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With regard to the Vance Monument, there is an obvious solution to which I truly can’t fathom that no one seems to have entertained. First of all, I’m not even going to get into whether or not it’s a monument to racism. That part is obvious. I am personally offended by any monument to the Confederacy, including the statues that surround the state capitol in Raleigh and their flag. In a city of liberals, I’ve found it strange since the day I came to Asheville. Just so you know, I am white and have lived in the South my entire life. The monument is directly on the site of the old courthouse where the slave auctions were held. It is the exact location where blacks were sold into bondage. It has always been apparent to me, and yet I have never heard one person suggest it, that the monument be rededicated to them. Instead, they want to tear it down. Why? It is a beautiful piece of architecture that should be allowed to stand. I truly don’t understand why people can’t see this. In addition, it is about 100 feet from the old Cherokee cemetery near the corner of Lexington Avenue and College Street, probably under the Kress building or one of the nearby

parking lots. Go figure. I am certainly not going to debate this. I have researched it, and to some extent I know what I’m talking about. It was actually one of the original tourist attractions in Asheville; however, for all practical purposes, their history has been repressed here since the 1700s. There are constant intellectual and historical debates by the few who care regarding the Native American presence in this area — whether they were Cherokee or someone else. The currently held belief is that this was an uninhabited hunting ground, despite the burial mounds found down by the river and graves on the north side of the city. I have personally found arrowheads here. I know they were here. There is no one here who is further to the left than me; however, I do not consider myself a liberal. From my point of view, liberals and conservatives are opposite sides of the same coin, just like believers and atheists. They all think they have some kind of special insight into this world or the world beyond. No one does. I don’t pretend to believe I am right and everyone else is wrong. I’m simply stating the facts as I see them. It’s all about easy money in Asheville, liberals and conservatives alike. I doubt many people here — besides the construction workers on these buildings that are going to make

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you rich — would have it any other way. If the powers that be determined they could make more money tearing the monument down, it would be gone in a month, just like the homeless people. I doubt the buskers have much to worry about because they bring in tourists. In a world full of starving children, people’s idea of charity here is to leave a 50 percent tip to a service worker for doing their job. Do the right thing. Get your facts straight. That piece of stone is a monument to racism, nothing else. If you can’t rededicate it, just get rid of it. — Douglas Thompson Asheville

Health care revamp betrays heartlessness, cowardice Both Republican congressmen from Western North Carolina, Mark Meadows and Patrick McHenry, are determined to make health care more expensive or even nonexistent for millions of Americans, and both seem utterly unconcerned with the reper-

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cussions on those with pre-existing conditions. Their ugly plan to cut access to health care in order to provide the 1 percent with a massive tax cut is reprehensible. But wait, there’s more. Meadows and McHenry and their pusillanimous senatorial cohorts, Thom Tillis and Richard Burr, are also determined to hide out from their constituents and do their dirty work in secret and without coming before their constituents. They are then both heartless and cowardly, which is quite a feat. — Michael Carlebach Asheville Editor’s note: Xpress contacted Reps. Meadows and McHenry for a response but did not receive any by press time.

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Cybersecurity conference boosts Asheville’s IT profile

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branch. “The best strategy for any cybersecurity measures is continuing education about the latest threats and vulnerabilities. This isn’t a set-it-and-forget-it type of technology: It evolves daily, if not hourly.”

mhunt@mountainx.com In today’s tech-soaked environment, it’s nearly impossible to run a small business without having at least one foot in the digital world. From communicating with staff to filing payroll, retailing products and keeping track of accounts, companies across Western North Carolina rely on high-tech help to manage daily tasks. But these indispensable tools also open a window to hackers seeking to steal financial information, break into databases, and lure consumers and retailers into bogus transactions. Often, however, businesses don’t understand the risks. Enter the fourth annual Bsides Asheville cybersecurity conference, slated for Friday and Saturday, July 28-29, at RISC Networks in downtown Asheville. The event will feature presentations on emerging information technology risks and how best to confront them, with an eye toward protecting local businesses from cyberattacks and helping Asheville become a regional IT hub. BRINGING IT ALL BACK HOME Founded in 2014, Bsides Asheville is part of a network of conferences around the globe. “It’s really a worldwide phenomenon,” says John Bumgarner, the group’s co-founder and community outreach coordinator. An ex-Marine and Army veteran, Bumgarner has worked in cybersecurity for decades, with the military and in the private sector. “These conferences are about bringing stuff to the table locally, but they’re also about tying into national and international discussions.” The conference aims to make information on cybersecurity understandable and affordable for small-business owners and IT professionals alike. “This is kind of a grassroots effort to impart knowledge at the lowest cost possible,” he explains. “We felt there was a need for cybersecurity education in Western North Carolina and more collaboration among people who live in the region and beyond.”

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HACKING THE HACKERS: Just as in years past, the 2017 Asheville Bsides cybersecurity conference will feature IT experts discussing everything from national security and First Amendment protections in the digital age to techniques for properly testing software and enhancing communications through electronics. Photo by Timothy de Block, courtesy of Asheville Bsides Having grown each year since its inception, Bsides Asheville is partnering with RISC Networks, a local IT analytics firm, to access a larger space this year. “Most of the conference is funded by sponsorship,” notes Bumgarner. “If it wasn’t for companies like RISC Networks, Cisco Systems, Dell SecureWorks and Immedion, this conference wouldn’t exist at the level it does today.” Being in a prime tourist destination like Asheville doesn’t hurt either, he adds. SECURING YOUR SYSTEM Both the scope and sophistication of cyberattacks are evolving rapidly. On June 27, The New York Times reported on a new wave of WannaCry cyberattacks — driven by ransomware that infects a computer network and freezes operations until a fee is paid — that targeted several American companies. This comes on the heels of a massive international cyberattack in May, when hackers went after thousands of companies across the globe using a WannaCry cryptoworm stolen from the National Security Agency.

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In recent years, local attacks have ranged from compromised credit card readers in restaurants, ATMs and gas pumps to a thwarted 2015 effort to hack Mission Hospital’s confidential database. (See “Scamming, Skimming and Financial Fraud in WNC,” June 20, 2016, Xpress.) Businesses that manage their own cyberpresence are under constant threat. Bumgarner cites last year’s concerted attacks against the popular WordPress website platform as one example. “We’re talking hundreds and hundreds of thousands of WordPress sites around the world,” he says. “People who run a standard version of WordPress and didn’t have it properly secured experienced multiple attacks trying to break in and get access.” Knowing how to identify and safeguard against such attacks is crucial for companies like Immedion, which provides cloud storage and data support. “Our customers, partners and vendors rely on us to know and share best practices in terms of cybersecurity,” says General Manager Steve Newman of the company’s Asheville

This year’s Bsides Asheville conference will bring in experts from across the IT spectrum to address emerging issues and trends. Intel’s Brian Richardson will deliver a lecture on the vulnerabilities inherent in firmware, low-level software that provides basic controls for electronics ranging from computers to traffic lights, watches and mobile phones. Husband-and-wife team Nancy and Phoenix Snoke will give a presentation on hacking techniques aimed at the digital components of everyday items (aka the internet of things) using a simple baby monitor as a case study. “You can buy all kinds of devices, from Philips Hue lightbulbs to thermostats, toothbrushes and speaker systems, which all connect via the internet and via applications,” says Bumgarner. “There are potential vulnerabilities all through these things.” Cisco’s Roger Seagle will speak about security testing in the rapidly changing world of development operations, while Jason Gillam of Secure Ideas will provide a guide to securing and testing applications in the ever-evolving Agile software development field. “The security of DevOps and software life cycle development is a big topic now, because you need to be able to write secure code, verify that your code is secure and really look at it,” Bumgarner explains. “If something’s vulnerable on your cellphone, whether it’s an Android or Apple, some criminal element or some other person is peering into that stuff.” While some might feel these concepts are beyond the scope of their small business, cyber vulnerability can have serious consequences, notes Newman. “Small businesses need to maintain two priorities: making money and keeping information secure. They are intricately entwined. Without the investment in security, you’ll end up out of

business. You can’t fight what you don’t know, and attending a cybersecurity conference is going to help you learn something.” SOCIAL CYBERSECURITY

ON GUARD: Asheville Bsides co-founder and veteran John Bumgarner says that cybersecurity is more important than ever in the wake of global hacking attacks and the increasing prevalence of Internetcompatible household devices. Photo courtesy of Bumgarner

Cybersecurity isn’t just about financial safety, however: It can also have ramifications for privacy, national security and social interactions. Former Asheville resident Justin Troutman, who’s now with the Freedom of the Press Foundation, will be the conference’s keynote speaker. “He’s a cryptospecialist, and he’s going to be talking about how to empower journalists and others to communicate more freely around the world,” Bumgarner explains. In addition, Ernest Wong of the Army Cyber Institute will speak about cyberwarfare and national security, and communications expert Bryan Austin will offer a presentation on IT’s role in social engineering and developing effective communication strategies. The conference will also feature several workshops. Participants in a capture-the-flag event will try to

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N EWS identify as many of a fictitious company’s vulnerabilities as possible within a set time period. And at the “lock-picking village,” people can learn how to disable a variety of locks and compete in timed trials. For local entrepreneurs looking to beef up their company’s security protocols, Bsides Asheville will offer networking opportunities such as an after-party at Aloft Asheville and a downtown pub crawl. “It’s a chance to come together, hear from these experts and make connections,” says Bumgarner. ADVANCING ASHEVILLE

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Bumgarner hopes the conference will help foster Asheville’s nascent IT scene. “The high-tech community here will definitely grow,” he predicts. To capitalize on that potential, however, the city, county and community at large must continue to support and expand educational offerings, incentives for local IT startups and efforts to attract established companies to the area, Bumgarner maintains.

“Education’s huge. If you go to Silicon Valley, you can get your Ph.D., master’s or whatever in some subject: artificial intelligence, computer sciences,” he notes. “But in Asheville, in-depth degrees in some of those subjects don’t really exist.” Recent initiatives like The Collider — a climate-oriented networking facility where companies and organizations can share expertise and collaborate on projects — coupled with investments by local firms like AvL Technologies and BorgWarner, are steps in the right direction, says Bumgarner, but economic development officials must continue to boost Asheville’s appeal for IT companies. “Some type of tax breaks or investment by the city or county could help things,” he believes. “They’ve got to figure out a way to offer incentives for people to bring businesses here.” On July 1, Bumgarner and his partners officially launched Actionoble, a cybersecurity business that they hope will help them tap into Asheville’s budding IT market. “We’ve been talking to people about potentially coming to work for us once we get it off the

ground,” he reports, “and we’ve already started talking to customers in Asheville.” In an increasingly digital world, says Newman, conferences like Bsides Asheville can help ensure the city’s future economic viability. “Having Bsides in Asheville and, more importantly, having Ashevilleans attend can help our local businesses stay safe and secure,” notes Newman. “In Asheville’s attempt to become recog-

nized as a technology and entrepreneurial center, taking cybersecurity seriously is laying a foundation for future development.” X The fourth annual Bsides Asheville cybersecurity conference will happen Friday and Saturday, July 28-29, at RISC Networks (81 Broadway in downtown Asheville). To view the schedule or purchase tickets ($16), visit bsidesasheville. com. For more information, email info@bsidesasheville.com.

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Candidates vie to lead Asheville equity program Asheville City Manager Gary Jackson introduced two finalists for Asheville’s new equity and inclusion manager at a July 10 meet-andgreet. Kimberlee Archie and Alaysia Black Hackett spoke in small groups and one-on-one conversations with community members and city staffers about their backgrounds, the strengths they would bring to the position and their ideas for increasing trust and engagement with city residents, especially those from underserved areas and groups. According to a city press release, “This position will lead the city of Asheville’s effort to expand equity in city services and programs, and will be dedicated to helping the city achieve meaningful progress by evaluating the delivery of city programs, services and its decision-making in order to operationalize equity.” Jackson described the shift in organizational culture the equity and inclusion manager will help lead as a strategic priority for the city. The

FINAL TWO: Kimberlee Archie, left, and Alaysia Black Hackett are the finalists for the newly created equity and inclusion manager for the city of Asheville. Photos by Virginia Daffron position will function as an assistant to the city manager, he said, and will team up with the city’s Communications and Public Engagement Department under department director Dawa Hitch. Archie told attendees she previously served as deputy director of the city of Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods, where she was responsible for overseeing 12 neighborhood district coordinators and several neighborhood service centers. Since moving to Charlotte six years ago, she has worked in higher education, most recently as a consultant. To support underserved communities, Archie said she would go into

those neighborhoods to connect with residents. In addition to sharing information, she said, she would make sure the city is listening to residents and supporting policies with city dollars. She observed that building trust, especially among disadvantaged groups that have been disappointed by government’s responsiveness to their concerns in the past, takes time. “Communication and lots of talking doesn’t always seem like action,” she said. Nonetheless, community members need to feel heard before they can “move forward in trust and friendship,” Archie said. Hackett is director of diversity and multicultural affairs at Mars Hill University, a position she’s held for almost five years. A native of Florence, S.C., she first came to Western North Carolina as a student at Western Carolina University. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in sociology, Hackett enrolled in the Master of Public Administration program and moved to Asheville. Many of her classes, she noted, were held in Asheville City Hall. She’s currently pursuing a degree in diversity law with Kaplan University, according to her husband, J Hackett, who is the executive director of Green Opportunities. The Hacketts lived in Virginia from about 2005 through 2010. When she returned to Asheville, Alaysia noted, “I was disheartened to see the atmosphere change, especially with regard to people of color and the muted voices.” She got involved with organizations including the Stop the Violence Coalition, Racial Justice Coalition and WNC Diversity Coalition, which led her to pursue the equity and inclusion manager

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B U N COM B E B EAT HQ position. “I’m up for the challenge,” she said. “I think it’s time, and it’s much needed.” She said she would encourage transparency to help the city make progress on issues including housing, gentrification, poverty and policing. Asked what the process for making the final selection between the two will be, executive search consultant Brett Byers of Los Angeles-

based The Hawkins Co. said that will be up to Jackson. And the schedule for making the decision? “Hopefully very soon,” Byers said. Her firm identified nine strong candidates for the position, she said, and Archie and Hackett represent the city’s top picks from that group. — Virginia Daffron

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Commissioners get transparency update The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners convened to talk about debt transparency and discuss the recent budget process. Last month, commissioners approved a $431 million budget that includes a 2-cent property tax rate hike. No official action was taken during the threehour workshop on July 11. DASHBOARD LIGHT In an effort to give commissioners and the public access to real-time financial data, county staff will roll out a debt dashboard with an eye toward making the process easier to use. “How do we bring this information to the public in a more understandable way? How do we explain the whole debt process?” county Finance Director Tim Flora rhetorically asked. Commissioners are guided by three policies when taking on debt: Debt cannot exceed 3 percent of the county’s assessed value; debt payments cannot exceed 18 percent of total expenditures (Buncombe is currently at 9.3 percent); and at least 55 percent of overall debt must be paid off in 10 years (Buncombe is currently at 66 percent for that benchmark). The new debt dashboard aims to track where the county stands on each of those metrics in a way that is relatable and accessible. The county currently has $406.8 million in debt, with nearly $84 million of unissued obligations, or future debt, on deck for the next two fiscal years. The yet-to-be-issued debt will mostly be for school capital projects and is mostly paid for by dedicated sales tax revenues. Other counties of comparable size to Buncombe have the following debt per capita (or how much each resident would have to pay to clear the red ink), according to county staff: • Wake County, $2,527. • Mecklenburg County, $2,073.

• Buncombe County: $1,650. • Durham County, $1,627. • Guilford County $1,621. “If we are focused on paying down debt over the next few years, how much money does that free up? This is a place where we are taking some pressure off,” said Commission Chair Brownie Newman, who is looking to keep the current property tax rate of 53.9 cents per $100 of assessed value locked in for at least two years. Flora noted there are no major infrastructure projects on the horizon. “Moving forward, it should be major maintenance,” he said. County staff members said they hope to make the debt dashboard available to the public in the next few months.

County policy requires that its fund balance remain at 15 percent. Newman thinks that percentage could be lowered to reduce pressure elsewhere. “It feels like we are padding it a bit. You need to be conservative ... but I’d like for our budgets to be tight with some reasonable contingency and not always forecast a big fund balance,” he said. County staff is set to present commissioners with a proposed timeline for next fiscal year’s planning process during a workshop on Tuesday, July 25 — Dan Hesse

UNPACKING THE PROCESS Last month, commissioners approved a budget for the current fiscal year but have already turned attention toward next fiscal year. “I’ve been through five [budgets] and I’ve had surprises at the end of every one. I want to know exactly what we are doing when I walk in … that’s the most important thing to me,” said Commissioner Mike Fryar. Freshman Commissioner Robert Pressley noted his first budget spawned some confusion about community grant funding of nonprofits. “They are asking for $300,000, and then I’m hearing they are satisfied with $75,000. Give us the number you want or need,” he said. Newman noted that he wants to look at the county’s fund balance, which functions as the county’s savings account. Commissioners dipped into it at the last minute to help pay for local teacher supplements in the current fiscal year. North Carolina mandates counties carry an 8 percent fund balance, while Buncombe MOUNTAINX.COM

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IN YOUR DEBT: One of the features of the county’s new debt dashboard will be showing how Buncombe’s debt stacks up against debt in other counties of comparable size. Graphic courtesy of Buncombe County

BOA denies permit amid concerns Some Ridgecrest residents secured a minor victory as a project they oppose won’t be allowed to evolve from rooming house to group home. Those technical terms, however, could ultimately end up being a matter of semantics. About 30 people sat through the nearly fivehour Board of Adjustment meeting July 12, waiting to speak against the project and hear the outcome. And while the newly requested amendment was ultimately denied, the project still has an existing conditional use permit it can move forward with. WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD In December, the Board of Adjustment issued a conditional use permit to New Day Holdings LLC to build a rooming house at 15 Dixon Drive, the site of the old Madison Inn and Restaurant. Then in June, Ridgecrest residents showed up en masse to a Board of Commissioners meeting to express frustration with the project. At that meeting, Jeff Wallace said, “We’ve seen the destruction of our neighborhood. It’s a mud pit. The contractor has disrupted sewer, water.” Following that June meeting, Xpress reached out to County Planner Debbie Truempy who confirmed, via email: “The developer of the old Madison Inn has strayed from what was approved in the con-

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ditional use permit. The county is working with the developer to get back into compliance or apply for a revised conditional use permit.” GROUP CONFUSION The proposed project, called United Life Academy, is described as a “ministry, discipleship program” by Nick Dimitris, who spoke on behalf of New Day and is identified as an administrator of the program. He said the agency would charge students $1,000 per month for the 12-month program. The original conditional use permit would allow for 10 rooms to be rehabilitated, and Dimitris said New Day planned on putting four people in each room. He said discoveries made during the renovation process led them to apply for a conditional use permit that would allow for three residential areas, including two dormitory-style wings that could accommodate up to 40 people. The new layout would constitute a group home rather a rooming house. The distinction between the two types of residential facilities seemed to confuse many people in attendance as well as members of the Board of Adjustment. Board member Mychal Bacote sought clarification between the two terms. Truempy explained: “A rooming home is a 10-room hotel. With a group home, it is intended for groups with therapy or mentoring.

