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The taxpayers got played In 2016, the company Deschutes Brewery tried to get a free ride from Buncombe County taxpayers. Several politicians were eager to raise our taxes to enrich Deschutes. The excuse given was that to get the jobs, we had to “play the game.” There was no guarantee that the jobs would go to the Buncombe County taxpayers who would pay for them.

The recent scandals about misspent economic development funds show that the game was really to create a pool of funds, which certain officials could dip into to spend tax money for their personal benefit. The economic development story was just a front. That is why the contracts never require a company to pay a living wage to all employees or to hire residents of Buncombe County.

Those conditions make it hard to get the company to go along with the scam. So the contracts are written with no benefit to taxpayers.

Commissioners Joe Belcher, Mike Fryar and Miranda DeBruhl opposed forcing taxpayers to play this game. They were rebuked by the other commissioners for serving taxpayers rather than big business. Commissioner DeBruhl especially suffered harsh blame when Deschutes strung us along. The recent convictions prove that the “economic development” game was just a big scam and that the three commissioners above were right.

Further, Deschutes just strung Roanoke along like they did us until they finally abandoned their plans there [“Deschutes Brewery Says It Can’t Make Roanoke’s Revised Timetable for Plant,” The Roanoke Times, April 2: avl.mx/6fj].

They played both communities for fools.

We wouldn’t have a Deschutes brewery no matter what we did. We only would have given them more time to laugh at us.

Although not all of them are still in office, this might be a good time for the politicians who wrongly rebuked commissioners Belcher, Fryar and DeBruhl to apologize to them. It’s only fair now that we know they were doing the right thing.

— Brennan Green Weaverville Editor’s note: The Roanoke Times article quotes the city manager there as still having a “bit of hope” that Deschutes may someday build the brewery in Roanoke; it also notes that Deschutes waived $4.2 million in state and local incentives when it bought the Roanoke parcel so it could build on its own timeline, though the company could reapply for those incentives.

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When you are silent, we speak out.

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We are all the colors of the rainbow, and we are Rainbow Proud.

We have zero tolerance for racism, hate and fearmongering.

We are people of faith: Christians, Bautistas, Muslims, Jews, Natives, Witnesses and Unitarians. We worship everywhere, and we believe the words of many, many prophets.

We are “hardworking Americans,” some of us scraping by and some of us more prosperous. But none of us prosper while anyone suffers, even the folks who voted for you.

When we heard about the chanting at Trump’s rally in North Carolina, we cringed. Don’t get us wrong — we do chant. But we chant about uniting vs. dividing America. You won’t see us at MAGA rallies, but we are deeply concerned about making America better.

Yes, we are patriots.

Show us your patriotism. Have a heart.

We’re right here in North Carolina, and we can’t abide your silence any longer.

We are exhausted, cynical and angry.

We can’t stand to watch the news anymore. We’ve had #enough of your doublespeak. But we lift each other up, and, oh, we are energized! Si se puede! While you are busy upholding our Second Amendment rights, remember this: We are bulletproof.

Like we say here in the mountains: “How’s your day going so far?” Because your days in office are numbered.

We’re Southerners. When you cross us, there’ll be hell to pay. You might not see us, but we’re coming for you on Election Day.

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Charles George VA Medical Center earns its reputation I was recently released from the cardiac ward at the Charles George VA Medical Center here in Asheville after suffering a heart attack and two minor strokes. This was the first time in my life that I have ever been hospitalized and needless to say, I was pretty scared.

From the minute I entered the emergency room to the time of my discharge, I can tell you all from personal experience that we should all be very, very proud of the staff at our local VA because they are top-notch, caring and helpful professionals who go above and beyond the call of duty to help veteran patients, and many of the staff are veterans themselves.

I include everyone in this praise from those who clean the rooms and serve the meals all the way up to nurses , doctors and specialists. I especially want to thank Dr. [Glenn] Gafford who was in charge of my case and really helped me calm down, and the initial talk he gave me about my heavy cigarette smoking and its relation to my health problems seems to have worked, and I am still off the cigs.

Asheville is very lucky to have such a highly rated and respected VA, and we all owe them a tip of our various military service hats for their service to us veterans.

— John Penley Asheville

Demand ACA improvements The Republicans and Trump are at it again: trying to eliminate the ACA (Affordable Care Act) through a Texas court case trying to have the law ruled unconstitutional. Having failed repeatedly in Congress to repeal it, they are trying to use conservative justices on the federal bench.

I hope they do not succeed, as elimination of the mandate (the basis of their suit) matters little in the grand scheme of the ACA, and a fair judge would find that way. Millions have come to depend on the ACA for health insurance, especially those with preexisting conditions.

There is a new bill in the House to improve the ACA if it can get a hearing in the Senate with Mitch McConnell blocking everything the House passes, no matter how bipartisan the bill.

Write your senator to demand improvements in the ACA we depend upon.

— C. Warren Pope Asheville

Unbelievable naiveté on immigration I just read a letter in the Xpress titled “We All Can Support Immigrants” [Aug. 7]. Where do they get their facts? CNN? They aren’t concentration camps; people aren’t forced to drink out of toilets; young children who are separated from their families are because they abandoned them!

They are fleeing economic problems, not climate change! (Typical left-wing rhetoric that blames all problems on climate change.) I could go on and on about the blatant lies and misperceptions that the writer is trying to pass off as facts.

How about coming legally. That’s a term that the lefties want to ignore.

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I wanted to simply echo the sentiments of Sherry Luft in her May 1 letter regarding the current state of movie reviews at Mountain Xpress [“Experienced Movie Critics Wanted”].

I live in Houston, Texas, and for the last decade was a avid reader of Ken Hanke’s reviews. I could have “subscribed” to anyone in the country, but by chance, probably from a quote I read at Rotten Tomatoes, found Hanke. I came to depend on his opinions and fresh insights and was very saddened upon learning of his passing. Granted, he was and is a hard act to follow.

Nevertheless, out of habit I followed Scott Douglas and found him to be a

dreds of professional reviewers. And while it’s nice to hear that we’ve had fans in Texas, Xpress aims to serve the Western North Carolina community by offering local views from a range of community members, all of whom are avid moviegoers and experienced writers. The updated approach is fostering intelligent, diverse

community engagement with — and conversations about — new films. If quality film criticism is to survive, then fresh, informed voices — especially women and people of color — need opportunities to hone their craft, and it’s exciting to present those perspectives alongside established writers in each issue of Xpress.

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worthy successor and a solid reviewer and critic. His writings and insights were in stark contrast to the other reviewers whose work was sprinkled in around him. I remembered some of those names because they were frequent commenters to Hanke’s reviews and engaged in dialogues with Ken. They were amateurs by comparison.

Which brings me to the present and my point. Your movie review site is hopelessly inept since Douglas has departed. I’m not privileged to know why he left — there may have been very good reasons — and it’s none of my business, but I can tell you that the current writers are uniformly lame.

I’m not naming names. Some are obviously better than others. Some are hopelessly pathetic.

Overall, your review site is worthless to me, and I imagine to many others, other than functioning as a schedule for local screenings. There are plenty of other resources out there which I’ve now turned to, but I just think it’s a shame that you’ve let something deteriorate, something which set your site apart from many, many more well-known and well-funded ones.

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— Bill Thomas Houston Editor’s note: We always appreciate feedback from our readers. It’s true that the internet offers easy access to hun-

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However, I do agree with the writer on one point. All of you who want desperately to have open borders: Take them into your house and clothe them, feed them, educate them, pay for their health care, etc. I, for one, am tired of paying for these illegal invaders.

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While at the nongovernmental agency, Elliston frequented the National Archives at College Park, Md., which houses the CIA’s historical database. At the time, he notes, declassified material could be accessed only via a single on-site terminal, and long lines were par for the course.

“There were no thumb drives yet, so you had to print out every page you got, and the printer was constantly running out of toner,” Elliston remembers. So the government “had this bottleneck even when they were releasing” declassified documents.

Nevertheless, he made the trip regularly, for both professional and personal reasons. And he often sought out tidbits pertaining to local Asheville history, despite living nearly 500 miles away. Over time, says Elliston, interesting names and events started cropping up.

tcalder@mountainx.com Some folks collect baseball cards, others go for postage stamps. Then there’s local historian Jon Elliston, who’s spent the last 25 years patiently assembling a compelling collection of declassified government documents.

Throughout 2018, Elliston published a number of his findings in WNC Magazine, where he works as senior editor. (He’s also a contributor to and past managing editor of Xpress.) On Wednesday, Aug. 28, the writer will take his yearlong series off the page and to the lectern with a presentation titled “WNC Declassified: Local History Discoveries in Secret Documents.” The free talk will run from 6-7 p.m. in Pack Memorial Library’s Lord Auditorium.

Special collections librarian Zoe Rhine, who co-organized the event, says it’s the latest installment of the North Carolina Room’s ongoing effort to highlight lesser known aspects of the region’s history. Elliston, she says, is a frequent contributor to the library's programs, and he has a particular knack for public speaking.

“He is one of the strongest and bestinformed presenters I have heard,” she notes. “You’re rarely aware that Jon is presenting: It’s more like he’s just talking.”

With his latest lecture, Elliston promises to bring “an unlikely amount of excitement stemming from paper documents.”

The subject matter seems to back up that claim: From a pro-Nazi campaign launched in Asheville during the 1930s to a Cold War spy station

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PAPER TRAIL: Local author and historian Jon Elliston has been digging through and collecting declassified information since the early 1990s. He’ll share some of his findings in an upcoming talk organized by the North Carolina Room at Pack Library. Photo by Thomas Calder based in Transylvania County, the talk will highlight a number of local individuals and institutions whose influence extended far beyond the Blue Ridge Mountains.

THROUGH THE BOTTLENECK A native Ashevillean, Elliston caught the bug for declassified material in the early ’90s, shortly after graduating from UNC Chapel Hill. At the time, he

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was living in Washington, D.C., where he worked for the nonprofit National Security Archive.

“Their objective has always been to document as fully as possible the inner workings of the U.S. government, particularly in regard to national security and foreign policy issues,” Elliston explains. “But they’ve also done a lot of great work getting documents released relating to domestic matters, from the environment to various civil rights concerns.”

All five of the stories Elliston plans to share echo the current political and social climates. That’s no accident, the historian notes: His passion has always been connecting past events “to some of the issues we still grapple with today.”

In “Asheville’s Fascist,” first published in January 2018, Elliston wrote: “When torch-bearing white nationalists marched in Charlottesville, Va., last August, leading to a murder and national soul-searching, many shocked Americans asked, ‘How could this happen here?’ Some answers might be found in the story of William Dudley Pelley, who waged a bizarre but partially potent

WANTED: A local wanted poster for William Dudley Pelley. The founder of the Silver Legion of America, he was subsequently found guilty of sedition and sent to prison. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library

pro-Nazi campaign from Asheville in the 1930s.”

Inspired by Adolf Hitler’s appointment as Germany’s chancellor, Pelley founded the Silver Legion of America in 1933. With a printing operation in Biltmore Village, he published material denouncing Jews and promoting white supremacy. At its peak, Elliston reports, the Silver Legion had as many as 20,000 members scattered across the country.

A few years later, Pelley entered politics, running for president on the Christian Party ticket in 1936. The campaign was a dismal failure, but Pelley continued his pro-Nazi campaign until 1942. That year, the leader of the Silver Legion was found guilty on multiple charges of sedition and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

“I think Pelley is ripe for a little reassessment,” Elliston says now.

“He was a very esoteric kind of individual. … Had he not been such an oddball, I wonder if he would have gained more traction.”

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N EWS DECONSTRUCTING “TRUTH” Relaying declassified information, notes Elliston, poses a number of obstacles. The greatest challenge, he says, is condensing complex and layered accounts into an accessible narrative.

Another hurdle is determining the accuracy of any given document. “Declassified materials are sometimes filled with misinformation,” the historian explains. In some instances, reports are infused

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COLD WAR SPY STATION: In 1981, the Defense Department took over this 200-acre site in Rosman, formerly run by NASA. The Transylvania County facility monitored the strategic communications of Soviet bloc adversaries. Photo courtesy of Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute with rumors and speculation. “It takes a bit of practice and a lot of conversations with experts and some contextualization to figure out how much stock to put in the papers that have been released thus far,” he says.

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But the quest for truth also calls for integrity. “I think sometimes historians and observers go wrong when they cherry-pick a line from a secret document as though it were the gospel truth when, in fact, it

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And then there’s the question of how “the facts” may change as new material is uncovered. Such is the case with Elliston’s ongoing research

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into Black Mountain College. A freewheeling, multidisciplinary hub of artistic innovation, the alternative school operated in Black Mountain from 1933-57.

During the school’s 24-year run, several faculty members and students attracted FBI scrutiny. A key reason for that, says Elliston, was the college’s embrace of refugees fleeing Nazi Germany.

He plans to share specific FBI accounts during his talk. At the same time, he stresses, “We still have a lot to learn. … I’ve been working with a bunch of biographers and other scholars. … We’re amassing a pretty good dossier on Black Mountain College that is continuing to grow.”

Research Institute operates the site as an educational center.

And though the Defense Department shut down the spy station in 1995, details of its checkered past are still unknown. “It was a major local employer in a pretty depopulated county during the last 15 years of the Cold War,” Elliston points out. “There were a lot of folks who worked in that facility and had top-secret security clearances. I’m sure they have great stories to add that we haven’t heard yet.” X

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MORE TO TELL Tales of espionage, nuclear war and the undoing of a presidency will round out the evening. And though some of the action took place outside of Western North Carolina, the central figures were all natives of the region.

That includes Sen. Sam Ervin Jr., a Burke County resident whose leadership role in the Senate’s investigation into the 1972 Watergate scandal roused President Richard Nixon’s ire. “This old fart is going to screw us,” the commander in chief said of Ervin during an Oval Office meeting. The quote, notes Elliston, comes courtesy of declassified documents concerning Nixon’s own secret White House audiotapes.

Stepping outside the region, says Elliston, can create opportunities to discuss broader issues such as civil liberties, government surveillance and transparency.

But the majority of the talk, he says, will focus on filling in gaps in local history.

At the same time, Elliston hopes those who attend his upcoming presentation will raise additional questions and perhaps bring new information to the table. His report on the Rosman research station, he says, is a prime prospect for such amplification.

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STOPGAP MEASURES Asheville City Schools begin new year with interim leadership extreme disparities in the academic performance of its white and black students, which are the largest of any district in the state (see sidebar, “2019 Xpress Coverage of the Asheville City Schools”).

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PINCH HITTER: Interim Superintendent Bobbie Short returns for a third time in six years as Asheville City Schools once again searches for a permanent leader. Photo by Virginia Daffron Over the past two years, Bobbie Short has enjoyed the pleasures of retirement: working in her North Asheville yard, serving on the boards of local nonprofits and planning an at-home wedding for her daughter.

But with school back in session things have changed, both in Short’s schedule and her household. For one thing, her husband is now back on dinner duty. “If he wants to eat when I’m working, he has to cook,” she explains.

For the third time in six years, Short has been tapped to lead the Asheville City Schools through a transition. She served stints following the 2013 retirement of Superintendent Allen Johnson and the February 2017 departure of Superintendent Pamela Baldwin, who left to take the top job in the Chapel HillCarrboro City Schools. In the wake of Superintendent Denise Patterson’s June resignation for medical reasons, Short is on board for yet another tour of duty.

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“I am excited, especially with kids coming back,” she told Xpress at an Aug. 7 public event. “I just love kids and like to be around them.”

During her previous stints, parents and teachers alike praised Short for her hands-on, personal approach.

She served as superintendent of the Watauga County Schools from 2003-08 and was a teacher, elementary supervisor, principal and assistant superintendent in the Buncombe County Schools before that.

“I mostly try to make being in school my priority, to see what kids are doing and what teachers need and what schools need,” she explained. To that end, she noted, “I’ve been trying to help make sure we’ve got the resources available,” though she stressed that, at that point, she’d been back on the job less than three weeks.

The interim superintendent is taking over as the district struggles with

Short’s isn’t the only face from the past that’s back in the 2019-20 lineup.

Charlie Glazener, the city schools’ former executive director of communications and public relations, has also returned to pitch in while the district searches for its next permanent superintendent. Glazener says he’ll work with Executive Director of Communications Ashley-Michelle Thublin for up to 30 hours per week during the transition period.

At an Asheville City Board of Education work session on Aug. 5, Glazener asked board members to overlook the horizontal crease across the leg of his gray dress pants.

“They’ve been on the hanger for 23 months,” he joked.

On June 27, prior to Short’s reappointment, the board approved a $65-an-hour consulting contract with Veronika Gunter for public relations services, but that arrangement appears to be coming to an end.

“I think she’s still on contract, but I think it’s significantly diminished from what it was,” Glazener said when asked about her role. “That’s all I know, because that’s a board decision. Ashley-Michelle and I have already taken over all the forms and the survey process, so I’m not sure what else was on her plate in the short term.”

COMMUNITY FEEDBACK Thublin, meanwhile, told board members that the system had received over 1,000 responses to its superintendent selection survey, which closed on July 28. That’s more than a 100% increase over the response to the 2017 survey conducted prior to Patterson’s hiring, she said. The current survey was designed to illuminate community members’ feelings about the school system and priorities for its next

ATTITUDES TOWARD CITY SCHOOLS

DISAPPOINTING MARKS: Over a quarter of respondents to the city schools' online survey said they have a negative or somewhat negative impression of the system, a number the district's spokesperson called "too high." Image provided by Asheville City Schools leader. Two other questionnaires, tailored to district staff and students, respectively, will be made available to members of those groups in the coming weeks.

More than a quarter of respondents to the community survey said they have a negative or somewhat negative impression of the system, a number Thublin called “too high.”

For 34% of respondents, “knowing whom to ask for help” when things go wrong at school was described as hard or somewhat hard.

Looking ahead, respondents said the most important quality they’d like to see in the new superintendent was the ability to help meet students’ social, emotional, mental and physical health needs. Other key characteristics, in order of popularity, were: leadership skills for implementing changes and providing training; strong interpersonal skills; expertise in curriculum; and

the ability to manage people, money, programs and facilities.

In terms of candidates’ credentials, survey takers gave top marks to prior experience as a schoolteacher or other school-based staff member.

Experience working with children and adults living in poverty ranked second in importance, followed by racial equity training.

IN THEIR OWN WORDS “I’d like a superintendent who is a resident of Asheville, understands the history of Asheville and the district, and has experience as a teacher and administrator,” wrote one representative respondent.

