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Echoes of ‘Boom Town’ The new hotel oppressively, blatantly blocking the wondrous view we used to have emerging from and submerging into Asheville’s tunnel is proof that our raging development has now reached a supremely destructive and irresponsible phase.

Or as Thomas Wolfe said of a similar 1920s Asheville construction crescendo in his short story Boom Town: “A spirit of drunken waste and wild destructiveness was everywhere apparent: the fairest places in town were mutilated at a cost of millions of dollars. … It was mad, infuriate, ruinous; they had flung away the earnings of a lifetime and mortgaged those of a generation to come; they had ruined themselves, their children and their city and nothing could be done to stop them. ... The place looked like a battlefield; it was cratered and shell torn with savage explosions of brick and concrete all over town. …

“It was the month of July 1929 — that fatal year which brought ruin to millions of people all over the country.

They were now drunk with an imagined victory, pressing and shouting in the dusty tumult of the battle, most beaten where they thought their triumph was greatest, so that the desolate and barren panorama of their ruin would not be known for years to come.”

It became known in 1931 to be exact, when suicides included Asheville’s

mayor, Gallatin Roberts, using a .38-caliber revolver in his law office, and a vice president of the most prominent bank, the Central Bank and Trust Co. Eight Asheville banks closed (there was no FDIC then) and only Wachovia Bank survived (only to close in the 2008 Great Recession). A teller slit his own throat and lived, while 27 of the city’s most prominent citizens were indicted for fraud. All the city counselors resigned in 1931 after the mayor killed himself.

Shouldn’t Asheville catalog and zone protections for all our beautiful views now that we know City Council could care less about them? Otherwise developers will stomp out as much beauty as they can. Soon we might have to travel a good distance to see the majesty of Mount Pisgah or pay tourist prices for a mint julep from a rooftop bar or have to add blocky, rectangular hotels to every in-town, sinuous mountain silhouette.

— Bill Branyon Asheville

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violence. Mountain Xpress had sent [a summary of] my letter to the mayor and other Council people, but Kapoor was the only one who replied, and Mountain Xpress published his reply with my letter.

Recently, a pregnant woman, who had been a witness in a murder trial of a man accused of shooting another pregnant woman and testified against the shooter, was assassinated in my neighborhood, and it now looks like the Asheville Police Department has set up the task force. This should have been done a long time ago.

In my exchange with Councilman Kapoor, I also suggested that the city consider installing closed-circuit TV videomonitoring cameras (this is now common in many cities and results in a decrease in gun crimes and a rise in arrests for serious crimes) in areas with a history of serious gun violence. I realize that this is an intrusion on citizens’ privacy, but I believe that citizens would prefer giving up privacy to being shot.

If one had been placed in the area where a woman was just assassinated in West Asheville, I think she quite possibly would not have been shot and murdered.

At the very least, the new task force would have a better idea about who did it.

— John Penley Asheville

The dissatisfied move in Once upon a time, the dissatisfied from up North or down South — makes no difference — decided to visit a small city in the North Carolina mountains.

That city was Asheville.

We were a welcoming bunch and liked the attention from those who came from the big cities up North and down South.

We were loved because we cared about our environment, social justice, startups and other local small businesses.

In other words, we were cool.

But the cool can always be made better, right?

The big city folks decided that Pritchard Park needed cleaning up — parts fenced off, homeless people moved out, perhaps even some benches taken away so the homeless would go sleep somewhere else.

The big city folks had to invest the big sums they made from selling their homes in the North and South. So they built and purchased expensive homes here, sending the price of housing out of reach for those who worked to serve them and their expensive pleasures.

The creativity of our small city enthralled the people from the North and South. But soon the starving artists had to move away themselves because they no longer could live here.

We saw big corporate hotels take our skylines, hide our views of the mountains. Even one of our iconic landmarks, the Flatiron Building, was put up for sale with intentions of making a hotel of it. Beautiful old homes on Biltmore Avenue were slated to be gutted and turned into — you guessed it — boutique hotels.

Ben & Jerry’s moved in downtown.

They used to be weird, too. But now only their prices were weird, $4.85 or more for a small cone.

The Dissatisfied found a utopia in Asheville. But like so many have done elsewhere, they missed that which they had left. And so within a decade, they gave Asheville a new face, a playground for the elite, a city with fancy rooftop expensive restaurants and fewer of us weirdos. They had all moved away to build again in other places once left for dead, places where they could once more afford to create and built a new sustainable utopia.

But this time they prayed to the universe and their goddesses that this time, they’ll not be discovered by the rich dissatisfied with dull lives in dull cities.

— Rachael Bliss Asheville

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VOICES OF TRANSIT

Bus riders, advocates weigh in on system’s future

BY CAROL KAUFMAN

empathizing with vulnerable residents riding out of necessity.

“The first time my bus never showed up, I imagined that someone may have lost their job that day because they were late,” Jones recalls. “When I stand at a bus stop in the rain, in the cold and in the dark, I begin to understand what riders experience who, unlike myself, are completely bus dependent.”

What does transit — and the city’s support of its bus network — mean to Asheville? Xpress talked to residents with different perspectives to better understand the system’s role in the community.

crendl303@gmail.com Bus advocate Jeff Jones left Asheville City Council’s June 11 meeting disappointed. Council members had approved only $1.2 million in funding to implement Asheville’s Transit Master Plan — enough to change bus routes and improve on-time performance, but short of the $1.85 million the city’s Transit Committee had recommended to add buses and expand service hours during evenings and Sundays starting Jan. 1.

For Jones, a community-based Unitarian Universalist minister and member of the Transit Committee since January, public transit is more than a desirable amenity — it’s a way of living out his values.

“As someone who aspires to practice nonviolent communication,” he says, “what is high on my list of intentions is to be kind to the Earth. This means spending less time in my car and more time walking and riding the bus.”

Although Jones says his initial interest in becoming a bus rider was sparked

by Asheville’s troublesome downtown parking situation, transit has become part of his ministry in compassionate living. After buying his first monthly bus pass last summer, he found himself

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Five months ago, Asheville City Council member Julie Mayfield was confident that the Transit Master Plan would be fully funded. In February, she told Xpress she’d make a bet of “100 percent” that the full complement of changes would go into effect by next January.

“We thought we were getting five new electric buses that would act like all of our other buses and that we were getting over $5 million from [property tax revenues resulting from] the Mission Health sale [to for-profit HCA Healthcare],” Mayfield now says. “I also assumed our transit staff would

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None of that happened.

Because of their size — at 35 feet long, the electric buses exceed most of the city’s current vehicles by 5 feet — the new additions can’t make the tight turns on many Asheville streets and can only be deployed on a limited number of routes. The buses also cannot always run for a full day without needing a charge for their batteries.

(See “Road bumps,” p. 21.)

“We received just over $3 million [in new tax revenue] from the Mission Health sale and are still down a transit staff member — the very staff person whose job it will be to plan and implement these route reconfigurations and expansions,” Mayfield continues.

“Therefore, the physical and human resources aren’t where we need them to be to effect full implementation, nor is the funding.”

at every bus stop,” she adds, “and I’ll be one happy bus rider.”

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A LIFELINE Rachelle Sorensen-Cox, the single mother of an 11-year-old daughter, lost her driving privileges in early 2017 and has been bus-dependent ever since. Renting an apartment in West Asheville, she relies on the W1 and W2 buses to get to and from her full-time sales job in downtown Asheville.

“Being bus-dependent,” she says, “means that easy bus access dictates where I’m going to live.”

Fortunately for Sorensen-Cox, it’s a relatively short walk from her apartment to the W1 and W2 bus stops.

But problems with the transit system’s consistency, she says, can make the journey much more challenging.

“When a bus arrives on time, I’m overjoyed,” Sorensen-Cox explains.

“But when a bus is very late — or doesn’t show up at all — I have to walk 3.8 miles to get to work. Luckily, I’m in good shape, but it’s still a big deal, especially in the rain and the cold.”

Sorensen-Cox thinks full funding of the Transit Master Plan would create a more trustworthy system for her everyday commute. She would also love to see a transit app that works in real time to share pertinent messages, such as when a bus is removed from service.

“I want to know if I have to wait two hours for a bus that broke down,” she says. “I’d walk home rather than spend $15 on an Uber when I make only $16 an hour. Uber is simply not in my budget.”

As an Asheville resident, SorensenCox feels she deserves buses that run on time, a clean, well-functioning bus station and decent customer service.

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Pointing to recent data showing that Asheville Redefines Transit has an on-time performance rate of roughly 60%, Plemmons calls for Council to take an active role in the management of the system and fix its current problems before spending more money on the service expansions outlined in the Transit Master Plan.

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“Transit means efficiency. It means getting people on time to their places of employment and to their doctor’s appointments,” Plemmons says. “[Council will] go into the discussion right quick about more routes, but the routes you have aren’t running so that people can depend on them.”

Although not a regular rider himself, Plemmons says he and other CIBO members recognize the importance of reliable transit for the community. Dependable buses mean more certainty and shorter commute times for workers, as well as greater circulation of potential customers throughout the city. Council should demand regular reports on transit operations, he suggests, and use that information to improve efficiency.

“The solution is not necessarily a ton more money. It could just be changing things around a little bit and making sure that responsible people are involved — and making sure that they don’t get ahead of the game,” Plemmons says. “You can’t be a major league baseball pitcher when you’re still in Class A ball.”

MINISTER OF MOVEMENT: Jeff Jones, a community-based Unitarian Universalist minister, believes transit is key to living out his environmental values and supporting vulnerable Asheville residents. Photo by Carol Kaufman A PARADIGM SHIFT Kim Roney’s No. 1 reason for embracing the bus is to reduce her dependency on fossil fuel. The piano teacher, Transit Committee member and recent City Council candidate got rid of her car in

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“The first year for us was difficult and a complete attitude adjustment,” Roney says about her family’s transportation transition. “Grocery shopping can be a unique challenge, but the car-free benefits outweigh the negatives, such as no car payments, gas, parking and insurance.”

Plus, there’s the sociability factor.

Riding the bus for more than a decade has given Roney an opportunity to create relationships with other riders.

“I’ve watched children grow up,” she says. “I’ve befriended Tom, an elder bus rider in the community. We check up on each other. I’m also grateful to chat with fellow cyclists who use the bus like I do.”

Roney explains that she’d eventually like to see multimodal connectivity countywide — an objective, she suggests, that’s a return to the region’s history. “When my great-grandmother lived in Asheville, the city had the second-best trolley system in the country,” she says. “We need reliable regional transit, and we’re fully capable of implementing that.”

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“I was incredibly disheartened to see the additional $600,000 announced in additional hospital property tax revenue earmarked for consultant fees instead of evening transit hours and extended Sunday hours,” Roney says, referencing Asheville’s spending of part of the Mission Health money on a design contract for city-owned property on Haywood Street. “We can and should do better with our budget prioritization.”

AN URBAN EXTENSION Public transit, Lyft and Uber were Kate Clark’s only forms of transportation during her multiple visits to Asheville and during her first two months of living in the city when she moved from Seattle a year ago.

“I lived in Seattle for 39 years, where I never owned a car,” Clark says. “After my license was stolen in the mid-1980s, I decided not to replace it.”

As public transit became her way of life, Clark discovered that riding buses is both a social activity and a way to sit back and enjoy the passing scenery.

“When I ride the bus, I see slices of life I wouldn’t see any other way,” she says.

Clark hoped to live close to a bus stop when she moved to Asheville. Not being able to afford a home in Asheville’s city limits, however, she ended up buying a house off New Leicester Highway — and outside the bus system.

With no convenient bus access, Clark purchased a car last year, a situation she laments. “If I could ride the bus more often, believe me, I would,” she says.

The way Clark sees it, Asheville does itself a disservice by putting public transportation below other priorities. “With more traffic comes more street repairs and accidents,” she says. “If the city can come up with a plan that enables people to use public transportation that runs every half hour, perhaps the city could reduce the need for street repairs.

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Flatiron hotel conversion clears Council in 4-3 vote

THE NAYS DON’T HAVE IT: Council members, from left, Brian Haynes, Keith Young and Sheneika Smith, raise their hands in opposition to the Flatiron Building’s rezoning for hotel use, which passed with support from the rest of Asheville City Council on June 25. Photo by Brooke Randle Six weeks ago, Asheville City Council member Julie Mayfield voiced opposition to a proposal to convert downtown’s historic Flatiron Building into a boutique hotel and described the structure as the “soul of our city.” But at Council’s June 25 meeting, she flipped her position, joining Mayor Esther Manheimer, Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler and Council member Vijay Kapoor to complete a majority vote that allowed the rezoning of the building for hotel use.

“Upon reflection, the soul of our city is not embodied in a building, even one as special as the Flatiron,” Mayfield read from a prepared statement. “Instead, it is in the beautiful, messy, complex mix of our highly engaged people and businesses who disagree and fight but who also come together and work hard on a daily basis to make our city a better place. That is the soul of this city.”

