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Availability of specialty spirits is alive and well In response to Jonathan Ammons’ article “Handcuffed: Local Bartenders Decry ABC Law Restrictions” [July 9, Xpress], the availability of specialty spirits is alive and well.

North Carolina’s alcohol control system is indeed conservative.

Reforms are slow and deliberate, but many will argue that the system is a good balance of consumption and control. For example, North Carolina ranks third among the 50 states in revenues and 48th in per capita consumption. It is a model that facilitates the deliberate, responsible consumption of alcohol.

The North Carolina ABC Commission and Asheville ABC Board work diligently to provide its customers and mixed beverage accounts the spirits they desire.

The state warehouse currently lists 1,800 special-order and 2,100 instock brands. For special orders my

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But our ABC stores can’t sell our customers what distillers won’t ship to us. And not all suppliers are willing to fill special orders — or to fill them quickly. At first glance, it might seem difficult to understand why a distiller would not want to ship any and all products all the time. The answer is basic economics: Spirits are expensive to ship. Then the supplier has to pay federal tax on the product when it leaves the distillery. The state ABC Commission has made it easier for local ABC boards and businesses to purchase specialty items by creating a boutique collection (smaller cases), but it still is ultimately up to the distillers to make their product available.

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inventory that nobody else wants and any excess inventory in the state warehouse vexes the supplier. This is costly for everyone but the bar.

When a bar wants a specialty spirit, good communication and lead time can minimize delay, so if businesses already know their drink specials for the coming quarter or two, they can let us know and we can begin communicating with the distiller.

Additionally, many of our retail customers network with others to share per-case costs to control inventory expenses.

North Carolina is a customeroriented system that works and works well. In 2012, the state of Washington privatized its liquor sales. A December 2013 article in the Portland Tribune stated: “In addition to higher prices, less product selection and the harm done to our local craft distillers, Washington also has ... serious safety and public health concerns.”

Don’t let out-of-state big-box grocers sell you a bag of goods called privatization.

Mark Combs, General Manager, Asheville ABC Board

Hazel Twenty is about to hit the streets I truly enjoyed reading your story about people creating new retail marketing ideas in the area [“Driving Sales: Mobile Businesses Roll Into WNC,” July 9, Xpress].

There is another mobile boutique about to start in this area that I thought would be great to let your readers know about. It is called Hazel Twenty. The Facebook page for the store is facebook.com/ HazelTwentyBoutique. The website is hazeltwenty.com. Lexi Diyeso is the woman behind this great idea.

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Reader protests use of phrase in autism story I am a disabled autistic adult, and I am writing to protest the use of the phrase “feeble minded” in your recent article about autism [“Profiles: Living Full-Circle with Autism Spectrum Disorder,” June 25, Xpress]. This phrase is a very derogatory euphemism for a person with intellectual, developmental or cognitive disabilities.

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It is rooted in eugenics, forced sterilization (for which North Carolina was well-known), abuse, institutionalization and bigotry.

It is a slur against an extremely vulnerable minority community. And is so hateful that it should not have appeared in print. This is not a phrase that describes any human being.

The disability rights movement is just as much a civil rights movement as the civil rights movement or the work of the LGBT community. If you wouldn’t publish a slur against those communities, then you shouldn’t publish one against the disability community.

Jade McWilliams Candler Editor’s response: The term “feebleminded” appeared in the following context: “And while his unfailingly friendly and timid demeanor may make him seem feeble minded, Nicholas is far from it.” While the writer meant no harm and was not using the term to describe her subject directly, we regret any offense caused by this admittedly out-of-date and inappropriate word choice.

Skateboarding article was riveting Thank you to Cameron Huntley for a beautifully written story [“Poetic

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Mayhem at Thrashville: The Secret World of WNC Skateboarding,” July 9, Xpress] I didn’t expect that my interest would be held through a long article about skateboarding, but I was riveted. Poetic, lyrical, and emotionally gripping, it was a work of art. I’ll be sure to look for his byline in future issues.

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Dont’t let a meme get you In response to [David Lynch’s July 16] letter [“New Mural at Orbit DVD is Offensive”], we interpret art with our own issues and desires. I look at an orchid and all I see is a beautiful exotic flower. Many people see a vagina, but I am gay, and I never think of vagina.

Take for example Bryan Fischer, a radio host on American Family Radio. He is obsessed with homosexuality. Mr. Fischer’s rant during Gay Pride Month was that Burger King was selling a Pride Whopper in San Francisco. He said that “when people sit down to eat a hamburger, the last thing they

want to be thinking about is two guys having sex.” As a gay man, who has gay sex, trust me — the last thing I think about while eating a burger (OR a hotdog), is gay sex.

Beauty — or rather misogyny — is in the eye of the beholder.

We obviously have a lot of West Asheville residents with the desire to be offended. They are letting a meme — a MEME, created by who knows who — dictate how they appreciate art and patronize a business. It is not like it is a respected

work from William Shakespeare or by Faulkner. [The sloth] is an obscure Internet meme. It is fluff.

Perhaps those people find that misogynistic imagery in the mural because they have issues with it.

In the mural, I saw obsession with watching TV — that much of our lives are spent in sloth staring at a TV set. I did not see any reference to rape.

So I have a question: I show you an orchid, what do you see? I got a $20 bill that says it is a vagina.

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Me2We Conference helps youth leap ahead

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POSITIVE MOMENTUM: Members of Asheville’s Youth Leadership Academy participated in a recent Me2We conference that fostered leadership and community involvement. Pictured, back row (left to right): Joshua Garcia-Billings, Kanaje Allen, Mikayla Ray, Antares Lance, Phoenix Keyser, Shaunessy Lofton, Satorrius Uddyback, Taekwon Griffin.

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Brittany Boseman is on her knees, pink ball cap squashing down her long, raven-black braid, studying the sentence strips laid out on the carpeted floor. It’s the first day of the 2014 Me2We Conference, and Boseman is taking direction from her peers on the best way to arrange them. Each of the nine participants has contributed a strip, written in various colors.

The exercise represents the culmination of two hours’ worth of instruction; in the first hour, the kids played the classic jump-rope game double dutch in the Biltmore Avenue garage down the street from the YMI Cultural Center.

“And when we do this,” workshop leader Tamiko Murray had explained, “I want you to really sense your surroundings. What are you hearing? What are you seeing? What are you smelling? What’s the rhythm to double dutch?”

It’s a tough game to master, and the two guys in the group are noticeably reluctant to jump in.

When they do, the ropes slap them across the back and face, and they barely stumble out alive.

“Damn, man!” one exclaims. “Even in 2014, black kids are getting tangled up in white ropes.”

After returning to a cluttered office on the YMI’s third floor and snacking on ice pops, each person is instructed to take a sentence strip and write a single line beginning with “Double dutch is...”

“Double dutch is harsh,” one student writes.

“Double dutch is an action that provokes an epiphany we all share,” another offers.

“Double dutch is Black girls’ first steps away from degradation.”

The final task, facilitated by Boseman, is forming the disparate statements into a poem: an organic, coherent whole.

“That one kind of explains what double dutch is. It needs to go to the top. Like, introducing the concept.”

“I think that word’s missing a letter. You wanna...?”

“I’ll stick it in. Here?”

“Yeah.”

“Put the line with degradation between those two. It kind of leads in from the other one. Like the first is more what it is, and the second’s more, like, shifted.”

“That’s a good observation,” notes Murray.

“It creates a lot of tension in the poem.”

“This was a great thing to be part of. I learned how to ‘Rep My City’ and how I can be a big part of my city’s growth. I also learned how to try new things. It was a good, fun time to meet new people.

I have been in the Me2We Conference ever since it started, and I love it and hope it keeps going.”

— JESSE RUBALCARA

Experiential learning This is only one of seven workshops offered at the third annual, June 19-20 Me2We Conference, an exercise in “intergenerational instruction, experiential learning and peer mentoring,” according to the brochure.

“We wanted to institute a youth leadership program that honors the accomplishments of ASCORE,” says Erika Germer of the City of Asheville Youth Leadership Academy.

“Learning from the past generation’s successes and then confronting their own challenges today. The overall purpose is to create a forum for minority youth to learn about their community’s past as well as recognize their own ability to understand the future.”

ASCORE, the Asheville Student Committee on Racial Equality, played a key role in local desegregation efforts during the ’60s.

“It was active from 1960-65,” says conference co-founder Deborah Miles of UNC Asheville’s Center for Diversity Education. “At first we did commemorations of that work. Then we decided to take that effort and work to rebuild the civic engagement they learned to do. We figured that was the best way to honor their work.”

The first year, 2012, was the 50th anniversary of major desegregation in Asheville. “The hope,” continues Miles, “was to use the anniversary to build interest.” Wholly funded by grants and nonprofits, Me2We is in year three of a four-year focus on civic engagement; 2015 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

Common unity The two-day conference runs from 9 a.m. to 3 or 4 p.m., focusing on a different theme each year. “The first year we had ASCORE people come in the morning, and then college in the afternoon,” says Germer, adding, “We might come full circle to that in the last year.”

Five organizations have joined forces to produce the 2014 edition: the Center for Diversity Education, AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination), the City of Asheville Youth Leadership Academy, the I Have a Dream Foundation of Asheville and MANOS (Mentoring and Nurturing Our Students).

The event, notes Germer, “is set up like an adult conference, right down to the name tags and registration. The students are getting to select tracks, and you’re interacting with people that might not necessarily be your friends, but you’re exploring that common theme that’s interesting to you.”

Community and connection are a big part of Me2We, and they’re reflected in this year’s theme, “Rep My City.”

“Community,” local spoken-word poet Jonathan Santos noted during the opening ceremony. “Common unity: the space between you and me.” But community includes both history and a sense of fostered connection, whether through former ASCORE members, “alumni-led discussions” or “this is my story” sessions, in which college students or recent graduates share their experiences and answer participants’ questions.

Track record The idea behind this year’s workshops, says Germer, is “exploring identity through the arts”; students choose a track that fits their interests (though some undecided ones are assigned to groups to help keep them roughly even in size). In addition to the poetry/double dutch track, the list includes:

Hip-hop: Each student writes a fouror five-line verse and records it to a beat, using high-quality audio equipment.

Video: Students here create a “Rep My City” video. After going out and asking passers-by for their reactions to stereotypes of Asheville, they collect the responses on a sheet of poster board taped up on the wall. The list includes such statements as “I am not a hippie,” “I do not support Biltmore House” and

“There are people of color here.”

Visual art: Group members create papier-mâché masks to express their individual personalities.

Photography: These students go out into the city, either alone or in small groups, come up with a theme and snap at least eight photos of parts of Asheville that relate to it.

Dance: These kids help develop and then rehearse a hip-hop dance to a pumped-up version of Michael Jackson’s “They Don’t Care About Us.” Fashion design: About eight kids explore “upcycling,” a newish fashion concept that involves using two or more pieces of worn-out, obsolete or frayed clothing to create something new.

Fear of failure The 92 conference participants range in age from middle school to high school, Germer explains. And for conference organizers and leaders, that means navigating the often turbulent emotions of insecure, self-conscious students while maintaining their excitement and focus over two alluring summer days. The discomfort of one girl in the poetry/double dutch session, for example, is palpable: A rising ninth-grader, she’s the youngest in her group and doesn’t know any of the others. Meanwhile, two girls in the dance group just sit on the sidelines, watching their peers rehearse.

“It’s fear,” says their group leader.

“Fear of failing; fear of looking stupid.

Fear of putting yourself out there.”

The best way to combat those emotions is by creating a safe space bolstered by a close-knit community. Many students, in fact, exhibit both strong support for others and a complete lack of self-consciousness.

One self-taught robotic hip-hop dancer has no qualms about performing not one but two solos during the conference, and several members of the poetry workshop display natural leadership skills. Even the painfully reserved girl is much more expressive and involved the second day.

“It’s a time for them to exhibit some peer leadership,” says Germer, and many of the students seem up to the challenge.

Fully half of the poetry workshop participants, including two of the three girls, want to become physicians, a field still dominated by white men. Rising senior Shaunessy Lofton hopes to attend either Wake Forest or Duke and specialize in pediatric oncology. Pearl Debellott, a rising 10th-grader at Asheville High, has a plan for the entire next decade: “Go to school and then join the military and have them pay off my college loans, then become a doctor. Surgeon, probably.”

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Double dutch is...

by Nian Avery, Brittany Boseman, Pearl Debellott, D'Yvon Johnson, Devin Jones, Shaunessy Lofton, Tamiko Murray Double Double Double Double Double Double

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is is is is is is

red sneakers on flaming black top, velvet brown velvet girls sweating mangos, boys taking off their chains to jump, girls turning white ropes, Black girls’ first steps away from degradation, God’s way of turning things around.

Double dutch is Beyoncé to your ears, Purple to your eyes and plums to your mouth, Double dutch is pain to your hands, And a lavender scent to your nose.

Double dutch is harsh.

Double dutch is life on the concrete that brings smiles to passers-by.

Double dutch is the sound of beads beating on the sidewalk, Double dutch is when the people come together To hold the ropes for those who dare to jump, Double dutch is feeling the rhythm and seeing The time is right.

Double dutch is the action that provokes an epiphany we all share, Double dutch is the bonding among teachers and students over the summer, Double dutch is me “repping my city.”

these kinds of experiences. “There’s nothing like this,” says Germer.

“There’s leadership conferences in, say, Raleigh and that sort of thing, but if you delve into it, it’s mostly white, student-government-type kids, and it costs money to attend.”

Meanwhile, notes Miles, “Research shows that when young people are engaged, they maintain that behavior for a lifetime. It’s harder to pick up the habit of caring for the community later on in life.”

But while students don’t pay to take part in Me2We, that means the sponsoring organizations must come up with the money, so extending the project past its initial four-year run will depend on outside support.

“It takes about $7,000 a year for 100 students to do this program,” says Miles. “The hope was to use the 50th anniversaries to build interest, fol-

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lowed by money, so it could continue.

Hopefully it will. I would like to get to the point that a yearly luncheon funds it. Last year it made $1,500. It was the first year, so pretty good.”

Putting yourself out there The expo, the conference’s final component, is when each track presents its work. The dancers dance, and the hiphop writers come up and play the song to which each of them contributed a verse. The hook is the line “Who in the world?” as in “Who in the world, who in the world, who in the world is [student’s name]? followed by three or four lines describing that person. And if the talent level varies, all at least seem to grasp the basic rules of the form. One precocious youngster stands up and mouths his verse while moving agilely in quicktime fashion.

The fashion group’s showcase features merged T-shirts and assorted reengineered cloth scraps. Group leader Kimberly Hunter bestows a prize on a girl who went home after the first day and “upcycled” a piece of her own clothing.

Meanwhile, the photography track’s leader has set up a Web page so group members can present slideshows of their photographs. The first two girls go into considerable detail about each one of

DOUBLE DUTCH: CAYLA members Brittany Boseman, left, and Shaunessy Lofton, right, took part in the recent conference. “Me2We taught me to follow my own beliefs and goals. I am now following in the footsteps of the Me2We leaders in trying to find ways to bring my community closer together,”says Boseman.

Photo by Tim Robison

their images; but the next two stand up and declare: “We’re not going to explain the photos like everyone else ’cause, like, we think photos and art, like, means different things to each specific person.” Postmodernism, it seems, is taking root in these kids before they even learn to drive.

Then it’s poetry’s turn, and the group double-dutches while reciting a poem they wrote the second day. It’s a game attempt, but the execution is clumsy. The stomping feet and slapping ropes drown out the students’ voices as they pass the microphone, each one reading a section. And when Lofton, the future pediatric oncologist, jumps into the swirling ropes, disaster strikes.

Is the floor too slick? The space too small? Do the ropes just happen to catch her at a bad angle?

Whatever the cause, both her feet come out from under her as she lands with a thud on the hardwood floor, yelping in surprise. The audience gasps and stands, and her fellow double-dutchers start forward to help her up. It’s precisely the kind of public humiliation the more timid participants seem to fear the most.

But as Lofton gets to her feet and slinks back to hide behind another

student, instead of taunts and jeers, the room breaks into sincere applause and laughter. And when she sits down, there’s a big grin on her face. The kids are cheering, yelling “That-a-girl,” and suddenly, there it is: community.

Common unity. A dynamic mass of high-schoolers coming together to support one of their own.

‘A wider world’ “I think with a program like this ...

I don’t want to say it changes their trajectory,” Germer observes, “but it provides them with a wider world.”

In a few short hours they’ll venture back into a city where their parents’ annual incomes average $10,000 less than those of their white counterparts; into neighborhoods where the poverty rate hovers around 40 percent. The challenges these young people face are huge: The road is long, the temptations immense. Yet in that moment, the future looks bright.

These kids, Miles predicts, “will be the next generation of leaders — in this community and throughout our state and nation. They will have a voice and be the people at the table who make decisions for the community’s wellbeing. They will make us proud.” X

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by Kyle Sherard

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Unfit for artistry

OUTED: Mural artists Alex Irvine and Ian Wilkinson have been using a Tannery studio for a 1,500-pound, city-supported sculpture (pictured above). They’re one of several artists looking for new space, now the city has shuttered eight buildings in the River Arts District. Photos by Kyle Sherard

City upholds closing of RAD studio space

An 11th-hour effort to stave off a city order mandating that nearly two dozen artists vacate a cluster of River Arts District buildings came to an end on Wednesday afternoon, July 16, when city officials made final their decision and declined to issue a temporary certificate of occupancy. The mandate affects a city-sponsored art project and New Belgium, among others.

The property comprises eight buildings tucked behind Riverview Station. It’s owned by Asheville developer Robert Camille, who purchased the site in 2007. For the last 2 1/2 years, the space has housed dozens of artists studios and workshops, including The Tannery and Switchyard Studios and local dance company Terpsicorp.

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The buildings have long been used for materials storage but have also been occupied by a tanning facility (hence the studio’s name) and a car-crushing company, among others. Since 2012, though, the site has been primarily used as studio, performance and exhibition space.

But now, according to Asheville’s Development Services Department and Fire Marshal’s Office, the spaces are all unfit for occupancy.

City officials ordered that the premises be vacated on Friday morning, July 11. Duke Energy employees removed the meters, cutting off power to all eight buildings the following Monday afternoon, July 14.

Tenants have been forbidden from further use of their studios, barring what minimal access is necessary to move out.

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Services Department. “By shutting off the power, we’re eliminating some of our biggest concerns,” she said. The greatest of those fears, which was amplified after a string of arsons in the RAD in the spring of 2013, is fire.

“On a basic level, there [are] no operable fire hydrants or sprinkler systems,” Tuch said. Thus, there’s little the Fire Department could do if a large fire were to break out. Added to that, she said, the site lacks adequate parking and access for those with disabilities. The buildings also fail to meet FEMA standards for buildings located within flood plains.

These and other code violations first came to the fore in June 2012, when a stop-work order was issued to several tenants who were renovating their studios. Subsequent site inspections exposed a lapse in building tenants in the 2000s. Those gaps led to the loss of the buildings’ certificate of occupancy and rendered them unfit for use. However, through ongoing dialogue between city officials and Camille since 2012, the tenants were allowed to stay while the paperwork was sorted out.

“We had no idea that there wasn’t a CO on the properties when we moved in,” said Jeremy Russell, an artist, founder and tenant of Switchyard Studios since January 2012.

Tuch acknowledges that the revolving door of tenants, and various use and permit applications, made the site status unclear until recently.

Russell and several studio mates had been working to bring the building up to code and ultimately restore the certificate of occupancy.

But plans to fix up the spaces and make proper studios were dropped as permits requests stalled or failed to be properly filed. Demolition and construction work to expand studio spaces and install permanent walls were limited to temporary partitions.

Most improvement projects were put on hold.

“We compromised our vision to be code-compliant,” Russell said. “And now we’re about to lose everything that I’ve worked for down here.”

The order to vacate signified a halt, if not the end, to over two years of touch-and-go conversations involving the city, Camille and Russell.

From the city’s point of view, the buildings should never have been leased to Russell and the other artists. Camille, however, maintains that he was merely renting empty warehouse spaces.

“The plan all along was to create a place [where] these artists who

make the face of the RAD could afford to stay — a place that would be affordable and stay affordable,” Camille said. But that was in 2007, before the housing and financial collapse completely set in. When 2008 and the recession rolled around, Camille was unable to secure the loans he needed and had to drop his plans to overhaul the buildings. “After the collapse, I used them as they were,” he said, “as warehouses.”

It was the tenants’ responsibility to bring the buildings up to code if they wanted to use the space for more than warehouse storage, Camille added. Russell and others did so, with little or no help from Camille. However, as the costs mounted, progress with the city stalled.

“They’ve changed the use of the buildings,” said Tuch. “And to go from a basic warehousing use to what they are now — studios — requires a fair amount of work to be done.”

She added, “It’s not a simple fix.”

EXODUS Despite the order to vacate, the city is being flexible on the timetable. Emergency orders can warrant a one-week period to vacate, or even 24 hours, but in this case, city officials are allowing two to three months, according to Russell.

News of the outage and order to vacate generated an immediate outpouring of community support last weekend. Rapidly circulating emails and Facebook posts called attention to the matter, while various studios, galleries and businesses messaged, posted and phoned in, offering whatever spare space they have to the exiting artists.

Some artists started packing on July 11. While a few were heading for other studios and the aforementioned spaces, most either stayed put or simply took their belongings home, for lack of anywhere else to go.

“I’m in the middle of a $7,000 project installation,” said Bob Judy, a sculptor and owner of Zep Designs, “but this puts a halt on everything.”

Judy and his studio mates, like Russell and other remaining tenants, have yet to find a new location. They’re instead turning to their own basements and crawl spaces for temporary refuge.

“We’re moving out,” he said, “we have no other real choice.”

tenants to leave the lights on for safety, the city attempted to halt the order. “We explored an option that could have delayed pulling the meters,” Tuch said.

But it was too late. The power had already been pulled.

Irving and Wilkinson have since been given permission by the city to continue work until the clay sculpture can be moved — roughly three to four weeks.

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TIMING: Irvine and Wilkinson say they need more time to complete a sculpture, slated for placement at 51 Biltmore Ave. City officials have granted them some time to get the piece ready for moving out of the spaces that have been closed.

New Belgium Brewing was one of the tenants forced to move out over the weekend. The company leased one of the buildings to store wood beams and materials reclaimed from existing structures on the brewery’s RAD site.

“Not knowing the future status of this building, we are looking at our options going forward,” said Susanne Hackett, New Belgium’s community relations specialist. The company hauled off its materials on a series of flat-bed 18-wheelers on July 14.

