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Cowgirl mural is misogynistic Misogyny is a term of broad, sometimes elusive rudiment. Some attempt to ascribe individual acts to it, when actually its core meaning represents something more symbolic, sociological. The mural portraying a cowgirl on the side of a building at 99 Riverside Drive, north of the River Arts District, is misogynistic because it depicts a woman embodying antiquated, cognitively sedentary values.

Repeatedly, in life, the women with whom I forge the most positive connections are those who share my active interests. These interests may include sports, artistic activity or anything else that fully engages the mind and body, and transcends simple paradigms of sexual propriety. At the basis of every relationship is friendship, and friendships require common grounds for relation.

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The mural of the cowgirl is harmful of such endeavors, as it polarizes women toward the inclination to represent vapid, banal attractiveness — that which is motionlessly, lifelessly sought, for reasons that go only skin deep. Also, the cowboy/cowgirl image is disrespectful of and belligerent toward Indians, as is the statue of the American Indian on Patton Avenue.

But as white women represent a greater portion of Asheville’s demographic than do Indians, I feel the cowgirl mural to be more of an immediate issue. She is in a compromising position, and sex sells, but only to men who are weak, homophobic, old-fashioned or fearful of ushering in a new, more progressive time. It’s a time when, starting with the arts, genders meet on an equal playing field, and interactions are accounted for freely, irrespective of what our misogynistic forefathers dictated.

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TRUE COLORS The many shades of Autism Spectrum Disorder

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utism spectrum disorder is more ambiguous than most neurological conditions, yet it reaches the public’s awareness primarily via stark, black-and-white numbers. And those affected by the ailment say those numbers fail to paint an accurate picture of what life with ASD really means.

According to a survey released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in April as part of National Autism Awareness Month, an estimated one in 59 children living in North Carolina is diagnosed with ASD. That’s significantly higher than the national estimate (one in 68 children).

But while North Carolina ranked fourth-highest among the 11 states surveyed for the CDC report, those numbers alone shouldn’t inspire parents to move elsewhere, says Dr. Aleck Myers, clinical director of the Autism Society of North Carolina — in fact, he maintains, the opposite is true.

“It simply means that we do a better job of recognizing and diagnosing it at an earlier age than other states,” Myers says about the latest estimates, based on data compiled from 11 of the state’s 100 counties.

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“North Carolina is actually a good place to be, as far as ASD research and resources are concerned.”

ASD encompasses a wide range of neurological disabilities and developmental delays characterized by difficulties with both verbal and nonverbal communication. Individuals with the disorder often feel overwhelmed in social situations and engage in rigid, repetitive behaviors. A lifelong disability with no clearly identified cause or cure, it affects every socio-economic and age group worldwide.

Severe ASD can be described as an endless roller-coaster ride in which all the senses are continually jostled. In its milder forms, the disorder may mean that an individual is inflexible, socially awkward and easily distracted by something as minor as the hum of an air conditioner.

People with ASD report that any type of multitasking — such as talking while making eye contact — can be physically uncomfortable or even painful. But because it’s a spectrum disorder, no two individuals display exactly the same set of challenges and behaviors.

Although North Carolina diagnoses more ASD cases at an earlier age than many other states — the median age here is 3 years and 8 months, versus 4 years and 5 months nationally — the steady rise in the number of such diagnoses nationwide over the past three decades is what should really give the public pause, says Myers.

“I think we are close to an epidemic with ASD being diagnosed as it is,” he says, adding, “The statistics suggest that we should be alarmed.”

BEYOND STEREOTYPES Between 2008 and 2010 (the latest year for which CDC estimates are available), the frequency of ASD diagnoses increased by 30 percent. As recently as 2002, the agency estimated that one in 150 children was diagnosed with

Sixteen months later, Diana Martinez, ASD. By 2006 it was one in 110 children, and one in 88 two years later. a woman as vibrant as she is warm, In Asheville, the number of students remembers telling her son’s pediatrician with ASD has grown consistently enough with growing alarm that “Something is to trigger significant changes in the supnot OK.” port provided for both teachers and stuThe Martinez family, which at the dents, says Laurie McDanel, director time included Arturo’s father, Kenny of exceptional children services for the Martinez, had just moved from Louisiana Asheville City Schools. “Years ago, we to Western North Carolina when Arturo’s were educating teachers about general behavior hit rock bottom. characteristics and basic strategies,” she “He totally shut down,” she says, explains. “Now we use an autism problemrecalling the tumultuous changes trigsolving team to look at issues with indigered by the move. “He would just not vidual students in a more detailed way, respond to anything.” and that is so much more helpful to the Arturo was diagnosed with ASD six students as well as the teachers.” months later. Though he may never Of the city schools’ roughly 4,000 stube verbal — his vocabulary consists of dents, 68 have an ASD diagnosis, accord“momma, daddy, no” and a few other ing to data for the 2013-14 school year. utterances — this 9-year-old boy with That includes seven students who were glossy brown hair manages to appear either newly diagnosed or came to the as lively as his mother. While his eyes district already having an ASD diagnosis rarely land on anyone or anything for during the current school year. “I find more than a split second, his movements that, on the whole, we all have a much are measured and his focus is intense. better understanding of and sensitivity for He smiles broadly, and his gaze appears ASD,” says McDanel, who’s taught special curious. Arturo loves school, thrives on education for 25 years. routine, communicates via signs and Myers concurs. “It is rare now that pictures, and enjoys a surprising variety someone doesn’t know what I do,” the of meals for a child with ASD — all lovpediatric psychologist says about the pubingly cooked by his mother, who shops lic’s understanding of his 33-year career for organic produce and keeps her son’s studying ASD and other childhood develdiet low in gluten. opmental disorders.

But Arturo doesn’t interact with peers But while awareness increases with and has no sense of danger. He tends to each passing year, misconceptions are wander off — a habit that’s led his mother equally plentiful, cautions Myers, and investigate a GPS device for him, though expectations of what autism is aren’t she hasn’t yet figured out whether he always realistic — particularly since the would even tolerate wearing the bracelet. release of the 1988 movie Rain Man. Like so many children diagnosed at the “No one knew what I was talking about, severe end of the ASD spectrum, Arturo and then Rain Man came along,” Myers RIDING HIGH: When Arturo Martinez was 3, his mother Diana offers few clues to his thought processes, recalls. “And while it was certainly an enrolled him at Free Rein, a Brevard-based nonprofit specializing in but there’s no doubt in his mother’s mind impressive portrayal of one person with horse-assisted therapy. “He sits up straight, he listens and responds, he that he has cognitive awareness, as eviASD, it served to stereotype a disorder denced by his complete focus on arranging knows he can make horse go or stop with words. Those are big things that cannot be easily stereotyped.” reusable stickers on a scene depicting a for him,” says Diana Martinez.

The blockbuster movie, starring Dustin farm, while Martinez talks.

Hoffman as an institutionalized autistic “He loves animals and Little People man with extraordinary mental abilities, figurines,” she reports. “He re-enacts what Increased public acceptance and individualized forever imprinted the term “autism” on the he knows with them.” therapy for individuals of all ages, says Myers, would public’s mind, though it failed to translate the complexi When Arturo was 3 years old, Martinez enrolled him go a long way toward helping people with ASD parties surrounding the disorder, says Myers. at Free Rein, a Brevard-based nonprofit specializing ticipate more fully in society. “We are just now shift “Not everyone with ASD can tell you how many in horse-assisted therapy. But Arturo hated the novtoothpicks spilled on the floor, just because Dustin ing our focus onto what we call lifelong intervention, elty and unpredictability of it and tested everyone’s Hoffman could,” Myers says about a pivotal scene that because the same principles that we know work with patience, Martinez recalls. reveals the character’s savant nature. In real life, only children can be applied at any age,” he explains.

“He cried and cried every time. I thought many an estimated 10 percent of individuals with ASD display For those who live with ASD, public acceptance of times we should quit, but we were encouraged to such traits, but nearly half (46 percent) rank above avera disorder that’s exceptionally hard to categorize is as stick with it,” she says, shaking her head at the age intellectually, according to the CDC’s Autism and important as awareness of the annual statistics. memory. Nearly six years later, Arturo is showing Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network.

But because few aspects of a life with ASD are remarkable improvements, many of them learned neatly predictable, the following three profiles of local on horseback, his mother says. “He sits up straight, A LIFELONG JOURNEY residents aim to give readers a clearer idea of the he listens and responds, he knows he can make the astonishing range the spectrum covers. horse go or stop with words. Those are big things As they grow to adulthood, almost all individuals for him,” she explains. In fact, Arturo is prominently with ASD require ongoing therapy and intervention depicted in the organization’s promotional materials, in order to gain and maintain a measure of indepenTHE CHILD: ARTURO and photos of his favorite horse, Annie, decorate his dence, notes Myers. And though the data is limited, MARTINEZ, 9, BREVARD room at home.

Autism Now, a national advocacy organization, esti Arturo Martinez was 4 months old when his mother Martinez, who works as an assistant program mates that only about one-third of people diagnosed first began to wonder why, when he tried to clap his director for The Family Place of Transylvania with ASD are able to participate in the workforce at hands, they would miss each other.

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offering parenting classes, child care and other support services, says it’s difficult for her to prepare for Arturo’s future, though it’s clear that he’ll never live independently and will always require supervision.

“It’s hard to watch other children play and grow up and know that Arturo will never be able to do any of that,” she says, her melodic accent standing in stark contrast with her frankness. “It’s hard to be stared at and talked about. I notice, and it is not right.”

Asked what acceptance means to her, she pauses for a moment, then says: “What I want most of all is for everyone to know Arturo, for children to learn about him and others like him, for them to go home and teach their parents. I think that is how it is supposed to be.”

THE TEENAGER: NICHOLAS HEMACHANDRA, 13, ARDEN

Hemachandra sympathizes with parents of newly diagnosed children, who often cast about wildly for quick fixes or wallow in fears and frustrations. But that time, he says, would be better spent researching effective therapies and learning what’s worked for others.

“What they don’t know is that their perspective will change,” Hemachandra explains, adding that he found respite and inspiration in support groups and believes that time spent learning viable strategies is more valuable than staying paralyzed by dashed hopes. His message to frustrated parents? “Your child is exactly the same child as he or she was before the diagnosis.

They want to be accepted and cherished exactly the way they are.”

Hemachandra says he’s not more worried about Nicholas’ teenage years than he is about his son’s overall future. With the right balance of therapies and coping tools, Nicholas will be able to navigate the next decade of his life about as well as any other teenager, Hemachandra maintains. And while the question of how to secure Nicholas’ existence after his father’s death is still a work in progress, Hemachandra says his overarching goal is to work toward a future that’s focused on the boy’s own hopes.

“Nicholas wants to drive, so we’ll be working on that,” Hemachandra says with a decisive can-do shrug.

Hearing his father’s words, Nicholas flashes a big smile. Then it’s time for another twirl.

“He is all love,” is how Ray Hemachandra describes 13-year-old Nicholas, a softspoken teenager, as introductions are made. Unlike many individuals with ASD, Nicholas doesn’t seem aloof, and with a few prompts and some pauses, he can politely introduce himself and get past the niceties that are rarely second nature to those with the condition.

“He literally considers everyone he has ever met his friend,” Hemachandra says THINKING DIFFERENTLY: Priscilla Brackett can’t rememabout his son. A seventh-grader at Valley ber a time when she didn’t feel different from everyone around Springs Middle School in Arden, Nicholas THE ADULT: PRISCILLA her. The entrepreneur, who was diagnosed with ASD as an adult learns in a regular classroom with the help BRACKETT, 35, MILLS RIVER and whose young daughter has the syndrome, says, “I want of an aide and receives extra tutoring in a acceptance for all neurodiversity. It’s OK for all of us to think in Priscilla Brackett, whose too-long pixie smaller group setting. different ways.”

Deliberate and almost formal in his manhaircut fits her quirky personality, is of two minds every minute of the day. “I’m on two ner, Nicholas nonetheless — and contrary operating systems all the time,” she says to ASD stereotypes — comes across as very matter-of-factly: “my autistic one and my NT caring. He grows concerned when a nearby one.” She seems relaxed as she orders a cup child is reprimanded for misbehaving, and And while his unfailingly friendly and timid demeanof coffee in a small restaurant near her home outside he holds his father’s hand as they walk on a gravelly or may make him seem feeble-minded, Nicholas is far Hendersonville. “NT” is Brackett’s shorthand for path, playfully twirling every 20 steps or so. Quiet but from it. “He has determination,” Hemachandra says “neurotypical,” a controversial label that some in the far from a sullen teenager, Nicholas listens intently as admiringly. “I got him started with juggling, but he ASD community use to describe anyone who hasn’t his father speaks. took it from there and now juggles infinitely better The place he inhabits on the ASD spectrum means been diagnosed with the condition. Some adults with than I do.” that Nicholas often repeats what others say, giving conASD feel the term places an unfair focus on autism’s That’s not all. After years of circling any body of versations with him the quality of a bad phone connecbeing atypical. water in a state of high anxiety, Nicholas one day simtion. He likes things to be just so: Obsessive-compulsive Brackett, whose diagnosis places her at the highply took a deep breath and waded into a pool during functioning end of the autism spectrum, says her tendencies are often part of an ASD diagnosis, and a birthday party “with all his clothes on,” his father “NT” aspect acts as her filter, because her autistic Nicholas has certain fascinations that border on obsesrecounts with a ready laugh. “He has since taught half is too blunt and doesn’t know how to charm or sions and a few phobias that defy all rational argument. himself to swim by watching others.” manipulate.

He likes to agree with any leading question, though Nicholas can also suppress a tendency to flap his “I had to learn to fit in,” she says with another deadhis father — a single parent, writer and blogger who is hands excessively, knowing that others might make pan expression. “I got picked on a lot as a child and Nicholas’ full-time advocate — tries his best not to pose fun of him. Those are just a few of the achievements taken advantage of as an adult. I was often clueless questions that hint at easy answers. indicating that Nicholas can learn from others, over Nicholas may seem to process information slowly, about unspoken motives, because I don’t have them.” come fears through his own reasoning and think in but when he’s handed three balls, he’s a blur. He Brackett, who’s self-employed and provides terms of causal relationships. administrative support to small-business owners, can juggle with the best of them (there’s a YouTube “Now he’s teaching himself to solve the Rubik’s Cube,” several of whom are also on the autism spectrum, video of him stealing the show at a school function).

Hemachandra says with unabashed pride as Nicholas can’t remember a time when she didn’t feel different That kind of precision means his hand-eye coordinalooks up, clearly pleased about pleasing his father. from everyone around her. Growing up in Florida tion is integrating effortlessly with his fine and gross Father and son operate in easy harmony. The handmotor skills — a skill set the ASD brain is often said and Western North Carolina, she assumed that it holding is voluntary, no longer protective (as a child, to lack due to weak connections between the two was not her but her family that was odd. In school, Nicholas was given to self-injurious behavior and sometimes would suddenly just dash off). hemispheres.

Brackett couldn’t understand why teachers thought

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she was disobedient and defensive, even if she got good grades.

Likewise, in the workplace — she’s done everything from managing a fast-food restaurant to night auditing for a hotel chain — she excelled at customer service but failed at watercooler chitchat and teamwork.

“At 5 I taught myself to play the piano, because I preferred it to playing with other children. I read encyclopedias and cookbooks to relax. I got really good at reading customers’ body language so I would know what they needed, but I could never apply myself very well to office politics,” she says, her eyes methodically scanning foot traffic in and out of the café.

And despite having learned how to filter her ASD, being in public still makes Brackett anxious. “All social

situations are stressful for me,” she says. “I prefer to be home alone.” To function in daily life, Brackett has acquired an impressive bag of tricks that help her appear more normal than she feels.

“You think I am looking at you,” she says, referring to her steady eye contact, which seems to contradict her ASD diagnosis. “What I’m really doing is looking at the contours of your glasses,” she explains, tapping on her own frames to demonstrate.

Suddenly Brackett’s eye contact doesn’t seem so effortless.

Likewise, her right boot is scuffed up, because she likes to press her left foot on top of it to keep herself calm. Inside her boots, her toes wiggle almost constantly, she reveals.

And instead of “stimming” — repeti-

“I want [my daughter] to know that she thinks differently and that that’s OK.” — Priscilla Brackett

tive calming behaviors that often give away individuals with ASD — Brackett presses her thumbs inside her fists as they rest on the table, because “no one notices that.”

She talks about “faking being flexible” by overcompensating in other areas of her life. When her routines and schedules end up in a heap, she may resort to smoothies for sustenance, because the uniform consistency comforts her.

Conflict, she says, shuts her down.

“I lose all ability to communicate.”

But Brackett has learned that when emotions flare up, she expresses herself better through email, and she seems completely comfortable revealing that she and her fiancé often communicate via the Internet, even when they’re in the same house.

As an adult with ASD — she was diagnosed at age 32 — Brackett sees herself as a resource for other individuals and their caregivers. That’s particularly true because she’s also a caregiver to her 7-year-old daughter, Evie, who was recently diagnosed with ASD. Like her mother, Evie is smart and doesn’t struggle with academic challenges, but as a very concrete thinker she gets in trouble, because she “sees

through magic and myths: She doesn’t believe in Santa Claus.”

As a parent, says Brackett, learning to identify triggers — situations that set off irrational behaviors — and ways to cope with them has been the most valuable strategy. “I don’t want Evie to be trying to be something she’s not,” Brackett says about her hopes for her daughter’s future. “I want her to know that she thinks differently and that that’s OK.” For herself, Brackett, who’s getting married later this summer, says she’s finding much comfort in a local support group where she feels less anxious than in any other social situation.

“It’s almost the only place where I don’t worry about being misunderstood,” says Brackett. “The worst of being on the spectrum is that it is a hidden disorder. People don’t know how to take us, how to accept us,” she says, taking a last sip of her coffee. “We’re not mentally ill, but society doesn’t know what to do with us, so we’re often treated as such. I want acceptance for all neurodiversity. It’s OK for all of us to think in different ways.”

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Updated classic A newly completed $6.2 million renovation has brought the Montreat Conference Center’s historic Assembly Inn into the 21st century. A June 29 rededication ceremony will celebrate the completion of the work.

The directors of the Mountain Retreat Association, which manages the 85-year-old hostelry, say they wanted an update that no one would notice. “The inn is the postcard picture every visitor to Montreat tucks away in memory,” according to a press release.

Nestled in a stunning natural setting just north of Black Mountain, Montreat is a spiritual haven.

The old stone inn overlooks Lake Susan, a small artificial lake along Flat Creek, which flows into the Swannanoa River.

About 35,000 people visit Montreat each year, officials say, and even if they aren’t numbered among the 200 guests the inn can accommodate, they probably use it as a gathering place for meals, meetings and other activities.

The Montreat Conference Center, an affiliate of the Presbyterian Church USA, invites one and all to pass through the little community’s stone gates and spend time in reflection.

Reflect on what?

That’s up to the visitor, says Tanner Pickett, the conference center’s vice president of sales, marketing and communications. “This is not only for Presbyterians. We have a fair amount of visitors from all denominations. A spiritual purpose,” he stresses, “is not a requirement to have a retreat. What we want is to

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IN WITH THE NEW: Workmen removed old windows and installed new, energyefficient windows in the 85-year-old Assembly Inn at Montreat Conference Center.

The windows contributed to more than $70,000 in savings on energy costs.

Photo courtesy of Montreat Conference Center

be a place where anyone can go to encounter God.” More than 400 individuals and 350 churches contributed to the two-year “Building on Tradition” campaign, which raised funds for the renovation.

Light fixtures now feature compact fluorescent or LED bulbs.

The new HVAC system brings air conditioning to the inn, and modern, energy-efficient windows compatible with the facility’s design were installed throughout.

Thanks to those and other changes, notes Pickett, “The conference center saved $70,789 in energy costs in the first 10 months of this fiscal year.”

All furnishings are in the early 20th-century Craftsman style, with an emphasis on Americanmade materials and local contractors, artists and vendors: • The design showcases local stone and Tennessee marble.

• Fabrics and artwork in the rooms feature local plants.

• In keeping with the inn’s ori-

gins, all fixtures are made of oilrubbed bronze, and the lobby stairs feature oak rails and newel posts.

The June 29 celebration will begin with a worship service in Anderson Auditorium, followed by lunch in the Assembly Inn’s Galax Dining Rooms.

