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An unorthodox collection of monuments at Calvary Episcopal Church in Fletcher offers a window into the past of “Lost Cause” veneration as its modern congregation and the broader community try to come to terms with how we think about the Civil War.

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Actually, it’s an amazing Pit of Potential On Aug. 27, the City Council voted to pay over a quarter of a million dollars to Nelson Byrd Woltz landscape architects to “create a concept plan for the redevelopment of city owned properties at Haywood Street and Page Avenue.” The listed scope is nebulous. However, Nelson Byrd Woltz’s website shows a list of projects — almost all are parks.

This space has so much more potential than being just a park. In fact, rather than being the Pit of Despair, it is an amazing Pit of Potential. This is the perfect place for the city to do something truly creative. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for our community to meet several of its goals with one carefully crafted development project.

The task force established to study what could be done with this space showed creativity with its report. One of the most exciting ideas was to create a mixed-use space, including affordable housing. This recommendation encapsulated many of the ideas people had written on little sticky notes during one public exercise to help find out what people wanted done to this site.

In addition to affordable housing, there can be affordable office space — for the small businesses that are losing their workplaces because of the conversion of the Flatiron Building into a boutique hotel. And yes, there would still be

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room for a nice park, with part of it serving as a green roof over what is now a concrete pit, which could house the new office space.

Before it’s too late, let’s look at the full potential of this space. Let’s see if we can work with the Basilica of St. Lawrence to find a way to have a beautiful landscape park in front of the basilica, instead of an asphalt parking lot. Let’s see if The North Carolina Arboretum and the Botanical Gardens at Asheville can help make the park an environmental learning center.

Keep thinking “Pit of Potential” and let the creativity flow. That’s what makes Asheville an exciting city.

— Billie Lofland Asheville

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brown and more dark brown with light brown -striped abdomens — perhaps a natural hybridization that occurred by honeybees themselves to allow for their disease survival (cross between wild, dark abdomen and yellow European).

I believe white clover blossoms should become our North Carolina state flower or at least be given (by legislative law) special status from unnecessary mowing off everywhere possible. Honeybees pollinate probably 80%-90% of all human food fruits and vegetables. They should definitely be considered for special status for our survival.

Just think of the millions of bees that are killed under push and riding lawn mowers during each grass-cutting season. Bees we just cannot continue to lose.

To everyone out there, please don’t mow off white clover flowers if you can possibly avoid doing so. Your own life depends on bees.

Old saying: “So goes honeybees, so goes humans.”

— Tom L. Nanney

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Take action for climate justice Greta Thunberg, 16-year-old Swedish student climate activist, has landed in New York after a two-week sail across the Atlantic. She is here to address the U.N. Climate Action Summit on Sept. 23 and to help lead the climate action strikes on Sept. 20. Greta and many student activists from around the world are saying, “We’re asking you to step up alongside us. There are many different plans underway in different parts of the world for adults to join together and step up and out of your comfort zone for our climate. Let’s all join together with our neighbors, co-workers, friends, family and go out on to the streets to make our voices heard and make this a turning point in our history.”

Recently, the Mountain Xpress detailed the challenge local government plans to “run their operations entirely with renewable energy by 2030” face in light of Duke Energy’s intentions to continue producing close to 50% of our electricity by burning fossil fuels [“Paths to Power: City, County Debut Results of Renewable Energy Planning,” Aug. 21].

Here in Asheville, Duke is putting the finishing touches of an $893 million power plant that will require fracked [natural] gas for at least a 25-year operating life. In their latest 15-year plan, Duke projects only 8% renewable energy capacity, yet wants to increase our rates to pay for fixing storm damage and leaking coal ash pits.

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leaders stop business as usual and respond positively and immediately to the climate disruption crisis now upon us. Radical and expensive measures like a Green New Deal may be necessary, but “It’s pay me now, or pay me later,” and now will be cheaper and more effective!

In our region, both Greenville, S.C., and Raleigh are hosting student-organized rallies at noon. Locally, adults can support the students: No work, no purchasing anything (buy food in advance and no “Amazon” online purchasing) and join the Asheville Climate Justice rally at the Vance Monument at 6 p.m. on Friday, Sept. 20. For more info, link to Asheville Climate Justice Rally [avl.mx/6hv].

— Frank L. Fox Asheville

Before renewables, reduce energy demand Solar is absolutely part of the solution to climate change, and I’m glad to see Buncombe County and the city of Asheville exploring viable options [“Paths to Power: City, County Debut Results of Renewable Energy Planning,” Aug. 21]. However, instead of asking how to get to 100% renewables, we need to refine the question to how can we reduce our energy demand so that we can get to 100% renewables. Looking at solar as the first option is putting the cart before the horse. Conservation, efficiency, then renewables in that order have the most proven and effective track record.

For example, HVAC accounts for 40%-60% of a building’s energy usage and represents the biggest piece of the energy pie and therefore the biggest opportunity. For larger buildings, optimizing the building automation software that runs that HVAC equipment can result in 20%-25% energy reductions for less than one-tenth of what it would cost in solar panels to generate.

How many miles per gallon does your home or building get? While everyone is familiar with this metric for cars, we are unable to have this discussion for buildings, even though buildings account for 40% of total U.S. energy usage compared to 30% for transportation and 30% for industry /manufacturing.

Take 12 months of utilities and convert them to one unit, an MPG electrical equivalent (MPGe), and now you have a metric that you can add to any existing green building program.

Realtors can add this MPGe to the MLS, which would add the value of efficiency and renewables while also creating demand for home energy

C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N audits, weatherization and renewable installers. Imagine this metric on Zillow, where you’re comparing your usage to your neighbors, which creates healthy competition.

There are certainly plenty of opportunities out there, but let’s start by looking at managing our demand instead of just focusing on how to create clean energy.

— David King CEM (Certified Energy Manager) Asheville

A nonlocal double standard I object to the hypocrisy of your own local coverage policy as regards to greenhouse gases, which fails on grounds of being inherently global, giving them no place on your front page and vastly less place in local government policy than environmental

Downtown Asheville: What’s your experience?

Just like the world’s other major cities, Asheville’s downtown offers an intense mix of sights, smells, impressions and people. Getting the right mix is a formidable policy challenge for those charged with balancing the city’s energy with its various needs, which include cleanliness, accessibility and public safety.

As the city prepares to update its 2009 Downtown Master Plan, it is asking the public to complete its Open City Hall online survey on how streets, sidewalks and other public spaces are managed.

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contraception and abortion funding, which have vastly more local and regional benefits, such as the school tax and diaper litter.

Local government, International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives/ U.N. Agenda 21 and editors also have no place telling overpopulation activists that such funding is not municipal purview while perusing both global greenhouse gas policy and unit-density limits, [which are] obviously motivated by overpopulation concerns even though completely useless against overpopulation, inhuman and speculative.

Municipalities already fund abortions for nonresidents (commuting employees) so they can add reasons, recipients and dollars quantitatively, without crossing any significant lines, and being orders of magnitude greener than alternative energy.

— Alan Ditmore Leicester Editor’s response: We always appreciate hearing from our readers.

Our recent cover story on Asheville and Buncombe County’s efforts to run their operations with renewable energy passes our coverage test because these are local governments taking action locally, even if it is a global issue of concern.

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Let’s be honest, Asheville Elitism and scapegoating won’t solve congestion, affordable housing and sprawl two grocery stores and downtown’s jobs and cultural amenities.

BY KAREN RAMSHAW “We have met the enemy and he is us” was the slogan on an Earth Day poster back in 1970, compliments of Pogo. Nothing has changed since then.

Asheville is growing, Asheville is changing, and many of us are worried that we’re losing the soul of our city.

Too many long-term locals are being left behind. Housing is in short supply and unaffordable. Rather than take an honest and comprehensive look at the issues, barriers and contributors to the problems, however, we in Asheville have smugly chosen the easy way out. It’s the evil hotels! It’s the greedy developers! It’s the luxury condos! It’s the tourists! It’s not us — it’s them!

But while raising our fists and screaming about hotels or tourism can be very satisfying, it isn’t actually going to change things. The true barriers to affordable housing can be found a bit closer to home. Asheville is growing, we need more homes, and our codes and our zoning have not kept pace with changing practices and needs. You can build a 3,000-square-foot house with a threecar garage and get no pushback, but you can’t build a 3,000-square-foot triplex unless you first get conditional zoning for the property.

Development costs in the area are high and even higher within the city limits, where additional regulations and the overall process are more burdensome. Yet it makes sense — socially, environmentally and financially — to encourage development

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“Asheville is growing, but it seems that some areas of town are to be protected while others are asked to absorb all the growth and construction and traffic.”

— Karen Ramshaw in the city center, where we already have infrastructure, rather than subsidizing sprawl and clearing acres of our mountain forests.

Neighborhood after neighborhood fights denser infill development because they’re “protecting the character of the neighborhood” or “concerned about traffic” or “want to protect the special experience,” etc. A proposed 214-unit development in East Asheville becomes a 24-unit enclave with prices starting at $675,000. Plans for 200 apartments — 20% of them affordable — on the Fuddrucker’s site in North Asheville had the neighborhood in an uproar, and the project never got off the ground. This despite the fact that the site is within walking distance of

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Traffic congestion is a big and increasing problem here, but growing numbers of people can’t find a place to live in Asheville. Pushing development farther out into the county will only exacerbate the traffic problem, even as we make our civic contribution to global warming.

The last city budget didn’t fully fund transit needs, and spreading already inadequate resources to cover a larger area further burdens vulnerable families. Folks who might have been able to walk, ride a bike or take a bus at least sometimes if they lived close in must now make all trips by car. That means these families must shoulder those additional costs, not to mention the time they now spend in traffic. In the “right” neighborhood, privileged homeowners’ concerns about congestion may be enough to kill a proposed development.

Meanwhile, giant apartment complexes go up in South Asheville, and those residents are simply expected to put up with it.

SCAPEGOATING DEVELOPMENT The Montford neighborhood is the latest entrant in the “we’ve got ours” development wars. Developers are proposing two 11-unit brick apartment buildings, two stories on the street side and falling to three at the rear. Five neighborhood property owners hired an attorney to file objections to the project, and at least two of them are investors who don’t live in Montford. There’s also a website that’s drumming up opposition because there will be disruptions, and “When the construction is over, our neighbors will look out on not one but two apartment buildings.” The horror!

Historical guidelines are being weaponized to fight inclusion and provide cover for homeowners whose real message is that their property value and right to a quick commute and protection from the inconveniences of growth trump the community’s need for housing, smart growth development and social equity. Asheville is growing, but it seems that some areas

of town are to be protected while others are asked to absorb all the growth and construction and traffic.

South Asheville, anyone?

I believe a number of neighbors have signed up to man the barricades without first doing their own research. We all feel overwhelmed these days, but let’s not automatically jump on the anti-development bandwagon. The Montford neighborhood has historically included small apartment buildings, and the proposed design is based on existing multifamily structures. At 37 units per acre, the proposed project is less dense than many existing Montford multifamily developments, such as 60 Flint St. (48 units per acre), 73 Cherry St. (72), 136 Chestnut St. and 28 Elizabeth St. (both 100). The proposed units would be on transit lines and within walking distance of downtown, enabling those residents to easily participate in the civic and cultural life of our city.

PUT UP OR SHUT UP The issue of affordability is playing out nationwide, and the problems won’t go away on their own.

We need to have honest, grounded conversations, understanding that we all need to contribute and we’re all going to have to give a little. How are we going to facilitate smart growth that protects our neighborhoods while welcoming new neighbors and new housing? How do we make our neighborhoods more equitable with a mix of housing types and prices?

Nicely designed apartments won’t drive down home prices: Check out Montford and Kimberly Avenue. The Larchmont did not destroy North Asheville, and the Longchamps didn’t wreck property values in the Grove Park neighborhood. Should we allow triplexes or fourplexes by right, as they do in Oregon, or do away with single-family-only zoning entirely, as they have in Minneapolis?

I don’t have the answers, but I do know that we need to start asking the questions, educating ourselves and listening to one another. Let’s work together to live out the values of respect and inclusion that we so love to put on our bumper stickers — and demonstrate that all are truly welcome here.

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CONFEDERATES AT CALVARY Fletcher church’s monuments reflect the Civil War’s long shadow

BY JON ELLISTON jonelliston@gmail.com Nowadays you could be forgiven for not knowing that Calvary Episcopal Church in Fletcher was once a local hotbed of the Confederacy, or that it still retains unusual relics of the effort to whitewash the South’s role in the Civil War. In fact, if you visit the church — one of the oldest and most venerated in Western North Carolina — you’ll find a congregation committed to decidedly more modern and progressive concerns. The church’s current efforts include an active and expanding food pantry, providing shelter and financial assistance to families in need, and outreach to diverse communities.

Yet the lore of the “Lost Cause” — the once widespread notion that the South fought the war solely for independence and other righteous causes — remains a tangible physical reality on Calvary’s grounds. A quiet corner of the property contains the remains of the Open-Air Westminster Abbey of the South, a series of rough-hewn granite boulders with bronze plaques commemorating a kind of Confederate hall of heroes and a laundry list of related cultural figures.

“The people who founded the church ... had relocated here from Charleston [and] were slaveholders,” notes the Rev. J. Clarkson, who was recently appointed Calvary’s rector after ministering there for the past two years. “So the land that we’re on, the original congregation, comes out of that wealth.”

HOW FIRM A FOUNDATION: First opened in 1859, Fletcher’s Calvary Episcopal Church was built from bricks made of clay excavated and fired on-site by enslaved people. While much of that original structure burned in a 1935 fire, other physical relics of the institution’s past ties to slavery and the Confederacy remain. A collection of monuments built to highlight positive aspects of antebellum culture remains on the church’s grounds. Photo by Jon Elliston Last month marked the 400th anniversary of the introduction of slavery to North America, triggering a new round of national soul-searching about human bondage and its complex legacy. And closer to home, the monuments at Calvary Episcopal offer reminders of the country’s troubled history and this region’s place in it.

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MONUMENTAL PROBLEMS Within a few decades after the Civil War ended, monuments to key figures of the Confederacy had become ubiquitous in the South. Conspicuously displayed in public spaces, they remained generally unquestioned, weathering the years with little overt criticism.

Times have changed, though, particularly in the last few years. Confederate flags have come down from state capitols, and some monuments have been relocated or destroyed.

Here in North Carolina, protesters sparked considerable controversy in 2017 when, in broad daylight, they toppled the statue of a Confederate soldier that had long proudly stood outside the old Durham County Courthouse.

The following year, a nighttime campus rally by UNC Chapel Hill students left “Silent Sam,” a similar figure, crumpled and stomped on the ground, echoing the fate of statues of Saddam Hussein and other deposed tyrants.

The state’s western region has seen its share of such incidents as well.

In Asheville, the towering downtown obelisk honoring Zebulon Vance, an ardent white supremacist who was North Carolina’s Civil War governor, has been a flashpoint. In both 2015 and 2016, the words “Black Lives Matter” were spray-painted on the monument (and in 2017, the same phrase was painted on a building at Vance’s birthplace, a state historic site in Reems Creek). Near the base of the obelisk, a monument to Confederate military commander Robert E. Lee was vandalized in 2017 and again last year; a similar one in Henderson County was effectively put out of commission in 2017 when someone removed the bronze plaque praising Lee from its stone base.

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N EWS WARTIME AND BEYOND In some ways, Calvary’s monuments seem right at home. Opened in 1859, the church initially served slaveowning planters from South Carolina.

And when the Civil War broke out two years later, the parishioners, like many of their neighbors, embraced the Southern rebellion.

“Many are the stories connected with Calvary Church during this war period,” reads an official history written for the church’s centennial in 1959. “When the Confederacy would need more infantry or cavalrymen, word would be sent out. … From the mountainsides and coves men would come with their rifles and horses to meet and organize companies of fighters. This meeting place was Calvary Church and from here they would march forth to defend what they held to be right.”

During the war, Calvary sometimes served as a Confederate barrack and makeshift hospital. As the fighting was winding down, Union Maj. Gen. George Stoneman’s raiders briefly took up residence there. According to the same historical account, Stoneman “was so impressed with [the church’s] beauty and spirit that

It’s more than a little ironic, then, that the man who would create the church’s “shrine to Southern immortals,” as one reporter called it at the time, was a native New Yorker who happened to be a descendant of another Union general, George McClellan.

Clarence Stuart McClellan Jr. served as Calvary’s head from 1925-32.

Known for his speaking and public relations skills, he made use of the then-new power of radio to attract more parishioners. But it was the Open-Air Westminster Abbey of the South, which he established in 1926, that really put Calvary on the map.

Indeed, for a time, McClellan’s brainchild became an attraction that drew thousands of visitors a year.

As the name indicates, McClellan was inspired by the memorials to rulers, aristocrats, artists, scientists and other notables in London’s historic Westminster Abbey, but it was a tribute to Robert E. Lee that truly sparked what he dubbed his “pet project.”

SHOW ME A SIGN: A state historical marker on U.S. Route 25 recognizes Calvary Episcopal’s collection of monuments. Photo by Jon Elliston he ordered his men to take special care not to disturb or destroy anything in this House of God.” The men, the account relates, “slept inside but were careful of conduct and language,” though the Yankees did avail themselves of the church’s red carpet, which they repurposed as saddle blankets.

HIGH IDEALS In 1926, WNC-based chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy installed a series of markers along U.S. Route 25, which they dubbed “the Dixie-Lee Highway.” One was prominently placed right by Calvary Episcopal’s driveway, “where all tourists motoring over this wonderful scenic highway may see the beautiful tribute to the South’s greatest hero,” the UDC wrote in a history of the myriad

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Reaction to these incidents has been decidedly mixed. Some Southern state legislatures have effectively prohibited removing such monuments from public spaces, but officials in cities like Atlanta have responded by supplementing the memorials with new markers offering less positive views of the Confederacy. In Asheville, the joint city/county African American Heritage Commission is exploring similar plans for recontextualizing Pack Square — once home to Buncombe County’s slave market — and the Vance Monument, which stands at its center.

These and related controversies show no signs of waning, and in the meantime, most such monuments still stand exactly where they were originally placed, despite the sometimes dramatic shifts in cultural context. And thus far, Calvary Church’s unique assemblage of paeans to Confederate leaders and luminaries hasn’t sparked any furor — for reasons that might surprise even longtime observers of the struggle over Southern memory.

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monuments it had sponsored across North Carolina.

“The nucleus of my idea is the Robert E. Lee marker,” McClellan explained in a 1931 interview. “Lee is here depicted mounted on Traveller [his horse] journeying into the South. It is Lee facing a new day, the day of his real greatness as president of Washington and Lee College, later to become Washington and Lee University. We here commemorate not Lee the fighter, but Lee the educator. That was the true Lee. ‘He cometh to his own,’ says the tablet.

That was true, and so we want all the noble men and women of the South to come into their own.”

The Abbey’s main purpose, he said, was “to keep before the eyes and minds and hearts of the coming generations the great ideals of the South — its songs, its poems, its books of prose and their writers, its famous statesmen; in other words, its idealists.”

Clearly, McClellan’s vision for the project was considerably more nuanced than the standard take on mythologizing the Confederacy. Yet he quickly found common cause with the UDC, a group of women of Confederate lineage who sought to inculcate a version of history that had nothing but praise for the rebel cause and the racial order it sought to maintain.

“To foster prejudices and keep aflame the heat of the Civil War ... and to carry on some phase of history that should be entirely forgotten, are absolutely foreign to my dream for this Abbey.”