The Mortgage Bankers Association of WNC will host a home loan education event Saturday, July 22, at the Asheville Food Park from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Lending professionals from across the region will be on hand to discuss the process of buying a home, financing home repairs and home renovation options. Local appraisers, realtors, credit counselors and other home service providers will also be available for consultation. In addition, the event will feature food trucks, games and face painting for kids. The event is free. The Mortgage Bankers Association plans to hold a second installment of the event on Sept. 16. More info: donnak@ cunninghammortgage.com or https://mbaofwnc.org/or CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS HOSTS MENTAL ILLNESS, HOUSING FORUM Investigative journalism nonprofit Carolina Public Press will host a free public forum Friday, July 21, to address housing issues faced by resi-

dents living with mental illness. The event takes place from 8:30-10:30 a.m. at Asheville’s LenoirRhyne University Center for Graduate Studies. A panel discussion will address housing quality and safety issues for those with mental illness, as well as the current legal status of a 2012 settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the state of North Carolina regarding living options. A questionand-answer period will follow the discussion. Panelists include independent reviewer Marti Knisley, Land of Sky ombudsman Julia Gibson, Susan McCracken, director of Lincoln County Department of Social Services, and other local experts. The event is open to the public and free to attend. Seating is limited; RSVP is required. More info: www. carolinapublicpress.org or 828-774-5290. ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL MEETS JULY 25 Asheville City Council will hold its lone meeting of the month at 5 p.m. Tuesday, July 25, on the second floor of City Hall at 70 Court Plaza. The agenda for the

The mentoring is what fits. Because it would be a dormitory rather than room, it’s not a rooming house.” “It doesn’t fit perfectly with either definition. … It’s more suited for rooming house,” noted Truempy. HOMING IN About 10 people spoke against the project citing ambiguity, traffic, safety and infrastructure concerns. “We have attempted, on a bunch of occasions, [to speak] with most clear objectors. There wasn’t an interest to have that conversation. We want to answer the questions. Our whole desire is that this will not be a detriment, but a blessing to the community,” said Dimitris.

meeting includes public hearings on an apartment complex at 175 Lyman St.; a self-storage facility at 39 Gerber Road; adoption of a form-based zoning code for the River Arts District; zoning changes for a mixeduse project at 146 Roberts St.; an 86-room hotel at 1500 Tunnel Road; and the proposed removal of the River Parking Reduction Area from the zoning code. The meeting is open to the public. An agenda and supporting documents can be found online beginning Friday, July 21. More info: avl.mx/3xb BUNCOMBE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS HOLDS WORKSHOP JULY 25 The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will hold a workshop Tuesday, July 25, beginning at 12:30 p.m. at 200 College St., Asheville. Commissioners and staff will discuss plans and initiatives they would like to address in the coming year. No official action will be taken during this meeting. The workshop is open to the public. More info: http://avl. mx/3ws X

Board member Keith Levi said it was a difficult decision: “I think one of the most important things was there was a hotel there before, and it was proposed to recondition that space. I feel this current iteration of the plan is significantly different than previously submitted.” “It impacts the health and safety and is detrimental to the neighborhood,” said Chairman George Lycan in conclusion. The board unanimously denied the conditional use permit. However, New Day is still able to act on its original conditional use permit, which allows the company to rehab 10 rooms. Earlier in the meeting, Dimitris said, “We are OK with any status.” — Dan Hesse X

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BEFORE IT’S LOST Asheville’s special collections excavate the city’s history BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com Heather South, lead archivist at the Western Regional Archives in Asheville, has a theory. After years of gathering and collecting historical materials, she says, “I’ve become a firm believer that 90 percent of history remains in private hands.” Whether it’s letters, photographs, diaries, newspaper clippings, maps, meeting minutes or memos, experience has shown South time and again that individuals, families and businesses possess many of the things that archivists live to locate, document and file for posterity. “Most of the time, people estate-plan for that heirloom piece of furniture or great-grandma’s quilt,” she explains. “But they don’t plan for their [personal and professional] records and photographs.” Instead, such items often get thrown out or stashed in boxes under unsuitable conditions. To an archivist, the former represents a tragic loss of resources, while the latter can damage valuable material. Asheville is home to three primary repositories for such artifacts: Pack Library’s North Carolina Room, the D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections at UNC Asheville and the Western Regional Archives (an arm of the state Department of Natural and Cultural Resources). The individual collections they house may range from a single portrait to entire shelves’ worth of files. But archivists at all three facilities say there’s a need for more diversity in what’s on offer, urging community members to consider both their own legacy and how they might go about preserving it for future generations. MAKING ORDER OUT OF CHAOS “One of the basic tenets of archival theory is that you try to respect the original order” the material came in, says Gene Hyde, Ramsey Library’s head of special collections. Too often, however, that’s easier said than done. “Very rarely do archives come in any kind of order,” notes South. “That’s the exception to the rule.” But it’s not meant as a criticism. “You could probably go to my house and find letters in

RECORD COLLECTION: Heather South, left, and Sarah Downing stand in front of the Western Regional Archives’ largest collection: Black Mountain College. “It’s our bread and butter,” says South. People come from across the globe to research the defunct, experimental college. Photo by Thomas Calder a drawer or on a bookcase,” she points out. “That’s what an archivist is supposed to do: put order to that chaos.” This, though, takes time and resources, both of which are in short supply at all three local repositories. Each one has just two full-time staffers; and meanwhile, the Western Regional Archives houses 44 collections, D.H. Ramsey is home to an estimated 200, and the North Carolina Room has roughly 360. Zoe Rhine, a special collections librarian at the North Carolina Room, recalls spending four hours just sorting a recent donation into piles. “Not folders: just stacks,” she clarifies. “There were stacks of scrapbooks, correspondences and photos.” Once that was done, it took a lot more time to arrange the items in chronological order. Such experiences underscore the importance of taking a few simple steps, whether you’re a professional or just accumulating photos at home. Names, dates and locations matter. While Facebook might recognize a person’s friends and family members, archivists and historians don’t have that luxury when they’re trying to make sense of a new collection. Labeling files accurately and avoiding duplicated documents will help streamline the archivist’s work.

ENEMIES OF PRESERVATION Archivists understand the sentimental value objects often have for people: It’s one reason certain documents seldom find their way into special collections. There’s nothing wrong with families wanting to keep these items, says South. The problem is that most such material winds up in attics, basements, barns and sheds — or, in one case she remembers, in a “semitruck trailer bed out in the backyard.” What all of these places have in common is fluctuations in temperature and humidity. “That causes the deterioration,” South explains. “It speeds up the breakdown of the paper, the yellowing and the brittleness.” Ultraviolet light is also harmful. Special collections maintain a steady 68 to 71 degrees with 30 to 50 percent humidity, but individual homeowners may not do that. The next best thing is consistency. “I always tease and tell people that under the guest bed is a perfect place” to store such items, says South. “One, it’s an interior room; two, it doesn’t get a lot of use; and three, there’s no light under the bed.” But once you’ve decided where to keep your files, you need to consider what to

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PLENTY OF HISTORY: “I’ve now worked special collections in three different places and this [area] has the richest variety and number of ... repositories,” says Gene Hyde, Ramsey Library’s head of special collections. Photo by Thomas Calder keep them in. Acid-free paper is a must: Standard Manila envelopes are ideal, while standard copy paper works well for buffering. Cardboard, on the other hand, should be avoided: It’s highly acidic and will leach into files. South also encourages people to store their papers flat rather than folded. “Paper fibers are woven,” she explains. “When it’s folded, it weakens those fibers.” And if circumstances don’t permit flat storage, South recommends rolling the documents. Hyde, meanwhile, offers this additional advice: “Don’t get your stuff wet. If you do, dry it thoroughly. Mold is the bad one. Fire is a bad one, too. But probably the worst are dirt and mold. Insects can also be bad; rodents, silverfish. There’s a whole range of things that can be introduced into materials if they’re not stored in good condition.” AROUND THE CORNER AND ACROSS THE GLOBE At the Western Regional Archives’ third-floor headquarters, a world map, peppered with pushpins, greets guests as they enter. Each pin represents a specific place from which a visitor has come. Of the seven continents, only Antarctica is pin-free. Most international travelers, notes South, are there to access the archive’s largest collection: Black Mountain College. When the pioneering art school shut down in 1957, the state became the custodian of its official records. Before the Western Regional 16

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Archives opened in 2012, those files were kept in Raleigh. “They were so out of context there,” says South. “By bringing the collection back home, there’s been this elevation of use.” On average, the Western Regional Archives sees about 2,000 visitors per year, with 4,000 to 5,000 inquiries submitted by phone, fax, email or letter. The North Carolina Room averages a combined 4,000 annual visits and inquiries. About a third of those visitors, says Rhine, are from out of town. Economic impact studies haven’t specifically looked at special collections, but a 2014 report commissioned by the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Partnership, notes South, found that heritage tourism brings $2.39 billion to the region annually. “We are contributing to the local economy by people coming specifically to do research in our collections,” she points out. “It’s heritage tourism in a lot of ways.”

One of Ramsey Library’s first collections, he notes, was its 1977 Heritage of Black Highlanders acquisition. More recently the library received the Isaiah Rice Photograph Collection: a series of images depicting Asheville’s AfricanAmerican community from the 1950s through the 1970s. Nonetheless, Hyde sees a need to more fully represent the experiences of both black Ashevilleans and the local Greek community. Rhine is on a similar mission. In the past, Pack Library’s special collections focused mostly on processing whatever items happened to be donated. But in recent years, Rhine has been reaching out more to various groups in hopes of enhancing the archive. She’s used roundtable discussions and oral history projects to help the community connect with the North Carolina Room’s holdings. Like Hyde, Rhine is trying to fill in what’s missing. “Our photographs and postcards cover all of Western North Carolina, but in the past, most of the material that was donated to us … basically represented white middle- and upper-class residents.” Besides collecting historical documents concerning underrepresented residents, Rhine is actively working to research and preserve the stories of Asheville’s LGBTQ community. To this end, the North Carolina Room recently partnered with David Dry, a history instructor at A-B Tech. Dry, says Rhine, started out by getting his students up to speed on oral history, how to make transcripts and the local gay community.

After that, she says, “Students paired up and interviewed people, transcribed it and came back to us as a turnkey project. … I think it took people out of their small circle, introducing them to people they wouldn’t have known, of a way of life they might have viewed through stereotypes.” BUILDING TRUST Even with the best of intentions, however, interviewers and archivists will inevitably confront barriers that must be broken down. Sheneika Smith founded Date My City in 2013. The social organization aims to enhance the cultural identity of black communities in WNC. The first step in building trust between different populations, she says, is promoting “dialogue with people who are lovers of history, in a diverse setting.” Smith also stresses the importance of being clear about a project’s purpose. Distrust, she notes, may stem in part from having seen the community’s experience misrepresented or misused in the past. “The last thing we want to do in communities of color is allow our stories ... to be romanticized or just a pony show.” Roy Harris, a retired engineer who arrived in Asheville in 1983, recently joined the board of the Friends of the North Carolina Room. “Being an African-American, I would like to make sure that the African-American stories are also told and collected,” he explains. Harris sees himself as a kind of ambassador, part of whose role is to get out into

THE REST OF THE STORY To maximize the value of those holdings and do justice to the region’s rich history, however, archivists at all three repositories say we need to fill in some pretty big gaps. “The common perception of Appalachia is that there aren’t African-Americans,” says Hyde. “There’s this misperception that Appalachia was all settled by white people from the English islands. That’s not true.”

A COMMUNITY EFFORT: Pack Library’s North Carolina Room special collections librarian, Zoe Rhine, and Friends of the N.C. Room board member Roy Harris work to make sure all groups of the community are represented in the Pack Library’s special collections. Photo by Thomas Calder

THE BLOCK: Tonia Plummer, administrative assistant at the YMI Cultural Center, stands before some of the historical photographs donated to the organization by members of the community. Photo by Thomas Calder the community and let folks know what the facility has to offer — whether it’s free access to ancestry.com and newspapers.com or a paper trail that might shed light on “questions that they’ve been pondering for months,” he says. But Harris encourages everyone to share their stories. “The Native Americans, the Latinos — all the cultures.” Their history, he says, “is out there somewhere.” Smith shares Harris’ sense of the urgency of creating a more inclusive historical narrative. Besides filling in the past, it helps foster unity among different groups today. “I think history has always been a guide,” she points out. It can provide “rules of engagement, as far as how to handle conflict in communities, or just problems that might not be internal to your community but externally affecting your community.” In this way, she explains, history can “show communities patterns of injustice but also stories of triumph.” CULTURAL AMNESIA Over at the YMI Cultural Center, administrative assistant Tonia Plummer says she’s seen a kind of cultural amnesia concerning Asheville’s African-American history. When school groups come to tour the building, they often know nothing about the neighborhood’s history. “They were never told that this was totally an AfricanAmerican business section.” Plummer, who grew up in Old Fort, remembers visiting Asheville on week-

ends. “You could stay here on Saturday afternoon and get everything you needed in this one area called ‘The Block’: your hair cut, beauty shops, go to the theater, restaurants. They even had clubs, gas stations, a drugstore, the ‘colored library.’” To help address this, the nonprofit is gearing up to create its own archived repository of donated items. “I’m hoping the YMI will eventually become a place where people can come and look at our collection,” she says. The organization is currently seeking help to organize its material. The collection, says Plummer, should focus not on the city but on “the individuals who inhabit the city: That’s where the greatest stories are going to be told. That’s where you’re going to find out about how people lived and what they did. There are some interesting people in this world: I’ve run into a few at the YMI.”

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HISTORY’S LESSONS All of Asheville’s special collections include items that have somehow managed to survive for centuries. The oldest materials — land grants, guest ledgers, letters, diary entries and books — date to the 1700s. At the other end of the spectrum, there are digital recordings, videos and oral histories. Researchers often start at one collection and find their way to the next as they follow the thread of their investigation. But these organizations’ shared

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F EATU R E sense of purpose encourages cooperation. “I don’t care what repository donations go into, as long as they’re being cared for and documented,” says South. Hyde agrees. “We always like to get a call from someone who has an interest in possibly donating something,” he says. “It may be something that fits our guidelines, or it may be something we’d refer to Pack or to Western. But it’s important, if people think they have something that might be valuable, to check with an archivist at one of these collections.” Rhine, meanwhile, encourages people to take the first step. “Don’t put it off: If you’re willing to donate, just bring it to us” (see box, “Starting Points”). You don’t have to be a history buff to benefit from these collections, either, stresses South: The archives offer universal lessons. “I learn new things every day,” she says. “I may look at the same box 12 times, but because I’m looking at it through different people’s requests or interests, I see it differently. There’s something amazing in that. It’s a privilege. … I think that if you look at history through these different lenses and different points of view, you become more open-minded.” X

Starting Points D.H. Ramsey Library Special Collections 1 University Heights Asheville, NC 28804 828-251-6645 speccoll@unca.edu Pack Memorial Library’s North Carolina Room 67 Haywood St. Asheville, NC 28801 828-250-4740 packnc@buncombecounty.org Western Regional Archives 176 Riceville Road Asheville, NC 28805 828-296-7230, ext. 232 heather.south@ncdcr.gov YMI Cultural Center 39 S. Market St. Asheville, NC 28801 828-257-4540 ymicc@att.net

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ANIMALS BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE 828-505-3440, bwar.org • WEDNESDAYS, 4-7pm & SATURDAYS, 11am-3pm - Pet adoption event. Free to attend. Held at Petco, 825 Brevard Road

BENEFITS ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS 828-254-1776, ashevillegreenworks.org • SU (7/23), noon-5pm - Proceeds from beer sales at this demo day featuring rides on Bellyak kayaks benefit Asheville GreenWorks initiatives to clean up the French Broad River. Free to attend. Held at Smoky Park Supper Club, 350 Riverside Drive ASHEVILLE TRIATHLON idaph.net/events/asheville-triathlon • SU (7/23), 7:45am - Proceeds from this triathlon benefit Police Unity Tour Chapter IV and the iDream Athletes Foundation. $60/$95 2-person relay/$100 3-person relay. Held at Asheville Recreation Park, 65 Gashes Creek Road BEL CHER MUSIC facebook.com/Bel-CherMusic-1228978383795556/ • SU (7/23), 5pm - Proceeds from this chamber music house concert and vegetarian potluck benefit scholarships enabling veterans to learn Transcendental Meditation technique. Register for location: $15-$50. CHRISTMAS IN JULY 828-581-2000 • SA (7/22), 10am - Proceeds from this motorcycle ride to collect toys for children in need benefit The Saint Nicholas Project. $20 or a new toy donation worth $20. Held at Harley Davidson of Asheville, 20 Patton Cove Road, Swannanoa GRAN FONDO BENEFIT 828-452-0720, gfncs.com • SU (7/23), Proceeds from this 30, 60 and 100 mile bike competition benefit Friends of the Smokies. Register for location. $55 for 30 miles/$90 for 60 miles/$110 for 100 miles. LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook. com/Leicester.Community.Center • SA (7/22), 8am-4pm - Proceeds from this concealed carry gun class benefit the Leicester Community Center. $80. OUR VOICE 828-252-0562, ourvoicenc.org/ trauma-education-series

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• SA (7/22), 7pm - Proceeds from this live music fundraiser featuring Chris Wilhelm, Kim Smith, John Brute, Jane Kramer, Ben and John and Shane Parish benefit Our Voice. $15/$5 raffle tickets. Held at Asheville Guitar Bar, 122 Riverside Drive THE VANISHING WHEELCHAIR 828-645-2941, vanishingwheelchair.org • SU (7/23), 3pm - Proceeds from “Magic & Mind Reading Mysteries,” featuring magician Zeke Powerz reading thoughts, palms, cards and the future benefit The Vanishing Wheelchair. $10. Held at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, 337 Charlotte St. WNC NATURE CENTER 75 Gashes Creek Road, 8 28-298-5600, wildwnc.org • FR (7/21), 6-8pm - Proceeds from the “Brews & Bears,” fundraiser with evening animal exhibits, beer, live music and food trucks benefit the Friends of the WNC Nature Center. $10/$8 members.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (7/19), 1-2:30pm "Establishing Yourself and Your Business as a Resource," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler BLUE RIDGE HOLISTIC NURSES 828-989-4981, brholisticnurse@gmail.com • SA (7/22), 10am-noon - General meeting. Retired, active and student nurses welcome. Free to attend. Held at EarthFare - Westgate, 66 Westgate Parkway FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION jim@extraordinarycopywriter.com • 4th TUESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Educational monthly meeting to bring local business leaders to present and discuss topics relevant and helpful to businesses today. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Rd, Arden • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Rd, Arden G&W INVESTMENT CLUB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am General meeting. Free to attend.

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• Through TH (9/7) - Open registration for the Asheville Police Department’s Fall Citizens Police Academy. Registration: bit.ly/2uVozmf. Free. BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-626-3438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm - Community center board meeting. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Sit-nStitch," informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TH (7/27), 4pm - Dedication of a new memorial plaque honoring James Vester Miller, African American brick artisan and contractor. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. GLENVILLE AREA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Highway 107, Glenville • SA (7/22), 11am-4pm - "Christmas in July - All about Fraser Fir Christmas trees," drop-in event regarding the history of Frasier Fir trees. Free to attend. GUIDED HISTORY WALKS 828-545-3179 • SATURDAYS through (7/29), 10am - Downtown Hendersonville guided history walk. $10. Meet in the lobby of the Hendersonville City Hall, Fifth Avenue East & King Street, Hendersonville HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 4-6pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Hendersonville

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SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHESS CLUB facebook.com/ SmokyMountainChessClub • TH (7/20), 1-4pm - Chess lessons for all ages and levels. Free to attend. Held at Blue Ridge Books, 152 S. Main St., Waynesville

HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 828242-8998, hvrpsports.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

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IKENOBO IKEBANA SOCIETY 828-696-4103, blueridgeikebana.com • TH (7/20), 10am - “Rikka Shofutai Converting to Rikka Shimputai," monthly meeting and demonstration. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Hendersonville, 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville • TU (7/25), 10am - “Double the Fun of Free Style,” demonstration by Stephanie English, Senior Professor of the Ikenobo school. Free. Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.Center • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering general meeting. Free. MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ASHEVILLE 828-273-4948, mcl.asheville@gmail.com • Last TUESDAYS - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen, and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road MORTGAGE BANKERS ASSOCIATION OF WNC mbaofwnc.org • SA (7/22), 10am-2pm - Home loan education event featuring opportunities to speak with lending professionals about financing projects, purchasing a home or home renovation. The event includes face painting and games for kids. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Food Park, 219 Amboy Road OLLI AT UNCA 828-251-6140, olliasheville.com • FR (7/21), 5-6:30pm - "Death Cafe," discussion about death facilitated by Karen Sanders, Greg Lathrop and Sa’id Osio of Third Messenger. Free. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (7/19), 5:30-7pm - "Discover Your Money Vision and Flip Your $ Switch," seminar. Registration required. Free. • TH (7/20), 5:30-7:30pm - "Home Energy Efficiency," seminar. Registration required. Free. • TU (7/25), noon-1:30pm "Discover Your Money Vision and Flip Your $ Switch," seminar. Registration required. Free. • WE (7/26), noon-1:30pm "Understanding Credit. Get it.

