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I totally agree with Allison Frank’s letter concerning the bear problem [“Sounding the Alarm About Town Bears,” Aug. 1, Xpress]. In response to Ms. [Ellen] Foltz [“The Problem With Bears Is Too Many People,” Aug. 15, Xpress]: The problem isn’t that we are taking over their habitat. Asheville is surrounded by thousands of acres of protected land; it’s just the food thing is easier in ours. That, coupled with milder winters and no natural predators, has caused a proliferation of the North Carolina bear population. I don’t know about Miami, but moving to Charlotte or Winston-Salem won’t work, as they are showing up there as well. I used to see mothers with two cubs, now it’s always three or four. They are also not nearly so shy anymore; recently walking up Innsbrook [Road], the biggest male I have ever seen stopped midroad and stared at me — had he charged, my best survival chance would have been to roll under a parked car. It’s a question of when, not if, a tragedy happens. On a lighter note: Mr. and Mrs. Bear, if you are reading this, our koi pond is not your personal sushi bar — please stay out! — Steve Woolum Grove Park Asheville

The recent article in the Mountain Xpress describing the work of the Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment was great to see, but missed the mark on several points [“Nothing But Renewable: SACEE Votes on 100 Percent Green Electricity Goal for Asheville,” Aug. 8]. I commend the city of Asheville and SACEE for taking on the huge task of working on a just transition to renewable energy. Getting the word out to the public about this process is important. What is missing from the article is the urgency of this process. We don’t have to look too far to see how the climate is already in crisis. NASA is predicting we may have to add a Category 6 to hurricanes in the near future, and officials are upping the distinction of the worst wildfires from “extreme” to “extraordinary.” It is therefore incumbent upon our civic leaders to take the strongest possible action to do what we can to avert catastrophic events here. We’re already doing well with the low-hanging fruit of energy conservation, but to meet the goal, we need to include all energy used by the city, not just electricity. Ken Brame’s meaning was misconstrued when talking about electric buses. It is not that buses are hurting our efforts; we need to address the use of fossil fuel across all sectors in order to succeed. We have to think “globally” about

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the source of our energy use in order to combat the imminent and extraordinary financial, social and public health costs that will inevitably arise from fires, floods and rising temperatures here in the WNC mountains. We have to think of a transition to 100 percent renewable energy as an investment in the future of our fair city and the people who live here; and we have to keep a strong momentum going if we want to protect our beautiful environment. — Carolyn Anderson Asheville Editor’s note: The article in question was updated on Xpress’ website Aug. 14 to more accurately reflect statements made by Ken Brame.

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MountainTrue follows the data on river’s health In Daniel Walton’s article about our State of the French Broad River Watershed report [“Streaming Data,” Aug. 22, Xpress], Jen Ditzler, co-owner of Zen Tubing, accuses MountainTrue of a “conflict of interest” and cooking the data on the cleanliness of the French Broad River to boost donations. Let’s set the record straight. MountainTrue is a member-supported nonprofit whose staff and volunteers take samples from across four watersheds and report data on

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C A R T O O N B Y I R E NE O L DS chemical, sediment and bacterial pollution. All of this data collection and analysis is done according to standard protocols developed by experts other than MountainTrue. This work has been instrumental in getting Duke Energy to excavate its coal ash and put an end to its pollution of the French Broad River. Our monitoring programs have also helped us track down gasoline seeps and illegal piping of animal waste from farms, and led us on expeditions into the sewers below the River Arts District to track down a leaking pipe. Is the French Broad River cleaner than 80, 50, 20 and even 10 years ago? No doubt. We should and do celebrate that, but we are not finished. My job as the Riverkeeper is to find and address ongoing pollution problems. I have to follow the data, and the data shows that, despite great progress, we still have a pollution problem on the French Broad and that it’s not always safe to be out on the water. I would love nothing more than for the river to be so clean that I’m out of a job. But until that day, we will continue monitoring the river, reporting the data and working hard to stop pollution that makes the river unsafe. — Hartwell Carson French Broad Riverkeeper Asheville

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City Council should commit to all-green fleet In the Aug. 8 edition of the Mountain Xpress, Liz Carey misquoted Ken Brame around electric buses and increased electricity demand [“Nothing But Renewable: SACEE Votes on 100 Percent Green Electricity Goal for Asheville.”] Ken is part of the Western North Carolina Renewables coalition; they are pushing the Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and the Environment to take a stronger position, asking for not just 100 percent renewable electricity, but transitioning all energy use at city facilities — in vehicles, heat and hot water — to renewable power. By greening the city’s fleet, fuel costs will be cut around 30 cents per mile, and Asheville will continue to develop infrastructure so that residents might also choose EVs. Asheville can lead this charge, starting by the City Council committing to a green fleet by 2030. This commitment is an important benchmark in Buncombe County’s goal of being 100 percent renewable by 2042, including government operations, personal vehicles, homes and businesses. It was disappointing to see that Council member [Julie] Mayfield was not strongly commit-

ted to a timely transition away from fossil fuel based transportation. Other cities in North Carolina like Hillsborough, Carrboro and Durham have already made commitments to 100 percent renewable energy in all sectors, and Chapel Hill has a draft resolution likely to come forward in the next few months. These commitments are part of a growing movement of local governments taking action where federal climate leadership has stagnated. Lowering carbon emissions cannot happen soon enough, as we are seeing the hottest year on record, while severe weather and fires wreak havoc across the globe. — Michelle Myers Asheville Editor’s note: Xpress published a correction to the above-mentioned article in the Aug. 22 issue and updated the article online to more accurately reflect Brame’s comments. In addition, Myers sent a follow-up note the next day: “I just wanted to send an update that SACEE passed a resolution on to Council [Aug. 15] calling for 100 percent renewable energy for city operations by 2030 and supporting the communitywide goal the county set by 2042. This includes transportation and all other energy consumption beyond electricity. Staff will develop a plan/ budget for achieving the goal and come back to SACEE and the Council with more specifics. I was encouraged to hear Council member Mayfield speak to the urgency of including transport in carbon-reduction planning, as greenhouse gases from vehicles now exceeds emissions from electricity production. Hopefully, she will support the all-energy component at Council and help Asheville develop a road map for an all-green fleet, as well as the investment in electrified heat and hot water.”

Too many bears for human safety I take issue with the condescending letters to Ms. [Allison] Frank concerning the bears in Asheville [Frank’s letter, “Sounding the Alarm About Town Bears,” appeared in the Aug. 1 Xpress]. In the summer, I see plenty of bears at least twice a week in my driveway and yard in Riceville — moms, cubs and males young

C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N and old. They are awesome and sacred creatures that I greatly admire. However, there are way too many of them to continue safely interacting with humans. My understanding is there are at least twice as many bears in the area now compared to the era of the first pioneer settlers. The bears have overpopulated themselves by living off the products and protections of humans. Young children do not have the caution to deal with bear encounters in a “correct” manner, and I fear one day a child will suffer terribly for this. Some bears are aggressive rogues and some are hyperprotective mothers. Humans are here and are not going away. Human life is more precious than the lives of bears. The current bear population is crowding itself in an unnatural manner and is becoming dependent on food from interaction with human society. Bears are losing their wariness of humans. This is not good for the future of bears. They need to be thinned out by removal, sterilization, extended hunting season or whatever is appropriate in order for the bear population to remain healthy and the human population to remain safe. It’s common sense. — Marc Mandon Riceville

Not the only one fed up with Waste Pro Gentle Ones: I’m glad to know that I am not the only one fed up with my nonpickup of recycling by Waste Pro [“Buncombe County Should Trash Waste Pro Contract,” Aug. 15, Xpress]. I only had four weeks go by before I finally got a pickup after numerous calls and assurances that it would be picked up. Of course, this week it has not been picked up again. The garbage collection has been more likely to be picked up, but not always, either. I’m an old lady who has lived all over the U.S. and always had trash collection at my house, and never has the service been as bad as I’ve had in Asheville. — AA Lloyd Asheville

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Right clicks, left jumps The case for keeping APD Chief Tammy Hooper BY CECIL BOTHWELL Eight years on Asheville’s City Council gives one a sort of 30,000-foot perspective on the issues that roil our lovely town. My particular focus today is on the Asheville Police Department. As in too many cities around the country, there have been dismal instances of bad cop behavior, together with many more largely unnoticed, stellar enforcement efforts. Just for starters: I condemn the first and applaud the latter. Lately, we have seen a media storm cooked up by the Asheville Citizen Times around a body-cam video revealing the assault on a black jaywalker, Johnnie Rush, by an APD officer — the release of which was illegal under North Carolina state law. Just to be clear: When I was chair of the Council’s Public Safety Committee, I argued long and hard that release of body-cam footage should be legal, at least with certain reasonable constraints. The N.C. General Assembly thinks otherwise. The daily has deemed it urgent to link that video post to a continuing series of stories connected to that sad event in which an innocent black man was violently assaulted by a white officer. Juicy stories have always sold papers. The activist-community reaction has been to aver that the lag time between the officer assault and release of the video represents an attempt at a cover-up, and that the firing of the miscreant officer and ensuing indictment were the result of the video release. Sorry, no banana. Let’s think back to the tenure of Asheville Police Chief William Anderson. He was the first black police chief in Asheville, and per informal reports, a little too militaristic in his leadership style to suit some. (Ashvegas is more laid-back than that.) In any event, his son wrecked the family car, and Anderson showed up at the scene. His car, his son. Would you not? Yet he was accused of trying to interfere in the investigation and prosecution of whatever wrongdoing could have occurred. No evidence ever confirmed that idea. None whatsoever. Over my objection, Council decided that Anderson had inappropriately sought an interview with Lt. William Wilke while he was being 8

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CECIL BOTHWELL interviewed by the State Bureau of Investigation, but Anderson insisted that he had no knowledge of the ongoing interview when Wilke simply refused to come to the chief’s office, without explanation. So Anderson sent an officer with orders to retrieve Wilke from wherever he might be found. An inner circle of upper-level officers managed to poison that well. By accounts I deem reliable, they resented taking orders from a black man. They stirred the pot. And restirred. Anderson ultimately retired. Now we have seen release of bodycam footage, strictly illegal under state law absent judicial review. What was the aim? To embarrass current Asheville Police Chief Tammy Hooper. Some might want to believe that the reason was to expose wrongdoing by an officer, but anyone with access to the video knew that the officer had already been disciplined. To imagine that a senior officer actually wanted to release one more video that painted police as racist and abusive seems a stretch to me. There are (perhaps at this writing, hopefully, were) senior

officers who didn’t like taking orders from a woman. This is the same crowd that forced out Anderson. I mean, specifically the same officers. I have been told this by a source with first-person, inside knowledge of the situation, but feel compelled to protect my source from possible repercussions. This is insider politics at its worst. This is unquestionably taking place inside the APD, and any “progressive” who seizes on this to argue for Hooper’s ouster is working for the other side. Unwittingly, sure. But unquestionably so. Though you would have a hard time understanding this from the Citizen Times‘ coverage, the unacceptable behavior of the officer who choked a jaywalker had already been investigated and appropriate actions taken long before the video was leaked. The case had already been referred to the Buncombe County District Attorney. The only purpose of the video release to the newspaper was to cast doubt on the leadership of Chief Hooper. Some senior officer with access to that tape must have given it to the paper. Some senior officer who had to know that the case had already been handled in strict accordance with Civil Service rules, but wished to put a thumb on the scales.

For those with a short local memory, Chief Anderson faced a similar case of a cop accused of abusing a citizen, and Anderson fired the cop immediately. The cop was reinstated by the Civil Service Board because it found the officer had not been given adequate due process. In contrast, Chief Hooper took her time, followed all the legal procedures and was able to successfully eject the cop who violated the civil rights of Mr. Rush. The city has now paid Rush a substantial settlement for his mistreatment. Yet Hooper is condemned for the appearance of “hiding” an investigation she never hid and accused of “only acting when the video was released.” Both claims are entirely false. It seems a real shame when the right wing is able to wag the left wing’s tail. Having observed, firsthand, the tenure of five chiefs, either permanent or “acting” during my years on Council, I have to observe that when Asheville eventually loses Chief Hooper, any replacement will, beyond question, be a loss for the city. She’s the best leader APD has had in living memory. Sure as hell hope we don’t blow it. Cecil Bothwell served on Asheville City Council 2009-17. X

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Lynching memorial confronts our country’s past A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION

LOCAL TIES: The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala., houses more than 800 monuments, each indicating a county where racial terror lynchings occurred. Fifty-five of North Carolina’s 100 counties are represented, including seven in the westernmost portion of the state: Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Macon, Polk, Rutherford and Watauga. Photo by Mountain Muse Photography

BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com Some victims were burned alive. Others were hanged from tree branches, telephone poles or bridges. Bullet holes and knife wounds riddled the bodies of many. Still others met their deaths via beating or drowning. In some cases, thousands of spectators came to witness these lynchings. Picnic blankets were spread. Pictures were taken. Postcards of the lifeless bodies were mailed to relatives and friends. Some spectators collected cuttings from the rope or tree limbs from which the cadaver hung as souvenirs; others sliced a finger or an ear from the corpse. Between 1877 and 1950, more than 4,400 African-Americans were murdered in such fashion, according to an estimate by the Equal Justice Initiative. To arrive at that figure, the Montgomery, Ala.-based nonprofit scoured newspapers, court records and

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other historical documents; in addition, the group interviewed local historians, survivors and victims’ descendants. Most of the victims were adult males, but women and children also numbered among the dead. Some had been accused of murder or rape, while others lost their lives for using profane language or insulting a white person. Trials were never held for the accused, and those responsible for the lynchings rarely faced criminal charges. Only recently have a majority of these victims — including three from Buncombe County — been formally recognized. On April 26, the Equal Justice Initiative opened the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery. The 6-acre site houses more than 800 monuments the organization has created, each indicating a county where racial terror lynchings occurred. Fiftyfive of North Carolina’s 100 counties are represented, including seven in the westernmost portion of the state: Avery, Buncombe, Haywood, Macon, Polk, Rutherford and Watauga. Founded in

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1989, the Equal Justice Initiative conducts research, does educational outreach and provides legal representation to inmates who have been illegally convicted or unfairly sentenced. In its first three months, the memorial hosted nearly 100,000 visitors, notes Jonathan Kubakundimana, a program assistant at the nonprofit. Students and scholars from Asheville, as well as representatives of several religious organizations here, are among those who have made the trip. Meanwhile, the nonprofit has also created replicas of the monuments, which it will make available to all the counties in question beginning next year. Many of the Ashevilleans who have visited the memorial maintain that claiming Buncombe’s monument would be a significant step toward addressing our region’s part in this country’s history of racial violence while also serving as an educational tool for confronting present-day injustices with ties to the Jim Crow South.

On Aug. 1, a contingent from the Christine W. Avery Learning Center, an Asheville-based educational nonprofit, arrived in Montgomery. Besides visiting the memorial, the 21 students and 10 adults explored the Equal Justice Initiative’s nearby sister facility, The Legacy Museum. Subtitled “From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration,” it occupies the former site of a warehouse for slaves. The group also toured Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum, which stands at the place where she was arrested. Parks’ refusal to surrender her seat on a public bus to a white person triggered the 1955-56 Montgomery bus boycott, a landmark civil rights era protest. Learning Center co-founder Terrell Morton says the visits constituted “an eye-opening moment” and a “revelatory experience” for the students in a number of ways. Some lynching victims, they found, were only 7 or 8 years of age. A few students even recognized their own last names among the murdered. And all of them said they understood the significance of the Buncombe County monument. “It made the experience a lot more meaningful for them, because they were drawing connections to their name, to the place, to the ages of the people, to the stories,” says Morton. For 15-year-old Lanaysia Hollibur, the visit was nothing short of shocking. “It was not what I pictured in my head,” she explains. “I was hurt knowing that my ancestors had to go through that to get me to where I am today.” Anticipating such reactions, Morton, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Missouri who serves on the Learning Center’s board, had enlisted fellow academics with related backgrounds to accompany the group. Those chaperones, he notes, helped students “unpack their experience, as well as begin to talk about what those experiences meant to them and how it helped shape how they understand their racial or their gender or their American identity.” Hollibur’s 14-year-old cousin, Kayla Burrell, who also traveled to Montgomery, feels it’s important for Buncombe County to claim its replica monument. “I think they should do it to give people information that they

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In her 2009 book, Lynching and Spectacle: Witnessing Racial Violence in America, 1890-1940, Amy Louise Wood acknowledges that not all lynchings occurred in the South and not all the victims were African-American men. Nevertheless, notes the author, a history professor at Illinois State University, “The vast majority of lynchings at the turn of the century took place in former slave states,

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and the overwhelming majority of those were perpetrated against black men. Even more important here, most Americans at the turn of the century understood lynching as a Southern practice and as a form of racial violence that white mobs committed against African-American men.” The South, the author continues, “was widely considered to be, as H.L. Mencken deemed it, ‘the lynching belt,’ a reputation that many white Southerners eventually struggled to disavow.” In part, Wood attributes the violence to an overwhelming fear of a dramatically changing social landscape around the turn of the last century. New industries, such as logging and turpentine, were popping up, and commercial markets were expanding. This new social order, writes Wood, “most threatened white dominance, as urban space and establishments brought whites and blacks together in new kinds of interactions and exchanges, and as many African-Americans came to expect the same legal and civil rights accorded to whites.”

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may not know,” says Burrell, “to show others that this is what our ancestors had to go through.” Morton agrees. The replica, he believes, would be a powerful tool to educate the community about a period in American history that’s often ignored. “When you talk about brutality like lynching and name lynching as murder — and you show the horrors of that murder, in terms of there being no age boundary for people that were lynched and [the fact that] there were actual parties that took place around lynchings — it creates a different conversation,” he says.

