.” Fine maybe, but why is it 133 minutes long? (PG-13)

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Pearl’s Jam HHHS DIRECTOR: Hank Bones Players: Hank Bones, Jon Corbin, Kevin Kehrberg, Lyndsay Pruett, Henry Westmoreland, Russ Wilson, Earl Sachais, Marvin Price, Cedric Mansell LOCAL COMEDY WITH MUSIC Rated NR Hank Bones’ second film is a little more cinematically adventurous than The Quitters (2014), but the content is also a good deal less sophisticated. That’s more of a comment than a complaint, because nothing about Pearl’s Jam suggests it was ever intended to be anything other than a fun little movie made by a group of friends, though it also provides a showcase for the Jon Henrys’ (Hank Bones, Jon Corbin, Kevin Kehrberg, Lyndsay Pruett, Henry Westmoreland, Russ Wilson) music. The loose — but interestingly tied together — plot concerns Russ (Russ Wilson) finding the world’s rarest record (the “Pearl’s Jam” of the title) and trying to cash in on it. There’s also a subplot about the world’s oldest rapper (Earl Sachais), who doesn’t know he’s a rapper. It’s just something that happens whenever he is accosted by a rap beat. Overall, it’s just a good-natured little homegrown production that makes use of Asheville as a setting (it even doubles — none too convincingly — as Washington, D.C., at one point) and local talent. Pearl’s Jam premieres Saturday, June 11, at 8:30 p.m. at Wedge Brewing Co. It’s free and open to the public, and bring a folding chair.

The Mad Monster HHHS DIRECTOR: Sam Newfield Players: George Zucco, Johnny Downs, Anne Nagel, Glenn Strange HORROR Rated NR If Bela Lugosi was the king of 1940s B horror, then surely George Zucco was the king of the C’s. Zucco’s claim to stardom rests on the six-picture contract (only five were made) he had with Producers Releasing Corp., or PRC Pictures as it’s generally known. Zucco’s first starring role was in the gloriously goofy — and oddly ambitious — The Mad Monster (1942). One of the more noteworthy facts about PRC was its utter lack of originality. While the idea of The Mad Monster was clearly to cash in on Universal’s The Wolf Man, the film that emerged was just as clearly a rehash of The Devil Bat with Zucco instead of Lugosi and with a cheesy werewolf as his instrument of revenge rather than the earlier film’s even cheesier giant bats. In some ways, it worked better since werewolf effects were more easily achieved on a PRC budget. In place of Lugosi avenging himself over a stolen cold cream formula, Zucco’s Dr. Lorenzo Cameron gets back at his colleagues for laughing him out of the scientific community over his theory that men could be turned into werewolves, which could then be sent overseas to wipe out the Nazis. (I can’t imagine why they felt there was anything questionable about that.) His subject is this big doofus named Petro (Glenn Strange), who acts like a fugitive from a touring company that stages Of Mice and Men, but he does effectively turn into an OshKosh B’Gosh-wearing werewolf (the mad, or at least irritable, monster of the title) that looks a little like Gabby Hayes with fangs. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Mad Monster Thursday, June 9, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Scott Douglas.

Woman on the Run HHHH DIRECTOR: Norman Foster Players: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith, Frank Jenks, John Qualen, Ross Elliott, J. Farrell MacDonald, Victor Sen Yung FILM NOIR THRILLER Rated NR Almost startlingly good — and just barely rescued from oblivion — film noir from generally overlooked director Norman Foster. Co-writing the independently produced Woman on the Run (1950) with Alan Campbell, Foster came up with an unusually intelligent (and suspenseful without being in the least graphic) noir that made excellent use of its fading stars while cashing in on the growing mania for location shooting. The essential plot is pretty basic: A man (Ross Elliott) witnesses a murder and goes into hiding rather than be put into police custody to testify against the mob. What’s unusual is that it’s his embittered wife (Ann Sheridan) who — with the help of a newspaper reporter (Dennis O’Keefe) — goes in search of her husband, discovering along the way that she really didn’t know him at all. There’s a plot twist about halfway through that you’ll probably guess before you get to it, but the story remains engaging and the film is atmospheric — complete with a riot of Dutch angles. The ending obviously owes a lot to Orson Welles’ The Lady from Shanghai (1947) but is still suspenseful despite the overuse of rear-screen in the scenes with Sheridan on a roller coaster. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Woman on the Run Sunday, June 12, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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MedicaL/ HeaLtH care REGISTERED NURSE • HEALTH care coordinator Red Oak Recovery, a clinically dynamic substance abuse and trauma focused, dual diagnosis treatment facility, is seeking a full-time RN/ Health Care Coordinator to be responsible for providing professional wellness visits to young adults, ages 18 – 30, meeting a diagnosis of substance use or co-occurring disorders, to work with clinical and case management staff to coordinate care and assist in treatment plans, and educate/communicate medication and medical information to clients and families.