Mayfield said that developer Philip Woollcott’s revised plan, which reduces the proposed number of hotel rooms from 80 to 71 and preserves the second floor of the building for office space, addressed concerns she had raised regarding small-business displacement and parking issues. However, the project as approved will still uproot many of the Flatiron’s 70 small-business tenants. A staff report issued before the meeting also did not note any changes in the project’s plan to handle parking off-site through a valet service.

Council members Brian Haynes and Keith Young, who sided against the project along with Sheneika Smith, sought to delay the vote, citing both procedural inaccuracies and incomplete information. Haynes claimed that because the developer’s attorney, Wyatt Stevens, had pulled the proposal before a formal vote at Council’s May 14 meeting, the project was required to go back 12

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through the city’s entire application process, including committee reviews.

That argument was rejected by the city’s planning director, Todd Okolichany. Despite using the word “withdraw,” Okolichany said, Stevens had actually intended to “continue” the hearing so his team could revise the plan, a move that does not require additional analysis from the city’s boards and commissions.

Young cited an article from the Citizen Times — released one day before the hearing — that mentioned a 1985 Council vote awarding $800,000 in bond money to Midtown Development Association, the company that owns most of the Flatiron, for renovations.

He made a motion to continue the rezoning vote to Council’s next meeting so members could gather more information about this revelation, but the motion failed 4-3 along the same voting lines as the project’s eventual approval.

Several community members also spoke out against the project during public comment, citing concerns about the impact of growth and tourism on the overall character of the city. Those opposed included downtown performer Abby Roach, better known as Abby the Spoon Lady, who said unmanaged development was driving her from the city.

“There are certain things in Asheville that kind of remind us where we are. We have bicycle taverns and big purple buses, but the thing that makes Asheville Asheville is the people that live here: our artists, our musicians,” Roach said. “The more and more Asheville grows, the more and more we’re losing them. … People are moving away, including myself. This will be my last summer here.”

— Brooke Randle X

Asheville gun crime up 55% since 2016 Gun violence in Asheville has recently spiked, according to a report from Asheville City Manager Debra Campbell and Asheville Police Department Deputy Chief James Baumstark presented at City Council’s June 25 meeting.

The report, which did not include data regarding other forms of crime or sexual assault, revealed that gun crime has risen nearly 14% since June 2018 — and 55% since 2016.

Baumstark said that while most months of 2019 have tracked similarly to the same months last year in the volume of gun-related incident reports filed, May was particularly violent. More than double the number of gun-related incidents were reported then, he said, compared with May 2018.

As of June 23, APD has responded to 360 gun calls, Baumstark said, noting that the top three locations from which police have received calls are in and around public housing communities.

The vicinities of Pisgah View, Deaverview and Hillcrest apartments, he said, account for more than half of all calls for gunshot wounds, gun discharges and person-with-gun reports in 2019.

Council member Sheneika Smith pointed out that calls to APD regarding gun violence do not necessarily reflect the actions of the members of public housing communities.

“As a community, when we’re addressing this issue, we need to also debunk a lot of the myths,” Smith said. “So when we say that we have a lot of calls in public housing, then we automatically think that the people who live in public housing are the problems, when they’re really victims.

“There are people from outside of Asheville and other counties that come into our public housing areas and are causing a lot of the disturbances. I just want to put that out there so we have a great understanding as we move forward,” Smith continued. Council member Keith Young asked Baumstark about the demographics and residences of those charged for gun crime, but the deputy chief did not have that information immediately on hand.

Baumstark said that APD has developed a task force with state

and federal partners and is using the

recent data to deploy resources to areas experiencing higher rates of gun violence. He also encouraged com-

munity members to increase their awareness of what happens in their neighborhood and to report suspicious activity.

“We’re not asking you to give your name or your address or your phone number, but if you see something that’s not right, we would like them to call,” Baumstark said. “I would rather go down and find out there’s absolutely nothing than to go down for a shooting an hour after they saw something that they didn’t think was right.”

— Brooke Randle X

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‘Spotless and above reproach’ Residents clash over street dance, 1919

CUT LOOSE: There are no known images from the July 4, 1919, street dance. This image, circa 1919, was taken at Chunns Cove Camp. If anyone has a photograph of the 1919 street dance, please contact Xpress. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville In 1919, Asheville residents prepared for a second consecutive Fourth of July celebration without fireworks due to a city ordinance that prohibited the sale and use of the ceremonial explosives.

Based on contemporaneous articles, citizens took the news in stride. The Great War was over! America and her allies had won! Who had time to bicker over pyrotechnics?

Certainly not Asheville, a city eager to celebrate the nation’s victory. Yet as the Fourth of July neared, patriotic fervor lost its unifying grip, as residents split over the controversial topic of modern dance.

That summer a welcome committee was formed to create a homecoming event for local members of the 81st Division. The committee, led

by Lula Roberts Platt, settled on Independence Day as the gathering’s

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official date. Among the planned activities was the city’s first ever street dance.

The announcement was met with approval by some, including city commissioners who appropriated $500 to the welcome committee (equivalent to over $7,000 in today’s dollar). Others were less than thrilled by the plans. On June 25, 1919, The Asheville Citizen reported that the Asheville Ministers Association “went on the record as opposing the street dance.”

In the following day’s paper, one W. Legett denounced the AMA’s opposition, in a letter to the editor. “As a soldier, I have a right to make this protest, for the reason that it reflects on the character and integrity of each and every one of us,” he wrote. “The young ladies will be respected and protected as much so as in some pastors’ study or anywhere else.”

Legett concluded his piece by calling for “the broad-minded, big-hearted min-

isters of the Ministerial association … [to] rescind their action and come down to earth.”

Additional letters followed, arguing both sides. On June 27, 1919, Mrs. J.C. Pritchard, a homecoming committee member wrote, “This dance is to be under the chaperonage of responsible women and surely there could be no reasonable objection to a well-ordered crowd passing a pleasant evening[.]”

In the same day’s paper, the Rev. J.O. Ervin expressed his objections to the event. He began with an apology, expressing his regret over Legett’s misinterpretation of his association’s views on returning soldiers. “We think they are like other men, some good, some better and some otherwise,” the reverend wrote. “But certainly all brave and true to the flag and all for which it stands.”

Nevertheless, Ervin continued, “as the guardians of good morals and common decency,” it was the association’s duty to oppose the activity. Modern, cheek dance, “like the flames of hell … is consuming the spiritual life of our young people and that of a great many of the older ones, as well,” he argued.

Further, Ervin wrote: “We oppose it ... because we want to keep the reputation and good name of our little city spotless and above reproach.” In addition, the reverend noted, “The more they dance the less they pray.”

On July 2, The Asheville Citizen ran its final letter on the matter.

Though the writer signed off as “A Non-Dancer,” the message was one of compromise. Opposed to the modern cheek dance, as well as the “shimmie dance of the cabarets,” the writer nevertheless supported the committee’s plan, so long as chaperones were in attendance. “The Book of Books tells us there is a ‘time to weep, a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance,’ the letter read.

Two days later, the homecoming celebration, named “The Victory Carnival,” took place without incident.

In the following day’s paper, The Asheville Citizen described the revelry. “Special lights had been arranged by the Asheville Power and Light company and night was turned into day,” the article read. Meanwhile, the paper continued, part of the street in the Grove Park neighborhood was roped off, as men in uniform danced with their invited guests to the sounds of Berry’s Municipal Band — all, of course, under the watchful eyes of 16 official chaperones. X Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents.

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ANIMALS APPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE • TU (7/9), 7pm Information session on Appalachian Wild, a hub connecting home-based wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, animal control, specialized facilities and the NC Wildlife Resources Commission.

Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville

BENEFITS COSTUME DRAMA: A FASHION SHOW • SA (7/6), 7:30pm Proceeds from Costume Drama: A Fashion Show with 19 designers competing for cash prizes benefit Asheville Community Theatre. Tickets: ashevilletheatre.org. $75. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St.

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

FREEDOM ISN’T FREE: The community of Lake Junaluska hosts a variety of Independence Day events featuring fireworks, a parade, a circus show, concerts and family-friendly activities. Blue Ridge Big Band kicks off the celebrations with a free concert at the lakeside tent near Stuart Auditorium on Wednesday, July 3, 7:30 p.m. The festivities go into full swing at 11 a.m. Thursday, July 4, with a community parade themed “When the Circus Came to Town.” Following the parade, a barbecue lunch with music and kids’ activities are followed by a square dance at 1:30 p.m. Most activities are free; the performances and barbecue are ticketed. Free fireworks reflected on the lake begin at 9:30 p.m. Tickets: itickets.com. Photo courtesy of Lake Junaluska (p. 16)

LAKE JULIAN FIREWORKS BENEFIT • TH (7/4), 6pm until dark - Proceeds from the the sale of hotdogs, baked goods and more at the Lake Julian fireworks display benefit Asheville Rowing Club. Information: 828-689-2322. Held at Lake Julian Park, 70 Fisherman's Trail, Arden

• TU (7/9), 3-6pm - Using Analytics to Develop Your Business Platform, seminar.

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DEFCON 828 GROUP • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security professionals, students and enthusiasts. Free to attend.

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C OMMU N IT Y CA L EN D AR ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon-1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St.

• TH (7/11), noon1:30pm - Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil.

Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

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

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 5pm - Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • Every other TUESDAY, 4pm - Basic computer skills class.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. GENEALOGY CLUB • 2nd TUESDAYS, 3pm - Genealogy Club. Free.

Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure KOREAN WAR VETERANS CHAPTER 314 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Association, General Frank Blazey Chapter 314, general meeting. Lunch at noon, meeting at 1pm.

Free to attend. Held at American Legion Post 77, 216 4th Ave. W., Hendersonville LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER BOARD MEETING • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Public board meeting.

Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • TU (7/9), 5:307pm - Introduction to Homebuying, workshop. Registration required. Free.

• WE (7/10), noon1:30pm - Budgeting and Debt, class.

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SCIENCE PUB • TH (7/11), 5:30-7pm - Science Pub Series: Clean Energy, presentations on sustainable clean energy with refreshments. Free.

Held at The Collider, 1 Haywood St., Suite 401 WNC REPAIR CAFE • TU (7/9), 5-8pm - WNC Repair Café, hands-on help repairing broken household items. Reservation recommended. Free to attend. Held at Living Web Farms, Biochar Facility, 220 Grandview Lane, Hendersonville

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE • 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview TORTILLA MAKING • MO (7/8), 11am12:30pm - Easy, homemade, authentic tortilla making class.

Free. Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure

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

Free to attend. Held in Downtown Sylva

LET’S BE FRANK: The Asheville Rowing Club hosts a fundraiser on the Fourth of July through the sale of food and drinks at Lake Julian Park. The rowing club will set up at the Fisherman’s Trail entrance to the park. Enjoy the show as well as hot dogs, popcorn, chips, soda and home baked goods, July 4, 5-10 p.m. Photo courtesy of Asheville Rowing Club (p. 15)

FIREWORKS AT LAKE JULIAN PARK • TH (7/4), 9pm - Fireworks after dark, bring chairs and blankets. Park at William W. Estes Elementary.

Enjoy park activities all day.

Held at Lake Julian Park and Marina, 406 Overlook Extension, Arden 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 THE GREEN • FR (7/5), 6:30-10pm Outdoor Fourth of July celebration with food vendors, live music, street dancing and fireworks at dusk. Free to attend/Bring seating. Held at The Village Green, 35 US-64, Cashiers IMAGINE CIRCUS • FR (7/5), 7:30pm - Imagine Circus features aerialists, stilt walkers and jugglers. $18-$23. Held at Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska, 20 Chapel Drive, Lake Junaluska 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. Free square dance at 1:30pm.

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

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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 MUSIC ON MAIN • 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. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB MEETING • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Yao, 153 Smoky Park Highway CITIZENS-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free.

Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room, Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY MONTHLY BREAKFAST • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10. Held at Henderson County Democratic Party, 1216 6th Ave. W., Suite 600, Hendersonville INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:308pm - General meeting.

Free. Held at St. David's

Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva PROGRESSIVE WOMEN OF HENDERSONVILLE • FRIDAYS, 4:30-6pm - Postcard writing to government representatives. Postcards, stamps, addresses, pens and tips provided.

Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Community Co-Op, 60 S. Charleston Lane, Hendersonville VOTING RIGHTS • WE (7/10), 2pm - Darlene Azarmi, Regional Organizing Manager of Democracy NC, tells the history of voting rights and Gaby Romero, student organizer at Appalachian State discusses updates to the photo ID law. Free to attend. Held at Donaldson Building, 1216 6th Ave. West, Suite 601 (in back), Hendersonville

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 • 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 • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler CARL SANDBURG HOME NHS 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 828-693-4178, 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.

