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WNC already tried statehood [In reference to the commentary, “Sayonara, Raleigh: It’s Time for Us to Go,” June 8, Xpress] I was surprised [the writer] didn’t mention that Western North Carolina had tried this before.

Western North Carolina in the years just before and after the Revolutionary War was a different place than it is today.

It was in a different place. It was where eastern Tennessee is now.

Sparsely settled East Tennessee was the first frontier and was supposed to be administrated by North Carolina. Henry Earnest, my ancestor, and a group of prominent men, including John Sevier (who went on to be Tennessee’s first governor, serving seven terms) felt like they had to do something about the lawlessness and disorder.

Henry rode his horse to Fayetteville, N.C., then the capital. He was not successful in getting any relief. Shortly thereafter, the group founded the state of Franklin.

There are many reasons it failed, but I think it was that middle Tennessee was growing by leaps and bounds, and plantation economy trumped the mountain yeoman farmers.

Then there were the Cherokees, which the new republic was loath to deal with.

Andrew Jackson solved that problem.

Maybe we shouldn’t worry too much

about Donald Trump. We survived at least one racist maverick president.

— Robert Rhea Earnest Waynesville

Think about dogs’ needs in hot weather I just got back from Trader Joe’s, and I am still shaking my head.

When I was walking from my car to the store, I passed an SUV, windows barely cracked, with a dog in it. I had just looked at my car’s temperature gauge, and it said 93 degrees.

The dog was barking, and then it suddenly stopped.

According to the Humane Society, if it is 80 degrees outside, a car can heat up to 99 in 10 minutes. I had no idea how long the dog had been in the car.

As far as I could tell, this was an emergency, so I called 911. I waited five minutes, then thought to ask someone else to call as well, so I asked an employee who was working outside. He said, “Oh, let’s not get the cops involved, I’ll just go make an announcement.” Then he went inside.

I waited some more, not sure what to do. Finally, a woman came, not from the store, but from the street and got in the car and drove away.

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I don’t know if the Trader Joe’s employee made that announcement, but it would not have done any good, since the woman wasn’t in the store.

Please everyone, think about the needs of your dogs in this hot weather. You may feel the need to have them with you, but what is best for them? Are they really enjoying walking around that crowded tailgate market with all those strange people towering over them and strange dogs lunging at them? I see it every week.

Are you risking killing your dog by leaving it in a hot car? How will you feel if your dog either suffers irreparable organ damage or even dies from being left in a car that reaches 99 degrees or higher while you go get that beer or that watermelon? Will it be worth it just so you can feel awesome and cool because you have to have your dog with you?

I am a dog behavior counselor, so I speak from a professional viewpoint and not just as someone who did not know the full scope of the danger the dog was in.

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Mr. [Michael] Sheasly makes some good points (“Dogs’ Rights Supersede Barefoot Humans,” June 8) [Xpress]. As a full-time 24/7 barefooter myself for the last 14 years, I’ve done extensive research into any and all legal, medical and health aspects of going barefoot, and in spite of the fact that this lifestyle choice is completely legal, healthy and natural for human beings to do — causing absolutely no harm to anyone — a number of people still stubbornly hold on to old, negative myths not based on fact.

As Mr. Sheasly pointed out, North Carolina health codes do not ban bare feet by customers in any business establishment — including restaurants — or other public place. Nor does Buncombe or any other county, in fact, nor does ANY health department in any of the 50 states. What health departments require is that facilities meet certain minimum food- and food-handling safety and sanitary requirements. They have no control over or concern whatsoever with what a customer of a business is or isn’t wearing on his or her feet. I have letters from many local and state health departments that confirm that fact.

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footwear. However, one should not need a “reason” or other justification for making such a choice. Choosing to be a barefooter can be simply a matter of personal choice under our freedom of expression rights.

Indeed, being barefoot should be a nonissue. The choice to wear shoes or not wear shoes should have no more impact on anyone else or any business than the choice to wear a hat or not wear a hat. What difference does it make, really, to anyone else other than the person who chooses to do it? Being barefoot in public harms absolutely no one and should be of no one else’s concern. It’s just another personal choice of attire or appearance, no different from choosing to wear a green shirt versus a red shirt, shorts instead of long pants, hair dyed blue or left natural, piercings in our faces or no piercings.

— Kriss Sands Mars Hill

Band takes responsible approach to HB2 [On] Friday, June 10, my children and I had the pleasure of attending a concert at the PNC Music Pavilion in Charlotte. The group that performed was Dead & Company, a band that consists of the remaining members of the Grateful Dead, along with some other musicians that are touring with them this summer.

Instead of canceling their show, as many musicians have done in opposition to House Bill 2, [the band] took a different approach. They donated 100 percent of special Rainbow T-shirt and sticker sales to a local LGBT organization …

They also donated $100,000 from the show’s revenue to The Human Rights Campaign and Equality North Carolina. This generosity is an example that other musicians should follow when considering whether to perform in North Carolina.

Instead of disappointing fans and costing many folks their income that depends on revenue from concerts in our state, [Dead & Company] provided needed funds for us to battle inequality within North Carolina.

The band also provided a “Participation Row” social action area, where fighting discrimination and encouraging voter registration activities was emphasized. For a more complete explanation, you may visit http://avl.mx/2p8

Additionally, the show was great!

— Larry Nestler Asheville

Understanding a 100-year flood Your article on “Remembering the Great Flood of 1916: A Q&A with Filmmaker David Weintraub,” [June 15, Xpress] was very interesting and certainly timely in this new era of weather extremes.

One common error needs to be corrected, however. The filmmaker, David Weintraub, in making a point about land use and flooding, says: “This is where we live — a 100-year flood happens every 20 years here. Since the last one was 2004, you might say we’re due.” I understand the point he is making, but he doesn’t seem to understand the concept of the 100-year flood.

It is not that a flood of a certain magnitude will happen every 100 years, but rather that it has a 1 percent chance of occurring any year. You could experience a 100year flood in consecutive years.

That would be bad luck, but not unprecedented. So stay out of the flood plain!

— Paul Kelman Asheville

Corrections • In our June 15 article “Crunch time, City seeks multiyear partnership with TDA...” we misstated the total TDA budget for fiscal year 2016-2017. According to Asheville Area Convention & Visitors Bureau Executive Director Stephanie Brown, $14.4 million is 75 percent of estimated revenue coming from the hotel occupancy tax. This amount is dedicated for promotion of the region, as required by legislation that established the tax.

State law also requires the remaining 25 percent of the tax revenues — estimated at about $3.7 million this year — to be used to support local projects.

• Also in our June 15 edition, in the article “Robin Russell Gaiser shares her new book, Musical Morphine,” Xpress listed an author event at the Beaverdam Run Clubhouse on Sunday, June 26. The event is not open to the public.

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The Gospel According to Jerry by jery sternberg When we last saw Sheriff Lawrence Brown, high noon was approaching in the range war between Brown and the members of the Asheville Junior Chamber of Commerce, who were incensed by the sheriff’s raid of their statewide annual powwow that resulted in the embarrassing arrest of several out-of-town guests.

That plus the juniors’ concern about gambling and corruption in the county created a perfect political firestorm.

Enter, stage right, a canny little Republican gunslinger named Garland E. Crouch. He was a major driver and financier of the small but determined local Republican Party, which had been kept at bay for generations by the formidable Democratic machine.

Despite the opposition of the Junior Chamber, most of whose members were Democrats, no credible candidate was willing to oppose the powerful sheriff in the 1962 Democratic primary. Crouch, recognizing a political vacuum, urged the Republican Party to nominate his foreman, Harry P. Clay. They did, and when the election went down and the smoke had cleared, there was a new sheriff in town.

Harry Clay was a big bear of a guy with a booming voice, a hearty laugh and a ready smile. You just could not help but like him. He had a bluegrass band called Clay’s Rangers that played at political and charitable events and was very entertaining. Several of his deputies were in the band. I don’t know if they were recruited as deputies because they played in the band or they were deputies who just happened to have musical talent and were asked to join.

I got to know Harry and G.E. through a business deal in which my partner and I subcontracted the demolition of the Langren Hotel (see “The No-Tell Hotel,” July 27, 2014, Xpress). Pat Wagner, who’d come to town to manage the new Northwestern Bank building, decided that we needed to have numerous meetings concerning this project. The Langren property was being torn down to make way for a parking garage, and Wagner insisted that he, G.E., Harry and I hold these meetings out at Art Shepard’s outstanding restaurant on Tunnel Road.

It seems that Mr. Wagner (another larger-than-life character that I may write about in a future column) had cut a deal with Mr. Shepard, who was going to open a second restaurant on top of the Northwestern Bank building. All these dinners would be paid for by a reduction of

jerry sternberg the first month’s rent. Who could resist such important meetings?

Occasionally we would begin with a preliminary sit-down in the sheriff’s office, where we would sample the latest batch of confiscated white whiskey. I never developed a taste for that vile stuff, so I would take the obligatory sip, make some comment about texture and bouquet, and pray that I didn’t go blind.

As you can imagine, these meetings got quite lively at times. One night, Art was serving fresh lobster. Somebody got the idea that since G.E. was a backwoods old country boy who’d probably never had a lobster, they had the waiter serve him a big live one on a plate. He sat there calmly, just looking at the thing, while we all awaited his reaction.

All of a sudden he took his huge ham fist and slammed it down on the back of the lobster, cracking its shell. It sounded like a bomb went off, and the whole restaurant turned around to see him meticulously picking the meat from the lobster and eating it while the claws were still moving.

It was so gross we all had to leave the table. The sheriff laughed so hard I thought he was going to have a heart attack. After that, G.E. would chuckle loudly and ask were they going to serve lobster at dinner tonight.

Distraught about the election of the first Republican sheriff since Reconstruction, the Democrats set about retaliating. City police raided one of the local supper clubs run by an outspoken Clay supporter.

Clay, not a man to be defied, wasted no time in responding. He staged a raid on the Asheville Water Department offices, on what’s now South Charlotte Street, while the regular Friday afternoon poker game was in session upstairs. The sheriff aimed to embarrass Jesse Jayne, the superintendent of maintenance, who was an important lieutenant in the Weldon Weir machine.

The long arm of the law

But a lookout seated at the first-floor entrance reached over and pressed an alarm button on the wall, and by the time the sheriff and his minions reached the third floor, all they found was a bunch of guys sitting around smoking and telling jokes.

As Clay walked back down the steps with egg all over his face and the sound of laughter in his ears, he took out his pocketknife and cut the wire running up the wall to the buzzer. He waited three weeks and then raided the place again. On the way in, Clay saw the lookout frantically pushing the button, but when the sheriff got to the top of the stairs, Jayne and many of his employees were busted. This made for some unpleasant media coverage for the Weir machine.

As most of you may know, the sheriff is the most powerful official in Buncombe County, answering to no one but the voters.

Harry Clay was re-elected for a second fouryear term, which tells me that the voters were satisfied with his service. Still, Clay was an enigmatic sheriff, to say the least. To my knowledge he had no law enforcement experience, and his personal habits were less than sheriff-esque, but he was a strong, charismatic leader who got the job done.

His association with less-than-reputable people confounded me, considering the level of trust he held with the public. He hired several deputies whose character was so questionable that the only way they could be distinguished from the prisoners in the jail was to identify which side of the bars they were on.

I asked him once why he employed such people, and he told me that they knew every bad guy for 200 miles around. He instructed them to go out and talk to these fellows and tell them, “We know who you are, and you’d better stay out of Buncombe County.” For the most part, this seemed to work, as there was very little property crime and the county remained at the low end of the spectrum for murders, armed robbery and assaults.

Sheriff Clay was friends with Bob Greenwood, who ran the racetrack and also some nefarious gambling operations. Bob was a really big, tough, billy badass, known as a man not to be trifled with. Harry and Bob went down to South America for a vacation. On the way back, both men got drunk in an airport and got into a fight.

They practically had to carry Buncombe County’s high sheriff off the plane by the time the two arrived in Asheville.

Harry was the first Buncombe sheriff to take advantage of the electronics age.

Up until his tenure, the police and sheriff’s radios were built into the car. But the county bought new portable radios that you could talk on from anywhere, and this set Harry free.

Alvin Ledford ran a poker house on Merrimon Avenue, and Harry occasionally sat in on the game, as I did. Since the sheriff is pretty much always on duty, however, he would have to take any radio calls that came in. One afternoon when we were playing, he got such a call and very officially answered his portable, “Car 1, Leicester Highway.” You see, he was working at all times.

I don’t have any stories or personal knowledge about the county’s more recent sheriffs. There were rumors of alcoholism, gambling and womanizing by sheriffs and deputies alike, but this has been true for many of our elected officials, all of whom have been sworn to uphold the law. Before any of us passes judgment or throws the first stone, though, keep in mind that over the past century, Buncombe County has been a very safe place to live, and that is the bottom line for all of us.

I do know that lowest point in county law enforcement was the heartbreaking tenure of Sheriff Bobby Medford, who’s alleged to have caused several innocent people to serve years behind bars.

Buncombe County taxpayers have been forced to pay millions of dollars in legal settlements as restitution in those cases.

Because of his personal demons and corruption, Medford was convicted of serious crimes; careers were destroyed, and the sheriff and several deputies received prison sentences.

On the bright side, I believe our current sheriff, Van Duncan, is the most professional and capable lawman we’ve ever seen around these parts. He not only runs a good department but, through his training and leadership, has met the awesome challenge of the ever-burgeoning drug problem. Duncan does business in a quiet, efficient manner that gives us confidence that our sheriff is out to protect us at all times. next time: The most notorious poker game ever.

Asheville native Jerry Sternberg is a longtime observer of the local scene.

His new book, The Gospel According to Jerry, 85th Birthday Edition, is available at the Grovewood Gallery, Gallery of the Mountains at the Grove Park Inn, the Estes-Winn Antique Car Museum and the Battery Park Book Exchange. The price is $25 per copy, and all proceeds will be donated to Helpmate. The book can also be ordered directly from Helpmate, either online (email aflynn@helpmateonline.org) or by mail (P.O. Box 2263, Asheville, NC 28802). X

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Vance — “have the water they need,” Dr. Mac explains, adding, “That’s a residual, major impact of Soul City, and how it has increased the community’s economic development.”

juandeere@gmail.com “The first city in the world that’s built around your family. Before we laid a brick, we laid plans for a clean, uncongested city of 40,000 on 3,500 acres of beautiful land in Warren County, N.C. There will be 18,000 jobs at Soul City. But while people will work in a city, they’ll live in a village, within 10 minutes of work. All types of homes are available at Soul City. Everything you need to live here is here now, plus many recreational facilities. Here people of all ages, races and religions work together, play together, learn together. Soul City: A fresh start.”

So reads a 1977 advertisement for one of the more ambitious urban planning projects of its time. The brainchild of Asheville native floyd mcKissick sr., Soul City reflected a far-reaching vision. McKissick aimed to build, from the ground up, a city where African-Americans could live, work, play and develop their own small businesses alongside people of all races: a multiethnic utopia sustained by private enterprise.

In 1972, Soul City received a $14 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that enabled construction to begin. But a combination of political pressure and negative press undermined the project, and today, visitors to the area will find only fragments of the idyllic community McKissick envisioned.

Soul City’s remains sit 53 miles north of Raleigh, some four hours’ drive from Asheville. But the experiences McKissick had in the city of his birth played a key role in shaping the activist approach to civil rights and racial justice that eventually found form in his utopian experiment (see sidebar, “McKissick in Asheville”).

Lasting impacts The First Baptist Church of Soul City still stands, serving a small neighboring community. A short distance from the church stands an abandoned building that once housed Healthco Inc. Until the late 1990s, the clinic offered affordable health care, including dentistry and pharmaceuticals, on a sliding fee scale to underserved populations across Warren County and

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city pLanning: Floyd McKissick Sr. envisioned a diverse community where people could live, work and play. His vision got off to a good start, and traces of it still stand, but he, and his vision, never overcame accusations of embezzlement by his detractors. McKissick was subsequently audited and cleared of any financial wrongdoing. Photo from Heritage of Black Highlanders Collection, courtesy of D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville. beyond. And while Soul City is no longer an actual municipality, the project’s spirit lingers on street signs like Liberation Road and Freedom Circle, though those noble aspirations contrast sharply with current conditions in the economically depressed area.

The centerpiece of the economic plan was Soul Tech 1, a concrete, steel and glass monolith meant to house a manufacturing firm that would provide most of the jobs. It’s now owned by the North Carolina prison system, and it may be a blessing that McKissick didn’t live to see the structure become a place where inmates produce janitorial supplies for the state.

“The saddest part for me is that where my father’s office was is now part of the prison system,” notes charmaine mcKissick-melton, who still lives in the heart of the original Soul City. The youngest of four siblings, she’s an associate professor of mass communication

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at N.C. Central University. In addition, says McKissick-Melton, she serves on the Warren County Parks and Recreation Commission and heads the Soul City Parks and Recreation Association.

Reflecting on the complexity of living in the wake of Soul City’s apparent failure, she says, “I was asked to speak at the Warren County High School commencement — which is, in essence, what would have been the same school” serving Soul City residents. “At the end of the day ...

I wanted those students to understand what Soul City was ... and what they still get from that project,” says “Dr. Mac,” as she’s known to her students and peers.

Her mother, evelyn mcKissick, “was the first elected official of ... the Soul City Sanitary District ... the leader in creating the Kerr Lake Regional Water System, which is a better water system than even Raleigh-Durham has right now. It’s the reason, when you go up Interstate 85, all those counties” — Granville, Warren and

If the project had succeeded, the water system would have been only one of many benefits for the area. In a booklet prepared for potential investors, McKissick laid out a practical case for his vision: “We do have a concept at Soul City that can be a prime means to revitalize blighted rural areas and stem migration. … Development of Soul City is occurring in an area which is now severely depressed; the advantages for development are very great. ... The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad runs through the Employment Park.

Interstate Highway 85 is one mile from the site, and I-95 is approximately 40 miles to the east. U.S. 1 and 158 run on the northern periphery. Thus, Soul City is connected with the major metropolitan markets in the industrial Piedmont and the Eastern Seaboard.”

But there were other reasons, too, that McKissick chose this particular Warren County acreage, notes Dr. Mac. “He knew the area,” knew that in the early 1960s, there’d already been talk of establishing a store that would be cooperatively owned and operated by Native Americans, African-Americans and whites. In 1969, “Warren County was ... almost 70 percent black,” she explains.

“And I think my father really liked the concept of the Native American community along with the Caucasian. ...

It was a nice mix.” McKissick saw an opportunity to develop infrastructure in an impoverished area, empowering communities that had already started working together for mutual benefit.

Early on, he and his family lived in trailers on-site; later, they moved into a finished house. But his children grew up and moved away, and McKissick eventually relocated to Durham.

In the meantime, his grand idea wasn’t so appealing to two North Carolinians in Congress. Sen. jesse helms and Rep. l.h. fountain saw Soul City as a misappropriation of federal funds and indirectly accused McKissick of embezzlement. Helms, a former Democrat turned Republican, and Fountain, a like-minded Democrat,

sign of the time: A sign for First Baptist Church of Soul City still stands and the church still serves a congregation made up of people living in the surrounding area. Photo by Juan Holladay successfully pushed for an audit of the project. After a yearlong audit, the Government Accountability Office absolved McKissick and Soul City of any misconduct.

But it was too late: A wave of negative press had turned public perception against the project.

By 1979, when HUD cut off its support, Soul City had built roads, water and sewage systems, a public swimming pool and tennis courts, a church, Soul Tech 1, the Healthco clinic and enough housing for the roughly 150 residents. One by one, however, the investors pulled out, and 10 years after construction had begun, Soul City was all but dead.

Even today, people still live in some of the old buildings, though, and paved cul-de-sacs with capped water pipes poke up out of the ground, waiting to be hooked up to nonexistent homes. inspiring ideas Dr. Mac, however, contends that her father’s project wasn’t an absolute failure. Soul City, she maintains, attracted talent and passion from all over the country. The people who worked to build it forged enduring bonds, shared ideas, networked and then moved on to effect change by other means. “harvey gantt was our first city planner,” she points out. The MIT graduate went on to become the mayor of Charlotte and, in the 1990s, mounted two unsuccessful bids to unseat Helms, garnering almost half the votes both times. eva clayton, who was also involved in Soul City’s planning from the beginning, became the first African-American woman to represent North Carolina in Congress.

In a 1989 interview published by UNC Chapel Hill, Clayton stated: “The idea was bold enough to attract both white and black, was bold enough to attract extremely talented people. In fact, it attracted me. ... If I look now at the people who went to Soul City, one is now the dean of Meharry Medical College, one was the assistant secretary of commerce. ... So the boldness of bringing health services, bringing economic development, was an idea that was very exciting to a lot of people.”

McKissick’s son, floyd mcKissick jr., went on to earn a master’s degree in public administration from Harvard and a law degree from Duke University. He now serves as Democratic deputy minority leader in the N.C. Senate, and he recently stepped down as chair of the N.C. Legislative Black Caucus. economic soLidarity Before undertaking the Soul City project, McKissick Sr. had been a formidable force for political and social change in the civil rights movement. He was the first African-American to attend UNC Chapel Hill’s law school. In 1966, he became the leader of the Congress of Racial Equality and worked closely with the Rev. martin luther King jr. to advance the cause of African-American equality under the law.

In a controversial move, McKissick endorsed richard nixon during the 1972 election cycle; but when Nixon won, McKissick was able to call the White House and speak directly to the president. Espousing a Black Power philosophy that focused on AfricanAmerican economic clout and ownership of capital, McKissick leveraged his tactical relationship with Nixon to help ensure that Soul City would

receive HUD funding.

The HUD grant, however, turned out to be both Soul City’s biggest asset and its greatest liability. In the short term, the money jump-started the ambitious project. But that government funding also gave Helms and Fountain the jurisdiction to initiate an audit, which led to negative stories about Soul City in The News & Observer of Raleigh that scared away investors and undermined public support. Thus, one might argue that McKissick’s strategy of acquiring big money through big politics was ultimately self-defeating.

Building a city from the ground up might have proved to be a successful way to bypass established municipalities’ systemic racism. But by using federal money to fund his radical vision, McKissick exposed his project to the systemically racist elements in higher levels of government.

Reflecting on Soul City’s rise and fall, phyllis utley, the minority student recruiter at A-B Tech, concludes, “It becomes mission critical not to be dependent on [entities] outside your circle.”

She cites the example of Whitesboro, New Jersey, a more successful planned community that was also established by African-Americans, including Booker T. Washington. “They didn’t use government money: They pooled their own resources. ... They had their own Equitable Industrial Association ... their own structure for their finances. And Whitesboro exists today.”

Utley sees a similar approach in the collective spirit of Asheville’s AfricanAmerican community before integration, when the Jim Crow laws had the unintended consequence of supporting a vibrant black economy. “When you are dependent on each other, from a capitalistic standpoint, you know that that’s your market, so people are loyal to that,” she points out. “There’s that commitment to the group, and it’s concentrated. So you have all these [African-American owned] businesses that flourished.” integration’s doWnside But when integration came, it made the economic landscape more challenging for local African-American business owners, who no longer cornered their own racial market.

“We don’t have the hundreds of black businesses that there once were in this area,” Utley explains. “People pulled together and worked together and supported each other financially. ... You had thriving businesses. And then, collectively, people had extreme pride in what they did.”

That indelible pride is what set McKissick on course to become a power-

ful civil rights advocate, his son maintains. “History here in Asheville is very unique: It’s very different. It is a diverse community that’s always had AfricanAmericans involved in leadership. It’s always had people that were active and engaged. ... And it was the inspiration he received while growing up in Asheville that inspired him to become active in civil rights.”

As a civil rights warrior, McKissick senior fought and won hundreds of court cases that integrated institutions.

