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Solving Asheville’s parking woes Thoughts for parking [in response to “Summertime and the Parking’s Not Easy: Residents Feel Downtown Parking Squeeze,” Aug. 14, Xpress]: 1. For residents and workers: Why not use some of the vacant parcels, like at the old Kmart on Patton and the Innsbruck Mall, for worker parking with a shuttle bus that runs, let’s say from 7 a.m. until 9:30 and returns at 4:30 through 6 p.m.

Charge a monthly fee that is reasonable: say, $35-$50 per month so people can afford it. Pay for it out of ART funds. That should be part of our infrastructure.

2. For locals, issue a Buncombe County permit for a minimal fee so that locals can access 10% of on-street parking and the garages. Perhaps an annual fee of $50.

3. Fees at garages are too high for events. Should be reduced for at least county residents.

4. If you want us to use the lots, then make it affordable. Again, perhaps a county permit paid annually that would provide an incentive to use the parking garages. Locals should be a priority to access reasonable parking fees. Tourists should pay a bit more.

We need to encompass a countywide incentive to get citizens to come downtown rather than stay away. The parking is tough, and this is not unusual for many cities, but we need to come up

with a solution for local folks just trying to utilize our wonderful independent restaurants, shops, etc. We currently are driving locals away, and there is a way to do better.

I have been in many cities like Baltimore, San Francisco and Santa Fe, with their train systems that offer free parking at distant locales to catch trains or shuttles. We could do the same if we had reliable bus/shuttle service to downtown.

I can tell you that the $20 parking fee Greenville charges at garages close to the Peace Center is abhorrent, but they get it because it is close to the theater. That is terrible and takes advantage of attendees. Yes, there are cheaper places if you want to walk a few blocks. But this is one example of excess.

— Karen Johnson Asheville

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hubby Harold. “Oh, I don’t know honey, at least back home, we put our stone quarries on the outskirts of town, not smack dab in the middle of it.”

The humiliating hole also shows tourists that our happy downtown facade camouflages a sad charade. They don’t know that the last two city elections have hinged in great part over whether to convert the property into a community-building pastoral park or another money-maximizing, rectangular flophouse.

If it’s fear of aggressive beggars that prevents our building a park, then let’s put a fence around it and charge a dollar to get in. Gramercy Park in New York City does something similar. Or we could pulverize the poverty the causes the fear.

But none of the options seem to ever happen. So the funny festering pit endlessly sits, loudly proclaiming Asheville’s political discomfit.

— Bill Branyon Asheville

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Parking problems expose a divided city I am writing this letter in response to your recent article about Asheville’s parking situation, as I strongly feel it shows the divided and corrupt city that Asheville has become [“Summertime and the Parking’s Not Easy: Residents Feel Downtown Parking Squeeze,” Aug. 14, Xpress].

I work in downtown as a software developer, and all I have to say is: God bless the ART system and the S3 for saving me so much money as compared to the private lots and the parking decks.

And I agree with Sage Turner on the monthly parking lot issue. Seventy dollars a month — really, Asheville city government? The whole point of paying city taxes is to avoid price gouging.

Oh, and it makes so much sense that Julie Mayfield, our wonderful Council member who cast the deciding vote on the Flatiron hotel, thinks parking is “not a priority,” since that project will flood the downtown Wall Street parking deck with new tourists.

All of this begs the question: Who is this city built for? Is it for residents with cars? No, parking isn’t a priority. Is it for bus riders? No, the ART system is grossly underfunded. Is it for workers and even small-business owners? No, the city prioritizes parking for “big events.”

Since I’ve started living here, this city and its government have catered only to wealthy landowners who speculate on their property values over the interests of everybody else. And to [city Transportation Director] Ken Putnam, I would like to say this: Other than the Biltmore House and Mount Pisgah, the things that define Asheville, N.C., for me is seeing a “No Parking” sign every 10 yards and extreme gentrification that sends the message, “You’re not welcome here.”

Sadly, more and more people will leave, as I feel these unsustainable development practices will drive people from a city that thinks only “elite empty nesters” matter.

— Justin Reid Asheville

Is Asheville only geared for the young and fit?

I promised myself to go see Pavarotti at the theater when it came out. The only theater showing it [earlier this summer was] the Fine Arts Theatre in Asheville.

So I drove up just to see it there.

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ful that the one handicapped spot was available to park in. So I buy a ticket for the show and am faced with a double set of stairs to climb to the theater upstairs.

Using my cane, I managed to slowly get up there, determined now to see the movie. It was a special treat for me. I’m a huge Pavarotti fan.

Then I watched the other people climb up and fill the theater. The average age of this group had to be 60! Many canes were used. Some of the people were really struggling after being in 80-plus degrees heat to accomplish this climb.

Many balked at the third set of steps to the seating.

After two hours … I made the climb back down, slowly. I spoke to the manager about this bad level of ageism and while he apologized, he said it’s the way the building was built and he couldn’t do anything about it. I think warning people about the stairs might have been a start!

Only showing it downstairs would have been another good idea.

Is this the general attitude in Asheville nowadays, gearing everything to the younger and/or fitter set? Is mountain climbing a requirement for everything there? I’ve lived in this area for nearly 20 years. I avoid doing numerous things in Asheville for this very reason.

Grabbing the ice and pain pills [after the show]. Not a treat.

— Gail Nash

Hendersonville Editor’s note: Xpress contacted the Fine Arts Theatre with a summary of the letter writer’s points and received the following response from Neal Reed, the theater’s manager/programmer: “Our ‘Upstairs’ auditorium is the original balcony from 1947 when the theater opened. The balcony was used as segregated seating; all nonwhites had to climb the stairs to see the same films as whites were watching on the main floor.

Unfortunately, the building just won’t accommodate an elevator.

“We always try to open films on the main floor, as we did for Pavarotti for the first week’s showings. Pavarotti moved upstairs for its second and last week, as we opened Yesterday, one of the biggest films for us this summer.

“We note each film’s auditorium on our website and on our phone message.

“When possible, we move films down during the week for those who can’t make it up the stairs. Go to fineartstheatre.com or call 828-232-1536 for auditorium information.

“The reality is not discriminatory ageism at the Fine Arts or elsewhere in Asheville’s beautiful old buildings.”

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Panel discussion reveals emerging leadership dynamics

POWER SHIFT: Panelists for the Leadership Asheville Buzz Breakfast series finale, held Aug. 14 at the Crowne Plaza Resort’s Expo Center, included, from left, Stephanie Brown of Explore Asheville; Debra Campbell of the city of Asheville; Avril Pinder of Buncombe County; and Lakesha McDay of Dogwood Health Trust. Nancy Cable, far right, chancellor of UNC Asheville, moderated the discussion. Photo by Emmanuel Figaro courtesy of UNC Asheville

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com What do you see in this picture?

Gender, race, length of time in Western North Carolina? Or maybe the institutional control of billions in assets and spending?

Looking at a stage full of women — panelists for the Aug. 14 finale of Leadership Asheville’s summer Buzz Breakfast series on building a connected community — some might focus on the concentration of female power, bolstered by the presence of Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer and other female leaders in the audience.

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Others, noting that three of the speakers are black, might reflect on changing racial dynamics. The prelude to City Manager Debra Campbell’s arrival in Asheville was the Feb. 28, 2018, release of leaked body camera video of a white city police officer’s assault of an unarmed black resident, leading to former City Manager Gary Jackson’s resignation.

And although the corruption and embezzlement scandal that preceded County Manager Avril Pinder’s appointment as the head of Buncombe County government wasn’t centered on the whiteness of those targeted by federal indictments, she’s nonethe-

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less the first woman of color to hold that position.

Meanwhile, in the seven months since Dogwood Health Trust came into existence to receive the profits from the sale of nonprofit Mission Health to HCA Healthcare, Lakesha McDay has served as one of the new foundation’s most public faces, building DHT’s relationships in the 18-county WNC region where it will spend $60 million to $75 million annually to boost residents’ health and well-being.

Another lens might emphasize the impact of new blood at the top levels of local agencies and institutions. As discussion facilitator Nancy Cable, who began work as chancellor of UNC Asheville last August, pointed out, she and Campbell are wrapping up their first year in the community.

Pinder came to Buncombe County in March. McDay is an Asheville native, but her role at Dogwood is a switch from her previous responsibilities for diversity and employee engagement with Mission Health.

Only Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority President and CEO Stephanie Brown has been in the same job for over a year, having taken up her current post in 2012.

LESSONS IN LEADERSHIP Kicking off the discussion, Cable characterized the work of leadership as being “to gather and connect with people unlike ourselves, from different life experiences, from different backgrounds, with patently different opinions from ones we might hold.” She posited that bridging these differences to create progress and change is the primary charge of leadership, particularly “in these days of political divide.”

Taking the stage with Cable, Brown reflected that “we come to this room after hundreds of years of systematic and intentional injustices and inequities.” Those without deep roots in Asheville, she said, haven’t “experienced the vibrancy of the African American communities that were here and that were destroyed through urban renewal.”

Brown highlighted recent TDA funding awards that will highlight and help preserve the city’s black history, including the Stephens-Lee High School Museum and Cultural Center; renovations to the YMI Cultural Center, one of the nation’s oldest black community centers; and the African American Heritage Trail.

She also touted the authority’s role in drawing visitors to Buncombe County, which she said creates economic opportunity for entre-

“We’ve got so much data that tells us that when you include people, it builds — it doesn’t tear down.”

— Debra Campbell, Asheville city manager preneurs and workers throughout the community.

Campbell urged the audience of about 250 to reimagine perceptions of racial and socioeconomic differences.

“We need to tap into those different Ashevilles that we all individually experience and look at them as strengths rather than weaknesses,” she said. “Look at them as assets rather than deficits for our community.”

The creation of the city’s Equity and Inclusion Department, Campbell said, represents a long-term shift in shared values. “Equity and inclusion makes us a better community; it strengthens us,” she said. “We’ve got so much data that tells us that when you include people, it builds — it doesn’t tear down.”

RECOVERY MODE Pinder’s priority has been listening to county employees. “They had a distrust for leadership because of what we’ve been through,” she said, referring to the federal indictments on corruption charges of four former county employees, including former County Managers Wanda Greene and Mandy Stone, as well as former Buncombe County Commissioner

Ellen Frost and county contractor Joseph Wiseman Jr. The county manager revealed that she spent the first 100 days in her new job “just talking to staff” rather than going out into the community to build relationships there, explaining, “We are public servants, but until we can fix ourselves and we decide what we believe in, we really can’t focus on anything. For me, it was work that had to be done.”

Pinder also spoke of the need for expanded collaboration with nonprofits and city of Asheville staff and elected leaders, pointing to the pursuit of high-quality internet connectivity for all county residents as the type of issue that requires broad cooperation among various groups.

The county’s new investments in “the first 2,000 days of life” — with $3.5 million committed to early childhood services in the current fiscal year and similar support projected for future years — Pinder said, will play out over time as Buncombe youths experience less of an opportunity and achievement gap than earlier generations. She also pointed to the need to plan for smart urban growth, including possible county investments in

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LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION Reflecting on the “908,379 people across the 18 counties” that will be served by Dogwood Health Trust, McDay sees significant differences of geography and demographics. While Asheville and Buncombe County are grappling with the consequences of growth, she said, places like Murphy and Robbinsville face shrinking populations.

Mentioning traffic on Interstate 26 close to Asheville, McDay remarked, “Those things that we don’t like, somebody else would love. Or those things that are building up our economy and our infrastructure are not happening in other places, so I think we have to broaden that lens of perspective as we think about the demographics.”

McDay also spoke strongly against “narratives that cause disconnectedness,” characterizations of communities that portray them as “lesser than” instead of different and resilient in their own ways. “We have to be really careful that we are actually creating the spaces, that we’re creating the opportunity for people to feel connected, versus feeding a narrative that forces us to be disconnected,” she said.

ATONEMENT AND HEALING As the discussion approached its end, Cable posed a provocative question submitted by an audience member.

“What do we do as a community to systematically atone for decades of betrayal and truly heal, in order to become a connected community?” Cable read.

After a long pause as the question sank in, Pinder raised her microphone.

“Atonement: That is a very strong word,” she said. “Atonement to me says that somebody’s got to pay for something.”

Neither Pinder nor the other panelists were willing to get on board with the idea of paying for past sins, but each offered a response. For Pinder, listening to our neighbors’ experiences without judgment or defensiveness is the best fix, while Campbell added, “I don’t think it’s about atonement — it’s about us agreeing collectively that we want to try to help improve the lives of each other.”

Brown suggested that learning about the inequities in Asheville’s past and present can go a long way. “For each of us who have decided to come here and make this our home, we owe it to those who came before us to learn the history and become educated.”

McDay tackled a different aspect of the question, focusing on the idea of healing. “Healing doesn’t mean that you won’t hurt again or that you won’t think about it again or that you might not get taken back to that space again,” she said.