WNC PHYSICIANS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY wncpsr.org • TH (7/20), 5:30pm - Community gathering featuring stories from six people who traveled to meet with the United Nations in support of negotiations for a treaty to ban nuclear weapons. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • 3rd FRIDAYS, noon-2pm Monthly meeting. BYO lunch. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

DANCE 2 STEP DANCE WITH TEXAS T AND THE TUMBLEWEEDS AT HICKORY NUT GAP FARM (PD.) Friday, July 21st 6-9pm. Wear your dancing shoes! $6. Kids under 5 free. Dinner and drinks available. DANCE WORKSHOP • SATURDAY (PD.) 2 Step level 2. July 22, 1-3pm, All Souls Cathedral, Biltmore Village. 2 Hour workshop with World champions Richard & Sue Cicchetti. 828-333-0715. $15/ preregistration, $20/door. naturalrichard@mac.com • www.DanceForLife.net EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Friday, July 21 dance cancelled. Dance waves hosted by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. • Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee. Information: ashevillemovementcollective.org POLE FITNESS AND DANCE CLASSES AT DANCECLUB ASHEVILLE (PD.) Pole Dance, Burlesque, Jazz/ Funk, Flashmobs! Drop in for a class or sign up for a series:• Monday: 5:15-Adv. Beg. Spin Pole, 6:30-Sexy Chair Series, 6:30-Stretchy Flexy, 7:30-Adv. Beg. Pole• Tuesday: 12PM-Pole $10, 5:30-Pole, 6:30-Jazz/Funk Series, 7:30-Pole• Wednesday: 5:30Pole, 6:30-Pole Tricks, 7:30-Pole• Thursday: 5:30-Jazz/Funk Series, 6:30-Exotic Poleography, 7:30Beg. Spin Pole• Friday: 11-Open Pole, 12-Floor Play• Saturday: 1:30-Intro/Beg. Pole $15Visit the website to learn more: DanceclubAsheville.com 828275-8628 - Right down the street from UNCA - 9 Old Burnsville Hill Rd., #3

Magical Offerings STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (PD.) Monday 9am Yoga Wkt 12pm Barre Wkt 4pm Dance and Define Wkt 5pm Bellydance Drills 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bellydance Special Topics 7pm Classical Ballet Series 8pm Tribal Bellydance Series 8pm Lyrical Series • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculpt-Beats Wkt 5pm Modern Movement 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Advanced Bellydance • Wednesday 5pm Hip Hop Wkt 5pm Bollywood 6pm Bhangra Series 7pm Tahitian Series 8pm Jazz Series • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculptbeats Wkt 4pm Girls Hip Hop 5pm Teens Hip Hop 6pm Bellydance Drills 7pm Advanced Contemporary 8pm West Coast Swing Series • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45 Buti Yoga Wkt • Sunday 11am Yoga Wkt • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $6. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 HENDERSONVILLE STREET DANCING 828-693-9708, historichendersonville.org • MONDAYS until (8/14), 7-9pm - Outdoor event featuring mountain heritage music, clogging and square dancing. Free. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • TUESDAYS, 8am - Zumba dance exercise class. $8. • THURSDAYS, 1pm - Beginner line dance classes. $5. TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828859-8323 • TH (7/20) & TH (7/27), 6:308:30pm - Shag dancing workshop. $20.

FOOD & BEER 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 FOOD NOT BOMBS HENDERSONVILLE foodnotbombshendersonville@ gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 4pm - Community meal. Free. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., Rosdon Mall, 318 N Main St., #5, Hendersonville HAYWOOD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY haywoodlibrary.org • TH (7/20), 9:30am - "One Pot Meal," cooking class. Free. Held at Canton Community Kitchen, 98 Pisgah Drive, Canton LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Welcome Table meal. Free. N.C. ARBORETUM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6-8pm Proceeds from "Wine in the

Garden," wine tasting and music series benefit the N.C. Arboretum. $30/$27 members.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TU (7/25), 5pm - Asheville City Council public hearing. Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza HENDERSON COUNTY SENIOR DEMOCRATS 828-692-6424 • WE (7/19), 1pm - Monthly meeting with guest speaker, former North Carolina state senator Joe Sam Queen. Free. Held at Henderson County Democratic Party, 905 S. Greenville Hwy., Hendersonville

KIDS BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • WE (7/19), 3pm - "An Afternoon with a Scientist!" Activities for kids with children's science author and college biology instructor, Dawn Cusick. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • MONDAYS, 10:30am - "Mother Goose Time," storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • MO (7/24), 4-5pm - "LEGO Club," for ages 5 and up. LEGOs provided. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm Homeschoolers' book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • SATURDAYS 10:30am & 11:30am - Weekly drop-in Spanish classes for kids. Class for 3-5 year olds at 10:30am. Class for 6-10 year olds at 11:30am. $10. A portion of proceeds benefit the Buncombe Partnership for Children. FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free. HANDS ON! A CHILDREN'S GALLERY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-697-8333 • TU (7/25), 10:30am-noon "Science Play-Air!" Activities exploring air for ages 3-6. $20/$15 members. • WE (7/26), 10:30am-12:30pm "Lost in Space - Space Survival!" Activities exploring space for ages 7-11. $25/$20 members. • TH (7/27), 10:30am-12:30pm "Music Makers’ Sound of Science!" Music activities for ages 7-11. $25/$20 members. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com

• WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • TH (7/20), 10am-3pm - "Casting for Beginners: Level 1," fly fishing workshop for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • FR (7/21), 8am-noon - Fly-fishing class on Looking Glass Creek for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • MO (7/24), 9-11am - "Nature Nuts: Wild Woodlands," outdoor nature oriented activities for children ages 4-7. Registration required. Free. • MO (7/24), 1-3pm - "Eco Explorers: Salamanders," outdoor class about salamanders open to ages 8-13. Registration required. Free. SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 828-708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • FR (7/21), 6-7pm - Teen Book Club: Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson. Free to attend. • SA (7/22), 11am - A New Friend for Sparkle, book event and unicorn dress-up party. For ages 3 and up. Free. SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM 223 W State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-9566, history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 2-4pm Historically oriented crafts and activities for children. Free to attend.

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BLURRING THE LINES: Mind reader and magician Zeke Powerz will use intuition, coincidence and precognition to read the minds of audience members at Vanishing Wheelchair’s upcoming fundraiser. Photo courtesy of Vanishing Wheelchair WHAT: “Magic and Mind Reading Mysteries” show to benefit Vanishing Wheelchair WHEN: Sunday, July 23, 3 p.m WHERE: St. Mary’s Episcopal Church WHY: Using intuition, clairvoyance and showmanship, esoteric magician Zeke Powerz has three goals for his upcoming benefit performance: to “raise money, raise some eyebrows and raise the dead.” As a professional magician, Powerz’ sfocus is to blur the lines of reality, a theme that he hopes to carry into the upcoming show. “We’ve always been taught to ask more questions, look at things form different perspectives and to not believe things are what they are,” he says. “I don’t do tricks, tricks are for kids — I want people to suspend belief for a few minutes and look at things from a different perspective.” The adult-geared show will benefit Vanishing Wheelchair, a nonprofit that

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uses magic and arts to help people with disabilities find meaning in life. This show, says co-founder T.J. Shimeld, fits the organization’s mission nicely. “When you look at a person in a wheelchair, their disability is often the first thing that people tend to see. With magic and mind reading, it shows you that you can’t just trust your eyes but to look beyond the obvious.” Powerz’s show is a different realm of magic from what past Vanishing Wheelchair events have highlighted, Shimeld says. “It’s taking that next step forward with the possibilities of the mind — what Zeke does is right on the border of science and magic and reality, and really causes you to wonder.” “Magic and Mind Reading Mysteries” will be performed at St. Mary’s Episcopal Church on Charlotte Street at 3 p.m. on July 23. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased at www.vanishingwheelchair.com. X

C OMMU N IT Y CA L EN D AR BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov • FR (7/21), 10am - Blue Ridge Parkway Hike of the Week: “A Sheltered Past,” ranger-led, moderate, 1.5 mile round trip hike on the Craggy Gardens Trail. Free. Meet at the Craggy Gardens Picnic Area, MP 367.6, Blue Ridge Parkway • SA (7/22), 9am Ranger-guided walk and history presentation around Bass Lake. Free. Held at Cone Manor, MP 294, Blue Ridge Parkway BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 828-295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • SA (7/22), 7pm "Nature’s Pharmacy: 18th Century Medicinal Plants," presentation by Professor Elizabeth Hardy. Free. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN 2050 Blowing Rock Highway Linville, 828733-4337, grandfather.com • TH (7/27), 6-8pm “Grandfather Presents,” presentation by wildlife artist Ryan Kirby. Admission fees apply. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126 Nebo, 828-584-7728 • SA (7/22), 8pm "S'mores and Spiders," campfire ranger presentation about spiders. Registration require: 828-584-7728. Free.

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• WE (7/26) & TH (7/27), 9:45am - Ranger guided boat tour. Registration required. Free. LEDGES WHITEWATER PARK 1080 Old Marshall Highway, Alexander • SA (7/22), 10am4pm - Riverboard demos provided by the Appalachian Riverboard Company. Free. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • TH (7/20), 9am-4pm - "Advanced WILD: Mountain Streams," workshop for formal and non-formal educators to learn about techniques used in the field to study mountain streams and the wildlife that inhabit them. Registration required. Free. • TH (7/20), 10am3pm - "Casting for Beginners: Level 1," fly-fishing class for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • FR (7/21), 8amnoon - "On the Water: Looking Glass Creek," fly-fishing practice with guidance. For ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • WE (7/26), 10am2pm - "Snorkeling in the Stream," guided snorkeling to discover aquatic macroinvertebrates. Registration required. Free. PISGAH FIELD SCHOOL pisgahfieldschool.org • FR (7/21) & SA (7/22), 8:30-10:30pm

- "The Cradle Creeps at Night," night hike exploration of nocturnal creatures guided by naturalists. Registration: 828-8843443. $15. Held at The Cradle of Forestry, 11250 Pisgah Hwy Pisgah Forest SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • WEDNESDAYS, 8am - Walking club for adults of all ages. Information: 828-3502062. Free. THE CRADLE OF FORESTRY 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, 828-8773130 • SA (7/22), 10am-5pm - Train History Day. $5.

PARENTING VERNER CENTER FOR EARLY LEARNING 2586 Riceville Road • TUESDAYS through (8/1), 5-7pm - Parenting workshop for veterans and anyone involved with parenting the child of a veteran. Registration required: 828-298-7911 ext. 5952 or 828-298-7911 ext. 3417. Childcare available. Free.

PUBLIC LECTURES CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS carolinapublicpress.org • FR (7/21), 8:3010:30am - Public forum regarding mental

illness and housing. Free. Held at LenoirRhyne University,, 2nd Flr Boardroom, 36 Montford Ave.

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• FR (7/21), 5:30pm - Science Pub Series: "2017 Carolina Total Eclipse," presentation by Christi Whitworth

LEADERSHIP ASHEVILLE SUMMER BREAKFAST SERIES 828-255-7100, leadershipasheville.org • WE (7/26), 8-9:15am - "How Will Asheville Grow Thoughtfully? The Public Sector Response," breakfast and panel discussion. $20 includes breakfast. Held at Crowne Plaza Expo Center, 1 Resort Drive MARSHALL CONTAINER CO. 10 South Main St., Marshall, 803-727-4807 • SA (7/22), 7pm "Rough Draught," experimental community lecture series featuring lectures by Rachel Sinex, Adam Knapp, Dave Meesters and Rob Pulleyn. Free to attend. OLLI AT UNCA 828-251-6140, olliasheville.com • WE (7/26), 6:307:30pm - "Preview of the Solar Eclipse," discussion of the upcoming solar eclipse and how to observe it by the Astronomy Club of Asheville. Free. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road

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SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS ashevillenewfriends. org • TUESDAYS, 9am Senior walking group that meets in a different location every week. Register for locations. Free. CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher

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• THURSDAYS, 2pm - Informal community singing for those with short term memory loss, Parkinson's Disease and/or interested in exploring song. Free. JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC, INC. 2 Doctors Park, Suite E, • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with mem-

ory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. LENOIR-RHYNE CENTER FOR GRADUATE STUDIES 36 Montford Ave., 828-778-1874 • WE (7/19), 10amnoon - "Work For Yourself @ 50+," workshop. Registration required: 888-339-5617. Free.

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SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE • FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (PD.) The authentic TM technique, rooted in the ancient yoga tradition—for settling mind and body and accessing hidden inner reserves of energy, peace and happiness. Learn how TM is different from mindfulness,

watching your breath, common mantra meditation and everything else. Evidence-based: The only meditation technique recommended for heart health by the American Heart Association. NIHsponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced stress and anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350. TM.org or MeditationAsheville.org ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www. ashevillemeditation.com. ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. FAMILY MEDITATION (PD.) Children and adult(s) practice mindfulness meditation, discuss principles, and engage in fun games. The 3rd Saturday monthly. 10:30am – 11:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Asheville, 828-808-4444, ashevillemeditation.com.

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OPEN HEART MEDITATION (PD.) Now at 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 212. Tuesdays 7-8pm. Experience the stillness and beauty of connecting to your heart and the Divine within you. Suggested $5 donation. OpenHeartMeditation. com

for community members in need. Free. • WE (7/26), 5:30pm - Cross-generational potluck supper and worship. Bring a dish to share.

SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) Wednesdays, 10pmmidnight • Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community. By donation. 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala.org

35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (7/27), 7:30pm "Listen to This," storytelling series hosted by Tom Chalmers and featuring stories and original songs from locals. $15.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (7/21), 6pm - "Healing on the Spiritual Path," experiential introduction to Bruno Groening's teachings. Information: brunoasheville.com. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 828-258-0211 • Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm - Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation. Admission by donation. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls

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BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (7/21), 7:30pm - "Taking a Leap: An Evening of Stories with Connie Regan-Blake." $25/$20 advance. BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • TU (7/25), 11am - Ron Rash presents his novel, The Risen. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (7/21), 10am-5pm & SA (7/22), 10am-4pm - Friends of Pack Library book sale. Free to attend. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MO (7/24), 3-4pm UNCA + Pack Library Book Club: The Home that Was our Country by Alia Malek (pages 167-235). Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

• MO (7/24), 6pm - Ballad singer Bobby McMillon tells the legend of Frankie Silver. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (7/25), 10am - Read a book in the Education Room. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 828-586-9499, citylightsnc.com • TH (7/20), 10:30am "Coffee with the Poet," featuring Sam Barbee. Free to attend. • SA (7/22), 3pm - Charles Dodd White, Gavin Dillard and David Dalton read from their books. Free to attend. • TU (7/25), 6:30pm - Ron Rash presents his novel, The Risen. Free to attend. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Queer Women's Book Club. Free to attend. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • WE (7/19), 7pm Matthew Quick presents his book, The Reason You're Alive. Free to attend. • TH (7/20), 6pm - Daniel Foor presents his book, Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. Free to attend. • TH (7/20), 7pm Notorious HBC (History Book Club): Gulag: A History by Anne

Applebaum. Free to attend. • TU (7/25), 7pm - Drew Magary presents his novel, The Hike. Free to attend. • WE (7/26), 7pm - Bridge the Gap Book Club: Tell Me How it Ends by Valeria Luiselli. Free to attend. • TH (7/27), 7pm - Ron Rash presents his novel, The Risen. Free to attend. • TH (7/27), 7pm - Works in Translation Book Club: The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception by Emmanuel Carrère, translated by Linda Coverdale. Free to attend. OPEN HEARTS ART CENTER 217 Coxe Ave. • TH (7/27), 4-7pm Nicole Rotundo presents her new book about her life with Down syndrome. Free to attend. STORIES ON ASHEVILLE’S FRONT PORCH facebook.com/storiesonashevillesfrontporch • SA (7/22), 10:30am - "World Tales," storytelling and songs by Walter Ziffer, Kirsten Mitchell and Daphne Darcy. Free. Held at Jubilee Community Church, 46 Wall St.

THE WRITER'S WORKSHOP 387 Beaucatcher Road, 828-254-8111, twwoa.org • Through WE (8/30) Submissions accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest. Contact for full guidelines.

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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave. Ste. #213., 828-253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TH (7/27), noon Information session for those interested in volunteering to share their interests twice a month with a young person from a single-parent home or to mentor one-hour a week in elementary schools and after-school sites. Free.

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NONVIOLENT COMMUNICATION Asheville professionals teach empathic discourse for uncertain times BY MONROE SPIVEY spivey.monroe@gmail.com In an otherwise polarized world, many Ashevilleans are embracing an alternative: compassionate, or nonviolent, communication, which fosters slower, more mindful conversation dedicated to fostering unity. Jerry Donoghue, founder of Asheville Compassionate Communication Center, didn’t grow up well-versed in the principles of nonviolent communication. But over time, he became aware of how different it is from his learned communication style: “I noticed how much I communicated with judgments, intellectual analysis, [and how I] was not connected with my feelings — kind of a habit I picked up from my family upbringing and the larger culture. As I deeply studied compassionate communication, I discovered how it gives us an alternative way to express what we want without judging the other.” Typical communication, Donoghue explains, falls into two categories, starting with “communication that blocks the flow of compassion, [such as] someone sharing something deeply vulnerable and the other giving advice.” The other type “emanates out of the right/ wrong framework. An example of that is when we are in conflict and say things that are trying to prove yourself right and the other wrong.” NVC, in contrast, encourages identifying one’s feelings, naming them and making a request — unlike common day-to-day negotiations of conflict, Donoghue says.

NEW PARENTING PARADIGM: Gina Mashburn Heath and Coy Heath use the principles of compassionate communication to enrich their partnership and relationship with their child. Photo courtesy of Gina Mashburn Heath

Pioneered by psychologist, author and teacher Marshall Rosenberg in the 1960s, nonviolent communication offers an alternative to the aggressive discourse dominating much of contemporary society. Born of a turbulent sociopolitical era in our nation’s history, NVC seeks to foster connection and dissolve conflict in interpersonal relationships, organizations and society. Central to NVC are three principles: empathy for self, empathy for others and honest self-expression. The overarching ethos of the practice suggests that there are no unhealthy needs — only unhealthy (and unsuccessful) ways to go about meeting those needs (nonviolentcommunication.com/ aboutnvc/4partprocess.htm). Most powerfully, NVC provides the tools with which to bridge the seemingly insurmountable divide between self and “other” — whether partner, friend, or nation. The magic tool? Empathy. (cultureofempathy.com/References/ Experts/Marshall-Rosenberg.htm) If you’re like most people, your habitual response to conflict is one of three alternatives — fight, flight or freeze. But at what cost? Certified HeartMath and Connection Practice coach Cathy Holt says such common responses lead to faulty communication. “I saw how when I didn’t acknowledge a feeling, it would generally come out sideways — it would show up in my body language, tone of voice — it would leak out, in a way,” she says. “It would come out as judgments of other people. You see the world differently when you’re judging all the time.”

