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Take it outside It’s the season of long strolls, warm breezes, outdoor dining, lush surroundings and a little dirt under your fingernails. Here’s a brief guide to life in the urban outdoors through community gardens, public parks and neighborhood gatherings. So find a friend, choose an adventure and take it outside!

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10 BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE Asheville welcomes the 13th Amendment as it stops on historic tour

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8 ALL IN THE FAMILY SisterCare of WNC brings comfort to LGBTQ people in times of need

24 GOING WITH THE FLOW Women’s dao with Saraswati Markus

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More voices to the BBQ story Just read the recent article regarding “The Changing Face of North Carolina Barbecue,” June 4, Xpress] It did have some good points, and I enjoyed reading the viewpoints of others, but it’s only the points from the “usual” cast of BBQ people in the area that get mentioned. There ARE others in the area besides “the usual names” that are doing and have been doing BBQ. The article repeatedly mentions the lack of BBQ in the area. ... That’s true if you only mention a couple of places and only talk to a couple of people. I know that last statement was a bit exaggerated, but yes, I’m one of those adamant and arrogant BBQ people. I cook Q every day for a living and grow tired of hearing of the lack of good BBQ in our area. True, I don’t

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have an open pit, I work and cook in a mobile food trailer. I have to use a “modern” smoker. Practicality and regulations require I do so. The comments stating all you have to do is throw a few pieces of wood in the cooker, set your temp, throw on some meat, wait a few hours, and out comes perfect, no-effort BBQ — that’s insulting, I say BS on that. I use a “modern” smoker for my trailer and an offset wood-burning cooker for contests, catering and festivals. I work just as hard with both. Both require diligence in turning out a good product. I’d love to have a pit and do it the old-fashioned way, but my understanding is that no new open pits are allowed to be built in North Carolina. Has to be an existing restaurant that had a pit and was grandfathered in before the new rule took affect. I guess I said all the above to say: Yes, there is good BBQ in WNC. You just gotta get out and look for those of us that aren’t ever mentioned. We take just as much pride in the product we turn out and our part in preserving North Carolina’s BBQ tradition. — J D Medford Asheville

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All in the family Local nonprofit helps LGBTQ people in times of need

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Linda Giannasso hates to ask for help. When she broke her foot a few months ago, she figured she could handle it on her own. “I’m very independent,” she explains. “So I tried to do everything.” But the retired college professor lives alone in a house full of stairs, and getting around to do simple chores soon proved to be too difficult: After one week, she had a “meltdown,” she reveals. Giannasso is a lesbian, and one of her friends called SisterCare of WNC. Since last October, SisterCare has been providing short-term, inhome support services to LGBTQ people in Buncombe and Henderson counties who are “out of commission for a while” due to things like an illness, a broken leg, a spell of loneliness or unemployment, says Sandy Johnson, vice president of the nonprofit’s board. “People are very hesitant to go out and ask for help,” adds board President Sandi Franklin. “They need a safe place to come where they don’t have to worry about discrimination.” Gay people who are transplants to the area, notes Johnson, may have fewer connections and a more limited support system; some have no children or family nearby. And the generally available public services, she continues, tend to “focus on the standard heterosexual model. LGBTQ people ... feel the discrimination whether it’s there or not. Our services provide the personal connections that aren’t in other services.” Meanwhile, even those with family and friends in the area, says Johnson, “can overextend people’s ability to provide you support. ... That’s where we come in.”

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THE LITTLE THINGS When Giannasso first heard about SisterCare, she didn’t think she’d ever need its services, “but we never know,” she says. SisterCare volunteers helped Giannasso with the little things she couldn’t do on a broken foot, like changing her sheets and refilling the bird feeders. “I don’t know what I would’ve done without them,” she says. “They were pretty much a lifesaver.” Operating on a shoestring budget (about $7,000, according to the website), the nonprofit relies heavily on volunteers. People needing assistance call the organization and complete an application; the board of directors then assesses whether the applicant’s situation fits the group’s criteria. Even with about 50 trained volunteers, notes Johnson, the nonprofit’s capacity is limited, and SisterCare can’t help people with broader ,long-term issues such as homelessness. “Right now we’re focusing

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LEND A HAND: SisterCare of WNC Vice President Sandy Johnson (left) and Board President Sandi Franklin (right) say their organization is a safe place, free of discrimination for folks who are “out of commission for a while.” Photo by Cindy Moors

on short-term situations,” she explains. “We go out and speak with [potential clients] directly. We take into account their living environment. What do they need help with? And why? What are the circumstances?” To date, the fledgling 501(c)(3) nonprofit has helped a handful of clients with pet care, housecleaning, laundry, yard work, transportation and more, all aimed at helping them continue to live independently. After training and a background check, volunteers

are sent to clients’ homes in pairs. “Some people are still not out,” says volunteer Kristi Rogers. “But if they know the people that are here to take care of them know who they really are, it’s a comfort thing.” Very few services aimed at aging populations specifically target older LGBTQ adults. “Senior care is very focused toward the heterosexual world,” Johnson explains. A 2011 study by the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging surveyed nearly 800 older adults in long-termcare facilities. Only 22 percent of respondents, the study found, felt that they could be open about their sexual orientation; 89 percent felt the staff would discriminate against them, and 43 percent reported having been mistreated by staff in the past. Much of the available senior care, says Johnson, “just doesn’t have the same sensitivity to what older gay adults deal with on a dayto-day basis.”

REACHING OUT But SisterCare isn’t focused solely on the elderly, and even in its first few months, the organization’s vision has evolved. “Next year, five years from now, we’ll be significantly tweaked from what we are today,” says Johnson. “Our initial focus was on the lesbian community, because that’s what we were. As we proceeded down the whole train of thought, we realized we wanted to include everybody.” Accordingly, SisterCare is expanding its scope to include “the trans population, the gay men, older, younger, urban, rural,” she continues, noting that the group also hopes to expand into Polk, Transylvania and Haywood counties. “There are all sorts of flavors in the community that we want to tap into.” The nonprofit has partnered with other local nonprofits, such as Youth OUTright, an Asheville-based organization serving young LGBTQ people. “I would like to see our community become more networked and cohesive,” says Johnson. “Building bridges between different groups of people builds a village.” That kind of networking, notes Franklin, is how most people find out about SisterCare to begin with, and the board hopes to continue expanding and enhancing the group’s visibility throughout the gay community. The more the word gets out, says Rogers, the more volunteers the group will have, and the more money it will raise. In April, SisterCare held SpringFest, a live auction that brought in $4,000. In addition to cash donations, the nonprofit accepts useful items such as walkers and wheelchairs. But what some clients really need most is a friend. “I may be the only person they’ve seen that week,” says Rogers. “A conversation, a hug, a smile, the comfort of knowing that there’s somebody you can call. It’s a good thing to know there’s people out there who do care, and they’re not judging you.” Giannasso concurs. “I feel like the gay community would feel more comfortable with a service that is run by gays or lesbians,” she says. “It’s like family helping family.”

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Bringing history to life First-ever 13th Amendment exhibit celebrates end of slavery

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the Civil War, one of the era’s most important historical documents was displayed in Western North Carolina for the first time ever. Ratified in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution ended legal slavery. And in recognition of Juneteenth – or June 19, the date many observe to mark when the last of the enslaved learned they were free – the document was released from the climate-controlled state archives in Raleigh. It was exhibited for one day only, June 12, at the Vance Birthplace in Weaverville, and was accompanied by an array of speakers, performers and other historical presentations. One of the goals was “to bring history to life,” said keynote speaker Darin Waters, a history professor at UNC Asheville. “Next year will be the 150th anniversary of the ending of the Civil War and emancipation. And it’s good for us to reflect on that.” The Weaverville farmstead that birthed former governor Zebulon Baird Vance served as an ideal setting for such reflection, said Earl Ijames, a curator for the North Carolina Museum of History who put the exhibit together. The Vance family was among the largest slaveholders in Buncombe County in the early years of the 19th century. Records for 1811 alone reveal that 18 enslaved Africans labored on their property serving as livestock herdsmen, agricultural laborers, domestic servants, mill operators, artisans and craftsmen. Many of their original quarters remain on the property as well as the family’s main cabin. Steven Nash, history professor at East Tennessee State University, said it’s “a popular misconception” that slavery didn’t exist in the Appalachian mountains. “Slavery

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LESSONS LEARNED: “Next year will be the 150th anniversary of the ending of the Civil War and emancipation. And it’s a good time for us to reflect on that,” said UNC Asheville professor Darin Waters, addressing crowds at the Juneteenth exhibit. Photos by Cindy Kunst

was very significant in Western North Carolina … In just about every aspect of life in Western North Carolina, you found the presence of slavery,” he said in a lecture at the event. Although the region lacked the large plantations that are associated with slavery in pop culture, thousands of slaves toiled in Buncombe County as cooks, farmers, tour guides, road builders and more, he said. Warren Wilson College Professor Jeff Keith also spoke of the important role slaves played in building the local area’s foundation. Keith is part of a group that’s working to renovate the South Asheville Cemetery in Kenilworth, which is the area’s largest known slave burial ground. Corresponding to the June 12 event, Keith and his students launched a new website (southashevillecemetery.net/his-

tory), providing historical information about the cemetery as well as the first digital map of its nearly 2,000 graves, most of which are unmarked. “We want to keep the memory alive. We want to cultivate memories,” Keith said. North Carolina’s copy of the 13th Amendment will travel to only a handful of other locations before going back into the vaults indefinitely. Of the 11 Confederate states that received the document for ratification in 1865, North Carolina is one of only three that has retained its original copy, Ijames said. As the document makes the rounds across the state for the first time ever, Ijames said he hopes it will spark “honest discussions about real reconciliation … This is the type of reparation we need to have: a change of heart.” On June 14, another Juneteenth celebration happened at the

“It’s a popular misconception that slavery didn’t exist in the Appalachian mountains. … In just about every aspect of life in Western North Carolina, you found the presence of slavery.”

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Hillcrest public housing complex in Asheville. The fourth annual event honoring the end of slavery also included a range of exhibits and performers. “This is an important event for the AfricanAmerican community,” said Howard Nemon, one of the organizers with the Women’s Wellbeing and Development Foundation. “It gives people a chance in Asheville to come together. … It’s a community building process. It’s a great social event.” Even as the years go by since the 13th Amendment was passed, Waters said it’s just as important now as ever to think about the end of slavery and its ongoing impli-

cations for society. “We take things for granted and I think having opportunities, events like this, make us sit back and reflect upon the seriousness of that moment and what that moment created, the opportunities it created,” he said. “And hopefully it generates greater interest for us to take advantage of the opportunities that we do have in front of us today.” For more information on Juneteenth, including the history of the observance and the 150th Juneteenth Anniversary Campaign, visit juneteenth.com. X

NOT JUST VANCE’S BIRTHPLACE: The 13th Amendment was displayed among cabins that previously housed dozens of slaves in Reems Creek. The Vance family was among the largest slave holders in Buncombe County.

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Give all citizens a voice. Give them the in-depth information they need to make informed decisions. Give them a news source they can trust: A nonprofit that accepts no money from advertisers, the government or political campaigns. That’s the mission of Carolina Public Press: breaking important stories, tackling tough assignments and collaborating with readers in ways most news outlets don’t. “We really wanted to engage with our readers,” says Angie Newsome, CPP’s founder, director and editor. “The conversation can go two ways instead of one way. Sometimes it feels like you’re just telling people what the news is. ... We want to have a different relationship with our readers.” To that end, Newsome and her team have launched The News Exchange, which aims to give the 18 westernmost North Carolina counties a chance to voice the issues within their own communities, get questions answered and problems solved. “Let’s talk unbiased, in-depth and investigative journalism in Western North Carolina — from Asheville to Murphy, from Boone to Brevard,” urges the announcement posted on carolinapublicpress.org. The inaugural free, public meetings were held May 27 and 28 in Watauga and Avery counties, where residents told CPP staffers about problems with everything from water rights to animal welfare to potholes to county government. “It was really fascinating,” says Newsome. “I really appreciated everybody — just their investment in talking with us and voicing their concerns. And they have a lot of critique about news in general, so that was interesting to hear.” A DIFFERENT MODEL Carolina Public Press was founded in 2011 to meet the need for more

investigative journalism in the western counties. In April, the organization received its official nonprofit certification from the IRS. “We chose to be a nonprofit for philosophic and business reasons,” Newsome explains. “The philosophical reason is we do believe we are providing a public service to the community; we do have an educational mission.” At the same time, she continues, “We are fundamentally different because we don’t accept advertising; we don’t accept government funding. ... We’re doing a lot with very little, in terms of our budget and how much money we’re raising. The people who fund us are foundations and individuals who believe in our mission and in our journalism. Our individual donors span the political spectrum, which is how they should be. It’s a challenge to tell people about a new way to get their news. It’s a challenge to show them that we’re committed to this mission long term.” Carolina Public Press is not the region’s first nonprofit, investigative news source, however. The Fund for Investigative Reporting and Editing was founded in the early ’90s, says Calvin Allen, who ran it for about seven years before handing over the reins to Mark Goldstein. FIRE disbanded in 2004, and Goldstein now serves on CPP’s board of directors. “We wanted to be a resource for local reporters and also for local organizations,” says Goldstein. “My passion was to keep investigative reporting alive and well.” CPP, he continues, “comes from a similar place, where you have folks who are either journalists or who have a great interest in journalism, who understand the resources it takes to do good investigative reporting and who recognize the need to really foster that work.” But whereas FIRE withered when the money dried up, CPP is gaining readership and expanding its coverage and reach, says Newsome. “We’re definitely on a growth plan; we get more and more readers every day. More and more people are talking about us, and it’s really encouraging to be a part of a growing news organization, or a company that’s not laying off reporters or shrinking in size. We’re really optimistic and having a lot of fun doing it.” Goldstein, meanwhile, notes, “CPP is, to my knowledge, the only

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media outlet in WNC that has a reporter on the ground at the state capital. The media is so key to understanding what’s happening with local politics and acting as a sort of watchdog in the community, and media outlets are ... not as sustainable as they used to be. “Some might say, ‘Well, you have social media: Everyone can be their own reporter nowadays,’” he continues. “And I love social media, but there isn’t the sort of diligence that goes into a very well-reported story. To me, we need reporting all the more, because it’s so much easier than it used to be to express an uninformed opinion. I think it’s really important to have CPP to objectively report the news in a reliable way.” SERVING COMMUNITIES Amid continuing uncertainty about the future of print journalism, notes Goldstein, CPP is “striving to answer” the question of what happens next. Board President Allen Shaklan agrees. “CPP is an experiment in journalism,” he says. “Traditionally, in-depth, investigative-type reporting on the local level has been done by local newspapers, but that model

is broken. Newspapers, on a financial basis, have eroded. It’s happening all over. “In order to succeed, CPP has to find out what the needs are in the community,” he maintains. “What type of reporting people want, what areas people want to hear about — and that’s what Angie is doing.” It’s an ambitious mission — and one that necessarily requires selectivity. “We’re not going to be the ones that report about a restaurant opening,” Newsome explains. “We’re not going to be the ones that report about a car crash. There are other organizations that are doing that and doing it really well. “In general, in-depth and investigative news takes a long time to produce. It’s labor-intensive, it’s expensive, and it’s risky — you might spend a long time on a story and not get anything. … But that doesn’t mean the community doesn’t need and deserve that type of reporting. And that’s where we come in.”

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Walking the (budgetary) line Asheville Council ponders sidewalks, Sunday bus service and stormwater Asheville leaders could vote later this month to spend millions of dollars on sidewalks and greenways as part of a capital improvement program for the coming year. The budget also funds Sunday bus service in the city, starting Jan. 1. Yet some residents and City Council member Chris Pelly voiced concern during the June 10 budget hearing that the sidewalk investment would fail to adequately address what’s needed. Pelly — a longtime neighborhood advocate — called the spending plan

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“inadequate,” noting the poor condition of many sidewalks in the city and the need for new ones. City officials propose spending $8.6 million — much of that on sidewalks and greenways — in the 2014-15 fiscal year as part of a capital improvement plan totaling $49 million over the next five years. The budget includes $1.75 million for sidewalks on Hendersonville Road in South Asheville, money for greenways, $100,000 for neighborhood sidewalks and other multimodal transportation projects and improvements. The city’s operating budget totals $147.5 million, slightly less than for the fiscal year that ends this month. City leaders are scheduled to adopt the budget on June 24. While it would hold the line on property taxes, the proposed budget

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MORE GREEN FOR GREEN SPACES: City Council discussed the possibility of spending $8.6 million in capitol improvements, including greenways, neighborhood sidewalks and other multmodal tranposrtation projects. Photo courtesy of RiverLink

includes an increase in monthly fees property owners pay toward the city’s stormwater management system. Single-family homes currently pay a set rate of $2.34 per month, but the proposed budget would base fees on the square footage of the impervious surface of a residence. Some homeowners would pay $5.50 per month. The increase would generate nearly $1.9 million in revenue for the city, helping fund the installation of more drainage pipes and address backlogs in maintenance and repairs to the aging system. The stormwater plan drew support from council member Cecil Bothwell, who called it an “essential safety matter for city.” The fee increase would take effect July 1, the beginning of the fiscal year. It would coincide with a water rate hike the city approved in April, and it would come a year after the city raised its property tax rate, from 42 cents to 46 cents per $100 of assessed value, to help fund road maintenance and economic development projects. The proposed budget also includes funding for city buses to start running nine of its 16 bus routes on Sundays from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. beginning Jan. 1. The extra day would cost the city about $220,000, possibly offset by a federal grant. The funding also would help go toward improvements on the C route. Overall, the proposal has drawn praise from riders and transit advocates who have long called on the city to extend its hours and add Sunday service, with many rid-

ers facing difficulties finding or keeping jobs requiring that they work weekends. The proposal is also part of a broad plan by the city to boost ridership, with bus fares expected to cover only 16 percent of the $5.8 million the city expects to spend on public transit in the 2014-15 fiscal year. IN OTHER ACTIONS At the request of the applicant, local veterinarian Mark Ledyard, City Council tabled a revised proposal to rezone a historic property on Sunset Parkway in North Asheville. Last month, the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously rejected Ledyard’s proposal to create a canine rehab and day care center on the less-than-1acre property, once a church. He revised the plan, dropping the day care component of the project and making other changes for the project, which include renovating the 1920s structure, built originally as a women’s club with an auditorium. Council also tabled a revision to its Unified Development Ordinance that would permit a greater density of residential development in some commercial districts. The amendment is meant to “consider using housing as part of a mixed-use development, or as the primary use of underutilized commercial property,” a staff report said. Council’s full action agenda is available on the city’s website at avl.mx/0bb.X

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Local news briefs JUDGE BLOCKS TRANSFER OF ASHEVILLE’S WATER SYSTEM; APPEAL COMING On June 9, the city of Asheville released the news: Wake County Superior Court Judge Howard Manning has ruled that North Carolina legislators’ move to take over the local water system violates the state constitution. The Water Act — sponsored by Buncombe County Reps. Tim Moffitt and Nathan Ramsey and Henderson County Rep. Chuck McGrady, all Republicans, “is not a valid exercise of the sovereign power of the legislative branch,” Manning determined. Kirk Ross, with Carolina Public Press, reported: “In a strongly worded ruling issued Monday ... Manning said that although it passed as a statewide bill, the legislation mandating the change was a local act, despite its sponsors’ assertions that it was not. Unless overturned on appeal, the ruling prevents the state from ‘implementing or attempting to implement The Water Act.’ ... His ruling also backed the city’s contention that changing who has authority over the water system without compensating the city for it constituted a ‘taking’ for which the city received no compensation. Asheville is entitled to the same constitutional protections as an individual or corporation, Manning wrote in his ruling.” The N.C. Department of Justice will appeal the decision, according to Carolina Public Press. — Grady Cooper REP. MOFFITT TAKES AIM AT BUNCOMBE’S 1-YEAR-OLD CULTURAL AUTHORITY State Rep. Tim Moffitt says he plans to introduce an amendment that would repeal the Buncombe County Cultural and Recreation Authority, created less than a year ago to manage libraries, parks and recreation facilities. The authority’s original purpose was to consolidate county parks and recreation facilities with those of Asheville and other local municipalities, but state legislators later revised the law to ban cities from joining. Moffitt told the Asheville CitizenTimes that his proposed repeal has nothing to do with a judge’s ruling June 9 that the state’s plan for the the local water system violated the state constitution. — Margaret Williams

SCALES WILL FACE WILLIAMS FOR DA; WALDROP LIKELY ON COMMISSIONERS’ BALLOT Ben Scales turned in 7,958 verified signatures to the Buncombe County Board of Elections by the June 12 deadline, earning him an unaffiliated spot on the Nov. 4 ballot for district attorney against Democrat Todd Williams. He needed 7,331 signatures to get on the ballot. Rebecca Knight, a former Buncombe County District Court judge, turned in 5,556 signatures to the Board of Elections, missing the mark. Scales, a local attorney in private practice, specializes in representing defendants charged with marijuana violations. Volunteers with groups such as the North Carolina Cannabis Patients Network were key in helping his successful petition drive, which had been in the works for a year. He says his top priorities as DA would be prosecuting domestic violence and environmental cases. Williams crushed longtime District Attorney Ron Moore in the May 6 Democratic primary, winning 68 percent of the vote. Nancy Waldrop also seemed likely to have enough signatures to earn a unaffiliated spot on the fall ballot to run for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners in District 3, which includes Enka-Candler, Sandy Mush and Biltmore Forest. Waldrop needs to collect 2,300 signatures from registered voters in District 3 by June 27. As of June 12, Waldrop had submitted 4,159 signatures, although staffers had not yet determined how many of them were from registered voters in District 3. In that district’s May 6 Republican primary, political newcomer Miranda DeBruhl beat Waldrop’s husband, incumbent David King, with 59 percent of the vote. Waldrop is a retired Buncombe County schoolteacher with a master’s degree in education from Western Carolina University. She previously co-owned a small coffee and gift shop, as well as a real estate office. — Jake Frankel X

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BENEFITS ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM'S POP ART GALA 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • SA (6/21), 6pm - Tickets to this auction and dining gala benefit the museum. $150. Held at Morris Hellenic Cultural Center, 227 Cumberland Ave CASTING FOR RECOVERY 215-4234, CastingforRecovery. org • MO (6/23) through WE (6/25) - All proceeds from this fly fishing retreat (which includes food, lodging and gear) support this nonprofit's outdoor events for women recovering from cancer. $1000. Held at Lake Logan Episcopal Center, 25 Wormy Chestnut Lane, Canton FIRECRACKER 5K 2014 645-4656, Kiwanisfirecracker@ yahoo.com • Through FR (7/4) - Registration is open for this event spon-

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A CONVENIENT SOIREE: Sunburst Trout Farms will hold its second annual Summer Solstice Soiree, a benefit dinner for Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, on Saturday, June 21. Chefs will play on the theme “the convenience of local food,” with a spread that includes Sunburst’s Rainbow Trout burger and Waynesville Soda Jerks’ handcrafted sodas. Photo courtesy of Sunburst Trout Farm. (p.16)

sored by the Kiwanis Club of N. Buncombe, benefiting student scholarships. $25/ $30 after June 20.

this public school for girls in Kenya. $30/$10 children under age 10. Held at Nourish & Flourish, 347 Depot St.