Even after acknowledging a loss and moving on, she continued, “It’s still a part of who we are.” The grief can still be triggered, sometimes when it’s least expected. “Because sometimes you think that you have healed and you haven’t. So I kind of got stuck on that word,” she concluded, to a burst of applause. X

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Commission hears economic development update

SHOCKING DEVELOPMENT: Georgiabased Fox Factory, which manufactures shock absorbers, will create 65 jobs and invest $1 million locally as part of a deal worked out by the Asheville-Buncombe County Economic Development Coalition.

Photo courtesy of Buncombe County As the old saying goes, sometimes you have to spend money to make money. To that end, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners awarded $350,000 in fiscal year 201819 to support the Asheville-Buncombe County Economic Development Coalition. At the board’s Aug. 20 meeting, members learned what the quasigovernmental body had done to grow the region’s economy over that period.

Clark Duncan, the EDC’s executive director and senior vice president for economic development at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, acknowledged that many people think of his group’s work through the lens of new industry recruitment and the associated financial incentives. Two such projects did come to come to Buncombe last year: Canadian heating and cooling company Haakon Industries pledged $19.6 million in new capital investment, while Georgia-based shock absorber maker Fox Factory promised to invest $1 million. Together, the projects are expected to bring 225 jobs to the region for a total county incentive of roughly $192,000.

But Duncan emphasized that the EDC also helps existing businesses in the area build their workforce and understand market opportunities.

The group’s new NEXT AVL mentorship program pairs county professionals with local college students from immigrant, minority or economically disadvantaged backgrounds. “These are students that need more of our social capital as local professionals and also, frankly, maybe have the hardest time seeing their future success in Buncombe County,” he said.

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Workforce development is particularly important for Buncombe County, Duncan added, given the county’s bestin-state unemployment rate — 3.4% in June, the latest month for which data is available. The EDC helped conduct an employer survey across Buncombe’s 10-county “laborshed,” the area from which it draws employees, to determine what skills are most in demand.

And the EDC’s Venture Asheville program, focused on area startups, worked to create new jobs locally by attracting over $4 million in capital, including more than $1 million from a “road trip” that took area entrepreneurs to pitch before investors in Charlotte, Durham and Raleigh. “Sometimes you have to bootstrap funding in Western North Carolina, and I’m really proud of our participants,” Duncan said.

Tim Love, the county’s director of intergovernmental projects, followed Duncan to update the commission on the status of older economic development agreements. Of nearly $25.8 million in pledged incentives, the county had disbursed less than $6.7 million; companies such as Linamar and GE Aviation, he explained, hadn’t yet met their targets for job creation and capital investment, which are tied to incentive payments.

Love noted that all of the companies under existing agreements had exceeded Buncombe’s goals for average employee wages. Asheville-based Burial Beer Co., for example, is currently paying an average salary of $44,000, $10,000 more than its goal, to the workers who’ve filled 20 new jobs created under its county agreement.

The board’s only point of criticism on the economic development efforts came from Commissioner Mike Fryar, who suggested the county should sell the building it currently leases to GE Aviation due to the company’s relatively low tax payments. Buncombe spent $15.7 million on land acquisition and building construction for the facility in the Sweeten Creek Industrial Park; an EDC press release announcing the agreement’s approval in 2013 estimated that GE would pay $1.2 million annually in city and county property taxes, but the company has only paid about $2.1 million in total local taxes in the five years since that time.

“We’ve got to tell the people the truth: That GE deal was a screwup, big time, when we built the building,” Fryar said.

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SERVICE WITH A SMILE: Volunteers for the United Way of Henderson County’s day of service on Aug. 16 completed projects at 22 county schools. These volunteers brightened Rugby Middle School’s sign on Haywood Road. Photo courtesy of the United Way of Henderson County VOLUNTEERS SPIFF UP 22 HENDERSON COUNTY SCHOOLS Schools in Henderson County looked noticeably spiffier by the afternoon of Aug. 16, after more than 500 community volunteers had pitched in on 42 service projects at 22 schools as part of United Way of Henderson County’s annual Day of Action. Projects included painting walls, cleaning playgrounds, mulching and other tasks.

Volunteers also donated nonperishable food items for MANNA FoodBank’s Packs for Kids and school supply items for Henderson County students in need.

“We want our children to start the academic year in freshly painted classrooms with the supplies they need and we want our teachers and school staff to know how much they are appreciated,” said Denise Cumbee Long, executive director of United Way of Henderson County, in a press release.

ART RENOVATIONS ENTER NEW PHASE When renovations to the ART bus station on Coxe Avenue are complete, the station will boast new lobby seating, flooring and lighting; updated, ADAaccessible public restrooms with baby changing tables in both the women’s

and men’s facilities; and public Wi-Fi access.

During interior renovations, which will begin soon, the station will remain fully operational, with two mobile units installed in an adjacent parking lot serving as a ticketing/waiting area and restroom facility.

According to a city press release, “The lobby renovation is estimated to take around 60 days.”

Once that portion of the project has been completed, workers will clean and improve the bus platform and install ADA-compliant ramps on the platform and sidewalks adjacent to the station. The total project “is expected to last through late winter 2020 and possibly into early spring,” the city said.

HAYWOOD COUNTY SHERIFF WARNS OF SCAM The Haywood County Sheriff’s Office reported an increase in calls complaining of a phone scam that impersonates Sheriff’s Office personnel and its main telephone number.

According to the Sheriff’s Office, those targeted have included residents from Haywood, Jackson, Buncombe and Transylvania counties.

“The key message is that the Haywood County Sheriff’s Office will NEVER ask someone to pay anything — in any form or

fashion — over the phone,” the agency advised in a press release. “Scammers only succeed by creating fear and urgency in those who stay on the phone.

Hang it up, everyone!”

ASHEVILLE SISTER CITIES WINS INTERNATIONAL AWARD The Asheville chapter of Sister Cities International won the organization’s 2019 award for cities with populations between 50,001 and 100,000 residents.

The award recognized the Asheville group’s programming, which included hosting delegations, government representatives and guests from four of Asheville’s sister cities, as well as activities and community engagement surrounding those visits. In a January 2018 humanitarian project, the organization delivered 110 wheelchairs to San Cristobal and Valladolid, both in Mexico and both sister cities of Asheville.

“I’m calling it the year of ‘many hands, many hearts’ because of the commitment and dedication of our members and city committees. We had a tangible impact in so many lives, both in our community and around the world,” said Karen Korp, president of Asheville Sister Cities, in a press release. X

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‘A happy relief’ Local workers celebrate Labor Day, 1897

all that is above the ordinary is in itself a good thing,” the article declared, “for it means a more or less constant striving toward the accomplishment of an ideal — something higher.”

Unfortunately, praise for the actual Labor Day events was far less enthusiastic. Held at Lookout Park (situated on Sunset Mountain), the site was unsatisfactory to many. “If the great Labor day show did nothing more it gave a forcible demonstration of the crying need of a local park, with a race track and all necessary adjuncts,” the Sept. 7, 1897, edition of The Asheville Daily Citizen observed.

In addition to being a “dreary and dusty” location, the paper bemoaned the lack of shade available at the venue: “The 2000 sweltering people, a third of the number being ladies, were compelled to stand. A large number of the ladies, however, became too weary to stand and sat down anywhere in the dirty, parched grass, or leaned against the still dirtier embankment. The dust was stifling and the fitful gusts of wind which, under ordinary circumstances, would have been welcome, only conspired to increase the unpleasantness.”

“A labor day calls attention to ... features of the unions, and is therefore worth while if for no other reason; but if it did no more than to set one day aside in the year when the mechanic and his wife can have a holiday peculiarly their own and to be enjoyed after their own way and along lines giving them a happy relief from the exacting work of the daily trade, it would still be worth while. Let next labor day be an even greater success than the one just past.”

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Among its key objectives, Central Labor advocated for a shorter, eight-hour workday. In a statement provided by the union, it declared the measure would create “increased leisure to the overtaxed workers [resulting in] millions of golden opportunities for lightening the burdens of the masses ... [which would] make the homes more cheerful, the hearts of the people lighter, their hopes and aspirations nobler and broader.”

An editorial in the following day’s paper continued the pro-union push. “Men who work with their hands have but one product to sell — their labor,” the piece proclaimed. “Unless they organize they cannot dispose of this product at even a fair price.”

Further, the editorial argued, the presence of unions raised not only the standard of labor but also the standard of citizenship.

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In 1894, Labor Day was formally recognized as a federal holiday. Three years later, Asheville organized its first official celebration. “Twill be a big event,” declared The Asheville Daily Citizen on Aug. 24, 1897. Along with a parade, the planned festivities would feature a series of competitions, including bicycle runs, foot races and a game of tug of war. Gold metals, silk umbrellas and bicycle lamps were among the possible prizes.

When the day arrived, The Asheville Daily Citizen ran a four page spread dedicated to the holiday. Much of the focus fell on local union activity. According to the paper, there were “eight vigorous, active chartered unions [in the city] all moving steadily onward and forward.” Pooling their sources, the eight entities formed the Central Labor Union, an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor.

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PEDAL TO THE METAL: Bicycle races were among the many competitions held during Asheville’s inaugural Labor Day celebration. This photo, circa 1900, was taken at Lookout Park. According to the North Carolina Room at Pack Library, the park was located on Sunset Mountain. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville

In addition to the heat, the paper decried the long waits between activities.

Many of the delays, however, appeared to be the fault of those in attendance. “The crowd persisted in getting in the way and no amount of persuasion could keep the roadway clear,” The Asheville Daily Citizen complained.

Despite these inconveniences, the paper did note some highlights, including a live performance by an Italian orchestra, “a bountiful dinner” (featuring ham sandwiches, cake, lemonade and watermelon), as well as a merry-go-round and a failed attempt at a hot air balloon ride.

Neither the setbacks nor the highlights truly mattered, though. At least not according to the paper’s editorial, which argued:

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ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon-1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE SUBMARINE VETERANS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Social meeting for US Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan's Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • Every other TUESDAY, 4pm - Basic computer skills class. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • THURSDAYS, 10:30amnoon - Modern money theory study group.

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LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS' GUILD OF AMERICA • TH (9/5), 10am - Monthly meeting.

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VANISHING AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE OUTHOUSE • TH (8/29), 6pm Glenville Area Historical Society meeting with light refreshments then a lecture, Vanishing American Architecture: The Inside Story of the Outhouse.

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LEICESTER FOOD SWAP • SA (8/31), 10am - Leicester Food Swap, bring homegrown, foraged or homemade foods to trade. Free to attend.

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FOOD & BEER CULINARY POSSIBILITIES OF MUSHROOMS • TH (9/5), 6:30pm - West NC Area Mushrooms (WAM) founder James Pader showcases the culinary possibilities of mushrooms. Free. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 10 Keener St., Sylva FUNGI FEST 2019 • SA (8/31), 9:30-4:30pm - Fungi focused festival with educational displays, classes, guided mushroom walks in the college grounds and vendors selling edible mushrooms. $10 admission/$20 per

FESTIVALS 50TH ANNUAL SMOKY MOUNTAIN FOLK FESTIVAL • FR (8/30) & SA (8/31), 6:30pm - Traditional music and dance of the Southern Appalachian Region. $12 at the door. Held at Stuart Auditorium at Lake Junaluska, 20 Chapel Drive, Lake Junaluska CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LITERARY FESTIVAL • TH (9/5) until SA (9/7) - The 14th annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival featuring Charles Frazier as keynote speaker, brings 31 authors, 50 events and four workshops. Registration: cmlitfest.org. Free to $35. Held at Burnsville Town Center

FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS • SA (8/31) & SU (9/1), 10am-5pm - 2nd Annual Downtown Asheville Labor Day Weekend Festival of the Arts, a juried show of 100 artists working in a variety of media. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. FUNGI FEST 2019 • SA (8/31), 9:30-4:30pm - Fungi focused festival with educational displays, classes, guided mushroom walks in the college grounds and vendors selling edible mushrooms. $10 admission/$20 per class/$15 per walk. Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa

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Free. Held at Apple Valley Model Railroad & Museum, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville BREAKFAST WITH LAURA VACCARO SEEGER • MO (9/2), 10am Breakfast with two-time Caldecott Honoree Laura Vaccaro Seeger author of Why? Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (8/31), 10am - Blast Off! Rocket Science, ages 7+.

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BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKE OF THE WEEK • FR (8/30), 10am - Moderate, 1.2-mile round-trip hike up the Waterrock Knob Trail and end with a beautiful view in a high elevation forest. Free. Meet at Waterrock Knob Visitor Center, Milepost 451.2.

BOATING SAFETY COURSES • WE (8/28) & TH (8/29), 6-9pm - North Carolina

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BUTTERFLIES AND MONARCHS NATURE WALK • SA (8/31), 9am - The Park’s naturalist hosts an informative nature walk

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PARENTING HAYWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde, 828-452-8440, myhaywoodregional.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am1:30pm - Social gathering for mothers and their babies. Registration required. Free to attend.