He also crafted strategies for claiming equal rights and empowering oppressed minorities. And though his attempt to build a city founded on the basic principle of human dignity for all failed, his tenacious example remains an inspiration to many.

“McKissick’s dream was, you know, ownership of oneself and pride in oneself; to me, I realized the dream in my own little capacity,” jane ball-groom, McKissick’s former personal assistant, said in an interview for the radio program “99% Invisible.” Involved in Soul City’s creation from the beginning, she continues to live there in a house she owns. During the initial construction, she recalled, “I remember him walking around with that hat on. He had this cowboy hat, or whatever you want to call it: It was a beautiful hat. And he would just walk and knock on the door: ‘Jane Groom, you OK in there?’

‘I’m OK, Mr. McKissick.’

“He cared about people; he really, really cared about people. … He wasn’t perfect, but he was magnificent.” buiLding a neW economy Nonetheless, McKissick’s missteps loomed large in his project’s eventual demise.

Soul City depended on big investors, and to provide the bulk of its jobs, he sought to partner with one big corporation. That corporate partner never materialized, however, and the other investors eventually backed out. jane hatley, the Western North Carolina regional director at the SelfHelp Credit Union, challenges that approach. “I believe in communitybased economic development, versus the traditional model of ‘Let’s bring in a big company and create jobs.’ We collaborate a lot on economic development projects, working with Asheville Grown on the Venture Local conference,” Hatley explains, adding that the event’s message is, “Let’s build a new economy here: Let’s base it in ‘local.’”

Accordingly, the credit union also offers a Go Local certificate of deposit

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that enables people to “invest with us and know that the money will be used on local loans for homes or businesses. Most of our jobs here,” adds Hatley, “were created by small businesses, not by big companies. We need to continue to support those small businesses and build other small businesses [whose employees are] going to raise their children here, so the economy strengthens itself from the ground up.”

McKissick died of lung cancer in 1991. None of his immediate family live in Asheville, though there are still some relatives here. anastasia

yarbrough, whose grandfather was McKissick’s cousin, moved to Asheville in 2011 to work as marketing coordinator at Green Opportunities, a local nonprofit. A violist and singer, she’s performed in Pritchard Park and with the Hendersonville Symphony.

“I had never heard about Floyd McKissick until I moved to Asheville. It was completely coincidence that I had this connection with this man who had done so much civil rights work,” says Yarbrough, who’s also been involved in community organizing.

Reflecting on Soul City, she notes,

McKissick in Asheville Born on March 9, 1922, Floyd McKissick and his family lived on Ridge Street, off what’s now South Charlotte Street. Growing up, McKissick “carted ice on a homemade wagon, delivered newspapers and shined shoes to help support his family,” according to a 1991 New York Times obituary.

His father did hotel work (including serving as the head bellman at the Vanderbilt Hotel) and was an agent for the North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co. His mother worked for the company as well and also made clothes. “We had a sign on the house: ‘Seamstress,’” McKissick recalled in a 1989 interview for the Southern Oral History Program. “I had a very good religious influence in my life and an excellent social life. … In the black community, the church and all of its programs … represented the society in which we lived.”

Still, he continued, “There were many problems of segregation in the city, which we were fighting every day.” Once, as a child, he was riding up front on the Montclair trolley, so he could watch the driver. His aunt told McKissick that he couldn’t sit there. “And while she was explaining to me, some big, heavy man, weighing about 300 pounds, told her if she couldn’t get me up, he was going to pick me up and throw me to the rear of the bus. … And my aunt picked me up and took me to the back, and she just cried as she sat there with me. I sort of got the understanding of what things were all about a little later in life, not then.”

But it was another pivotal early “bitter experience,” said McKissick, that really planted the seeds of future civil rights activism. In 1935, when he was a 13-year-old Boy Scout, “We had a street on which we skated, South French Broad, and I was assigned by my scoutmaster to direct traffic and help the smaller kids. The scoutmaster had just placed us in the intersection to keep the smaller kids from coming through the intersection. Some cops came up and said get off the street: We didn’t have no business being there. And in trying to explain to them, they proceeded to beat and slap me around a little bit, and I retaliated by throwing a skate.”

Those experiences bore fruit years later, he related. “I think probably the first real politicalization came when the Asheville City Council refused to permit Paul Robeson to speak at the City Auditorium, and this small delegation of an integrated group went to the City Council meeting to ask them to change the policy to permit Paul Robeson to speak. … I just went there as one of the group, but I ended up being practically the spokesman for the group.”

McKissick graduated from high school in 1939 and left Asheville to attend Morehouse College in Atlanta. After serving in the Army during World War II, he returned to Asheville. But the fledgling civil rights movement soon focused his attention elsewhere.

In 1945, he was part of a group that picketed the state Legislature to get the law school at N.C. Central University (then the North Carolina College for Negroes) accredited and adequately funded. Meanwhile, a federal lawsuit filed by future Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, who was then a lawyer with the NAACP, led to McKissick’s becoming the first African-American student at the UNC Law School. His association with the school continued long after graduation, and “a number of the professors over there were closely associated with me in the development of Soul City.” X

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“It’s difficult to address systemic problems when you’re partnering with the Department of Housing and Urban Development.”

And meanwhile, she has mixed feelings about what she sees happening in her adopted city.

“Asheville is going through the motions of gentrification and, as a consequence, low-income people are being further marginalized.”

The city’s “so-called ‘affordable housing’ programs,” Yarbrough maintains, “are not accessible for people with low incomes. Who are they for?

“I don’t think that’s what Soul City was about. We have a long way to go.”

Still, Hatley’s philosophy fundamentally agrees with McKissick’s original vision. And in that sense, perhaps the civil rights pioneer’s birthplace, the scene of his formative years, could end up fulfilling at least a portion of the dream of Soul City, notes local business consultant Kimberly hunter.

“Asheville has the potential to become a place where AfricanAmericans, people of color, and lower-income communities thrive through business ownership,” says Hunter, who’s worked for both Mountain BizWorks and Venture Local. “There are a myriad of factors that impede or create access to impact the process; I have dedicated my entire 12 years in this community to delivering this as a reality. It’s been slow and there have been setbacks, but I absolutely see the potential.” X

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NoSe To The NoSeGriNd

Foundation redefines skateparks

Railroads to the east, the French Broad to the west and a whole lot of graffiti in between: On the site of a former warehouse in the River Arts District sits Foundation, a free, DIY skatepark that exists in a perpetual state of improvement.

An entry arch crowned by skateboard tails frames the wooden steps leading up to the park.

Inside are numerous colorful concrete ramps with names like The Taco, The Volcano and The Wave.

One has a floral design; another a single eye. A third resembles a faceless, purple-toothed monster emerging from the ground.

A wooden crate supports a small 3-D replica of the park. And though the miniature gray ramps lack the splashy images sported by the originals, they’re flanked by pencils and clumps of unformed clay. On the side of the crate hangs an aerial image of the site bearing this encouraging message: “Draw on it. Sculpt some ramps.

The point of this model is to generate new ideas for the future of what our DIY skatepark will look like. We hope to use this model as a tool to bring community and ideas together and get everyone on the same page about what to save money for and build next. Feel free to erase, draw over other peoples work. This is a 3-D sketch pad. If your idea is good, then maybe we’ll make it something we can skate.

We are also looking for cool mural ideas on the spot, like a big black hole or something you can see from satellites. That’s what the pencils are for. Post pics of your ideas on social media with the hashtag #foundationavl before someone erases your sketch. This spring there are plans for a big fundraiser for the spot, and your idea could be part of the next big pour.”

Just outside the entrance, a spray-painted sign spells out Foundation’s lone rule: “Try not to sit on sk8able objects when people are sk8ng them.” a different vibe “I think people have a hard time viewing skateboarding as a positive thing,” says rob sebrell, who owns Push Skate Shop in down-

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town Asheville. It’s been illegal to skateboard on city streets and downtown sidewalks since 1965. In 2012, Sebrell and a group of fellow skaters tried to get the law changed, but City Council upheld the ban. “I think it’s that old Bart Simpson mentality of thinking we’re all a bunch of troublemakers about to run over old ladies, when actually it’s one of the fastestgrowing activities for young people.”

The city did open the Food Lion Skatepark in 2001. But for skaters like Sebrell who grew up without using helmets or elbow and knee pads, the park’s regulations created “a different vibe, especially for those who view skateboarding as a creative activity.” Fellow skater eric hunt, who manages Sebrell’s shop, says, “That park is one of the first concrete city public parks in North Carolina.

In that regard, it’s awesome. ... But unfortunately, nobody wanted to wear the required safety equipment that the state law mandated.”

Safety gear might seem like a petty grievance. And on paper, the resistance seems to support the stereotype of the skater as misfit. But it isn’t opposition for its own sake. In many ways, skaters’

response to the Food Lion Skatepark is the legacy of decades spent creating their own spaces because they had no place to go.

“We’ve done these kinds of things our whole lives as skaters,” notes Sebrell. “We find these old, abandoned kind of places and try to build our own spot on them and take advantage of that. Generally, they have a very limited timeline.”

That’s exactly how Foundation came about. In 2008, Sebrell and some friends found a filing cabinet lying on the remains of a former building: the foundation. The group placed the cabinet on its side and used it as the site’s first skating obstacle.

Soon, they began adding wooden ramps, boxes, flat bars, granite blocks — whatever they could get their hands on — to the space. But on two occasions, everything there was either smashed or carted off.

“Anything that was substantial and wasn’t bolted down got stolen. We assume it got scrapped,” says Sebrell.

Amid those woes, however, the group found an unlikely ally. Sebrell started talking with local developer robert camille, who owned the property.

“I knew all the kids around Asheville didn’t really have a place of their own,” says Camille, “and they were creating it back there anyway, so I figured ... as long as they kept the place neat and clean and nobody ever sued me, we were fine.” throW me a bone Once the group got the go-ahead from Camille to build more permanent structures, they began holding fundraisers. Ceramist Alex Irvine, a founding member of Foundation, contributed his work to the first such event, an art show titled Throw Me a Bone. Hosted by Sebrell at Push, the show ran for a month and raised roughly $1,500.

In addition to the first concrete pour, the proceeds helped pay for a 40-yard construction dumpster. One of the first ramps poured was The Wave, the faceless purple-toothed monster. Irvine designed the frame and built it in his driveway.

“I had a lot of help from friends,” he says. “My friend matt west teaches at UNCA and was doing high-end metal fabrication work. He had the

pipe benders that we used; it was a really complicated bend. He knew how to do that, and we spent eight hours bending this pipe. There’s a lot of other people that helped make it happen, too.”

Sebrell underscores that point.

“What started out as a small group has turned into a huge community of people who are out there working and building this spot,” he explains.

And as the numbers have grown, so has the sense of order. When the group hosted its second concrete pour in 2014, Irvine recalls, “It was a much more organized effort. We were learning from our fumbles from the previous year, and all of a sudden it really started to look like a skatepark.” creative campus Last summer, code violations in various warehouses on the property forced Camille to sell. New owners brent starck, eddie dewey and chris eller of Foundation Studios LLC agreed to let the skatepark stay, rent-free, but they weren’t willing

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30+ Years Experience

a soLid foundation: Skater Mike Holmes rides The Taco, one of several ramps cre-

ated by a group of volunteers who help maintain and further develop the skatepark.

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to insure it. Fortunately for the skaters, Starck had his own ally in Kitty love, the treasurer of local nonprofit Arts 2 People.

“I’ve been working ... for quite a while now ... to preserve what’s beautiful and authentic and amazing about Asheville,” notes Love, who recently stepped down as executive director of the Asheville Area Arts Council. And Foundation, she maintains, “is such a great example of that.”

Accordingly, Arts 2 People agreed to serve as the park’s fiscal agent.

A fundraiser held at Foundation last month helped raise the money to pay for the insurance policy.

And while Starck says there’s still a “tremendous amount of infrastructure work to be done,” he hopes to see the property become a creative campus for artists of all types, including skateboarders.

The skatepark, he notes, “is kind of like a sculpture garden. If you talk to Rob and Eric at Push, they tend to view it almost like an art form in and of itself. Sort of a dance, I guess. Or a kind of performance art.”

Hunt, however, also sees himself as a historian and teacher of sorts. “I am constantly educating the kids,” he says, “telling them, ‘Hey, we are fortunate to have this place.’ It’s amazing that [the owners] let us continue to do this and express ourselves. That rarely happens with these sort of DIY spaces, especially when folks are developing it the way they are. It’s rare that skateboards don’t get pushed out.”

Sebrell agrees. “The fact that people are able to build what they want to skate and build the things their own ways, that’s kind of the spirit of skateboarding: the freedom we’re all searching for.” X

An ongoing fundraiser Foundation, located at 339 Old Lyman Ave., is open to all skaters free of charge. But the organizers rely on donations and fundraisers to maintain the site and pay for its insurance policy. To make a contribution, visit: gofundme.com/ foundationavl. X

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animaLs asheviLLe humane society 828-761-2001 ext. 315, ashevillehumane.org • SA (6/25), 11am-2pm - Low cost vaccine and microchip clinic. $10-$15. Held at Spring Mountain Community Center, 807 Old Fort Road, Fairview asheviLLe humane society 14 Forever Friend Lane, 761-2001, ashevillehumane.org • SU (6/26), 1-4pm - “Paw it Forward Festival and Open House,” familyfriendly event with music, crafts, tours and food trucks. Free. cataWba science center 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 322-8169, catawbascience.org • Through (9/5) - Flutter-By Butterfly Habitat exhibit. Admission fees plus $1.

benefits animaL haven of asheviLLe 65 Lower Grassy Branch Road., 299-1635 • SA (6/25), 2-6pm - Proceeds from this 16 year anniversary celebration with vegan food and drinks and live music

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‘the bear necessities’: Want to know more about black bears? At 7 p.m. Saturday, June 25, at the Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, the Blue Ridge Parkway presents “The Bear Necessities.” This outdoor, ranger-led program presents information regarding bear biology, stories about how bears and humans coexist and what to do in case of a bear encounter. For more information, email ggapio@gmail.com. Photo courtesy goo.gl/x97AgP (p. 22)

benefit animal Haven of asheville. $18. appaLachian barn aLLiance appalachianbarns.org • SA (6/25), 2:30-5pm - Proceeds from this barn tour benefit the appalachian Barn alliance.

Registration: 380-9146. $25. asheviLLe community theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (6/23), 7:30pm - Proceeds from this comedy show, “Stand Up for Equality (And Show Tunes!)” by Jim David benefit equality nc. $25. asheviLLe greenWorks garden tour ashevillegreenworks.org • SA (6/25), 10am-3pm - Proceeds from this self-guided garden tour of gardens in Kenilworth benefit asheville greenworks. $25/$20 advance. The starting location is Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road asheviLLe music schooL ice cream benefit ashevillemusicschool.com • TH (6/23), 6-8pm - Proceeds from ice cream sales at this live music event featuring Asheville music school students and teachers benefit asheville music

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school. Free to attend. Held at The Hop, 640 Merrimon Ave. Suite 103 cheerWine and cheese reception goo.gl/eqRchR • SA (6/25), 5-7pm - Proceeds from this reception and book signing for Listening to the Grass Grow by author Harry Bagley’s son, Rick Bagley, benefit eblen charities, eliada Homes and next step recovery. $25. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave #101 ecstatic prance benefit for brother WoLf goo.gl/PxXuPe • SA (6/25), 7pm - Proceeds from this dance event sponsored by Asheville Vegan Outreach benefit Brother wolf. Free to attend. Held at Veda Studios, 853 Merrimon Ave. (Upstairs) hadaya benefit dinner hadaya.splashthat.com • WE (6/29), 6pm - Proceeds from this Chai Pani and Gypsy Queen Cuisine Persian dinner benefit Hadaya toys. $50. Held at MG Lounge, 19 Wall St. hare and hounds 5k fun run goo.gl/U7WSC5 • SA (6/25), 9am - Proceeds from

this all ages “tracking” 5k run or walk event go to supporting children-at-risk non-profits throughout Buncombe county. $35/$25 advance/$20 ages 10-21/$15 advance ages 10-21/Free under 10.

Held at The Asheville School, 360 Asheville School Road pubLic events at brevard coLLege 883-8292, brevard.edu • SA (6/18) through TH (6/23) Proceeds from the 47th Annual American Association of University Women Book Sale benefit the american association of university women. See website for full schedule: brevard-nc.aauw.net/book-sale/.

Free to attend. reconciLiation house benefit concert deborah.louis9@gmail.com • WE (6/22), 7-9pm & SA (6/25), 2-4pm - Proceeds from this concert featuring a wide array of local musicians benefit reconciliation House. $10. Held at the Burnsville Town Center, 6 S Main St., Burnsville Womansong of asheviLLe womansong.org • FR (6/24), 7:30pm & SA (6/25), 3pm - Proceeds from “There’s Hope,” a 75-member chorus concert, benefit womansong of asheville. $18/$8 for children under

12. Held at Rainbow Community School, 574 Haywood Road

activities and keynote speaker Angela Newnam. $45/$35 advance. Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St.

business & technoLogy a-b tech smaLL business center 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required.

• TH (6/23), 3-6pm - “Using WordPress to Blog for Your Business,” seminar. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler graiL moviehouse 45 S. French Broad Ave., 239-9392, grailmoviehouse.com • WE (6/22), 4-6pm - Summer networking bash with local entrepreneurs. Free. mountain bizWorks 153 S. Lexington Ave., 253-2834, mountainbizworks.org • WE (6/22), 9-11am - “Holding Your Line In Business,” workshop.

Registration required. $20.

Women’s business conference thesupportcenter-nc.org/wwbc • TH (6/30), 8:30-3pm - “Rock the World, Shape the Future,” themed conference with business workshops, music by Kat Williams, interactive

cLasses, meetings & events

one miLLion cups of coffee (pd.) WEDNESDAYS, 9am Asheville’s startup community gathers weekly for presentations by founders of emerging high-growth startup businesses. Run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. Free coffee, open to the public. RISC Networks, 81 Broadway. www.1millioncups.com/asheville asheviLLe chess cLub vincentvanjoe@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-10pm Weekly meeting with sets provided.

All ages welcome. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road asheviLLe makers 207 Coxe Ave. Studio 14, ashevillemakers.org • TUESDAYS, 7-9pm - Open house & meeting. Free.

autism spectrum-Wide boWLing meetup.com/ AspergersAdultsunited • SA (6/25), 1-4pm - Bowling and socialization. $2 per game. Held at Sky Lanes, 1477 Patton Ave. big ivy community center 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 626-3438 • WE (6/22), 6:30pm - Presentation

by Sherriff Van Duncan. Free.

• 4th MONDAYS, 7pm Community center board meeting.

Free. buncombe county pubLic Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (6/23), 6-7:30pm - “Budgeting 101,” class sponsored by OnTrack WNC. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - “Sit-nStitch,” informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters.

Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. marine corps League asheviLLe 273-4948, mcl.asheville@gmail.com • Last TUESDAYS - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen, and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road ontrack Wnc 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (6/22), 5:30-7pm “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it.” Seminar.

• TH (6/23), noon-1:30pm - “Understanding Reverse Mortgages: Learn the basics about Reverse Mortgages,” workshop.

• MO (6/27), 5:30-7pm - “Planning for your Financial Future,” workshop.

• TH (6/28), 5:30-7pm - “Budgeting and Debt Class.”

• TH (6/30), noon-1:30pm “Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it.” Workshop. recovering from reLigion meetup.com/topics/recoveringfrom-religion/us/nc/asheville • TH (6/23), 7pm - Public meeting.

Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave #101 shoWing up for raciaL justice showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road trans pride Week events tranzmission.org

• SA (6/25), 4pm - “Stonewall Spaghetti & Storytellers,” dinner and LGBT speakers. $15. Held at Jewish Community Center, 236 Charlotte St. • SU (6/26), 7pm - “Transformers & COLAGE,” workshop and support group for LGTQ and their families. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road • MO (6/27), 7pm - Stonewall Week Book Club: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights, by Ann Bausum. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. • TU (6/28), 7pm - Transformers present “Art Up!” featuring LGBT artists. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road • WE (6/29), 7pm - Film Screening: Queer Moxie, documentary. $12. Held at Grail MovieHouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave. • TH (6/30), 5pm - LGBT singersongwriter night. $5. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

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White faWn overLook park meeting goo.gl/bhpQQm • WE (6/28), 5-7pm - Public meeting regarding three concept master plans for the White Fawn Overlook Park. Free. Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave

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dance poLe fitness and dance cLasses at dancecLub asheviLLe (pd.) Pole dance, burlesque, jazz, funk, exercise dance, booty camp, flashmobs! 8 Week Jazz/funk series to Bieber’s “Sorry”! Starts June 30th 6 Week Beginner Burlesque starts June 21st All other classes are drop in Info: danceclubasheville. com Email: danceclubasheville@ gmail.com 828-275-8628 studio zahiya, doWntoWn dance cLasses (pd.) Monday 5pm Ballet Wkt 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 7pm Bellydance Hip Hop Fusion 8pm Tap • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Bellydance 3 •Wednesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 5:30pm Hip Hop Wkt 6:30 Bhangra • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 5pm Teens Hip Hop 7pm West African • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45am POUND Wkt • Sunday 3pm Tap 2 6:30pm Vixen 7:30pm Vixen • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595

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Stepping forward:

Cultivating Compassion in Action

134 Burton St. • MONDAYS (except 3rd MONDAYS), 5:30pm - Groove dance. Free. terpsicorps theatre of dance terpsicorps.org • THURSDAY through SATURDAY (6/23) until (6/25), 8pm.

Transform. $30/$28 seniors/$25 students/$20 ages 13-18/$12 children.

Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square

Thursday, July 7th 7:30 PM North Asheville 51 N. Merrimon Ave, Ste 117 828-252-7171 Mon.-Fri. 8am–5pm • Sat. 9am–4pm

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Sliding Scale: $20-25

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2 hour Guided Painting Classes every Tues-Sat.

food & beer

haywoodstreet.org/2010/07/thewelcome-table • SUNDAYS, 4:30pm - Community meal. Free. Held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. fairvieW WeLcome tabLe fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway 74, Fairview green opportunities 133 Livingston St. • THURSDAYS through (7/7), 5:30pm & 7pm - First come, first served community dinners.

Admission by donation.

Private Parties available anytime.

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A fundraiser for Asheville Greenworks

Leicester community center 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Welcome Table meal. Free. sanctuary breWing company 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville, 5959956, sanctuarybrewco.com • SUNDAYS, 1pm - Community meal. Free.

government & poLitics city of asheviLLe 251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TU (6/28), 5pm - Public meeting of the Asheville City Council. Free. Held at Asheville

Saturday, June 25 • 10am-3pm Starts in Kenilworth at

Kenilworth Presbyterian Church

123 Kenilworth Road, Asheville NC 28803

The Garden Tour gives exclusive access to 9 spectacular private gardens in the Kenilworth neighborhood Tickets $20 (advance) $25 day of tour Boxes Lunch available for purchase Tickets available online and by mail: www.ashevillegreenworks.org (828) 254-1776

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Cheerwine and Cheese

com m u n i ty ca Len da r

City Hall, 70 Court Plaza

kids attention kids! fiber arts summer camp (pd.) Week-long camps begin 6/13/16. Ages 9-15. 9am-Noon, Monday-Friday. Have fun and learn: Tie-dye, printing, spinning, weaving, felting, sewing. Asheville.

Information/registration: 828-2220356. www.localcloth.org THIS SATURDAY • SAMPLE saLe (pd.) i play., Inc.’s Sample Sale will be held on June 25th, from 9am12pm at 2000 Riverside Drive, Suite 9. i play.® Swim, Sun, and Play Wear and green sprouts® Feeding, Toys, and Wellness products, up to 75% off! attic saLt theatre company 505-2926 • SATURDAYS through (12/31) Family theater performances. $5.

Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. bLue ridge parkWay ranger programs 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (6/23), 10:30am - Children’s hour with storytelling, traditional games and crafts. For ages 4-12.

Free. Held at MP 294

Leveraging a Legacy: After his death, local writer Harry Bagley’s family members printed a collection of his short stories, and they have since been donating copies to area charities for fundraising purposes. Bagley’s son Rick says he’s hatching a plan to use some of the last copies to raise much more money — “in the millions,” he hopes — with help from his contacts at Fortune 500 companies. Image courtesy of the Bagleys what: A book signing to benefit Eblen Charities, Eliada Homes and Next Step Recovery where: Battery Bark Book Exchange & Champagne Bar when: Saturday, June 25, from 5-7 p.m. why: “‘Listening to the Grass Grow’ was a family selection of columns Daddy wrote over a period of 20 years,” says rick bagley, whose father harry ”cuz“ bagley was a humor columnist for The Cherokee Scout. “He wrote about hundreds and hundreds of people, themes, politics with a funny spin, government, World War II experiences, the Marine Corps ... the Bible and other religious matters.”

Following the local writer’s death in 1984, his family members culled from the manuscript he had been working on and printed 4,200 copies of the resulting short story collection in 1987. Rather

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than selling the 162-page work, they’ve been donating copies as a fundraising tool for charities in Western North Carolina and beyond. That’s the plan for most of the remaining 600 copies, some of which will be used at an upcoming Cheerwine and Cheese benefit.

Conceived by Rick years ago, the Southern-flavored gathering — which literally offers Cheerwine and cheese in addition to other complimentary refreshments — supports Next Step Recovery, Eblen Charities and Eliada Homes. The author’s son will gift his dad’s book to any attendee who makes a donation to the selected nonprofits, signing copies upon request. Beyond that, guests can expect door prizes and ”some nice takeaways for those who don’t even give a nickel."

The suggested donation at Cheerwine and Cheese is $25. For more information, visit avl.mx/2om.X

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buncombe county pubLic Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm Homeschoolers’ book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. cataWba science center 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 3228169, catawbascience.org • Through (8/28) - “When the Earth Shakes,” hands-on interactive exhibit that explore the science of earthquakes, tsunamis, tectonic plates and earthquake engineering. Admission fees apply. fLetcher Library 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 6871218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free. speLLbound chiLdren’s bookshop 640 Merrimon Ave. #204, 7087570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend. the vanishing WheeLchair 175 Weaverville Highway, Suite L, 645-2941, VanishingWheelchair.org

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• LAST SATURDAYS, 3pm “Birthday Magic” magic show for children. $5. tWo sisters farmstead 218 Morgan Cove Road, Candler, 707-4236, twosistersfarmstead.org • SA (6/25), 10am-noon or 1-3pm - “Family Discover Day,” with family hike and instruction on native plants and the food chain. Bring your own picnic from noon-1pm.

Free.

Wnc4peace wnc4peace.com • Through WE (9/7) - Submissions accepted for Buncombe County students creative works that promote the importance of peacemaking. Categories include: poetry, video, artwork and essays.

Entries sent to: wnc4peace@ gmail.com. For more information contact: 378-0125. Free.

outdoors

Bent Creek to Bywater. $10/$10 rental. riverLink 252-8474, riverlink.org • WE (6/22), 4:30pm - Ribbon cutting ceremony for new river access. Free. Held behind French Broad Outfitters, 704 Riverside Drive southern appaLachian highLands conservancy 253-0095, appalachian.org • WE (6/29), 10am - “Tour of SAHC Community Farm.”

Moderately easy hike along the 1.5-mile Discovery Trail while learning about SAHC programs. $10/Free for members.

Registration required: haley@ appalachian.org Held at Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy’s Community Farm, 180 Mag Sluder Road, Alexander the cradLe of forestry

bLue ridge parkWay hikes 298-5330, nps.gov • TH (6/23), 7pm - “Over 200 Years on the Trail,” easy to moderate ranger-led 2-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. Free. Meets at MP 393.7 • FR (6/24), 10am - “Fire Tower and Summer Flowers,” moderate 1.5-mile round-trip ranger-led hike to Fryingpan Fire Tower. Free.

Meets at MP 409.6 bLue ridge parkWay ranger programs 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (6/25), 7pm - “Wanted: Dead or Alive! Let’s Decide,” ranger presentation about insects. Held at the Julian Price Campground Ampitheater, MP 296 • SA (6/25), 7pm - “The Bear Necessities,” ranger presenation about bears and what do in a bear encounter. Held at the Linville Falls Campground Ampitheater, MP 316 Lake james state park 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (6/24), 9:45am - “Eagle/ Osprey Nest Tour,” ranger led boat tour. Registration required.

• SA (6/25), 9:45am - “Eagle/ Osprey Nest Tour,” ranger led boat tour. Registration required.

• SU (6/26), 2pm - “Bees, Butterflies and Other Pollinators,” ranger led tour of gardens. mountaintrue 258-8737, wnca.org • SA (6/11), 2pm - “French Broad River Section Paddle.” Moderate, flat-water guided paddle from

11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, 877-3130 • SA (6/25), 10am-4pm - “Bug Day and National Pollinator Week Celebration,” presentations about arthropods. $5.

pubLic Lectures buncombe county pubLic Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • Last WEDNESDAYS through (9/28), 6-7:30pm - “Asheville in the 1980s: A Formative Decade As Told By Those Who Shaped It,” presentation series sponsored by the Friends of the North Carolina Room. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St coLburn earth science museum 2 South Pack Square, 254-7162, colburnmuseum.org Located in Pack Place.

• FR (6/24), 5:30pm - Beer City Science Pub: “Lucy & Friends,” beer reception and presentation on the Australopithecus & Paranthropus Clans. Free. firestorm cafe and books 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • SU (6/26), 7pm - “Effective Active-ism: What Do We Know About Social Change?” presentation by Wayne Hsiung, the co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere. Free to attend.

Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com Spirituality Asheville Insight Meditation (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation.

Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30.

Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com.

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

Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you. Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions.

Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 OpenHeartMeditation.com.

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

Center for Art & Spirit at St. George 1 School Road, 258-0211 • Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm - Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation. Admission by donation.

Urban Dharma 29 Page Ave., 225-6422, udharmanc.com • SU (1/24), 10am- Meditation for children with a Buddhist tale, contemplation, meditation and snack. Free.

Zen Center of Asheville 5 Ravenscroft 3rd Floor, zcasheville.org • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Thirty minute silent meditation followed by Dharma talk & discussion.

Admission by donation.

Spoken & Written Word 35below 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (6/30), 7:30pm - Listen to This Storytelling Series: “Great, There Goes My Ride: Stories of Being Stranded,” themed show hosted by Tom Chalmers. $15.

Buncombe County Public Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (6/23), 5:30pm - Brian Panowich, author of Bull Mountain, discusses his work and answers questions. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TH (6/30), 7pm - Swannanoa Book Club: Boy, Snow, Bird, by Helen Oyeyemi. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa Firestorm Cafe and Books 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • TH (6/23), 6:30pm - Kitty Richards presents her book, Battles of a Bipolar Buddhist. Free to attend.

Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com

Julian Award expands Three nonprofit workers to be honored with $1,000 prizes in 2016

by Jeff Fobes Last fall, a very happy Shaneka Simmons accepted a $1,000 check in honor of her work as coordinator for the Western Carolina Medical Society’s Project Access. Simmons and her team had helped 2,500 underprivileged patients obtain assistance in the prior year from 500 volunteer physicians — medical care valued at about $7.5 million.

Simmons was last year’s lone Julian Award winner. This year, Julian Awards will be presented to three outstanding area nonprofit workers. The three $1,000 awards are being made possible by an anonymous donor, according to Susan Hutchinson, Give!Local director.

The awards are part of Mountain Xpress’ Give!Local project, an end-ofyear, web-based donation drive that funnels funds to Asheville-area nonprofits.

It’s projected that 45 nonprofits will participate this fall.

Early last year, Simmons assisted a long-term Project Access patient who was going blind. She helped find him a health insurance plan that he could afford. Because of that coverage, she says, he would be seen by the right doctor and get the care that would allow him to see his teenage daughter grow up. “It was so nice to know that I had helped this man, to know that he has had a life change. He could go to the doctor and get prescriptions, and he could do so for a reasonable price without having to choose between having health insurance and putting food on his family’s table.”

Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (6/25), 7pm - Orison Books release celebration.

• SA (6/25), 1pm - Paul Willis presents his book, Reflections of a World War II Veteran: Poems about War and Life.

Transylvania Community Arts Council 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • MO (6/27), 7-9pm - Open-mic night hosted by the Brevard Author’s Guild. Free.

WNC Historical Association wnchistory.org • Through FR (7/15) - Letters of nomination accepted for the Thomas Wolfe Memorial Literary Award. Contact for full guidelines.

Writers at Wolfe Series wolfememorial.com • SA (6/25), 2-3pm - Terry Roberts presents the latest novel, That Bright Land. Free.

Shaneka Simmons Simmons' story embodies the passion of activism. The Julian Awards honor employees of nonprofits who have dedicated their professional lives to bettering our community, often putting their cause ahead of a big paycheck.

"The Julian Award is a tip of the hat to this special tribe who contribute so much,” Hutchinson said.

Buncombe County has over 900 registered 501c3 organizations. “Many of them run more on passion than money, and the Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St.

Sports

ashevilleultimate.org, ashevilleultimateclub@gmail.com • Through TH (6/30) - Open registration for high school and adult ultimate frisbee leagues. $10 high school/$25 adult.

Buncombe County Recreation Services buncombecounty.org/Governing/Depts/Parks • Through SU (7/31) - Open registration for fall adult kickball leagues. Registration information: jay.nelson@

Men’s Roller Derby ashevillemrd@gmail.com

To nominate a nonprofit worker for a Julian Award, simply fill out an online form at avl.mx/2pj by July 20.

Nonprofit organizations that are interested in raising funds as a Give!Local nonprofit can apply to be selected until July 20 at avl.mx/2po. X • SU (6/26), 4pm - Interest meeting for prospective players. Free to attend. Held at Denny’s, 1 Regent Park Blvd.

Volunteering

Asheville Ultimate Club

buncombecounty.org. $40.

people who power them often make personal sacrifices to keep the dream alive,” Hutchinson added.

Hutchinson is encouraging those who know exemplary nonprofit employees to nominate them for a Julian Award, from now through July 20. Winners will be selected by a panel of Give!Local organizers and members of the community later this summer.

As a bonus and an incentive, nonprofit employers of Julian Award winners will have their fees waived by Give!Local if they are selected for the 2016 Give!Local fund drive.

To qualify for the Julian Award, nominees must: • be currently doing exceptional, creative work in the nonprofit sector, • be working at least 30 hours/week for a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization in Buncombe, Henderson, Haywood or Madison counties, • be earning no more than $35,000 per year.

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

Hands On Asheville-Buncombe 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org Registration required.

• TH (6/23), 11am-12:30pm - Volunteers cook and serve a homemade lunch to veterans.

For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/volunteering

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Mission pilots patient-observer system to reduce fall injuries

BY clarke morrison clarkemorrison1@gmail.com With technology developed for the video gaming industry, Mission Health is piloting a groundbreaking observation system designed to prevent costly patient falls.

The Cerner Patient Observer allows technicians to watch vulnerable patients remotely, talk to them and call for help when they attempt to get out of bed and risk hurting themselves in a fall. “It’s a very unique project,” says randy burkert, manager of the Mission Health Center for Innovation, which spearheaded the effort.

A three-month study conducted in Mission Hospital’s neurosciences unit found that the average falls rate — as measured per 1,000 patient days of care — dropped from four per month to zero with the new system.

Burkert says hospital officials were introduced last year to a concept for a new technology utilizing a sensor found in Microsoft’s Xbox gaming system by Pionetechs, a software development company.

Pionetechs partners with Cerner, Mission’s electronic medical records provider, he explains.

“They thought there could be applications within the health system,” Burkert says. “What was apparent was that this could be used to help with a common problem across the industry of patients falling while they’re in the hospital for other care.”

The Kinect sensor is a key component, he adds. “It’s the actual camera,” Burkert says. “If you’re familiar with the gaming system, Xbox has this camera where you’re the controller and it’s monitoring your movement, and the video game developers create games that use your body to monitor what you see on the screen and interact that way.

[Developers] took it and [created] something specifically for a health care application.”

Burkert says patient falls are a big and expensive problem. According to a study by The Joint Commission, which accredits health care organizations, a fall with injury costs an average of $14,000.

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on the Lookout: Noelle West, a certified nursing assistant at Mission, keeps watch over patients at risk of falling at the monitoring station. Photo by Clarke Morrison “The falls rate across the country is very high,” he says. “It’s bad for a lot of reasons. Nobody wants to come into the hospital, period, and when they do, for whatever they need, the last thing they want to do is experience a fall and then have more complications.”

With the help of the Cerner Patient Observer, one technician can monitor six or more patient rooms from a single remote station. The technician uses the system’s 3-D cameras and software to create “motion zones” around the patient’s bed or chair. When motion is detected in an alert zone, the system alerts the technician, who can quickly intervene and remotely redirect the patient through a two-way radio. noelle west is one of the certified nursing assistants at Mission assigned to the patient monitor. She’s on the lookout for patients who become agitated and look as if they might try to get out of bed. The new technology allows her to communicate with them to find out if they need assistance. Many times just asking the patient to stay in bed does the trick, she says.

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“Our core focus is looking at falls and fall prevention,” West explains. “If they are reaching for the rail, if they act like they’re agitated or looking for something, it’s really helpful to be able to talk into their room and the patient be aware that there is somebody there to help them or they’re on their way.

“Nursing staff is really becoming dependent on this. They’re relying on an extra set of eyes,” she continues.

“We don’t want patients to fall. … It [also] helps because the family can go home and be assured that somebody is with their mom or their dad. I think it’s going to improve this nursing unit and other units.” josh lewis, nurse manager for the neurosciences unit at Mission, says the ability to interact directly with the patient is crucial.

“If the monitor tech detects some behavior that we might consider unsafe, nine times out of 10, they can talk to the patient and de-escalate that behavior,” he says. “They can also simultaneously call a CNA or an RN to go straight to the room and intervene if necessary. I think it’s worked really

well. It’s a unique, innovative way to deal with a problem that every hospital is challenged with. None of us wants a patient to become injured while they are under our care, but nobody has the resources to keep one-on-one caregivers at the bedside at all times. So this is a nice way to deal with that.”

In the study, the neurosciences clinical team developed a fall-risk algorithm to identify the highestrisk patients admitted to the unit.

Patients meeting specific criteria and identified as candidates were informed of the new technology and monitored during their stay.

With six cameras operating during the three-month pilot study, Mission staff monitored 8,615 patient hours. That’s the equivalent of $103,380 in one-to-one sitter costs that were avoided by use of the observer system.

Burkert notes that the Cerner Patient Observer doesn’t retain a digital record of patients.

“What we are doing is live video streaming,” he says. “We are not recording anything that the patient’s doing. We are not capturing video and storing it somewhere. The intention is to have that live video interaction with the patient as needed.”

Mission is working to expand the technology, with a goal of having 72 cameras in patient rooms this summer, Burkert says.

“This is a technology we could deploy in our regional hospitals and have it all monitored from a central location on the Mission campus,” he says.

Burkert believes the Cerner Patient Observer is breaking new ground when it comes to preventing patient falls.

“There are technologies at other health systems that are similar but not quite the same,” he says. “I think the technology that we are demonstrating here, in particular with the functionality with the 3-D camera and the depth sensing as well as the advanced alerting, is unlike what any other health system has. It’s a product that we hope will become commonplace one day in the health care setting.” X

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Classes with Cassie at OSEGA Gymnastics Beginning June 28th

wel l n ess ca l en Da r WeLLness community styLe acupuncture for Women (pd.) Every Thurs. 11AM-4PM Offered by Licensed Acupuncturist Krystal Kinnunen owner of Sacred Valley Acupuncture located in the Homegrown Families Health & Education Center 201 S. Charlotte Street Asheville, NC 28801. Krystal has a focus on women’s health with a specialty in pregnancy. To schedule call 828-301-7166. consciousness raising group for Women (pd.) Forming now. Contact: Feministwomyn11@ gmail.com infra-red mammography (pd.) • No Radiation • No Compression • No Discomfort or Pain. • Can detect a potential breast cancer 7-10 years earlier. 91%-97% accuracy. Call Jan: (828) 687-7733. www.thermascan. com

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reLieve stress and pain (pd.) Quantum Biofeedback can result in an improved sense of wellbeing, mental clarity, pain reduction and physical performance. • Susan Brown, Certified Biofeedback Practitioner. Call (207) 513-2353. earthywomanjourneys@yahoo.com earthy-woman.com

To Register: AcroFairy@gmail.com or Register at OSEGA Gymnastics www.facebook.com/CassieDrewCircus • 828-665-0004

secrets of naturaL WaLking (pd.) Workshop, Sat/Sun, June 25-26, 1-5pm. $150, Call to Register: 828-215-6033. www.naturalwalking.com. Proper Alignment=healthy joints, energized body, calm minds. Let your walking be your healing. Join Us!! asheviLLe community yoga center 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga.com • FRIDAYS (6/3) through (6/24), 2-4pm - “Coming of Age with Sustainable Practice” yoga series for aging bodies. $40 series/$12 per class.

• FR (6/24), 8-9:15pm - “Black Light Yoga,” class.

Wear white. $10.

• SA (6/25), 12:30-2:30pm - “The Yoga of Song: An Introduction to Kirtan,” workshop. $20.

• SU (6/25), 3-5pm - “Hip Flexor Help,” yoga workshop. $20.

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buncombe county pubLic Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (6/23), 6:30-8:30pm - “Getting Off Psychiatric Drugs,” presentation by the Pajaro Valley Sunrise Center. More information: thesunrisecenter.org.

Free. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • WE (6/15) & WE (6/29), 11:30am -“Laughter Yoga” adult yoga class. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa red cross bLood drives redcrosswnc.org Appointment and ID required.

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SpliSh SplASh Updated guide provides the last word on N.C. waterfalls

BY JosH o’conner josh.oconner@gmail.com One of the many perks of living in Western North Carolina is being surrounded by some of the most stunning natural environments on the planet. We have access to almost unlimited sites showcasing unique blends of geography, geology and botany — all within distances that allow us to be captivated by the views and experiences rather than keeping us captive in our cars.

North Carolina Waterfalls by Waynesville travel and nature writer/photographer Kevin adams features enough such attractions to keep weekend adventurers occupied for years to come. And though the updated third edition covers the entire state, most of the book’s 469 pages highlight destinations within a two-hour drive of Asheville, making it the definitive guide to Western North Carolina waterfalls.

Notable falls are grouped by location into 42 “hubs,” but only two of them lie east of Interstate 77.

Adams’ seven other titles include Waterfalls of Virginia and West Virginia, Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina’s Best Wildflower Hikes and Backroads of North Carolina.

The author first tackled the subject back in 1994. His 2005 update aimed to counter misinformation spread via the internet. The current edition shines a spotlight on Adams’ photography while providing both new and updated information.

Of the 1,000 waterfalls listed in the 2016 edition, 400 are new inclusions. The book gives detailed descriptions and color photographs of 300 falls. Adams visited all of them within the last two years, and he recounts those excursions as well as describing and evaluating each cascade.

Waterfall aficionados looking to indulge their passion will appreciate the book’s structure. In the introduction, a simple map relates the hubs to major transportation corridors. Each hub section features in-depth listings of that area’s most

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faLLing Water: Photographer and author Kevin Adams updates his guide to the state’s waterfalls, including spectacular Eastatoe Falls near Rosman. Photo courtesy of Kevin Adams iconic falls and a more detailed map showing their proximity to well-known roads and towns.

Individual listings give the waterfall’s name, beauty rating, accessibility, landowner and the topographic map that depicts it, plus directions to the trailhead, a description of the hike (including length and difficulty) and GPS coordinates. Less notable falls aren’t covered in as much detail, but

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Adams still offers valuable information about the best views and whether it’s even worth fighting the vegetation and terrain to get there.

The author also provides technical details not necessarily included in standard guidebooks, such as the waterfall’s originating river and watershed, elevation, size and type. In addition, Adams indicates how photogenic each site is and discusses canopy con-

ditions that might affect a photo shoot.

Thanks to the author’s exceptional photography, this informative, functional guide teases readers with the allure of WNC’s many waterfalls.

Released June 2, North Carolina Waterfalls is available on Adams’ website (kadamsphoto.com). Both the site and his Facebook page also contain additional information about the state’s waterfalls. X

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CloSed loop AGriCulTure Sunburst Chef & Farmer pairs aquaponics, microgreens

smaLL but mighty: Sunburst Chef & Farmer staff, including, from left, Bennett Tompkins, Lurissia Hendrix, Casey Adams, Charles Hudson, Sally Eason, Dick Sievers and August Forbes, show off the farm’s edible nasturtiums and a tray of spicy mix microgreens. Sunburst Chef & Farmer is one of 20 farms featured on ASAP’s Farm Tour June 25-26. Photo courtesy of ASAP charles hudson and sally eason huddle over a tray of microgreens, meticulously snipping shoots of redveined sorrel and amaranth with tiny stainless steel scissors. Wearing crisp white coats and disposable gloves, they could be in the lab at some research institution. Instead, they’re in the aquaponics greenhouse at Sunburst Chef & Farmer in Leicester, surrounded by leafy greens, 60 tilapia and 10,000 gallons of water.

Aquaponics uses fish waste to fertilize plants. The plants absorb the nutrients, producing clean water for the fish to swim in. It’s a closed loop

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system, except for the water the plants absorb as they grow and what’s lost to evaporation. This sustainable reuse of resources was part of the appeal for the business partners.

On June 25 and 26, Sunburst Chef & Farmer will be one of 20 local farms welcoming the public to tour their operations and take home ultra-fresh food during ASAP’s annual farm tour (see sidebar). microgreens, major fLavor Hudson, the new business’s founder and president, has 25 years’ expe-

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rience in the industry, with a focus on value-added foods. He has deep connections with local chefs and restaurateurs. Eason, who’s vice president of Sunburst Chef & Farmer, is the former CEO of Sunburst Trout Farms (an entirely separate enterprise). She brings decades of knowledge from her family’s long-running trout farm.

Together, the pair have created a business with the region’s culinary community in mind.

As the name suggests, chefs are the primary customers. They’re also the reason you’ll see microgreens paired with an aquaponics opera-

tion, even though Chef & Farmer’s microgreens are grown in soil.

Microgreens are immature herbs and greens, such as cilantro, dill and red Russian kale. Grown to a height of 1 to 3 inches, they can be harvested in as little as eight days, making them particularly attractive to chefs who want farm-fresh ingredients.

Microgreens don’t lend themselves to aquaponic production, however; they began as a side item but quickly became one of the farm’s most popular offerings. Chef & Farmer also grows basil, kale and lettuce aquaponically.

“The chefs that have come here, without exception, have started buying product from us,” says Eason.

“They all bend down and grab a piece of whatever they’re looking at and taste it, and they just go, ‘Wow.’” Twelve restaurants in the region — including Cúrate, Nightbell, Rhubarb, Canyon Kitchen and the Old Edwards Inn — are buying the farm’s microgreens, attracted by their intense flavor and attractiveness as garnishes, Chief Operating Officer august forbes reports.

Chefs often come to Sunburst with specific requests, and the farm’s custom microgreen mixes enable them to home in on the flavor and appearance they seek.

“I love working with chefs,” says Eason. “They’re real picky, but so am I.” Chefs, however, “aren’t the only folks we service,” notes Hudson.

