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Celebrate Peace Day in WNC “Those who love peace must learn to organize as effectively as those who love war” — Martin Luther King Jr. By way of introduction, I am a ’60s activist now in my 60s who has made Asheville my home now for two years. My passion for peace and the end of war, racism, sexism and poverty has been part of my existence since 1967. Since then, I have participated in many forms of resistance, speaking out and civil disobedience, including serving six months in jail for my activities at Kent State against war and racism the year before the murders of the four students. But enough about me, let’s talk about peace. In my opinion, peace is an inherent right of each human being, the fundamental need for each person to have the right to live out their lives to their fullest potential. Terrorism comes in many forms — from being denied rights for the color of your skin, to whom you love, poverty, lack of educational opportunities and being the victims of war and its horrible consequences.

The heartbreaking picture of an immigrant boy drowned on the beaches of Europe while his family flees bombs and destruction brings home this point very clearly. In truth, “Anything war can do, peace can do better,” Marvin Gaye once said.“ If you cannot find peace within yourself, you cannot find it anywhere.” And I have pursued learning about the peace that resides within me and all human beings. So why a day of peace? The International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”) is observed around the world each year on Sept. 21. Established in 1981, the United Nations General Assembly has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace. This year’s theme is “Dignity for All.” If even for one day, we can come together and live in peace we can build a culture of peace forever. Locally, my wife and I have started Papa and Mama Bear’s Peace Garden, a place where people can come and enjoy an experience of peace. Our motto is: Plant Peace — Grow Love. We also are members of Peace is Possible NC. We are pleased to be part of the local group WNC 4 Peace, striving to be a partnership of peacemakers and invite you to share in our activities this year here in Asheville. You can find out more about us at wnc4peace.com — Colin Neiburger Asheville

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Addicts need help, not judgment Thank you for your article about the heroin/overdose epidemic [“Drug epidemic: Officials see links between prescription drugs and heroin,” Sept. 2, Xpress]. It is a reality, and its consequences affect, as you wrote, much more than the addict him/herself. While I agree that addicts should be treated as people suffering from a lethal condition and not as criminals, I think that it is also as important to present addicts as human beings who sometimes make decisions with terrible consequences. That decision-making process has nothing to do with weakness as mentioned in that same article: “But in a moment of weakness last November ... he once again injected heroin into his veins.” Casting such a judgment is certainly not what is going to help addicts to seek help [without] fear of being stigmatized as weak, no good from the get-go. I don’t know how many addicts [reporter] Clarke Morrison knows personally, but my advice would be to get in touch with the recovery community and realize that people from all walks of life who are turning their lives around to fight a lifelong condition are everything but weak. Addicts are not outcasts; they are your brother, sister, cousin, nephew, father, neighbor, and they need help, not judgment. — Michel Guicheney Swannanoa

Mayfield has taken lead on transportation issues Julie Mayfield is an outstanding candidate for Asheville City Council. I have known her for seven years, as we have served together on various committees related to transportation. She chairs the city’s Transit Committee, where I have seen her leadership and organizational skills. She does her

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homework, and she relates well to bus riders, drivers, city staff and others. She is a valuable member of the city’s Multimodal Transportation Commission, where she has taken the lead on important issues, including improving safety for pedestrians and bicyclists. She has served on advisory committees for the local Metropolitan Planning Organization, where she has worked for more equitable allocation of resources to all modes of transportation. She has headed the I-26 ConnectUs Project, which brings together neighborhood residents and other groups to try to reach consensus on this important project. Transportation is the area where I know Julie best, but it is just one of her interests. I know that she will bring her strong leadership skills to other issues and will be a hardworking and effective member of City Council. I hope the citizens of Asheville will join me in supporting Julie. — Bruce Emory Asheville

Simerly offers integrity, skill, commitment to community Integrity, skill and honest commitment to serving our community are what I look for in a political candidate. That is why I so fully support Lindsey Simerly in her run for Asheville City Council. She has consistently led as an advocate for our community, affordable housing and the environment. Lindsey has proven her commitment to serving as a political voice for many in this community who struggle to have their voices heard. I have been moved over the past several years by her transformative work surrounding full equality for LGBT people across the country. She is a capable leader in all she commits herself to, and I have full faith that she will be a powerfully effective presence on Asheville City Council. Please get to know more about her at lindseyforasheville.com. — Meghan Doubraski O’Malley Asheville

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Simerly understands that diversity benefits city Lindsey Simerly is the City Council candidate who understands that a great quality of life in Asheville means we celebrate and strengthen our diversity. She has been fighting for socioeconomic diversity as the chair of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, and she’s been fighting for diversity as the manager of the Campaign for Southern Equality. Lindsey gets it, and she’s proven she can get it done. Asheville needs Lindsey Simerly. — Anne Fitten Glenn Asheville

Why no fix for Amboy Road death trap? I recently was trying to enter Interstate 240 from the Amboy Road ramp going up the hill. It was around 5 to 6 p.m. I tried to enter traffic, which was packed on both lanes. I thought I saw an opening and entered. The next thing I knew, brakes were screeching, and I had no room to pull over because the entrance lane ends too soon, and it is just the rail. First, I want to apologize to those cars that I must have scared half to death and second, wonder why no one can fix the entrance ramp. Everyone I have ever talked to agrees that it’s a potential death trap. — Mike Rogers Mills River

Mountain State Fair doesn’t reflect our values I am writing as a concerned citizen to expose the cruelty behind the Mountain State Fair, which [started] Friday in Western North Carolina. As a vegan and a volunteer with Brother Wolf Animal Rescue, I’m a huge animal lover, but state fairs are notorious for containing exploitative animal displays. Just last month at the Missouri State Fair, tigers were forced to perform, appeared emaciated like “skeletons,” and some of the fair-goers described the tigers as being lethargic. Animals suffer immeasurably when they are forced to

perform for human entertainment, and they live in a state of depression, fear and anxiety. The exotic-animal shows display intelligent animals as nothing more than silly clowns. Because these tricks are not natural, trainers will sometimes beat the animals or deprive them of food in order to get the animals to perform tricks. In addition, more often than not, kids grow tired of their goldfish, rabbit or iguana ”prize,” and the animal is often abandoned. Asheville is a progressive, compassionate city, and the Mountain State Fair doesn’t reflect our values. I urge the community to think about how they are voting with their money. If you see cruelty to animals at a state or county fair, you can file a cruelty-toanimals complaint. — Michelle Neff Asheville

Special interests win in short-term rental ban My wife, two daughters and I purchased our home in 2012. It’s a three-bedroom in St. Dunstan’s (part of Kenilworth). It would make a great vacation rental as it’s close to Biltmore, shops and dining. We’d love the option to rent our place during peak weekends to help pay our mortgage. Asheville has outlawed this and proposed $500 fines for violations for short-term rentals in residential neighborhoods. I read about how this activity destroys charm and character of neighborhoods, causes nuisance and increases rental prices. First, does this really cause such a nuisance when done in such a limited fashion? If yes, can we target specific behaviors such as fines for noise or parking violations rather than overly generalize? How are long-term rentals impacted? Clearly, my family and I would be living in our home the majority of the time and would not be interested in renting beyond a weekend here or there. I hear arguments citing “big business” of Airbnb. What about our major hotel expansions and the increased hotel occupancy taxes, which do not go toward improvements in roads or other infrastructure and instead route millions to advertising to attract more tourists?

c aRt o o n B Y B R E n t B R o w n There are special interests winning here, just not local homeowners. We are not all greedy absentee landlords. Why vilify us and pit us against renters? We, too, would like to benefit from the increase in tourism, but unlike hotels, our dollars would stay local. We could proceed in a careful way that is considerate to our neighbors. Knee-jerk legislation like the Airbnb ban in residential neighborhoods only helps the big hotel business, and my Council should represent me, not Marriott. — Nowell Henry Asheville

Don’t penalize short-term rentals I am a responsible landlord who owns and manages a short-term rental in the city of Asheville. Until recently, I thought I was legally providing guests with affordable lodging while they visited (and spent money) in our beautiful town. My rental is in a friendly, cooperative neighborhood of folks who, on occasion, invite my rental guests to holiday dinners, share vegetables from their gardens and engage in easy conversation with them from the front porch.

I pay my taxes, keep my property in pristine condition, and over a sevenyear period, have only had one phone call from a neighbor about noise that was immediately resolved. My housekeeper and I are both retired, live primarily on what we receive from Social Security and depend on the short-term rental income. I’m quite sure that other city residents like ourselves can only afford to live in Asheville with this needed income. I know that the members of Asheville City Council have heard from hundreds of people about their take on the pros and cons of this hotly debated issue. It seems that legalization and good regulation is a much more reasonable approach to the situation than hiring a person to seek us out and impose hefty fines. I am sharing below an unedited, unsolicited letter that I received from a repeat guest of my short-term rental. I believe that she represents the thousands of tourists who visit and support our local businesses: “I read about the City Council meeting online and I was devastated by the outcome. Words cannot express how sorry I am for you and the other multitude of vacation rental homeowners who have

provided families like us an alternative lodging arrangement that has filled our vacation needs to the absolute fullest. I am equally sorry for us, too. The allure of Asheville has just died for us as a pivotal part of visiting stemmed from the home-away-fromhome feel that was offered through the meticulous attention to detail you provided with your cabin. It was all part of the experience. It conveyed the town’s welcoming, hospitable character. Most hotels lack the charm and personal attention that rental property owners can provide. I am just livid right now.”

So, my hope is that we can elect some City Council members who bring a common-sense, thoughtful approach to legalization and smart regulation of short-term rentals in residentially zoned areas, not just downtown and commercially zoned area of the city. — Anonymous Asheville

editor’s note: Xpress normally does not withhold letter writers’ names. In this case, we made an exception because the writer fears the loss of a major part of his or her income, and Xpress wants to allow for a full range of discussion on this important public issue.

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Hand in Hand By Rachael Bliss War-ravaged countries around the globe aren’t the only places where citizens long for peace. In Asheville, our peace is disturbed by the institution of racism, which is woven into the fabric of our society in ways many of us never see. This summer, someone spray-painted “Black Lives Matter” near the foot of the Vance Monument, according to a WLOS-TV report. By sunrise, city workers had already removed the paint, and the news was quickly buried as other stories took precedence. Some who saw this short report considered it just another act of vandalism by young people who should have been home in bed. But there was much more to this story than an act of vandalism: In it, I saw pain — a pain that most of us in Asheville don’t validate. When we look at this stark stone obelisk, we don’t think of it as a monument to a man who, as a colonel in the Confederate army and then North Carolina’s wartime governor, collaborated in keeping black people enslaved. This isn’t the only local tribute to Civil War “heroes” either: There are at least a half-dozen others in Asheville and Buncombe County. But how many memorials do we have to mark the day enslaved African-Americans gained their freedom here in Asheville in April of 1865? We’ll begin bringing peace home to Asheville when our leaders commit to honoring those African-American

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Contributed photo heroes who, together with their allies, helped make our city the popular place it is today. These diverse social activists, architects, teachers and artists, who happened to be black, are practically ignored in our city. And while we’re at it, what more can we do to balance the messages found on our current monuments that glorify slave owners and those who fought to maintain slavery here? Many of us celebrate Asheville as Beer City, Bee City or Tree City, but what do we do to nurture peace among the people of all races and backgrounds, whose lives play out in local homes, attending our schools and walking our streets? Do we work with the Black Lives Matter movement to heal the rift between police and young adults of color? Do we honor local peacemakers,

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who may live right next door or elsewhere in the state? Some of us here in Western North Carolina have drawn on our shared passion for peace to form a new group called WNC 4 Peace. And on Sunday, Sept. 20, we plan to present our first Peacemaker of the Year Award to the Rev. William Barber of Moral Monday fame as part of our People’s Peace Festival, to be held next door to the French Broad Food Co-op. Our overall goal is to collaborate with all WNC peace and justice groups — economic, racial, social and environmental — to develop a plan for making this beautiful part of the world a place of peace, particularly for our children and grandkids. This year, 50 groups are either sponsoring or endorsing our International Day of Peace proclamations, which have been recognized by the Buncombe County commissioners, the city of Asheville and four members of our local legislative delegation (state Sen. Terry Van Duyn and Reps. Susan Fisher, Brian Turner and John Ager). After this year’s International Day of Peace (Monday, Sept. 21), we’ll continue to work on behalf of the many local folks who feel that our peacemakers have left them out of the equation. Beginning here in Asheville, we intend to encourage WNC communities to become Cities of Peace (or even Cities of Compassion) that unite all segments of their population, including people of color, whites, the homeless, the disempowered, the left out and the unwanted. While I was still in my mother’s womb, our country dropped the world’s first atom bomb on Hiroshima. I grew up in Omaha, frightened by the sound of B-52s from Offutt Air Force Base flying over our house. In school, I hid under my desk during war drills; at home, I ducked when my dad threw glasses at my mom. As an adult, I saw my husband leave his family to fight in Vietnam; we later sponsored victims of that war in our home.

Today, I join other peace activists in advocating an end to the wars and violence that devastate communities all over the world, including Asheville. Together, we remind our elected leaders of the billions of dollars earned here in WNC that have been spent on war since 2001. I will never stop working for a real world peace that will bring our war dollars back home, where they can be spent in better ways, such as: • Establishing a peace park in Asheville to honor the people of all races who’ve worked for peace. • Hiring the best police, teachers and firefighters, and ensuring that they’re paid enough to be able to care for their families adequately. • Providing a home for every person in our region who needs one. • Making our streets and sidewalks safe for drivers, cyclists and pedestrians alike. • Offering tax incentives for clean, alternative energy to improve our environment. We invite folks of all races to join us in promoting peace, both locally and globally. Our kids shouldn’t have to grow up economically deprived and living in fear of violence at home, on the streets or in their community. Like other children and adults around the world, we all long for peace and harmony in our diverse neighborhoods. In Asheville, that means we’ll need to cross racial and social boundaries, recognize our past mistakes — and embrace our common hopes for the future. Rachael Bliss, a founding member of WNC 4 Peace, has thrived in Asheville since 2008. The mother of five children and grandmother of six, she can be reached at blissingstoyou@gmail.com.

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moVERS anD SHaKERS: The organizers of the Venture Local Fair aim to shake up the local economy and move the community toward using the power of their dollars in the marketplace to build a better Asheville. Two steering committee members, Franzi Charen (left) and Meg Williams (right), explain what the VLF is all about. Eric Henry (center), a nationally known voice for rethinking economic practices at a local level, will be one of two keynote speakers at VLF. Photos (left) by Carrie Eidson, (center) courtesy of TS Designs and (right) courtesy of Meg Williams

BY aBlE allEn aallen@mountainx.com There’s a crossroads between Buxton and Banks avenues, even though they don’t intersect. These blocklong, parallel, South Slope streets are lined with places to buy things, eat, drink and make merry: a chocolate factory, a doughnut shop, three breweries, two bars, a beer-and-wine store and the newest barbecue joint in town, among other businesses.

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The tiny area contains enough fat and carbohydrates to kill several trolley loads of tourists. But from an economic perspective, these two blocks just might be among the healthiest, most youthful and vibrant in Asheville. This kind of crossroads exists wherever local businesses are growing and changing: It’s not where streets meet, but where consumers meet local businesses, and where local entrepreneurs meet new ideas. An upcoming event will be tackling this particular crossroads headon. At the inaugural Venture Local Fair, which will take over Buxton and Banks Sept. 25-26, “People can learn

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about cutting-edge ideas for building the economy, democratizing wealth and building better businesses,” says steering committee member franzi charen, the director of the Asheville Grown Business Alliance. The event has two parts. The Friday conference, a daylong, ticketed affair, will feature workshops aimed at business owners, folks looking to start businesses, and community leaders interested in ways to support the local economy. On Saturday, the conference will morph into a street fair. “Of course, anyone is welcome,” Charen explains, but the idea is to create

“a festival of locals, by locals, for locals ... celebrating what we have.” A meeting of the minds eric henry tells his customers, “If the only reason you’re coming to TS Designs is price, then there’s really no use continuing the relationship, because you’re always going to find somebody cheaper.” Henry, who is president of the Burlington, N.C.based apparel company, knows how to make a product’s local nature add enough value to overcome the price gap. “When you’re buying

in a global marketplace,” he says, “your only connection is price. But when you’re buying local, there’s a relationship beyond price. Over time, that becomes more connective and stronger.” Henry, one of Venture Local’s keynote speakers, serves on the board of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He’ll talk about the collapse of North Carolina’s once-thriving garment industry and the recovery he’s seen as consumers “start to realize what the real cost of ‘cheap’ is in the global marketplace.” A key focus of Venture Local, notes Charen, is considering how businesses can serve the community and their employees while maintaining strength and viability. That includes “ways to democratize ownership” through such vehicles as worker co-ops and employee stock ownership plans, or ESOPs. “A lot of baby boomers are retiring now,” she points out, “and one of the ways they can pass on their businesses is to the workers, through ESOPs,” which are commonly used by S corporations, a type of IRS-recognized corporation. This model provides a stable alternative to traditional pensions, giving employees an incentive not to change jobs and a sense of ownership that can enhance productivity and innovation. Henry, meanwhile, will also be part of a panel discussion on “benefit corporations” — a way to show customers that a business cares about more than just the bottom line. TS Designs, says Henry, was the first company in the state to be certified as a “B-corp,” and he’ll share his experience of obtaining that status and “operating under the ‘triple bottom line’ of people, planet and profit.” The conference part of Venture Local is a companion piece to the Bringing It Home conference, held at A-B Tech this spring. “We want the two events to work back to back, continuing the conversation and growing together,” Charen explains. Redesigning the system Downtown Asheville has more out-of-town shoppers these days, and the recent announcement that an Anthropologie store will be opening on Lexington Avenue has sparked concern about the long-term impact of nonlocal chain stores on the city’s central business district.

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Big-budget chains, says jamee haley, executive director of Lowcountry Local First in Charleston, S.C., “are often willing to take a loss in sales just to have a presence” on a popular street. And the resulting competition for storefronts can drive rents high enough to push out small, local businesses completely. Meanwhile, the recent increase in the occupancy tax that funds the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority “will turn the tourism marketing dial to 11,” Charen predicts. Consumers, says Henry, often aren’t aware of the full impact of their purchases, basing their decisions solely on price. But that price may not reflect such externalized factors as the environmental impact of the way the energy was produced to get the nonlocal product to Asheville, or the economic impact of the money being siphoned off to a distant corporate headquarters, rather than recirculating locally. When money leaves town, it makes the whole community poorer, says meg jamison, project manager at the Asheville Design Center. A 2012 Civic Economics study found that for every $100 spent at a national chain retailer, only $13.60 recirculates locally, compared with $47.70 if the same $100 were spent at an independent retailer. Venture Local, says Charen, aims to “explore real alternatives and take them from the margins into the mainstream, moving away from the

rhetorical critique and bringing promising, small-scale experiments to the table. The solution is in the design of the system, and we think Asheville is ready for a shift.” On Sept. 26, Buxton and Banks and Collier avenues will be closed off, hosting a celebration of local businesses as well as music, entertainment, food and drink. Businesses in the immediate area, says Charen, are creating festive programming, ranging from Sow True Seed’s Garlic Fest to Empyrean Arts’ trapeze classes to French Broad Chocolates’ factory tours. There’ll be tastings, workshops, interactive DIY booths and kids activities. At the same time, notes Jamison, “We want our residents and visitors to be well-versed in the problems facing our city, and to join together in supporting a local, living economic model that will allow us all to thrive.” Charen agrees, saying the event will bring organizations and people together “to help reimagine a system that protects our community’s [economic] ecosystem — one that isn’t based on endless growth and expansion.” stAnding At the cRossRoAds Many Asheville businesses successfully compete with national brands

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despite offering higher-priced products. Throngs of people pack the area’s various tailgate markets, buying local cheeses, meats and vegetables that cost more than the widely available food from distant locations. Part of the appeal is the fact that those foods are produced by members of the consumer’s own community. Henry wants to apply those same principles to other products. Clothing buyers, he says, are becoming dissatisfied with the lack of transparency in the global marketplace; he urges consumers to “know where your clothes are made.” Jamison takes a similar view. “People visit or move to Asheville because they’re attracted to its unique sense of place, its unique people, unique businesses and one-of-a-kind setting,” she maintains. “They leave the homogenized suburbs and big cities behind to find an environment that inspires them and feeds their soul, not the same shops and stores as the next town over. … This doesn’t mean that Asheville won’t or cannot change over time, but understanding the way it changes is truly important.” X

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The Friday events will be held at Catawba Brewing, 32 Banks Ave., downtown Asheville, unluss otherwise noted Cost: $75, includes light breakfast snacks and lunch 8-9 a.m. Check-in with a light breakfast and coffee 9-9:30 a.m. Opening Session with Franzi Charen and Billy Pyatt 9:30-10:30 a.m. Plenary Session: Looking Back to Fly Forward with Dr. Darin Waters 10:45-11:45 a.m. Break out sessions— Flocking Together: Cooperative Models; The Nest Egg: Finding the Capital; Writing in the Sky: Key Strategies for Branding your Business; Back to Nature: A Case Study of a Closed Loop Industry in WNC 12-12:40 p.m. Locally Sourced Lunch with GO Kitchen Ready 12:40- 1:30 p.m. Keynote talk with Stacy Mitchell 1:45-2:45 p.m. Break out sessions— Flocking Together Part II: Cooperative Models & Reshoring an Industry; B-Corp is the Word: Building Better Business; Wind Beneath Your Wings: Launching Local Marketing Campaigns; Hatching a Plan: A Workshop on Business Planning 3:00-3:40 Keynote talk with Eric Henry 3:45-4:45 Choose South Slope business tours or guided networking session 4:45 Closing remarks from Franzi Charen followed by happy hour

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Cost: Free to attend Special events during the street fair: Live music on the Green Man/Eagle’s Nest stage; vendors selling food, art, crafts and more; free tours of the French Broad Chocolate Factory every half hour; WNC Garlic Trail garlic highlight from select vendors including The Hop, Gypsy Queen food truck, Sow True Seed and many others; street music through the area from the Asheville Buskers Collective; a kids’ zone offered by Asheville Flyer for Kids with games, activities, crafts and challenges; the grand opening of Empyrean Arts offering movement education with paid classes as well as two free open door sessions with demonstrations and playtime.

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HOMEWORK

Solving Asheville’s affordable housing crisis

SEaRcHinG FoR SolutionS: The area’s affordable housing crisis has many residents looking for answers. Just outside Asheville, essayist Andrea Golden, right, sits on the front porch of her home in the Dulce Lomita Mobile Home Cooperative in Emma with family members including son Hyadi Abel Gonzalez, partner Abel Gonzalez and daughter Yaretzi Cruz Golden. They partnered with neighbors in the co-op to buy the land, which also includes a community garden. Photo by Tim Robison

It’s no secret: The shortage of affordable housing in the Asheville area is one of our community’s biggest problems. Contributing factors include a growing population, the high demand for both apartments and houses, the particular challenges of building in the mountains and the low wages paid by many local employers. Earlier this summer, Xpress decided to take a different tack in exploring the issue. We approached experts from various segments of the community to answer a deceptively simple question: “What would it take to solve the Asheville area’s affordable housing problem?” We received 19 thoughtful essays from a range of community members, including developers, academics, nonprofit leaders, lenders and those personally affected by the crisis.