• Qualified candidates will possess a valid, unencumbered, current Registered Nurse license issued by the NC Board of Nursing, and a minimum of 3 years psychiatric nursing experience, or a National certification as a Psychiatric Registered Nurse. • Those with personal or professional experience with 12 Step Recovery, Substance Abuse Treatment, and/or Mental Health Treatment are encouraged to apply Competitive pay and benefits package offered. Please submit a resume and cover letter indicating your interest in the RN/Health Care Coordinator position to jobs@redoakrecovery.com SUWS OF THE CAROLINAS iS HirinG a FieLd Medic SUWS of the Carolinas is a Wilderness Therapy company that operates in the Pisgah National Forest and serves youth and adolescents ages 10 -17. This is a full-time position with occasional on-call duties.

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AVAILABLE POSITIONS • adULt SerViceS We are currently recruiting for the following positions in Adult Services: psychiatric nurses and clinicians for ACTT Services (Assertive Community

Treatment Team) · employment Support professionals and employment peer Mentors for Supported Employment Services • clinicians for REC Services (Recovery Education Center) • peer Support Specialists for PACE (Peers Assisting in Community Engagement) • clinician for Integrated Care • clinician/team Leader for CST (Community Support Team) • certified Medical assistant (cMa) • community partner clinician.

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AVAILABLE POSITIONS • cHiLd SerViceS We are currently recruiting for the following positions in Child Services: clinicians for Outpatient Services • clinicians for Day Treatment Services • clinicians for Intensive InHome Services • Qualified professionals for Day Treatment Services • Qualified professionals for Intensive In-Home Services Please visit the employment section of our website for further information about any positions listed and apply directly by submitting an application and resume. www.meridianbhs.org AWAKE/OVERNIGHT CLINIcaL tecHnician The Willows at Red Oak Recovery, a clinically dynamic substance abuse and trauma focused, dual diagnosis treatment facility for women, is seeking highly qualified Overnight/ Awake direct care staff for our program in Fletcher, NC. Hours are 11pm-7am. • Clinical Techs are expected to be awake for the duration of their shift, participate in morning exchange with first shift, and complete safety checks and house sweeps as necessary.

• Qualified candidates will be 21 years or older and possess a High School diploma (or equivalent). A 4 year degree in a Human Services field is preferred. • Those with personal or professional experience with 12 Step Recovery, Substance Abuse Treatment, and/or Mental Health Treatment are encouraged to apply.

Competitive pay and benefits package offered. • Please submit a resume and cover letter indicating your interest in the Awake/Overnight CT position at the Willows to jobs@redoakrecovery.com coMMUnitY SerViceS tecHnician Universal MH/ DD/ASA is seeking community Services technicians to provide assistance with daily and independent living skills to individuals with intellectual developmental disabilities. • Various positions available in Buncombe (Black Mountain, Weaverville, and central Asheville) and McDowell Counties.

Varying rates of pay $9.25 -$13/hour. GED/High School diploma required. If interested email plowe@umhs.net • No phone calls. www.umhs.net eaSter SeaLS Ucp nc needS paraproFeSSionaL StaFF Staff needed throughout Buncombe county & surrounding counties to work one on one with individuals with Intellectual Developmental Disabilities in their home, the community, or at their job.

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eLiada HoMeS JoB Fair 6/29/2016 Interviews and hiring on the spot for Full-Time and Part-Time Residential Counselor and After School positions (pending clean background check and drug test).

Applicants must be patient, have a strong desire to work with children and able work in a high pressure, high stress environment. No experience required. Extensive training provided to new hires. Must have a High School diploma or GED. Job Fair details: Plan to attend a two hour session including program overview, facilities tour and interview.

Two time slots available 9:3011:30 and 2:00-4:00. RSVP required. Interested? Call 828.254.5356 x375 or email aminot@eliada.org for more information. Visit our website to learn more about working with Eliada- www.eliada.org.

