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The old vertically integrated industrial giants are gone, replaced by supply chains. And as a result, the transferpricing smoke and mirrors have gone as well, and we can begin to see where real profits are made. Some years ago, a Taiwanese take on this was that the potential for profits was concentrated at the ends of the supply chain (in R&D and product design, and in dealing with end customers ) with no room for profits in actually making things.

Apple’s cash mountain would seem to indicate that designing things and outsourcing their actual production can work very nicely, thank you. With manufacturing jobs leaving China over the last few years as the workers there have become too expensive, you would have to live with pay of $1-2 per hour to get lost factory jobs back.

In the midst of this, of course, the city and county are attempting to attract “advanced manufacturing” businesses.

Businesses that, to even have a hope of competing globally, will be employing as few people as possible as cheaply as possible and replacing even those jobs with robots as fast as possible — whatever conditions are attached to the grants and incentives they are gifted. Using our tax money to compete with nearly every

other city in the country to attract those companies is unlikely to end well.

If you are frightened of the future, seeing Western North Carolina promoted as “Silicon Mountain” will seem a stretch.

But this isn’t about you. This is about trying to make a brighter future for our kids. Looking for creative businesses that don’t require raw materials to be shipped in and products to be shipped out means that we can minimize our greatest weakness while working on our strengths. In addition to a new approach to attracting businesses, we would need to build a whole new infrastructure — better educational opportunities for our kids, startup-friendly office space, more and bigger angel syndicates and venture capital funds just for a start.

If the rich folk feel that they are being unfairly excluded from the city’s future, here is their chance. The adventurous ones could invest in angel and VC funds while the more risk-averse could stick with their familiar property speculation and finance office buildings for startups.

Instead, of course, they scuttled off to Raleigh to find themselves a bunch of lickspittles willing to coerce the city into a gerrymandered Council and policies to further entrench our unsustainable economy with its starvation wages and property speculation.

Until the bubble bursts and we are left with just the starvation wages. And a $75 million debt to repay.

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Asheville has long history of institutional racism Your report on hunger, inequality and food [“Legacy of Loss,” July 19, Xpress] has motivated me to send Mountain Xpress this letter.

Asheville has a long history of institutional racism, both in hiring and in city government. This has not changed very much since the city moved Stephens-Lee High School together with Asheville High in 1969 and we had a riot at Asheville High.

To point out that, for example, the Asheville Fire Department is all-white and that it is very hard to find or see anyone working or eating in all the downtown and most West Asheville businesses who is not white is not racist.

It is just a fact that shows very little has changed here since I was co-captain of the first integrated Asheville High football team and learned much about how Asheville has stacked the deck against nonwhites, and frankly that has not changed nearly as much as it should have over the years.

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If we ever want this to change, and if we ever want children who are growing up in Pisgah View Apartments or the other city housing projects, who are mostly nonwhite, to have a chance to get out of the projects and own their own homes and have an equal chance at getting jobs in all the new upscale hotels, restaurants, bars and the Asheville Fire Department, we have to talk about it and acknowledge it is a longtime problem and a fact based in historical reality here.

Because of Trump and Republican proposals to drastically cut funding for EBT (food stamps), hungry families, especially children, will be suffering a lot more next year.

— John Penley

Asheville Editor’s note: Xpress contacted the city, and Asheville Fire Department public information officer Kelley Klope provided statistics showing that 3.5 percent of the AFD’s 260 staff members are black (nationwide, that figure was 8.4 percent in 2015). In addition, Klope noted: “The city of Asheville Fire Department includes diversity as one of our core values and has worked aggressively to maximize inclusion in our workforce.

We have actively engaged in five different diversity initiatives that have proven very successful. These initiatives have been used as a model in our region and have increased the percentage of nonwhite male applicants for AFD from 8 percent in 2010 to 23 percent in 2016. We are anticipating an even more diverse applicant pool in our current hiring process. We also have twice the percentage of nonwhite males in top leadership roles than in our entire department, which is helping our diversity and inclusion efforts tremendously.”

Article explains city’s food-access problems Just wanted to compliment the Xpress and Erin Daniell on the arti-

cle, “Legacy of Loss” [July 19]. It was a very informative article, helping one to understand the present and how there can possibly be “food insecurity’” in our “foodie” town by learning about the past.

I have appreciated the paper’s efforts to go into more depth about the conditions that face all the communities within our community, whether that be education, transportation, housing, employment, sprawl and now food access.

It’s good to see the paper address the concerns and issues that face those who live here.

— Anne Craig

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Veterans for Peace call for peace and justice Our modern wars have always produced peace activists, not merely protesting wars but calling for a democratic change for peace and justice.

The most effective demonstrations have evolved into nonviolent resistance, which is an active and powerful protest necessary to put a check on our government’s use of military force to solve political problems.

The local Veterans for Peace, along with many Asheville [area] groups such as the Physicians for Social Responsibility, Just Peace for Israel/Palestine and WNC 4 Peace, are calling for peace and justice in our world. Active nonviolent resistance is at its best when it does not focus on condemnation, but on healing, forgiveness, compassion and love, calling for democratic change.

History shows that democracy demands active participation.

Here’s a short list of what Veterans for Peace advocate:

• Redirect Pentagon budget money for education, health care, infrastructure and sustainable green energy.

• Dismantle the U. S. empire here and abroad.

• Close U.S. bases on foreign soil and bring home the troops.

• Ban nuclear weapons.

• Dismantle corporate control of our government.

• Stop persecution of immigrants and refugees.

• End sexism and gender discrimination in the military.

• Respect and honor First Nation sovereignty and treaties.

• End racist violence.

The Veterans for Peace call on Congress to stop funding war and create a plan for peaceful solutions after 16 years of war and the death of tens of thousands in our Middle East wars.

This may seem too radical for many, but keep in mind that the “Just War” theory was an attempt to limit the war-making power of governments, not to condone war. The theory required that all other options be exhausted before military force be used.

Let’s pray and work for peace in our time. For more info: vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot.com

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Correction In our July 26 story “Close Call: Recent Fears Over Loss of Food Aid Highlight Need in WNC,” the $25 million that MANNA FoodBank spent on operating expenses last year should be broken down as follows: The operating budget for food distribution was $5 million, with an additional donated foodproduct value of $20 million.

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BY DAN HESSE dhesse@mountainx.com Establishing the county’s annual budget and the tax rate that funds it are among the most important items of business for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners in any year. Following a 2017 revaluation that saw the total assessed value of all county property rise 28 percent, the task of determining the tax rate for the 2018 fiscal year carried even more weight than usual.

Yet in the month between the county’s first budget presentation on May 2 and a June 6 public hearing on the proposed budget, those not privy to email messages and phone calls between commissioners and then-County Manager Wanda Greene had little indication of the commissioners’ deliberations. That includes the property tax rate, which hits all county property owners squarely in the wallet.

In the budget adopted on June 20, the commissioners set a property tax rate of 53.9 cents per $100 of assessed value, which will generate 50 percent of the county’s $433 million operating budget. The rate represents a 2.6-cent increase above what’s known as revenue neutral — the tax rate that would have kept the county’s tax revenue in line with the previous year.

Xpress sought to find out what commissioners discussed outside the public view when deciding on that rate and why those conversations happened behind closed doors.

PRIVATE MEETING: Buncombe County commissioners held many of the discusssions about the property tax rate in county offices at 200 College St. By limiting those meetings to no more than three commissioners at a time, the officials avoid triggering requirements for providing notice of an official meeting or recording minutes. Photo by Arianna Moore

CALL ME MAYBE On June 23, Xpress sent an open records request for emails, text messages and any other written records regarding the fiscal year 2018 budget from March 1 to June 21 “to and from all commissioners and Wanda Greene.” Further, the request stated the intent was “to understand how commissioners discuss and arrive at decisions concerning the budget that don’t happen during public meetings” and asked staff to reach out if clarification was needed. The county did not confirm receipt of the request.

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On July 13, Xpress sent a followup email about the request. A reply advised that the county would be in touch “early next week.” Xpress checked in again July 19, and the county provided emails later that day. It soon became clear, however, that only emails sent from Greene were provided. The materials did not contain communications among commissioners.

On July 20, Xpress asked about the missing communications among commissioners. County Attorney Michael Frue responded the same day, via email: “I apologize, but it does appear that the initial query as entered was for communications surrounding Greene and the commissioners and not between the individual commissioners. As soon as I have the results I will let you know how many hits we find, how-

ever I will not be able to review them in short order.”

As of press time, Xpress is waiting on the missing communications.

PARTY LINE The part of the open records request the county did fulfill showed emails from Greene — a total of about 40 emails and threads. The emails, by and large, contained little discussion about the budget. Most deal with commissioners’ requests for information or setting up meetings.

On April 26, Greene sent an email to all commissioners outlining her proposed 55.9-cent property tax rate, 2 cents higher than the rate the officials eventually adopted.

In the email, Greene explained that the purchase of 137 acres on Ferry Road (undertaken as part of a failed bid to attract Deschutes Brewery) and expenses related to the new Health and Human Services building on Coxe Avenue made it necessary for the county to generate additional revenue.

Greene wrapped up the email to commissioners with a request that budget communications take place by phone: “As you review the budget, please call me with any questions.”

PHONE TAG On May 2, Buncombe County commissioners held their first public meeting about the proposed budget and property tax rate. Greene float-

ed a $419 million spending plan with the associated property tax rate of 55.9 cents she had quoted commissioners the week before. Ultimately, commissioners approved a rate of 53.9 cents on June 20.

By comparison, the city of Asheville kicked off its budget season on March 14 and held four work sessions, along with a formal budget presentation, public hearing and formal adoption, for a total of seven public discussions. The county got started on May 2, held one workshop and discussed the spending plan at three formal meetings — a total of four public occasions.

The city’s adopted budget of $175 million is less than half the size of the county’s $433 million budget.

Commission Chair Brownie Newman, helming his first budget process, says most discussions about the property tax rate happened between the June 6 public hearing and the budget approval on June 20.

“This is a topic that every single commissioner understands is one of the most important decisions,” he says.

“What’s the right number? There was a lot of conversation between commissioners and staff after the public hearing to see how much lower we can reduce it while not reducing it so much that we can’t meet key priorities we want in the budget.”

Newman says those conversations mostly happened via in-person meetings and phone calls, leaving very little in the way of a paper trail. “As we were getting close, I called commissioners to ask where they were at,” says Newman.

CONFERENCE CALL Newman explains that commissioners take advantage of threeon-one meetings that feature three commissioners and the county manager; sometimes, other county staff attend. Limiting the meetings to three elected officials avoids convening a quorum, which would trigger legal requirements to advertise the meeting and keep minutes of the commissioners’ interactions.

Commissioner Mike Fryar says those types of informal discussions are necessary. “You have to do certain things in any job where you discuss stuff before it ever happens,” he says, noting those in-person and byphone discussions were influential in lowering the proposed property tax rate from 55.9 to 53.9 cents.

Fryar touts the success of the commissioner-staff meetings and

notes Republicans and Democrats were always paired together. “I don’t want to get seven of us together in the middle of a storm to try to figure it out. I’d rather it be threeon-one, get close and then figure it out. I can’t call [the media] in my office every time I do something. I got hired to try to do a job for the people,” he says.

Chris Cooper, head of Western Carolina University’s political science department, says it’s normal for nonpublic government negotiations to take place, but it’s a tightrope act. “We want as much light shed on government as possible, but the reality is that elected officials are human beings, and it’s unrealistic to think that all of the discourse on complicated issues will take place in a meeting,” he says.

Frayda Bluestein, a professor of public law and government at UNC Chapel Hill, says she’s not aware of specific guidance about what public officials must discuss in the open.

“It’s quite common for individual members to talk with other members. A concern arises if it’s a majority discussing it simultaneously, as this triggers the open meetings law.

Negotiating — ‘horse trading’ — is pretty common in the political decision-making process,” she says.

PRIVATE NUMBER What did commissioners discuss during private meetings and phone calls?

“It ended up kind of being a debate between 54.5 and 53.9. Those were the two numbers that there was some support around,” says Newman of the off-the-record talks. “I was in 54.5 camp, but eventually I was persuaded that 53.9 could work.”

Commissioner Jasmine BeachFerrara says the meetings allowed for more in-depth discussion of policy issues and fostered a spirit of cooperation. “Between regular meetings with the county manager, staff and other commissioners, it was much more discussion than debate-oriented,” she says.

Beach-Ferrara says commissioners discussed forecasts prepared by county staff showing the effects of different property tax rates. “The driving force on that was people wanting the tax rate as low as we could get it.” To test those theories, she says, the idea was, “Let’s run the numbers with different tax rates and see what the implications are.”

Fryar says the talks allowed him to budge from his original stance

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TAX TIMELINE: The city of Asheville started its budget process in March, while Buncombe County commissioners got to work on a spending plan in May. The city held four work sessions and had a total of seven public discussions, while the county had one work session and a total of four public discussions on the budget. Graphic by Scott Southwick on the property tax rate. “I was at 53 [cents]. I took all the numbers and figured them. Whatever we do is going to help somebody, hurt somebody, and somebody is going to break even,” he says, noting he started even lower, at 51 cents, but couldn’t see it working.

with the budget when projects they support don’t make it in. “It’s about what they can ultimately live with.

It’s asking people, ‘What do you really need in this budget to support it?’” he says.

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“It felt really crunched,” Newman says of the county’s timeline for creating the budget. He’s open to starting the process and holding multiple public work sessions. “We should create more space for this to play out, both publicly and with informal commissioner discussions.”

Fryar says his lone vote against the budget had to do with his opposition to rerouting the dedicated A-B Tech 0.25-cent sales tax from capital projects to operations and maintenance needs. Nonetheless, reflecting on the process, he says, “Overall, we did good together.”

Fryar is enthusiastic about new County Manager Mandy Stone, who took office July 1 after Greene’s retirement. “We are going to see everything ahead of time, before it hits me in the face,” says Fryar, explaining that in previous budgets he often received information last minute.

New debt transparency projects county staff is rolling out, says

The emails Xpress received offer some insight into what commissioners and the county manager discussed. Community grant funding proved a contentious topic. On June 12, Newman sent an email to Greene with a spreadsheet outlining suggested figures for such funding. That spreadsheet was not provided to Xpress.

The community grant funding process, Fryar tells Xpress, is “a waste of time.” Overall, he’s opposed to the grants: “I didn’t like the money that we gave away to nonprofits. It’s a budget where it’s everybody wanting something for nothing.”

While she didn’t have to fight for her priorities, such as funding for preschools and combating opioid addiction, Beach-Ferrara notes the community grant funding was a bit divisive.

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Fryar, will help inform commissioners and the community. However, he’s not sure all discussions need to happen in public. “We need to come close, then we hash it out in a forum or a meeting,” he says.

Beach-Ferrara says she’s pleased with her first budget process.

Still, she thinks there’s room for improvement: “I would be excited to look at ways the budget process could involve more opportunity for public comment and participation, and I think there are ways to do that in the next year.”

DON’T HANG UP While Newman believes there’s value in commissioners holding more public discussion, he doesn’t want to put the kibosh on the free flow of conversation away from public scrutiny as long as it occurs within the letter of the law.

“I think most people in the community want us to be talking to each other between the meetings — not just Democrats talking to Democrats, we should all be talking together,” he says. “I think infor-

mal conversations are helpful to the process.”

WCU’s Cooper says the road to transparency is not always clear.

“We all want openness, but at the same time, it’s hard to see the sausage being made, as policymaking is a long and tedious process,” he says. “The reality of political life is that once things hit the floor, the major decisions have usually been made. It’s not unusual for decisions to be made this way, but I think no one would argue that it’s optimal.”

Xpress reached out to the other four commissioners but did not receive responses by press time. The three commissioners Xpress spoke with all say they want more time to develop future budgets. Just what strategies county staff and elected leaders will use to promote more transparency, encourage public input and provide a forum for discussing community grant funding and the tax rate remain to be determined.

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Short-term rental concerns delay new RAD zoning For the second time in as many months, the city of Asheville’s grand vision for the future of its riverfront has run smack into some hard realities. On the heels of a June 23 meeting of Asheville City Council that saw elected officials agree to a reduced scope for the $56 million River Arts District Transportation Improvement Project due to higher-than-expected construction costs, the Council on July 25 deferred proposed zoning changes pending additional public comment and deliberation.

Over two years in the making, the planning and public process surrounding the zoning changes appeared to be proceeding fairly smoothly until recently. The new form-based code, explained Sasha Vrtunski of the city’s Urban Design and Planning Department, is intended to create a unique sense of place for the district. Form-based codes generally “ask more from developers in terms of building placement and form,” she said.

While owners of industrial property in the district had expressed concern about the impact of the changes on their business interests from the beginning, worries about short-term rentals in four of the seven proposed zoning districts only became an issue over the past two months.

Although short-term rentals — that is, renting out an apartment or house for stays of fewer than 30 days — are not allowed in any residential district in Asheville, they are permitted as “lodging” in areas zoned for commercial use, such as downtown. In the proposed code, the four commercial areas of the River Arts

CODE SWITCH: The map of the proposed form-based code for the River Arts District shows seven different zoning areas.

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District included short-term rentals in the table of permitted uses.

Though four members of the Council — Mayor Esther Manheimer, Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler, Julie Mayfield and Gordon Smith — voted to approve the zoning code minus the possibility of short-term rentals anywhere in the district, City Attorney Robin Currin advised that such a substantial change in the proposal requires routing the matter back through the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission.

Voting against the motion to exclude short-term rentals from the district, Council members Cecil Bothwell, Brian Haynes and Keith Young said that changing the rules for one form of commercial activity in the River Arts District while continuing to allow it in other areas zoned commercial didn’t make sense. The three also advocated excluding the area between the Norfolk Southern Railway tracks and the French Broad River from zoning changes until new infrastructure is in place and the long-term viability of commercial rail shipping is better understood.

After consideration by the Planning and Zoning Commission, the proposed River Arts District zoning code will come back to City Council for another public hearing and vote. No date has yet been set for either meeting.

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Fix it: Commissioners tell Mission, Blue Cross to end dispute Representatives from Mission Health and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina dug in their heels during a presentation in front of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners on July 25. The health care system and

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insurance provider are at loggerheads over a contract. And while representatives from both organizations said they are willing to negotiate, neither made tangible steps toward committing to do so during the forum.

Earlier this month, Mission publicly stated it canceled its contract with BCBS, a move that would affect more than 4,000 Buncombe County employees, retirees and their dependents. Further, it could put a

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strain on the county’s three federally qualified health centers, as some 22,000 county residents are on the Affordable Care Act, and BCBS is the county’s only provider in Western North Carolina.

SYMPTOMS OF TROUBLE “Let’s sit face-to-face and work through this. We will come back to the table when termination is rescinded,” Patrick Brady, BCBS director of national accounts, said of Mission Health’s contract termination.

“Mission Health was at the table for over a year with good faith, but [the contract] was not resolved,” countered Jill Hoggard-Green, Mission’s chief operating officer.

And while both parties repeatedly said they would like to negotiate, it became clear to county commissioners there was little progress being made ahead of the Oct. 5 deadline, the date the existing contract will officially dissolve.

In the meantime, all BCBS enrollees will have the same coverage and facilities available.

“Mission has historically enjoyed guaranteed increases. What we are asking for at this point is those increases be tied to quality and outcomes, and that any increase is based on benefit to members in terms of high-quality care.”

Meanwhile, Mission says it’s already scaled back expenditures to the tune of $240 million over the past five years using cost-cutting methods. Hoggard-Green said the automatically renewed contract with BCBS doesn’t give Mission adequate ability to negotiate and institutes a zero percent increase for Mission.

Many of these issues have played out in public relation campaigns over the past few weeks, but the county is on the clock, and commissioners seem sick of it.

“The timing is horrible at best,” stated Commissioner Joe Belcher.

“It is unacceptable for [Mission] to give the termination status. Y’all

by Max Hunt | mhunt@mountainx.com MISSION HEALTH, CIGNA SIGN MULTIYEAR AGREEMENT Mission Health has signed a multiyear agreement with insurance provider Cigna Corp. Effective Sept. 1, Cigna customers who receive health care benefits through their employers will be eligible for in-network access to Mission’s hospitals, outpatient centers and employed physicians.

“We are pleased to continue our longstanding, collaborative relationship with Cigna,” said Paul McDowell, deputy chief financial officer of Mission Health. “We believe a much more competitive insurance market in Western North Carolina will greatly benefit large and small group employers and consumers alike.”

More info: mission-health.org

MORGANTON HOSTS FESTIVAL FOR FORT SAN JUAN, JOARA

The city of Morganton will host the Remembering the Encounter: 450th Festival on Saturday, Aug. 4, from 2-8 p.m. at Catawba Meadows Park.

The festival commemorates the first inland European settlement in North America, Fort San Juan, and the nearby Cherokee settlement of Joara.

Representatives from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Catawba, Coharie, HaliwaSoponi, Lumbee and Waccamaw Siouan cultures will offer demonstrations of traditional dances, music, storytelling and crafting. In addition, the St. Augustine, Fla.-based Men of Menendez will present living history demonstrations on 16th-century Spanish culture.

Activities for attendees include cornhusk doll-making, Spanish boats, spear throwing

have to negotiate. That’s your job. You provide health care. This contract has got to be fixed.”

“Now is the time to sit down and show us you practice what you preach.

If you care about Buncombe County, let’s sit down and do something,” said Commissioner Al Whitesides.

Commissioners pressed Mission as to what percent the system wants to see in the upcoming contract, a number Hoggard-Green noted she wasn’t legally allowed to reveal.

COVERAGE TRIAGE Human Resources Director Curt Euler said he’s communicating with employees and trying to find alternatives. “Out of network is really bad for the employee. I don’t know what providers will charge if it’s a different amount. … That’s what’s scary,” he

and more. The event is free, but there is a $5 parking fee.

