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There’s no magic bullet for growth issues In her letter to the Mountain Xpress, Anne Craig expresses dissatisfaction with our current local officeholders and calls for new leaders who will “think and act creatively” to solve the problems caused by Asheville’s growth [“Business as Usual Won’t Help Our Community,” Aug. 3]. That sounds great, but I am reminded that when people tell you to “be creative,” they usually mean they want you to do something but have no idea how it can be done. “Get creative” is what your boss says when she knows you don’t have the resources or time to do a job but wants it done anyway. Like Ms. Craig and most Ashevilleans, I’m frustrated that the city has become a more expensive and less pleasant place to live, with more traffic and parking problems, more buildings and pavement and less nature. But there is only so much that city and county officials can do. They can’t stop people from moving here if they want to. They can’t, with some exceptions, keep people who own land from building on it. And what if they could stop or severely slow down construction? That would just reduce the amount of available housing and send prices higher, turning us even more quickly into a city only the affluent can afford to live in. Yes, I’m frustrated by the changes, but I am also tired of hearing people say something like this: “There just has to be a way to keep the city from growing, or to hold down rents with out building apartments anyplace where the neighbors don’t want them. I have no idea how that might be done, but the politicians could do it if they really wanted to; they’re just all beholden to developers.”
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— Bruce AshevilleNemerov AHS Class of ’72 celebrates milestone High school reunions roll by in our lives much like the autumn leaves. We may take notice or we may not, as every year is essentially the same. This year, however, brings a different reunion celebration to Western North Carolina. On Aug. 19-20, the Asheville High School Legacy Class of 1972 will gather to celebrate a cultural milestone for the city and the region. In August 1969, members of this legacy class walked through the school’s doors under the iconic spire as sophomores, the initial starting class in the history of the new, consol idated Asheville High. Our entrance represented the joining of the city’s Black Stephens-Lee High with the overwhelmingly white Lee Edwards High. The new school — located on the stately 1920s-era grounds of Lee Edwards but with an entirely new social reality — was born. Three years later, after trials under fire on race relations, student-body governance and social organization, this class emerged as graduates, leav ing a strong and lasting imprint for its successors in this new education al Ofexperiment.course,one particular day in this journey attracted local, state and national attention. Legitimate griev ances unmet led to chaos, though not student against student. For days, the school was shuttered. Ours was a time of great racial and societal turmoil in the United States. But the legacy class had an advan tage. Many were second graders in Asheville City Schools in 1961-62 when the walls of racial segregation finally began to come down in the spirit of Brown v. Board of Education. Many of our parents played an inte gral role, working with educators and community leaders to foment change and move Asheville forward. As kids, well, we had new schoolmates, team mates and friends. That simple. After the initial turmoil, trust had to be built. Hard work had to be
In fact, there is no master solu tion to the problems of growth, only various actions that may yield some partial successes and will likely create new problems. What can our office holders actually do? They can’t call a halt to growth and development, but they can stop or modify some par ticularly harmful projects. And they can encourage building in areas near downtown and major thoroughfares, so that some of the ideas Ms. Craig suggests (more people walking, biking and taking public transportation) will be viable, and so that less building is done in outlying areas, ruining forests and fields. But of course that will require some people to accept new houses and apartments, with more traffic and competition for parking, in their neighborhoods. In closing, I appeal to fellow Xpress readers: If you have an idea that you believe could have some positive impact, something doable, affordable and permissible under North Carolina law, please share. If you think there is a magic bullet out there that will make the problem go away and you’re wait ing for a “visionary leader” to come up with it … keep thinking!
— MichaelAshevilleBell Advice for reading Branyon A tip for reading Bill Branyon’s letters: Ignore all modifiers — mostly the adjectives, although the adverbs and adverbial phrases are also color fully irrelevant [“The Empire Strikes Back,” Aug. 10, Xpress]. What remains, while not very con vincing, is certainly shorter.
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We’ve reached out to track down everyone we could find both near and far, and classmates from 14 states plan to attend. Any who were some how missed can learn more and join us by contacting ashevillehigh1972@ gmail.com.
Thanks to Chloe Lieberman for her article about making the best of summer squash in the bioregion and for taking up the challenge of voles in the garden [“Gardening with Xpress: Tips for Growing Squash,” June 27 ]. But cats are not the answer, not in the long run, if we are trying to regenerate what we can after the ecological crises we’ve already caused. My chicken wire garden fence was built with the bottoms dug 6 inches down and another 6 inches out into the landscape, which has been pretty effective at keeping voles (and rab bits) from eating my favorite green things. Sometimes a part of a fence has to be repaired (no fun) because voles are tricky and, over time, can find ways in. I started growing let tuce in raised beds or pots on my deck for that reason. However, the idea of cats being the solution for voles in the garden disregards the decimation they cause, not just on local bird populations, but on the many creepers and crawlers, like salamanders and lizards, that are essential benefactors of healthy soil. People love cats; we sure do. But we should basically keep our cats inside. OK, yes, a cat for a barn is kind of a necessity. But one cat per barn is not what roams our streets at night. Cats are personal pets; their insider role in history and mythology goes haywire when they’re turned into backyard stalkers. That’s ter rible. We don’t let dogs do that (the way we used to). Let’s wake up and use our techno logical savvy to build vole-proof gar den enclosures and spare the ones who can’t defend themselves against feline encroachment. There are also colorful collars made for cats that must be outdoors, by the way, which can alert birds of the cat’s presence but, sadly, does nothing to help the beings who can’t leave the ground. I hope people can eventually real ize this problem and reach for more environmentally responsible solu tions than the simple one folks keep falling back on: meow, meow! Doubt
— Tad Boggs Vice president Legacy Class of Raleigh1972 Get on with legalizing medical marijuana [Regarding “Summer Sesh: GA Short Session Yields Both Changes and Inertia for WNC,” July 27, Xpress:] Why is North Carolina so far behind the other states? We should be moving to legalizing marijuana and mushrooms. Let’s get on with it. Also, I’ve been wondering why Asheville is not taking the North Carolina lead on being green: man dating all new construction and incentivizing existing buildings.
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Recently, you wrote about Buncombe’s fire departments [“Fire Alarm: Local Departments Face Critical Volunteer Shortage,” July 20, Xpress]. A former Buncombe County commissioner, a position for which he is running again this fall, Anthony Penland was president of the N.C. State Firefighters’ Association. Locally, Penland served as sec retary and board member of the Western North Carolina Association of Firefighters, which named him Career Fire Chief. He was past pres ident of the Buncombe County Fire ChiefsKnownAssociation.asatough budget watcher, he saved homeowners and business es thousands when his department met extra requirements, resulting in lower insurance rates. With impressive management, legislative and budgetary expertise, he not only has tremendous impact locally, but also at the state level! After serving on legislative and conference committees, Anthony Penland became the first presi dent of the N.C. State Firefighters’ Association from any of the 16 non municipal Buncombe County fire departments in the association’s 131yearThehistory.NCSFA advocates for leg islation that benefits firefight ers, representing all 100 counties, 1,058 fire departments and over 51,000Buncombefirefighters.County deserves responsible leadership. Anthony Penland is running for Buncombe County commissioner this fall and very much has earned and deserves your support. — Janet Burhoe-JonesSwannanoa Don’t use cats as garden patrols
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— Arjuna da Silva Black Mountain We need to transform our way of living “Nothing will work unless you do.” — Maya Angelou Hello. I’m Ed, and I’m human. My life experiences have taught me that I am part of a complex, tragic and mysterious part of the universe. I’ve discovered there is no perfect ideology, no perfect religious life, and that I’m part of a miraculous, yet flawed, human species. What a relief. I’m not alone! I’ve concluded that those who believe in church teachings can learn from social and political activ ists who are stressing justice, peace and compassion for others. Also, social and political activists can learn from many religious leaders in their opposition to the ethical distortions, violence and injustice in our world. They are all around us. We are notMyalone.conservative values support children, families, working people and equality; this requires the liberal values of free speech and compas sionate conversations to heal the Disunited States of America. One example: Do what it takes to increase school funding and health care in the interest of children, families and all Americans. This requires the resistance of ideologies locked into Republican, Democratic, liberal andThisconservative.includes the military-indus trial complex, with its huge budget that takes away from social programs such as health care and education. As I see it, this has been the focus of the local Resist Raytheon group calling attention to the ongoing warring of our country. I call this “sacred activ ism” that counters the justification of creating jobs that support the arms industry. Promotion of the arms race is a reckless way to create jobs when we need more people in the helping professions, including health care and our schools. Once again I’m reminded of the need to transform our way of living.
A few weeks ago, the local Resist Raytheon group distributed infor mation which included “Green jobs = more jobs” at the Jean Webb Park greenway along the French Broad River. A heckler spoke his “absolute truths,” then proceeded to ridicule us in mocking tones and statements. I wonder what kind of schooling he had that rejected a respectful conver sation. (Google Reject Raytheon AVL and Veterans for Peace Chapter 99.)
My hope for significant trans formational change is on younger adults. Focusing on money is import ant, but only as a means to a mean ingful and fulfilling life. Commit yourself to things that matter: your passion, your purpose, abilities and your life situation. Seize the moment. Make now a precious time to inform yourself. It will never come again. You are not alone in this complex, confusing and tragic world. Our future depends on the democratic participation of young and older adults who have the courage and energy to work at transforming our way of life in the Disunited States. I say this because I’m amazed to be in my 26th year of active retirement. Never, never could I have imagined the major changes I experienced and still be around to do my small thing in my small corner of the world. You can, too, if you prepare yourself for theOurfuture.encounter with the world depends on our souls to be fully alive. It is not only a democratic require ment but a sacred duty to ourselves and others. As Maya Angelou said, “My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive … with passion.” resources and comments, con tact esacco189@gmail.com
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Bonds on the ballot $70M for land conservation, affordable housing up to Buncombe voters BY SARA MURPHY FARMS FOR THE FUTURE: If voters approve $30 million in land conservation bonds for Buncombe County, $20 million would be slated for preservation of open space and farmland, such as Full Sun Farm in Big Sandy Mush. Photo courtesy of Better with Bonds Your companion to land-use planning in Buncombe County
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Marc Hunt , co-chair with Billstrom of the Better with Bonds campaign, tells Xpress that the big upfront guarantees of bonds often allow governments to attract larger amounts of outside funding than they could with smaller annual budget investments, as grantmakers have greater assurance that work will actually get completed. He gives the example of the $4.5 million parks and recreation bond approved by Woodfin voters in 2016 to support the town’s greenway and blueway project, which has since leveraged $17.5 million in additional funding. “There is no scenario where the project could be realized under payas-you-go for Woodfin, a town with a total annual budget of about $8 million,” he says. Billstrom notes that some coun ty residents may have doubts about the upcoming bonds due to the last tax-related referendum they were asked to approve. In 2011, 50.8% of Buncombe voters approved a 0.25% sales tax increase meant to fund $130 million in improvements to A-B Tech. However, under then-County Manager Wanda Greene, more than $15 million of those funds were divert ed to the county’s general fund, leav ing the college with a financial short fall. (Greene was later convicted of unrelated federal corruption charges.)
According to a feasibility study conducted by TPL and presented to the county commissioners in April (avl.mx/bht), approving both bond issues would cost the median homeowner about $32 in addition al property taxes per year for 20 years. Assuming a 4% interest rate, Buncombe would pay an estimat ed total of $103 million to borrow theCountymoney.
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It’s a rare opportunity for most people in Western North Carolina to invest $70 million. But on Tuesday, Nov. 8, Buncombe County voters will get that chance as they consider two referendums on issuing general obligation bonds. The first would authorize the county to raise $30 million for spending on farmland and open space conser vation initiatives, as well as green ways. The second would allow local government to raise $40 million for affordable housing projects. The $70 million in bonds — longterm loans repaid through property taxes — are designed to help the county achieve two goals the Board of Commissioners set in March. Its members aim to protect 20% of the county’s land from development and increase affordable housing by up to 3,150 units, both by 2030. A poll of approximately 400 county residents conducted by the nonprofit Trust for Public Land in April found that 71% of voters were likely to vote yes to the conservation bond, with 63% likely to vote yes for the hous ing bond. This support suggests that many Buncombe voters are willing to pay higher taxes to address what they see as major concerns. Recent pub lic input on the Buncombe County Comprehensive Plan identified cost of living and loss of undeveloped land as the county’s top two issues. Jennifer Billstrom, owner of Velo Girl Bikes and co-chair of the Better with Bonds: Buncombe Says Yes campaign, has examined the compre hensive plan input closely. “I realized that there is tremendous support for what these funds can do for the county,” she says. “That ignited my passion about getting involved in the campaign.”
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Commissioner Terri Wells points out that the $32 figure assumes no change in the county’s population and that the full $70 million would be borrowed at once. “That is highly unlikely,” she says, and taxpayers would likely pay less than that estimate. Wells argues that bonds are the best option for the county to sup port long-term goals like housing and land conservation. Although Buncombe could also raise capital directly through higher property taxes, she says, that option can’t raise as much money at one time. Work then gets funded on a “pay-as-yougo” basis in which prices are more subject to economic fluctuations, and projects can be stripped of funding if newly elected government officials want to redirect money elsewhere. (The county currently spends about $2.3 million per year for pay-as-yougo housing projects.)
“The legacy of collusion [and] corruption during Wanda’s tenure is going to haunt us for a while,” Billstrom says. But she says things are different this time around, prais ing the county’s transparency in
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REACHING OUT TO VOTERS Supporters of the Buncombe bonds are optimistic about their chances. Since 2000, according to the TPL fea sibility study, North Carolina voters have approved 38 of 43 land con servation bond referendums, autho rizing over $594 million in borrow ing. In 2016, the same year Woodfin passed its parks and recreation bond, Asheville voters approved $74 million in bonds for transportation, parks and housing. Both local measures passed with at least 71% support. Xpress was unable to find any advocacy group speaking against the bonds. The most prominent public figure to come out in opposition has been Clint Parker, a senior con tributor to the Tribune Papers, who questioned the county’s promises of transparency and objected to public money funding conservation ease ments and private developers. As the election approaches, the Better with Bonds campaign is using its $100,000 budget to increase its outreach efforts. Billstrom says informational mailers will be sent to county residents, and 10 campaign members — including Billstrom — have formed a speakers bureau available to speak about the bonds by“Thererequest.are services that we want; we want to continue to live in a beautiful place; and we want to be able to have places to get out and recreate,” Billstrom says. “It doesn’t come for free.” X
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posting documents about the bond proposal online at avl.mx/bw9. “I have very positive feelings about the way our county commis sioners are running the county at this point in time,” Billstrom adds.
A presentation delivered to com missioners June 7 by Assistant County Manager Sybil Tate laid out some details of how the bonds would be used. On the land conservation front, the county’s Agricultural, Land Conservation and Recreation Advisory boards would oversee projects to protect an additional 6,036 acres of farmland and open space. The Recreation Advisory Board would also work with the N.C. Department of Transportation and the French Broad River Metropolitan Planning Organization to advance greenway projects, with the Woodfin and Enka Heritage greenways identi fied as priorities. The commissioners’ three-mem ber Affordable Housing Committee — currently consisting of Amanda Edwards , Parker Sloan and board Chair Brownie Newman — would be the main body reviewing pro posals for affordable housing. That committee would pass along fund ing requests to the full board for review and approval. The afford able housing goals agreed to in March aim for 1,500 to 1,800 rental units affordable to residents mak ing an average of 60% of the area median income, 400 for-purchase units affordable at 80% AMI, 400 for-purchase units affordable at 80%-120% AMI and repairs for 500 existing affordable units. Each bond would also have a ded icated project manager reporting regularly to the board of commis sioners. Yearly independent audits would be conducted to examine the spending of bond proceeds. And as of press time, the Board of Commissioners was slated to vote Tuesday, Aug. 16, on creating a com munity oversight committee for use of the Bothmoney.Wells and Billstrom say the two bond areas are highly comple mentary. Billstrom suggests that res idents in denser developments could use greenways to commute to work and access essential services like schools, medical clinics and grocery stores, potentially eliminating their need for a car. “Over the past three years, I con sistently hear from folks about both of these issues,” Wells says. “We need to balance the growth that is occurring with the need for conserv ing our natural resources.”
