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OUR 26TH YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 26 NO. 1 JULY 31 - AUG. 6, 2019

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PAGE 23 BREAST IS BEST Public health experts and elected leaders agree: Breastfeeding through the first year of life provides a range of health benefits for babies and mothers. But does a stigma against nursing in public persist in Asheville and Buncombe County?

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Urge legislators to fix insurance coverage gap Regarding the June 5 Xpress article “The Parent Trap: Insurance Coverage Gap Impacts Children’s Health”

by Brooke Randle: Many thanks to Brooke Randle for her excellent article on the situation faced by low-income parents when their income is a bit too high to qualify for Medicaid or too low to qualify for a policy through the Affordable Care Act. Being in this “gap” leaves these parents vulnerable to illness or injury with no means to pay for their own medical expenses. And of course that lack of medical care can mean missed hourly work, which then endangers their job and stable income. States that have enacted health care access to parents in this gap provide stability for parents, their children and their communities.

This “gap” is of course a human creation. If it were an act of nature, we could understand it as a form of “fate,” but in reality the cause of this gap is political neglect. Solutions that have been on the table during recent years include Medicaid expansion, Carolina Cares, Care4Carolina and currently NC Health Care for Working Families (HB 665). Both Republicans and Democrats have proposed legislation that they

hoped would be a basis for a bipartisan solution, but so far those efforts have failed.

Gov. Cooper favors a “clean” Medicaid expansion bill. However, in spite of added expense and bureaucracy, the Republican bill (NC Health Care for Working Families) has the best chance of achieving a bipartisan compromise — if Republican majorities in our state Senate and House will move it through the legislative process. Please urge your senator and representative to move the bill on to Gov. Cooper for his signature. They need to hear from you!

We are giving our North Carolina tax dollars away to 37 states that have already enacted legislation to care for their citizens who find themselves in this gap. Let’s deliver those dollars to our own citizens.

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So, let’s consider Rep. Patrick McHenry, R-District 10. [For the 2018 election cycle], Rep. McHenry accepted $235,200 from Big Pharma, $188,380 from health professionals and $401,100 from lobbyists [according to The Center for Responsive Politics’ website, opensecrets.org]. (Plus another $501,000 from the insurance industry, but we’ll leave that out so as not to appear to be piling on.)

I don’t know what Big Pharma, health professionals and lobbyists asked of McHenry for their $824,680. But reasonable people can assume it wasn’t to reduce the exorbitant cost of prescription drugs, improve the Affordable Care Act or expand Medicaid.

Those are things, however, that Gina Collias wants to do. You may remember her as the progressive-minded mother, attorney and businesswoman who primaried McHenry last year, coming in second. As the North Carolina GOP became ever more extreme, Collias joined the Democratic Party. Now she’s running for the right to oppose McHenry as the Democratic nominee in 2020.

Thanks to her moderate roots and progressive values, Collias is uniquely positioned to build the crossover coalition of Democrats, Republicans and

unaffiliated voters that’s so critical for victory in gerrymandered District 10.

To learn more about her, visit www. ginacolliasforcongress.com. No charge!

Then consider: When it comes to health care, maybe it’s time District 10 got a new prescription.

— Stephen Advokat Asheville Editor’s note: Advokat reports that he is a volunteer for Gina Collias for Congress.

Kudos to ART staff Just reading the articles on the transit, I didn’t see much support or positive notes!

My experience is that I’ve been down in Asheville from Dutchess County, N.Y., for the past 26 years and have lived in West, East and now South Asheville and have no problem getting to places on time or [receiving] friendly help from drivers.

And to show my loyal support, I’ve been involved in nine bus accidents in 26 years and wouldn’t change my way of getting around Asheville, so thank you, ART staff. You’re wonderful!!

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Children, unplugged

The joys of a (mostly) screen-free summer

BY EMILY HARRISON My family is doing something crazy, almost unheard of, this summer. Our kids, ages 5 and 8, are going screenfree for the majority of the summer. So far, we haven’t all killed each other. In fact, we are just having a normal summer — but with less arguing.

Sure, there are still the constant reminders of “keep your hands to yourself” and “put your socks away so the dog doesn’t eat them.” But generally speaking, by declaring screen-free days and screen-free weeks (yes, entire weeks!), I’m not caught in the constant negotiations of screen-time usage.

This isn’t a massive leap for us.

During the school year, like many families, we don’t allow screens on school days. What I realized in the spring, though, was that screens were being used every single day in my thensecond grader’s class. That meant my little 8-year-old child with his developing brain and body rarely had a day without a screen. Rarely a day without a screen!

My kids didn’t come bounding out of school in June asking for screenfree days this summer. It was my idea. I’ll take the credit, or the blame, depending upon who’s looking into our fishbowl. We started with a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule and then added a Saturday and/or Sunday here and there. Before I knew it, they weren’t asking for screens very much, so my husband and I didn’t offer them.

Then we declared — OK, maybe threatened — a screen-free week if the bad attitude of a child who will remain nameless didn’t cease after he turned off the television. Well, without

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TURN OFF, TUNE IN: Emily Harrison and her kids enjoy the world beyond screens. Photo courtesy of Harrison going into too much detail, let’s just say at this writing that we are on day eight of a 14-day run of no screens. You know what? It’s been fine!

THE DOWNSIDES OF SCREEN TIME My sons’ pediatrician says the American Academy of Pediatrics recommends no more than one hour of screen time per day for my rising kindergartner, and he recommends the same limit of one hour a day for my 8-year-old. And less is always best. Those AAP recommendations, released in 2016, are aimed at kids ages 2-5 (avl.mx/6ch).

Can I tell you a secret about my children? They behave better when they don’t have screen time. I’ve heard from other parents that my children may not be the only ones. Maybe my children are some sort of anti-screen mutants, but I’d like to believe the only mutants in our home are of the Ninja Turtles variety.

They have proved they can make the two-hour drive from Asheville to Charlotte without a screen pretty easily.

(Having a snack on hand sometime after passing Hickory helps.) They still whine and complain and ask for screens. But what I’ve noticed is that on the days we do have screens, their behavior is worse. I’ve done some digging into the peer-reviewed scientific research on screen usage for kids, and the science backs this up.

The adverse side effects of screen usage for kids? Sleep disruption, stress, irritability, anxiety, defiant behavior and emotional dysregulation, along

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with decreases in attention span and the ability to understand facial expressions and nonverbal cues — plus increased risks for poor vision (including myopia), eyestrain, obesity, less empathy and decreased gray matter in the brain.

This list isn’t even exhaustive. For more info, see Psychology Today in 2015 (avl.mx/6ci) and 2018 (avl.mx/6ck) plus Fool’s Gold: A Critical Look at Computers in Childhood, published in 2000, available for free online by the nonprofit Alliance for Childhood (avl.mx/6cl).

In my research, I haven’t found any negative effects for children who take a break from screens for a few days or even a few weeks. Look, in our home, we have a TV and smart phones — and I’m typing this on my laptop. Currently, I’m not advocating for no screens, ever. It’s 2019; that’s ridiculous. Make screens a forbidden fruit? That’s a whole other set of problems.

SCREEN-FREE SUMMER FUN But I want what many parents want for their kids: for them to do more than survive. I want my children to thrive.

Summer is more than halfway over already. Soon, they will be back in the classroom with screens, even for my rising kindergartner. These final few weeks of summer might be their last chance to create a new game, play outside for hours on end, meet a new neighbor, catch lighting bugs, read a paperback book, set up a lemonade stand with the neighbor kids, learn to help me cook dinner, wash our car or just be bored!

I know a lot of families who chose to raise kids in Asheville because of our quick access to nature. And naturebased activities can help foster brain development, particularly executivefunction skills, according to a 2015 report from the nonprofit Children & Nature Network, based in Minneapolis (avl.mx/6cm). So, we are doing more of that this summer.

I’m not the only parent with kids who have screen-free days. A lot of my friends have done the same thing this summer. One friend mentioned that her kids have bonded more because they have decided it’s fun to play together.

And yes, there are times when I just want my kids to sit still, be quiet and let me get some stuff done around the house or even take a deep breath.

I’m tempted to hand them a screen in these moments. But then I remember that if a screen is the one thing I can guarantee will cause them both to sit down and be quiet at the exact same time, maybe it’s not worth it. Maybe all of those negatives outweigh my 22 minutes of quiet. When everyone says parenting is the hardest job in the world, they are right. But it’s also the best job in the whole world. I want more for my kids than screens can offer. I had better take advantage of this while summer lasts.

For our family, we will still allow the occasional show (not on a tablet) or have a family movie night; we may even FaceTime with their grandma in Virginia. But mostly, we are opting out of screen time. Summer is our only chance to give our kids’ growing bodies and minds a break from all of the detrimental side effects of screen time.

As a generation of parents, we are the first to have to truly regulate screen time. Sure, when I was a kid, my dad told me and my siblings to “turn off the idiot box” or “don’t sit so close to the TV.” But screen time today is a different ballgame. All of the experts, from local pediatricians to the World Health Organization (avl.mx/6cp) are telling us to “limit, limit, limit,” so we are heeding their advice. So far, our screen-free experiment has been a huge success.

Less arguing, more sunshine. Summer in the mountains truly is the best. X Asheville resident Emily Harrison is mom to two boys and a member of the Children’s Screen Time Action Network, a project of the Bostonbased Campaign for a CommercialFree Childhood.

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LEFTOVERS AGAIN?

Asheville seeks new approach to water treatment sludge

BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com A moldy half-sandwich, wilting salad remnants, a plastic takeout container holding the dregs of some mysterious variety of soup — sooner or later, most people find themselves dealing with unwanted leftovers. Asheville, however, must contend with a different kind of leftover on a far larger scale. Last year, the city’s three water treatment facilities had to handle more than 1.3 million gallons of wastes resulting from the treatment process.

Together, the North Fork, William DeBruhl and Mills River plants generated more than two Olympic-size swimming pools’ worth of sludge in the course of processing roughly 7.4 billion gallons of water last year.

This byproduct is formed when the plants mix the incoming water with aluminum sulfate, which combines with the tiny particulates already present and makes it easier to filter them out.

Asheville had long outsourced the final disposal of these “residuals” to the Metropolitan Sewerage District, which operates a wastewater treatment facility in Woodfin.

Last October, however, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality placed stricter controls on what outside materials MSD could accept, thus barring the plant from taking the city’s sludge.

Asheville has since made plans to send its residuals to landfills, one in Buncombe County and one elsewhere, for up to two years. To date, however, no such shipments have

SOURCE OF SLUDGE: The city of Asheville’s North Fork water treatment plant produced roughly 630,000 gallons of residuals in both 2017 and 2018. Photo by Adam McMillan been made; instead, the sludge is being kept in holding ponds at the city’s water treatment plants. And meanwhile, city officials are working on finding a more permanent arrangement. In February, City Manager Debra Campbell authorized paying over $251,000 to GHD Consulting Services to “develop an alternative solution.”

The project “is seeking ways to improve our processes, produce less residuals and find a cost-effective,

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long-term solution for residuals disposal for the water treatment plants,” wrote Leslie Carreiro, Asheville’s division manager for water production/ water quality, in response to an Xpress records request. “GHD is investigating options and gathering data.”

UP IN SMOKE This isn’t the first time in recent years that the handling of Asheville’s

sludge has changed. When Roger Edwards, MSD’s operations manager, first started working at the facility about six years ago, the city was dumping the material directly into the sewage system for treatment, he says. MSD then filtered out the sludge and burned it in the plant’s incinerator along with other wastewater solids — “Not a good situation,” he notes.

That’s because, when the sludge is incinerated, the aluminum sulfate it contains forms sulfuric acid, which lowers the pH of the incinerator’s emissions, Edwards explains. And that, in turn, can contribute to acid rain. Tighter federal regulations established by the Environmental Protection Agency in 2011, he says, meant that MSD would eventually be unable to burn the material. When the compliance deadline kicked in, the agency switched to holding the sludge in the plant’s onsite storage lagoon.

But MSD’s lagoon is unusual in that its discharge flows back into the wastewater treatment stream, which eventually yields solids that do end up getting incinerated. When the Department of Environmental Quality renewed the plant’s discharge permit last year, DEQ officials ordered MSD to stop accepting Asheville’s sludge.

The state agency’s decision came after “discussions with MSD and through evaluation of the current practices of accepting sludge,” DEQ spokesperson Sarah Young wrote in an email to Xpress.

Young also shared a July 12, 2018, email from DEQ officials to MSD outlining the rationale behind

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“It’s really the only option the city has open to them right now. We can stop treating the drinking water and not produce any residuals, or we can manage our residuals.”

— Leslie Carreiro, Asheville Water Department the new restrictions. “Using MSD as a disposal option for large volumes is not a sustainable residuals management option for the receiving facility and could potentially interfere with plant operation and functionality, depending upon the treatment technology used,” the email stated.

LIMITED OPTIONS For the time being, Asheville plans to take its sludge out with the trash. On May 28, City Council authorized the city manager to sign a one-year contract, with two potential one-year extensions, for BioNomic Services to dispose of the residuals at the Buncombe County landfill and a Republic Services landfill in Concord.

That change of plans comes with a hefty price tag, however. The total

budget for the first year is over $295,000, a significant jump from the roughly $110,000 the city spent on residuals management in 2018 (about $50,000 for Environmental Management Alternatives to haul the sludge and around $60,000 for MSD to accept it).

Much of the additional cost is due to the “dewatering” the new disposal sites require, Carreiro explains.

“Previously, we would just allow the residuals to kind of thicken, and then the hauler could draw them into the tank and bring that pretty thick liquid to MSD. When we’re going to put it at the landfill, it has to be in a more solid state.”

Increased transportation costs are also a factor. The Buncombe County landfill won’t accept resid-

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CLEANUP CREW: Roger Edwards, operations manager for the Metropolitan Sewerage District, points to one of the Woodfin facility’s rotating biological contactors, which use bacteria to clean incoming wastewater. Photo by Daniel Walton right now,” says Carreiro. “We can stop treating the drinking water and not produce any residuals, or we can manage our residuals.”

COVERING THE SPREAD Water Resources Director David Melton did list another option in the City Council resolution that authorized the Bio-Nomic contract: land application. In other words,

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So Bio-Nomic plans to truck that sludge 137 miles across the state to Concord, which is northeast of Charlotte. The company will charge $1,330 per dry ton to handle the Mills River material, compared with $615 per dry ton for sludge from the North Fork facility.

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applying the sludge directly on agricultural sites around the region.

In a staff report accompanying the resolution, Melton wrote that the sludge “has a high nutrient value and can condition soil for improved fertilization and water retention.”

The staff report went on to state that Bio-nomic will dispose of the sludge through that process.

Carreiro, however, said, “I have no idea why that is there: That is an error,” when asked about the land application language. But while Asheville has no immediate plans to pursue that approach, she clarified, the city will ask Bio-Nomic to assess it for potential future use.

According to a 2011 EPA report, land application of the specific residuals produced by Asheville’s water treatment plants might actually be environmentally detrimental. The report says that alum sludge “does not benefit the soil and is used only for filler material.” Applying this kind of sludge “can result in the adsorption of phosphorus from the soil to the applied residuals, resulting in less productive soil” and increasing heavy metal concentrations in both soil and groundwater.

Melton did not respond to a request for comment about the apparent discrepancy between his contention and the EPA report.

Young, the DEQ spokesperson, says the technique is “not uncommon” in Western North Carolina, with five facilities permitted for the process, although most in the region send their sludge to waste-

water treatment plants or landfills.

The DEQ monitors the levels of 25 parameters for land application, including “ignitability and corrosivity,” and tries to ensure that concentrations of heavy metals such as arsenic and mercury don’t exceed certain limits.

But Edwards of MSD says that land application faces unique challenges in WNC. The wastewater treatment plant, he points out, used to produce a Nutri-Lime sludge product as a soil amendment but stopped in 2004 after regional demand fell far short of the facility’s supply.

The area’s rugged topography, in combination with both federal and state restrictions on how close the sludge can be to wetlands, waterways and neighboring property lines, means “there’s not a whole lot of property around here that is suitable for land application,” Edwards explains. “There’s just a laundry list of reasons that land application is not suitable for MSD as a means to manage our solids.”

Meanwhile, as the city considers its next move, billions of gallons of water continue to flow through its treatment plants, where the sludge is deposited in holding lagoons.

“Managing solids is just a cost of doing business,” says Edwards.

“Whether you’re treating water or you’re treating wastewater, you have got solids you’ve got to manage: It’s just the byproduct of your process.” X

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by Brooke Randle

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LAYING DOWN THE LAW When it comes to knowing the ins and outs of the law, most people would rather leave the legal jargon to an expert. That’s why residents and city officials alike look to City Attorney Brad Branham to parse the fine points of the law as Asheville navigates various legal snares and longstanding tangles. Branham, who started his new job in April after serving as an assistant city attorney in Charlotte since 2012, has already been called upon to publicly lay out Asheville’s legal options for challenging stateimposed district elections and will no doubt confront other legal disputes as he settles into his new role.