Part of the trouble for the exiting artists is finding comparable studio spaces — especially ones that are as large and as affordable.

Rents for Tannery studios were as low $200 per month for a 168-square-foot space, or roughly $1.20 per square foot. The biggest spaces commanded $650 per month, much less than street-front studio and retail locations in the heart of the RAD. Prices like that, Russell said, regularly elicited a revolving population of short-term renters. The low cost also lured visiting and local artists in need of temporary space for single-, large-scale projects or even exhibitions — a group of Western Carolina University art students rented several studios in April for a weeklong pop-up exhibition.

Most recently, mural artists Alex Irvine and Ian Wilkinson have been using a Tannery studio to work on a public art piece slated for installation on the north side of a city-owned parking garage at 51 Biltmore Ave. The project, and thus the artists’ three month’s rent, is publicly funded by the city of Asheville.

Irvine and Wilkinson could only afford to allot $1,600 of their total budget to studio space, according to Irvine, making The Tannery prime real estate. Anything else would have taken away from their material costs.

“We shopped a bunch of other places,” said Wilkinson, “The Tannery was it. That’s where we could afford do it.”

But as the electricity went off and signs went up, Irvine and Wilkinson kept working. They had no other choice. “I have a 1,500-pound sculpture ... that’s drying out,” said Irvine. “If it does that before I’m able to finish, it’s ruined.” Moving the piece wasn’t an option either, as its shear size and weight make it nearly impossible to move without risking fractures or a complete break.

For a brief moment on the afternoon of July 14, shortly after finding out about the 51 Biltmore project and receiving pleas from

As tenants continue to exit the studios, Russell and others are crushed by the loss of their community.

“We were making innovative work down here,” said Russell. “It may not have always been good work, but it was the last hub of a place [in the RAD] where people could make it without worrying about retail sales.”

While the site has been around for a little over two years, it wasn’t until this past fall that the studios began to regularly fill up with active and prolific artists and makers. The recent addition of an owner-sanctioned do-it-yourself skate park and

a series of one-night-only exhibitions added to a rich and evolving neighborhood identity. It was one that embraced and weaved together multiple forms of art, creators and culture. It was fully reminiscent of the RAD of 10 or more years ago — exploratory, underground, innovative and edgy.

“It was really a special place and time right here,” Irvine said, lamenting, “I said it wouldn’t last two years.

I should have said two weeks.”

Russell attributes the adventurous, no-holds spirit to the ample space and open community — and the affordable rents. Being free or freer of the financial burden of highdollar studio space makes all the difference in the work you can create, he said.

“It was a risky investment to move back here, off the the grid,” he said.

“But we’ve been stewards of these buildings. We’ve stopped fires that people have set, we’ve cleaned it up, chased out the squatters.”

He concluded, “But it’s done, it’s cooked. And now we’re just concerned with trying to find a way to have the occupants leave safely.” X

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In an age of instant communication and social media, Asheville Police are still stuck in the 20th century.

“The Asheville Police Department does a lot of good,” said Police Chief William Anderson. “What we’re not good at is getting that information out to the public.”

Anderson was speaking on July 17 to the 20 attendees of the department’s first meeting in unveiling its new operations plan. Citizens heard a presentation on the plan before breaking into groups to discuss their ideas and concerns, specifically regarding the ways APD communicates.

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Much of the conversation centered around a lack of information and follow up from APD. The department does have a Twitter page, but it is updated infrequently — a May 2 tweet is the most recent.

The department does not have a Facebook page.

The three-year operations plan focuses on six planning areas, with an officer assigned to each: two community-focused ones (quality of life and agency communication) and four internal (recruitment and retention, leadership, organizational structure, and equipment and technology). To ensure steady progress in meeting goals, the plan sets benchmarks over its threeyear purview.

The push for a new operations plan started in September 2013, when the city manager’s office directed the APD to examine areas of need. The department brought in outside consultants and former members of law enforcement to facilitate and oversee the study.

Each person in the break-out groups was asked to think of an example of one good and one bad experiences with APD communication. Then the groups discussed their examples and attempted to reach conclusions on concrete steps APD could take to improve its services. Almost all discussion centered around the APD’s distinct lack of what has become ubiquitous digital communication, whether through Facebook, Twitter, texts or email.

“What we need to do is develop our public information office team,” said Anderson. “We want to make sure we’re pushing information out.”

APD has only one public information officer, who shares that duty with “several other jobs,” said Anderson.

Anderson was adamant that the operations plan was “not something we’re going to put on a shelf.”

“I’ve got to emphasize,” he said.

“This [the ops plan] is a living document. [It] is something we’re going to have to constantly evaluate to stay current. [We] want this to be a new day when it comes to the Asheville Police Department.” X

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ANIMALS HUMANE ALLIANCE 23 Heritage Dr., 252-2079, humanealliance.org • MO (7/28), 10:30am-3pm Grand Opening of PetSmart Charities Humane Alliance Training Center.

BENEFITS BLUE RIDGE FOOD VENTURES FUNDRAISER 687-7234, BlueRidgeFoodVentures.org • TH (7/24), 6pm - Tickets to “Stir Crazy,” a cocktail and jazz party, benefit the nonprofit business incubator at A-B Tech. $25/$20 advance.

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FIZZ! BOOM! READ!: It’s a magical time to be at the library. Through July, the Buncombe County Libraries will host various activities and performances as part of the “Dig Into Reading” summer reading program. The kiddos can catch Professor Whizzpop at the South Buncombe/ Skyland Library on Thursday, July 31, or drop in on many of the other kids activities being held at all Buncombe County Library system locations.

MEALS ON WHEELS 253-5286, Terri.Bowman@ mowabc.org Delivers meals to more than 500 homebound elderly people.

• SA (7/26), 4-6pm - Ride America for Meals on Wheels, celebrating two riders’ 4,500mile motorcycle journey with barbecue. Donations suggested. Held at First Christian Church of Black Mountain, 21 Blue Ridge Rd., Black Mountain TRYON ARTS CENTER BENEFIT CONCERT 859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (7/24), 7pm - Donationbased admission to bluegrass concert and silent auction sponsors scholarships to Pacolet JAM, a music program for elementary students. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon

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A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Rd., Candler, 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Unless otherwise noted, classes are free.

• TH (7/24), 6-9pm - Seminar: “The New Era of Mobile Friendly & Responsive Web.” • TH (7/31), 6-9pm - Seminar: “How to Effectively Market Your Natural Products.”

BUSINESS IN A MORE BEAUTIFUL WORLD meetup.com/Business-in-aMore-Beautiful-World • TH (7/24), 6:30-8:30pm Networking event for those interested in collaborative, purpose-driven business models. Free. Held at Edna’s of Asheville, 870 Merrimon Ave.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS 5 WALNUT GALLERY • MANDALA ART EXHIBIT (pd.) Nina Anin, the Auracle of Asheville, presents Mandala Drawings and Paintings, now through July 31.

nessworkshops.com or 770893-1616 ASHEVILLE GREEN DRINKS ashevillegreendrinks.com • WE (7/23), 6pm Presentation of 2014 legislative wrap-up. Held at Green Sage Coffeehouse & Cafe, 5 Broadway

A NEW ART SCHOOL IN ASHEVILLE! (pd.) Weekly classes at Astoria Art Center, East Asheville. $210 for 6 classes. Free supplies and all levels welcome.

Thursdays 7-10 PM. 718-9568539 astoriaartcenter.com

COUNTER CULTURE COFFEE TRAINING CENTER 77 Broadway, 919-361-5282, counterculturecoffee.com • WE (7/30), 3pm - “Pro Dev” series: Roasting, Behind the Scenes and professional development. Free and open to coffee professionals.

WOMEN’S WILDERNESS WORKSHOPS (pd.) Three-days, Women only, cushy camping, local foods, healing arts, medicinal plants, primitive skills, permaculture, yoga, tea parties, sisterhood and connection with Mother Earth and more! Register online: www.womenswilder-

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Rd., 296-7230 • Through FR (10/3) - The Photography of Lewis Hine: Exposing Child Labor in North Carolina, 1908-1918, photographs of child textile workers.

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF ASHEVILLE 5 Oak St., 252-4781, fbca.net • TH (7/24), 5:30-7pm Discussion of plans for rest of year.

GOODWILL CAREER CLASSES 828-298-9023, ext. 1106 Registration required.

• TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 9am-noon Adult basic education/high school equivalency classes.

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

• ONGOING - Classes for careers in the food and hotel industries. Includes American Hotel and Lodging Association Certification. Call for times. $25.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 12:30-3:30pm - Medical office support career classes.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890,

gracelutherannc.com • SA (7/26), 4-6pm - The League of Women Voters and El Centro will present a forum on immigration and social justice.

HIGHLAND LAKE COVE RETREAT 215 Rhett Dr., Flat Rock • SA (7/26), 10am-6pm - Dig This! Garden Celebration: food, games, activities and music. Sustainable Strings and Tiny House Talk & Tour, 4:30-6pm.

LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL 251-6622, landofsky.org • TU (7/29), 10am - Technical Coordinating Committee meets. Held at Land-Of-Sky Regional Council Offices, 339 New Leicester Hwy. Suite 140 ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • TH (7/24), 5:30-7pm - Women’s Financial Empowerment Center class: “Savings & Goal Setting” Free. Registration required.

• FR (7/25), noon-1:30pm - Class: “Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it.

Improve it.” Free.

POWER ACTION GROUP 775-4621, poweractiongroup. org • TU (7/29), 6-8pm Community meeting to discuss cleanup efforts at CTS Superfund Site. Held at T.C. Roberson High School auditorium, 250 Overlook Rd. SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LIVING (SOIL) 664-0268, schoolofintegratedliving.org, info@schoolofintegratedliving.org • FR (7/25), 10am-5pm “Renewable Energy: Now and the Future.” Learn about electricity, off-grid renewable systems. $40-$80 per session. Registration required.

ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Rd., stgeorge.diocesewnc.org • TH (7/24), 7pm - Lynn

Newsome of Quaker House in Fayetteville speaks on the topic, “Moral Injury: Hidden Cost of War.” VANCE MONUMENT 1 Pack Square • FR (7/25), 5:30-6:30pm - “Shake Yo’ Booty on Biltmore!” Dance celebration from Vance Monument to Lexington Avenue.

• SA (7/26), 7pm - “Bitter Pill Rally.” Highlights gender issues in response to recent Supreme Court decision.

VETERANS FOR PEACE 582-5180, vfpchapter099wnc. blogspot.com • WE (7/23) through SU (7/27) - Annual convention including speakers, camping and live music. Contact for full events listings and locations.

WESTERN CAROLINIANS FOR PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE MIDDLE EAST mepeacewnc.org • FR (7/25), 5-7:30pm Discussion with author Ali Abunimah. Registration required. Info: 707-4271.

Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Rd YOUTH OUTRIGHT youthoutright.org • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Weekly meeting for LGBTQ youth and straight allies. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

DANCE BEGINNER SWING DANCING LESSONS (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $10/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www.SwingAsheville.com STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (pd.) Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 6pm Bellydance 1 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm

West African • Wednesday 6pm Bellydance 3 • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 10am Bellydance Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 6pm Bellydance 1 7pm West African 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue.www.studiozahiya. com :: 828.242.7595 BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • ONGOING - Dance classes for a variety of ages covering various types of dance. $36$40 per month. Registration required.

BREVARD’S OLD TIME STREET DANCES 1-800-648-4523, visitwaterfalls.com • TUESDAYS through (8/6), 6:30pm - Includes live music and square dance instruction.

Free. Held on Main Street, Brevard.

HISTORIC HENDERSONVILLE STREET DANCES 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • MONDAYS through (8/11), 7-9pm - Mountain heritage music and dancing. Free.

Held at the Visitors Center, 201 South Main Street, Hendersonville.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING connielwiley@gmail.com • MONDAYS, 2:15-4pm & TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pmFree with donations. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Rd.

ECO N.C. ARBORETUM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum. org $12 gate fee for non-member vehicles.

• TH (7/31), 6pm - An overview of climate change impact with scientist Laura Stevens.

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FESTIVALS FOLKMOOT USA 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville, 452-2997, folkmootusa.org • Through SU (7/27) - Annual dance festival with dancers representing nine different cultures. Held throughout WNC. See website for full events listings and locations. $0-30.

FOOD & BEER ENVIRONMENTAL & CONSERVATION ORGANIZATION 692-0385, eco-wnc.org • TU (7/29), 6:30-8:30pm - Workshop on food preservation and canning. $15.

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Held at Henderson County Cooperative Extension Center, 100 Jackson Park Rd., Hendersonville

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Give peace a chance WHAT: A Veterans For Peace Benefit with Friends featuring John McCutcheon WHERE: Lipinsky Hall on the UNC Asheville campus WHEN: Friday, July 25 at 8 p.m.

WHY: Veterans For Peace will present a special benefit concert featuring John McCutcheon as part of the 29th annual Veterans for Peace Convention.

“John McCutcheon is a famous folksinger, storyteller and musician who stands boldly for human rights and anti-war,” says John Spitzberg, host chapter coordinator and 14-year veteran. “John was chosen because he is an entertainer who, through his music, speaks loudly to those of us who stand for the end of war and the promotion of health for all human beings.”

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will be hosted across the UNCA campus from July 23-27. Spitzberg says in addition to the benefit concert, the convention will host speakers from around the country, including retired U.S. State Department official Col. Ann Wright and former congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, the conference’s keynote speaker.

“Anyone dedicated to peace and justice is welcome,” Spitzberg says.

“A major focus is to bring post-9/11 troops into Veterans For Peace — those who have been wakened to the beauty of peace. Having served our nation, we have dedicated ourselves to serving the cause of world peace.”

Tickets for the benefit concert are $20 general admission and $35 preferred seating. They may be purchased in person at Malaprops Book Store at 55 Haywood Street, or online at veteransforpeace.brownpapertickets.com. —Emily Storrow For more information about the Veterans For Peace conference visit veteransforpeace.org

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SPELLBOUND CHILDREN’S BOOKSHOP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 7087570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SA (7/25), 6-7:30pm Book & pizza party for ages 13+. $10. Registration required.

• WE (7/30), 5-6pm - First in Series Book Club for ages 7 to 12. Free.

SUMMERTIME KIDS ACTIVITIES AT THE LIBRARY LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: •BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 2504756) •EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) •FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 2506484) •LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 2506480) •NA = North Asheville Library (1030 Merrimon Avenue, 250-4752) •PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) •SA = South Asheville/Oakley Library (749 Fairview Road, 250-4754) •SS = Skyland/ South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) •WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) •WA = West Asheville Library (942 Haywood Road, 2504750).

• WE (7/23), 3pm - “Eww, Gross!” science lesson. PM. • WE (7/23), 3pm - Hands On! Museum presents science experiments that fizz, boom and pop. Reservations required. NA. • TH (7/24), 9am-4pm - Song writing workshop with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo. Registration required. BM. • TH (7/24), 11am - Juggling and magic show with Paul Miller. SS. • TH (7/24), 10:30am - A visit from the Fairview Volunteer Fire Department.

Preschoolers only. FV • TH (7/24), 10:30am - Slime making activity. LE. • TH (7/24), 3pm Performance by musician Steve Weeks. Reservations required. WV. • FR (7/25), 11am - Mountain Story of Magic. WA • SA (7/26), 11am-noon - Fizz, Boom There is Magic in the Room. EA • WE (7/30), 3pm - Fur, Feathers and Scales by WNC Nature Center. NA • WE (7/30), 2pm - Scrappy Robots Rule. PM • TH (7/31), 2:30pm & 4pm - Two shows. Hobey Ford’s Golden Rod Puppets. WV • TH (7/31), 11am - Sharon Clark brings music and storytelling to Leicester. LE • TH (7/31), 2:30pm Professor Whizzpop’s reading explosion. SS • TH (7/31), 10:30am Magnet mania. BM • TH (7/31), 3:30pm - Ready the story with Sharon Clarke. SA

OUTDOORS ASHEVILLE ULTIMATE CLUB ashevilleultimate.org • MO (7/28) - Registration opens for coed or open divisions. $40 includes jersey.

Practice held Wednesdays at Memorial Stadium.

LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Hwy. 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • WE (7/23), 8pm - Rangerled look at toads. Starts at bathhouse breezeway at the Paddy’s Creek area.

MOUNTAIN ROOTS 329-7298, ali@mountainroots. org • SU (7/27), 1:30-5pm - Roots Adventure program: Guion Farms area of DuPont State Forest for family adventure with focus on fun and navigation. $5. Registration

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POWDER CREEK TRADITIONAL ARCHERS 100 Old Turnpike Rd., Horseshoe, 891-3332, lfbrittain@hotmail.com • SA (7/26), 8am-4pm & SU (7/27), 8am-1pm - Mountain Rendezvous and Summer Arrow Search. $25 family/$10.

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY HIKES 253-0095, ext. 205, appalachian.org Registration required. Contact for directions.

• SA (7/26), 10am - Yoga on the Mountain hike with Lillah Schwartz. Blue Ridge Pastures in Fairview. $10/free for members. Registration, info and directions: anna@ appalachian.org.

PARENTING BRANDI NICHOLE FAMILY ENRICHMENT CENTER 3400 Sweeten Creek Rd., Arden, 687-3776, brandinichole.org • WE (7/23), 1-2pm - Foster care open house and program discussion.

SENIORS FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF HENDERSONVILLE 1735 5t Ave. W., Hendersonville, 692-8630, fccendersonville.com • SU (7/27), 9:15-10:15am Introduction to a series of forums on prayer.

SENIOR CRIBBAGE MEETINGS 367-7794 • MONDAYS, 6pm Instruction provided. Free.

Held at Atlanta Bread Company, 633 Merrimon Ave.

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (pd.) Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org AIM MEDITATION CLASSES (pd.) Ramp up your meditation practice with AIM’s Meditation’s Classes: Mindfulness 101- Basics of Mindfulness Meditation,

Mindfulness 102 - More advanced, intermediate class. Class dates and times: www.ashevillemeditation. com/events, (828) 808-4444 ASHEVILLE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER (pd.) Free practice group.

Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 252-0538 or www. ashevilleccc.com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:00pm.

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, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www. ashevillemeditation.com ASHEVILLE OPEN HEART

MEDITATION (pd.) Experience effortless techniques that connect you to your heart and the Divine within you. Your experience will deepen as you are gently guided in this complete practice. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org.

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.

AWAKENING DEEPEST NATURE MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz.

Healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. Meditation and lessons in unorthodox enlightenment. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation.

(828) 258-3241, healing@billwalz.com www.billwalz.com CRYSTAL VISIONS BOOKS AND EVENT CENTER (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts • Incense • Tarot. Visit our Labyrinth and Garden. 828687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (pd.) “ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION Deepen your authentic presence, and cultivate a happier, more peaceful mind by practicing Insight (Vipassana) Meditation in a supportive community.

Group Meditation. Thursdays, 7pm-8:30pm. Sundays, 10am11:30pm. 29 Ravenscroft Dr., Suite 200, Asheville, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com

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Held at Kuntao Arts, 211 Merrimon Ave. CRYSTAL VISIONS 5426 Asheville Hwy., Hendersonville, 687-1193, crystalvisionsbooks.com • TH (7/24), 6-7:30pm Spiritual celebration of intuition, self discovery, community and oneness. Donation suggested.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Through (8/12), 8pm Pastor-led Bible study group, “Parables: Stories for Life in God’s World.”

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

Down by the river RiverLink and Heira Productions have teamed up to present live music nights in the River Arts District — a relaxing riverside atmosphere where Ashevilleans can cool off from the warm summer days with brews, tunes and volunteering for a good cause.

RiverMusic’s remaining events — on Saturday, Aug. 9, Friday, Aug. 29 and Friday, Sept. 12 — need volunteers for a variety of tasks. RiverLink’s Dave Russell, director of Volunteer Services, gave Xpress the details, along with other volunteering opportunities with the nonprofit.

Tell us a little bit about the RiverMusic series.

RiverMusic is a series of nights of free live concerts by the French Broad River in the River Arts District of Asheville, returning for a third year in 2014. It all happens at the RiverLink Sculpture and Performance Plaza in the River Arts District. Gates for all events open at 5 p.m. and the party goes until 10. There is beer from local craft brewers, food trucks, live music from local and national acts, and the waters of the beautiful French Broad flowing right by the stage.

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It takes about 60 volunteers to make RiverMusic happen. It’s a total volunteer effort and we need folks to do everything – direct traffic in parking lots, check IDs and sell wristbands, setup and breakdown, etc. All the usual festival stuff.

Does RiverLink have other volunteering needs this summer?

Big Sweep is happening on Sept.

6, and that’s a big date, a chance to be a part of a statewide cleanup of waterways. We’re working with Greenworks, the WNCA, ECO and Clean Water for North Carolina to clean up about 20 miles of the French Broad and her tributaries.

What are the requirements to volunteer? Are there any age or physical restrictions?

Anyone is welcome to volunteer for RiverLink. If someone is unable to work outdoors, we try to match them up with office work. We sometimes need scanning or filing work done.

We also have no real age restrictions, though parents are responsible for their children.

For more information on volunteering and registration at RiverLink, visit riverlink.org, call 252-8474 ext.17, or email dave@riverlink.org.

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

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

MOUNTAIN MINDFULNESS SANGHA mountainmindfulness.org • MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm & THURSDAYS, 8-8:40am - In the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. All levels. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave. MOUNTAIN ZEN PRACTICE CENTER 450-3621, mountainzen.org, mountainzen@bellsouth.net • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Conscious compassionate awareness meditation and group discussion. Contact for directions.

PLYMOUTH BRETHREN 273-4418 • THURSDAYS, 7-8pm - Study of John’s Gospel with emphasis on the spirit. Held at 90 Zillicoa St. Free.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville, 456-6000, blueridgebooksnc. com • SA (7/27), 3pm - Ashley English presents ideas from her book, Handmade Gatherings: Recipes

and Crafts for Seasonal Celebrations and Potluck Parties.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - All programs are free unless otherwise noted. Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: •SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) • WE (7/23), 10am Swannanoa Sewing Circle. SW CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com • WE (7/23), 5pm - Batman’s 75th birthday celebration.

• SA (7/26), 11am - Author Curtis Sikes and illustrator Sheena Kohlmeyer discuss their book, The Heart of a Friend.

• SA (7/26), 3pm - Author and storyteller Sheri Wrenn Haymore discusses her two novels, A Higher Voice and A Deeper Cut. MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Events are free, unless otherwise noted.