More info: 828-439-2463 or ExploringJoara.org SISTERS OF MERCY URGENT CARE EXPANDS HOURS OF OPERATION Sisters of Mercy Urgent Care has expanded operating hours at three of its four Buncombe County locations.

Facilities with expanded hours include the east location on Tunnel Road, the south location on Hendersonville Road and the north location on Weaver Boulevard.

Hours of operation for the three facilities are now: • Monday-Friday: 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

• Saturday and Sunday: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Hours at the Patton Avenue and Brevard Urgent Care facilities remain the same.

More info: urgentcares. org or 828-210-2121 X

said, adding that unless BCBS negotiates costs with Mission and other providers, there is no telling what prices might be.

Euler said the county’s contract with BCBS expires in September and the county would need to notify BCBS by the end of August if it wants to terminate, a move he noted would not prohibit further negotiations with BCBS. Meanwhile, County Manager Mandy Stone said that health benefits are intentionally robust, as they are a primary tool for recruitment and retention. “We compete for a workforce with specialized credentials. It’s your social workers, law enforcement officers … things that will stop the county from functioning as a healthy, stable community. That weighs heavy on us.”

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• WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided.

All ages and skill levels welcome. Beginners lessons available. Free.

Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road

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ANIMALS BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE 828-505-3440, bwar.org • SA (8/5), noon-3pm - Animal adoption event. Free to attend.

Held at Sweeten Creek Brewing, 1127 Sweeten Creek Road DIAMOND BRAND OUTDOORS 1378 Hendersonville Road, 828-684-6262, diamondbrand.com • SA (8/5), 11am-2pm Animal adoption event with the Foothills Humane Society. Free to attend.

GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN 2050 Blowing Rock Highway, Linville, 828733-4337, grandfather.com • WE (8/2), 10:30am3pm - Animal Enrichment Day with presentations, games and educational activities. Admission fees apply.

BENEFITS ASHEVILLE CELEBRATES TEACHERS facebook.com/ empowermenteducation • WE (8/2), 9:30am9pm - "Asheville Celebrates Teachers 2017: Self-care Extravaganza," event with raffle prizes, presentations and discussions, wellness and self-care activities, and live music honoring teachers. Full schedule: bit.ly/2uGiblb.

Free to attend. Held at Asheville Music hall, 31 Patton Ave.

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BOTANICAL GARDENS 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd., 828-252-5190 • FR (8/4), 7-8:30pm Proceeds from "Yoga + Meditation in the Garden," beginner/ intermediate yoga class benefit the Asheville Botanical Gardens. Sponsored

by Namaste in Nature. $19.

ETOWAH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 110 Brickyard Road, Etowah, 828-8914360, etowahumc.org • SA (8/5), 8am1pm - Proceeds from this community flea market benefit the Etowah United Methodist Church.

Free to attend.

FEAST 704-562-2828, feastasheville.com • MO (8/7), 5:30-8pm Proceeds from dinner buffet featuring locally sourced food and Oskar Blues Brewery beers benefit FEAST cooking and garden education in Asheville area schools and after school programs.

Registration required: http://bit.ly/2v2D4aD. $50. Held at Sunny Point Café, 626 Haywood Road GIRLS ON THE RUN WNC gotrwnc.org • TH (8/3), 5-9pm Proceeds from beer sales at this Girls on the Run social event benefit Girls on the Run WNC. Free to attend. Held at Pour Taproom, 2 Hendersonville Road LEAF ART DASH 5K theleaf.org/local/ artddashasheville/ • SA (8/5), 9am Proceeds from this 5K race benefit LEAF

Schools & Streets. $35/$23 family team.

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. MOUNTAIN CHILD ADVOCACY CENTER mtnac.org • TH (8/3), 11am Proceeds from the 15th annual Arby’s Child Advocacy Classic Golf Tournament benefit the Mountain Child Advocacy Center. Registration: mtncac.org. $175/$700 per foursome. Held at Etowah Valley Golf and Resort, 470 Brickyard Road, Etowah MY SISTAH TAUGHT ME THAT mysistahtaughtmethat.org • SU (8/6), 3-5pm Proceeds from this fundraising fashion show benefit My Sistah Taught Me That. $10-$20. Held at Celine and Company, 49 Broadway THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-7851357, craftcreativitydesign. org/ • TH (8/10), 8-10pm Proceeds from "Craft After Dark," dinner, gala and hands-on crafting event honoring artist and board member Stoney Lamar benefit The Center for Craft, Creativity & Design. $50.

THE COLLIDER thecollider.org • TH (8/3), 6:15 Proceeds from this reception and showing of the film, An Inconvenient Sequel, benefit The Collider.

Reception begins at 6:15pm at Blue Spiral 1, 38 Biltmore Ave. Film screening at 7:30pm at the Fine

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UP, UP AND AWAY: The 11th annual Asheville-Buncombe Aero Modelers Flying Club model airplane show takes off on Saturday, Aug. 5, from 10 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Buncombe County Sports Park. The family-friendly, free event includes a high-flying air show and displays many types of aircraft ranging from small electric to gasoline-powered 33 percent size airplanes.

The club, collectively, has hundreds of years of flying and building experience, and many of the members are master aircraft builders who have built their own model planes from balsa wood and plywood. For more information, call 828-250-4269 or email davebowman@charter.net. (p. 18) Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. $25.

THE DENIM BALL brpfoundation.org/ thedenimball • FR (8/4), 7pm - Proceeds from this denim themed gala with dinner, drinks, auction and live music from the Lucky Strikes Orchestra benefit The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation renovation of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park. $100. Held at Chetola Resort, 185 Chetola Lake Drive, Blowing Rock

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY DEFCON 828 GROUP meetup.com/DEFCON-828/ • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm General meeting for information security professionals, students and enthusiasts.

Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road HATCH ASHEVILLE hatchavl.org • WE (8/2), 6-7:30pm - Hatch Asheville “Pitch Party,” openmic night for entrepreneurs.

Free. Held at Anthroware, 45 S. French Broad Ave., Suite 145

• WE (8/9), noon-1pm “What is your ‘Why?,’” presentation by Simon Sinek regarding value-driven businesses. Free. Held at HatchWorks, 45 S. French Broad WNC LINUX USER GROUP wnclug.ourproject.org, wnclug@main.nc.us • 1st SATURDAYS, noon Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS COOKING CLASSES AT MOUNTAIN KITCHEN! (PD.) • Saturday August 5: Summer vegetables: not only for vegetarians! • Saturday, August 12: Shawarma and pastries. • 6pm-9pm. More information/ registration: (917) 566-5238 or visit www.ofrishomecooking.com EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) BEGINNING POLE weekly on Sundays 5:45pm, Tuesdays 5:15pm, Wednesdays 5:30pm, and Thursdays 11:00am. POLE

DANCE weekly on Mondays 7:45pm and Saturdays 11:30am. FLEXIBILITYCONTORTION weekly on Sundays 7:00pm, Tuesdays 8:00pm, and Thursdays 1:00pm.

BREAKDANCE weekly on Fridays 6:00pm.

FLOOR THEORY weekly on Wednesdays 8:00pm.

BEGINNING AERIAL ARTS weekly on Mondays 6:30pm, Tuesdays 11:00am, and Wednesdays 11:00am.

For details & sign up go to empyreanarts.org or call/text us at 828.782.3321.

ORGANIC GROWERS SCHOOL'S 4TH ANNUAL HARVEST CONFERENCE (PD.) 9/8-9/9 at Warren Wilson College. 20+ classes on fall & winter growing, fermentation, homesteading & self reliance.

Friday, pre-conference, allday, workshops. $45 by 8/6, $50 after. organicgrowersschool.org.

APPALACHIAN ART FARM 22 Morris St., Sylva, appalchianartfarm.org • SATURDAYS, 10:30amnoon - Youth art class. $10.

ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB 828-779-0319, vincentvanjoe@gmail.com

ASHEVILLE GREEN OPPORTUNITIES 828-398-4158, greenopportunities.org • TH (8/10), 4-6pm - Community engagement social with a community resource fair, food, cooking demos, music by DJ Supaman, bounce house, face painting and cell phones from Assurance Wireless. Free. Held at Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, 285 Livingston St. ASHEVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT 828-259-5881, ashevillenc.gov/ Departments/Police • Through TH (9/7) - Open registration for the Asheville Police Department’s Fall Citizens Police Academy. Registration: bit.ly/2uVozmf. Free.

ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK main.nc.us/wib • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil.

Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • MO (8/7), 10am - "Itch to Stitch," knitting and needlework group for all skill levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • MONDAYS (8/7) through (9/25), 4:30pm - Beginners Spanish class for adults, running for two months.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (8/8), 6:30pm Adult coloring club.

Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WEDNESDAYS (8/9), (8/23), (9/6) & (9/13) Spanish conversation group. Registration required. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - "What's Up with Whiteness," discussion group. Free to attend.

HAYWOOD STREET CONGREGATION 297 Haywood St., 828246-4250 • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS - Workshop to teach how to make sleeping mats for the homeless out of plastic shopping bags. Information: 828707-7203 or cappyt@att. net. Free.

LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA 828-686-8298 , egacarolinas.org • TH (8/3), 10am General meeting and opportunity for chapter members to show their completed needle art projects and spend time stitching on projects.

Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook.com/Leicester.

Community.Center • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Public board meeting.

Free.

LIVING WEB FARMS 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River, 828-505-1660, livingwebfarms.org • TU (8/8), 6pm "Greens You Can Grow and Eat Through the Heat," workshop.

Registration required. $10.

TARHEEL PIECEMAKERS QUILT CLUB tarheelpiecemakers. wordpress.com/ • WE (8/9), 10am General meeting and program, "Making

a Jacket from a Sweatshirt." Free.

Held at Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville

DANCE DANCE WORKSHOP (PD.) Learn the Romantic Nightclub-Two, Level Two. • Saturday, August 12, 1-3pm.

Cathedral of All Souls, Biltmore Village. 2 hour Workshop with World Champions Richard and Sue Cicchetti. For information: 828-333-0715. naturalrichard@ mac.com • www.

DanceForLife.net EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted by Asheville Movement Collective.

Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue.

• Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street.

Sliding scale fee.

Information: ashevillemovementcollective. org LEARN HOW TO DANCE (PD.) Ballroom, Country and Social Dance Instructions, Workshops and Dance Events in Asheville with Certified instructor and World Champion. Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715. • "We totally enjoyed the workshop!" David and Donna, Asheville. naturalrichard@ mac.com • www.

DanceForLife.net POLE FITNESS AND DANCE CLASSES AT DANCECLUB ASHEVILLE (PD.) Pole Dance, Burlesque, Jazz/Funk, Flashmobs! Drop in for a class or sign up for a series:• Monday: 5:15-Adv. Beg. Spin Pole, 6:30-Sexy Chair Series, 6:30-Stretchy Flexy, 7:30-Adv. Beg. Pole• Tuesday:

12PM-Pole $10, 5:30Pole, 6:30-Jazz/Funk Series, 7:30-Pole• Wednesday: 5:30Pole, 6:30-Pole Tricks, 7:30-Pole• Thursday: 5:30-Jazz/Funk Series, 6:30-Exotic Poleography, 7:30Beg. Spin Pole• Friday: 11-Open Pole, 12-Floor Play• Saturday: 1:30-Intro/ Beg. Pole $15Visit the website to learn more: DanceclubAsheville. com 828-275-8628 Right down the street from UNCA - 9 Old Burnsville Hill Rd., #3

HENDERSONVILLE STREET DANCING 828-693-9708, historichendersonville.org • MONDAYS until (8/14), 7-9pm Outdoor event featuring Appalachian Fire bluegrass music and the Hotfoot Cloggers. Free.

Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville

SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • TUESDAYS, 8am Zumba dance exercise class. $8.

• THURSDAYS, 1pm - Beginner line dance classes. $5.

SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 828-697-7732, southernlights.org

SQUARE DANCE WITH THE BOYS OF BUNCOMBE AT HICKORY NUT GAP FARM (PD.) Friday, August 4th.

6-9pm. Wear your dancing shoes! $6 admission. Kids under 5 free. Dinner and drinks available.

STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (PD.) Monday 9am Yoga Wkt 12pm Barre Wkt 4pm Dance and Define Wkt 5pm Bellydance Drills 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bellydance Special Topics 7pm Classical Ballet Series 8pm Tribal Bellydance Series 8pm Lyrical Series • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculpt-Beats Wkt 5pm Modern Movement 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Advanced Bellydance • Wednesday 5pm Hip Hop Wkt 5pm Bollywood 6pm Bhangra Series 7pm Tahitian Series 8pm Jazz Series • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculpt-beats Wkt 4pm Girls Hip Hop 5pm Teens Hip Hop 6pm Bellydance Drills 7pm Advanced Contemporary 8pm West Coast Swing Series • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45 Buti Yoga Wkt • Sunday 11am Yoga Wkt • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $6.

90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www. studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595

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My Sistah Taught Me That fashion show

Virgola is a place to pause… alone, with friends, with family.

Have some oysters, some prosecco.

Pause with us.

OPEN this Saturday 8/5 & Sunday 8/6 at 1:00.

2 Hendersonville Road 828-222-6555 • virgolausa.com

STRIKE A POSE: The girls of MSTMT strut down the catwalk during last year’s fashion show. The upcoming event is completely orchestrated by the girls in the program, says MSTMT founder Leslie Council. Photo courtesy of MSTMT

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WHAT: The second annual My Sistah Taught Me That fashion show WHEN: Sunday, Aug. 6, 3-5:30 p.m.

WHERE: Celine’s on Broadway WHY: From dance performances to marching down the catwalk, the girls of My Sistah Taught Me That have dedicated the last few months preparing for their second annual fashion show fundraiser. “This year, the kids are doing everything,” says Leslie Council, MSTMT founder. “They’re the entertainment, they’re going to be doing some dancing, and then, of course, they’re going to be the models.”

The organization, which aims to empower young girls growing up in single-parent households without their father, has partnered with Nest Boutique in Biltmore Village to supply clothes to wear on the runway, Council says.

As the nonprofit’s primary fundraiser, members hope to raise $5,000 to provide

meals and other means of support for the girls in the program. In addition to the fashion show, vendors from across town will sell their goods, a dance-off will be staged, and program participants will share testimonials about their experiences, Council says.

“It’s a big deal for these girls to get on a runway,” she says. “A lot of them struggle with self-esteem issues, not feeling confident, not feeling pretty. Just watching them as we rehearse, they already are coming out of their shell from saying “I don’t think I can do this, this isn’t for me” to being the ones rocking it on the stage, it’s incredible. I cannot wait to see them on the actual stage.”

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• SA (8/5), 6pm - "School Daze," themed dance. Advance dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Plus squares and rounds at 7:30pm.

Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

FOOD & BEER ASHEVILLE WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL (PD.) Savor the mountains like never before...at the Asheville Wine & Food Festival right downtown in Pack Square Park on Friday Aug 18 & Saturday Aug 19. Tickets & info: www.ashevillewineandfood. com CANTON COMMUNITY KITCHEN 98 Pisgah Drive, Canton, 828-6480014, cantoncommunitykitchen.org • TH (8/3), 9am - Food preservation class regarding canning and preserving techniques. Free.

HENDERSON COUNTY TAILGATE MARKET 100 N King St., Hendersonville, 828-697-1153, facebook.com/hendersoncountytailgatemarket • SA (8/5), 8am-noon - Tomato Festival at the tailgate market featuring free sandwiches and sample tastings. Free to attend.

FESTIVALS CATAWBA MEADOWS PARK 701 Sanford Drive, Morganton • SA (8/5), 2-8pm - 450th Festival honoring the first European inland settlement in the United States located in Burke County. Events include family-friendly games and activities, live music and performances. $5.

LEAF DOWNTOWN theleaf.org/downtown/ • FR (8/4), 3-10pm & SA (8/5), noon-10pm - Outdoor festival featuring live music on three stages, family adventure activities, regional and national performers, and over 80 art, craft and food vendors.

Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. MOUNTAIN DANCE AND FOLK FESTIVAL 828-258-6101, folkheritage.org • TH (8/3) through SA (8/5), 7-10pm - The Folk Heritage Committee presents the nation's longest running folk dance and song festival. $22/$12 children under 13. Held at A-B Tech Mission Health Conference Center, 16 Fernihurst Drive, WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK CELEBRATION lbradley@hendersoncountync.org

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• FR (8/4), 10am-noon - Fesitval with with live music, food, drinks, giveaways and raffles. Sponsored by the Henderson County Breastfeeding Coalition. Free.

Held at The Park at Flat Rock, 48 Highland Golf Drive, Flat Rock

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN’S CLUB facebook.com/BRRWC • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Gondolier Restaurant, 1360 Tunnel Road.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB 828-243-6590 • TH (8/10), 11:30am-1:30pm - "The Republican 'Brand' and How to Market Conservatism," meeting with keynote speech by Savannah Nesbitt. Registration: lisabaldwin4kids@gmail.com. Free to attend. Held at Olive Garden, 121 Tunnel Road CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room.

Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. • TH (8/3), 3-5pm - Multimodal Transportation Commission & Greenways Committees meeting to discuss public comments regarding greenway widening.

Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza FRENCH BROAD RIVER PARK SHELTER 580 Riverside Dr, 828-259-5800, ashevillenc.gov/departments/ parks/inventory/default.htm • SA (8/5), 11am-3pm - Event to meet and greet local politicians.

Sponsored by the Concerned Biker's Association. Free.

HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, 828-692-6424, myhcdp.com • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10.

INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC Indivisible-sylva.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm -General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva SHILOH COMMUNITY CENTER 121 Shiloh Road • WE (8/9), 6-7:30pm "Community Meet & Greet," Shiloh Precincts 8.2 and 8.3 in

conversation with the candidate for the House of Representatives for the 10th Congressional District, Kenneth Queen. Free.

KIDS ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 175 Biltmore Ave, 828-253-3227 • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am-12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4. Registration required: 2533227 ext. 124. $4 per student.

HANDS ON! A CHILDREN'S GALLERY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-697-8333, handsonwnc,org • Through FR (8/4), 10am-4pm - "Critter Craft - Fish," activity for kids of all ages to create a fish while learning about shapes.

Admission fees apply.

• WE (8/2), 2-3pm - “Mad Scientists on Wheels,” science activities for kids. Registration required: 828-297-4725. Free.

Held at Hendersonville Public

Library, 301 N Washington St., Hendersonville • TU (8/8), 10:30am-noon - "Over The Rainbow!" Activities for ages 3-6. Registration required. $20/$15 members.

• TU (8/8) through FR (8/11), 10am-4pm -"Play a Pipe Piano!" activities for children. Admission fees apply.

• WE (8/9), 10:30am-12:30pm - "Don’t Try This At Home!"

Chemistry activities for ages 7-11.

Registration required. $25/$20 members.

• TH (8/10), 10:30am-12:30pm - "Maker Space!" Activities for ages 7-11. Registration required. $25/$20 members.

• TH (8/10), 11am-noon - "Blue Ridge Humane Day!" Animal activity and guest animal. Admission fees apply.

HISTORIC JOHNSON FARM 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville, 828-891-6585, historicjohnsonfarm.org

BILTMORE LAKE CLUBHOUSE 80 Lake Drive, Candler • TH (8/3), 7-8pm - Summer book club for rising 6th to 12th graders.

Reading the Charlie Dead Series.

Registration: mlkjc@yahoo.com.

Free.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • SA (8/5), 11am - "Read with JR the Therapy Dog," for ages 4-12.

Registration required: 828-2506486. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • MONDAYS, 10:30am - "Mother Goose Time," storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages.

Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 4-5pm "After School Art Adventures," guided art making for school age children with the Asheville Art Museum. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester CARL SANDBURG HOME NHS 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 828-693-4178 • WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS (8/2) until (8/11), 10:15am - Spink, Skabootch and Swipes, live performance. Free.

• THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS (8/3) until (8/12), 10:15am - Rootabaga Express, live performance. Free.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am Family story time. Free.

GIRL SCOUTS 828-989-7850, girlscoutsp2p.org, mindy.smith09@gmail.com • TH (8/10), 9am-7pm - "National S’mores Day," drop-in informational event with games, activities and s'mores. Free. Held at Girl Scouts of America, Asheville, 31 College Place, Building C

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• TH (8/3), 10am-noon - LEGO Blast Competition for rising 2nd through 6th grade students. Registration: 828-891-6585. $5.

• TH (8/10), 10:20am - Teddy Bear Tea Party for 3-6 year olds. Event features tea time, snacks, games, stories and a photo booth for kids and their teddy bear friend.

Registration required: 828-8916585. $5.

J.E. BROYHILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd SE. Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • TH (8/10) through SA (8/12), 7:30pm - Jack Tales, presented

by Foothills Performing Arts. $16.25/$9 students & children.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • SA (8/5), 11am - Susan Paul presents her book, C.D. and the Dream Pillow. Free to attend.

• WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9.

Free to attend.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 828708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • TU (8/8), 6-7pm - "Kissing Summer Goodbye Tour," event with four young adult authors: Christina June, Joanne O'Sullivan, Shaila Patel and Katy Upperman. For ages 12 and up. Free to attend.

WHOLE FOODS MARKET 4 S. Tunnel Road • MONDAYS, 9-10am "Playdates," family fun activities.

Free to attend.

WNC HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION wnchistory.org • SATURDAYS (8/5) through (8/26), 10:30am-12:30pm - “Crafty Historian,” workshops for kids ages 10 and up to make an 1800s skirt, petticoat or other 1-yard project. Participants should provide their own sewing machine, fabric and notions and be able to thread the machine and insert a bobbin.