Xpress sat down with Branham recently to consider what it’s like to work for the city and what legal obstacles may lie ahead for Asheville. His remarks have been edited for length and, in some instances, rearranged to group similar themes.

Describe your job for folks who might not be familiar with what a city attorney does.

You’re familiar with companies, corporations; they have attorneys.

Municipalities are corporate entities — they just happen to be government corporations. We deal with contracts, we sue and get sued, we defend the city when we’re sued. We deal with local laws and ordinances and help the city interpret and enforce those, but we also handle a lot of laws and help the city stay compliant with those that are handed down either from the federal or the state government.

What are some misconceptions that you’ve heard about your job?

My client is the city of Asheville, the city government of Asheville. It is not the City Council, it is not the city

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City Attorney Brad Branham on representing Asheville

RAISING THE BAR: Asheville City Attorney Brad Branham shares his thoughts on Asheville’s legal hurdles, working in Charlotte and settling into his new role with the city.

Photo by Brooke Randle manager, it is not any particular person.

It’s the city as a whole. We get calls sometimes from people saying, “I need an attorney and you’re the city attorney.

Does that not mean that you’re here to help me?” No, it doesn’t. I’m actually prohibited from doing that.

What are the top legal challenges that Asheville is currently facing?

From a purely legal perspective, I think one of the absolute biggest challenges that we are facing today in Asheville is the power line drawn between the state and local municipalities. One of the biggest examples of this is the new law regarding our City Council election districts. A lot of people are frustrated in North Carolina when they find out that the state government really has almost total authority to do whatever they want to us. We, as a municipality, are given some powers too, but there’s always this tug of war between how much we can do and how much they can do.

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There’s [also] a big legal aspect to affordable housing. People are saying, “We know we need more affordable housing, but how?” What are our legal limitations? How far is too far in terms of how much we can get involved in the private market? An example would be that we’re limited in this state: We’re not allowed to put rent control in place like they have in New York.

And that bleeds right into gentrification. Land use planning is constantly changing, so how do you help grow your city with these land use zoning principles? That’s tough to tell someone that you can do this with your property but not this.

If I were to tack on one more to Asheville, [it would be] our transit system. The state gives us certain funding mechanisms where we’re allowed to raise funds for transit. We can’t simply go out and institute a transit tax in the city of Asheville. We’re not allowed to do that by the state, and people tell

us to do that all the time. We are allowed to levy a county tax, but it would have to come countywide.

What are the biggest differences between working for Asheville and Charlotte?

The size difference, you would think, is the big difference — and it’s noticeable, but in reality, you’re shocked almost to find out that small cities and big cities have a lot of the same problems at a certain point. In Charlotte, I was dealing on a daily basis with affordable housing issues, gentrification, racial tensions and achievement gaps. It’s the same thing you’re dealing with here. It’s on a different scale, but they’re no less intense and they’re no less important.

What are you looking forward to the most during your first year in Asheville?

I would say I’ve got to get this office built back. We had a mass exodus [last year], and unfortunately it came at a time where we had a lot of other city staff go as well, so this place was really getting by for a while on a shoestring staff. Secondarily, I think within the first year it’s really important for me to be able to build a good relationship with the Council. Personally, I’m just having a blast. I’ve been enjoying restaurants and breweries and all the stuff that I missed, since I haven’t been here for the last few years.

Married? Kids?

I’m married, no kids. It’s just me, the wife and pets.

Pets?

I’m from the country. I grew up in a tiny little town, but my wife grew up in Washington, D.C. And because she grew up in a big city with a very small area, no yard, the only pet she could have was a rabbit. So she’s been telling me, “At some point, I want a rabbit again.” And I thought that was pie-inthe-sky talk until I showed up one day, and we had a rabbit. We are now up to three rabbits, because my wife likes to rescue rabbits; three adorable rabbits.

Anything else that you’d like the community to know?

I cannot truly say how happy I am to be here. I told someone recently that Asheville is a challenge. It is politically just a hotbed of a lot of intense thought, but that’s what you want. The alternative is that nobody cares, and when nobody cares, what kind of city are you building? So long as it’s civil, and we realize that everybody’s got ideas. X

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Asheville City Council plans affordable housing, hotel moratorium discussions While the July 23 meeting of Asheville City Council was relatively short — just under an hour and a half — it set the stage for several major conversations to come. Council members announced separate meetings on affordable housing and a potential temporary hotel moratorium, then moved into closed session to further discuss whether the city should take action on the issue of state-imposed district elections.

On Friday, Sept. 6, said Council member Julie Mayfield, the city will hold an affordable housing work session to explore options such as tiny homes and housing voucher acceptance for long-term rentals.

Her declaration came in response to public comment from Drew Crawford, owner of Asheville-based DIY Tiny, who proposed using tiny houses on wheels to address affordable housing shortages.

Crawford asked Council to expand permitted zoning areas for tiny homes to include campgrounds and floodplains, thus increasing their availability and offering alternatives to traditional accessory dwelling units. “They’re not tied to a park that can continually raise prices. This is why ‘on wheels’ is a necessary part of our conversation, because we have large investments [firms] in the region buying up mobile home parks, and they’re not really mobile. The prices get raised, and the lot rent, and the people are stuck there,” Crawford said.

Council members made moves on affordable housing earlier in the night as well, approving three separate Housing Trust Fund loans to support a total of 151 new affordable apartments for individuals and families at under 60% of the area median income ($39,840 per year for a family of four). At least 11 units will be for homeless residents, according to a city press release issued after the approval.

Mayfield also announced that Council plans to discuss whether the city should temporarily ban new hotels in the city during its Planning and Economic Development Committee meeting on Thursday, Aug. 29. She explained that she had floated the idea to Mayor Esther Manheimer after the June 25 vote

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PRESSING ISSUE: Following a vote to allow the conversion of downtown Asheville’s Flatiron Building into a boutique hotel, City Council plans to discuss a temporary hotel moratorium on Aug. 29. Photo by Virginia Daffron to allow the conversion of the Flatiron Building into a boutique hotel.

“We could have a moratorium in place, I think, well before the end of the year, in order to give us the breathing room that we need to have the conversation around guardrails and around hotel construction in the city,” Mayfield said. “Some people will love that, some people will hate that, but that’s where we’re headed.”

Mayfield was in the majority for the Flatiron approval vote, along with Manheimer, Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler and Council member Vijay Kapoor.

She had previously expressed opposition to the project at a May 14 meeting, saying she viewed the Flatiron as “the spiritual center of our city.”

Just after these announcements, Council member Sheneika Smith made a motion for the body to go into closed session to consult with City Attorney Brad Branham regarding “the potential lawsuit regarding city council election districts.” Neither Council members not city officials specified when they would discuss the issue publicly.

— Brooke Randle X

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Buncombe sheriff launches listening sessions in Black Mountain True to his campaign slogan, “Community of We,” Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller is out on patrol to hear from county residents. At the Black Mountain Public Library on July 23, the county’s top law enforcement official spoke to roughly 35 people in the first of five planned listening sessions meant to build relationships with community members around public safety.

“I’m not the Republican sheriff, I’m not the Democratic sheriff, I’m the sheriff of Buncombe County,” Miller said. “I’m their sheriff. The whole community knows that they can come to the sheriff’s office, bring their issues and concerns and see how we’ll work to address them.”

Right off the bat, Miller received a question about his position on voluntary Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers. HB 370, currently under consideration by the N.C. General Assembly, would force

LONG EAR OF THE LAW: Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller responds to audience questions during a July 23 listening session at the Black Mountain Public Library.

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sheriffs to hold, at ICE’s request, people who would otherwise be released for up to 48 hours. His office currently does not honor those requests, saying they do not follow a proper judicial process for detention.

As several other county residents asked about ICE and HB 370, Miller suggested that the bill was racially motivated; all seven of the state’s recently elected black sheriffs have come out against ICE detainers. “It’s very interesting to me that the previous sheriff [Van Duncan, who is white], he didn’t support the 287(g),” he said, referencing another program by which local law enforcement can voluntarily cooperate with ICE. “I personally feel that this is an attack on African American sheriffs, because before now, no one has ever said anything.”

Miller did note that his office would comply with ICE detainers that had been signed by judicial officials. After the meeting, he also confirmed to Xpress

that, if HB 370 becomes law, his office will follow its requirements.

Another resident asked about the county’s approach to its 28 school resource officers. Miller, who himself served as an SRO for the Asheville Police Department and at one point supervised the police’s in-school activity, said his office would step up its efforts for interacting with students beginning the next school year.

SROs should develop schoolspecific projects, take responsibility for public safety issues such as burned-out lights and increase efforts to teach students ways to resist gangs, Miller explained.

“They are now the sheriff of their school,” he said. “I want my SROs to own their particular schools.”

Additionally, Miller highlighted his office’s transparency initiatives. The Buncombe County Detention Center will soon release an informational dashboard on bail bond amounts, which he said show racial disparities.

And he invited residents to register for the fall Citizen’s Academy, which begins on Monday, Sept. 16.

County Manager Avril Pinder, speaking after Miller finished taking questions, praised the sheriff and said his approach aligns with the county’s broader efforts to restore trust in government. “He calls it ‘Community of We,’ and I call it ‘One Buncombe.’ It doesn’t matter where you put your head at night or where you go to work; we all pay taxes to the same authority,” she said. “I want to make sure that we’re delivering on our promise to spend our money well and wisely.”

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SHERIFF LISTENING SESSIONS Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller and Sheriff’s Office staff members will be at the following three listening sessions. Each session runs 6:30-8 p.m.

• Thursday, Aug. 1, at the Weaverville Town Hall, 30 S. Main St., Weaverville • Thursday, Aug. 15, at the South Buncombe/Skyland Library, 260 Overlook Road, Asheville • Thursday, Aug. 22, at the Fairview Community Center, 1357 Charlotte Highway, Fairview

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Middle schoolers research city’s African American past, present Rising sixth, seventh and eighth grade students participating in the Middle School Magic program presented their findings to community members on July 25, the final day of the three-week summer enrichment series held at Asheville Middle School.

About 45 students explored different aspects of the city’s African American history and its lasting effects. “We really wanted to give students a platform to have their voices heard and have their understandings of inequities in our city heard,” explained Ann O’Brien, a sixth grade language arts teacher at Asheville Middle. “We’re talking about

it, we’re thinking about it as staff, but we don’t always get a chance to listen to students.”

“Gentrification is when people with money come into a neighborhood and just clear it out and make profits galore by renovating and buying more land because they are so greedy,” said Makyan, a rising sixth grader. “The prices go up for poor people, and then they cannot stay anymore, because that’s the reason why they were there — because they were poor.”

Melissa, another rising sixth grader, talked about her newfound knowledge of a prominent African American from

IN MEMORY: Just over a year after 12-year-old Derrick Lee Jr. was shot and killed in Lee Walker Heights, Council member Vijay Kapoor announced that a new playground will be named after the boy. Photo by Brooke Randle Asheville City Council member Vijay Kapoor announced on July 23 that a new playground will be named after 12-year-old Derrick Lee Jr., who was shot and killed on July 1, 2018, at Lee Walker Heights apartments. Lee’s murder remains unsolved.

“We hope one day, when folks use the playground and see the name Derrick Lee Jr. there, that they’ll think of Derrick, who was an absolutely wonderful child,” Kapoor said.

“He was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and [that’s] whose memory that we want to honor.”

Lee’s grandparents, the Rev. Eddie Tolbert and his wife, Charlotte Tolbert, along with anti-gun violence activist Jack Logan, petitioned members of Asheville City Council last

year to name something in the city in Derrick’s memory.

“I know little Derrick Lee would have been more than honored to have something named after him,” Rev. Tolbert told those present at the July 23 announcement.

The playground will be built as a part of the Asheville Housing Authority’s renovation of Lee Walker Heights. The Milan Hotel Group has offered to pay for the playground and is also contributing $500,000 to Asheville’s affordable housing trust fund as part of a deal to build a seven-story, 103-room hotel across Biltmore Avenue from Lee Walker Heights. The hotel was approved by a 4-3 Council vote in March.

— Brooke Randle X

EXPLORING EQUITY: Rising Asheville Middle School eighth grader Zariya said she and her classmates saw examples of equity in the workplace at tours of Linamar and Eaton Corp. The tours were part of the three-week Middle School Magic summer enrichment program at Asheville Middle School. Photo

by Virginia Daffron Asheville’s history. “E.W. Pearson made the first African American baseball team,” she said. “My neighborhood, which he founded, was Burton Street. Which is going to be replaced with a highway.”

The students wrote a letter to Asheville City Council with recommendations based on what they learned. The 11and 12-year-olds urged adding markers at sites with significance for Asheville’s African American history, returning South Charlotte Street to its original name of Valley Street and cleaning up broken glass in Triangle Park. In the Burton Street neighborhood, the students said, the city should install garbage cans, organize a community cleanup and stop plans to remove residents’ homes to make way for the Interstate 26 Connector.

Rising seventh grade students created a gallery of artwork to express their interpretations of Asheville’s past, present and future. A poster outlining urban renewal read, “Urban renewal was very complicated. Thousands of residents of Southside were removed. Many were elderly and they didn’t come back. Economic development was good for city. Bad for people.”

Another poster titled “State of Black Asheville” featured phrases including, “On the surface it’s OK. Under the surface it’s not OK” and “The danger that you feel is real.” The poster also traced the percentage of Asheville’s population made up of black residents, from 25% at the end of World War II to 18% in the 1980s, 13% in 2010 and a projected 6% in 2020.

Soon-to-be eighth grade students explored education and employment opportunities, including through tours of the Grove Park Inn, Linamar, Eaton

Corp. and A-B Tech. Zariya said, “We feel as minorities that the service industry is pushed to us as an expectation. Minorities always have the hidden jobs, like being in the kitchen and housekeeping. Linamar and Eaton showed us what equity looks like in the workforce.” Students saw similar numbers of employees of color and white workers in various roles at those businesses, she said.

Student Mariela said she’d like to see more teachers of color in Asheville City Schools, “because it would help the students feel more comfortable.

We would like more teachers of different races and different colors to encourage the students to keep on learning.” Zariya agreed, saying, “We’d like to have more people we can come to in certain situations and they can relate to us.”

A video created by the rising eighth grade group stated, “It’s a different year, a different generation. And things are not the same as before.”

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TAKING ISSUE: In 1955, Jim Stokely Jr., pictured, publicly condemned Montreat resident Dr. Nelson L. Bell for promoting segregation as part of God’s design. Stokely’s accusations against Bell elicited a communitywide response.

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In May 1954, the Supreme Court deemed segregated schools unconstitutional in its decision on Brown v. Board of Education.

Following the ruling, the debate over integration swept the country. In Asheville, residents responded passionately for and against the decision.

On Sept. 4, 1955, Dr. Nelson L. Bell, a former medical missionary, Montreat resident, co-founder of the Southern Presbyterian Journal and father-in-law to prominent evangelist Billy Graham penned an opinion piece published in the Asheville CitizenTimes’ Sunday edition.

In it, Bell wrote that segregation was legally indefensible. However, he continued, “This in no way precludes the expediency, wisdom and right of voluntary alignments along races and other social lines (and it should not be forgotten for one minute that it is the Christian thing at times to be expedient).”

Within the same letter, Bell professed it inexcusable to hate an individual based on skin color. Yet, he also considered it “utterly foolish to think that wishful thinking, an act of the Supreme Court or an act of Church Assembly — any of these — can destroy race distinctions which are God ordained.”

Throughout the piece, Bell condemned the court’s decision, proclaiming that “forced integration cannot be defended, either on legal or moral grounds.”

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In the following week’s Sunday edition, Beaverdam resident Jim Stokely Jr. (husband of writer Wilma Dykeman), offered a rebuttal. Calling Bell’s piece “a curious document,” Stokely asked: “When, by precept or example, did Jesus ever advise expediency rather than justice — or love — or respect — no matter how unfashionable these virtues were, no matter how unfamiliar to the society in which he lived?”

Appalled by Bell’s message, Stokely concluded: “The Southern White Christian, as represented by Dr. Bell, presents a fascinating study in schizophrenia.

Proclaiming their love of God and their fellow man on one hand, with the other they deny half of their neighbors the full welcome and fellowship of their hearts.”

The following day, local Jewish businessman Hebert Wadopian sent Stokely a personal letter applauding his piece. “I wanted in the worst way to write an answer to [Bell] but could not find the backbone to do it,” he wrote Stokely. “In my own defense I must say that I reasoned that because I am a member of another minority group I felt it would sound better coming from someone of Dr. Bell’s own faith[.]”

Continuing, Wadopian declared that the very thought of Bell thumbing through his Bible “to find ‘reasons’ for continuing an

obvious injustice” made the businessman “want to step outside and vomit.”

Near the end of his correspondence, Wadopian thanked Stokely again for speaking out against the doctor’s words: “You have done a real service to Humanity and I hope this one small voice will help you grit your teeth and fight off the nasty letters I am sure you will get.”