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Those pieces were published in a threepart series starting July 29. (They can be found online at http://avl.mx/1le.) Seeking yet another angle on the question, we’ve sifted through the essays — and the lively debate they generated in the form of online comments and letters to the editor — to recap the important points raised and the various solutions suggested. defining the pRobLem “Market forces that make Buncombe County such a highly desirable and sought-out place to visit and live have triggered a huge surge in housing costs, whether rentals or sales,” said david gantt, chairman of the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. “Making matters worse is a rental vacancy rate near zero. And meanwhile, the Great Recession left many future

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Buncombe County residents unable to sell their homes and move here, creating a pent-up demand for homes to buy.” Developer pat whalen, president of Public Interest Projects Inc., zeroed in on one key aspect: “High demand (Asheville’s livability) + limited land and housing supply = expensive housing. Why is the supply limited? Buildable land is scarce and expensive.” And lew Kraus, executive director of Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, added: “We live in an area that thrives on tourism, health care and manufacturing. But with a huge discrepancy between high housing costs and low wages, many people have been priced out of the housing market.” effects of the cRisis Several essayists described how the effects of the housing crisis have

rippled through the whole fabric of the community. “While Asheville becomes known as a magical place to live, those of us who are working-class pay the price of that fame,” Emma resident mirian porras told essayist/neighbor andrea golden. “When landlords sit down to talk about raising rents because more people want to move to Emma, they’re not thinking about the miserable wages that we earn that barely allow our families to eat. We need regulations on how rents are raised. How much more money can they take from us if we have nothing left?” That thought was echoed by chantelle, who commented on Xpress’ website: “Someone should look into the apartment complexes that are hiking rates by $75-$150 per month for long-term residents, decreasing maintenance activity and

overall lowering acceptable tenant standards. This does not support Asheville’s movement toward more affordable or safe housing.”

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RoBin mERREll Contributed photo And over at Pisgah Legal Services, robin merrell and the nonprofit’s Housing Team noted, “We talk to thousands of people every year who pay too much for rent, live too far from work and/or live in substandard conditions.” The affordable housing crisis makes it even harder for homeless folks to find permanent residences, observed brian K. alexander, executive director of Homeward Bound of WNC, which works in Buncombe and Henderson counties. “Every day, our case managers work to find safe, affordable places for our clients to live,“ Alexander wrote. ”Now, however, we simply cannot find those homes. This situation puts the lives of some of our community’s most vulnerable members at risk. Living on the streets for long periods of time exacerbates chronic behavioral and physical health issues that often lead to premature death.” The problem also affects those who receive housing assistance, said vicki meath, executive director of Just Economics, a nonprofit working to establish a living wage. “We need to understand the transition from what was once public housing to Section 8 vouchers, and that many people with those vouchers have no place to use them, due to the overall lack of affordable housing.” And UNC Asheville political science professor dwight b. mullen drew attention to how the crisis has affected the city’s African-American

residents: “Data indicate that the black population is in decline even as the city’s overall population increases dramatically. … African-Americans in their 20s and 30s are choosing to leave the area for places that seem more hospitable and satisfying. …

DwiGHt B. mullEn UNCA photo by Matt Rose “Poor pay and job opportunities are major components that contribute to self-exile. Young white people also face these factors, but black earnings, on average, are significantly lower than whites’. Black family income that averages just over $32,000 a year will not qualify for homeownership in Asheville. Why stay where you can’t live?”

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Suggestions on how to solve the affordable housing crisis ran the gamut, from streamlining development to ramping up housing cooperatives. Here’s a breakdown, starting with the availability of capital. “We cannot view this as a problem that the market alone can solve,” wrote jane hatley, the Self-Help Credit Union’s WNC regional director. “Fortunately, Asheville has highperforming nonprofit developers who, with appropriate subsidies, can build, preserve and maintain homes. One strategy might be for more lenders to follow the lead of wonderful organizations like Mountain Housing Opportunities and think more in terms of the social impact involved, i.e., accepting more risk in order to make more housing happen.” Several essayists suggested increasing the city’s Affordable Housing Trust Fund. lindsey simerly, chair of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee, wrote: “Increasing the annual allocation to our Affordable Housing Trust Fund will further drive development of high-quality units. The fund subsidized the Larchmont and Glen Rock projects, providing attractive, permanently affordable rental units in North Asheville and the River Arts District.” Merrell of Pisgah Legal Services suggested establishing a similar county fund and allocating some of the room-occupancy tax revenue for affordable housing. (On Sept. 1, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners approved an increase in the tax on a 4-3 vote, but the proceeds will continue to be used to promote tourism and tourismrelated projects.) soLUtion: incReAse density Several essayists advocated increasing the density, including Whalen of Public Interest Projects, who wrote: “One solution (certainly not the only one) would be to actively encourage more density in the city’s center, where people might actually be able to walk to work or, from the central bus station, catch just one bus to get to work. Imagine the effect on density and affordable living if our zoning encouraged affordable and middle-income, workforce, multifamily housing within a half-mile (or even 1 mile) radius of downtown.” Similarly, Merrell said, “Significantly increase density in zoning districts: When a developer

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HaRRY PiloS Photo by Carrie Eidson Downtown developer harry pilos agreed, saying, “Increase allowable density: more apartments, less land.” On the Xpress’ website, however, “jaded local” questioned whether increased density would really help: “There may be compelling arguments in its favor, but given that downtown is the densest part of Asheville and has the most expensive housing in town, affordability is not one of them. Flooding the city, as developers have been doing in recent years, with $800,000 houses and condos has been adding to the pool but just gives those who can afford an $800,000 house or condo more choices and does nothing for those who can only afford a $100,000 house or condo. “Generating tax money is a good case for density,” this writer continued. “But as downtown shows, density does not translate into affordability.” Another online commenter, Leicester resident alan ditmore, blamed the problem on the city’s unified development ordinance, writing: “It’s simple. The crisis is one of total housing supply — not enough units — and it is caused by the UDO with its single-family zoning, unit density limits, residential height limits, setbacks and parking requirements. Reversing the crisis will require the total defeat of all neighborhood activists.” soLUtion: eXpAnd tRAnspoRtAtion options In an Aug. 26 letter to the editor, Asheville City Council member

cecil bothwell addressed the role that transportation plays in the issue. “Develop countywide transit, with park-and-ride lots on major corridors and late-night collector routes for food-service employees who work past midnight,” he wrote. “This would make transportation more affordable, which translates into making housing at the city margins even more affordable, and it would relieve parking pressure downtown.” But fellow City Council member gordon smith disagreed. “Socioeconomic diversity makes Asheville strong, and pushing lower-income people to the margins is antithetical to that,” he asserted on the Xpress website. “Improving transit is a good idea. Each bus costs about $500,000; each route costs about $900,000 per year. Paying for transit service is and has been an enormous challenge, and the best we’ve managed to do is expand to Sunday service on limited routes and make our existing routes more efficient and effective.” Bothwell countered: “City policy cannot choose ‘a policy that relegates working people to the margins’ — it is economic reality. City policy cannot possibly defeat the market. … We have made a little progress, but the fact that Asheville rents are broadly unaffordable for workers after 10 years of effort that’s called the best in N.C. might suggest to a reasonable person that the effort is failing.”

Asheville, regardless of the legal threats, to push the envelope on mandatory inclusionary zoning, which is used in 44 other states.” soLUtion: pAy A Living wAge Meath also strongly argued for boosting local wages: “The business community and elected officials need to understand the impact that low wages, underfunded public transit and nonexistent affordable housing have on workforce availability,” she wrote. “Just Economics’ living wage (currently $12.50 per hour, or $11 per hour with employer-provided health insurance) is the bare minimum of what it takes for a single individual to afford a onebedroom apartment in the county. It’s a better starting place, not an end goal. “And meanwhile, a high percentage of downtown workers aren’t making even this bare minimum wage, lack full-time work or have dependents,” continued Meath. “So what happens to Asheville when there’s nowhere near the city that workers can afford to live? We need the business community to embrace a living wage and support infrastructure investments for the workforce.”

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soLUtion: cReAte incLUsionARy poLicies Several writers backed the idea of requiring developers to include a certain amount of affordable housing in new projects. “We strongly encourage including a certain percentage of affordable houses or apartments in every project,” wrote barber melton, a member of Asheville’s Affordable Housing Advisory Committee who also serves as vice president of the Coalition of Asheville Neighborhoods. And committee chair Simerly added: “Mandating that housing be inclusionary is a strategy that’s working across the state and nation. This policy requires every new development to include a percentage of affordable housing. An added benefit: Inclusionary zoning strengthens neighborhood resiliency and builds community across income levels.” Meath of Just Economics, meanwhile, wrote, “It may be time for

SHannon KauFFman Contributed photo Fellow essayist shannon Kauffman, a Habitat for Humanity homeowner, also sounded the alarm about wages: “We must address the housing crisis now, before it’s too late. I believe this can be done by requiring employers to pay their employees a living wage — which, like affordable housing, is also an endangered species here. I also believe in limiting rent increases to an acceptable percentage, so that a lease renewal doesn’t result in a 20 percent

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BuilDinG communitY: A family strolls through Westmore Apartments in West Asheville. The nonprofit Mountain Housing Opportunities developed and built the 72-home apartment complex, which offers affordable rents and a host of amenities. The green and sustainably constructed complex also includes solar hot water heating for residents. Contributed photo

increase for the renter. Moreover, developers and other for-profits must be required to give back to the community by supporting nonprofit agencies like Asheville Habitat that promote affordable housing.” soLUtion: sUppoRt economic deveLopment Other contributors to the dialogue pushed for attracting employers that pay higher wages. “Aggressively recruit employers that can provide adequate wages,” offered Pilos. “The educational system,” he added, “is a major factor: The better-educated the population, the more attractive the community is to ‘good’ employers. Residents deserve economic and educational opportunities that enable them to earn enough money that they don’t need low-income housing.” And donna cottrell of the county’s Planning and Development Department noted, “Continuing to incentivize local job opportunities for our community while supporting affordable and workforce housing initiatives can help address Buncombe County’s affordable housing problem.” At the same time, cindy visnich weeks, vice president and director of community investments at Mountain Housing Opportunities — the largest

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producer of affordable housing west of Charlotte — questioned the effectiveness of those incentives. “Let’s take a hard look at the past five years and ask: How many jobs did we create?” urged Weeks. “What will each of these jobs pay? How much did we pay the corporations bringing the jobs, and therefore, how much was paid to subsidize each one? How many of those jobs won’t pay enough to allow the worker to afford a modest apartment or home? How many workforce homes did we create in that same five-year period? How much funding did we use to incentivize the construction of true workforce housing?” In response, paul szurek, a board member and former chair of The Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County, commented: “All the jobs recruited by the Economic Development Coalition, and all those for which the city and county have provided incentives, pay substantially more than a living wage. These are basically high-productivity, advanced manufacturing jobs, with a lot of responsibility for machines and materials. In addition, the incentives are performance-based (i.e., no jobs, no capital investment, no incentive earned) and pay for themselves over time via additional tax base that would otherwise not be here.”

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soLUtion: mAke AffoRdAbLe deveLopment eAsieR Other essayists suggested ways to streamline development. Merrell, for instance, wrote: “Incentivize affordable housing development and make it easy for developers to build it. Instead of creating complicated regulations, simplify them. … Waive all fees for affordable housing development; increase fees for marketrate development.” And Pilos proposed these steps: “Modify zoning regulations to allow multifamily development in more locations. … Revamp the city’s housing incentives into packages that are meaningful to the multifamily industry. … Lower MSD’s impact fee. … Provide incentives to repurpose existing housing units.”

manageable project for working people. I think a somewhat bigger version — a low-cost, 600-square-foot home that’s designed to be expandable — would be worth pursuing.” heath moody of A-B Tech’s Construction Management, Building Science and Sustainability Technologies Department wrote: “One very promising approach is to partner with community colleges, high schools and four-year colleges on programs that are looking for hands-on projects for job-training purposes. … Such partnerships may not produce enough homes to meet all the needs, but they can cut labor costs while giving students realworld training.” Meanwhile, Hatley of the Self-Help Credit Union cited housing cooperatives and a project in the Netherlands that pairs students with the elderly as possible models for Asheville. And Golden described grassroots efforts in the Emma community, just outside Asheville, to create community land trusts and mobile home cooperatives: “My family lives in Dulce Lomita, a mobile home cooperative created to show residents how they can purchase parks that might otherwise be bought by developers, leading to permanent loss of affordable housing.” The challenge, wrote Golden, is expanding those efforts to serve more people: “We need the support of local housing-and-development institutions, as well as local governments, to give us the resources and legislation needed to bring models such as these up to scale. Only then will we be able to ensure housing equity and self-determination for all our communities.”

soLUtions: think oUtside the boX Still others called for less mainstream solutions. boone guyton, co-owner of Cady and Guyton Construction, noted: “One new free-market approach is ‘tiny houses,’ which can cost less than the down payment on the average home. A few Asheville companies are building them, though local building codes are problematic. A tiny house is a good fit for an owner /builder, as it’s a more

jEFF StauDinGER Photo by Tracy Rose jeff staudinger, the city of Asheville’s assistant director of

MUMPOWER community and economic development, described City Council’s efforts to address the affordable housing crisis but added this caveat: “Current financing and regulatory tools alone cannot produce enough new affordable housing to meet the need. To achieve that, we’ll need to support our existing housing partners, find new partners in both the public and private sectors, implement new policies and embrace new tools.”

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GREG BoRom Contributed photo greg borom, director of advocacy for Children First/Communities in Schools of Buncombe County, wrote: “Safe, affordable housing is a step toward opportunity and success but not the final destination. It’ll take accessory units, manufactured homes, cooperatives, land banks, increased density, small homes and apartments to address the lack of supply. But turning a physical structure into a home also requires access to schools, jobs, transit, parks, food and a community fabric that builds resiliency and interconnection.” And Meath of Just Economics noted: “Basically, it’s going to take all hands on deck to change this dangerous trajectory of unaffordability and extreme gentrification. As an entire community, we need to be informed about the issues, be cognizant of the big picture, roll up our sleeves and get to work.” X

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CommuNity CaLeNdaR FaiR Fun timE: It’s that time of year again! The annual Mountain State Fair is taking place at the WNC Agricultural Center and is jampacked with over 40 carnival rides, food and game vendors, music, farm animals, performances, competitions and more family-friendly fun. The fair will run daily until Sunday, Sept. 20. Please visit wncagcenter.org for the full fair schedule. Photo courtesy Thinkstock. (p. 22)

AsheviLLe AReA chAmbeR of commeRce 258-6114, ashevillechamber.org • TH (9/17), 5pm - Asheville Metro Economy Outlook, presentations on trends in urban economic development by Bruce Katz and strategic job creation by the Economic Development Coalition. $25. Registration required. Held at The Biltmore Estate, 1 Lodge St. g&w investment cLUb klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant, 2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden wnc nAtURAL heALth & weLLness meetup.com/WNC-Natural-Health-Wellness • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3pm - Networking event for natural health & wellness practitioners. Free to attend. Held at Western North Carolina School of Massage, 131 McDowell St. Suite 302

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benefits A tAste of hemp hempxasheville.com • FR (9/18), noon-1pm - Tickets to this hemp lunch by Chef Jason Sellers benefit Accelerating Appalachia. $20. Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway AmeRicAns who teLL the tRUth gALA 252-4614, eventbee.com/v/ americanswhotellthetruth • SA (9/19), 6:30pm - Proceeds from this Americans Who Tell the Truth reception and portrait unveiling benefit americans who tell the truth. $10-$250. &nbsp; &nbsp; Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St. ARt & soUL benefit foR cARing foR chiLdRen

669-6111, fccblackmountain@gmail.com • SA (9/19), 7pm - Donations at this Robin Bullock Celtic, Appalachian, Baroque, and original acoustic mandolin and guitar concert benefit Full moon Farm. Free to attend. Held at First Christian Church of Black Mountain, 21 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain hAywood commUnity coLLege AnniveRsARy ceLebRAtion And 5k haywood.edu • SA (9/19), 8am - Proceeds from this 5k celebrating Haywood Community College’s 50th Anniversary benefit Haywood community college. Post race activities include music, fishing, kids activities, antique car show and art demonstrations. $30/$15 fun run. Held at Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde

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iRene woRthAm centeR LUAU fUndRAiseR ireneworthamcenter.org/events • WE (9/16), 4-9pm - Proceeds raised at this dine-in or take-out luau event benefit children and adults with developmental disabilities. Children’s activities 4-6pm. Live music 7-9pm. Free to attend. Held at Juicy Lucy’s Burger Bar and Grill, 620 Hendersonville Road, Ashevile

eventbrite.com/e/beesr-forgears-tickets-18366965087 • TH (9/24), 6-9pm - Tickets to this party featuring local food, beer and wine, music by Caromia and the Siamese Jazz Club and silent auction benefit asheville on Bikes. $30. Held at Catawba Brewing South Slope, 32 Banks Ave. Suite 105

JeAn Ann RogeRs memoRiAL goLf toURnAment abr-nc.com/events • MO (9/21), 1pm - Proceeds from this golf tournament, lunch, and evening cookout benefit Eblen charities. $125. Held at The Country Club of Asheville, 170 Windsor Road

785-1590, caring4children.org • TH (9/24), 6-9pm - Tickets to this reception featuring a live painting performance by Jonas Gerard benefit caRinG for children. $25. Held at Jonas Gerard Fine Art, 240 Clingman Ave.

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Rock the qUARRy 5k & kids RUn hedrickind.com/our-company/ rock-the-quarry • SA (9/19), 9:15am - Proceeds from this rock quarry run benefit the Black mountain Home for children and the Colburn Earth Science Museum. $35/$25 advance/$5 kids. Held at Grove Stone & Sand Company, 842 Old US Highway 70, Black Mountain

bUsiness & technoLogy A-b tech smALL bUsiness centeR 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler unless otherwise noted. • WE (9/16), 10am - “Increasing and Rewarding Loyalty While Driving Customers to Your Door,” seminar. • TH (9/17), 10am - “Affordable Healthcare Overview for Business Owners,” seminar. • FR (9/18), 1pm - “How to Start a Non-Profit Entity,” seminar. Held at A-B Tech South Site, 303B Airport Road, Arden • SA (9/19), 9am - “SCORE: Simple Steps to Marketing & Building Your Customer Base,” seminar. • TU (9/22), 10am - “How to Develop and Screen Your Business Idea,” seminar. • TU (9/22), 6pm - “eBay: Building Your Business on eBay,” seminar. • WE (9/23), 3pm - “Using WordPress to Build a Website for Your Business,” seminar. • TH (9/24), 10am - “How Entrepreneurs can Utilize Library Resources for Business Plan Development,” seminar.

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AsheviLLe oUtLets Job fAiR 667-2308, shopashevilleoutlets.com • WE (9/16), 11am-7pm - Asheville Outlets retailers job fair. Free. Held at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road bLUe Ridge pARkwAy RAngeR pRogRAms 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted. • SA (9/19) and SU (9/20), 9am-2pm - “Annual Overmountain Victory Celebration,” re-enactors demonstrate crafts from the Revolutionary war period. Candlelight vigil: Sept. 19, 7-9pm. Held at Museum of North Carolina Minerals, MP 331. • SA (9/19), 2:30pm - Re-enactment of the Battle of King’s Mountain. Held at the Orchard of Altapass, MP 328. bUiLding bRidges buildingbridges-ashevillenc.org • THURSDAYS through (11/5), 7-9pm - Seminar series on the dynamics of racism. Registration required. $35. Held at A-B Tech, 340 Victoria Road dRy stone wALLing woRkshop 10/24-25 9am-5pm 2-day workshop will teach the basics of traditional drystone walling through the construction of a retaining wall using local stone. $100/person. Info: livingstonemasons.com/workshop,livingstonemasons@ gmail.com, 828-773-6955. hAw cReek commUnity AssociAtion hawcreeknc.org, hawcreeknc@gmail.com • SA (9/19), 9am-12pm - Fall community yard sale. Free to attend. Held at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 290 Old Haw Creek Road hAywood coUnty LibRARy-cAnton 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • TH (9/24), 5:30pm - Crime Prevention Workshop covers how to avoid dangerous situations and prevent criminal confrontations. Registration required: 648-2924. Free.

ontRAck wnc 50 S. French Broad Ave., 255-5166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. • THURSDAYS through (10/1), 5:30-7pm - “Money Buddies,” money management workshop series for women. Free. • FR (9/18), noon-1:30pm - “Understanding Credit. Get It. Keep It. Improve It.” Free. • SATURDAYS (9/19) and (9/26), 9am-3pm “Homebuyer Education Series,” 2-part workshop. Free. • TUESDAYS through (9/29), 5:30-8pm - “Manage Your Money,” workshop series. Free. • WE (9/23), 5:30-7pm - “Understanding Credit. Get It. Keep It. Improve It.” Free.

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pUbLic events At UncA unca.edu • Through SA (9/19) - UNCA Installation of Chancellor Mary K. Grant. See website for full schedule. Free. • TH (9/24), 5pm - Intertribal stickball game and demonstration featuring the Wa Le Lu team from Cherokee. Free. Held on the intramural fields. pUbLic events At wcU 227-7397, wcu.edu • FR (9/18), 6pm - Accountancy program fall banquet. Reservations required: 227-3567. $35. Held at the Waynesville Inn, 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville wnc4peAce - inteRnAtionAL dAys of peAce events wnc4peace.com • SU (9/20), 1-4pm - “Tea for Peace,” live music, poetry readings, and yoga for kids and adults. Free to attend. Held at Dobra Tea Room Black Mountain, 120 Broadway St., Black Mountain • SU (9/20), 1-5pm - “The People’s Peace Festival,” live music, family activities, and tabling for activists. Free to attend. Held at French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. • MO (9/21), 11:30am - “International Day of Peace Celebration,” white dove release, meditation and walk of peace. Free. Held at the Asheville Peace Pole behind Pack Square in Downtown Asheville. • MO (9/21), 7:30pm - Peace Concert featuring Lightbulb Jazz Orchestra and Kim Hughes. $8. Held

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at White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road, Black Mountain Youth OUTright 772-1912, youthoutright.org • TH (9/17), 8pm - “Young Voices,” annual community event with presentations from youth and spoken word excerpts from Qtopia. $30. Held at Jewish Community Center, 236 Charlotte St. • SA (9/19), 11am - Middle school discussion group. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • SU (9/20), 4pm - General meeting and movie showing of Milk. Free. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

Dance BELLY DANCE • CLOGGING CLASSES (pd.) Now at Idea Factory Inc. Dance Studio, 3726 Sweeten Creek Road, in addition to our ongoing classes for ages 2 & up. Class schedule, registration/information: www.ideafactoryinc.org ROCOCO BALLROOM (pd.) Offering social and competitive dance instruction to couples and individuals of all levels in Ballroom, Latin and Swing. Schedule a $25 sample lesson TODAY by calling 828.575.0905 or visiting www.rococoballroom.com Asheville Movement Collective ashevillemovementcollective.org • FRIDAYS, 7:30pm - Non-instructional, freeform dances within community. $7-$15. Held at Asheville Ballet Studio, 4 Weaverville Rd., Woodfin • SUNDAYS, 9am & 11am- Non-instructional, freeform dance within community. $7-$15. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway Southern Lights Square and Round Dance Club 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (9/19), 6pm - “Football Fantasy” themed dance with caller Stan Russell. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Rd., Hendersonville

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Eco Asheville Green Drinks ashevillegreendrinks.com Free to attend. Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway • WE (9/16), 6pm - “International Day of Peace: Partnerships for Peace - Dignity for All,” presentation. • WE (9/23), 6pm - “Legislative Wrap-Up,” presentation. Cradle of Forestry Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • SU (9/20), 2-5pm - “Bring Back the Monarchs,” presentation about how to help monarch butterflies survive. $5. Creation Care Alliance of WNC creationcarealliance.org • TH (9/24), 6pm - “Caring for our Common Home: Responding to the Pope’s Call for Action,” interfaith dinner and discussion. Free. Held at St. Eugene’s Catholic Church, 72 Culver St. N.C. Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • SA (9/19), 10am-4pm - “Monarch Butterfly Day,” presentations and activities about protecting monarch butterflies. $12 per vehicle. RiverLink 170 Lyman St., 252-8474 ext.11 • FR (9/18), 3pm - Fall Salon Series: Presentation by author Barbara Duncan about the Cherokees’ relationship to rivers in WNC. Registration required. Free.