• SU (7/7), 11am-3pm Everything’s Butter with Goats, program. Admission fees apply.

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

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Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. FLETCHER LIBRARY • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free.

Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher HOMESCHOOL ART PROGRAM • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4.

Registration required: 828-253-3227 x 124. $4 per student. Held at Asheville Art Museum, 175 Biltmore Ave.

LITTLE EXPLORERS CLUB • 1st & 3rd FRIDAYS, 9-10am - Little Explorers Club, program featuring storytime and an age appropriate experiment, engineering challenge or game for children ages 3-5. $7/Free for members.

Held at Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop’s Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest 28768, 828-877-4423 • MO (7/8), 1-3pm - Learn about local snake species and the role they play in the ecosystem. Ages 8–13. Registration: avl.mx/68e. Free.

• WE (7/10), 9-11am - Determine the water quality of the river and learn how these macros play an important role in the ecosystem and mountain trout. Ages 8-12. Registration: avl.mx/68e. Free.

‘STONE SOUP’ • SA (7/6), 11am & 2pm - Stone Soup, musical. Tickets: avl.mx/68i. $15/$10 children. Held at The Center for Art & Inspiration, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville SUMMER SERIES BLOOMS • SATURDAYS through (8/24), 10:30am - Programs on local ecology, using natural materials to make art, recycling and upcycling and gardening. Information: firestorm.coop, 828-707-4364 or stevensonwa@guilford. edu. Free. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road TENNIS PLAY DAY • SUNDAYS, 2-4pm - Organized tennis for

juniors of all ages and skill levels. Registration: avltennis.com or AvlJuniorTennis@gmail. com. Free. Held at Aston Park, 336 Hilliard Ave. YOUTH ART CLASS • SATURDAYS, 10:30-noon - Youth art class. $10. Held at Appalachian Art Farm, 22 Morris St., Sylva

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy 2pm Animal Encounters, climbing the Park’s 32-foot climbing tower and hiking the Park’s 6 trails during July 4th Family Fun Thursday, July 4-Sunday, July 7.

Info at chimneyrockpark.com BEAVER LAKE BIRD WALK • SA (7/6), 8am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary, US-25 CITY OF ASHEVILLE POOLS OPEN • SA (6/8) through SU (8/11) - All three city pools open for the summer. Hours and information: avl.mx/64c. $3.

FROLIC THROUGH THE FRASERS, HIKE OF THE WEEK • FR (7/5), 10am Parkway rangers lead a moderate to strenuous, 1.5-mile round-trip hike through Richland Balsam, a high altitude spruce-fir forest. Meet at the HaywoodJackson Overlook at milepost 431. Information: 828-298-5330 x304. Free.

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

Free to attend. Held at Ecusta Brewing, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 3, Pisgah Forest PISGAH FIELD SCHOOL 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 4, Pisgah Forest, pisgahfieldschool.org

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• WE (7/3), 9am-noon - A 4.5 mile hike on Cat Gap Loop/John Rock trails for ages 12 and up. Registration required: pisgahfieldschool.org.

Free.

• WE (7/3), 8:30pm Things That Go Bump in the Night, night hike and presentation about night creatures. Registration required: pisgahfieldschool.org. $20 ages 13 and up/$8 children.

• TH (7/4), 8-10pm Guided 2-mile sunset and night hike in the Pisgah National Forest.

Registration required. $30/$10 children.

• WE (7/10), 8:30pm Things That Go Bump in the Night, night hike and presentation about night creatures. Registration required: pisgahfieldschool.org. $20 ages 13 and up/$8 children.

• TH (7/11), 8-10pm Guided 2-mile sunset and night hike in the Pisgah National Forest.

Registration required. $30/$10 children.

PARENTING HAYWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde, 828-452-8440, myhaywoodregional.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am1:30pm - Social gathering for mothers and their babies. Registration required. Free to attend.

• TH (7/11), 7-9pm - Your Amazing Newborn.

Registration required.

Free to attend.

SUMMER GAME NIGHTS: SEX ED FOR ADULTS • TUESDAYS until (7/30), 6:30-8pm - Sex education for adults helping parents talk to kids. Free.

Held at The Center for Art & Inspiration, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville

PUBLIC LECTURES CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE • MO (7/8), 7pm Dwight Hughes talk on the ironclad Monitor and its encounter with the Virginia during the early part of the Civil War.

Free. Held at Waynesville Inn Golf Resort & Spa, 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville TO THE MOON: REFLECTIONS ON APOLLO AFTER 50 YEARS • SU (7/9), 7:30pm - Dominic Lesnar, president of the Astronomy Club of Asheville, presents a special commemoration, To the Moon! Reflections on Apollo after 50 Years and weather permitting, a lunar viewing. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights

SENIORS ASHEVILLE ELDER CLUB GROUP RESPITE PROGRAM • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths.

Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Jewish Family Services of WNC, 2 Doctors Park, Suite E HENDERSONVILLE ELDER CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Hendersonville Elder Club for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Agudas Israel Congregation, 505 Glasgow Lane, Hendersonville

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

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

DE-STRESS, GET HAPPY & CONNECT! (PD.) Mindfulness Meditation at the Asheville Insight Meditation Center.

Group Meditation: Weekly on Thursdays at

7pm & Sundays at 10am. ashevillemeditation. com, info@ ashevillemeditation. com.

ECK LIGHT AND SOUND SERVICE: UNDERSTANDING YOUR LIVING CONSCIOUSNESS OF GOD’S LOVE (PD.) Explore your own direct connection with the Divine within this service, an engaging blend of insightful stories, uplifting creative arts, and contemplative exercises. Experience the Light and Sound of God and the sacred sound of HU, which can open your heart to divine love, healing, and inner guidance. Fellowship follows. Sponsored

by ECKANKAR. Date: Sunday, July 7, 2019, 11am, Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (“Kings and Queens Salon” building, lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. (free event). www. eckankar-nc.org LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm. ashevillemeditation. com, info@ ashevillemeditation. com.

DREAMING A NEW DREAM MEDITATION • 1st FRIDAYS, 7pm Dreaming a New Dream, meditation to explore peace and compassion.

Free. Held at Center for Spiritual Living Asheville, 2 Science Mind Way MEDITATION CLASS • 1st SUNDAYS, 10am - Meditation class sponsored by Science of Spirituality. Information: 828-348-9123 or brigid9288@gmail.com.

Free. Held at Veda Studios, 853 Merrimon Ave. (Upstairs) OPEN SANGHA NIGHT AT URBAN DHARMA • THURSDAYS, 7:309pm - Open Sangha night. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 77 W. Walnut St.

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

Volunteer and help our neighbors rise above the confines of poverty.

Orientation 7/11(5:30pm) or 8/5(9am) RSVP: volunteers@litcouncil. com. Learn more: www. litcouncil.com.

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS WNC • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, noon-12:30pm - Orientation sessions for prospective volunteers.

Free. Held at Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC, 50 S. French Broad Ave., #213.

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC • THURSDAYS, 11am, 2nd TUESDAYS, 5:30pm & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 8:30am - Welcome Home Tour, tours to find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how the public can help. Registration required: tours@ homewardboundwnc. org or 828-785-9840.

Free. Held at Homeward Bound of WNC, 218 Patton Ave. INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION • TH (7/4) - Volunteers needed for Downtown After 5. Registration: avl.mx/5zs. Held at Downtown Asheville STITCHES OF LOVE • 2nd MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Volunteer to stitch or crochet handmade articles for local charities. All skill levels welcome. Held at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3070 Sweeten Creek Road TEDXASHEVILLE • Through FR (8/30) - Volunteer for TEDx on Sunday, Sept. 8.

Theme is Challenging Assumptions, Breaking New Ground. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave. For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

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WELLNESS

Report on women’s health unveiled in Asheville

MOTHER LOVE: Mountain Area Health Education Center staffers Maggie Adams, left, and Cindy McMillan provided an overview of MAHEC’s doula program for high-risk expectant mothers, SistasCaring4Sistas. Photo by Virginia Daffron “Buncombe County is doing really well compared to other counties in North Carolina overall,” said Elyse Shaw, a researcher with the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Women’s Policy Research and the co-author of a new statewide report about women’s health unveiled on June 25 in Asheville.

Buncombe ranked No. 9 among North Carolina counties for the low-

est number of women’s deaths from diabetes. The county also ranked 13th-best in heart disease and breast cancer deaths and 27th for stroke.

Buncombe topped the state in limiting new HIV infections among women but scored near the middle of the pack in infection rates for other sexually transmitted diseases.

In all areas except new chlamydia infections, the county improved

its numbers since the previous comprehensive study in 2009.

The state, however, didn’t get a great report card: Shaw’s organization gave North Carolina a D in women’s health, down from a D+ in 2013.

N.C. Secretaries Machelle Sanders of the Department of Administration and Dr. Mandy Cohen of the Department of Health and Human Services had been scheduled to

appear at the unveiling, held at the Mountain Area Health Education Center off Hendersonville Road, but both were detained in Raleigh in conjunction with efforts to negotiate an expansion of Medicaid as part of the new state budget, staffers said.

The report’s top policy recommendation echoed that theme, urging the state to “close the insurance gap.” According to Rebecca Planchard, speaking on Cohen’s behalf as the senior early childhood adviser for the state DHHS, 300,000 North Carolina women who lack health coverage would receive insurance as part of Gov. Roy Cooper’s proposed expansion of Medicaid.

The report also highlighted differences in health outcomes by race and ethnicity at the state level. Some of the most significant disparities were in infant mortality and low birth weights, with black women delivering low-weight babies at nearly twice the rate of white women.

Cindy McMillan of the MAHEC program SistasCaring4Sistas, which offers doula services at no charge to high-risk expectant mothers with a focus on women of color, described the program’s beneficial effects as a way to counter some of those disparities. “We reduce the cesarean rates. We have less medical interventions during labor.

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ger models available and the purchase was not an oversight by the city.

And while the cost of the buses was largely offset by grant funding from the Federal Transit Administration, City Council members voted on June 11 to spend an additional $216,000 on new fareboxes and software — “because staff thought fareboxes from the old buses could be reused in the new buses,” according to a staff report — as well as cover the new vehicles’ registration fees, design/construction costs for charger installation, acceleration and brake pedal extenders and GPS trackers. The increase brings the total investment from the city to just over $830,000 for all five buses.

brandle@mountainx.com After delays and much anticipation from local climate and transit advocates, Asheville deployed five new zeroemission battery-electric city buses on June 1. The buses promise to reduce the city’s carbon footprint by 270 tons per year — a third of Asheville’s annual target for emissions cuts — and provide a cleaner, quieter experience for riders and passersby.

“I think it’s exciting to think about a future where we have cleaner air and where we have quieter transportation, and certainly one that’s utilizing few resources and one that can reduce our carbon footprint,” says Keith McDade, chair of the city’s Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment.

“There’s no engine, there’s no tailpipe, there’s no exhaust, so if you’re waiting at the bus stop, you’re not going to hear that engine roaring, like you would with some of our other buses,” adds Assistant Transportation Director Jessica Morriss. “It’s a great environmental thing, for transit in particular. It’s also just a great thing for us to have in terms of maintaining a healthy overall fleet and providing high-quality service.”

But the addition of the new vehicles hasn’t been entirely seamless.

Questions linger about the buses’ capability to keep up with their diesel and hybrid counterparts on Asheville’s demanding roads. It also remains uncertain whether the city’s goal of transitioning to a 100% electric fleet by 2030 is feasible when current funding

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MEAN GREEN MACHINE: Technical challenges have made the rollout of Asheville’s electric buses a bumpier ride than city officials anticipated. Photo by Brooke Randle for transit has fallen short of the goals set in the Transit Master Plan.

TRANSIT TECHNICALITIES According to a May 29 city press release, the buses, built by Greenville, S.C.-based Proterra, have undergone “thorough testing” since their first arrival in December to determine the capabilities of their battery-electric technology.

Features such as speed and travel range have been shown to fluctuate depending on temperature, weight and changes in elevation.

“If you’re driving on a lot of hills, you’re using more energy,” notes Morriss.

“Another variable that comes into play is the load, or how many people are on

the bus. With a full bus, you’re using more energy.”

Freezing or hot conditions also impact battery life and performance. “As you can imagine, it’s when you put all of those variables together [that] there’s different outcomes. One day, a bus might be able to run on the S3 route all day long if conditions are good,” Morriss explains. “If it’s cold outside, it might not be able to, and it might need a recharge at some point during the day.”

Battery issues aside, the new buses also measure 35 feet, 5 feet longer than most of the buses in ART’s 23-bus fleet. That extra length prevents the vehicles from making the tight turns needed to navigate many of Asheville’s narrow and winding roads. Morriss says Proterra only had lon-

Matt Horton, chief commercial officer at Proterra, says that while batteryelectric technology remains imperfect, demand for electric vehicles continues to grow worldwide. Since the first Proterra electric buses hit the streets of Los Angeles in 2010, 90 cities across the U.S. have added the buses to their fleets and are also experiencing the growing pains of the new technology.