• WE (7/23), 7pm - D.B. Jackson discusses his book, A Plunder of Souls.

• WE (7/23), 7pm - Salon discussion of Women Who Run With Wolves.

• TH (7/24), 7pm - Chris Bohjalian discusses his novel, Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands.

• FR (7/25), 7pm Celebration for the William Matthews Poetry Prize winners. Hosted by Asheville Poetry Review editor Keith Flynn.

• SA (7/26), 1-4pm - Stacy Merten and Robert Sauer sign copies of their book, Asheville Albemarle Park.

• SA (7/26), 7pm - Ali Abunimah reads and signs his book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine.

• TU (7/29), Bill Morris reads and signs copies of Motor City Burning.

• WE (7/30), 7pm - Barbara J. Taylor reads from and signs her novel, Sing in the Morning, Cry and Night.

• TH (7/31), 5pm - Where’s Waldo local extravaganza.

• TH (7/31), 7pm - Your story as change agent with yoga teacher and speaker Matthew Sanford.

PACK PLACE 2 S. Pack Square • SA (7/26), 1030am Asheville Storytelling Circle featured as part of Asheville’s Front Porch Kaleidoscope: Celebrating Diversity. Free. Held in Rhino Courtyard.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN’S BOOKSHOP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 7087570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11-11:30am Storytime. Ages 2-6. Free.

SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM • SA (7/26), 10:30am Montreat residents Mary and Joe Standaert discuss Swannanoa Valley history and their book, Swannanoa Valley: A Postcard History.

VOLUNTEERING ASHEVILLE PARKS AND GREENWAYS FOUNDATION myashevilleparks.org, info@ parksgreenways.org • Through SA (7/26)Volunteers needed to prepare for and work at the Highland Ale Share benefit for the greenways.

CARL SANDBURG HOME 1928 Little River Rd., Flat Rock, 693-4178, nps.gov/carl • ONGOING - Volunteer opportunity monitoring monarch butterflies in one of seven patches of milkweed. Info: nps.gov/carl or 693-4178.

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD 692-3211 • WE (7/23), 6:25pm - Information session on program the to help African children. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Hendersonville, 699 N. Grove St., Hendersonville PEDIATRIC BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION 418-0826, curethekids.org • SA (7/26), 6:30am-11:30am - Volunteers needed to assist with the Asheville Color Run, which benefits the foundation. Must be 15 or older.

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Asheville Disclaimer by Tom Scheve

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Find local standup comedy info at DisclaimerComedy.com • Twitter @AVLdisclaimer Truth, Integrity, Responsibility, or Asheville Disclaimer

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KKK Candy

The KKK handed out bags of candy with its recruitment fliers in upstate South Carolina last week.

Some of the candy :

• Oh, Henry, fetch me some mint to go with this here iced tea • Snickers with bull-whipped nougat • Fort Sumter Charleston Chews • Segregated Reese’s Cups • Extra racism gum • Other-than-black licorice • Massa Goodbar • Kunte KitKat • Jolly Plantationers • Zero bar with high-yellow chocolate • 100 Grand Dragons

Controversy over selection of new NC poet laureate

RALEIGH, MONDAY — Gov. McCrory caused outrage among the arts community by selecting self-published poet and state employee Valerie Macon from Fuquay-Varina as poet laureate, thereby bypassing the traditional N.C. Arts Council’s peer review process. The response led Macon to resign just days later.

A quick sampling of her works: Roses are red, Violets are blue, If you didn’t vote for McCrory, Then screw you.

…Poems are made by fools like me, but only God can make a magnificent self-published poet. …weave a circle “round him thrice and come and look with holy dread, for he on honeydew hath fed it was on special at the Fuquay produce market.

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Effects of waking at 2 a.m. prompt WLOS meteorologist Julie Wunder to call it a day (with chance of rain) WLOS meteorologist Julie Wunder has announced she will be pursuing other interests when her contract ends in July.

Julie, who works the morning and noon shift, said that waking at 2 a.m. on workdays for so many years has affected her well being.

This decision came after a medical specialist observed Julie Wunder’s morning routine.

1:58 a.m. Sound of closet, searches for hot Julie’s grinding teeth water knob causes neighbor’s dog 2:20 Moves to shower, finds hot water knob to howl 1:59 “Who’s there? 2:22 Shampoos/conWhere am I? Slight ditions hair, speaks in chance of rain,” string tongues of Satan, provides English translaof expletives tion (“Chance of rain”) 2:00 Alarm goes off 2:01 Julie loudly an- 2:25 Rips out clump of nounces to nobody a hair under belief it is a newfound disbelief in tangle of snakes God 2:29 Shouts “daily ne2:02 Julie rises from gations” to self in mirbed, walks into bed- ror room window 2:32 Exits bathroom 2:03 Julie drops to wearing confused cat hands and knees, as head wrap crawls to bathroom 2:33 Returns to broom 2:03 Sound of weeping closet from Julie’s bathroom 2:34 Exits broom clos2:06 Julie walks into et, removes cat from closed bathroom door, head the hinges of which are 2:37 Pours 3rd cup of quite loose from previ- coffee, washes face with ous similar incidents remaining hot coffee 2:07 Julie makes cof- 2:40 Looks out window fee, rests hand on edge and examines sky, sobs of coffee pot, places 2:42 Gets dressed, does least-burnt finger over make-up, walks into coffee pot’s lip, and bedroom window takes brief nap while 2:53 Returns to broom coffee brews closet, looking for car 2:11 Julie calmly awak- ignition ens with scalding cof- 2:43 Exits broom closet, fee burn to finger exits home, attempts to 2:12 Pours cup of cof- drive neighbor’s dog to fee, stares at cat, sobs work 2:14 Turns on stove, 2:44 Leaves neighbor’s places old family pho- dog, enters car, drives tos on burner, watches to work, chants “chance them smolder into ash of rain, chance of rain,” 2:16 Finishes 1st cup of sobs, finishes 3rd cup coffee, pours 2nd cup of coffee, makes things 2:19 Enters broom right with God.

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TOOK IT TOO FAR • The New York customer service company United Health Programs of America provoked a federal lawsuit in June by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission over its employee esprit-de-corps policy of requiring workers to pray to God on the job and to say “I love you” to their managers. According to the EEOC, the feel-good, workharder campaign was suggested by an aunt of United’s owner and named for an obscure “truth and compassion” movement called “Onionhead.”

• After two third-graders wet their pants on May 15 at Mill Plain Elementary School in Vancouver, Wash., they blamed teachers for too strictly enforcing their classroom’s “rewards” system, in which good behavior earns students points redeemable for, among other prizes, restroom breaks. A teachers union investigation concluded that the girls were never “denied” toilet access (but the girls’ mothers pointed out that using restroom breaks as a “reward” might be confusing to 8-year-olds).

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concert in Yokohama to the purchasers of 10 lucky bags of secretly marked potato chips. Her perhaps hugest fan, Kazuki Fukumoto, 25, was so determined to win one that by the time he was arrested for littering in May, he had bought and dumped 89 cartons of potato chip packages, weighing over 400 pounds, that were found at six locations around the cities of Kobe and Akashi. Police estimate he had spent the equivalent of about $3,000.

• Took It Way Too Far: Britain’s news website Metro.co.uk, combing Facebook pages, located a full photo array from prominent 23-year-old German body art enthusiast Joel Miggler, whose various piercings and implants are impressive enough, but whose centerpieces are the portholes in each cheek that expose the insides of his mouth. (With customized plugs, he can seal the portholes when soup is on the menu.) The holes are currently 36mm wide, but he was said to be actively cheek-stretching, aiming for 40mm. Miggler assures fans that his mother likes “most” of his modifications and that the worst aspect so far is merely that he is forced to take smaller bites when eating. (News of the Weird has reported on researchers creating portholes in cows’ stomachs, but still ...)

his family and to burn down his farm buildings. (During the most recent incarceration, Truscott had received mental health treatment that allowed him actually to act out in a manure pit, and officials believe he took a turn for the worse when that treatment was curtailed.)

CAN’T POSSIBLY BE TRUE • Until the New York governor and legislature addressed the problem recently, it was legal in the state for narcissistic animal owners to force their dogs and cats to endure permanent, decorative tattoos and piercings. At press time, Gov. Andrew Cuomo was poised to sign legislation abolishing the tattooing.

• Kayla Oxenham, 23, was arrested in Port Charlotte, Florida, in June and charged with using a stick to burn “brands” into the skin of her two children, ages 5 and 7. Among her explanations to police: so she could identify them as being hers and because she “forgot how much she loved fire.”

• A Davenport, Iowa, jury convicted terminal-cancer patient Benton Mackenzie, 48, in July on four mari-

juana-growing felonies, even though his purpose was to harvest cannabis oil to treat his bloody lesions and the grapefruit-sized tumor on his buttocks. The judge had barred Mackenzie and his lawyer from even mentioning the illness in court — because of a 2005 Iowa precedent (even though the Iowa legislature has subsequently allowed medical marijuana to treat seizures). Mackenzie’s wife, his 73-year-old parents, his son and a friend were also charged with assisting Mackenzie’s “operation” (though Mackenzie was almost surely the only “customer”). Mackenzie, who testified and was, of course, sworn to tell “the whole truth,” said he was “flabbergasted” to learn that “the whole truth” excludes anything about his illness.

• Municipal engineers in the town of Melton Mowbray, England, were called out in June to fix a lingering sewer overrun caused by, they discovered, “hundreds” of tennis balls that had apparently each been flushed down toilets. Said the project manager, “We expect (blockages from) fats and baby wipes, but....”X

UPDATE When last we encountered Briton David Truscott (2011), he was being jailed again as a serial trespasser with an unquenchable desire to sneak onto farms and pleasure himself while rolling around, nude, in manure pits — especially the farm of Clive Roth near Redruth, England. Truscott apparently emerged from prison unrepentant and was back in trouble in May with another manure pit incident, but this time accompanied by threats to harm Roth and

READ DAILY Read News of the Weird daily with Chuck Shepherd at www.weirduniverse.net. Send items to weirdnews@earthlink.net or PO Box 18737, Tampa FL 33679.

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Homegrown medicine It’s not too late to enjoy the benefits of backyard medicinal herbs

BY JACQUI CASTLE

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We are lucky enough to live in an area of the country where several medicinal herbs are native to our region and can be found growing wildly all around us. But what medicinal herbs, native or otherwise, grow well here in the Blue Ridge Mountains? The answer is ... countless. So let’s start with some herbs that can be prepared for medicinal use without a lot of legwork for the beginning gardener and aspiring herbalist. Medicinal plants have been used for thousands of years as remedies for common ailments.

Fortunately, you don’t have to empty your savings account stocking up on already-prepared herbal remedies to begin reaping the benefits. You can create a veritable apothecary shop in your own backyard. What could be more convenient than simply walking outside when you need a natural remedy for a stomachache, bee sting, a headache or anxiety?

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GETTING STARTED: If you haven’t planted any herbs this season, there is still time to purchase herb starts from farmers markets, grocery stores and nurseries locally. Photo by Carrie Eidson

begin growing your own medicine?

Start by asking your friends what they have growing in their yard, and you might find that they will be more than willing to share. Herbs can be started from seed, but this late in the season you may prefer to buy plant starts so that you can reap the benefits of your herb garden right away.

This time of year, grocery stores such as Greenlife Grocery, Earth Fare and Katuah Market often have a variety of herbal starts out front to choose from. Local companies that offer naturally grown herbal starts include Wildwood Herbal, Useful Plants Nursery and Appalachian Seeds Farm and Nursery. Local farmers markets will often feature at least one farmer or vendor selling herbal starts.

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ers. Consider starting with just a few of the following suggestions and growing from there.

Pain relief — Oregano, rosemary and thyme not only taste scrumptious on Italian fare, but they also all have pain relieving properties. These three herbs contain anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic and analgesic compounds. To reap some of the benefits, munch on the leaves, add to your favorite dish or brew one or a combination of the three into a tea. Plantain, yes the same weed that you may have spent countless hours trying to eradicate, is invaluable when it comes to bee stings or bug bites. Simply pluck a leaf, chew it up into a poultice, or grind up with a bit of water, and place directly on the skin to relieve pain.

Digestion — Peppermint does very well in the Blue Ridge Mountains, and when consumed after a meal, either in leaf form or in a tea, peppermint helps to improve digestion. Sage helps to relieve gas and bloating and is used to stimulate the appetite. Basil helps to calm stomach upset, and the leaves can be eaten fresh off the stalk, added to a smoothie or brewed into a tea.

Immune system strengthening — Echinacea is well-known for its immune-boosting properties.

Leaves from blooming echinacea flowers can be eaten directly off the plant or tossed in a salad. Garlic boosts the immune system and is a natural antibiotic, anti-fungal and anti-bacterial. The health benefits of garlic are no secret and are too numerous to name here. Nettles are abundant in the Blue Ridge Mountains, are rich in various vitamins and minerals, and are used to boost overall immunity. Nettle tea brewed with local honey and served over ice makes a refreshing summer beverage that may help keep allergy symptoms at bay. Nettles lose their sting once cooked and can be steamed with other greens or made into tea or tincture.

Emotional Health — Motherwort and lemon balm are members of the mint family. They are both very hardy and spread easily, so keep these herbs contained if you do not want them to take over your entire garden. Motherwort has been used for centuries to help people recover from emotional unbalance, namely anxiety and depression. Make into a tincture or dry into a tea. Lemon balm can be eaten freely, made into a tea or the leaves can even be added to a warm bath to help relieve tension.

Chamomile helps relieve tension and calm the nerves. Fresh lavender can be placed beside the pillow to help relieve insomnia.

For more information on medicinal herbs and plants, try contacting Useful Plants Nursery in Black Mountain, 669-6517 and Appalachian Seeds Farm and Nursery in Asheville, 400-7014. X

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North Carolina School of Advanced Bodywork

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Class Begins Sept. 8 Continuing Education Provider See 2014 Schedule at www.ncsab.com Advanced Massage & Structural Bodywork Training 500 Hours Board Approved for Massage and Bodywork License

Wellness at work

Day or Evening (828) 628-3007 ncsab.com Fairview, NC

(10 min from downtown Asheville)

Have you tried the LOVE YOUR BODY WORKOUT?

WORKING OUT: Mission Health launches new wellness program that will be extended to the region later this year. From left: Jennifer McGrath, Anna Walz, Gretchen Heacock, Tammy Israel, Devon Bush, Kathy Bumgarner. Photo courtesy of Mission Health

Mission Health launches employee health management program

It’s common sense that employers have a vested interest in employee health. After all, people can’t work if they’re sick, and people who aren’t feeling their best are less likely to do their best at work. Unfortunately, long hours and high stress on the job often stand in the way of making healthy choices.

Mission Health hopes to remove those barriers and encourage employees to take better care of themselves with a new program called MyHealthyLife WellConnect, a health management and wellness program that encourages employees to improve their health using personal fitness trackers, incentive campaigns and online assessment and education tools. The program will be extended to employers in the region later this year.

“It is critical that our caregivers take their health seriously, as healthy caregivers ultimately equates to improved patient care,” says Anna Walz, Mission Health director, system wellness. “As the region’s leading health system and

a national Truven Analytics Top 15 Health System, Mission Health has a responsibility for overall population health and wellness and must serve as a wellness role model for the broader community.”

Mission Health is currently launching the program for 5,000 members of its own staff and will expand to the more eligible employees by September. While the program is designed to benefit employees and create a positive work environment, it’s also aimed at the bottom line, with goals such as enhancing productivity, lowering health care costs for both the employer and employees and reducing absenteeism.

Walz says employees are already responding enthusiastically to the new program, with 3,000 eligible participants already enrolled. So far, employees have collectively achieved 59.4 million steps since July 1, with an average of 4,433 steps per day or 2.11 miles.

The program got a test run at Blue Ridge Regional Hospital and Transylvania Regional Hospital in May and June, and feedback was largely positive, says Walz. One participant said, “I had not realized how motivating it would be to have an incentive to make time in my full-time schedule at work and over commitments at home to allow for time to exercise.” Other participants enjoyed the competitive spirit of the program, as well as the incentives for doing well.X

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WELLNESS ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation. Learn about the authentic TM technique. It’s not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice. It’s an effortless, non-religious, evidence-based technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life.

The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. • Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment?

• Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org ASHEVILLE BIRTHKEEPERS • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 5:30-7:30pm - Meets at the Spiral Center for Conscious Beginnings, 167A Haywood Road.

OFFER EXPIRES 8/17/14

ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER 8 Brookdale Rd., ashevillecommunityyoga. com • WEDNESDAYS through (8/13), 6-7:30pm - Meditation series: “The Quiet Mind” with Jerome. $40 for four sessions.

• THURSDAYS through (7/31), 6-7:30pm - Stiff Guy Yoga. $40 for four sessions.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • THURSDAYS - T’ai Chi Qi Gong with Charles Pannell. $12 drop-in.

BRAIN INJURY AWARENESS DINNER 828-274-7518, ext. 103, ireneworthamcenter. org • TH (7/24), 5pm-9:30pm - A dinner meeting<span style=”color: #141823;”> to increase and improve community awareness about brain injury and the services of nonprofits. </span>Sponsored by Brain Injury Association, Irene Wortham Center and Liberty Corners. Free to attend. Held at Pomodoros South, 75 Long Shoals Rd.

COUNCIL ON AGING MEDICARE CLASSES 277-8288, coabc.org Free. Registration required.

• FR (7/25), 2-4pm - “Medicare Choices Made Easy” information session. Info: olliasheville. com. Held at Reuter Center, UNC Asheville HYPHEN 81 Patton Ave., 333-5100 • SA (7/26), SA (8/9) & SA (8/23), 2-4:30pm Meeting of WNC Asperger’s Adults United.

JUBILEE COMMUNITY CHURCH 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TU (7/29), 7-9pm -GMOs – Put the Fun into Fitness session with educator/trainer Carol Gerson. Info: agelessgracecarol@gmail.com or 606-9931.

RED CROSS BLOOD DRIVES redcrosswnc.org Appointment and ID required.

• TH (7/24), 1:30-5:30pm - Ridgecrest Conference Center, 1 Ridgecrest Drive, Black Mountain. Appointment and info: 800-733-2767.

• TH (7/24), 12:30-5pm - Black Mountain Neuro Medical Treatment Center, 932 Old U.S. Highway 70, Black Mountain. Appointment and info: 2596908.

• FR (7/25), 2-6:30pm - Enka Fire Rescue, 85 Pisgah Highway, Candler. Appointment and info: 800-733-2767.

• FR (7/25), 7:30am-noon - Reuter Family YMCA, 3 Town Square Blvd. Appointment and info: 800733-2767.

• TU (7/29), 2:30-7pm - Beverly Hills Baptist Church, 777 Tunnel Road. Appointment and info: 299-9233 after 1pm.

• WE (7/30), 2:30-6:30pm - Biltmore Church of Christ, 823 Fairview St. Appointment and info: 274-2829.

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

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

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES For people who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Info: adultchildren.org.

Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

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

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

ASHEVILLE UNDEREARNERS ANONYMOUS underearnersanonymous.org • TUESDAYS, 6 p.m. – First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 102

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ASHEVILLE WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY 215-536-0618, www.womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8 p.m. – YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. ASPERGER’S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/AspergersTeensUnited • SATURDAYS, 6-9pm – For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks starting June 28.

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

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

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

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

HEART SUPPORT For individuals living with heart failure. 274-6000.

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

LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association.

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• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30 p.m. – Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston Ave. MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS For caregivers of those with memory loss or dementia. network@memorycare.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 9:30am – Highland Farms Retirement Community, 200 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain MEN WORKING ON LIFE’S ISSUES

686-5590 or 683-7195 • TUESDAYS, 6-8pm – Meets at 90 Zillicoa Ave. MISSION HEALTH DISORDERED EATING 778-1092, mission-health.org • WE (7/30), 7-8pm - Disordered Eating Support Group. Held at 297 Haywood St. Info: 337-4685.

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

S-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For those affected by another’s sexaholism.

Four confidential meetings are available weekly in WNC. For dates, times and locations contact wncsanon@gmail.com or 258-5117.

MISSION HEALTH FAMILY GROUP NIGHT For caregivers of children with social health needs or development concerns. 213-9787 • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30 p.m. – Mission Rueter Children’s Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive.

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

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

NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS For people living with mental health issues and their loved ones. Info: namiwnc.org or 505-7353. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.

STRENGTH IN SURVIVORSHIP For cancer survivors. Strengthinsurvivorship@ yahoo.com or 808-7673 • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-noon – Mills River Library, 124 Town Drive, Mills River

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

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

SYLVA GRIEF SUPPORT Hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life. melee@fourseasonscfl.org • TUESDAYS, 10:30am. - Jackson County Department on Aging, 100 Country Services Park, Sylva

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

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As we walk through the fields I spot corn, strawberry plants, blueberry bushes, beans, Swiss chard and okra. On Saturdays William travels to Jackson County Farmer’s Market in Sylva to sell fruits and vegetables and also harvests them for his own family.

Shelton Family Farm is a conventional farm and I ask William, what would happen if he didn’t use pesticides, he quickly and matter-of-factly responds, “I’d be out of business.” He expands on this by saying that he doesn’t “... spray or treat his plants more than necessary...I’m very conservative... but the reality is plants, like people, are subject to diseases and sometimes I need to treat them with pesticides and fungicides and mold inhibitors to help protect them...otherwise the crops would suffer and I’d be out of business... “ William continues, “I’m pro-organic but many people don’t realize that organic farmers use pesticides and treat their plants to protect them...I use copper to treat my tomato plants - just like organic farmers...”

I ask William, ‘If you could have the chance to talk to people individually about why farming is important to you what would you say?’ William pauses for a moment and looking at his fields surrounded by the mountains says carefully, “This is my business, it supports my family ... I wouldn’t sell people fruits and vegetables that I wouldn’t eat or my children wouldn’t eat...I am a steward of this land and I care about it.

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Reliving history Bringing folk agriculture back to the modern food economy

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Historically, food systems in the Appalachian Mountains relied on tight-knit communities working together to create food security on a local level. These traditional agricultural systems made food and food production an intimate and inextricable part of daily life. But today those everyday interactions — with the plants, animals and the practice of raising them — are becoming less and less common.

In 1790, 90 percent of Americans were farmers. Today that figure is less than 1 percent. The change is particularly noticeable in the South, which up until the 1950s, was a largely agrarian society. Now, some are calling for a rebuilding and supporting of a locally focused food system, which used to be prevalent in Appalachia.