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PUBLIC LECTURES CITY & COUNTY EFFORTS TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE • TH (9/5), 7-9pm - Brownie Newman, chair of the Buncombe County Commission and Asheville City Councilwoman, Julie Mayfield, discuss the City's

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 PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • SA (8/31), 9-11am - Explore the world of monarchs, their annual migration and conservation efforts.

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ON A JOURNEY: Aleta Keough, right, and her son Alex Keough participated in Alzheimer’s Association walks in 2018 and prior years as Team Keough’s Stepping Out in honor of Alan Keough, Aleta’s husband and Alex’s father. Photo courtesy of Angie Jones Photography

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com Tryon resident Moose Penfold, 63, had no particular knowledge of Alzheimer’s disease in 2003, when his father, a surgeon, began making strange decisions.

“If we look back, we are able to put the puzzle together and see the pieces that, when you went through it, didn’t make sense at the time,” Penfold recalls. Thus began what Penfold calls his “trial by fire” as he and his wife became caregivers to both of his parents — a responsibility that would last for the next 10 years.

After his parents’ deaths, Penfold and his wife moved across the country from Colorado to be nearer her aging parents, who live in Charleston, S.C. “Having gone through this journey with my parents, I decided to do something entirely different with my life and left the business that I was in,” Penfold says. These days, he’s an area manager for Encompass Health, which provides home-based care including skilled nursing and physical and speech therapy.

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Neurointerventionalist Dr. Jonas Goldstein uses noninvasive technologies such as magnetic resonance imaging and computerized tomography to create images of the brain’s structure.

The scans help doctors rule out possible reversible causes of cognitive decline — including infections, rare autoimmune diseases, bleeding, tumors and masses — when making a diagnosis of dementia. Depending on symptoms, he says, imaging may not be necessary for older patients.

Goldstein gets excited when he talks about the latest frontiers in understanding and diagnosing cognitive impairments. “Just like with cancer — there are so many kinds of cancer, so many different prognoses — it’s the same thing with dementia,” he says. “A lot of the terms that we use now for dementia, we’ll find in 20 years that we’ve been lumping things together.”

What will lead to those new realizations? Leveraging “big data,” Goldstein says. Building on significant developments in magnetic resonance imaging throughout the ’90s, Goldstein explains, neuroradiologists at Asheville Radiology Associates are now deploying software linked to databases to detect variations in the volumes of brain structures too small to be accurately assessed by eye.

Recalling members of his own family who died after suffering from Alzheimer’s, Goldstein observes, “It’s the devil. It is terrible.” He notes two ambitions for humanity: “I would want us to go back to space,” he says. “And I want to see us cure dementia.” X

Events to end Alzheimer’s September events in Buncombe and Henderson counties will provide Alzheimer’s education and raise funds to combat the disease.

Two free programs open to the public will take place at Lakeview Center for Active Aging, 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain. “Healthy Living for Your Brain and Body: Tips from the Latest Research,” on Monday, Sept. 9, 11 a.m-noon, provides tips on how to keep the brain healthy and possibly delay the onset of cognitive decline. Information and registration at avl.mx/6g8 or 800-272-3900. “The Confident Caregiver” on Monday, Sept. 16, 2-5:30 p.m., covers strategies for providing effective care during the middle stages of the disease. Information and registration at avl.mx/6gk or 800-272-3900.

Asheville’s 2-mile Walk to End Alzheimer’s steps out on Saturday, Sept. 21, at Pack Square Park, 80 Court Plaza. Check-in opens at 9 a.m., and the walks start at 10:30 a.m.

This year’s goal for the Asheville walk is $145,000. Registration at avl.mx/6g7.

The following week, Henderson County walkers will gather at Mills River Park, 124 Town Center Drive, Mills River, on Saturday, Sept. 28. Check-in opens at 9 a.m., and the walks start at 10:30 a.m. The organization’s fundraising target for the Henderson County walk is $45,000. Registration at avl.mx/6g6. X

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HOBBYISTS TO LOBBYISTS Outdoors advocates seek protection for Nolichucky River

BY A.J. OLEARY augustu5@live.unc.edu Although the Nolichucky Gorge lies just under an hour’s drive north from Asheville, straddling the border between Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, its dramatic slopes and the free-flowing waters of the Nolichucky River give it the feel of another world altogether. Trees and rough slabs of rocks seem to cascade down the hills until meeting often turbulent whitewater, an environment more akin to the remote reaches of the American West than the rest of Appalachia’s rivers.

Marc Hunt, a former vice mayor of Asheville and an avid paddler, sings the praises of the river many call the Noli. “Not just around here but in the Eastern U.S., a river of that size that is remote like that, and that scenic, with the water quality, the biodiversity and everything that goes with it — it’s very rare,” he says. “Once upon a time, before the 1800s, the French Broad was that way for its entire length.”

Whitewater aficionados like Hunt flock to the Noli for a taste of those wild and scenic surroundings. Now, those outdoors advocates are reaching out to Congress in the hopes that lawmakers might formally designate the section of the river flowing through the Nolichucky Gorge as part of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System. A petition to that end, started in 2017

by Nantahala Outdoor Center guide Curtis England, had nearly 21,000 individual signatures as of press time.

Asheville-based filmmaker John Grace, who has directed several short videos in support of the new designation for the Noli, says it’s crucial to keep the river in its present state. “The big deal with the Nolichucky is just that there’s no free-flow rivers around here, and you just never know when a dam project is going to come up,” he says. “All of our goals are just to keep it the way it is. That’s what Wild and Scenic [designation] does.”

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The Nolichucky Gorge is already protected as part of the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee and the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina. But the additional Wild and Scenic designation would require the U.S. Forest Service to develop a specific watershed management plan for a half-mile corridor along about 7 miles of the Noli running from Poplar, N.C., to Chestoa, Tenn. According to the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act of 1968, which established the designation, the Forest Service would have to preserve the “scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural or other similar values” of the river.

Perhaps the most important additional benefit the Nolichucky Gorge would enjoy under the Wild and Scenic designation is the permanent prohibition of federal support for dam building and other actions that could change the river’s flow.

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including the Green and Nantahala, that are managed by the release of water from hydroelectric dams.

Kevin Colburn, a spokesperson for Cullowhee-based conservation nonprofit American Whitewater, points out that WNC currently hosts over 400 dams but only four Wild and Scenic rivers (the New River South Fork, Wilson Creek, Chattooga River and Horsepasture River). He suggests that designating the Noli could be a turning point for the region’s river conservation.

“Rivers really, more than a lot of things, cross political lines both on land but also ideologically,” Colburn says. “There’s lots of great opportunities to celebrate and protect some of our last best rivers in this area, and the Noli should just be the first step of Western North Carolina saying, ‘We value wild rivers and we want an insurance policy that these beautiful places that make up our identity remain special in perpetuity.’”

TENNESSEE TALKS Not everyone involved with the Noli, however, is ready to push for the Wild and Scenic designation.

On July 12, county commissioners in Unicoi County — the Tennessee jurisdiction that includes much of the Nolichucky Gorge — tabled a resolution that would’ve officially asked Congress to protect the river after the local farming community raised concerns.

Renea Jones, president of the Unicoi County Farm Bureau, says her organization’s members worry that the federal government could use eminent domain to easily expand the designation downstream or infringe on their property rights. The watershed management plan associated with the Wild and Scenic protection, she adds, is of particular concern.

“We’d rather have all our questions answered and be safe than sorry,” Jones says. “We want to see it protected, but we also want to see it not overregulated, and I think it’s a fine line.”

Unicoi County Commissioner Matt Rice says the limitations of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act should allay the farmers’ worries.

The section of the Noli currently under consideration lies totally in national forest land, he says, and broadening the protected area couldn’t be accomplished through eminent domain.

“It would literally take another act of Congress to create a new section of Wild and Scenic river,” Rice explains. “So it’s kind of like starting this whole process over again.”

Rice also emphasizes that the Wild and Scenic designation only limits the government’s own actions and doesn’t grant it power over private property. Existing uses, including the CSX railroad that runs through the gorge, would be allowed to continue. “Even if there was private land that was defined within the corridor, any additional regulations or management practices wouldn’t apply to the private land,” he says.

Nevertheless, Rice says the commission will hold off on formally endorsing the Wild and Scenic designation until further information is available. He says another meeting will be held in the near future at which officials from the Forest Service and someone from the offices of Rep. Phil Roe, Sen. Marsha Blackburn or Sen. Lamar Alexander, who represent the county in Congress, will be able to answer residents’ questions.

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Businesses in both North Carolina and Tennessee, 36 in total, have also endorsed the effort. Asheville-area firms that have signed on include Astral Designs, AMONGSTiT, New Belgium Brewing, Pisgah Map Co., Brown Trout Fly Fishing, Southwings and Darby Communications. “[Wild and Scenic designation] seemed like something that we could do to try to protect the resource that we have, the Nolichucky River — basically the golden goose,” Rice says.

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Sixth annual Harvest Conference Every September since 2014, Organic Growers School has marked the gentle shift from summer growing season to fall with its Harvest Conference. This year’s event, scheduled for Friday and Saturday, Sept. 6-7, at Warren Wilson College, will offer seasonally appropriate workshops for gardeners, urban farmers and homesteaders, featuring many instructors from North Carolina.

“In the past, we’ve been bringing in regional experts, but this year is really close to home,” says OGS conference coordinator and farmer programs associate Sera Deva.

“We wanted to focus on what our constituents are finding important and relevant — herbal medicine, convening with our native wild edibles, perennials and, of course, hemp.”

Each day of the conference, a daylong stand-alone workshop will be presented on each of the following topics: forest farming; do-ityourself herbal medicine; wild edibles; and hemp farming. Clarenda Stanley-Anderson, 2019 Featured Farmer for National Hemp History Week, will present Growing Hemp at Any Scale and Understanding the Hemp Industry along with her husband, Malcolm Anderson.

Educator, builder and tree planter Geoff Steen of Marshall will lead a workshop on Agroforestry and Silvopasture on Friday and one on Forest Gardening on Saturday.

Noelle Fuller, manager of the University of Georgia’s medicinal herb farm, will offer classes on making herbal tinctures, teas and oils, and cooking with herbs. And WNC botanist and educator Luke

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there are volunteer opportunities that allow participants to attend for free (sign up at organicgrowersschool.org/conferences/harvest/ volunteer). There are also full scholarships available through the N.C. Rural Center’s Rural Food Business Assistance Project for residents of specific counties who are engaged in or planning a rural small business related to food or farming. For details and to apply, visit avl.mx/6gd.

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CLOSE TO HOME: Most of the speakers for this year’s Organic Growers School Harvest Conference are based in North Carolina. Pictured are Clarenda Stanley-Anderson and Malcolm Anderson, owners of Green Heffa Farms in Randolph County, N.C. They will teach two workshops on growing industrial hemp. Photo courtesy of Organic Growers School Cannon will present talks on wild foods of the Southern Appalachians and mushroom families of the Southeast.

This minimalist roster of all-day intensives is a relatively new format for the Harvest Conference, which started out as a “multitrack and multitime slot program composed of 20-plus 90-minute workshops,” says OGS Executive Director Lee Warren. But over six years, the event has evolved to meet the needs of both its instructors and participants.

“Diving deeper with full day intensives has allowed us not only to compensate our teachers more for their time but also allows our participants more depth on the topics they explore,” says Deva. “We piloted this model last year and got such good feedback we decided to continue with it.”

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LIVING LA VIDA PAN DULCE Panaderias feed WNC’s appetite for traditional Mexican baked goods

PIECE OF CAKE: Western North Carolina’s panaderias produce a wide range of Latino breads and pastries, such as the ones pictured from Tienda Los Nenes in West Asheville. “It is traditional in Mexico to eat a lot of bread,” says manager America Vera. “People normally eat breads for breakfast and at night. Sometimes a snack in the afternoon. Actually, people from Mexico eat bread all day.” Photo by Hannah Ramirez

BY KAY WEST kswest55@comcast.net It’s 8:30 on a Thursday morning, and a father and his two young sons are on a mission. They walk in the door of Tienda Los Nenes, turn right and head directly to the six glass-fronted cases that line one wall designated as the panaderia [pan-ah-de-REE-ah], or bread bakery. Each section inside the cases has four shelves, and every shelf is devoted to an impressive variety of baked goods.

The father takes a round aluminum tray and set of tongs, and while his boys open each case’s door, he selects an assortment of muffins and breads, puts them on the tray, grabs a dozen bananas from the produce area then two bags of corn tortillas

and goes to the counter, where store manager America Vera counts the number of baked goods on the tray and multiplies that by 89 cents. The muffins? Eighty-nine cents. The conchas? Eighty-nine cents. The cuernitos? Eighty-nine cents.

Vera says the trio comes to Los Nenes twice a week, always at the same time, always starting at the panaderia. “It is traditional in Mexico to eat a lot of bread,” she says. “People normally eat breads for breakfast and at night.