“We’re excited to show a lot more of the public what we’re doing and what we have available.” science meets agricuLture In the back of the greenhouse, tendrils of Tropicana lettuce roots stretch down into the “float beds.”

The farm’s full-sized collards, kale and basil are also grown in water.

But the highly scientific process requires careful adjustments of temperature and nutrient levels for both fish and plants, and the proprietors spent months doing research and learning hands-on techniques from brad todd at Lucky Clays Fresh in Norwood, N.C.

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ASAp farm tour features new destinations, familiar faces The 2016 tour offers glimpses of the many different ways the region’s farmers produce food for the community. It’s organized by clusters, making it easy to choose the farms you want to visit and find others in the area. Sunburst Chef & Farmer, a great first stop on the tour, is in the Leicester cluster.

Spend the rest of the afternoon visiting these nearby operations and bring a cooler to take home farm-fresh produce and meat.

Farm House Beef will offer guided tours and a hayride to the top of the ridge. Visitors can learn about the farm’s rotational grazing practices and watch grass-fed calves in the pasture.

Reeves Home Place Farm is a seventh-generation operation that specializes in beef, chicken, pigs and turkeys. People can pick their own vegetables, and kids can enjoy story time.

Addison Farms Vineyard offers nearly 360-degree mountain views from its vineyard and winery. Visitors can take a tour, have a sip in the tasting room and learn about winemaking.

The Candler cluster, which includes Smoking J’s Fiery Foods and Venezia Dream Farm, is also an easy drive from Sunburst Chef & Farmer and is another beautiful place to experience the region’s diverse family farms.

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“It’s been a heck of a learning curve for us,” says Eason. “We both have strong science backgrounds, but even so, there’s a lot of chemistry buried deep, deep, deep in these brain cells that we had to resurrect.”

Sunburst Chef & Farmer got its start in 2014 in an 800-square-foot storefront in Waynesville before moving to the Smith Mill Works in West Asheville last year. The business started with a 10-gallon tank and six guppies but has expanded rapidly, with plans to increase to 150 tilapia by the end of this month.

Trout require cold temperatures and moving water, neither of which is compatible with aquaponics. They chose tilapia instead, a hearty fish that’s proved to be a good match with the farm’s aquaponic produce.

Chef & Farmer doesn’t currently sell its “working fish,” as Forbes calls them, but the business hopes to offer them to local restaurants in the future.

Unlike some aquaponics programs, the fish at Sunburst Chef & Farmer aren’t visible: They’re enclosed in a fiberglass tank. “By doing that, we’re better able to control the temperature of the fish, the water quality and many other things,” greenhouse man-

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The farm’s water comes from a spring-fed pond and a backup well on the property; the system uses no public water.

“The whole use and reuse of the water and nutrients is probably what excites me the most about what we’re doing,” says Hudson. In addition, he notes, aquaponics doesn’t require a large amount of arable land, which is in short supply here in the mountains. “You can do it in your basement; you can do it in a greenhouse; you can do it in your office.”

For Hudson, that’s also part of the appeal: “Whether it’s dirt farming or water farming, it’s exciting to me to see more people growing food by any means.”

During the farm tour, visitors will be able to view the aquaponics operation up close and buy microgreens and aquaponically grown produce. Larger groups may even be able to feed the fish, depending on the schedule.

It will be “all hands on deck” that weekend, says Forbes, who hopes the tour will help visitors “realize this is quite an operation — and it’s happening in their own backyard.” X

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Asheville chef Katie button is fairly obsessed with garbage. Well, more accurately, she’s obsessed with how to create less of it.

A fascination with decreasing food waste sent the co-owner and executive chef of celebrated restaurants Curate and Nightbell packing to Montana in late May. As one of 15 chefs in the nation to participate in the James Beard Foundation’s ninth Chefs Boot Camp for Policy and Change, she spent three days focused on learning about ways to throw away less food and inspire consumers to do the same.

The goal of the intensive, held at the Resort at Paws Up in Greenough, Mont., was to empower the nation’s top chefs as “stakeholders in achieving the U.S. government’s goal of a 50 percent reduction of food waste by 2030 by addressing waste in their day-to-day business operations and by leveraging their visibility to help educate consumers on creative ways to reduce waste,” says a media release from the James Beard Foundation.

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chefs on Instagram and Twitter,” says Button of the training.

In the short time since she launched her first restaurant, Curate, Button has proved to be a pioneer in promoting sustainability through her businesses. She recently earned national recognition from environmental news outlet Grist as one of its 50 People You’ll Be Talking About in 2016, due to her commitment to partnering with local growers, offering Living Wage Certified jobs and maintaining Green Restaurant certification through rigorous recycling, composting and wastereduction practices. saved from the trash The boot camp offered Button ideas and inspiration for further developing her waste-reduction strategies and spreading the word in Western North Carolina about how those efforts can translate to the home kitchen. “It was really interesting, because the timing of this particular boot camp and the focus of it are perfectly in line with what we’ve been moving more and more toward,” she says.

At Nightbell and Curate, “we’re really focused on reducing waste,” she continues. “There’s the composting and recycling and things that we do, but it’s also looking at how we

order, what products we get from our farmers, asking a farmer, ‘What do you have trouble selling?’ and figuring out what we can do with that. Say they don’t sell a ton of green garlic at the market. OK, I’ll buy it, we’ll pickle it and we’ll put it on our burgers. It’s just a different way of looking at things.”

Although Button acknowledges the value of composting and recycling to create nutrients for crops and keep refuse out of the landfill, she says she and her staff are always studying their trash to find ways to use things that are being discarded. For example, they found a way to use the trimmings from the Sunburst Farms trout that are an ingredient in Nightbell’s popular deviled egg dish and Curate’s esqueixada de montaña.

“We trim off the bellies because they have a lot of teeny-tiny bones,” she explains. Nightbell sous chef allegra grant noticed that between the two restaurants, a lot of trout bellies were being generated, so she decided to use them to create a trout rillette appetizer.

“You take the bellies, and you cook them, and you take the bones out and you mix it all up with some herbs and some lemon and it’s superflavorful and great to spread on toast,” she says.

“We’re serving it with some pickled berries and shallots, and it’s lovely and really good. And so there’s a menu item that came from something that was ending up in the garbage.”

Another example she cites is a turnip dish she is developing for Nightbell. For this, she uses the sautéed greens of local turnips as well as the turnips themselves, which are seared and caramelized. It’s topped with a sauce made from whey that is a byproduct of the ricotta cheese she makes in-house and “little delicious, heated bread crunchies” made from the discarded ends of bread loaves, which are ground then fried.

Also, instead of buying individual cuts of beef, Button buys Apple Brandy Beef forequarters weekly or biweekly for both restaurants, doing the butchering in-house and offering cuts as they are available. “It takes a lot of individual cows to make a case full of one particular cut,” she says.

“So we break the forequarter down into ribeye and flatiron and chuckeye and all those different steak cuts.” From there, they use the rack

for steak tartare, and other parts are ground to create burgers, meatballs, cannelloni filling and more. The bones are used for stock.

Button acknowledges that not all restaurants have the space and staff to manage their own butchering program. But between her two restaurants, she says she does have the space, and her staff is enthusiastic about it, so it works.

“It’s putting our heads together,” she says. “It requires all of my staff really being involved and interested in reducing waste. … And we need to do more of this. We really just started heading this direction [recently], but now I’m thinking, ‘Gosh, now I need everybody, as they’re throwing something away, let’s write it down and see what we can do with it. And we can make delicious food out of those things.” the bigger picture Beyond curtailing waste in their own kitchens, the bigger picture for chefs is sharing their knowledge and experiences with the public to encourage home-based efforts and advocating for large-scale improvements through state- and national-level policy change.

Katherine miller, founding executive director of the JBF’s Chefs Action

Network, which designs and leads the trainings, says that since the program was created in 2012, Chefs Boot Camps have been used to help empower chefs to speak out about a variety of issues.

“This network has done a lot in a short time,” says Miller. “The chefs helped accelerate changes to the [U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s] policies on the use of antibiotics in meat and poultry. They have helped protect the Healthy Kids Act, which is focused on school meals. And they are helping to generate a lot of attention around the topic of food waste and working with consumer, industry and policy makers to help reach a 50 percent reduction in food waste by 2030.”

Although Button already does a good job of voicing her thoughts about food waste, she feels there’s more she can do. “There are a couple of interesting facts that blow people’s minds,” she says. “First of all, 40 percent of all the food that is produced in the United States is wasted — it’s crazy!”

While some waste occurs at farms and grocery stores due to date labeling and other things, she continues, “A big part of it is happening at the consumer level because we overpurchase in the grocery store or we’re just not being careful or conscious about using everything or throwing something in the freezer.” (See side-

bar for Button’s tips on reducing food waste at home.)

Another fact that really hit home for Button is “that one in four children in Buncombe County don’t know where their next meal is coming from — they’re food-insecure — and that’s much higher than the national average. … I think we can, hopefully, in Asheville, improve that number, and that’s the goal of many of the not-for-profit organizations that are out there, but I think I can

be part of the advocacy and support in that area.”

Although she already does a lot with MANNA FoodBank and the Downtown Welcome Table, she says, “I haven’t really been that persistent about it, and what I took away from the boot camp is that I can do more.”

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reducing waste at home “The thing people need to focus on when looking at food waste is that there’s a lot of money that can be saved in businesses and in your home,” says chef Katie Button. “If you can reduce your food waste, you can reduce the amount you spend each week at the grocery store.”

Button offers the following tips for decreasing the amount of food that ends up in your home trash can or compost bin: • PLAN BEFORE YOU SHOP Make a list before you go to the grocery store and only buy what you need.

Consider quantities and portion sizes — especially of proteins, which spoil very quickly.

• THE FREEZER IS YOUR FRIEND When you find you can’t use a perishable food item right away, put it in the freezer to use later.

• GET CREATIVE WITH SCRAPS Develop a couple of go-to dishes you can prepare using leftovers and scraps.

“It sounds silly, but they can be some of the most delicious things,” says Button.

When she has leftovers, she likes to sauté and caramelize them in a pan with vegetables or rice then top it all with a cooked egg. “It’s the best!” she says, noting that eggs are an affordable, nutritious protein and cook up quickly.

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• SELL-BY DOES NOT MEAN USE-BY “So much food gets wasted because of confusion over sell-by dates,” Button says. “And lots of times, even the useby date time frame is set way shorter than what science shows the actual lifespan of a product is.” For details on sell-by vs. use-by dates from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, visit avl.mx/2pg. X

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It was an obvious choice for chef john fleer to select Chapel Hill cookbook author sheri castle to be the inaugural presenter for the new demonstration kitchen at his Asheville anchor restaurant, Rhubarb.

Castle’s newest cookbook, a small pamphlet numbered volume 20 in the Short Stack Editions cookbook series, focuses entirely on ways to prepare the namesake plant of Fleer’s wellknown eatery. But in offering myriad ways to cook an underutilized but readily available food grown by local farmers, Castle’s book also relates to Fleer’s overall mission.

“I really wanted to be able to integrate [the new event space] into what we are doing and into what I feel like our mission is in terms of being engaged in the culinary and farming scenes,” says Fleer, who is known for his partnerships with Western North Carolina farmers and foragers.

“Beyond the business side of things, I really think of this space as a food and beverage community center.”

Besides cooking demonstrations like Castle’s, Fleer lists farmer-hosted “how-to-cook-your-CSA” events and food policy discussions through a partnership with Edible Asheville magazine among the programs he

has in the works for the downtown space. “Outside of serving great food, I really see it as our mission to be involved in the community and the broader discussion of what role we play in it,” he explains.

Rhubarb has a solid following as a classic Southern pie ingredient.

But despite its abundance in the South in spring and summer and its willingness as a perennial to return year after year without replanting, it is often overlooked as a component for other dishes. Castle rectifies this oversight in her slender new volume — titled simply Rhubarb — by highlighting the tart, acidic and almost sweet flavors of this celerylike member of the buckwheat family.

“It’s much more versatile than you might think,” she says in her book, “and can behave differently — like a berry, fruit or vegetable — depending on the recipe. With the sour tang of a lemon, the tart moisture of an apple and the crisp grassiness of celery, it’s a remarkable ingredient and a cook’s dream.”

At Castle’s late-May demonstration, she methodically walks the audience — which for this first event is mostly a who’s-who roster of regional chefs, bakers and cookbook authors

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Photo by Cindy Kunst — through the preparation of rhubarb salsa, which works with the ingredient’s fruitlike qualities. Next, she does a step-by-step demonstration of how to make rhubarb and tomato dumplings, a tasty, fluffy, biscuitlike dish. Samples of each dish are distributed to the small crowd.

The Rhubarb event room, which is an upstairs space connected to both Rhubarb restaurant and Fleer’s recently opened The Rhu bakery, café and pantry, has a rustic feel. The décor leans decidedly toward simplicity in keeping with the standard themes of the rest of Fleer’s other businesses. Behind a set of massive rollaway doors that look as if they came from an old, weathered barn sits the dining room. The sprawling space, which was previously an overflow seating area when the building housed the French Broad Chocolate Lounge before its move to Pack Square, is filled with community tables and a small service bar.

After the cooking demonstrations, Fleer carries the theme of Castle’s book into Rhubarb’s regular Sunday Supper service. The multicourse, family-style dinner starts with a salad of local beets

and lettuces with pickled rhubarb, lamb meatballs with rhubarb ketchup, and General Tso’s-style tilefish lettuce wraps. Heavier dishes include a rhubarb-glazed duck confit and chard-rhubarb gratin with baconVidalia onion relish and giardiniera.

Fleer says he isn’t ready to go gungho into hosting private events and massive chefs dinners. Instead, he plans to give the space a soft start, hosting a smattering of small events and celebrations over the next six months, with the goal of having more events online by fall.

The space is available for rehearsal dinners and corporate events, but that is not the end goal for its use, he explains. “I really want to focus on getting some of our farmers into forums where people can get more contact with these people who I think are the most important link in the chain of what we do,” says Fleer, adding that there are still a good number of people who don’t have a full understanding of the role small farms and food makers play in the local food system. “I’m hoping to do more celebrating of those folks in this forum. Hopefully, by this time next year, it will be fully integrated into what we’re doing.” X

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A persian feast to help kids in need In October 2014, jennifer macdonald created Hadaya Toys, a grassroots organization based in Asheville that provides toys, books and art supplies to displaced refugees worldwide. MacDonald, who teaches Arabic at Christ School, got the idea after a series of summers spent traveling in the Middle East.

“A couple of years ago I decided to explore the borders of Syria, where many of the millions of refugees had fled the Syrian war,” says MacDonald. While visiting she interviewed, photographed and filmed the experience in an effort to create a traveling exhibit. “I wanted to educate not only my students, but the general public on the Syrian refugee crisis.”

It was through this project that her organization found its start. “As a teacher and a mother, it really broke my heart to see kids not have any opportunity, not only to go further in life through education, but just to be a child through basic play.”

Since the organization’s inception, MacDonald has raised thousands of dollars in donations and delivered soccer balls, jump ropes, kites and the like to groups of refugees in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon and southern Turkey. She also built a library in a remote village in Nepal for 700 children following the April 2015 earthquake.

The organization, which is run

by MacDonald and vanessa bell, is currently raising money for a project that focuses on rebuilding a community center for the people of the Dharavi area in Mumbai, India. To help raise funds, Hadaya Toys has teamed up with local restaurants Chai Pani and Gypsy Queen Cuisine and cocktail bar MG Road to host a Persian feast on Wednesday, June 29.

“We’re always looking for ways to give to charities,” says michael files, brand director for Chai Pani Restaurant Group. “In this case, it’s really nice, because there are a lot of international charities, and people want to help people worldwide, but this is somebody we actually know.”

Chefs meherwan irani, suzy phillips and james grogan will prepare the meal, which will feature Persian biryani with cashews,

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bringing joy: Jennifer MacDonald visits a makeshift school for Syrian refugees in the town of Urfa in southern Turkey during a research trip to learn how Hadaya could help.

“We try to provide things that are team-oriented and nonbreakable that are simple and easy to share,” says MacDonald. Photo courtesy of Hadaya Toys raisins and saffron; kashk bademjan (a grilled eggplant stew with cloves), Lebanese cheese and pine nuts and lamb koftas with pistachios and mint. “We’re so grateful that they’re doing it,” MacDonald says. “This organization is small enough [that] we really depend on partners and community support. This is a perfect example of what that is.”

The Hadaya Benefit Dinner takes place Wednesday, June 29, at MG Road Lounge, 19 Wall St. Cocktail hour begins at 6 p.m. Dinner is served at 7 p.m.

Tickets are $50. All proceeds benefit Hadaya Toys. For details and tickets, visit hadaya.splashthat.com. coffee for champions “We thought of coffee because, as organizers for Special Olympics, we tend to work some odd hours,” says Buncombe County Special Olympics coordinator josh o’conner.

On June 6, the Buncombe County

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Special Olympics, which provides year-round sports training and athletic competitions for children and adults with intellectual disabilities, launched its latest initiative, Coffee for Champions. The volunteer-driven, donation-funded program aims to partner with coffee shops throughout Asheville and Buncombe County to help raise funds for and greater awareness of the organization. Throughout the month of August, organizers ask that each participating shop donate one penny from each cup of coffee sold, to the program. “These athletes work incredibly hard, and we’re all about making sure the community knows about it,” says O’Conner.

The fundraiser happens throughout August at participating businesses.

To join the project, contact Buncombe County Special Olympics at special. olympics@buncombecounty.org or 2504265. For details, look for Coffee for Champions on Facebook.

Biltmore Village eatery Corner Kitchen has added some new items as it rolls out its summer menu.

Pork belly bahn mi, cornmeal-fried Smiling Hara tempeh, a naan burger made with Gypsy Queen Cuisine falafel and a chumichurri flatiron steak are among the recent additions. There are also two new vegetarian entrée sandwiches and a small-plate offering that will be a part of the chef’s daily creations.

“We love our all-time favorites, but we felt a need to try some new things that would reflect the warmer weather and some of our creative urges,” says chef josh weeks in a media release.

Corner Kitchen is at 3 Boston Way in Biltmore Village. It’s open 7:3011 a.m. Monday-Friday for breakfast and 11:30 a.m.-3 p.m. for lunch.

Dinner begins every night at 5 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday brunch runs 9 a.m.-3 p.m. For more details, visit thecornerkitchen.com 1Luv food & music festivaL The four-day 1LUV Food & Music Festival in Fletcher will feature 25 local food trucks and beer along with 35 music acts, rides and games the last weekend of June. Food offerings will run the gamut from gourmet tacos and sliders from Chef Daddy’s, to artisan bagels from Home Free Bagels to pulled pork from Choo Choo Barbeque. Performers will include Caleb Johnson, Joe Lasher Jr., Lyric and Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, among many others. The festival benefits nonprofit organizations Homeward Bound, Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministries and Brother Wolf Animal Rescue.

1LUV Food & Music runs Thursday-Sunday, June 23-26 at the Western North Carolina Agriculture Center Fairgrounds, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. General admission is $10 in advance, $12 at the gate. Tickets for seniors and veterans are $9 (at gate only). Admission for kids ages 6 and younger is free.

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BY eDwin arnauDin edwinarnaudin@gmail.com All Go West almost happened in 2015. Despite low financial support from local sponsors, co-founder and director arieh samson considered going forward with the free daylong West Asheville music festival, but eventually decided to take a year off.

“It wouldn’t have been the event that the community deserves,” he says.

Over the winter, Samson put out a two-sentence feeler to the West Asheville Exchange Facebook group to gauge interest in the festival’s revival. Within the hour, he’d received calls from multiple local print and television news outlets in addition to post after supportive post in response to his query. Interest from local businesses soon followed.

For its Saturday, June 25, return, All Go West adds a stage at The Brew Pump — bringing the stage total to four — and an enhanced familyfriendly experience on multiple stages during the day’s first half. As he did in 2014, Samson has booked innovative touring acts (Atlanta psych-rappers The Difference Machine) and those on the fringe of the Asheville scene (krautrockers Nest Egg) for The Mothlight.

Headlining All Go West is Floating Action. Frontman seth Kauffman started off 2016 with a bang — otherwise known as the double LP Hold Your Fire. Other than guest vocals from Asheville’s angel olsen, Brevard’s shannon whitworth and jim james of My Morning Jacket, the Black Mountain-based artist plays all of the instruments on the 66-minute marvel, whose path to listeners involved its share of creative thinking.

Floating Action’s former label New West wasn’t into the idea of a double album, and other record companies with whom Kauffman spoke all advised against the approach, citing its long songs and lack of identifiable singles or radio-ready hits.

“Which is baffling, because nothing out there now that is successful — I’m talking outside the weird, Top-40, Katy Perry world — adheres to that decades-old formula,” Kauffman says. “It’s 2016: Nothing is the same in the music industry, but

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smiLes for miLes: Floating Action headlines the All Go West Music Festival on Saturday, June 25, at the Isis Restaurant & Music Hall stage. Prior to the show, frontman Seth Kauffman, second from right, and Drew Heller, left, will embark on an experimental West Coast tour. Photo by Sandlin Gaither most labels, etc., are too scared to try something that’s unproven.”

In early 2015, Kauffman joined James at La La Land studio in Louisville, Ky., to play guitars on ray lamontagne’s Ouroboros. At that point, the Hold Your Fire songs were still mostly in demo form, and Kauffman was figuring out how to tighten up his album.

Being around LaMontagne and his commitment to making a fluid work where the songs both work individually and all flow together as one giant piece did the trick. “Ray gave me that final conceptual push, to just step out of the current and go that different direction of the loose, long-form double-album mix-tape vibe,” he says.

Kauffman gets the sense that most artists want to make a record like Hold Your Fire, but are thwarted by myriad interior and exterior forces. “We all have a littleslash-lot of that evil, greedy voice in our

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heads that’s saying, ‘You could make this pure art, but maybe nobody will like it’ or, ‘You could sell out a just a little — or a lot — and compromise and play it safe, try to make it more like I think people will like and then have a better chance at being successful,’” he says.

As for sharing the music, Kauffman pressed what he dubs “a wise 300 copies” on vinyl through the small boutique label PIAPTK — short for “people in a position to know” — run by his Tucson-based friends mike dixon and Dr. Dog multi-instrumentalist dimitri manos. Together, the three created what Kauffman calls “cheap, cool, handmade packaging that really looks like those weird ’70s Korean bootleg imports” to fit the album’s vibe. With minimal fanfare preceding its debut, he was happily surprised to see the vinyl run sell out on its opening day.

Aside from his own releases, Kauffman can be heard in a duet with Olsen on a cover of “Attics of My Life,” part of the recent Day of the Dead Grateful Dead tribute organized by the band The National. He also plays on Olsen’s new record, which is set for a September release, and is the bassist in James’ solo band. That ensemble had its first gig on June 1 in New York City, part of a “secret” block party to unveil Cadillac headquarters’ move from Detroit. “There will be tours coming up, but I’m not supposed say much else about it,” Kauffman says.

Prior to the closing All Go West set at the Isis Restaurant & Music Hall — where they’ll be joined by michael libramento and evan martin of the original Floating Action lineup — Kauffman and guitarist drew heller embark on a series of Floating Action shows that take them through Texas, Arizona and California. Kauffman will play a Fender Bass VI, which he says he’s “never really messed with,” and “some weird foot-drums ... built out of scrap wood and guitar pickups,” also an unknown entity. With Heller on guitar, playing through “this wild, giant metal loudspeaker that he got in Africa,” Kauffman expects the duo’s tour to be completely different from a full-band vibe — and he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“There’s absolutely no crutch or moments where you can just ‘let the band play’ or whatever,” Kauffman says. “[It’s] kind of intense, but I always get excited about a challenge that looks like it could completely flop. So, jumping back into that full-band All Go West fest lineup scenario will likely be extremely fun and powerful.” X

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The 35th International Calligraphy Conference comes to Swannanoa

perfect penmanship: Local scribe Annie Cicale, whose work is seen here, is the co-director of this year’s International Calligraphy Conference. She will teach a class as well as exhibit at the Grovewood Gallery. A former chemical engineer, she now travels internationally to teach calligraphy. Image courtesy of Cicale The White House has several calligraphers on staff to produce invitations, name cards and more, according to moe hoxie, co-director of A Show of Hands, the annual International Calligraphy Conference. In fact, the East Wing of the presidential residence is home to a graphics and calligraphy office. It preserves the tradition of calligraphy in the White House, which dates to 1801.