“Traditional agriculture in Appalachia was highly local,” says James Veteto, executive director of the Appalachian Institute for Mountain Studies in Celo, who teaches at Western Carolina University. “It was supplemented by hunting, fishing and wildcrafting of a wide variety of locally available, seasonal wild foods and medicines … and there was a fair amount of trade.”

Veteto and others at AIMS are working to foster food systems that blend Appalachian environmental knowledge with modern technology. They hold classes on traditional agriculture, permaculture, wild food and medicinal herbs, supporting a resurgence of the principles of older “folk systems” into a modern economy.

“Folk systems typically rely on and utilize a much broader array of biodiversity than modern agriculture,”

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RETURN TO THE ROOT: “Traditional agriculture in Appalachia was highly local,” says James Veteto, of the Appalachian Institute for Mountain Studies.

Today many are calling for a rebuilding and supporting of locally focused food systems — which used to be prevalent in Appalachia. Photo by Hayley Benton.

says Veteto, who notes that modern “folk agriculture” — often a hybrid of folk systems and modern adaptations — is more sustainable than mainstream industrial agriculture.

That focus on sustainability is driving the return to these traditional systems for many local growers who also want to see the concept brought into urban areas.

“Where we live, work and play is where we should be producing all the foods and things best eaten fresh or right away,” says Sunil Patel of Patchwork Urban Farms. “Putting this back into our urban areas, where it belongs, is what I’m trying to envision happening.”

At Patchwork, Patel employs traditional farming methods, includ-

ing crop rotation, planting cover crops to enrich the soil naturally, composting and animal integration. Patel also uses waste from restaurants and households to produce compost, as well as animal protein sources such as the larva of the black soldier fly. He adds biochar to the soil, a method he notes goes “way back to precolonial South America.”

“I don’t use any synthetic pesticides, herbicides or fertilizers,” Patel says. “I use biodynamic methods and pay attention to the energetic effects of the Earth, moon, planets and stars on the growth of plants and animals.”

He adds that even his irrigation methods, including earth-shaping

and rainwater catchments, take advantage of natural systems.

Patel says he believes these methods bring the farmer a closer connection to the food system.

And when the yield is shared or sold at tailgate markets or local restaurants, the concept spreads out from the farmer and into the community, he notes.

“I feel our connection to our foods system has been lost, and that’s why we need to bring it back,” Patel says. “If we see it enough as a culture, we’ll be able to reconnect with it in a big way.”

Growers seeking to incorporate folk agriculture back into the local economy have been aided by the re-emergence of farmers markets and roadside farm stands. Ordinances passed

by Asheville City Council over the last decade have allowed farmers markets to operate in residential areas and removed the permitting requirements for accessory structures — such as greenhouses and hoop houses — and residential farm stands.

“It reflects a focus on returning food security to the neighborhood level,” says City Councilman Gordon Smith in an email to Xpress. “Food access used to happen in lots of places in our lives, not just at grocery stores and restaurants. These changes will mean more food being grown where people live and distributed to people who live there.”

Veteto says the principles of folk systems can also be used noncommerically when neighbors trade their harvests or share the yield of communal gardens.

“There are lots of stories of people, churches, etc., in historical Appalachian communities

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that cooked meals for people who were suffering from food insecurity,” Veteo says. “I think the role of community used to be much more prominent in proving for community food security and health.”

In fact, Veteto adds, feeding families and communities is the focus of folk agriculture.

“Producing your own sustenance gives you a sense of self-worth, independence and connection to the natural world,” he says. “It is a fundamental, elemental type of empowerment.”

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Asheville’s french-fry fetish Dipping into our not-so-secret vice

BY DOROTHY FOLTZ-GRAY

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Asheville thinks of itself as a willfully healthy town, a place where spirulina shakes are as easy to come by as beer.

But next time you order a kale salad, don’t be surprised if nestled right next to it is the best order of french fries you’ve ever had.

“Asheville has a dual personality disorder,” says Steven Goff, executive chef and owner of the King James Public House. “People here are into superhealthy things and they’re foodies. And foodies love french fries if you do them right.”

Susy Salwa Phillips, aka the Gypsy Queen of food truck fame, agrees: “I have people drilling me about what kind of potatoes I use. Are they organic? What do I fry them with?

If Ashevilleans are going to eat fries, the fries better be well-behaved and freaking good.”

Ashevillean Dan Allen — who favors Farm Burger fries — has no problem mixing healthy leanings with spuds: “A potato is a vegetable.

Likewise ketchup. Now add a cold beer — hops, yeast, grain — and hell, you’re a vegetarian.”

DOING FRIES RIGHT First, don’t even think about using a potato that isn’t a russet, which has the right balance of starch to sugar, says Jacob Sessoms, owner and chef at Table, who admits he only eats french fries at Farm Burger because it’s just wrong to eat a burger without fries. “Sit down with a hamburger and a salad, and you just feel like a fool,” he says.

And cut them thin, says Phillips, whose favorite fries are at Table: “They’re like perfect pommes frites.”

After cutting the spuds, chefs give them a low-temperature bath called blanching. Goff blanches his in water,

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as does Phillips; Sessoms in oil.

“You’re neutralizing the sugars and isolating the starch,” says Sessoms.

That’s all done with fresh potatoes before you even show up hungry. Place your order, and now the chilled, blanched fries get deep fried so the outside is crispy, the inside velvety.

Although in fry fantasies, you may hope for taters crisped in truffle oil or duck fat — or, as the French do, horse fat — Sessoms, Goff and Phillips each use canola oil, a nod to Asheville’s vegetarianfriendly habits.

BARE BONES OR TOPPINGS? Now, a dilemma: Eat them plain or sauced?

“I like my fries to be Lebanese, drizzled with tahini, garlic and parsley,” says Phillips, who learned to fry potatoes at her mother’s knee in Lebanon, once a colony of France: “They were the first thing I knew how to make besides tabouli. ”

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WINNING TASTE: “Fries were not intended for sauces,” says Bouchon owner Michel Baudouin.

Bouchon’s fries, which are tossed in herbs, won Best French Fries in the Xpress 2013 Best of WNC awards. Photo by Tim Robison

Baudouin, owner and chef at Bouchon. “But everyone likes to add his personal touch, just as I do by tossing them in herbs.”

And if you want fries that are wayyyy out there, try Strada Italiano’s salty fries doused in maple syrup and butter. Move over French toast.

A FRY’S LINEAGE

Goff, a self-described potato junkie, learned one thing early: If tofu can be a repository for anything you want to put on it, fries are better: “They should be able to stand alone. But a lot of times they are a vehicle for other things,” he says. His favorite accompaniment is bravas sauce, a spicy Spanish mix of stewed tomatoes, cumin and coriander. That is, after he hits his frites with clarified butter and salt right out of the fryer, which he admits is “kind of like cheating.”

“Fries were not intended for sauces,” says Frenchman Michel

But here is the question: Is a french fry really French?

“French fries aren’t French, they’re Belgian,” says Ghislaine Mahler, Parisian founder and owner of Ma Belle France in Asheville. “And in France, we call them ‘frites.’ French fries are an American thing.”

Baudouin, who left France 35 years ago, agrees. “They originated in Belgium,” he explains. “But maybe they’re called french fries because more Americans visit France than Belgium.”

“Maybe they’re called French because fries go along with the

French kiss,” says Phillips.

“Ooooh, la la. Anything sexy or good is associated with France.”

Either way, Americans — and Ashevilleans — have seized on them. “French fries define the American palate,” says Sessoms.

“They’re the cornerstone of American comfort food.”

As for their health profile, well, there’s always your psychological health. Says Phillips, “Eat french fries, and everything is so much better.”X

The best fries in town

Like politics, fries stir up deep feelings in Asheville, a kind of passion usually reserved for Duke Energy and Pat McCrory. Below are a few Ashevilleans’ takes on local fries: • Libby de Caetani, who grew up in Iowa, tags the frites at Bouchon:

“Major yum. Crispy, salty, potato-y avec les herbes de Provence.”

• Lorraine Krause — originally from Pittsburgh, so she knows fries, at least those squished on sandwiches — likes the truffle fries at Fig. • “Table’s fries are the best anywhere,” says Asheville resident Jude Berger, originally from Cincinnati.

(Don’t even ask her about Cincy’s famed chili fries.) “Just potatoes, good frying grease and salt. They need nothing except for me to eat them and go, ‘Yum, yum.’”

• Sally Cochran, a former Virginian, likes Bouchon’s pomme frites. “Thin and lavender-laced served in a silver cone — a fry taken to a different level,” says Cochran, whose childhood fries cost 15 cents at the first American fast-food restaurant, Burger Chef, now defunct.

• Chef Steven Goff of King James Pub is stumped for his favorite: “I don’t get out much — and if I did, I wouldn’t eat fries because I eat them at work, at least one from every batch.”

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PEDAL PUSHER: Through his bike-powered business, Ryan Prentiss is sharing his love of cycling, good coffee and community. Photo by Carrie Eidson

New mobile business celebrates coffee and cycling Ryan Prentiss just opened a new coffee shop in Pritchard Park. And at the River Arts District Farmers Market. And occasionally at lots of other locations around town.

Prentiss’ new business, the Coffee Pedlar, is the latest manifestation of Asheville’s mobile retail craze: an artisan pour-over coffee bar mounted on a sleek, black trike.

Every day but Tuesday, the Outward Bound climbing specialist and backpacking instructor pedals his 400-pound shop-on-wheels from his home in West Asheville to Pritchard Park — an act that celebrates both Prentiss’ and Asheville’s obsessions with cycling and quality java.

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Originally from Chico, Calif., area, Prentiss says he has wanted to open his own coffee shop since he worked as a barista while studying outdoor education at California State University at Chico in 2006. After moving to Asheville to work with Outward Bound in 2011, the idea for his coffee bike began to take shape.

Inspired by the two-wheeled, cargo-bike vending system used

by Trailhead Coffee Roasters in Portland, Ore. — as well as by traditional Dutch bakfiet freight trikes and the maneuverable, three-wheeled ice cream vendor bikes he remembers from spring breaks spent doing volunteer work in Mexico — Prentiss formed a plan.

“I was originally going to try to do a cargo bike and be twowheeled, but I realized having this much weight wouldn’t work for

pedaling slowly through Asheville, so I decided to have a tricycle built instead,” Prentiss explains, as he crafts an iced pour-over for Bill, a customer he has greeted by name.

Prentiss contracted Steven Horcha of Haley Trikes in Philadelphia to implement his design ideas, and the result was an elegant, custom-built woodand-metal creation that cost only $3,300 — a paltry sum for what is essentially a storefront.

Pedaling his highly visible rig the 25 minutes to Pritchard Park each morning, Prentiss says he feels as if he is in a special position to present a positive public image for the cycling community. Although he does own an automobile, he says he prefers to cycle everywhere he goes, unless it involves an interstate or hazardous thoroughfare (he mentions Tunnel Road), and he believes it’s crucial that cyclists obey the rules of the road and not hinder the flow of traffic.

“I want people to view cyclists as people who obey the same rules as them, and that’s really noticeable with me riding such a big trike,” he explains. “It’s a good ride from West Asheville because there’s a bike lane on Clingman, so I don’t impede traffic, which is one of my biggest goals in biking.

It’s like, ‘I’m a cyclist, and I’m not slowing you down. And I can bring you a great cup of coffee.’”

Ah, yes. The coffee.

Drawing on his West Coast barista experience, a great deal of independent research and experimentation and advice from local coffee experts — including Waking Life Espresso owner Jared Rutledge and Dylan Jung of Aesthetic Coffee — Prentiss has perfected an exacting technique that balances the use of carefully chosen, high-quality beans, timing and temperature.

He gets up at 5:30 every morning to grind each day’s coffee and won’t use grounds that went through the grinder more than 10 hours before. “I know what I want the flavor to be like, so I take a lot of time every morning to play with the grind adjustment to make sure each cup tastes excellent at 180 degrees, then also at 145 degrees,” says Prentiss. “I put a lot of love and care into every cup I make.”

Prentiss charges $3.50 for his pour-overs, which take around four minutes to make — an enjoyable four minutes, as he is a cheer-

ful and engaging conversationalist.

For those who are in a hurry or are looking for a lower price, he offers batch coffee for $2.50 a cup.

At this point, the Coffee Pedlar exclusively uses beans from Black Mountain’s Dynamite Roasting Co., but eventually Prentiss wants to showcase local and out-of-town roasters as well, including companies from Colorado, California and Oregon.

In talking to Prentiss, it becomes apparent that his new business isn’t just about coffee and bikes.

During his conversation with Xpress, Prentiss periodically tosses out greetings and acknowledgements to various passers-by. And as he spends several minutes making Bill’s pourover, a lively 10-year-old named Ty is doing his best to help with the coffeemaking process.

Ty, who lives in Florence, S.C., is visiting his grandparents in West Asheville for the summer and takes the bus downtown every day to hang out in the park and learn coffee from Prentiss in hopes, says Ty, of one day becoming a “coffee guy” himself.

“I really love coffee because of the social aspect of it,” Prentiss says.

“For me, it’s so much fun getting to know the people who hang out in the park and anyone walking by.

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Berry season Local no-spray, u-pick options

Berry-picking season is in full swing, and there are plenty of places in the Asheville area — both wild and cultivated — to pick some of nature’s candy fresh off the shrub.

Of course, wild blueberries are free for the picking from late summer through early fall at spots on the Blue Ridge Parkway, including Craggy Gardens (mile post 364), Graveyard Fields (mile post 418) and Black Balsam Knob (mile post 420).

But for those who aren’t up for a hike or don’t want to compete with the late-summer crowds on the parkway, a few local farms offer u-pick options for berries that are not treated with chemical pre-

TRUE BLUE: Options abound for fresh berries in Western North Carolina, from nearby u-pick farms to wild ventures along the Blue Ridge Parkway. Photo courtesy of ASAP

servatives or pesticides. (The Environmental Working Group, a nonprofit research agency that works to educate the public on the importance of limiting consumption of pesticides, says that even when washed, berries are known to retain larger amounts of pesticide residue than many other kinds of produce.)

Ripening times can vary depending on the elevation of the site, soil conditions and the amount of sunlight received; however, berries typically follow a pattern. In the Blue Ridge Mountains, strawberries usually start off the berry picking season, followed quickly by blueberries. Black raspberries begin to mature in late June, followed by blackberries which are ripe July through August, and then red raspberries wind up the berry season in September. So

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fortunately, if you are raring to go berry picking, you will generally be able to find at least one variety that is ripening nearby.

Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview is a great place to take the family for an afternoon of berry picking.

Hickory Nut Gap farm offers u-pick options for blueberries, blackberries and black and red raspberries.

All the farm’s berries are certified organic and cost $8 per pound, except for blackberries, which are $5 per pound.

And berry picking isn’t the only family fun available at Hickory Nut Gap Farm. “We have a treehouse, tire swing and culvert slides for the kids to play on,” says farm retail store manager Hallie Payne.

The farm store serves ice cream made by local company Ultimate Ice Cream, has farm animals available for viewing and picnic shelters

by the creek provide a refreshing break from the heat.

“You can pick berries, dip your toes in the creek, have an ice-cream break and bring home some meat to cook for dinner,” says Payne.

Hickory Nut Gap Farm is open for berry picking Tuesday-Sunday.

Payne advises calling ahead to check on berry ripeness.

Cloud 9 Farm in Fletcher offers 2 acres of no-spray blueberry picking. Owner Janet Peterson operates the farm, which has been in her family since 1974. Peterson enjoys seeing children berry-picking with their parents on the farm. “It teaches them where their food comes from,” she says.

Berry pickers are given jugs with rope to tie around their waste to make harvesting easier. All berries at Cloud 9 are free of preservatives and pesticides and cost $3.50 per pound or $16 per gallon. To give the berries sufficient time to ripen, the farm is open for picking on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Don’t forget to bring home some of Peterson’s homemade blueberry jam.

Another no-spray option in the area is the Long Branch Environmental Education Center. Along with berries, Long Branch also offers hiking trails, a picnic area and educational opportunities with its passive-solar community building, micro-hydro power system and greenhouses. It is located about 18 miles northwest of Asheville and offers u-pick blueberries and red raspberries by donation.

Call ahead for directions and to let them know when you are coming.

Zimmerman’s Berry Farm in Marshall has long been another local favorite for u-pick pesticide-free black raspberries. Unfortunately, a note on the farm’s website says it is closed indefinitely this summer due to a death in the family.

Hickory Nut Gap Farm, 57 Sugar Hollow Road, Fairview, 628-1027, hickorynutgapfarm.com Cloud 9 Farm, 137 Bob Barnwell Road, Fletcher, 628-1758, cloud9farm.net Long Branch Environmental Education Center, 683-3662, longbrancheec.org X

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Beer Camp Across America arrives in Asheville Sierra Nevada’s event brings a limited-edition 12-pack and a variety of events to local bars and bottle shops

If you’ve somehow missed hearing about Sierra Nevada’s Beer Camp Across America, the brewery has invited every craft brewer in the nation to a massive seven-stop road trip across the United States. The tour started in Chico, Calif., the site of the original Sierra Nevada brewery, on Friday, July 18, and will end in Mills River at Sierra Nevada’s nearly complete new brewery on Sunday, Aug. 3.

Each region will feature brewers from that part of the country — be they West Coast or Southeast — and each festival will also feature a core roster of 11 VIP brewers and one brewers alliance handpicked by the team at Sierra. The lucky 11 brewers are: 3 Floyds, Allagash, Ballast Point, Bell’s, Cigar City, Firestone Walker, New Glarus, Ninkasi, Oskar Blues, Russian River and Victory. The alliance?

That would be our own Asheville Brewers Alliance.

BRINGING BEER CAMP HOME However, Sierra Nevada is going even further: Not only will all the featured breweries be pouring their beers at our own festival down in Mills River, they’ll also be part of a limited-release 12-pack available most places where Sierra Nevada bottles are sold.

If you can’t make it to the $65 festival, the approximately $25 12-pack is a fun way to play along at home.

The variety of beers included is pretty impressive: Allagash brewed a Belgian-style pale with its signature ability to coax intoxicating aromas from yeast. Firestone Walker, known for both its hoppy beers and its Pivo Pilsner, brewed a hoppedup Pilsner with Sierra Nevada’s proprietary Hop Torpedo. And, of

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• Thursday, July 24: Thirsty Monk Biltmore features all 12 Beer Camp Across America beers.

• Thursday, July 24: Barley’s Taproom features the Asheville Brewers Alliance, Oskar Blues and Cigar City collaborations.

• Tuesday, July 29: Jack of the Wood features the Asheville Brewers Alliance, Oskar Blues and Cigar City collaborations.

• Thursday, July 31: Thirsty Monk Biltmore Park will feature all 12 Beer Camp Across America beers on draft.

• Friday and Saturday, Aug. 1-2: Brixx Pizza features the Asheville Brewers Alliance and Oskar Blues collaborations.

• Thursdays, Aug. 14, 21 and 28: Thirsty Monk Downtown will feature four of the collaborative beers each Thursday.

UPDATED FESTIVAL INFORMATION CAMPING GEAR: The Beer Camp Across America 12-pack of collaboration brews will be available locally wherever Sierra Nevada bottles can be found. Photo courtesy of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.

course, Oskar Blues took a classic beer style, the bock, and put its own twist on it with a heavy dose of rye and fruity Ella hops.

As for our own alliance, it did us proud with Tater Ridge. The beer is a nod to Highland Brewing Co., which blazed the trail for all who followed here in WNC, and the strong agricultural traditions of our area.

In addition to the malt, hops, yeast and water, the beer features sweet potatoes (roasted, in fact, by our own 12 Bones Smokehouse).

TASTINGS AROUND TOWN For those that can’t make the festival but who still want to celebrate Sierra’s opening out on the town, local businesses have it covered.

Sierra Nevada communications manager Ryan Arnold put it this way: “Beer Camp Across America is a chance to celebrate the overall

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momentum of craft beer, not just our own milestone. ... Western North Carolina is a perfect snapshot of [all craft brewers’] ambition, and we’re fortunate to take root here. The festival and the events leading up to it will radiate the sense of craft beer community that’s here.”

As of the time of printing, the list below covers all the events leading up to Aug. 3. Note that every event that takes place before Aug. 3 offers a chance to win either a large ongoing raffle or a smaller venue-specific raffle for a pair of tickets to the Beer Camp Across America festival in Mills River.

Events include: • Wednesday, July 23: Appalachian Vintner will feature the 12 Beer Camp Across America beers, live music from Chris Porter and JP Furnas, and an auction of Russian River beers with proceeds going to a local children’s charity.

Arnold also sent Xpress a few helpful tidbits regarding the big festival in Mills River on Aug. 3: • There will be no parking at the brewery. Free shuttle busses will travel to the festival from the WNC Agricultural Center and from North Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Service at both locations starts at 11 a.m.

• While festivalgoers will be able to catch a glimpse of the brewery, no tours will be offered as part of the festival. Public tours and tastings are scheduled to start later in the summer, with the gift shop scheduled to open in August or September. The taproom and restaurant are expected to open in late fall (likely after Thanksgiving).

• All festival proceeds will benefit the N.C. Craft Brewers Guild. There will also be a special Brewers Guild beer on tap at the festival.

• Food is not included in the ticket price, but numerous food trucks will be on-site (about 15 at last count).

For more information or tickets, visit: sierranevada.com/beercamp

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OYSTER HOUSE: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys PISGAH: Live Music: Preston Cate Trio (jazz, funk), 8pm; Food Vendor: DOGS WEDGE: Food Truck: El Kimchi (Korean/ Mexican street food); Movie night: The Quitters (musical), 8:30 pm WICKED WEED: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 11am

SUNDAY HI-WIRE: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 12:15pm; Live Music: Chris Smith (singer-songwriter), 5-7pm LEXINGTON AVE (LAB): Live Music: Bluegrass brunch; $10 pitchers all day OYSTER HOUSE: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales); Live Music: Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz, swing), 6pm

THURSDAY ASHEVILLE BREWING: $3.50 pints at Merrimon location FRENCH BROAD: Live Music: Paul Edelman, 6-8pm GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Taste & See, 3pm OYSTER HOUSE: $4 well drinks PISGAH: Movie night: you pick!, 8pm WEDGE: Food Truck: Tin Can Pizzeria

FRIDAY FRENCH BROAD: Live Music: Haints in the Holler, 6-8pm GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Root Down (Cajun, comfort food), 3pm HIGHLAND: Anniversary series brew: Floggin Roggen (rye w/ notes of banana, clove); Live Music: The Shazam (pop, rock), 6:30-8:30pm WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales)

MONDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Old-time jam, 8pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: Firkin: Ninja Porter + roasted figs & honey CATAWBA: Mixed-Up Mondays: beer infusions FRENCH BROAD: $2.50 pints OSKAR BLUES: Mountain Music Mondays, 6pm OYSTER HOUSE: $3 pint night WEDGE: Food Truck: El Kimchi (Korean/ Mexican street food)

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HI-WIRE: $2.50 house pints HIGHLAND: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 5:30pm OYSTER HOUSE: Cask night WEDGE: Food Truck: Tin Can Pizzeria

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Greg Cartwright had long been a pillar of the Memphis, Tenn., music scene and an éminence grise in the still-thriving garage-rock revival.