Registration required. $20 for all four sessions. Held at SmithMcDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road

OUTDOORS GET KRAZY WITH KUDZU AT CHIMNEY ROCK (PD.) Discover the many uses of kudzu at Chimney Rock at Chimney Rock State Park’s Krazy with Kudzu festival on Saturday, August 12, from 11am-3pm. More info, visit chimneyrockpark.com

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ASHEVILLE AMBLERS WALKING CLUB ashevilleamblers.com • SA (8/5), 8am-noon - Group walk. Free. Held at Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center, 91 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 828-251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • Tuesdays through (8/29), 5:307:30pm - "Asheville Hoop Jam," outdoor event hosted by Asheville Hoops, featuring hula hooping and music. Bring your own hula or borrow a demo. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - "LEAF Global Citizen’s Dance and Art Series," outdoor event featuring public dance workshops by visual and performing artists plus craft activities at the Easel Rider mobile art lab. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. ASHEVILLE OUTLETS 800 Brevard Road, shopashevilleoutlets.com • WEDNESDAYS through (9/17), 7:30-9am - Healthy Hikers Walkers Club. Free.

ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE AEROMODELERS FLYING CLUB 828-250-4269, abaeromodelers.org • SA (8/5), 10am-1pm - 11th Annual Model Airplane Show featuring high flying show and displays. Free.

Held at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 Apac Circle BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov • FR (8/4), 10am - Blue Ridge Parkway Hike of the Week: “Historic Mountain Hideaway,” ranger-led, moderate, 1.5 mile round trip hike to the old site of Rattlesnake Lodge. Free. Meet at the dirt pull-off by the southern entrance of Tanbark Tunnel, MP 374.4.

BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 828-295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • SA (8/5), 7pm - "S’mores and Stuff," presentation and s'mores making with a ranger. Ingredients provided. Free. Held at Julian Price Picnic Ground, MP 297 • SA (8/5), 7pm - "Wilderness Skills: What to Do When…," ranger presentation. Free. Held at Linville Falls Campground Amphitheater, MP 316 BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/Governing/ Depts/Parks/ • SU (8/6), 10am - Ranger-led moderate hike on the Craggy Garden Trail. Information: 828-250-4260 or parks@buncombecounty.org. Meet

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GUIDED HISTORY WALKS 828-545-3179 • SATURDAYS through (7/29), 10am - Guided history walk of Oakdale cemetery. $10. Meets at Oakdale Cemetery, US 64, Hendersonville PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED pisgahchaptertu.org/ New-Meeting-information.html • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Ecusta Brewery, 36 E Main St., Brevard SENIOR OPPORTUNITY CENTER 36 Grove St. • WEDNESDAYS, 8am - Walking club for adults of all ages.

Information: 828-350-2062. Free.

THE CRADLE OF FORESTRY 11250 Pisgah Highway, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-3130 • SA (8/5), 11am-1pm - "Smokey Bear’s 73rd Birthday Party," with activities, cake and a live animal program. $6/$3 children.

PUBLIC LECTURES BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • TH (8/10), 5:30pm - “Female Authors Writing America Between the World Wars,” lecture by Lucinda MacKethan regarding Ellen Glasgow and her novel Barren Ground. Free. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road INDIVISIBLE ASHEVILLE indivisibleavl.org • TU (8/8), 6-7:30pm - "Land of the Free? The Immigrant Justice Movement in the South," presentation by Project South’s legal and advocacy director, Azadeh Shahshahani. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. MACON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin • TH (8/10), 7pm - Presentation on naturalist William Bartram by Brent Martin of the NC Bartram Trail Society. Free.

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard, 828884-3151 • TH (8/3), 6:30pm - “The Geology of Transylvania County and Vicinity:

Mountains, Faults, Waterfalls, Landslides and More,” presentation by geologist Rick Wooten. Free.

SENIORS CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher • THURSDAYS, 2pm - Informal community singing for those with short term memory loss, Parkinson's Disease and/or interested in exploring song. Free.

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC, INC. 828-253-2900, jfswnc.org • WEDNESDAYS, 11am-2pm Hendersonville Elder Club, for individuals of all faiths with memory challenges. Kosher meal and activities included. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Agudas Israel Congregation, 505 Glasgow Lane, Hendersonville MONTFORD RECREATION CENTER 34 Pearson Drive, 800-365-3811 • THURSDAYS, 9:30am - Senior softball. Information: mtrinite1@ gmail.com. Free.

UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 1 Edwin Place, 828-254-6001, uuasheville.org • WEDNESDAYS (8/9) through (8/30), 2pm - Informal community singing for those with short term memory loss, Parkinson's Disease and/or interested in exploring song.

Free.

SPIRITUALITY 2017 WNC COPTIC CONFERENCE (PD.) Embracing Inner Peace, A Gathering of Light Workers. August 25, 2pm-8pm; August 26, 8:30am5:30pm. Join us for the 2017 Coptic Conference at Blue Ridge Community College. • On Friday August 26, 2pm-8pm, Personal Service Providers will be available for healing services and readings and there will be a bookstore, gift shop. • On Saturday, August 26, 8:30am-5:30pm, conference presenters will include James Twyman, New York Times best-selling author, musician and “Peace Troubadour”, Victoria Johnson, international shamanic arts practitioner, teacher and facilitator, Rob Wergin, nationally recognized clairvoyant, clairsentient, clairaudient and healer, Barb and Bob Huttinga, Coptic Ministers, author, counselors, educators, facilitators and healers, John Davis, esoteric psychologist, Egyptologist, author, numerologist, director of Coptic Fellowship International and president of Spiritual Unity of Nations. A catered lunch will be available on Saturday. • To register

go to www.copticwnc2017.com or call Lori France at (828) 676- 2977.

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ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE • FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (PD.) The authentic TM technique, rooted in the ancient yoga tradition—for settling mind and body and accessing hidden inner reserves of energy, peace and happiness. Learn how TM is different from mindfulness, watching your breath, common mantra meditation and everything else. Evidence-based: The only meditation technique recommended for heart health by the American Heart Association. NIH-sponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced stress and anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350.

TM.org or MeditationAsheville.org ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com.

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

FAMILY MEDITATION (PD.) Children and adult(s) practice mindfulness meditation, discuss principles, and engage in fun games. The 3rd Saturday monthly.

10:30am – 11:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Asheville, 828-808-4444, ashevillemeditation.com.

HEARTSONG: BUILDING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE (PD.) Sunday, August 13, 2pm. Whether you’re in a small church with limited resources, or in a larger place looking for a way to help your community find and/or build its collective voice, learn to play together, say yes to Spirit, and be transformed, HeartSong is the workshop that will enable you to deepen your community of practice through the shared creation of sound and silence.

We will listen deeply to the spirit within and reclaim the joy of group learning. Event will be held at The Namaste Center, 2700 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, NC. www.anahernandez.org

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

OpenHeartMeditation.com SHAMANIC JOURNEY INTO DREAMTIME WITH JOHN DUMAS (PD.) Wednesday, August 9, 6:30pm.

John Dumas, M.S., is an internationally renowned musician, shamanic astrologer, inspirational teacher, and pioneer in sound healing.

He performs concerts and leads workshops and retreats internationally with his unique handcrafted flutes and didgeridoos. John has developed a unique sound therapy/healing ceremony that is titled “Shamanic Journey Into Dreamtime.” This voyage into the dreamtime is an experiential interactive sound therapy that facilitates the healing of our mind, body and spirit. With the intention of love and compassion, John opens the doorway into the dreamtime, an altered state of time and space, producing awakened dreaming. www.johndumas.com SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) Wednesdays, 10pm-midnight • Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community. By donation. 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala.org THIS FRIDAY • JOHN DUMAS “DREAMTIME” CONCERT (PD.) August 4, 6-8pm. John Dumas internationally renowned musician and pioneer in sound healing will be performing a concert incorporating Native American flute, Tibetan bowls and bells, drumming, chanting and didgeridoo. The concert will be held at the Namaste Center, 2700 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock, NC 28731. Suggested donation $20.00. www.johndumas.com TRANSMISSION MEDITATION WORKSHOP (PD.) Want to help the world, but don't know where to start? Group meditation that 'steps down' energies from the Masters of Wisdom for use by people working for a better world. Combination of karma yoga and laya yoga. Non-sectarian. No fees. Free. Wednesday. August 9, 7pm. Crystal Visions. 5426 Asheville Hwy. Information: 828-398-0609.

CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 828-258-0211 • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 2pm Intentional meditation. Admission by donation.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING ASHEVILLE 2 Science Mind Way, 828-253-2325, cslasheville.org

• 1st FRIDAYS, 7pm - "Dreaming a New Dream," meditation to explore peace and compassion. Free.

• FR (8/4), 11am-4pm - Tim Barnwell signs his book, Great Smoky Mountains Vistas. Free to attend.

parents learn English. Registration: leah.charbonneau@dpi.nc.gov.

on projects at each of Henderson County's 25 schools and learning center on Friday, August 18.

UNITY OF THE BLUE RIDGE 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River, 828-8918700 • Through FR (8/4) - Workshops with Dr. Michael Ryce. Contact for full schedule: 954-205-4996 or unityblueridgenc.org. Admission by donation.

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (8/2), 7pm - Lynn Frierson Faust presents her book, Fireflies, Glow Worms & Lightning Bugs.

Co-sponsored by the Asheville Museum of Science.

Free to attend.

• WE (8/2), 7pm - Malaprop's Book Club: Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt. Free to attend.

• TH (8/3), 7pm - Melissa Scholes Young presents her book, Flood. Free to attend.

• SA (8/5), 2pm - Where's Waldo party with refreshments. Free to attend.

• SU (8/6), 3pm - "Poetrio," poetry reading event featuring Julia Nunnally Duncan and Tony Reevy. Free to attend.

• MO (8/7), 7pm - Gavin Geoffrey Dillard presents his book, Graybeard Abbey. Event includes readings by poet Michael Coyle. Free to attend.

• MO (8/7), 7pm - LGBTQ Book Club: Funny Boy by Shvam Selvadurai. Free to attend.

• TU (8/8), noon - Discussion Bound Book Club: My Favorite Thing is Monsters by Emil Ferris. Free to attend.

• TU (8/8), 7pm - Songwriter Grant King presents, Love Songs for a Country Lane. Free to attend.

• WE (8/9), 7pm - Joe Berkowitz presents his book, Away with Words: An Irreverent Tour through the World of Pun Competitions. Free to attend.

• TH (8/10), 7pm - Christopher Swann presents his novel, Shadow of the Lions. Free to attend.

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 828-258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • THURSDAYS, 11am - "Welcome Home Tour," tours to find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how the public can help.

Registration required: tours@homewardboundwnc. org. Free.

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URBAN DHARMA 828-225-6422, udharmanc.com/ • THURSDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Open Sangha night. Free.

Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE WRITERS' SOCIAL allimarshall@bellsouth.net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - N.C. Writer's Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club.

Free to attend.

• SA (8/5), 3pm - Matthew Baker presents his book, My Mountain Heroes. Free to attend.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • WE (8/2), 3pm - Book Discussion: The Quiet American by Graham Greene. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (8/3), 12:30pm - Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, film screening. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (8/3), 6pm - Swannanoa Book Club: Earthly Remains by Donna Leon. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TH (8/3), 6:30pm - East Asheville Book Club: The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TU (8/8), 1pm - Leicester Book Club: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • WE (8/9), 12:30-1:30pm - Nancy Werking Poling presents her book, Before It Was Legal: a black-white marriage (1945-1987). Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 828-586-9499, citylightsnc.com • FR (8/4), 6:30pm - Lawrence Thackston presents his new novel, Carolina Cruel. Free to attend.

• SA (8/5), 3pm - "A Path to Publication," presentation and discussion by author Kim Michele Richardson. Free to attend.

SPELLBOUND CHILDREN'S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 828-708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SU (8/6), 4-5pm - ROYAL Book Club (for adult Readers of Young Adult Literature): The Pearl Thief by Elizabeth Wein. Free to attend.

SYNERGY STORY SLAM avl.mx/0gd • WE (8/9), 7:30pm - Monthly storytelling open mic on the theme "waves." Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road

ORGANICFEST organicfest.org • Through SU (8/27) - Volunteers needed for this outdoor festival taking place on Sunday, August 27.

Registration: celebrate@organicfest.org or Organicfest. org. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE 13 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, 828-682-4285, parkwayplayhouse.com • SA (8/5), 10am - Volunteer to help with upcoming renovation project. Appropriate for ages 15 and up.

TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF WNC 828-513-0498, tipofwnc.org • Through TH (9/28) - Open registration for a ten-day training academy for those interested in volunteering as part of a team that provides immediate emotional and practical support to survivors of traumatic events.

Academy takes place Thursday, Sept. 28 through Saturday, Oct. 7.

UNITED WAY OF HENDERSON COUNTY 828-692-1636, liveunitedhc.org • Through FR (8/11) - Register to volunteer for the annual Day of Action. Volunteers are needed to work

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

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • Through FR (9/1) - Submissions accepted for the "Apparitionist-National Ghost Story Competition."

Contact for full guidelines.

VOLUNTEERING

FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115 • First THURSDAYS, 6pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend.

• WE (8/9), 7-8:30pm - Female Authors Writing America Book Club: Barren Ground by Ellen Glasgow.

Free to attend.

TUTOR ADULTS IN NEED WITH THE LITERACY COUNCIL (PD.)

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.

CENTER FOR END OF LIFE TRANSITIONS 32 Mineral Dust Drive, 828-318-9077, ceolt.org/ • SA (8/5), 10am-1pm - Volunteer to help care for the land. Registration: signup.com/go/aISKXbZ.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828-253-7651, grovewood.com

LEAF DOWNTOWN theleaf.org/downtown/ • FR (8/4) & SA (8/5) - Volunteer to help with the LEAF downtown outdoor festival. Multiple different volunteering jobs available. Registration: leafcommunityarts1.volunteerlocal.com. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

Dedicate two hours a week to tutoring an immigrant who wants to learn English or with an English-speaking adult who has low literacy skills. Sign up for volunteer orientation on 8/23 (5:30 pm) or 8/24 (9:00 am) by emailing volunteers@litcouncil.com. www.litcouncil.com.

EAST COAST MIGRANT HEAD START 2 Sugarhill Drive, Hendersonville • TUESDAYS through (10/3), 5-7:30pm - Volunteers needed to assist with watching children while Latino

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WHERE THE WILD FOODS ARE Asheville’s wild food experts expound on medicine for body, soul and planet

BY NICKI GLASSER nickiglasser@hotmail.com Eating wild food foraged from local forests, meadows and backyards can improve health and nourish the soul, say Asheville-based wild food experts.

“Wild foods are basically super foods,” says Natalie Bogwalker, referring to the many edible plants, trees, roots and fungi that grow naturally in forests, meadows and some backyards. “The nutrients in wild foods are way more concentrated than anything you can get in the store,” says Bogwalker, founder of Wild Abundance, an Ashevillebased business teaching primitive skills, eco-homesteading and permaculture. She is also the founder and director of the Firefly Gathering, the largest primitive and survival skills gathering in the country.

“Wild foods tend to make people more like wild people — more sprightly, less bloated and more energized,” says Bogwalker, who is writing a book about wild food preservation and leading three-day foraging adventure tours.

She says one of her favorite local wild edible plants is chickweed, which is “superduper common and super nutrientdense.” Chickweed, one of the best foods for skin health and purification of blood and the lymphatic system, is also high in calcium, iron, niacin, antioxidants and vitamin C, Bogwalker adds.

Alan Muscat, owner of Ashevillebased No Taste Like Home, the oldest foraging-to-table tour company in the country, says, “Dandelion and nettle are two of the most nutritious plants there are.” And they’re very common in the Asheville area.

Belying its reputation as a weed, dandelion greens offer a nutrient powerhouse, with eight times more antioxidants, two times more calcium, three times more vitamin A and five times more vitamin K and E than spinach, says Muscat, referring to nutrition information in Jo Robinson’s book Eat on the Wild Side,, which he reviewed on his website.

One of the reasons wild foods are more nutritious is that they are

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perennials, says Dimitri Magiasis, a doctor of naturopathic medicine and foraging tour leader for No Taste Like Home. “Perennial means they don’t die every year. The tops might, but the roots will stay alive. That’s important because the roots will get bigger and deeper and therefore are able to extract more nutrients that lie deeper in the soil. Typically that’s why wild foods are more nutritious,” he says.

But it is not just about nutrients, says Joe Hollis, owner and founder of

Mountain Gardens in Burnvsille. “From a Chinese perspective, all wild foods are tonic,” he says. In comparison, most vegetables found in the grocery store“have been bred to be more palatable maybe, more tender, more sweet, less bitter and also more shippable in a lot of cases.

The wild foods are more like the original natural plant. From a Chinese perspective that means they have more chi,” says Hollis, who grows Chinese medicinal plants and sells them to local Chinese herbalists and acupuncturists.

“The idea is that the original plant, with its original integrity, growing in its own habitat, not being manipulated [by humans], will have more of the chi energy that goes with the plant,” he continues. Chi, sometimes called life force energy or prana, “is what makes the whole world go round,” he says. The stronger chi of wild plants makes them a health tonic, he explains.

Magiasis and Muscat add that foraging, the process of collecting wild food oneself, is an integral part of the health benefits.

“People can’t just go to the store and buy wild food. ... You won’t get all the benefits from wild food healthwise unless you gather it yourself,” says Muscat, who writes about the importance of foraging in his book Coming Home, which is available on his website. His second book, Wild Mushrooms: A Taste to Enchantment, will be published next year by New Society Publishers. Muscat is also the founder of the Afikomen Project, a No Taste Like Home public education project that teaches children in the U.S. to safely identify and harvest the 10 most common wild foods in their area.

Muscat notes that foraged wild food is fresher and more nutrientdense, as most plant-based foods begin to lose nutritional value within hours of being picked.

But he adds that even “more important is the relationship with the forest. It’s called forest bathing. To be healthy, people need forest bathing,” he says, referring to 30 years of medical research verifying the health benefits of spending time in nature.

As a society, says Magiasis, we believe that good nutrition and health can be reduced to a pill or herbal medicine that mimics the active ingredient of a particular plant. “I think a lot of the time we focus too heavily on that,” he says. “For example, on the [No Taste Like Home] tour, we do it as a group, so [we have] the social connection of gathering food together — we forget about the health benefits of that. We also forget about the health benefits of being outside, having our feet on

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But with toxic plants and poison mushrooms possibly growing next to healthy, edible ones, is foraging safe?

Foraged food is safer than storebought food because, in addition to being high in nutrients, it is not genetically modified or contaminated with pesticides, herbicides, insecticides and fungicides, says Muscat.

“It’s very easy to be safe [when foraging]. There’s only one word you have to remember. Ready?” asks Muscat, pausing. “It is a simple three letter-word: Ask. Don’t look it up in book, don’t look up online. You have to ask a human being for help. That’s all,” he says.

But, Magiasis warns, “it is super important you are 100 percent sure when you are about to eat something.” He adds that although it may sound overwhelming, “the more you immerse yourself in the world of plants and the land around you, the more you’ll feel more comfortable” identifying what you see.

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Can the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway beat the odds?

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com At a time when rising construction costs are seriously threatening the prospects for several proposed local greenways, the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway is riding a wave of broad-based support and fundraising success.

The ambitious undertaking will comprise 5 miles of greenway, a brand-new park plus the area’s first constructed whitewater play wave. And with $10.6 million in funding commitments in hand toward a generously estimated $13.9 million budget, there seems to be a boatload of momentum.

But what is it that’s propelling this project forward when the future of the Beaucatcher, Town Forest, Bacoate Branch and French Broad River West greenways seems in doubt?

PRIME MOVER One key factor in the Woodfin project’s early success has been the involvement of former Asheville Vice Mayor Marc Hunt, who chaired the city’s Greenway Commission for several years before winning elected office.

Though he’s quick to deflect attention from himself and tout the wide range of supporters who’ve signed on to Woodfin’s plans, Hunt concedes that he’s put in at least 1,400 volunteer hours in the last year alone.

This isn’t Hunt’s first rodeo. Way back in the 1970s and early ’80s, he and other whitewater rafting enthusiasts built a coalition that eventually persuaded the Tennessee Valley Authority to schedule regular water releases on the Ocoee River. That spawned a wildly successful whitewater industry on the river, which was subsequently chosen as the site of the whitewater competitions for the 1996 Olympic Games.

And in 2015, Hunt was part of a group that pushed for creating a whitewater play wave in the River Arts District, though that idea didn’t gain traction. But the following year, says Hunt, the Woodfin Board of Aldermen took a look at incorporating a wave and expanded river access into a planned greenway project — and got excited about developing the town’s riverfront to spur economic growth.

MAKING WAVES: Marc Hunt gestures to the calm waters that flow beside Woodfin River Park, pointing out the future location of the Asheville area’s first constructed whitewater wave. Photo by Virginia Daffron TOWN AND COUNTY

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In July of last year, the board agreed to place a $4.5 million bond issue on the November ballot. The measure was approved by a wide margin, winning over 70 percent of the vote.

Town leaders, Hunt explains, “had looked around and seen that in communities with recreational amenities and better parks and river access, quality of life is up and businesses want to locate there.” He believes the town is ripe for investment, much as West Asheville was a couple of decades ago.

“With its reputation of being less hip, less walkable and bikeable,” says Hunt, “Woodfin hasn’t been seen as the place to move to. But that’s changing.” Debbie Giezentanner, the Woodfin alderwoman who originally proposed the bond resolution, told Xpress last year that adding the greenway would boost interest in residential and commercial development.

Woodfin’s upfront commitment to cover a significant chunk of the budget gave the project a leg up, notes Hunt. Other major funding commitments include $4 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation, $2.25 million from the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority and over $900,000 from private donors.

Another big thing the project has going for it is the support of most of the handful of landowners along the greenway route. Beginning at the town line on Riverside Drive, for example, Silver-Line Plastics holds over a mile of riverfront property. The company, says Hunt, is “totally on board” with the project and has agreed in principle to let the greenway run along a dike that buffers the manufacturing facility from flooding.

