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PAGE 8 HOLDING THEIR BREATH Local hemp growers hold their breath while state lawmakers and law enforcement agencies struggle to get a handle on the hazy legal nuances of regulating the new industry. On the cover: Libby Meier examines some dried hemp flowers.

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Greed, corruption and the decline of Asheville All the things that made Asheville desirable are rapidly disappearing as greedy real estate developers exploit the charm of Asheville and Western North Carolina. With their greed came the air pollution caused by the traffic from the tourists who believed the hype and came to stay in overly priced corporate hotels so that they can mill around downtown and eat high-priced mediocre food. Low wages, corporate landlords, lack of rent control, high prices, brutal traffic, the fake homeless, street crime and white collar crime have all combined to make Asheville an increasingly undesirable place in which to call home.

Let’s look at Asheville’s crime and public safety issues. According the website Neighborhood Scout, Asheville’s crime rate is [higher than] Chicago’s: [avl.mx/67j].

Neighborhood Scout only reports street crime. … In terms of dollars and cents and lives lost, corporate crime does far more damage to society than street crime.

One role of government is to protect good people from bad people and improve quality of life. This is not happening here. … My wife, grandson and I have been accosted at least five times by dangerous mental patients

and transient panhandlers. The only time we go downtown now is for the ballgames.

Asheville has lost most of its charm thanks to the hype, corporate infestations, wages lower than … the state average, crumbling streets, brutal traffic, price gouging, poor health care and the lust for tourist dollars.

The influx of money has not trickled down to the residents in the form of better streets, public safety, amenities or lower taxes. I can only suspect that some of the money went into the pockets of members of our city and county governments.

— Chris Brady Asheville

A vote for new Movies format I must wholeheartedly agree with Robert Jordan’s opinion about [replacing] movie reviewer Scott Douglas [“An Alternative View on Movies Section,” June 5, Xpress]. As I stated in a letter over a year ago in Xpress, you needed a dictionary to read Douglas’ reviews; his “scholarly, pseudo-intellectual” reviews were distracting from really getting an honest opinion of what a movie was really like and if it was worth the time to see it.

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— Joe Mason Fairview

A miracle return, thanks to microchipping As a very happy fur baby mom, just reunited with her long-lost, dear kitty after almost 17 weeks away from the

safety and love of her home, I must sing the praises of pet microchipping.

Without a microchip, our Natasha may not ever have been reunited with us and safely returned, despite the almost daily checks I made to lost cat websites and vets and shelters throughout the area. It so happens our little wanderer escaped out of the door on one of the coldest nights in late January and was discovered on June 5 outside of High Five Coffee on Broadway behind Green Life, turned

in by a wonderful, kind young lady to the Buncombe County Animal Shelter.

Upon arrival, the shelter immediately scanned Natty for a chip, where a pet owner’s name and email and phone number are accessible. The shelter phoned us while my husband and I were at lunch — telling us the astonishing news that Natasha had finally been found — so of course lunch was abandoned, and we rushed to the shelter to witness the wonder of our sweet kitty

NATASHA cat returned safe and sound and not so very much the worse for wear.

During her sojourn, several thoughtful Ashevilleans and perhaps visitors must have taken time to care a bit for a little long-haired mackerel tabby with very short legs and a super-fluffy tail — feeding her scraps perhaps or maybe letting her sleep on porches or other safe places — and if this fits your description, thank you — thank you — from the bottom of our hearts. Natty thanks you, too.

And thank you BCAS for giving Natty flea drops, a rabies shot and heartworm medicine so she can be healthy and ready for hopefully a long, happy, strictly indoors life with her older sister cat Katrinka. So, in closing, please, please microchip your pet(s) if you haven’t already.

It’s worth the peace of mind — if the almost unthinkable happens as it did to us — and microchips really work! We and Natty are testament to that.

Shelters microchip all their adopted pets as a matter of course, or your vet can microchip, and this is one technology all pets and their people should be exceedingly grateful for. And do not give up if your pet is lost. Miracles do happen.

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Hopes for alternative baseball in Asheville My name is Taylor Duncan. I am 23 years old from Dallas, Ga., and I have autism. I am also the commissioner/director of the Alternative Baseball Organization, a 501(c) (3) authentic baseball experience for teens 15-plus and adults

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C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N with autism and special needs across America. We are searching for coach/managers and volunteers to help us start a new program in Asheville.

When I was much younger, I had speech issues, anxiety issues and more that came with having autism. I wasn’t able to participate in competitive sports due to the developmental delays, in addition to social stigma (preconceived ideas) from those who think what one with autism or a disability can and cannot achieve. With the help of my mom, teachers, mentors and coaches who believed in me, I’ve gotten to where I am today in my life: to live with the goal to inspire, raise awareness and acceptance for autism and special needs globally through America’s pastime.

I started this organization to give others on the spectrum/special needs the opportunity to be accepted for who they are, to be encouraged to be the best they can be and to instill the confidence needed for those to be successful on and off the diamond. The program itself goes way beyond what basic stuff like wins, losses and statistics can show.

Some players, because they were given the opportunity to try their best, have gone on to build desires to become employed and to learn

how to drive behind the wheel of a vehicle. The program follows Major League rules (wood bats, base-stealing, dropped third strike, etc.) and is a true typical team experience for others on the autism spectrum and special needs to learn physical and social skills for life on and off the diamond.

Alternative Baseball has been featured on national media including CNN’s HLN, ESPN’s “Baseball Tonight,” NBC’s “Today,” among many local affiliate stations across the country.

The program is expanding across the United States with new clubs forming in greater Atlanta (Cobb County, Dallas, Newnan, Atlanta/ Buckhead); greater Chattanooga (Chattanooga, Cleveland); Athens, Ala.; Phoenix; greater Washington D.C.; Spartanburg County, S.C.; Jersey City, N.J.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Columbus, Ga./Phenix City, Ala./Auburn, Ala.; Jupiter, Fla.; Ormond Beach, Fla.; Philadelphia; and greater Charlotte; with many more in the works!

Thank you for your time! Please visit www.alternativebaseball.org for more information.

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DON’T INHALE JUST YET

Budding hemp industry holds its breath over potential flower ban

BY LAURA HACKETT

“The unintended consequence upon passage of this bill is that marijuana will be legalized in NC because law enforcement cannot distinguish between hemp and marijuana and prosecutors could not prove the difference in court.”

laurafaye15@gmail.com As state lawmakers and law enforcement agencies debate the fate of smokable hemp flower in the North Carolina marketplace, the industry is holding its breath.

To many growers, the legalization of hemp offers hope, healing and numerous business opportunities. It’s also invited a new generation of licensed farmers into the fold who are passionate about the plant’s potential to underpin everything from biofuel to green packaging to soil remediation. And while data remains limited concerning the health benefits of products such as CBD oil, edibles and smokable flower, anecdotal evidence suggests that hemp is helping consumers manage everything from anxiety to depression to various physical ailments.

Epidiolex, a treatment for certain types of epileptic seizures, recently became the first FDA-approved CBD drug. And on April 2, Commissioner Scott Gottlieb issued a statement saying that the Food and Drug Administration is in the early stages of evaluating CBD medications and “providing potential regulatory pathways.”

But it’s not all pre-rolls and sunshine.

Within this rapidly growing industry there exist hazy legal nuances that state lawmakers and law enforcement agencies are still struggling to get a handle on. Smokable flower in particular — which produces no psychoactive effects but looks and smells exactly like marijuana bud — has raised concerns on the part of the N.C. State Bureau of Investigation, among others. In late May, the SBI issued a statement listing items the agency wanted to see included in the proposed N.C. Farm Act of 2019.

The Senate version of the bill, SB 315, was approved June 17 on a 31-14 vote. And though the final draft didn’t give the SBI everything it wanted, the fight will now move to the House.

NIPPING IT IN THE BUD Several years ago, the state launched an industrial hemp pilot program; the current bill aims to replace those limited efforts by establishing a full-blown hemp industry here. Further complicating matters is the federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, which legal8

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HOTHOUSE FLOWERS: Libby Meier of Green River Botanicals works with hemp plants in the greenhouse. Meier and other hemp farmers are hoping for a quick resolution of key questions under consideration by the N.C. General Assembly, especially the legal status of smokable hemp flower bud. Photo by Laura Hackett ized all industrial hemp (defined as that containing less than 0.3% THC) nationwide. The North Carolina bill represents legislators’ attempt to bring state policy in line with the updated federal law. The bill also empowers the N.C. Industrial Hemp Commission, established as part of the pilot program, to act as the fledgling industry’s governing body. The agency’s name would be changed to the N.C. Hemp Commission.

Topping the list of concerns in the SBI’s May statement was the assertion that legalizing hemp bud and similar products would interfere with law enforcement’s ability to use probable cause to seize and analyze items that might be marijuana.

Because no officially recognized field test is currently available here that can differentiate between the two, finding a bud could no longer be considered evidence of a crime, since the item in question might be legal hemp.

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Law enforcement’s inability to make this key distinction, the SBI statement explained, “is problematic in all marijuana prosecutions, from small amounts to trafficking amounts of plant material.”

For this reason, it continued, “There is at least one District Attorney’s Office in NC which is currently not prosecuting marijuana cases.”

The SBI also expressed concern about the lack of regulation of hemp and CBD products in the state, noting, “Many products for sale in commercial businesses are intentionally mislabeled to contain CBD, but they contain harmful Schedule I controlled substances, synthetic cannabinoids, ‘bath salts,’ and other adulterants such as rat poison.” The SBI also cited the possibility that an item sold as CBD might actually contain more THC than what the label showed — or could just be straight up marijuana in disguise.

These assertions culminated in a bold, unexpected and italicized statement:

Under federal law, marijuana is still banned as a Schedule I controlled substance. Yet the federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 removed hemp, which is a variant form of the same plant, from that list. To resolve this quandary, the SBI proposed banning all smokable flower, in addition to more stringent regulation of hemp processing and a host of other precautions.

But those suggestions didn’t sit well with Tar Heel farmers and others who have invested their livelihoods and resources in the industry. According to the minutes of the N.C. Industrial Hemp Commission’s most recent meeting, there are 1,017 licensed industrial hemp growers across the state — compared with just 306 a year ago. Those growers represent 12,600 acres of farmland and more than 4.9 million square feet of greenhouse space. There are also 601 registered processors.

That’s why Asheville-based activists Blake Butler and Rod Kight are making their voices heard on behalf of the farmers, processors and consumers whom they maintain have greatly benefited from the state’s burgeoning hemp industry. Butler is executive director of the N.C. Industrial Hemp Association, a nonprofit trade group.

He says he’s driven from Asheville to Raleigh at least eight times in June alone to meet with state legislators about the potential ban on smokable hemp. Kight, an attorney, runs a legal blog called Kight on Cannabis.

“All we’re trying to do is help the North Carolina farmer,” says Butler.

“We want that famer to be recognized for growing a crop. It’s been legal in the state for three years under the pilot program, and smokable flower makes up about one-third of that industry.

For law enforcement to come in on the back end — our question is, where have they been?”

Although a May 23 draft of the farm bill called for the SBI’s requested ban on smokable hemp to take effect as soon as Dec. 1, 2019, the version which was passed by the Senate delays the

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The last-minute shift, which buys critical time for the industry, seems to be due largely to Butler’s advocacy efforts since he was hired as the Hemp Association’s executive director in mid-January.

During his frequent trips to Raleigh, Butler says he’s met one-on-one with the SBI, sheriffs, district attorneys and legislative leaders. All of them, he reports — including Sen. Brent Jackson, an author of the bill — have been receptive.

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“We know the technology is there for a reliable field test,” Butler maintains.

“The DEA now has a list of vendors they could recommend. My goal is to get a reliable field test in the hands of the SBI within three months.”

But for Butler, there’s a bigger issue at stake. “All the concerns the SBI brought up, we can address, but we definitely cannot be categorized as an industry that is going to break the law,” he continues. “That day is over: We want to be seen professionally, and we want a regulatory framework for our industry. … I’m not sure why law enforcement doesn’t get it, but on the same hand we’re willing to meet them halfway,

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Kight, meanwhile, argues that North Carolina growers would see such a ban as a serious violation of trust, considering the initial support the state’s pilot program has given them over the last several years. “Farmers are making decisions of what to grow right now, buying seeds, formulating a plan,” he points out. “If that gets pulled out from underneath them, that’s tough.”

Accordingly, continues Kight, “My role is to educate everyone about this.

A lot of it is a simple lack of understanding: Until recently, the term ‘smokable flower’ was unknown to about 70%-80% of legislators. It’s emerged suddenly and taken a lot of people by surprise.”

That’s important, he explains, because “of hemp crops, the most profitable are hemp flowers. A rough analogy would be a mass-market beer versus a craft beer in a local brewery. To have a smokable flower, a bud needs to look nice, smell nice, taste good. Hemp for biomass is still a good crop, but states across the country and even foreign countries are growing this for oil, and North Carolina farmers are going to have to be competing with all of them

LOOKS LIKE POT, SMELLS LIKE POT: Dried hemp flower is currently indistinguishable from marijuana, according to officials with the State Bureau of Investigation. The hunt is on for a reliable field test that would detect concentrations of THC above the legal limit. Photo by Laura Hackett in what will amount to a race to the bottom. For a farmer, hemp flower, with its craft element, is going to keep them in business.”

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And as the issue looms in Raleigh, VanTine — like many other local growers and retailers who have focused a large portion of their business on hemp flower — is frustrated. “At the end of the day, it’s not a controlled substance: It’s a controlled commodity. We should not be going through this crap,” he declares.

“Getting rid of hemp isn’t the way to do it. Hemp’s not the bad guy. Smoking the flower is the quickest way to absorb the CBD, and it’s the most economical way for people to get it. If you take away hemp flower, you’re taking away medicine from the poor,” VanTine asserts.

“Even if it means law enforcement is tasked with telling the difference, they are tasked with a lot of instances where they have to tell the difference. Let’s get on with people having some medicine.”

Clarenda Stanley-Anderson, a hemp activist who owns the social equity-focused Green Heffa Farms in Liberty, wholeheartedly agrees. “Why would you put in a regressive, prohibitive piece of legislation instead of figuring out a way to be able to test

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“We definitely cannot be categorized as an industry that is going to break the law. That day is over.”

— Blake Butler, N.C. Industrial Hemp Association and make sure that smokable flower is hemp-derived?” she asks. “Let’s put our energy into that. We have leading research institutions: What the hell were y’all doing with the pilot program? I can’t see the plane. Where’d y’all fly to?”

Meanwhile, recent UNC Asheville graduate Libby Meier, who works at Green River Botanicals, says she’s one of many local farmers who have found full-time work cultivating the plant.

“Hemp definitely created an opportunity for me,” says Meier, adding that the industry is “growing very fast. We would probably see a lot of loss in terms of revenue and employees if the flowers were banned.”

According to the minutes of the Hemp Commission’s June 7 meeting, the number of licensed hemp growers statewide has more than tripled in the last year, and Kight describes the Asheville area as a center of gravity within the industry. Asked for a specific number, Butler said, “Not all growers are members of our association, but I can tell you

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N EWS A national advocate for greater fairness in the industry, she maintains that even qualified African American farmers may have a harder time obtaining loans than their white counterparts. And the farming laws, argues Stanley-Anderson, create additional obstacles.

“Anyone with a felony on their record has to wait 10 years before they can enter the hemp industry in North Carolina.

This again puts people of color at a disadvantage, since black people are four times more likely to be arrested for cannabis use, despite white people in this country using the drug at a proportional rate,” she explains.

Asked about the commission’s decision 2 1/2 years ago to exclude felons from the pilot program, Chair Tom Melton said he doesn’t specifically recall the discussion when the commission made the rule, but, “At the time, hemp was a controlled substance, and as such, the restriction made sense to most people.” In terms of the current situation, he added, “I understand it’s debatable on a couple of fronts, and the public will have an opportunity for input when the new program is developed later this year.”

LOCAL OFFICIALS LARGELY SILENT With so much legal uncertainty clouding the air, you might expect that local law enforcement would be weighing in. But when asked about it, Public Information Officer Aaron Sarver of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office remained tightlipped. “This isn’t something that is much of an issue for the Sheriff’s Office,” he wrote in an email, declining further comment.

Christina Hallingse, the Asheville Police Department’s public information officer, didn’t seem particularly concerned either, explaining in an emailed statement that the department has received no complaints regarding wrongful arrests or citations related to hemp, and that there are officers on staff who have received extensive training to determine impairment and identify substances on a case-by-case basis.

Asked about the potential hemp flower ban during a June 12 phone call, state Rep. Brian Turner, a founding member of the so-called North Carolina “Cannabis Caucus,” said the issue hadn’t been on his radar yet but that he would look into the situation more closely. Now that the bill has cleared the Senate, however, it will land squarely in the laps of Turner and his colleagues. As this issue went to press, the House Agriculture Committee was slated to begin consideration of the bill on Tuesday, June 25.

DOWN ON THE FARM: As the hemp industry flourishes, farmers and retailers are developing security and control practices as they go along. Industry advocates say they’re working with legislators and law enforcement to meet those challenges and address law enforcement concerns.

Photo by Laura Hackett FINDING THE WAY While it’s true that North Carolina law enforcement agencies currently have no official field test they can use, smokable hemp advocates say one could be available before too long.

In February, the Drug Enforcement Administration posted a notice on the federal business opportunities website that it was looking for a “rugged” and “portable” field test kit with the ability to distinguish between hemp and marijuana. There’s already at least one potential candidate: In April, the Nevada-based Digipath Labs filed a provisional patent application for a field test, which CEO Todd Denkin described as “a cross between 23andMe and a paternity test for plants.” And on his blog, attorney Kight says he has in his possession an effective test that’s been used throughout Europe and could be adapted for the American marketplace.

Asked about the SBI’s position on field tests, Public Information Director Anjanette Grube explained in an email, “State law requires the THC in hemp to be at 0.3% or lower.

Retail wine shop & wine bar As far as the SBI is aware, the ‘reliable field test’ being shown to legislators is not validated by an accredited crime lab and only measures 1% THC or higher. The SBI will continue to work with the Drug Enforcement Administration to identify tested and proven solutions to this issue.”

In the meantime, local growers and retailers say that by being proactive and transparent with local law enforcement they can usually avoid any trouble. Mike O’Dekirk, general manager of the hemp retailer Instant Karma, says the business has a veteran cannabis consultant on staff, conducts monthly trainings and keeps an updated binder of paperwork for every CBD product sold. He’s happy to let anyone who asks flip through it. And Meier says that every single one of her store’s products has a scan code that will take users directly to the results of lab tests conducted by a reputable third party.

For his part, Butler points out that since the pilot program was launched, “We have grown unregulated. So we can expect more challenges like this ahead.” But for him, the key issue is having time to work things out — particularly the smokable flower ban.

“We have to compromise in a way,” he concedes. “All we ask for is enough time to come to the table and present these things people are concerned about. Dec. 1, 2019, is different from Dec. 1, 2020.”

In her email, Grube emphasized that her agency “is working closely with legislators regarding concerns surrounding hemp laws and pending legislation. The SBI understands and respects the economic impacts the hemp industry has had on North Carolina. However, it is imperative that law enforcement across our state have the mechanisms in place to effectively do their jobs and enforce current state laws.”

And as the hemp industry continues to work with legislators and law enforcement to address this issue, Butler advises his colleagues to remain patient.

“Everyone is enthusiastic, but at the same time, we need to be professional,” he maintains. “We’ve waited a long time to be given this legitimate place as an agricultural commodity.

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WORKFORCE BEHIND THE WORKFORCE Buncombe County faces a lack of affordable, accessible child care Every parent knows that raising a child is a full-time job. But for many parents who also work outside the home, including 28-year-old mother of four Nastassia Hearst, the burden of finding affordable and quality child care compounds an already demanding role.

“I don’t have child care,” Hearst explains between the sounds of giggles, wails and baby talk as her children play around her. “It’s not that it’s not doable, it just makes it more difficult.”

And Hearst is not alone. Over 9,000 children younger than 6 live in Buncombe County households in which both parents or the sole parent works, and where average monthly market rates for care in a four-star child care center hover around $879 per month, according to data from the Child Care Services Association.

