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Return of the zombies As a recreational hub, the French Broad River has come back from the dead — and legions of zombies are eager to prove it. Conceived as a creative celebration of the river’s continuing revival, organizers of the first-ever “Tube-ocalypse” are aiming to break the world record for most tubers floating together. And they’re hoping to do it in style, encouraging participants to dress as the undead. COVER DESIGN Lori Deaton
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The groove is gone, and history is small consolation
I truly enjoyed the last edition [Sept. 3] of Mountain Xpress. There was the sense of history, “been-there-done-that” and what it was and what it has become, but that is where my enjoyment ended. Asheville has become its own worst nightmare, becoming the land of wealthy bank accounts and Land Rovers. Although the aforementioned won’t realize it as such, rents are astronomical and pay is low ... very, very low. Asheville has a definite ego problem. The city of Asheville and its business tax base seem to turn a cheek to those who make Asheville ... well, Asheville. They do nothing to support a “Certified Living Wage” nor do they control the rent prices of homes or apartments. Low wages and $680-$1,000 rent a month for a crappy studio? For me, the groove is gone, and I am leaving, like so many of my friends and acquaintances. Silly City Council. High rents and low-paying jobs are for no one. Asheville was “boarded-up” in the early ’90s and years prior. Today, business is booming. There is no stopping the city of Asheville, but do we really
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As a 40-year resident of Asheville, it’s been fun reading the reminiscences. But so far I’ve seen no mention of the role of the French Broad Food Co-op, and that needs to be corrected. When the co-op moved to Biltmore Avenue in 1991, the street was still mostly boarded up. There was a pool hall where Be Here Now would be housed, and Fain’s Department Store where Mast General Store eventually opened, but almost nothing else. The co-op was bordered on the north side by a forklift company. Many people thought moving to 90 Biltmore would be the kiss of death for the co-op. Who would possibly come to a dead downtown to shop for food? Yet the store thrived and grew and became quite a gathering spot for those who were alternative-oriented. For many
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members of the 1990s immigration movement into Asheville, the co-op was their first inkling that this town could be cool. And other businesses, starting with Barley’s, Be Here Now, Asheville Wine Market and Laurey’s, sensing possibilities, gathered round. The co-op supported local farmers from the beginning, and the FBFC tailgate market is one of the oldest in Western North Carolina and is still going strong. The co-op was (is?) the only grocery to offer only organic produce. It still does. And the profits generated by sales are still turned back in to the co-op, rather than paying dividends to out-of-town investors. So I, for one, would like to publicly appreciate the role the FBFC played in helping Asheville become what it is today, and continues to play as the the type of business Asheville is known for and locals can be proud of. AD Anderson Swannanoa
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New marijuana documentary can be a game-changer I am honored and thrilled to announce that The Culture High, the sequel to the award-winning documentary The Union, is set to be shown at Carmike 10 in Asheville on Monday, Oct. 20, at 7:30 p.m. The Culture High explores the motives of cannabis prohibitions from cultural and political points of view. It features Snoop Dogg, Joe Rogan, Sir Richard Branson, Wiz Khalifa and many others. Many people nationwide are organizing grassroots showings because this is about freedom. More people, from all political points of view, are now understanding the war on cannabis has only hurt society. By attending, you tell our “leaders” that “We the People” are tired of the Schedule One Narcotic classification for cannabis (which laughably says “no medical benefit”) and that it must end now! This is more than just a movie. It is about our family members who need the medicine that cannabis brings. It is about our friends being wrongly put in jail for victimless crimes in this unwinnable war. It is about our country ben-
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efiting from what legalized cannabis and hemp can bring. Visit seetheculturehigh.com for tickets. Bring friends. It takes all of us to make change happen. Dennis Justice Fletcher
Setting the record straight on raw pu-erh teas
Thank you for the nice article on healing teas [“What’s in the Pot: A Peek at Asheville’s Fresh and Seasonal Teas,” Sept. 10, Xpress]. I am the owner of Panther Moon Tea Co. and would like to clear up an error in the article. Ripe pu-erh teas are fermented for 75-90 days under controlled conditions. Raw Pu-erh tea naturally transforms over the years due to the presence of friendly microorganisms. Raw pu-erh is considered aged and at its prime after 10-20 years, but is often drunk as early as the year it is produced as well. Sumitra D’Aragon Asheville
Out-of-towner thankful for kindness
As an out-of-towner spending the month of August in Asheville, I was amazed at the friendliness of the people and the welcoming atmosphere of the city. And then the following event happened: I was driving in town, turning from Hilliard Avenue onto Coxe Avenue or Asheland Avenue, when the person behind me laid on his horn, over and over. It both startled me and scared me. The good part of this incident happened next. A young woman driving toward me with her car window down obviously saw my distress and called out to me, “I’m sorry that happened to you.” To this woman, I say, “Thank you for your kindness. It meant the world to me in that moment. I will long remember you.” And, by the way, I love Asheville and gratefully see this woman as representative of the majority of Ashevillians. Sherry Banner Blacksburg, Va.
