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The local climate science industry is primed for takeoff, thanks to a confluence of technological capabilities, forward-thinking entrepreneurs and a “treasure trove” of federal climate data stored here. And that could mean a source of much-needed wellpaying jobs, advocates say.

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The rise and fall of the Soul City vision Your article “Soul City Blues: An Asheville Native’s Failed Utopian Dream” [June 22, Xpress] brought back memories of the dreams of Floyd McKissick. I met Floyd in Harlem while working on my master’s thesis on Soul City at Pratt Institute.

Floyd told me that he, Sam Jackson and Theseus T. Clayton Sr. (Eva Clayton’s husband) came out of World War II with the desire to work together on a project that would benefit black Americans.

In 1969, Floyd was in living in New York City, and Mr. Clayton, a Warren County attorney, was in North Carolina.

Samuel Jackson was assistant secretary of housing and urban development.

Mr. Clayton knew of a large tract of land up for sale, and so the designation of Soul City was given to a Department of Housing and Urban Development Title VII New Town application.

At that time, 701 Comprehensive Planning grants were the main HUD program in the U.S., and Title VII New Towns had just been developed. A number of development sites in the New Town VII programs had been given development loans with governmentbacked securities.

The federal government gave a planning grant to Soul City to plan a New Town for 50,000 people on 5,000 acres. The Warren County Planning Commission received the planning grant, mainly for salaries for the seven staff members for one year only.

After the planning grant was awarded — but before Soul City became eligible for loans with the government standing behind these development loans — Floyd was pressured by the Nixon White House to change party affiliation from Democratic to Republican. Floyd did this after negotiations, and the project was approved for $14 million in bank loans backed by the federal government. However, the project went forward over the objections of then-Gov. Bob Scott — and without the support of the governor, the second round of planning funding was never obtained.

After Gerald Ford became president, a General Accounting Office review of the Title VII program showed lots of red ink for the startup of these development projects. HUD officials terminated the New Towns program. Soul City was one of seven programs ended.

While McKissick’s dream was never realized, we owe him a debt for the water system for the county, which is still in use today.

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We have held over 112 Slice of Life Comedy shows at PULP and rarely have we had incidents like the one at the [recent] show. The comedians who were performing at that show have performed many, many times at our Slice shows and are regulars in the local comedy scene. While audience “participation” certainly occurs at comedy shows, this heckling sometimes crosses the line and disrupts the performances at the expense of the comedians and the audience who have come to enjoy them.

On the night in question, the couple from Mississippi were continuously disruptive to several of the comedians. The host and several comics handled the situation with grace, humor and restraint, encouraging them to quiet down. They were asked by the comedians and members of the audience several times to please quiet down and let the comedians perform. Audience members even asked that they be told to leave. As the audience became more and more frustrated by the couple’s continued outbursts, the comedians used their stage time to finally ask them to leave, which they eventually did.

At no time did anything “nearly incite violence” or rise anywhere a level of “lynch-mob-like” atmosphere, and once they were gone, the show was, as always, fantastic. After the show, several longtime regular audience members thanked us for asking the disruptive couple to leave.

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Help available for vets with hearing loss Holly Godfrey, Au.D., of the [Department of Veterans Affairs], will speak on Audiology Services at the Charles George VA Medical Center at the regular meeting of the Asheville Chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of America. This will happen on Saturday, July 16, at 10.30 a.m. at Care Partners, 68 Sweeten Creek Road (Seymour Auditorium).

If you or a loved one is a veteran with some degree of hearing loss, you may well want to come to this public meeting for information on the help you can receive; or if you are someone just wanting to know about the help available to our veterans for a condition that, thanks to battlefield noise, is all too prevalent among them, this is your opportunity to find out.

Sixty percent of returning veterans have hearing damage of some kind. It is reported that some 700,000 have hearing loss, while 840,000 (presumably overlapping with loss of hearing, since often the two coincide) suffer from tinnitus (ringing in the ears). And too often, their hearing loss is overshadowed by other trauma-induced conditions, yet even when these are very serious, their care is often impacted by their difficulty hearing.

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Home from the war PTSD meeting assures vets they’re not alone

BY ALLAN PERKAL The “welcome home” spirit resonated keenly during the recent PTSD town hall meeting at the Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center in Asheville. Organized by the N.C. Council of the Vietnam Veterans of America, the June 11 event aimed to raise awareness about posttraumatic stress disorder and give attendees a toolbox of coping skills for dealing with PTSD in everyday life. Veterans and their families came from Colorado, Mississippi, Maryland, South Carolina and every Western North Carolina county.

It took six months of planning to bring together the various community-based organizations as well as federal, state and county agencies that serve WNC’s veterans. The Department of Veterans Affairs, the state Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, county veterans assistance officers and assorted other groups were represented, helping those who attended learn about the resources that are available when they’re ready to confront the memories of their war experiences. Local media coverage helped expand the event’s impact.

Avoidance, denial and isolation are major features of PTSD. Overcoming them is a constant struggle, and that understanding drives our determination to reach out to those who’ve been left behind and forgotten.

During the town hall gathering, the presenters were asked questions that helped audience members increase their self-awareness.

One Vietnam veteran said the talk described him “to a T” and helped him identify what he needs to do to put his life back together. A veteran’s wife said she’d worked hard to drag her husband to the event. I’m happy to report that her efforts paid off: Her husband was able to admit that he’d learned things about himself that he’d fought hard to avoid for the last 50 years.

A truly magical moment occurred when one of the presenters, talking about PTSD’s impact on the family, engaged a couple to share difficult emotions that are usually suppressed. Breaking through the dehumanizing effects of war,

ALLAN PERKAL the exercise’s healing power was felt throughout the hall. One couple said it was the start of being able to feel again in their marriage.

Being veterans ourselves, we organizers know full well the importance of veterans helping veterans. This was a rallying cry back in 1980, when the VA launched the Vet Center program throughout the country, helping Vietnam veterans come home from the war. The struggle continues today with a new generation of warriors who’ve been affected by what they did and saw in their respective combat zones.

They can’t do it alone, however: Healing the psychological wounds of war requires nothing less than a communitywide effort. For veterans, the community they live in is literally a key to their very survival: It takes a village to help those who’ve borne the battle.

Here in WNC, we’re blessed to have that kind of support, but we’ll need to continue to grow our resources as the needs of our veterans demand it.

The motto of the Vietnam Veterans of America is clear: “Never again will one generation of veterans abandon

another.” The town hall meeting was one more example of how we try to live out that mission. Audience response to a video of a 1985 ticker-tape parade for Vietnam vets in New York City demonstrated the power of such gestures.

Having been involved in the early years of treating PTSD in the Veterans Administration, I’ve seen firsthand the critical importance of outreach efforts.

And on that basis, I believe our town hall meeting was successful. If even a single veteran left feeling he or she is not alone, then we did our job.

To properly honor current and future veterans for their service, however, we’ll need the ongoing help and support of every WNC community. War veterans, you are not alone! And to everyone who reads this, when you see a returning veteran, please do whatever you can to welcome them home.

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CSI: ASHEVILLE Local climate science industry primed for takeoff

WHERE IT’S AT: A National Climatic Data Center staff member works with filming maps in the ‘70s. Twenty-five petabytes, or 25 million gigabytes, of climate data has been stored on various forms of technology over the years. “I think we’re going to see, in the next five to 10 years, a leap in the evolution of how this information is used, and people will come here because this is where it’s at,” says Mike Tanner, executive director of NCEI’s Center for Weather and Climate.

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BY DAN HESSE dhesse@mountainx.com “There’s this treasure trove of information just sitting there that’s never really been very well mined, because in the past it’s been so complex to run computations against it,” explains Stephen Del Greco, chief of the Data Access Division at the National Centers for Environmental Information. A component of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NCEI is the world’s largest repository of climatological data, and it’s headquartered right here in Asheville, with three other main

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locations and assorted additional worksites scattered across the country.

NOAA, in turn, is an arm of the U.S. Commerce Department, and commerce is precisely where Del Greco believes this massive accumulation of data will lead those who can translate it into viable new products and services.

In fact, after working for the government agency tasked with collecting and stewarding that data for nearly 30 years, he’s making the transition from bureaucrat to entrepreneur himself.

Del Greco believes his new venture, Black Swan Innovations LLC, can help build the local climate science industry. “Folks like myself,” he says, “are ready to bridge from public to private sector. We understand the complexi-

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ties of these products. … We’ll become conduits between the data that sits at NCEI and the private sector.”

BRAINSTORM The confluence of current technological capabilities, forward-thinking entrepreneurs and the federal agency’s data could make Asheville’s climate science industry a source of much-needed wellpaying jobs, advocates say.

To that end, The Collider opened in March; the nonprofit co-working space serves science-based startups and established organizations alike.

CEO Bill Dean says he sees parallels between the aerospace and defense industry in Huntsville, Ala. (where he

formerly worked), and the climate science industry here.

“I watched NASA and the space program, and I remember when people questioned, ‘Why are we putting a man on the moon?’ … and then watched the transition of federal technology to the private sector,” notes Dean, who’s bullish on the climate industry’s job-creation potential. He believes NOAA’s hundreds of scientists and support staff in Asheville could spill over into various private-sector industries, to the tune of maybe 5,000 science-based jobs.

“That’s not uncommon. When I was in Huntsville, we started with 125 rocket scientists and, over the years, it developed into 56,000 people.”

To generate large numbers of jobs, however, our region will have to attract a blend of businesses, entrepreneurs, investors and others. The Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce has been working on that for almost a decade. This January marked the eighth consecutive year that the chamber’s Economic Development Coalition has dispatched a delegation to the American Meteorological Society’s annual meeting, with the mission of making Asheville synonymous with climate science. Clark Duncan, the coalition’s director of business development, says the fight for that title has basically been pared down to three contenders: Boulder, Colo.; Washington, D.C.; and Asheville.

“If you’re a business looking for the best workforce, the best data modelers and climate scientists, for a city of 85,000, we’re on that map for talent concentration,” says Duncan. “There are a few key wins you want to see. The first, entrepreneurial growth, we’re already seeing. Companies with one, two or five employees really flourishing into five-, 10-, 25-person businesses. …

That’s a major success for Asheville.

The other piece is having some international and national players that are already here bring complementary businesses to the area. Part is homegrown, part is diversification by recruiting some renowned international companies.”

COLLISION COURSE: The Collider, located in downtown Asheville, aims to be a hub for science-based industries looking to take advantage of the city’s repository of climatological data and a place where like-minded professionals can collaborate. Opened earlier this year, it already hosts the American Association Of State Climatologists, UNC Asheville’s National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center and a variety of established and start-up companies working in the climate industry. Photo by Jared Kay ASHEVILLE CALLING One such company, the English consulting firm Acclimatise, is using The Collider as a satellite location.

CEO John Firth says Asheville called, and he listened. “We realized there’s a potential relationship here that was unique, and it’s just grown from there. So now we see NCEI as our trusted partner. Being in Asheville is the next step for us to grow our business,” he says.

Acclimatise has worked with such corporate titans as IBM, Barclays and Lloyds Bank. “Most of our clients don’t want the data: They just want to understand what it means,” Firth explains. “But we need the data to put that knowledge together, and that’s why NCEI is so valuable.”

Meanwhile, Asheville has also landed the American Association of State Climatologists. Glenn Kerr, the organization’s executive director, echoes Firth’s sentiments. “We’re really excited to be here. We feel we’re getting in on the ground floor of what we expect to be a great growth industry,” says Kerr. “AASC wants its headquarters here to have a direct liaison to the experts at NCEI.”

Now based at The Collider, the national organization will be hosting its 2017 annual meeting there, bringing scientists from every state — and the eyes of the nation’s climate industry — to Western North Carolina. Kerr believes that’s just the type of attention that can keep the city’s climate science industry moving forward.

“It’s a nascent industry; it’s just getting started. However, I think it’s got a ton of untapped potential, and there’s a lot of people that are very interested in bringing that potential to fruition. I think once we have a critical mass of people here trying to provide commercial solutions, you’re going to see a lot of big advances in the areas of climate and health, climate optimizing transportation, and sectors like that.”

EVOLUTIONARY LEAP So what’s this mother lode of data that everyone’s now eager to mine doing in Asheville — and why wasn’t its considerable potential realized sooner?

During World War II, the federal government took over the Grove Arcade — by far the largest building in the region at the time — as part of the war effort.

After the war, says Mike Tanner, who heads up NCEI’s Center for Weather and Climate, “The U.S. was looking to merge all its weather data … and what they found was the Grove Arcade.”

The National Climatic Data Center, as it was then known, occupied the historic structure from 1951-1995, when the agency moved over to the new federal building on Patton Avenue. In the ’80s, a movement had begun to return the arcade to its original function. The city finally took title to the property in 1997, and after extensive restoration, it reopened in its current form in 2002.

Meanwhile, in the late ’60s, climate data began catching on, notes Tanner, “and we started building products and services out of it. There became a whole new market for this kind of information. All the other technologies associated with that came to Asheville, because this is where the data was.

Because of that, scientific, IT and geographic information systems communities came here, along with people who can interpret and write about data.”

The amount of information NOAA oversees is staggering: 25 petabytes, or 25 million gigabytes. That’s the equivalent, says Tanner, of “stacking 120-GB iPhones as tall as the Eiffel Tower 16 times — that’s how much data we have.” Until recently, technological limitations made it hard to efficiently search all that information for trends, but that’s starting to change, and the shift could catalyze a multitude of opportunities.

“I think we’re fixing to go to the next plateau of being able to utilize climate information,” says Tanner. “Because of the high-performance computing capabilities we now have, the entrepreneurs in various industries are dipping into this information. I think we’re going to see, in the next five to 10 years, a leap in the evolution of how this information is used, and people will come here because this is where it’s at.”

FROM SCIENCE TO SERVICES Duncan, of the Economic Development Coalition, agrees. “Now the technology is to the point where you can do a lot more with managing, visualizing and interpreting data. We didn’t have those tools even five years ago.” He says his organization is excited about the variety of jobs the climate science industry might spawn.

“It begins with the scientists but ends with technologists, consultants, administrators, graphic artists. …

Here’s that crossover between technology and the arts that is all about data visualization. A spreadsheet doesn’t make sense to me, but a heat map will make a lot more sense.”

Tanner sounds a similar note. “It might start with science, but it ends with people who can translate that information: writers, public affairs, photographers, IT, computer programmers, visual arts, graphics. …

We have a division that’s all communication specialists: people that can write about science in a way the general public can understand.”

Del Greco, the Data Access Division chief, agrees that the tech industry will play a key role in exploring the climate science industry’s new frontier. “There’s a huge IT piece to this,” he says. “There’s complex systems you need to build that provide discovery and dissemination pieces, and that’s all the IT world. It’s great to have scientists, but you need people who can bridge from science to services.”

And as Kerr notes, “There’s a long-standing discussion in Asheville about not having a big wealth of those middle-ground, decent-paying technical jobs. So this is a great opportunity.”

REVERSE ENGINEERING Another Asheville-based organization, the Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites, is similarly helping link startups with the data its research produces. “Many climate scientists are beginning to transition from the government to the private sector in an effort to address the challenges and opportunities related to climate change,” says Jenny Dissen, the institute’s corporate relations and strategic partnerships liaison.

“Companies are starting to view climate change as a strategic business imperative, and government doesn’t tailor specific solutions and products for companies. As these risks and opportunities continue to be better understood by the private sector, solution providers that understand climate science, climate data and business impacts will be needed to fill the gap.”

Often, The Collider’s Bill Dean notes, a need arises, and enterprising people then reverse-engineer a solution. “Pick up the paper, and there’s things going on in people’s environment that they’re going to have to address. … We can help bring resources to those issues, and that brings more jobs and recognition to the Asheville area.”

One example of a problem in need of solving, says Dissen, is “the critical drought condition in California.

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COMPUTERS OF YORE: Technology has advanced over the decades since the federal government started collecting and storing the world’s climate data. Before moving to the Federal Building, data was stored in the Grove Arcade. Here, National Climatic Data Center staff members Dale Lipe and Ray Ertzberger use the Film Optical Sensing Device for Input to Computers in the ‘60s. Photo courtesy of NOAA The water sector is at a crossroads; this calls for disruptive innovation.

Solutions will require access and partnerships across public, private and academic arenas.”

EMPTY SHELVES AND UNSOLVED CASES According to Del Greco, those solutions may include things like drought-resistant crops and products that help affected states manage risk. But hydrology issues also affect other factors, such as transportation.

“The best way to move grain in the Midwest,” he explains, “is on the river.” But when companies can’t do that, “They have to move it on rail or truck. They like to put things in historical perspective so they know the best time to move the largest amount of grain on the river.” Data

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interpretation, he stresses, is key to predicting river levels.

Firth, too, underscores the importance of supply chain issues, which account for a large portion of his clients’ concerns.

“You can’t have an empty shelf,” he points out. “The supermarket sits at the end of an enormous chain. …

The raw ingredients are coming from a farm somewhere. Companies are beginning to realize they need to know where they’ll source the raw materials they’ll need in the future. If coffee growing in Central America is going to be more difficult because of changing temperature and precipitation, where do they go? They can’t wait until the coffee production starts to fall in those countries, because their competitors are already securing that market.”

It seems that there’s almost no limit to the ways that weather data can be

used. “Every month we get thousands of calls. … Novelists, private investigators, folks in the Justice Department working cold cases will call us up and ask for the weather in a particular town 30 years ago,” says Tanner. “They might be trying to solve a murder based on the weather. Was it a full moon? Was there a storm? They’re trying to put together the entire puzzle of that particular evening. And many cases have been solved using historical weather information.”

A BOON FOR LOCAL SCHOOLS? Many advocates believe climate science’s benefits aren’t strictly economic. “It also affects education,” argues Dean. “With more intellectual people coming here, they will want to raise the stan-

dards and opportunities for everyone in the region.”

A-B Tech, says Duncan, has done an admirable job of tailoring programs to the needs of the region’s booming craft beer industry, and he sees no reason something similar wouldn’t happen with climate science. “I can see them getting into the sector,” he says. “I can see UNCA bringing additional investments expanding science programs.”

To Anna Priest, executive director of the Colburn Earth Science Museum, that would be welcome news. “North Carolina ranks 36th in the nation in science proficiency, and for every unemployed person in the state, there are 1.7 jobs available” in science, technology, engineering and math, she points out. “We’re helping address this issue by exposing students to STEM education, activities and career paths early, which enhances their interest in STEM jobs later on.” Her institution, which is reinventing itself as the Asheville Museum of Science, hosts more than 10,000 students from 14 counties annually, says Priest. And due to state budget cuts, “A lot of teachers rely on us to help provide that curriculum for their students.”

Del Greco, meanwhile, says, “I’d love to see high school kids who want to do something in science or technology be able to go off to school, get their degree, come back and actually find work in Asheville.”

WEATHER OR NOT Despite general agreement that the opportunity exists and the timing is right, it remains to be seen if the local climate science industry will really take off.

“There’s a lot to be done to make that happen, but we have the knowhow and the experience,” says Dean. “So if we don’t do it, it’s our own fault, because somebody else is going to. I’m telling you it’s going to happen: I think it’s exciting times we’re in, and the opportunity is ours to develop.”

Kerr believes the next step is making products the market finds valuable. “Once you make those kinds of connections, it’s really going to line up and be pretty easy,” he maintains.

“What I’d really like to see is much like how Silicon Valley is viewed for computer startups: When you start talking about climate science and how it can make things happen internationally, Asheville is the place that happens, and it’s our unique niche.”

Del Greco adds that while some products will take time to develop, there’s plenty of opportunity to hit the ground running. “I see different levels of service,” he explains. “There is lowhanging fruit you can immediately do, and that’s basically the literary piece.

Data flows out of NOAA, and you have private sector folks that basically just repackage it. They don’t really even change it much: It’s just more literate.”

Over at NCEI, Tanner says his staff is ready. “We have information services and customer-engagement teams that spend all their time making sure we’re giving the private sector the types of things they need. Whether it’s interpreting science for them or showing them where the data is or how to use it … it’s all about building commerce,” he emphasizes.

Clearly, the interest is there. The agency gets about 18,000 requests each year via phone, email, fax and even handwritten letters, and that doesn’t include the folks using the website to independently mine data. During the 2014-15 fiscal year, the site garnered 1.5 billion unique hits.

“What we’re seeing in the last two to three years is unprecedented — how much information is being downloaded and what they’re doing with it,” says Tanner. “For us to be here and help build industry and public/private partnerships, it’s really what civil service is all about.”

NCEI, he emphasizes, isn’t interested in competing with the private sector. “If we’re building a product and a company comes in and says, ‘We’d like to do that,’ we back away and say, ‘OK, take off, and we’ll help you,’ because we’re here to serve the public good.”

And while climate science remains an emerging industry locally, Duncan says the Economic Development Coalition is already seeing significant progress. “Because of our talent pool, we’re getting looks now from organizations that we wouldn’t have had five years ago. They’re corporate opportunities that tend to come to communities of a larger size.”

Firth, too, believes big things are on the horizon. “We see this as somewhere we are going to grow jobs and contribute to the local economy going forward. I see no reason why, in years to come, everybody in the world won’t know where Asheville is. … In the future, I can see the name Asheville becoming synonymous with climate science and solutions.” X

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by Thomas Calder

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THREE MINUTES TO MIDNIGHT A conversation with Clare Hanrahan If you’ve ever driven past the Vance Monument during one of the many protests held there over the last 20 years, there’s a fair chance that Clare Hanrahan numbered among the folks making their voices heard. For the Asheville resident, writer and activist, visibility is a key tool in the fight against injustice.

Hanrahan has stood with and helped organize such groups as Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War and Women in Black. More recently, she’s traveled throughout the Southeast under the auspices of the New South Network of War Resisters, giving presentations on the military’s environmental impact.

Since moving into the Battery Park Apartments four years ago, however, Hanrahan has shifted her focus more toward writing. Her latest book, The Half Life of a Free Radical: Growing Up Irish Catholic in Jim Crow Memphis is available now at local bookstores and on Amazon.

Xpress sat down with Hanrahan in her Battery Park apartment recently to discuss this latest project.

Mountain Xpress: The title of your book touches on two major issues: race and religion. But the book ranges far beyond those two topics. How would you describe what has influenced your life and work?

Clare Hanrahan: I grew up in a time when social change was swirling all about us. And although we were financially poor, we were wealthy in having parents who were educated and could help guide us in critical thinking, and sensitize us to injustice, and make us aware that we had a role in the world beyond our own selfish pursuits. ...

It was complicated by personal impetuousness, I would say, and family alcoholism always takes a toll.

You never know how much of your behavior is reactive. ... But I do believe that every kind of hardship or difficulty has the potential to really deepen us and make us very much more aware, able to experience the world in a deeper way. I’m pleased to have come through what I’ve come through and grateful for what I’ve been able to learn.

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MAKING AN IMPACT: On the roof of Battery Park Apartments, Clare Hanrahan speaks of her life as an activist: “I don’t have any illusions,” she says. “I’m an experimenter in nonviolence trying to live with integrity.” Photo by Thomas Calder You’ve written two books about your time in captivity (Jailed for Justice: A Woman’s Guide to Federal Prison Camp and Conscience & Consequence: A Prison Memoir).

What inspired this latest book, and how is it similar to and different from your earlier works?