— the Rev. Clarence Stuart McClellan Jr., 1931 intact.” In Dixie’s Daughters, her 2003 history of the organization, Cox documented how those determined women went so far as to laud the Reconstruction-era Ku Klux Klan.

In a 1941 summary of their monument-building efforts, those same UDC leaders praised McClellan as a “wonderful man” who had created “the first sanctuary of its kind.” The project, in

fact, became something of a fixture in Confederate Veteran magazine, in whose pages the UDC regularly touted new additions to the Abbey.

“Daughters of the Confederacy and all other true Southerners will be especially interested in this ‘Abbey’ because of its association with the days of the Confederacy,” the 1941 summary noted.

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SHIFTING VISIONS Shortly after the UDC placed its Lee marker, McClellan began collaborating with the organization to install similarly styled ones on the church’s property. Apart from the bronze plates’ inevitable greenish patina, these relatively simple structures appear today essentially the same as they did when they were put in place almost a century ago, though they’ve been relocated a couple of times over the years and are now something of a sidelight on Calvary’s grounds.

Strolling among them, one is struck by how all-over-the-map the markers’ honorees are. Not all of the 19 figures enshrined at the Abbey were Confederate leaders or even native Southerners, but most had either significant ties to the Confederacy or to romantic conceptions of the antebellum South. (See sidebar, “Who’s Who at the Abbey,” for the complete roster.)

Another thing most of them have in common is their connection with the United Daughters of the Confederacy. According to professor Karen Cox of UNC Charlotte, the UDC “aspired to transform military defeat into a political and cultural victory, where states’ rights and white supremacy remained MOUNTAINX.COM

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N EWS Amid the recent battles over Confederate markers, however, the UDC has had little to celebrate. Last December, activists loudly protested outside a meeting of North Carolina chapter leaders in Raleigh. And in April, the UDC lost a legal challenge in WinstonSalem against city leaders determined to move a Confederate monument situated on land the county had sold.

In response, Wake Forest resident Sara Powell, who is president of the UDC’s North Carolina chapter, sounded

a protest of her own. “You can’t change history,” she declared. “You can’t change yesterday. You can’t change your parents. You can’t change what happened 100, 150 years ago. It’s important that we remember our history, and we can learn and grow from it.”

Driving the point home, the state UDC’s website leads with an image of Silent Sam, the statue that was toppled in Chapel Hill, next to a Bible verse from Proverbs: “Do not remove the ancient landmarks which your fathers have set.”

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Episcopalians “often see ourselves as trying to be a big tent and hold things in tension. I’m not sure that you can parse Robert E. Lee the way [the Rev. McClellan] did.”

— the Rev. J. Clarkson, 2019 HIGHER HOPES For his part, the Rev. McClellan had grander ambitions for the project than were ever realized. He intended to install as many as 150 markers at the Abbey, he said, in sections that would highlight what he viewed as the South’s legacy of high culture, as opposed to memories of combat and martial gallantry.

On the one hand, he reasoned, the markers could help foster national healing. “We have had enough of war; let us emphasize the arts of peace,” McClellan told a reporter in 1931. “To foster prejudices and keep aflame the heat of the Civil War, to create sectionalism and to carry on some phase of history that should be entirely forgotten, are absolutely foreign to my dream for this Abbey. I recall Lee’s last words: ‘Lay aside all these local animosities and train your sons to be Americans.’”

At the same time, however, the endeavor he envisioned would employ stark stereotypes to recast Southern history in a way that honored the mythology of the Lost Cause.

“My plans call for a bronze, lifesized statue of the Southern Negro Mammy,” McClellan elaborated. “I want to see her with her big, wide, white, well-starched apron, her turban, her calico dress, and I wish to see her seated in an old-timey rocking chair as if before some great open fireplace in a log cabin on a windy night with spooks prowling about in the dark. I want to see her hands hard with toil, and her face — a spiritual face — recalling some of those exquisite spirituals of her race. I want to see all old-fashioned flowers a-growing … all the flowers the Old Mammy used to love.”

And once the grand memorial was completed, said McClellan, “I want this Abbey dedicated by the singing of old Negro spirituals by trained Negro singers on some moonlit night in the summer. Can you get the picture?

Can’t you feel it?”

THE ABBEY TODAY McClellan’s dream didn’t come to fruition, however. In 1932, he left Fletcher to head up a parish in Virginia, and while he remained revered by Confederate memorial groups, the Abbey grew no more.

Calvary’s current rector is fairly new to the position, and leadership turnovers at the church have limited opportunities to address its place in the broader controversy surrounding Confederate memorials, he says. But Clarkson — a Nashville, Tenn., native who loathes the notion of white supremacy — is acutely aware of both the tensions in play and the underlying concerns.

“For us, this has given us a conversation, in the sense that we really need to talk about that,” he says of Calvary’s Confederate roots. “But we haven’t quite been ready to take it on. In the church, there is not only an awareness of our need to take it on, but a need to examine that history more widely.”

The unorthodox nature of McClellan’s pantheon further complicates the undertaking, as the Abbey includes everyone from poets and songwriters to top-ranking Confederate political and military leaders. “That’s a very Episcopalian move to try to make,” notes Clarkson, adding, “We often see ourselves as trying to be a big tent and hold things in tension.” Nonetheless, he continues, “I’m not sure that you can parse Robert E. Lee the way [McClellan] did.”

And meanwhile, there’s little to be seen of McClellan’s original vision today. The occasional visitor to the Abbey finds an almost forlorn set of markers — well maintained, to be sure, the grass around them regularly trimmed. But they’re bordered by orange construction netting in connection with a road expansion, and they seem like an afterthought amid the considerable efforts of church volunteers to greatly expand Calvary’s food pantry.

“My blood pressure goes up when a reporter calls about Confederate monuments,” says Clarkson. But it may go down again when he passes by the back of the sanctuary, where the congregation has placed a decidedly different kind of marker. The small but significant framed paper sign is set next to a patch of exposed brick in the bell tower, the only part of the original structure that survived a major fire in 1935.

“The bricks were formed from clay dug nearby and fired on these grounds by enslaved African people,” the sign states. “May we build, in our day, the reconciliation of all people.” X

Who’s who at the Abbey

ROCKS OF AGES: A total of 20 monuments to historical figures associated with the South are located on Calvary Episcopal’s grounds. Photo

by Jon Elliston The Open-Air Westminster Abbey of the South honors the following people (in addition to the adjacent Robert E. Lee highway marker): Herman Frank Arnold, a Prussian immigrant who orchestrated the nostalgic song “Dixie” and oversaw its performance at Confederate President Jefferson Davis’ inauguration.

Jefferson Davis, who is recalled as “a statesman with clean hands and pure heart, who served his people faithfully and well from budding manhood to hoary age.”

Dan Emmett, an Ohio native who became a popular musician. The lifelong Northerner is credited with composing “Dixie” and with founding the first blackface minstrel group.

John Fox Jr., a Kentucky-born, post-Civil War novelist whose bestsellers were often set in the Appalachian Mountains.

Stephen Collins Foster, from Pennsylvania, who became known as the “father of American music” in the mid-1880s. His marker lists some of his most popular songs, including “Oh! Susanna,” “Old Kentucky Home,” “Massa’s in the Cold, Cold Ground” and “Old Black Joe.” Joel Chandler Harris, a Georgiaborn writer best known for penning the Uncle Remus stories.

Francis Scott Key, composer of the national anthem, “The StarSpangled Banner.”

Sidney Lanier, a poet, musician and Confederate army veteran from Georgia who settled in North Carolina’s Polk County and was often referred to as the “poet of the Confederacy.”

Robert Loveman, born in Ohio in the waning days of the Civil War, who lived most of his life in Georgia and became a renowned Southern poet.

Matthew Fontaine Maury, a U.S. naval officer who joined the

Confederate forces and became known as the “pathfinder of the seas” due to his advanced studies in oceanography.

Edgar Wilson Nye, a famous American humorist of the late 1800s who hailed from Maine but spent his last years in Fletcher, where he was a prominent member of Calvary Episcopal.

Albert Pike, a Boston-born polymath who lived most of his life in the South, became a senior Confederate army officer and was hailed as the “Arkansas poet of the Confederacy.”

William Sydney Porter, aka O. Henry, the prolific short story writer who is buried in Asheville’s Riverside Cemetery.

James Whitcomb Riley, of Indiana, was a famous author best known for his poems for children.

Orren Randolph Smith, a North Carolina native who is often credited with designing the Stars and Bars, the first official flag of the Confederacy.

Frances Fisher Tiernan, also known by her pen name, Christian Reid, was a Salisbury-born writer who coined the term “Land of the Sky” in reference to Western North Carolina. The only woman honored at the Abbey, she was also a longtime leader and historian of the state chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.

Henry Timrod, a Charleston native known as the “poet laureate of the Confederacy.”

Zebulon Baird Vance, North Carolina’s Civil War governor, was also a congressional representative and a U.S. senator.

George Westfeldt, a Swedish immigrant who became a wealthy coffee trader in the South and settled in the Fletcher area in 1870, joining Calvary Episcopal. X

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BCTDA casts wider net with new advertising plan “Let your spirit run free.” The tagline for the new $11.5 million marketing campaign by Explore Asheville, the convention and visitors bureau funded by the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority, is meant to highlight the liberation and spontaneity travelers discover when visiting the region.

But the phrase might equally apply to the campaign itself. Under the direction of 360i, the Atlantabased agency that took over direction of Explore Asheville marketing efforts in January, promotions for the area are slated to reach a wider audience than ever before — 20 million more people than were included last year, according to 360i representatives speaking during the BCTDA’s Sept. 5 annual meeting at the Omni Grove Park Inn. Demographically, explained 360i marketer Cindy Stein, Asheville’s primary target has broadened considerably from “elite empty nesters” to encompass all “people who like the finer things in life.” Those

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Secondary audiences, Stein continued, include tourists seeking a family-friendly experience and a younger cohort whose friends have mentioned Asheville as a “new, cool place to go.” Both of those groups, she emphasized, are more budget conscious than the “prosperous, established … couples living sophisticated lifestyles” listed as the

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That shift to target the less wealthy, added 360i’s Ashley Keetle, acknowledges Asheville’s vulnerability to a recession, which local officials, including Council member Vijay Kapoor and City Manager Debra Campbell, have said poses a greater-than-usual threat. “Tourism and travel can be the first things to go, so we’re trying ways to buffer the impact,” Keetle said.

In a press release issued before the meeting, Stephanie Brown, Explore Asheville’s president and CEO, noted that area visitation may

be at risk if the national economy falters. “Although key measurements were positive for the fiscal year, the industry is beginning to experience early signs of weakness that may be due to economic factors that appear to be impacting consumer confidence,” she said.

“Our role in bringing in customers to local business continues to be critical to the support and sustainability of our small businesses who rely on these visitors.”

The campaign will also reach a broader geographical area. Beyond Explore Asheville’s core markets in large Southeastern cities such as Atlanta and Charlotte, new cities where ads will be shown include New York, Chicago, Birmingham, Ala., and Columbus, Ohio.

Despite this substantial marketing expansion, said Menno Kluin with 360i, Explore Asheville would seek “the right kind of growth” instead of an unchecked increase in tourists. “We have to attract the right travelers, we have to attract the right people, so that we don’t muddle our wonderful destination.”

When Xpress asked for more detail on that remark, Kluin acknowledged the stress that some visitors place on residents.

“Imagine Asheville overrun with the wrong traveler. It will lead to resistance from the local community,” he said. He and his 360i colleagues, however, would not give an example of whom such a tourist might be.

According to Stephanie Brown, president and CEO of the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority’s Explore Asheville convention and visitors bureau, area residents had offered “terrific amounts of public engagement” about the authority’s Tourism Management and Investment Plan. But during a Sept. 3 presentation to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, she wasn’t ready to reveal exactly what members of the public had shared.

“I think it would be premature to jump ahead,” Brown said, when asked by board Chair Brownie Newman about specific takeaways

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of public input on the plan, collected through a series of August workshops and surveys. The TMIP aims to guide investments on a roughly 10-year time frame for the authority’s Tourism Product Development Fund, which by law must spend 25% of occupancy taxes on capital investment projects that drive new overnight visits to the county. Since its establishment in 2001, the fund has awarded $44 million to projects such as the Asheville Art Museum, Asheville Community Theater and WNC Farmers Market.

Alongside positive feedback, Brown said, some comments had

highlighted the drawbacks of the region’s popularity with visitors. “We recognize that the impacts of tourism are creating some experiences in our community that residents don’t like, and there are feelings that we’re being overwhelmed by tourism,” she said.

In response, Brown suggested that the plan would develop a different perspective on how occupancy tax revenues might be used to mitigate tourism’s negative effects. While she emphasized that the TDA would continue to operate within the boundaries of its enabling legislation — a frequent refrain in public statements

she’s made over the past several years — she said the process would bring a “new set of eyes around what that means and what really qualifies for funding.”

The TMIP comes at a critical point in the expansion of the region’s tourism economy. As outlined in Brown’s presentation, the property tax value of hotels in the county is projected to nearly double from its 2015 level by 2022: from $6.4 million to $12.7 million. That value is tied only to hotels already approved or under construction, meaning that Asheville City Council’s proposed hotel moratorium would have no impact on tax growth associated with approved or existing lodging facilities.

Brown hinted that a newly envisioned approach to tourism spending might seek to spread visitors and economic development throughout the county with placemaking improvements. Early discussions with Buncombe officials, as presented on June 18 by Tim Love, director of intergovernmental projects, identified multiple opportunities in areas outside of Asheville, such as a proposed sports complex

in Swannanoa and greenway-connected trails in Weaverville.

“I do think a lot of good is going to come out of this, and I can tell a lot of work is going into it,” Newman said after Brown’s presentation.

“The only process concern I have is that, if it is just limited to capital [investment], do we miss part of the potential conversation?” he then asked, referencing the 75% of occupancy tax revenues currently dedicated to tourism promotion.

“The discussions are not limited to capital,” Brown replied. “In the end, we may have priorities that we work together to find other sources of funding to accomplish them or look for flexibility in the resources that are available.”

BCTDA officials plan to present the results from the first phase of TMIP planning at a public forum on Tuesday or Wednesday, Oct. 22 or 23. The process is expected to wrap up in April. More information is available through the authority’s website at avl.mx/6hg.

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of the French Broad River, according to members of Asheville’s Planning and Zoning Commission. In a 4-3 vote, commission members narrowly recommended denial of conditional zoning for Jettie Rae’s Fish n’ Such, a restaurant proposed for 144 Riverside Drive.

Commission Chair Laura Hudson and commission members Tony Hauser, Joe Archibald and Guillermo Rodriguez voted against the project during the Sept. 4 meeting.

“I think it’s on the wrong side of the road, quite frankly,” Rodriguez said. “I would rather keep the integrity of the greenway and find some other adaptable use, like pathways and bike racks and other public uses.”

According to a staff report, the proposal was brought forward by Eric Scheffer, owner of Vinnie’s Neighborhood Italian on Merrimon Avenue, and commercial real estate broker Jim Diaz, and includes a two-story, approximately 5,500-squarefoot restaurant and bar, as well as space for two travel trailers. The project also includes an open air pavilion, restrooms and a parking area, all of which would be open for public use, according to the project’s architect Robert Todd.

Using donated funds, nonprofit RiverLink bought the proposed project site in 2007. The land is currently zoned as open space, which allows parking, recreation, restrooms and concessions — but not restaurants, triggering the need to apply for conditional zoning.

RiverLink, which promotes the environmental and economic vibrancy of the French Broad River and surround-

ing area, has received pushback since announcing plans to lease and then sell the property in June. Eight people spoke out against the proposed restaurant during public comment over concerns that the land was originally purchased by RiverLink to serve as undeveloped greenway space, including Karen Cragnolin, RiverLink’s founder and former executive director.

Three people spoke in favor of the project, noting its local ownership, public amenities and potential to draw new economic opportunities to the area.

“It appears that we’re caught in the middle between the public and RiverLink,” said commission member Karl Koon, who voted alongside commission members Sandra Kilgore and Jim Edmonds in support of the project.

Archibald said that while the ongoing dispute among RiverLink and some members of the public may appear central to the issue, the commission must make its decisions based on the original intent of the city’s zoning regulations.

“The reason why we put these [regulations] in place is to give people who own private property, they have guidelines,” Archibald said. “Personally I’m looking at this and saying eliminate the kind of emotional aspects of it and look at it as ‘What is the zoning?’ and ‘How did we get to that zoning?’ I think we need to let the zoning stick.”

Commission members also raised concerns about flooding, increased traffic, growth and the project’s potential impact on Asheville’s greenway system.

“This is a beautiful project, and it’s absolutely thoughtful and welldesigned. The only issue is with this one little special kind of continuous piece of land, I think we have to think long term,” added Hudson. “We’re just going to see so much density move into this area. I think we’ll be remiss in 20 years if we look back and we didn’t try to create this little bit of breathing room around the area.”

The proposal garnered mixed support from other committees and neighborhood groups. The city’s Technical Review Committee recommended approval, while the Asheville Riverfront Redevelopment Commission counseled denial.

Asheville City Council will make the final decision on whether the project receives approval.

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‘A bleak and terrible urgency’ World government group forms in Asheville, 1947

DOWNTOWN VENUES: In 1947, the United National Federalists officially formed in Asheville during a three-day conference held downtown. Over 500 delegates from across the country attended. Sessions took place in the Asheville City Auditorium, left, and the George Vanderbilt Hotel, right, as well as the Battery Park Hotel, not pictured.

Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville “Proponents of world government will come here from all parts of the United States next month to attend the first national congress of organizations and leaders interested in the movement,” declared the Sunday, Jan. 12, 1947, edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times.

The group, eventually known as the United World Federalists, was set to converge on Asheville in late February for a three-day conference held in multiple downtown venues. Locations included the Asheville City Auditorium, the Battery Park Hotel and the George Vanderbilt Hotel. At the time of the announcement, the paper noted, polls showed more than 50% of Americans favored “some form of international plan of government.”

A few days before the gathering’s official launch, R. Mayne Albright, executive director of the World Federalists of North Carolina, spoke at a Lions Club luncheon at the George Vanderbilt Hotel. The Asheville Citizen reported on the meeting in its Feb. 20, 1947, edition: “With the memories of World War II still in our minds, and with the assurance that the atomic and biological warfare of the future would destroy nations, aggressors or not, Mr. Albright pointed to the position of the United States. ‘The United States stands in unprecedented prosperity and power in the midst of a hungry, war-wrecked and lawless world.

As never before, the future not only of ourselves, but of the world, depends upon the choice we now make,’ Mr. Albright said.”

According to the article, Albright further stressed “that we now live in one world, and that we cannot return to the old isolation.”

On Feb. 21, 1947, the national conference commenced. “The eyes of the world’s topflight thinkers are centered on Asheville today,” The Asheville Citizen declared. “[Residents] will have the opportunity of sitting in on a history-making session tonight when some of the best thinkers in the country attempt to find a basis for unity which may spearhead the march toward some kind of workable world control.”

The following day’s paper recapped the evening’s session. According to the article, “a crowd of approximately 1,000 persons braved the blasts of a near blizzard” to hear University of North Carolina President Dr. Frank P. Graham, writer Carl Sandburg, former Marine combat correspondent Cord Meyer Jr., poet Mark Van Doren and The Saturday Review of Literature editor Norman Cousins speak.