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2019 Xpress coverage of the Asheville City Schools • J une 28: Asheville Board of Ed hires PR consultant, details superintendent process (avl.mx/6ey) • M ay 25: Goals, timeline lacking in program to narrow racial achievement gap (avl.mx/pru5) • M ay 8: Schools seek twice proposed county funding increase (avl.mx/62g) • M arch 29: Council reappoints incumbents, selects Carter, to oversee Asheville City Schools (avl.mx/62f)

• March 22: Asheville government, schools, nonprofits launch effort to address achievement gap (avl.mx/62e) • March 10: Amid soul searching over severe disparities, City Council weighs its latest school board appointments (avl.mx/5tg) • Feb. 28: Parents protest planned Vance Elementary playground changes (avl.mx/62d) • Jan. 31: Asheville City Schools’ worst-inNC achievement, discipline gaps widen (avl.mx/5ua)

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N EWS “Equity mindset. Uplift our students of color,” urged another.

Other write-in comments stressed such factors as: communication skills; having a vision for eliminating the system’s academic achievement gap; spending time in schools with students and teachers; pedagogical knowledge and expertise; and providing inspiring leadership to boost staff morale.

At the Aug. 5 work session, Glazener also cited a number of negative community perceptions about the current state of the Asheville City Schools.

They include: a sense that the teacher turnover rate is high; that principals and teachers are undermined by a heavy-handed central administration; that the central office is overstaffed while school-based resources have been reduced; that the district is more focused on helping low-achieving stu-

GROUP WORK: Several small groups discussed questions posed by facilitators at a public input session on the district’s superintendent search held at Ira B. Jones Elementary. Jones Principal Sarah Cain, third from left, participated in one of the groups. Photo by Virginia Daffron dents than on serving what he called “high flyers”; and that the district’s ICS Equity process hasn’t provided teachers with practical ways to address the achieve-

Does ACS have a teacher turnover problem?

The community survey that concluded on July 28 found that the Asheville City Schools have a reputation for higherthan-average teacher turnover. To gauge whether that’s an accurate perception, Xpress requested teacher separation numbers from both the city and the Buncombe County systems.

School districts must submit official separation numbers for the 201819 school year to the N.C. Department of Public Instruction in fall 2019, ACS Executive Director of Human Resources Joyce Hatcher told school board members on June 27.

As of June 22, 123 staff members had left the city district since last fall; 47 of them were certified teachers. The district employed 376 certified teachers that year, yielding an unofficial teacher turnover rate of 12.5%. In 2016-17, the district had a 20.74% teacher turnover rate, official fig-

ures show; in 2017-18, the number plummeted to 11.7%.

According to data provided by the Buncombe County Schools, that system’s teacher turnover rates (including teachers who retired, left the district or assumed nonteaching roles such as administrative positions within the district) were: 11.3% in 2016-17, 12.7% in 2017-18 and 11.8% (unofficial) in 2018-19.

And a Jan. 29 analysis by Carolina Demography, a consulting service at UNC Chapel Hill’s Carolina Population Center, pegged North Carolina’s overall teacher turnover rate at 13.4% in 2016-17 and 13.5% in 2017-18.

Based on those numbers, the Asheville City Schools’ 2016-17 teacher turnover rate was significantly higher than either Buncombe County’s or the state’s, but that wasn’t the case in 2017-18 — nor, apparently, last year. X

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ment gap. (See sidebar, “Does ACS Have a Teacher Turnover Problem?”)

About 800 of the 1,022 survey respondents reported living in the district.

Roughly the same number said they currently have children attending the Asheville City Schools. Almost 74% of respondents were female, and the majority were 30-50 years old. Over 80% of respondents were white; 8.6% identified as black.

ROAD SHOW In addition to the surveys, the district has scheduled several public input sessions. The second such gathering, held Aug. 7 at Ira B. Jones Elementary in North Asheville, drew about 30 attendees. They used cellphones and districtprovided laptops to enter responses to a variety of questions into a web-based survey tool. Facilitators Copland Rudolph of the Asheville City Schools Foundation and ACS staffer Marta Alcala-Williams also encouraged participants to engage in small-group discussions.

The digital format, which is increasingly being deployed at public input sessions and other events in Asheville and beyond, produces slick charts and graphics on the fly and collects feedback from multiple sessions into one consolidated report. Judging by the client lists posted

on the websites of Mentimeter (the system the city schools are using) and competitors such as PublicInput.com, digital participation apps are catching on across the country.

Board members praised the methodology, and Short commented: “I think this process is great, don’t you?

I just think it’s efficient, in terms of capturing what people think.”

Several attendees at the Jones Elementary meeting said they liked providing responses via the Mentimeter app; one father pointed out that not everyone feels comfortable standing up and speaking in a public meeting.

Still, watching the silent residents, heads bent over their phones and index fingers and thumbs flying, it was possible to feel nostalgic for older, messier forms of civic participation.

At least one attendee seemed to share that sentiment, telling Xpress that the questions asked didn’t get at issues she wanted to raise.

Applications for the position will be accepted through Wednesday, Sept. 18, and the Board of Education will interview candidates in October and November. On June 27, board attorney Chris Campbell advised the board against making the names of finalists public before offering one of them the job, saying a confidential process would attract a larger number of qualified candidates.

While the board hopes to announce its pick in November en route to a January start date, Campbell also warned that the top prospect might insist on finishing the school year in his or her current district before taking up the reins here. In that case, the new leader wouldn’t begin work until next summer.

That means Short’s husband could be on dinner duty for the foreseeable future. And just as the interim superintendent’s meals may often have to await her late arrival, so too must local hopes for a long-term vision for the Asheville City Schools. X

More chances to give input Additional forums are scheduled for the following dates and locations: • Thursday, Aug. 22, Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center, 133 Livingston St. • Monday, Aug. 26, Hall Fletcher Elementary School, 60 Ridgelawn Road.

• Thursday, Aug. 29, North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • Wednesday, Sept. 4, Vance Elementary School, 98 Sulfur Springs Road. This meeting will be facilitated in Spanish.

All meetings will start at 5:30 p.m. and last about an hour.

The district has also announced three forums to be held on Facebook Live on Wednesday, Aug. 28, at 9 a.m., 1 p.m. and 7 p.m. To participate, go to avl.mx/6fp.

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“There is no railway car in all the South which the colored man cannot ride in.

That is his civil right. This bill proposes that he should have the opportunity or the right to go into a first-class car and sit with white gentlemen and white ladies. I submit if that is not a social right. There is a distinction between the two.”

The bill, he argued, would be “detrimental to the interests of both races,” stating legislation that outlawed discrimination would “rob the colored man … more or less of the friendship of the owners of the soil

Nevertheless, Vance assured the celebratory group, “I should as Governor of North Carolina recognize you as citizens and should respect all the rights with which the laws have invested you.”

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“My Friends: — I appear in your meeting to-day simply to acknowledge the respect you have shown me by inviting me as the Governor of the State to visit your assemblage.

You cannot of course expect me to join with you in celebrating this day, the anniversary of that emancipation which I struggled so long to prevent, and which I, in common with all the people of my race in the South, regard as an act of unconstitutional violence to the one party, and as an injury to the other.”

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In the immediate aftermath of the Civil War, Buncombe County native and wartime Gov. Zebulon Baird Vance was arrested by Federal troops. Held in prison for just two months, he was released in July 1865 and placed on parole.

During this time, in an undated letter to his friend John Evans Brown, Vance recalled the fall of the Confederacy.

“Slavery was declared abolished … leaving four million freed vagabonds among us — outnumbering in several states the whites[.]”

Later in the missive, Vance rued the implications of emancipation. “There are indications that the radical abolitionists … intend to force perfect negro equality upon us,” he wrote. “Should this be done, and there is nothing to prevent it, it will revive an already half formed determination in me to leave the U.S. forever.”

Between 1865 and 1870, the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments were ratified, abolishing slavery, granting citizenship to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States,” and prohibiting the government from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on race, color or past servitude.

Despite his previous profession to flee the country under such circumstances, Vance remained. He was pardoned in 1867 for his role in the Confederate army. Though initially prohibited from serving in public office due to his past disloyalty to the country, he remained active in politics.

In the early 1870s, a bill introduced by Sen. Charles Sumner of Massachusetts sought to outlaw racial discrimination in juries, schools, transportation and public accommodations. The proposed measure elicited many reactions, including those of former Gov. Vance, who addressed the House of Representatives on Jan. 10, 1874.

The North Carolina Citizen ran Vance’s speech in its Jan. 22, 1874, edition. In his opening remarks, the former Confederate rebutted claims that his opposition to the civil rights bill was based on hatred or prejudice. In fact, Vance declared: “I have felt it my duty to advance in every laudable way the interests of the colored race in this country.”

His opposition to Sumner’s bill, Vance asserted, stemmed from what he perceived as the legislation’s misnomer. It was not civil rights that the bill addressed, Vance claimed, but rather “social rights.”

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in the South.” Meanwhile, Southern schools, Vance noted, would close in the wake of mandated integration.

Another objection, framed as concern, turned into a long-winded rant about white supremacy. If the bill passed, Vance proclaimed, disharmony would surface between the races, which he considered an inherent disadvantage to African Americans. “No race, sir, in the world has been able to stand before the pure Caucasian. An antagonism of races will not be good for the colored man,” he stated.

In a similar vein, Vance argued the bill would create unrealistic aspirations among African Americans. “It begets hopes and raises an ambition in the minds of the colored man that can never be realized,” Vance declared.

Despite his efforts, Vance’s speech did not kill the bill. The following year, Sumner’s legislation was signed into law. Absent in the final version, though, was any mention of integrated schools.

Eight years later, the Supreme Court declared the law unconstitutional, stating the 14th Amendment granted Congress the right to regulate the behavior of states, not individuals.

In 1877, Vance returned to the governor’s mansion for a third time. The following January, he attended a parade in Raleigh.

The event featured several companies of African American troops who marched in celebration of Emancipation Day (see “Asheville Archives: Emancipation Day,” Feb. 27, 2018, Xpress).

According to the Jan. 10, 1878, edition of The Asheville Citizen, the governor was later invited to address a group of African American residents who were also celebrating the day.

Vance’s speech began:

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ANIMALS FAMILY ANIMAL ENCOUNTERS • SA (8/24), 2pm Join a park naturalist for an informal program with live animals. Admission fees apply. Held at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St., Chimney Rock

BENEFITS ANIMAL BOOGIE • SA (8/24), 2-10pm - Proceeds from donations and raffle at this live music event benefit the Blue Ridge Humane Society and Sweet Bear Rescue Farm.

Free to attend.

Held at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville HOT AUGUST NIGHT 5K • SA (8/24), 7pm Proceeds from the Hot August Night 5K benefit the Asheville Parks and Recreation Department’s Montford Center. $20/$15 children under 13.

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Community Center, 34 Pearson Drive NASHVILLE SONGWRITERS IN THE ROUND • TH (8/22), 6pm Proceeds from the Nashville Songwriters in the Round concert with buffet dinner and drinks benefit the Rotary Club of Asheville college scholarship fund. Tickets: bit.ly/2YvoTut. $100. Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway NO PEARL WITHOUT GRIT • TH (8/22), 6-9pm - Proceeds from the No Pearl Without Grit fundraiser with raffle, live music from The Cheeksters and a Roaring 20s theme benefit Mountain Bizworks. $30/$25 advance.

Held at Ambrose West, 312 Haywood Road ONE CELLO, ONE PLANET • FR (8/23), 7:30pm - Proceeds from One Cello, One Planet, with cellist Judith Glixon benefits Cre-

ation Care Alliance of WNC, a program that empowers faith organizations to act on climate change. $20 and up. Held at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville • SU (8/25), 4pm Proceeds from One Cello, One Planet, with cellist Judith Glixon benefits Creation Care Alliance of WNC, a program that empowers faith organizations to act on climate change. $20 and up. Held at Jubilee Community Church, 46 Wall St. PEGGY RATUSZ TRIO • SU (8/25), 3pm Proceeds from this house concert house featuring The Peggy Ratusz Trio benefit Liberty Corner.

Tickets: cschaefer@ Lcewnc.org or 864884-7822. Admission by donation.

TAKE THE PLUNGE FOR HEALTH! • SU (8/25), 1-4pm - Proceeds from The Plunge! with swimming, live music, live auction, food, kids games and plunging of local dignitaries benefit Healthways Living Program. $20/$5 kids under 13. Held at Kanuga Main Campus, 130 Kanuga Chapel Drive, Hendersonville THE DENIM BALL • TH (8/22), 6pm Proceeds from this denim themed gala

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with dinner, drinks, auction and live music benefit The Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation renovation of the Moses H. Cone Memorial Park. $125. Held at Cone Manor, MP 294, Blue Ridge Parkway TUNNEL TO TOWERS RUN & WALK • SU (8/25), 8:46am - Proceeds from the 2019 Tunnel to Towers 5K Run & Walk benefit Asheville Fire Department.

Registration: avl.mx/6fl. $30.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-3987950, abtech.edu/ sbc • TU (8/24), 9amnoon - SCORE: How to Build your Customer Base, seminar. Registration required. Free.

• WE (8/28), 9am-noon - How to Price Your Product or Service, seminar. Registration required. Free.

FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden

RED RUM: Local historian Steve Greene shines a light on the dark deeds that transpired between families and friends in these mountains not so long ago. “Murders in the Mountains” is an overview of some famous and some not-so-familiar arguments that ended regrettably. The Friends of East Asheville Library plan the program for Tuesday, Aug. 27, 7 p.m. at Beverly Hills Baptist Church. Free to attend. (p. 18) WOMANUP WORKSHOP • TH (8/22), 8-10:30am - WomanUp Workshop for business women and entrepreneurs led by Cheri Torres. Register online. $40/$30 members.

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3-4pm ($10-15, kidfriendly). Lawn games & fire pit + drinks for sale. Open jam 6pm.

Free. Held at Big Ivy Community Center, 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville

AMERICAN LEGION POST 70 • LAST MONDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Dinner at 6pm.

Meeting at 7pm. Free.

Held at American Legion Post 70, 103 Reddick Road

BLACK MEN MONDAYS

SUNDAYS SHOP & SIP AT THE CANDLER CABOOSE! (PD.) Thrift & upcycle shop open Sundays 1-10pm with craft/art making

BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER BOARD MEETING • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm - Community center board meeting.

• LAST MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Black Men Mondays, group to bring positive, strong and like-minded black men together for the benefit of one another and the community. Information: 828-361-4529. Free.

Held at Community Action Opportunities, 25 Gaston St.

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FINANCIAL LITERACY CLASSES • Through TH (8/29) - Open registration for financial literacy classes and a savings incentive program for individuals working or living in the Bethel, Clyde and Canton areas. Registration and information: 828354-0067. Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Haywood County.

MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ASHEVILLE • 4th TUESDAYS, 6pm - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • TH (8/22), noon1:30pm - Assessing Your Insurance Needs, class. Registration required. Free.

• TH (8/22), 5:307pm - Home Energy Efficiency, workshop.

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• TU (8/27), noon1:30pm - Planning for Your Financial Future, class. Registration required. Free.

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SCIENCE PUB • TH (8/22), 5:307pm - Science Pub: Land Management, presentation by Dave Ellum, Dean of Land Resources at Warren Wilson College, on land management practices for land owners and stewards.

Refreshments provided. Free to attend.

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401 SIT-N-STITCH • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - Sit-n-Stitch, informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. VANISHING AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE OUTHOUSE • TH (8/29), 6pm Historical Society meeting with light refreshments then a lecture, Vanishing American Architecture: The Inside Story of the Outhouse.

Free to attend. Held at Glenville Community Center, 355 Frank Allen Road, Cashiers

FOOD & BEER ASHEVILLE VEGAN RUNNERS • 4th SATURDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Asheville Vegan Runners, open group meeting.

Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road FOOD NOT BOMBS COMMUNITY MEAL • SUNDAYS, 4pm - Community meal. Free. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville HELP 4 HENDO • MO (8/26), 10am1pm - Saluda Hair Garage offers free haircuts, Sanctuary: food, Humane Society: pet supplies and Goodwill: employment skills. Also clothing and toiletries for those in need.

Held at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville

WELCOME TABLE FREE MEAL • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Welcome Table, community meal. Free.

Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

FESTIVALS HAYWOOD COUNTY FAIR • TH (8/22) through SU (8/25) - County fair with performances, livestock shows, tractor pulls, bounce house, horse riding competitions, farm and garden exhibits and rabbit and poultry shows and exhibits. Information: haywoodcountyfairgrounds.org. Held at Haywood County Fairgrounds, 758 Crabtree Road, Waynesville

UNITY IN COMMUNITY • FR (8/23) until SU (8/25) - East End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival with live music, vendors, food trucks and kids area. Saturday parade and car show, 11am.

Sunday worship service and gospel music. Free to attend.

Held at Martin Luther King Jr Park, 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING • TU (8/27), 5pm City Council public hearing. Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TH (8/22), 5:156:30pm - Public input forum regarding the search for a new

superintendent by the Asheville City Board of Education. Free.

Held at Arthur R. Edington Education and Career Center, 133 Livingston St. • MO (8/26), 5:156:30pm - Public input forum regarding the search for a new superintendent by the Asheville City Board of Education. Free.

Held at Hall Fletcher Elementary, 60 Ridgelawn Ave. • TH (8/29), 5:156:30pm - Public input forum regarding the search for a new superintendent by the Asheville City Board of Education.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR ON VOTER ID • WE (8/28), 2 & 6pm - Buncombe County Board of Elections holds two seminars about voter photo

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Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Community Co-Op, 60 S. Charleston Lane, Hendersonville VEGANISM & ANARCHY • FR (8/23), 1pm Veganism in Anarchy and Non-violent Direct Action in Social, open discussion and forum. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

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KIDS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY FOUNDATION 866-308-2773, brpfoundation.org, aroyal@ brpfoundation.org • SA (8/24), 10am - EcoExplore: Herpetology Season Summit. Admission fees apply. Held at NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way • SA (8/24), 11am Ranger-led TRACK Trail adventure at the Rumbling Bald Climbing access.

Shuttle bus available from Chimney Rock Access at 10:30 am. Admission fees apply.

Held at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St., Chimney Rock • SA (8/24), 12:30pm - Park staff-led hike along Great Woodland

Adventure Trail.