Farm & Garden WORKSHOP ON HOME ORCHARDS (pd.) SAT. 9/19, 10AM. With Andrew Goodheart Brown. Grow fruit! Andrew will discuss choosing your fruit trees, siting your fruit for disease resistance and increased yield, recommended planting methods, and a bit about critter management ~ approached with a permaculture twist. Free, but please pre-register at 828-645-3937. Reems Creek Nursery, 70 Monticello Road, Weaverville, NC. www.reemscreek.com. Bullington Gardens 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville, 698-6104, bullingtongardens.org • TU (9/22), WE (9/23) & FR (9/25), 1 & 2 pm - “Dahlia Daze,” information sessions and guided tours of the garden. Free to attend. • TH (9/24), 3pm - “Dahlia Daze,” ikebana demonstration using dahlias. Free to attend. Buncombe County Master Gardeners 255-5522, buncombemastergardener.org • TH (9/17), 10am - “Gardening in the Mountains Series,” presentation about fall flowering perennials and lawns. Registration required. Free. Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 94 Coxe Ave. N.C. Arboretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • SU (9/20), 1pm - WNC Orchid Society annual plant auction. Plant preview starts at noon. $12 per vehicle.

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Festivals 14TH ANNUAL “WEAVE THE WEB” FESTIVAL (pd.) Crystal Visions, Saturday, September 26, 11am5pm. Featuring dozens of participants offering I• Psychic Readings • Energy Healing • Massage • Aura Photography • Creative Artisans • Fun • Food • Festivities1 • Admission is free. 5426 Asheville Hwy, 28791. www.crystalvisionsbooks.com Catawba RiverFest 584-7728, facebook.comFriendsOfLakeJamesStatePark • SA (9/19), 10am-3pm - Festival promoting appreciation of the Catawba River with classes, hikes, boat tours, demonstrations and raffles. Free to attend. Held at Lake James State Park, 6883 N.C. Highway. 126, Nebo Fletcher Parks and Recreation 687-0751, fletcherparks.org • SA (9/19), 5pm - “Fletcher Family Festival,” with games, inflatables, music, vendors, and fireworks. Fireworks at 8pm. Free to attend. Held at Fletcher Community Park, 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher HempX Asheville hempxasheville.com • FR (9/18) & SA (9/19) - Festival celebrating hemp with music, panel discussions, tastings, and educational Expo. See website for full schedule. Free to attend. Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway Mountain State Fair 687-1414, mountainfair.org • Through SU (9/20) - Mountain State Fair includes agriculture, music, crafts, art, food, entertainment, display of livestock, and competitions. See website for full schedule. $9/$5 seniors and children 6-12/free for children 5 and under. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road

Food & Beer Caldwell Community College 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson, 726-2200, cccti.edu • TH (9/17), 6pm - Culinary arts program public Thai themed dinner. Reservations required: 726-2407. $21.

Government & Politics Asheville National Organization for Women ashevillenow@live.com • WE (9/16), 6:30pm - Postcard and letter writing to legislators. Free to attend. Held at Battery Park Book Exchange & Champagne Bar, 1 Page Ave #101 Henderson County Democratic Party 905 S. Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, 692-6424, myhcdp.com • WE (9/16), noon - General meeting and discussion on election issues. BYO lunch. Free.

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PARENTS SURVIVAL NIGHT • AT THE LITTLE GYM (pd.) This Saturday, September 19, 5pm-9pm. Blast Off Back to School theme includes space themed activities in the gym, pizza dinner. Plus Asheville Sketchy Art will be there and each child will take home their own original painting on canvas! • $40 for first child, $20 for siblings. • 1000 Brevard Road, Suite 168. Asheville. Call 828-6679588 to sign up or visit www.tlgashevillenc.com Asheville History Center 253-9231, smh@wnchistory.org. • SA (9/19), 10:30am - The Crafty Historian: “International Talk Like A Pirate Day,” activities and refreshments. $7. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road Ballet Conservatory of Asheville 6 E. Chestnut St., 255-5777, balletconservatoryofasheville.com • SA (9/19), 6pm - “Books & Ballet,” book signing, presentation, and refreshments with Laurel Snyder author of Swan. Free to attend. Buncombe County Public Libraries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • WE (9/16), 3:30pm - Makers and Shakers Club: Make a painting. Supplies provided. • TH (9/24), 9:30am - “Stories Comin’ Round the Mountain,” local storytelling for ages 5 to 11. • TH (9/24), 11am - “Stories Comin’ Round the Mountain,” local storytelling for ages 5 to 11. Spellbound Children’s Bookshop 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

Outdoors TROUT SCHOOL • LAKE LOGAN EPISCOPAL CENTER (pd.) September 29-October 1: Participants will be led by instructors in the basics of this wonderful sport. Classes covering equipment, fly tying and casting techniques. Information/Registration: Lakelogan.org Blue Ridge Naturalist Network facebook.com/groups/BRNNmembers, brnnetwork2013@gmail.com • MO (9/21), 3pm - Elk viewing at Cataloochee Valley. Optional carpool from West Gate Shopping Center at 1:30pm. $15 annual fee. Meets at the Palmer House, Cataloochee Creek Road, Waynesville. Blue Ridge Parkway Hikes 298-5330, nps.gov • FR (9/18), 10am - “Heading South,” ranger led moderate 2.2 mile roundtrip hike while learning about animal and insect migration. Free. Meets at Big Ridge Overlook, MP 403.6. Chimney Rock Park 1638 Chimney Rock Park Road, Chimney Rock, 625-4688 • SA (9/19), 11am-3pm - “Flock to the Rock,” birding event with bird walks and presentations. $15/$7 under age 16/free under age 4. Eliada Home 2 Compton Drive, 645-7190 • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/16) until

(10/31) - Eliada Home Corn Maze. See website for full schedule. Discounts for volunteers. $10/$8 seniors/$7 children age 4-11. LAke JAmes stAte pARk 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted. • WE (9/16), 2pm - “Fall Migration Bird Hike.” Free. • WE (9/23), 2:45pm - Autumn boat tour. Registration required. Free.

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pUbLic LectURes AsheviLLe downtown AssociAtion 251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • WE (9/23), 5:30pm - “Reshaping the Development Paradigm,” presentation by Ed McMahon of the Urban Land Institute. Free. Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St. cARpAtho-RUsyn society 440-729-2045, c-rs.org, carpatho.rus.avl@gmail.com • SA (9/19), 2-4:30pm - Presentation on the wooden churches of the Carpathians. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St. ethicAL hUmAnist society of AsheviLLe 687-7759, aeu.org • SU (9/20), 2pm - “Critical Actions for Global Survival.” Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road

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senioRs AARp smARt dRiveR cLAsses 253-4863, aarpdriversafety.org • TH (9/24), 11:45am - Driving refresher class. $20. Registration required: 299-2514. Held at Charles George V.A. Medical Center, 1 100 Tunnel Road Lgbt eLdeR AdvocAtes of wnc 251-7438, lgbtelderadvocatesofwnc.org, stephaaiee@yahoo.com • MO (9/21), 2pm - “Social Media Social,” learn how to use social media. Free. Held at Land of Sky Regional Council, 339 New Leicester Highway • WE (9/24), noon - Lunch social. Free to attend. Held at Denny’s, 1 Regent Park Blvd. ymcA of wnc 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • SA (9/19), noon-4pm - “YMCA Fit After 50 Day,” group exercise classes, flu shots, free health screenings, lectures, and 25 + vendors. Free to attend. Held at Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Square Blvd.

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PEacE oF PiE: An upcoming Poetry and Pie fundraiser for Great Tree Zen Temple — an organization committed to nurturing feminine spirituality and personal growth for community members — will help the nonprofit continue its self-reflective programs, including an annual writing workshop, pictured. Photo courtesy of Great Tree

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is also hosting a writing retreat at the Zen center on Saturday, Oct. 24. “There will be both single-serving and whole pies and cakes — with some gluten-free options — to choose from,” event organizer Gassho says, and “Renee Ethridge, a longtime member, will be baking the cake for our raffle.” Sweets are paid individually, and tickets to enter the cake raffle are an additional $10. Proceeds from the event will enable the nonprofit, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary, to continue supporting spiritual journeys. Although the retreat space reserves short- and long-term residencies for women, all other sessions (dharma teaching, zazen instruction, family meditation, youth programs and other personal growth events) are open to all. Poetry and Pie is at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave., on Sunday, Sept. 27, from 6-7:30 p.m. A suggested donation of $20 at the door will go directly to the Great Tree Zen Temple. X

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AsheviLLe insight meditAtion (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com AstRo-coUnseLing (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. cRystAL visions books And event centeR (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts. Event Space, Labyrinth and Garden. 828-687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www. crystalvisionsbooks.com open heARt meditAtion (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you. Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org psychic deveLopment And mediUmship cLAsses! (pd.) (SA) September 12th, 19th, 26th – Learn from the 2015 Psychic of the Year Jill M. Jackson! Go to www.jillmjackson.com or call 828-414-4765 for more information. AvALon gRove 645-2674, avalongrove.org, avalongrove@gmail.com • SU (9/20), 3pm - Celtic Christian Holiday Observance: Autumn Equinox (Mabon) outdoors service at private home. Optional potluck follows. Free.

betteR Living centeR 606-6834 • THURSDAYS through (9/24), 6:30pm - Creationist health seminar. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester fiRst congRegAtionAL Ucc of hendeRsonviLLe 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (9/20), 9:15am - Adult Forum: Discussion of Bishop Larry Spong’s writings. Free. gRAce LUtheRAn chURch 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • WEDNESDAYS through (10/14), 9:30am Women’s Book Study: All the Places to Go by John Ortberg. Registration required. $9. • MONDAYS through (11/23), 1pm - Biblical Book Study: 66 Love Letters by Larry Crab. Registration required. $15 book fee. kAiRos west commUnity centeR 742 Haywood Road, 367-6360, kairoswest.wordpress.com • TUESDAYS through (12/29), 9:30am - Spirituality discussion group open to all faiths and practices. Free. the wAy of Love commUnity gRoUp thepowerofpassionatepresence.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Modern mind meditation class. Free. Held at Angle Cottage, 50 Woodlawn Ave. tibetAn bUddhist pRActice gRoUp 512-289-248 • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, noon - Lunchtime meditation practice. Free. Held at KTC Asheville, 2 Wall St. Suite 112 UnitARiAn UniveRsAList congRegAtion of AsheviLLe 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • FR (9/18), 6-9pm & SA (9/19), 9am-noon “Equinox Labyrinth Walk,” live music and open walking meditation on Chartres style labyrinth. Free. UR Light centeR 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-4pm - Mind Body Spirit Day. $12. • SU (9/20), 3-5pm - Equinox Meditation Concert with Richard Shulman. $20/$15 advance.

spoken & wRitten woRd bLUe Ridge books 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • SA (9/19), 3pm - Ryan Hadley and Day Yearick discuss their book A Thousand Fireflies. Free to attend. bUncombe coUnty pUbLic LibRARies buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • THURSDAYS through (9/17), 3:30pm - “Learn to Download Digital Books, Audio Books and Magazines from the Library,” workshop. Different devices are covered each session. Contact for guidelines. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord

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NeWS oF the WeiRd by Chuck Shepherd LeAd stoRy — A pApeR dRone The Federal Aviation Administration recently granted (likely for the first time ever) an application to fly a paper airplane. Prominent drone advocate Peter Sachs had applied to conduct commercial aerial photography with his "aircraft" (a Tailor Toys model with a tiny propeller and maximum range of 180 feet), and the agency, concerned with air traffic safety, accommodated by treating the request (un-ironically?) under the rules for manned flights (that, among other restrictions, Sachs must not exceed 100 mph and must engage a licensed airplane pilot to fly it). "With this grant," said the "victorious" Sachs, "the FAA has abandoned all logic and sensibility."

qUestionAbLe JUdgments • Because temperatures were in the high 90s the last weekend in August, tourists visiting the historical Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland were greeted by the outdoor sprinkler system dousing them near the gates. It was intended as relief, said operators, to keep guests from fainting, but, as one Israeli visitor said, "It was a punch to the gut" — too reminiscent of Auschwitz's gas chamber. (Jewish prisoners had been marched calmly to their deaths under the pretense that they were only being taken for showers.) • DIY dentistry seemed off-limits — until amateur orthodontia got a boost from a 2012 YouTube video in which Shalom DeSota, now 17, praised rubber bands for teeth-straightening. DeSota's family lacked dental insurance at the time, so the would-be actress experimented by looping rubber bands around two front teeth she wanted to draw together. Many painful days later, she succeeded. The American Association of Orthodontists expressed alarm in August at the video's recent popularity. So much could go wrong — infection, gum-tearing, detachment between tooth and gums — that DeSota, the organization said, had simply been lucky.

new woRLd oRdeR Digital World: (1) The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction announced in July that it would be experimenting with online phys-ed courses for high schoolers. Students would watch videos on certain activities, then engage in them, and later self-report their (as the agency calls it) "mastery." (2) British police warned in August of a brandnew sex crime based on the iPhone app AirDrop. The app sends text or photos instantly to nearby AirDrop users (who choose to receive from "contacts" or from "everyone"). Thus, perverts can "flash" strangers by posting nude pictures of themselves to reach AirDrop users set carelessly (or purposely!) to "everyone."

seems Like the seAson of emAiL mUddLes (1) All Sherri Smith wanted was copies of background emails about her son (who has a disability) that were stored in the files of the Goodrich, Michigan, school system, but the superintendent informed her in June that the Freedom of Information request would cost her $77,780 (4,500 hours of searching — taking two years to complete). (Michigan's FOI law was somewhat liberalized on July 1, and Smith said she may refile.) (2) After a McKinney, Texas, police officer was filmed pointing his gun at unarmed black teenagers at a pool party in June, the online Gawker Media filed a Public Information Act request for the officer's records and any emails about his conduct. The city estimated that request's cost at $79,229 (hiring a programmer, for 2,231 hours' searching — plus "computer time"). Gawker said it would appeal.

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a rally fOr recOvery Event celebrates mental health and addiction recovery in WNC BY nicKi GlaSSER nickiglasser@hotmail.com As part of National Recovery Month, Western North Carolina’s first recovery rally honors those who are recovering from mental health, addiction and other life challenges. richie tannerhill, who conceived the idea earlier this year, has united many North Carolinians for the Saturday, Sept. 19, event taking place at Lake Junalaska, 30 minutes west of Asheville. “We need to do this; we need to plan a rally around recovery,” says Tannerhill, who is a peer- and family-support specialist and trainer with Smoky Mountain LME/MCO, a public agency providing services in 23 counties for individuals with developmental disabilities, mental health and substance abuse issues. He’s also in long-term recovery. “The goal [of the event] is to raise awareness about recovery — that people do get better and that recovery happens in the community and that the whole community is involved,” says Tannerhill. Although the event is focused on mental health and addiction recovery, charlyne voyette, an Asheville resident and member of its planning committee, says it’s much more. “If you are a human being, you are in recovery from something, because life happens,” she says. Recovery can be from divorce, trauma or any situation “that presents challenges in human life that people often feel shame about,” Voyette says. With all that in mind, the family-friendly rally includes a recovery walk around the lake and kids’ activities, such as a bouncy house, face painting and balloon artists, says Tannerhill. And local law enforcement officials will be cooking free hamburgers and hot dogs

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looKinG FoRwaRD: “The goal [of the Sept. 19 rally] is to raise awareness about recovery — that people do get better and that recovery happens in the community and that the whole community is involved,” says organizer Richie Tannerhill. Photo courtesy of Tannerhill on a big grill towed behind a firetruck. Getting families involved is important because it “helps us combat stigma that people in recovery are dangerous,” says Tannerhill. Both Voyette and Tannerhill spoke openly with Mountain Xpress about being in long-term recovery themselves. Tannerhill remembers the exact day he got out of jail from a drug-related conviction — Nov. 14, 2007. “I had the clothes on my back, not a penny in my pocket and nowhere to go,” he

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says. “There was no support. No one expected me to make it. Now, almost eight years later of successful recovery, I’m a youth pastor in my local church, ball coach, husband, father and peer trainer at Smoky [Mountain]. Those are labels associated with recovery.” Voyette was raised in an alcoholic home and has been in long-term recovery from post-traumatic stress disorder. Now, after overcoming these challenges, her “role and purpose in life is to be a messenger of hope, to

see that spark that might motivate or inspire someone,” she says. “I was a pastor and graduated from law school, and then I took a hit of cocaine and graduated from Swannanoa Correction Center for Women,” she says with a dash of dry humor. “Now my whole life has been redirected.” Voyette volunteers at AHOPE day center in Asheville, writes grants for The Ministry of Hope in Black Mountain and participates in an apprenticeship program at Meridian

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Behavioral Health Services. “I do what I can to give back now,” she says, “helping people come out of shame.” Recovery is all about expectations, support and community, says Tannerhill. “If people are expected to get well, then they do,” he says. “My tag line is: ‘Recovery is not the exception but [the] expectation.’” Tannerhill adds, “We want to raise the profile for recovery and change the conversation from problems to solutions.” One of the ways the rally is doing this is by honoring allies in the community. bill hollingsed, Waynesville chief of police, will receive a Recovery Champion Award for his department’s community education efforts, which have focused on reducing substance abuse, especially prescription drug abuse, in the area. “We have a high rate of overdoses,” he says of Waynesville. “We made it a cause for the Police Department because we were responding repeatedly to overdose deaths, and a lot were very young kids, anywhere from 15 [to] 20 years of age. You can only zip up so many teenagers in black bags before you say, ‘This is not something we’re going to stand for.’” That was four years ago. Since then, Hollingsed and his department have partnered with agencies around the state and country to work on lowering overdose rates. They have also written grants, worked with legislators on a number of bills in Raleigh and partnered with clergy, physicians, parents and schools. “We’ve come to the realization that we can do law enforcement, and we can put people in jail, but we’re not going to arrest our way out of this problem,” Hollingsed explains. Instead of responding repeatedly to a situation or individual and eventually coming back for an overdose event, “we would much rather be in on the prevention side of things,” he says. The public usually only hears about the problems Hollingsed and his department face. But, says Tannerhill, “more than 23 million Americans are in successful sustained recovery from addiction. If we add the numbers for people in successful recovery from a mental health diagnosis, it doubles, so now we’re talking about 50 million Americans just in the United States.”

Unfortunately, their recovery may be accompanied by “negative stereotypes, shame [and] labels,” says Voyette. “It is the negative thoughts and feelings that surround mental health and addiction,” Tannerhill adds. “For example: once an addict, always an addict — they’ll never get any better, are dangerous, a thief, or you can’t trust them.” Data show that people with these challenges are in fact 10 times more likely to be victims of violent crime, he notes. “We don’t hear the good stories,” Tannerhill says. “We want to make it so people can share their stories. By sharing our stories, [we help] reduce stigma as well as [open the door for people to] become a resource to our allies in the community.” X

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Hard rows to hoe Assessing and addressing the decline in WNC farms

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loSinG tHE FaRm: Yancey County lost 40 percent of its farms in 15 years; Haywood lost 38 percent. Farm declines averaged 18 percent in Western North Carolina between 1997 and 2012, with Buncombe registering a 16 percent loss in that period. Source: USDA Census of Agriculture.

BY alYx PERRY Making a living as a farmer is tough anywhere, but it’s particularly true in the North Carolina mountains. Western North Carolina lost 18 percent of its farms — more than 2,800 — in the 15 years between 1997 and 2012. And the majority of existing WNC farmers

today are nearing retirement age — many of them without heirs who plan to keep the farm going. Several groups are helping new, veteran and would-be farmers plan for economic sustainability, according to molly nicholie, program director for the Local Food Program at Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. “It is

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very difficult to make farming your primary source of income,” Nicholie said. To better understand the challenges facing new farmers, the Organic Growers School recently assessed the obstacles faced by current and aspiring farmers, particularly when trying to start a farm in the region. “We needed to understand the barriers to

successful farming in Western North Carolina and, more importantly, to discover the kinds of services, training and support our farmers need in order to succeed,” said nicole delcogliano, OGS’ farmer programs associate. Lack of access to land and capital ranked as the two biggest barriers to farm startups, according to OGS’ recently released report, “Barriers to Farming in Western North Carolina,” which summarizes the findings of a recent survey by the organization. Seventy-eight percent of those responding to the survey termed access to land a significant barrier. Forty-seven percent responded that they needed assistance finding and financing land, when asked what services would be most helpful to new farm startups. Finding land is particularly problematic around Asheville. “The challenge is especially difficult for farmers that depend on being near Western North Carolina’s economic growth centers — areas where land values remain high and continue to increase,” the report says. “Land in the region is priced at development value, and it can be difficult to get financing for land that doesn’t have a home on it,” said cameron farlow, farmer programs coordinator with Organic Growers School. The “Barriers” report confirms the findings of a 2010 statewide study by North Carolina’s Center for Environmental Farming Systems, which identified access to capital and land as the largest barriers facing new farmers in the state. More than 70 percent of North Carolina farmland is owned by farmers who inherited their land, according to the USDA Census of Agriculture. marie williamson and

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william lyons, owners of Bluebird Farm in Morganton, got started farming on family-owned land. “The family land was invaluable when we were getting started,” Lyons said. When Williamson and Lyons were ready to expand their farm, they were able to lease additional acreage from a friend nearby. Would-be farmers can get help finding land to lease from WNC Farm Link, a partnership of Organic Growers School, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy and others. WNC Farm Link, now in its third year, been approached by at least 100 people seeking farmland in the region. Leasing rather than buying gives farmers a chance to gain experience in farming while saving up for a purchase, according to suzanna denison, WNC Farm Link land access coordinator, Lyons agrees. “I would recommend leasing rather than buying for farmers starting out. It’s a much lower risk than buying.” For aspiring farmers hoping to persuade banks to lend them capital, a good business plan is fundamental, according to maggie hamm at Carolina Farm Credit. “One of our strong focuses is to work with young and beginning farmers. When connecting them with

financing, we look for a strong business plan, and we provide them the support for developing a plan,” Hamm said. It’s not only the lenders who are saying the farmers need more financial planning. So are the farmers. Eighty-seven percent of the survey respondents expressed at least some need for training in farm planning, and 63 percent said that financial planning skills are a significant or very significant need. With regulations on farms intensifying, 68 percent are seeking better understanding of legal regulations. “If you don’t want to own a small business, don’t try and make a living as a farmer,” Lyons said. Access to markets was the third-ranked barrier to farming, according to the survey, after access to land and capital. Over half the survey’s respondents said access to markets posed a significant barrier for them. “It’s especially difficult to find specialty markets where you can get the price you need for products like organically raised meats. We want to make good food a bigger part of the food system, but it’s hard to be profitable,” Lyons said. Sixty-two percent of the survey respondents said training in marketing is a significant need. Some believe the market in the Asheville region is saturated, with so many tailgate markets and restaurants touting locally sourced food. “Asheville tailgate markets are hard to get into, so we sell at markets in the Morganton and Charlotte areas, where there are fewer small farms competing for the ‘local’ food market,” Lyons said. Nicholie says the goal is to connect each farmer with the right buyers. “We work closely with both farmers and buyers, and believe there is enough demand in our region for new farmers to enter the market.” The challenge, Nicholie says, is to provide farmers with the training and technical support to develop good marketing plans. Farlow sums it up this way: “Many beginning farmers don’t realize they need to be businesspeople, and many farmers don’t yet have that skill set. Our goal is to try and help people coming into farming have realistic expectations and plan creatively for their farm business and marketing before they get started.” The results of OGS’ study is being used to help the group develop its new Farm Beginnings course, which will launch next month and provide aspiring farmers with training in sustainable production and farm-business management. The course will include 11 sessions focused on topics such as business planning and record-keeping. So this fall and winter, many aspiring farmers in WNC will be heading “back to school” — not to become farmers, but to become smart business managers. For more information about the Barriers to Farming in Western North Carolina report or OGS’ Farm Beginnings course, visit www.organicgrowersschool.org. X

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Stepping up to the plate Local volunteers lead the fight against food insecurity

erick johanson works alongside Riggsbee in the program, and his family provides a full complement of volunteers: Johanson’s wife, Karen; their 11-year-old son, maverick; and Karen’s parents, bruce and martha craig. “Many of the individuals that come in come back each week, because they need it,” notes Karen. “I get a lot of hugs and thank yous. It just makes you feel good to know you’re helping these people.” But it doesn’t end there. The Johansons also lead a scout group that tends a community garden, and the Craigs help manage a food pantry through their church. chAnging Lives

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BY HannaH SEntEnac hannah.sentenac@gmail.com Often invisible to those not directly affected, food insecurity nonetheless touches nearly 1 in 7 people in the U.S. In Western North Carolina alone, about 108,000 residents lack consistent access to three meals a day, according to the 2014 “Map the Meal Gap” report. Thanks to dozens of nonprofit organizations, however, WNC residents needing nutritional support have places to turn — and thousands of dedicated volunteers play a crucial role in helping these groups carry out their various missions. At the forefront of the local hunger relief movement stands MANNA

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FoodBank. The large-scale, collaborative network comprises 248 philanthropic groups in 16 counties across the region. In 2014, the nonprofit distributed 15 million pounds of food, enough for 34,000 meals per day. And despite having about 40 paid staff members, “Volunteers are really involved with almost every level of the work we do here at MANNA,” says maxwell gruber, the organization’s volunteer coordinator. Last year, 7,534 community members provided 66,278 hours of free labor, the equivalent of 31 full-time staffers. Meanwhile, many smaller organizations across the region are run primarily by volunteers, with paid staff either limited or simply nonexistent.