The art of calligraphy takes center stage at a local event, on the campus of Warren

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Wilson College, from Saturday, June 25, to Saturday, July 2. There, approximately 275 participants will explore the art form.

Instructors are traveling from as far as Ireland, Australia and Norway to teach beginning to advanced students. (Next year, the traveling conference will be held in Utah.)

“It’s more than lettering; it’s also artistic expression,” says Hoxie, who is active in the Weaverville arts scene.

“Composition, design, color and purpose are very important factors in

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calligraphy.” The craft and concepts of calligraphic mark-making will be explored at A Show of Hands, with classes including italic forms, alphabet history, brushwork and inscription carving, as well as wider investigations, such as abstraction.

During the week of the conference, public events at Warren Wilson College will include a faculty exhibition at Elizabeth Holden Gallery and a lecture. In conjunction with A Show of Hands, Grovewood Gallery plans to

host a calligraphy exhibition that will be on display through Sunday, July 24. (See sidebar for details.)

This is the first time that the conference will be held in the Southeastern U.S. The annual gathering began 35 years ago, at St. John’s University in Minnesota. In 1981, about 600 calligraphers traveled to that inaugural gathering, signaling the beginning of an artistic community passionate about lettering.

North Carolina has an active network of calligraphers. Founded in 1979, The Carolina Lettering Arts Society is a statewide organization based in Fairview that hosts workshops, develops exhibitions and produces a biannual journal. With three regional subsets, statewide calligraphers can find community chapters in the Triangle area, on the coast or with the “Mountain Scribes” in Asheville. Hoxie and conference co-director annie cicale are both active with the Scribes, and many of the group’s members are involved in the conference planning.

“Most folks think of lettering as fancy handwriting on envelopes or wonderful resolutions and certificates honoring someone special,” Cicale says. “Indeed, that is a large part of the bread-and-butter work of a modern scribe.” Locally, businesses like 7 Ton Design and Letterpress Co. offer calligraphy as part of their wedding services.

Cicale goes on to explain that a calligrapher’s work can go beyond the decorative. It can “enhance the meaning of the chosen text” through expressive letters that are finely crafted and integrated into a well-designed page, taking the written word “to a higher level, allowing the viewer to experience the text in a visual way.”

As the debate rages about whether or not cursive should be taught in schools, there is much dialogue about the value of handwriting. This society may continue its steady path toward communication by keyboard and emoji, but in the art circles where the handmade has value, calligraphy finds both makers and appreciators. X

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The Grovewood Gallery will mount A Show of Hands, a calligraphy exhibition by the same name as this year’s International Calligraphy Conference. The exhibit, which highlights the work of more than 20 artists, was curated by jessica yee , a 25-year practitioner of calligraphy.

She is currently on the board of the Triangle Calligraphers Guild.

The artist roster includes local calligraphers and conference codirectors annie cicale and maureen (moe) hoxie . Also represented is paul herrara, an Illinois-based calligrapher who taught at the first conference in 1981. He will be teaching a class on slate inscription carving at this year’s gathering.

Another local artist, dan essig, is among those who are both exhibiting at The Grovewood Gallery and teaching. Essig, who has a workspace at Grovewood Studios, will lead a workshop on altered books during the conference. His class is part of the broader definition of calligraphy forms, demonstrating how written texts can become components of sculptural objects.

An opening reception takes place on Saturday, June 25, from 2 to 6 p.m., and will include calligraphy demonstrations. The exhibition remains on display for a month. avl.mx/2o6 — S.G. X

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bASSooNS To bANJoS Brevard Music Center celebrates 80 years with 80-plus shows There’s something for most every musical taste during the Brevard Music Center’s 2016 season. Less than an hour’s drive southwest of Asheville, the center not only mounts an impressive array of performances but bases all of its activities around the education of more than 425 students in classical symphony, opera, chamber music and other disciplines.

“We’re both a music institute and a summer festival,” says cally jamis vennare, BMC’s director of marketing and communications. “We are all about our mission, which is to train these students who come in from all over the country, if not the world.

They’re the next generation of musicians and singers.”

The Brevard Music Center’s season usually lasts seven weeks, but this year things started early, with the Brevard Blues N’ BBQ Festival in early June. While the center’s primary focus leans toward the finer musical arts, the overall program is intentionally eclectic. “We want to provide diversity in what our students and our audiences hear,” says Vennare. “We want to expose them to classical, but we also try to bring in diverse audiences with sets featuring pop, gospel, blues and bluegrass.”

That wide-ranging musical approach means that the center’s 80th anniversary season will include performances by classical pianist jean-yves thibaudet (Friday, June 24), contemporary Christian singersongwriter amy grant (Saturday, June 25) and innovative banjo virtuoso béla fleck (Tuesday, June 28), as well as major symphonic concerts.

The opening weekend’s events will prominently feature Keith lockhart, BMC’s artistic director, who is also the principal conductor of the Boston Pops and an alumnus of the Brevard Music Center.

The summer schedule also includes the world premiere of Falling Angel, a new “opera noir.” Vennare

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describes the collaboration with the New York City-based Center for Contemporary Opera as “the culmination of a multiyear process.

We did read-through workshops in New York, we did a black-box production last year in Brevard, and this year we’re doing a fully staged production at the Porter Center.”

Calling the modern opera “edgy,” Vennare says, “It’s not a Magic Flute-type piece.” (That particular opera, by Mozart, will be staged on Thursday, July 14.)

The BMC’s 2016 season offers everything from full-orchestra performances at the indoor Porter Center and the open-air Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium to several smaller, more intimate venues on the BMC campus. Vennare notes that fully 50 percent of the performances are free and open to the general public. And lowcost options exist for some of the pricier shows: Lawn tickets at Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium shows start at $15, with free admission for kids.

Many major musical talents (including Lockhart, countertenor david daniels and violist and Curtis Institute of Music president roberto diaz) received important training early in their careers at BMC. For the anniversary season, the center is bringing back some of those distinguished graduates. “We’re reaching out to our alumni — conductors, composers, musicians and singers — in a way we never have before, inviting them to come back here and celebrate the season with us,” says Vennare.

Plans for the celebratory season began some time ago. One of the changes that return concertgoers will note is the improved sound at the 1,800-seat Whittington-Pfohl Auditorium. In addition to covering the orchestra pit, thus moving

combining education and entertainment: The 80th anniversary season of the Brevard Music Center features more than 80 performances in a wide array of styles, settings and ticket prices, and includes many free events. Pictured: BMC’s artistic director Keith Lockhart. Photo by Christian Amonson the music closer to the audience, BMC has done what Vennare calls an “acoustic enhancement.” That project — installation of mobile, modular panels to improve musicians’ ability to hear one another — is part of a larger $2 million project for improving staging, renovating the band shell and making additional technology upgrades related to rigging and LED lighting.

The entire summer schedule at the Brevard Music Center aims to combine education with entertainment. One example is the Dvorák in America Festival, featuring multiple events and culminating in a Saturday, July 30, performance of the composer’s “New World Symphony.” The Dvorák festival will be curated by joseph horowitz, a prominent and widely published author on American music, and will also include a string quartet and a recital.

“All of those elements are part and parcel of the Dvorak festival, which will also include lectures

and preperformance talks,” says Vennare. “The idea is to help the audience understand what they will be experiencing. It’s also a great learning experience for our students, because it puts into context for them what the composer was experiencing, and how that influenced his composition.” X

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“When I heard about [House Bill 2], my train of thought couldn’t seem to get away from it,” says heather maloy , artistic director of Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance.

“Because HB2 focuses so much on transgender people, I felt it was important to create something that showed their transformation within a series of other transformations.”

The idea was to provide those changes with a platform of normalcy “so that no one person’s path is any more valid or worthy of understanding than anyone else’s,” says Maloy. Terpsicorps unveils its latest work, Transform, at Diana Wortham Theatre Thursday, June 23, through Saturday, June 25.

The show is a blend of stories showcasing struggle, triumph and the mutability of the human spirit. The local nonprofit ballet company, now in its 14th season, has undergone its own transformation. In 2015, Terpsicorps moved into its current West Asheville studio space following the loss of its former River Arts District home. The company added a year-round dance school, ballet conservatory and the opportunity to provide lessons to underserved communities.

While offering classes to preprofessional dancers throughout the year, the company brings in critically acclaimed professional dancers, from across the country and abroad, for its annual production. Maloy’s choreography is known for tackling tough subjects with stunning visuals, athletic-yet-dramatic movement and a touch of humor. Previous shows included an interpretation of The Scarlet Letter, a dance inspired by illustrator Edward Gorey and an allmale cast. The company collaborated with local indie-pop band stephaniesid for a fundraiser and held all of its rehearsals outdoors for last year’s production, The Elements .

This year, the passing of HB2 coupled with change in her own life prompted Maloy to shift her creative focus from a piece on Jazz Age legend Zelda Fitzgerald to one that allowed her to express human interconnectivity. “I personally have gone through a lot of transformation this year with the opening of the school, losing people and other things that

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changes: Dancer Tina LaForgia performs in Transform. This year, the passing of HB2, coupled with change in her own life, prompted Terpsicorps artistic director Heather Maloy to shift her creative focus from a piece on Jazz Age legend Zelda Fitzgerald to one that allowed her to express human interconnectivity. Photo of dancer by Zaire Kacz, image of face by Datham Brannon

tity. “There’s this series of revolving transformations taking place,” says Maloy. There’s a transgender story within that, “and at the end, this woman who re-emerges completely transformed ... influences all of the characters to become a more supportive and inclusive community.”

Also included in the program is “Satto” by master choreographer salvatore aiello , Maloy’s mentor during her time at the North Carolina Dance Theatre (now

what Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance presents Transform

the Charlotte Ballet). The Maloychoreographed “Couch Potatoes” features three dancers “doing every ridiculous and silly thing you can imagine on a couch,” she says. And a new work will be unveiled by longtime Terpsicorps collaborator and ballet master christopher bandy.

“I see the world around me and try to convey that in what I create,” says Maloy. “I’m always trying to open people’s minds to things that they aren’t necessarily used to seeing.” X

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have happened,” says Maloy. “So I had this thought of creating this piece showing that every person’s life has a series of transformations you go through, which are completely different for everyone.”

The dance will weave together several stories. A soldier struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder, a young couple go through the daily motions of life and love, a family deals with a fatal diagnosis and a woman wrestles with her sexual iden-

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pride, not prejudice: Members of the local LGBT community protest the passing of HB2. Celebrate the gay rights movement and support local LGBT organizations during Trans Pride Week. Photo courtesy of Tranzmission The 1969 Stonewall riots, a series of demonstrations by the LGBT community against a police raid, are considered the launch of the modern gay rights movement. That historic marker — its importance especially apt following the adoption of House Bill 2 and the mass shooting at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, Fla. — is celebrated with a week of events that give voice to and create community around local LGBT citizens and causes.

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Asheville-based organizations Tranzmission, QORDS and COLAGE, in association with the Asheville Jewish Community Center, have collaborated to present the 15th annual local commemoration of Stonewall. All events are open to the public: • stonewall spaghetti & storytellers — Queer- and transidentified speakers share stories during a spaghetti dinner (vegan options available). Held at the JCC, 236 Charlotte St., on Saturday, June 25,

at 4 p.m. $15 suggested donation. avl.mx/2og • transformers & colage support group and workshop — Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road, on Sunday, June 26, at 7 p.m. avl.mx/2oi • stonewall week book club — Melanie McNair hosts a discussion of Ann Bausum’s book, Stonewall: Breaking Out in the Fight for Gay Rights. Held at Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood St., on Monday, June 27, at 7 p.m. malaprops.com • transformers present art up!

— A gathering of queer- and transidentified artists in Western North Carolina, at Kairos West Community Center, on Tuesday, June 28, at 7 p.m. kairoswest.wordpress.com • screening of Queer Moxie — The Grail Movie House, 45 S. French Broad Ave., hosts this “behind-thescenes look into queer performance art from the fringe to the mainstream.”

Wednesday, June 29, at 7 p.m. avl.mx/2oj • singer-songwriters night — Local queer- and trans-identified singer-songwriters, including Brittany Ann Tranbaugh, Aerin Blue and Brynn Estelle, perform at The BLOCK Off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St., on Thursday, June 30, at 5 p.m. $5 recommended donation. theblockoffbiltmore.com • all-ages punk show and fundraiser — Support Tranzmission, Girls Rock Asheville, QORDS and COLAGE. Brynn Estelle & Her Band, CLOUDGAYZER and others perform at Firestorm Coffee & Books, 610 Haywood Road, on Friday, July 1, at 7 p.m. $5 recommended donation. avl.mx/2ok • stonewall commemoration day party — A night of drag, burlesque and music with performances by wWAYLON, Royal Skyyy, Tomorrow Mayhem, Princess Perfect, Iggy Ingler and Erma God, followed by a dance party with DJ Abu Disarray. Held at O. Henry’s, 237 Haywood St., on Saturday, July 2, at 9 p.m. $7 recommended donation. avl.mx/2ol • pool party and ice cream social — Pride Week concludes with this trans-, nonbinary- and queer-friendly event at the JCC on Sunday, July 3, at 4 p.m. jcc-asheville.org X

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The Long Distance Relationship Sick of Stupid Comedy Tour There are compelling reasons to make fun of Southern culture, but comedians Cliff Cash, Stewart Huff and Tom Simmons hope to prevent negative stereotypes from defining a region that’s far from homogeneous. “There’s plenty of racist, homophobic people right now, holed up in a singlewide trailer, wrapped up in a rebel flag Snuggie with their AR-15, watching ‘Honey Boo Boo,’” Cash told The News & Observer. “Our message is that that’s not the whole South.” The trio will use footage from its issue-driven stand-up tour — which claims to present “a voice of reason with a Southern accent” — in a larger documentary project that explores comedy’s role in Southern culture and social issues. Head to The Millroom (in your pickup truck or smart car) on Saturday, June 25, at 8 p.m., to hear these three set the record straight. $12/$14. ashevillemillroom.com. Photos courtesy of the comedians

I Wont Hurt You Matt Cosper’s talent is depriving audiences of normalcy, and his tools are a story and a stage — or sometimes not. The Charlotte playwright and director’s last experimental theater work Bohemian Grove began in a 15-passenger van, and the following scenes (if you can call a car ride with Cosper and a soundtrack a scene) involved attendees stalking characters around a South Carolina farm. Another of his brainchildren — also developed and produced by XOXO, the artist collective Cosper founded — will travel even farther from home, stopping in Asheville. I Wont Hurt You is a sensual dissection of heartbreak and healing that employs acting, poetry and dance to entertain while spurring introspection. Toy Boat Community Art Space hosts the visiting ensemble Friday and Saturday, June 24 and 25, at 8 p.m. $15. toyboatcommunityartspace.com. Photo courtesy of XOXO

The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina ushered bassist Dave Baker and drummer Elzy Lindsey out of New Orleans and into Asheville in 2006, fracturing their band, Paradise Vendors (and eventually landing them in Fritz Beer and the Crooked Beat). But Baker resolved to keep making music with his former bandmates and other distant peers through a project he has rather literally dubbed The Long Distance Relationship. The collective’s debut album includes work that was contributed remotely (and art by Baker’s recently departed parents), but collaborators also reunited to record their alternative, psychedelic and sunwarped sounds in Asheville, New Orleans and Durham. The well-networked frontman says he’s already started a follow-up to feature more Asheville musicians, and his release party, too, will see a new batch of guests performers interpreting his songs. The Mothlight hosts that show on Thursday, June 23, at 8 p.m. $5. themothlight.com. Photo by Michael Oppenheim

Bobby V, Pleasure P and J. Holiday The sex-fueled serenades of Bobby V, Pleasure P and J. Holiday have ranged from romantic to raunchy since the three R&B musicians began their rise to influential status. And now the soloists aim to woo audiences on their Kings of Love mini-tour, with both V and P having vocalized a desire to rekindle the public’s appetite for R&B. They’ll have plenty of help with that, as Asheville411 CEO Joe Greene accepted all of the regional hip-hop and R&B artists who submitted a video application to open for the veterans. “We were only going to choose three,” he says, “but we chose to let all nine of them get an opportunity to perform on the big stage.” The U.S. Cellular Center hosts the musical smorgasbord on Saturday, June 25, at 8 p.m. $30. uscellularcenterasheville.com. Photo courtesy of the artists mountainx.com

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music aLL souLs cathedraL 9 Swan St. • FR (6/24), 7:30pm - “Songs of Innocence and Wisdom,” concert of music for sopranos. $20. aLtamont theatre 18 Church St., 274-8070 • SA (6/25), 7pm - Screening of the film, A Mighty Fine Memory: Stories and Tunes from the Fiddler of Banjo Branch, followed by a concert by Roger Howell and friends.

Sponsored by the Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies. $20/$15 advance/$30 VIP.

the ron ogLe museum: Ron Ogle has been drawing, painting, photographing, balancing rocks and artistically arranging flotsam and jetsam for over 28 years in Western North Carolina. His newest installation at Bon Vivant Co., The Ron Ogle Museum, is an ongoing exhibition of his work — assemblages, photographs, writings, watercolors, sketches and 62 oil paintings balanced among elements of his lifelong collection of unique memorabilia. The opening reception for the museum is Saturday, June 25, from 5-9 p.m. and is free to attend. For more information on Ogle’s work visit ronogle.com. Photo courtesy of Ron Ogle (p. 49) art asheviLLe area arts counciL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TH (6/30), 3-6pm - “Beginning Business Planning for Creative Entrepreneurs,” workshop.

Registration required. $25/$20 members. asheviLLe art museum 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • SA (6/25), 10am-noon - “How to Document Your Artwork,” workshop. $30/$20 members. asheviLLe fringe arts festivaL ashevillefringe.org • WE (6/22), 8pm - “Fringe Nights at The Crow & Quill,” opening of the official call for artists for the 2017 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival. $5. Held at Crow & Quill, 106 N. Lexington Ave. brevard’s arts & cuLture ceLebration tcarts.org/event/arts-culturecelebration-2016 • FR (6/24) through MO (7/4) - More than 75+ art events in downtown Brevard and Transylvania County. See website

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Free to attend. the center for craft, creativity & design craftcreativitydesign.org • TH (6/23), 6:30pm - “Re-weaving Narratives,” artist talk with Raisa Kabir about the WARP exhibition. Free to attend. Held at the Benchspace Gallery, 67 Broadway transyLvania community arts counciL 884-2787, tcarts.org • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Gallery Walk. Held in downtown Brevard.

Free to attend.

art/craft fairs artisan summer market artisanmarketboone.com • SA (6/25), 11am-6pm - Arts and crafts market. Free to attend. Held at Harvest House, 247 Boone Heights Drive, Boone

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auditions & caLL to artists asheviLLe area arts counciL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through (7/13) - Submissions accepted for organizations applying for the North Carolina Arts Council’s Grassroots Arts Program applications for Buncombe County. Information session: Wednesday, June 8, 5-6pm at The Refinery Creator Space, 207 Coxe Ave. Free. hendersonviLLe community theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org Hendersonville Community Theater • SA (6/25), noon - Open auditions for children’s roles in Oliver. Contact for full guidelines.

• MO (6/27) & TU (6/28), 7pm Open auditions for adult roles in Oliver. Contact for full guidelines.

LocaL cLoth localcloth.org • Through (7/10), Textile submissions accepted for Local Cloth’s “Project Handmade

2016: Elements of Nature.”

See website for full guidelines. the center for craft, creativity & design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through (9/17) - Applications accepted from curators, researchers, independent scholars and graduate students for the Craft Research Fund. See website for full guidelines. the Writers’ Workshop 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through TU (8/30) - Submissions accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest. Contact for guidelines. $25.

comedy 35beLoW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (6/22), 7:30pm - “Olde Virden’s Super Happy Trivia Challenge,” unscripted panel comedy show. $12. anam cara theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • SU (6/26), 7:30pm- “I’m Proud of You Variety Show,” comedy sketch show. $12/$10 advance. Held at

brevard music center 862-2100, brevardmusic.org Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard, unless otherwise noted • TH (6/23), 7:30pm - “Opera’s Greatest Hits,” ensemble pieces. $35-$55. Held at the Brevard College Porter Center.

• FR (6/24), 6pm - “An American in Paris,” French inspired music by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet. $15 lawn/$30 and up seating.

• SA (6/25), 7:30pm - “80th Anniversary Spectacular,” showcasing Grammy-winner Amy Grant. $25 lawn seating.

• SU (6/26), 3pm - “Shostakovich 5,” concert. $15 lawn/$25 and up seating.

• MO (6/27), 7:30pm - “Brevard Music Center Artist Faculty I,” chamber music concert. $27. Held in Brevard College Ingram Auditorium • TU (6/28), 7:30pm - Béla Fleck, “newgrass.” $15/$25 and up seating.

• WE (6/29), 12:30pm - Student piano recital. Free.

• WE (6/29), 7:30pm - “BMC Artist Faculty II,” chamber music by Brevard Music Center faculty. $27.

Held in Brevard College Ingram Auditorium.

• TH (6/30), 7:30pm - Falling Angel, opera noir. $35 and up. Held at Brevard College Porter Center. burnsviLLe toWn center 6 Main St., Burnsville, townofburnsville.org/crafts-fair • SA (6/25), 7-9pm - “RiddleFest.”

Annual music event featuring the Burnsville Jubilee Choir. $15/$5 children. Held in the Burnsville Town Center. centraL united methodist church 27 Church St., 253-3316, centralumc.org • FR (6/24), 8pm - Central Sanctuary Series: The Kruger Brothers, jazz/ bluegrass. $25. A portion of the proceeds benefit wild south. $25.

david pheLps concert itickets.com/events/360271 • SA (6/25), 6pm - David Phelps, contemporary Christian music. $20-$25. Held at RS Central High School, 641 US Highway 221 North, Rutherfordton fLat rock cinema 2700 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, 697-2463 • SU (6/26), 3pm - Magnolia Concert Series: Katie Ciluffo and Bill Altman, jazz. $20. madison county arts counciL 649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com, info@madisoncountyarts.com • SU (6/26), 4pm - Kate Campbell, folk/singer-songwriter $15. Held at Ebbs Chapel Performing Arts Center, 271 Laurel Valley Road, Mars Hill music at unca 251-6432, unca.edu • MO (6/27), 7-8:30pm - Rational Discourse, improvisational rock/jazz.

Free. Held outdoors on the quad. n.c. arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • TH (6/23), 6-8pm - Music in the Garden: Zoe and Cloyd, Americana.

Parking fees apply. sWannanoa chamber music festivaL 771-3050, scm-festival.com • SA (6/25), 7:30pm - “Sunrise,” chamber music concert featuring the works of Haydn, Shaw, Mozart and Dvorak. $25/Free to students under 25. Held at Warren Wilson College.

• SU (6/26), 7:30pm - “Sunrise,” chamber music concert featuring the works of Haydn, Shaw, Mozart and Dvorak. $25/Free to students under 25. Held at Hart Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville todd summer concert series toddnc.org • SA (6/25), 6-8pm - Strictly Strings, old-time/bluegrass. Free. Held outdoors in Cook Park, Downtown Todd transyLvania county Library 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 • FR (6/24), 7:30pm - Jeff Black, folk.