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STUDENTS AND TEACHERS: On Aug. 1, a contingent from the Christine W. Avery Learning Center, an Asheville-based educational nonprofit, arrived in Montgomery. Photo by Terrell Morton

To combat change, Jim Crow laws were passed across the South. A recently released report by the Equal Justice Initiative titled “Lynching in America: Confronting the Legacy of Racial Terror” states that between 1885 and 1908, “All 11 former Confederate states rewrote their constitutions to include provisions restricting voting rights with poll taxes, literacy tests and felon disenfranchisement.” The report goes on to note, “The ratio of black lynching victims to white lynching victims was 4 to 1 from 1882 to 1889, increased to more than 6 to 1 between 1890 and 1900, and soared to more than 17 to 1 after 1900.” And though lynchings were less common outside the region, the report also points out that Northerners contributed to the dehumanization of AfricanAmericans through academic studies and theories that claimed “black men were dangerous subhumans predisposed to rape.” In response to this ingrained fear and sense of social vulnerability, whites lashed out. Lynching spectacles, writes Wood, “generated and even coerced a sense of racial superiority and unity among white Southerners across class, generational and geographic divisions. The rituals of lynching themselves, in their torturous dehumanization of black men, enacted and embodied the core beliefs of white supremacist ideology, creating public displays of bestial black men in visible contrast to strong and commanding white men.” On Jan. 26, 1922, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Dyer antilynching bill. By December, however, Southern Democrats in the Senate had successfully filibustered the bill. The following year, notes Darin Waters, an associate professor of history at UNC Asheville, the first National Flag Conference was held in Washington, D.C. Even as the Senate was failing to pass legislation to protect the lives of African-Americans, this conference, Waters points out, “was adopting guidelines about how the American flag was supposed to be treated, as if it was this living, breathing thing.” Despite the bill’s failure, however, anti-lynching committees continued to form. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, founded in 1910, led the way with its ongoing campaign. Such activism played a major role in shifting public perception of these heinous acts. Meanwhile, the Great Migration, roughly spanning the years 1916-70, saw nearly 6 million black Americans leave the South in search of work and better

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COME TOGETHER: In July, 39 members of six local religious organizations caravaned to Montgomery. They included, from left, Katherine Laveck, the Rev. Kim Buchanan, Barbara Bassler, Yolanda Adams, Alice Martin-Adkins and Ron Katz. Photo by Thomas Calder living conditions. This huge shift also had an impact on lynching: As the African-American population declined in the South, so did the number of lynchings. “In 1952, for the first time since the Tuskegee Institute began tabulating records in 1882, a full year passed with no recorded lynchings in the United States,” the report notes. But as lynchings dwindled, capital punishment soared. “As AfricanAmericans fell to just 22 percent of the South’s population between 1910 and 1950, they constituted 75 percent of those executed in the South during that period,” the report goes on to state. And today, “African-Americans make up less than 13 percent of the nation’s population, but nearly 42 percent of those currently on death row in America are black, and 34 percent of those executed since 1976 have been black.” WHITE PRIVILEGE In July, 39 members of six local religious organizations — First Congregational United Church of Christ, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, the Baha’is of Asheville and Western North Carolina, Carolina Jews for Justice, Congregation Beth HaTephila and Jubilee! Community — caravaned to Montgomery. And like the Learning Center students, these people grappled with the disturbing information presented at the memorial and museum. Ron Katz of Jubilee and Carolina Jews for Justice says the journey was part of a concerted effort by these organizations to confront racism, both as it existed in the past and as it continues to exist. A key component, he notes, is white community members’ willingness to simply listen. “Sometimes you hear this term ‘white savior mentality,’

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where we think we know how to save communities,” he explains. “The key for us is not to be looking at saving anything. Our role is to be a participant.” For others in the group, the visit sparked conversations about white privilege. “In my own journey, I recognize that the privilege of white privilege is not having to think about my race,” says the Rev. Kim Buchanan of First Congregational. “That’s what the privilege is.” Barbara Bassler of St. Mark’s Lutheran believes that one of the major hurdles in addressing white privilege within the white community is a sense that by acknowledging this inherent advantage, it somehow denigrates individual accomplishments. But white privilege, she maintains, “doesn’t mean you didn’t play hard on the field: You just have to understand who built the field for you.” Since returning from their trip, group members have expressed an interest in finding Buncombe’s replica monument a permanent home here. But they’re emphatic that they want to work in partnership with members of Asheville’s African-American community, rather than taking the lead. “We need to combine our resources,” says Yolanda Adams, First Congregational’s ministry coordinator. “We need to help each other.”

the 6-foot-tall steel slabs. Currently, he explains, “We’re gathering information and encouraging communities to build coalitions. We want this to be something that … the whole community can be a part of.”

Still, Kubakundimana expects the pieces to be available to interested communities by early next year. And once placed in counties nationwide, he hopes the replicas will shed light on current issues as well as on the past. “We really do believe that this history we’re talking about is something that’s connected to who and where we are today,” he explains. “And the issues in our nation around racial bias and poverty, we think, can’t be fully understood outside of the context of our history of racial and economic injustice.” The organization also believes that the impact will be cumulative. “Over time,” the website states, “the national memorial will serve as a report on which parts of the country have confronted the truth of this terror and which have not.” PAINFUL QUESTIONS Sasha Mitchell, chair of the joint city/county African-American Heritage Commission, thinks every

MAKING IT WORK Before communities in WNC and elsewhere can claim their monuments, however, the Equal Justice Initiative needs to work out some logistical and procedural issues. Kubakundimana, the nonprofit’s program assistant, says guidelines are still being developed, along with the methods and costs of transporting

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LEAVE YOUR MARK: Asheville entrepreneur DeWayne Barton, who serves on the AfricanAmerican Heritage Commission, supports the idea of obtaining Buncombe County’s replica monument but worries that a singular focus could overshadow the commission’s long-standing goal of placing historical markers in the East End, Shiloh and Burton Street neighborhoods. Photo by Thomas Calder

county should recognize and claim its monument. But she worries that the nation’s long-standing tradition of ignoring its past might influence how these replicas are received. “There is an awful disconnect between the reality of race in America and the education that people get about it,” she maintains. In both the white and black communities, she expects, some people will ask, “‘Why do we have to talk about that?’ ... I know it’s uncomfortable, but it’s something that has to be looked at.” Such objections, argues Morton from the Learning Center, miss the larger and more powerful narrative. “Just as much as the lynching memorial and museum are about the grotesque horrors of lynching, they also speak to the determination, the persistence and the capabilities of the black people who lived during that time, who were able to survive during that time and even thrive beyond that time.” But even in the black community, not everyone is equally supportive of the project. Asheville entrepreneur DeWayne Barton, who also serves on the African-American Heritage Commission, worries that a singular focus on the monument could overshadow the commission’s longstanding goal of placing historical markers in the East End, Shiloh and Burton Street neighborhoods. Once that’s been accomplished, says Barton, all interested parties should come together in a collabortive effort to bring Buncombe’s replica home. And however the project unfolds, the end result cannot be simply a pat on the back, says local poet Robert “Zack” Zachary, who created the Dialogue Cafe at Firestorm Cafe & Books. “One of the psychoses of America is that we are pushed to forgive and forget,” he maintains, adding that the replica should be seen as an ongoing conversation piece that helps guide the community to a better overall understanding. In his view, it’s not about guilt and it’s not about horror: It’s about raising questions and finding solutions. “What can we do?” he says. “That is the good question.” CORE VALUES Waters, the UNCA professor, also made the trip to Montgomery in June. After walking the perimeter of the area where the monuments are displayed, he gradually descended, guided by the site’s layout, until he finally stood beneath them, looking up. Like many others who spoke with Xpress, Waters considers the memo-

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rial a well-designed, thought-provoking and important contribution to a period of our nation’s past that, for too long, has been swept under the rug. At its core, Waters believes the memorial and its monuments raise fundamental questions about how we, as a country, view human existence. “I think life is sacred,” he explains. “People’s lives have value. But we have to ask ourselves, do we really believe that? If we do, then not only must we ask what did those individuals who were lynched lose in the process, but what parts of ourselves did we lose. And we did lose something, because the people who participated in that particular moment in time were losing a part of their humanity — and that, by default, has been handed down in the way that we actually value human life itself. “I think it’s basically the argument that Martin Luther King Jr. tried to make in his ‘Letter From a Birmingham Jail,’” continues Waters. “We are the inheritors of the experience. And we are: There’s no escaping that. … The question becomes what do we do with this inheritance? Are we willing to have a serious and hard conversation, which I believe this memorial asks us to do? … If so, I think something beneficial and constructive can come out of it.” X

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Commissioners grapple with changes to personnel policy

NOT PLEASED: A group of citizens showed up to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting on Aug. 21 brandishing signs calling for a forensic audit and for a Republican takeover of the board. Photo by David Floyd It was an evening of audible scoffs and barely stifled jeers. About a dozen residents calling themselves “angry Buncombe County taxpayers” brought their concerns to the Aug. 21 Buncombe County Board of Commissioners meeting, the second since a new federal indictment brought charges against three former county officials. The residents carried signs calling for the county to conduct a forensic audit and for citizens to vote for Republicans during the upcoming election. “End Democrat corruption,” one of the signs read. “Drain the swamp in Buncombe County.” “We demand a forensic audit,” read another. While a forensic audit was one of the topics of discussion that evening, commissioners spent a larger chunk of the meeting weighing the merits of several amendments to the county’s personnel policy. Commissioners ultimately shot down half the changes proposed by George Wood, the county’s interim manager. ON THE MERITS In a memo to commissioners before the meeting, Wood recommended that the county move to a merit-based system of salary adjustments rather than an automatic cost-of-living adjustment for all employees tied to the consumer price index. Commissioner Ellen Frost argued that doing away with the automatic COLA would hurt county employees. “Employees need security now,” she said. “They were led by a group of thieving schemers. … Buncombe County employees are taxpayers too, 14

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and we need to show them that we have their back.” Wood said a vote to discontinue the COLA would not do away with raises. Most local government institutions, he said, make a decision about raises on a yearly basis rather than instituting automatic increases. “I’m not aware of any other places aside from y’all that have a mandatory COLA,” he said, “and that’s what this is. It’s a mandatory COLA.” Commissioner Mike Fryar said he has been fighting the county on the issue of pay raises for a long time. An acrossthe-board 2 percent raise, for example, disproportionately helps people in the upper echelons of county government, he said. He said he would like to see a system in which county employees at the lower end of the pay scale receive a higher percentage raise than employees at the top end of the pay scale. Commissioner Al Whitesides said he would be more likely to remove the COLA if commissioners had something to replace it with immediately. He said he believes the board will have to reckon with the system in the future. “COLA wasn’t set up for all of the employees,” Whitesides said. “It was set up to pad the pockets of the people at the top. … When you look at the way the county has been run in the past, everything was set up for the people making the most money. That’s obvious with what we’re going through. We have to deal with COLA whether we want to or not.” Despite a 6-1 vote to retain the COLA — with Fryar voting against — the board seemed to agree it would need to reconsider the issue in the future. THE BUCK STOPS HERE The county finance director now reports jointly to the county manag-

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er and the Board of Commissioners; Wood’s proposal would have changed that structure to the manager only. “I don’t think it’s a good system of government to give so much power to the county manager in lieu of the finance director,” Frost said. “We’ve seen what happens with a county manager that has unbridled power and authority. … I want to keep this from ever happening again.” Frost argued that having the finance director report to the commissioners gives the finance director more authority and more leeway to respond to wrongdoing. Commissioner Joe Belcher, however, said the position had become too independent. “I don’t like the current setup where the finance director appeared to be an island out there by themselves and did not have any discipline that I felt could be delivered under the authority of a good county manager,” he said. Commissioners ultimately voted against the proposed amendment 4-3. The county’s new finance director, a position the county is still trying to fill, will report jointly to the board and the county manager. Former Finance Director Tim Flora, who worked for the county for 10 years, resigned effective June 15. ADDITIONAL CHANGES Commissioners also voted 6-1 to make it easier for the county manager to fire an employee accused of a severe offense. Under the previous policy, the county could fire an employee only if the staffer had two previous write-ups and a third pending. “That’s fine on small offenses,” Wood said. “But what if we found that

somebody else was stealing from the county? Do you really want my hands tied that I can’t fire them?” Under this change, Wood said, employees would still be notified of the offense and provided with the opportunity to defend themselves. Frost, who was the only commissioner who voted against the change, said she would like to see a more precise definition of the offenses that would warrant termination upon the first offense. “We just had a manger that did this to people willy-nilly, and that’s what makes me give pause,” Frost said. Wood said it’s ultimately up to the board to control the manager. “If you start having problems where the manager is willy-nilly firing people left and right,” he said, “you have a management problem, and that’s your job to fix that. But you don’t tie the hands of your manager and say, ‘You can’t get rid of somebody who’s doing something seriously wrong.’” An amendment designed to protect the internal audit director from retaliatory action by county officials received the commissioners’ unanimous support. The change transfers the responsibility for disciplining the internal auditor to the county audit committee. IN OTHER BUSINESS • Commissioners discussed conducting a forensic audit of the county’s finances following allegations of fraud against former County Manager Wanda Greene and other former county officials. The board did not take any official action, but commissioners seemed to agree that the county should wait until an ongoing federal investigation wraps up before moving forward with an audit of that magnitude. • After listening to presentations from the two finalists before the meeting, the board selected executive search firm Slavin Management Consultants to identify candidates and select finalists for the open county manager position. • Asheville resident Sydney Bach asked board Chair Brownie Newman, who is a partner and founder of Headwaters Solar, to recuse himself from voting on a lease of county-owned land to Duke Energy for the purpose of constructing a solar farm. Newman said he would not benefit financially from the project and voted on the agenda item. The lease passed unanimously.

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City responds to downtown parking woes with 50 Asheland lot

COMING SOON: The city of Asheville has leased a surface parking lot at 50 Asheland Ave. to offer monthly parking for those who work downtown. The lot will offer 100 spaces at a monthly rate of $70 per space. Photo by Virginia Daffron Low supply, high demand — Asheville’s downtown businesses may prefer that economic situation for their own wares, but not for parking. Members of the Asheville Downtown Association and Downtown Commission have long advocated for more spaces in the heart of the city to meet their need for affordable employee parking. Now, the city of Asheville has announced a new monthly parking program to help satisfy that demand through a lot at 50 Asheland Ave. Slated to open on Saturday, Sept. 1, the lot will offer 100 new spaces with 24/7 access at $70 per month. Meghan Rogers, executive director of the Asheville Downtown Association, welcomes the additional capacity. She says that the lack of parking creates issues for downtown employees, as well as anyone who drives to downtown Asheville for their everyday needs. “Our members have consistently identified a need for parking in downtown as one of their top concerns for at least 10 years,” Rogers says. She also points to last year’s Downtown Census survey, conducted in partnership with the Downtown Commission’s Local Living Economy Subcommittee, which found that 33 percent of business owners had their employees park at on-street meters.

“This is not ideal for a couple of reasons: One, it puts the employee at risk for parking tickets if they are unable to continuously feed the meter,” Rogers explains. “[The second is that] it doesn’t allow for necessary turnover of the parking spot, which is helpful for businesses.” Employees who could find street parking, however, were nearly matched by those with less luck. In the same survey, another 32 percent of respondents answered the question of “Where do your employees park?” with “They can’t find parking; this is a common complaint.” For the next couple of years, at least, downtown businesses will have another option. The city of Asheville will lease 50 Asheland from its current owner, the Harold A. Talbert Jr. Revocable Living Trust, with an opportunity to purchase the property after the two-year lease term if the project proves successful. Not including insurance or site maintenance such as new lighting and repainted lines, the city will pay approximately $5,833 per month for the lot. Angela Bausola, manager at Ben’s Tune Up at 195 Hilliard Ave., spoke favorably about the long-term

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N EWS parking program and its future in Asheville. “It [parking] is a real issue for sure. … I think [the lot is] going to be great for this side of Asheville.” A small portion of the lot will also be used to stage construction for the renovation of the nearby ART station at 49 Coxe Ave., which will begin in early 2019. That project will include platform improvements, as well as a restroom expansion that will add baby-changing tables and multiple new stalls. New solar panels will help power the facility.

Those interested in renting a parking space can contact Parking Services at 828-259-5792. Dana Frankel, downtown development specialist with the city, notes that there is currently interest in over 80 of the 100 available spaces. Potential monthly parkers will be contacted shortly before the lot becomes operational for payment information and to distribute hang tags.

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or by sending an email to disastercustomerservice @sba.gov. Loan applications can be downloaded from www.sba. gov. Applications must be submitted by April 8 for consideration. KUDOS AND HONORS • Kit Cramer, president and CEO of the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, is one of 40 North Carolinians selected as an NC Influencer by the Charlotte Observer, The News & Observer and the Durham Herald-Sun. Cramer and her peers will be surveyed throughout this election year on issues of statewide concern. • Sixteen attorneys with The Van Winkle Law Firm in 25 different areas of law have been named to The Best Lawyers in America 2019. Additionally, one Van Winkle attorney, Mark A. Pinkston, was recognized as “Lawyer of the Year” in bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/ insolvency and reorganization law. Only a single attorney for each specialty and location can be selected to that honor. This is Pinkston’s second year to hold the distinction. • Caroline Knox was also cited as a “Lawyer of the Year” in elder law. Knox has practiced law for 18 years; seven months ago, she launched her own Asheville elder law practice, Knox Law.

• Jonathan W. Yarbrough of Constangy, Brooks & Smith and Prophete, LLP was also named to The Best Lawyers in America 2019 for employment law (management) and litigation (labor and employment). BUSINESS CALENDAR • Sept. 2-9 is Asheville Entrepreneurship Week, a celebration of Asheville startups, innovative businesses and entrepreneurs. Events include the Living Asheville Arts Festival (LAAF), two lunch-andlearn sessions at The Collider, an introduction to the local startup scene, a media panel, TedXAsheville and a tour of four local co-working spaces. For more information, see avl.mx/590 or contact event organizer Emily Breedlove at 828-347-6240 or Emily@HatchAVL.org. • Park Ridge Health will partner with Franklin Covey to present The Five Choices to Extraordinary Productivity on Thursday, Sept. 20, 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in the Virginia C. Boone Mountain Heritage Building at the WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. The event benefits the Henderson County Education Foundation. Tickets are $149 for an individual; team discounts are available. More information and registration at PRHevents.com. X

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‘One of Asheville’s finest citizens’ Irene Hendrick and the Colored Library, 1927-1966

CURIOUS MINDS: Librarian Irene Hendrick checks books out to a group of girls at Asheville’s former Market Street Branch. The photo is believed to have been taken in 1946. The girls are, from left, Kathleen Dixon, Elizabeth Cunningham and Wilma Helen Ray. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville Tourism and the growing shame surrounding the South’s propensity for public lynchings were among the deciding factors in the development of Asheville’s Colored Library. In the Dec.12, 1926, edition of The Sunday Citizen, the paper reported: “Asheville’s conscience began to be disturbed. It saw the handsome Pack Memorial Library rise in all its chaste beauty, and could not forget that no negro could cross its entrance. It told visiting tourists of its friendship for its colored wards, its determination to do the right thing by them and its accomplishments along the line, and stammered a bit when asked what facilities it offered them for reading matter.” The same article implored white residents to donate books to the new venture, stating: “Whether they regard their donation of books as an act of generosity, fulfillment of an obligation … or a contribution of Asheville’s civic advancement, their books will be welcomed by the negroes. They will also [be] appreciated by white people who want Asheville to be able to tell its Northern

tourists that its interest in the black man is not confined solely to keeping his neck out of a noose.” The following year, on April 7, 1927, refreshments were served at the grand opening of the Colored Library, located inside the YMI Building. The evening celebration featured talks by city officials, including Mayor John H. Cathey. The site’s librarian, Irene Hendrick, was also in attendance. Updates on the library’s progress remained scant throughout the 1930s. But by the 1940s, a renewed interest in the space surfaced. On March 14, 1943, The Asheville Citizen offered a detailed account of the library. According to the paper, its total book collection had increased from its initial 1,128 to 5,160. Membership totaled 1,255. Available books included biographies of George Washington Carver, Marian Anderson and Roland Hayes. The location held subscriptions to five newspapers and 10 magazines. With World War II in full swing, the library also had a radio available so patrons could listen to the latest news updates. Weekly displays on war efforts were featured at the site, as well.