And while more than 1,500 Buncombe children received care through state-funded vouchers that reduce the costs for working parents, hundreds remain on the waiting list for assistance.

For Hearst, who is currently on the waitlist for vouchers for her two youngest children, the shortage of available aid means putting her career as an art instructor on hold.

“I really don’t have too many options but to stay home with the children,” Hearst says.

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ECONOMIC IMPACT While both men and women experience the high cost of child care, the lack of affordable options for parents most often affects working women who forgo careers to care for children, says Jodi Rhoden of the YWCA of Asheville “If affordable child care is accessible to women, then women can go to school, women can go to work, they can uplift their families, and they can uplift themselves,” Rhoden explains.

“If affordable child care is not accessible, then they can’t do those things.”

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a quality life. That’s not going to be able to be remedied until we have adequate funding for our early childhood education programs.”

Making child care more widely available also makes good business sense, say local economic development officials. Nathan Ramsey, director of the Mountain Area Workforce Development Board, says that Buncombe County’s tight labor market has brought the unemployment rate to a 45-year low. That’s good news for job seekers, says Ramsey, but if parents have limited availability or are unable to work at all due to child care commitments, then neither the potential employees nor local businesses can benefit from their skills and labor. “[A shortage of child care is] hard on our economy, because employers are unable to fill their positions, so those economic activities can’t happen,” Ramsey says. “Employers are unable to meet their workforce needs, and economic growth is often determined by your population growth, and the labor force participation rate, and by the productivity of your workers.”

EARLY START: The YWCA’s five-star Early Learning Program provides child care for 80 infants, toddlers and young children ages 6 weeks to 5 years. Photo courtesy of YWCA of Asheville grams that promote healthy child development while also supporting parents’ professional goals, Rhoden says. For those “at a crossroads in their lives,” the YWCA’s Empowerment Childcare program provides up to 12 hours of free child care to allow a woman time to seek support services or go to a job interview.

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Achieving greater equity in child care goes beyond providing more slots and financial aid for parents, Rhoden says.

“It’s our job to empower all women, not just women who are working and putting their children in child care,” Rhoden says.

“Those child care workers also deserve to have the resources they need to live

While state-funded vouchers are available for some parents, factors such as children’s age and parents’ income levels determine eligibility. Parents whose children are younger than 6 and who earn up to 200% of the federal poverty level, or those whose children are 6 and older and earn up to 130% of the federal poverty level, may be eligible for a voucher.

The vouchers, however, don’t cover the full cost of tuition. Parents are also expected to put 10% of their gross monthly income toward the provider’s private-pay rate, a fee that Amy Barry, executive director of the nonprofit Buncombe Partnership for Children, says many parents don’t see coming.

“These are lower-income, working, poor families, and the reason they were getting a voucher is because they couldn’t afford private rates,” Barry says. “Some families can do it, but we’ve had situations where families have contacted us and said, ‘I was so happy I got a voucher, and then I realized that I was also responsible for paying the difference between that and my copay to get up to the private rate, and I simply can’t do it. I had to take my child out.’”

Parents also experience difficulty when searching for providers willing to accept the voucher. Due to what Barry calls “historically low” reimbursement rates, many providers don’t participate in the program. While the same

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“It’s a little bit outside of our work to engage in recruitment and training of providers to join the workforce, but who else is going to do it? We’ve got to do it.”

— Amy Barry, Buncombe Partnership for Children standards and rating system apply to all child care providers statewide, reimbursement rates vary by county.

“For example, if you were to take all of the [Buncombe County] slots that are currently supported by child care vouchers, and you were to look at what those slots with the value of those vouchers would be in Wake County, we would be losing about $5 million a year,” Barry explains. “Each [Buncombe] voucher is worth a couple hundred dollars less per month, per child, yet providers have to provide that same quality.”

The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners created the Early Childhood Education and Development Fund in October, allocating $3.6 million annually to support and expand local child care services. The fund’s objectives include developing a coordinated, system-based approach to providing more child care slots in the county; promoting the affordability of quality child care for both parents and care providers; creating an education pathway for early learning careers; and responding to the needs of families impacted by issues such as trauma, poverty and addiction.

TEACHER SHORTAGE A lack of teachers and funding assistance has resulted in the loss of 620 Buncombe County child care slots during the last 10 years, according to Barry.

Phillip Hardin, economic services director for Buncombe County, says “a whole string of regulations,” many of which are mandated by the federal government, define required qualifications for caregivers. The N.C. Division

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of Childhood Development and Early Education’s website lists a number of options an aspiring teacher may pursue to fulfill education requirements, but enrolling in classes and building a portfolio requires time and money.

The Christine W. Avery Learning Center on Hill Street opened in 2015 with five students in an after-school program, says CiCi Weston, the center’s executive director. Today, the center has expanded to include an early learning program and serves a total of 182 students in the two programs. Navigating the state’s rules and regulations is the most challenging part of her job, Weston says.

While Weston agrees with the importance of education for early learning staff members, she muses, “If I’ve got somebody in here who’s really good with kids, really good with the families and doesn’t have the education, then why would I trade them out for somebody who has the education but may not be good with the kids or with the families?”

In those situations, Weston supports the employee in obtaining the necessary qualifications. That way, she says, “The staff’s going to stay here, the families are going to stay here, and more families are going to want to come.”

In addition to the barriers presented by educational requirements, many child care providers are aging out of the workforce, Barry says. She cites the closures of Calvary Baptist Church’s child care program and Casa dei Bambini, a bilingual preschool in West Asheville, as local examples of providers leaving the business.

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Today, Barry works toward teacher recruitment and training efforts, a task she took on in 2018 to help alleviate the current shortage of early childhood educators. She and her co-workers piloted a new program that provides training, guided classroom observations, coaching and enrollment in A-B Tech’s early childhood education program.

“Last summer, through our work with the Asheville Buncombe Preschool Planning Collaborative, the Buncombe Partnership for Children made the decision that there is no quick fix to this shortage of early educators,” Barry explains.

“It’s a little bit outside of our work to engage in recruitment and training of providers to join the workforce, but who else is going to do it? We’ve got to do it.”

Once participants complete the educational requirements, participants become substitute teachers. Now in its second cohort, the program has placed many of its original participants in full-time positions.

Hearst stumbled upon the Workforce Development Program while seeking child care options. She enrolled when she learned that the program provided a rare opportunity to gain skills while her children received care.

“It took a lot of stress off me being able to take them to the same place where I was learning,” says Hearst. “I would love to take advantage of other opportunities to learn as much as I can about children, because I think it’s something that can affect not just a parent but a community.”

Recently, Hearst graduated from the program and was offered work at a fivestar preschool program. But despite being highly motivated, the challenges of working full time and caring for her children stymied her ambitions. Hearst says that she plans to pursue the opportunity — as soon as more affordable child care options become available.

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Buncombe shares early goals for tourism dollars As the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority continues a yearlong project to assess how it divvies up millions of dollars in occupancy tax revenue, Buncombe County government is cooking up a proposal for its own piece of the pie. Tim Love, director of intergovernmental projects, shared preliminary results from the county’s contribution to the Tourism Management & Investment Plan at a June 18 pre-meeting of the Board of Commissioners.

The TDA process aims to shift spending of its Tourism Product Development Fund — the 25% of occupancy tax earmarked for community investment, or roughly $6.75 million this fiscal year — to a longer-term vision. Funding awards are on hold for now as the planning project continues.

Buncombe’s strategic thinking on tourism, Love explained, has focused on “the circulation of tourists to our unique, eclectic and vibrant community destinations.” Compared to the relatively dense city of Asheville, he said, the county’s attractions are spread across 660 square miles and small municipalities such as Montreat, Weaverville and Woodfin.

With that goal in mind, Love listed a number of “core projects” that county staff and municipal partners had tentatively identified as candidates for TDA support. State legislation,

A PATH FORWARD: Buncombe County’s preliminary approach to a new Tourism Development Authority planning process calls for funding projects that circulate tourists, such as greenways and trails in Black Mountain and Weaverville. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County he reminded the commissioners, limits occupancy tax spending to brick-andmortar capital expenses with the potential to generate new overnight stays in Buncombe County.

In Black Mountain, Love suggested, such work could include a quartermile of new greenways connecting the town’s existing system with the Montreat Conference Center and its hiking trails.

Weaverville could get new greenwayconnected trails around a proposed community center at Lake Louise, while Woodfin might see tournament-quality soccer fields built on a former landfill that could be reached by both greenways and the Craggy Mountain Line railroad.

Perhaps the most ambitious project on the docket is a recreation complex on the 45-acre former location of Beacon

Manufacturing in Swannanoa. Love said the plan could include up to 12 full-size basketball courts and a sports medicine facility; although the site has been designated as a brownfield by state regulators, he said the property was suitable for nonresidential development.

Commissioners thanked county staff members for their work, but several wondered if the TDA’s longterm planning could be expanded beyond individual projects alone. Al Whitesides suggested that the authority’s enabling state legislation could be revisited, given the explosive growth of tourism in recent years.

“Nobody thought, back in the ’80s when this was put in place, that we would have $25 million or more a year coming in,” Whitesides said.

“When you look at the number of hotels and motels and the stress they’re putting on the infrastructure in Asheville and Buncombe County, we need to revisit that.”

Commission Vice Chair Jasmine Beach-Ferrara asked if the TDA would consider a “high-level dialogue” around using occupancy tax money to support infrastructure and core government services in the local communities that tourists visit.

Love noted that the topic had been broached but tended to run aground on the limits of the state statute.

“I know that context,” BeachFerrara responded. “Tourism brings a lot to this community; it also brings wear and tear and pressure on services. … I would be interested in having a more robust conversation about that.”

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Commissioners OK $455.5 million county budget It’s official: Buncombe County is set to spend roughly $455.5 million over the next fiscal year. The Board of Commissioners approved the county’s budget — including over $334.5 million in general fund spending, the portion primarily funded by property taxes — in a 6-1 vote at its June 18 regular meeting.

Several commissioners praised County Manager Avril Pinder and her staff for assembling a budget that avoided a property tax increase while still allocating substantial funds to Buncombe’s strategic priorities. The county’s spending includes $3.7 million on affordable housing projects and $3.6 million on early childhood education, increases of $1.6 million 16

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and $1.9 million, respectively, compared with last year’s budget.

“I really appreciate the fact that this commission has set some priorities and then, along with our staff, worked really hard to identify opportunities to really advance them in a meaningful way,” said commission Chair Brownie Newman. “Those issues are reflected as priorities in this budget.”

Commission Vice Chair Jasmine Beach-Ferrara called attention to some of the specific projects funded through the allocation for early childhood education. New classrooms for high quality preschool, a workforce development pipeline for teachers and mental health sup-

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CITY OF ASHEVILLE LAUNCHES SURVEY ON THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM RENOVATION U.S. Cellular Center staff will spend the next few months conducting a public survey to advise the city on which updates and renovations of the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium best serve community needs. The survey is avail-

able online at avl.mx/68b through Sunday, June 30, and hard copies are available at city of Asheville recreation centers. Once the survey is completed, Earl Swensson Associates Architects will draft programming and conceptual designs for the building.

Securing funding for the project is expected to take two to four years, while the renovations will require an additional two years.

BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE ADDS NEW PROGRAMS FOR FALL SEMESTER Blue Ridge Community College will offer four new diploma programs, as well as four new certificate programs, during the upcoming fall semester. The programs complement current associate degree programs in the areas of leadership studies, American Sign Language, criminal justice, accounting and finance and others. Registration for the fall semester begins Monday, July 8, and classes begin Thursday, Aug. 15; more details can be found at avl.mx/68f.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WNC AWARDS $900,000 TO AREA NONPROFITS The Melvin R. Lane Fund of The Community Foundation of Western

North Carolina awarded $900,000 to six area nonprofits that focus on housing, education, mental health, farmworkers, health care and community partnerships. The 2020-22 grant recipients include Children First/ Communities In Schools of Buncombe County, the Community Housing Coalition of Madison County, Thrive, Vecinos Farmworker Health Program, St. Gerard House and Working Wheels. Each recipient will receive $150,000 over the next three years.

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port, she said, were all made possible through the expanded budget.

Only Commissioner Mike Fryar cast his vote in opposition to the plan. He expressed concern that the county would spend nearly $13 million of its fund balance, the difference between its assets and liabilities, to cover expenses exceeding its projected revenues.

Although Buncombe would be left with roughly $48.24 million in reserve at the end of fiscal year 2019-20, slightly above the 15% of the general fund required by board policy, Fryar worried that spending the fund balance would lead the county down an unsustainable path and might require a future property tax increase. “This is Peter robbing Paul this year. But next year, does Peter have any money from Paul to rob again?” he asked.

Fryar also argued that too much of the county’s money was going to Asheville-based projects, instead of being equitably distributed in more rural areas. “We’ve got three districts, and it all seems to be going into one,” he said; Fryar serves District 2, most of which lies in the eastern part of the county.

Other budget highlights included 10 new employees for the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office — numerous members of which were present for the vote — and an increase in compensation for all county employees to at least $15 per hour. The latter move impacts 15 staffers, primarily library employees, and is expected to cost slightly over $27,000.

The only change commissioners made to the budget before approving it was removing a 1.77% increase to their own pay. Budget Director Jennifer Barnette confirmed that her office had built in the raise as part of the cost-of-living adjustment for all county staff; the board voted unanimously to keep their salaries at their previous levels of $37,650 for Newman, $32,548 for Beach-Ferrara and $28,916 for the remaining commissioners.

Buncombe County offers an interactive budget explorer webpage at avl.mx/68c. The commission will not meet on Tuesday, July 2, but will return for a regular meeting on Tuesday, July 16, at 5 p.m. in Room 326 at 200 College St. in downtown Asheville.

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Metro employment grew in Q4 Accountancy firm Johnson Price Sprinkle crunched the numbers for the fourth quarter of 2018 and came up with plenty of good news for workers in Buncombe, Haywood, Henderson and Madison counties.

The area added 4,300 new jobs from a year earlier, racking up a better-than-state-average growth rate of 2.2% and continuing a streak of positive job growth that’s stretched for nearly 8 1/2 years.

Manufacturing jobs grew by 1,400, the sector’s strongest performance in over two decades.

And the unemployment rate, at 2.9%, remained the lowest among all the state’s metro areas.

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Beacon site gets new owner

Financial services company Symmetry Financial Group announced on June 19 its purchase of the former Beacon Mill site, a 42-acre parcel in Swannanoa.

Once the bustling home of the Beacon Manufacturing Co., for a time the world’s largest producer of blankets, the factory ceased operations in 2002. The following year, a fire set by an arsonist destroyed 1 million square feet of industrial buildings, leaving the land vacant and contaminated.

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Integral Eyesight Improvement new location!

Originally opening back in 2013 with locations in downtown Asheville, Integral Eyesight Improvement owner Nathan Oxenfeld is taking his holistic vision practice to “greater heights” with the new Integral Eyesight Improvement office, located on Sunset Drive.

With a stunning view overlooking downtown Asheville and the surrounding Blue Ridge Mountains, this is the ideal location to relax your eyes and restore your mind after a stressful week of staring at screens.

As its name implies, Integral Eyesight Improvement integrates various natural methods into a holistic approach to eye care that often leads to improved eyesight and insight. After improving his own vision naturally using these methods, Nathan Oxenfeld now helps others train their eyes and brains to adopt healthier vision habits at work and school, learn a series of fun and relaxing vision-training practices, obtain increased focus and mental clarity, and possibly even decrease dependency on glasses and contacts.

In addition to his in-person training and local events, Nathan also offers online coaching and courses that have helped people worldwide. Visit his website to watch instructional videos, listen to podcast episodes, get a copy of his book or schedule a holistic vision consultation at the new IEI office.

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• J oseph Poveromo launched IMPACT Real Estate Group, a commercial real estate firm, in Fletcher. The firm will work in the North Carolina and Florida markets.

• H awthorn Montessori and Fox Flower Montessori will open this summer to serve children ages 3-12 at a location near UNC Asheville on Riverside Drive. The schools will accept child care vouchers and N.C. Opportunity Scholarships in addition to offering need-based scholarships.

• Blossman Gas & Appliance opened a new location at 2180 Spartanburg Highway in East Flat Rock.

The new retail store, the company said, has double the area of the previous location and includes a propane autogas refueling station.

• S achi Massage and Wellness opened a second location at 322 Eighth Ave. E. in Hendersonville. Expanding beyond its original facility at 210 Merrimon Ave. in Asheville will allow clients in Hendersonville and points south easier access to massage and other services, the company said in a press release.

• A 113-room Fairfield by Marriott Inn & Suites opened on June 5 at 155 Underwood Road in Fletcher.

• S anesco International relocated from 1010 Merrimon Ave. in Asheville to 2 Trident Drive in Arden to meet the company’s need for more space. In transitioning from about 5,000 to over 20,000 square feet, the health services company says it has secured ample room for continuing expansion.

• B agatelle Books opened at 428 C Haywood Road in West Asheville.

Conceived by local bookseller Patrick Kutcher — who’s also worked with The Captain’s Bookshelf, Downtown Books & News and Malaprop’s Bookstore & Cafe — the store specializes in used, rare and antiquarian books.

• W ith its opening in June at 375 Depot St., Girl and Goblin became the first tattoo shop in Asheville’s River Arts District. The business also features taxidermy and other oddities.

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DO YOU RECYCLE? Looking for other ways you can recycle and help reduce your carbon footprint?

Buy recycled home goods at auction!

Don’t hop on the twitter machine to purchase a new item from a big box store that you have to assemble and will be in the landfill in 3 years. Attend an auction to buy quality items that will continue to stand the test of time. Buying at auction is easy, economical and is the ultimate form of recycling. You will be supporting a family owned local business. Broken Arch Auction Gallery sells home goods, vintage items, furniture and antiques once a month — come see what treasures you can find!

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Changing hands • A sheville-based RISC Networks was acquired by Illinois software company Flexera. According to a company spokesperson, “A majority of the 40 RISC employees and execs will stay on, and the office will remain open in Asheville. As with other Flexera acquisitions ... RISC Networks will become part of, and operate as, Flexera.”

• Paul Casey and Brian Good purchased music venue Asheville Music Hall and The One Stop in late May. Asheville Music Hall at 31 Patton Ave. is a 350-person space that features a wide range of genres, while The One Stop (located directly below, with its entrance at 55 College St.) has a capacity of 200 and includes a late-night restaurant.

• Asheville City Council on May 28 voted to accept a new five- to 10-year naming agreement for the city-owned Asheville Civic Center.

Beginning Jan. 1, the facility will be known as the Harrah’s Cherokee Center Asheville. The potential value of the deal over a 10-year term is $5.75 million.

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• F. Lachicotte “Lach” Zemp, Jr. of Roberts & Stevens was confirmed as president of the N.C. Association of Defense Attorneys on June 15 at the organization’s annual meeting, held this year at The Omni Grove Park Inn. • South Carolina resident Rob Duckett became president of The Cliffs, with oversight of day-to-day operations of the company’s three divisions: Cliffs Clubs, Cliffs Land and Cliffs Realty.

• IT services provider Immedion LLC named Steve Newman director of sales operations.

• Libby Kyles is set to become CEO of the YWCA of Asheville, replacing Beth Maczka, who stepped down after seven years in the role.

• Kim Wagenaar was named CEO, and Cody McKinney was named CFO, of Western North Carolina Community Health Services, which is also known as Minnie Jones Health Center.

• B enjie Caldwell, who works in the Madison County maintenance office of the N.C. Department of Transportation, was among the statewide winners of the agency’s Roadeo, an annual competition among heavy equipment operators.

Caldwell captured the top prize in

VIEW FROM THE TOP: Rob Duckett is the new president of The Cliffs, a collection of seven private club communities in Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. Photo courtesy of The Cliffs the single-axle truck event. He and other state winners will compete against their counterparts from the Southeastern states in Mississippi in September.

By the numbers • Passenger numbers at Asheville Regional Airport keep flying high.

In the fourth quarter of 2018, the airport served 332,180 passengers, up nearly 22% from a year earlier, setting a new all-time quarterly record and marking the ninth consecutive quarter with double-digit passenger increases.

• In a study by the website ChamberofCommerce.org, Asheville ranked No. 9 among the best cities in the state to live, based on an analysis of employment, housing, quality of life, education and health. The study ranked Cary the No. 1 city in the state.