Conscience & Consequence is like walking inside a women’s prison with me and experiencing it as I did. It gives a lot of insight into how difficult that can be. ... That one was easier, because it focused on a six-month period. ... I wrote down things in that guidebook that I wish I’d had awareness of ahead of time.

That one was not so hard to write: It was more research and getting it down. ...

It wasn’t fraught with the kind of emotional potholes that I had to navigate in looking back on my life and trying to be honest about places where I turned wrong or turned right or stumbled.

That brings to mind parts of Half Life where you touch on the difficulties of balancing family responsibilities and the desire for social change — namely, the strain it caused in your relationship with your daughter. Can you speak to that?

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You’re asking the toughest question, because it’s still a difficult place for me, and it’s still a source of some tension between my daughter and me. ... All the personal sacrifices I made and imposed on my daughter — who was just coming along by default — were born out of a real sense of urgency: as Dr. King says, “The fierce urgency of now.” In retrospect, I think the state of mind I was in was “three minutes to midnight.” ...

I still struggle with it. ... Do you give her a normal American way of life and wait until she’s through with college and then begin your activism?

Do you soft-pedal your activism so as not to take risks? There’s some middle ground in there that I didn’t find. ... I thought living authentically was a better example of how to navigate in the world than just living safely and trying to take care of our personal stuff.

You write about our responsibility to reckon with the whole history of our homeplaces. What was the research for Half Life like, and how do you see Memphis’ past tying into the book’s broader examination of race relations in modern-day America?

What I was able to uncover and reckon with in the history of my own homeplace was how deeply rooted racism is, how institutional racism persists over generations, and how intentional it was. It wasn’t just a matter of ignorant people but of intentionally arranging social orders that benefited some and using others to enrich yourself. I didn’t get a lot of that history, certainly not in my parochial education. We learned a lot about martyrs in the Holy Roman Catholic Church, but we didn’t learn much about the social history of our own community. ... We’ve got to reckon with it, ’cause it’s still happening. We’ve got to learn from what’s happened and ask ourselves if we’ve really changed.

When people read your biography and see you served a six-month prison sentence in your quest for peace and justice, some might conveniently write you off as just a crazy, nut-job liberal. Is there a healthier, more constructive way to discuss the difficult questions you raise?

I try to do that all the time. I live in a very diverse community here.

I think listening is the biggest thing and recognizing that we all come to our own truth, from which we act, based on all kinds of forces that shape us throughout our lives.

So it’s very, very helpful to hear people’s stories. I think when people feel heard, they’re more likely to listen. ...

I was an insufferable teenager and young adult: I knew it all, I was right, I had the analysis down. I’m much more aware now of how complex it all is. I think we all need to come out with our own truth — but we have to be willing to have that challenged, be willing to listen and say maybe there’s another way of looking at this, another way of acting in the world against injustice.

What’s the best way for the average citizen to fight injustice day to day?

I used to know exactly what to say, and I’d tell them exactly what to do: that they damn well better start doing it! But now I’m more inclined to say, “Recognize our own complicity and see how you can start undoing

Pushing the boundaries: Clare Hanrahan’s The Half Life of a Free Radical Book Review by Thomas Calder It’s hard to pin down local author Clare Hanrahan’s latest book, The Half Life of a Free Radical: Growing Up Irish Catholic in Jim Crow Memphis. Part history, part memoir, part dreamcatcher, part adventure story, it defies easy categorization.

As the title suggests, much of the book focuses on the author’s early years in Memphis during the 1950s and ’60s. Desegregation, Elvis, the assassinations of President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. all get a mention.

Seeking to better understand her own childhood experiences, however, Hanrahan also looks to the more distant past, tracing her lineage back to the early 1800s.

Tied in with these familial accounts of love and loss are the social and political issues faced by prior generations, many of which eerily echo present-day events.

The great flood of 1927, for example, displaced over 200,000 people, two-thirds of them black field laborers and their families. “People of color in the Delta,” writes Hanrahan, “were herded into camps and denied adequate food, medical treatment and shelter. Relief administrators siphoned off funds and supplies.”

The author then juxtaposes that disaster with 2005’s Hurricane Katrina. In both instances, notes Hanrahan, the Mississippi inundated African-American communities. And in the latter case, displaced residents were directed to the Louisiana Superdome, where they were “abandoned for days without adequate food, medical treatment or shelter.”

The book’s early chapters repeatedly employ this back-and-forth technique, highlighting the author’s own family connections to drive home the similarities between then and now. Her mother, for example, who was 10 years old in 1927, lived in an area affected by the flood. And while readers might initially be tempted to attribute the authorities’ poor decisions and immoral behavior to the simple fact that it all happened so long ago, the more recent events to which she draws comparisons quickly challenge and disrupt that notion.

Besides helping readers connect with the past, the technique also allows, if not forces, them to view the

your participation in it.” What I experienced in Memphis with the civil rights movement was the dignity and decency expressed in the way they challenged injustice. That discipline and dignity are what we need to really hone.

I recently saw those young people in California who were challenging the KKK. ... People ended up being bashed with sticks and stabbed.

And one side says they’re victorious because they chased off the KKK. To me, that doesn’t speak of dignity and discipline: It’s mayhem.

MEMORIES COME HARD: In her most recent book, Clare Hanrahan writes of her childhood in Memphis and her gradual awareness of the social injustices surrounding her hometown. present through a historical lens. How will the events unfolding now be remembered when time has washed away our current defenses and justifications? What will future generations think of our behavior?

Half Life also seeks to demystify the radical: that perplexing figure who challenges the status quo. In 2000, Hanrahan was arrested during a peaceful protest at Fort Benning, Ga., and spent six months in a federal prison. For many, the story might begin and end right there: just another crazy, nut-job liberal.

But the book aims to capture her gradual transformation into conscious citizen and activist. The fourth child of nine, she recounts such simple struggles as fighting for a place to sit at the dining room table, seeking a private moment in the bathroom, impatiently noting the slow progress of her developing breasts.

These anecdotes, however, impede the book’s pace and dilute the focus. Part of the problem is that Hanrahan tends to end sections with broad, bold statements about government lies and corruption, presumably meant to intrigue readers. But by sandwiching them between seemingly unrelated events, she leaves the reader wishing for more substantiation.

The second half of the book follows Hanrahan out into the greater world, though she returns to Memphis time and time again. Her writing is at its best when it’s most specific, vividly depicting particular experiences culled from a wildly unconventional life.

The details of the time she spent living on a shanty boat floating down the Mississippi, for example, create a seamless narrative, albeit one that’s still politically and environmentally motivated.

This section also serves up some of Hanrahan’s deepest moments of self-reflection on the consequences of a nomadic lifestyle — particularly the strains it created between her and her daughter. Those brief passages left this reader, at least, wondering whether the author might have another book up her sleeve.

On Wednesday, July 27, Clare Hanrahan will discuss her book at Firestorm Cafe & Books in West Asheville. On Thursday, Aug. 18, she’ll give a reading at Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe downtown. Both events start at 7 p.m. X

I understand it; I understand that we’re in times where that kind of reaction from the oppressed may rise and might continue to rise. But it behooves those of us who feel like there might be a third way of confronting injustice to prepare ourselves to speak out and act with discipline, dignity and courage. ... All of us who want to speak out against injustice have to listen to one another, understand where we’re coming from and figure out ways to act together. X

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ANIMALS ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 828-761-2001 ext. 315, ashevillehumane.org • TH (7/14), 6-8pm - “Yappy Hour,” appetizers and adoption event. $5. Held at Moe’s Original BBQ Woodfin, 72 Weaverville Road, Woodfin CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 3228169, catawbascience.org • Through (9/5) - Flutter-By Butterfly Habitat exhibit.

Admission fees plus $1.

MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE DAYS mountainwildlifedays.com • FR (7/15) & SA (7/16) - Wildlife activities, presentations, exhibits and silent auction benefitting Western North Carolina Wildlife Outreach. See website for full schedule. Held at Sapphire Valley Resort, 207 Saphire Valley Road, Sapphire SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY 253-0095 , appalachian.org • FR (7/15), 9 AM - 4 to 5-mile hike with Brother Wolf Animal Rescue dogs in Montreat Wildnerness. Registration required: 253-0095 ext. 205.

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‘CHALK IT UP’: Weather permitting, the sidewalks of Hendersonville will be transformed on Saturday, July 16, beginning at 9 a.m. during the 20th annual Chalk It Up — one of the oldest and largest chalk art contests in the nation. “One hundred fifty artists, from under 5 years old to 75 years old-plus, come together to create an al fresco art experience,” says Barbara Hughes, owner of Narnia Studios, the sponsor of the event. “Hopefully, the weather will be great. We do have two rain dates (Saturday, July 23, and Saturday, July 30), but we sure don’t want to have to use them.” Categories for the contest are: 5 and younger; 6-8 years old; 9-12 years old; 13-20 years; 21 & older; and professional. The event is free to attend. For more information or to register, visit narniastudios.com.

Photo courtesy of Narnia Studios (p. 19)

BENEFITS ASHEVILLE TRIATHLON idaph.net/events/asheville-triathlon • SU (7/17), 6:45am - Proceeds from this triathlon benefit The American Cancer Society. $60.

Held at Asheville Recreation Park, 65 Gashes Creek Road DANCE FOR CANDACE 337-2142 • SA (7/16), 5-6:30pm - Proceeds from this hip hop dance fitness class benefit the family of Candace Elaine Pickens, the mother who was killed in Jones Park. Bring photo ID to register. $10. Held at YMCA - Asheville, 30 Woodfin St. FINE ARTS THEATRE 36 Biltmore Ave., 232-1536 • TH (7/21), 7pm - Proceeds from the The Asheville Section of the American Institute of Architects movie screening of, Reimagining Lincoln Center and the Highline, benefit Asheville Parks and Greenways Foundation. $10.

FOLKMOOT USA 452-2997, folkmootusa.org • TH (7/21), 6pm - Proceeds from the Wanderlust Gala with ten group performances featuring over 200 dancers and musicians, live and silent auction and interna-

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tional food and beverages benefit Folkmoot USA. $150 and up. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN BRANCH LIBRARY rutherfordcountylibrary.org • WE (7/20), 11:30am-2pm Proceeds from “Books & Bites,” with author Bob Covert benefit the Mountain Branch Library. $25.

Held at Lake Lure Inn and Spa, 2771 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure GRIP, SIP, GIVE CLASSIC candaid.org/uncategorized/ nc-grip-sip-give • TH (7/14), noon - Proceeds from this golf tournament sponsored by Oskar Blues Brewery benefit the CAN’d Aid Foundation. $100. Held at The Omni Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. LAUGH YOUR BASKETS OFF Ashevillepovertyinitiative.com • WE (7/20), 7pm - Proceeds from this silent auction and comedy fundraiser with Tom Peters, Clifton Hall and Blacklist Improv benefit the Asheville Poverty Initiative’s 12 Baskets Cafe. $6/$5 advance. Held at The Mothlight, 701 Haywood Road

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (7/14), 10am-noon - “Starting a Better Business,” workshop. Held at Room 317 Lenoir-Rhyne University, Asheville Chamber and Visiting Center, 36 Montford Ave. • WE (7/20), 6-8pm - “Business Formation: Choosing the Right Structure,” workshop. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (7/20), 10-11:30am - “Doing Business with the Government,” seminar. Held at A-B Tech South Site, 303B Airport Road, Arden • TH (7/21), 11:30am-1pm “Financing Your Small Business,” seminar. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler G&W INVESTMENT CLUB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am General meeting. Free to attend.

Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden

LEADERSHIP ASHEVILLE 255-7100, leadershipasheville.org • TH (7/21), 8am - Summer Buzz Breakfast Series: “Asheville’s Direction.” $20 includes breakfast.

Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. MOUNTAIN BIZWORKS 153 S. Lexington Ave., 253-2834, mountainbizworks.org • TH (7/14), 9am-noon - “Business Basics,” workshop. Registration required: moriah@mountainbizworks.org. $20.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS 3RD ANNUAL HARVEST CONFERENCE— SAVOR THE ABUNDANCE (pd.) 9/10/16— Presented by Organic Growers School and held at AB Tech Asheville Main Campus.

25+ classes on fall & winter growing, preservation, fermentation, homesteading & self reliance, cooking. $40 by 7/31, $45 after.

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ONE MILLION CUPS OF COFFEE (pd.) WEDNESDAYS, 9am Asheville’s startup community gathers weekly for presentations

by founders of emerging highgrowth startup businesses. Run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs.

Free coffee, open to the public.

RISC Networks, 81 Broadway. www.1millioncups.com/asheville THE BEST MOSAIC INSTRUCTION IN WNC! (pd.) Carol Shelkin: Mosaic Jewelry Workshop, Friday, July 15 • Carol Shelkin: Tempered Glass in Mosaic, Saturday and Sunday, July 16-17. • Linda Pannullo: Picassiette PotHead workshop, Saturday and Sunday August 20-21 • Linda Pannullo: Big Concrete Leaf workshop, Sunday September 11 • Kelley Knickerbocker: Strata Various, Fri, Sat, Sun, October 21-23. • For more information call Linda at 828337-6749. Email: linda@lindapannullomosaics.com Website: Lindapannullomosaics.com WOMEN’S BASIC CARPENTRY CLASS WITH WILD ABUNDANCE (pd.) July 21-24th, Ladies, come get comfortable with tools and carpentry! Learn basic building, wood working, plus hand-tool and powertool use. 775-7052, wildabundance.net.

ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB vincentvanjoe@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-10pm

Magical Offerings - Weekly meeting with sets provided. All ages welcome. Free.

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

ASPERGER’S ADULTS UNITED facebook.com/ WncAspergersAdultsUnited • FR (7/15), noon-2:30pm Spectrum Dining: Lunch at Mela.

Pricing varies. Held at Mela, 70 N. Lexington Ave. • SA (7/16), 1-3pm - Spectrum Dining: Lunch at Jason’s Deli.

Prices vary. Held at Jason’s Deli, 5 Westgate Parkway, Suite 100 BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (7/15), 4pm - Game Day for kids of all ages. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • MO (7/18), 10am-noon - “Itching to Stitch,” needlework group.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (7/20), 4pm - “Coloring & Conversation,” for adults. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa CHALK IT UP narniastudios.com/ chalk_it_up_contribute.html • SA (7/16), 9am - Sidewalk chalk art contest. Categories for multiple age groups. Pre-registration suggested. Free. Held on Main Street, Hendersonville ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE 687-7759, aeu.org • SU (7/17), 2-3:30pm - “The Waves of Feminism,” presentation by Patricia Robertson and Curry First. Free/ Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road FRIENDS OF HICKORY NUT GORGE 685-8798, friendsofhng.org • WE (7/20), 6pm - Quarterly meeting and Conservation Conversations: Native Herbs. Free to attend. Held at Lake Lure Inn and Spa, 2771 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure HENDERSON COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES 694-6252, families4kids@ hendersoncountydss.org • Through WE (9/14) - Open registration for foster parent training classes that will take place THURSDAYS, (9/15) through (10/20), 6-9pm.

HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - Apple Users Support Group. Free.

HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 2428998, hvrpsports.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook. com/Leicester.Community.Center • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering general meeting. Free.

LIVING WEB FARMS 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 5051660, livingwebfarms.org • TH (7/14), 6-7:30pm - “Plumbing Skill Share,” to learn preparation and sweating of copper pipe with silver solder.

MOMS DEMAND ACTION momsdemandaction.org • MO (7/18), 4:30pm - Monthly meeting. Free. Held at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St. ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (7/14), noon-1:30pm “Introduction to Homebuying,” class.

• THURSDAYS (7/14) through (7/28), 5:30-8pm - “Manage Your Money Series,” class.

• FR (7/15), noon-1:30pm “Budgeting and Debt Class.”

• MO (7/18), 5:30-7pm - “How to Find Extra Income in Your Day-toDay Life,” workshop.

• TU (7/19), 5:30-7pm “Understanding Reverse Mortgages,” class. Free.

• TH (7/21), noon-1:30pm “Budgeting and Debt Class.”

TARHEEL PIECEMAKERS QUILT CLUB tarheelpiecemakers.wordpress.com • WE (7/13), 10am - General meeting, summer picnic potluck and silent auction. Free. Held at Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 633-0892, wncpsr.org, info@wncpsr.org • 3rd FRIDAYS, noon-2pm Monthly meeting. BYO lunch.

Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

July 13 - Tarot Reader: Susannah Rose, 12-6pm July 17 - The Welcoming Circle: 5-6:30pm, Donations July 18 - Astrologer: SpiritSong, 12-6pm July 19 - Tarot Reader: Byron Ballard, 1-3pm Jonathan, 3-6pm July 21 - Circle Round: Drum & Chant Workshop, 7-9pm July 24 - Ancestors & Beloved Death: Byron Ballard, 3-5pm, Donations

DANCE POLE FITNESS AND DANCE CLASSES AT DANCECLUB ASHEVILLE (pd.) Pole dance, burlesque, jazz, funk, exercise dance, booty camp, flashmobs! 8 Week Jazz/ funk series to Bieber’s “Sorry”!

Starts June 30th 6 Week Beginner Burlesque starts June 21st All other classes are drop in Info: danceclubasheville.com Email: danceclubasheville@gmail.com 828-275-8628

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PSYCHIC FAIRE 7/15 & 7/16 555 Merrimon Ave. (828) 424-7868 Daily readers. Walk-ins including Scrying, Runes, Tarot, & More!

STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (pd.) Monday 5pm Ballet Wkt 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 7pm Zydeco Hip Hop Fusion 8pm Tap • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Bellydance 3 •Wednesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 5:30pm Hip Hop Wkt 6:30pm Bhangra 7:30pm POUND Wkt 8pm • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 7pm West African • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10 • Sunday 3pm Tap 2 6:30pm Vixen 7:30pm Vixen • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595

SHILOH COMMUNITY CENTER 121 Shiloh Road • SA (7/16), 1-4pm - Community celebration with food, games and inflatables. Free.

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SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE showingupforracialjustice.org • 3rd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Coalition building session. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road

SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB

cityofhendersonville.org • MONDAYS (7/11) through (8/15), 7-9pm - Street dance. Free. Held at 201 South Main St.

697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (7/16), 6pm - “Summer Nights at Southern Lights” themed dance. Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Squares and rounds at 7:30 pm. Free to attend. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

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FLOAT ON: Autism Society of North Carolina is hinging its next fundraiser around competitive paddle boarding. But, “If you don’t want to race, you can definitely enjoy Paddlefest,” says organizer Mary Catherine Ward. That area of the event involves leisurely demo rides on multiple watercrafts. Photo courtesy of ASNC

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WHAT: Autism Society of North Carolina’s stand up paddle board race and pre-party WHERE: Lake Julian and Wild Wing Café (Long Shoals Road) WHEN: Friday-Saturday, July 22-23 WHY: A buoyant benefit at Lake Julian will raise awareness and funds for the local branch of Autism Society of North Carolina, which supports autistic individuals as well as their families and professionals. And the two-day, sportsthemed event aims to draw equal attention to the lake’s appeal as a destination for scenic adventures.

“Friday night, [from 5-9 p.m.,] we’ve got Barbecue and Brews, which is kind of a precursor to the event” says organizer Mary Catherine Ward. Food from host venue Wild Wing Café is included in admission, as is donated beer

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from Wicked Weed Brewing, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., New Belgium Brewing Co., and Oskar Blues Brewery.

Guests can also bet one free raffle ticket on outdoorsy loot like a bike from New Belgium, paddle board from Diamond Brand and excursions led by WASUP Asheville — all to the tune of live music.

On Saturday, participants will stretch into action with al fresco yoga at 10 a.m.

Concurrent sessions take place on Wild Wing’s lakeside deck and, for those who want to further flex their balance muscles, atop paddle boards on the lake itself. Registration is free and required.

At 11:30 a.m., it’s time for the main attraction: a 3-mile race around Lake Julian. The waters, Ward says, are “really calm, so you’re not fighting waves, rocks or any of those things that sometimes you would find in the

French Broad [River]. For the beginning paddler, it’s the perfect venue.”

Not competitive, even on flat waters? Try Paddlefest instead.

Diamond Brand is bringing all sorts of floating vehicles for folks to test ride on the lake that same morning. “You can spend 15 minutes or three hours trying different watercrafts.” And regardless of pace, Saturday’s crowd will get a t-shirt, raffle ticket and giveaways from Prestige Subaru.

Tickets to Barbecue and Brews are $30/$35 for adults, $10 for youths under 10 and $15 for ages 11-20.

Tickets to participate in either the Stand Up for Autism race or Paddlefest are $25/30. Visit paddleguru.com/ races/standupforautismpaddlerace for more information.­ X

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PUBLIC EVENTS AT ASU 262-2000, appstate.edu • Through (8/6) - “An Appalachian Summer Festival,” with music, dance, theatre, visual arts and film.

See website for full schedule and locations: appsummer.org.

SPRUCE PINE BBQ & BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL sprucepinebbqbluegrass.org • FR (7/15), 4-10pm through SA (7/16), 10am-10pm- BBQ competition, live bluegrass, food vendors, clogging, crafts and kids activities. $25 two-day admission/$10 Friday admission/$12 Saturday admission. Held at Riverside Park, 229 E. Tappan St., Spruce Pine

FOOD & BEER DOWNTOWN WELCOME TABLE haywoodstreet.org/2010/07/ the-welcome-table • SUNDAYS, 4:30pm - Community meal. Free. Held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old Us Highway 74, Fairview KAIROS WEST COMMUNITY CENTER 742 Haywood Road, 367-6360, kairoswest.wordpress.com • MO (7/18), noon – Free food market. Free.

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Welcome Table meal. Free.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30-3:30pm - Manna FoodBank distribution, including local produce. Free.

LIVING WEB FARMS 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 5051660, livingwebfarms.org • TU (7/19), 6pm - “Can do Easy Canning,” class with author Nan Chase. $10.

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville, 5959956, sanctuarybrewco.com • SUNDAYS, 1pm - Community meal. Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY SENIOR DEMOCRATS 274-4482 • TH (7/14), 6pm - General meeting, presentation by Nancy Nehls Nelson and potluck dinner. Free to attend. Held at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road

KIDS ATTENTION KIDS! FIBER ARTS SUMMER CAMP (pd.) Week-long camps begin 6/13/16. Ages 9-15. 9am-Noon, Monday-Friday. Have fun and learn: Tie-dye, printing, spinning, weaving, felting, sewing. Asheville.

Information/registration: 828-2220356. www.localcloth.org ASHEVILLE HISTORY CENTER 253-9231, smh@wnchistory.org.

• SA (7/16), 10:30am-12:30pm The Crafty Historian: “Spinning with a Drop Spindle” event for children aged 9 and up.

Registration required. $7. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road ATTIC SALT THEATRE COMPANY 505-2926 • SATURDAYS through (12/31) Family theater performances. $5.

Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • SA (7/16), 3pm - Marci Spencer presents her book, Potluck, A Message Delivered. Free to attend.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • TH (7/14), 10:30am - “Children’s Hour,” with storytelling, traditional games, and crafts. For ages 4-12.

Free. Held at Cone Manor, MP 294 CATAWBA SCIENCE CENTER 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 3228169, catawbascience.org • Through (8/28) - “When the Earth Shakes,” hands-on interactive exhibit that explore the science of earthquakes, tsunamis, tectonic plates and earthquake engineering. Admission fees apply.

