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Meadows is a breath of fresh air I read with interest the article “Man of the Hour: The Rise of Mark Meadows” [May 29, Xpress] written

by Milton Ready, who seems to feel that Mark Meadows is not the man that he would like to have representing us in Congress.

One of the reasons that I recently relocated to Western North Carolina from New York was my disgust with the left-leaning politicians who run that state, including Sens. [Chuck] Schumer and [Kirsten] Gillibrand, Gov. [Andrew] Cuomo, and last but not least, Mayor [Bill] de Blasio.

Mark Meadows is a breath of fresh air! I am thrilled that he stands with our president and hope that he has a long tenure in Congress!

— Roger Gilmore

Mars Hill

Helping our students achieve in math Five hours east of Asheville on I-40 is the world’s largest concentration of employees of IBM — no longer the archetypal New York company. Five hours west on I-40 is Nashville, soonto-be home of AllianceBernstein — a 1,000-strong New York asset manager. As this knowledge-based, high-

paying corridor takes shape, where is Asheville?

Nowhere. Whatever policies are tried, our city faces a huge barrier to escaping the low-paying “tourist destination” role and joining the technology based economy.

To do so, our kids need to compete successfully (on a global scale) in — at the very least — numeracy and literacy. At the recent joint city/school board session, we learned two things — there are large achievement gaps within grades in our schools, and overall, most of the kids do not make the grade in math (three in four eighth graders in the middle school in 2018, for example).

Commissioner [Al] Whitesides’ response was to suggest that more resources are needed, but with our high expenses per pupil, there’s not going to be much more money available from malevolent neighbors and a malicious state. Talking to the kids themselves, it’s clear that, in many cases, one problem is that when they ask for help at home, they only get an embarrassed giggle and a shrug — and the older generation’s “I was never any good at math” gets passed on.

Maybe what’s needed is a “School Maths for Grownups” program — at the very least to show how school maths have changed over the last few years. We’ll be working up such an effort over the summer, so look for announcements in the fall.

— Geoff Kemmish Asheville

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Caskey has been force for change Some say “insanity” is doing the same thing over and over but expecting a different outcome. Take heavily gerrymandered state Senate District 48, for example. We invariably run a Democratic insider with great intentions. And each election, they lose. Handily.

The last three tries, Democrats never registered above 44% of the vote. In 2012, the party didn’t even field a candidate.

Next March, a Democratic District 48 primary pits two candidates eager to face state Sen. Chuck Edwards in the fall. One has been a hardworking, party insider for decades. The kind of person Democrats have historically anointed to carry their flag. But unfortunately, the kind of person who has invariably been defeated.

Why expect otherwise? Without district maps that fairly reflect our area’s voter makeup, the playing field will remain unfair for any Democrat, regardless of effort or intention.

The other candidate is Brian Caskey, the first Democrat ever elected to the Mills River Town Council. Brian beat his opponent by 10 points, receiving more votes than anyone in town history.

Brian’s been a force for change in this conservative stronghold.

Mills River is now installing greenways, walking paths, solar panels, high-speed broadband and electric car chargers. And most recently?

Caskey’s motion to support the ERA passed — unanimously.

These accomplishments would be impossible if Caskey didn’t appeal to Republican and unaffiliated voters, without whom any Democrat will surely lose. And isn’t that who we want in Raleigh? Someone who can work with both parties to get things done?

Visit Brian’s webpage (www.briancaskey.com) and learn about his platform to close the health care gap, increase education funding, improve infrastructure and more. The March primary will be here sooner than you think. Isn’t it time to try a different approach to win back District 48?

Check Brian Caskey out today. To do anything less would be — some might say — insane.

— Stephen Advokat

Asheville Editor’s note: Advokat reports that he is volunteering for Caskey’s campaign.

Educating our children Parents and our local schools have a profound moral and spiritual responsibility of educating our children. Our national way of life reflected in politics, the media, colleges, entertainment, sports and religion share this responsibility, and we in the Asheville area need to accept this responsibility in our small part of the world.

The education of our children is paramount. Parents can’t change the world but can act locally in calling for changes in our schools. I retired from teaching in 1996, and today I’m reading about the same problems and political rhetoric as I did in my 29

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C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N years of teaching. In fact, I retired early because of the bureaucratic struggling for control in our system. In many ways, it’s still with us.

Dedicated teachers are truly childcentered. And there are programs in schools across the country that strive in creative, meaningful ways. ...

Teachers need parents who ask, “What is my child curious about?” — not how did he/she do on the test. And teachers should ask parents, “What is your child curious about?” Schools are not waiting rooms for our youths, but an active development of what it is to be human on a global scale.

Parents, teachers and all concerned citizens, challenge yourselves! Today’s schooling prepares our youths for competing and fitting into the American way of life that is dysfunctional, a broken system putting profits and wealth before people. All this, while mouthing family values and spending outrageous money on wars instead of adequately funding our public schools. All of us are responsible to ensure that our youths develop the knowledge, strength, hope and courage to find their place in life.

And our youths are up to it. It’s evident in extracurricular activities such as drama, debate teams, journaling, collaborative learning, community service akin to an apprentice mode of learning geared to engage students. Recent polls of millions of students show 75% of fifth

graders feel engaged while 32% of 11th graders feel engaged. ...

History has been and is now continually graced with people who somehow learned to act beyond and outside their self-interest and for the good of the world. I call this “sacred activism” — a “blessed unrest”: a force in the universe that many call the God mystery, the source of all things. Activists, believers and nonbelievers alike represent all the great religions, motivated from an inner sense that we are all one.

Asheville’s uniqueness mirrors this in various ways. Along with the countless unrecognized activists, our local activists continue their efforts to inform the public on issues of peace and justice.

Parents and teachers need our active support in guiding our youth.

I have been concerned over the years with the military industrial complex, but I now see that our way of life includes the educational industrial complex, media industrial complex and the recent scandal in the college admission industrial complex; everything tied into the capitalistic system and an individualistic way of life that has overwhelmed and corrupted our democratic system.

“Oh God, we have gained the whole world of wealth and military power; yet we are troubled, lost and insecure.

Please help us to find the way to our

longing for peace and justice with the energy of love that can heal us.”

Contact esacco189@gmail.com for comments.

— Ed Sacco

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

Why are legislators denying workers Medicaid?

It’s no secret that key people in our community lack any sort of health care coverage support. Through no fault of their own, they are caught in a “coverage gap” between Medicaid and Medicare, and they are among over 500,000 people in North Carolina who are networked into our daily lives.

Who are they? They include early childhood educators, home health care aides, construction workers, cashiers and service workers in restaurants, retail businesses, hotels and theaters.

These are people who feed their families and pay rent by juggling two-four jobs.

Their employers don’t provide health care coverage, and they can’t afford routine health care. When there is a health crisis, the emergency room is their only option. They live on our community’s margin, and it seems certain legislators aim to keep them in that place.

This needs to change! North Carolina Democratic and Republican legislators know that the solution to filling this gap is to pass legislation that provides “clean” Medicaid expansion. This means no special requirements — no fees, no reporting, no extra hurdles that have been judged to be illegal or impractical in other states. Simply Medicaid!

Many North Carolina representatives and senators regard Medicaid expansion as the most fair and appropriate solution.

It has already been adopted by 37 other states. Why are some North Carolina legislators still denying Medicaid health care coverage to these hardworking people?

— Paul Smith

Mars Hill

Clarification The following additional information about funding the city’s public transit system has been added to the online version of our June 5 article, “Asheville Residents Criticize Proposed Budget”: “The city’s Transit Committee and Multimodal Transportation Commission most recently recommended that Council allocate $1.85 million toward implementing the phase one of the plan with the changes set to take place in January 2020, thus representing a half-year’s worth of additional spending.”

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BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com With his May 17 visit to the Salvage Station in Asheville, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders brought the national race to Western North Carolina more than 17 months before Election Day 2020 — and nearly 28 months after the contest formally kicked off with the Jan. 20, 2017, filing of incumbent Donald Trump. The current field of presidential contenders is exceptional both for the sheer number of announced candidates — at press time, there were 24 major Democrats in the mix, plus former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld challenging Trump in the Republican primary — and for how early they’ve launched their campaigns.

Meanwhile, state and local candidates in WNC have also been busy getting their 2020 campaigns underway. State Sen. Terry Van Duyn, a Buncombe County Democrat, announced a run for lieutenant governor on Dec. 10; the last local candidate for that office, Holly Jones, didn’t throw her hat in the ring for the 2016 race until August 2015, eight months later in the election cycle. At the time, Jones was serving on the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners.

Since Van Duyn’s formal statement, a bevy of local contenders have declared their intentions to run for positions ranging from Asheville City Council to the U.S. House of Representatives. It’s an unusually early start to election season, confirms Chris Cooper, head of Western Carolina University’s Political Science

ALL HANDS ON DECK: Members of the Buncombe County Democratic Party attend its convention at Asheville High School on March 23.

Photo by Brenden Almand, courtesy of the BCDP and Public Affairs Department — but that shouldn’t come as a surprise.

“I think it’s the continuation of a trend that we’ve seen,” he notes. “We used to talk about presidents and members of Congress having permanent campaigns, meaning they never really stop campaigning, and I think the same thing has now trickled down to the state level.”

EARLY BIRDS The drive toward early declarations, says Cooper, is powered largely by the ever increasing cost of mounting a competitive campaign. Even on lower rungs of the political ladder, he suggests, candidates need more money to pay for advertising and voter outreach, and extending the race gives them additional time to raise those funds.

“We’ve seen kind of a professionalization of politics — and I don’t mean that people wear better suits,” Cooper clarifies. “It starts to look more like other industries: You really need to be a professional at a much lower level than you used to. You don’t see as many people running for office on just a flyer as you did before.”

Longer campaigns also give candidates more opportunities to capitalize on opponents’ missteps. Cooper points to the nationally publicized dispute in February between U.S. Rep. Mark Meadows, whose 11th Congressional District covers much of WNC and part of Asheville, and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan over Meadows’ use of a black Trump administration staffer to counter accusations that the president was racist. Those angered by the move, says Cooper, subsequently donated to Democrat Steve Woodsmall, the only

candidate so far who has confirmed his intention to run against Meadows.

An often unmentioned wrinkle in the political landscape, adds Cooper, is candidates’ need to recruit staff from a limited pool of talented, experienced and ideologically aligned workers. Especially during a presidential election cycle, competition for those essential personnel is fierce, and bagging the right managers can make a big difference in a campaign’s prospects for success.

“If you’re Julie Mayfield, and you get your name out there early and decide to run early, you gobble up a lot of the goods,” notes Cooper, referencing the Asheville City Council member’s March 23 announcement that she’ll seek the state Senate District 49 seat that Van Duyn is vacating. “You make it harder for other people to run against you.”

Mayfield doesn’t explicitly mention staffing concerns in explaining her

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“We used to talk about presidents and members of Congress having permanent campaigns ... and I think the same thing has now trickled down to the state level.”

— Chris Cooper, Western Carolina University early push for the Senate, but she does say that the timing will enable her “to meet with people, to raise money — all of the things that candidates have to do — before people get really focused, almost exclusively focused, on the national level.”

DOMINO EFFECT Both Mayfield and fellow Democrat Ben Scales, a lawyer and recent candidate for Buncombe County district attorney, declared for state Senate District 49 in March. In 2018, Van Duyn’s opponent for the same seat, Republican Mark Crawford, simply made a formal filing in February of that year.

That eagerness, Cooper conjectures, could reflect the recent scarcity in WNC of state-level races that lacked an incumbent. “Frankly, we haven’t

had a lot of upward mobility from the western delegation of the N.C. General Assembly,” he points out.

Van Duyn was first elected to the legislature in 2014, after having been appointed earlier that year to serve out the term of the deceased Martin Nesbitt. Fellow Buncombe County Democrats John Ager and Brian Turner (both of whom serve in the N.C. House) also first claimed their seats that year; Rep. Susan Fisher won her place in the General Assembly in 2003.

In contrast, the retirement of Rep. Chuck McGrady at the end of his current term, announced on May 13, has yet to create the same eagerness in Henderson County. No candidate has declared plans to run for the influential Republican’s seat, which he’s held since 2010; McGrady chairs both the

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Meanwhile, Mayfield’s choice to run for state Senate creates an opening on Asheville City Council. Despite the uncertainty surrounding that race due to the General Assembly’s imposition of districts in city elections last June — a change that Mayfield says the city “has not made a final decision on whether to challenge” — Kristen Goldsmith announced her candidacy on May 30 for the District 1 Council seat, which covers most of West Asheville. By setting her sights on higher office, Mayfield, who also lives in West Asheville, has ensured that Goldsmith won’t be running against an incumbent.

“As a first-time candidate, I don’t have the name recognition that maybe an incumbent does, so I knew I’d have to get out early in order to introduce myself to voters,” says Goldsmith, a grocery store assistant manager who was trained as an architect and has worked as a local Democratic organizer since 2016. Her declaration comes nearly eight months earlier in the election cycle than the earliest announcement in the last Council race, Kim Roney’s on Jan. 26, 2017.

Goldsmith says the three most important issues facing Asheville are affordable housing, low wages and public transit, for which she believes Council should increase support by reallocating existing resources. “There is money that can be moved around in there,” she maintains. Asked what current programs would be reduced to pay for transit, she responded, “I don’t want to specifically highlight anything that I want to take money away from, but I want to think more holistically.”

PARTY PEOPLE Almost all of the candidates who have declared their intentions in WNC races so far have been Democrats. Besides those previously mentioned, former state Rep. Patsy Keever and Mills River Town Council member Brian Caskey are challenging Republican Chuck Edwards in state Senate District 48, which covers parts of Buncombe, Henderson and Transylvania counties, while Gina Collias and David Wilson Brown are taking on Republican U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry in North Carolina’s 10th Congressional District, which includes most of Asheville.

Buncombe County Democratic Party Chair Jeff Rose says this blue wave hasn’t been coordinated by party leaders. Instead, he maintains, candidates are assessing the current political climate and deciding on their own to make early runs.

“Especially when you talk about energy on the Democratic side, there’s a lot of presidential campaigns that are running right now, so there’s a lot to

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RACING AHEAD: With her May 30 announcement, Kristen Goldsmith became the first candidate to declare for the 2020 Asheville City Council contest.

Photo courtesy of Goldsmith compete with for people’s attention,” Rose points out. “These candidates are looking at it and saying, ‘I really am going to need more time to get my message out to voters, to break through everybody’s individual media bubbles and really make my case.’”

In response to the raft of early announcements, however, the local Democratic organization is making some changes. Rose says party leaders are stepping up volunteer recruitment and fundraising to accumulate resources before the national campaign swings into full force, and the party’s headquarters is preparing office and meeting space for candidates sooner than usual.

Members of Buncombe’s Republican Party have been slower to enter local races. “We realize we’re at a bit of a disadvantage in the city of Asheville, so it takes a little longer for folks to decide if they’re really going to commit,” says Jerry Green, who took over as party chair from Carl Mumpower in March. Green predicts that GOP candidates may start declaring their runs after July or August.

The local party leader says he plans to focus on maintaining the organization’s cohesion through 2020 and an election that he expects to be “a little more aggressive” than the 2018 campaign. Green’s approach, he explains, will be “to educate each other and the general public about what’s going on without being harsh or hateful or ugly to people, but just inform them of what we believe to be the best path to take.”

Notably, one Republican candidate is already looking even further ahead. On March 17, Adrian “AJ” Fox of the Haywood County Sheriff’s

Office announced that he will challenge incumbent Democrat Quentin Miller in 2022 to become Buncombe County’s next sheriff. Fox is a former N.C. State Highway Patrol officer and school resource officer for the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office.

“I announced this early so I could get my name out to the public and get a head start on the election process,” he explains. “I’m going to every public function I can and know about to get my name out there and let voters get to know me, so at election time they will know who they are voting for and will have a face to go with their choice.” On his Facebook campaign page, Fox describes himself as “a proud pro-life, Bible-owning, gunwielding, Trump-voting, conservative Republican Christian.”

IN THE LONG RUN With nearly nine months to go before North Carolina’s primary on Super Tuesday (March 3, 2020), state residents face a lengthy season of politics before they can cast their first ballots. Nonetheless, Mayfield says she isn’t worried about voter burnout in her state Senate campaign.

“My sense right now is that people are not fatigued,” she says.

“Particularly about local politics, they’re still very much open to meeting and learning and talking and wanting to share their concerns and issues.”

Rose, meanwhile, says that recent abortion restrictions approved by Republican-dominated legislatures in states such as Alabama and Georgia have sparked renewed focus on the importance of both state and local offices. Activism around those races, he says, gives people an outlet for making a real difference.

Cooper, however, is less sanguine about the early announcements’ likely impact on voter engagement. “I think people will grouse about politics more; I think people will be sick of it sooner,” the WCU professor predicts.

But on Election Day, he suggests, there probably won’t be any penalty at the ballot box.

Giving campaigns such an early start, says Cooper, “may be bad for democracy, but I don’t think it’s bad for the candidates. I don’t think that it affects [voters’] political behavior and the likelihood that they’ll turn out and vote for you — which is, of course, what candidates care about.” X

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THREE’S COMPANY When historian Bruce E. Johnson set out to write his latest book, Tom, Scott & Zelda: Following in Their Footsteps, the local author experienced a Goldilocks-like dilemma. “I realized the world didn’t need another full-length biography of either the

On the trail of Thomas Wolfe and the Fitzgeralds

Fitzgeralds or Wolfe,” he says. “But at the same time, I wanted to write something more than just a pamphlet.”

The end result is a 168-page hybrid.

Part biography, part travel guide, the book highlights key landmarks and locations the three literary icons

WORDSMITHS: In his latest book, historian Bruce E. Johnson explores local landmarks visited by literary icons F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zelda Fitzgerald and Thomas Wolfe. Photo

by Thomas Calder visited or frequented during their respective stays in Asheville in the 1930s. Amid the three storylines, Johnson also offers digestible tidbits concerning the city’s past as it relates to his subjects.

“People learn about Asheville and culture in different ways, and Bruce Johnson’s book is yet another way,” says Tom Muir, site manager at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial. What might surprise casual readers most about the book, he observes, is the fact that these three literary celebrities knew one another socially.

Jack Thomson, executive director of the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County, agrees. “Bruce brings the nationally recognized Tom, Scott and Zelda down to the local level in a story that will interest the ubiquitous Asheville tourist and native alike.”

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here in 1985. His first publication on the topic, Built for the Ages: A History of the Grove Park Inn, came out in 1991.

Through this initial project, Johnson learned about F. Scott Fitzgerald’s time in the area, as well as his wife’s periodic stints (and eventual death) at the former Highland Hospital (see “Tuesday History: The Fire at Highland Hospital,” March 21, 2017, Xpress). “What I quickly realized was that a lot of the fulllength biographies of Scott sort of gloss over his two years here,” the historian explains. “They’re just written off as the lost years.”

Though it was an unproductive period in Scott’s professional life, the writer’s time in Asheville was anything but uneventful. Battles with alcoholism were a constant throughout his repeat visits. Meanwhile, in the summer of 1936, the author broke his collarbone in a miscalculated dive at the now defunct Beaver Lake swimming pool. A few months later, humiliated by a recent, highly critical New York Post article, Fitzgerald attempted suicide in his room at

the Grove Park Inn (see “Asheville Archives: Acrimoniously Yours,” May 29, Xpress).

Shortly thereafter, on Oct. 5, 1936, Wolfe (who knew Fitzgerald through their shared literary connections) wrote to his brother Fred Wolfe, declaring: “There is a poor, desperate, unhappy man staying at the Grove Park Inn. He is a man of great talent but is throwing it away on drink and worry over his misfortune. … His name, I forgot to say, is Scott Fitzgerald.”

took to Tryon. Accompanied by family members (including his brother Fred), Wolfe traveled 45 miles south to visit Fitzgerald, who was staying at the Oak Hall Hotel.

When the two parties met, the conversation eventually turned to literature. At the time, Margaret Mitchell’s 1936 novel, Gone With the Wind, sat atop the bestseller list.