• Asheville also trailed No. 1-ranked Cary in another comparative study, this one created by WalletHub. Asheville came in No. 52 on the list of the state’s most family-friendly cities. Hendersonville ranked No. 55. Analysts rated cities “based on 21 key indicators of family-friendliness,” including median family income, housing affordability and school system quality, according to an announcement from the company.

• In May, home sales across the Asheville metropolitan statistical area increased 7.6%, with 751 homes sold during the month, compared with 698 sold during May last year.

Sales compared to the previous month rose over 25%, indicating a brisk spring selling season. Average and median sales prices also rose.

• Hendersonville’s Cummings Cove made Where to Retire’s list of the top 50 master-planned communities in the United States.

Good to know • Venture Asheville awarded $5,000 microgrants to startups Relaspen, No Sweat Undies, 3 Mountains, Asheville Wedding Collective and Burban. The companies receiving funding were selected from among 99 applicants.

• The third annual Asheville Entrepreneurship Week will take place Tuesday-Saturday, Sept. 3-7.

• T he Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce will host its 2019 Regional Chamber Business Expo on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 11 a.m.-3 p.m.,

at the WNC Ag Center Expo building in Fletcher.

• Explore Asheville launched mobile guides on WelcometoAVL.com showing places to eat, drink, shop, hike and more, as well as real-time parking updates.

• A eroflow Healthcare was named a Great Place to Work by — wait for it — Great Place to Work. The certification is based on “validated employee feedback,” according to a press release.

• The Asheville Regional Airport concluded the first year of its passenger appreciation program on June 21 with a surprise yoga-on-the-go event. In conjunction with National Yoga Day, local yoga instructor Miranda Petersen of Namaste in Nature led passengers through a series of seated yoga exercises in the terminal. The passenger appreciation program has partnered with a variety of local businesses to “surprise and delight passengers in the terminal throughout the year, and looks forward to continuing this popular program,” the airport said in a press release.

Ready to Kick Some Axe? Locally owned and operated, Axeville Throwing Club is a cool, inviting space where adults can safely take part in the sport of axe-throwing. Enjoy some of the amazing bottled and canned craft beers, ciders and wine that the local area has to offer.

Perfect for date night, bachelor/bachelorette parties, corporate outings, team-building, birthdays and any type of celebration!

Looking for the perfect space for your private event? With 10 targets and cozy lounge areas, Axeville Throwing Club can accommodate small or large private parties. Axeville can also assist you in the planning of your event, from the food to the decor. Monday-Wednesday is reserved for private events.

Herb Mountain Farm Learning and Lodging Center is a 138-acre botanical sanctuary located at the end of the Reems Creek Valley in Weaverville, a 25-minute drive from downtown Asheville. Our mission is to awaken, rekindle and strengthen the relationship between plants and people and to facilitate respectful land stewardship.

We have a venue called Veritas Lodge that is available for small retreats, events or conferences. The gardens and green-built structures are uniquely breathtaking. A mile-long nature trail wraps around the lower half of the property that takes you through forests, fields, orchards and gardens. Herb Mountain Farm also offers ongoing events such as Appalachian Tea Ceremonies and Living With the Seasons workshops as well as private classes, tours and bodywork. We would love to support your business by offering a magnificent space for your gathering.

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‘Ball o’ fire’ The Tyler Building’s earliest occupants, 1928

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AROUND THE BLOCK: The Tyler Building was constructed in 1928. The threestory structure, which totals 90,000 square feet, cost $175,000 to build. It stands on Walnut Street, Rankin and North Lexington avenues. This is the oldest available image of the property, taken in 1978. If anyone has photographs that date further back, please contact Xpress. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville In 1928, a number of construction projects were underway inside city limits. A survey by The Asheville Citizen estimated that total project costs exceeded $7 million (over $104 million in today’s dollar). This included the development of new business structures, municipal buildings, apartments and homes.

“Seldom in the city’s history has new construction reached such an amazing figure,” The Sunday Citizen proclaimed in its Sept. 30, 1928, edition. “It is probably the best record of any city in North Carolina, certainly in the western section.”

At the time, several commercial buildings were in various states of completion in the downtown business district. The Public Service Building (today’s Self-Help) and the Grove Arcade are among the better known. But also in the mix was the Tyler Building, named after its builder E.J. Tyler.

The property still stands today on Walnut Street, Rankin and North Lexington avenues (housing such businesses as Moonlight Makers, Lexington Park Antiques

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and more recently Noble Cider’s The Greenhouse). The three-story structure, which totals 90,000 square feet, took five months to construct, costing $175,000.

On Nov. 11, 1928, The Sunday Citizen announced its formal opening.

According to the paper, S.W. White was the Tyler Building’s first tenant.

He operated Whites Service Inc., an automobile service and storage station on the ground floor (facing North Lexington Avenue); he also leased the top floor (facing Rankin Avenue), which he ran as a garage.

“Owing to its central location, this station will serve a splendid purpose in storage of automobiles either for short periods of time or monthly,” The Sunday Citizen declared. “Safety is guaranteed to the owner through the modernity of the equipment and materials used in the buildings construction which is concrete and steel with brick veneer.”

Meanwhile, the second floor was temporarily leased to the Southern Medical Association, which rented the space for its 22nd annual, four-day convention. On Nov. 13, 1928, The

Asheville Citizen reported that some 2,000 physicians, surgeons and specialists from 17 states descended upon the city for the yearly event. According to the paper, these medical experts crowded the Tyler Building, “observing the latest devices available for diagnosis, treatment, and operation, and acquainting themselves with innumerable dietetic discoveries which have been made available within the last decade for the alleviation of human weakness and the strengthening of human bodies.”

Coverage of the gathering continued throughout the week.

Reporters focused on both the professional and social aspects of the summit, including a performance

by Bascom Lamar Lunsford held at the Battery Park Hotel. “It is, by far, one of the most interesting conventions in the history of Asheville,” the paper wrote on Nov. 14, 1928.

Later that year, Cazel Auto Service Co. took over the third floor of the Tyler Building. In one of its early advertisements, the business featured a list of specialty services, including its “24-hour wrecker service ‘ball o’ fire.’” The exact nature of the service is not explicitly stated. But a subsequent article makes one thing clear: During this time period, automobile fires were not uncommon.

On Jan. 31, 1929, The Asheville Citizen announced that city commissioners declined a proposal to use the second floor portion of the Tyler Building as the new city auditorium. Part of the reason, city commissioners explained, was the location of Whites Service on the building’s ground floor. The business, the paper reported, was deemed “a hazard to any gathering in the proposed auditorium should any of the cars catch fire.”

This concern suggests Cazel’s 24-hour ball o’ fire service had less to do with extinguishing fires and more to do with removing charred remains. Otherwise, it’s plausible that the Tyler Building’s top floor operation would have offered some reassurance to concerned city commissioners about the structure’s bottom floor threat. X Editor’s notes: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents.

COMMUNITY CALENDAR JUNE 26 - JULY 4, 2019

Held at Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St.

CALENDAR GUIDELINES

‘STUFFED’ DOCUMENTARY • SA (6/29), 7pm Proceeds from the documentary screening of Stuffed benefit the WNC Nature Center. $10/$30 VIP tickets. Held at Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave.

For a full list of community calendar guidelines, please visit mountainx.com/calendar. For questions about free listings, call 828-251-1333, ext.

137. For questions about paid calendar listings, please call 828-251-1333, ext. 320.

ANIMALS PET OWNERSHIP SEMINAR • WE (6/26), 3-4:30pm - Why Do We Love Our Pets So Much? interactive seminar. Free. Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill’s Creek Road, Lake Lure

BENEFITS APPRENTICES UNPLUGGED • SU (6/30), 6pm - Proceeds from Apprentices Unplugged, theatrical program with appetizers, desserts and refreshments benefit Flat Rock Playhouse. $100. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock INDEPENDENCE DAY 5K • TH (7/4), 8am - A portion of proceeds from the Independence Day 5K run benefit Wounded Warrior Project and Veterans for Peace. Registration: bit.ly/2W3dTTa. $35/$25 youth. Held at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road PFLAG ASHEVILLE FUNDRAISER • SA (6/29), 2-4:30pm - Proceeds from this film screening of the LGBTQ+ documentary, Between the Shades, benefit PFLAG Asheville. Tickets: bit.ly/2EJT5pY. $10.

Held at First United Congregational Church of Christ, 20 Oak St., Room E-107 PUPS & PADDLES • SU (6/30), 1-4pm Proceeds from Pups & Paddles, easy canoeing trip where dogs are welcomed benefit Asheville Greenworks.

Event followed by

beers at the Smoky Park Supper Club. $50/$40 members.

Held at Hominy Creek River Park, 194 Hominy Creek Road RELAY FOR LIFE • FR (6/28), 6pmmidnight - Proceeds from the Relay For Life benefit American Cancer Society. Free to attend. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road ‘SEA SONG’ • SA (6/29), 10am Proceeds from Sea Song with puppets benefits UNCA Drama Department. Tickets: avl.mx/679. $10. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. SECRET SUPERHEROES • TH (6/27), 6-9pm - Proceeds from this Blind Pig supper with pollinator-derived ingredients benefit the Center for Honeybee Research. Tickets: bit.ly/2Z88B6B. $70.

Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway SIGNATURE EVENT • FR (6/28), 6pm Proceeds from Eliada's Signature Event with dinner, live and silent auctions and a Star Wars theme benefit Elida. Registration: avl.mx/66p. $125. Held at The Omni Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. STONEWALL DANCE PARTY • FR (6/28), 9pm - Proceeds from the Stonewall commemoration month dance party with DJs benefit Tranzmission.

Sliding scale: $7-$20

VEGAN BARBECUE COOKOFF • SU (6/30) 3:30-5:30pm - Proceeds from the Great North Carolina Vegan Barbecue Cookoff with professional and amateur cooks benefit Animal Haven of Asheville. Tickets: avl.mx/66i. $10/$15 at the door. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS DO YOU WANT PEACE? (PD.) The Peace Education Program, currently presented in over 80 countries worldwide, will be offered in Asheville at the North Asheville Recreation Center at 37 E. Larchmont Rd. Beginning July 2nd, 10 weekly video based 1 hr. classes will be begin each Tuesday evening at 6:30 pm thru Sept.3rd. More information at Pep.Asheville@gmail.com On FB: Peace Education Program Asheville EMPYREAN ARTS DROP-IN CLASSES (PD.) FIT HAPPENS on Wednesday 6pm.

SLITHER SESSIONS and SULTRY POLE alternate biweekly on Mondays 6pm. HANDSTANDS on Thursday 6:30pm.

AERIAL FLEXIBILITY on Mondays 6pm, Thursdays 11:30am, Fridays 1pm, and Saturdays 1pm.

attend/$10 adult meals/$5 children's meals.

LAKE JUNALUSKA FIREWORKS • TH (7/4), 9:30pm Fireworks display shot from the dam. Free.

Held at Lake Junaluska Beach, 11 Memory Lane, Lake Junaluska

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DOGGIE PADDLE: Asheville GreenWorks’ new river series, Pups and Paddles, is planned for Sunday, June 30, 1 p.m., launching from Hominy Creek River Park and ending at the Craven Street Boat Launch. Bring your dog for a canoe trip down an easy stretch of the French Broad River for an hour or two. Afterward, take a short walk down the greenway to Smoky Park Supper Club for beer. All gear provided for human paddlers. This paddle is selfshuttle. $50/$40 members. Tickets: avl.mx/683. Photo courtesy of Gabby Fitts (p. 25) INTRO TO POLE FITNESS on Mondays 6pm, Tuesdays 7:15pm, and Saturdays 11:30am. empyreanarts.org.

828.782.3321.

ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon-1:30pm - General meeting. Free.

Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE SUBMARINE VETERANS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm Social meeting for US Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan's Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (6/26), noon-1:30pm Understanding Credit. Get it.

Keep it. Improve it. Seminar.

Registration required. Free.

Held at OnTrack WNC, 50 S. French Broad Ave. • WE (6/26), 5-7:30pm - Savings & Goal Setting, class.

Registration required. Free.

RESTORATIVE CIRCLES CONFERENCE • TH (7/4) through SU (7/7), 10am - Community-based learning for conflict resolution.

Registration: avl.mx/678. $30+/day. Held at Earthaven

Ecovillage, 5 Consensus Circle, Black Mountain SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice.

Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road SPANISH CONVERSATION GROUP • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 5pm - Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. TRIVIA NIGHT • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Trivia night. Free. Held at VFW Post 9157, 165 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain

FOOD & BEER POWER PRODUCE COOKING CLASS • TH (6/27), 5:30-7pm Hands-on vegetable cooking class. Registration: 828-5752939 or lfurgiuele@ymcawnc. org. $30/$20 members.

Held at Asheville YMCA, 30 Woodfin St.

FESTIVALS DOWNTOWN SYLVA FIREWORKS • TH (7/4), 5pm - Fireworks show with live music, street dancing and food vendors.

Free to attend. Held at Downtown Sylva FIREWORKS IN MARSHALL • TH (7/4), 9:30pm - Downtown Marshall Fourth of July fireworks at dark. Free to attend. Held at Downtown Marshall FIREWORKS ON LAKE GLENVILLE • TU (7/2), 8:30-10pm - Fireworks show at dusk. Free to attend. Held at Lake Glenville, 1965 Pine Creek Road., Cullowhee LAKE JUNALUSKA CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER 91 N. Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska, 828-452-2881, lakejunaluska.com • TH (7/4), 11am - When the Circus Came to Town, Fourth of July community parade.

Free to attend.

• TH (7/4), noon - Familyfriendly barbecue lunch with face painting, bounce house and a balloon artist. Square dance at 1:30pm. Free to

CITIZENS-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. DEMOCRATIC WOMEN OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY'S SUMMER BBQ • TH (6/27), 6pm - Family friendly summer barbecue with a trivia competition and entertainment by the Fairview Hellbenders and the Fairview cloggers. Registration required: bit.ly/ DWBCsummerBBQ. $20. Held at Governor's Western Residence, 45 Patton Mountain Road INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUNDWNC • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA • MO (7/1), 6pm Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, general meeting. Free to attend.

Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. VETERANS FOR PEACE • TUESDAYS, 5pm - Weekly peace vigil.

Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

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KIDS APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Open house featuring operating model trains and historic memorabilia.

Free. Held at Apple Valley Model Railroad & Museum, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • WE (6/26), 4pm - Costume building opportunity making jetpack for space suit, age 3 and up. Registration required. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WE (6/26), 6pm Family tai chi for age 5 and up. Caregivers welcome. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (6/27), 11am - Costume building opportunity making jetpack for space suit, age 3 and up.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TH (6/27), 1pm - Learn about the life cycles and adaptations of animal groups: invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, age 5 and up. Registration required. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TH (6/27), 2pm Three librarians and a storytelling extravaganza. Groups register.

Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • FR (6/27), 3pm - See, touch and learn about live snakes and other reptiles. No groups.

Registration required.

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CONSCIOUS PARTY

C OMMU N IT Y CA L EN D AR

Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (6/27), 4pm - Learn about the life cycles and adaptations of animal groups: invertebrates, reptiles, amphibians and mammals, age 5 and up. Registration required. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TH (6/27), 4pm - Lego building, ages 5 and up. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (6/28), 2pm - A cosmic supernova of reading, magic, and audience participation.

Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • FR (6/28), 4pm - Lego building, ages 5 and up.

Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • FR (6/28), 4pm - Kids stop by to practice their reading skills with JR the therapy dog. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • FR (6/28), 7pm Moonwalk the runway and show off your astronaut costume, age 3 and up. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • SA (6/29), 10am Make slime creations, for age 5 and up.

Registration required, No groups. Free.

Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Mother Goose Time, storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon - Storytime + Art, project for preschool students.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Heroes Unlimited, role playing game for grades 6-12.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview

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CARL SANDBURG HOME NHS 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 828-6934178, nps.gov/carl • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS until (8/10), 10:15am Sandburg’s Rootabaga Stories, children's plays.

Admission fees apply.

• WEDNESDAY through SATURDAY until (8/10), 2:15pm - Learn how Mrs. Sandburg made cheese, butter and yogurt. Admission fees apply.

LEAF EASEL RIDER MOBILE ART LAB • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - AMOS and LEAF host hands-on STEM activities. Free.

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TAKING CHARGE: Greg Lowe, left, is the chief executive officer for HCA Healthcare’s new North Carolina division, which was created in conjunction with the company’s Feb. 1 acquisition of Mission Health. Terence van Arkel, right, is the division’s chief financial officer. Photos by Virginia Daffron

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com In the 4 1/2 months since Nashvillebased HCA Healthcare acquired Mission Health on Feb. 1, patient numbers are up across the board, company executives told members of the media on June 20.

“We have experienced an increase in our patient volumes by every metric: in outpatient visits, in inpatient admissions. We’re up substantially in behavioral health admissions,” said Terence van Arkel, chief financial officer of HCA Healthcare’s new North Carolina division.

Some of that growth can be attributed to a rising preference for Mission, added Greg Lowe, chief executive officer of the division. “We definitely have seen increases in our market share, so people are electing to receive care in Mission facilities versus other facilities,” he said.

As Lowe and van Arkel made clear, HCA sees that initial growth as just the beginning.

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“Whether it be here in Asheville or with our sister facilities [in other Western North Carolina communities], whether it be inside what we’ve typically looked at as our geographic service area, we’re thinking bigger, because we know we provide great care and, a lot of times, better outcomes than other hospitals. So we want that reach to expand,” Lowe said.

While returning repeatedly to messages of growth and their commitment to long-term investments in the region’s health care infrastructure, the leaders also responded to questions about the company’s business model, staffing and morale.

‘A BIG THREAT’ “There’s no way that a small health system can exist whenever the revenue to that system is cut every single year,” former Mission CEO Ron Paulus told a meeting of the Council of Independent Business Owners in May 2018.

Van Arkel said those issues are not unique to WNC. “There’s a lot of

people that want to cut our reimbursement,” he said, citing both government and private insurers. “When you think about the Medicare for All movement, that’s a big threat, not just to Asheville but to the whole country.”

HCA has been successful in creating a structure to “weather the uncertainty on the payer front” van Arkel explained, even though “we don’t have control on 75% of the business on how we’re going to get paid.” Ensuring that the organization has smart cost structures and efficiencies in place will allow HCA to “really be able to add value to Mission Health going forward,” he said.

Van Arkel pegged HCA’s new investments in Mission at $230 million since Feb. 1. That total includes money to support the new North Tower at Mission, set to open in October; $60 million for the replacement of Angel Medical Center in Franklin; almost $4 million for a new surgical floor at the SECU Cancer Center; and equipment upgrades including MRI scanners, mammogram machines and spinal surgery and robotic equipment, he said.

‘WE’RE HIRING’ Lowe deflected questions about layoffs and “grumbling” among Mission staff, saying, “We’re really focusing on, ‘How do we manage change or perceived change?’ Sometimes a lot of rumors run around.”

“There may be some reassignment of what folks are doing in the hospital,” added van Arkel. “When we go through any kind of staffing changes, it’s based on what we’ve demonstrated to work very well throughout the company. It’s never going to be easy to tell people they’re going to be doing something different in the future.”

The bottom line, though, is “We’ve got a great need for staff right now,” Lowe said. “We have over 700 positions that are open in our facilities in the area.

A large number of them are on the clinical front. So we’re hiring.”

Van Arkel agreed, referring to earlier comments about increases in patient volume. “I get excited about growing volume, because I can create jobs with growing volume.

“If you know any RNs, can you let us know?” van Arkel quipped.

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WEL L NESS Pressed for specifics on the growth numbers, however, Lowe demurred.

“That’s typically something we look at internally, since we’re part of a large organization,” he said.

EAST OF BILTMORE AVENUE It’s “a little early on” to predict what changes might be in store for Mission’s St. Joseph’s campus, Lowe told reporters. The hospital opened 20 new

structure, what exactly needs to be replaced, from plumbing and HVAC, working in a clinical environment — we’ve got to make sure that we fully understand what it’s going to take to rehab that building and if that makes sense for us,” van Arkel said.

“At the end of the day,” van Arkel added, “we’re not looking to cut any services. The services will still be offered, just in a different location.”