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Shoes or no shoes? When barefoot-advocate Kriss Sands of Mars Hill wrote to the Xpress and shared “Why I Won’t Be Attending [the] Mountain State Fair This Year,” [Sept. 10], he drew a lively response from online commenters. Kriss, a self-described full-time “barefooter,” said he was skipping the fair because of its “no shoes” restriction. Although the rule was implemented in 2011, fair management had waived it for Kriss, he reports. But state officials recently rescinded that exemption, he says. Here’s a sampling of the online dialogue and Kriss’ responses: “A full-time ‘barefooter?’ … WTF is wrong with you? Why would you want to walk around the fair without shoes on? If it’s such a big deal, why not just take off your sandals once inside? Don’t be a moron. It’s the freaking Mountain State Fair, probably the biggest redneck gettogether this area has.” — Jason “‘Probably the biggest redneck get-together this area has.’ LOL! You know, Jason, that was more or less the point I tried to get across to the fair director when they first put the sign up, when I told him this wasn’t the Metropolitan Opera. Why would they need to tell anybody how they’re supposed to dress just to go to a small, local fair? ... And all because they were afraid some woman was going to go there and bare her breasts and shock everyone.” — Kriss “Actually, [Jason], for all your sarcastic quotation marks and rudeness, it’s a legitimate lifestyle and movement, with tens of thousands of followers and growing. Shoes are bad for you. They’re the cause of most of the problems we in the third world have with feet, ankles, knees, hips and spine as we age. … They’re also the cause of almost all other foot maladies, including foot fungus, foot odor, calluses, bunions, nail fungus and more.” — James McCauley “Jason, your personal rudeness aside, I really cannot grasp the idea why a fair should enforce any dress
FEET FIRST: Barefoot advocate (and practitioner) Kriss stirred reader responses when he wrote a letter about the Mountain State Fair’s requirement that festival-goers wear shoes. Photo by Hayley Benton
code at all, especially if it is such a redneck event as you describe it. It should be a ‘come as you are’ event.” — Victor Sudakov “Is this letter real? The fact that this letter is worthy of publication is disturbing. “Wearing shoes is a liability issue. If the writer of this letter were to step on broken class, cut his foot on a ride, or slip and fall, the fair would have liability and the ‘barefooter’ would probably sue.” — Tory “Tory, I’m glad you brought up this issue. Because bare feet being a “liability issue” is just another myth that is stated occasionally by people who simply don’t understand or put into a reasonable perspective what happens in the real world. “The short answer is, no, in the very unlikely scenario of me (or any barefooter) injuring my foot at the fair, the fair would, for all practical purposes, have no liability at all, and no, neither I nor any other barefooter would sue, because no lawyer would ever take such a flawed case.” — Kriss “Actually, the liability argument is a fallacy. Establishments and venues are only required to make reasonable efforts to maintain a safe environment, which is typically reflected in the legal code and/or regulatory statutes. As far as I am aware, and I have
done some research on this, there is no regulation or law anywhere in the United States that requires customers to wear any type of footwear in a business or venue. OSHA and related labor standards only apply to employees, not patrons.” — Dr. Porcupine “Pardon me for jumping in, [Tory], but the fact that you disagree with the letter’s author does not mean it is not worthy of publication. He took the time to write to the Department of Agriculture and Mountain Xpress, so that much should show it is important to him. ... There is also a growing movement toward going barefoot. Just because someone has a lifestyle different from yours does not invalidate said lifestyle.” — Bill Black “Bill Black is correct. I have researched this very subject from the health benefit standpoint to the legal liability considerations and can assure Tory that both Kriss and Bill seem to be knowledgable with regards to reasons for being barefoot as well as a proven lack of increased liability as a result. Eighteen months ago, I was interviewed by the Wall Street Journal for a story regarding the health benefits of a barefoot lifestyle that the editors considered it worthy of page one in the U.S., European, and Asian editions. Certainly a letter like Kriss’s has its place in this publication.” — Alan Adler
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Tube-ocalypse now Asheville tries for tubing world record with ‘zombie float’
BY JAKE FRANKEL