Fitzgerald despised the book, says Johnson. “He stuck his nose up in the air and said it took him a couple of

hours to read it and there might have been two good paragraphs in the whole book,” the historian recounts.

Wolfe, meanwhile, had yet to read it, complaining “It’s too damned long,” according to Johnson. Ironic considering how much of Wolfe’s own voluminous verbiage his editor, Maxwell Perkins, consigned to the cutting room floor.

Ultimately, reports Johnson, it was Fred Wolfe who ended the conversation. Leaning back in his chair, the

older Wolfe brother declared: “Well, I don’t know how good it is, but there’s one thing sure. I wish you and Tom could write a book that would make the money that Margaret Mitchell’s making on that one.”

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‘SHELL OF A WOMAN’ Letter excerpts and diary entries by the three main subjects and their associates are prominently featured in Johnson’s book. “It’s through these writings that you get real insight into what they were all dealing with at the time,” the author notes.

Many of the letters are snarky in nature, such as when F. Scott Fitzgerald offers Wolfe — an acclaimed novelist who, like Fitzgerald, achieved fame at a young age — advice on writing. Others are more somber, such as a missive Fitzgerald penned to his wife’s psychiatrist, Highland Hospital founder Dr. Robert Carroll.

“Each time that I see [Zelda],” Fitzgerald wrote, “something happens to me that makes me the worst person for her rather than the best, but a part of me will always pity her with a sort of deep ache that is never absent from my mind for more than a few hours: an ache for the beautiful child that I loved and with whom I was happy as I shall never be again.”

Sadly, Johnson believes, it was Carroll’s treatment plan that ultimately ruined Zelda. Before her death in 1948, Johnson says, “She was just a shell of a woman because of the electroshock and insulin shock treatments. They had basically pillaged her soul.”

TWO GOOD PARAGRAPHS As a biographer and historian, Johnson says his job is to provide a complete picture of his subject.

In this case, that means including episodes of petty jealousy and boundless ego.

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BUNCOMBE BEAT

Citizens seek more from Buncombe budget To borrow a phrase from British synthpop duo Eurythmics: Everybody’s looking for something.

Over 50 residents attended the hearing on Buncombe County’s proposed fiscal year 2019-20 budget at the June 4 Board of Commissioners meeting, with most of the 16 public commenters making the case for allocations beyond the roughly $334.52 million in suggested general fund spending.

The most visible advocacy came from a group of over a dozen public library supporters, many of whom wore red and carried signs during the hearing. Weaverville resident Ruth O’Donnell, vice chair of the county’s Library Board, pointed to disparities in per-capita funding among Buncombe and other North Carolina counties as she asked commissioners to fund an assistant director for the system.

Henderson County, O’Donnell said, spent $24.50 per capita on its libraries in fiscal year 2018, while Durham County spent $37.94; by comparison, Buncombe only spent $20.84. “This

SIGN LANGUAGE: Advocates for the Buncombe County Public Libraries show their support for more county funding at the June 4 Board of Commissioners meeting. Photo

by Daniel Walton library system, Buncombe County Public Libraries, is in need of some significant additional funding in order to bring it into the 21st century,” she said.

Other speakers sought more funding for Buncombe County Schools, which is currently slated to receive an almost $2.77 million bump over last year’s coun-

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ty support. Pat Bryant, Erwin District representative for the Buncombe County school board, hoped commissioners would support the system’s full request of over $5.01 million to fund behavioral support staff and teacher assistants.

To emphasize the need for the latter employees, Bryant asked the commissioners to imagine hosting a birthday party for elementary-age students while solving the logistical challenges that teacher assistants address. “At various times during the party, four or five kids have to go to the bathroom at the same time — you’re by yourself, and you only have two bathrooms,” he offered as an example.

Even without those employees, noted County Manager Avril Pinder, the county schools would still be on the hook for approximately $3.7 million in state-mandated salary increases next fiscal year. If the stillpending state budget does not fund those costs, she explained, Buncombe would work to cover the nearly $1 million gap between the system’s nonnegotiable need and the currently recommended county allocation.

Several nonprofit representatives, including Dawn Chávez of Asheville GreenWorks, Anthony Thomas with the YMI Cultural Center and Jim Barrett of Pisgah Legal Services, asked for more money through the county’s Strategic Partnership Funds. But resident Jerry Rice argued that Buncombe should pump the brakes on its awards.

“The taxpayer needs some relief, and I’m one of them,” said Rice.

“We can hand out money all day; there’s a big pit that you’ll never fill with money.”

Commissioners did not comment on the budget and took no action during the public hearing. Their vote to approve the proposed budget is scheduled for the board’s regular meeting at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, June 18, in Room 326 at 200 College St. in downtown Asheville.

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Berry Temple UMC to close

THE END IS NEAR: The Berry Temple United Methodist Church formed in 1887 as part of the now-defunct Allen High School. The church will hold its final service on Sunday, June 30.

Photo by Thomas Calder On Sunday, June 30, the Berry Temple United Methodist Church will hold its final service. According to its pastor, the Rev. Darryl Dayson, the institution has struggled with attendance for the last two decades, with current membership down to just 13 congregants.

The congregation formed in 1887 as part of the now defunct Allen High School, a private institution for African American girls. Originally located on Hill Street, Berry Temple later moved to its current site on College Place (then College Street); its present house of worship was built in the early 1950s.

Dayson says members of the congregation have responded to the imminent closure with sadness and grief, along with moments of anger. “They wonder why it has to be this way,” he says.

Dayson arrived at the church in 2017 by way of St. Paul’s United Methodist Church on Merrimon Avenue and Hillside Street. He believes his short stint with Berry Temple limited his

ability to effectively develop and build the congregation.

The Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church is in talks with a local nonprofit interested in using the space as a community center, Dayson says.

In Dayson’s view, the story of Berry Temple is an all-too-common one in Asheville, as well as the country at large.

“Through gentrification and redlining, communities of color are being pushed out to the margins,” he says.

To curtail this trend, the pastor continues, residents must come together and find solutions. Otherwise, he notes, “communities such as Berry Temple will continue to shrink until it’s hard for the masses to fully understand the beauty and the community that black folks and communities of color have contributed to the building of places like Asheville.”

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ONE DAY CONFERENCE The Council on Aging of Buncombe County presents Successful Aging, including breakout sessions on health and wellness, financial literacy, and much more. Vendor booths are available, and attendees will have a chance to learn about area agencies and services available. John Wingerter from the Council on Aging of Buncombe County will keynote.

ELDER JUSTICE: ELDER ABUSE, FRAUD, AND SCAM PREVENTION THURS., JUNE 27, 9AM-2PM, 1616 FERNHURST DR., ASHEVILLE, NC Learn how to protect yourself from being victimized by phone, internet, the mail and more. Get information on the new Elder Justice Program at the Council on Aging of Buncombe County. Important handouts will be included.

More info at www.coabc.org/

Other upcoming empowering programs in your neighborhood: BUNCOMBE COUNTY WORLD ELDER ABUSE WALK THURS., JUNE 13, 5-7PM, CARRIER PARK, ASHEVILLE, NC Help raise awareness about the “silent epidemic” of abuse of older adults.

Food, music, information and activities for the children will be provided.

No registration needed, but a pair of walking shoes suggested.

DOO WOP AT THE SOCK HOP SAT., JULY 27, 6-8PM, DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE YMCA, 30 WOODFIN ST. Celebrate life with music and dance to bridge generations and backgrounds.

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Collider reorganizes

THE LONG VIEW: On June 5, The Collider announced that building owner and Collider supporter Claire Callen will take over as president and chair of the nonprofit’s board, with responsibility for daily operations. The organization has recently been considering its options in light of having failed to achieve financial sustainability over three years of operation. Photo

by Virginia Daffron The Collider, Asheville’s visionary climate-science-focused event convener, office space and meeting venue, has run into some quotidian realities. Despite contributions of over $2.5 million from founder Mack Pearsall spread over three years, the nonprofit “has not yet achieved financial self-sustainability,” according to a press release.

Discussions over the past several weeks about The Collider’s future included an option to suspend the organization’s operations entirely. Instead, The Collider told Xpress on June 5, building owner Claire Callen will take over as the nonprofit’s board chair and president, with all responsibility for operating the space. Pearsall will remain on the board and “continue as a strong supporter of the organization.”

In addition to Pearsall, other board members listed on The Collider’s website include George Briggs, executive director of The North Carolina Arboretum;

James McMahon, CEO of The Climate Service; and Michael Tanner.

Callen and Miami-based OceanAsheville purchased the Wells Fargo Building at 1 Haywood St. in 2013. On March 11, 2016, The Collider opened in 6,000 square feet on the building’s fourth floor. Callen subsidized the space over an 18-month initial startup period to encourage the development of “an ecosystem of climate scientists and entrepreneurs,” according to Callen, Pearsall and Thomas Karl, retired director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Centers for Environmental Information, in a 2017 Xpress article (avl.mx/65o).

While the press release advises that Callen says “it’s business as usual” for those seeking office or meeting space at The Collider, information on the future of its signature events, including ClimateCon and [Food + Beverage] Collider, has not been released.

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“It was with deep regret and bursting hearts that the young men who started the movement strolled over [to] the city yesterday and saw that their labor had been lost, and that not a sunflower was in evidence. One of them, a single man who has never possessed a mother-in-law, was moved to tears as he stood near the postoffce and saw no evidence of the celebration of the day held sacred to mothers-in-law. “‘Flowers, flowers everywhere, and not a sunflower in sight,’ he exclaimed sadly, as he leaned up against the post and watched the hurrying throngs.

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Father’s Day signified a change in the popular narrative, Shelby argued. “No longer is [dad] to be numbered among the despised of the earth,” the columnist proclaimed. “Why, he is to have even a day of his own — the third Sunday of every June.”

Yet, Shelby insisted, a critical question remained: Did fathers want such recognition? The writer implored men across the nation to speak on the matter. “Would a word of loving praise for you be amiss once a year, or would you prefer that your efforts pass unnoticed and unrewarded save by the approval of your own consciences?” the columnist asked.

In Asheville, the official answer arrived two years later, when the city celebrated its first Father’s Day on June 16, 1912. Red roses were worn as a symbol of respect to all living fathers; meanwhile, white roses were adorned to honor those departed.

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“Poor old father!” declared The Asheville Citizen in a July 14, 1910, editorial. “Heretofore he has been kicked and cuffed from pillar to post; run out of the house when ‘there was anything doing in the social line,’ and generally relegated to the back stairs as a useful but not ornamental piece of furniture.”

Change, however, was in the air.

According to the editorial, dads across the country were finally getting their due with the launch of Father’s Day. First observed in Spokane, Wash., the 1910 observance arrived two years after the country’s inaugural Mother’s Day celebration (see “Asheville Archives: Mother’s Day arrives in the mountains,” May 12, Xpress).

News of this latest marking generated local and national discussion about the role of fatherhood. “Daddy used to be represented as all sorts of a bad ’un, with an ineradicable tendency to spend his wages instead of taking them dutifully home on Saturday night,” wrote Thomas Shelby in

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Asheville hosted its inaugural observation two years later, in 1912. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville

The influx of these two new national holidays appears to have inspired local satire. On June 23, 1912, The Sunday Citizen informed readers that “one of the leading young bachelors of the city,” was advocating for and helping spearhead the next national day of observance: Mother-in-Law Day. Adoring sons-in-law were to sport sunflowers on Sunday, June 30, in honor of their mothers-in-law, the paper wrote.

Beyond sunflowers, the majority of the holiday would require sons-in-law to contemplate the virtues of these women in isolation, the article continued. For this reason, the paper declared, “it has been decided that the proper observance of the day would be a fishing trip, in some secluded spot with plenty of ‘bait,’ and plenty of room for the fishermen to express himself freely of all that is in his heart regarding his mother-in-law.”

According to the article, the young men leading the movement believed the day would “go down in history as far more important than either of the other two [holidays].”

Yet, Sunday, June 30, 1912, passed without pageantry. The headline in the following day’s paper read: “Mother-inLaw’s Day is dismal failure.”

According to the article:

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“[A]ll good and dutiful children will today devote their efforts to remembering the many good things that father has done for them and try to obtain a different view point of the one that they now mostly regard as an animated bank account or a free lunch meal-ticket.”

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ANIMALS BEEKEEPING AND HONEY TASTING • TH (6/20), 5pm - Laura Shields presents on the beauty and necessity of bees. Free. Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure CAROLINA POODLE RESCUE INFORMATION • SA (6/15), 11am-3pm - Poodle rescue information. Free to attend.

Held at Patton Avenue Pet Company, 528 Hendersonville Road

BENEFITS 2ND ANNUAL FULL MOON IN JUNE OUTDOOR CONCERT • FR (6/14), 6-9pm Proceeds from the 2nd Annual Full Moon in June outdoor concert with 'Big Al,' Linda Mitchell and Kat Williams benefit Aura Home Women Vets.

Bring a picnic and lawn chair. $20/$25 door. Held at Patton Parker House, 95 Charlotte St. 3RD ANNUAL MENTAL WELLNESS WALK • SA (6/15), 10am Proceeds from the 3rd annual Mental Wellness Walk with 5K walk, music, refreshments and resource displays benefit All Souls Counseling Center and National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) Western Carolina. Registration: mentalwellnesswalk.org. $10. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road 50TH ANNIVERSARY GIANT BOOK SALE BREVARD AAUW • SU (6/15) until TH (6/20) - Proceeds from this 50th anniversary book sale featuring 30,000 books benefit educational scholarships for young local

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Thurs.-Sat.: 10am-7pm.

Sun.: noon-5pm. Free to attend. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard ART IN BLOOM GALA PREVIEW PARTY • TH (6/13), 6pm - Proceeds from Art in Bloom Gala Preview Party benefit Black Mountain Center for the Arts. $50.

Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain BREWS+BEARS • FR (6/14), 5:30-8pm - Proceeds from Brews & Bears, after hours event with drinks, music, food trucks and up close experience with black bears benefit the WNC Nature Center. $10/$8 members. Held at WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road DISCO INFERNO • TH (6/13), 6-9pm - Proceeds from the Disco Inferno, celebrating Asheville Area Arts Council 40th anniversary, with beer and wine, light bites and raffles benefit Asheville Area Arts Council. Funky threads encouraged.

Registration: avl.mx/642. $25 in advance. Held at Asheville Area Arts Council, 207 Coxe Ave. DRAG BINGO • SA (6/15), 6:30pm - Proceeds from Drag Bingo benefit Asheville Poverty Initiative. $10. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. FRIENDS OF THE SOUTH BUNCOMBE LIBRARY BOOK SALE • FR (6/14), 10am4pm - Proceeds from the Library Book Sale benefit Friends of the South Buncombe Library programs, supplies and

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equipment. Free to attend. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road IMMACULATE CONCEPTION CHURCH WOMEN'S GUILD ANNUAL RUMMAGE SALE • TH (6/20) through SA (6/22) - Proceeds from the ICC Rummage Sale benefit Immaculate Conception Church, Immaculata School and Hendersonville charities. Thu. & Fri.: 9am-4pm, Sat.: 9am-noon.

Sat. brown bags, $6. Free to attend.

Held at Immaculata School Gym, 711 N. Buncombe St., Hendersonville INCONCEIVABLE MUSIC FEST • SA (6/15), noonmidnight - Proceeds from the Inconceivable Music Fest benefit Sweet Bear Rescue Farm. $15 advance/$20 door.

Held at Sanctuary Brewing Company, 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville LIVE MUSIC SHOWCASE • SA (6/15), 7pm Proceeds from the Stonewall live music showcase featuring queer, trans and nonbinary artists benefits Tranzmission. $5-$10.

Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road ‘MOMENTUM’ • SA (6/15), 6-9pm - Proceeds from Momentum with live music, heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine and champagne cocktails benefit Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance.

Admission includes free childcare at the Academy at Terpsicorps’ Parents Night Out. $75. Held at East-West, 278 Haywood Road PINTS & POSES • TH (6/13), 6-7pm Proceeds from Pints & Poses, 45-minute yoga class which includes a craft beer from UpCountry Brewing, benefit the

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Legion Post 77, 216 4th Ave. W., Hendersonville LEICESTER HISTORY GATHERING • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting.

Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

CALL YOUR BLUFF: Bluff Mountain Festival, a community celebration with bluegrass, old-time music, a silent auction, an artists’ market and food vendors, celebrates 24 years of resistance to logging Bluff Mountain. Madison County Arts Council benefits from the festival scheduled for Saturday, June 15, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. on the grounds of the Hot Springs Resort and Spa. The Bluff Mountain Festival’s reputation attracts national touring artists, Grammy winners, master fiddlers, legends and aspiring talent, including multi-instrumentalists The Burnett Sisters, a five-piece string band. Free to attend. Photo courtesy of Trinity Borden. (p. 44) YMCA of WNC. Participants must be 21 or older. $10.

Held at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road PRELUDE GALA: A NIGHT AT THE MOVIES • SA (6/15), 6pm - Proceeds from the 2019 Prelude Gala: A Night at the Movies with a masquerade theme, dinner, dancing, live and silent auctions benefit Brevard Music Center. Tickets: avl.mx/658. $150 and up. Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard TRICROSS • SA (6/15), 1-5pm Proceeds from Tricross with a 1,000 meter row, 2,000 meter bike and 3,000 meter run or walk benefit Emily Sepik's fight with breast cancer. Registration: avl.mx/650. $20. Held at Fletcher Park, 300 Old Cane Creek Road, Fletcher ‘WINGS OF LIFE’ • TH (6/20), 7pm - Proceeds from Wings of Life, documentary narrated by Meryl Streep benefits Asheville GreenWorks’ Bee City USA. $10/$5 children under 16.

Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY WESTERN WOMEN'S BUSINESS CONFERENCE (PD.) Thu, Jun 20 - 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. A-B Tech Conference Center - 16 Fernihurst Drive, Asheville 28801 Registration

required. $45 A-B Tech Small Business Center abtech.edu/ sbc - 828-398-7950 A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (6/12), 11am-1pm Instagram Basics for Your Small Business, seminar.

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• TH (6/13), 6-9pm - Do I Need an Online eCommerce Presence, seminar. Registration required. Free.

• SA (6/15), 9am-noon - SCORE: All You Need to Know about Website Development, seminar.

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• TU (6/18), 3-5pm - WEBINAR: Starting Your Herbal Products Business, seminar.

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• TH (6/20), 6-8pm - Como Comenzar Su Propio Negocio (How to Start a Business), seminar. Registration required. Free.

LEADERSHIP ASHEVILLE’S BUZZ BREAKFAST • TH (6/20), 8am - 2019 Buzz Breakfast series with the theme, 'How Do We Build a Connected Community?' $25/$60 for the series. Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS DROP IN CLASSES (PD.) FIT HAPPENS on Wednesday 6pm.

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OPEN HOUSE JUNE 17 (PD.) Inviting event/wedding planners, business owners, and writers for a happy hour open house at the new event space, Mad Genius Studios, a converted caboose 15 minutes from downtown Asheville.

ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome.

Beginners lessons available.

Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free. Held at Hominy Valley Recreation Park, 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler KOREAN WAR VETERANS CHAPTER 314 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Association, General Frank Blazey Chapter 314, general meeting. Lunch at noon, meeting at 1pm. Free to attend. Held at American

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• TH (6/13), 5:30-7pm - Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar. Registration required. Free.

• SATURDAYS (6/15) & (6/22), 9am-12:30pm - Basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning, saving strategies and tracking spending series. Registration required. Free.

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SPINNING YARNS KNITTING AND CROCHET GROUP • TU (6/18), 6pm - Beginners and experienced knitters. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY WALK • TH (6/13), 5-7pm - Buncombe County World Elder Abuse Awareness Walk, family friendly walk with live music, food trucks and aging resources.

Information: buncombeweaadwalk. com. Free. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road

FOOD & BEER CHRIS SMITH AUTHOR EVENT • WE (6/12), 6pm Chris Smith presents his book, The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE • 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview GAY PRIDE POTLUCK PICNIC • SA (6/15), noon-2pm - Gay Pride potluck picnic, bring a dish to share. 2pm speakers on why the anniversary of Stonewall is important.