The study also noted that fami lies living below the federal pover ty level may access child subsidy vouchers if certain criteria are met. In the central region, 2,247 children were receiving such subsidies as of February.
KIDS, PARENTS AND POVERTY As of February, researchers found that roughly 49,800 children younger than 6 lived in WNC, with 54% in the central region. Among those children, 59% lived with two working parents or a sole parent who works; more than half of such children lived in the central region. Approximately 16,000 WNC children — or nearly half of children younger than 6 living with working parents — are younger than 3. Among all children under six, the study estimates that 22% live in fam ilies with poverty or low incomes. (Dogwood based its assessment of low income on guidelines from the National Center for Children in Poverty, which calculates that a family of four would need to make nearly twice the federal pover ty level of $27,479 to meet all its basic needs.)
There were 2,782 people employed in early childhood education in the area covered by Dogwood as of February. Teaching staff at child care centers comprise the majority of those Basedworkers.on2019 data about WNC’s central region, the majority of cen ter directors and teaching staff are white women with a median age in their 40s. The majority of family child care providers, however, are women who identify as people of color with a median age of 56. Among center directors in the central region, 91% hold an asso ciate degree or higher, while 63% and 55% of teaching staff and family child care providers, respectively, have the same credentials.
FACTS AND FIGURES: Frédérique Yova, left, Child Care Services Association researcher, and Amy Duffy, right, who manages the nonprofit’s T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood N.C. Scholarship Program, presented highlights of the Dog wood Health Trust early childhood education report at a webinar Aug. 2. Pho tos courtesy of Dogwood Health Trust
SIGNIFICANT COSTS Child care costs represent a con siderable burden to families, the study found. “In February 2022, the market rates for 5-star centers across all Dogwood counties was more than $800 per month for chil dren under three and about $700 per month for children three to five,” the authors write. “This would rep resent an annual budget of $8,400 to $9,600 for one child, or half of the budget of a single parent living with one child at the poverty threshold.”
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OPPORTUNITIES More than half of the 400 child care centers in WNC are located in the central region, with 88 centers enrolling children younger than 3 and 152 enrolling children ages 3-5. (The central region also has the highest number of home-based programs, known as family child care, with 28 total options.) Based on 2019 data, programs in the cen tral region were about evenly split between nonprofit, for-profit and public (such as Head Start) child careThecenters.central region also had the highest number of four- and fivestar programs — 25% and 51% of the region’s programs, respectively — in WNC. Ratings of early childhood education centers are granted by the state Division of Child Development and Early Education.
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The Asheville-based nonprofit Dogwood Health Trust released a report it funded about early child hood education in Western North Carolina July 21. The 66-page report depicts the landscape for working parents of children younger than 6 in WNC, early childhood education options and the education level and compensation of early childhood educationDogwoodproviders.commissioned
the Child Care Services Association, a state wide nonprofit that advocates for affordable, accessible, high-quali ty early education, to create the report. According to DHT spokes person Erica Allison, the document represents the first early childhood education study focused exclusively onTheWNC.report focuses on early child hood education in the region as of February 2022. Its data comes from two previous CCSA efforts, a 2019 workforce study and a 202122 study of care for infants and toddlers based on North Carolina census data. Frédérique Yova , CCSA researcher, and Amy Duffy, who manages the nonprofit’s T.E.A.C.H. Early Childhood North Carolina Scholarship Program and also worked on the study, presented highlights of the report at an infor mational webinar Aug. 2. The study covered the 18 WNC counties served by Dogwood, sub dividing them into three sections — west, central and east — for pur poses of data presentation. Madison, Haywood, Buncombe, Henderson and Transylvania counties comprise the central region. (The Qualla Boundary was not included in the study, as the area did not have any licensed early childhood educa tion programs.)
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UNDERINSUREDUNDERPAID, Pay disparity is stark among early childhood education employees in the central region, the Dogwood study found. Directors earn an average of $20.26 per hour, while the teaching staff earns an average of $12 per hour. Among family child care providers, the average pay wasThe$8. 2022 living wage rate in Buncombe County is $17.70 per hour, according to Just Economics, an Asheville nonprofit that calcu lates the true cost of living. Regarding benefits, 57% of centers in the central region offered fully or partially paid health insurance, 80% offered paid time off for sick leave, 41% offered disability insur ance, and 53% offered retirement benefits. Of teaching staff in the central region, 23% had no health insurance, and 40% had used public assistance such as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program in the past three years. Duffy from CCSA spoke of the need for such teachers to be “well-educated and well-compensat ed” and said supporting higher edu cation for this workforce is essential. The nonprofit’s T.E.A.C.H. program supports debt-free higher education among the early childhood educa tion workforce through the distribu tion of scholarships and is available to people who either live or work in WNC. The full report and webinar are available at avl.mx/bwq. X
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When Tom McDonnell moved from Cleveland to the Asheville area in 2020, among the reasons he and his wife, Linda, chose to live in Fairview was its proximity to the Asheville Regional Airport. As vice president of member relations at Associated Electric & Gas Insurance Services, Tom regularly flies across the eastern half of the U.S. But with airline delays and can cellations increasing throughout the country, he’s changed his approach.
Kinsey also points out that every airport manages a different combi nation of airlines and routes. Some airports have a high number of flights on “legacy” carriers, such as American, Delta and United, with a large business travel mix or inter national routes flying to major hubs. Others, like AVL, have a different combination of air service and focus more on leisure routes. At Asheville’s airport, she continues, roughly 60% of the service provided comes from “ultralow-cost carriers” such as Allegiant and Sun Country that offer point-to-point leisure routes. “The mix of routes offered and frequency of service to those routes is also important,” Kinsey says. “Some areas of the country are more prone to weather delays than others — delays often occur because of weather in origin or destination cities, or in route to those cities. Also, as we all know, weather in Western North Carolina can pose issues at times.” X
90%60%70%80%Average percentage on-time operations May 2021 – May 2022 April 2022Jan.CTL2022GSPAVL July 2021 Oct. 2021 The waiting game Asheville Regional Airport feels nationwide delay, cancellation trends NEWS earnaudin@mountainx.com BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN X Awards 2022 Sept. 8 at Highland Brewing comingDetailssoon! Party
FLYING LOW: Asheville Regional Airport has consistently lagged behind its regional peers in on-time performance over the latest year for which informa tion is available. Graphic by Scott Southwick
“If you fly American [Airlines] and have to connect in [the Charlotte Douglas International Airport], it’s almost the exact amount of time to drive there than to connect when you factor everything in,” McDonnell says. “Twice in July on my way home, I was delayed getting into CLT and would have missed my connection into AVL. As a former risk manager, I’m just taking one risk variable out of theSuchequation.”arethe decisions facing air line passengers as the industry strug gles to recover from the crippling effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Subsequent staffing issues have led to ongoing flight delays and can cellations, even as pandemic-related travel restrictions have lifted. According to data from flight tracking firm FlightAware, 121,918 flights involving U.S. airports were canceled from January-June 2022 — more than the total for all of 2021 and roughly 2.8% of total flights for the period. Over that same stretch, more than 890,000 flights were delayed, representing 20.2% of the total; the first half of 2021 saw about 456,000 delays, or 13.1% of the total. How has the Asheville Regional Airport held up through theseAVLchallenges?spokesperson Tina Kinsey notes that the airport tracks cancella tions through self-reported data from its airlines each month. The most recent stats show a 94.7% flight com pletion rate for 889 scheduled flights in May, down from 99.9% of 891 flights in May 2021. (In May 2020, at the height of the pandemic, only 50.3% of 447 scheduled flights were completed. But citing various factors, Kinsey calls 2020 “an anomaly year” and “not a good comparison to other years.”) “Staffing shortages continue to be very real across the industry, so it can take a little longer for ticketing, check-in, security screening, ground handling of aircraft and baggage retrieval,” Kinsey says. “We encour age patience and kindness as the aviation industry continues to work toward full team support again. But as you can see from our numbers, most flights are operating as sched uled at ComparedAVL.”with regional peers, AVL appears to be doing worse in terms of cancellations. At the GreenvilleSpartanburg International Airport, 99.5% of 1,303 scheduled May flights were completed, down only slightly from the 99.9% of 1,219 flights in May 2021. And at CLT, 98.7% of 19,212 scheduled May flights were completed, also down from the 99.7% of 21,487 flights in May 2021. AVL does not track delays, but the U.S. Department of Transportation’s monthly Air Travel Consumer Reports include percentages of on-time arrivals and departures for each of the country’s airports. Xpress compiled stats for AVL from May 2021-May 2022 and compared them with figures for GSP and CLT. Over that period, Asheville’s air port has consistently lagged behind its regional peers in on-time perfor mance. In May, for example, about 73.6% of AVL flights arrived or left on time, compared with 80.5% of GSP operations and 77.5% of CLT flights. In response to those numbers, Kinsey says that because AVL doesn’t record specific reasons for delays or any other information relating to them, it’s difficult to discuss com parisons with other airports. AVL keeps the airport open for airlines to operate their flights, she continues, and the condition of airport opera tions does not typically contribute to “Wedelays.do receive feedback about delays, but the amount of this feed back is small,” Kinsey says. “I think what is telling is that the customer uti lization at AVL is at historic highs. We have exceeded previous historic high numbers of passengers every month this year except January, so a growing number of passengers continue to seek service to and from AVL.”
The final presentation came from Brandon Nudd, CEO of AdventHealth Hendersonville. He claimed the region wants a not-for-profit hospital such as AdventHealth rather than one managed by for-profit HCA. “We are not strained by the demands of shareholders,” Budd said. Turning to the audience, he empha sized, “You are my stakeholders.”
Budd noted that AdventHealth has intentionally proposed a new building site in Enka-Candler so as to bring the needed acute care beds to a part of WNC beyond the already well-served Asheville core. Public support during the comment period seemed to be evenly divided between AdventHealth and HCA. But HCA also garnered the most com ments in opposition. Those opposed to Novant Health’s application were primarily Biltmore Park neighbor hood residents wary of the noise and traffic a nearby hospital might bring.
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CROWDED HOUSE: Dr. Pamela Oliver, executive vice president of Novant Health, presented her hospital system’s certificate of need application at A-B Tech on Aug. 12.
Three hospital systems — AdventHealth, HCA Healthcare/ Mission Health and Novant Health — are jousting for the opportunity to build a facility in Western North Carolina. During an Aug. 12 public hearing at A-B Tech, members of the public got to voice their opinions on who should provide the area’s newest hospitalBuncombe,beds.
Dr. Pamela Oliver, executive vice president of nonprofit Novant Health, proposed a new building with 67 beds in South Asheville. She touted the system’s commitment to the health care providers under its employment. “We believe alignment with provid ers is essential,” she said. “Recruiting and retaining registered nurses … is a top priority for us,” alluding to recent rallies at Mission by the National Nurses United union.
Among AdventHealth’s backers was Jerry Vehaun, mayor of Woodfin and a former Buncombe County Emergency Services director. He shared how years ago, he and his wife both suffered falls and got care at Mission Health. “Because of the service I got [at Mission], we went to Advent,” he said. Vehaun touted its care and praised the hospital’s cleanliness compared with that of Mission, declaring “you could literally eat off the floor at Advent.” Micheal Woods, executive director of Western Carolina Rescue Ministries, also supports AdventHealth’s applica tion. He said the company was the only applicant to approach him asking how health care could be improved for his ministry’s homeless clients. “Just the fact they would come and ask was huge to us, to know we’re not the forgotten neighbor,” Woods said. Meanwhile, Dr. Clay Ballantine voiced his support for Novant Health, praising its collaborations with local medical communities. “We don’t need another outside entity putting a cor porate footprint here,” he said. Ballantine shared that he started a hospital group at Mission Hospital but he eventually went into private practice, citing an “at-times abysmal decline in quality and access to medi calSpeakingcare.” in favor of HCA was Samantha Kappalman, who opposed Novant Health’s application in her Biltmore Park neighborhood. “We cannot handle our current traffic patterns, much less an increase,” she said. Kappalman shared that she had multiple surgeries at Mission Hospital and praised the care she received. (Kappalman was previous ly employed by Mission Health in a communications role from 2016-18, according to LinkedIn.) Also backing HCA was Larry Harris, the mayor of Black Mountain and chair of Mission Hospital’s board of trustees. Clarifying that he is not employed by Mission, he spoke in support of the system’s medical staff.
Public weighs in on hospital applicants
AdventHealth, HCA Healthcare/ Mission Health and Novant Health each filed certificate of need applica tions June 15 explaining their plans. At the Aug. 12 hearing, hosted by the NCDHSR Healthcare Planning division, each applicant had 15 min utes to make its case. Members of the public then got three minutes apiece to share their opinions. (Employees of and consultants for the applicants were not permitted to speak on their behalf during public comment.)
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Greg Lowe, president of the North Carolina division of HCA Healthcare — Mission’s Nashville-based parent com pany — vowed that his company would provide “the greatest scope of services.” He said the region needs “high-acuity beds,” meant to treat patients who need a higher level of observation, and said HCA was best positioned to do so by building on its current assets.
Graham, Madison and Yancey counties will together have a projected need of 67 additional acute care beds by 2024, according to a plan published by the N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Division of Health Service Regulation. In North Carolina, as in 34 other states, health systems must obtain a “certificate of need” from the government before building beds to meet that demand.
Chad Patrick, CEO of Mission Hospital, added that HCA’s project wouldn’t require building a new hos pital from the ground up because it would expand existing Mission facili ties. For this reason, he said, HCA also wouldn’t occupy additional Buncombe County real estate. And Dr. Ansley Miller, chief of med ical staff at Mission Hospital, warned about “misinformation” in the media regarding allegations of Mission’s diminished services. “The public doesn’t have to rely on negative sound bites,” she said. “All Mission team members are personally hurt when a caregiver’s expectations are not met.”
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Dockery also noted some improve ments for bus transportation, such as new GPS capabilities that track the location of each bus in real time, onboard safety cameras and a dis patch system that allows drivers and central office staff to commu nicate directly. Rolling out soon is the Here Comes the Bus app, which will tell caregivers “the location of your child’s school bus on a smart phone, tablet or personal computer,” according to the company’s website.
The only out-of-district students being accepted are fourth and fifth graders due to staffing constraints, she said. And first grade enrollments are “through the roof” after many parents delayed their young children’s start in school due to COVID-19, added Jim Causby, interim superintendent. Total enrollment as of Aug. 1 stood at 4,173 students, close to the previous school year’s enrollment, Presha said.
READY TO ROLL? Only 18 of 29 Asheville City Schools bus routes are currently staffed, meaning some of the system’s youngest students may need to board the bus as early as 6:45 a.m. Photo courtesy of ACS
Bus drivers, custodians in short supply at Asheville schools
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AUG. 17-23, 2022 MOUNTAINX.COM14 In a historically tight labor market — and amid continuing resignations of system staff — Asheville City Schools still needs to fill about 50 positions for the school year that starts Monday, Aug. 29. The most acute shortages, administrators say, are among bus drivers and custodians. With only 18 of 29 ACS bus routes staffed to roll, some of the system’s youngest students may need to board the bus as early as 6:45 a.m. Those children could arrive at school up to an hour before classes begin, giving their drivers time to complete another route. (During that time, breakfast will be available for the early birds, along with other supportive services and supervision, according to the district.) Drivers could find themselves fer rying two or three loads of students every morning and afternoon. And parents could discover that requests for transportation to after-school care can’t be accommodated, at least in the early weeks of the new school year. “We are behind in our student assignments,” April Dockery, the district’s operations executive, told the Asheville City Board of Education on Aug. 1. She cited an ongoing exodus of bus drivers and difficulty attracting licensed replacements. “We want our families and our staff to know it’s going to be a rough start,” she continued. “We will have some gaps.”