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picking Up the sLAck Local hunger relief efforts come in many different forms. In 2013, for example, the YMCA of Western North Carolina launched a Healthy Living Pantry in Beaverdam. The following year, the nonprofit invested in a mobile kitchen. The converted 72-passenger school bus boasts a fully functional prep kitchen and café-style seating. “It seats anywhere from 15 to 20,” says lisa riggsbee, the Y’s healthy living manager. “We host cooking demos, nutrition lessons: It’s the ultimate teaching tool.” Volunteers, she continues, “are there to pick up where we can’t and to come up with new and improved ideas. They play a role in physical, manual labor but also the background and thought process of everything we do.”

At the Bread of Life community kitchen and food pantry in Brevard, director michael collins is the only paid employee. All other work is done pro bono. “There are 385 volunteers, who all work three hours a week or three hours a month” at the kitchen, notes Collins — not bad for a county with about 33,000 people and a town with only 7,600. Members of other groups, including retired teachers and local seventh-graders, also participate regularly. “It’s cultural,” says Collins, praising the area’s participatory mindset and strong sense of community. “The volunteers make it happen; they do so much.” Bounty & Soul, a Black Mountainbased group that provides fresh foods, nutrition education and wellness resources, has grown exponentially since its inception three years ago, thanks largely to volunteer support, says operations manager lindsey miller. “Up until August, this whole organization was run by one individual, founder ali casparian, and a lot of really committed and dedicated volunteers.” Mainly focused on fresh produce, Bounty & Soul partners with a host of local growers to bring healthy food to outlying areas, often via a giant green truck emblazoned with a colorful fruit mural and the slogan “Produce to the People.” Volunteers run weekly markets, food demos and community outreach events — all free and open to anyone who needs assistance, no questions asked. “We’ve found that when people become a part of our community, they see a major change in their lives,” says Miller. “We absolutely love our volunteers. They see all

FRESH DEliVERY: Bounty & Soul volunteers Doug Hutchman, left, and Lynnette McRae get set to distribute fresh produce from the organization’s new mobile market. The truck regularly visits outlying communities surrounding the Flat Creek and Swannanoa areas, allowing residents to “shop” for free fresh produce and participate in cooking workshops. Photo courtesy of Bounty & Soul sides of our organization, and they can relate to our participants. There’s no difference between the people being served and the servers.” After making use of Bounty & Soul’s resources and getting involved with the group, she says, one homeless woman was able to get back on her feet and find a place to live. The woman is now a regular volunteer.

“The hunger relief effort might not exist without volunteer support. The volunteers are really carrying the torch in WNC,” says Gruber of MANNA. “They’re doing this work because they know this is affecting their neighborhoods and individuals within their communities.” For Karen Johanson, though, volunteering is a family affair. “My parents always raised me to take care of other people,” she explains. “So that’s what I try to do.” X

cARRying the toRch Community gardens grow much of the produce that’s distributed by charity groups. buzz durham volunteers with Grace Covenant Community Garden in Asheville. “We grow somewhere between 5,000 and 7,000 pounds of vegetables a year,” he explains. The project also collaborates with Gardens That Give WNC, a regional association of philanthropic gardens. Durham says he donates his time to feel an “involvement in the community and a sense of making a contribution. And then the pleasure of working with like-minded people.” And whether they labor in gardens, kitchens or pantries, those “like-minded people” are at the heart of WNC’s war against food insecurity.

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bountyandsoul.org bounty & soul — bread of life — breadoflifetc.org bountyandsoul.org Grace Covenant Community bread of life — breadoflifetc.org Garden — gcpcusa.org/#/ourGrace Covenant Community community-garden Garden — gcpcusa.org/#/ manna foodbank — manour-community-garden nafoodbank.org manna foodbank — ymca of western north mannafoodbank.org carolina — http://avl.mx/1la ymca of western north carolina — http://avl.mx/1la For a list of local agencies battling food insecurity, consult MANNA For a list of local agencies battling FoodBank’s online Food Finder at food insecurity, consult MANNA http://avl.mx/xmasjap. FoodBank’s online Food Finder at avl.mx/xmasjap.

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STay lOcal Area inns offer indulgent getaway options for foodies We’ve all been there. It’s that vacation from which we need a vacation. Yes — it was memorable, but exhausting. So, plan B? Stay local.

biscuits or muffins and a specially prepared fruit dish. It’s followed by a hot entrée such as sweet-pepper scrambled eggs or ginger pancakes with lemon sauce. “If you call yourself a bed-andbreakfast, you can’t skimp on the bed or the breakfast,” Sanders says. Room rates start at about $185 per night.

URbAn eLegAnce Dating back to 1847, the Reynolds Mansion Bed & Breakfast Inn has ties to the late U.S. Sen. Robert Rice Reynolds (aka “Buncombe Bob”) and to Evalyn Walsh McLean, a mining heiress and owner of the Hope Diamond, which now resides in the Smithsonian Institution. Today, innkeepers billy sanders and michael griffith welcome guests to experience Asheville as it was more than 150 years ago. Most mornings, Sanders can be found preparing a breakfast to be served on any one of 18 sets of china. “I’m a little crazy when it comes to china, and the food dictates what pattern is used. A simple meal will get a busier pattern and vice versa,” he says. Sanders says that the greatest challenge lies in meeting various dietary restrictions because he takes them all seriously. “However, we have to be realistic. For example, if someone is a strict vegan, we’re probably not the place for them,” he says. “I mean, hey, we’re in Asheville. They’ll find a place to suit their needs.” A three-course breakfast starts with fruit juice, homemade buttermilk

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JUst RoLL with it At Bent Creek Lodge, innkeepers doug and jodee sellers say the key to keeping everyone happy is to just “roll with it.” “We have an open kitchen, and guests want to chat while we cook,” Jodee says. “It’s one of the things I really enjoy about the whole experience, but you just have to keep moving.” Jodee has a culinary degree from A-B Tech, and Doug also cooks. His specialty is waffles. “I’ve tried many recipes,” he says. “I’ve finally nailed it. The greatest challenge is to keep them crispy. The key is a little cornstarch.” Jodee’s pledge: “Stay as long as you like and never have the same thing twice.” Rates start at $105 per night.

residence. In 1982, they agreed to provide lodging for attendees of the World’s Fair in Knoxville, but many of the original guests never went to the fair and wanted to return year after year. The Swag is now in its 34th season. “One of the most interesting things about The Swag is that Deener prepared every meal for the first 10 seasons — breakfast, lunch and

dinner,” says the inn’s general manager, brooks bradbury. “The original ladder is still in the kitchen that leads down from their bedroom.” Swag Bars — a chewy chocolate treat — are a guest favorite. Rates start at $495 per night. While all these places have different charms, what they all have in common is return guests who live locally. “I recently learned a new term

— ‘babymooners,’” Jodee says. “It’s a couple’s last hurrah — for a while at least — before a new baby arrives.” So, whether you’re seeking a quiet escape from the kids or a full-blown weekend of sublime indulgence, you’ll likely find what you’re looking for right in your own backyard. X

w h Y S TAY l O C A l ? soLving the woRLd’s pRobLems At the soURwood inn One of the Sourwood Inn’s intentions has been to provide a positive environment, not only for guests, but for staff as well. “Every morning after breakfast service, staff sits down together to enjoy the leftovers, share hoots and solve the world’s problems,” innkeeper susan curtis says. Curtis runs the inn with her husband, jeff, and her parents, anne and nat burkhardt. A full house for the Sourwood is 26. “There’s always a rogue early riser looking for that first cup of coffee, and guests frequently want to chat when they do that,” she says. “Time can move all too quickly, so my warming oven is a useful tool.” Specialties of the house include a cheesy grit casserole and buttermilk oatmeal pancakes. Rates start at about $150 per night. Local discounts are available.

emily flynn mcintosh is president of the Asheville Bed & Breakfast Association. She and her husband, bill, also own and run A Bed Bed of of Roses Roses inn. inn. We We asked askedMcIntosh Emily andand thethe association’s leaders to brainstorm about a few reasons to association’s leaders to brainstorm about a few reasons stay local. Here’s what they had to say: to stay local. Here’s what they had to say: 1. Pamper yourself without spending half your vacation at the airport. 2. Get to see what all the tourists are raving about that you never have time to see. 3. Dazzle the real tourists with your Asheville knowledge. Find out if you know more than your innkeeper about things to do, places to eat and outdoor areas to explore. 4. Eat a leisurely gourmet breakfast instead of cereal and coffee as you rush out the door. In Asheville, being a foodie begins with breakfast. 5. Share your breakfast with other adults who actually converse around the table. 6. Somebody else is doing the dishes and making the bed. And how often do you find a chocolate on your pillow? 7. The kids can’t walk in on you while you’re enjoying your Jacuzzi and Champagne. 8. Get a blissful night’s rest: no kids, no distractions, no work brought home. Enjoy deluxe linens and robes to cuddle in. X

SwAG BARS RECIPE Courtesy of the swag 1 cup white sugar 1 cup white corn syrup 2 cups creamy peanut butter 6 cups crushed corn flakes One 8-ounce package of semisweet chocolate chips Combine sugar, corn syrup and peanut butter in large, heavy pan. Heat over medium heat, bringing almost to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from stove. Add crushed corn flakes and mix well. Press into lightly greased 9-inch by 13-inch pan. Spread chips over the top and place in a 250-degree oven just long enough for the chips to melt. Using a spatula, spread the melted chocolate evenly. Score the bars while still hot as they are difficult to cut when cool. Swag bars are best served at room temperature, but they can also be individually wrapped and stored in the freezer. X

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taco timE: TacoBilly owners Hunter and Beth Berry are bringing the flavors of Austin and Mexico to West Asheville. Breakfast tacos, an Austin regional favorite, are a highlight of the menu. Photo by Cindy Kunst

“If I could eat one food for the rest of my life, it would be breakfast tacos,” says hunter berry, owner of TacoBilly restaurant on Haywood Road. Compared with the perhaps better-known breakfast burrito, the breakfast taco — a long-standing food favorite in Berry’s native Austin, Texas — is bigger on the filling, lighter on the tortilla. And Berry and his wife, beth, have their sights set on sharing their love of this concept with Asheville.

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TacoBilly, which kicked off a long soft-opening period on Sept. 12, servesbreakfast and lunch (with dinner planned for the future) with the focus on those morning tacos. Think various combinations of eggs, cheese, bacon, sausage and veggies served on corn, flour or house-made plantain tortillas. A highlight is the Tex-Mex classic migas, a mix of eggs, fried tortilla strips, tomato, jalapeno and cheese all melted together with a chili-garlic sauce. “In Austin, the breakfast taco

is king,” says Hunter Berry, “and migas seems to be the king of the breakfast tacos.” The Berrys, who moved to Asheville with their children a year ago after four years living in the Chiapas and Tulum regions of Mexico, have also crafted an eclectic selection of lunch tacos. TacoBilly’s menu, says Hunter, is “a blend of our time in Mexico and growing up in Texas.” It’s also a collaborative effort. Friends from all over the U.S.

Nature’s Vitamins & Herbs and Mexico contributed their knowledge and advice for starting the venture, which is Berry’s first foray into the restaurant industry following a career in solar energy. His nephew nieman beadle, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Austin, and Beadle’s childhood friend nicholas gallina relocated from Austin to Asheville to lend their help and expertise in the kitchen. At lunch, there is the familiar ground-beef taco with lettuce, tomato, cheese and guacamole. Chicken offerings get more adventurous, with choices such as a fried-chicken taco with mango slaw and sriracha aioli and a chicken tinga with chipotle-stewed chicken, queso fresco, avocado and creamy chipotle sauce. Pork lovers can choose from the carnitas with roasted pork, pickled onion, queso fresco and jalapeno ranch or a classic Mexican morita with chili-stewed pork, slaw and jalapeno cream. Berry also aims to make nonmeat eaters feel at home. “We want vegans and vegetarians to feel excited about our tacos,” he says. “It will be something besides beans and rice.” One offering is a sweet potato taco with black beans, pecans, avocado and coconut crema. There is a selection of sides available, including Mexican street corn and rajas, a dish of roasted poblano peppers cooked in cream with onions. Banana pudding made from a family recipe tops the dessert menu, and drinks include fruit aguas frescas, such as watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew, and horchata, a sweet Mexican rice milk. Canned and bottled beer, wine and a limited selection of cocktails are be available. Fresh corn tortillas are delivered daily to the restaurant from a tortilleria in Woodfin, and the baked plantain tortillas are made in-house — they have the consistency of a flour tortilla or a crepe, says Berry. He uses only non-GMO oils and purchases many ingredients through Mountain Food Products, as well as sourcing produce and pasture-raised meats from local farms and tailgate markets. He is currently searching for a local source of fresh eggs from pastured chickens.

Prices are in the $3-$5 range. Berry says he’s aiming to provide breakfast for around $6 and lunch for around $10, depending on what patrons order. TacoBilly isn’t huge — the indoor area seats a tight 24 at a few tables and a bar along one wall, two picnic tables on the front patio seat six people each and a back deck seats 14. But the atmosphere may end up being as much of a draw as its food. The building was constructed in the 1920s and has over the years been a grocery store, a day-old bread store and, most recently, a thrift store. The Berrys have done major renovations to the structure, including a new roof, new electrical and plumbing and fresh drywall and paint. Large new windows in the indoor dining area let in lots of sunlight, and a pleasant color scheme of grays and blues accented with aqua and red makes the cozy room feel vibrant. Along one wall hangs a motley collection of old landscape paintings sourced from thrift stores and yard sales (“We have about a $3 to $5 budget for each painting,” jokes Hunter), and within each picture, TacoBilly’s mascot — the sassy orange billy goat logo designed by Hornaday Designs — makes an appearance. Eventually, they plan to cover the back deck and extend the dining and hanging-out area into the building’s backyard. “We really hope to kind of create a familyfriendly neighborhood place where people will want to hang out, drink beer and have a margarita,” says Hunter. Although Asheville already boasts a number of taco shops, some of which have nearly fanatic followings, Berry says he definitely sees a place for TacoBilly. “I think there’s plenty of room here for people to be creative. We’re a little different,” he says. “I think we’re the first shop that’s focused on offering breakfast tacos. … We’re bringing a new breakfast concept to Asheville, bringing something from Texas, and I think people are going to love it.” TacoBilly is at 201 Haywood Road and is open 7 a.m.-3 p.m. TuesdaySunday. It’s currently in a softopening phase, so for updates, look for TacoBilly on Facebook. X

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a GREEn BlacKliSt: Despite hemp’s federal classification as a Schedule I controlled substance, states are allowed to enact laws surrounding the farming of industrial hemp, which does not contain enough THC to cause psychoactive effects. But not North Carolina. “We have strong indicators that our legislators are taking a hard look at legalization, but no timetable has been put forth yet,” says HempX festival director Blake Butler, pictured at a processing plant in Spring Hope.

BY Kat mcREYnolDS kmcreynolds@mountainx.com Proponents of industrial hemp cultivation aren’t just hoping for North Carolina’s legalization of the agricultural activity; they’re also organizing to educate consumers on the economic potential and myriad uses of the nonpsychoactive variety of cannabis. Accordingly, Asheville’s inaugural HempX — a free, two-day, family-friendly event inspired by the controversial plant — aims to inform

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in addition to tilling the new business landscape. “Asheville and Western N.C. are in unique positions to benefit considerably from the legalization of industrial hemp. Between thousands of acres of unused farmland and vacant textile mills in every county, this is a true, unrecognized economic opportunity for our region,” says blake butler, festival coordinator, adding that the plant is currently imported for commercial purposes since it can’t be grown. “HempX is all about understanding how to build a new economy.”

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To that end, Butler’s event will include panel discussions featuring local thought leaders and experts from states where farming hemp is legal. They’ll cover the implications of the crop — which is currently lumped in with marijuana in the federal Controlled Substances Act despite containing only trace amounts of the psychoactive substance THC; however, states can establish their own statutes to regulate growing — on multiple industries, including clothing, consumer goods, fibers, agriculture and food. Live music performances, food trucks and a hemp-friendly business expo round out the programming. “For food, the hemp seeds are used to create hemp seed oil,” Butler says, listing cooking oil, salad dressings, margarine and vitamins as derivative products. The seeds themselves can also be used in any number of dishes. In fact, Plant chef jason sellers will demonstrate their versatility, kicking off the festival with A Taste of Hemp Seed — his lunch featuring hemp seeds, oil and flour in various small plates. Also on the menu is Smiling Hara Tempeh’s Hempeh, which uses hemp grown by fellow panelist (and the first farmer to legally grow hemp under the 2014 Farm Bill) mike lewis. At $20 per person, it’s the only ticketed portion of the festival, with proceeds benefiting Accelerating Appalachia. “There are over 25,000 products that are produced from hemp and different parts of the plant are used for different purposes,” Butler says. “We believe this is the best idea and agricultural commodity to revitalize the family farm in North Carolina.” HempX is at Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway, on Friday-Saturday, Sept. 18-19, at various times. Visit hempxasheville.com for more information. eARth fARe’s 40th AnniveRsARy Earth Fare President and CEO frank scorpiniti recently visited his organic and natural food store’s flagship location at Westgate Regional Shopping Center to usher the company over the hill and dub Sept. 9 “Earth Fare Day,” adding: “Our customers can shop with confidence that our food is free from artificial ingredients, from high fructose corn syrup and from added antibiotics. We read the labels so our customers don’t have to.” In honor of the Ashevillebased chain’s 40th anniversary,

shoppers can enjoy special deals through Tuesday, Sept. 22, and the debut of the Heirloom Collection, a selection of products from companies Earth Fare has partnered with since it opened. Plus there will be a chance to win free groceries for a year ($100 per week) online. Earth Fare is at 68 Westgate Parkway and 1856 Hendersonville Road. Visit earthfare40.com for more information on weekly deals and giveaways. sUgAR shAck donUts’ new AsheviLLe LocAtion Add Sugar Shack Donuts to your bucket list of local confectioners. The Richmond-bred company — which already vends its handmade, smallbatch doughnuts and other sweets from several locations in its home state — is expanding and opening a location at 760 Biltmore Ave. by 2016. Sugar Shack was voted as one of the Top Ten Tastiest Donuts in America by USA Today readers and Best Small Business by Richmond Magazine, and management emphasizes locally sourcing many ingredients like milk, teas, herbs and produce. Visit sugarshackdonuts.com for information and updates on Sugar Shack’s progress. hometown bReAkfAst bAttLe It’s hard enough winning a foodie battle among competitors from one town, but The Market Place chef william dissen is up against 134 culinary talents from cities across the nation in the Hometown Breakfast Battle — organized by Thomas’ brand to commemorate the company’s 135th year in business. For his part, Dissen is upgrading Thomas’ whole-grain English muffin to include avocado, sunny quail eggs, pickled red onions, radish and pea greens. Breakfast enthusiasts can check out the wake-up creation and help Dissen advance to the next round by voting at thomasbreakfastbattle. com before 10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 27. Voting for subsequent rounds takes place throughout October. X

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Lisa Wingate writes about Melungeon people and Federal Writers’ Project in new novel

BY alli maRSHall amarshall@mountainx.com

Novelist lisa wingate was planning to set her novella, The Sea Glass Sisters on the Texas coast. She lived in that state at the time and was familiar with how a hurricane could wreak havock on the shoreline. But Hurricane Irene had just hit the Carolina coast and a friend on the Outer Banks implored Wingate to write about that area to draw attention to its plight. “He offered me the use of his beach house,” the author says. It was too tempting to pass up. The location lent a lot of history to the book, says Wingate, and introduced her to the lore of the Lost Colony, a 16th-century settlement on Roanoke Island whose disappearance fascinates North Carolinians

HiStoRY mYStERY: In Lisa Wingate’s new novel The Sea Keeper’s Daughters (her 25th book in 14 years), the mixed-race Melungeon people of the Appalachian mountains and a group of oral history gathers, subsidized by government funds, are at the center of the plot. Photo courtesy of the author

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to this day. Now six books into her Carolina series, Wingate touches on the Lost Colony again in her newest novel, The Sea Keeper’s Daughters. But it’s other little-known populations — the mixed-race Melungeon people of the Appalachian mountains and a group of oral history gathers, subsidized by government funds — that are at the center of the plot. Wingate presents her book at Malaprop’s on Tuesday, Sept. 22. The Sea Keeper’s Daughters is part history and part mystery. It follows the stories of three characters: pres-

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ent-day restaurant owner Whitney; her grandmother Ruby, who lived in The Excelsior, a hotel on the Outer Banks; and Ruby’s twin sister Alice, a member of the Depression-era Federal Writers’ Project, stationed in Western North Carolina. It was a member of Wingate’s “sister circle” — a long-distance reading group — who shared a personal memory. “[She] mentioned driving through Appalachia as a child and looking up and seeing doors in the mountainsides,” Wingate says. When the girl asked her

father about the doors, he said that during the Depression, when people lost their houses, they’d move into caves. Pieces salvaged from abandoned homes made the caves livable. While trying to research that story (fruitlessly, though the doors in the mountainsides do appear in the novel), Wingate discovered manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project. “I was fascinated by the work of these writers who literally wandered all of the back roads, looking to find ordinary people to share their stories,” she says. “That’s what generated that book. I started following the trail of these federal writers and wondered, ‘What’s been written about their lives?’ Not a lot.” In the The Sea Keeper’s Daughters it’s Alice, a widow, who joins the U.S. Work Progress Administration program as a means to support herself and her young daughter. She recounts her adventures in lengthy letters to her sister, telling of the mountain people she meets and prejudice she encounters. As Wingate learned, federal writers (who collected narratives from former slaves, among other marginalized groups) were often on the wrong side of racial and political bias and offended those who didn’t wish their way of life to be made common knowledge. Adding to the tension, Alice and her companion, a young photographer, attempt to deliver a pregnant mixed-race teen to a secret school for Melungeon children. Meanwhile, in present day, Whitney — already embroiled in a fight to save her restaurant — travels to the Outer Banks where her ailing, estranged stepfather still lives. While trying to arrange for his care, Whitney discovers Alice’s shredded letters. Piecing together the fragments, she recovers a lost family history. But in a way, Wingate is also recovering lost history. If her doors-in-themountains scenes are fictional, the works of the Federal Writers’ Project participants — among them Zora Neale Hurston and John Steinbeck — are factual and nearly lost to time. The program faced criticism from the House Un-American Activities

Committee. The writers themselves were not forthcoming about their involvement, as they had to take a pauper’s oath to join the New Deal program. And, while the oral histories are now resurfacing, Alice’s story (culled from the writings of real-life federal writers) is likely to spark interest in that project that was defunded nearly a century ago. The author, on the other hand, shows no signs of stopping. The Sea

Keeper’s Daughters is her second release this year — her 25th book in 14 years. “I’m very regimented about it,” she says. “I write seven double-spaced pages a day. I pretty much don’t shirk on that unless I’m traveling.” Wingate adds, “Ideas come from everywhere. What makes it magical is when real life intersects [with the story]. ... That’s what makes it an adventure.” X

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SHOW and Tell Justin Ray shares first DVD and vocal album at The Altamont Theatre justin ray has little to no trouble writing music or playing his songs in front of audiences, but when it comes to putting the finished product out in the open for listeners to own, the Asheville-based trumpet player and vocalist admits that his projects have a habit of gathering dust. “I tend to get really involved in the creative aspect of making music. Then, when it’s done, sometimes it’s hard for me to stay focused on the actual act of sharing it with the world,” Ray says. “One of the reasons I wanted to do this show is because I’m really anxious to get all this music that I’ve made over the course of the past few years out into the world in a more meaningful way than I had up to this point.” “This show” is code for Ray’s diverse two-set offering Friday, Sept. 18, at The Altamont Theatre. He’s optimistic that the performance will mark a turning point in the timeliness of his output. The evening begins with Ray’s half-hour-long ensemble jazz composition, “Casanova and Cleopatra,” which hasn’t been performed live in nearly three years. The recording of that debut (also on the Altamont stage) will be available on DVD at the Sept. 18 show, a partial fulfillment for Ray’s grant from the N.C. Arts Council that made the piece possible.