Free. ur Light center 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • SA (6/25), 7pm - "Twilight Music Collective jazz concert with Roberta Baum, Steve Alford and Dr. William Bares. $20.

• SA (6/25), 7pm - Twilight jazz concert with Roberta Baum, Dr. Bill Bares Steve Alford. $20.

White horse bLack mountain 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain, 669-0816 • SA (6/25), 7:30pm - “Songs of

G al l e ry D IRECTORY American Folk Art and Framing 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through TH (6/30) - The Color Red, exhibition of works

by Michael Banks, Ellie Ali, and James A. Snipe.

Art at UNCA art.unca.edu • Through TH (7/28) - Celebrate Brittany! Exhibit of cultural and historic photos from Celtic Brittany by Jan Zollars.

Reception: Monday, June 20, 6pm. Held in the Blowers Gallery at Ramsey Library.

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

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

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

Asheville Area Arts Council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through (6/25) - FRESH: New Works by North Carolina Artists.

Asheville BookWorks 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through SA (6/25), - The Risograph Museum, exhibition of risograph prints from around the world.

Asheville Gallery of Art 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TH (6/30) - Surrendering to Mystery, exhibition of the abstract art of Reda Kay. Bascom Center for the Arts 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, 526-4949, thebascom.org • Through SU (9/18) - Of Land & Spirit: Cherokee Art Today, exhibition of Eastern Cherokee art curated by Anna Fariello.

Innocence and Wisdom,” concert of music for sopranos. $20.

Bon Vivant 9 Reed Street, Suite D, Asheville, 785-1527, bonvivantavl.com • SA (6/25) through FR (12/30) - The Ron Ogle Museum, exhibition of multi-media works and oil-paintings by Ron Ogle. Opening reception: Saturday, June 25, 5-9pm.

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

Chiesa Restaurant 152 Montford Ave., 552-3110, chiesaavl.com • TH (6/28) through MO (10/3) - Three Colorful Women, exhibition of paintings by Joan Martha, Bee Adams and Sally Brenton. Opening reception: Tuesday, June 28, 4-5:30pm.

Odyssey Cooperative Art Gallery 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery • Through TH (6/30) - Exhibition of the ceramic art of Ginger Graziano and Diana Gillispie.

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

• SA (6/25) through SU (7/24) - A Show of Hands 2016 Calligraphy Exhibit. Opening reception: Saturday, June 25, 2-6pm.

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

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

• Through SU (7/24) - Memories of Appalachia: Paintings

by Arlee Mains. Reception: Thursday, June 23, 6-7:30pm.

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

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

7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15-$25.

Anam Cara Theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FR (6/24) & SA (6/25), 8pm - I Wont Hurt You, presented by Charlotte based experimental theatre ensemble, XOXO. $15. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B

Buncombe Chautauqua History Alive Festival greenvillechautauqua.org/JuneFestival/buncombe_chautauqua • MO (6/20) through TH (6/23), 7pm Performance festival with one character portrayed each night: Mark Twain, Amelia Earhart, Matthew Henson and Werher von Braun. $5 each night.

Held at A-B Technical Community College, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road

Asheville Community Theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/26) - La Cage Aux Folles, musical. Fri. & Sat.:

Buncombe County Public Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TU (6/28), 6:30pm - The WCU Roadworks Presents: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

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[Abridged], comedy. Free. Held outside the library in Grovemont Park.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa Carl Sandburg Home 1928 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 6934178, nps.gov/carl • WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS (6/15) through (8/12), 10:15am - Spink, Skabootch and Swipes in Rutabaga Country, performed

by Flat Rock Playhouse Apprentice Company. Free.

• THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS (6/16) through (8/13), 10:15am - Rootabaga Express, performed by Flat Rock Playhouse Apprentice Company.

Free.

Flat Rock Playhouse 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock,

Pink Dog Creative 342 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through TH (6/30) - Perceptions the Black Male: images of Dignity, exhibition of the paintings of Joseph Pearson. push skate shop & gallery 25 Patton Ave. , Asheville, 225-5509 • FR (6/24) through (8/2) - Sunset Motel, exhibition of ­acrylic paintings by Brock Forrer & Ally Alsup. Opening reception: Friday, June 24, 6-10pm.

Satellite Gallery 55 Broadway St., 305-2225, thesatellitegallery.com • FR (6/3) through SU (6/26) - A Memory Rewound, crocheted VHS art installation by Sally Garner.

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

Southern Appalachian Brewery 822 Locust St. Suite 100, Hendersonville, 684-1235 • Through (7/31) - Intrinsic Flow, exhibition of paintings from three local artists.

Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League svfalarts.org Red House Studios and Gallery • Through SU (7/17) - Americana, Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League member exhibition. Held at 310 W. State St., Black Mountain The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design 67 Broadway St., 785-1387, craftcreativitydesign. org

693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/9) - The Music Man, musical.

Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $15-$40.

Free Range Asheville freerangeavl.org, freerangeavl@gmail.com • SA (6/25), 8-9pm - “Tense Vagina: An Actual Diagnosis,” dance and theater piece about motherhood by Sara Juli. $15 Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway Hendersonville Community Theatre 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/24) until (7/3) - Clyburne Park, comedy/

• Through SA (8/20) - WARPED, exhibition of art on the intermingling of sound and weaving.

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

Toe River Arts Council 765-0520, toeriverarts.org Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine • Through SA (7/9) - 8“ x 8”, exhibition of 8“ x 8” paintings created by local artists and students. Proceeds from sales benefit TRAC. • SA (6/18) through SA (7/9) - Annual silent auction exhibit and bidding. Live Auction Party: Saturday, July 9, 7pm. $40.

Transylvania Community Arts Council 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • FR (6/24), through FR (7/15) - Transylvania Art Guild’s Summer Showcase, exhibition.

Tryon Arts and Crafts School 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 859-8323, tryonartsandcrafts.org • Through FR (7/29) - Little Clay One Way, exhibition of small clay-works by regional artists.

Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • Through FR (7/29) - Carolina Camera Club exhibition.

Upstairs Artspace 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • Through (7/29) - Clay Four Ways, Basketry, and Drawing Marathon, exhibitions.

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

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

drama. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $22/$18 for students/$12 under 18.

Montford Park Players 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/3) through (7/2), 7:30pm - Much Ado About Nothing. Free to attend. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. NC Stage Company 15 Stage Lane, 239-0263 • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS until SA (6/25), 7:30pm - Sideshow, presented by Dark Horse Theatre. $15.

Street Creature’s Puppet Playhouse 37 E Larchmont Road • THURSDAYS (5/12) through (6/30),

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7-9pm - Improv comedy class incorporating puppets. All levels. $10.

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

Tryon Fine Arts Center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • Through FR (6/24), 7-9:30pm - Class series to learn the basics of technical event production. Ages 14 and up.

Registration required: jimm@tryonarts.org. Free to attend.

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Wednesday, june 22

barLey’s taproom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

185 king street Cornhole League Night, 5pm

bLack mountain aLe house Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm

5 WaLnut Wine bar Eleanor Underhill (Americana, soul), 5pm Les Amis (African folk music), 8pm

bLue mountain pizza & breW pub Ben Phan (indie, folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm

550 tavern & griLLe Bike Night, 6pm karaoke, 9pm

cLub eLeven on grove Harlequin Jazz Band, 8:30pm

aLtamont theatre Noble Kava pop-up bar & poetry open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 8pm

cork & keg The Old Chevrolette Set (classic country), 7:30pm

barLey’s taproom Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 8:30pm

creekside taphouse Station Underground (reggae), 8pm

ben’s tune-up Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm

croW & QuiLL Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 10pm

bLack mountain aLe house Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

doubLe croWn Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

bLue mountain pizza & breW pub Open mic, 7pm

eLaine’s dueLing piano bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

creekside taphouse Open mic w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

foggy mountain breWpub Bluebirds (folk), 9pm

dark city deLi Pool Tournament, 7:30pm

french broad breWery Dave Dribbon (acoustic), 6pm

diana Wortham theatre Julian Price: Envisioning Community (film screening), 7pm

good stuff Nate Hall (psychedelic rock, folk, metal), 8:30pm

doubLe croWn Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm foggy mountain breWpub Billy Litz (Americana), 9pm funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm good stuff Jim Hampton & friends perform “Eclectic Country” (jam), 7pm grey eagLe music haLL & tavern The Jayhawks (Americana), 8pm grind cafe Trivia night, 7pm highLand breWing company Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm isis restaurant and music haLL Scottish Summer Solstice Celebration w/ Jamie Laval Fiddle Champion, 7pm An Evening w/ Jesse Terry and Abbie Gardner (acoustic, singer-songwriter, Americana), 8:30pm jack of the Wood pub Old-time session, 5pm Lazy diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm Lex 18 The Patrick Lopez Experience (modern & Latin jazz), 7pm Lobster trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm mountain mojo coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

the mocking croW Open Mic, 8pm

one WorLd breWing Ashley Heath (singer-songwriter), 8pm

the mothLight A Film In Color w/ Veldtchasm & Morbids (ambient, instrumental), 9:30pm

orange peeL Silversun Pickups w/ Bear Hands (indie, rock), 9pm pisgah breWing company Bradley Carter (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm room ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm scuLLy’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm sLy grog Lounge Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm soL bar neW mountain ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm straightaWay cafe Circus Mutt (rock, jazz), 6pm

the bLock off biLtmore LEAF Teaching Artists (music, art, dance), 7:30pm

o.henry’s/the underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm oLive or tWist Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

June 22 - June 28, 2016

one stop deLi & bar Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm

taLLgary’s at four coLLege Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm

nobLe kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

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here and there: Since first moving to Asheville in the early 2000s, singer-songwriter (and former Xpress editor) Jaye Bartell has bounced between the southern Appalachians and the Northeast in pursuit of musical evolution. Now based in Brooklyn, New York, Bartell’s latest album, Light Enough, molds the tones of displacement and resettlement into a elegant, melancholic soundscape in the vein of Leonard Cohen and Beck. Bartell returns to Asheville for a Tuesday, June 28 show with Nathanael Roney at The Mothlight in West Asheville, beginning at 9 p.m. Photo by Daniel Topete

the joint next door Bluegrass jam, 8pm the miLLroom Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm

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the phoenix Jazz night, 8pm the sociaL Lounge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm the southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm timo’s house “Hump Day Mixers” w/ DJ Fame Douglas (R&B, hip-hop), 10pm toWn pump Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm traiLhead restaurant and bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm tressa’s doWntoWn jazz and bLues Blues & soul open mic night w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

grey eagLe music haLL & tavern Black Mountain w/ Majeure (rock), 8pm isis restaurant and music haLL An Evening w/ Acoustic Eidolon (Celtic, Americana, Flamenco), 7pm An Evening w/ Tinsley Ellis (blues), 9pm jack of the Wood pub Bluegrass jam, 7pm Lazy diamond Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm Lex 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7pm Lobster trap Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm market pLace Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm neW mountain theater/amphitheater Modern Measure (electro-jam), 10pm o.henry’s/the underground Game Night, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am odditorium Unsacred, Uninhabitable & Torch Runner (punk, metal), 9pm off the Wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm oLe shakey’s Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10pm oLive or tWist Live Piano, 8pm

White horse bLack mountain Michael Jefry Stevens Electric Quartet (jazz, blues), 7pm

one stop deLi & bar Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6pm Tweed w/ Shwizz (jam, rock), 10pm

WiLd Wing cafe south Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 6:30pm

one WorLd breWing Poet Radio (alternative, rock), 9pm

thursday, june 23 5 WaLnut Wine bar Jason Moore & Trust Trio (funk, jazz), 8pm

orange peeL Tim Heidecker & Neil Hamburger w/ Jenn Snyder (comedy), 9pm oskar bLues breWery Perry Major (singer-songwriter), 6pm

pack’s tavern Lenny Pettinelli (acoustic rock), 8pm pisgah breWing company Chris Jamison (Americana, singer-songwriter), 8pm purpLe onion cafe Darlyne Cain (acoustic, rock), 8pm rocky’s hot chicken shack south Ashli Rose (folk, indie), 6:30pm room ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm

asheviLLe music haLL Treehouse! w/ Of Good Nature & Roots of a Rebellion (reggae, jam, rock), 9pm athena’s cLub Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm ben’s tune-up Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 7pm bLue mountain pizza & breW pub Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7pm

scandaLs nightcLub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

bLue ridge taproom Underground System (world music, electronica, dance), 10pm

smoky park supper cLub The Get Right Band (rock, funk, reggae), 8pm

boiLer room VIBE (electronic), 10pm

southern appaLachian breWery Klarcnova (jazz fusion), 7pm

cataWba breWing south sLope Cyndi Lou & the Want To (classic country), 6pm

spring creek tavern Open Mic, 6pm

cLub eLeven on grove Hot Bachata Nights (salsa dancing), 9:30pm

taLLgary’s at four coLLege Open jam night w/ Jonathan Santos, 7pm the bLock off biLtmore Open mic night, 7:30pm the imperiaL Life The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7pm the mothLight The Long Distance Relationship w/ DiNola & Fifty Year Flood (alternative, psychedelic, pop), 8pm the phoenix Carrie Morrison (singer-songwriter), 8pm timo’s house Thursday Request Live w/ Franco Nino, 9pm toWn pump C’mon Man Band (roots, rock), 9pm traiLhead restaurant and bar Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm tressa’s doWntoWn jazz and bLues Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, soul), 9pm tWisted LaureL Karaoke, 8pm WiLd Wing cafe Further to Fly, 8:30pm WiLd Wing cafe south Jason Whittaker (acoustic, rock), 6pm DJ dance party, 9:30pm Wxyz Lounge at aLoft hoteL CaroMia (roots, acoustic, soul), 8pm

friday, june 24 185 king street Brushfire Stankgrass presents: “Crooked Old River” (John Hartford tribute), 8pm 5 WaLnut Wine bar Mande Foly (electronic African folk), 9pm 550 tavern & griLLe Flash Back (R&B, dance), 9pm aLL go West festivaL All Go West Festival: Floating Action, Kool Keith, The Marcus King Band, RBTS Win, Doc Aquatic, Ahluechatistas, The Nude Party, USX, Pierce Edens, Laura Blackley & The Wildflowers, Goldie & The Screamers and many more, 4am

cork & keg Harlequin Jazz (traditional jazz), 8:30pm creekside taphouse Roots and Dore (blues), 8pm croW & QuiLL Firecracker Jazz Band (hot jazz), 9pm

PRESENTS

doubLe croWn DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

FREE FREE SUMMER SUMMER

eLaine’s dueLing piano bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

Sunset Sunset Concerts Concerts Every Every Week Week 66 -- 9PM 9PM

foggy mountain breWpub Bull Moose Party (bluegrass), 10pm french broad breWery Magnolia Motel (blues, rock), 6pm

TUE TUE

ELEANOR UNDERHILL

good stuff Violet Delancey (country), 9pm

& FRIENDS

grey eagLe music haLL & tavern Southern Culture on the Skids w/ Ouroboros Boys (alt-rock, rockabilly, psychedelic), 9pm

WED WED

LIVE HONKY TONK AMERICANA

highLand breWing company Mandarina IPA release party, 7pm isis restaurant and music haLL Concert on the lawn w/ CaroMia Tiller & The Siamese Jazz Club (soul, funk, jazz), 6:30pm An evening w/ Wisewater & The Snyder Family (Americana, bluegrass, old-time), 9pm

FRI FRI WOODY WOOD LIVE ACOUSTIC SET

jack of the Wood pub Jakob Ferry Stragglers w/ Lester Fricks & String Beings (old-time, bluegrass, country), 8pm

SAT SAT

jerusaLem garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

GYPSY GUITARS

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

*3PM - 6PM

SUN SUN

Lex 18 HotPoint Trio (Gypsy swing), 7:30pm Lobster trap Rob Parks & friends (swingin’ grass), 6:30pm LueLLa’s bar-b-Que Ashli Rose (folk, acoustic, indie), 6pm mack keLL’s pub & griLL Sound Extreme (DJ), 10pm

DUB CARTEL REGGEA/SKA

And while you’re here, grab a bite from

market pLace The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm neW mountain theater/amphitheater Kalya Scintilla w/ Numatik (“alchemical audio”), 9pm

aLtamont breWing company Bill Matticks (blues), 9:30pm

o.henry’s/the underground Drag Show, 12:30am

aLtamont theatre John Prine Tribute w/ The Accomplices & Underhill Rose, 8pm

odditorium Marge, Littler, Ghostdog & Tongues of Fire (rock), 9pm

195 Hilliard Ave benstuneup.com mountainx.com

June 22 - June 28, 2016

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Wed •June 22

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

Woody Wood @ 5:30pm

Fri •June 24

Mandarina IPA Release w/

Tues-Sun 5pm–12am

12am

Full Bar

Appalachian Funk Ensemble

COMING SOON

Devils in Dust @ 7pm

WED 6/22 5-9 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS : $35

Sun•June 26

MUSIC BY WEST END TRIO ON THE PATIO

7:00PM JAMIE LAVAL SUMMER SOLSTICE

Reggae Sunday hosted by Dennis Berndt of Chalwa @ 1pm

Team Trivia w/ Dr. Brown @ 6pm

FRI 6/24 6:30 PM – CONCERT ON THE LAWN

WISEWATER AND THE SNYDER FAMILY SAT 6/25

12:00PM

ALL GO WEST

SUN 6/26 6:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

THE BUMPER JACKSONS TUE 6/28 7:30PM

SAT 6.25 MON 6.27

THE CAROUSERS w/ GYPSY SWINGERS

GRANDPA’S COUGH MEDICINE WED 6/29

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

9PM $5

TODD CECIL & FRIENDS

9PM $5 (Donations Encouraged)

SAT 7.2

PIERCE EDENS

FRI 7.8

176 BAND feat. IAN HARROD

TUESDAY BLUEGRASS

SESSIONS HOSTED BY

8PM $5

7:00PM ASHLEY HEATH & THE BROOKS DIXON BAND THU 6/30 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

KIPYN MARTIN FRI 7/1

9:00PM

BAYOU DIESEL

SAT 7/2 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

9PM $5

BETH MCKEE & COLIN ALLURED Every Tuesday 7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS 9PM $5

252.5445 • jackofthewood.com

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June 22 - June 28, 2016

pisgah breWing company Folk Soul Revival (Americana, bluegrass), 9pm

743 HAYWOOD RD 828-575-2737 ISISASHEVILLE.COM

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tWisted LaureL Phantom Pantone (electronic), 11pm White horse bLack mountain Kat Williams Tribute to Nina Simone (blues, jazz), 8pm WiLd Wing cafe Purple Masquerade (“ultimate Prince tribute”), 9pm WiLd Wing cafe south A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm Wnc agricuLturaL center 1 LUV Festival w/ Stolen Hearts (“dirty Southern soul”), 2pm Wxyz Lounge at aLoft hoteL Ben Hovey (souljazztronica), 8pm zambra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

saturday, june 25

scandaLs nightcLub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

185 king street The Get Right Band (rock, funk, reggae), 8pm

scuLLy’s DJ, 10pm

5 WaLnut Wine bar Patrick Fitzsimons (jazz, blues, world), 6pm Ley Lines (multilingual, folk, soul), 9pm

soL bar neW mountain SOL Vibes (electronica showcase), 10pm southern appaLachian breWery Circus Mutt (indie, folk), 8pm straightaWay cafe Lester Grass (bluegrass), 6pm the admiraL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the mocking croW Karaoke, 9pm the mothLight The Moon & You (Americana), 9pm

550 tavern & griLLe Bite the Apple (rock), 9pm aLL go West festivaL All Go West Festival (West Asheville music festival), 12pm aLtamont breWing company Little Maker (Nola Blues), 9:30pm aLtamont theatre “A Mighty Fine Memory” film screening w/ Roger Howell & friends, 7pm

the phoenix Maz Gross Weight (Americana), 9pm

asheviLLe music haLL Make America Dance Again w/ Hoveykraft (dance music), 9pm

the sanctuary at cumc Kruger Brothers (folk, bluegrass, benefit for Wild South), 8pm

athena’s cLub Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30pm DJ Shy Guy, 10pm

the sociaL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm

ben’s tune-up Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsy-jazz), 3pm Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8pm

the sociaL Lounge Rooftop Dance Party with DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10pm tiger mountain Valley Maker (singer-songwriter), 9pm Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm timo’s house M.P Pride, 9pm toWn pump Jesse R.S. (rock, folk, funk, jam), 9pm

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

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

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

orange peeL Wham Bam Bowie Band (David Bowie tribute), 9pm

pack’s tavern DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30pm

9:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

FRI 6.24

one WorLd breWing The Rev. Arjay & The Holy Rollers (inspirational rock ‘n’ roll), 10pm

THU 6/23 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

CAROMIA TILLER & THE SIAMESE JAZZ CLUB

JAKOB FERRY STRAGGLERS w/ CARY FRIDLEY & DOWN SOUTH

oLive or tWist Live dance, 8pm

oskar bLues breWery Maggie Valley Band (folk, bluegrass), 6pm

ACOUSTIC EIDOLON 9:00 PM – TINSLEY ELLIS

Check website for tickets to Davina and the Vagabonds

off the Wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

8:30 PM JESSE

TERRY AND ABBIE GARDNER

Tue• June 28

Send your listings to clubland@mountainx.com

one stop deLi & bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm The Beateam (improv, rock), 10pm

(ft. members of Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band, Edwin Mcain Band, & Josh Phillips) @ 7pm

Sat•June 25

cl u B l a n D

tressa’s doWntoWn jazz and bLues Ian Ridenhour (rock), 7pm Al “Coffee” & Da Grind (blues, soul), 10pm

bLack mountain aLe house West End Trio (blues, rock), 9pm bLue mountain pizza & breW pub Matt Sellars (Americana, blues, roots), 7pm boiLer room Bleedseason, Odd Squad & Society Hill (metal), 9pm byWater The Lazybirds (roots, country, blues), 9pm cataWba breWing south sLope Ton of Hay (performing