In 2012, Silver-Line donated a 4.5acre riverfront parcel north of its factory to Woodfin to create a new park.

Earlier this year, the town bought an adjacent property, adding another acre and a building that will be repurposed to provide restrooms and space for complementary commercial uses, such as outfitters.

Silver-Line Park will include a boat ramp, parking, picnic areas, a restored natural wetland, a playground and walking trails. With construction scheduled for next year, the new park will be the first part of the greenway and blueway to be completed.

Other property owners along the route include the N.C. Department of Transportation, Waste Pro, the French Broad River Academy, the Metropolitan Sewerage District, Riverside Business Park and private development interests.

Downstream from the new park, the greenway will follow the French Broad to Woodfin River Park, a well-loved amenity that will get improvements to its walking paths, picnic areas, restrooms, parking and riverbanks.

This will also be the site of the project’s most innovative component: an artificial whitewater play wave that project planners say will draw boaters and spectators alike. In its successful application to the Tourism Development Authority, the project team wrote, “There are no significant rapids in the French Broad through Asheville and Woodfin, and the Woodfin wave will change that. The wave will be the most fun and exciting place to be on the French Broad.”

Engineer Scott Shipley, a whitewater kayaker who competed in three Olympic Games and holds four world titles, conducted the feasibility studies and created a conceptual design for the wave.

Now a Colorado resident, Shipley formerly lived and trained at the Nantahala Outdoor Center near Bryson City, so he knows a thing or two about Western North Carolina’s rivers. He’s designed a host of such whitewater features, including the London 2012 Olympic whitewater venue, Durango, Colo.’s Whitewater Park and the U.S. National Whitewater Center in Charlotte.

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G REEN SC E N E The Woodfin wave, Hunt explains, will be formed by a concrete structure spanning the entire width of the river that will concentrate the flow and produce an exciting but safe wave at various water levels. Scale models built as part of the design process will help optimize the wave’s shape and characteristics, making it suitable for both beginners and expert paddlers, he says.

Federal regulations, adds Hunt, require extensive modeling to ensure that any feature added within a designated flood hazard zone won’t increase the risk “by even one-tenth of an inch.”

WORKING ON THE RAILROAD From River Park, the greenway will continue through the Riverside Business Park and Metropolitan Sewerage District properties.

At the junction of Elk Mountain Road and Riverside Drive, the greenway will turn east, heading away from the French Broad to follow a 1.5-mile stretch of Beaverdam Creek to the center of Woodfin.

A mostly abandoned roadbed and the tracks of the Craggy Mountain Line wind through what Hunt calls “the

OLD TIMEY: The only air conditioning on the Craggy Mountain Line’s 75-minute excursions along Beaverdam Creek and the French Broad River is the natural kind that comes from cool river breezes. Photo by Virginia Daffron gorge,” a ravine that was previously the site of an Asheville landfill and, later, a nine-hole golf course.

Surrounded by commercial and residential development, the creek’s thickly wooded banks have a surprisingly remote

and pastoral quality. “You feel like you’re somewhere in Madison County when you’re down here,” Hunt remarks, and a man passing by on foot says he’s just seen a deer.

But while the Craggy Mountain Line may seem quiet on a weekday morning, there’s plenty going on with the excursion railway, says Rocky Hollifield, the nonprofit’s president. “We don’t advertise a lot, but we take about 3,000 people a year” on trips along the creek and the French Broad to the planned greenway’s starting point.

The group is working to preserve this section of track, which he says has been in continuous use since 1904. It’s the last remaining vestige of Asheville’s once extensive streetcar system, notes Hollifield. The hour-and-a-quarter trip currently runs on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month.

And though the greenway could be a boon to the venture, Hollifield says there are still some details to be worked out.

For any railroad, he explains, maintaining a clear right of way on both sides of the track is essential for safe operation.

And at some points along Beaverdam Creek, trying to accommodate a road, tracks and a greenway gets “pretty tight,” he says.

One exciting prospect for the Craggy Mountain Line is the possibility of establishing a station and a railroad history museum at the future Silver-Line Park.

Hollifield says he has a substantial collection of railroad artifacts and memorabilia that he’d love to share with the public.

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familiar concept. Where rivers are concerned, access is critical: The prospect of bushwhacking through vegetation along treacherous banks and trespassing on private property may deter even the most avid paddler.

French Broad Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson agrees that providing safe and legal access points is critical for reconnecting people to the area’s waterways.

“The more people that come down and experience the French Broad, the more they’ll want to see it clean and put in time to work on it,” he points out.

The 140-mile French Broad River Paddle Trail, created by environmental nonprofits RiverLink and MountainTrue, has sparked increased interest in longer, multiday trips on the river. But paddlers need convenient access to get on and off the water and skirt hazards such as dams.

Traffic on the French Broad, notes Carson, has increased dramatically during the 12 years he’s worked as riverkeeper.

And Garrett Artz, RiverLink’s executive director, says that thanks to improved river access and cleanups, the French Broad is now drawing 50,000 visitors a year. “We’ve made a lot of strides — not just RiverLink, but as a community — and we have to make sure we don’t backslide. I think the river is still running browner than it should, and we want to make sure people are comfortable. If we continue to move forward, I think we’re going to be counting in the hundreds of thousands that move through town,” Artz told the N.C. News Service on July 24.

Heath White of Zen Tubing says his business has grown over 200 percent annually since it launched six years ago.

In July alone, notes White, his company is putting over 4,000 people on the river every weekend.

Still, White feels the river’s potential for tourism is far from fully realized, and he says he welcomes more companies and more competition to make Asheville a tubing destination.

Extending those opportunities into Woodfin, he maintains, will help make it happen.

Eric Bradford of Asheville GreenWorks believes the whitewater wave and other features will increase both river traffic and the number of spectators along the banks. “This is going to blow up for Woodfin,” he predicts.

CONNECTING THE DOTS But maximizing the value of greenways — for recreation, transportation, economic development and environmental benefit — requires longer, more connected networks, says Hunt. And

creating those connections will be one of the biggest challenges for the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway.

Linking the Woodfin project to greenways under construction in Asheville’s River Arts District is both crucial and tricky, Hunt explains. Plans for a 1.5mile greenway that would run from the Norfolk Southern bridge over Riverside Drive to the Woodfin town line, for example, are in the very early stages.

The route is technically challenging, with many buildings located close to the river and road and a lot of different property owners.

But despite those constraints, he maintains, now is the time to tackle the project, since the state Department of Transportation plans to widen that stretch of Riverside Drive in 2020. If the project doesn’t include or allow for a greenway, he argues, it will be even harder to create one later.

Hunt also hopes a connector along Broadway will eventually link the Woodfin route to the Reed Creek and Glenn’s Creek greenways near UNC Asheville and downtown.

Another risk for the Woodfin project is the huge discrepancies between the estimated costs and the actual project bids that have delayed construction for three River Arts District greenways and the Beaucatcher Greenway. To guard against that, says Hunt, the Woodfin project team added up to 30 percent to its conservative cost estimates. Those generous allowances, he notes, impressed the Tourism Development Authority committee that approved the funding for the project.

ALL THIS AND MORE If all goes according to plan, picnickers could conceivably be cracking open coolers and spreading red-checkered tablecloths in Silver-Line Park by the end of next year, though such warm weather activities might need to wait at least until the following spring.

The schedule calls for construction of

the whitewater wave and other park improvements to wrap up in 2019.

The Buncombe County Parks and Programming Division will manage the construction of all sections of the Woodfin Greenway, says Hunt.

That work is scheduled to conclude in mid-2020.

But with the cost and complexity of constructing such systems already high and rising fast, he concedes, “Some people ask, ‘Why do we need greenways?’”

For Hunt, though, there isn’t one single answer — and that’s the key to the unique appeal and benefits of these devilishly difficult infrastructure projects, which often fall apart along the winding path from bright idea to completed amenity.

“Some people, their experience and goal is about recreation and aesthetics: a linear park, wooded, with trees, a place to get away, get some exercise, do their walking or jogging or riding a bike,” he explains. “Others are like, ‘This is all about transportation. This is about getting from my house to where I work.’”

And it’s precisely because “it can be all of that,” says Hunt, that he believes the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway can succeed where other local projects have stalled. There’s something for everyone, from weekend bicycle warriors to commuters, and from Woodfin landowners to entrepreneurs seeking a piece of the tourism pie.

Last November, the fund dedicated a new boat ramp on the French Broad in Taylor’s memory. Other grants have benefited the river protection organization American Whitewater, the environmental learning program Muddy Sneakers and the scholarship fund at Camp Mondamin in Zirconia, where Taylor was a paddling instructor.

“Taylor’s life and our loss of him are indeed a source of inspiration and energy for me in this project,” Hunt says. “Taylor loved rivers and paddling and teaching outdoor skills to youth.

And he was all about community. I think Taylor would be very happy with the way this project will connect people to the river and the natural world.”

Fueled by Hunt’s passion, plans for the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway have advanced further in one year than those other proposed local projects have in several. It remains to be seen whether that momentum is enough to carry Woodfin’s dreams into a bright new future, but supporters have ample reason for optimism. X

IT’S PERSONAL For Hunt, though, expanding access to the French Broad River is as much personal as it is political. Shortly after the former vice mayor lost a City Council re-election bid in November 2015, Taylor Hunt, the younger of his two sons, was killed in a kayaking accident in Ecuador. Along with friends and other community members, Hunt, his wife, Cat Potts, and their son Colin Hunt established the Taylor Hunt Fund for Rivers and Outdoor Learning to promote whitewater preservation and recreation.

A river runs through it The website for the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway contains much more information about the greenway route, each of the planned parks and features, the project schedule and funding.

Visit woodfingreenwayandblueway.org to learn more.

Also check out the website for the Craggy Mountain Line (craggymountainline.com)

for information on the history of Asheville’s rail system and the Craggy Mountain section, news about the nonprofit that runs the line and details about excursions. Trips leave the depot at 111 N. Woodfin Ave. in Woodfin at 4 p.m. on the second and fourth Saturdays of the month.

Tickets are $10 per person; reservations at 828-808-4877.

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Gardening experts gather in Asheville for weekend of inspirational talks

GARDENING GURUS: Authors Thomas Rainier (left) and Roy Diblik will be among the speakers at the 19th Speaking of Gardening symposium, which will be held at the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway for the first time this year. Images courtesy of Timber Press

BY MAGGIE CRAMER mcramerwrites@gmail.com Aug. 11 and 12 will mark the 19th Speaking of Gardening symposium, founded by local horticulturist Hunter Stubbs — well-known for his work with the Richmond Hill Inn (where the conference idea originated) and B.B. Barns. Stubbs passed away in July after a battle with brain cancer, making the 2017 event bittersweet, organizers say. They vow this year, and in the future, to preserve and carry on his legacy.

“We’re all committed to not only continuing the symposium but also to really supporting what Hunter always wanted to do,” explains conference vol-

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unteer Sabra Kelley, “to educate different people no matter what their interest, whether amateur gardeners, plant breeders, landscape architects, or maintenance people — anybody who’s got an interest in plants.”

Kelley is one of about 10 volunteer committee members who coordinate the event, which receives financial support from Asheville GreenWorks.

That the symposium attracts a wide array of professional and home gardeners alike (and growers from around the region and elsewhere across the country) is what excites her most every year. This summer, she’s also thrilled about a move to the Folk Art Center, which will allow for more attendees than ever before.

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Keynote speakers are Roy Diblik, coowner of Northwind Perennial Farm in Burlington, Wis., and Thomas Rainer, a landscape architect and author based in Washington, D.C. One of Rainer’s two talks will be “Planting in a Post-Wild World: Designing Plant Communities for Resilient Gardens,” which speaks to a growing industry concern, Kelley says.

“Everybody’s realizing that the weather is no longer predictable, and we all need to figure out how to have a beautifullooking garden without fighting Mother Nature constantly.”

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Additional weekend happenings include book signings and a live auction of specialty specimen plants, cultivars not widely available — even some that have yet to be released to the trade. X

A PLANT-PACKED WEEKEND WHAT Speaking of Gardening, a symposium for horticultural professionals and garden enthusiasts WHERE Folk Art Center, Milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway WHEN Friday and Saturday, Aug. 11 and 12; 9 a.m. registration Friday, 9:15 a.m. welcome Saturday DETAILS Tickets are $155, which includes lunch; to register and find more information, visit www.ashevillegreenworks.org

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GROWING UP: Rooftop gardens, like this one on the eighth floor of the Hyatt Place hotel, not only grow edibles for restaurants, but are also a “creative way to reintroduce ecology and plants back into the urban landscape,”says Living Roofs Inc. owner Kate Blatt Ancaya.

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BY EMILY GLASER emglaser@me.com Asheville is hardly a metropolis plagued by the detriment of urban sprawl. But it is a city of sustainability, and that means that in the heart of downtown, some businesses are making the most of their patch of property with innovative rooftop food-production projects.

“Next time you are on an upper floor in a building or on a roof, take a look around,” says Kate Blatt Ancaya of Living Roofs Inc. “Not only is there opportunity for additional space for gathering, but also for capturing stormwater, cooling the city and reintroducing regional foliage color.

Even small patches of plants in urban

landscapes can provide food and support migrating birds and insects such as native butterflies and bees.”

Kate and her husband, Emilio, founded their green roof design and installation business 11 years ago on the cusp of the urban garden trend.

“We were excited about their potential in our Southern cities and viewed them as a creative way to reintroduce ecology and plants back into the urban landscape,” she explains. Now the duo has installed gardens both floral and edible on rooftops across the Southeast, including a few in their home base of Asheville.

The benefits of these projects are innumerable, says Kate. “Rooftop gardens provide increased access to outdoor green space and increase the value of buildings for tenants and own-

One of their most recent projects was in conjunction with the Hyatt Place hotel’s Montford Rooftop Bar. While the Montford’s eighth-floor open-air seating area serves up sky-high views as Instagrammed as any mountaintop, there is, in fact, another rooftop in play for the business — and chef Philip Bollhoefer is making just as much use of this one.

Bollhoefer is already known for his dedication to local fare, but with his latest project, he takes the concept to the next level. Early this summer, he asked Living Roofs to install a rooftop herb garden on the hotel’s bright white roof — a series of galvanized steel washtubs outfitted with an automated watering system. He then brought in Anna and Paul Littman of Ivy Creek Farm, from whom Bollhoefer has sourced fresh produce for years, to plant and tend to the starts.

Just a month later, the tubs are hidden beneath thick, trailing vines dripping with butter-yellow squash blooms, fiery nasturtiums and piles of plumcolored Johnny jump-up violas. “It’s a small space, but you can have such a large impact with herbs and edible flowers,” Bollhoefer says, his thumb deftly deadheading the drooping blooms in his garden.

The herbs and flowers he grows in the space above his kitchen are woven into nearly every dish on the menu.

The citrus marigolds, so named for their lemony flavor, are found in the brunch menu’s Citra hops-cured trout and crab fritters. The parsley peppers the house tater tots, the dill colors the trout dip, those blazing nasturtiums accent many of the house cocktails.

The verdant garden has even inspired new dishes, such as the watermelon salad, which is flavored with the garden’s opal basil. “We won’t have to buy

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“Honeybees have sweetened the pot for all pollinators with their delicious honey. They are a gateway pollinator, introducing us to the other bees, butterflies, moths, bats, hummingbirds, beetles and flower flies responsible for keeping our planet lush and fruiting,” explains founder and director Phyllis Stiles. “Our work at Bee City USA is about galvanizing communities across America to welcome them into our landscapes with a variety of yummy, pesticide-free flowers.”

In the interest of supporting pollinators, some local businesses, including the Renaissance Asheville Hotel and the French Broad Food Co-Op, have installed honeybee hives on their roofs.

According to Anne Kimmel, beekeeper at the Renaissance, the benefits of the hives are manifold. The pollinators bolster Asheville’s ecosystem, and the hotel was even able to incorporate some of its hives’ honey into its restaurant’s dishes this spring.

But perhaps the best payback for Kimmel is the emotional impact. “I had no idea, and many new beekeepers express the same sentiment, how happy the bees make you feel when you hang with them,” says Kimmel.

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Living Roofs is responsible for local rooftop projects as varied as the Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center on Livingston Street and downtown’s new Garage Apartments. But according to the Ancayas, Asheville has only started to scrape the surface of its potential for using roofs as a space to produce food.

“The Montford project is a small but fun example of how leftover spaces, such as rooftops, can be used in unexpected ways,” explains Kate. “Rooftops are great spaces to grow food, particularly in urban areas or in food deserts.” With just a little underutilized space and the things nature provides — water, sun, soil — restaurants around town could tout these hyperlocal merits. So why don’t they?

For many, it’s intimidating. “The startup cost and time can be daunting,” says Bollhoefer. “It takes hours of manual labor to get the soil and planters installed, and having a third party company can be quite expensive. The [return on invest-

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by Living Roofs Inc. The space now produces edible flowers and herbs that are incorporated into The Montford’s food and cocktails. Photo by Chelsea Lane Photography ment] can take well over a year depending on which route you go.”

And that route can be another factor. For restaurants like The Montford, where each plate and every drink are meticulously crafted, it makes sense to grow delicate herbs and flowers that require little space. But even Bollhoefer acknowledges that rooftop gardening has its limits; in the finite surface area of roofs, growing more common items — specifically, vegetables — at the capacity required by the restaurant industry is impossible.

With so many incredible resources available from local farms, some businesses may see planting and tending their own gardens as an unnecessary expenditure. “I think one of the reasons growing food on rooftops is not more widespread is because we are so lucky to have so many farms and farmers markets nearby,” Kate Ancaya says. “In larger, more urban areas, rooftop farms and cultivating food are an important addition to existing food sources.”

For some businesses, especially those housed in aging downtown buildings, rooftop gardening may not even be an option. “It’s important to consider the roof load that growing plants, even in planters, will add to the roof. Often, older buildings cannot add the extra weight unless there are modifications made to the structure,” explains Kate. Also, the lack of rooftop plumbing in many historic buildings poses a problem for gardens and even rooftop hives, since bees need a nearby source of water.

Some restaurants and bars that occupy these properties might not even have access to the roofs at all.

LABOR OF LOVE Once the project is installed, a new obstacle emerges: maintenance.

“Maintaining a garden anywhere is a lot of work. There are pest problems, irrigation, wind and many other environmental factors that can have negative impacts on growing on a roof,” explains Bollhoefer, who has recently been at war with aphids. Because a roof is such a specific microclimate, there’s no other tasty vegetation to distract them. “Food and beverage is a crazy field, and taking on additional projects that can cost hours of extra work per week for products you can buy from a supplier doesn’t always sound like a good plan.”

It’s those hours of upkeep that pose a specific problem for some businesses. The Flat Iron Building, for example, had a rooftop garden installed several years ago, but it’s a project that seems to be floundering. Asked about the garden, the Sky Bar’s general manager, Joe Dunn, trails off after mentioning the volunteer basil that sprouted this spring and occasionally makes it into the bar’s cocktails or pizzas. Without a passionate caretaker at the helm, these gardens will return to the urban wild.

But with dedication and spirit as well as an initial financial investment, the rewards are tangible. “It is definitely a labor of love, and I am more than happy to add extra time on to my week to grow food,” Bollhoefer says. As Kimmel says, these projects don’t just grow food — they grow happiness. X

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NO VACATION FROM HUNGER Local organizations work to address summer food insecurity in WNC’s rural communities

ALL ABOARD: In an effort to bring fresh produce to low-income rural communities, the YMCA of Western North Carolina has transformed a bus into a mobile market. Throughout the year, the market makes stops in six counties to bring fresh food to children and families. Photo courtesy of the YMCA The volunteers load the hot lunches and pantry boxes of canned goods into the back of the car before venturing down the bumpy dirt road to the far side of the mountain holler. Eventually, the car slows to a stop when it reaches a creek it can’t traverse.

“You have to cross this bitty bridge or wade across the stream, and then someone will meet you down there, and they’ll have a little ATV or something for the meal,” says Milton Ready, a Madison County resident who helps distribute food to those in need. “Then they’ll take you up to this cabin where an old woman lives — she never learned how to drive and now lives by herself since everyone else has died off.”

Stories such as Ready’s are the reality of poverty in rural mountain areas, marked by a lack of transportation, infrastructure and access. In June, July and August, the problems worsen, says Kara Irani, director of communications and marketing for MANNA FoodBank, as the children of families who rely on free or reducedprice school lunches are home on summer break.

“Everything is different — every single organization does it differently — but at the end of the day, people just want to get more food to kids,” Irani says. “One in every four children doesn’t know where their next meal is coming from — but it doesn’t take

much to get food out to people if you know what it is that you’re capable of doing and what you can offer.”

BUMPS IN THE ROAD In Western North Carolina, just gaining access to rural communities is one of the biggest challenges that food distribution sites face, Irani says. “WNC is really unique when it comes to being able to provide direct service to people — the rural isolation, the lack of major highways or even just us being able to drive our big trucks out there,” she says.

“There’s no mass transit here; people already struggle just trying to get from home to job, especially in those rural areas where there’s not a lot of employment very close by. Imagine kids stuck at home in the summer: If you’re not at a camp or dropped off at a church or something, you’re pretty isolated.”

Across the nation, summer meals are provided for children ages 2-18 as part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Summer Food Service Program. Federally funded opensite feeding locations sponsored by school districts, local organizations and individuals tend to be located at area pools, community centers and in densely populated neighborhoods.

In Buncombe County, school nutrition officials work with community

members to identify areas where children from all socio-economic backgrounds can come and access a hot meal, says Lisa Payne, Buncombe County Schools nutrition director.

“We turn over every stone, drive down every rural road and consult our bus drivers, local churches who know the areas and talk to community members to find the areas with the most need.”