CRADLE OF FORESTRY Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • WEDNESDAYS through (8/10), 10:30am-12:30pm - Junior Forester Program for children 8-12 years old. $4 per child/$2.50 per adult.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Rd., Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free.

HANDS ON! A CHILDREN’S GALLERY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-8333 • WE (7/13), 1-5pm - “Fun with Bots,” presentations and activities about and with robots.For ages 7-11. Registration required. $40/$35 members.

• TH (7/14), 1-5pm - “Amazing Animals,” presentation and activity about predators and prey. For ages 7-11. Registration required. $40/$35 members.

• FR (7/15), 10:30-noon - “Royal Tea Party,” activities and tea party for ages 3-6. Registration required. $20/$15 members.

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HOLMES EDUCATIONAL STATE FOREST 1299 Crab Creek Road, Hendersonville, 692-0100 • SA (7/13), 11am-noon - Familyfriendly event to make safari hats and explore the sights and sounds of animals in the forest. Bring picnic lunch for afterwards. Free.

SPELLBOUND CHILDRENS’ BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave. #204, 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • FR (7/15), 6pm - Teen book club for ages 14-18 meets. Free to attend.

• SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

TWO SISTERS FARMSTEAD 218 Morgan Cove Road, Candler, 707-4236, twosistersfarmstead.org • SA (7/16), 10am-noon or 1-3pm - Family Discovery Day with activities and tour. Bring your own picnic at noon. Free.

WNC4PEACE wnc4peace.com • Through WE (9/7) - Submissions accepted for Buncombe County students creative works that promote the importance of peacemaking. Categories include: poetry, video, artwork and essays.

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

Free.

OUTDOORS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 298-5330, nps.gov • FR (7/15), 10am - “Buck Spring Lodge: Yesterday and Today,” easy to moderate ranger-led 2-mile hike on the Mountains-toSea Trail. Free. Meets at the Buck Spring Gap Overlook parking area, MP 407.7

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BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 295-3782, ggapio@ gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (7/14), 7pm - Family Night: “Pollinators along the Parkway,” ranger presentation. Registration required: 298-5330, ext.

304. Held at Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center, MP 384 • SA (7/16), 2-4pm “Wings, Stings and Crawly Things,” ranger presentation. Held at Cone Manor, MP 294 • SA (7/16), 2-4pm “Utterly Amazing,” ranger presentation. Held at Linn Cove Visitor Center, MP 304 • SA (7/16), 7pm “Arrowheads, What’s the Point?” Ranger presentation. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 GUIDED HISTORY WALKS 545-3179, maryjo@ maryjopadgett.com • SATURDAYS through (7/30) - Guided historical walks along Hendersonville’s Main Street. Registration required. $10/Free under 11. Meet at the backdoor to Hendersonville City Hall, 5th Ave. East & King St. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (7/14), 10am “Summertime Boat Tour,” ranger led boat tour.

Registration required.

• TU (7/19), 9am “Salamander Soiree,” ranger presentation and hike in along various muddy salamander habitats.

MOUNTAINTRUE 258-8737, wnca.org • SA (7/16) - “French Broad River Section Paddle.”

Moderate, class II/III guided paddle from Bywater to Ledges. Registration required. $10/$10 rental.

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/ New-Meetinginformation.html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Pardee

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Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville PUBLIC EVENTS AT A-B TECH 398-7900, abtech.edu • FR (7/15), 8am-5pm & SA (7/16), 10am-3pm “Flood Symposium and Commemoration of the Great Flood ,” panel discussions and commemoration. Sponsored by RiverLink. See website for full schedule: riverlink.org.

Free. Held in Ferguson Auditorium RIVERLINK 170 Lyman St., 252-8474 ext.11 • FR (7/15), 4-6pm - “30 Year Celebration Salon: The French Broad River Paddle Trail,” presentations. Registration required. Free.

PARENTING YOUTH OUTRIGHT 772-1912, youthoutright.org • 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am - Middle school discussion group. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

PUBLIC LECTURES BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (7/13), noon-1pm Hungry for History Brown Bag Lunch Series: “The Unforgettable Rampage: Remembering the Great Flood of 1916,” multimedia presentation by local historian Jon Elliston.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St.

808-4444, ashevillemeditation.com.

10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend.

ASTRO-COUNSELING (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

BUFFALO NICKEL 747 Haywood Road, 575-2844, buffalonickelavl.com • SU (7/17), 7pm - David Joe Miller Presents The Storycrafters. $12/$10 advance.

• WE (7/20), 7pm “Spoken Word Open Mic!” 10 minute showcase. Registration at 6:30pm. Free to attend.

OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) New Location 70 Woodfin Pl. Suite 212 Tues. 7-8 PM. Experience the spiritual connection to your heart and the stillness & beauty of the Divine within you. Suggested $5 Love Offering.

OpenHeartMeditation. com GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Through TH (8/11) Open registration for the autumn “Disciple Bible Study” classes.

HENDERSONVILLE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 699 North Grove St., Hendersonville, 692-3211, hendersonvillepc.org • WE (7/20), 6:30pm - Operation Christmas Child event featuring past shoebox gift recipient, Dania Yadago. Free.

ZEN CENTER OF ASHEVILLE 5 Ravenscroft 3rd Floor, zcasheville.org • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Thirty minute silent meditation followed by Dharma talk & discussion.

Admission by donation.

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SPIRITUALITY ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation.

Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started.

1st & 3rd Mondays.

7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828)

Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com

ASHEVILLE STORYTELLING CIRCLE 274-1123, ashevillestorycircle.org • 3rd MONDAYS, 7-9pm. Free. Meets at Asheville Terrace, 200 Tunnel Road.

BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS,

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (7/19), 7pm - Black Mountain Mystery Book Club: Open and Shut,

by David Rosenfelt.

Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync. org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers’ Guild.

Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

Free.

HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • TH (7/14), noon-1pm - “Literary Lunch,” with Kevin Adams, outdoor author and photographer. Free.

MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 2546734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• SU (7/17), 3pm Writers At Home Reading Series featuring work from UNCA’s Great Smokies Writing Program and The Great Smokies Review.

• TU (7/19), 7pm - Beth Revis presents her book, A World Without You! NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS’ NETWORK ncwriters.org • 3rd MONDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Open Mic. Writers have 5 minutes to read their prose and 3 minutes for poetry. Free. Held at Hendersonville

Public Library, 301 N Washington St, Hendersonville

leagues. Registration

STORIES ON ASHEVILLE’S FRONT PORCH facebook.com/ storiesonashevillesfrontporch • SATURDAYS through (7/30), 10am - “Cinderella Meets Jack,” featuring storytellers Kathy Gordon, Bobbie Pell and Shay Thames. Free.

Held in the courtyard.

Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square

$40.

SYNERGY STORY SLAM avl.mx/0gd • WE (7/13), 7:30pm Storytelling open-mic night on the theme “Letters from Camp.”

Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road

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THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL 52 North Market St., 253-8304 • SA (7/16), 2-3pm “Writers at Wolfe,” with Christine Hale, author of A Piece of Sky, A Grain of Rice: A Memoir in Four Meditations. Free.

information: jay.nelson@ buncombecounty.org.

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

Email volunteers@ litcouncil.com for more information.

HANDS ON ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org Registration required.

• WE (7/13), 5-7pm - Volunteer to help keep up with the maintenance of the Verner Community

TRADE AND LORE COFFEEHOUSE 37 Wall St., 424-7291, tradeandlore.com • TH (7/14), 7:30pm - David Joe Miller Presents!: “Salvation in Steel” the stories of Abby The Spoon Lady featuring her band, The Fly By Night Rounders. $15/$12 advance.

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

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• SA (7/16), 2-5pm Volunteer to accept donations at Habitat for Humanity resell store.

• TU (7/19), 4-6pm - volunteer to assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise in a fair-trade retail

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 11am - “Welcome

SPORTS BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/ Parks • Through SU (7/31) - Open registration for fall adult kickball

Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population.

Registration required.

Free to attend.

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Blessings, Guaranteed More and more churches ("hundreds," according to a June Christianity Today report) offer hesitant parishioners a "money-back guarantee" if they tithe 10 percent (or more) of their income for 90 days — but then feel that God blesses them insufficiently in return. The South Carolina megachurch NewSpring instituted such a program in the 1990s and claims that, of 7,000 recent pledgers, "fewer than 20" expressed dissatisfaction with the Lord. Advocates cite the Bible's Book of Malachi, quoting God himself (according to Christianity Today): "Test me in this." "Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse" and "see if I will not pour out so much blessing" that "there will not be room enough to store it."

New World Order A leading Chinese orthopedic surgeon continues to believe that "fullbody" transplants are the next big thing in medicine, despite worldwide skepticism about both the science and the ethics. The plan for Dr. Ren Xiaoping of Harbin Medical University calls for removing both heads (the deceased donor's and the live recipient's), connecting the blood vessels, stabilizing the new neck, and "bath(ing)" spinalcord nerve endings chemically so they will connect. (Critics say it is impossible to "connect" spinal-cord nerves.)

According to a June New York Times dispatch, doctors regularly denounce China's ethical laxities (though Chinese officials term such denunciations "envy" at China's achievements).

Fetishes on Parade

by Chuck Shepherd polling-site "electioneering" is illegal, the probable job was merely to give voters the impression that Boyle was very popular.

(Sabatina narrowly won.)

• In January, a Chicago Tribune investigation revealed only 124 of the roughly 12,000 Chicago cops were responsible for the misconduct complaints that resulted in settlements (since 2009) — with one officer, for example, identified in seven. (A June Chicago Reporter study claimed the city paid out $263 million total on misconduct litigation during 2012-2015.)

Litigious Societies (1) Insurance agent John Wright filed a lawsuit in Will County, Ill., in June over teenagers playing "ding dong ditch," in which kids ring a doorbell but run away before the resident answers. The lawsuit claims that bell-ringer Brennan Papp, 14, caused Wright "severe emotional distress, anxiety, and weight loss," resulting in at least $30,000 of lost income. (2) The ex-boyfriend of Nina Zgurskaya filed a lawsuit in Siberia after she broke up with him for his reluctance to "pop the question" after a two-year courtship. The man, not named in a dispatch from Moscow, demanded compensation for his dating expenses. The trial court ruled against him, but he is appealing.

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• (1) In June, District Attorney Jerry Jones in Monroe, La., dropped drug and gun charges against college football players Cam Robinson and Hootie Jones (who play for University of Alabama but are from Monroe) — declaring that the "main reason" for his decision is that "I refuse to ruin the lives of two young men who have spent their adolescence and teenage years working and sweating, while we were all in the air conditioning." (2) A Philadelphia "casting" agency solicited "extras" to show up at polling stations on the April 26 Pennsylvania primary day for candidate Kevin Boyle, who was running against state Sen. John Sabatina — offering $120 each (plus lunch and an open bar). Since most

A team of researchers is following about 30 tabbies, calicos and others, recording their moves and sounds, to somehow learn whether housecats have dialects in their meows and alter other patterns of stress and intonation when they "speak" to other cats or to humans. In explaining the project, linguist Robert Eklund (of Sweden's Linkoping University) personally sounded out "a pretty wide range of meows to illustrate his points," wrote a New York magazine interviewer in April.

Eklund is already an expert on feline purring (at Purring.org) — although from a distance, as he admits to being allergic to cats.

The Passing Parade • Quixotic Malaysian designer Moto Guo made a splash at Milan's fashion week in June when he sent model after model to the runway with facial blotches that suggested they had zits or skin conditions. One reporter was apparently convinced, concluding, "Each man and woman on the runway looked miserable."

• Out of Control: (1) Nelson Hidalgo, 47, was arrested in New York City in June and charged with criminal negligence and other crimes for parking his van near Citi Field during a Mets game and drawing players' complaints when he ramped up the van's 80-speaker sound system. "I know it's illegal, but it's the weekend," said Hidalgo. "I usually (just) get a ticket." (2) Trina Hibberd of Mission Beach, Australia, finally showed concern about the python living inside her walls that she has known about for 15 years but (perhaps "Australian-ly") had chosen to ignore. In June, it wandered out — a 15-foot-long, 90-pound Scrub Python she calls "Monty." "All hell broke loose," a neighbor said later, as snake-handlers took Monty to a more appropriate habitat.

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Brigham Young University professor Jason Hansen apologized in May after coaxing a student (for extra credit) to drink a small vial of his urine in class.

The physiology session was on kidney function, and Hansen thought the stunt would call attention to urine's unique properties. He confessed later that the "urine" was just food coloring with vinegar added; that he had used the stunt in previous classes; and that he usually admits the ruse at the next class session.

Nonetheless, Hansen's department chair suggested he retire the concept.

Police Report A Woman at the Top of Her Game: In Nashville, Tennessee, in June, sex worker Jonisia Morris, 25, was charged with robbing her client by (according to the police report) removing the man's wallet from his trousers while he received oral sex seated in his car, extracting his debit card, and returning the wallet to his pocket — without his noticing.

Recidivist Jesse Johnson, 20, was charged again in June (for suspicion of disturbing the peace) after he had crawled underneath a woman's car at an Aldi store's parking lot in Lincoln, Neb., waited for her to return, and then, as she was stepping into the car, reaching out to fondle her ankle. It was Johnson's third such charge this year, and he initially tried to deny the actual touch, instead claiming that he was underneath the car "simply for the visual." Johnson acknowledged to the judge that he needs help and that he had been in counseling but had run out of money. (At press time, the status of the latest incident was still pending.)

Undignified Deaths (1) Australian lawyer William Ray was killed on May 22 when he was thrown from his all-terrain "quad bike" in rural Victoria state and pinned underneath. Ray had come to prominence by representing Honda as the company balked at mandatory installation of anti-roll bars on quad bikes. (2) A 48-year-old employee at North Central Bronx Hospital in New York City died of a heart attack at work on June 7, under circumstances (according to police) indicating that he was viewing a pornographic video at the moment of his death.

A News of the Weird Classic (August 2012) When the assistant manager arrived early on June 26 (2012) to open up the Rent-A-Center in Brockton, Mass., he encountered a man on the ground with his head stuck underneath the heavy metal loading-bay door (obviously as the result of a failed burglary attempt during the night). "Hang tight!" the manager consoled the trapped man. "The police are on their way." Manuel Fernandes, 53, was arrested. X

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BY BRETT TINGLEY bbtingley@gmail.com A combination of wildfires and high pollen counts could be the culprit for allergy and respiratory issues experienced lately by Western North Carolina residents. In March and April, regional wildfires burned more acres than the monthly average, according to data released by the N.C. Forest Service.

In April, acreage destroyed by wildfires reached a 10-year high and led to several Code Orange days.

That is, ambient air in the region was potentially unhealthy for sensitive groups or individuals.

Throughout this spring season, the N. C. Department of Environmental Quality issued several public health notices for the mountain region, warning that “high particle levels can impair breathing and aggravate symptoms in people with respiratory problems and irritate the lungs in healthy individuals.” It added that “people with chronic lung ailments and children should reduce physical exertion and outdoor activity.”

Even though rainfall and fire crews contained most of the fires, the effects are still being felt by many WNC residents who suffer from allergies or respiratory issues. According to DEQ air quality data, there were several orange alerts issued for Asheville in May and June despite the absence of major wildfires.

While wildfires can release harmful fine particulates into the air, the types of particulates released by fires aren’t typically associated with allergy responses. However, this fire season has seen WNC suffering from allergyrelated issues at an unusually high rate, according to several allergy specialists in the area.

Nancy Hyton, an acupuncturist and herbalist at the Asheville-based Center for Holistic Medicine, says this has been one of the worst allergy seasons she has seen. “Every year I see people in the spring for allergy-related symptoms, but this year has been exceptional,” Hyton says. “Not only have I seen my regular patients, but more and more people who have never had allergies before are complaining of them this year. In fact, I myself

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FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN: The N.C. Department of Environmental Quality issued several air quality alerts in April due to wildfires in the region, such as this one near Marion. Photo courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service experienced allergy symptoms this year for the first time.”

Sam Del Vecchio, licensed acupuncturist at Asheville’s Alternative Allergy Solutions, also reports an increase in allergy-related issues around the time of the fires. “Forty percent of my clients experienced a short-term worsening of allergy symptoms on the days of the fires,” Del Vecchio says. “Combustion is a source of very fine particles, like dust, so I’m not surprised.”

The National Allergy Bureau has reported high pollen counts this spring, particularly tree pollen. Kimberly Roberts, a registered nurse and certified clinical research coordinator who tracks pollen counts for Allergy Partners of WNC, says pollen counts throughout April were indeed much higher than

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usual this early in the season. Pollen data collected by the DEQ show severe spikes in tree pollen counts throughout March and April, followed by similar spikes in grass pollen throughout May and June.

The wildfire-pollen combination may be behind the particularly severe allergy season WNC is witnessing. A 2015 study at France’s Armand Trousseau Children’s Hospital found that atmospheric pollutants, such as those released in car exhaust or even wildfires, can lead to an increased allergy response in susceptible individuals through a process known as pollen nitration.

This process occurs when some atmospheric pollutants react with and modify pollen proteins, which can trigger an increased immune response in some individuals. A 2014 study reports that

allergy prevalence has been increasing in developed nations and proposes pollen nitration as the cause. While some research suggests that pollen nitration could be responsible for the increase in allergy prevalence, the mechanism by which it increases allergic reactions to pollen is still not well understood.

Whatever the causes might be, this spring was harder than usual on WNC residents. Christine Preiser, licensed accupuncturist with WNC Acupuncture, treated a higher-than-usual number of allergy sufferers in April and May. “People started coming in with major sinus issues and sinus headaches,” Preiser says. “Compared with last year and the year before, there was a great increase in people suffering from

allergies. People are coming in with more issues.”

Despite the allergy issues some Western North Carolinians are suffering, the region’s air remains consistently clean with very few Code Orange days, says Tom Mather, public information officer with the DEQ Division of Air Quality. According to Mather and DEQ data, air quality in the region has been improving steadily for the past 15 years, and annual statewide emissions are at a 20-year low.

Mather also says that while the wildfires can pose threats to air quality in affected areas, ozone still remains the most pressing concern in the region, particularly in the warmer months.

The variations in elevation throughout WNC can create conditions that trap pockets of ozone and worsen air quality for low-lying areas, he explains.

In order to reduce their impact on air quality, DEQ recommends that residents take measures to lower their energy consumption. The agency also advises that all actions that burn fossil fuels — from automobiles to air conditioning — should be used as little as possible. However, with increased growth in the region, power plant emissions and automobile traffic are steadi-

ly rising. For more suggestions on how to do your part to improve air quality, DEQ has released a guide for North Carolina residents on its website.

The state agency also recommends that residents who suffer from respiratory distress or allergy issues stemming from air quality limit their outdoor activity and exercise, particularly when wildfires are present. And while air pollution masks aren’t a common sight outside of developing nations, individuals with sensitivities of any kind might look into wearing a mask for days when air quality forecasts are unfavorable. Masks with a National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-approved N95 rating should be sufficient to filter out particulates related to wildfires as well as some allergens; they can be found inexpensively at most hardware stores, according to a N.C. Division of Public Health publication regarding wildfires and public health.

Despite wildfires and urban growth, WNC has some of the cleanest air in the state, thanks to a lower population density than other urban areas and a higher concentration of forests, Mather says.

For air forecasts and DEQ air quality data, visit NCair.org. X

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BLUE RIDGE CENTER OF LIFELONG LEARNING 694-1740, brcll.com • WE (7/13) & WE (7/20), 1-3pm - “The Basics of Self-Hypnosis,” class. $40/$30 members. Held in the Patton Building, room 150 Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • WE (7/20), 11:30am - “Laughter Yoga,” yoga class for adults. Free.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 277-8288, coabc.org • WE (7/13), 3-5pm - “Medicare Choices Made Easy,” class. Free.

Held at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. W., Hendersonville • WE (7/15), 2-4pm – “Medicare Choices Made Easy,” class. Free.

Held at the UNC Asheville Reuter Center • MO (7/18), 1-3pm – “Medicare Choices Made Easy,” class.

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HENDERSONVILLE GREEN DRINKS 692-0385 ext. 1004, facebook.com/ hvlgreendrinks • TH (7/14), 6pm - “Green Burials, Bringing Death Back Into the Circle of Life,” presentation by Michele Skeele, death doula and funeral home aid. Free to attend.

Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES redcrosswnc.org Appointment and ID required.

• SU (7/17), noon-4pm - Appointments & info.: 1-800-REDCROSS. Held at First Baptist Church of Weaverville, 63 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (7/20), 3-7:30pm Appointments & info.: 667-4541.

Held at Hominy Baptist Church, 135 Candler School Road, Candler THE MEDITATION CENTER 894 E. Main St., Sylva, 356-1105, meditate-wnc.org • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm “Inner Guidance from an Open Heart,” class with meditation and discussion. $10.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • TH (7/14), 10-11:30am “Managing Daily Activities for People with Parkinson’s & their Care Partners and Health Professionals.” Workshop sponsored by the Poise Project. $10.

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES adultchildren.org • Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 254-8539 or aancmco.org ASHEVILLE WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY 215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. ASPERGER’S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/ AspergersTeensUnited • For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks.

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BRAINSTORMER’S COLLECTIVE 254-0507, puffer61@gmail.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm - For brain injury survivors and supporters. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road BREAST CANCER SUPPORT GROUP 213-2508 • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5:30pm - For breast cancer survivors, husbands, children and friends. Held at SECU Cancer Center, 21 Hospital Drive CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT 989-1555, deb.casaccia@gmail.com • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6 pm – Held in a private home. Contact for directions.

CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS 398-8937 • TUESDAYS 7:30pm - Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite G4 • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm & SATURDAYS, 11am – Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • FRIDAYS, 5:30pm - Held at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, 556 S. Haywood, Waynesville DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE 367-7660, depressionbipolarasheville.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm & SATURDAYS, 4pm – Held at 1316C Parkwood Road DIABETES SUPPORT 213-4788, laura.tolle@msj.org • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3:30pm - In room 3-B. Held at Mission Health, 509 Biltmore Ave. FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 423-6191 or 301-4084 • THURSDAYS, 6pm - Held at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 1 School Road • SATURDAYS, 11am- Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite G4 FOUR SEASONS COMPASSION FOR LIFE 233-0948, fourseasonscfl.org • THURSDAYS, 12:30pm - Grief support group. Held at SECU Hospice House, 272 Maple St., Franklin • TUESDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm Grief support group. Held at Four Seasons - Checkpoint, 373 Biltmore Ave.

GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS gamblersanonymous.org • THURSDAYS, 6:45pm - 12-step meeting. Held at Basillica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood St. GRIEF PROCESSING SUPPORT GROUP 452-5039, haymed.org/locations/ the-homestead • 3rd THURSDAYS, 4-5:30pm Bereavement education and support group. Held at Homestead Hospice and Palliative Care, 127 Sunset Ridge Road, Clyde LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP 386-801-2606 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - For adults managing the challenges of life limiting illnesses. Held at Secrets of a Duchess, 1439 Merrimon Ave. LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN 776-4809 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa LUPUS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA, NC CHAPTER 877-849-8271, lupusnc.org • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm Lupus support group for those living with lupus, their family and caregivers. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. MEN OF DIVERSITY MEETUP • TH (7/14), 7pm - Support group for men of color and men of Native heritage. Free to attend.