Jack White and Dan Auerbach name him as an influence and inspiration; the late Jay Reatard counted him as a friend and mentor. But back in 2004, Cartwright didn’t have a lot tying him down to the town he’d lived in for most of his life.

The original lineup of his band, Reigning Sound — which he’d formed after The Oblivians, the iconic garage-punk outfit he co-founded, had screeched to a halt — was splitting up. He’d sold his record store to former Oblivians bandmate and Goner Records founder Eric Friedl.

Cartwright’s wife was offered a job in Asheville not long after she had their daughter, the third of Cartwright’s three children. His wife’s parents live nearby, and, Cartwright says, “She really wanted that experience of being around her parents with their grandchild.” He’d heard that Asheville was a good place to raise a family, and he’d heard good things about the town’s music scene.

“Everything just seemed to kind of line up,” he says. “And I was into it.”

But during his decade in Asheville, Cartwright’s flown large-

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ly under the radar, at least locally.

He’s cut two full-length records with Reigning Sound: 2009’s Love and Curses and July’s Shattered, released on vaunted North Carolina label Merge Records. He’s reunited The Oblivians and made a record with The Parting Gifts, his collaboration with Coco Hames and Jem Cohen of The Ettes. He’s toured with embodiments of all of the above, playing seemingly everywhere but Western North Carolina.

Occasionally, Cartwright spins garage and soul obscurities at The Admiral; he’s recently been holding court on Wednesday nights at The Double Crown, spinning vintage country tunes. But Reigning Sound sightings have been few and far between. The band’s New Year’s Eve show at The Mothlight was its first local gig in three years.

Cartwright insists that scarcity isn’t

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HOME AWAY FROM HOME: “I think the move to Asheville has been great in so many ways,” says Greg Cartwright of Reigning Sound. “But it’s also made me really reflective about Memphis music, and the kind of music I grew up listening to and the records I like to look for.”

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a slight on Asheville; even in Memphis, Reigning Sound didn’t play very frequently.

For Reigning Sound, the issue is logistical. It’s long featured a rotating cast of supporting players, but Cartwright is the only member of the group’s current incarnation who lives in the South; the other four form the core of Brooklyn soul

revival act The Jay Vons. Writing songs, which Cartwright does at home, remains easy, he says. But the distance makes some of the procedural parts of band life, especially performing and recording, considerably difficult.

“Making time for practicing is really hard. If we all lived in the same town, it’s like, ‘OK, let’s practice Thursday,’” he says. “It takes a lot of navigating everyone’s schedule, trying to make time, trying to figure out whose turf we’re going to meet on.”

The upswing, Cartwright says, is that Reigning Sound operates at maximum efficiency. For Shattered, he wrote the songs at home and sent demos to his bandmates, rather than jamming through rough sketches until a song emerged. By the time he got to Brooklyn to record the tracks on the 1-inch eight-track tape machine in the Daptone Records

studio, the songs were fully and finely honed. “There are obvious limitations to working like that,” he says, “but those limitations can be really good and help you snap into focus and crack into what it is you really want to make.”

And in a way, Cartwright’s decade in North Carolina has snapped his songwriting into focus. “I think the move to Asheville has been great in so many ways,” he says. “But it’s also made me really reflective about Memphis music, and the kind of music I grew up listening to and the records I like to look for. Memphis made such a huge imprint on me that it’s something I always try to reflect in the albums.”

He adds, “Probably being that I’m not in Memphis anymore makes me more reflective.”

Shattered plays like a sampler of Memphis’ rich musical history, touching on the power-pop of Big Star, the greasy funk of Booker T. & the M.G.’s, the golden-age country of Sun Records

and the funky uptown soul of Stax.

As a result, the record jumps fluidly and casually between moods and styles, finding new spins on old forms. Opening power-R&B burner “North Cackalacky Girl” is immediately followed by the rainy, string-laden ballad “Never Coming Home.” Organ-driven soul cuts “Starting New” and “In My Dreams” are offset by wriggly raveups “You Did Wrong” and “Baby, It’s Too Late.”

What ties Shattered is Cartwright’s indelible songwriting gifts and his ability to make his songs come alive with his expressive voice. Indeed, the album features a particularly strong vocal performance from Cartwright. It’s a byproduct, he says, of an unexpected local influence: Unlike in Memphis, you can’t smoke in Asheville bars, which helps keep his voice healthy.

“I remember when they first started doing the smoking bans in different states, and I thought, ‘North Carolina is tobacco country. That’ll never fly here,’” he laughs. “But then it happened.” X

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by Toni Sherwood

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Hitting your mark The Actor’s Center of Asheville moves to Black Mountain Kevin Patrick Murphy’s New York roots are showing. The founder of The Actor’s Center of Asheville takes huge strides and talks fast — leftover traits from his previous home base. The actor began training in 1991 at the Studio Arena Theater School in Buffalo, N.Y., and has since worked in theater, commercials, television and film.

He even filmed a scene with Susan Sarandon for an upcoming release, The Last of Robin Hood.

But it’s also possible that Murphy’s brisk pace is because he’s excited. The Actor’s Center of Asheville, which previously held

classes at the BeBe Theater and Nourish & Flourish in the River Arts District, is unveiling its new location just outside Black Mountain.

A warehouse space in the Eastside Business Park (former site of the Drexel Heritage furniture plant) has been transformed. It now features a raised stage area, rows of cushioned chairs, plus lighting and camera equipment. There’s also an office area, as well as sofas for lounging.

On Saturday, July 26, the public can get a look at it all during the center’s open house party.

With a dedicated space (hence the move to Black Mountain, though the center will keep Asheville in its name), Murphy can expand class offerings and have the freedom to do more. Live performances, readings and even film screenings are all in the works.

The center’s focus, however, is on its ongoing classes, with many

WHAT’S YOUR MOTIVATION?: Kevin Patrick Murphy, founder of The Actor’s Center of Asheville, describes the center as a kind of gym — “You have to work the muscles,” he says. Photo by Kellin Watson

students studying with Murphy for years. The Monday adult class is filled with advanced students (many of whom have agents), while the Tuesday class is designed more for beginners. “I’ve seen a trend of musicians checking out acting,” Murphy notes. He also offers classes for teens as well as personal coaching.

“My job is to keep it exciting,” Murphy says about his work as a teacher and mentor. He doesn’t subscribe to any particular method or theory, although he’s studied them all. “I’m here to help you find your process, not impose one on you.

Acting is about finding the truth.”

Murphy describes The Actor’s Center of Asheville as a gym of sorts: “You have to work the muscles,” he says. Classes typically begin with improvisation. Students also work on audition material, hold mock auditions and bring in scene work.

About a year ago, actor Miles Rice needed some audition tapes, and Murphy coached him though the process. “After that we did some private lessons, then I joined his class,” Rice says. Last February, he won the role of Stanley Kowalski in Hendersonville Little Theatre’s production of A Streetcar Named Desire. Three months ago, Rice landed agent Rusty Wiggs of Artists Resource Agency. Teen actor Myles

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Moore, who has been working with Murphy for two years, recently signed with Tout Talent Agency.

Since Murphy is himself a working actor, he’s able to keep on top of trends in the constantly changing film industry. But signing with an agent, he says, is only the beginning. “Actors can get complacent waiting for their agent to get them work,” Murphy says. He believes they should identify their “castability” (the roles for which casting directors will most likely consider them) — and for good reason: In June, casting director Jackie Burch (Iron Man 3, The Hunger Games) visited the Actor’s Center of Asheville to meet students.

“I try to generate excitement every day,” Murphy says, “because it leads to more excitement.” X

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Weirdos R Us 23 Skidoo celebrates the Year of the Weird with a book and album launch

WHO Secret Agent 23 Skidoo with Lunch Money WHERE The Orange Peel, theorangepeel.net WHEN

In the Chinese zodiac, 2014 is the Year of the Horse. For the United Nations, it’s the Year of Family Farming and Crystallography. And, as designated by Partners in Amphibian and Reptile Conservation, it’s the Year of the Salamander. No stranger to celebrating diversity and creative thinking for all ages, Secret Agent 23 Skidoo honors these viewpoints and countless others in what he’s dubbed the Year of the Weird. Back at The Orange Peel on Sunday, July 27, for one of his esteemed family hip-hop shows, the longtime former Asheville resident brings with him a plethora of new offerings to ring in these 12 months of quirks. Among them his first official picture book and his latest album.

“As far as my North Star in kids entertainment, I think I have kind of a triple North Star: [Dr.] Seuss, [Shel] Silversteen and [Jim] Henson,” Skidoo says. “Musically, Henson ... and Silversteen, to a degree; writing style, Seuss and Silversteen.

Silversteen more than anyone. He was able to maintain a simultaneous

Want to make music with Secret Agent 23 Skidoo?

On Thursday, July 24, from 9 a.m.-4 p.m., children ages 8-12 are invited to a songwriting workshop at the Black Mountain Library. The program is limited to 23 participants, and preregistration is required by calling 250-4756. That evening, they’ll perform their creation with Skidoo at his show, part of the The Park Rhythms outdoor concert series at Lake Tomahawk in Black Mountain (7-9 p.m., free, info at avl.mx/0di).

Sunday, July 27, at 2:30 p.m. $8 advance, $10 day of show (kids under 3 are free)

career as a grown-up entertainer and a kid’s entertainer.”

When Skidoo’s daughter Saki was 3 years old, he wrote and illustrated a book for her called What It’s Like in the Stars and self-published it with a run of 1,000 copies.

Since then, he’d been contemplating a more professional follow-up and recruited Asheville graphic artist and food writer Stu Helm as a collaborator.

The story Skidoo concocted tells of Weirdo Calhoun, a boy who follows his oddball interests and inspires other kids to do the same. Skidoo gave it to his friend Allan Wolf, author of The Watch That Ends the Night, who took it to classes and had students read it aloud. The feedback was positive, but Wolf noted that the story read more as lyrics than as a book.

“When he said that, I thought, ‘Perfect: let’s make musical versions of it,’” Skidoo says.

And so, Weirdo Calhoun and the Odd Men Out comes with a CD that includes a hip-hop version with Skidoo rapping the story over a track with funk instrumentation from Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band; a bluegrass version by Snake Oil Medicine Show; and a bedtime story edition with Skidoo’s wife, Brooke, reading the words over muted horns by members of the Booty Band and lush strings by other local musicians.

Also included are karaoke versions of all three songs (“It’s my ultimate hope and challenge that parents will rap their kids to sleep and bluegrass-sing their kids to sleep,” Skidoo says), plus witty twists on a classic picture book/audio recording tenet. Like

FAMILY-FRIENDLY: Even though Secret Agent 23 Skidoo is based on the West Coast, he plans to continue collaborating with Asheville artists. “We have a shared history, and I love the flavor,” he says. “That’s the staple of my whole thing, a mutated genre thing.” Photo courtesy of the musician

the narrators of the book/vinyl combos from his youth, Skidoo instructs listeners on the bedtime story version that “when you hear the chimes, it’s time for the next page.” On the bluegrass version, however, a fiddle melody fills that role, and on the hip-hop cut, it’s Asheville producer and DJ Marley Carroll scratching on a record.

Continuing the book’s trend of Asheville collaborators, Skidoo’s sixth CD, The Perfect Quirk, is also a decidedly local record. Engineered

by Julian Dreyer at Echo Mountain Recording Studio and Jeff Knorr at Collapseable Studios, the album features such area artists as steel pannist Jonathan Scales, Adama Dembele and Matt Williams of Afropop group Zansa and the entire Booty Band.

Since Skidoo has called Nevada City, Calif., home for nearly two years, these continued Asheville partnerships may seem a bit odd, but when viewed as following his own advice and doing what’s right for him, they make perfect sense.

“We have a shared history, and I love the flavor,” he says. “It’s a real gumbo. There are so many scenes that are interrelated. There are funk guys here who can knock out

reggae and bluegrass guys who can do metal if they want to. That’s the staple of my whole thing, a mutated genre thing,” Skidoo says.

Though Skidoo is confident he will find musical partners on the West Coast, where he and his family plan on staying at least until Saki completes high school, he also says that he can’t imagine being in the studio with someone other than Dreyer. The pair’s bond is so tight that they’re starting a production team called Binary Starchild that will likely launch next year. What they’ll dub 2015, though, remains to be seen. X

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MEN IN MOTION: Free Flow wants everyone on their feet. “We’re not a sit-and-watch band,” says guitarist Lane Thaw. “Don’t hold up the wall.”

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Free Flow’s irresistable dance party The thing to know going into a Free Flow show is that, yes, that’s a drum machine. “Don’t get hung up on that,” says guitarist and vocalist Lane “LT” Thaw. “Get past it.”

The drum machine serves a specific purpose for the local R&B and funk band. Since most of the group’s catalog is covers (albeit recast in Free Flow’s signature style and often worked up to incorporate elements of three or four or five different songs), it’s important for a song to be recognizable. “We do songs from back in the ’80s when a lot of stuff was done with drum machine. It’s hard to replicate that with a live drummer,” says vocalist and keyboardist Kevin “Kazual” Collins. “I’m not knocking the live drummer, but when we do Prince’s ‘When Doves Cry,’ and I program that signature drum sound into the samplers, people know what it is right off the top.”

Back in the ’80s, there were only five or six drum machines being used, says Collins. A musician who knew his gear could place a particular drum

machine by ear. “With the inception of samplers, you knew where people got certain sounds from.

You can recognize a James Brown sample anywhere,” he says. “I don’t normally run loops. I deconstruct it, try to find out what sounds they used and go from there. There’s an art to sampling.”

Collins, who grew up in Asheville, had been in various bands with the same group of guys for years. He joked that they’d only ever play two shows — Bele Chere and Goombay — breaking up following Goombay and regrouping in time to start practicing for the next Bele Chere. About a decade ago, Collins formed Free Flow (with a friend who has since left the group) “to bring something different and do some stuff that people wouldn’t expect.” They quickly added fellow Asheville natives Roger “Li’l Rog” Ware on lead vocals and percussion and Darrel “BNote” Griffin on bass and vocals.

The band’s bio describes Griffin as the heartbeat of Free Flow. “He’s the heaviest-groove bass player ever,” says Thaw.

“Sometimes he even breaks my concentration, and I go, ‘What a deep pocket.’” Because of the hefty

bass part, Thaw names George Clinton’s “Atomic Dog” among his favorites that Free Flow performs.

But part of the magic of that selection is that Collins, on a dime, will work in a snippet from another song, or take the whole thing in an unexpected direction.

“Me and Darrell, we know a lot of old-school. He’ll hear a bass line in his head that’ll be in the same key as something that we’re doing, and I’ll say, ‘Oh, you want to go there,’ and I’ll follow. Or he’ll follow me,’” says Collins. He and Griffin go back to grade school.

Their chemistry comes from knowing each other for so long and “just having fun. We try to make it fun onstage.”

The band expects its audience to make it fun offstage, too. “We’re not a sit-and-watch band,” says Thaw. “Don’t hold up the wall.”

Originally from Brooklyn, he relocated to Asheville in the late ’90s and joined funk outfit Information Network. While Thaw calls Ray Kelly, that band’s drummer, “a big influence on me,” it’s Free Flow — which he joined in 2006 — that he describes as “the guardians of funk.”

Part of that is because the band draws fans from across generations and social groups. Over the Fourth of July holiday, Free Flow played the class reunion of two black segregated schools. The youngest of that group was in his late 60s, and everyone was still up dancing. Over the years, Free Flow has performed regularly at Tressa’s and the now-closed Magnolia’s; Pack’s Tavern is a new favorite room because the crowd can push back the tables and show off its best moves.

“We’ll pull in new material if we can make it fit in our genre,” Thaw says. Pharrell’s “Happy” is a recent addition to the set list, and at the Montford Music & Arts Festival in May, Free Flow did a version of “Get Lucky” that Daft Punk would likely approve of. But, the guitarist adds, “We’re also not afraid to play some old Temptations.” X

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Bobby Bare Jr. Bobby Bare Jr., son of Country Music Hall of Famer Bobby Bare, is touring in support of his latest release, Undefeated. The album is “10 songs of reality checks, clever wordplay and daring arrangement, the aural companion to that buddy who pulls up a barstool next to yours to help soak away your sorrows,” according to a press release. Many of the tracks on his latest are more rock ’n’ roll and roots than the strictly country sound one might expect. And despite being born into Nashville’s Music Row elite, it’s clear that Bare has blazed a path and style of songwriting all his own.

Bare will play a show at The Grey Eagle on Saturday, July 26, at 9 p.m. $10/$12. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins

Mates of State Husband-and-wife, indie-pop outfit Mates of State consistently challenge the perceived limitations of a two-piece with their effortless harmonies and minimal pop appeal. One reviewer describes the band as “two people playing complex songs that sound like five people playing a simple song.” Kori Gardner (keyboard/vocals) and Jason Hammel (drums/vocals) formed Mates of State in 1997 and have been carving out a name for themselves on the indie-rock scene ever since. The musicians move easily between softer songs tinged with melancholy to get-up-and-dance pop tunes. The duo perform at The Mothlight on Thursday, July 24, at 9:30 p.m. $15.

Asheville’s Doc Aquatic also plays. themothlight.com. Photo courtesy of the band

Safe & Sound “Helpmate could use a helping hand,” says the Facebook invite for an evening of music by Jeff Thompson, Vendetta Creme and Aaron Price. The local performers cross genres and styles: Thompson is a singer-songwriter and guitarist, Price a multi-instrumentalist with a knack for clever piano-pop, and Vendetta Creme is the jazz and cabaret project of Price and vocalist Kelly Barrow. All of which adds up to a wide array of song styles — a celebration in and of itself — but the concert is also a benefit for domestic violence agency and crisis-level services provider Helpmate. The organization has assisted Buncombe County victims of domestic violence and their children for more than 30 years. Safe & Sound is held at The Altamont Theatre on Saturday, July 26, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free, donations are encouraged. thealtamont.com. Photo of Price by Frank Zipperer

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The novel has been named a NCIBA Spring Rep Pick and a Best Summer Book for 2014 by Publishers Weekly. Taylor will read, discuss and sign her book at Malaprop’s on Wednesday, July 30, at 7 p.m. Free. malaprops.com. Photo courtesy of the author

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MUSIC SONG O’ SKY CHORUS (pd.) Tuesday 6:45-9:30 PM Song O’ Sky Chorus Calvary Baptist Church (Chandler Center), 531 Haywood Road, 28806. Asheville’s only a capella barbershop-style chorus! We welcome all women who love to sing! www. songosky.org or (866) 824-9547 Parking available behind the church.

ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • TU (7/29), 7pm - Mozart sonatas for piano and violin featuring Brevard Music Center’s Carolyn Huebl and Craig Nies.

THE UNSEEN, SEEN: “Semantic saturation” is a term for the process through which repetition of a word or phrase causes it to temporarily lose any meaning. It’s certainly an abstract concept to represent visually, but Chicago-based artist Brian T. Leahy will try to do just that in his show Drifting Toward the Names of Things which runs at Urban Dharma beginning July 25.

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AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-8504, acofhc.org • WE (7/23), 3:30-5pm - Grant-writing workshop for artists. Registration required.

HANDMADE IN AMERICA 125 S Lexington Ave #101, 252-0121, handmadeinamerica.org • TH (7/31) through TU (8/19) - Exhibition of glass works by John Almaguer at Beverly-Hanks Discovery Center, 1 Town Square Blvd. Opening reception: TH (7/31), 5:30-7:30pm.

RIVERLINK EVENTS 252-8474, riverlink.org Held at 170 Lyman St., unless otherwise noted.

• TH (7/24), 10am-noon - Interactive session: “How to be a City Art Contractor.” Held at 170 Lyman St. Registration required.

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

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BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 349 Andante Ln., Brevard, 862-2100, brevardmusic.org • WE (7/23), 7:30pm - Brevard Camerata. $20.

• FR (7/25), 7:30-9:30pm - Mozart and Mahler: The program includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter” and Mahler’s fourth symphony, featuring soprano Ilana Davidson. $15 to $50.

• SA (7/26), 2-4pm - Janiec Opera Company: Sister Carrie final showing.

This year’s Opera In A Box will be the new opera, Sister Carrie, by Grammywinning composer Robert Aldridge. $40.

• SU (7/27), 3-5pm - Keith Lockhart directs his final concert of the season as he leads a performance of Dvorák’s Symphony No. 8. $15-$40.

• SU (7/27), 7-9pm - Piano competition finals. Piano students take the stage to compete for the top spot in annual piano competition. $10.

• WE (7/30), 7:30-9pm - Chamber music

by Franz Schubert performed in Searcy Hall. $20.

• TH (7/31), 7:30-9:30pm - Janiec Opera Company presents Sweeney Todd. $40.

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

CRADLE OF FORESTRY Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 8773130, cradleofforestry.org • SU (7/27), 4-5:30pm - Palmetto Gravel Snatchers perform. The Songcatchers Music Series showcases acoustic music with roots in the Southern Appalachians. $6/$3 for 15 & under.

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY • Through (8/16) - Applications will be accepted for the N.C. Arts Council Regional Artist Project. Open to artists in Henderson, Polk, and Transylvania counties. Contact for guidelines. Held at 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville

GROOVIN’ ON GROVEMONT 250-6486, Groovin@iLoveTheLibrary.org • TU (7/1), 6pm - Groovemont Players perform variety of music. Held at Grovemont Square, 101 W Charleston Ave, Swannanoa

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

• Through SA (8/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Literary Fiction Contest, stories of 5000 words or less. $25. Contact for guidelines.

• Through WE (7/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the Hard Times Essay Contest, describing a difficult personal experience in 5000 words or less. $25. Contact for guidelines.

HENDERSONVILLE’S MUSIC ON MAIN STREET 693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (7/25), 7-9pm - Sound Investment covers songs of the ‘60s and ‘70s.