'FROM BBQ TO BRAAI' FUNDRAISER 251-5702, ashevillehabitat.org • SA (6/21), 2-5pm - Tickets to this South African wine tasting and BBQ dinner benefit Habitat for Humanity. $25. Held at Katuah Market, 2 Hendersonville Road

READ, WRITE AND RUN 5K buncombe.k12.nc.us/ domain/5523, woodfin5k@gmail. com • SA (5/31) - Funds for this outdoor event benefit youth literacy and healthy living programs. $30. Held at Woodfin Elementary, 108 Elk Mountain Road

IMMACULATA CATHOLIC SCHOOL 711 Buncombe St., Hendersonville, 693-3277, immac.org • TH (6/19) through SA (6/21), 9am-2pm - Annual rummage sale to benefit the school. MASAI GIRLS SCHOOL DINNER FUNDRAISER 255-2770, maasaigirlseducation. org • MO (6/23), 6:30-8:30pm Tickets to this raw, vegan, and live foods buffet raise funds for

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ROCKIN' FOR THE OTTERS 712-4839, wildwnc.org • SA (6/21), 7:30pm - Admission to this auction and live music performance benefits Friends of the WNC Nature Center. $5. Held at Millroom, 66 Ashland Ave. RUN FOR KIDS SAKE 5K 253-1470, bit.ly/1iJzPtu • SA (6/21), 8:30am - A marathon benefiting Big Brothers, Big Sisters of WNC. Held at Warren Wilson College. $30.

SHINDIG ON THE GREEN 5K & FUN RUN 258-6101, folkheritage.org • Through (6/28) - Registration is open for this run to benefit the free summer concert series. $30/ $25 before June 26. SUMMER SOLSTICE SOIREE 236-1282, asapconnections.org • SA (6/21), 5:30-10pm - Tickets to this dinner gala held at Sunburst Trout Farm's headquarters benefit Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. $100. Held at 128 Raceway Place, Canton

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS LINDA PANNULLO MOSAICS WORKSHOPS • THIS SUNDAY (pd.) Concrete Leaf Workshop, Painters Greenhouse, June 22, 11-3pm. Make a garden display from a real leaf! • FUNdamento Workshop (mosiac flowpat-

terns) with Seattle artist Kelley Knickerbocker. Learn to control the flow (andamento) of your mosaics. Information/registration: (828) 337-6749 • www.lindapannullomosaics.com SINGLE AND LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FUN? (pd.) Try AVL Speed Dating! Events start at 6:30pm and are held monthly at The Cantina in Biltmore Village • Next event: Wednesday, June 25 (35-49 age group) • To make a reservation or for more info, call (828) 242-2555 or see AVLSpeedDating.com ASHEVILLE MAKERS ashevillemakers.org • TUESDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Weekly social held at Asheville Pizza, 77 Coxe Ave. DAVIDSON'S FORT HISTORIC PARK Lackey Town Road, Old Fort, 6684831, davidsonsfort.com • SA (6/21) & SU (6/22), 10am-5pm - American Revolution reenactments. $5/$2 children ages 6-10.

GOODWILL CAREER CLASSES 828-298-9023, ext. 1106 • TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9am-noon - Adult basic education/ high school equivalency classes. Registration required. • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-8:30pm - ESL classes. Registration required. • ONGOING - Classes for careers in the food and hotel industries. Includes American Hotel and Lodging Association Certification. Call for times. $25. • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 12:30-3:30pm - Medical office support career classes. Registration required. LAND OF SKY TOASTMASTERS landofskytoastmasters.org • TUESDAYS, 7am - Meets at the Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Square Blvd. SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE HISTORY CENTER 283 Victoria Rd., 253-9231, wnchistory.org Located on the A-B Tech campus.

• Through WE (12/31) - Hillybilly Land: Myth and Reality of Appalachian Culture. SCORE: COUNSELORS TO SMALL BUSINESS ashevillescore.org • SA (6/21), 9am-noon “Buying & Selling a Business.” Held at the Small Business Center on A-B Tech’s Enka campus. WINGATE UNIVERSITY 220 5th Ave. East, Hendersonville, 980-359-1031, wingate.edu/hendersonville • TH (6/26), 6:30pm - MBA information session. Free. WNC ALLIANCE FOR RETIRED AMERICANS dick@dickandnorma.com • TH (6/19), 10am - Quarterly meeting. Held at Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road WNC CARVERS 665-8273 • SSU (6/22), 1:30pm - Meets at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road

WNC CHAPTER OF ACLU 450-1118, acluwnc.wordpress. com, cfirst@mac.com • SU (6/22), 3pm - Annual meeting with award ceremony. Held in the roof garden at Battery Park Apartments, 1 Battle Square YOUTH OUTRIGHT youthoutright.org • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Weekly meeting for LGBTQ youth and straight allies. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

DANCE BEGINNER SWING DANCING LESSONS (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $10/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www. SwingAsheville.com STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE

CLASSES (pd.) Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 6pm Bellydance 1 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm West African • Wednesday 6pm Bellydance 3 • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 10am Bellydance Wrkt 4pm Kid's Dance 5pm Teen Dance 6pm AfroBrazilian 7pm West African • Sunday 5:15pm Yoga • $13 for 60 minute classes. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: (828) 242-7595 BREVARD'S OLD TIME STREET DANCES 1-800-648-4523, visitwaterfalls.com • TUESDAYS through (8/6), 6:30pm - Includes live music and square dance instruction. Free. Held on Main Street, Brevard. INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING connielwiley@gmail.com • MONDAYS, 2:15-4pm & TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pmFree with donations. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road.

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NC YOUTH TAP ENSEMBLE PERFORMANCE 919-967-9624, ncyte.org • WE (6/25), 7pm - Free. Held at Transylania County Library, 212 South Gaston St., Brevard OPPORTUNITY HOUSE 1411 Asheville Hwy., Hendersonville, 692-0575, opportunityhouse.org • TUESDAYS (6/3) through (6/24), 5:30-7:30pm - Line dancing class. $40/ $36 members. SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (6/21), 6pm - "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" dance. Held at Whitmire Acitivity Building, Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

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An ‘otterly’ good cause WHAT: Rockin’ for the Otters, a benefit for the WNC Nature Center WHEN: Saturday, June 21, 7:30 p.m. WHERE: The Millroom, 66 Ashland Ave. WHY: The fundraiser was conceived to support Friends of the WNC Nature Center, the center’s volunteer fundraising arm, by Asheville band Awake in the Dream, which will be headlining the event. Taylor Webb, the band’s bass player, says the group has sponsored similar fundraisers in the past and realized the Nature Center was a perfect fit for a new venture. “We had all been out there and really liked the place and their mission,” Webb says. “When we approached the Friends about putting on this event, they were so helpful, enthusiastic and positive that we knew right away we wanted to work with them.” Webb says the benefit will not only raise money for the Center but also awareness of its financial needs and struggles.

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“They have suffered some cuts to their funding, and I think a lot of people aren’t aware of that,” Webb says. “This area is so lucky to have that resource, and it’s so unique because a lot of places don’t have anything like it. We want to help out and make sure it always stays in this area.” Jon Hettrick, with Friends of the Nature Center, said the event will help to fund everything from animal care to exhibit enhancements to bringing new animals into the center. “It won’t go toward a specific project but it will serve as an overall fundraiser for the center,” Hettrick says. “For example, we recently received two new gray wolf pups and we’re getting in several other young animals, including two barn owls.” When asked his favorite thing to see at the Nature Center, Webb says it’s difficult to decide. “The wolves, the otters, the cats, but it’s really hard to narrow it down because there’s so much there to offer,” he says. “We’re just so lucky to have them here.” Tickets are $5. For more information visit wildwnc.org/news-and-events/rockin-otters.

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NC. www.reemscreek.com HAYWOOD COUNTY MASTER GARDENERES GARDEN TOUR 456-3575, mgtour2014@charter.net • SA (6/21), 9am-4pm - "Forest, Flowers and Food" garden tour through five Haywood County locations. $15. JACKSON FARMERS MARKET BENEFIT jacksonfarmersmarket.org • SA (6/21), 9am-noonQuesadilla fundraiser with local veggies. Proceeds go toward purchase of storage shed. Held on Railroad Avenue, Sylva. LEICESTER GARDEN CLUB 683-0347 • TU (6/24), 1pm - Meeting includes a tour of a master gardener's N.Asheville private garden. Meets at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road

ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • WE (6/18), 6pm - Discussion of "Coal Ash Legislation." Held at Green Sage Coffeehouse & Cafe, 5 Broadway

LIVING WEB FARMS 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 505-1660, livingwebfarms.org • TH (6/19), 6:30-8pm Workshop: Intro to Vegetable Fermentation. $15.

HIGHLANDS NATURE CENTER 90 Horse Cove Road, Highlands, 526-2221, highlandsbiological.org • TH (6/19), 6:30pm - Zahner Conservation Lecture Series: Dr. Lee Alan Dugatkin.

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS 884-3239 • TU (6/24), 10am-noon Garden clinic. Held at the Community Services Building, 98 East Morgan St, Brevard.

FESTIVALS SIRENS ON THE MOUNTAIN • FR (6/20), 2-11pm - A festival honoring women in music and art. $25 Held at High County Fairground, 748 Roby Greene Road, Boone SUMMER SOLSTICE SERVICE 645-2674, avalongrove.org • SA (6/21), 3-4pm - Held in a private home in Weaverville. Free. Contact for directions.

GARDENING HYDRANGEAS – VERSATILE POWER BLOOMERS (pd.) SA (6/21), 10 am Seminar with Matt Timmer. Hydrangeas are summer show-stoppers! Learn about four types of hydrangeas, their versatility & best features, special needs, and pruning times – plus great design ideas. Free, but please pre-register at 828-645-3937. Reems Creek Nursery & Landscaping, 70 Monticello Road, Weaverville,

KIDS LEARN TO SKATE/PLAY HOCKEY! (pd.) Kids ages 8 and under, come out to the rink at Carrier Park, Mondays from June 16-August 11, 6:308pm. Equipment supplied. Details: www.ashevillehockey.org DANCE CLASSES AT BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. $40 per month. Registration required. • THURSDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm - Kids in Motion. Ages 3 to 5. • MONDAYS, 4-5pm & THURSDAYS, 4:30-5:30pm - Beginners Hip Hop. Ages 6-10. SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE HISTORY CENTER 283 Victoria Rd., 253-9231, wnchistory.org Located on the A-B Tech campus.

• SA (6/21), 10:30am12:30pm - "Crafty Historian" demonstrates how to make Rainbow Loom bracelets. $7. TRANSYLANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 South Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 Transylvania County Library • TU (6/24), 10am-noon - Tuesday Hullabaloo: Activities for ages birth to 5 including story time and crafts. Call for age group times. Transylvania County Library • WE (6/25), 3pm "Wednesday Family Show" with kids music singalong. WEAVERVILLE LEGO CLUB 250-6482 • MO (6/9), 4-5pm - For ages 6 and up. Free.

OUTDOORS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 298-5330, nps.gov, gail_fox@ nps.gov • FR (6/20), 10am - Ranger-led 2.5-mile hike on Mountains-toSea trail from Glassmine Falls Overlook. Meets at MP 361.2. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Hwy. 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • SA (6/21), 9am - Canoe excursion. Meets at Paddy's Creek area bathhouse breezeway. Registration required. • SU (6/22) - Fishing tutorial. Meets at Paddy's Creek area office. Registration required.

PARENTING CHILDREN FIRST/CIS MIND THE GAP TOUR • WE (6/25), 8:30am - The Children First/CIS Mind the Gap Tour will call attention to issues that hinder the success of children and families in poverty. Free. Info and registration: AllisonJ@childrenfirstbc. org or 259-9717.

PUBLIC LECTURES TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 • TU (6/24), 7pm - A slide show on Patagonia and Alpine climbing. Free.

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Look and Feel Younger SENIORS SENIOR CRIBBAGE MEETINGS 367-7794 • MONDAYS, 6pm - Instruction provided. Free to attend. Held at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave.

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation. Learn about the authentic TM technique. It's not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice. It's an effortless, non-religious, evidence-based technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. • Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment? • Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org

AIM MEDITATION CLASSES (pd.) Ramp up your meditation practice with AIM’s Meditation’s Classes: Mindfulness 101- Basics of Mindfulness Meditation, Mindfulness 102 - More advanced, intermediate class. Class dates and times: www. ashevillemeditation.com/ events, (828) 808-4444 ASHEVILLE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc. com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:00pm. ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Wednesdays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com ASHEVILLE OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience effortless techniques that connect you to your heart and the Divine within you. Your experience will deepen as you are gently guided in this complete practice. Love Offering 7-8pm

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Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 2960017 heartsanctuary.org. ASTRO-COUNSELING (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 2583229. CRYSTAL VISIONS BOOKS AND EVENT CENTER (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts • Incense • Tarot. Visit our Labyrinth and Garden. 828687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (pd.) "ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION Deepen your authentic presence, and cultivate a happier, more peaceful mind by practicing Insight (Vipassana) Meditation in a supportive community. Group Meditation. Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm. Sundays, 10am11:30pm. 29 Ravenscroft Dr., Suite 200, Asheville, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com MINDFULNESS MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness

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teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm: Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. Info: 258-3241. www.billwalz. com ASHEVILLE CENTER FOR TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 165 E. Chestnut, 254-4350, meditationasheville.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30 pm Introductory lectures on transcendental meditation. Free. ASHEVILLE HARE KRISHNA 506-0996, gopalonetwo@ yahoo.com • SUNDAYS, noon - Includes chanting, discussion and a vegetarian meal. Free. Held at Kuntao Arts, 211 Merrimon Ave.

New school education Even though more university students are going on to seek advanced degrees and more specified education, some students may graduate from academia without a great deal of real-world knowledge. Founders of a local nonprofit say many graduates are without the skill set to apply what they’ve learned in school to the world around them in a meaningful way. “What people really desire out of their education today is clarity [about] who they are — how they can match their purpose with a viable vocation,” says Matthew Abrams, co-founder of Mycelium, a nonprofit school and learning community. For Abrams, a powerful educational experience is hands-on and connects students with the world and to each other. “There’s life and vitality and messiness and ugliness — but real-ness,” he says. Ashley Cooper, Mycelium’s other co-founder agrees. “I feel this interconnected world, and yet I don’t see it playing out in the world around me,” Cooper says. Spending years as a teacher and guidance counselor, Cooper made it her mission to teach students the skills to connect with their commu-

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nity. For the past two years, Cooper has been working with Abrams in developing the Mycelium curriculum, which aims to offer participants not only a gateway into their own authentic self, but also networks to cross-pollinate and enact that self. They call the curriculum a “learning journey.” It is designed for “people who are at a crossroads in their life and wanting to step into the next chapter with intention and integrity,” says Abrams. The program helps people with passion to make a positive difference in the world by connecting student “journeyers” with mentors and peers that have experience and mastery in fields the students are interested in pursuing. From November 2013 through March of this year, Mycelium launched its beta learning journey. Abrams and Cooper say once the nonprofit has its enrollment numbers up, Mycelium will be sustained by tuition fees. But for now they’ve launched a StartSomeGood crowdfunding campaign to help bring the in the next cohort groups and give scholarships to those who can’t afford the program. For more information about Mycelium, visit mycelium.is.

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ECKANKAR CENTER OF ASHEVILLE 797 Haywood Road, 2546775, eckankar-nc.org • SU (6/22), 11am-12:30pm - Spiritual Laws of Life workshop: "The Law of the Self." MAHA SHAKTI MANDIR 11 Sand Hill Court, facebook.com/mahashaktimandir • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm Arati, chanting and spiritual discourse. • SATURDAYS, 6-8pm - Shiva and Sri Chakra Puja. MOUNTAIN ZEN PRACTICE CENTER 450-3621, mountainzen.org, mountainzen@bellsouth.net • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Conscious compassionate awareness meditation and group discussion. Contact for directions.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN BOOK SALE brevard-nc.aauw.net • SA (6/21) through TH (6/26), 10am-7pm - Proceeds support scholarships. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville, 456-6000, blueridgebooksnc. com • SA (6/21), 3pm - Jane Alexander discusses her memoir, The View from Tom's Stand.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: •SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) •SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) • TH (6/19), 2:30pm - Book Club: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith. SS • WE (6/25), 10am - Swannanoa Sewing Circle. SW CHAUTAUQUA 2014: RISING TO THE OCCASION 250-4700, buncombecounty. org/library • Through TH (6/19), 7pm One-man reenactments of historic figures known for bravery. Thu.: Patrick Henry. Held in Warren Wilson's Morris Pavilion. $12 for series/ $4 per night CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com • TH (6/19), 10:30am - Coffee with the Poet series: Rosemary Rhodes Royston. • SA (6/21), 3pm - Nelma Jean Bryson discusses her book, Bottomless Uprising. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Events are free, unless otherwise noted. • TH (6/19), 7pm - Deidre Ann deLaughter discusses her novel, Reawakening Rebekah: The Gift of the Clamor Girls. • SU (6/22), 3pm - Brys Stephens discusses his book, The New Southern Table: Classic Ingredients Revisited. • MO (6/23), 7pm - Lisa Howorth reads and signs her book, Flying Shoes. • TU (6/24), 7pm - Kate Sweeney reads and signs her book, American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning. READINGS AT ASU library.appstate.edu • TH (6/19), 3-7PM - Novelist and screenwriter Bob Inman discusses his book, The Governor’s Lady. Held in Belk Library. SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am Storytime. Ages 2-6. Free.