“There are lots and lots of cities that have been through this process already, which is really helpful. We’ve definitely learned a lot of lessons over the years,” Horton says.

Cities that purchase Proterra’s electric buses are required to provide additional training for drivers to mitigate some of the issues related to range.

That includes teaching drivers to manage the bus’s regenerative brakes,

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G REEN SC E N E which increase range by redirecting energy to the battery while the driver slows the bus.

“If you do that right, you’re going to recapture a lot of energy that will enable you to drive a long distance during the day,” Horton says. “If the bus driver isn’t used to it and they’re jamming on the accelerator and then jamming on the brakes, you’re going to be a lot less energy efficient, and that’s going to impact your range.”

Route planning also plays a major role in getting the most out of the vehicles. Currently, Asheville’s electric buses are only deployed on three routes: S3 and S6, both of which run down Hendersonville Road, and 170, which follows U.S. 70 to Black Mountain. All three routes were chosen for their relatively flat, straight

“Adapting to our context is one of the great challenges of moving toward sustainability,” McDade says. “We can understand a lot [about the technology], but there are going to be things that we have to figure out along the way.”

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McDade suggests that transit and climate activists should manage expectations of new technologies and be prepared to modify and adjust as needed while companies work through the issues.

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While the city was scheduled to add three more electric buses by the end of the year, Morriss says those plans have changed. Asheville will now wait to purchase new vehicles until improvements in the technology increase bus capabilities.

“It’s not necessarily a bad thing,” Morriss maintains about the delay. “I think that what we’ve decided at this time is that the electric vehicle technology in general, but also electric bus technology, is changing very rapidly, so we are pressing pause at this time so we can continue to evaluate other [options] as new technology emerges.”

Horton agrees that the technology is quickly evolving, noting that Proterra constantly seeks to update features and improve materials to make its buses lighter in weight. “We see batteries that have more energy storage, and our buses are getting more and more efficient over time,” he says.

While the purchase of additional electric buses is currently in limbo, on April 23, Asheville City Council authorized City Manager Debra Campbell to apply for a federal grant to purchase two hybrid electric buses. Transportation Department Director Ken Putnam, who spoke during the meeting, said that transitioning to a fully electric fleet remains a goal but the addition of hybrid buses still represents progress.

“We want to transition, but what we’re trying to do too is anytime we can get an advantage of a grant, we’re trying to apply for it so that we can take care of the immediate need to try to get buses in our fleet,” Putnam said in April.

The city also plans to add two diesel buses to the ART fleet by the end of the year. McDade says he does not consider the shift in vehicle acquisition a setback for the city’s energy goals.

“I think that it’s important to take these kinds of steps. We’re pioneering a new direction,” McDade says. “I think that many of the things that we do on our journey on to 100% renewable [energy], on our journey toward carbon reduction, on our journey toward more sustainability, they’re all going to be small experiments of sorts, because there is no clear road map that others have championed.” X

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“Many of the farmers in that shed get here between 4 and 5 a.m.,” says marketing specialist Beth Frith.

“They come in early and leave when they’re out of product. They get a lot of chefs and restaurants.”

Two key exceptions to the early departures in shed 1 are the Perez family anchoring one end and the Tomas family at the other, both selling the produce they grow on their farms in Marion. Once summer produce fills their fields, they are at the market all day, every day. “They are already here in the morning when I arrive at 7:30,” says Frith. “And they’re still here when I leave around 5:30.”

Unlike the region’s once-weekly neighborhood tailgate markets, which typically begin in May and end in November, the WNC market is open seven days a week, 8 a.m.-5 or 6 p.m., year-round.

Jesse Israel and Sons Garden Center occupies all of building No. 2 with plants, trees, shrubs and garden supplies. Four other truck sheds offer spaces to farmers and dealers; and two large buildings are designated wholesale.

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“These buildings have a little bit of everything,” Frith explains. “We have crafts, gifts, a restaurant and vendors like the Coats family from Madison County who buy direct from other farmers and sell for them.

“What we have going for us is we are open seven days a week, all year,” she asserts. “If you can’t get to a tailgate on a Tuesday afternoon, you can come here and find many options. I think we and the tailgate markets all have the same ultimate goal — to promote fresh, healthy eating and to support farmers.

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“If I could go to a tailgate market every day, I would,” says Graham House, chef at Sovereign Remedies in downtown Asheville.

Thanks to the abundance of the weekly markets that cover multiple neighborhoods in and around Asheville, House can almost make that happen. Currently, he shops West Asheville Tailgate on Tuesdays, the River Arts District Farmers Market on Wednesdays, has his eye on Friday’s East Asheville Tailgate Market and makes a quick cruise through Saturday’s North Asheville Tailgate Market on his way into work if he has time.

His steadiest date, though, is the Asheville City Market — also on Saturday mornings — which closes several blocks of Market Street right outside the restaurant’s door. “I try to get there as early as possible. I’m that guy who pisses everyone off when I buy all the strawberries,” he admits with a laugh. “I try to spread the love with a lot of farmers.”

Whether chefs shop for their restaurant at a tailgate market or visit as a weekly family outing, the most enduring and committed relationships between chefs and farmers are frequently seeded at the markets.

MEETING PLACE “I’ve been going to the North Asheville market since I’ve lived in Asheville, a little over nine years now,” says Katie Button, executive chef and CEO of Cúrate and Button & Co. Bagels. “Back when we were first opening Cúrate [in 2011], it was by going to the North Asheville market that I made some of our initial contacts and relationships. When I was doing all the ordering myself, I was going around the market and meeting farmers.” She names Ivy Creek Family Farm, Gaining Ground Farm and Honey and the Hive as just a few of the market finds with which she’s forged long relationships.

“I don’t have time to do all the ordering anymore, and most of our local product is delivered, but I still go every Saturday with my kids and make a morning of it,” she adds. “We get crepes or empanadas from Cecilia’s, do our personal shopping and wander around.

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JUST PEACHY: Sovereign Remedies executive chef Graham House, right, shops for produce at the Creasman Farms booth at the River Arts District Farmers Market. Local chefs depend on Asheville’s robust tailgate market scene and the connections it facilitates with area farmers to keep their menus fresh, seasonal and inspired. Photo by Morgan Ford If I see something being grown or made locally we could use that we’re not, I tell our inventory controller Brittany Kroeyr, who builds our farm relationships, and she pursues it.”

John Fleer, chef/owner of Rhubarb, is also a regular on the UNC Asheville campus, where the tailgate market sets up under the trees. “I’ve been going to the north market since we moved here in 2011,” he says. “My first farmer relationship started before we moved here, when I did a Blind Pig dinner at Yesterday Spaces and used vegetables from Gaining Ground Farm across the road. They’re both owned by Anne and Aaron Grier. It has been my longest and most fruitful — and vegetable-ful — relationship ever since.”

When William Dissen moved to Asheville in 2009 to buy The Market Place Restaurant, he found many farmer relationships solidly in place thanks to founding chef/owner Mark Rosenstein, but he also developed his own. “I made a point of going to the local weekly markets and meeting the people who grow

our food,” he says. “When I first moved here, a lot of the farmers did not deliver directly to chefs and markets. Most of them do now, but we still go to the tailgates to see new items and new farmers, talk about what’s coming into season and what they’re liking.”

One of Fleer’s favorite sources for produce is McConnell Farms — which still doesn’t deliver to restaurants but does make sure Fleer’s order is waiting for him at the market — and the pickup is part of his Saturday ritual. “I get my weekly [community-supported agriculture box] from Gaining Ground, walk the market to see what people are doing and then pick up the restaurant’s order from McConnell. One of my sous chefs picks up from them on Tuesdays in West Asheville.”

THE CLOSER, THE BETTER For some restaurants, particularly small or developing ones, proximity is a factor in tailgate shopping. Chef

Dan Silo, who opened Sawhorse restaurant on New Leicester Highway in West Asheville two months ago, was already familiar with the West Asheville Tailgate Market thanks to a previous post at the Admiral.

“I’ve spent a lot of time at that market the last few years, and I’ve done a couple of their market suppers,” he says. “We’re still brand new and figuring it out, and it’s hard to leave the restaurant on a Tuesday afternoon.

But I like to see what’s available there and work backward to create a dish.

We have some staples on our menu that won’t change a ton, but when we can get new and different vegetables, we filter them through on those.”

As a farmer, butcher and restaurateur, Casey McKissick has a unique affinity for tailgate markets. “In 2002, we had Crooked Creek Farms in Swannanoa and Old Fort, and ran a farm co-op called Foothills,” he explains. “We sold meat, produce and cut flowers at City Market, West Asheville and Black Mountain. When we opened our butcher shop in Black Mountain in 2013, we kept the Foothills name and supplied the store from our farms and farmers we met during our formative years at the tailgates.”

McKissick did the same when opening his Butcher Bar restaurants in Black Mountain and West Asheville and maintained relationships with the markets. “Our cooks and kitchen managers on Haywood have a weekly budget to go to the West Asheville market and get whatever is fresh and interesting to use on our Blue Plate and Butcher’s Cut daily specials. We’ll do that at Black Mountain, too.”

Chef Melissa Hsu came on board at District Wine Bar a month ago and has already made the nearby River Arts District market a weekly stop. “The kitchen is a cold kitchen — I have no burners — and very small, so it’s great to have RAD so close-by,” says Hsu. “I’m getting to know those farmers, and they always have little surprises for me. I love that, figuring out how to incorporate them into a dish.”

No one has less of a trek to the RAD market than Brendan Reusing, chef and co-founder of All Souls Pizza.

The market is on a shaded plot next door to the restaurant, which makes it convenient for Reusing to pick up orders he has placed with Gaining Ground, Ten Mile Farm and Ivy Creek among others.

Even closer is the garden right outside his kitchen door. “The garden was there when we moved in, but it was pretty neglected, and we updated it,” he says. “I use it for nice lettuces and arugula, we use the cherry tomatoes. We do a green fermented chili

that we put on sandwiches, and I used serrano peppers from the garden. We have lots of herbs out there, and I pick the Thai basil for our pho special.”

Reusing has Marianne Mooney to thank for his kitchen garden. She and her husband are part-owners of All Souls, and when the staff was too busy to manage the garden, she took over. “I was already doing ornamentals, some native plants and pollinators, so we built up the raised beds and put in things you would normally put in a home garden,” she says. “It’s pretty small-scale and not enough to supply the restaurant, but it contributes, and people love to see fresh things in our garden or the market next door. It’s just a good feeling.”

Chefs and restaurateurs agree.

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“Tailgates are how we got our start, and they are near and dear to us,” says McKissack. “Our boys were babies when we started doing them, and they have friends who were babies there with them. They’re 7 to 11 now and have never known a Saturday morning that didn’t start with a market. ” X

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Our Global Table celebrates international cuisine

DISHES UNITE: George Awad, center, co-founded Our Global Dinner, a culinary event that honors residents’ diverse backgrounds through their culinary traditions. Also featured, from left, are Noele Aabye, Julia Horrocks, Nora Frank and Shoshana Fried. Photo courtesy of Pisgah Legal Services “Everyone comes from somewhere,” says George Awad, coorganizer of Our Global Table. Now in its second consecutive year, the culinary event welcomes local res-

taurants as well as professional and amateur chefs to celebrate and share their diverse backgrounds through their cuisine. Tickets, which are $30, are now available for the

Sunday, July 21, gathering at Wedge at Foundation. The event, sponsored by Prestige Subaru and Earth Equity Advisors, is expected to sell out.

Along with creating an international food court, Our Global Table also doubles as a fundraiser for Pisgah Legal Services. All proceeds benefit the nonprofit’s Justice for All Program, which provides free legal aid and advocacy to immigrants in 18 Western North Carolina counties. The previous year’s event, notes Awad, resulted in a $5,000 donation to the organization.

“Every penny raised is money needed,” says Jodi Ford, Pisgah Legal Services’ events and marketing coordinator. “Last year we were able to impact over 4,000 people through our immigration work.”

A complete list of food providers was not available at press time.

However, Foreign Affairs Oriental Market will participate and Gypsy Queen Cuisine, Cúrate and Little Bee Thai are among the restaurants confirmed.

Community members interested in contributing to the event are asked to contact co-organizer Suzy Phillips at suzy@gypsyqueencuisine.com.

“We just want people to come in, have some food and a beverage, and remember that we’re all made up of a bunch of different ingredients,” says Awad. “It’s about sharing those backgrounds. And the best way to do that, of course, is to have a meal with somebody.”

Our Global Table runs noon4 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundry St. Tickets are $30. To purchase, visit avl.mx/68t.