Indeed, letters appeared in the following week’s paper. In multiple instances, Bell’s supporters pointed to Genesis, Chapter 10. They insisted all African Americans descended from Ham, whose son Canaan was cursed by God to be his brother’s servant.

“This servile gift is peculiar only to the Negro race,” a Mrs. S.F. White wrote in her letter to the editor. Echoing Bell’s sentiment, she continued: “The Negro is precious in [God’s] sight and should not be enslaved. He should be encouraged to advance in his own God-given privileges, but to mix with other races is absolutely contrary to God’s word as well as to nature.”

Other responses, while less dogmatic, still opposed the Supreme Court ruling. “I believe in segregation, entirely as a matter of principle,” wrote one T.D. Williams. “I don’t believe integration will work in the South, certainly at this time.

Maybe it will come when the present generation, with all its prejudices, is gone.”

Yet other letters supported Stokely’s stance and the civil rights movement.

“The Southern papers, proud stewards of the public truth, have loosed a cannonade of angry editorials against desegregation, the United States courts and Negro leadership,” wrote David D. Carrol. But, the writer continued: “No Southern newspaper has ever held a symposium in which national Negro leaders could themselves state their aims. The Southern air has been filled with radio and television attacks by white leaders upon desegregation.

But the aspirations of Negroes have been stated by white men, not by Negroes. … Judge the Negro leaders by their own words and acts, not the misgivings of their accusers.”

Editor’s note: Antiquated and offensive language is preserved from the original text, along with peculiarities of spelling and punctuation. Wadopian’s letter comes courtesy of Jim Stokely III. X

COMMUNITY CALENDAR JULY 31 - AUG. 8, 2019

Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (8/3), 10am Leicester Food Swap, bring homegrown, foraged or homemade foods to trade. Free to attend. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester

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

ANIMALS BIRDS OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA • TH (8/1), 6:30-7:30pm - Presentation by the Transylvania County Bird Club. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard SENSORY INCLUSION EVENT • SA (8/3), 9am Sensory inclusion event for guests with sensory sensitivities and their families. Admission fees apply. Held at WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road

BENEFITS ADULT SPELLING BEE • TH (8/8), 5-8pm - Proceeds from the Adult Spelling Bee benefit four West Asheville schools. $25 participants/$10 spectators. Held at Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road

FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE • 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview

ODD NIGHT OUT • FR (8/2), 6-10:30pm - Proceeds from Odd Night Out, a charity poker tournament, benefit Camplify's youth development program.

Tickets: avl.mx/6ce. $100. Held at Cascades Mountain Resort, 201 Sugarloaf Road, Hendersonville

WHAT IF YOU COULDN'T BUY IT? • TU (8/6), 6pm - What if You Couldn't Buy It? Cooking class. $10.

Held at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY DEEP DIVE LAB: HOW TO BUILD YOUR BRAND • TU (8/8), 9am-noon - Deep Dive Lab: How to Build Your Brand, seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler DEFCON 828 GROUP • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security professionals, students and enthusiasts. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

CYCLE NC MOUNTAIN RIDE • SA (8/3) & SU (8/4) - Proceeds from the Cycle North Carolina Mountain Ride benefit North Carolina Amateur Sports. Registration: ncsports.org. $90+.

FREE MARKETING SEMINAR • TU (8/6), 9am-5pm 360i marketing seminar with lunch. Registration required: ashevillecvb. com. Free. Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St.

IMAGINE COMMUNITY CONCERT • SU (8/4) 7pm Proceeds from the variety show, emceed by classical pianist/ composer David Troy Francis features music, acting, dance and poetry, benefit Haywood Street Fresco.

Tickets: avl.mx/69h. $35/$75/$125 VIP. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 18 Biltmore Ave.

NC IDEA FOUNDATION • TH (8/1), 11:30am1pm - An overview of NC Idea Foundation Fall 2019 grant opportunities for ambitious, growth-oriented companies. Held at Venture Asheville, 36 Montford Ave. WNC LINUX USER GROUP • 1st SATURDAYS, noon - Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems.

FESTIVALS

TIME TO CLOG: The 92nd annual Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, the nation’s longest running folk festival, showcases Southern Appalachia’s traditional and old-time musicians, ballad singers, mountain dance groups and cloggers. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, Thursday through Saturday, Aug. 1-3, with a different show each night, 6:30. For the full schedule and ticket information, visit folkheritage.org. Net proceeds support for Shindig on the Green. Photo courtesy of Angela Wilhelm (p. 19) Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Intro to Pole Fitness on Mondays 6:15pm, Tuesdays 7:15pm, and Saturdays 11:30am. Beginning Aerial Arts on Sundays 2:15pm, Tuesdays 1:00pm, Wednesdays 7:30pm, Thursdays 5:15pm, and Saturdays 2:30pm. Aerial Kids on Wednesdays 4:30pm.

EMPYREANARTS.ORG. 828.782.3321 ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting.

Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE SUBMARINE VETERANS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm Social meeting for US Navy

submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan's Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm Monthly peace vigil. Free.

Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 5pm - Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • Every other TUESDAY, 4pm - Basic computer skills class. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CASHIERS DESIGNER SHOWHOUSE • Through SA (8/3) - 2019 Cashiers Designer Showhouse, weeklong event with gala, lectures, book signings, brunch and workshops. See website for

full schedule and pricing: cashiershistoricalsociety.org.

LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA • TH (8/1), 10am - Monthly meeting. Registration at 9:30am. Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc. org • WE (7/31), 5:30-8pm or TU (8/6), 9am-12:30pm Basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize goals, saving strategies and tracking spending.

Registration required. Free.

• TH (8/1), 5:30-6:30pm or MO (8/5), noon1pm - Going to College without Going Broke, class.

Registration required. Free.

• FR (8/2), noon-1:30pm or WE (8/7), noon-1:30pm - Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar. Registration required. Free. • MO (8/5),

5:30-7pm - Budgeting and Debt, class. Registration required. Free.

• TH (8/8), 5:30-7pm - Preventing Identity Theft, class.

Registration required. Free.

SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road TRIVIA NIGHT • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Trivia night. Free. Held at VFW Post 9157, 165 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain

LEAF DOWNTOWN • FR (8/2), 4-10pm & SA (8/3), noon-10pm - Out-

MOUNTAIN DANCE AND FOLK FESTIVAL • TH (8/1) through SA (8/3), 6:30pm - Showcase of the region’s traditional and old-time musicians, ballad singers, mountain dance groups and cloggers. Tickets: bit.ly/2OBWKtG. $20 adults/$25 door, $5 student and child/$10 door. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane MT MITCHELL CRAFTS FAIR • FR (8/2) & SA (8/3), 9am-5pm - Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair, artists, craftspeople, live music and food.

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SPELL CHECK: Proceeds from the Adult Spelling Bee benefits four of West Asheville’s public schools. Rouleau Real Estate Group’s goal is $10,000 to help close that gap in the shortfall of educational funding. The spelling bee is planned for Thursday, Aug. 8, at 5 p.m. at Ambrose West. (p. 19)

Square, 100 Town Square, Burnsville NC MINERAL AND GEM FESTIVAL • TH (8/1) through SA (8/3), 10am-5pm & SU (8/4), 12:30-5pm - 60th annual NC Mineral and Gem Festival featuring jewelry, gemstones, minerals, beads, crystals and fossils. Information: $3. Held at Spruce Pine Commons Shopping Center, 12085 S. Highway 226, Spruce Pine VILLAGE ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR • SA (8/3), 10am-7pm & SU (8/4), noon-5pm - Art and craft fair juried by New Morning Gallery with 110 participating artists.

Free to attend. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St.

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

Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room, Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. CONGRESSMAN MCHENRY TOWN HALL • WE (7/31), 10am Congressman McHenry

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gives an update on legislative activity in the US Congress and takes questions. Free. Held at Riceville Fire Department, 2251 Riceville Road • WE (7/31), 6pm - Congressman McHenry gives an update on legislative activity in the US Congress and takes questions.

Free. Held at Rutherford County School Board Chambers, 382 W. Main St., Forest City DESIGN CONCEPTS FOR THOMAS WOLFE CABIN • TH (8/1), 2-3:30pm Provide feedback on Lord Aeck Sargent’s findings and design concepts for the Thomas Wolfe Cabin site. Held at Asheville Recreation Park, 65 Gashes Creek Road • TH (8/1), 5:30-7pm Provide feedback on Lord Aeck Sargent’s findings and design concepts for the Thomas Wolfe Cabin site. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St. HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 1216 6th Ave. W., Suite 600, Hendersonville, 828692-6424, myhcdp.com • SA (8/3), 9-11am Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10.

INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva

MOMS DEMAND ACTION FOR GUN SENSE IN AMERICA • MO (8/5), 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend.

Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St. MOUNTAINSIDE PARK AND MEMORIAL STADIUM BONDS • TH (8/1), 11am-2pm & 6-8pm - A community meeting to gauge support for the planned improvements at Mountainside Park and Memorial Stadium. Free. Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. NEIGHBORHOOD ISSUE FORUM • SA (8/3), 10am-noon - The Neighborhood Issue Forum on the City’s Noise Ordinance revisions.

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Registration required: 828-250-4720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (8/1), 1pm - Mountain Marionettes: Jazzy Strings. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TH (8/1), 3pm - 3 librarian storytellers. Free.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • FR (8/2), noon - Rock painting. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • SA (8/3), 10am - Lego Club, ages 5 and up. Free.

Held at Oakley/South Asheville Library, 749 Fairview Road • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Mother Goose Time, storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • MO (8/5), 6pm - Centering activities for children and adults. Age 7+. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (8/6), 2pm - Make decorations for Unicorn Party, ages 4-8. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (8/6), 5pm - Use robotics to explore the solar system. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TU (8/6), 6pm - String and nail craft, ages 11-18. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road

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Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon - Storytime + Art, project for preschool students. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Heroes Unlimited, role playing game for grades 6-12. Registration required. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • WE (8/7), 4pm - Make unicorn costumes.

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Ages 4-8. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • WE (8/7), 6pm - Family Tai Chi. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (8/8), 2:30 & 4pm - Make a robot out of Legos, then team up to battle the remote-controlled robots.

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Held at Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, ncwildlife.org/Learning/ Education-Centers/Pisgah/ Event-Registration • WE (7/31), 9am-3pm - Primitive outdoor skills activities for ages 10-15.

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Information: firestorm.coop, 828-7074364 or stevensonwa@ guilford.edu. Free. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road TENNIS PLAY DAY • SUNDAYS, 2-4pm - Organized tennis for juniors of all ages and skill levels. Registration: avltennis.com or AvlJuniorTennis@gmail. com. Free. Held at Aston Park, 336 Hilliard Ave. VACATION BIBLE SCHOOL • SU (8/4) through TH (8/8), 6-8:30pm - Vacation Bible School, Shipwrecked: Rescued by Jesus. Registration: 828298-7647. Ages 4 through grade 5. Free. Held at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road WHERE'S WALDO PARTY • SA (8/3), 2pm - Annual Where's Waldo wrap-up party. Free to attend.

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SPORTS LEAF ART DASH 5K • SA (8/3), 9am - Proceeds from the LEAF Art Dash 5K benefit LEAF Schools & Streets. $35/$25. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

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BY HANNAH MASSEN hmassen@elon.edu In the run-up to World Breastfeeding Week, Thursday-Wednesday, Aug. 1-7, local elected officials have proclaimed their intention that Asheville and Buncombe County should be a breastfeeding-friendly community.

But earning the breastfeeding-friendly designation, Buncombe County Health and Human Services Director Tony Blevins told county commissioners, involves a 10-step process — and we’ve only just begun.

The second step in the Breastfeeding-Family-Friendly Community Designation (developed by the Carolina Global Breastfeeding Institute) reads, “The community as a whole provides a welcoming atmosphere for breastfeeding families.”

Local moms say there’s a long way to go before the city and county can check that box.

Asheville resident Tatiana Rivest, a first-time mom whose daughter is 8 months old, says she’s scared to breastfeed in public places. After hearing stories of mothers being scolded and kicked out of local businesses, she has decided to nurse her baby in the car instead.

A May survey commissioned by Asheville-based Aeroflow Healthcare found that one in four American women (25%) and one in five men (22%) find breastfeeding or pumping in public places inappropriate.

Women, the survey found, were more likely to feel uncomfortable seeing a mom nursing her baby in public than men (30% of women versus 24% of men). And 61% of respondents felt that nursing or pumping in a restaurant is not OK. THE MILKY WAY Lactation expert Georganna Cogburn imagines a truly breastfeeding-friendly community as a place where new moms are supported in all aspects of their lives. Mothers would feel safe to breastfeed in public, whether in a store, restaurant or park.

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Cogburn works with the Mountain Area Health Education Center and provides lactation education for breastfeeding peer counselors and health department staff members involved with Women, Infants and Children nutrition programs throughout Western North Carolina. Realizing the breastfeedingfriendly vision, she says, will take broad support and participation throughout the community.

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MOTHER’S HELPER: Lactation expert Georganna Cogburn, left, recently caught up with two of her clients: a local mom and her 4-week-old baby. Photo courtesy of Mountain Area Health Education Center feeding at the July 16 meeting of the Board of Commissioners.

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, Beach-Ferrara said, breastfeeding is associated with lower rates of communicable disease and obesity in infants, as well as a decreased risk for postpartum complications and breast and ovarian cancers in mothers.

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and Dietetics says that breast milk is a “living biological fluid” with many qualities that cannot be replicated by formula substitutes, she added.

Reading the city’s proclamation declaring Asheville a breastfeedingfamily-friendly community on July 23, Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler said, “A mother’s decision to breastfeed should be supported by her family and community.” She pointed to “persistent inequities” affecting Buncombe County’s youngest residents, noting that African American babies are almost four times as likely to die in the first year of life as white babies. Providing a supportive and welcoming environment for breastfeeding in the community, Wisler said, “could be an antidote to tragedy and a strategy toward advancing equitable birth outcomes in the city of Asheville and Buncombe County.”

BARRIERS TO BREASTFEEDING Among participants in the Buncombe County WIC program, there is a significant disparity between the number of white women and women of color who are able to successfully breastfeed their infants. According to Blevins, as of May, 24% of white WIC participants exclusively breastfeed compared with 17% of WIC participants of color, and 15% of white WIC infants were partially breastfed compared with 13% of infants of color.

According to information on the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services website, children younger than 5, pregnant women and women who have had a baby in the last six

months can receive WIC. Eligibility for mothers extends to 12 months following birth for those who breastfeed. A family income of less than 185% of the poverty level is required to qualify. The service provides “basic nutritious foods,” as well as education and support, to eligible participants, the website explains.

For those who can access the available resources, Asheville has a leg up on other corners of Western North Carolina, according to MAHEC’s Cogburn. “Asheville is better than some of the areas in our region,” she explains.

“Once you leave Asheville proper, the resources that are available to help women breastfeed are not as plentiful, and women struggle because they don’t have access to the resources they need. There are limited resources even in Buncombe County, just because the number of moms that need help and the number of people that are available to help them don’t match up.”

Supportive resources include access to health care providers and lactation specialists in case of a complication, education for first-time mothers, and pumping locations and equipment to allow mothers to continue supplying milk after returning to work.

EDUCATION IS KEY Jen Chandlee, a certified lactation educator at Homegrown Babies, teaches weekly breastfeeding and newbornreadiness classes to help prevent problems before the baby is even delivered.

“To have the biggest chance of success with breastfeeding, prenatal education is the best way to do that,” Chandlee says. “Most people think that baby’s just going to know how to do it, or mom’s just going to know how to do it, but it just doesn’t work that way for a lot of people. If they don’t know that help is out there or when to get help, they will often stop nursing.”

Through her work with the WNC Breastfeeding Coalition, Chandlee and her co-workers have offered to collaborate with local school systems and businesses to find ways for employers to better support their staff members who are nursing.

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W ELL NESS the workplace breastfeeding-friendly,” Chandlee says.

To continue to produce milk, a woman must nurse her baby or pump milk on a regular schedule. According to information provided by the La Leche League International, a breastfeeding advocacy organization, that means expressing milk every two to three hours for most mothers. Over the course of an eight-hour workday, that could mean three pumping breaks of at least 15 minutes per break to maintain a mother’s milk supply.

MAKING IT WORK Aeroflow Healthcare supplies breast pumps to women with qualifying insurance coverage. Jennifer Jordan, who directs the company’s Mom and Baby department, says Aeroflow uses a variety of approaches to boost breastfeeding awareness, including deploying its Breast Express, a mobile breastfeedingfriendly RV “with boobs painted all over the side” to various events and locations.

“Unless mom is kind of initiating that need for lactation support or possibly talking to her child’s pediatrician, who may or may not have resources in the

office to support breastfeeding, sometimes mom can get lost,” Jordan says.

“It’s really about hoping that mom has those conversations prior to birth and knows and understands the resources in the area so if she is having challenges, she is able to take advantage of those and can reach her breastfeeding and pumping goals.”

Aeroflow provides a public pumping room — a resource that can be hard to come by — in its headquarters at 65 Beale Road in Arden.