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VOLUNTEERING APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY 828-254-3708 x15, rbrydon@ appalachiantrail.org Works to preserve and manage the Appalachian Trail. • Through (6/28) - Volunteers needed for an invasive exotic plant workshop at Lemon Gap. HANDS ON ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org The volunteer center for the United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County. Registration required. • FR (6/20) - Volunteers needs to help sort and pack food at MANNA Foodbank. • MO (6/23) - Volunteers needed to tidy and organize play rooms at the The Meditation Center's family visiting program. • TU (6/24) - Volunteers needed to perform stocking, cleaning, clerical and decorating tasks for Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity. • WE (6/26) - Volunteers needed to make homemade cookies for families staying at the Lewis Rathbun House. • TH (6/26) - Volunteers needed to cook and serve lunch at the ABCCM Veteran's Restoration Quarters. • TH (6/26) - Volunteers needed to unpack merchandise at Ten Thousand Villages. HEART OF BREVARD 884-3278, brevardnc.org • Through (7/4) - Volunteers needed to assist with 4th of July celebration. LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 254-3442, volunteers@litcouncil. com Works to increase literacy and English language skills. • Through SU (6/22) Volunteers needed for the Augustine Reading program to tutor low-income children. Requires commitment to 40 hour orientation held June 23- July 4. For more volunteering opportunities, visit mountainx.com/volunteering

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Clyde, Monday — President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama have plunked down nearly $70,000 to secure a view in WNC that is, according to the local realtor who closed the deal, “worth a thousand words. “It’s confirmed: the Obamas are coming to Jessup Drive in beautiful Clyde, North Carolina, sometime in 2015,” said Scott “Sells Homes Not Houses” Stevens. “There will be nothing more coveted than an overnight stay in the second bedroom of the Presidential Manufactured Home.” The Obamas snatched up nearly half an acre of heaven, with long-range views of the Iron Duff/Crabtree area. “Michelle and I are looking forward to relaxing on our own private deck,” said the president in a statement released by the White House, “as well as listening to raindrops on our metal roof, pulling up the carpet in hopes of discovering linoleum, and enjoying both our dining room and our laundry room.” Stevens, a real estate agent since 2011, pocketed $2,097 in the transaction. “Not a bad fee for posting an add on Craigslist,” said Stevens. “The Obamas chose a south-facing home in honor of the bedrock of support they found in the South during their time in the White House.” While they haven’t yet indicated if they will clear away the furniture and belongings of the previous owners, or simply move right in, the Obamas now have 840 square feet of leg-stretching living space to call their very own. “Barack may pick up a part-time job in Clyde to help cover his $267 monthly mortgage, and there’s some speculation he may test the waters for a run at the Clyde Board of Aldermen,” said Stevens. “Regardless, he was thrilled when I assured him his new home is just a five-minute drive away from the Blue Ridge Parkway, Asheville, major shopping outlets, Charlotte, Atlanta, and D.C.” Asheville Disclaimer is parody/satire Contact: tomscheve@gmail.com Contributing this week: Joe Shelton, Cary Goff, Tom Scheve

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Thirty thousand spiders, led by members of the British Tarantula Society, gathered in Coventry on May 18 for the annual BTS exhibition, with first-time entrant Mike Dawkins’ Socotra Island blue baboon taking Best in Show. According to news reports, judges look for “shiny coats, correct proportions, an active demeanor and proper stance” (“all eight legs should be upright and perfectly poised”). Veteran judge Ryan Hale said winning doesn’t necessarily make a spider more valuable but will probably enhance the keeper’s reputation.

most terrifying) performance artist, He Yunchang, 48, told Agence FrancePresse in May that he’ll do “anything” to advance “art,” as long as it doesn’t kill him. Most famously, removed part of a rib on the opening day of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, and in 2010 he assembled 25 people to vote on whether he should be slashed from collarbone to knee and left bloody on a bed. (Cutting won, 12-10, with three abstentions; a doctor reluctantly made the incision.) A gallery owner in Australia said that He’s “pain” and “discomfort” “have a transcendent quality” and are “silent rebukes” to Chinese people who endure hardship just for money — ironically believing it will protect them from suffering.

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In February, Dan Greding was installing street signs for the city of Santa Barbara, Calif., warning that only “75-minute parking” was permitted. On one block, three signs were called for, and the last one required drilling into concrete, inserting screws and waiting for the concrete to dry, which apparently took more than 75 minutes — and a passing police officer ticketed his truck. Greding’s first appeal was denied; at press time, a second appeal was pending.

GREAT ART • Weird Japan: When Ayano Tsukimi, 64, moved from Osaka back to her home village of Nagoro, she found only 37 people living there. Seeking to “replace” those who’ve died or moved away, Tsukimi has created life-size stuffed dolls, with unsettling facial features, that she positions around town. Tsukimi estimates that she’s created about 350 “inhabitants” and, the Global Post website reported in May, “imagines a future where she’s outlived all her neighbors and only dolls remain.” • China’s pre-eminent (and perhaps

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Going with the flow goes with life rather than against it. It moves away from resistance and toward the flow. These concepts are embedded in Daoism and Chinese medicine. I also include qigong and tai chi at the center because these help us learn how to bring our bodies into balance. Those classes belong to the wellness side of our center. We have a wellness side, and we have a medicine side. I treat medical problems and teach my patients wellness care.

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While teaching women’s-only Dao Flow Yoga class at Asheville Yoga Center, Dr. Saraswati Markus was approached by several women who were seeking natural solutions for their health problems. In response, Markus, a licensed acupuncturist and doctor of Chinese medicine, decided it was time to open her own clinic locally. She launched the Nourishing Life Center to provide women with healing through yoga and qigong classes, workshops, acupuncture, Chinese medicine and herbalism. As the center approaches its one-year anniversary, Xpress sat down with Markus to learn more about her healing methods. Mountain Xpress: What inspired you to work with women’s health? When I started my acupuncture practice in 1995 [in southern California], I had two young women who were told they could not have children. One had severe endometriosis and the other uterine fibroids. Their doctors recommended hysterectomies. Many of their symptoms were resolved with acupuncture treatments. Not only that, but they both got pregnant and had multiple children. Word spread, and my practice filled with women. Were you doing solely acupuncture at the time? I was doing acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, breathwork, movement and guided meditation. It’s not enough to come in for the one hour of acupuncture. You have to begin to interact with your life differently, and that ultimately becomes the lifetime solution. Do you have a strong gynecological focus in your practice?

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NATURAL SOLUTIONS: Saraswati Markus treats women’s issues such as fertility and menopause with a combination of Chinese medicine and yoga.

My doctorate work in Chinese medicine was about hormones and the various treatments to boost them up. I work a lot with fertility enhancement. In 2002, a study showed the efficacy of using acupuncture with in vitro fertilization. If you do acupuncture in conjunction with IVF, your chances of conceiving go up 25 percent. When you do an intake, are there specific questions that you ask? I’ll ask them what they think is standing in their way of becoming a mother, if they have any insight on that. Sometimes they do, or sometimes it’s helpful to sit in the question. It’s amazing what resources are available when we turn to our own insight. We have to find some degree of retreat, our yin nature of receptivity. I always ask [patients]: How can you soften

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and open to the the life that you have right now? What is the age range of most of your patients? Most of the women I see are between 35 and 60 — fertility, premenopausal and menopausal patients. What I do for menopausal patients is not that different than what I do to enhance fertility. You also incorporate yoga classes in your program for women’s health. Can you tell me about those? It’s called Dao Flow Yoga. Dao is the ancient Chinese philosophy that connects the energies of nature and our bodies. As we line ourselves up with the rhythms of nature, the human body gets healthier and stronger because it

Did you develop the Dao Flow Yoga system? Yes. I threaded together everything I’ve learned from treating women and from my 20-year yoga practice. In my classes I teach woman yoga poses and breathwork techniques that target the glands and turn them back on. There are very specific poses for the ovaries, adrenals, thyroid, pituitary and hypothalamus, which improve blood flow, oxygenation and detoxification. The practice targets rejuvenation and vitality rather than just relaxation alone. All this put together means that you have better hormones. Do you see men in your medicine practice? Are men also invited to attend yoga classes? I treat men in my medicine practice as well. Men are invited to 2 Dao Flow Yoga, along with qigong classes, each week. The focus is about harmonizing the flow of energy throughout the body and calming the mind. The practices are meant to balance our modern tendency to become overstimulated. Men are also welcome to enjoy workshops at the center. What was your vision of opening up the Nourishing Life Center? I’d see the hope in women’s eyes, like “Oh I don’t have to have headaches, I don’t have to have insomnia or period pain.” It’s not so far reaching that they can’t feel empowered to take the steps to make their lives different. So when you plant those seeds, people light up with empowerment. I didn’t know I was going to start a center. I knew I wanted to do something different. X

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Bee-Aware • BEE CITY Asheville NC—not just BEER City, Asheville is the first (and so far only) “Bee City” in the US. • BEEsides bees Other pollinators include butterflies, beetles, ants, moths, bats and hummingbirds • BEEholding We need bees (and other pollinators) to transfer pollen in flowering plants and trees as a part of the fertilization process so we can have fruit and seeds • BEE mindful Pesticides kill insects we don’t want, but they also kill the ones we need. Limit use of pesticides around your home or apply at late afternoon/evening when pollinators are less active. • BEE proactive Plant native flowering plants that pollinators will like. Plant milkweed — Monarch butterfly larvae feed on this exclusively Sources: US Fish & Wildlife service - http://www.fws.gov/pollinators/PollinatorPages/YourHelp.html#pesticide Monarch Watch: http://www.monarchwatch.org/milkweed/

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WELLNESS CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH (CMT) (pd.) Asheville Support and Action Group will hold second gathering on June 28, 2-4:30pm at 100 Clubwood Ct., Asheville, N.C. Established for those impacted by CMT in the area, we will review current research, share experiences of physical and occupational therapy, learn of new treatments and medical professionals who treat CMT and support efforts of the national CMTA. • This meeting’s agenda will include a representative from Gene DX, a company offering gene testing. He will explain Gene DX partnership with CMTA and the possibilities for patient gene testing. Don’t miss this opportunity to talk with others impacted by CMT. • For more information call Ruth Ann Carroll, (203) 981-3738 or e-mail racarroll44@ gmail.com ASHEVILLE BIRTHKEEPERS • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Meets at the Spiral Center for Conscious Beginnings, 167A Haywood Road

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ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • SA (6/21), 12:30-2:30pm - Summer Solstice ritual. $20. • SU (6/22), 11:30am-1:30pm - Sun practice. $20. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • THURSDAYS, 10:11:30am - T’ai Chi Qi Gong class. $12. JUBILEE COMMUNITY CHURCH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TH (6/19), 7-9pm - Workshop on “Healing Your Heart.” Free. LUPUS FOUNDATION SEMINAR 877-849-8271, lupusnc.org • SA (6/21), 10am-1pm - 2014 Lupus Empowerment seminars: “Lupus and Nutrition” and “Lupus and Kidneys.” Free. Held in the Rhododendron Building on A-B Tech’s campus. OLLI AT UNCA 251-6140, olliasheville.com • TH (6/19), 7-9pm - Advanced care planning workshop. Free. Held in the Reuter Center, on

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SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES For people who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. adultchildren.org • Meetings are offered Mon., Fri., Sat., and Sunday at multiple times. For a full list of times and locations visit mountainx.com/support AL-ANON/ ALATEEN FAMILY GROUPS A support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. wnc-alanon.org or 800-286-1326. • Meetings are offers 7 days a week at multiple times. For a full list of times and locations visit mountainx.com/support ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 2548539 or aancmco.org ASHEVILLE UNDEREARNERS ANONYMOUS underearnersanonymous.org. • TUESDAYS, 6p.m.- First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 102 BREVARD-HENDERSONVILLE PARKINSON’S SUPPORT 685-7673 or 862-8820 • TU (5/13), 10am - Meets at Brevard-Davidson River Presbyterian Church, 249 E. Main St., Brevard. CARING FOR AGING PARENTS EDUCATION & SUPPORT GROUP coabc.org, 277-8288 • 3nd MONDAYS, 5-6:30 p.m. - Meets at Council on Aging of Buncombe County, 46 Sheffield Circle. CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT deb.casaccia@gmail.com or 989-1555 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6 p.m. - Held in a private home. Contact for directions. DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org

• MONDAYS, 7 p.m. - First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 101 DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE magneticminds.weebly.com or 367-7660 • WEDNESDAYS, 7 p.m. & SATURDAYS, 4 p.m. 1316-C Parkwood Road DIABETES SUPPORT laura.tolle@msj.org or 213-4788 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 5:30pm – Mission Health, 1 Hospital Drive. Room 3-B. ELECTRO-SENSITIVITY SUPPORT For electrosensitive individuals. • For location and info contact hopefulandwired@gmail.com or 255-3350. EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS For anyone desiring to live a healthier emotional life. 631-434-5294 • TUESDAYS, 7 p.m. - Oak Forest Presbyterian Church, 880 Sandhill Road FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 423-6191 or 301-4084 • THURSDAYS, 6 p.m. - Asheville 12-Step Club, 1340 A Patton Ave. HEART OF RECOVERY MEDITATION GROUP Teaches how to integrate meditation with any 12-step recovery program. asheville.shambhala. org • TUESDAYS, 6 p.m.- Shambhala Meditation Center, 19 Westwood Place. HEART SUPPORT For individuals living with heart failure. 274-6000. • 1st TUESDAYS, 2-4pm – Asheville Cardiology Associates, 5 Vanderbilt Drive. LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association. 776-4809. • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30 p.m. - Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston Ave. MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS For caregivers of those with memory loss or dementia. network@memorycare.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 9:30am - Highland Farms Retirement Community, 200 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain. MEN WORKING ON LIFE’S ISSUES 686-5590 or 683-7195 • TUESDAYS, 6-8 p.m. - 90 Zillicoa Ave. MISSION HEALTH FAMILY NIGHT For caregivers of children with social health needs or development concerns. 213-9787 • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30 p.m. - Mission Rueter Children’s Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive. NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For relatives and friends concerned about the addiction or drug problem of a loved one. naranon.org • Meetings are offers on Tues. and Wed. For a full list of times and locations visit mountainx. com/support NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS For people living with mental health issues and their loved ones. namiwnc.org or 505-7353. • Groups offered Thur. and Sat. For a full list of times and locations visit mountainx.com/support

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Home garden of Paula Beatty. Photo by Carrie Eidson

Three years ago Scott Miller got a knock on his door — and an offer he couldn’t refuse. “If you like to garden, you’re showing off a little anyway,” Miller says. “So when someone comes up and says, ‘Wow, you have a beautiful garden,’ and that the neighborhood garden stroll wants to feature your garden — well, ego takes over after a while.” That knock on the door was Miller’s initiation into the West Asheville Garden Stroll, a neighborhood venture now in its sixth year, designed to show off the gardens of West Asheville and foster walkability and neighborhood pride. “If nothing else, it’s about community,” Miller says. “The tour brings gardeners together; it bring neighbors together.” Miller says the West Asheville Garden Stroll (WAGS) began when a small group of gardeners was looking for a way to improve the neighborhood. “Six years ago, West Asheville wasn’t even as nice as it is now, and we’ve still got a long way to go,” Miller says. “The idea of promoting walkability or bikeability was just starting to emerge. With WAGS, the thought was, ‘If we can show people that you can walk all over the place and see all these beautiful gardens and have a wonderful time, then that’s community-building.”’ 28

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The first year of WAGS wasn’t exactly a disaster, Miller says, but it was a struggle. The event had zero budget and zero publicity, but it did have plenty of rain. And yet, the organizers brought it back the next year and the next, bringing in visitors from all over Asheville, as well as Tennessee and South Carolina, Miller says. Last year he estimates that 400 people attended the tour. Along the way, organizers began collecting sponsors and donations, all with the dream of someday providing grants to gardening projects in their community — a dream that finally became a reality last winter. “That’s another way we’re working to bring the community together — by supporting these community spaces,” Miller says. “We won’t give grants to private gardens, but several schools got them, as well as the little area behind Sunny Point Cafe. It’s all part of the effort to be more of a cohesive community.” Miller says the organizers of WAGS try to highlight a different section of West Asheville every year — a chance for neighbors to meet other neighbors and see new gardens. They also intend to show off “more than a neat yard,” Miller says, as they seek out gardeners who demonstrate principles of permaculture, edible landscaping, organic vegetable growing or backyard husbandry. This year the tour will be heading through areas around Brevard Road on Saturday, Sept. 13. “I think we’ve really attained what that initial WAGS group had in mind,” Miller says. “We’re showing off West Asheville, showing off all the different things that are happening here. It’s so important to promote getting together, walking around — even just chatting with a neighbor.” For more information on WAGS, visit westashevillegardens.com. Want more garden tours in your summer? There are many throughout the region, including: •Bullington Garden’s “Secret Garden” tour, June 21. $60. Info: 698-6104. •Haywood County Master Gardeners’ “Forest, Flowers and Food” garden tour, June 21. $15. Info: 456-3575. •Bamboo garden tour at Haiku Bamboo Farm, June 22. $20. Info: 68530-53. •High Country Farm Tour, June 28 & 29. $30. Info: 386-1537. • Flat Rock Historic Home & Gardens Tour, July 12. $25. Info: 698-0030. •ECO’s Green Homes and Edible Gardens tour, Aug. 9; $25. Info: 692-0385 •Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Farm Tour, Sept. 20-21; $25. Info: 236-1280. X

Rachel Lubitz (left) and Hall Fletcher student Anthony Freeman. Photo by Carrie Eidson

Tiny, gloved hands plunge into the soft soil, grabbing bits of earth between bent fingers. The hands carefully place a seed sprout into the ground, covering it with soil and giving it a final, loving pat. It will be a long wait for the tomatoes, the peas, the carrots, the strawberries. A long wait for cucumber salads, blueberry smoothies, roasted rosemary sweet potatoes. But it will be worth the wait. Blossoming in Asheville is a concept of hands-on learning that takes the school curriculum beyond the boundaries of classroom walls, while also attempting to change the world’s view on food, one elementary student at a time. “It’s so much easier to open children’s’ minds than to open adults minds,” says Jordan Diamond, garden specialist at Vance Elementary’s Peace Garden. “If you try to change the way the population of our country feels about food, children are where to start.” The school’s garden allows Diamond to incorporate other elements of the curriculum as well — from history and social studies to math and science. “It teaches kids what the real world is like outside of reading and writing and math — and it does actually integrate all of those things,” Diamond says. “You can write about your experience in the garden, use math to measure beds and count how many plants per square foot. It enriches and brings life to the school curriculum in this amazing, ideal way.” Rachel Lubitz, garden specialist for Hall Fletcher Elementary’s learning garden, agrees. “I think it makes our students so much more aware — whether it’s aware of the story of their food, whether it’s aware that seasons bring perennial flowers, new insects or more ecosystem elements,” she says. “They’re so much more in tune with their surroundings. “As a child, you’re so much more curious about [nature] — and zestful about it,” Lubitz continues. “They notice things that I wouldn’t even begin to notice, and that’s what’s really exciting about the garden. It brings out the curiosity that’s already within them.”

And the vegetables, fruits, flowers and curiosity aren’t the only things taking root in the garden. Lubitz adds, “You see a domino effect of students becoming better critical thinkers, taking these lifelong healthy habits with them, having a better appreciation for the environment around them.” School gardens aren’t the only way to let Asheville kids get their hands dirty. The Dr. George Washington Carver Edible Park, a project of Bountiful Cities, brings a downtown community together to harvest, prepare and cook a variety of produce grown and tended to by friends and neighbors. The community ran a gardening after-school program in May that included planting skills, recipes and outdoor art projects. “They were so excited — and I was too,” says LaTonya McDowell, coordinator of the Youth Garden Club. “I didn’t know you could put peanuts in a blender and make homemade peanut butter.” But beyond learning the basics of making things grow, gardening may also plant a cornucopia of virtues in the elementary students themselves. “I think a lot of children have the idea that you plant something in the ground, and it doesn’t matter how you space it, how deep you plant it. You don’t have to do anything for it — it’ll just grow,” Lubitz says. “But to see them take the care — trellising the cucumbers, or spraying the beets with organic fungicide, or helping me trim runners for strawberries. They’re getting a very keen understanding of what the story of their food is.” And as the kids wait for the day they’ll pick their perfectly ripened bounty, Lubitz says they’ll get one last lesson — how to balance excitement and patience through the careful tending of their crop. “They’re invested in it,” Lubitz says. “Their combination of being excited to learn and being excited to eventually harvest and eat — that part is my favorite part. Because that part — I can’t teach them that. That’s all them.” Want to get your kid out in the dirt? Here are some upcoming events: • Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Growing Minds Farm-to-School series. Saturdays through August at Asheville City Market. Info: 236-1282. • Enka-Candler Library’s garden exploration day at Sandhill Community Garden. July 15. Free. Info: 250-4758. • Vance Elementary gardening & art summer camp. Aug. 4-8 & Aug. 11-15. $160. Info: avl.mx/0b9

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On a warm Saturday morning in June, the excitement is palpable. Craig Case, his wife and young daughter are preparing lunch at the Shiloh Community Garden on the family’s portable griddle. Case and his family have been active participants in the garden since they moved to Shiloh in January 2013, but in just a few weeks they will be able to experience a new outdoor delight — preparing and cooking their Saturday meals right in the garden. Through fundraising efforts and the help of community partners, the Shiloh Community Garden will unveil its new oven and grill in early July. “It’s great — community development, connecting people to their roots, teaching them how to cook and teaching kids where their food comes from,” says Case, as his daughter runs over with handfuls of red serviceberries to share. The idea of “kitchen gardens” is not exclusive to the Shiloh community. Within the past decade, several community gardens across Western North Carolina have raised funds to install devices aimed at allowing garden participants to cook and eat their meals onsite. In 2008, West Asheville’s Burton Street Community Peace Garden installed a cob oven through the work of local nonprofit Green Opportunities. The Pearson Community Garden in Montford features a large covered pavilion, including commercial sinks and tables with a bread oven and solar food dehydrator nearby. The Shiloh Community Garden will soon feature an amphitheater, a fire pit, a handmade wood-fired brick pizza oven and an industrial outdoor grill large enough for multiple meals to be made at once. The amphitheater, oven and grill are being installed on a budget of about $10,000, says Elizabeth Sims, marketing manager of Tupelo Honey Cafe, a sponsor of the garden. Owners Steve and Jennifer Frabitore decided to lead the expansion efforts after seeing the garden’s positive impact on the Shiloh neighborhood, Sims says. Landscape architect Joel Osgood of Beau Welling Design donated the design plans for the space, 30

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with G.E.M. Construction Associates donating its management services and construction equipment. “The Shiloh Community Association is bound and determined to teach future generations about their community history, culture and traditions. And in many ways, the garden has functioned as an outlet to make that happen,” says Sims. Diana McCall, garden manager of Wilson Community Garden in Black Mountain, says she believes that gardens can serve as the heart of the community — and is actively planting the seeds for a similar project in Black Mountain. Rather than just gardening and going home, McCall says a meeting and cooking space “allows residents to bring more events, arts, music and plays into the garden.” With nearly 70 participating families, Wilson is WNC’s largest community garden, and McCall says the participants have hoped to add amenities for some time. She is currently working with the Town of Black Mountain Parks and Recreation division to discuss plans similar to those at Shiloh’s garden. McCall says Wilson’s gardeners would love to see multiple pavilions and a food-canning facility in the long-term plan — though the first priority will be to build a covered structure with potable water to hold educational programs. “Most cooking classes we’ve done were outside the garden, and we’d love for that to change,” says McCall. Although she has organized successful fundraisers in conjunction with Dobra Tea House, the garden needs a few thousand dollars to reach its goal, she says. McCall adds that a project of this nature requires outstanding community support, and she hopes to find the right partnerships to begin implementing construction plans at Wilson. “To be able to provide a place for the community to cook and share meals right where they are growing [their food] just seems full circle,” says McCall. Sims agrees. “Taking the time to sit down and share a meal is important. It’s our hope that kitchen gardens will be a catalyst for more of that happening in the community. For more information or to make donations to the Wilson Community Garden, contact Diana McCall at Diana. McCall@TownOfBlackMountain.org or 669-2052. For more information on the Shiloh Community Garden, email shilohcommunityassociation@gmail. com or call 274-7739. X

“It began as a celebration of how pretty the garden was and a desire to share that with our customer base,” say Torno. “It really was a thank-you to our community.” Sullivan works as the volunteer coordinator of the plein air artists who paint during Black Mountain Center for the Art’s annual Art in Bloom garden tour. Torno has allowed the Curve garden to become a semipublic space, with RAD artists coming to paint or relax. But ultimately, Sullivan says, it’s important to continue seeking out green spaces that are engaging and fresh to your eyes. “There are some places that are very well-known, and everyone paints them,” she says. “But in our area you

can go out and find places that are unique. It’s like a hunt for that very special place and that unique composition that is all your own.” Though Art in Bloom was held earlier in June, you can still grab some inspiration by viewing the plein air paintings created during the event at Black Mountain Center for the Arts through June 27. For more information, visit blackmountainarts.org. Curve Studios will open its garden to the public on Sept. 21 for a benefit for Arts for Life. Visit their website for details at curvestudiosnc.com . X

Plein air painter Lorelle Bacon at Art in Bloom. Photo by Carrie Eidson

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YOGA IN THE PARK For the hips: To prepare your hips for the work ahead, try postures like Utthan Pristhasana (lizard pose). • Stand tall and step your right foot forward into a lunge position; the knee is stacked over your ankle. • Bring both hands, or the forearms, to the inside of the right leg. • Keep your left inner thigh lifting as the heel falls back. • Reach your heart and chest forward, creating length in your upper back. • Breathe into hips for 1-3 minutes, softening and releasing. • Switch sides. Variation: Place your back knee on the floor or your forearms on a block or book.