Free to attend. Held in the Pavilion at Patton Park, Asheville Highway, Hendersonville INTERNATIONAL BLACK JAR HONEY TASTING CONTEST • TH (6/13), 5:308:30pm - 8th Annual International Black Jar Honey Tasting and Cocktail event with local celebrities, silent auction and tastes of honey from all over the world. $25. Held at Asheville Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook. com/Leicester.

Community.Center • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30pm - Manna food distribution. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table, community meal. Free.

FESTIVALS SPACE ALIEN CONFERENCE & EXPO • FR (6/14) & SA (6/15) - 1st Annual Space Alien Conference and Expo with keynotes, panel discussions, book signings, photo

opportunities, dark sky observatory tours, vendors, food and cosplay contest for kids and adults. Information: spacenc.com. Free.

Held at Downtown Spruce Pine, Locust St., Spruce Pine

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN’S CLUB • 2nd THURSDAY, 6pm - Dinner, 6:30pm - Meeting.

Free to attend. Held at Yao, 153 Smoky Park Highway PUBLIC TOWN HALL MEETING, DISASTER RELIEF INITIATIVE • TU (6/18), 11am - Insurance Commissioner Mike Causey discusses what to do before, during and after a hurricane and flood insurance. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road

KIDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (6/12), 11am - Yoga for kids. Free.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • WE (6/12), 4pm - Use copper tape and LED lights to create an electrical circuit card, age 6-12. Registration: 828-250-4752. Free.

Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TH (6/13), 2pm Three librarians and a storytelling extravaganza. Groups register.

Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • TH (6/13), 3pm - Create a self-portrait.

Bring a 5x7 or 8x10 headshot, photograph or photocopy. Free.

Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (6/13), 4pm - Lego building, ages 5 and up. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

• TH (6/13), 4pm - A cosmic supernova of reading, magic, and audience participation.

Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TH (6/13), 4pm - The Moozic Lady, leads an interactive musical experience of singing, tapping and guided movement, ideal for preschoolers. Registration required. Free.

Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • FR (6/14), noon - Make your own traveler's notebook, for ages 12 and up. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (6/14), 3pm - Films based on comic books.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • FR (6/14), 3:304:30pm - Sign up to read for 15-minutes with J.R. the therapy dog. Registration required: 828-250-4738.

Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • SA (6/15), 10am Craft a bear-themed Father's Day card. Free.

Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • SA (6/15), 10am Multiple printmaking techniques taught, for Ages 5+. Registration Required. Free. Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • SA (6/15), 11am - Read with J.R. the Therapy Dog. Registration required: 828-2506486. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TU (6/18), 4-5:30pm - Read with Olivia the Therapy Dog. Registration required: 828-250-6482. Free.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (6/19), 4pm - Sing, dance, move and create in this musical program.

Registration required.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave.

• WE (6/19), 6pm - Family tai chi for age 5 and up.

Caregivers welcome. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (6/20), 11am - Sing, dance, move and create in this musical program. Free.

Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TH (6/20), 11:30am & 2:30pm - Join members from each House to break out of the deepest

dungeon under Hogwarts, age 8 and up. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (6/20), 3pm - Fancy activities and crafts. Come dressed fancy. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (6/20), 4pm - Lego building, ages 5 and up.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

FLETCHER LIBRARY • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free.

Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher HANDS ON SCIENCE • WE (6/12), 6-7pm - AMOS and LEAF host hands-on STEM activities. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.

HIVING FUN WITH THE BEES • TU (6/18) through FR (6/21), 10am-5pm - Beethemed crafts and educational activities all about honey bees and other pollinators. $8. Held at Hands On! A Children's Gallery, 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville MISS MALAPROP'S STORY TIME • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's

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Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • MO (6/3), 1-3pm - Eco Explorers: Canids, class for ages 8-13. Registration required. Free.

• TH (6/13), 10am-3pm - Introductory fly casting class for beginners.

Held at Lake Imaging in DuPont SF. All equipment and materials are provided.

Bring a lunch. Ages 12 and up. Registration: avl.mx/63y. Free.

• MO (6/17), 9-11am - Nature Nuts: Frogs & Toads, class for ages 4-7. Registration required. Free.

• TU (6/18), 9am-3pm - Intro to Fly-Fishing, for ages 12 and older.

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SATURDAY STEAM: IF TEETH COULD TALK • SA (6/15), 2-4pm - Examine mammal skulls and learn how to identify predator or prey. Admission fees apply. Held at Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave. TENNIS PLAY DAY • SUNDAYS, 2-4pm - Organized tennis for juniors of all ages and skill levels. Registration: avltennis.com or AvlJuniorTennis@gmail. com. Free. Held at Aston Park, 336 Hilliard Ave. YOUTH ART CLASSES WITH BETINA • WEDNESDAYS, 4-5pm - Youth Art Class with Betina Morgan, ages 8-13. Registration required. $10. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal Discovery Den and 404-foot waterfall.

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CITY OF ASHEVILLE POOLS OPEN • Through SU (8/11) - All three city pools open for the summer.

Hours and information: avl.mx/64c. $3. Various locations.

JUNE JAMBOREE • SA (6/15), 1-4pm Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy plans eight different hikes and outings across the Highlands of Roan, culminating in the Jamboree social. Registration: avl.mx/64u.

Free. Held at Big Rock Creek Preserve, Mitchell County LEWIS CREEK PRESERVE NATURE WALK • WE (6/12), 9-11am Easy nature walk led by MountainTrue Ecologist and Public Lands Director Bob Gale along a remaining rare Southern Appalachian Bog ecosystem. Ages 11-adult. Registration: avl.mx/638 or 828-2588737. Free. Held at Edneyville Community Center, 15 Ida Rogers Drive, Hendersonville OLD, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN BRP HIKE OF THE WEEK • FR (6/14), 10am - Parkway rangers lead an easy 1.5 mile round-trip hike from the Craggy Gardens Picnic Area to the top of the heath bald. Meet at Craggy Gardens Picnic Area at Milepost 367.6.

Information: 828-2985330 x304. Free.

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations.

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LET’S DANCE: Momentum, an evening of food and drink, live music and entertainment benefiting Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance will be held at East-West on Saturday, June 15, 6 p.m. Heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine and Champagne cocktails will be served as well as live music by Juan Holladay. Auctioneer Harry Brown will preside over live and silent auctions. Proceeds support the 2019 summer season of Asheville’s contemporary ballet company, Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance. Tickets are $75, avl.mx/65k, and include free child care at the Academy at Terpsicorps for ages 3 and older.

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PISGAH FIELD SCHOOL pisgahfieldschool.org • WE (6/12), 8:30pm Things That Go Bump in the Night, night hike and presentation about night creatures. Registration required: pisgahfieldschool. org. $20 ages 13 and up/$8 children. Held at The Pisgah Field School, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 4, Pisgah Forest • TH (6/13), 8-10pm Guided 2-mile sunset and night hike in the Pisgah National Forest. Registration required. $30/$10 children. Held at Pisgah National Forest, Pisgah Forest • WE (6/19), 8:30pm Things That Go Bump in the Night, night hike and presentation about night creatures. Registration required: pisgahfieldschool. org. $20 ages 13 and up/$8 children. Held at The Pisgah Field School, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 4, Pisgah Forest • TH (6/20), 8-10pm Guided 2-mile sunset and night hike in the Pisgah National Forest. Registration required. $30/$10 children. Held at Pisgah National Forest, Pisgah Forest SWANNANOA VALLEY BIRD WALK • SA (6/15), 8-10am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa

PARENTING BABY GYM • TU (6/18), 11am - Play time with baby and toddler toys, tunnels and climbing

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structures. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CELEBRATE PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH • SU (6/16), (6/23) & (6/30), 1-5pm - Three-session, 12-hour childbirth course offers essentials of labor, childbirth and the care of newborn. Free. Held at AdventHealth Hendersonville, 100 Hospital Drive, Hendersonville JEAN VAN'T HUL AUTHOR EVENT • SA (6/15), 11am - Jean Van't Hul presents her book, The Artful Parent.

Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St.

PUBLIC LECTURES 'BEYOND MY DREAMS': THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN BALLET • WE (6/12), 6-8pm - Claudia Foltz, co-author of Mel Tomlinson's autobiography, Beyond My Dreams, one of the first African Americans featured at the NYC Ballet.

Terpsicorps dancers Keith Reeves and Lydia McRae join the discussion about ballet today from an African American perspective. Free.

Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE • SU (6/16), 2-3:30pm Asheville’s Diversity at Risk, presentation by Gene Bell.

Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road

JAGUARS AND BIRDS OF THE PANTANAL • TU (6/18), 7pm - Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society lecture: Jaguars and Birds of the Pantanal. Free. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural, and outdoor activities. Visit www.ashevillenewfriends. org ADVANCE CARE PLANNING WORKSHOP • TH (6/20), 7-9pm - Medical and legal experts discuss end-of-life issues. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights ASHEVILLE ELDER CLUB GROUP RESPITE PROGRAM • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Jewish Family Services of WNC, 2 Doctors Park, Suite E GERI-FIT: FREE EXERCISE CLASS FOR SENIORS • MONDAYS, 11am - GeriFit exercise class for seniors.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

HENDERSONVILLE ELDER CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 11am2pm - The Hendersonville Elder Club for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Agudas Israel Congregation, 505 Glasgow Lane, Hendersonville WORLD ELDER ABUSE AWARENESS DAY WALK • TH (6/13), 5-7pm - Buncombe County World Elder Abuse Awareness Walk, family friendly walk with live music, food trucks and aging resources. Information: buncombeweaadwalk.com.

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DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE • 3rd SATURDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - Dances of Universal Peace, spiritual group dances that blend chanting, live music and movement. No experience necessary. Admission by donation. Held at Dances of Universal Peace, 5 Ravenscroft Drive

ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS • 3rd SUNDAYS, 1-3pm - Send books to inmates in NC & SC. Information: avlcommunityaction. com or ashevilleprisonbooks@ gmail.com. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY GROUP FOR TEEN GIRLS • 3rd SUNDAYS, 11:30am - Monthly group for teen girls ages 13-18 from any background or tradition to recognize spiritual gifts and a sense of purpose.

Facilitated by Sharon Oxendine, an elder from the Lumbee tribe of NC. Free. Held at Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River NONDENOMINATIONAL HEALING PRAYER GROUP • 2nd FRIDAYS, 1-2pm - Non-denominational healing prayer group.

Free. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville

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

OPEN SANGHA NIGHT AT URBAN DHARMA • THURSDAYS, 7:309pm - Open Sangha night. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 77 W. Walnut St.

DE-STRESS, GET HAPPY & CONNECT (PD.) Mindfulness Meditation at the Asheville Insight Meditation Center. Group Meditation: Weekly on Thursdays at 7pm & Sundays at 10am. www.ashevillemeditation. com, info@ ashevillemeditation.com.

TUTOR ADULTS IN NEED WITH THE LITERACY COUNCIL (PD.) 43% of adults with low literacy live in poverty.

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LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm.

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FARM TO FORK FONDO • Through SU (6/30) - Registration for volunteers to support the Wrenegade Foundation at the Farm to Fork Fondo held Saturday, June 30 from 8am-5pm, to fill water containers and hand out food at aid stations. Information and registration: avl.mx/5yl HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC • THURSDAYS, 11am, 2nd TUESDAYS, 5:30pm & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 8:30am - Welcome Home Tour, tours to find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how the public can help. Registration required: tours@ homewardboundwnc. org or 828-785-9840.

Free. Held at Homeward Bound of WNC, 218 Patton Ave. TEDXASHEVILLE • Through FR (8/30) Volunteer for TEDx on Sunday, Sept. 8. Theme is Challenging Assumptions, Breaking New Ground. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. VOLUNTEER WORKDAY- LONG JOHN MOUNTAIN • FR (6/14), 10am-2pm - Volunteer workday to remove invasive plants at Long John Mountain. Registration required: volunteer@ conservingcarolina.org or 828-679-5777 x.211.

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FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD: On April 25, meditation retreat center Southern Dharma celebrated its 40-year anniversary with both of its founders, Elizabeth Kent and Melinda Guyol, on-site. After a slow start, the center has become one of the Southeast’s most popular and well-established retreats offering silent meditation. Photo courtesy of Southern Dharma

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com Local meditation teacher Ronya Banks believes anxiety is on the rise, and recent data support her hunch.

On May 20, for example, the American Psychiatric Association reported the results of a new poll which showed that, “For the second year in a row, about two in three Americans say they are extremely or somewhat anxious about keeping themselves and their family safe, paying bills and their health.”

And on the same day, the APA flagged another trend in how Americans view factors affecting feelings of psychological well-being: social media use. In another of the group’s polls, the majority of adult respondents said social media have a more negative than positive effect on mental health.

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miracles and the gifts,” Banks says. At the same time, hours spent online every day produce “a lot of negativity and drama surrounding politics and a lot of fear around the environment,” she says.

Putting our cellphones down is hard; after all, we don’t describe those frequent peeks at our screens as an addiction for nothing. Maybe that’s why local centers report that the silent meditation retreat business is booming. Ranging from a single day to a full two weeks off the grid, the retreats eliminate unnecessary external stimulation by emphasizing meditation, maintaining an inward focus — and, yes, disconnecting from all tech devices.

SPIRIT OF PLACE Meditation hasn’t always been hot.

When Californians Elizabeth Kent and Melinda Guyol arrived in the Western North Carolina mountains 40 years ago,

they were seeking a cooler climate and meaningful work.

“I told my cousin we were going to have a meditation retreat, and the retreat would be held in silence,” recalls Kent, who at 82 now lives in West Asheville.

“He looked at me and he said, ‘You’re not going to make any money.’”

But their center, located on 140 acres outside Hot Springs, would eventually draw hundreds of spiritual seekers eager to take a break from regular life. On April 25, Southern Dharma celebrated its 40-year anniversary with both founders on-site. Guyol, who now lives in Davis, Calif., journeyed to WNC for the first time since the early 1990s for the event.

As the two women set out to develop the remote property in 1979, the challenges were many. From planning and overseeing the construction of the retreat buildings to maintaining the mile-long gravel access road and developing mailing lists of prospective visitors, every day seemed to require learn-

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Even the word “dharma” in the center’s name proved problematic, since most people hadn’t heard it before — and found it hard to spell. Simply stated, Kent says, “It’s a search for the truth.” That truth “has many paths to get to the same human transformation,” she continues, and Southern Dharma from the beginning has invited retreat teachers from different paths, including Buddhist, Christian, Jewish, Sufi and Taoist traditions.

After a slow start, the concept began to take off toward the end of the 1980s.

Now, nearly all the center’s retreats are full, Kent says, with many hopeful attendees on waiting lists.

“I always had faith in meditation,” explains Kent. “I felt that it would just take time for people to get interested and develop a practice and go through that personal transformation that happens.”

Over time, the center’s buildings and paths have matured and mellowed, bringing new richness to the retreat experience, both founders say. “It seems that everything has grown together in a way that shows us what an extraordinarily sacred space it is,” reflects Guyol.

“You can really feel it; there’s a sense

of something there that’s really big and really takes care of the heart.”

THE SOUND OF SILENCE What, exactly, happens at a silent retreat? At Southern Dharma, those on retreat cultivate an inward focus. To that end, participants are asked to refrain from conversation with one another during the day — and even to avoid making eye contact as much as possible.

During the retreat, sessions of sitting meditation alternate with walking or moving meditation (such as yoga or qi gong practice). The center provides three vegetarian meals a day and asks guests to participate in morning chores.

Accommodations are mostly in dormitory-style rooms with shared bathroom facilities; Kent says Southern Dharma has made progress in offering additional private-room options, with more in development.

If practical issues arise, guests may post a written question on a bulletin board or speak directly to a staff member. The goal isn’t to main-

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CASTLE OF CALM: Located in the former Osceola Lake Inn in Hendersonville, Heartwood Refuge is home to two Buddhist monks and a small community of permanent residents. The facility also hosts community events and more than 20 silent retreats each year. Photo courtesy of Heartwood Refuge tain absolute silence, but to reduce extraneous distractions.

Evening sessions provide an opportunity to discuss topics related to meditation and to reflect on the experiences of the day. Each participant also meets with the retreat teacher at least once during the stay for individualized discussion and guidance; longer retreats include multiple sessions with the teacher.

“You don’t come down in the morning and say, ‘Oh, how was your night?

Mine was terrible. I feel pretty draggled.’

You leave all that out and just focus inward and talk outwardly when it’s appropriate,” Kent explains.

While different teachers encourage different practices, even reading and writing are often avoided to keep the focus on being present in the moment.

UNPLUG AND REBOOT Marshall’s Prama Institute isn’t very far from Southern Dharma as the crow flies, but Prama’s approach to silent retreats does differ in some ways from that of its older neighbor.

For one thing, reading is allowed — the facility even has a library — and journaling is encouraged. In general, there’s a focus on practical meditation techniques, according to staffer Howard Nemon.

“We want people to integrate and utilize the practices we are teaching more into their lives and use them as instruments for personal growth and change,” Nemon says. “All of us here are longtime practitioners of these practices.

That’s how we live our lives, so that’s something we can share or transmit.

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“People realize that life is so agitated and so hurried that they don’t have time to reflect internally. They’re just always extroverting,” Nemon continues. “People have told us they have gone through some emotional thing, and they just had to push through it. But it left a scar; it left something inside.

These retreats really serve to give people a pause, a space. They use the word ‘reboot’ a lot.”

Participants at Prama don’t avoid eye contact and usually end up developing close bonds with one another over the course of the retreat, Nemon says.

During the day, two 90-minute yoga classes anchor the schedule, along with group meditation sessions and walking meditation in the outdoors. Following the meditation activities, leaders speak to the participants, sometimes reading poetry or prose to inspire contemplation. As at Southern Dharma, evening sessions allow for group discussion.

At the end of the event — which usually begins on a Friday evening and wraps up midday on a Sunday — the group has a sharing session. While strong emotions can come out as participants reflect on insights they’ve gained into their lives, “it usually ends on a very positive note,” Nemon says. “I don’t think anyone’s ever gone away in a negative state.”

Prama offers four or five retreats annually, a number Nemon says has grown in recent years.

HEART’S DESIRE Hendersonville’s Heartwood Refuge is a relative newcomer to the area’s

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W ELL NESS spiritual scene. Located in the former Osceola Lake Inn off Kanuga Road, the main retreat structure — dating back to 1908 — had been abandoned for 10 years before the nonprofit Heartwood Refuge and Retreat Center purchased it three years ago, explains Amy Goldweber, the center’s director.

As the restoration process continues, Goldweber says, about 50 of the property’s 90 rooms are currently operable, and the center hosts about 20 silent retreats — ranging from one to 12 days in length — each year.

While the exact format and approach are up to the teacher leading the retreat, Goldweber says participants are urged to “really go inward and assess and reflect and contemplate” during the experience.

“When you omit one way to express yourself that you often use throughout the day, it makes you focus and concentrate on other important behaviors,” Goldweber explains.

While most who attend a silent retreat find the experience valuable, it’s not for everyone at every moment in their lives, Goldweber cautions.

“There are certain situations when you shouldn’t be silent, such as after a trauma, a crisis or a great loss in life, like the death of someone very close to you,” she says.

LOVING LANDSCAPE Banks has taught at all three of WNC’s retreat centers and says they’re all wonderful, drawing the word into long syllables for emphasis.

“They’re all committed to self-realization and self-awareness and quietude and support and generosity,” she says.

“When you go to a place like Southern Dharma that’s been wellestablished, where thousands of people have been earnestly putting energy into their practice, it’s like you drop deep into your meditation practice very quickly,” Banks explains. And the natural beauty of the remote location — which she’s been visiting since the 1990s — is unique. “As far as quiet and getting away from it all, it’s definitely a cut above all the others,” she says.

Heartwood Refuge’s convenient location in Hendersonville makes accessing the retreat quick and easy, and the presence of two monastics in residence deeply grounds the facility in Buddhist spirituality and practice, Banks continues.

At Prama Institute, she says, the people who run the center “ooze kindness and generosity.”