Admission fees apply. Held at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St., Chimney Rock • SA (8/24), 2pm Join a park naturalist for an informal program with live animals. Admission fees apply. Held at Chimney Rock State Park, 431 Main St., Chimney Rock BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/ depts/library • SA (8/24), 2:30-4:30pm - Kids Rising: Standing Up for Families at the Border, event provides a space for kids to express their feelings through writing and art about border children and families. Held at

THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER: Mountain BizWorks celebrates 30 years aiding small business with a Roaring Twenties-themed party titled No Pearl Without Grit. The evening includes live music by The Cheeksters, beer, wine, hors d’oeuvres and a raffle.

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Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St. • 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm - Homeschoolers' book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave.

• TU (8/27), 3pm Graphic Novel Book Club, ages 8-12. Free.

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- Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-2504720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. END OF SUMMER BLAST • WE (8/21), 1-4pm Games, wagon rides, popcorn and more. $10/family. Held at Historic Johnson Farm, 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville JUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS • Until (8/31) - Register for Junior Appalachian Musicians, Haywood County 2019-20 school year held Tuesday afternoons, (9/10) through (5/19), 4-5:30pm. Lessons: $95/semester (~$6 per class), siblings $50/semester. Information: 828-452-0593 or bmk.morgan@ yahoo.com. Application: avl.mx/6dq.

Held at First United Methodist Church of Waynesville, 556 S. Haywood St., Waynesville KIDS IN PARKS NATIONAL TRACK TRAILS DAY • SA (8/24) - Kids in Parks National TRACK Trails Day with guided hikes and animal encounters at various

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SUMMER SERIES BLOOMS • SATURDAYS through (8/24), 10:30am - Programs on local ecology, using natural materials to make art, recycling and upcycling and gardening.

Information: firestorm.coop, 828707-4364 or stevensonwa@ guilford.edu. Free.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy hiking, 2pm Animal Encounters and more on Saturday, Aug. 31-Monday, Aug. 2. during Labor Day Family Fun. Info at chimneyrockpark. com BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKE OF THE WEEK • FR (8/23), 10am - Moderate, 2.5 mile roundtrip hike through a hardwood forest down to the scenic East Fork of the Pigeon River.

Free. Meet at the Looking Glass Rock Overlook at Milepost 417.

BOATING SAFETY COURSES • WE (8/28) & TH (8/29), 6-9pm - North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission boating safety course. Held in building 3300, room 3322. Registration required: ncwildlife.org. Held at Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, ncwildlife. org/Learning/ Education-Centers/ Pisgah/EventRegistration • TU (8/20) & WE (8/21), 6-9pm Unlicensed sportsmen and women must complete a hunter education course before they can hunt in NC or purchase a hunting license. Course covers hunter responsibility, wildlife conservation and management, firearms, wildlife identification, survival and first aid and tree stand safety. Attendees must be present both days. Registration: avl.mx/68e.

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• MO (8/26), 9amnoon - Learn how to create different tackle setups for fly fishing in a variety of situations. Registration: avl.mx/68e. Free.

PUBLIC LECTURES MURDER IN THE MOUNTAINS • TU (8/27), 7pm - "Murder in the Mountains," presentation by local historian Steve Greene. Free. Held at Beverly Hills Baptist Church, 777 Tunnel Road

WESTERN REGIONAL ARCHIVES • SA (8/24), 2-3pm - Get Acquainted with the Western Regional Archives, presentation by staff archivist.

Information: obcgs.com. Free.

Held at Old Buncombe County Genealogical Society, 128 Bingham Road, Suite 950

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural and outdoor activities.

Visit ashevillenewfriends. org CHAIR YOGA • THURSDAYS, 2pm - Chair Yoga.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. COUNCIL ON AGING, MEDICARE CLASS • WE (8/21), 2-4pm - Medicare Choices Made Easy. Free.

Held at Blue Ridge Community Health Services, 2579 Chimney Rock Road, Hendersonville • FR (8/23), 2-4pm - Medicare Choices Made Easy. Free.

Held at Goodwill Career Training Center, 1616 Patton Ave. • WE (8/28), 2-4pm - Medicare Choices Made Easy. Free.

Held at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, 150 Brian Berg Drive, Brevard

SPIRITUALITY ANATTASATI MAGGA (PD.) Sujata Yasa (Nancy Spence). Zen Buddhism. Weekly meditations and

services; Daily recitations w/mala.

Urban retreats.

32 Mineral Dust Drive, Asheville, NC 28806. 828367-7718. info@ anattasatimagga. org.

ANATTASATIMAGGA. ORG ASTROCOUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions.

Stellar Counseling Services. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

DE-STRESS, GET HAPPY & CONNECT! (PD.) Mindfulness Meditation at the Asheville Insight Meditation Center.

Group Meditation: Weekly on Thursdays at 7pm & Sundays at 10am. ashevillemeditation. com, info@ ashevillemeditation. com.

EXPANDING IN NATURE (PD.) Woodland walks.

Relax in nature, learning the wild plants and herbs.

Experience the healing energy of trees. Isis, herbalist, healer.

843-576-9202 EXPERIENCE THE SOUND OF SOUL (PD.) HU, Sacred Sound, Ancient Mantra THURSDAY, 8/22, 7-8pm. Gather with others for a HU chant, contemplation and spiritual conversation. Discover the benefits of HU; Inner peace and calm, Your inner guidance, Healing for body, mind, spirit, A higher form of creativity & more. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Hay-

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LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm. ashevillemeditation. com, info@ ashevillemeditation. com.

VOLUNTEERING HELP CHILDREN LEARN TO READ! (PD.) Volunteer with the Literacy Council to teach reading to academically struggling children from low-income families. Tutor training in Sept: M/W evenings and two Saturdays. Info: rebecca@litcouncil.com • https://litcouncil.com/ programs/youth-literacy/

CONSERVING CAROLINA WORKDAY • FR (8/23), 10am-2pm - Volunteer to help maintain rare plants by assisting in non-native invasive plant control.

Registration: volunteer@ conservingcarolina.org or 828-679-5777 x 211.

find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how you can help. Registration required: tours@ homewardboundwnc.org or 828-785-9840. Free.

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• SA (8/24), 1-4pm Volunteer to cleanup the French Broad River then taste the release

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of Riverkeeper Beer at the afterparty with live music by The Krektones at 6:30pm. Registration: avl.mx/6fh. $10/$5 with your own boat. Held at Wedge Brewing Co., 125 B Roberts St. TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Monthly meeting to prepare packages of books and zines for

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Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road WALK TO END ALZHEIMER'S • Volunteers needed for Walk to End Alzheimer's to load/unload trucks and site set-up. Info: dyoung@alz.org or 828254-7363.

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIDS PROJECT • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 10am-noon - Volunteer to deliver food boxes to homebound people living with HIV/AIDS. Registration: 828-252-7489 x 315 or wncapvolunteer@ wncap.org.

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HELP FOR A HERO: The local community has rallied to support Hendersonville Fire Department Capt. Josh Poore, who sustained a spinal cord injury in a mountain biking accident on June 13. A wide variety of fundraising events to help with Poore’s recovery and rehabilitation are planned in upcoming weeks. Photo courtesy of the city of Hendersonville Hendersonville Fire Department Capt. Josh Poore sustained a spinal cord injury while mountain biking on June 13. He was initially unable to move his arms or legs but has since regained some control over his legs. A firefighter since 2007 who also served in the U.S. Army Reserves in Afghanistan, Poore is being treated at Atlanta’s Shepherd Center, which specializes in spinal cord and brain injury rehabilitation.

A number of fundraising events have been held to benefit Poore’s recovery, and several more are planned, including: • Mountain Juicery, 637 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville, will donate 30% of all sales on Friday, Aug. 23, 7:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m. avl.mx/6f4

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• Summit Crossfit South, 37 Maxwell Drive, Hendersonville, will present a fundraiser in partnership with the Hendersonville and Asheville fire departments on Saturday, Aug. 24, 8-10:30 a.m. avl.mx/6f5 • Be Bold for Poore at Bold Rock Mills River Cidery, 72 School House Road, Mills River, Friday, Sept. 6, 5-9 p.m. The event will include a raffle, wristband and T-shirt sales, a firetruck and live music by Canaan Cox. avl.mx/6f6 • Emergency Services Softball Tournament, Blue Ridge Community College Field, 300 East Campus Drive, Flat Rock, Saturday, Sept.

21, 9 a.m. Organized by Valley Hill Fire and Rescue, the tournament will feature up to six teams. Entry fee is $250 per team. The public is invited. For more information or to register a team, contact Jake Parris at 828-808-4114 or Corban Hossley at 828-329-2680. avl.mx/6f7

• The Hendersonville Professional Firefighters Association Local 2645 is selling wristbands for $5 each at Hendersonville’s two fire stations at 632 Sugarloaf Road and 851 N. Main St., depending on staff availability.

• A GoFundMe account to benefit Poore and his family is available at avl.mx/6f8.

• Any State Employees Credit Union branch in North Carolina will accept donations to the Josh Poore Family Tragedy Account.

Foundation names leader Dogwood Health Trust searched the nation for its inaugural chief executive and announced on Aug. 13 it had found its perfect match in Antony Chiang, 51, who currently serves as president of Empire Health Foundation, a similar organization based in Spokane, Wash.

Chiang will begin his new job in November, overseeing a foundation

BRAIN TRUST: Antony Chiang, left, will lead the Dogwood Health Trust as its inaugural CEO. DHT also announced that Donna Tipton-Rogers, president of TriCounty Community College in Murphy, was appointed to the organization's board of directors. Photos courtesy of DHT

Ayurveda Wellness Counselor Certification created to receive about $1.5 billion of proceeds from the sale of Mission Health System to for-profit Nashvillebased HCA Healthcare. According to a press release, “Dogwood will educate and inform stakeholders, conduct research, convene experts and, beginning in late 2020, make grants to organizations aligned with its purpose, all to help collectively improve health and well-being across 18 counties in Western North Carolina.”

The WNC Health Equity Coalition and SEARCH, two community organizations that have been monitoring the Mission-HCA transaction and its aftermath, welcomed the news in an emailed statement. “Mr. Chiang is well known for work on health equity and empowering rural communities.

We look forward to working with CEO Chiang, the Dogwood Health Trust board and staff and communities across the region to build a more just and healthy region.”

DHT also announced the appointment of Donna Tipton-Rogers, president of Tri-County Community College in Murphy, as the 15th member of its board of directors.

PFLAG Asheville hosts trans youth discussion The local chapter of PFLAG, a national nonprofit that advocates for LGBTQ people, will host an educational event about supporting transgender youths at The Orange Peel on Saturday, Sept. 14. Dr. Norman Spack, who co-founded the country’s first program to medically treat transgender young people at Boston Children’s Hospital, will give a keynote address followed by a Q&A session.

Asheville-based LGBTQ advocates will then answer audience questions in a panel format. Panelists include Dr. Jennifer Abbott of the WNCCHS Transgender Health Program, Zeke

Christopolous of Tranzmission, Allison Scott of the Campaign for Southern Equality, social worker Elizabeth McCorvey and parent advocates Julie Lehman and Michael Poulos. The event runs noon-2:15 p.m.; tickets are $35 and available at The Orange Peel box office or online at avl.mx/6fq.

Health happenings • End-of-life care provider Four Seasons has renamed its child and adolescent bereavement program Compass to reflect its mission of helping young people find a path through grief. Previously called Heart Songs, the program is offered at no cost to families and includes events and individual sessions throughout the year. More information is available at info@fourseasonscfl.org.

• Pardee UNC Health Care will host free community skin cancer screenings on Thursday, Aug. 22, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Pardee Cancer Center, 805 Sixth Ave. W. in Hendersonville. Appointments are required and available by calling 828-698-7317.

• The American Cancer Society hosts the kickoff for its Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk at Highland Brewing Company on Tuesday, Aug. 27, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Candidates for the Real Men Wear Pink fundraising challenge will be presented at the event.

• On Saturday, Aug. 31 — International Overdose Awareness Day — six local organizations will host an event to promote human connection and compassion for addiction at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road, 2-8 p.m. The free gathering will include a community meal, nonreligious sanctuary space for grieving, local artists and musicians, and a speaker’s panel

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UP IN THE AIR: Mike Libecki pauses to check his rock climbing equipment during an expedition on Socotra Island in Yemen. Photo by Josh Helling courtesy of Western Carolina University featuring local officials and community members. The evening will conclude with a candlelight vigil to honor those lost to overdose.

• Early registration discounts are available through Saturday, Aug. 31, for the 15th annual Southeast Wise Women Herbal Conference.

This year, organizers expect over 1,000 women to gather Friday-Sunday, Oct. 11-13, at Kanuga Conference and Retreat Center outside Hendersonville. More information at sewisewomen.com.

• The Haywood County Health and Human Services Agency will offer a free diabetes prevention program consisting of a series of 24 one-hour group classes beginning at noon Thursday, Sept. 5. The classes provide information and tools for maintaining a healthy weight, preparing healthy meals and incorporating regular physical activity to reduce the likelihood of developing Type 2 diabetes. More information is available at 828-356-2272.

• Buncombe County Schools will install new tobacco-free signs reminding students, staff, parents and others that e-cigarettes are not allowed on school grounds or during school-sponsored events.

E-cigarettes, the usage of which by young people is a growing concern across North Carolina, are not shown on the existing signs, which were installed in 2008.

Wilderness connects with wellness at WCU Western Carolina University will kick off a semesterlong exploration of the connection between wilderness and wellness with a Thursday, Aug. 22, presentation and panel discussion featuring mountaineer and climber Mike Libecki, National Geographic’s 2013 Adventurer of the Year.

The free presentation begins at 7 p.m. in the theater of A.K. Hinds University Center and will be followed by a panel discussion. In addition to Libecki, panel participants include moderator Jeremiah Haas, an associate director for campus recreation and wellness who oversees Base Camp Cullowhee, the university’s outdoor programming organization; Dale Brotherton, retired professor of school counseling; Paula Demonet, a counselor from the university’s Counseling and Psychological Services office; Dr. Jessica Ange, a physician with WCU Health Services; Debby Singleton, an instructor in the Parks and Recreation Management Program; and Brett Riggs, the university’s Sequoyah Distinguished Professor of Cherokee Studies.

All creatures great and small Mills River Presbyterian Church will host its annual blessing of the pets on Saturday, Sept. 7, at 10 a.m. All

types of pets, from dogs and rabbits to cats and guinea pigs, are welcome.

The service takes place on the front lawn of the church at 10 Presbyterian Church Road in Mills River. Humans should bring lawn chairs or blankets for themselves, while dogs should be on leashes and cats in carriers.

According to a press release, the service led by Pastor Randall Boggs will include “tributes to pets lost during the past year, adopted animals and rescued pets.” An offering collected during the service will benefit the New Hope program of the Blue Ridge Humane Society.

Grants power health programs • A dventHealth Hendersonville’s Emergency Department will soon add a new tool to help victims of sexual assault. The Perry N. Rudnick fund administered by the Community Foundation of Henderson County has awarded a $15,468

grant for the purchase of a handsfree specialty camera for collecting forensic evidence.

• A sheville-based Campaign for Southern Equality awarded $30,000 in community grants to boost LGBTQ health equity to organizations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Western North Carolina Community Health Services, which is based in Asheville and serves 18 WNC counties, received a $10,000 grant.

• The 222-bed Pardee UNC Health Care, as part of UNC Health Care, has received a grant from the Duke Endowment Foundation to improve the hospital experience for dementia patients. According to a press release, “The protocol from the grant is intended to meet the unique needs of patients who have dementia by ensuring hospital staff are trained to recognize dementia in their patients and provide dementia-friendly care.” X

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COFFEE AND CONVERSATION: AMONG FRIENDS • 4th WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-noon - Coffee and conversation on wellness topics. Free. Held at Ferguson Family YMCA, 31 Westridge Market Place, Candler OPEN MINDFULNESS MEDITATION • WEDNESDAYS, 3:305pm & 6:30-8pm - Open mindfulness meditation.

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ALL GASSED UP: Duke Energy’s 560-megawatt, natural gas-powered plant under construction at Lake Julian, shown here in a June aerial photo, will not help Asheville and Buncombe County reach their goals to power government operations with 100% renewable energy by 2030. Photo courtesy of Duke Energy

BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com In a little less than three minutes, the Saturn V rocket that boosted U.S. astronauts to the moon — still the most powerful vehicle ever constructed — burned through about 2,700 megawatt-hours of energy. That’s enough to electrify all of Buncombe County’s households for a little more than a day, run over 6,200 refrigerators for a year or toast roughly 240 million slices of bread.

Buncombe County and the city of Asheville recently set the bar for a different sort of moon shot: In 2017 and 2018, respectively, the two governments resolved to run their operations entirely with renewable energy by 2030. But based on energy terms alone, these goals are considerably more ambitious than a lunar launch.

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power came from renewable sources such as solar panels or hydroelectric dams; the remainder was produced by nuclear plants or from burning natural gas, oil and coal. Government facilities also used the equivalent of more than 22,000 MWh in natural gas for heating, all of which is nonrenewable.

“I don’t know how you feel about it, but 2030’s not that far away,” says Jeremiah LeRoy, Buncombe County’s sustainability officer. “There’s a need for immediate action; I don’t think that’s debatable. I don’t think that’s questionable.”

Community members got a detailed look at what that action might entail through a July report published by Massachusetts-based consulting firm The Cadmus Group. Jointly commissioned by the city and county at a total cost of $100,000, the document lays out how the region’s leaders might undertake a renewable energy transition.

NO STONE UNTURNED The Cadmus report groups potential renewable energy strategies into four

“pathways of action”: current local governmental activities, new city/county initiatives, state or utility actions and alternative purchasing options. Each approach is analyzed with respect to its cost, feasibility and contribution to the 100% renewable goals.

Actions already underway or in the planning stages could get the city and county about a fifth of the way to their 2030 targets. Asheville has identified roughly 400,000 square feet of cityowned rooftops that could host solar panels at an estimated upfront cost of $12.8 million; the county has flagged $2.7 million in potential rooftop projects.

The governments could also lease public land to Duke Energy Progress for solar development, generating revenue that could in turn be harnessed for further renewable energy efforts.

Going beyond those previously planned actions to new “highly local and highly feasible” approaches, however, is estimated to have a negligible impact.

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“The whole reason to go 100% renewable energy is to try and mitigate some of the effects of climate change and slow the warming of the climate — purchasing RECs doesn’t do that.”

— Kat Houghton, executive director of Community Roots 2030 goal, while a suggested $350,000 revolving renewables investment fund for the county would support about 0.9% of its needed energy.