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The French Broad River has come back from the dead as a recreational hub — and legions of zombies are eager to prove it. Conceived as a creative celebration of the river’s continuing revival, organizers of the first-ever “Tubeocalypse,” slated for Saturday, Sept. 20, are aiming to break the world record for most linked tubers on the water. Until recently, Portland, Oregon — which Asheville bested in the Beer City USA online poll several years ago — claimed the tubing crown. But Tube-ocalypse organizers are looking to do it in style, too, encouraging participants to dress as the undead. “Seeing the growing number of people who are using the river on a daily basis these days is what this event’s about: Getting people on the water and raising awareness; raising money for the nonprofits that take care of the river,” Ben Wiggins explains. “And also having fun and trying to set a world record and dressing like zombies in the process.” On any given hot, sunny day this summer, hundreds of tubers could be seen floating down the French Broad as it slowly flows through the heart of Asheville. And for those who’ve lived in the area for more than a few years, it was a miraculous sight. “When I moved here 10 years ago and would ask people to go tubing, they would look at you like you’re crazy if you suggested going on the French Broad,” remembers Riverkeeper Hartwell Carson of the Western North Carolina Alliance. “The perception’s changed from a dumping ground to a place that’s cool and should be utilized as a rec-
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MAKING A SPLASH: The Tube-ocalypse event aims to raise awareness and celebrate the French Broad River’s revival as a recreation hub. Photo by Hayley Benton
reational resource.” Part of that shift in perspective is based on a tangible change: As many of the manufacturing plants lining the river’s banks closed in recent decades, notes Carson, the water quality improved. But pioneering businesses like The Bywater, a bar and recreational hub on Riverside Drive that features easy water access, also played a major role. “People went down to The Bywater and it was cool — it was a destination to float to. People started doing it, and it just caught on,” he says. Two more riverside destinations that are due to open soon are expected to further feed the trend: the Smokey Park Supper Club, a restaurant made of repurposed shipping containers, and the Salvage Station, an indoor/outdoor music venue/bar/restaurant. Although it’s still in development,
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the Salvage Station will host an all-day “after-party” for Tubeocalypse. Both those projects come in addition to a wealth of public infrastructure improvements the city has planned for the River Arts District, just a tick upstream. Those enhancements will include new greenways, sidewalks, bike paths and river access points. New Belgium Brewing Co.’s facility, now under construction along a central portion of the urban riverfront, also promises to become a major destination once it’s up and running late next year. The Smoky Mountain Adventure Center on Amboy Road will also be open by then, offering a climbing wall and other outdoor recreation opportunities. Meanwhile, though, business is already booming, says Derek
Turno, co-owner of Asheville Adventure Rentals, one of a handful of outfitters and shuttle services that have opened along the river in recent years. His business shuttled about 4,000 people up the river this summer, he reports. And though there haven’t been any comprehensive studies, Turno says their customers alone are making “a huge economic impact.” “On any given summer Saturday,” he estimates, between 400 and 700 people are floating down the French Broad. Turno, a Tube-ocalypse sponsor and co-organizer, adds: “The river is our lifeblood. We make our living on the river, so we want to advertise it, promote it and preserve it as much as possible.” Asheville Adventure Rentals coowner (and fellow Tube-ocalypse organizer) Brennan Splain believes that enthusiasm for tubing will con-
they’re more willing to do the things necessary to protect it,” he observes. FOR THE GLORY
HUNGRY FOR BRAINS (AND TUBERS): Organizers need to link together at least 635 zombie-clad tubers to break the world record. (Left to right: Ben Wiggins, Brennan Splain, Derek Turno, Danny McClinton). Photo by Cindy Kunst
tinue to grow. “Everyone who uses our service comes off the river with a big old smile on their face. We make people happy, and we bring people to town and give them a different experience,” he says. RALLYING CRY Still, river advocates say that challenges remain. Carson, for instance, says the No. 1 question people ask him is whether the French Broad is safe for swimming. “I don’t want to scare people off, to make them think the river’s unsafe,” he explains, “but there is some work to do to make it even cleaner.” In early July, the WNC Alliance, an environmental nonprofit, started partnering with the national Waterkeeper Alliance to regularly measure levels of E. coli bacteria at several heavily used points along the French Broad, and they’ve launched a new website (theswimguide.org) to report the results. “It’s still a little early to tell trends,” cautions Carson, but the findings so far have been mixed. For example, testing at Pearson Bridge, which is just upstream from The Bywater, reveals that E. coli contamination has exceeded safe levels (as defined by the Environmental Protection Agency) about 35 percent of the time. Bacteria levels spike after rainfall,