Sometimes a snack in the afternoon.

Actually, people from Mexico eat bread all day.”

Adriana Chevela, a native of Mexico City and the founder of Hola Carolina magazine, echoes the assessment. “Bread for us is breakfast and dinner,” she says. “My first memories are breakfast with my

grandma, pan dulce and café con leche. Later, you might have your eggs and beans and, of course, tortillas. And after dinner, another pan dulce and café con leche. We eat a lot of bread!”

In Mexico City, there is a lot of bread to eat; by some estimates, there are over 1,000 varieties of Mexican sweet breads — pan dulce — alone. “Here the bakeries are inside the markets, but in Mexico City, they are just bakeries, and you find a panaderia on every corner,” says Chevala. Panaderias, writes My Sweet Mexico author Fany Gerson, represent one of the main pillars of Mexican cuisine, and even the smallest villages have at least one source for their daily breads.

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Weekday midafternoon is downtime for customer traffic at Los Reyes, but inside the bakery/market/ butcher/restaurant, the staff is busy wiping tables post-lunch, scrubbing the grills behind the counter and reorganizing and stocking the panaderia cases. Three 6-foot-tall rolling racks, fully stacked with baking sheets crowded with baked goods just out of the ovens, stand by. “We bake all day,” says Sarah Guardarrama, whose family owns and operates Los Reyes and whose husband, Gerardo Bustos, is the baker. “We make about 150 different items.”

The most popular item in every panaderia is the concha, which like so many of the sweet breads is named for something it resembles, in this case, a seashell. Conchas are brightly colored and claim center stage in the

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cases. Conchas combine two of the greatest hits in any culture of baked goods — sweet bread and cookies — and like many of the items found in panaderias, involve time and multiple steps to create.

The heart of the concha is a sweet bread roll made from wheat flour, water, sugar, butter (sometimes shortening or lard), eggs, yeast and salt. After the dough is mixed, it is kneaded, then allowed to rise for several hours or overnight. After the first rise, the dough is cut into individual round rolls, then left to rise again.

The color of the cookie-dough topping indicates the flavor: vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and banana.

After the second rise, the rolls are covered with a thin, flattened layer of cookie dough, which is scored in a spiral to mimic a seashell and baked. They are at their best warm from the oven, but Vera says they will stay fresh in the bakery bag as long as four days and can be reheated at home. Diana Kennedy, cookbook author and noted authority on Mexican cuisine, recommends putting thick slices of days-old conchas onto baking sheets and toasting them until crisp.

Other standards found daily in local panaderias are Mexican doughnuts, usually topped with chocolate or sprinkles — or both — larger and more cakelike than those found in American chain stores; a variety of muffins; cuernitos, horn-shaped and filled with sweetened cream cheese or marmalade; roles de canela, fat,

frosting-glazed cinnamon rolls; ojo de buey, which translates to eye of the bull and is a round of pastry with a center — bull’s eye — of cookie dough or sugar paste; the flaky, sugary oreja, elephant’s ear; besos — two half-spheres of pastry rolled in powdered sugar or flaked coconut and locked in a kiss with a layer of strawberry jam; peach-, guava- or pineapple-filled empanadas; sweet, dense bisquets with an egg white glaze; and puerquitos, bread flavored with molasses and piloncillo (or dark brown sugar) and cut out in the shape of a pig. The most common shortbread cookie is the bandera, a tricolored cookie often in red/green/ white to honor the Mexican flag.

SPECIAL OCCASIONS Not all the breads in panaderias are sweet. Guardarrama at Los Reyes points out trays of cemitas — sesameseed-topped soft rolls that are the basis for many sandwiches. Bolillas are oblong rolls with a crusty exterior and doughy interior. Mamacita’s Taco Temple, Bomba and Grey Eagle buy bolillas in bulk from Los Nenes for the tortas on their menus.

Refrigerated cases at both Los Nenes and Los Reyes display elaborately decorated tres leches layer cakes in various sizes, and Los Reyes also has a large assortment of cupcakes, flan and cheese tarts.

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Special occasions call for special breads. Rosca de reyes is a circular sweet bread (rosca means wreath, and reyes means kings) decorated with figs, cherries and candied fruits and baked for Three Kings Day, celebrated 12 days after Christmas on Jan. 6 in Mexico. “On Dia de Reyes, family and friends get together and everyone gets a slice of the cake,” Chevala explains. “Whoever gets the little baby Jesus hidden in the cake has to provide the tamales for Dia de la Candelaria on Feb. 2.”

Pan de muerto — bread of the dead — is baked for Dia de Los Muertos, which is celebrated Oct. 31 to Nov. 2; the ghoulish name is not reflective of the taste of the sweet roll scored with crosses. Chevala’s father bakes the pan de muerto for the Dia de Los Muerto celebration Hola Carolina hosts in downtown Hendersonville on Oct. 31, one of four festivals the magazine presents annually.

SHARING THE CULTURE Chevala’s parents moved to Hendersonville in 1996 after her pilot father retired from Aero Mexico.

“They had visited friends here when he was still flying and loved it, so they bought property and retired here,” she says. “I was back and forth from Mexico City and came here permanently in 2003. Back then, there was just one Mexican store in the area, and to get the things she needed to cook, my mother went to Greenville about once a week to shop. The Hispanic community has grown tremendously since I moved here, and now there are tiendas with panaderias and carnicerias everywhere.”

Los Nenes has a second store with a panaderia and carniceria in Hendersonville (though the baking is done in Asheville). Less than a halfmile from the Asheville Los Nenes are Azteca #2 Tienda y Panaderia and El Torito Bakery, both on Patton Avenue. Miguel Montoya — who is from Peru — left his banking career in July to take over the lease of El Torito from the owners of Los Reyes, which still supplies the small store with fresh-baked goods.

He intends to change the name to reflect a larger selection of products, add specialties from Peru and market in Spanish and English. “We don’t want to isolate. We want to

engage everyone. Asheville is kind of a brand-new city as far as Latin immigrants go,” he says. “Bigger cities are on their third and fourth generations; this area is first-generation American-born. They are more bilingual and educated than their parents.”

Chevala concurs. “When my parents came here in 1996, the Hispanic population was mostly migrants coming to work the apple season, and then they would go somewhere else to work another crop. But some people stayed, settled and had kids, who were the first ones to grow up here, graduate high school and go to college here,” she says.

“It is also a more diverse Latinx community,” she adds. “It used to be primarily Mexican, but now it is also Central America and South America. It is young and eager to share our culture with the larger community.”

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Fried calamari, crispy duck spring rolls, kung pao chicken and pineapple fried rice are among the menu items available at Shanghai Dumpling House. Taking over the space formerly occupied by Doc Chey’s Noodle House, the new Chinese restaurant opened in early August.

But as the name suggests, dumplings are at the heart of the new eatery’s menu.

According to owner and chef Angela Wong (who spoke with Xpress through her sister and interpreter, Betty Wong), the restaurant’s main dishes are freshly made and never frozen.

They are also affordable, Wong notes.

Shanghai’s homemade soup dumplings run $9 for a six-piece serving. Meanwhile, a six-piece serving of fried dumplings (with a choice of pork, chicken, shrimp or vegetable filling) costs $6-$7.

Wong, who was born in China and raised in Hong Kong, owns additional restaurants in both her native country and New York City. She says her interest in Asheville stems from the fact that Western North Carolina has milder winters than Long Island, where she previously lived, as well as the city’s well-established food scene. Also, she notes, Asheville reminds her of “a miniature-Manhattan.” Shanghai’s two additional local partners are Yuki Zheng, owner of Green Tea Sushi, and Sandy Wang, owner of Shogun Buffet and Hibachi Grill.

Shanghai Dumpling House is at 37 Biltmore Ave. Hours are 11 a.m.-3 p.m. and 5-11 p.m. seven days a week.

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On Wednesday, Aug. 28, Buxton Hall Barbecue’s chef and co-owner Elliot Moss will cook special brisket plates and chopped brisket sandwiches to celebrate the restaurant’s four-year anniversary.

Plates range from $15-$18 and come with sides. Buxton also recently announced plans to launch a Give Back series. For one day each month starting in September, the restaurant will donate 10% of its sales for the day to a local nonprofit. The inaugural event takes place on Tuesday, Sept.

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NEW IN TOWN: Shanghai Dumpling House recently opened in downtown Asheville. Pictured is co-owner, Angela Wong, center, along with her sister Betty Wong, right, and coowner Sandy Wang. Photo by Thomas Calder Mobile Kitchen. In the coming months, Buxton will partner with the following nonprofits: Eliada Homes (Tuesday, Oct. 8), YMCA (Tuesday, Nov. 5) and MANNA FoodBank (Tuesday, Dec. 3).

Special brisket plates will be served (while supplies last) Wednesday, Aug. 28, during regular lunch and dinner hours at Buxton Hall Barbecue, 32 Banks Ave. For more information, visit avl.mx/4ya.

Launch party at Hickory Nut Gap Farm Hickory Nut Gap Farm recently announced plans for a fall festival as well as a new barbecue lunch menu.

To celebrate, the Fairview farm will host a party Saturday, Aug. 31. Ticket prices range from $12-$25. The fall festival will run through the first week of November with weekday and weekend activities, including a bouncy house (on weekends), baby calf feedings at 10:30 a.m. daily, U-pick apples and an outdoor corn pit. Highlights from the new barbecue menu include smoked pulled pork, smoked chicken and

smoked brisket, along with a number of appetizers, salads and sandwich options. The lunch specials are also available for catered events.

The party runs 4-8:30 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 31, at Hickory Nut Gap Farm, 57 Sugar Hollow Road, Fairview. To learn more, visit avl.mx/6fv.

RosaBees opens in the RAD RosaBees will host its grand opening on Tuesday, Sept. 3. The restaurant, located in the River Arts District, will serve Hawaiian small plates featuring Polynesian and Japanese cuisine, as well as desserts and specialty cocktails, including adult milkshakes. Owner Melissa Gray (who also owns and operates Cakes by Gray on Merrimon Avenue) says guests can expect unique flavors prepared by chef Christopher Hadley, such as house-made Spam with a bubble-waffle grilled cheese sandwich with passionfruit spread and coconut syrup for dipping.

The grand opening starts at 5 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 3, at RosaBees, 27 Foundy

St., Unit 20. Hours are 11:30 a.m.-10 p.m.

Tuesday-Wednesday, 11:30 a.m.-midnight Thursday-Saturday and 11:30 a.m.-9 p.m.

Sunday. RosaBees is closed on Mondays.

To learn more, visit avl.mx/6fw.

Inconceivable Cafe Inconceivable Cafe will open in early September inside Sanctuary Brewing Co. in Hendersonville, according to Sanctuary co-owner Lisa McDonald.

The brewery’s new vegan restaurant venture is a partnership with Garlik Vegan, which recently closed its previous location in Horse Shoe. The cafe will feature a variety of Impossible Burgers, sandwiches, appetizers and shared plates. Hours of operation and an official opening date were not available at press time.

Inconceivable Cafe is slated to open in the first week of September at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 First Ave. E., Hendersonville. For more information, visit avl.mx/6f9.

An Evening on the Farm Sideways Farm & Brewery will host a three-course beer pairing dinner Thursday, Sept. 12. The menu, prepared

by Budy Finch Catering & Revelry, features a fresh ricotta appetizer, a dinner buffet with fried chicken and side dishes and a dessert board with cheese, chocolate and fruit. Beer pairings include La Ferme Roselle (a wild saison with hibiscus flowers), Queen Anne’s Apricot (brewed with foraged wild carrot seeds)

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and Sideways’ Belgian Blonde. Seating is limited. Tickets are $65.

The dinner runs 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 12, at Sideways Farm & Brewery, 62 Eade Road, Etowah. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/6fx.

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One Stop returns “We wanted to keep our guests fed,” says James A. Mayfield, kitchen manager at One Stop at Asheville Music Hall. Which is why, after Mojo Kitchen & Lounge closed on July 28, One Stop reclaimed the space the following day. Menu highlights include tacos a la carte, the Marley burger and the Colossal Nachos, with prices ranging from $4.50-$10.95. Starting Sunday, Sept. 8, One Stop will bring back its Bluegrass Brunch with a live performance by Woody Wood and Friends.

Though Mojo is missed, Mayfield says he is proud of his team’s quick turnaround to get One Stop back up and running.

One Stop is at 55 College St. Hours vary. To learn more, visit avl.mx/6fz.

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Eats and Treats Cafe closes Eats and Treats Cafe in Woodfin recently announced on Facebook that it will close at the end of August because its lease was not renewed. It has no immediate plans to reopen the eatery at a new location. The announcement received plenty of online reaction and support from customers, who expressed hope that Eats and Treats Cafe would find a new space soon. X

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EVERYTHING IN MODERATION

FOOD

by Audrey and Bill Kopp | audreybill@liquornerds.com

City sips Audrey and Bill Kopp have reinvented their liquor-focused column, “Top Shelf Views,” as “Everything in Moderation.” The monthly articles will now cover wine, mead, cider, spirits and other local craft beverages.