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CONSCIOUS COMMUNICATION: Locally and in Israel and the West Bank, certified nonviolent-communication trainer Roberta Wall facilitates mediations, trainings and coaching that integrate nonviolent communication and mindfulness. Photo courtesy of Roberta Wall It is this very lack of awareness, Holt says, that is the source of violence. “Marshall Rosenberg used to say,” she adds, “A tragic suicidal expression of a need is when we make an attacking, blaming statement to another person.” Roberta Wall, certified NVC trainer, agrees. “I think most of the violence in the world is happening when people aren’t even aware that they have anger. They think they’re under a duty or they’re protecting something — they think, ‘That’s why I’m fighting, as a pirate or a soldier or a so-called terrorist.’ “Marshall Rosenberg invited us to discover the ‘surprising purpose’ of anger,” she continues. “I think what he meant by that is that when we look at our anger, it’s pointing us to [ask] what is so important to me that in this moment I am willing to put this relationship on the line? What is so important to me that in this moment I’m willing to do violence? So the surprising purpose of anger is to awaken me to what is so important to me.” Wall continues, “We sometimes call NVC ‘a language of the heart’ because it’s a language and a way of hear-

ing language that connects my heart to your heart.” And, perhaps in no relationship is the power of NVC more evident than in romantic partnerships. “We have a no-blame household,” says Gina Mashburn Heath. She and her husband, Coy Heath, say their relationship has been revolutionized by the tools NVC provides. “Because we have a practice of using NVC, I can just talk about my feelings — I’m not making [someone else] responsible. If I come in the door and Coy is really angry, I don’t imagine, as I would have in the past, that that’s my fault, or that I need to take that on. In the past, I would have felt an attack was coming and started putting up my defenses. Now, I can keep my heart open. I can just go with him and be with him with what’s going on for him without personalizing it.” Coy agrees. “The shift for me is dropping those old models of blame and shame.” He notes that the practice involves saying, for example, “‘When the dishes are left in the sink, I feel really upset because my need for cleanliness isn’t being met,’ as opposed to saying, ‘You always do this.’ [The practice entails] talking about specific issues as opposed to making a blanket statement and then airing all of my grievances that I’ve been bottling up inside for months and blowing up.” Yet the effects of the practice are not limited to their interpersonal relationship. Exploring uncharted territory, both Gina and Coy have been utilizing the practice to raise their elementary-school-aged child. Gina says she is supporting her child in cultivating empathy and an intrinsically motivated way of moving about the world. “It’s good to be a few years into it now and to see her having empathy for others, her having consideration, and it’s not because she should,” she says. “It’s because she’s generating that herself, and it feels good to do that.” Referring to picky eating, a challenge faced by many parents, Gina says, “I used to work with kids that had distended bellies. Instead of saying ‘Don’t be a spoiled brat — just eat it,’ you get in touch with your own feelings. This is the reason I have this strong value of not just throwing away a plate of food. I have to be able to articulate it, and then I can share that with you, and then perhaps you have an honest shift — that’s something talked about in NVC — that by hearing someone else’s feelings and needs about something, you might genuinely shift to where you’d like to contribute to their life by doing something different.” So although the practice does not always work in certain cases, such as getting a child to eat food, parenting guided by compassionate communication is a

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long-term investment, Gina says. “[Our child] was two when I started learning from Jerry. So, we don’t guilt people and shame people and blame people. What do we do instead? What’s my intrinsic value that I want to share with my child versus ‘I need to get you to do what I want you to do?’” Imagine an all-too-common parenting quandary, Wall suggests: You’re late, your child is dawdling, the minutes are ticking away. “What do I want my child’s reason to be for hurrying up right now?” she asks. “Do I want them to hurry up because they’re afraid of me? Do I want them to hurry up because love will be withdrawn if they don’t? Do I want them to hurry up because I want them to take care of my emotional life? Or do I want them to hurry up because I want them to find enjoyment supporting our family functioning in a sustainable way?” Parenting from this paradigm, Heath acknowledges, is not without its challenges. “I want to put it out there to other parents who may be using NVC to not be discouraged, because it’s long-term parenting. In the moment, it won’t work if working means getting somebody else to do what you want them to do. It’s not behavior modifi-

cation; it’s not controlling your child’s behavior. But if your goal is to teach them about your values — that’s the empathy.” Donoghue underscores the long-term value of NVC, saying, “The right/wrong way of communicating takes so much emotional energy, and nothing gets resolved. I think compassionate communication changes relationships because it helps people connect to themselves in a deeper, more vulnerable way, which then gets naturally transferred to connecting to loved ones in deeper, more vulnerable ways.” X

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The dissension centers on where and to what extent logging should be allowed within the national forests and which areas deserve additional protection. “If this were the final version,” says Kelly, “we’d be in big trouble.” But the current draft, the field biologist says, is “not universally bad,” citing the division of the forests into areas based on geographic, social and economic characteristics rather than ranger districts and county boundaries as one bright spot. MountainTrue, for example, lauds the creation of a “special-interest area” in a portion of Big Ivy, but the group contends that places like Daniel Ridge, Cedar Rock Mountain, Upper Santeetlah Creek, Ash Cove, Tellico Bald, Snowball Mountain and Lickstone Ridge also deserve additional protections. In addition, MountainTrue believes such long-distance hiking routes as the Mountainsto-Sea, Bartram, Benton MacKaye and Art Loeb trails should be designated as special corridors, similar to how the Appalachian Trail is handled, to help preserve their character. “There’s always hope,” notes Kelly.

For the first time in 23 years, the U.S. Forest Service is revising its management plan for the Pisgah and Nantahala national forests, and some participants in the long, drawn-out process say it could be going better. There’s a lot at stake, because the plan will determine which portions of these public lands can be used for which purposes. That opens the door to conflicts between competing interests, such as environmentalists and timber companies. In addition to the Forest Service’s public sessions held across the region, the National Forest Foundation, a nonprofit partner of the federal agency, is facilitating a series of stakeholder meetings. Forum members represent diverse interests, some of whom aren’t entirely happy with how things are playing out. “As of right now, I feel like I’ve wasted a lot of mine and my organization’s time,” says Josh Kelly, a public lands field biologist with MountainTrue, a local environmental group. Calling the forum “dysfunctional” and “a controlled wrestling match,” Kelly says some members don’t seem interested in working together. And Pryor Gibson, executive vice president of the North Carolina Forestry Association, says the various parties are at a “stalemate.” Gibson, whose organization represents private landowners and the forest products industry, says, “We have some issues.” Other forum members are more sanguine about the process. Zachary Lesch-Huie, southeast regional director for the Access Fund, says that while there are “some real disagreements” and the process “hasn’t always been easy or fun,” it’s also “actually helped foster new agreement, or at least reduced conflict that really doesn’t help anyone.” The fund represents the interests of recreational climbers. Lang Hornthal of Root Cause, a sustainable forest products initiative, describes the meetings as “absolutely productive” yet “frustratingly slow.” But as he puts it, “This stuff is complicated.” And Michelle Aldridge, an Asheville-based Forest Service staffer, doesn’t seem overly concerned. The multiyear process, which began in

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GATHER ROUND: Lisa Jennings, left, a Forest Service natural resource specialist in recreation, talks with members of the Back Country Horsemen at a meeting in Morganton on June 29. Additional meetings are scheduled to provide information and allow the public to comment on the draft plan. Photo courtesy of the National Forests in North Carolina 2012, is “going well,” she says. “We’ve had a robust public engagement,” with more than 30 meetings so far. WIDE-RANGING VIEWS One reason the revision is taking so long is that Nantahala and Pisgah are among the first national forests to use an updated process that tries to maximize community engagement. After eliciting public input, the agency revises its draft plan and then repeats the cycle. This summer, the Forest Service has been holding a series of regional open houses; the closest one to Asheville is a Tuesday, July 25 event in Mars Hill (see box, “Weighing In”). Others will be in Robbinsville and Brasstown. Agency staff will be on hand to discuss anything pertaining to the plan, but the focus will be on recent revisions designating specific management areas and geographic areas. The Forest Service relies on public participation to determine how different factions of the community — private citizens and environmental organizations, timber companies and recreational businesses — feel about which uses are appropriate for particular areas. “It just really spans the gamut of anything you can think of,” says Aldridge. “People have been giving us all kinds of input.”

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A PLAN FOR THE LAND Blanketing Western North Carolina, the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests stretch across county lines and include many varied landscapes. But this vast expanse of natural beauty isn’t entirely wild. “The forests don’t manage themselves,” notes Aldridge, and a lot has changed since the last plan revision. “Just think about what was happening in 1994: We were transitioning from cassette tapes to CDs, right?” she reflects, terming the current exercise “overdue.” Science and technology have seen numerous advances since then. Concepts like climate change and cultural resources have firmly entered the general conversation, and even recreation has evolved. “E-bikes, for example,” Aldridge points out, didn’t exist in 1994. The current plan revision seeks to incorporate any relevant new information while continuing to balance competing interests, making these public lands a home for both backcountry hikers and commercial loggers. The overall goal, notes Aldridge, “is to make sure we’re creating a healthy forest that’s as resilient as it can be, to provide the greatest good to the greatest number of people for the greatest amount of time.”

RESPONSIBLE LOGGING Gibson, however, doesn’t want to see harvesting restricted to produce overgrown forest canopies with an underdeveloped floor, or “desert islands of big pretty trees” with “death underneath.” With a bachelor’s degree in biology and chemistry, Gibson began his career as a builder and real estate developer before moving into politics. According to his organization’s website, he “was a strong ally of the association and the forest products industry during his tenure in the North Carolina General Assembly (1989-90, 1999-2011).” “We’re not letting enough sunlight hit the floor,” Gibson maintains, explaining that forests should be allowed to grow but also need thinning from time to time in order to maintain a healthy environment. “It’s kind of like the difference between wine and vinegar.” Without harvesting, says Aldridge, you get “less light hitting the forest floor than you would normally

“We have a complex forest; we have a lot of diversity,” she says. “This is a landscape of over a million acres. I think there’s space in the national forests to meet all of those needs.” X

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MAPPING IT OUT: Thousands of acres of the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests have been divided into 12 geographic areas for planning purposes. Map courtesy of the National Forests in North Carolina find in a healthy system.” In the past, she explains, nature addressed this via periodic forest fires, but “in the absence of fire, you have more fuel building up. Sometimes you need human intervention to create a more healthy system.” Besides, Gibson points out, the members of his organization depend on the forests for their living, and overharvesting would be against their own best interest. It takes 27 years for softwoods to reach maturity and more than twice that for hardwoods, he says. “I know that sounds cosmic,” continues Gibson. “In fact, we were just in Asheville with two schoolteachers, teaching them what sustainable forestry looks like.” And though he says he wants to “preserve the natural forest for my kids and grandkids,” he also argues that commercial interests need a little “leeway” in the national forests. “I’m a product of the ’70s,” says Gibson. “I’m afraid that my generation has read The Lorax, Dr. Seuss, so literally that they forgot the last part of that sentence: We shouldn’t cut trees ‘irresponsibly.’ They need to add that word.” The acclaimed 1971 children’s book, whose depiction of corporate greed sparked some controversy, doesn’t draw this distinction. SPECIAL PLACES Don’t expect to see a final version of the management plan anytime soon, though. In the fall, the Forest Service

will incorporate the latest round of feedback into another draft, due out next spring. That version will then be put out for public comment, with the final plan expected in 2019. The open houses this summer will focus on what Aldridge calls “the new chapters.” Released in May, these revisions divide the forests into different “management areas” as well as a dozen distinct “geographic areas.” There are three kinds of management areas, dubbed “interface,” “matrix” and “backcountry,” each allowing a different level of activity. The 12 geographic areas are: Bald Mountains, Black Mountains and Eastern Escarpment to the northeast of Asheville; North Slope and Pisgah Ledge directly to the southwest; and Fontana Lake, Great Balsam, Highland Domes, Hiwassee, Nantahala Gorge, Nantahala Mountains and Unicoi Mountains. The idea is to consider the factors unique to each area, Aldridge explains, adding that the previous approach may have been overly broad. During the open houses, local environmental groups are urging people to talk about the places they love. “Everybody has their own special places,” notes Kelly. Gibson, meanwhile, says he hopes that emotionally driven public comments and social media campaigns don’t end up producing decisions based on “who can tweet the loudest.” For her part, Aldridge recognizes that various interests are competing for a say in the revisions, but she’s confident that the final version can accommodate those different factions.

The U.S. Forest Service is hosting a series of open houses this summer to gather public comment on the latest draft of the management plan for the Nantahala and Pisgah national forests. Each event will focus on newly proposed geographic areas that are near the meeting site, as well as the overall revised draft. Agency staff will be on hand to answer questions. For a complete listing of these meetings, or to learn more about the revision process, visit avl.mx/3xx. The closest open house to Asheville will happen Tuesday, July 25, from 3-6 p.m. at the Appalachian Ranger District Office, 632 Manor Road, Mars Hill. Public comments may also be emailed to NCplanrevision@ fs.fed.us. X

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BY ERIN DANIELL erindaniell14@gmail.com Since May 2015, UNC Asheville graduate Erin Daniell, a resident of Asheville’s Southside neighborhood, has conducted an ongoing research project on the roots and realities of food insecurity in this historically black community. In a two-part series of stories for Xpress, Daniell presents her findings. Of the many narratives about Asheville, its reputation as a dining destination undoubtedly draws flocks of tourists and new residents alike every year. “‘Foodtopia’ is what we call our food scene in Asheville, N.C., home to a community of culinary collaborators crafting an experience to nurture your soul,” boasts Explore Asheville, the city’s tourism website. Yet hidden within this so-called Foodtopia, a large portion of Asheville’s population faces food insecurity. The Asheville area is home to six food deserts, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. People living within these areas lack grocery stores within a mile of their homes, which is considered walking distance when carrying grocery bags in the absence of reliable transportation. And in this city of nearly 88,000 people and 11 Ingles grocery stores, all nine of its public housing apartment complexes are located a mile or more away from an Ingles, an affordable grocery shopping option. Food insecurity is a problem for all residents who are struggling economically in the Asheville area, but the black community is disproportionately affected. According to the study State of Black Asheville, blacks, who represent 13 percent of the population and 71.8 percent of public housing residents, must travel over a mile for affordable groceries. The genesis of this disproportionate food insecurity in Asheville’s black community took hold decades ago when racially charged policies — most prominently, the city’s urban renewal projects of the 1970s — were carried out. One food desert that’s right in the heart of Foodtopia is the historically black Southside neighborhood, just

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recalls corner stores, fruit trees and gardens scattered throughout the neighborhood in the era of segregation. It was a time of food security. “We had access, but, of course, [the neighborhood corner stores] were twice as expensive as grocery stores [outside of Southside],” says Shabazz. But corner stores played a critical role in the community. They helped people cover their basic needs, including produce. They also maintained a credit system, allowing people to take home groceries when money was short and pay for them later. Local community organizer and longtime Southside resident Shuvonda Harper remembers hearing tales of the

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fruit tree orchard her great-grandmother kept in her backyard on Phifer Street. Along with local stores, residents relied on the abundance they could cultivate on their land. Harper says her great-grandmother’s property “had fruit trees — grapevines, pear trees, apple trees, black walnut trees, cherry trees. So my mom grew up with … this stuff accessible right in their backyard.” After the harvest, her great-grandmother canned anything that hadn’t already been consumed so they had food to get through winter. URBAN RENEWAL The harbinger of changes to this way of life began after World War II, when a relatively new phenomenon called urban renewal took hold in the United States. Cities across the country tasked themselves with pinpointing areas of what was termed “blight,” then created revitalization plans to be approved and funded by the federal government. Wealthy white men were largely responsible for identifying blighted areas and coming up with new development plans. Most often they found blight in traditionally black neighborhoods of urban areas. Cities then used eminent domain to acquire land, tear down homes and rebuild the area, displacing longtime residents from their homes and destroying connections to their sense of community. Urban renewal took place in Asheville decades after the country’s first projects, but with no less disastrous effects. “Inside East Riverside,” a 1966 community study conducted by the Redevelopment Commission of the City of Asheville to prepare for urban renewal, reported, “Although a majority of the structures in

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the area have been classed as blighted and community facilities are obviously deficient, two out of three people who live here like the neighborhood ‘fine,’ and only one in 10 dislikes it.” The study also reported that “in leaving East Riverside [Southside], respondents feel they would miss people most.” One of the community’s strongest recommendations for the ensuing development project was to build a supermarket in the neighborhood. As Asheville began to carry out urban renewal efforts in the early 1970s, Southside became the site of the East Riverside Project, the largest urban renewal project in the city and the entire Southeast, noted Southside

resident Priscilla Ndiaye in “Twilight of a Neighborhood: Asheville’s East End, 1970,” a public humanities project partially funded by the N.C. Humanities Council. Acting through eminent domain, the city of Asheville bought Southside homes to be either renovated or torn down and rebuilt. New residents moved in while longtime residents relocated to public housing under the city’s displacement plan, despite the 1966 study finding that a majority of residents did not endorse this option. Urban renewal efforts brought four public housing developments to Southside: Lee Walker Heights, Livingston and Erskine-Walton, Aston Park Tower and Bartlett Arms. Despite

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a call to address food-access issues, no supermarkets were built. Instead, between 1970 and the middle of the urban renewal projects in 1975, the number of grocery stores in Southside dropped from seven to zero. And those businesses never returned to the area (see graph). ROOT SHOCK Longtime residents of Southside harbor strong feelings to this day about the effect urban renewal had on their community. “I think that they bullsh*tted people around in that [urban renewal] time,” says Shabazz. “They took people’s property and displaced them, and you know these people had houses and they were rundown houses, the majority of them, but nevertheless they were homes. I felt like they [city officials guiding the East Riverside urban renewal project] actually put people [Southside residents] in a position, thinking that they were bettering themselves, and they wind up losing all of their independence and everything, and they start placing them in concentration camps.” Shabazz refers to public housing apartments as concentration camps because most of the complexes in Asheville have only one entrance/exit that is often watched by a security guard. To Shabazz, the displacement of community was the worst consequence of the East Riverside urban renewal project. Harper’s family was greatly affected by the urban renewal project. Like so many residents in Southside, her great-grandmother faced a lot of pressure to sell her house during that era. Finally, when her husband died, she relented. While she did not sell directly to the city, the results were the same — a loss of personal assets and community connections that made escaping life in public housing exceedingly difficult. Three generations later, Harper and her children live in the Erskine-Walton Apartments. The East Riverside Project tore down hundreds of homes and businesses and displaced thousands of people. The plan called for the displacement of at least half of Southside residents. Dr. Mindy Fullilove, a professor of public health and clinical psychiatry at Columbia University, created the term “root shock” to describe this experience. In her 2004 book, Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, and What We Can Do About It, Fullilove writes, “Root shock is the traumatic stress reaction to the destruction of all or part of one’s emotional ecosystem.” Dr. Sarah

Judson, a professor of history at UNC Asheville, further notes, “It [root shock] results in a rupturing of individual and communal identity.” For Southside residents, root shock resulted in the loss of critical social and cultural assets and knowledge — foundational qualities that lead to social mobility and the establishment of new local businesses, including grocery stores. Additionally, urban renewal created physical barriers to the establishment of new businesses in Southside, most notably, the dramatic alteration of Southside Avenue. This major business corridor was the only thoroughfare that diagonally traversed the entire Southside neighborhood before urban renewal, but the East Riverside Project chopped Southside Avenue down to a third of its original length. “The city basically rolled up the street,” says Roy Harris, a retired engineer, local historian and resident of Southside. Harris believes the road likely became the neighborhood’s namesake because

of its previous importance to the community. From 1915-70, Southside Avenue was consistently home to about half of the grocery stores in the neighborhood, according to old volumes of Hill’s Asheville City Directory. Harris says the project effectively cut off access to numerous businesses. The Redevelopment Commission of the City of Asheville carried out an extensive study aimed at finding what the residents of Southside needed and wanted from the East Riverside urban renewal project. However, a system allowing Southsiders to effectively hold the commission accountable to the study’s findings was lacking. This resulted in concentrating the city’s black community in public housing complexes and eliminating the food security residents had previously experienced for decades in Southside. X In August, the second installment of this series will examine Southside’s current experience of food insecurity and gentrification.