“In the near future the librarian hopes to have a display of pictures of Asheville negroes in the armed forces,” the paper wrote, adding that Hendrick’s own son, Robert, served as a lieutenant (and later a captain). By 1946, Hendrick continued work collecting books written by or about prominent African-Americans. “This will teach young people that if other people have been leaders and overcome obstacles, they can, too,” she stated in the July 21, 1946, Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times. Over time, the library’s popularity and collection grew. By July 1950, it contained 6,395 books and subscriptions to 31 magazines and nine newspapers. Meanwhile, membership climbed to 2,243. The following year the Colored Library became part of the city of Asheville’s library system and was designated the Market Street Branch. Eight years later, on June 3, 1959, the branch relocated to 31 Eagle St. and was renamed the Market-Eagle Branch Library. At its opening, Hendrick was honored for her 32 years of service. According to The Asheville Citizen, she was given “a hand-printed scroll in which the board of trustees of City of Asheville libraries recognized in her ‘a blend of intellectual, personal and spiritual qualities that make her one of Asheville’s finest citizens.’” On July 17, 1966, the Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times announced Hendrick’s plan to retire, after 40 years of service. The article included a statement by Anthony Lord, chairman of the library board. Lord stated: “The library and the community will always be indebted to Mrs. Hendrick for her unique contribution and for the long and constructive career she has given us. The MarketEagle Library — in a large sense her creation — has been an agency of great value. Now, with integration of the library system a long-accomplished fact, the Library Board has decided to close the Market-Eagle branch upon Mrs. Hendrick’s retirement. The Pack Library, with its longer hours and larger collection a block and half away, can meet the needs of former Market-Eagle patrons to a very satisfactory degree.” Even after her retirement, Hendrick remained active in the community as a member of the Friends of the Library Auxiliary. She would die on March 26, 1992. Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation as well as antiquated and offensive language are preserved from the original documents. X

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Nevada Brewing Co., 100 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION 828-692-8062, saveculture.org • TH (9/6), 7pm Proceeds from the film screening of Come Hell or High Water, Remembering the Great Flood of 1916 and live music by David Wiseman benefit The Center for Cultural Preservation. Free. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St. FARM TO VILLAGE BENEFIT historicbiltmorevillage • TH (9/6), 6pm Proceeds from this “Farm to Village:

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SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE showingupforracialjustice.org • TUESDAYS, 10amnoon - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY DEFCON 828 GROUP meetup.com/ DEFCON-828/ • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security professionals, students and enthusiasts. Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-3579009, floodgallery.org • THURSDAYS, 11am5pm - "Jelly at the Flood," co-working event to meet up with like-minded people to exchange help, ideas and advice. Free to attend.

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ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB rotaryasheville.org • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE SUBMARINE VETERANS ussashevillebase.com, ecipox@charter.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Social meeting for U.S. Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend. Held at Ryan's Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY 133 Church St., ashevilletoollibrary.org • SA (9/1), 11am-3pm Tool sharpening event. Participants can bring pocket knives, kitchen knives, axes, chainsaw blades, pruning shears, lawnmower blades or any other dull tools that need sharpening. Free.

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FOOD & BEER ASHEVILLE VEGAN SOCIETY meetup.com/ The-Asheville-VeganSociety/ • WE (8/29), 6:30pm - Asheville Vegan Society's Vegan Awareness Week: “Dairy-Free and Fabulous: Why ditching dairy is better for your health and the planet,” presentation by Dr. Amy Lanou. Ticketed vegan cheese tasting following talk. $5. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St.

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FESTIVALS ASHEVILLE VEGFEST meetup.com/ The-Asheville-VeganSociety/ • SU (9/2), 10am-6pm - Asheville VegFest, vegan food and drink festival with live music, speakers and food and beer vendors. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. LIVING ASHEVILLE ARTS FESTIVAL facebook.com/lexfest/ • SU (9/2), noon9pm - LAAF Festival featuring live music, performances, art and craft vendors, kid's crafts and activities and food vendors. Free to attend. Held on Lexington Ave. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. NORTH CAROLINA APPLE FESTIVAL 828-697-4557, ncapplefestival.org • FR (8/31) through MO (9/3) - Street fair with live music, entertainment, arts & crafts, local apple growers selling apple products, children’s activities, vendors and the King Apple Parade. Free to attend. Held at Historic Downtown Hendersonville, 145 5th Ave E, Hendersonville SMOKY MOUNTAIN FOLK FESTIVAL lakejunaluska.com • FR (8/31) & SA (9/1), 5pm - Smoky Mountain Folk Festival, traditional music and dance performances by fiddlers, banjo players, string bands, ballad singers, buck dancers and square dance teams. $14/$12 advance/Free under 12. Held at Lake Junaluska Conference & Retreat Center, 91 North Lakeshore Drive, Lake Junaluska

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS A-B TECH MISSION HEALTH CONFERENCE CENTER 16 Fernihurst Drive, 828-398-7900, abtech.edu • TH (8/30), 6pm Public input session for the search for the next Buncombe

County Manager with District 3 Commissioners Joe Belcher and Robert Pressley. Free. CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, 828-692-6424, myhcdp.com • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10. INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC Indivisible-sylva.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm -General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva SOUTH BUNCOMBE REPUBLICANS • SA (9/1), 2-5pm - South Buncombe Republican Party and the Asheville Tea Party meet and greet for the Buncombe

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KIDS APPALACHIAN ART FARM 22 Morris St., Sylva, appalchianartfarm.org • SATURDAYS, 10:30noon - Youth art class. $10. APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM 650 Maple St, Hendersonville, AVMRC.com • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am2pm - Open house featuring operating model trains and historic memorabilia. Free. ASHEVILLE TENNIS ASSOCIATION avltennis.com/ • Through SA (9/15) Open registration for beginner plus and intermediate tennis clinics for ages five to 17 from SU (9/9) to SU (9/30) at Aston Park Tennis Center. Registration required: avltennis.com. $30-$40.

ASHEVILLE YOUTH CHOIRS ashevilleyouthchoirs.org • TH (8/23) & TH (8/30), 4-6pm - Open audition for students in grade K-12. See website for full guidelines. Held at Academy for the Arts, 5 Oak Street BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 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. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - "Mother Goose Time," storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • WE (9/5), 4-5pm - After school art activities for ages five and up. Registration required: 828-250-4738. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road CELEBRATION SINGERS OF ASHEVILLE 828-230-5778, singasheville.org • TH (8/23), & TH (8/30), 5:30-6:30pm - Open auditions. See website for full

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BY SUSAN FOSTER susanjfosterphd@gmail.com If you feel your life is going in circles, perhaps you might benefit from a different kind of circular motion — walking a labyrinth. Chuck Hunner, founder of the Asheville Labyrinth Society, says walking a labyrinth can have profound effects, creating healing in anyone who’s open to it. “I believe one of the ways labyrinths heal is that they allow us to be calm and even peaceful in the face of virtually any trauma,” he explains. The Rev. Lauren Artress, an Episcopal priest who founded the California-based nonprofit Veriditas, defines a labyrinth as “a spiritual tool that has many applications in various settings. It reduces stress, quiets the mind and opens the heart. It is a walking meditation, a path of prayer and a blueprint where psyche meets Spirit.” The nonprofit says it aims to inspire “personal and planetary change and renewal through the labyrinth experience.” According to Veriditas, labyrinths are not to be confused with mazes, which can have more than one entrance and offer multiple choices of paths. Labyrinths, on

the other hand, consist of a single circuitous path from the outer edge into the center and back out again, with no dead ends or wrong turns. Found in many different cultures and religions over the past 5,000 years, they typically contain five, seven or 11 circuits (concentric rings the path traverses). One of the best-known labyrinth patterns is an 11-circuit medieval design found in Chartres Cathedral in France. Closer to home, Hunner creates both permanent concrete labyrinths and portable models in a variety of designs. His most recent project, completed in early July, is a seven-circuit “Chartres essence” design painted on canvas. The new piece, he notes, will enable him to lead more indoor walks in schools, medical institutions and churches. Beyond that, however, Hunner sees his creations as part of his legacy: “The labyrinths I’m making will be here long after me and create peace in the world.” WALKING WISELY When Johanna Manasse was planning to move to the Asheville area, her main criterion for a house was that it have a yard flat enough to accommodate a labyrinth. Manasse found such a prop-

erty in Weaverville and constructed a seven-circuit “Paths of Peace” labyrinth using river rocks and sand. With the help of a friend, she and her husband completed it in time for her birthday in June. “I was building this labyrinth so I would have access to it whenever I yearned for it, which is daily — getting quiet within myself, listening in a purposeful and intentional way.” Manasse says she’s benefited from walking the sandy circuits in her bare feet. “There’s the earthing concept that we’re finally beginning to acknowledge, about how there’s an energy force between us and the earth. We’ve become so separated from the earth, so disconnected from it. … Touching Mother Earth creates that magnetic energy field which exchanges our negative energy in a way that revitalizes and re-energizes us. “I’ve certainly noticed, since I’ve been barefoot walking the labyrinth, my energy has increased,” she notes. “I’m not as lethargic and tired at the end of the day. My attitude is better, too.” But the benefits, says Manasse, don’t stop there. “It’s been a great problemsolving tool, because the turns in the labyrinth … allow you to get out of your

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W ELL NESS analytical [side] and enter into your more intuitive side. The turns you make in the course of trying to solve a problem create a balance between your left brain and your right brain, which allows for a more expansive outlook. It allows me to … bring forth a solution that wouldn’t have occurred to me if I hadn’t been in a receptive state of mind.” Hunner concurs. “When I’m calm … my intuition is more available to me,” he says. “When I’m focusing on … a solution to a problem or trying to find an answer to a question, I want to be calm, for my experience is that I think more clearly.” Labyrinths can also be helpful for those seeking to release painful feelings, says Manasse. After walking her labyrinth, she recalls, one woman said she’d been able to let go of a longstanding hurt and gain a renewed sense of spiritual connection. Hunner says he’s often walked labyrinths asking for anger to be taken away. “It allows you to go back into your life with a different way of looking at it. Releasing the anger allows compassion to be present.” Manasse, meanwhile, remembers a powerful experience she had at a time when she was struggling with how to help her son, who was heavily involved with drugs. “I was heartbroken and very troubled that I had done all I could, but I didn’t seem to have an impact on what he was doing and couldn’t prevent the course of action he was taking,” she recalls. “One day I was so burdened, I went into the labyrinth and cried and cried, asking for guidance. A very clear sentence popped into my head: ‘Don’t worry about [him]. He will be taken care of. It’s not for you to do so. Just remember that he is a child of God and you are a child of God and all will be well in the end.’” Manasse says the peace and assurance she received enabled her to let go and “allow the greater universe to take it on and do what was needed.” Her son is no longer on drugs, she adds, and is making his way in the world. “To receive that kind of message when you’re in the depths of despair and feeling you have no control over anything,” she says, “is one of the things the labyrinth gives when you are most in need.” HEALTHFUL HABIT Labyrinths, says Hunner, can play a part in physical as well as emotional healing. “This human body of mine is self-repairing,” he points out. “If I can stay calm and stay out of the way of the natural systems in my body, it will 22

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PATH OF PEACE: Weaverville resident Johanna Manasse constructed a labyrinth with river rocks and sand in her own backyard so she could walk it daily. Photo courtesy of Manasse heal itself, or at least allow me to find doctors or techniques that will facilitate my healing.” Black Mountain resident Marty Cain says a labyrinth “rebalances whatever is out,” adding that she’s witnessed many cases of physical improvement. “For some people, their hearing improves; for other people, their vision improves,” says Cain, who co-founded The Labyrinth Society, a U.S.-based nonprofit. One man with Parkinson’s disease, she recalls, could barely walk; he struggled into the labyrinth but walked out from the center in full stride. In another case, she recounts, a man who was scheduled for a heart bypass walked the labyrinth and stayed inside it for a while, holding onto a tree. “I asked him if he was OK, and he said yes,” she notes. “Two weeks later he called to say his doctor had told him he no longer needed a bypass.” Accounts of such dramatic healing doesn’t happen for everyone, she concedes, adding, “When you get to the center [of the labyrinth], you’re heard by heaven and earth, so ask for what you need, for what you want. And if it’s in your highest good, it will probably show up, because heaven and earth will heal you. The energetic connection [between them] is a portal, a vortex — basically a double helix, like the caduceus, the healing symbol, where the spiral goes up and the spiral comes down, and they intertwine.” RESEARCHING THE LABYRINTH EFFECT To date, most of the health and wellness benefits that proponents ascribe to labyrinth walks are anecdotal, since there

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have been few formal studies. Georgiabased researcher John W. Rhodes, the former chair of The Labyrinth Society’s research committee, has conducted most of the work that has been done. Rhodes says he was influenced by Artress’ book Walking a Sacred Path, which considers labyrinth walks a kind of walking meditation. “So if it is,” wondered Rhodes, “does it elicit the same kinds of effects as other forms of meditation?” To find out, he developed the Labyrinth Walk Questionnaire, which can be found on The Labyrinth Society’s website. Ten questions ask participants to rate their experiences before and after a walk on a six-point scale. This approach, Rhodes explains, is called “action research,” as it occurs under live conditions rather than in a controlled environment. And the research design, he continues, is “nonintrusive” so as not to interfere with the subject being studied: To avoid creating expectations, it doesn’t ask questions about the walk beforehand. Between 2006 and 2011, Rhodes reports, he compiled data from 34 labyrinth events involving 534 respondents on three continents. Here’s what they said: More relaxed: 81 percent More peaceful: 80 percent More reflective: 78 percent More centered: 76 percent Less stressed: 70 percent Less anxious: 67 percent Less agitated: 64 percent “Most of the reported health benefits of walking the labyrinth,” Rhodes concludes, “come from the meditative effect.” Still, he cautions, any alleged effects on the brain are purely speculative at this point, because there have been no controlled studies measuring brain waves. A portable EEG device called a

“mind mirror” can take such measurements, he adds, but the cost of undertaking such studies is prohibitive. Rhodes, however, expanded on his own findings in a 2008 article in the online journal Labyrinth Pathways, titled “Commonly Reported Effects of Labyrinth Walking.” “It appears that walking … the labyrinth might enable a set of physical responses (increased calm, quiet and relaxation; decreased agitation, anxiety and stress) that allows for emergence of a set of ‘state of mind’ responses (increased levels of centeredness, clarity, openness, peace and reflection). In turn, these ‘state of mind’ responses might increase one’s receptivity to flashes of intuition, hunches, nudges from one’s ‘inner voice’ and other types of insight regarding one’s problems, issues or concerns.” GOING MAINSTREAM Despite the anecdotal nature of many claims and the paucity of controlled scientific studies, labyrinths are growing in popularity as healing tools in a wide range of institutions, including hospitals, schools, churches, wellness centers, spas and even prisons. Labyrinth historian, author and builder Jeff Saward, an administrator and researcher for the WorldWide Labyrinth Locator, said in an email that interest in labyrinths can be traced to the 1960s and ’70s but really took off 20 years ago. “Since that time, more labyrinths have probably been built around the world (especially in the U.S. and Canada) than at any time in their previous history,” he noted. “When the Labyrinth Locator website launched in 2004, we had just under 1,000 public labyrinths listed. Now we have over 5,600 listed in around 85 countries.” Why are so many labyrinths popping up in the absence of solid scientific evidence concerning their effectiveness as healing tools? “The proof is in the pudding,” says Hunner. “Why would people invest [up to] $100,000 in an installation of a labyrinth if there wasn’t value in it? People are finding great value in labyrinths, and they are putting their money where their mouths are.” Across the country, notes Hunner, hospitals are common sites for labyrinth installations. That includes two local facilities — Solace Center hospice and Mission Hospital,

which has “a delightful little carpet labyrinth” in its chapel. Butch Stillwell, Solace Center’s chaplain, says its wheelchair-accessible labyrinth, which consists of brick paths with a marble fountain in the middle, “is a very healing place.” A lot of patients and family members, as well as staff, use it and report that it’s helpful, he says. “It gives them a time of letting go of any burdens as they walk around, spend time in the center for listening and praying, and then walk back out. … It quiets the mind and gentles the heart.” But the World-Wide Labyrinth Locator lists nine other labyrinths in Asheville, including one at UNC Asheville below Ramsey Library and another in the River Arts District next to the Cotton Mill Studios. Several are located on the grounds of churches, and there are still more in neighboring communities. Manasse hasn’t listed her labyrinth on the site but says she’s open to email requests to walk it. “The

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BY KIM DINAN dinankim@gmail.com “It was pure wreckage,” says Chip Freeman about the aftermath of the May 30 Swannanoa River flood that swept through Azalea Park and the John B. Lewis Soccer Complex in East Asheville. But Freeman, a lifelong Asheville resident and owner of GemFinding, a mining tour company that operates in Hiddenite, has been trying to make the river a little less wrecked through a series of cleanup days in the wake of the extensive damage. Freeman didn’t expect to encounter such a severe situation. His plan to tidy up the Swannanoa River was already in motion before Asheville endured its rainiest May on record, with 14.68 inches of total precipitation. Instead, he was simply hoping to give back for his countless hours spent fishing, swimming and boating on the river when he was a kid in East Asheville. “It’s never been a superclean river,” says Freeman. “I felt it would be a great thing to bring people together and recognize the fact that if you use and enjoy the river, then you should help clean the river.” In March, Freeman applied for a $1,000 grant from The Pollination Project, a California-based nonprofit that encourages young people to make a difference in their communities. He received the grant in April and planned to start work that month, but cold weather forced him to cancel his first cleanup date. He rescheduled the event for May — and then it started raining.

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ROLLING OUT THE RIVER: Volunteer Lincoln Hamer with debris removed from the Swannanoa River during a GemFinding cleanup. Photo courtesy of GemFinding AFTER THE RAINS The initial rain event, which began on May 15 and continued through May 20, caused flash flooding and damage across several counties in Western North Carolina. The region was still drying out when Subtropical Storm Alberto brought even more rain to the area from May 24-31. Gov. Roy Cooper declared a state of emergency for Western North Carolina on May 30, and on Aug. 8, U.S. Sens Thom Tillis and Richard Burr both sent a letter to Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator

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Brock Long supporting the governor’s request that President Donald Trump declare the rains a major disaster at the federal level. Freeman’s own response began about a week after the rain stopped, when he headed down to the Swannanoa River for his first cleanup. “We were working right around the soccer fields on Azalea Road, and everything got wrecked,” says Freeman. “There was trash everywhere you looked.” The current was still strong, so Freeman and his volunteers could only pull trash and debris from the riverbanks. Even with that limitation, he

estimates that the group removed 50 to 100 bags of refuse from the area. Freeman used the grant money he received from The Pollination Project to buy kayaks, and during the second and third cleanup events, he and his volunteers used the boats as garbage floats. “We fill the kayaks until they are full, and then we make a pile of trash on the bank,” explains Freeman. Those kayaks held the full gamut of debris: Volunteers have removed beer cans, soccer goals, glass bottles and jars, pieces of cars, tires, port-apotties and even a section of someone’s front porch. “You imagine it, and we’ve picked it out of there,” says Freeman.