In the midst of a thriving brewing community, the River Arts District has something special and unique: an urban winery. Though one won’t find acres of vineyards within the city limits of Asheville, plēb urban winery is a thriving enterprise that creates and brings to market wines made with grapes grown right here in Western North Carolina. Carving out an identity and encouraging wine lovers to take a closer look at wines made locally, plēb’s fast-approaching one-year anniversary neatly coincides with North Carolina Wine Month, now in its third year.

According to the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, the first commercial winery in the state was launched in 1835. Today, North Carolina has five officially designated AVAs (American Viticultural Areas); the westernmost one is known as Appalachian High Country. Nearly a dozen wineries currently operate in the region.

Still, when many people think of North Carolina wines, the first things that come to mind are sweet libations made from muscadine (Vitis rotundifolia), especially the large variety known as scuppernong. Tasty as those wines might be, they’re not known for their subtlety or sophistication. And they’re only part of the story.

“There’s a lot of great dry wine in this state,” says Joe Brock, one half of the blogging duo known as NC Wine Guys. He points out that North Carolina vintners “make dry wines that compete — and win — on a national and international level.”

The NC Wine Guys will help plēb celebrate its birthday and kick off N.C. Wine Month with a live podcast from the winery on Saturday, Aug. 31. “We plan on talking about some of the things that set them apart from other wineries,” says Wine Guy Matt Kemberling.

One of plēb’s most distinctive qualities is its status as an urban winery.

The term refers to facilities in which the wine is produced in a city — closer to the consumers — as opposed to among the vineyards. Urban wineries are a relatively new phenomenon, and 28

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Asheville’s only urban winery celebrates its first anniversary during N.C. Wine Month

CHEERS TO LOCAL WINE: Plēb urban winery joins other local businesses in celebrating N.C. Wine Month in September, as it also marks its one-year anniversary. Pictured from left are plēb assistant winemaker Tyler Kay, co-owners Chris Denesha and Lauren Turpin and front-ofhouse manager Lee Turpin. Photo by Luke Van Hine while some source their grapes locally, others don’t.

“Some are sourcing grapes from California and Oregon vineyards,” says plēb co-owner and executive manager Lauren Turpin. “But their winery might be in New York or Maine or wherever.”

Asheville’s only urban winery gets its grapes from a variety of vineyards, all close to home. “We use local grapes,” Turpin says. “Were not importing.” That means plēb wines uniquely showcase the character — the terroir — of this region.

In its first year of operation, plēb brought in 28 tons of grapes and produced the equivalent of 1,600 cases. The winery uses the term “equivalent” because, unlike most wineries, plēb doesn’t focus on bottling. “This year we’re bringing in 30-plus tons,” Turpin says, “so we’ll have another 1,600- or 1,700-case production.”

But it’s all in kegs or barrels. A sophisticated tap system keeps the wines temperature-controlled (and in some cases, pressurized) prior to serving to customers.

At plēb’s facility on Lyman Street, fresh grapes are crushed. Then they’re initially exposed to the wild yeasts that populate the local air. That Old World approach to production combines European methods with modern techniques.

But not too modern, Turpin emphasizes. “We don’t chaptalize,” she says.

Chaptalization is the process of adding sugar to fermenting grapes with a goal of increasing the wine’s alcohol content.

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At plēb, head winemaker Chris Denesha takes an approach of “let’s just let the wine be what it’s going to be, using opentop barrel fermentation and native yeasts,” Turpin says.

She acknowledges that operating a winery in a town not widely known for

wines does present challenges. “We still have that unknown factor about us,” Turpin says. “We still get people who walk in, don’t even look at a menu, and say, ’I want a cab sauv.’”

Those people might think of plēb as “just” a wine bar, but it’s a production winery, specializing in specific types of (very limited-run) varieties. “People are used to breweries, and they’re used to wine bars,” Turpin says. “They’re not quite sure what to do here. So we’re trying to help along the way.”

The unassuming, laid-back and friendly nature of plēb is very much by design. And it’s connected to the winery’s name, which was inspired by the plebian community of ancient Rome.

“They were the farmers, the growers, the winemakers, the army, the economic backbone of society,” she says.

“But more to the point for us, they worshiped the Aventine Triad: the gods of agriculture, viticulture and fertility.”

Turpin says she and her colleagues at plēb — currently numbering five in all — want to see “more farmers growing grapes in Western North Carolina.

And we want to see more people making wine using those grapes, helping elevate this region even more so than it has already become.” X

NC Wine Month Below is a sampling of events taking place in and around Western North Carolina during September, NC Wine Month.

• Friday, Sept. 6, 6:30 p.m.: Tour and Wine Tasting at Mountain Brook Vineyards, 731 Phillips Dairy Road, Tryon, mountainbrookvineyards. com • Saturday, Sept. 7, 10 a.m.: Great Rosé Tasting at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St., metrowinesasheville.com • Saturday, Sept. 7, noon: Stomp Party at plēb urban winery, 289 Lyman St., pleburbanwinery.com • Tuesday, Sept. 10, 5:30 p.m.: Presentation by Artisan Wine Import-

ers at Appalachian Vintner, 745 Biltmore Ave., appalachianvintner.com • Wednesday, Sept. 11, 5:30 p.m.: Presentation by The Piedmont Guy at Appalachian Vintner • Wednesday, Sept. 11, 6 p.m.: Wine Deconstructed Education Series at plēb urban winery • Thursday, Sept. 12, 5:30 p.m.: Class on Spanish Wines at Metro Wines • Wednesday, Sept. 18 at 6 p.m.: Wine Trivia Night at plēb urban winery • Wednesday, Sept. 18, 6:30 p.m.: Wine Dinner Collab-

oration at Celine and Company, 49 Broadway St., celineandcompany.com • Thursday, Sept. 19, 5:30 p.m.: Blind Tasting League at Asheville School of Wine, Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St., ashevilleschoolofwine.com • Friday, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m.: Tour and Wine Tasting and Mountain Brook Vineyards • Monday, Sept. 30, 5 p.m.: Franco Serra Wine Tasting at Metro Wines Contact the event hosts for prices and other details.

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

ON THE MOVE

Jaki Shelton Green and Charles Frazier headline Carolina Mountains Literary Festival

BY DOUG GIBSON doug@douggibsonwriter.com This year’s Carolina Mountains Literary Festival boasts “on the move” as its theme, with speakers and sessions exploring immigration, migration and travel. “More and more we’re a mobile society,” says festival chair Kathy Weisfeld, who has led the event for five years. The festival returns to venues around downtown Burnsville ThursdaySaturday, Sept. 5-7.

Organizers also chose the theme with current events in mind. “We thought it was timely,” Weisfeld says, “because of the political situation with immigration.” And the festival’s kickoff event explores one immigrant’s story: On Thursday evening the Red Herring Puppets will perform My Grandfather’s Prayers, a multimedia performance that dramatizes the life of Izso Glickstein, a Jewish cantor who emigrated to the United States after enduring Russian pogroms, the White Terror in Hungary and both world wars.

Immigration will also play a role at the banquet on Friday evening when Asheville-based author Andrew Lawler speaks on his book The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke.

Lawler says that thanks to repeated childhood viewings of the Paul Green outdoor drama The Lost Colony, he “became fascinated with the idea of a big group of people simply vanishing.” This childhood interest was rekindled in 2015 when Lawler, by then an estab-

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TRAVELING TALES: Presenters at this year’s Carolina Mountains Literary Festival include, clockwise from top left, North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green; novelist Charles Frazier, who will give the Saturday keynote address; poet Tyree Daye; and journalist Andrew Lawler, who will give the Friday banquet keynote, among many others. Photos courtesy of the authors lished science journalist, attended an archaeology conference in Oxford, England. He met a researcher there who claimed to have found traces of the lost Roanoke settlers in a site on the North Carolina coast.

Lawler soon learned that another rival team was also digging in the Outer Banks and that both teams hoped to

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prove that the colonists survived by assimilating with neighboring tribes.

But, as Lawler continued his research, a more fascinating story emerged: how the missing settlers had become a mirror for America’s complex relationship with race and immigration.

As Lawler tells it, for 250 years, the few historians who took any interest

assumed the Roanoke colonists must have assimilated. But, in the 19th century, consumed with anxiety over the influx of Irish immigrants and conflicted over the forced relocation of native tribes, Americans turned to the idea that the colonists’ disappearance was a mystery. “In 1830, the term ‘The Lost Colony’ was coined,” Lawler says, “and Virginia Dare was resurrected as the first English child born in the New World.” In this way, Dare’s fate, and the fate of the other colonists, became a barometer of white anxiety about race and integration. As Lawler puts it, by insisting on the colonists’ immutable Anglo character, “we lost the Lost Colony.”

The theme of migration within North Carolina continues with the Saturday keynote event featuring Charles Frazier. In conversation with Elaine Neil Orr, Frazier, whose novel Cold Mountain famously depicts one soldier’s journey from Raleigh to his home in the mountains, will discuss depictions of travel in his works.

He will also read selected excerpts from his novels Cold Mountain and Thirteen Moons.

The festival draws its lineup of authors and presenters largely from North Carolina and the wider South, though organizers hope their event will connect attendees to a larger world. Festival planners hoped that the theme of stories of migration, immigration and travel would include some Latinx authors.

Unfortunately, none of the Latinx authors who were invited were able to attend.

Another leading literary figure presenting at the festival, Jaki Shelton Green, is herself a testament to how far one can travel in the state: In her first year as North Carolina’s first African American poet laureate, she’s appeared at more than 150 engagements across the state. She’s performed with symphonies, given convocation speeches and shared her own work, including one reading that drew hundreds to a Biscuitville restaurant in Greensboro.

Green will read poems from her soon-to-be-released eighth collection at two sessions at the Carolina Literary Festival.

Asked for her take on the themes of travel, migration and immigration, Green observes that “you can be an immigrant in your own country,” and that for her, “as a woman

of color who is constantly crossing borders,” the topic is “layered.”

She has crossed physical borders as well as spiritual ones: Born in the Piedmont, Green left home as a child after winning a scholarship to a prestigious Quaker boarding school in Pennsylvania. She moved to New England, then Switzerland.

“There was a world out there,” she says, “a globe out there, and I know that travel and the experience of crossing borders has made my writing voice stronger.”

These days, in addition to teaching at Duke University, Green organizes SistaWRITE retreats for women writers, held in locales such as the Outer Banks, Ireland and Morocco. The liberation of leaving home, Green says, “gives us permission to give ourselves the time to unplug, to just write. To think about the possibilities of how I’m going to go back home and create a similar sanctuary for myself.”

In all, the festival offers more than 40 separate events, with topics ranging from world building in science fiction to the ways music can inform poetry. And while not all of the sessions involve travel, migration and immigration, many do. “For me, that’s

the most fun part,” says Weisfeld.

“Thinking of authors, thinking of the theme and working them together.”

But at the heart of the festival is the intention to bring the world of writing into Burnsville — and into Western North Carolina. “We had writers coming from 63 different ZIP codes last year,” Weisfeld says. “It brings varying communities together in a way they might not get together ordinarily.” X

WHAT Carolina Mountains Literary Festival cmlitfest.org WHERE Various locations in downtown Burnsville WHEN Thursday-Saturday, Sept. 5-7.

Most sessions are free, but some workshops, the Friday banquet, and the Charles Frazier keynote event have an admission fee.

See website for details

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by Alli Marshall

amarshall@mountainx.com

TELL IT LIKE IT IS

Celebrating

Monica McDaniel’s new play takes on sexual abuse rs Ye a

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“Even though the play is a deep, dark play, there is a lot of light in it,” says local writer Monica McDaniel of her new show, Truth Be Told. Following her 2018 production, Left Behind — Reflection, she returns with a production that examines the aftermath of sexual abuse. Truth Be Told opens at 35 below on Friday, Sept. 6.

“This is a two-part play, where you will see the stories of two different [people] going through this harsh and mind-blowing journey,” McDaniel says. She was inspired, initially, by the #MeToo movement, though her script doesn’t deal with harassment in the workplace as was often brought to light by the social media campaign. “I didn’t want it to be about that movement but about people’s stories and how they’re healing from that trauma,” she says.

Instead, the play is “bringing awareness to molestation and different types of rape and how it happens,” McDaniel explains. Both of the main characters are disabled; one is institutionalized for a mental health issue. The first story is culled from news headlines while the second, a fictional account, is presented with an element of mystery.

“I love talking about things that people don’t want to talk about, and this is a touchy subject,” McDaniel says.

“Nonetheless, we need to be comfortable enough with each other to have these talks.”

The playwright and director also wants her actors to be at ease to perform the work. “I am always open to the cast doing whatever they need to do to be comfortable in their skin, comfortable in their character,” McDaniel says. For this play, “I went back and cut a lot of things because what we had originally wasn’t working. We added a lot more laughter, we added a lot more singing … trying to ease the balance of the play.”