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Independence Day Several restaurants and bars will host special events to celebrate the Fourth of July. Here are a few options for this year’s holiday. AC Hotel Asheville Downtown’s Capella on 9 rooftop restaurant and bar will host the Great American Cookout, offering drinks and a barbecue buffet along with a unique view of the city’s firework display. Tickets are $55 for adults, $35 for ages 12 and younger (avl.mx/68o). Also downtown, Daphne at Twisted Laurel will offer a $10 burger and beer special for anyone with patio reservations. Reserved seats are $20 per person (avl.mx/68p). If you’re looking to get out of Asheville, you can head to Hendersonville for in-house food specials and patio games at Old Orchard Tavern (avl.mx/68q).

In Black Mountain, Foothills Local Meats will offer food, drinks and firework festivities at its Butcher Bar (avl.mx/68r). For those traveling west, the town of Sylva’s fireworks celebration features a number of food trucks and live music along with the pyrotechnics (avl.mx/68s).

Independence Day is Thursday, July 4. For times and locations, see provided links.

July sushi classes The Burger Bar will host a series of sushi-making workshops throughout July. Each week, students will learn to make two rolls of their choice followed by a dinner party with sake specials. Led by chef Ness Whidden, the classes will take place every Wednesday beginning July 10. Limited to eight people per course, registration closes at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday, July 3.

Classes run 6-9 p.m. every Wednesday in July starting July 10 at the Burger Bar, 1 Craven St. To secure a spot, text 828-761-1311 no later than Wednesday, July 3. For more information, visit avl.mx/68n.

Sweet Thangs opening in Hendersonville Sweet Thangs, a new dessert shop in Hendersonville, will celebrate its grand opening on Thursday, July 4. According to the shop’s Facebook page, owner Terry Young is a Hendersonville native and U.S. Army veteran of Desert Storm.

Featured desserts will include

fresh-baked cheesecakes and cupcakes, as well as cookies, brownies and Hershey’s ice cream.

Sweet Thangs is at 404 Seventh Ave. E., Hendersonville. Hours are 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m. weekdays, 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Saturday and 12:30-5 p.m. Sunday. Sweet Thangs is closed on Tuesday. For more information, visit avl.mx/68j.

Amateur bake-off Zapow Gallery will host an amateur bake-off on Saturday, July 6, with local and regional talent. The free event coincides with the latest ZaPow Member Artists’ opening, featuring a collection of work that pays homage to the television series “The Great British Bake Off.” Winners will have the opportunity to sell their treats during the art show’s run. Competing categories include bread, cookies, pies and cakes. The event’s judges are Short Street Cakes founder and cookbook author Jodi Rhoden, Baked Pie Co. owner Kirsten Fuchs and ZaPow Gallery owner Lauren Watterson.

Rhoden says she isn’t necessarily wowed by gimmicky cakes, preferring instead “a cake with a story, some integrity and an aesthetic quality of loving care.”

The bake-off runs 2-5 p.m.

Saturday, July 6, at ZaPow, 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101. For more information, visit avl.mx/68k.

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Pizza Ships release party For a second consecutive year, Bhramari Brewing Co. will celebrate the release of its Pizza Ships hazy pale ale with a pizza-themed party. Along with the original Pizza Ships, which is brewed with Engima and Styrian Wolf hops, Bhramari will release Hawaiian Pizza Ships, a gose with pineapple, basil and Alaea red salt. Both beers are brewed with pizza that’s made in-house.

The free release event on Saturday, July 6, will feature a pizza box art show, a pizza-roll-eating contest and pizza-themed trivia and music.

The party runs 11 a.m.-midnight Saturday, July 6, at Bhramari Brewing Co., 101 S. Lexington Ave. To submit pizza box art, email allison@bhramaribrewing. com. For more information, visit avl.mx/68l. X

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by Tony Kiss | avlbeerguy@gmail.com

The art of beer Top prizewinners from the 2019 Just Brew It competition love the creativity of brewing Jesse Latriano dug deep into his beer stocks to find an entry for the 2019 Just Brew It homebrew competition. Among the three offerings at his table the afternoon of June 15 at Wedge Brewing Co.’s Foundation location was a beer made on Memorial Day weekend in 2015 — a cross between a Belgian-style golden strong ale and what he calls a “super saison,” aged on tequila-soaked French oak chips for three years.

“It was 12% ABV,” Latriano says. “It needed a while to be palatable. It was like fire in your mouth for the first year.”

The choice proved to be a smart one as the beer was awarded the Mountain Xpress King of the Mountain prize by a committee composed of Mountain Xpress beer coverage coordinator Edwin Arnaudin and Xpress contributing editor Rob Mikulak along with local beer aficionado Bernie Russell.

Attendees also got in on the awards, giving the People’s Choice honors to Heidi Dunkelberg and Karen Grogan for their Creamy Mango Mosaic IPA. Brewed with 10 pounds of mango and clocking in at 6.5% ABV, the beer was made specifically for Just Brew It. Started in 2010, the homebrew showcase is a big fundraiser for Just Economics, which works to support a local living wage. In Asheville, that figure is $13.65 per hour, or $12.15 if employers offer health insurance.

Unlike most local beer festivals, admission tickets are not sold to the public. Instead, individuals purchase annual memberships for Just Economics that includes Just Brew It access. “It’s an important event for us,” says Just Economics Executive Director Vicki Meath, who notes that the organization receives about 10% of its income from the festival.

This year’s Just Brew It pulled in 31 brewing groups with about 50 individual brewers who brought a total of roughly 90 beers to the event. Meath says brewers could bring “about any style of beer” that they wished.

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ALL-STAR AMATEURS: From left, Karen Grogan, Heidi Dunkleberg and Jesse Latriano took home prizes for their high-quality beers at the 2019 Just Brew It homebrew competition.

Photos courtesy of the brewers vides for homebrewers to get together and see what they’re all working on, as well as the motivation to advance their individual skills.

“Once I’ve signed up, I’ve got to brew the beer,” Dunkelberg says. “And being there with the other homebrewers is a lot of fun. There are so many interesting people. I’ve always had a great time.”

Dunkelberg has been homebrewing since 2005. She was just getting into the craft beer scene when she decided to give brewing a shot. “To me, it’s like cooking — and I love to cook,” she says. “It seems like there’s always more to learn.”

Dunkelberg and Grogan — who’ve owned and operated Coffee Cup Cafe in Clyde for 15 years — made about 4.5 gallons of Creamy Mango Mosaic IPA, which Dunkelberg describes as a “milkshake beer.” She says that when the public returns for another sample, “that’s when you know you’ve done a good job.” Indeed, the entire supply was consumed at Just Brew It. Latriano has been homebrewing for 15 years and enjoys talking with Just Brew It attendees about his creations.

“I have a cellar full of all kinds of stuff,” he says. “Last year, I pulled a bunch of sours out [to enter in the competition].”

At the moment, he’s gearing up to make a Christmas beer that he describes as a big Belgian-style ale.

“And we always have an IPA on tap [at home],” he says. “My wife and I are both big hop heads.”

In his life away from homebrewing, Latriano is an environmental scientist and the owner of Happy Valley Environmental, where he works with clients on regulations involving underground heating oil tanks. He also enjoys baking at home, maintains an orchard and has seriously contemplated starting his own brewery.

“We eat and drink pretty well,” he says. “Some yeast and a bag of flour and some grain, and you have something amazing to indulge yourself. I’ve been working on my baking and my bread-making so that when things are right, I can sell cold sandwiches and hot pizza and eventually beer. You need something to bring in money while you’re processing your paperwork [for brewing permits].”

Should he turn professional, Latriano would follow in the footsteps of David Ackley, who started Ginger’s Revenge after winning a prize at Just Brew It for his ginger beers. X

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Independence Day celebrations across WNC

Your Fourth of July soundtrack might contain the Katharine Lee Batespenned “America the Beautiful” or Childish Gambino’s “This Is America,” or both. Wherever you fall on the spectrum of patriotic feelings, there’s still room to celebrate the arts, initiatives and communities that bring us all together. Plus, outdoor concerts, street dances, picnics with family (chosen or blood) and friends — all culminating in a fireworks spectacle — underscore the sweetness of a summer holiday. All events take place on Thursday, July 4.

For more Independence Day celebrations visit Clubland and Calendar.

HHH • Local rock outfit The Broadcast performs as part this year’s Ingles Independence Day Celebration, hosted by the Asheville Downtown Association at Pack Square Park. Festivities begin at 4 p.m. with giant slides, an obstacle course, a toddler bouncy house, a slack-line area, the LEAF Easel Rider, the Splashville fountain and the Ultimate Air Dogs competition. Other musical acts include funk, soul and R&B group Erin & the Wildfire and headliner The Ron Holloway Band, a funk collective. The evening culminates with a fireworks display. $3 wristbands for activities. avl.mx/660

GO FORTH ON THE FOURTH: The choral ensemble Lake Junaluska Singers perform at the Stuart Auditorium as part of the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center’s festivities. For more patriotic and celebratory sounds, check out the music lineup at Ingles Independence Day Celebration and a late-night tribute to The Band at Asheville Music Hall. Photo courtesy of Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center

HHH • Want to keep the downtown Asheville celebration going? A local all-star tribute to The Band (featuring members of The Fritz, Steep Canyon Rangers, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band and Travers Brothership) will take to the stage at Asheville Music Hall, 31 Patton Ave. “We are really excited to dig in and make these songs our own,” says guitarist Jamie Hendrickson of the iconic catalog. 9 p.m., $10. avl.mx/661

HHH • While the Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center celebrates the Fourth of July for three days, happenings on the holiday itself are plentiful. A When the Circus Came to Town-themed parade at 11 a.m. is followed by a barbecue picnic at noon, complete with family-friendly activities such as face painting, bounce houses and balloon art. The 16-voice choral ensemble Lake Junaluska Singers perform at the Stuart Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. ($18 general admission/$23 reserved) and a fireworks display 30

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over the lake begins at 9:30 p.m. lakejunaluska.com

HHH • Some might argue that little is more American than shopping. But on July 4, the Asheville Outlet Mall, 800 Brevard Road, celebrates the nation with an Independence Day 5K. Race day packet pickup and registration are at 6:30 a.m. with the adult and youth race starting at 8 a.m. Adult registration is $30 advance/$35 for registrants No. 101-190; $25 for seniors and youths 17 and younger; $15 for The Fun Mile. avl.mx/66f

HHH • Highland Brewing, 12 Old Charlotte Highway, describes its Independence Day celebration as “The Blind Pig serving up an old fashion cookout and live music with some of our favorite star-spangled awesome bands.” The tunes begin at 2 p.m. with Eleanor Underhill and Friends followed by The Patrick Dodd Trio and, finally, The Get Right Band. highlandbrewing.com

HHH • The price of admission is right: “An ample covered dish to share” gets you into the celebration at the Orchard at Altapass, 1025 Orchard Road, Spruce Pine. Music begins at 10 a.m. at the

nonprofit whose mission is to preserve the history and culture of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Arrive before 11:30 a.m. to participate in the eating; The Orchard provides barbecue, coleslaw, beans, buns and drinks. $15 for those who prefer not to bring a dish. avl.mx/66g

HHH • Beach music and oldies outfit Wishful Thinkin’ plays a Fireworks Celebration Concert as part of the Music on Main Street concert series in Hendersonville. The concert, located in front of the Visitor Center, between Allen and Caswell streets, will include a tribute to all branches of the U.S. armed forces. Izzi Hughes and Cole Jenkins open the show at 6 p.m., and a fireworks display follows. visithendersonvillenc.org

HHH • Roots and Dore, the project of Riyen Roots and Kenny Dore, will throw a 4th of July Blues Party at Pillar Rooftop Bar, 309 College St. The downtown Asheville fireworks display will be visible from the venue. 7 p.m. avl.mx/67c

HHH • Brevard starts Independence Day at 8 a.m. with a 5K and 10K Firecracker

Run. An arts and craft festival and classic auto show follow, 9 a.m.-5 p.m., and the courthouse gazebo hosts musical entertainment throughout the day.

The Brevard Music Center Festival stages its Patriotic Pops, including Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture with live cannons concert, at 2 p.m.; and fireworks begin at 9:30 p.m. brevardnc.org

HHH • The Stars and Stripes daytime celebration in Waynesville kicks off at 11 a.m. with a children’s parade. Music and sidewalk sales along Main Street run until 3 p.m. avl.mx/67d FIREWORKS VIEWING • D owntown Sylva — The event includes music by The Carolina Soul Band and kids activities starting at 5 p.m. mountainlovers.com/july-4

HHH • I ndependence Day Sunset Fireworks Hike — Leave from the Swannanoa Valley Museum for a moderate trek, 1 1/2 miles each way. “Bring a picnic, water, folding chairs, cameras and flashlights,” say organizers. 6-11 p.m., $35 mem-

bers/$50 nonmembers/$25 younger than 18. avl.mx/668

HHH • Mad Co. Brew House, 45 N. Main St., Marshall, hosts a fireworks viewing party from its back deck. 9:30 p.m. madisoncountybrewing.com

HHH • In South Asheville, a fireworks display over Lake Julian, 406 Overlook Extension, Arden, begins at dark.