Yet the model is less applicable when examining rural areas of WNC, Irani says. “It’s a fabulous program, and they’ve really helped a lot of people, but for our area, unfortunately, it’s not that effective,” she explains. “You have to eat a meal on-site, and you can’t take any food with you, so it’s still the whole problem of getting kids to those locations. For that, isolation continues to be the issue, even when there is a meal available, whether it’s at a community pool or a lot of trailer parks that have a community meal.”

THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX To bypass the transportation issue, community groups are creating innovative ways to bring muchneeded food to the children and families who depend on it. This summer, Henderson County Schools debuted its Meals on the Bus initiative — a refurbished bus that stops and

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F OOD brings food to six open-site feeding locations throughout the county, says Amanda Stansbury, child nutrition supervisor for Henderson County Schools.

“We have a population of about 13,000 children in our county, and 50-55 percent of those kids are dependent on free and reduced lunches during the school year.

Unfortunately, the hunger doesn’t go away,” Stansbury says. “The kids are familiar with the bus stop, they associate it with transportation, and it’s accessible to them, which is really the target — to make them feel comfortable with a place they can walk to, to feel safe there. There’s a trust element as well — that they get on the bus here to go to school, and then they get food there in the summer.”

Meals on the Bus serves an average of 120 meals a day, Stansbury says — a number expected to grow as the bus gains exposure. “There’s a lot of hype about it, which is exciting because it’s such a community-involved program,” she says.

“Obviously, we’re not touching every child — this is a pilot program, and if we can reach as many kids as we can, there’s so much growth potential in the future.”

Further spearheading the movement to make mobile food distribution commonplace is the YMCA of Western North Carolina. In addition to supplying a free meal at all of its summer camp programs, the YMCA has three mobile food distribution units, a mobile produce market and two mobile kitchens, says Cory Jackson, nutrition and wellness director for the YMCA of WNC. “When we launched our first food pantry, what we noticed was that people were driving from about 45 minutes away. We’d have families coming from past Madison County to our pantry,” Jackson explains.

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PACKING THEM IN: MANNA FoodBank volunteer Shelley Stone loads Summer Packs for an upcoming delivery. MANNA is distributing weekly Summer Packs to over 1,150 children across 10 WNC counties this summer. Photo courtesy of MANNA FoodBank “And we learned two things: one, that we really need to meet the population where they are. If people are driving this far to go to our pantry to get healthy foods that meet our standards, we owe it to them to make this more accessible closer to them. And also, it really debunked the myth that a lot of people have that low-income families and those [experiencing] hunger do not care about the nutritional quality of what they consume.”

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Additionally, MANNA is continuing its Summer Pack program, which provides 1,150 children with a week’s worth of food for them and their families. In order to get the packs in the hands of the children who need them, Irani says, MANNA relies on partnerships with local nonprofits, clubs and religious organizations.

In the far reaches of Madison County, the majority of the food distribution programs are run by local churches, says Willow Wyatt, a member of Mars Hill Baptist Church and longtime volunteer with the MANNA Packs program. Since transportation is such an issue, it’s often up to smaller congregations to ensure that food is brought to those who need it, she explains.

Ready agrees. “The people have just been left alone, politically and socially, to their own devices. It’s their churches and their families, and that’s it,” he says. “Delivering food works, but it’s still just a drop in the bucket.”

Lack of infrastructure aside, an undercurrent of “mountain pride” makes providing meals for these rural populations more difficult, Irani says. “It’s such an interesting dynamic here,” she reiterates. “We really approach it from a place of total respect — these people are living with absolutely nothing, and they are just resilient as hell. The strongest thing that we can say is that if you need help, come get help, and if you don’t need help, come help.”

As someone who works extensively in remote mountain areas, Wyatt sees this Appalachian mindset as just another obstacle to overcome — once you get into the communities and offer to help, they quickly tend to accept it, she says. In her perspective, the biggest thing that can be done to address these attitudes while helping impoverished children is to have people open more USDA feeding sites. “The more we have, the more people in these rural parts of Madison County can access food,” she says. “And we can help get the food and get the word out.

We just need more people taking initiative,” Wyatt says.

Reflecting on the unique movement that the YMCA’s mobile units have prompted, Jackson sees the future of rural food distribution moving in a more transportable direction. “When you look at it, it can be incredibly daunting,” he says. “But it didn’t happen overnight. It started with a supersmall pantry and a small idea, and we really used the community to dictate where we went. Start small, let the community tell you where to go and don’t really force it.”

As the summer winds down, Stansbury believes that while it might take some effort to create sustainable and innovative options to bring food to rural families, the sheer fact that so many kids were hungry and inaccessible during the summer was enough of a reason to try and make a change.

“I have all the information I need to say this is successful, because of all the good things that are happening,” Stansbury explains. “Now whether we feed 10 children who need it or 10 million who don’t really need it, I’m all about those 10 kids who are benefiting. And that’s our goal: to feed every kid that needs it, regardless of barriers.” X

SMALL BITES

by Thomas Calder | tcalder@mountainx.com

Get on the bus If you’ve walked Biltmore Avenue in downtown Asheville at any point in the last 18 years, there’s a good chance you’ve noticed the 1963 Bristol Lodekka double-decker bus on the corner of Aston Street. Between its imposing size and red exterior, it’s kind of hard to miss. Its latest owners, Jeff and Karen Lazzaro, have operated Double D’s Coffee and Desserts out of it since 2009.

Each year, Jeff applies a new coat of paint to maintain the bus’s cherry tone.

But this year, in addition to its annual paint job, the couple are looking to redo its brick patio, and they want city residents and businesses to be involved.

The Lazzaros are looking to create a readable patio — bricks inscribed with movie quotes, inspirational sayings, personalized messages and business names. The names, says Jeff Lazzaro, will feature local restaurants and breweries and will comprise the patio’s main walkway leading up to the doorway to the bus. The couple have dubbed it the Walk of Fame. “Everybody’s always asking us where to go, what to do,” Jeff says. “We thought it’d be a good way to showcase the restaurants. … When people ask, we can say, ‘Everybody we recommend is out on our patio.’”

The bricks will be available in two sizes and will cost $75-$160 depending on size and artwork. Thirty percent of the proceeds from brick sales will be divided among three local charities: Meals on Wheels, MANNA FoodBank and RiverLink.

The double-decker’s journey began, not surprisingly, in London, where it was used as a county bus running the Trafalgar Square route. According to Karen, it arrived in the United States by way of Chicago. In the early 1970s, it made its way to Atlanta, where it was reinvented as a party station known as The Karaoke Bus. In 1999, Greg Bounds bought the bus and drove it to the mountains, parking it at its current location at 41 Biltmore Ave. Since its arrival in Asheville, the vehicle has changed hands a few times.

Karen notes that Bounds built the supporting wall around the patio, and in 2006, then-owner Nicole Mitzel did major renovations to the bus’s interior, including kitchen updates, adding the vintage chandelier and other décor contributing to the bus’s eclectic vibe. When the Lazarros bought the bus, they gave it a paint job, restored

Double D’s Coffee and Desserts launches ’readable patio project’ and-mortar eatery with the grand opening of its new Sweeten Creek Road space on Wednesday, Aug. 9. The gathering will include complimentary bar snacks, watermelon bellinis and craft beer half-pours, as well as door prizes and live bluegrass music, according to the event’s Facebook page.

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FOLLOW THE RED BRICK ROAD: Karen and Jeff Lazzaro display a pair of bricks that will be added to Double D’s readable patio in late September. Photo by Thomas Calder the back patio and added to the surrounding landscaping.

The Lazarros, who plan to begin work on the new patio the last week of September, say there are roughly 1,700 bricks available for the project.

Their hope is the readable patio will offer local businesses and residents a chance to become part of the giant red bus’s ongoing journey.

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DOC CHEY’S ANNOUNCES CLOSING After 15 years, Doc Chey’s Noodle House at 37 Biltmore Ave. has announced it will close for good on Sunday, Sept. 3.

Beginning Monday, Aug. 7, the restaurant will no longer serve lunch, with hours changing to 4-10 p.m. Monday, Thursday and Sunday and 4-11 p.m.

Friday and Saturday.

“It’s a hard business to be in. We’ve had a successful run of 15 years — we want to go out that way,” says co-owner Ellie Feinroth. She notes that the growth in Asheville’s food scene has made it difficult at times to find and retain staff.

Nevertheless, she expressed her gratitude for those who contributed to the popularity of Doc Chey’s over the years. “Without our staff and our customers, we could

never have made it this long,” she says.

Feinroth, who also owns the building, has no current plans for the space’s future.

FEAST IN THE SUNNY POINT GARDEN Sunny Point Café will team up with Oskar Blues Brewery and Riverbend Malt House for a table-to-farm dinner in the restaurant’s on-site garden on Monday, Aug. 7. The gathering will benefit FEAST, a nonprofit organization that works with local schools to educate students about cooking and gardening skills. The menu will feature dishes made with locally raised pork, farm-fresh sides, Sunny Point’s signature desserts and a selection of beers from Oskar Blues.

FEAST co-founder Cathy Cleary considers the three partnering organizations “wonderful supporters of our cause to provide kids with edible education and ensure that they have healthy food available to them.”

FEAST in the Sunny Point Garden runs 5:30-8 p.m., Monday, Aug. 7, at Sunny Point Café, 626 Haywood Road. Seating is limited. Tickets are $50 per person and can be purchased at avl.mx/3yo.

Now entering its 13th year, chef Susi Gott Seguret’s Seasonal School of Culinary Arts will host its next weeklong session at its home base of Warren Wilson College. This year’s theme is the pairing of knife and pen, with chefs and writers leading classes throughout the week. In addition to Seguret, instructors will include Katie Button of Curate and Nightbell, Green Opportunities Kitchen Ready program co-founder Mark Rosenstein, William Dissen of The Market Place, Joe Scully of Corner Kitchen and Chestnut, Graham House of Sovereign Remedies, Jason Roy of Biscuit Head, Log Cabin Cooking author Barbara Swell, Eat Your Yard! author Nan Chase and master distiller Troy Ball of Asheville Distilling Co. The session takes place from Sunday, Aug. 6, to Saturday, Aug. 12. Participants can sign up for the entire week or choose day-to-day registration. For details, visit schoolofculinaryarts.org. X

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Brewing in Burnsville Town native John Silver opens Homeplace Beer Co., Yancey County’s first brewery Growing up in Burnsville when it was still a dry town, John Silver was well aware of bootlegging and what he calls “a lot of folks driving to the county line to get their Coors Banquet.”

While Yancey County remains dry, Burnsville voted to allow alcohol in 2010, opening the door for Plumtree’s Blind Squirrel Brewery to build its Burnsville Outpost in 2016, which joined the Snap Dragon Bar & Grill’s well-received craft beverage selections. In June, Silver opened Homeplace Beer Co., the county’s first brewery, in a space adjoining Burnsville Town Center.

“It was obvious there was going to be a brewery here one day, and I just had an opportunity after working in the industry for 10 years and maxing out what I wanted to do — or what I was available to do — in Asheville,” he says.

Silver’s first industry job was at Pisgah Brewing Co., which had just started distributing to Barley’s Taproom when he came on board in 2005. He washed kegs for the fledgling Black Mountain producer and was paid in growlers. He then went on to brew for Catawba Brewing Co. in Morganton from 2005-07 until Pisgah hired him as head brewer.

He held the position through 2009, when he handed the reins to Kyle Williams, now the owner and brewmaster at Brevard Brewing Co.

LOCAL BOY DOES GOOD: Homeplace Beer Co. owner John Silver strives to incorporate at least one local ingredient into each of his beers. Examples in the brewery’s first month of operation include honey, watermelon, lavender and corn grits from area providers, as well as fennel that Silver grew himself. Photo courtesy of Homeplace Beer Co.

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After Pisgah, Silver worked as a staff brewer at French Broad Brewing Co. and was the lead brewer for Oskar Blues Brewery in Brevard for almost three years. The jobs afforded him significant production brewing experience and the opportunity to learn new systems, but he says that he’s not sure if he was ever cut out to be the head brewer of a production facility. “It definitely takes a certain personality to do that,” he says.

In Homeplace’s 5-barrel brewhouse, Silver makes four different yearround beers — Brown Mule Brown Ale, Faith Healer Session IPA, Golden Heart American Lager and Frankie Amber Lager — to serve in the taproom and for some distribution. The four other taps feature rotating smallbatch brews, and for all of the above, he tries to incorporate at least one local ingredient.

Brown Mule is made with local honey, the Watermelon Lager with fruit from a local farmer, the Belgian Blonde with lavender and herbs from nearby Mountain Farm and the Nitro

Stout with fennel that Silver grew himself. The Frankie Amber — named after Frankie Silver, John Silver’s distant cousin and 19th-century folklore icon who chopped her husband into pieces and buried them in numerous places around the county — uses malt from Riverbend Malt House, while Golden Heart eschews corn syrup and pregelatinized corn flakes for a more wholesome approach.

“Not to sound like the Budweiser ad, but it’s kind of brewed the hard way,” Silver says. “We actually do a separate cereal mash with the corn grits we get from Guilford County, and that breaks down the grits to where the starches are able to be converted into sugar when we put it in the barley mash. So it’s kind of a labor-of-love thing, but it makes a really nice, clean, crisp, great-tasting American-style lager.”

Wanting Homeplace to be a social hub for Burnsville residents to visit on the weekends and after work, Silver encourages patron interaction by not having televisions in his tap-

room. Though he plans to make bigger beers once the weather turns cold — specifically mentioning oak-aged stouts — 80 percent of his beers will clock in below 5 percent ABV, an approach that further encourages people to linger and talk with one another.

“Our whole thing is just making sessionable beers that have a lot of local flavor and stuff that’s not super-watered-down but still not going to get you hammered,” Silver says. “I think there’s a lack of balance, and sessionable is such a thing now, but I feel like a lot of brewers — not really anybody locally, but on a national level, it seems like ‘sessionable’ automatically means ‘watered-down.’ Especially session IPAs: A lot of them just seem like hop water to me.”

Silver says Faith Healer has been the taproom’s best-seller by far and has been doing well in a few Asheville establishments.

Barley’s often sells a little over a half a barrel a week of it and will soon add Frankie to its offerings.

Faith Healer has also been on tap at Archetype Brewing and The Black Cloud metal bar, and Silver is in talks with Habitat Brewing Co. and Sweeten Creek Brewing about guest taps. Otherwise, he’s been focusing on Boone for distribution — which he calls “a little more wide open than Asheville” — and will have multiple products there this month.

Silver also hopes to start doing limited can runs by fall.

Homeplace’s space is too small for a mobile canning apparatus, but he envisions making a half-manual, half-automated system of his own to produce four-packs of 16-ounce cans. They’ll be sold primarily out of the tasting room, but some will be sent to Appalachian Vintner and other Asheville bottle shops.

Beyond packaging and distribution, Silver is starting to talk with other brewers about collaborations and is planning to pour at the Brewgrass festival in September.

He’d also like to be at the Hickory Hops festival in 2018 and possibly Blind Squirrel’s Avery County Beer and Wine Festival.

Homeplace Beer Co. is at 6 S. Main St., Area C, Burnsville. Tasting room hours are 4-9 p.m. TuesdayThursday, 2-11 p.m. Friday, noon11 p.m. Saturday and 1-6 p.m.

Sunday. The tasting room is closed on Mondays. For details, visit homeplacebeer.com. X

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‘BOOMBOX FEELING’

LEAF Downtown AVL returns for the third year

OPEN INVITATION: The LEAF Downtown AVL roster includes national acts such as The Family Stone and East Star All-Stars and locals such as The Digs and Fly By Night Rounders — a mix of sounds and ideas, in the form for a free festival, that local DJ, producer and educator Nex Millen calls “the ultimate.” Photo of Millen, inset, by Bill Pence. Photo of Escort by Dennis Mannuel

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com LEAF performing arts director Ehren Cruz and the organizers of the third LEAF Downtown AVL seek to ensure every neighborhood, race, ethnicity and culture has a voice and gathering space at Pack Square Park on Friday, Aug. 4, and Saturday, Aug. 5. Booking musical acts with similar values is crucial to that mission.

Adeline Michèle, frontwoman of the Brooklyn disco band Escort, says she and her colleagues are elated to return to Asheville after a memorable Moogfest 2014 stint and an opening slot for CeeLo Green at The Orange Peel last year. The prospect of playing an outdoor festival — more specifically, 34

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Pack Stage on Aug. 4 at 6:45 p.m. — also holds great appeal.

“We’ll play wherever we’re asked to. We’re just happy to play music, but when it also helps a good cause, it’s even better. It makes our job make even more sense,” she says. “It’s definitely icing on the cake.”

True to LEAF’s core values, Escort’s embrace of oft-maligned disco as its primary descriptor is itself a form of unity and activism. Michèle notes that what she calls “the mother of dance music” had a mainstream resurgence with Daft Punk’s 2013 album Random Access Memories. She adds that the style’s popularity may come in waves, but it’s never really gone away, and that being mindful of its history is of utmost importance as Escort does its part to carry the genre forward.

“The negative stigma attached to disco is more of a homophobic and racist one from the ’80s when disco was the kind of music that would attract all kinds of people — party people, which meant at the time the gay community, the black community, the trans community as well as all communities. Donna Summer and Diana Ross were still some of the biggest stars ever, and were disco queens,” Michèle says. “The stigma is good to fight against because it actually helps fighting against a lot of injustice in general, so we’re definitely proudly saying ‘disco’ just for those reasons.”

When Dan Balis and Eugene Cho formed Escort in the late 2000s, its live version sometimes included up to 17 people onstage at a time. With the addition of Michèle — a native Parisian who came to New York City as an 18-year-

old to pursue a music career — the evolution toward the band’s 2015 album, Animal Nature, involved a move away from incorporating horns and strings and a new focus on electronic instruments. Depending on the size of the stage and the band’s financial capabilities at a given time, anywhere from four to seven musicians currently perform together. While Michèle says, “The Escort sound is just as good with only four people,” as well as easier on communication and logistical levels, she also enjoys having the expanded cast’s pair of backup singers.

The presence of a group such as Escort at the festival alongside other diverse offerings — and to have it all downtown and free — is, in Nex Millen’s words, “the ultimate.” The Asheville DJ, producer and educator sees the occasion

as a “true partnership” between LEAF and the community. It brings the Lake Eden event — which he notes is hard for some people to get to and often sells out — and the organization’s championing of all cultures directly to the city’s people.

“There’s a boombox feeling to it,” Millen says. “It’s about family fun and playing music that’s all over just funky, so for them to have an eclectic lineup like that, it sits well with me and where I come from, because we would have the boombox out playing everything — Spanish music, funk and disco. We’d play some oldies — put the Motown on, you know what I mean? We would take it everywhere across the margin. Not just rap music. You’ve got to remember, rap music had just come out, so there weren’t that many rap records, so we played other things.”

Millen moved from Philadelphia to Asheville in 2014. The partnership between his hip-hop education company, Organic Synergy, and LEAF amplifies his quest to preserve the culture by passing on its core principles to the next generation. Each Tuesday at LEAF’s Burton Street ONEmic Studio, Millen’s students are taught love, peace, unity, respect and knowl-

edge while learning about such topics as graffiti, beatboxing, beat making, fashion and history. In turn, they come to understand that rap music is only one element within the culture and that deciphering that single popular component requires a comprehension of the culture as a whole. “Sometimes we’ll watch documentary on Marcus Garvey,” he says.

“You don’t get that from just a song.”

Along with sharing his multifaceted DJ skills at the U-Leaf Stage on Aug. 4, at 7:15 p.m., Millen will be at the Easel Rider Village on Aug. 5 at 3 p.m. for a turntable jam with recently graduated mentorees from Asheville High School and West Henderson High School. The former students will also perform, and Millen will discuss the program. X

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MOVED: Artist Colby Caldwell returned to Western North Carolina after a long stay in the Chesapeake Bay area. His photography, which expresses some of that transition, will be featured in Transplants at the Tracey Morgan Gallery. Pictured, “Mirror, Mirrored” by Caldwell The Asheville area has long attracted out-of-state painters, photographers and indie crafters. But what happens after these creative non-natives decide to trade visitor status for residency? Transplants, an art exhibit opening Sunday, Aug. 6, and running through

Sunday, Sept. 24, at the Tracey Morgan Gallery, seeks to answer that question.

“Personally, I had a hard time transitioning,” says gallery owner Tracey Morgan. She and her husband, a West Asheville beer pundit who prefers not to be named, always knew they would

one day leave New York City to start an art gallery and bar, respectively. Since opening either in the Empire City wasn’t financially feasible, the couple decided on Western North Carolina.

“My husband has family in Fairview and Gerton, and we went to school at Brevard College,” says Morgan. “We were pretty familiar with the area.”

But when they finally made the move in 2015, Morgan felt out of place.

She missed the city, her friends and, above all, New York’s arts scene. “I just put my head in the sand and pretended like it wasn’t happening,” she admits. Today, it’s hard to imagine Morgan feeling like an interloper.

Since opening her South Slope space in January, she’s been well-received.

“The positive response has been overwhelming,” she says.

Still, she wonders: How do other newcomers navigate Asheville’s art community?

Transplants meditates on that question by gathering the works of seven recent arrivals — Hannah Cole, Colby Caldwell, Molly Sawyer, Ralston Fox Smith, Kirsten Stolle, Dawn Roe and Workingman Collective — in one gallery.

The idea, says Morgan, is to start a dialogue on how place informs art.

Since making the move, New York City-based painter Cole, for instance, has seen her pieces evolve from hyperrealistic renderings of manhole covers and high-rises to chicory against concrete walls. “Her work has transitioned from everything urban to everything Asheville,” says Morgan. “She paints what she sees.”