Asked what draws people to a silent retreat, Banks muses, “There has to be a really deep motivator to go sit in silence for three or more days and do this incredibly boring practice of just being aware of whatever’s arising in the present moment, including your breath.”

But the frenetic pace of modern life has many seeking relief.

“Typically, when you ask people how they are doing, the first thing they say is, ‘Good, but I’ve been so busy.’ So we are living in a society that’s addicted to being

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In addition to teaching at the local retreat centers, Banks also offers halfday silent retreats at her own business, Asheville Insight Meditation in Woodfin. It’s an intense experience, she says, with three periods of sitting meditation interspersed with two sessions of movement-based meditation. The halfday format fits into many schedules, and the experience offers a way to explore before committing to a longer period.

For those with a regular meditation practice, the shorter retreats can serve as a way to maintain focus between multiday retreats.

“When we go on these silent retreats, the mind and heart can become more open and flexible and less rigid,” Banks says. “We are able to go back to the world with more flow and more acceptance and more compassion for all viewpoints.” X

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WNC farmers and consumers look to a potentially bright future with pastured eggs numbers of birds are housed together, illnesses can spread quickly, decimating a flock.

“Both the initial investment costs and maintenance can be significant, so the risk of scaling up can be a deterrent to many growers,” says Nicholie.

HATCHING A PLAN One local family-owned operation that has been able to manage such an expansion is Dry Ridge Farm in Mars Hill. For three years, the farm, which also produces pastured beef and pork, had kept a flock of about 700 laying hens in three mobile coops that moved continually around the 43-acre property (the farm also leases an additional 60 acres for cattle). The 250 dozen eggs produced each week were sold directly to customers at three area tailgate markets.

This spring, however, owners Wendy and Graham Brugh made the jump to wholesale. With help from a $6,000

grant from WNC AgOptions, they bought 2,000 Red Sex-link and Hy-Line Brown laying hens, which they moved into a newly constructed poultry barn.

The facility has large doors that open automatically each day at dawn onto 5 acres of fenced pasture and woodlands that are divided into four fields for the purpose of rotating.

Walking into the Brughs’ chicken barn on a warm May morning, the air, which is circulated by a ventilation system, is a pleasant temperature with almost none of the expected odor of manure. Although the doors to the pasture are open, hundreds of the little reddish hens are hanging out inside, taking shelter from the sun.

Some are eating — Dry Ridge sources its feed from neighboring farmer Eddie Shelton, who grows and mills his own grain. Others perch on the elevated roosting platform that surrounds a line of laying boxes. Some stroll on the saw-

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A BIRD IN THE HAND: Madison County farmers Wendy and Graham Brugh recently scaled up their pastured egg business to start selling wholesale to local restaurants. They say many area chefs and diners want eggs from chickens that are free to roam and forage outdoors.

“There’s a pretty huge market opportunity,” says Wendy. Photo by Luke Van Hine

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Many of WNC’s small and midsized farms produce eggs, says Molly Nicholie, program director for the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Local Food campaign. However, because profit margins tend to be tight with egg production, it’s most often seen as a way for farmers to diversify their offerings.

“Like in grocery stores, eggs are often a loss leader for farmers — a product offered at or below cost to attract customers,” she explains. “It is often difficult for smaller farmers to produce eggs at a wholesale price point that works for restaurants, so you have to have a producer who can scale up volume enough to make the numbers work.”

But for small farms, scaling up an egg operation, whether pasture-raised, cage-free or conventional, can be both costly and risky. (Note that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has no official regulations for “pastured” eggs, but the term is commonly used to describe eggs from chickens that have free access to outdoor pastures, grass and forage.)

Constructing barns and fencing and purchasing hens and equipment can be prohibitively expensive. And when large

There’s no forgiving this pun, and there’s no avoiding it, either: In the restaurant world, eggs are egg-sential.

Aside from vegan establishments, eggs are a staple ingredient for businesses from breakfast and brunch joints to bakeries. And increasingly, in the Asheville food scene and beyond, diners want pastured, locally raised eggs.

“We do find that there’s a high demand for local eggs among Asheville-area restaurants. We have noticed the demand almost double in 2018 from what it was in 2017,” says Meghan Bosley, local foods promoter for Mountain Food Products. “Our customers that prefer local eggs like them to be pasture raised and, ideally, fed non-GMO feed.”

That shifting market, though, presents some problems for the Western North Carolina-based food distribution company. “That is one of our challenges this year,” says Bosley. “Finding the supply for the demand we are seeing for local eggs.”

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Beneath the laying boxes, a conveyor belt catches the eggs as they’re laid, eventually moving them to a collection room where they’re gathered twice a day and packed into plastic flats for washing and sorting in a different barn.

“They’re laying about 1,850 per day right now, or about 92%,” says Wendy.

She pauses thoughtfully for a moment and then reports with a grin, “There were 1,838 yesterday.”

Outside in the field, the sight is odd and a little awe-inspiring: Hundreds upon hundreds of hens scurry in groups through the sunny grass and nearby shady woods. They are pecking at the ground, chasing bugs, hopping on low branches — being chickens.

Each hen has at least 2 square feet of indoor space and 108 square feet of outdoor space, which is the gold standard set by leading U.S. pastured egg producer Vital Farms, Wendy says.

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Dry Ridge has already found as much local demand as it can currently meet and then some. Before the farm’s scaledup flock was even laying this spring, says Wendy, Mother Earth Food agreed to purchase up to 200 dozen eggs per week, and a string of Asheville restaurants also jumped at the opportunity — so many that she had to turn some down.

Carson Lucci, owner of downtown Asheville’s Over Easy Café, had struggled off and on since the business opened 14 years ago to find and maintain a local source for the 4,500-5,000 eggs her restaurant goes through each week. Until recently, she had been buying pastured, non-GMO eggs through Farm to Home Milk from Queen B Farms in Mebane, about 30 miles east of Chapel Hill. But she’s now sourcing from Dry Ridge.

The price point is lower, she says, and she likes being able to buy all her eggs from a single WNC grower, particularly one that has such a strong focus on the welfare of the animals. She is not too bothered that Dry Ridge is currently not using organic or non-GMO feed, although the Brughs say they are aiming for that in the future.

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“Organic is obviously ideal, but if we have to choose between organic and some other local options, then I usually prefer things to be local,” says Lucci. “I don’t want to get organic eggs from California.”

Lucci personally visits the farms she sources from to ensure that the conditions are sanitary and the animals are treated well. “Given how hard it has been off and on for me to source good quality eggs — and that is the backbone of our business — I want to make sure they’re what I want them to be,” she says.

Old World Levain Bakery co-owner Susannah Gebhart purchases the large quantity of eggs she uses twice weekly from Queen B Farms through Farm to Home Milk owner Jonathon Flaum.

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Silo met Wendy Brugh at ASAP’s recent Business of Farming Conference and decided to source from Dry Ridge.

“Their values align very closely with our own, so I felt great about supporting Wendy’s farm and her family,” he says.

“Sawhorse is also a locally driven business, and we try to keep our money in the community in every way we can.”

He notes that his guests comment constantly on the high quality of the eggs he uses. “It’s an everyday occurrence at Sawhorse, and it makes me incredibly happy.”

SHELL GAME The Brughs say that of all their products, their eggs have the best margin — they sell for $5 a dozen at farmers markets and $3.33 per dozen wholesale. Within a month of moving the flock of 16-week-old chickens into the barn, Graham says, they started getting eggs, versus the extended time, land and resources required to raise cattle and hogs. “You get more bang for your buck.”

But Dry Ridge Farm is a rare bird.

Very few operations anywhere near the Asheville area are producing pastured eggs on a wholesale scale. So why aren’t more WNC farmers taking a crack at the market?

“There’s a pretty huge market opportunity,” says Wendy. “And it’s something with known variables, one product. It’s really consistent.”

“If nothing goes catastrophically wrong,” Graham quickly notes.

“There’s always the possibility of catastrophe if something happens with 2,000 birds,” Wendy agrees. “It could be something like the fans stop working for a few hours in the summertime — less so for us, because we’re pastured, so they can go outside.”

But keeping hens outdoors presents its own challenges. Measures have to be taken against predators. Exposure to wild birds can result in increased risk of diseases such as avian influenza. Even weather events can be an issue.

“We lost over 100 of our laying hens because a tornado touched down on the farm about three weeks ago,” says Daniel Dover, owner of Darby Farms

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Dover says that with his flock of 3,000, he also has to guard against predators. And he’s extremely selective about where he buys his young birds after once having to euthanize an entire flock after new arrivals from a hatchery brought with them the extremely contagious mycoplasma gallinarum.

But he’s not too concerned about wild birds introducing illnesses. “I think that’s a very overstated fear, just because I haven’t had any trouble, ever.” He’s more worried, he says, about disease being spread by visitors to the farm and the proximity of industrial-scale poultry houses in his area.

But fear of contagion spread by wild birds prompted at least one local farmer to choose the cage-free path, where hens roam freely in barns but have no (or very limited) access to the outdoors. Mike Brown, owner of Farside Farms in Alexander, has been in the wholesale egg business for close to 25 years, selling to a multitude of local restaurants and grocers. He used to let his hens outside, he says, but since seeing a fellow farmer in Leicester lose his entire pastured, organic egg operation to an illness introduced by wild birds, he’s playing it safe.

He now keeps his flock of 3,000 hens inside multiple barns, focusing on giving them high-quality feed that he mills himself. Brown mentored the Brughs as they prepared to scale up their pastured egg business. “I worry for Graham and Wendy that they may get a disease with these chickens, and if they do, it’ll bankrupt them,” he says.

“They’re playing with a loaded gun.”

THE SUNNY SIDE But some believe playing that game of chance has positive impacts beyond orange yolks and happy hens. Dover says the main reason he chooses to keep his hens on pasture is because it’s

a sustainable way to farm and steward the land.

“In a barn scenario, you’re accumulating all this excrement into one spot, which becomes a liability for the water table and the air quality and so forth. But if you have them out on pasture, the land takes care of it as long as you move them,” he says, noting that every three days, he transitions his flock to a new section of pasture.

He says that as the chickens roam, they simultaneously clear out pests, fertilize, aerate the soil and spread beneficial bacteria. After his hens roamed and foraged in one of his hay fields, he says, this month he harvested seven bails of hay per acre where other farmers had previously only gotten four per acre.

“That just tells you the benefits that go beyond the health benefits of the eggs and the humane nature of the environment they’re in,” he says. “It’s multifaceted. There are probably some things I don’t even know about how it’s helping the environment.”

But Dover cautions other smallscale farmers who are looking at moving into the pastured egg market that diversification is key. “Don’t just do eggs. Make sure you’re balancing it with lots of different things, [maybe even] holding an offfarm job to help offset your learning curve. Because it takes a while to become profitable doing this, buying the infrastructure and the hens and all that stuff,” he says.

The scale-up was a huge investment for Dry Ridge Farm, and the Brughs are careful to point out that they were extremely fortunate to be able to come up with enough personal seed money to make the leap in one season rather than expanding incrementally over several years.

“Such farm projects are difficult to get financed conventionally,” Wendy says. “Access to capital and land is a definite barrier for many farmers.”

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FOR STARTERS Local bakers reflect on the shape-shifting alchemy that brings sourdough breads to life

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environment of a space. I think the starter evolves just like us.

“What is really beautiful is that this colony of critters has been cared for,” she continues. “It’s a metaphor for the care and love and attention that has gone into it and all the baked goods that have been made from the starter.”

Kaley Laird, The Rhu’s executive pastry chef and baker, has a 6-yearold starter named Troubles that she created in San Francisco out of trub, or dead leftover yeast, from a homebrewed beer. When Laird decided to relocate to Asheville, she froze the starter and drove it across the country, stopping in New York to store a few quarts of it in her mother’s freezer for safekeeping.

“I wasn’t able to find anyone else who had it,” Laird recalls. “It had a little bit of beer in it. A friend took it and brought it to me, and I reactivated it and built it into a starter using it as the water. It always had this beery, yeasty flavor that was unique about it.”

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Poolish. Depending on which bakery you’re in, the alchemy of flour, water and yeast is named, fed and cared for differently. It’s affected by everything from temperature to bacteria to the hands that mix it; it catalyzes bread to rise and imbues a distinct — usually tart — flavor.

In any bakery worth its salt, you can bet this living organism is fermenting, growing and bubbling somewhere in the facility. To learn more about this curious process, Xpress interviewed seven area bakers about how starters play a role in their bread operations.

QUEEN LOAFTIFA “We’ve worked really hard to get our starter in a good place,” says Cori Phillips, the production manager at City Bakery. “It’s a little bit of us, and it’s a signature because no one else has our starter. It’s like a stamp. It’s important for me to keep her alive and keep flavoring her.”

While City Bakery has several starters it uses on a regular basis, the mother of these starters, affectionately dubbed Queen Loaftifa, is almost 2 years old. Phillips says she was brought back to life in October 2017 after being ignored and subsequently losing all her yeast activity during a turnover in management.

“It took two or three days of rehydrating and feeding to get her back to her beautiful queenness,” says Phillips. “It’s kind of like being a proud parent. You feed it. You nurture it. You hug it. She’s part of the team.”

Susannah Gebhart, a self-taught baker and founder of Old World Levain Bakery, made her original starter out of water and Carolina Ground Flour, a locally grown and ground variety, on her kitchen counter in 2014. It came to life after a few days from the wild yeasts in the surrounding air, and it’s been alive and well ever since.

FEEDING THE CULTURE

RIGHT OUT OF THE OVEN: Kaley Laird holds a freshly baked sourdough boule at The Rhu. The pastry chef nourishes a 6-yearold sourdough starter named Troubles that she made in San Francisco out of trub, dead yeast that’s leftover from homebrewing beer.

Photo by Laura Hackett “It doesn’t have a name. We call it The Mother. It seems beyond a name in some respects. It’s kind of its own universe,” she says. “Just like our bodies, it’s regenerating on a regular basis. It’s always going to reflect what yeast and bacteria is on the grains, our hands and in the air. It will always be part of a place and the ever changing

Other bakers, such as Fred Dehlow and Aaron Wiener of Geraldine’s Bakery, take a less sentimental approach to their starters.

“We’ve had one going on since we’ve been here. And in New York, we had one going for at least 30 years.

So you keep refreshing it every day.

There’s really not much to it. You’ve got flour, water, yeast, basically, right?

That’s it,” says Dehlow, who opened Geraldine’s in 2013. As he answers questions, he’s sprinkling peanut butter chips on several pies at once, checking on something in the oven and assembling a layer cake, among other tasks.

“It was our jobs as teenagers to take care of them,” says the second-generation baker, referring to the starter as a sour. “We’d go into a big bin and mix the sour with our hands. When the sour gets on your arms, it turns into paste, and it’s hard to get off.”

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“They used to keep it under the sink,” Wiener adds, reminiscing on one of his first bakery jobs. “I always used to think that might be a little unsanitary. I don’t think that’s allowed anymore.”

Wiener, who owned Carolina Mountain Bakery in Arden for 20 years, says he kept a starter alive all the while until he decided to close the business. “I threw it in the dumpster.

What else are you going to do with it?” he says.

But Dehlow and Wiener acknowledge that it’s a good practice to keep a starter going for as long as you can.

“It’s definitely a mark of commitment for the baker, keeping that thing alive,” says Wiener.

“They get more sour, the ones you keep going. Our bread starter we use is really sour,” Dehlow says. “I usually feed it before I leave at the end of the day. Usually, it’s enough that it’ll be OK for an extra night. It’s like a pet goldfish. If I miss a day of feeding it, not the end of the world.”

Brennan Johnson, on the other hand, sees the feeding process as crucial to the development of a starter’s flavor. At The Walnut Schoolhouse, his bakery in Marshall, he uses his rye starter to bring the flavor of the grain forward, rather than cultivating an overpowering funk. He keeps his rye starter on a strict feeding schedule, giving it twice as much water as flour in the morning, and in the evening, all flour and no water, which makes for a stiffer starter that elicits a more grain-based flavor from the bread. He also feeds his starters minimally processed flour from local mills Carolina Ground Flour, Farm and Sparrow, and Lindley Mills.

“For the most part when you feed a starter with a white flour and something a little more processed, you’re mostly using the flour as a medium for the sourdough culture — but there’s not a ton of flavor in the grain itself to be coaxed out by the starter,” he explains. “By using these flours that are fresh-milled, you retain a lot of its oils, nutrients and flavors. It’s all still superprevalent in the flour, and all that is prevalent in the starter itself.”

Gebhart crafts the flavor of OWL’s starters with a similar philosophy.

“Rather than letting it go through its full cycle where it gets superacetic and soupy, we use it before it gets to that point,” she explains. “We feed it to encourage the creation of lactic rather than acetic acid. Lactic is much more creamy, milky and mild in flavor. When a sourdough isn’t extremely tart, it allows the wheat

flavor of the flour to come through as more layered and complex.”

FLOUR POWER The abundant local sources of freshly milled flour are driving the diversity of starters that can be found in area bakeries. The Asheville Bread Festival, which celebrated its 15th anniversary in April, has inspired out-of-the-box uses for these starters that sometimes even go beyond bread.

“In this town, with the bread festival, and the thought process behind bread and starters and the movement of all natural leavening around here, it puts you in a position of how to think creatively about using starters, because that’s what everyone else is doing,” says Laird.

Laird and her team have experimented with using their starter in nontraditional forms: ice cream, cake, chocolate chip cookies. The Rhu has even created a sourdough latte, which uses starters flavored with cocoa, honey or matcha that have been spread thin, dehydrated in the oven then steeped in the milk itself to add an earthy funk to the warm drink.

Maia Surdam, a baker at OWL who also has a Ph.D. in American history, has cultivated a starter using White Lab’s English Ale yeast strain in order to pay tribute to alewives who historically did most of the baking and brewing without acknowledgment or appreciation.

“I liked the fruitiness and maltiness that came from that yeast strain,” says Surdam. “I was trying to create something that had the distinct flavor of brewer’s yeast.”

At the bakery, the starter is used to make the Alewife sourdough loaf as well as OWL’s nationally renowned Election Cake, which can best be described as an English fruit cake.

Gebhart says she has also been experimenting with a rose petal-flavored yeast water that is added to a lightly sweetened base and used to leaven pita bread. “That was really wild. I hope we can explore more botanical yeast waters at the bakery.

It’s another way to scent doughs and create experience,” she says.

For Surdam, many of these unique ideas, just like the starters, are born from the bakers’ environment. “These creations are all part of the world we’re living in,” she reflects. “We’re drawing in so much inspiration from bakers, millers, events, organizations and other food aficionados.” X

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the bottoms with a small handful of berries or other fruit, to which you’ve added sugar or another sweetener as needed. Whip your cream, including liqueur if you desire, and add a dollop of the ensemble to the berries.

Repeat, ending with an extra dollop of whipped cream and a sprig of mint or an extra berry.

Variations: As with any recipe, possibilities for variations are endless.

Mix yogurt or sour cream in with your whipped cream for a little tang, or substitute yogurt for the cream altogether. Add a layer of granola or other cereal and call it breakfast. Stir some liqueur in with the berries as well as with the cream. Sprinkle raw sugar on top of both berries and cream for a bit of crunch, or add a few toasted sesame seeds or some crumbled praline.

Whip some fruit in with the cream for additional texture and color, or pour liqueur or fruit syrup over the top just before serving. Chill in the refrigerator or serve immediately. Give it your own twist!

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Berry bounty Four things to do with blueberries Berries abound in the summertime.

In June, as we wind up the strawberry season and await blackberry season, we find ourselves right smack in the middle of blueberry season.

Blueberries, as you have probably already heard, are not only low in calories; they are extra rich in certain antioxidants called anthocyanins, which are anti-inflammatory and are known to reduce blood pressure. They purportedly reduce DNA damage, protect against cholesterol damage, help prevent heart disease, improve brain function, help improve memory, are antidiabetic, can help heal urinary infections and can aid in healing muscles after strenuous exercise. Blueberries are also high in vitamin C, vitamin K, manganese and fiber.