And many of the actions that would have the most impact on the renewables goals, the report concludes, aren’t under local government’s direct control. For example, only the state can mandate that a higher percentage of Duke’s power production come from renewables; the utility currently plans to source just 7.8% of its power from solar facilities and retire nearly all hydroelectric production by 2030. By comparison, the states of New Jersey and California are requiring all utilities to produce 50% and 60% of their electricity, respectively, using renewable sources by 2030.

State officials also have the power to allow third-party solar purchases and expand community shared solar programs. Together with a more aggressive renewables production target, these changes would meet about a third of the city and county goals. On Aug. 16, the N.C. Department of Environmental Quality released a draft Clean Energy Plan that recommends the state explore these and other strategies.

“We need assistance to get to our goal from the state and from the utility company,” LeRoy admits. “That’s reflected in the pathways that we see moving forward in order to reach that goal.

It’s going to take more than just local government action.”

MAKING THE CLAIM Yet when those local and state actions are tallied up, Cadmus estimates that Asheville and Buncombe County will still only reach 45% of their renewable energy goals by 2030. To make up the difference, the consultants say officials will have to explore alternative purchasing, including that of renewable energy certificates.

Instead of representing green power itself, RECs represent “the environmental, social and other nonpower attributes of renewable electricity generation,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Buying enough RECs would thus give the city and county the legal right to say their energy use was 100% renewable, even if the electrons actually keeping the lights on came from coal- or gas-fired power plants. Cadmus estimates the annual

cost of these purchases as roughly $100,000 for Asheville and $95,000 for Buncombe County.

Community stakeholders involved in formulating the report, Cadmus notes, regarded RECs “as a less-than-optimal approach” for meeting the 100% renewable goals. While buying the certificates may be less expensive and more immediately achievable than developing renewable capacity in the community, these stakeholders pointed out, RECs bought from power plants outside Western North Carolina don’t support local jobs or reduce regional air pollution.

Kat Houghton, executive director of Asheville-based environmental nonprofit Community Roots, was not involved in developing the report but is similarly critical of RECs. “It’s a distraction. It can make us on paper look like we’re doing 100% renewable energy, but it doesn’t change the amount of greenhouse gases that Duke’s pumping into the atmosphere,” she says. “The whole reason to go 100% renewable energy is to try and mitigate some of the effects of climate change and slow the warming of the climate — purchasing RECs doesn’t do that.”

Duke spokesperson Randy Wheeless says his company connects customers with RECs as a way to increase their access to renewable energy. He references the UPM Raflatac plant in Mills River, which in June announced it had purchased RECs through Duke to become the state’s first manufacturing facility to claim 100% renewable energy use.

“It’s kind of a virtual effort. They don’t really have those renewable facilities in the city limits or right outside, but they’re basically displacing the purchases they’re making with renewable energy purchases,” Wheeless explains.

“They’re buying the RECs associated with that output, but the facility could be near or far away.”

MONOPOLY MONEY RECs are a necessary workaround because Asheville and Buncombe County are both customers of Duke, a state-regulated utility, and are thus not legally permitted to purchase renewable energy directly from third parties.

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gram called Green Source Advantage, through which it will serve as a middleman for customers to buy renewable power from solar developers. However, that initiative will offer just 90 MW of solar capacity to all nonresidential Duke Energy Progress customers. Cadmus estimates that, even if local governments were able to contract for that entire capacity, it would be insufficient to fully meet their renewable energy goals.

“The big impediment to any of the city and county’s initiatives to go 100% renewable is that there’s no free market in electricity — it’s a monopoly, and Duke controls that monopoly,” says Dave Hollister, the president of Weaverville-based solar company Sundance Power Systems and a member of the joint city-county-Duke Energy Innovation Task Force. “There’s tons of companies that would love to sell the city solar energy at a price that was competitive, but they can’t do it.”

When asked if Duke would consider giving up its monopoly to facilitate a renewable energy transition, Wheeless says his company “is not trying to be a barrier” to any local government and has been at the table as Asheville and Buncombe County discuss their plans.

“I think trying to deregulate the state of North Carolina on electricity would be a can of worms I don’t think we want to attend to,” he adds.

Hollister argues that, barring any major change from Duke, Asheville should consider becoming its own utility,

"I think trying to deregulate the state of North Carolina on electricity would be a can of worms I don’t think we want to attend to."

— Randy Wheeless, Duke Energy spokesperson which is permitted under state law and would allow the city to buy renewable energy directly. Highlands, Morganton and Waynesville are among the WNC municipalities that run their own utilities; all of the Cadmus report’s examples of cities that have achieved 100% renewable electricity use did so through their municipal utilities.

Bridget Herring, Asheville’s energy program coordinator, says the city explored establishing its own utility before her time with the government but that such a move is currently “not something that’s been identified as a high priority.” And LeRoy believes that, given the current regulatory reality, “We have to make sure that Duke is a part of the solution.”

SLIVER OF SUNLIGHT Although the city and county goals call for renewable energy in all government activities, the Cadmus report only considers the energy used by buildings. Not discussed is the fossil fuel consumption of government vehicles; while the report did not provide an esti-

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mate of that figure, transportation represents approximately 28% of all energy use nationwide, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.

Also unaddressed are the cost implications of switching from natural gas to electricity for heating, which would be necessary for all building energy needs to be met renewably without REC purchases. At current market rates, electricity costs more than twice as much as natural gas to provide the equivalent energy. That conversion could also come with substantial upfront infrastructure costs.

“If we’ve got boilers in the jail that are only a few years old that are natural gas boilers, those are multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars to replace,” LeRoy explains. “That’s not something that we can just decide to switch to electric on a whim.”

Some community members believe those omissions make the report an insufficient response to what they see as an urgent need for renewable energy. Shane McCarthy, a member of the Asheville chapter of the national climate advocacy organization Sunrise Movement, points to a 2018 U.N. report

calling for “rapid and far-reaching transitions in energy” by 2030 to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.

“A lot of us in the room definitely felt underwhelmed and that the plan was not really as ambitious as it could have been,” McCarthy says about his group’s response to a presentation on a draft version of the report in June. “It is not at the scale or the level of ambition necessary to make a difference and end the climate crisis.”

Both Herring and LeRoy say their respective governments haven’t lost sight of the other pieces in their renewable energy goals. However, neither the city nor the county has immediate plans to consider widespread vehicle electrification or the replacement of natural gas.

“I think that urgency has been realized,” Herring says regarding the pace of change. “I think there unfortunately are other urgent matters too that, as a city whose primary mission is to deliver core services, we also have to address that are more immediate.”

STATE OF TRANSITION The city and county are taking immediate action on several of the steps outlined in the Cadmus report. LeRoy says the governments are partnering with other public entities, including A-B Tech and Buncombe County Schools, to issue a request for proposals for the aggre-

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BUYING SUCCESS? According to analysis by The Cadmus Group, Buncombe County will have to meet roughly 55% of its renewable energy needs in 2030 through alternative purchasing. Projections are similar for the city of Asheville. Graphic courtesy of Buncombe County gated procurement of rooftop solar by the end of September. Buying solar panels in bulk, he explains, will likely lead to cheaper prices for the resulting projects.

Herring adds that Asheville and Buncombe are crunching the numbers for Duke’s Green Source Advantage program, the utility’s only avenue for directly purchasing renewable energy, to determine its financial feasibility. The two governments will review their building energy policies and continue to participate in regional renewable energy discussions, including those taking place around Gov. Roy Cooper’s Executive Order 80, which calls for a 40% reduction in statewide greenhouse gas emissions from 2005 levels by 2025.

All of these actions are tied to governmental energy use, but part of Buncombe County’s goal calls for the entire community to be powered through renewables by 2042.

The report finds that governmental actions alone cannot achieve that goal, which LeRoy says is driving the county’s choice to focus on its own operations first.

“We want to continue to support the community goal in whatever way that we can, but we do have limitations in terms of the regulatory environment we live in,” LeRoy says.

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“We want to be a leader in this space and we can do that by making sure that we have our own house in order.”

Community activists are also preparing their own actions in response to the report. McCarthy says his Sunrise chapter will call for the city of Asheville to declare a climate emergency as “a way to grab the public’s attention about the city’s plans and intentions and encourage the city to take actions and dedicate more resources to fight climate change.”

And Houghton with Community Roots is trying to collect over 11,000 signatures in an effort to place a Climate Bill of Rights referendum on Asheville’s 2020 ballot. Such a law would assert the rights of city residents to a healthy climate, a clean environment and a sustainable energy future — including the right to purchase energy from sources other than Duke. It would also claim the right of ecosystems within the city “to naturally exist, flourish, regenerate, evolve and be restored.”

Houghton says similar initiatives, passed with the support of the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund, have successfully prevented fracking in Pittsburgh and wastewater dumping in Graham Township, Pa. “That’s challenging

not only our legal structures, but also the way we think about how we relate to the natural world,” she says.

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Asheville is also accepting online public comment on the report through its Open City Hall website at avl.mx/6fe. Comment will remain open through 11 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 30.

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Hemp is definitely happening these days in Western North Carolina, but it’s not just growers and retailers taking an interest in it as a commodity. Warren Wilson College planted its first crop of industrial hemp on its campus in July with an eye toward promoting the diversification of regional agriculture and providing a resource to area landowners.

The college's inaugural planting of just over half an acre of RN-13 hemp — a short-rotation, 55- to 60-day strain — is a partnership with Green Lights Farm in Waynesville aimed at studying the success of direct seeding late-season varieties in the region.

The crop, which should be ready for harvest in mid-September, will serve multiple purposes, says Dave Ellum, professor and dean of land resources at Warren Wilson.

“We’ll have some classwork around it, but it’ll also be feeding into our undergraduate research program,” Ellum explains. “All our natural science undergraduate students are required to do an undergraduate the-

FIELD OF STUDY: Declan King, a junior art major and member of the garden crew at Warren Wilson College, transfers young hemp plants from the greenhouse to the soil.

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sis, and we’ll be doing a lot of work with them, especially through the chemistry department.”

He points out that though a lot of the focus on hemp in WNC has thus far been on growing it, the college’s program will also explore product development. “For us, it’s more than marketing, it’s enterprise,” he says.

“One of the things we do with all our land initiatives at the college is work with the students on developing green enterprises, looking at new market possibilities beyond just the growing of hemp, but also the utility of hemp, the materials that could come out of it, how the students could develop small-business plans around hemp.”

Ellum says the college envisions the agricultural part of the program expanding in acreage, but its overall scope is yet to be determined.

Although the initiative’s roots are in research, production could ultimately be a possibility. The main goal, though, is for it to serve as a hub for sharing land management knowledge and practices with WNC farmers looking to get into the hemp market.

“We really want to do the foundational work in developing hemp as a regional agricultural product for the diversification of agriculture in the region and then serve as an outlet for folks to come and learn how they can make their land profitable,” he says Landowners and others interested in learning more about Warren Wilson’s hemp program and land initiatives can sign up for the college’s Conservation Exchange newsletter at warren-wilson. edu/conservation-exchange and follow the group on Instagram and Facebook.

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GROWING OPPORTUNITY Madison County program helps teen girls explore mountain foodways

RISING STARS: Students in the Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education summer program clean up the kitchen at Madison Middle School after mixing sourdough pizza crust with local baker and historian Maia Surdam. The pizza was served to all program participants at lunch the next day. Photo courtesy of Maia Surdam

BY GINA SMITH gsmith@mountainx.com By the third week of June, most public schools in Western North Carolina are already joyously vacated for summer break. But on a particularly warm, rainy Monday this summer, the cafeteria at Madison Middle School was humming with the din of a few dozen young teen girls eating lunch.

The girls are students in Madison County’s Partnership for Appalachian Girls’ Education program, which just completed its 10th season in July. The meal they sat down to that day was not your typical school cafeteria fare. The plastic trays were heaped with veggie lasagna and salad made with fresh greens, squash, zucchini, peppers and other vegetables grown just a mile from the school at Highgate Farm. On the side were generous chunks of richly textured whole-grain focaccia baked

in a wood-fired brick oven by Walnut Schoolhouse artisan baker Brennan Johnson just down the road in Marshall.

PAGE’s mission is to expand opportunities for girls in rural Appalachia — an average of about 75 students each year — through a six-week middleschool summer program incorporating digital learning, literacy and leadership projects as well as school-year mentoring, college counseling and internships for high school girls. Participants are picked up and dropped off at their homes throughout Madison County each day to alleviate the transportation issues that are common among the small, far-flung, mountain-locked communities. And across these efforts, the program focuses on local foodways and addressing food insecurity among its participants.

“We have girls in our program who experience food insecurity in their families, so we knew we needed to have a very strong breakfast and very strong

lunch,” says PAGE Executive Director and founder Deborah Hicks-Rogoff, who is also a research scholar in the Social Science Research Institute at Duke University and author of the book The Road Out: A Teacher’s Odyssey in Poor America.

“And we really felt that to make everything as healthy as possible, we would try our best to do a farm-to-table food program,” she continues. “Then we were able to get grant funding to ramp things up, bring in a farm-to-table coordinator to provide leadership with that and evolve our partnerships with farm and bakery partners and get to the point where a great deal of our food is locally sourced. So it’s been a gradual process of increasing and deepening that part of it.”

The farm-to-table coordinator she references is retired teacher and local farmer Jeannette Kendall, who on this

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“I try to provide approachable breads for the kids but also something they can see as a little bit different, more whole grains, more flavors,” says Kendall.

OLD AND NEW Along with the healthy, locally sourced breakfasts (French toast was a favorite among the girls this summer) and lunches, PAGE participants learn about the traditions of their rural communities as well as ways the area is evolving through field trips, hands-on classes, multimedia activities and oral history projects. Many of these efforts use food as a bridge for connecting to deeper concepts.

Since its beginning, the initiative, which functions through partnerships with Duke University and the Madison County School System, as well as grants and private donations, has collaborated

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SWEET PROJECT: During an elective PAGE cooking class, instructor Maia Surdam shows girls how to mix blueberries they’ve just picked at a local farm into muffins and snack cakes for the next day’s breakfast. Photo courtesy of Maia Surdam with local farmers, both for sourcing and as part of the curriculum. In the early years, when PAGE was based out of the old fieldstone school building in the rural Spring Creek community that now houses the Spring Creek Community Center, farmers Julie Mansfield and Carl Evans of Mountain Harvest Organics supplied the produce and brought the girls out for handson lessons on the land. Now that the program is based at Madison Middle School, logistical considerations brought Melissa Harwin of nearby Highgate Farm on board as a farm partner.

Harwin collaborates with Kendall to grow a range of vegetables for the program — some that have been traditionally cultivated in Madison County for generations and others that are more exotic. Harwin points to yellow crookneck squash as an example of a food that’s historically common to the area.

“The folks around this region grew a limited number of vegetables in their gardens because they were saving their seeds, and many vegetables will cross,” she explains. “If you grow yellow crookneck next to zucchini, you can’t save your seed and have it come back true the following year.”

But on her farm this season, in addition to yellow crookneck, she grew a variety of colored zucchini and pattypan squash as well. “So we’re following the traditions of the region, but we’re also introducing some new and different vegetables,” she says. “I think that’s a really nice way to connect kids who, maybe their grandparents had gardens,

but their parents don’t and they’re not as familiar with that, but to be able to reconnect with that on land that was used for generations for gardening and farming here in the region.”

FROM FIELD TO CLASSROOM Maia Surdam, historian and coowner of Old World Levain Bakery in Asheville, also works with PAGE as an instructor and leader of the program’s oral history component. She relishes creating opportunities to weave food into the fabric of the curriculum.

“We actually were able [this season] to integrate some of the activities the girls did on our field trips and in our classroom lessons,” she says. “Like, we visited a farm in Spring Creek and picked blueberries, and in my [afternoon class], we turned them into muffins and blueberry snack cakes and had them for breakfast the next day. So I had the girls be a part of all steps of that process and then sharing them.”

Surdam also remembers a successful pizza-making project. “We didn’t harvest any wheat or anything,” she jokes. “But we did mix the dough, and then we had [the pizza] for lunch the next day.” The school’s cafeteria workers, she notes, helped with the kitchen projects by assembling and cooking some items, like the pizza, due to the students’ limited time in the classroom.

“It was so cool because many of the girls hadn’t ever mixed dough before,” Surdam notes. “And they all love pizza,

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In trying foods that were new to them, such as Johnson’s whole-grain breads, Surdam says some of the students liked them and others weren’t as enthusiastic.

But in all cases, the experiences provided food for thought and discussion. “[It’s about] giving them an understanding about what goes into the food they eat, starting those conversations early, and hopefully those interactions will lead to them being more willing to try something — and even better, learning how to make it.”

Written reflections shared by some of the rising sixth and seventh grade girls at the end of the session show an appreciation for both the new and familiar flavor experiences. “I like the sausage biscuits because they remind me of my grandma,” writes one girl. “I like the pizzas. All the food was really good. It let me try new things. I wish we could eat something like this all year long.”

DEEP LISTENING The oral history projects allow Surdam a unique conduit for introducing the girls to Madison County’s heritage, often with a focus on foodways.

The girls identify people within the community with a story to tell, conduct interviews and produce videos of the stories. All of the oral history projects in 2018 were related to food (some of those can be viewed on the PAGE website), and this year’s were centered on the

history of the Spring Creek community near Hot Springs.

The oldest narrator in this summer’s projects was 92-year-old Marvin Lowe, who attended school at the old stone Spring Creek schoolhouse all 12 years.

Last year, his niece, Lucy Lowe, a Spring Creek cheesemaker and antique collector, was interviewed.

Surdam sees collecting the stories as a way for the young teens to hone deep listening skills and develop an understanding that every person and place — even ordinary people and small, rural towns — has an interesting story worth sharing. And as a first-generation college student from a small-town Midwestern family, she also believes PAGE’s mixed focus on local history, new businesses and young farmers has the potential to have a strong positive impact on Madison County.

“I just have a real commitment to how rural communities are changing and thinking about ways to support that transformation. My personal story is that I left [my hometown], and that often is what happens when people get educated,” she says. “But it seems that there’s potential for something different here. This is a very special place; it’s so beautiful, and there’s a lot of creativity and people doing really interesting things. I see a potential for these girls not just to get educated and inspired and leave, but to take that inspiration and figure out how to instill it in their communities and create a better future.”

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Since opening in 2015, Sanctuary Brewing Co. has sought unique ways to give back to the community. One of its earliest and ongoing projects is the “kindness wall” — patrons hang donated goods on a wire line that extends across a portion of the brewery’s outside lot.