Jackie Dobrinska at the Lord’s Acre medicinal herb garden. Photo by Carrie Eidson

YOGA IN THE GARDEN As we go out to tend the garden, we must remember to also tend to our most important tool — our body. While we love the process of gardening, the process may not always love us. Crouching, pulling and lifting give us aches and pains we would rather leave in the compost pile. But yoga poses, when employed with mindfulness, can help keep us supple and healthy in the garden. For the low back: Low back pain is often the result of tight hamstrings and inner thighs. To increase flex-

ibility, try Supta Padangusthasa (reclining big toe pose): • Lie on your back with your legs straight, flexing both feet. • Draw your right knee towards your chest, placing your hands or a strap on the ball of the foot. • Straighten the leg toward the sky, being mindful to keep the stretch around 70 percent capacity. • Hold for 1-3 minutes. • Repeat on other side. Variation: You can bend the left leg, placing the sole of the foot on the ground or use a doorframe for support.

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For the shoulders and chest: After all of that bending and crouching, don’t forget to open the chest and shoulders with a standing heart opener. • Stand with your feet hip-width apart. • Draw your tailbone down. • Interlace fingers behind your back, with arms slightly bent. • Bring palms together, then straighten your arms as far as you can, squeezing your shoulder blades together. • Lift the chest away from your pelvis as your hands move down toward the ground. • Breathe long, deep breaths into the chest. • Hold for 1-3 minutes — Jackie Dobrinska is a yoga teacher, wellness coach and gardener at The Lord’s Acre Medicinal Herb Garden. Find more information at her website, asimplevibrantlife.com.

Yogis looking for a little vitamin D (and do-gooding) will convene Saturday mornings for Yoga in the Park, hosted by Asheville Yoga Center. Throughout the summer, the yoga studio will host outdoor yoga classes in Pack Square Park to benefit local nonprofit organizations Homeward Bound and Helpmate. Sessions take place most Saturdays through Aug. 30, 10-11:30 a.m. (no session July 5). Participants need to bring their own mat, and donations are accepted. “The outdoor setting enhances the sensory experience of practicing yoga asana,” says Izze Shurte, one of the instructors for the free event. “With wet grass, birds chirping and even cars driving by, the experience pulls you into the present via the senses.” And while the prospect of practicing yoga outside is fun, the event series is very much cause-driven. “We are most excited about the charities we have partnered with this year, Homeward Bound and Helpmate,” says Shurte. “These are two great local charities helping people in our community in a very real way. We pass along 100 percent of the donations, which makes us smile.” Homeward Bound is a local nonprofit agency that provides long-term housing and support for homeless individuals. Its mission is to work with others to end the cycle of homelessness. Learn more at homewardboundwnc.org. Helpmate serves victims of domestic violence and their children in the Buncombe County area. The nonprofit provides an emergency shelter, 24-hour hotline, counseling, a court advocacy program and preventive education. Visit helpmateonline.org for more information. For more details on Yoga in the Park and a full list of teachers and dates, visit youryoga.com. — Lea McLellan X

The CooperRiis garden work crew. Photo by Jordan Foltz

What is the draw of the garden, the chicken coop, the pasture? For many it’s a connection that can offer unseen spiritual, mental and emotional yields. “Just being connected with nature is spiritual,” says Debbie O’Neil, managing director of at the Montford campus of CooperRiis Healing Community, a holisitc mental health program with a second location on a 97-acre farm in Mill Spring. Many of the residents at CooperRiis are dealing with feelings of isolation, O’Neil explains, in large part due to the stigma that surrounds mental disorders. CooperRiis’ approach to healing brings residents into the surrounding community — through projects such as maintaining beehives at an off-campus location or helping the Odyssey School maintain its trails. “I’ve had residents with whom I feel like I’ve seen a miracle happen,” O’Neil says. “I’ve asked them, ‘What do you think shifted?’ and a lot of people have told me it was that ‘it mattered whether or not I showed up and was part of my community.’” This spring the 4-acre campus began a garden program — offering residents an opportunity to cultivate not only food but purpose as well. “I’ve had a lot of residents come back from the garden and say, ‘Wow, I didn’t know that that would feel so good,’” O’Neil notes. “And [this feeling] is coming from being grounded in something bigger than ourselves— it’s a community offering.” In addition to offering a sense of purpose, gardening is an opportunity to feel grounded by the rhythms of the growing season, says Ben Hancock, CooperRiis crew leader. “When we suffer from emotional challenges, one of the things that we lose is rhythm in our lives — and I think that gardening is a very rhythmic process,” Hancock says. “You need to water in a rhythm, you need to plant on a rhythm, and working rhythm into our lives is a very helpful thing to becoming stronger individuals.” Just as plants and soil can be therapeutic, so can animals, according to the staff of Operation Pegasus, a recovery program for post-traumatic stress disorder held at Razor Mountain Heritage Breeds in Barnardsville. The program uses equine therapy to help veterans chart their own path to healing. “The thing about a horse is that it’s your mirror,” says Mike Quirk, co-founder of Operation Pegasus. “If you’re stressed, the horse is stressed; if you’re calm, the horse is calm.”

Operation Pegasus director and trauma therapist Stewart Canter says the program uses the Trauma Resiliency Model, which helps patients to recognize the physical sensations in their body that occur when the memory of trauma is triggered. Patients can then learn to make a “mental map” of the sensation, Canter explains. “By making your brain do that, you are getting access to the core of the brain that’s turning on that sensation,” he says, noting that the next step is mastering the reciprocal ability to turn the sensations off. As patients learn to identify the physical sensations that come with PTSD, they see how the horses pick up on their mental state and reflect it back through attitudes and body language. For those who are seeking a place for quiet or meditation, there are many spiritual gardens in Asheville that allow visitors to gather together or wander in as needed — including the meditation labyrinth constructed by volunteers from RiverLink and the Outdoor Industry Association next to Cotton Mill Studios in the River Arts District. The “all-spiritualities-welcome” space has been

blessed by a leaders from Christian, Jewish and Wiccan faiths. “A labyrinth is a place where people can slow down and reflect,” notes RiverLink Executive Director Karen Cragnolin. “The river is a perfect place for that.” For more information about CooperRiis visit cooperriis.org. To find out more about Operation Pegasus, call 712-5759. To find out more about the labyrinth garden, call RiverLink at 252-8474. X

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It is a crystal-clear day when I take my seat in the dining room at Grove Park Inn’s new Vue 1913, a more casual take on farm-to-table dining than the venue’s previous installment, Horizons. I’ve come here for a chef’s tasting, and the fact that the inn even has a chef’s tasting is a good sign that, despite having a burger on the menu, there might be a little more fine dining going on here than meets the eye. “It’s a lighter menu for summer and springtime,” says the chef, James Lumley, of his new tasting menu, “I tried to get vegetables on there that would start to get everyone out of that winter funk.” The amuse bouche is served, and it is the chef’s fun riff on the Southern classic shrimp and grits. This interpretation, however, sets a crispy grit cake in a splash of red pepper-thyme oil and tops it with a chilled shrimpand-crab salad and fresh, local flowers — a single bite that is astoundingly clean. Lumley, his wife and their 3-yearold relocated to Asheville last summer from Naples, Fla., where he had worked for years as chef at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and other resorts.

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Just months after being hired as Horizons’ chef, Omni changed the restaurant to Vue 1913, and the differences are significant. Gone are the formal white tablecloths and austere music, now replaced with beautiful hardwood tables and questionably cheesy adult contemporary Muzak. The menu has prices on it now, and is surely less intimidating than the opulent fine dining entrees of Horizons. Lumley explains that after the transition to Vue, “Once you took the white tablecloths away, automatically people felt a little more comfortable just to walk in.” The first course arrives: spring squash bisque with local smoked trout, creme fraiche and local trout roe. It is creamy, rich and bursting with flavor. “The restaurant is a lot more casual than Horizons was,” Lumley says, “but I think we can give some diners that want to really dine a

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little bit more of that [fine dining] experience.” The second course arrives just as we are pulling our noses out of our wine glasses, which have been filled with an astoundingly good Slovenian Pullus pinot grigio rosé. Our sommelier, Ralph Lonow, has paired it with the chef’s salad of compressed melon and house-made charcuterie, set on a bed of Jolley Farms petite greens and drizzled with a lavender-scented vinaigrette. The flavors are as crisp and bright as the sun that illumi-

nates our tranquil and incredible view of the city, giving the evening a leisurely, almost lazy feeling — a perfect chance to get comfortable for the remaining four courses. Lumley seems enlivened, as though the relocation from Florida has sparked a flame of inspiration. “Where I come from, we didn’t have this culture. I started cooking in Florida, and I had a lot of master chefs I worked under, but there was no connection for me to the products and where they were originally from. But when I come here and I taste the beers that are made right here on the corner or I try local cheeses made around here … that’s my goal, to get the guest excited about the food they’re eating and show them that it’s coming from right around here.” The plates are cleared and we are presented with our third course, North Carolina amberjack served with a colorful succotash and

Benton’s bacon lardons swimming in a pressed red pepper jus that is sparkling with Sambuca. “Being with Omni, I’ve now been with two big corporations,” Lumley continues. “With my restaurant now, there’s a lot less oversight, and I’m really able to do things the way I want. ... So it’s like having my own restaurant within a bigger company. ... I have a lot more freedom now.” By the time the intermezzo of thyme and lemon sorbet arrives, we’re still not stuffed, which is a great sign in a chef’s tasting, where one is often gorged to the point of explosion, like some twisted human foie gras experiment. The main course is what may be the most tender and perfectly prepared roasted duck I’ve had in this town all year served atop the fantastic Anson Mills blue corn grits with a baby vegetable ragout and a black currant demi-glace. “When you eat in Italy, they’ll tell you everything is from ‘right here,’ and their food is bad-ass, and that’s because it is so fresh,” says Lumley.

“That’s what I’m trying to do here. It’s really about us being able to get a little more creative, to tie in locally and create that feeling of what Asheville really is. I don’t know if I’ve achieved that yet. I’m still working at it, but we’ll get there.”” And finally, we are served dessert, all rich with chocolate ganache on a crispy, coated brownie with local blueberries — a decadent ending to a perfectly made meal. “When I came to the Grove Park Inn, I just thought, ‘Wow, there is so much history here.’ I feel like I’m part of something that is way bigger than anything I’ve done before because of that history,” Lumley says. I highly recommend Lumley’s tasting menu, and one would be remiss to ignore the amazing wine pairings arranged by the restaurant’s three sommeliers. However, if you prefer to be a stick-in-the-mud, there is a standard appetizer and entree menu as well that is sure to please everyone. Vue 1913 is in the Sammons Wing of the Omni Grove Park Inn and is open 5-10 p.m. daily. X

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Food news to go A TASTE OF BLACK MOUNTAIN A new business is opening in Black Mountain that’s geared to foodies and history buffs of both the local and tourist variety. Creative Mountain Food Tours, owned by McDowell County residents Len and Sandi Eskew, will offer three themed tours that give participants a chance to do small-plate tastings at five or more restaurants, pubs and breweries while burning off those calories strolling through Black Mountain’s picturesque downtown. A total of 13 carefully vetted, locally owned eateries and watering holes are participating, say the Eskews, who moved to a log home

in McDowell County three years ago from West Virginia and have grown to love Black Mountain. At each stop, restaurant owners and chefs will greet and chat with tour participants behind the scenes about local culture, history and cuisine, they explain. Theme options are: Dessert Tour, Ultimate Food Tour and the Pub and Grub Crawl. The Eskews came up with the business idea while on on a food tour in Asheville last year. “We saw this as something we can do together,” says Sandi Eskew. “Len always says that Western North Carolina draws creativity out of you that you never knew existed. … It’s all about creating experiences for people that they will remember for years to come.” The tours launch on Friday, June 20, and are scheduled for 2-5 p.m. on select Fridays and Saturdays through November. Space is limited to 12 guests per tour. Cost ranges from $30 to $40 per person. Tours

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CHEF’S APRON Chef’s Apron Neighborhood Trattoria recently opened in Biltmore Park Town Square. The locally owned Italian eatery offers homemade sauces, soups, salads, dressings and dough — some made with ingredients sourced from local and regional farms. The New York-style pizza and calzones are baked in brick ovens, with white, wheat and gluten-free crust options available. Pizza is for sale by the slice (a deal at $2) as well as in 8-inch, 12-inch and 16-inch sizes. Entrees span the range of pastas and meats, some made with local products, such as Hickory Nut Gap Farms pork and Sunburst trout. Chef’s Apron also features a full wine list, handcrafted cocktails and an in-house pastry chef. The restaurant delivers in Town Square and the Biltmore Park neighborhood 11:30 a.m.-6 p.m. Chef’s Apron is at 33 Town Square Blvd., Suite 110, next to Barnes & Noble. The menu is at http://media.bfcommunities.com/ChefsApronMenu.pdf. 676-3034 WORLD CUP AT THE BIER GARDEN

The annual World Cup soccer frenzy is underway and plenty of local businesses are celebrating with special events and offerings, including Hi-Wire Brewing and Wicked Weed (see this week’s Beer Scout). For soccer aficionados who love their swag, the diehard fans at the Bier Garden are offering daily raffles for authentic World Cup team jerseys, balls, bags, gift cards and other items. All games will be broadcast live with sound on more than 20 50-inch televisions and 18- and 10-foot projection screens. In a nod to Hi-Wire’s well-known soccer enthusiasm, the Bier Garden is offering all Hi-Wire pints for only $3 throughout the tournament, which runs through July 13. The Bier Garden is the home base for the WNC chapter of the American Outlaws, the official fan group for the U.S. National Soccer Team, so members are expected to be out in force during all U.S. games with giveaways and party favors. The Bier Garden is at 46 Haywood St. For a schedule of 2014 World Cup games, go to: fifa.com/worldcup/ matches.X

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GATHER ‘ROUND: Rhubarb chef John Fleer hopes to encourage community connections and new friendships with his weekly Sunday Supper. Photo by Max Cooper

they know as well as people they don’t know is a great tool. It helps for them to hear conversations, it helps for them to learn about other people’s lives. It’s a powerful tool in helping them become good people,” says Fleer. Many parents will acknowledge that bringing the children along for a dinner out doesn’t always make for a relaxed and enjoyable evening. Throw in the wild card of having a few strangers for dining companions, and it seems that the potential for disaster — or at least for discomfort — could increase exponentially. But at a recent Sunday Supper dry run at Rhubarb, I put Fleer’s convictions to the test by bringing my own teenager and kindergartener to the communal table, and I was pleasantly surprised. Sharing the meal with us at our rustic, wooden six-top were a friendly couple of local innkeepers. The kids were shy at first, but soon became engaged in lively conversations with our table mates, and they even received a lesson in creative napkin folding.

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Men on a wire Hi-Wire Brewing celebrates its first anniversary with an expansion

When Hi-Wire Brewing opened last summer, it pretended a circus was coming to town. The owners made sure that everyone who kept an eye on the beer scene knew something was about to happen, but they didn’t give much away ahead of time. Then, after weeks of hype, Hi-Wire revealed its big surprise: It would package its beers in 12-ounce bottles, just like Highland and Green Man, and sell them in six-packs right out of the gate. That was bold news for a brandnew brewery, but the owners announced it just months after Wicked Weed opened with almost two dozen beers on tap, from West Coast IPAs to barrel-aged sours. What creative offerings would Hi-Wire bring to the already booming Asheville beer scene? A pale ale, an IPA, a brown ale and a lager. While those four offerings sounded like more of the same at first, once you looked a little closer, they made sense. It’s hard to call yourself a brewery in Asheville without a signature IPA or pale ale. Then there’s the lager, which stood out — and still stands out — as the only local lager you can grab a six-pack of besides Oskar Blues’ Yella Pils. What about the brown? “Our brown has been the dark horse,” says Chris Frosaker, part-owner of Hi-Wire. “We thought our lager would be our flagship, but the brown became more and more popular as people discovered it. It’s lighter than you’d expect. … It’s just supereasy to drink.” Thanks in large part to that drinkability and the consistency of its core beers, Hi-Wire has been running at capacity. So for their one-year anniversary, the owners bought the brewery two new 30-barrel fermenters and a brite tank with the help

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GROWTH SPURT: Hi-Wire Brewing owners Chris Frosaker, left, and Adam Charnack, right, are increasing distribution by 75 percent. Photo by Alicia Funderburk

of a loan from Mountain Biz Works. “This expansion will help us catch up. … We’ll be able to increase our beer in distribution by 75 percent,” says Adam Charnack, part-owner of Hi-Wire. “And it should set us up to expand even more later this year, so we can get our bottles into the larger grocery accounts like Ingles.” While the brewery is growing fast, the expansion will put it at just 3,500 barrels per year—or about a tenth the current size of Highland. Yet the owners say to expect six seasonal releases in bottles this year — from Strongman Coffee Milk Stout to Man Eater Double IPA. They also said they will start releasing the Ringmaster Reserve Beers, like their wine-barrel-aged Belgian IPA, about four times per year. “We want to keep giving our brewers a spotlight for their best, brightest ideas,” says Charnack. While no party has been planned to celebrate the first anniversary, Hi-Wire invites everyone to stop by during the World Cup, which runs through July 13. “We’re huge soccer nuts,” says Charnack. “We’ll be opening at noon every day to play the World Cup games.”X

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Small sips A Wicked World Cup: Hi-Wire isn’t the only brewery getting into the World Cup spirit. Wicked Weed’s head brewer Luke Dickinson worked for the last few months sourcing ingredients from around the world for a special series of beers to pour while the games are going on. Dickinson will also showcase some unique beer styles, such as Ethiopian tej honey wine and chicha (a South American corn-based beer). The first two beers, paying homage to Brazil and France, were pouring last week and may still be on tap. Starting on Thursday, June 19, Wicked Weed will tap Mexico (with cilantro and chilies), Germany (with German hops) and Australia (with Australian hops and lemon myrtle). Starting Saturday, June 28, it will tap England (with yeast from Everards brewery), Peru (chicha) and Ethiopia (tej honey wine). Sierra Nevada releases Rain Check: After months of test brewing flagships like Pale Ale and Torpedo, Sierra Nevada has announced the

release of the first original creation from the Mills River brewery. Rain Check spiced stout will be in stores only in North Carolina and a few surrounding states, according to communications manager Ryan Arnold. Brewed with fresh ginger, brown sugar, molasses and lime, the beer will be available starting in mid-June. The name of the beer, and the somewhat tropical ingredients, are a nod to the unusually wet conditions Sierra endured while building the Mills River brewery. Sierra remains on track to hold its big opening celebration — which will also serve as the finale of Beer Camp Across America—on Sunday, Aug. 3. Tickets are available at: www.sierranevada.com/ beercamp Stone Brewing rules out Asheville: Apparently Asheville isn’t arrogant enough for Stone Brewing. Whatever the reasoning, the Norfolk Metro reported that Stone President and Brewmaster Steve Wagner says, “Asheville was never a consideration,” for the company’s East Coast facility. However, Greenville, N.C., and Charlotte are both still in the running for Stone, currently the 10th-largest craft brewer in the country. The company’s decision is expected in July. —Thom O’Hearn

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LEXINGTON AVE (LAB): Live Music: Bluegrass brunch; $10 pitchers all day SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Live Music: Carver & Carmody (folk, bluegrass), 5-7pm WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia's Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales); Live Music: Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (jazz, swing), 6pm

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pany.” Everyone has a chance to move on to the next level and perhaps win $10,000. Local filmmakers Katie Damien and Lela Winton of Gorilla with a Mustache Films, took part last year and showed their film at Cannes this spring. And while some might view the 48 Hour Film Project as a slightly masochistic (or at least sleepless) way to spend a weekend, Sales insists that the challenge is the fun. “It’s the experience. … A lot of people watch films, and they’re big fans, but they don’t actually make films,” he says. “This is their chance to make a film. Even for the people who make films on a regular basis, you not only make a film, but in two days you’re seeing it in the movie theater with hundreds of people.”