Blueberries are also a delight to behold. Perfect spheres of blue, sometimes bordering on purple or black, sometimes tinged with milky white, green and red in various stages of development, they take on many hues from the color spectrum. Their bushes are great garden ornamentals, with leaves that are pale green when new, deeper green in summer and scarlet in the autumn. They attract birds and butterflies (and sometimes bears!), as well as human children and hungry adults.

Do you recall the first time you tasted a blueberry? Were you a toddler reaching for your food with both hands, seeing how many you could stuff in your mouth at once? Were you visiting your grandmother, and did she bake a blueberry pie, pulling it steaming out of the oven, sandwiched between layers of buttery crust and toppling with whipped cream laced with a hint of vanilla? Did you wander out into the blueberry patch in the early morning dew, moisture dripping from each bush and berry, birds standing by as you picked your fill and stuffed your belly at the same time as your basket?

There are many things that can be done with blueberries besides the traditional pie, pancakes, muffins and jam. You can make a delectable cobbler, mixing sugar, flour, cinnamon and a touch of salt in with your berries, and topping them with a biscuit dough brushed with cream and sprinkled with more cinnamon and some turbinado sugar.

SUMMER BLUES: Whether you buy them at a local tailgate market or pick them in your own garden, blueberries are ripe this time of year in Western North Carolina and go great in everything from muffins to mostarda. Photo by SG Seguret You can pickle them in a bath of lemon juice, wine vinegar, rosemary and fennel seeds brought to a boil and steeped for whatever length achieves the bite you wish. You can make a mostarda, combining the pickled berries and Dijon mustard with a bit of pickling liquid, and after reducing it to a jamlike consistency, serve it with freshly caught trout or a savory steak.

A simpler option is a blueberry parfait, layering fresh berries with whipped cream. (Add layers of freshly baked biscuits and call it a berry fool!) Serve this on a summer’s night, with crickets and lightning bugs punctuating the soft darkness, the rush of a stream in the background and the sigh of a dog settling down for a long nap at the edge of your perception.

BLUEBERRY PARFAIT It’s that time of year! Raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, peaches,

blackberries and (almost) mulberries: Early summer fruits are hanging from the vine, from the tree, crying out to be picked and prettied. There are so many things you can do with them it is dizzying — pies, jams, pickles (yes, even fruit can be pickled!), purées, sauce. You can garnish cakes, cereals, salads, breads, ice creams with the fruit of your choice.

Or you can turn to this simplification of a classic French dessert, where “parfait” means “perfect.”

• Freshly picked blueberries (or fruit of choice) • Sugar (or sweetener of choice) • Heavy whipping cream • Liqueur (optional) Sort your fruit, discarding any bruised or unripe specimens. Wash, if the berries aren’t freshly picked. If from your own garden and carefully harvested, skip the washing process for better texture and flavor. Choose a glass (or glasses) from your cupboard and line

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Sunday, June 16, is Father’s Day, and throughout Western North Carolina, restaurants and taverns are hosting special events to help honor and celebrate dad. Here is a look at some of the many options available that day.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House will offer a special Father’s Day menu noon-8 p.m., featuring items such as surf and turf, New York strip with cognac sauce and blackened sea scallops. Prices range from $38-$73. (avl.mx/651) If your dad prefers the outdoors, head to Fairview for a Father’s Day cookout at Hickory Nut Gap Farm, noon4 p.m. The standard plate runs $25 and includes a choice of steak (flatiron, bavette or top sirloin), along with unlimited sides (baked potatoes, grilled local vegetables, smoked oyster mushrooms, green bean salad, coleslaw, corn on the cob and watermelon). For $45, guests can choose between the boneless ribeye or New York strip, unlimited sides and an alcoholic beverage. The $5 kids meals include an all-beef hot dog and choice of sides. (avl.mx/652) Meanwhile, in Hendersonville, the 1898 Waverly Inn will host a Father’s Day barbecue 5-8 p.m. Prices on the a la carte menu are $8-$12 with options that include pulled pork, baby back ribs, smoked chicken wings and smoked macaroni and cheese. The event will also feature over 30 local craft beers. (avl.mx/653) Also in Hendersonville, both Brooks Tavern and the Old Orchard Tavern will serve a Father’s Day brunch from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. (avl.mx/654 and avl.mx/655) For those looking for something less conventional and more hands-on, Ole Shakey’s will celebrate Father’s Day — and locally made jerky — with its third annual Great American Jerk Off. Previous winners Colin Lee and Cole Steinman are among those competing in this year’s event. Tickets are $10 and include samples of all competing dishes as well as a chance to vote for the best jerky. Interested competitors have until Friday, June 14, to sign up; entry is free. The winner will earn a gift card and the chance to sell their jerky at Ole Shakey’s for one year. The event also features live music performed by Jon Cox, and cocktails will be for sale at Ole Shaky’s tiki bar. (avl.mx/64y) Father’s Day is Sunday, June 16.

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DAD’S DAY: Throughout Western North Carolina, brunch, cookouts and special dinner menus will be available this Father’s Day.

Asian fusion with a French twist Metro Wines and Grapevine Distribution will team up for a wine dinner at Celine & Co. on Wednesday, June 12. The menu will offer Asianinspired plates with a French twist.

Highlights include steak tartare on crispy wonton, Korean-style bouillabaisse and chargrilled rack of lamb. Wine highlights include Amity White pinot noir, Bargemon rosé and Novelty Hill syrah. Tickets are $75, including tax and gratuity.

Dinner begins at 6:30 p.m.

Wednesday, June 12, at Céline & Co., 49 Broadway. For more information, visit avl.mx/64v.

Five for the Hive The Asheville Bee Charmer will celebrate its five-year anniversary on Friday, June 14. Complimentary

treats will be available at the downtown shop, including honey-inspired cocktails and teas, plus baked goods and appetizers made with Bee Charmer honey varietals. The event will also feature a raffle.

The celebration runs 4-7 p.m. Friday, June 14, at Asheville Bee Charmer, 38 Battery Park Ave. For more information, visit avl.mx/64w.

Boy Scout troop 40 fundraiser “There’s truly nothing like grilled barbecue,” says Collins Wyatt, member of Boy Scout troop 40. On Saturday, June 15, Wyatt and his fellow scouts will host a cookout to raise funds for their local troop. The event will feature barbecue sandwiches, coleslaw and baked beans, with drink options that include water, lemonade, sweet tea and cola. Desserts will also be served. Plates are $5 for children and $8 for adults.

“Everything will be made fresh, and the

Retail wine shop & wine bar meat will be prepared from scratch, just how it should be,” says Wyatt.

The fundraiser runs 11 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturday, June 15, at the Oak Hall United Methodist Church, 277 Oak Hill Road, Candler. For more information, visit avl.mx/65c.

The Whole Okra Author Chris Smith will host a workshop highlighting recipes from his recent book The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration. Along with cooking tips, Smith will offer advice for growing the vegetable. Students will sample pickled okra, roasted okra seed and okra seed muffins. Asheville Tea Co. will serve its okra flower tea at the event. The event is $10 to attend or $30 to attend and receive a signed copy of Smith’s book.

The workshop runs 6-7:30 p.m.

Tuesday, June 18, at Sow True Seed, 243 Haywood St. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/64z.

Asheville Beauty Academy Local restaurateurs Charlie Hodge and Morgan Hickory recently

announced plans to open their latest bar, Asheville Beauty Academy, in the space formerly occupied by Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues. According to a press release, Hodge and Hickory intend to continue some of the previous venue’s traditions, including live music and dance parties. The location’s upstairs will be available for private parties and catered dinners. The new name pays homage to a beauty school that occupied the site in the 1950s. “The goal is to create a safe and inclusive environment that welcomes locals and tourists alike,” states the press release. The venue’s projected opening is in early September.

Asheville Beauty Academy will be at 28 Broadway.

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VIA headlines a benefit for Girls Rock Asheville

FULL VOLUME: Local electronic shoegaze duo VIA will debut its short film Firefly as part of a benefit show for Girls Rock Asheville. The rock ’n’ roll summer camp for for girls, trans and nonbinary youths teaches musical instruments and delves into topics such as racial and gender equity, conflict resolution and teamwork. VIA photo courtesy of the band; Girls Rock photo by Kristin Shelly

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com “Creativity is so important for all of us,” says local musician and vocalist Karen Austin, who performs in electronic shoegaze duo VIA with her partner, Steven Gaona. “The feeling of not being able to get your heart out there because you don’t have the tools necessary to articulate it is the worst feeling in the world.”

Austin, who grew up in what she describes as “an Amish-type commune” in British Columbia, was sneaking a listen to the radio when she heard U2’s “Where the Streets Have No Name.” “I was like, ‘What is this sound? Whatever it is, I have to figure out how to go make sounds like that,’” she says. The search took her first to Edmonton in Alberta, Canada; and later to Lubbock, Texas, for a program that included audio engineering.

“I started pursuing what made me come alive,” she says. On Saturday, June 15, VIA will headline a concert to benefit Girls Rock Asheville with fellow bands Miss Jean and The Love Cats and Kathryn O’Shea. Two more acts, 34

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Moonlight Street Folk and Rooster, are made up of Girls Rock volunteers who will be working at this year’s camp.

The afternoon show at The Grey Eagle also includes the debut screening of VIA’s short film Firefly. Starring Asheville-born, Atlanta-based actor Katie Cassenti, Firefly is a video for the first of seven songs from the band’s just-released album, Vessels of Sound, Vol. 2, Morse. Austin met Cassenti at a show at The Mothlight a few years ago, and the two decided to collaborate. “Our sound is very soundtracktype material,” Austin explains. For the project, she also tapped her choreographer niece Olivia Joy Harris with the idea to “pull all these powerful people together and do something magical.”

Eventually, each of the album’s tracks will be represented by a video that will form a full-length film.

Firefly was filmed in Atlanta in the home of Austin’s late grandfather, J. Paul Austin, who was the CEO of CocaCola and used his influence to help the civil rights movement. It’s perhaps in part from her grandfather that Austin inherited her own belief “in creating opportunity and giving back to the community.” With that mission

in mind, VIA plans to film future videos in Asheville with local talent and remains dedicated to supporting Girls Rock Asheville.

The Girls Rock Camp Alliance “is an international membership network of youth-centered arts and social justice organizations,” according to its website. The organization launched in Portland, Ore., in 2001, and the first Asheville camp was held in 2014. This year’s event — for girls, trans and nonbinary youths, ages 8-14 — takes place Monday-Friday, June 17-21. The camp for 2019 is already full, but there are many opportunities for adult volunteers (no musical skill is necessary; email girlsrockasheville@gmail.com for info). Supporters are also invited to both the June 15 benefit show and the Saturday, June 22, showcase (where campers perform the music they’ve worked on during their week at camp) at The Salvage Station.

Girls Rock provides instruments and lessons (no prior experience is required) as well as workshops and discussions on self-confidence, teamwork,

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conflict resolution and more. Plus, there’s racial equity and gender justice training for all volunteers. “We’re teaching so much more than a musical instrument,” says Lockie Hunter, who serves on the local organization’s executive board. “I always say it’s a social justice camp that has a musical element.”

This year, 40 campers will attend Girls Rock Asheville. Priority is given to those from marginalized groups who are unlikely to have another opportunity to attend a summer camp. The long waitlist

includes enough names to fill a second weeklong session — one of the organization’s future goals. About 80% of campers receive full or partial scholarships, and funds raised go toward that financial aid as well as operating expenses.

The June 15 benefit show will include a silent auction with items donated by UNC Asheville’s STEAM Studio and recording time at Echo Mountain. The camp itself also receives community support, such as food from local restaurants (breakfast and lunch are served

to campers and volunteers) as well as musical instruments and gear.

Most popular, says Hunter, are keyboards, guitars, basses, drum kits, ukuleles, and “we love our synths.”

She adds, “If you have an instrument to donate, even if it’s not in good shape, we have somebody on staff who repairs them for us.”

There’s a hope, too, for a weekend version of Girls Rock geared toward adult, femme-identifying people who want the empowering experience of learning or improving on an instrument and performing live. But even the volunteers, says Hunter, “say it’s one of the best weeks of the entire year. We have so many bands that have come out of musicians who’ve met at Girls Rock … and lasting friendships form, year after year.”

It was such a chance meetingturned-bond that lend to VIA’s involvement in Girls Rock. Austin met musician and bartender Kristin Sears, aka Wifey, while playing a show at The Odditorium, and Wifey invited the band to play during one of the camp’s lunchtime shows. Austin immediately resonated with Girls Rock. “It was quite a culture shock to come from my upbringing and figure out how the world works, but then also learn something [I was] passionate about,” she says. “It’s always nice when there are nice people in your path who believe in you and say, ‘You can do it.’” X

WHAT Girls Rock Asheville benefit featuring VIA with Miss Jean and The Love Cats, Kathryn O’Shea, Moonlight Street Folk, Rooster WHERE The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Saturday, June 15, 1-4 p.m. $5 __________________________ WHAT Girls Rock Asheville showcase girlsrockasheville.org WHERE Salvage Station 468 Riverside Drive WHEN Saturday, June 22, 2 p.m.

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FEED THE NEED “Everyone can relate to hunger of some kind,” says Heather Maloy, founder, artistic director and choreographer of Asheville’s professional contemporary ballet company, Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance. “Hunger for love, acceptance, perhaps even power.”

With that concept in mind, Maloy aims to hold up a mirror to audiences.

“I like to take things from people’s daily lives that they can relate to and compare it to ideas that may be more abstract,” she says. Maloy hopes her work will spark the question, “If hunger for nonessentials can impact my life, what would it be like to hunger for food, water or shelter?”

Terpsicorps’ Hunger returns to the stage Thursday-Saturday, June 20-22, at Diana Wortham Theater for the company’s 17th season. Its message is even more relevant today than when the ballet premiered in Asheville five years ago.

Maloy first staged Hunger in 2014 in response to statistics she read in a local article that revealed higher food insecurity rates in Western North Carolina than the U.S. national average. Today, she says, things are worse, with MANNA FoodBank distributing 18.2 million pounds of food in 2018, up from 15 million pounds in 2014. This inspired her to restage Hunger and to partner with MANNA. “We did a tour of [the food bank], and it’s twice the size it used to be,” Maloy says. Representatives of that organization told her that the main difference they had seen over the last few years “is a large portion of people coming in are working two jobs, and they still can’t afford enough food to feed their families.”

The Terpsicorps production will be performed as a series of vignettes using various styles of music. Some pieces, such as “Hunger to Kill,” the narrative of a serial killer, may shock. Others, such as “Hunger for More,” where the concept of greed is explored using bouncing rubber balls, may delight. “Hunger for Sustenance” appears twice in the program, repeating the same music and even some dance steps. The first version portrays anger and aggression while the second explores exhaustion, complacency and how hunger for sustenance can change a person over time. The final vignette, “Hunger to Make a Difference,” depicts community members coming together to solve a problem, aiming to leave audiences with

Terpsicorps revists a poignant topic with ‘Hunger’ contemporary dance,” she explains.

“What’s unusual about us is it’s a bit rare for a company to do bold political statements simply because of the traditional nature of ballet.”

When Maloy started the company 16 years ago, she says theatrical-style ballet was scarce. “You see it more now,” she says, “especially in big cities, but I think it’s still unique for ballet to focus on storytelling to the degree that I do.”

Eight professional dancers and seven apprentices make up the 2019 company, coming from all over the U.S. Past years have brought in dancers from Spain and Canada. “A unique kind of dancer is attracted to Terpsicorps,” says Maloy. “Our work is technically challenging but also theatrically demanding.”

In the beginning, dancers were acquired mainly by word-of-mouth, using Maloy’s personal connections.

“Now the word gets out farther and farther every year,” Maloy says. “The broad range of dancers that now know about and are attracted to Terpsicorps is really exciting.” X

WHAT Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance presents Hunger

HUNGRY HEART: Terpsicorps Theater of Dance brings back Hunger, a ballet told through a series of vignettes exploring different human hungers. The message of the show, onstage June 20-22 at Diana Wortham Theatre, remains relevant. Photo by Zaire Kacz hope and inspiration. “Dance is a useful tool to get people to feel something on a visceral level that’s different than hearing words or statistics,” Maloy says.

Also on the roster is the world premiere of “AYT? (Are you there?)” choreographed by Maloy, a humorous commentary on how people communicate and their attachments to their phones.

Dancers will move with cellphones in hand, save one, who can’t find her device.

The evening also includes “Extension,” created by Salvatore Aiello, depicting the life of a dancer. This is a tribute performance to the late Mel Tomlinson, an African American ballet dancer who performed with the New York City Ballet and Alvin Ailey, among others. Maloy befriended Tomlinson when she was a young artist at the North Carolina Dance Theatre, which is where Tomlinson performed “Extension.”

“I wanted to re-create the piece in honor of his memory,” Maloy says. “I did a nationwide search to find the right dancer to embody Tomlinson.” Keith Justin Reeves of the Atlanta Ballet was ultimately selected.

Originally, Maloy’s goal was to make Terpsicorps a year-round company. So far, that hasn’t happened. Instead, it functions as a summer company, mainly recruiting dancers on break from their full-time residencies. However, the company’s growth continues. In 2015, The Academy of Terpsicorps dance school was added, and, as of this year, the professional company has a dual residency in Winston-Salem.

Maloy describes Terpsicorps as a contemporary ballet company. “It’s a hard term to define. These days it can mean a thousand different things, but all my dancers are trained in ballet and

WHERE Diana Wortham Theatre 18 Biltmore Ave. dwtheatre.com WHEN Thursday-Saturday, June 20-22, at 8 p.m. $20-$40

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HELLO, STRANGER RiddleFest commemorates Burnsville musician and folklorist Lesley Riddle

AN OVERLOOKED SONG COLLECTOR: Burnsville-born African American musician and folklorist Lesley Riddle was an important song collector in early country music. He also exerted a significant influence on the music of the Carter Family. This year’s RiddleFest features headliner Dom Flemons, pictured, and celebrates the life and music of this pioneering figure.

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the life, work and music of this 20th century musical pioneer. Headlined by multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter Dom Flemons, it takes place in Burnsville on Saturday, June 22.

As Ellen Denker, vice chair of Traditional Voices Group (the orga-

nization behind RiddleFest) explains, Riddle — who was born in Burnsville in 1905 and died in Asheville in 1979 — “played a significant role in the early development of today’s country music through his relationship with A.P., Sara and Maybelle Carter.” She says that Maybelle learned her distinctive guitar picking style from Riddle and that the repertoire of the Carter Family “owes much to Riddle’s song gathering in the southern Appalachian Mountains.”

Song gathering played an important part in chronicling and preserving musical folklore. In the 19th century, Francis James Child researched and collected a wealth of English and Scottish ballads; in the 20th century, ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax made use of technology to catalog folk music via field recordings. In his own way, Riddle was a kindred spirit to both Child and Lomax.

Flemons, a North Carolina Music Hall of Fame inductee, is a modernday exponent of that tradition of cultural preservation. Known as “The American Songster,” the co-founder and former member of the Carolina Chocolate Drops has his own idea as to why Riddle isn’t better known.

He points out that even the folkloric importance of the Carter Family wasn’t recognized until the folk music revival of the 1960s. “The Carter Family were recording commercial records being sold not as folkloric music, but as popular music,” he says. So by association, Riddle’s contribution went mostly unnoticed as well.

Interestingly, Flemons doesn’t think that Riddle being an African American in the rural U.S. during the early to middle 20th century worked against him gaining notability. Flemons says that a black man playing country music in the 1920s wasn’t “as unique as we would necessarily think today.”

He notes that the time that Riddle and A.P. Carter spent traveling by car didn’t feature too many societal obstacles. “Lesley [had] a few funny stories about being put up in housing conditions that were less than ideal,” Flemons says. “But that was obviously something the men committed to as they set off on their journey.”

Flemons also points to “a Southern tradition of familiarity that at times had been known to transcend racial barriers.” He says that commonality of religious or economic backgrounds could sometimes overcome racial differences and points out another potentially mitigating factor. “Lesley had a physical handicap [a leg amputated at the knee] that might have allowed him to move more freely,” Flemons says.

“There was a culture of handicapped African Americans having some lee-

way to busk and make their living in alternate ways.”