More recently, in 2018, the brewery began hosting Help for Hendo, a monthly event that offers services to people in need, including free meals provided by the brewery and graband-go lunch options donated by VegReady. On certain occasions, local chiropractors and massage parlors have donated their time and services as well. And at Sanctuary’s upcoming event on Monday, Aug. 26, the brewery will be joined by the Blue Ridge Humane Society, which will supply complimentary pet items, including flea and heartworm medications.

The gathering’s main mission, however, is to offer people free haircuts. “It can be really life-changing,” says Lisa McDonald, co-owner of Sanctuary. Part of the transformation is the self-confidence that comes with getting a fresh new look, McDonald notes. But a more significant component, she adds, “is just being respected as an individual.”

Michael Cohen, owner of Saluda Hair Garage, is the man behind the scissors. A native Bostonian, Cohen has offered free trims to those in need throughout his 30-year career.

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A FORCE FOR GOOD: On the third Monday of each month, Sanctuary Brewing Co. hosts Help for Hendo, offering free meals and haircuts to those in need. The haircuts are provided by local hairdresser Michael Cohen, left. Also pictured is Lisa McDonald, co-owner of Sanctuary Brewing Co. Photos provided by Cohen and McDonald. mission of encouraging other hairstylists to offer their time and services to those less fortunate. The vision, Cohen notes, is to see the model spread across the United States.

Like Cohen, McDonald wants to inspire other business owners to find creative ways to use their space and talents for the betterment of the community. This could include events similar to Sanctuary Brewing’s Help for Hendo. But offering free haircuts and complimentary meals is just one way to assist, says McDonald. Regardless of how you help, the brewery owner stresses, “If you’re a business that isn’t open 24/7 and you have a safe space, why not use it for something good?”

Help for Hendo runs 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Monday, Aug. 26, at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 First Ave. E., Hendersonville. For more information, visit avl.mx/6f9.

The Hop celebrates 41 years On Tuesday, Aug. 27, The Hop Ice Cream Cafe will celebrate 41 years in business. To honor the day, owners Ashley and Greg Garrison will offer free kiddie scoops to all who visit the shop’s Merrimon Avenue location.

Free kiddie scoops will be served 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, at The Hop Ice Cream Cafe, 640 Merrimon Ave. For more information, visit avl.mx/6ez.

Family Meal at Ivory Road Ivory Road Cafe & Kitchen recently announced a new monthly dinner series, Family Meal at

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Subsequent dinners will be held on the last Wednesday of each month, with exceptions during the holiday season. These gatherings will feature four courses prepared by chefs Jill Wasilewski and Susie Sharples. Ticket prices for the series range from $45-$65, with the option for wine or beer pairing.

Family Meal at Ivory Road begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28, at Ivory Road Cafe & Kitchen, 1854 Brevard Road, Arden. For more information, visit avl.mx/6f0.

Chefs for Seniors Chefs for Seniors is a personal culinary service that provides fresh meals to seniors prepared inhouse by trained chefs. Launched in Madison, Wis., in 2013, the company now has locations throughout the country. Local chef Brandon Whitfield recently began services in Buncombe County. A native of the area, Whitfield graduated from the culinary school at Johnson & Wales University in 2008. According to a press release, Chefs for Seniors offers rotating menu options.

Weekly meal plans begin at $130 for entrées with 10-12 servings.

To book meals with Whitfield, call 828-775-2529 or email Brand.whitfield@chefsforseniors.com. To learn more about Chefs for Seniors, visit avl.mx/6f1.

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Throughout the summer, churches in Polk County have participated in Feed-A-Kid, a program that provides meals for children facing food insecurity.

Though the summer program is nearing an end, volunteers continue to deliver goods. Earlier this month, nearly 60 pounds of blueberries were gleaned from Trickle Creek Farm and brought to 61 families. Volunteers are seeking additional gleaning opportunities, including apples, peaches and melons.

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Loosening up Thanks to North Carolina lawmakers, trips to breweries across the state are about to become even more enjoyable for numerous patrons.

On July 29, Gov. Roy Cooper signed the ABC Regulatory Reform Act (aka Senate Bill 290) into law, which allows customers to purchase up to two glasses of malt beverages or wine at a time and welcomes dogs and cats inside taprooms where food isn’t prepared. Additional new regulations will also have a major impact on distilleries, which can soon sell mixed drinks on-site, give tastings in ABC stores and no longer limit each customer’s purchase to five bottles of liquor from their premises per year.

The changes, which take effect Sunday, Sept. 1, will loosen previous legislation that capped patrons at buying one nonliquor alcoholic drink at a time. And while craft beverage drinkers were allowed to bring their pets to establishments’ outdoor areas,

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LEGAL NONBEAGLE: Gunner the husky enjoys the perks of new statewide legislation by ordering two drinks and being a pet at a taproom where food isn’t prepared. Photo courtesy of Whistle Hop Brewing Co. other than patrol dogs accompanying police and service animals alongside people with disabilities, four-legged friends legally weren’t allowed indoors.

Because breweries implement reusable glassware, they were previously permitted as restaurants and subject to the same laws, even if food wasn’t made on-site. But the new legislation will give breweries their own separate designation and standards.

“It’s easy to complain about government and laws, and I try not to do that, but these are sensible laws, and I really appreciate them,” says Tim Schaller, owner of Wedge Brewing Co. “The two beers [at a time law] makes so much sense. One of you can stay and relax. It makes our lives better.”

But with great convenience comes great responsibility. Schaller notes that breweries need to be clear that patrons still have to identify where the second drink is going so bartenders aren’t inadvertently serving minors.

“We have a lot of outside seating at both [Wedge] spots. At Foundation it’s easier. [Bartenders] can look out the window at the bar to see where [the second drink is] going. Have the person wave who’s taking it — whatever — and then go and check,” he says. “We do a lot of that anyway — just go outside and make sure the pitcher isn’t served to

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someone it shouldn’t. There has to be some consciousness about it.”

Tom Miceli, owner of Whistle Hop Brewing Co. in Fairview, is looking forward to the dual-drink option making his bartenders’ lives easier. He also anticipates that it will relieve occasional confusion between his staff and patrons, especially those visiting from other states where they’re not limited to ordering one drink at a time.

“The onus is on us to make sure that everybody that’s receiving a drink is a) of legal age and b) is someone who is not intoxicated and, basically, safe to serve,” Miceli says.

“We do make sure that all our bartenders are trained and go through RASP [Responsible Alcohol Seller Program] certification, but now when you are able to hand a customer two beverages, it adds a challenge. It’s one that we’re more than willing to accept, but our bartenders have to be aware of where that other drink is going.”

The modest size of Whistle Hop’s caboose taproom often allows bartenders to run a second drink behind the ordering customer, but at larger, busier establishments such as Green Man Brewery, the risk of illegally serving a minor is so great that owner Dennis Thies wishes the law hadn’t changed.

“I liked it better the way it was before. I think it only raises more of an issue for underage drinking. It makes it easier. It was good the way it was before — there are so many other problems, they didn’t have to worry about that one,” he says.

“It will make things more efficient, but really, that’s only an issue on Saturdays. Saturday is what we call ‘Festival Day’ at Green Man, and every taproom in Asheville and probably America. I’d be shocked to know what percentage of our taproom business collectively happens on Saturday. I bet you it’s pushing 30-35%. Maybe 40%.”

However, Thies is in full support of the animal law changes. “We’ve always been very welcoming of our furry friends and have little signs around and often joke that we prefer dogs to people at our taproom. I think we’ve had one of the most dogfriendly places in Asheville,” he says.

“I think that’s great to clarify any gray area out there. I think the biggest thing with dogs is the liability that a dog could bite you or something.”

Responsible pet owners are likewise a must at Wedge and Whistle Hop. And while the risk of leashes as trip hazards means dogs still won’t be allowed inside the original Wedge Studios taproom or on the porch, Schaller is excited about dogs enjoying the spacious, air-conditioned interior at the Foundation location, which is ready for the uptick in canine visitors.

“Dog bowls — we have a bunch of them. People bring ’em, we get ’em.

There seem to be plenty of dog bowls around,” Schaller says. “And then we have a cement floor, so if they slobber a little bit, we can mop it up.”

Seeing as the majority of Whistle Hop’s seating is outdoors, the property was already a dog paradise. And on especially hot or cold days or ones with inclement weather, pets can find respite in the nontaproom boxcar, much of which Miceli says is considered patio space. Still, he feels that having the law established makes the presence of dogs inside clearer — or cats, should owners feel so moved to bring a rare leashed and sufficiently socialized feline to that setting, a club Schaller personally won’t be joining.

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Harvest Records celebrates its anniversary with Transfigurations III

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com After bringing Transfigurations II to Marshall’s Blannahassett Island in 2014, Harvest Records owners Mark Capon and Matt Schnable return to Asheville venues for Transfigurations III. The celebration of the store’s 15th anniversary kicks off Thursday, Aug. 22, at The Mothlight, then shifts downtown for the next two days with shows at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts (a veteran of the inaugural Transfigurations in 2009) and new collaborators in the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, Grail Moviehouse and The Orange Peel.

“We always want [the lineup] to be diverse. We always want it to be a good picture of what we listen to and what our customers listen to,” Schnable says. “That really informs decisions on who we decide to book.

And our personal taste, too.”

To help cultivate the artist list for Transfigurations III, planning for which began a year ago, Capon and Schnable leaned more heavily on staff suggestions than they did for prior editions. They started a spreadsheet and asked their colleagues to add bands they’d want to see, thereby reflecting the interests of every employee.

“It’s nice to have other input because they’re all younger than we are. We’re getting old, and it’s hard for us to keep up with all the new bands,” Schnable says. “You don’t feel as isolated. Me and Mark get in our zone, and sometimes you can’t see the fullest picture; then you bring in employees who help with that.”

COVERWORTHY: In cultivating the music lineup for Transfigurations III, Harvest Records owners Mark Capon, left, and Matt Schnable, right, leaned heavily on the expertise of their employees — especially Annelise Kopp, center. Photo by Joe Pelligrino, design by Scott Southwick

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Capon and Schnable say that multiple times they were gung-ho about a certain artist before being questioned by a staffer — second-guessing for which, in hindsight, they’re thankful.

And, while previous Transfigurations did not include hip-hop artists, that will change when staff favorite Danny Brown takes to The Orange Peel stage on Friday, Aug. 23.

“In all of our years of promoting shows, we rarely did hip-hop shows.

The main one that comes to mind is El-P, and there were probably other [acts who] blended genres over the years,” Capon says. “It feels like an exciting step that reflects all of our tastes here and is a fun leap into trying to pack out The Orange Peel with a big hip-hop show.”

Closing out Transfigurations on Saturday, Aug. 24, at The Peel is ESG. Harvest staffer Casey Ellis suggested the funk/punk band, which Schnable says felt random since the group is generally associated with the ’80s and had seemingly ceased touring. However, a quick look at ESG’s website revealed that it does play the occasional show, which its members book themselves.

In what Capon calls a “refreshing experience,” he and Schnable were able to quickly and directly make a deal without going through the usual hierarchy of booking agents and managers. He attributes this “noble shit” to ESG’s players being born and raised in the Bronx and adds that the band has received the festival’s most enthusiastic responses from customers.

Schnable points out that there’s a good chance people have heard a sample or had exposure to ESG’s music through other artists — mostly likely a portion of “UFO,” which Capon calls

of Transfigurations is crucial to staging each festival.

“When we were getting open 15 years ago, in 2004, we couldn’t even imagine what the first month was going to look like,” Capon says. “Not to toot our own horn, because it’s as much about the community as it is about us, but it’s still pretty … I don’t want to call it ‘miraculous,’ but it’s still a pretty amazing feat to have a store like this 15 years later, and it says a lot about the people who come in here.” X

WHAT Transfigurations III WHERE Various venues harvest-records.com/transfigurations WHEN Thursday, Aug. 22-Saturday, Aug. 24. $10-$35 per show

BRONX BOMBERS: Funk/punk band ESG will make its Asheville debut on Aug. 24 at The Orange Peel as part of Transfigurations III. Photo courtesy of the band “one of the most sampled songs in modern music.” But because of the band’s general obscurity, its participation feels like an ideal record store booking.

Transfigurations III will be the first time ESG has performed in Asheville and will likely be its last. Upon signing on to the festival, Renee Scroggins (lead vocals/guitar) told Capon and Schnable that the show is among the band’s final in the U.S. “This is actually the first time in our 41-year career that we got to perform so many domestic shows, but 2019 will be it domestically, and [we’ll be] wrapping it up internationally early 2020,” Scroggins says.

Now based in Atlanta, Scroggins says she and bandmates Nicole Nicholas (bass/backing vocals), Nicholas Nicholas (percussion/backing vocals) and D7 (drums) aim to make these last few gigs special simply “by just having fun and performing danceable music for the audiences.” Once her touring days are over, her artistic plans consist of continuing to write music and stories, building on a legacy that includes numerous noteworthy achievements with her band.

“Performing with The Clash at Bonds in New York, performing the closing nights at The Paradise Garage [in New Jersey], performing at Radio City Music Hall, Glastonbury [Festival] — so many places and memories [stand out],” Scroggins says. “Just going all around the world and having people singing ESG’s music.”

The significance of Transfigurations III as the celebration of a record shop’s anniversary is also not lost on Scroggins, who’s quick to identify two such key businesses that made an impact on her personal life.

“99 Records, which was an independent record store/label in New York in the ’80s, and Factory Records in the U.K. — they both had a great deal to do with introducing ESG to the world,” Scroggins says. “The independent record store is still a very important resource for artists.”

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RISE AND SHINE Community Heritage Festival celebrates an African American neighborhood

HOMECOMING: “We always wanted to keep this neighborhood with that same feeling: that we’re family-oriented and that we’re welcoming,” says Reneé White, one of the organizers of the East End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival. The three-day gathering includes music, dance, drumming, kids activities, arts and crafts — and a chance for residents to connect with local African American history. Photo courtesy of the East End/Valley Street Neighborhood Association The best parts of last year’s East End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival were “the camaraderie and the unity that we were able to exemplify,” says organizer Reneé White, who also serves as president of the East End/ Valley Street Neighborhood Association.

“We had old and new residents coming together, able to talk about the neighborhood — the things that happened in the past and the things that are new.”

The festival returns Friday-Sunday, Aug. 23-25, at Martin Luther King Jr. Park.

The three-day fête includes a parade, car show, drummers, dancing, food vendors, arts and crafts, an expanded children’s area, worship service and more. Among the roster of musical acts are the Otesha Creative Arts Ensemble Experience, Uptown Swagga Band and local groups West Sound and Free Flow Band.

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The East End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival celebrates one of Asheville’s historically black neighborhoods — one that included such points of pride as the StephensLee High School and the black business district known as The Block.

Much of the neighborhood is radically changed from its early iteration, as urban renewal projects in the 1960s and ’70s brought the demolition of many homes, the loss of African Americanowned enterprises and the displacement of residents. South Charlotte Street cut a wide swath through the community, physically rending it. But, says White, “East End is rising. History in this neighborhood is huge.” White, who was raised in the neighborhood, notes among its historic landmarks the Lucy S. Herring Elementary School (named for the former supervisor of instruction for

Asheville and Buncombe Negro Schools) and the Allen School (a private institution for African American girls).

“We always wanted to keep this neighborhood with that same feeling: that we’re family-oriented and that we’re welcoming,” White says. “We’d like to see black-owned businesses come back in. … We’re looking at what we can do to get affordable housing in our neighborhood, what we can do to have nice green spaces, nice parks. …

We’re looking at being able to utilize Martin Luther King Jr. Park. There’s never [before] been anything festive for the neighborhood.”

The East End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival offers a celebration specific to that section of town and its past and present inhabitants. Organizers will recognize the oldest living residents of the neighborhood

— one is a nonagenarian — and Aggie Jean Jackson, author of two books set in Asheville’s East End, will be on hand to discuss and sign copies of her works.

And, because there’s no central place for the documentation of Asheville’s African American history (archives can be found at the YMI Cultural Center and the Stephens-Lee Recreation Center as well as UNC Asheville and the North Carolina Collection at Pack Library), the festival serves as a center for networking — sharing information about the past as well as connecting current business owners and and community organizers.

White is quick to point out that everyone from the Asheville area is invited.

“It’s a family time, it’s a fun time,” she says. “There’s no alcohol. Bring the kids, [they] can listen to history.”

Another success from last year’s event, says White, was “so many people loved the neighborhood so much, they traveled to Asheville if they [no longer] live here. They felt like they were coming home.” Among those making the trek for the reunion is saxophonist Stanley Baird, whose eponymous smooth jazz and R&B group will perform onstage again this year. Baird launched his musical career in the U.S. Virgin Islands,

where his sound was infused with West Indian and Latin flavors. He was a band instructor in the North Carolina public school system for 35 years, according to his website, but Baird’s roots are in Asheville’s East End neighborhood.

“It’s a chance to get some business involved, the residents involved, Ashevilleans involved. It brings all of us together,” says White. And at the end of the day, she adds, the festival is about fun: “It’s just a chance not to be serious — to eat cotton candy and snowballs.” X

WHAT End/Valley Street Community Heritage Festival avl.mx/6d2 WHERE Martin Luther King Jr. Park 50 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive WHEN Friday, Aug. 23, 6-9 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 24, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Sunday, Aug. 25, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free

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MINUTE TO WIN IT On week No. 51 of his “Freestyle Fridays” video series, local hip-hop artist Philo Reitzel wrote, “My goals with my art form are as follows: Have fun. Make something I am proud of. Get better. Repeat.” The minutelong raps, which post on Instagram and YouTube weekly, now number in the 60s. But even though the oneyear mark is well past, Reitzel promises to continue the project for the foreseeable future.

“It’s one of the most transformative things I’ve done in my life,” he says.

“Not to mention the opportunities it’s opened up.”

The idea for the series evolved from an extensive Instagram scrolling session when Reitzel realized all the videos on the social media platform clocked in around 60 seconds.

That’s no longer the time limit on Instagram, but it was the impetus for the local artist’s venture: “I wanted to make some music, but usually making a whole album is a long process and costs a lot of money,” he says. “I wanted some [way] that I could put out a product more immediately. It struck me, like, ‘Yo, I got a camera, I got beats and I got a studio. I could just write this rap real quick, record it, film it and put it out.’”

He began the first installment at 11 a.m. and released it by 1 p.m. the same day. While Reitzel admits it wasn’t his best work, it gave him a near-instant means to engage an audience. “Freestyle Fridays” quickly became a consistent creative outlet.