Rivest recalls having to use a courthouse locker room to pump when she served on jury duty several weeks ago.

The room did not lock, and she was frequently interrupted. Fortunately, she found her previous workplace more accommodating.

“People get smoke breaks — why shouldn’t moms have breaks to pump?” Rivest asks. “I was also very fortunate to have a spare office to use while I was employed but have also heard of moms having to pump in their cars. It’s wild how unaccommodating our society is to this.”

Aeroflow is about to launch its second annual pumping room makeover contest in celebration of National Breastfeeding Awareness Week.

During August, businesses can apply for a free pumping room makeover, which could include everything from new furniture to appliances. The five finalists and the winner will be selected through a public forum.

While Asheville is on its way to becoming a breastfeeding-friendly cer-

tified city, Chandlee says spreading the word about resources is key.

“I think we have a lot of fantastic resources, but I think there can never be enough,” Chandlee says. “There is a lot of support available, but I think the biggest issue is getting the word out about where women can get help.” X

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Electric vehicle infrastructure expands in WNC

in North Carolina,” says Brightfield owner Stan Cross. “And Duke Energy’s ET Pilot will help bring the resources forward to deploy charging infrastructure to support EV drivers and bus fleets. Both are really important in growing the local EV market.

We need to recognize that the market is still very young, and when you’re trying to make such a monumental change, utility investment and state policy are critical.”

DEMAND SPIKE According to InsideEVs.com, nearly 149,000 fully electric vehicles have been sold or leased in the U.S. since January — a considerable increase over the same period for 2018, when customers purchased about 124,000 battery-driven cars. To meet this influx of EVs, Duke Energy spokesperson Randy Wheeless says his company is preparing for major action.

“The EV movement is changing rapidly,” Wheeless says, “and Duke Energy is taking big steps with their $76 million ET Pilot initiative. This program will spur EV adoption across the state, provide incentives to customers and lead to a statewide network of fast-charging stations to meet growing demand.”

Pending regulatory approval, the pilot program would start this year and run for three years to research vehicle loads and accelerate the adoption of electric transportation technologies.

In addition to installing and operating over 800 public charging stations across North Carolina, including around 200 in the western part of the state, Duke plans to offer $1,000 rebates for customers to install their own charging infrastructure and support the purchase of up to 85 electric school buses.

Wheeless estimates that 95% of comments submitted to the N.C.

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BY CAROL KAUFMAN crendl303@gmail.com Owning and driving an electric car may soon get a lot easier for residents of Western North Carolina. Although nearly 100 public charging stations are currently installed within 15 kilometers (9 miles) of Asheville, according to ChargeHub — a sixth of the approximately 600 charging stations installed across the state — many more are on the way. Governments, businesses and private individuals are all accelerating their efforts to electrify the way WNC gets around.

The region’s push for electric vehicle infrastructure comes as part of a statewide effort initiated by Gov. Roy Cooper. In his Executive Order 80, which lays out North Carolina’s commitment to address climate change

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and transition to a clean energy economy, the governor calls for at least 80,000 zero-emission vehicles to be registered in the state by 2025.

Roughly 4,500 all-electric vehicles had been registered in North Carolina through 2017, the most recent year for which U.S. Department of Energy data is available.

More EVs on the road means more charging stations will be needed to meet the growing demand for power.

Companies such as Asheville-based Brightfield Transportation Solutions, as well as private citizens, are stepping up to meet the challenge. And Duke Energy, the state’s regulated public utility, recently proposed the N.C. Electric Transportation Pilot — the Southeast’s largest utility EV initiative yet.

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G RE EN S CE N E Utilities Commission about Duke’s ET Pilot support the program, with backers including the Ashevillebased Blue Horizons Project, Sierra Club and Southern Environmental Law Center. He says Duke disagrees with negative comments made by the commission’s public staff and several renewables industry trade groups.

“The naysayers argue that there’s no benefit to North Carolina investing in EV charging stations,” Wheeless says. “North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association claims that Duke’s pilot program would entirely flood the market with public Level II [higher-power] plugs, leaving no room for further market participation. Really? Should ‘flooding the market’ really be a concern?”

Jordan Jones, the NCSEA’s engagement and equity specialist, says her organization supports parts of the Duke pilot but worries about its approach to charging stations. “Too much uncertainty in Duke’s analysis and current market understanding left us concerned that Duke will have too much market control over EV infrastructure and deployment, which could be bad for ratepayers and EV drivers,” she says.

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The community now boasts three electric cars, and anticipating further demand, Duke Energy installed a dedicated meter last month with six 120-volt outlets, as well as one Level II charger. As a next step, Westwood is considering a proposal by Weaverville-based Sundance Energy Systems to install photovoltaic solar panels so the cars can run on pure sunshine, which community members hope will entice more residents to make the switch.

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PLUGGED IN: Westwood Cohousing’s electric-vehicle owners — from left, Pana Columbus, Teri and Daniel Sandoval and David Clements — stand with their cars in front of the community’s common house. Photo by Carol Kaufman LEADING THE CHARGE Cross isn’t waiting for Duke’s program to start driving electric infrastructure. His company installed its first three chargers in Asheville in 2012 and has since placed 81 stations through-

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out WNC, with locations including the South Asheville Earth Fare grocery, UNC Asheville and Hot Springs Resort and Spa. Six of those are Brightfield Solar Canopy systems that integrate the generation, storage and delivery of solar fuel to EVs. “Although we represent a fraction of all EV activity,” Cross explains, “our focus is to leapfrog fossil fuel and get cars driving on sun power. We’re working on installing charging stations along with solar systems in order to offset the electricity that chargers put out with clean, renewable solar fuel.”

The residents of Westwood Cohousing are also making a move into EVs. The community of 24 households in West Asheville has installed charging stations for its electric car owners, with the first outlet arriving in 2017 at the suggestion of incoming community member Pana Columbus.

“After purchasing my Nissan Leaf in April 2017,” says Columbus, “I saw an opening at Westwood Cohousing and jumped on it, being that I wanted to live in an intentional community. However, the only way I could live at Westwood was if I could plug in my Leaf.”

Columbus voiced her request, and Daniel Sandoval, a member of Westwood since 2015 and the community’s utilities superintendent, went about moving a 120-volt plug from inside a member’s fenced backyard to the outside, giving Columbus access to the outlet in the community’s parking lot. That simple change, he said, encouraged him to shift his own transportation.

“Pana Columbus is a true trailblazer,” says Sandoval. “I wouldn’t have been as quick to buy my hybrid electric car if Pana hadn’t paved the way.”

Dave Erb, a retired UNCA professor, has been in the automotive engineering business since 1981 and currently owns both a Tesla Model 3 and Chevy Spark. As a member of several EV organizations, including the Electric Auto Association and Blue Ridge EV Club, he’s seen the industry go through its share of ups and downs. Now, he says, “electrification is ready for prime time today” in the vehicle market.

“I feel that there are enough electric cars on the road to prove there’s a real interest in EVs,” Erb says. “The downside is the huge amount of misinformation floating around.

“Naysayers will circulate studies about electric vehicles being worse for the environment than gas-fueled ones, and this kind of misinformation is coming not just from Fox News, but from The New York Times and NPR,” Erb continues. “Trillions of dollars’ worth of business is going to be disrupted by EV technology. They’re trying to delay the inevitable by spreading fear, uncertainty and doubt.”

However, Erb says that the increasing adoption of EVs has given those interested in switching from gas-powered transportation more avenues to learn for themselves. He points to the local community of EV owners, the Blue Ridge EV Club website and the electric car show coming to the Asheville Outlets on Saturday, Sept.

14, as ways for prospective buyers to get accurate info.

When it comes to the efforts of major players such as Duke and state government, Erb is cautiously optimistic. “While I certainly support the EV goals of Executive Order 80, I’m not so sure about Duke’s pilot project,” he comments. “Allowing Duke to enter this arena, which can be served by competitive businesses, will require us to be extra vigilant.” X

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Get Off the Grid Fest Rural Riceville Road, which ambles through fields and forests just a few miles east of Asheville, may seem an unlikely setting for a festival. But a 16-acre pasture on that route will soon play host to the second biennial Get Off the Grid Fest.

The inaugural Get Off the Grid Fest happened in 2017 in Blairsville, Ga., to coincide with the total solar eclipse. The second event, which takes place Friday through Sunday, Aug. 9-11, will feature 30 live music acts, including Rising Appalachia and Sol Driven Train, but the festival’s focus, as its name indicates, is renewable energy and sustainable living. As part of that overarching theme, multiple free workshops on agriculture and gardening topics are scheduled throughout the weekend.

Festival co-organizer Laura Love says she had two specific criteria in mind for the individuals and organizations she tapped to lead the event’s agriculture and food classes: They should be local and have an off-grid vision.

“By off-grid, we don’t mean that they must use renewable energy on a farm,” she explains. “We mean that they have beliefs and practices that are off the grid of corporate farming practices.”

The workshop topics vary widely.

Danny’s Dumpster owner Danny Keaton will speak about composting with black soldier flies. Mountainview Farms Project will host a workshop on aquaponics, and Living Web Farms will offer classes on biochar and renewable energy systems for farms.

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SIERRA CLUB MEETING • TH (8/1), 7pm - Hiking the Rim of the Swannanoa Valley, presentation by Mary and Joe Standaert.

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TOWN HALL WITH JOHN AGER • SU (8/4), 6pm - John Ager (Democratic NC House Representative, District 115) discusses Medicaid expansion standoff, Duke coal-ash cleanup and the Republican effort to shift the cost to ratepayers rather than shareholders, education and other issues. Held at Upper Hickory Nut Gorge Community Center, 4730 Gerton Highway, Gerton

farming. “It will cover how to work with the land to bring it to its full potential and allow it to function as a living organism,” he says.

No camping, pets or coolers are allowed at the festival, and no parking is permitted on-site. Free shuttles will run continuously throughout the event from four nearby parking areas.

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FOR LAND’S SAKE: Through his nonprofit, the Recovery Eco-Agriculture Project, Frank Holzman teaches sustainable land use and how to establish balanced ecosystems. He’ll offer a presentation on regenerative gardening and farming at 4:30 p.m. Aug. 10 at Get Off the Grid Fest. Photo courtesy of Get Off the Grid Fest There will also be presentations on goatherding, beekeeping, forest farming, climate change and more, as well as a tour of Warren Wilson College’s farm and recycling center. Additionally, Love notes, farmers and gardening enthusiasts may want to check out the festival’s solar energy expo, which will feature small-scale solar equipment and workshops on how to build microgrids.

The lead speaker for the food and agriculture track is sustainable farming consultant and author Frank Holzman, whose Saturday afternoon discussion will explore regenerative gardening and

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kswest55@comcast.net It’s 5:17 p.m., and you’ve just gotten home from work. It’s your spouse’s turn to pick up the kids from day care/ soccer practice/piano lessons, and you have 43 minutes to get food on the table before real-life hunger games kick in.

You: • Open refrigerator door and stare blankly at the contents hoping something lurking inside will miraculously inspire a meal plan. You do this several times a week, with the exact same outcome. Nada. So you …

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• “One pepperoni, one cheese, stat!”

The scenario is replicated on a daily basis in millions of households across America. According to Food Genius, a Chicago-based research firm and food service data provider, as many as 80% of Americans don’t make plans for that day’s dinner until at least 4 p.m.

“It was the same conversation over and over,” says Asheville resident Kani Nicolls of the daily dinner dilemma in her two-person household. “You come home from work and you’re tired and hungry, and the conversation begins: What should we have for dinner? We should cook. There’s nothing here to cook. Where should we go? We wanted convenience, and we wanted to eat healthy, so we started looking at meal service options.”

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KITS OR COOKED? Even before Alexa began eavesdropping in our homes, big national companies and small local entrepreneurs heard these exasperated conversations and competed to cook up solutions. One of the first subscriptionbased meal kit delivery services was Blue Apron, launched in 2012 in Long Island City, N.Y. The company expanded through opening large fulfillment

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ON THE GO: Dustin Orofino launched his subscription meal service, Asheville Pro Kitchen, in 2017. He caters to busy people looking for quick, healthy and satisfying options. “Working families with new babies and kids are so busy they don’t have time to cook, and many seniors can’t or just don’t want to cook much anymore,” Orofino says. “We want to anticipate needs and fill them.” Photo courtesy of Asheville Pro Kitchen centers in California, New Jersey and Texas, blanketing the country with its branded boxes packed with recipes and all the ingredients necessary to cook them at home.

Imitators followed with varying degrees of success, but over time, many found their customer bases dissatisfied with the time and effort it still took to assemble a meal. Thirty minutes can seem like forever to a cranky toddler or hangry adult. Next up on the food chain: subscription services that deliver fully cooked meals to your door, reducing box-to-

table time from 30 minutes to three (depending on the meal).

Freshly, founded in 2015 by Michael Wystrach, an investment banker who didn’t like cooking and found himself putting on weight thanks to too much takeout, delivers fresh-not-frozen, prepared meals weekly via subscription. About 30 unique meals are on each rotation, all of them gluten-free with options for low-calorie, low-carb, dairy-free, vegetarian and paleo-friendly.

A weekly 12-meal plan can feed a family of four three meals per week

starting at $107.99. Pricier and more upscale — complete with celebrity clientele — is Sakara, which offers organic, plant-based, gluten/dairy/ egg-free ready-to-eat breakfasts, lunches and dinners. The three-day Signature Plan with three meals and drinks per day is $239 per week per person.

LOOKING FOR LOCAL So convenience, check. Healthy, check. But it was the local aspect of Asheville’s Eden-Out Organic Meals that sealed the deal for Nicolls, who relies on the service for dinner several nights a week. “We didn’t even consider any of the national ones,” she says. “I think their carbon footprint is huge, so I couldn’t justify that. One of the big reasons we do this is because it is local.”

Chris Sharpe and his family purchased Veg-In-Out from founder William Najger in 2014. “We have a farm in Weaverville, Gnome Town Farm, and we were interested in pursuing value-added products,” he explains. “William was making organic meals, but he wasn’t growing the vegetables. We knew we could grow the vegetables and make the meals.”

The produce for the vegan, nonGMO, organic meals created by Sharpe is harvested from his farm and supplemented by items from Gaining Ground Farm and R Farm, also local.

“I changed the menu quite a bit to reflect my own style,” Sharpe says.

“I’ve been cooking all my life. I cook

intuitively. Everything is in my head; I don’t actually write things down.”

Hannah Jeske, Eden-Out’s office manager and also owner of R Farm, laughs in agreement. “Some of our customers have asked about a cookbook, and we’ve thought about it,” she says. “But it doesn’t really translate from Chris’s head to the page.”

Each week’s menu offers seven vegan and mostly gluten-free entrees, including a hearty soup, a couple of salads and a dessert add-on, if requested. A 24-ounce serving is two portion sizes; a full order of nine 24-ounce items is $97.50 with delivery or $92.50 for pickup from the Woodfin kitchen. Half-orders of five 24-ounce entrées are available, as are 10-packs of 12-ounce entrées that single people often opt for.

Sharpe cooks in the Woodfin kitchen Sundays and Mondays for deliveries on Tuesdays between 2 and 6 p.m. He changes the menu weekly after seeing what produce is available and abundant and posts the new menu on Wednesday for customers to peruse before the Saturday night order deadline.

“We have a lot of long-term customers and new people exploring this kind of eating,” Jeske says. “We kind of think of Eden-Out as a transitioning service for people who want to start plant-based eating but don’t know how to cook that way.”

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“We were in our 40s, and decided we needed to be healthier,” says Isner. “We joined the gym, and a few months later Dustin started offering delivery of his meals there. We like that it’s not processed, and we know who is cooking it and where. I don’t have to plan it, shop for it, cook it or clean up after it. He delivers on days we are there anyway, and it couldn’t be easier. We have never had a meal we didn’t like.”

Orofino grew up in the family restaurant business in New York state.

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“When I first launched, I started going to fitness centers and gyms to

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tell them about myself and my company,” he says. “I suggested that if they would allow me to make their gym a delivery location, it could help their members reach their goals.

They let me set up a table with samples and information to introduce my service to members. Those meet-andgreets, customer referrals and social media grew the company.”

Asheville Pro Kitchen is subscription-based (the minimum order is four meals, starting at $40, eight meals for $75) with deliveries on Tuesdays and/or Thursdays. Clients place orders by Saturday night from a list of eight options, which change

weekly. Orofino cooks in a certified commercial kitchen the day before each delivery for optimal freshness.

In addition to offering pickup from about a dozen fitness centers, the Lululemon retail store in Biltmore Village and Blue Sky MD, Asheville Pro Kitchen does home delivery in the greater Asheville area. The company’s marketing targets day care centers and retirement communities.

“Working families with new babies and kids are so busy they don’t have time to cook, and many seniors can’t or just don’t want to cook much anymore,” Orofino says. “We want to anticipate needs and fill them.” X

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LEAN ON ME It’s after midnight and you’ve just finished a double shift working front of house at a downtown restaurant at the height of tourist season. Your back is aching, and a snarky comment from a cantankerous customer has left you feeling emotionally fragile. But you’re still too wide awake from hours on your feet in stressful, adrenaline-fueled conditions to consider heading home to bed.