Beautiful Plants & Unique Gifts COMPLEX PROBLEM Freeman has partnered with RiverLink to make sure the trash that is pulled from the river is properly disposed of. Recyclables get separated from the rest of the debris, then the N.C. Department of Transportation provides trash bags and picks up the piles after each cleanup. One of the biggest projects the cleanup crews have tackled on previous dates, Freeman says, is removing the turf from the John B. Lewis Soccer Complex that washed into the river during the flood. “There are yards and yards of this green turf carpet that has pretty much carpeted the banks of the river,” he says. “It’s unreal. There’s a full soccer field in the river.” The city, however, disputes Freeman’s observations. “While the May 30 flood resulted in a lot of debris from the surrounding landscape in the Swannanoa River, turf from the J.B. Lewis Soccer Complex remains intact on the field,” wrote city spokesperson Polly McDaniel in an Aug. 22 email. “The fields do require cleanup and remediation, but to our knowledge, the turf is not in the river.”

An Xpress visit to the complex on Aug. 24 did not find any artificial turf along the river’s banks. However, multiple small pieces of torn green turf were strewn on the grass surrounding the fields, casting doubt on the city’s claim that the turf is intact. On the side of the complex facing the river, many fields were partially covered in a layer of muddy silt roughly an inch deep, and real grass had already begun to grow in several locations. At its July 24 meeting, Asheville City Council authorized spending of up to $1.2 million for making repairs to several flood-damaged parks. Of that funding, $875,000 is devoted to cleaning and repairing the currently closed and unusable soccer fields, with an additional $102,000 to repair and replace the Azalea Park playground. The fields had been resurfaced just last year through a $1.1 million grant from the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority to the Asheville Buncombe Youth Soccer Association. Even if the artificial grass on the fields can be remediated, some

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FLOTSAM AND JETSAM: Chip Freeman of GemFinding says he and his volunteers have pulled everything from beer cans to a front porch out of the Swannanoa River. Photo courtesy of GemFinding material may already be lost to the river. Renee Fortner, watershed resources manager for RiverLink, explains that the plastic blades were supported by an infill of sand and small plastic particles. “Unfortunately, those small pieces of plastic do migrate out of the fields. They stick to the bottoms of shoes and get washed around in heavy rain events,” Fortner says. “It is highly likely that the plastic bits get into the Swannanoa River when those fields flood. We know from what is happening in our oceans that tiny bits of plastic are bad for aquatic life.” PITCH IN Freeman emphasizes that, although the recent flooding has done extensive damage to the Swannanoa River, the debris that he and his volunteers are removing is just a magnification of what has happened to the waterway for years. “The Swannanoa is a beauti-

ful river, but people have abused it,” he says. Freeman hopes that the community will rally behind his last two river cleanups, taking place on Saturday, Sept. 1, and Saturday, Sept. 15. He encourages anyone interested in volunteering to meet on those dates at the Azalea Road soccer fields at 10 a.m. “The cleanup depends on how many people we have there to tackle it,” says Freeman. “If it’s a small number of people, we can’t have as big an impact as we want to. You don’t have to come for four hours — if you pick up four or five pieces of trash, you’ve done something.” Even though the work can be daunting, Freeman is driven to keep coming back and cleaning up the river. “I’ve got two children, and I want to set a good example for them,” says Freeman. “I want them to see me doing stuff that I don’t have to do but I do because I love where we live and I love the river.” X

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along with gardening resources and information about WAGS Seed Grants, which provide $300 awards to fund community-focused garden projects. “Come out, walk around with a bunch of people you never met before under one main umbrella of gardening, get a little fresh air, meet some people,” urges Miller. “It’s all about gathering people and sharing a common love.” X

gsmith@mountainx.com Although it nurtures a keen sense of its own history, West Asheville has seen enormous changes in the past 10 years, from Haywood Road’s exploding restaurant and brewery scene to residential construction trends that are incorporating new architecture styles into old neighborhoods. And the West Asheville Garden Stroll wants to celebrate all of it. The annual event marks its first decade on Saturday, Sept. 8, with the theme of “Welcome Old and New,” showcasing the neighborhood just north of Haywood Road bordered by I-240 and Craven Street. “There are a lot of old homes in Asheville and a lot of new homes with small footprints being built on marginal land, infill. And what we’re saying is we embrace it all; we welcome all of it,” says organizer Scott Miller. Designed to pull people off the main drag to explore West Asheville’s residential areas, the 2018 stroll traces a self-guided 2.5-mile loop that invites guests to explore — whether on foot, by bike or by car — 13 gardens cultivated by neighborhood homeowners. Both older homes and new construction will be in the mix, with gardens featuring everything from a handmade cob sweat lodge to an Alice in Wonderland theme. Throughout the tour, various stops will highlight creative rock and water features, eco-friendly and upcycled structures and designs, and pollinator-friendly plantings. The resident gardeners will be on hand at each location to interact with guests and answer questions. Miller notes that admission is free, and organizers encourage families to come out for the event. “My whole thing about this is to get kids involved in gardening. I want them to know that all the food doesn’t just come from Ingles, it doesn’t just magically appear in the grocery story,” he says, noting that some of this year’s featured gardens have chickens, rabbits and fish. Also, he adds, The Hop Ice Cream Café owners, Greg and Ashley Garrison, will have their home on the tour, and when they’ve participated in the past, they’ve offered ice cream for sale. Miller says another aim of the stroll is to promote gardening as a way

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FLOWER POWER: The 2018 West Asheville Garden Stroll celebrates its 10th year with a selfguided tour highlighting both older homes and new construction. Participating gardens will feature everything from upcycled art and cob structures to water and rock installations and pollinator habitats. Photo by Kate Colclaser for people from all walks of life to find common ground. “Maybe you’re from Detroit, and you’re from California, and, oh, you grew up here, were born at Mission Hospital, but we’re all gardeners,” he says. “And it’s funny how immediately that breaks down any sort of barriers. Gardeners don’t care what religion

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A lot has changed for Michael Twitty since he last passed through Asheville. During that visit in 2014, he spent two days creating a Blind Pig Supper Club dinner in which he retraced the steps his enslaved North Carolina ancestors took in preparing their meals. At the time, the culinary historian, historical interpreter and blogger, who writes about food as it relates to his identity as a black, gay, Jewish man, had recently published an open letter to celebrity chef Paula Deen in the Huffington Post addressing the 2013 scandal over her past use of racist language. He invited her to cook a meal with him using 19th-century methods at the Stagville Plantation, a Durham County historic site that once housed over 900 enslaved people. “I want you to walk the grounds with me, go into the cabins, and most of all I want you to help me cook,” he wrote. “If you’re brave enough, let’s bake bread and break bread together at historic Stagville.” Deen didn’t take him up on the offer. But since then, Twitty’s quest for a deeper understanding of Southern heritage through food has fully come into its own. His blog, Afroculinaria, led to a book deal for his 2017 opus, The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South, which documents the history of Southern cuisine through the stories of the enslaved hands that developed it. But the book doesn’t just stop at the Mason-Dixon line. Rather, it hops the pond, following culinary and cultural roots all the way back to West Africa as Twitty traces his own genealogy and his ancestors’ various turbulent paths to America. The Cooking Gene was a finalist for the 2017 Kirkus Prize, and Twitty took home 2018 James Beard Foundation awards for best food writer and book of the year. “For years, I was saying, ‘You’ve got to pay attention to the people,’” he says, describing his initial difficulty in finding a publisher for The Cooking Gene. “And the pushback was always, ‘No, it should be all about the food; it’s

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SOUTHERN EXPOSURE: Food historian and award-winning author Michael Twitty comes to Western North Carolina in early September to lead discussions on Southern culture, cuisine and culinary justice. Photo by Bret Hartman all about the food porn and the pretty shots, the taste, the taste, the taste.’ And I said, ‘No, it really is about the people.’ I’m not the only voice in this conversation, and all those voices together have a resounding shout. A cookbook is great, but I decided not to write a cookbook — they only tell you a part of the story.” PULLING IT TOGETHER Twitty has been invited to tell that story to Western North Carolina audiences at the upcoming Carolina Mountains Literary Festival and UNC

Asheville’s annual Farm-to-Table Dinner on the Quad as well as in the 2018 UNC Asheville Greenfest keynote lecture at Lipinsky Hall. “Twitty’s book and blog are not just about food and recipes,” says Carolina Mountains Literary Festival organizer Kathy Weisfeld. “He is interested in exploring his genetic background, heirloom crops and the history of Southern and Jewish foods as a way to also understand himself. He dug deeply to learn his roots and connect that to his identity and American food culture.” Weisfeld notes that Twitty’s focus on “identity cooking, or how we express our cultural and spiritual val-

ues through food,” complements the theme of this year festival, “Surface and Rise,” which invites “inspiring stories about people facing challenges and crises and the choices they make.” UNC Asheville was also keen on featuring Twitty in its events because of his unique take on food as an element and reflection of society and culture. According to the university’s director of sustainability and Farmto-Table Dinner coordinator, Sonia Marcus, several faculty members, teaching everything from Appalachian literature to the anthropology of social suffering to globalization of taste, expressed interest in hosting Twitty as a speaker. “Twitty is an author who is pulling together so many different threads through time and space to make sense of the foods we now see on our plates in the South and how we have come to think and feel about those foods,” says Marcus. “His willingness to discuss the complicated nature of his intersecting identities — as an African-American, as a chef, as a Jew, as a gay man — is also a huge draw for our campus community which is also increasingly diverse and intersectional.” In order to truly celebrate a culture, it’s important to deeply understand the history and events that forged it. For Southerners, that heritage can be sticky and mired in issues of race and class. Twitty points out that other authors have also been chipping away at revealing the true history of Southern food lately, and it has ruffled some feathers. Last year, Asheville writer Ronni Lundy won the James Beard Foundation Book of the Year award for Victuals: An Appalachian Journey with Recipes, which spotlights the hillbilly diaspora of Appalachia. Also in 2017, Southern Foodways Alliance leader John T. Edge penned his Potlikker Papers: A Food History of the Modern South, which pays homage to the countless unknown poor, rural and often enslaved cooks who developed Southern cuisine. “What really freaked me out was the fact that people came for John T. Edge in a way I’d never thought they would,” says Twitty. “I mean, they literally said to him, ‘How dare you write this book? Go back to telling us how great we are.’ But he wouldn’t back down.” BETWEEN CULTURES The Cooking Gene stands out among other books about Southern heritage due to its scope. It doesn’t rest on the idea of a dish being Southern because it became popular in Charleston or the Piedmont but asserts that Southern

cuisine is a rich and complex stew of African, European and American history. “One of the things that really handicapped us as a people was this feeling of being cultural orphans — not truly African, not truly Western,” says Twitty. “Totally critical and central to what it is to be an American, and yet denied the full privileges and rights and sensibilities of being an American. When I talk to black chefs, do you know what they want to do? They want to reclaim. It’s not about trends, it’s not about cutesy stereotypes on a plate.” Twitty acknowledges that the feeling of being “cultural orphans” brings with it a sense of being ill at ease and without roots. “And to anybody who says, ‘Well, you could change that if you changed your attitude,’ all I can say is, we fought wars for this country, we have died for this country, we have paid our taxes and poured resources into this country, and yet, that sense of exile is unavoidable. At the same time, you have to recognize what a home you’ve made in the South,” he says. “Going back to West Africa, people should look at it like going back down home to the country to see their family.” Twitty has made trips to Africa, but they weren’t just research for his book — they were internal revelations. His travels have provided him glimpses into history that helped him make sense of an upbringing and life in a culture that at times feels disjointed. And those experiences brought with them a heightened sense of purpose. He tells about a particular trip to Ghana: “We went out to the bush, and we saw a trunk on a baobab tree, one of the most important trees in Africa, and it was filled with the skulls of human beings. And those skulls were not just any skulls, they were a family line of grillos, storytellers and bards that went back millennia. And the reason why they bury them in the baobab tree, it’s because they aren’t the same class as the peasants — if you work the land, you go in the land — but the storytellers are the link between the person, the heaven and the earth. They are the ones who tell us what our roots are so that our branches can grow. “So the symbolism of burying them inside the tree, with the roots so deep but the branches pushed to heaven, ever upward, is very powerful and central to many, many West African cultures,” he continues. “So to see that this is where the people that keep the history and the religion go, into the heart of this ancient tree, it reshaped my life.” X

LOCAL EVENTS WITH MICHAEL TWITTY WHAT 13th annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival WHERE Burnsville Town Center 6 S. Main St. Burnsville WHEN The festival features numerous events and workshops ThursdaySaturday, Sept. 6-8, in Burnsville. Twitty will host the festival’s banquet at 7 p.m., Friday, Sept. 7. $35. Banquet was sold out at press time. cmlitfest.org ____________________________ WHAT “One Southern Family” UNC Asheville Farm-to-Table Dinner on the Quad WHERE UNC Asheville Main Quad 1 University Heights WHEN 5:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 4. $28 general admission, $10 for UNC Asheville students. avl.mx/58u ____________________________ WHAT 2018 Greenfest keynote lecture Culinary Justice: Defining a Theory of Gastronomic Sovereignty WHERE Lipinsky Auditorium UNC Asheville 300 Library Lane WHEN 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6. Free. Come early for Sow True Seed’s free Community Seed Swap 5-6:30 p.m. in the lobby. Vegetarian soul food by chef Gene Ettison will be for sale during the swap. Copies of The Cooking Gene will be for sale, and the author will be available for autographs after the lecture. Visit avl.mx/58v for details on the lecture, avl.mx/58y for details on the seed swap.

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tables and table bases. Colorful murals designed by local artists Ian Wilkinson and Gus Cutty decorate the walls. “That’s probably the most surprising part,” Turpin says. Most people, she notes, don’t associate street art with wineries. “We’ll be bringing in grapes within a two-hour radius of Asheville,” she continues. From there, plēb will crush, press then move the grapes to one of its 12 fermentation tanks. “Some will go to barrel, some will stay in the keg and some will maybe become sparkling,” Turpin says. For winemaker and co-owner Chris Denesha, developing relationships with local growers and exploring all varieties of grapes are crucial elements to the business model. “Farmers don’t get paid as much for growing the right grapes in the right places,” he says. “That’s been a pivotal thing for us. If we want good grapes and we want to support our farmers to grow these obscure grapes, we need to pay them.” The winery’s environmentally friendly approach, says Turpin, will help achieve this goal. Rather than bottle and package each new batch, plēb offers its wines straight from the tap. In doing so, it keeps production costs low, “so we’re able to pass those savings along to both the consumer and the grower,” Turpin explains. All of these components — from decor to production — feed into the winery’s friendly and welcoming atmosphere. “It’s just a great place to come and hang out

On Thursday, Aug. 30, Postero will host a benefit dinner for Pisgah Legal Services. “Community fundraisers not only raise important funds for Pisgah Legal’s work, but these collaborations also raise awareness of ways we meet our clients’ critical needs,” says Michelle Spiegel, the nonprofit’s development manager. For Postero’s owner and chef, Jason Reasoner, the event is a way of giving back, both as a business owner and community member. “Really we just want others to get outside of themselves, raise their heads and look around and see what needs doing,” he says. “If we can do that while dishing out some deliciousness, then all the better.” Highlights from the fourcourse, prix fixe menu include scallop escabeche, beef tournedos and Round Mountain Creamery goat cheese angel food cake with roasted peach and bourbon ice cream. The dinner runs 5-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30, at Postero, 401 N. Main St., Hendersonville. The meal is $85 per person. For reservations, visit avl.mx/58g. For more information on Pisgah Legal Services, visit pisgahlegal.org. END-OF-SUMMER CUPCAKE PAIRING Craft Centric Taproom & Bottle Shop will team up with Three Eggs Cakery to bid farewell to summer on Monday, Sept. 3, with a cupcake and beer pairing. Flights will combine four mini-cupcakes with four 5-ounce pours of beer. Pairings include lemonade cupcakes with Asheville Brewing Co.’s Lemon Space Dog; apple pie cupcakes with New Holland Brewing’s Passion Blaster; banana split cupcakes with Prairie Artisan Ales’ Paradise and s’mores mini-cupcakes with The Bruery’s Or Xata. The End of Summer Cupcake Pairing runs noon-8 p.m. (or while supplies last) Monday, Sept. 3, at Craft Centric

Taproom & Bottle Shop, 100 Julian Shoals Drive, Unit 40, Arden. Flights are $18, plus gratuity and tax. For more information, visit avl.mx/58h. GUT HEALTH AND NUTRITION LECTURE Monica Corrado, chef, certified nutrition consultant and certified gut and psychology syndrome practitioner, will offer a free lecture, Reclaim Nutrition to Reclaim Your Health, on Thursday, Sept. 6. She will also offer a two-day workshop on the topic Friday-Saturday, Sept. 7-8, at the Organic Growers School’s fifth annual Harvest Conference at Warren Wilson College. Reclaim Nutrition to Reclaim Your Health runs 6:30-8:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6 at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. The event is free to attend. For more information on the Harvest Conference, visit avl.mx/58j. NORTH CAROLINA APPLE FESTIVAL Apple is king at the 72nd annual North Carolina Apple Festival. A street fair with arts and crafts booths, enter-

tainment and children’s activities will take over Hendersonville’s historic downtown for four days beginning Friday, Aug. 31. The festival runs Friday-Sunday, Aug.31-Sept. 3, at Courthouse Square, Hendersonville. Event times vary. For details, visit avl.mx/58k. COFFEE FOR CHAMPIONS CAMPAIGN SEEKS ROASTERS The Buncombe County Special Olympics launches its third annual Coffee for Champions program in September. Throughout the month, coffee shops, cafes and restaurants in Asheville and Buncombe County will help raise funds and awareness for the Special Olympics. So far, participating shops include Dynamite Roasting Co., Ivory Road Cafe and Kitchen, Vortex Doughnuts, Corner Kitchen, Biltmore Coffee Roasters, Trout Lily Market & Deli and PennyCup Coffee. Co. Businesses can sign up to join throughout September. For details, visit coffeeforchampions. org. X

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by Edwin Arnaudin | earnaudin@mountainx.com