A Buncombe County native, Reitzel was introduced to hip-hop through albums such as Fear of a Black Planet by Public Enemy, Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique and MC

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RARE BIRD: Local hip-hop artist Philo Reitzel recently celebrated the one-year mark with his “Freestyle Fridays” video series. The weekly installments have led to creative opportunities and inform Reitzel’s forthcoming album, Life in the Mirror, with his band Effigy Seed. Photo by Ricky Tale Hammer’s Please Hammer, Don’t Hurt ’Em. (“It seems reductionistic to mention any one-three groups,” he points out. “There are and were so many influences.”) In the early 2000s, he and fellow Asheville-based artist Gus Cutty

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launched a monthly endeavor called Rent Stick — EP-length recordings burned to CDs — “and then we’d just stand out on the corners on Lexington [Avenue] and sell them to pay our rent,” Reitzel recalls.

Soaring Asheville rents can no longer be raised through DIY album sales, and Reitzel has gone on to bigger and more fully realized projects: He currently performs with Beastie Boys tribute band The High Plains Drifters and his own Effigy Seed, a synths and vocals collaboration with the mononymous Linus. Still, there’s a through line from Rent Stick to “Freestyle Fridays” in the immediacy of both efforts.

“I don’t put much expectation on them,” Reitzel says of his weekly videos.

“I’m pretty free with them, which gives me room to experiment. If one doesn’t hit that hard, there’s always next week.”

At the same time, he’s able to gauge viewer response through views and comments and has garnered important

information, such as that audiences like more cuts in videos, and comedy gets a better response than headier subject matter.

While Reitzel does take such feedback into account and feels that his video series has honed his skills in camera work and engineering, as well as producing beats, he doesn’t let viewer comments steer the direction of his craft. For example, “If you’re looking at lyrics in rap, it’s a whole lot of information in a short time,” he says. More complex raps might lose some listeners among the distractions and instant gratifications of Instagram. Plus, “What worth people put on art is such an abstract thing.”

Some of the lessons learned from the video series are being applied to the latest Effigy Seed album, Life in the Mirror, due out in October. “It’s my best work to date,” Reitzel says.

While he notes that his “Freestyle Fridays” are not freestyle verses in the 1990s-era “off the top of the dome” sense (though “I can do that,” he clarifies), the videos blend inspirations from the moment with the artist’s prolific writing skills. The year-plus of regular releases also document an arc in Reitzel’s own thinking and a continued move away from the violence and misogyny inherent in some of the rap music he grew up with.

“I’ve got four sisters, I’ve got nieces, I’ve got a mama. I don’t want any of that for them,” he says of the mainstream messages that denigrate women. “But it gets so normalized, you just don’t question it. … There’s a misappropriation of values, like you’re not street or you’re not valid if you’re not promoting violence and misogyny [in popular music],” he says.

“Why are we buying this? People get scared to do something else,” Reitzel continues. He does point out that for some rappers, making music about the problems of drugs and violence is authentic to their lives. He’s also quick to state he’s not a spokesperson for hip-hop music or culture.

But, when it comes to his own work and creative aesthetic, “I’m trying to make it a favorable thing to be seen as intellectual, to read books and think outside the box,” he says. “I’m trying to make that fly.”

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‘Rabbit Hole’ at Asheville Community Theatre

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The evening includes a brief introduction by the Asheville Movie Guys, Bruce C. Steele and Edwin Arnaudin of AshevilleMovies.com, as well as a lively discussion with the audience after the credits.

AFTERMATH OF TRAGEDY: From left, Joann Johnson, CJ Breland, Jon Morrison, Robert Walker and Courtney DeGennaro Robinson send the audience down the Rabbit Hole at Asheville Community Theatre. Photo by Studio Misha Photography Could there be a different version of our lives playing out somewhere in another realm? When we are at our lowest, the possibility of falling into such an abyss feels strangely comforting. Rabbit Hole written by David Lindsay-Abaire, is onstage at Asheville Community Theatre through Sunday, Aug. 25.

While playing one day, 4-year-old Danny follows the family dog into the street and is struck by a passing vehicle.

His mother, Becca (played by Courtney DeGennaro Robinson), quickly tries to clear her dead son’s belongings and sell the family’s once-beloved house.

Her husband, Howie (Robert Walker), grows defensive, and it becomes clear that the couple are dealing with their loss in very different ways. Just as the distance starts to threaten their relationship, Jason Willette (Jon Morrison), the driver who killed Danny, walks right through their door.

Rabbit Hole is traditionally structured, anchoring itself on the characterizations of the grieving mother and father. From the onset, the story hides very little and the fact that Lindsay-Abaire’s play feels as if it’s missing something is to the advantage of the theme. However, from an artistic and psychological standpoint, what if we visited another realm with

this family? Additional disarray would then take over our emotional comfort zone, and, for better or for worse, it would be a different play altogether.

In particular, the role of Becca has been defined by the Tony-winning performance of Cynthia Nixon, as well as the Oscar-nominated performance of Nicole Kidman in the 2010 film. By comparison, Robinson’s portrayal is rather calculated, and we lose a great deal of the story’s tremorous remorse. Similarly, Joann Johnson, who plays Becca’s edgy sister Izzy, feels stilted. Reassuringly, we do warm up to both Robinson and Johnson as the play continues.

It’s intriguing to see Howie’s perspective be highlighted so well in this version.

Walker’s natural performance packs several gut punches that strike when truly necessary. Because Howie is played outside the actor’s head, the performance is extremely effective on an emotional level. Tears are sure to be shed.

The equally superb performance by CJ Breland as Becca’s mother, Nat, is also stirring. At first comedic, we later speculate if it’s a mere façade for the character’s loneliness. There’s a particularly touching scene between Robinson and Breland when they are sorting through Danny’s toys.

Morrison connects with the nervousness of Jason, who’s dealing with a different form of blame and regret. The title of this Pulitzer Prize-winning play suggests a story written by the character of Jason after the incident. Also, as in Alice in Wonderland, things aren’t always what they seem.

When going through grief, the human condition feels like living in a sustained nightmare or a mirage of what was once familiar. With a powerful spirit, director Stephanie Hickling Beckman urges us to summon the strength to reach for a better tomorrow. X

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Third Nature

Up/Rooted

To craft its self-titled third album, Asheville-based electronic rock quartet Third Nature hunkered down in the Weaverville cabin of engineer/mixer Peter Brownlee (Midnight Snack) and tracked the whole record over the course of a single weekend. Now, following nearly two years of thoughtful revisions and mastering by Anthony Thogmartin (Papadosio), the songs are ready for public consumption. In a joint statement, Lilly-Anne Merat (lead vocals/keytar), Will Dowling (bass/vocals), Merrick Noyes (keys/synths/ vocals) and Tom Best (drums) say the tracks balance their “dance-heavy, electronic side … with their jazzier, more downtempo sensibilities and complex arrangements.” On Friday, Aug. 23, the group celebrates its accomplishment with an album release show from the Isis Music Hall mainstage. The festivities begin at 8:30 p.m. with a set by Infinite Geometry, the electronic music project of local visual artist Andy Reed. $7 advance/$10 day of show. isisasheville.com. Photo by Calder Wilson

For the second edition of the Campaign for Southern Equality’s Southern Equality Studios project, local artists Liz Williams and Al Murray participated in a four-month residency and interviewed nearly 20 fellow area LGBTQ artists.

They also hosted a panel discussion with six of their subjects earlier this summer, during which they discussed identity and both the roles of politics in art and creativity in healing trauma. The result of these efforts is the collaborative multimedia project Up/Rooted, which combines Williams’ surreal portraits of the artists, Murray’s nostalgic sculptures made with used objects of significance from the artists’ pasts and samples of the featured artists’ work. The opening reception for Up/Rooted takes place at REVOLVE on Friday, Aug. 23, at 7 p.m., and the exhibition will be on display through Tuesday, Sept. 3. Free to attend. revolveavl.org. Photo of Murray, left, and Williams by Williams

Flyer in a Dark Chamber A collaboration involving musician Liz Lang/Auracene, dancers Sharon Cooper and Coco Palmer Dolce, Butoh artist Jenni Cockrell and spoken-word artist (and Xpress Arts editor) Alli Marshall, Flyer in a Dark Chamber explores the many myths and archetypes of Lilith. The series of vignettes combine soundscapes, words and movement, and transport audiences from the Garden of Eden to a visit with the Queen of the Damned, all while seeking to convey universal truths. Sharing the bill on Saturday, Aug. 24, at 7 p.m. at Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center is local musical duo Okapi, presenting its collaborative piece, Interpretations of Absurdity, with performer Edwin Salas.

According to the artists, the latter work “presents anecdotes reflecting pieces of life’s mosaic, which involve complex confrontations with cryptic emotions and circumstances.” $10 for BMCM+AC members and students with ID/$15 nonmembers. avl.mx/6ex. Photo by Vickie Burick

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Slay the Mic Summer Jam Each Saturday at 5 p.m. on 103.3 Asheville FM, Alexis Wardlaw, Elizabeth Lashay Garland and Duke Finley of the program “Slay the Mic” gather to, in their words, “celebrate culture, community and creativity by amplifying voices from local artists and activists, and by providing new, old, underground and mainstream hip-hop and R&B music in the Asheville community.” Following their show on Saturday, Aug. 24, the hosts will head to Paradox Nightclub for the inaugural Slay the Mic Summer Jam. The evening includes performances by Dhat Boy Val, Sk the Novelist, Merc the World, Marley P, Siren XO, Mike L!ve, T.Y., Santii the Goat and headliner/High Point native DJ Luke Nasty of hit single “OTW” fame. The packed evening of hip-hop begins at 9 p.m. $30 general admission/$65 VIP (includes artist meet and greet and balcony seating access). avl.mx/6ew. Image courtesy of Slay the Mic

ART MARVELOUS MONDAY STUDIOS • MONDAYS, 9:30am12:30pm or 1-4pm - Marvelous Mondays, beginner and up, includes watercolor, oils, acrylics, drawing and mixed media.

Registration required. $27 and up. Held at 310 ART, 191 Lyman St., #310 RECEPTION HONORING BOB EBENDORF • FR (8/23), 2-5pm - Art reception honoring art jeweler Bob Ebendorf.

Free to attend. Held at Mora Contemporary Jewelry, 9 Walnut St. THE PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY • Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls for community members in need. Free.

Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville WEEKLY OPEN STUDIO • WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm - Weekly Open Studio art classes resumes with Betina Morgan. $20. Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART & ARCHITECTURE TOUR • SA (8/24, 9-10:30am - Art and architecture tour of downtown Hendersonville. Free.

Held at Woodlands Gallery, 419 N. Main St., Hendersonville BREVARD’S 4TH FRIDAY GALLERY WALK • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-8pm Brevard 4th Friday gallery walk with open galleries, art stores, restaurants, live music and refreshments.

Free to attend. Held in Downtown Brevard Held at Transylvania Community Arts Council, 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS 'ALL ACCESS' • TU (8/27) - Calling Asheville artists, established and emerging,

to submit 2D artwork on a first come, first served basis, ~500 works, for a large group show. No jury. Up to 20x24". Info: allaccessartshow@gmail. com. Reception: Friday, Sept. 6, 5-8pm. $10 and up. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE YOUTH CHOIRS • TH (8/22), 4-6:30pm - Asheville Youth Choirs auditions, K-12. Registration: ashevilleyouthchoirs. org. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. • TH (8/29), 4-6:30pm - Asheville Youth Choirs auditions, K-12. Registration: ashevilleyouthchoirs. org. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. CELEBRATION SINGERS COMMUNITY YOUTH CHORUS • TH (8/29), 5pm - Auditions for Celebration Singers Community Youth Chorus, prepare a song and bring sheet music.

Info: 828-250-5778. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. GRASSROOTS ARTS PROGRAM SUBGRANTS • Through FR (8/30) Grassroots Arts Program Subgrants provide financial support for Jackson County community groups and nonprofits that offer arts programs.

Application information: jacksoncountyarts.org or info@jacksoncountyarts. org. Held at Jackson County Arts Council, 310 Keener St., Sylva HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • Through FR (9/6) Applications for Haywood County Arts Council Calls for artists interested in monthly gallery exhibits or retail spaces. Information online.

MAKE A MARK • Through SA (8/31) Applications accepted for designers, developers, film makers, illustrators, photographers or makers of any kind to support the Make A Mark Asheville benefit project. Information: letsmakeamark. org/avl.

SONG O' SKY CHORUS • TUESDAYS until (8/27), 6:45pm - Women interested in joining the chorus may attend rehearsals.

Free. Held at St. John's Episcopal Church, 290 Old Haw Creek Road 'THE BLACK & WHITE OF TRUTH & LIES' • TH (8/29), 6-8pm Actors, all ages, all races, needed for screenplay reading. Info: 828-2161915 or pindarfilms@ gmail.com Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. 'WAIT UNTIL DARK' • SU (8/25) & MO (8/26), 6:30pm - Open auditions for Wait Until Dark. Information: jonnboi26@yahoo. com or 828-361-1421.

Held at Brevard Little Theatre, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL • Until SA (9/21) - Call to artists, no booth fee, however artists offer live demonstrations of their craft. Info: JCGEP.org.

Held at Jackson County Green Energy Park, 100 Green Energy Park Road, Sylva

DANCE TWO 2-HOUR DANCE CLASS - TWO STEP & WALTZ (PD.) Saturday, August 24th: 12-2PM at Grey Eagle, Asheville. Take one or both. $15 each or $25 for both. Info & online discount at: www.Danceforlife.net, naturalrichard@mac.com, 828-333 0715.

DE LA NOCHE TANGO • SU (8/25), 8:30pm Tango lesson followed by De la Noche tango music for dancing. $12 includes dance lesson. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St. INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCE • TUESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - International folk dancing, dances from around the world. No partner needed. Info: 828-645-1543. Free. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road

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

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums. com ARBOR EVENINGS • THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Arbor Evenings, weekly outdoor live music event with refreshments available. Free parking pass available online, avl.mx/6fr. Held at NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BEE GEES GOLD • FR (8/23), 8pm & SA (8/24), 2 & 8 pm - All the hits of the Bee Gees, disco. $35. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock CONCERTS ON THE CREEK • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Concerts on the Creek series through Labor Day. For lineup: mountainlovers. com. Free. Held at Bridge Park Pavilion, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva MUSIC ON MAIN • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Music on Main concert series.

Information: avl.mx/648.

Free. Held at Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville MUSIC THURSDAY OUTDOOR CONCERT • TH (8/22), 6-8:30pm Malcolm and Debbie King play vintage vinyl. $8. Held at The Gathering Place Amphiteatre, 109 Terrace Drive, Chimney Rock OLE TYME PICKERS FRIDAY BLUEGRASS • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm - Ole Tyme Pickers, bluegrass concert. Free.

Held at Big Willow Community Building, Willow Road, Hendersonville

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A & E CALENDAR ONE CELLO, ONE PLANET • FR (8/23), 7:30pm - Proceeds from One Cello, One Planet, with cellist Judith Glixon benefits Creation Care Alliance of WNC, a program that empowers faith organizations to act on climate change. $20 and up. Held at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville • SU (8/25), 4pm - Proceeds from One Cello, One Planet, with cellist Judith Glixon benefits Creation Care Alliance of WNC, a program that empowers faith organizations to act on climate change. $20 and up. Held at Jubilee Community Church, 46 Wall St.

SLY GROG OPEN MIC • SUNDAYS,

SHINDIG ON THE GREEN • SATURDAYS, 7pm Outdoor old-timey and folk music jam sessions and concert. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St.

Tickets: danielsage.

KAREN ABBOTT PRESENTS 'THE GHOSTS OF EDEN PARK' • TU (8/27), 6:30pm -Karen Abbott presents her book, The Ghosts of Eden Park: The Bootleg King, the Women Who Pursued Him and the Murder That Shocked Jazz-Age America, in conversation with Denise Kiernan. Free. Held at Little Jumbo, 241 Broadway

7pm - Open-mic for storytellers, poets, musicians and all kinds of performance artists.

Sign ups at 6:30pm.

Free to attend. Held at Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St. SUMMER TRACKS • FR (8/23), 7pm - Summer Tracks concert series, Fireside Collective. Information: summertracks.com.

Admission by donation.

Held at Rogers Park, 55 W. Howard St., Tryon 'TWIST & SHOUT' • SA (8/24), 8pm - Twist

HUMP DAY: Asheville Sister Cities hosts World Wide Wednesdays once a month featuring stories about global experiences, travel, unity, diplomacy (but not politics) and culture. Anyone can participate by signing up in advance at jessica.ea.coffield@gmail. com. The next World Wide Wednesday is planned for Aug. 28, 7-9 p.m. at the BLOCK off biltmore. Tickets are $10 for nonmembers and free for ASCI members. (p. 44)

& Shout, concert. com. $25/kids free.

Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W. Campus Drive, Flat Rock

WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-2574530, worthamarts.org • FR (8/23), 6pm - Harvest Records presents Transfigurations III: Celebrating 15

Years of Harvest Records, music event featuring Kevin Morby, Waxahatchee and Jessica Pratt. $35/$30 advance.

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Transfigurations III: Celebrating 15 Years of Harvest Records, music event featuring Bonnie Prince Billy, Joshua Abrams and Natural Information Society. $35/$30 advance.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR • FR (8/23) through SU (8/25) - Anarchist bookfair with presentations and author events. See website for schedule: acab2019.noblogs.org.

Free to attend. Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road ANARCHIST READING GROUP • WE (8/21), 5pm Anarchist reading group, discussing Oppose and Propose by Andrew Cornell. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road ANNA FARIELLO AUTHOR EVENT • FR (8/23), 6:30pm - Anna Fariello presents her book, Craft & Community: John C. Campbell Folk School 1925-1945. Free to attend. Held at City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library

• WE (8/21), 3pm - Afternoon History Book Club: The Removes by Tatjana Soli. Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TH (8/22), 6pm - Swannanoa Book Club: The Overstory by Richard Powers. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • WE (8/28), 6pm - WNC Declassified: Local History Discoveries in Long-Secret Documents. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (8/29), 6pm - Kathy Izard presents her book, The Hundred Story Home. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. FRIENDS OF THE MOUNTAIN BRANCH LIBRARY rutherfordcountylibrary. org • WE (8/21), 11am-1:30pm - Proceeds from this lunch event with presentation from author Mary Alice Monroe benefit the Friends of the Mountains Branch Library. Registration: 828-287-6392. $25.