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Festival season is in full bloom, and it seems as if there’s a celebration or gathering for just about everyone. Most of them involve stages featuring live music, imbibed along with pints of cold beer. This weekend, however, puts a spin on that tried-and-true formula. The 48 Hour Film Project, a national short film competition, challenges film teams to complete a movie in — you guessed it — two days. The Asheville Percussion Festival offers novice and expert drummers alike a chance to find their rhythm, and at the Asheville Tattoo & Piercing Expo, artists, families and pinup girls gather to celebrate their ink. Your people are out there. Go find them.

ASHEVILLE PERCUSSION FESTIVAL River Guerguerian often challenges people to name three famous percussionists. If someone comes up with any names at all, they’re typically legendary musicians from decades past. With the Asheville Percussion Festival, Guerguerian, the event’s founder, hopes to shine a little light on that often underappreciated but always crucial drummer. “For me, [the festival] is taking percussion to

48 HOUR FILM PROJECT Working under pressure is one thing, but the 48 Hour Film Project takes tight deadlines to a new level. On Friday, June 20, local filmmakers will convene at

FESTIVAL TIME: The UNC Asheville team films during the 2013 48 Hour Film Project competition, top. Below, Ferenc Nemeth, a teaching artist at Asheville Percussion Festival, pushes the boundaries of jazz drumming and composition.

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Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., where each team will be randomly assigned a prop, a snippet of dialogue, a character and a genre. By Sunday — 48 hours later — the completed short films will be shown on the brewery’s big screen. “One of the things that excites me most about [the event], and the reason I do this is, all these people are learning,” says Bruce Sales, the international competition’s local producer. “It is the trial by fire, make your mistakes and

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really remember after that what you need to do in that situation. … For many people, this is part of their professional trajectory. Many people have gone on to start production companies, and that’s what they do for a living.” The 48 Hour Film Project takes place throughout the summer in cities across the globe. Participants, says Sales, range from “amateurs with lots of enthusiasm to people who already have a production com-

WHERE Diana Wortham Theatre (Friday and Saturday) and OM Sanctuary (Sunday). WHEN Friday through Sunday, June 20-22 with concerts on Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m. Full festival pass is $150, weekend pass is $75, individual concerts are $25, individual workshops are $20

the next level,” he says. “That’s always been my life’s mission, to bring [rhythm] to the forefront, because whether you listen to classical music or country or rock ’n’ roll, the drummer is always in the back.” The drummer will be at the forefront at this year’s festival, however, which happens Friday through Sunday, June 20-22. For the first time, it will be held at the Diana Wortham Theatre. The lineup includes a mix of beginner-friendly and advanced percussion workshops, as well as concerts by local and visiting master percussionists. Workshops covering such topics as performing, improvising and composing will be taught by world-renowned performers including David Kuckhermann, Sameer Gupta, Ferenc Nemeth, Lionel Loueke, Marla Leigh, Billy Jonas, Naghmeh Farahmand, Adam Maalouf, Adama Dembele along with other national and regional instructors. For Guerguerian, it’s all about showing people what percussion can encompass. “There is this whole other world of percussion that people don’t know about,” he says, “whether it’s the abstract or the meditative, Asian music, African music — whatever it is, where it’s not based on this very simple grid.” He adds that while the concerts are sure to inspire anyone who appreciates good music, the festival is largely participatory and accessible to everyone. “Rhythm is part of our DNA,” the musician maintains. “It’s a part of molecular structure. Everything has a frequency and resonates and vibrates, so we’re all just trying to refine that and be more in tune with that.” ASHEVILLE TATTOO & PIERCING EXPO Asheville is known for its art scene, and body art is part of it, says Daron James, co-founder of the Asheville Tattoo & Piercing Expo. And it’s certainly true that anyone who’s engaged in a bit of Asheville people-watching knows that locals like their tattoos. “We live in a city that’s already widely known for its art community and the festivals that embrace the art of tattooing,” says James, who owns Diamond Thieves Body

THINK INK: Local piercing artist Daron James rallies the crowd at a previous Asheville Tattoo & Piercing Expo.

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Piercing & Tattoo. “Just like art collectors of the past, society has begun to collect expansive works of art, substituting their bodies as the art gallery.” Participants will have a chance to peruse that unusual exhibit — and even add to their own collections — at the Asheville Tattoo & Piercing Expo, Thursday, June 19, through Sunday, June 22, at the Crowne Plaza Resort.

The expo’s motto is, “For the tattoo family, by the tattoo family,” making it clear that the target audience isn’t limited to any particular subculture. Kids are welcome, and James says that whether it’s the on-site zip line or the pinup competition, there’ll be something for everyone at the expo. “Our tattoo convention is a meeting and exhibition for tattoo artists and their families, tattoo collectors, enthusiasts and anyone who is just curious enough to see the world of tattooing up close,” he says. The event is produced by Pirate’s Life Productions (James and his longtime friend “Lil” Tommy McCarter of Ace Custom Tattoo in Charlotte). In addition to 90 local and national tattoo artists and vendors, attendees can expect a slew of tattoo competitions — best beard and mustache are thrown in there, too — plus live music, seminars, children’s activities and afterparties. X

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After encountering Frida Kahlo’s paintings years ago, Susan Collard, Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre’s creative director, was drawn to the Mexican artist’s story. “I started studying her life, and I thought, ‘This is it, I’m going to do a ballet about Frida Kahlo,’” she says. Now, commemorating 35 years of modern dance, ACDT re-creates its signature ballet, Looking for Frida. First choreographed in 1998, it was staged in Asheville, two cities in France (Montpellier and Toulouse), and Merida, Mexico. The production embodies the company’s mission to produce daring and often haunting

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performances inspired by the work of great artists and writers. Kahlo is best-known for her striking self-portraits. Her work is saturated with color and infused with symbolism, drawn from both Mexican folk art and surrealism (but not contained by any single genre). There is a darkness and fierceness to Kahlo’s work, and her paintings are characterized by portrayals of great suffering. Considering her life story, it’s no wonder that themes of blood, skeletons and open wounds recur. “When she was 6 years old, she had polio, and she was 18 when

she was in the trolley accident, where she was basically impaled, her spine was shattered, and she was left for dead,” says Nicole Dolce, who narrates the ACDT show with excepts from Khalo’s diary (kept throughout the last 10 years of her life). Dolce adds, “She met death twice before she was 20.” The artist would never fully recover. To bring Kahlo’s encounters with death to the stage, Collard created a duet in which the painter literally dances with a skeleton. “Remember that Frida always saw death as her friend,” Collard says. “She would hang skeletons on her bed, all over her house, and she called death her companion.” Jaime McDowell takes on the title part. “Frida is a dichotomy: a woman who loved to party, who was surrounded by friends all the time, but when you look at her paintings, she lets her pain come through,” she says. “She shows her sorrow — the sorrow of knowing that she’s going to live a short life, that her husband is constantly sleeping with other women, that she can’t have children [but] desperately wants children.” Stepping into that role was no small feat. “The hardest part has been allowing myself to go to certain places that you don’t always want to go to, emotionally,” says McDowell. “Allowing myself to dig inside to find [my] own personal pain and personal heartbreak, and let that come up, has been the hardest part.” To capture the physical pain that Frida endured throughout her life, Collard dresses her cast in plaster corsets. “Frida [had] many operations on her spine, and she painted her own body casts. She covered them with color,” she says. “I re-created the body casts [for the dancers] because I wanted the movement to be honest. The dancers will be, and are, restricted by these casts, as Frida was.” Kahlo was married to and passionately devoted to her husband, Diego Rivera, a muralist and outspoken communist supporter. Their love of art and shared political zeal united them, but their part-

LIFE AS ART: Frida Kahlo “met death twice before she was 20,” says Nicole Dolce, who narrates ACDT’s Looking for Frida. The production commemorates the local dance company’s 35th anniversary. Photo by Toby Maurer

nership was volatile. They were in an open marriage, and both engaged in public love affairs. “You’ll see pictures of Diego holding another woman, and Frida sitting on another man’s lap, all together,” says Collard. “I think that was very much part of the artistic culture of the time.” Frida’s many love affairs are portrayed through duets. However, Collard notes, she always returns to Diego. “That’s actually the first thing that the audience hears: ‘Diego, my love, my life,’” says Collard. “She’s completely devoted to him.” Though the show delves into the dark complexity of Kahlo’s life and work, it has a bright side. “’Love life:

Viva la Vida,’ that’s what Frida always said, and that’s what she wrote on her last painting,” says Collard. “The show is a celebration of her love of life.” X More Frida: “Art of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera,” discussion with Jennifer Goff, on Wednesday, June 25, at 8 p.m., free; and “A Frida Fiesta” and Frida look-alike contest with Mexican cuisine and live music by Jim Arrendell on Thursday, June 26, at 8 p.m., $10 (the winner gets a free one-week stay in a house in Merida, Mexico). Both events held at the BeBe Theatre.

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With lines like “If God had an iPod, I’d be on his playlist” and “Ya’ll just some major haters and some math minors,” Atlanta rapper Cyhi The Prynce held his own alongside Kanye West, Jay-Z, Pusha T, Swizz Beatz and RZA on “So Appalled,” one of the standout tracks off West’s 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. At the time, Cyhi’s lone work was the self-released mixtape, Royal Flush. Since then, the artist born Cydel Charles Young in 1984 and raised in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain has dropped five

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more mixtapes, consistently delivering the brand of socially conscious hip-hop found throughout West’s G.O.O.D. (Getting Out Our Dreams) Music team. On Thursday, June 19, at the Asheville Music Hall, Cyhi will close out a 16-date tour in support of his latest endeavor, Black Hystori Project. Appropriately released in February, the conceptual mixtape came to be after the MC received an interesting challenge. “My nephew wanted to do a black history project on me, and the school he goes to told him he couldn’t do it because I wasn’t influential enough. I said,

‘Now, I’m going to make something influential about the black history project. I’m going to do my own,’” Cyhi says. Finding inspiration in black leaders who made an impact on his life, Cyhi pays homage to them by rapping multiple tracks as if it was Nelson Mandela or Huey Newton on the microphone. “If they were in the modern times, I think this is what they would say,” Cyhi says. “That’s what I really wanted to do, just be able to re-create the mindset of those individuals and put it in rap. If Malcolm X was a rapper, what would he sound like?” Key in bringing his vision to life was West, who provided numerous forms of guidance as the album’s executive producer. Many of the songs were simpler until they received West’s golden touch, including lead track “Mandela.” The lyrics and basic sample were in place, but when West gave it a listen, he suggested adding strings to make it “more epic and more movielike,” qualities Cyhi agrees are now present. Having input from one of the biggest names in music is certainly a boon, but Cyhi played a similar role on West’s 2013 album Yeezus, receiving songwriting credit on nine of its 10 tracks. “It’s more about being creative, brainstorming and really just going over ideas, perspectives,” Cyhi says. “We have so much responsibility in music that a lot of times we have to brainstorm our ideas and really see how we can bring them to light in the most vivid way.” Along for the entire process of crafting Yeezus, Cyhi’s fingerprints are on everything from small word choices and attitudes in West’s vocal inflections to the album’s cover art. Providing his boss the kind of honest feedback he desires from his trusted collaborators, the experience also gave Cyhi valuable insight into creating his own music from scratch as opposed to merely rhyming over premade tracks as he’d previously done. He learned “how to communicate with the producer about what kind of drums, what’s the kick, what’s the snare, what kind of strings you

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED: Of the inspiration for his album, Black Hystori Project, Cyhi The Prynce says, “My nephew wanted to do a black history project on me, and the school he goes to told him he couldn’t do it because I wasn’t influential enough. I said, ‘Now, I’m going to make something influential.” Photo courtesy of the musician

want, what kind of sound effects, tempos, all that,” he says. Cyhi wasted no time in utilizing this newfound knowledge on his next project. “I learned a lot from [Yeezus]. I was like, ‘Yo, I’ve got to try this myself.’ So, when I went and tried it myself, I was like, ‘Wow, it does work,’” he says. “Ya’ll gonna get a lot more from me that’s way more epic than Black Hystori Project.”

The next grand project to which he alludes is his proper debut album, Hardway Musical, ideas for which have been percolating even before he signed to G.O.O.D. Music. “We’re actually in negotiations about budgets and different things now, so you guys will be hearing that real soon,” Cyhi says. “I’m so excited and ecstatic about it.” X

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Rattler, he helps Maggie Raincrow (played effectively by Jenny Martin) ward off deer from her garden with a jar of urine. One of the funniest moments early on is when Lilly turns around with an empty jar, then back a minute later with a full one. The play leads down some dark and ominous paths. It is compelling material with closing images that remind the audience that these were real people, and mostly real events. The scenic and lighting design are both impressive, and the rustic setting of Parkway Playhouse adds to the overall character of the piece. Ghost Riders runs through Saturday, June 21, at Parkway Playhouse, with shows on Fridays and Saturdays, at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, at 3 p.m. $10$22. parkwayplayhouse.com

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GHOST STORY: Parkway Playhouse’s upernatural Civil War-era epic, Ghost Riders, is adapted from the award winning novel by Sharyn McCrumb. Photo courtesy of the theater company

The big chill Sharyn McCrumb’s best-selling novel, Ghost Riders, comes to life (and afterlife) onstage at Parkway Playhouse in Burnsville as the summer season moves into high gear. The tale, the characters and the mood of the play creep like an eerie fog moving along the ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains. Andrew Gall, Parkway’s producing artistic director, did the heavy lifting, adapting the material from the novel as well as directing the production. It’s filled with Civil War ghosts, actual Civil War reenactment enthusiasts and a topnotch group of actors. The task of putting such a large story onstage is no small one, and Gall fit at least five hours of material into a little more than two hours of stage time. This means the audience has to invest a good bit of attention in the proceedings or risk being lost in the fog.

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The play is set alternately in the 1860s and 2003, in the mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee. Reluctant Civil War participant Keith Blaylock and his fiery wife Malinda (played by Scott Keel and Trinity Smith) cope with the struggles of a nation divided. Keith enlists in the Confederate Army, planning to get a gun and training, then defect to the Union. Malinda hatches a plan to go with him by cutting her hair and pretending to be Keith’s little brother, Sam. It’s a twist based on historical fact. The Blaylocks and their compatriots are still haunting the mountains nearly 150 years later. Meanwhile, Civil War reenactments are dredging up things thought long buried. Rattler, played by Michael Lilly, is blessed with the “sight” (he can interact with ghosts) and some Cherokee blood. A seasoned professional, Lilly is a pleasure to watch. As

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If you like Monty Python, if you like tongue-in-cheek musical theater, Asheville Community Theatre has the show for you. Spamalot is the Broadway musical adaptation of the legendary Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which has been something of a cult hit for decades. The quirky, irreverent British comedy stylings may not seem a natural fit for American audiences, but the masterminds behind the show lean into — rather than away from — the trappings of traditional musical theater. ACT’s production is about as good as you could ask for. The scenic design is near-perfect, honoring the classic 2D animation styles of Monty Python’s Flying Circus antics. The costumes are original, while resembling the classic look of the film. The orchestra, led by Daniel Hensley, makes musical merriment throughout — notably in the overture. The comedic tone is obvious from the beginning. Director Jeff Catanese does a great job getting the most out of his talented cast. He could have relied on the fact that much of the dialogue is ingrained in pop culture. Instead, he pours his obvious love and enthusiasm for the material into his work. Many cast members play multiple roles. Some of the action is a bit of a head-scratcher as the lead actors pop off and back on in other roles, though it’s obviously the same person playing the role. The Monty Python troupe did this, too, but with so many supporting players, the ACT production could have spread the roles out more.

LAUGH-A-LOT: Asheville Community Theatre stages Spamalot, the musical adaptation of the legendary Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Photo courtesy of the theater company

Standouts among the cast include Rock Eblen (as the somewhat dimwitted King Arthur), Skyler Goff (as vaguely gay Lancelot, who looks a lot like Barry Gibb among the Village People, in a riotous number) and Nana Hosmer (as the supreme Diva Lady of The Lake, who keeps turning up to delight the audience with hilarious show-stopping numbers). The show is nearly stolen several times by Patsy, the put-upon servant to the King, played with comedic precision by Pat LaCorte (who even tap dances like nobody’s business at one point). Another show stealer is the comedy wizard Strother Stingley as Sir Galahad and the infamous Black Knight. There’s an Oscars selfie parody moment and numerous sly references and winks that include namedropping Caleb Johnson and Pat McCrory (gaining cheers and boos respectively). The show is all-out fun for fans of the Python antics, comedy, musical theater or pure escapist entertainment. Spamalot runs through Sunday, June 29, at ACT. Performances on Fridays and Saturdays, at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays, at 2:30 p.m. $15-$25. ashevilletheatre.org X

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Asheville artists Yamabushi and Ishmael collaborate on The Fame Game The word “fame” is painted directly on the wall beside the Satellite Gallery’s entrance in 12-foot-tall letters. It’s written in the wispy CocaCola script, but in a gluttonous and vibrating pinkish orange rather than the patented cherry red color, and it introduces The Fame Game, a new collaborative exhibition by Asheville artists Yamabushi and Ishmael. The show is a rumination on fame as a promotional utility and an idyllic condition. It’s simultaneously a societal critique and an embrace — an archetypal cost-benefit analysis, if you will. And for a show that’s so concentrated on image and identity, there’s very little ego. Below the title work is a porcelainlike plastic mannequin. Her torso is perched atop a pedestal. Her down-

cast face has been cracked open and stuffed with a small bedside digital clock and her abdomen has given way to reveal a tangle of robotic tubes. Largely because of her armlessness, she has the airs of a defunct and disgraced Venus de Milo — fame personified. The Fame Game is thematically collaborative, but in practice it’s more like two exhibitions folded together, as Ishmael and Yamabushi’s artistic styles and contextual direction couldn’t be further apart. Because of that, the show comes across as an expressive duel. A shot-for-shot interpretation of what fame has to offer both the individual and society at large. Where Yamabushi’s crafted a celebratory series of lurid, roller-

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disco-esque iconographies, Ishmael has painted a searing damnation of American consumer culture. And where Ishmael’s largely stuck to the black and white palette of oil slicks, barring the occasional neon highlight, Yamabushi has responded with glitter and gold. Twelve of Yamabushi’s works feature a grid of celebrity. The alternating red paint and glitter squares hold a dozen figures, each framed by flamboyant gold brackets or psychedelic halos. Some sport names like “The Shadow Girl” or “Game.” Others are simply deadlocked in a gaze with viewers. In “Worlds Without Ends,” a solitary hero figure who has the look of a rogue detective in a ’70s crime thriller, stares into eternity. His mouth is slightly open, and his eyes are replaced by blue glitter. He’s backlit by a flurry of rainbows and hallucinatory, bouncing icons and kaleidoscopelike circles. Ishmael’s work, conversely, takes on globalization and the consequential downfalls that can result from the exuberant societal highs seen in Yamabushi’s art. In “The Source: Food and Agriculture Organization” and “Dust Bowl” food production is tracked. The former is a food and population growth (and soon-to-be death) chart. The latter shows a farm and a farmhouse become a wasteland and an abandoned shack. He also takes aim at the 2010 oil spill in the