Neighborhood expansion In an alternate universe, Asheville would be gearing up to celebrate the 10th anniversary of one of its first breweries, Nantahala Brewing Co. “We would have come here a long, long time ago,” says brewery founder Joe Rowland. “We looked at Asheville as an opportunity to maybe have a taproom here before we even opened the one in Bryson City because we knew how seasonal [Bryson City] was going to be. “We thought maybe we’d have a real small taproom [in Bryson City] and would use the majority of where our taproom is now out there as production space and then focus on putting a retail presence in Sylva,” he continues. “But we were really looking at Asheville at the time because there was nothing really going on in Sylva.” Rowland ended up starting the brewery in Bryson City, a town he’d visited on family vacations throughout his life and where the then-Charleston, S.C., resident wanted to raise a family. Now Nantahala has made good on its decade-plus interest in Asheville with plans to open its Asheville Outpost in the former Anchor Bar space on Haywood Road. The space, notes Rowland, has a shocking amount of design and aesthetic similarities with the original location. The brewery plans to start pouring its beers at the new venue by the end of August, though the exact date depends on permits. The kitchen should be ready to serve food by mid-September. Nantahala’s previously announced Sylva Outpost remains on target for a late fall or early winter opening. The West Asheville location wasn’t the first place Rowland considered in his most recent exploration of Asheville properties, which dates to early 2016. Being part of the thriving South Slope brewing district held strong appeal, and he came close to finalizing a deal for one of the old industrial auto buildings on Coxe Avenue between Wicked Weed Brewing’s Funkatorium and the Hilliard Avenue intersection. While the site would have fulfilled the needs for the taproom side of the business and provided a sizable outdoor presence, there wasn’t enough space for a kitchen or room to expand in any direction by taking over a next-door property or adding onto the existing structure. South Slope saturation was also an issue, and though Rowland says

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Nantahala Brewing Co. opens Asheville Outpost

REVERE THE BEARD: Nantahala Brewing Co. founder Joe Rowland will make good on a decade-plus interest in Asheville when the brewery’s Outpost opens in the former Anchor Bar space on Haywood Road. Photo by Kate Kickey his industry peers were excited about the potential of having Nantahala as a neighbor, they suggested other places that might be more apt for a brewery of its size. “I just felt like that if we could go to another part of town that maybe was a better fit for us and didn’t have an established large brewery already, that we could maybe have a better shot at having a bigger impact,” Rowland says. “There are other breweries here, obviously, on Haywood, but on day one there’s 26 taps in this place and every single one of them will be filled with our beer, which is kind of an unusual thing.” Eighteen of those taps will be upstairs, featuring many beers that were previously available only in Bryson City, along with additional booths for seating. The pool tables and dart boards in the former Anchor Bar game room have been removed, allowing for a large event space that will host regular live music and a projection screen for sporting events. As is the case at the Bryson City taproom, the other television screens will be consolidated on a single wall to encourage more communal viewing. The downstairs “cellar bar” will feature Nantahala’s two most popular beers — Dirty Girl Blonde and Hazy Mountain IPA — as well as its barrel-aged and sour creations. Racks for barrel-aging will be brought in, all the merchandise and to-go beer will be sold on that level, and

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large murals will adorn the walls there and upstairs. Downstairs will also be the site of a quick-service restaurant where customers order at the counter and runners bring them their food. The menu will be a pared-down version of what’s offered at the Bryson City location, focusing on Southern fusion with offerings in takehome pint glasses, new chef bowl creations each week, small plates, shareable items and a Southern-inspired taco menu. Put it all together, and Rowland is offering something surprisingly rare in Asheville. “Our peers made us very aware that there’s not a whole lot of event spaces that incorporate alcohol, food in-house and a large enough event space to handle more than 20-30 people,” he says. “I didn’t know that, even though I’ve spent a ton of time up here working with the Asheville Brewers Alliance. It’s one of those things that I never really thought about.” Rowland is also mindful of Anchor Bar’s closure after not quite a year of operation. He’s longtime friends with its owner, Jimi Rentz, whose health issues played a significant role in the business’s end. Rowland says the Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria owner has also recognized in their recent discussions that had Anchor Bar been called Barley’s West, it “would have made a huge difference,” but also notes the challenges facing corner bars across the country.

“Breweries have quickly become those public houses and the spaces where people want to hang out,” he says. “Those traditional neighborhood bars are unfortunately suffering as a result.” Rowland has thought carefully about how the downstairs space — which often appeared lifeless from the sidewalk during its Anchor Bar incarnation — could be best used. His strategy is to brand it differently with decor that makes it clear it’s a brewery and to provide distinct reasons to hang out on that level. There will also be a screen at the bottom of the stairs, visible from outside, playing a looping presentation of outdoor sports and nature footage shot by Rowland’s filmmaker friend. It will occasionally kick over to a live feed from the Bryson City location and possibly the upstairs Asheville bar, further enticing pedestrians to venture inside. As for brewing, the basement of the Asheville Outpost has enough room for a potential 1-barrel pilot system, and Rowland will revisit that option in early 2019. But for now, he will stick with keeping primary operations at the sizable Bryson City production facility, whose campus spans nearly 6 acres. “It just makes more sense to us to continue producing all of ours beers in an environment where we can maintain consistency and have all of the technology that we have available,” Rowland says. “It would be really difficult to replicate that anywhere else without spending a pretty huge amount of money.” Likewise carrying the theme of consistency, the 20-30 new hires between the kitchen and prep staff and bartenders and barbacks will be trained by the Bryson City staff. Several bartenders from the flagship location will be at the Asheville Outpost when it opens, and Rowland plans to bring the Asheville staff out to Bryson City to learn what the business is all about. “We really want our staff to understand where we came from and what our brand means, so when they’re sitting behind this bar up in Asheville, they can relate,” Rowland says. Nantahala Brewing Co.’s Asheville Outpost is scheduled to open at the end of August at 747 Haywood Road. Food service is expected to begin in mid-September. For details, look for the brewery on Facebook or visit nantahalabrewing.com. X

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ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT

CARRY THAT WEIGHT

Heavy Mountain Fest spotlights local metal music

BY BILL KOPP bill@musoscribe.com Asheville is known for its thriving folk/roots music scene. But — perhaps especially in recent years — the city has also become an incubator for many other musical styles. With a goal of supporting and spotlighting a particularly thunderous brand of rock, local musician and nascent promoter Ray Worth has launched the Heavy Mountain Music & Beer Fest. Featuring 10 bands, the metal festival takes place Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Mothlight and Sunday, Sept. 2, at The Orange Peel. METALLURGY Worth plays guitar and sings in Bask, his own rock band. And he works at The Orange Peel, which gives him a good perspective on the local music scene. He laughs when he says that he’s put in “eight or nine years of market research” into the viability of a hard rock festival in Asheville. When he moved here a decade ago, Worth notes, hard rock and metal choices came in two flavors: “You saw local bands in 100-capacity rooms, or you could go see Megadeth at The Orange Peel.” There were no venues that booked hard rock for local audiences of 250-500 people, “But I’ve seen this middle market for heavy music grow in Asheville,” he says. Watching venues such as The Mothlight and The Grey Eagle thrive while booking hard-rocking artists who draw those size crowds, Worth felt it was time to mount a venture that would appeal specifically to the local interest in metal.

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CALLING FORTH THE THUNDER: The inaugural Heavy Mountain Fest aims to cultivate the thriving metal scene in Asheville, while drawing a wider audience by booking regional and national acts for the two-day event. Bask, pictured, is one of the local acts on the bill. Photo by Garrett Williams The Heavy Mountain Fest will be held in Asheville, but Worth hopes to attract fans from out of town as well. “It’s structured to draw people from Charlotte, Knoxville, Johnson City and all around,” he says. Worth made a point of crafting a lineup that showcases a wide array of styles: The bill includes two local bands (Bask and Temptation’s Wings) and two other North Carolina acts (Wilmington-based Toke and Green Fiend from Charlotte). The two-night event also features four bands from across the Southeast: Black Tusk (Savannah, Ga.), Inter Arma (Richmond, Va.), Young Widows (Louisville, Ky.) and Tampa, Fla.-based Obituary. Sunday’s lineup includes a pair of acts from California: Exmortus and High on Fire. Worth believes Asheville is ready for a metal festival of this scale. “More bands are being developed locally, and there’s a strong sense of community among them,” he says. “A lot of metal fans are seeing that as well, and they’re going out to shows. And that’s making it all work.” He describes the local audience for his favored brand of rock as “an open-minded metal crowd scene” that appreciates many different kinds of

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metal, from doom/stoner to alternative to avant-garde. With the Heavy Mountain Fest, Worth seeks to introduce that scene to the wider community, and he’s aiming to make the experience rewarding for the artists. “It’s important that each one of the bands walks away from the festival saying, ‘We want to do this next year,’” he says. Planning for a second Heavy Mountain Fest will start “the morning after this one finishes.” Worth adds, “There’s intent to grow, but for this year, it’s important to come out hard, come out quick, come out swinging.” INTO THE MAELSTROM Taking its name from a song by doom/stoner metal band Down, Temptation’s Wings has carved out a distinctive niche for itself. With a sound that’s equal parts theatricality and aggression, the band complements its instrumentation with lyrical and album-art aesthetics that might be termed comic book gothic, like one of Frank Frazetta’s Molly Hatchet album covers come to life.

“We’re into fantasy stuff as opposed to lyrics about everyday life: Lord of the Rings and Conan the Barbarian, and we like Marvel superheroes; sort of comic bookish storytelling,” says guitarist Micah Nix. The band’s lyrics about Vikings and witches are set against hypnotic, bone-crushing riffs and a monstrously precise rhythm section. Temptation’s Wings came together a decade ago, coalescing around the lineup of Nix plus drummer Jason Gardner and bassist Chad Barnwell. Earlier this year, the group added Ryan Fox on bass; Barnwell moved over to guitar. The group released a pair of EPs — 2011’s WarMallet and Legends of the Tusk in 2013 — and debuted a fulllength album, Skulthor Ebonblade, in 2017. “That was designed as a concept album,” says Gardner. A live album, Savage Tales, recorded at The Grey Eagle, will see an official release in September. Though the musicians in Bask — guitarist Worth plus Scott Middleton (drums), bassist Jesse Van Note and Zeb Camp (guitar) — didn’t set out with a particular style in mind, the group’s sound is a hybrid of psychedelia, melodic Southern rock and

CRUSH THE WEAK: Comic-book gothic themes are the specialty of Temptation’s Wings, one of two local acts featured in the stylistically wide-ranging metal festival. Photo courtesy of the artists Americana, with a rafter-shaking bottom end. “We never put ourselves in a box,” says Worth. “We just draw on where we grew up. Most of us were born and raised in the South; it’s in our blood.” Formed five years ago, the quartet has toured Europe multiple times. “Our first show there was in Poland,” Worth recalls. That show was a huge success. “It just blew our minds, and it set the tone for the whole month over there.” To date, Bask has released two albums. American Hollow, from 2014, established the band’s effective combination of mountain music themes (with titles like “Land of the Sky” and “High Mountain Pass”) and a sweeping, cinematic ambiance. Released in 2017, Ramble Beyond is an even more successful effort, melding nuance and thunder while maintaining an Appalachian feel. The album’s cover art is a nod to the legendary Brown Mountain Lights phenomenon. In both cases, the band wrote and recorded the music, delivering a finished product to the label. Worth chuckles when he recalls the reaction Bask got when bringing the American Hollow tapes to the record company. “Whoa. These dudes have only played, like, two shows and they already have a record?” Both albums were created with vinyl releases in mind. “Everything was designed to be enjoyed and listened to on a record player,” Worth says. “That’s why it’s 20 minutes on each side of both records.” Bask is pur-

suing a record deal for its next release, which will be available on vinyl as well. Worth says that Bask focuses on shifting dynamics. He explains: “Bring it down, make it sound a little like the Allman Brothers. And then step it up and sound like [Scandinavian metal heroes] Opeth.” But he notes that those influences are only obvious in hindsight. “We don’t say, ‘This is what it’s going to be like.’ It’s just how we write songs.” Worth adds, “We don’t do a lot of screaming. Just a lot of clean vocals and melodies.” He says that the band’s music appeals to “open-minded metalhead guys … and their girlfriends.” Worth laughs as he recalls some of the reactions his band gets when touring outside Western North Carolina: “‘How long is your set: 3 1/2 hours?’ Or, ‘You’re from Asheville? Where’s your banjo?’” X

WHAT Heavy Mountain Festival heavymountainfest.com WHEN Saturday, Sept. 1, 7:30 p.m. $10 at The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Sunday, Sept. 2, 5 p.m. $35 at The Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Ave. theorangepeel.net

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A&E

by Thomas Calder

tcalder@mountainx.com

WALLED OFF The future looks bleak in local writer (and former Xpress contributor) Jacqui Castle’s debut youngadult, dystopian novel, The Seclusion. The year is 2090. The United States stands in isolation with walls extending across both its northern and southern borders. Population control is the new norm because natural resources are in decline. Meanwhile, homes are monitored by cameras, media outlets do not exist, and information is only available to citizens by the country’s totalitarian government, known as the Board. But there is hope. The book, which Castle intends to be the first in a trilogy, tells the story of Patricia “Patch” Collins and her best friend, Rexx. Both are loyal patriots who work for the Board’s Natural Resource Department. But when the pair discover a collection of forbidden literature, they set out on a quest to uncover the truth about the country’s past. On Tuesday, Sept. 4, Castle will

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Author Jacqui Castle discusses her debut dystopian novel

NEW FORMS: Throughout her career as a freelance writer, Castle has toyed with fiction. But it wasn’t until she began work on The Seclusion that she truly immersed herself in the genre. Photo by Nina Swann

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celebrate the book’s release with a launch party at Malaprop’s. Throughout her career as a freelance writer, Castle has toyed with fiction. But it wasn’t until she began work on The Seclusion that she truly immersed herself in the form. As a mother with two young children, she says the novel-writing process has been “quite a ride.” Along with searching for moments to work on the book, she also had to wrestle with, and eventually overcome, her journalistic inclinations. “I’ll be the first to admit that my first draft really read just like a 350-page information dump,” she says. For inspiration, Castle drew from classic dystopian novels like George Orwell’s 1984 and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451. Meanwhile, contemporary authors such as Patrick Ness, Neal Gaiman and Barbara Kingsolver were influential in her development of the story’s pace and structure. At the book launch, Castle will read from sections of her debut. She will also discuss the popularity of the dystopian genre. “I think we’re all kind of playing with the what-ifs within our own current climate,” she explains. “I think that’s the reason people have become more interested in reading dystopian literature — for that shred of hope even in the direst of circumstances.” That was certainly the case for Castle when she began work on The Seclusion. At the time, it was spring 2016, and the presidential primaries were in full swing. Then-candidate Donald Trump was promising to build a wall along the country’s southern border and have Mexico pay for it. The rhetoric, says Castle, lead her to wonder, “What happens if we go down this road?” The book’s subsequent drafts were penned throughout Trump’s first year in office. Castle says the work has proven cathartic. Unlike journalism, which relies on facts, fiction has allowed her to express her frustrations and fears of the current political climate through her characters. Much of the novel aims to push readers to consider how a nation falls prey to totalitarian rule and what that truly means. What if, for example, “our news was really filtered through our leaders before [we] received it. I think that is one

of the biggest themes in the story,” Castle says. “What does that look like if we lose the ability to really communicate directly with each other and no longer have a free press? Where would that lead us?” In The Seclusion, it leads to a monitored population forced to watch mindless state-run television programs such as “America One: Helping Our Nation Succeed.” Early in the novel, Patch fulfills her patriotic duty by situating herself in front of the screen. Before the show airs, a slogan reminds viewers, “Patriotism is about character — honesty, moral courage, respect and loyalty.” When the program finally begins, Patch is presented with 10 conversation starters to help bring loved ones closer together. Weather, baseball and fashion all top the list. Despite her best efforts, Patch’s mind wanders before the episode’s end. This early disinterest is a hint of things to come. “Her character goes through a pretty big transformation throughout the novel,” Castle explains. “In the beginning, she is definitely someone who follows the leadership and takes everything they say as truth and fact. … She

feels like the outside is this dangerous, treacherous place.” Only after Patch begins to uncover the country’s past does her outlook change. “That’s the main point with her,” Castle continues. “If you’re in this world where everything is oppressed and it’s so bleak, how do you still find your individuality and how do you figure out who you are in a situation like this?” Just as important, the book begs readers to consider the role of the enlightened. Once information is gained, how do you help others knock down the walls they’ve either built or had built around them? X

WHO Jacqui Castle launches The Seclusion WHERE Malaprop’s 55 Haywood St. malaprops.com WHEN Tuesday, Sept. 4, at 6 p.m. Free

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A&E

by Alli Marshall

amarshall@mountainx.com

DREAM WORKS As a child, a recent immigrant to the U.S. and not yet fluent in English, Duy Huynh (pronounced Yee Wun) expressed himself and attracted friends by drawing cartoons and comics. While no longer working in the comic book medium, “I feel like my work is sort of an extension of it because I’m still creating characters and thinking about narratives to go along with [them],” he says. “It’s not Superman or SpiderMan, visually, but there is definitely some fantasy [and] maybe supernatural aspects to it.” Huynh adds, “It’s not necessarily logical at times, but that’s kind of the fun part of painting: You can do whatever you want with it.” The artist will display about a dozen paintings as part of the group exhibition Reverie, which opens at Blue Spiral 1 on Thursday, Sept. 6. Based in Charlotte, Huynh co-owns the Lark & Key Gallery with his wife, Sandy Snead. “Unfortunately for her, she handles all the not-so-fun aspects of the business, and I get to paint,” Huynh jokes. It was Snead, a jeweler as well as a curator and gallerist, who had a booth at Kress Emporium in Asheville and brought Huynh’s work to the attention of Blue Spiral 1 owner John Cram. “I didn’t necessarily choose Charlotte,” the artist says of his base, “but it grew on me.” Huynh’s family fled Vietnam when he was 5; they were among the wave of refugees known as boat people. “We endured a great deal of hardship just to get over here. We were stranded in the ocean for several days. We were brought to different refugee camps in Thailand and the Philippines,” Huynh said on a 2012 AroundCarolina video.