Sandburg’s appearance, the paper wrote, “pleased the crowd immensely.”

The writer spoke on the importance of human relations, “painting effectively the story of mankind stalked by fear of the unknown.” Following his talk, Sandburg performed two spirituals on the guitar.

In Graham’s address, the university president declared: “Idealism does not cringe before force. Repression is the way of frightened power. Freedom is the way of enlightened faith.”

Meanwhile, Van Doren called for a world of brotherly love, void of class distinction and replete with “a world system of education ... [creating] two billion philosophers.”

Cousins’ speech focused on the lasting impact and continued threat of nuclear war. “There is no defense against the atomic bomb,” he declared. “But we must remember that peace cannot be achieved on a basis of mutual terror.”

The World Federalists movement, Cousins later proclaimed, had three principles: to strengthen the United Nations, establish compulsory jurisdiction and grant the United Nations access to limited areas in the quest for ongoing peace.

The theme of the evening, the paper wrote, “was one of urgency, the pressure of a bleak and terrible urgency[.]”

The three-day conference resulted in a merger of five existing world government groups: Americans United for World Government; World Federalists, U.S.A.; Student Federalists; Georgia World Citizens Committee; and the Massachusetts Committee for World Federation. Together these groups formed the United World Federalists.

On March 26, 1947, a month after the conference, The Asheville Citizen reported on the merging of three additional world government groups.

The Asheville United Nations committee, the local chapter of the World Federalists of North Carolina and members of Americans United for World Government joined forces to form the United World Federalists, Asheville chapter.

William C. Cocke was named chairman of the group. He offered a statement of policy, which was featured in that day’s paper. Within it, Cocke declared: “We believe that peace is not merely the absence of war, but the presence of justice, of law, of order — in short, of government and the institutions of government; that world peace can be created and maintained only under world law, universal and strong enough to prevent armed conflict between nations.”

In the 1960s, the United World Federalists became World Federalists, USA. It changed names again in the 1970s, becoming World Federalists Association. Its headquarters are in New York.

Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents. X

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for kids fun run. Held at Grove Stone & Sand Company, 842 Old US Hwy 70, Black Mountain ROOTS + WINGS HOMECOMING BENEFIT • SU (9/15), 2-5pm Proceeds from this 10-year Homecoming celebration with activities, food and beer benefit Community Outreach programs in underserved Asheville communities. $5-$10. Held at Roots + Wings Creative Campus, 573 Fairview Road WNC RUN/WALK FOR AUTISM • SA (9/14), 8:30-10:30am - Proceeds from donations at this 5K run and 1K fun run and walk benefit the Autism Society of North Carolina. Admission by donation. Held at Bill Moore Community Park, 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • TH (9/12), 9am-noon Mighty Messaging: How to Use Storytelling to Raise Awareness and Dollars

For Your Cause, seminar.

Registration required. Free.

• SA (9/14), 9am-noon - Making Your Business Legal and Tax Compliant, seminar. Registration required. Free.

• TU (9/17), 3-6pm Entrepreneur's Guide to Bridging the Digital Divide, seminar. Registration required. Free.

• WE (9/18), 1-4pm - Effective Fund Development Strategies, seminar.

Registration required. Free.

• TH (9/19), 9am-noon - Show Me the Money: Finding Prospects to Fund Your Mission, seminar.

Registration required. Free.

NONPROFIT MORNINGS • FR (9/13), 8-9:30am - Moving Beyond Scarcity and Self-Sacrifice, presentation by Angelica Reza Wind. Registration required: robin@ auxiliumworks.com. Free to attend. Held at Tunnel Road Tap Haus, 4 S. Tunnel Road, Suite 100 SCORE: TAX PLANNING FOR BUSINESS • WE (9/18), 11:30am-1pm - Tax Planning for Business, seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave.

EMPYREAN ARTS DROP IN CLASSES (PD.) AERIAL KIDS on Wednesday 4:30pm.

HANDSTANDS on Thursdays 6:30pm.

PARTNER ACROBATICS on Sundays 6:30pm. AERIAL CONDITIONING on Thursdays 1:00pm.

AERIAL FLEXIBILITY on Thursdays 5:15pm and Saturdays 1:00pm.

INTRO TO POLE FITNESS on Mondays 6:15pm, Tuesdays 7:15pm, and Saturdays 11:30am.

EMPYREANARTS. ORG. SEPTEMBER SUNDAYS 7, 15, 22 & 29 @ CANDLER CABOOSE! (PD.) Yoga 12-1pm, two craft/art/DIY sessions ($10+, kid-friendly) 1:30-3:30 & 4-6pm & 7pm movie + lawn games, fire pit + drinks for sale.

ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided.

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

Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS • WE (9/18), 11:45am - Sara Coplai, Legacy Foundations Operations and Dogwood Health Trust, presents on legacy foundations and their strategies, including an overview of Social Determinants of Health. $30/$20 members. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. BINGO NIGHT • 2nd SATURDAYS, 6pm - Bingo. Free to attend/25 cents per game. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde FRIENDSHIP FORCE OF WNC • SU (9/15), 4:30pm - Introduction to Friendship Force of

WNC, a non-profit cultural organization which promotes understanding, cultural education and citizen diplomacy through home stay journeys and friendships. General meeting at 5:30pm Free. Held at Skyland Fire Department, 9 Miller Road, Skyland HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

Held at Hominy Valley Recreation Park, 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler KOREAN WAR VETERANS CHAPTER 314 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Association, General Frank Blazey Chapter 314, general meeting. Lunch at noon, meeting at 1pm. Free to attend. Held at Golden Corral, 2530 Chimney Rock Road, Hendersonville LEICESTER HISTORY GATHERING • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting.

Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (9/11), 5:30-7pm - Budgeting and Debt, class. Registration required. Free.

• TH (9/12), 5:30-7pm - Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar. Registration required. Free.

• MO (9/16), 5:30-7pm - Understanding Credit.

Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar. Registration required. Free.

• TU (9/17) through (10/1), 5:30-8pm - Basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize goals, saving strategies and tracking spending.

Registration required.

Free.

• WE (9/18), noon1:30pm - Budgeting and Debt, class.

Registration required.

Free.

• TH (9/19), 5:30-7pm - Planning For Your Financial Future, seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE • 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview FRENCH BROAD VIGNERONS • SA (9/14), noon-2pm - Entertaining with Wine, presentation by Chuck Blethen. Registration required: bit.ly/2lye3S1. $7-15/$5-12 members.

Held at Pleb Urban Winery, 289 Lyman St. LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community.

Center • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30pm - Manna food distribution.

Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table, community meal.

Free.

FESTIVALS GEM, MINERAL AND FOSSIL SHOW • FR (9/13) & SA (9/14), 9am-6pm & SU (9/15), 9am-4pm - Dozens of indoor and outdoor vendors of gem and minerals. Free. Held at Camp Stephens, 263 Clayton Road, Arden HARMON FIELD MUSIC FESTIVAL • SA (9/14), noon-8pm - Live music festival with food trucks and artisan vendors. Registration: bit.ly/2kqmmyX. $10/$8 advance. Held at Harmon Field in Tryon, 430 Harmon Field Road, Tryon MOUNTAIN MEDICINE FESTIVAL • SU (9/15), 4:30-6:30pm - Community event benefiting local environmental nonprofits. Includes tabling from nonprofits, live music from Queen

Bee and the Honeylovers, food trucks and kid's activities. Information: bit.ly/2lBZ7SC. Free to attend. Held at The Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundy St. NC MOUNTAIN STATE FAIR • FR (9/6) through SU (9/15) - NC Mountain State Fair celebrates the people, agriculture, art and regional tradition with rides, exhibits, performances, animals and food and drink vendors. See website for full schedule and admission fees. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road RADFEST • SA (9/14), 4:30pm & SU (9/15), 3:30pm - RADfest, music and arts festival featuring live music by over 15 bands. Information: radfestavl.com. $25 single day/$40 weekend pass.

Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. ROCK THE BLOCK • SA (9/14), 7-10pm - Live bands and dancing.

Free. Held in Downtown Waynesville SMOKY MOUNTAIN ELK FEST • SA (9/14), 10am-9pm - Family-friendly event with live music, entertainment, craft vendors and educational demonstrations. $5. Held at Maggie Valley Festival Grounds, 3374 Soco Road, Maggie Valley

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 9-11 REMEMBRANCE, ASHEVILLE • WE (9/11), 8:30am - 9-11 Remembrance Ceremony to pay solemn tribute to those who heroically sacrificed their lives to save others and to remember those who helped in the rescue-recovery efforts at Ground Zero. The ceremony includes remarks

by Asheville Fire Chief, Scott Burnette, Asheville Police Chief, Chris Bailey and City Manager, Debra Campbell. Free. Held at Asheville Municipal Building, 100 Court Plaza

9/11 REMEMBRANCE, WEAVERVILLE • WE (9/11), noon - 9/11 observance with Craig Weeks speaking and Rev. Orion Davis, of Montclair, NJ officiating, also Reuter Center Singers, Weaverville Police and Fire Departments and Howard Dusenbery on bagpipes. Free. Held at Lake Louise Park, Doan Road, Weaverville BLACK MOUNTAIN AND SWANNANOA TOWN HALL MEETING • TH (9/12), 5:30pm - Black Mountain Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce and the Town of Black Mountain town hall meeting with area merchants and businesses.

Free. Held in the Town Hall Alderman's Chamber, Black Mountain Town Hall, 160 Midland Ave., Black Mountain BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN'S CLUB MEETING • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Yao, 153 Smoky Park Highway DEMOCRAT WOMEN OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY • TH (9/19), 5:15pm - September dinner meeting.

Registration required: buncombedemwomen@ gmail.com. Held at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE MEET AND GREET • TH (9/19), 6:30pm Democratic candidate meet and greet, hosted

by Laurel Park Precinct.

Free. Held at Henderson County Democratic Party, 1216 6th Ave. W., Suite 600, Hendersonville HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • TH (9/12), 11am-1pm Immigration 101: Facts vs.

Fiction, panel discussion focused on the subject of duplicated services. Free.

Held at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave., W. Hendersonville • TU (9/17), 3:30-5pm - Women's Suffrage Commemoration, presentation and monthly program. Free to attend.

Held at Hendersonville Community Co-Op, 60 S. Charleston Lane, Hendersonville HENDERSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL CONVERSATIONS • TU (9/17), 6pm - Public community conversation with Hendersonville City Council members.

Free to attend. Held at Hendersonville Church of Christ, 1975 Haywood Road, Hendersonville LET'S TALK: HOUSING • TH (9/19), 6:30-8pm - Let's Talk Series: Housing, community discussion forum with representatives from the City of Asheville, Pisgah Legal Services, Mountain Housing Opportunities and the Asheville Housing Authority. Free. Held at Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, 285 Livingston St. PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE OF HENDERSON COUNTY • WE (9/11), 2-3:30pm - Informed Progressive Series: Presentation by Patsy Keever, Candidate for NC State Senate District 48. Free. Held at Henderson County Democratic Party, 1216 6th Ave. W., Suite 600, Hendersonville

at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TU (9/17), 4-5:30pm - Read with Olivia the Therapy Dog. Registration required: 828-250-6482.

Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville FLETCHER LIBRARY • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free.

Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher KIDS FISHING TOURNAMENT AT LAKE JULIAN • SA (9/14), 8am-noon Catch and release fishing tournament for children 15 and under. $10. Held at Lake Julian Park and Marina, 406 Overlook Extension, Arden MISS MALAPROP'S STORY TIME • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St.

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-8774423 • TH (9/19), 9-11am Nature Nuts: Life Cycles, class for ages 4-7. Registration required. Free.

• TH (9/19), 1-3pm - Eco Explorers: Stream, class for ages 8-13. Registration required. Free.

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy a day of birding at Western North Carolina’s premier birding event Flock to the Rock on Saturday, Sept. 14, from 11am-3pm.

Info at chimneyrockpark. com BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKE OF THE WEEK • FR (9/13), 10am - Over the Hills and Far Away, easy to moderate, 2.2-mile, guided hike through the Sam Knob area. Free.

Meets at parking area at the end of Black Balsam

VETERAN TOWN HALL • TH (9/12), 5pm - Executive Leadership team shares important information and updates regarding services for veterans and family members. Free.

Held at Charles George VA Medical Center, 1100 Tunnel Road

Reuter Center, 1 University Heights

CHAI CHATS SERIES • SA (9/14), 3-4pm - Forest Bathing, introduction with Mary Liske. $5-$25.

Held at OM Sanctuary, 87 Richmond Hill Drive

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend.

Held at Ecusta Brewing, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 3, Pisgah Forest

COLLIER COVE NATURE PRESERVE HIKE • SU (9/15), 10am-12:30pm - Guided, 2-mile steep loop hike at Collier Cove that includes summits of Bearwallow Mountain, Little Pisgah Mountain and the upper end of Hickory Nut Gorge. Free. Meet at the Collier Cove Nature Preserve, 194 Rhododendron Drive, Arden ELISHA MITCHELL AUDUBON SOCIETY emasnc.org • SA (9/14), 8am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville • TU (9/17), 7pm - The Mysteries of Chimney Swifts, presentation and general meeting. Free.

Held at UNC Asheville

WEST ASHEVILLE GARDEN STROLL • SA (9/14), 11am-4pm Self-guided walks through 17 West Asheville gardens.

Free. Printed map guides may be picked up until 3:30pm at Omega Middle School, 60 State St.

PARENTING BREASTFEEDING A-Z • TH (9/12), 7-9pm - Breastfeeding A-Z. Registration required. Free to attend.

Held at Haywood Regional Medical Center, 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde TODDLER GYM • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am - Play time for toddlers and toddler toys, tunnels and

50 Artists, Raku Demos & Food SEPTEMBER 21 • 11am-5pm

KIDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • SA (9/14), 11am - Sign up to read for 15-minutes with J.R. the therapy dog.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up.

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climbing structures, ages 18 months-3 years. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

PUBLIC LECTURES AN OUT-OF-THISWORLD CHAT WITH CHARLIE DUKE • WE (9/11), 5:30pm - The Free Enterprise Speaker Series returns featuring Charlie Duke, an Apollo astronaut and the youngest moonwalker.

Registration required: avl.mx/6gx. Free. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (9/12), 6pm Keynote by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson for You Have to Start a Thing: NC Women Breaking Barriers Symposium at UNCA. Registration: avl.mx/6gq. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St. • TH (9/12), 6pm - North Carolina Women Breaking Barriers Symposium: Presentation by Dr. Valerie Ann Johnson, Mott Distinguished Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of Africana Women’s Studies at Bennett College. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (9/12), 7-8pm - Michael Lambert presents his and his father's memoir, My Story: Up From These Hills. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • FR (9/13), 10am-5pm - You Have to Start a Thing: NC Women Breaking Barriers, a symposium celebrating

the achievements of women in WNC and their impact on breaking down barriers.

Reception: 5:30-6:30pm at Cultivated Cocktails with Dr. Dan Pierce’s talk, Daring Amazonian Women: North Carolina Women Moonshiners.

Registration required: avl.mx/6gq. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St. CLOSING THE OPPORTUNITY GAP • SA (9/14), 9am-1pm - Closing the Opportunity Gap: Black Children Thriving in School, symposium sponsored

by Expanding Equity in Our Schools and UNC Asheville’s Africana Studies Program.

Registration required: bit.ly/2jYxlPU. Free.

Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place CULTURAL CRASH COURSE • WE (9/18), 5:308pm - Dr. Christina Reitz talks about the compositional history of Jennifer Higdon’s opera Cold Mountain, a musical adaptation of Charles Frazier’s award winning novel of the same name, set outside Asheville during the civil war. $10. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE • SU (9/15), 2-3:30pm - Is it Just? Is it Justice? presentation by Todd Williams. Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road ‘GOING BACK TO GO FORWARD’ • TH (9/12), 7pm - Jacqueline Battalora, author of Birth of a White Nation:

A-MAIZE-ING MAZE: On Saturday, Sept. 14, the Eliada Corn Maze opens to the public and runs through Sunday, Oct. 27. All money raised benefits Eliada’s continuum of care for children and youths ages birth to 25 years. Eliada has announced that again this year the corn is non-GMO. Beer and cider are offered for sale on weekends.

Visit the website for schedule. Tickets are $10, children younger than 3 are admitted free. Photo courtesy of Eliada Homes (p. 18)

The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today, speaks on the topic, Going Back to Go Forward: Exploring the When, Where, How and Why the Human Category Called White People Was First Used in Law. Free. Held at Highsmith Student Union, 1 University Heights ‘INSIDE POLITICS’ WITH JUDY WOODRUFF • TH (9/19), 6:30-8pm - Inside Politics, public lecture with news anchor and managing editor, Judy Woodruff. $10. Held at Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College, Brevard ‘KLANDESTINE RELATIONSHIPS’ AUTHOR • TH (9/12), 7pm - Lecture

by KlanDestine Relationships author and Accidential Courtesy film star, Daryl Davis. Held at Congregation Beth HaTephila, 43 N. Liberty St. LEARNING TO LIVE IN A FRACTIOUS SOCIETY • TH (9/12), 6pm - Learning to Live in a Fractious Society, presentation by author Kathryn Liss. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road STORIES FROM THE NEW ECONOMY • TH (9/12), 7:30pm - Stories from the New Economy: Building from the Bottom Up, stories from members of the National New Economy Coalition. Sponsored by the WNC New Economy Coalition and the National

New Economy Coalition.

Free. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St.

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural and outdoor activities. Visit www. ashevillenewfriends.org ASHEVILLE ELDER CLUB • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Jewish Family Services of WNC, 2 Doctors Park, Suite E CHAIR YOGA • THURSDAYS, 2pm - Chair Yoga. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. COUNCIL ON AGING, MEDICARE CLASS • TU (9/17), 10am-noon - Medicare Choices Made Easy. Free. Held at Woodfin YMCA, 40 N. Merrimon Ave., Suite 101 • FR (9/13), 2-4pm - Medicare Choices Made Easy.

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

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• TH (9/12), 9am-7pm - Prayer vigil as part of the annual Unity World Day of Prayer, a 24-hour prayer vigil shared around the world. Free.

• 3rd SUNDAYS, 11:30am - Monthly group for teen girls ages 13-18 from any background or tradition to recognize spiritual gifts and a sense of purpose.

Facilitated by Sharon Oxendine, an elder from the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina. Free.

HENDERSONVILLE ELDER CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 11am2pm - The Hendersonville Elder Club for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths.

Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Agudas Israel Congregation, 505 Glasgow Lane, Hendersonville THE CONFIDENT CAREGIVER • MO (9/16), 2-5:30pm The Confident Caregiver, workshop focused on helpful strategies to provide safe, effective, and comfortable care in the middle stages of Alzheimer’s. Registration required: bit.ly/2lvtDhh. Free. Held at Lakeview Community Center, 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain

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

Meditation Center, 1st Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm. www. ashevillemeditation.com, info@ashevillemeditation. com.

CREATION CARE GUIDE WORKSHOP • TH (9/12), 6-7:30pm - All those passionate about creation care, ecological justice and loving our neighbors are welcome. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. EASTERN ORTHODOX TEACHING LITURGY • SU (9/15), 10am - In honor of the Orthodox New Year Father Anthony Perkins presents a teaching liturgy in honor of the Orthodox New Year. Free. Held at Holy Resurrection Orthodox Mission, Waynesville NONDENOMINATIONAL HEALING PRAYER • 2nd FRIDAYS, 1-2pm - Non-denominational healing prayer group. Free.

Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville OPEN SANGHA • THURSDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Open Sangha night. Free.

Held at Urban Dharma, 77 W. Walnut St.

DE-STRESS, GET HAPPY & CONNECT! (PD.) Mindfulness Meditation at the Asheville Insight Meditation Center. Group Meditation: Weekly on Thursdays at 7pm & Sundays at 10am. ww.ashevillemeditation. com, info@ ashevillemeditation.com.

THE REDEMPTION PROJECT • SA (9/14), 10am-4pm - Train to become a mentor for women who are pregnant and struggling with addiction. Registration: 828-450-6081 or chutchinson@bethany.org.

Held at Bethany Christian Services, 142 Airport Road, Suite G, Arden

LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight

UNITY OF THE BLUE RIDGE 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River, 828-8918700

WOMEN TOGETHER • MO (9/16), 9:30am Women's group carpool field trip to the WNC Nature Center. Admission fees apply. Held at Congregational Church of Tryon, 210 Melrose Ave., Tryon

VOLUNTEERING HELP CHILDREN LEARN TO READ! (PD.) Volunteer with the Literacy Council to teach reading to academically struggling children from low-income families.

Tutor training in Sept: M/W evenings and two Saturdays. Info: rebecca@litcouncil.com • https://litcouncil.com/ programs/ youth-literacy/ ADOPT-A-HIGHWAY CLEANUP AND HIKE • WE (9/18), 10am-2pm - Adopt-a-Highway volunteer cleanup and hike.

Registration: volunteer@ conservingcarolina.org or 828-697-5777 x 211.

APPALACHIAN WILDLIFE REFUGE • Until SU (9/15) - Appalachian Wildlife Refuge is accepting applications for interns in wildlife triage, rehabilitation and the working of a nonprofit wildlife rehabilitation center.

ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS • 3rd SUNDAYS, 1-3pm - Send books to inmates in NC & SC. Information: avlcommunityaction. com or ashevilleprisonbooks@ gmail.com. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

ELIADA CORN MAZE • Through (10/27) - Volunteers needed to work three hour shifts at the Elida Corn Maze (9/14) through (10/27). Information: EliadaCornMaze. com. Held at Eliada, 2 Compton Drive GIRLS ON THE RUN OF WNC • SA (9/28), 9am-noon - 20+ volunteers needed at Race to the Taps 5K, Girls on the Run. Free t-shirt and refreshments.

Registration: hannah.robinson@ girlsontherun.org. Held at Archetype Brewing, 265 Haywood Road HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC • THURSDAYS, 11am - See the Hope Tour, find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how you can help. Registration required: tours@ homewardboundwnc. org or 828-785-9840.

Free. Held at Homeward Bound of WNC, 19 N. Ann St. WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S • Volunteers needed for Walk to End Alzheimer's to load/unload trucks and site set-up. Info: dyoung@alz.org or 828-254-7363.

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

WNC BIG SWEEP RIVER CLEAN UP • Through FR (9/20) - Sign-up to volunteer for the WNC Big Sweep river clean up event at various river locations around WNC on Saturday, Sept.

21. Register online.

Held at MountainTrue, 611 N. Church St., Hendersonville For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

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Cheers to pediatric patients For Well Played Board Game Café owner Steve Green, an event planned for Sunday, Sept. 15, hits very close to home. Last June, Green’s daughter Cami was discovered unresponsive in her bedroom. Following emergency medical treatment at Mission Hospital and diagnostic procedures at other hospitals, Green and his wife, Kathrine, received terrible news: Cami had five high-grade glioma brain tumors.

Doctors said she had six months at most to live.

Just days before a planned surgery, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn., contacted the Greens to offer an experimental drug treatment. The family took a leap of faith, forgoing surgery and proceeding with the new drug. Cami experienced a remarkable turnaround in her condition, with three of the five tumors disappearing within two months. She now takes targeted chemotherapy daily, Steve Green says, and the family travels to St. Jude Children’s every four weeks for monitoring. Cami began attending kindergarten this year.

At St. Jude Children’s, Cami met fellow clinical trial patient Brody Nelson, who recently died. Nelson was known for his Legos for Little Warriors campaign, which collected and distributed gifts of Legos to hospitalized children.

At Well Played’s Sept. 15 event, which runs 1-4 p.m. at 58 Wall St., new and unopened Legos will be collected in Nelson’s honor; donations of the card game UNO will also be accepted.

Using supplies provided by the cafe, attendees can create greeting cards and paint “kindness rocks” to send to patients at St. Jude Children’s and Mission Children’s Hospital.

Cami Green will be on hand to present a “special treat” to the first 100 people to participate.

Strong and pink The unexpected sight of pink steel beams at a construction site at 145 Biltmore Ave. is an eye-catching aspect of an effort to raise $100,000 for breast cancer research. Launched on Sept. 4, the online fundraising campaign (avl.mx/6hi) runs through Thursday, Oct. 31, and overlaps with Breast Cancer Awareness Month throughout October.

At the American Cancer Society Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Walk, which begins at 10 a.m. Saturday,

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KINDNESS ROCKS: Pediatric brain tumor patient Cami Green, daughter of Well Played Board Game Café owner Steve Green and Kathrine Green, has experienced remarkable results from treatment with an experimental drug at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. The Greens will celebrate the courage demonstrated by Cami and other pediatric cancer patients with an event at the café on Sunday, Sept. 15, 1-4 p.m. Attendees can paint kindness rocks for patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and Mission Children’s Hospital. Photos courtesy of Well Played Board Game Café Oct. 12, at Pack Square, one of the beams will be available for participants to inscribe with messages. On Friday, Oct. 18, the signed beam will be raised on the construction site, where it will remain on public view for several days. More information and registration for the walk is at avl.mx/6hj.

“We are thrilled to partner with Dave Steel Co., Beverly-Grant and 60 West Investments on this unique campaign to bring awareness to breast cancer in Asheville,” said Julia Storto, Southeast community manager for American Cancer Society, the organization that will receive the funds.

According to a press release, “Breast cancer is the most common cancer in

American women, except for skin cancers. Currently there are more than 3.1 million breast cancer survivors in the United States. This includes women still being treated and those who have completed treatment.”

More health happenings • A veterans town hall at the Charles George VA Medical Center will present information and updates on VA services and provide an opportunity to ask questions of executives and key staff members. Meets Thursday, Sept. 12, at 5 p.m.

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• The Progressive Alliance of Henderson County will partner with Project Dignity WNC to collect feminine personal hygiene products for women and girls in need. Drop off donations of products or cash contributions 4:30-6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 First Ave. E, Hendersonville.

• The WNC Run/Walk for Autism, sponsored by the Autism Society of North Carolina, steps out at 8:30 a.m. on Saturday, Sept. 14, at Bill Moore Community Park, 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher.

The event includes a competitive 5K and a 1K fun walk/run and is open to all. Registration is $25; more information at avl.mx/6hn.

• The YMCA of Western North Carolina announced that September is Childhood Obesity Awareness Month, noting that nearly one in five children in the United States are affected. The Y urged families to eat and drink healthy, play outside every day, dine together as a family, reduce recreational screen time and ensure a regular schedule that provides sufficient rest (10-12 hours per night for children; eight hours for adults).

• Four Seasons will host a support group for those who have lost loved ones to drug overdose this fall. Sessions are provided at no cost to participants and will be held at Wells Event Center, 33 Wells Events Way, Waynesville, 1-2:30 p.m. on Fridays beginning Oct. 4 and running through Nov. 8. Contact facilitator Dan Yearick at 828-692-6178 for more information and to register.

BRH offers hepatitis C screening In response to rising rates of hepatitis C infections across the United States, Blue Ridge Health is offering free screening to those belonging to an at-

risk group, including baby boomers and injection drug users.

According to a press release from the nonprofit health care system, people born from 1945-65 are five times more likely to have the liver infection than other adults, and most who are infected do not experience symptoms.

The most common cause of new infections is through injection drug use, but exposure can also result from a longago contaminated blood transfusion, a needle-stick injury or having been born from an infected mother.

“Over the past five years, North Carolina has experienced an increase in reported acute hepatitis C cases by over 300%, with the highest rates reported in Western counties,” Blue Ridge Health reported.

“We recommend that anyone born between 1945-65 or those at risk for other reasons be screened. It’s better to know and be linked to care than to suffer long-term health consequences or transmit the disease to others,” said Isla Neel, Blue Ridge Health counselor.

For more information or to schedule an appointment, call 828-692-4289 or visit brchs.com.

People in health and wellness • AdventHealth Hendersonville announced additions to its staff including urology specialist Dr. Nina Harkhani and social worker Pauline “Poppy” Dyer, who will provide behavioral health services for geriatric and medically complex adult patients in conjunction with internal and family medicine physicians.

• Chasity Burleson opened Fulflow Yoga Studio at 331 New Leicester Highway.

• Registered nurse Laura Chambers, who serves patients at the Advent Health Medical Group Wound Care and Hyperbaric Medicine at Medical Office Building, a hospital department of AdventHealth Hendersonville,

has received the DAISY Foundation Award for exceptional care.

• Registered nurses Marche’ Tucker and Jennifer White of Pardee UNC Health Care have been named to the Great 100 Nurses in North Carolina by The Great 100, Inc. • Allied Universal Security will host a hiring fair for hospital security officers on Wednesday, Sept. 11, and Wednesday, Sept. 18, at Holiday Inn & Suites Asheville-Biltmore Village Area, 186 Hendersonville Road. Open interviews will be held 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Online application available at avl.mx/6hm.

• Lisa Gundersen was named clinical operations director of cancer services for AdventHealth Hendersonville, where she has worked since 2008.

PRAISE Initiative celebrates five years Over the past five years, a number of local African American churches have partnered with UNC Asheville and ABIPA (the Asheville Buncombe Institute of Parity Achievement) to promote the health of their congregations and their families and communities. On Aug. 26, the efforts of 12 local churches were honored at a dinner for participants in the Preventive Health Education Resulting in Action Inspiring Success for Everyone (PRAISE) initiative.

“This initiative started out as an acronym on a white board,” said Ameena Batada, UNC Asheville associate professor of health and well-

PRAISE BE: A large contingent from Tried Stone Missionary Baptist Church of Asheville came to UNC Asheville to celebrate five years of PRAISE, the health promotion partnership between UNC Asheville, ABIPA and local African American churches.

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“The PRAISE Awards celebration was a wonderful time to reflect on all of our collaborative hard work and how far we have come as individuals and a community,” said ABIPA Executive Director JéWana Grier-McEachin.

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TAKING THE INITIATIVE: In 2013, Reems Creek Nursery in Weaverville began phasing out neonics from its on-site growing operation. Staff members also converse with consumers about the use of insecticides. “We try to educate them to avoid flowers, spray late in the evening when the bees aren’t out and to read the safety labels on the products carefully,” says owner Susan Reavis, pictured. Photo by Laura Hackett

BY LAURA HACKETT laurafaye15@gmail.com By 2011, Phyllis Stiles had grown tired of the gloomy news bugging the honeybee community. Colony collapse disorder and the deadly varroa mite were devastating hives worldwide; pollinators were suffering at the hands of pesticides, urban sprawl and monoculture; and as these problems piled up, the future wasn’t looking optimistic.

“I was 55 years old, and my husband and I had been keeping honeybees for a couple of years,” Stiles recalls. “At every beekeeping meeting people would cry about their bees dying. There was little good news.”

That was when an idea stung her: an advocacy organization that would help save bees and thousands of other threatened pollinators at a grassroots level. The following year, Stiles founded the inaugural chapter of Bee City USA,

which has since spread to 39 states and 174 chapters nationwide.

The organization, for which she eventually quit her full-time job at UNC Asheville, aims to reverse the threat facing pollinators around the world. In 2018, Bee City achieved greater recognition and support when it joined forces with The Xerces Society, an international nonprofit dedicated to invertebrate conservation. Together, the programs work to develop and endorse a set of commitments from communities that will create more sustainable habitats for pollinators.

NIXING NEONICS For Stiles and her peers, reducing the mainstream use of neonicotinoids, or “neonics,” which Stiles describes as “an obvious culprit in the decline of pollinators,” has been a major goal. And

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FAR M & GA R DEN thanks to the hard work of pollinator advocates worldwide, major strides have been made to both reduce its use and educate growers on its toxicity.

Originally developed in the 1980s, neonics are one of the most widely used insecticides in the world, according to a report by the University of Vermont.

The chemical can be applied as a seedcoating, spray, soil drench or trunk injection, and despite its popularity, many folks using the insecticide might not even realize it.

“You have to look closely at the ingredients,” explains Stiles. “And even if you do inspect the labels closely, remembering chemical names like clothianidin, imidacloprid, and thiamethoxam can be challenging for the average gardener.”

According to a 2014 analysis by the Center for Food Safety, neonics can “damage the central nervous system of insects, causing tremors, paralysis, and death at very low doses.” Neonics also easily seep into the soil, contaminate waterways and are highly toxic to aquatic organisms. Moreover, the Center for Food Safety asserts, the use of neonics is considered a major factor in colony collapse disorder, which plagues pollinators worldwide. Due to these concerns, the European Union announced a ban on three neonic insecticides in April 2018.

“What sets neonics apart from other insecticides is that they are systemic,” explains Ruth Gonzalez, who works at Reems Creek Nursery. “They are absorbed into every part of the plant.

Animals and bugs feed on it. Honeybees spread it to the rest of their hive, and it can affect their ability to navigate.”

The kicker? More often than not, most neonics applications fail to demonstrate a corresponding yield benefit, according to the Center for Food Safety. “The bottom line,” the report concludes, “is that toxic insecticides are being unnecessarily applied in most cases.”

HIVE MINDS In January 2016, Xpress reported in “Bees Here Now” that thanks to pressure from consumers, Home Depot and Lowe’s declared they would work to phase out neonics-treated plants from their inventory by 2018. Since then, a handful of other major retailers, including Ace Hardware, BJ’s, Costco, Kroger and Walmart, have followed suit with commitments to cutting down and/or removing all neonic-treated plants.

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clear when it comes to what people want to buy.”

The retailers appear to be keeping true to their promise. Stiles says that her Bee City volunteers often go into the stores that have made neonics-related commitments and verify with employees that neonics-free plants are labeled accurately. In Fort Bragg, Calif., for example, Stiles says there’s a group of Bee City volunteers who monitor the shelves of the local hardware store every week to see if the number of neonic pesticides is going down.

In June 2018, Ace Hardware published a statement noting that over 95% of its distributed insecticide product offerings are neonics-free. In an emailed statement this month, Home Depot’s Christina Glowacki-Cornell confirmed that its plants are now 98% free of neonics and that any plants that have been treated with it are labeled so customers can make an informed decision.

Some local suppliers have been even more proactive. In 2013, Reems Creek Nursery began to phase out neonics on its farm operation, which makes up about 40% of its inventory. Gonzalez says the transition to 100% neonics-free plants was finalized in 2015.

When it comes to the plants not grown on farm property, the staff also calls vendors to verify whether or not neonics were used in the plant’s production. According to Gonzalez, the majority of the vendors say they do not use the product, but on the other hand, a lot of growers have not yet implemented a companywide ban.

“We have pollinator talks and conversations with customers about it all the time,” says Reems Creek Nursery owner Susan Reavis. “If they are deciding to spray insecticides, we try to educate them to avoid flowers, spray late in the evening when the bees aren’t out and to read the safety labels on the products carefully.”

Reavis adds that while she sees the elimination of neonics as an important step, other forms of pesticides such as herbicides, fungicides and even organic insecticides can often be just as harmful.

Also, if improperly disposed of, leftover pesticides can pose a major threat to soil and water health.

“The whole umbrella of pesticides is implicated. It’s very complicated,” says Gonzalez. “We might tend to blame farmers and monocropping, but homeowners contribute a lot of pesticides. It comes down to us all paying more attention.” ’THERE IS NO PLANET B’ As more folks grow aware of the pollinators’ plight, Gonzalez emphasizes

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that real change is going to have to come from the decisions of individual growers, suppliers and consumers.

According to a 2019 Biological Conservation report, over the next few decades, 40% of the world’s insect species, many of which are pollinators, may become extinct. Pollinators are necessary for three-quarters of our major food crops, reports Pennsylvania State University’s department of entomology.

Although not every species of plant — an example being wheat — relies on animal-mediated pollination, the majority of the food we eat does. Without pollinators, we can expect a major increase in food insecurity across the world.

While the European Union declared its first moratorium on neonics in 2013 and banned the use of three different neonics in 2018, no such traction exists for the U.S. in the realm of public policy.

In fact, the policy train appears to be moving backward. Currently, there are no bans for neonics in place for agriculture, and this past year, the Trump administration rescinded an Obama-era ban on the use of neonics, allowing the insecticides to be used on a case-by-case basis in national refuges.

ECO ASHEVILLE CITIZENS’ CLIMATE LOBBY MONTHLY MEETING • 3rd MONDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - General meeting for non-partisan organization lobbying for a bipartisan federal solution to climate change.

Free to attend. Held at Paulsen Lodge at Asheville School, 360 Asheville School Road DRIVE ELECTRIC CAR SHOW • SA (9/14), noon-4pm - Drive Electric Car Show sponsored by the Blue Ridge EV Club and the Land of Sky Clean Vehicles Coalition.

Free to attend. Held at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road HARD 2 RECYCLE EVENT • SA (9/14), 10am-noon - Hard 2 Recycle: Collecting broken electronics, appliances, batteries, wire, scrap metals, books and styrofoam.

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STORIES FROM THE NEW ECONOMY: BUILDING FROM THE BOTTOM UP • TH (9/12), 7:30pm - Speakers from the New Economy Coalition present Ted-like Talks about the successes and challenges of the emerging bottom-up economy that puts people and planet first. Free. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St. UNDERSTANDING SUSTAINABLE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUNDING • MO (9/16), 6:30-8pm - Transition Asheville’s speaker is Laurie Timmerman who has 25+ years of experience in sustainable global development, including experience with US food aid and farmer livelihood programs in Africa. Free.

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“Even if neonics were to be completely banned, the haunting that hangs over us in the pollinator conservation world is [the question of] what’s going to replace them, and will it be worse?” says Stiles.

“If growers continue to swap chemical for chemical instead of addressing the root problem of what harmful pesticides do to our soil, water and wildlife, how much progress have we really made?”

Mark Traub, vice president of the Buncombe County Beekeepers Association, says that in the past five years, he has seen more folks growing interested in beekeeping and pollinator gardens, and it’s a change that he’s enjoyed. But for Traub, “It’s just a drop in the bucket. We need to change the way we think as a collective group. ….

Because once we screw this planet up, there’s no planet B.” Gonzalez echoes this sentiment. “I don’t have control over the EPA or the government or the huge, big picture, but I do have control over my own yard,” she says. “But in my own yard, I can plant flowers and things that are going to support pollinators. I can talk to my neighbors and tell them what I’m doing so they know they could be helping too.” X

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At the 2018 James Beard Awards gala in Chicago, 27-year-old Camille Cogswell, pastry chef at Zahav, a modern Israeli restaurant in Philadelphia, received the coveted medallion of Rising Star Chef. Her achievement is even more notable in light of the fact that she is only the second pastry chef in the 28-year history of the awards to receive the recognition as “a chef 30 or younger who displays an impressive talent and who is likely to make a significant impact on the industry in years to come.”