Prior to July 1, Asheville City Schools bus drivers received their paychecks through Buncombe County Schools’ payroll department. The city district now runs its own transportation department and directly pays its staff. Amanda Rigsby, the ACS trans portation operations coordinator, told the school board that change contributed to the current driver staffing crisis. “To have made that decision during a national bus driver shortage — we probably should have put it off,” she added. Board Chair James Carter expressed hope that parents would be understanding and “very gra cious” as the system works through the transition’s challenges. Buncombe’s school bus driver crunch is less severe than the city’s. According to Jeremy Stowe, the county schools’ transportation direc tor, 18 of that district’s 250 routes lacked a driver as of Aug. 9. Both sys tems have raised driver pay to sim ilar levels and instituted programs that allow candidates to earn while going through the licensing process, which can take up to two months. Asheville City Schools is offering a $1,500 retention bonus to drivers, with half of the amount paid after the first month of employment and half paid after the sixth month of employ ment. The county schools do not offer such a bonus, according to Stowe. Like bus drivers, school custodians are hard to find these days. The Asheville school board decided Aug. 8 to use contract custodial work ers at Asheville High School and redeploy three AHS custodians to fill vacancies at district elementary schools. Even with the contractor’s reinforcements, 5 1/2 custodial posi tions remain unstaffed. Mark Dickerson, who leads the district’s human resources depart ment, told Xpress Aug. 8 he wasn’t able to provide an exact number of vacancies for teachers and other instructional staff. That’s because current staff members continue to resign even as the district adds new teachers, he explained. Some new hires in the pipeline decide not to come to Asheville after receiving offers from other districts and states. The city’s cost of living, along with North Carolina’s compar atively low teacher salaries, contrib ute to the challenge, Dickerson said. “I can’t stress enough that we are really in need of teachers,” Tanya Presha, student services coordinator for ACS, told the school board in an Aug. 1 enrollment update. “We have the students; we need the teachers so it doesn’t affect our class sizes.”
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Each blood donor will receive a $20 Archetype gift card. In partnership with The Connection.Blood MO (8/22), 3pm, Archetype Brewing, 265 Haywood Rd Pub Run Rain or shine, all ages and experience levels welcome. WE (8/17, 24), 6:15pm, Archetype Brewing, 265 Haywood Rd ART We Will Not be Silenced: Standing for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women A series of photographs and sculptures that bring voice to the inter national Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women (MMIW) move ment through the lens of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Com anche Nation, Lumbee, and other Native American artists. Open 10am Tuesday through WCUFriday.Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Dr, Cullowhee
TH (8/18), 10am, Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St Pop Up Art Show Local artists, every Thursday. TH (8/18, 25), 7pm, Alley Cat Social Club, 797 Haywood Rd A Walk in the Woods Five guest artists approach the Carolina woodlands through their perspectives,personal revealing Appalachia through a fresh lens, inspired by fall. Open daily 10am, through Oct. 30. Marquee Asheville, 36 Foundy St, Asheville What Strange Water, What Strange Air The inaugural opening show, throughMonday.11amGallerybypaintingsfeaturinganddrawingsthreequeerartists.open10am,Sunday,closedExhibitionSept.25. FR (8/19), 5pm, Tyger Tyger Gallery, 191 Lyman St, Ste 144 Community Access Art Night: Graffiti Join friends and neighbors for a free, laid-back focus on creativity. Materials and instruction provided. FR (8/19), 6pm, Montford Community Center, 34 Pearson Dr Elephants Trampeding Trackside An exhibit depicting elephants and other creatures of the Seren geti region of Africa. Open 10am daily, through Aug. 30. Trackside Studios, 375 Depot St
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American Perspectives: Stories from the Amer ican Folk Art Museum Collection Over 80 works of folk and self-taught art, including 2Ashevilleclosedsculpture.pottery,needlework,assemblages,paintings,quiltsandOpen11am,Tuesday.ArtMuseum,SPackSquare We Built This: Profiles of Black Architects and Builders in NC From Oct.andam,inlegacyabouteducationalofthisNorthPreservationCarolina,exhibitispartamulti-facetedprogramthehistoryandofBlackbuildersourstate.Open10closedSundayMonday-through10.
AUG. 17-23, 2022 MOUNTAINX.COM16 WELLNESS 5Rhythms Sweat Your Prayers Hosted by certified 5Rhythms instructors. Sliding scale. WE (8/17, 24), 5:15pm, $12-22, Homewood, 19 Zillicoa St Taiji to Awaken the Flow of Qi With Andrew NugentHead. required.Registration WE (8/17, 24), 5:45pm, $20, Asia House, 119 Coxe Ave Men's Cancer Support Group Safely meet in a large conference room and stay socially distant while wearing masks. RSVP to Will at (412)913-0272 acwein123@gmail.com.or WE (8/17), 6pm, Free, Woodfin YMCA, 40 N Merrimon Ave, Ste 101 Montford Tai Chi Hosted by local acupunc turist Tyler White. All ages, every Thursday. TH (8/18, 25), 9am, Free, Montford Recreation Center, 34 Pearson Dr Tai Chi for Seniors: Balance, Mobility & Joint Health Taught by Karen Brinkman. Registration required. TH (8/18, 25), 1pm, Asia House, 119 Coxe Ave Waves on the Edge Hosted by Karen, weekly. First time dancers, $10. SA (8/20), 9:30am, Haw Creek Commons, 315 Old Haw Creek Rd Bold Souls Morning Yoga A local trainer and yoga instructor helps get your Saturday "ohm" on. Donation suggested. SA (8/20), 9:45am, Bold Rock Mills River, 72 School House Rd, Mills River Goat Yoga A typical class - with Nigerian goats. SA (8/20), 11am, $35, Whistle Hop Brewing Co., 1288 Charlotte Hwy, Fairview Tiny Tots Yoga Led by Brandon Hudson, trained yoga instructor. Parents or caregivers must be in attendance during the entire event, which is intended for age 18 months through two years. Outdoors in Grovemont Park - bring mats. SA (8/20), Swannanoa11am,Library, 101 West Charleston St, Swannanoa Yoga in the Park An all-level friendly yoga class based on Hatha and Vinyasa traditions, on the banks of the French Broad River. SA (8/20) ,SU (8/21), 11am, $10, Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Rd Sound SaturdaysHealing Practitioners will play the gongs, crystal singing bowls and the harmonium. SA (8/20), 5pm, $22, Inner Wolf Retreat Space, 2854 Puncheon Fork Rd, Mars Hill Monday Run Club All ages and levels wel come, including walkers. In partnership with Mountain Running Co. MO (8/22), 6pm, Cataw ba Brewing Biltmore, 63 Brook St Monday MeditationMorningGroup
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GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER: Flat Rock Playhouse brings the iconic film to the stage on Friday, Aug. 19, at 8 p.m.
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Silent meditation to set the mood for the week. Registration required. MO (8/22), 8:15am, $5, Asia House, 119 Coxe Ave Qi Gong 101: Begin ner's Course Access and flow your Qi for optimum health with Allen RegistrationHorowitz.required. MO (8/22), 9:30am, $10, Asia House, 119 Coxe Ave Community Blood Drive
This exhibit shows how early settlers made their way into the Appala chian Mountains and made them their home, dispelling the myth of an uncultured people and reveal lives rich with customs and traditions, including St,Museum,TransylvaniaSaturday,Openandmedicines,herbalhandicrafts,bluegrassmusic.Thursdaythrough12pm.Heritage189WMainBrevard Artist Reception: Tim Tate Meet the artist, whose contemporary works largely employ cast glass and polyvitro to form narratives and provide social commen tary on a wide range of current topics. TH (8/25), Momentum5pm,Gallery, 24 N Lexington Ave MUSICCOMMUNITY Broadway Swings Wendy Jones will team up with the DeCristofaroJasonTrio to per form memorable songs from the The Great American Songbook - a canon of the most influ ential American popular songs that began in the early 20th century. SA (8/20), 3pm, $30, Hendersonville Theatre, 229 S Washington St, Hendersonville Country Soul Events: Bryan White The GRAMMY winner, with Nashville recording artist &specialAndreasinger-songwriterPearsonandguestRonnieCallWaterzEdgeBand. SA (8/20), 7pm, $25, Folkmoot Center, 112 Virginia Ave, Waynesville Béla Fleck’s Blue Ridge Banjo Concert Curated and hosted by 15-time GRAMMY winner Béla Fleck, the culmination of what many consider to be the world’s premier banjo camp. SA (8/20), 7:30pm, $24, Brevard Music Center, 349 Andante Ln, Brevard Live Jazz Hour Host and composer Michael Jefry Steven will be joined by musician friends for a live perfor mance in the community room. TH (8/25), Candler1404Enka-Candler6pm,Library,SandhillRd, LITERARY Story Time with Wallace West, author and illustrator of Mighty Red Riding Hood Miss required.Storytime,Malaprop'sregistrationVisitavl.mx/bx0 TH (8/18), 10am Preschool Storytime For children ages three to five. TH (8/18), Swannanoa101Swannanoa10:30am,Library,WCharlestonSt, The MOTH presents the Asheville StoryS LAM: Happy Bring your happy memories to present at this monthly slam. TH (8/18), 7:30pm, The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave Dan Chapman presents A Road Running South ward in conversation with Georgann Eubanks Registration required. SU (8/21), 5pm, Mal aprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St Bart Ehrman - Heaven and Hell: A History Reading, discussion and book signing. Present ed by Blue Ridge Books and Folkmoot. TU (8/23), 5:30pm, Queen Auditorium, 112 Virginia Ave, Waynesville Robyn Ryle presents She/He/They/Me: An Interactive Guide to the Gender Binary Registration required. Visit avl.mx/bwz TU (8/23), 6pm Storytelling Perfor mance by Becky Stone and Catherine Yael Serota Part of the umtheProjectPerspectivesAmericanStorytellingsponsoredbyAshevilleArtMuseandArtBridges.
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An immersive envi ronment of projected imagery, movement and sound, with smoke filling the air swirlingthree-dimensional,creatingimageswhile a dancer alters imagery with the use of objects. SA (8/20), 8:30pm, Center for Connection + Collaboration, 65 Coleman Ave Amanda Clark: Regen eration II The artist finds taboo topics such as the human reproductive system and mental illness as inspiration for her works. Hosted by Cindy Walton Fine Art. Open 10am daily, noon on Sunday. Pink Dog Creative, 348 Depot St On the Walls: Featured Artist Alexandra Bloch “Contemplative glimpses of a simple scene rather than a wide view of a jumbled world.” Open 10am, closed Monday. Exhibit through Sept. 11. Eclipse Salon, 16 Wall St Cherishing Mountain Moments Featuring paintings by Robin Wethe Altman during the month of August. Open daily Asheville11am. Gallery of Art, 82 Patton Ave Bullington Gardens Fairy Trail Three hundred yards of tiny doors that can be gently opened and closed to reveal fairy life scenes. Open daily 9 am, closed Sunday. Bullington Gardens, 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville Mountain Legacies
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The class will explain how Medicare works, the enrollment process, how to avoid penalties and ways to save money. To register, visit coabc.org or call the Council on Aging at (828)277-8288. WE (8/17), 2:30pm, East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Rd Being in the flow: What I have learned from rivers Presenter Dr Richard Kark has canoed more than 500 rivers in 50 states, including more than 60 in NC. Presented by Asheville Wisdom Exchange. Visit avl.mx/prwq WE (8/17), 7pm Hominy Creek Comfort Makers: Knit, Crochet or Sew Makers Group The group will be working on projects that provide comfort items to makers@gmail.com.hominycreekcomfort(828)250-4758struggling.anyoneQuestions:or TH (8/18), Candler1404Enka-Candler10:30am,Library,SandhillRd, Fur, Feathers, and Scales with the WNC Nature Center
TU (8/23), Candler1404Enka-Candler6pm,Library,SandhillRd, Punch Bucket Lit: A West ReadingAshevilleSeries
Join Buncombe County Special Collections and the Asheville City Schools Foundation for screenings of football game review films from the 1960s, ‘70s, and ‘80s. TH (8/18), 6pm, Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St Flashback Film Series: Xanadu Outdoor screening with a DJ set by Jaze Jries, and performances by Drag Queen Gany mede. To benefit the Cat Fly Film Festival. TH (8/18), 7pm, The Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundy St Cultural Exploration: A Celebration Through Story Join four Western North Carolinians - a paratrooper, an actor, a potter and a counselor - as they delve into individual Living.CreativeWeavervillePresentedhistoricpowerexperiencesAmericanusingtheofpersonal,andfolkstories.bytheCenterforandHealthy FR (8/19), 7pm, Lake Louise Center,CommunityWeaverville The Three Musketeers From the classic novel, penned in 1844 by Alexandre Dumas. This script was commis sioned by The Barter Theater a few years ago, and will be making its WNC debut with this production, directed by Rodney Smith. FR (8/19), 7:30pm, Hazel Robinson Amphi theatre, 92 Gay St Guess Who's Coming to Dinner It’s the 1960s and a progressive white cou ple's liberal sensibilities are put to the test when their daughter brings her black fiancé home to meet them in this fresh and relevant stage adaptation of the iconic film. FR (8/19), SA (8/20) 8pm; SA (8/20), SU (8/21), WE (8/24), TH (8/25) 2pm; WE (8/24), TH (8/25), Flat7:30pmRock Playhouse, 2661 Hwy 225, Flat Rock Family MorningSaturdayMovie: Coco Bring a chair or arrive early for seating. Food truck and bar available. SA (8/20), 11:30am, Rabbit Rabbit, 75 Coxe Ave The Book of Will The story of how the lone survivors of plays.togetheractingShakespeare'scompanyworkedtosavethe FR (8/19), SA (8/20), 7:30pm, SU (8/21), 2 pm, Hart Theatre, 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville Sunday Sinema Free popcorn but no burgers at this 21+ local's dive bar. Film will be announced at the event. SU (8/21), 9pm, The Burger Bar, 1 Craven St The Karate Kid The classic 80s flick. MO (8/22), 7pm, The Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave Summer Movie Series - Hitchcock in the 50s: Vertigo Movie blogger James Rosario will introduce the film and lead a discussion after the showing. TH (8/25), 5:30pm, Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Rd, Fairview CLASSES MEETINGS& Introduction to Medi care - Understanding the Puzzle
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With reading from Bruce Spang, poet and former Poet Laureate of Portland, ME and essayist and poet Brit Washburn. TU (8/23), 6:30pm, Cellarist, 395 Haywood Rd THEATER & FILM
Drawing on examples from the Asheville Art Museum's collection from the American Folk Art Museum, this talk will offer a glimpse into the history of a sometimes unwieldy collecting category. Visit avl.mx/bwt TH (8/18), 6pm Tracks and Scat: A Program with the Friends of the WNC Nature Center Dive through prehis tory and discover the different ways reptiles returned to the deep and timeless seas. A family program for ages eight and up. FR (8/19), 10:30am, Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St Fridays at the Folk Art Center - Black People Don’t Do That: The Legacy of Segregation on Public Lands
TU (8/23), 6pm, $20-25, Swannanoa Valley Museum, 223 W State St, Black Mountain Financial Wellness for the Entrepreneur In this workshop Tiarra Wilkie, founder
TH (8/18), 6pm, Rabbit Rabbit, 75 Coxe Ave, Thursday Night Lights: Screenings of Vintage Asheville High School Football Game Footage
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This week's program will be centered around history of segregation on the Blue Ridge Park way. Outdoors, weather permitting - bring a blanket or chair. FR (8/19), 7pm, Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway Public Star Gaze An outdoor event in Madison County. Regis tration is not required. Visit astroasheville.org for important informa tion and updates. FR (8/19), 8pm, Grassland MarshallGrasslandObservatory,Mountain2890Parkway, Adult Fishing Day Located next to the Swannanoa River, the park offers two large fishing ponds. SA (8/20), 8am, Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Rd, Swannanoa Swannanoa Valley Bird Outing Formerly called the Black Mountain Bird Walk. Meet in the parking lot between the lagoons. SA (8/20), 8am, Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Rd, Swannanoa Artists & Writers Coffee Inviting all artists: painters, sculptors, writers, performers and more to a casual weekly drop-in gathering to share works in progress and chat about art and what’s happening in your community. SA (8/20), 9am, Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave, Tryon A Hands-on STEAM Workshop with Mark Hanf In this multimedia and hands-on FLEXISTIX.modelingnaturetheMath)Engineering,(Science,theparticipantsworkshop,willexploreelementsofSTEAMTechnology,Art,andconstructbuildingblocksofusinganew3Dtoycalled SA (8/20), 9:30am, $10$20, Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St Pollinators - Garden Heroes and Helpers: A Program with the Master Gardener Youth Outreach Explore the world of pollinators and how we can help. For schoolaged kids. SA (8/20), 10:30am, Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Rd, Fairview Appalachian Dowsers Potluck Picnic With games and instruction to hone your dowsing skills. Homemade coat hanger dowsing rods will be provided. Bring a favorite dish. SA (8/20), 11am, Weaver Park, 200 Murdock Ave Llama Hike Experience Hikers will learn about llamas and their interesting histories, as well as how to safely handle the animals before heading out on a hike with mountaintop views. SA (8/20), 11am, 1:30pm, Toxaway1600Earthshine$30-45,Lodge,GoldenRd,Lake
The WNC AssocationHistoricalwilllead a tour of the school and speak about those who attended, and those who saved the only Rosen wald school building still standing in WNC. SA (8/20), 11am, Mars Hill Anderson Rosenwald School, Long Ridge Rd, Mars Hill Skyland Library Knitting & Crochet Club Welcoming knitters and crocheters of all levels. SA (8/20), 3pm, Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Rd Trap Trivia Battle it out with others as you answer trivia questions about trap music. SA (8/20), 6pm, Shiloh Community Center, 121 Shiloh Rd Asheville Storytelling Circle Picnic Bring a side dish, a story to tell, a chair and your guests. SU (8/21), 3pm, Lake Julian Park Picnic Shel ter #6, Hendersonville Rd entrace Asheville AssociationPickleball Celebrate Summer League awards night. Food and beverages available for purchase. SU (8/21), 5pm, Rabbit Rabbit, 75 Coxe Ave Guardian ad Litem Volunteer Training GALs are trained volun teers who act as court advocates for children involved with DSS. Apply: volunteerforgal. org. Call (828) 259-6603 with questions. MO (8/22), 1pm, ARC of NC-Asheville, 30 Garfield St, Ste D Quilting Bee Bring your own sewing machine and project or work on a collaboration.communityAllages. TU (8/23), 10am, East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Rd Spanish GroupConversationLanguagePractice A group with inter mediate level Spanish skills that meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month. All are welcome to participate. TU (8/23), 5:30pm, Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St Workshop: Caring for our Wooden Antique Furniture and Décor Learn how to identify the common woods used in storethenthefurnituremanufacturinganddecorfromearly1600s–1930s,howtocleanandorexhibitit.