Gulf of Mexico — an event whose presence has been steadily slipping from the national consciousness. The gravity of Ishmael’s work on the subject would have been heavier in years prior, but that’s not to discount his creative prowess. In “Mark of the Beast,” the artist has configured three gas pumps in a loose triangle. The silhouette of a cobra functions as both a poisonous warning and a connection to the legendary Shelby muscle car. A neon-toned gas gauge steadfastly approaches “E.” Another small panel depicts a sinking cargo ship whose name, coldly, is “Civilization.” The most scathing of Ishmael’s consumption-themed works offers a gruesome depiction of one of mankind’s most detrimental environmental impacts to date. And it names names. “BP Wuz Here” features a wall-mounted 5-foot-long swordfish trophy. It’s entirely blacked out, barring a single visible red eye. The thick, viscous paint-turned-oil drips off the fish and down the white gallery walls before pooling up on the floor below. The fin is tagged in green spray paint, a tongue-in-cheek calling card: “BP Crude Boy$.” The Fame Game is on view at the Satellite Gallery through July 20. thesatellitegallery.com.X

WHERE THINGS ARE HOLLOW: A modern take on Venus de Milo is one of the pieces in The Fame Game, a new collaborative exhibition by Asheville artists Yamabushi and Ishmael, on view at the Satellite Gallery. Photo by Kyle Sherard

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Gringo Star The psych-rock outfit Gringo Star has been described as a “’60s beach party on acid,” and with musical influences ranging from The Stooges to The Kinks to Sam Cooke, that sounds about right. Musicians and brothers Nicholas and Peter Furgiuele and cohort Chris Kaufmann put forth the band’s latest, self-produced album, Floating Out to See, which plays like a “long-forgotten Polaroid excavated from the bottom of some mysterious thrift-shop bin, scanned into a computer, emailed to your smartphone and Instagrammed with a nice washed-out filter,” according to a press release. The band puts in an appearance at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, June 21, at 9 p.m. Camp David also performs. $10. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of the band

Part multi-instrumentalist, part mythical creature, singer-songwriter/surfer/environmentalist/cultural activist Xavier Rudd took the didgeridoo from tribal instrument to legitimate dance club beatmaker. The musician, who lives in Australia, “gradually refined his globally influenced collage of world music — a matchless mixture of reggae, funk, blues, folk, and nearly every other sort of song with the ability to stimulate people’s spirits,” according to a press release. Spirit Bird, released in 2012, includes “Follow the Sun” — his biggest single to date. That song is set to a video lush with Australian wildlife and glorious beaches that’ll have you making vacation plans. But before you book a plane ticket, catch Rudd’s show at The Orange Peel on Saturday, June 21, at 9 p.m. $24/$26. Ash Grunwald also performs. theorangepeel.net. Photo courtesy of the musician

Junior Marvin’s Force One There have been complaints of a dearth of reggae music in Asheville (Letters, April 30), but Jamaican-born, London-raised and, now, Kingston-based musician Junior Marvin is about to set things right. Marvin has performed with the likes of Stevie Wonder and Bob Marley, contributed to The Wailers’ albums from Exodus on and co-founded The Original Wailers in 2009. He’s also lent his talents to projects by Burning Spear, Israel Vibrations, Beres Hammond and others. His own band, Junior Marvin’s Force One, makes a stop at Asheville Music Hall on Friday, June 20, at 10 p.m. Dancehall funk outfit Nappy Riddims, a six-piece from Washington, D.C., also performs. $15/$18. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo courtesy of Junior Marvin

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Robert Francis & The Night Tide Indie-folk singer-songwriter Robert Francis almost abandoned his music career after a near-nervous breakdown following the release of his critically acclaimed third album, Strangers in the First Place (2012). It wasn’t too long, however, before his passion for music drew him back into the recording studio and onto the road. “I’d never known a life other than one consumed by music,” he says. “I had to lose myself in order to rediscover who I was in the beginning.” Francis plays with his backing band in support of his latest release, Heaven, at The Mothlight on Monday, June 23, at 9:30 p.m. Denny and the Jets also perform. $10/$12. themothlight.com. Photo by Dana Point

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Crafts show. Contact for details. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS AUDITIONS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org. • MO (6/23) & TU (6/24), 6-10pm - Auditions for Coriolanus. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIDS PROJECT 252-7489, wncap.org • Through (6/20) - Artists may submit works to be considered for the Signature Piece, auctioned at WNCAP’s Raise Your Hand benefit auction in October.

A CELEBRATION OF SUMMER: Traditional jigs, harmonious songs, storytelling and Irish dance — all this can be found at the Celtic Solstice Concert, held Saturday, June 21, at the HandMade in American building. The event also features a performance by celtic band Carolina Ceili. Tickets are $10. Photo courtesy of Carolina Ceili. (p.52)

WRITERS’ WORKSHOP EVENTS 254-8111, twwoa.org, prez@twwoa.org For beginning and experienced writers. • Through SA (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest. Contact for guidelines.

MUSIC ART TWO WORLDS • AN EXHIBIT OF ABSTRACT WATERCOLORS BY MICK DONELAN (pd.) Through June. Ambrozia Bar & Bistro, 1020 Merrimon Avenue, North Asheville. For info: 350-3033, Ambrozia-AVL.com • For preview of watercolors: MickDonelan.com ART IN THE PARK ashevilleartinthepark.com • SATURDAYS through (6/28), 10am-6pm - An outdoor market featuring works by regional artists. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 346 Depot St., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TH (6/19), 5:30-7:30pm - Artist Curriculum workshop: financial literacy for artists and arts groups. Registration required. • SA (6/21), 2-4pm - Artist Curriculum workshop: developing a pricing structure. Registration required. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • FR (6/20), noon-1pm - Lunchtime Art Break: Discussion of Take 10: Collectors’ Circle 10th Anniversary. ASHEVILLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE 254-2621, acdt.org • WE (6/25), 8pm - “Art of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera” discussion. Free. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. • TH (6/26), 8pm - “A Frida Fiesta,” a Frieda Kahlo look-alike contest with Mexican cuisine and music. $10. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege. org • WE (6/18), 7:30pm - Discussion of how 9/11 has been presented in art and mass media. Held in conjunction with Site Reconstruction exhibit. $5/ free for members.

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MAGNOLIA RAY 72 Weaverville Road, 258-5228, magnoliaray. com • SA (6/21), 3-5pm - Reception for artist Sandi Anton. POTTERY CLASSES AT TC ARTS COUNCIL ali@mountainroots.org Held at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. $40 per participant. • SA (6/21), 9-11am - Pottery for Families. • SA (6/21), 6-8pm - “Try Pottery.” For ages 15+. TIGG’S POND RETREAT CENTER 111 Fiddlehead Lane, Zirconia, 697-0680, tiggspondretreatcenter.com • SA (6/21), 9am-5pm - “Solstice Arts,” an allday craft event featuring exhibits, demonstrations, food, wine and items for purchase.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS AAAC’S REGIONAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANT ashevillearts.com • Through (10/14) - Applications will be accepted for this grant from the Asheville Area Arts Council to provide financial support for committed, accomplished artists. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 346 Depot St., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (7/4) - Applications accepted for six weeks of free vendor space at Spruce Street Market. Visit website for full details and guidelines. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • TH (6/19) & MO 6/23), 6-7pm - Auditions for the children’s theater production of Where the Wild Things Are. Ages 6-18. Registration required. DOWNTOWN HICKORY Hickory, 322-1121, downtownhickory.com • Through TH (10/9) - Call for artists. Hickory’s Oktoberfest is accepting applications for arts and crafts vendors, as well as the juried Arts &

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SONG O’ SKY CHORUS (pd.) Tuesday 6:45-9:30 PM Song O’ Sky Chorus Calvary Baptist Church (Chandler Center), 531 Haywood Road, 28806. Asheville’s only a capella barbershop-style chorus! We welcome all women who love to sing! www.songosky. org or (866) 824-9547 Parking available behind the church. ASHEVILLE MUSIC SCHOOL PERFORMANCE LOFT 126 College St., 252-6244 • TH (6/19), 7pm - “Windsong,” a Celtic music concert featuring 27 woodwind instruments. Free. BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 349 Andante Lane., Brevard, 862-2100, brevardmusic.org • SU (6/22), 3pm - Brevard Sinfonia “Ravel and Rachmaninoff” concert. $15$40. • MO (6/23), 7:30pm - Schumann Piano Quintet. $20. • TU (6/24), 7:30pm - Peter Yarrow and Noel Paul Stookey, folk. $20 and up. • WE (6/25), 7:30pm - A Solider Tale, sonata for piano. $20. • TH (6/26), 7:30pm - Opera’s Greatest Hits. $40. CELTIC SOLSTICE CONCERT 4040-392-0398, summersolsticehouseconcert2014.eventbrite.com • SA (6/21), 8-10pm - Includes dances, storytelling and a performance by Carolina Ceili. $10. Held at Handmade in America, 125 S. Lexington Ave #101 DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 2 South Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SA (6/22), 8pm - Asheville Percussion Festival’s Master Concert. $25. DULCIMER WORKSHOP 298-1090 • SATURDAYS through (6/28), 1-2:30 Beginner level dulcimer workshop taught in E. Asheville. Free.

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

HENDERSONVILLE’S MUSIC ON MAIN STREET 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Family-oriented entertainment along Hendersonville’s Main Street. Main stage: 201 S. Main St. Car shows and music each week. PARK RHYTHMS CONCERT SERIES 669-8610 • FR (6/26), 6-9pm - Kellin Watson, singersongwriter. Free. Held at Lake Tomahawk Park Pavilion, 401 S. Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain QORDS qords.org, qordsinfo@gmail.com • FR (6/20), 6-8pm - Showcase of songs from social justice rock camp for LBGTQ youth. Held at Bryson Gym at Warren Wilson College. RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES 233-3216, www.facebook.com • TH (6/19), 5pm - Balsam Range, bluegrass. Free. Held in downtown Hendersonville. TRANSYLVANIA ARTS WEEK CONCERTS 884-2787, tcarts.org • SA (6/21), 7pm - Joe Byers and the Smoky Mountain Cutups, bluegrass. Free. • SA (6/21), 7pm - Open music jam and community pot luck. Held at Balsam Grove Community Center, 8732 Parkway Road, Balsam Grove • TU (6/24), 6pm - Community music jam. Free. Held at Estatoe Community Center, 76 Clay Pole Road, Rosman • WE (6/25), 7pm - Land of the Lakes Choirboys of Minnesota. Free. Held at Brevard-Davidson River Presbyterian Church, 249 East Main St. • TH (6/26), 7:30pm - Sounds of Silvermont, bluegrass jam. Held at

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GALLERY DIRECTORY • Through (7/31) - A Lasting Legacy, works by local women from the late 19th century.

Silvermont Mansion, 364 East Main St., Brevard. TRANSYLVANIA LIBRARY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 828-884-3151 ext. 252, susan.debruin@ transylvaniacounty.org • FR (6/20), 7:30pm - Angela Easterling & The Beguilers, Americana. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard WOMANSONG COMMUNITY CHORUS womansong.org • FR (6/20) & SA (6/21), 7:30pm - “Why Not Now,” season opener. $15/$7 children 12 and under. Held in Kittredge Theatre on Warren Wilson’s campus.

THEATER ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/29) - Spamalot. Fri., Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $25/$22 seniors, students/$15 children. ASHEVILLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE 254-2621, acdt.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/20) until (6/29) - Looking for Frida. Fri.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun.: 6pm. $18/$13 seniors and students. Held at Bebe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/12) until (6/22) - Don’t Dress for Dinner. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. $16/ $11 students/ $5.50 children. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS (6/12) through (7/13) - My Fair Lady. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm; Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun.: 2pm. $40. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (5/29) until (6/22) - The Last Five Years. Wed.- Sat.: 8pm; Thurs., Sat., Sun.: 2pm. $40/$38 seniors/$30 students. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS through (6/28), 7:30pm - Henry V. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. SART - SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE Owen Theatre Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, 689-1384, sartplays.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/22) - Shunned. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm ; Sun.: 2:30pm. $25/$20 students.

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through WE (6/25) - Keeping of the Moon, paintings inspired by the Moon. ANANDA WEST 37 Paynes Way Suite 5, 236-2444, anandahair.com • Through (6/29) - Rinse, sculptures and paintings by Randy Shull. ART AT UNCA jyarnall@unca.edu Info: unca.edu. • Through MO (7/7) - The Wonder of Nature, watercolor paintings by Janice Lape. In the Blowers Gallery. ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Exhibits on display in the Fine Art Museum, unless otherwise noted. • Through FR (7/18) - Works by NC art educators. ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery.com • Through TU (7/1) - On the Verge, sculptors by Leonid Siveriver and photography by Robert Asman. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (10/5) - Farm to Table: American Silver, handmade American silver objects. • Through SU (9/14) - The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction, paintings and prints by Minna Citron.

MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • Through MO (6/30) - Visual Cues, encaustic paintings by Jane Wells Harrison.

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MOOG MUSIC GALLERY 170 Broadway, 239-0123, moogmusic.com • Through MO (6/23) - The Early Days of the Moog Synthesizer, photography. THE BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery. com • Through TH (7/3) - Primordial Forms, glass sculpture by Chad Holliday. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL

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349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (6/20) - Works by potters from Transylvania County and WNC. UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through (6/20) - New Faces, works by of seven emerging local artists WINDOW 54 Broadway, windowcontemporary.org • Through (7/7) - re/production, re/presentation, photography by Lorne Blythe.

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ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art. com • Through MO (6/30) - Espressioni, paintings by Ruth Ilg. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through (6/27) - Art in Bloom, works from regional galleries. paired with floral arrangements. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through SA (8/23) - Site Reconstruction, painting of the World Trade Center site by Jacquelin Gourevitch. CANTON BRANCH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • Through FR (8/1) - Fly Over, photography of WWII warbirds by Barbara Sammons. CASTELL PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY 2C Wilson Alley, 255-1188, castellphotographygallery.com • Through TH (6/26) - Instant Photography: 20032014, polaroids by Adam Void. HAEN GALLERY IN BREVARD 200 King St., Brevard, 883-3268, hehaengallery. com/brevard • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/21) until (7/3) - Open house with works by Transylvania County artists, part of Arts & Culture Week. Thu.Sat.: 11am-6pm; Sun.: noon-5pm. JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 310 Keener St., Sylva, 586-2016, fontanalib.org/sylva

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JUNE 18 - JUNE 24, 2014

C L U B L A N D MILLROOM Sara Schaefer w/ Jason Webb & Peter SmithMcDowell (stand-up comedy), 8:30pm

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 18

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

NEW MOUNTAIN Theatre: Archnemesis (electronic, hip-hop), 9pm Main Stage: Stop Light Observations w/ Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats (rock), 9pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass jam w/ The Deals, 9pm

ODDITORIUM Dirty Kills & Claypool (punk), 9pm

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

OLIVE OR TWIST Pop the Clutch (Motown, beach, blues, swing), 7:30pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ Gary Mackey (fiddle), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm

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

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish ‘n’ Chips : “The Trey Trials” (performance/try-outs for The Duke of Lizards), 6pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJ Dr. Filth (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm

ORANGE PEEL Asheville Tattoo & Piercing Expo pre-party w/ Vulture, The Poontanglers & Cut Throat Freak Show, 11:15pm

EMERALD LOUNGE Blues jam, 8pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Michael McFarland (singer-songwriter), 6pm

GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm

PACK’S TAVERN Acoustic Affliction (alternative, acoustic rock), 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Wednesday World Music w/ Jim Hurst & Roberto Dalla Vecchia, 7:15pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Yarn (Americana), 9pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm LEX 18 Michael John Jazz & friends (jazz), 8pm LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm

OLD BAND, NEW MOUNTAIN: “Charleston, S.C.’s Stop Light Observations started playing together at the young age of 13, when songwriter and pianist John-Keith Culbreth asked guitarist Louis Duffie the iconic teenage question: ‘Wanna start a band?’” The indie-rock Bonnaroo veterans will be making their Asheville debut at New Mountain on Thursday, June 19, at 10 p.m., with Asheville-based Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats and Kick the Robot.

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic, 7pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm

ODDITORIUM Savagist, Gnarl Scar, Spliff, Beasts of Legend (metal), 9pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL CyHi The Prynce w/ Hunter Doug Dew & Rose Royce Rique (hip-hop), 10pm

ORANGE PEEL Little Dragon w/ Lawrence Rothman (electropop), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Lord King (reggae, ska, dub), 6pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Black Pussy & Mothership w/ Gypsyhawk (psychedelic-rock), 9:30pm THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Release w/ Disc-Oh! (bass), 9pm

To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed / To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue / Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Hayley Benton at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland / Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed / The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues / Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. This is a firm deadline.

JUNE 18 - JUNE 24, 2014

PURPLE ONION CAFE Bruce Plephoff, 7:30pm RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL Chris Rhodes (jazz, blues, R&B, pop), 6:30pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

MILLROOM David Wax Museum, 8pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm 3 Cool Cats Band (vintage rock ‘n’ roll), 8pm

POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm

THURSDAY, JUNE 19 185 KING STREET Power blues jam w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz), 8pm ADAM DALTON DISTILLERY Bridging the Gap (old school hip-hop, vinyl night), 10pm

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC SCHOOL PERFORMANCE LOFT Windsong: A celebration of Celtic music, 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Lyric (acoustic soul), 9pm BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 9pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Joe Cruz (piano), 6pm DOUBLE CROWN DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Bryan White, 6pm GOOD STUFF Andy Dale Petty, 6:30pm Main Vein (hip-hop, pop), 8pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Jessy Carolina & The Hot Mess w/ Big Nasty (jazz), 8pm HAVANA RESTAURANT Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens & Misty (jazz), 8pm LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 7pm MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN The Wilhelm Brothers, 6pm THE PHOENIX Bradford Carson & Will Knight (Americana), 8pm THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm TIMO’S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum ‘n’ Bass Collective, 9pm TOWN PUMP Williams & Company (country), 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm WHITE HORSE Trae Pierce & T-Stone, 7:30pm WXYZ LOUNGE Shane Perlowin (jazz guitarist), 8pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 20 185 KING STREET Chris Henry & The Hardcore Grass w/ Crying Wolf, 8pm 201 S. MAIN ST. (HENDERSONVILLE) Emporium Band, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Firecracker Jazz Band (jazz), 9pm

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

OPEN AT 5PM FOR SUNDAY SHOWS

Sat 6/21

gringo Star w/ nest egg & Camp david 9pm • $10

asheville flyer for kids Presents: SChoolS out! Sun w/ dJ t-Bone, red Yarn 6/22 & laura doherty 2:30pm • $10 for 16+ free for kids under 16

the California honeYdroPS

tue 6/24 wed 6/25

8pm • $10/$12

Seth walker Cd releaSe Show w/ elsa Cross 8pm • $12/$15

thu 6/26

griffin houSe

fri 6/27

Jd mCPherSon w/ drunken Prayer

Sat 6/28

the eagle flieS for “Benefit Steve”

8pm • $15/$17

9pm • $12/15

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JUNE 18 - JUNE 24, 2014

CLUBLAND

Send your listings to clubland@mountainx.com. CLUB DIRECTORY

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Junior Marvin’s Force One w/ Nappy Riddem (reggae, funk, rock), 10pm ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BOILER ROOM Under Ground Kings w/ DJ Twain (hip-hop), 9pm BYWATER Ouroboro’s Boys (instrumental, psychedelic, surf-rock), 9pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Sheila Gordon (pop, rock, blues), 7pm DUGOUT Pop The Clutch, 9pm GOOD STUFF Call the Next Witness (rock, eclectic), 9pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Carrie Morrison & Steve Whiteside (Americana), 6:30pm

6/19 ARCHNEMESIS

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Phoebe Hunt & Conner Forsyth (formerly of Belleville Outfit, folk), 9pm

w/ JWOB

HAVANA RESTAURANT Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, Latin, reggae), 7pm

6/19 STOP LIGHT OBSERVATIONS

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Deep Fried Five (funk, soul), 6:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Barb Turner (R&B), 7pm

w/ Andrew Skotchie & the River Rats

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Small Town Lights w/ Matt Townsend & The Wonder of the World (folk, Americana), 9pm

6/20 DEAD 27’S

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

w/ Southern Fried Funk

6/21 GRASSY SOLSTICE FEAT

LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens Trio (jazz), 8pm MAIN STREET PUB & DELI Buick MacKane Band (Southern rock), 8pm

Chris Henry and Hardcore String Band/Delta Caine/ Sure Shot String Band

31 PATTON AVENUE-UPSTAIRS

6/28 ELIOT LIPP

w/ Panther God, Brett Rock, Flypaper

7/4 U.S. BLUES INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION w/ Phuncle Sam + Gimme Hendrix

7/5 DIESEL BOY

one stop

19 THU JUNE

20 FRI JUNE

20 FRI

The Trey Trials - Phish N Chips 6 PM FREE All Ages

CyHi The Prynce w/ Special Guests

Hunter, Doug Dew and Rose Royce Rique 10 PM $10/$15 21+

38 N. French Broad Ave. NewMountainAVL.com

ODDITORIUM Celebritease w/ The Go Devils (burlesque), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

ORANGE PEEL Jake Bugg w/ The Silver Palms (indie-folk), 9pm

w/ Nappy Riddem 10 PM $15/$18 21+

one stop

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NOBLE KAVA Samuel Paradise & Friends (ambient, electronica), 9pm