After a 2 p.m. formal ceremony, there will be a reception and tours.

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WHAT The rededication of the 85-year-old Assembly Inn at Montreat Conference Center. The Inn recently underwent a $6 million renovation.

WHEN 10:30 a.m worship service Sunday, June 29, in Anderson Auditorium. The rededication ceremony is scheduled for 2 p.m., followed by an open house and tours of the Inn. Activities are open to the public.

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Hashing it out Buncombe commissioners put their annual budget on hold June 19, citing uncertainty over what North Carolina legislators will do with school funding and other issues.

Commissioners also delayed contentious decisions on whether to relocate the Health and Human Services Department and build a new aquatics center.

County Manager Wanda Greene’s initial spending plan, presented earlier this month, proposed allocating $67.9 million to local schools — about $2.38 million more than last year.

But local schools superintendents told commissioners at a June 17 meeting that’s not likely enough to offset problems caused by state budget changes. However, with major differences between the proposals from Gov. Pat McCrory, the N.C. House and the Senate, it’s hard to determine exactly what the final disparity will be, said county Schools Superintendent Tony Baldwin. “It’s like nailing Jell-O to the wall,” he said. “This is one of the most difficult years I’ve seen since I came into this profession.”

All of the state plans call for giving teachers raises in various ways and at different levels, which Baldwin praised, but he worried that without local help, those raises could come at the expense of losing positions. “We all want to see those raises come … but with those raises, something’s got to give,” he said.

Since 2010, the Buncombe school system has cut 167 positions – 55 of them were teachers and 24 were teaching assistants, he said. About 65 percent of the county school budget comes from state funds, 26 percent from local funds and 9 percent from federal sources, Baldwin said.

The new budgetary year begins July 1, but Greene said June 17 that with state funding decisions still far from clear, the county wouldneed to pass a temporary measure extending the current budget past that date. That will give the county “some time to take a responsible look” at the final state budget before making local decisions, she said.

Commissioners unanimously passed the temporary measure Thursday, June 19, which will keep all tax and spending rates the same as they have been for the last year. Board Chair

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Buncombe County Schools Superintendent Tony Baldwin made the case to commissioners for increased funding. Photo by Jake Frankel.

David Gantt noted that the county took similar action last year and said it’s necessary “when there’s a great deal of uncertainty.”

During their June 19 deliberations, Commissioners were also waiting to see what happens in Raleigh concerning the Cultural and Recreation Authority, a new local government entity the General Assembly authorized last year to manage the county’s libraries, parks and recreation facilities.

Greene told commissioners she expected the legislature to disband that organization soon. And sure enough, later that day, the North Carolina General Assembly voted to dissolve it.

On another front, Greene said the county is continuing to look for new, less costly sites to house the county’s Health and Human Services Department, which is currently at 40 Coxe Ave. in downtown Asheville. Earlier this month, commissioners balked at her recommendation to spend $44.3 million to build a 49,000-square-foot addition and an adjacent 650space parking garage at the current location. Although it’s only been a few years since the county

pumped millions into renovating the downtown Asheville building, commissioners instructed staff to look for relocation options. Greene reported back June 17 that those efforts are in full swing, but she needs until August before offering specific alternatives. “There’s so many different options at this time, we haven’t been able to say what’s best,” she said.

Greene also requested delaying any decision on spending $6.5 million on a new indoor pool at the Zeugner Center, next to Roberson High School in South Asheville, until August. The construction was included in Greene’s original budget draft and recommended by the Cultural and Recreation Authority, but on June 17 she told commissioners the county needs more time to explore different options.

Despite all of the uncertainty, Greene said she doesn’t anticipate the county will need to change the property tax rate “unless something really drastic happens.” That rate is currently at 60.4 cents per $100 of assessed value. That includes a 3.5-cent levy dedicated to funding programs previously managed by the Culture and Recreation Authority. As a result of the legis-

lature’s action, the Authority’s programs and funding will be absorbed into the county’s budget, with no impact on the total tax rate paid by residents, Greene said.

During the June 17 public hearing, several members of the local WNC for Public Education organization joined with school officials in urging more funding. And representatives from Pisgah Legal Services also pitched commissioners on giving the nonprofit $120,000 to help provide legal aid to low-income residents in need.

However, Republican commissioner candidate Christina Merrill pushed the board for fiscal conservatism. “When we’re coming up with a budget, we need to cut out some of the special-interest projects,” she said. “We need to get out of this spend more, tax more mentality.” Her District 2 race against Democratic incumbent Ellen Frost this fall will determine which party controls a majority of the board’s seats.

Due in large part to a drop in property values, last year’s budget was funded by a 15 percent increase in the property-tax rate.

At the budget hearing, commissioners stayed mostly mum. “I anticipate that the real budget discussion that we’re going to have will come at a much later date, after we have a better sense of what the General Assembly will do,” said Gantt. “We take this very seriously. We understand this is a very tense year. … We are going to do the best we can.”

Commissioners are tentatively scheduled to meet next on July 8. X

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Ben Teague, executive director of the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County, predicts a bright future for the local economy.

He joined hundreds of other government and business leaders June 19 at the group’s annual meeting to celebrate recent successes and plot a path forward. The organization is a year and half ahead of schedule on achieving the target of its Asheville 5×5 plan to bring 5,000 well-paying jobs to the area: It met that mark this spring. Since July 2010, the EDC’s efforts have resulted in 5,334 jobs, which pay more, overall, than the county average of $35,784 a year.

The growth in jobs came despite numerous challenges, such as Asheville’s small size and difficulties competing with bigger cities across the globe for the attention of large corporations, said Teague. “We are punching well above our weight class,” he said.

In 2010, Buncombe’s unemployment rate was nearly 10 percent, and now it’s less than half of that. Since then, companies such as Linamar,

GE Aviation, BorgWarner and New Belgium Brewing Co. have either invested, or are in the process of investing, more than $855 million into the area, Teague said.

That surpasses the 5×5 plan’s goal of attracting $500 million. “In Asheville, things are bright,” he said, although more work needs to be done to build off of that progress. “Growing a community is like riding a bike: You’re either moving forward or you’re falling off,” Teague told meeting attendees.

The Coalition currently has 19 new expansion projects in the works. If those come to fruition, the deals will result in 923 new jobs and $318 million in investment, Teague revealed.

The metrics of the Coalition’s website also seem to point toward strong interest in the area, he reported. Helped in part by a search engine optimization effort, the Coalition’s website is near the top of the Google page whensearching for important terms such as “business relocation,” he noted. That’s helped result in a 82 percent increase in new visitor traffic over last year, he said.

“That is big for us. We’re drawing quality traffic. … Our website is our front window to how we get projects,” he explained.

But while praising the EDC’s work luring large companies to expand, Paul Szurek, Coalition board chair and chief financial officer at Biltmore Farms, said the group needs to do more to facilitate the growth of small, locally owned businesses. “We haven’t been as successful as we would like in the entrepreneurial space,” he said.

Although the Asheville area has an incredible amount of entrepreneurs, many of their endeavors are small, only employing a handful of people, he said. Szurek used the example of the growing number of food trucks to make his point, saying, “They are great,” but added that many of them have limited growth potential.

He celebrated the area’s fastgrowing beer industry as a model that should be applied to other sectors of the economy. “Thanks to innovators like [Highland Brewing Co. Founder] Oscar Wong, we’ve created a critical mass of brewing activity. … That’s an example of the type of critical mass we need to cultivate,” he said.

To “cultivate high growth com-

panies,” the Coalition hired Josh Dorfman in April to be its new director of entrepreneurial development, said Szurek. Dorfman will present his plan on July 31. He brings a wealth of business experience with sustainabilityminded companies to the position. He’s best known nationally as the “Lazy Environmentalist,” a brand he built into a book series, daily radio show on SiriusXM and reality television series on the Sundance Channel.

The Coalition is a public-private partnership, with roughly half its funding coming from local governments and the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, and the rest coming from a long list of private companies. The 5×5 plan was funded with roughly $3 million from such organizations. The EDC will draft its next major development plan next spring and will launch a corresponding fundraising campaign.

Meanwhile, Teague shared one of the main lessons he’s learned over the years working in economic development: “Nobody’s going to do this for us. No one’s going to shove investment down our throat,” he said. “The Asheville story is something we have to tell everyday.” X

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BENEFITS FIRECRACKER 5K 645-4656, Kiwanisfirecracker@ yahoo.com • Through FR (7/4) - Registration is open for this event sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of N. Buncombe, benefiting student scholarships. $30

FISHING TOURNAMENT & SCHOLARSHIP FUNDRAISER 665-0810, andrewtaylorfish.com • SA (6/28), 9am-3pm Admission to this fishing tournament sponsors the Andrew R. Taylor F.I.S.H Memorial Scholarship for students diagnosed with cancer. $50/ $10 children. Held at Lake Julian Park, 406 Overlook Road Ext., Arden

PISGAH OUTDOOR CONCERT BENEFIT 345-6365, pisgahbrewing.com • FR (6/27), 7:30pm - Tickets

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GOING FOR A RIDE-ALONG: Ashevile on Bikes will host its Summer Cycle group bike ride on Saturday, June 28. Cyclists can discover new routes and make biking buddies as they ride through the neighborhoods of Asheville, ending at The Wedge Brewery. Photo

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to this Bruce Hornsby and the Nosiemakers concert sponsored

by FATE and Pisgah Brewery support MANNA Foodbank. $40/$35 advance. Held at Pisgah Brewing Company, 150 East Side Drive, Black Mountain

SHINDIG ON THE GREEN 5K & FUN RUN 258-6101, folkheritage.org • SA (6/28), 8:30am - 5K and fun run to benefit the free summer concert series. $30/ $25 before June 26. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road

Meaning" show support activities for people with disabilities. $10/$5 for children. Held at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St.

WART BENEFIT CONCERT 649-1301, madisoncountyarts. com • SA (6/28), noon - Donations at this concert featuring live, local music sponsor community FM radio in Madison County. Free.

Held on the island in Marshall.

Held at Unnamed Venue, 90 S. Main St., Marshall

THE WHITE SOIREE 338-8277, lovingfood.org • FR (6/27), 6:30pm - Tickets to this gala benefit Loving Food Resources. $65. Held at The Renaissance, 31 Woodfin St.

VANISHING WHEELCHAIR PERFORMANCE 645-2941, vanishingwheelchair. org • SA (6/28), 6:30pm - Donations for the "Magic, Mirth &

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BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY WCU AT BILTMORE PARK 28 Schenck Parkway Suite 300 Biltmore Park, 654-6498 • TH (6/26), 1-4:30pm - Small business workshop: “Navigating the Federal Grants Process.” Registration required.

Free.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS COB AND NATURAL BUILDING WORKSHOP

(pd.) With Mollie Curry of MudStrawLove. Friday-Sunday, July 4-6, Earthaven Ecovillage, near Black Mountain. Learn to build walls with cob (earth, sand and straw) and earthen-mortared earth blocks, make and apply earthen paints, and explore a variety of other natural building media. $295 includes camping and meals. Bring a friend for $150. Sponsored by Culture’s Edge, culturesedge@earthaven.org. 828 669-0114. Visit www.earthaven.org

FREE INTRO TO THE ELEMENTS OF TRANSFORMATION

(pd.) With Pana Columbus: Monday, June 30, 7-8:30, North Asheville Library (Merrimon Avenue). Using stories as powerful catalysts for change in our lives. Sponsored by Culture’s Edge, culturesedge@earthaven.org 828 669-0114.

ASHEVILLE MAKERS ashevillemakers.org • TUESDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Weekly social held at Asheville Pizza, 77 Coxe Ave

FOLKMOOT USA OPEN HOUSE 452-2997, folkmootusa.org • TH (6/26), 4:30-8pm - To celebrate donation of historic Hazelwood School. Free. Held at 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville

GOODWILL CAREER CLASSES 828-298-9023, ext. 1106 • TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9am-noon - Adult basic education/ high school equivalency classes.

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• MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-8:30pm - ESL classes.

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LAND OF SKY TOASTMASTERS landofskytoastmasters.org • TUESDAYS, 7am - Meets at the Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Square Blvd.

SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE HISTORY CENTER 283 Victoria Road, 253-9231, wnchistory.org Located on the A-B Tech campus.

• Through WE (12/31) - Hillybilly Land: Myth and Reality of Appalachian Culture.

THE ROAD SHOW AMATEUR RADIO CLUB 483-7393, theroadshowarc.com • SA (6/28) through SU (6/29) "Field Day," with demonstrations and classes. Held at Sam's Club, 645 Patton Ave.

WESTERN CAROLINIANS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST elizakeiser@aol.com • FR (6/27), 3:15pm - Monthly meet-

ing. Held at Brooks-Howell Home, 266 Merrimon Ave.

WINGATE UNIVERSITY 220 5th Ave. East, Hendersonville, 980-359-1031, wingate.edu/hendersonville • TH (6/26), 6:30pm - MBA information session. Free.

YOUTH OUTRIGHT youthoutright.org • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Weekly meeting for LGBTQ youth and straight allies. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

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919-967-9624, ncyte.org • WE (6/25), 7pm - Free. Held at Transylania County Library, 212 South Gaston St., Brevard

1-800-648-4523, visitwaterfalls. com • TUESDAYS through (8/6), 6:30pm - Includes live music and square dance instruction. Free.

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CANARY COALITION ACTION MEETING 631-3447, canarycoalition.org • WE (7/2), 6:30pm - Coalition Against Fracking in WNC meeting. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva

WNC SIERRA CLUB 251-8289, wenoca.org • TH (6/26), 6:30pm - "Risks and Impacts of Fracking" discussion. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard

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GARDENING ASHEVILLE GARDEN CLUB 550-3459 • WE (7/2), 9:30am - With speaker Laura Carter of Thyme in the Garden. Held at N. Asheville Community Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road

DAYLILY SALE FUNDRAISER 254-2000, childabusepreventionservices.org • FR (6/27), 3-8pm & SA (6/28), 9am-3pm - The Alderman farm in Fairview will sell daylilies to benefit Child Abuse Prevention Services. Held on Sharon Drive in Fairview.

FARM 2 TABLE 5K farm2table5k.com SA (6/28), 4:30pm - This 5K, hosted by FEAST of Asheville, focuses on the benefits of healthy foods. Includes a farmers market and food trucks. $25 to run/ free to attend. Held at Fletcher Community Park, 85 Howard Gap Road

KIDS LEARN TO SKATE/PLAY HOCKEY! (pd.) Kids ages 8 and under, come out to the rink at Carrier Park, Mondays from June 16-August 11, 6:30-8pm.

Equipment supplied. Details: www.ashevillehockey.org

DANCE CLASSES AT BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org 225 W. State St., Black Mountain. $40 per month. Registration required.

• THURSDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm Kids in Motion. Ages 3 to 5.

• MONDAYS, 4-5pm & THURSDAYS, 4:30-5:30pm Beginners Hip Hop. Ages 6-10.

• SATURDAYS, 9am - Ballet. Ages 3 and up.

TRANSYLANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 South Gaston St., Brevard, 884-3151 • WE (6/25), 3pm - "Wednesday Family Show" with kids music singalong.

OUTDOORS

LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Hwy. 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • SA (6/28), 9am - Hike to explore old home sites. Meets at Paddy's Creek area office.

• SA (6/28), 11am - "Predators of the park" hike. Meets at Paddy's Creek area bathhouse breezeway.

• SA (6/28), 4pm - Hike to look for dragonflies. Meets at Paddy's Creek area bathhouse breezeway.

• SA (6/28), 8pm - A ranger-led hike focusing on moths. Meets at Paddy's Creek area office.

• SU (6/29), 2pm - Ranger-led boat tour. Registration required.

Meets at the Paddy's Creek parking lot.

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

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Running for Shindig WHAT: Run for Shindig on the Green, 5K and Fun Walk WHEN: Saturday, June 28, 8:30 a.m.

WHERE: Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road WHY: It can be hard to get up and get going on a Saturday morning — and even harder to get up and get running for an early morning marathon. But they say exercise always pays off, and in the case of the Run for Shindig 5K, the payoff is a free outdoor concert and block party.

“This is a way for the public to show their continued support for Shindig on the Green,” says Kate Justus, communications coordinator for the Folk Heritage Committee, organizers of the event. “This is the oppor-

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tunity to support it so that it always stays free and fun for the public.”

For those who can’t quite handle the 5K, worry not. The event also features a Fun Walk, which will meander along the same scenic route in Carrier Park, winding off the multi-use track and onto a flat, wooden path.

“For children or just anyone who doesn’t want to race, the fun walk is a way to just enjoy being outside and supporting Shindig while moving at your own pace,” Justus says.

The male and female winners of the 5K will receive mugs from Mangum Pottery in Weaverville. Justus urges participants to take advantage of early registration at active.com, where registration includes a free T-shirt. Day-of registration will also be available at the event.

Registration for the 5K is $25 before June 26 or $30 after. Registration for the fun walk is $10. Info: folkheritage.org

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230 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester, 423-4065 • TH (6/26), 5-7pm - Garden party and farm tour. Free.

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN FAMILY FARMS 389-8931, southernappalachianfamilyfarms.com • FR (6/27) & SA (6/28), 1-5pm - Far West Farm Tour through farms in Cherokee and Clay counties. $20 per car.

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ASHEVILLE TRANSIT PUBLIC HEARING 259-5943, iride@asheville.com • TU (6/26), 4pm - Public hearing on fare increases for ART. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL OFFICES 339 New Leicester Hwy. Suite 140 • TH (6/26), 12:30pm Meeting of the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization Board.

ASHEVILLE ON BIKES SUMMER CYCLE ashevilleonbikes.com SA (6/28), 2:30-6pm - A group bike tour through the neighbors of Asheville, ending at Wedge Brewery. Free. Meets at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 298-5330, nps.gov, gail_fox@ nps.gov • TH (6/26), 7pm - Ranger-led onemile hike along the Mountains-toSea Trail. Meets at Milepost 382.

• FR (6/27), 10am - Rangerled 2-mile hike to Craggy Bald. Meets at Milepost 367.6.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS ggapio@gmail.com • SA (6/28), 3:30pm - A presentation on coyotes. Free. Held at the Julian Price Campground amphitheater, MP 296.

• SA (6/28) & SU (6/29), 10am3pm - Tours of historic Cone Manor. Free. Located at MP 294.

CRADLE OF FORESTRY 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest; cradleofforestry.com SA (6/28), 7:30-9:30pm - “Firefly Twilight Tour” includes discussion of firefly biology and a guided walk to search for fireflies. $6/$3 children.

PUBLIC LECTURES ASHEVILLE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER 253-0701, jcc-asheville.org • FR (6/27), 7:30pm & SA (6/28), 12:30pm- Equality activist Idit Klein discusses the LGBT equal rights movement within Judaism.

Fri: Beth Ha Tephila, 43 N Liberty St.; Sat.: Beth Israel, 229 Murdock SENIORS Ave. Free.

AARP SMART DRIVER CLASSES 253-4863, aarpdriversafety.org • TH (6/26), 1-5pm - For ages 50 and older. Registration required. $20/$15 AARP members. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road

OLLI AT UNCA 251-6140, olliasheville.com, • FR (6/27), 3pm - Opera Talks with a performance by Asheville Lyric Opera summer artists. Free.

Held at the Reuter Center on UNCA’s campus.

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

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AQUARIAN CONSCIOUSNESS FELLOWSHIP (pd.) Metaphysical program inspired by spiritual growth topics of your choice. Meditation, potluck, St. Germain live channeled piano music. • Second and Fourth Wednesday. 6:30pm.

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ASHEVILLE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate

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

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J. Crew Sample Sale featuring a selection of styles from our WOMEN’S, MEN’S and CREWCUTS collections. Along with a limited assortment of MADEWELL merchandise.

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MINDFULNESS MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm: Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. Info: 2583241. www.billwalz.com

ASHEVILLE CENTER FOR TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION 165 E. Chestnut, 254-4350, meditationasheville.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30 pm Introductory lectures on transcendental meditation. Free.

ASHEVILLE HARE KRISHNA 506-0996, gopalonetwo@yahoo. com • SUNDAYS, noon - Includes chanting, discussion and a vegetarian meal. Free. Held at Kuntao Arts, 211 Merrimon Ave.