Cogswell, who received a diploma from Asheville High School several years before she graduated with a degree in baking and pastry arts from the Culinary Institute of America, hopes that some of her impact on the industry extends to more respect for the profession. “In Europe, in the rigid structure of haute cuisine, the position of pastry chef has always been held in high esteem,” she says. “Traditionally, those positions have been held by men. Here, for many years, the stereotype was if you were a woman

in the kitchen, you would do pastry, and that was seen as a lesser thing. That perception still lingers, but I think it is changing.”

JUST COOKIES? Among the women whacking away at that perception are Kaley Laird, pastry chef at Rhubarb, the Rhu and Benne on Eagle, and Ashley Capps, pastry chef for Buxton Hall Barbecue. Their job descriptions and daily routines give lie to the demeaning assessment Laird says she has heard: “‘It’s just cookies, right?

It’s easy enough, just follow the recipe.’”

Laird counters, “It’s a hard and rough career. And it’s not given the same respect, status or salary as chefs on the savory side.”

Capps smiles when she says, “When people ask me what I do for a living and I tell them I’m a pastry chef, they get

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FOOD very excited. They’re like ‘Ooh, you make dessert, how fun!’ They don’t realize what goes into it and how hard we work.”

Laird, who blames/credits her mother with giving her the baking bug through early immersion in the craft of Christmas cookies, went directly from a high school work-study job doing pastry for a local restaurant in western New York to the CIA. “You choose baking and pastry arts or culinary arts, and I chose pastry because I thought I could learn to cook, but I wanted to study pastry.”

After graduating from CIA then getting a degree in business from Niagara University, Laird moved to Yountville, Calif., and a position as pastry commis at Bouchon Bakery. “It’s the lowest man on the totem pole,” she explains.

“Your job is to do exactly what they tell you to do, work your butt off and get paid nothing. I worked really hard at every station and revamped and rewrote every station because I worked faster than anyone ever had. I was very aggressive for a commis.”

When she did not get the promotion and compensation she felt she deserved, she moved on to other restaurants in Napa, then San Francisco,

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patting yourself on the back for making a 6 a.m. yoga class, Laird has already been on the job for three hours in the pastry kitchen on the third floor of The Rhu, the bakery and café that opened a couple of weeks before she came on board four years ago.

It is there that everything baked — from biscuits to brioche, cakes to cornbread, sourdough loaves to scones and, yes, cookies, including gluten-free — begins and is then disbursed to The Rhu downstairs, to Rhubarb, to Benne on Eagle and to multiple wholesale accounts. She oversees as many as 12 people when fully staffed, including overnight bakers, morning openers and someone who reports to Rhubarb at 3:30 p.m. to plate desserts.

“When you take on someone who has the ability to do and execute more than plated desserts, you also need to find ways to support a team to support that person,” says Fleer. “The Rhu and our wholesale operations support a full pastry staff.”

SWEET SHIFT: Pastry chef Heather Gressett sees a growing regard for her profession. “I think attitudes are changing and our skills are more respected.” Photo courtesy of Gressett building an impressive resume but becoming disillusioned by staffing structures. “Restaurants thought they could save money by eliminating pastry chefs and giving the job to cooks, because the perception was it is easy,” she says. “The cost of living there meant all you did was work to make ends meet. I wanted to figure out this work-life balance thing I heard about. I didn’t know anything about Asheville, but I knew it was close to the coast for the beach, and I love hiking.”

Laird also knew little of chef John Fleer, his tenure at the lauded Blackberry Farm in Tennessee or his then 2-yearold restaurant, Rhubarb, in downtown Asheville. But his name popped to the top in a Google search, and she sent him an email with her resume, which he replied to personally.

ADVENTUROUS SPIRIT “Our first interview was over the phone,” recalls Fleer. “I was superimpressed by her intelligence. She knows what her style is and what she wants to do. She has walked the line between sweet and savory, and I believe in that.

She is very adventurous, especially in plated desserts, and I like that.”

Diners at Rhubarb perusing the four daily plated dessert selections and housemade ice cream see Laird’s adventurous inclinations but only a fraction of what she actually does on the job. While you’re

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TASTE OF NOSTALGIA Capps, who was the opening pastry chef for Rhubarb before taking on the same role at Buxton Hall, fully appreciates that concept. “I’m a person who thrives off teamwork, collaborating and pairing with the chef and every department, wherever I’m working,” she says. “Elliott [Moss] has a very clear vision here – Southern, whole-hog barbecue calls for nostalgic, old-fashioned desserts.”

Capps, who grew up baking pies, cakes and cookies with her grandmother, mother and sister in Burlington, says retro Southern desserts are definitely in her wheelhouse, but it’s the artist and the trained pastry chef in her that steers the baking program at Buxton on a creative track. She went to culinary school at Johnson & Wales University Charleston while a senior in high school, detoured to study fine arts at UNC Asheville, then finished her pastry degree at A-B Tech, where she still teaches.

Entering Buxton Hall, the overwhelming odor is of smoke and pork, but descend the stairs before entering the cavernous dining room, and the scents of cinnamon, vanilla, apple, sourdough and chocolate waft from the pastry kitchen where she leads a staff of four, including two of her former students.

Four clipboards on the wall define the program.

“One is what Buxton the restaurant needs for the dessert menu,” she explains. “The second is all the breads, biscuits, rolls, crackers. The third is catering, and the fourth is special order

and special events. Everything is made in-house, including the vanilla wafers.”

The wafers, known as Bu’nilla wafers, are the backbone of Buxton’s dessert calling card, the banana pudding pie.

“We’re not doing fancy molecular foams here,” she says with a laugh. “So what can we do to make everything special?

We flavor our pie crusts to complement each type of pie. With the banana pudding pie, we make the wafers, brown the butter before it goes in the crust to give it more flavor, make our pudding custard with fresh-cut bananas, crushed vanilla bean, a little bit of allspice and cinnamon, then put brown sugar in the meringue and torch the dickens out of it.

It’s like your grandma’s banana pudding made by a pastry chef.”

Gressett, who is fairly new to Asheville and doesn’t have Laird’s and Capps’ high profile or massive volume, appreciates that even when desserts claim just a small part of the menu, the regard for the profession is growing. “Just since I’ve started in the industry, there’s been a shift,” she says. “I think attitudes are changing and our skills are more respected.”

Count Fleer in the fan club. “I started my career in pastry,” he says. “The first two years I worked in a restaurant, they didn’t have a pastry chef, so I was that person.

Sometimes, in small, new restaurants you have no choice. But because of that, I’ve always had respect for the kind of person it takes to do pastry, and the importance, at least in the way I view my restaurant, of having a person focused on that. I strongly believe in the pastry chef’s place in our world.” X

Cacao, Confections & Cocktails Ashley Capps, Camille Cogswell and Kaley Laird will join forces with French Broad Chocolates pastry chef Beth Kellerhals at Cacao, Confections & Cocktails, part of Chow Chow: An Asheville Culinary Event. Scheduled to take place 7-10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 13, at the French Broad Chocolate Factory at 821 Riverside Drive, the evening will feature a tour of the chocolate-making facility along with desserts from each chef paired with craft cocktails and wine. Tickets are $60. For details and tickets, visit avl.mx/6hd. X

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A FIG FOR THEE Asheville chefs reflect on the fascinating fruit that’s not a fruit

PLEASANTLY PECULIAR: Figs, which are actually inverted flowers rather than fruit, are highlighted here by chef Hayette Bouras in a vegan fig and coconut custard tart. Bouras will launch her new restaurant, Sunflower Diner, inside the West Village Market and Deli at the end of this month. Photo by Bouras This is a sweet time of year for those of us in Western North Carolina who have a fondness for figs. Those intriguingly textured, highly perishable teardrops of goodness help welcome both the school year and the leading edge of autumn with seasonal dishes both sugary and savory.

But beyond the flavor factor, figs also have a certain oddball appeal.

Botanically speaking, they are a marvel of sorts, doing their horticultural part to keep Asheville weird. First, contrary to popular belief, figs are not fruit.

“A fig is an inverted flower,” says Alison Arnold, Buncombe County horticulture agent for the N.C. Cooperative Extension. That means that instead of producing a blossom followed by fruit like an apple tree, a fig tree produces just the fig, which is the blossom (or rather a cluster of many tiny blossoms) — it’s just inside out. “It’s not as straight-forward as an apple, that’s for sure,” says Arnold.

Things start to get really bizarre when one considers how reproduction works with such a tree. As many an internet source will tell you, figs are pollinated through a symbiotic relationship with wasps. The insects must crawl inside the

figs to lay their eggs, in turn pollinating the flowers. The wasps then die. Inside the fig.

What? Eww. “There is a specialized fig wasp species for each type of fig, and the fig is dependent on the wasp for pollination as is the wasp dependent on the fig for habitation,” explains horticulturist Clara Curtis, senior director of mission delivery for The N.C. Arboretum.

But don’t swear off figs just yet — those delicately crunchy bits inside a fresh or dried fig are seeds, not wasp eggs or parts. “Figs produce an enzyme called fiacain or ficin that digests any dead wasp parts [that are] absorbed by the fig as a ripening agent,” Curtis says.

Still apprehensive? Not to worry.

Both Curtis and Arnold point out that there are more than 900 species of figs, and those in WNC are unlikely to have any sort of unappetizing wasp entanglements. “Most of the figs in this area are self-pollinating, and most commercial brands are self-pollinating,” Arnold reassures. “Most people in this area grow either Celeste or Brown Turkey [figs], and those are self-pollinating and don’t require wasps.”

Whew. Now it’s time to hit the nearest tailgate market and grab some of those fresh inverted flowers.

Chef Hayette Bouras, food service manager at West Village Market and Deli and owner of the market’s soon-toopen Sunflower Diner, sources fresh figs from Anne Stafford at Spivey Mountain Produce in West Asheville, just a stone’s throw from the market. Bouras cooks with both dry and fresh figs at WVM, creating dishes both savory and sweet.

On the savory side, her go-to application is pairing with mild and soft cheeses. She also suggests chopping figs up with whatever other items might be on hand and mixing with spices to create a chutney. “We’re often trying to use up produce that might not be sellable but is still absolutely fine — we’re really trying to reduce our food waste here — and [a chutney] is a great application for that.”

For a sweet treat, Bouras, who is vegan, offers a recipe for a simple fig tart with coconut custard (see sidebar). “Figs to me have such a mild flavor, and it’s nice to highlight the taste of the fig without covering it up with too much else,” she says.

Downtown at Strada Italiano, chef and owner Anthony Cerrato has found success keeping figs on his menu since the days of his old restaurant, Fiore’s Ristorante Toscana, which closed in 2012. Dried Calimyrna figs are on Strada’s gluten-friendly menu yearround — with grilled duck breast and risotto; on pizza with goat cheese, prosciutto and basil; and in the restaurant’s popular Tuscan figs appetizer, in which they’re stuffed with local goat cheese and fresh basil, wrapped in prosciutto, flashfried and drizzled with a chianti wine and rosemary reduction.

This time of year, one may also find fresh figs at Strada in salads, served in a pasta dish with goat cheese-pecorino cream or pickled. “I would use a white balsamic vinegar,” he says. “That would make it a little bit sweeter.”

He also favors putting fresh figs in a tart or cooking them into preserves or a sauce. “Macerate the figs with sugar and cook them in their own juice, then put them on top of a New York-style Philadelphia cheesecake,” he advises.

For both chefs, though, figs are more than just a culinary ingredient. “When I

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F OOD think about figs, I think about my mom,” says Bouras, reminiscing about latesummer snacks at her mother’s house in Gastonia. “She has huge fig trees in her yard, and my favorite way to eat a fig is that, just going to my mama’s house and picking them off the tree and eating them fresh.”

She also has fond memories of picking figs with her father, who is from Tunisia.

“We would go visit his family there, and it’s on the Mediterranean, so there are figs all over his parents’ orchard.”

Cerrato, who is one of six siblings from an Italian American family, also finds in figs a taste of nostalgia. “I

grew up in New Jersey, and my uncle Johnny always had a garden, and my grandmother did as well, so there’d always be figs on a ledge in the kitchen with tomatoes that were ripening,” he remembers. “I used to just eat them off the tree. When they’re warm from the sun, you can taste the sunshine. It’s just really great.”

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by Steve Wittenberg “I really feel like most Americans are desperate to be involved in the greater good,” says John Richardson, director of the nonprofit PubCorps and owner of Black Mountain Ale House and Black Mountain Brewing. “Yet we have not made it easy, and we have not prioritized giving back like we should.”

PubCorps intends to change all that.

The online platform makes it simple to sign up for local volunteer opportunities. In the process, the organization hopes to build a stronger community. Richardson says the nonprofit will accomplish this, in part, by inviting volunteers to gather at participating local restaurants, breweries and bars for a complimentary glass of beer, coffee or soda after their shift is completed.

PubCorps will formally introduce itself to the Asheville community on Sunday, Sept. 15, with a launch party hosted at the Asheville Masonic Temple.

During the event, volunteers will help package over 100,000 meals donated by the Rotarians Against Hunger to be distributed by local nonprofits MANNA

Foodbank and Bounty & Soul to foodinsecure children throughout the region.

Tickets to the party are $5 each, and attendees will get a free T-shirt plus complimentary coffee provided by Dynamite Roasting Co. Afterward, all volunteers are invited to an afterparty at Wicked Weed Brewing, where PubCorps will buy the first round.

Though still in its infancy, Richardson has high hopes to expand the model beyond Asheville. “In three years, we’d like to be in 10 cities, and in five years we’d like to be in 50 cities,” he says.

In the meantime, he looks forward to debuting the concept to local residents.

“I hope that folks get excited about giving back,” he says. “And I hope that they get excited about connecting, whether it’s through the volunteering or while having a beer afterward.”

Above all, Richardson adds, “I hope [participants] get excited about the potential to show the rest of the world what it means to be Beer City.”

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Spanish tapas dinner Metro Wines and Grapevine Distribution will partner for a Spanish tapas wine dinner at Celine and Company on Wednesday, Sept. 18. Spanish garlic shrimp, lamb meatballs and a churro with dark chocolate fondue are among the menu highlights. Featured Spanish wines include 2016 Can Petit cava, 2017 Blanco Neiva verdejo, 2018 Laxas albarino, 2011 Ochoa Reserva and Lustau Capata Andres cream sherry. Tickets are $79 and include tax and gratuity.

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The Bountiful Bonanza of Bitters Local herbalist and botanist Abby Artemisia will host the Bountiful Bonanza of Bitters at Villagers on Wednesday, Sept. 18, focusing on herbal formulas that support digestion while simultaneously spicing up cocktails, mocktails and other beverages.

Enrollees will walk away with a better understanding of what bitters are and how they function. Students will also take home concoctions made during the class. Advance tickets are $35-$45 on a sliding scale. The price includes materials. There is an additional $5 fee for on-site registrations.

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19, to present an evening of (you guessed it!) doughnuts and cocktails. Featured combos include kabocha squash and ginger with Hazel 63 rum cocktail; Meyer lemon and cardamom with Highway 9 gin cocktail; everything doughnut with Asheville Coffee Liqueur; and raspberry sriracha with Shades of Rosé red wine barrel-rested gin. Prices were not set at press time, however distillery manager Leah Howard says the the total price for all four pairings should be between $20-$25.

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A Taste of the Vineyard On Friday, Sept. 20, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Henderson County will host A Taste of the Vineyard at Point Lookout Vineyards. “Every dollar raised goes toward our mentor programs through volunteer recruitment and training, program services, and supporting and sustaining current matches,” says program coordinator Shelbie English in a press release. The evening will include a barbecue dinner catered by Flat Rock Wood Room that will feature charcuterie trays, mini-hushpuppies, barbecued chicken thighs, slow-smoked pulled pork, bacon, apple coleslaw and more.

A free glass of wine will also be included, and there will be live music and a live auction. Tickets are $50 per person or $375 for a table of eight.

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CATCH AND RELEASE Two local bands launch very different projects

OUT OF THE SHADOWS: “We can definitely be the loudest band on the bill,” says Lena, center, of Asheville-based post-punk group Secret Shame. “It’s always: Turn the reverb up, and everybody’s amps are cranked.” The band is releasing its new album, Dark Synthetics, with an East Coast tour. Photo by Audrey Pierce

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com Asheville’s local music scene continues to be nothing if not eclectic.

And authentic. And while there’s no shortage of concerts to attend and new releases to check out, this week brings the launch of two notable projects.

Both are EPs, both are from independent, woman-fronted and LGBTidentifying groups. The comparisons pretty much end there. Secret Shame makes twilit post-punk while the Alex Krug Combo crafts earnest, organic folk-rock. But just because they don’t share a genre doesn’t mean these two groups can’t share space on playlists and in the hearts of listeners.

Dark days indeed “We always say, ‘We’re too punk for Goth and too Goth for punk,’” says Lena (who goes by her first name only), vocalist of Asheville-based collective Secret Shame. “We don’t play any bills where we fit.”

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Shame will play a much-anticipated Friday the 13th show at The Broadway in Brooklyn as part of a tour in support of the band’s new album, Dark Synthetics. After that, the band performs a hometown record-release concert (a free event) at The Mothlight on Monday, Sept. 16.

Lush and layered, Dark Synthetics has garage-y attitude and crisp sonics.

“Dark,” the first single from the new album, opens with a torrent of strings and drums, a barely contained storm that invites the listener into a rich nocturnal landscape. It ends, brilliantly, on a dime, the sudden silence giving way to a door creaking open, then slamming shut.

Secret Shame only came together in 2016 with bassist Matthew and guitarist Ryynikki inviting Lena (who also creates the band’s art) to sing with them.

The current lineup includes drummer Nathan and guitarist/synth player Billie.

Songwriting is “a big jumble,” Lena says. “Usually Nikki or Matthew will start playing something randomly, in the middle of a conversation, and everybody will start adding to it, slowly.” It’s all very fluid, she adds, but it’s rare for the band to scrap a song.

Live, “We can definitely be the loudest band on the bill,” Lena says, “It’s always:

Turn the reverb up, and everybody’s amps are cranked.” They create an atmosphere that stems from the music rather than onstage banter.

The band played a coveted spot on the Hopscotch Music Festival earlier this month. But even as Secret Shame gains wider recognition, this is a group of musicians who already know who they are. Two of the members, for example, are trans and state their pronouns in their band bio. “We definitely want to reach out to queer communities and labels,” Lena says. “We don’t need to talk about it all the time, but it’s an important thing in the world right now.”

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WHAT Secret Shame album release show WHERE The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Monday, Sept. 16, 9 p.m. Free

crowdfunding. “We have a lot of gratitude for our Indiegogo backers,” Krug notes. “Whatever challenges there are, the fact that 100 people came forward and made this happen makes all the hard times fade.”

The EP format allows Krug and her collaborators to focus on quality over quantity and the possibility of putting out shorter collections more often.

“I think I’m here for the people who want to go a little deeper,” Krug says.

“As a band, we really like discovering sounds that feel honest and good.”

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Songs for the outsider There’s a trajectory of sorts to the four tracks of Sleeping on the Woodlands, the new EP from Alex Krug Combo. It doesn’t travel from point A to point B on a map but instead works its way from an internal landscape to an external one. “I want people to find their own narrative in that and find it applies to them in whatever way,” Krug says of her songs. “I’m not thinking, ‘I’m going to write a song about this.’ It just starts emerging, and I keep working with it. … I follow veins that feel true. Songs make me discover things about myself and about others.”