Junior Marvin’s Force One

AMH

JUNE

24 TUE

NIGHTBELL Dulítel DJ (indie, electronic, dance), 10:30pm

w/ Rims & Keys and Duende Mountain 10 PM $5 21+

JUNE Dubtribe Sound w/ Disc-oh! 21 10 PM $17/$22 21+ SAT AMH

8/8 HACKENSAW BOYS

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

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Greenhouse Lounge w/ Rims & Keys and Duende Mountain (electronic, fusion), 10pm

Greenhouse Lounge

Eddie Roberts, Ike Stubblefield & 21 Jermal Watson 10PM $8/$10 21+ SAT

7/18 BLACKALICIOUS w/ VOV

JUNE 18 - JUNE 24, 2014

JUNE

7/17 EOTO

19 THU

AMH

6/26 BLACK TAXI w/ Analog Moon

JUNE

one stop

COMING SOON:

55 COLLEGE STREET-DOWNSTAIRS

AMH

6/22 VAGABOND SWING

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

Tuesday Night Funk Jam 11PM FREE 21+

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OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Carver & Carmody (singer-songwriter), 6pm PACK’S TAVERN DJ MoTo (pop, dance, hits), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Gaslight Street (blues, rock), 8pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am SCULLY’S Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 7pm

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

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

Cabaret Dinner w/ James Hammel, Bill Bares, Patrick Brown, Zack Page & Rick Dilling, 7pm DUGOUT Fine Line (rock), 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Rob Nance & The Lost Souls, 6pm GOOD STUFF Brawful w/ Jake Hollifield & the Screaming J’s, 8:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Gringo Star w/ Nest Egg & Camp David (indierock), 9pm HAVANA RESTAURANT Pickin’ on the Patio w/ Phil Alley (folk, bluegrass), 12:30pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Red Honey (rock, blues), 6:30pm

DJ, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY The Sufi Brothers (bluegrass, folk, rock), 8pm SPRING CREEK TAVERN Andy Buckner & The Southern Soul Campaign, 8pm TALLGARY’S CANTINA Mile High (country), 9:30pm THE MOTHLIGHT RBTS WIN w/ Forever F.C. & Tin Foil Hat (electro-pop), 9:30pm THE PHOENIX The Lazybirds (Americana, roots), 9pm THE SOCIAL My Back Pocket (classic rock, soul), 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Dr. Filth (soul, psych, punk), 10pm TOWN PUMP The Bread & Butter Band (bluegrass), 9pm

IRON HORSE STATION Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Hearts Gone South w/ Kelley & The Cowboys (country, honky-tonk), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 Michael John Jazz & friends (jazz), 8pm MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm NIGHTBELL DJ Bümerang (electro-swing, swing-hop, funk), 10:30pm ODDITORIUM Flesh Wounds, The Young Leaves & Old Flings (rock, garage), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Spotlight w/ Lowdown, 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (soul, blues), 10pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm Eddie Roberts, Ike Stubblefield & Jermal Watson (funk, jazz), 10pm

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

ORANGE PEEL Xavier Rudd w/ Ash Grunwalk (folk, blues, world), 9pm

WATER’N HOLE Rolling Nowhere (psychedelic, roots), 9pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 6pm

WHITE HORSE The Riccardi Duo, 7:30pm

PACK’S TAVERN Aaron LaFalce Band (rock, funk), 9pm

WILD WING CAFE A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 9pm

WXYZ LOUNGE Soul Business (soul, rock, pop), 9pm

PURPLE ONION CAFE Lonesome Road Band, 8pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 21 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Honey Spice, 9pm

RIVERWATCH BAR & GRILL Carver & Carmody (Americana), 8pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm

TAVERN DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shufﬂeboard • Darts Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

thuRs. june 26

yours truly/ the Volt per octaVes

LIVE MUSIC... NEVER A COVER WATCH THE WORLD CUP!!

w/ elisa faires

backstage • 9:30PM • $6 sat. june 28

EVERY GAME! DRINK SPECIALS!

wham bam bowie band

THU. 6/19 Acoustic Affliction

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The Immigrant

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PLAYERS: Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Renner, Dagmara Dominczyk, Jicky Schnee DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: The tale of a young immigrant woman forced into a life of prostitution as the only means to make her way in the New World and get her tubercular sister off Ellis Island. THE LOWDOWN: Richly melodramatic and beautifully detailed fable on the myth of the American dream as experienced early in the 20th century with perhaps allegorical nods to the present. Powerfully acted, written and directed and a lot more complex than it may seem on the surface.

Joaquin Phoenix and Marion Cotillard give powerful performances in James Gray’s often devastating and complex look at the immigrant experience in 1921 America in The Immigrant.

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Quite the best thing opening this week – and possibly the best thing playing – is James Gray’s The Immigrant. Here is a film that reason dictates ought to have been released during awards season that we’re getting in the middle of the summer. The why of this may lie in the fact that Gray dug in his heels and wouldn’t allow Harvey Weinstein to recut the movie. There’s no denying that Weinstein is capricious enough to punish an uppity filmmaker like this, even at the expense of the movie. However, it’s just as likely that The Immigrant‘s lack of that “art film with a feel good vibe” caused Weinstein to write it off as Oscar bait. The King’s Speech this ain’t.

The Immigrant may make you feel, but it has no interest at all in making you feel good, despite the fact that it is ultimately a tale of hard-won redemption at a heavy price. It is also beautiful filmmaking with complex performances from Marion Cotillard, Joaquin Phoenix and Jeremy Renner. But, yes, it is a devastating experience. That the film takes its name from a 1917 Charlie Chaplin short is by no means accidental. Both films address the immigrant experience at roughly the same time. (Gray’s film is set in 1921.) And both cast a jaundiced eye at the promise of a glorious new life in America. In Chaplin’s film, Charlie looks at the way he and his fellow passengers are

herded together like cattle and in response gives the Statue of Liberty a contemptuous look. In Gray’s film, the ship arrives with the statue’s back toward its passengers. This may also account for the fact that in many ways, Gray’s The Immigrant is a startlingly old-fashioned movie, possibly a little too much so. (Its notions of a “ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay” nightclub show feels more turn of the century than 1921, though this may be a deliberate comment on the stuck in time nature of the ghetto in which much of the film takes place.) At bottom, The Immigrant is nothing more, nor less, than a richly melodramatic fable about the American dream as not just an illusion, but a nightmare, a nightmare specifically

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created for the film’s heroine, Ewa Cybulska (Cotillard). It’s a nightmare in which the disenfranchised are victimized by the only slightly less disenfranchised. The Immigrant begins with sisters Ewa and Magda (Angela Sarafyan) arriving at Ellis Island. Both know that Magda is ill, but they hope to squeak by. No such luck. Magda is slapped into quarantine, and Ewa is detained for probable deportation out of allegations of bad moral character. (It is only very late in the film that we learn the source of these claims.) Enter Bruno Weiss (Phoenix), a first generation American, closeted Jew (he pretends he gets on in the Jewish neighborhood because he speaks Yiddish) and small time promoter, who presents himself to Ewa as a charity worker. Of course, what he really is is a pimp, who is preying on Ewa’s plight. And naive as she is, even Ewa quickly realizes that he wants her for more than sewing and possibly appearing at his sleazy Lower East Side theater. Struggle though she tries, it quickly becomes obvious that Bruno is her only hope for making enough money to get Magda released from Ellis Island. This is – or could be – hoary melodrama of the oldest kind, but don’t mistake the film for anything so simplistic. The relationship between Ewa and Bruno is far more complex, maybe even more twisted, than that of victim and victimizer. And it becomes even more tangled with the arrival of Bruno’s stage magician cousin, Emil (Renner), who sets his sights on Ewa for reasons of his own. What follows never allows itself not to be melodrama, and I think this is actually in the film’s favor, making it all the more compelling. But there’s such a richness of character and detail here that it’s a mistake to reduce The Immigrant to any one quality. Its ability to create a single, perfectly developed atmosphere is remarkable. The performances, though sometimes mannered, are all believable. And the film’s final shot can join the short list of the truly great ending images. No, The Immigrant isn’t a lot fun, but it’s touched with a kind of greatness we don’t see very often. Rated R for sexual content, nudity and some language. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

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22 Jump Street HHHS

DIRECTOR: Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie) PLAYERS: Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Amber Stevens, Ice Cube, Jillian Bell COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: Officers Schmidt and Jenko head undercover again, this time at college. THE LOWDOWN: Not as fresh as the original, the movie’s more interesting as a parody of Hollywood franchises and a critique of gay panic in buddy cop flicks, but doesn’t have much going for it as a comedy.

I’ll openly admit that I like Phil Lord and Christopher Miller’s 21 Jump Street (2012) more than I probably should. While I’d never defend the film as high art, it’s clever and frenetic enough to be both funny and entertaining (and mask the dumber aspects of itself), propped up by the chemistry of stars Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill. It’s the one time I’ve found Hill even slightly likable, while 21 Jump Street, which came out the same year as the Stephen Soderbergh’s Magic Mike, cemented Tatum as more than a just a beefy heartthrob (really, it gave him the career James Franco should’ve had after Milk [2008] and Pineapple Express [2008], before he decided he was important). And on even simpler terms, the movie just entertained me, which, if you’ve read my reviews or watched enough modern movies, is something far too many filmmakers have trouble accomplishing these days. So with all this, how does the film’s sequel, 22 Jump Street, avoid the doldrums of the diminished returns sequels often bring along with them? By tackling the idea straight on. Where 21 Jump Street was little more than a parody of

HHHHH = max rating that strange subgenre of movie where adults go undercover in high school and no one seems the wiser, 22 Jump Street takes on the whole Hollywood mentality of the cash cow franchise. As commentary, this can be a bit too on the nose, since the film goes out of its way to point out that officers Schmidt (Hill) and Jenko (Tatum) have been given orders from on high to perform their case this time around “exactly the same,” but with more money thrown at it. But instead of heading back to infiltrate a high school drug ring, they’re off to college to infiltrate a drug ring. What doesn’t quite work is that the meta nature of doing 22 Jump Street the same as its predecessor is that it gives the film carte blanche to make the same movie over again, meaning it’s cognizant of its receding freshness. While the movie’s pointedness is often clever (especially an end-credit sequence that maps out some 20-odd Jump Street sequels that become increasingly silly and absurd), it doesn’t translate to the film proper, which, while occasionally amusing, isn’t anything special. It works here and there, but never consistently, and it only truly works at all thanks to Tatum and Hill. The chemistry between the duo is handled in a surprisingly mature fashion, often embracing the sort of inherently homoerotic nature of the macho buddy cop action flick. Their relationship is consistently handled in romantic terms, mostly for laughs, but no boundaries are ever truly drawn between them. It’s a pretty staunchly progay movie all around, too, since we do end up with an over-the-top shootout and car chase cropping up because Jenko refuses to let a henchman’s use of a gay slur slide. All this being said, it adds up to a movie that’s more interesting in what it’s trying to do and say than the full sum of the finished product’s parts. When your goofy comedy’s politics are more interesting than any of your jokes (well, besides a well done Annie Hall [1977] reference), there are probably some problems there. Rated R for language throughout, sexual content, drug material, brief nudity and some violence. Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Justin Souther

How to Train Your Dragon 2 HHHS

DIRECTOR: Dean DeBlois (How to Train Your Dragon) PLAYERS: (Voices) Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill ANIMATED FANTASY RATED PG THE STORY: New adventures and new challenges for Viking boy Hiccup and his trained dragon, Toothless. THE LOWDOWN: Not as fresh or funny as its 2010 predecessor – and with a curious lack of focus in its first half – but with a bang-up second half, much visual beauty and a surprising emotional resonance.

It was probably inevitable that the inevitable sequel to How to Train Your Dragon (2010) would not measure up to the original, but this isn’t a simple case of sequelitis and diminishing returns. The fact is that the second half of the new film is as good as and possibly better than the original. And there are some very good moments in the earlier parts of the film, along with some serious miscalculations. The biggest problem is the double whammy of a movie that can’t be bothered to establish itself and one that has no discernible plot or structure for a very long time. It seems an impossibility, but How to Train Your Dragon 2 somehow manages be both frenetic and meandering at the same time. Yes, that’s a notable accomplishment, but it’s not what I’d call desirable. The film opens with minimal explanation – obviously, you should have seen the first one (and remembered it for four years) – and maximum frenzy. A great deal of the swooping and soaring that assails the viewer right off the bat concerns the franchise’s screwy version of Quidditch. It is not,

however, screwy enough – yeah, I know, nothing says funny like animated sheep – to get past the fact that it feels like the Harry Potter borrowing it is. But it’s less this sort of thing that, for me at least, drags this down a notch than it is the tendency to lack focus for much of the film’s earlier portions. While there were pieces of plot, I spent way too much of the movie waiting for a story to develop. My immediate temptation is to blame this on the absence of writer-director Dean DeBlois’ usual co-writerdirector Chris Sanders. This is somewhat borne out by the fact that Sanders’ The Croods (2013) was free of this problem, but it still remains no more than an educated guess. It could as easily just be the film’s attempt to be bigger and more spectacular than its predecessor. Don’t get the idea that I’m writing off the film. By no means is that my intention. Once the film gets around to Hiccup (Jay Baruchel) finding his long-lost mother (Cate Blanchett), things become much more grounded and interesting. It is also here that it becomes more and more difficult to discuss the specifics of the movie, including a startlingly dark turn of events, without giving too much away. The emotional resonance of the film’s later sections are stronger than anything in the first film, and the sheer beauty of the imagery may just possibly qualify as the pinnacle of computer animation to date. There are still some peculiarities: The film’s showdown with the villainous Drago (Djimon Hounsou) is of such a nature that there is absolutely no reason for his amassed forces and minions. (I guess it looks cool.) And it’s worth noting that How to Train Your Dragon 2 is largely lacking in big laughs, settling instead for gentle amusement. However, the film played well to the audience full of kids I saw it with. They, in fact, stayed in their seats far better than many adult audiences I’ve watched movies with. Rated PG for adventure action and some mild rude humor. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher, reviewed by Ken Hanke

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Jersey Boys It’s interesting to watch the early reviews trip over themselves trying to not quite say that Clint Eastwood’s film of the popular stage show is bad, but the very few reviews out there pretty much indicate that the fear that maybe the revered director wasn’t the best choice to helm a musical. The lack of star power probably won’t help, but we can find out on Friday.(R)

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Think Like a Man Too Since Tim Story’s film version of Steve Harvey’s book was an inexplicable hit, it followed that the same characters and cast and director would be back for a sequel. Well, here it is. Unsurprisingly, it has not been screened for critics.(PG-13)

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Guy Pearce and a surprisingly good Robert Pattinson star in David Michôd’s compellingly watchable, but bleakly nihilistic, The Rover

The Rover HHHS

DIRECTOR: David Michôd (Animal Kingdom) PLAYERS: Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, Gillian Jones, Susan Prior POST-APOCALYPTIC NIHILSM RATED R THE STORY: In post-apocalyptic Australia, a taciturn loner goes to great lengths – including murder and mayhem – to recover a stolen car. THE LOWDOWN: An alternately violent and tedious road movie of the post-apocalyptic variety that remains watchable thanks to some odd touches and an interesting performance from Robert Pattinson.

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After the press screening of David Michôd’s The Rover at The Carolina on Sunday morning, three out of four critics (including me) settled on the sure-to-please break-out quote, “Well, I didn’t hate it.” (The fourth critic had called it “pointless” and had gone home by the time the rest of us were thrashing it out with a studio rep.) I wasn’t personally that surprised because I’d been one of the few people in the critical world who thought Michôd’s 2010 Animal Kingdom was nothing special. In fact, I found it pretty boring. The Rover, at least, I didn’t find boring – well, most of the time. All in all, I was mostly perplexed by the film’s existence. If ever a film probably oughtn’t have included a scene where one character looks at another and asks, “Why are you telling me this?,” The Rover is that film. I spent most of the movie wondering why Michôd was telling me

this story. And while the answer to that question in the film is the quasiexistential assertion that not everything needs to have a point, that’s pretty cold comfort for the viewer. The story is pretty much your basic post-apocalyptic hooey, only with less than usual explanation. All we know is the story is set 10 years after “the Collapse.” Just what that was is left to the viewer to conclude, and I guess anyone who’s seen The Road Warrior (1981) or even Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) has a workable notion. Society has collapsed – though for some reason money (especially U.S. currency) still works – and mankind has been reduced to some kind of brutal existence in a dusty, bleak, inhospitable world that looks like the Australian Outback on a particularly bad day. All that seems to exist are crude structures that look like an endless collection of disused auto repair shops that have been reduced to crummy bars and black market emporiums where one can acquire gas, ammo and the odd tin of sardines. Why or how anything could possibly matter in this world is a mystery of some note, and to the degree The Rover answers that question, it’s in the nature (I think) of a joke that doesn’t make much sense. Further discussion would land us in the realm of spoilers, so let’s just say this truly is a shaggy dog story. Guy Pearce plays a fellow called Eric (in the credits, but not in the film), who is traveling somewhere for some reason, not that it looks like any place is much different from any place else. Along the way he stops at a bar for a drink. In the meantime, three idiots who are fighting in truck run their vehicle off the road. (The silent image

of this taking place behind the blissfully unaware Eric is the movie’s single amusing moment. Savor it.) Rather than setting their truck to rights, they steal Eric’s car. He takes exception to this, so he takes off after them in their abandoned truck. That pretty much is the plot, except that Eric comes across the simple-minded Rey (a startlingly good and utterly glammed-down Robert Pattinson), wounded brother of one of the thieves. Deciding that Rey might know where the others are going, he has him patched up by what passes for a doctor, and they set out in pursuit. What we end up with is a slightly tedious chase, occasional outbursts of brutal (but strangely one-note) violence, the inevitable quasi-bonding of Eric and Rey, and, of course, the anticipated show-down. Mostly, Pearce looks bitter and stoic, Rey tends to natter on in an inexplicable American redneck accent, and everyone is pretty miserable. Strangely, and in large part due to a few peculiar touches like a strange old woman, misplaced circus performers, people crucified on telephone poles, and Pattinson’s performance, the whole thing manages to be compellingly watchable. Problem is that its sun-baked nihilism doesn’t finally amount to much of anything.