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• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Held at The Family Place, 970 Old Hendersonville Highway, Brevard • Third SATURDAYS, 11am-1pm Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS nar-anon.org • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm - Held at First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville, 204 6th Ave. West, Hendersonville • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Held at West

Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS WNC 505-7353, namiwnc.org, namiwc2015@gmail.com • 3rd TUESDAYS, 6pm Connection group for individuals dealing with mental illness. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. • 3rd TUESDAYS, 6pm - For family members and caregivers of those with mental illness. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. OUR VOICE 44 Merrimon Ave. Suite 1, 28801, 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Ongoing drop-in group for female identified survivors of sexual violence.

OVERCOMERS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 665-9499 • WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm Held at First Christian Church of Candler, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler OVERCOMERS RECOVERY SUPPORT GROUP rchovey@sos-mission.org • MONDAYS, 6pm - Christian 12-step program. Held at SOS Anglican Mission, 1944 Hendersonville Road OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS • Regional number: 277-1975.

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RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS 6pm - For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Held at Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 375 Hendersonville Road REFUGE RECOVERY 225-6422, refugerecovery.org Buddhist path to recovery from addictions of all kinds.

• FRIDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave. • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Held at Shambhala Meditation Center, 60 N Merrimon Ave. #113 S-ANON FAMILY GROUPS 258-5117, wncsanon@gmail.com • For those affected by another’s sexual behavior. Confidential meetings available; contact for details.

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Local farmers preserve heritage breeds

BY ELIZABETH MARTIN

ing modern breeds more vulnerable to diseases.

“If we don’t preserve the characteristics, it leaves animals vulnerable,” notes Peirce Bingham of Bingham Family Farm in Burnsville, who raises Arapawa goats. “Breeding for specific characteristics can mean breeding out things we aren’t really aware of.”

Heritage breeds, on the other hand, may be hardy and easy to raise, yet they’re often threatened due to their relative lack of popularity. There simply aren’t enough breeding groups to ensure healthy bloodlines for future generations.

Today’s heritage breed farmers are working to address that shortage, however.

getitcontributor@mountainx.com Plant-based quilting, weaving and basket-making have long had a place in traditional Appalachian culture. Today, however, farmers and artists alike are increasingly looking to sheep, goats and even alpacas and llamas to revitalize Western North Carolina’s rich and varied fiber arts scene. And some local farmers are gravitating to heritage breeds rather than more specialized modern hybrids.

These passionate agriculturists say they’re not really in it for the money: According to Frank Ritz of Gather Heritage Farm in Barnardsville, heritage farming is “almost like a labor of love.” But by helping to preserve these animals’ ancient bloodlines, they’re providing a hedge against the risks of monoculture — and infusing some new but old life into the fiber arts.

THE ANIMALS LEAD THE WAY

WHAT ARE HERITAGE BREEDS, ANYWAY? According to The Livestock Conservancy, a nonprofit based in Pittsboro, N.C., defining what constitutes a heritage breed is more art than science. These animals originated from archaic lines that were developed to work well in small family-farm settings. Instead of being bred for one specific function, heritage animals typically have multiple uses.

For our ancestors, this was a practical matter: Why raise different breeds for meat and fiber, for example, if one can meet both needs? But these animals’ dual nature is responsible for their fall from favor with modern, conventional farms that demand the highest possible yields. Heritage breeds tend to produce wool that’s less fine, less consistent in terms of things like color and length of fibers, and thus less in demand.

So in the short term, species bred for a single characteristic — quality of fleece, say, or fast maturation for meat consumption — may be more profitable. Over time, though, other qualities tend to be diminished, leav-

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The Jacob sheep is a popular heritage fiber animal in WNC, due primarily to the wool’s workability.

Where most primitive sheep breeds have a coarse outer coat that can make the wool less useful for many applications, the Jacob has a medium-fine fleece with no outer coat.

Both the fineness and the coloration vary from animal to animal, says Elizabeth Strub of Hobbyknob Farm in Weaverville, but this is desirable, because breeders are trying to preserve genetic diversity rather than create a uniform product.

Strub first started looking into raising animals in 2000 and eventually became interested in the Jacob, which is hardy and easy to raise.

The breed is also good for meat, but Hobbyknob’s sheep are used strictly for fiber. Small enough to be easily handled, with a strong maternal instinct, they’re also highly adaptable to a wide range of environments and settings.

Frank Ritz also breeds Jacob sheep. His farming philosophy is to “help nature do what it already knows how to do.” Heritage farming, he believes, is “about giving the animals an environment where they can thrive and really promote their natural instincts.” At Gather Heritage Farm, the animals lead the way, and the people learn what’s needed by observing them carefully.

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COAT OF MANY COLORS: Jacob sheep have finer coats than many primitive sheep breeds, making them an ideal choice for farmers looking for a hardy, easy-to-keep fiber animal. Photo courtesy of Elizabeth Strub of Hobbyknob Farm And though The Livestock Conservancy considers the Jacob sheep “threatened,” the Jacob Sheep Breeders Association is working with the animals’ characteristics and adaptability to keep them from becoming extinct.

THE RIGHT THING TO DO At Rusted Earth Farm in Leicester, Kyle Guie and Jessica Sanchez are just beginning to get to know their flock of 13 Navajo-Churro ewes. These young farmers have a growing vision of heritage farming with an emphasis on agritourism. As their interest in livestock breeds grew, raising heritage animals seemed to be the most practical choice, since they need less day-to-day care.

In addition, says Guie, “It just seems like the right thing to do for the animals.”

As the name suggests, NavajoChurro sheep were important to Native American cultures in the Southwest.

Originally brought to the Americas

by Spanish explorers, the sheep were adopted by the Navajo and other native cultures. Like other primitive breeds, Navajo-Churros have a heavy outer coat that accounts for a large percentage of the fleece. For this reason, the resulting yarns are usually used to weave rugs.

As with the Jacob sheep, the NavajoChurros’ genetic diversity is evident in their coats, and they’re similarly easy to care for. Guie says he feels as though he and Sanchez are just shepherding the animals rather than actively managing them.

And while serving a niche market may not be lucrative, for these breeders, the focus is more on loftier goals: preserving a part of our past and investing in the future of humans’ relationship with livestock. X

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS 255-5522, buncombemastergardener.org, BuncombeMasterGardeners@ gmail.com • TH (7/21), 11:30am Gardening in the Mountains Series: “Great New Garden Roses,” presentation by Judy Deutsch. Registration required: 255-5522. Free.

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Over the past 20 years, Asheville Pizza and Brewing Co. owner Mike Rangel has been immersed in the world of, well, pizza and brewing.

But in the back of his mind, another idea has been marinating, fueled in

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large part by flavors that have often washed over his tastebuds. “I’m kind of a taco fiend,” Rangel says.

This insatiable craving for Mexican food had the pizza and brew man dreaming every so often of the satisfying crunch of a hard-shelled taco.

And with each passing year, as businesses came and went at the nearby drive-thru at 705 Merrimon Ave.,

Rangel’s vision of owning his own taco business grew.

In April, Rangel took the leap.

His taco venture is scheduled to open in mid-August as Tacos and Taps. “It’s definitely going to be a challenge,” he says of the space, which previously housed Bratburger, VegHeads and, originally, Back Yard Burger, all within

seven years. “It doesn’t have a great track record.”

Beyond location, Rangel is aware that he’ll be competing with some “incredible places.” Unlike, say, White Duck, however, Rangel won’t be focused on gourmet-style tacos. “We’re not going to be overly fancy,” he says. “We like a good, hearty taco. .... And being that it’s going to be a drive-thru, we’ll definitely be focused on speed as well.”

The menu will start out with an exclusive focus on tacos, and Rangel has made it a point to avoid looking to other local venues for inspiration. Instead, he’s researched and sampled over 50 menus from around the country.

His primary sources have been shops in Southern California and Texas. Of particular interest and influence is a growing chain based out of Austin called Torchy’s Tacos. “We like the spirit of what they’re doing,” he says. “They’ve got an irreverent but fun attitude about tacos.”

Torchy’s has a taco of the month, and Rangel plans to incorporate his own version of this by way of soliciting community input. “We’ll be asking a lot of our customers for taco suggestions,” he says.

The menu will include “unpretentious tacos” like ground beef, house-seasoned lean turkey and a slow-cooked, chopped chicken option. With these choices, guests can build their own meal, with such toppings as Monterey Jack cheese, shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, pickled vegetable medley, cilantro, baja sauce, pico de gallo and lime wedges.

Speciality tacos will also be available. With names like Ahi El Rey (a salt and pepper-encrusted, sushi-grade ahi tuna with a zesty blend of cabbage, pico de gallo, wasabi mayo and cilantro in a flour tortilla) and El Diablo (seitan blended with spices, chopped cilantro and white onion in a soft corn tortilla), these tacos highlight another component of Tacos and Taps: lucha libre, a form of wrestling in Mexico.

“It’s much more dramatic and has better storylines than American wrestling,” says Rangel, who’s been a fan of lucha libre for years. He adds that the side of the building is going to look like a wrestling ring. “And our menu and our to-go items will have Mexican wrestler stickers and temporary tattoos for the kids.”

Rangel says that once the restaurant nails down its taco options, it will explore other menu items such as quesadillas and taco bowls. There are also plans, in time, to make tortillas in-house.

The other half of the equation is beer. Guests will be able to buy and refill growlers through the drivethru at Tacos and Taps. “By law it’s considered the same as a convenience store,” says Rangel. “A growler,” he adds, “is considered a closed container.”

Patrons will have 16 taps to choose from. Six will be reserved for Asheville Brewing Co. beers, and the other 10 will be guest taps. Wicked Weed, Burial Beer Co. and Green Man will be among the local features.

Rangel is also looking to include brews from outside Asheville — Fonta Flora, Foothills, NoDa, Green Flash and Founders are among the other breweries he’s considering.

The beer options, though, will change. Rangel says Tacos and Taps will offer new brews regularly. Beer suggestions will come not only from Asheville Pizza and Brewing’s brewmasters, but from patrons. “Asheville has a tendency to nudge you in the right way,” Rangel says. Suggestions can be made online, once the company website is up and running.

“We want it to be very convenient, fresh, affordable [and] supertasty,” Rangel says. “You’ll be able to get a great, classic hard shell taco — the taco you grew up on.” X

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A handful of assumptions and concerns is often associated with canning. For some, it seems old-fashioned; for others, far too complicated.

And then, of course, there’s always that lingering fear of botulism and its deadly consequence.

Gardener, homesteader and author Nan Chase wants to dispel some of the myths about canning. For example, when it comes to high-acid fruits canned with the water-bath approach, botulism isn’t really a concern. “It just physically can’t happen,” she says.

And Chase would know. Since arriving in North Carolina in 1981, she’s become “addicted” to the process. In the springtime, she cans a variety of berry-based juices, using them over the winter to make wine and syrup. Every summer, she cans her yearly supply of tomato sauce, adding in herbs, onions and garlic from her garden. Bloody Mary mix is another of her favorite canning creations.

On Tuesday, July 19, Chase will lead an hour-and-a-half class on the water-bath canning process. “It’s basic skills,” she says. “Once you know how simple it is and how safe it is, people can feel encouraged to say, ‘Oh yeah, I can do some canning myself.’”

The class, hosted by Living Web Farms, will include instruction on proper sanitation procedures, an explanation of the necessary equipment, a dry run of the canning process and information on resources and recipes.

Chase will also address the many perks of canning.

“There are things all over your yard that you can include with your canned goods to make them unique and special,” she says. “Some herbs you grow, flower petals — there’s all sorts of things you can do to make it your own.”

Chase’s inventiveness and skill are what most excites Meredith Leigh, who runs the educational programs at Living Web. “She’s just an incredibly creative culinarian and a very talented gardener,” Lee says. “So you put those two things together, and you get a great outcome every time.”

The canning workshop runs 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 19, at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River.

The class is donation-based ($10 suggested). Participants can register online at livingwebfarms.org.

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YOU CAN DO IT: “It’s a very low-cost activity to get into canning,” says author and homesteader Nan Chase. She will lead a class on the canning process at Living Web Farms. Photo courtesy of Nan Chase DESSERT PAIRINGS AT TWIN LEAF BREWERY In a pairing of bites and beers, the desserts of Whisk avl will be featured at an upcoming event at Twin Leaf Brewery. Coconut cream pie will accompany a pour of Coffee English Mild. A raspberry jam cookie will go with Tart Gose. And peach cobbler will be paired with 144 IPA (code name

Juicy Fruit). Whisk avl’s owner and baker, Meg Shearer, notes that this is the fifth time the two businesses have teamed up for such an event.

“The desserts are from scratch,” she adds.

The pairing runs 3-7 p.m. Saturday, July 16, at Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. The cost is $15. Pours are 4 ounces. Desserts will also be available a la carte. For additional

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The Social Pizzeria offers a wide variety of options that incorporate and transform traditional meals into pizza form. Such offerings include the beer cheese Philly steak, Sammy tacos and the Wild West burger pie. In addition to pizza, the menu includes chicken wings, salads, pastas and appetizers.

Located at 2334 U.S. 70, The Social Pizzeria offers pickup or delivery only. Store hours are 11:30 a.m.-2 a.m. Monday-Friday and noon-2 a.m.

Saturday-Sunday. For more information, visit thesocialpizza.com CYCLE TO FARM Cycle to Farm is holding its fifth annual ride in Black Mountain.

Throughout the 63-mile route, participants will get the chance to sample treats from local farmers. An after-party will await the cyclists at the end of their ride, with food from Fresh Wood Fired Pizza and beer from New Belgium Brewing Co. The ride starts at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 16, at Town Square Park in Black Mountain, 120 E. State St. Registration costs $85. Learn more at cycletofarm.org. X

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Sours for hours What began as a modest celebration to christen Wicked Weed Brewing’s Funkatorium has evolved into one of the largest and most prestigious annual local beer events. Funk Asheville: A Gathering of Wild & Sour Beers debuted during Asheville Beer Week in May 2014, featuring creations from local, regional and national breweries that have earned acclaim as purveyors of those increasingly popular beer styles.

For 2015, Funk Asheville moved to Wicked Weed’s production brewery with an expanded number of colleagues pouring their liquid wares from booths lining the large, open field behind the Candler facility. Further enhanced last year by food trucks and live music, the event returns to this wooded outdoor space on Saturday, July 16, at 8 p.m. (VIP ticket holders get in a 7 p.m.) with a similar overall approach but a new name.

“We felt Funkatorium Invitational spoke more to the brand we’re building with this festival,” says Jordan Hughes, creative director for Wicked Weed.

“The sour beers we brew come from the Funkatorium, so it seemed more in line with what we’re already building.”

With sours an important part of Wicked Weed’s identity, Hughes says the brewery designs the event for all beer drinkers to enjoy, “wherever they are in their experience.” And as for the handful of Asheville-area breweries asked to be part of the evening, the Funkatorium Invitational provides many exciting opportunities for growth throughout the craft beer community.

“It gives us a national platform from which to demonstrate that the Southeast and North Carolina in particular are crafting some world-class sour beers from their programs,” says Jessica Reiser, co-owner of Burial Beer Co. “It’s easy to take for granted that in Asheville we have access to much incredible beer, but events like this remind us there is a whole world out there of breweries crafting alongside us, and it’s pretty amazing to make those connections and widen our view of craft.”

Every brewery has a volunteer pouring its beer. Lists of the selections with corresponding descriptions are emailed out and posted at each station. Draft techs work the event to make sure that all the

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Wicked Weed Funkatorium Invitational returns

LIQUID BLISS: Wicked Weed Brewing coowner Walt Dickinson examines a glass of 2016 Red Angel barrel-aged American sour ale with raspberries. The Funkatorium Invitational, the brewery’s third annual gathering of wild and sour ales from across the country, takes place July 16 at its Candler production brewery. Photo courtesy of Wicked Weed Brewing. volunteers need to do is talk about the beers.

Burial will be serving Garden of Earthly Delights, a Brett-conditioned saison with cucumber, turmeric, tangerine peel and white peppercorns, plus Dull Gret, a blonde sour. Reiser says the two beers were chosen to represent what Burial is currently brewing as well as where it’s going, especially as its original South Slope facility transforms into the site for its forthcoming line of sour and wild farmhouse ales, and clean beer production moves to its new forest camp brewhouse and taproom outside Biltmore Village.

“Garden of Earthly Delights is a showcase of our love for unexpected combinations of ingredients paired with a complex Brett character, while Dull Gret is the first foeder beer to release from our brewery and a glimpse of the direction our brewery is moving toward,” Reiser says.

Weaverville-based Zebulon Artisan Ales makes its Funkatorium Invitational debut with East India

Pale Ale (circa 1840), a historical re-creation of what IPA would have tasted like once it reached India. The beer is made with only floor-malted English pale malt and 140 IBUs of East Kent Goldings hops, then aged with Brettanomyces for six months.

Zebulon will also offer American Sour Ale with Apricots, fermented with lactobacillus and the brewery’s house saison blend and aged with its house Brett blend for four months.

Two and a half pounds of apricots per gallon are then added for another month and keg conditioned with additional Brett for complexity.

For its first Funkatorium Invitational since brewing commenced at its new East Coast production facility in the River Arts District, New Belgium Brewing Co. will pour Tart Lychee wood-aged sour ale, Love Oscar sour brown ale, Love Apple Felix (aged in apple whiskey barrels) and 2016 Transatlantique Kreik, a spontaneously fermented lambic ale made with sour cherries.

“We normally don’t see kegs of Love Oscar or Love Apple Felix outside of the brewery that often, so it should be a nice treat to have those in the lineup,” says Trey Wheeler, Asheville market manager for New Belgium. “We really enjoy hearing that people love our beers, but to see someone taste one of our sour beers for the first time is a real experience for all parties involved.

Plus, this particular style of beer is an extremely strong tie-in to our Belgian roots and where our founders found inspiration.”

While these and other selections are the Funkatorium Invitational’s main draw, the event is not exclusively about beer. Wicked Weed has partnered with a nonprofit sponsor for each iteration, and for 2016, Eblen Charities takes over that role from Pints for Prostates, the beneficiary the past two years.

“Eblen Charities has been meeting any and every need that arises in our community in Asheville since 1991,” Hughes says. “Wicked Weed would not be what it is without this community, its support and the people who strive to meet its every need.” X

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ALL ABOARD: Members of Flat Rock Playhouse’s apprentice program perform in Rootabaga Express, a new family-friendly musical created by Ethan Andersen. Photo courtesy of Flat Rock Playhouse

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com Journalist, author and poet Carl Sandburg moved his family to Connemara, a 246-acre estate in Flat Rock, in 1945. There, he wrote more than a third of his published work.

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hang out with the actors of the Flat Rock Playhouse. That company, the State Theatre of North Carolina, located near the writer’s house — now the Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site — had purchased an 8-acre lot in the village of Flat Rock in 1952. “He would do poetry and sings songs, and he was friends with Robroy [Farquhar], the founder,” says Lisa

Bryant, Flat Rock Playhouse producing artistic director.

The relationship between the playhouse and the author endures as the theater company has performed Sandburg-inspired plays for decades as part of the Sandburg Summer Stage series, an ongoing collaboration with the state historic site. Past productions included Rootabaga!, The

People’s Poet, Sandburg’s Lincoln and The World of Carl Sandburg (aka the “MUSICARL”). But this year, in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the National Park Service (of which the Sandburg Home is part), Flat Rock Playhouse created two new original productions — Spink, Skabootch and Swipes in Rootabaga Country and Carl Sandburg’s Rootabaga Express, both onstage at the amphitheater of the Sandburg Home through Saturday, Aug. 13.

Apprentice director Ethan Andersen took on the task of creating Rootabaga Express, the new MUSICARL. “The first thing I did was go to Rootabaga Stories, Sandburg’s children’s book,” he says. “It was just deciding which six stories I wanted tell in this version — there are so many more we could have chosen — and then letting my imagination go wild.”

The whimsical characters that sprung from Sandburg’s mind lend themselves to theatrical treatment. Andersen’s musical follows the story of Gimme the Ax, who takes a train ride to “a magical, mystical world.” In one story from the production, three boys shrink to the size of bugs. In another, the Rusty Rats save the Creampuffs and do a boogie with the moon, according to a press release.

Andersen came to the playhouse’s apprentice program five years ago while in college. The 14-week summer session offers students opportunities to develop skills in performance, directing, designing, technical work and administration. Currently underwritten, it includes room, board and a stipend. “In addition to the summer camp feel, they get professional experience and exposure,” says Andersen. Now a graduate

based in New York City, he agreed to return to the playhouse this summer as the head of its apprentice program.

A professional job — serving as a music director and conductor of the Saturday Night Fever tour — allowed Andersen to live-record to songs for Rootabaga Express. “I was on tour when I was writing it, so I had lots of musicians at my command,” he says.

Part of the apprentice duties, along with working on big shows like The Music Man, include the Sandburg Home performances. “The power of Sandburg’s words and his imagery and his joyfulness … by the end of every summer, without fail, that’s one of the things they come to love the most, cherish the most and miss the most when they’re gone,” says Bryant.

She, too, started as an apprentice at the playhouse in the 1990s.

When Bryant set out to pen Spink, Skabootch and Swipes, which takes its title from the nicknames Sandburg had for his children, “I was able to find a couple of things written by Sandburg’s wife [Lilian “Paula” Sandburg], and his granddaughter [Paula Steichen Polega],” she says. “I also wanted to incorporate a little of the history of Carl Sandburg, so while [the audience] is being entertained, there’s still an understanding about why he wrote the Rootabaga stories.”

The reason, Bryant explains, is that Sandburg wanted to create an American fairy tale. Prior to the 1920s, most children’s stories were based in European traditions. “He started with a story about a fox that lived under the kitchen,” Bryant says. That led to the expression, “Tell us a fox!”

One goal for the producing artistic director was to make the new play more kid-friendly than its predecessor. Meanwhile, Polega, when contacted about the use of Rootabaga Stories, requested that her grandfather’s humanitarian point of view be represented in the program. If it sounds like a tall order, both Bryant and Andersen rose to the challenge.

For Bryant, the characters of Spink, Skabootch and Swipes served as ambassadors into Sandburg’s imagination, introducing a new generation of readers and theatergoers to those iconic tales.

It was not too long ago that Andersen found himself at that same threshold.

“Before I got to the playhouse, I didn’t know any of [Sandburg’s] work,” he says. “Even in his silliest stories, there’s so much heart.” X

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by Bill Kopp

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‘A PRE-BLUES KIND OF THING’ Enjoy

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“The American blues form is foreign to us,” says Malian master guitarist Mamadou Kelly. That may come as a surprise to American audiences who hear in Kelly’s music a connection between his soulful approach and the American indigenous musical form

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born in the Mississippi Delta. Mamadou Kelly and his band, Ban Kai Na, play The Mothlight Saturday, July 16.

That purported connection between African music and the blues seemed clear when Mali’s most celebrated musician, Ali Farka Touré, released

Talking Timbuktu, a Grammywinning collaboration with American guitarist Ry Cooder, in 1994. But Kelly — who studied under Touré — emphasizes that Malian traditional music does not conform to the blues.