The cast includes Ki’era Gash, who has performed in McDaniel’s plays before, with Tifphanie Darity and Naeem Akbar. Akbar’s wife, Kim Akbar, is helping behind the scenes. “We’re finding out what everyone’s strengths are,” McDaniel says.

She says she was sitting with her cousin, watching TV, when she proposed the idea, “‘What if I did a play?’ And I feel like it’s the fact that she didn’t discourage my idea, that she was OK with it, that pushed me to do it,” she recalls. The writer found she excelled at the art form, though she admits it takes time to move from one MOUNTAINX.COM

DIFFICULT CONVERSATION: Tifphanie Darity, left, stars in Truth Be Told, a new play by Asheville-based playwright Monica McDaniel. “I love talking about things that people don’t want to talk about, and this is a touchy subject,” says McDaniel, who also aims to bring more actors and playwrights of color to local stages. Photo by McDaniel project to the next. “Doing a play takes so much of you, as a person, that you need that time to recuperate. But I feel like I’ve found my niche.”

That goal may be within reach: “Through word-of-mouth and through people discovering who I am, it’s been really rewarding and it’s opened a lot of doors that I never could have foreseen opening,” McDaniel says. Writing, she adds, is “giving myself to people. It’s touching them in ways I never thought I could have touched people.”

She mentions the late Toni Morrison as an inspiration: “Her writing was so

real. That’s what I want to gravitate toward. I want my writing to be so real and so raw that people can relate to it. … I want it to be simple and powerful.”

McDaniel is the author of the 2014 poetry and short story hybrid Misty’s Blues.

Her first play, The Many Personalities of the Soul…, based on her 2012 collection of poetry, The Soul of a Poet, was staged at Asheville Community Theatre. Her theatrical work, Left Behind, inspired by addiction issues in her community, debuted at the Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center.

McDaniel has already been tapped

by Asheville Community Theatre to direct a mainstage play by an African American playwright in the near future.

“The cast will be a diverse cast … a majority of people of color,” she says.

“We all need that.”

She continues, “There’s so much talent in this city, and sometimes we get overlooked.” But when it comes to spotlighting the skill of Asheville’s African American artists: “That’s what I’m here for.” X

WHAT Truth Be Told WHERE 35 below 35 E. Walnut St. ashevilletheatre.org WHEN Sept. 6-21 Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. $15

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by Alli Marshall

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BALANCING ACT

Lifecurse releases its third album with an Orange Peel show

MAKING GOOD: Defying the odds, local metal band Lifecurse is nearly a decade into its career and is about to launch its third album, The Wolf You Feed. “We’ve had a lot of loss, a lot of pain and a lot of sadness going into this record,” vocalist Will Moss, center, notes. “Music is always a good outlet to get that out.” Photo by Hive Minds Media When Will Moss relocated from Memphis to Asheville in 2006, the first show he attended was Sanctity and By Morning at Stella Blue (now Asheville Music Hall). Four years later, he was playing that same stage with local metal band Lifecurse for that outfit’s debut performance. Still together after nine years, Lifecurse releases its third album, The Wolf You Feed — Part I: Ulsiga at The Orange Peel on Friday, Aug. 30.

As the album’s name suggests, it’s a two-part collection. Based on a Cherokee legend about the struggle between good and evil, the Aug. 30 release is “the bad wolf,” says Moss, vocalist for Lifecurse.

“So these songs are little more edgy than some of our stuff.” He describes the second part — the good wolf — as a

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balance between aggressive, screaming vocals and sung vocals.

The band, which includes Roddy Wilder on bass and vocals, Mark Alexander and Matt Anderson on guitars and Jared Morrow on drums, describes its objective as shedding “light on the darker parts of life and to provide a darker perspective on the lighter side of life,” according to its Facebook bio.

“Everybody talks about the struggle between right and wrong, dark and light,” says Moss. “There are so many allegories and symbols, from the Bible to the Quran . … It’s been talked about and rehashed and retold all throughout time.”

Lifecurse’s approach to the subject matter is a bit different, he suggests, “because ours focuses on the need for

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the other and how they keep each other in check.” A dedicated practitioner of jiujitsu, Moss notes the benefit of “knowing yourself and how to control your emotions in intense situations.”

He adds, “The jiujitsu community is extremely welcoming. There are a lot of people [who] if they had that in their lives, they’d probably be a bit more chilled out.” Current sociopolitical divisions and volatility, inflamed by various forms of media, lead to unchecked anger, he explains. “Realize you’re not going to win every battle. You’re going to lose a lot. But you’re going to learn more by losing than you do winning. … It’s really just about the experience and enjoying it for what it is.”

That’s a lesson Moss has applied to his tenure in Lifecurse, from a traffic accident on the way to the band’s first album release show (which left him and another musician badly injured; they played anyway — so metal) to challenges that arose while working on The Wolf You Feed. Over the past six years, a number of people close to the band passed away.

“We’ve had a lot of loss, a lot of pain and a lot of sadness going into this record,” Moss notes. “Music is always a good outlet to get that out.”

But there have been numerous successes, too: The Wolf You Feed was recorded by Winston-Salem-based producer Jamie King, who recently took home a Grammy for his work with fellow North Carolinians Between the Buried and Me. “That’s huge for us,” Moss says.

Plus, “We played the Rainbow [Bar & Grill, in Los Angeles], where Guns N Roses shot the ‘November Rain’ video. … This band has taken us all over.”

The musicians have seen 33 states together, though, Moss says, Asheville still feels like home.

“We’ve played with a lot of really good bands, but the bands in North Carolina have extra depth,” he says.

The local metal scene is no exception. Small when Lifecurse started, the scene has since increased tenfold, according to Moss: “We’ve seen so many bands come and go.”

Early on, Lifecurse’s musicians played every local show they could and oversaturated the market. But once they started booking more out-of-town gigs, Asheville-area fans realized they needed to catch the band while they could. Nearly a decade in, “It’s awesome being a rock, like, ‘We’re going to do this. We’re going to stick to our guns and keep this together and make it work,’” says Moss. “If you love making music … it’s a no-brainer. This is a very fun job.”

The Aug. 30 show is more than just a release party, he says. “It’s a fresh start.” Big opportunities have presented themselves with each new album, and Moss believes The Wolf You Feed will open the next chapter for Lifecurse. Already, the group is at work on a follow-up record and has put out four videos to accompany the new record — “We’re looking for big things to happen in the next couple of years.”

But, Moss continues, “We’ve defied pretty much all the odds. Everything that said we should give up. We’re still here, and it’s album three — the one [where] you find out if you make it or break it.” He pauses. “Hopefully it’s the former, not the latter.” X

WHAT Lifecurse album release show with Chaos Among Cattle, A Light Divided and As Sick As Us WHERE The Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Ave. theorangepeel.net WHEN Friday, Aug. 30, 8 p.m. $5 advance/$7 day of show

A & E CALENDAR ENCHANTING CANTOR: My Grandfather’s Prayers, a multimedia performance by Red Herring Puppets, is based on the life of cantor Izso Glickstein (18891947) and enacted by his granddaughter, puppeteer Lisa Sturz. It is a story of survival despite the adversity of the Russian pogroms, Hungary’s White Terror and two world wars. A fourth-generation cantor, child prodigy and operatic tenor, Glickstein toured Europe with the Hungarian Opera and was chief cantor at the Great Synagogue (Dohány Street Synagogue) in Budapest. Sturz employs a hand-cranked, handmade scrolling mural called a “crankie” among other devices, including oversized props, marionettes and shadow puppets. Tickets are $15 in advance and $18 the day of the event at White Horse Black Mountain on Wednesday, Sept. 4, at 7:30 p.m. For more information, call 828-669-0816 or go to whitehorseblackmountain.com. Photo courtesy of Sam Meyer (p. 37)

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Free to attend. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART & ARCHITECTURE TOUR • SA (8/31), 9-10:30am - Art and architecture tour of downtown Hendersonville. Free.

Held at Woodlands Gallery, 419 N. Main St., Hendersonville ARTS & CRAFTS SHOW • SA (8/31) & SU (9/1), 9am-4pm - Maggie Valley Annual Labor Day Arts and Crafts Show. Free to attend. Held at Maggie Valley Festival Grounds, 3374 Soco Road, Maggie Valley TOURS AT HISTORIC GROVEWOOD VILLAGE • WE (9/4) until SA (9/7), 1 pm - Learn about craft history. Free to attend. Held

at Grovewood Gallery, 111 Grovewood Road

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ASHEVILLE YOUTH CHOIRS • 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. CALL TO ARTISTS APPLICATION DEADLINE FOR FAAL FOR ART • Through SU (9/15) Applications accepted for the Fairview Area Art League show.

Information: facebook. com/fairviewart or faartleague@gmail. com. Held at Fairview Community Center, 1357 Old Charlotte Highway (US 74A), Fairview 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 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • Through FR (9/6) Applications for Haywood County Arts Council Calls for artists interested in monthly gallery exhibits or retail spaces. Information online.

MAKE YOUR 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.

REGIONAL ARTIST PROGRAM GRANT WORKSHOP • TH (9/5), 5:30pm Regional Artist Program grant workshop. Free.

Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva ‘THE BLACK & WHITE OF TRUTH & LIES’ • Through WE (8/28) Actors of all ages needed for screenplay reading to take place on Thursday, Aug. 29 at Pack Memorial Library. Information: 828216-1915 or pindarfilms@ gmail.com.

YOUTH ARTS FESTIVAL • Until SA (9/21) - Call to artists, no booth fee, however artists offer live demonstrations of their

50 Artists, Raku Demos & Food SEPTEMBER 21 • 11am-5pm Pack Square Park, Asheville, NC Thanks to our sponsors:

craft. Info: JCGEP.org.

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

DANCE LEARN HOW TO DANCE (PD.) Easy to learn instruction with Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-3330715, naturalrichard@mac.com, www.DanceForLife.net

Featured Artist: COURTNEY FALL TOMCHIK

www.NorthCarolinaCeramicArtsFestival.com

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. 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.

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The Happiness System For the sixth installment of emersion, a series of immersive performance art installations that take place in different venues around Asheville, project producer Grayson Morris recruited performer/activist Daniele Martin and puppeteer/dancer Edwin Salas to codesign The Happiness System. Described by Morris as “an interactive performance experience in which participants must work together to create a system of living that suits them,” the piece has attendees “navigate obstacles and make discoveries as they explore what it would feel like to live in a just world.” Performances take place at Revolve on Friday, Aug. 30, 7-10 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 31, 2-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m.; and Sunday, Sept.

1, 2-5 p.m. and 7-10 p.m. $20. emersion.art. Photo courtesy of Morris

The Found Footage Festival Like benevolent versions of the evil spirits in Poltergeist, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher are baaa-aack with their latest installment in the seemingly bottomless Found Footage Festival. The childhood friends scour the country in search of oddball VHS tapes at thrift stores and estate sales, curate the best and strangest finds, and take their show on the road to share it with like-minded audiences. Among the standout inclusions in Volume 9 are recently discovered footage from the 1987 Miss Junior America Wisconsin pageant; home movies from a Canadian hose factory; and a fitness video titled “Jugglercise.” Guiding viewers through these bizarre clips, Pickett and Prueher provide live commentary and where-are-they-now updates on the “stars.” The evening of entertainment comes to The Grey Eagle on Friday, Aug. 30, for an 8 p.m. presentation. $15. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of Pickett and Prueher

Jacqueline Osherow

Bombay Gasoline Sporting a name that suggests a blend of curry spices, motorbikes and danceworthy beats, Asheville-based Southern Gothic electro-rock duo Bombay Gasoline has been delivering sonic heat since forming in December. The group combines the talents of Michigan-born Madison Maxwell (vocals/keys), former frontwoman of the now-defunct local psych-rock band Poet Radio, and her longtime friend MG O’Shea (drums/production), an Asheville native who returned home after stints in Los Angeles and Atlanta.

In the midst of gradually dropping promising singles online, the band concludes its summer tour on Friday, Aug. 30, at Fleetwood’s on a bill that also includes Dude Babe, a new project by local power punk trio The Power, and Philadelphia-based psychgarage rockers Secret Nudist Friends. Amplified music will commence at 8:30 p.m. $7. fleetwoodschapel.com. Photo courtesy of the band

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Classes at UNC Asheville are back in session and with them are an array of intriguing campus events.

One of the first offerings takes place Tuesday, Sept. 3, at 7 p.m., when poet Jacqueline Osherow steps into Karpen Hall’s Laurel Forum and reads selections from her eight collections. A distinguished professor of English at the University of Utah, Osherow had her most recent work, My Lookalike at the Krishna Temple, published in March. Its writings explore spirituality in cultures across the world, along with the author’s own relationship to Judaism and Jewish history — making her a fairly ideal choice for the university’s Center for Jewish Studies and department of religious studies, which are co-sponsoring her visit. Free. unca.edu.