Learn the importance of preservation and conservation through a one-hour presentation for school-aged children with two live animal guests and bio-facts. Registraion required. TH (8/18), Candler1404Enka-Candler4:30pm,Library,SandhillRd,
The film features several stories of Black men, including an Ashe ville man, who were unjustly convicted and sentenced to death. A panel discussion will follow. WE (8/17), ViewUNCA,OLLI/Reuter1:30pm,Center,300CampusRd
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Asheville City Market South Midweek market oper ated by the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP). WE (8/17, 24), 12pm, Biltmore Town Square, 1 Town Square Blvd Etowah Lions Club Farmers Market Fresh produce, meat, sweets, breads, arts, and more, through Oct. 26. WE (8/17, 24), 3pm, 447 Etowah School Rd, Hendersonville River Arts District (RAD) Farmers Market Located on the river with live music and over 30 local vendors. Safely accessible via the greenway, plus ample parking. WE (8/17, 24), 3pm, Smoky Park Supper Club, 350 Riverside Dr Weaverville Tailgate Market Local alongsidefoodstuffs,asmall lineup of craft and artisan vendors. WE (8/17, 24), 3pm, 60 Lake Shore Dr Weaverville Les-ter Farmers Market Support local farmers and offeringcraftspeopleavariety of local produce, herbs, flowers, cheese, meat, prepared foods, art, gifts and much more - all locally grown and produced. WE (8/17, 24), 3pm, 2979 New Leicester Hwy, Leicester Wednesday Night Market: Vintage and Crafts Vintage and crafts from area-based vendors. WE (8/17, 24), 4pm, Fleetwood's, 496 Haywood Rd Enka-Candler Tailgate Market
A producer-only market, selling products raised or produced within 50 miles of the market. SA (8/20), 8am, Mills River Rd,School,Elementary94SchoolhouseMillsRiver North TailgateAshevilleMarket
WE (8/24), 11am, $35, Center for Craft, 67 Broadway Between Two Stills Flights, craft cocktails, and a learning expe rience with two local distillers, Adam Dalton from Dalton Distillery, and William Goldberg from Oak and Grist Distilling. 21+ WE (8/24), 6pm, $15, PULP, 103 Hilliard Ave Spanish Club Spanish speakers of all ages and levels are welcome to join togeth er for conversation to practice the language in a group setting. WE (8/24), 6pm, Black Mountain Brewing, 131 NC-9, Black Mountain Archery and Toma hawk Throwing The instructors will demonstrate the basics, provide some pointers, and maintain a safe archery and tomahawk throwing range. Equip ment is provided.
Over 50 vendors and local food products, including fresh produce, meat, cheese, bread, pastries, and more. SA (8/20), 9am, 52 N Market St
Seasonal community market event featuring organic and sustainably grown produce, plants, cut flowers, herbs, locally raised meats, seafood, breads, pastries, cheeses, eggs and local arts and handcrafted items. SA (8/20), 9am, Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Rd, Black Mountain
Produce, meat, eggs, baked goods, coffee, crafts and more from 30+ local vendors. With live music, kids' activities and cooking demos weekly. SA (8/20), 8am, 650 Maple HendersonvilleSt, Mills River Farmers Market
FR (8/19), 5pm, N Lexington Ave Concerts on the Creek With live music orCity.pieceBritish-Americanfromninecollective,SkaBringablanketchair. FR (8/19), 7pm, Bridge Park, 76 Railroad Ave, Sylva Music On Main Featuring live music from The Night Move Band and a car show with the Classic Car Club and the Apple Country Corvette Club.
Fresh local produce and heritage crafts. Weekly. TH (8/18, 25), 3pm, A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Rd, Candler Flat Rock Tailgate Market A diverse group of local produce farmers, jam and jelly makers, bread bakers, wild crafters, and merrymakers.
TH (8/18, 25), 3pm, Pinecrest ARP Church, 1790 Greenville Hwy, Flat Rock East Asheville Tailgate Market Local goods, every Friday. FR (8/19), 3pm, 954 Tunnel Rd
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Haywood's Historic Farmers Market Located at HART Theatre, weekly. SA (8/20), 9am, 250 Pigeon St, Waynesville Transylvania Farmers Market
With local growers who operate small family farms in Henderson County. SA (8/20), 8am, 100 N King St, Hendersonville FarmersHendersonvilleMarket
The oldest Saturday morning market in WNC. Over 60 rotating vendors. SA (8/20), 8am, 3300 University Heights, Asheville Asheville City Market
TH (8/25), 1pm Tik Tok Made Me Cook It Quick and easy recipes from Tik Tok for this cooking class. TH (8/25), 6pm, Shiloh Community Center, 121 Shiloh Rd WNCHA History Hour: Mountain Thunder: Stock Car Racing in Buncombe County This talk will explore the history of the four race tracks that hosted stock car racing in Buncombe County from the late 1940s to the late 1990s, during which races in NASCAR’s top division, as well as weekly races, took place. TH (8/25), avl.mx/bx96pm, Global Fishing Watch: Discussion with Paul Whitaker A presentation on the works of an organization that is revolutionizing ocean monitoring with a focus on transparency, from Director of Business Development Paul Whita ker. Visit avl.mx/bw8 TH (8/25), 7pm LOCAL FOOD & CRAFT MARKETS
Fifty vendors offering fresh, relishes,goods,cutcoffee,eggs,produce,locally-grownmeat,poultry,honey,cheese,plants,herbs,flowers,bakedjams,jellies,prepared foods and handcrafted items. SA (8/20), 9am, Down town Brevard, 175 East Main St, Brevard Madison Co. Farmers & Artisans Market Local goods and pro duce, weekly through Oct. SA (8/20), 10am, Mars Hill University, Mars Hill Junk-O-Rama Saturday Vintage antiques market, every Saturday through Oct. SA (8/20), HaywoodFleetwood's,11am,496Rd Makers Market Each month will feature vendors and artisans selling housewares, vin tage clothing, original art, handmade crafts, fair trade imports, and more. SA (8/20), 12pm, Atelier Maison & Co., 121 Sweeten Creek Rd Sun & Moon Makers Market
United for Youth Block Party Youth performers, young leaders, free food, books, a DJ and activities for families and kids of all ages, with community partner organizations that will share upcoming programs and services.
A monthly indoor/ outdoor Raindirectlyofcandlesglass,goods,withlineupfeaturingmarketarotatingoflocalmakershandmadeleatherjewelry,blownvintagetreasures,andmore.HalfthevendorfeesgotoHelpmate.orshine. SA (8/20), 1pm, plēb urban winery, 289 Lyman St Gladheart Farm Fest Market Fresh produce, bread and pastries, food vendors, and live music, weekly. SU (8/21), 11am, Glad heart Farm, 9 Lora Ln Meadow Market A rotation of local bakers, makers, and artisans - every Sunday through Oct. SU (8/21), 12pm, Highland Brewing Co. 12 Old Charlotte Hwy Jackson Arts Market Makers & Music Festival Local produced and handcrafted goods, with live music on Saturday and an open mic on Sunday. SA (8/20), SU (8/21), 1pm, Downtown Sylva Asheville Night Market A locally curated group of night folx selling their wares, with new artists, odd items, creative conversation, food and drinks. SU (8/21), 8pm, The Odd, 1045 Haywood Rde West Asheville Tailgate Market Over 40 local vendors, every Tuesday. TU (8/23), 3:30pm, 718 Haywood Rd SCB Summer Nights Market Live music, an outdoor bar and local vendors. TH (8/25), 5:30pm, Sweeten Creek Brewing, 1127 Sweeten Creek Rd
TH (8/18), 4pm, Pack Square Park, 121 College St Third MarshallThursdays Celebrate art openings, open studios, vendors, live music downtown on the French Broad River.
TH (8/18), 5pm, Downtown Marshall Rhythm & Blues Concert Series w/Alexa Rose Monthly summer con cert series theAaronSinger-songwritercontinues.Burdettopensshow. TH (8/18), 5:30pm, Historic HendersonvilleDowntown Teen Back to School Bash: Tha After Party With music, dancing, giveaways, games, inflatables, photo booths, surprises, and appearances from spe cial guests, this event takes place immediately after the United for Youth Block Party. TH (8/18), 7pm, Pack Square Park Downtown After 5 Live funk and soul from Joslyn and The Sweet Compression and and roots from Sister Ivy. With food and bever age vendors including beer and cider.
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A concert on the lawn with duo Zoe and Cloyd joined by banjo and guitar player Bennett Sullivan and bassist Kevin Kehrberg. With a Middle Eastern fusion food truck and bever ages from Archetype Brewing. SU (8/21), 4pm, 236 Charlotte St Night In The Country Carolinas Music Festival Featuring three nights of country music with performances by Dar ius Rucker, Jon Pardi, Dierks Bentley, Jimmie Allen, Jameson Rogers, Ashley McBryde, with barbecue, a craft beer experience, Grapeland, the Beer Relay, Tour nament of Champions, and more. TH (8/25), 10am, Tryon International Equestrian Center, 25 International Blvd, Mill Spring
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Victoria Reichard, Buncombe County behavioral health manag er, says that crisis lines are crucial for inserting “protectors [who may] reduce someone harming them selves.” She explains, “The time between someone thinking of suicide and maybe attempting can be like 10 minutes — it’s very impulsive. When someone’s calling and reaching out for help, there’s that opportunity to change that direction.”
Part of the reason Sykes under went training for crisis hotlines, she says, was to spare people from calling for help in the midst of an emergen cy and not reaching someone. “We always answer,” she says of Promise Resource Network. “When people are struggling, they need somebody to answer.” (Sykes is trained in an approach called Alternatives to Suicide, which seeks to destigmatize discussion of the topic, as well as Emotional CPR, which teaches lis tening skills for working with people in crisis.)
MISSION CONTROL: Shannon Jackson, telecommunications supervisor at the Buncombe County Emergency Communications Center, is trained to al ways stay on the line until help arrives when someone who is considering sui cide calls 911.
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Pam Jaillet, executive director of the National Alliance on Mental Illness Western Carolina, an organization supporting people experiencing men tal illness and their loved ones, antici pates the dialing code 988 will make a “huge difference” for individuals. prevention hotline
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NSPL did a “warm transfer” — meaning its counselor contacted RHA, then conferenced in the caller to hand over to RHA — approximately five-six times a month, Pace says. She’s not aware of the amount of referrals from 988 yet, as the dialing code is so new.
According to federal grant infor mation, Vibrant Emotional Health, the administrator of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, estimated a 30% increase in call volume in North Carolina after the transition. But calls to 988 already have surpassed that estimate: From July 2-15, the NSPL had 1,306 calls answered in North Carolina, says Kelly Haight Connor, spokesperson for NCDHHS. Between July 16-29, 988 had 2,235 calls answered — a 71% increase in call volume following a media blitz.
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Eight years ago, Laurie Sykes was in an emotional crisis and she searched online for help. She found a website with a list of phone numbers for crisis hotlines. But she had to call several numbers to finally reach a trained counselor. “I just went down the list until I got somebody,” recalls Sykes, who works in peer support at Mountain Area Health Education Center. “I think the person that answered said they were in Texas.” Sykes lived in North Carolina. Her frustration is all too common, both for local hotlines like the ones she called and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, the country’s main crisis hotline since 2005. In July, The Wall Street Journal reported that 1-in-6 of the over 9 million calls to the NSPL from 2016-21 ended before the caller connected with a counselor. That is changing. On July 15, the federal government debuted 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline, a new, easy-to-remember dialing code that operates differently from NSPL. Contacting 988 routes callers to a call center in their state, and trained crisis counselors answer 24/7. In North Carolina, the call cen ter is REAL Crisis Intervention in Greenville, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. REAL Crisis Intervention has partnered with N.C. Department of Health and Human Services Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities and Substance Abuse Services as the hotline for NC’s 100 counties since 2012. The call center added 24/7 chat and text response with the debut of 988, according to N.C. Department of Health and Human Services. (The NSPL number — 800-273-8255 — will redirect to the new hotline). NSPL previously made direct referrals for local callers to RHA Health Services, says Sherrie Pace, West Mobile Crisis Management pro gram director, which serves 11 coun ties in Western North Carolina. She expects those referrals will contin ue for situations where “somebody could use some face-to-face support.”