Instead, you walk to a nearby bar for a round (or three) of drinks with co-workers.

In many professions, a challenging workday can end with a visit to the gym, a leisurely meal or time with family. But in the food and beverage industry, with its late hours and high-stress atmosphere, alcohol and drug use is a notoriously common means of winding down.

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Ben’s Friends provides a support network for restaurant workers dealing with substance abuse

FRESH AIR: Jane Anderson, left, executive director of Asheville Independent Restaurants, invited Ben’s Friends co-founder Mickey Bakst, right, to lead an information meeting for a group of 25 local restaurateurs in advance of the inaugural Asheville Ben’s Friends chapter meeting on July 23. Ben’s Friends meetings take place every Tuesday at Posana. Photo by Hannah Ramirez tality sector far surpassed other industries in rates of substance use disorder and illicit drug use and trailed only mining and construction work for heavy alcohol consumption.

This month, a program debuted in Asheville that could prove to be a valuable resource for the local food and beverage community. On July 23, Posana restaurant hosted Western North Carolina’s first meeting of Ben’s Friends, a support group program aimed at addressing the unique challenges faced by industry workers grappling with substance abuse and addiction.

Ben’s Friends was founded in 2016 in Charleston, S.C., by longtime restaurant professionals Mickey Bakst and Steve Palmer when Palmer’s friend, Charleston chef Ben Murray, took his own life after struggling with addiction.

Both Bakst and Palmer have impressive track records of successful sobriety — 36 years for Bakst, 18 years for Palmer.

In response to dire need nationwide, the program has mushroomed, with chapters popping up in Atlanta, Charlotte, Raleigh, Richmond, Va., and Portland, Ore. Asheville is the seventh city to host an official chapter.

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Anonymous, but there are some similarities, including a preamble and the condition that everything that goes on at the weekly meetings is completely confidential, says Jonathan Johnson, who leads the new Asheville chapter with fellow industry worker Brian Rea. “But it’s not structured,” Johnson explains. “There’s lots of room for open dialogue and discussion where you are sharing your similarities, your commonalities and the challenges you faced that week or the successes that you’ve had.”

Johnson, who marked 11 years of sobriety in January, describes himself as a person who is fluent in two languages — addiction/recovery and restaurants. He’s the general manager at Carmel’s Kitchen & Bar and has been working in the service industry for 34 years. He’s also been through several rehabilitation programs, from 14-day to 18-month treatments, in his efforts to conquer alcoholism.

“We work in an environment where every one of us has endless bottles of alcohol, beer, wine at our disposal 24/7, and there’s always someone who has whatever other substance you may want,” says Johnson. “[Ben’s Friends] allows you to get to the core and have a much more productive dialogue.”

The Asheville Independent Restaurants organization facilitated the creation of the local Ben’s Friends chapter. Johnson first found out about the idea when the nonprofit’s executive director, Jane Anderson, mentioned it to members of a task force focused on improving the local food and beverage culture.

Anderson says that in helping coordinate the Ben’s Friends effort, she discovered just how significantly substance abuse impacts the local industry. “Now that I have reason to talk to people about it, I’m hearing awful stories,” she says.

Johnson knows this all too well. “I talk to a lot of owners, a lot of GMs, a lot of people in the restaurant industry, and we’re all losing people,” he says. “Especially in the last five years, every one of us has lost at least one valuable employee who could just not get control of their demons.”

Bakst urges everyone involved with Ben’s Friends to also attend AA or NA meetings because of their extensive network and availability. But he believes his program offers a “special bond” that can help those in the service industry and can appeal to young workers who are turned off by the rules, God focus and steps of more structured programs.

“Our sole purpose is to help anybody struggling in our industry with alcohol and drugs, and we will do whatever we can as an organization to help that person find a road to sobriety,” says Bakst.

Due to the involvement of AIR and local restaurateurs, Bakst sees immense potential for the all volunteer-driven Ben’s Friends to thrive in Asheville. In addition to spreading the word about the program, AIR invited Bakst to attend the inaugural July 23 Asheville meeting, with Biltmore Farms providing him free lodging.

AIR also convened 25 local restaurateurs at its offices before the meeting to learn about Ben’s Friends firsthand from Bakst.

“The success of an organization in each community is based on the people in that community,” Bakst says.

“And I have to tell you, your community is off-the-charts fabulous.”

Ben’s Friends meets at 11 a.m.

Tuesdays at Posana, 1 Biltmore Ave. All are welcome. For details, contact Jonathan Johnson at jonjohnson@gmail. com or Brian Rea at jbrianrea@hotmail. com or visit bensfriendshope.com. X

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MG Road bids adieu The bright lights will soon go out for good at MG Road as the bar/ lounge prepares to host its final farewell dance party Saturday, Aug. 3.

The evening will feature DJ Lil Meow Meow alongside DJ Abu Disarray.

Once the music stops and the disco balls cease spinning, construction will swiftly begin, transforming the space into a new downstairs lobby bar for MG Road’s sister business, the popular Indian street food restaurant Chai Pani.

Owner Meherwan Irani says the decision to close MG Road, while painful, solves several logistical problems.

First and foremost, the changes to the downstairs section will allow Chai Pani to seat larger parties without a prolonged wait. Plans call for two large 12-top tables to replace the current bar’s booths, which are situated on both sides of its entrance.

Smaller parties that are placed on the upstairs waiting list can make their way down to the lobby bar to nibble on snacks from the restaurant’s menu and sip cocktails. For those unfamiliar with the building’s layout, an inside staircase connects the two venues. MG Road’s current Wall Street access will be reserved for people with disabilities.

The downstairs lobby will also offer merchandise and entertainment, including everything from screenings of Hindi films to live musical acts.

Irani says his vision is for the space to reshape the way diners view going out. “We want people to hear there’s a two-hour wait and say, ‘Thank God!’” he exclaims.

Of course, he notes, he will miss the unique, creative energy that went into MG Road over its seven-year run. “It was a concert hall for popups,” he says. “I’ll miss that the most. … In my mind, there is always more creative freedom with a cocktail bar, and it attracts people who enjoy that creative freedom.”

After a pause, the Chai Pani owner adds, “But we’re pretty crazy and creative over here, too.”

Chai Pani is at 22 Battery Park Ave. The downstairs lobby bar is slated to open in September. For more information, visit avl.mx/6c6.

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base with toppings from Luella’s that include pulled pork, chopped brisket and hoop cheddar cheese.

Additional toppings from Asheville Pizza include bacon, pickled red onions, green onions and a threecheese blend. The pie was created by chefs Jeff Miller of Luella’s BarB-Que and Nick Izzo of Asheville Pizza Co. The pizza costs $19.99 and is only available for in-house, evening diners.

Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co.’s North Asheville location is at 675 Merrimon Ave. For more information, visit avl.mx/5ys.

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CLOSING TIME: MG Road owner Meherwan Irani will close his Wall Street cocktail lounge Aug. 3 in order to create a downstairs lobby bar for Chai Pani. The new space is slated to open in September. Photo by Thomas Calder

Introduction to wine evaluation Wine expert wannabes will have a chance to hone their knowledge in the latest workshop led by the French Broad Vignerons. The Saturday, Aug. 3, class will include handouts with a personal wine flavor chart, as well as a list of evaluation terms and a sample wine judging card. Immediately after the event, Chuck Blethen, president and treasurer of the French Broad Vignerons, will host a pizza party at his home, weather permitting. Tickets are $12 for members and $15 for nonmembers.

The class takes place 1-3 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 3, at Jewel of the Blue Ridge Classroom, 177 Cabin Hollow Drive, Marshall. For more information, visit avl.mx/5yg.

Hemp tea party Asheville Tea Co. and Franny’s Farm will team up to co-host a hemp tea party Sunday, Aug. 4. Featured teas will include chocolate berry hemp, chamomile hemp and lemon ginger hemp.

Snacks will also be provided along with

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a discussion about the local hemp industry. Tickets are $15.

The party runs 5-6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Franny’s Farmacy, 211 Merrimon Ave. Suite 111. For more information, visit avl.mx/6bw.

Cooking from scratch Living Web Farms will host its popular class What If You Couldn’t Buy It? on Tuesday, Aug. 6. Led by Patryk Battle and Meredith Leigh, the workshop will teach participants how to make several specialty condiments, including capers and sriracha sauce.

Recipes and samples will be provided.

A $10 donation is suggested.

The class runs 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, at Mills River Educational Farm, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River. To register for the class, visit avl.mx/6bx.

The Luella’s Pie Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. continues its series of specialty collaborative pizzas with the release of The Luella’s Pie, available through August at the pizzeria’s North Asheville location. Luella’s sweet Pisgah barbecue sauce is used as the pizza’s

Biltmore Coffee Roasters, operated

by Laura and Rick Telford, recently rebranded as Round Earth Roasters.

The rebranding coincides with the location’s new addition, The Backyard Bar, which celebrated its grand opening on July 12. Offering local craft beer and wine, as well as live music and movie nights, The Backyard Bar is open Fridays, 5-9 p.m., Saturdays, 1-9 p.m. and Sundays 1-6 p.m.

Round Earth Roasters and The Backyard Bar are at 518 Hendersonville Road. For more information, visit avl.mx/6by.

Got milk?

MANNA FoodBank and The Dairy Alliance recently partnered to help bring milk to food-insecure families in Western North Carolina. Through the Milk2MyPlate initiative, MANNA was able to buy a refrigerated dairy express van. A press release from MANNA says, “The goal of the pilot program is to provide an additional way for food banks to supply patrons with the calcium, protein, vitamin D and other valuable nutrients that milk offers.”

For more on the program, visit avl.mx/6bz.

Not Your Nonna’s Lasagna Genie Gunn, food and nutrition manager at Verner Center for Early Learning, was recently recognized as a Culinary Creations Top 10 chef in a nationwide recipe contest hosted by Premier Inc. health care company.

The contest called for traditional recipes with a healthy twist, eliminating processed foods and incorporating fresh ingredients. Gunn’s entry was the plant-based Not Your Nonna’s Lasagna. X

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A REAL BOWTIE STAND-UP GUY Marcus ‘Mook’ Cunningham excels in hip-hop and pro wrestling

STYLE PROFILE: Marcus Cunningham strikes a pose as his popular pro wrestling persona, The BTSG. The Asheville native is also a respected rap artist, social worker and father. Photo by Joe Pellegrino

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com Carol Cunningham Hill can’t catch a break.

The daughter of local education legend Wardell Cunningham moved her family from Asheville to Columbia, S.C., and then to the Orlando suburb of Clermont, partly because she felt as if she didn’t have her own identity. Upon returning to Western North Carolina years later with her now-grown son Marcus Cunningham, she jokes about having to contend with a new question: “Are you Mook’s mom?”

Considering the number of fields in which her son — who’s been called “Mook” since middle school — has made a name for himself, the query is understandable. A standout in music and wrestling — the latter where he can next be seen Saturday, Aug. 3, at the Fairview Community Center — Mook Cunningham also excels at work

and as a father, achieving a status that would make any mother proud.

GETTING PERSONAL A native of Asheville, Cunningham spent what he calls his “definitive years” in Florida. After earning a degree in finance from the University of Central Florida, he relocated to the city of his birth in 2010 to help his grandparents.

By day, Cunningham holds the title of income maintenance case worker II for Buncombe County’s Department of Health and Human Services in the Economic Services Department. His job involves maintenance and maintaining of food stamp eligibility — and, unlike many people in the workforce, especially those in social services and casework, he loves it. Driving that professional passion is his own history, which, in appropriate circumstances, makes him an approachable, relatable asset for people experiencing a rough stretch.

“Before I was out of high school, I was homeless three times — with my whole family, just my mom and then myself,” Cunningham says. “So, having the opportunity to extend a hand to people who are in similar situations, or even who haven’t gotten there yet — to prevent that situation — it [brings] everything full circle in a sense.”

The desire to never be homeless again and not put his son, Carter (who turns 6 in October), in that situation, informs Cunningham’s dedication to his 9-to-5. But it also propels him to be the best he can be in his artistic and athletic passions, rocketing him awake each day at 5 a.m. and remaining committed around the clock.

FOCUS In high school, a group of Cunningham’s friends started gath-

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ering to freestyle rap on a regular basis. After watching a few times, he decided to give it a try. Six bars into his eight-bar composition, the crowd went wild, preventing him from finishing what he’d written. He was hooked on rapping.

In college, a reunion with a high school acquaintance led to the formation of a rap/rock group in the vein of Gym Class Heroes that achieved a sizable audience in the Orlando area. But, being what Cunningham calls “kids and irresponsible,” he and his bandmates didn’t show up to a gig they’d booked and “basically lost all opportunities [they] had lined up after that.”

The evaporated chance at success made Cunningham’s move back to Asheville all the easier, and the sting from the experience kept him from wanting to rap for several years. A few months into his current position with the county, his mom swung by work and mentioned his musical past, which caught the attention of his colleague, Spanish-born Jacob “Bipolar Bear” Moya.

The producer/engineer and Cunningham quickly became best friends, learned how to mesh their different styles and recorded two songs, including “Focus,” which was nominated for Best Sound Track at Music Video Asheville in 2016. The partnership was short-lived, however, as Moya moved away, though not before Cunningham established himself as MOOK! the BTSG. The acronym stands for “Bowtie Stand-up Guy,” a phrase that originated in one of his lyrics.

Cunningham has since found a “new partner in crime” in Davaion “Spaceman Jones” Bristol. The duo’s collaborative album, produced entirely

by Bristol, is titled MOOK! the BTSG and Spaceman Jones present: The Working Man and is slated for a late August or early September release.

“If I don’t see Spaceman at least once a week, it’s a weird week,” Cunningham says. “He’s seen a lot and been through a lot and respects that I’m not trying to portray something that I’m not, but I’m still part of our culture and still a necessary part of the culture here in Asheville.”

TAKING BUMPS Contributing to Cunningham’s and Bristol’s meetup frequency is a ride together to Chuckey, Tenn., every Sunday for a pro wrestling show (either aired live on The CW or taped for future broadcast), practice or planning with the School of Morton. The

company is run by WWE Hall of Famer Ricky Morton and features stories written by Bristol and often starring Cunningham, who’s taken his bowtiewearing persona into the ring as, simply, The BTSG. Like his path into hip-hop, Cunningham was pulled into the world of pro wrestling as a high schooler and trained with Hall of Famer Dory Funk Jr. at the Funking Conservatory in Ocala.

“It was basically traveling an hour to get beat up,” Cunningham says.

“But as you get older and further in the business, you realize they do that to make sure that you’re tough enough to handle all of the things that happen in the business. They don’t want some kid coming in and ruining the business because wrestling is a very traditional environment.”

Consistent with the reignition of his musical interests, it was a casual work conversation that got Cunningham back into wrestling. Both as a teen and now, as a 31-year-old, his toughness and ability to take a bump — industryspeak for learning how to fall properly — have helped set him apart in an entertainment field where, he notes, only the outcomes are predetermined.

“There’s no way that I can fake doing a gainer — a jumping backflip — where I’m moving forward and my opponent moves out of the way,” he says. “There is no faking the pain that I feel when I hit the mat. There’s none of that. It’s all training so that when I’m doing it, I fall correctly and don’t break all my ribs and my sternum or crush my neck.”

In conjunction with School of Morton, Cunningham and Bristol have formed Urban Combat Wrestling, which features urban storylines. The venture had a successful debut earlier this month at Ole Shakey’s and will return there on Saturday, Aug. 24, for its second installment. X

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GOTTA HAVE IT: Local theater company The Cardboard Sea examines the dark side of passion in The Devotees. “On the eve of the release of the newest L series phone, a collection of die-hards stakes out their territory in the fanatical line family,” says a press release for the show, featuring, from left, Sam Yoffe, Stevie Alverson, Kristi DeVille and Kirstin Daniel, with music by Ryan Anderson. Photo by Todd Weakley Collaboration is more about a shared passion or language or creative impulse — or all three — than shared space.

Such is the case for director Todd Weakley and playwright Jeff Donnelly, who are, together and separately, working to stage Donnelly’s play The Devotees. The production, performed

by The Cardboard Sea in association with Sublime Theater, will run at The Bebe Theatre Thursday, Aug. 1, to Saturday, Aug. 10.

The challenge is that Donnelly is based in Florida, while Weakley and the rest of the Cardboard Sea cast live in Western North Carolina. But the writer and director are in constant conversation, Weakley says. “It’s a cool setup because, as a director, I just want to f*** around with theatrical form. …

My graduate school professors would

be like, ‘Dude, just do the play. The play tells you what the form is.’ But Jeff is wide open to it.”

The two met in a theater program at Flagler College in St. Augustine, Fla., after which their paths diverged. But, when another Asheville-based theater company that Weakley had been involved with folded, Steven Samuels of Sublime Theater (who was then with The Magnetic Theatre) offered an opportunity. “I said, ‘I do want to do things, and I’m sad that I’m not doing things,’” Weakley, who is also a theater teacher at Hendersonville High School, remembers.