The “Before I Die” wall in Savannah, Ga. Photo by Trevor Coe

‘Before I Die’ wall comes to Biltmore Avenue “How would your life be different today if you knew that you would not wake up tomorrow?” asks Greg Lathrope, co-director of the Bridges of Bardo project, a series of local events staged to encourage public discourse around the subject of death. “And then you can take it to a relational level and say, ‘How would your life be different if those closest to you did not wake up tomorrow? How would your life be different today?’”

With an upcoming public art project — the “Before I Die Wall” — fellow co-directors Said Osio and Jason Hebel invite locals to consider these questions. The chalkboard-painted wall will display dozens of unfinished statements that allow participants to pick up the provided chalk and fill in the blank: “Before I Die [blank].” The art piece will be on display at 35 Biltmore Ave. for three months beginning Friday, July 4.

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The first “Before I Die” wall was set up in New Orleans in 2011 by graphic artist Candy Chang, who after months of grieving the loss of a loved one, realized that having a more everpresent relationship with death helped her to relate more authentically to her own life and the people around her. Since then, more than 500 walls have been set up worldwide in 65 countries and in 30 different languages.

“The typical experience in our culture is to fear death, and it’s just a total distortion in terms of harmony,” says Osio. “It locks down every experience, and people suffer unnecessarily. So, in a way, we think of ourselves as bodhisattvas.

We want to relieve suffering, and I am committed to addressing death so that people don’t necessarily have to be freaked out about it.”

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GREAT TREE ZEN TEMPLE 679 Lower Flat Creek, Alexander, 645-2085, greattreetemple.org • Last SUNDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Family Meditation with Rev. Teijo Munnich

MAHA SHAKTI MANDIR 11 Sand Hill Court, facebook. com/mahashaktimandir • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Arati, chanting and spiritual discourse.

• SATURDAYS, 6-8pm - Shiva and Sri Chakra Puja.

MOUNTAIN ZEN PRACTICE CENTER 450-3621, mountainzen.org, mountainzen@bellsouth.net • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Conscious compassionate awareness meditation and group discussion. Contact for directions.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN BOOK SALE brevard-nc.aauw.net • SA (6/21) through TH (6/26), 10am-7pm - Proceeds support scholarships. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (6/27), noon- Shelly Frome discusses his novel Twilight of the Drifter. Free.

BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville, 4566000, blueridgebooksnc.com • SA (6/28), 3pm - Charles A. Van Bibber discusses his book, Valentine's Day: A Marine Looks Back.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: •EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) •EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 250-4758) •SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) •SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 2506486) •WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) • WE (6/25), 10am - Swannanoa Sewing Circle. SW • TU (7/1), 6-8pm - Knit-NChain. SS • TU (7/1), 7pm - Evening Book Club: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki. WV. • TU (7/1), 7pm - Book Club: Plain Truth by Jodi Picoult. EC. • WE (7/2), 3pm - Afternoon Book Club: That Old Cape Magic

by Richard Russo. WV • WE (7/2), 5pm - Swannanoa Knitters. SW • TH (7/3), 6:30pm - Book Club: Life After Life by Kate Atkinson.

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CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • FR (6/27), 6:30pm - Charles Dodd White discusses his novel, A Shelter of Others.

• SA (6/28), 3pm - WCU professor Harold Littleton discusses his novel, Paul: A Would Be Apostle.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

• FR (6/27), 7pm - Elizabeth Gilbert discusses her novel, The Signature of All Things.

Held in UNCA's Lipinsky Auditiorium. $20.

• SA (6/28), 7pm - Bibliophiles speed dating. $10. Registration required.

• MO (6/30), 7pm - Politics of Food Bookclub.

MO (7/1), 7pm - Women in Lively Discussion Bookclub: The Interestings by Meg Woltzer TU (7/2), noon - Autism Bookclub: Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick

TU (7/2), 7pm - Malaprop’s Bookclub: Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop. com • SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am Storytime. Ages 2-6. Free.

STORIES ON ASHEVILLE’S FRONT PORCH 251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • SA (6/28), 1030am - Bobby Norfolk. Free. Held at Pack Place, 2 S. Pack Square

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 8842787, tcarts.org • MO (6/30), 7-9pm - Open mic night for writers. Each speaker gets five minutes. Free.

VOLUNTEERING APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY 828-254-3708 x15, rbrydon@ appalachiantrail.org Works to preserve and manage the Appalachian Trail.

• Through (6/28) - Volunteers needed for an invasive exotic plant workshop at Lemon Gap.

HANDS ON ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org The volunteer center for the United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County. Registration required.

Hands On of Asheville-Buncombe • WE (6/26) - Volunteers needed to make homemade cookies for families staying at the Lewis Rathbun House.

• TH (6/26) - Volunteers needed to cook and serve lunch at the ABCCM Veteran's Restoration Quarters.

• TH (6/26) - Volunteers needed unpack merchandise at Ten Thousand Villages.

HEART OF BREVARD 884-3278, brevardnc.org • Through (7/4) - Volunteers needed to assist with 4th of July celebration.

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Providing love and comfort This week Xpress spoke with Ellen Anastos, a volunteer with Loving Food Resources, about the mission and volunteer opportunities at LFR. Mountain Xpress: Can you tell us a little about the history and mission of Loving Foods Resources?

Anastos: LFR was founded in 1991 to address the food-insecurity issues faced by people living with HIV/ AIDS. Many were forced to choose between purchasing their medications or their food. Services were eventually expanded to include people in home hospice care, regardless of diagnosis.

LFR provides food, health and personal care items to people in 18 counties of WNC who are in home hospice. We run a food pantry that is open every Saturday for clients to come and shop, serving around 360 clients in a self-select grocery-style environment.

What are some of the tasks your volunteers do?

Our volunteer opportunities are numerous and varied — includ-

ing helping clients with food choices, shopping, sorting, stocking and shelving food, driving clients to and from the store, clerical assistance, fundraising and engaging with the broader community to further the mission of LFR. Do you have any special volunteering needs in the upcoming months?

With vacation time here, LFR is in need of additional volunteers to help in the pantry on Saturdays. We also need help promoting and preparing for the White Party, our benefit soiree held at the Renaissance Hotel in downtown Asheville on Friday, June 27.

What are the requirements for being a volunteer? Our volunteers should be friendly, approachable and outgoing. They need to be caring listeners, who are comfortable approaching people to offer help.

They must be able to work as a team member, so being polite, courteous and respectful to others is paramount.

For more information call 255-9282 or email admin@lovingfood.org.

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But there are a few slight glitches worth noting. The vehicle has a start-up time of four minutes. To unlock the vehicle, the driver must enter a valid Captcha. And if you get a virus while driving, the windshield may turn into a literal blue screen of death.

Not to be outdone, Apple has also announced plans for an upcoming vehicle.

Instead of traditional parts like a steering wheel, door handles, or brakes, it has a minimalistic scroll wheel and single button.

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Evidence room audit reveals 1,800 missing pills responsible for evidence-room manager’s chronic ‘case of the Fridays’

Asheville, MondAy — The long-delayed release of an evidence-room audit of the Asheville Police Department revealed why former evidence-room manager William Smith earned several departWilliam Smith, above, mental accolades for his in 2010. Employee file photo courtesy of APD. “unflagging spirit,” high morale, and perfect attendance.

The 1,800 prescription pills that went missing during Smith’s tenure overseeing the evidence room may have been the mysterious catalyst for the “high-five” craze that Smith ushered into the APD between 2006 and 2012.

“Smithy loved elaborate high-fives that involved many complicated moves,” said one APD employee who worked with Smith for years. “He did crazy spaghetti-armed high-five routines, and he had a different one for each coworker. When fist-bumps got big, Smithy was still all about the high-five. He was a soldier.”

While city officials seem satisfied with Smith’s recent guilty plea in federal court to embezzling money from the evidence room, the revelation of the missing pills shines a light on one memorable dance routine Smith performed in 2010 to the song “Walking on Sunshine,” which he played at full volume on his computer.

“He jumped onto his desk, lip-synching, slipping all over his papers, eyes rolling around in his head. It was pretty awesome,” said one officer who witnessed the event. “We actually breathalyzed him afterward as a joke.

Sort of as a joke. He came up clean. He said he was on nothing but pure sunshine.”

While Smith has recently earned a reputation for not being shy about taking unreturned loans from the evidence room he managed, APD coworkers simply remember him as a guy who “had a hardcore case of the Fridays.”

“First to arrive, last to leave, literally whistling while he worked,” said one former subordinate. “When large drug seizures were announced, Smithy would do big hip-thrusts and get on the office intercom to announce the next round of high-fives was on him.”

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Japanese society has long seemed easily captured by anything considered “kawaii” (or “cute”), according to a May Wall Street Journal dispatch, and a representative of one book’s publisher called his volume “delightfully cute.” “I can’t stop smiling,” he said, “when I see these butts.” The two books in print are Hamuketsu (hamster buttocks) and Hamuketsu — So Cute You Could Faint. A third, The Original Hamuketsu, was set to debut in June.

RECURRING THEMES • A 58-year-old man was hit by his SUV in New York City in June after he double-parked and opened the door on the passenger side. Realizing that the vehicle was still in reverse, he tried to jam one foot onto the brake but hit the gas instead, causing the car to jump backward, ejecting him, and pinning him between the SUV and a van parked alongside.

The man suffered a heart attack and died as his vehicle broke free and drifted across the busy Manhattan intersection of Madison Avenue and East 49th Street.

• Dead or just in “deep meditation”? Police in Jalandhar, India, say Shri Ashutosh Maharaj passed away in January, but disciples of the renowned Hindu guru, who was in his 70s, have refused to release the body and are keeping it in a commercial freezer. His Holiness, they say, has merely drifted into the deeper form of the meditation for which he’s well-known and will return to life when he is ready. The guru’s family, however, believes the “meditation” is a ruse enabling his religious order, a real estate powerhouse in the Punjab region and on nearly every continent, to continue controlling the financial empire.

• After the U.S. Postal Service finalizes its purchase of “small-arms ammunition,” it will become only the most recent federal agency to make a large purchase of bullets for its armed agents (who are perhaps more numerous than the public

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• Police in Lincoln, Neb., located a missing 3-year-old boy at Madsen’s Bowling & Billiards — inside a toyvending machine. Having crawled up through the Bear Claw’s toy-release slot, he was safely, joyously playing with the colorful stuffed animals inside.

• Orthodox Judaism requires a divorcing spouse to obtain the permission of the other via a document called a “get,” leaving much power in the hands of the responding spouse — and prompting an occasional resort to trickery or violence to persuade an uncooperative spouse. In May, Lakewood, N.J., Rabbi Mendel Epstein, his son and three other men were indicted for scheming to use electric cattle prods on behalf of wives with recalcitrant husbands. (Four other men in the alleged scheme have already pleaded guilty.) According to prosecutors, Rabbi Epstein was implicated in other over-the-top efforts to obtain gets in 2009 and 2010, and the indictment charges that the 2013 episode also involved kidnapping, surgical blades and a screwdriver.

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LOCAL COACH FACILITATES ‘TAKING CHARGE OF YOUR ADHD’ EVENT AT MALAPROP’S

MISSION HEALTH PARTNERS IS NC’S FIRST CLINICALLY INTEGRATED NETWORK Mission Health, MAHEC and a group of independent physicians have spearheaded the development of a new health network: Mission Health Partners. Mission Health Partners is a patient-centric, physician-governed network of clinicians, hospitals and other providers working collaboratively to improve patient care, reduce costs and ultimately, according to a press release, change the way North Carolinians experience health care. Mission Health Partners will pursue new payment models, such as shared savings, pay-for-performance or risk arrangements with payers.

“We all know that our nation’s health care system is not achieving our collective goals: Far too often, care is difficult to access, too costly, too provider-centric and focused only on disease,” said Dr. Ronald A. Paulus, president and CEO of Mission Health. “Mission is committed to working collaboratively with patients, physicians and other providers to ensure that the residents of Western North Carolina have access to the most advanced, comprehensive, high-quality and affordable care possible.”

For more info, visit mission-health. org/mhp.

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sion of “The MemoryCare Plays,” a book of one-act plays that delve into the challenges surrounding dementia and memory loss. The nonprofit published the book in 2013, and it has been touted as an accessible and relatable resource for families, book clubs, support groups and other organizations that seek to raise awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and similar ailments.

“I find that it’s often hard to communicate how this disease really impacts a family in their day-to-day lives, what’s unique about it and how it affects not just how we think and remember, but how we function, how we can independently carry out our days and how we communicate,” says Margaret Noel, founder of MemoryCare and editor of the book.

“Those things really are almost better captured in an art form, in a dramatic way.”

The reading takes place Thursday, June 26, at 5 p.m. at the UNC Asheville Reuter Center, followed by a reception. The event is free, but registration is required.

To register, call 274-4801, ext. 2249.

SMOKY MOUNTAIN OFFERS TRAINING IN PERSONAL MENTAL HEALTH WELLNESS PLANS Mental health experts from Smoky Mountain Center are offering training throughout Western North Carolina to help participants with mental illness or substanceabuse issues begin a journey toward recovery. The Wellness Recovery Action Plan, or WRAP, helps participants to manage their lives through peer support and selfdirected planning.

Ritchie Tannerhill, one of Smoky Mountain’s certified peer and family support specialists, first learned about peer support through a program in prison. Today, he counsels people across WNC who face similar challenges through the WRAP program. “I let them know that they’re not alone in this,” says Tannerhill, who has been clean and sober for eight years and is also a youth pastor. “There is a way out.

They don’t have to be stuck in that place — there is hope and happiness and better days.”

Asheville-based attention-deficithyperactivity-disorder coach Rudy Rodriguez was diagnosed with ADHD in 1983 and has been working with the condition since 1981. As the founder of the ADHD Center for Success and through his work at the ADHD Clinic, Rodriguez blends his years of clinical knowledge with his coaching skills and personal life experience as an adult with ADHD. “While ADHD medications can be helpful, ultimately it comes to your ability to develop effective ADHD self-management skills,” according to the event description. “This seminar will share essential tips and strategies to enable you to take charge of your ADHD.” The event takes place at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe on Wednesday, July 9, at 5:30 p.m.

Visit malaprops.com for more details.

CAREPARTNERS AWARDED ACCREDITATION FROM THE JOINT COMMISSION After a rigorous on-site survey in March, CarePartners has earned The Joint Commission’s Gold Seal of Approval for accreditation. The accreditation award recognizes CarePartners compliance in all areas of care, including infection prevention and control, leadership and medication management.

“In achieving Joint Commission accreditation, CarePartners has demonstrated its commitment to the highest level of care for its patients, and that goes above and beyond federal and state requirements,” says Gina Zimmermann, executive director of the Nursing and Rehabilitation Center Accreditation at The Joint Commission.

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ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation. Learn about the authentic TM technique. It’s not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice. It’s an effortless, non-religious, evidence-based technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. • Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment? • Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH (CMT) (pd.) Asheville Support and Action Group will hold second gathering on June 28, 2-4:30pm at 100 Clubwood Ct., Asheville, N.C. Established for those impacted by CMT in the area, we will review current research, share experiences of physical and occupational therapy, learn of new treatments and medical professionals who treat CMT and support efforts of the national CMTA. • This meeting’s agenda will include a representative from Gene DX, a company offering gene testing. He will explain Gene DX partnership with CMTA and the possibilities for patient gene testing. Don’t miss this opportunity to talk with others impacted by CMT. • For more information call Ruth Ann Carroll, (203) 981-3738 or e-mail racarroll44@gmail.com

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ASHEVILLE BIRTHKEEPERS • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Meets at the Spiral Center for Conscious Beginnings, 167A Haywood Road BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • THURSDAYS, 10:11:30am - T’ai Chi Qi Gong class. $12.

CO-LUMINATE 69A Biltmore Ave., 581-9030, co-luminate.com • FR (6/27), 6:30-9 pm - Sound healing ceremony.

OLLI AT UNCA 251-6140, olliasheville.com, olli@unca.edu • TH (6/26), 5-6:30pm - Co-sponsored by MemoryCare, a reading of Steering into the Skid, a play about how Alzheimer’s affects a married couple.

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• FR (6/27), 7:30am-noon - Reuter Family YMCA, 3 Town Square Boulevard. Appointments & info: 800733-2767.

• SU (6/29), 11am-3:30pm - Earth Fare South Asheville, 1356 Hendersonville Road. Appointments & info: 800-733-2676.

• MO (6/30), 2:30-7pm - Newfound Baptist Church, 2605 New Leicester Highway, Leicester.

Appointments & info: 683-3178.

• MO (6/30), 10am-2:30pm - The Oaks at Sweeten Creek, 3684 Sweeten Creek Road, Arden. Appointments & info: 681-0904.

• WE (7/2), 3:30-7-30pm - Hominy Baptist Church, 135 Candler School Road, Candler. Appointments & info: 667-4541.

• TH (7/3), 2-6:30pm - Maximized Living Health Center, 50 Westgate Parkway. Appointments & info: 505-4886.

SIDE-BY-SIDE SINGING FOR WELLNESS sidebysidesinging.wordpress.com • WEDNESDAYS, 1-2:30pm - For people with dementia, Alzheimer’s or brain damage and their care-partners. Held in UNCA’s Sherrill Center.

YOGA IN THE PARK 254-0380, youryoga.com/yoga-workshops • SATURDAYS through (8/20), 10am-11:30amOutdoor yoga event. Free with donations to Homeward Bound or Helpmate encouraged. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES For people who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Info: adultchildren.org. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

AL-ANON/ ALATEEN FAMILY GROUP A support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. Info: wnc-alanon.org or 800-286-1326. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 254-8539 or aancmco.org.

ASHEVILLE UNDEREARNERS ANONYMOUS underearnersanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7 p.m. – First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 102

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CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH SUPPORT AND ACTION GROUP 203-981-3738, racarroll44@gmail.com SA (6/28), 2-4:30pm - For patients, family members, caregivers and others affected by this neurological disorder. Free. Meets at 100 Clubwood Court.

CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT deb.casaccia@gmail.com or 989-1555 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6 p.m. – Held in a private home. Contact for directions.

DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7 p.m. – First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 101 DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE magneticminds.weebly.com or 367-7660 • WEDNESDAYS, 7 p.m. & SATURDAYS, 4 p.m. – 1316-C Parkwood Road DIABETES SUPPORT laura.tolle@msj.org or 213-4788 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 5:30pm – Mission Health, 1 Hospital Drive. Room 3-B. EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUPS Info: thecenternc.weebly.com or 337-4685. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

ELECTRO-SENSITIVITY SUPPORT For electrosensitive individuals. For location and info contact hopefulandwired@gmail.com or 255-3350.

EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS For anyone desiring to live a healthier emotional life. Info: 631-434-5294 • TUESDAYS, 7 p.m. – Oak Forest Presbyterian Church, 880 Sandhill Road FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 423-6191 or 301-4084 • THURSDAYS, 6 p.m. – Asheville 12 Step Club, 1340A Patton Ave. HEART OF RECOVERY MEDITATION GROUP Teaches how to integrate meditation with any 12-step recovery program. asheville.shambhala. org • TUESDAYS, 6 p.m.- Shambhala Meditation Center, 19 Westwood Place.

HEART SUPPORT For individuals living with heart failure. 2746000.

• 1st TUESDAYS, 2-4pm – Asheville Cardiology Associates, 5 Vanderbilt Drive.

LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association.

776-4809.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30 p.m. – Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston Ave.

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ASPERGER’S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/AspergersTeensUnited • SATURDAYS, 6-9pm – For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks starting June 28.

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MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS For caregivers of those with memory loss or

dementia. network@memorycare.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 9:30am – Highland Farms Retirement Community, 200 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain MEN WORKING ON LIFE’S ISSUES 686-5590 or 683-7195 • TUESDAYS, 6-8pm – Meets at 90 Zillicoa Ave. MISSION HEALTH FAMILY GROUP NIGHT For caregivers of children with social health needs or development concerns. 213-9787 • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30 p.m. – Mission Rueter Children’s Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive.

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For relatives and friends concerned about the addiction or drug problem of a loved one. Info: nar-anon.org. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS For people living with mental health issues and their loved ones. Info: namiwnc.org or 505-7353.

Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

OVERCOMES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE For anyone who is dealing with physical and/or emotional abuse. 665-9499.

• WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm – The First Christian Church, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler.

OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Info: 258-4821. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Info: recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS, 6pm – Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 376 Hendersonville Road.