Photo courtesy of UNC Asheville

A& E CA LEN DA R 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 FIRST MONDAYS CONCERT SERIES • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free.

Held in the Porter Center. Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard 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. UKULELE STRUM AND SING • TH (9/5), 3-5pm Ukulele strum and sing for beginners. Bring your own uke or use one provided. For ages 10 and up. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD NORTH CAROLINA WRITERS’ NETWORK • TH (9/5), 6-7:30pm - End of Summer Extravaganza, open mic for original poetry and prose. Free to attend.

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

by Deborah Robertson

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 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. • THURSDAYS, 5pm - Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (8/31), 10am3pm - Used book sale.

Free to attend. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TU (9/3), 7pm - Book Club: A Raisin in the Sun

by Lorraine Hansberry.

Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • TU (9/3), 5:30pm Queer Book Club: Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki & Rosemary Valero-O’Connell. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TU (9/3), 7pm - Book Club: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TU (9/3), 7pm Evening Book Club, The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rodgers by Maxwell King. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library,

1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WE (9/4), 3pm - Book Club: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Free.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • WE (9/4), 3pm - Book Club: A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry. Free.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (9/5), 1pm - Creative Writing Group is open to adults who want to write children’s books. Free.

Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester • TH (9/5), 6:30pm - Book Club: Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver. Free.

Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TH (9/5), 3pm - Charles Gritzner presents his guide to North Carolina Ghost Lights and Legends. Free.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road EVE ENSLER'S 'THE APOLOGY' • SU (9/1), 2-3:30pm - Hear men read aloud Eve Ensler's The Apology. Free.

Held at Raven & Crone, 555 Merrimon Ave., Suite 100 LITERARY FICTION CONTEST • Through MO (9/30) Submissions accepted for the annual Literary Fiction contest. See website for full guidelines. Held at The Writer's Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Road MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com

• 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.

• SU (9/1), 3pm - Poetrio features Patricia Colleen Murphy, Bully Love; Bruce P. Spang, All You'll Derive: A Caregiver's Journey and Doug Stuber, Chronic Observer. Free to attend.

• MO (9/2), 7pm - LGBTQ book club is reading Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson. Free to attend.

• TU (9/3), 6pm - Linda Bledsoe presents her book, Through the Needle's Eye. Free to attend.

• WE (9/4), 6pm - Casey Cep presents her book, Furious Hours: Murder, Fraud, and the Last Trial of Harper Lee. Free to attend.

• WE (9/4), 7pm Malaprop's Book Club discusses, Another Country

by James Baldwin. Free to attend.

• TH (9/5), 6pm - Jessica Cory presents anthology, Mountains Piled Upon Mountains: Appalachian Nature Writing in the Anthropocene. Free to attend.

MEAGAN LUCAS PRESENTS ‘SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS’ • WE (8/28), 7pm - Meagan Lucas presents her novel, Songbirds & Stray Dogs. Free to attend.

• 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 NC GHOST LIGHTS AND LEGENDS • WE (9/4), 6:30pm Charles F. Gritzner presents his book, North Carolina Ghost Lights and Legends.

NC is considered one of the US headquarters for unexplained luminous phenomenon. Free to attend. Held at City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS • THURSDAYS, noon-1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-329-4190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road POETRY READING BY JACQUELINE OSHEROW • TU (9/3), 7-8:30pm - Jacqueline Osherow, poetry reading. Free. Held at

Karpen Hall, UNC Asheville Campus POLITICAL PRISONERS LETTER WRITING • First SUNDAYS, 5pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road WOMEN IN LIVELY DISCUSSION BOOK CLUB • TU (9/3), 6:30pm Women in Lively Discussion Book Club reads, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado. Free to attend.

Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 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 'ARMS AND THE MAN' • FR (8/30) & SA (8/31), 2:30pm - Arms and the Man, borderline farce by George Bernard Shaw. $7. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. • SU (9/1), 2:30pm - Arms and the Man, borderline farce by George Bernard Shaw. $7. Held at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights 'MY GRANDFATHER’S PRAYERS' • WE (9/4), 7:30pm - My Grandfather’s Prayers, a multi-media theatrical performance by Red Herring Puppets based on the life of famed cantor Izso Glickstein (1889-1947). $15/$18 door. Held at White Horse Black Mountain, 105 Montreat Road, Black Mountain ‘ROUNDING THIRD’ • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS, (8/29) until (9/8) - Rounding Third, bro-medy. Wed. & Thur.: 2 & 7:30pm, Fri.: 8pm, Sat.:

2 & 8pm, Sun.: 2pm. $17$57.50. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock 'THE BAGGAGE PLAYS: CRAZY BAG' & 'CARRY ON' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS, (9/5) until (9/15) - The Baggage Plays: Crazy Bag and Carry On, one woman show

by Murphy Funkhouser Capps. Chapter One: Crazy Bag, Thurs. & Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 3pm and Chapter Two: Carry On, Fri. & Sun.: 7:30pm and Sat.: 3pm. $20/$10 students. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. 'THE COMPLETE HISTORY OF AMERICA (ABRIDGED)' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS 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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CLUBLAND HANDS DOWN: Known as the kalimba man, Kevin Spears has been playing the instrument (aka the thumb piano), since he was 10 years old. The singer and multimedia artist from Atlanta mixes traditional Afrobeat with funk, jazz, loops and synth to create a one-man show. The artist has worked with India.Arie, Roy “FutureMan” Wooten, Toubab Krewe and Arrested Development.

Also a passionate lecturer, Spears speaks to music professionals on the subject of Harnessing the Speed of Thought. Spears performs at White Horse Black Mountain on Sunday, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m. $12 advance/$15 day of show. whitehorseblackmountain. com. Photo courtesy of Spears

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, (African folk music), 8:00PM AUX BAR Wednesday Night Warmup, (80s/90s Dance Music) 5:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kitten Savage, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Open Mic, 6:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Return Of RnB Jam Night, 8:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Summer Fringe feat.

Amanda Levesque, Jenni Cockrell, & Alli Marshall (plus festival organizer Q&A), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Little Leslie & The Bloodshots w/ live Honky Tonk, 9:00PM

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FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Trivia Night!, 7:00PM

Sunday Brunch from 10:30-3:30PM

FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM

Closed Mondays

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

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Music Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bluegrass Jam hosted

by Gary Mac Fiddle & Friends, 6:00PM NANTAHALA BREWING - ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Celebrate 828 w/ tunes

by Moves & DJ Malinalli (vendors, artist & more..), 4:00PM NOBLE KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Dragula Season 3 Viewing Party, 12:00AM Florida Man, Rat Poison, Ugly Runner (Punk), 9:00PM

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 Raspberry Pie, Doctor Aqueous, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Get Right Band, 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 with The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM

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

THE GREY EAGLE Vaden Landers, 5:00PM Brad Heller and the Fustics w/ Jangling Sparrows and the New Rustics, 8:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Billy Litz, 9:00PM

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

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latin Dance Night, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Electric Hot Tuna w/ Rob Ickes & Trey Hensley, 7:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Indio de Souza's Icky Bricketts, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music On The Rooftop, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM Reverly Soul, 10:00PM TREEROCK SOCIAL CIDER HOUSE Witty Wednesday Trivia, 7:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Aaron Price Jazz Trio, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Austin Barrett, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 29 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray and the Space Cooties, 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS Nc Songsmiths, Laura Boswell, 7:30PM CALYPSO DJ Red Iyah & The Mete (Caribbean beats), 6:00PM CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Music Bingo, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (hot jazz & western swing), 10:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Gospel Night #50 w/Swanee Quintet,, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Queer Comedy Party ft. Moira Goree, 9:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Gabriel Wiseman's Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis lawn Series w/ the Pimps of Pompe, 6:00PM Tiffany Williams and Matt Sellars, 7:00PM Chris Wilhelm with Life Like Water, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND The Bobby Lees (rock n' roll) & Bad Molly Release Show, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Party (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 Loose Leaves, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB: Knotty G's, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: West Side Funk Jam (open jam), 9:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Citizen Mojo, 8:00PM POLANCO RESTAURANT Ultra Lounge: Food, Music, Lounge w/ DJ Phantome Pantone, 10:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Aaron Price Trio, 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Jamie Gorsuch, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Brennan Carroll, Taylor Knighton, and The Build, 8:00PM 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 GREY EAGLE Cow Skeleton Records Songwriter Festival 2019, 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions (jazz), 9:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Bob Zullo (rock, pop, jazz, blues), 7:00PM

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

FRI 8/30 7:00PM–NASHVILLE TO ASHEVILLESONGS & STORYTELLING W/ JARED ANDERSON AND KENNA

9:00PM–JUAN BENEVIDES GROUP REUNION SAT 8/31 7:00PM–THE LONETONES

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THE ORANGE PEEL Americana Burlesque & Sideshow Speakeasy, 7:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music On The Rooftop, 9:00PM

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

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

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Up Jumped Three, 6:30PM

7:00PM–SHEL THU 8/29

THE MOTHLIGHT Thee Sidewalk Surfers Album Release, 9:00PM

TOWN PUMP Taylor Martin, 10:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Lenny Pettinelli (acoustic rock), 8:00PM

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

THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL ABSFest Speakeasy Allstars, 8:00PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Elana Lacayo, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Jeff & Justin, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke Thursdays, 6:00PM

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FROM SCRATCH: Local DJs will spin tunes for a dancehall-style party to benefit the Center for Participatory Change, which, according to its website, “centers the communities most affected by structural inequities, especially Latinx and black communities.” Expect Latin, hiphop and disco from one of Noche LatinX series organizer s, DJ Juan Bounce and AfroColombian, Cumbia and more from DJ Hija de la Chingada, pictured. Lazy Diamond hosts the event on Saturday, Aug. 31, 10 p.m. All donations at the door and a percentage of sales will go to the CPC. avl.mx/5i8. Photo

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ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 30 27 CLUB Spellbound: Haunted Dance Party, 10:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Roots & Dore Band (blues, roots), 9:00PM

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ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB The Psycho DeVilles & Slow Poison, 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Underhill Rose w/ Elonzo Wesley, 8:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM CORK & KEG One Leg Up, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Pimps of Pompe (hot jazz cover songs), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rotating Rock 'n' Soul DJs, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Rahm Squad (funk, soul), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Nikki Talley, 7:00PM

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

SALVAGE STATION Labor Day Weekend Kickoff w/ the Northside Gentlemen, 8:30PM

LOBSTER TRAP MandoCyn, 6:30PM

SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Dog Whistle, 8:00PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Canfield (singersongwriter, punk rock), 8:00PM

SAVE ME THE WALTZ Dinner + Jazz: Movie Theme Edition!, 7:00PM

MAD CO BREW HOUSE Juan Holliday, 6:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Hoo:Lumes, Daisy the Great, Will Orchard, CowBaby, 9:00PM

MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Dave Desmelik, 6:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Utah Green, 6:00PM

NEW BELGIUM BREWERY BoogiTherapy, 5:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Freedom’s Friday w/ Urban Sounds, 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Asheville After Dark Presents: Perversions Kink Night, 9:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Found Footage Festival: Volume 9, 8:00PM

AWARD PLAQUE

ARCHETYPE BROADWAY Loved Ones, 8:00PM

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ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Bity City Blues Jam, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Goldie and the Screamers, 7:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Electric Avenue: The 80'S MTV Experience, 10:00PM

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Melissa Myers

Angel Has Fallen HHS DIRECTOR: Ric Roman Waugh PLAYERS: Gerard Butler, Piper Perabo, Morgan Freeman ACTION RATED R

One Child Nation HHHH

DIRECTORS: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang PLAYERS: Jiaoming Pang, Brian Stuy DOCUMENTARY RATED R Nanfu Wang’s and Jialing Zhang’s One Child Nation is a discomforting look at the rippling impact of China’s singlechild policy. Born in China in 1985, Wang herself was brought into this world during the most harshly restrictive reproductive policy in China’s recent history.

Introduced in 1979 as a solution to a growing population crisis, the law was lauded by the government as “prophetic” and the only solution to a looming “population war.” A two-child policy was implemented in 2016 and limits may soon be dropped entirely, but as evinced by the film, the effects of the nearly 30-year directive are evident throughout the nation.

Wang’s interviews start with a navel gaze as she travels from her home in the U.S. to visit her family in Asia, spurred by the birth of her own son and a rekindled interest in China’s draconian reproductive policy. After some disturbing realizations courtesy of stories from her Chinese family and their community leaders, her lens widens to encompass the nation overall. Painful retellings of forced sterilizations and abortions for women who’d reached their offspring quota give way to overlying paradigms of misogyny and a 44

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general, societal surrender caused by the trauma of living under such a harsh rule.

Given China’s severe censorship and despotic grip on its own portrayal in the media, it’s shocking at times to witness the candidness with which some of Wang’s informants describe the corruption, invasiveness and downright criminal activity promulgated by the Chinese government while implementing the onechild policy. Though clearly critical of the political regime and reproductive limits, Wang’s interviews cover both critics and proponents — or at least enablers — of this inhumane family planning policy.