’Working Man’s Dead’ by the Grateful Dead), 6pm cLub eLeven on grove “Grown & Sexy” social w/ DJ Trey Salters (ole skool hip hop, R&B, soul), 10pm cork & keg One Leg Up (Gypsy jazz, Latin, swing), 8:30pm creekside taphouse Shadow Ape (rock, pop), 8pm croW & QuiLL “Tom Waits for No Man” w/ Steevie Lee Combs (Tom Waits tribute), 9pm dark city deLi Passerine (progressive folk), 4pm diana Wortham theatre Julian Price: Envisioning Community (film screening), 11am doubLe croWn Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10pm eLaine’s dueLing piano bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm foggy mountain breWpub Big Deal Band (bluegrass), 10pm french broad breWery Hero Jr. (rock), 6pm good stuff Just the Crust (bluegrass, members of Bread & Butter Band), 8:30pm grey eagLe music haLL & tavern Salome, Dance For Me (rock ’n’ roll opera, costume ball), 8pm highLand breWing company Devils In Dust (Americana, roots, rock), 7pm jack of the Wood pub The Carousers w/ Gypsy Swingers (Gypsy jazz, western swing, boogie blues), 9pm jerusaLem garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm Lazy diamond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm Lex 18 Pamela Jones & Chuck Lichtenberger (classic & modern jazz), 7:30pm Lobster trap Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30pm Lookout breWery Stefani Reeder, 6:30pm mack keLL’s pub & griLL Hurricane Bob Band (blues, rock), 7pm market pLace DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm neW mountain theater/ amphitheater Girls Rock Asheville conference, 2pm odditorium Mr. Mange & Hero Jr (rock), 9pm

off the Wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm oLive or tWist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm one stop deLi & bar Opposite Box w/ Unaka Prong (experimental, rock, funk), 10pm orange peeL Local metal showcase w/ Lifecurse, Artificial Oceans, Auxilia & SkinKage, 8pm oskar bLues breWery Trail of the Lonesome (Americana), 6pm pack’s tavern Lyric (funk, soul, pop), 9:30pm

tressa’s doWntoWn jazz and bLues The King Zeros (blues), 7:30pm The Free Flow Band (funk, R&B), 10pm tWisted LaureL Indoor & Outdoor Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone (electronic), 10pm White horse bLack mountain Songs of Innocence and Wisdom w/ Amanda Horton, Simone Vigilante & Vance Reese, 8pm WiLd Wing cafe Karaoke, 9pm WiLd Wing cafe south Shotgun Gypsies (rock, Americana, blues), 9pm

purpLe onion cafe The Lonesome Road Band (bluegrass), 8pm

Wxyz Lounge at aLoft hoteL Goldie and the Screamers (soul, R&B), 8pm

riverWatch bar & griLL Roots and Dore (blues), 7pm

zambra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

room ix Open dance night, 9pm sanctuary breWing company Yoga with Cats, 10am scandaLs nightcLub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scuLLy’s DJ, 10pm southern appaLachian breWery The Jonny Monster Band (blues), 8pm straightaWay cafe The Mug (blues, rock, roots), 6pm the admiraL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm the bLock off biLtmore Searra Jade & the Jazzy Folks (jazz, folk), 8pm the miLLroom Sick of Stupid Comedy Tour w/ Cliff Cash, Tom Simmons & Stewart Huff (comedy), 8pm the mocking croW Live music, 8pm the mothLight All Go West music festival!, 3pm the phoenix Dave Desmelik Trio (Americana, singer-songster), 9pm the strand @ 38 main The Maggie Valley Band (folk, Americana, bluegrass), 8pm timo’s house Vinyl Revisions .07 (electronic), 9pm toWn pump Joy on Fire (punk, jazz), 9pm traiLhead restaurant and bar The Pond Brothers (bluegrass), 8pm

sunday, june 26 185 king street Sunday Funday (open jam), 3pm 5 WaLnut Wine bar Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul), 7pm aLoft rooftop/ pooLside Jim Arrendell and the Cheap Suits (blues), 5pm barLey’s taproom Caitlin Krisko (rock ’n’ roll), 7:30pm ben’s tune-up Sunday Funday DJ set, 2pm Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8pm bhramari breWhouse Sunday brunch w/ live music, 11am bLack mountain aLe house Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel and Friends, 11:30am bLue mountain pizza & breW pub Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm byWater Cornmeal Waltz w/ Robert Greer (classic country, bluegrass), 6pm cataWba breWing south sLope Laurel Lee & the Escapees (classic country, Americana), 6pm cork & keg Vollie McKenzie (swing, jazz, country), 3pm creekside taphouse Riyen Roots (blues), 2pm doubLe croWn Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9pm highLand breWing company Reggae Sunday w/ Dennis

“Chalwa” Berndt, 1pm

TAVERN

isis restaurant and music haLL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am An Evening w/ the Bumper Jacksons (Americana, roots), 5:30pm

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

jack of the Wood pub Irish session, 5pm

LIVE MUSIC... NEVER A COVER

Lazy diamond Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm Lex 18 Feast of Thrones Costumed Revelry & Viewing (ticketed event), 6:30pm Lobster trap Cigar Brothers (“y’allternative”), 6:30pm LueLLa’s bar-b-Que Jon Corbin & Hank Bones (jazz, swing, blues), 12pm odditorium Dogs Eyes, Hivelords & Pig Mountain (metal, punk), 9pm

THU. 6/23 Lenny Pettinelli (acoustic rock)

FRI. 6/24 DJ MoTo

(dance hits, pop)

SAT. 6/25 Lyric

(funk, soul, pop)

off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm oLive or tWist Zen Cats (blues), 6pm one stop deLi & bar Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Sundays w/ Bill & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute, acoustic), 5pm

20 S. SPRUCE ST. • 225.6944 PACKSTAVERN.COM

oskar bLues breWery Shotgun Gypsies (Americana, soul), 2pm pisgah breWing company Sunday Travers Jam (open jam), 5pm puLp Alarka w/ Tree On Mars & Art Of War (metal, progressive, hardcore jazz), 9pm scandaLs nightcLub DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sLy grog Lounge Sunday Open Mic (open to poets, comedians & musicians), 7:30pm southern appaLachian breWery Gospel Brunch w/ Redneck Mimosa (gospel), 12pm straightaWay cafe Barstool Sailors, 1pm Asher Leigh, 5pm taLLgary’s at four coLLege Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm the imperiaL Life Ultra Lounge Listening Party w/ projections DJ Phantone Pantone, 10pm the mothLight MR. POSITIVITY w/ Rhoda Weaver (BlainesWorld 10 minute play), 5:25pm the omni grove park inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

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cl u Bl a n D the phoenix Mike Sweet (acoustic rock covers), 12pm the sociaL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm the sociaL Lounge Jazz Brunch w/ Katie Kasben, 12:30pm the southern Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm timo’s house Bring Your Own Vinyl (open decks), 8pm toWn pump The Oak Twins (acoustic rock duo), 9pm Wedge breWing co.

Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz-swing), 6pm White horse bLack mountain Teen Bandstand, 6pm Wicked Weed Summer Concert Series, 4pm WiLd Wing cafe south Sunday Funday w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

monday, june 27 185 king street Open mic night, 7pm 5 WaLnut Wine bar Siamese Jazz Club (soul, R&B, jazz), 8pm 550 tavern & griLLe Cornhole, 5pm aLtamont breWing company Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm

6/22 Wed a fi lm in color

bhramari breWhouse

w/ fogwalker, morbids

6/23 thu the long distance

relationship

Featuring

w/ dinola, fifty year flood

6/24 fri

the moon & you

6/25 sat

all go west

6/27 mon

charlie traveler presents:

Largest Selection of Craft Beer on Tap • 8 Wines

(cd release show!)

free!

black milk (backed live

by�nat' turner band) w/ the �dj s of turntable tuesday

6/28 tue

6/29 wed 6/30

thu

7/2

sat

jay bartell

ziemba

w/ cher von, elisa faires/ meg mulhearn

$3.50 Pints & Free Pizza 6/23- Sam Adams Adventures in Lager Hands-on experience with ingredients of the style

On Tap!

zach cooper ensemble w/ lucas brode, sands pleine

diane cluck

w/ rusalka, emmalee hunnicutt

themothlight.com

June 22 - June 28, 2016

Karaoke every Wed. 9pm!

6/25- Summer Celebration! 2-6pm DJ Niko Grande’ & Beer Pong Battleship! Beer Specials

w/ nathanael roney

Details for all shows can be found at

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Music Trivia Every Monday- 7:30pm

$4 Mimosa Sundays!

Serving food from Asheville Sandwich Company!

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

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Mexi Monday (jazz, world music), 5pm byWater Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8pm cataWba breWing south sLope Musicians in the Round w/ Jon Edwards, 6pm courtyard gaLLery Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm creekside taphouse Trivia, 7pm dark city deLi Trivia Night, 7:30pm doubLe croWn Country Karaoke, 10pm good stuff Songwriter’s “open mic”, 7:30pm grey eagLe music haLL & tavern Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm jack of the Wood pub Quizzo, 7pm Todd Cecil & friends (Americana, blues), 9pm Lexington ave breWery (Lab) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm Lobster trap Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm o.henry’s/the underground Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm odditorium Joy Kills, Kitty Tsunami & Comfort Creature (rock), 9pm one WorLd breWing Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower & DLX, 8pm

oskar bLues breWery Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm sovereign remedies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm the bLock off biLtmore Mike Holstein w/ Serpentine (jazz), 8pm the mothLight Black Milk w/ Nat Turner Band & the DJs of Turntable Tuesday (hip hop, electronic, funk), 9pm the omni grove park inn Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm the phoenix Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 8pm the vaLLey music & cookhouse Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm tiger mountain Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm timo’s house Movie night, 7pm toWn pump Renshaw Davies (folk duo), 9pm tWisted LaureL Phantom Pantone (industrial electronic), 9pm urban orchard Old-time music, 7pm White horse bLack mountain Jay Brown and Bob Hinkle (multi-genre), 7:30pm

tuesday, june 28 5 WaLnut Wine bar The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8pm

550 tavern & griLLe Mountain Shag, 6pm aLtamont breWing company Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill featuring Violet Delancy, 8:30pm

Lobster trap Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singersongwriter), 6:30pm

5 WaLnut Wine bar Redleg Husky (Americana), 5pm Les Amis (African folk music), 8pm

Lobster trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

market pLace Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

550 tavern & griLLe Bike Night, 6pm karaoke, 9pm

mountain mojo coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

a.k. hinds university center The Honeycutters (country, roots), 7pm

nobLe kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

asheviLLe music haLL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

odditorium Odd comedy night, 9pm

back yard bar Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm

off the Wagon Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm

ben’s tune-up Eleanor Underhill (country, soul), 7pm bLack bear coffee co.

Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7pm bLack mountain aLe house Trivia, 7pm bLue mountain pizza & breW pub Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm bLue ridge taproom Tuesday Tease w/ Deb Au Nare (burlesque), 8pm buffaLo nickeL Trivia, 7pm creekside taphouse Matt Walsh (blues), 6pm dark city deLi Ping Pong Tournament, 6pm doubLe croWn Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10pm good stuff Old time-y night, 6:30pm grey eagLe music haLL & tavern Reverend Finster (REM tribute), 6pm highLand breWing company Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 6pm Davina & The Vagabonds (blues, jazz, Americana), 9pm iron horse station Open mic, 6pm isis restaurant and music haLL Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm Lazy diamond Classic Rock ’n Roll Karaoke, 10pm Lex 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (romantic jazz ballads and standards), 7pm

oLive or tWist Tuesday Night Blues Dance w/ The Remedy (dance lesson at 8), 8:30pm

aLtamont breWing company Darren Nicholson, Marty Lewis & Dave Desmelik (bluegrass, folk), 8:30pm

one stop deLi & bar Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

asheviLLe music haLL Pigeons Playing Ping Pong w/ Broccoli Samurai (funk, rock), 8pm

one WorLd breWing Trivia w/ Gil, 7pm sanctuary breWing company Team trivia & tacos, 7pm soL bar neW mountain Venture nights (house music, techno), 7pm taLLgary’s at four coLLege Jam night, 9pm the bLock off biLtmore Jazz-n-Justice Tuesday w/ Ray Mapp (benefit for “We Are Not Invisible”), 7:30pm the mothLight Jaye Bartell w/ Nathanael Roney (singer-songwriter, rock, folk), 9pm the phoenix Open mic, 8pm the sociaL Lounge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm timo’s house T3 Game Night, 8pm toWn pump Ryan Sobb (alt-country), 9pm tressa’s doWntoWn jazz and bLues Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm urban orchard Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm White horse bLack mountain Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm

Wednesday, june 29 185 king street Vinyl Night & Cornhole League, 6pm

barLey’s taproom Dr. Brown’s Team Trivia, 8:30pm ben’s tune-up Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7pm bLack mountain aLe house Play to Win game night, 7:30pm bLue mountain pizza & breW pub Open mic, 7pm creekside taphouse Open mic w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm dark city deLi Pool Tournament, 7:30pm foggy mountain breWpub Folkalachian Soul (folk), 9pm funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm good stuff Jim Hampton & friends perform “Eclectic Country” (jam), 7pm grey eagLe music haLL & tavern The Explorers Club w/ Brett Harris & Jay Gonzalez (sunshine pop, rock), 8pm grind cafe Trivia night, 7pm highLand breWing company Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm jack of the Wood pub Old-time session, 5pm Lazy diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm Lex 18 Moulin Rouge Musical Dinner Show (ticketed event), 6:30pm

o.henry’s/the underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm odditorium Ian Ridenhour & Max Gross Weight (rock), 9pm off the Wagon Piano show, 9pm oLive or tWist Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stop deLi & bar Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7pm one WorLd breWing Alexa Rose (singer-songwriter), 8pm pisgah breWing company Liz Teague & friends, 6pm puLp Mandara & Billingsley (progressive, indie, rock), 9pm room ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm sanctuary breWing company Get Up Stand Up South: A Comedy Showcase and Open Mic, 8pm

the bLock off biLtmore Dave Dribbon (rock), 7:30pm the joint next door Bluegrass jam, 8pm the miLLroom Flamenco nights w/ Juan Benavides Group, 9pm the mocking croW Open Mic, 8pm the mothLight Ziemba w/ Cher Von, Elisa Faires & Meg Mulhearn (experimental), 9pm the phoenix Jazz night, 8pm the sociaL Lounge Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10pm the southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm timo’s house “Hump Day Mixers” w/ The Wordbenders (R&B, hip-hop), 10pm toWn pump Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10pm traiLhead restaurant and bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6pm tressa’s doWntoWn jazz and bLues Blues & soul open mic night w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm White horse bLack mountain Akira Satake and Duncan Wickel (banjo & fiddle, world), 7:30pm WiLd Wing cafe south Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 6:30pm

scuLLy’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm sLy grog Lounge Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm soL bar neW mountain ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum ’n’ bass), 9pm southern appaLachian breWery Spin Sessions w/ DJ Stylus, 6pm straightaWay cafe Albi and the Lifters (jazz), 7pm taLLgary’s at four coLLege Open mic & jam, 7pm Wu-Wednesdays (’90s hip-hop experience), 9pm

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BY KEN HANKE, JUSTIN SOUTHER & SCOTT DOUGLAS | CONTACT: PRESSMOVIES@AOL.COM

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Anthony Weiner in the surprisingly compelling and entertaining documentary Weiner, about his doomed bid for becoming mayor of New York.

Weiner HHHHS Director: Josh Kriegman, Elyse Steinberg plaYers: Anthony Weiner, Huma Abedin, Adam S. Barta, Amit Bagga, Sydney Leathers DocumentarY RATED R tHe storY: Documentary about Anthony Weiner’s doomed bid for redemption by running for mayor of New York City. tHe lowDown: Yeah, you almost certainly know how this is going to play out, but that doesn’t keep the film from being compelling and even fascinating.

Anthony Weiner, the subject of the new documentary Weiner, has gone on record that he will not be seeing the film. (“I know how it ends, and it wasn’t pretty.”) That may be understandable on his part.

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Harder to grasp is why he gave documentarians Josh Kriegman and Elyse Steinberg almost limitless access to himself, his campaign and his family, especially his wife Huma Abedin (aide to Hillary Clinton).

Even if you can write that off as fueled by the overly optimistic view of Weiner’s political comeback bid as candidate for mayor of New York — and a degree of plain old egotism — it’s harder to understand why he let the documentary keep going once the comeback came crashing down. But he did, and it makes for surprisingly compelling viewing despite the fact that the audience presumably knows how it ends and the fact that the film never provides an answer to the “why” of any of this. That last may be because no one — including Weiner — really can explain it.

The documentary takes place — and was filmed more or less as it was happening — after Weiner resigned

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from congress over a scandal involving sending lewd photos over the internet in 2011. At the time, Weiner had been a popular rising star in the Democratic party, and suddenly that was over. In 2013, he decided to stage his own comeback with this mayoral bid. At first, this looked like a genuine comeback. He was ahead in the polls.

His natural fiery charisma and innate appeal was charming voters apparently ready to put the unfortunate events of two years before behind them. Unfortunately, it wasn’t long before further examples of Weiner’s sexting tendencies started to show up.

And not entirely from the past.

So we watch. We watch as Weiner denies this and dodges that, seemingly sure of his own ability to wiggle out of anything just on words, the power of his personality and the not uncommon modern delusion that saying a thing is as good as following through on it. We watch as Huma Abedin’s apprehensive support turns colder and colder and then stops altogether. (The pair are still married, however.) What we see is a magnificent tragedy and a grim comedy that is sometimes just plain ludicrous and a little pathetic.

It manages that toughest of tricks: to make you hope that what you know is going to happen won’t. The trick is that Weiner, for all his arrogance and all his stupid moves and his own admitted “unlimited ability to f*** things up,” remains strangely likable through a mixture of self-deprecating humor and utter cluelessness. Here is a man who can do something spectacularly stupid in front of TV cameras, then watch the footage and think he came off well.

What we have is a portrait of a man who was both made and unmade by the media, a man unable to handle his own impulses. In fact, late in the film, Kriegman (from behind the camera) asks why Weiner has allowed him to film this. And Weiner has no real answer, merely a shrug. The truth may be that Weiner is so addicted to the media — and, by disastrous extension, social media — that nothing is real unless someone is watching it.

Whether this is merely symptomatic of our society on a grand scale, with its obsession to document everything it thinks, does and even eats, is for the

viewer to decide. Rated R for language and some sexual material.

Starts Friday at Fine Arts Theatre. revieWed by ken hanke khanke@mountainx.com

Central Intelligence HHH

Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber plaYers: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Amy Ryan, Danielle Nicolet, Aaron Paul action comeDY RATED PG-13 tHe storY: After reuniting with a long-lost high school buddy, a straitlaced accountant finds himself tied up in an unexpected game of espionage. tHe lowDown: A generally harmless, sometimes amusing comedy thanks to its leads, but with little else memorable to offer beyond its runof-the-mill buddy cop trappings.

It was bound to happen once again. Another solidly entertaining Kevin Hart vehicle right about the time I was ready to give up on him for good. He’s a likable comic talent who’s too often in films that are, for lack of a better word, crap.

Generally, he’s allowed to indulge in his worst tendencies as a performer — a combination of shrill and loud — presumably to distract from how bad the material is. Every so often, he’s given a good role in a movie that’s not wholly obnoxious and gives you just a glimmer of hope.

Rawson Marshall Thurber’s Central Intelligence is just that movie, one that’s entertaining enough to remind you that Hart can be palatable. Interestingly enough, it’s less Hart that makes this happen than it is his co-star, Dwayne “The Rock”

Johnson, who also needs to be — after a slew of Fast and Furious films and generic action stuff — reminding people he can actually be an appealing, charismatic star. While Central Intelligence is nothing more than a standard buddy cop actioncomedy film (which, right there, is its great failing), it at least knows how to make its stars palatable. This is something that, judging by the slew of bad movies these two are in, is easier said than done.

The idea here is that, in high school, Bob Stone (Johnson) was (thanks to CGI, for the film’s purposes) a pudgy, unlikable nerd who was constantly picked on. His only friend was Calvin, the school’s football star.

After parting ways after graduation, Calvin finds himself unhappily toiling away as an accountant. All these years later, he finds Bob — now 300 pounds of muscle — back in his life and in need of help. It seems Bob, over the years, has worked his way into the CIA and is seeking aid from the one person in the world he can trust: his old friend Calvin.

Lots of action scenes and explosions happen in none-too-surprising ways. Also not surprisingly, much of Central Intelligence’s comedy is built around Hart and Johnson’s odd-couple pairing. Not just in their character’s divergent demeanors, but in their obvious physical differences, too. The obviousness of this, and the film’s willingness to be this obvious, is really what hurts Central Intelligence the most. It’s generic, plain and simple. Even with Johnson given a surprisingly complex character — a behemoth who still views himself a nerdy teen and also might be a psychopath — Central Intelligence still hews too closely to its action-comedy formula to be worth remembering.

This despite a certain chemistry between the film’s two leads and the innate affability this creates — the film just feels like more of the same. An occasionally enjoyable retread, sure, but not one that’s going to get anyone truly excited.

Rated PG-13 for crude and suggestive humor, some nudity, action violence and brief strong language .

Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Justin Souther jsouther@mountainx.com

Dark Horse

HHHH DIRECTOR: Louise Osmond PLAYERS: Jan Vokes, Brian Vokes, Howard Davies, Angela Davies DOCUMENTARY RATED PG THE STORY: Documentary about a real-life uplifting sports tale of an unlikely racehorse.

THE LOWDOWN: Sweet without being cloying, crowd-pleasing without being obviously manipulative, this is how this kind of tale ought to be told. See it now before Hollywood decides to remake it.

The unoriginally named Dark Horse (there are at least nine other movies bearing this title) presents itself as the heartwarming story of an underdog — or “underhorse” — who made good.

Fair enough, but that’s hardly all this little documentary is. On the one hand, it’s a pretty simple story. It feels a lot like any number of Hollywood uplifting sports movies. But this one is from Wales — and it’s true and it isn’t awash in sappy music and elaborate crane shots. In fact, it’s a pretty straightforward picture. The people in it may talk about the horse, Dream Alliance, as if he were a person, but the film itself doesn’t go out of its way to afford the animal human-like qualities.

It’s also about more than the horse in question. Truth to tell, it has as much, or more, to do with the woman, Janet Vokes, who comes up with the idea of breeding and racing a horse, an ambitious undertaking for someone who’s a barmaid and a supermarket cleaner. Janet isn’t sufficiently wealthy for such a thing, and she isn’t upper-class enough to be taken seriously by the snobbish world of the Sport of Kings.

She’s a resident of the little — and relatively impoverished — Welsh village of Cefn Fforest. But that is actually the key to how this whole improbable story came about.

Since Cefn Fforest is a town that’s been down on its luck ever since the coal mine shut down, it’s become a somewhat dreary place — and certainly not the place most likely to get involved in horse racing. However, the very idea of forming a group and going

in together at 10 pounds (approximately $15) a person makes it start to sound almost doable. And it’s certainly something to liven the place up, as well as give the citizenry a badly needed sense of community. If all this sounds a little like one of the lesser Ealing comedies from the late 1940s, it’s because that is almost exactly what this is. (And it seems pretty darn inevitable that down the road someone will turn this tale into a narrative film.)

It’s as well, I think, to say very little indeed about the way the story plays out since one of the movie’s advantages is that the events are not well-known.

Suffice it to say it’s probably close to what you expect, but a little bit more.

Some of that little bit more stems from the underlying class-consciousness of seeing the regular folks and their lessthan-thoroughbred horse take on their high-toned “betters.” But what mostly sells the film are the characters. They are unabashedly — and just naturally — quirky. They’re fun to be around and to spend some time with. Most of all, they seem innately decent, and that’s not necessarily a common commodity in today’s world.

No, Dark Horse isn’t a great movie. I doubt it was intended to be.

Documentarian Louise Osmond is not an especially flashy filmmaker, but her workmanlike craftsmanship here is probably just what the material called for. That she has very deliberately attempted to make a crowdpleaser — and succeeded — is not a criticism. It’s simply the kind of story this is, and you could do a lot worse than spend a little time with it. Rated PG for some mild thematic elements and language.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemark. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@mountainx.com

Finding Dory

HHHH DIRECTOR: Andrew Stanton, Angus MacLane PLAYERS: (Voices) Ellen DeGeneres, Albert Brooks, Hayden Rolence, Ed O’Neill, Kaitlin Olson, Diane Keaton, Eugene Levy, Ty Burrell, Idris Elba, Dominic West, Sigourney Weaver

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T HEATER LISTINGS Friday, jUNE 24 Thursday, jUNE 30 Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. (254-1281) Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) Carolina Cinemark (274-9500) Central Intelligence (PG-13) 11:40, 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 The Conjuring 2 (R) 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Dark Horse (PG) 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Finding Dory 3D (PG) 11:20, 1:55, 4:30, 7:05, 9:40 Finding Dory 2D (PG) 10:35, 12:15, 1:10, 2:50, 3:45, 5:25, 6:20, 8:00, 8:55.

10:35 Free State of Jones (R) 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Genius (PG-13) 11:15, 2:00, 4:35, 7:15. 9:50 Independence Day: Resurgence 3D (PG-13) 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Independence Day: Resurgence 2D (PG-13) 12:25, 3:15, 6:05, 8:55 The Lobster (R) 10:55, 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:25 Love & Friendship (PG) 12:35, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15 Me Before You (PG-13) 10:30 a.m.