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THE IMPORTANCE OF INTERVENTION Not everyone who calls a crisis hotline is actively suicidal. “A lot of people are struggling with the isola tion from COVID,” explains Sykes, who works for the Promise Resource Network crisis hotline in Charlotte in addition to her job at MAHEC. “A lot of people are lonely and just want some one to talk to who will listen.” Sykes also says she receives “quite a few callers that are trying to stay clean.”
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ment protocol says if callers haven’t harmed themselves or another per son, 911 should dispatch law enforce ment, Ruble explains. If callers have harmed themselves or another indi vidual, both an ambulance and law enforcement are dispatched. Sometimes third-party witnesses will call, such as when a person looks as if he or she may jump off a building or bridge. In that case, 911 dispatch may send the Asheville Fire Department or another agency, depending on the situation.
Individuals in distress, or bystand ers who witness people in distress, often call 911. 911 dispatchers are not trained crisis counselors. However, they receive extensive training about answering attempted suicide calls, and receive additional training annu ally, says Derrick Ruble, Buncombe County public safety communica tions director. A dispatcher always stays on the line with the caller until help“It’sarrives.notan everyday occurrence, but it does happen,” says Ruble of calls reporting suicide or attempted suicide. (Asheville and Buncombe County consolidated 911 services in November.) The 911 dispatcher con firms the caller’s location and phone number, and asks a series of ques tions, like if the caller has a weapon, heTheexplains.county’s Emergency Services Department and local law enforce
LOCAL IS BETTER NCDHHS’ press release announc ing 988 says North Carolina’s NSPL “call center is one of the most respon sive in the country. In May 2022, 98% of calls were answered in less than seven seconds, the second-best rate among the 50 states.”
From Jan. 1, 2018-Aug. 8, 2022, the Asheville Police Department responded to 43 suicides, according to data provided to Xpress by APD’s crime analyst. During that same period, APD also responded to 205 attemptedEmergencysuicides.Services would like the ability to immediately connect callers who aren’t actively suicidal to behavioral health experts. “A lot of times someone does just need to have someone to talk to and to be heard,” Reichard says. Adds Ruble, “We’re hoping down the road when we get that call where they need somebody to talk to, we would be able to transfer that call to either an on-call practitioner, a nurse or a clinic, 24/7.” That’s an idea that mental health experts support. “It’s not law enforce ment’s wheelhouse,” says Pace of responding people in emotional cri ses. “And although they’re amazing, letting [crisis calls] go directly to a behavioral health professional, I think, is a better option and a better use of our law enforcement.” X HELP IS HERE: 911 dispatchers aren’t trained crisis counselors, but they receive extensive training about answering attempted suicide calls, says Buncombe County Pub lic Safety Communications Director Derrick Ruble. Photo courtesy of Buncombe County
“It’s really hard to remember the older number [800-273-8255],” Jaillet says. “Especially if you’re in crisis, that’s not the time to be looking up a phone number. So I think [988] will really help.”
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When any local lifeline was at capacity, NSPL would reroute to one of the nearly 200 call centers in its nationwide network with trained counselors available. (Even if that availability was, as in Sykes’ case, thousands of miles away.) This pro tocol wasn’t ideal. “Having that local connection helps get you connected to all of the best resources in the community,” explains Pace from RHA. In 2020, the Federal Communications Commission des ignated 988 as the new NSPL num ber; later that year, Congress passed legislation to transition NSPL to the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Additional funding will beef up ser vices locally: In April, the federal government awarded North Carolina $3,252,972 to increase staffing at REAL Crisis Intervention. The N.C. General Assembly’s 2022 bud get, which was signed by Gov. Roy Cooper, also includes $1.3 million in recurring funds. ‘911, WHAT’S YOUR EMERGENCY?’
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The lyrics’ mix of observation and introspection aided the speed with which the songs were com pleted. Plenty of personal themes may be found throughout Roadside Attraction — Congdon says album opener “Mr. Moonlight” is especial ly autobiographical — but they’re balanced out by tracks like the more universal “I’ll Be Your Friend.”
“I try to walk that fine line of not being preachy about things but hopefully still say something that resonates with people,” Congdon says. “Then other things are perhaps open to interpretation. I’m no Bob Dylan, but ask 10 people what his lyr ics mean and you’ll get 10 different answers, you know?”
Like many recording artists, Asheville-based singer/songwriter and guitarist Eric Congdon had an album ready for release in spring 2020. But unlike the bulk of his peers who waited until the music industry returned to quasi-normalcy to share these tunes, he put out another col lection in the interim.
So in tune were the two collabo rators that, on numerous occasions, Ilana could say she wanted to rere cord a certain section, and Rosser would know precisely what stretch she was referring to without her identifying it. Ilana describes Coming Into the Light as a thoroughly emotion al album, the result of a period of deep personal contemplation during which Spirit told her to live alone. On multiple tracks, listeners can hear those elevated feelings in her voice, and rather than rerecord to hide those sonic “imperfections,” she and Rosser kept them in. “Being in the studio amplifies everything, and this time around I was experimenting a lot with my state of mind and what I was conjur ing up,” she says. “And I was really hearing that difference in the takes where I was able to get back into the feeling I had when I wrote the song.”
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A little over a year after the release of his first all-electric album, Circuit Breaker, Congdon reaches back to pre-pandemic times with Roadside Attraction, a return to his soulful, acoustic Americana ways. Though not exactly the same album that would have been published in March 2020 — each track has been revisited and remixed — it nevertheless reflects a time before the global health crisis. “It was written in a burst of activity following a long road trip through the Southwestern U.S. in late 2019,” Congdon says. “I kept a journal of what I saw and felt, then went back to it for inspiration when I started making demos, and it all fell together remarkably quickly.”
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Roadside Attraction also marks Congdon’s first album in 15 years that has vocals on every track. Though singing and writing lyrics are the most difficult aspects of making music for the celebrated guitarist, he stepped out his comfort zone on these nine creations and worked hard to achieve his best results thus far. Local musicians Zack Page (bass) and Hope Griffin (vocals), who are members of Congdon’s acoustic ensemble Autumnwüd, and blues singer Peggy Ratusz lend their tal ents on the record as well. “I do as much as I can myself, but I believe it’s really important to bring in outside collaborators to see other perspectives. It adds so much,” CongdonWhethersays.in Autumnwüd, the ’80s tribute band LazrLuvr or his increasingly experimental solo shows that include looping, tapping, fingerpicking and Irish bouzouki jams, Congdon is thrilled to be back performing live on a regular basis. To help show his appreciation, he’s made it a point to be more positive and play with more energy than he had prior to the pandemic. “My musical desire for the audi ence is escapism. I want to take you out of the everyday, and this approach has really paid off,” he says. “We’ve all been through it late ly, and I’m putting all I have into my music because it’s as much for me as it is for the audience. It’s a beautiful symbiotic relationship and it contin uously inspires me to keep going.”
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Comfortable with her vulnerabili ty, Ilana says she frequently cries in front of people and expected to be in tears throughout her album release show at Isis Music Hall in late July. Her eyes, however, remained dry, but multiple concertgoers approached her afterward, having clearly gone through a few tissues over the course of the evening. “I think something transformed, and whatever was moving through me actually became a transmission, and it cracked people open,” she says. “That was the feedback I was getting: ‘You allowed me to feel things I wasn’t let ting myself feel. You gave me permis sion to be present with what’s really happening for me right now.’ That was really beautiful to see and affirming.” To learn more, visit avl.mx/bvz.
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“In light of the life-threatening battle my kittens faced, and then witnessing the declining health and passing of my sister, I kept think ing how I would regret not taking the leap,” she says. “Was I truly ready? Not really. But I’ve long since thought that if you wait until you’re absolutely ready to take a risk, you’ll never go for it. You have to face your fears and the sooner you do, the fast er and closer you’ll get to your goals.” To learn more, visit avl.mx/bvj.
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This article is part of our ongoing feature, Creatives in the Crowd, which focuses on local artists — both estab lished and new. The feature spotlights unique stories and innovative artistic approaches within our creative com munity. Unlike much of our Arts & Culture reporting, these stories are not tied to upcoming events, exhibits or releases. The feature strives to rep resent a diverse range of voices, expe riences and artistic mediums. If you’d like to nominate a community member for consideration, please reach out to ae@mountainx.com with the subject line “Creatives in the Crowd.”
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Cynthia Calhoun would have pre ferred that her cats remain healthy. But the journey that’s marked her pets’ recent illnesses, and the art work it inspired, has led Calhoun to a new phase within her own life and artistic pursuit. The Waynesville-based painter, who goes by the artist name Cyndi, grew up in Colorado and traces her love of art back to a poster mural she made as a kindergartner with her older sister, Sheila Marietta. “I distinctly remember that bluesky day, painting outside in the sun, with vivid colors running all over the paper, wrinkling it to give it charac ter,” she Thoughsays.encouraged throughout her youth to pursue art as her profession, Calhoun opted instead to study anthro pology at Colorado College, and later Spanish and education at Appalachian State University, convinced a career in the arts would be too unpredictable without a backup plan. “I thought that if I pursued art as an undergraduate major, I might somehow get burnt out on it — and I loved art too much to risk that,” she says. “I knew if I could get a solid foundation through a fine art minor and even pursuing the portfolio track at ASU, that would be enough to allow me to carve out my own path and creative journey without being too influenced by any one person or artist.”
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INNER VISIONS Calhoun met her future husband, John Calhoun, while teaching at a Colorado ski area, and together they moved to his native Haywood County in 2007. No matter her loca tion, Cynthia Calhoun notes that her creative odyssey has always been an outward reflection of her inward journey. Part of that trek involved a desire to connect with her family’s Latina background, which prompted her to major in Spanish at ASU and, in turn, led her to Frida Kahlo, the famed Mexican artist. “[Kahlo’s] work of self-portraits and the brilliant colors she used informed my own creations,” Calhoun says. “I became unafraid to use bold, maybe even wild, colors in my work. I cre ated self-portraits in rainbow colors. I let loose, fearless of what a portrait was ‘supposed to look like.’”
Sleepless nights led Calhoun to dis cover an unlicensed treatment called GS-441524 from the FIP Warriors 5.0 group on Facebook that touted a high cure rate and thousands of cats saved worldwide. Though skeptical at first, she was soon convinced through additional research to administer the medicine to Emma and says the deci sion saved her cat’s life. But in late March, Emma’s sister Elsa started losing her appetite and weight, and was later diagnosed with FIP as well. Fortunately, she too has responded to the treatment, but the ordeal took its toll on her human housemates. Calhoun says that she and her husband felt as if they “exist ed in a fog of cats, treatments, regular work, a lack of sleep and the uncer tainty of not knowing if [their] little kittens would ultimately survive.”
Later, while studying in Spain, seeing Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” in person brought Calhoun to tears. She recalls feeling “frozen, as if any sudden movement would somehow plunge [her] into that world of exqui siteShortlysuffering.”thereafter, she delved into Southwestern art in an attempt to explore her Latin American ances tors’ history in that part of the world. The earthy colors and styles of art have since become an integral com ponent of her creations, always in tribute to this cultural inspiration. “In my artwork, I love finding ways to use hard lines and values. Perhaps that’s because of the Southwestern period I went through: geometric lines and shapes show up strongly in Southwestern art,” she says. “Not surprisingly, I moved into a more geometric period, creating drawings with marker on paper. That morphed into a period of creating mandalas. I suppose on some level I am always seeking to find truth and balance in the work that I do, searching within myself or trying to find my center.”
ART FROM THE HEART: In response to her cat Emma’s life-threatening ill ness, Cynthia Calhoun, who goes by the artist name Cyndi, painted her pet. The experience, the artist notes, calmed her and later inspired a new way of approaching her work. Images courtesy of the artist
To cope, Calhoun painted a picture of Emma. The act, she says, created a level of calmness that she hadn’t expe rienced since before the cat’s illness. “Subsequent paintings with Emma, and later Elsa, helped me to stay in the moment. I could channel all the nervous energy of not knowing what was going to happen into something positive,” she says. “I’d always have something that made me think of these two cats and smile, no mat ter what happened. It was then that I thought that maybe these kittens could make others smile, too.” She continues, “I thought that per haps other pet parents might find comfort in having a portrait of their pet — not as a photo, but as a stylistic painting. I decided to offer commis sions painting other people’s pets as part of my business model.”
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FELINE FORTITUDE In addition to painting, Calhoun has taught Spanish to elementary school students and worked as a digital marketer and content writer. She and her husband have also been longtime cat parents to Ralphie, and in October 2021, they adopted kitten sisters Emma, Elsa and Ellie to help keep their adult cat company. After some adjustment to the new litter, Ralphie gradually accepted his sisters. But in early December, Emma developed health issues and was diagnosed with feline infectious peritonitis, caused by certain strains of the feline coronavirus. The veter inarian informed the family Emma only had a few days to live. “I kept thinking about how she was such a little innocent creature and that she didn’t deserve such a terrible fate,” Calhoun says. “I was already so bonded to her, too — to all her sisters, really. I was smitten and wanted to do what I could to save her.”
Further inspired after the death of her sister Charlene Marietta in late May, Calhoun launched Art Funky at the end of June and has created a business model that will donate all profits from her colorful, exaggerated paintings to charity. The first benefi ciary is the Emergency FIP Fund, an offshoot of the FIP Warriors group that helps cat parents pay for the costly FIP treatment.
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• When black students are late a few times, they are sent home.
THE 1969 WALKOUT By the time Lewis arrived in Asheville, by way of Baltimore, in 1960, the town still resembled what he’d later read about in Thomas Wolfe’s 1929 novel, Look Homeward, Angel. “Most of the things Wolfe wrote about were still in the Asheville I grew up in,” he says. “The town seemed to be in a time capsule.” But change came rapidly once the anti-war sentiments and drug culture of the late 1960s hit, Lewis recounts.
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Among many notable experiences spotlighted in the book is the 1969 Asheville High School walkout. On Monday, Sept. 29, 1969, at 9:15 a.m., about 200 African American stu dents exited the school. The protest occurred during the first fall term as an integrated educational institution. That year, African American students, who previously attended StephensLee, had joined the white students at the recently renamed Asheville High School, formerly Lee Edwards. The impetus for the walkout stemmed from a list of grievances, which Black students wanted school officials to acknowledge and change, before they would return to class. An article in the following day’s edi tion of the Asheville Citizen included a detailed list, written by student George Watkins:
• Black students are called ‘col ored’ and ‘boy’ and Negroes object to use of either term.
As a musician and longtime Asheville resident, Dan Lewis is more accustomed to writing songs than books. An active figure in the local music scene since the 1970s, he has recorded 12 albums, including a collaboration with the late Bob Moog But amid the city’s continued growth, Lewis felt compelled to tem porarily put down his guitar to revisit his past. In December, the songwriter self-published his memoir, Growing Up In Asheville, North Carolina: How Music and Art Spurred a Renaissance in a Sleepy Southern Town. “With new people and influenc es flocking in as they always will, it seems important to leave some record of how the times and people were, and what happened to bring about such remarkable change to transform a sleepy southern town into a thriving center of culture and tourism,” he writes in an early passage of the book. As the memoir’s subtitle suggests, Lewis’ work chronicles Asheville’s history from 1960, when he first arrived at age 7, to 1980, which he says marks the beginning of the end of the city’s quieter days. No fan of commercial growth, Lewis believes that the “powers that be” drove out the artists with whom he identified and lived among. “The old remote mountain town I grew up in was opened up and exposed to the outside world, and hordes of people followed, more old got torn down and replaced by new, and property values went up and up and up until people born here couldn’t afford to live in their hometown anymore,” he writes.