Arrive early for picnics, games and

boat rentals. Park at Estes Elementary School on Long Shoals Road across from the lake.

HHH • F estivities such as activities for kids, food vendors and a street dance start at 5:30 p.m. in Black Mountain. The Ryan Perry band will perform on the outdoor stage, and fireworks begin at dark. avl.mx/67e

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SEEING IT THROUGH Robert Beatty discusses ‘Serafina and the Seven Stars’ Over the last year, author Robert Beatty has spent plenty of time with his head in the clouds. The evening sky, says the writer, provided inspiration for his latest young adult novel, Serafina and the Seven Stars. Set at the Biltmore Estate at the turn of the 20th century, the work is the fourth (and possibly final) installment in his New York Times bestselling series.

As in previous books, Beatty’s titular character must unravel myriad mysteries.

Among the most pressing is the uncertain whereabouts of her best friend, Braeden Vanderbilt (the fictitious nephew of George and Edith Vanderbilt). But unlike in earlier novels, Beatty says Serafina’s own sense of good and evil is called into question: “The idea being, what would you do if you came into a situation where you thought you were doing good, you thought you were doing the right thing, but it turns out that these actions had really disastrous consequences?”

The answers to these questions and the book’s other conundrums will be available to readers on Tuesday, July 9, when Serafina and the Seven Stars hits shelves.

For local fans, a special, advanced book signing will take place at Barnes & Noble at the Asheville Mall on Sunday, July 7.

With five books published in the same number of years (including last year’s non-Serafina offering, Willa of the Wood), Beatty has a fairly regimented writing schedule. A key feature in his process is feedback. Among his most loyal fans and harshest critics are members of his family. From the start, Beatty notes, his wife, Jennifer Beatty, and their three daughters, Camille, Genevieve and Elizabeth Beatty, ages 19, 17 and 8, respectively, have helped him develop and fine-tune his books before publication.

Along with plot issues, Camille explains, her father is always interested in learning where his earliest drafts succeed and where they fail in maintaining a reader’s interest. Sometimes these critiques come in the form of one-onone conversations; other times they take place at the dinner table.

More recently, the Beatty family took the discussion on the road, during a trip to New York City. At the time, Robert was just starting Seven Stars. The 11-hour drive presented a perfect opportunity to go over the project’s outline. Ultimately, Robert says, “I ended up describing the entire book to them in detail.”

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FAMILY MATTERS: Writer Robert Beatty, center, sits with his most loyal readers and harshest critics — his family. From left, Elizabeth, Camille, Genevieve and Jennifer Beatty.

Photo by Thomas Calder book’s cover design; the group also assists in selecting the voice actors for the series’ audio versions.

Their collaborative work isn’t strictly behind the scenes, either. Genevieve stars as Serafina in the current book trailers, and Camille appears as Lady Rowena. Meanwhile, Jennifer designed and sewed each of her daughters’ costumes for the shoot. (Elizabeth, who is too young to play a character from the books, has petitioned, without success, to be featured as a costumed rat.)

Working with his daughters and wife, says Robert, brings balance to his career. “To write and complete a novel just takes a lot of time,” he says. “And a lot of that time is spent alone.”

As with his previous four books, Robert wrote much of Seven Stars inside a refurbished barn that doubled as a home office in South Asheville, before his family’s move to North Asheville.

Each night, as he left the space, the writer paused to observe the stars shining above his property. The importance of quiet moments and self-reflection, notes Robert, are among the central messages of Seven Stars. “This particular novel is about looking up and noticing the stars and thinking about the

fact that those are the same stars that people 3,000 years ago were looking at and telling stories about,” he says.

“It’s very much a story that encourages people to absorb and appreciate the beauty of the world we live in.”

The latest Serafina book is also a tale of perseverance and grit, the author continues. “The main theme of the story is you just have to keep going.

Even if you’re blind and lost, you have to keep going until you get to a point where you can start to see some landmarks,” Robert says. “The only way out is through.” X

WHAT Serafina and the Seven Stars book signing WHERE Barnes & Noble Asheville Mall 3 S. Tunnel Road avl.mx/67p WHEN Sunday, July 7, 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Free

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STOP AT NOTHING Diego Attanasio moved from Peru to Detroit with his family as a 4-year-old.

As he rose through grade school, he instinctively realized that humor was a useful tool for fitting in with his peers.

“I always thought being funny was the way to get people to like me,” he says. “If I could get people to laugh, that would be the thing that made me stand out.”

Ironically, Attanasio — a stand-up comedian — says that he was the least funny person in his group of friends and that he often aspired to reach their level of hilarity. “I would slip in a good joke here and there when I could,” he says.

Attanasio will be slipping in plenty of jokes at La Zoom Room this month, as he settles in for a two-night stint, Friday and Saturday, July 5 and 6. He’s in the midst of a 10 1/2-month tour, which began in February and will end in December. And, believe it or not, he’s driving the entire trip by himself — a gritty endeavor that’s spawned a love-hate relationship with the road.

“I actually thought about quitting yesterday,” he says. “I was driving back from Kansas City on a 14-hour trip, and I was like, ‘Yeah, I shouldn’t do this anymore.’”

An observational humorist with a laid-back onstage demeanor, Attanasio became interested in stand-up comedy as a teenager. He downloaded all of the “Comedy Central Presents” specials on “Bearshare or Limewire or something,” as he puts it, and watched them religiously.

“My friends would come over, and I would make them watch them,” he says. “And I’d already seen all of them, so I’d watch my friends watch them, just to see their reactions. I was super in love with stand-up.”

He was particularly fond of “weird guys,” as he calls them — Demetri Martin, Mitch Hedberg, Steven Wright, Kyle Cease, Anthony Jeselnik and other legends of the craft. He was also a huge fan of Dane Cook when Cook first rose to popularity — an affinity that Attanasio found strange because the New England comedian’s aggressive, physical style is so different from what Attanasio typically enjoyed at the time.

Despite his love of stand-up, Attanasio had no inkling that he’d one day take the stage himself. His father is a doctor, and Attanasio aligned himself for a similar path when he enrolled in the College of Natural

Diego Attanasio performs two nights at the LaZoom Room

was hooked. “I was like, ‘This is awesome ... and I think this is what I want to do,’” he says.

And he has, despite recurring moments of doubt and the taxing nature of life on the road. Attanasio’s crowdpleasing act has taken him all over the United States — from “Alaska, Hawaii and everywhere in between,” as his website reads. He’s competed in countless comedy festivals (including Laugh Your Asheville Off, now the Asheville Comedy Festival) and has opened for such popular acts as Tig Notaro, Joe List, Robert Kelly and Matt Braunger.

At one point, not too long ago, Attanasio found himself in a dark place.

He wasn’t working; he wasn’t doing much of anything. “I was down and out for a while,” he says. Then one day, he started pursuing comedy again — open mics, that sort of thing. Stand-up, he says, carried him out of his depression and helped him regain his sense of self.

Nowadays, he’s focused on enjoying the ride — and the road — while refraining from worrying about the future.

“I tell myself, ‘If I’m going to do comedy the rest of my life, what’s the rush?’” he says. “Whether I become big or not, the nuts and bolts will be the same — it’s still about getting onstage every night and performing.”

“That realization put a calm in me,” he adds. “And it’s helped carry me through those times when I’ve wanted to quit.” X

WHO Diego Attanasio WHERE LaZoom Room 76 Biltmore Ave. lazoomtours.com WHEN Friday, July 5, 9 p.m., and Saturday, July 6, 9:30 p.m. $8 advance/$12 day of show

JOKES KEEP COMING: “I tell myself, ‘If I’m going to do comedy the rest of my life, what’s the rush?’” says Detroit-based comedian Diego Attanasio. “Whether I become big or not ... it’s still about getting onstage every night.” Photo courtesy of Attanasio Science at Michigan State University.

Within a year, however, he realized the medical field wasn’t his calling.

One of the biggest turning points was born from an ordinary moment.

He was watching “Scrubs” in his dorm room with some friends when a feeling suddenly overtook him.

“I was like, ‘Man, I’d love to do something with comedy,’” he says. “Stand-up wasn’t in the picture at all for me. I was thinking I’d maybe write on a TV show or something like that.”

So he switched his major to communication arts and started writing for — and occasionally acting in — campus sketch comedy shows and sitcoms. The first time he auditioned for Michigan State’s stand-up competition, Last Spartan Standing, he didn’t make the cut. So he did what any dedicated comedian would do: He worked on his act and auditioned again the following year.

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Costume Drama — A Fashion Show

Lady Moon & The Eclipse Ready to get cosmic? Lady Moon & The Eclipse are happy to oblige. The Brooklynbased multicultural ensemble delivers R&B/Afrobeat-influenced rhythms and layered vocals designed to launch music lovers into orbit. According to the band’s bio, “Lady Moon carries the essence of the moon, delivering a message of love, peace and light, while the musicians serve as the sun, shining light upon her. The audience represents the Earth, also known as the Star People of Earth, completing the metaphorical eclipse.”

Stressing inclusivity and spiritual unity, the group centers on positive music through its live shows and a sound that’s sure to fill up One Stop on Saturday, July 6. Boone-based soul/hip-hop fusion quintet TerraBANG gets the night started at 10 p.m. $5 suggested donation. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo of Lady Moon & The Eclipse courtesy of the band

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Heads up, local Tim Gunn and Heidi Klum fans: On Saturday, July 6, the Asheville Community Theatre stage will again transform into a “Project Runway”-type competition, Costume Drama: A Fashion Show. For the eighth annual edition, 19 designers and design teams will compete in Light, Paper, Artistic License and Oceania categories, using unconventional items and mediums to create original garments. Among the designers, 2018 Best in Show winner Charlotte Cat Murphy returns to defend her crown and will be vying in the Artistic License block on The Graces team alongside Susan Sertain and Hanna Black. Sara Fields directs the evening, matching models with designers and coordinating a volunteer team of local hair and makeup artists, photographers and videographers. Winners receive cash prizes, and proceeds from ticket sales benefit the theater. The show begins at 7:30 pm. $75. ashevilletheatre.org.

Photo by Max Ganly

A. Lee Edwards and Scott Bianchi

Ahleuchatistas and Sea Moss

Over at Local 604 Bottle Shop in West Asheville, since the start of 2019, singer-songwriter Scott Bianchi has hosted monthly events that feature original music from area artists in an intimate listening environment. Asheville’s own Kevin Smith, Christina Chandler and Paul Edelman have thus far shared their talents with neighborhood attendees, and on Friday, July 5, Franklin-based musician A. Lee Edwards will etch his name in the series’ history books. The founder of celebrated Americana bands Lou Ford and The Loudermilks has recently been focusing on solo performances, sharing bills with Morgan Geer (Drunken Prayer) in Marshall as well as Bianchi and David Childers in a songwriters-in-the-round at Sly Grog Lounge. The evening runs 8-11 p.m., during which the host will also share his own compositions. $5 suggested donation. local604avl.com.

Photos of Edwards, left, and Bianchi courtesy of the musicians

In these divisive times, it’s encouraging to see signs of unity across any and all lines. Highlighting the power of musical peace and partnership is the bicoastal pairing of Asheville’s Ahleuchatistas and Portland, Ore.’s Sea Moss. The two bands linked up when the experimental duo of Shane Parish (guitar) and Ryan Oslance (drums) was touring the West Coast, and on Friday, July 5, Noa Ver (vocals/electronics) and Zach D’Agostino (drums/electronics) will return the favor with a reunion at The Mothlight. Following the premiere of a new set at the venue’s Psych Mountain Fest in May, Ahleuchatistas earned a spot at September’s Hopscotch Music Festival in Raleigh. Meanwhile, Sea Moss is touring in support of its first full-length album, Bidet Dreaming. The show starts at 9 p.m. $7. themothlight.com. Photo of Sea Moss courtesy of the band

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A & E CALENDAR ART FRESH AIR & PAINT OUTING • WE (7/10), 9:30am1:30pm - Guided painting on the courthouse lawn. Register: 828-452-0593. Free.

Held at Haywood County Courthouse, 285 N. Main St., Waynesville HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N. Main St., Waynesville 28786, 828-452.0593 • SA (7/6), 10amnoon - Photography & Nature with Russell Wyatt. Free.

• SA (7/6), 1-4pm - Susan Dawkins demonstrates painting knife techniques. Free.