The planning and reconfiguration associated with moving many hospital functions into the new North Tower — “a lot of dominoes,” according to Lowe — also needs time to play out before future plans for the St. Joseph’s campus are finalized.

behavioral health beds there a couple of months ago, bringing its total to 78.

“We filled those beds almost immediately, given the behavioral health need in our community,” he said.

The 34-bed long-term acute care hospital on the St. Joseph’s campus “serves a very vulnerable population” and is a unique and special component of the hospital system, Lowe said.

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HOSPITAL HONCHO: Chad Patrick will take the reins as CEO of Mission Hospital in Asheville in mid-July. He comes to the region from Jacksonville, Fla., where he’s served as CEO of HCA’s Orange Park Medical Center for the past six years. Photo courtesy of HCA Healthcare

Fresh from a visit to one of Mission’s outlying facilities the day before, the two leaders seemed enthused about the potential for the provinces of HCA’s new empire.

“Outside of Angel [Medical Center in Franklin], these are beautiful facilities. They are modern; they’ve got state-of-the-art equipment. We don’t see a massive need for capital investment,” van Arkel said. “People have this preconceived notion of rural health care being older facilities and maybe not

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offering as great quality of care and services. That’s not the case.”

Land acquisition and design work for the new Franklin hospital have already begun, Lowe said. “The plans look amazing. It’s going to be incredible for that community,” he continued. “We are so excited about placing this new large hospital to serve that community there.

It’s greatly needed.”

HCA has been told that attracting doctors and other providers to WNC’s rural facilities is a challenge, Lowe said, but the company’s recruiters are optimistic. “I asked them specifically, ‘Is this the hardest place to recruit to?’ And they’ve said, ‘Absolutely not. We’ve recruited a number of physicians to much harder places to recruit to,’” he said.

The corporation’s national reach provides access to residency programs and other resources that will aid in attracting new physicians, Lowe pointed out.

Rather than looking to the minimum requirements the company promised for Mission’s community facilities as part of N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein’s approval of the transaction, Lowe said, “We’re

looking to, ‘How do we go well beyond that?’”

GETTING TO KNOW YOU Lowe and van Arkel oversee HCA Healthcare’s new North Carolina division, which so far consists solely of the Mission portfolio. The division is one of 16 for the company, which operates “186 hospitals and growing,” van Arkel said.

Each of the individual Mission hospital locations has its own chief executive; Chad Patrick will arrive in mid-July to take up that role in Asheville. Patrick comes from HCA’s Orange Park Medical Center in Jacksonville, Fla., where he’s been CEO for the past six years.

Lowe said he and his wife of 20 years, Lee, and their four school-age sons will settle in South Asheville. According to a bio provided by the Mission Health communications team, he’s fluent in Spanish, a skill gained from two years as a missionary in Mexico. Lowe has been with HCA Healthcare for six years.

Van Arkel is a native of Australia who retains only the slightest hint of an Aussie accent. That’s probably because he’s lived in the United States since the age of 11,

when his father relocated the family to New York. Van Arkel and his wife, Nora, live in North Asheville.

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Matt Hutchins, a researcher for UNC Asheville’s National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center — which partnered with the city in developing both the guide and a broader-scale Climate Resilience Assessment — said that changes in weather patterns associated with climate disruption will lead to an increased frequency of extreme events. Flooding, landslides, wildfires and extreme heat, he said, are among the greatest climate risks the city will face in the coming years.

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Recommended strategies for building resilience — “investing now for a better future,” Hutchins explained — include planting vegetation to stabilize slopes for lower landslide risk, treating basements with moisture barriers to minimize flood impacts and removing dead trees to reduce the spread of wildfires. The guide also advises residents to prepare for emergencies in general by signing up for the AVL Alert system and creating a supply kit.

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NEMAC’s assessment of climate risks in Asheville, she said, will be critical in future city planning.

“We know that every time we work on something within the city, we’re able to pull the climate resilience assessment and look at it and have it be a part of the foundation of the choices and decisions we make,” Weaver said. “We’re able to have this for our policymakers and our decisionmakers, and it’s also being embedded into the city’s budget.”

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• Together with Warren Wilson College, the Asheville Museum of Science is presenting a three-part sustainability lecture series at The Collider in Asheville. Topics include green building on Thursday, June 27; clean energy on Thursday, July 11; and land management on Thursday, Aug. 22. All talks begin at 6 p.m., with doors open for networking and complimentary refreshments at 5:30 p.m. Visit avl.mx/67q for more information.

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Chimney Rock on Monday, July 8, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Similar events are also scheduled at Gorges State Park in Sapphire on Tuesday, July 9, and Mount Mitchell State Park in Burnsville on Wednesday, July 10. Further details are available at avl.mx/67r.

• The Forestry Extension Department of N.C. State University holds a workshop on alternative incomes for forest landowners on Thursday, July 11, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. at the Mountain Horticultural Center in Mills River. The class focuses on strategies other than timber production, such as carbon markets, hunting leases and conservation easements, and is eligible for forestry continuing education credits. For more information and to register, visit avl.mx/66k.

• O n Friday and Saturday, July 12-13, the Sapphire Valley Resort in Sapphire hosts the 16th annual Mountain Wildlife Days. Activities include a bird walk led by the Highlands Plateau Audubon Society, a presentation by “Bear Lady” Gaye Owen on coexisting with black bears, wildlife encounters and a silent auction.

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36th annual Cullowhee Native Plant Conference The Cullowhee Native Plant Conference, now in its 36th year, is like a family reunion for attendees, many of whom have been coming for decades, says Western Carolina University communications specialist Julia Duvall. The university will host the conference Tuesday-Saturday, July 16-20. Newcomers, too, are most welcome, adds Duvall.

Designed to increase interest in and knowledge of the propagation and preservation of plant species native to the Southeast, the conference is aimed at professionals and amateur enthusiasts alike. Its roster of field trips, lectures, workshops and networking opportunities has made it “a model for similar native plant gatherings around the country,” says Bobby Hensley, WCU’s associate director of continuing education, who’s been overseeing the conference for nearly 20 years.

According to Hensley, the conference has its roots in a 1984 grant from the Tennessee Valley Authority to underwrite a “plant utilization” meeting. As the event grew and evolved, it was also helping change the American landscape. Until then, native species attracted minimal attention outside academic communities, comprising only a small portion of the commercial market. This forum for professors, growers, landscape designers and consumers united individual

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BY LAURA HACKETT laurafaye15@gmail.com For many local mobile food and beverage businesses, the fantasy of moving up to a brick-and-mortar is akin to dreaming of the culinary major leagues.

After finding some degree of success with a food truck or farmers market stand, it’s not uncommon for a business to transition into a larger, more permanent location that encourages its possibilities for growth.

That’s the passage that Suzy Salwa Phillips, founder of Gypsy Queen, took when she opened up her West Asheville storefront in 2015 after six years in the food truck scene. It’s also how French Broad Chocolates, which started selling its signature chocolate bars at local tailgate markets in 2007, has evolved into a 14,000-square-foot factory with three area storefronts.

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storefront, and then decides to jump ship for a mobile setup.

RAISING THE BAR Cask & Canter, a rustic-style mobile bar created from a 1970s vintage horse trailer, is the handiwork of Celeste and Chris King, who formerly owned the Burger Bar in the River Arts District.

Their new full-service bar has the space to fit two bartenders (as long as they’re on the smaller side) and is equipped to serve beer, chilled wine and custom cocktails. After selling the Burger Bar in 2018, the duo opened Cask & Canter in 2019 as they began to think more seriously about sustainability and off-the-grid living. They were also looking for a way to continue bartending without, as Chris puts it, “24/7 bar life.”

“Our carbon footprint has always been a thought. We are pecking away at eliminating our carbon footprint and eliminating as many dependencies as possible,” says Chris, who has taken a lot of inspiration from the tiny house move-

ment, which advocates living simply in smaller spaces.

Besides needing a car to pull it, the energy dependence for the trailer is almost zero, he explains. The lights and fans, which currently use electricity, are well on their way to becoming completely solar powered.

Celeste adds that they also focus on limiting single-use plastic by composting cups and materials whenever possible, and they hope to eventually use the fresh herbs and produce from their new property, Hidden Tiny Farm, where they began homesteading and building tiny homes in 2016.

In addition to the environmental perks, the couple enjoy the freedom that comes with making their own schedule. And since the mobile bar generally frequents weddings and other private events (or stays on their own property), the responsibility of obtaining a permit generally falls on the event planner or venue.

“We didn’t know how to not be in the service industry,” says Celeste. “We

wanted flexibility. This is great because you can choose. If you want to block a week off to go on vacation, you can.”

Chris explains that he also feels liberated from the emotional and legal responsibility that comes with running a bar that stays open late into the night.

“The idea that something could go bad at 2 or 3 o’clock in the morning always weighed on my mind. I was always expecting a phone call at 3 a.m.,” says Chris. “To let go of that anxiety and not have that responsibility anymore was a big deal.”

The cons? Hands down, insurance.

“Insurance is our biggest cost,” says Celeste. “It’s pretty similar to what it would be for a brick-and-mortar.

Serving alcohol out of a vehicle and having people working from the inside of it makes the insurance pretty crazy.

The costs are still way more viable than paying rent on a brick-and-mortar, but insurance takes a big bite.”

SWEET FREEDOM Ruth & Ranshaw, a Fairview-based mobile bakeshop owned and operated by sisters Clair and Colleen Baxter, also opted to reframe itself with a nomadic approach. In 2013, the pair opened a popular brick-and-mortar bakery of the same name off Charlotte Highway, quickly building a strong customer base, growing their staff to 15 people and catering for about seven weddings a week.

“We did that for about five years,” says Clair. “Then I got pregnant, and my sister got pregnant, and then I got

pregnant again. In two years, we had three kids and realized this wasn’t feasible, so we scaled way down, closed the shop and stuck to wholesale orders.”

When they found enough stability to jump back into the business, the sisters decided they weren’t interested in doing another brick-and-mortar.

Instead, they started selling their legendary cinnamon rolls, buttercreamfrosted cakes and other goods at pop-up events and tailgate markets.

They bake the goods in their certified home kitchen, make deliveries out of their personal SUVs, and when it’s time to set up shop, they simply bring a table, canopy and a few chairs with them, rendering insurance generally a nonissue.

“The pop-ups have really been a turning point for us,” says Clair.

“It gives us flexibility, and we can just shout out on social media what our location is going to be, especially around the holidays when people are looking to purchase things.”

However, Clair doesn’t take for granted the loyal following the original storefront generated for their current business. “Because of the brick-and-mortar, people know us, and it makes it easier to move in reverse,” she continues. “We don’t have to prove ourselves as much, and because of our social media and client base, it makes it easier to talk to the people we already know and give them opportunities to show up.

That’s a huge benefit that we wouldn’t have if we were going from mobile to brick-and-mortar.” X

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Vegan Barbecue Cookoff returns Professional and amateur chefs alike will compete in the second consecutive Great North Carolina Vegan Barbecue Cookoff, hosted by the Mountain Vegans Meetup Group, Your Vegan Mentor and The BLOCK Off Biltmore.

“Our primary purpose is to raise awareness about veganism and all the great food options that are out there,” says Leslie Pardue, the event’s co-organizer. “Animal agriculture is one of the leading contributors of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions. … We don’t have to wait for the government to act. We can all take individual action by eating a plant-based diet.”

In addition, Pardue notes, proceeds from the event will benefit Animal Haven of Asheville, a nonprofit animal refuge in East Asheville.

Several local restaurants and businesses are sponsoring the event, including Hopey and Co., No Evil Foods, The Hop Ice Cream Cafe, Roots Hummus, Sanctuary Brewing Co., Firestorm Books & Coffee, Rosetta’s Kitchen & The Buchi Bar, French Broad Chocolates, Smiling Hara Tempeh, the Asheville Vegan Society, Animal Haven of Asheville and Plant. Sponsors will provide prizes to the day’s top three winners, and door prizes will also be awarded. All who attend are eligible to win.

The competition is free to enter before Sunday, June 30, and day-of registration costs $5. Competitors must bring a prepared vegan barbecue dish with a serving utensil. No cooking will be permitted on-site.

Tickets to sample and judge each dish are $10 in advance or $15 cash at the door.

No matter your diet, says Pardue, all are welcome to the cookoff. She hopes that for some the gathering will be the impetus to explore a plant-based diet.

“A lot of folks gradually transition into veganism,” she explains. “They give up meat first and then later drop dairy and eggs. All approaches are valid.”

The second Great North Carolina Vegan Barbecue Cookoff runs 3:30-5:30 p.m. Sunday, June 30, at The BLOCK Off Biltmore, 39 S. Market St. For tickets, visit avl.mx/677.

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FRIENDLY COMPETITION: The second consecutive Great North Carolina Vegan Barbecue Cookoff takes place Sunday, June 30. Pictured, from left, are last year’s secondplace winner Courtney Zurcher, co-organizaer Laura Beck, first-place winner Hayette Bouras, The BLOCK Off Biltmore owner Cam MacQueen and co-organizer Leslie Pardue. Photo courtesy of Beck shop owners for a farm-to-table dinner Thursday, June 27. According to the event’s Facebook page, “The dinner alfresco will highlight some of Asheville’s culinary elite with a fivecourse meal and farm-crafted cocktails.” Cordial and Craft, Over Easy Café and 50/Fifty: The Art of Dessert will contribute to the menu. Tickets are $80.

The dinner runs 5-9 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at Olivette Farm, Old Macedonia Road, Alexander. For tickets, visit avl.mx/671.

Thursday, June 27. Among the recipes for the workshop are orzo with lemon, pine nuts and feta; Mediterranean baked grouper; and walnut honey cake.

All items will be sampled and paired with a glass of wine. Participants will leave with a recipe packet. Seating is limited. Tickets are $50.

The class runs 6-9 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at The Wine Cellar at Wine Sage & Gourmet, 416 N. Main St., Hendersonville. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/674.

Cooking with the Dining Diva

The Market Place Restaurant celebrates 40 years

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“We are proud to celebrate 40 incredible years here in Asheville,”

says William Dissen, chef and owner of The Market Place Restaurant in a recent press release. Dissen describes his venue as the city’s “original farm-to-table restaurant.” To commemorate the milestone, the restaurant will host a five-course dinner at Gaining Ground Farm on Friday, June 28, featuring a menu designed to exemplify the unique connection the restaurant has with the area’s local farms. All proceeds from the event will benefit the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, which works to link local farmers to markets and supporters. Tickets are $100.

The celebration begins at 6:30 p.m.

Friday, June 28, at Gaining Ground Farm, 298 Sluder Branch Road, Leicester. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/670.

Tupelo Honey hosts pairing brunch Tupelo Honey’s South Asheville location will host a six-course pairing brunch on Saturday, June 29.

Each plate will be paired with Truly Hard Seltzer, a gluten-free hard seltzer, as well as two specialty cocktails. Menu highlights include mini-biscuit and jam, egg in a basket, lemon French toast, and pecan and goat cheese bites.

Tickets are $30 per person. The event is for ages 21 and older.

The brunch runs 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday, June 29, at Tupelo Honey, 1829 Hendersonville Road. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/66z.

Low country boil Triskelion Brewing Co. and the Flat Rock Wood Room BBQ Trailer will team up for a low country boil on Sunday, June 30. The event will feature low country shrimp as well as barbecued ribs. Live music will be performed by Shabudikah.

Tickets are $25, including entry and a piled plate.

The boil runs 4-9 p.m. Sunday, June 30, at Triskelion Brewing Co., 340 Seventh Ave. E., Hendersonville.

To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/672.

Chef Kelley Canaday Showcase The Paper Mill Lounge and Theater will host a three-course, wine-paired dinner showcasing

the culinary talents of chef Kelley Canaday on Monday, July 1. The main course is a choice between stuffed beef tenderloin with blueberry-balsamic reduction or a baconwrapped, stuffed pork loin with a blueberry glaze served over a bed of smashed, roasted potatoes with French-style green beans. Also on the menu are a California salad and a raspberry-focused dessert. Tickets are $30.

The dinner runs 5-10 p.m. Monday, July 1, at The Paper Mill Lounge & Theatre, 513 Mill St., Sylva. For more information, visit avl.mx/673.

RendezVous now open Bouchon’s long-awaited sister restaurant, RendezVous, is now open in East Asheville. The new location offers the same French-inspired menu as Bouchon, but unlike the downtown eatery, RendezVous accepts reservations.

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by Edwin Arnaudin | earnaudin@mountainx.com

Untapped market In May 2018, Luis Carlos Serapio was walking down Banks Avenue

by Catawba Brewing Co. when he spotted an interesting poster on the business’s windows. The flier advertised the brewery’s new Carolina del Norte Mexican Lager with artwork featuring a cardinal bird wearing a mariachi hat — imagery that Serapio didn’t find culturally offensive in any way. Sold by the respectful nature of the sketch, he went inside and tried the beer.

“Not only did it taste like Mexican beer, but great quality Mexican beer,” Serapio says.

He soon learned that Catawba was collaborating with Cerveza Beata and Cerveza Güira from Buenos Aires, Argentina, on a small batch IPA for AVL Beer Week 2018 and arranged for a meeting with Catawba marketing director Brian Ivey.

Shortly thereafter, Catawba decided to become members of Descubre Asheville, the bilingual website founded by Serapio to connect the Latinx community with local businesses and generally celebrate and spotlight multiculturalism.

Their first project was a marketing campaign centered on the World Cup and Carolina del Norte. Serapio later helped promote the collaboration with the Argentinian breweries, and his relationship with Catawba has only grown in the interim.

“Since then, we’ve partnered with Luis and his team on several projects, including a bilingual SpanishEnglish blog post, professional video and photography services and a Descubre Asheville fundraiser for the Discover Your Potential scholarship,” Ivey says.

MARKET OPPORTUNITY Such collaborations, however, have been few within the local beer industry — a status that the Mexicanborn Serapio finds shocking since the city he’s called home for 19 years has established itself as one of the East Coast’s primary beer destinations. “When I realized that we had over 30 microbreweries in town, I also realized how none of them were doing anything to appeal to a diversified market,” Serapio says. “I’m not just talking about the Latino market, but just the fact that most companies 38

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SALUD: From left, New Belgium Brewing Co. Liquid Center representative Izy Rader, Descubre Asheville creative director Luis C. Serapio and Catawba Brewing Co. social media manager Clair Lorenz toast each other’s community-building efforts at Catawba’s South Slope brewery and taproom. Photo by Luke Van Hine in Asheville work and develop advertising that reflects a demographic that is not necessarily one that promotes or highlights multiculturalism.”

The overall absence of such marketing inspired Serapio to create Descubre Asheville and fill that niche while also challenging the manner in which Latinx immigrants are portrayed in the media and popular culture. In his work as the company’s creative director, he strives to show the public that this community has an entrepreneurial spirit, but he says the large majority of his content is aimed at “white liberal readers who believe companies should embrace diversity by supporting people of color.”

Serapio finds the lack of effort to appeal to local Latinx beer drinkers especially puzzling in light of the Mexican beer industry’s success in both the U.S. and Mexico and moves by major U.S. breweries to tap into this market. He points to Heineken’s purchase of Dos Equis and its development of The Most Interesting Man in the World campaign — ads he finds corny but that uplift an image of Latino culture and doesn’t ridicule it. Similarly encouraging, he says, is Anheuser-Busch’s sponsorship of Mexico’s national soccer team when it’s on tour in the U.S., a move that helps sell products at packed stadiums and increase brand awareness.

“Asheville sees Latinos only as a labor force. [Local breweries are] miss-

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ing the point that they’re also consumers, and they’re also missing the point that Mexicans are very fond of beer,” Serapio says. “Not only because of the climate that they encounter in their country of origin, but culturally speaking, it’s very rooted. Mexico had some of the first breweries in the continent.”

BEYOND CINCO DE MAYO Tastefully and respectfully connecting the dots, however, can be tricky.