Through a translator, the French-

speaking guitarist says, “We have a lot of different styles of music in Mali, but ‘blues’ is not a word we use; that’s an American word. It was not something we thought too much about.”

So what is it that Western ears hear that leads them toward making that connection? “Maybe it is the feeling and the rhythm that may have resonated with people,” Kelly suggests.

“Maybe it’s a pre-blues kind of thing that hits people.”

Within the northwestern African country of Mali — with a population of more than 15 million — each region has its own cultural traditions, Kelly says. “However, we are all engaged in valuing cross-cultural expression while staying true to our own source.”

Born in 1969 in the Niger River Delta, Kelly went to study under Touré when he was only 17. “I grew up in a small town a short distance away from where he lived in Niafunke. As a teenager, I wanted to learn from him.” At first, Kelly learned to play the calabash, a gourd percussion instrument. He eventually learned guitar and several other instruments from Touré.

“I learned a lot from him,” Kelly says.

“It was like a family there. There [was] a group of guys who hung out at his studio; we played all the time, learned the traditions and the songs, drank tea. We watched what he did. We practiced a lot.

He was like our father or older brother; he scolded, encouraged.” Today, Kelly’s band, Ban Kai Na, includes members of the late Touré’s Allstars group.

In recent years, Mali has experienced internal strife, including a Tuareg rebellion. Islamist forces in Mali are opposed to Kelly’s secular style of music. But the musician — who lives in the north of the country with his wife and family — doesn’t write music that’s overtly political. “Our songs speak about the circumstances of our lives. Not specifically about politics, but the things of everyday life. We are musicians,” he emphasizes. “We play music.”

That music is sung completely in a language most Americans won’t know. “There is always something lost when words are not understood,” Kelly acknowledges. “The language barrier is difficult sometimes.”

But Kelly doesn’t believe this is a significant problem. “I try to give an idea about the songs when we perform,” he says. “But I have found American audiences to be very gracious; I think they understand what we are saying through the music. The people are dancing, and so our music connects with them somehow.”

On Adibar, Kelly’s 2013 debut album, traditional instrumentation was used.

Djamila, released last year, incorporated guest musicians on contemporary and/or Western instruments, including organ, electric guitars and cello. “We were looking to stretch and modernize,” Kelly says. “We grew up with Ali Farka Touré’s openness to experiment and discovery.”

Kelly emphasizes that “it is natural for us to invite people in to play. And we’ll be doing that again during this tour. We want to cross boundaries that divide people.”

In between dates on its 19-stop American tour (which includes a date at the prestigious Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.), Kelly’s band has recording projects planned. “While we are in California, we will be recording in Los Angeles with a Jamaican band called Soul Syndicate,” he says. “The idea is an Afro-reggae collaboration.

That is something new for us, and it should be a lot of fun.”

The band will also return to Area 52 Studios near Woodstock, N.Y., where Djamila was recorded. “We are going to bring in some new collaborators to add to the experience,” Kelly promises.

“So far we have the great slide guitarist Cindy Cashdollar excited to join us in the studio, and we’ve been talking to a few other people as well. We continue to look for ways to stretch our sound and connect with people.”

Kelly is enthusiastic about sharing his music with American music fans and believes a special connection may develop with his Western North Carolina audience. “Many people tell me that our music reminds them not only of American blues but also of American bluegrass music. We will bring a celebration to Asheville. We hope to win over Asheville audiences,” he says. “And then they’ll invite us back.” X

WHO Mamadou Kelly with Ban Kai Na WHERE The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Saturday, July 16, 9 p.m. $10

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INNER STRENGTH: “When I originally pitched it, it was just a twisty story where a kid thinks he has powers,” author Beth Revis says of A World Without You, her first contemporary YA novel. The story of Bo, a mentally ill teen who believes he can time-travel takes some cues from the author’s own family history. Photo courtesy of Revis The release of A World Without You — the first contemporary YA novel from local author Beth Revis — comes at a busy time. To start, the addition of a child to her household (her son Jack is now 1 year old) has made her writing life more interesting. As she’s working on her current project, a fantasy novel dealing with necromancy — the dark art of raising of people from the dead — “My son will crawl up and say, ‘Hey, Mommy!’” she says. “And I say, ‘I’ve got to write my death story now — sorry, innocent baby!’”

Child rearing isn’t Revis’ only new endeavor since finishing her Across the Universe series. With novelist Jake Bible, she hosts the Asheville/WNC Writers Coffeehouse, and she’s partnering with author

Cristin Terrell on retreats that offer aspiring writers an intensive, live-in workshop experience.

Revis will launch A World Without You at Malaprop’s on Tuesday, July 19. The event includes a Q&A with local writer Alexa Duncan.

A former teacher, Revis learns by teaching. “That’s the reason I wrote Paper Hearts,” she says of her three-volume series on writing advice. “The more I wrote about writing, the more I understood about writing.” Asked what she’s learned, she turns to voice, which she defines as the authentic writing that arises when an author trusts her own work.

For Revis, an authentic voice goes hand in hand with a vision of writing as a process of discovery,

a process that was at work in the writing of A World Without You. The novel is the story of Bo, a mentally ill teen whose delusions that he can travel through time prevent him from dealing with his girlfriend’s death and threaten his relationship with his family. World also tells of Phoebe, Bo’s sister, and her struggle to come to terms with the effects of Bo’s illness on her life and family.

That’s not how Revis first envisioned the book, however. “When I originally pitched it, it was just a twisty story where a kid thinks he has powers,” Revis says. Whether or not those powers were real — and whether Bo was in a mental institution or an X-Men-type academy — would be left up to the reader.

As she got further into the novel, however, Revis realized that she had to resolve the reality of Bo’s situation. Then, one day she found herself writing a scene in which Bo overhears his sister talking about her deepest fears. Although the sister character didn’t have a name at that point, Revis realized that those fictional fears echoed her own reallife feelings growing up with Luke, her mentally ill brother.

“I’m usually not a ‘the muse touched me’ type of person,” Revis says, “but once she started voicing her fears — which were really my fears — it became something I wanted to explore.” Soon the sister had a name — Phoebe, after Holden Caulfield’s sibling in A Catcher in the Rye — and, as her role expanded, World transformed from paranormal to contemporary realism.

The story is not meant to be autobiographical. Revis’ parents, she says, provided much more support to her and Luke than Bo’s parents can provide to him and Phoebe. Yet it’s clear that the

author’s experience deepens the book’s central conflict. And for Revis, this connection was made more poignant because her brother died several years ago, and she wrote much of World while she was pregnant with her son. She says the choice of time travel as Bo’s power was due in part to a desire to reach the now-absent Luke, “and so writing about this brother who ultimately died, while this new life was growing inside me — it was a weird and surreal mixture of death and life and past and future.”

Writing a contemporary novel presented special challenges. Revis couldn’t rely on science fiction tropes, and exploring her personal history (“I don’t like to do that as much,” she says) made the writing all the more difficult. Early response to World, in particular from those familiar with mental illness, has reassured her, however. She hopes readers will take note of the way Bo’s illness also grants him a unique insight and strengthens his bond with Phoebe. “We can shift what we consider weakness to power,” Revis says. “Things that hurt us can also be sources of strength in ways we didn’t really know.” X

WHAT Beth Revis presents A World Without You in a conversation with Alexa Duncan WHERE Malaprop’s 55 Haywood St. malaprops.com WHEN Tuesday, July 19, at 7 p.m. Free

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by Edwin Arnaudin

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LIVING THE DREAM The Flaming Lips’ Jake Ingalls brings his band Spaceface to The Grey Eagle “Everybody says, ‘The Flaming Lips changed my life,’” says Jake Ingalls.

“But they actually changed my life. It’s pretty bizarre how that happened.”

Indeed, the series of fortuitous events that took him from a fan of the psych rockers to playing with them has the makings of a Hollywood movie. The journey began after a 2009 show when Ingalls helped the band’s tour manager, overwhelmed and unexpectedly without stagehands, move gear in the pouring rain. The two stayed in touch, and Ingalls was soon hired as a catchall stagehand, gradually working his way up to guitar tech.

When the Lips found out Ingalls played music, frontman Wayne Coyne asked him if he could keep a beat, then brought him aboard on synth bass at their shows. For nearly three years, Ingalls played synthesizers and guitar in the band while pulling double-duty lugging cases. Six months ago, Coyne suggested they hire Ingalls’ longtime friend, Matt Strong, as the new guitar tech, freeing Ingalls from those responsibilities.

Besides working together in this capacity — Ingalls says he still helps set up Lips shows every once in a while — Strong and Ingalls are also in Spaceface, which heads to The Grey Eagle on Thursday, July 14. The two have been playing music together in various forms since the seventh or eighth grade. (“I think the first song we actually learned was ‘Paranoid’ by Black Sabbath,” Ingalls says.) They lived together during college, where Ingalls reconnected with fellow grade school friend and former hockey teammate Eric Martin.

In 2012, the three moved into the same house, set up the living room as a jam space and started writing songs. The following year, right around the time Ingalls started playing with the Lips, they rounded out Spaceface and began touring.

While Ingalls describes the Lips as “more abstract and wild,” he considers Spaceface’s aesthetic more in the realm of mid-’70s soft

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LIGHT IT UP: Jake Ingalls of Spaceface places great emphasis on a memorable concert experience.“There are moments that should feel like a nostalgic flashback, others where you might wanna just kiss the person next to you, some that are a little too intense and some that are meant to bring you back down and let you breathe,” he says. “We want to take you on this roller coaster trip with us.” Photo by Emma Howells rock and prog rock. “We like to write pop songs and then insert the weirdness around it,” he says. Finding time to make those sounds, however, can be somewhat of a challenge.

Ingalls, who moved from Memphis to Los Angeles with his girlfriend in February, is on the road a week or two of almost every month with the Lips. That doesn’t leave much room for him to work on Spaceface, but once he knows his Lips schedule, he’s able to book tours or mixing sessions around those dates and implement the knowledge he’s gained from being around Coyne’s band.

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“I’ve learned a great deal about orchestration, as far as musical composition goes. I’ve also learned about the astronomical difference it makes to just roll up your sleeves and make something happen rather than wait for something to happen,” Ingalls says. “The ebb and flow of enthusiasm and inspiration are far too fickle to rely upon. Sometimes you just have to grind away for a couple of hours before the best idea reveals itself to you.”

Fellow Flaming Lips band members have also been instrumental in furthering Ingalls’ passion proj-

ect. Drummer Matt Duckworth let Ingalls stay at his house while Ingalls was mixing Spaceface’s forthcoming, as-yet-untitled album.

Duckworth also plays on a few of the new songs. “He does a lot of studio work and has great taste, so I think we ended up with some really nice takes,” Ingalls says.

“Everyone’s incredibly supportive.

Derek [Brown] and Nic [Ley] have really given me a lot of pointers on how to plan a show in the smartest way and how to do things right, but also on the cheap.”

The commitment to putting on a memorable performance was a priority for Ingalls long before he joined the Lips. Growing up, he was inspired by artists who engaged their audiences from start to finish. He knew if he wanted friends to show up or to coerce total strangers to spend their Friday night in a club they may not have heard of, he’d have to immerse them in the performance.

Key to Spaceface’s visual concert experience is Daniel “Big Red” Quinlan, who runs the group’s complex light show. The rig was built in Ingalls’ parents’ Memphis garage and is based on a series of on and off switches, which Quinlan runs off the side of the stage.

“I feel that if you’re going to take a chance and spend the evening with us, we’re gonna make it worth your time,” he says. “Really, we’re a bunch of goofballs who like to think about the deeper things, but we also don’t wanna take ourselves too seriously. And above all, we like showing people a good time, and the show is really conducive to that vibe. Maybe it’s our Southern hospitality. The idea is to, together, have an immersive and engaging experience that has us all leaving feeling a bit lighter, with a big smile.” X

WHO Spaceface with Doc Aquatic and Axxa/Abraxas WHERE The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Thursday, July 14, 9 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show

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The Big Crafty

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“Our aim is to highlight handmade ingenuity, to promote maker skills and smallscale entrepreneurship, and to strengthen community bonds through micro-commerce,” says Brandy Bourne, who co-founded The Big Crafty with her Horse + Hero business partner Justin Rabuck. For its 17th iteration, the festival will agggregate 150 regional and national art vendors, transforming Pack Square Park into its own mosaic of sorts (Asheville Art Museum, which normally hosts The Big Crafty, is currently undergoing renovations). The curated selection of items ranges from textiles and screenprints to pottery, jewelry and natural cleaning products. There’s also a social component to the event, Bourne says — expect “hugs, lots of hugs.” The outdoor fair, which also includes food, is free to browse and takes place on Sunday, July 17, from noon to 6 p.m. thebigcrafty.com. Image courtesy of the organizers

Musicians Mark Duncan, Nathan Ebanks, Scott Murphree and James Wilson all lead full lives outside of their band, Straw Man, but they make time to practice “with a serious intensity that [is usually] reserved for those who actually go on the road or become pro,” according to Duncan. And four years in, Ebanks says the band is “still an evolving, unruly adolescent.” The group combines three-part vocal harmonies, galactic synth and guitar licks fit for a Southern highway joyride — and peppers that original repertoire with improvisations or the rare cover song. An upcoming show at The Orange Peel’s PULP lounge will be recorded live and may be released in 2017, Duncan says, which should hold fans over until Straw Man completes its debut album. The foursome plays PULP on Sunday, July 17, at 9 p.m. $7/$5 for members. theorangepeel.net. Photo courtesy of the band

Kansas Bible Company Multiple members quit Kansas Bible Company after the 11-person group moved into one Nashville home. The remaining seven were left pondering life’s changes — a theme that informed their 2016 album, Paper Moon. A three-piece horn section pipes in above the group’s signature amped-up, retro-rock sound, which, on this latest work, gives way to occasional displays of vulnerability and theatrics. “We wanted to focus on good pop writing, then make those songs a little bit weird and interesting by adding different textures,” says bassist Nathan Morrow. “Before, we’d start with the textures and then figure out the song, [but] we decided to do the opposite here.

We wanted to make sure we could play the song on an acoustic guitar, first.” Kansas Bible Company plays a free show at the Salvage Station on Saturday, July 16, at 8 p.m. salvagestation.com. Photo by Laura Partain

Jeff Thompson Giving Trio As rain pummeled a recent Downtown After 5 concert, Jeff Thompson took the stage and began singing to the few soggy fans he’d originally envisioned as an elbow-to-elbow crowd. His sentiments as he processed Mother Nature’s slight were, “Seriously, y’all are so cute with your umbrellas and your raincoats. ... This wasn’t quite what I pictured, but maybe it’s better. You guys must be really awesome people.” That’s the same forwardmarching, happy-to-be-here mentality that energizes Thompson’s otherwise introspective songwriting and performances, whether he’s adorning his jazz and rock numbers with guitar, heightening suspense through spoken word lyrics or conjuring his fouroctave vocals for more sultry and soulful purposes. The Jeff Thompson Giving Trio, which draws on the additional talents of keyboard player Aaron Price and drummer James Kylen, plays The Grey Eagle on Saturday, July 16, at 8 p.m. $12/$15. thegreyeagle. com. Photo courtesy of the band MOUNTAINX.COM

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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com THE WRITERS’ WORKSHOP 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through TU (8/30) Submissions accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest. Contact for guidelines. $25.

COMEDY BLACKLIST IMPROV facebook.com/blacklistimprov • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 8pm - Improv comedy show. $7. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St.

MUSIC ASHEVILLE LYRIC OPERA • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (7/15) until (7/17) - Man of La Mancha. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Sun.: 3pm. $32 and up/$15 and up students. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square

GET YOUR LAUGH ON: If you are looking for some local wit and whimsy, look no further than Asheville’s only live comedy game show — “The Superhappy Trivia Challenge” — Wednesday, July 20, at 7 p.m. at 35Below. The monthly event features some of Asheville’s best comic actors and personalities, as well as live music provided by the “Amazing One Man SuperHappy Band,” Mr. Anthony Willingham. This month features guests Jillian Summers, Travis Lowe, Matt Burke and Jeff Catanese facing off on a range of topics far and wide. Tickets are $12 and can be purchased at ashevilletheatre.org or at the door. For more information about the production, visit superhappyproductions. com. Photo courtesy of Super Happy Productions (p. 46) ART ART HOP facebook.com/artgallerytrailwnc1, artgallerytrailwnc1@gmail.com • 3rd FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Selfguided tour of artist studios in Hendersonville and Flat Rock. Free to attend.

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-8504, acofhc.org

ART/CRAFT FAIRS THE BIG CRAFTY thebigcrafty.com • SU (7/17), noon-6pm Handmade crafts from 170 artists, food, drink, live music. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. MOONLIT ART MARKET burialbeer.com • 2nd THURSDAYS through (10/13), 8-11pm - Arts and craft market. Free to attend. Held at Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave.

• TH (7/14), 3:30-5pm - Grant writing workshop for nonprofit grassroots art programs Free.

• TH (7/21), 3:30-5pm - Grant writ-

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ing workshop for artists interested in applying for the North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grants. Registration required. Free.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • SA (7/16), 11am-4pm - Self-guided art tour of Grovewood Studios Art Tour. Free to attend.

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ARTIST STUDIOS AVAILABLE (pd.) In Swannanoa Business Center, 2263 US 70 Highway, Swannanoa. For more information: (828) 669-1030. swannanoabusinesscenter.com ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 693-8504, acofhc.org • Through (8/19) - Applications accepted for North Carolina Arts

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Council Regional Artist Project Grants. See website for full guidelines.

• Through FR (8/19) Submissions accepted for the North Carolina Arts Council Grassroots Arts Program subgrants. Contact for full guidelines.

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-8504, acofhc.org • Through (8/1) - Submissions accepted for arts and crafts vendors for the October 1 & 2 Art on Main Festival. See website for full guidelines.

BLUE RIDGE ORCHESTRA blueridgeorchestra.com • Through SU (8/17) - Open auditions for clarinet, viola, and violin.

See website for full guidelines.

Free.

CAROLINA CONCERT CHOIR 607-351-2585, carolinaconcertchoir.org, ldoebler@ithaca.edu • Through (8/30) - Open auditions for choir members. Contact for full guidelines. Free.

BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 862-2100, brevardmusic.org Held at 349 Andante Lane, Brevard, unless otherwise noted.

• WE (7/13), 12:30pm - Student Piano Recital. Free.

• WE (7/13), 7:30pm - Alumni reunion concert. $27. Held in Ingram Auditorium at Brevard College • TH (7/14), 7:30pm - The Magic Flute, concert. $35 and up. Held in the Porter Center at Brevard College • FR (7/15), 12:30pm - “New Music,” concert of new works written by Brevard Music Center composition students. Free.

• FR (7/15), 4:30pm - “Piccolo Opera,” presented by high school voice students. Free. Held at the Brevard College Porter Center • FR (7/15), 7:30pm - “Mahler 5,” outdoor concert featuring the works of Mahler. $15 lawn seats/$25 and up regular seating.

• SA (7/16), 2pm - The Magic Flute, concert. $35 and up. Held in the Porter Center at Brevard College • SA (7/16), 7:30pm - “Symphonie Fantastique,” outdoor concert featuring Robert Moody and Mason Bates and the works of Berlioz. $15 lawn seating/$25 and up regular seating.

• SU (7/17), 7pm - “Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition.”

Free.

• MO (7/18), 12:30pm - Chamber music concert. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard • MO (7/18), 7:30pm - Artist faculty concert. $27. Held at Brevard College Porter Center • TU (7/19), 7:30pm - “Apollo’s Fire,” concert by the Cleveland Baroque Orchestra. $27. Held at Brevard College Porter Center • WE (7/20), 12:30pm - Student

piano recital. Free.

• WE (7/20), 7:30pm - Bill Preucil and friends, concert. $27. Held at the Brevard College Porter Center.

• TH (7/21), 7:30pm - High school symphonic winds concert. Free.

• TH (7/21), 7:30pm - Harpath Rising, concert. $25. Held at the Brevard College Porter Center CRADLE OF FORESTRY Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • SUNDAYS (7/3) through (7/31) Songcatchers Music Series. $6/$3 children.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (7/14) until (7/17) - Sharon Owens sings the music of Barbra Streisand.

Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm.

Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $30 and up.

HAYWOOD COUNTY LIBRARYCANTON 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 6482924, haywoodlibrary.org • SU (7/17), 3pm - Richard Shulman, piano concert. Free.

HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725 • TU (7/19), 6:30-7:30pm - Peter Fletcher, classical guitar. Free.

MUSIC AT UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • SU (7/18), 7pm - Concerts on the Quad: Lyric, rap/singer-songwriter/ guitar. Free. Held outdoors on the Quad MUSIC AT WCU 227-2479, wcu.edu • WE (7/13), 7pm - Summer Concert Series: The Southern Experience Band. Free. Held on the lawn of the A.K. Hinds University Center • WE (7/13), 7:30pm - HighlandsCashiers Chamber Music Festival: Eroica Trio. $35. Held in the Coulter Building recital hall MUSIC ON MAIN 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (7/15), 7-9pm - Concert with Flashback, motown/disco. “Classic Corvette Cruise-In,” car show. Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville NORTH MAIN MUSIC SERIES 692-6335 • SA (7/16), 5-7:30pm - Appalachian Fire concert. Free to attend. Held at Green Room Cafe & Coffeehouse, 536 N. Main St., Hendersonville RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES 233-3216, facebook.com/ rhythmandbrewshendersonville

• 3rd THURSDAYS (5/19), 5-9pm - Outdoor concert series. Free to attend. Held between Allen & Caswell Streets, Hendersonville SHINDIG ON THE GREEN 258-6101 x345, folkheritage.org • SATURDAYS (7/2) through (7/23), 7pm - Outdoor live traditional and old-time music and dancing. Free.

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. SUMMER TRACKS CONCERT SERIES 290-4316, summertracks.com • FR (7/15), 7pm - Peggy Ratusz, blues/jazz/swing/soul. Free. Held at Rogers Park, 55 W. Howard St., Tryon SWANNANOA CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL 771-3050, scm-festival.com • SA (7/16), 7:30pm - “Sketches,” concert by the Jasper String Quartet featuring works by Beethoven, Hope, Boccherini and Brahms. $25.

Held at Warren Wilson College.

• SU (7/17), 7:30pm - “Sketches,” concert by the Jasper String Quartet featuring works by Beethoven, Hope, Boccherini and Brahms. $25.

Held at Hart Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville TIGG’S POND RETREAT CENTER 111 Fiddlehead Lane, Zirconia, 6970680, tiggspondretreatcenter.com • FR (7/15), 7pm - Danielle Miraglia, blues. $15/$10 students.

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • (7/18) through (7/23) - Roots Music Festival. See website for full schedule. Free.

THEATER 35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • WE (7/20), 7:30pm - “Olde Virden’s SuperHappy Trivia Challenge.” Local comics and personalities participate in a 1970’s style panel show. $12.

ANAM CARA THEATRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FR (7/15) & SA (7/16), 8-10pm - Hang Ten, presented by Accordion Time Machine, experimental theatre ensemble. $12.

Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B CARL SANDBURG HOME 1928 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 693-4178, nps.gov/carl • WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS through (8/12), 10:15am Spink, Skabootch and Swipes in Rutabaga Country, performed by Flat Rock Playhouse Apprentice Company. Free.