PERSPECTIVES, LUNCHTIME CONVERSATIONS: AMANDA HOLLOMON-COOK AND JOSH COPUS • WE (7/10), noon-1pm - Amanda HollomonCook and Josh Copus discuss the exhibition they are a part of: Materials, Sounds, and Black Mountain College. Free. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART AFTER DARK • 1st FRIDAY, 6-9pm - 7 galleries open late for Art After Dark.

Free to attend. Held in Downtown Waynesville 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, Brevard DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS • SA (7/6) & SU (7/7), 10am-5pm - Outdoor festival featuring national and regional artists specializing in hand-made works of art. Information: artfestival.com. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS • 1st FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Downtown Asheville First Friday Art Walks with more than 25 galleries within a half mile radius of historic downtown Asheville.

Free to attend. Held at Downtown Asheville

BANJO TABLEAU: Warren Wilson College hosts the Swannanoa Gathering, a series of weeklong workshops in the folk arts, from fiddle to clogging to storytelling. Some of the music programs feature public concerts that begin at 7:30 p.m. in Kittredge Theatre. Tickets are $25 each, and admission for children younger than 12 costs $12.

Traditional Song Week holds two shows, Monday, July 8, and Wednesday, July 10.

Photo courtesy of Warren Wilson College (p. 37)

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS STUDIO TOUR LOGO CONTEST • Through (8/1) - Submissions accepted for The Studio Tour Logo Contest. Information: haywoodarts.org/

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ASHEVILLE MONDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE • MONDAYS, 7:3010:30pm - Community contra dance. $7. Held at The Center for Art and Spirit at St. George's Episcopal Church, 1 School Road 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 HARVEST HOUSE 205 Kenilworth Road, 828-350-2051 • TUESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - International folk dancing, dances from around the world. No partner needed. Info: 828-6451543. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, noon-2pm - Intermediate/advanced contemporary line dancing. $10.

SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB • SA (7/6), 6pm - Hot Diggity Dog Dance.

Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Plus squares and rounds at 7:30pm.

Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310

Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville STREET DANCE • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Square dancing and clogging to regional bluegrass bands. Free.

Held at Hendersonville Visitors Center, 201 South Main St., Hendersonville

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. www. skinnybeatsdrums. com AARON COPLAND FESTIVAL • MO (7/8), 7:30pm - A selection of Aaron Copland's chamber music output, including the Duo for Flute and Piano and the Piano Quartet. $28.

Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL • WE (7/3), 7:30pm - Dueling pianos performing patriotic songs. Tickets: 828-

DANCE 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. CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY, WINDS OF DREAMS • SA (7/7), 3pm - Performance of classics by Beethoven, Bach, SaintSaëns and Mendelssohn.

Tickets: avl.mx/69n. $25. Held at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, 556 S. Haywood, Waynesville 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

CONCERTS ON THE QUAD • MO (7/8), 7-8:30pm - Concerts on the Quad Series: Brody Hunt & The Handfulls, outdoor concert. Free/ Bring a chair. Held at UNC Asheville Quad, 1 University Heights ISIS LAWN SERIES • WEDNESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Concert on the lawn including bluegrass, blues and jazz. Free to attend. Held at Isis Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road LAKE JUNALUSKA CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER 91 N. Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska, 828-4522881, lakejunaluska.com • TH (7/4), 7:30pm - The Lake Junaluska Singers concert. $18.

• FR (7/5), 9:30am2:30pm - Live music concert featuring bluegrass to southern gospel. Free.

MICHAEL RENO HARRELL • SU (6/9), 3pm - Songwriter and Storyteller Michael Reno Harrell concert. $15/$18 door.

Held at The Center for Art & Inspiration, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville MOUNTAIN COLLEGIUM • TH (7/4), 8pm - The faculty of the Mountain Collegium Music Workshop perform medieval, renaissance, baroque and contemporary music on early and folk instruments. Free but donations to scholarship fund accepted. Held at Western Carolina University, Coulter Building, Cullowhee MUSIC ON MAIN • TH (7/4), 7-9pm - Music on Main Concert Series: Special fireworks celebration concert

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

• SA (7/6), 7:30pm Balsam Range, bluegrass. $23/$25.

‘SUMMER SWING! A NIGHT OF SINATRA’ • SA (7/6), 8pm - Proceeds from the Summer Swing! A Night of Sinatra concert benefit Safelight.

Tickets: danielsage.com. $25/kids free. Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W. Campus Drive, Flat Rock SWANNANOA GATHERING CONCERTS Kittredge Theatre at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa, 828-7713040, swangathering. com/about-us/ public-concerts • WE (7/3), 7:30pm - Mandolin and banjo concert. $25.

• MO (7/8) & WE (7/10), 7:30pm - Traditional song concerts. $25.

WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Community chorus rehearsals open to potential members.

Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

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Held at Blue Ridge Books, 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library. hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

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

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JONATHAN F. PUTNAM AUTHOR EVENT • TU (7/9), 11am - Books & Bites, lunch and then Jonathan F. Putnam presents his book, A House Divided. $25.

Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828254-6734, malaprops. com • WE (7/3), 7pm - Malaprop's book club reads Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov. Free to attend.

• SU (7/7), 3pm - Poetrio, three poets present their work. Free to attend.

• MO (7/8), 6pm - Lydia Fitzpatrick presents her book, Lights All Night Long. Free to attend.

• MO (7/8), 7pm - Mystery book club reads The Cask by Freeman Wills Croft. Free to attend.

• TU (7/9), noon - Discussion Bound book club discusses ideas relating to artworks and the art world. Free to attend.

• WE (7/10), 6pm - Mirra Price presents her book, Tools to Change the World. Free to attend.

• TH (7/11), 6pm Jeanne Charters presents her book, Lace Curtain.

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Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $20 and up.

NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting.

Information: 828-3294190. Free to attend.

Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road

IMAGINE CIRCUS • FR (7/5), 7:30pm - The Imagine Circus, performance featuring acrobats, aerialists and jugglers. Tickets: lakejunaluska.com. $18/$12 children. Held at Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska, 20 Chapel Drive, Lake Junaluska

POLITICAL PRISONERS LETTER WRITING • First SUNDAYS, 5pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

THEATER 'A SECRET HISTORY OF TRASH DAY' • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS until (7/6), 7:30pm - A Secret History of Trash Day, immersive theatre, directed by Peter Lundblad. Admission by donation. Held at Attic Salt Theatre, The Mills at Riverside, 2002 Riverside Drive, Suite 42-O FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • 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.

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'ROBIN HOOD: QUEST FOR JUSTICE' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/27), 7:30pm - Robin Hood: Quest for Justice. Free to attend. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. 'SOMETHING’S AFOOT!' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS, (7/11) until (7/21) - Something’s Afoot!, murder mystery musical, presented by Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre.

Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm, Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $34/$29/$18 students.

Held at Owen Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill 'U RANG DURANG?' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/5) until (7/14) - U Rang Durang?, two short comedies by Christopher Durang.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 2pm. $20/$15 youth and student.

Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville

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FRI 7/5 TAKE ME TO CHURCH: The career of musician Vince Anderson has spanned several decades, three albums and a 20-year engagement with his Brooklyn-based Love Choir. On Wednesday, July 10, he stops by the rock ’n’ roll wedding chapel at Fleetwood’s to deliver his dirty gospel style of blues. Anderson diverted from his path to become a Methodist minister, leaving school in 1994 to pursue music. He now refers to himself as the “spiritually messy pastor.” The free show starts at 8 p.m. fleetwoodschapel.com. Photo courtesy of the musician

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SAT 7/6 7:00PM–REGGIE HARRIS 8:30PM–LAST CHANCE RIDERS “JET LAG SUPER DRAG” TOUR W/ BACK SOUTH

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6:00PM–REBECCA HAVILAND AND WHISKEY HEART WEDNESDAY, JULY 3 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kitten Savage, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Open Mic, 6:30PM 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 Spirits Having Fun, Secret Diary, 3 Cherries, 8:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (postpunk, 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 TimO, 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 ChamberFolk 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 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 WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Izzi Hughes & Cole Jenkins, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, JULY 4 27 CLUB Kat Cortellucci's Birthday Bash, 4:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Asheville All Star Tribute to the Band, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7:00PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths, Carrie Morrison, 7:30PM CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM

TUE 7/9 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS HOSTED BY POWDER KEG

WED 7/10 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES WITH PIMPS OF POMPE 7:00PM–FRANKIE LEO 8:30PM–ANDY WOOD AND SETH ROSENBLOOM

THU 7/11 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES WITH WHISTLEPIG 7:00PM–LEMON SPARKS 8:30PM–KRISTIN ANDREASSEN, JEFFERSON HAMMER, LAUREN BALTHROP TRIO WITH SOUTH FOR THE WINTER

FRI 7/12 7:00PM–AMERICANA RISING: JASON ERIE & JOSH GRAY

CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots, (hot jazz & western swing), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

LAKE JUNALUSKA CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER The Lake Junaluska Singers, 7:30PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Canned Heat Vinyl Night, 5:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION w/ DJ Mac, 10:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 4:30PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM

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8:30PM–JACKIE VENSON & FAIR CITY FIRE SAT 7/13 7:00PM–DAVE CURLEY 8:30PM–JELLY ELLINGTON LIVE

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FREAK OUT: On Sunday, July 7, the Ouroboros Boys will perform an album release show for their latest effort, Mall of Horrors, available on vinyl at the event. The album is described by the local group as a dark, synth-heavy “mix of neo-instrumental surf, psychedelic space-rock and cinematic scoring.” Musician and engineer Erich Huber will join the band on bass for the evening. Local solo act Lamb Death will open with ambient, experimental improv; DJ Papa Wheelie closes out the night at Static Age Records. The show kicks off at 9 p.m. Free. avl.mx/69r. Photo by Daniel Abide

NOBLE KAVA Grateful Dead Night w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Partyfoul Weekly Drag, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Higher Education, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Waxing Gibbous (NeoSoul), 9:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic hosted by Cody Hughes, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jeff Anders Duo (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB DJ Lexx (hip-hop, top 40, dance, trap), 10:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Roots & Dore Band, 7:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE The Carpenter Ants, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Liz Teague Band & Moonfish 2, 3:00PM Little Stranger, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Todd Hoke & The Not Todds Trio, 7:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM Independence Day Sunset Fireworks Hike, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Albi & The Lifters, Dance Party 8:00PM

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THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Power Toolz, 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 SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM

BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Jukebox Jumpers, 6:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Greg Ruby, Don Stiernberg and Kevin Kehrberg, 7:00PM Below The Bassline & The Krektones, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Sessions, 3:00PM The Piper Jones Band, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Diego Attanasio Night One 9:00PM

THE WINE AND OYSTER NC Songsmiths, 8:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM

LAKE JUNALUSKA CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER The Imagine Circus, 7:30PM

TIGER MOUNTAIN July 4th Dance Party w/ JJ Smash, 5:00PM

CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers, 8:30PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 9:00PM

CROW & QUILL Vendetta Creme (vintage cabaret music), 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Slayed & Fade w/ DJ Ethan M (rockers & soul), 10:00PM

ZAMBRA Kessler Watson (jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, JULY 5 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jesse Barry & The Jam, (blues, funk), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Vince Junior Band (refreshingly soulful blues), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Marvelous Funkshun, Opposite Box Live, 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville, 6:30PM

DOUBLE CROWN The Mardi Gras Indians, 10:00PM

LOOKOUT BREWING COMPANY NC Songsmiths, 7:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Sacrilege Gothic Dance Party, 10:00PM

MAD CO BREW HOUSE Shadow of the Moon, 6:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Doug Mcelvy and Friends (jam, folk), 10:00PM FROG LEVEL BREWERY Elysium Park, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Earsight, 8:00PM GASTRO PUB AT HOPEY Open Mic hosted by Heather Taylor, 7:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Life Like Water (contemporary folk), 8:00PM

NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Kate Rhudy, 5:30PM NOBLE KAVA Tres Leches, 3:00PM A Night of Experimental Music, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Tombstone Hwy, Jagger, Soulseason, Vvitchboy (metal, rock) ($10), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL First Fridays w/ Dirty Dead, 10:00PM

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THE GREY EAGLE Chicken Coop Willaye, 6:00PM The Larry Keel Experience w/ Slippery Creek, 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Freeway Jubilee w/ The Wright Ave, 10:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Sea Moss w/ Ahleuchatistas, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB

THE VILLAGE GREEN Fireworks on the Green, 6:30PM THE WINE & OYSTER Patrick Lopez, 8:00PM

BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS Roadside Attraction, 7:30PM

URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE De' Rumba Dance Party w/ DJ Malinalli, 9:00PM

CORK & KEG Old Time Jam, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL The House Hoppers, (hoppin' swing jazz), 9:00PM

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

FLEETWOOD'S Zin Vetro's Glam Slam Dance Party, 10:00PM

WICKED WEED WEST Wicked Weed West: Greg Mastin and Don Hogan, 5:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Circus Mutt (jam, rock), 10:00PM

WILD WING CAFE Showers on Mars (alternative, rock, reggae), 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Mountain Heart, 8:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Carrie Morrison, NC Songsmiths, 2:30PM

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

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Reggie Harris, 7:00PM Last Chance Riders: Jet Lag Super Drag Tour w/ Back South, 8:30PM

ZAMBRA Jason Moore & 1st Person Soother (jazz), 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 3:00PM Big Dawg Slingshots, 9:00PM

SATURDAY, JULY 6 27 CLUB Medical Aftermath, Written in Gray, Chaos Ensues & King, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Matt Walsh, (blues, rock), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy, 4:00PM Asheville Guitar Bar Swing Step, 5:00PM Hard Rocket, 8:00PM

THU, 7/4 - SHOW: 10 pm (DOORS: 9 pm) - $10

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Vintage Vinyl, 6:00PM

TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM

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Midsommar HHHHH DIRECTOR: Ari Aster PLAYERS: Florence Pugh, Jack Reynor, Will Poulter HORROR RATED R

Kristina Guckenberger: On its surface, Midsommar is a folk horror flick, set to utopian wildflower backdrops and quirky Scandanavian customs gone awry. If we strip all that away, however, I’d argue that it’s also a black comedy break-up film.