Serapio says breweries have to educate themselves on how to properly approach the Latinx community and produce media that avoid being “reckless, harmful and nonsensitive, even if the intent is good.” He adds that while releasing Mexican-style lagers on Cinco de Mayo can be a step in the right direction, it’s best to augment the release by collaborating with people who are more knowledgeable of the culture in order to encourage a higher rate of success as well as increased sensitivity — precisely what Catawba did in May. “We have a sincere curiosity and appreciation for other cultures, and that doesn’t just start and stop with brewing international beer styles,” Ivey says. “So, for example, when we released a small batch Mexican Amber Lager for Cinco de Mayo this year, we wanted to attach a fundraiser that benefits the local Latinx

community. And we wanted to create Spanish-language marketing content for that beer.”

“Luis helped us make it happen, and the beer release turned into a much richer experience as a result.

Because we weren’t just borrowing a beer recipe from Mexico, we were able to go much deeper — honoring the history and people and culture from which that beer style originated.”

Also following that example is New Belgium Brewing Co. with its Mural Agua Fresca Cerveza. The beer, made in partnership with Mexico City brewery Primus Cerveceria, takes inspiration from the country’s ubiquitous agua frescas, featuring the flavors of hibiscus, agave, watermelon and lime.

“There’s an incredible amount of thoughtfulness that goes into all of that stuff because the last thing anybody would ever want would be to make any culture feel like they’re being taken advantage of by a beer company,” says Michael Craft, Asheville community ambassador for New Belgium.

“There’s a lot of outreach that goes on behind the scenes, of really having these conversations over a beer and dropping down cultures and colors and where your family’s from. Beer is the social lubricant for everything now, so I think it allows the opportunity to have those conversations a little less guarded.”

Further echoing Serapio’s call for promoting multiculturalism, New Belgium’s Craft and Liquid Center representative Preston Hart points to Piano Keys Chocolate Vanilla Stout, New Belgium’s collaboration with Atlanta-based craft beer influencer and African-American cultural ambassador Ale Sharpton. The partnership arose to call out the opportunity for diversity in craft beer and has been part of a rise in talks regarding diversity at the industry’s top conferences.

“You change people’s perceptions through their tastebuds, and before you know it, they’re not just thinking differently about beer, but then all of a sudden it opens up the conversation, and they look at the world through a whole other outlook,” Hart says. “It’s the people’s drink. It beats out anything else, in my opinion.” X

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STILL SOARING

The Grey Eagle celebrates its 25th anniversary

BY BILL KOPP bill@musoscribe.com One of Western North Carolina’s most popular music venues, The Grey Eagle, is taking a well-deserved victory lap. In celebration of its 25th anniversary, the listening room is hosting a music festival. Too big and varied an event to fit inside the roughly 550-person capacity of the venue, Grey Eagle 25 will take place outdoors at Lake Eden on Saturday, June 29.

The lineup includes artists key in The Grey Eagle’s history (Unknown Hinson, James McMurtry, Of Montreal and The Budos Band to name a few).

On the occasion of the venue’s anniversary, owners and managers past and present take a look back at the history of the beloved music hall.

In 1999, then-owner Tyler Richardson moved the venue from its original Black Mountain location to Asheville’s River Arts District. Jeff Whitworth was visiting from South Carolina to take in a show featuring Vic Chesnutt and Kristin Hersh, and immediately noticed that the room had a special vibe. “I was used to seeing shows in Charleston: crowds going for the bar, and there happens to be a show happening,” he says. “In Asheville, that script was totally flipped: People were here for the music.” He knew he wanted to work there.

Three months later, he says, “I was beating down the door of The Grey Eagle every day for them to hire me. I came in three or four days in a row, just letting them know I wasn’t going away.” At that point, The Grey Eagle’s staff totaled four or five people. The hall’s focus was primarily on

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THE EAGLE HAS LANDED: North Carolina-based Mandolin Orange, pictured, is one of the bands performing at Grey Eagle 25. The festival at Lake Eden commemorates the quarter-century mark for local music hall The Grey Eagle. Other acts on the celebratory roster include Hayes Carll, The Suffers, Kurtis Blow and Sierra Hull. Photo by Kendall Bailey singer-songwriters like Mary Gauthier, and it was the largest capacity music room in town.

In early 2000, The Grey Eagle experienced a four-day consecutive run of especially noteworthy shows: Bill Mallonee’s Vigilantes of Love, McMurtry and Unknown Hinson were the first three. The fourth night featured blues icons R.L. Burnside and T-Model Ford.

Whitworth showed up early and asked, “You need any help?”

Richardson asked him if he could work the door. “And that was the first night of the rest of my life,” Whitworth says.

Soon thereafter, Richardson asked Whitworth if he’d like to run the sound for an open mic night. “Which I had never done before,” he emphasizes. But he soon mastered the gear. The allhands-on-deck nature of the small staff meant that Whitworth was bartending, too. “I did whatever they needed, whenever,” he says.

Whitworth recalls a night in 2004 when he was chatting with Brian Landrum, whose alt-country band Black Eyed Dog had just finished a

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set. “Tyler came over and asked us, ‘Y’all wanna buy a club?’ A month later we were signing paperwork and taking over a lease,” Whitworth says. “I think Tyler had subconsciously been grooming me for that, all along the way.”

When they’d book a rock show with a standing-room-only crowd, Whitworth would stop and think, “Man, it could be like this every night.” They started taking risks on the kinds of artists they booked. A John Doe show stretched the limits of what the venue could afford, but Whitworth says that the wellattended concert, featuring the former guitarist of the band X, “was a turning point. People would say, ‘That guy was just at The Grey Eagle. It’s not just folk shows anymore.’”

The venue made a practice of nurturing artists who put on great shows.

One such act was Barbez, a Brooklyn group featuring a theremin player and a Russian opera singer. “They eventually kind of disappeared,” Whitworth says.

“But for every one of those, there’s The Lumineers or St. Paul and the Broken

Bones, bands we helped develop who went on to bigger things.”

As Whitworth and his wife anticipated the birth of their second child, the decision was made to sell the venue to Russ and Sarah Keith. Russ had initially come on board as a minor partner.

“I started gathering the finances with the help of Mountain BizWorks,” he says. When he took over, he added a storage space for 250 chairs as well as a monitor console, further improving the room’s sound. He also got a liquor license; the bar at The Grey Eagle now features spirits alongside its beer, wine and cider offerings.

And he grew the staff. “Jeff started with five people,” Keith says. “We’re at almost 20 employees now.”

But bigger changes were to come.

Keith recalls telling Whitworth — now the talent booker — “I want music in here every night. I have employees here I need to support.” The venue also added outdoor patio shows. Russ says now, The Grey Eagle “might have 10 dark days a year.”

The patio shows present an opportunity for local acts to build an audience.

“A classic example is my security guy, Brody Hunt,” says Keith. The Ashevillebased honky-tonk singer-songwriter started out at The Grey Eagle playing on the patio. “And then he opened up for JD McPherson the other night: sold out, 550 people.”

Whitworth says that he often hears positive comments. “People will tell me, ‘Thank you for hosting metal shows at The Grey Eagle,’ or, ‘I’m glad somebody’s booking real hip-hop shows.’”

Today, The Grey Eagle is woven into the fabric of the region’s community and culture. “We try to give back to the community,” says Sarah Keith. “I’ve been working on doing fundraisers for nonprofits and collaborating within the community to do events. It all just adds to the excitement.”

A new projection system allows the room to be used to show sporting events; touring musicians use it for special effects, too. A closed-circuit camera captures the bands onstage and displays those moving images on a large screen in the bar/restaurant area “for people who want to sit down,” Sarah says.

She credits much of The Grey Eagle’s enduring success over the last quarter-

century to two things: “It’s such an intimate listening room, and everybody involved is like family.”

Whitworth effortlessly reels off a long list of artists who have played The Grey Eagle multiple times, names like the Amanda Anne Platt, The Krektones and Laura Blackley. “Russ is all about preserving the legacy and maintaining what was already building,” he says.

“The interaction between performer and artist is unparalleled in this room.

That’s the big draw for me.” X

WHAT The Grey Eagle 25th Anniversary Celebration featuring Mandolin Orange, The Budos Band, James McMurtry, Of Montreal and more WHERE Lake Eden Black Mountain thegreyeagleanniversary.com WHEN Saturday, June 29, noon $75 advance/$85 day of show

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WITHOUT SKIPPING A BEAT Asheville Percussion Festival focuses on local rhythms In Costa Rica, where musician and educator Agustin Frederic is from, music is “part of what you do in life,” he says. “After dinner, everybody hangs out by the fires and you play. It’s not so much that you’re going to go out and do a concert.” Dancing and drumming happen organically — unlike in many U.S. cities where these pastimes exist as ticketed entertainment.

But Asheville, he points out, is small enough and simultaneously creative enough that there are spaces where musicians, artists and listeners come together. The drum circle is one such place; the Asheville Percussion Festival, now in its eighth year, is another opportunity for collaboration and community around rhythm.

The eighth annual Asheville Percussion Festival runs through Monday, July 1, with workshops, demos and concerts. The Masters Concert — featuring performances by residency artists such as Percussion Hall of Fame inductee Glen Velez, joined by vocalist Loire Cotler — takes place at Diana Wortham Theatre on Saturday, June 29.

Frederic first worked with the festival as a mixing engineer and later led a drum line and marching bandstyle workshop. His group, Zabumba Asheville Samba, participated in 2017 both in the teaching clinics and the Masters Concert with Brazilian teacher and performer Marcos Santos (whose music the local group plays). This year, Zabumba — a collective of percussionists and dancers — returns to the stage and the classroom. “Basically, we’re taking pieces from our repertoire and … sharing the history of where those come from and also the modern aspects,” Frederic explains.

Past iterations of the festival have spotlighted international performers, such as Persian frame-drum virtuoso Naghmeh Farahmand (returning for her fourth time) and vibrant Kenyan performer and teacher Kasiva Mutua of the Nile Project. This year, says Asheville Rhythm artistic director River Guerguerian, “We’re actually going to focus on the Asheville part of the Asheville Percussion Festival.” In part, this is due to the increasing challenge of sourcing visas for overseas performers. But it’s also indicative of the strong local percussion scene that includes artists such as master 42

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NO TRANSLATION NECESSARY: “When I immigrated to Canada in 2010, my first concern was if I should forget about [being a Persian percussionist] because I thought … Persian hand-drumming would not be so familiar in Western music,” says Naghmeh Farahmand, who returns to the Asheville Percussion Festival this year. “But I got lots of great feedback and … opportunities to work, as there are many multicultural music ensembles in North America.”

Photo by Jesse Kitt djembéfola Adama Dembele, healing sound practitioner Billy Zanski, and percussionist and music educator Diana Loomer.

The local focus also ushers in a new approach to the festival: “The organization Asheville Rhythm has grown strong since the inception of the Asheville Percussion Festival,” says Guerguerian. His group “will now be more focused on continuing projects like weekly classes, sound meditations, recordings, monthly events [and] retreats that bring in different artists from around the globe, and a gathering in the summer with a different format than previous festivals.”

He adds, “We will also be helping to curate the new downtown LEAF Global Sound Underground Hub.” Important aspects of the Asheville Percussion Festival will remain. For Farahmand, “It’s always been a great, warm environment, high-standard music, multicultural and a great space for everyone to share and learn music from around the world [by] composing and performing together.”

She adds, “There is no preference between teaching and performing for me. I think both are needed for a musician to be more productive [and] creative.”

Another layer of that creativity comes from the collaborations —

either planned or organic — that take place among the festival’s musicians.

“It is actually a great idea that every resident artist is supposed to compose and bring a piece to collaborate with other artists as we are invited from around the world and music is the best language to communicate and playing together,” says Farahmand.

She looks forward to seeing (and perhaps working with) Velez.

Last year, there was a moment when Mutua (on guitar, not drums) and local cellist Isabel Castellvi spontaneously came up with a song together, says Guerguerian. And Asheville-based busker Abby the Spoon Lady played on the Diana Wortham stage with master percussionist Monette Marino and other residency artists. “That was really lovely, and the remarks we get on the YouTube video we made from that [performance] are really sweet from Abby’s fans,” says Guerguerian.

This year, Velez “will bring a piece, and we’ll all work on it and jam on it,” says Guerguerian. “I’m going to create some sketches. A little preproduction helps.” He describes the

instructions for the collaborations as a kitchen with 10 cooks, each who brings a recipe that can be modified.“ “That’s the thrill of it,” Guerguerian says, “and that’s what makes this unique from other festivals.”

The sound meditation, a ticketed event held on Sunday, is another distinctive offering. “It’s something I’ve always been into, from way back, working with the therapeutic aspects of sound,” says Guerguerian. From playing music by Black Mountain College luminary John Cage, Guerguerian learned to appreciate one sound at a time. He combined that with scientific evidence of the healing and relaxing aspects of sound.

From the percussion festival perspective, he says, there’s music “that makes just you want to get up an boogie, whether it’s African dance or belly dance or the Balinese stuff.”

And then there are metal instruments “that ring really long [and] can be trance inducing … or can help you go into a different brainwave state.”

In a sound meditation, he says, “you go from the scientific all the way to the mystical.” X

ASHEVILLE PERCUSSION FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS Find the full schedule, register for events and purchase tickets at ashevillepercussionfestival.com/info.

• Workshops on Middle Eastern drumming, West African Drumming and Zimbabwean-style Marimba at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St.; and Rainbow Community School, 574 Haywood Road, on Thursday, June 27. See website for times and prices.

• Planetary Sounds Workshop with Billy Zanski at Skinny Beats, 4 Eagle St., on Thursday, June 27, 7-8:30 p.m. Free.

• Workshops on Brazilian percussion and Zimbabwean-style marimba at Odyssey Community School and Rainbow Community School, on Friday, June 28. See website for times and prices.

• Gamelan workshop with Yowana Sari at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 120 College St., on Friday, June 28, 4-5:30 p.m. Free; instruments are provided, but registration is required.

• Yowana Sari gamelan performance at BMCM+AC on Friday, June 28, 8 p.m. $15.

• Community workshop, demos and film at Odyssey Community School on Saturday, June 29, 11:20 a.m.-4 p.m. Free; registration required.

THE BEAT GOES ON: Djembe players at an Asheville Percussion Festival workshop. Photo by Ron Greenberg • Masters Concert with residency artists at Diana Wortham Theatre, 12 Biltmore Ave., on Saturday, June 29, 8 p.m., $37 adults/$20 children younger than 15.

• Sound meditation at Odyssey Community School on Sunday, June 30, noon, $20.

• Full-day intensive hybrid drum kit workshop with River Guerguerian at Odyssey Community School on Monday, July 1, 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $90.

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CHANNEL SURFING Joshua Marc Levy didn’t have time to plan an art show. Overbooked and slammed with poster work from clients, the Asheville-based illustrator headed to Push Skate Shop & Gallery one morning this March, literally thanking the universe that such a demanding undertaking wasn’t also on his plate.

Upon entering the space, where he sells prints, postcards and stickers, Levy was greeted by shop owner Rob Sebrell. With his friend flashing a suspiciously large smile, Levy practically knew what query was heading his way: “Hey man! Do you want an art show?”

“Something told me to take it anyway,” says Levy. “It had to be different, something we haven’t seen too much of recently. Shortly after, at lunch, the theme randomly came to me: television and film pop-art mashups.”

The results of this overextended blessing in disguise — the Push TV group exhibition — opens Friday, June 28, and runs through the end of July.

Following his epiphany for the show’s focus, Levy had a vision of Mike Teavee from Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory staring into his TV set in a deep trance. Levy then started seeing what he calls “weird combinations of shows” in his head, including “Laverne & Shirley” in “Land of the Lost” with The Black Lodge’s zigzag floor from “Twin Peaks.”

“I began to reflect on how much we all loved these shows growing up collectively,” Levy says. “And then my brain juxtaposed all of this joy with the fact that we were being brainwashed by the commercials and news programs for so many years.”

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‘Push TV’ group show features TV and film pop-art mashups

COME PLAY WITH US: Joshua Marc Levy’s “Twin Pines” is one of the pieces that will be on display as part of the Push TV group art show, which opens June 28 at Push Skate Shop & Art Gallery. Image courtesy of Levy made a list of his favorite television shows and films from his youth — “Everything from ‘Happy Days’ to ‘Heathcliff’” — and wound up using images from many of them. He also went to Facebook and polled his fans on approximately 100 different beloved options that helped inform his pen and ink creations. Much like Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, one of Levy’s referenced works, he sought to imbue his new pieces with hidden

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meanings, resulting in what he dubs “a highly satisfying form of pop-punkrock protest art” with censorship as a recurring theme.

“After living through 9/11 in New York City, I have been revisiting that day inside pieces such as ‘Twin Pines,’ mashing up Back to the Future, Snow White [and the Seven Dwarfs], Alice in Wonderland and more. ‘I Wish It All Away’ has elements exposing the dangers of glyphosate poisoning, and ‘They Live Was a Documentary’ has themes of the pharmaceutical industry pulling the strings on air through advertising money,” Levy says.

“There are also fun and uplifting pieces, such as ‘There’s No Place at Home,’ which is more friendly in its Wizard of Oz trance and ‘Looney Tunes’ dance with the viewer. Would you rather see a melting Jerry Garcia smiling at you? No problem, we have that, too.”

For his Push TV collaborators, Levy recruited artists intentionally from different circles in order to “get new folks to see each others’ works” and create “a more fun, unpredictable and pure reaction from the viewer.” As such, he chose Travis Medford, a member of the skating

community and a talented screen printing artist. “He came up with some fresh ideas immediately,” Levy says.

Levy also picked his personal tattoo artist, Greu. The owner of Integrity Alliance tattoo studio and gallery says he dedicates roughly 85% of his time to tattooing but also makes room for beer label designs, pieces for shows and personal projects, primarily working with ink, acrylic and watercolor with a recent affinity for digital media. Levy calls Greu “an artist who lives within a completely different circle, working in a different style and medium,” and who brings “authentic diversification” to the exhibition.

“Coming up with pieces for this show posed a real challenge in that there are so many ideas and such limited time,” Greu says. “I decided to approach things as I usually do and submit works in a variety of mediums and styles as to convey the variety of programming found on television.”

Employing a brainstorming and research process similar to Levy’s, Greu sought “to find commonalities among these shows to play off of” and discovered that cartoons and sitcoms from the ’80s and ’90s gave him his best ideas. His “not-so-serious prime-time lineup” seeks to entertain viewers as the selected programs run into each other, forming amusing overlaps that he wouldn’t have minded seeing on the screen when the shows were on the air.

And, also like Levy, he’s thankful for the opportunity to carefully plan out and craft a meaningful set of drawings, which the show’s organizer feels arose through nothing less than kismet.

“The universe helped balance out my workload in order to produce a proper amount of authentic art to fill the space,” Levy says. “Sometimes it’s worth taking a chance.” X

WHAT Push TV group art show WHERE Push Skate Shop and Gallery 25 Patton Ave. pushtoyproject.com WHEN Opening reception Friday, June 28, 7 p.m.

On view through Wednesday, July 31

by Kim Ruehl

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LISTEN UP Atlanta-based singer-songwriter Michelle Malone started driving into the mountains for gigs in Asheville at some point in the 1990s. She was just beginning to make a name for herself on the Georgia music circuit and decided it was time to branch out.

“I remember the first time playing [in Asheville],” she says. “I played at Be Here Now, and maybe it was one of two venues in town. … There were [fewer] venues and less shows for people to go to, so it was packed.”

And though she’s returned countless times since, Malone will be making her Isis Music Hall debut on Friday, June 28, with her friend and fellow Georgia native Sarah Peacock opening.

Malone notes that she’s always looked forward to returning to Asheville, as the local music scene has grown and more venues have opened up. For a while, she was particularly drawn to performing at The Altamont Theatre, where the listening room atmosphere made her feel heard as a solo, acoustic artist. When The Altamont Theatre closed, Malone began scheduling dates at Ambrose West because she liked the booking staff, the feel of the room and that Asheville’s music community had a place to get together and truly listen to music.

“What I notice,” she adds, “is that there are so many great music venues in Asheville now and it’s become known as a great music town. I guess before it was known as more of a vacation spot where people go on weekends to get away from Atlanta or wherever, or they have their vacation homes. But now it seems like a music mecca.”

Over the years, Malone has accumulated a loyal following by playing her ruminative songs in clubs and venues around the world. But she forged a friendship early on with the Indigo Girls — Emily Saliers and Amy Ray — and started writing and sitting in with the duo as both she and they garnered more and more attention far from their hometown, Atlanta.