The band — Jackson Dulaney on lap steel, Zack Page on upright bass, Kyle Samples on electric guitar, Bill Berg on drums and Rachel Gramig providing harmony vocals — will be joined by cellist Isabel Castellvi for a release show at Ambrose West on Sunday, Sept. 15.

The songs on Sleeping on the Woodlands were written at different times, but when it came time to select tracks for the recording, these four “were friends, they wanted to hang out together,” Krug says. “For me, it’s a little bit for the outsider. ‘Woodlands’

INSIDE OUT: Sleeping on the Woodlands, the new four-song collection from the Alex Krug Combo, offers compassion to the marginalized in heartfelt lyrics and skilled musicianship.

“I follow veins that feel true,” says Krug, center, with, from left, Zack Page, Bill Berg, Kyle Samples and Jackson Dulaney. “Songs make me discover things about myself and about others.” Photo courtesy of the band and ‘Overboard” are for those who’ve been put on the margins.“ “Arguing Wings” taps into some of the angst that can come from being marginalized, Krug says. And “Merriment,” which uplifts the end of the collection, is a remake from Krug’s previous eponymous

trio. That song, she reveals, “feels old, but ‘fun’ old. … It feels like it belongs to this project.” She credits Berg for the energy he brings through his percussion: “The drummer drops the vibe.”

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GLOW BY NIGHT: Attendees enjoy a quiet moment at 2017’s Indigo Ball, one of 14 past Color Balls that the Asheville Area Arts Council will celebrate Sept. 21. Photo by Max Ganly In considering themes for its latest Color Ball, the Asheville Area Arts Council was foremost inspired by its own history. This year marks the nonprofit’s 40th anniversary, a milestone whose traditional gift is a certain stone associated with royalty and Dorothy Gale’s shoes — and, just as importantly, is a hue that’s yet to be featured in the AAAC’s 14 previous arts bashes.

The choice all but made for them, the AAAC staff and board of directors will celebrate the organization’s four decades as the collective voice for the arts, advancing Buncombe County’s creative sector through advocacy, professional development and resources, with the Ruby Ball on Saturday, Sept. 21.

The four-party evening also marks the first Color Ball with Katie Cornell as the arts council’s executive director.

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Previously, the development manager for the Center for Craft, Cornell enters the role with more than 18 years of experience working in the Asheville arts sector.

“Luckily, I have a lot of event coordination experience, but it has definitely been interesting coming in at the end of the planning process,” she says. “That being said, I really appreciate having the opportunity to connect with so many community partners right off the bat. I have also enjoyed learning about the rich history of the Color Ball and the many longtime supporters that have been involved with this community event over the years.”

The Ruby Ball — which, Cornell also reveals, will be the last of the color balls as the AAAC looks to “a different fundraising model” in the future — will

be bookended by showcases in creative spaces in the South Slope, including the AAAC’s rooms in the Refinery Creator Space, where this year’s VIP event takes place, 5-7 p.m. Strada Italiano will cater the party while local vocalist Kat Williams performs.

The festivities then shift to the River Arts District for dual parties running 7-9:30 p.m. One option is the Eco Depot Marketplace’s soul and R&B-themed event, “RB Squared.” Local ’60s music specialist WestSound provides the tunes alongside complementary movement from the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre, one of the AAAC’s numerous grant recipients whose talents will be spotlighted over the course of the night.

Among the featured groups and individual artists Cornell points out are the Black Mountain College Museum +

Art Center, musician Juan Holladay, photographer/artist Colby Caldwell, multidisciplinary artist Martha Skinner and the Flatiron Writers Room.

Running parallel to “RB Squared” is “The Cotton Club,” during which the Historic Cotton Mill Studios will be transformed into a Cuban cabaret. Building representative Jannette Montenegro and longtime hosts Lauri Nichols (District Wine Bar) and Kristie Quinn (Smoky Park Supper Club) are combining forces for the Latin-themed party, described as a “dark and sultry soiree” with tunes by Patrick Lopez, DJ Zati and Katie Kasben.

True to past Color Balls, all of the above is mere preamble for the evening’s main event, the “Ruby Review.”

Though previous final parties have been held at The Orange Peel, Cornell says the AAAC decided to partner with South Slope neighbors and longtime supporters Wicked Weed Brewing to help showcase their shared district and mark the grand opening of the Funkatorium’s new event space.

From 9:30 p.m.-midnight, each of the 15 Color Balls will be celebrated while Holladay, percussion and dance collective Zabumba, indie rockers Get Right Band and other local danc-

ers provide the venue’s inaugural entertainment. As revelers take in the night’s many offerings, they can party with the knowledge that proceeds from the event directly support the local arts sector, thereby encouraging more such fetes in the future.

“The Color Ball was created to be the biggest, most extravagant arts bash in Asheville,” Cornell says. “We are excited about having the opportunity to showcase our grant recipients and other local artists and arts organizations … [and the] community hosts who dedicate their time, resources and contacts to help make this event happen.” X

WHAT The Asheville Area Arts Council Ruby Ball WHERE Various venues ashevillearts.com WHEN Saturday, Sept. 21, 5 p.m.-midnight $35-$175

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WRITING A BETTER WORLD While pursuing her Ph.D. in American studies, Stephanie Andrea Allen wrote her dissertation on how work by lesbians and black authors found its way into print. While there had been some progress in getting such work closer to the mainstream, “There were actually very few opportunities for certain types of writing,” she discovered.

In response to this shortage, Allen founded North Carolina-based BLF Press (the acronym stands for black lesbian fiction). The need for representation also led to the decision to put together an anthology of speculative fiction by black women. The book, Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing has been hailed as an “outstanding anthology”

by Publisher’s Weekly.

As part of its literary series, Asheville’s Flatiron Writer’s Room will host the editors of that anthology during a Saturday, Sept. 14, event.

Allen now teaches gender studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

Her philosophy, she says, is: “If you can make space for black women writers, you should do that.” Accordingly, working with editor and graphic designer Lauren Cherelle (who will also attend the Flatiron Writers Room event and whose story “Go Green” appears in the anthology), BLF “designed a beautiful cover, put out a call for submissions and got some amazing poems and short stories.”

The writings run the gamut of speculative fiction genres, from science fiction and fantasy to horror and magical realism. In one story, two girls fall in love, even though one of them is a vampire being smuggled north on an underground railroad. In another, a

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Black From the Future also includes a story by Allen herself: Inspired by a tweet in which Cherelle speculated that her cellphone kept watch on her at night, Allen wrote “Luna 6000,” a technological thriller that is also a fable about modern motherhood.

“For me,” Allen says, “the story is about our current climate where women don’t feel ownership of their own bodies, as well as my own experience as a mom when I had an emergency C-section.”

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According to Allen, speculative fiction allows the writer to approach experiences from previously unexplored perspectives — and it opens up a space for the voices of those whose feelings and bodies are erased by mainstream literature. In short, Allen says, the lure of speculative fiction “is what we can do with our imagination in a time when black experiences are passed over and ignored.”

The Sept. 14 event, which will include readings by Cherelle and Allen and time for questions, will reach an audience eager to learn about speculative fiction, according to Heather Newton, one of the authors behind the Flatiron Writers Room.

“Speculative fiction is a huge thing in Asheville,” she says, and many area writers work in those genres. Last year, the Flatiron Writers Room brought in a group of literary agents for local writers to pitch to. “One of the pieces of feedback we got afterward was, ‘For next time, you really need to get in an agent who handles that sort of genre fiction,’” Newton remembers.

“I’d been following BLF Press for a while,” Newton says, “ever since they published a short story collection by Krystal Smith”—a black woman writer of speculative fiction from Western

North Carolina. “The writers who run the Flatiron Writers Room want to do everything we can to support small presses.”

Allen hopes that attendees will also take the next step and seek out work by authors and voices they might not usually be drawn to. “If you see a new book by a black woman? Read it,” she says.

“Think outside the box. We enrich our lives by doing more, by thinking about stories by folks and about folks. All of us would do well to read things outside of our comfort zone.” X

WHAT Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle present Black From the Future: A Collection of Black Speculative Writing WHERE Flatiron Writers Room 5 Covington St. WHEN Saturday, Sept. 14, 6 p.m. Free RSVP at avl.mx/6hb

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‘The Baggage Plays’ at The Magnetic Theatre

CARRY ON: Unpacking life’s baggage is both a metaphor and a reality in Murphy Funkhouser Capps’ pair of autobiographical, one-woman shows. Photo courtesy of The Magnetic Theatre Life and all the emotional baggage that comes with it are unpacked at The Magnetic Theatre in Murphy Funkhouser Capps’ one woman show, The Baggage Plays. Performed in two parts, on two different nights, Crazy Bag and Carry On run through Sunday, Sept. 15.

Funkhouser Capps takes us along for the ride from her childhood through motherhood, and beyond. She provides laughter and pathos amid the literal stacks of world-worn suitcases that adorn the stage around her.

What started as a single play many years ago continued to grow as Funkhouser Capps’ life progressed.

She reworked her earlier version into two 75-minute, one-act plays. Much is informed by Capps’s church- and

military-family upbringing. She clearly inherited the pastoral gene from her father, standing before a large congregation and testifying her life’s story.

There are no altar calls, but there are plenty of moments where one might feel compelled to issue a hearty “Amen” in response to the moments of honesty.

Like a motivational speaker at a selfhelp seminar or group-therapy session, Funkhouser Capps instantly endears herself to the audience and holds that relationship through a barrage of selfeffacing confessions that often resonate. Who hasn’t had struggles with parental relationships during rebellious teenage years? And for those who’ve had children and felt uncertainty, there’s a deeply emotional connection as we witness Funkhouser Capps

struggle with motherhood, fearing she isn’t ready to take on the responsibility for another life. The funny bone and the heartstrings both get a workout here, and often alarmingly close together.

A life size cut-out of the playwright, clad in a tight outfit and smoking a cigarette, is brought out as part of her rebellious side. Like a split personality, she indicates that it’s her invisible friend, egging her on to push boundaries. “Dark Murphy” is onstage from early in the show and serves as a constant reminder of that part of herself, even as she is forced to grow up and accept responsibility.

Rodney Smith directs and assists with some onstage machinations, as a small mountain of stacked suitcases come crashing down at one point. It’s a symbolic touch that might otherwise seem too on the nose, but the wit and sincerity of the show prevent it from falling into that trap.

Each suitcase represents something specific, or — more accurately — the baggage that we accumulate and haul around with us in life. Opening that baggage can be daunting, but whatever lurks inside is still there, whether we open it or not: a strong underlying message of the show. Just wanting to ignore it won’t make it go away. And through her bravery, Funkhouser Capps is willing to open her baggage for our entertainment and enlightenment. X

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Mariachi Flor de Toloache On a balmy mid-July 2016 night at The Orange Peel, concertgoers who arrived early to see Black Keys singer/guitarist Dan Auerbach’s side project The Arcs had the privilege of catching Mariachi Flor de Toloache. Packed with lively originals and a cheer-inducing cover of Nirvana’s “Come As You Are,” the all-female mariachi band’s energetic set arguably eclipsed the spirit displayed by the headliner — at least until they were invited back onstage to help liven things up. Back in town for a residency at UNC Asheville, the New York City-based band will offer master classes on Tuesday, Sept. 17, and Wednesday, Sept. 18, to campus and community members before playing a 7 p.m. show the latter evening in Lipinsky Auditorium.

All events are free to attend. unca.edu. Photo by Andrei Averbuch

Sinkane Featuring one of modern music’s most diverse lineups, Sinkane brings together a mix of Sudanese pop, Krautrock, prog rock, electronica, free jazz and funk. Orchestrating the disparate sounds into a unified front is Sudanese-American frontman Ahmed Gallab, who plays alongside Chinese guitarist Jonny Lam Chinese, Filipina keyboardist Elenna Canlas, Trinidadian drummer Chris St. Hilaire and American bassist Michael “Ish” Montgomery. The band’s latest album, Dépaysé, takes its name from a French word that translates as “to be removed from one’s habitual surroundings” and finds the Brooklyn-based artists exploring the theme of belonging. “Our collective experience as children of the diaspora helped bring the music to life in the most honest way possible,” Gallab says. Sinkane takes its global dance party to The Mothlight on Saturday, Sept. 14, at 9 p.m. $15 advance/$18 day of show. themothlight.com.

Photo by Tiffany Smith

Natural Disaster A native of South Korea, Seung Jun Seo was raised by his grandmother in a rural town where the nearest neighbor lived 30 minutes away. With barely any exposure to commercial materials, he mixed soil with water to create works of clay. He went on to become a stage director for prominent theater and television companies but wound up paralyzed from a rare illness and hospitalized for two years.

Regaining his health and retiring from theater, Jun moved to Maui and rediscovered his love for clay forms and the natural world. Now based in Asheville and running the newly opened Gallery 101, he’ll debut his show Natural Disaster, which explores the violent dichotomy of volcanoes and earthquakes, and attempts to build a bridge of acceptance between the two. An opening reception takes place Friday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. The exhibition remains on display through Sunday, Oct. 27. junceramics.com.

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Give To The Music For its 11th annual Give to the Music fundraiser, the Music Academy of Asheville brings local rockers The Broadcast to The Orange Peel stage for a full-album performance of Led Zeppelin IV. These special takes on “Black Dog,” “Stairway to Heaven” and “When the Levee Breaks” are made possible through the band’s frontwoman/ vocalist Caitlin Krisko, who’s been a teacher at the school for several years. “[I’m] honestly floored by how much investment they have in Asheville’s youth culture regarding music,” she says. “The money we raise from the event will go toward free private instruction for lower-income local youths and also provide them the necessary instruments to be able to thrive.” The show takes place Saturday, Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. $20 advance/$25 day of show/$12 for ages 12 and younger. theorangepeel.net.

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A & E CALENDAR ART APPALACHIAN PASTEL SOCIETY • SA (9/14), 10am-noon - Bi-monthly meeting of Appalachian Pastel Society, with a demo by Gary Rupp. Free. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River ‘AROUND THE WORLD, A RETROSPECTIVE’ • WE (9/11), 5-6:30pm - Around the World, a Retrospective, slide show and presentation featuring photography

by H. Allen Benowitz.

Free to attend. Held at Yancey County Public Library, 321 School Circle, Burnsville ASHEVILLE ART THEORY READING GROUP • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - Asheville art theory reading group.

Free. Held at Revolve, 821 Riverside Drive, #179

BARNS, BARN ART & MORE • TH (9/18), 5-8pm - Proceeds from The Artists of The Saints of Paint show on this Third Thursday benefit the Appalachian Barn Alliance. Additionally Taylor Barnhill presents a talk on the barns featured in Our State magazine. Held at Madison County Arts Council, 90 S. Main St., Marshall BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (9/11), 5-6:30pm - Learn to fix clothes, like buttons, zippers or patches. September special project: revive your worn and damaged denims. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MO (9/16), 10amnoon - Itch to Stitch, a casual knitting and needlework group for all skill levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public

Studio Tour. Event includes artwork, refreshments and art raffle. Free to attend.

Held at The Center for Art & Inspiration, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville RIVER ARTS DISTRICT SECOND SATURDAY • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am-4:30pm - River Arts District gallery walks and open studios featuring more than 200 artists. Information: riverartsdistrict.com.

Free to attend/Free trolley. Held at River Arts District

THE BARNS OF MADISON COUNTY: The Saints of Paint present their works for sale benefiting the Appalachian Barn Alliance at Madison County Arts Center on Thursday, Sept. 19, 5-8 p.m., for Third Thursday. Taylor Barnhill offers a presentation at 6 p.m. highlighting the barns featured in the September issue of Our State magazine. Painting of Big John Metcalf Barn and House, courtesy of the artist, Cathy Mandeville (p. 42)

Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville FIGURE DRAWING SALON • FRIDAYS, 6-9PM - Open figure drawing sessions with live model. Basic art supplies provided or bring your own, dry media only. $15. Held at The Colourfield, 54 Ravenscroft Drive HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N. Main St., Waynesville, 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • SA (9/14), 10am-4pm Artist demonstration with Dominick DePaolo. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm - Weekly Open Studio art classes with Betina Morgan. $20.

MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES THREE WAYS • TH (9/12), 6-8:30pm - Mountain Landscapes Three Ways: Making Art of our Mountains, workshop with Nate Barton. $35.

Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain

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SECOND SATURDAY FOLKMOOT MARKET • 2nd SATURDAYS, 6-9pm - Second Saturday Market featuring vendors, live music, dance lessons, food and beverages.

Free to attend/$10-$15 for dinner/$5 per dance lesson. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART & ARCHITECTURE TOUR • SA (9/14), 9-10:30am Art and architecture tour of downtown Hendersonville.

Free. Held at Woodlands Gallery, 419 N. Main St., Hendersonville GRAND OPENING RECEPTION • MO (9/16), 3-8pm Grand opening reception.

Free to attend. Held at Blue Dharma Fine Art Gallery, The Grove Arcade, 1 Page Ave., Unit 137 HENDERSON COUNTY OPEN STUDIO TOUR PREVIEW PARTY • SA (9/19), 4-7pm Preview party for the Henderson County Open

SECOND SATURDAY CELEBRATIONS • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am-5pm - Second Saturday Celebration, event with food, music and artist demonstrations. Free to attend.

Held at Odyssey Cooperative Art Gallery, 238 Clingman Ave. SHOP & SIP THIRD THURSDAYS • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5:30-9:30pm - Pop-up art show featuring 5-10 artists and makers.

Free to attend. Held at Mad Genius Studios, 121 Cozy Rose Lane, Candler THIRD THURSDAY IN MARSHALL • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5-8pm - Gallery openings, studio tours, shops, food and drinks.

Free to attend. Held at Downtown Marshall

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS A CALL TO ARTISTS (PD.) The Fairview Area Art League is now accepting applications for the second annual "FAAL for Art Show" which is a juried show on September 21, 2019 at the Fairview Community Center.

Applications can be found on the Fairview Area Art League Facebook or email FAArtLeague@gmail. com Non refundable 10x10 booth fee: FAAL Members $40 ($25 to join FAAL) FAAL Non-Members $50

REGIONAL ARTIST PROJECT GRANT WORKSHOP • MO (9/16), 5:30pm Regional Artist Project grant workshop. Information: avl.mx/6gh.

Free. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva

DANCE LEARN TO DANCE (PD.) Ballroom, Swing, Waltz, Salsa, Wedding, Two-Step. Lessons, Workshops, Classes and Dance Events in Asheville. Certified instructor. Contact Richard for information: 828-333-0715, naturalrichard@mac. com, www.DanceForLife.net HIPLET BALLERINA COMPANY • TU (9/17), 7:30pm Arts and Cultural Events Series kicks off with Chicago Multicultural Dance Center’s Hiplet Ballerina Company. $15/$10 faculty/$5 WCU students. Held at WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee IMPROVER CONTEMPORARY LINE DANCING • THURSDAYS, noon2pm - Improver contemporary line dancing. $10. Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY LINE DANCING • WEDNESDAYS, noon-2pm - Intermediate/advanced contemporary line dancing. $10. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road LINE DANCE PARTY • SA (9/14), 2:305:30pm - Line dance party open to all dancers and non-dancers. $10. Held at Montford Recreation Center, 34 Pearson Drive OLD FARMERS BALL CONTRA DANCE • THURSDAYS, 7:3011pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $8/$7 members/$1

Warren Wilson Community. Held in Bryson Gym Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa

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

Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums. com ARBOR EVENINGS • THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Arbor Evenings, weekly outdoor live music event with refreshments available. Free parking pass available online. Held at NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way ‘A CLARINET PASSPORT’ • FR (9/13), 7:30pm - A Clarinet Passport, concert featuring pianist Vance Reese, and clarinetists Eric Taylor and Aaron Lipsky.