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on their list. But as night sets in and shops start to close, an entirely new problem emerges: Where can one go to get some late-night food? For a town with roots in tourism and a vibrant food culture, the flow from nightlife to late-night dining is

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to continue to support the patrons that are lingering for those things.” And yet for many, the mindset remains that Asheville’s latenight dining options are few and far between. When Jim Coleman, owner of Standard Pizza Co., first moved to Asheville from Atlanta, the lack of eateries open past midnight struck him as odd. “When we first moved in on Haywood Road, there just wasn’t much,” he remembers. “There weren’t all the bars or the nightlife there — really, after 9 or 10 at night there wasn’t much activity.” As the bar scene grew and nightlife options began attracting more people, Coleman decided to keep his West Asheville location open until 2 a.m. — a decision that brought in more business and helped his establishment fit the changing needs of the neighborhood. Although some of Standard’s busiest times are often between 12:30 and 2 a.m., Coleman thinks the fact that so many places close early goes back to the culture of Asheville. “When I would go to a house party or something when I lived in Atlanta, nobody would even show up until midnight or 1 in the morning, and it would go until the wee hours of the morning,” he says. “Here, when I first moved up here and was getting invited to house parties and stuff, generally by 12:30 or 1 [a.m.], people are leaving or have already left. It’s just not as much of a late-night culture in Asheville. Atlanta is just overrun with people, but Asheville being a smaller town might have lots to do with it.”

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LIMITED OFFERINGS? For Jessica Zuk, a college student who works as a host at downtown’s Bartaco, a limited offering of latenight eateries is one of Asheville’s biggest drawbacks. When she was growing up in South Asheville, the only places to grab a bite to eat past 10 p.m. were Cookout or Waffle House, she explains. “I know a lot of people who move here are always disappointed, because oftentimes they come from larger cities, and they come here and are shocked about the hours,” she says. “They’ll come here, especially in the winter, and realize there’s no place to eat food late at night and get bummed out because they think Asheville’s this supercool place to live — and it definitely is — but as far as a night scene, it lacks in a lot of ways.” Asheville tends to cater to a younger crowd, Zuk believes, one that is reflected in the clientele she sees at Bartaco. On weekends, the restaurant is open until 1 a.m., and its location next to The Orange Peel and near several breweries makes it a popular spot for people to come and eat at any point in the evening, she says. “You would be surprised about the number of people that do stumble in late at night, just because there are people that are doing all different sorts of things or getting off work at different times,” she says. “A lot of times we have people

come in who are just getting off of their night shift and are looking for a place to get something to eat.” As Asheville’s nightlife expands, late-night dining is poised to continue growing, Stephens explains. “Culinary is a major motivation for some travelers,” Stephens emphasizes. “We know that, specifically, craft beer is a motivator for Asheville visitors, and nightlife emanates organically from those experiences. Asheville’s such a festive scene — there’s always something going on somewhere. Dining, I think, will continue to follow suit.” X Editor’s note: In addition to working as a summer intern at Mountain Xpress, Molly Horak is employed part-time at Pack’s Tavern.

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Pottery, cuisine and philanthropy East Fork Pottery began in 2010 with the opening of its studio in Marshall. But with the addition last year of its Lexington Avenue storefront, the business is looking to expand not only its Asheville presence but its social impact within the community. With its new One Bowl Dinner series, East Fork will pair its handmade stoneware pottery with cuisine from neighborhood chefs and restaurants for a monthly gathering that benefits local nonprofits. The series launches Thursday, July 20, with chef Sarah Cousler of Buxton Hall Barbecue presenting what East Fork Pottery event director Erin Hawley describes as a “traditional, celebratory Filipino meal.” All proceeds will go to the Campaign for Southern Equality, which advocates across the South to promote LGBTQ equality. While all the details weren’t available at press time, the three-course menu is tentatively set to begin with siniganag, a sour tamarind pork soup, followed by kinilaw, a coconut shrimp ceviche. The dinner will conclude with a traditional Philippine boodle fight — a shared dish presented over banana leaves and eaten by hand. Cousler’s version will feature rice steamed in bamboo, topped with a pig head marinated in fish sauce and lemongrass, pinakbet (stewed vegetables with shrimp paste), smoked eggplant, dried squid skewers and a whole fried fish. In addition to the meal, the evening’s ticket will include a welcome cocktail and take-home ceramic bowl courtesy of East Fork Pottery. The gathering will also feature brief remarks by East Fork Pottery founders Alex and Connie Matisse. Campaign for Southern Equality Director Jasmine Beach-Ferrara will also speak about the work being done by the nonprofit. “Our hope is that a shared meal, lovingly and intentionally prepared, serves as the platform for an open conversation about how we all can affect positive change in our community in ways large and small,” says Connie Matisse. “We hope to learn from and celebrate the work being done by area nonprofits like the Campaign for Southern Equality, who advocate on behalf of our community’s most vulnerable populations. And as business own-

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JOINING FORCES: East Fork Pottery’s One Bowl Dinner series pairs handmade pottery with fare from neighborhood chefs and restaurants for a monthly dinner that benefits local nonprofits. The inaugural event happens Thursday, July 20, with chef Sarah Cousler of Buxton Hall Barbecue. Photo by Anne Symons ers with a sizable public presence, we hope to encourage others to use their platforms to take strong stances on issues that businesses have historically avoided weighing in on.” The inaugural One Bowl Dinner series event will run 6-9 p.m. Thursday, July 20,

in The Remingtin Room at Buxton Hall Barbecue, 32 Banks Ave. Tickets are $110 and include tax and gratuity. Tickets are available at avl.mx/3xg. Chefs and restaurants interested in participating in future events should contact Erin Hawley at erin@eastforkpottery.com.

FED TALK: THE CREAM OF THE CROP The Hop Ice Cream, Ultimate Ice Cream Co. and French Broad Chocolates will participate in the latest FED Talk, put on by Edible Asheville and co-hosted with Rhubarb. The twohour event will include an ice cream tasting as well as a discussion and Q&A. Topics will include the challenges faced by ice cream makers, how these operations incorporate local products into their goods and favorite flavor combinations. Snacks will be provided by Rhubarb’s kitchen. Beer and wine will be for sale. This is a kid-friendly event suitable for children ages 8 and older. FED Talk: The Cream of the Crop runs 5:30-7:30 p.m. Thursday, July 20, at Rhubarb’s event space, 7 S. Pack Square. Tickets are $20 ($10 for kids 12 and younger). For tickets, visit avl.mx/3a2. MEAT IN THE STREET Luella’s Bar-B-Que will celebrate its 10-year anniversary Saturday, July 22, in the parking lot of its North Asheville location. Owner Jeff Miller says in a press release that the gathering will include “never-seen-before

smoky creations.” The festivities will also feature Hi-Wire Brewing’s Pig on a Wire Anniversary Ale, a collaboration beer honoring the restaurant’s 10th year. Highland Brewing Co. beers will also be on tap, and local acts Sanctum Sully, Whiskey Grins Reunion, Phuncle Sam and the Saylor Brothers will perform at the event. The celebration will also feature arts and crafts by LEAF’s Easel Rider, as well as a dunk tank, hulahoops and cornhole. Proceeds from the celebration will benefit LEAF Community Arts. Meat in the Street runs noon-8 p.m. on Saturday, July 22, at Luella’s BarB-Que, 501 Merrimon Ave. For more information, visit avl.mx/3xi.

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Riverbend Malt House meets Biltmore Estate A new partnership will introduce locally grown and malted barley to Asheville’s craft beer scene Asheville’s craft brewing community has long prided itself on using locally sourced ingredients, and a major component of those beers may soon become much more local thanks to a collaborative partnership between Riverbend Malt House and the Biltmore Estate. With the help of Riverbend, Biltmore planted a 10-acre test plot of barley on the estate’s farmland in October. After a successful harvest in June, that grain is being malted at Riverbend before finding its way into Biltmore Beer Co.’s Cedric’s line of beers, which Riverbend recently helped to redesign. “It began as a roundtable discussion around expanding the agricultural operations at the estate, and we were able to step in and provide some information on the current state of play in growing small grains in North Carolina and what it means to grow high-quality small grains for the malting industry,” explains Riverbend co-founder Brent Manning. “Bill Cecil and the management team at Biltmore are really interested in the estate continuing to be a working farm,” says Riverbend CEO Scott Hickman. “And they’re always on the hunt for additional opportunities — whether that’s livestock or that’s agricultural — to have it continue to be a functional farm and, best case, to tie that right back into what their guests are consuming.” While all of the grain produced in this year’s harvest will go to making the retooled versions of Cedric’s Pale Ale and Brown Ale, the success of this trial will almost certainly result in the availability of Biltmore-grown grains to local brewers in subsequent years. According to Biltmore Wine Co. President Jerry Douglas, who also oversees the company’s beer production, the expected expansion of acreage dedicated to barley and brewing-related specialty grains for the upcoming year will be deter-

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LOCAL HARVEST: Recently harvested barley from the first test crop planted at the Biltmore Estate in October will be malted at Riverbend Malt House, then used to brew Biltmore Beer Co. products at the estate. The new collaboration between Biltmore and Riverbend will eventually help supply the area’s brewers with locally grown grain. Photo by Scott Douglas mined in advance of the fall planting cycle by market demand and interest on the part of local breweries for grains both grown and malted in Asheville. This limited experimental run, cultivated by Ted Katsigianis, Biltmore vice president of agriculture and environmental science, was intended to test the viability of growing specific strains of high-quality barley appropriate for the brewing industry. This included two-row, a variety of barley favored by brewers for its lower protein content and increased availability of fermentable sugars compared with six-row, which is more easily grown in the Southeast and commonly used for livestock feed. “Of the 10 acres planted, 5 were tworow,” says Hickman. “There’s a popular belief that you can’t grow two-row

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in the South, but that’s not the case. Stay tuned, because I think you’ll see more come of that.” The strain of two-row selected by Riverbend for the Biltmore trial, known as “Violetta,” was developed by French seed company Limagrain Cereal Seeds as a winter two-row malting strain designed with a resistance to premature germination damage and diseases common to the East Coast. According to Manning, lab tests on the estate-grown Violetta have been impressive despite a late frost/freeze and substantial rain at harvest time. Riverbend’s involvement in updating Biltmore Beer Co.’s products, a traditional English pale ale and brown ale that have used the same recipe since their introduction in 2010, grew out of the barley experiment. Available

exclusively on the estate, Cedric’s Brown and Cedric’s Pale are brewed in space leased by the company at Highland Brewing Co.’s production facility, and Highland brewmaster Hollie Stephenson was extensively engaged in crafting revised recipes for the beers in collaboration with Manning and the Riverbend team. “A lot of brewers end up inadvertently collaborating with us, building beers around the flavors our malt offers that are distinct from what’s available on the rest of the market,” says Riverbend co-founder Brian Simpson. “With Biltmore trying to tie the agricultural expansion in, it was a good opportunity for us to take a more active advisory role in refreshing the Cedric’s recipes to reflect the changing beer market and also showcase the estate grain while having a good story to tell about the agriculture down the line.” The successful efforts of Riverbend and Biltmore to grow high-quality, maltable grain in Asheville will pay dividends to the local beer community in a number of ways, and the approximately 15-mile round trip the barley used in Cedric’s will take from farm to consumer is a perfect case in point. In addition to providing brewers with a truly local source for one of the four primary ingredients of beer, the proximity of the barley’s origin to Asheville breweries will drastically reduce both the cost of shipping grain and the environmental impact inherent to that process. “Think about the local aspect of this story,” says Hickman. “The grain for Cedric’s will now be grown 4 miles from Riverbend, then it comes here to be malted, goes another few miles to Highland, where it’s brewed, and then goes right back to the estate. You can’t get much more local than that.” Editor’s note: Jerry Douglas is the father of Beer Scout reporter Scott Douglas. X

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are schooled in fine art movements and connected to design through websites like Pinterest. Instead of seeking work tied to a specific tradition, they’re drawn to art that speaks to personal aesthetic. “Something’s happened in American culture where more and more people are getting released from … iconic and defined realms,” he says. “People are starting to want that feeling of freshness, and that’s superexciting.”

amarshall@mountainx.com The inaugural Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands took place in 1948. Artists set up in tents on the lawn of the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg, Tenn. There, “all the exhibitors would demonstrate within their booths … because they wanted to be sure their time was spent making their product as well as selling their product,” says Hannah Barry, director of public relations and technology at the Southern Highland Craft Guild. The early fairs ran five to six days, for 12 hours per day — hence the need for crafters to multitask throughout the festivities, which included mountain music and dance. Taking a cue from its early iteration, today’s Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands still features demonstrations and musical acts. Held in Asheville since 1951, the institution celebrates its 70th year during its Friday, July 21, to Sunday, July 23, event at the U.S. Cellular Center. DESIGN IN MIND Much has remained the same, but there are changes, too. This year, for example, it will run three days instead of four. One new initiative at this year’s craft fair is a series of design vignettes during which local interior design, building and architectural firms team with guild members to “demonstrate how one can utilize craft in both form and function for the home,” according to a press release. The concept is to show “how craft is adapting to the current trends, as well as how people can use that in their lives today,” says Barry. Plus, it places heritage traditions, such as ceramics and woodworking, within the modern home. The Cultivating Craft in Your Daily Life vignettes include a living room designed by Anne Sherrill of Rusticks and Al and Parker Platt of Platt Architecture with sculptural art basketmaker Matt Tommey; a dining room designed by Laura Sullivan of ID.ology with furniture maker Brian Boggs; and a bedroom designed by

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CLAY DAY: At a 1951 iteration of the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, potter Bill Hendley demonstrates his craft to onlookers. Hendley’s grandfather, Ernest Auburn Hilton, established Hilton Pottery in McDowell County in the 1930s. The Southern Highland Craft Guild offered Hendley an opportunity to carry on the family trade. Photo courtesy of the Southern Highland Craft Guild Tracey Kearnes of Alchemy Design Studio with fiber artist Barbara Zaretsky. This season’s craft fair also includes “15 Minutes of Fashion,” created by Local Cloth. Each day at 1 p.m., models will showcase the wares of the fair’s fiber artists. “Being able to have [apparel] on a model makes it much more attractive and gives [the artists] more visibility,” says Barry. These new initiatives are being rolled out in part to celebrate the fair’s anniversary. “To be able to have a craft fair that’s continued for that many years is huge,” says Barry. But at the same time, “We’re trying to ensure it evolves to still have relevance. What we want to work on is connecting with other people who benefit and celebrate craft.” FUTURAMA Though the work of mixed-media artist Patrick Ironwood, a 2016 inductee into the guild, has eye-catching design elements, it’s not formed with an intent

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to lure in savvy consumers. “What I’m attempting to do is create a feeling, which a lot of art does,” he says. “But mine is about time travel and an almost spooky feeling of being in the future.” Using soda lime and borosilicate, in addition to other materials, he takes contemporary objects and makes them look like archaeological discoveries. His booth, he says, “is a world of what the future would look like.” He adds, with a laugh, “I’m in the Southern Highland Craft Guild now, which is this heritage [organization], but I also do science fiction conventions.” Ironwood describes his work — an innovative journey that originated with woodworking, stained glass and hot glass — as “objects that are found 500 years from now on the Eastern seaboard. People put my work in the steampunk genre, [but] it’s more like the steampunk ship went down and then, in the future, people find what’s left of the party.” Ironwood, who grew up with crafter parents on a homestead in Tennessee, where he still lives and works, describes a new generation of craft enthusiasts who

The Southern Highland Craft Guild formed in 1928 out of the efforts of Frances Goodrich, a missionary who came to Buncombe County in 1890. She founded Allanstand Cottage Industries, representing the work of area weavers and networking with leaders of the Southern arts and crafts movement. “Chartered in 1930, it would grow to become one of the strongest craft organizations in the country,” says the guild’s website. “Second in age only to the Boston Society of Arts and Crafts, the guild now represents over 900 craftspeople in 293 counties of nine Southeastern states.” For the last eight decades, “the guild has been trying to bring makers opportunities for commerce,” says Barry. Following the Great Depression, it grew into a marketplace organization through its brick-and-mortar retail outlets and its craft fairs. Today, “probably 50 percent of our membership is represented in our four galleries,” Barry says. That gives those crafters exposure to a large audience — the Folk Art Center itself sees more than 200,000 visitors annually. The guild’s members range in age from the early 30s to late 60s, trending toward the 45- to 65-year-old demographic. Barry says the organization attributes this, in part, to the time it takes to become proficient in a craft, artists who discovered a second career through programs at Penland School of Crafts, John C. Campbell Folk School and similar institutions, and “members who joined in the ’90s, or before, who wanted to be a part of the guild when it was at its prime in terms of being the only opportunity for craft in the region.” While there’s not necessarily a lot of overlap between crafters who are

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ARCHAELOGY: Artist Patrick Ironwood parlayed an interest in stained glass and hot glass into making fantastical futuristic pieces from multimedia and found objects. “I moved from a heritage form to really feeling like, artistically speaking, I didn’t want to keep reinventing the wheel,” he says. Photo courtesy of Ironwood

members of the guild and crafters who show at Asheville’s other popular biannual fair — The Big Crafty — there is a continuum between heritage and contemporary work and ideas. For instance, mixed-media artist Marty McConnaughey uses “gourds as a foundation for her craft with other natural elements like pine needles, bones or other found objects,” Barry explains. Though McConnaughey only completed the jury process last year, she represents a historic craft form. “Very few gourd makers remain in the guild,” says Barry. And this season’s featured artist of the craft fair, ceramicist Larry Allen — a member since 1999 — is known “for his sgraffito technique inspired by Native American and African art, using special black stoneware clay,” says Barry. WEARABLE SCULPTURE When fiber artist Lisa Klakulak first joined the craft guild in 2006, a few years after she’d relocated to the Southeast from New Mexico, “part of the reason I wanted to be in that guild was the reason I’d wanted to move to this area — because it does have that craft history,” she says. “I knew there was an educated population base that appreciated craft, as far as material understanding and process being equivalent to or even dominating the concept of what was being made.”

Klakulak uses the felting process to craft sculptural works and wearable adornments that often have a social commentary, such as her “Broken Shackles” series of cuffs. Her gauntlets — decorative fingerless gloves — were born out of an accident in which she was burned. The “reality check of the preciousness of my hands inspired the protective gauntlets,” she writes on her website. Personal experience corresponds with time-honored technique: “I am inspired by humanity’s age-old relationship with traditional craft materials and how these materials have been transformed over time and in different cultures,” Klakulak writes in her artist statement. But her work has evolved beyond heritage methods. In 2001, “When I first started felting and was able to conceive of the idea of sculpting through the shrinkage of wool … education had to become a major component because I had to educate the population base that I wanted to buy my work,” says Klakulak. “When I started doing more craft fairs but wasn’t teaching workshops yet, I was teaching in [my] booth. I had to explain to people what the hell they were looking at.” These days, teaching accounts for a portion of her income. Klakulak’s upcoming courses for this year will take her across the country and to Canada; she also offers instruction in her Asheville-based studio.