Held at Lake Lure Inn and Spa, 2771 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure • FR (8/23), 10am-6pm Book sale. Free to attend.

Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure

MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • TH (8/22), 5-7pm Eugen Bacon presents her novel, Claiming T-Mo, in conversation with author Alexandra Duncan. Free to attend.

• MO (8/26), 6pm Rosemary Poole-Carter presents her book, Only Charlotte, in discussion with The Montford Park Players. Free to attend.

• MO (8/26), 7pm - Science Fiction Book Club discusses The Baron in the Trees by Italo Calvino, translated by Ann Goldstein. Free to attend.

• WE (8/28), 6pm - Rea Frey presents her book, Because You're Mine.

Free to attend.

• TH (8/29), 6pm - E. Patrick Johnson, PhD presents his book, Black. Queer. Southern.

Women.: An Oral History. Free to attend.

• TH (8/29), 7pm Works in Translation Book Club discusses The Noodle Maker: A Novel

by Ma Jian, translated

by Flora Drew. Free to attend.

MEAGAN LUCAS PRESENTS 'SONGBIRDS AND STRAY DOGS' • WE (8/28), 7pm Meagan Lucas presents her book, Songbirds and Stray Dogs. Free to attend. Held at The Center for Art & Inspiration, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville WORLD WIDE WEDNESDAYS • WE (8/28), 7-9pm - Asheville Sister Cities presents World Wide Wednesdays, stories about global experiences. Sign up

in advance to tell your story: jessica.ea.coffield@ gmail.com. $10/free to members. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St.

THEATER 'FLYER IN A DARK CHAMBER' • SA (8/24), 7pm - Flyer in a Dark Chamber, a reimagining of the mythology of Lilith, told through spoken word, dance and music via 10 vignettes. $10 BMCM+AC members + students w/ID/$15 non-members. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St. 'INDECENT' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/25) - Indecent, based on a true story. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm; Sun.: 3pm. $23.

Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. 'LOVE, LINDA (THE LIFE OF MRS. COLE PORTER)' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/25) - Love, Linda (The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter), musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $25. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. 'RABBIT HOLE' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (8/25) - Rabbit Hole, drama.

Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $12-26. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. 'ROMEO & JULIET' • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS until (8/24), 7:30pm - Romeo & Juliet, Shakespeare tragedy. Free to attend.

Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. 'THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED)' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (8/23) until (9/1) - The Complete History of America (abridged), slapstick vaudeville comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $18/$12 student/$6 student. Held at Brevard Little Theatre, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 21 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, (African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kitten Savage, 8:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bluegrass Jam hosted

by Gary Mac Fiddle & Friends, 6:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Return Of R&B Jam Night, 8:00PM

MONTFORD RECREATION CENTER Line Dance for Beginners (contemporary styling, no experience necessary), 12:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM

NANTAHALA BREWING - ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM

NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Open Mic, 6:30PM

CROW & QUILL Firecracker Jazz Band (New Orleans style party jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ The Heavenly Vipers (live honky tonk), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Trivia Night!, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (new wave, synth, post punk), 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Rahm & Friends, 6:00PM Austin MacRae & John Shakespear, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Music Jam Session, 5:00PM

ODDITORIUM Late Bloomer, Fashion Bath, Swamp Hag (rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latin Dance Night, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Pedro the Lion & mewithoutYOU, 9:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Ben Phan, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays!

An Evening of Electronic Collaboration, 8:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Knotty G's, 6:00PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Weekly 9 Ball Tournament (sign ups at 7:00 p.m.), 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Happy Hour: Guitar solo classics w/ Albi, 5:00PM Wednesday Night Blues Jam w/ Ruby Mayfield, Jeff Rudolph, Jim Simmons, & Brad Curtioff, 9:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Katie Sachs, 5:00PM Stairway to Zeppelin, 8:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Lenny Pettinelli (solo eclectic keys, singer-songwriter), 6:30PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH J Luke, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 22 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST No Pearl Without Grit (benefit for Mountain Bizworks), 7:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR the Travelling Pilsbury's of Asheville, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Buddagraph Spaceship w/ Joe Benjamin, 10:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths, Keturah Orr, 7:30PM

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music On The Rooftop, 9:00PM

CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM

TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM The Karma Mechanics, 10:00PM

CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Music Bingo, 7:30PM

TREEROCK SOCIAL CIDER HOUSE Witty Wednesday Trivia, 7:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (hot jazz & Western swing), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM

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C LUBLAND FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Dirty Dawg, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Nashville Songwriters in the Round by the Rotary Club of Asheville, 6:00PM

COMING SOON WED 8/21 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES W/ RAHM & FRIENDS 7:00PM–AUSTIN MCRAE & JOHN SHAKESPEAR

THU 8/22 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES W/ FWUIT! 7:00PM–KARYN OLIVER CD RELEASE

FRI 8/23 THIRD NATURE

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series w/ Fwuit, 6:00PM Karyn Oliver CD Release Show (fiery folk singer), 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Jim Tews, 9:00PM

8:30PM–THIRD NATURE ALBUM RELEASE SAT 8/24 7:00PM–MOLLY STEVENS 9:00PM–THE CURRYS AND HIGHBEAMS

SUN 8/25 6:00PM–BLUE YONDER WITH BANJO NICKARU AND WESTERN SCOOCHES 7:30PM–TAKENOBU

TUE 8/27 7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS W/ HOLLY HILL RAMBLERS

WED 8/28 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES W/ WHISTLEPIG

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Mr Jimmy's John Lee Hooker Tribute Birthday Celebration, 7:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Free Pool Thursdays, 4:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Happy Hour: Guitar solo classics w/ Albi, 5:00PM Summer Lovin' Series w/ Peggy Ratusz, 8:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM THE GATHERING PLACE AMPHITEATRE Music Thursday, 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM

THE GREY EAGLE Mac Sabbath's American Cheese Tour w/ Okilly Dokilly & Playboy Manbaby, 9:00PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Records Night (bring yours to share!), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul Drag Circus, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Buddagraph Spaceship (jam rock, funk). 10PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB: The Honey Badgers (folk, Americana), 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions (jazz), 9:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo (rock, pop, jazz, blues), 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Transfigurations III, Celebrating 15 years of Harvest Records w/ the Field & Minimal Violence, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music On The Rooftop, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Taylor Martin, 10:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Transfigurations III: Celebrating 15 Years of Harvest Records, 8:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY BREVARD Originals and Traditionals Jam, 7:00PM

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Randy Flack on Stage, 1:45PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke Thursdays, 6:00PM

FRI 8/30

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

ZAMBRA Kessler Watson (jazz), 7:00PM

7:00PM–NASHVILLE TO ASHEVILLE- SONGS & STORYTELLING W/ JARED ANDERSON AND KENNA 9:00PM–JUAN BENEVIDES GROUP REUNION

PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker & Jeff Anders (acoustic rock), 8:00PM

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7:00PM–SHEL THU 8/29 6:00PM–ISIS LAWN SERIES W/ PIMPS OF POMPE 7:00PM–TIFFANY WILLIAMS AND MATT SELLARS 8:30PM–CHRIS WILHELM WITH LIFE LIKE WATER

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SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Billy Litz, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Brody Hunt & The Handfuls (classic honkytonk), 10:00PM

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

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PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Eric Congdon, 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Matt Walsh (blues, rock), 9:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Paper Crowns Band, 8:00PM

AMBROSE WEST Reasonably Priced Babies (comedy), 8:00PM

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FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Bad Weather States, 7:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 6:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Folk Soul Revival, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB House Band, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Voodoo Visionary (funk, dance), 10:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM BIER GARDEN Blue Ridge Busketeers, 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Brother Oliver, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE The Saylor Brothers, 7:00PM CORK & KEG Vaden Landers Band, 8:30PM

GINGER'S REVENGE Jukebox Jumpers, 7:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Freeway Jubilee, 5:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Third Nature Album Release, 8:30PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR The Paper Crowns, 7:00PM

WEAVER HOUSE Slow Packer (indie, folk), 9:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Strings & Suds: Day One, 8:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Ryan Tennis, 8:00PM

RUSTIC GRAPE WINE BAR Robin Lewis (folk singersongwriter), 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Sol Rhythms, 8:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Shabudikah, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM Roots & Dore, 9:00PM

SAVE ME THE WALTZ Favorite Jazz Standards w/ DeCristofaro Thomas Law Trio, 7:00PM

LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Kenny DeForest (Night One), 9:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Pansy Fest, 7:00PM Straightaway Cafe Cat & Canary, 6:00PM

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

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Latin Dance Night Benefit for Our Voice, 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Hillbilly Diamonds, 6:30PM

THE GREY EAGLE Austin Barrett, 5:00PM Greg Brown & Malcolm Holcombe: A Benefit for Beloved AVL'S Tiny House Village, 8:00PM

MAD CO BREW HOUSE Planefolk, 6:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Revelwood Mission, 5:30PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat.

Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM

NOBLE KAVA The Old Chevrolet Set, 8:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Big Business, 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Daydream Creatures, Right to the Grave (rock), 9:00PM

THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Andrew J. Fletcher (solo jazz piano), 2:30PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM

FBO AT HOMINY CREEK The Dirty Dead, 7:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat.

Members of Phuncle Sam, 5:30PM Drip A Silver (blues, rock), 10:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB R.A.T Pack (funk, jam), 10:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Danny Brown w/ WELL$ (part of Transfigurations III), 9:30PM

FRENCH BROAD OUTFITTERS - HOMINY CREEK Chicken Coop Willaye Trio (rockin' Appalachian roots), 9:00PM

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Utah Green, 1:45PM

CROW & QUILL Posey Quartet, (swing jazz), 9:00PM

THIS WEEK AT AVL MUSIC HALL & THE ONE STOP!!!

DOUBLE CROWN Rotating Rock 'n' Soul DJs, 10:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep, 9:30PM

TOWN PUMP Chicken Coop Willaye Trio (rockin' Appalachian roots), 9:00PM TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH One Cello, One Planet: Hendersonville, 7:30PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE Breakin' on Buxton, 8:00PM

WICKED WEED WEST WW West: Leo Johnson Trio, 5:00PM WILD WING CAFE Billingsley, 9:00PM WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Kevin Morby, Waxahatchee and Jessica Pratt, 6:00PM

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NOAH PROUDFOOT & THE BOTANICALS W/ LOWLIGHT, NOBLE DUST

ASHEVILLE DRAG BRUNCH 11AM

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ZAMBRA Heavenly Vipers (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, AUGUST 24 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Tennis Trio, (Folk, Afro-Caribbean), 9:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Blue Footed Babies, 8:00PM

Breakin on Buxton w/ the free range dj

APPALACHIAN RIDGE ARTISAN CIDERY The Gathering Dark, 3:00PM

Friday, Aug. 23rd 9pm-1am @ South Slope

ARCHETYPE BREWING Crates & Barrels Vinyl Record Swap & Sale (LPs, 45s & more!), 12:00PM

sunglasses at night release Friday, August 23rd @ both locations

ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy (blues), 4:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step Band, 5:00PM Will Ray and the Space Cooties, 8:00PM

FRIDAY NIGHT GET DOWN w/ COUSIN TL

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CROW & QUILL Vaden Landers Band (local honky tonk), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Scoundrels Lounge (rock, jam), 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM The Floorboards, 8:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Keturah Orr, 2:30PM HI-WIRE BREWING BIG TOP Hi-Wire's Oktoberfest w/ tunes by Mountain Top Polka Band, 12:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Miss Cindy and the Knockin' Boots, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Molly Stevens, 7:00PM The Currys and Highbeams, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 3:00PM Duncan Wickel, 9:00PM

LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Kenny DeForest (Night Two), 9:30PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Strings & Suds: Day Two, 2:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Slushie Saturday Patio Shows w/ The Krektones (instro surf rock), 2:30PM Raw Funk, Stomp, Rock, Groove, & Skank w/ DJ The Bogart, 10:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE The Lonetones, 8:00PM

TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM

ROOTS BAR Chicken Coop Willaye Trio (rockin' Appalachian roots), 7:00PM

TOWN PUMP Hunter Begley, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM NOBLE KAVA The Kavalactones (drip noise), 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Asheville Cat Weirdos 10k Party - All Day, 3:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL In Flight w/ Hathor's Fire, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB: Gleewood (blues, folk, rock), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Transfigurations III: Celebrating 15 Years of Harvest Records w/ ESG, Shannon & the Clams, 12:30PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Amantha Mill & Bearwallow, 1:00PM PACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY Kids Rising: Standing Up for Families at the Border (card writing, art stations), 2:30PM PACK SQUARE PARK Shindig on the Green, 7:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Grand Theft Audio (classic hits), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Fwuit, 7:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Wicked Weed Burst Day w/ tunes by Nattilovejoys, 4:00PM Bayou Diesel, 8:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Animal Boogie: Tim's All Day Birthday Bash, 2:00PM SAVE ME THE WALTZ Great American Songbook Jazz w/ the James Hammel Quartet!, 7:00PM STRADA ITALIANO Jazz Guitar Brunch w/ Dan Keller, 11:00AM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE The New Rustics, 6:00PM TERPSICORPS ACADEMY Terpsicorps free Open House Classes, 10:15AM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Karaoke, 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE ReliefBox Fundraising Fiesta w/ guitarist Derrick Stamey, 6:00PM Community Salsa/Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (salsa lesson at 9 PM), 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Learn to Dance Country Two Step & Waltz, 12:00PM Oliver Padgett, 3:00PM Noah Proudfoot & the Botanicals w/ Lowlight & Noble Dust, 9:00PM

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TRYON INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN CENTER Tryon Resort’s Saturday Night Lights (music, carousel, face painting), 6:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Modern Strangers, 8:30PM WEDGE BREWING CO. Riverkeeper Beer Series & RAD River Fest After Party, 1:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Kat Williams, 7:00PM WICKED WEED WEST WW West: Joseph Herbst Trio, 5:00PM WILD WING CAFE Karaoke at the Wing, 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH The Free Flow Band, 9:00PM WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Bonnie Prince Billy, Joshua Abrams, & Natural Information Society, 5:30PM ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SUNDAY, AUGUST 25 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Acousticmuffin (Americana), 7:00PM AMBROSE WEST Charlie Traveler Presents: An Evening with Grammy Winner Mike Farris, 7:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:00PM ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibes Sunday w/ The Luv Boat, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Tim McWilliams, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Sunday Brunch w/ live music, 12:00PM Nikki Talley, 3:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bywater Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Loft brunch feat.

Phantom Pantone, 2:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Sabine & The Dew Drops, Nick Shoulders, Casey Jane, 9:00PM Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TIM O, 10:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM Clint Roberts Trio, 4:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Local Sunday in the Meadow w/ DJ Kutzu & Chalwa (music, vendors, farmers market), 12:00PM Event Center Open House w/ music by the Emerald Empire Band, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Blue Yonder w/ Banjo Nickaru & Western Scooches, 6:00PM Takenobu, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM JUBILEE! COMMUNITY CHURCH One Cello, One Planet: Asheville, 4:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk), 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Drew Matulich, 6:30PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Totally Rad Trivia Crossover, 5:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Smash Out Sundays w/ Mike T & JJ Smash, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Life Like Water (newgrass folk), 4:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Smokey Joe & Terry McKinney, 1:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Old Crow Medicine Show w/ Molly Tuttle, 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Sanctuary Brewing Company's 4th Anniversary Ft. Music

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ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM

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

LAZY DIAMOND Our Voice Benefit Disco w/ DJ Strongmagnumopus, 10:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and friends, 6:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Trivia Night, 6:00PM

ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Open Mic, 9:30PM

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

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

THE GOLDEN PINEAPPLE Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 8:00PM

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

THE GREY EAGLE Lobster Bake Fundraiser w/ Wicked Weed feat music by Rooster, 6:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Open Mic Night: It Takes All Kinds w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Soul Jam w/ Jamar Woods of The Fritz!8PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Ancient Ethel, 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Monday Night Bluegrass Jam, 8:00PM

TUESDAY, AUGUST 27 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Alley Cat Open Mic, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Gypsy Jazz Jam w/ Steve Karla & Phil Alley, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Leeda Lyric Jones, 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Trivia Night, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Tuesday Matinee Show Series feat. Local Bands, 6:00PM Sonic Stew w/ DJ Lil Side Salad & Seymour, 10:00PM GRACE BAPTIST CHURCH'S PARKING LOT Summer Jam Festival at the West Asheville Tailgate Market, 3:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Turntable Tuesdays (dance, pop, hip-hop throwbacks), 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Tuned up Tuesday (rooftop music series), 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday bluegrass Sessions hosted by Holly Hill Ramblers, 7:30PM LAZY DIAMOND Psych Night w/ DJ Marcula (projections and vinyl), 10:00PM

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MOVIE REVIEWS

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waters become black gulfs of infinity, inviting your imagination to wonder what terrors lie in that aquatic cosmos. It’s almost Lovecraftian — but not quite.

REVIEWED BY CHRIS MAIORANA STANORDAN@GMAIL.COM

Blinded by the Light

DIRECTOR: Gene Stupnitsky PLAYERS: Jacob Tremblay, Keith L. Williams, Brady Noon COMEDY RATED R In regard to the hilariously awkward and sardonic Good Boys, viewers may easily find themselves just a bit torn. But for this reviewer, the biting, over-the-top and oftentimes vulgar humor proves consistently irresistible — certainly reminiscent of the average young man's ascent into the topsy-turvy years of pubescence.

The premise of this film involves a young man who chooses to use his father’s drone, which is meant strictly for work.

The tween and his comrades attempt to spy on an older female neighbor to capture footage of how to kiss properly.

Inevitably, things don’t go as planned, and thus commences the true adventure.

The irony of this film is that the “boys” are actually fairly innocent and naive, regardless of how curiously geeky and mischievous they may be. Thoroughly modern and up-to-date, I would dare say that this is possibly the consummate millennial coming-of-age story. So many of the genre's traditions are present — especially ridicule and peer pressure — but with a heightened sense of innocence and stability being compromised.

With these young men on the verge of a sexual/social awakening that may be more imaginary than they care to admit, the humor remains constant, and in the rare instances it dissipates, it’s to intelligently make room for universal truths. As simple and silly as this film is in many ways, it

manages to reflect a surprising number of diverse perspectives and emotions.