The Neon Demon (R) 10:40, 1:30, 4:20, 7:20,10:10 The Shallows (PG-13) 11:45, 2:05, 4:25, 6:45, 9:35

Co-ed Cinema Brevard (883-2200) Finding Dory (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

Epic of Hendersonville (6931146) Fine Arts Theatre (232-1536) Genius (PG-13) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 (No 7:20 show Thu. June 30), Late show Fri-Sat 9:40 Julian Price (NR) 11:00 Sat. June 25 Weiner (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:15

Flatrock Cinema (697-2463) (R) Genius (PG-13) 4:00 , 7:00 (Fri, Sat, Tue, Wed, Thu)

Grail Moviehouse (239-9392) The Fits (NR) Fri, Mon, Tue, Thu 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30 Wed 3:30, 9:30 Independence Day: Resurgence (PG-13) 1:00 (Sat-Sun only), 3:45, 7:00, 9:35 Queer Moxie (NR) Wed. 7:00 only.

Rear Window (PG) 1:20 (Sat-Sun only), 4:00, 7:30 Asheville Film Society The Man Who Knew Too Much (NR) (1934) Tue 7:30 Thursday Horror Picture Show King of the Zombies (NR) Thu 7:30

Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)

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animateD aDventure comeDY RATED PG tHe storY: Dory, the chronically forgetful comic relief from Finding Nemo, takes center stage in a search for her lost parents. tHe lowDown: Exactly what you’d expect, Finding Dory is a slick, expensively produced, four-quadrant Pixar people-pleaser.

Say what you will about the monopolistic mouse that has all but cornered the market on youthoriented entertainment, Disney is a studio that has nailed its formulas.

From its staggering success with the Marvel cinematic universe and the promising revival of Star Wars to the box-office behemoth that is Pixar, the company has turned crafting highly polished and predominantly inoffensive blockbusters into an art form in and of itself. Having shattered numerous opening weekend records for an animated feature and currently receiving generally positive reviews, Finding Dory is in no danger of breaking Disney-Pixar’s financial and critical winning streak.

Returning director Andrew Stanton and co-director Angus MacLane have delivered a visual triumph. After having recently endured such egregious examples of CG-animation-gone-awry as Warcraft and the latest Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles installment, if Dory’s sensuous seascapes don’t entirely restore my faith in the aesthetic potentials of films created inside an electronic box, they do come close. The script, penned

by Stanton and Victoria Strouse, is paced with disciplined precision, although its rigid three-act structure can seem confining at times. But, as with most Pixar films, solid storytelling and visual acumen function in support of vibrant characterization,

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and it’s in character development that Finding Dory finds its footing.

Unlike some lesser animated fare (looking at you, Chipmunks), Dory’s A-list cast of voice actors contribute a great deal to the proceedings and more than justify the expense of their inclusion. Ellen DeGeneres reprises her somewhat treacly performance as Dory with little modification but somehow manages to imbue the character’s struggle with a surprising degree of pathos by the third act. Albert Brooks returns as Marlin, hitting many of the same notes he did 13 years ago as Finding Nemo’s protagonist, this time leading an effective, if not overly compelling, B-story. While DeGeneres and Brooks both perform ably, Ed O’Neill all but steals the show as misanthropic (misichthyic?) octopus — well, septopus — Hank, Dory’s mentor and guide.

Eugene Levy and Diane Keaton imbue Dory’s doting parents with charm and warmth, competently driving the story even though they’re relegated to the first and third acts out of narrative necessity. Kaitlin Olson finds the fun in her portrayal of a near-sighted whale shark, as do Dominic West and Idris Elba in the most unlikely The Wire reunion humanly conceivable.

Even tertiary characters are wellrounded and granted plausible motivations, creating a world that feels much larger than the confines of its central story arc.

All that said, the film is not without its issues. In 2003’s Finding Nemo, Dory’s short-term memory loss is played as a running gag that provides a comedic counterpoint to the helicopter-parent anxiety of Marlin.

This time around, it’s played as the more serious disability that such a condition would logically constitute, meaning that some of the previous film’s humor could be retrospectively viewed as somewhat mean-spirited or at least ill-considered. Add to that the

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fact that Dory’s forgetfulness and effusive optimism can occasionally be every bit as annoying to adult audiences as they are to her ancillary characters, and the prospects of following her story for two hours initially seem daunting. But the script addresses these issues deftly, and the cast delivers humanizing (for lack of a more appropriately aquatic term) performances that turn what could have been a rote exercise in perfunctory sequel-production into a poignant exploration of parenting children with disabilities and growing beyond personal limitations.

While it is certainly not the best Pixar film ever, or even of the last two years, Finding Dory is a worthy successor to the studio’s prior successes in sculpting substantially family-friendly fare. Aside from a few genuinely unsettling sequences that might prove too scary for the youngest moviegoers — including a nightmare-fuel aquarium touchpool scene involving some very handsy toddlers — Dory is the kidcompatible, parent-placating Pixar picture that this summer has been sorely lacking. Rated PG for mild thematic elements.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemark, Co-ed of Brevard, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. revieWed by scott dougLas jsdougLas22@gmaiL.com

The Fits

HHHHS Director: Anna Rose Holmer plaYers: Royalty Hightower, Alexis Neblett, Inayah Rodgers, Da’Sean Minor, Antonio A.B. Grant Jr., Lauren Gibson Drama RATED NR

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tHe lowDown: Virtually impossible to synopsize and not even easy to describe. Let me just say that this a rather special movie.

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mov ies it was and had never heard of it.

(That’s not surprising. I tend to avoid festival “buzz” as it seems unrelated to reality.) Then I saw it was being distributed by Oscilloscope and groaned because my experience with films bearing their imprint usually ends in a groan and I thought I’d get it out of the way. It was a waste of a groan, since it turned out that I genuinely liked The Fits. That, however, does not alter the fact that I really don’t know what to quite make of it. Worse — for someone in my position — I don’t know what to say about it.

You see, The Fits resists being easily categorized. I called it a drama on the line where we indicate genre. Yes, it’s a drama in the sense that it’s not a comedy, but it is also a kind of musical. There’s even a truly singular production number — one that might mean several things, or maybe nothing. Mostly, it’s a weirdly poetic — maybe even metaphysical — character study of a young girl, Toni (Royalty Hightower, a truly amazing newcomer), perched on the edge of adolescence. She’s presented in a coded fashion as a tomboy who is mostly interested in learning to box with her older brother, Jermaine (Da’Sean Minor), at the community center in which most of the film takes place. But that changes when she gets a look at a dance team called the Lionesses.

Seeing them transforms her world and opens up a new one — a world of motion, color and rhythm.

But fitting in is not easy, not in the least because her training in boxing tends to make her want to move in jabs and punches. Then the question arises, as it usually does at that age: How much of herself (or what she views as herself) is she willing to lose in order to fit in? And then there’s the other side of that coin: Is she losing herself or finding herself? Which is which? Well, Toni does pierce her ears, start using nail polish and make friends. And she improves — modestly — at dancing, until one day (in an astonishing little scene) it all comes together for her as she walks across a bridge.

In the midst of all this (which may or may not raise The Fits a notch above so much indie fare) is the seemingly side-story about an outbreak of unexplained and apparently inexplicable seizures or fits. (It’s not clear whether these are the “fits” of the title or whether the title may also refer to the broader question of fitting in.) There is an inescapable similarity between this and the fainting

epidemic at an English girls school in Carol Morley’s The Falling (2014), but I tend to think this is coincidental. Certainly, nothing else about the two films is even remotely similar except for the fact that the causes of the incidents aren’t revealed in either case. But here, the fits might represent several things, including the change from childhood to adulthood, both physically and in becoming one’s own person.

Here’s the thing: All of these undercurrents are what I am reading from the film. Almost none of this is stated. It’s barely even suggested.

The sense I am getting from the movie comes from Holmer’s meticulous camera placement and the performance of Hightower, who barely speaks for the film’s first half hour.

Now, I am generally leery of praising children’s performances for a variety of reasons — not the least of which is the audience and critic tendency to think that staring blankly into space is somehow profound. I have no such reservations about Hightower. Her face gives off an almost preternatural sense of comprehension. She doesn’t act so much as she reacts — with a slyness that is quite remarkable. She has completely mastered the art of actually listening to what the other actors are saying as if she’s hearing it for the first time. It is, frankly, quietly breathtaking. I still don’t quite know what to make of it all, but maybe that’s not a bad thing. Not Rated, but contains nothing objectionable.

Starts Friday at Grail Moviehouse. revieWed by ken hanke khanke@mountainx.com

fiLm buncombe county pubLic Libraries buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (6/25), 2pm - Rock and Roll Musicals You May Have Missed Series: Hedwig & The Angry Inch. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (6/28), 6:30pm - “Wings of Life,” film. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville conservation trust for north caroLina 919-828-4199, ctnc.org • TH (6/23), 7:15pm - Proceeds from the film screening of America’s First Forest benefit the Conservation Trust for North Carolina. $20. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. firestorm cafe and books 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WE (6/29), 7pm - “Glitter Bomb: The Fierce Films of Kelly Gallagher,” film screenings and discussion. Free to attend.

by Edwin Arnaudin

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victory: In this video still from Jan. 2, 2013, a couple apply for a marriage license in Hattiesburg, Miss. The documentary Love Won, which chronicles over 200 Southern couples’ efforts to achieve national marriage equality, premieres June 26 at the Fine Arts Theatre. Photo courtesy of the Campaign for Southern Equality • For those who missed the premiere of Julian Price: Envisioning Community, Investing in People, the film will be screened again on Wednesday, June 22, at 7 p.m. and Saturday, June 25, at 11 a.m. at the Fine Arts Theatre.

Asheville filmmaker erin derham’s documentary chronicles the late Price’s efforts to revitalize downtown Asheville and includes interviews with numerous local figures. Tickets are $10 online or at the Fine Arts box office, and all proceeds benefit the YES (Youth Education Scholarship) Fund at Diana Wortham Theatre. fineartstheatre.com • The Fine Arts Theatre celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Conservation Trust for North Carolina with a screening of America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck and the Asheville Experiment on Thursday, June 23, at 7 p.m. Local documentarian paul bonesteel’s film is the first feature about legendary German forester and educator Schenck, who introduced scientific forest management to America and established the Biltmore Forest School, the nation’s first forestry school. Tickets are $20 at the Fine Arts box office or online, and proceeds benefit the Conservation Trust’s efforts to protect natural and scenic lands along the Blue Ridge Parkway. avl.mx/2oo • The Altamont Theatre hosts a screening of A Mighty Fine Memory: Stories and Tunes from the Fiddler of Banjo Branch on Saturday, June

25, at 8 p.m. The documentary on revered Madison County fiddler roger howell, by hannah furgiuele and rebecca jones, will be followed by a brief Q&A session and a concert featuring Howell, jerry sutton (guitar), cathy arrowood (bass), mike hunter (mandolin) and troy harrison (banjo).

Tickets are $15 in advance/$20 day of show/$30 for VIP seats in the first three rows. avl.mx/2oq • The Campaign for Southern Equality celebrates one year of national marriage equality with the premiere of the documentary Love Won. It screens at the Fine Arts Theatre on Sunday, June 26, at 10:30 a.m. Bronx Obama director ryan murdock’s film tells the story of the 200-plus couples who applied for and were denied marriage licenses across the South, from 201115, as part of the WE DO Campaign.

Tickets are $35 for adults/$20 for children, available online, and include a post-film catered brunch at First Congregational UCC. avl.mx/2op • Grail Moviehouse hosts a screening of Queer Moxie on Wednesday, June 29, at 7 p.m., as part of the citywide Stonewall Commemoration Week. The behind-the-scenes look into queer performance art from the fringe to the mainstream features interviews, archival and performance footage with comedians, drag kings and queens, spoken word artists and burlesque dancers. Tickets are $12. grailmoviehouse.com X

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Dark Horse

Not of This Earth HHHH

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The Fits

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Free State of Jones

The great hope for critical approval this week has both pluses and minuses.

On the plus side, the stars, Matthew McCounaughey and Gugu MbathaRaw, are appealing and the subject matter is interesting. On the possible debit side is director Gary Ross and the fact that no reviews for this have surfaced. That’s not a great sign for a movie striving to be a critical darling. The studio says this is “an epic action-drama set during the Civil War, and tells the story of defiant Southern farmer, Newt Knight, and his extraordinary armed rebellion against the Confederacy. Banding together with other small farmers and local slaves, Knight launched an uprising that led Jones County, Mississippi, to secede from the Confederacy, creating a Free State of Jones. Knight continued his struggle into Reconstruction, distinguishing him as a compelling, if controversial, figure of defiance long beyond the War.” (r)

Independence Day: Resurgence

The folks at Fox inform us, “We always knew they were coming back. After Independence Day redefined the event movie genre, the next epic chapter delivers global catastrophe on an unimaginable scale.” This has yet to be screened for critics, but seriously, it’s a Roland Emmerich picture about battling invading aliens. This means massive property damage while a lot of things “blow up real neat.” (pg-13)

The Shallows

Out of nowhere comes Jaume ColletSera’s shark thriller, which has not been screened for critics. It appears to be all about Blake Lively vs. a shark that stands — or swims — between her and land. It is unclear just how wide this release is going to be, but at the moment it’s down for two area theaters. (pg-13)

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director: Roger Corman players: Paul Birch, Beverly Garland, Morgan Jones, Jonathan Haze, William Roerick sci-fi horror Rated NR In Brief: In 1957, this Roger Corman cheapie played on a double bill with Attack of the Crab Monsters and was advertised as a “Terrorama! Double Horror Sensation!” As with most sci-fi horror pictures of its era, the ad campaign smacks of wishful thinking. Yet, there’s no denying that Not of This Earth (a premise Corman liked so much that he produced two remakes) is a perfect — and perfectly enjoyable — example of the type of movie that was being churned out at the time. Surprisingly, it’s also frequently stylish and has a remarkably well-written screenplay. Bear in mind, however, that we’re talking “well-written” within the context of a movie about a kind of vampire from outer space. Not of This Earth is — relatively speaking — reasonably sober-minded work and even creepy, thanks in large measure to Paul Birch’s performance as the gent who is “not of this Earth” and has been sent here to see if humans can be pastured like cattle for their blood supply. The movie will be preceded by Chapter Two of Bela Lugosi in The Phantom Creeps. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Not of This Earth Thursday, June 23, at 7:30 p.m. at Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Scott Douglas.

Port of Shadows HHHHS director: Marcel Carné players: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur, Édouard Delmont melodramatic romance Rated NR Marcel Carné’s Port of Shadows (1938) is — not unjustly — celebrated today as a kind of precursor to film noir, but the truth is that it’s more a very French fatalist romance of a kind that can best be called poetic, trashy melodrama. And that is not a putdown by any means. This is brilliant mood-filmmaking, and it works best if you’re predisposed to respond positively to doomed romances of the bas-fonds school. This is the story of an army deserter (Jean Gabin) with anger issues and a stray dog that has attached itself to him. He lands in Le Havre and meets an embattled girl (Michèle Morgan) while hiding out in the lowest of dives — improbably named “Panama” after its proprietor (Édouard Delmont). She, too, is hiding, in her case from her lustful and unhinged guardian (Michel Simon). It’s a bad situation that only gets worse. If anything, there’s too much plot (aspects of which might be borrowed from Robert E. Sherwood’s play The Petrified Forest), but what sticks with you is the pervasive atmosphere and the movie star luminosity of its two leads. Classic World Cinema

by Courtyard Gallery will present Port of Shadows Friday, June 24, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

The Man Who Knew Too Much HHHHH director: Alfred Hitchcock players: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Peter Lorre, Frank Vosper, Hugh Wakefield mystery suspense thriller Rated NR The Asheville Film Society’s first monthly ticketed film, 1934’s The Man Who Knew Too Much, is the movie that gained Alfred Hitchcock the attention of the international film world — attention that would increase with The 39 Steps (1935) and The Lady Vanishes (1938), the films that took him to America. It is also a film that Hitchcock remade in the U.S. in 1956. (Hitchcock later referred to the original as “the work of a talented amateur” and viewed the remake as “professional” — further proof that artists are not always the best judges of their own work.) This one lacks Technicolor, big (U.S.) stars and a glossy veneer. It also lacks 45 minutes of movie star bloat and that damned song. The original The Man Who Knew Too Much is a taut suspense-thriller with a certain comic flair and far more style than the remake. The stories, however, are roughly the same. Here, a British couple (Leslie Banks and Edna Best) are passed a clue by a dying man — a clue to an upcoming assassination. To keep them silent, their daughter (Nova Pilbeam) has been kidnapped. It moves like lightning and provides compelling, exciting, sometimes quirky entertainment. Plus, it’s Peter Lorre’s English-language film debut. The Asheville Film Society will screen The Man Who Knew Too Much Tuesday, June 28, at 7:30 p.m. at Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke. Ticketed event: $6 members, $8 general admission

Wondrous Boccaccio HHH director: Paolo Taviani, Vittorio Taviani players: Kasia Smutniak, Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Vittoria Puccini, Rosabell Laurenti Sellers drama Rated NR Put bluntly, the Taviani Brothers’ Wondrous Boccaccio (2015) isn’t. That’s not all that surprising since it’s from the Taviani Brothers, gained no release in the country and is out on DVD from Film Movement, whose name is synonymous with movies no one else would touch. What you get with this adaptation of Giovanni Boccaccio’s The Decameron is a really nice-looking stiff of a movie — one that seems to have all but missed the bawdiness of the tales it contains. When the film does try for “naughtiness,” it becomes artificial and stilted. When it goes for knockabout comedy, it’s just embarrassing. And, of course, the anthology collection of stories make it uneven at best. What it has going for it are the settings and the scenery. For those who think subtitles mean it’s art, well, it has those, too.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show Wondrous Boccaccio Sunday, June 26, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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taurus (april 20-may 20): "Critics of text-messaging are wrong to think it's a regressive form of communication," writes poet Lily Akerman. "It demands so much concision, subtlety, psychological art -- in fact, it's more like pulling puppet strings than writing." I bring this thought to your attention, Taurus, because in my opinion the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to apply the metaphor of text-messaging to pretty much everything you do. You will create interesting ripples of success as you practice the crafts of concision, subtlety, and psychological art. gemini (may 21-june 20): During my careers as a writer and musician, many "experts" have advised me not to be so damn faithful to my muse. Having artistic integrity is a foolish indulgence that would ensure my eternal poverty, they have warned. If I want to be successful, I've got to sell out; I must water down my unique message and pay homage to the generic formulas favored by celebrity artists. Luckily for me, I have ignored the experts. As a result, my soul has thrived and I eventually earned enough money from my art to avoid starvation. But does my path apply to you? Maybe; maybe not. What if, in your case, it would be better to sell out a little and be, say, just 75 percent faithful to your muse? The next 12 months will be an excellent time for you to figure this out once and for all. cancer (june 21-july 22): My meditations have generated six metaphorical scenarios that will symbolize the contours of your life story during the next 15 months: 1. a claustrophobic tunnel that leads to a sparkling spa; 2. a 19th-century Victorian vase filled with 13 fresh wild orchids; 3. an immigrant who, after tenacious effort, receives a green card from her new home country; 4. an eleven-year-old child capably playing a 315-year-old Stradivarius violin; 5. a menopausal empty-nester who falls in love with the work of an ecstatic poet; 6. a humble seeker who works hard to get the help necessary to defeat an old curse.

Leo (july 23-aug. 22): Joan Wasser is a Leo singersongwriter who is known by her stage name Joan As Police Woman. In her song "The Magic," she repeats one of the lyric lines fourteen times: "I'm looking for the magic." For two reasons, I propose that we make that your mantra in the coming weeks.

First, practical business-as-usual will not provide the uncanny transformative power you need. Nor will rational analysis or habitual formulas. You will have to conjure, dig up, or track down some real magic.

My second reason for suggesting "I'm looking for the magic" as your mantra is this: You're not yet ripe enough to secure the magic, but you can become ripe enough by being dogged in your pursuit of it. virgo (aug. 23-sept. 22): Renowned martial artist Bruce Lee described the opponent he was most wary of: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times." In my astrological opinion, you should regard that as one of your keystone principles during the next 12 months. Your power and glory will come from honing one specific skill, not experimenting restlessly with many different skills. And the coming weeks will be en excellent time to set your intention.

Libra (sept. 23-oct. 22): To celebrate my birthday, I'm taking time off from dreaming up original thoughts and creative spurs. For this horoscope, I'm borrowing some of the BOLD Laws of author Dianna Kokoszka. They

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are in sweet alignment with your astrological omens for the next 13 months. Take it away, Dianna. 1. Focus on the solution, not the problem. 2. Complaining is a garbage magnet. 3. What you focus on expands. 4. Do what you have always done, and you will get what you have always gotten. 5. Don't compare your insides to other people's outsides. 6. Success is simple, but not easy. 7. Don't listen to your drunk monkey. 8. Clarity is power. 9. Don't mistake movement for achievement.

10. Spontaneity is a conditioned reflex. 11. People will grow into the conversations you create around them.

12. How you participate here is how you participate everywhere. 13. Live your life by design, not by default.

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scorpio (oct. 23-nov. 21): No pressure, no diamond. No grit, no pearl. No cocoon, no butterfly.

All these clichés will be featured themes for you during the next 12 months. But I hope you will also come up with fresher ways to think about the power and value that can be generated by tough assignments. If you face your exotic dilemmas and unprecedented riddles armed with nothing more than your culture's platitudes, you won't be able to tap into the untamed creativity necessary to turn problems into opportunities. Here's an example of the kind of original thinking you'll thrive on: The more the growing chamomile plant is trodden upon, the faster it grows.

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aries (march 21-april 19): "The past lives on in art and memory," writes author Margaret Drabble, "but it is not static: It shifts and changes as the present throws its shadow backwards." That's a fertile thought for you to meditate on during the coming weeks, Aries. Why? Because your history will be in a state of dramatic fermentation. The old days and the old ways will be mutating every which way. I hope you will be motivated, as a result, to rework the story of your life with flair and verve.

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sagittarius (nov. 22-dec. 21): The royal courts of Renaissance England often employed professional fools whose job it was to speak raw or controversial truths with comedic effect. According to the Royal Shakespeare Company, Queen Elizabeth once castigated her fool for being "insufficiently severe with her." The modern-day ombudsman has some similarities to the fool's function. He or she is hired by an organization to investigate complaints lodged by the public against the organization. Now would be an excellent time for you to have a fool or ombudsman in your own sphere, Sagittarius. You've got a lot of good inklings, but some of them need to be edited, critiqued, or perhaps even satirized. capricorn (dec. 22-jan. 19): Capricorn journalist Katie Couric is a best-selling author who has interviewed five American presidents and had prominent jobs at three major TV networks. What's her secret to success? She has testified that her goal is to be as ingratiating and charming as she can be without causing herself to throw up. I don't often recommend this strategy for you, but I do now. The coming weeks will be prime time for you to expand your web of connections and energize your relationships with existing allies by being almost too nice. To get what you want, use politeness as your secret weapon. aQuarius (jan. 20-feb. 18): "The water cannot talk without the rocks," says aphorist James Richardson.

Does that sound like a metaphor you'd like to celebrate in the coming weeks? I hope so. From what I can tell, you will be like a clean, clear stream rippling over a rocky patch of river bed. The not-really-all-that-bad news is that your flow may feel erratic and jerky.

The really good news is that you will be inspired to speak freely, articulately, and with creative zing. pisces (feb. 19-march 20): Every now and then you may benefit from being a bit juvenile, even childlike.

You can release your dormant creativity by losing your adult composure and indulging in free-form play. In my astrological opinion, this is one of those phases for you.

It's high time to lose your cool in the best possible ways.

You have a duty to explore the frontiers of spontaneity and indulge in I-don't-give-a-cluck exuberance. For the sake of your peace-of-soul and your physical health, you need to wriggle free of at least some of your grown-up responsibilities so you can romp and cavort and frolic.

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