WORLD BUILDING: Charlotte-based, Vietnam-born artist Duy Huynh infuses his work with fantasy, wonder and visual narratives. “It’s not necessarily logical at times,” he says, “but that’s kind of the fun part of painting: You can do whatever you want with it.” Pictured, “Ethos Entanglement,” courtesy of Huynh “At one point I thought, ‘This is, like, the worst family vacation ever.’” The family settled in Southern California for 13 years and eventually relocated to Charlotte “for a change of pace,” Huynh says. That’s how he came to call the North Carolina city home. “People often ask me why don’t I go to New York or bigger cities with more art that’s very established. I kind of like that [Charlotte] is not as established because I feel like I can be part of the growth and the history of it.” Plus, Charlotte does have an increasing Vietnamese community. But, while Huynh hopes to visit his native country again some day, he says

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Duy Huynh captures fantasy and narrative on canvas

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he doesn’t feel compelled to represent his heritage in his paintings. “I want people to see the work for itself, whatever message I’m trying too get across in each piece, rather than people looking at the work and saying, ‘That’s a Vietnamese artist talking about his life,’” he explains. “I’ve been painting for 20 years or so, so there are several pieces that deal with certain aspects of my experience as an immigrant and as a refugee and the sense of displacement.” For example, boats are a recurring image on Huynh’s canvases, as are solo figures. Of the latter he points out: “That’s how I always start with compos-

ing a piece or a narrative — I think of a character and then I think of what … I want people to relate to with that character.” It’s more about a storyline than an expression of isolation or solitude. “I kind of see it as a sign of freedom,” he says. Huynh’s work is dreamy and evocative. He’s returned many times to the image of a woman painting on her own wings. Women traipse across the canvases in comically pitched hairdos that mimic lines of windblown trees. Steampunk-reminiscent figures picnic while floating among a flock of hot air balloons. Women wear dresses of flowers and butterflies or perform circus feats while cranes — another repeating image — swoop nearby. Men play banjos and pianos and hoist umbrellas. They drift over oceans and across fields. In one work, a man falls backward off a ladder toward a canvas painted with a pair of oversized hands poised to catch him. That sense of whimsy has its roots, at least in part, in Huynh’s immigrant experience. “When I was trying to learn English, I would take everything very literally,” he says. “When I’d learn a new word or phrase, I’d visualize what it was. For the longest time, I didn’t know what a corndog was, so I’d picture a little dog with corn.” Instead of being embarrassed by those early misunderstandings, he applies that sensibility — and the resulting visual malapropisms — to his work. “There’s a painting I did called ‘Seahorse Odyssey,’” Huynh says. “I pictured an actual horse as a navy pilot or seaman on a boat.” He adds, “It’s kind of silly, but it can open doors to more thought-provoking [ideas], as well.” X

WHAT Reverie exhibition featuring worked by Duy Huynh, Jim Connell, Eric Serritella and Kirsten Stingle WHERE Showcase Gallery at Blue Spiral 1 38 Biltmore Ave. bluespiral1.com WHEN Thursday, Sept. 6-Friday, Nov. 9 Opening reception Sept. 6, 5-8 p.m.

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A&E

by Timothy Burkhardt

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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS Christy Lynn Barrett and Ryan Schilling have been performing music together for seven years, and their sound has grown and evolved through several incarnations. The most recent is the Christy Lynn Band: “Influenced by the stories of folk music, the deep sorrow of the blues and the free feeling of country and Americana,” according to the group’s bio. The duo — based in Asheville since 2016, after relocating from San Diego — recently played the inaugural installment of the Asheville Opry at the Masonic Temple. On Sunday, Sept. 2, the Christy Lynn Band will take the stage as one of the many musical acts performing at the Living Asheville Arts Festival on Lexington Avenue. As the festival approached, Barrett and Schilling added a third member to the band — fiddle player Kenan Hopkins — and at press time were in the process of recruiting a rhythm section. The lack of a full-time percussionist sometimes leaves guitarist Schilling stuck performing double-duty on the drums. “We used to sort-of split the drum kit,” says Barrett. “Ryan would play half, and I’d play the snare standing up.” They don’t attempt that anymore. These days Barrett focuses on vocals, and if the duo can’t find a drummer for a few sets, Schilling makes a pretty good oneman-band. “Some gigs he’ll have a foot drum and foot tambourine and snare, and then guitar and harmonica, all going at once,” says Barrett, laughing. “He’ll probably be playing the foot-drum at LAAF.”

SINGING A NEW SONG: The Christy Lynn Band, pictured, is one of 20 local acts that will perform at LAAF. The daylong street festival also includes a fashion show, interactive art and much more. Photo courtesy of the band

LAAF SCHEDULE ELECTRIC STAGE • Heather Taylor (folksoul), noon-12:30 p.m. • Christy Lynn Band (Americana), 12:451:30 p.m. • Lisa Zahiya (dance), 1:45-2:05 p.m. • Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 2:30-3:15 p.m. • Doc Aquatic (indierock), 3:30-4:15 p.m. • LOZ (jam-rock), 4:305:15 p.m. • Sirius.B (Gypsy folk funk punk), 5:45-6:30 p.m. • The Freeway Revival (rock), 7-8 p.m. • Supatight (funk), 8:309:30 p.m. WALNUT STAGE • Seven and a Half Giraffe (punk), 12:151 p.m. • Nick Gonnering (indiefolk), 1:20-2:05 p.m.

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Christy Lynn Band prepares new material for LAAF

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• Indigo De Souza (indierock), 2:25-3:10 p.m. • BROTHRS (rock), 3:30-4:15 p.m. • Galena (prog-rock), 4:20-5:25 p.m. • Unifire sideshow, 5:355:55 p.m. • Improv comedy, 66:20 p.m. • Xero God (hip-hop/ electronic), 6:407:25 p.m. • Metro Rock Opera (tropical), 7:45-8:30 p.m. S. LEXINGTON STAGE • Daniel Earle and the Holy Ruckus (soulrock), 12:30-1:15 p.m. • Moonlight Street Folk (folk-rock), 1:30-2:15 p.m. • The Paper Crowns (folk-eclectic), 2:303:15 p.m. • Noah Proudfoot and the Botanicals (spiritfolk), 3:35-4:20 p.m.

• Koresma (electronic), 4:40-5:45 p.m. • Argentine Tango Duo, 5:25-5:45 p.m. • Fashion show, 6-7 p.m. STATIC AGE RECORDS STAGE • Lo Wolf (country-folk), 2-2:30 p.m. • Dr. Ock (electronic), 3-3:30 p.m. • The Krektones (surf rock), 4-4:30 p.m. • Battery Powered Hooker Boots (electronic), 5-5:30 p.m. • Uncle Kurtis (punk), 6-6:30 p.m. • Snake Prophecy (rock), 7-7:30 p.m. • DJs Delight, Sir Man, Arieh and Tark, 7:308:15 p.m. • BeatLife Collective, 8:30 p.m.

Barrett says LAAF will be Christy Lynn Band’s biggest Asheville show to date. And that act will likely not be the only one to improvise. Though LAAF in its current iteration has only been happening for a couple of years, its predecessor — the Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival — also provided a platform for local artists pushing boundaries of sound and form, trying new configurations or experimenting with sonic mashups and surprising collaborations. Like LAAFF, the similarly named LAAF spans several blocks of Lexington Avenue and highlights homegrown arts, entertainment, eats and drinks. A fashion show, hosted by Sky People Tattoo, will send creative apparel down the runway starting at 6 p.m. The festival will also feature interactive art areas, street performers, local food and beer vendors. And, setting the tone — or the tune — for the day, 20 musical acts will perform on four stages. The festival comes at a good time for Barrett and Schilling, who, with their new project, are working out their respective roles and writing all new songs. “We scrapped all our old material when we switched over to the Christy Lynn Band,” says Barrett. She says the duo’s new sound can best be described as Americana/ folk-country. Barrett says that she, Shilling and Hopkins have compiled enough new material for a solid set at LAAF. “We try to do mostly originals, but we do have some folk songs in there,” she says. And if fans like what they hear, “Our actual, real album is coming out in the spring of next year,” Barrett says, “but we will have the demo for sale at LAAF.” X

WHAT Living Asheville Arts Festival facebook.com/lexfest WHERE Lexington Avenue WHEN Sunday, Sept. 2., noon-9:30 p.m. Free

THEATER REVIEW by Patricia Furnish | drpatriqua@yahoo.com

‘The Groundling’ at Asheville Community Theatre The Groundling provides a modern comedic take on Shakespeare. It’s so well-written that when the truth comes out, it’s a profound shift in tone that the actors execute superbly. But the play doesn’t depend upon Love’s Labor’s Lost so much as uses that inspiration to ask a deeper question about how theater inspires audiences. X

WHAT The Groundling

ALL OVER BUT THE SHOUTING: An ensemble cast explores a troubled marriage and the play written to save it. Photo by Studio Misha Photography The saying goes that the only people who really know the truth about a marriage are the two people in it. Everyone else is a spectator with opinions, even if they are rehearsing a play in the unhappy couple’s garage. Such is the premise of The Groundling, written by Marc Palmieri, which makes its North Carolina premiere at Asheville Community Theatre and runs through Sunday, Sept. 2. Bob Malone (played by Daniel Sandoval) happened upon a production of Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost while in Manhattan and returned many times because the story and the actors’ performances affected him deeply. He’s driven to write his own play, inspired by the Shakespearean original, even though he’s a Long Island landscaper by trade. His hope is that, through theater, he can reach out to his wife with whom he argues incessantly, so he hires two of the professional actors he saw in the Shakespeare show to direct, stage and perform his work. Dodd (Scott Keel) is the director, Victoria (Mandy Bean), stars as Bob’s wife, Karen, in Bob’s play. And Jenni Robinson plays the actual Karen. All the action takes place in the Malone’s garage, where the play will be staged. The excellent set design includes a colorful, somewhat junky bunch of chairs, a sagging yellow sofa and a folding card table. Pressure mounts because Bob and Karen have invited family members to attend the performance, and rehearsals aren’t going well. A neighbor

named Pete (Haven Kai Volpe) has the role of the young Bob, but Pete is not a skilled reader of iambic pentameter and sounds more like a bad Dr. Seuss poem. By contrast, Victoria knows what she’s doing. She’s taken this job for the money and definitely not to rekindle the “showmance” she and Dodd shared before. Dodd doesn’t understand Bob’s motives for writing this play (to remind Karen how they met, to take her back to the time when they fell in love). Dodd is more concerned with the burdens of serious directing and making sure he slips some seemingly superior lines of dialogue into Bob’s script. Surrounded by amateurs, Dodd has little to work with in terms of talent or motivation. Only Victoria understands that she must know more about Karen’s personality in order to deliver a credible performance. But she’s not really that serious, either: An evening hanging out with Pete and his sister, Ally (Kelsey Simmons), ends with the floor strewn with crushed beer cans and the lingering smell of marijuana in the garage. Opening night approaches, and the hilarity of the play reaches an effective climax with the final rehearsal. The cast consistently delivers in terms of comedic timing, one of the strengths of the show. Among the most poignant scenes is the conversation between Karen and Victoria, the wife and the actress hired to portray her. Karen’s defensiveness about Bob’s play contrasts with Victoria’s

curiosity about the character she’s representing. Karen the enigma, who yells a lot and slams doors, doesn’t reveal the source of her anger.

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WHERE Asheville Community Theatre 35 E. Walnut St. ashevilletheatre.org WHEN Through Sunday, Sept. 2. Friday and Saturday at at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday at 2:30 p.m. $12-$26

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Nature-themed exhibitions at Momentum Gallery The natural world is the focus of Momentum Gallery’s two latest offerings, which will be unveiled on Thursday, Aug. 30. The group exhibition Transformation: Earth, Water & Wood unites recent work by Mariella Bisson (oil painting with collage), David Ellsworth (wood), Vicki Grant (porcelain and mixed media), Ron Isaacs (trompe l’oeil painting on wood) and Ron Layport (wood). Regional waterfalls, birch plywood constructions and embellishments inspired by tree bark are among the featured creations. Also set to debut is a collection of new mixed-media paintings and textile works by Samantha Bates, many of which include imagery of forests and water. The opening reception runs 5-8 p.m. Both exhibitions will be on display through the end of October. Free. momentumgallery.com. Image of “Reach Towards the Pacific” by Bates, courtesy of the artist

A Psychedelic Circus Tired of the usual rock band performance? The Snozzberries’ A Psychedelic Circus might be the show for you. The immersive audiovisual experience on Friday, Aug. 31, at Asheville Music Hall features songs by the host psychedelic jam ensemble, plus a liquid light show and projected fractal imagery from live visual artist Iris Liquid. Interspersed between the music will be interludes from other local acts, including violin loops from Marc Hennessey’s project To All My Dear Friends, while installations from the likes of Nathan King and Charlie Beech will be displayed throughout the evening. AVL Burnout, aka acclaimed Asheville illustrator Joshua Marc Levy, serves as the event’s master of ceremonies. The celebration of the city’s boundary-pushing art gets underway at 10 p.m. $10. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo by DJS Photography

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Chapter:SOUL Direct from New Orleans, the groove-funk quartet Chapter:SOUL pays homage to The Big Easy’s rich musical roots with an eye toward keeping the city’s sonic scene as innovative as ever. At the reins is frontman Calvin Johnson Jr., who’s lent his tenor saxophone and vocal skills to tours with Harry Connick Jr., the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and rappers Mystikal and Mannie Fresh. Along with Kashonda Bailey (organ/ keyboards/synths), Thomas Glass (percussion) and Evan Washington (bass), Johnson explores his vision of New Orleans music, which he calls “NOLA Future Funk.” The sound mixes street brass and bounce rhythms in the service of original compositions and fresh renderings of soul classics. Chapter:SOUL closes out its monthlong, East Coast tour with a 10 p.m. show on Thursday, Aug. 30, at One Stop. Free. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo courtesy of the band

My Grandfather’s Prayers Artistic talent runs deep in Lisa Aimee Sturz’s family. The Asheville-based professional puppeteer seeks to honor that creative heritage in My Grandfather’s Prayers, using shadow puppets, scrolling backgrounds, marionettes, digital composites and poetic text to honor her mother’s father, Cantor Izso Glickstein. The fourth-generation Jewish cantor was a child prodigy, operatic tenor and humanitarian. He rose to the ranks of uber-cantor at the Great Synagogue in Budapest and New England’s Mishkan Tefila, where Leonard Bernstein took him in as his first musical mentor. Sturz’s show additionally explores her own Jewish ancestry, artistry, spirituality and social responsibility. Local performances take place at White Horse Black Mountain on Saturday, Sept. 1, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, Sept. 2, at 7 p.m. $15 advance/$18 day of show. whitehorseblackmountain.com. Image courtesy of Sturz

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HOLIDAY VAUDEVILLE: Labor Day weekend receives a boost on Saturday, Sept. 1, when Asheville Vaudeville performs a 9 p.m. show at The Grey Eagle. Intended for “grown-up children,” the evening is led by puppeteer Keith Shubert of Toybox Theatre. Other performances include burlesque by Queen April, mentalist magic from Sneaky McFly, a dance duet by VioLet Go and Luna, contortions courtesy of Augusta Moon, stand-up comedy from Corr De Joch and more. Tickets are $15. For more information, visit thegreyeagle.com. Photo of Augusta Moon by Spencer L. Stanton Photography (p. 44)

ART ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • WE (9/5), 5:30-6:30pm - Regional Artist Project Grant information session. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N Dougherty St, Black Mountain HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • TH (9/6), 5:30pm Regional Artist Project Grant information session. Free. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center • 1st TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Community art night for children and adults. Free.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ASHEVILLE FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS • SA (9/1), 10am-5pm & SU (9/2), 10am-5pm - Downtown Asheville Festival of the Arts, outdoor event with 100 art and craft vendors. Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park,121 College St. MAGGIE VALLEY FESTIVAL GROUNDS 3374 Soco Road, Maggie Valley, 828-734-6750, plottfest.org/ • SA (9/1) & SU (9/2), 9am-4pm - Maggie Valley Labor Day Arts and Crafts Show. Free to attend.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist Project Grant with the N.C. Arts Council. Contact for full guidelines. ASHEVILLE YOUTH CHOIRS ashevilleyouthchoirs.org

• TH (8/23) & TH (8/30), 4-6pm - Open audition for students in grade K-12. See website for full guidelines. Held at Academy for the Arts, 5 Oak Street BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 828-884-2587, TheBrevardLittleTheatre. org • SA (9/1) & SU (9/2), 2-5pm - Open auditions for The Lion in Winter. Contact for full guidelines: johnboi26@yahoo.com or 828-361-1421. CELEBRATION SINGERS OF ASHEVILLE 828-230-5778, singasheville.org • TH (8/23), & TH (8/30), 5:30-6:30pm - Open auditions. See website for full guidelines: SingAsheville. org. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • Through FR (10/12) Submissions accepted for the Regional Artist Project Grant with the N.C. Arts Council. Contact for full guidelines. • Through FR (9/7) Applications accepted for monthly shows in the gallery an gift shop. Organizations may submit

applications for monthly gallery exhibits. HOT WORKS FINE ART SHOW ASHEVILLE hotworks.org • Through MO (10/1) Submissions accepted for the Hot Works' Asheville Youth Art Show. See website for full details: hotworks.org. MISSION HEALTH 509 Biltmore Ave. • Through TH (9/20) Submissions accepted for artwork to be permanently displayed in the Mission Hospital for Advanced Medicine. More information: missionfutureready. org. OUR VOICE HEART WORKS SURVIVORS ART SHOW 828-252-0562, ourvoicenc. org • Through WE (10/31) Submissions accepted for the 17th annual Survivors' Art Show. Information: arts@ourvoicenc.org.

DANCE EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) Intro to Pole Fitness on Sundays 2:15pm, Tuesdays 7:00pm, Saturdays 12:00pm. Intro to Pole Dance

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A& E CA LEN DA R on Mondays 7:15pm. Intro to Spinning Pole on Thursdays 8:00pm. Floor Theory Dance on Sundays 3:30pm. Aerial Yoga on Fridays 12:00pm - $15 for the first class. EMPYREANARTS.ORG 828.782.3321 EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. •

Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee. Information: ashevillemovementcollective.org

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LEARN TO DANCE! (PD.) Ballroom • Swing • Waltz • Salsa • Wedding • TwoStep • Special Events. Lessons, Workshops, Classes and Dance Events in Asheville. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715. naturalrichard@mac.

174 Broadway, habitatbrewing.com • 1st MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm - "Salsa Dancing for the Soul," open levels salsa dance. Free to attend.

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MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM 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. skinnybeatsdrums.com

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BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 828-862-2105, brevardmusic.org • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free. Held in the Porter Center. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive Brevard

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (8/30), 6pm - Michael Jefry Stevens & Friends, jazz concert. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. CONCERTS ON THE CREEK mountainlovers.com • FR (8/24), 7-9pm Outdoor concert featuring Dashboard Blue, classic hits. Free. Held at Bridge Park, 76 Railroad Ave., Sylva DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., dwt.com • SA (9/1), 6:45pm "Exploring New Horizons," Music Foundation of Western North Carolina present pianist Christopher Tavernier playing great piano classics. $12. HAPPY VALLEY FIDDLERS CONVENTION happyvalleyfiddlers.org • FR (8/31) through SU (9/2) - Fiddling convention featuring workshops and

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9/14: Seth Walker 9/21: Howard Levy/ Chris Siebold 9/28: Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands

CROWNE PLAZA • OLDE HICKORY TAP ROOM • PFAHLERT CREATIVE LABS

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SHINDIG ON THE GREEN 828258-610-1345, folkheritage.org • SATURDAYS, 7pm Outdoor old-timey and folk music jam sessions and concert. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. SUMMER TRACKS CONCERT SERIES 828-290-4316, summertracks.com • FR (8/31), 7pm - Fireside Collective, outdoor concert. Free. Held at Rogers Park, 55 W. Howard St., Tryon

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 828-255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • TH (8/30), 6:30pm "Frankenstein: Myth and Meme," presentation by Bernard Welt. Free to attend. ASHEVILLE WRITERS' SOCIAL allimarshall@bellsouth.net • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - N.C. Writer's Network group meeting and networking. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange, 1 Page Ave., #101 BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville

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performances of traditional old-time and bluegrass music and rural traditions. See website for full schedule, locations and cost.