That growth mirrors what Caldwell — one of the show’s two photographers — experienced when he headed back to the mountains. Though originally from Mills River, Caldwell had settled in Washington, D.C., in his 20s. Later, when he began teaching at a small liberal arts college in Maryland, he took up residence on a 150-acre estate adjacent to the Chesapeake Bay. That coastal landscape influenced his photography — overexposed shorelines can be seen in 2003’s “Still Life” series and distorted marshes in “Songs” from 2002.

But since returning to Asheville in 2013, his experimental projects have been inspired by people. “I couldn’t see any neighbors where I lived in Maryland,” says Caldwell. “In Asheville, I’m situated in an active community, and I can feed more off artistic folks than the landscape.”

That synergy motivated Caldwell to open REVOLVE on Riverside Drive.

Part studio, part gallery and part think tank, this hub strives to “gather in one

place the creative energies of the Asheville area.” More simply, it’s there to support artists with feedback, ongoing exhibitions and whatever else they might need.

Community spaces are especially important for newcomers, says Caldwell.

When he first moved to WNC, hotspots like Asheville Darkroom, the Center for Craft, Creativity and Design, and The Mothlight made for prime networking territory. Such places are where he hit it off with painters Ursula Gullow and Julyan Davis, and, in doing so, forged connections in the arts community. He sees the Tracey Morgan Gallery as another spot where non-natives can find their way.

“When Tracey came onto the scene, everyone was excited,” says Caldwell.

That’s perhaps, he assumes, because her curating style is unique for the mountains. Her approach is minimalistic. Other than rotating shows and group exhibits, the walls remain bare, giving the gallery an ultramodern and edgy feel.

Plus, featuring fewer artists at once creates a “purposeful conversation,” says Morgan, though she’s still not sure what Transplants conveys.

“I guess it says something about Asheville,” says Morgan. “Most artists move to Asheville because of the quality of life. They can live here without working four different jobs. They have time to create.”

Caldwell agrees with that. The work he submitted for Transplants contemplates what photography means in the 21st century. Using a variety of sources (corrupted files, found specimens and scanners), he’s created abstract images. An untitled piece, for instance, features a crumpled songbird against a rich cadmium background, while “Mirror, Mirrored” displays organic materials on slate. Such natural motifs will complement Roe’s photography, which typically juxtaposes household items — foil or mesh — with striking landscapes.

“It comes back to dialogue,” says Caldwell. “Most people think photography is this flat, two-dimensional thing tucked behind frames. My work has a whole different physical presence.”

And, arguably, so does Asheville. X

WHAT Transplants WHERE Tracey Morgan Gallery 188 Coxe Ave. traceymorgangallery.com WHEN Opening Friday, Aug. 4, 6-8 p.m.

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LUNSFORD’S LEGACY Every night of the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival starts out the same way. Before the fiddlers and banjo players rip their way through old-time favorites, before the clogging teams stomp out their precision circles and figures, Ed Herron gets on the stage. He’s there to tell the story of his grandfather — the founder of the nation’s oldest continually running folk festival — Bascom Lamar Lunsford.

“Sometimes people get tired of hearing the story, but it’s our way of giving the man respect for what he did for our mountains,” says Loretta Freeman, chair of the Ashevillebased Folk Heritage Committee, which organizes the annual event. It’s been more than four decades since Lunsford’s passing, but the Mars Hill folklorist known as the Minstrel of the Appalachians remains a towering presence in the region’s mountain music community. The 90th iteration of the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, taking place at the Mission Health/A-B Tech Conference Center from Thursday, Aug. 3, through Saturday, Aug. 5, places Lunsford’s legacy front and center.

Lunsford first organized the event as part of Asheville’s 1927 Rhododendron Festival. Tasked by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce to round up local musicians and dancers as a tourist draw, he invited many of the performers he’d met during his travels collecting folk songs throughout the region.

Ever since then, the festival has continued to tap the area’s deep-rooted heritage. “The longevity of this festival comes from the wonderful ancestry that has evolved out of the mountains,” says Freeman. “You’ll have up to five generations in a family that are still playing music.”

Freeman speaks of Lunsford on a first-name basis when outlining the plans for this year’s festival. “In the lobby, we’ll have some photography of Bascom’s home on Turkey Creek, and we’re going to tell some stories about the floor in that home — it was built so you could have a clogging team in the living room,” she says. Freeman is also organizing a group of cloggers to replicate one of the traditional dance sets performed at Turkey Creek, complete with costumes appropriate for the era.

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EVERY AGE ONSTAGE: “The longevity of this festival comes from the wonderful ancestry that has evolved out of the mountains,” says Asheville-based Folk Heritage Committee chair Loretta Freeman. “You’ll have up to five generations in a family that are still playing music.” This year’s Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will focus on award-winning artists from throughout the Southern Appalachians. Photo by Angela Wilhelm

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Some aspects of the festival, Freeman admits, have changed since Lunsford’s inaugural gathering. The format has shifted from a competition among artists to a celebration of their shared heritage, the venue has moved from outdoors at Pack Square to less weather-dependent surroundings, and the scheduling has become much less stomach-churning for the performers. “Bascom used to just come over to you backstage in his white suit and ask, ‘Are you ready to play?’” she says with a laugh.

The modern lineup is more structured, which helps the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival fit in more than 40 acts over its three nights. This year’s schedule places special emphasis on award-winning artists from throughout the Southern Appalachians. Grammy winners on the bill include multiinstrumentalist David Holt, bluegrass fiddler Bobby Hicks and flat-picker Bryan Sutton. Other highlights include banjo player Laura Boosinger and flatfoot dancer Phil Jamison, both Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame inductees, and Brown-Hudson Folklore Awardwinner Roger Howell.

The festival will also be giving out its own awards, but not to individual performers. Instead, as Folk Heritage

Committee member Carol Peterson explains, each night will honor a different college or university that has contributed to the preservation of traditional mountain artistry. “The biggest challenge to preserving Appalachian culture today is making sure that our younger generation is exposed to and taught this traditional music and dance,” Peterson says. “We’re presenting awards to Mars Hill University for [its] national award–winning Bailey Mountain Cloggers, to Warren Wilson College for [its] annual Swannanoa Gathering and to East Tennessee State University for [its] degree program in traditional mountain music.”

Both Freeman and Peterson believe that fidelity to tradition is key in passing on culture to the next generation of artists. “Traditional mountain music comes from a completely different era than today’s world, but it portrays something that’s down deep within.

It’s phenomenal how young people are picking that up,” says Freeman.

Peterson adds, “Our goal is not to change the event to appeal to modern audiences, but to preserve our Appalachian culture.”

As Lunsford intended, the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival

continues to serve as a gathering place for traditional artists young and old. It’s a public celebration of the region’s truly local culture, drawing lifelong residents and tourists alike. “Every year, the festival is like a coming-home reunion,” says Freeman. “It’s a dressed-up showcase — as Bascom would always say, ‘Put on your Sunday best.’ But as long as it’s clean, it doesn’t matter if you’re in overalls.” X

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TRUTH AND DYES Many artists, upon reflection, discover a through line in their work.

There are themes, techniques or material around which they continue to spiral, discovering varied processes, new meanings and an evolving path. For local fiber artist Suzanne Teune, that frequently revisited idea was about the use of natural dyes in her portraits. She presents the exhibition Paintings by Suzanne Joy Teune at Odds Café, with an opening on Saturday, Aug. 5.

While studying at Burren College of Art in western Ireland, “I knew I wanted to use plant dyes, so I started foraging from the local landscape,” she says.

Mainly what Teune found were blackberries, discovered when a classmate crushed a handful into a white T-shirt.

Teune also used seawater, rainwater, moss and seaweed for dyes, completing an exhibition of paintings on fabric for her final project.

An Illinois native, Teune — who relocated to Asheville in 2008 — studied at Wheaton College as an undergrad. There, while working on an early portrait series on fabric, she favored Rit fabric dye until a friend questioned that choice. “I’d never thought much about it,” Teune admits. “Several years later, I made a series of paintings for the Wild Goose Festival. … They were huge banners, and I used fabric dye for that, as well, because it was a bit of a lastminute thing, [but] I knew I wanted to be doing it in black walnut ink.”

In between portrait series and programs of study, Teune worked in fashion, creating dresses and skirts at a studio in the West Asheville Drygoods Shop. The owner of the studios and storefront gave Teune a bottle of black walnut dye: It was as if the universe was nudging her away from the Rit and toward the wilderness.

Before her time in Ireland, Teune took a class in encaustic painting at Penland School of Crafts. Ironically, she’d planned to attend a workshop on natural dyeing — which she hoped to apply to the dressmaking she was doing at the time — at the craft school but received a scholarship to the encaustic class. While there, “something really clicked for me, and I realized I’m a fine artist, not a fashion designer,” she says.

“I want to use mixed-media textiles in my paintings — that’s why I want to use fabric. It’s not to make garments.”

Having made a definitive shift from fashion to fine art, Teune began to experiment with her materials. In

Local exhibition features portraits rendered in colors from nature cess, including how Teune stretches fabric for painting. But creative adventure — from forays into the woods to forage, to experimenting with texture and image — is as important to Teune as her end result.

“This is a whole world I’m just learning about,” she says. “I’m willing to do that: I’m willing to explore rather than stick to the tried and true.” X

WHAT Paintings by Suzanne Joy Teune suzannejoyteune.com WHERE Odds Café 800 Haywood Road WHEN Opening Saturday, Aug. 5, 7-9 p.m.

Show remains on view throughout August

WAY-FINDING: Of her self-guided process local artist Suzanne Teune says, “I made a point not to think too much about what I was doing and just dive in. ... I feel like something magical happens and the subconscious takes over.” Pictured, “Stephanie,” with black walnut ink and French Broad River water on blood root-dyed cotton, by Teune Ireland, she hoped to find a veteran craftsperson or homesteader who could impart knowledge of what native plants made the best dyes. And, “I was hoping to find someone who could help me spin wool,” she says. After a long search, she finally located handspun wool skeins in a craft shop, only to discover they came from a maker who had moved to Ireland from North Carolina.

“I just had to figure it out myself,” says Teune, who combined online research with trial-and-error. The blackberry dye, she learned, is faded by ultraviolet rays (applying her encaustic training, she’s attempting to preserve those works with a layer of wax). “It’s an ongoing experiment,” she says.

Now based out of the Phil Mechanic Studios, Teune’s current works are

painted on cotton with dyes from native black walnut, pokeberry and sumac. In her explorations, she found that bloodroot, though a popular local dye plant — and one she initially used — has been over-harvested.

While wool proved a difficult fiber to work with, “I might use silk. I have a lot of leftover fabric from my fashion-design days,” Teune says. She has been working with vintage and textured fabrics, and “I’ve been exploring with different textiles — I’m doing embroidery. I’ve already embroidered into some of the paintings.”

What else could change is Teune’s approach to capturing images for her work. Her current series is based on photography shoots, but her early work came from live-drawing sessions. To return to that method would change the whole pro-

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‘Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat’ by Flat Rock Playhouse If you like your Old Testament tales with a 1970s-era kitschy pastiche of go-go boots and more gold lamé than the Solid Gold dancers, Flat Rock Playhouse has the perfect raucous confection to sate your appetite. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s and Tim Rice’s nowclassic Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is onstage through Sunday, Aug. 20.

This fun rock opera hardly catches its breath as it breezes through the tale of young Joseph, who is gifted with the ability to interpret dreams. He is beloved by his father (who bestows him with a coat of many colors) and less so by his 11 envious brothers. Their

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jealousy leads them to trick Joseph and sell him into slavery. In spite of biblical origins, the show takes a secular approach, borrowing from musical styles such as stadium rock anthems, country music and hip-hop.

In Egypt, Joseph is sold to Stephen Sheffer’s Potiphar. Sheffer brings a hint of Jim Morrison performing Meat Loaf covers at a dominatrix club. Joseph catches the eye of Potiphar’s wife (seductively played

by Maddie Franke), which gets him imprisoned.

Lance Bordelon not only carries the show with charm but spends the majority of it shirtless as Joseph.

His constant onstage co-star is a narrator, who — as the audience’s omniscient guide — keeps the nearly two decades of the story unfolding.

Jessica Crouch is stellar in the role, with an incredible vocal range. A large and multiracial ensemble of nearly 50 fills out the drama.

In Act 2, a show-stopping, hip-shaking number has Scott Treadway’s Pharaoh wearing a massive Elvis wig that almost deserves its own

billing. When Joseph interprets Pharaoh’s dreams and forecasts years of prosperity followed by famine, he finds himself appointed to great power to help Egypt weather the difficult years ahead.

Joseph’s brothers realize the error of their ways in the number “Those Canaan Days.” It is a crowd-pleasing sequence, allowing Jose Luaces (as Rueben) to shine alongside the other 10 brothers. They find their way to Joseph, who must choose between revenge or forgiveness.

This leads to a calypso number by the brothers, pleading for mercy.

Amy Jones has directed and choreographed the show with attention to every detail. There isn’t a moment in the show that is not perfectly designed. Dennis Maulden’s set is such a finetuned piece of work that it looks like an elaborate rock concert stage. Pyrotechnics would not be out of place. Ashli Arnold Crump’s costumes are intricate and span from elaborate wigs and headpieces to dozens of pairs of the aforementioned go-go boots.

Many cast members play multiple roles, calling for more than 100 costumes.

All of the parts come together in a magical, mystical feat of precision that, while expected from Flat Rock, still amazes. X

WHAT Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat WHERE Flat Rock Playhouse 2661 Greenville Highway Flat Rock, flatrockplayhouse.org WHEN Through Sunday, Aug. 20, with performances Wednesdays through Saturdays at 8 p.m. with matinees Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m. $15-$50

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Craft City During a childhood spent in Taiwan, Jessica White developed a passion for traditional crafts. Now an Asheville-based studio artist with an emphasis on letterpress printing, she shares her trade with folks interested in trying out the technique at Craft City — the Center for Craft, Creativity & Design’s latest outdoor popup workshop. Those who drop into the festive session (complete with live music) can purchase a DIY notebook kit.

Covers can be customized with various types and blocks, and can be printed using White’s mobile printing press. Craft food and shandies round out the party on Friday, Aug. 4.

(The Friday, Sept. 1, event’s featured artist is Victoria Bradbury, teaching the construction of light-up dioramas.)

5-8 p.m. Craft kits are $7-$10. cccdnow.org/craftcity. Photo

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Bradley Carter Which Bradley Carter do you prefer: the rock power trio version or the acoustic oneman show? On Sundays in August, both options will be available during the Asheville musician’s residency at Catawba Brewing Co.’s South Slope Tasting Room & Brewery. On Aug. 6 and 27, Carter sings lead and plays guitar with his rock band Max Gross Weight, tackling a mix of covers and originals alongside Dakota Waddell (bass) and Cody Britton (drums). For Aug. 13 and 20, it’ll be Carter all by his lonesome, moving between guitar, banjo and fiddle, as well as what he says is his “best John Hartford impression by dancing rhythm on an amplified piece of plywood.” Each show starts at 6 p.m. Free. catawbabrewing.com. Photo courtesy of Max Gross Weight

Tam Tsu

Lawrence Thackston Having set his first two novels in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (The Devil’s Courthouse) and South Carolina’s fictional Galeegi Islands (Tidal Pools), mystery writer Lawrence Thackston turned to his backyard for his new book, Carolina Cruel. The Orangeburg, S.C.-based author describes the thriller as “a Southern tale of race, politics, crime and corruption in which two reporters make startling connections between an executed mass murderer, the fallout from the 1968 Orangeburg Massacre and the hanging of one of the Palmetto State’s most prominent citizens.” Thackston will read from his latest work and sign copies at City Lights Bookstore in Sylva on Friday, Aug. 4, at 6:30 p.m. He’ll also be at Bearmeat’s Indian Den in Cherokee on Saturday, Aug. 5, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. citylightsnc.com. Photo courtesy of the author

Tim Tsurutani’s new project, Tam Tsu, was born when the Asheville musician decided to take a break from fronting the local band Bulgogi. Veering from the quartet’s self-professed “terrified child dance punk” tunes, the venture started out as a collection of stripped-down acoustic songs recorded on a single mic in Tsurutani’s bedroom. Vocal harmonies, programmed drums and additional guitars soon worked their way onto the tracks, providing a frequently peppy backdrop to lyrics critical of humans’ self-destructive, pessimistic ways — including closing number, “Airlock,” which imagines mankind fleeing Earth for a new home. The record release show for Tam Tsu’s Man Will Drown takes place at The Mothlight on Thursday, Aug. 3, at 9:30 p.m. House and Land and Nathan Olsen open. $5. themothlight.com. Photo courtesy of the artist

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LIQUID SIRENS SPEAKEASY: Christine Garvin’s local dance troupe, Liquid Sirens, is offering its first large-scale performance at the Altamont Theatre on Saturday, Aug. 5, at 8 p.m. The body- and age-positive company weaves together modern, hip-hop, cabaret, jazz, contemporary, world dance and burlesque for a show set in a 1920s speakeasy.

The performance also includes live music by local musician Matt Kinne, live songs by Siren Roxy Wilde and comedic storytelling by Kiki La Freedom. Tickets are $17 ($15 in advance) and are available at goo.gl/vc58QP. Photo courtesy of Christine Garvin Dance+Transform by David Avigdor (p. 43) ART GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828253-7651, grovewood.com • FR (8/4), 1-5pm - Wet felting demonstration by Kendall White. Free to attend.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org/ • TH (8/3), 6:30pm - Artist Marianne Fairbanks discusses her work, Impractical Weaving Suggestions, featured in the exhibition, Tie Up, Draw Down. Free.

• FR (8/4), 5-8pm - "Craft City Workshop," to make letterpress notebooks with Jessica White. $10 includes craft kit/$7 advance.

TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • SA (8/5), 10am-noon "Putting on the Glitz," fused glass bracelet, coffee and craft workshop. $40.

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ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ALOHA POP (PD.) 7/29-8/6, 10am-7pm. Shop over 30 local/indie artists, makers, and vintage collectors. Enjoy rice bowls with house made pickles & traditional sauces. 8/5-6, 11am2pm. eastwestpopupshop. com • Trade & Lore Coffee, 37 Wall St. 28801.

BURNSVILLE TOWN CENTER 6 Main St., Burnsville, townofburnsville.org/ crafts-fair • FR (8/4) & SA (8/5), 9am5pm - The Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair features live music and over 200 juried crafters with pottery, jewelry, ironwork and artwork.

Free to attend.

DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS downtownashevilleartdistrict. org.

• 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, Biltmore Ave./ College St.

MOONLIT ART MARKET burialbeer.com • WE (8/9), 8-11pm - Local arts and crafts market. Free to attend. Held at Burial Beer Co., 40 Collier Ave. SOUTHERN HIGHLAND CRAFT GUILD 828-298-7928, craftguild.org • SA (8/5), 10am-4pm "Wood Day," wood craft focused event with demonstrations and vendors. Free.

Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382 Blue Ridge Parkway

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ART ON MAIN acofhc.org/art-on-main.html • Through WE (8/2) Submissions accepted for nonprofit organizations to table Art on Main fine art/ fine craft festival, which is held Saturday, Sept. 30 and Sunday, Oct. 1. Contact for guidelines. Held at Arts Council of Henderson County, 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY CHORUS ashevillesymphonychorus.com • TU (8/8), 3-8pm - Open auditions. Contact to schedule an audition:

mlancastercond@gmail.com.

For information visit the website. Held at St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 10 North Liberty St.

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm.

Drop-ins welcome. Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 349 Andante Lane Brevard, 828-862-2100, brevardmusic.org • WE (8/2), 12:30pm Student piano recital. Free.

• WE (8/2), 7:30pm - Faculty concert. $16-28. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • TH (8/3), 7:30pm - “The Best of Gilbert & Sullivan,” concert of hits. $35 and up.

Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • FR (8/4), 12:30pm Premiere performance of new works written by BMC composition students. Free.

• FR (8/4), 4:30pm - “Piccolo Opera,” high school voice students concert. Free.

Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • FR (8/4), 7:30pm Brevard Symphonic Winds and Brevard Concert Orchestra present Dvorák Symphony No. 8. $15 and up.

• SA (8/5), 7:30pm - Brevard Concert Orchestra presents Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5. $15 and up.

• SU (8/6), 3pm - Brevard Concert Orchestra presents Verdi Requiem. $15 and up.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TU (8/8), 6pm - "Groovin' on Grovemont," outdoor concert with The Paper Crowns, modern roots. Free.

Held at Grovemont Square, 101 W Charleston Ave., Swannanoa CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-10pm Asheville outdoor drum cir-

cle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-6930731, flatrockplayhouse.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/3) until (8/13) - Motown Summer Nights. Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $15-$30.

LAKE JUNALUSKA CONFERENCE & RETREAT CENTER 91 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska, 828-4522881, lakejunaluska.com • FR (8/4), 7:30pm - Lake Junaluska Singers concert. $18.

THEATER ALTAMONT THEATRE 18 Church St., 828-274-8070 • SA (8/5), 8pm - Christine Garvin's Liquid Sirens dance troupe, speakeasy style performance featuring live music, comedy and storytelling. $20/$15 advance.

2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/20) Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, musical. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm.

Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.:

N.C. ARBORETUM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 828-665-2492, ncarboretum.org • WE (8/2) through SU (8/6), 9-10:45pm - "Summer Lights," outdoor projectedlight show synchronized to music performed by the Blue Ridge Orchestra and conducted by Milton Crotts. $18/$12 children.

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PICKIN’ IN THE PARK cantonnc.com • FRIDAYS through (8/25) Outdoor bluegrass concert with clogging. Free. Held at Canton Recreational Park, Penland St., Canton

Held at Hazel Robinson

SUMMER TRACKS CONCERT SERIES 828-290-4316, summertracks.com • FR (7/7), 7pm - Blair Crimmins and The Hookers, jazz/ragtime concert. Free.

Held at Rogers Park, 55 W. Howard St., Tryon

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MUSIC ON MAIN 828-693-9708, historichendersonville.org • FR (8/4), 7pm - Outdoor live music event featuring a classic car show and Gotcha Groove, beach music. Free.

Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville

SHINDIG ON THE GREEN 828-258-6101, x345, folkheritage.org • SATURDAYS through (9/2) - Outdoor old-timey and folk music jam sessions and concert. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

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MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 828-254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/4) until (9/2), 7:30pm - Peter Pan. Free.

Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. PARKWAY PLAYHOUSE 13 Green Mountain Drive, Burnsville, 828-682-4285, parkwayplayhouse.com • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/5) until ( 8/19) - Footloose. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $22/$20 seniors, students & military/$12 for children.

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE 375 Depot St., 828-279-4155 • 1st FRIDAYS, 10:30pm SuperHappy Productions present "The SuperHappy Radio Hour." $8..

• THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/3) until (8/19) - Six Knots, comedy/drama.

7:30pm. $10-16.

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GALLERY DIRECTORY SEVEN SISTERS GALLERY 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 828669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • FR (8/4) through SU (10/29) Exhibtion of oil paintings by Joyce Shlapkohl.

ART GALLERY EXHIBITIONS AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828-281-2134, amerifolk.com • TH (8/3) through WE (8/23) - 2017 Coming Home, group exhibition of folk art. Reception: Friday, Aug. 4, 5-8pm.

SWANNANOA VALLEY FINE ARTS LEAGUE 828-669-0351, svfalarts.org • Through SU (9/3) - Juried show of 2D and 3D art. Held at Red House Studios and Gallery, 310 W. State St., Black Mountain

ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (8/11) - Lineage: Celebrating Rock Creek Pottery, exhibition. Held at Weizenblatt Art Gallery at MHU, 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill

THE HAEN GALLERY 52 Biltmore Ave., 828-254-8577, thehaengallery.com • Through TH (8/31) - A Summer Configuration, exhibition with works

by Joyce Garner, Ursula Gullow and Tim Anderson.

ART IN THE AIRPORT 61 Terminal Drive, Fletcher • Through TU (10/31) - Origin, artwork by Kim Rody Kopp, Bonnie Cooper, Dan McGowan and Paul Karnowski.

ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 828-693-8504, acofhc.org • FR (8/4) through FR (8/18) - Bring Us Your Best, juried all-media art exhibition. Reception and award ceremony: Friday, Aug. 4, 5-7pm. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (8/4) - Perception of Sense, exhibition of work by Courtney Dodd & Nick Fruin. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM ON THE SLOPE 175 Biltmore Ave., ashevilleart.org • Through SU (9/17) - Home Land, exhibition of the art of southeastern Native Americans.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through TH (8/31) - True Colors, paintings of Anne Bonnyman and Jane Snyder. Reception: Friday, Aug. 4, 5-8pm.

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‘BRING US YOUR BEST’: The opening reception and awards ceremony for the 14th annual Arts Council of Henderson County Bring Us Your Best art exhibition takes place this Friday, Aug. 4, from 5-7 p.m. Gathering the work of over 100 diverse artists, this all-media visual art exhibition will be on display through Friday, Aug. 18 in the Blue Ridge Conference Hall of the TEDC building at Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock. For more information, visit acofhc.org or 828-693-8504. Seasonal Reflections courtesy of the Arts Council of Henderson County BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts. org • Through FR (9/1) - Sibling Artistry, photos and fiber art of sisters Joye Ardyn Durham and Jan Durham.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library • Through TH (8/31) - Exhibition of the paintings of Cecil Bothwell.

Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave SW, Lenoir, 828754-2486 • FR (8/4) through SA (9/30) Modern Traditions, group exhibition of furniture, paintings and photog-

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• Through SU (10/1) - Beloved Bears, photography exhibit.

FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 2160 US Highway 70, Swannanoa, 828-273-3332, floodgallery.org/ • Through SA (9/16) - Repurposed Found & Pirated Altered Art, exhibition of repurposed and altered collages by Tom Johanson.

GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828-2537651, grovewood.com • Through SU (8/20) - Southern Migrations: Five Years in Asheville, contemporary landscape paintings

by Shawn Krueger.

GREEN SAGE CAFE - WESTGATE 70 Westgate Parkway, 828-7851780, greensagecafe.com • Through SU (10/15) - Asheville Mandala Art Meditation, exhibition of reconstructed photographic cityscapes on silk, canvas, metal and clothing by Wendy Newman.

GREEN SAGE CAFE SOUTH 1800 Hendersonville Road

MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 828688-6422, micagallerync.com • Through SU (10/15) - Flights of Fancy, mixed media exhibition featuring work by Josh Cote, Elizabeth Brim, Shane Fero and Mary Webster.

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 828-285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery

• Through TH (8/31) - Exhibition of ceramic art by Trish Salmon, Denise Baker and other gallery members.

PENLAND SCHOOL OF CRAFTS 67 Doras Trail, Bakersville, 828-7652359, penland.org • Through (9/17) - Parched | Inverted Landscapes, exhibition of work by Susan Goethel Campbell. Reception: Saturday, Aug. 5, 4:30-6:30pm.

PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (8/13) - Streets of Ashe, exhibition of photography by Elia Lehman.

POSANA CAFE 1 Biltmore Ave., 828-505-3969 • Through TH (8/31) - CLOUDS, group art show on the theme of climate change.

TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (8/19) - Inheritance, group exhibition. Held at Spruce Pine TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (8/11) - Art Spark, preview exhibition for the Art Spark auction.

WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • Through WE (8/30) - Julie CalhounRoepnack + Paul Moberg, exhibition of ceramic and mixed media.

Reception: Friday, Aug. 4, 5-7pm.

YANCEY COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 321 School Circle Burnsville, 828682-2600 • TH (8/3) through SA (9/9) BRAGging Rights, Blue Ridge Fine Arts Guild exhibition. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 3, 5-7pm.

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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HOLY (ROCK’N) ROLLERS: Some bands begin with dreams of rockstardom; for Charleston, SC indie-rockers Stop Light Observations, the impetus came from a dream in which “God” directed founder Cubby Culbreth to form a group. The band has gone on to open for the likes of Band of Horses and The Pixies, and grace festival stages across the country. Stop Light Observations brings its heavenly blend of melodious hooks and dark synth musings to Sierra Nevada’s Taproom Amphitheater in Mills River on Saturday, Aug. 5, beginning at 7 p.m. Photo by Alex Boquist, courtesy of event promoters.

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening of Comedy w/ Cliff Cash, 8:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Hank Bones or Kon Tiki, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Asheville Celebrates Teachers, 9:30AM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Window Cat (soul, R&B, funk), 7:00PM BURGER BAR Double Trouble Karaoke w/ Dee & Quinn, All day CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll), 7:30PM CREPE BOURREE Gypsy Duets, 7:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Classic Country Vinyl w/ DJ David Wayne Gay, 10:00PM GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Spiritual Rez w/ Dub Cartel (reggae), 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Charles Walker Band, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM

MG ROAD Salsa Night w/ DJ Mexicano Isaac, 7:00PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER Galactic w/ Porch 40 (soul, funk, blues), 7:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul: A Tasteful Queer Troupe (drag), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL "A Day Old Bakers Dozen", 5:00PM Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Miriam Allen Duo (soul), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Hellyeah w/ Kyng & Cane Hill (groove metal, rock), 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Paper Crowns (Americana), 6:00PM

LONDON DISTRICT STUDIOS Gypsy Jazz at The London, 7:30PM

POST 25 Albi & The Lifters (American swing, French chanson), 7:00PM

POUR TAPROOM Music Bingo!, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION RnB Wednesday Jam Night w/ Ryan RnB Barber & friends, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Gracie Lane (folk, country), 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Indivisible Asheville, 5:30PM "Walking Through WNC 2.0" (photography exhibit), 7:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Invitational Blues & Soul Performance (blues, soul), 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Steve Alford (jazz), 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Jason Whittaker (acoustic), 7:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH J Luke (acoustic), 6:30PM

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THURSDAY, AUGUST 3 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE An evening w/ Sister Ivy, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (live jazz), 9:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Sister Ivy (poetry, jazz, rock), 8:00PM

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BURGER BAR Burger Bar Boogaloo!, All day TRIVIA! w/ Ol'Gilly, 7:00PM

CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Reggae Creekside, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Local Honey (folk), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Matt Walsh (rock, blues), 6:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Local showcase w/ Modern Strangers, Deja Fuze & Story Daniels (rock), 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY East Side Social Ride, 6:00PM Roots & friends open jam (blues, rock, roots), 7:00PM

BYWATER Well Lit Strangers, 6:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ Pat Donohue & Mary Flower, 7:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Fundraiser for Kyle Milligan, 6:00PM

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

ODDITORIUM Hope Sets Sail w/ Tombstone Highway & The Talent (rock, metal), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL "A Day Old Bakers Dozen", 5:00PM Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 6:30PM The Southern Belles (rock), 10:00PM

POUR TAPROOM Sip & Support w/ Girls on the Run of WNC, 5:00PM Tunes at the Taps, 7:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Nikki Talley, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Michael Franti & Spearhead (hip-hop, reggae), 6:00PM Bon Bon Vivant, 10:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jason Moore, 7:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Nitrograss, 7:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Sarah Tucker (singersongwriter), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL ZOSO (Led Zeppelin tribute), 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Chris Jamison Ghost Trio (folk), 6:00PM

SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Vinyl Night, 6:30PM

PACK'S TAVERN Jordon Okrend (acoustic rock), 8:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jay Brown (folk, roots, blues), 8:30PM Service Industry Night w/ DJ Ra, 11:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dennis "Chalwa" Berndt & friends (reggae, roots, folk), 8:00PM

THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Live Band Karaoke & Open Jam w/ Old School, 9:00PM

Free Live Music THU - 8/3 • 6:30PM RED LEG HUSKY FRANKIE BOOTS (AMERICANA)

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WILD WING CAFE Jason Wyatt (acoustic), 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Mike Snodgrass (acoustic), 6:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL Russ Wilson (swing), 8:00PM YACHT CLUB Joel DaSliva (blues, roots), 8:00PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 4 185 KING STREET Daddy Rabbit (blues), 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Fwuit (retro soul), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Jody Carroll, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Dynamo w/ The Big Takeover, 9:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Live Mashup w/ Iggy Radio, 6:00PM DJ Kilby (vinyl set), 10:00PM BURGER BAR Burger Bar Bike Night, All day

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CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Scooter Haywood & The Stump Mutts, 7:00PM CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers (Gypsy jazz, Latin, bossa nova), 8:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock & Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Bon Bon Vivant (gypsy swing), 10:00PM

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

NIGHT EVERY MONDAY 7PM

CASCADES MOUNTAIN INN 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll), 7:30PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Wintervals (indie, folk), 6:00PM

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THE MOTHLIGHT Tam Tsu w/ House and Land & Nathan Olsen (folk, rock, indie), 9:30PM

FRENCH BROAD OUTFITTERS HOMINY CREEK Chris Jamison, 8:00PM

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VADEN LANDERS + ERIC CALDWELL

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Jeff Santiago y Los Gatos Negros, 7-9pm

8/18: Caleb Gilbert + Greg Payne and The Piedmont Boys

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8/19: Culture Featuring Kenyatta Hill: 40th Anniversary Tour w/ Chalwa

Clawhammer Oktoberfest Lager Release Party, 12-10pm

Friday • Aug 18th Radical Departure Northeast IPA Brewery Only Can Release, 12-10pm

HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS The House that Beer Built, 7:00PM

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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Tennessee Stiffs (Americana, blues, country), 7:00PM

Wednesdays: HBC Run Club: 6:15pm extended hours

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ The Bankesters, 7:00PM 5th Annual Jerry Garcia Birthday Celebration w/ JGBCB, 9:00PM

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

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB IO Trio & Alarm Clock Conspiracy (rock, indie, roots), 9:00PM

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LAZY DIAMOND Rotating rpm rock 'n' soul DJ, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Gypsy Jazz Trio of Asheville, 6:30PM

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MAD CO BREW HOUSE Johnny Caucasian & Friends, 6:00PM

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ODDITORIUM Gates of Endor w/ Antenora & Engulfed In Blackness (metal), 9:00PM

w/ house and land, nathan olsen

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w/ the black river rebels, the shrunken heads

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source ensemble w/ art feynman

Yoga at the Mothlight

5-9PM–ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS 6:30-9PM–MUSIC ON THE PATIO (FREE) 7PM–THE CHARLES WALKER BAND

thu 8/3 7PM–PAT DONOHUE AND MARY FLOWER 7-9PM–MUSIC ON THE PATIO (FREE) fri 8/4 6:30-9PM–FRIDAYS ON THE LAWN:

JACK VICTOR , ZACH KARDON, AND FRIENDS 7PM–THE BANKESTERS 9PM–JERRY GARCIA BAND COVER BAND:

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TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Westsound (soul, motown), 10:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Jeff Santiago & Los Gatos (singer-songwriter, folk, indie rock), 7:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Yoga, 10:00AM Daddy Rabbit (blues), 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Peppino D'Agostino (acoustic guitar), 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Rigged (rock, country), 9:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ Tom Paxton, Jon Vezner & Don Henry, 7:00PM Alan Munde & Bill Evans (banjo, Americana, oldtime), 9:00PM

SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO. Sierra Nevada AfterNooner Series, 2:00PM Stop Light Observations (indie), 7:00PM

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

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Soggy Po' Boys (New Orleans jazz), 9:00PM

WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL DJ Captain EZ (hip hop), 8:00PM

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

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REVIEWS & LISTINGS

BY SCOTT DOUGLAS & JUSTIN SOUTHER

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M A X R AT I N G Xpress is shifting some of its movie coverage to online-only as we expand other print sections of the newspaper.

Virtually all upcoming movies will still be reviewed online by Xpress film critics Scott Douglas, Francis X. Friel and Justin Souther, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print. You can find online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include: ATOMIC BLONDE EMOJI MOVIE

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A Ghost Story HHHH DIRECTOR: David Lowrey PLAYERS: Casey Affleck, Rooney Mara, McColm Cephas Jr., Kenneisha Thompson, Grover Coulson, Liz Cardenas Franke, Barlow Jacobs SUPERNATURAL MELODRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A man’s spirit becomes trapped in the home he shared with the woman he loves as he struggles to let go of the life he left behind.

THE LOWDOWN: A deceptively simple film that tackles heavy metaphysics from a singularly odd perspective — definitely not for everyone, but rewarding for those willing to take it on its own terms.

Let’s get this out of the way upfront: A Ghost Story is a weird little movie.

It’s definitely an arthouse endeavor, and its bizarre premise will undoubtedly prove polarizing. But for those willing to roll with its bedsheet-ghost conceit, there’s a deeply moving film at the core of this minimalist exercise in pseudo-surrealism. My qualms with the film are (almost) entirely limited to its pacing, and if you hang with it

long enough for things to pick up in the back stretch, you’ll have completely forgotten about the tempo issues.

Whether or not you appreciate the direction A Ghost Story takes in its last act, I have no doubt that it’s something that will haunt you (pun intended) long after the credits roll.

The story, such as it is, follows a struggling musician (Casey Affleck) co-habiting with his significant other (Rooney Mara) in a run-down suburban house. We never learn their names, or the city they live in, or much about their relationship — and all of that would be superfluous anyway.

What matters is that Affleck’s character dies halfway through the first act, and his restless spirit defiantly clings to Mara’s side until she moves on with her life, both literally and figuratively.

There’s not much plot to spoil from there, but it would do the film a disservice to say more than that the spirit’s refusal to move on as well takes him on a journey that spans broad swaths of time and human experience while rooted firmly in one setting.

So while I can’t give the film an unequivocal recommendation for every reader, those who can get

past its minor shortcomings will be rewarded with a work that is profoundly affecting and utterly unique.

Yes, Affleck winds up under the aforementioned sheet about 15 minutes in and remains there for the majority of the film, and yes, Mara spends five uninterrupted minutes grief-gorging on pie — but a film’s emotional effect is sometimes more than the sum of its parts, and A Ghost Story pulls profundity from the preposterous.

Writer/director David Lowery has made what amounts to a modern silent film — I didn’t time it, but the entirety of the movie’s dialogue probably clocks in at less than five minutes — and the lo-fi approach belies a story that could be accurately described as grandiose in its scope. Lowery is dealing with some weighty philosophical and metaphysical issues, so there’s a wisdom to avoiding the clutter of unnecessary details like names or verbiage. Affleck and Mara carry the film with such graceful understatement that it’s conceivable they could read the phone book and make it compelling (if phone books were still a thing).

A Ghost Story is far from uplifting — the latter half takes a decidedly

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nihilistic turn and doesn’t pull back until the final frames — but it’s a thought-provoking piece of filmmaking that proves definitively that budgetary constraints don’t have to be seen as limitations. It’s certainly not a film that’s going to find mass-market appeal, but its very existence should restore some degree of faith in the capacity for original and challenging material to emerge from contemporary cinema. Who knew 90 minutes of a guy in a sheet with cut-out eyeholes could pull that off? Rated R for brief language and a disturbing image. Now Playing at Carolina Cinemark, Grail Moviehouse.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

Atomic Blonde HHHS DIRECTOR: David Leitch PLAYERS: Charlize Theron, James McAvoy, John Goodman, Til Schweiger, Eddie Marsan, Sofia Boutella, Toby Jones, Bill Skarsgård

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THE STORY: A British intelligence operative navigates a twisted web of danger and deceit in Berlin in the days leading up to the reunification of East and West Germany.

THE LOWDOWN: An overstylized pastiche of spy movie clichés that serves little purpose beyond creating opportunities for Charlize Theron to kill people in new and interesting ways, but a rousing success in that department.

As an exercise in style over substance, Atomic Blonde is a qualified success. If you’re looking for character development or intricate plotting, however, look elsewhere.

Blonde is a fun, if somewhat frivolous action flick with a strong female lead whose gender doesn’t play like a contrived afterthought, so it scores points if only on the basis of its relative originality. There’s no real depth to be found here, and the proceedings are largely rooted in a misguided sense of Cold War-era nostalgia, but if you can get past the vacuousness, there’s a passably entertaining movie underneath all the mindless flash and sparkle.

Director David Leitch has tried to translate the action prowess he displayed at the helm of the John Wick movies to something that purports to be a gender-swapped James Bond film but plays more like cut-rate John le Carré. Blonde flounders when it tries to get into the plot convolutions of its espionage intrigue, but its dynamic action sequences go a long way toward making up for its narrative deficiencies. Its late ’80s aesthetic is occasionally inconsistent, and the predominantly New Wave soundtrack may prove more appealing for some than it did for me — though I suspect anyone would concede that Tarantino made far better use of David Bowie and Giorgio Moroder’s “Cat People (Putting Out Fire)” in Inglourious Basterds.

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Based on the graphic novel series The Coldest City (an infinitely better title than Atomic Blonde), the film follows Charlize Theron’s Lorraine Broughton, an MI6 asset tasked with retrieving a pretty standard MacGuffin in Berlin as the wall is about to come down. What follows amounts to little more than a compendium of spy movie clichés, but who can really complain when Theron kicks so much ass — and looks so good doing it?

If Leitch is more than up to the task of managing intricate fight choreography and stunt-laden set pieces, he’s undermined at practically every turn by screenwriter Kurt Johnstad — who clearly hasn’t learned much since the last time he adapted a graphic novel with Zac Snyder’s 300. But despite the lack of a solid script, it’s not the plot twists but the body count that represents Blonde’s raison d’être — a protracted and brutal second-act fight sequence staged almost entirely in a stairwell is worth the price of admission in and of itself.

The supporting cast is stellar — John Goodman, Toby Jones, Eddie Marsan and James McAvoy are all excellent — but this is Theron’s show, and she’s in top form. It’s by no means a perfect film, but the fact that women are finally being given the opportunity to carry big-budget summer action spectacles like this one is more than enough justification for Blonde’s existence in my book.

Is it high art? Hell no. But if you’re in the market for a fast-paced and well-crafted piece of popcorn moviemaking, you could do far worse than Atomic Blonde. Rated R for sequences of strong violence, language throughout, and some sexuality/nudity. Now Playing at AMC Classic River Hills 10, Carolina Cinemark, Regal Biltmore Grande, Epic of Hendersonville.

REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/ library • TH (8/3), 12:30pm - Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, film screening.

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Detroit

Director Kathryn Bigelow’s crime drama based on the true story of events surrounding the 1967 12th Street Riot in Detroit, starring John Boyega, Will Poulter, Algee Smith, Jason Mitchell, John Krasinski and Anthony Mackie.

Early reviews are positive. (R)

Kidnap

Action thriller starring Halle Berry as a mother who takes matters into her own hands when her young son is kidnapped. No early reviews. (R)

Landline

See Justin Souther’s review

Lady Macbeth

Period melodrama directed by William Oldroyd, starring Florence Pugh and Cosmo Jarvis. According to the studio: “Rural England, 1865. Katherine is stifled by her loveless marriage to a bitter man twice her age, whose family are cold and unforgiving. When she embarks on a passionate affair with a young worker on her husband’s estate, a force is unleashed inside her, so powerful that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants.” Early reviews are positive. (R)

The Dark Tower

Sci-Fi/horror blockbuster directed by Nicholas Arcel. According to the studio: “Stephen King’s The Dark Tower, the ambitious story from one of the world’s most-celebrated authors, makes its long-awaited launch to the big screen, starring Idris Elba as Roland Deschain and Matthew McConaughey as the Man in Black.

Sharing an ancient vendetta, they must fight to the death in this epic battle over the fate of the All-World Universe.” No early reviews. (PG-13)

Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (8/10), 12:30pm - StarTalk, film screening. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

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MACON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin • WE (8/2), 7pm - "A Trip to the Moon and Beyond: The fantastical science fiction silent films of George Méliès," short films with live music by Tyler Kittle and Michael Libramento. Free.