But craft pieces — even when travel, teaching and exposure to people and ideas come into play — represent the microcosm as well as the macrocosm. Klakulak turns to her work to process personal dilemmas and challenges. Current pieces are inspired by lava formations seen on a trip to Hawaii. “When I think about the texture you can get in felting, that spoke to me immediately. I could create stiff, sturdy felt, but it’s still fluid and drapable,” Klakulak says. “It doesn’t have to be fat and hairy. … You can make this sturdy material that has a ton of shrinkage so it’s dense like suede, but it’s thin enough so it has flexibility.” She continues, “It also spoke to me about where I’m at in my life, where I feel kind of stuck, but I know there’s creative fluidity running through me. There was personal reflection going on.” Though she finds labels unfortunate, “I refer to myself as a fine-craft artist,” says Klakulak. Her connection to the craft designation is because of the material, and, since her undergraduate studies, she’s been interested in expressing ideas through medium. “For me, it was working with concepts around security, control and impermanence,” she says. “I found myself in fiber, which is probably the most vulnerable craft medium, as far as people investing in it, because they think it will rot or get moths or fade.” She adds, with a laugh,

“It’s a funny concept to me because we’re going to do that, too!” But fiber is also about nurturing and comfort to Klakulak, who says she walks a tightrope between art and craft. Teaching, working and showing at fairs tip her to the craft side, but there’s artistic concept in all of her pieces. “It’s a way of processing the world around me, and my experiences,” she says. “But, in a way, it’s all universal subjects. … I’m choosing things that visually represent those ideas.” So even those consumers who don’t know the story still experience the workmanship and the human connection that ensures craft remains relevant and necessary. X

WHAT Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands WHERE U.S. Cellular Center 87 Haywood St. WHEN Friday, July 21-Sunday, July 23 Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.; Sunday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $12 weekend pass/$8 general admission/ $5 students/free for children 12 and younger. Full schedule at craftguild.org

EBB AND FLOW: “Steaming Caldera,” from Lisa Klakulak’s new collection, was inspired by lava formations seen in Hawaii. The piece is made of wool fiber, metallic/silk organza, tulle, cotton thread and rope, nylon netting and found beach glass. Photo by Steve Mann MOUNTAINX.COM

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by Lauren Stepp

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MEETING OF THE PEOPLE If Waynesville — population 10,000, situated in Haywood County — seems like an unusual setting for an international dance festival, just imagine the same event taking place in Waynesville three decades ago. “The mountains were fairly quiet, with little to no diversity,” says Folkmoot USA Executive Director, Angie Schwab. All that changed when the annual cultural festival came to town. “Folkmoot generated a lot of curiosity like a circus might,” says Schwab. The brainchild of Waynesville-based surgeon Clinton Border, the festival also brought global flavor to an otherwise secluded area. Now, decades later, Waynesville is a vibrant bedroom community to Asheville and a destination in and of itself. And its premier annual event continues to recognize the importance of cultural exchange. This year’s iteration, running from Thursday, July 20, to Sunday, July 30, features folk dance collectives from India, the Netherlands, Slovenia, Argentina, Russia, Israel, Taiwan and Wales. Traditional Appalachian and Cherokee groups will perform, too. Folkmoot is like “getting to travel the world,” says Schwab. And you don’t have to break the bank or fight jet lag to do it. For instance, at the Friday, July 28, all-groups production at Diana Wortham Theatre in Asheville, festivalgoers can watch more than 200 international dancers and musicians from 10 countries showcase their talents on one stage. But to really get in on the action, Schwab suggests Camp Folkmoot. Planned for Friday, July 21, the new, all-day workshop gives attendees a taste of international folk dances.

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SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY: In 2016, Folkmoot welcomed Imani Milele from Uganda. These cultural dancers were among 250 international guests who toured almost 40 venues across Western North Carolina. Pictured, the Ugandan collective takes part in the Parade of Nations in Waynesville. Photo by Patrick Parton

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Folkmoot returns for its 34th year Former state Sen. Joe Sam Queen is even expected to lead Appalachian square dancing lessons. “He makes these funny cracks, like, ‘This is how hillbillies learned their manners’ and ‘This is how we taught people in the sticks to make friends,’” says Schwab. And, in part, Queen is being truthful. His grandfather formed the area’s first dance team — the Soco Gap Cloggers — in the 1930s. Back then, mountain people used large community dances as a reunion of sorts, gathering for clogging, hot dishes and fiddle tunes. “Square dancing is a preliterate institution,” says Queen. “That’s where kids were taught to court and be pleasant. That’s where they engaged with their community.” That same simple camaraderie can be found at Camp Folkmoot. Learning traditional dances requires attendees to join hands and sidestep their way through ageless patterns like the Old Black Snake and Ocean Waves. “You can’t help but have a good time,” says Schwab. These carefree sessions are set off by more serious, thoughtful forums. Scheduled on both Friday, July 21, and Friday, July 28, the Cultural Wear Exhibition and Performance includes a panel discussion on traditional attire. According to Schwab, experts in ethnic apparel will unpack the significance behind garb. Consider color, for instance. Though deep crimsons are popular in Indian culture, the symbolism (e.g., womanhood, spirituality and purity) is not as overt. Even body language can be misunderstood. Overseas, laughing “like an American” — loudly and with your

mouth open — is considered strange, if not rude. “Culture is an iceberg,” says Schwab. We see what’s right at the surface, but nothing beyond that. People are especially prone to Titanic-sized oversight if they’re too close to the issue. At least, that’s the case when it comes to Haywood County’s musical heritage. Everyone knows WNC for its Americana rhythms — fiddles, mandolins and raspy vocals — but few recognize the “band culture” that thrives west of Asheville, where schools groom students to become nationally recognized flutists and drum majors. Folkmoot’s new Sunday Soiree Concert Series honors that dedication with a sound that’s heavy on the cowbell and light on the banjo. Set for Sunday, July 23, the soiree features stylings from Secret Agent 23 Skidoo and Empire Strikes Brass. All proceeds benefit Haywood County band students wishing to study music in college. “We typically celebrate clogging and bluegrass, so it’s very different,” says Schwab. She’s nervous about how Folkmoot regulars will receive the soiree but says it’s “sending the right message” — a message dating back to Folkmoot’s beginnings.

Having wandered the globe, Border — Folkmoot’s founder — realized the transformative effects of traveling. “He knew that other cultures were wonderful and that there was nothing to fear,” says Schwab. He also recognized that cultural exchange (including swapping of varied sounds from within the region) would be good for the mountains, reducing xenophobia and helping to preserve heritage. “He saw an opportunity for connection,” says Schwab. In fact, the word “folkmoot” comes from folcġemōt, an Old English term meaning “meeting of the people.” Having hosted more than 8,000 performers in the past 34 years, that descriptor seems fitting. X

WHAT Folkmoot USA WHERE Multiple locations around WNC WHEN Thursday, July 20-Sunday, July 30 See website for free events, performance times and ticket prices folkmoot.org

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by Bill Kopp

bill@musoscribe.com

DREAM: REALIZED Two short years ago, singer-songwriter Ashley Heath was working by day as a barista and playing music at night. She made the jump to being a full-time musician, releasing her debut album last year. And now she’s headlining an evening of Asheville-based acts — including Devils in Dust and The Great American, all of whom are female-fronted — at The Orange Peel on Saturday, July 22. Heath recalls the challenge of playing gigs until quite late at night and then reporting to work very early in the morning. “For two years, I was just tired all the time,” she says. “And I just decided then that if I didn’t commit myself full time [to music], I probably never would.” She readily admits that leaving the relative security of a day job was scary. “I wasn’t really sure if I was going to be able to pay my bills or not. You never assume the worst, but you have to be really prepared for it. I had money saved up, then I quit my job.”

Ashley Heath headlines a local music showcase at The Orange Peel

MAKING THE LEAP: In the two years since making music her full-time endeavor, Ashley Heath has won a songwriting competition, recorded an album, started on making two more records, and now she’s headlining a locals showcase at The Orange Peel. Photo by Layne Sizemore And though she had long been a musician — “I played flute and alto sax from sixth to 12th grade,” she says — Heath didn’t begin to write her own music until 2013. For a long time, she had said to herself, “Why do I need original music? I can just play other people’s songs forever!” But once the Marshall native moved to Asheville, she had a realization. To succeed on the level she wanted, “You really need to have original music and your own sound,” she says. In April 2014, Heath made it to the final round in the Brown Bag Songwriting Competition at Asheville Music Hall. Local musician Ryan Burns was one of the judges, and in the question part of the competition, he asked Heath what she wanted to do with her life. “I want to record an album,” she answered. Burns, who was endeavoring to move into production work, replied that he wanted to make a record, too. And after a single session at Echo Mountain Studio in November 2014, the parties involved agreed they wanted to record an entire album’s worth of Heath’s original songs. Heath had no budget, but she did have the support of fellow Asheville-based music professionals. “Everyone worked on spec,” she explains. “They just told me, ’When you release this album, you’re going to pay us all back.’” The sessions were completed over two days, with additional work at Sedgwick Studios

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in Fletcher. A Different Stream was released in May 2016. With revenue from shows, Heath says that she was able to reimburse everyone involved in the making of A Different Stream. “I am really blessed and lucky,” she says. And while most artists use crowdfunding campaigns like Kickstarter to finance recording sessions, Heath used the platform in a different way. “Why finish an album if nobody knows about it?” she asks rhetorically. Heath’s plan was to raise $10,000, using the funds for advertising and promotion expenses, including T-shirts and guitar picks. Like leaving the coffee shop, the campaign was a scary proposition. “It might not work out,” she thought. “Nobody knows me.” But she exceeded her goals and had enough money to press vinyl copies of A Different Stream. The Kickstarter project was “the craziest thing I’ve ever done in my life,” Heath says, with a laugh. “I gained 15 pounds, stressing about it.” The momentum of her positive experiences has carried her forward. Heath is already at work on two new projects. One will be with her band, the Heathens; the other is an EP of blues standards recorded with the King Zeros. And her upcoming spot at The Orange Peel — sharing the stage with friends and musical peers— is yet another major milestone for Heath. The Orange Peel’s manager, Jeff Santiago, is excited about the showcase, too. “We’re passionate about getting local artists on our stage, particularly those who have been working hard and making great strides with their music,” he says, noting that Heath “has built up some serious momentum. It was an easy choice to build a showcase around her.” X

WHO Ashley Heath & Her Heathens with Devils in Dust and The Great American WHERE The Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Ave. www.theorangepeel.net WHEN Saturday, July 22, 8 p.m. $8

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by Timothy Burkhardt

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ANIMAL FARM A group of barnyard bovines finds a typewriter and uses it to demand better treatment from their owner: This is the storyline of Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type, a children’s book by author Doreen Cronin and the season-closing production of Asheville Creative Arts. The show, which includes acting, live music, dance and puppetry, will open at The Magnetic Theatre on Friday, July 21. “I think now is an important time to teach kids about activism because from early on, many young people are made to feel their lives and voices aren’t significant, and it’s important we counter that and acknowledge their ability to make change,” says Abby Felder, production director of the show. “The story told in Click, Clack, Moo is about precisely that,” she says. “And since we are illustrating this behavior in an abstracted way, we also want to highlight the many people and organizations in Asheville who are doing this in a concrete way, to show that change can take many forms.” Each performance will be followed by talks about self-advocacy and the power of peaceful protest from local community activists who will tell the kids about their organizations and how they got involved with the causes they support. Activists include Daniele Martin from Yoga for Women of Color and DeWayne Barton of Hood Huggers International, the Rev. Michael Carter from the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of the Swannanoa Valley and Paul Howey of pet therapy program Fur Kidz Sake. Anthony Napoletano, who takes on the role of the antagonist, Farmer Brown, also plays keyboard and is the show’s choreographer. “For the dance movements, I’ve been particularly interested in drawing from revolutionary gestures and symbology throughout history — everything from the civil rights movement and the Vietnam War to more current examples like Black Lives Matter and the Women’s March. That historical imagery influences what we are doing onstage,” he says. “I really enjoy working with ACA because they are pushing the boundaries of child theater and showing that just

Asheville Creative Arts stages ‘Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type’

MANY SKILLS: Actors and musicians, from left, Jason Stanley, Jonathan Santos and Anthony Napoletano perform in Asheville Creative Arts’ season-ending show. Click, Clack, Moo, Cows that Type teaches young people to use their voices to protest injustice. Photo by Nehprii Amenii because it is for kids doesn’t mean it has to be dumbed down.” The performance is directed by New York City-based visual artist, children’s author, playwright and puppeteer Nehprii Amenii. Amenii laid the foundations for the play while in New York but has now relocated to Asheville to bring her vision to the stage. “I connected with the ACA through Abby Felder,” says Amenii. “I met in Abby in New York while I was performing a one-woman show at a theater she was also working with.” Amenii says that the challenges of collaborating from afar, and now traveling to Asheville for rehearsals, have been worthwhile because she believes in the ACA’s mission to teach kids how to become voices for change in their communities. “I’m here because being a part of projects that have the mission to transform people and communities is the most important work to do,” she says. “I’ve also been teaching for 18 years, so being able to do this transformational work with children simply feels like home for me.” The cast includes ACA resident artist Katie Jones and musicians Jonathan

Santos of Asheville, Gina Stewart from Charlotte and Jason Stanley from New York City. The performers onstage will be backed up by The Barnyard Band, a collective of young, Asheville-based musicians (Reina Corcoran on guitar, Sam Yoffee on saxophone, Grey Chatham on trumpet, Dax Chatham on piano and Reed Atherton on vocals), who will play accompaniment while costumed as farm animals. Gabrielle Tee of Asheville Music School, the

youth musical director for the show, helped the five young members of the Barnyard Band learn their parts and adapt even as changes are made by the creative team in New York. “We have had to change things for the instrumentation, or someone’s vocal part, or put something in a different key, or we’ve sped it up to twice as fast as I taught them, so it goes along with the dance,” says Tee. “At first, it was a little unnerving, but then I realized the advantage of doing this is [the actors will] learn how to really collaborate. I’ve been really impressed.” It was that the message of the play that pulled Tee in. “Click, Clack, Moo is about teaching kids the power of written word and spoken word for protest,” she says. “I think that both the young and older students are aware, on varying levels, of the political unrest. [The play] is showing them the power of using their words and working together, because that’s what the cows do.” X

WHAT Asheville Creative Arts presents Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type WHERE The Magnetic Theatre 375 Depot St. themagnetictheatre.org WHEN Friday, July 21, through Sunday, July 30. See website for showtimes $12 students/$23 adults

EMPYREAN ARTS 2nd ANNIVERSARY & ANNUAL STUDENT SHOWCASE: CREATURE FEATURE A Creeptastic Display of Physical Feats!

SAT., JULY 22ND Doors at 5:30pm Show at 6:00pm $5-15 Sliding Scale

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by Emily Glaser | Send your arts news to ae@mountainx.com

SIYAH Oakland native SIYAH, an acronym for Strugglin’ Improves Your Ambitious Hustle, earned his chops in Los Angeles before settling in Asheville two years ago. In that time, the positive hip-hop artist has made regular appearances at open mic nights and local venues and begun to collaborate with musicians such as Kingdom Kome. Between working on his second solo EP, a collaboration EP and regular performances, SIYAH will play at The Pritchard Park Summer Series. The local singer-songwriter series, along with other summertime evening events like Tuesday Hoop Jams, aims to bring residents and visitors alike to Asheville’s epicenter for familyfriendly fun. SIYAH will perform at the park on Thursday, July 20, at 6 p.m. Sarah Tucker closes the series on Thursday, July 27. Free. avl.mx/3x9. Photo by Jon Phillip

Jazz at Jargon Jargon is West Asheville’s new home for creative cuisine and creative tunes too, as featured in a series of jazz nights. “We put our heads together to figure out a creative way to establish a hang with high-quality music,” says Jacob Rodriguez, who’s working with owner Sean Piper on the lineups for Friday and Saturday shows, with plans to expand to six nights a week. “Due to the later start, we’re seeing a good amount of musicians stopping in after their early gigs, having a drink and sitting in on a song or two. That atmosphere has been so much fun.” The Andrew LaPrise Trio plays on Friday, July 21; the Rick Simerly Trio on Saturday, July 22; The Page Brothers on Friday, July 28; and the Justin Ray Trio on Saturday, July 29, all at 10:30 p.m. Free. jargonrestaurant.com. Photo of Ray by Natalie Ray

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For Rumbough Professional modern dance company Lindsey Kelley Dance will present its latest work, For Rumbough, during three local shows. Though artistic director, choreographer and dancer Lindsey Kelley Brewer recently moved to Florida, she wanted to host a final performance with her Asheville group in memory of her friend Jennifer Lauren Rumbough. “For Rumbough is a collection of modern dance works that are all tied to being a woman in today’s society,” says Brewer. “Seester, Seester,” for example, explores the connection between female friends, while “that happened, now onward” documents Brewer’s own personal struggles with dance and business. The full evening of performance takes place at The Academy at Terpsicorps on Friday, July 21, and Saturday, July 22, at 8 p.m. A matinee show will be held on Sunday, July 23, at 3 p.m. $15/$12 students. lindseykelleydance.com. Photography by Heather Hambor

Nahko and Medicine for the People Self-described thump-hop group Nahko and Medicine for the People released Hoka last summer. The Lakota word was a rallying cry for Crazy Horse, and so it is for Nahko. The album implores listeners and higher powers alike — with piano melodies and heartfelt verses — to make the world a better place. After facing his own identity crises as a child, Puerto Rican, Indian and Filipino Nahko (born Nahkohe Parayno) turned to music. Paired with horn player Max Ribner and percussionist Hope Medford, the group’s tunes still carry Nahko’s early philosophical and cultural visions. Nahko and Medicine for the People return to Western North Carolina for The Good Vibes Summer Tour, headlined by Rebelution and also featuring Collie Buddz, Hirie and DJ Mackle. Pisgah Brewing Co. hosts the event on Thursday, July 20, at 6:20 p.m. $30/$35/$60 VIP. pisgahbrewing.com. Photo courtesy of Nahko

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by Abigail Griffin

RHYTHM & BREWS: The Steel Wheels bring their Americana folk music to the Rhythm & Brews concert in Hendersonville on Thursday, July 20, from 7-9 p.m. The free, family-friendly concert series, which takes place on the third Thursday of the month until September, also features games and crafts for families, a misting machine, beer vendors and live bands beginning at 5 p.m. The outdoor concert takes place in Downtown Hendersonville on Main Street between Caswell and Allen streets. For more information, visit downtownhendersonville.org. Photo of The Steel Wheels courtesy of the Henderson Country Tourism Development Authority (p. 50) ART TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • MO (7/24) through FR (8/11) - Art Spark, preview exhibition for Art Spark auction. Reception: Friday, July 28, 5-8pm. TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • SA (7/22), 10am-noon - Ruthie Rosauer presents her book of photography, These Trees. Free to attend.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART HOP facebook.com/artgallerytrailwnc1, artgallerytrailwnc1@gmail.com • 3rd FRIDAYS, 4-7pm - Self-guided tours of 13 fine arts and crafts galleries in Historic Hendersonville and Flat Rock. Free to attend. Held at Art Gallery Trail WNC, S Main St, Hendersonville THE CRAFT FAIR OF THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS southernhighlandguild.org • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (7/21) until (7/23) - Juried craft fair featuring over 140 vendors. Fri. & Sat.: 10am6pm. Sun.: 10am-5pm. $8/Free for children under 12. Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ART ON MAIN acofhc.org/art-on-main.html

• Through WE (8/2) - Submissions accepted for nonprofit organizations to table Art on Main fine art/fine craft festival, which is held Saturday, Sept. 30 and Sunday, Oct. 1. Contact for guidelines. Held at Arts Council of Henderson County, 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 828-693-8504, acofhc.org • Through MO (7/31) - Submissions accepted for the Bring Us Your Best Art Exhibition. Entries accepted on Monday, July 31, and Tuesday, August 1, from 10am to 4pm. See website for full guidelines. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave SW, Lenoir, 828-754-2486 • Through SA (9/9) - Submissions accepted for the 32nd annual Sculpture Celebration taking place Saturday, Sep. 9. Contact for guidelines. HENDERSONVILLE OKTOBERFEST 828-693-1580, smartstarthc.org • Through TU (8/1) - Applications accepted for arts and crafts vendors to participate in the annual outdoor Oktoberfest. See website for full guidelines.