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• 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • SA (9/1), 10am-3pm - End of summer book sale. Free to attend. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TU (9/4), 4-6:30pm - R.R. Martin-Adkins presents his book, Revealed! What Jesus Never Said: As Compiled By His Sister. Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (9/4), 7pm - EnkaCandler Book Club: Nora Webster by Colm Toibin. Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TU (9/4), 7pm or WE (9/5), 3pm - Book discussion of Death of a Salesman by Authur Miller. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (9/6), 6:30pm - East Asheville Book Club: Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road CAROLINA MOUNTAINS LITERARY FESTIVAL 828-208-4731, cmlitfest.org • TH (9/6) through SA (9/8) - Carolina Mountains Literary Festival. See website for full schedule: cmlitfest.org. FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115, firestorm.coop • SA (9/1), 3pm - Thomas Raine Crow presents his

book, Starting from San Francisco. Free to attend. • First SUNDAYS, 5pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend. NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS 828-329-4190 • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting. Information: 828-3294190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road BLUE RIDGE BOOKS • TH (8/30), 6pm - David Joy presents his book, The Line that Held Us. Free to attend. Held at Smoky Mountain Roasters, 444 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville

THEATER ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-2541320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/2) - The Groundling, romantic comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $26/$12 children. ASHEVILLE VAUDEVILLE facebook.com/ AshevilleVaudeville/ • SA (9/18), 9pm Vaudeville show featuring comedy, burlesque, dance, puppetry and magic. $15. Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org

• Through SU (9/9) Always a Bridesmaid, comedy. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $20-$52. J.E. BROYHILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd SE. Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (9/6) until (9/8) - Drinking Habits. Thurs. through Sat.: 7pm. Sat.: 2pm. $14/$12 students. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 828-254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/1) - James and the Giant Peach. Free to attend. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. THE AUTUMN PLAYERS 828-686-1380, www,ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • FR (8/31) & SA (9/1), 2:30pm - God's Favorite. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. • SU (9/2), 2:30pm - God's Favorite. $7. Held at UNCAsheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN 105 Montreat Road, Black Mountain, 828-669-0816, whitehorseblackmountain. com/ • SA (9/1), 8pm & SU (9/2), 7pm - My Grandfather’s Prayers, multi-media performance piece by Lisa Aimee Sturz of Red Herring Puppets. $18/$15 advance.

GALLERY DIRECTORY ALLGOOD COFFEE 10 S Main St, Weaverville • SU (8/12) until WE (10/3) -Walking Through WNC 3.0: An Exhibit of Images by Vagabond Photo Walks Group. Reception: Sunday, Aug. 12, 3-5pm. APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY appalachianpastelsociety.org • Through MO (10/1) - Reception for the Appalachian Pastel Society 2018 juried member exhibition. Held at Grace Center, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (9/14) - MHU faculty biennial art exhibit. Held at Weizenblatt Art Gallery at MHU, 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through SU (9/30) - Campus Creatives, exhibition of works in many media by UNC Asheville faculty and staff. Held at UNC Asheville - Ramsey Library, 1 University Heights • Through FR (10/5) - The Decisive Dream, exhibition of photographs by Cuban-American artist Gory (Rogelio López Marín). Held at UNC Asheville - Owen Hall, 1 University Heights ARTS COUNCIL OF HENDERSON COUNTY 828-693-8504, acofhc.org • TH (8/30) through (9/14) - Bring Us Your Best, group art exhibition of 100 or more diverse artists. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 30, 5-7pm. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W Campus Drive, Flat Rock ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (8/31) - Best of 2018 by Roots + Wings Visual Arts Preschool, exhibition. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. • Through WE (8/29) - Pioneer Women Painters of the River District, exhibition curated by Sara Ledonne. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 828-2558444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through FR (10/26) - It’s Alive, book and printmaking exhibition showing artistic interpretations of Frankenstein. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through FR (8/31) - A Retrospective in Figurative, featuring the paintings of Cheri Brackett. • SA (9/1) through SU (9/30) - Life is Art, exhibition of encaustics by Michelle Hamilton. Reception: Friday, Sept. 7, 5-8pm. BENDER GALLERY 29 Biltmore Ave., 828-505-8341, thebendergallery.com • Through FR (8/31) - The Magic of Nature, The Maestro and Mary Van Cline Fundraiser for The Documenta Project, exhibitions. • TH (9/6) through SA (10/20) - Linear Angularity, exhibition of glass art by Toland Sand. Reception: Thursday, Sept. 6, 5-8pm.

YOUTH MOVEMENT: Featuring over 60 works of art by 18 members of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, none of whom are older than 40, Renewal of the Ancient: Cherokee Millennial Artists opens Saturday, Sept. 1, at the Museum of the Cherokee Indian in Cherokee. The new exhibit includes traditional and contemporary media; masks, baskets, beadwork, copper work, pottery, clay sculpture, stone carvings, wood carvings, feather textiles, paintings and photography. Booger’s Courthouse, photograph by John Allison, courtesy of the Museum BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through (8/31) - Vietnam: Some of Its People, exhibition of photography by Herb Way. DISTRICT WINE BAR 37 Paynes Way, Suite 9 • TH (8/2) through SU (9/30) The Curved Line - A Celebration of Form, archival works on paper and canvas by the late Vadim Bora. FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain, 828-357-9009, floodgallery.org • Through MO (9/3) - Exhibition of prints by Porge Buck. FOLK ART CENTER MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway, 828-298-7928, craftguild.org • Through (9/30) - Wabi Sabi, Embracing the Art of Imperfection, exhibition featuring 60 objects from Southern Highland Art Guild members. GALLERY 1 604 W. Main St., Sylva • Through SA (9/8) - Exhibition of the photos of Wanda DavisBrown and the glass works of Judy McManus. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • FR (8/31) through SA (9/29) - Exhibition of work by Bee Sieberg and her students. Reception: Saturday, Sept. 8, 1-4pm.

MACON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 149 Siler Farm Road, Franklin • Through FR (8/31) - Exhibition of works by Carol Conti. MOMENTUM GALLERY 24 North Lexington Ave. • TH (8/30) through WE (10/31) - Transformation: Earth, Water & Wood, exhibition of works by Mariella Bison, David Ellsworth, Vicki Grant and Ron Isaacs. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 30, 5-8pm. • TH (8/30) through WE (10/31) - TExhibition of mixed media paintings and textile works by Samantha Bates. Reception: Thursday, Aug. 30, 5-8pm. MUSEUM OF THE CHEROKEE INDIAN 589 Tsali Blvd, Cherokee • SA (9/1) through SU (9/30) - Renewal of the Ancient: Cherokee Millennial Artists, exhibition of over 60 works from 18 artists including traditional and contemporary media. PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (9/2) - Inimitable Creation: Clay+Paper+Paint, exhibition of works by Holly de Saillan, Betsy Kendrick and Maria Andrade Troya. PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through FR (8/31) Foundeviation, graphics and ceramics exhibition featuring works by by Alex Irvine.

SPRUCE PINE TRAC GALLERY 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine, 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org/ facilities/spruce-pine-gallery/ • Through (9/22) - Not to be Toyed With; Exploring the Art of the Doll, exhibition featuring approximately 100 works from regional artists. Reception: Saturday, Sept. 1, 5-7pm. THE BASCOM 323 Franklin Road, Highlands, 828-526-4949, thebascom.org • Through SU (10/21) - Homage, exhibition of ceramic work by Frank Vickery. THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org/ • Through SA (1/26) - In Times of Seismic Sorrows, exhibition of weavings, installations, sculpture and print by artists Rena Detrixhe and Tali Weinberg. THE COLORWHEEL GALLERY 175 King St., Brevard • Through MO (9/17) - For the Love of Art, exhibition of the work of Sandi and Tom Anton. THE WEDGE AT FOUNDATION 5 Foundy St., 828-505-2792, wedgebrewing.com/ location-wedge-foundation/ • Through FR (8/31) - Exhibition of paintings by Larry Turner. TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY 188 Coxe Ave., TraceyMorganGallery.com • Through SA (9/22) - Conditions for an Unfinished Work of Mourning, exhibition of works from Dawn Roe.

• Through SA (9/22) - Exhibition of photographs by Sharon Core. TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • Through TH (8/30) - Enchanted Forest, group exhibition. Reception: Wednesday, Aug. 29, 5:30-6:30pm. UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon, 828-8592828, upstairsartspace.org • Through FR (9/21) - Bronze Constructs, exhibition of work by Fred McMullen. • Through FR (9/21) HORSEscapes, exhibition of work by Monica Stevenson. • Through FR (9/21) Spontaneous Intention, exhibition of work by Barbara Fisher, Kenn Kotara and Rand Kramer. WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • Through TH (8/30) - In Search of New Ways, exhibition of works by Justin Ramsey. YMI CULTURAL CENTER 39 South Market St., 828-2524614, ymicc.org • Through FR (8/31) - Trigger Warning, 21-artist group exhibition on the issue of gun violence in the United States. ZAPOW! 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101, 828575-2024, zapow.net • SA (9/1) through SA (10/13) Go To Your Happy Place, group exhibition. Reception: Saturday, Sept. 1, 7-9pm. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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BRIGHT IDEA: Though based in Harrisonburg, Va., indie-rockers Illiterate Light are gaining recognition well beyond their hometown thanks to “World Cafe.” The NPR show included Illiterate Light’s Charlie Glenn (The Head and the Heart)-produced single “Better Than I Used To” among its “10 Hot Summer Songs of Public Radio” picks. The duo — Jeff Gorman and Jake Cochran — put on a high-energy show with Cochran standing to drum and Gorman’s synth bass thundering behind their vocals. The group’s stop at Burger Bar on Friday, Sept. 7, at 9 p.m., includes support from Landon Elliot, Clint Robert and Jon Dwyer. Photo by Joey Wharton. http://avl.mx/4wk

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 6:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Open Bluegrass Jam w/ The Clydes, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (sign-ups at 7:30pm), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM NAABC Benefit (Punk), 9:00PM

CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Whistlepig, 6:30PM Wyatt Easterling & Rod Abernathy, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim, 10:00PM

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MG ROAD Salsa Night, 8:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays, 9:00PM

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LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Spoken Word Open Mic, 8:00PM

BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Asheville Fringe Night, 8:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Weird Wednesday Jam, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Jordan Okrend (reggae), 8:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Eric Congdon, 5:00PM Asheville Rock Collective: Vol. 1 w/ The Dirty badgers, Brothrs & The Mercury Arcs , 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Berlyn Jazz Trio, 9:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz night, 7:30PM

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST The Honey Dewdrops ('tangled' country, acoustic), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Santoros w/ The Cannonball Jars, 9:30PM

BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (jazz), 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Zoso (tribute to Led Zeppelin), 9:00PM

THE WINE & OYSTER Jazz Open Mic hosted by Jesse Junior, 7:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Paul Defatta, 7:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Bud Man & Groove Percussion, 4:00PM Penn Johnson Duo (folk), 5:00PM

TIMO'S HOUSE Hip Hop Hump Day w/ DJ Drew, 8:00PM

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Bill Mattocks & The Strut, 6:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST 5j Barrow (soulful singersongwriters), 9:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Kind, Clean Gentlemen, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION Asheville Circus, 8:00PM

TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

BYWATER Open Mic w/ John Duncan, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Ben Phan (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM

CASCADE LOUNGE DJ Oso Rey Boogie Night & Mashups, 9:30PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Throwback Thursday w/ Molly Parti, 8:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Roll Vinyl w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic (6pm sign-up), 6:30PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Big Ivy Project (jam, Americana), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Salt of the Earth (folk, blues), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Lyric, 8:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Happy Hour w/ DJ Marley Carroll (R&B, soul, funk), 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Upland Drive, 6:30PM Ray T. Chesna, 7:00PM Jack Victor w/ Alexa Rose, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Vinyl Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM

PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ Cody Hughes, 9:00PM

BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Hot Club of Asheville, 5:30PM

PACK'S TAVERN Eric Cogdon (acoustic rock), 8:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR King Garbage, 7:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Phuncle Sam, w/ Jeff Sipe 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Elonzo Wesley, 7:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jimmy Clifton, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sane Voids, Mr. Mange and The Strange Lays, 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Joe Penland & Hannah Belle (singer-songwriter), 8:30PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Scatterlings, 5:00PM Gravitation, Shadow Show & Go Jenny Go, 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (classic rock n' roll), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Diane Cluck & Wes Swing w/ Yessirov, 9:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Cool World Order Tour & VVitchboy, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP True North, 9:00PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM

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

NOBLE KAVA Hip Hop Night, 9:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Craft Karaoke, 9:30PM

ODDITORIUM Party Foul: Drag Circus, 9:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Eavesdrop & The Paper Crowns w/ Dave Desmelik, 6:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke w/ Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Chapter:SOUL, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING JLAD: Jimmi Lang's Almost Doors, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST West Side Funk Jam, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Houndmouth w/ Liz Cooper & The Stampede, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Kind, Clean Gentlemen (acoustic roots), 6:00PM

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Hope Griffin (singersongwriter), 8:00PM

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31 185 KING STREET Jimbo Chapman, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Eleanor Underhill & Friends (Americana, soul), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Celebrity All Stars, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Snozzberries Psychedelic Circus, 10:00PM

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Vintage Vinyl, 6:30PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL DJ Phantom Pantone, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Uchikomi, 7:00PM CORK & KEG One Leg Up, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Posey Quartet (swing jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Top Nachos, Sane Voids, 2 Slices & Bag Head, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Grass to Mouth (folk/ soul), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Sidecar Honey Duo (folk rock), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Patricio Lopez Experience, 8:30PM GINGER'S REVENGE Spalding McIntosh (singer-songwriter), 8:00PM GRIND CAFE Bob Sinclair & The Big Deals, 7:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Pleasure Chest, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series: Jordan Okrend Experience, 6:30PM Ultrafaux (jazz), 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Angela Perley & The Howlinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; Moons, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Krektones Patio Show (surf rock), 8:00PM Hot 'n' Nasty Night w/ DJs Jasper & Chrissy (rock & soul), 10:00PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Acoustic Music & Open Mic, 8:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Planefolk, 6:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Dave Desmelik, 7:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Noble Pursuits: Jason Moore, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Asheville After Dark Presents Perversions (kink night) 18+, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Chris Cooper Project w/ Carpal Tullar, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Emo Philips w/ Art Sturtevant, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Blue Footed Boobies (psychedelic rock), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Emmalea Deal Band, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Phish Live webcast Dick's Run, 9:00PM SALVAGE STATION Phish Dick's 1st Night Simulcast, 9:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Chris Wilhelm & Friends, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Martha Kelly w/ Avery Reed Moore & Pat Dean, 9:00PM STATIC AGE RECORDS Stage Killers Hip Hop Showcase (hip hop), 10:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Phish Stream Live from Dick's, 10:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Paul Edelman, 5:00PM Local Showcase: Many A Ship, Matt Sellars & more, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT JP Harris & The Tough Choices w/ Hearts Gone South, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER Jazz Jam & Open Mic w/ The Asheville Jazz Quartet, 7 :00PM TIMO'S HOUSE FTO: Free the Optimus (hip hop), 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Copernicus, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Joshua Singleton & Patrick Dodd (blues, country), 7:30PM Westsound (r&b, motown, soul), 10:00PM

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SADDLE UP: Mario Arnez and Steph Stewart of Chapel Hill-based Blue Cactus boast that they make music for people “who think they don’t like country music and people who love what country music used to be.” The band’s 2017 self-titled release evokes “apocalyptic spaghetti westerns” and “classic ’70s space-rock epics.” The duo has opened for the likes of The War & Treaty and Asheville’s Town Mountain, has played the likes of Shakori Hills Grassroots Festival and is on the bill for this year’s Hopscotch Music Festival. Blue Cactus stops by Fleetwood’s on Sunday, Sept. 2, at 8 p.m fleetwoodsonhaywood.com

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT DJ Abu Disarray, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Yes the Raven, 8:00PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Doug McElvy Ensemble, (soul grass), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST 80s Dance Party w/ DJ Heidi Renee' , 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step: Weekly Swing Jam, 4:30PM ASHEVILLE MASONIC TEMPLE Underhill Rose, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Get Sad Y'all - Emo Night, 9:00PM Saturday Night Jive w/ DJ Marley Carroll, 9:00PM BANKS AVE SES: Satisfaction Every Saturday, 9:00PM

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BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Kevin Lorenz (jazz, pop, classical), 7:30PM CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM CORK & KEG Old Chevrolet Set, 8:30PM DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Exploring New Horizons: The Great Piano Classics From Classical Music to Popular Hollywood Mega-Hits, 6:45PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Saturday Night Rock Show, 10:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Shannon Hoover, 8:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Nathan Evans Fox, 7:00PM Al Petteway, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Upland Drive w/ members of Sirius B., 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM DJ Honey, 10:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Rock 'n' Roll Vinyl w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM

LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Tunes & Brunch at the LAB, 11:30AM

FLEETWOOD'S Subsonics w/ Greg Cartwright & Cadavernous, 9:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Mama Danger (folk, newgrass), 6:00PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Synth & Modular Tunes, 8:00PM

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Sweet Fever (rock/soul), 10:00PM

LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Leo Johnson's Gypsy Jazz Brunch, 1:00PM

MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM MARSHALL CONTAINER CO. Karaoke Madness, 7:00PM ODDITORIUM Austin Lucas w/ Full Band, Chris Head & Jon Charles Dwyer (country), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Get Sad Y'all (emo, poppunk), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Saylor Bros. (bluegrass), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST The Rahm Sqaud feat. Jaze Uries, Ben Bjorlie & special guests, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Gypsy & Me (Americana), 6:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Matt Walsh Band, 7:00PM

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Phish Live webcast Dick's Run, 9:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE The Moon and You, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Raelyn Nelson Band, 9:00PM Screaming J's, 10:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Further to Fly, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Saturday Salsa & Latin Dance Party Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes, 9:30PM THE GREY EAGLE Asheville Vaudeville: The Labor Day, Hooray! Show, 9:00PM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Ryan Barber Trio (jazz, soul) 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Musicians Jam & Pot Luck, 3:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibe Sundays w/ DJ Oso Rey (reggae), 3:00PM Good Vibe Sundays w/ Live Reggae, 6:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Andrew Thelston, 2:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Heavy Mountain, 8:00PM

BYWATER Bluegrass Jam w/ Drew Matulich, 4:00PM

THE WINE &OYSTER Natalie Fitz, 7:00PM

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

TOWN PUMP Loose Leaves, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Joshua Singleton & Patrick Dodd (blues, country), 7:30PM The Shane Gang (blues, soul), 10:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Mr. Grandfathers Prayers (Red Herring Puppets), 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Traditional Irish/Celtic Jam, 3:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch w/ Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LAZY DIAMOND Punk Night w/ DJ Chubberbird, 10:00PM LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Tunes & Brunch at the LAB, 12:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Gary Lazer Eyes, Poet Radio, & Glass Bricks (rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass Brunch w/ Woody & Krekel & Bald Mountain Boys, 10:30AM Official LAAF-ter Party ft. Random Animals & Friends, 10:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Sunday Coming Down Country w/ Blue Cactus, 8:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Soul Jam w/ Special Affair, 8:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM

ORANGE PEEL Heavy Mountain Music & Beer Fest, 5:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sundays w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Jef Chandler (singersongwriter), 3:00PM Trivia Night, 5:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Carlo Aonzo Trio, 5:30PM

PACK'S TAVERN Sunday Social Club, 4:30PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam, 6:00PM Pisgah Sunday Jam, 6:30PM SALVAGE STATION Grateful Sunday, 5:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Nikki Talley, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Sly Grog Open Mic, 7:00PM STATIC AGE RECORDS LAAF Festival Showcase, 2:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE AVS' VegFest Afterparty w/ Annette Conlon, 6:00PM Manifest Your Mojo Dance Party w/ DJ InfiniteC, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Wovenhand w/ Morgan of the Pines, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Gringo Star w/ The Remarks & Art Wavey, 9:30PM

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REVIEWS & LISTINGS BY SCOTT DOUGLAS, FRANCIS X. FRIEL & JUSTIN SOUTHER

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Co-directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui unveil designer Alexander McQueen’s demons in their visually stunning documentary, McQueen

McQueen HHHH DIRECTOR: Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui PLAYERS: Alexander McQueen,Isabella Blow, Gary James McQueen, Detmar Blow, Kate Moss BIOGRAPHICAL DOCUMENTARY RATED R THE STORY: A look at the life, work and untimely death of transgressive fashion designer Alexander McQueen. THE LOWDOWN: A deeply personal documentary with a stunning visual aesthetic that will leave even deliberate antifashionistas moved and affected. I have to confess to being largely ignorant of Alexander McQueen, the enfant terrible of haute couture at the center of directors Ian Bonhôte and Peter Ettedgui’s new documentary. And in the interest of full disclosure, I was completely convinced that any biographical 52

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documentary about a fashion designer would be firmly outside my figurative wheelhouse. My monochromatic uniform could be generously described as boring, and the only direct mention of McQueen I recall crossing my path was something an ex-girlfriend mentioned about Lady Gaga’s shoes, which I promptly filed in the “don’t care” section of my brain. But Bonhôte and Ettedgui have crafted something far deeper, more insightful and visually engaging than my admittedly tempered expectations prepared me for, a remarkably engrossing look at the soul of a tortured artist. And the emphasis there should be on the word “look,” because McQueen is an unquestionably gorgeous watch. The requisite talking heads are there, but the archival footage of the designer’s confrontational catwalk collections form the true spine of the film. As context is developed

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from McQueen’s friends and associates, we see his career blossom organically from that of an aspiring Saville Row tailor’s apprentice to the cocaine-addled head of French fashion house Givenchy, with images of the designer’s often staggeringly twisted creations charting the path of his mounting inner turmoil more effectively than the biographical details revealed could possibly elucidate. Those biographical details are present, however, and they paint a compelling portrait of a deeply troubled man whose genius was only equaled by his capacity for self-destruction. We learn of childhood abuse both witnessed and endured by McQueen, and the ramifications it bore on his mental health as an adult. We see evidence of spiraling drug problems, unstable romantic relationships and deeply unsettling personal betrayals. But Bonhôte and Ettedgui avoid the tabloid sensationalism such salacious subject matter might have engendered, instead relating McQueen’s psychological tumult to the creative output his suffering seemed to drive. The resultant impression is one of a complex personality who mined the dark corners of his past traumas to create an utterly unique — and often grotesque — form of beauty. McQueen as a man may have vacillated between monstrous and mundane, but his work found transcendence in horror. Perhaps there was some benefit to coming in relatively blind for McQueen, as it allowed me to experience the shock and repulsion that the designer was aiming for in his designs with unvarnished surprise. And there was unequivocal benefit to seeing that work displayed on a big screen, where the transgressive imagery and arresting theatricality of McQueen’s creations could be appreciated in a way that simply would not have been possible in a smaller format. While it may not have prompted any deeper interest in the fashion world — a realm which McQueen himself seemed to view with deep disdain even as he strove for its acceptance — I can say that McQueen gave me an appreciation for its subject that I could not have foreseen when I walked into the theater. Rated R for language and nudity. Now Playing at Fine Arts Theatre. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

MAX RATING Xpress reviews virtually all upcoming movies, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print. You can find our online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include:

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Puzzle HHHH DIRECTOR: Marc Turtletaub PLAYERS: Kelly Macdonald, Irrfan Khan, David Denman, Bubba Weiler, Austin Abrams DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A bored, frustrated housewife discovers that she has an unusual talent for jigsaw puzzles. THE LOWDOWN: A quiet, human movie about desire and fulfillment, full of good performances and fully formed characters. Marc Turtletaub’s Puzzle is a film marked by a certain solidness, a movie that doesn’t quite approach greatness but yet has a such a genuine, complex and relatably human outlook that puts it ahead of the bulk of movies out there right now. And while I may be hedging against Puzzle’s greatness, it’s a movie that handles complicated issues like love and desire in a way that’s wholly honest and short on dramatics, something I sense will keep the movie in my mind longer than it maybe has any right to. Conceptually, the film could have gone in a few different directions, all of which would have been exceedingly more tawdry or melodramatic. It could have been a

her seriously as a person, chaining her to a life of housework and cooking while her obvious (and low-key) brilliance has been put to waste. He makes decisions without consulting her and generally seems to neglect her needs. Her relationship with Robert, however, is more inquisitive and more intellectual and simply different from what she’s used to. And while it does lead to an amount of attraction, it’s never one that feels out-of-hand. This is what makes Puzzle so interesting in its own quiet way. What could have easily turned tawdry is instead nothing more than the story of a woman taking control of her life in small but significant ways. The thematic gentleness is what makes the movie so relatable and genuine, while there’s an amount of care and understanding put into every single character. It’s a movie that operates within a sphere of moral complexity while never overdoing things, a balancing act that makes Puzzle worth a look. Rated R for language. Now playing at Grail Moviehouse.

rom-com or an uplifting story of competition, but Puzzle is more concerned with emotion and living a satisfied life. Agnes (Kelly Mcdonald) is a devoutly Catholic housewife with a loving husband (David Denman) and two sons entering adulthood. Her life is comfortable, though unexciting and, from the outside at least, a bit uneventful. This starts to change when she gets a jigsaw puzzle for her birthday and discovers that she’s exceedingly fast at putting it together and finds that act of assembling the pieces brings her great satisfaction. This leads the homebody Agnes on an impromptu train trip to Manhattan for more jigsaw puzzles and eventually into meeting Robert (Irrfan Khan), a slightly eccentric puzzle enthusiast who’s looking for a competition partner. Agnes, who’s spent her life taking care of her family, jumps at the chance to practice twice a week with Robert, keeping something as seemingly flippant as her love of puzzles a secret from her family. It becomes quickly apparent that the problem is Agnes’ boredom with her life and its routine. Even though her husband adores her, he still doesn’t seem to take

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Kin Sci-fi crime thriller. According to the studio: “Chased by a vengeful criminal (James Franco) and a gang of otherworldly soldiers, a recently released ex-con (Jack Reynor) and his adopted teenage brother (Myles Truitt) are forced to go on the run with a weapon of mysterious origin as their only protection.” No early reviews. (PG-13)

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Caramel HHHS DIRECTOR: Nadine Labaki PLAYERS: Nadine Labaki, Yasmine Al Masri, Gisele Aouad, Sihame Haddad, Joanna Moukarzel ROMANTIC COMEDY DRAMA Rated PG Few things could seem so incongruous as writer/director/star Nadine Labaki’s 2008 feature debut Caramel, not because of its relatively standard plot surrounding a group of women who patronize a beauty parlor, but because this light romantic dramedy is set in previously war-torn Beirut. Labaki avoids dealing with the religious and political turmoil that engulfed much of Lebanon immediately prior to her film’s production, choosing to present the capital city as worldly, its residents as being just like everyone else, and in so doing, her gentle approach to the comedy and drama of the feminine experience transcends the conflict on her doorstep. Beirut isn’t quite as unstable as it was 10 years ago, but it’s never a bad time to consider the lives of normal people living through difficult times, especially with a movie this sweet. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Caramel on Friday, Aug. 31, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.

Carnegie Hall HHHH DIRECTOR: Edgar G. Ulmer PLAYERS: Marsha Hunt, William Prince, Frank McHugh, Martha O’Driscoll MUSICAL DRAMA Rated NR The Hendersonville Film Society celebrates National Classical Music Month with a September run of classical-music-themed films. This week the society is bringing back Edgar G. Ulmer’s Carnegie Hall (1947), about which Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke wrote a few years ago: “The silly story — one of those pop music vs. classical music tales — is negligible, but the musical segments make up for this (including one that incorporates the Schumann Piano Quintet Ulmer had used to good effect in The Black Cat). Where else are you going to see Arthur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Bruno Walter, Ezio Pinza, Risë Stevens, Fritz Reiner and, best of all, Leopold Stokowski in one movie? You have to slog your way through the whole film to get to Stokowski conducting Tchaikovsky’s Fifth, but it’s worth it. Beautifully lit (Stoki’s wild hair was a lighting director’s dream) and shot from clever angles, you immediately understand Rex Harrison extolling the beauty of the maestro conducting with only his hands in Preston Sturges’ Unfaithfully Yours, made the next year.” This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Nov. 8, 2011. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Carnegie Hall on Sunday, Sept. 2, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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DIRECTOR: Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz PLAYERS: Michael Greer, Marianna Hill, Joy Bang, Anitra Ford, Royal Dano, Elisha Cook Jr. HORROR Rated R Have you ever wondered what would happen if the husband-and-wife screenwriting team that penned the scripts for American Graffiti, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom and Howard the Duck decided to co-write, produce and direct a movie about cannibalistic ghoul vampires inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and George Romero? Well they did, and the AFS will celebrate the return of its horror series at The Black Cloud by showing just that. The tragically overlooked 1973 cult classic Messiah of Evil bears the unmistakable influence of Robert Weine’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Carl Dreyer’s Vampyr and George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead (all of which we’ve shown recently), but that’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this lost masterpiece. It’s not without its flaws, but it’s easily one of the strangest films we’ve ever programmed and a fitting homage to the sadly departed AFS member who suggested it in the first place. The Asheville Film Society’s Thursday Horror Picture Show moves to Mondays with a screening of Messiah of Evil at The Black Cloud on Monday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m., hosted by Xpress movie critic Scott Douglas.

Operation Finale Historical thriller from director Chris Weitz. According to the studio: “The thrilling true story follows the 1960 covert mission of legendary Mossad agent Peter Malkin as he infiltrates Argentina and captures Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi officer who masterminded the transportation logistics that brought millions of innocent Jews to their deaths in concentration camps.” Early reviews mixed. (PG-13)

Juliet, Naked Romantic comedy. According to the studio: “Annie (Rose Byrne) is stuck in a longterm relationship with Duncan (Chris O’Dowd) — an obsessive fan of obscure rocker Tucker Crowe (Ethan Hawke). When the acoustic demo of Tucker’s hit record from 25 years ago surfaces, its release leads to a life-changing encounter with the elusive rocker himself. Based on the novel by Nick Hornby, Juliet, Naked is a comic account of life’s second chances.” Early reviews positive. (R)

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, our heroine encounters a talking caterpillar as he smokes a hookah on top of a tall mushroom. “Who are you?” he asks her. Alice is honest: “I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then.” She says this with uneasiness. In the last few hours, she has twice been shrunken down to a tiny size and twice grown as big as a giant. All these transformations have unnerved her. In contrast to Alice, I’m hoping you’ll have a positive attitude about your upcoming shifts and mutations, Aries. From what I can tell, your journey through the Season of Metamorphosis should be mostly fun and educational.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I foresee the withering of a hope or the disappearance of a prop or the loss of leverage. This ending may initially make you feel melancholy, but I bet it will ultimately prove beneficent — and maybe lead you to resources that were previously unavailable. Here are rituals you could perform that may help you catalyze the specific kind of relief and release you need: 1. Wander around a graveyard and sing songs you love. 2. Tie one end of a string around your ankle and the other end around an object that symbolizes an influence you want to banish from your life. Then cut the string and bury the object. 3. Say this 10 times: “The end makes the beginning possible.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Juan Villarino has hitchhiked over 2,350 times in 90 countries. His free rides have carried him over 100,000 miles. He has kept detailed records, so he’s able to say with confidence that Iraq is the best place to catch a lift. Average wait time there is seven minutes. Jordan and Romania are good, too, with nine- and 12-minute waits, respectively. In telling you about his success, I don’t mean to suggest that now is a favorable time to hitchhike. But I do want you to know that the coming weeks will be prime time to solicit favors, garner gifts and make yourself available for metaphorical equivalents of free rides. You’re extra magnetic and attractive. How could anyone could resist providing you with the blessings you need and deserve?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “If a man treats a life artistically, his brain is his heart,” wrote Oscar Wilde. I’ll translate that into a more complete version: “If a person of any gender treats life artistically, their brain is their heart.” This truth will be especially applicable for you in the coming weeks. You’ll be wise to treat your life artistically. You’ll thrive by using your heart as your brain. So I advise you to wield your intelligence with love. Understand that your most incisive insights will come when you’re feeling empathy and seeking intimacy. As you crystallize clear visions about the future, make sure they are generously suffused with ideas about how you and your people can enhance your joie de vivre.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): One of the big stories of 2018 concerns your effort to escape from a star-crossed trick of fate — to fix a long-running tweak that has subtly undermined your lust for life. How successful will you be in this heroic quest? That will hinge in part on your faith in the new power you’ve been developing. Another factor that will determine the outcome is your ability to identify and gain access to a resource that is virtually magical even though it appears nondescript. I bring this to your attention, Gemini, because I suspect that a key plot twist in this story will soon unfold. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Potential new allies are seeking entrance to your domain. Existing allies aspire to be closer to you. I’m worried you may be a bit overwhelmed; that you might not exercise sufficient discrimination. I therefore urge you to ask yourself these questions about each candidate. 1. Does this person understand what it means to respect your boundaries? 2. What are his or her motivations for wanting contact with you? 3. Do you truly value and need the gifts each person has to give you? 4. Everyone in the world has a dark side. Can you intuit the nature of each person’s dark side? Is it tolerable? Is it interesting? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): While a young man, the future Roman leader Julius Caesar was kidnapped by Sicilian pirates. They proposed a ransom of 620 kilograms of silver. Caesar was incensed at the small size of the ransom — he believed he was worth more — and demanded that his captors raise the sum to 1,550 kilograms. I’d love to see you unleash that kind of bravado in the coming weeks, Leo — preferably without getting yourself kidnapped. In my opinion, it’s crucial that you know how valuable you are and make sure everyone else knows, as well. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran loved the music of Johann Sebastian Bach. “Without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure,” he testified, adding, “Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure.” I invite you to emulate Cioran’s passionate clarity, Virgo. From an astrological perspective, now is an excellent time to identify people and things that consistently invigorate your excitement about your destiny. Maybe you have just one shining exemplar, like Cioran, or maybe you have more. Home in on the phenomena that in your mind embody the glory of creation.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “My tastes are simple,” testified Sagittarian politician Winston Churchill. “I am easily satisfied with the best.” I propose that we make that your motto for now. While it may not be a sound idea to demand only the finest of everything all the time, I think it will be wise for you to do so during the next three weeks. You will have a mandate to resist trifles and insist on excellence. Luckily, this should motivate you to raise your own standards and expect the very best from yourself. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Russian playwright Anton Chekhov articulated a principle he felt was essential to telling a good story: If you say early in your tale that there’s a rifle hanging on the wall, that rifle must eventually be used. “If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there,” declared Chekhov. We might wish that real life unfolded with such clear dramatic purpose. To have our future so well-foreshadowed would make it easier to plan our actions. But that’s not often the case. Many elements pop up in our personal stories that ultimately serve no purpose. Except now, that is, for you Capricorns. I suspect that in the next six weeks, plot twists will be telegraphed in advance. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Would it be fun to roast marshmallows on long sticks over scorching volcanic vents? I suppose. Would it be safe? No! Aside from the possibility that you could get burned, the sulfuric acid in the vapors would make the cooked marshmallows taste terrible and might cause them to explode. So I advise you to refrain from adventures like that. On the other hand, I will love it if you cultivate a playful spirit as you contemplate serious decisions. I’m in favor of you keeping a blithe attitude as you navigate your way through tricky maneuvers. I hope you’ll be jaunty in the midst of rumbling commotions. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): People will be thinking about you more than usual and with greater intensity. Allies and acquaintances will be revising their opinions and understandings about you, mostly in favorable ways, although not always. Loved ones and not-so-loved ones will also be reworking their images of you, coming to altered conclusions about what you mean to them and what your purpose is. Given these developments, I suggest that you be proactive about expressing your best intentions and displaying your finest attributes.

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MEDICAL/ HEALTH CARE A NEW HOPE HOME CARE IS NOW HIRING RN'S AND LPN'S FOR IMMEDIATE NURSING NEEDS IN MULTIPLE COUNTIES A New Hope Home Care is actively hiring RN's and LPN's in multiple counties surrounding Asheville NC (Haywood, Jackson, Macon, Swain, McDowell, and Henderson counties). We provide In Home Skilled Nursing Services for Pediatric Clients with a variety of medical needs. We have an immediate need for a variety of shift times including day shifts, night shifts, evening shifts, and weekend shifts. A New Hope Home Care is a locally owned and operated home care agency that offers flexible scheduling, shift differential, competitive pay, health insurance, supplemental insurance, 401K and free Continuing education. We are looking for nursing professionals that are seeking employment that is both rewarding and fulfilling. If you are a RN or LPN and would like the opportunity to help children and their families, please contact us today!! 828-255-4446 mowen@ anewhopehomecare.com anewhopehomecare.com

HUMAN SERVICES MENTOR / DIRECT CARE STAFF We are looking for adventurous, thoughtful role models for our students. Mentors at Montford Hall have great responsibilities and enormous impacts on the youth in our care. We value the personalized contributions and varied knowledge of our staff. Join our team of spirited

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YOUTH COUNSELORS Youth Counselors are needed to provide assessment support to atrisk youth being served in our residential facility. We offer paid training, excellent benefits, and advancement opportunities. vsoles@Mhfc.org. 919-754-3633. http://www. mhfc.org.

TEACHING/ EDUCATION AFTERSCHOOL COUNSELOR • PART-TIME ArtSpace Charter School. Applicants must be available 3-6pm, Monday-Friday and/ or Wednesdays 12-6pm. • Qualified applicants must be creative, energetic, dependable and experienced with children, grades K-8. • Duties include planning and leading group games/crafts and homework assistance. Other schedules will be considered on a substitute basis. • Email resume to: tami.magidson@ artspacecharter.org with the subject heading “AfterSchool Counselor.”

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