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

Daniel Boone Ampitheatre 591 Horn in the West Drive, Boone, 264-2120, horninthewest. com • TUESDAYS through SUNDAYS, until (8/6), 8-10pm - Horn in the West, drama. $24.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/7) until (7/24) - The Importance of Being Earnest.

Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Thurs. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $28 and up.

HART THEATRE 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (7/8) until (7/31) - Jesus Christ Superstar, musical. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $18 and up.

MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS & SUNDAY (7/8) through (7/30), 7:30pm - Titus Andronicus.

Free to attend. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. NC STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, 239-0263 • FR (7/15) & SA (7/16), 7:30pm - “In Sights: An Evening of Mind Reading,” mindreader Michael Spremulli. $10-$24.

PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE 202 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, 682-4285, parkwayplayhouse.com • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS until (7/16), 7:30pm - Little Shop of Horrors, presented by Parkway Playhouse Junior. $22/$20 seniors/$12 children.

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE Owen Theatre Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, 689-1384, sartplays.org • WEDNESDAY through SUNDAY (7/13) until (7/17) - The Belle of Amherst, a one woman show about the life of poet Emily Dickenson.

Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $22.50-$25.

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (7/7) until (7/30), 7:30pm - Capital Liar, noir comedy. $24/$21 advance.

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • WEDNESDAY through SUNDAY (7/13) until (7/17) - The Little Mermaid, presented by the Tryon Youth Summer Productions. Wed.: 6pm.

Thurs.-Sat.: 8pm. Sun.: 3pm. $22/$11 students.

G AL L E RY D I RE CTORY ART AT ASU 262-3017, tcva.org • Through SA (10/8) - Color Me This, jewelry exhibition guestcurated by Eliana Arenas. Held in the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts.

• Through SU (10/8) - A Sense of Place, jewelry installation work by Eliana Arenas.

ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through TH (7/28) - Celebrate Brittany! Exhibit of cultural and historic photos from Celtic Brittany by Jan Zollars. Held in the Blowers Gallery at Ramsey Library.

ARTWORKS 27 S. Broad St., Brevard, 5531063, artworksbrevardnc.com • Through SU (7/31) - Over Head and Hills- Sky Dancing, exhibition of the pastel paintings of Cathyann Lautier Burgess.

Reception: Friday, July 22, 5:307pm.

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 207 Coxe Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (8/6) - Point of View Exhibition featuring new media works curated by Shira Service and MUX. • Through SA (8/6) - Two Roads One Vision, the Works of Fian Arroyo & Joe Burleson.

ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 2558444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through WE (8/31) - Almost 40 Years in Purgatory, exhibition of Purgatory Pie Press books and works.

ASHEVILLE CERAMICS GALLERY 109 Roberts St., ashevilleceramics.com • Through SU (7/31) - Exhibition of the ceramics of Peter Rose.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through SU (7/31) - Colors of Summer, exhibition of the work of Joyce Schlapkohl.

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ASHEVILLE MUSEUM 35 Wall St., 785-5722 • Through (7/31) - Bought and Sold: Voices of Human Trafficking, multimedia artwork

by Kay Chernush.

goo.gl/LohSnf • Through (8/13), 8pm - Unto These Hills, drama. $23/$13 children under 13/Free children under 5. Held at Mountainside Theatre, 688 Drama Road, Cherokee

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org

• Through (8/2) - Studies in Sacred Geometry, exhibition of large format mixed-media by José Bello. Opening Reception: July 15, 6-8pm.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (7/24) - A Show of Hands 2016 Calligraphy Exhibit.

BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through (8/20) - M.C. Richards, Centering: Life + Art 100 Years.

• Through SA (8/20) - Wide Open, Randy Shull’s Architecture + Design, exhibition curated by J. Richard Gruber.

HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 452-0593, haywoodarts.org • Through (8/14) - What a Wonderful World, exhibition of the paintings of Martha Tracy.

Held at Hart Theatre, 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville

BLUE SPIRAL 1 38 Biltmore Ave., 251-0202, bluespiral1.com • Through FR (8/26) - Spectrum, invitational exhibit featuring work in a variety of media by 12 artists who explore emotive and optic uses of color.

• Through FR (8/26) - LINE: from Minimalism to Abstraction, ten artist exhibit utilizing linear elements to render representational and abstract works.

• Through FR (8/26) - Southern artist series - Will Henry Stevens (1881-1949), exhibition.

• Through FR (8/26) - Southern artist series—Maltby Sykes (1911-1992), exhibition.

BON VIVANT 9 Reed St. Suite D, 785-1527, bonvivantavl.com • Through FR (12/30) - The Ron Ogle Museum, exhibition of multi-media works by Ron Ogle.

CHIESA RESTAURANT 152 Montford Ave., 552-3110, chiesaavl.com • Through MO (10/3) - Three Colorful Women, exhibition of paintings by Joan Martha, Bee Adams and Sally Brenton.

DOWNTOWN BOOKS & NEWS 67 N. Lexington Ave., 348-7615, downtownbooksandnews.com • Through SU (7/31) - Exhibition of the watercolor art of CJ Randall.

DR. LULU NATUROPATHIC CLINIC 12 1/2 Wall St. Suite M, 708-8818 • Through SA (7/30) - The Art of Healing, painting exhibition by Virginia Pendergrass.

GREEN SAGE CAFE SOUTH 1800 Hendersonville Road, Hendersonville • Through (10/1) - Beyond the Visible: Infrared Photography of Nature, group exhibition of impressionistic infared photographs.

LONDON DISTRICT STUDIOS 8 London Road, londondistrictstudios.com • Through (7/31) - Thrust, paintings by Ian M. Cage.

MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • Through MO (9/5) - Luminous, paintings by Tim Turner and glass by Kenny Pieper and Pablo Soto.

MORA CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY 9 Walnut St., 575-2294, moracollection.com • Through (7/31) - Jewelry exhibition by Anna Johnson.

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • Through SU (7/31) - Exhibition of the ceramic art of Christine Sams, Diana Gillispie and Tara Underwood.

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS 67 Doras Trail, Bakersville, 7652359, penland.org • Through SU (9/4) - Wendy Maruyama: the wildLIFE Project, mixed-media exhibition about elephants. Opening reception: Saturday, July 16, 4:30-6:30pm.

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through (8/2) - Sunset Motel, exhibition of ­a crylic paintings by Brock Forrer & Ally Alsup.

SATELLITE GALLERY 55 Broadway St., 305-2225, thesatellitegallery.com • Through SU (7/31), 6pm - New Work, exhibition of paintings by Dustin Spagnola.

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

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SURFACE GALLERY 14 Lodge St., 552-3918, surfacegallery.com • Through (8/22) - Birds of a Feather: Collaborative Wooden Sculptures, work by Melissa Engler and Graeme Priddle.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway Street, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (8/20) - WARPED, exhibition of art on the intermingling of sound and weaving.

TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • SA (7/16) through SA (8/13) - Landscapes: Four Ways, exhibition of textiles, clay, glass and oil paintings by Lori LaBerge, Teresa Pietsch, Simona Rosasco, and Kat Turczyn.

Reception: Friday, August 22, 5-7pm. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (7/15) Transylvania Art Guild’s Summer Showcase, exhibition.

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 859-8323, tryonartsandcrafts.org • Through FR (7/29) - Little Clay One Way, exhibition of small clay-works by regional artists.

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 8598322, tryonarts.org • Through FR (7/29) - Carolina Camera Club exhibition.

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

ZAPOW! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 5752024, zapow.net • Through WE (8/31) - Dream: An Experiment in Creative Community Collaboration, group exhibition.

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CLUBLAND THE DUGOUT Karaoke, 9:00PM THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Bluegrass jam, 8:00PM THE MOCKING CROW Open Mic, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Steve Gunn & the Outliners w/ Spacin' (singer-songwriter), 9:30PM THE PHOENIX Edgefield Johnston & Lilly Everett (Americana, punk), 5:00PM Jazz night, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10:00PM THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE DJ Alex Thompson (dance), 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10:00PM TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul open mic night w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN REACH (jazz), 7:30PM

FEED YOUR HEAD: Asheville’s “tripped out, trapped out” rap trio Sunset Go Trippers has a pretty straightforward mission: “create music that touches people.” Together with rappers J Eazy and Ronny Mac, lyricist/producer Philo melds tripped-out beats with lyrical overtones reminiscent of Odd Future to unleash a psychedelic mash on your brain. Sunset Go Trippers joins a medley of friends to celebrate the release of their new album, Blood Moon, Friday, July 15 at Asheville Music Hall beginning at 9 p.m.

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN David Bazan w/ Laura Gibson (indie rock), 8:00PM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 13 185 KING STREET James Hammel (singer-songwriter, guitarist), 6:30PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Oslance Duo (jazz), 5:00PM Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An Evening w/ Danny Schmidt (Americana), 7:00PM

550 TAVERN & GRILLE karaoke, 9:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE Noble Kava pop up kava bar & Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 8:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LEX 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (barrel house stride piano), 7:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30PM

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Play to Win game night, 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic, 7:00PM BLUE RIDGE TAPROOM We Are The Willows w/ Matt Phillips (indie rock), 9:00PM

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GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7:00PM

LOOKOUT BREWING COMPANY James Hammel (jazz), 6:30PM MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9:00PM

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Open mic w/ Riyen Roots, 8:00PM

O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND "Take the Cake" Karaoke, 10:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Tony Mozz (Americana), 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Synergy Story Slam Presents "Camp", 7:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Staves & Strings (bluegrass), 6:30PM

OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9:00PM

GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30PM 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8:00PM

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ONE STOP DELI & BAR Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7:00PM The Travelin' Kine (Americana, roots rock), 10:00PM PULP Spearfinger w/ Bleedseason & Artificial Oceans (metal, rock), 9:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Groove Orient (funk, blues, jam), 6:00PM ROOM IX Fuego: Latin night, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Tessia from My Feral Child, 7:00PM SCULLY'S Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30PM Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10:00PM SOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum 'n' bass), 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Spin Sessions w/ DJ Stylus (vinyl), 7:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Garry Segal (Americana, blues, roots rock), 6:00PM TALLGARY'S AT FOUR COLLEGE Open mic & jam, 7:00PM Wu-Wednesdays ('90s hip-hop experience), 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jazzy Happy Hours w/ Bill Gerhardt, 5:00PM Jeanette Zweig (spirituals, inspirational), 7:30PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Paint Nite, 6:00PM Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 6:30PM

THURSDAY, JULY 14 185 KING STREET Andrew Tufano (acoustic pop), 6:30PM Passerine (progressive folk), 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Stray Local (Americana), 9:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE Noah Proudfoot CD Release Party (singersongwriter), 8:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM AMC Jazz Jam, 9:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons (roots music), 7:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Troubadour series w/ Andrew Christopher (singer-songwriter), 6:00PM CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Sparrow & Her Wingmen (swing, jazz), 8:30PM CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolette Set (classic country), 7:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Station Underground (reggae), 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB West End Trio (folk), 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Billy Litz (Americana, ragtime), 7:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Ryan Wilcox (folk, singer-songwriter), 6:00PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM

GOOD STUFF Jerry Oliver (rock), 7:00PM

SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB Pierce Edens (Americana, rock), 6:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Spaceface w/ Doc Aquatic & Axxa/Abraxas (psychedelic rock), 9:00PM

SOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN Boom Forest (experimental indie folk), 10:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Laid Back Thursdays w/ Ram & friends (jazz, reggae, funk), 6:30PM Brittany Ann w/ Krista Shows & Momma Molasses (folk, Americana, country), 7:00PM Tuesday's Sermon (rock), 9:00PM

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Open Mic, 6:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7:00PM LEX 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 6:30PM LOOKOUT BREWING COMPANY Andrew Tufano (acoustic pop), 6:30PM MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7:00PM ODDITORIUM Firestorm Event (punk), 9:00PM OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Big Block Dodge (jazz, groove), 7:00PM

STONE ROAD RESTAURANT & BAR Open Mic w/ Tony the Pony, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jazzy Happy Hours w/ Bill Gerhardt, 5:00PM Open mic night, 7:30PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7:00PM THE PHOENIX Carver & Carmody (Americana), 8:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE TRL REQUEST NIGHT w/ DJ Franco Nino, 7:00PM TRADE & LORE COFFEE HOUSE "Salvation in Steel" w/ The Fly By Night Rounders (storytelling, hokum, country blues), 7:30PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10:00PM

TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7:00PM

OLIVE OR TWIST Live Piano, 8:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6:00PM The Groove Orient (funk, blues, jam), 10:00PM

TWISTED LAUREL Karaoke, 8:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Jef Chandler (Americana), 6:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sidecar Honey Duo (indie, Americana, rock), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Gruda Tree (blues, jam), 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Jeff Thompson & Aaron Price (singer-songwriter, multi-genre), 8:00PM ROOM IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION Zolopht (funk, rock, reggae), 8:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Steve Mosley (acoustic), 6:00PM DJ dance party, 9:30PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Russ Wilson (swing, jazz), 8:00PM

FRIDAY, JULY 15 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Resonant Rogues (old fashioned originals), 9:00PM

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Woody Wood Live Acoustic Set SATURDAYS

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THU 7/14

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SAT 7/16

7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

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CORK & KEG Vollie McKenzie & The Western Wildcats (hony-tonk, swing, two-step), 8:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Astral Plainsmen (bluegrass, Grateful Dead tribute), 8:00PM

ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Simon and Friends (jazz, funk), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Todd Cecil & Backsouth (rock, Americana), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF The Old Paints (rock 'n' roll, altcountry, folk), 9:00PM

MICHAEL COPPOLA 7:30PM – ZEN CATS WITH MARCEL ANTON

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Black Lillies w/ The Ragbirds (soul, rock), 9:00PM

TUE 7/19

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WED 7/20 5-9 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS : $35 MUSIC BY WEST END TRIO ON THE PATIO

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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Alarm Clock Conspiracy (indie rock, pop, alt-country), 7:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Concert on the lawn w/ CaroMia Tiller & friends (soul, funk, jazz), 6:30PM Peter Kfoury "The Oud Dude" (Middle Eastern fusion, world music), 7:00PM Ari & the Albis (funk, blues, rock), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Buffalo Wabs & The Price Hill Hustle w/ Fort Defiance (Americana, folk, old-time), 8:00PM JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Totes Dope Tite Sick Jams w/ (ya boy) DJ Hot Noodle, 10:00PM

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BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Dave Dribbon (folk, rock), 8:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10:00PM

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ATHENA'S CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7:00PM DJ Shy Guy, 10:00PM

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DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Asheville Lyric Opera presents "Man of La Mancha", 8:00PM

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LEX 18 Kid Dutch & Andrew J. Fletcher (20’s hot jazz), 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon (Americana), 6:30PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Kevin Fuller (Americana, folk), 6:00PM MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7:00PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM ODDITORIUM The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue, 9:00PM OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST Live dance, 8:00PM ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5:00PM Boy Named Banjo (roots, rock), 10:00PM

THE MOCKING CROW Karaoke, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Rooted In The Blues w/ The Dirty Badgers, The Paper Crowns & Chuck Beattie (classic blues tribute), 9:00PM THE PHOENIX Jamison Adams Project (classic rock), 9:00PM THE SOCIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Rooftop Dance Party w/ DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10:00PM TIGG’S POND RETREAT CENTER Danielle Miraglia (blues), 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL The Arcs w/ Mariachi Flor de Toloache (rock), 9:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE DJ Deacon (dance, trap, old school hip hop) , 8:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY ,DJ Malinalli, 7:00PM

WEDGE BREWING CO. Dj Malinalli, 7:00PM

OSKAR BLUES REEB RANCH Burning CAN notjusta Beer Festival w/ Dumpstaphunk, The Bright Light Social Hour & Andrew Scotchie and the River Rats, all day event

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Cabaret Jazz w/ Teri Rogier & Michael Jefry Stevens, 8:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Robert Earl Keen (alt-country), 7:30PM ROGERS PARK Peggy Ratusz (blues), 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Trongone Band (rock 'n' roll), 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Wintervals, 8:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM SCULLY'S DJ, 10:00PM SOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN SOL Vibes w/ Murkel, Midnight Willo, Tony Mozz & Water Bear (acoustic, electronic), 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Taylor Moore Band (rock, blues), 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Pierce Edens (Americana), 6:00PM THE ADMIRAL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jazzy Happy Hours w/ Marilyn Seits & Sean McAusland, 5:00PM "Celebrate Asheville" w/ Rev. Kiah & friends, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Daniel, 9:00PM

WILD WING CAFE Iggy Radio, 6:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Bea Team (improvisational, groove), 8:00PM ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8:00PM UNWINE'D AT MELLIE MAC'S James Hammel (jazz), 6:00PM

SATURDAY, JULY 16 185 KING STREET Dana Massive (pop, indie, rock), 6:30PM Stelle Amor (soul, jazz, blues), 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic juke), 6:00PM Lazybirds (Americana roots), 9:00PM ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Aron Jones Band (honky-tonk), 9:30PM ALTAMONT THEATRE Free Planet Radio w/ The Opal String Quartet (world music), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Make America Dance Again w/ live rotating DJs (dance), 9:00PM ATHENA'S CLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30PM DJ Shy Guy, 10:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsyjazz), 3:00PM Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Todd Cecil & Back South (country, blues), 9:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Jorden Okrend (singer-songwriter), 6:00PM CORK & KEG Three Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll), 8:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Riyen Roots (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Laurel Lee & the Escapees (low down folk, country), 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Shoeless Hooligan w/ Mellowfied (rock), 9:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7:30PM

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM

TWISTED LAUREL Motown Blue (funk, R&B, soul), 9:30PM Indoor & Outdoor Dance Party w/ DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 11:30PM

OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8:00PM Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11:00PM ONE STOP DELI & BAR Supatight (funk, rock), 10:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Kate Rhudy (folk), 6:00PM OSKAR BLUES REEB RANCH Burning CAN notjusta Beer Festival w/ Galactic, The Nth Power, Major & The Monbacks, Porch 40 and Interstate Stash Express, all day event PACK'S TAVERN A Social Function (classic covers, rock), 9:30PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Asheville Lyric Opera presents "Man of La Mancha", 8:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Charley King's Jamaican Jerk Fest w/ Chalwa (reggae), 12:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Shana Blake Band (funk, R&B, pop), 8:00PM

ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM

ROOM IX Open dance night, 9:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Zapato (funk, jazz), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Nameless in August (folk, rock), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF The All-Arounders (blues, fiddle, soul), 9:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Jeff Thompson Giving Trio (funk, jazzy pop rock), 8:00PM

WEDGE BREWING CO. Wedge Movie Night: Thunder Road, 8:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Brian McNeil (folk rock), 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Saturday karaoke, 6:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Grand Theft Audio (rock), 6:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Juan Benevidas Trio (flamenco, Latin fusion), 8:00PM ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8:00PM UNWINE'D AT MELLIE MAC'S Roberta Baum (jazz), 6:00PM

SUNDAY, JULY 17

SALVAGE STATION Kansas Bible Company (psychrock), 8:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR One Leg Up (gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga w/ cats, 10:30AM Further To Fly (Americana, rock), 8:00PM

BARLEY'S TAPROOM The Consultants of Swing (swing), 7:30PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Sunday Funday DJ set, 2:00PM Reggae night w/ Dub Kartel, 8:00PM

SCULLY'S DJ, 10:00PM

BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Sunday brunch w/ live music, 11:00AM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Ross Osteen & Crossroads (blues), 8:00PM

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel & friends, 11:30AM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Jesse Barry & the Jam (blues, soul, dance), 6:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Circus Mutt ("muttgrass"), 7:00PM

THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11:00PM

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Roots and Dore (blues, country roots), 4:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Alina Quu & the Gypsy Swingers, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

BUFFALO NICKEL The Storycrafters (storytelling, music), 7:00PM

THE MOCKING CROW Live music, 8:00PM

BYWATER Cornmeal Waltz w/ Robert Greer (classic country, bluegrass), 6:00PM

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ The Applebutter Express (Americana, bluegrass, funk), 7:00PM Brother Sun (Americana, folk, singer-songwriter), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Asheville Country Music Revue w/ members of Town Mountain (bluegrass, country), 9:00PM

LEX 18 HotPoint Trio (Gypsy jazz, swing), 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30PM LOOKOUT BREWING COMPANY Dana Massive (pop, indie, rock), 6:30PM MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7:00PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM

THE MOTHLIGHT Mamadou Kelly w/ members of Alkibar & the Ali Farka Toure Allstars (world music, blues, jazz), 9:00PM THE PHOENIX The Remarks (Americana, rock), 9:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Franco Nino Dance Party (electronic), 10:00PM TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR The Bluebirds (old-time, Americana), 8:00PM

TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

LIVE MUSIC... never a cover THU. 7/14 Sidecar Honey Duo (indie, Americana, rock)

FRI. 7/15 DJ MoTo

(dance hits, pop)

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Brody Hunt & the Handfuls (classic country), 7:00PM

SAT. 7/16 A Social Function (classic covers, rock)

CORK & KEG Vollie McKenzie (jazz, blues, country), 3:00PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Andy Ferrell (traditional music), 2:00PM DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Asheville Lyric Opera presents "Man of La Mancha", 3:00PM

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CLUBLAND DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9:00PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM

GOOD STUFF Nameless in August (folk, rock), 7:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Sunday Open Mic (open to poets, comedians & musicians), 7:30PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Carlene Carter w/ Bill & The Belles (country), 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Dennis "Chalwa" Berndt, 1:00PM Blind Pig presents: The Rocky Horror Picture Show (movie), 5:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11:00AM Michael Coppola (9 string guitarist), 5:30PM Sunday Jazz showcase, 7:30PM Zen Cats w/ Marcel Anton (blues), 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Tiki Night w/ DJ Lance (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10:00PM LEX 18 Cabaret, Can-Can & L’Amour 1904 (ticketed event), 6:00PM Cabaret, Can-Can & L’Amour 1904 (ticketed event), 8:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville ("swing'n grass"), 6:30PM

steve gunn & the outliners

wed

7/13

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w/ spacin

7/15

the dirty badgers, the paper crowns, and chuck beattie

mamadou kelly

sat

7/16

w/ members of alkibar and the ali farka toure allstars mon

7/18

wasted wine w/ poet radio

free!

whym (album release!)

tue

7/19

rooted in the blues:

fri

w/ j. atkinson (of youth eternal)

7/21

7/22 7/23

the moth:

thu

true stories told live

fri

pretty pretty

w/ fashion bath, jeffrey carson hayes

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ODDITORIUM Nutter w/ Nostradogmus, Rumbletramp, Dustin & The Furniture & Pig Latin (punk), 9:00PM OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST Zen Cats (blues), 6:00PM ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11:00AM Sundays w/ Bill & Friends (Grateful Dead tribute, acoustic), 5:00PM ORANGE PEEL Live Monumental in Asheville (film screenings), 7:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Elspeth Tremblay & Paige Albritton (singer-songwriter), 2:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Sunday Travers Jam (open jam), 5:00PM

w/ wahyas sat

LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Jon Corbin & Hank Bones (jazz, swing, blues), 12:00PM

PULP Straw Man, 9:00PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Carolina Catskins (folk, ragtime, hobo jangle), 3:00PM