S-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For those affected by another’s sexaholism. Four confidential meetings are available weekly in WNC. For dates, times and locations contact wncsanon@gmail.com or 258-5117.

SMART RECOVERY Helps individuals gain independence from all types of addictive behavior. Visit mountainx.com/ support for full listings.

STRENGTH IN SURVIVORSHIP For cancer survivors. Strengthinsurvivorship@ yahoo.com or 808-7673 • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-noon – Mills River Library, 124 Town Drive, Mills River SYLVA GRIEF SUPPORT Hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life. melee@fourseasonscfl.org • TUESDAYS, 10:30am. - Jackson County Department on Aging, 100 Country Services Park, Sylva To add information about your support group, contact 251-1333, ext. 114. Support groups must be free of charge to be listed.

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WARNING! Dihydrogen Monoxide is EVERYWHERE!

Things you might not know about the chemical Dihydrogen Monoxide: • it’s in many foods and beverages and in our environment • it is tasteless • it’s colorless • excess intake of dihydrogen monoxide in a short period of time can cause death • inhalation of dihydrogen monoxide can cause death • prolonged exposure to dihydrogen monoxide in the solid form can cause death

If you haven’t already guessed or seen the Penn and Teller YouTube video from 2006 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yi3erdgVVTw ) Dihydrogen Monoxide is WATER (H20 - Two hydrogen molecules (di) + one oxygen molecule). The Penn and Teller video shows many people who succumbed to chemophobia and when warned of the “risks” of dihydrogen monoxide they readily signed a petition to ban it....a ban on WATER. The point is, there are many perfectly safe chemicals (like water) and ingredients in our foods, medicines and cosmetics; but they can be dangerous if they are consumed in excess or inappropriately. Unfortunately these days there seem to be an increasing number of unqualified bloggers and TV celebrities promoting fear-based messages about food and ingredients. Before reacting in fear, get the facts from experts that have science-based education, credentials and training.

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For many, edible plants are grown in rows in the vegetable garden — often kept out of sight in the back or side yard. But for Sheila Dunn, a retired microbiologist and Master Gardener, edibles are a practical and beautiful necessity to be displayed and woven into the landscape. Dunn converted her steep, rocky Weaverville property into an edible landscape filled with fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs, mushrooms and bees.

Mountain Xpress: How did you become interested in growing edibles?

Dunn: The main impetus was that I’m a foodie, and I’m also very thrifty.

When I saw Asian persimmons at the store for $2.69 apiece — and they’re my favorite — I just said, “I’m not paying this, especially for something that’s been shipped from who knows where in Styrofoam. There’s got to be a smarter way.”

I like to eat exotic food and things I can’t find around here, so now I grow it. I even grow oranges, coffee and lemons indoors — not at a high-volume, but enough that I’m helping to cut down on the cost to ship and package produce. I also grow sources of protein, like shiitake mushrooms and hazelnuts.

Altogether, I grow about 60 percent of what I eat, and I share the rest with friends. And some food bartering helps too. There’s a lot of homesteaders and little farms near here, so they have eggs and meat to share with me.

That said, I started this to save money, but that was the craziest idea I’ve ever had in my life. I call it the $64 raspberry. By time you’ve made compost, hauled it up the hill, composted, watered, beat the raccoons and the squirrels to it — you haven’t

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A GARDEN FOR A FOODIE: Sheila Dunn transformed her steep Weaverville lawn into an edible landscape where fruits, vegetables and other delights take the place of grass. Photos by Carrie Eidson

saved a penny, truly. So my initial premise was a little wrong, but I did want to be sustainable. I wanted this place to have the right combination of food so I could live off it, if I had to.

Can you explain the difference between edible landscaping and edible gardening?

A typical garden for edibles is done in rows, whereas I’ve got edibles tucked in everywhere. This place is about 60 percent covered in edibles, mixed with perennials and pollinators. My strategy is to create really windy paths around the property, lined with fruit trees and fruit bushes. It makes your property seem five times bigger because it takes that much longer to walk it when you’re winding around. The bushes obscure your view and create curves, so around each bend there’s something new to see.

Even my veggie garden, I do in circular patterns. I think it’s more aesthetically pleasing, but it also

seems to fool the predators. Bugs will go right after a big, long row of something, but when things are sprinkled around, you have a higher success rate, even if it does make it harder to harvest.

With edible landscaping, you’re moving toward letting the property take care of itself. I realized a couple of years ago I was spending 40 hours a week on this property — and that’s a full-time job.

I’m retired, but still, I have other things I want to do besides weed.

Ninety percent of this is hard, back-breaking work, and I’m just one person. So eventually I’m working toward having it be things that take care of themselves easily. Examples of that are plants like hardy kiwis and jujubes.

That said, I do have some stuff growing in rows in an area of reclaimed woods. I have a whole lot of vegetables there — 25 tomato plants, Brussels sprouts, kale, a zillion herbs, about 500 strawberries, hazelnuts, mulberries. But that area is in transition, and eventually it will

become a self-sustaining orchard.

When you choose what to grow, do you go with what grows easily or what you most want to eat?

My criteria are this: Do I love it? Is it expensive at the grocery store? Is it something that I can’t find at the grocery store? I also don’t grow anything that requires constant pruning or bug-picking. I don’t baby anything.

I made a lot of mistakes my first few years planting things that were pretty, but I don’t love them. Like okra, which is a beautiful plant, but I don’t use it very often. But I think it’s worth growing something if it has to be shipped from far away. I experiment every year with growing something new and weird. Like quinoa. Or the Chinese jujubes. Those are small trees, but the fruit is amazing. You dry them and they’re like dates. They can withstand drought, they can withstand floods, they never, ever have a pest, and they bloom and produce every year. Same with hazelnuts; they’re no-brainers.

The quinoa, by the way, didn’t do so well. But I have grown some Andean stuff like yacón and it was very successful.

For people who are interested in growing edibles, what are some tips you would recommend?

The first thing for me was to get rid of the lawn. When I moved to this house, it was 100 percent pure-clay lawn, surrounded by woods. I lost control of an electric mower that I was running at about a 60-degree angle. It fell down the hill, still going, and I said, “I’ve had it with this.” That’s when I decided to terrace the front and put in paths, but it is a process.

Just this year, I’ve replaced the last of the grass and I finally gave away my mowers last year.

The hardscaping is where the expense comes in. I chose stone terraces, but that’s expensive. You can use timber, but for organic gardening you can’t use treated wood. You can also think about going vertical with trellis gardening. You can grow hops, muscadines, hardy kiwis, luffa gourds, squashes, peas, any kind of trailing plant. Seedless grapes can be a little difficult here, but you can grow Concords easily. You can fit an amazing amount of crops in an area about the size of a deck.

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are many edible natives, like elderberry, sochan and nettles. You do have to watch out for aggressive plants. Many people think only non-natives can be invasive, but some — Jerusalem artichokes and native mints for example — are very aggressive, and so you want to keep those in containers.

I think the average homeowner would just get a kick out of growing edibles. Let’s say you have a place you’re going to put in a bush. Well, instead of putting in an exotic flowering bush, why not put a blueberry bush or a cherry bush? You can make a smoothie or a pie and know that it doesn’t have pesticides on it, and it will taste better because it’s right off the plant. Plus you can freeze the excess and have smoothies every day, even in the winter. In the same way, if you have a little area and you know you’re going to grow a tree in it, why not grow an Asian persimmon or an Asian pear or a jujube or a cherry?

It’s much more fun than growing petunias. There’s a lot of really cool things you could do, and then you’ve got the satisfaction of going out there and harvesting your own fruits. You can work in phases and depending on what you do, it doesn’t have to be that much work. X

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Wild roots New chef at Lex 18 spotlights the bounty of Appalachia

BY GINA SMITH

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After being open for less than two months, Lex 18 closed in early June only to re-emerge on June 14 flaunting some significant changes.

Although the restaurant’s interior maintains the same rich, vintage Jazz Age décor, and the bar still highlights the upscale moonshine and classic cocktails touted at its first opening in March, a shift of ownership has resulted in an eatery with a completely reinvented culinary direction.

Lex 18’s original manifestation with its breakfast and lunch service and accessible, Southern comfort-food menu was a collaboration between Suwana’s Thai Orchid owner Suwana Cry and a local partnership called Jack & Masters.

When Cry sold her share of the business to Jack & Masters on June 6, Edwin Bloodworth was brought on board as executive chef, and a new venture began taking shape — a supper club serving fourcourse, prix-fixe meals that feature Bloodworth’s signature brand of Appalachian-inspired cuisine.

Co-owner Georgia Malki says the restaurant’s new tenor is in keeping with her own vision for the space and her desire to honor and highlight its rich history. The building has been owned by the O’Donnell family for generations and during the Prohibition years housed a real speakeasy, the Eureka Saloon.

Malki is also proud that the new menu highlights mountain food traditions. “We knew we wanted to introduce something that was very regional and authentic yet innovative, and that was already [Bloodworth’s] vision and experience. It was what he grew up with,” she says.

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Bloodworth, known for his recent work as chef de cuisine at the Gamekeeper in Boone and sous chef under John Shields at Town House in Chilhowie, Va., says he was looking for an opportunity in Asheville where he could run the kitchen, and his wife, Jeannie, could work front of house. He says he had reservations about the Lex 18 job being a good fit for him based on the restaurant’s previous focus on Southern food, but after several long interviews with the owners, they both saw a definite synchronicity.

“Both parties felt like my focus on Appalachian cuisine fit with the history of this space, and the whole moonshine theme obviously originated in Appalachia as well,” Bloodworth says. “And we both had that interest in the historical aspects of food and drink — I think that was the deciding factor on teaming up.”

“We met him three different times, for four- to five-hour interviews,” says Malki. “We talked about his

MOUNTAIN FLAVOR: Lex 18 chef Edwin Bloodworth draws on experiences from his mountain upbringing for inspiration.

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vision and what inspired him, and after the third major inteview, I said ‘I would like to make you an offer.’” Malki says she is also delighted to have brought Jeannie Bloodworth on to manage front-ofhouse concerns.

For Edwin Bloodworth, “Appalachian cuisine” means foraging wild edibles to create dishes grounded in the traditions of the region that often come with some unexpected twists. A recent chef’s tasting at Lex 18 revealed courses with a familiar feel, such as a creamy mushroom soup and mountain trout with grits, accented with fresh-

from-the-landscape items, including lemon balm leaves, daylily flowers, pea blossoms and wax myrtle.

Following an amuse-bouche of house-made seaweed crackers, diners were even encouraged by the wait staff to eat what many had assumed was the garnish — a redclover blossom.

Originally from Sparta, N.C., a small town about an hour north of Boone, Bloodworth has no formal training but has been working in kitchens since he took his first job the day he turned 14. He attributes the origins of his interest in Appalachian food traditions and foraged edibles to his time spent working under Shields at Town House.

But he also acknowledges that his culinary leanings spring from a deeper place.

“It’s my roots. I used to forage for ginseng with my dad when I was young. ... I used to chew on birch trees as a kid for the minty flavor, I used to eat wild sorrel as a kid

because it was so tart — we used to call it rabbit food.When I think about it, I’ve been doing it for a long time. I just never thought about putting it on a plate until the last couple years when John Shilelds started to put it on plates, and then I was like, ‘Wait a minute, I recognize that!’”

Diners at the chef’s tasting seemed intrigued by the addition of wildflowers and leaves to their meal, and many commented on the flavors of the plants and how they complemented the other ingredients. Some said it was the first time they had ever thought to eat some of the items, many of which are more commonly observed on the grounds of a local park than on a dinner plate. But this reaction, according to Bloodworth, speaks to an important responsibility of his profession.

“I feel like as a chef, it’s kind of [my] job to explore new flavors

and new foods. The American public has fallen into this rut of what’s acceptable and what’s weird [when it comes to food]. ... All this foraging stuff that people say is so cool and so new and so progressive and all that … it’s like, ‘Well, not really.’ Our grandparents and great-grandparents all survived on this stuff, and it’s kind of been forgotten about. I feel like as responsible humans we’re supposed to know these things. It’s supposed to be in our genetics to live off the land and be aware of what’s out there.”

Lex 18 is at 18 Lexington Ave. A fourcourse supper with finale is served 5-9:30 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday. The moonshine bar is open 3 p.m.-late Tuesday-Sunday. Brunch is served 10 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.

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By the time we come down from the clouds that cling to the mountains and pull into Tryon, the rain is hot on our heels on a Friday afternoon. Not good news for the 73 competition barbecue cookers who have come from as far away as Texas and Missouri to try their hand at yet another trophy, this time at the recent Blue Ridge BBQ & Music Festival.

At the moment, they don’t seem too concerned about the rain.

Mammoth RVs cover the competition grounds, and beside each is a comically large smoker, usually painted in bright, themed colors and billowing smoke. The proprietors of these mobile kitchens relax in lawn chairs, red Solo cups in hand, country music blaring on the boom box.

“When you have a Solo cup that needs a wagon, that’s how you know you’re doing it right,” says William “Bubba” Latimer of the Georgiabased Bub-Ba-Q, holding a red plastic cup that appears to contain several gallons. His restaurant has three locations across Georgia: Woodstock, Savannah and Jasper.

The field looks more like a tailgate party before a college football game than a bloodthirsty contest between some of the most competitive ’cue cookers in the country. But a thick coat of smoke hangs over us, and the air smells like burning wood.

“Y’all hungry?” asks Latimer, emerging from the kitchen of his RV. “Try some of this chicken.” On a folding table, he sets down a paper plate piled with cuts of smoked chicken, the edges slightly blackened with carbon. It falls apart at the touch and the juices drip from it, incredible flavor and fat dribbling down my arm as I attempt to shove it in my face as gracefully and respectfully as possible.

Latimer says he and his wife, Shannon, have been doing about 40-45 barbecue competitions a year

CUTTING TO THE CHASE: Joe Ervin of Neanderhogs Up in Smoke BBQ of Greer, S.C., prepares for battle in the 2014 Blue Ridge BBQ Festival competition.

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for nine years now. “In fact, this is our ninth year at this contest,” he says. “All but twice we’ve been in the top five.”

There’s a great deal of camaraderie on the competition grounds.

Friends seem to reserve spots next to one another and circle their lawn chairs and coolers to relax and enjoy one another’s company.

“Don’t get me wrong,” says Latimer, “I want to beat all their asses out here, and same with them, but it’s friendly competition. It’s no holds barred tomorrow, don’t get me wrong on that, but at the end of the day, we’re all friends.”

Mike Moore, owner of Old Plantation BBQ in Rome, Ga., won

two grand championships and a fifth place in competitions in Georgia and Tennessee all within the last two weeks. “I retired this month a year ago from the fire service after 34 years, and I just do this for fun now,” he says.

But don’t think he’s not competitive.

“I’m not here to waste a thousand dollars on an entry fee just to get in here, party all night tonight and then not be able to get up tomorrow morning. I’ll be up at 4:30 a.m.,” he says.

The competition includes separate categories for chicken, pork ribs, pork and brisket with additional contests for whole hog, “Anything But” (nontraditional meat, like lamb), desserts and potato salad.

Competitors who score best across

the board receive an overall ranking and compete for the title of grand champion.

“You’re supposed to turn in all four categories 30 minutes apart, and they judge them for taste, tenderness and appearance,” says Hudson Denny of Too Bad You’re My Cousin BBQ out of Greenville, S.C. Denny got into the ’cue game after an infuriating night with his gas grill. About 11 years ago, he explains, “I got pissed off at a gas grill that wouldn’t light, and so I launched it over the fence. So I decided I was never going to cook on gas again.”

He bought a small smoker, thinking he would just take it to tailgate parties, but it turns out he never made it to a game.

Instead, he started competing, and in 2012 he took home a first-place trophy from the Hog Happnin’ in Shelby, N.C. This year at Tryon, when the contests were all over and the smoke had cleared, Moore had taken sixth place overall — fourth place for his pork ribs and a ninth place for brisket. Denny and his crew took ninth in the chicken category, and Latimer’s Bub-Ba-Q was ranked ninth in pork ribs.

As for the victors, Donny Bray of Bowling Green, Ky.’s Warren County Pork Choppers took top honors overall, breaking what he considered to be a six-week slump, despite having claimed six grand championships this year.

But the glow of victory is shortlived on the competition circuit.

By early Sunday morning, all the tents had been packed away, the smokers — now cool — had been hitched to the backs of RVs, and the nomad barbecuers were on to the next competition. X

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Charlotte-based restaurant chain Toast Café is planning to open as many as three locations in Asheville in the coming months.

CEO Robert Maynard says he is looking at potential spaces downtown on Biltmore Avenue as well as in West Asheville. According to Maynard, the company, which focuses on breakfast (but also serves lunch and dinner) made from scratch with fresh ingredients, would prefer to open with local franchisees but is prepared to open corporate stores if necessary. “We want to keep the jobs local; we think it’s really good for the town, for the brand and for the people,” says Maynard.

Maynard says he would love to begin sourcing some of the restaurant’s ingredients from Asheville-area producers, especially since using locally grown food is not as accessible in the Charlotte market. “We have a great opportunity [in Asheville] where a lot of the other restaurants are already doing locally sourced food, so it makes it easier for us to tap into that distribution.”

The chain now has three locations in the Charlotte area and one in Tega Cay, S.C. Maynard says the timeline for opening the Asheville locations is 12-18 months.

Toast Café first opened in Huntersville, N.C., in 2005 as a small breakfast spot in a house-turnedrestaurant. The restaurant became a franchise in 2013. Breakfast and lunch are served 7 a.m.-3 p.m. daily, with dinner available 5-9 p.m. WednesdaySaturday. The breakfast menu includes egg dishes and omelets, pancakes and French toast and breakfast sandwiches. Breakfast prices are in the $4-10 range. Cocktails, beer and wine are available with lunch and dinner.

For details and to view the full menu, visit toastcafeonline.com. For information on becoming a franchisee, email franchise@toastcafeonline.com.

EDIBLE AND MEDICINAL PLANT GUIDE In April, herbalist, author and backpacking enthusiast Heather Housekeeper published A Guide to the Edible and Medicinal Plants of the

TOAST OF THE TOWN: Toast Café CEO Robert Maynard has been looking at expanding his chain of breakfast eateries into the Asheville market for more than a year. He plans to have up to three Asheville locations. Photo courtesy of Toast Café

Mountains-to-Sea Trail, a practical guide for backpackers for identifying, harvesting and preparing the edible flora of the trail. Housekeeper, who lived for many years in Asheville and received training at the Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine, did hands-on research for the book while thru-hiking the trail in 2011. She is again doing a thru-hike and will hold book signings and discussions along the way, with events planned in midJuly and early August in Asheville at locations including Malaprops and Filo. More details are to come. Check her blog regularly for updates. thebotanicalhiker.blogspot.com MONTFORD FARMERS MARKET MOVES TO THE RAD After more than three years behind the Asheville Chamber of Commerce, the Montford Farmers Market is about to get a River Arts District address. Due to Lenoir Rhyne University’s need for more parking, the market is moving one mile down the road to All Souls Pizza starting Wednesday, July 2. With

the move, the market’s name will change to the River Arts District Farmers Market. A grand opening celebration will be held 2-10 p.m.

Wednesday, July 9, along with All Souls’ first anniversary. Festivities will include live music, food specials, market tastings and more.

All Souls Pizza is at 175 Clingman Ave. Market hours are 2-6 p.m.

GARDEN PARTY AND FARM TOUR Vine Ripe Home Grown Nutrition will host a Garden Party and Farm Tour at First Blossom Farm on Thursday, June 26. The event is free and will feature live music; door prizes; recipes and refreshments prepared by Denise Barratt, dietitian and nutritionist from Vine Ripe Nutrition. Fresh produce from the farm will be for sale, and guests can participate in guided tours of the farm.

The party is 5-7 p.m. Thursday, June 26. First Blossom Farm is at 230 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester. Details at 423-5216 or vineripenutriton.com X

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In Colorado, Oskar Blues has plenty of side projects. There’s CHUBurger, which is its take on a fast-casual burger joint. There’s Cyclhops, a bike cantina, where the brewer combines a taco and tequila restaurant with REEB Cycles, its own brand of bikes.

There’s the Bonewagon, a smokehouse on wheels. And Oskar Blues even has a farm, dubbed Hops & Heifers, where it grows hops and raises cows on spent brewing grain for the restaurants.