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PARK RHYTHMS CONCERT SERIES 669-8610 Held at Lake Tomahawk Park Pavilion, 401 S. Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain.

• TH (7/24), 6-9pm - Secret Agent 23 Skidoo, family hip-hop. Free.

• FRIDAYS, 6-9pm - Asheville-based One Leg Up. Free.

ST. THOMAS EPISCOPAL CHURCH 372 Reservoir Rd., Burnsville, 682-0037, stthomasonline.org • SU (7/27), 5pm - Concert featuring Celtic and Appalachian old-time music. $10.

SUMMER MUSIC SERIES ON THE NANTAHALA RIVER 488-7185, noc.com Held at Nantahala Outdoor Center, 13077 Hwy. 19 West, Bryson City • FR (7/25), 6pm - Positive Mental Attitude performs reggae and rock.

• SA (7/26), 6pm - Somebody’s Child performs.

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

TIGG’S POND RETREAT CENTER 111 Fiddlehead Lane, Zirconia, 697-0680, tiggspondretreatcenter.com • TU (7/29), 7-9pm - Brother Sun launches “Stand on the Side of Love Coffee House,” a music series. $20. Tickets and info: 6970680.

THEATER 2ND STAGE THEATRE Washington St., Hendersonville, hendersonvillelittletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/27) Art. Fri.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 2pm. $12.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/24) until (8/24) - Miss Saigon. Wed.-Sat.: 8pm; Thu., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $40.

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

MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (7/26), 7:30pm - Tartuffe. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. SART - SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN REPERTORY THEATRE Owen Theatre Mars Hill University, Mars Hill, 689-1384, sartplays.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/3) - Promises. Thu.-Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.:2:30pm. $26.56.

GALLERY DIRECTORY

ANANDA 22 Broadway, 232-1017, anandahair.com • Through SA (8/2) - A Retrospective, sculpture and ceramics by R. N. Grinnell/Banister.

ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery. com • Through SU (7/27) - Evolution of the Landscape, works by William Vandever, Jo Ridge Kelley and Ranoma Bronkar Bannavan.

• TU (7/29) through SU (8/31) - Life in Motion, featuring works by Alyson Markell and Kenn Kotara.

ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (9/7) - Dox Thrash, An American Journey: Georgia to Philadelphia, print works.

• ONGOING - Community, featuring the work of Sharon Louden.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegalleryof-art.com • Through TU (7/31) - World’s Apart, works

by Peggy Horne Taylor.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (7/25) through FR (9/12) - Carolina through my Lens features photographs by Joye Ardyn Durham.

RED HOUSE STUDIOS AND GALLERY 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 699-0351, svfalarts.org • Through (7/28) - People, Places and Things, works by Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League members.

SILVER FOX GALLERY & INTERIORS 508 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 698-0601, silverfoxonline.com • FR (7/25) through WE (8/27) - Wooden sculptures by Mark Gardner. Artist’s reception: July 25, 5pm.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts. org • Through FR (8/15) - Works by artists of Burlingame Country Club. Opening reception: July 25, 7-9pm.

URBAN DHARMA 29 Page Ave., 225-6422, udharmanc.com • FR (7/25) through FR (10/31) - Exhibition: Drifting Toward the Names of Things, featuring works on paper by Brian T. Leahy. Opening reception: July 25, 6-8pm.

YMI CULTURAL CENTER 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • Through WE (8/27) - Cash Crop, life-size sculptures of slaves during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. $6/12th grade and younger free.

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

CAROLINA CINEMAS 1640 Hendersonville Rd., 274-9500, carolinacinemas.com/asheville • Through SA (7/27) - Paintings and illustrations by Trek 6, Ishmael, Ted Harper, Topr, Melt FTK, Big Bertha and Gus Cutty.

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CITY BAKERY 60 Biltmore Ave., 252-4426, citybakery.net • Through SU (8/31) - Pop Gun, photography Sandlin Gaither.

MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • Through MO (9/1) - Bits and Pieces, sculptures by Raven Tata. Artist’s reception: August 2, 5pm.

MISSION FOR TEMPORAL ART 68 N. Main St., Marshall, 917-650-7321, themissionfortemporalart.blogspot.com • Through (7/27) - The Luminous Surface, channel video and audio visual works PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject. com • Through SU (8/31) - Screen prints, stickers and other works by California artist Bigfoot.

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C L U B L A N D CORK & KEG Honey Swamp Stompers (country, blues, jug-band), 8pm

WEDNESDAY, JULY 23 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ Steelin’ Time (Western swing), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm

CROW & QUILL Lunar Creature, Curtains & Delta Quadrant (experimental, electronic loops), 9pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Dave Desmelik songwriting event, 9pm

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

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Gratifly pre-party w/ Erothyme, Plantrae & Biomigrant (electronic, IDM), 10pm

ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Paul Edelman (Americana, indie-folk), 6pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Buncombe County Boys (bluegrass), 7pm

GOOD STUFF Kristen Ford (indie-rock, folk), 7pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic w/ Billy Owens, 7pm

HAVANA RESTAURANT Open mic (instruments provided), 8pm

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

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL On the Patio: Laid Back Thursdays w/ Ram Mandlekorn, Simon George & Jon DeLeon (jazz, reggae, funk), 7pm Locust Honey CD release w/ The Overmountain Men (old-time, bluegrass, blues), 8:15pm

CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm EMERALD LOUNGE Blues jam, 8pm GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, folk), 5:30pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Acoustic on the Patio w/ Taylor Martin & friends, 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm

MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm NEW MOUNTAIN Dynohunter w/ Swimwear (electronic), 9pm NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

LEX 18 The Roaring Lions (jazz), 7:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lessons, 7pm 3 Cool Cats Band (vintage rock ‘n’ roll), 8pm

MOE’S ORIGINAL BAR-B-QUE Garry Segal (blues), 6pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR The Groove Orient w/ Travers Brothership (rock, blues, funk), 10pm

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm LEX 18 MichaelJohnJazz (smooth jazz), 9:30pm LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 7pm MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

ODDITORIUM GirlsRock story night (early) w/ Act of Impalement, Van Hagar, MRSA & Beasts of Legend (late), 9pm

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

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MISTY MOUNTAIN MUSIC: Self-described freak-folk, fairy-rock Asheville band Brief Awakening will headline a show at TallGary’s Cantina downtown on Friday, Aug. 1. According to the band’s Facebook page, they are “a tribe of fairy creatures who can only effectively communicate through song and dance. Mandolin, alto-sax, ethereal vocals, synth, heart drums and harmonious overtones swirl, bubble and trail wherever Brief Awakening wanders.”

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

NEW MOUNTAIN Earphunk w/ The Hornitz (jam, prog-funk), 8pm

URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm

ODDITORIUM Sisterwives & JW Teller (pop, folk), 9pm

VINCENZO’S BISTRO Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Pop the Clutch Band (Motown, blues, swing), 7:30pm

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesday w/ J LUKE, 6pm

THURSDAY, JULY 24 185 KING STREET Blues jam w/ Riyen Roots, 8pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR The Trey Trial Phinals (try-outs for The Duke of Lizards), 6pm Sarah Burns w/ Disc-Oh & more (electronic), 10pm ORANGE PEEL Black Label Society w/ Wovenwar & Kyng (heavy metal), 8pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Wilhelm Brothers (folk, Americana), 6pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm

SKY CITY BBQ Local music showcase (folk, bluegrass), 8:30pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Movie night (viewer’s choice), 8pm

SLY GROG LOUNGE Open mic, 7pm

ARTISAN CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Paula Hanke & Tony Godwin (jazz, pop), 7pm

POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bombassic w/ Peripheral, Shuhandz & more (electronic, IDM), 10pm

PURPLE ONION CAFE Phil & Gaye Johnson, 7:30pm

THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Release AVL w/ Dam Good & guests (dance party), 9pm TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

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ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY Asher Leigh (conscious lyrics), 6pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Karaoke, 9pm BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 8pm

PACK’S TAVERN Ashli Rose (indie, acoustic), 9pm

RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL TLQ + 3 (rock, blues), 6:30pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SKY CITY BBQ Open music stage, 8:30pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons, 7am

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Todd Hoke & Paul Songy (folk, Americana), 6pm

BUFFALO NICKEL Jeff Thompson & The Outliars (alt-rock, jazz), 9pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Mates of State w/ Doc Aquatic (indierock), 9:30pm

THE PHOENIX Sean Austin Leanord (Americana, folk), 8pm THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm TIMO’S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum ‘n’ Bass Collective, 9pm TOWN PUMP Steph Stewart & The Boyfriends (Americana), 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Haints in the Holler (folk, indie-rock), 6pm GOOD STUFF The Reid Family Band, 8pm Dendera Bloodbath (experimental, gothic, darkwave), 9pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm

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STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Summerfest w/ Circus Mutt & Jamboogie Band (rock, funk), 6pm TALLGARY’S CANTINA The Zealots (classic rock), 9:30pm THE MOTHLIGHT Bask w/ Zombie Queen, Navajo Witch & Earth Mover (psychedelic, punk, fuzz-rock), 9pm

URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm

GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Bethany Lindemann (singer-songwriter, indie-pop), 6:30pm

VINCENZO’S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Shazam (pop, rock), 6:30pm

WESTVILLE PUB The Saturday Giant (art-rock), 9:30pm

IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 7pm

WILD WING CAFE Thirsty Thursday w/ Ryan Sheley Trio, 7pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Cordovas (alt-rock), 9pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Banger III: Harry Darnell, DJ Mallinali, DJ Ruger P (dance, top 40), 10pm

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH DJ Josh Michaels, 6pm Ben Shuster, 8pm

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

TOWN PUMP Hard Rocket (rock), 9pm

LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens & Wendy Jones (jazz), 7:30pm The Roaring Lions (jazz), 11pm

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Spotlight w/ the Patrick Dodd Band, 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues, soul), 10pm

FRIDAY, JULY 25 185 KING STREET Marcus King Band (rock), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR French Broad Playboys (Western swing), 9pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Brad Carter (old-time), 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL David Gans w/ Spongecake & The Fluff Ramblers (jam, rock, blues), 10pm ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY Steve Karla (gypsy jazz), 5:30pm ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm BREVARD BREWING COMPANY Terina Plyer (singer-songwriter, indie), 7pm

LOBSTER TRAP Buncombe County Boys (folk), 7pm MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm METRO WINES Stand up comedy w/ Disclaimer Comedy, 7pm NEW MOUNTAIN Lettuce w/ Asheville Horns (funk), 9pm NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Dulítel DJ (indie, electronic), 10:30pm

THE PHOENIX Todd Cecil & Backsouth (cigar-box, swamp rock), 9pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Dr. Filth (soul, psych, punk), 10pm

VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WHITE HORSE Peggy Ratusz (blues, jazz), 8pm WILD WING CAFE Alec & Jaqui, 9pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

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NOBLE KAVA Steve Karla (gypsy jazz, jam), 8:30pm

185 KING STREET Rolling Nowhere (country, folk, rock), 8pm

ODDITORIUM Telecine, Ebony Eyes & The Poles (rock), 9pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Gary Mackey (fiddle), 6pm Lyric (funk, soul), 9pm

OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Water Seed (funk, soul, jam), 10pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm ANDREWS BREWING CO. Husky Burnette (blues, rock), 6pm

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

ORANGE PEEL Listen to This: It’s Okay, I’m With The Band (“stories from the edge of the stage”), 8pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL A.A.R.C. after-party w/ D&D Sluggers, Press B, The Last Wordbenders & FTW Burlesque (nerdcore, hip-hop), 10pm

CORK & KEG Asheville Aces (pre-war electric blues), 8:30pm

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

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ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE The Mug (blues, boogie-rock), 9pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Bob Zullo, 7pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Radiance Quartet (Latin jazz), 7pm CORK & KEG Buddy Davis & The Session Players (honkytonk, classic country), 8:30pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Lil Lorruh (50s, 60s R&B, rock), 10pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM The Gravelys (Americana, rock, alt-country), 6pm GOOD STUFF Tall Boys (rock), 9pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Elise Pratt & Mike Holstein (jazz), 6:30pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Ale Share Beer Fest, 1pm IRON HORSE STATION Barb Turner (R&B), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL On the Patio: Steph Stewart & The Boyfriends (Americana), 7pm

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB John the Conqueror w/ The Darnell Boys (rock, blues), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens Trio (modern jazz), 7:30pm The Kings County Lighthouse (downbeat DJ, jazz, improv), 11pm

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SUNDAY, JULY 27 PURPLE ONION CAFE Gigi Dover & Big Love, 8pm ROOT BAR NO. 1 Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz), 9pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Carolina Rex (blues, rock), 8pm STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Summerfest w/ The Mug, Duke & Family Band, BullFeather, Black Robin Hero & Chalwa (mixed genres), 6pm

185 KING STREET Sunday Funday, 12pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Big Nasty (hot jazz), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Jazz brunch w/ Mike Gray Trio, 11:30am BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Karaoke & brunch, 2pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7pm BYWATER Asheville Music School Rock Band, 2pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Jordan Ockrend (classic rock), 9:30pm

DOUBLE CROWN Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

GOOD STUFF Passerine (folk), 5pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Reigning Sound w/ Spider Bags & Telly Savalas Live (garage-punk, rock), 9:30pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Cajun Dance with Jackomo, 7pm

THE PHOENIX Sister Mary w/ Judas Brooks (modern mountain music), 1pm THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR DJ Devyl’s Hands (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Island Fever: Disc-Oh! & Knock Brothers (reggae, dance hall), 9pm TOWN PUMP Andy Vaughn (country, honky-tonk), 9pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

HI-WIRE BREWING Chris Smith (singer-songwriter), 5pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Zip the Hippo (rock), 2pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Jazz showcase, 6pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm Quinn DeVeaux & The Blue Beat Revue, 9pm LEX 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (barrelhouse piano), 12pm MichaelJohnJazz & friends (smooth jazz), 7:30pm

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NEW MOUNTAIN “Local Color Live” w/ Jeff Thompson, The River Rats & Lenny Pettinelli, 5pm

185 KING STREET Monday Night Laughs (stand-up comedy), 8pm

ODDITORIUM Borrowed Arts, Comet West & Wyla (rock), 9pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jeff Thompson Trio (soul, rock), 8pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Shag & swing lesson w/ John Dietz, 7pm DJ Michael Filippone (beach, swing, ballroom, rock), 8pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am FreeSessions (open mic, freestyle experiment), 8pm ORANGE PEEL Secret Agent 23 Skidoo w/ Lunch Money (kids, hip-hop), 2pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY BlueSunday w/ Garry Segal (blues), 5pm STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Summerfest w/ Jay Brown, Miriam Allen, Letters to Abigail & Circus Mutt (mixed genres), 6pm THE MOTHLIGHT The Toothe (folk-rock) w/ Honey Locust, The Restoration and Fishing for Tigers, 9pm THE PHOENIX Jazz brunch w/ Jason Decristofaro, 12pm THE SOCIAL ‘80s night, 8pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm

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Fried chicken and waffles, a full bar and a great space to gather THE MOTHLIGHT Lords of Chicken Hill (punk) w/ Miss Mousy & The Rigamarole, Village of Spaces, 9:30pm THE PHOENIX Mike Sweet (acoustic rock), 8pm THE SOCIAL Hartford bluegrass jam w/ Ben Saylor, 8pm TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lil Lorruh & David Wayne Gay, 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Dance party (dance, top 40s), 9pm TOWN PUMP Bodyface (rock), 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7pm Ruby Mayfield & The Friendship Train (blues, soul), 10pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (old-time piano, vocals), 5:30pm WESTVILLE PUB Trivia night, 8pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH The Happy Brothers w/ Cole Mountain Cloggers (bluegrass), 6pm

TUESDAY, JULY 29 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (swing, jazz), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Bluegrass Tuesday, 8pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Trivia, 7pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7pm BUFFALO NICKEL Trivia night, 7pm CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Dance, 8:30pm CORK & KEG Honkytonk jam w/ Tom Pittman & friends, 6:30pm DOUBLE CROWN Punk ‘n’ roll w/ DJs Sean & Will, 10pm GOOD STUFF Celtic Night, 7pm

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 30 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ The Buncombe County Boys (bluegrass), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm BEN’S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Buncombe County Boys (bluegrass), 7pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7pm BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm EMERALD LOUNGE Blues jam, 8pm GOOD STUFF The Saturday Giant (indie, pop), 7:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Bob Log III (slide guitar) w/ The Pork Torta, 9pm GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, folk), 5:30pm

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LEX 18 Steve Karla & Phil Alley (gypsy swing), 7:30pm

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THE SOCIAL Karaoke, 9:30pm

MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN THIRST PARLOUR Sean & Will (classic punk, power pop, rock), 10pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Pop the Clutch Band (Motown, blues, swing), 7:30pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Release AVL w/ Dam Good & guests (dance party), 9pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish ‘n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm The Royal Noise (funk), 10pm

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Shane Pruitt Band (blues, soul, rock), 9pm

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

POSH BAR Acoustic jam, 6pm

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesday w/ J LUKE, 6pm

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LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 7pm

VINCENZO’S BISTRO Aaron Luka (piano, vocals), 7pm

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URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm

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PULP Slice Of Life Comedy Open Mic, 9pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Jay Brown, 7:30pm RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL Chris Smith (acoustic, alt-country), 6:30pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB Dance party, 10pm SKY CITY BBQ Open music stage, 8:30pm

185 KING STREET Brevard Music Center presents Joe Lulloff, 8pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Chris Titchner (singer-songwriter, acousticrock), 7pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm

THE PHOENIX Naren (singer-songwriter), 8pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm

THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Drayton & The Dreamboats, 9pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum ‘n’ Bass Collective, 9pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Visionarium: Drumspyder w/ Splynter & DJ Story (dance, electronic), 10pm

TOWN PUMP The Saturday Giant (one-man, art-rock), 9pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Karaoke, 9pm

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm

BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 8pm

URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7pm BOGART’S RESTAURANT & TAVERN Eddie Rose & Highway Forty (bluegrass), 6:30pm CORK & KEG Honey Swamp Stompers (country, blues, jugband), 8pm

VINCENZO’S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (piano, vocals), 7pm WESTVILLE PUB Andy Ferrell & Oncoming Train (Southern roots, Americana), 9:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH DJ MoTo, 8pm

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Venus in Fur

FRIDAY, JULY 25 THURSDAY, JULY 31

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DIRECTOR: Roman Polanski PLAYERS: Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric

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DRAMA WITH COMEDIC ELEMENTS RATED NR THE STORY: A seemingly completely inappropriate actress goes out of her way to convince a writer-director that she should star in his new play.

THE LOWDOWN: Brilliant, bold filmmaking from a great filmmaker, who proves that at 80, he can still be at the top of his game. It’s funny and perceptive and maybe a little terrifying — and just a great, great movie.

Venus in Fur is not only in the very top tier of 2014 releases, but — on three viewings — I’m inclined to place it in the top six films Roman Polanski has made.

It’s witty, perceptive, penetrating, beautifully made, ties in with other Polanski works and feels like one of the filmmaker’s most personal films. Of course, casting his wife, Emmanuelle Seigner, in the lead opposite an actor, Mathieu Amalric, who is a dead ringer for the Polanski of 35 or 40 years ago, it’s hard for it not to feel personal. (This was not the first time Polanski cast a similar-looking younger man in a role he’d aged out of. He did it with Cris Campion in 1986’s Pirates, a film in which Polanski had intended to co-star years earlier.) Plus, the film has elements of identity and gender transference — the former recalling The Ghost Writer (2010) and both recalling The Tenant (1976).

There are moments of sexual role-

EMMANUELLE SEIGNER and MATHIEU AMALRIC in Roman Polanski’s wildly entertaining, wickedly perceptive Venus in Fur.

playing that might be out of Bitter Moon (1992). There’s also at least a hint of The Ninth Gate (1999) in the character played by Seigner. Do you have to know these things to enjoy Venus in Fur? Most assuredly not, but they help to place the film in the larger context of Polanski’s work.

The film is deceptive in its apparent simplicity. On the surface, it’s the story of an actress, Vanda Jourdain (Seigner), trying to convince playwright Thomas Novachek (Amalric) that she should play the lead in his new play. She arrives late, more or less in a flash of lightning with the storm that’s raging outside. There’s no one in the theater but Novachek — already in a foul mood from a day’s worth of bad actresses. Vanda is dressed very inappropriately in something Kathleen Turner might have worn in one of the kinkier bits of role-playing as a hooker in Ken Russell’s Crimes of Passion (1984) — something I suspect is not coincidental. None of this improves Novachek’s mood, though he’s thrown when it turns out she has the same first name as the character in his play.

Otherwise, everything that could be wrong with Vanda for the role is

wrong. She’s crass, vulgar, horrifyingly modern and generally as far from an 1870 Austrian woman of quality as possible. She also insists the play is S&M porn — a point she thinks is proved in that it’s adapted from a book by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, from whose name the term “masochism” was derived.

Without meaning to, Novachek finds himself not only auditioning her, but playing opposite her — on a set left over from a failed musicial adaptation of Stagecoach.

Like Vanda, it’s all wrong, and yet it — and its absurdly phallic cactus (which also ironically doubles for a statue of Venus) — works.

As things progress, it becomes clear that Vanda is a lot less dumb than she pretends. This starts early on when she knows how to work the lighting board to set the mood for the play. Soon it’s apparent that she is well versed in both the play’s script and her character — and she’s not exactly happy with either. She views it all as sexist and constantly reduces Novachek’s high-flying notions to simplistic terms, suggesting that the whole thing is him working out his own fantasies. (Some of this cuts awfully close to the bone

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with the filmmaker in question.) The line between the characters in his play and playwright and actress becomes ever more indistinct, to a point where it’s hard to separate the two — and where it may not matter all that much.

You quickly forget that the film only has two characters — not in the least because their identities are so slippery, but mostly because it’s so stunningly played and handled. The dialogue and the performances are electric. The surprises and revelations keep coming.

The cinematic technique is so bold and creative that it’s at once great theater and great cinema. And then there are the various levels on which the film works. It’s a theater piece, a critical piece, a battle of the sexes comedy, a serious inquiry into sexual relations, it’s about art and artifice — and more.

That more is difficult to talk about without saying too much. Oddly, I’ve seen no critic address this aspect, yet it seems a key element to me. All I’ll say is that we’re given clues to it from the very first — and I mean that literally.