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com

ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 828-251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • FR (7/21), 5pm - "Downtown After 5," outdoor concert with Asheville AllStars and Rock Academy. Free. Held at Downtown After 5, 100 Block N. Lexington Ave. (at Hiawassee St.) BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • FR (7/21), 7pm - "Make Noise," performance and artist talk by Asheville company that that designs and builds analog modular musical synthesizers. Free. BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 349 Andante Lane, Brevard, 828-8622100, brevardmusic.org • WE (7/19), 12:30pm - Student piano recital. Free. • WE (7/19), 7:30pm - Sidney Outlaw in recital. $28. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • FR (7/21), 7:30pm - Mendelssohn Violin Concerto featuring violinist Mayuko Kamio. $15 and up. • SA (7/22), 7:30pm - Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4, performed by pianist Nikita Mndoyants. $15 and up. • SU (7/23), 3pm - "Soloists of Tomorrow," concert featuring winners of the Jan and Beattie Wood Concerto Competition. $15 and up. • MO (7/24), 7:30pm - International Contemporary Ensemble concert. Free. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • TU (7/25), 12:30pm - Performance of new works written by Brevard Music Center composition students. Free. • WE (7/26), 12:30pm - Brevard Music Center piano student recital. Free.

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• WE (7/26), 7:30pm - Vivaldi's The Four Seasons performance with the Brevard Festival Chamber Orchestra. $15 and up. • TH (7/27), 7:30pm - Street Scene, musical. $35 and up. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TU (7/25), 6pm - "Groovin' on Grovemont," outdoor concert with Bayou Diesel, cajun/zydeco. Free. Held at Grovemont Square, 101 W Charleston Ave., Swannanoa • TU (7/25), 7pm - "The History of Music & The Guitar" program by Paul Hutchison. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-10pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. • THURSDAYS 6-8pm - Pritchard Park singer/songwriter series. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, 692-6424, myhcdp.com • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - "Strings and Things," folk pop music jam. Free. MUSIC ON MAIN 828-693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (7/21), 7pm - Outdoor concert featuring Rock and Roll Reunion. Free. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville OLLI AT UNCA 828-251-6140, olliasheville.com • FR (7/21), 3pm - "Opera Talk," presentation by the Asheville Lyric Opera general director David Craig Starkey regarding the upcoming show, Elixir of Love. Free. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road PICKIN’ IN THE PARK cantonnc.com • FRIDAYS through (8/25) - Outdoor bluegrass concert with clogging. Free. Held at Canton Recreational Park, Penland St., Canton RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES 828-233-3216, facebook.com/ rhythmandbrewshendersonville • TH (7/20), 5-9pm - Outdoor concert featuring The Steel Wheels, soulful roots music. Free. Held at South Main Street, 301 S. Main St., Hendersonville SHINDIG ON THE GREEN 828-258-6101, x345, folkheritage. org

JULY 19 - 25, 2017

GALLERY DIRECTORY

by Abigail Griffin

A& E CA LEN DA R

• SATURDAYS through (9/2) Outdoor old-timey and folk music jam sessions and concert. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. SUMMER TRACKS CONCERT SERIES 828-290-4316, summertracks.com • FR (7/21), 7pm - "Even Cowgirls Get The Blues," concert featuring the music of Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash and Lucinda Williams with vocals by Peggy Ratusz, Ellen Trnka and Mare Carmody. Free. Held at Rogers Park, 55 W. Howard St., Tryon THE CRADLE OF FORESTRY 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-3130 • SUNDAYS through (7/30), 4-5:30pm - Songcatchers Music Series features acoustic music with roots in the Southern Appalachians. $6/$3 for 15 and younger. TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 828-884-3151 • MO (7/24), 12:30pm - Brevard Music Center college division students perform chamber music. Free. TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828- 859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (7/20), 1:30-3pm - Traditional Appalachian music workshops for adults. Information: 859-8322 or pacjam@tryonarts.org. $25. • FR (7/21), noon - PacJAM summer camp concert. Free.

THEATER ASHEVILLE CREATIVE ARTS 914-830-3000, ashevillecreativearts.org/ • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/20) until (7/30) - Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type, Asheville Creative Arts theatre production for children featuring live music, projections and puppetry. Fri.: 7pm. Sat. & Sun.: 1pm. Sat.: 4pm. Thurs.: 7pm. $23/$12 students. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. ATTIC SALT THEATRE COMPANY 828-505-2926 • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/30) - Gruesome Playground Injuries, comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $20. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SATURDAYS until (7/22) - Dixie Swim Club, comedy. Wed., Thurs. & Sat.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $15 and up.

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FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/23) - The Little Mermaid. Thurs. & Fri.: 7pm. Sat.: 1pm & 5pm. Sun.: 2pm. $12.50 - $25. FOLKMOOT USA 828-452-2997, folkmootusa.org • TH (7/20) through SU (7/30) Ten-day festival taking place in Waynesville, Clyde, Lake Junaluska, Maggie Valley, Canton, Cherokee, Franklin, Hickory, Asheville, Greenville and Hendersonville featuring cultural ambassadors and dance performing groups from India, Netherlands, Slovenia, Argentina, Russia, Israel, Taiwan, Wales and local Appalachian and Cherokee dancers and musicians. See website for full schedule, costs and locations. HART THEATRE 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/30) - Fiddler on the Roof, musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $27.82. HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/21) until (8/6) - The Lion King Jr. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $15. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 828-254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/29), 7:30pm - Troilus and Cressida. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE 202 Green Mountain Drive Burnsville, 828-682-4285, parkwayplayhouse.com • FRIDAYS through SATURDAYS until (7/22) - Bonnie & Clyde, musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. $22/$12 children. THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 828-279-4155 • SA (7/22), 10:30pm - "Off-Off Broadway Project," featuring, The Moon and I Like It. Free to attend. THEATER AT MARS HILL mhu.edu • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (7/27) until (7/30) - Hard Travelin' With Woody, presented by The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre. Thurs. - Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. Free to attend/Donations benefit The Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre. Held at Mars Hill University, 265 Cascade St., Mars Hill

200 MAIN 200 Main St., Highlands, 200main.com • Through MO (7/31) - How Many Trees?, outdoor eco-art installation by Anna Norton and John Melvin. ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through MO (7/31) - Paintings and ikebana by Jamie Rowe-Rischitelli. Held in the Blowers Gallery Held at UNC-Asheville, 1 University Heights • Through MO (7/31) - Celebrating Middle School Success, exhibition of art created by over 40 students from area schools. Reception: Wednesday, July 26, 4:30-6pm. Held at UNC Asheville - Karpen Hall, 1 University Heights ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu. edu • Through FR (7/28) - Print Plus One: Beyond the Glass Matrix, vitreograph exhibition. Reception: Thursday, July 27, 5-7pm. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive ART IN THE AIRPORT 61 Terminal Drive Fletcher • Through TU (10/31) - Origin, artwork by Kim Rody Kopp, Bonnie Cooper, Dan McGowan and Paul Karnowski. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (8/4) - Perception of Sense, exhibition of work by Courtney Dodd & Nick Fruin. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. • Through FR (7/21) - Appalachian Magic, exhibition of work by Noelle Miller. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828251-5796, ashevillegallery-ofart.com • Through MO (7/31) - Cheryl Keefer New Works: Something to Celebrate. BLUE SPIRAL 1 38 Biltmore Ave., 828-251-0202, bluespiral1.com • Through FR (8/25) - Forging Futures: Studio Craft in Western North Carolina, exhibition

‘FLIGHTS OF FANCY’: Mica Contemporary Craft Gallery in Bakersville opens its newest mixed-media exhibition, Flights of Fancy, on Thursday, July 27. The bird-themed exhibit features paintings as well as wire, iron and glass art by artists Josh Cote, Elizabeth Brim, Shane Fero and Mary Webster. The reception is Saturday, July 29, from 5-8 p.m., and the show runs through Sunday, Oct. 15. Wire sculpture by Josh Cote courtesy of the Mica Contemporary Craft Gallery of the work of 24 emerging and established artists shaping in studio craft. CANVAS ARTSPACE 212 S. Church St., Hendersonville, 828577-4590, canvaswnc.com • Through TU (8/1) Selections: Paintings of Lillia Frantin. DOWNTOWN BOOKS & NEWS 67 N. Lexington Ave., 828-348-7615, downtownbooksandnews. com • Through MO (7/31) - Exhibition of the mixed media works of Emöke B’Racz and the B’Racz family, celebrating the 29th anniversary of the store. GREEN SAGE CAFE WESTGATE 70 Westgate Parkway, 828-785-1780, greensagecafe.com • Through SU (10/15) Asheville Mandala Art Meditation, exhibition of reconstructed photographic cityscapes on silk, canvas, metal and clothing by Wendy Newman. GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828-253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (8/20) Southern Migrations: Five Years in Asheville, contemporary landscape paintings by Shawn Krueger.

MACON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin • Through MO (7/31) - Exhibition of works by Kay Smith and Jim Smythe. MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 828-6886422, micagallerync.com • TH (7/27) through SU (10/15) - Flights of Fancy, mixed media exhibition featuring work by Josh Cote, Elizabeth Brim, Shane Fero and Mary Webster. Reception: Saturday, July 29, 5-8pm. MORA CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY 9 Walnut St., 828-5752294, moracollection.com • Through MO (7/31) - Exhibition of jewelry by Tara Locklear. PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (8/13) - Streets of Ashe, exhibition of photography by Elia Lehman. POSANA CAFE 1 Biltmore Ave., 828-505-3969 • TH (7/27) through TH (8/31) - Clouds, group art show on the theme of climate change.

Reception: Thursday, July 27, 6-8pm. SWANNANOA VALLEY FINE ARTS LEAGUE 828-669-0351, svfalarts.org • Through SU (9/3) Juried show of 2D and 3D art. Held at Red House Studios and Gallery, 310 W. State St., Black Mountain THE HAEN GALLERY 52 Biltmore Ave., 828254-8577, thehaengallery.com • SA (7/22) through TR (8/31) - A Summer Configuration, exhibition with works by Joyce Garner, Ursula Gullow and Tim Anderson. Reception: Saturday, July 22, 5:307:30pm. TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (8/19) - Inheritance, group exhibition. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 828-859-2828 • Through FR (8/4) - Among Friends: Sixteen from the Art Bomb Studios, group exhibition. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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JULY 19 - 25, 2017

CLUBLAND

Where The Blue Ridge Mountains Meet the Celtic Isles

MONDAYS Quizzo – Brainy Trivia • 7:30pm Open Mic Night • 9pm WEDNESDAYS Asheville’s Original Old Time Mountain Music Jam • 5pm THURSDAYS Mountain Feist • 7pm Bluegrass Jam • 9:30pm Bourbon Specials

“PAPA VAY” LANDERS

TAVERN

FRI 7/21

Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 14 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

ocial Functio ” AS n e Patio – Su “Unpluggedm! h t ndays at 4:30p On

THU. 7/20 Bean Tree Remedy (eclectic acoustic)

GOOD BAD KIDS SAT THE REFINED FOLK ROCK / BLUEGRASS 7/22 9PM / $5 WESTERN SWING

TUE w/ TEXAS T & 7/25 THE TUMBLEWEEDS 7 PM / FREE

DJ MoTo

IRISH SUNDAYS Irish Food and Drink Specials Traditional Irish Music Session • 3-9pm

( dance hits, pop)

SAT. 7/22 Neon Crush

( 70’s and 80’s dance hits)

JULY 19 - 25, 2017

THE LOWEST PAIR 9 PM / $5

FRI. 7/21

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944 packStavern.com

OLD-TIME, COUNTRY, BLUES, CA JUN & JUG 7 PM / $5

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Hank Bones or Kon Tiki, 7:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Window Cat (soul, R&B, funk), 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic w/ Billy Owens, 7:00PM BURGER BAR Double Trouble Karaoke w/ Dee and Quinn, All day CLADDAGH RESTAURANT & PUB Live Irish Music!, 7:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll), 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Asheville Blade 3rd Birthday Party, 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays w/ Hearts Gone South, 8:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Redleg Husky (country, bluegrass), 9:00PM

OPEN MON-THURS AT 3 • FRI-SUN AT NOON

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

CRAFT BEER, SPIRITS & QUALITY PUB FARE SINCE 1996

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Fly By Night Rounders w/ Steel City Jug Slammers (old-time, blues, honky-tonk), 8:00PM

95 PATTON at COXE • Downtown Asheville

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UNDER THE RADAR: In a sea of digital pop veneers and over-production, Omaha rocker David Nance continues to be a DIY voice against the current. Despite leaving his four-track recorder for the studio to record his latest album, Negative Boogie, Nance continues to defy music industry norms, melding frenetic guitar-fuzz dance melodies with a lyrical malaise worthy of Lou Reed or Iggy Pop. Catch Nance and his band as they rolls through Asheville’s Lazy Diamond on Monday, July 24 for a 10 p.m. show. Photo by Dan Crane

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HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Español y Cerveza, 5:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Hollie Hammel w/ Kaycie Satterfield & Triptych Soul, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM LONDON DISTRICT STUDIOS Gypsy Jazz at The London, 7:30PM NOBLE KAVA Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Drag Show!, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Billy Litz (multi-instrumentalist), 9:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Frank Lee & Allie Burbrink (bluegrass), 6:00PM POST 25 Albi & The Lifters (American swing, French chanson), 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION RnB Wednesday Jam Night w/ Ryan RnB Barber & friends, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Daniel Sage, 7:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Scott Kendrick, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Indivisible Asheville, 5:30PM Pam Taylor w/ Peggy Ratusz & Ashley Heath, 7:00PM

OPEN MIC NIGHT EVERY MONDAY 7PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Datenight w/ Kitty Tsunami & The Missing Stares (garage rock), 9:30PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Invitational Blues & Soul Performance (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Michael Jefry Stevens Trio (jazz), 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Jason Whittaker (acoustic), 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH J Luke (acoustic), 6:30PM

THU WED

TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM

FLY BY NIGHT ROUNDERS 7/19 +THE STEEL CITY JUG SLAMMERS 7/20 THE STEEL WOODS TAQUERIA OPEN AT 11AM DAILY COREY FELDMAN 7/21 AND THE ANGELS 7/22 JEFF THOMPSON GIVING TRIO COMING SOON IAN RIDENHOUR W/ 7/23 GOODFIGHT, ZUZU WELSH BAND 7/26 THE NIGHTOWLS 7/27 w/ The Dirty Soul Revival

w/ Joshua Carpenter & The Prey Tells, Poeina

FRI

TIMO'S HOUSE Wunderland Apokalypse Tour w/ Big Lo, C.Shreve & Friends, 9:00PM

Historic Live Music Venue Located At

185 CLINGMAN AVE • ASHEVILLE

THU WED SUN SAT

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Gary Clark Jr. w/ Jackie Venson (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM

w/ Ben Phan

this week only

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT

HARVEST RECORDS + THEGREYEAGLE.COM

Friday • July 21st Phantogram & Tycho Live in the Meadow!

7/28: Funny Business Presents: Locally Brewed Comedy – Asheville Comedy Showcase

THE SAD AND BEAUTIFUL WORLD OF SPARKLEHORSE (FILM SCREENING, MUSIC, AND Q&A)

w/ Angela Faye Martin, Martin McNeil

7/29: The 50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn w/ Alarm Clock Conspiracy, Sunshine and The Bad Things, Carpal Tullar

Tickets still available

Saturday • July 22nd Erica Binn, 7-9pm

7/30: The Grey Eagle Beach Bash

eVery week

Pig Roast + Tiki Drink Specials

w/ Ouroboros Boys

THURSDAY, JULY 20

Mondays: $3 year-round & seasonal beers + games

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

Tuesdays: Trivia with Doctor Brown

ALTAMONT THEATRE Kid Trails & Those Lavender Whales w/ Justin Blackburn & Lo Wolf (indie folk), 8:00PM

Thursdays: Oakley Farmers Market 3:30-6:30 pm

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (live jazz), 9:00PM

extended hours

BEN'S TUNE-UP Sister Ivy (poetry, jazz, rock), 8:00PM

Monday-Thursday 3-9pm Friday-Saturday 12-10pm Sunday 12-6pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass Jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan (indie, folk, singer-songwriter), 7:00PM BURGER BAR Burger Bar Boogaloo!, All day TRIVIA! w/ Ol'Gilly, 7:00PM

12 Old Charlotte Hwy. Suite 200 Asheville, NC 28803 828-299-3370

BYWATER Well Lit Strangers, 6:00PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Reggae Thursdays w/ Station Underground (reggae, rock, jam), 8:00PM

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THIS WEEK AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL

THIS WEEK AT THE ONE STOP:

THU 7/20 10pm Cycles [Psycho Rock Fusion] FRI 7/21 10pm Buddhagraph Spaceship [Jam/Rock] SAT 7/22 10pm BEAT LIFE: Ill Doots / Shuhandz / mor∆sso / Vietnam Jerry UPCOMING SHOWS - ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL:

THE DIGS 90S DANCE PARTY

SUMMER DANCE PARTY SERIES

FRI 7/21 9pm Ca$h Donation$

SAT 7/22 10pm Ca$h Donation$

w/ DJ AVX

8/4 8/18 8/25 10/6

Dynamo w/ The Big Takeover Hustle Souls w/ The Freeway Revival The Broomestix The Russ Liquid Test

Tickets available at ashevillemusichall.com @avlmusichall MOUNTAINX.COM

@onestopasheville JULY 19 - 25, 2017

CLU B LA N D CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (rowdy ragtime jazz), 10:00PM

7/19 wed datenight

DOUBLE CROWN Wild Mohicans Mardi Gras Indians, 10:00PM

w/ kitty tsunami the missing stares

7/21

fri

7/23

sun

tin foil hat

w/ xero god, illpo, tide eyes

palm

w/ palberta, aunt sis

7/24

mon

fashion bath

w/ fraternal twin, stolen jars, meadower

free!