Some speculated that here in WNC, Oskar Blues would soon have an eatery in Brevard to complement the brewery. Oskar Blues Brevard spokesperson Anne-Fitten Glenn says, “We’d love to have a restaurant in Western North Carolina, because full food and beverage hospitality is where we come from, but we’re still looking for the best location. What’s next for Oskar Blues is the Oskar Blues REEB Ranch!”

What is a REEB Ranch? To start, it’s a 145-acre farm about eight miles from Oskar Blues Brevard, located at 315 Shoals Farm Road in Hendersonville. It will include dedicated space to grow hops, pasture land for cows (fed on spent brewing grain, of course), a music and event space, and a paradise for cyclists.

On the bike-riding side of things, Oskar Blues REEB Ranch will partner with The Bike Farm, an existing bike guide/concierge service owned

by Cashion Smith and Eva Surls.

Together with the REEB Ranch, The Bike Farm will create a site that provides a “world-class biking destination for the whole family,” says Glenn. “It will offer a bike park and direct trail access to Dupont’s miles of single track.”

While the costs to participate are not finalized, Smith says, “A pay-toplay structure will be in place. This will include day passes, week passes, weekend passes and season passes.

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FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: $7 growler fills LEXINGTON AVE (LAB): $3 pints all day OSKAR BLUES: Wednesday night bike ride, 6pm; Wild Bill’s Beer Run: group run into Pisgah National Forest, leaves brewery @ 6pm OYSTER HOUSE: $2 off growler fills WEDGE: Food Truck: Root Down (comfort food, Cajun)

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RANCH-STYLE: Oskar Blues will be refurbishing many of the original buildings on the property of its REEB Ranch in Hendersonville for use as guest lodgings. Photo courtesy of Oskar Blues

ASHEVILLE BREWING: $3.50 pints at Merrimon location FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: Live Music: Corey Hunt Band, 6-8pm

There will also be a ‘dig-to-ride’ program for locals who want to work off their access via volunteer hours.”

In addition to the bike park and trails, Oskar Blues’ own brand of handbuilt cycles, REEB, will have a fleet of mountain bike and dirt-jumping models available for demo at the ranch.

While rides are rolling from the ranch already, the dirt track is still a work in progress, according to Smith.

However, it seems like a safe-bet the track will be finished in time for the Red Bull Dreamline, a BMX competition in October. Oskar Blues has not yet confirmed it’s hosting the event at the ranch, but the Red Bull website lists the ranch as the site of the event.

The ranch is a prime space for just this type of larger event, as well as festivals and live music, as it has a couple of options for staying the night built right in. There’s a 1940s cabin, an apartment on top of a barn and plenty of space for pitching your own tent. “The barn apartment can sleep up to six, as can the waterfall cabin. … We can easily accommodate a hundred tent or car campers,” says Smith.X

Highland’s next 20th anniversary beers

Highland announced earlier this year it would be releasing 20 specialty beers one by one to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Now that the first few beers have been released, Highland is giving away a bit of its hand on the next ones up in the series. Highland’s communications manager, Drew Stevenson, says No. 7 will be a red rye IPA brewed in collaboration John Stuart of Green Man. The name of the beer is Roslyn, a fitting choice since it’s the name of a Scottish chapel with more carvings of the Green Man than any other building in the world. Then No. 8 will be a big batch of American Saison, which will be released in conjunction with Night Flight, a 4-mile evening road race benefiting Asheville Greenways. For details and to register for the race, visit www.highlandbrewing.com/ashevillebeerrace.

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HIGHLAND: New Brew: Rossalyn Red Rye IPA (collaboration w/ Green Man) OSKAR BLUES: Live Music: James Scott (singer-songwriter), 6pm; Food Truck: 3 Suns Bistro OYSTER HOUSE: $4 well drinks WEDGE: Food Truck: Tin Can Pizzeria

FRIDAY FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: Live Music: Alarm Clock Conspiracy (indierock), 6-8pm HIGHLAND: Live Music: Bobby Miller & The Virginia Daredevils (bluegrass), 6:308:30pm; Food Truck: Pho Ya Belly OSKAR BLUES: Live Music: Todd Hoke (roots), 6pm; Food Truck: 3 Suns Bistro WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales)

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HIGHLAND: Live Music: Jump Yur Grin (blues), 6:30-8:30pm; Food Truck: Pho Ya Belly

CATAWBA: Mixed-Up Mondays: beer infusions

OSKAR BLUES: Live Music: Conservation Theory (bluegrass), 6pm

FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: $2.50 pints

WEDGE: Food Truck: El Kimchi (Korean/ Mexican street food)

OSKAR BLUES: Mountain Music Mondays, 6pm

WICKED WEED: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 11am

OYSTER HOUSE: $3 pint night

SUNDAY HI-WIRE: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 12:15pm; Live Music: Andrew Scotchie of The River Rats & guests (rock), 5-7pm LEXINGTON AVE (LAB): Live Music: Bluegrass brunch; $10 pitchers all day WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales); Live Music: Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz, swing), 6pm

WEDGE: Immoral Monday: $4 beers are $3.50, $5 beers are $4, pitchers are $10; Food Truck: El Kimchi (Korean/Mexican street food)

TUESDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: $2 Tuesday CATAWBA: $2 off growler fills HI-WIRE: $2.50 house pints OSKAR BLUES: Tasty Tuesday: Kolsch on tap

MONDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Old-time jam, 8pm

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Look at the literature around Wild Goose Festival — an arts-and-ideas gathering held Thursday-Sunday, June 26-29, in Hot Springs — and you’ll see three recurring words: justice, art and spirituality. These themes respond to the conservative motto of faith, family and freedom so prominent in political arenas. But where conservative Christians gather to discuss how to protect their values from liberal agendas, the progressive Christians at the helm of Wild Goose are actively looking for ways to endorse their values.

“A lot of people say they come because they want to be with their tribe,” says festival producer and Episcopal priest Rosa Lee Harden.

“You can look around, and there are people who look like you and talk like you. You can say the word ‘Jesus’ without someone misunderstanding who you are.” She’s referring to the prevailing perception in mainstream thought: To be Christian in America is to hold fast to conservative political opinions.

But that attitude is being challenged

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by many in the greater Wild Goose community, and many of the festival’s talks and performances are aimed at quelling that mindset.

In 2004, Harden explains, “People like me woke up to hear … that values voters had elected George W. Bush for a second term. But I went to the polls with my values too.” It was misleading to say these people have values and those who voted for somebody else didn’t have values, she says. The media lead people to assume that “real Christians are tea-party gun carriers. Those of us who don’t think that way feel isolated and misunderstood.”

Although the festival is curated with progressive Christians in mind, its main purpose is to discuss how

ALL-INCLUSIVE: The roster of entertainment at Wild Goose Festival ranges from pop-rock praise band Jars of Clay, pictured, to “gender-bending performance artist” Reverend Yolanda. Photo courtesy of the festival

to make the world a more just and equitable place. There is a welcoming atmosphere for people of all faith traditions, as well as secularists and nonbelievers.

Festival promoter Ami Worthen — a self-described agnostic — says, “That’s completely accurate. It is one of the most accepting groups of people I’ve ever experienced.”

J. Clarkson, the festival’s director of strategic partnerships, adds that the kind of faith embraced at Wild Goose is about more than by-the-book theology. “People talk about being spiritual rather than religious,” he says. “I think that’s in part a way of expressing their desire to have some tools that help with living every day. ... They might find spiritual tools more easily in a Guy Clark song than in a Martin Luther hymn.”

Speaking of songs, the festival lineup includes musicians ranging from singer-songwriter-producer Phil Madeira (known for his work with Emmylou Harris and Patty Griffin, among others) to pop-rock praise band Jars of Clay, local soul

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The Coolest Place in Town ALL TOGETHER NOW: “A lot of people say they come because they want to be with their tribe” says Wild Goose Festival producer and Episcopal priest Rosa Lee Harden. Adrienne Ingrum, pictured, took part in last year’s event. Photo courtesy of the festival.

and R&B singer Lyric and “gender-bending performance artist” Reverend Yolanda. There’s a circus troupe — the Carnivale de Resistance — performing under a big top and gatherings around things like “Beer and Hymns,” plus an educational, spirited singalong of classic freedom songs.

“We’re not unaware that this is the 50th anniversary of Freedom Summer,” says Harden.

Following this year’s theme of Living Liberation (adhering to the tenets of Liberation Theology), speakers include the Rev. William J. Barber II, best-known as the organizer and mouthpiece of Moral Monday and currently the dominant Southern voice at the intersection of equality, justice and faith. Franklyn Schaefer, who made national headlines late last year when the United Methodist Church defrocked him after he conducted a wedding for his gay son, will talk about why he officiated that ceremony and the fallout that followed.

Another speaker by the same name — atheist author and artist Frank Schaeffer — will discuss atheism, art and God.

Clarkson will lead a talk titled “Theological Education: WTF?” in the spirit of the philosophical “WTF with Marc Maron” podcast, to discuss why anyone interested in Christian traditions should bother with attending seminary.

“There is a lot of wisdom that has been preserved in institutions and passed along through seminaries for thousands of years,” he says.

“How do we give people access to that wisdom in a culture that has (for plenty of good reasons) become very suspicious of institutions? As the roles of clergy people evolve, the methods of training them need to evolve as well.”

Beyond church-related discussions, there are presentations on writing and surmounting the cycle of violence, and a few aimed at unpacking the implications of white privilege: What is it, why is it and how to use it for good and not evil? Social movements will be discussed at great length, from Occupy to LGBT rights. Rounding out the long weekend, the roster includes yoga, movies and 12-step meetings — all planned to leave those in attendance inspired, entertained, liberated and, above all else, part of a vibrant, purpose-driven tribe. X

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The constant gardener Elizabeth Gilbert’s epic tale of botany, disappointment and adventure The Signature of All Things, the most recent book by Elizabeth Gilbert, begins in the 1700s and sweeps through much of the 19th century. Spanning Europe, Tahiti and pre-Civil War Pennsylvania, it frames several generations of the Whittaker family in the context of botanical exploration. But the ambitious novel, now out in paperback, had an unexceptional genesis.

“I had recently moved to a small town in New Jersey and bought an old house with a big lawn. Almost

WHO Elizabeth Gilbert WHERE Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville WHEN Friday, June 27, at 7 p.m.

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by instinct, I started a garden,” says Gilbert, best-known for her 2006 chronicle, Eat, Pray, Love. Even though she’d never had a garden before, the author says she found herself fascinated by the plants’ origins. “I didn’t just want to grow them: I wanted to know about them.

I found myself running background checks. My lilacs were from Turkey, the wisteria came from China; there was a huge story of human travel and commerce behind every plant in the garden.”

Inspired, Gilbert launched three years of research. “It was like watch-

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ing the slowest Polaroid ever,” she says. Instead of writing a nonfiction book along those lines, however, Gilbert created Signature, her first work of fiction in more than a decade. Yet the extensive groundwork shows in the book’s dense passages about plant studies and the erudite passions of main character Alma Whitaker.

But unlike Gilbert’s previous protagonists (rugged naturalist Eustace Conway in The Last American Man, the sassy bartender from “The Muse of the Coyote Ugly Saloon,” a GQ feature), Alma is neither self-made nor charming. Instead, she’s intimidatingly smart and far from beautiful: “Large-boned, heavy-jawed” with “trouble puzzling out how to arrange her clothing.”

“I’m aware of what a rare treasure it is to not have to go to a publisher and defend the idea of writing a 500-page novel about a spinster who studies moss,” says Gilbert, who attributes that luxury to her best-selling memoir. “If the good fortune that Eat, Pray, Love provided me didn’t give me the chance to take risks, then what’s the point of it? In a way, to write something so different from Eat, Pray, Love is a celebration of what Eat, Pray, Love gave me.”

Alma, an only child, is born on an estate owned by her formidable father, who made his fortune importing exotic plant species. That enabled him to corner the pharmaceuticals market, then dependent on extracts from such plants as the South American cinchona tree, whose bark was used to stave off malaria. Overeducated and undersocialized, Alma leads a sheltered life interrupted by an adopted sister (the beautiful but cold Prudence), an eccentric friendship (the ditzy Retta) and a mismatched partnership (the artistic but remote Ambrose).

Well into midlife, Alma makes the harrowing voyage to Polynesia to unravel mysteries both horticultural and human.

Signature does share themes with Gilbert’s previous works: a spirit of adventure and a less-than-rosy view of marriage. “If this book had a

GROWING PAINS: “I’m aware of what a rare treasure it is to not have to go to a publisher and defend the idea of writing a 500-page novel about a spinster who studies moss,” says Elizabeth Gilbert, author of best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love. Her new novel is her first work of fiction in more than a decade.

Author photo by Jennifer Schatten

motto, it would be ‘Disappointment doesn’t kill women,’” says the author, adding, “If it did, there wouldn’t be any women left alive.”

Disappointment in marriage and in life is a traditional subject in novels about women, she says, but “I feel like it’s often misunderstood.

Women have a tremendous capacity to be let down in love and relationships. ... They use some superpower of alchemy to take that and become really interesting people.

The women who I admire the most didn’t get as strong and wise and incredible as they are because things worked out.”

Alma echoes that perspective late in Signature, telling a contemporary of Charles Darwin: “I think I have been the most fortunate woman who ever lived. My heart has been broken, certainly, and most of my wishes did not come true. [Yet] I have never felt the need to invent a world beyond this world, for this world has always seemed large and beautiful enough for me.”

That sentiment seems to be born of Gilbert’s own personal evolution, over the past 25 years, from fear to fascination. “I used to be overwhelmed when I was writing, and now I’m just interested. I’m even interested when I’m scared and overwhelmed,” she says. “I’ve been in it long enough to recognize those patterns. All of these things are like stations of the cross: They’re part of the process.”

Seeing her work through despite boredom, difficulty and discomfort has enabled Gilbert to complete the projects that have reaped such huge rewards, both professionally and personally. She gave a popular 2010 TED talk on the creative process, and she’ll be a featured speaker at Oprah’s The Life You Want Weekend this fall.

“The most radical statement you can make as an artist is to say that you love your work,” says Gilbert.

“Believe that inspiration came to you for a reason.” X

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Appetite for expression Terpsicorps turns themes of hunger into a visual feast The idea behind Hunger, the newest production from Ashevillebased Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance, did not stem from a certain popular movie filmed in the area (sorry, Katniss). Instead, it grew from company founder and choreographer Heather Maloy’s more humanitarian desires.

“Originally, I wanted to draw attention to how severe the problem of hunger is within North Carolina,” she says. A 2012 study classified ours as one of 10 states with significantly higher household food insecurity

WHAT Terpricorps Theatre of Dance presents Hunger WHERE Diana Wortham Theatre dwtheatre.com WHEN Thursday-Saturday, June 26-28, at 8 p.m. $30 general, $28 seniors, $25 students, $20 teens, $12 children. Gala night is Thursday, June 26, 7 p.m. pre-show event. $75 VIP tickets

rates than the U.S. national average.

“I don’t think many people know just how bad it is, statistically. We’re one of the worst areas in the entire country right here,” Maloy says.

But the scope of Hunger soon grew outward. “When I started thinking about how I wanted to express this through dance, I didn’t necessarily just want to focus on that as the singular definition of hunger,” says Maloy. She started thinking of hunger in the broader scope, as in

what human beings hunger for.

“Everybody has a different inner drive — some good, some bad — that makes us do what we do and guides our lives,” she says.

The production is divided into 12 distinct pieces, with concepts ranging from “Hunger for Love” to “Hunger to Kill,” all of which are presented in disparate fashions. Each section has its own approach, from the poppier music and modern style of “Hunger for Sustenance,” to a more classical piece set to Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” and choreographed

by Terpsicorps ballet master Christopher Bandy.

“It’s very theater-based.

There’s lots of humor and storytelling,” Maloy says of the show.

Before starting Terpsicorps more than a decade ago, she performed with Carolina Dance Theatre. The choreographer she worked with at that company focused on storytelling and instilled in Maloy the idea that “great dancers should not just be beautiful movers and technicians, but they should be artists and be a character and tell a story,” she says. “That’s one of the things that’s unique about Terpsicorps. We draw dancers from Canada, Spain, all across the United States — and I’m very specific in what I look for. ... Not just beautiful dancers, but really good actors as well, who can convey very dark and very humorous emotions.”

Terpsicorps’ cast is culled from professionals from other companies who come to Asheville during the summer, which is the offseason for many dance troupes.

The local modern ballet company’s studio is tucked away inside an old River Arts District warehouse with high ceilings. There, during rehearsals on a Tuesday afternoon, Maloy went through “Hunger for Sustenance,” the first piece of this year’s production. “I choreograph almost everything on the spot in the room,” Maloy says of how she builds a show.

“There were phrases of movement, set steps of movement that

EVERYBODY’S GOT A HUNGRY HEART: “When I started thinking about how I wanted to express this through dance, I didn’t necessarily just want to focus on [a] singular definition of hunger,” says Terpsicops choreographer and founder Heather Maloy of the production Hunger. Photo by Zaire Kacz

[the dancers] already know. I’m taking bits and pieces of that and inserting it in different spots.”

She continues, “Most of my work happens right there on the spot with the dancers. I feel that when I try and go in a room and set things just right, it gets stale. It doesn’t take into account the talents of the people I’m working with.” The group rehearses from 11:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., five days a week. The dancers do get breaks, Maloy says, but she doesn’t. “Being a dancer’s very similar to being an athlete,” she explains. “When you hear about Olympic athletes and how much they work, it’s similar to that for dancers. You’re in better shape and a bet-

ter dancer for working that many hours, but you’ve got to get it all done. So we’re here all day — it’s the job.”

That kind of conditioning is necessary: all of the choreography and the show itself are constructed over the span of a few weeks. The dancers rehearse for less than a month. Plus, Hunger will be performed for just one weekend at the Diana Wortham Theatre. “It’s a very quick rehearsal time. Most companies have more time than I give myself,” Maloy says. But it’s worth the trouble: “I work all year long for that one show.” X

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Singer-songwriter Neko Case brings the conversation back to her music Since the release of last year’s The Worse Things Get, the Harder I Fight, the Harder I Fight, the More I Love You, her sixth album as a solo artist, Neko Case can’t seem to quit talking about gender. Songs like “Man” and “I’m From Nowhere” added to her collection of tunes that elliptically reject gender binaries, and coverage of the album rarely avoided the topic. The issue reached a fever pitch a few weeks ago when Case got in an expletive-laden Twitter spat with Playboy magazine, with whom she had already sparred with in the past, about being referred to as a “woman in music.”

WHO Neko Case with Laura Veirs WHERE The Orange Peel, theorangepeel.net

MAKING HER POINT: “The actual writing of the songs wasn’t cathartic at all,” says Neko Case of last year’s The Worse Things Get. The Grammy-nominated album, however, is at once humorous and dark. Photo courtesy of the musician

WHEN Thursday, June 26, at 9 p.m. $28 advance/$30 day of show

When Xpress catches up with Case by phone (she’s on her farm in Vermont, preparing for a summer tour that includes a stop at the Orange Peel on Thursday, June 26), she seems set on putting discussions of label and politics aside. “I don’t really have anything to say about that,” she says bluntly. “If you want to talk about the music, that’s cool.”

And it’s easy to see why she might be frustrated by the relentless focus on feminism. The Worse Things Get is one of the finest collection of songs Case has ever assembled, with a dynamic sound that flies in the face of the relative sleepiness of 2009’s Middle Cyclone. It also marks a load-

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ed departure for Case, who for the first time wrote autobiographically rather than using fictional stories or characters. “I don’t really write about myself [much] because I’m not that interesting,” she says. “My experiences are not unique in any way, shape or form. I try to write stories so it can involve the audience a bit more.”

Likely because of the first-person perspective, Case’s humor is alive in these songs more than her past efforts, but at its heart, the album is really about the singer’s struggle with depression. She’s been open about fighting through depression over the last few years, with the death of her grandmother and both parents, and using her workaholic personality as a bit of a coping mechanism. “The actual writing of the songs wasn’t cathartic at all,”

she says. “It was really hard and did not make me feel better.” In fact, she wasn’t even sure she was going to use this set of songs but ultimately decided it was worth bringing out in the open.

“Depression is a pretty universal experience, but it’s also pretty taboo,” she says. “There’s a lot of banality in your life, and it’s hard to take yourself seriously. But I realized that, wow, there actually is funny stuff [in it]. The sheer drudgery is kind of hilarious.”