When you watch the film, bear its first line in mind. I really can’t recommend Venus in Fur too highly. Yes, it’s in French, and you have to read subtitles, but they’re subtitles well worth reading. This is quite simply great filmmaking from a great filmmaker. I don’t think there is a single false note in it.

Not Rated but contains sexuality, adult themes, language and nudity.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

A Most Wanted Man HHHH DIRECTOR: Anton Corbijn (The American) PLAYERS: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Grigoriy Dobrygin, Nina Hoss, Robin Wright ESPIONAGE DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: Complex espionage tale involving a refugee, an inheritance and warring factions of counter-terrorist agencies.

THE LOWDOWN: More cerebral than exciting, A Man Most Wanted presents an unromantic and penetrating look into the world of modern espionage.

It wants to be more than it is, but it’s still good and contains a strong performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman.

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I went to Anton Corbijn’s A Most Wanted Man almost completely cold. I knew who made it. I knew it starred Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I knew it was based on a John le Carré novel. That was it. Oh, I knew it had been well reviewed, but I had read none of those. What I found was a good movie straining rather desperately to be a great one — and battling a few bad choices in the process. It’s essentially a Cold War spy story that takes place in a post-Cold War age.

Le Carré’s point seems to be that the difference between espionage and bargaining in the Cold War and that found in the “war on terror” is minimal. The author once described his Cold War spies as a “mostly aging, weary, unromantic lot, prone to distressing stomach ailments,” and the professionals here fit the same description. It’s an interesting approach to post9/11 counter-terrorism that results in an intelligent and mostly intelligently crafted film. Whether it makes for terrifically exciting moviegoing may be another matter.

For me, at least, it’s a sometimes yes, sometimes no answer. The often unbridled energy of Philip Seymour Hoffman makes it seem more intense than it probably is.

Hoffman plays Gunter Bachmann, a man who runs a secret anti-terrorism agency in Hamburg. He very much plays by the rules of Cold War pragmatism and is more inclined to bide his time in the belief that it’s better to land a big fish than a small one. The problem with this approach is that it doesn’t sit well with Dieter Mohr (Rainer Bock), the by-the-book, arrest-happy head of Hamburg intelligence. It’s essentially the difference between a patient man and one interested in immediate gratification. Given le Carré’s background, it’s no surprise that the story favors Bachmann’s approach.

The point of contention between the two here is young half-Chechen, half-Russian refugee Issa Karpov (Grigoriy Dobrygin). Karpov — having been imprisoned and tortured in his own countries — finds some support in an Islamic household in Hamburg and representation through human rights lawyer, Annabel Richter (Rachel McAdams), who promises to help the young man claim a hefty inheritance. The problem is that Karpov has been classified as an escaped jihadist. Not surprisingly, Mohr wants to arrest him. Bachmann has other, much

HHHHH = max rating more elaborate ideas. Thereby hangs the drama that becomes increasingly complex — to the point that it’s not entirely clear what’s going on until the film’s final stretch.

In the main, the film works, despite the fact that it appeals more to the viewer’s intellect than his or her emotions.

It’s almost entirely cerebral and devoid of both the stylishness and dry sense of humor found in Tomas Alfredson’s 2011 film of le Carré’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. A Most Wanted Man rarely cracks a smile, and this is not really in its favor. Also of doubtful merit is the choice of having Hoffman, McAdams and Willem Dafoe affect vague German accents. It’s not only distracting, but the decision to downplay the accents makes you wonder why they bothered.

The film could have also done with less ragged hand-held camera, which, despite what might be thought, really doesn’t lean a sense of immediacy to the proceedings.

All in all, however, A Most Wanted Man is a good, intellectually engaging film. Despite the dodgy accents, the three “movie star” leads — Hoffman, McAdams, Dafoe — give compelling performances. Hoffman is particularly strong, managing to suggest both the complexity and barely contained mix of rage and world-weariness of Bachmann. As a posthumous showcase for the actor, it is certainly superior to the disappointing God’s Pocket.

It is worth seeing for Hoffman alone, but most of the cast is excellent. Just remember, the last thing you’d call the film is “action packed.” Rated R for language.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Planes: Fire & Rescue S DIRECTOR: Bobs Gannaway PLAYERS: (Voices of) Dane Cook, Ed Harris, Julie Bowen, Curtis Armstrong, Hal Holbrook ANIMATED TEDIUM RATED PG THE STORY: A racing champion crop duster goes to fire and rescue school.

THE LOWDOWN: Even by the none-too-exacting standards of kiddie fare these days, this is just dire. It isn’t funny. It isn’t exciting. It ought to have gone straight-to-DVD — assuming it had to go anywhere.

Watching Planes: Fire & Rescue is like being trapped in a revolving door of mediocrity, and it offers further proof (if that was needed) that Disney is only in it for the money it can siphon from the wallets of unwary parents. If the volubly restless small children at the showing I attended were any indication, even 4-year-olds won’t have it. You know things are not going well when a tot of approximately that age asks his father, “Do we have to watch the rest of it?” I shared that boy’s pain. Unfortunately, there was no one to whom I could pose his question. I was stuck — and it seemed interminable. The “best” thing about the experience was how much it made me enjoy The Purge: Anarchy, which I saw immediately afterward.

I am similarly stuck in trying to find anything to say about Planes: Fire & Rescue. Well, it fulfills the promise of its title in that it manages to include everything stated in its name. I didn’t see the last year’s Planes (and I have no intention of correcting that gap in my cinematic education), but I gather that it also — like the Pixar Cars movies this franchise rips off — takes place in a world where human beings, and indeed any organic creatures, simply do not exist. Yes, I know, this is a fantasy aimed at credulous children (very credulous children), but not only does this raise all manner of questions about mechanical sexuality, conjugality and propagation, but it’s just downright weird. Moreover, late in the film when our hero, Dusty Crophopper (Dane Cook), is told to think about all the lives he won’t save if he quits, I couldn’t help thinking, “Hey, there’s nothing in this movie that’s actually alive.” Am I overthinking this thing? Oh, certainly, but if the movie had been any damned good my mind wouldn’t have wandered into this area.

If you’re insistent on knowing about the plot — why I cannot imagine — it has something to do with champion racer Dusty suffering from gearbox dysfunction (and, of course, they don’t make his kind anymore), which somehow causes him to accidentally burn down part of an airport. This, in turn, causes him to go to fire and rescue school where life lessons will be learned and virtue rewarded — you know, fantasy. The whole thing is more

mechanical than its characters. The jokes are corny and largely unfunny.

The drama is dull. Even at 83 minutes, the story is so thin that it has to be padded with musical intrusions to eat up time. That it looks pretty good — in a perfunctory, computer-animated manner — doesn’t really help. The only cure for this is to watch something else.

Rated PG for action and some peril.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grane, United Artists Beaucatcher. reviewed by Ken Hanke

Sex Tape S DIRECTOR: Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher) PLAYERS: Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, Rob Lowe RAUNCHY COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: A married couple accidentally lets their raunchy sex tape escape into the outside world.

THE LOWDOWN: A flatly directed, wholly unfunny R-rated comedy that’s devoid of edge, laughs or even titillation.

You would think some sort of social contract would exist where a movie called Sex Tape might, you know, be sexy. Or at least not drain all the fun out of the premise, turning the simple idea of sex into something exhaustingly tedious and droll. Dig a little deeper and this should come as no surprise, since Sex Tape reassembles the talents of Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel and director Jake Kasdan, last seen drowning audiences in faux edginess with Bad Teacher (2011).

Despite Bad Teacher just climbing over the $100 million mark, one might wonder who, exactly, was clamoring for this reformation and who thought sinking $40 million into its production was a smart bet. My best guess is that being Lawrence Kasdan’s spawn and Hollywood being some elaborate, confusing Ponzi scheme has much to do with it. Regardless, the results aren’t pretty.

The idea of building a movie around Cameron Diaz’s bare ass and a little bit of side boob in the year 2014 isn’t the most financially savvy of moves.

But Sex Tape’s faults go beyond its reliance on base sexual excitement. Actually, the movie would probably be better — or at least more interesting — if it were smut.

At least the chances of accidental laughs might be higher. No, Sex Tape wants to be adult. It wants to be funny and outrageous and raunchy. And it’s none of these things.

Instead, it’s tedious and contrived and more than a bit stupid.

The film is built around the marriage of vapid mommy blogger Annie (Diaz) and Jay (Segel), who lament the loss of their sex life. So, with their kids off with a babysitter, the two decide to spice things up and make a sex tape that accidentally gets disseminated to a bunch of strangers. As a premise, this is fine, but the film builds this up in the most insipid ways. We are supposed to believe that Jay is a man with so many iPads that he constantly gives them away, and the video ends up getting accidentally uploaded onto all of them remotely. I can’t even wrap my mind around the three people who wrote the movie, the director, the actors and producers thinking a movie hinged on some guy fobbing iPads onto unsuspecting strangers is somehow a functional plot device. What world do these people live in?

The movie acts like little more than an Apple commercial, with everyone using Macs, iPhones and the aforementioned iPads.

It’s a pretty shoddy commercial since, apparently, anyone can end up with video of your naughty bits uploaded on it.

It slowly gets worse from here as Annie and Jay run around trying to get rid of their sex tape.

Meanwhile, the movie is busy mistaking low-grade raunch (and by raunch, I mean obsessing over sex to the point of boorishness) for automatic laughter, and that a latein-the-day Jack Black cameo still means something. It’s the worst kind of vanity project — the kind of eye-rolling self-congratulatory pap where we’re constantly told that Diaz is a “sexpot” and that Segel is well-endowed. So not only is the movie wholly perfunctory, it’s obnoxiously self-centered, too.

Rated R for strong sexual content, nudity, language and some drug use.

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

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The Purge: Anarchy HHH DIRECTOR: James DeMonaco (The Purge) PLAYERS: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Zoe Soul, Michael K. Williams HORROR RATED R THE STORY: Sequel to last year’s film about a reconfigured America where one night each year encourages purging the populace of the unemployed and homeless — and anyone else you just don’t like.

THE LOWDOWN: While no less absurd than its dopey predecessor, this sequel is better made, more exciting and considerably more thought-provoking. It’s still not all that good, though.

I know — and freely admit — that my take on James DeMonaco’s The Purge: Anarchy is colored by seeing it

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immediately (walking from Theater Seven to Theater Fourteen at The Carolina is pretty immediate) after suffering through Planes: Fire & Rescue. (Now, there is a movie that’s apt to make, say, The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters look like Citizen Kane.) Like last year’s The Purge, Mr. DeMonaco’s inevitable sequel has a really dopey premise that only works as long as you don’t think about it for longer than ten seconds. The Purge: Anarchy has the slight advantage that it seems to realize its absurdity — and tries to rectify it. It has the greater advantage that it doesn’t turn into a stock home-invasion thriller after 15 minutes. In this kind of horror picture, effectiveness trumps believability every time — and this one’s expansiveness is a lot more effective than watching people stumble around a dark house for an hour.

Like its predecessor, The Purge: Anarchy has something on its mind, and, for better or worse (it may depend on your politics), it’s much more pronounced this time. The first film established the idea that

in the not-too-distant future some kind of (apparently bloodless) revolution has taken place, putting the U.S. in the hands of some Tea Partyesque faction calling themselves the New Founding Fathers. The details of this are pretty vague in both films, but the New Founding Fathers have made great strides in eradicating the problems of unemployment and homelessness by instituting “The Purge.” Said Purge is a 12-hour period one night a year where lawlessness reigns. All crime — not involving large weapons and not directed at high-ranking government officials — is legal. The idea is that the upper classes will kill off all those pesky homeless and unemployed folks, and presumably the New Founding Fathers will hand out high-paying contracts to their fat cat corporation buddies to clean up the mess the next day. (This, however, is never actually addressed, since the story doesn’t see any farther than the main mayhem.)

There are so many holes in the concept that it seems foolish to try to catalogue them. The first film just ignored them, assuming that no one would notice the inherent inefficiency of a group of about 10 preppies spending

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the entire night — and most of its members — to rid the world of one hapless homeless person. At this rate, these folks are going to dispose of themselves before they rid the world of those awful “takers.”

The new movie realizes this and makes a cursory attempt to address the issue — mostly by admitting that the government has become involved in “purging” because it wasn’t happening fast enough. (This whole business of using purge as a verb makes it sometimes sound like a bulimics’ convention.)

This attempt at jacking up the believability takes a back seat to the broader canvas of the story this time. It’s not that the business of having a mixed group of potential victims — with one default leader, Sergeant (TV actor Frank Grillo), constantly having to save them — is all that hot. It’s certainly not original, and it’s painfully predictable, but it keeps the film moving and from bogging down in claustrophobia. Better yet, it allows the film to create some fairly creepy scenes and float even creepier ideas and images. It may not be a great movie, but I will remember the image of the hapless old man (TV actor John Beasley) calmly awaiting execution by the rich family he’s sold himself to in their posh home that’s been carefully covered in plastic to prevent the splatter from soiling the furnishings. The whole sequence where the wealthy bid on victims to hunt — victims sold to them by a new class of entrepreneur cashing in on the event — is pretty strong, too. (The business of driving past a young woman who looks like Carrie on her way from the prom is another matter.) The idea of a revolution brewing to counter the New Founding Fathers has merit — and logic — and suggests where this might go. Whether it will (it’s an expensive proposition) is another matter, but it has potential. Rated R for strong disturbing violence, and for language.

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

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And so it goes Rob Reiner has teamed Diane Keaton and Michael Douglas in this rom-com for the over 60 set. Reiner claims it was an inspiration that came to him several years ago, but it doesn’t look all that far removed from Nancy Meyers’ Diane Keaton-Jack Nicholson vehicle from 2003, Something’s Gotta Give. For that matter, it looks like an attempt to draw in the audience from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. So far, there are three reviews (which is three more than the other two mainstream titles this week). Two are negative. One feels like it’s bending over backwards to be positive. (PG-13)

Hercules And here we have Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Hercules in a movie from Brett Ratner. Somehow that’s less depressing than the IMDb’s assertion that “The Rock is the closest thing Hollywood has to a male movie star.” In any case, it’s The Rock as Hercules. What more does anyone need to know? (PG-13)

Lucy It has a harebrained concept based on the long-discredited notion that human beings only use 10 percent of their brains. But it also has Scarlett Johansson as some kind of kick-ass warrior. (Apparently, using 100 percent of your brain gives you super powers.) And it has Morgan Freeman for gravity. It also Luc Besson as writer and director. How much gravity is it likely to have? (R)

Wish I was Here Zach Braff’s famous Kickstarterfunded follow-up to his 2004 indie hit Garden State is upon us. This time Braff plays a 30-something coming to terms with his life. Reviews to date have been mixed, leaning toward the negative. And then there’s the Kate Hudson factor to consider. It’s an iffy proposition. (R)

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A Most Wanted Man HHHH Philip Seymour Hoffman, Rachel McAdams, Willem Dafoe, Grigory Dobrygin, Nina Hoss, Robin Wright Espionage Drama Complex espionage tale involving a refugee, an inheritance and warring factions of counter-terrorist agencies. More cerebral than exciting, A Man Most Wanted presents an unromantic and penetrating look into the world of modern espionage. It wants to be more than it is, but it’s still good and contains a strong performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman. Rated R

Planes: Fire & Rescue S (Voices of) Dane Cook, Ed Harris, Julie Bowen, Curtis Armstrong, Hal Holbrook Animated Tedium A racing champion cropduster goes to fire and rescue school.

Even by the none-too-exacting standards of kiddie fare these days, this is just dire.

It isn’t funny. It isn’t exciting. It ought to have gone straight-to-DVD -- assuming it had to go anywhere. Rated PG

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Offbeat Rom-Com with Music A jilted singer-songwriter and a washedup record producer team up to produce an album on their own. A mostly pleasant but deeply flawed little film that gets by on its stars and a sense of generosity. Rated R

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes HHS Andy Serkis, Jason Clarke, Gary Oldman, Keri Russell, Toby Kebbell Post-Apocalyptic Allegorical Ape Action With humanity nearly wiped out by disease and supersmart apes living in the wilderness, human survivors and their intelligent simian counterparts attempt to build an uneasy alliance. Deceptively goofy and far too self-important, the attempt to be a thoughtful, intelligent spectacle isn’t enough to give a free pass to what amounts to little less than the usual special effects-heavy summer blockbuster. Rated PG-13

Life Itself HHHH Sex Tape S Cameron Diaz, Jason Segel, Rob Corddry, Ellie Kemper, Rob Lowe Raunchy Comedy A married couple accidentally lets their raunchy sex tape escape into the outside world. A flatly directed, wholly unfunny R-rated comedy that’s devoid of edge, laughs or even titillation. Rated R

Roger Ebert, Chaz Ebert, Martin Scorsese, Werner Herzog, Ramin Bahrani, Marlene Siskel Documentary Documentary on movie critic Roger Ebert. Something of a mixed bag — and one that dodges the hard questions and comes across more like a celebration of its subject than an actual portrait. It nonetheless does a good job of capturing much of the essence of a man who loved the movies.

Rated R

The Purge: Anarchy HHH Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Zoe Soul, Michael K. Williams Horror Sequel to last year’s film about a reconfigured America where one night each year encourages purging the populace of the unemployed and homeless -- and anyone else you just don’t like.

While no less absurd than its dopey predecessor, this sequel is better made, more exciting and considerably more thoughtprovoking. It’s still not all that good, though. Rated R

Venus in Fur HHHHH Emmanuelle Seigner, Mathieu Amalric Drama with Comedic Elements A seemingly completely inappropriate actress goes out of her way to convince a writerdirector that she should star in his new play. Brilliant, bold filmmaking from a great filmmaker, who proves that at 80, he can still be at the top of his game. It’s funny and perceptive and maybe a little terrifying -- and just a great, great movie.

Rated NR

Begin Again HHHS Keira Knightley, Mark Ruffalo, Hailee Steinfeld, Adam Levine, Catherine Keener, James Corden

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Tween Sci-Fi Action On their final night living together, three best friends find an extraterrestrial that shadowy government agents are after. While it has its heart in the right place, this tween adventure flick is far too derivative and far too distracting within the confines of its found footage artifice to be more than passable entertainment. Rated PG

Hellion HHH Aaron Paul, Juliette Lewis, Josh Wiggins, Deke Garner, Dalton Sutton, Camron Owens, Dylan Cole Drama Story of a dysfunctional, motherless family in Texas, focused on the older, delinquent son. An indie-basic tale of disaffected youth and their alcoholic dad in rural Texas. Some aspects are pleasing, but you’ve seen it all before. Rated NR

Snowpiercer HHHHH Chris Evans, Song Kang-ho, Ed Harris, John Hurt, Tilda Swinton, Jamie Bell, Octavia Spencer, Ko Ah-sung Politically Charged Sci-Fi The last remnants of humanity, broken into class structures, are all aboard a super train that endlessly circles the otherwise frozen world — until revolt breaks out.

Brilliant, creative, exciting, suspenseful — and with much more on its mind than the usual blockbuster, Snowpiercer is a front-runner for one of the year’s best films. Rated R

Tammy S Melissa McCarthy, Susan Sarandon, Mark Duplass, Kathy Bates, Gary Cole

Third Person HHHS Liam Neeson, Maria Bello, Mila Kunis, Adrien Brody, Olivia Wilde, Moran Atias, James Franco, Kim Basinger Drama Three stories set in three different countries are intercut with each other. A fascinating, flawed and occasionally maddening film with a terrific cast giving solid performances. It’s wildly ambitious — probably too much so — overstuffed, overlong and yet compelling in ways that better films often aren’t. Rated R

Deliver Us from Evil HHS Eric Bana, Edgar Ramirez, Olivia Munn, Chris Coy, Dorian Missick, Sean Harris, Joel McHale Horror Fact-based hooey about a police sergeant who becomes involved in a case of demonic possession in the Bronx. A somewhat atmospheric but way too long horror picture that has nothing new to offer. Rated R

Earth to Echo HHS Brian “Astro” Bradley, Reese Hartwig, Teo Halm, Ella Wahlestedt

Comedy After discovering her husband’s infidelity, a down-on-her-luck former fast-food employee and her alcoholic grandmother set off on a road trip. An ugly, unfunny comedy of the supposedly raunchy R-rated variety that’s little more than noisy and grating. Rated R

Transformers: Age of Extinction S Mark Wahlberg, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor

Sci-Fi Action Giant robot Optimus Prime must stop an old nemesis and his former allies — mankind. A loud, noisy, stupid and incredibly angry movie that’s far too long and only occasionally interesting thanks to its screwy worldview.

Rated PG-13

Jersey Boys HHH John Lloyd Young, Erich Bergen, Vincent Piazza, Michael Lomenda, Christopher Walken, Mike Doyle Showbiz Biopic Standard showbiz biopic on Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons.

If you’re wild about the music of Frankie Valli, this probably passes muster, but it’s also a sloppy, cliché-ridden mess of a

movie that never breaks free of its biopic-basic approach. Rated R

22 Jump Street HHHS Channing Tatum, Jonah Hill, Amber Stevens, Ice Cube, Jillian Bell Comedy Officers Schmidt and Jenko head undercover again, this time at college. Not as fresh as the original, the movie’s more interesting as a parody of Hollywood franchises and a critique of gay panic in buddy cop flicks, but doesn’t have much going for it as a comedy. Rated R

How to Train Your Dragon 2 HHHS (Voices) Jay Baruchel, Cate Blanchett, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill Animated Fantasy New adventures and new challenges for Viking boy Hiccup and his trained dragon, Toothless. Not as fresh or funny as its 2010 predecessor – and with a curious lack of focus in its first half – but with a bang-up second half, much visual beauty and a surprising emotional resonance. Rated PG

The Fault in Our Stars HH Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, Nat Wolff, Laura Dern, Willem Dafoe Teen Cancer Melodrama Two teens suffering with the effects and after-effects of cancer fall in love. A goopy, manipulative little movie that suffers from inefficient plotting, flat direction, a milquetoast disposition and some truly wrongheaded story decisions. Rated PG-13

Maleficent HHS

Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton, Jono Temple, Sam Riley, Brenton Thwaites Revisionist Fantasy Retelling of Sleeping Beauty that presents the evil Maleficent as a scorned woman seeking revenge on the man who betrayed her.

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

Chef HHHS Jon Favreau, John Leguizamo, Sofia Vergara, Emjay Anthony, Bobby Cannavale, Oliver Platt, Dustin Hoffman, Scarlett Johansson, Robert Downey, Jr. Comedy An upscale chef finds himself when he quits his job and starts his own food truck business.