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Edge of Tomorrow HHHS Tom Cruise, Emily Blunt, Brendan Gleeson, Bill Paxton, NoahTaylor, Jonas Armstrong, Tony Way

Sci-Fi Action A cowardly public relations man forced into battle against aliens finds himself repeating the day every time he gets killed. Clever and fast-paced with a welcome streak of dark humor, this sci-fi actioner is undeniably entertaining, if ultimately not terribly substantial, despite an intriguing premise. Rated PG-13

Fed Up HHH Katie Couric, Bill Clinton, Robert Lustig, Michael Pollan Activist Documentary Documents America’s obesity epidemic and the various nefarious causes of it. A wellintentioned, occasionally convincing doc that simply goes on too long, often losing focus. Rated PG

Night Moves HHS Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard, Alia Shawkat, Logan Miller Eco-Thriller A trio of eco-terrorists blow up a dam. A very slow-moving thriller that doesn’t deliver much in the thrill department, although it’s worth

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considering that most critics found this much better than I did. Fans of director Kelly Reichardt will definitely be interested. Rated R

The Fault in Our Stars HH Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe Teen Cancer Melodrama Two teens suffering with the effects and aftereffects of cancer fall in love. A goopy, manipulative little movie that suffers from inefficient plotting, flat direction, a milquetoast disposition and some truly wrongheaded story decisions. Rated PG-13

Clive Owen, Juliette Binoche, Valerie Tian, Bruce Davison, Navid Negahban, Amy Brenneman Romantic Comedy Drama A functional alcoholic literature teacher and a physically-impaired art teacher lock horns over which is more powerful -- words or pictures -- while becoming increasingly involved with each other personally. A contrived screenplay is trumped by star power, directorial skill and witty dialogue. Flawed, yes, but very enjoyable and satisfying. Check it out. Rated PG-13

Seth MacFarlane, Charlize Theron, Liam Neeson, Giovanni Ribisi, Amanda Seyfried, Sarah Silverman, Neil Patrick Harris Overlong Western Parody An inept sheep rancher becomes involved with a notorious gunslinger’s wife. Predictability ensues. Stupefying in its unfunniness, arrogance and outright narcissism, A Million Ways to Die in the West is a shoo-in for my Worst of the Year list come December. Rated R

Maleficent HHS Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, Jono Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites Revisionist Fantasy Retelling of Sleeping Beauty that presents the evil Maleficent as a scorned woman seeking revenge on the man who betrayed her. Despite an amusing performance from Angelina Jolie, Maleficent is a sloppy, overly designed movie that completely disposes of the appeal of the title character. Rated PG

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Teen Angst Drama A look into the lives of a group of aimless, upscale teens. A mixed-bag debut for writer-director Gia Coppola. A lot of it is typical lifestyles of the ennui-ridden overprivileged, but there are moments of near brilliance and an ending that makes up for much. Rated R

1973 to rewrite history in order to prevent the implementation of a program that means not only the extermination of the X-Men, but a great part of the world. Intelligent, witty, exciting, emotionally effective — and all those things that comic book movies almost never are. Rated PG-13

Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Bella Thorne, Kevin Nealon

Belle HHHH

Blended S

Comedy Two single parents and their kids end up on the same African safari. An unsurprisingly puerile and needlessly sentimental comedy from Adam Sandler. Rated PG-13

Chef HHHS Words and Pictures HHHH

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Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Sofia Vergara, Emjay Anthony, Bobby Cannavale, Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey, Jr. Comedy An upscale chef finds himself when he quits his job and starts his own food truck business. An unfailingly pleasant little comedy that would benefit from more conflict and a sharper tone, but it’s a proven crowd-pleaser that will play well to food and food-truck aficionados. Rated R

Cold in July HHHHS Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw, Wyatt Russell, Nick Damici Neo-noir Thriller After shooting an intruder, a rather ordinary man finds himself plunged into a labyrinthian criminal underworld where little is what it seems. A striking, startling breakthrough film for director and co-writer Jim Mickle. An always suprising, intense and completely satisfying neo-noir thriller that may remind you of the Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple. Essential viewing. Rated NR

Locke HHHHS Tom Hardy, (Voices of:) Olivia Colman, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, Ben Daniels Drama A man risks — and may have lost — everything in order to drive through the night to be with the woman who is bearing the child he fathered. Not because he cares for her, but because he believes it is the right thing to do. What seems like a limited stunt concept turns out to be one of the most intense — and cinematic — experiences of the year, anchored to a brilliant performance by Tom Hardy. Rated R

X-Men: Days of Future Past HHHHS

Palo Alto HHHS

Hugh Jackman, James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawremce, Nicholas Hoult, Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Ellen Page

Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Emma Roberts, James Franco, Val Kilmer, Zoe Levin

Comic Book Sci-Fi Action Fantasy Wolverine is sent from the future to

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

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

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

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

God’s Pocket HHHS Philip Seymour Hoffman, Christina Hendricks, Richard Jenkins, Eddie Marsan, Caleb Landry-Jones Drama When his no-account step-

son is killed, a small-time crook has to come up with the money for the funeral. A good cast elevates this uneven look into the lives of the inhabitants of a lowclass neighborhood called God’s Pocket. Grubby and darkly comic, it’s a film that gets better as it goes along, even if it never really rings the gong. Rated R

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

Neighbors HH Seth Rogen, Zac Efron, Rose Byrne, Dave Franco, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Brian Huskey Raunchy Comedy It’s all-out war between a young married couple with a baby and the noisy, wild frat boys who move in next door. Supposedly riotous and theoretically shocking R-rated tomfoolery is just more of the same from the raunchy comedy style of filmmaking. Your mileage may vary, judging by the box office and the positive reviews. Rated R

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

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

Revenge Thriller A man sets out for revenge, only to become entangled in an even more treacherous mess. A curious little movie on the difficulties of vengeance that has some good ideas, but eventually does little to set itself apart. Rated R

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

Particle Fever HHH Martin Aleksa, David Kaplan, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos, Monica Dunford, Fabiola Gianotti Physics Documentary Documentary about finding the Higgs boson with the aid of Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland. It is made by physicists and made for physicists — or at least pretty hardcore science enthusiasts. For that audience, it’s fine, but the uninitiated may find it something of a slog. Rated NR

and deactivate a nuclear device. Dumb, convoluted actioner that manages to be incredibly boring in the bargain — despite all the fistfights and car chases. Rated PG-13

Dom Hemingway HH HHH Jude Law, Richard E. Grant, Demian Bichir, Kerry Condon, Emilia Clarke, Madalina Ghenea, Jumayn Hunter Dark British Crime Comedy After 12 years in prison, safecracker Dom Hemingway is out — and in search of everything he feels is owed him. Unrepentant in its vulgarity, unflinching in its occasional violence, endlessly creative in its use of words and images and blessed with a brilliant performance from Jude Law, Dom Hemingway is a must-see for anyone interested in solid filmmaking and great writing. But it is very Rrated. Rated R

Ernest & Celestine HHHH (Voices) Forest Whitaker, Mackenzie Foy, Lauren Bacall, Paul Giamatti, William H. Macy Animated Fantasy A young mouse becomes the improbable friend of a very

large bear. A film of immense charm and pleasingly non-gooey sweetness that also carries a solid theme about prejudice and how it’s a learned response. It is not, however, preachy and is largely played for clever comedy. Rated PG

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

The Quiet Ones HHH

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

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

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

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Blue Ruin HHHS

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Macon Blair, Devin Ratray, Amy Hargreaves, Kevin Kolack, David W. Thompson

Action In dystopian Detroit, an undercover cop and a criminal with a heart of gold must bust into a cordoned off slum

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Asheville Coal Ash Stories HHH Director: Various DOCUMENTARY Rated NR Four short documentaries about the perils of coal ash ponds. The four short films being presented at 7 p.m. on Thursday., June 19, at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville (admission is free) are fairly straightforward activist documentaries that serve as a basic introduction to the important issue of coal ash ponds. Here are excerpts from the publicity handout: On Thursday, June 19, local organizations will host a free film night as part of Coal Ash Stories, a statewide screening tour featuring four short documentary films focused on coal ash, related public health concerns, and policy. This February, a storm-water pipe below a massive Duke Energy coal ash impoundment failed, spilling 140,000 tons of toxic-laden coal ash and contaminated wastewater into North Carolina’s Dan River. This coal ash sludge now coats the Dan for 70 miles downstream, and the full public health and economic impacts are still unknown.

Atlantic City HHHH

Director: Louis Malle Players: Burt Lancaster, Susan Sarandon, Kate Reid, Michel Piccoli, Hollis McLaren, Robert Joy DRAMA Rated R

As Louis Malle movies go, Atlantic City (1980) qualifies as almost action-packed. It’s also one of his most accessible and one of those late-in-the-day examples of the era when the line between art movies and the mainstream was less obvious than it would soon become. It’s a remarkably congenial tale – with dashes of melodrama and mayhem – about people at the ends of their ropes in the title city during the days when the city was being revitalized into its casino-driven new prosperity.

Convict 99 HHHH Director: Marcel Varnel Players: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Peter Gawthorne, Basil Radford COMEDY Rated NR British comedian Will Hay – little known in the U.S. – stars in Convict 99, one of his best films. As is usually the case, he plays a lazy, incompetent and not particularly honest English schoolmaster, only here he’s mistaken for an Australian expert on prison reforms and given the job of warden at a large penitentiary that he proceeds to run along the lines of a boys’ school. As an introduction to the star’s brand of very British comedy, this is probably the best place to start.

Metropolis HHHHH Director: Fritz Lang Players: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp SCIENCE FICTION Rated NR Fritz Lang’s 1927 science fiction masterpiece about social upheaval in a fantastic city of the future. Sure, it’s melodramatic -- after all, its Lang, whose heart belonged to pulp fiction -- but it’s also a visual spectacle like no other. One of the most influential films of all time -- and still one of the greatest.

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HUMAN SERVICES ADMISSIONS DIRECTOR Four Circles Recovery Center and Transition Program is seeking an Admissions Director. Located in Horse Shoe, NC, Four Circles Recovery Center is an innovative wilderness-based treatment program for young adults ages 18-28 who are struggling with addiction, substance abuse, and co-occurring emotional or behavioral issues. • Four Circles Transition Program is a therapeutic, recovery-based Transitional Living facility for young adult males. This position will oversee and facilitate all aspects of the admissions process, work with clients and families in crisis, supervise the admissions team, exhibit a thorough understanding of substance abuse treatment, must be able to meet the demands of a highly flexible work schedule, schedule and work an on-call rotation, travel, present, and market the facility to individual referral sources and at conferences. • Looking for a driven, hardworking, and passionate candidate with excellent communication and crisis management skills, Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree preferred, clean driving record required, familiarity with Microsoft Office products, minimum of two years’ experience in the substance abuse field, marketing and admissions experience required. Please send all inquiries to jobs@fourcirclesrecovery.com ADULT/CHILD FAMILY CARE HOMES (AFL) Excellent compensation. Similar to foster care, an AFL is a home with a heart for serving adults and children with developmental disabilities. An AFL can help to take people out of institutional settings and group homes and make them a part of their family. Some may need specialized care and/or wheelchair accessibility. A high school diploma or GED and current drivers license are required. Must pass a criminal background check, drivers record check and drug test. Previous experience helpful but not required. Training is provided. sicklerl@davidsonhomes.org www.davidsonhomes.org

JOBS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR Four Circles Recovery Center is seeking a Business Development Director. Located in Horse Shoe, NC, Four Circles Recovery Center is an innovative wilderness-based treatment program for young adults ages 18-28 who are struggling with addiction, substance abuse, and co-occurring emotional or behavioral issues. Job Duties include, but are not limited to: • Assist in the development of an overall business development campaign for the program • Maintain, develop, and foster relationships with referring professionals through face to face meetings, phone and electronic communications • Develop marketing materials • Schedule and coordinate referral source tours • Oversight / update of website in conjunction with internet marketing department • Development of newsletters, announcements, press releases, etc. • Market to internal and external customers • Identify new referral source streams • Formulate, direct and coordinate marketing activities and policies to promote products and services • Attend conferences and events. Looking for a driven, hardworking, and passionate candidate with excellent communication and marketing skills. Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree required. Clean driving record, familiarity with Microsoft Office products, attention to detail, minimum of two years’ experience in marketing required. Please send all inquiries to jobs@fourcirclesrecovery.com CNA • CAREGIVER POSITIONS We screen, train, bond and insure. • Positions available for quality, caring and dependable professionals. Flexible schedules and competitive pay. Home Instead Senior Care. Call (828) 274-4406 between 9am5pm. www.homeinstead. com/159 DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BILINGUAL CASE MANAGER Helpmate, a domestic violence agency in Asheville, seeks a Bilingual Intensive Case Manager. Primary responsibilities are to provide support, service coordination and advocacy for survivors of domestic violence. Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills are required. The qualified candidate will be fluent in Spanish, have a BA or BS in human services field and

2 years experience in domestic violence or a commensurate combination of work and experience. This position is an exempt, salaried. Diverse candidates encouraged to apply. Email resume and cover letter by noon on June 20th to helpmateasheville@gmail.com. No phone calls please. www.helpmateonline.org JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC (JFS) Located in Asheville, NC, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit agency providing case management, mental health counseling and other social services to people of all faiths, races, color, ethnicities, gender, sexual orientation, country of origin, age and ability. Knowledge of Jewish culture, values, and traditions is preferred for all employment positions. Mental Health Counselor Part-time. Licensed Clinical Social Worker (MSW, LCSW): This individual provides therapy services to individuals, couples, families and groups to promote optimum mental and emotional health; and will assist with developing a client base to help grow this new program. Hours will depend upon the growth of the client base. Hourly position pay rate of $35-40/hour. Current NC licensure, liability insurance, and a minimum of five years’ experience required. Administrative Assistant Part-time. This individual provides administrative and clerical support to the agency and staff, including reception duties. Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, highly organized work style, advanced computer skills including word, excel, adobe acrobat. Database management, e-newsletter, website, and publicity/marketing experience preferred. 20-25 hours/week. HS Diploma or equivalent; Bachelor’s degree preferred. • For a full job description for either of these positions, go to www. jfswnc.org • To apply for either position, email resume and cover letter to: info@jfswnc.org • No phone calls, please. PARAPROFESSIONAL Universal MH/DD/SAS is seeking a Paraprofessional to work on Community Support Team. BA/ BS degree preferred, but High School diploma is required. Must have one year of experience working with adults with mental health diagnosis. Please email eward@umhs.net if interested.

RN Help make your community a better place. Mountain Area Recovery Center is growing and we are currently seeking an RN to work part-time as a medicating nurse on Sat. and Sun. 6am to 9am, plus a minimum of 14 additional hours on weekdays. There may also be a possibility of additional hours as needed during the work week; early morning hours are a requirement. Candidate will be cross-trained at both the Asheville and Clyde facilities. Criminal background check required for all final candidates. EOE. Please e-mail resume to rhonda.ingle@marc-otp.com or fax to 828-252-9512. ATTN: RHONDA INGLE.

YWCA • VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR Full- time position. The Volunteer Coordinator reports to and works closely with the Director of Advancement to connect community groups and individuals to meaningful volunteer opportunities at the YWCA and to strengthen relationships and opportunities to increase understanding across differences of race, class, religion, sexual orientation and political affiliation. They will manage the Stand Against Racism campaign and work collaboratively with other organizations on anti-racism events. The position is full-time, year-round, benefits eligible, and exempt. • Bachelors degree and excellent written and verbal communication skills a must. • Minorities are encouraged to apply. • Qualified candidates who are fluent in Spanish and English are strongly encouraged to apply. Please apply for this position only after reading the complete job description at www.ywcaofasheville.org under the heading ‘Who We Are.’ Contact information is provided there. Please do not call the YWCA to discuss this position. Application deadline: June 25, 2014 Send resume and cover letter to humanresources@ywcaofasheville.org

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SEVERAL DAY TX QP POSITIONS AVAILABLE Several AP & QP Positions Available to include LEAD, F/T & Summer: Prefer QP w/ documented experience with the child mental health population Supervisory/leadership experience req. for Lead QP. Positions based in various Buncombe Co. School Programs. Send detailed resume to afortune@ caringalternative.com. Visit www.caringalternative.com for more positions. SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR Established Counseling Center looking for Certified Substance Abuse Counselor. Must have CSAC or LCAS credentials. Offering part-time to start. Job will be to conduct Assessments and lead groups. Substance Abuse work background experience highly desired. Please contact Bruce directly at (828) 777-3755 or email resume to trcbruce@ gmail.com THE MEDIATION CENTER Has an opening for a Child and Family Team Facilitator/ Community Mediation Intake Specialist. For a job description and application instructions, please visit our website at www.mediatewnc.org THERAPEUTIC FOSTER PARENTS NEEDED If you are interested in making a difference in the life of a child, and live in the Asheville area, please give me

FULL-TIME FAMILY ADVOCATE The Family Advocate provides support to the families of children enrolled in our two Early Head Start centerbased programs at Verner. Responsibilities include communicating with English and Spanish-speaking families, supporting families in setting and achieving goals, providing resources and referrals to other community agencies, and supporting family engagement in center events, committees, and activities. • The Family Advocate’s time is split between our two five-star early care and education centers and requires some local travel and flexibility of hours. Applicants must be at least 18 years of age with an Associate’s degree in ECE, Social Work, or a related field. • A Bachelor’s degree is preferred. Candidates for this position must display a high level of cultural sensitivity, excellent written and verbal communication skills in both English and Spanish, and an understanding of strengthsbased strategies for supporting family development. Verner is an EEOE. Apply online at http://www.vernerearlylearning.org/jobs

HEAD START/NC PRE-K TEACHER ASSISTANT Needed Immediately: Energetic individual to work as an early childhood professional to join our high quality early childhood program. Experience working with pre-school children and NC Early Childhood Credentials required. Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education or CDA preferred. Bi-lingual in Spanish-English a plus. Salary: $10.60./hr. A valid North Carolina driver’s license is required. Must pass physical and background checks. Make application with complete work references and contact information along with DCDEE CRC Qualifying Letter to: Human Resources Manager 25 Gaston Street Asheville, NC 28801 Or Admin@commuityactionopportunities.org Or Fax: (828) 2536319. Open until filled. EOE and DFW HEAD START/NC PREK TEACHER Needed Immediately: Dedicated and experienced early childhood professional to join our high quality early childhood program. Four year degree in Early Childhood Education and at least two years of related experience with preschool children required. BK license preferred. Bi-lingual in Spanish-English a plus. Salary: $15.15-$19.19, DOQ. A valid North Carolina driver license required. Must pass physical and background checks. Send resume, cover letter with complete work references and contact information along with DCDEE CRC Qualifying Letter to: Human Resources Manager 25 Gaston Street Asheville, NC 28801 or Admin@communityactionopportunities.org Or Fax: (828) 253-6319. Open until filled. EOE and DFWP. K-3 TEACHER Naturally Grown School is searching for a dynamic co-teacher for our Reggio inspired school that serves native Spanish and English speaking children ages 4 to 8. Located on an organic educational farm in Mills River. The ideal candidate will be fluent in Spanish, with preference given to a Native Spanish speaker. Should be passionate about their work, comfortable getting dirty, loves animals, cooking and learning with children. 30 - 35 hours weekly, excellent pay. Send resume to: JeffreyKinzel@gmail.com.

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If you were alive 150 years ago and needed to get a tooth extracted, you might have called on a barber or blacksmith or wigmaker to do the job. (Dentistry didn’t become a formal occupation until the latter part of the 19th century.) Today you wouldn’t dream of seeking anyone but a specialist to attend to the health of your mouth. But I’m wondering if you’re being less particular about certain other matters concerning your welfare. Have you been seeking financial advice from your massage therapist? Spiritual counsel from your car mechanic? Nutritional guidance from a fast-food addict? I suggest you avoid such behavior. It’s time to seek specific help from those who can actually provide it. TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) “My music is best understood by children and animals,” said composer Igor Stravinsky. A similar statement could be made about you Tauruses in the coming weeks: You’ll be best understood by children, animals and all others with a capacity for dynamic innocence and a buoyant curiosity rooted in emotional intelligence. In fact, those are the types I advise you to surround yourself with. For now, it’s best to avoid sophisticates who overthink everything and know-it-all cynics whose default mode is criticism. Take control of which influences you absorb. You need to be in the presence of those who help activate your vitality and enthusiasm.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) “Nikhedonia” is an obscure English word that refers to the pleasure that comes from anticipating success or good fortune. There’s nothing wrong with indulging in this emotion as long as it doesn’t interfere with your actually doing the work that will lead to success or good fortune. But some people, having experienced the thrill of imagining their victory, find it hard to buckle down and slog through the gritty details necessary to manifest it. Don’t be like that: Enjoy your nikhedonia, then go and complete the accomplishment that will bring a second, even stronger wave of gratification.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) Writing at FastCompany.com, Himanshu Saxena suggests that businesses create a new position: Chief Paradox Officer, or CPXO. This person would be responsible for making good use of the conflicts and contradictions that normally arise, treating them as opportunities for growth rather than distractions. From my astrological perspective, you Virgos are currently prime candidates to serve in this capacity. You will continue to have special powers to do this type of work for months to come.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts has a collection of Japanese art that’s never on display. It consists of 6,600 wood-block prints (some over 300 years old) created by artists of the ukiyo-e school. The prints are tucked away in drawers and hidden from the light, ensuring that their vibrant colors won’t fade. So they’re well-preserved but rarely seen by anyone. Is there anything about you that resembles these “pictures of the floating world,” Cancerian? Do you keep parts of you secret, protecting them from what might happen if you showed them to the world? It may be time to revise that policy. (Thanks to Molly Oldfield’s The Secret Museum for the info referred to here.) LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) In the next two weeks, I hope you don’t fall prey to the craze that’s been sweeping Japan. Over 40,000 people have bought books that feature the photos of hamuketsu, or hamster bottoms. Even if you do manage to avoid being consumed by that particular madness, I’m afraid you might get caught up in trifles and distractions that are equally irrelevant to your long-term dreams. Here’s what I suggest: To counteract any tendency you might have to neglect what’s truly important, vow to focus intensely on what’s truly important. 70

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four weeks, Scorpio. Your challenge will be to wander as far as you can into the frontier without getting hopelessly lost. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) “Make a name for the dark parts of you,” writes Lisa Marie Basile in her poem “Paz.” I think that’s good advice for you, Sagittarius. The imminent future will be an excellent time to fully acknowledge the shadowy aspects of your nature. More than that, it will be a perfect moment to converse with them, get to know them better, and identify their redeeming features. I suspect you’ll find that just because they’re dark, it doesn’t mean they’re bad or shameful. If you approach them with love and tenderness, they may even reveal their secret genius. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) Pet mice that are kept in cages need to move more than their enclosed space allows, so their owners often provide them with exercise wheels. If the rodents want to exert their natural instinct to run around, they’ve got to do it on this device. But here’s a curious twist: A team of Dutch researchers has discovered that wild mice also enjoy using exercise wheels. The creatures have all the room they need to roam, but when they come upon the wheels in the middle of the forest, they hop on and go for prolonged spins. I suggest you avoid behavior like that, Capricorn. Sometime soon you’ll find yourself rambling through more spacious places. When that happens, don’t act like you do when your freedom is more limited. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) It’s transition time, and we’ll soon see how skilled you are at following through. The innovations you’ve launched in recent weeks need to be fleshed out. The creativity you unleashed must get the full backing of your practical action. You’ll be asked to make good on the promises you made or even implied. I want to urge you not to get your feelings hurt if some pruning and editing are required. In fact, I suggest you relish the opportunity to translate fuzzy ideals into tidy structures. Practicing the art of ingenious limitation will make everything better. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) It’s always important for you to shield yourself against our culture’s superficial and sexist ideas about sex. It’s always important for you to cultivate your own unique and soulful understandings about sex. But right now this is even more crucial than usual. You’re headed into a phase when you’ll have the potential to clarify and deepen your relationship with eros. In ways you haven’t previously imagined, you can learn to harness your libido to serve both your spiritual aspirations and your quest for greater intimacy.

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