Riddle’s work was first brought to Flemons’ attention nearly 20 years ago.

Fellow folk musician and folklorist Mike Seeger suggested that he listen to Step by Step, an album Seeger compiled from a decade-long series of Riddle recordings. Flemons was struck by the similarity between Riddle’s playing style and that of Maybelle Carter. After listening to the album, he was hooked.

“What makes Lesley’s music so interesting is that it perfectly straddles the lines between North Carolina Piedmont blues and country music,” Flemons says. “While I had expected to hear an exact replica of the ’Carter Scratch,’ I was surprised to find that Lesley’s playing was deeply rooted in the North Carolina blues guitar tradition.”

Flemons is the first African American artist to headline RiddleFest, though several other musicians of color have been featured in the past. Denker mentions Jim Arrendell, members of the Griffith Chapel Singers and Appalachian State University’s Gospel Choir under the direction of Tony McNeill as prominent RiddleFest performers in recent years.

Describing it as “a combination of country music, blues, folk and early ragtime,” Flemons says that his set at the 2019 RiddleFest will be “an overview of American roots music that reflects the music Lesley Riddle represents.”

Denker says that Traditional Voices Group invited Flemons to recognize his commitment to old-time music.

Flemons “gathers old-time musical expressions and gives them a fresh voice,” she says.

Flemons believes that Riddle’s physical presence on those trips with A.P. Carter makes him an important figure in country music. “While A.P. collected the songs and reworked them to make them unique compositions,” he says, “Lesley’s role as a ’human jukebox’ — recording the melodies in his mind and passing them on to the Carters again — makes him as important of a country music pioneer as the Carters themselves.” X

WHAT RiddleFest featuring Dom Flemons WHERE Burnsville Town Center 6 S. Main St. Burnsville burnsvilletowncenter.com WHEN Saturday, June 22, at 7 p.m. $20

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by Kim Ruehl

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SOUNDTRACK TO A LUCID DREAM Last year, Corey Parlamento recorded the EP Creation. Stagnation. at Make Noise studio with multiinstrumentalist and engineer Mike Johnson. Once that project was completed, the pair were so inspired by the ease with which they worked together that they decided to keep going.

They launched almost immediately into another recording effort that used Johnson’s studio as the starting point for a piece of music rather than the place the artist goes after everything is well-rehearsed and perfectly polished.

Though Parlamento and Johnson emerged from those sessions unsure as to whether they would ever even release the recording, they eventually gave it a title, CRO$$, and will release it at midnight Saturday, June 15, at Grail Moviehouse.

Parlamento is perhaps best known to Western North Carolina audiences as Livingdog, a singer-songwriter who distinguished himself by straddling the chasm between metal and folk, experimenting with the space between. Johnson is a Berkleetrained artist, born and raised in Connecticut, who landed in Asheville with his band, Midnight Sky, and became entrenched in the local scene as both musician and engineer.

SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: To accompany the launch of the collaborative album CRO$$, Corey Parlamento (right, with Mike Johnson), made a film. “I started filming these short clips that I would splice together and write like a minute [of] something on guitar or synthesizer,” he says of his foray into filmmaking. Photo by Ariana Dixon The collaboration, CRO$$, is a collection of sleepy, dreamy, magical soundscapes that center on guitar and synthesizer, among many other instruments.

And though the album crescendos to a dramatic apex, it is the aural equivalent of background music in a purgatorial massage parlor, staffed equally by angels and demons.

Parlamento and Johnson wouldn’t be surprised if people dozed off during

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the release party, and they relish the opportunity to provide the space for that level of relaxation and enjoyment.

“It would be really nice,” Parlamento says, “if somebody fell asleep at the show. I feel like that would be more appropriate to me than somebody talking during the show.”

After all, Johnson says, recording the album felt to him “like we were in a lucid dream. You have all your variables, you realize you’re dreaming, and then you start playing with the reality that’s there.”

The songs are pure musical expression, inspired by ideas the artists had when they were leafing through old photographs. They would stop on a photo that moved both of them and discuss what emotions or colors came to mind from the photo. Then they would take up their instruments and improvise to capture that mood.

“We would set up these little areas that had some limitations for ourselves,” Parlamento explains, “and then be like, ‘Let’s just start, let’s go.’ Then we’d do it and oftentimes we’d be 20 minutes into a song and be like, ‘Whoa, that was really cool.’ There were moments of being really loose, and then we’d have sessions where we’d be like, ‘All right, we have to figure it out.’ Even going back in the mixing process, we [would decide], ‘We need to cut this down just a little bit.’”

The result occasionally feels directionless, but in a way that calls the listener to explore alongside the artists, much like the emotions that are evoked

Livingdog and Mike Johnson release ‘CRO$$’

by photography. But it was because of the music’s relationship with imagery that Parlamento started thinking about what he might be able to do, visually, in order to give an audience more of an experience during a release show.

The decision to hold a release party at the Grail came from a filming project Parlamento started working on several months after he and Johnson had wrapped recording.

“I had been trying to figure out ways to utilize social media better — Instagram specifically,” he says.

“I don’t like posting videos of myself talking. I don’t like posting myself playing. So what could I do? I started filming these short clips that I would splice together and write like a minute [of] something on guitar or synthesizer and post that.

“We were trying to think of different venues [where] we could do a show and I thought, ‘Man, I want to go somewhere where people want to come listen and not just hang out.’ We wanted it to be a quiet event. I [said,] ‘What about the Grail Moviehouse?’

I emailed them, and they got back to us, and they were really into it. I told them I have this movie, and they were like, ‘Great!’ But I didn’t really have the movie, so I [figured], ‘All right, now I’ve got to do this thing.’”

Parlamento made the film much the same way he made the music: by starting at the end and working his way back to the beginning. There aren’t many avenues in life where one is afforded the opportunity for that level of exploration and experimentation, but if ever there were reliable guides through the backways and reverse psychologies of musical expression, Parlamento and Johnson are two of them. X

WHAT CRO$$ film and live score with Corey Parlamento and Mike Johnson WHERE Grail Moviehouse 45 S. French Broad Ave. grailmoviehouse.com WHEN Saturday, June 15, midnight. $8

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Dirty Logic Steely Dan’s music is notoriously challenging to perform live, but the high bar of difficulty didn’t deter vocalist Jesse Barry from pitching drummer Patrick Armitage and saxophonist Jonathan Cole on organizing a tribute band. The idea quickly caught on and eventually looped in 10 additional Asheville-based musicians for the formation of Dirty Logic, which boasts three vocalists, four horns and a full rhythm section. Incorporating Steely Dan’s classic live arrangements with improvisation and reworkings, the band presents creative takes on tracks from Aja, Gaucho, The Royal Scam, Pretzel Logic, Can’t Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstasy, Katy Lied and the FM soundtrack. With a pair of sold-out Asheville Music Hall shows already on its resumé, the gifted ensemble takes to the Ambrose West stage on Friday, June 14, at 8 p.m. $18 advance/$20 day of show. ambrosewest.com. Photo courtesy of the band

Inconceivable Music Fest Whether or not Wallace Shawn will attend in full character as Vizzini from The Princess Bride, Hendersonville’s Sanctuary Brewing Co. will be the site of the inaugural Inconceivable Music Fest on Saturday, June 15. Hosted by local duo The Gathering Dark, the event unites artists, food and beer in the name of raising funds for Sweet Bear Rescue Farm, the nonprofit animal sanctuary founded by brewery owners Lisa McDonald and Joe Dinan. Among the many acts on the two stages, noon-midnight, will be Peggy Ratusz, Eric Congdon, Letters to Abigail, Further to Fly and Ladypop, plus jam sessions and new collaborations involving notable area artists. $15 advance/$20 day of festival/$10 designated drivers and kids. Children younger than 12 get in free. inconceivablefest.brownpapertickets.com. Photo of Further To Fly courtesy of the band

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Maggie and Brian Smith In his past lives, Brian Smith was a competitive bicycle racer and a songwriter and frontman for the bands Beat Angels and Gentlemen Afterdark. He also overcame addictions to crystal meth and alcohol before turning to writing. Based on stories published in Tucson Weekly, Smith’s Tucson Salvage: Tales and Recollections from La Frontera examines the lives of people living on the margins of society, struggling to survive below the poverty line. In conjunction with the collection, Smith worked on a half-hour documentary by the same name with his wife, Maggie “Not the British Actress” Smith, who directed the film. Brian will read from his book, Maggie will screen her work and the couple will participate in a Q&A at Malaprop’s on Thursday, June 13, at 7 p.m. Free to attend. malaprops.com. Photo by Bob Chasen

Adi the Monk Asheville-based guitarist/producer Adi the Monk forged a friendship with Bobby Sax in 2016 when the saxophonist found him playing on Eagle Street and proposed a collaboration. Three years later, Adi’s third solo album, Soul of the City Streets, makes good on that pitch and features the two artists working together on each of its eight jazz/blues tracks. A martial arts instructor and former Vaishnava monk who lived in temples in India and Nepal, Adi celebrates the release of the album and the premiere of a music video for the title track on Saturday, June 15, 6-8 p.m., at The BLOCK off Biltmore. “Bobby will be playing several songs from the new album with me — and hopefully sharing one of his originals, too,” Adi says. “I’m greatly honored to have him on the album.” Free to attend. theblockoffbiltmore.com.

Photo by Mark Low of LowLight Media

A & E CALENDAR ART ART IN BLOOM GALA PREVIEW PARTY • TH (6/13), 6pm Proceeds from Art in Bloom Gala Preview Party benefit Black Mountain Center for the Arts. $50.

Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain FIGURE DRAWING SALON • FRIDAYS, 6-9PM Open figure drawing sessions with live model.

Basic art supplies provided or bring your own, dry media only. $15.

Held at The Colourfield, 54 Ravenscroft Drive FRESH AIR AND PAINT OUTING • WE (6/12), 9:30am - Meet at shop to say hello and find painting partners, then regroup at noon to share your work.

Bring lunch and your own art supplies, easel and chair. Free. Held at Junaluska Gifts and

Grounds, N Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N. Main St., Waynesville, 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • WE (6/12), 10am-noon - Selling your art work on social media. Free.

• SA (6/15), 10am-noon - Mixed media demonstration with Cherokee artist, Jody Lipscomb.

1-3pm - Kathi Littlejohn, storyteller. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm - Weekly Open Studio art classes resume with Betina Morgan. $20.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS POP-UP SHOP JUNE 20 (PD.) Candler Caboose Third Thursdays feature live music, food/drink samples, food truck, and artists creating live.

Goods and art for sale plus pop-up vintage shop.

5:30 start.

FRONT STREET ARTS AND CRAFTS SHOW • SA (6/15), 10am-4pm - More than 40 artists and live music, family entertainment and food.

Free to attend. Held in downtown Dillsboro.

ART & ARCHITECTURE TOUR • SA (6/15), 9-10:30am - Art and architecture tour of downtown Hendersonville. Free.

Held at Woodlands Gallery, 419 N. Main St., Hendersonville OPEN STUDIO ART TOUR • SA (6/15), 11am-4pm - Open studio art tour at Grovewood Village.

Free to attend. Held at Grovewood Gallery, 111 Grovewood Road SUMMER HA! • TH (6/20), 5-8pm - Third Thursday arts and crafts stroll. Free to attend.

Held at Ha! Shop, 62 S. Main St., Studio 3, Marshall

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR LOGO CONTEST • Through (8/1) - Submissions accepted for The Studio Tour Logo Contest. Information: haywoodarts.org/ logo-contest/. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville

DANCE COUNTRY DANCE W/ TWO-STEP DANCE LESSON (PD.) COUNTRY DANCE w/ TWO-STEP Dance Lesson – Friday, June 14, 7-10:30pm. Asheville’s Premier Country Dance at Asheville Ballroom, 291 Sweeten Creek Road.

Two-step lesson: 7 to 8pm. Dance: 8 to 10:30.

Dance to great country, modern music: Waltz, East & West Coast Swing, Cha-Cha, Two-Step, Nightclub-two, TripleTwo, Hustle, Polka and

Produced by Traditional Voices Group

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OLD SONGS, FRESH VOICES SEMINAR

Dom Flemons and Kris Truelsen talk about old time music as a source for their songwriting and performance styles.

Dom Flemons, The American Songster | Grammy winner & cofounder Carolina Chocolate Drops | Bill & the Belles | Griffith Chapel Singers

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Viennese Waltz. Free lesson, bottled water, raffle ticket & desert. $14 at door, online discount: $12 at www.DanceForLife.net, 828-333-0715 'HUNGER' • TH (6/20) through SA (6/22), 8pm - Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance presents Hunger. $20-$40. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. HARVEST HOUSE 205 Kenilworth Road, 828-350-2051 • WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm - Intermediate/ advanced contemporary line dancing. $5.

• TUESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - International folk dancing, dances from around the world. No partner needed. Info: 828-645-1543. Free.

LINE DANCE FOR BEGINNERS • WEDNESDAYS, noon Line dance for beginners, contemporary styling. No experience necessary. $5. Held at Montford Recreation Center, 34 Pearson Drive OLD FARMERS BALL CONTRA DANCE • THURSDAYS, 7:30-11pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $8/$7 members/$1 Warren Wilson Community. Held in Bryson Gym at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa STEPHENS LEE RECREATION CENTER 30 George Washington Carver Ave. • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - Improver contemporary line dancing. $5.

• THURSDAYS, 1:30-2:30pm - Beginner contemporary line dancing. $5.

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm. www.ashevillemeditation. com, info@ashevillemeditation. com.

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by Deborah Robertson WHAT ABOUT DAD? (PD.) Honor and treat your DAD, HUSBAND, GRANDDAD!! You come to. It’s Father’s Day Eve, June 15th. Music, comedy and family fun. Asheville High School Auditorium, 7pm. Ashevillebarbershop. com 24TH ANNUAL BLUFF MOUNTAIN FESTIVAL • SA (6/15), 10am-6pm - Bluegrass and old-time music, an artists’ market and food for the preservation of Bluff Mountain.

Free. Held at Hot Springs Spa & Resort, 315 Bridge St., Hot Springs ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. ATLANTA GAY MEN’S CHORUS • SA (6/15), 3:30pm - The Atlanta Gay Men’s Chorus presents their Stonewall Concert. Free. Held at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville BLISS HIPPY • SU (6/16), 3pm - Bliss Hippy, Richard and Maureen Hall, folk. $10.

Held at Providence Baptist Church, 1201 Oakland St., Hendersonville BREVARD COLLEGE 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard, 828-883-8292, brevard.edu • TH (6/13), 7:30pm - Jazz of faculty and students. $25.

• TH (6/20), 7:30-9:30pm - Janiec Opera Company ensemble pieces. $35-$60.

CONCERTS ON THE CREEK • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm Concerts on the Creek series Memorial Day through Labor Day. For lineup: mountainlovers. com. Free. Held at Bridge Park Pavilion, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva ELAINE SILVER & RICHARD SHULMAN • FR (6/14), 6:30-8:30pm - Elaine Silver and Richard Shulman combine their musical styles for this concert. $20. Held at The Creative Thought Center, 449-D Pigeon St., Waynesville

HAYWOOD COMMUNITY BAND • SU (6/16), 6:30pm Haywood Community Band concert. Free. Held at Maggie Valley Pavilion, Soco Road, Maggie Valley ISIS LAWN SERIES • WEDNESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Concert on the lawn including bluegrass, blues and jazz. Free to attend.

Held at Isis Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road MARTIN VEE ENSEMBLE • SA (6/15), 3-4pm Friends of the Library Concert: Martin Vee Ensemble of classical jazz and pop. Free. Held at Waynesville Library, 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville MONDAY NIGHT LIVE CONCERT SERIES • MO (6/17), 7-9pm Outdoor concert series featuring Mojo Brothers Blues Band, blues. Free to attend/Bring a chair. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville MUSIC ON MAIN • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Music on Main concert series.

Information: avl.mx/648.

Free. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville OLE TYME PICKERS FRIDAY BLUEGRASS • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm - Ole Tyme Pickers, bluegrass concert. Free.

Held at Big Willow Community Building, Willow Road, Hendersonville OMS CONCERT SERIES • TH (6/13), 7:30-9pm - OMS Concert Series: Dead in Heaven and Julian Sikes, concert. $5-$25.

Held at OM Sanctuary, 87 Richmond Hill Drive RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES • TH (6/20), 5:30-9:30pm - Big Daddy Love and The Travers Brothership, outdoor concert. Free to attend. Held at South Main Street, 200 South Main St., Hendersonville SUMMER CONCERT SERIES • FR (6/14), 7:30-8:45pm Kyshona, outdoor concert.

Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard

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TOP OF THE GRADE CONCERTS • FR (6/14), 7-9pm - Top of the Grade concert series.

Information: avl.mx/65a.

Free. Held on the Ella Grace Mintz Stage. Held at McCreery Park, Smith Drive, Saluda UKE JAM • WE (6/19) & (6/26), 3:30pm - Ukulele jam, all levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD 28TH ANNUAL HARD TIMES STORY CONTEST • Until (6/30) - Write about a difficult experience in your life, how you overcame this obstacle and how you were changed by it. Winning stories will be chosen for originality and creative writing style. Prizes.

Registration: twwoa.org. $25/submission.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (6/12), 4pm - Creative writing exercises and a supportive environment, share a 300-500 word piece of your writing. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TU (6/18), 2pm - Book Club: A Voyage Long and Strange by Tony Horowitz.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (6/18), 7pm - Mystery Book Club: The Trust, by Ronald Balson. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (6/19), 3pm - Afternoon Book Group: Read a book with the word "color" in the title. Free.

Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (6/19), 3pm - History Book Club: Mischling by Affinity Konar. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TH (6/20), 2:30pm - Friends of the South Buncombe Library Book Club: Elmet by Fiona Mosley. Free. Held at Skyland/

South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road CONNIE REGAN-BLAKE STORYTELLING • TH (6/13), 6-7pm Storytelling with Connie Regan-Blake. Free. Held at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115, firestorm.coop • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 2:30pm - Wild Words writing group. Free to attend.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Womxn's Empowerment Bookclub.

Free to attend.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library. hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild.

Free.

LIN STEPP AUTHOR EVENT • SA (6/15), noon-2pm - Dr. Lin Stepp presents her books, Claire at Edisto and The Interlude. Free to attend. Held at Barnes and Noble Booksellers Asheville Mall, 3 S. Tunnel Road MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • WE (6/12), 6pm - Chris Smith presents his book, The Whole Okra: A Seed to Stem Celebration. Free to attend.

• TH (6/13), 7pm - Brian and Maggie Smith present their book, Tucson Salvage: Tales and Recollections from La Frontera.

Free to attend.

• MNO (6/17), 6pm Janet Lee presents her graphic novel, Sea Sirens, in conversation with Hope Larson. Free to attend.

• TU (6/18), 6pm - Liza Wieland presents her book, Paris, 7 A.M. Free to attend.

• WE (6/19), 6pm - Laura Wright presents her book, Through a Vegan Studies Lens, with Kathryn Kirkpatrick. Free to attend.

• TH (6/20), 6pm - Andrew Lawler presents his book, The Secret Token, in

conversation with Denise Kiernan. Free to attend.

• TH (6/20), 6pm - Notorious History Book Club is reading Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England by Alison Weir.

Free to attend.

MICHAEL HAVELIN AUTHOR EVENT • SA (6/15), 3pm - Michael Havelin presents his book, Ben Bones & the Uncivil War. Free to attend. Held at City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson Street, Sylva NANCY WERKING POLING AUTHOR EVENT • SA (6/125), 3pm - Nancy Werking Poling presents her new novel, While Earth Still Speaks. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain SUMMER READING SERIES • TH (6/13), 4-6pm Reading Women's Lives: Conversations from Fiction, presentation by Dr. Peg Downes about Nervous Conditions by Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Free. Held at Waynesville Library, 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville TERRY ROBERTS AUTHOR EVENT • WE (6/19), 4pm - Terry Roberts presents his book, A Short Time to Stay Here, on German POWs held at Hot Springs Resort. Free. Held at Ebbs Chapel Performing Arts Center, 271 Laurel Valley Road, Mars Hill WRITERS AT WOLFE • TH (6/13), 5:30-7pm Writers at Wolfe: Heather Bell Adams presents her book, Maranatha Road.

Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St.

THEATER 'BRIGHT STAR' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/30) until (6/16) - Bright Star, bluegrass musical. Thurs.Sat.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $34 premium/$29 standard/$18 students & children. Held at Owens Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill

'HANDS ON A HARDBODY' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/30) - Hands on a Hardbody, musical. Fri.-Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 2:30pm, additional Thursdays, (6/20) & (6/27), 7:30pm. $26. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. 'HENRY IV, PART 1' • FRIDAY through SUNDAY until (6/22), 7:30pm - Montford Park Players presents Henry IV, Part 1, Shakespeare history play. Free to attend.

Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. 'HOW TO BE A HUMAN, OR AT LEAST TRY' • WEDNESDAY through SUNDAY until (6/23) How to be a Human, or at least Try: A Collection of Short Plays and Monologues by Bekah Brunstetter. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 2pm. $20/$10 students. Held at NC Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane 'IN THE ASSASSINS' GARDEN' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/14) until (7/4) - A look at the assassination of President William McKinley. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $18/$10 students. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. 'RULES AND HOW TO BREAK THEM' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (6/20) until (6/29), 7:30pm - Rules and How To Break Them, sketch comedy presented

by The Sublime Theater. $15. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. 'SOUTH PACIFIC' • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/7) until (7/6) - South Pacific, Broadway musical. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $25 and up. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock 'THE BALLAD OF ROMEO AND JULIET' • FR (6/14) & SA (6/15), 6:30pm - The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, performed by The American Myth Center. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester

'TWELFTH NIGHT' • THURSDAY through SATURDAY until (6/15), 3pm & 7:30pm - Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night.

Tickets: avl.mx/645. $20/$5 students. Held at Kenilworth Center, 4 Chiles Ave. BUNCOMBE CHAUTAUQUA HISTORY ALIVE FESTIVAL greenvillechautauqua. org/June-Festival/ buncombe_chautauqua/ • MO (6/17), 7pm Buncombe Chautauqua History Alive Program: "Alexander Hamilton," portrayed by Ian Rose.

Opening music by Don Pedi. $7. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road • TU (6/18), 7pm Buncombe Chautauqua History Alive Program: "Malcolm X," portrayed

by Darrick Johnson. Opening music by Zoe & Cloyd. $7. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road • WE (6/19), 7pm Buncombe Chautauqua History Alive Program: "Andrew Jackson," portrayed by Larry Bounds. Opening music

by The Magills. $7. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road • TH (6/20), 7pm Buncombe Chautauqua History Alive Program: "Jackie Kennedy," portrayed by Leslie Goddard. Opening music by Laura Boosinger. $7. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road DISNEY'S ‘NEWSIES’ • FR (6/14) & SA (6/15), 7pm - Newsies, musical presented by Asheville Performing Arts Academy. $25/12 children. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. TRANSYLVANIA CHAUTAUQUA ALEXANDER HAMILTON • SA (6/15), 7pm Chautauqua History Alive Program: "Alexander Hamilton," portrayed by Ian Rose. Opening music

by Don Pedi. Information: HistoryComesAlive.org.

Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard

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SUNSHINE DAYS: Pysch-pop band The Babe Rainbow mixes beachy folk with a vintage aesthetic. The group formed in the coastal town of Rainbow Bay, Australia, and its sophomore effort boasts production credits from Aussie neighbor Eric Moore (King Gizzard and The Lizard Wizard). In 2017, the musicians caught the attention of producer Danger Mouse, signing to his 30th Century Records. June kicks off the U.S. leg of their Earth Is An Egg, Don’t Frack It tour. Quebecois indie-pop artist Munya opens their Grey Eagle appearance on Tuesday, June 18, 8 p.m. $14 advance/$16 day of show. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Sofia Wolfson

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Hotline Dance Party w/ DJ Steadylove, 9:00PM MONTFORD RECREATION CENTER Line Dance for Beginners (contemporary styling, no experience necessary), 12:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam, 7:00PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM

CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Kevin Williams, 5:00PM The Music of Frank Zappa w/ Ugly Radio Rebellion feat. Ike Willis, 8:00PM

COFFEE UNDERGROUND Tribute to Wes Montgomery feat. Matt Dingledine, 8:00PM

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

CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots & Pastel Panties, 10:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT House and Land Album Release w/ The Ballad of Shirley Collins, 7:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

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

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Kind, Clean Gentlemen, 7:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays at Sly Grog! Electronic collaboration, 9:00PM SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB Roots and Dore, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Beyond My Dreams: The African-American Experience in Ballet, 6:00PM Wednesday Night Blues Jam w/ Ruby Mayfield, Jeff Rudolph, Jim Simmons, & Brad Curtioff, 9:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 7:00PM

THURSDAY, JUNE 13 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Canned Heat Vinyl Night, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Live Music, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM BREVARD COLLEGE Jazz @ Brevard, 7:30PM BYWATER Open Electric Country Jam hosted by John Duncan, 7:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Prof Fuzz 63, Strange Lays & Invasion Boys, 8:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Chris Titchner, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series with Moonlight Street Folk, 6:00PM Noah Wall & Tommy Norris of The Barefoot Movement feat. Ed Snodderly, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM MG ROAD Karaoke w/ DJ Bridal Parti Burcardi, 9:00PM OM SANCTUARY OMS Concert Series: Dead in Heaven & Julian Sikes w/ Musical Guests, 7:30PM ODDITORIUM Joy Bang, The Minnies, Cora Hill (punk), 9:00PM

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VIA “FIREFLY” SHORT FILM PREMIERE + GIRLS ROCK ASHEVILLE BENEFIT – 1PM

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W/ MISS JEAN & THE LOVE CATS, KATHRYN O’SHEA, + MORE!

SUPERVILLAIN + FOGMAN

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W/ THE ECCENTRICS

ROCK N ROLL PLAYHOUSE PRESENTS:

GRATEFUL DEAD FOR KIDS – 12PM

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 3PM

SANDI GRECCO AN EVENING WITH

BILL KIRCHEN AND REDD VOLKAERT FREE PATIO SHOW AT 5PM

SHANE PARISH THE BABE RAINBOW W/ MUNYA

Asheville’s longest running live music venue • 185 Clingman Ave TICKETS AVAILABLE AT HARVEST RECORDS & THEGREYEAGLE.COM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo (rock, pop, jazz, blues), 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live (Theme: Chemistry), 7:30PM

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THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM

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THE WINE & OYSTER Carrie Morrison (singersongwriter), 8:00PM

PINK MERCURY FAREWELL SHOW

TOWN PUMP Bald Mountain Boys, 9:00PM

PLEASURE CHEST GAMES & BEER/CIDER GARDEN NOON-SHOWTIME SHOW: 4-9PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dirty Dawg, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Snarky Puppy, 7:00PM

ZAMBRA Kessler Watson (jazz), 7:00PM

CIDER & DOUGHNUT PAIRING

FRIDAY, JUNE 14

SALVAGE STATION Nahko & Medicine for The People, 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Strange Animals (soul, funk, rock), 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jamie Gorsuch, 7:00PM

ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Evening Chimes Bombay Gasoline, Sane Voids, DJ Kinjac, 9:00PM

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

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THE GREY EAGLE Night One: Caleb Johnson & The Ramblin' Saints - Album Release Show, 8:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 9:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Pinky Doodle Poodle, Friendship Commanders, Obsideoneye, 9:00PM

THE MUSIC OF FRANK ZAPPA

THU-FRI

THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Dave Desmelik, 7:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Eleanor Underhill & Friends, 7:30PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Summer Lovin’ Thursdays w/ Jessie Barry, 8:00PM

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FREE PATIO SHOW AT 5PM

FRIDAY JUNE 21ST 3PM - ’TIL THEY RUN OUT!

24 BUXTON AVE • SOUTH SLOPE URBANORCHARDCIDER.COM

AMBROSE WEST Dirty Logic: A Steely Dan Tribute, 8:00PM

HOUSE WITH A YARD / THE NEW RUSTICS

w/ Futexture & Pathwey

THU, 6/13 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $ @ THE DOOR

FRI, 6/14 - SHOW: 9: 30 pm (DOORS: 8: 30 pm ) - adv : $10

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AARON “WOODY WOOD + THE LOVE DRUGS” FRI, 6/14 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $ @ THE DOOR

Reso [SLUG WIFE]

Jarvis Jenkins

Allman Brothers Band Tribute

SAT, 6/15 - SHOW: 9: 30 pm (DOORS: 8: 30 pm ) - adv : $10/13

SAT, 6/15 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$ H DONATION $ @ THE DOOR

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UPCOMING: 6/21 - Moon Hooch w/ Nathan-Paul & The Admirables • 6/26 - Little Tybee, Rotem & Daniel Shearin (of River Whyless) • 7/4 - AVL All Star Tribute to The Band • 7/5 - Marvelous Funkshun / Opposite Box • 7/12 - Bumpin’ Uglies w/ Sons of Paradise Tuesday Early Jam - 8PM TICKETS & FULL CALENDAR AVAILABLE AT ASHEVILLEMUSICHALL.COM Mitch’s Totally disclaimer F ree Dead Tuesday Night Funk Jam - 11PM @AVLMusicHall @OneStopAVL F riday - 5pm comedy - 9:30pm Rad Trivia - 6:30pm Electrosoul Session w/ strongmagnumopus - 11:30PM MOUNTAINX.COM

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C LUBLAND ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Live Music, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Frameworks w/ Futexture & Pathwey, 10:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

COMING SOON WED 6/12 6PM–LAWN SERIES W/ QUEEN BEE & THE HONEYLOVERS 7:00PM–JAZZ & BLUESS WITH PAULA HANKE & PEGGY RATUSZ

THU 6/13 6:00PM–LAWN SERIES W/ MOONLIGHT STREET FOLK

7:30PM–NOAH WALL & TOMMY NORRIS OF THE BAREFOOT MOVEMENT FEAT. ED SNODDERLY

FRI 6/14 7:00PM–ROMAN STREET 8:30PM–CIRCUS NO. 9 AND THE JACKSON GRIMM BAND

SAT 6/15 7:00PM–REBEL UNION

BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bywater Bluegrass Jam hosted

by Drew Matulich, 4:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Vince Junior Band, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Rebecca O' Quinn Duo, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Queen Bee & the Honeylovers, 9:00PM

8:30PM–NOCHE FLAMENCA WITH EDUARO & FLAMENCO CAROLINA SUN 6/16 6:00PM–THE ADVENTURES OF ANNABELLE LYN 7:30PM–THE LOST CHORD: MOODY BLUES TRIBUTE BAND - 50TH ANNIVERSARY OF ON THE THRESHOLD HOLD A DREAM

TUE 6/18 6:00PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS HOSTED BY DEREK VADEN AND FRIENDS

WED 6/19 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES WITH RAHM AND FRIENDS

7:00PM–DAVE COFELL

THU 6/20 7:00PM–THE RICHARD SCHULMAN TRIO

FRI 6/21 7:00PM–AN EVENING OF SWING WITH GOOD SHOT JUDY

SAT 6/22 7:00PM–SYLVIA ROSE NOVAK 8:30PM–CHARLIE TRAVELER PRESENTS GRETCHEN PETERS WITH JANE KRAMER

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LAZY DIAMOND Rotating Killer Rock 'n' Soul DJs, 10:00PM LEICESTER LIBRARY The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, 6:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Hillbilly Diamonds, 6:30PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Riyen Roots, 8:00PM MG ROAD Dance Party w/ DJ Abu Disarray, 10:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE The Moon & You, 5:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Paper Crowns, 7:00PM NANTAHALA BREWING'S ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Graham Whorley, 7:00PM NOBLE KAVA Dad Jazz: A Father's Day Concert, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul Drag, 9:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Rotating Rock 'n' Soul DJs, 10:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Aaron "Woody" Wood & the Love Drugs, 10:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Actor/Observer, Trash Boy, Styrofoam Turtles, 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: 5j Barrow, 9:00PM

FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Tina Collins Duo, 7:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Cymatic Quintet, 9:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Disney's Newsies, 7:00PM

EDUARDO & FLAMENCO CAROLINA

LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Andy Gold, 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Rumpke Mountain Boys, 8:00PM GASTRO PUB AT HOPEY Open Mic hosted

by Heather Taylor, 7:00PM GINGER’S REVENGE Nick Gonnering, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Colby Deitz, 7:00PM HISTORIC BURKE COUNTY COURTHOUSE LAWN Morganton TGIF Summer Concert Series, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Roman Street, 7:00PM Circus No. 9 and The Jackson Grimm Band, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bayou Diesel, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Jeremy's Ten Unplugged: A Tribute to Pearl Jam, 8:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Terry McKinney, 1:45PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY My Girl, My Whiskey & Me, 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep, 9:30PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Latin Night w/ Latin DJ sets (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Reggaeton, Latin Trap), 10:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Hannah Wicklund & The Steppin' Stones, 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION Izzi Hughes & Cole Jenkins, 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Scoundrel's Lounge, 8:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Disney's Newsies, 7:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Peggy Ratusz, 5:30PM

FINES CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER Fines Creek Dance Night, 6:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE The Vines Duo, 7:00PM THE CREATIVE THOUGHT CENTER Elaine Silver & Richard Shulman Concert, 6:30PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Blake Ellege Super Jam, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Night Two: Caleb Johnson & The Ramblin' Saints - Album Release Show, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Tops w/ Wednesday, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Adi the Monk, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Elvie and Buffalo Fiasco, 9:00PM TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY Summer Concert Series, 7:30PM WXYZ BAR AT ALOFT DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone, 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Riccardis, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Hot Club of Asheville (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 15 5 WALNUT WINE BAR J. J. Hipps, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL G.A.M.E., 8:00PM Reso [SLUG WIFE] w/ Cut Rugs, DLX & Truffula Treez visuals, 9:30PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Psylo Joe, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Zydeco Ya Ya, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Hearts Gone South, 9:00PM

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF ASHEVILLE Asheville Poverty Initiative's Drag Bingo, 6:30PM FLEETWOOD'S Viva Le Vox, Skunk Ruckus, 9:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Saylor Bros, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Ellamaeflossie w/ Trip Gang, 8:00PM GINGER’S REVENGE NC Songsmith’s: Madelyn Ilana, 2:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Rebel Union, 7:00PM Noche Flamenca with Eduardo & Flamenco Carolina, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 3:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Joe Zimmerman, 9:00PM

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

THU. 6/13 Hope Griffin Duo (acoustic rock)

FRI. 6/14 DJ RexxStep

(dance hits, pop)

SAT. 6/15 Marsha Morgan Band (All of your favorites!)

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944 packStavern.com

LAZY DIAMOND Hot Blooded Funk w/ DJ Bogart, 10:00PM LEICESTER LIBRARY The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, 6:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM MG ROAD Dance Party w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE 2019 Guide Night and Sons of Ralph, 6:00PM NOBLE KAVA KalimbaMan (funk, jazz, rock), 9:00PM OM SANCTUARY Chai Chats: All About Sound w/ Billy Zanski, 3:00PM ODDITORIUM Stonewall Commemoration (benefit), 7:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: PMA & Center of Motion (Reggae, & hip-hop), 8:00PM ORANGE PEEL American Maid EP Release Show w/ Rory Kelly & Black River Rebels, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Town & Country & Southbound, 1:00PM

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UPCOMING SHOWS: DOORS 7PM

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DIRTY LOGIC

“A STEELY DAN TRIBUTE”

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JUN 14

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SECOND TAKE JUN JUN 20 ROBERTA FLACK RETROSPECTIVE 20

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AN EVENING OF IMPROV COMEDY WITH

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DOORS 9PM

JUN 29

SIDE HUSTLE SUMMER SOLSTICE DANCE PARTY

THEME: HAWAIIAN LUAU

WELCOME BACK: White Horse Black Mountain hosts local pianodriven pop-rock artist Ian Ridenhour, who recently completed his first year at Berklee College of Music. Ridenhour has been performing since age 3 and was writing music by 7. Now he’s celebrating another milestone: His 19th birthday with the Saturday, June 15, performance, starting at 8 p.m. $12 advance/$15 day of show. whitehorseblackmountain.com.

Photo by David LaMotte

SHOW 9PM

JUN 28

DANCE 9PM

JUN 29

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OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Aaron Burdett, 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Marsha Morgan Band, 9:30PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB DJ Lexx, (80’s, 90’s hiphop, Top 40), 10:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Disco Risque, 7:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Wayne Banks Trio, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Phuncle Sam, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Inconceivable Music Festival, 12:00PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Adi The Monk Album Release Party, 6:00PM CommUNITY Salsa w/ DJ Edi (lessons at 9:00), 9:30PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE The Derek McCoy Trio, 8:00PM

The evening includes a brief introduction by the Asheville Movie Guys, Bruce C. Steele and Edwin Arnaudin of AshevilleMovies.com, as well as a lively discussion with the audience after the credits.

THE DEAD DON’T DIE Mon., 6/17, 7pm • Fine Arts Theatre 36 Biltmore Ave., Asheville

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Local

THE GREY EAGLE VIA Presents: Firefly Short Film Premiere & Girls Rock Asheville Benefit, 1:00PM Supervillian & Fogman w/ The Eccentrics, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 10:00PM Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT HEX Dance Party: Benefit for Rural Organizing & Resistance, 9:00PM THE WEDGE AT FOUNDATION Just Brew It, 2:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Jazzville w/ Brownwyn Conin, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Yellow Feather, 9:00PM TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY Transylvania Chautauqua Alexander Hamilton, 7:00PM

TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Cactus Punch (jam rock), 8:00PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE Local Love Outdoor Concert Series, 4:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Ian Ridenhour & Band, 8:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SUNDAY, JUNE 16

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Adventures of Annabelle Lyn, 6:00PM The Lost Chord: Moody Blues Tribute Band – 50th Anniversary of On The Threshold of a Dream, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch: Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM MAGGIE VALLEY PAVILION Haywood Community Band June Concert, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Monthly Reggae Sunday feat. DJ Zion Rose (Caribbean food, music), 4:00PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Rockabillys & Slight Departure, 1:00PM

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

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Reverand Freakchild, 2:00PM Trivia Night, 4:00PM

BYWATER Sunday Bywater Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Lo-Fi DJ & Brunch (all ages), 11:00AM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE JP Parsons, 6:00PM DAPHNE AT TWISTED LAUREL Soul Brunch Sunday, 11:00AM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TIM O, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Local Sunday in the Meadow w/ DJ Kutzu & Chalwa (music, vendors, farmers market), 12:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam w/ Paper Crown Electric, 6:00PM PROVIDENCE BAPTIST CHURCH Bliss Hippy, 3:00PM SALVAGE STATION Yacht Rock Karaoke, 1:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Ellen Trnka & Dan Keller, 2:30PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Open Mic, 6:30PM SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB Father's Day w/ PONG AVL, 11:30AM THE BARRELHOUSE Open Jam, 6:00PM

THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Tools On Stools, 3:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Music of Grateful Dead for Kids Father's Day Celebration, 1:00PM Sandi Grecco, 3:00PM Bill Kirchen & Redd Volkaert, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Sebadoh w/ Waveless, 7:00PM THE WEDGE STUDIOS Live Music Sundays, 5:30PM THE WINE & OYSTER Brunch w/ Mr. Jimmy, 12:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Grateful Dad's Day with members of Ton of Hay, 3:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8:00PM WHOLE FOODS MARKET Burgers & Brews w/ Music by NC Songsmiths, 1:00PM WICKED WEED BREWING Logan Marie, 4:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM ZAMBRA Kessler Watson, 7:00PM

MONDAY, JUNE 17 27 CLUB Monday Mayhem Karaoke hosted by Terra Ware, 9:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club, (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM AB TECH Buncombe Chautauqua Alexander Hamilton, 7:00PM AB TECH, FERGUSON AUDITORIUM Buncombe Chautauqua, 7:00PM

DADS EAT FREE! Sunday, June 16th • All Day

ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round, 5:30PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia Night, 6:30PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM

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

CORK & KEG Old Time Moderate Jam, 5:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and friens, 6:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by Derek Vaden and Friends, 7:30PM

MG ROAD Service Industry Night, 5:00PM NOBLE KAVA Stage Fright Open Mic (7:30pm Sign up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Open Mic Night, 7:30PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jazz Monday, 8:30PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays Open Jam, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Local Live Feat. Chris Rosser & Carrie Cooper, 7:00PM

TUESDAY, JUNE 18 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Early Jam, 10:00PM Electrosoul Sessions w/ strongmagnumopus, 11:30PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Turntable Tuesdays w/ Vinyl Time Travelers (dance, pop, hip-hop throwbacks), 10:00PM

Live Music $5 Mimosas $7 Bloody Marys

Wine & Food

Live Music 12-2 Asheville’s Best Crab Cakes

Downtown on 3 Biltmore Ave. (828) 505-8332 • thewineandoyster.com

SALVAGE STATION Trivia, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team Trivia w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing AVL w/ One Leg Up, 8:00PM Late Night Blues, 11:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Shane Parish, 7:00PM The Babe Rainbow w/ Munya, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT

AB TECH, FERGUSON AUDITORIUM Buncombe Chautauqua, 7:00PM

COWBABY W/ JON CHARLES DWYER & SWAMP HAG, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL Open Mic w/Riyen Roots, 8:00PM

ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Open Mic Night, 8:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Team Trivia Night, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Evening of Classical Guitar - 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

MONDAY » Comedy Open Mic TUESDAY » MTN Shag Club WEDNESDAY » Trivia THURSDAY » Drag Night FRIDAY » Open Mic Night SATURDAY » Live Music

Kitchen & Bar OPEN! 45 S. French Broad Downtown AVL

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MOVIE REVIEWS THIS WEEK’S CONTRIBUTORS

Hosted by the Asheville Movie Guys EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com HHHHH

BRUCE STEELE bcsteele@gmail.com James Rosario

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STARTING FRIDAY

Dark Phoenix HH

JUST ANNOUNCED

DIRECTOR: Simon Kinberg PLAYERS: Sophie Turner, Michael Fassbender, Jessica Chastain ACTION/ADVENTURE RATED PG-13

Late Night (R) A late-night talk-show host suspects that she may soon lose her job.