7/25 tue is@s@

w/ few more days

7/26 wed pinky doodle poodle w/ obsideoneye

7/27

thu

100 watt horse

w/ axxa abraxas, washboard abs, coma cinema

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Polly O'Keary & the Rhythm Method (blues, roots), 9:00PM FOLKMOOT FRIENDSHIP CENTER 2017 Folkmoot Festival, All day FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Benjo Saylor (of Brushfire Stankgrass), 6:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Charles Latham (folk, pop, singer-songwriter), 6:00PM The Steel Woods w/ The Dirty Soul Revival (rock), 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY East Side Social Ride, 6:00PM

SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Vinyl Night, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Lazybirds w/ Jay Brown, James T. Brown, Mitchell Johnston & Alfred Michels (roots, country, swing), 8:30PM Service Industry Night, 11:00PM THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Live Band Karaoke & Open Jam w/ Old School, 9:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Legend of the Geek TourSuper Smash Bars, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Dr. Paul, 9:00PM

Yoga at the Mothlight

Details for all shows can be found at

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Open Jam Session, 7:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Chilltonics, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Benefit for Asheville Darkroom, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB Redleg Husky, 7:00PM NOBLE KAVA Vinyl Night, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Morbids w/ Vishnu Basement, Luxury Club & Tundrastomper (rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 6:30PM Cycles (psychedelic rock), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Kylie & Her Mutts, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Eric Congdon (world music, Americana), 6:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ James Harrod, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Bean Tree Remedy (eclectic acoustic), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Appalucians (family show, Americana), 4:00PM "Good Vibes Summer Tour" w/ Rebelution, Nahko & Medicine for the People, Collie Buds, Hirie and DJ Mackle, 5:30PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Billy Litz (soul, roots), 7:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (live music, dance), 9:00PM

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JULY 19 - 25, 2017

PURPLE ONION CAFE Michael Reno Harrell, 7:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ Suzie Brown & Scot Sax, 7:00PM

Tues., Thurs., and Sat. 11:30am

PRITCHARD PARK SIYAH, 6:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Patrick Dodd Dinner Show w/ Chris O'Neill, 7:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Darren Nicholson (bluegrass, Americana), 6:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ unplugged w/ Sarah Tucker, 8:00PM

FRIDAY, JULY 21 185 KING STREET Pam Taylor (roots, blues), 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Lazybirds (Americana roots), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Fine Line (Southern rock), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Jody Carroll, 7:30PM

CROW & QUILL Krekel and Whoa (local rock n' roll), 9:00PM DOWNTOWN AFTER 5 Asheville All-Stars w/ Rock Academy, 5:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER Classic World Cinema (cult classic film month), 8:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Sean Mason and the Madmen (funk, jam), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY The Jangling Sparrows (indie, folk), 6:00PM FRENCH BROAD OUTFITTERS - HOMINY CREEK The Dirty Dead, 8:30PM GOOD STUFF Hard Rocket (rock), 8:30PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Corey Feldman & The Angels w/ Joshua Carpenter & The Prey Tells and Poeina, 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Phantogram & Tycho (electronic, rock, R&B), 7:00PM Phantogram afterparty w/ RBTS WIN (electronic, pop, hip hop), 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Freeway Revival (blues, country, funk), 6:30PM Interstellar Boys, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Papa Vay' Landers (folk, oldtime, blues), 7:00PM The Lowest Pair (sultry country), 9:00PM LAZOOM BUS TOURS Pleasure Chest (rock 'n' roll), 1:30PM Pleasure Chest (rock n' roll), 5:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Rob Parks & friends, 6:30PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Stevie Tomestone, 6:30PM NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB Saylor Brothers, 7:30PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Digs' 90's Dance Party, 9:30PM

NOBLE KAVA Tom Scheve's Comedy Night w/ Chesney Goodson, 9:00PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Live Mashup w/ Iggy Radio, 6:00PM DJ Kilby (vinyl set), 10:00PM

ODDITORIUM Frostfang w/ Amnesis, Binding Isaac & Didges Christ Super Drum (metal), 9:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BURGER BAR Burger Bar Bike Night, All day CORK & KEG Frank Lee & Allie Burbrink (bluegrass), 8:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:00PM Buddhagraph Spaceship (jam, rock), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Berlyn Trio (funk), 9:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Dave Desmelik (rock), 6:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE The Throwback Vol. 2 w/ Deacon, 8:00PM

OSKAR BLUES REEB RANCH Burning CAN w/ JJ Grey & Mofro, JD McPherson, Fruition & many more!, All day

TOWN PUMP Old Chevrolet Set, 9:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN DJ Moto (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Robert Earl Keen w/ Kasey Chambers & The Danberrys, 7:00PM

SATURDAY, JULY 22 185 KING STREET Mia Rose Lynne (roots, bluegrass, singer-songwriter), 8:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7:00PM Virginia & The Slims (jump blues, swing), 10:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR James Hammel Trio (jazz), 6:00PM Red Hot Sugar Babies (hot jazz), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Bean Tree Remedy (acoustic, folk, eclectic), 9:00PM

US CELLULAR CENTER Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, 10:00AM

ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening w/ The Lost Chord (Moody Blues tribute), 8:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Nevermind (Nirvana tribute), 9:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Phish Bakers Dozen Live Stream, 8:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Todd Hoke, 4:00PM Ross Osteen & Crossroads (rock, soul), 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Kevin Spears, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Our Voice Fundraiser w/ Chris Wilhelm, Kim Smith, Jane Kramer, Ben & John and more, 7:30PM

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M A X R AT I N G Xpress is shifting some of its movie coverage to online-only as we expand other print sections of the newspaper. Virtually all upcoming movies will still be reviewed online by Xpress film critics Scott Douglas, Francis X. Friel and Justin Souther, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print. You can find online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include: WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES HHHH WISH UPON

THE BIG SICK (PICK OF THE WEEK) RESTLESS CREATURE

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Comedian Kumail Nanjiani pens an unconventional romantic comedy with The Big Sick

The Big Sick HHHH DIRECTOR: Michael Showalter PLAYERS: Kumail Nanjiani, Zoe Kazan, Holly Hunter, Ray Romano, Anupani Euler, Zienobia Sfiroff, Adeel Akhtar, Bo Burnham, Aidy Bryant, Kurt Braunohler ROMANTIC COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: A Pakistani comedian falls for an American grad student and predictably fouls things up, but when his love interest winds up in a medically induced coma, the choice between his family and the object of his affections becomes less clear cut than it first appeared.

THE LOWDOWN: An old-school romcom for millennials that’s nowhere near as cringe-inducing as that prospect sounds. Easily the best date movie of 2017 thus far. It should probably come as no surprise to most readers that I have a distinct aversion to romantic comedies. What came as quite a surprise to me was the fact that I didn’t hate director Michael Showalter’s Kumail Nanjiani vehicle, The Big Sick. I suppose I might have seen this coming, given my affinity for both Showalter and Nanjiani, but the fact of the matter is that what I find so appealing about this film has less to do with its star or director than with all

of the ways in which it diverges from rom-com convention while somehow stubbornly maintaining nearly every beat one would expect of any other entry in the genre. Nanjiani plays a marginally fictionalized version of himself (even the name remains the same), working from a script co-written by the star with his wife, Emily V. Gordon, based on their real-life courtship. As a struggling stand-up with a very traditional family of Pakistani expats, the success of Nanjiani’s burgeoning relationship with young grad student Emily (Zoe Kazan, as Gordon’s on-screen proxy) seems as likely to be derailed by his affinity for MOUNTAINX.COM

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B-horror classic The Abominable Dr. Phibes as his mother’s dogged efforts to marry him off to a nice Pakistani girl. It’s a pretty standard rom-com setup, at least until a sudden and potentially lethal illness lands Emily in the hospital and causes Kumail to re-evaluate his priorities. At its core, The Big Sick’s dramatic conflict hinges on the Nanjiani clan’s intense disapproval of Kumail’s increasingly Westernized lifestyle, and the film shines in its uncommonly sincere moments of culture-clash humor — especially with the secondact introduction of Emily’s parents, played by Ray Romano and Holly Hunter. Romano and Hunter add a layer of complexity and tonal shading that feels lacking in the first half of the film, and the picture succeeds largely on the basis of their inclusion. Nanjiani and Kazan certainly hold their own, but the presence of veteran performers of Hunter’s and Romano’s caliber definitely helps them shoulder the narrative and comedic burden. Producer Judd Apatow’s fingerprints are somewhat evident on this one, especially in the first act’s improvisational tone and self-indulgent pacing. But Apatow’s influence is less intrusive than it could have been, and the film finds success in its more personal moments, whether these are the Nanjiani family’s dinner rituals or Kumail and Emily’s conflicted reconciliation. It’s also laugh-out-loud funny in some unexpected places — a tone-deaf 9/11

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question from Romano receives a retort from Nanjiani that prompted one theatergoer to stop in midstride on his way to the bathroom before commenting to me that he was glad he hadn’t missed it. If you’re looking for a date movie that won’t lead to the inevitable post-screening conversation about how romantic comedies peaked in the 1930s (I’m not the only person who does that, right?), then you’d be hard-pressed to do better than The Big Sick. Few films so successfully blend comedy and melodrama without devolving into saccharine pandering, and certainly none that wouldn’t require some digging on streaming sites. If you feel the need to test your significant other with Dr. Phibes, you can make it up to them with this. Rated R for language including some sexual references. Now Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Fine Arts Theatre, Regal Biltmore Grande, Epic of Hendersonville. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

War for the Planet of the Apes HHHH DIRECTOR: Matt Reeves PLAYERS: Andy Serkis, Woody Harrelson, Steve Zahn, Karin Konoval, Terry Notary, Amiah Miller, Judy Greer, Max Lloyd-Jones, Devyn Dalton SCI-FI ACTION SPECTACLE RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Caesar’s band of simian refugees struggle to peacefully coexist on the outskirts of a decimated human society, until the actions of an unhinged colonel and his renegade band of paramilitary operatives threaten to start an all-out war for the planet of the apes. THE LOWDOWN: About as high-brow as a movie about talking monkeys can get, stunning visual effects meet competent storytelling in a summer action spectacle with more on its mind than making money.

Like the original series upon which they’re based, the rebooted Apes movies have become increasingly serious affairs. Unlike those films, these are easy to take seriously because they aren’t populated by actors buried under heavy prosthetics. But beyond the exemplary effects work, these films also have a tendency to emphasize very complex cultural themes that cut far deeper than Charlton Heston’s accidental trip to the Statue of Liberty. And make no mistake, War for the Planet of the Apes deals with some heavy topics — ranging from fascism and fundamentalism to a thinly veiled allusion to a Trumpian border wall. Through it all, the movie maintains its momentum by crafting a simiancentric story that remains surprisingly human in scale. The third installment in the franchise, and director Matt Reeves’ second at the helm following 2014’s Dawn, War occasionally risks capsizing in a sea of grandiose influences. Prime primate Caesar, once again played with remarkable depth by returning star Andy Serkis, might as well be Josey Wales and Moses rolled into one. Beyond the biblicality, this is a story world in which overt references to Apocalypse Now and a subtle nod to Full Metal Jacket coexist alongside a sly shoutout to Ronald Reagan vehicle Bedtime for Bonzo. But despite the title and obvious war film influences, War is really more of a Western than anything else, and it’s at its best when it sticks to Caesar’s revenge and redemption arc. Serkis’ performance is truly laudable, Steve Zahn is at his least offensive as the (much-needed) comic relief, and Woody Harrelson does his best Brando as the clearly Kurtzinspired antagonist, simply known as The Colonel. Solid performances, however, are only part of the equation here. Reeves’ film, co-written by Mark Bomback, packs a lot into its 2-hour20-minute running time without dragging or feeling overstuffed, an almost incomprehensible feat for a modern tentpole blockbuster. The screenplay’s pacing is a masterpiece of precision, even if its character beats occasionally seem contrived, and it still manages to develop connective tissue to narrative elements of the original films amid all its epic world-building. You probably already know by now whether a dystopian monkey movie is in your future, so there’s little point in trying to persuade the ape-averse. It should suffice to say that War is a striking accomplishment of CGI artistry that hits the requisite midsum-

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Dunkirk

Writer/director Christopher Nolan’s highly anticipated historical epic about military and civilian efforts to evacuate Allied troops from from France during one of the most harrowing battles of WWII, starring Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh, Mark Rylance and Harry Styles. No early reviews. (PG-13)

Maudie

Art house romance based on the true story of an Irish folk artist who finds an unlikely entanglement with a reclusive bachelor when she answers an ad looking for a housekeeper, starring Ethan Hawke and Sally Hawkins. Early reviews positive. (PG-13)

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Sci-Fi fantasy comic book adaptation from writer/director Luc Besson and starring Dane DeHaan, Cara Delevingne and Clive Owen, in which two special operatives in a futuristic intergalactic civilization must unlock a mystery surrounding a threat to a cosmopolitan city housing residents from throughout the universe. Early reviews mixed. (PG-13)

mer action notes while still incorporating the literary high-mindedness that first made sci-fi movies relevant as something more than serial cheapie for the kids matinee crowd. It’s not a perfect film by any means, but the very fact that a film about talking chimps can do a better job of managing motivations and character arcs than many prestige melodramas warrants a recommendation in my book. At the very least, it’s reassured me regarding Reeves’ involvement in Ben Affleck’s upcoming Batman movie. PG-13 for sequences of sci-fi violence and action, thematic elements, and some disturbing images. Now Playing at AMC Classic River Hills 10, Carolina Cinemark, Regal Biltmore Grande, Epic of Hendersonville. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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AFS July 25 Screening

The Asheville Film Society’s originally scheduled Budget Big Screen offering for Tuesday, July 25 has been precluded by the distributor. A replacement booking was not confirmed at press time, but a screening will take place as scheduled at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse on Tuesday, July 25. As always, admission is $6 for AFS members and $8 for the general public. Check the Grail website for title confirmation, or email Scott Douglas at jsdouglas22@gmail.com for inquiries.

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WATER, WATER, EVERYWHERE: Karina Castillo wades through a king tide in Miami in this still from Asheville filmmaker Dayna Reggero’s pollution and climate change documentary The Story We Want. Photo by Reggero • Stooges of War, from team UNC Asheville, was awarded Best Film of the 2017 Asheville 48 Hour Film Project. The short work follows a fictionalized version of the UNCA crew as its members struggle to agree on what to do for their contest submission. The film also won Best Directing, Best Ensemble Acting and Best Sound Design in an awards ceremony and screening July 13 at the Fine Arts Theatre. Stooges of War will represent Asheville against fellow city winners from across the country at Filmapalooza 2018 (location to be determined) for a chance at the grand prize and an opportunity to screen at the Cannes Film Festival 2018, Court Métrage. Asheville had 22 teams of amateur and professional filmmakers compete in the 2017 contest. Judging the qualifying local entries were film critics Michelle Keenan of Rapid River, Marcianne Miller of Bold Life and this writer. 48hourfilm.com/asheville/48hfp

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• The Orange Peel’s Summer Movie Series continues Monday, July 24, at 8 p.m. with a screening of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Free. theorangepeel.net • The next selection in The Collider’s monthly climate and environmental film series is the premiere of the five-part documentary The Story We Want on Tuesday, July 25, at 7 p.m. Western North Carolina filmmakers Dayna Reggero, Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood traveled within North Carolina and to Pennsylvania, New Mexico, California and Florida to meet with women who are working together to confront fossil fuel industries, climate change impacts and a culture of extraction. Beer from cosponsor Oskar Blues Brewery and popcorn will be provided. Suggested donation is $5 per person or $20 per family. thecollider.org X

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (7/27), 12:30pm “Neil in the Afternoon,” screening of a Neil deGrasse Tyson film.

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DIRECTOR: Guillermo del Toro PLAYERS: Sergi Lopez, Ivana Baquero, Ariadna Gil, Maribel Verdu, Doug Jones FANTASY HORROR Rated R In Brief: Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006) is one of the most remarkable films of the 21st century — something I was not prepared for when I first saw it. Even while recognizing del Toro’s talent in his previous films (sometimes more obvious than other times), there was little in his work to prepare me for this masterpiece. The closest was probably The Devil’s Backbone (2001) — an evocative ghost story that was finally too transparent to be wholly effective, but which bears a relationship with Pan in its evocation of the work of Luis Bunuel. Plus, the anti-authoritarian surrealist satire of Bunuel is tempered here by a poetic mysticism that recalls Jean Cocteau. Indeed, it’s hard to escape the sense that if Bunuel and Cocteau had ever collaborated on a film, the results might be very like this. It’s as much a humanist outcry as anything in Bunuel’s work and as magically mystical as anything in Cocteau’s work. This is not meant to suggest, by any means, that del Toro has merely copied these other filmmakers. On the contrary, his sense of invention is purely his own, his filmmaking style is personal, and the results are unique. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke originally published on Nov. 17, 2015. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Pan’s Labyrinth on Friday, July 21, at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 U.S. 70, Swannanoa.

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• Grail Moviehouse hosts a screening of Something’s in the Woods on Saturday, July 22, at 9:30 p.m. The independent horror film, about an old campground haunted by local legend The Stalker, comes from Knoxville-based Fanboy Productions. Tickets are $5 and available at the door on the night of the event beginning at 9 p.m. A Q&A with the filmmakers will follow the feature. grailmoviehouse.com

• World Peas Animation hosts a Movie Making Summer Camp, Monday, July 24, through Friday, July 28, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily at West Asheville Presbyterian Church. Students ages 6-14 will work together to write, storyboard, act in, direct and edit a movie of their own design. The final product will be screened for family and friends at the end of the week and campers will get a DVD copy of the movie to take home. The camp costs $250. Register online or contact camp director Lisa Smith at 335-9349. facebook.com/WorldPeasAnimations

DIRECTOR: Delbert Mann PLAYERS: Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair, Joe Mantell, Esther Minciotti, Karen Steele, Jerry Paris DRAMA Rated NR There was a time in the not-toodistant past when leading roles were the exclusive domain of almost supernaturally goodlooking people, and while the modern cinema seems hellbent on regressing to that state of affairs, it’s important to note that the process of questioning Hollywood’s conventional wisdom that your star had to look like Cary Grant for a movie to succeed began with one particular film. That film was Delbert Mann and Paddy Chayefsky’s Marty (1955), a massively influential piece of work that was nominated for eight Oscars, won four (including Best Picture) along with the Palme D’Or , and effectively launched Ernest Borgnine into stardom despite his lengthy and exemplary resume as a supporting actor. This understated story of a simple Bronx butcher who finds love against all odds may seem quaint by today’s standards, and it certainly has a tendency toward saccharine melodrama, but Chayefsky’s script packs an emotional gut punch that even the most jaded viewer will be hard-pressed to avoid. Like its eponymous protagonist, Marty may not be perfect, but there’s tremendous value buried beneath its superficial flaws. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Marty on Sunday, July 23, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Labyrinth, film viewing. Free to attend. SALUDA HISTORIC DEPOT 32 W. Main St., Saluda • FR (7/21), 7pm - Saluda Train Tales: Our Vanishing Americana -- A North Carolina Portrait, film screening. Free to attend.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): The Greek word philokalia is translated as the “love of the beautiful, the exalted, the excellent.” I propose that we make it your keyword for the next three weeks — the theme you keep at the forefront of your awareness everywhere you go. But think a while before you say yes to my invitation. To commit yourself to being so relentlessly in quest of the sublime would be a demanding job. Are you truly prepared to adjust to the poignant sweetness that might stream into your life as a result? TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s a favorable time to strengthen your fundamentals and stabilize your foundation. I invite you to devote your finest intelligence and grittiest determination to this project. How? Draw deeply from your roots. Tap into the mother lode of inspiration that never fails you. Nurture the web of life that nurtures you. The cosmos will offer you lots of help and inspiration whenever you attend to these practical and sacred matters. Best-case scenario: You will bolster your personal power for many months to come. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Two talking porcupines are enjoying an erotic tryst in a cactus garden. It’s a prickly experience, but that’s how they like it. “I always get horny when things get thorny,” says one. Meanwhile, in the rose garden next door, two unicorns wearing crowns of thorns snuggle and nuzzle as they receive acupuncture from a swarm of helpful hornets. One of the unicorns murmurs, “This is the sharpest pleasure I’ve ever known.” Now here’s the moral of these far-out fables, Gemini: Are you ready to gamble on a cagey and exuberant ramble through the brambles? Are you curious about the healing that might become available if you explore the edgy frontiers of gusto? CANCER (June 21-July 22): I predict that four weeks from now you will be enjoying a modest but hearty feeling of accomplishment — on one condition: You must not get diverted by the temptation to achieve trivial successes. In other words, I hope you focus on one or two big projects, not lots of small ones. What do I mean by “big projects”? How about these: taming your fears; delivering a delicate message that frees you from an onerous burden; clarifying your relationship with work; and improving your ability to have the money you need. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Spain’s most revered mystic poet was St. John of the Cross, who lived from 1542 to 1591. He went through a hard time at age 35, when he was kidnapped by a rival religious sect and imprisoned in a cramped cell. Now and then he was provided with scraps of bread and dried fish, but he almost starved to death. After ten months, he managed to escape and make his way to a convent that gave him sanctuary. For his first meal, the nuns served him warm pears with cinnamon. I reckon that you’ll soon be celebrating your own version of a jailbreak, Leo. It’ll be less drastic and more metaphorical than St. John’s, but still a notable accomplishment. To celebrate, I invite you to enjoy a ritual meal of warm pears with cinnamon. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “I’m very attracted to things that I can’t define,” says Belgian fashion designer Raf Simons. I’d love for you to adopt that attitude, Virgo. You’re entering the Season of Generous Mystery. It will be a time when you can generate good fortune for yourself by being eager to get your expectations overturned and your mind blown. Transformative opportunities will coalesce as you simmer in the influence of enigmas and anomalies. Meditate on the advice of the poet Rainer Maria Rilke: “I want to beg you to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves.”

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