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Behavioral Health Group is seeking Licensed Clinical Addition Specialists and Certified Substance Abuse Counselors.

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This position will be responsible for the administration of staffing, employee benefits, and employee relations programs. This position will coordinate with other departments to ensure the success of compensation and training and development functions.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Mythologist Joseph Campbell analyzed fairy tales for clues about how the human psyche works. For example, he said that a fairy tale character who's riding a horse is a representation of our relationship with our instinctual nature. If that character drops the reins and lets the horse gallop without guidance, he or she is symbolically surrendering control to the instincts. I bring this to your attention because I suspect you may soon be tempted to do just that that -- which wouldn't be wise. In my opinion, you'll be best served by going against the flow of what seems natural. Sublimation and transcendence will keep you much stronger than if you followed the line of least resistance.

Homework: Visualize yourself, as you ride your horse, keeping a relaxed but firm grasp of the reins.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I will provide you with two lists of words. One of these lists, but not both, will characterize the nature of your predominant experiences in the coming weeks. It will be mostly up to you which emerges as the winner. Now read the two lists, pick the one you like better, and instruct your subconscious mind to lead you in that direction. List 1: gluttony, bloating, overkill, padding, exorbitance. List 2: mother lode, wellspring, bumper crop, gold mine, cornucopia.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem "Interrupted Meditation," Robert Hass blurts out the following exclamation: "I give you, here, now, a magic key. What does it open? This key I give you, what exactly does it open?" How would you answer this question, Gemini?

What door or lock or heart or treasure box do you most need opened? Decide today. And please don't name five things you need opened. Choose one, and one only. To do so will dissolve a mental block that has up until now kept you from finding the REAL magic key.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The following excerpt from Wendell Berry's poem "Woods" captures the essence of your current situation: "I part the out-thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and the blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing around me. Though I am dark there is vision around me. Though I am heavy there is flight around me." Please remember this poem at least three times a day during the next two weeks.

It's important for you to know that no matter what murky or maudlin or mysterious mood you might be in, you are surrounded by vitality and generosity.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): A half-dead blast from the past is throttling the free flow of your imagination. Your best possible future will be postponed until you agree to deal more intimately with this crumbled dream, which you have never fully grieved or surrendered. So here's my advice: Summon the bravest, smartest love you're capable of, and lay your sad loss to rest with gentle ferocity. This may take a while, so be patient. Be inspired by the fact that your new supply of brave, smart love will be a crucial resource for the rest of your long life.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Five times every day, devout Muslims face their holiest city, Mecca, and say prayers to Allah. Even if you're not Islamic, I recommend that you carry out your own unique version of this ritual. The next three weeks will be a favorable time to cultivate a closer relationship with the inspirational influence, the high ideal, or the divine being that reigns supreme in your life. Here's how you could do it: Identify a place that excites your imagination and provokes a sense of wonder. Five times a day for the next 21 days, bow in the direction of this treasured spot. Unleash songs, vows, and celebratory expostulations that deepen your fierce and tender commitment to what you trust most and love best.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): "The road reaches every place, the short cut only one," says aphorist James Richardson. In many cases, that's not a problem.

Who among us has unlimited time and energy?

Why leave all the options open? Short cuts can be valuable. It's often smart to be ruthlessly efficient as we head toward our destination. But here's a caveat: According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you're now in a phase when taking short cuts may be counterproductive. To be as well-seasoned as you will need to be to reach your goal, you should probably take the scenic route. The long way around may, in this instance, be the most efficient and effective.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Truth is like the flu," says poet James Richardson. "I fight it off, but it changes in other bodies and returns in a form to which I am not immune." In the coming days, Scorpio, I suspect you will experience that riddle first hand -- and probably on more than one occasion. Obvious secrets and wild understandings that you have fought against finding out will mutate in just the right way to sneak past your defenses. Unwelcome insights you've been trying to ignore will finally wiggle their way into your psyche. Don't worry, though. These new arrivals will be turn out to be good medicine.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): According to Guinness World records, the most consecutive hours spent riding on a roller coaster is 405 hours and 40 minutes. But I suspect that during the next 15 months, a Sagittarian daredevil may exceed this mark. I have come to this conclusion because I believe your tribe will be especially adept and relatively comfortable at handling steep rises and sudden dips at high speeds. And that won't be the only rough talent you'll have in abundance.