Even with the balanced approach, the pervasive message is one of tragedy and powerlessness.

For many Americans heading into this documentary, China’s one-child policy may seem at once relatively unclear and distant both in place and time. Wang’s important film lifts the veils of the past and exposes the policy as a blatant violation of human rights that has traumatized entire generations into feeling powerless and resigned.

Read the full review at mountainx.com/ movies/reviews Starts Aug. 30 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY MELISSA MYERS MELISSA.L.MYERS@GMAIL.COM

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Secret Service agent Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) is getting too old for this shit. After saving the president of the United States in Olympus Has Fallen (2013) and London Has Fallen (2016), Banning is thinking about settling down with his wife, Leah (Piper Perabo), and their toddler daughter in the third installment of the Fallen trilogy. (Yes, that’s what we’re calling it.)

Further compelling Banning’s decision is that his body is breaking down following a career of killing bad guys in the Army Special Forces and his duties with the Secret Service. He’s a mess, but neither his family nor his colleagues know about it.

Also unaware of Banning’s deteriorating condition is President Allan Trumbull (Morgan Freeman), who’s ready to promote his top protector to director of the Secret Service. But can Banning take the job in good conscience with his debilitating headaches, dependence on pain pills and increasingly creaky body?

Just in case the point isn’t clear, a cautionary tale is introduced in Banning’s father, Clay (Nick Nolte). The elder Banning demonstrates the toll that life as a soldier and alienation from loved ones exact on a person. Could Mike eventually become a gnarly-bearded recluse in the West Virginia country? Clay provides some comic relief, but the movie doesn’t really follow through on that potential.

During Banning’s Secret Service tenure, the president has been attacked

by Korean radicals and Pakistani terrorists. This time around, the threat is closer to home, and the twist is that Banning has been framed for this assassination attempt.

Yet everyone involved quickly realizes that Banning couldn’t be the culprit, and viewers will likewise soon figure out the mastermind behind this grand scheme.

(Here’s another movie in which the casting tips off any presumed twists.) It’s also entirely possible that the bad guy could have achieved his objective without involving Banning at all.

Kristina Ian Casselberry Guckenberger

Douglas Davidson

But Angel Has Fallen isn’t trying to be a mystery. Like its predecessors, this movie is all about big explosions and Banning killing adversaries with the most lethal force possible. In one sequence with Butler and Nolte, director Ric Roman Waugh (Shot Caller) seems to know he’s gone too far with the pyrotechnics, but that’s probably giving him too much

STARTING FRIDAY Honeyland (NR) HHHH One Child Nation (R) HHHH (Pick of the Week) JUST ANNOUNCED Don’t Let Go (R) In this supernatural thriller, a detective and his recently murdered niece race to prevent her death. CED

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) HHH Angel Has Fallen (R) HHS The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) HHHHS The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG) HHHH 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 John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum (R) HHHH The Lion King (PG) HHH Maiden (PG) HHHHS The Nightingale (R) HHH Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) HHHHS The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) HHHS Ready or Not (R) HHHH Rocketman (R) HHHH Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG-13) HHH Spider-Man: Far From Home (PG-13) HHHH Sword of Trust (R) HHHHS Toy Story 4 (G) HHHHS Where’d You Go, Bernadette (PG-13) HHHS

credit. It’s more likely that he was just trying to get to the end of this thing, along with the rest of us.

REVIEWED BY IAN CASSELBERRY IANCASS@GMAIL.COM

Honeyland HHHH DIRECTORS: Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov PLAYERS: Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam DOCUMENTARY /DRAMA NOT RATED The captivating, harrowing narrative documentary Honeyland opens with Hatidze Muratova in her signature yellow shirt as she fearlessly scales the side of a North Macedonian mountain. Wearing no protective clothing, she carefully moves pieces of jagged rock with her bare hands,

revealing her secret treasure trove: glimmering in the sun’s glow are rows upon rows of wild golden honeycomb, buzzing with hundreds of happy honeybees.

Europe’s last female wild beekeeper, Hatidze is the lone remaining member of a dying breed, and she has one goal: maintaining balance of both her land and her life.

A fascinatingly intimate look into the harsh reality of one woman’s quest for harmony, the film began as a commissioned conservation project and quickly turned into a stunning modern day parable of the Good Samaritan.

The film beautifully weaves the familiar lens of a nature documentary with a covert narrative that’s distinctly human in its exploration of strife, persistence and hope. It examines the lengths to which one woman is willing to go to maintain natural order and just how much she’ll endure to preserve something she holds so sacred.

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EARLY ACCESS: Local author L.D. Donahue’s Asheville-set screenplay The Black & White of Truth & Lies will receive a full-cast reading on Aug. 29 at Pack Memorial Library. Graphic courtesy of Donahue Before the creators of The Black & White of Truth & Lies move forward on the production of a feature film, the screenplay of the project will receive a full-cast reading on Thursday, Aug. 29, 6-8 p.m., at Lord Auditorium in Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. Inspired by actual events and written by local scribe L.D. Donahue, the work is described by its author as “a story of good and evil, set in 1968 Asheville, where junkyards and liquor houses mix

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with saints and sinners in the redemption of blood and soul.”

The script’s action will be read

by Marsha Morgan. Cast members signed on at press time include Ken Whittenburg, Rhoda Weaver, Connie Hurst, Royanna Williams, Jonathan Swarn and Selene Thoms. Fellow longtime Asheville residents James S. Burns and Ryan Stuart Burns will be Donahue’s collaborators on the forthcoming cinematic project. Free. avl.mx/5fu X

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by Jean-Luc Godard.

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Ready or Not HHHH DIRECTORS: Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett PLAYERS: Samara Weaving, Adam Brody, Andie MacDowell HORROR/COMEDY RATED R Every family has its traditions — the little things relatives do in order to carry forward notions of the past into the future.

Where things tend to get tricky is when someone marries in. Suddenly, it’s not about one clan’s traditions, but two.

If you’re lucky, personalities click, and there’s nothing but wine and roses. If not, it can feel like a slow, agonizing ride through hell.

In the case of newlywed Grace (Samara Weaving, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri), it’s a literal case of life or death as her new relatives, the Le Domas, put her through

a lethal rendition of hide-and-seek.

Directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, Ready or Not zeroes in on what makes any family event uncomfortable and amps it to 11, eviscerating the affluent and challenging the very notion of tradition, all while featuring a kick-ass protagonist.

Comparable to the way Game Night turned tabletop contests into high stakes with heart, Ready or Not takes the creativity and cleverness of a stealth pastime and upends it, turning it cruel and vicious. Gratefully, the filmmakers craft a story that doesn’t focus on violence as something to be adored, but as an irritating byproduct of wealth. It’s a thing that must be done because it has always been done, and it’s always been done a certain way. Not to uphold the tradition would be a greater tragedy than the violence itself — or so the story tells us.

Therein lies the best part of Ready or Not, and it’s the part that makes Grace’s stand against her in-laws so rewarding: Are the Le Domas satisfying a bloodlust, or is there a larger plan at work? You’ll have to play the game to find out.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Here are examples of activities I recommend you try in the coming days.

1. Build a campfire on the beach with friends and regale each other with stories of your most interesting successes. 2. Buy eccentric treasures at a flea market and ever thereafter refer to them as your holy icons.

3. Climb a hill and sit on the grass as you sing your favorite songs and watch the moon slowly rise over the eastern horizon. 4. Take naps when you’re “not supposed to.” 5. Sneak into an orchard at night and eat fruit plucked just moments before. 6. Tell a beloved person a fairy tale in which he or she is the hero.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The hardiest creature on the planet may be the bacterium known as Deinococcus radiodurans. It can endure exposure to radiation, intense cold, dehydration, acid and vacuum.

I propose we make it your power creature for the coming weeks. Why? Not because I expect you’ll have to deal with a lot of extreme conditions, but rather because I think you’ll be exceptionally robust, both physically and psychologically. If you’ve been waiting for the right time to succeed at demanding challenges that require you to be in top form, now is a good time to do it. P.S. Deinococcus radiodurans is colloquially referred to as Conan the Bacterium, borrowing from the spirit of the fictional character Conan the Barbarian, who is renowned for his strength and agility.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the yearly cycle of many Geminis, retreating into a state akin to hibernation makes sense during the end of August and the first three weeks of September. But since many of you are high-energy sophisticates, you often override your body’s signals. And then nature pushes back by compelling you to slow down. The result may be a rhythm that feels like constantly taking three steps forward and two steps backward. May I suggest a different approach this year? Would you consider surrendering, even slightly, to the invitation to relax and recharge?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you decide to travel to a particular place via hot air balloon, you must be prepared for the possibility that your route will be indirect. At different altitudes, the wind may be blowing in different directions: toward the east at 100 feet high, but toward the southwest at 200 feet. The trick for the pilot is to jockey up and down until finding a layer that’s headed toward the desired destination. I see your life right now as having a metaphorical resemblance to this riddle.

You have not yet discovered the layer that will take you where you want to go. But I bet you will soon.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Considering how bright you have been burning since the Flame Angels designated you as the Hottest Cool Person of the Month, I hesitate to urge you to simmer down. But I must.

Before there’s a meltdown in your vicinity, please lower your thermostat. Not a lot. Just a little. If you do that, everyone will continue to see your gleaming charisma in the best possible light. But don’t you dare extinguish your blaze. Don’t apologize for your brilliant shimmer. The rest of us need your magical radiance.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Shogun is a bestselling novel about an Englishman who transforms himself into a samurai warrior in 17th century Japan. Written

by James Clavell, it’s over 1,100 pages long. Clavell testified that the idea for the story sprang up in him when he read one line in his daughter’s school book: “In 1600 an Englishman went to Japan and became a samurai.” I suspect it’s highly likely you will soon encounter a seed like that, Virgo: a bare inspiration that will eventually bloom into a Big Thing.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran athlete Mickey Mantle is in Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame.

He had a spectacular 18-year career, winning the Most Valuable Player Award three times, playing in 12 World Series and being selected to the All-Star team 16 times. So it’s astounding that he played with a torn ligament in his knee for 17 years, according to his biographer Jane Leavy. She quoted an orthopedic surgeon who said that Mantle compensated for his injury with “neuromuscular genius.” I’m thinking that in the next few weeks you’re in a position to accomplish an equivalent of Mantle’s heroic adjustment.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Most people who belong to the Church of Satan neither believe in nor worship Satan. (They’re atheists and don’t believe in the supernatural.) I think a comparable principle is true for many rightwing fundamentalist Christians. Their actions and words are replete with bigotry, hard-heartedness, materialism and selfishness: so contrary to what the real Jesus Christ taught that they in effect don’t believe in or worship Jesus Christ. I mention this, Scorpio, in hope of inspiring you to take inventory of whether your stated ideals are reflected in the practical details of how you live your life. That’s always an interesting and important task, of course, but it’s especially so for you right now.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to purge any hypocrisy from your system and get your actual behavior in close alignment with your deepest values.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): It’s the right time for you to create a fresh mission statement and promotional campaign. For inspiration, read mine: “My column ’Free Will Astrology’ offers you a wide selection of realities to choose from. With 4,212 years of dedication to customer service (over the course of my last 13 incarnations), I’m a reliable ally supporting your efforts to escape your oppressive conditioning and other people’s hells. My horoscopes come with an ironclad guarantee: If the advice you read is wrong, you’re under no obligation to believe it. And remember: a panel of 531 experts has determined that ’Free Will Astrology’ is an effective therapy for your chronic wounds and primordial pain. It is also dramatic proof that there is no good reason to be afraid of life.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Here are good questions for you to meditate on during the next four weeks. 1. How can you attract resources that will expand your mind and your world? 2. Are you bold enough to reach out to wise sources and provocative influences that could connect you with useful tricks and practical treasures? 3. What interesting lessons can you stir up as you explore the mercurial edges, skirt the changeable boundaries, journey to catalytic frontiers and make pilgrimages to holy hubbubs? 4.

How best can you encourage lyrical emotion over polished sentimentality? Joyous idealism over astringent zealotry? Exuberant integrity over formulaic kindness?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by,” wrote author Wallace Stegner, “and it’s persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live without any.” That will be an excellent meditation for you during the coming weeks. I trust you are long past the time of fantasizing you can live without any rules. Your challenge now is to adjust some of the rules you have been living by or even dare to align yourself with some new rules — and then completely commit yourself to being loyal to them and enjoying them.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Given the astrological omens that will symbolize your personal story in the coming weeks and months, I think Piscean author Nikos Kazantzakis articulated the perfect prescription for you.

I invite you to interpret his thoughts to fit your circumstances. “We’re going to start with small, easy things,” he wrote. “Then, little by little we shall try our hand at the big things. And after that, after we finish the big things, we shall undertake the impossible.” Here’s an additional prod from Kazantzakis: “Reach what you cannot.”

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