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Asheville videographer pete lutz filmed the Dec. 12, 2012, show with three cameras: one in his hand, another in a colleague’s and one stationary in the back of the theater. Ray and Lutz then edited the footage, including three of Ray’s six non-“Casanova and Cleopatra” songs from that night as well as the main event. In crafting the DVD’s visual tone, Ray was inspired by short one- to two-song clips of his favorite jazz groups from the 1960s (e.g. Art Blakey and Miles Davis) as opposed to a specific concert disc. He says that the final product is in the spontaneous tradition of those classic live performances. For the piece’s second presentation, local musicians jacob rodriguez (saxophones), Zack page (bass), jamey tate (drums) and the bella musica string Quartet — sarah hurd (violin), jennifer cooke (violin), joseph driggars (viola) and georgia sinko (cello) — will join Ray. The octet will then return with guitarist troy conn for the second set, during which they’ll play songs from Ray’s third album, Evil Man Blues, a collection of jazz standards. It’s Ray’s first foray into vocals. The trumpet player began singing about five years ago, a pursuit that grew out of his trumpet practice. “I was thinking a lot about the way I breathe, if there was a more efficient and relaxed way of doing that,” he says. “That led me to start practicing various vocal exercises, and then realizing I had an emotional connection to singing that I hadn’t really recognized before.” All of the instrumental tracks on Evil Man Blues were laid down at Echo Mountain Studios and the vocals were recorded in a Los Angeles studio. The project was complete by mid-2013. For his next effort, Ray says he will most likely work on writing original lyrical songs, which he views as the next step in his evolution as a singer, along with continuing to develop his overall vocal technique. “Coming at it from a more instrumental viewpoint makes the way I phrase lyrics kind of unique,” he says, noting the joy and benefits he gets from transitioning between singing and playing

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HElPinG HoRn: Among Justin Ray’s many projects, his most high-profile is arguably playing in Michael Bublé’s band. Ray played on nearly every track of 2009’s Crazy Love. Due to recording logistics, he was absent on 2013’s To Be Loved. It remains to be seen whether the Asheville trumpeter will be called upon to contribute to Bublé’s latest studio release. Photo courtesy of the artist trumpet. “I think they kind of complement each other. Each of them makes me think about the other in a different way. I do that a lot with songs I’m trying to learn or learn better. I’ll play them on trumpet, then I’ll sing them, and the trumpet will inform the singing, and vice versa. I feel like it’s snowballed into me getting a lot of different perspectives on a piece of music.” X

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Americans Who Tell the Truth at the YMI Cultural Center

GooD woRKS: Maine-based artist Robert Shetterly painted this portrait of civil rights leader and voting rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, who was instrumental in organizing the 1964 Freedom Summer voter registration campaign in Mississippi. Image courtesy of Robert Shetterly/Americans Who Tell the Truth Americans Who Tell the Truth, an exhibition of robert shetterly’s portraits of advocates and activists, opens at the YMI Cultural Center Saturday, Sept. 19. The reception marks the unveiling of the project’s newest portrait, an image of the rev. william barber, North Carolina NAACP

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president and organizer of the Moral Mondays demonstrations. Shetterly’s collection spans American historical and social concerns, including individuals as diverse as the writer James Baldwin, the photographer Dorothea Lange and the whistleblower Edward Snowden. The figures

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are naturalistic and the backgrounds are stark, most often painted, as the artist says, “looking right into your eyes and challenging you ... to become a better citizen.” The upcoming exhibition of 52 portraits (selected from a total of 215) was organized by a team of volunteers, including members of the Mountain Voices Alliance and led by local consultant ellie richard. Shetterly was working on Barber’s portrait when Richard contacted him about a year ago. The artist credits her with planning “the most extensive and ambitious” exhibit in the project’s history, showing in Asheville and Greensboro. “The portraits have been in about 30 states,” he says. “This is the first major exhibition in the South.” Shetterly began painting courageous American citizens as an act of protest while the United States geared up for the Iraq War. By the summer of 2002, he had completed about 10 acrylic-on-panel works, scratching representative quotes into the surfaces of the paintings with a dental tool. “I wanted to surround myself, by means of the portraits, with people I admired, rather than obsess about the ones I disliked,” he says. “[The] stories — their courage, their perseverance, their ideals — made me a much healthier person.” But the project’s purpose now, 13 years and 200 paintings later, has mainly to do with education. “Most kids in most schools in this country today ... are taught that change happens by the prescribed political process, not that almost every important advancement of rights was won by civil disobedience,” Shetterly says. “They know women can vote, but they’ve never heard of Alice Paul and what she had to do. They may know there is some controversy about the Vietnam War, but they’ve never heard of Daniel Ellsberg. ... If we want our children to be good citizens, they need to be taught an honest narrative, so they have examples of courageous citizenship to guide them.” Since the first Moral Mondays demonstration took place on April 29, 2013, when Barber and 16 other protesters were arrested in the North Carolina State Capitol building in Raleigh for trespassing and failing to disperse, the movement has quickly and consistently grown, spreading to Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, Florida and Arizona. From bold beginnings it has flourished into a multiracial statewide coalition focused on a broad range of progressive issues, from public education to women’s health care to voting rights. “I don’t think there is any organizing in this country going on as successfully for basic democratic principles as what is being done in North Carolina,” Shetterly says, citing his inspiration for Barber’s portrait. “The movement is broad-based, inclusive and persistent. The fundamental issue is, ‘What’s necessary for the common good?’” The subjects of these portraits, the artist himself and the individuals working to show the paintings to a wider audience, have a commonality of purpose and a spirit of cooperation that serve as examples of impassioned and courageous citizenship. “It is one of the great ironies ... in our country today, that most people, in this land of free speech, are afraid to tell the truth,” Shetterly says. “It is our job to be truth tellers ... to give people permission to think differently, to show with thought and emotion how a new way of being can be achieved.” X

what Americans Who Tell the Truth where YMI Cultural Center when The exhibit runs though Saturday, Nov. 7. Opening reception Saturday, Sept. 19, at 6:30 p.m. $10 suggested donation / $25$250 gala reception. AmericansWhoTelltheTruth.eventbee.com

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who The Lone Bellow where The Orange Peel theorangepeel.net when Sunday, Sept. 20, at 9 p.m. $20 advance/$22 at the door

During The Lone Bellow’s fall 2014 tour, the band was faced with a dilemma. The Brooklyn-based folk-rock trio could play songs from its recently wrapped, but yet-tobe-released, album Then Came the Morning or focus on the band’s selftitled debut, which many audiences had yet to hear. Songwriter Zach williams was in favor of the former, but guitarist brian elmquist and mandolin and bass player Kanene pipkin insisted on the latter. How did it turn out? “I think I won,” Williams says with a playful sense of accomplishment. “I told them, ‘A song is a song, and

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The Lone Bellow makes its Orange Peel debut

wHat wRitERS BlocK? Produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner, The Lone Bellow’s Then Came the Morning debuted in January, but Zach Williams, right, estimates that the Brooklyn trio already has 20 new songs ready for a follow-up album. Photo by Steven Sebring I’m sick of playing these old songs. I want to play the new songs.’ They said, ‘Let’s play these four old songs,’ and I was like ‘OK.’ It was way more dramatic at the time. Choosing set lists is always a lot of conflict. Everyone’s so passionate about the songs, which is great — it’s good conflict.” Less than eight months after the release of the band’s acclaimed Aaron Dessner-produced album, The Lone Bellow plays Sunday, Sept. 20, at The Orange Peel and, to some extent, is in a similar position. Though Williams says the group won’t be trying out any “brand-spanking new songs,” he estimates the musicians have around 20 completed compositions at the moment, with more on the way, which they’ll soon start whittling down for the next release. “In this day and age, you’ve got to write all the time. With Spotify and everything, you can’t be like, ‘We put out a new record — it’ll sell, we’ll make money.’ They don’t. People don’t buy

records anymore,” Williams says. “I was talking to Taylor [Goldsmith] from Dawes about this. He’s like, ‘Yeah, we have to be more prolific and we’ll probably be more happy because of it.’ I told him, ‘I think you’re right. We get to keep writing songs and we have to do it.’” A native of the Atlanta suburb of Acworth, Williams is excited to set foot in The Orange Peel for the first time. He’s long wanted to play the venue, but during the brief time when he lived close enough to even just attend a show, The Orange Peel was still few years away from opening. Not wanting to stay at home the summer of his junior year, the then-17-year-old Williams lived in a tent at a youth camp in Andrews. His job was to trim weeds in the woods before campers arrived. Five years later, he started playing music, and now his Asheville wish is about to come true. X

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The Suffers If the lyrics of The Suffers frontwoman, Kam Franklin, are autobiographical, this woman is on the prowl for real. And the soul singer is offering up some serious perks. “Come on, let me cook for you, baby. Relax, ’cause I’m cleaning too,” she tempts, before pulling the trump card: “Do you want a sandwich? I’ll make one for ya.” A queue of men is literally forming beside her, but these nine are on hand to compose the blues- and rock-infused soul tracks that accompany Franklin’s spunky stage presence. We’ll see how much love she’s got for Asheville when The Suffers headline the final Downtown After 5 street festival of the season. Local opener Holy Ghost Tent Revival strikes the first chord at the Lexington Avenue overpass Friday, Sept. 18, just after 5 p.m. ashevilledowntown.org. Photo by Daniel Jackson

It’s 1929. A certain local author has just returned from New York City. His new book — the highly anticipated Look Homeward, Angel — will be published in a few short weeks, and he’s agreed to give a reading to a select group of residents and fans gathered in the neighborhood speakeasy, the Eureka Saloon. But along with a four-course meal, craft cocktails, stock tips (Grove Industries is worth an investment) and live music, the evening takes a spooky turn or two. Can the distinguished guests (a Shakespearean actor and a budding detective among them) solve the mystery? Is the answer in the Turkish coffee grounds? Can it foretold by a lucky rabbit foot? That’s the setup for the immersive historical dinner experience at Lex 18, held Sunday, Sept. 20, at 6:45 p.m. Tickets are $55 per person (not including extra drinks, tax or gratuity). lex18avl.com. Photo courtesy of Lex 18

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“You try to make something that’s cool, something that’s sexy,” says St. Louisbased singer-songwriter Pokey LaFarge. “But when you come down to it, you can really only make music for yourself, and I feel like this album is the first time that I was really able to do that.” Something in the Water — the artist’s seventh album, recorded at Hi-Style Studio in Chicago — is the follow-up to his 2013 self-titled work. That project was released on Jack White’s Third Man Records and performed with a reliable vibrato during opening slots for White’s Blunderbuss tour. LaFarge, who briefly lived and busked as a soloist in Asheville, says that he’ll venture back to “play lots of songs off the last two albums” with his “big old band” at The Grey Eagle Friday, Sept. 18, at 9 p.m. Nashville duo Escondido opens. $15/$18. thegreyeagle.com. Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins

New Orleans-based quintet Earphunk trusts that its third and latest LP, Sweet Nasty, distills the essence and energy of the band’s guitar-splattered prog-funk shows — of which there have been hundreds over the past couple of years — even more so than previous recordings. “When you hear the album, it sounds like a live show, and that’s how it should feel,” lead guitarist Paul Provosty says in the group’s bio. “We wanted it to sound big.” Fans can pick up a copy of the late -2014 album, which features trumpeter Eric Bloom (Lettuce, Pretty Lights) and saxophonist Khris Royal (Rebelution, Dark Matter). Test Provsty’s theory when the road-roving 20-somethings’ May The Funk Be With You tour stops at New Mountain Saturday, Sept. 19, from 6 to 11 p.m. The Main Squeeze, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe and Modern Measure open. $20/$25. newmountainavl.com. Photo courtesy of the band

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Send your event listings to calendar@mountainx.com the mAgnetic theAtRe 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • TH (9/24) through SA (9/26), 7:30pm & 9:30pm - The Asheville Yes Fest! Improv comedy with four local comedy troupes. $18/$15 advance.

mUsic At AsU appstate.edu • TH (9/24), 7pm - Rhiannon Giddens, American roots. $30/$15 students. Held in the Schaefer Center. mUsic At wcU

mUsic 5PM • FREE • RIVERMUSIC • FRIDAY octobeR 9 (pd.) RiverLink’s finale RiverMusic event features legendary funk master, Fred Wesley and the 7 piece New JB’s for an evening of funky excitement. Opening is Asheville’s own Lyric and sacred steel gospel group, the Lee Boys. Come on out and enjoy great music, food, beer and wine on your river!

PRintS GaloRE: Asheville Bookworks has two printmaking exhibitions opening this weekend and running until November. PrintOcracy: PLAY! is a printmaking portfolio exchange featuring prints on the subject of toys from artists across the United States. The opening reception is Friday, Sept. 18, from 6-9 p.m. Colossal Cuts: Steamroller Prints will feature large prints that are made on a steamroller press in the parking lot of Asheville Bookworks on Saturday, Sept. 19, from 1-5 p.m. Photo courtesy of Asheville Bookworks featuring the print Pexeso by Tatiana Potts. (p. 55) ARt sip And doodLe (pd.) “Everyone leaves with a Painting” Sip your favorite drink and have fun painting. Ask about - Private Parties (Birthday, Anniversary, etc.) $25.00 with this AD. ARt At UncA art.unca.edu • FR (9/18), 4-6pm - New Media Department annual student show. Held in Zeis Hall 2nd floor. ARt tRek 2015 upstairsartspace.org • FR (9/18) through SU (9/20) - A tour of 24 Tryon artists’ studios. Opening reception and silent auction: Sept. 18, 5pm. See website for full schedule. Held at Upstairs Artspace, 49 S. Trade St., Tryon AsheviLLe AReA ARts coUnciL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • WE (9/16) and SA (9/19), 11-12:30pm - Information session for those interested in becoming curators for AAAC annual submissions. Free. AsheviLLe ARt mUseUm 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • FR (9/18) - noon - “Lunchtime Art Break,” gallery talk and presentation on the William Wegman Cubism and Other-isms exhibit. $8/$7 students and seniors. &nbsp; AsheviLLe figURe dRAwing netwoRk facebook.com/AVLFigureDrawing • TU (9/22), 6-9pm - An evening of figure drawing with a live model. $10. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road

ARt/cRAft fAiRs teXtiLes And teA tRUnk show 55 Cranesway Drive, 304-640-2906 • SA (9/19), 10am-5pm - Textiles and Tea: West Asheville Artists’ Collaborative textile trunk show and tea tasting. Free to attend.

AUditions & cALL to ARtists AsheviLLe AReA ARts coUnciL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SU (11/30) - Submissions accepted for July 2016-June 2017 exhibitions at the AAAC. Contact for guidelines. Free. AsheviLLe gALLeRy of ARt 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • TU (9/22), noon-5:30pm - Entries accepted for gallery membership. Contact for guidelines. Free. cALdweLL ARts coUnciL 601 College Ave. SW, Lenoir, 754-2486 • Through WE (9/30) - Sculptor applications accepted for City of Lenoir outdoor sculpture gallery. Contact for guidelines. Free. diffeRent stRokes peRfoRming ARts coLLective 275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • MO (9/21), 6-9pm - Open auditions for The Boys Next Door. Contact for full guidelines. Free. Held at The Different Space, 54 Ravenscroft Drlve

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AnAm cARA theAtRe 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • SA (9/19), 8pm - “JEST FEST: An Open-Mic Comedy Variety Show.” $5-$10. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B

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AfRicAn dRUm Lessons At skinny beAts dRUm shop (pd.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. No experience necessary. Drums provided. $12/class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com AUSTRIA TO FRANCE • An AfteRnoon of chAmbeR mUsic (pd.) Weber and Gounod performed by the Blue Ridge Orchestra Chamber Players: • Saturday, October 3, 3pm, St. Giles Chapel, Deerfield, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville; • Sunday, October 4, 3pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, One Edwin Place, Asheville. • Free admission; donations welcome. Further information: blueridgeorchestra.org AsheviLLe symphony oRchestRA 254-7046, ashevillesymphony.org • SA (9/19), 8pm - Masterworks season opening with American soprano Angela Brown performing works by Puccini, Verdi, Gershwin and Berstein. $22-$38 for areas 1 & 2. Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. bUncombe coUnty pUbLic LibRARies buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • TU (9/22), 7pm - "Music and Memoir from an Irish Orphanage, rock/pop/jazz/folk with Danny Ellis. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road Fairview cALdweLL commUnity coLLege 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson, 726-2200, cccti.edu • WE (9/23), 1pm - “It’s Mighty Dark to Travel: Brother Duets of the American South,” featuring Kay and Patrick Crouch. Free. centeR foR cULtURAL pReseRvAtion 692-8062, saveculture.org • TH (9/17), 1pm - Keeping the Fires Burning Series: Betty Smith, ballad music. $5. Held in the Patton Building. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Drive, Flat Rock downtown AfteR 5 ashevilledowntown.org/downtown-after-5 • FR (9/18), 5-9pm - Holy Ghost Tent Revival, soul. Free to attend. Held at N. Lexington Ave. and I-240. downtown books & news 67 N. Lexington Ave., 348-7615, downtownbooksandnews.com • WE (9/16), 7pm - Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) and Library of Babel. $5-$10.

227-2479, wcu.edu • FR (9/18) & SA (9/19) - “Low Brass Festival,” coaching, master class, and faculty rehearsal. See trombone.net/events for full schedule. Free. Held in the Coulter Building. noRth mAin mUsic & ARt demonstRAtions • SA (9/19) - Elise Pratt Trio, jazz. Held at Green Room Cafe & Coffeehouse, 536 N. Main St., Hendersonville oLLi At UncA 251-6140, olliasheville.com • FR (9/18), 3pm - Symphony Talk: Asheville Symphony Director discusses the next concert. Free. Held in the Reuter Center. sAiLs oRiginAL mUsic seRies downtownhickory.com/events-pages • FR (9/18), 6pm-8:30pm - Dustbowl Revival, American roots. Free. Held at Sails on Square Stage, Downtown Hickory. song o’sky choRUs • TU (9/22), 6:45pm - Open house rehearsal and meet and greet. Free. the mAgnetic theAtRe 375 Depot St., 279-4155 • FR (9/18), 8pm - “Equinox of Song in the Cesspool of Sin,” featuring four local songwriters. Americana. $6. UnitARiAn UniveRsAList feLLowship of hendeRsonviLLe 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville, 693-3157, uufhnc.org • SA (9/19), 7pm - Bluegrass to Bach Concert Series: Hendersonville Swing Band plays Big Band Era music. $15.

theAteR 35beLow 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/20) - The Actor’s Center of Asheville presents Art. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $15. diffeRent stRokes peRfoRming ARts coLLective 275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (9/19) - The Shape of Things. Alternating casts for the early and late shows. Thu. - Sat.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 10:30pm. $18/$30 both shows. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. fLAt Rock pLAyhoUse 2661 Hwy. 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/27) Fly. Wed. - Sat.: 8pm. Wed., Thu., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $15 - $40.

G al l ERY D i RE ctoRY ARt At AsU 262-3017, tcva.org • Through SA (12/19) - Photography by Endia Beal, multimedia art by Kirsten Stolle, and mixed media paintings by Ruth Ava Lyons. Artists’ reception: Nov. 6, 6-10pm. Held in the Turchin Center. ARt At UncA art.unca.edu • Through TH (9/17) - Unfathomable, silverpoint and mixed media by Carol Prusa. Held in S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. • MO (9/21) through FR (10/30) - With a Mighty Hand: Torah Paintings + Abstraction, illustrations by Daniel Devins. Opening reception: Sept. 24, 6-8pm. Held in Owen Hall. ARt At wARRen wiLson coLLege warren-wilson.edu Exhibits are held in Elizabeth Holden Art Gallery, unless otherwise stated. • Through SA (9/19) - Warren Wilson College art faculty exhibition.

AsheviLLe bookwoRks 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • FR (9/18) through WE (11/25) - PrintOcracy: PLAY!, printmaking portfolio exchange from artists across the country. Opening reception: Sept. 18, 6-9pm. • SA (9/19) through WE (11/25) - Colossal Cuts: Steamroller Prints, exhibition of large prints made with steamrollers. Opening reception: Sept. 19, 1-5pm. AsheviLLe gALLeRy of ARt 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through WE (9/30) - Renewal: Meditations on Nature, watercolor and ink paintings by Sandra Brugh Moore. AURoRA stUdio & gALLeRy 335-1038, aurorastudio-gallery.com • Through SA (9/19) - Aurora; A Healing Light, group show of 9 artists. Held at Asheville Area Arts Council, 1 Page Ave.