Register for location: clarinetandfriends.com. $28. Held in a private home.

ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BRYAN DIVISIONS CONCERT • FR (9/13), 7:30-9pm Bryan Divisions, concert followed by a community free expression circle. $10.

Held at Living Arts Foundation, 51 Old Candler Town Road, Candler BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • MO (9/16), 6pm - An hour of jazz with pianist and composer Michael Jefry Stevens and his musician friends. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • WE (6/19) & (6/26), 3:30pm - Ukulele jam, all levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville ‘CINEMATASTIC: THE MUSIC OF THE MOVIES’ • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/13) until (9/28) Cinematastic: The Music of the Movies, musical revue. Wed., Thurs.

Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $17 and up. Held at

Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock CONCERTS AT THE FLOOD • SA (9/14), 7-8:30pm - Ash Devine, indie folk music concert. $15/$12 students & seniors. Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain FALL CONCERT SERIES • FR (9/13), 7-8:15pm - Big Sound Harbor, concert.

Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard FLOR DE TOLOACHE • WE (9/18), 7-9pm - Flor de Toloache, all-female mariachi concert. Free.

Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane GOSPEL MUSIC STUDY • FR (9/l3) 7pm - Gospel music study. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Weaverville, 63 N. Main St., Weaverville KRONOS QUARTET • TU (9/17), 7pm - Kronos Quartet, concert. $20 and up. Held at Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. MUSIC ON THE PORCH • SA (9/14), noon-5pm Proceeds from Music on the Porch featuring live regional bands benefit the

Appalachian Women’s Museum to help replace the 111 year old metal roof. $10/$12 at the door.

Held at Appalachian Women’s Museum, 100 W. Hometown Place, Dillsboro Ole Tyme Pickers Friday Bluegrass OLE TYME PICKERS • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm - Ole Tyme Pickers, bluegrass concert. Free.

Held at Big Willow Community Building, Willow Road, Hendersonville

‘UNDER THE MOON AND STARS’ • FR (9/13), 7:30pm Under the Moon and Stars, concert featuring soprano Amanda Horton and pianist Daniel Weiser. $18.

Held at St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 223 Hillside St. • FR (9/13), 7:30pm Under the Moon and Stars, concert featuring soprano Amanda Horton and pianist Daniel Weiser. Free.

Held at Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Home, 1617 Hendersonville Road

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ‘BROTHERS LIKE THESE’ • SA (9/14), 7pm - Brothers Like These, poetry reading from Vietnam Veterans from the Charles George VAMC Creative Writing Program. Hosted by North

Carolina Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti. $20. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (9/11), 7pm Culmination of Fairview's Town Wide Read: One Foot in Eden by Ron Rash, with the man himself, in person. Free to attend.

Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview • TH (9/12), 7pm - Memoir Program: Talk by Michael Lambert, member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians and author of Up From These Hills. Free.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • SA (9/11), 11am - Nonfiction Book Club: Under the

‘SAMBAS & SERENADES’ • FR (9/13), 5:30pm - Sambas & Serenades, concert featuring flute and guitar. $25/$20 advance. Held at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 256 E. Main St., Brevard THE AMARYLLIS QUARTET • SU (9/15), 3pm - The Amaryllis Quartet, concert.

Admission by donation.

Held at St. Matthias Church, 1 Dundee St. TOP OF THE GRADE CONCERTS • FR (9/13), 7-9pm - Top of the Grade concert series. Information: avl.mx/65a. Free. Held on the Ella Grace Mintz Stage, McCreery Park, Smith Drive, Saluda

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Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • TU (9/17), 2pm - North Asheville Book Club: A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (9/17), 7pm - Fairview Evening Book Club: Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami. Free.

Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TU (9/17), 7pm - Mystery Book Club: Rescue by Anita Shreve. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (9/18), 3pm - Afternoon Book Group, read a 20th century book set in the South. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (9/18), 3pm - History Book Club: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WE (9/18), 7pm - Book Discussion: Up From These Hills by Michael Lambert. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • TH (9/19), 2:30pm - Friends of the South Buncombe Library Book Club: Sold on a Monday

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Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 828-586-9499, citylightsnc.com • SA (9/14), 3pm - Jamie Mason presents her new thriller novel, The Hidden Things. Free to attend.

• TU (9/17), 6:30pm - Dale Neal presents his new novel, Appalachian Book of the Dead. Free to attend.

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• 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 2:30pm - Wild Words writing group. Free to attend.

• MO (9/16), 6-7:30pm - Men read aloud Eve Ensler's book, The Apology. Free to attend.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Womxn's Empowerment Bookclub.

Free to attend.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild.

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FRIENDS OF HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY • FR (5/4) & SA (5/5), 10am-4:30pm - Proceeds from this large book sale benefit the Friends of Henderson County Public Library. Free to attend. Held at Friends of Henderson County Public Library, 1940 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville ‘HIDDEN HISTORY OF ASHEVILLE’ • SA (9/14), 1pm - Zoe Rhine presents her book, Hidden History of Asheville. Free to attend.

Held at Barnes and Noble Booksellers Biltmore Park, Biltmore Park Town Square, 33 Town Square Blvd., #100 ‘HOLD STILL! I CAN’T SEE MYSELF’ • SA (9/14), 7pm Storyteller Dottie Jean presents Hold Still! I Can’t See Myself. $20. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon LITERARY FICTION CONTEST • Through MO (9/30) Submissions accepted for the annual Literary Fiction contest. See website for full guidelines. Held at The Writer's Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Road MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • WE (9/11), 6pm - Dale Neal presents his book, Appalachian Book of the Dead. Free to attend.

• TH (9/12), 6pm - David Hopes presents his book,

The Falls of the Wyona.

Free to attend.

• MO (9/16), 6pm -Tim Reinhardt presents Jesus’s Brother James, in conversation with Terry Roberts. Free to attend.

• TU (9/17), 6pm - Russell Jones presents his book, Spirit in Session: Working with Your Client's Spirituality (and Your Own) in Psychotherapy. Free to attend.

• WE (9/18), 6pm - Rob Christensen presents his book, The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys.

Free to attend.

• TH (9/19), 6pm - Dan Kovalik presents his book The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil. Free to attend.

• TH (9/19), 7pm - Notorious History Book Club discusses Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy by Heather Ann Thompson. Free to attend.

MEGAN LUCAS PRESENTS ‘SONGBIRDS & STRAY DOGS’ • SA (9/14), 2-4pm Megan Lucas presents her book, Songbirds & Stray Dogs. Free to attend.

Held at Blue Ridge Books, 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville STORYCORPS FOUNDER DAVE ISAY • TH (9/19), 7:309pm - Presentation by StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay. Free. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane ‘WELCOME TO NIGHT VALE’ • MO (9/16), 8pm Welcome to Night Vale, storytelling podcast. $33.

Held at Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. WRITERS AT WOLFE WITH DALE NEAL • TH (9/19), 5:30-7pm - Dale Neal presents his new novel, Appalachian Book of the Dead. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St.

THEATER BASIC ACTING FOR ADULTS (PD.) BASIC ACTING FOR ADULTS Come explore how acting works,

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5 classes, Saturday 2-4, Sept.21-Oct.19. $50.00 61 1/2 Main Street, Canton, NC (Haywood Dance Studio upstairs) 912-2248589. 12 students.

‘FATHER ABRAHAM: EARTHLY POWER’ • SA (9/7), 6pm - Father Abraham: Earthly Power, the second in the triptych of historical dramas about our 16th President. Free with reserved seating for $5. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St. 'THE BAGGAGE PLAYS: CRAZY BAG' & 'CARRY ON' • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS, (9/5) until (9/15) - The Baggage Plays: Crazy Bag and Carry On, one woman show by Murphy Funkhouser Capps. Chapter One: Crazy Bag, Thurs. & Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 3pm and Chapter Two: Carry On, Fri. & Sun.: 7:30pm and Sat.: 3pm. $20/$10 students. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. 'THE EDUCATION OF TED HARRIS' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (9/12) until (9/28), 7:30pm - The Education of Ted Harris. $21/$18 advance. Held at Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. 'TRUTH BE TOLD!' • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS until (9/21), 7:30pm - Truth Be Told, two one act plays addressing the struggles of sexual abuse and the healing. $20.

Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. ‘WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF?’ • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/13) until (9/22) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $20/$15 youth and student. Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville

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LICK THE SPOON: Spoonin’: A Showcase of Handcrafted Spoons opens at Grovewood Gallery on Saturday, Sept. 14, with a reception from 2-5 p.m. This group exhibition includes both functional and sculptural works by 18 artists from across the country working in wood, sterling silver and copper. Spoonin’ remains on view through Sunday, Oct. 13. Photo courtesy of the artist, Aaron Iaquinto.

ART AT WCU • Resounding Change: Sonic Art and the Environment, exhibition highlighting contemporary artists who use sound to engage with environmental issues.

Aug. 20-Dec. 6 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART • Taking the Ordinary to the Extraordinary, exhibition of paintings by Bill Cole.

Sept. 1-Sept. 30 82 Patton Ave. BELOVED ASHEVILLE LIBERATION STATION • Indigenous art exhibition. Reception: Friday, Sept. 13, 6-8pm.

Sept. 13-Sept. 30 10 N. Market St. GALLERY 101 • Natural Disaster, exhibition of ceramic art

by Seung Jun. Reception: Friday, Sept. 13, 7pm.

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by Nina Howard.

Aug. 23-Sept. 15 250 Pigeon St., Waynesville HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • ArtShare, exhibition of works that have been donated or consigned to the Haywood County Arts Council.

Sept. 6-Sept. 28 86 N. Main St., Waynesville HORSE + HERO • Julie Armbruster's Collective Strength.

Aug. 16-Sept. 16 14 Patton Ave. MARS HILL UNIVERSITY, WEIZENBLATT GALLERY • United State of Inequity, contemporary, primitive

multimedia by Cleaster Cotton.

Aug. 28-Sept. 19 79 Cascade St., Mars Hill MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT • Exhibition of woodwork

by Nathan Favors.

Aug. 22-Oct. 21 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville MOMENTUM GALLERY • A New Leaf, group exhibition featuring works exploring the subject of foliage. Reception: Thursday, Sept. 12, 5-8pm.

Sept. 12-Nov. 9 24 N. Lexington Ave. PINK DOG CREATIVE • Barbara Fisher exhibition, Tangled Mapping: Memories of the Future, acrylic on canvas.

Aug. 23-Sept. 22 348 Depot St. THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL • Something to Hide, exhibition of paintings by Jeff Kinzel.

Aug. 22-Sept. 14 360 Asheville School Road UPSTAIRS ARTSPACE 49 S. Trade St., Tryon • Drag, prints by Hague Williams.

Aug. 17-Sept. 27 • Original to Original: Artists Transforming Materials, 3-D works by Williams, D.J. Gaskin, Janet Orselli, Lori Jusino, Michael Ziemer, Jen Bowen and Maryann Pappano.

Aug. 17-Sept. 27 • Papering Surfaces, collages by Lisa De Girolamo and Grant Penny.

Aug. 17-Sept. 27 WINDOW • Feed, exhibition of site specific work by Kirsten Stolle as part of the Terrain Biennual.

Sept. 6-Jan. 6 54 Broadway Contact the galleries for hours and admission fees

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, (African Folk Music), 8:00PM AUX BAR (80s/90s Dance Music) Wednesday Night Warmup, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Open Mic, 6:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ The Note Ropers & live Honky Tonk, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Taking Meds, Shutterings, Ghostalker, 8:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Trivia!, 7:00PM

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FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (new wave, synth, post punk), 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Thomas Strayhorn, 7:00PM Brad Byrd w/ Rev Justin Hylton & Gypsy & Me, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Music Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bluegrass Jam hosted by Gary Mac Fiddle, 6:00PM NANTAHALA BREWING - ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Shakey Graves & Dr. Dog, 5:00PM

THE 63 TAPHOUSE Weekly 9 Ball Tournament (sign ups at 7:00 p.m.), 8:00PM

ODDITORIUM As Sick As Us, Violent Life Violent Death, Written In Gray, Pickwick Commons, 9:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Albi's Classic Guitar Solos, 5:00PM Ruby's Blues Jam, 9:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM SOVEREIGN KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Chris Jamison's Ghost, 6:00PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Ernest Ray Hendrix, 5:00PM Peter More w/ Gold Rose, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Ceremony w/ Choir Boy & Glitterer, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM TREEROCK SOCIAL CIDER HOUSE Witty Wednesday Trivia, 7:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Wendy Jones and Michael Jefry Stevens, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Showers on Mars (alternative, indie-rock), 9:00PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray and the Space Cooties, 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ionize, 7:00PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths, Jeff Thompson, 7:30PM CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Music Bingo, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (hot jazz & western swing), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Cloud City Caskets, Psychotic Reaction, The Deathbots, 8:30PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Logan Marie, 7:00PM

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

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Kyle Nachtigal, 7:00PM Jason McCue & Admiral Radio, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Party (bring your to share!), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul Drag Circus, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM 2nd Thursday's Feat.

Asheville Circus, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Abby the Spoon Lady & Chris Rodrigues, 8:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Jack Vaughn, 1:45PM

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BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

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THE GREY EAGLE Matt Sanders, 5:00PM Lazer Lloyd, 9:00PM

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CROW & QUILL Queen Bee & the Honeylovers (Swing Jazz & Latin Music), 9:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT WEST is the Best Party w/ DJ Kutzu, 7:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM

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BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective (rotating DJ's), 9:00PM

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LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Chillelectronica, 8:00PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Riyen Roots, 8:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Kevin Williams, 6:00PM MCCREERY PARK Top of the Grade Concert: Sound Investment (classic rock), 7:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Tim McWilliams, 7:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Dirty Soul Revival, 5:30PM ODDITORIUM Prom!, 9:00PM

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SLY GROG LOUNGE Beer City Metal-Fest 2019, 5:00PM SOVEREIGN KAVA MIke Rhodes Fellowship, 9:00PM ST. PAULS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH AmiciMusic Presents: Under the Moon and Stars (classical and Broadway tunes), 7:30PM STATIC AGE RECORDS Martín Bisi band, Media Jeweler, Special Strength, Lulo (Tistas side project), Xambuca, 9:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Lazy 88's, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Slay the Mic Presents: Freedom's Friday - A Place Where The Freedom of Art is Expressed, 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE 5J Barrow, 6:00PM Mike Ryan, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM DJ Dance Party feat.

Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Daydream Creatures w/ Nicholas, Mallis Minorcan, 9:00PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Andrew J. Fletcher (solo jazz piano), 2:30PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM TOWN PUMP Caroline Keller Band, 10:00PM TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY Fall Concert Series, 7:00PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE UO Friday Night GETDOWN w/ Cousin TL, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Asheville Jazz Orchestra, 8:00PM WICKED WEED WEST WW West: Joseph Herbst Trio, 5:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Heavenly Vipers, (Gypsy jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Mojo Brothers Blues Band, (Blues), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE DISPENSARY Cacao Night Owl ft: JLAD performing "An American Prayer”, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step Band,, 5:00PM, Hard Rocket 8:00 PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL RexxStep, Your Allure w/ Divine Dance Collective, 10:00PM ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Ezra Bell (folk, rock, jazz), 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7:00PM

HARMON FIELD IN TRYON 2019 Harmon Field Music Festival, 12:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Field Day & Festival, 12:00PM John Hollier, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 AmiciMusic Presents: Under the Moon and Stars (classical and Broadway tunes), 7:00PM The Alien Music Club Presents: The British Are Coming!, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Fort Defiance, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Jake Head, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Slushie Saturdays w/ Los Dos Krektones (instro-surf rock), 2:30PM Raw Funk, Stomp, Rock, Groove, & Skank w/ DJ The Bogart, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

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CROW & QUILL Joseph Herbst Quartet (Swing Jazz & More), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FINES CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER Fines Creek BINGO Night, 6:00PM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF ASHEVILLE Music Explorations Class, 11:00AM FLEETWOOD'S Cold Choir, Decyve, Kangarot, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Jackson Grimm Band (bluegrass),, 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Fwuit, 7:00PM

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ODDITORIUM Voarm (black metal), Human Pelts , 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL The 11th Annual Give to the Music Benefit w/ the Broadcast & Rock Academy, 7:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS True Grass & Crossfire, 1:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Carolina Lowdown Band (classic rock, dance), 9:30PM PEACOCK PERFORMING ARTS CENTER Songwriter Showcase hosted by Rob Tiger, 7:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Brady Jacquin, 7:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Big Daddy Love, 8:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bald Mountain Boys, 8:00PM

GINGER'S REVENGE Jeff Thompson (jazz, rock), 2:30PM Pronounced Heroes Album Release Show, 7:30PM

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TRYON INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN CENTER Tryon Resort’s Saturday Night Lights (music, carousel, face painting), 6:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective (rotating DJ's), 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Cactus Punch (funk, psychedelic), 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Aaron Lipsky and Friends, 3:00PM True Grass, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Karaoke at the Wing, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Killawatts, (jazz), 8:00PM

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 27 CLUB Hallelujah! Hillary's Comedy Revival, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:00PM

FLEETWOOD'S Burning Peppermints, Fortezza, The Styrofoam Turtles, 8:30PM

ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Gospel Sunday, 1:00PM 3 Cool Cats, 4:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibes Sunday w/ Station Underground, 6:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 2:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Tim McWilliams, 7:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Pretty Little Goat, 6:00PM Joe Hertler & The Rainbow Seekers, 7:30PM

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Sunday Brunch w/ live music, 12:00PM Life Like Water, 3:00PM BYWATER Sunday Bywater Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Lo-Fi DJ & Brunch (all ages), 11:00AM CORK & KEG Matinee Cajun/Zydeco Dance w/ Big Ig & The Louisiana All Stars, 6:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Roots & Dore, (blues, roots), 7:00PM

CROW & QUILL Folk Family Revival (blues, folk, rock), 9:00PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Bangzz, Half Naked Crisis (punk), 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Smash Out Sundays w/ Mike T & JJ Smash, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Harlan County Grass & Jerry, Mike & Bill, 1:00PM

DANCE PULP Fallout Metal Meltdown, 9:00PM

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PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Open Mic Night w/ Laura Blackley, 7:00PM Xpresso, 7:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR CaroMia & Friends (Americana, soul), 8:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Steel Pulse w/ Empire Strikes Brass & Neal Francis, 8:00PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

PURPLE ONION CAFE Sol Driven Train, 8:00PM

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

ROOTS + WINGS CREATIVE CAMPUS Roots + Wings 10 Year Homecoming, 2:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Beer City Metal-Fest 2019, 1:00PM Sly Grog Lounge The Most Open Mic, 6:00PM ST GILES CHAPEL AmiciMusic Presents: Under the Moon and Stars (classical and Broadway tunes), 2:00PM STRADA ITALIANO Jazz Guitar Brunch w/ Dan Keller, 11:00AM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Fraser Fuller, 2:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Chow Chow After Party (to support Bountiful Cities' Food Justic programs), 5:00PM Sunday Blues Dance w/ DJ Bingading (7:30 p.m. lessons, 8:00-9:00 p.m. medium/fast tempo blues, 9:00-10:00 p.m. slow dancing blues, 10:0011:00 p.m. trippy baby blues), 8:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Weekly Original Music Open Mic, 6:00PM

BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Pub Trivia, 7:30PM Open Mic, 9:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and friends, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Live Band Honky-Tonk Karaoke hosted by Take The Wheel, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Open Mic Night: It Takes All Kinds w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Alley Cat Karaoke, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Evening of Classical Guitar - 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 8:00PM Asheville Music Hall Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM BYWATER Bele Chere, 12:00PM CORK & KEG Old Time Moderate Jam, 5:00PM

SOVEREIGN KAVA Stage Fright Open Mic (7:30pm sign ups), 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Monday Soul Jam w/ Jamar Woods of the Fritz, 9:00PM

DOUBLE CROWN Matinee Show w/ Duff Thompson, Carver Baronda, & Liza Cane, 5:00PM Sonic Stew w/ DJ Lil Side Salad & Seymour, 10:00PM

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

THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat.