The humor comes from sly oneliners like, “If I puked up some sonnets, would you call it a miracle?” and allusions to the abominable fashion trends of the 1980s.

But there’s a darkness underlying much of what initially seems comical. These songs are full of selfdoubt and indecision, with the laugh-out-loud moments clouded by the sense that the speaker’s unnamed trauma is lurking below the surface.

Fortunately, when Case got in the studio, she was determined to amp up the initial demos a bit. “I really just wanted to play more guitar and play guitar with other people,” she says. “I had to stretch myself out as a player and hammer off the barnacles a bit.”

Case’s insistent strums, along with guitar parts by band members Jon Rauhouse and Paul Rigby, and guest spots from M. Ward and My Morning Jacket’s Carl Broemel, define much of the record, giving the album an energetic blast of flamboyance that often runs counter to the lyrical content. Frequent vocal collaborator Kelly Hogan is also on hand, but there’s rarely a moment where Case doesn’t seem to be taking most of the lead as she injects her soaring and reverbladen vocals into each song with immaculate precision and poise.

That kind of charisma finds its way into to the singer/songwriter’s public personality, too. She is a relatively outspoken musician with a razor-sharp wit. But, Case points out, she isn’t trying to be anything other than herself.

“I’m definitely not a persona onstage,” she insists. “If I was I’d make a fool of myself.” X

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Not your mama’s band camp

Each day, campers will learn to play instruments, team up to form bands, write original tunes and be coached on performance. Lunchtime concerts feature local all-girl bands followed by question-and-answer sessions. This is a rare opportunity for girls ages 8-16 not only to see a rock show up close and personal, but also to get a glimpse behind the scenes. The lineup includes punk act Zombie Queen, soul artist Lyric and the duo of Laura Blackley and Nancy Asch.

Although it’s called Girls Rock, it’s not just about rock ’n’ roll.

Country, R&B, electronica and rap are all represented. Workshops topics include songwriting, media literacy and mechanics of sound.

There’s also “Gender Identity in Music/‘Your body is an instru-

ment,’” and “Music HERstory” — an exploration of successful female musicians spanning all races, economic levels and sexual identities.

There is even a course in selfdefense, but according to La Bate, it’s not about fighting off crowds of future fans. It’s all about empowerment. “When you have a voice, know your instrument, have access to the stage and feel the strength of your own body, you’re not a victim,” she says.

No previous musical experience is required. Tuition is on a sliding scale from free to $250. Also, Girls Rock Asheville is accepting donations of instruments and musical equipment, which can be dropped off at the Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road.

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HAPPY CAMPERS: Girls Rock Asheville plans to teach youths ages 8-16 about music, performance and more. Photo courtesy of Girls Rock North Carolina

Registration is open for DIY-styled Girls Rock Asheville

There are camps (s’mores, “Kumbayah”), there are band camps (field formations, show songs) and then there are band camps (electric guitars, amps, penning the next “I Love Rock ’n’ Roll”). The last is just part of the curriculum at Girls Rock Camp. The international movement, which has been building leadership skills and self-esteem since the initiative began in Portland, Ore., in 2007, has finally made its way to Asheville.

Registration for the three-day band camp is open through Monday, June 30. The summer experience for girls and trans-youths — meaning any-

one who identifies as a girl — is held Thursday-Saturday, July 10-12, 8 a.m.- 4 p.m. daily at The Mothlight. The camp culminates with a Sunday, July 13 performance at The Orange Peel.

Girls Rock Asheville vice president, songwriter Chelsea La Bate, says the all-female volunteer mentors are mostly working musicians who hope to inspire the next generation. “We’re living, breathing artists going through it all now,” La Bate says. Girls Rock Asheville founder Erin Kinard discovered the movement when she volunteered at the chapter in Charleston, S.C. Returning to Asheville, Kinard began looking for women to help get a local chapter started.

La Bate was one of the first responders, and now more than 40 women are involved.

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Fireside Collective Reckless Abandon Local muralist Gus Cutty brings together fellow aerosol artists Trek 6, Ishmael, Ted Harper, Topr, Melt FTK and Big Bertha in the group show Reckless Abandon.

It’s an exhibit than concerns itself as much with aesthetics as with social issues: “In this extremely sensitive period of Asheville’s growth from obscure mountain town to premier tourist destination, the argument of graffiti versus art is one that has continued to raise emotions throughout the community and which this show hopes to address in a constructive manner,” says a press release. “All of these artists began their artistic development in very different locations from Miami to Boston and San Francisco, practicing the art of graffiti lettering and the craft of aerosol manipulation. This show is a testament to the power of a youth culture that has saved so many from darker paths and even led some to very successful careers in fine art and graphic design.” Reckless Abandon opens on Friday, June 27, 7-9 p.m. at Carolina Cinemas. It runs through the end of July. carolinacinemas. com/asheville. Pictured: “Wrath of God” by Gus Cutty

If the best marriages are forged by those who are friends first and romantic partners later, perhaps the same can said of bands. Local roots outfit Fireside Collective was formed by singer-songwriter Jesse Ianquinto with Johanna Hagarty, Tommy Maher, Josh Bertram and Carson White — a group of friends-turned-bandmates. The quintet recorded its debut album, Shadows and Dreams, at Asheville’s Sound Temple Studios with contributions from the likes of Jon Stickley, Lyndsay Pruett and members of The Fritz. “Maintaining respect of traditional music while incorporating progressive elements such as free-form jazz and funk, Fireside Collective encourages fans to participate in creating contemporary American folk music with them,” says a press release. The band is “an homage to any great campfire jam.” Fireside Collective will perform at The Altamont Theater on Friday, June 27, at 8 p.m. $7/$10. thealtamont.com. Photo by Kristen Marie Green

48th annual Shindig on the Green Ready yourself — and perhaps your clogs/banjo/suspenders — for some truly old-fashioned fun at the 48th annual Shindig on the Green. Since its inception in 1967, the event has been an Asheville summer staple with its traditional and old-time string bands, bluegrass, ballad singers, big-circle mountain dancers and cloggers, as well as a stage show and informal jam sessions. The first shindig of the summer kicks off Saturday, June 28 “along about sundown” (or 7 p.m. for those who wear a watch) at Pack Square Park’s Roger McGuire Green. Organizers encourage attendees to bring their own instruments and a lawn chair or blanket. Subsequent shindigs take place July 5, 12, 19; Aug. 9, 16, 23 and 30. Free. folkheritage.org. Photo by SimplyPickin.com

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Bruce Hornsby and the Noisemakers Before singer-songwriter and keyboardist Bruce Hornsby (pictured, lower right) topped charts in the 1980s with hits like “The Way It is” and “The Valley Road,” he was a session musician for the likes of Sheena Easton. Hornsby also performed with The Grateful Dead and put out solo work before forming his current band, The Noisemakers. That group comes to Pisgah Brewing Co. on Friday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. Truth & Salvage Co. also performs. $35/$40/$65 VIP. pisgahbrewing.com. The show benefits MANNA FoodBank, which will receive a $1,000 donation from Luella’s Bar-B-Que as part of Pisgah’s partnership with local nonprofits. The gift money was solicited by Funding America Through Entertainment and serves as a challenge grant in hopes that the general public will match it leading up to the show. supportfate.org.

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Asheville's only a capella barbershop-style chorus! We welcome all women who love to sing! www.songosky.org or (866) 824-9547 Parking available behind the church.

AMICIMUSIC 802-369-0856, amicimusic.org • SA (6/28), 7pm - "The Folk Influence," cello and piano concert. $15. Held at Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship of Hendersonville, 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville

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DOUBLE TAKE: Sandlin Gaither’s show Pop Gun invites the viewer “to question the reality of the image.” The exhibit, showing at City Bakery, features images from Gaither’s travels to South America and Africa, as well as collaborations with local models and reinterpretations of everyday objects. Photo courtesy of Sandlin Gaither. (p.47)

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TWO WORLDS • AN EXHIBIT OF ABSTRACT WATERCOLORS BY MICK DONELAN (pd.) Through June. Ambrozia Bar & Bistro, 1020 Merrimon Avenue, North Asheville. For info: 3503033, Ambrozia-AVL.com • For preview of watercolors: MickDonelan.com

ART IN THE PARK ashevilleartinthepark.com • SATURDAYS through (6/28), 10am-6pm - An outdoor market featuring works by regional artists.

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

ART TREK 2014 859-2828, upstairsartspace.org • FR (6/27) through SU (6/29) - A tour of 24 Tryon artists' studios. Opening reception: June 27, 5:30pm at Upstairs ArtSpace, 49 S. Trade St.

ASHEVILLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE 254-2621, acdt.org • WE (6/25), 8pm - “Art of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera” discussion. Free. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. • TH (6/26), 8pm - "A Frida Fiesta," a Frieda Kahlo look-alike contest with Mexican cuisine and music. $10. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St.

FIBER ARTS ALLIANCE tinahvit@charter.net Open to interested nonmembers.

• 1st TUESDAYS, noon-3pm - Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 884-2787, tcarts.org • 4th FRIDAY, 5-9pm - Fourth Friday Gallery Walk through businesses in downtown Brevard. Free to attend.

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AAAC'S REGIONAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANT ashevillearts.com • Through (10/14) - Applications will be accepted for this grant from the Asheville Area Arts Council to provide financial support for committed, accomplished artists.

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 346 Depot St., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (7/4) - Applications accepted for six weeks of free vendor space at Spruce Street Market. Visit website for full details and guidelines.

DOWNTOWN HICKORY Hickory, 322-1121, downtownhickory.com • Through TH (10/9) - Applications will be accepted for arts and crafts vendors for Oktoberfest, as well as the juried arts & crafts show. Contact for details.

WRITERS' WORKSHOP EVENTS 254-8111, twwoa.org, prez@twwoa.org For beginning and experienced writers.

• Through SA (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest. Contact for guidelines.

COMEDY COMEDY IMPROV WORKSHOP AND PERFORMANCE (pd.) With Robby Boyer and Steve Heisler: Saturday, June 28, 10-4 pm and 7:30-9 pm, Earthaven Ecovillage, near Black Mountain. Workshop, $40 (bring a friend for $25); performance, sliding scale $10-20. Learn to collaborate spontaneously and build instant connection, community and delight!

Sponsored by Culture’s Edge, culturesedge@earthaven.org 828 669-0114. Visit www.earthaven.org

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2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TU (7/1), 7pm - Solo piano works by Brevard Music Center students. $10/$6 members.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM + ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • WE (6/25), 7:30pm - Jari Piper, contemporary solo cellist. $8/$5 members.

Mountain Xpress and Sherwood’s Music Present: Our new video series showcasing local musicians continues every Thursday. Check our website for a performance from Matt Townsend and the Wonder of the World at Sherwood’s Music.

BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 349 Andante Lane, Brevard, 862-2100, brevardmusic.org • WE (6/25), 7:30pm - A Solider's Tale, sonata for piano. $20.

• TH (6/26), 7:30pm - Opera's Greatest Hits. $40.

• FR (6/27), 7:30pm - Orchestra performance of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. $15-40.

• SA (6/28), 7:30pm - Brevard Sinfonia performance of works by Haydn, Strauss and Stravinsky. $15-40.

• SU (6/29), 3pm - Concert Orchestra family concert. $15.

• MO (6/30), 7:30pm - Mendelssohn String Quartet. $20.

• WE (7/2), 7:30pm - Sonatas performed for piano and flute. $20.

• TH (7/3), 7:30pm - Performance of the opera Albert Herring. $40.

DULCIMER WORKSHOP 298-1090 • SATURDAYS through (6/28), 1-2:30pm Beginner level dulcimer workshop taught in E. Asheville. Free.

GROOVIN' ON GROVEMONT 250-6486, Groovin@iLoveTheLibrary.org • TU (7/1), 6pm - Bread and Butter Band, bluegrass. Paper rocket workshop for kids, 5pm. Held at Grovemont Square, 101 W Charleston Ave., Swannanoa

HENDERSONVILLE'S MUSIC ON MAIN STREET 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (6/27), 7-9pm - 96.5 House Band, golden-oldies covers. Includes a car show with Hendersonville Antique Car Club.

J.E. BROYHILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd. SE, Lenior, broyhillcenter. com On the Caldwell Community College cam-

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• TU (7/1), 7pm - Western Piedmont Symphony's “A Musical Journey through the Americas” concert. $15/$8 children.

JUBILEE COMMUNITY CHURCH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • FR (6/27), 8-10pm - Michael Brant DeMaria, Native American flute. $25/$20 advance.

MOOG STORE 160 Broadway, 239-0123, moogmusic.com • WE (7/2), 7-9pm - Theremin performance by Duet for Theremin and Lap Steel. Includes reading by Sean Michaels, author of Us Conductors.

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PARK RHYTHMS CONCERT SERIES 669-8610 • FR (6/27), 6-9pm - Kellin Watson, singersongwriter. Free. Held at Lake Tomahawk Park Pavilion, 401 S. Laurel Circle Dr., Black Mountain

SWANNANOA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL swannanoachambermusic.com • TUESDAYS (7/1) through (7/29), 7:30pm - Held at Kittredge Theatre at Warren Wilson College. $21.40.

TRANSYLVANIA ARTS WEEK CONCERTS 884-2787, tcarts.org • WE (6/25), 7pm - Land of the Lakes Choirboys of Minnesota. Free. Held at Brevard-Davidson River Presbyterian Church, 249 East Main St., Brevard • TH (6/26), 7:30pm - Sounds of Silvermont, bluegrass jam. Held at Silvermont Mansion, 364 East Main St. Brevard • FR (6/27), 7pm - Community open jam and jamboree. Free. Held at Lake Toxaway Community Center, 81 Slick Fisher Road, Lake Toxaway

GALLERY DIRECTORY • FR (6/27), 10am - Blue Ridge Bakery Boys, old-timey. Held at Blue Ridge Bakery, 400 S. Broad St., Brevard

TRANSYLVANIA LIBRARY SUMMER CONCERT SERIES 828-884-3151 ext. 252, susan.debruin@transylvaniacounty.org • FR (6/27), 7:30pm - Annabelle's Curse, folk.

Held at 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard

THEATER ANAM CARA THEATRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FR (6/27), 8pm - Tales and Ales. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Rd. Suite B • SA (6/28), 8pm - Accordion Time Machine performs Misremembering Things. $12/$10 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Rd. Suite B

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (6/26), 7:30pm - Listen to This: Stories in Performance. $10.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/29) Spamalot. Fri., Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $25/$22 seniors, students/$15 children.

ASHEVILLE CONTEMPORARY DANCE THEATRE 254-2621, acdt.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/29) Looking for Frida. Fri.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun.: 6pm. $18/$13 seniors and students. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS until (7/13) - My Fair Lady. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm; Wed., Thu., Sat., Sun.: 2pm. $40.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/3) until (7/27) - Performances of the classic farce Boeing, Boeing. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; Thu., Sat.Sun., 2pm. $40/$30 seniors.

MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS through (6/28), 7:30pm - Henry V. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St.

N.C. STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, ncstage.org, 239-0263 WE (6/25) through SU (6/29) - Elephant in My Closet. Wed.-Sat.:7:30pm; Sun.: 2:30pm. $1024.

SART - SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE Owen Theatre Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, 689-1384, sartplays.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/13) The Stardust Supper Club. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30p.m.; Sun.: 2:30 p.m. Opening performance: June 25, 7:30pm. $26.50.

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk. com • Through WE (6/25) - Keeping of the Moon, paintings inspired by the Moon.

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CAROLINA CINEMAS 1640 Hendersonville Road, 274-9500, carolinacinemas.com/asheville • Through SA (7/27) - Reckless Abandon, paintings and illustrations by Trek 6, Ishmael, Ted Harper, Topr, Melt FTK, Big Bertha and Gus Cutty. Opening reception: June 27, 7pm.

CASTELL PHOTOGRAPHY GALLERY

37 Paynes Way Suite 5, 236-2444, anandahair.com • Through (6/29) - Rinse, sculptures and paintings by Randy Shull.

2C Wilson Alley, 255-1188, castellphotographygallery.com • Through TH (6/26) - Instant Photography: 2003-2014, polaroids by Adam Void.

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• Through MO (7/7) - The Wonder of Nature, watercolor paintings by Janice Lape. In the Blowers Gallery.

60 Biltmore Ave., 252-4426, citybakery.net • SA (6/28) through SU (8/31) - Pop Gun, photography Sandlin Gaither. Opening reception: June 28, 7pm.

ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Exhibits on display in the Fine Art Museum, unless otherwise noted.

• Through FR (7/18) - Works by NC art educators.

ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery.com • Through TU (7/1) - On the Verge, sculptors by Leonid Siveriver and photography

by Robert Asman.

• TU (7/1) through SU (7/27) - Evolution of the Landscape, works by William Vandever, Jo Ridge Kelley and Ranoma Bronkar Bannavan.

ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart. org • Through SU (10/5) - Farm to Table: American Silver, handmade American silver objects.

• Through SU (9/14) - The Uncharted Course from Realism to Abstraction, paintings and prints by Minna Citron.

• SA (6/28) through (SU) (9/7) - Dox Thrash, An American Journey: Georgia to Philadelphia, print works. Opening reception: June 29, 3pm.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegalleryof-art.com • Through MO (6/30) - Espressioni, paintings by Ruth Ilg. • TU (7/1) through TH (7/30) - Worlds Apart, paintings by Peggy Horne Taylor.

Opening reception: July 4, 5 p.m.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 6690930, blackmountainarts.org • Through (7/18) - Art in Bloom, works from regional galleries.

CANTON BRANCH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • Through FR (8/1) - Fly Over, photography of WWII warbirds by Barbara Sammons.

HAEN GALLERY IN BREVARD 200 King St., Brevard, 883-3268, hehaengallery.com/brevard • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/21) until (7/3) - Open house with works

by Transylvania County artists, part of Arts & Culture Week. Thu.-Sat.: 11am-6pm; Sun.: noon-5pm.

JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 310 Keener St., Sylva, 586-2016, fontanalib. org/sylva • Through (7/31) - A Lasting Legacy, works by local women from the late 19th century.

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

MISSION FOR TEMPORAL ART 68 N. Main St., Marshall, 917-650-7321, themissionfortemporalart.blogspot.com • Through (7/27) - The Luminous Surface, channel video and audio visual works

THE BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through TH (7/3) - Primordial Forms, glass sculpture by Chad Holliday.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts. org • FR (6/27) through FR (7/11) - Works by members of the Transylvania Art Guild. Opening reception: June 27, 5pm.

WINDOW 54 Broadway, windowcontemporary.org • Through (7/7) - re/production, re/presentation, photography by Lorne Blythe.

YMI CULTURAL CENTER 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • FR (6/27) through WE (8/27) - Cash Crop, life-size sculptures of slaves during the transAtlantic slave trade. $6/Freefor K-12 students. Opening reception: June 27, 7pm.

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C L U B L A N D DUGOUT Slumberjack, 9pm

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 25

ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

185 KING STREET Zach Deputy (funk, soul, singer-songwriter), 8pm

EMERALD LOUNGE Classical/comtemporary showcase w/ Craig Butterfield, Jari Piper & Melissa Hyman (of The Moon & You, Sweet Claudette), 8pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ The Sufi Brothers (folk), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Corey Hunt Band, 6pm

BEN'S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Buncombe County Boys (bluegrass), 7pm

GOOD STUFF Max Random & the 420 Punks (comedy, acoustic), 8:30pm

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

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Griffin House (folk, pop/rock), 8pm

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

HAVANA RESTAURANT Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm

DOUBLE CROWN Pat Reedy & The Longtime Goners (country) w/ Burlicoco (Cajun), 10pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Songs of Water (world, experimental), 8:15pm

DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

EMERALD LOUNGE Blues jam, 8pm

LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens & Misty Daniels (jazz), 7:30pm

GOOD STUFF Franklin's Kite (jam band), 7pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Seth Walker CD release show w/ Elsa Cross (blues), 8pm GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Acoustic Wednesday w/ Amy & Mike, 5:30pm IRON HORSE STATION The Wilhelm Brothers (indie-folk), 6pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm LEX 18 Chris Rhodes (jazz guitar), 7:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm ODDITORIUM Demon Waffle, Crazy Tom Banana Pants,

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

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GOOD VIBRATIONS: The music of reggae-world band The Hip Abduction will sail listeners from Pisgah Brewing to a sunny beach with a margarita in your hand, on Thursday, June 26, at 8 p.m. Sounding like Bob Marley-meets-Sublime, The Hip Abduction will bring a sliver of sunshine, surf and sand to the Appalachians.