AsheviLLe AReA ARts coUnciL 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (9/19) - Adieu original paintings on wood by Heather Shirin.

bLAck moUntAin centeR foR the ARts 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • Through FR (10/9) - What’s the Buzz About Bees? Bee related art by more than 25 artists.

AsheviLLe ARt mUseUm 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SU (1/24) - Cubism and Other-isms, the work of William Wegman.

bLAck moUntAin coLLege mUseUm & ARts centeR 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through TH (12/31) - Convergence/Divergence:

Exploring Black Mountain College + Chicago’s New Bauhaus/Institute of Design, exhibition. Opening reception: Sept. 4, 5:30-8pm. bLAckbiRd fRAme & ARt 365 Merrimon Ave., 225-3117 • Through SA (10/31) - The Art of the Print, stone lithographs by Vico Calabro and etchings by Graziella Da Gioz. bURnsviLLe tRAc gALLeRy 102 W. Main St., Burnsville, 682-7215, toeriverarts.org/ facilities/burnsville-gallery • Through SA (9/26) - Local authors’ books are showcased. Free to attend. hickoRy mUseUm of ARt 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576 • Through SU (5/8) - Unexpected Beauty: Views from the Lens of Steve McCurry, photography exhibition. • SA (9/19) through SU (2/28) - Interconnected: Tangible Dualities, sculpture & assemblage by Joël Urruty. odyssey coopeRAtive ARt gALLeRy 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • Through WE (9/30) - Ceramic art of Barbara Quartrone and Dyann Myers. spRUce pine tRAc gALLeRy 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine, 765-0520, toeriverarts.org/ facilities/spruce-pine-gallery • Through SA (9/19) - Wax, featuring work of nine artists who include wax in their creative process.

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the centeR foR cRAft, cReAtivity & design 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (1/9) - Made in WNC, textile, furniture, ceramics, and art exhibit exploring how craft, design, and production relate.

the fRench bRoAd ARtists saharfakhoury@yahoo.com • Through WE (9/30) - Autumn plein air landscape paint-

ings group show. Held at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St. tRyon fine ARts centeR 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • Through SA (10/10) - Historic furniture and wood carvings from the Tryon Toy Makers. ymi cULtURAL centeR 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • SA (9/19) through SA (11/7) - Americans Who Tell the

Truth, life sized portraits of American heroes and heroines by artist Robert Shetterly. $10. zApow! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • Through SU (10/11), Heroes and Villains!, a member artist group show.

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees.

SEPtEmBER 16 - SEPtEmBER 22, 2015

CLubLaNd the soUtheRn Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

wednesdAy, septembeR 16

tigeR moUntAin Flux (’80s & ’90s dance party), 10pm

185 king stReet Movie night: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, 7pm

timo’s hoUse Spectrum AVL w/ rotating DJs, 9pm

5 wALnUt wine bAR Wine tasting w/ Moore Beasley Duo (jazz), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm

town pUmp Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm tRAiLheAd RestAURAnt And bAR Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 6pm

ALtAmont theAtRe An evening w/ The Dustbowl Revival (Americana, bluegrass, gospel), 8pm

tRessA’s downtown JAzz And bLUes Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

AsheviLLe mUsic hALL The Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm

white hoRse bLAck moUntAin Wednesday Waltz, 7pm

ben’s tUne-Up Asheville Country Music Review w/ Town Mountain, The Honeycutters & John Stickley Trio, 5pm

wiLd wing cAfe soUth Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 7pm

bLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Play To Win game night, 7:30pm

thURsdAy, septembeR 17

bLUe moUntAin pizzA & bRew pUb Open mic, 7pm

185 king stReet Caleb Warren & the Perfect Gentlemen (Western swing, country blues, jazz), 8pm

diRty soUth LoUnge Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm doUbLe cRown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm fUnkAtoRiUm John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm good stUff Karaoke!, 7pm gRey eAgLe mUsic hALL & tAveRn Eilen Jewell w/ Angela Easterling (Americana, blues, country), 8pm

5 wALnUt wine bAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8pm

DuRHam DuEt: North Carolina-based indie-folk-pop duo Bombadil is mixed bag of music. From vocal-heavy harmonious tracks to piano ballads and snappy pop songs, Bombadil’s got a sound for every season. The Durham natives will swing by Isis Restaurant and Music Hall on Thursday, Sept 17 at 8:45 p.m. with to play with Kingsley Flood and Anthony D’Amato.

gRind cAfe Trivia night, 7pm highLAnd bRewing compAny Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm iRon hoRse stAtion Jason York (Americana), 6pm isis RestAURAnt And mUsic hALL An evening w/ Dana & Susan Robinson (Americana, roots, folk), 7pm Dry Branch Fire Squad (bluegrass), 8:30pm

SEPtEmBER 16 - SEPtEmBER 22, 2015

bARLey’s tApRoom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm bLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm

one woRLd bRewing Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 8pm

bLUe moUntAin pizzA & bRew pUb Ben Phan (indie, folk, singer-songwriter), 7pm

LAzy diAmond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

pisgAh bRewing compAny Laura Blackley Trio (country, Americana), 6pm

cLUb eLeven on gRove Swing lessons & dance w/ The Lowdown Sires (swing), 7:30pm

LeX 18 Patrick Lopez Experience (modern, Latin jazz), 7pm

poUR tApRoom Karaoke, 8pm

coRk & keg Hank Williams birthday tribute w/ Vollie McKenzie, Buddy Davis, Carey Fridley & Tom Pittman, 7:30pm

JAck of the wood pUb Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm

LobsteR tRAp Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm moUntAin moJo coffeehoUse Open mic, 6:30pm

To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed / To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue / Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx. com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Hayley Benton at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland / Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed / The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues / Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. this is a firm deadline.

ALtAmont theAtRe Asheville Comedy Showcase w/ Chase McNeill, Art Sturtevant, Tom Scheve, Allie Steinhoff & Clifton Hall (comedy), 9pm

nAtive kitchen & sociAL pUb Ryan O’Keefe (folk), 6:30pm new moUntAin theAteR/ AmphitheAteR The Ataris (indie, alternative, rock), 8pm nobLe kAvA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

pULp Pleasure Pages (erotic open mic), 8pm ReJAvAnAtion cAfe Open mic night, 6pm Room iX Fuego: Latin night, 9pm

cRow & qUiLL Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 9pm

scULLy’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

doUbLe cRown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

sLy gRog LoUnge Word Night (trivia-ish), 8pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

o.henRy’s/the UndeRgRoUnd “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm

soL bAR new moUntAin World Wednesdays, 8pm The Main Squeeze (post-funk), 8pm

odditoRiUm Damsel & The Distress w/ The Spacetruckers (rock), 9pm

tALLgARy’s At foUR coLLege Open mic & jam, 7pm

off the wAgon Piano show, 9pm oLive oR twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm one stop deLi & bAR Lip sync karaoke, 10pm

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cReekside tAphoUse Station Underground (reggae), 8pm

the Joint neXt dooR Bluegrass jam, 8pm the mothLight Elephant Micah w/ Rayna Gellert & Joan Shelley (lo-fi, folk-rock, indie), 9pm the phoeniX Jazz night, 8pm the sociAL Marc Keller, 6pm Karaoke, 9:30pm

eLAine’s dUeLing piAno bAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm fRench bRoAd bReweRy Lucca Soria (folk, blues), 6pm gRey eAgLe mUsic hALL & tAveRn The Cleverlys w/ T Sisters (bluegrass), 8pm isis RestAURAnt And mUsic hALL The Appleseed Collective (Americana), 7pm Kingsley Flood, Anthony D’Amato & Bombadil (folk, punk), 8:45pm JAck of the wood pUb Bluegrass jam, 7pm LeX 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 7pm Michael Andersen (honky-tonk piano), 10pm

9/20 of montreal 9/22

Madison Ward and the Mama Bear

8PM Doors 5 & 8PM Doors

The Grey Eagle Comedy Series presents:DAVID LIEBE

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SEPtEmBER 16 - SEPtEmBER 22, 2015

Dinner Menu till 10pm Late Night Menu till

Tues-Sun

5pm–12am

Full Bar

12am

COMING SOON WED 9/16 5:00-7 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS 7:00 PM – AN EVENING W/

DANA AND SUSAN ROBINSON 8:30 PM – DRY BRANCH FIRE SQUAD

THU 9/17 7:00 PM – THE APPLESEED COLLECTIVE 8:45 PM – KINGSLEY FLOOD, ANTHONY D-AMATO, BOMBADIL

FRI 9/18 6:00 PM – FEAST FOR BEES

SAT 9/19 8:00 PM – KELLY MCFARLING & JOHN

ELLIOTT, THE WILD REEDS WED 9/23

5:00-7 PM – ALL YOU CAN EAT SNOW CRAB LEGS 7:00 PM – AN EVENING WITH

ROY SCHNEIDER AND KIM MAYFIELD 8:30 PM – WIDESPREAD PANIC’S

“STREET DOGS”PRE-RELEASE LISTENING PARTY THU 9/24 8:30 PM – MIPSO ALBUM RELEASE CELEBRATION W/ LINDSAY LOU AND THE FLATBELLYS

FRI 9/25 9:00 PM – MIPSO ALBUM RELEASE CELEBRATION W/ FRONT COUNTRY

SAT 9/26 7:00 PM – DARK WATER RISING 9:00 PM – GRASS IS DEAD Every Tuesday

7:30pm–midnite

BLUEGRASS SESSIONS

Every Sunday

6pm–11pm

JAZZ SHOWCASE

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LobsteR tRAp Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 6:30pm

wiLd wing cAfe Throwin’ Down Thursday w/ DJ Ramin, 5pm

o.henRy’s/the UndeRgRoUnd Game Night w/ Xandrea Foxx, 9pm Drag Show, 12:30am

wiLd wing cAfe soUth Live DJ, 9pm

memoRiAL stAdiUm 19th Annual Brewgrass Festival w/ Jeff Austin Band, Truth and Salvage Co., Big Daddy Love & Packway Handle Band (jam, roots, bluegrass), 1pm

wXyz LoUnge At ALoft hoteL Waist Management (modern jazz), 7:30pm

nAtive kitchen & sociAL pUb One Leg Up (jazz), 7:30pm

odditoRiUm Permanent Makeup w/ Wet Nurse, Watcher’s Woods, Chris Head & Impossible Vacation (punk, rock), 9pm off the wAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm oLive oR twist Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm one stop deLi & bAR Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Nick Lutsko & His Puppet Band (Americana, rock), 10pm one woRLd bRewing Sherri Lynn & Mountain Friends Band (Americana, country), 8pm

SEPtEmBER 16 - SEPtEmBER 22, 2015

fRidAy, septembeR 18 185 king stReet Woody Pines (roots, country, blues), 8pm 5 wALnUt wine bAR Empire Strikes Brass Combo (funk), 9pm ALtAmont theAtRe Justin Ray DVD release party (jazz), 8pm AthenA’s cLUb Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm bAck yARd bAR Karaoke w/ Get Vocal Entertainment, 9pm

o.henRy’s/the UndeRgRoUnd Drag Show, 12:30am odditoRiUm Onj w/ Radiant Beings of Light (metal), 9pm off the wAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm one stop deLi & bAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm one woRLd bRewing DJ Brandon Audette (down-tempo ambient, ’70s & ’80s throwbacks), 9pm

ben’s tUne-Up Woody Wood (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm

oRAnge peeL The Corbitt Brothers Band w/ The Dirty Soul Revival (Southern rock, blues, country), 9pm

bLUe moUntAin pizzA & bRew pUb Bob Zullo (acoustic), 7pm

pAck’s tAveRn DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9pm

pULp Ben Palmer (comedy), 9pm

boiLeR Room Rebirth 23 w/ DJ Luis Armando (electronic, dance), 10pm

pisgAh bRewing compAny Roxy Roca w/ The Northside Gentlemen (Texas soul), 9pm

pURpLe onion cAfe Dana & Susan Robinson (bluegrass, folk, old-time), 7:30pm

bywAteR Letters To Abigail (bluegrass, Americana), 8pm

Root bAR no. 1 The Willy Whales (rock, roots), 9pm

RenAissAnce AsheviLLe Chris Rhodes (jazz, blues, R&B), 6:30pm

cLAssic wineseLLeR Hope Griffin (folk, pop, singer-songwriter), 7pm

pAck’s tAveRn Jason Whitaker & Jeff Anders (acoustic rock), 9pm pisgAh bRewing compAny The Screaming J’s (honky-tonk, ragtime), 8pm

Room iX Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm scAndALs nightcLUb DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sLy gRog LoUnge Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm soL bAR new moUntAin Songwriter Thursdays w/ Caine McDonald, 8pm

coRk & keg The Gamblers (jazz, blues, gospel), 8:30pm doUbLe cRown DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm dUgoUt Howie Johnson Band (Southern rock), 9pm

scAndALs nightcLUb DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scULLy’s DJ, 10pm sLy gRog LoUnge Rian Adkinson w/ Katlyn Redfern (pop, rock, alternative), 9pm soL bAR new moUntAin Dead Winter Carpenters (Americana, altcountry), 9pm

eLAine’s dUeLing piAno bAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

spRing cReek tAveRn Open Mic, 6pm

soUtheRn AppALAchiAn bReweRy Desiree Christa Ricker w/ Sam Frame (singer-songwriter, folk, indie), 8pm

fRench bRoAd bReweRy Nikki Talley (country, folk), 6pm

tALLgARy’s At foUR coLLege Electric blues open mic w/ Gentle Jones, 7pm

spRing cReek tAveRn The Screaming J’s (ragtime piano), 8:30pm

gRey eAgLe mUsic hALL & tAveRn Pokey LaFarge w/ Escondido (country, blues, vintage jazz), 9pm

tALLgARy’s At foUR coLLege Andy Buckner Southern Soul Campaign (Southern rock), 9:30pm

highLAnd bRewing compAny HempX Asheville w/ Red Honey & Brushfire Stankgrass and friends (surf, punk, country), 5pm

the AdmiRAL Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm

the miLLRoom Brews & Brains trivia series (Asheville Humane Society benefit), 6:30pm the mothLight True Stories Told Live (storytelling), 7:30pm the sociAL Jordan Okrend (pop, rock, soul), 6pm the soUtheRn Throwdown Thursday w/ Jim Raves & Nex Millen (DJ, dance party), 10pm timo’s hoUse Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 10pm

tRAiLheAd RestAURAnt And bAR Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

mARket pLAce The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

mARket pLAce Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

town pUmp Albi & Dan (jazz), 9pm

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twisted LAUReL Karaoke, 8pm

tRessA’s downtown JAzz And bLUes The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm

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iRon hoRse stAtion Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm isis RestAURAnt And mUsic hALL Feast for Bees w/ Red Clay Revival (bluegrass, folk, Americana), 6pm JAck of the wood pUb The Get Right Band w/ The Carmonas (funk, soul, folk-rock), 8pm JeRUsALem gARden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LAzy diAmond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm LeX 18 HotPoint Trio (Gypsy-swing), 6:30pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9:45pm LobsteR tRAp Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 6:30pm

the miLLRoom Julie Scoggins (comedy), 8pm the mothLight Little Wings & Weyes Blood (folk, singersongwriter), 9:30pm the sociAL Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm the stRAnd @ 38 mAin Hailey Whitters (space country), 8pm the vALLey mUsic & cookhoUse Jason Taylor (acoustic), 5pm tigeR moUntAin Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm town pUmp Brandon Reeves (blues), 9pm twisted LAUReL Live DJ, 11pm

Wed • September 16 Woody Wood white hoRse bLAck moUntAin Cabaret Jazz: Pam Jones Trio, 8pm

iRon hoRse stAtion Dave Desmelik (singer-songwriter), 7pm

wiLd wing cAfe soUth A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

isis RestAURAnt And mUsic hALL Amicimusic: “The Asheville Clarinet Quartet” (classical, jazz), 6pm Kelly McFarling & John Elliott w/ The Wild Reeds (Americana), 8pm

wXyz LoUnge At ALoft hoteL Ben Hovey (jazztronica, trumpet), 8pm zAmbRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

sAtURdAy, septembeR 19 185 king stReet Opus Vita (rock, jam), 8pm 5 wALnUt wine bAR The Paper Crowns (alt-folk), 6pm Sankofa (world), 9pm

JeRUsALem gARden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

AthenA’s cLUb Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

LobsteR tRAp Hot Point Trio (Gypsy jazz), 6:30pm

bAck yARd bAR Ginny McAfee (country), 9pm

mARket pLAce DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm

ben’s tUne-Up Gypsy Guitars, 2pm

mcgoURty’s pUb Roots & Dore (blues), 9pm

bLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Matt Walsh (blues, rock), 9pm

moJo kitchen & LoUnge Dine ’n’ Disco (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm

bURiAL beeR co. Four Farms celebration w/ Asheville Waits Band (Tom Waits tribute), 3pm bywAteR Jason and the Argonauts (rock), 8pm

new moUntAin theAteR/ AmphitheAteR Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe w/ Earphunk (funk, soul), 6pm odditoRiUm Torch Runner w/ Dead Mothers, New Junk City & Jeremy Ray (punk), 9pm off the wAgon Dueling pianos, 9pm oLive oR twist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

cLAssic wineseLLeR Jay Brown (blues, jazz), 7pm

oRAnge peeL El Ten Eleven w/ Sego (post-rock, experimental, ambient), 9pm

coRk & keg Buddy Davis & the Session Players (honky-tonk, country), 8:30pm

pAck’s tAveRn Lyric (pop, funk, soul), 9pm

cRow & qUiLL Doc Docherty (magic, sleight of hand, prestidigitation), 9pm

pURpLe onion cAfe Joseph Hasty & Centerpiece Jazz, 8pm

dobRA teA Room bLAck moUntAin Earth Sounds w/ Patrick Fitzsimons (ambient, world), 3pm doUbLe cRown Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm dUgoUt Flashback Sally (Southern rock), 9pm eLAine’s dUeLing piAno bAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm fRench bRoAd bReweRy Willie & The Giant (rock, soul), 6pm good stUff The Ain’t Sisters (funk, blues, Americana), 8pm gRey eAgLe mUsic hALL & tAveRn John Mark McMillan w/ The Brillance (alternative, soul, gospel), 6pm Jeff Austin Band w/ Big Daddy Love (bluegrass, jam), 10pm highLAnd bRewing compAny HempX Asheville w/ Devils and Dust (Americana), 2pm HempX Asheville w/ Count Clovis & friends (Afro-gypsy, surf rock), 7pm

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Sat • September 19 HempX

LAzy diAmond Unknown Pleasures w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10pm

ALtAmont theAtRe Mike Farris (blues, gospel, rock ’n’ soul), 8pm

boiLeR Room AVL Taker Over w/ Yung Mucc, Benihana Kenobi, Marlowe, Freezy Cash, Gully Mills, MR. 1NEIVE, Doc Ill & E-Rilla, Carolina Red, Hard Knox, Kilo, Kahle X & Louie Mitch (hip-hop), 9pm

Thu • September 17 Flights & Bites featuring Smoking J’s Fiery Foods and music by Mike & Amy Fri • September 18 HempX

JAck of the wood pUb Laney Jones & The Spirits w/ The Hart Strings (indie, folk-rock, bluegrass), 8pm

LeX 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (jazz ballads & standards), 6:30pm Michael Andersen (honky-tonk piano), 9:45pm

bLUe moUntAin pizzA & bRew pUb Matt Sellers (Americana, blues, roots), 7pm

5:30-7:30

Room iX Open dance night, 9pm Root bAR no. 1 Dulci Ellenburger (rock, pop), 9pm sAnctUARy bRewing compAny Hunnilicious (Americana, country, folk), 7:30pm scAndALs nightcLUb DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scULLy’s DJ, 10pm sLy gRog LoUnge John Crawford, Savannah Shea & friends (mountain music, singer-songwriters), 7:30pm soUtheRn AppALAchiAn bReweRy The Pea Pickin’ Hearts (Americana, country-folk, rockabilly), 8pm spRing cReek tAveRn The Sweet Treats (Americana), 8:30pm tALLgARy’s At foUR coLLege A Social Function (rock, country), 9:30pm the AdmiRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

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Sun • September 20 Outdoor Demo Day

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Tue • September 22 Meadow is open! Tasting Room is closed for private event

828.595.9956 www.sanctuarybrewco.com MONDAYS - Closed TUESDAYS - Taco Tuesday featuring No Evil Foods! WEDNESDAYS - Adoptable Pet Night THURSDAYS - Brewers Behind the Bar & Live Music from 7-9 FRIDAYS - Live Music starts at 7:30 SATURDAYS - Live Music starts at 7:30 SUNDAYS - Brunch With Ollie the pig from 12-2 plus all Panthers Football games

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THU. 9/17 Jason Whitaker & Jeff Anders (acoustic folk)

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SAT. 9/19 Lyric

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the mothLight Caleb Klauder Country Band w/ Hearts Gone South (country, honky-tonk), 9pm the sociAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm thomAs woLfe AUditoRiUm Angela Brown (soprano, opera), 8pm timo’s hoUse Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino (top 40), 10pm town pUmp Crooked Railroad (outlaw country, rock), 9pm

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toy boAt commUnity ARt spAce Jest fest (open-mic comedy & variety), 8pm tRAiLheAd RestAURAnt And bAR The Bluebirds (old-time, Americana), 8pm twisted LAUReL Live DJ, 11pm

doUbLe cRown Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm

sUndAy, septembeR 20 5 wALnUt wine bAR Laura Blackley Trio (folk, country, blues), 7pm

wiLd wing cAfe Karaoke, 8pm

bLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Sunday Jazz Brunch w/ James Hammel, 12pm

wXyz LoUnge At ALoft hoteL The Digs (funk, groove, soul), 8pm

bLUe moUntAin pizzA & bRew pUb Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk), 7pm

zAmbRA Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

bywAteR Mtn Vibez (reggae DJs), 5pm

highLAnd bRewing compAny Outdoor Demo Day w/ Dennis Berndt (reggae), 1pm

isis RestAURAnt And mUsic hALL Sunday Classical Brunch, 11am Sunday jazz showcase, 6pm JAck of the wood pUb Irish session, 5pm

TONS OF WNC BREWERIES ON TAP

LAzy diAmond Tiki Night w/ DJ or band (Hawaiian, surf, exotica), 10pm

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LeX 18 Thomas Wolfe mystery dinner theater, 6:45pm Michael John Jazz (classic jazz), 7pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9pm

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odditoRiUm Wolves x 4 w/ Eyelet, Weak Wrists & Lacryosa (metal, punk), 9pm off the wAgon Piano show, 9pm oLive oR twist DJ (oldies rock, swing), 8pm

JACK OF THE

WOOD PUB

#1 Pub Grub #2 Bar for Live Music

FRI 9.18

THE GET RIGHT BAND (FUNKY SOUL

DANCE PARTY)

8 p.m. $7

oRAnge peeL The Lone Bellow (alt-country, rock, indie), 9pm poUR tApRoom Open mic, 8pm scAndALs nightcLUb DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm sieRRA nevAdA bRewing co. Gene Peyroux & New Vintage Jazz Co. (jazz, western swing, bossa), 1pm

LANEY JONES & THE SPIRITS

TUE 9.22

NIKKI TALLEY (FOLK AMERICANA SONGSTRESS)

soUtheRn AppALAchiAn bReweRy BlueSunday w/ Garry Segal & special guests (Blues), 5pm