I'm guessing you could also set new personal bests in the categories of most frequent changes of mind, most heroic leaps of faith, and fastest talking.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Whether we like to admit it or not, all of us have acted like puppets. Bosses and teachers and loved ones can manipulate us even if they're not in our presence. Our conditioned responses and programmed impulses may control our behavior in the present moment even though they were formed long ago. That's the bad news. The good news is that now and then moments of lucidity blossom, revealing the puppet strings. We emerge from our unconsciousness and see that we're under the spell of influential people to whom we have surrendered our power.

This is one of those magic times for you, Capricorn.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A few weeks ago you undertook a new course of study in the art of fun and games. You realized you hadn't been playing hard enough, and took measures to correct the problem.

After refamiliarizing yourself with the mysteries of innocent joy, you raised the stakes. You began dabbling with more intensive forms of relief and release. Now you have the chance to go even further: to explore the mysteries of experimental delight. Exuberant escapades may become available to you. Amorous adventures could invite you to explore the frontiers of liberated love. Will you be brave and free enough to meet the challenge of such deeply meaningful gaiety? Meditate on this radical possibility: spiritually adept hedonism.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet Sharon Dolin compares artists to sunflowers. They create "a tall flashy flower that then grows heavy with seeds whose small hard shells you must crack to get to the rich nut meat."

As I contemplate the current chapter of your unfolding story, I see you as being engaged in a similar process, even if you're not literally an artist. To be exact, you're at the point when you are producing a tall flashy flower.

The seeds have not yet begun to form, but they will soon. Later this year, the rich nut meat inside the small hard shells will be ready to pluck. For now, concentrate on generating your gorgeous, radiant flower.

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This position is for a yearround school with small class sizes, middle and high school curriculum. Experience with alternative settings and/or learning disabilities a plus.

Our beautiful 24-acre campus provides a safe setting for our students to transform their lives. Asheville Academy for Girls is a private therapeutic boarding school for girls ages 10-14 and Solstice East is a residential treatment center for girls ages 14-18. Check out our websites for more information: http://www.ashevilleacademy.com and http:// www.solsticeeast.com • Benefits are offered to full-time employees and include health, dental, vision and life insurance as well as holiday pay, vacation and sick leave. Please send a resume and cover letter to humanresources@ ashevilleacademy.com • Asheville Academy for Girls and Solstice East are both Equal Opportunity Employers. No phone calls please.

FULL-TIME TEAChER Black Mountain Academy is seeking an innovative and passionate teacher to work at our new therapeutic boarding school supporting adolescent males age 14-18 with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or who have social challenges, anxiety, and difficulty in traditional academic settings. • The ideal candidate has experience with this population of students, is student-centered in their teaching

approach, and naturally utilizes an inquiry model of teaching to evoke creativity and inspiration in the students. In this integrated model, skills supporting executive function, student character development, and student processing are necessary to implement alongside academic instruction. • Applicants should have confidence teaching high school level math and social studies, have confidence in building authentic thematic units of instruction, and be comfortable with co-teaching / collaborative teaching techniques, as we will teach in teams. • Applicants are invited to highlight additional interests and experience in arts and culture as we build this new placebased program. • Candidate must have or begin actively be pursuing NC Teaching licensure. • Please see our website for more information about the school, www.theblackmountainacademy.com • Interested candidates, please email resume and cover letter to jobs@ theblackmountainacademy.com

TEChNOLOGY TEAChER This position will combine teaching an introductory-level technology elective for middle school students and providing support for our use of technology in the classroom.

Depending on the qualifications of the candidate, this position could be full-time.

The Franklin School of Innovation is a public charter school serving grades 6-12 by 2017-2018. To apply, please send application, resume and cover letter to jobs@thefsi.us. franklinschoolofinnovation.org

hIGhLY PROFESSIONAL EARLY EdUCATOR Bell's School for People Under Six is seeking a full time early education professional for classroom team teaching position. Bell's School is known for small group size and low student teacher ratio with a focus on lower classroom stress and positive teacher/ child relationships. Applicants must be able to write and execute a collaborative lesson plan that follows appropriate curriculum. Must have at least an associate's degree in early education or related field or NC Early Education Credentials and willingness to continue education. Pay based on education and experience. bellsschoolforpe@bellsouth.net, 828-654-0664

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