“Most of my collaborating early in my career was with the Indigo Girls,” Malone explains, “and that was more with the way the universe threw us together: in the same town, playing the same gigs, being able to sing well together and having a lot of the same sensibilities. It just worked out. So that was a no-brainer. I still do play with them and sing with them and, on occasion, write and record with them. I was very fortunate.”

Michelle Malone plays her first show at Isis Music Hall ing through for years have changed, and in what ways they remain the same. She’s been impressed with the way Asheville has begun to come into its own as a music city.

“These towns like Asheville that love music will continue to morph, but they will always have music because it’s just ingrained in the community,” she says.

“That means a lot to me and that makes me want to come there.” X

WHO Michelle Malone with Sarah Peacock WHERE Isis Music Hall 743 Haywood Road isisasheville.com WHEN Friday, June 28, 8:30 p.m. $18 advanced/$20 day of show

MAKING CONNECTIONS: Beyond her affiliation with the Indigo Girls, working with other artists has been a steady through-line in Michelle Malone’s career. Her latest album, 2018’s Slings and Arrows, includes songs she co-wrote with Randall Bramlett and up-and-coming Atlanta artist Eliot Bronson. Photo by Sam Henriques Working with other artists became a steady through-line in Malone’s career.

Her latest album, 2018’s Slings and Arrows, includes songs she co-wrote with Randall Bramlett and up-and-coming Atlanta artist Eliot Bronson.

“There’s just been so much talent coming out of Atlanta,” Malone says.

“I’ve had the good fortune to perform with the members of Sugarland, John Mayer [and] of course Drivin’ N Cryin.’

I can’t even name them all, there’s so many. But those are probably the main ones, off the top of my head, that I’ve been tight with over the years — simply because of where we started playing music and what year it was. It’s really the gods throwing us together.”

Sarah Peacock is another artist with whom Malone has been “thrown together,” though Peacock now lives in Nashville and Malone remains in

Atlanta. After returning from international tours (Malone in France and Peacock in New Zealand), the artists will embark on a brief Southern tour and have prioritized finding time to rehearse so they can play a few songs together during their separate sets.

The pair met through the Atlanta music scene and, though one might suspect they’d connect over their experiences coming up in the Georgia music world, it was actually fried chicken that brought them together.

“We bonded early on over this meatand-three restaurant [called Lorettas],” says Malone. “You go in there and you always have to get the banana pudding and the fried chicken. ... It’s so bad for you, but life has to have joy in it. Carbs are joy.”

Another thing that brings Malone joy is seeing the way the towns she’s been tour-

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‘The Odd Couple’ at SART

BROMANCE: Jef Canter, left, and Randy Noojin are at odds with one another as two divorced men living together in SART’s production of the classic Neil Simon play, The Odd Couple. Photo courtesy of SART It’s safe to say that Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple might be one of the most popular and most produced plays in the history of theater. It’s also been a movie, had a sequel, was adapted for TV twice, and a female version was written

by Simon due to the popularity of the play. Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre brings The Odd Couple to the Owen Theater stage as part of its summer season. The show runs through Sunday, June 30.

The titular couple are Oscar Madison, a sloppy divorced man, and Felix Unger, a hypochondriac neat freak who’s wife has just left him. Oscar takes pity on his friend and lets him move in. What follows is a series of events that are both funny and sometimes touching, as the two men anger, frustrate and eventually complete each other.

Jef Canter is pitch perfect as the messy rascal Oscar. His comedic timing is sharp, and much of the show pivots on his great performance. Randy Noojin’s Felix is everything he needs to be: a bit annoying and tragically funny. The duo are a great match, and we easily root for 46

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them, even though it’s fun to watch them bicker like an old married couple.

Actors Tony Medlin and Timothy Wilds stand out as gambling buddies. There’s a rapid-fire pace to the scenes where a group of men plays poker. Younger actors Paul Penderman and Tristan Brown do a great job of holding their own among a stage of well-seasoned professionals.

Rebecca O’Quinn and Lara Holloway have small but significant roles as two attractive women whom Oscar convinces to go on a double date with him and Felix. The ladies make the most of their roles and give the men a run for their money, laughs-wise.

The show was probably played as contemporary from its 1965 Broadway premiere through at least the early 1990s, but it’s become a bit of a relic of its era, with its casual approach to what can be considered somewhat toxic masculinity today. The treatment of divorce, alimony and relationships in general makes the show even more outdated. But, as a nostalgia piece, it still works great and has plenty of Simon’s gentle humor as well as full-on belly laughs. There’s a

sweetness to how it ultimately views male friendship.

Charlotte Tiencken directs the show with precision and makes it feel very real and lived in. And Richard Seagle’s splendid set allows us to feel as if we’re in a 1960s New York apartment, with its green wall color and period decor. Some of the props look clearly modern, while others (like a period Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket) are nice touches. X

WHAT The Odd Couple WHERE SART Owen Theater 44 College St. Mars Hill sartplays.com WHEN Through Sunday, June 30.

Thursday through Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. $25

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Oshima Brothers Enhancing the long tradition of sibling bands, Sean and Jamie Oshima have been making music together throughout their lives, largely thanks to a rural Maine family that encouraged such endeavors from the start. Under the thoroughly honest name Oshima Brothers, the duo specializes in harmony rich combinations of contemporary folk and acoustic pop that they enact onstage with electric and acoustic guitars, octave bass, loops and percussion. Having self-produced and recorded their self-titled debut album and 2019 EP Under the Same Stars, the brothers still call Maine home but spend most of the year on the road performing, producing music videos and dancing.

A former Warren Willson College student with a fondness for Asheville and the Blue Ridge Mountains, Sean is especially excited to play the Isis Music Hall main stage on Thursday, June 27, at 8:30 p.m. $12 advance/$15 day of show. isisasheville.com.

Photo by Robyn Nicole Film and Photo

Billy Jonas Band When the Billy Jonas Band takes to the stage, audience members of all ages are in for a treat. Led by the eponymous guitarist/vocalist with aid from Ashley Jo Farmer (vocals), Sherman Hoover (vocals/bass/marimba) and Juan Holladay (vocals), the Asheville-based ensemble makes generous use of homemade creations — buckets and barrels, keys and cans, bells and body percussion — that they dub “re-percussion.” Known for shows with ample doses of audience participation, the band has worked up new songs that feature African polyrhythms and Japanese Taiko-style warrior drumming, and will share them at The Grey Eagle on Sunday, June 30, at 1:30 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show/$9 each for groups of four or more/children ages 2 and younger get in free. thegreyeagle.com.

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Death by Sparkle Designed to give writers an opportunity to develop their craft and create highly theatrical and imaginative works, The Magnetic Theatre’s New Play Development Program pairs playwrights with dramaturges and culminates in a staged public reading with the opportunity for audience feedback. The first selection in the 2019 edition is local writer and performer Barbie Angell’s Death by Sparkle (…Or What Happens When You Drink Window Cleaner), which debuts Thursday, June 27, at 7:30 p.m. According to the event description, the fictional autobiography details Angell’s journey “from harrowing beginnings to accomplished writer, and how expression isn’t just an outlet — it’s a means of survival.” The performance also features Jeremy Carter, Kelly Shanafelt and Darren Marshall with direction and dramaturgy by Katie Jones. $13. themagnetictheatre.org. Photo by Tempus Fugit Design

Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas For 49 years, Warren Wilson College’s Swannanoa Chamber Music Festival has brought small ensemble performances of classical music to Western North Carolina and Upstate South Carolina. Now in its 50th year, the festival has renamed itself the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas to reflect its dual-state reach. From Saturday, June 29, to Monday, July 22, it will deliver a series of four distinct programs, featuring beloved works by Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms, Bach and other composers, to Warren Wilson’s Kittredge Arts Center (Saturdays at 7:30 p.m.), Waynesville’s First United Methodist Church (Sundays at 3 p.m.) and the Fine Arts Center in Greenville, S.C. (Mondays at 7:30 p.m.). $25 per program/$80 season pass. cmscarolina.com. Photo of Inessa Zaretsky, right, and Susie Park courtesy of the Chamber Music Society of the Carolinas

A & E CALENDAR ART CHEROKEE ARTIST DEMONSTRATIONS • SA (6/29), 3-5pm Cherokee wood carving demonstration with Joshua and Lauren Adams. Free. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville CREATIVE AND QUEER IN THE SOUTH • TH (6/27), 7pm - "Creative and Queer in the South," panel discussion led by Southern Equality Studios artists Liz Williams and Al Murray.

Free. Held at Revolve, 821 Riverside Drive, #179 HAND-PAINTED SILK SCARVES • FRIDAYS (6/28), (7/26) & (8/16), 3-5pm - 3-part hand-painted silk scarf series class with Aditi Watson. Free. Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure LEICESTER COMMUNITY ART NIGHTS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Community art night for children and adults. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester SALUDA SISTER CITIES • SA (6/29), 6-8pm - Summer Art Show sponsored by Saluda Sister City summer art show featuring work by Renato Moncini as well as a silent auction. $5.

Held at Saluda Center, 64 Greenville St., Saluda

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART & ARCHITECTURE TOUR • SA (6/29), 9-10:30am - Art and architecture tour of downtown Hendersonville. Free.

Held at Woodlands Gallery, 419 N. Main St., Hendersonville BREVARD’S 4TH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Brevard 4th Friday gallery walk with open galleries, art

stores, restaurants, live music and refreshments.

Free to attend. Held in Downtown Brevard Held at Transylvania Community Arts Council, 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard FINE ARTS & CRAFTS SHOWCASE • TH (7/4), 9am-6pm - Juried arts and crafts showcase of 40+ artists.

Free to attend. Held at Main Street, Brevard MINI-MOUNTAIN HERITAGE DAY • FR (6/28), 3-5pm Celebrate the cultural traditions of WNC with traditional craft demonstrations and live music. Free. Held on the brickyard adjacent to Hunter Library, Mountain Heritage Center, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee

AUDITIONS & CALLS TO ARTISTS 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE • SU (6/30), 3-5pm & MO (7/1), 6:30-8:30pm - Open auditions for the production of the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Information: eechiehua@msn. com or 828-230-7535.

Held at Brevard Little Theatre, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard ROCKY HORROR SHOW LIVE • WE (6/26), 5-7:30pm - Auditions for Rocky Horror Show Live, prepare 16 bars of music and bring sheet music. Held at Attic Salt Theatre, The Mills at Riverside, 2002 Riverside Drive, Suite 42-O STUDIO TOUR LOGO CONTEST • Through (8/1) - Submissions accepted for The Studio Tour Logo Contest. Information: haywoodarts.org/ logo-contest. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville SUMMER FRINGE NIGHT • WE (6/26) 7-10pm - Call for Artists for Fringe Festival 2020

and information session.

Plus Anam Cara Theater Company performs show excerpt. Free to attend. Held at Crow & Quill, 106 N. Lexington Ave.

DANCE LEARN TO DANCE! (PD.) Ballroom, Swing, Waltz, Salsa, Wedding, TwoStep, Special Events.

Lessons, Workshops, Classes and Dance Events in Asheville.

Certified instructor.

Contact Richard for information: 828-3330715, naturalrichard@ mac.com, www.

DanceForLife.net DE LA NOCHE TANGO • SU (6/30), 3-6pm Tango lessons followed

by De la Noche, live tango music for dancing. $12 includes dance lesson. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. FOURTH OF JULY SQUARE DANCE • TH (7/4), 1:30pm Whitewater Bluegrass Company leads a square dance. No experience necessary. Free.

Held at Nanci Weldon Memorial Gym, Lake Junaluska, Waynesville INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE • TUESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - International folk dancing, dances from around the world.

No partner needed.

Info: 828-645-1543.

Free. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road LINE DANCE FOR BEGINNERS • WEDNESDAYS, noon - Line dance for beginners, contemporary styling. No experience necessary. $5. Held at Montford Recreation Center, 34 Pearson Drive STONEWALL DANCE PARTY • FR (6/28), 9pm Proceeds from the Stonewall commemoration month dance party with DJs benefit Tranzmission. Sliding scale: $7-$20 Held at

Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St.

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm.

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL • WE (7/3), 7:30pm - Dueling pianos performing patriotic songs.

Tickets: 828-682-7209. $30 reserved seating/$20/$10 students.

Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 Main St., Burnsville ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 120 College St., 828350-8484, blackmountaincollege. org • FR (6/28), 4-5:30pm - Gamelan workshop with Yowana Sari. Instruments provided. Registration: avl.mx/64b. Free.

• FR (6/28), 8pm Yowana Sari performs I Dewa Ketut Alit’s work, traditional Balinese arrangements and Double Music by Lou Harrison and John Cage. $15 at the door.

BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 349 Andante Lane, Brevard, 828-862-2100, brevardmusic.org • WE (6/26), 7:30pm Brahms F Minor Piano Quintet, chamber music. $28.

• FR (6/28), 7:30pm Shostakovich 11 led by Keith Lockhart. $20-$62.

• SA (6/29), 7:30pm Elgar Cello Concerto featuring cellist Camille Thomas. $20-$62.

• SU (6/30), 7pm - Jan and Beattie Wood

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A & E CALENDAR Concerto competition finals. $25.

CONCERTS ON THE CREEK • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Concerts on the Creek series Memorial Day through Labor Day. For lineup: mountainlovers.com.

Free. Held at Bridge Park Pavilion, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828257-4530, dwtheatre. com • FR (6/28), 7:30pm - Asheville Gay Men’s Chorus presents Out Loud and Proud: From Riots to Rights, Stonewall Anniversary Commemoration Concert. Tickets: avl.mx/663. $10-$30.

• SA (6/29), 8pm Percussion Festival presents its Masters Concert. $20.

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JEFF LITTLE TRIO • SU (6/30), 4pm - Jeff Little Trio in concert, Southern Appalachian music. Tickets: madisoncountyarts. com. $20. Held at Ebbs Chapel Performing Arts Center, 271 Laurel Valley Road, Mars Hill NIGHT OF BLUES • FR (6/28), 7:30pm - The Ross Osteen Band, blues/ rock, and Ruth Wyand & the Tribe of One, blues and Americana. Tickets: avl.mx/67b. $20. Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville

DWIGHT YOAKAM CONCERT • FR (6/28), 8pm - Dwight Yoakam, country music concert. $37. Held at US Cellular Center, 1043 Patton Ave.

OLE TYME PICKERS FRIDAY BLUEGRASS • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm - Ole Tyme Pickers, bluegrass concert. Free. Held at Big Willow Community Building, Willow Road, Hendersonville

FIRST MONDAYS CONCERT SERIES • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free.

Held in the Porter Center at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard

ORGAN 101 • TH (6/27), 7pm-8pm - Behind the scenes tour of the Allen Renaissance Quantum organ. Free. Held at Mills River Presbyterian Church, 10 Presbyterian Church Road, Mills River

HENDERSONVILLE VISITOR CENTER 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville • FR (6/28), 7-9pm - Music on Main Concert Series: Gotcha Groove and Classic Car Cruise-In. Information: avl.mx/648. Free.

• TH (7/4), 7-9pm - Music on Main Concert Series: Special fireworks celebration concert by Wishful Thinking followed by fireworks after dark. Information: avl.mx/648. Free.

PERCUSSION FESTIVAL • WE (6/24) through MO (7/1) - Workshops, concerts, demos, sound meditations and a lineup of artists from around the world. Registration: avl.mx/662. Tickets are à la carte per event, Free-$90.

ISIS LAWN SERIES • WEDNESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Concert on the lawn including

WOMEN IN LIVELY DISCUSSION • TU ()7/3), 6:30pm - Women in Lively Discussion book club reads Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101

bluegrass, blues and jazz. Free to attend.

Held at Isis Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road

SLY GROG OPEN MIC • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Open-mic for storytellers, poets, musicians and all kinds of performance artists. Sign ups at 6:30pm. Free to attend. Held at Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St.

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BALLADLAND: Mountain Collegium, a weeklong workshop on early music, folk music and dance, presents a performance by folklorist, storyteller and musician Lee Knight. The free performance, which traces the journey of traditional ballads from the British Isles to America, takes place Tuesday, July 2, 7:30 p.m., in the Coulter Building at Western Carolina University. For more information, call the Mountain Heritage Center, 828-227-7129. Photo courtesy of Lee Knight (p. 50)

STUART AUDITORIUM AT LAKE JUNALUSKA 20 Chapel Drive, Lake Junaluska • WE (7/3), 7:30pm - Blue Ridge Big Band, wide range of genres and styles. Free. Held in the lakeside tent near Stuart Auditorium.

• TH (7/4), 7:30pm 16-voice choral ensemble patriotic salute. $18/$23.

SUMMER CONCERT SERIES • FR (6/28), 7:30-8:45pm - Gypsy Grass, outdoor concert. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard SUMMER TRACKS • FR (6/28), 7pm - Summer Tracks concert series, Gigi Dover & The Big Love. Information: summertracks.com.

Admission by donation.

Held at Rogers Park, 55 W. Howard St., Tryon SWANNANOA GATHERING • MO (7/1) through WE (7/3), 7:30pm Swannanoa Gathering mandolin and banjo concerts. $25. Held at Kittredge Theatre at Warren Wilson College,

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701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa THE LAKE JUNALUSKA SINGERS • TH (7/4), 7:30pm - The Lake Junaluska Singers concert. $18. Held at Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center, 91 N. Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska UKE JAM • WE (6/19) & (6/26), 3:30pm - Ukulele jam, all levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville WEAVERVILLE MUSIC STUDY CLUB • SU (6/30), 3pm - Piano/ organ concert with Charlie Harnish. Admission by donation. Held at Weaverville United Methodist Church, 85 N. Main St., Weaverville WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY Coulter Building, Cullowhee • TU (7/3), 7:30pm Folklorist, storyteller and musician Lee Knight focuses on traditional ballads. Free.

• TH (7/4), 8pm - The faculty of the Mountain Collegium Music Work-

shop perform medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary music on early and folk instruments. Free but donations to scholarship fund accepted.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD HOLLERING: FARM CALLS FROM RURAL NC • WE (6/26), 6pm - Saro Lynch-Thomason discusses hollering traditions from North Carolina and the Deep South with examples of cow-calling, calling for water, distress calls and a variety of expressive hollers. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • WE (6/26), 6pm - Bishop Michael Curry presents his book, The Power of Love: Sermons, Reflections, and Wisdom to Uplift and Inspire, in conversation with Right Rev. José A. McLoughlin.

Free to attend.

• TH (6/27), 6pm - Mystery Writers Panel with

David Burnsworth, author of the Blu Carraway Mystery Series. Free to attend.

• TH (6/27), 7pm -Works in Translation book club's pick is Blow-Up: And Other Stories by Julio Cortazar. Free to attend.

• SU (6/30), 3pm - Chazeray Jackson presents Live, Learn and Lead Powerfully. Free to attend.

• MO (7/1), 6pm - Stranger Things trivia with snacks, trivia, costume contest and prizes. Free to attend.

• MO (7/1), 7pm - LGBTQ book club reads Between Shadow and Sun: A Husband's Journey Through Gender - A Wife's Labor of Love by MS Tina Madison White.

Free to attend.

• WE (7/3), 7pm - Malaprop's book club reads Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. Free to attend.

NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-329-4190.

Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road

AUDITIONS FOR 25TH ANNUAL PUTNAM COUNTY SPELLING BEE • SU (6/30), 3-5pm & MO (7/1), 6:30-8:30pm - Open auditions for the production of the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Information: eechiehua@msn.com or 828-230-7535.

Held at Brevard Little Theatre, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard 'HANDS ON A HARDBODY' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (6/30) - Hands on a Hardbody, musical.

Fri.-Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 2:30pm, additional Thursday, (6/27), 7:30pm. $26.

Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. 'ROBIN HOOD: QUEST FOR JUSTICE' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (6/28) until (7/27), 7:30pm - Robin Hood: Quest for Justice. Free to attend. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. 'RULES AND HOW TO BREAK THEM' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (6/20) until (6/29), 7:30pm - Rules and How To Break Them, sketch comedy presented by The Sublime Theater. $15. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. 'RUN.' • FR (6/28) & SA (6/29), 7:30pm - run., performance by Nia and Ness. $20/$10 students. Held at NC

Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane 'SOUTH PACIFIC' • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/6) - South Pacific, Broadway musical. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $25 and up.

Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock SUMMER FRINGE NIGHT • WE (6/26) 7-10pm - Call for Artists for Fringe Festival 2020 and information session. Plus Anam Cara Theater Company performs show excerpt. Free to attend. Held at Crow & Quill, 106 N. Lexington Ave. 'SUSANNAH' • TH (6/27), 7:30pm & SA (6/29), 2pm - Susannah, melodrama. $35-$60. Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard 'THE BALLAD OF ROMEO AND JULIET' • FR (6/28), 6:30pm & SA (6/29), 2pm & 6:30pm - The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, performed by The American Myth Center. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 828239-9250 • TH (6/27), 7:30pm - Death by Sparkle, staged reading of play by Barbie Angell. $13.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/4), A look at the assassination of President William McKinley.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 3pm. $18/$10 students.

GALLERY DIRECTORY ART MOB • Burst of Summer Miniature show, group exhibition.

June 18-June 29 124 Fourth Ave. E., Hendersonville ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave. • Abstract Art: Emancipating the Mind, exhibition of paintings by Sally Lordeon.

July 1-July 31 • The Wonder of It All, exhibition of paintings by Anne McLaughlin and Sandra Brugh Moore.

June 1-June 30 BEN & JERRY’S • Vance Elementary School fifth grade class, interpretations of the Kehinde Wiley contemporary portraits.

June 23-Aug. 31 19 Haywood St. BENDER GALLERY • Wild and Precious Life, exhibition of glass works by Emma Varga. Reception: Thursday, June 27, 6-8pm. Artist talk: Friday, June 28, 2-4pm.

June 27-Aug. 31 29 Biltmore Ave. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 120 College St. • Bauhaus 100 celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of Bauhaus. The Bauhaus closed the same year that Black Mountain College opened.

June 7-Aug. 31 • Materials, Sounds + Black Mountain College, contemporary artists making sounds through materials.

June 7-Aug. 31 FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER • Breaking Ground, exhibition featuring the work of nine ceramic artists.

June 8-July 27 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain GALLERY 1 • Gayle Woody's linocut prints on wasp nest paper, pottery, books and pendants.

June 7-July 27 604 W. Main St., Sylva GRAND BOHEMIAN GALLERY • Birds & Beasts: Neither Fish Nor Fowl, narrative oil paintings

by Greg Decker.

June 14-July 30 11 Boston Way

WHAT IS IT YOU PLAN TO DO? Wild and Precious Life, a solo exhibition by Emma Varga, an Australian glass artist, is a statement on climate change as well as a plea for social action. Varga’s work is influenced by the environment, focusing on the flora and landscape of the many places she has lived. The exhibition runs at Bender Gallery through Saturday, Aug. 31, with a preview reception Thursday June 27, 5-8 p.m., and an artist talk Friday June 28, 2-4 p.m. Photo courtesy of Emma Varga.

HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • Solitude & Mystery: John Julius Wilnoty, Cherokee sculptor.

June 7-June 29 86 N. Main St., Waynesville HORSE + HERO • Exhibition of new paintings by Nicholas Pecoraro.

May 31-June 30 14 Patton Ave. LENOIR-RHYNE UNIVERSITY • Local artists working in the theme: No Hate, No Fear.

June 12-Aug. 2 36 Montford Ave. MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 N. Lexington Ave. • Give Me Wood a group invitational.

Reception: Thursday, June 27, 5-8pm.

June 27-Aug. 31 • Setting Shapes, oil paintings by Samantha Keely Smith and Paul Sattler. Reception: Thursday, June 27, 5-8pm.

June 27-Aug. 31 PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS • Further Evidence: The Art of Natural Dyes, curator Catharine Ellis.

June 15-July 14 67 Doras Trail, Bakersville PINK DOG CREATIVE • Till Death by Connie Bostic, paintings about hopeful beginnings and tragic endings.

June 14-July 14 348 Depot St.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY • Group show in the theme of '50s-'90s television and film favorites, pen and ink, painting and printmaking. Reception: Friday, June 28, 7pm.

June 28-July 31 25 Patton Ave. RAMP STUDIOS • Capitalizing on Justice, exhibition of art work by incarcerated artists from around the nation sponsored

by Worth Rises.

June 3-Aug. 17 821 Riverside Drive SATELLITE GALLERY • Voice Lessons, paintings by Eli Corbin, Fran Gardner, Lisa Stroud and Beau Wild.

June 7-July 14 55 Broadway St. THE WEDGE AT FOUNDATION • Dichotomy: Strength + Strength = Beauty, photography.

July 1-July 29 5 Foundy St. ZAPOW! 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101 • Art inspired by cult classic movies.

June 8-July 8 • Christina Ramsey, solo exhibition, Pareidolia Botanica.

June 14-July 7 Contact the galleries for hours and admission fees

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THU. 6/27 Steve Moseley Duo (acoustic rock)

FRI. 6/28 DJ RexxStep

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SAT. 6/29 The Low Down Band (classic rock, dance)

VIRGINIA IS FOR LOVERS: Creative Loafing describes psyche-rock blues trio People’s Blues of Richmond as a cross between “The Black Keys and Black Sabbath, with a healthy dose of Led Zeppelin.” Songs of life experiences and drug use are frenetically styled for an emotional and energetic performance. Nekoro Williams, Tim Beavers II and Matthew Volkes, the musicians behind PBR, are spending their summer on an East Coast tour with plans to release a new album this fall. Blue Footed Boobies from Wilmington open the Saturday, July 6, 9 p.m. show at Salvage Station. $10 salvagestation.com. Photo by Josh Meister

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Nightly Supper starting at 5PM

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 26 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kitten Savage, 8:00PM Rags & Riches, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Open Mic w/ host Tom Kirschbaum, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Little Tybee, Rotem & Daniel Shearin (of River Whyless), 9:00PM ATTIC SALT THEATRE Auditions Rocky Horror Show Live, 5:00PM

CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Summer Fringe Night, 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ live Honky Tonk, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Trivia Night!, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Grass at the Funk, 6:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (post-punk, new wave, synth), 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Hotline Dance Party w/ DJ Steadylove, 9:00PM MONTFORD RECREATION CENTER Line Dance for Beginners (contemporary styling, no experience necessary), 12:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM The Murder Junkies (punk), 9:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic w/ Billy Owens, 7:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series w/ Fwuit!, 6:00PM Jess Jocoy & Scott Bianchi, 7:00PM

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

BREVARD MUSIC CENTER Student Piano Recital, 12:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

ORANGE PEEL New Year's Day w/ Rivals, Savage After Midnight, 7:30PM

Sunday Brunch

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

from 10:30-3:30PM

Closed Mondays

SALVAGE STATION Bruce Hornsby, 7:00PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays at Sly Grog! Electronic collaboration, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Get Right Band, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Wednesday Night Blues Jam w/ Ruby Mayfield, Jeff Rudolph, Jim Simmons, & Brad Curtioff, 9:00PM

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C LUBLAND THE COLLIDER Keyboard Demo & Swap, 7:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque Chamber-Folk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Carrie Morrison, 5:00PM *repeat repeat w/ Rare Creatures, 8:00PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Mr. Jimmy, 7:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singersongwriter), 6:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT White Reaper w/ Twen, The Styrofoam Turtles, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM TREEROCK SOCIAL CIDER HOUSE Witty Wednesday Trivia, 7:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 7:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Izzi Hughes, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, JUNE 27 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Canned Heat Vinyl Night, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Live Music, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MASONIC TEMPLE Secret Superheroes (drinks, dinner, presentations), 6:00PM BEBE THEATRE Rules and How To Break Them (comedy), 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Erin Kinard, 7:00PM

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BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths: Andrew Thelston, 7:30PM CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots, (hot jazz & western swing), 10:00PM CRYSTAL VISIONS Sound of Soul Event, 2:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Curtains, Tan Universe, Uncle Kurtis, 9:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series with Whistlepig, 6:00PM Ruth Wyand & The Tribe of One, 7:00PM Oshima Brothers, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION w/ DJ Mac, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM MG ROAD Karaoke w/ DJ Bridal Parti Burcardi, 9:00PM NOBLE KAVA Hip Hop Night, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Partyfoul Weekly Drag, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Vintage Pistol, 7:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Room Twenty-Seven (folk, rock, blues), 8:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Funk Jam w/ Shabudikah, 9:00PM

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PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic hosted by Cody Hughes, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Steve Moseley Duo, 8:00PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB DJ Lexx (hip-hop, top 40, dance, trap), 10:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Fwuit, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Eric Congdon Electric Trio, 8:00PM

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

PURPLE ONION CAFE Unspoken Tradition, 7:30PM

SALVAGE STATION Pints for Patriots w/ music by Essential Mental Medicine Show (live auction, massage tent, vendors), 4:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Raphael, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Ragtime Jack With Vaden Landers, 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Summer Lovin' Thursdays w/ Paula Hanke (blues, Motown, funk and disco), 8:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Momma Molasses, 5:00PM Loafers' Glory Reunion Show w/ Quarter to Nine & Arnold Hill, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (rock n' roll), 9:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo (rock, pop, jazz, blues), 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Matt Heckler w/ Casper Allen, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Lo Wolf, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Dirty Dawg, 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY LGBTQ Trivia and Karaoke Night, 8:00PM

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LOAFERS’ GLORY REUNION SHOW

25TH ANNIVERSARY KICKOFF PARTY

ZAMBRA Kessler Watson (jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, JUNE 28

MANDOLIN ORANGE, BUDOS BAND + MORE!

(FAMILY SHOW), 1:30PM

BONNIE RAITT BLUES TRIBUTE

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WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 9:00PM

Boys of Summer MONDAY » Comedy Open Mic TUESDAY » MTN Shag Club WEDNESDAY » Trivia

Made with locally grown Watermelon & Mint!

RELEASE: JUNE 28TH!

27 CLUB The Shrünken Heads, Pleasure to Burn, Faith Dies First, 9:00PM

THURSDAY » Drag Night

FRIDAY: ON TAP AT BOTH LOCATIONS 80s DANCE PARTY AT SOUTH SLOPE

FRIDAY » Open Mic Night

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Fwuit, 9:00PM

SATURDAY: SPECIALTY B.o.S. COCKTAILS

SATURDAY » Live Music

68 HAYWOOD OUTDOOR SPACE The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, 6:30PM APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy, 6:00PM

Kitchen & Bar OPEN!

VINTAGE PISTOL

Friday Night Fever

WED, 6/26 - SHOW: 9 pm (DOORS: 8 pm) - adv. $10

THU, 6/27 - SHOW: 10 pm CA$H DONATION$ AT THE DOOR

FRI, 6/28 - SHOW: 10 pm tix . $10

ft. BomBassic, Morphonic, Soul Candy & Niels

SUNDAY: “TURN UP THE HEAT” PARTY WITH DJ AND CONTESTS

45 S. French Broad Downtown AVL

FREE Parking behind building

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ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 4:30PM

LITTLE TYBEE , Rotem & Daniel Shearin (of Riverwhyless)

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STOP, COLLABORATE AND LISTEN: Each Tuesday in July, Highland Brewing and Asheville Music Professionals team up for Tuned Up Tuesday. The local music community (from musicians and photographers to listeners, promoters and business owners) are invited to mingle and network. The event aims to connect the various needs of Asheville’s eclectic music community with local services.

One dollar from every beer poured at Tuned Up Tuesday will go directly to the nonprofit AMP. The meetups start on July 2, 6 p.m. Free. highlandbrewing.com.

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Soul Boogie ft. Marley Carroll,

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Chris rattie

Modern Polyglots, Brandon Audette & Lee Bones

& the New Rebles + The Green Fingers

SAT, 6/29 - SHOW: 10 pm (DOORS: 9 pm) - adv. $10

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Tan and Sober Gentlemen, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Andy Sandford, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Slayed & Fade w/ DJ Ethan M (rockers & soul), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hillbilly Diamonds, 6:30PM MG ROAD Dance Party w/ DJ Abu Disarray, 10:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Seth Brand, 6:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Tim McWilliams, 7:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Hard Rocket, 5:30PM NOBLE KAVA Noble Pursuits: An Evening w/ Jason Moore, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Asheville After Dark Presents Perversions (Kink Night), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Maj Deeka, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Widespread Panic Red Hot Mama Night, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL ABSfest Speakeasy Allstars, 8:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Juniper, 1:45PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Latin Night w/ Latin DJ sets (Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Reggaeton, Latin Trap), 10:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY JJ Grey & Mofro w/ Travers Brothership (blues, soul), 8:00PM RUSTIC GRAPE WINE BAR Thomas Kozac (folk), 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Strange Avenues, 8:00PM

The members of Gore Gore Luchadores Wrestling organized ten years ago with the purpose of competing in matches to raise money for regional charities. The group, from Charlotte, NC will join local musicians, Just Die!, Night Beers and Martel Tha God on Saturday June 29 at the Odditorium. Donations raised will benefit local charity, OurVoice. The event takes place on Saturday June 29 at 9:00PM. $6.00 suggested donation. Photo provided by group.

SLY GROG LOUNGE Stonewall Commemoration Month Dance Party, 9:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Everydays, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Flashback Fridays w/ Westsound (Motown, R&B and more), 8:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Tools on Stools, 3:00PM Blake Ellege Old Time Jam, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Faye Webster w/ Jenny O., 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Mr. Jimmy, 9:00PM THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL Dwight Yoakam, 8:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM

WICKED WEED WEST Wicked Weed West: Chicken Coop Willaye, 5:00PM

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER The Rewind House Band, 6:00PM

MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Gene Holdway, 7:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function, 9:00PM

CORK & KEG Soul Blue, 8:30PM

NOBLE KAVA Music Trivia, 6:00PM Shane Parish, 9:00PM

ZAMBRA Heavenly Vipers (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, JUNE 29 27 CLUB BadTies, Mouthbreathers & GHOSTsTALKER, 9:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Modern Strangers (jangle pop), 9:00PM 68 HAYWOOD OUTDOOR SPACE The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, 6:30PM AMBROSE WEST It's Summer Time! Luau Dance Party, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy (blues), 4:30PM

TOWN PUMP Linda & the Live Wires, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties, 8:00PM

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY Summer Concert Series, 7:30PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Soul Boogie w/ Marley Carroll, 10:00PM

WXYZ BAR AT ALOFT DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone, 9:00PM

BEBE THEATRE Rules and How To Break Them (comedy), 7:30PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Cody Blackbird w/ Connor Chee, 8:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7:00PM

CROW & QUILL Drayton & the Dreamboats (dreamy vintage pop), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Leon Majcen, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Daydream Creatures, 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Annabelle's Curse, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Cassidy Catanzaro, Robinson Treacher: Denim & Diamonds Tour, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 3:00PM Vince Junior Band, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Andy Sandford, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Raw Funk, Stomp, Rock, Groove, & Skank w/ DJ The Bogart, 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Gore Gore Luchadores, Just Die!, Night Beers, Martel Tha God , Benefit For OurVoice, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Chris Rattie & the New Rebels w/ The Green Fingers, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Raptor Taxi (jam band), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Matthew Human and The Human Revolution, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS The Grass Catchers & Sound Traveler, 1:00PM PACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY The Ballad of Romeo and Juliet, 2:00PM PACK'S TAVERN The Low Down Band (classic rock, dance), 9:30PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Perge Glow Party w/ DJ Lexx, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR 3 Cool Cats, 7:00PM

MG ROAD Dance Party w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Alexa Rose Band, 8:00PM

RUSTIC GRAPE WINE BAR Jane Kramer (local singer-songwriter, folk), 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Brown Mountain Lightning Bugs, 3:00PM Eric Congdon Electric Trio w/ Tez Sherard, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Otaku Nightlyfe: AARC Afterparty, 9:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Letter to Abigail, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE The Nine Pound Universe, 5:00PM CommUNITY Salsa w/ DJ Edi & Instructor Emily Hamilton (lessons at 9:00), 9:30PM THE BARN AT PAINT FORK Larry Stewart of Restless Heart & Rickie McDonald of Lonestar, 6:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Daddy Rabbit, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 10:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT He is Legend w/ As Sick As Us & Strange Avenues, 9:00PM THE PLUG AVL Roi Visions B-Day Bash at The Plug, 10:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Jesse Barry w/ Kelly Jones, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Toms Handgun, 9:00PM TRYON INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN CENTER Tryon Resort’s Saturday Night Lights (music, carousel, face painting), 6:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Country & Western Night in Wild West Asheville w/ CyndiLou & The Want To and Vaden Landers Band, 8:00PM

ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SUNDAY, JUNE 30 27 CLUB Hallelujah! Hillary's Comedy Revival, 9:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Lyric (blues, roots), 7:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Bluegrass, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:30PM BLUE GHOST BREWING COMPANY Ales for Ashley, Mojomatic, Johnny Don’t Care, The Super 60’s, 3:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Daniel Sage, 3:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bywater Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Lo-Fi DJ & Brunch (all ages), 11:00AM DAPHNE AT TWISTED LAUREL Soul Brunch Sunday, 11:00AM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TIM O, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM Mad Souls feat.

Scott Bartlett & Chris Johnson, 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Local Sunday in the Meadow w/ DJ Kutzu & Chalwa (music, vendors, farmers market), 12:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Ben Bedford, 6:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Aaron Price solo piano concert, 7:30PM

JARGON Sunday Blunch: Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH 2 Broke Kings w/ Ross Childress, 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM

YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM

NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Totally Rad Trivia, 5:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Every Month is Black History Month, 2:00PM ODDITORIUM Beggars, Ghost Dog, LIttle Trouble (rock), 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Juniper & Amantha Mill, 1:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Open Mic Night w/ Laura Blackley, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Yacht Rock Karaoke, 1:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Sanctuary Sunday Jazz w/ Michael Stevens Quartet, 1:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Foxy and Company and Mad Props Foxy's Funky Flea Market, 10:00AM Sly Grog Open Open Mic, 6:30PM

ZAMBRA Cynthia McDermott (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

MONDAY, JULY 1 27 CLUB Monday Mayhem Karaoke hosted by Terra Ware, 9:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club, (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round, 5:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7:30PM Open Mic, 9:30PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Peter Fraser, 1:30PM

LOBSTER TRAP Dave Desmelik, 6:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE De la Noche live Tango Orchestra (lessons at 8:30), 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE Open Jam, 6:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Tools on Stools, 3:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Billy Jonas Band Family Concert, 1:30PM Love Letter: Bonnie Raitt Blues Tribute w/ Peggy Ratusz, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM THE WEDGE STUDIOS Live Music Sundays, 5:30PM THE WINE & OYSTER Brunch w/ Mr. Jimmy, 12:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Poetry & Music w/ Tracey Schmidt, Isabel Castellvi & Naghmeh Farahmand, 7:30PM WHOLE FOODS MARKET Burgers & Brews w/ Music by NC Songsmiths, 1:00PM WICKED WEED BREWING The Bad Popes, 4:00PM YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays Open Jam, 6:00PM

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TUESDAY, JULY 2 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Evening of Classical Guitar - 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Luke Wood, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Trivia Night, 6:30PM

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Shindig On The Green, presented by the Folk Heritage Committee, returns for another summer season celebrating traditional mountain music on Saturday July 6th, for the 53rd year. The free event is recurring each Saturday through August 31 at 7 :00PM, with the exception of August 3rd, where musicians support their sister event, Mountain Dance and Folk Festival at UNCA. Photo by Aaron-Dahlstrom

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CORK & KEG Old Time Moderate Jam, 5:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Stew w/ DJ Lil Side Salad & Seymour, 10:00PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Rat Alley Cats, 6:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Nikki Talley, 7:00PM

THE SOCIAL Open Mic w/ Riyen Roots, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk vinyl), 10:00PM

TIGER MOUNTAIN Tigeraoke Tuesdays (karaoke night), 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Free Open Mic Comedy Night, 9:00PM

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

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Early Jam, 10:00PM Electrosoul Sessions w/ strongmagnumopus, 11:30PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Sons of Ralph, 6:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Trivia, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team Trivia w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Solo Guitar Classics w/ Albi, 5:00PM Swing AVL Dance led

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by The Darren Nicholson Band, 7:30PM

PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Turntable Tuesdays w/ Vinyl Time Travelers (dance, pop, hip-hop throwbacks), 10:00PM

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kitten Savage, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic w/ Billy Owens, 7:00PM BREVARD MUSIC CENTER Student Piano Recital, 12:30PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM

DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Brody Hunt & The Handfuls & Honky Tonk DJ, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Free Wednesday: Spirits Having Fun, Secret Diary, 3 Cherries, 8:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (post-punk, new wave, synth), 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM Government Mule, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Logan Marie, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP DJ Tape Fire, 8:00PM MONTFORD RECREATION CENTER Line Dance for Beginners (contemporary styling, no experience necessary), 12:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Roast of Ida Carolina (drag), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

PRITCHARD PARK Cultural Arts in the Park w/ LEAF Easel Rider, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Monthly Monster Maker, Exquisite Corpse, 6:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Circus Mutt, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Wednesday Night Blues Jam w/ Ruby Mayfield, Jeff Rudolph, Jim Simmons, & Brad Curtioff, 9:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque Chamber-Folk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Cowbaby, 5:00PM Dale Ann Bradley Band, 8:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singersongwriter), 6:30PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Izzi Hughes & Cole Jenkins, 8:00PM

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Echo in the Canyon (PG-13) HHHS JUST ANNOUNCED Annabelle Comes Home (R) An evil doll haunts the daughter of paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren.