SOFIA TALVIK (EARLY SHOW AT 6PM NEO-FOLK FROM SWEDEN) 6 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

spRing cReek tAveRn Kevin Reese (Americana), 2pm

(INDIE FOLK ROCK BLUEGRASS) W/ THE HART STRINGS (EARLY SET)

8 p.m. $5

5PM TO 7PM SEPTEMBER TUESDAY RESIDENCY 5 p.m. Free (Donations Encouraged)

THE STRAIGHT 8’S (ROCKABILLY 50’S STYLE HOT

ROD DANCE PARTY) w/ SHAKE IT LIKE A CAVEMAN

9 p.m.$

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BULL MOOSE PARTY

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9 p.m. $5

OPEN AT NOON DAILY

SATURDAY Parker & Smith (old-fashioned blues), 2-4pm SUNDAY Celtic Irish session 3-9pm MONDAY Quizzo! 7:30-9pm • WEDNESDAY Old-Time 5pm SINGER SONGWRITERS 1st & 3rd Tuesdays THURSDAY Scottie Parker (old-fashioned blues) 2-4pm, Bluegrass Jam 7pm FRIDAY The Low Counts (blues) w/ Todd Cecil & Back South A Dirty Dance Party

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one stop deLi & bAR Bluegrass brunch w/ Woody Wood, 11am Reggae Sundays, 7pm

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gRey eAgLe mUsic hALL & tAveRn of Montreal w/ Surface To Air Missive (experimental pop, psychedelic, glam rock), 9pm

iRon hoRse stAtion Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm

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good stUff YRS Jerzy (hip-hop), 7pm

sociAL LoUnge & tApAs In the Biz Networking Night w/ Patrick Lopez (acoustic, piano, pop, open to everyone), 8pm

tALLgARy’s At foUR coLLege Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm the mothLight The Black Twig Pickers w/ Sarah Louise (old-time), 9pm the omni gRove pARk inn Lou Mowad (classical guitar), 10am Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm the sociAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm the soUtheRn Yacht Rock Brunch w/ DJ Kipper, 12pm timo’s hoUse Asheville Drum ’n’ Bass Collective, 10pm

wedge bRewing co. Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz-swing), 6pm

the vALLey mUsic & cookhoUse Monday Pickin’ Parlour (open jam, open mic), 8pm

white hoRse bLAck moUntAin Champian Fulton (jazz), 7:30pm

tigeR moUntAin Service industry night (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

wicked weed Mrs. Dubfire (reggae), 3pm

timo’s hoUse Movie night, 7pm

wiLd wing cAfe Bluegrass Afternoons, 3pm

town pUmp My Brother the Bear & Noah (acoustic guitar & banjo), 9pm

wiLd wing cAfe soUth Party On The Patio w/ Crocs Duo, 5pm

mondAy, septembeR 21 185 king stReet Open mic night, 7pm 5 wALnUt wine bAR The Get Right Band (funk, rock, reggae), 8pm

URbAn oRchARd Old-time music, 7pm white hoRse bLAck moUntAin International Day of Peace Concert, 7:30pm wiLd wing cAfe soUth Monday Bike Nights, 6pm

tUesdAy, septembeR 22

ALtAmont bRewing compAny Old-time jam w/ Mitch McConnell, 6:30pm

5 wALnUt wine bAR The John Henrys (hot jazz), 8pm

bywAteR Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8pm

ALtAmont bRewing compAny Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm

coURtyARd gALLeRy Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

ALtAmont theAtRe Appetites (sexy storytelling), 8pm

cRossRoAds AssembLy Koat of Armor (modern praise, Christian), 7pm doUbLe cRown Punk ’n’ roll w/ DJs Dave & Rebecca, 10pm

AsheviLLe mUsic hALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm bAck yARd bAR Open mic & jam w/ Robert Swain, 8pm ben’s tUne-Up Eleanor Underhill (acoustic), 5pm

good stUff Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

bLAck moUntAin ALe hoUse Trivia, 7pm

gRey eAgLe mUsic hALL & tAveRn Contra dance (lessons, 7:30pm), 8pm

bLUe moUntAin pizzA & bRew pUb Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm

JAck of the wood pUb Quizzo, 7pm

bUffALo nickeL Trivia, 7pm

LAzy diAmond Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10pm

bywAteR Fire spinning night, 8:30pm

LeXington Ave bReweRy (LAb) Kipper’s “Totally Rad” Trivia night, 8pm

coRk & keg Honky-tonk Jamboree w/ Tom Pittman, 6:30pm

LobsteR tRAp Bobby Miller & Friends (bluegrass), 6:30pm o.henRy’s/the UndeRgRoUnd Geeks Who Drink trivia, 7pm odditoRiUm Flowers & Fire w/ Ritual Contact & Cold Solstice (post punk, goth), 9pm oLive oR twist 2 Breeze Band (Motown), 6pm one woRLd bRewing Beats & Brews w/ DJ Whistleblower, 8pm oskAR bLUes bReweRy Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm sociAL LoUnge & tApAs In the Biz Networking Night w/ Patrick Lopez (acoustic, piano, pop, open to everyone), 8pm soveReign Remedies Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic), 8pm

cRossRoAds AssembLy Koat of Armor (modern praise, Christian), 7pm

rayna gellert, joan shelley

9/17 thu the moth: true stories told live

doUbLe cRown DJ Brody Hunt (honky-tonk, Cajun, Western), 10pm

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good stUff Old time-y night, 6:30pm

9/19

gRey eAgLe mUsic hALL & tAveRn Madisen Ward & The Mama Bear w/ Mimi Bell (soul, folk), 8pm iRon hoRse stAtion Open mic, 6pm isis RestAURAnt And mUsic hALL Tuesday bluegrass sessions, 7:30pm JAck of the wood pUb Nikki Talley (folk, Americana), 5pm

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little wings & weyes blood honky tonk country night!

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caleb klauder country band w/ hearts gone south the black twig pickers

9/20 sun

w/ sarah louise

9/24 thu megan jean and the kfb w/ pirate's canoe, amythyst kiah 9/25 fri

beatlife w/ byron the aquarius, bells and robes, cpt hyperdrive, more!

LAzy diAmond Punk ’n’ Roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm

the omni gRove pARk inn Bob Zullo (pop, rock, blues), 7pm

LeX 18 Bob Strain & Bill Fouty (jazz ballads & standards), 7pm

9/26

the sociAL Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm Salsa Night, 9pm

LobsteR tRAp Jay Brown (acoustic-folk, singer-songwriter), 6:30pm

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free mothlight monday! cave w/ nest egg, chives

the soUtheRn Speakeasy Mondays w/ The Low-Down Sires & friends (hot jazz, swing), 9:30pm

mARket pLAce The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

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invisible circle w tellavision, wizardskin, derek m. poteat

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w/ shallows, morbids

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OdditOrium Odd comedy night, 9pm

tallgary’S at fOur COllege Jam night, 9pm

Off the WagOn Rock ’n’ roll bingo, 8pm

the JOint next dOOr Open mic w/ Laura Thurston, 7pm

One StOp deli & Bar Turntable Tuesdays (DJs & vinyl), 10pm

the SOCial Jason Whitaker (acoustic), 5pm

Orange peel Steve Earle & The Dukes w/ The Mastersons (outlaw country, rock, folk), 8pm pOur taprOOm Frank Zappa night, 8pm

the Valley muSiC & COOkhOuSe Team trivia w/ prizes!, 7pm treSSa’S dOWntOWn Jazz and BlueS Funk & jazz jam w/ Pauly Juhl, 8:30pm urBan OrChard Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 7pm Wedge BreWing CO. Pleasure Chest (blues, rock ’n’ roll, soul), 7pm WeStVille puB Blues jam, 10pm White hOrSe BlaCk mOuntain Irish sessions & open mic, 6:30pm Wild Wing Cafe SOuth Tuesday bluegrass, 6pm Trivia w/ Kelilyn, 8:30pm

WedneSday, SeptemBer 23 185 king Street Movie night, 7pm 5 Walnut Wine Bar Wine Tasting w/ Aaron Kaz Duo (international folk), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm altamOnt theatre An evening w/ The War & Treaty (Americana, folk, soul), 8pm aSheVille muSiC hall The Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm Ben’S tune-up Asheville Country Music Review w/ Town Mountain, The Honeycutters & John Stickley Trio, 5pm

nOBle kaVa Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm O.henry’S/the undergrOund “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm OdditOrium Axxa Abraxas w/ Gullible Boys & Noel Thrasher (acoustic, indie), 9pm Off the WagOn Piano show, 9pm OliVe Or tWiSt Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm One StOp deli & Bar Lip sync karaoke, 10pm Orange peel Leopard Island (alternative, indie rock, pop), 9pm piSgah BreWing COmpany Savannah Smith (country, singer-songwriter), 6pm pOur taprOOm Karaoke, 8pm reJaVanatiOn Cafe Open mic night, 6pm rOOm ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm SCully’S Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm Sly grOg lOunge Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

Blue mOuntain pizza & BreW puB Open mic, 7pm

tallgary’S at fOur COllege Open mic & jam, 7pm

dirty SOuth lOunge Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

the JOint next dOOr Bluegrass jam, 8pm

dOuBle CrOWn Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm

the phOenix Jazz night, 8pm

highland BreWing COmpany Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm irOn hOrSe StatiOn Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm iSiS reStaurant and muSiC hall An evening w/ Roy Schneider & Kim Mayfield (roots, folk, Americana), 7pm Widespread Panic “Street Dogs” prerelease listening party, 8:30pm

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mOuntain mOJO COffeehOuSe Open mic, 6:30pm

SOl Bar neW mOuntain World Wednesdays, 8pm

grind Cafe Trivia night, 7pm

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lOBSter trap Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

BlaCk mOuntain ale hOuSe Play to Win game night, 7:30pm

funkatOrium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm

lex 18 Sheila Gordon sings “Tapestry” (Carole King tribute), 5:45pm

the SOCial Marc Keller, 6pm Karaoke, 9:30pm the SOuthern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm tiger mOuntain Flux (’80s & ’90s dance party), 10pm timO’S hOuSe Spectrum AVL w/ rotating DJs, 9pm tOWn pump Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm trailhead reStaurant and Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 6pm

JaCk Of the WOOd puB Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm

treSSa’S dOWntOWn Jazz and BlueS Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

lazy diamOnd Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm

Wild Wing Cafe SOuth Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 7pm

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THE aTE R l iSTinGS Friday, september 18 thursday, september 24 Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters. asheville pizza & brewing Co. (2541281) MaGic MikE (R) 7:00 PiTcH PERfEcT 2(PG-13) 1:00, 4:00 TEd 2 (R) 10:00

Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) Carolina Cinemas (274-9500)

Grandma HHHHS diREcToR: Paul Weitz (About a Boy) PlayERS: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Sam Elliott, Laverne Cox, Elizabeth Peña coMEdy-dRaMa Rated R THE SToRy: An outspoken widowed lesbian helps her granddaughter secure the money for an abortion. THE lowdown: Fast-paced, funny, filled with witty lines and yet suffused with a deep melancholy, Grandma provides Lily Tomlin with her best role in ages — and audiences with a must-see movie.

If I start out by citing the fact that Paul Weitz’s Grandma has a 92 percent approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, it’s because — for a change — the rush to praise is justified. I also want to help keep this remarkable little movie from getting lost in the shuffle of the first actually busy week of the fall — and to keep if from being incorrectly dismissed as “another bit of boomer-bait scoring laughs by having old folks swear.” Oh, there’s a good bit of swearing — courtesy of 75-year-old Lily Tomlin — but it’s not of the cheaplaugh variety. Instead, it is inherent in Tomlin’s character. It is part of her, and the laughs come not from her swearing, but from her tendency to speak

her mind in an unfiltered manner — often at inappropriate times. More to the point, her character is more tragic than comedic. Grandma is fast-paced, unfussy and to the point. It runs a very tight 79 minutes and wastes none of them. It also provides Tomlin with one of the best roles of her career (one that seems to have been written for her). She plays Elle Reid, an out-of-fashion poet, who is still mourning the death of her long-time lover, Violet, a year-and-a-half ago. Dismissed as impossible and crazy by her virtually estranged daughter (Marcia Gay Harden), Elle is alone except for her current, three-plus decades younger girlfriend, Olivia (Judy Greer). When the film opens, Elle is severing that tie, dumping Olivia because she’s certain the relationship is doomed

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Black MaSS (R) 11:00, 12:20, 1:40, 3:00, 4:20, 5:40, 7:00, 8:20, 9:40 THE GifT (R) 11:45, 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 GRandMa (R) 12:00, 2:20, 4:15, 6:15, 8:10, 10:05 JiMMy’S Hall (PG-13) 11:40, 2:15, 4:40, 7:05, 9:45 lEaRninG To dRivE (R) 12:05, 2:30, 4:35, 6:45, 9:00 MazE RunnER: ScoRcH TRialS (PG-13) 11:00, 12:30, 1:50, 3:20, 4:40, 6:10, 7:30, 9:00, 10:20 MERu (R) 11:30, 1:45, 3:55, 6:50, 9:05 MiSSion: iMPoSSiBlE -- RoGuE naTion (PG-13) 12:25, 3:40, 7:15, 10:15 MR. HolMES (PG) 11:10, 1:55, 4:25, 6:55, 9:35 TRainwREck (R) 11:20, 2:00, 4:55, 7:40, 10:25 THE viSiT (PG-13) 11:15, 1:35, 3:50, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 a walk in THE woodS (R) 11:35, 2:05, 4:30, 7:10, 9:30

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20 fEET fRoM STaRdoM (PG-13) 4:00, Fri., Sept. 18 GRandMa (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:00 lEaRninG To dRivE (R) 1:20, 4:20 (No 4:20 show, Fri. Sept. 18), 7:20 (No 7:20 show, Thu., Sept. 24), Late show Fri-Sat 9:20

FlatroCk Cinema (697-2463) iRRaTional Man (R) 4:00, 7:00 (Closed Mon.)

regal biltmore stadium 15 (684-1298)

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united artists beauCatCher (298-1234) 7:00 Thu., June 27 only BEfoRE MidniGHT (PG-13) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 (no 7:20 Thu., June 27 only), Late show Fri-Sat 9:40 MucH ado aBouT noTHinG (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat Fri-Sat 9:20

FlatroCk Cinema (697-2463) Man of STEEl (PG-13) 3:15, 7:00

regal biltmore grande stadium 15 (684-1298) SEPTEMBER 16 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

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anyway. Relegating Olivia and their four-month relationship to the level of nothing but a footnote, prompts the younger woman to complain, “That’s a horrible thing to say.” “Well, I’m a horrible person,” Elle tells her — and that’s the role she’s cast herself in as a protective shell. In essence, Elle is through with the world. The world, however, isn’t through with her, something that becomes apparent when her granddaughter Sage (Julia Garner) shows up in need of $600 for an abortion — one that’s scheduled for 5:45 that afternoon. The problem is that Elle has paid off and cut up her credit cards (turning them into wind chimes) and is therefore broke. Immediately understanding why Sage doesn’t want to involve her mother, Elle sets out — in Violet’s very old car — with Sage, to somehow find the money. Starting with Sage’s worthless boyfriend (Nat Wolff) — who makes the mistake of tangling with Elle and the business end of a hockey stick — the pair try everything Elle can think of. This makes up the bulk of the film with a series of encounters with Elle’s old — largely estranged — friends. Some are comic, some are not. All are somehow poignant and all serve to paint an increasingly complex picture of Elle. The film does follow a fairly obvious pattern. It’s not exactly surprising where all these efforts will end up, but the trip itself is less certain as concerns what it contains and who Elle is underneath the tough-as-nails, no-nonsense persona. Also, the encounters sometimes play against type, especially the one with long-ignored Karl (Sam Elliott). It’s not just what it reveals, but how it’s handled — depicting Elle and Karl smoking pot (which Elle swiped from Sage’s boyfriend) matter of factly, and not for an easy old-folks-getting-high laugh (see I’ll See You in My Dreams for a recent and extreme example of this). It is, in fact, Grandma’s matter of fact attitude that so sets the film apart. It exists in a world where lesbian relationships are just a fact of life, where a middle-aged businesswoman was raised by two mothers, where old folks might well smoke pot, etc. It’s a film that makes no apologies for its worldview — and is refreshing for it. For that and for Tomlins’ performance, Grandma is a must-see. Rated R for language and some drug use. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre.

SEPTEMBER 16 - SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

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Director: Michael Polish Players: Hayden Christensen, Kate Bosworth, Dwight Yoakam, Fred Thompson fact-and-faith-based drama Rated PG-13 The Story: A pastor severely injured in a car accident is presumed dead for an hour and a half, time he believes himself to have spent in heaven. The Lowdown: A tedious, predictable and overlong attempt to extract cash from evangelical Christians and, apparently, McDonald’s. 90 Minutes in Heaven would be more aptly described as 121 minutes in a purgatory of boredom; hell would be an inaccurate analogy if only because it would imply that something interesting was taking place. If you’ve ever wanted to watch Hayden Christensen mumbling in a bed for over two hours, your inexplicable prayers have been answered. All others need not apply. Even those who gravitate to faith-based media strictly in the interest of affirming their worldview will have difficulty weathering the narrative inertia of this film. The greatest sin of 90 Minutes is unquestionably its glacial pacing, and there is no trace of hyperbole when I state unequivocally that this is the most boring film I have seen all year. For the sake of the six-plus million people who have allegedly bought the autobiography on which 90 is based, I sincerely hope the book didn’t drag the way the film does. Had the story moved more briskly, the picture still would’ve been weighed down by its stars’ wooden performances. Suffering PTSD after a near-fatal car crash, Pastor Don Piper (Hayden Christensen and his mustache) begins to neglect wife Eva (Kate Bosworth) before revealing to

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HHHHH = max rating her in the last 15 minutes of the movie that his despondency stems not from his injuries but from his perceived expulsion from Heaven. This might sound promising, but Bosworth is here because she’s married to the director and Christensen because he’s probably not being offered much work these days, and accordingly neither seems particularly engaged. While Bosworth vacillates between broad overacting and vacant stares, the preponderance of screen-time is dedicated to Christensen’s relentless hamming. A more honest title for the film would have been 90 Variations on Grimacing, and after the first hour of listening to him whine in a ridiculously affected Texas accent, I began to wonder if he might actually be playing his scenes for comedy. This theory failed to hold up under scrutiny, since it presupposes both acting ability and a sense of humor on Christensen’s part. Dwight Yoakam at least seems to be enjoying his own private joke, wrenching what little fun he can out of his two scenes as an ambulance-chasing lawyer, but the most reliable comic relief remains the dead caterpillar on Christensen’s upper lip. Photographs of the real-life Pipers under the credits prove that representational verisimilitude was completely abandoned by the casting director, making adherence to this particular aspect of the character’s appearance all the more perplexing. To blame the film’s failings on its cast, however, would be to understate the egregious errors in judgment perpetrated by writer-director Michael Polish. While the production values are solid, Polish’s direction is brutally lacking in style and his script features some of the most unnatural dialogue ever to have issued from Hayden Christensen’s mouth (a dubious, but amazing, distinction for someone who has spoken George Lucas lines). Persistent and superfluous voice-over narration is abused in a futile attempt to flesh out Pastor Piper’s character, but does nothing to advance the plot — a perennial hallmark of lazy screenwriting. This film has three separate tacked-on endings. Yet despite all these shortcomings, Polish’s most bizarre decision is the inclusion of McDonald’s product placements so pervasive that these characters seem to inhabit a world in which no one ever eats or even mentions any other type of food. I don’t have an accurate count, but I doubt Christianity is brought up as often as the unholy trinity of McDonald’s burgers, shakes and fries. Heaven is glimpsed exactly twice in all 121 minutes of 90 Minutes, but it gets enough real estate to

incorporate literally every visual cliche associated with the concept. However, when the “pearlescent gates” finally make their appearance, I had honestly begun to expect the golden arches instead. Despite the apparent sincerity of cast and crew, a reasonable budget bolstered by whoever sold their soul to Mayor McCheese, and a large built-in audience familiar with the source material, 90 Minutes in Heaven is a painfully turgid two hours unlikely to attain the success enjoyed by other films of its ilk. To misappropriate a line from Milton, better to reign in Hell than sit through Heaven. Rated PG-13 for intense accident and injury images Playing at Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

Learning to Drive HHHH Director: Isabel Coixet (Elegy) Players: Patricia Clarkson, Ben Kingsley, Grace Gummer, Jake Weber, Sarita Choudhury, John Hodgman Drama with comedic elements Rated R The Story: A middle-aged woman whose husband has left her becomes unlikely friends with her Indian driving instructor. The Lowdown: Despite a contrived set-up, this turns out to be a warm, human, charming small-scale drama about two lonely people whose lives are suddenly changed. Great? No, but emotionally honest in ways we don’t often see. I expected little from Isabel Coixet’s Learning to Drive. Even though I had liked her previous collaboration with Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson, Elegy, this looked unappealing and obvious — just another old-sploitation comedy, this week’s A Walk in the Woods. Well, it isn’t that at all, and the film is being mismarketed as a kind of romantic-comedy. Oh,

it’s romantic — without being quite a romance — and it has a smattering of gentle laughs, but it is not so much a comedy as it is a drama. It’s small in scale and largely unassuming, both of which may be in the movie’s favor, since it never tries too hard. The film — rather like the character that Kingsley plays — seems content to just “be.” Clarkson plays Wendy Shields, a high-powered New York literary critic, whose life is sent into a tailspin when her husband Ted (Jake Weber) dumps her for another woman — something he decides to tell her in public in the hopeless belief that it will prevent her making a scene. In one of the film’s few concessions to Hollywoodiana this provides an awkward meet-cute for her and Darwan Singh Tur (Kingsley) when she jumps into Darwan’s taxi after her husband. Soon Ted bails from the cab and instructs Darwan — who by now has heard the gist of the situation — to take her home. As luck would have it, she leaves an envelope in the cab, prompting Darwan to return it to her on his day job (a driving instructor). Right about this time, circumstances — mainly Wendy’s daughter (Grace Gummer) urging her mother to visit her at school in Vermont — make it advisable for Wendy to learn how to drive. It’s easy to see where this going, and it would be understandable at this point if you’re ready to head for the exit because of the obvious contrivances on display. But don’t. This is merely the set-up for the core of the movie about two lonely — but very different — people dealing with drastic changes in their lives. Wendy is not the only one facing change. Darwan — whose status in the U.S. as a political refugee prevents him from returning to India — has given in to the urgings of his sister to enter into an arranged marriage with a woman, Jasleen (Sarita Choudhury), whom he has never met or even spoken with. He tries to take this in stride and accept it — and while he mostly succeeds, there’s a deep undercurrent of sadness and disappointment underneath it all. And thank goodness for this, because it keeps Darwan from being some kind of magical Sikh who solves all of Wendy’s problems with his sage advice and the not-too-stressed metaphor of driving as life. Instead it becomes a charming story of two unlikely people becoming friends — friends who can tell each other things they can tell no one else, something that is perhaps even more intimate than a literal romance.

This is a film of great charm and a kind of gentleness we don’t often see in movies. It touches on many things with a hand that’s as light as the set-up is contrived. Ultimately, Learning to Drive is a film about self-discovery through human connection. It is sweet, but balanced by moments of biting wit to keep it from becoming cloying. It has moments of great delicacy that may well stay with you long after showier, grander movies have vanished from your mind. Oh, this isn’t a great film by any means. I don’t even think that was ever the idea. It is what it was meant to be — a small, emotionally resonant, honest tale told with subtle artistry and almost no artifice. Rated R for language and sexual content. Playing at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre.