An unfailingly pleasant little comedy that would benefit from more conflict and a sharper tone, but it’s a proven crowd-pleaser that will play well to food and food-truck aficionados. Rated R

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Au Hasard Balthazar HHHHS Director: Robert Bresson Players: Anne Wiazemsky, Walter Green, Francois Lafarge, Jean-Claude Guilbert, Philippe Asselin SYMBOLIC DRAMA Rated NR Robert Bresson’s symbolic drama Au Hasard Balthazar — the story of the mostly sad life of a donkey named Balthazar — makes a welcome return appearance at World Cinema. Do not think that this is any kind of cute movie with some humanized animal. It is anything but. It may not be quite the masterpiece it’s often hailed as, but it’s certainly an essential film.

Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Au Hasard Balthazar Friday, July 18, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com.

Bride of Frankenstein HHHHH Director: James Whale Players: Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson, Ernest Thesiger, Una O’Connor, Dwight Frye, Elsa Lanchester HORROR Rated NR Tuesday would have been director James Whale’s 125th birthday. It follows as sure as the sun will set and the moon will rise that the Thursday Horror Picture will mark the event with one of Whale’s four classic horror films — and they don’t come any more classic than his final work in the genre, Bride of Frankenstein (1935). This, after all, stands a good shot at the accolade of greatest horror film of all time, but it’s actually much more than that.

The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Bride of Frankenstein Thursday, July 24 at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

The Ex-Mrs. Bradford HHHH

Director: Stephen Roberts (The Story of Temple Drake)Players: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason, Eric Blore, Robert Armstrong, Lila Lee, Grant Mitchell COMEDY MYSTERY Rated NR Asheville Film Society favorite William Powell returns in The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936), a very enjoyable comedy-mystery from RKO that cashes in on Powell’s own Thin Man series over at MGM. (Actually, it beat After the Thin Man into theaters.) Rather than teaming him with Myrna Loy, this film sets Powell up with Jean Arthur (playing his ex-wife of the title).

The pair may not be Powell and Loy, but they make for an agreeable screen team in this slick little film.

The Asheville Film Society will screen The Ex-Mrs. Bradford Tuesday, July 29 , at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

The Mystery of George Masa HHHH

Director: Paul Bonesteel Players: Barbara Sayer, Tatsuo Ichikawa, Bernie Segal Larry Adams DOCUMENTARY Rated NR Paul Bonesteel’s 2002 documentary The Mystery of George Masa — originally shown on PBS in 2003 — tells the story of the enigmatic Japanese conservationist and photographer Masahar Iizuka (locally known as George Masa). Using a mix of interviews, tasteful dramatic recreations, archival photos and a ton of reasearch, Bonesteel paints as complete a portrait of Masa as we’re likely to ever have.

Local filmmaker Paul Bonesteel will speak and show his documentary film The Mystery of George Masa on Monday, July 28, as a fundraiser for the Environmental and Conservation Organization (ECO). The talk and showing will be in the McIntosh Room of the Blue Ridge Conference Hall, 180 West Campus Drive, at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock at 6 p.m.

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The Quitters HHHS

Director: Hank Bones Players: Peter Millis, Tracey Johnston-Crum, Art Booth, Russ Wilson, Sam Jillian, Sonia D’Andrea, Joseph Barcia MUSICAL SATIRE Rated NR When local musician Hank Bones couldn’t get a stage production of his musical The Quitters, he decided to make a film of it. Cheerfully admitting that he had no experience with film, he dived straight into the project — on a $9,000 budget — and with the help of friends and local actors managed to come up with the film at hand. Interestingly, rather than just present it as a photographed play, Bones shot it more like a movie. As filmmaking it’s not exactly remarkable, but it does nicely convey the sense of the show, showcasing the play’s clever songs and its gentle satire, and is certainly fun.

Wedge Brewery will show The Quitters on Saturday, July 26. Films start 15 minutes after sundown.

The Searchers HHHHS Director: John Ford Players: John Wayne, Jeffrey Hunter, Vera Miles, Ward Bond, Natalie Wood, John Qualen WESTERN Rated NR The Hendersonville Film Society ran John Ford’s The Searchers (1956) about seven years ago, so it’s certainly high time the movie showed back up on local screens. While I’ve never been convinced it’s quite the masterpiece it’s been hailed as — in part because of its influence on George Lucas and Star Wars making it better known than many of Ford’s films — it is undeniably a fascinating work, and one that deepens with increased understanding of Ford’s overall filmography.

The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Searchers Sunday, July 27, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

JAMES STEWART stars as a voyeuristic photographer who comes to believe a murder has been committed in an apartment across the courtyard in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic Rear Window. The film, presented by the Asheville Film Society, is being presented for one show only, at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, July 30 at The Carolina. $6/AFS members. $8/ general public.

Rear Window HHHHH Director: Alfred Hitchcock Players: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter, Wendell Corey, Raymond Burr SUSPENSE THRILLER Rated NR Rear Window (1954), often cited as Alfred Hitchcock’s best and most sophisticated film, is back on the big screen for one night only — Wednesday, July 30 at 7:30 p.m. at The Carolina as this month’s Budget Big Screen movie. It’s a chance to see the film in all the brilliance of its color detail and to immerse yourself in the world of James Stewart’s convalescent photographer who becomes increasingly convinced that the man in the apartment opposite his has murdered his wife. It’s as suspenseful and entertaining today as it was 60 years ago when it first appeared. Stewart was never better, Grace Kelly never more elegantly beautiful and Thelma Ritter never funnier.

The Asheville Film Society is showing Rear Window Wednesday, July 30, at 7:30 p.m. in at The Carolina Asheville as part of the Budget Big Screen series. Admission is $6 for AFS members and $8 for the general public.

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Email: folkart@amerifolk.com COMMERCIAL ROOFERS (ASHEVILLE,NC) $100 SIGN ON BONUS AFTER WORKING 90 DAYS! Looking for Commercial Roofers in Asheville - 1-2 years roofing experience - Commercial roofing experience preferred NORTH AMERICAN ROOFING is an Equal Opportunity Employer and promotes a drugfree workplace. To apply, please visit our Careers page at https:// hr.naroofing.com/careers/ or CALL 828-687-7767.

OUTDOOR ADVENTURE GUIDE We are committed to helping adult men in early recovery develop and strengthen life skills that will help them live substance free with a sense of purpose and joy. An important component of our program is helping residents learn how to have fun and relax without alcohol or chemical substances. We are seeking an Outdoor Adventure Guide, one day per week.

Please send a letter of interest and resume to 'stader284@gmail. com ' or fax to (828) 350-9916.

WAREHOUSE EMPLOYEE NEEDED Golden Needle is seeking someone to work in our warehouse. The applicant must be self-directed and able to work on their feet with a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail.

Applicant must have computer skills and the ability to lift up to 40 pounds. Assist in unpacking and checking in daily shipments, placement of product in designated areas of warehouse, pulling orders, shipping orders using UPS worldship and priority mail.

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12.00/hr. email resumes to kevin@goldenneedleonline.com

SKILLED LABOR/ TRADES WELDER PIPE FITTER SUPERINTENDENT Position available for a local project in Asheville.

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JOBS Applicants subject to drug screen and background check.

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MEDICAL/ HEALTH CARE PRN REGISTERED NURSE Eliada Homes has an opening for a PRN RN to work on our beautiful campus in Asheville at our PRTF. If you are an RN that is dedicated to improving the lives of children in our community, please apply online at www.eliada.org

HUMAN SERVICES AMERICORPS/NC LITERACYCORPS MEMBER The Literacy Council of Bunc. Co.'s LiteracyCorps member will provide direct tutoring; recruit, orient, and support volunteers/students; develop partnerships; conduct visibility campaigns; and participate in national days of service. ashley@ litcouncil.com

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Staff Psychiatrist Meridian Behavioral Health Services is a non-profit provider of community mental health services serving nine counties in Western North Carolina. We have an opening for a Psychiatrist providing outpatient care for adults.

Our primary office locations are in Waynesville, Sylva, Franklin and Brevard. We are seeking physicians who have interest and experience in community mental

health care - treatment of persistent mental illness and addiction.

Part of this time could involve providing treatment for opioid addiction in our clinic-based buprenorphine (Suboxone) program. Minimal call responsibilities. Our locations have qualified for education loan repayment programs. Send CV to: Matthew Holmes, MD email: matt. holmes@meridianbhs.org or Joe Ferrara, CEO joe.ferrara@meridianbhs.org Transylvania, Haywood, Buncombe Counties Multiple positions open for Peer Support Specialists working within a number of recovery oriented programs within our agency.

Being a Peer Support Specialist provides an opportunity for individuals to transform their own personal lived experience with mental health and/or addiction challenges into a tool for inspiring hope for recovery in others.

Applicants must demonstrate maturity in their own recovery process, have a valid driver’s license, reliable transportation and have moderate computer skills. For further information, contact hr.department@meridianbhs.org For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org/open-positions.html CHILD/ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH POSITIONS IN JACKSON, HAYWOOD, & MACON COUNTIES Looking to fill several full-time positions between now and Aug/Sept.

Licensed/provisional therapists to provide Outpatient, Day Treatment or Intensive In-home services to children/adolescents with mental health diagnoses.

Therapists must have current NC therapist license. Apply by submitting resume to telliot@ jcpsmail.org CNA • CAREGIVER POSITIONS We screen, train, bond and insure. • Positions available for quality, caring and dependable professionals. Flexible schedules and competitive pay. Home Instead Senior Care. Call (828) 274-4406 between 9am-5pm. www.homeinstead.com/159 COMMUNITY SUPPORT TEAM LEAD AND TEAM MEMBER POSITIONS AVAILABLE Parkway of FPS seeks Licensed or License eligible staff for CST Lead and QP positions in Buncombe County. Duties include crisis work, on-call, case management, connection to community resources, and documentation.

Paid holidays, vacation time, health, dental, vision and 401K available. Contact EBowman@ fpscorp.com.

LOOKING FOR A QUALIFIED PROFESSIONAL to work from our Asheville office. Candidates must have a 4-year degree in human services and 2 years of post-degree experience working with people who have Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities. Necessary abilities include goal writing, personnel management, training, and strong

communication skills. An official transcript is required. Apply online at www.turningpointservicesinc.com PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG FREE NC is hiring a LCAS or LCASA to do assessments and case coordination in the Buncombe County Work First/ Tanf program. Please respond to sboehm@drugfreenc.org PROGRAM OPERATIONS MANAGER Community Action Opportunities, Asheville, Children, Family and Community Partnership Department. We are a high-performing, non-profit Community Action Agency created by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964 to end poverty.

We are looking for a seasoned and skilled professional to fill a full-time management position to oversee key department operations. • This position requires a unique individual with a variety of skills to: • accurately budget and monitor 7+ million in federal/state/local funds and cost allocations; • prepare refunding and other applications; • manage department procurement and HR procedures and comply with grant, CFR and Agency policies/procedures; • Facilitate the annual Head Start self-assessment; supervise program data collection/reporting functions; • Use teams to develop and implement technology and program plans/procedures; • Use and understand Results-Oriented Management and Accountability, (ROMA) concepts and outcome tools; • Meet repeated deadlines; use critical thinking skills, be proficient with Microsoft Office Suite, customer database applications & Google Apps, use high-quality oral and written communication skills; establish/maintain effective working relationships; and • Incorporate the Agency’s principles: Teamwork, Communication, Quality and Respect into daily work. • For a complete description of the job, requirements and application instructions go to: www.communityactionopportunities.org DFWP/EOE QUALIFIED AND ASSOCIATE PROFESSIONALS (QP/AP) needed to work as a part of a family-based Intensive In Home (IIH) team in Buncombe and Haywood counties. Aspire Youth & Family: (828) 243-5163.

RECOVERY GUIDE FOR WOMEN Red Oak Recovery, a young adult Substance Abuse Treatment Program located in Leicester, NC is seeking highly qualified individuals for direct care positions in our Women’s Recovery Program. Recovery Guides work on a rotating 4 day on/3 day off or 8 day on/6 day off schedule. Treatment takes place in a residential setting with wilderness adventure expeditions.

WFR, CSAC, or a degree in a Human Services field preferred.

Personal or professional experience with 12 Step Recovery, Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health Treatment, Wilderness Therapy, Trauma and/or Eating Disorder is preferred. We offer competitive pay, health benefits,

SELF-SUFFICIENCY PROGRAM MANAGER Community Action Opportunities.

We are a high-performance non-profit organization looking for a seasoned, skilled and energetic professional to be our Full-time Self-Sufficiency Program Manager. This position supervises and provides technical case management support to a professional direct-service team to help low-income families become self-sufficient; supports the department director by managing a $750,000 budget and maximizes the use of and improves an agency-owned, statewide case-management data-base application. • The Program Manager: Coordinates team activities; Ensures that strengths-based, bestpractice program activities also promote the efficient use of resources; Provides technical case management supervision/consultation; Coordinates staff training; Prepares grant refunding and other applications and manages budgets; Supports the database Help Desk • Is proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and Google Apps Education and Experience: Graduation from a regionally or CHEA accredited university with a Master’s Degree in Social Work, Sociology, Psychology, Public or Human Service Administration, or related field; 5 years of related program administration and 3 years case management experience. At least 3 years of supervisory experience is required. Prefer Family Development Credential or equivalent and bi-lingual in English/Spanish. $46,966 to $61,776 DOQ plus benefits.

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Interviews expected to begin in August. For job description and submittal instructions go to: www. communityactionopportunities.org DFWP/EOE SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR Parkway of Family Preservation Services in Asheville, NC is seeking a Licensed or License eligible counselor to provide substance abuse services in an outpatient setting.

Some evenings running groups, serving in an on-call rotation, and maintaining an individual caseload are requirements of this postion.

Competitive benefits: paid holidays, vacation time, health/dental/ vision insurnace plans, and 401K are offered. To apply, please contact Erin Bowman, EBowman@ fpscorp.com WILDERNESS PROGRAM SUPERVISOR SUWS of the Carolinas is currently hiring for a full time Program Supervisor. We are a wilderness therapy company that is based in Old Fort and serves youth ages 10-17 and their families. Duties and responsibilities include: creating and running a Base Program, assist in training of field staff, assist with field checks and site evaluations in course area, assist graduation staff in managing graduation, and assist with general management of field department.

Must be willing to work weekends and holidays. Must be able to hike in strenuous terrain and lift 15 pounds overhead. Applicants must be at least 21 years of age and have a valid driver’s license. Wilderness therapy or related experience preferred. Bachelor’s degree preferred. CRC Health Group and its subsidiaries is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Send resume to Kelly Donaldson at kdonaldson@ suwscarolinas.com

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by Rob Brezny

ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19 A report in the prestigious British medical journal BMJ says that almost 1 percent of young pregnant women in the U.S. claim to be virgins. They testify that they have conceived a fetus without the benefit of sex. That’s impossible, right? Technically, yes. But if there could ever be a loophole in natural law, it would happen for you Aries sometime in the coming weeks. You will be so exceptionally fertile, so prone to hatching new life, that almost anything could incite germination. A vivid dream or captivating idea or thrilling adventure or exotic encounter might be enough to do the trick.

TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20 As you weave your way through the next chapter of your story, I suggest you take inspiration from the turtle. You may even want to imagine that the turtle is your animal ally, a guide that helps you access the gradual and deliberate kind of intelligence you will need. Moving quickly will not be appropriate for the leisurely lessons that are coming your way. The point is to be deep and thorough about a few things rather than half-knowledgeable about a lot of things.

There’s one other turtle-like quality I hope you will cultivate, too: the ability to feel at home wherever you are.

GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20 America’s biggest winery is E & J Gallo.

It sells more wine than any other company, and has been named the planet’s “Most Powerful Wine Brand” four different years. Ernest and Julio Gallo launched the enterprise in 1933 after studying the art of winemaking in pamphlets they found in the basement of a public library in Modesto, California. I foresee a less spectacular but metaphorically similar arc for you, Gemini.

Sometime soon -- maybe it has already happened -- information or inspiration you come across in a modest setting will launch you on the path to future success. There is one caveat: You must take seriously the spark you encounter, and not underestimate it because it appears in humble circumstances.

CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22 Diamonds are not rare. They are so numerous that if they were evenly distributed, you and me and everyone else on the planet could each have a cupful of them. And if you are ever in your lifetime going to get your personal cupful, it may happen in the next 11 months. That’s because your hard work and special talent are more likely than usual to be rewarded with tangible assets. Strokes of luck will tend to manifest in the form of money and treasure and valuable things you can really use. Be alert for the clues, Cancerian.

One may appear momentarily.

VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22 When a crocodile slams its jaws shut, the energy it summons is powerful. But when the beast opens its jaws, the force it exerts is weak. That’s because the muscles used to close are much more robust than the muscles used to open. I’m wondering if an analogous story might be told about you these days, Virgo. Are you more prone to close down than to open up? Is it easier for you to resist, avoid, and say no than it is to be receptive, extend a welcome, and say yes? If so, please consider cultivating a better balance. You need both capacities running at full strength in the coming days.

LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22 In the latter part of the 18th century, American rebels and rabble-rousers used to gather regularly in the basement of the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston. There they plotted the Boston Tea Party, Paul Revere’s ride, and other dissident adventures that opposed British Rule. That’s why the Green Dragon became known as the “Headquarters of the Revolution.” I think you and your cohorts need a place like that, Libra. It’s high time for you to scheme and dream about taking coordinated actions that will spur teamwork and foster liberation.

LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22 According to the legends about Camelot and the Knights of the Round Table, the boy who would ultimately become King Arthur didn’t know he was heir to the throne while he was growing up. His future destiny was hidden from him. The wizard Merlin trained him but made sure he never found out he was special. When the old King Uther Pendragon died, a tournament was staged to find a replacement. The winner would be whoever was able to withdraw the enchanted sword that was embedded in a large stone. Quite by accident, our hero got a chance to make an attempt. Success! I have reminded you of the broad outlines of this tale, Leo, because at least one of its elements resembles your destiny in the next 11 months.

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SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21 “When one has not had a good father, one must create one,” said philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. What does that mean? How might you go about “creating” a good father? Well, you could develop a relationship with an admirable older man who is an inspiring role model.

You could read books by men whose work stirs you to actualize your own potentials.

If you have a vigorous inner life, you could build a fantasy dad in your imagination.

Here’s another possibility: Cultivate in yourself the qualities you think a good father should have. And even if you actually had a pretty decent father, Scorpio, I’m sure he wasn’t perfect. So it still might be interesting to try out some of these

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ideas. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to get more of the fathering energy you would thrive on.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21 “If I seem free, it’s because I’m always running.” So said Sagittarian musician Jimi Hendrix, widely regarded as one of the most inventive and electrifying guitarists who ever lived. Does that prospect have any appeal to you, Sagittarius? I don’t, of course, recommend that you keep running for the rest of your long life. After a while, it will be wise to rest and ruminate. But I do think it might be illuminating to try this brazen approach for a week or two. If it feels right, you might also want to mix in some dancing and skipping and leaping with your running.

CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19 In the next 11 months, Capricorn, you will be given some choice riddles about the art of togetherness. To solve them, you will have to learn much more about the arts of intimacy -- or else! It’s up to you: Either work your ass off as you strengthen your important relationships, or else risk watching them unravel. But don’t take this as a grim, sobering assignment. On the contrary!

Play hard. Experiment freely. Be open to unexpected inspiration. Have fun deepening your emotional intelligence. That approach will work best.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18 Hypothesis: The exciting qualities that attract you to someone in the first place will probably drive you a bit crazy if you go on to develop a long-term relationship.

That doesn’t mean you should avoid seeking connections with intriguing people who captivate your imagination. It does suggest you should have no illusions about what you are getting yourself into. It also implies that you should cultivate a sense of humor about how the experiences that rouse your passion often bring you the best tests and trials. And why am I discussing these eccentric truths with you right now? Because I suspect you will be living proof of them in the months to come.

PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20 In 1961, Paul Cezanne’s painting The Artist’s Sister was on display at a museum in Aixen-Provence, France. Then a lucky event occurred: It was stolen. When it was finally recovered months later, it had been ripped out of its frame. An art restorer who was commissioned to repair it discovered that there was a previously unknown Cezanne painting on the back of the canvas. As a result, the appraisal of the original piece rose $75,000. Now both sides are on view at the St. Louis City Art Museum. I foresee a comparable progression in your life, Pisces.

An apparent setback will ultimately increase your value.

TEACHING/ EDUCATION CAROLINA DAY SCHOOL is seeking an interim high school Spanish teacher. The anticipated length of employment is six weeks, beginning in late August.

The teaching load is five classes, including Spanish 2, Spanish 4, Culture & Conversation. Send application, letter of interest, and resume to: Whitney Boykin, Carolina Day School, 1345 Hendersonville Road, Asheville, NC 28803 wboykin@carolinaday.org HEAD START NC PRE-K TEACHER ASSISTANT SUBSTITUTE Seeking energetic individual with a desire to work as an early childhood professional in our high quality program. Experience working with pre-school children; performs a variety of support tasks in the teaching and classroom environment in Head Start preschool education centers or classrooms in local school systems; may also work with children with needs, and may be assigned to any classroom as needed to work one-on-one to support routine classroom activities; helps with individual and group teaching activities of preschool age children in a classroom; sets up learning centers, and arrange daily activities. NC Early Childhood Credentials preferred.

Must understand the developmental stages and appropriate teaching techniques for pre-school children. Bi-lingual in Spanish-English a plus. A valid N. C. driver’s license is required.

Must pass physical and background checks. • Salary $10.73/ hour. • Make application with complete work references and contact information along with DCDEE CRC Qualifying Letter to: Human Resources Manager, 25 Gaston Street,Asheville, NC 28801 or Admin@commuityactionopportunities.org or Fax: (828) 253-6319. Open until filled.

EOE and DFWP. MIDDLE SCHOOL TEACHING POSITIONS New Dimensions Charter School is seeking a Language Arts and a Math Teacher for grades 6 - 8. Call the school at 828-437-5753, or send resumes to lwilkerson@newdimensions.teamcfa.org.

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THE NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS 1 Some gobblers 5 Part of a fashion ensemble, maybe 9 Checkout procedures 14 Black-bordered news item 15 Plot-listing datum 16 Bindle toters 17 2001 best seller about competitive Scrabble 19 Scarlett’s suitor 20 Prefix with Freudian 21 Bridal path 22 Tiny bits 23 Without ___ (riskily) 24 Interpreter of omens 26 Japanese “soft art” (max opening score of 92 points) 29 Sounds of censure (max opening score of 80 points)

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