It features Dani (Florence Pugh, Fighting With My Family), a grad student who experiences an unimaginable family trauma and is struggling to cope with its aftermath. In an effort to quell her painful memories, she essentially invites herself on a vacation to Northern Sweden with her shitty boyfriend Christian (Jack Reynor, Sing Street) and his shitty anthropology student friends.

They travel thousands of miles so the classmates can study the titular pagan solstice festival’s practices and cultural impacts for their theses. In the words of Adam Driver’s character in The Dead Don’t Die, “This isn’t going to end well.”

Ali McGhee: I want to start by saying that this is a gorgeous, sumptuous film.

Visually, it’s extraordinary. I was kind of obsessed with the immense detail and clear thought put into every single shot, and the setting is so beautiful it’s almost Edenic. For me, that contrasted effectively with the incredibly dark narrative and the shocking special effects.

KG: I couldn’t agree more. The visuals are absolutely stunning. From the sweeping overhead shots of immaculately decorated tables and gorgeous pastoral landscapes, to the gripping, intimate zoom-ins on the characters as they grapple with pure terror — writer/

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BRUCE STEELE bcsteele@gmail.com director Ari Aster and his Hereditary cinematographer Pawel Pogorzelski have created a world of their own. The blues, yellows, greens and whites — there’s a blinding pastel haziness that washes over the film and never lets up.

The midnight sun is depicted as this central, supernatural, sacred gift, but its ruthlessness conveys an ever-present sense of dread that viewers are unable to deny. Midsommar presents a type of sun-bleached internal haunting unlike anything I’ve ever seen or felt.

AM: More on the visuals — this film has an hallucinatory, visionary aesthetic to me. It reminds me much more of the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky — particularly The Holy Mountain, where the characters are on a visionary quest — than other horror movies. (I wonder if the similarities are deliberate.) There’s so much hallucination — both literal and metaphorical — in this film, and it’s such a key part of the plot. The idea of the “bad trip” is important, too. The human brain is the wildest, craziest and potentially most horrific thing on earth.

No supernatural “monsters” are needed in this movie.

KG: I think it’s important to note that Midsommar is not actually a “scary movie.” It’s terrifyingly creepy and nothing short of traumatic, but those looking to jump out of their seats will be left wanting. Instead of the glaringly graphic moments depicted in Hereditary, this film is laced with a consistent undercurrent of slow-burning dread. It trades shadow-ridden shock value for simmering uneasiness and — surprisingly — strange humor. Were you taken aback with the amount of comedic relief in the film, given Aster’s deadly serious feature debut?

AM: I love the humor and adore when horror and comedy can come together so deftly. There is absolutely a relationship between them, but most of the time one is sliding into the other in a kind of careless way. Looking at the ridiculous, darkly funny moments provides a rich lens for the film. That being said, I did find the movie’s opening scenes truly terrifying. And I love the full-on embrace of gore and the grotesque. Horror is supposed to be transgressive and forbidden.

If it isn’t, it’s not quite doing its job.

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KG: My only gripe, and why I’m giving it 4.5 stars instead of 5: I loved the persistent nail-biting aspect of Hereditary and didn’t get that as much in Midsommar. I felt uneasy but ultimately secure watching it, but now that I know what to expect, I really respect what it’s attempting to do. Also, is it weird to say that Midsommar might be the most beautiful horror film I’ve ever seen?

AM: The original Suspiria (1977) was my No. 1, but I think this 5-star challenger just slid into the top spot.

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DIRECTOR: Gary Dauberman PLAYERS: Vera Farmiga, Patrick Wilson, Mckenna Grace HORROR RATED R What makes Annabelle Comes Home enjoyable is that nearly all of the characters are pleasant people. Unlike in many horror movies, no one seems deserving of being haunted or threatened with impending demise. You likely won’t root for anyone to meet a grisly end (unless, in this case, you’re kind of sadistic).

Occult power couple Lorraine (Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) seem like nice enough people.

Sure, they’re demonologists by trade,

MARKETPLACE but Ed is hunky and dorky, the kind of dad other mothers and daughters might have a crush on. Lorraine is mysterious and empathetic, but also warm and nurturing.

Their daughter Judy (Mckenna Grace, Captain Marvel) is remarkably well-adjusted, despite her parents’ occupation. Unfortunately, she’s become an outcast at school as word has gotten around about her folks’ trafficking in the supernatural.

Trusted babysitter Mary Ellen (Madison Iseman, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle) is like an older sister to Judy.

She’s remarkably discreet about the weird stuff in the Warrens’ home, shy around the boy she likes and, for that endearing touch of vulnerability, suffering from asthma. Even nosy friend Daniela (Katie Sarife, Teen Spirit), who causes the story’s trouble by arousing all of the evil spirits trapped in the Warrens’ room of sinister artifacts, turns out to have a touching reason for doing so.

Naturally, the creepy-looking titular doll isn’t very appealing. Director Gary Dauberman, who wrote the previous two Annabelle films, knows that the demonically possessed doll’s mere appearance — with that decaying face and devious smile — is unsettling. After confiscating it, the Warrens should have kept that thing in an opaque box, not a transparent one. But what would a horror movie be without several questionable decisions by its main characters? It certainly wouldn’t be as fun as Annabelle Comes Home is.

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(Love, Actually), director Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) and their distinct styles prompt viewers to reflect on their own relationships with the Beatles’ music and which songs might come to mind first when thrust into Jack’s sudden archivist mode is pure pop culture magic.

The giddy musical reflections and celebrations are enough to largely overlook Jack’s poorly established relationship with his manager/best friend Ellie (Lily James, Baby Driver) — on which much of the film hinges — and an 11th-hour screenwriting cliché that the veteran Curtis should know not to use.

Such is the power of John, Paul, George and Ringo, whose legacy should receive a well-earned boost over the next few months.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): When the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, there were only four elements: mostly hydrogen and helium, plus tiny amounts of lithium and beryllium. Now there are 118 elements, including five that are key components of your body: oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus.

All of those were created by nuclear reactions blazing on the insides of stars that later died. So it’s literally true to say that much of your flesh and blood and bones and nerves originated at the hearts of stars.

I invite you to meditate on that amazing fact. It’s a favorable time to muse on your origins and your ancestry; to ruminate about all the events that led to you being here today — including more recent decades, as well as the past 13.8 billion years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Most American women couldn’t vote until 100 years ago. Women in Japan, France and Italy couldn’t vote until the 1940s.

Universal suffrage has been a fundamental change in how society is structured. Similarly, same-sex marriage was opposed by vast majorities in most countries until 15 years ago, but has since become widely accepted. African American slavery lasted for hundreds of years before being delegitimized all over the Western world in the 19th century.

Brazil, which hosted 40% of all kidnapped Africans, didn’t free its slaves until 1888. What would be the equivalent of such revolutionary transformations in your own personal life? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you have the power to make that happen during the next 12 months.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Gemini musician Paul Weller is famous in the UK, though not so much elsewhere. According to the BBC, he is one of Britain’s “most revered music writers and performers.” To which I say: revered, maybe, but mentally healthy?

Not so much. He bragged that he broke up his marriage with his wife Dee C. Lee because “things were going too well, we were too happy, too comfortable, everything seemed too nice.” He was afraid that “as a writer and an artist I might lose my edge.” Don’t you dare allow yourself to get infected with that perverse way of thinking, my dear Gemini. Please capitalize on your current comfort and happiness. Use them to build your strength and resilience for the months and years to come.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian voice actor Tom Kenny has played the roles of over 1,500 cartoon characters, including SpongeBob SquarePants, Spyro the Dragon, Jake Spidermonkey, Commander Peepers and Doctor Octopus. I propose that we make him your role model in the coming weeks. It will be a favorable time for you to show your versatility; to demonstrate how multifaceted you can be; to express various sides of your soulful personality.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo author Donald Miller reminds us that fear can have two very different purposes. On the one hand, it may be “a guide to keep us safe,” alerting us to situations that could be dangerous or abusive. On the other hand, fear may work as “a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.” After studying your astrological indicators for the coming weeks, Leo, I have come to the conclusion that fear may serve both of those functions for you. Your challenge will be to discern between them; to know which situations are genuinely risky and which situations are daunting but promising. Here’s a hint that might help: trust your gut feelings more than your swirling fantasies.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Why do flocks of geese fly in a V-formation? Because to do so enhances the collective efficiency of their travel. Each bird generates a current that supports the bird behind it. Let’s make this phenomenon one of your power metaphors for the coming weeks. What would be the equivalent strategy for you and your tribe or group as you seek to make your collaborative efforts more dynamic and productive? Unforeseen help will augment any actions you take in this regard.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue,” mused Libra author Truman Capote. “That’s why there are so few good conversations: Due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.” That cynical formulation has more than a few grains of truth in it, I must admit. But I’m pleased to tell you that I suspect your experience in the coming weeks will be an exception to Capote’s rule. I think you have the potential to embark on a virtual binge of rich discussion and intriguing interplay with people who stimulate and educate and entertain you. Rise to the challenge!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In accordance with astrological rhythms, you are authorized to make the following declarations in the next two weeks: 1. “I refuse to participate further in this situation on the grounds that it might impinge on the expansiveness of my imagination.” 2. “I abstain from dealing with your skepticism on the grounds that doing so might discourage the flights of my imagination.” 3. “I reject these ideas, theories and beliefs on the grounds that they might pinch, squash or deflate my imagination.”

What I’m trying to tell you, Scorpio, is that it’s crucial for you to emancipate your imagination and authorize it to play uninhibitedly in the frontiers of possibilities.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Dear Sagittarius: I invite you to make a copy of the testimonial below and give it to anyone who is in a position to support your Noble Experiment. “To Whom It May Concern: I endorse this Soulful Sagittarius for the roles of monster-tamer, fun-locator, boredomtranscender, elation-inciter and mountaintop visionary.

This adroit explorer is endowed with charming zeal, disarming candor and abundant generosity.

If you need help in sparking your enthusiasm or galvanizing your drive to see the big picture, call on the expansive skills of this jaunty puzzle-solver.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Life will conspire to bring you a surge of love in the coming weeks — if you can handle it. Can you? Will you be able to deal adeptly with rumbling love and icy hot love and mostly sweet but also a bit sour love? Do you possess the resourcefulness and curiosity necessary to have fun with funny spiritual love and running-throughthe-labyrinth love and unexpectedly catalytic love?

Are you open-minded and open-hearted enough to make the most of brilliant shadowy love and unruly sensitive love and toughly graceful love?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I don’t endlessly champion the “no pain, no gain” theory of personal growth. My philosophy holds that we are at least as likely to learn valuable lessons from pleasurable and joyful experiences as we are from difficult and taxing struggles. Having said that, I also think it’s true that our suffering may lead us to treasure if we know how to work with it. According to my assessment, the coming weeks will bring one such opening for you. To help you cultivate the proper spirit, keep in mind the teaching of Aquarian theologian and author Henri Nouwen. He said that life’s gifts may be “hidden in the places that hurt most.”

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Japanese word “wabi-sabi” refers to an interesting or evocative imperfection in a work of art that makes it more beautiful than if it were merely perfect. “Duende” is a Spanish word referring to a work of art that gives its viewers the chills because it’s so emotionally rich and unpredictably soulful. In the coming weeks, I think that you yourself will be a work of art with an abundance of these qualities. Your wabi-sabi will give you the power to free yourself from the oppressive pressures of seeking too much precision and purity. Your duende can give you the courage you need to go further than you’ve ever dared in your quest for the love you really want.

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