The Perfect Guy H DiREctoR: David M. Rosenthal (A Single Shot)

PlaYERS: Sanaa Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Chestnut, L. Scott Caldwell, Charles S. Dutton

tHRillER Rated PG-13 tHE StoRY: A woman thinks she’s

found the perfect man, until he turns violent and controlling.

tHE lowDown: An incredibly

unimaginative “woman in peril” thriller in the vein of a Lifetime movie, but

with a better budget, though that’s really the only difference.

The biggest problem with David M. Rosenthal’s The Perfect Guy is that it’s so disposable it barely exists. It has all the permanence of a sneeze. My memory of it is already turning ethereal, like a dream. It’s less a movie than a vague notion of one. And this isn’t to say that The Perfect Guy is so much bad as it’s just needless — a needlessness driven by how unoriginal it is. And born out of that unoriginality is a pretty banal and

predictable whole with nothing buried within to be even moderately excited about or interested in. The premise is your basic womanin-peril nonsense, the kind of recycled junk you’d find on Lifetime. There’s a modicum of budget and some professionalism from everyone around (I mean, everything is well-lit and in frame), but that’s about all you’re getting for the extra cost of a movie ticket. Sanaa Lathan (The Best Man Holiday) plays Leah, one of these busy movietype professionals who has no real defined job but talks in buzzwords and office-ese. After ditching a deadend relationship with Dave (Morris Chestnut), she meets Carter, a generous, caring, loving man who treats her well and who her parents like — and who seems like the perfect guy. But wait! Get this — he’s not the perfect guy! Not at all! He’s actually violently unhinged and manipulative. In fact, he’s far from the perfect guy. He might be the worst guy. As I remember from high school English, this is known as irony. It’s also as clever as the movie ever gets if you’re wondering what level The Perfect Guy is operating on. The rest of the movie goes exactly how you expect it to go. Carter goes all Fatal Attraction on Leah, the justice system fails her, some people die. Nothing out-of-the-ordinary happens and everything goes exactly the way you imagine it will. Actually, this is The Perfect Guy’s most surprising aspect: It doesn’t even manage to be accidentally interesting. And what’s frustrating is that there are moments in the story that could be expounded on and examined — the idea of the law’s inability to defend women, Carter’s ideal masculinity and the way it manifests itself in violence. But these are just ideas and thoughts, something The Perfect Guy has no interest in. It’d rather just sit there and do what’s expected of it — and nothing more. Rated PG-13 for violence, menace, sexuality and brief strong language. Playing at Carmike 10, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande.

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SCREEN SCENE StaR PowER: Ms. Lisa Fischer in a still from the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom. In conjunction with R&B/ soul singer’s Sept. 18 performance at the Diana Wortham Theatre, the Fine Arts Theatre offers two special screenings of the film, one of which includes a Q&A with Fischer. Photo by RADiUS-TWC

• The East Asheville Library resumes its documentary series with the 2014 film The Ivory Tower Thursday, Sept. 17, at 6:15 p.m. Stirred by rising tuition rates and student loan debt, director andrew rossi asks if college is worth the cost. To find out, he travels from the halls of Harvard to public colleges in financial crisis to Silicon Valley. The screening is free and open to the public. • More than 40 short films from around the world and one featurelength picture will be shown at the sixth annual Movies by Movers Festival at Appalachian State University in Boone from Wednesday, Sept. 16, through Saturday, Sept. 20. The diverse slate of films about dance challenges preconceptions of what the art form can be, from modern, ballet and jazz to circus, parkour, skating and other sports. The festival was founded by ASU dance faculty member cara hagan and showcases work by longtime professionals, emerging artists and students. The featured film for 2015 is Soar, which explores the relationship forged between sisters Kiera brinkley — a dancer, choreographer and quadruple amputee who lost her limbs at age 2 — and uriah boyd, who was born a month before her sister contracted pneumococcal sepsis. The Thursday, Sept. 17, screening at 7 p.m. will be followed by a Skype Q&A with Brinkley and Boyd. Other festival highlights include Well Contested Sites, a choreographic work for film that features former inmates (part of a program focused 66

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on activism), and the documentary From the Heart of Brahma (part of a program focused on LGBT issues). All screenings are free and open to the public. avl.mx/1jm • In conjunction with R&B/soulsinger ms. lisa fischer’s Friday, Sept. 18, performance at the Diana Wortham Theatre, the Fine Arts Theatre is hosting two special screenings of 20 Feet from Stardom, the Oscar-winning documentary in which Fischer is prominently featured. The first showing will be Thursday, Sept. 17, at 7 p.m. with a post-film Q&A with Fischer. The second takes place Friday, Sept. 18, at 4 p.m. Tickets are available at the Fine Arts Theatre box office and online. fineartstheatre.com • Asheville writer maryedith burrell will lead Prose To Picture, a workshop for local writers who want to transform prose — from novels to short stories to comics — into a working script. According to the workshop description, it is “designed to introduce writers of other media to the fine art of screenplay. Using lecture, film clips, on-site exercises, discussion and handouts, students will get the basics of visual storytelling and dramatic structure, plus an opportunity to try their hand at adaptation.” The workshop takes place Saturday, Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Unitarian Universalist Church’s Sandburg Hall Prose To Picture is sponsored by the Flatiron Writers. The cost is $65 per person. flatironwriters.com Send your local film news to ae@ mountainx.com X mountainx.com

Oxenbould. Deanna Dunagan, Peter McRobbie, Kathryn Hahn tEPiD FounD FootaGE HoRRoR Rated PG-13 tHE StoRY: Two teenage kids are shipped off to the spend a week with grandparents they’ve never met. Strange events ensue. tHE lowDown: Though hailed in some corners as a return to form for M. Night Shyamalan, this is just the same old thing dressed in cheap found-footage clothing. The tag line ought to be, “Doesn’t suck as much as his last two movies.” I have the distinct feeling that M. Night Shyamalan’s The Visit is receiving a kind of free pass of good — or at least passable — marks simply because it’s not as dire as his last few movies, and possibly because it’s relatively short and takes less time to trudge your way to its typically unsurprising surprise revelation. Neither of these things, however, makes Mr. Shyamalan’s little foray into the land of found-footage horror what you might reasonably call desirable. Apart from the fact that Shyamalan is here intentionally trying to be funny — and less successfully than The Happening (2008) managed by accident — it’s nothing new under the sun. This is the same old Shyamalan false-shuffle, but with a smaller (and cheaper) cast and an exploitation-level budget. The worst of that is that its $5 million price tag means it will be in the black before you read this. The good news is that there’s no even slightly rational way it can spawn an actual sequel. Then again, considering how idiotic — yes, that’s the word for it — the story is, there’s perhaps a possible irrational sequel. The story, such as it is, involves two precocious movie kids — burgeoning filmmaker Becca (Olivia DeJonge) and wanna-be rapper (sort of a barely pubescent Vanilla Ice) Tyler (Ed Oxenbould) — being sent to their grandparents so mom (Kathryn Hahn) can spend a week on a cruise with her latest boyfriend. That might sound reasonable, but it doesn’t take into account that mom hasn’t seen or talked to her parents since she left home — under never-spoken-of circumstances — when she was 19, and the kids, of course, have never seen these people. Just how this was even arranged is kind of vague, but in this movie that scarcely matters. Considering the kind of film this is, we can be assured that Nana (Deanna Dunagan) and Pop Pop (Peter McRobbie) are Not Quite Right.

Oh, it’s nothing serious — just things like Nana wandering naked around the house at night and clawing the walls, and urging Becca to crawl into the oven to clean it, while Pop Pop makes age-related excuses for her, has mysterious outbursts of anger and occasionally dresses to go to a party that never happens. Just to make sure we know we’re in Shyamalan country, there are things that would be at home in The Village (2004), like The Basement That Must Not Be Entered, The Shed That Must Not Be Used, etc. It’s also clearly Shyamalan in that the reasons for these things are transparent. Plus, these kids — especially Becca — are credulous as hell. Even granting that horror movies of a certain kind only keep going because the characters insist on doing stupid things, The Visit manages to tarnish that lily with gilt. Worse, it assumes that everyone in the movie — and apparently the audience — is equally clueless. Even the slightest glimmer of intelligence or even simple observation would bring the proceedings to a halt, but that would keep Shyamalan from getting to his big ending — one that manages the considerable feat of being tasteless and a damp squib all at once. In short, it combines “Yuck” and “That’s it?” in one sinking fit of dumbness. The whole business of making The Visit as a found-footage thriller feels like Shyamalan’s desperate bid for being “with it.” (And really, there’s no one more square than M. Night Shyamalan.) No one told him that he was coming in on the 15th day of this nine-day wonder approach to filmmaking. Even if he hadn’t, this approach adds nothing whatever to the movie. Worse, Shyamalan is incapable of really subscribing to the peculiar ethos of the form. He may roughly follow the approach, but he can’t do it without cheating. More, he can’t bring himself — with all the shaky-cam in the world — to turn in something that doesn’t look like a Hollywood movie. The whole thing is too carefully composed and professionally lit to pass for found-footage — even found-footage supposedly shot by a talented amateur filmmaker. Yeah, it’s the best looking found-footage movie ever made — and it’s an obvious fake. Oh, well. At least it can truly be said that, no, it doesn’t suck as much as his last two films. Rated PG-13 for disturbing thematic material including terror, violence and some nudity, and for brief language. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

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bUncombe coUnty pUbLic LibRARies buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • TH (9/17), 6:15 - Film Screening: Ivory Tower, documentary. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road fiLm At AsU appstate.edu • WE (9/16) through SU (9/20) - “Movies by

Movers Festival,” featuring Soar and 40 dance

short films from around the world. See website for full schedule. Free.

kperez@ashevillenc.gov, ashevillenc.gov/Parks Sponsored by Asheville Parks and Recreation • FR (9/18), 6:30-11:30pm - Into the Woods. Film begins at dusk. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. movies on the moUntAin shopsatreynoldsvillage.wordpress.com • FR (9/18), 8:30pm - Outdoor showing of Big. Free to attend. Held at Reynold’s Village, 41 North Merrimon Ave. UnitARiAn UniveRsAList congRegAtion of AsheviLLe 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • TH (9/17), 7pm - Film screening of Poverty, Inc., documentary. Free.

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With no reviews and even less promotion, we have veteran TV director Jerry Jameson’s Captive starring Kate Mara and David Oyelowo. According to Paramount: “A thrilling drama about the spiritual collision of two broken lives. When Brian Nichols — on the run as the subject of a citywide manhunt and desperate to make contact with his newborn son — takes recovering meth addict Ashley Smith hostage in her own apartment, she turns for guidance to Rick Warren’s best-selling inspirational book, The Purpose Driven Life. While reading aloud, Ashley and her would-be killer each face crossroads where despair and death intersect hope.” Easy to see why this isn’t being screened for critics. (pg-13)

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The cast is impressive — Jake Gyllenhaal, Josg Brolin, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley — and it comes with mostly positive reviews (so far), so this may come down to your fondness for mountain climbing dramas. The blurb tells us: “2 Guns-helmer Baltasar Kormakur directs Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, and John Hawkes in this adventure docudrama set in 1996, when a number of simultaneous expeditions up Mount Everest resulted in the deaths of eight climbers.” (pg-13)

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20 Feet from Stardom HHHH Director: Morgan Neville Players: Lisa Fischer, Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Judith Hill, Mick Jagger, Bette Midler MUSIC DOCUMENTARY Rated PG-13 Tickets are now on sale for two screenings (7 p.m. Thu., Sept. 17 and 4 p.m. Fri., Sept. 18) of 20 Feet from Stardom at the Fine Arts Theatre, which is co-sponsoring an appearance by Lisa Fischer who will also be performing at the Diana Wortham Theatre on Friday, Sept. 18. In addition to the screening, there’ll be a Q & A with Ms. Fischer. Morgan Neville’s look at the world of backup singers is not the deepest documentary you’re likely to come across — in fact, it’s not deep at all — but it may well be one of the most enjoyable. It probably isn’t Neville’s fault that the film isn’t any more in-depth than it is (though he may never have intended it to be). More likely, the film’s tone was dictated by that of the featured singers — Merry Clayton, Lisa Fischer, Judith Hill, Claudia Lennear, Darlene Love and Tata Vega. If you’re hoping they’re seething with resentment or wanting to dish the dirt on the stars they’ve performed with, this isn’t your movie. Oh, there’s a trace of bitterness here and there — especially when it comes to the way Phil Spector had a tendency to credit whomever he was promoting rather than who was actually singing — but resentment is not in their makeup. It’s as if complaining would be a waste of energy that might be better spent singing. The Fine Arts Theatre will host screenings of 20 Feet from Stardom on Thu., Sept. 17 at 7 p.m. and Fri., Sept 18 at 4 p.m. Lisa Fischer, who is featured in the film, will be in attendance and will be available for questions after the screenings. Price for the screenings is $10. Ms. Fischer is also performing at the Diana Wortham Theatre on Friday, Sept, 18 at 8 p.m.

The Crimes of Stephen Hawke HHHH Director: George King (The Face at the Window) Players: Tod Slaughter, Marjorie Taylor, D.J. Williams, Eric Portman, Graham Soutten HORROR MELODRAMA Rated NR Something a little different — and very much the same, too — from Britain’s horror meister Tod Slaughter, The Crimes of Stephen Hawke is a pure melodramatic delight. Released barely two months after his most famous film, Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street (1936), Stephen Hawke is one of the few Slaughter vehicles not based on a book, story or play. Rather, it’s based on a kind of drama — one that Slaughter himself (in a framing radio broadcast) describes as “a new old melodrama.” In other words, it follows the form you expect from a Tod Slaughter movie. Its primary difference is that there’s a pretty weird attempt at making him sympathetic...sort of. This mostly means that he’s devoted to his adopted daughter (Marjorie Taylor) and both she and his one-legged, one-eyed, scarred-up hunchback minion (Graham Soutten) shed copious tears when he meets his inevitable “sticky end.” Considering that he’s spent most of the film gleefully snapping the spines (he’s known as “The Spine Breaker”) of anyone who gets in his way or who he decides to rob, it’s hard to work up much sorrow. After all, this is a movie that starts with Slaughter breaking the back of a small child. Granted, it’s an obnoxious little boy (“My father doesn’t keep a garden for nasty, common people like you to look at”), but even so, it’s startling. Terrific, over-the-top fun. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Crimes of Stephen Hawke Thursday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

The Devil and Daniel Webster HHHH Director: William Dieterle (Love Letters) Players: Edward Arnold, Walter Huston, Anne Shirley, James Craig, Jane Darwell, Simone Simon FANTASY DRAMA Rated NR I’ve been a champion of director William Dieterle for over 30 years (at least from his first American film in 1931 through 1948), citing him as the last “golden age” director yet to be seriously assessed. (That status remains true.) But I have to admit that I have never quite warmed to his The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) — a film that is generally considered to be his masterpiece. This is partly due to the fact that I’m a little allergic to most Americana, but it’s mostly because the film only really works for me when the title characters (Edward Arnold as Webster and Oscar-nominated Walter Huston as the devil, or Mr. Scratch) are on the screen. Oh, it’s a beautifully made film overall, but when those two aren’t showcased, it just kind of lies there. The leads are bland and the supporting cast hasn’t enough to do. The plot — Jabez Stone (James Craig) sells his soul to the devil for seven years of good luck and Daniel Webster intervenes to get him out of the deal at the end of that time — is solid, and the execution is flawless, but not always compelling. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Devil and Daniel Webster Sunday, Sept. 20, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

The Front Page HHHHS Director: Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front) Players: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O’Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, Mae Clarke NEWSPAPER COMEDY Rated NR Fresh from All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), Lewis Milestone tackled the job of bringing Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway hit newspaper comedy The Front Page to the screen. Nothing could be more different. All Quiet had been naturally cinematic, but The Front Page was set mostly — in the play, completely — in the press room of the criminal courts building of Chicago. Adding some exteriors and a few other locations was hardly going to keep it from turning into a photographed play, but Milestone was a major stylist and an innovator, so he loaded the film with moving camera (sometimes oddly) and rapid cutting. There was nothing stagebound about his film. In fact, as cinema it’s more effective than its more famous remake, His Girl Friday (1940) — and it’s also much ruder, because of its pre-code status. The story is the same — conniving, unscrupulous newspaper editor (Adolphe Menjou) trying to keep his star reporter (Pat O’Brien) from quitting by (among other things) getting him tangled up in an irresistible story about a condemned man (George E. Stone) about to be hanged as part of a politician’s bid to win an election. For the first time in years, the film is available in a really solid transfer that makes it far more detailed and impressive. The Asheville Film Society will screen The Front Page Tuesday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Volver HHHHH Director: Pedro Almodóvar Players: Penélope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Dueñas, Blanca Portillo, Yohana Cobo DRAMA-COMEDY Rated R World Cinema revisits Pedro Almodóvar’s Volver (2006) — perhaps the filmmaker’s most accessible and mellow work. It should be noted, however, that mellow is a relative term. The film contains child abuse and no less than three murders (understandable murders), but when put up against such Almodóvar fare as Bad Education (2004) or The Skin I Live In (2011), this is like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. Clearly, Almodóvar was in a nostalgic frame of mind — possibly because the film marked the return of Carmen Maura to his roster of performers after 18 years — and it paid off with one of his sweetest movies. Even though it’s in typical Almodóvar form — that’s to say its plot stays within the supercharged soap opera concept —Volver is a comparatively lighthearted work, but not a lightweight one. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Volver Friday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com 68

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FREEwIll ASTROlOGY aRieS (march 21-april 19): I won't go so far as to say that you are surrounded by unhinged maniacs whose incoherence is matched only by their self-delusion. That would probably be too extreme. But I do suspect that at least some of the characters in the game you're playing are not operating at their full potential. For now, it's best not to confront them and demand that they act with more grace. The wiser strategy might be to avoid being swept up in their agitation as you take good care of yourself. If you are patient and stay centered, I bet you will eventually get a chance to work your magic.

metaphorical dawn that is coming, and be ready to herald its appearance with a triumphant wake-up call. On the other hand, the rooster is also your affliction animal. Don't be like him. I would hate for you to imitate the way he handles himself in a fight, which is to keep fussing and squabbling far beyond the point when he should let it all go. In conclusion, Libra, act like a rooster but also don't act like a rooster. Give up the protracted struggle so you can devote yourself to the more pertinent task, which is to celebrate the return of the primal heat and light.

tauRuS (april 20-may 20): Many of the heroes in fairy tales survive and thrive because of the magical gifts they are given. Benefactors show up, often unexpectedly, to provide them with marvels -- a spinning wheel that can weave a cloak of invisibility, perhaps, or winged shoes that give them the power of flight, or a charmed cauldron that brews a healing potion. But there is an important caveat. The heroes rarely receive their boons out of sheer luck. They have previously performed kind deeds or unselfish acts in order to earn the right to be blessed. According to my analysis, Taurus, the coming weeks will be prime time for you to make yourself worthy of gifts you will need later on.

SCoRPio (oct. 23-Nov. 21): Since you seem to enjoy making life so complicated and intense for yourself, you may be glad to learn that the current astrological omens favor that development. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that you're about to dive deep into rich mysteries that could drive you half-crazy. I suspect that you will be agitated and animated by your encounters with ecstatic torment and difficult bliss. Bon voyage! Have fun! Soon I expect to see miniature violet bonfires gleaming in your bedroom eyes, and unnamable emotions rippling through your unfathomable face, and unprecedented words of wild wisdom spilling from your smart mouth.

gemiNi (may 21-June 20): We humans need nourishing stories almost as much as we require healthy food, clean air, pure water, and authentic love. And yet many of us get far less than our minimum daily requirement of nourishing stories. Instead, we are barraged with nihilistic narratives that wallow in misery and woe. If we want a break from that onslaught, our main other choices are sentimental fantasies and empty-hearted trivia. That's the bad news. But here's the good news: Now is a favorable time for you to seek remedies for this problem. That's why I'm urging you to hunt down redemptive chronicles that furnish your soul with gritty delight. Find parables and sagas and tales that fire up your creative imagination and embolden your lust for life. CaNCeR (June 21-July 22): Now is an excellent time to close the gap between the Real You and the image of yourself that you display to the world. I know of two ways to accomplish this. You can tinker with the Real You so that it's more like the image you display. Or else you can change the image you display so that it is a more accurate rendition of the Real You. Both strategies may be effective. However you go about it, Cancerian, I suggest you make it your goal to shrink the amount of pretending you do. Leo (July 23-aug. 22): Born under the sign of Leo, Marcel Duchamp was an influential artist whose early work prefigured surrealism. In 1917, he submitted an unusual piece to a group exhibition in New York. It was a plain old porcelain urinal, but he titled it Fountain, and insisted it was a genuine work of art. In that spirit, I am putting my seal of approval on the messy melodrama you are in the process of managing. Henceforth, this melodrama shall also be known as a work of art, and its title will be "Purification." (Or would you prefer "Expurgation" or "Redemption"?) If you finish the job with the panache you have at your disposal, it will forevermore qualify as a soul-jiggling masterpiece. viRgo (aug. 23-Sept. 22): Some people express pride in gross ways. When you hear their overbearing brags, you know it's a sign that they are not really confident in themselves. They overdo the vanity because they're trying to compensate for their feelings of inadequacy. In the coming weeks, I expect you to express a more lovable kind of self-glorification. It won't be inflated or arrogant, but will instead be measured and reasonable. If you swagger a bit, you will do it with humor and style, not narcissism and superiority. Thank you in advance for your service to humanity. The world needs more of this benign kind of egotism. LibRa (Sept. 23-oct. 22): The rooster is your power animal. Be like him. Scrutinize the horizon for the

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SagittaRiuS (Nov. 22-dec. 21): The Adamites were devotees of an ancient Christian sect that practiced sacred nudism. One of their central premises: How could anyone possibly know God while wearing clothes? I am not necessarily recommending that you make their practice a permanent part of your spiritual repertoire, but I think you might find value in it during the coming weeks. Your erotic and transcendent yearnings will be rising to a crescendo at the same time. You will have the chance to explore states where horniness and holiness overlap. Lusty prayers? Reverent sex? Ecstatic illumination? CaPRiCoRN (dec. 22-Jan. 19): One of your key themes in the coming weeks is "grace." I suggest that you cultivate it, seek it out, expect it, and treasure it. To prepare for this fun work, study all of the meanings of "grace" below. At least two of them, and possibly all, should and can be an active part of your life. 1. Elegance or beauty of form, movement, or proportion; seemingly effortless charm or fluidity. 2. Favor or goodwill; a disposition to be generous or helpful. 3. Mercy, forgiveness, charity. 4. A temporary exemption or immunity; a reprieve. 5. A sense of fitness or propriety. 6. A prayer of blessing or thanks said before a meal. 7. An unmerited divine gift offered out of love. aQuaRiuS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Be good, but not necessarily well-behaved. Be extra exuberant and free, but not irresponsible. Be lavish and ardent and even rowdy, but not decadent. Why? What's the occasion? Well, you have more-or-less finished paying off one of your karmic debts. You have conquered or at least outwitted a twist from your past that had been sapping your mojo. As a reward for doing your duty with such diligence, you have earned a respite from some of the more boring aspects of reality. And so now you have a mandate to gather up the intelligent pleasure you missed when you were acting like a beast of burden.

PiSCeS (Feb. 19-march 20): "I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love." That's the mantra that Frank O'Hara intoned in his poem "Meditations in an Emergency," and now I'm inviting you to adopt a modified version of it. Here's how I would change it for your use in the coming months: "I am the least difficult of passion artists. All I want is to give and receive boundless, healthy, interesting love." To be frank, I don't think O'Hara's simple and innocent declaration will work for you. You really do need to add my recommended nuances in order to ripen your soul's code and be aligned with cosmic rhythms.

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