Andrew Scotchie & The River Rats (rock, ska, punk), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm 3 Cool Cats Band (vintage rock 'n' roll), 8pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Aqueous w/ Les Racquet (rock, groove, jam), 10pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Grits & Soul (bluegrass, Americana), 6pm PULP Lords of Chicken Hill w/ Doomster (punk), 9pm SKY CITY BBQ Local music showcase (folk, bluegrass), 8:30pm SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic, 7pm TALLGARY'S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm THE MOTHLIGHT Nat Baldwin (of Dirty Projectors) w/ Giant Giants & NAPPING (experimental), 9:30pm THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Release hosted by Disc-Oh! & Dam Good (dance party), 9pm TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

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

THURSDAY, JUNE 26 185 KING STREET Col. Bruce Hampton w/ Jeff Sipe Trio (rock), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin' Hots (jazz), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Diali Cissokho & Karia Ba w/ The Jamar Woods Trio (world, Afro-beat), 10pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Lyric (acoustic soul), 9pm BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 9pm BUFFALO NICKEL Jeff Thompson & The Outliars (singer-songwriter, alt-rock), 9pm

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Yours Truly w/ The Volt Per Octaves & Elisa Faires (pop, electronic), 9pm LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 7pm MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm NEW MOUNTAIN Black Taxi w/ Atlas Road Crew & Analog Moon (rock), 9pm ODDITORIUM Rory Kelly, Dellacoma & Kimbery White (dirty rock), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Pop the Clutch (Motown, beach, blues, swing), 7:30pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish 'n' Chips : "The Trey Trials" (performance/try-outs for The Duke of Lizards), 6pm SOSOS (roots, rock, folk), 10pm ORANGE PEEL Neko Case w/ Laura Veirs (indie-rock), 9pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY James Scott (singer-songwriter), 6pm PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whittaker (acoustic rock), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Hip Abduction (world music), 8pm POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Chris Padgett, 7:30pm RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL TLQ + 3 (rock, blues), 6:30pm

CLASSIC WINESELLER Joe Cruz (piano), 6pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

CORK & KEG Zoe & Cloyd (folk), 8pm

SKY CITY BBQ Open music stage, 8:30pm

DOUBLE CROWN 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

THE MOTHLIGHT White Mystery w/ The Coathangers & Dino's Boys (rock), 9:30pm

TAVERN THE PHOENIX David & Mallory Mayfield (Americana), 8pm THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm TIMO'S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum 'n' Bass Collective, 9pm TOWN PUMP Michael Miller (singer-songwriter), 9pm TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm VINCENZO'S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm WHITE HORSE AmiciMusic: Franklin Keel & Dr. Daniel Weister (cello & piano), 7:30pm WXYZ LOUNGE Rough Coat (singer-songwriter), 8pm

FRIDAY, JUNE 27 185 KING STREET Matt Townsend & The Wonder of the World (folk), 8pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Bobby Miller & The Virginia Daredevils (bluegrass), 6:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Dana & Sue Robinson (bluegrass, old-time), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Dirty Bourbon River Show (brass band, circusrock) & Raising Caine (country), 9pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Jackomo (Cajun, dance), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens Trio (jazz), 7:30pm MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm METRO WINES Stand up comedy w/ Disclaimer Comedy, 7pm MILLROOM Danusha & Shuhandz (house, electronic), 9pm NIGHTBELL Dulítel DJ (indie, electronic, dance), 10:30pm

ODDITORIUM Brief Lives, Gold Light & Elim Bolt (rock, punk), 9pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (rock, blues), 9pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Gaudi w/ SubSqwad (dub, electronica), 10pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Joy On Fire w/ Nomadic (punk-jam, fuzz-rock), 10pm

ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm

ORANGE PEEL The Black Jacket Symphony performs "Dark Side of the Moon", 9pm

BOILER ROOM Papermouth, Porch 40, Sehrmann (rock), 9pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Todd Hoke (roots), 6pm

BYWATER Rorey Carolle CD release (singer-songwriter), 9pm

PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (pop, dance, hits), 9pm

CLASSIC WINESELLER Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John covers), 7pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers w/ Truth & Salvage Co. (jam, folk, rock), 7:30pm

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE DJ Jam (old-school hip-hop, R&B, funk), 9pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

CORK & KEG The Barsters (blues, old-time, country, bluegrass), 8:30pm

SCULLY'S DJ, 10pm

DUGOUT Picasso Facelift (classic rock, blues), 9pm ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Alarm Clock Conspiracy (indie-rock), 6pm GOOD STUFF Shake It Like A Caveman (one-man-band, rock), 9pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Wild Goose Singer-Songwriter Showcase, 6pm TALLGARY'S CANTINA Southern Soul Campaign (Southern rock), 9:30pm THE MOTHLIGHT Amen Dunes w/ Axxa Abraxas, Jamie Hepler & Ross Gentry (of Nest Egg & Villages) (rock, pop), 9:30pm

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THE PHOENIX Bread & Butter Band (bluegrass), 9pm

GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Sharon LaMotte & Matt Dingledine (jazz, blues, pop), 6:30pm

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DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

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Aqueous w/ Les Racquet 10 PM $5 21+ The Trey Trials– Phish N Chips

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Diali Cissikho & Kaira Ba

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DAMS w/ Electrochemical 28 10 PM FREE 21+ SAT JUNE

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JUNE Supatight w/ The Deems 29 SUN 10 PM $2 21+

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7/5 DIESELBOY w/ LIM-

INAL, Luce Wayne, DSOM, Disc-Oh!, Samuel Paradise, DJ Ra, DJ Alcolyte

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WATER'N HOLE Darren & the Buttered Toast, 8pm WHITE HORSE Michelle Amato & Michael Jefry Stevens (cabaret jazz), 6:30pm WILD WING CAFE A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm WXYZ LOUNGE Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 9pm

SATURDAY, JUNE 28 185 KING STREET Jesse Iaquinto & The Fireside Collective, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Gary Mackey (fiddle), 6pm Lyric (funk, soul), 9pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm ANDREWS BREWING CO. The Moon & You (folk), 6pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Stephaniesid w/ Nathan Stiteler & Friends (pop-noir), 9pm ATHENA'S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Matt Townsend & The Wonder of the World (folk), 9pm BYWATER Colonel Bruce Hampton (rock, fusion), 9pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Jacob Johnson (acoustic, folk, funk), 7pm CORK & KEG Dana & Sue Robinson (folk) w/ old-time jam, 8:30pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Lil Lorruh (50s, 60s R&B, rock), 10pm DUGOUT Flashback Sally, 9pm ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM The Bird & The Bear (Americana), 6pm

7/17 EOTO w/ Rims & Keys

GOOD STUFF Jimi & the Poor Valley Collective (country, bluegrass), 8pm

7/18 BLACKALICIOUS w/ VOV

GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Elise Pratt & Mike Holstein (jazz), 6:30pm

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Eagle Flies for "Benefit Steve", 7pm

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HAVANA RESTAURANT Pickin' on the Patio w/ Hot Point Trio (bluegrass), 12:30pm Patrick Fitzsimons, 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Jump Yur Grin (blues), 6:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Wild Goose Singer-Songwriter Showcase, 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Classical brunch w/ AmiciMusic: The Folk Influence, 11am Darin & Brooke Aldridge (bluegrass), 9pm

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Sons of Ralph (bluegrass, tribute to Ralph Lewis), 9pm

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

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

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 HotPoint Trio (gypsy-jazz, swing), 7:30pm

THE PHOENIX Ryan Furstburg (acoustic folk), 1pm Jason Decristofaro, Bill Cardin, Michael J. Stevens & Bill Burgh (jazz-fusion), 9pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR DJ Devyl's Hands (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm TIMO'S HOUSE Mustacheville Fundraiser w/ Tha Dub Brothaz (Selector Cleofus & Medisin) w/ Lionize Beats, Olof B. Love & Disc-Oh! (bass party), 9pm TOWN PUMP Ken Kiser & The Soze, 9pm TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Ruby Mayfield & The Friendship Train (blues, soul), 10pm VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Wham Bam Bowie Band, 10pm

WATER'N HOLE Anthony Wayne (one-man-band) & Chris Baylock (singer-songwriter), 8pm

LOBSTER TRAP Crossroad String Band (bluegrass), 7pm

WXYZ LOUNGE DJ Transputer (lounge DJ), 9pm

MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm MILLROOM PUJOL w/ Doomster (punk, rock), 9pm NEW MOUNTAIN Eliot Lipp w/ Panther God, Brett Rock, Flypaper (electronic), 9pm NIGHTBELL DJ Celebrity (electronic lounge, nu-souldisco), 10:30pm ODDITORIUM Avid House Party Part 2: The Pajama Jammy Jam (hip-hop), 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm DAMS w/ Electrochemical (prog, soul, jam, metal), 10pm

SUNDAY, JUNE 29 185 KING STREET Sunday Funday, 12pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Big Nasty (hot jazz), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Jazz brunch w/ Mike Gray Trio, 11:30am BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Karaoke & brunch, 1pm CORK & KEG Irish jam, 3pm DOUBLE CROWN Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm DUGOUT Appalachian Fire Bluegrass, 3pm

ORANGE PEEL Trial By Fire (tribute to Journey), 8pm

HI-WIRE BREWING Andrew Scotchie of the River Rats (rock) & guests, 5pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Conservation Theory (bluegrass), 6pm

IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm

PACK'S TAVERN A Social Function (classic hits, rock 'n' roll), 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Jazz showcase, 6pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba (world, Afrobeat), 8pm PURPLE ONION CAFE JPQ Band, 8pm RIVERWATCH BAR & GRILL Motownblue (soul, blues), 7pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SCULLY'S DJ, 10pm SPRING CREEK TAVERN Wild Goose Singer-Songwriter Showcase, 6pm TALLGARY'S CANTINA III & Plank Eye Peggy (hard rock), 9:30pm THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm THE MOTHLIGHT Movie Night: Point Break, 9:30pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm Shake It Like A Caveman (rock), 10pm LEX 18 Andrew Fletcher (barrelhouse piano), 11am Michael John Jazz & friends (smooth jazz), 7:30pm

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WEDNESDAY • JUNE 25 ACOUSTIC WEDNESDAY W/ AMY & MIKE 5:30-7:30PM FRIDAY • JUNE 27 BOBBY MILLER & THE VIRGINIA DARE DEVILS 6:30-8:30PM

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10/25 Sarah Lee Guthrie the Big 10/25 on Sarah LeeScreen!

Guthrie & Johnny Irion & Johnny Irion 6/27 Jackamo CAJUN CREOLE BAYOU w/ •• 9pm DANCE PARTY 9PM $5 w/ Battlefield Battlefield 9pm• $10 $10 10/26 Firecracker Jazz 10/26Sons Firecracker Jazz Band Band 6/28 of Ralph SPECIAL TRIBUTE & HALLOWEEN Costume TO RALPH LEWIS 9PM • $5 & HALLOWEEN Costume Party & • 9pm $8 Party & Contest Contest $8 6/29 Shake It Like •a 9pm Caveman 10/27 Vinegar Creek •• 9pm 10/27 Vinegar CreekENCOURAGED) 9pm FREE FREE (DUO) 10PM • FREE (DONATIONS 10/28 Mustard Plug • 9pm $8 10/28Eleanor Mustard Plug • 9pm $8 7/4 Underhill w/ Crazy Tom Banana w/ Crazy Banana Pants Pants and Tom Friends 4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION 9PM • $5 10/29 Singer Songwriters 10/29 Singer Songwriters •• 7-9pm FREE in Round 7-9pm FREE in the the Round 7/5 Sufi Brothers with w/ Anthony Tripi, Elise Davis w/ Anthony Tripi, Elise Davis Asheville Aces 9PM • $5 Mud Tea • 9pm FREE Mud Tea • 9pm FREE Enjoy Chef Jason Brian’s Delicious Food

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SUN Celtic Irish Session 5pm til MON Quizzo!

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CAN YOU DIG IT?: Amen Dunes can’t. Or at least that’s what the band’s song “I Can’t Dig It” leads us to believe. Amen Dunes will headline a show at The Mothlight on Friday, June 27, at 9:30 p.m., preceded by Axxa Abraxas, Jamie Hepler of Nest Egg and Ross Gentry of Villages.

PULP The Bipolar Express w/ Ryan Van Genderen & Blayr Nais (stand-up comedy), 9pm

185 KING STREET Monday Night Laughs w/ Josh Rosenstein (stand-up comedy), 8pm

RIVERWATCH BAR & GRILL Hunnilicious (country, singer-songwriter), 1pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill (folk), 8pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic, 8pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Mark Bumgarner (classic Americana), 2pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Old-time jam, 8pm

THE PHOENIX Blues brunch w/ Howie, Ellen & Woody, 12pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass jam w/ The Deals, 7pm

THE SOCIAL '80s night, 8pm

BYWATER Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 9pm

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

COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

WHITE HORSE AmiciMusic: History of the Piano w/ Dr. Daniel Weiser, 7:30pm YACHT CLUB Steely Dan Sunday, 7pm

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DOUBLE CROWN Punk 'n' roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra dance, 8pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Dana & Sue Robinson (folk), 7pm

ODDITORIUM Heavy Hearted w/ Remembrance, Frontiers, Hope Sets Sail & Cardinal State (rock), 9pm ORANGE PEEL Summer Movie Series: The Goonies, 8pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm SKY CITY BBQ Backyard comedy open mic, 8:30pmTHE PHOENIX Jason Lane Duo (singer-songwriter), 8pm THE SOCIAL Hartford bluegrass jam w/ Ben Saylor, 8pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lil Lorruh & David Wayne Gay, 10pm VINCENZO'S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WESTVILLE PUB Trivia night, 8pm

TUESDAY, JULY 1 185 KING STREET Swing dance lesson, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (swing, jazz), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Bluegrass Tuesday, 8pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O'Neill, 8pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Singer-songwriters, 7pm

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DIRECTOR: Lukas Moodysson PLAYERS: Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin. Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark, Mattias Wiberg

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THE STORY: A pair of outsiders — 13-year-old girls — decide to start a punk rock group in 1982 Sweden. That they have no clue how to play music is only part of the problem.

THE LOWDOWN: A slight but charming and winning little movie that beautifully taps into the essence of early adolescence without a hint of condescension.

The great charm of Lukas Moodysson’s We Are the Best! — an adaptation of his wife Coco’s quasi-autobiographical graphic novel — lies in its total lack of pretension and adult editorializing. It is very simply a look in on some 13-year-old Swedish girls being ... well, 13-year-old Swedish girls. The difference is that the film is set in 1982, and the girls decide to form a punk rock band — mindless of the fact that they can’t play music, and everybody insists that punk is dead. Actually, they are probably more goaded into this possibly ill-advised act by those very facts than anything, because our two main characters, Bobo (Mira Barkhammar) and Klara (Mira Grosin), are nothing if not contentious. In fact, it’s open to question, at least at first, whether they even want to form this band so much as they want to take the youth center rehearsal hall away from a group of

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LIV LEMOYNE, MIRA BARKHAMMAR and MIRA GROSIN in Lukas Moodysson’s utterly charming comedy-drama about three adolescent girls forming a punk rock band in 1982 Sweden, We Are the Best!.

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headbangers whose music annoys them. Bobo and Klara are, after all, 13. Thinking things through is not their strong suit.

What makes this unassuming Swedish import work is that it presents its characters without trying to explain them, and, as a result, they explain themselves. Unlike so many American films that try to depict youth, the girls in We Are the Best! actually have interests, and they don’t just float along. But the bigger secret here is the casual way the film depicts the manner in which what is largely a passing fancy can grow into a life-changing obsession. The idea of forming a punk band appeals to their sense of being outsiders — and because it doesn’t seem to require much musicianship — but it only becomes important because ... well, that’s the way things happen in early adolescence. It’s also the way youthful friendships work.

It doesn’t take Bobo and Klara long to realize their defiant “song,” “Hate the Sport” (mostly an attack on the school coach), is going to

require more musical ability than they can manage. The problem is where to find the requisite help. They find this in the most unlikely place: A guitar-playing Jesus freak with long, blonde hair named Hedwig (Liv LeMoyne). Her appearance and her Christianity are the complete opposite of the girls, but she, too, is an outcast, which is a plus, and she can actually play music, which is an even bigger plus. Besides, it might be fun to corrupt her — or at least shock her. It’s at best a friendship of expedience, but expedience gives way to something more. This gives We Are the Best! a pretty strong claim on understanding youth in a way few films have.

There’s not much story here. It’s merely the three girls creating what in their mind is “the greatest rock band in the world” — and learning how to be themselves, to get along with each other (even when it means compromise) and how to take on the world. There are fights, awkward detours into the world of boys, life lessons (that don’t beat us

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over the head) and more. It’s a shaggy, slightly shambling affair that’s directed by Moodysson with a kind of 1960s looseness that’s both exuberant and appealing. Best of all, it all feels true and real — without becoming drab or angry. Its appeal may be greater than its last value, but it affords at least a moment of the complexity and joy of being 13, and that’s no small thing. Not Rated, but contains language and adult themes.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Jersey Boys HHH DIRECTOR: Clint Eastwood PLAYERS: John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza, Michael Lomenda, Christopher Walken, Mike Doyle SHOWBIZ BIOPIC RATED R THE STORY: Standard showbiz biopic on Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

THE LOWDOWN: If you’re wild about the music of Frankie Valli, this probably passes muster, but it’s also a sloppy, cliché-ridden mess of a movie that never breaks free of its biopic-basic approach.

Straight off, I want to say that Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys was better than I thought it was going to be. Do not confuse that with praise, because I wasn’t expecting much, and I have never thought of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons as more than a footnote in the history of pop music. The movie did nothing to convince me otherwise. (I am sure to hear about that, but I continue to cringe every time Valli’s impersonator hits one of those notes that’s pitched to a dog’s hearing.) I will say, however, that the largely older-skewing audience I saw the film with mostly seemed to have a good time with the movie. (I exempt from this the gent a few seats over who snored mightily, occasionally jolted himself into consciousness, checked the time and promptly returned to the embrace of Morpheus.) What I’m getting at here is that if you

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have an appreciation for Mr. Valli’s vocalizing, you will possibly get more out of this than I did. But the truth is this is so not a good movie if you’re looking for anything more than some guys who can perform slick tribute band covers of Valli et cie’s greatest hits.

It isn’t just that Eastwood gives us the hoariest of hoary showbiz biopics — rags, riches, more rags, personal tragedy, regeneration, validation, celebration — but he gives us a shamefully sloppy movie that lurches from scene to scene, offers quite a few unintentional laughs, evidences little feel for the music and often manages to make Valli (John Lloyd Young) seem like an extra in his own movie.

Granted, Eastwood had help from writers Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice — adapting their own stage show — but Eastwood is also the producer, so he had more than a little to say about this screenplay. The film partly reproduces the stage show’s conceit of having the characters stop and directly address the audience, and as a device it works most of the time. That is, until you realize that everyone has his say except Valli himself, who barely tells us anything. Some of these pronouncements are solid and amusing, while others — like us being told that if we think finding out that Tommy DeVito (Vincent Piazza) has been stealing from the group caused Frankie to dump him “then you’re not from Jersey” — are painfully corny.

(The whole laid-on-with-a-trowel Italian American dese-dem-anddose stuff is pretty dire.)

This is also a movie where people who are now preposterously too old for their roles are still playing them because they did onstage. Worse, this is a movie that starts in 1951, packs Tommy off for a stretch in the big house for six months and, one scene later, has a girl wanting to go see The Blob — a movie that didn’t exist till 1958. Did the narrative just jump ahead seven years?

Apparently not, since Tommy’s six-month incarceration ends a scene later. Characters come and go and disappear and reappear in an often bewildering manner. Big moments are supremely cheesy and unintentionally funny, like hitting on the Four Seasons name because of the giant neon sign for the Four

HHHHH = max rating Seasons bowling alley in the background of the shot. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a scene where their record producer, Bob Crewe (Mike Doyle), makes them watch a scene from Billy Wilder’s Ace in the Hole (1951) where Jan Sterling gets pimp-slapped, and someone remarks on the soon-to-flow tears, only to have Crewe counter — wait for it — “Big girls don’t cry,” and we cut to the song being performed.