Men In Black: International (PG-13) Agents in the covert agency attempt to expose a mole within their ranks.

Shaft (R) Cyber security expert John Shaft Jr.enlists his family’s help to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death.

The Dead Don’t Die HHHHS

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS Aladdin (PG) HH

Avengers: Endgame (PG-13) HHHHS The Biggest Little Farm (PG) HHHH Booksmart (R) HHHHS Brightburn (R) HHHS Captain Marvel (PG-13) HHHS Dark Phoenix (PG-13) HH Godzilla: King of the Monsters (PG-13) HH John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum (R) HHHH Ma (R) HHH Non-Fiction (R) HHHS Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (PG) HHH Rocketman (R) HHHH The Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG) HHHS The Souvenir (R) HH The Tomorrow Man (PG-13) HH

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The Dead Don’t Die (R) HHHHS (Pick of the Week)

All Is True (PG-13) HHHS

Marcianne Miller

DIRECTOR: Jim Jarmusch PLAYERS: Bill Murray, Adam Driver HORROR/COMEDY RATED R Five years after he injected some much-needed life into vampire movies with the brilliant and soulful Only Lovers Left Alive, Jim Jarmusch puts his deadpan comedic twist on zombie flicks in the delightful The Dead Don’t Die. Starring the writer/director’s key past collaborators, Bill Murray and Adam Driver, as police officers in the small Midwest town of Centerville, the film pits the duo — arguably the two actors who have thus far most successfully surfed Jarmusch’s distinctive tonal wavelength — against reanimated corpses from the local cemetery. The apparent cause for the global supernatural event is polar fracking that’s altered Earth’s rotation and somehow awakened the dead.

With help from a nervous female colleague (Chloë Sevigny), their attempts to find a solution to Centerville’s sudden rise in population smoothly weaves in such side characters as a salty hermit (Tom Waits), a racist farmer (Steve Buscemi) and the town’s new funeral home director, played by Tilda Swinton as something akin to a robotic, Scottish version of The Bride from Kill Bill, down to the samurai sword skills.

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Expertly balancing the largest cast of his career, Jarmusch also finds room for humorous nuggets like RZA working for a Wu-Tang Clan parcel delivery service, Rosie Perez as a TV news reporter whose name is a goofy twist on the actress’ own, and Driver’s unusual taste in personal vehicles.

Glorious as the silly events are to experience and impressive though the visual effects for zombie decapitations may be, The Dead Don’t Die is peppered with elements that could infuriate viewers unfamiliar with Jarmusch’s particular brand of quirkiness.

Among the likely irritants are the repetitions of several lines of dialogue as well as a certain Sturgill Simpson song — multiple uses that are part of the film’s self-aware and self-referencing nature, including characters familiar with zombie movies, a few of whom recognize that they’re in one themselves and comment accordingly.

Furthermore, the pleasant yet largely inconsequential storylines involving separate groups of young people may also test certain audience members’ patience, and probably could be cut and wouldn’t be missed. But by preserving them, Jarmusch augments The Dead Don’t Die’s rich sense of place and its focus on the individuals affected by the zombie apocalypse, and in turn crafts one of the year’s best films to date.

If all previous films in the X-Men franchise were to magically vanish with the snap of a finger, Dark Phoenix might play better. Series screenwriter Simon Kinberg’s feature directorial debut has almost all the makings of a summer blockbuster (complete with trappings like a flimsy plot and heavy reliance on CGI), but, of course, the other films do exist, making the final X-Men entry seem less-than-mediocre by comparison.

As such, Dark Phoenix not only fails to live up to many of its predecessors, but it’s also a disappointing send-off for the much-loved franchise.

The saga of Jean Grey (Sophie Turner) and her transformation into the titular ultrapowerful entity has all the makings of a phenomenal action film filled with plenty of emotion and heart. The original comic book story is considered such a treasured work that much of the heavy lifting has already been done. All it should have taken for the film version to be an instant classic is an adept screenwriter and competent director to make the page-to-screen transition. Why this hasn’t happened is beyond me.

Instead of a dramatic and emotional morality play set on an intergalactic stage (which we get with the source material), we’re left with not much more than a bunch of emo teenagers muddling through a badly paced wannabe psychodrama. The big midway “surprise” — intended to serve as the turning point for character motivation — comes with almost no feeling or sense of sentiment.

We’re meant to care, but Dark Phoenix makes it difficult to do so. The life has been sucked right out of a compelling story filled with iconic characters and immeasurable potential. Add to that the vague and out-of-the-blue villains, and things go from bad to worse.

Setting aside source material knowledge or franchise expectations, Dark

SCREEN SCENE Phoenix has one sequence that might satisfy the average action movie fan. The boring and uninteresting fight scene outside Central Park is somewhat made up for by the extended train battle that takes place shortly after, which in turn is then abruptly derailed by an entirely unexciting climax. The train scene has the best moments of the film, but these barrages of violence and property damage are undercut by hokey dialogue and poorly explained teen space-angst.

Most of the cast performs as well as can be expected under the circumstances.

Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy are their usual selves as Magneto and Professor X, respectively, and Turner turns in a decent enough Jean Grey, but it’s no surprise to me that Jennifer Lawrence is once again the weak link. As Raven/Mystique, her faux-righteousness is supposed to be defiant and heroic, but instead, it comes off as whiny and petty.

But, for almost every character, the writing doesn’t do much to encourage our loyalty or sympathy.

What’s worse than any of the film’s decidedly lame qualities is the complete lack of respect Dark Phoenix gives to a pretty damn good series of films. Why it was chosen as the final chapter instead of leaving it with the vastly superior Logan (2017) is something I will never understand. With the fate of future X-Men movies currently up in the air following 20th Century Fox’s sale to Disney, a much better swan song is deserved.

REVIEWED BY JAMES ROSARIO JAMESROSARIO1977@GMAIL.COM

The Souvenir HH DIRECTOR: Joanna Hogg PLAYERS: Honor Swinton Byrne DRAMA/ROMANCE RATED R Dreadfully slow and plain old dreadful, The Souvenir offers up unlikable characters and a simple story that are barely worthy of a subplot in a larger, better film.

Set in early/mid-1980s England, writer/director Joanna Hogg’s visually sharp but tonally dull drama focuses on film student Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne, I Am Love) and her fraught romance with Anthony (Tom Burke, Only God Forgives), a government worker with some unsavory habits that won’t be spoiled here, seeing as their reveals are the film’s few lively moments.

The pair give fine performances in the service of drudgery, engaging in generally unproductive conversations that keep their personal motivations and relationship’s dynamics frustratingly shrouded.

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most five minutes of screen time, the appealing actress elevates each of her scenes and speaks for befuddled critics by uttering the line, “The worst.”

REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

The Tomorrow Man HH

DIRECTOR: Noble Jones PLAYERS: John Lithgow, Blythe Danner DRAMA/ROMANCE RATED PG-13 The Tomorrow Man is an odd-couple love story that may make you want to smack romantic seniors.

Ed Hemsley (John Lithgow) is a dedicated prepper who has amassed a bunker’s worth of precision-packed supplies.

Unlike real preppers who know that you need like-minded nearby folks to rally with when the final disaster comes, Ed pretty much just worries by himself.

One day, he finally has the courage to introduce himself to pretty Ronnie Meisner (Blythe Danner), who works in the local gift shop. Ronnie, who thinks twisting her lips makes her look thoughtful, is secretly a hoarder. All her dangerous piles of useless junk are newish and pretty, not disgusting decades-old newspapers, so Ed, although horrified, grits his teeth and clears off space for himself in Ronnie’s bed.

Bringing up the requisite backstories, both Ed and Ronnie reveal the real-life reasons for their quirks. Thus, they earn your sympathy, but you still wish these self-obsessed characters would grow up and volunteer at a soup kitchen — anything at all to get out of themselves.

Because the script told them to, they fall in love, not in “aw shucks” cuteawkward fashion, but “cover your eyes” cringe-awkward. Soon, they promise one another they will try to work out their differences — oh, sure, like that could really happen without mental health intervention.

Despite the clunky, shallow script, Lithgow and Danner are watchable, but even beloved 70-something movie stars do not a movie make, and The Tomorrow Man quickly descends to view-at-homeif-you-dare fare.

The real curiosity about this movie is how first-time writer/director Noble Jones convinced backers to invest in it.

Tax write-offs, surely, because even on the page, this movie had to be pointless, unbelievable, annoying and boring. To make matters worse, the ending is so ambiguous you’ll want to hurl stuff at the screen.

REVIEWED BY MARCIANNE MILLER MARCI@AQUAMYSTIQUE.COM

WAKANDA FOREVER: Black Panther is Asheville Parks and Recreation’s next Movies in the Park selection. The superhero film will be screened on June 14 at Pack Square Park. Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Pictures • Asheville Parks and Recreation’s Movies in the Park series continues at Pack Square Park on Friday, June 14, with Black Panther. Family-friendly activities begin at 6:30 p.m., and the movie will start at dusk on a giant outdoor screen on the park stage. Attendees are encouraged to bring snacks, plus chairs or a blanket. Free to attend. ashevillenc.gov/departments/parks • Asheville Improv Collective and Zaniac Asheville, 1 Town Square Blvd., Suite 120, are offering a pair of summer movie camps for creative children.

Monster Movie Camp runs Monday, June 17-Friday, June 21, 8 a.m.-noon daily, and is open to students in grades five-eight. The week will focus on character work and in-camera effects, using classic monster movie techniques, while

FILM EARLY BIRD SPECIAL: CLASSICS & CASSEROLES • WE (6/12), 4pm - Early Bird Special Club, potluck and a movie, Roman Holiday. Registration required. Free to attend.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FINE ARTS THEATRE 36 Biltmore Ave., 828232-1536 • TH (6/13), 7pm - Locally produced film, The Evil Inside Her, premieres with a Q&A session and meet and greet with Eric Roberts and other cast and crew. $18.

• TH (6/20), 7pm - Proceeds from Wings of Life, documentary narrated

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engaging campers in creative explorations of characters and improvisation as they write, film and edit a movie.

Mockumentary Movie Camp follows Monday, June 24-Friday, June 28, 8 a.m.-noon daily, and is open to students in grades six-eight. The week will focus on using improv to learn about comedy and joke construction while teaching story structure as it relates to film. Campers will create, film and edit a movie. Each camp costs $279 per student. Snacks and a Zaniac T-shirt are included. Register online. zaniaclearning.com/asheville • The deadline for submissions for the 25th annual Twin Rivers Multimedia Festival has been extended to Sunday, June 30. The festival is free to attend and will be held Friday, July 19, and Saturday, July 20, at the Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain. It will feature screenings of award-winning international, national and local films, as well as premieres and official selections of feature films, animation, short dramas, experimental films and documentaries.

Entries must be original works and have been completed in the last year. Awards will be given in short film, animated film, documentary film, feature film and scriptwriting categories. Submissions are accepted online. filmfreeway.com/ twinriversmediafestival X

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LAKE POINTE LANDING 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville • SU (6/16), noon - Immortal Beloved, a biographical account of Ludwig van Beethoven's (Gary Oldman) life and loves. Lunch at noon, movie at 2pm.

Registration required: 828-697-7310. $18.

• TH (6/20), noon - Can You Ever Forgive Me, fact-based drama features author Lee Israel. Lunch at noon, movie at 2pm.

Registration required: 828-697-7310. $18.

850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-357-9009, floodgallery.org • FR (6/14), 8pm Ararat, directed by Atom Egoyan, 2002. Admission by donation.

GUARDIANS OF OUR TROUBLED WATERS • TH (6/20), 7pm - Guardians of Our Troubled Waters, documentary. $15. Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W. Campus Drive, Flat Rock ‘I AM EVIDENCE’ • FR (6/14), 7pm - I Am Evidence, documentary.

Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation

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Held at The Center for Art & Inspiration, 927 Greenville Highway, Hendersonville SUMMER HISTORIC DOCUMENTARY SERIES • 3rd THURSDAYS through August, 5:30pm - Summer Historic Documentary Series, event featuring film screenings on historical topics.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): We may not have to travel to other planets to find alien life. Instead of launching expensive missions to other planets, we could look for exotic creatures here on earth.

Astrobiologist Mary Beth Wilhelm is doing just that. Her search has taken her to Chile’s Atacama Desert, whose terrain has resemblances to Mars.

She’s looking for organisms like those that might have once thrived on the Red Planet. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to use this idea as a metaphor for your own life. Consider the possibility that you’ve been looking far and wide for an answer or resource that is actually close at hand.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Philosopher Martin Buber believed that some stories have the power to heal. That’s why he said we should actively seek out stories that have the power to heal. Buber’s disabled grandfather once told Buber a story about an adored teacher who loved to dance. As the grandfather told the story, he got so excited that he rose from his chair to imitate the teacher and suddenly began to hop and dance around in the way his teacher did. From that time on, the grandfather was cured of his disability. What I wish for you in the coming weeks is that you will find stories like that.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the 1960s, Gemini musician Brian Wilson began writing and recording bestselling songs with his band the Beach Boys.

A seminal moment in his development happened while he was listening to his car radio in August 1963. A tune he had never heard before came on: “Be My Baby” by the Ronettes. Wilson was so excited he pulled over onto the shoulder of the road and stopped driving so he could devote his full attention to what he considered a shockingly beautiful work of art. “I started analyzing all the guitars, pianos, bass, drums, and percussion,” he told The New York Times. “Once I got all those learned, I knew how to produce records.”

I suspect a pivotal moment like this could unfold for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. Be alert!

CANCER (June 21-July 22): My dear Cancerian, your soul is so rich and complicated, so many-splendored and mysterious, so fertile and generous. I’m amazed you can hold all the poignant marvels you contain.

Isn’t it sometimes a struggle for you to avoid spilling over? Like a river at high tide during heavy rains?

And yet every so often there come moments when you go blank; when your dense, luxuriant wonders go missing. That’s OK! It’s all part of the Great Mystery. You need these fallow phases. And I suspect that the present time might be such a time.

If so, here’s a fragment of a poem by Cecilia Woloch to temporarily use as your motto: “I have nothing to offer you now save my own wild emptiness.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): America’s premier eventologist is Leo-born Adrienne Sioux Koopersmith. When she was going through a hard time in 1991, she resolved to buoy her spirits by creating cheerful, splashy new holidays. Since then she has filled the calendar with over 1,900 new occasions to celebrate.

What a perfect way to express her radiant Leo energy! National Splurge Day on June 18 is one of Adrienne’s favorites: a time for revelers to be extra kind and generous to themselves. That’s a happy coincidence, because my analysis of the astrological omens suggests that this is a perfect activity for you to emphasize during the coming weeks.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.”

Virgo poet Mary Oliver made that statement. It was perfectly reasonable for her, given her occupation, although a similar declaration might sound outlandish coming from a non-poet. Nonetheless, I’ll counsel you to inhabit that frame of mind at least part-time for the next two weeks. I think you’ll benefit in numerous ways from ingesting more than your minimum daily dose of beauty, wonder, enchantment and astonishment.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran philosopher Michel Foucault articulated a unique definition of “criticism.”

He said that it doesn’t dish out judgments or hand down sentences. Rather, it invigorates things by encouraging them, by identifying dormant potentials and hidden beauty. Paraphrasing and quoting Foucault, I’ll tell you that this alternate type of criticism ignites useful fires and sings to the grass as it grows. It looks for the lightning of possible storms and coaxes codes from the sea foam. I hope you’ll practice this kind of “criticism” in the coming weeks, Libra — a criticism that doesn’t squelch enthusiasm and punish mistakes, but instead champions the life spirit and helps it ripen.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Help may be hovering nearby, but in an unrecognizable guise. Rumpled but rich opportunities will appear at the peripheries, though you may not immediately recognize their value. A mess that you might prefer to avoid looking at could be harboring a very healthy kind of trouble. My advice to you, therefore, is to drop your expectations. Be receptive to possibilities that have not been on your radar. Be willing to learn lessons you have neglected or disdained in the past.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As much as I love logic and champion rational thinking, I’m granting you a temporary exemption from their supremacy.

To understand what’s transpiring in the coming weeks and to respond with intelligence, you will have to transcend logic and reason. They will simply not be sufficient guides as you wrestle and dance with the Great Riddle that will be visiting. You will need to unleash the full power of your intuition. You must harness the wisdom of your body, and the information it reveals to you via physical sensations.

You will benefit from remembering at least some of your nightly dreams and inviting them to play on your consciousness throughout the day.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): For the sake of your emotional and spiritual health, you may need to temporarily withdraw or retreat from one or more of your alliances. But I recommend that you don’t do anything drastic or dramatic. Refrain from harsh words and sudden breaks. For now, seal yourself away from influences that are stirring up confusion so you can concentrate on reconnecting with your own deepest truths. Once you’ve done that for a while, you’ll be primed to find helpful clues about where to go next in managing your alliances.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’ve got a list of do’s and don’t’s for you. Do play and have fun more than usual. But don’t indulge in naïve assumptions and infantile emotions that interfere with your ability to see the world as it really is.

Do take aggressive action to heal any sense of abandonment you’re still carrying from the old days. But don’t poison yourself with feelings of blame toward the people who abandoned you.

Do unleash wild flights of fantasy and marvelous speculations about seemingly impossible futures that maybe aren’t so impossible. But don’t get so fixated on wild fantasies and marvelous speculations that you neglect to embrace the subtle joys that are actually available to you right now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “At times, so many memories trample my heart that it becomes impossible to know just what I’m feeling and why,” writes Piscean poet Mark Nepo. While that experience is familiar to everyone, it’s especially common for you Pisceans. That’s the bad news. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, your heart is unlikely to be trampled by your memories.

Hence, you will have an excellent chance to know exactly what you’re feeling and why. The weight of the past will at least partially dissolve and you’ll be freer than usual to understand what’s true for you right now, without having to sort through confusing signals about who you used to be.

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