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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Max Grossweight (rock), 5:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Barstool Sailors, 1:00PM Bull Moose Party (bluegrass), 5:00PM TALLGARY'S AT FOUR COLLEGE Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Ultra Lounge Listening Party w/ projections DJ Phantone Pantone, 10:00PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10:00AM Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7:00PM THE PHOENIX Ryan Furstenburg (Americana), 12:00PM Bull Moose Party (bluegrass, partygrass, country), 5:00PM THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Sunday brunch on the rooftop w/ Katie Kasben & Dan Keller (jazz), 12:30PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Jon Edwards & the Musicians on the Round, 6:00PM COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8:00PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Trivia, 7:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke, 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Songwriter's "open mic", 7:30PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7:00PM Upstate Rubdown w/ Emily Davis (Appalachian, soul), 9:00PM LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Kipper's "Totally Rad" Trivia night, 8:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30PM O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7:00PM ODDITORIUM Odd Karaoke Extravaganza, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Beats & Brews w/ ECO (vinyl), 8:00PM

THE SOUTHERN Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Summer movie series: Top Gun, 8:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Bring Your Own Vinyl (open decks), 8:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6:00PM

WEDGE BREWING CO. Cheaters & Samples, 5:30PM WICKED WEED Summer Concert Series, 4:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dr. Dog w/ Bright Light Social Hour & Floating Action (indie, rock, psychadelic), 7:30PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Sunday Funday w/ Crocs Duo, 5:00PM

SOVEREIGN REMEDIES Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8:00PM

MONDAY, JULY 18 185 KING STREET Open mic night, 7:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Jazz Club (soul, R&B, jazz), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Cornhole, 5:00PM ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE "Jazz Duo Elixirs" w/ Roberta Baum & Mike Holstein, 5:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Wasted Wine w/ Poet Radio (Gypsy punk, Euro folk-rock, cabaret), 9:00PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7:00PM THE PHOENIX Dustin Maxwell (singersongwriter), 8:00PM

BHRAMARI BREWHOUSE Mexi Monday (jazz, world music), 5:00PM

THE VALLEY MUSIC & COOKHOUSE Monday Pickin' Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8:00PM

BYWATER Open mic w/ Rick Cooper, 8:00PM

TIGER MOUNTAIN Service industry night (rock 'n' roll), 9:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Timo's Film Society Movies (free popcorn), 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Classic Rock 'n Roll Karaoke, 10:00PM

TWISTED LAUREL Phantom Pantone (industrial electronic), 9:00PM

LEX 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (jazz ballads & standards), 7:00PM

URBAN ORCHARD Old-time music, 7:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jay Brown & Jefree Vay (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM

TUESDAY, JULY 19 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8:00PM ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Open Mic w/ Electric Campfire, 8:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BACK YARD BAR Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Eleanor Underhill (country, soul), 7:00PM BLACK BEAR COFFEE CO. Round Robin acoustic open mic, 7:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Trivia, 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore (acoustic), 7:00PM BLUE RIDGE TAPROOM Tuesday Tease w/ Deb Au Nare (burlesque), 8:00PM BUFFALO NICKEL Trivia, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Odd comedy night, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST Tuesday Night Blues Dance w/ The Remedy (dance lesson at 8), 8:30PM ONE STOP DELI & BAR Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Trivia w/ Gil, 7:00PM ORANGE PEEL Digable Planets w/ Camp Lo (jazz, rap, alternative), 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team trivia & tacos, 7:00PM TALLGARY'S AT FOUR COLLEGE Jam night, 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jazzy Happy Hours w/ Bill Gerhardt, 5:00PM Jazz-n-Justice Tuesday w/ The Doctor B Trio, 7:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Whym w/ J. Atkinson (alternative, ambient), 9:00PM THE PHOENIX Open mic, 8:00PM Songwriter Showcase w/ Bradley Carter & Chris Tichner, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10:00PM

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Matt Walsh (blues), 6:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE T3 Video Gamer Night, 7:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Honky-Tonk, Cajun, and Western w/ DJ Brody Hunt, 10:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30PM

GOOD STUFF Old time-y night, 6:30PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The All-Arounders (blues, fiddle, soul), 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 6:00PM IRON HORSE STATION Open mic, 6:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions w/ Rob Parks & friends, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Cajun Two Steppin' Tuesdays w/ Upstate Rubdown, 7:00PM

URBAN ORCHARD Billy Litz (Americana, singersongwriter), 7:00PM WEDGE BREWING CO. Pleasure Chest, 7:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30PM

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Kristin Center (jazz, pop), 5:00PM Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE karaoke, 9:00PM

BLUE RIDGE TAPROOM Laugh Your Baskets Off w/ Tom Peters, Clifton Hall & Blacklist Improv (comedy, fundraiser), 7:00PM BUFFALO NICKEL Spoken Word Open Mic, 7:00PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Open mic w/ Riyen Roots, 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Tasche de la Rocha & Up Up We Go (jazz), 9:00PM FUNKATORIUM Staves & Strings (bluegrass), 6:30PM GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Tuba Skinny (ragtime, blues, jazz), 8:00PM GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Los Abrojitos (Argentine tango), 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Marianas Trench w/ Skylar Stecker (pop, punk, rock), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Michael Franti & Spearhead w/ George Porter Jr. and The Running Pardners (soul, rock), 7:30PM ROOM IX Fuego: Latin night, 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION 4th Qtr, 7:00PM SCULLY'S Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sound Station open mic (musicians of all backgrounds & skills), 7:30PM Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10:00PM SOL BAR NEW MOUNTAIN ADBC presents Axiom Wednesdays (drum 'n' bass), 9:00PM TALLGARY'S AT FOUR COLLEGE Open mic & jam, 7:00PM Wu-Wednesdays ('90s hip-hop experience), 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Mike Holstein & friends (jazz), 5:00PM Michael Jefry Stevens Chamber Jazz Ensemble, 8:00PM THE DUGOUT Karaoke, 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM

THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Bluegrass jam, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM

THE MOCKING CROW Open Mic, 8:00PM

LEX 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (barrel house stride piano), 7:00PM

THE PHOENIX Dave Dribbon (folk, rock), 6:00PM Jazz night, 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30PM

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Phantom Pantone (DJ), 10:00PM

MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30PM

THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE MR. CLOCK (audio/visual multimedia performance), 9:00PM

O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND "Take the Cake" Karaoke, 10:00PM

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Billy Presnell, 10:00PM

WILD WING CAFE Paint Nite, 6:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 6:30PM

THURSDAY, JULY 21 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Momma Molasses & Brittany Anne Trananbough (Americana), 9:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM AMC Jazz Jam, 9:00PM

Sun•July 17 Reggae Sunday hosted by Dennis Berndt of Chalwa @ 1pm

Tue• July 19

Team Trivia w/ Dr. Brown @ 6pm

7PM DOORS

Jeff Thompson Giving Trio

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BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic, 7:00PM

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Geeks Who Drink Trivia, 7:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Wednesday Night Waltz, 7:00PM

Sat •July 16 Pleasure Chest @ 7pm

6PM DOORS

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Play to Win game night, 7:30PM

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30PM 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8:00PM

SPACEFACE DOC AQUATIC AXXA/ABRAXIS

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BEN'S TUNE-UP Honky Tonk Wednesdays, 7:00PM

Fri•July 15 Alarm Clock Conspiracy @ 7pm

WED

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul open mic night w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30PM

DAVID BAZAN & LAURA GIBSON

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OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9:00PM

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BARLEY'S TAPROOM Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM

Wed •July 13 Woody Wood @ 5:30pm

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TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon & Andrew Brophy (bluegrass, old-time, Americana), 6:00PM

SUN

ODDITORIUM Caskets Filled With Flowers w/ The Spiral, Sentiments, Armadilla & Tongues of Fire (rock), 9:00PM

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ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening w/ Mike Dillon & Jim Laughlin (tribute to Elliott Smith & Neil Young & others), 8:00PM

TUBA SKINNY MAIL THE HORSE JAMES MCMURTRY WAYLAND

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons (roots music), 7:00PM CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE The Low-Down Sires (jazz), 8:30PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Station Underground (reggae), 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Fyan Furstenberg (Americana), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Sparklehorse/Danger-Mouse documentary, 7:30PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Mail The Horse (rock, country, gospel), 9:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Tiny Rhymes (classical, folk, rock), 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7:00PM LEX 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones ("The man of 1,000 songs"), 6:30PM

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OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST Live Piano, 8:00PM ONE STOP DELI & BAR Streaming Thursdays (live concert showings), 6:00PM Sweet Sweet (indie, Americana), 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL "Dog Days of Summer w/ Betsy Puckett, Grayson Morris, Jeff Santiago & Los Gatos Negros (storytelling about dogs), 7:30PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Atlas Road Crew w/ Stop Light Observations (jam, rock), 9:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE George & Sally, 8:00PM ROOM IX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION FASHMOB VIII: Find Yourself (community photography & modeling event), 6:00PM Krekel and Whoa (rock 'n' roll), 8:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM SMOKY PARK SUPPER CLUB The Digs (funk, soul), 6:00PM SPRING CREEK TAVERN Open Mic, 6:00PM STONE ROAD RESTAURANT & BAR Open Mic w/ Tony the Pony, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Open mic night, 7:30PM THE CHOP HOUSE Whitewater Bluegrass Company, 6:30PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live (storytelling), 7:30PM THE PHOENIX Ellen Trnka (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE TRL REQUEST NIGHT w/ DJ Franco Nino, 7:00PM

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TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Open Cajun & swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Karaoke, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Cody Blackbird Band (alternative, fusion), 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Jeff and Justin, 6:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Mike Snodgrass (soul, pop, rock), 6:00PM DJ dance party, 9:30PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Sarah Tucker (songwriter, acoustic), 8:00PM

FRIDAY, JULY 22

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN James McMurtry w/ The Amy Black Band & Curtis McMurtry (rock, alt-country, Americana), 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Lyric (funk, soul, pop), 7:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL AmiciMusic presents "Guitar Gusto" (classical), 7:00PM Della Mae (Americana, bluegrass, old-time), 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Unspoken Tradition Bluegrass Band, 9:00PM JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Totes Dope Tite Sick Jams w/ (ya boy) DJ Hot Noodle, 10:00PM MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Carolina Wray (Southern pop rock), 9:00PM

O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Cindy Lou and the Want to (country), 9:30PM

ODDITORIUM Ascend/Descend (punk), 9:00PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE Zach Deputy (blues, R&B), 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Digs Disco Funk Soul Dance Party, 9:00PM ATHENA'S CLUB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7:00PM DJ Shy Guy, 10:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Woody Wood & the Asheville Family Band (acoustic, folk, rock), 7:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Steve Evans (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM OLIVE OR TWIST Live dance, 8:00PM ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5:00PM The Cliftones (reggae), 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Trial By Fire (Journey tribute), 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Alarm Clock Conspiracy w/ Dirty Soul Revival (indie, rock), 9:00PM

CORK & KEG Red Hot Sugar Babies (jazz, blues, swing), 8:30PM

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM

CROW & QUILL Fringe Night!, 8:00PM DJ Passe (vintage 78's), 10:00PM

SCULLY'S DJ, 10:00PM

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Tarocco: A Soldier's Tale (music, theatre), 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Jangling Sparrow (indie, folk), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Ryan Taylor (folk), 9:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY The Howie Johnson Band (rock, blues), 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Joe Hallock & Friends, 6:00PM THE ADMIRAL Hip-hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11:00PM THE MOCKING CROW Karaoke, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Bloodshot Bill w/ Wahyas (rockabilly, hillbilly, rock 'n' roll), 9:30PM

THE PHOENIX Joe Hallock & friends (folk, Americana, old-time), 6:00PM West End String Band (bluegrass, Americana), 9:00PM THE SOCIAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Rooftop Dance Party with DJ Phantom Pantone (electronic), 10:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE DJ Fame Douglas, Yogas & Togas (dance, trap, old school hip hop), 9:00PM TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR Ben Scales (originals), 8:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Jason Whitaker (acoustic, rock), 7:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN David Wilcox w/Peppino D'Agostino (singer-songwriter, guitarist), 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Shotgun Gypsies, 6:00PM

BOILER ROOM Art Of War w/ I-Supplier & Nailed Shut (metal, rock), 9:00PM

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CORK & KEG Zydeco Ya Ya (two-steps, waltzes), 8:30PM

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DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Tarocco: A Soldier's Tale (music, theatre), 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Pitter Platter w/ DJ Big Smidge, 10:00PM ELAINE'S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9:00PM

Ellen Trnka & Dan Keller Trio (jazz), 8:00PM Open dance night, 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION The Dead 27s (rock, soul), 9:00PM SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10:00PM SCULLY'S DJ, 10:00PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Kingdoms & Classes (rock, blues), 6:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY

GOOD STUFF Nellen Dryden (singer-songwriter), 8:30PM

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Wayland w/ The Low Counts, Jeff Santiago & 710 OIL (rock), 9:00PM ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL An evening w/ Scott Ainslie (Americana, blues, singersongwriter), 7:00PM

Carolina Rex (blues), 8:00PM Rift shifters, 6:00PM THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11:00PM THE MOCKING CROW Live music, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Pretty Pretty w/ Fashion Bath & Jeffery Carson Hayes (punk, rock), 9:00PM

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

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Angela Perley & The Howlin Moons (Americana, rock 'n' roll), 9:00PM

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Nex Millen (DJ, hip hop), 8:00PM

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7:00PM

Chicken Fried Possum (oldtime & modern mountain music), 9:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

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ZAMBRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8:00PM

SATURDAY, JULY 23

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 6:30PM

TRAILHEAD RESTAURANT AND BAR

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Phuncle Sam (dead covers), 9:30PM

MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES

NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER The Mantras (jam), 10:00PM

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Make America Dance Again w/ live rotating DJs (dance), 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM The Girly Girl Revue Burlesque Battle Vol. 1 (burlesque), 9:00PM

ATHENA'S CLUB Michael Kelley Hunter (blues), 6:30PM DJ Shy Guy, 10:00PM

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Gypsy Guitars (acoustic, Gypsy-jazz), 3:00PM Savannah Smith (southern soul), 8:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Like Minded Trio (groove jazz), 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars (Americana, blues, roots), 7:00PM

OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8:00PM Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11:00PM ORANGE PEEL Swans (experimental, postpunk, rock), 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Flashback (rock), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Vegabonds (rock 'n' roll), 8:00PM

CAJUN TWO STEPPIN’ TUESDAYS Featuring Cafe Sho Every Tuesday in July • 7pm Gumbo, Po Boys and more!

WEDNESDAYS Asheville’s Original Old Time Mountain Music Jam • 5pm Brewery of the Month: Blowing Rock / Pint Specials THURSDAYS Mountain Feist • 7pm Bluegrass Jam • 9:30pm Bourbon Specials

Free the Optimus, Hunter, Oak City Slums & P.A.T. Junior, 9:00PM

LOOKOUT BREWING COMPANY Indian Summer Jars (alt, folk, indie), 6:30PM

O.HENRY'S/THE UNDERGROUND Drag Show, 12:30AM

MONDAYS Quizzo – Brainy Trivia • 7:30pm

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR The All Arounders (blues), 6:00PM The Digs (funk, jazz), 9:00PM

ALTAMONT THEATRE Jane Kramer w/ Honey Be Nice (folk, Americana, Appalachian), 8:00PM

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The King Zeros (blues), 7:30PM Goldie and The Screamers (soul, R&B), 9:30PM Indoor & Outdoor Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone (electronic), 11:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN AmiciMusic presents: “Guitar Gusto” (classical), 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Saturday karaoke, 6:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH

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HHHHH = H PICK OF THE WEEK H

David Farrier and David Starr in the singular Tickled.

Tickled HHHHS DIRECTOR: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve PLAYERS: David Farrier, Dylan Reeve, David Starr, Hal Karp, David D’Amato DOCUMENTARY RATED R THE STORY: An investigative journalist stumbles across a series of fetishistic internet videos depicting an alleged sport known as “competitive endurance tickling.” As he pursues the story, what he finds is more disturbing and bizarre than could possibly have been expected.

THE LOWDOWN: Don’t let the deceptive premise or trailer fool you, Tickled is a singular piece of filmmaking that warrants your immediate attention.

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Last week, I said that Swiss Army Man was the damnedest thing I’d ever seen, and that’s still largely true. But this week it has some definite competition in the form of Tickled. What initially appears to be a pretty standard slice of pop cultural internet-era navel-gazing turns into a complex crime drama that challenges credulity by virtue of its sheer surrealism. The whole thing is delivered with a decidedly tongue-in-cheek tone. But, despite its sense of humor, audiences are unlikely to make it to the end without being thoroughly creeped out.

It’s difficult to explain this film’s impact and appeal without revealing its major twist(s). Even though in all likelihood you’ll see those twists coming from a mile away, it’s probably best to avoid plot summary here. It should suffice to say that, while Tickled might superficially appear to be an exploration of an obscure fetish, the sexual component

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is the least interesting part of the story.

New Zealand-based TV journalist David Farrier has built a career on exploring outlandish human interest stories (he interviewed Justin Bieber, after all), but nothing could have prepared him for the seedy world of legal intrigue, identity theft, financial malfeasance, sophisticated cyber attacks on the White House and rampant acts of hypocritical homophobia committed by the makers of a quirky internet video. The breadth of influence this fetish ring has been able to achieve (they have “tickle cells” around the world), the destructive fury it unleashes on participants after their involvement and the specific details revealed about the perpetrators are staggering to say the least.

This is a movie hailing exclusively from the post-Michael Moore school of documentary filmmaking, meaning that traditional notions of journalistic ethics and objectivity were checked at the door. While this lack of objectivity on the part of the filmmakers would typically undermine a documentarian’s credibility, in this case it is not only understandable but necessary to the film. Firsttime feature directors Farrier and Dylan Reeve insert themselves in the story at every turn, due largely to their subjects’ very personal threats of litigation against them. Rather than passive observation, Ferrier and Reeve’s approach is to actively ambush their subjects, surreptitiously record them and use every means at their disposal to catch the party or parties responsible with their pants down. And, against all conventional wisdom, it is this lack of distance that enables the film to play better as a piece of journalism than it might have otherwise. It should be apparent at this point that the entire enterprise works in spite of its disregard for journalistic integrity for the sole reason that the subject in question is infinitely more reprehensible than the filmmakers themselves. By the end of Tickled, the audience is so invested in the duo’s efforts to hold the grotesquely flawed entity behind these videos accountable that almost any transgression on the part of the documentarians could be forgiven so long as it successfully exposes the corrupt underbelly of competitive tickling.

The only thing that makes the truths uncovered by the filmmakers palatable is their unremitting sardonicism. More importantly, this gallows humor bears a level of self-awareness that is thoroughly engaging. After all, how seriously can the audience be expected to take all of this when one of the directors responsible for the tickle clips describes the audition process as consisting of “test tickles”? (You might have to say that out loud to get the joke.) The film delves into such a dark and twisted corner of the human experience that humor may in fact be the only appropriate coping mechanism. Farrier and Reeve never decry the sexuality behind these videos, but they are less flummoxed by their existence than by the extreme lengths to which those behind them would go to achieve their very specific form of gratification. It’s not the sexual proclivities of whoever made these films that concerns them, it’s the decades of systematic abuse that surrounded their production and the seeming unimpeachability of those responsible.

I screened Tickled with a friend who was actively opposed to the prospect on the basis of the film’s subject matter. Within the first 20 minutes, he was completely and utterly transfixed.

Tickled is the perfect train-wreck film, one that profoundly disturbs the audience and yet leaves them incapable of looking away. What could have been a simple blog post about a risible fetish, soon to be forgotten among the detritus of internet journalism, inconceivably becomes one of the most compelling pieces of activist filmmaking in recent memory. And it manages to lead the audience seamlessly through such an unexpected transition. While you may have more than a few laughs watching Tickled — not all of them comfortable, mind you — the story at its core is no laughing matter. Rated R for language.

Now showing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

Les Cowboys HHHH DIRECTOR: Thomas Bidegain PLAYERS: François Damiens, Finnegan Oldfield, Agathe Dronne, John C. Reilly REVISIONIST WESTERN RATED R THE STORY: When a young French girl disappears, her father and brother risk everything to find her.

THE LOWDOWN: Very loosely based on John Ford’s The Searchers, Les Cowboys explores deep and decidedly timely topics while maintaining a thematic resonance with its source material.

While Thomas Bidegain’s Les Cowboys bears a passing resemblance to John Ford’s The Searchers, it is far from a remake. In his directorial debut, Bidegain has crafted something truly unique while maintaining the narrative engine of his source material, and the result is a poignant take on the cultural gulf between Islam and the Western world. As such, Les Cowboys is a conflicted and ambiguous film that doesn’t tip its hand until the final sequence.

If you only watched the first act of the film, you could be excused for mistaking this as a piece of xenophobic pulp fiction, portraying European Muslims with the same degree of inhuman Otherness that characterized depictions of Native Americans in traditional Westerns. It’s not until the film’s second half that things really get interesting. Without giving too much away, it’s at this turning point that the plot of Les Cowboys critically diverges from that of The Searchers and genuinely becomes its own beast.

The film opens on a Stetson-laden early ’90s francophone festival celebrating Western Americana (I have it on good authority that this is still an actual phenomenon) from which a teenage girl disappears. Unlike in The Searchers, she has not been abducted, but has instead converted to Islam and run off with a hitherto unknown boyfriend, a radicalized Muslim in the days before that was a household term. The girl’s father and brother (François Damiens and Finnegan Oldfield, respectively)

set out to bring her home, with Damiens delivering a suitably intense reinterpretation of John Wayne’s murderous-racist-with-a-heart-of-gold Ethan Edwards.

Both this film and The Searchers ultimately find their way to a position of grudging acceptance, but Les Cowboys gets there by a more oblique path.

Whereas The Searchers operates in the classical Fordian mode of aggrandized machismo, Les Cowboys carries on Bidegain’s brand of masculinity, as virulent as it is virile, previously established in his screenwriting work on films such as A Prophet and Rust and Bone. As the film covers its almost 20-year span, it touches on major terrorist attacks (including 9/11) only in passing, choosing instead to focus on the character arc of Oldfield’s Kid as he assumes his father’s mantle in the globe-trotting quest to find his long lost sister. This journey takes him to Pakistan, where he poses as a doctor in a refugee camp in order to gather intelligence on his sister’s whereabouts. And yet he’s still his father’s son, taking absurd risks that land him in jail after joining forces with mercenary hostage trader John C. Reilly, inexplicably cast here but excellent and entertaining nonetheless. It’s this prison sequence that firmly derails Les Cowboys’ narrative resemblance to The Searchers, and it’s a brilliant manipulation of the story to eventually underscore a point I wasn’t sure this film was going to get around to making, but Bidegain and cowriter Noé Debré did not let me down.

To clarify, this film is not as good as The Searchers. But while it does not compare favorably on the whole, in places it more than equals its predecessor. Les Cowboys is a more conflicted film, successfully engaging a very difficult subject with a high degree of subtlety and nuance necessitated by the geopolitical context in which the movie was made.