Phantom Pantone, 9:00PM Select DJ Sets, 9:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Andy Ferrell, 5:00PM Them Coulee Boys w/ Ed Jurdi (of Band of Heathens), 8:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT The Appleseed Cast w/ Muscle Worship, Heartscape Landbreak, 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM

ZAMBRA Hot Club Of Asheville, (Gypsy jazz)., 7:00PM

WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Orange Peel Presents: Welcome to Night Vale, 8:00PM

CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Trivia Night, 7:30PM

THE GREY EAGLE RADfest, 3:30PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Rod Abernethy w/ David Burney, 7:30PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Monday Night Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Secret Shame Album Release w/ Thin Pigeon & Kangarot, 9:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Kacey Musgraves’ Oh, What a World: Tour II, 8:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by the Darren Nicholson Band, 7:30PM LAZY DIAMOND Psych Night w/ DJ Marcula (projections and vinyl), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Dragula Season 3 Viewing Party, 12:00AM Free Open Mic Comedy, 9:00PM

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MOVIE REVIEWS

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Luce HHHHS DIRECTOR: Julius Onah PLAYERS: Naomi Watts, Octavia Spencer, Tim Roth DRAMA RATED R A pulse-pounding, tension-filled psychological thriller, J.C. Lee’s play Luce translates exceptionally well to the screen under the guidance of director Julius Onah (The Cloverfield Paradox).

In a tight 109 minutes, Onah puts into motion a film that examines commonly held values about racial coding, classism, parenting, academic excellence, nature vs. nurture and more, all without losing an ounce of dramatic impact or becoming preachy.

Luce Edgar (Kelvin Harrison Jr., It Comes at Night) is the adopted son of Amy (Naomi Watts) and Peter (Tim Roth). He’s a high school senior, beloved by classmates, parents and instructors alike, who finds himself under the watchful eye of his history/government teacher Harriet Wilson (Octavia Spencer) after an assignment he turns in reads like a veiled threat of potential violence at school. Thus begins a small-stakes struggle for power with incredibly large and unforeseeable consequences.

A relentless attack from the start, Luce provides zero comfort for viewers as it depicts scenes rife with multiple meanings, camera angles packed with suggestiveness and thoroughly suspense52

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ful music. Though Watts and Roth are plenty intense, Spencer and Harrison Jr. make them look comparatively calm as they spar word-for-word and positionfor-position with each other.

Both Luce and Ms. Wilson are initially presented in ways that lay the foundation for Lee’s real intent, which is to challenge the racial coding and biases commonly found in modern society. Much as Luce is initially depicted as the ideal student/son, so is Ms. Wilson shown as the ideal teacher — and it’s only with time and patience that the truth comes out about each of them.

If Spencer isn’t acknowledged during award season for a career-best performance, we may need to riot. For his part, Harrison Jr. manages to keep up with ease and demonstrates that he is a talent on the rise. Their scenes together make up the best parts of the film, as each line and reaction put a new spin on the already rich conflict.

From the premise alone, viewers can expect high anxiety throughout Luce. It comes unexpectedly and never lets up, somehow becoming even more tense in its chilling final moments. With viewing opportunities aplenty at home and in the theater, Onah’s masterful film is a must-see.

Now playing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY DOUGLAS DAVIDSON ELEMENTSOFMADNESS@GMAIL.COM

It Chapter Two HH DIRECTOR: Andy Muschietti PLAYERS: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, Bill Hader HORROR RATED R You can’t go home again — or maybe you just shouldn’t unless you can make a better movie about it.

So it goes with Andy Muschietti’s It Chapter Two, which thrusts viewers right back into the storyline of the first film, albeit 27 years on. The Losers Club members are all grown up and settled into their lives, (mostly) far away from their traumatic childhoods. When Mike Hanlon (played as an adult by Isaiah Mustafa and in flashbacks by Chosen Jacobs), the only one from the group remaining in Derry, Maine, calls to tell the others that the monster they fought

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in 1989 is back and spilling blood – mostly children’s, which it still finds tastiest – they don’t remember anything but agree to keep their childhood promise to return and fight it.

When the gang reunites over Chinese food and copious drinks, their now-fuzzy memories start coming into focus. As with the first film and its charming, impeccably chosen cast of pre-teens, the people are the best part of this second chapter. In arguably the film’s strongest scene, the group, in particular the peevish, hypochondriacal Eddie (James Ransome/Jake Dylan Grazer) and now-comedian Richie (Bill Hader/Finn Wolfhard) fall back into their old banter over dinner, proving they have just as much chemistry now as when they were young. This scene and several others are laugh-out-loud funny, quick and expertly handled by both the writers and the cast — which makes the long stretches of silly scares and saccharine character development that follows a little perplexing.

Of course, the evil clown/interdimensional world eater Pennywise (Bill Skarsgård, delightful once again) is there too, and he makes himself known in a variety of creative ways, ranging from the merely grotesque (fortune cookies spilling out spider legs and eyeballs) to the truly disturbing (an old woman who suddenly becomes a lurching, leprous fiend). The monster certainly has fun torturing the group, but after so many instances when It could have easily dispatched its hunters, you wonder whether It just wants to be a part of their club, too.

There are plenty of flashbacks, but instead of reactivating our love for the first film and its charming children, these segments feel too long and suffer from hokey horrors, like a giant Paul Bunyan that’s more ridiculous than scary.

Read the full review at mountainx.com/movies/reviews REVIEWED BY ALI MCGHEE ALIMCGHEE@GMAIL.COM

Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice HHS

DIRECTORS: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman PLAYERS: Linda Ronstadt,

Bonnie Raitt, Dolly Parton DOCUMENTARY RATED PG-13

Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool HHHH

When documentaries focus on likable people who’ve had no public scandals or weird controversies, it’s easy for the films to slide into the realm of the “fluff piece.” There isn’t anything inherently wrong with this style of positive reporting or filmmaking, but there usually isn’t anything exciting about it either. The Sound of My Voice, about the megatalented and highly revered singer Linda Ronstadt, is one of these works. It’s competently made and reasonably interesting, but it’s cursory. Frankly, I’ve seen more depth in episodes of A&E’s “Biography.”

Let me give you an example: It’s the 1970s. Everyone’s on drugs and everyone knows it, including Ronstadt and her band. The subject of substance abuse is usually the meat of any story about that decade and its excesses, but not this time. Drug culture and the issues it brought to big ’70s rock tours are given a mere 90 seconds worth of screen time, which seems disingenuous to me. Sure, Ronstadt probably wasn’t as into that scene as others, but glossing over the entire topic makes me wonder what’s being covered up. Is there more to the story?

The cryptic presentation suggests so.

Furthermore, The Sound of My Voice often seems to forget who it’s supposed to be about. The star repeatedly takes a back seat while others use her life and career to tell stories of their own accomplishments. The bland talking-head format paints Ronstadt as a secondary character in her own life, and as the film moves from one of her milestones to the next, the chapters are told with little fuss and no flourish.

The stories are in there somewhere, but the superficial way in which they’re presented leaves much to be desired. I half expected a commercial break to interrupt the programming.

I like Linda Ronstadt. I think most people do, but The Sound of My Voice does her amazing talent no justice.

She deserves to have her story told in a way that reflects her artistry and sense of style — not the watered-down glance we’re given here. Fans who aren’t looking for an in-depth examination of an artist or an era will probably find nothing to fault, but won’t be given much to remember, either.

Starts Sept. 13 at Grail Moviehouse

DIRECTOR: Stanley Nelson PLAYERS: Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Quincy Jones DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED

REVIEWED BY JAMES ROSARIO JAMESROSARIO1977@GMAIL.COM

While viewing Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool, it felt as if the man himself was in the room speaking to me, a damaged sage of a grandfather-mentor walking me through life’s circular circus via a sonic photo album. Credit for this magic trick largely goes to narrator Carl

STARTING FRIDAY Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (PG-13) HHS Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (NR) HHHH

Lumbly (ABC’s “Alias”), who reads Miles’ words and channels his spirit through tone and texture, seemingly harboring the same ghosts, demons and angels that the musician himself once battled.

Stanley Nelson’s documentary makes it strikingly clear that, for our main character, music was present in all aspects of life and came before everything. The film further suggests that music was Miles’ shadow — constant, ever-changing and almost annoyingly playful and mischievous. In chronicling that relationship, Birth of the Cool not only depicts the need for change in an artist’s life in order to continue to grow and create, but it also depicts the need for humility and grace.

While the film glorifies the groundbreaking iconic artist, it also shows the folly of man in character and dignity when under pressure and emotionally

unresolved. There’s a certain wanderlust and romanticism that bleed and weep throughout this multilayered film, which explores Miles in a vastly different way than Don Cheadle did in his experimental biopic, Miles Ahead.

The window that is opened provides a marvelously detailed view of Miles’ processes, not only in the studio, but onstage and in romance. The film also shows his natural gift for spontaneous combustion, operating like a head chemist and conducting live experiments with sounds and the people who channel and voice those tones and moods. By showcasing the means that produced such panoramic and fluid music, Nelson captures not merely the essence of Miles, but the dynamism of the 20th century.

Starts Sept. 13 at the Fine Arts Theatre REVIEWED BY KEVIN EVANS K.A.E.0082@GMAIL.COM

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The Goldfinch (R) An adaptation of Donna Tartt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about a young man thrust into the underworld of art and wealth.

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Hustlers (R) Former strip club workers unite to seek revenge on their Wall Street clients.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS 47 Meters Down: Uncaged (PG-13) HHH After the Wedding (PG-13) HS Aladdin (PG) HH Angel Has Fallen (R) HHS The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) HHHHS The Art of Racing in the Rain (PG) HHHH Blinded by the Light (PG-13) HHH Brittany Runs a Marathon (R) HHHH David Crosby: Remember My Name (R) HHHHS Don’t Let Go (R) HHS Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) HH Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) HHHHH Good Boys (R) HHHH Honeyland (NR) HHHH It Chapter Two (R) HH The Lion King (PG) HHH Luce (R) HHHHS (Pick of the Week) Maiden (PG) HHHHS Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) HHHHS The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) HHHS Ready or Not (R) HHHH Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG-13) HHH Stuber (R) HHS

CRAWLEY FAMILY REUNION: A still from the upcoming Downton Abbey movie.

The Fine Arts Theatre hosts an advance screening of the film on Sept. 12, complete with a costume contest. Photo by Jaap Buitendijk/Focus Features The Fine Arts Theatre hosts a special preview screening of Downton Abbey on Thursday, Sept. 12, at 7 p.m. — one week before its nationwide theatrical release. In addition to the feature film continuation of the beloved PBS series, which finds the Crawleys and their staff preparing for a visit from the King and Queen of

FILM 'A CONCERNED CITIZEN' • FR (9/13), 7pm - A Concerned Citizen, documentary on environmental and social justice film night. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

'A RAISIN IN THE SUN' • TU (9/3), 7pm - The classic 1961 film version of A Raisin in the Sun with Sidney Poitier. Free.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville

England, the evening includes a Downton Abbey costume contest. First prize wins a Downton Abbey movie poster and two Fine Arts movie passes. Second- and third-place winners receive prizes from the concession stand. Tickets are $10 and available online or at the Fine Arts box office. fineartstheatre.com X

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ANATTASATI MAGGA MOVIE NIGHT

FILMS AT FLOOD • FR (9/13), 8pm - The Serpent’s Egg, film screening. Free to attend.

Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain

• WE (9/11), 6-9pm Departures, film screening hosted by Anattasati Magga. Free. Held at Zen

'GUARDIANS OF OUR TROUBLED WATERS' • WE (9/18), 7pm - Guardians of Our Troubled

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Free. Held at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights 'LATINX HISTORY FOR MORONS' • TH (9/19), 5:30-8pm - Latinx History for Morons, documentary screening followed by a presentation by Ponkho Bermejo. Free to attend.

Held at BeLoved Asheville Liberation Station, 10 N. Market St.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Hi, I’m your sales representative for UnTherapy, a free program designed to provide healing strategies for people who are trying too hard. Forgive me for being blunt, but I think you could benefit from our services. I don’t have space here to reveal all the secrets of UnTherapy, but here’s an essential hint: Every now and then the smartest way to outwit a problem is to stop worrying, let it alone and allow it to solve itself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People in Northeast India weave long, strong suspension bridges out of the living roots of fig trees. The structures can measure up to 150 feet and bear the weight of hundreds of people. In accordance with astrological omens, let’s make these marvels your metaphors of power for the coming weeks. To stimulate your meditations, ask yourself the following questions.

1. How can you harness nature to help you to get where you need to go? 2. How might you transform instinctual energy so that it better serves your practical needs? 3. How could you channel wildness so that it becomes eminently useful to you?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you climb to the top of Mt. Everest, you’re standing on land that was once on the floor of a shallow tropical sea. Four-hundredmillion-year-old fossils of marine life still abide there in the rock. Over the course of eons, through the magic of plate tectonics, that low flat land got folded and pushed upwards more than 5 miles. I suspect you Geminis will have the power to accomplish a less spectacular but still amazing transformation during the next 10 months. To get started, identify what you would like that transformation to be.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In 1996, when Gary Kasparov was rated the world’s best chess player, he engaged in a series of matches with a chess-playing computer named Deep Blue. Early on in the first game, Deep Blue tried a move that confused Kasparov. Rattled, he began to wonder if the machine was smarter than him. Ultimately, his play suffered, and he lost the game. Later it was revealed that Deep Blue’s puzzling move was the result of a bug in its code. I’ll encourage you to cultivate a benevolent bug in your own code during the coming weeks, Cancerian. I bet it will be the key to you scoring a tricky victory.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): American hero Harriet Tubman escaped slavery as a young woman. She ran away from the wealthy “master” who claimed to “own” her and reached sanctuary. But rather than simply enjoy her freedom, she dedicated herself to liberating other slaves. Nineteen times she returned to enemy territory and risked her life, ultimately leading 300 people out of hellish captivity. Later she served as a scout, spy and nurse in the Union Army during the Civil War, where her actions saved another 700 people. In 1874, the U.S. Congress considered but then ultimately rejected a bill to pay her $2,000 for her numerous courageous acts.

Don’t you dare be like Congress in the coming weeks, Leo. It’s crucial that you give tangible acknowledgment and practical rewards to those who have helped, guided and supported you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Novelist Wallace Stegner wrote, “Some are born in their place, some find it, some realize after long searching that the place they left is the one they have been searching for.” I hope that in the last nine months, Virgo, you have resolved which of those three options is true for you. I also trust that you have been taking the necessary actions to claim and own that special place — to acknowledge it and treasure it as the power spot where you feel most at home in the world. If you have not yet fully finished what I’m describing here, do it now.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Earth’s species are going extinct at a rate unmatched since the dinosaurs died out 65 million years ago. Among the creatures on the verge of being lost forever are birds like the cryptic treehunter and spix’s macaw, as well as the northern white rhino and the vaquita, a type of porpoise. So why don’t we clone the last few individuals of those beleaguered species? Here are the answers. 1. Cloned animals typically aren’t healthy. 2. A species needs a sizable population to retain genetic diversity; a few individuals aren’t sufficient. 3. Humans have decimated the homes of the threatened species, making it hard for them to thrive. Conclusion: Cloning is an inadequate stopgap action. Is there a better way to address the problem?

Yes: by preserving the habitats of wild creatures.

Inspired by this principle, Libra, I ask you to avoid trying halfway fixes for the dilemmas in your personal sphere. Summon full measures that can really work.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Though patched together and incomplete, the 2,200-year-old marble sculpture known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace is prominently displayed at Paris’s Louvre Museum. It’s a glorious depiction of Nike, the winged goddess of victory, and is regarded as one of ancient Greece’s great masterpieces. For hundreds of years it was missing. Then in 1863, an archaeologist discovered it, although it was broken into more than 100 pieces. Eventually, it was rebuilt, and much of its beauty was resurrected. I see the coming weeks as a time when you, too, could recover the fragments of an old treasure and begin reassembling it to make a pretty good restoration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I’ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger, or it will destroy me,” said actor Sidney Poitier. That can be a dynamic meditation for you during the next three weeks. I think you will derive substantial power from putting it into action. If you’re ingenious and diligent about finding those positive outlets, your anger will generate constructive and transformative results.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In 1905, at the age of 30, Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the novel Anne of Green Gables. It was a tale about an orphan girl growing up on Prince Edward Island.

She sent the manuscript to several publishers, all of whom rejected it. Discouraged, she put it away in a hatbox and stored it in a closet. But two years later, her ambitions reignited when she re-read the story. Again she mailed it to prospective publishers, and this time one liked it enough to turn it into a book. It soon became a bestseller. Since then it has sold over 50 million copies and been translated into 36 languages. I figure you Capricorns are at a point in your own unfolding that’s equivalent to where Anne was shortly before she rediscovered the manuscript she’d put away in the hatbox.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Toxorhynchites are species of large mosquitoes that don’t buzz around our heads while we’re trying to sleep and will never bite our skin or suck our blood. In fact, they’re our benefactors. Their larvae feast on the larvae of the mosquitoes that are bothersome to us. In accordance with astrological omens, I propose that you be alert for a metaphorically comparable influence in your own life: a helper or ally that might be in disguise or may just superficially seem to be like an adversary.

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PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Audre Lord identified herself as a black writer, lesbian, librarian, mother, feminist, civil rights activist and many other descriptors. But as ardent as she was in working for the political causes she was passionate about, she didn’t want to be pigeonholed in a single identity. One of her central teachings was to celebrate all the different parts of herself. “Only by learning to live in harmony with your contradictions can you keep it all afloat,” she testified. These approaches should be especially fun and extra meaningful for you in the coming weeks, Pisces. I encourage you to throw a big Unity Party for all the different people you are.

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HUMAN SERVICES HELPMATE COMMUNITY CASE MANAGEER Helpmate, a domestic violence organization in Asheville, NC, seeks a full-time Community Case Manager. This is a non-exempt position. The primary responsibilities include advocating for survivors of domestic violence and providing support, crisis intervention, court advocacy, case management, danger assessment and safety planning services. This position

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INTAKE SPECIALIST Helpmate, Inc., a domestic violence agency in Asheville, North Carolina, seeks to hire a full-time Intake Specialist. Strong communication, organizational, and time management skills are required.

The Intake Specialist will provide crisis line support and in-person intake to survivors of trauma at the Buncombe County Family Justice Center. Duties will include communication of highly detailed information to people in crisis, database entry and coordination of services among multiple providers. Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree and 2 years of experience with domestic violence victim advocacy, public health or a related field.

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