“• The majority of majorettes or cheer leaders at AHS were white girls.
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• In cosmetology class, the instructor had said she couldn’t do Negroes’ hair.
Often traversing the city on bike, the author says his youth was spent witnessing the city’s transformation.
• Black students have trouble when they go to the school lunch room.” Lewis remembers the walkout as initially a peaceful demonstration. Yet, state troopers were called in when protesters refused to leave the campus. Tensions escalated, and soon violence broke out. Rocks were thrown and cars overturned, as pro testing students intermingled with nonstudents who came to join in on the day’s happenings. In preparation for his book, Lewis revisited articles and personal on the past Local author reexamines his youth in Asheville, 1960-80 LINDA RAY
• Negro history is taught by a white teacher, and the histo ry textbook’s author is a white man, and neither is competent to teach Negro history.
• It is hard for many black students to get to school on time because bus service is inadequate.
WRITE ON: Dan Lewis, an accomplished local musician, recently put down his guitar in order to pen his memoir, Growing Up In Asheville, North Carolina: How Music and Art Spurred a Renaissance In a Sleepy Southern Town. Photo by Linda Ray
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Along with the walkout, Lewis notes that the anti-war music of his youth shaped much of his political, social and artistic perspectives. But it was his mother’s demand that he move out at the age of 18 that ulti mately led to some of his most import ant relationships. With barely enough money to cover $50 rent, he moved into a small apartment off of Valley Street, one of Asheville’s historically BlackWhileneighborhoods.livingthere, he met popular Valley Street musicians Walter and Ethel Phelps when guitarist and folk singer Andy Cohen came to town to book entertainment for the Asheville Junction coffeehouse, one of the local spots where Lewis hung out. “I fell in with Walt and Ethel like peanut butter and jelly, and spent countless days with them in their tiny basement shack overlooking Valley Street,” Lewis recalls in his book. “Playing alone, Walt had a tendency to play slow and easy, but once we hooked up together, we’d start tap ping our toes and the same songs took on a rollicking swing and beat that was infectious, and every song was a party in Lewisitself.”continued playing and recording with the couple until Walter’s death in 1985. According to Lewis, they performed all across WNC, in addition to a folk festival in West Virginia. But more often than not, they could be found in an “ancient speakeasy in the heart of Valley Street,” he writes. “We’d walk in, and people always stared at first at our unlikely trio: the ancient old Black man with a derby hat stooped over carrying a guitar case, the tall slim elderly Black woman striding purposefully along ... and the tall skinny white kid with hair down on his shoulders lugging his guitar,” Lewis notes in his memoir. SOMEONE WHO LIVED IT Along with personal anecdotes, Lewis takes liberties throughout the tome to insert his own opinions about the times, the changes in Asheville and his own place within that soci ety. Often outspoken, the 69-year-old author and musician rails against the 1969 draft lottery during the Vietnam War, which he refers to as the “lot tery of death.” He’s equally as critical of President Richard Nixon’s 1971 launch of the war on drugs. “I wrote the book for two reasons,” Lewis says, reflecting on the publica tion. The first, the author notes, is to extend Wolfe’s snapshot to capture a world that Lewis believes is all but gone. “I have so many unan swered questions from my own par ents; I want my kids to know what I livedThethrough.”second reason, the author continues, it to offer perspective and nuance. “If historians only rely on written research, they often miss the truth, unless they talk to someone who lived it,” he says. X
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Vegan curried lentils, homemade cornbread, watermelon, greens and arugula salad were among the catered items served during a recent WNC Food Justice Planning Initiative meeting. Other menu options include zesty chicken, Looking Glass Creamery mac and cheese, and cucumber salad. “We continue to rely on local farm ers and producers,” says Holtzman. “Our partnership with them is piv otal to our mission. We met recently with the Buncombe Partnership for Children, and that conversation made me realize the demand for healthy, quality meals for preschool children is enormous, and I really see us evolving into more of that as we grow.” Holtzman says that with the school year starting, the nonprofit will need more volunteers in the kitchen on weekday mornings. Interested par ties are invited to contact her directly at madi@equalplatesproject.org. For more information, visit avl.mx/bvs. Thai one on Chefs Madeline Redo and Trevor Musick moved from Austin, Texas, to Asheville in March 2020, about two weeks before COVID-19 shut down every restaurant in town. The two did eventually find jobs — she at OWL Bakery and Musick at Bargello and Leo’s House of Thirst. But the pandemic pause also gave them time to focus on starting a popup business, Cassia, that specializes in the pair’s interpretations of Asian
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Less than two months after assuming the role as director of We Give a Share, Madi Holtzman ner vously approached founding board member Elizabeth Sims with the idea to change the local nonprofit’s name to better reflect its mission to “Make all plates equal.” Sims supported the idea, and in June, Holtzman presented her proposal to the board to rename the nonprofit Equal Plates Project. The proposal received unani mousSincesupport.its2020 launch in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the newly rebranded nonprofit has connected farmers experiencing a surplus of produce with Southside Kitchen. The latter, through initial funding from the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville, purchases the produce and uses it to prepare fresh meals for homebound pub lic housing residents. The kitchen prepares lunches for students at numerous schools, as well. Though Equal Plates Project’s partnership with the Housing Authority concluded last fall when the nonprofit assumed the kitchen’s lease, a grant from the WNC Bridge Foundation has allowed Southside Kitchen chefs Kikkoman Shaw and Kendrick Burton to continue meal production for public housing resi dents through the summer. In late August, the kitchen will also begin making daily lunches for five schools: Asheville PEAK Academy, The Franklin School of Innovation, Evergreen Community Charter School, Francine Delaney New School for Children and Verner Center for Early Learning To help subsidize the low U.S. Department of Agriculture free/ reduced-price school lunch reim bursement rates and continue the Housing Authority resident meals beyond summer, EPP has created the catering program, One-to-One, which is being marketed to groups, gatherings and meetings “We offer catering of prepared foods at a price point comparable to other casual catering opera tions,” Holtzman explains. “We have planned the pricing with a margin that will allow us to provide one free meal to the community for every meal purchased. If we cater a meet ing of 20, we will prepare food for 40.”
FULL PLATES: Equal Plates Project chefs Kendrick Burton, left, and Kikkoman Shaw package locally sourced meals made in the Southside Kitchen that will be delivered to homebound residents in the Southside community and beyond.
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Night life Breakfast for dinner is so common, so why not offer brunch after dark for very late risers? On Saturday, Aug. 20, at 7 p.m. Asheville Drag Brunch will bring the queens to Biscuit Head South for a special nighttime per formance. Expect plenty of biscuits, as well as an alcoholic beverage or nonalcoholic beverage included with the $25 ticket (or $40 with the addi tion of a bottle of bubbles). All profits will benefit Umoja Health, Wellness & Justice Collective. Biscuit Head South is at 1994 Hendersonville Road. For more infor mation, visit avl.mx/bvm. Tea-d up for fall
the event, Cort suggest ed to All Day Darling owner, Jacob Sessoms, that they continue the feature on a regular basis. Sessoms agreed, and Grossman, who was moving back to Northern California, offered to sell them his Forno BravoWhileoven.Cort has experience making wood-fired pizza from a previous job at Walnut Schoolhouse in Marshall, Sessoms is currently learning how to operate the restaurant’s newest piece of Allequipment.DayDarling plans to offer three types of 12-inch pizzas, as well as special gluten-free items from the kitchen. The goal, says Cort, is monthly pizza nights, as well as col laborations with other local bakers such as Mother’s Heidi Bass. For updates on pizza nights and other collaborative pop-ups, visit avl.mx/bvr.
The Paella Experience is geared to groups of six to 16 diners seated together to enjoy four courses, includ ing paella and dessert. A la carte dishes can be added, but all members of the group must partake of the set menu. Reservations are required 24 hours in advance for the $55 per per son meal (not including 7% tax and 20% gratuity added to the bill). The Chef Tasting also requires all pre-reserved diners (two to six people) to participate in the “journey through Spanish pintxo culture.” Wine pairings chosen by wine direc tor Jessica Salyer can be added (for an additional cost) to the $65 per person tasting, plus tax and gratuity.
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The dog days of August have every one dreaming of crisp fall weather, and Asheville Tea Co. is prepared for it with the release of its fall 2022 seasonals brews. Two of the three are brand-new blends: Pumpkin Pie Chai and Ginger Turmeric. The third, Spiced Apple Butter, is a longtime autumn favorite. Each blend features locally sourced ingredients from Rayburn Farms in Barnardsville. For more, visit avl.mx/bvq. Asheville Tea has also partnered with Bountiful Cities for a 100% locally grown herbal blend of looseleaf tea with lemongrass, lemon balm, blue cornflower and calendula. Proceeds from sales will be donated to Bountiful Cities, a local nonprof it dedicated to teaching sustain able agriculture skills and sharing resources to promote social justice and economic resilience. For more, visit avl.mx/bvp.
cuisine. Cassia tested the waters in February at DSSOLVR and hosted an encore a month later. As its reputation has grown, Cassia has expanded, with regular pop-ups now taking place at four brewer ies — Cellarest Beer Project, New Origin Brewing, Turgua Brewing andWellDSSOLVR.beforearriving in WNC, the couple traveled through Asia for two months, sampling foods, snapping photos and taking notes in their jour nals in Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. “We love those foods, the use of ingredients and styles of cooking,” Musick says. “Asian food has such bold, intense flavor profiles that hit all the sweet, salty, spicy and sour notes and balance so well.” Each pop-up has four to five menu options, but people will almost always find sweet potato firecrack ers. “Imagine sweet potato fries meet spring roll,” says Redo. Another popular item — fueled in part by a mesmerizing five-second video on their Instagram account — is a pork stir fry with a fried egg. Redo and Musick have been invited to participate in the Chow Chow event, From Our Hearth to Yours, taking place Saturday, Sept. 10, 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m., at Smoky Park SupperCassia’sClub.next August pop-up is Friday, Aug. 19, 4-8:30 p.m., at Cellarest, 395 Haywood Road. For more on upcoming events, visit avl.mx/bvl.
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Pre-pandemic, All Day Darling’s occasional pizza nights were big hits, but when General Manager (and pre vious pastry chef/baker) Ashley Cort decided to bring them back this spring, she had a problem. The restaurant had replaced its deck oven, where the pizzas were previously baked, with another piece of equipment. “We could not make pizzas in a regular oven,” she says. Cort reached out to friend Sam Grossman, owner of Snacks & Co. Pizza, who had a Forno Bravo wood-burning pizza oven on wheels. On March 19, Grossman pulled his oven to the Montford Avenue location, and he and All Day Darling staged Equinox Pizza Night, a resounding success that sold over 100Followingpizzas.
Pan handled La Bodega de Cúrate, Katie Button and Felix Meana’s all-day, two-sto ry café, multiexperience restaurant, wine and pintxo bar, has added two more opportunities for guests to fully immerse themselves in Spanish cui sine from executive chef Matt Brown
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“Burlesque is an expressive art form that at its very basic level encour ages us to love ourselves,” says Queen April, performer and co-producer of Land of the Sky Burlesque Festival.
“We use our bodies to tell stories, express our feelings and hopefully excite, inspire and entertain our audience,” continues Queen April. “It’s powerful and vulnerable at the sameAlongtime.”with local talent, the gath ering will feature 60 performers from 14 states. Rebel Vitale, a fellow performer and co-producer, stresses the fes tival’s emphasis of diversity and inclusion. “When you come to our burlesque show as an audience member, I guarantee you will find someone like you,” she says.
With this in mind, the opening exhibition, What Strange Water, What Strange Air, features paintings and drawings by three queer artists. Christian Rieben paints storylike, dense landscapes; Caleb Yono uses figurative pastels to show a world where high femme protagonists maintain the universe; and Gerard embraces landscapes as a location for shifting emotional states. Tyger Tyger Gallery is in Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St. The gallery will be open Tuesdays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sundays, 11 a.m.5 p.m. For more information, visit avl.mx/bvi. We built this city James Vester Miller built the Mount Zion Baptist Church in 1919, contracted the Asheville Municipal Building, which was completed in 1926, and helped build many of Asheville’s historic buildings that remain standing. However, he and other Black builders have not his torically received the public rec ognition their white counterparts haveAimingenjoyed.toshift this narrative, the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County, in partner ship with Buncombe County Special Collections, present We Built This: Profiles of Black Architects and Builders in North Carolina. On display at Pack Memorial Public Library, the exhibit runs through Monday, Oct. 10.
LET’S GET FUNKY: Samson Night is one of the headliners at the upcoming Land of the Sky Burlesque Festival. Night is a Burlesque Hall of Fame member and will teach a class on how to perform with funk. Photo courtesy of Land Of the Sky Burlesque
The Grey Eagle is at 185 Clingman Ave. Empyrean Arts is at 32 Banks Ave., No. 108. For more information or to purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/buv.
Founding director Mira Gerard, associate director Melissa Crouch and gallery manager Nora Hartlaub will host an inaugural reception at Tyger Tyger Gallery on Friday, Aug. 19, 5-8 “Tygerp.m.Tyger Gallery seeks to … [emphasize] those who have been historically marginalized and underrepresented in the art world,” says Gerard in a press release. “We believe that what is put into the world can shape the world; there fore running an art gallery is a form of power that should be handled with great care and intention.”
The party kicks off Friday at 8 p.m. with Geektastic Nerdlesque Revue, a performance celebrating pop culture and fandoms. Saturday night continues with Just a Peak: An Elevated Burlesque Show, a non themed, multiact performance. The festival concludes on Sunday with Burlesque Brunch at noon. Along with these shows, the fes tival’s headliners and sponsors will offer classes at Empyrean Arts on Saturday, Aug. 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. “The festival is stacked with bril liant performers — most of them from other states,” says Rebel Vitale. “This is a chance to see them all in one place. Burlesque shows are also fun, uplifting, and every act brings something different to the table. You’ll never be bored.”
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The three-day gathering recon venes for the first time since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic at The Grey Eagle from Friday, Aug. 19-Sunday, Aug. 21.
When poet William Blake felt frus trated with the Church of England’s abuse of power in the 18th century, he wrote a dark romantic poem, “The Tyger.” As a societal outsider, vig orous abolitionist and advocate for human expression, he was maligned and dismissed during his life. Inspired by Blake’s work, Asheville locals have opened a new venue in the River Arts District, Tyger Tyger Gallery.
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through(Sleep)walktime There’s still time to catch Sleepwalking: 2004-2022, a photo exhibition by artist Ygnacio Rivero of Mérida, Mexico. The free exhibi tion concludes Saturday, Aug. 20, at the Pink Dog Gallery inside Pink DogRivero’sCreative.exhibit looks at architec tural deterioration as a reflection on the imprint of time. He photographs areas of ruin or neglect, primari ly in Mexico, to show the strength in “Eachflaws. city is a collective text,” says Rivero in a press release. “I enter those passages of the city that … fall into deterioration … but at the same time, the graphic strength of their open fissures and discol ored textures are revealed. Each crack, each hole, each landslide is a demonstrative gesture that [mir rors] my own cries and impulses.” Pink Dog Creative is at 342-348 Depot St. For more information, visit avl.mx/bux. Two cultures In preparation for the November election, Asheville Area Arts Council recently announced it will host three Wednesday night town hall candidate forums Sept.7, Sept. 28 and Oct. 12, 5-7 p.m. Each forum will feature a chance to mingle in the lobby and courtyard of the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, followed by a moderated Q&A session with the can didates in the Tina McGuire Theatre. The Asheville Area Arts Council will also host a State of the Arts Brunch at The Orange Peel, Wednesday, Nov. 2, 10:30 a.m.-noon. During the event, arts advocates will learn about the state of the creative sector in Buncombe County and hear from city and county candidates about local arts support. Tickets cost $45. Post-election, the arts council will host a free Town Hall Meet & Greet at the Asheville Art Museum. The event’s February date has yet to be announced. But the event will give the arts community an opportunity to become better acquainted with newly elected officials. At the event, the AAAC will also share the 2022-23 arts policy Registrationagenda.is required for all events. Wortham Center for the Performing Arts is at 18 Biltmore Ave. For more information and to register for any of the events, visit avl.mx/but.