He reached out to Donnelly, who was in Charlotte at the time. “I remember saying to him in college, ‘If I could do anything, I’d have a little theater company and you could write stuff

and I’d figure out how to make it happen.’” That’s the CliffsNotes version of how The Cardboard Sea came to be. Donnelly has written seven of the company’s nine productions. The newest, The Devotees, “unfolds through a single night, in a single line outside an electronics store as a group of strangers await the release of the latest and greatest device,” according to a press release. “It’s a play about waiting, about expectations and about loyalty.

It’s about choosing your family.”

“I think it’s a deeply personal play for him,” Weakley says of Donnelly.

While the director can’t speak specifically to what experiences the playwright is drawing on, Weakley does posit that

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The play stars Cardboard Sea company members Kristi DeVille and Kirstin Daniel, with newcomers Stevie Alverson, Sam Yoffee and Travis Lowe.

Olivia Stuller is the stage manager for the show, and there’s original music by Ryan Anderson of local self-described “basement arena rock” outfit Minorcan.

“I loved the ideas of the script, and the characters are awesome, and the story has a satisfying arc, but then I thought of it as a production and I desired something else,” Weakley says.

“In an early draft of the play, there was an overheard voice, prompting some action [and] we stumbled on the idea that maybe that could be a musician.”

Immediately, Anderson popped into his head.

“I think he’s authentic at what he does, and he’s also, in a sense, critiquing rock ’n’ roll presentation,” Weakley says. “I feel like that’s what I’m after in any live performance and especially in a theatrical context. I want it to be rigorous, I want it to be honest, I want it to be heartfelt — and also can we just step back and remind ourselves that this is all kind of silly?”

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The very idea of a play, sitting in a darkened room pretending the people onstage are people other than who they are in real life, “is both revolutionary and also humorous,” Weakley explains.

It’s an element he hopes Anderson’s music will underscore.

The play itself — even with its big questions (“What are we really committed to anymore?” Donnelly asks in the press release) and experimental staging — is meant to be funny and have “a wild sense of theatricality,” Weakly says. “That’s what we’re after. … In the end, this play is a comedy.” X

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Miriam McNamara returns to Asheville to launch her new YA novel in the 1920s, McNamara says. “I had never heard of such a thing, and I kept thinking, ‘Who would be the type of person to do this?’” While The Unbinding of Mary Reade takes its cues from the life of a real person, An Impossible Distance to Fall is not about anyone specific, she explains. “When you base a story on a real person, there are limitations to the narrative. I didn’t want to do that again.

This story is grounded in the history of many woman pilots, wing walkers and circus performers.” Phoebe Omlie, a woman pilot from the 1920s, she says, was a strong inspiration.

In the book, Birdie’s life is in a tailspin. Her home is being foreclosed upon, and her mother is leaving for Europe to get financial support from relatives. Determined to find her dad, Birdie heads to Coney Island. There, she discovers an enchanting cast of characters: fire spinners, stuntmen and lady pilots. Birdie is a skilled dancer and convinces the circus to take her on, earning her keep as a wing walker.

As the narrative unfolds, Birdie must find balance and courage as she confronts her romantic feelings for a girl pilot named June, as well as hard truths about her father.

“Things happened that were beyond their control,” McNamara writes in the novel of the circus cast. “Planes broke, banks closed, money disappeared, people disappointed. You could still put on one hell of a performance.” X

WHAT Miriam McNamara launches An Impossible Distance to Fall WHERE Malaprop’s Bookstore/Cafe 55 Haywood St. malaprops.com WHEN Friday, Aug. 2, 6 p.m. Free

MOUNTAIN MADE: After grad school, and with publication scheduled for her first novel, former Asheville resident Miriam McNamara returned to The Great Smokies Writing Program, where she wrote a good portion of her new YA book, An Impossible Distance to Fall, in a master fiction workshop. Photo courtesy of McNamara Birdie — the central character in An Impossible Distance to Fall, the new novel by former Ashevillean Miriam McNamara — is a privileged 16-yearold from Long Island who dreams of attending finishing school with her best friend, Izzy, and marrying David. But in this 1930s-set story, the stock market has crashed, along with Birdie’s father’s bank. Birdie’s mom says Dad is dead, but Birdie doesn’t believe it: She’s found a flyer for a traveling aerial circus and on it, she swears, is a picture of her father’s biplane.

McNamara, who is now based in Minneapolis, returns to Asheville for the launch of her second historical young adult book, which Kirkus Reviews calls “a thrilling comingof-age story featuring queer girls challenging societal conventions.”

McNamara will read and discuss the book at Malaprop’s on Friday, Aug. 2.

Born in Ireland and raised in Virginia, the author first came to the Asheville area (which she called home for 17 years) as an undergraduate at Warren Wilson College, where she received a degree in elementary education. After deciding she didn’t want to teach, she got a cosmetology license

and worked at various hair salons in Asheville, making a name for herself as a curly-hair specialist.

McNamara’s first writing experience was with The Great Smokies Writing Program (a joint effort involving the UNC Asheville departments of literature and language, creative writing and the Office of Professional Education).

“I love how you can take college-level classes and not have to enroll in college,” she says. There, she began work on her first novel, The Unbinding of Mary Reade, with instructor Joy Neaves. “It was Joy who said, ‘Have you ever thought about getting your MFA?’ That’s how I ended up going to Vermont College,” McNamara says.

After grad school and with publication scheduled for her first novel, McNamara returned to The Great Smokies Writing Program, and, over the course of two semesters, wrote a good portion of An Impossible Distance to Fall in Elizabeth Lutyens’ master fiction class. “I like that writing is a solitary project, but I also benefit from the collaborative process in a workshop,” she says.

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Village Art & Craft Fair

John Cage’s ‘Sonatas and Interludes’

Back for its 47th year, the Village Art & Craft Fair returns to the grounds of the Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village for its annual weekend of shopping and strolling. The 2019 edition incorporates 110 artists from 20 states, including 87 makers from Western North Carolina and 25 first-time VACF exhibitors. Crafters will be on hand to discuss their work in ceramics, fibers, jewelry, metals, twodimensional art, wood and more.

Continuing VACF’s tradition of featuring an eye-catching design on its collectible posters and T-shirts is this year’s drawing by local artist Annie Hall, whose work depicts her mother’s cats, Maggie Mae and Mickey, encountering a, well, crafty bird.

Fair hours are Saturday, Aug. 3, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., and Sunday, Aug. 4, noon-5 p.m. Free to attend. newmorninggallerync.com. Image of artwork by Deana Blanchard courtesy of New Morning Gallery

Often cited as one of John Cage’s most important compositions, Sonatas and Interludes was composed 1946-48 and premiered at Black Mountain College on April 6, 1948. According to the official website of the John Cage Trust, the artist’s “prepared piano masterwork” was his first composition using Hindu philosophy as a basis and was written while he studied the works of the Indian art historian and critic Ananda K. Coomaraswamy. Following a preparation period of 45 notes that the trust says takes 2-3 hours to complete, the piece will be performed on Thursday, Aug. 1, at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center by pianist/composer and Guggenheim Fellow Amy Williams. The concert begins at 7 p.m. $10 for BMCM+AC members and students with valid ID/$15 nonmembers. blackmountaincollege.org. Photo of Williams courtesy of the artist

Dara Tucker

Imagine Asheville-based artist Christopher Holt has been commissioned to depict Haywood Street Congregation’s urban ministry and vision of community through a large-scale fresco that will cover the central wall of the church’s sanctuary. To help raise funds for the project, pianist/composer David Troy Francis has organized Imagine, a community concert that incorporates a wide variety of local performing artists at Diana Wortham Theatre on Sunday, Aug. 4. A house band, led by Francis and featuring four vocalists, will combine forces with such notable figures as classical pianist Kimberly Cann, poet Glenis Redmond and singer Carol Leslie Duermit. Also lending their talents to the evening are swing band Drayton & The Dreamboats, dancer Jake Stainback and a group of actors from Asheville Community Theatre directed by Jerry Crouch. It all starts at 7 p.m. $35-125. dwtheatre.com. Pictured, Cann (photo courtesy of the artist) and Redmond (photo by John Fletcher)

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A native of Tulsa, Okla., and the daughter of gospel artist Doyle Tucker and singer Lynda Tucker, Dara Tucker was 4 when she started singing harmony with her six siblings and learned the piano at age 8. After traveling the U.S. and performing with her family for the bulk of her childhood, she moved to Switzerland and developed an interest in songwriting. That passion led her to Nashville, where she wove together seven musical influences — jazz, soul, gospel, Americana, pop, singer-songwriter and theater — on an album appropriately titled The Seven Colors. In addition to her solo work, Tucker also found time to co-write “Oklahoma,” the title track to Keb’ Mo’s 2019 album, which touches on her home state’s Native American history, disasters, musicians and race relations. Tucker and her band stop

by Isis Music Hall on Sunday, Aug. 4, for a 7:30 p.m. show. $15. isisasheville. com. Photo courtesy of Tucker

THEATER REVIEW

by Kai Elijah Hamilton | kaielijahhamilton@gmail.com

‘The Miracle Worker’ at SART Imagine living in a world of silence and without landscape. The only thing that connects you with everyone else is touch, smell and emotion. Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre’s immensely satisfying production of The Miracle Worker by William Gibson is on stage through Sunday, Aug. 4.

Fresh out of school, 20-year-old Annie Sullivan (played by Amanda Ladd) comes highly recommended as a tutor for the Keller family’s daughter Helen (Sarah Laughland). Stricken with scarlet fever as a baby, Helen grew up deaf and blind. Upon Annie’s arrival, there is immediate apprehension as she implements lessons of spelling letters into Helen’s hand. It doesn’t take long for the teacher to realize she’s facing the challenge of a very smart but spoiled student who is resistant at every turn. Can Annie reach Helen on a deeper level before her family intervenes with their coddling ways?

This production brings out two riveting performances in Ladd and Laughland. Both actresses shake up the familiarity we associate with the iconic, Oscar-wining depictions

by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke.

Director Jessica West’s casting makes all the difference.

Ladd is especially impressive. In a wit-filled portrayal, she commands the stage. Ladd is pulling something from within. Her streaming tears prove that every moment is based in reality.

When a performer finds a way to personally relate to the depth of a role, we witness acting in its truest form.

Similarly, Laughland goes the distance. She is thrillingly bold with her interpretation while managing to make her expressions and mannerisms believable. Because of such powerful performances, there’s a genuine awakening in both these characters.

The famed breakfast scene where Annie literally fights Helen to break her control over obedience is very well staged. A woman in the audience gasped in horror over the severity of discipline Annie enforces while others laughed with understanding. This brings to debate the different techniques of raising children. Regardless

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MAGIC TOUCH: Randy Noojin, Sarah Laughland and Sarah Helen-Land star in SART’s moving production of The Miracle Worker. Photo by Cheyenne Dancy of stance, the scene is challenging — in the best of ways — for the actors to perform as well as for the audience to watch.

Generally speaking, the other characters in this play only help advance Annie and Helen’s true story. However, there’s a beautiful supporting performance that deserves major acclaim. As the Kellers’ son James, Calum Kramer needs very little dialogue to show an internal torment.

He’s incredibly touching. Hopefully, he’ll appear in much larger roles in the future.

Randy Noojin as the stoic and bullheaded Captain Keller perfectly reacts with Kramer and creates a notable turning point in their relationship.

Other minor characters, usually used to nuance Gibson’s play, were missing altogether. Such artistic liberties made the focus more on the family. However, the omission of the haunting ghost of Annie’s ill-fated brother Jimmy was a missed opportunity. Because Jimmy couldn’t be saved from the asylum, a continued visual would have enhanced the reasoning behind Annie’s persistence

with Helen, as asylums were where misunderstood deaf and blind people were once sent. Regardless, Ladd’s rendering of this monologue was heartbreaking.

The importance of deaf and blind culture is kept in the spotlight with The Miracle Worker, and this moving and unexpectedly funny production deserves to be a hit for SART. X

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BRING US YOUR BEST XVI • MO through FR, (8/5-8/16), 10am-4pm Bring Us Your Best XVI, a juried competition of 2D, 3D, fine craft and photography. Awards reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 5-7pm. Held at Blue Ridge Community College Conference Hall, 49 E. Campus Drive, Flat Rock HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N. Main St., Waynesville, 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • SA (8/3), 1-4pm - Artist Demonstration with Alice Herring. Free.

• TH (8/8), 10-11:30am - Artist coffee and chat.

Free.

LEICESTER COMMUNITY ART NIGHTS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Community art night for children and adults. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester PREVIEW LEICESTER ARTIST STUDIO TOUR • Through (8/10) Leicester artists' work on display as well as brochures for the Leicester Artist Studio Tour, Sat. & Sun.: Aug. 17-18. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester

AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.)

L’OPTIQUE TRUNK SHOW (PD.) Aug. 2&3, noon-6pm, w/ ANNE et VALENTIN & THEO, newest collections, good vibes, snacks, photo booth. 30 Wall St.

Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm.

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com

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

Held at Woodlands Gallery, 419 N. Main St., Hendersonville

ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.

ART AFTER DARK • 1st FRIDAY, 6-9pm - 7 galleries open late for Art After Dark. Free to attend. Held in Downtown Waynesville FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS • 1st FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Downtown Asheville First Friday Art Walks with more than 25 galleries within a half mile radius of historic downtown Asheville.

Free to attend. Held at Downtown Asheville MT MITCHELL CRAFTS FAIR • FR (8/2) & SA (8/3), 9am-5pm - Mt. Mitchell Crafts Fair, artists, craftspeople, live music and food.

Free to attend. Held at Burnsville Town Square, 100 Town Square, Burnsville VILLAGE ARTS & CRAFTS FAIR • SA (8/3), 10am-7pm & SU (8/4), noon-5pm

ON PITCH, MOUNT MITCH: More than 200 juried artists convene on the Burnsville Town Square for the 63rd annual Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair on Friday and Saturday, Aug. 2-3. In addition to crafts, the festival includes live entertainment, music and food. Free to attend. For information, visit yanceychamber.com. Photo courtesy of Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair (p. 44)

- Art and craft fair juried by New Morning Gallery with 110 participating artists. Free to attend. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 828-693-8504, acofhc.org • Through TH (8/1) - Artist vendor submissions accepted for the 60th

annual Art on Main Festival taking place on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 28 & 29. See website for full guidelines, acofhc.org.

• Through FR (8/16) Applications accepted for the North Carolina Arts Council Regional Artist Project Grants. Information: acofhc.org.

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chorus may attend rehearsals. Free. Held at St. John's Episcopal Church, 290 Old Haw Creek Road TOE RIVER ARTS 2019 JURIED EXHIBIT • Through SA (8/10) Applications accepted for artists for the Toe River Arts 2019 Juried Exhibit taking place Saturday, Sept. 28 until Saturday, Nov. 2. $35. See website for full guidelines.

WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Community chorus rehearsals open to potential members. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

DANCE LEARN HOW TO DANCE (PD.) Ballroom, Swing, Waltz, Salsa, Wedding, Two-Step, Special Events. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-3330715, naturalrichard@mac.

com, www.DanceForLife. net BUTOH AND THE SENSES • SU (8/4), 1-4pm - Butoh and the Senses workshop with Jenni Cockrell. $15/$30 door. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - International folk dancing, dances from around the world. No partner needed.

Info: 828-645-1543. Free.

Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road STREET DANCE • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Square dancing and clogging to regional bluegrass bands. Free. Held at Hendersonville Visitors Center, 201 South Main St., Hendersonville

BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 828-862-2105, brevardmusic.org • WE (7/31), 7:30pm Dvorák's Serenade for Strings in concert. $28.

Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • TH (8/1), 7:30pm Frank Loesser favorites with the Janiec Opera Company. $35 and up.

Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • FR (8/2), 7:30pm - Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. 2. $20 and up. Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard • SA (8/3), 7:30pm Stravinsky's Firebird. $20 and up. Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard • SU (8/4), 3pm Season finale featuring works by Mahler. $20 and up. Held at Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Lane, Brevard • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free.

Held in the Porter Center, Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard CONCERTS ON THE CREEK • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Concerts on the Creek series through Labor Day. For lineup: mountainlovers.com.

Free. Held at Bridge Park Pavilion, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva

ISIS LAWN SERIES • WEDNESDAYS and THURSDAYS, 6-8:30pm - Concert on the lawn including bluegrass, blues and jazz. Free to attend.

Held at Isis Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road MOUNTAIN DANCE AND FOLK FESTIVAL • TH (8/1) through SA (8/3), 6:30pm - Showcase of the region’s traditional and old-time musicians, ballad singers, mountain dance groups and cloggers. Tickets: bit.ly/2OBWKtG. $20 adults/$25 door, $5 student and child/$10 door. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane MUSIC BY THE LAKE • SU (8/4), 5-7pm - The Carburetors, rockabilly, honky-tonk. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Community College by the Lake, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock MUSIC ON MAIN • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm Music on Main concert series. Information: avl.mx/648. Free. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville ‘SONATAS AND INTERLUDES’ • FR (8/2), 7pm - John Cage’s Sonatas and Interludes performed

by Amy Williams. $15/$10 members.

Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St. STUART AUDITORIUM AT LAKE JUNALUSKA 20 Chapel Drive, Lake Junaluska • FR (8/2), 7:30pm - The Lake Junaluska Singers concert. Tickets: lakejunaluska.com. $23.

• SA (8/3), 7:30pm - Paul Saik, concert.

Tickets: lakejunaluska. com. $18.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHICAGO RACE RIOT • SA (8/3), 2-4pm Commemorate the

by Deborah Robertson

100th anniversary of the Chicago Race Riot with author Claire Hartfield.

Free. Held at Hendersonville Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville ASHLEY DAVIS, 'A LIFE THROUGH LETTERS' • TH (8/1), 5:30pm Ashley Davis presents her book, A Life through Letters. Free. Held at The Gallery at Flat Rock, 702-A Greenville Highway, Flat Rock BANNED BOOK CLUB • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend.

Held at Blue Ridge Books, 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (7/31), 6pm - Zoe Rhine, NC Room Librarian, presents her book, Hidden History of Asheville. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (8/1), 6:30pm - Book Club reads The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane by Lisa See. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • MO (8/5), 2pm - Discussion of Fairview's Town Wide Read is One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash.

Free to attend. Held at Rise Above Bakehouse, 1207 Charlotte Highway, Fairview • TU (8/6), 5:30pm Queer Book Club: Picture Us in the Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TU (8/6), 7pm - Evening Book Club: The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg. Free to attend. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (8/6), 7pm - Book Club: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones.

Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • TU (8/6), 7pm Weaverville Book Club: Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville

• WE (8/7), 3pm - Book Club: Varina by Charles Frazier. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

Free.

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

Free.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • TH (8/1), 6pm - Fred and Susan Chappell present As If It Were: Poems. Free to attend.

• FR (8/2), 6pm - Miriam McNamara presents her book, An Impossible Distance to Fall. Free to attend.

• SU (8/4), 3pm - Monthly poetry event featuring Peg Bresnahan, Hunger to Share, Brandon Amico, Disappearing, Inc., and Melissa Crowe, Dear Terror, Dear Splendor.

Free to attend.

• MO (8/5), 6pm - Local author L. Chance Shiver presents his book, Oberlin’s Anomaly, joined

by Tommy Hays, author of The Pleasure Was Mine.

Free to attend.

• MO (8/5), 7pm - LGBTQ book club is reading, History of Violence by Édouard Louis, translated

by Lorin Stein. Free to attend.

• WE (8/7), 6pm - Elwood Watson, PhD, presents his book, Keepin' It Real: Essays on Race in Contemporary America.

Free to attend.

• WE (8/7), 7pm Malaprop's book club discusses Another Country

by James Baldwin. Free to attend.

• TH (8/8), 6pm - Christina Proenza-Coles presents her book, American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World. Free to attend.

NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting.

Information: 828-329-

4190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road

'BYE BYE BIRDIE' • FRIDAYS through

NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS’ NETWORK • TH (8/1), 6-7:30pm Writers’ beat the heat social and writing in place from prompts. NCWN membership not required.

Free to attend. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm.

POETRY READING WITH JEFFERY BEAM • WE (8/8), 7pm - Jeffery Beam discusses, reads and sings from Spectral Pegasus/Dark Movements. Free. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St.

(8/25) - Indecent, based

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

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road THE SPEAK EASY STORY SLAM • TH (8/1), 7pm - Story slam. Free to attend. Held at Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St. WOMEN IN LIVELY DISCUSSION • TU (8/6), 6:30pm - Women in Lively Discussion book club is reading The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett. Free.

Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 WRITERS AT WOLFE • TH (6/13), 5:30-7pm Writers at Wolfe: Phillip Lewis presents his book, The Barrowfields. Free.

Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St.

THEATER 'ALL SHOOK UP' • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/26) until (8/18) - All Shook Up, musical comedy. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm.

Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm.

Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $25 and up. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock

SUNDAYS (8/2) until (8/18) - Bye Bye Birdie, musical.

Sun.: 2pm. $30/$25 students/$20 youth.

Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville 'INDECENT' • FR (8/2) through SU on a true story. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. $23.

Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. 'RED' • FR (8/2) through SU (8/11) - Red, based on the life of abstract expressionist painter Mark Rothko.

Tickets: avl.mx/6bu. $15.

Held at Mix, 62 S. Main St., Marshall 'ROMEO & JULIET' • FR (8/2) through SA (8/24), 7:30pm - Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare tragedy. Free to attend.

Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. 'THE DEVOTEES' • THURSDAY through SATURDAY (8/1) until (8/10), 7:30pm - The Devotees, produced

by The Cardboard Sea Theatre Troupe. $15.

Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. 'THE LYONS' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/8) until (8/18) - The Lyons, comedy. 18 and over only. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $25$30/$18 students. Held at Owen Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill 'THE MIRACLE WORKER' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (7/25) until (8/4) - The Miracle Worker.

Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $25$30/$18 student. Held at

Nightly Supper starting at 5PM

Sunday Brunch from 10:30-3:30PM

Closed Mondays 828-350-0315 SMOKYPARK.COM

Owen Theatre, 44 College St., Mars Hill

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CLIMATE ASSIGNMENT: Michael Carlebach curates a photography exhibit of Arthur Rothstein’s images from the Great Depression at the Asheville Area Arts Council. A series of natural disasters following the stock market crash of 1929 affected great numbers of rural Americans already suffering from the bleak values of farm products, the prices for which plummeted after World War I. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt attacked the economic depression with numerous federal programs, including the Farm Security Administration, famous for its small but influential photography program. Arthur Rothstein was the first photographer hired to work on what became a vast visual record of hard times in America. Photo of Vernon Evans of Lemmon, S.D., near Missoula, Mt., courtesy of the Library of Congress ADLER GALLERY • Industry, exhibition of works curated by Katrina Chenevert. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 8, 6-8pm.

Aug. 8-Aug. 31 1 Biltmore Ave. AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave. • Defining Lines, focusing on contemporary and modernist self-taught artists. Reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 2019: 5-8pm.

Aug. 1-Aug. 21 • Defining Lines, group exhibition. Reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 5-8pm.

Aug. 1-Aug. 21 ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 207 Coxe Ave. • Deconstruct to a New Paradigm, group exhibition curated by Tekla Howachyn. Reception: August 2, 6-8pm.

July 16-Aug. 16 • Mist Sister: ReFashioned Myths of Ragnarök, by Valeria Watson. Reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 5-8pm.

Aug. 2-Sept. 27 • Arthur Rothstein's photos of the Great Depression.

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Curated by Michael Carlebach. Reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 5-8pm.

Aug. 2-Aug. 31 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART • Simple Moment, exhibition of paintings by Sahar Fakhoury. Reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 5-8pm.

Aug. 1-Aug. 31 82 Patton Ave. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS • Red House Photographers in the Arts exhibition.

July 26-Aug. 30 225 W. State St., Black Mountain BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE CONFERENCE HALL • 16th annual Bring Us Your Best art exhibition is the work of 100+ artists working in all media.

Reception: Friday, Aug, 2, 5-7pm.

Aug. 2-Aug. 16 49 E. Campus Drive, Flat Rock GROVEWOOD GALLERY • Street to Studio, solo exhibition by Neil Carroll

featuring graffiti-inspired mixed-media.

July 13-Aug. 18 111 Grovewood Road

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HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL

July 10-Sept. 28

• 40 local artists working in paint, ceramics, jewelry and photography. Reception: Friday, Aug. 2, 6-8pm.

Aug. 2-Aug. 31 86 N. Main St., Waynesville NORTH CAROLINA GLASS CENTER • Dissolving Boundaries, glass by Ben Elliott.

July 8-July 31 140 Roberts St., Suite C PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS • Correction Line, six monumental steel sculptures by Hoss Haley.

Reception: Saturday, Aug. 3, 4:30-6:30pm.

Aug. 3 - Sep. 15 67 Doras Trail, Penland PINK DOG CREATIVE • Beyond Words, exhibition of artworks by Ginger Huebner.

July 19-Aug. 18 348 Depot St.

• Swimming Upstream, exhibition of drawings by Hugh McKay. 821 Riverside Drive, #179 THE COLOURFIELD • Inhabitants, exhibition of paintings by Scott Sutton.

July 13-July 31 54 Ravenscroft Drive TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY • Sight Lines, exhibition of works by Randy Schull.

July 19-Aug. 24 188 Coxe Ave. ZAPOW! • Solo show by Elizabeth Albright: The Children of Dionysus: Rococo Reimagined. Reception: Saturday, Aug. 3, 7-9pm.

Aug. 3-Sept. 8 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101 Contact the galleries for hours and admission fees

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SET THE SCENE: “Cinematic guitar poetry” is the self-described aesthetic of singersongwriter and composer Hiroya Tsukamoto from Kyoto, Japan. The artist, who first learned banjo by attempting to copy an Earl Scruggs record at age 13, went on to receive a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music. Among other awards, he took home second place in the 2018 International Finger Style Guitar Championships. Expect poetry, storytelling and original Japanese folk at Isis Music Hall on Thursday, Aug. 8, at 7 p.m. $15. isisasheville.com. Photo by Matt Deturck

WEDNESDAY, JULY 31 27 CLUB The Vaudeville Venture of the South Tour, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, (African folk music), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Open Mic, 6:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Summer Music Series w/ Juan Holladay, 5:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic w/ Billy Owens, 7:00PM BREVARD MUSIC CENTER Student Piano Recital, 12:30PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Summer Fringe (bizarro performance art), 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Cyndi Lou & The Want To + Honky-Tonk DJ, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Shred Flintstone, Styrofoam Turtles, Penny, 8:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series w/ Whistlepig, 6:00PM Mink’s Miracle Medicine & Hope Griffin Trio, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Music Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bluegrass Jam hosted

by Gary Mac Fiddle & Friends, 6:00PM MONTFORD RECREATION CENTER Line Dance for Beginners (contemporary styling, no experience necessary), 12:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM

FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM

ODDITORIUM Hoo:Lumes, Lavender Blue, The Mall at Christmas (indie), 9:00PM

HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (new wave, synth, post punk), 10:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jus' Running Pub Run, 6:30PM OWB West: Latin Dance Night, 9:00PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singer-songwriter), 6:30PM

PRITCHARD PARK Cultural Arts in the Park w/ LEAF Easel Rider, 6:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Kaleta & Super Yamba Band, 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays!

An Evening of Electronic Collaboration, 8:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Dangerhatt, 6:00PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Weekly 9 Ball Tournament (sign ups at 7:00 p.m.), 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Happy Hour Solo Guitar Favorites w/ Albi, 5:00PM Wednesday Night Blues Jam w/ Ruby Mayfield, Jeff Rudolph, Jim Simmons, & Brad Curtioff, 9:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Flaw w/ September Mourning, 8:00PM

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM TREEROCK SOCIAL CIDER HOUSE Witty Wednesday Trivia, 7:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM

TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 15 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night LIVE M U R A COV SI C !

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THU. 8/1

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Stevie Tombstone & Ralph E. White, 7:30PM

Nicole & Ken (acoustic rock)

FRI. 8/2

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH New South Rising, 8:00PM

DJ RexxStep

(dance hits, pop)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 1

SAT. 8/3 Box Set Entertainment

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

(60’s through current hits)

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & the Space Cooties, 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM

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C LUBLAND BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Game Night, 12:30PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths, David Matters, 7:30PM

COMING SOON WED 7/31 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES WITH WHISTLEPIG 7PM–MINK’S MIRACLE MEDICINE & HOPE GRIFFIN TRIO

THU 8/1 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES WITH PIMPS OF POMPE 7:00PM–PAT DONOHUE 9:00PM–JERRY FEST W/ WAVY TRAIN

FRI 8/2 7:00PM–DOWNTOWN ABBY & THE ECHOES

MAHARAJAH FLAMENCO TRIO 8:30PM–MAHARAJAH FLAMENCO TRIO

SAT 8/3 7:00PM–THE RETURN OF REV. BILLY WIRTZ 8:30PM–TOM PAXTON AND THE DONJUANS

SUN 8/4 6:00PM–CAMELA WIDAD 7:30PM–DARA TUCKER

TUE 8/6 7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS W/ CANE MILL ROAD

WED 8/7 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES W/ HOTCLUB OF ASHEVILLE 7:00PM–FORT DEFIANCE 8:30PM–DAWSON HOLLOW

THU 8/8 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES W/ MATT FASSAS TRIO 7:00PM–HIROYA TSUKAMOTO: CINEMATIC GUITAR POETRY

FRI 8/9 7:00PM–EVER MORE NEST

CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Goodfires, Day & Dream, Blurry, 8:30PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM

ISISASHEVILLE.COM DINNER MENU TIL 9:30PM LATE NIGHT MENU TIL 12AM

TUES-SUN 5PM-until 743 HAYWOOD RD 828-575-2737

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SLY GROG LOUNGE The Speak Easy Story Slam, 7:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Happy Hour Solo Guitar Favorites w/ Albi, 5:00PM Wednesday Night Blues Jam w/ Ruby Mayfield, Jeff Rudolph, Jo, Simmons & Brad Curtioff, 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Drunk Mums, Tongues of Fire, Tan Universe, 9:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (rock n' roll), 9:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series w/ Pimps of Pompe, 6:00PM Pat Donohue, 7:00PM Jerry Fest w/ Wavy Train, 9:00PM

THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo (rock, pop, jazz, blues), 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION w/ DJ Mac, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM NC ARBORETUM Chicken Coop Willaye Trio, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Partyfoul Weekly Drag, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM The Jackson Grimm Band & the Vader Landers Band, 10:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Funk Jam, 9:00PM

8:30PM–ARISTOCRATS W/ TRAVIS LARSON BAND

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Todd Hoke, 7:00PM

FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Mr Jimmy, 7:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: August Alba, 9:00PM

ARISTOCRATS

SALVAGE STATION Begin the Days Between w/ Hooteroll & Phuncle Sam, 7:00PM

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Jack Vaughn on Stage, 1:45PM

THE VITAMIN SHOPPE AshevilleFairyHair.com at The Vitamin Shoppe, 11:00AM TOWN PUMP Taylor Martin, 10:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY BREVARD Originals and Traditionals Jam, 7:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Hiroya Tsukamoto, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Jeff & Austin, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Joey Harrington, (jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 2 27 CLUB Drag Me 2 Hell Again, A Gender Bending Experiment, 9:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jesse Barry & The Jam, (blues, funk), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 4:30PM

PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic hosted by Cody Hughes, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Vince Junior Band (refreshingly soulful blues), 8:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Gigi Dover & Big Love, 7:30PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Delhi 2 Dublin, 10:00PM

FLAW

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DRUNK MUMS

SAT

ARTIFICIAL OCEANS, FRACTURED FRAMES, CHAOS AMONG CATTLE, WINTER’S GATE

FRI

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 5PM

SUN

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 3PM

THE QUEBE SISTERS

SUN

MISHKA

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GENEVA'S RIVERFRONT TIKI BAR Mr Jimmy, 6:00PM

GINGER'S REVENGE Quetzal Jordan (indie folk music), 7:30PM

PACK SQUARE PARK LEAF Downtown AVL, 4:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 DownTown Abby & The Echoes, 7:00PM Maharajah Flamenco Trio, 8:30PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Resinated, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM Vaden Landers, 9:00PM

RUSTIC GRAPE WINE BAR Clair Brockway (singersongwriter), 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Runaway Gin, 10:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Andrew Thelston Band, 8:00PM

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

SLY GROG LOUNGE Danielle Howle, Paul Edelman, Robin LewisSongsmiths Showcase, 7:30PM

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

THE BARRELHOUSE Stephan Horvath, 7:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville, 6:30PM LOOKOUT BREWING COMPANY NC Songsmiths, 7:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Duo Law, 6:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY AJ Ghent (neo blues), 5:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Dance Lessons by Brenda Mills, 8:00PM DJ Jam, (R&B, Motown), 9:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE The Rich Nelson Band, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Parrish Ellis, 5:00PM The Quebe Sisters w/ Chelsea Lovitt, 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM Dog Daze Metal Fest, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM First Fridays with Dirty Dead, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Kaizen (Jeff Sipe - Drums, Mike Barnes - Guitar, Mark McDaniel), 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Sleepwalkers, 9:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM TOWN PUMP Black King Coal, 10:00PM

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ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Debbie Young, 1:45PM OWEN THEATRE The Miracle Worker, 7:30PM

WEAVER HOUSE 5J Barrow (folk, indie), 9:00PM

PULP Krave Amiko w/ Angry Lovers & Soft Talk, 9:00PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Amici Music's "Jazzical", 7:30PM

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FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB The Vines (rock, jam), 10:00PM

PRITCHARD PARK Cultural Arts in the Park w/ LEAF Easel Rider, 9:00AM

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BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibes Sunday w/ The Dub Kartel, 6:00PM