The less said about the creepiness of Valli singing “My Eyes Adored You (But I Never Laid a Hand on You)” as a lullaby for his daughter the better.

All — or at least most — of this would be forgivable if the film at least embraced its pop-music ethos, but it never really does. And, yes, this is largely because Eastwood is the squarest director around. I don’t mean that as a pejorative.

His straightforward classicism is square, but that’s who he is, and a glitzy musical is not part of his nature. (He proves this with a vengeance in his attempt at a big production number at the very end — especially when he has the characters awkwardly freeze in triumphant poses.) Plus, he can’t seem to decide if this really is supposed to be a warts-and-all biography or not.

So while Valli and his comrades have mob ties, they’re “nice” mobsters, personified by Christopher Walken’s downright cuddly Gyp DeCarlo. At best, it’s a watchable mess (right down to its prestige-picture muted color and Eastwood’s trademark bad old-age make-up), but it is a mess. If you’re keen on Valli’s music, you can probably bump it up a notch. Rated R for language throughout.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Ken Hanke

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Transformers: Age of Extinction Here it is: The next Michael Bay Transformers movie. What is there

Jews in WWII, nor is it about the change from Stalinist communism to a less militant form. No, it’s a character study about an aging, hard-line Stalinist judge, Wanda (Agata Kulesza), and her soon-tobe-a-nun niece, Anna/Ida (Agata Trzebuchowska). It’s good at that, but its actual greatness eludes me.

The film revolves around a premise that feels a little forced. Young Anna is a novice at the rural convent where she’s been raised, but before she can take her final vows the Mother Superior (Halina Skoczynska) insists she go into the outside world and meet her aunt — a woman who had nothing to do with her previously. And, frankly, she doesn’t seem too keen on changing that with the arrival of Anna on her doorstep.

Aunt Wanda is a world-weary, harddrinking, promiscuous woman of no apparent sentimentality. She used to be known as “Red Wanda” in the old Stalin days, and while her power has been significantly curtailed at this point, she still commands a degree of respect and influence. She’s also the polar opposite of her wide-eyed, innocent niece. It’s hard not to wonAGATA KULESZA as the aging, hardline Stalinist judge in a changing Poland in Pawel Pawlikowski’s strikingly photographed drama Ida.

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Ida HHHH DIRECTOR: Pawel Pawlikowski PLAYERS: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik, Jerzy Trela, Adam Szyszkowski DRAMA RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Before taking her final vows as a nun, a novice is sent out into the world to meet her only relative and learn about her past.

THE LOWDOWN: Strong, beautifully shot character drama that seems to be being taken for more than it is because of topics it touches on. Definitely good, but not-so-definitely great.

Pawel Pawlikowski’s Ida is a good film — and sometimes it’s a very good film. It’s smart.

It looks great. It has a compelling — if not wholly satisfying — story. It has the great good sense to confine itself to a tight 80 minutes. It’s also the kind of film where people tend to be quick off the mark to slap the term “masterpiece” on it — a term that’s in danger of becoming as meaningless as “classic” has already become. Why? Well, it’s very serious. It’s so serious that it’s not only in black and white, but it’s in the old “boxy” 1.37: 1 ratio, making it not simply look like a film about early 1960s Poland, but like a film from early 1960s Poland. (While Hollywood adopted a wide-screen approach in 1953-54, the rest of the world took a little longer.) It looks and feels like the real deal, and, in some respects, it is. But Ida is also a film that trades more on many of its significant topics than it actually addresses them. At bottom — even though it uses these things — it’s not about the extermination of Polish

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der if the older woman doesn’t take particular delight in shocking Anna when she tells her that her real name is Ida Lebenstern, and that — oh, yes — she’s Jewish. But then it’s equally difficult to determine if any of these things have that much impact on Anna/Ida. They do, however, have enough power to make Ida insist on trying to learn what happened to her parents.

Ida then becomes something of a very odd-buddy road trip — one that, for all the movie’s artiness, adheres very much to the dictates of that genre. They have encounters, learn about each other, have what can be classed as adventures, etc. What differs here is that there aren’t much in the way of breakthrough moments. If either woman has really warmed to the other, they mostly keep it to themselves. Perhaps the most telling moment comes when Wanda — in reference to her alcohol intake and promiscuity — tells Ida, “Your Jesus loved people like me.” In one sentence, she not only justifies her own behavior but takes a jab

at Ida’s easy, unworldly, unchallenged piety. At the same time, the film quietly establishes an unspoken bond between them — and not just because of their shared mission.

Much of what happens has to do with the presence of a hitchhiker, Lis (Dawid Ogrodnik), they pick up on the way. There is little doubt why Wanda picks up this young man, who turns out be a jazz saxophonist — a harbinger of the western influence creeping into Poland — but it’s ultimately Ida on whom he makes the greatest impact. How much of an impact, I’ll leave to the film. Similarly, the impact of the truth about Ida’s parents and Wanda’s family is something that belongs to the movie, not a review. (If you didn’t see Wladyslaw Pasikowski’s Aftermath in this year’s Jewish Film Festival, that second part will feel more shocking.) As I said, it’s a good picture — sometimes very good and occasionally startling — but I think the “masterpiece” label is being too hastily applied. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements, some sexuality and smoking.

Playing at Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke

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THE STORY: Two groups of friends head to Vegas for a wedding — and bachelor and bachelorette parties.

THE LOWDOWN: A meandering, overstuffed rom-com that is innocuous at best, but force-feeds its points and is often too shrill and aimless to work.

With the now-bankable Kevin Hart getting de facto top billing and a successful predecessor, it shouldn’t be very surprising that Tim Story’s Think Like a Man Too — despite its confusing title (I thought they were thinking like men in the last one) — topped the box office, even modestly.

That being said, like many sequels (and the exact thing 22 Jump Street was mocking last week), the film is

basically Think Like a Man (2012) all over again, with the sole difference being twice the budget.

That extra cash really serves zero purpose, since it seems most of it was spent on shooting the movie in Las Vegas. The general conceit of Think Like a Man Too is to bring the cast back together for a Vegas wedding between Michael (Terrence Jenkins) and Candace (Regina Hall). This, in a spark of unoriginality, leads to bachelor and bachelorette parties, something that might verge into The Hangover territory — right down to subbing Floyd Mayweather in for Mike Tyson. But Story’s film and Steve Harvey’s somewhat wholesome image (Harvey is the executive producer and author of the relationship advice book the film is based on) keep everything on the milquetoast side. That’s the general path the film takes, since saying the thing has a plot would be far too generous. There are just too many characters, too many threads they’re each following, and a constant influx of new characters makes the movie a bloated mess. There’s not so much a dramatic arc as series of events that just ends in some tacked-on relationship advice that’s literally told to the audience via Hart’s narration (which, honestly, is better than the hoary sports analogies that his disembodied voice spouts throughout the rest of the movie).

The storylines that lead up to this, too, are barely fleshed out.

While most of the film is dedicated to Michael and Candace’s wedding, there’s also, for instance, Jeremy (Jerry Ferrara) and Kristen (Gabrielle Union) mulling over having a child and Zeke (Romany Malco) and Mya’s (Meagan Good) various relationship problems.

Where the film goes wrong is that these interpersonal relationships are sketched in through a couple of scenes, subsequently forgotten and quickly wrapped up in the last 10 minutes. Stretched so thin, it’s hardly surprising that the movie isn’t very engaging. The end result is a film that’s far too long and bloated to work as the light comedy it wants to be. Rated PG-13 for crude sexual content including references, partial nudity, language and drug material.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher. reviewed by Justin Souther

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Billion Dollar Brain HHHH

Director: Ken Russell Players: Michael Caine, Karl Malden, Françoise Dorléac, Ed Begley, Oscar Homolka, Guy Doleman, Vladek Sheybal COLD WAR SPY THRILLER Rated NR The Asheville Film Festival’s annual birthday salute to British filmmaker Ken Russell (1927-2011) reaches back to Russell’s first shot at international fame, Billion Dollar Brain (1967), the third film in Michael Caine’s Harry Palmer (the “thinking man’s James Bond”) series. Caine had been impressed

by Russell’s TV work and had him hired for the movie. The results didn’t set the world on fire, but they did result in an interesting, entertaining and oh-so-very-1960s spy film — a movie that Russell made more his own than you might think, and one that paved the way to international acclaim a couple of years later.

The Asheville Film Society will screen Billion Dollar Brain Tuesday, July 1 , at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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Boudu Saved from Drowning HHHHH Director: Jean Renoir Players: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Charles Granval SATIRICAL COMEDY Rated NR Jean Renoir’s 1931 satirical comedy Boudu Saved from Drowning is perhaps the great filmmaker’s first true masterpiece. Its story of what happens when a well-meaning bookseller rescues an indolent and ungrateful tramp, Boudu (played by the great Michel Simon), from drowning himself in the Seine is a simple one. But it leaves plenty of room for Renoir to poke fun at the bourgeois world of the French middle class and its pretensions.

Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Boudu Saved from Drowning Friday, June 27, 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.

Gosford Park HHHHH

Director: Robert Altman Players: Michael Gambon, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, James Wilby, Jeremy Northam, Bob Balaban MYSTERY Rated R It seems that Robert Altman and Bob Balaban got together and decided that Altman’s multicharacter ensemble approach with its overlapping dialogue was just right for one of those house-party-murder mysteries — and they were right. Actually, they were more than right, since the resulting film, Gosford Park, was more than a classic mystery. It also spoofed its own genre, Hollywood, the movies — and managed to be a deconstruction of the upper classes that has more in common with Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game (1939) than with Agatha Christie. A brilliant film.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show Gosford Park Sunday, June 29, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Cemetery Man HHHHS Director: Michel Soavi (The Church) Players: Rupert Everett, François HadjiLazaro, Anna Falchi, Mickey Knox, Clive Riche HORROR Rated R So far as I’m concerned, Dario Argento disciple Michel Soavi made the absolute best Italian horror film of all time with 1994’s Cemetery Man. This story of a cemetery — presided over by Rupert Everett (who tends to leave the film off his résumé) — where the dead (at least some of them) tend to come back to life after they’re buried has a little bit of everything. It has surreal evocations of René Magritte, a plot turn right out of Tod Browning’s The Unknown (1927), some seriously loopy ideas, a terrific visual panache — and the one thing most Italian horror lacks: a coherent plot with an actual structure. Horrific, funny and strangely haunting.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Cemetery Man Thursday, June 26 at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted

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Ida HHHH

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We Are the Best! HHHH

Drama Before taking her final vows as a nun, a novice is sent out into the world to meet her only relative and learn about her past. Strong, beautifully shot character drama that seems to be being taken for more than it is because of topics it touches on. Definitely good, but not-sodefinitely great. Rated PG-13

Mira Barkhammar, Mira Grosin. Liv LeMoyne, Johan Liljemark, Mattias Wiberg Comedy Drama A pair of outsiders — 13-year-old girls — decide to start a punk rock group in 1982 Sweden. That they have no clue how to play music is only part of the problem. A slight but charming and winning little movie that beautifully taps into the essence of early adolescence without a hint of condescension.

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Jersey Boys HHH John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza, Michael Lomenda, Christopher Walken, Mike Doyle

22 Jump Street HHHS

Showbiz Biopic Standard showbiz biopic on Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. If you’re wild about the music of Frankie Valli, this probably passes muster, but it’s also a sloppy, cliché-ridden mess of a movie that never breaks free of its biopic-basic approach. Rated R

Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Amber Stevens, Ice Cube, Jillian Bell

Comedy Officers Schmidt and Jenko head undercover again, this time at college. Not as fresh as the original, the movie’s more interesting as a parody of Hollywood franchises and a critique of gay panic in buddy cop flicks, but doesn’t have much going for it as a comedy. Rated R

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Not as fresh or funny as its 2010 predecessor – and with a curious lack of focus in its first half – but with a bang-up second half, much visual beauty and a surprising emotional resonance. Rated PG

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

The Rover HHHS Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy, Gillian Jones, Susan Prior Post-Apocalyptic Nihilsm In postapocalyptic Australia, a taciturn loner goes to great lengths – including murder and mayhem – to recover a stolen car. An alternately violent and tedious road movie of the post-apocalyptic variety that remains watchable thanks to some odd touches and an interesting performance from Robert Pattinson.

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

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Maleficent HHS

Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, Jono Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites

Revisionist Fantasy Retelling of Sleeping Beauty that presents the evil Ma-

leficent as a scorned woman seeking revenge on the man who betrayed her.

Despite an amusing performance from Angelina Jolie, Maleficent is a sloppy, overly designed movie that completely disposes of the appeal of the title character. Rated PG

Palo Alto HHHS Jack Kilmer, Nat Wolff, Emma Roberts, James Franco, Val Kilmer, Zoe Levin Teen Angst Drama A look into the lives of a group of aimless, upscale teens. A mixed-bag debut for writer-director Gia Coppola. A lot of it is typical lifestyles of the ennui-ridden overprivileged, but there are moments of near brilliance and an ending that makes up for much. Rated R

Blended S Adam Sandler, Drew Barrymore, Wendi Mclendon-Covey, Bella Thorne, Kevin Nealon Comedy Two single parents and their kids end up on the same African safari.

An unsurprisingly puerile and needlessly sentimental comedy from Adam Sandler.

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

Cold in July HHHHS Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Don Johnson, Vinessa Shaw, Wyatt Russell, Nick Damici Neo-noir Thriller After shooting an intruder, a rather ordinary man finds himself plunged into a labyrinthian criminal underworld where little is what it seems.

A striking, startling breakthrough film for director and co-writer Jim Mickle. An always suprising, intense and completely satisfying neo-noir thriller that may remind you of the Coen Brothers' Blood Simple. Essential viewing. Rated NR

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

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HUMAN SERVICES ADULT/CHILD FAMILY CARE HOMES (AFL) Excellent compensation. Similar to foster care, an AFL is a home with a heart for serving adults and children with developmental disabilities. An AFL can help to take people out of institutional settings and group homes and make them a part of their family. Some may need specialized care and/or wheelchair accessibility. A high school diploma or GED and current drivers license are required. Must pass a criminal background check, drivers record check and drug test. Previous experience helpful but not required.

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• Qualified candidates must have a minimum of an Associate's degree in Early Childhood Education, a CDA, or an Infant/Toddler Certificate, in addition to current SIDS certification and experience working with toddlers 1-2 years in age. • Individuals with a related degree and at least 18 semester hours in infant/toddler coursework will be considered. Verner is an EEOE. Apply online at http://www.vernerearlylearning.org/jobs ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHER ArtSpace Charter School is now accepting applications for an Elementary School Teacher for the 2014-15 school year. Applicants MUST

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

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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19)

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20)

According to an astrologer named Astrolocherry (astrolocherry.tumblr.com), Aries is the sign of the freedom fighter, the explorer, the daredevil and the adventurer.

That’s all true; I agree with her. But here’s an important caveat. As you get older, it’s your duty to harness all that hot energy on behalf of the softer, slower, more tender parts of your life. The coming weeks will offer you a great opportunity to work on that challenge. To get started, imagine how you can be a freedom fighter, explorer, daredevil and adventurer in service to your home, family and community.

The Japanese word tsundoku describes what happens if you buy a lot of books but never read them, leaving them piled up in a neglected heap. I recommend that you avoid indulging in tsundoku any time soon, Gemini. In fact, I urge you not to acquire any resources that you then proceed to ignore. You are in a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial to make conscientious use of your tools and riches. To let them go to waste would be to dishonor them — and make it less likely that you will continue to receive their blessings in the future. Take full advantage of what’s yours.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) After a thorough, detailed, painstaking analysis of the astrological omens, I’m inclined to advise you to be neither thorough nor detailed nor painstaking in the coming days.

Instead, I suspect you will thrive by being spontaneous and improvisatory. Wing it, baby! Throw away the script. Trust your gut.

Play it by ear. Make it up as you go along.

If you find yourself frowning with indecision and beset by lazy procrastination, you’ll know you’re off course. If you’re feeling blithe and agile as you get a lot done with creative efficiency, you’ll know you’re right in the groove.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) If you could harness the energy from a typical lightning bolt, it could toast 100,000 slices of bread. That’s an impossible scenario, of course. But I see it as an apt metaphor for the challenge you have ahead of you. I suspect you will soon gain access to a massive influx of vital force that arrives in a relatively short time. Can you find a way to gather it in and store it up? Or will most of it, after the initial burst, leak away and be unavailable for longterm use? The secret to success will lie in whether you can figure out how to create the perfect “container.”

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) “Forget the suffering / You caused others. / Forget the suffering / Others caused you.”

Czeslaw Milosz wrote these words in his poem “Forget,” and now I’m passing them on to you. According to my reading of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to purge the old hurts you’re still carrying, both those you dealt out and those you endured. Opportunities like this don’t come along often, Leo. I invite you to repay emotional debts, declare amnesty, and engage in an orgy of forgiveness. Any other things you can think of that will help wipe the slate clean?

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) When a Navajo baby laughs for the first time, everyone in the community celebrates.

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son who provokes the baby’s laughter is charged with planning the First Laugh Ceremony, a party to commemorate the magical event. I foresee a comparable development in your life, Virgo. You won’t be laughing for the first time, of course, but I suspect your sense of humor will achieve a new ripeness. How? Maybe you’ll be able to find amusement in things you’ve always taken too seriously. Maybe you’ll suddenly have a deeper appreciation for life’s ongoing cosmic jokes. Or perhaps you will stumble upon reasons to laugh longer, harder and louder than you ever have before.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) Would you like to be free from ever getting criticized? Do you think it might be nice if no one ever accused you of being wrong or off-track? If so, here’s how you should proceed, says American writer Elbert Hubbard: “Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.” But I’m afraid I can’t recommend that behavior for you, Libra.

In the coming weeks, you have a sacred duty to your Future Self to risk being controversial. I urge you to take strong stands, speak raw truths and show your real feelings. Yes, you may attract flack. You might disturb the peace. But that will be an acceptable price to pay for the rewards you receive. This is one time when being courageous is more important than seeking harmony.

SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) “Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any,” said American writer Mark Twain. How do you respond to that impish nudge, Scorpio? Are there any geniuses and heroes out there whom you consider to be worthy of your respect? If not, I urge you to go out in search of some. At this phase of your evolution, you are in special need of people who inspire you with their greatness. It’s crucial for you to learn from

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teachers and role models who are further along than you are in their mastery of the game of life. I also believe it would be healing for you to feel waves of admiration and reverence.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) “Everyone has something to hide,” declared Russian author Anton Chekhov. Is that true?

Do even you blunt Sagittarians have something to hide? I’m going to say that for 90 percent of you, the answer is yes. There are secrets you don’t want anyone to find out about: past events you’re reluctant to disclose, shady deeds you’re getting away with now, or taboo thoughts you want to keep sealed away from public knowledge. I’m not here to scold you about them or to encourage you to spill them. On the contrary, I say it’s time to bring them fully into your conscious awareness, to honor their importance in your life story, and to acknowledge their power to captivate your imagination.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) A German chemist named Felix Hoffman played a prominent role in synthesizing two very different drugs: aspirin and heroin. In analyzing your astrological omens for the coming months, I see you as having a similar potential. You could create good stuff that will have the power to help and heal; you could generate borderline stuff that will lead to a lot of problems; or you could do both.

How it all plays out is really up to your free will. For best results, set your intention to go in the direction of things like aspirin and away from things like heroin.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) This is a good time to risk a small leap of faith, but not a sprawling vault over a yawning abyss. Feel free and easy about exploring the outer borders of familiar territory, but be cautious about the prospect of wandering into the deep, dark unknown. Be willing to entertain stimulating new ideas but not cracked notions that have little evidence to back them up. Your task is to shake up the status quo just enough to invigorate everyone’s emotional intelligence, even as you take care not to unleash an upheaval that makes everyone crazy.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20) British poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834) had an unusual fetish. He enjoyed eating apples, pears and other fruits while they were still hanging on the tree. Why? Perhaps because the taste was as pure and brisk and naked as it could possibly be — an experience that I imagine would be important to a romantic poet like him. In accordance with your astrological omens, I suggest you use Coleridge’s quest for ultimate freshness as a driving metaphor in the coming week. Go to the source to get what you need. Dispense with intermediaries. Be as raw as the law allows.

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