REVIEWED BY KEVIN EVANS K.A.E.0082@GMAIL.COM

47 Meters Down: Uncaged HHH DIRECTOR: Johannes Roberts PLAYERS: Sistine Rose Stallone, Nia Long, Corinne Foxx THRILLER RATED PG-13 Is there enough suspense and titillation to make 47 Meters Down: Uncaged worth a deep dive? The sharksploitation adventure may tread water at times but doesn’t sink.

When a group of teenagers commandeers some diving gear to explore a sunken Mayan city, they unexpectedly wind up in a murky nightmare. Submerged ages ago by “rising sea levels,” according to one of our main characters, the ruins are only accessible through a labyrinth of shark-infested caves.

One has to wonder if the oceanic reference is just a dry and poorly executed commentary on climate change. If so, then shame on those Mayans for not being more careful about their carbon emissions!

No matter what’s happening around them, or in what movie, sharks are always scary. And though Uncaged is no Jaws, it poses no exception to the rule.

While the plot too often settles for cheap jump scares to move things along, you may be surprised at how the shadowy deep plays on your senses. When the lights go out (as they often do), the inky

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committed by British colonials in Australia. More specifically, her rage is centered on the infamous penal colony on the island now known as Tasmania, where the entire indigenous population, an estimated 6,000 people in nine nations, was wiped out by murder or disease.

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DIRECTOR: Gurinder Chadha PLAYERS: Viveik Kalra, Kulvinder Ghir, Meera Ganatra COMEDY/MUSIC RATED PG-13 Not quite on par with this summer fellow celebrations of The Beatles (Yesterday) and Elton John (Rocketman), Blinded by the Light is a passionate yet awkward testament to the power of Bruce Springsteen’s music.

Set in 1987 in the dead-end English town of Luton, the fact-based film revels in a breezy opening hour in which PakistaniBritish teen Javed (Viveik Kalra, appearing in his feature film debut) shakes off the blues of adolescence, racism and cultural oppression to the tune of “The Promised Land” and “Hungry Heart.”

This liberated charm is sadly abandoned in an overly serious second half, during which the incorporation of Springsteen songs and lyrics suddenly feels forced.

Slowed by an excessive 20-30 minutes, the runtime keeps Blinded by the Light from being the nimble musical comedy with dramatic overtones that it seemingly wants to be and solidifies its mediocrity.

Read the full review at ashevillemovies.com Now playing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

The Nightingale HHH DIRECTOR: Jennifer Kent PLAYERS: Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr THRILLER RATED R In The Nightingale, lauded Australian director/writer Jennifer Kent (The Babadook) persuasively vents her fury against the 19th-century genocide

The Nightingale (R) HHH The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) HHHS JUST ANNOUNCED Ready or Not (R) A bride's wedding night takes a dark turn when her new in-laws make her play a sinister game. Starts Aug. 20.

Angel Has Fallen (R) A Secret Service Agent is wrongfully accused of an assassination attempt on the U.S. President.

The Overcomer (PG) A manufacturing plant's pending closure changes the lives of its town's residents.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) HHH The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) HHHHS The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG) HHHH Avengers: Endgame (PG-13) HHHHS Blinded by the Light (PG-13) HHH Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) HH The Farewell (PG) HHHHS Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) HHHHH Good Boys (R) HHHH (Pick of the Week) The Kitchen (R) HHS The Lion King (PG) HHH Maiden (PG) HHHHS Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) HHHHS Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG-13) HHH Spider-Man: Far From Home (PG-13) HHHH Sword of Trust (R) HHHHS Them That Follow (R) HHH Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am (PG-13) HHHHS Toy Story 4 (G) HHHHS Where’d You Go, Bernadette (PG-13) HHHS

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M OVIE RE V I EW S Under Kent’s guidance, relentless violence becomes painfully real with a compelling script and jaw-dropping cinematography, which captures the oppressive landscape as well as the clothing, backdrops and language of the times. The cast's many actors, black and white, are so convincing it seems they’ve spent years living their roles.

The film is set in 1825, the 38th year that England has shipped convicts to Australia. Lovely Clare (Asiling Franciosi, HBO's "Game of Thrones") sings so beautifully that most English soldiers call her “The Nightingale,” though others curse her as “Irish convict scum.” After suffering unspeakable brutality by Lt. Hawkins (Sam Claflin, Their Finest), Clare seeks revenge and vows to track him to his new assignment across the country with merely her horse, a few trinkets and an indigenous tracker named Billy (Baykali Ganambarr, excellent in his film debut).

At odds with one another but bound by hatred of the British, she and Billy set off.

With aching suspense, they battle a hellish nightmare of furious rivers, giant leeches, lynched indigenous people, marauding escaped convicts and trigger-happy settlers. One night, Billy reveals his real name to Clare — Mangano, which means blackbird. They at last see one another as kindred spirits, and as Nightingale and Blackbird, they send their voices flying to the moonlit sky before returning to the terrifying reality still facing them.

As a powerful, important film, The Nightingale deserves 5 stars. Alas, its 136 minutes of endless, horrific violence means I can recommend it only with caution.

Starts Aug. 23 at Grail Moviehouse

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Where’d You Go, Bernadette HHHS

DIRECTORS: Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz PLAYERS: Shia LaBeouf, Zack Gottsagen, Dakota Johnson COMEDY/DRAMA RATED PG-13

DIRECTOR: Richard Linklater PLAYERS: Cate Blanchett, Billy Crudup, Kristen Wiig COMEDY/MYSTERY RATED PG-13

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REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

As an odd couple on the lam for wildly different reasons, the inspired combination of Shia LaBeouf’s Tyler and Zack Gottsagen’s Zak in The Peanut Butter Falcon is a strong candidate for Onscreen Duo of the Year.

The frequently hilarious and occasionally touching Outer Banks adventures of the depressed loner and his immensely likable tagalong with Down syndrome are further bolstered by confident filmmaking from first-time feature writer/directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz, whose authentic setting is populated by colorful side characters that feel lifted from a documentary about quirky seaside personalities.

But as Zak develops his titular wrestler alter ego, Tyler opens his heart, and a conclusion must be reached, the filmmakers’ storytelling inexperience increasingly shows in a rushed final act.

The late-breaking stumbles don’t significantly undermine The Peanut Butter Falcon’s many successes, especially a normalizing of Down syndrome that other filmmakers would be wise to emulate, but the victories nonetheless merit a more developed vessel than the one they receive.

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KIDS REVIEW

The Angry Birds Movie 2 HHHHS DIRECTOR: Thurop Van Orman PLAYERS: The voices of Jason Sudeikis, Josh Gad, Leslie Jones ANIMATED/COMEDY • RATED PG I recommend The Angry Birds Movie 2. The main character is Red, the lonely angry bird from the first movie. Chuck and Bomb are his friends. There is a new girl bird, Chuck’s sister Silver, who is supersmart. She created superstring, which can strongly hold things like stone. In class, when she was introducing superstring, everyone was snoring because they thought it was boring.

The pigs that the birds battled in the last movie now make a truce with them because of a threat (ice balls) from a third island, Eagle Island. Zeta is the leader of Eagle Island.

Mighty Eagle stood Zeta up on the day they were supposed to get married.

I really liked this movie — even more than the first one. This movie was funny. One joke at the end of the movie was a pun. They told Bomb to “take the eagles out,” which made the audience think he was going to hurt them, but in the next scene it shows Bomb taking them to a party, with them all singing “Baby Shark.”

Another funny part was when Chuck told Red that he was going to love his sister Silver, but Chuck says, “Don’t love her too much because she is my sister! My sister!”

This line shows up in an even funnier way later in the movie.

There were a lot of fun songs in the movie, and I liked all of the new characters.

REVIEWED BY LUCAS MCKEE

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In adapting Maria Semple’s popular novel Where’d You Go, Bernadette, writer/director Richard Linklater (Boyhood) has crafted a film of unusual form that encompasses the book's quirkiness without attempting to imitate it. A once-famous architect turned stay-at-home mom, Bernadette is erratic, eccentric and thoroughly entertaining. Whether she’s also unbalanced is the movie’s central question.

In the title role, Cate Blanchett may be one of the few actors who could hold together Linklater’s vision for a movie that’s part farce, part intervention, part melodrama. Bernadette’s husband, Elgie, is played by Billy Crudup in the sensitive straight guy mode he perfected in 20th Century Women, while newcomer Emma Nelson is a charmer as Bee, their daugh-

ter (and our narrator), handling her big confrontation with a stuck-up neighbor (Kristen Wiig) with aplomb.

The actual plot would sound either mad or dull in summary, so suffice it to say that Bernadette is a larger-than-life mom who faces a crisis and disappears. She winds up in Antarctica, images of which add a sort of spiritual dimension to the movie. The plot, though, is not the point. The joy of Bernadette is Blanchett digging into another complicated, brilliant, insecure character — and, really, isn’t that enough? If not, there are cameos from a host of other fine actors such as Megan Mullally, Lawrence Fishburne and the ever underused Judy Greer.

It’s not quite a shaggy dog story, but any movie that encompasses tech culture and penguin-mating practices is bound to seem somewhat scattered. Still, some of the best film journeys take viewers on seemingly capricious itineraries toward a satisfying if unexpected destination. In Bernadette, the endpoint is a message about the inexplicability of creativity — a subject entirely appropriate to its oddball narrative.

REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

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MASKED AND ANONYMOUS: A still from the Asheville-shot film DimLand. Writer/director Peter Collins Campbell has launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund the featurelength project’s postproduction costs.

Photo courtesy of Campbell Chicago-based filmmaker Peter Collins Campbell has launched a Kickstarter campaign to complete postproduction on FILM 'GRAVEYARD FIELDS - CALL OF THE HIGH COUNTRY' • WE (8/21), 6-8pm Graveyard Fields - Call of the High Country, 25-minute documentary about the history, beauty and challenges facing the area. Free. Raffle ticket proceeds at pisgahconservancy.org go toward protecting Graveyard

Fields for the next generation. Reception to follow at Blue Spiral. Held at Fine Arts Theatre, 36 Biltmore Ave. BILLY WILDER FILM SERIES • TU (8/27), 6pm - Billy Wilder Film Series: Some Like it Hot, comedy. Joe and Jerry (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) disguise themselves as women and join an all-female traveling band. Free.

his feature-length debut DimLand, which was shot on location in Asheville. The narrative work — about a melancholic young woman who, with her boyfriend in tow, visits her uncle’s secluded mountain cabin and encounters a mysterious masked figure — was filmed on the local property that houses co-star Nate Wise’s family’s half-built cottage.

Backer rewards range from being thanked in the film’s credits and receiving a high-definition download of the finished work to a comprehensive package that includes an executive producer credit. The campaign runs through Thursday, Aug. 29. Campbell says he and his cast and crew “absolutely look to host [local] screenings once the whole thing is complete and look forward to coming back.” avl.mx/6fb X Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview FILM FRIDAY • FR (8/23), 1-3pm - Captain Marvel (rated PG-13).

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1 The number of letters in this clue’s answer 5 Gymnasts’ supplies 9 New moon or full moon 14 Traffic ___ 15 Put out 16 Give a casual greeting, in modern lingo 17 Candy that the lovers [circled letters] on Valentine’s Day 19 More deadpan, as humor 20 Peach’s center 21 Some pro cameras, for short 23 Shepherd slain

by Cain 24 Politician that the voters [circled letters] to Congress 27 Traditional time to start work 28 Occur, as complications 29 Terrific, in dated slang 30 Erode 34 Something most people lie about?

35 Quick trips that the busy person [circled letters] around town 36 “Yikes!”

39 Olympics squad in red, white and blue 40 “Auld Lang ___” 41 “___ thank me later” 43 Suitable for all ages 45 Books that Victorians [circled letters] for cheap 49 In addition 50 Alternatives to wagons 51 One step down on the evolutionary scale 52 Elite party attendees 54 Luxury vehicle that the motorist [circled letters] on the highway 58 Part of a multimedia ad campaign

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60 Action to collect on a debt 61 Shorthand, for short 62 “Buona ___” (Italian greeting) 63 Dish that may come with a spork

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1 Org. that regulates I.S.P.s 2 “That’s intriguing!”

3 Still in the box 4 File box filler 5 Blanc who voiced Bugs Bunny 6 Conglomerate 7 Mr. or Mrs. 8 Forbidding 9 Queen guitarist Brian May has one in astrophysics 10 Friend of Hamlet 11 Outs 12 Place to hide a card, perhaps 13 ___ Combs, Hall-of-Famer who played for the 1920s-’30s Yankees 18 Other, in Oaxaca

22 Benchmark 24 Surname of national security advisers under both Bush 43 and Obama 25 May birthstones 26 Word with dark or graphic 27 Apprehend 31 Headrest for a couch napper, say 32 T, in an honor society’s name 33 Connections 35 Slippery 36 Five to six feet high, roughly 37 Quashes 38 Gunpowder holder

39 Turns the dial (to), say 40 Dazed states 41 Chastise in no uncertain terms 42 Like some football kicks 44 Over the horizon 45 Products of some orchards 46 Sped-up part of a contest commercial 47 Avoid 48 Ed of “Elf ” 53 Excessively 55 Molecule with A, C, T and G 56 Green branch, for short 57 Big quarrel

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s not cost-efficient to recycle plastic. Sorting and processing the used materials to make them available for fresh stuff is at least as expensive as creating new plastic items from scratch. On the other hand, sending used plastic to a recycling center makes it far less likely that it will end up in the oceans and waterways, harming living creatures. So in this case, the short-term financial argument in favor of recycling is insubstantial, whereas the moral argument is strong. I invite you to apply a similar perspective to your upcoming decisions.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): African American slaves suffered many horrendous deprivations. For example, it was illegal for them to learn to read. Their oppressors feared that educated slaves would be better equipped to agitate for freedom and took extreme measures to keep them illiterate. Frederick Douglass was one slave who managed to beat the ban. As he secretly mastered the art of reading and writing, he came upon literature that ultimately emboldened him to escape his “owners” and flee to safety. He became one of the 19th century’s most powerful abolitionists, producing reams of influential writing and speeches. I propose that we make Douglass your inspiring role model for the coming months. I think you’re ready to break the hold of a certain curse — and go on to achieve a gritty success that the curse had prevented you from accomplishing.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): For 25 years, businessman Don Thompson worked for the McDonald’s fast food company, including three years as its CEO. During that time, he oversaw the sale and consumption of millions of hamburgers. But in 2015, he left McDonald’s and became part of Beyond Meat, a company that sells vegan alternatives to meat. I could see you undergoing an equally dramatic shift in the coming months, Gemini: a transition into a new role that resembles but is also very different from a role you’ve been playing. I urge you to step up your fantasies about what that change might entail.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot,” wrote author Audre Lorde. As an astrologer I would add this nuance: Although what Lourde says is true, some phases of your life are more favorable than others to seek deep and rapid education. For example, the coming weeks will bring you especially rich teachings if you incite the learning process now.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The American idiom “stay in your lane” has come to mean “mind your own business” and usually has a pejorative sense. But I’d like to expand it and soften it for your use in the coming weeks. Let’s define it as meaning “stick to what you’re good at and know about” or “don’t try to operate outside your area of expertise” or “express yourself in ways that you have earned the right to do.” Author Zadie Smith says that this is good advice for writers. “You have to work out what it is you can’t do, obscure it and focus on what works,” she attests.

Apply that counsel to your own sphere or field, Leo. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Yisrael Kristal was a Polish Jew born under the sign of Virgo in 1903. His father was a scholar of the Torah, and he began studying Judaism and learning Hebrew at age 3. He lived a long life and had many adventures, working as a candlemaker and a candymaker. When the Red Army liberated the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1945, Kristal emerged as one of the survivors. He went on to live to the age of 113. Because of the chaos of World War I, he had never gotten to do his bar mitzvah when he’d turned 13. So he did it much later, in his old age. I foresee a comparable event coming up soon in your life, Virgo.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Sailors have used compasses to navigate since the 11th century. But that tool wasn’t enough to guide them. A thorough knowledge of the night sky’s stars was a crucial aid. Skill at reading the ever-changing ocean currents always proved valuable. Another helpful trick was to take birds on the ships as collaborators. While at sea, if the birds flew off and returned, the sailors knew there was no land close by. If the birds didn’t return, chances were good that land was near. I bring this to your attention, Libra, because I think it’s an excellent time to gather a number of different navigational tools for your upcoming quest. One won’t be enough.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): What do you want from the allies who aren’t your lovers? What feelings do you most enjoy while you’re in the company of your interesting, non-romantic companions? For instance, maybe you like to be respected and appreciated. Or perhaps what’s most important to you is to experience the fun of being challenged and stimulated. Maybe your favorite feeling is the spirit of collaboration and comradeship. Or maybe all of the above. In any case, Scorpio, I urge you to get clear about what you want — and then make it your priority to foster it. In the coming weeks, you’ll have the power to generate an abundance of your favorite kind of nonsexual togetherness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): As the CEO of the clothes company Zappos, Sagittarius entrepreneur Tony Hsieh is worth almost a billion dollars. If he chose, he could live in a mansion by the sea. Yet his home is a 200-square-foot, $48,000 trailer in Las Vegas, where he also keeps his pet alpaca. To be clear, he owns the entire trailer park, which consists of 30 other trailers, all of which are immaculate hotbeds of high-tech media technology where interesting people live. He loves the community he has created, which is more important to him than status and privilege. “For me, experiences are more meaningful than stuff,” he says. “I have way more experiences here.” I’d love to see you reaffirm your commitment to priorities like his in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It’ll be a favorable time to do so.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Medical researcher Jonas Salk developed a successful polio vaccine, so he had a strong rational mind. Here’s how he described his relationship with his nonrational way of knowing.

He said, “It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It’s my partner.” I bring this up, Capricorn, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time to celebrate and cultivate your own intuition. You may generate amazing results as you learn to trust it more and figure out how to deepen your relationship with it.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian environmentalist Edward Abbey once formulated a concise list of his requirements for living well. “One must be reasonable in one’s demands on life,” he wrote. “For myself, all that I ask is: 1. accurate information; 2. coherent knowledge; 3. deep understanding; 4. infinite loving wisdom; 5. no more kidney stones, please.”

According to my analysis of the astrological omens, now would be an excellent time for you to create your own tally of the Five Crucial Provisions. Be bold and precise as you inform life about your needs.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “We may be surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers,” wrote author Janette Oke. I suspect that observation will apply to you in the coming weeks. If you’re an atheist or agnostic, I’ll rephrase her formulation for you: “We may be surprised at whom Life sends to answer our entreaties.”

There’s only one important thing you have to do to cooperate with this experience: set aside your expectations about how help and blessings might appear.

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