Yesterday (PG-13) A struggling musician wakes from a coma to a world where no one has heard of the Beatles.

At the Fine Arts Theatre.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS Aladdin (PG) HH All Is True (PG-13) HHHS Anna (R) HHHH Avengers: Endgame (PG-13) HHHHS The Biggest Little Farm (PG) HHHH Child’s Play (R) HHHHH (Pick of the Week) Dark Phoenix (PG-13) HH The Dead Don’t Die (R) HHHHS Dumbo (PG) HS Godzilla: King of the Monsters (PG-13) HH John Wick: Chapter 3 Parabellum (R) HHHH Late Night (R) HHHS Men In Black: International (PG-13) HHS Pavarotti (PG-13) HHHS Rocketman (R) HHHH The Secret Life of Pets 2 (PG) HHHS Shaft (R) HHH Toy Story 4 (G) HHHHS

Child’s Play HHHHH DIRECTOR: Lars Klevberg PLAYERS: Aubrey Plaza, Mark Hamill HORROR RATED R Remakes rarely surpass their predecessors. And it’s rarer still for a remake of a successful and cherished film to stand on its own merit and sidestep comparisons.

Were it not for a few cheap jump scares and poorly timed one-liners, Child’s Play would easily earn a spot in that much vaunted latter category.

But this new take on Chucky (deviously voiced by Mark Hamill) redeems itself in several other ways as well. In addition to a genuinely suspenseful plot, we’re given a cast of characters that are taken seriously enough to be endearing in the midst of the madness.

Aubrey Plaza (Ingrid Goes West) drives home a well-tempered performance as Karen, the working single mother of Andy (Gabriel Bateman, Lights Out), our preteen protagonist who must wake from the daydream of hapless adolescence to conquer pure evil.

Making a wild pivot from the supernatural plot of the original, Child’s Play takes on the terrifying possibilities of technofuturism in the form of the tersely named “internet of things.” This incarnation of Chucky has Wi-Fi and a creepy artificial intelligence that can link up with other home-based devices and cause all kinds of mayhem.

In turn, Child’s Play manages to level a smart critique of modern high-tech society without devolving into the kind of pathetic sermonizing to which major studio films frequently succumb. This movie

simply reminds you that the kids behind the glowing smartphone screens, dithering in the smirking nihilism of internet meme culture, are still kids. And whatever they’re struggling with might be a tad more than mere child’s play.

Casey Ellis

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plenty of twists and turns as expected in a film about governments and their sinister staffs. If you love a good Russian tale of emotional detachment and assassinations, then Anna will leave you satisfied.

I was surprised to learn only after the credits that the movie is directed by Luc Besson. The trailer did say “From the creator of The Professional,” but, honestly, there were just too many kicks and punches going on in that thing for me to pay attention to words.

Besson does a great job with deliberate pacing that really ratchets up in the final act. There’s smart use of flashbacks and jumps forward, which is really the only way this story of crosses and doublecrosses could play out. But I have to say that my favorite aspect of the film is Mirren as Olga, Anna’s KGB boss.

She’s amazing, playing the character with

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Anna HHHH DIRECTOR: Luc Besson PLAYERS: Sasha Luss, Helen Mirren ACTION RATED R

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I had but one expectation walking in to Anna: To see a movie that would ride the new wave of Wickness — an extremely bloody, highly choreographed shoot’emup made to match the style and body count of Keanu Reeves’ wildly successful John Wick series.

After all, that’s what the trailer sold me — basically a fight scene with pulsing electronic music and a violent femme using guns and kicks and broken dishes to wipe out an entire restaurant full of bad guys. Oh, and it’s got Helen Mirren in big ugly glasses, smoking cigarettes! It’s got to be good, right?

Indeed it is, but what the film actually turns out to be is a slow-boiling tale of secret agencies and the superassassin they both want under their thumbs.

Anna (Sasha Luss) just wants to be free from oppression. Living a gloomy existence in Moscow with a terrible boyfriend, she suddenly finds herself of interest to the KGB, then the CIA. There are MOUNTAINX.COM

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For fans of globetrotting espionage and stark scenes of cold, harsh Soviet Russia — which I personally drool over — Anna is one to see.

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DIRECTOR: Andrew Slater PLAYERS: Jakob Dylan, Roger McGuinn, Michelle Phillips DOCUMENTARY/CONCERT FILM RATED PG-13 When I think of the heady, dirty denim days of the 1960s Laurel Canyon music scene, I think of hippies strumming guitars in clouds of pot smoke, top-down convertibles wending their way up California roads lined with orange trees, Vietnam, the civil rights movement and always — always — Joni Mitchell.

And while we do get the hippies, weed, cars and guitars in Echo in the Canyon, a documentary love letter to this ultracreative music scene, we get none of the politics, the passion or even Joni, whose

“Ladies of the Canyon” is a hallmark album of that time and place.

The film focuses on musicians in LA’s 1965-67 folk scene, before it went electric and before Mitchell’s album was released in 1970, which may account for this obvious exclusion.

First-time director Andrew Slater, a former Capitol Records executive, tells the story through vintage clips, paired with modern interviews conducted by executive producer and Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan. (Yes, Bob’s son, a fact noted merely once, in a lighthearted moment with musician David Crosby.) Jakob also performs contemporary — though not very ambitious — duets of Laurel Canyon classics like “In My Room,” “Never My Love” and “Expecting to Fly” with artists such as Cat Power, Beck and Regina Spektor.

Granted, there’s really no reason to add frills. The songs still speak for themselves.

Dylan gives rapt, respectful attention to interviewees, including Crosby and Roger McGuinn on their years with The Byrds, plus Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, Jackson Browne, Michelle Phillips (The Mamas & the Papas) and, most heartwarmingly, Tom Petty, in his final filmed interview. Petty shares that he won The Beach Boys’ masterpiece album Pet

Sounds in a radio trivia contest when he was a kid and says seeing them perform live with Buffalo Springfield blew his mind. “That’s as good as it’s supposed to be,” he reflects. “Maybe better.”

Brian Wilson, the genius composer behind Pet Sounds, is noted many times as an inspiration, even for the Beatles.

Wilson says their Rubber Soul inspired him to write Pet Sounds, which in turn inspired the Beatles to write Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, perfectly illustrating the Canyon’s insular love fest.

Yet even with all this rich material, the film sometimes feels a bit dry and intellectual. It’s also undeniably racially and sonically homogeneous, which makes some sense, given the makeup of the scene and the brief timeline it covers. But in the midst of the fraught, raging 1960s, Echo in the Canyon feels encased in bubble wrap. No racism, no sexism, no war — no Joni. What we get instead are memories of drug-fueled high jinks, sage insights from legendary elders and a memorable falling-out over an ode to a ménage à trois.

Still, Echo in the Canyon is worth seeing. It’s an enjoyable snapshot of a magical, musical time, and fans of that era will surely feel the reverence and love from all involved. But they probably shouldn’t expect to feel much soul.

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Top 5 films of 2019 (so far): 1. Rocketman. Taron Egerton is stunning as Elton John and, unlike Rami Malek in Bohemian Rhapsody, he actually sings.

2. Remastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke. Finally, a deep dive into the life and untimely death of the beautiful singer, songwriter and civil-rights activist.

3. Us. No sophomore slum for Jordan Peele, whose latest big-screen offering is a chilling blend of horror, humor and hip-hop.

4. Amazing Grace. Aretha Franklin wasn’t called the Queen of Soul for nothing.

5. The Black Godfather. Never heard of black entertainment executive Clarence Avant? Then watch this film, immediately.

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DIRECTOR: Ron Howard PLAYERS: Luciano Pavarotti, Bono DOCUMENTARY RATED PG-13 The new documentary about opera singer Luciano Pavarotti (1935-2007) by Oscar-winning director Ron Howard is like the famous tenor’s public persona: big, friendly and nonthreatening — an invitation for everyone, regardless of

musical tastes, to enjoy the talents of one of the all-time greats.

What it is not is another probing documentary akin to RBG, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? or Ask Dr. Ruth, films that take late 20th-century cultural icons and put them into the context of their times, with implicit lessons for the present day.

Pavarotti seems to exist without significant historical connections, other than his relationships with other celebrities, such as Princess Diana and U2’s Bono.

This is a celebratory biography, targeted to the singer’s existing fan base, whether dedicated or casual, and it’s delightful to have the tale summarized with authority. The archival footage is impressive, and the interviews include almost all the major surviving players — the wife, the daughters, the mistresses, the impresarios, the collaborators. All clearly loved Luciano, despite his casual stomping on the emotions of countless loved ones. Indeed, the singer’s ability to be both incredibly generous and stupefyingly selfish makes for a fascinating subtext to Howard’s film.

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Top 5 films of 2019 (so far): 1. Woman at War. Creative, moving, visually surprising and relevant yet personable. Be sorry you missed it.

2. Toy Story 4. Thoroughly entertaining treatise on the doctrines of toy-dom and freedom.

3. Rocketman. If you’re going to fudge the facts, then go for the full fantasy treatment.

4. Long Shot. Charlize Theron is irresistible and game for absurdity in the year’s best comedy to date.

5. Brightburn. A neat little genre picture that turns a superhero myth and parenting cliches on their heads.

Toy Story 4 HHHHS DIRECTOR: Josh Cooley PLAYERS: The voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Annie Potts, Tony Hale ANIMATED/COMEDY RATED G Pixar has set a high bar for itself, particularly within its most successful and longest-running series. Expecting Toy Story 4 to top its predecessors is perhaps too tall an order, but the film still delivers what audiences have come to expect from the multibillion-dollar animation studio.

At the forefront, as usual, is the stunning animation itself — the realistic textures and colors are absolute eye candy.

Randy Newman still goofily sings us into nostalgia with “You Got a Friend in Me,” while new characters voiced by the likes

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WILDLIFE: A still from local filmmaker Erin Derham’s taxidermy documentary, Stuffed. The film has its Asheville premiere June 29 at The Orange Peel.

Photo courtesy of Curiosity Pictures The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave., will host the Asheville premiere of Stuffed on Saturday, June 29, at 7:30 p.m. The documentary about the art and science of taxidermy is directed by local filmmaker

FILM BOOK-TO-MOVIE PROGRAM: 'CRAZY RICH ASIANS' • FR (6/28), 3pm - The Book-to-Movie Program presents Crazy Rich Asians, rated PG-13.

Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road

CLASSIC WORLD CINEMA SERIES • FR (6/28), 8-9:45pm - Film screening of Trainspotting. Admission by donation. Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain

Erin Derham and was made with a primarily Asheville-based crew that traveled to six countries and 12 U.S. states over the course of two years. The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest in March and is entering the international festival circuit this summer.

Stuffed highlights a range of industry perspectives, among them an anatomical sculptor in South Africa and a big game taxidermist in Ohio. The film also explores taxidermy’s unexpected role in promoting environmental conservation.

Its local debut will be followed by a Q&A with Derham and executive producers Rachel Price and Holly Brydson.

General admission tickets are $10. VIP tickets are $30 and include early entry at 6 p.m., a pre-screening party in the downstairs Pulp venue with the director, producers and crew, plus heavy hors d’oeuvres, wine and beer. All proceeds benefit The Friends of the WNC Nature Center. theorangepeel.net X

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of Keanu Reeves, Jordan Peele, KeeganMichael Key and Christina Hendricks breathe life into a new storyline. Most importantly, the witty humor will get giggles out of viewers both young and old.

And while it is light and funny, Toy Story 4 delves into deep existentialism, tackling questions that plague the human condition: What is my life’s purpose?

Can I face and accept change? Who is my inner voice, and how can I listen to it? The film eases us into these questions through a series of existential crises experienced by many of its characters.

The central narrative follows our old pal Woody (Tom Hanks) as he takes painstaking strides to make himself useful to his owner Bonnie, despite being relegated to darker and dustier corners of her closet. During her kindergarten orientation, Bonnie tearfully and anxiously crafts a new Pixar character, Forky (Tony Hale) — an amalgamation of craft supplies and garbage, essentially a spork with pipe-cleaner arms and googly eyes.

From the moment he takes his first horrified breath into existence, Forky

steals the show. Hesitant to embrace his new purpose as a part of the cognizant toy community, he repeatedly declares, “I’m trash,” while hurling himself through open windows and into the trash bins from whence he came. He’s easily the most delightful illustration of existential dread the movie has to offer.

The plot follows the colorful cast of playthings as they join Bonnie and her family on an RV road trip. Adventures ensue as toys lose their way, reunite with old buddies, make new friends (and enemies) and, of course, learn heartfelt lessons along the way. While Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) and Woody lovingly remind viewers of the series’ nostalgic elements, the slew of new toys we meet — along with the return of a renegade Bo Peep (Annie Potts) — are the driving forces in the film’s character development and humor.

And, most importantly, now we have Forky.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead.

JULY: Discipline your inner flame. Use your radiance constructively. Your theme is controlled fire. AUGUST: Release yourself from dwelling on what’s amiss or off-kilter. Find the inspiration to focus on what’s right and good. SEPTEMBER: Pay your dues with joy and gratitude. Work hard in service to your beautiful dreams. OCTOBER: You can undo your attractions to “gratifications” that aren’t really very gratifying.

NOVEMBER: Your allies can become even better allies. Ask them for more. DECEMBER: Be alert for unrecognized value and hidden resources.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: If you choose to play one of life’s trickier games, you must get trickier yourself. AUGUST: Shedding irrelevant theories and unlearning old approaches will pave the way for creative breakthroughs. SEPTEMBER: Begin working on a new product or project that will last a long time. OCTOBER: Maybe you don’t need that emotional crutch as much as you thought. NOVEMBER: Explore the intense, perplexing, interesting feelings until you’re cleansed and healed. DECEMBER: Join forces with a new ally and/or deepen an existing alliance.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: It’s time to take fuller advantage of a resource you’ve been neglecting or underestimating. AUGUST: For a limited time only, two plus two equals five. Capitalize on that fact by temporarily becoming a two-plus-two-equals-five type of person. SEPTEMBER: It’s time, and you’re ready to discover new keys to fostering interesting intimacy and robust collaboration. OCTOBER: The boundaries are shifting on the map of the heart. That will ultimately be a good thing. NOVEMBER: If you do what you fear, you’ll gain unprecedented power over the fear. DECEMBER: What’s the one thing you can’t live without? Refine and deepen your relationship to it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Acquire a new personal symbol that thrills your mind and mobilizes your soul. AUGUST: Reconfigure the way you deal with money. Get smarter about your finances. SEPTEMBER: It’s time to expedite your learning. But streetwise education is more useful than formal education. Study the Book of Life. OCTOBER: Ask for more help than you normally do. Aggressively build your support. NOVEMBER: Creativity is your superpower. Reinvent any part of your life that needs a bolt of imaginative ingenuity. DECEMBER: Love and care for what you imagine to be your flaws and liabilities.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Here are your fortune cookiestyle horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Transform something that’s semi-ugly into something that’s useful and winsome. AUGUST: Go to the top of the world and seek a big vision of who you must become.

SEPTEMBER: Your instinct for worthy and constructive adventures is impeccable. Trust it. OCTOBER: Be alert for a new teacher with a capacity to teach you precisely what you need to learn. NOVEMBER: Your mind might not guide you perfectly, but your body and soul will.

DECEMBER: Fresh hungers and budding fascinations should alert you to the fact that deep in the genius part of your soul, your master plan is changing.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: I’d love to see you phase out wishy-washy wishes that keep you distracted from your burning, churning desires.

AUGUST: A story that began years ago begins again. Be proactive about changing the themes you’d rather not repeat. SEPTEMBER: Get seriously and daringly creative about living in a more expansive world. OCTOBER: Acquire a new tool or skill that will enable you to carry out your mission more effectively. NOVEMBER: Unanticipated plot twists can help heal old dilemmas about intimacy. DECEMBER: Come up with savvy plans to eliminate bad stress and welcome good stress.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Say this every morning: “The less I have to prove and the fewer people I have to impress, the smarter I’ll be.” AUGUST: Escape an unnecessary limitation.

Break an obsolete rule. Override a faded tradition.

SEPTEMBER: What kind of “badness” might give your goodness more power? OCTOBER: You’re stronger and freer than you thought you were. Call on your untapped power. NOVEMBER: Narrowing your focus and paring down your options will serve you beautifully.

DECEMBER: Replace what’s fake with the Real Thing.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Stretch yourself. Freelance, moonlight, diversify and expand. AUGUST: Having power over other people is less important than having power over yourself.

Manage your passions like a wizard! SEPTEMBER: Ask the big question. And be ready to act expeditiously when you get the big answer. OCTOBER: I think you can arrange for the surge to arrive in manageable installments. Seriously. NOVEMBER: Dare to break barren customs and habits that are obstructing small miracles and cathartic breakthroughs. DECEMBER: Don’t wait around hoping to be given what you need.

Instead, go after it. Create it yourself, if necessary.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: Can you infuse dark places with your intense light without dimming your intense light? Yes! AUGUST: It’s time for an archetypal Sagittarian jaunt, quest or pilgrimage. SEPTEMBER: The world around you needs your practical idealism. Be a role model who catalyzes good changes. OCTOBER: Seek out new allies and connections that can help you with your future goals. NOVEMBER: Be open to new and unexpected ideas so as to get the emotional healing you long for. DECEMBER: Shed old, worn-out self-images.

Reinvent yourself. Get to know your depths better.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: You have an enhanced capacity to feel at peace with your body, to not wish it were different from what it naturally is. AUGUST: You can finally solve a riddle you’ve been trying to solve for a long time.

SEPTEMBER: Make your imagination work and play twice as hard. Crack open seemingly closed possibilities.

OCTOBER: Move up at least one rung on the ladder of success. NOVEMBER: Make yourself more receptive to blessings and help that you have overlooked or ignored. DECEMBER: You’ll learn most from what you leave behind — so leave behind as much as possible.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead. JULY: I’ll cry one tear for you, then I’ll cheer. AUGUST: Plant seeds in places that hadn’t previously been on your radar. SEPTEMBER: You may seem to take a wrong turn, but it’ll take you where you need to go. OCTOBER: Open your mind and heart as wide as you can. Be receptive to the unexpected.

NOVEMBER: I bet you’ll gain a new power, higher rank or greater privilege. DECEMBER: Send out feelers to new arrivals who may be potential helpers.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here are your fortune cookie-style horoscopes for the months ahead.

JULY: Your creative powers are at a peak. Use them with flair. AUGUST: Wean yourself from pretend feelings and artificial motivations and inauthentic communications. SEPTEMBER: If you want to have greater impact and more influence, you can. Make it happen! OCTOBER: Love is weird but good.

Trust the odd journey it takes you on. NOVEMBER: If you cultivate an appreciation for paradox, your paradoxical goals will succeed. DECEMBER: Set firm deadlines. Have fun disciplining yourself.

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