Local poetry finalist Diamond Forde, UNC Asheville English department fellow of faculty diversity, was nominated as one of 12 finalists for the 2022 national Ruth Lilly and Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Fellowships. Five fellowship recipients will be announced in September to receive $25,800 each. The seven other final ists will receive $4,430. Forde is a poet, editor, scholar and instructor whose debut collec tion, Mother Body , won the 2019 Saturnalia Poetry Prize. She has won numerous additional awards, including the Pink Poetry Prize, the Furious Flower Poetry Prize and the College Language Association’s Margaret Walker Memorial Prize. For more information, visit avl.mx/bvf.
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Foundy Street Flashback Film series presents a screening of ’80s musical fantasy film Xanadu, star ring the late Olivia Newton-John. The fun starts with a pre-film party at 7 p.m., followed by a performance by Drag Queen Ganymede at 8 p.m. The movie will screen at sundown. The event happens at the Wedge at Foundation, Thursday, Aug. 18. Grail Moviehouse will provide the screening, and festivities include a DJ set by Jaze Uries and a Gospel Ice Cream pop-up, with limited seat ing from Sunnyside Trading Co. The event benefits Cat Fly Film Festival. The Wedge at Foundation is at 5 Foundy St., Suite 10. Tickets are $10. For more information, visit avl.mx/bus.
— Flora Konz X MOVIE REVIEWS Local reviewers’ critiques of new films include: EMILY THE CRIMINAL: Aubrey Plaza (NBC’s “Parks and Recreation”) shines in a rare dramatic role as a Millennial buried in student debt who turns to illegal means to get by. It’s one of the year’s most culturally relevant films. Grade: B-plus — Edwin Arnaudin BODIES BODIES BODIES: If you consider Spring Breakers and Shiva Baby to be masterpieces, you may enjoy this annoying, shoddily-made “horror”/“comedy” about a group of Gen-Z idiots partying at a mansion during a hurricane. Grade: D-minus — Edwin Arnaudin Find full reviews and local film info at patreon.com/ashevillemoviesashevillemovies.com Aug. MeadowsweetAug.AgateStone:Herb:FULLMOON:Sept.9th Magical Offerings 100+ Available!Herbs (828) 424-7868 ashevillepagansupply.store 8/19: Intuitive Readings: Shifra Nerenberg 1-7pm 8/22: SUN enters Virgo Reader: Mandi Smith 12-4pm 8/27: NEW MOON Reader: Edward 12-6pm Binx’s Cat Adoption 12-5pm 8/28: Reader: Pam Shook 1-6pm Magical Plant Hike & Harvest 12-3pm Aura Photo w/ Atena 1-3:30pm New Hours: M - Sat. 10-8pm • Sun. 12-6pm 640 Merrimon Ave. #207 Daily Readers Available
“Black builders, craftspeople and architects have made significant con tributions to the built environment,” says Erica LeClaire, PSABC’s pres ervation director. “I hope that people walk away with a better understand ing of how different our world would look without the contribution by the Black community.” We Built This, a traveling exhib it designed by Preservation North Carolina, features more than two dozen profiles, in addition to historical context on slavery, Reconstruction, the founding of historically Black colleges and universities and Black churches, segregation and the rise of Black civic leaders and professionals. The free exhibit is open every Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-8 p.m., Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.6 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. For more information, visit avl.mx/bw6.
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185AUGUSTTHURSDAY,18KINGSTREET Congdon & Co. ft Paul McIntire (folk, Americana), 7pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Kiki Thursdays Drag and Dancing, 8pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Blue Ridge Jazzway, 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Shady Recruits w/ Killakeyz (funk, jazz), 9pm ASHEVILLE PIZZA & BREWING CO. Stand Up Comedy, 8pm BLACK BREWINGMOUNTAIN The Blushin' Roulettes' (Americana), 6pm
WHERE THE WILD RIVER ROLLS: Richard Barrett, of Asheville progressive bluegrass band The Greenliners, hosts a weekly residency every Thursday in August at The Grey Eagle’s new riverside venue, The Outpost. On Aug. 18, 6-8 p.m., Barrett will be joined by local musicians Doug McElvy and Will Trakas. Photo by Andy Hall For questions about free listings, call 828-251-1333, opt. 4.
BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm CAFE CANNA SpanGLISH Karaoke Patio Party, 9pm CATAWBA BREWING BILTMORE Thursday Trivia w/Billy, 6:30pm CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Singo Wingo (musical bingo), 6pm CORK & KEG Melissa Carper (coun try), 8pm CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Baltic, Klezmer, Turk ish), 8pm DOUBLE CROWN Soul Nite w/Silk Groove, 9pm FLEETWOOD'S Blvck Hippie, Mad Mike Martinez & Nostalginoid 8pmelectro-experimental),(indie, FRENCH BREWERYBROAD Jerry's Dead (Grateful Dead & JGB Tribute), 6pm GREEN BREWERYMAN Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm HIGHLAND TAPROOMDOWNTOWNBREWING Tony Palkovic er-songwriter),(sing6pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 • Asheville Sessions ft Harry Schulz (jazz, pop, blues), 7pm • Forrest Isn’t Dead, Abby K, The Half That Matters (indie alt, alt pop), 8:30pm
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THE POE HOUSE Team Trivia w/Wes Ganey, 7pm TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic, 6pm
THE GETAWAY RIVER BAR • Rum Punchlines Com edy Open Mic, 6pm • Karaoke w/Terraoke, 9pm THE GREY EAGLE Jeb Rogers Band (funk, soul, bluegrass), 5pm THE ODD Busy (punk),PINKEYE,Weather,CodaPen7pm THE OUTPOST Richard Barrett and Friends: Doug McElvy & Will Americana,(singer-songwriter,Trakasrock),6pm BREVARDBREWINGUPCOUNTRYCO. Scott Stetson & Josh Pierce (singer-songwrit er), 6pm WELL PLAYED BOARD GAME CAFÉ Flip the Table! Comedy Night, 9pm AUGUSTFRIDAY, 19 27 CLUB Bellizia (punk grass), Seismic Sutra (psych rock), & Red Zephyr (jazz/rock jam band), 9pm 185 KING STREET Zoe & Cloyd (bluegrass, folk, old-time), 8pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Geriatric Jukebox (oldies), 5pm ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB House After Dark, 9pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Early Dance Party, •7pmVenus (dark house dance party), 10pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Mr Jimmy's Big City Chicago Blues, 7:30pm
• International Night: Spain, 4pm • Trivia Night w/ Mindless Minutia, 7pm
Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm 185 KING STREET Business-themed Trivia Night, 7pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Beauty Parlor Come dy: Aaron Naylor, 7pm • Aquanet Goth Party w/Ash Black, 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic, 8pm ASHEVILLE PIZZA & BREWING CO. Trivia! Trivia! Night, 6:30pm BLACK BREWINGMOUNTAIN Jay Brown (roots), 6pm BOLD ASHEVILLEROCK Survey Says: Family Feud Style Trivia, 7pm BOLD ROCK MILLS RIVER Trivia Night, 6pm CATAWBA BREWING BILTMORE Singo (musical bingo), 7pm CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Trivia w/Billy, 7pm FLEETWOOD'S Terraoke Karaoke, 8pm HI-WIRE BREWING Weekly Trivia Night, 7pm HI-WIRE BREWING RAD BEER GARDEN Game Night, 6pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Well-Crafted Wednes days w/Matt Smith, 6pm HIGHLAND TAPROOMDOWNTOWNBREWING Vinyl Night w/DJ Nato, 6:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5pm BREWINGOKLAWAHACO. Mountain Music Jam, 6pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Wild 10pmWednesdays, ONE BREWINGWORLDWEST Latin Night Wednesdays w/DJ Mtn Vibez, 8pm PULP The By Gods, Her Pilots and Safety Coffin (rock), 8pm RENDEZVOUS Albi (musique Fran caise), 6pm SALVAGE STATION Iya Terra & Mike Love w/Nattali Rize (roots reggae), 8pm SILVERADOS Wednesday Night Open Jam hosted by Hamza Vandehey, 6pm BREWERYAPPALACHIANSOUTHERN Jazz Night DeCristofaro,w/Jason6pm
JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam w/Drew Matulich & Friends, 7pm MAD CO. BREW HOUSE Jim Hampton Duo (electric country), 6pm BREWINGOKLAWAHACO. Kid Billy - Billy Litz (roots, blues, ragtime), 8pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Phirsty Phursdays w/ Lumpy Heads (Phish tribute), 9pm ONE BREWINGWORLD Jake Burns (acoustic), 7pm ONE BREWINGWORLDWEST • Adrienne Blanks (folk & vintage country), 6pm • Chase, Pastorius & Stanton ft Bob Lanzetti of Snarky Puppy, 9pm PULP Carly Taich & Jason Scavone (alt/indie), 8pm PISGAH COMPANYBREWING Spiro & Friends, 6:30pm SALVAGE STATION Greensky Bluegrass w/ The Wood Brothers, 5:30pm SIERRA BREWINGNEVADACO. Dangermuffin (Ameri cana, folk, jam), 6:30pm STATIC AGE RECORDS Bloomsday, Sinai Vessel & Colin Miller (indie rock/pretty rock), 9pm THE FOUNDRY HOTEL The Foundry Collective ft Pimps of Pompe (jazz, acoustic), 7pm
BIG TOP Silent Disco w/DJ Celestial Dreamers (edm), 9pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Lady and The Lovers (funk & Top 40 covers), 7pm TAPROOMDOWNTOWNHIGHLAND
STATIC AGE RECORDS Marley Carroll, Eternal Garb, Cerulean Moth (hardcore), 9pm THE GETAWAY RIVER BAR • Getaway Comedy: Katie Bowman, 8pm • Latin Vibes Dance Party w/ DJ Mtn Vibez, 10pm THE GREY EAGLE LOTS NerdlesqueFestivalBurlesque-GeektasticRevue,8pm WXYZ BAR AT ALOFT Members of Blaze the City (acoustic), 7pm
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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB • Nobody’s Darling String Band, 4pm • Tennessee Stifflegs (old-time country, Western swing, hillbilly jazz), 9pm MAD CO. BREW HOUSE Dirty Dead (Grateful Dead tribute, rock), 6pm MILLS BREWINGRIVER • The Reginals (folk, Americana), 2pm • Ross Osteen Band (blues, rock), 7pm BREWINGOKLAWAHACO. Billingsley (rock), 8pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Baked Shrimp (rock, funk, jam), 7pm ONE BREWINGWORLD Asheville 8 String Collective (jazz, funk, blues), 8pm ONE BREWINGWORLDWEST
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• Bluegrass Brunch, •10amHip-Hop Happy Hour (80s and 90s), 4pm BOOJUM BREWING CO. Day Dream and Pink Eye (indie dreampop, punk), 9pm BREWSKIES Pool Saturdays,Tournament7pm CROW & QUILL Sparrow and her Wingmen (vintage jazz, swing), 8pm FBO AT HOMINY CREEK The Late 6pm(SouthernShiftersrock,jam),
Sylva Grateful Dead Night w/Aimlessly Dead Acoustic, 8pm MAD CO. BREW HOUSE Ashley Heath (country, blues), 6:30pm MOTELMEADOWLARK Friday Night Karaoke, 7pm MILLS RIVER BREWING Andrew Thelston Band (rock, blues, folk), 7pm NEW BREWINGBELGIUMCO. Fly Casual Organ Quartet (jazz), 5:30pm BREWINGOKLAWAHACO. Raditude (rock), 8pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Friday w/ Generous Electric and Gus & Phriends, 6:15pm ONE BREWINGWORLD 5j Barrow (folk rock), 8pm ONE BREWINGWORLDWEST
• Bottleneck Jett (Amer icana roots), 5:30pm • Freeway Jubilee (Southern rock, moun tain music, funk), 9pm PISGAH BREWING CO. Lucinda Williams w/Abby Bryant & the Echoes (country, roots), 6pm RIVERSIDE RHAPSODY BEER CO. 5j Barrow (folk rock), 6pm SOVEREIGN KAVA Will Franke & The Space Fiddle (folk, world, hip-hop), 9pm
FLEETWOOD'S Fleetwood's Fifth Anniversary, 5pm FROG BREWERYLEVEL Krave Amiko (indie, electronic, folk), 6pm GUIDON BREWING Gin Mill Pickers (Amer icana, Piedmont blues, ragtime), 7pm HIGHLAND BREWING CO. Of the Times (soul, blues, rock), 6pm TAPROOMDOWNTOWNHIGHLAND Alice Bradley and Lyle De Vitry (singer-song writer), 7pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 • Jonathan 8:30pm(modern•(Americana),Byrd7pmTheBlushin'Roulettesold-time),
THE FOUNDRY HOTEL Jazz Soul Trio, 7:30pm
ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Jonathan FourchestraScales(steel pan jazz/funk), 9pm BIG PILLOW BREWING Jake Burns (acoustic), 6pm BLACK BREWINGMOUNTAIN Billy Presnell (soul, indie, Americana), 6pm BLOOM FLOWERWNCFARM Nick Dauphinais & Zachary Warren (acous tic, bluegrass), 6pm BOLD ASHEVILLEROCK
THE GETAWAY RIVER BAR Paint: A Drag Cabaret on the French Broad way, 8pm
THE GREY EAGLE LOTS Burlesque Festi val - Just a Peak, 8pm
• The Rich Nelson Band (rock), 12:30pm • Long Strange Deal (Jerry tribute),Garcia/Dead8pm 305 LOUNGE & EATERY Old Men of the Woods (folk, pop), 1pm 495 US-19-BR Latin Soul (salsa, bacha ta, merengue), 9pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY
Bold Rock Gives Back Night, 11:30am BREWSKIES Karaoke, 10pm CEDAR CANTEENMOUNTAIN Jazz w/Jason DeCristo faro, 2pm CORK & KEG
Drag Music Bingo w/ Divine the Bearded Lady, 7pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 A Tale of Two (Ameri cana, blues), 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Fancy and the Gentle men (alt country, honky tonk), 9pm LAZY BREWINGHIKERSYLVA
STATIC AGE RECORDS Death Bells, Smirk, Secret Shame (postpunk), 9pm
STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Gin Mill Pickers (Amer icana, Piedmont blues, ragtime), 1pm SUNNY POINT CAFÉ Albi (fingerstyle guitar), 6pm THE BURGER BAR Best Worst Karaoke w/ KJ Thunderk*nt, 9pm
ARCHETYPEAUGUSTSUNDAY,21BREWING Sunday Sessions, 3pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY • Life's A Drag Brunch w/Ida Carolina, 12pm
• Sugah & Thuh Cubes (soul, R&B, blues(, 6pm • Cosmic Dance Party, 9pm OSKAR BREWERYBLUES Michelle country),(SouthernMalonerock,folk,6pm RHAPSODYRIVERSIDE BEER CO. Two Fontaines (acoustic duo), 6pm SILVERADOS The Kentucky Head hunters w/The Georgia Thunderbolts (country), 7pm SOVEREIGN KAVA Tomato indie),(experimental,Calculatorblues,9pm
The Uptown Hillbillies (honky tonk), 8pm CROW & QUILL Doc Docherty (magic), 8pm FBO HOMINY CREEK Jerry's Dead (Grateful Dead & JGB Tribute), 6pm FBO AT HOMINY CREEK Jerry's Dead (Grateful Dead & JGB Tribute), 5pm FROG BREWERYLEVEL Kind, Clean Gentlemen (acoustic roots rock, soul blues), 6pm GUIDON BREWING Roots & Dore (blues, roots), 7pm HI-WIRE BREWING
THE ORANGE PEEL Magic City Hippies w/ Willis (alt-pop), 9pm URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE Coustin TL (throwback hip-hop dance party), 7pm WXYZ BAR AT ALOFT Asheville AV Club, 7pm
• Beauty Parlor Come dy: Derek Humphrey, •7pmMaximum Overdrive 80's Dance Party w/DJ Nato, 10pm ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr Jimmy (blues), 8pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Robert Thomas Band (70s classic rock jazz fusion), 8pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Atyya and Dillard, Chil lum, & Snarz (dance/ electronic), 9pm BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 5:30pm BIG PILLOW BREWING Human Nip (psych rock, jam), 6pm BISCUIT HEAD SOUTH Asheville Drag Night Brunch, 7pm BLUE BREWINGGHOSTCO. Tim Nave (folk), 6pm BOLD ASHEVILLEROCK
Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm 185 KING STREET Trivia Night: 90s Themed, 7pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Aquanet Goth Party w/ Ash Black, 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Stand-Up Comedy Open Mic, 8pm ASHEVILLE PIZZA & BREWING CO. Trivia! Trivia! Night, 6:30pm BOLD ASHEVILLEROCK Survey Says: Family Feud Style Trivia, 7pm BOLD ROCK MILLS RIVER Trivia Night, 6pm CATAWBA BREWING BILTMORE Singo (musical bingo), 7pm CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Trivia w/Billy, 7pm HI-WIRE BREWING Weekly Trivia Night, 7pm HI-WIRE BREWING RAD BEER GARDEN Game Night, 6pm HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Well- Crafted Wednes days w/Matt Smith, 6pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Sophie & the Broken Things w/Stacy Antonel (Americana, country), 7:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5pm BREWINGOKLAWAHACO. Mountain Music Jam, 6pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Wild 10pmWednesdays, ONE BREWINGWORLDWEST Latin Night Wednes days w/DJ Mtn Vibez, 8pm RENDEZVOUS Albi (musique Fran caise), 6pm SILVERADOS Wednesday Night Open Jam hosted by Hamza Vandehey, 6pm BREWERYAPPALACHIANSOUTHERN Jazz Night DeCristofaro,w/Jason6pm SOVEREIGN KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Host Caleb Beissert, 8pm STATIC AGE RECORDS Advertisement, Powder Horns & Walkhome (rock), 9pm SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Witty Wednesday Trivia, 6:30pm THE DUGOUT Karaoke Party w/ Sandman, 8pm THE FOUNDRY HOTEL Andrew Finn Magill (acoustic), 7pm THE GREY EAGLE Travis Book & Friends ft Alexa Rose (indie folk), 7pm THE POE HOUSE Team Trivia w/Wes Ganey, 7pm TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic, 6pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Traditional Irish Music Session, 7pm
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• Sunday Jazz Jam & Brunch w/The Fully Vaccinated Trio, 1pm • Kid Billy (Americana, roots), 6pm SALVAGE STATION Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue w/ Southern Avenue (soul, R&B), 6:30pm SOVEREIGN KAVA Aaron "Woody" Wood (Appalachian soul, Americana), 7pm STATIC AGE RECORDS Rachel Angel, Lavender Blue, Chakra Bird (indie lounge), 9pm THE GREY EAGLE LOTS Burlesque Festi val - Brunch, 12pm BREVARDBREWINGUPCOUNTRYCO. Hymns & Hops, 6pm ZILLICOAH BEER CO. Sunday Bluegrass Jam Series, 4:30pm PLĒB URBAN WINERY Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 4pm 5AUGUSTMONDAY,22WALNUTWINE BAR Freshen Up Comedy Open Mic, 7pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Martini Monday, 8pm BREWSKIES Open Jam w/Tall Paul, 7:30pm CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round, 6pm DSSOLVR Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm GREAT NOWHEREWILD Smunday Open Mic w/ Mat Masterson, 6pm GREEN BREWERYMAN Old Time Jam, 5:30pm HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Taylor Martin's Open Mic, 6:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo! Pub Trivia w/ Jason Mencer, 7:30pm
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THE BURGER BAR C U Next Tuesday! Late Night Trivia w/Cervix-ALot, 9pm THE GREY EAGLE Taylor Knighton (jazz, pop, folk), 6pm THE ODD Open Mic Comedy, 8pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Open Mic Night, 7pm
• SOL Dance Party w/ Zati (soul house), 9pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Mark's House Jam and Beggar's Banquet, 3pm BENT CREEK BISTRO Old Men of the Woods (folk, pop), 1pm BOLD ASHEVILLEROCK Bluegrass Brunch, 10am CROW & QUILL The Roaring Lions (parlour jazz), 8pm EBBS PERFORMINGCHAPEL ARTS CENTER The Burnett Sisters and Colin Ray (bluegrass, roots, country), 4pm FBO AT HOMINY CREEK JLAD (Jimmy Lang's Almost Doors), 4pm FROG BREWERYLEVEL Kevin Dolan & Paul Koptak (singer-song writer), 3pm HIGHLAND BREWING CO. Phuncle Sam (Grateful Dead tribute), 2pm HIGHLAND TAPROOMDOWNTOWNBREWING Mr Jimmy Duo w/Jim Fielder (blues), 1pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 • Brandon 7:30pmDarren•6pm(Americana,Stansellcountry),Bluegrassw/theNicholsonBand, JACK OF THE WOOD PUB • Bluegrass Brunch, •12pmTraditional Irish Jam, 4pm BREWINGOKLAWAHACO. Abby Bryant & The Echoes (soul rock), 3pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Sunday Funday w/Kyle Travers & Friends (rock, soul, funk), 8pm ONE BREWINGWORLDWEST
LITTLE JUMBO Live Jazz Mondays: The Core, 7pm BREWINGOKLAWAHACO. It Takes All Kinds Open Mic Night, 7pm ONE BREWINGWORLD Open Mic Willingham,w/Tony8pm SALVAGE STATION Murder By Death & Amigo The Devil w/ Samantha Crain (alt/ indie), 7pm THE GETAWAY RIVER BAR Trivia by the River w/ James Harrod, 8pm THE JOINT NEXT DOOR Blue Monday: Mr Jimmy and Friends (blues), 7pm THE ODD Magic The Gathering Play Night, 8pm
Travis Book & Friends ft Alexa Rose (indie folk), 6:30pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (jazz, swing), 8pm ARCHETYPE BREWING Trivia Tuesday, 6:30pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Downtown Karaoke w/ Ganymede, 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 10pm BOTTLE RIOT Turntable Tuesday w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 7pm CASCADE LOUNGE Tuesday Bluegrass Jam, 6pm
TAPROOMDOWNTOWNHIGHLAND Not Rocket Science Trivia, 6:30pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Early Tuesday Jam (funk), 9pm ONE BREWINGWORLDWEST Grateful Family Band Tuesdays (Dead tribute), 6pm PULP BYOvinyl: Classical and Broadway Tunes, 7pm
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185AUGUSTTHURSDAY,25KINGSTREET Ages Past (bluegrass), 7pm ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Kiki Thursdays Drag and Dancing, 8pm ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR • Blue Ridge Jazzway, •7:30pmMGB(covers, sing er-songwriter), 8pm BOLD ASHEVILLEROCK Trivia Night w/Mindless Minutia, 7pm BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7pm CAFE CANNA SpanGLISH Karaoke Patio Party, 9pm CATAWBA BREWING BILTMORE Thursday Trivia w/Billy, 6:30pm CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Baltic, Klezmer, Turk ish), 8pm FLEETWOOD'S The Stargazer Lilies, Red Feather, Day and Dream (dream pop, ambient shoegaze),rock,8pm FRENCH BREWERYBROAD Jerry's Dead (Grateful Dead & JGB Tribute), 6pm HIGHLAND TAPROOMDOWNTOWNBREWING Moon Water (Ameri cana roots), 6pm ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 • Asheville Sessions ft Robert Thomas (jazz, pop, rock, blues), 7pm • Poncé & Chilltonic (rock, hip-hop, funk, reggae), 8:30pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam w/Drew Matulich & Friends, 7pm MAD CO. BREW HOUSE Karaoke Night, 6pm ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Phirsty Phursdays w/ Lumpy Heads (Phish tribute), 9pm SALVAGE STATION Devin the Dude (rap), 8pm SOVEREIGN KAVA Stand Up Comedy for Your Health, 8pm STATIC AGE RECORDS Basement Brain, LiNE & Super Flower (indie/ experiemental), 9pm THE FOUNDRY HOTEL The Foundry Collective ft Pimps of Pompe (jazz, acoustic), 7pm THE GETAWAY RIVER BAR • Rum Punchlines Com edy Open Mic, 6pm • Karaoke w/Terraoke, 9pm THE ORANGE PEEL Shinedown (rock), 8pm THOMAS CENTERHARRAH'SAUDITORIUMWOLFEATCHEROKEE-ASHEVILLE Vince Gill (country), 6:30pm
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GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Tips on how to get the most out of the coming weeks: 1. Create a big spacious realization by weaving together several small hunches. 2. Keep a little angel on your right shoulder and a little devil on your left shoulder. Enjoy listening to them argue, and don’t get attached to anything they say. 3. Do the unexpected until it becomes expected. Then abandon it and try a new, unexpected experiment. 4. Meditate expansively on the question, “How many careers can I have in one lifetime?” 5. Enhance your home so it feels even more comfortable.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Be fluid and flexible while still being rooted and sturdy. Be soft and sensitive even as you are also firm and resolute. Be mostly modest and adaptable, but become assertive and outspoken as necessary. Be cautious about inviting and seeking out challenges, but be bold and brash when a golden challenge arrives. Be your naturally generous self most of the time, but avoid giving too much. Got all that, Cancerian? Carrying out the multifaceted assignments I just described might be nearly impossible for most of the other signs of the zodiac, but they are in your wheelhouse. You are a specialist in fertile complexity.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One is always at home in one’s past,” wrote author Vladimir Nabokov. But I encourage you to rebel against that theory, Libra. For now, find a way to NOT feel at home in your past. Question it, be curious about it, re-evaluate it. My hope is that you will then be motivated to change how your history lives in you. Now is an excellent time to reconfigure your life story, to develop a revised relationship with its plot twists and evolution. Revisit and update some of your memories. Re-evaluate the meanings of key events. Enchanting healings will materialize if you do.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Sometimes, you may feel you’re under the influence of a debilitating spell or hindered by a murky curse. Pisceans are prone to such worries. But here’s a secret. More than any other zodiac sign, you have the power to escape from spells. Even if you have never studied the occult or read a witch’s grimoire, you possess a natural facility for the natural magic that disperses curses. From the depths of your psyche, you can summon the spiritual force necessary to cleanse the gunk and free yourself. Now is a perfect time to prove to yourself that what I’ve said here is true.
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LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “I’ve swung from ancient vines in the caves of Jamaica,” exults Hoodoo priestess Luisah Teish. “I’ve danced with delight around totem poles and pressed foreheads with Maori warriors. I’ve joked with the pale fox in the crossroads, then wrestled with the jaguar and won. I have embraced great trees between my thighs and spoken words of love to thunder while riding lightning bolts.” I offer Teish’s celebratory brag to inspire you as you formulate plans for the coming weeks and months. What exhilarating adventures will you give yourself? What expansive encounters will you learn from? What travels outside of your comfort zone will you dare? The time is right for upsurges and upturns and upgrades.
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The Brewery Support Worker 1 is responsible for maintaining the cleanliness of the brewery and restaurants to the highest standard of quality. Reporting to the Brewery Support Supervisor, the core responsibility of the role is to perform facility wide housekeeping and sanitation duties to ensure the facility is orderly and hygienic. This is an entry-level position into a production facility with internal growth opportunities.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In her poem “Valentine,” Capricorn poet Carol Ann Duffy tells a lover she won’t give her a “red rose or a satin heart.” Instead, her token of affection is an onion, a symbol of multi-layered complexity. “Its fierce kiss will stay on your lips,” Duffy writes, “possessive and faithful as we are, for as long as we are.” She adds that the onion will “blind you with tears like a lover.” OK. I understand the tough attitude expressed by Duffy. Romance isn’t a relentlessly sweet, sentimental romp through paradise. But I don’t recommend that you imitate her approach to your love life in the coming weeks and months. Appreciate the sometimes shadowy and labyrinthine convolutions, yes, but don’t make them more important than beauty and joy and love. How about invoking the symbol of a pomegranate? It represents fertility and rebirth out of the darkness.
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The Dishwasher, who reports to the BOH Supervisor, is a member of the kitchen team who will receive and organize products; wash and sanitize equipment, plates, utensils, and spaces; stock equipment as needed in order to maintain proper BOH operations for the continuity of the guest experience.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky wrote, “All my life, I’ve been going around waiting for something — as if I were waiting in a railway station. And I’ve always felt as if the living I’ve done so far hasn’t actually been real life but a long wait for it — a long wait for something real.” If I could speak with Tarkovsky right now, I would cheerfully tell him that his wait will soon be over. I’d say that in the coming months, Aries people who have been postponing and postponing, who have been standing by and holding on and biding time, will have an excellent chance to begin inhabiting their full, rich destiny. I invite you to imagine what that will feel like.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In his poem “The Pupil,” Virgo-born Donald Justice speaks of how he spent “a whole week practicing for that moment on the threshold.” I advise you to do the same, Virgo. The goal is to be as prepared as you can be for the upcoming rite of transi tion — without, of course, being neurotically over-prepared. It’s fine and natural to honor the tension of anticipation, using it as motivation to do your best. One other thing: As you get ready, please have as much fun as possible. Visualize the sense of accomplishment you’ll feel when you’ve reached the other side of the test.
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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus poet Sherko Bekas wrote, “Each joy I wear, its sleeves are either too short or too long, too loose or too tight on me. And each sorrow I wear fits as if it were made for me wherever I am.” With this as our starting point, Taurus, I’m pleased to report some good news. In the next three weeks, you will have zero sorrows to try on and wear like a garment. And there will be at least three joys that fit just right. The sleeves will be the correct length, and the form will be neither too loose nor too tight.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Scorpios are most likely to regard that old pop tune by the Animals as your theme song. “I’m just a soul whose intentions are good,” croons lead singer Eric Burdon, “Oh, Lord, please don’t let me be misunderstood.” But you may have less motivation to express that sentiment in the coming weeks, dear Scorpio. I suspect you will experience record-breaking levels of being seen and appreciated for who you are. For best results, do this: 1. Inform your deep psyche that you have no attachment to being misunderstood. 2. Tell your deep psyche that you would very much like to be well understood.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Be extra expressive with the people and animals you care about. Be even more amusing and generous than usual. Dare to be abundantly entertaining and engaging and empathetic. Make it your goal to draw out your allies’ dormant potentials and inspire them to love themselves even more than they already do. I’ll tell you about the endearing terms that author Vladimir Nabokov called his wife. Consider using them with your dear ones: “My sun, my soul, my song, my bird, my pink sky, my sunny rainbow, my little music, my inexpress ible delight, my tenderness, my lightness, my dear life, my dear eyes, kittykin, poochums, goosikins, sparrowling, bird of paradise.”
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Unless we are creators, we are not fully alive,” wrote Sagittarian author Madeleine L’Engle. She was referring to everyone, not just people in the arts. She believed that to be soulful humans, we must always make new things, generate fresh possibilities, and explore novel approaches. The restless urge to transform what already exists can be expressed in how we do our jobs, our parenting, our intimate relationships, and every other activity. You are now entering a phase, Sagittarius, when this initiatory energy will be especially available, needed, and valuable.
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