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LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Wes Van Horn & Kristen Rand, 9:15PM LAZY DIAMOND Raw Funk, Stomp, Rock, Groove, & Skank w/ DJ The Bogart, 10:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Very Jerry Birthday Bash, Celebrating the Life, Music & Birthday of Jerry Garcia, (music, vendors), 4:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Ross Osteen Band, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Vortex of Old Men, MindShapeFist, 9:00PM STRADA ITALIANO Jazz Guitar Brunch w/ Dan Keller, 11:00AM STUART AUDITORIUM AT LAKE JUNALUSKA Paul Saik, 7:30PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Karaoke, 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

THE BARN AT PAINT FORK Bluegrass Festival, 12:00PM

NOBLE KAVA The Kavalactones (space rock, drip noise), 9:00PM

THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Power Toolz, 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM The Womps, Supervillain, Stayne (rock), 9:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE CommUNITY Salsa/Latin Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes, (lessons w/ Emily Hamilton, 9:00PM), 9:30PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Un-Official LEAF Downtown After Party, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West:Rockstead (Reggae0, 8:00PM ORANGE PEEL Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins tribute), 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Dollar Brothers & Rewind, 1:00PM

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THE GREY EAGLE Youth OUTright's Drag Brunch, 12:00PM Jody Carroll, 5:00PM Artificial Oceans, Fractured Frames, Chaos Among Cattle, Winter's Gate, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 10:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Young Bull, 9:00PM

TRYON INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN CENTER Tryon Resort’s Saturday Night Lights (music, carousel, face painting), 6:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Jarvis Jenkins Band, 10:00PM WHISTLE HOP BREWING CO. Chicken Coop Willaye Trio, 5:00PM

BLUE GHOST BREWING COMPANY Nikki Talley, 5:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Sunday Brunch w/ live music, 12:00PM Tim Levene & Laura Laughter, 3:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bywater Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM

WICKED WEED WEST WW West: Stephen Evans, 5:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Lo-Fi DJ & Brunch (all ages), 11:00AM

WILD WING CAFE Karaoke at the Wing, 9:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TIM O, 10:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH 28 Pages, 9:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Lava Gulls, Sleepy Poetry & Madame Butterfly, 8:30PM

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

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Acousticmuffin, (Americana), 7:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Local Sunday in the Meadow w/ DJ Kutzu & Chalwa (music, vendors, farmers market), 12:00PM

ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Marsh/Fore Blues Jam, 8:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Camela Widad, 6:00PM Dara Tucker, 7:30PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Bluegrass, 4:30PM

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

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:30PM

LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: 98.1 The River's Homegrown Concert Series: David Earl, 4:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Jerry, Mike & Bill & Tru Blu, 1:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam w/ Paper Crowns Electric Band, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Sanctuary Sunday Jazz feat. The Peggy Ratusz Trio, 2:00PM STRADA ITALIANO Jazz Guitar Brunch with Dan Keller, 11:00AM THE BARRELHOUSE Weekly Original Music Open Mic, 6:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Tools on Stools, 3:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Nicholas Jamerson, 3:00PM Mishka, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM THE WEDGE STUDIOS Live Music Sundays, 5:30PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Local Live: Laura Blackley & Angie Heimann, 7:00PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

Sonic Stew w/ DJ Lil Side Salad & Seymour, 10:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk vinyl), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Early Jam, 8:00PM Electrosoul Sessions w/ strongmagnumopus, 11:30PM

SALVAGE STATION Rebelution, 5:00PM Rebelution After Party w/ Birds of Paradise, 10:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Team Trivia w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM

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

THE 63 TAPHOUSE Weekly 8 Ball Tournament (sign ups at 7:00 p.m.), 8:00PM

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

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing AVL Dance, 7:00PM Late Night Blues, 11:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Jam, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Shindig, 6:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic Night: It Takes All Kinds w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM

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

ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Marsh/Fore Blues Jam, 8:00PM

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ROOM IX Jamaican Independence Day Celebration & Dance Night, 10:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE TOUCH Samadhi Psychedelic Visions, 9:00PM

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

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR CaroMia, Ashley Heath, & Eleanor Underhill (Americana), 8:00PM

Sasha K.A & Chris Peterson, 7:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions w/ Cane Mill Road, 7:30PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Rhoda & the Risers, 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL The Summer Slaughter Tour 2019 (metal, rock), 5:00PM

WICKED WEED BREWING Stephen Evans, 4:00PM

27 CLUB Monday Mayhem Karaoke, 9:00PM

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MAD CO BREW HOUSE NC Songsmiths, 5:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jazz Monday (open jam), 8:30PM

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Old Time Moderate Jam, 5:00PM

HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Turntable Tuesdays (dance, pop, hip-hop throwbacks), 10:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Open Mic Night, 8:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Soul Jam on The Block w/ Jamar Woods of The Fritz, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Heather Taylor, 5:00PM Wild Ponies, 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Tuatha Dea, 7:30PM

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 6 27 CLUB Flagman w/ Bad Ties, 9:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Alley Cat Open Mic, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Evening of Classical Guitar - 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 8:00PM

BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round, 5:30PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM

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Sword of Trust HHHHS

DIRECTOR: Lynn Shelton PLAYERS: Marc Maron, Jon Bass, Michaela Watkins, Jillian Bell COMEDY/DRAMA RATED R After suffering through bloated Hollywood comedies with their force-fed sense of what’s funny, a shuffling, organic, low-key Southern comedy like Sword of Trust is a joy and palate cleanser.

Populated by some of the best- and least-known comic actors working today, Sword takes a simple premise and a collection of variously desperate characters and keeps the laughs coming for the duration of its 88-minute running time. It will leave you smiling and refreshed.

That terrible title identifies the storyline’s MacGuffin: a Civil War-era sword that means different things to different people. For Cynthia, the sword is all the inheritance she’s getting from her late grandfather. (She and her partner, Mary, were hoping for his house.) For Birmingham, Ala., pawnshop owner Mel, the sword could be a small gold mine if he can find the right buyer, a search that requires the help of his internet-addled assistant, Nathaniel.

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band of wingnuts with names like Hog Jaws. Who eventually steps up to buy the sword and what the sellers will do to close the sale is what the movie’s about.

But it’s not what drives the comedy.

That job belongs to the terrific cast, led

by Marc Maron (as Mel), a comedian and star of the oddball and endearing Netflix series “GLOW,” and Jillian Bell (as Cynthia), an actress who’s been brightening big comedies in small roles for years, including Rough Night, Fist Fight and Office Christmas Party. Both performers excel at the understatement of the absurd, and each gets a nice, extended “How I met the love of my life” monologue that’s both funny and touching.

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Quentin Tarantino is no stranger to taking liberties with the past and bringing viewers along for the guts-andglory-filled ride. Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood, his latest entry in revisionist history, invokes the feel of 1969 Tinseltown from the point of view of nearly washed-up actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman and driver Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), two friends slightly past their prime, trying to be relevant in a Hollywood that’s slowly passing them by. We’re dropped into their storyline just as the Manson Family shows up hitchhiking on the streets of Los Angeles, and as Rick reveals that his new neighbors are Roman Polanski (Rafal Zawierucha) and his wife, Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie).

We’ve heard half of this story before — and it ends badly. But why are Rick and Cliff here? Tarantino brings us fully into the lives of these two characters who might seem inconsequential amid the glitz and glamour of the time, and

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we become so invested in their narrative that it’s a little disappointing to switch gears. As such, when the film moves to what Roman and his gorgeous (if somewhat one-note) wife are up to as they enjoy the upper echelons of Hollywood’s social scene — the crown jewel of which is a lavish party at the Playboy Mansion — it feels like a different film entirely, set in a world that’s a little shallower, a lot richer and definitely a few more clicks removed from reality.

Most of the film’s 165-minute running time is a buddy movie, spent with the pair (and Cliff’s show-stealing dog, Brandy) together and apart, as they navigate the strata of the city, from its dark underbelly to the sets and soundstages where fantasy is given life. Some of the film’s greatest joys come from their easy friendship and the effortless, hilarious way DiCaprio and Pitt play off one another. I’m confident this won’t be the last time we see them sharing so much screen time.

by Edwin Arnaudin | earnaudin@mountainx.com • Asheville Pizza and Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave., celebrates the release of its Ginger the Llama Ginger Beer in sixpacks of 12-ounce cans with a llama party on Thursday, Aug. 1. Live llamas from Llama Caddy will be in attendance 4-7 p.m., after which there will be a screening of Napoleon Dynamite, which famously stars Tina the llama. The party is free to attend. Tickets to the film are $3 and available online and at the theater’s box office. ashevillebrewing.com

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DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino PLAYERS: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie COMEDY/DRAMA RATED R

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TINA, EAT THE FOOD: Asheville Pizza and Brewing Co. hosts live llamas and a screening of Napoleon Dynamite on Aug. 1. Photo courtesy of the brewery

• The Silent Sundays series returns to Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave., on Aug. 4, at 7 p.m., with a pair of comedies: Buster Keaton’s feature-length Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) and Hal Roach’s short film Young Mr. Jazz (1919), starring Harold Lloyd. Film historian Frank Thompson will introduce the selections and participate in a post-screening Q&A. Local stride pianist Andrew J. Fletcher will provide a live, improvised score for each film. Tickets are $12 and available online or at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com X

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The Farewell HHHHS

DIRECTOR: Lulu Wang PLAYERS: Awkwafina, Tzi Ma COMEDY/DRAMA RATED PG “Based on an actual lie.”

These are the first words we read on screen in Lulu Wang’s remarkable sophomore feature film, The Farewell — words that echo throughout its taut 100 minutes. It’s a tongue-incheek introduction, a bit of comic relief mixed with a caveat: What we’re about to witness is a depiction of a murky truth, and we mustn’t forget it.

The action then shifts to an international phone call between New York City-based Billi and her grandmother, whom she calls Nai Nai (a terrific Zhao Shuzhen), who’s in a hospital waiting room in China.

Portrayed with impressive depth by actress/rapper Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians), Billi is a 30-something first-generation Chinese American writer who’s idealistic, restless and a little bit lost.

A few scenes after this chat, Billi’s parents drop a revelation that rocks her to her core: Nai Nai has been diagnosed with stage 4 lung cancer and only has a few months left to live. The twist is that Nai Nai is completely unaware of her diagnosis.

As is customary in China, the bad news is given to a family member instead of the patient for fear that the news will be too much to bear and worsen the little time she has left. Needing an excuse to say their clandestine goodbyes, the family decides to move up a grandson’s wedding date, compelling everyone to come back to Changchun for one last celebratory hurrah.

The film’s dichotomy of cultural attitudes mirrors larger themes at play — the divide between West and East, the difference between immigrant and native, and the nuances of being Chinese and Chinese American.

These are all stark, ever-present conflicts within Billi’s identity as she’s tasked with reconciling her traditionally reserved, native-born cultural norms with her adopted attitudes of emotional honesty.

Under Wang’s impeccable guidance, humor arises from moments of extreme duress, such as when Nai Nai spars with a caterer over the promise of lobster, not crab, at her grandson’s wedding. The tonal balance between grief and comic relief is particularly poignant during the film’s multiple dinner table scenes, where woe is quietly tempered by Nai Nai’s colorful commentary and insistence on more meat pies for everyone.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Dear Diary: Last night my Aries friend dragged me to the Karaoke Bowling Alley and Sushi Bar. I was deeply skeptical. The place sounded tacky. But after being there for 20 minutes, I had to admit that I was having a fantastic time. And it just got better and more fun as the night wore on. I’m sure I made a fool of myself when I did my bowling ball imitation but I can live with that. At one point I was juggling a bowling pin, a rather large piece of sweet potato tempura and my own shoe while singing Led Zeppelin’s ”Kashmir“ — and I don’t even know how to juggle. I have to admit that this sequence of events was typical of my adventures with Aries folks. I suppose I should learn to trust that they will lead me to where I don’t know I want to go.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): In his poem “Wild Oats,” poet W. S. Merwin provided a message that’s in perfect alignment with your current astrological needs: “I needed my mistakes in their own order to get me here.” He was not being ironic in saying that; he was not making a lame attempt to excuse his errors; he was not struggling to make himself feel better for the inconvenience caused by his wrong turns. No! He understood that the apparent flubs and miscues he had committed were essential in creating his successful life. I invite you to reinterpret your own past using his perspective.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Even if you’re an ambidextrous, multi-gendered, neurologically diverse, PhoenicianRomanian Gemini with a fetish for pink duct tape and an affinity for ideas that no one has ever thought of, you will eventually find your sweet spot, your power niche and your dream sanctuary. I promise. Same for the rest of you Geminis, too. It might take a while. But I beg you to have faith that you will eventually tune in to the homing beacon of the mother lode that’s just right for you. P.S.: Important clues and signs should be arriving soon.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): What would a normal, boring astrologer tell you at a time like now? Maybe something like this: “More of other people’s money and resources can be at your disposal if you emanate sincerity and avoid being manipulative. If you want to negotiate vibrant compromises, pay extra attention to good timing and the right setting. Devote special care and sensitivity to all matters affecting your close alliances and productive partnerships.” As you know, Cancerian, I’m not a normal, boring astrologer, so I wouldn’t typically say something like what I just said.

But I felt it was my duty to do so because right now you need simple, basic, no-frills advice. I promise I’ll resume with my cryptic, lyrical oracles next time.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): What’s the story of your life?

Psychologist James Hillman said that in order to thrive, you need to develop a clear vision of that story. How do you do that? Hillman advised you to ask yourself this question: “How can I assemble the pieces of my life into a coherent plot?” And why is this effort to decode your biography so important? Because your soul’s health requires you to cultivate curiosity and excitement about the big picture of your destiny. If you hope to respond with intelligence to the questions and challenges that each new day brings, you must be steadily nourished with an expansive understanding of why you are here on earth. I bring these ideas to your attention, Libra, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time to illuminate and deepen and embellish your conception of your life story.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide,” wrote psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott. I think that description fits many people born under the sign of the Scorpio, not just Scorpio artists. Knowing how important and necessary this dilemma can be for you, I would never glibly advise you to always favor candid, straightforward communication over protective, strategic hiding. But I recommend you do that in the coming weeks. Being candid and straightforward will serve you well.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sagittarian poet Aracelis Girmay writes, “How ramshackle, how brilliant, how haphazardly & strangely rendered we are.

Gloriously, fantastically mixed & monstered. We exist as phantom, monster, miracle, each a theme park all one’s own.” Of course that’s always true about every one of us. But it will be extraordinarily true about you in the coming weeks. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you will be at the peak of your ability to express what’s most idiosyncratic and essential about your unique array of talents and specialties.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Sometime soon I suspect you will arrive at a crossroads in your relationship with love and sex — as well as your fantasies about love and sex. In front of you: a hearty cosmic joke that would mutate your expectations and expand your savvy. Behind you: an alluring but perhaps confusing call toward an unknown future. To your left: the prospect of a dreamy adventure that might be only half-imaginary. To your right: the possibility of living out a slightly bent fairy tale version of romantic catharsis.

I’m not here to tell you what you should do, Capricorn.

My task is simply to help you identify the options.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Let’s check in with our psychic journalist, LoveMancer, who’s standing by with a live report from inside your imagination.

What’s happening, LoveMancer? “Well, Rob, the enchanting creature on whose thoughts I’ve been eavesdropping has slipped into an intriguing frontier.

This place seems to be a hot zone where love and healing interact intensely. My guess is that being here will lead our hero to breakthrough surges of love that result in deep healing or deep healing that leads to breakthrough surges of love — probably both.”

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): How many handcuffs are there in the world? Millions. Yet there are far fewer different keys than that to open all those handcuffs. In fact, in many countries, there’s a standard universal key that works to open most handcuffs. In this spirit, and in accordance with current astrological omens, I’m designating August as Free Yourself from Your Metaphorical Handcuffs Month.

It’s never as complicated or difficult as you might imagine to unlock your metaphorical handcuffs, and for the foreseeable future, it will be even less complicated and difficult than usual for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Virgo figure skater Scott Hamilton won an Olympic gold medal and four World Championships. He was a star who got inducted into the United States Olympic Hall of Fame and made a lot of money after he turned professional.

“I calculated once how many times I fell during my skating career — 41,600 times,” he testified in his autobiography. “But here’s the funny thing: I also got up 41,600 times. That’s the muscle you have to build in your psyche — the one that reminds you to just get up.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, I’ll be cheering you on as you strengthen that muscle in your psyche during the coming weeks.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): People who sneak a gaze into your laboratory might be unnerved by what they see. You know and I know that your daring experiments are in service to the ultimate good, but that may not be obvious to those who understand you incompletely. So perhaps you should post a sign outside your lab that reads, “Please don’t leap to premature conclusions! My in-progress projects may seem inexplicable to the uninitiated!” Or maybe you should just close all your curtains and lock the door until your future handiwork is more presentable. P.S. There may be allies who can provide useful feedback about your explorations. I call them the wounded healers.

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