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ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN: Astronauts reach their destination in this still from Georges Méliès’ Le voyage dans la lune. The Macon County Public Library presents the iconic short and other science fiction silent films by the filmmaker.

Image courtesy of Kino Video • The Macon County Public Library presents “A Trip to the Moon and Beyond: The fantastical science fiction silent films of Georges Méliès” on Wednesday, Aug. 2, at 7 p.m., Each short film will be presented with a live soundtrack by local musicians Tyler Kittle and Michael Libramento. Free. fontanalib.org/franklin • The Fine Arts Theatre hosts a screening of An Inconvenient Sequel on Thursday, Aug. 3, to benefit The Collider. The evening begins at 6:15 p.m. at Blue Spiral 1 with refreshments and networking. Collider member Better Than Unicorns will also offer a virtual reality experience, “Melting Ice,” for those who are interested in participating. The film begins next door at the Fine Arts Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Tickets for the reception and film are $25 and available at the Fine Arts box office or online. fineartstheatre.com • The Bair Foundation holds a screening of Good Will Hunting at Grail Moviehouse on Saturday, Aug. 5, at 11 a.m. Representatives of the child and family ministries organization will be in attendance to answer questions about becoming a foster parent. Tickets are free with preregistration, or $7 at the door. Register at 350-5197 or chopple@bair.org • Grail Moviehouse’s monthly Silent Sundays series continues Aug. 6, at 7 p.m., with a collection of Buster Keaton films. The selections are Keaton’s film debut, The Butcher

Boy (1917), starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle; One Week (1920), Keaton’s first film as director and star; and Sherlock, Jr. (1924). Film historian Frank Thompson will introduce the films and participate in a postscreening Q&A. Local stride pianist Andrew J. Fletcher will provide a live, improvised score for each short. Tickets are $12 and available online or at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com • The Orange Peel’s Summer Movie Series continues Monday, Aug. 7, at 8 p.m., with a screening of This Is Spinal Tap. Free. theorangepeel.net • The Weaverville Public Library presents Silent Film Night on Tuesday, Aug. 8, at 7 p.m. Film historian Chip Kaufmann will screen and discuss D.W. Griffith’s The New York Hat (1912), starring Mary Pickford, and the Douglas Fairbanks vehicle, The Black Pirate (1926). Free, with popcorn provided. avl.mx/3yr • The music videos directed by campers at FierceFlix are currently available to view online. Mechanical Eye Microcinema’s summer film camp involved girls and gender minorities ages 8-16 learning about filmmaking over the course of a week. Videos were made for “Eyes Wide Open” by Out of Nowhere; “Stay True” by Organized Chaos; “Dreams Don’t Make Sense” by Snake Eye Fantasy; “Social Norms”

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DIRECTOR: D.W. Griffith PLAYERS: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard DRAMA Rated NR While it’s not as well known or as historically significant as Birth of a Nation (1915), D.W, Griffith’s Broken Blossoms (1919) is one of the director’s most eloquent and aesthetically beautiful films. Griffith had already been stung by accusations of racism surrounding Birth — extremely well founded accusations at that — and moved to the diametrically opposed end of the spectrum with the heavy-handed sermonizing of Intolerance (1916). So by the time he got to Blossoms, he had learned from his mistakes, gotten his long-winded rebuttal out of the way, and returned to the focus on narrative structure that made him so incomparably important to cinema history. That’s not to say that Blossoms is devoid of problems to the modern eye, but it does represent the first on-screen interracial love affair (at least to my knowledge) and makes great strides toward humanizing the filmic representation of immigrants. Yes, Richard Barthelmess is a white guy playing an Asian character that amounts to little more than a collection of stereotypes, and yes, Lillian Gish was way too old for her role (a fact she pointed out to Griffith), but we still have those problems 100 years later. If you view Blossoms on its own terms and as a product of its time, you’ll find a good-hearted film that’s surprisingly progressive for its era, as well as one that’s emotionally evocative and pretty nice to look at in the bargain. The Asheville Film Society will screen Broken Blossoms on Tuesday, August 8, at 7:30 p.m. at The Grail Moviehouse, hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

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DIRECTOR: Howard Hawks PLAYERS: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely, Martha Vickers, Elisha Cook Jr., Charles Waldron, Dorothy Malone FILM NOIR Rated PG One of the best examples of Film Noir — some might argue the definitive expression of the genre — Howard Hawks’ The Big Sleep (1946) has a lot going for it. You’ve got a hard-boiled Raymond Chandler source novel, a screenplay cowritten by Leigh Brackett (The Empire Strikes Back) and William Faulkner, Bogie and Bacall bringing their real-life romantic chemistry back to the screen following their meet-cute on the set of Hawks’ To Have and Have Not (1944) — really, what’s there not to like? In typical Noir fashion, the byzantine plot mechanics are excessively convoluted, though not hopelessly so as some critics and historians have suggested. If you’ve never seen it before, you owe it to yourself to check it out. If you’ve seen it dozens of times (as I have), then you know it’s endlessly re-watchable, so you might as well see it again. The Wedge at the Foundation will present a free screening of The Big Sleep on Monday, August 7 at 7 p.m. at the brewery’s new location at 5 Foundy Street in the River Arts District.

The Hidden Fortress HHHH

DIRECTOR: Akira Kurosawa PLAYERS: Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Kamatari Fujiwara, Misa Uehara, Susumu Fujita, Toshiko Higuchi ACTION ADVENTURE Rated NR The Hidden Fortress (1958) may not be Akira Kurosawa’s best film, but that’s a very high bar. It’s easily one of his most accessible and entertaining works, and was good enough that George Lucas lifted from it heavily when he was writing Star Wars. The film was one of the most financially successful (and critically derided) films of Kurosawa’s early career, with that derision stemming from its westernized style and humorous tone — qualities ill-befitting of a “serious” filmmaker such as Kurosawa, prompting New York Times critic Bosley Crowther to state “...Kurosawa, for all his talent, is as prone to pot-boiling as anyone else.” I’m inclined to agree with old Bosley, but not in the perforative sense in which he’s describing the film. It’s a fun Samurai/ Western that doesn’t live up to Kurosawa’s full potential, but far surpasses the best efforts that most other filmmakers could muster. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present The Hidden Fortress on Friday, August 4, at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 U.S. 70, Swannanoag.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In my astrological opinion, your life in the coming days should draw inspiration from the ancient Roman festival of Saturnalia, a six-day bout of revelry that encouraged everyone to indulge in pleasure, speak freely and give gifts. Your imminent future could (and I believe should) also have resemblances to the yearly Doo Dah Parade in Pasadena, which features a farcical cavalcade of lunatics, like the Shopping Cart Drill Team, The Radioactive Chicken Heads, the Army of Toy Soldiers, and the Men of Leisure Synchronized Nap Team. In other words, Aries, it’s an excellent time to set aside your dignity and put an emphasis on having uninhibited fun; to amuse yourself to the max as you experiment on the frontiers of self-expression; to be the person you would be if you had nothing to lose.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s time to Reinvent the Wheel and Rediscover Fire, Taurus. In my astrological opinion, you’ll be wasting your time unless you return to the root of all your Big Questions. Every important task will mandate you to consult your heart’s primal intelligence. So don’t mess around with trivial pleasures or transitory frustrations that won’t mean anything to you a year from now. Be a mature wild child in service to the core of your creative powers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Writing in The Futurist magazine, Christopher Wolf says that the tradition of eating three hearty meals per day is fading and will eventually disappear. “Grazing” will be the operative term for how we get our fill, similar to the method used by cavemen and cavewomen. The first snack after we awaken, Wolf suggests, might be called “daystart.”

The ensuing four could be dubbed “pulsebreak,” “humpmunch,” “holdmeal” and “evesnack.” In light of your current astrological omens, Gemini, I endorse a comparable approach to everything you do: not a few big doses, but rather frequent smaller doses; not intense cramming but casual browsing; not sprawling heroic epics but a series of amusing short stories.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The RIKEN Institute in Japan experiments with using ion beams to enhance plant growth. In one notable case, they created a new breed of cherry tree that blossoms four times a year and produces triple the amount of flowers. The blooms last longer, too, and the trees thrive under a wider span of temperatures. In the next eleven months, Cancerian, you won’t need to be flooded with ion beams to experience a similar phenomenon. I expect that your power to bloom and flourish will be far stronger than usual.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo actor Robert DeNiro once observed that most people devote more energy to concealing their emotions and longings than to revealing them. Is that true about you? If so, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to hide less of yourself and express more. There’ll be relatively little hell to pay as a result, and you’ll get a boost of vitality. Don’t go overboard, though. I’m not suggesting that you unveil every last one of your feelings and yearnings to everyone — just to those you trust. Most importantly, I hope you will unveil all your feelings and yearnings to yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): It has almost become a tradition: Each year at about this time, you seem to enjoy scaring the hell out of yourself, and often the heaven, too. These self-inflicted shocks have often had a beneficial side effect. They have served as rousing prompts for you to re-imagine the future. They have motivated and mobilized you. So yes, there has been an apparent method in your madness — an upside to the uproar. What should we expect this time, my dear? A field trip to a crack house or a meth lab? Some fun and games in a pit of snakes? An excursion to the land of bad memories? I suggest something less melodramatic.

How about, for example, a frolic with unruly allies in a future paradise that’s still a bit unorganized?

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Before grapes become wine, they have to be cleaned. Then crushed. Then macerated and pressed. The next phase is fermentation, followed by filtering. The aging process, which brings the grapes’ transformation to completion, requires more time then the other steps. At the end, there’s one more stage: putting the wine in bottles. I’d like to compare the grapes’ evolution to the story of your life since your last birthday. You are nearing the end of the aging phase. When that’s finished, I hope you put great care into the bottling. It’s as important as the other steps.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you gearing up to promote yourself and your services? In my astrological opinion, you should be. If so, you could put the following testimonial from me in your résumé or advertisement: “[place your name here] is a poised overseer of nerve-wracking transitions and a canny scout who is skilled at tracking down scarce resources.

He/she can help you acquire the information and enhancements you don’t quite have the power to get by yourself. When conditions are murky or perplexing, this plucky soul is enterprising and inventive.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Your eyes are more powerful than you realize. If you were standing on a mountaintop under a cloudless night sky with no moon, you could see a fire burning 50 miles away.

Your imagination is also capable of feats that might surprise you. It can, for example, provide you with an expansive and objective view of your entire life history. I advise you to seek that boost now. Ask your imagination to give you a prolonged look at the big picture of where you have been and where you are going. I think it’s essential to your discovery of the key to the next chapter of your life story.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Love is your gritty but sacred duty. It’s your prickly prod and your expansive riddle, your curious joy and your demanding teacher.

I’m talking about the whole gamut, Capricorn — from messy personal romantic love to lucid unconditional spiritual love; from asking smartly for what you desire to gratefully giving more than you thought you had.

Can you handle this much sweet, dark mystery? Can you grow your intimacy skills fast enough to keep up with the interesting challenges? I think you can.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): There’s an eclipse of the moon coming up in the sign of Aquarius. Will it bring bad luck or good luck? Ha! That’s a trick question. I threw it in to see if you have been learning anything from my efforts to redeem astrology’s reputation. Although some misinformed people regard my chosen field as a superstitious pseudo-science, I say it’s an imaginative art form that helps us identify and transform our subconscious patterns. So the wise answer to my earlier question is that the imminent lunar eclipse is neither bad luck nor good luck. Rather, it tells you that have more power than usual to: 1. tame and manage the disruptive and destructive aspects of your instinctual nature; 2. make progress in dissolving your old conditioning; 3. become more skilled at mothering yourself.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): August is Good Hard Labor Month for you Pisceans. It’s one of those rare times when a smart version of workaholic behavior might actually make sense. Why? First of all, it could ultimately lead to a pay raise or new perks. Secondly, it may bring to light certain truths about your job that you’ve been unconscious of. Third, it could awaken you to the fact that you haven’t been trying as hard as you could to fulfill one of your long-term dreams; it might expand your capacity to devote yourself passionately to the epic tasks that matter most. For your homework, please meditate on this thought: Summoning your peak effort in the little things will mobilize your peak effort for the Big Thing.

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GENERAL CHURCH SEXTON Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, a dynamic, growing congregation located in Asheville, NC, is currently seeking a part-time, 15 hour a week, Sexton to oversee maintenance and repair work for our facility. Basic qualifications include: knowledge of and experience with general building repairs and maintenance; ability to work independently and be proactive with moderate supervision; performing setup and take down for church events; overseeing building security; offering hospitality & friendliness towards members and visitors using the facility; communicating with staff about daily building needs; ability to work in a team environment. This position requires the Sexton’s presence on Sundays from 7 AM to 1 PM, but allows for some flexibility of hours during remainder of week. Please send letter of interest and resume to smeehan@gcpcusa.org

RENTALS APARTMENTS FOR RENT NEAR HAW CREEK Very nice 3BR, 2BA. Like new, upgrades. $950/month. • Sorry, no dogs. Available September 1. Call 299-7502.

SHORT-TERM RENTALS 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental in beautiful country setting. • Complete with everything including cable and internet. • $150/day (2-day minimum), $650/week, $1500/month.

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WANTED TO RENT SMALL APARTMENT WORK EXCHANGE Professional pianist seeks apartment in exchange for work and cash.

Experienced in yard and landscaping. John: (404) 7406903.

LOVE LIVE MUSIC? Asheville Music Hall & The One Stop are now accepting applications for door staff/venue security. Please send resume with references to info@ ashevillemusichall.com.

TROLLEY TOUR GUIDES If you are a "people person," love Asheville, have a valid Commercial Driver's License (CDL) and clean driving record you could be a great TOUR GUIDE, FULLTIME and seasonal part-time positions available. Training provided. Contact us today! www.GrayLineAsheville.com; Info@GrayLineAsheville.com; 828-251-8687.

TVS IS HIRING! TVS is hiring for multiple positions/shifts!

Open positions include entry level Production, Maintenance Technician, Direct Support Provider, Forklift Operators, and upper level management positions. TVS offers medical and dental benefits,

401k, PTO, and short term disability plans to all full time employees. Please see website at www.tvsinc.org for more details and application process.

SKILLED LABOR/ TRADES CUSTODIAL ASSISTANT ArtSpace Charter School is hiring a part-time Custodial Assistant to work approximately 25 hours per week.

There are no formal education or experience requirements.

• Previous custodial work, reporting to a maintenance supervisor, and relating successfully with contracted custodial support is preferred.

The position is paid ongoing on an hourly basis. • Please submit a cover letter and resume by email to resumes@ artspacecharter.org MANUFACTURER NOW HIRING FOR 2 SHIFTS Quality Musical Systems is a manufacturer of professional loudspeaker systems located in Candler, NC. We are recruiting hard working, motivated, Builders, Packagers, Sanders, and Assemblers. Two Shifts available: Hours are 7AM to 3:30 PM and 5PM to 5AM. QMS pays competitive wages with Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance, Paid Holidays, and Vacations. Requirements: Candidates must be minimum 18 years of age, possess a high school diploma or equivalent GED certificate. Moderate lifting may be required. Training provided in house. Come fill out an application at 204 Dogwood Rd. Candler, NC 28715 Office Hours Mon.-Fri. 9 AM to 3 PM. (828)667-5719.

SCREEN PRINTING ASSISTANT Now hiring. MondayFriday. 9am-4pm. (hours flexible). Please apply in person: 90 Old Shoals Road, Suite 107, Arden NC 28704.

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SALES PROFESSIONAL Mountain Xpress has a salaried entry-level sales position open. Necessary attributes are: gregarious personality, problem solving skills, confident presentation, and the ability to digest and explain complex information. The ideal candidate is organized, well spoken, has good computer skills, can work well within an organization and within in a team environment, can self-monitor and set (and meet) personal goals. The job largely entails account development (including cold calling); and also detailed record keeping, management of client advertising campaigns,

and some collections. If you are a high energy, positive, cooperative person who wants a stable team environment with predictable income and meaningful work, send a resume and cover letter (no walk-ins, please) about why you are a good fit for Mountain Xpress to: xpressjob@ mountainx.com

MEDICAL/ HEALTH CARE UNDER ONE SKY VILLAGE FOUNDATION CAMP NURSE Under One Sky Village Foundation is looking for a camp nurse to add to our part time camp staff - camp dates are August 13-19th and October 27-29. Please respond to john@under1sky. org

HUMAN SERVICES

HOME INSTEAD SENIOR CARE® OF WNC Is seeking compassionate individuals to provide non-medical care to aging adults in our community. Learn more about the rewards of caregiving and what the positions entail here: https://www.homeinstead. com/159/home-care-jobs RESIDENTIAL COACHES Black Mountain Academy is seeking Residential Coaches for all shifts to work at our therapeutic boarding school supporting adolescent males ages 13-17 with Level 1 (highfunctioning) Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or who have social challenges, anxiety, and difficulty in traditional academic settings. • The ideal candidate has experience with this population of students, is student-centered in their approach, and is flexible.

Duties include, but are not limited to, facilitating routines, assisting with meal preparation, some cleaning, service and adventure activities. All candidates must be 21 years old or older. • Please see our website for more information about the school, www. theblackmountainacademy. com • Interested candidates, please email your resume and a cover letter to jobs@theblackmountainacademy.com SEEKING DIRECT CARE MENTOR AT BOYS THERAPEUTIC BOARDING SCHOOL Academy at Trails Carolina seeking active and vigilant persons with a desire to serve struggling teens. See online classifieds for more information.

Inquiries/Applicants should contact bjohnson@ trailsacademy.com www.trailsacademy.com

TEACHING/ EDUCATION

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ANNOUNCEMENTS ECONOMICS INSTRUCTOR A-B Tech is currently taking applications for an Instructor, Economics for the fall semester. For more details and to apply: abtcc.peopleadmin. com/postings/4320 IC IMAGINE CHARTER SCHOOL SEEKING LICENSED SPANISH COLLEGIATE LEADER FOR GRADES 9-12 IC Imagine Charter School is seeking an Upper School Spanish Collegiate Leader for immediate hire. This full time salaried position includes benefits.

Email inquiries and resumes to careers@icimagine.org. http://sites.icimagine.org/ home/careers/

CAREGIVERS/ NANNY CHILDCARE WORKER NEEDED Loving, friendly, childcare worker needed for Sunday mornings and occasional church events in the nursery of Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church located in North Asheville. 1-3 years childcare experience preferred, $12.00 per hour.

Active retirees encouraged to apply! Please send letter of interest and resume to smeehan@gcpcusa.org

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Top quality work • Low prices • Free estimate • Over 30+ years experience. Call Mark: (828) 299-0447.

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Get help! It is time to take your life back! Call Now: 855732-4139. (AAN CAN) NOTICE OF UNCLAIMED PROPERTY The following is a list of unclaimed and confiscated property at the Asheville Police Department: electronic equipment; cameras; clothing; lawn and garden equipment; personal items; tools; weapons (including firearms): jewelry: automotive items; building supplies; bikes and other miscellaneous items. Anyone with a legitimate claim or interest in this property has 30 days from the date of this publication to make a claim. Unclaimed items will be disposed of according to statutory law.

For further information, or to file a claim, contact the Asheville Police Department Property and Evidence Section, 828-232-4576. NOTICE OF DISPOSITION The following is a list of unclaimed and confiscated property at the Asheville Police Department tagged for disposition: audio and video equipment; cameras; clothing; lawn and garden equipment; personal items; tools; weapons (including firearms): jewelry: automotive items; building supplies; bikes and other miscellaneous. All items will be disposed of 30 days from date of posting. Items to be auctioned will be displayed on www.propertyroom.com.

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10 Con artist’s crime 11 Cheery tune 12 Drooling dog of the comics 13 Source of pressure, perhaps 18 Nobelist Pavlov 19 Things having their home on the range?

24 Drop-down item 25 Gucci of fashion 28 State firmly 29 Swing a scythe, say 30 Grade enhancer 31 Cracked a bit 32 Logan of CBS News 33 Got completely correct 34 Mensa members’ assets 35 Curling surface 36 Fig. in a pilot’s DOWN announcement 1 Square 2 Cathedral of Florence 38 “To be, or not to be” soliloquy setting 3 ___ flask (thermos) 39 Coordinate, as audio 4 Kick out and video 5 Heed the coxswain 40 Whole bunch 6 Green light 7 Amtrak posting: Abbr. 45 Household item whose manufacture 8 Proverbial amount of employs 42-Across bricks 46 Mob hit participants 9 Wartime poster 47 “Spare me!,” for one phrase

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44 “Far out!”

45 Target of ID theft: Abbr.

46 Bluto’s was 0.0 in “Animal House” 48 Quip, part 4 54 “American Pie” singer Don 57 Article in Le Monde 58 First name at Woodstock 59 End of the quip 62 Best Picture of 1958 63 Like elbowing through a crowd, say 64 Flashes one’s pearlies 65 Smart-alecky talk 66 George Orwell’s alma mater 67 Test for gold content, say

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48 Games played by Elite Eight winners 49 Get the better of 50 Phoebe of “Gremlins” 51 Polygon measures

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52 Andean source of 56 Endurance, wool informally 53 God-awful 60 Same old same 54 Boardroom old events: Abbr.

61 Org. for Raptors 55 “Pet” that needs and Hawks watering

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1 Suckling site 6 Piedmont wine center 10 Lay an egg, so to speak 14 “Prospero Año ___!”

15 Garbage-hauling boat 16 Hitchhiker’s hope 17 Start of a quip about a whimsical celebrity couple 20 It may run the Sierra OS 21 Winner’s hand gesture 22 Like “it,” grammatically 23 Quip, part 2 26 Treelike creature of Middle-earth 27 River of France and Belgium 28 Dadaist Jean 31 De Botton who wrote “The Architecture of Happiness” 35 Words sealed with a kiss 36 First name in stunt cycling 37 Quip, part 3 41 Greek counterpart of Mars 42 Chemical in Drano 43 Kvetches

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