There is no sermonizing, no grand statement of purpose, only a low-key resolution to the central plot that proves all the more gratifying due to its understatement. Can it equal that final shot of the door closing on John Wayne in The Searchers? Of course not, but in many ways it’s the fulfillment of that scene’s implicit semiotic statement: that the time for antiquated notions of hard-line masculinity must inevitably give way to something new. The more challenging question raised by this film is whether or not audiences are prepared to turn out for an arthouse Franco-Belgian pseudowestern that encourages a more tolerant and accepting view of foreigners with seemingly alien cultural practices and religious beliefs; in the immortal words of Ethan Edwards, “That’ll be the day.”

Rated R for brief violence and drug use.

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THE STORY: Two goofy brothers with a penchant for destruction-causing high jinks are forced into finding dates to their sister’s wedding, only to be fooled into taking two hard-partying friends.

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THE LOWDOWN: A loud, unoriginal comedy that’s a forgettable hodgepodge of equally bad movies.

I’ve been a critic now for about a decade now, and my takeaway from years of film-watching is that I’m no longer amazed by the endless ways in which movies can be awful. After a century of moviemaking, you’d think the industry would’ve gotten closer to a more consistent sense of perfection.

Instead, it seems to have ambled to the other end of the spectrum, where cinema’s great Platonic ideal is actually to be as loud, grating and dumb as possible. The universe tends towards entropy, after all.

Or perhaps I’m just pessimistic. A film such as Jake Szymanski’s Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates has a tendency to do this to one’s outlook on life. Look, this isn’t the worst movie I’ve ever seen, it’s just maybe the most forgettably awful movie I’ve sat through (though, to be honest, I’ve forgotten about the other contenders). It has all the earmarks of being truly terrible — it’s loud, obnoxious and generally braindead — but Mike and Dave is particularly generic type of monstrosity. It’s a big, dumb comedy in the tradition of a Dude, Where’s My Car? (2000) or Step Brothers (2008) but without the overt strangeness of either film. Even the romcom foundation that Mike and Dave is built upon plays into the worst tendencies of that long-exhausted genre’s cliches.

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The film’s great contribution to the dumb buddy comedy is to add another pair of dumb buddies to the situation. Adam Devine and Zac Efron respectively play the titular Mike and Dave, two brothers who are none too bright. Well, Dave might be, but he tends to get wound up around Mike, leading the duo to fits of destruction.

With their little sister Jeanie’s (Sugar Lyn Beard, 50/50) wedding coming up and their father (Stephen Root) fearing the worst, the brothers are given an ultimatum: Find “nice girls” to bring to the wedding who’ll keep them in check or be uninvited. After a slew of bad dates (which allows the movie to indulge in some casual transphobia and homophobia) and their Craigslist ad going viral, the two are fooled into taking Tatiana (Aubrey Plaza) and Alice (Anna Kendrick). I say “fooled” because they’re actually recently fired waitresses and general screwups who manage to pass themselves off as the aforementioned “nice girls” so they can get a free trip to Hawaii out of the whole thing.

Mike and Dave follows two distinct paths at this point, as the two couples manage to screw things up for Jeanie through a series of garish slapstick set pieces punctuated by general loud talking and random nonsense. There’s eventually an amount of intelligent selfawareness in the characters, and there are a few genuinely funny moments, but they’re small and pass quickly, seeming only to offset how ill-advised the rest of the film can be. A lot of it feels like things ripped from a billion other bad movies and sitcoms, and it’s all shot like a beer commercial from the ’90s.

The fact that Mike and Dave, with its bevy of B- and C-list stars and flat jokes, will never truly linger in one’s mind is its sole redeeming factor. Rated R for crude sexual content, language throughout, drug use and some graphic nudity.

Now Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemark, Epic Theaters of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

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DIRECTOR: Morgan Neville (20 Feet from Stardom) PLAYERS: Yo-Yo Ma, Kayhan Kalhor, Wu Man, Cristina Pato MUSIC DOCUMENTARY RATED PG-13 THE STORY: An examination of life and art through cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his Silk Road Ensemble.

THE LOWDOWN: A good-hearted and well-meaning documentary that feels a little stiff and flimsy considering its subject matter.

I have no real pressing issues with Morgan Neville’s The Music of Strangers. As documentaries go, it’s generally (and thankfully) cinematic, and everyone the film encounters is likable and bright. I even wholeheartedly agree with its general thesis that culture and art are our most important human creations, something that trumps politics every time. That being said, I still can’t get myself worked up about any aspect of The Music of Strangers. Since criticism of any kind is always subjective, it’s worth mentioning that the film will likely play better to people who enjoy documentaries and have more than a passing familiarity with the music of Yo-Yo Ma. Since I fit within neither of these categories, I’ll readily admit that The Music of Strangers is not a film made for me. If you’re a fan of famed cellist Ma and, more specifically, his long-running Silk Road Ensemble, you’re likely to get a lot out of the film. If you’re not, you might get some something out of the film’s meditations on the intersections between art and political unrest, something that will certainly feel topical. You might even enjoy the film’s musical performances and the jaunts into different cultures. I just can’t say I, exactly, enjoyed these things, which is an unfortunate statement to make since Neville’s film — for all intents and purposes — has a kind, open heart and nothing glaringly wrong with it.

The Music of Strangers, for the most part, follows Ma, discussing in passing his early career and fame (especially for a cellist) and how dissatisfied this left the musician. In response, he began the long-running Silk Road Ensemble, a loose collective of various musicians from disparate countries. The film focuses specifically on a handful of these musicians, including China’s Wu Man and Iran’s Kayhan Kalhor, juxtaposing their music and pursuit of art with their countries’ repression of such creative outlets. The film occasionally becomes a more generalized portrait of

the need for continuing cultural traditions. For example, Galician musician Cristina Pato’s challenge is less a political one and more the simple need to pass along the unique music of her classically secluded people before it’s lost to time.

As a whole, this idea of a universal ideal of art, that human connection is pure and possible through art, is a noble one. It’s certainly something I agree with. Ironically, I’m just not sure that The Music of Strangers presents it in a very artistic fashion. One of my personal peeves with documentaries in general is the over-reliance on talking heads, a trope that certainly hamstrings Neville’s film by allowing for a lot of simple exposition. There’s a lot of stating — and restating — of the film’s central ideas that feels unnatural and inorganic, a strange feeling since so much of the film wants to point to humanity’s capacity for genuine creation.

What wants to be — or at least should be — a grand celebration of life and art instead feels like an explanation of the same subjects. Fortunately, the heart of the film is so righteous that it’s hard to fault The Music of Strangers too much. And it’s worth remembering that, with the type of film this is, your mileage may vary. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language.

Now showing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM

The Secret Life of Pets HHHS DIRECTOR: Chris Renaud, Yarrow Cheney PLAYERS: Louis C.K., Eric Stonestreet, Kevin Hart, Jenny Slate, Ellie Kemper, Lake Bell, Albert Brooks, Dana Carvey, Hannibal Buress, Steve Coogan ANIMATED FAMILY COMEDY RATED PG THE STORY: A devoted terrier named Max finds his worldview challenged when his owner adopts a new dog.

THE LOWDOWN: While it lacks the polish of Pixar, Illumination

Entertainment and Universal Studios’ fifth collaboration is a predictably inoffensive crowd-pleaser. It may not end up on any best-of lists for the year, but it’s entertaining, succinct and far less preachy than most contemporary kids’ fare.

The Secret Life of Pets is a film engineered not to create demand but to fulfill it. In the wake of Finding Dory, the moviegoing parents of the world still need something, anything, to occupy their kids for a couple of hours. Pets is just that something, even if it doesn’t accomplish much more than filling a void. It’s quickly paced, largely unobjectionable and reasonably fun. While it’s not as saccharine as Dory, it’s also not as well-executed. That being said, it’s a passable diversion and far from the worst children’s movie I’ve reviewed so far this year. Those with children insisting on seeing this film will not leave the theater regretting their lot in life, and sometimes that’s enough to warrant the price of admission.

Illumination’s output resembles something akin to Pixar’s ADDaddled cousin after missing a prescribed dose of Ritalin — the resemblance is evident, but it’s sometimes hard to tell with the damned thing bouncing off the walls. The film’s premise is promising enough: a purported exploration of the daily activities of a group of Manhattanite pets in the absence of their owners. However, that premise quickly gives way to a relatively unexceptional buddy comedy following two “frenemies” trying to find their way home under duress. It’s somewhere in between The Odyssey and The Warriors, with a dash of The Defiant Ones thrown in for good measure, although these comparisons are far too generous for the film in question. While Pets is nowhere near as interesting as any of those narratives, it does manage to hit all the appropriate story beats and throw in a few legitimate laughs and visually engaging set pieces along the way.

Visually, Pets is an extremely accomplished piece of technological mastery. The character designs may not be the most appealing of any modern computer-animated kids’ feature, but everything is consistently on-model, and the animators’ grasp of the physics of their creations is commendable.

There are some impressive cityscapes, a few well-choreographed chase scenes and a Berkeley-esque

sausage factory acid-trip sequence that’s just bizarre enough to be interesting. Chris Renaud’s track record as a competent director of CG children’s animation (established by the Despicable Me films) remains untarnished, while co-director Yarrow Cheney has justified his promotion from production design.

In addition, their team of animators have left the indelible impression that Illumination might soon be nipping at the heels of Pixar’s largely unquestioned dominance in the field (assuming they can rope in some better writers).

The ensemble cast of comedic notables, possibly the strongest selling point for adults (beyond the anguished admonitions of their children, that is) performs admirably, if unevenly. Louis C.K. seems a little out of place here, and those used to his borderline-nihilistic comedic persona may find his role as the straitlaced protagonist somewhat disconcerting.

Jenny Slate delivers the most gratifying voice performance of anyone in the cast, but the script relegates her character to uni-dimensionality by refusing to give her any motivation beyond an unrequited crush on C.K.’s Max. Kevin Hart falls flat with a onenote-joke of a character, Hannibal Buress is given next to nothing do and Steve Coogan is given far too little screen time. The old-timers are the saving grace of the supporting cast, with Albert Brooks continuing to make a strong argument for the legitimacy of his late-career resurgence as a voice actor (having also performed admirably in Dory this year), and I have to credit this film with reminding me for the first time in possibly two decades that Dana Carvey used to be funny and likable.

To be clear, The Secret Life of Pets is not a great film, but it is a good one. The movie doesn’t make a whole hell of a lot of sense, and the script, tightly paced to a fault, favors expedience over character development. At the same time, it dedicates too many resources to shoehorning in an afterthought of a lesson to kids about accepting new siblings.

Although the plot is somewhat convoluted and the character turns are uniformly arbitrary and unearned, its intended audience is predominantly unconcerned with such matters. For those of us not counted among those ranks, the lack of heavy-handed sermonizing in a kids’ film comes as a welcome respite from the contemporary standard. And, while the script’s brevity deprives us of a truly compelling narrative, at least it’s mercifully

short. In no way is this a must-see movie, but it will almost certainly be mandatory viewing for some parents nonetheless. As such, you could certainly do a lot worse. Rated PG for action and some rude humor.

Now Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemark, Epic Theaters of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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Almost certain to take the top box-office on an otherwise sparse weekend for new mainstream releases, Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot has already courted its share of controversy from fans of the original films. According to the studio, “Ghostbusters makes its long-awaited return, rebooted with a cast of hilarious new characters. Thirty years after the beloved original franchise took the world by storm, director Paul Feig brings his fresh take to the supernatural comedy, joined by some of the funniest actors working today — Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Chris Hemsworth. This summer, they’re here to save the world!” Reviews are, thus far, mixed-to-positive, but only time will tell whether it will be nostalgia or sexism that wins the battle for control of moviegoers’ wallets. (PG-13)

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El Chivo HHHS DIRECTOR: Rod Murphy Players: Will Harlan DOCUMENTARY Rated NR A stirring documentary about accomplished “Ultra Runner” Will Harlan, El Chivo explores the motivations and psychology behind long-distance running while providing a compelling character study of a notable local. By capturing candid glimpses of Harlan’s life on his bucolic Barnardsville farm, local filmmaker Rod Murphy goes beyond Harlan’s headline-grabbing victory in the grueling 50-mile Caballo Blanco Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon to explore the runner’s philosophy and family life. Murphy also captures a fascinating glimpse of the daily lives of the native Tarahumara Indians who have functionally adopted Harlan as one of their own, sharing their traditions with him and dubbing him “El Chivo,” the goat. Murphy’s camera makes the transition from the streets of downtown Asheville to the rugged mountains of northern Mexico with a confident proficiency, and Harlan proves to be a consistently charismatic subject.

After screening the film in competition at a number of festivals, director Rod Murphy will be on hand at the Fine Arts Theatre for the Asheville premier of El Chivo on Wednesday, July 14 at 7 p.m.

Friday the Thirteenth HHHS The Hunt for the Wilderpeople

Taika Waititi’s directorial follow up to last year’s exceptional What We Do in the Shadows, The Hunt for the Wilderpeople has been fawned over by critics since its Sundance premier in February.

Boasting a perfect score on Rotten Tomatoes after 94 reviews, there’s a good chance that this will be the best film hitting Asheville theaters this week. (PG-13)

The Innocents

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Most certainly not a feel-good romcom, The Innocents is film about pregnant nuns in the aftermath of World War II. A synopsis posted by the distributor reads: “Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French doctor with the Red Cross, is on a mission to help World War II survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are concealed from past barbaries of the Soviet soldiers. Unable to reconcile their faith with their pregnancy, the nuns turn to Mathilde who becomes their only hope.” (PG-13)

DIRECTOR: Remy Delvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde Players: Benoît Poelvoorde, Rémy Delvaux, Jenny Drye, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Malou Madou, André Bonzel BLACK COMEDY Rated NC-17 A biting satire, this 1992 Franco-Belgian Cannes darling may have been too dark for mass appeal. That said, it’s humor is undeniable, and its commitment to its low-budget pseudo-verite aesthetic is commendable. A serial killer waxes philosophic about his work while the film crew following his exploits becomes increasingly complicit in his crimes. Hijinks ensue. What more could you want from a mockumentary? When you get past the gratuitous body count, what you have here is a witty exploration of the relationship between moviegoers and the violence they see depicted on screen, with their demand increasingly driving supply. Man Bites Dog poses the intriguing question of an audience’s voyeuristic complicity in atrocities simulated for entertainment value — which might make some viewers uncomfortable, but for those who are in on the joke, it hits all the right notes. Classic World Cinema by courtyard gallery will screen Man Bites Dog on Friday, July 15. Location has changed. Info: 828-273-3332.

The Infiltrator

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Bryan Cranston returns to the drug game, albeit this time on the other side, in the conventional-looking based-on-a-true-story crime thriller. To abbreviate the studio’s lengthy blurb, “Federal agent Robert "Bob" Mazur (Bryan Cranston) goes deep undercover to infiltrate Pablo Escobar’s drug trafficking scene plaguing the nation in 1986, navigating a vicious criminal network in which the slightest slip-up could cost him his life.” Reviews are scant thus far, and this one definitely has the potential to go either way. (R)

Wiener Dog

Todd Solondz returns to the central character after directing his iconic film Welcome to the Dollhouse, in what the studio describes as “a dark, starkly funny story of a single dog and the many different people she touches over her short lifetime.” Composed as a series of loosely interrelated vignettes, this film has the potential to be something like Happiness if that film had focused on Dawn Wiener, which is a very promising concept for fans of Solonds’s divisive work. (R)

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DIRECTOR: Victor Saville Players: Jessie Matthews, Sonnie Hale, Ralph Richardson, Eliot Makeham, Donald Caltrop, Max Miller DRAMA Rated NR This is probably not the Friday the Thirteenth you’re thinking of. Victor Saville’s 1933 drama offers an ensemble cast in a polished Brit melodrama with a clever premise, in which 12 people cross paths on a doomed bus. The events that lead to their fate unravel in flashbacks following the accident. Director Seville exhibits his usual unobtrusive craftsmanship, and frequent collaborator Jessie Matthews delivers a charming performance opposite husband Sonnie Hale. Comparisons with the plot device can be drawn to everything from Pulp Fiction to Crash (the one that won an Oscar, not the Cronenberg one, which I actually liked) but Friday the Thirteenth did it first, and in some cases better. The Asheville Film Society will screen Friday the Thirteenth on Tuesday, July 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

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DIRECTOR: George A. Cooper Players: John Stuart, Judy Kelly, Edgar Norfolk, Richard Cooper, Drusilla Wills COMEDY Rated NR A somewhat uninspired comedic take on the standard “old dark house” mystery thriller, The Black Abbot (1934) was produced on the cheap and it shows. Director George A. Cooper attempts to hide his hastily slapped-together sets through creative staging, and tuxedos from the wardrobe department make the cast look like there on their way to a better movie.

While the plot’s nothing to write home about and the dialogue can get excessive, there are a few legitimately laughable lines and many more that topple over the edge into so-bad-it’s-good territory. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Black Abbot on Thursday, July 14, at 7:30 p.m. at the Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

Too Late For Tears HHHS DIRECTOR: Byron Haskins Players: Lizbeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea, Arthur Kennedy CRIME DRAMA Rated NR Perhaps better known for his work in science fiction, including the 1953 War of the Worlds and 1964 cult classic Robinson Crusoe on Mars, director Byron Haskins was also responsible for 1949’s Too Late for Tears. This often overlooked film noir may not have the name recognition of something like Double Indemnity or Out of the Past, but what it lacks in notoriety, it more than makes up for with an exemplary performance from Lizbeth Scott as the femme fatale. It may not be the most stylish or well executed noir out there, but it’s definitely worth a look. It also boasts a great alternate title, Killer Bait, under which it was rereleased in 1955. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Too Late for Tears Sunday, July 17, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Upcoming adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you're trans? Odds are that you'll become even more gender fluid. I am exaggerating a bit, of course. The transformations I'm referring to may not be visible to casual observers.

They will mostly unfold in the depths of your psyche.

But they won't be merely symbolic, either. There'll be mutations in your biochemistry that will expand your sense of your own gender. If you respond enthusiastically to these shifts, you will begin a process that could turn you into an even more complete and attractive human being than you already are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I'll name five heroic tasks you will have more than enough power to accomplish in the next eight months. 1. Turning an adversary into an ally. 2. Converting a debilitating obsession into a empowering passion. 3. Transforming an obstacle into a motivator. 4. Discovering small treasures in the midst of junk and decay. 5. Using the unsolved riddles of childhood to create a living shrine to eternal youth. 6. Gathering a slew of new freedom songs, learning them by heart, and singing them regularly -- especially when habitual fears rise up in you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your life has resemblances to a jigsaw puzzle that lies unassembled on a kitchen table. Unbeknownst to you, but revealed to you by me, a few of the pieces are missing. Maybe your cat knocked them under the refrigerator, or they fell out of their storage box somewhere along the way. But this doesn't have to be a problem. I believe you can mostly put together the puzzle without the missing fragments. At the end, when you're finished, you may be tempted to feel frustration that the picture's not complete. But that would be illogical perfectionism.

Ninety-seven-percent success will be just fine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you are smoothly attuned with the cosmic rhythms and finely aligned with your unconscious wisdom, you could wake up one morning and find that a mental block has miraculously crumbled, instantly raising your intelligence. If you can find it in your proud heart to surrender to "God," your weirdest dilemma will get at least partially solved during a magical three-hour interlude. And if you are able to forgive 50 percent of the wrongs that have been done to you in the last six years, you will no longer feel like you're running into a strong wind, but rather you'll feel like the beneficiary of a strong wind blowing in the same direction you're headed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How often have you visited hell or the suburbs of hell during the last few weeks?

According to my guesstimates, the time you spent there was exactly the right amount. You got the teachings you needed most, including a few tricks about how to steer clear of hell in the future. With this valuable information, you will forevermore be smarter about how to avoid unnecessary pain and irrelevant hindrances. So congratulations! I suggest you celebrate.

And please use your new-found wisdom as you decline one last invitation to visit the heart of a big, hot mess.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My friend Athena works as a masseuse. She says that the highest praise she can receive is drool. When her clients feel so sublimely serene that threads of spit droop out of their mouths, she knows she's in top form. You might trigger responses akin to drool in the coming weeks, Virgo. Even if you don't work as a massage therapist, I think it's possible you'll provoke rather extreme expressions of approval, longing, and curiosity. You will be at the height of your power to inspire potent feelings in those you encounter. In light of this situation, you might want to wear a small sign or button that reads, "You have my permission to drool freely."

- BY ROB BREZNY

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The latest Free Will Astrology poll shows that thirty-three percent of your friends, loved ones, and acquaintances approve of your grab for glory. Thirty-eight percent disapprove, eighteen percent remain undecided, and eleven percent wish you would grab for even greater glory. As for me, I'm aligned with the eleven-percent minority.

Here's what I say: Don't allow your quest for shiny breakthroughs and brilliant accomplishments to be overly influenced by what people think of you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are at the pinnacle of your powers to both hurt and heal. Your turbulent yearnings could disrupt the integrity of those whose self-knowledge is shaky, even as your smoldering radiance can illuminate the darkness for those who are lost or weak. As strong and confident as I am, even I would be cautious about engaging your tricky intelligence. Your piercing perceptions and wild understandings might either undo me or vitalize me. Given these volatile conditions, I advise everyone to approach you as if you were a love bomb or a truth fire or a beauty tornado.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Here's the deal: I will confess a dark secret from my past if you confess an equivalent secret from yours. Shall I go first? When I first got started in the business of writing horoscope columns, I contributed a sexed-up monthly edition to a porn magazine published by smut magnate Larry Flynt.

What's even more scandalous is that I enjoyed doing it. OK. It's your turn. Locate a compassionate listener who won't judge you harshly, and unveil one of your subterranean mysteries. You may be surprised at how much psychic energy this will liberate. (For extra credit and emancipation, spill two or even three secrets.)

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What do you want to be when you grow up, Capricorn? What? You say you are already all grown up, and my question is irrelevant?

If that's your firm belief, I will ask you to set it aside for now. I'll invite you to entertain the possibility that maybe some parts of you are not in fact fully mature; that no matter how ripe you imagine yourself to be, you could become even riper -- an even more gorgeous version of your best self. I will also encourage you to immerse yourself in a mood of playful fun as you respond to the following question: "How can I activate and embody an even more complete version of my soul's code?"

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): On a summer day 20 years ago, I took my five-year-old daughter Zoe and her friend Max to the merry-go-round in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. Zoe jumped on the elegant golden-maned lion and Max mounted the wild blue horse. Me? I climbed aboard the humble pig.

Its squat pink body didn't seem designed for rapid movement. Its timid gaze was fixed on the floor in front of it. As the man who operated the ride came around to see if everyone was in place, he congratulated me on my bold choice. Very few riders preferred the porker, he said. Not glamorous enough. "But I'm sure I will arrive at our destination as quickly and efficiently as everyone else," I replied. Your immediate future, Aquarius, has symbolic resemblances to this scene.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Early on in our work together, my psychotherapist confessed that she only works with clients whose problems are interesting to her. In part, her motivations are selfish: Her goal is to enjoy her work. But her motivations are also altruistic. She feels she's not likely to be of service to anyone with whom she can't be deeply engaged. I understand this perspective, and am inclined to make it more universal. Isn't it smart to pick all our allies according to this principle? Every one of us is a mess in one way or another, so why not choose to blend our fates with those whose messiness entertains us and teaches us the most? I suggest you experiment with this view in the coming weeks and months, Pisces.

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