due mostly to agricultural runoff, Carson explains. “Most sites are clean 80 percent of the time, so I think that’s a success story for the French Broad. But we’d certainly like to see it clean 95 percent or more of the time. With the river being such a popular recreational resource, you want to see it as clean as possible.” He also worries about the “catastrophic risk” posed by Duke Energy’s coal ash ponds perched just above the river in Arden. But he’s hopeful that a state law approved this summer that put them on a high priority list for cleanup will mitigate that risk in years to come. Yet another item on Carson’s radar is the result of rapid development in the area: increased stormwater runoff and sedimentation. “Growth is very challenging for water quality,” he says. “It doesn’t have to be, but it often is if it’s not done correctly.” Although the Tube-ocalypse float is free, proceeds from beer and merchandise sales at the after-party will go to Carson’s organization. And he has nothing but praise for the way the event is helping rally support for continuing cleanup efforts. “When you tell people to clean up something that they enjoy using, it makes it a lot easier to connect with it, and
For the zombie float organizers, though, the most immediate hurdles have been logistical rather than environmental. In June, the Harley Owners Group Taiwan Chapter brought together 634 people in that country’s Sun Moon Lake. That broke the Guinness record for “Most People in a Floating Line” held by the Human Access Project, a Portland environmental nonprofit that had strung together 620 floaters on the Willamette River in 2013. And although more than 2,500 people have indicated on Tubeocalypse’s Facebook page that they’ll be taking part in the event, it’s hard to know how many will actually show up. Meanwhile, even though Portland no longer holds the record, Asheville organizers view that city as their real rival, arguing that bobbing on a lake isn’t comparable to the challenges of trying to herd hundreds of floaters while contending with river currents. Of course, the two cities’ history of friendly rivalry also fuels the competitive spirit. “We want to show them who’s who again,” says Wiggins. Adds Turno with a laugh: “We’re throwing down the gauntlet.” For his part, Willie Levenson, who organized the Portland float, says: “I wish Asheville luck; I cheer them on. I think it’s great that they’re using it, like we did, to bring awareness to our river. The record attempt was just a platform to create awareness in a fun way.” Like the French Broad, the Willamette has historically had major pollution problems that are now being turned around. “I’ve seen public perception change right before my eyes: more people swam in the river this summer than ever before, says Levenson, the director of the Human Access Project. But having previously mounted an unsuccessful effort to break the record in 2012, he also cautions that “It’s a little harder than it might seem” to get so many folks all linked up. That’s a lesson Asheville organizers say they’ve already learned as they’ve grappled, in recent months, with issues ranging from parking to river put-in and takeout points to the documentation required by
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Guinness. “Logistically what we’re doing is herculean,” says Turno. In order to break the record, at least 635 individual tubers must be touching one another or connected in some way for at least 30 seconds, rather than just floating freely. And if hordes of people get into the spirit of things and start acting like zombies, that could also present challenges. But Wiggins is confident that tubing is simple enough for even such mentally handicapped creatures. “Due to zombies’ limited motor skills and thought processes, inner tubes would probably be the only thing they can navigate waterways with,” he jokes. “That’s probably at the upper level for them mechanically.” Splain, meanwhile, reports that organizers are already thinking of making the float an annual event, and he challenges Portland to do the same. “I’d love it if we went back and forth every year: They win one year, we win the next,” he says. And regardless of whether the record is broken, Turno promises participants — including even the grumpiest of zombies — a good time. “If you’ve ever been on the water, you understand the glory of it,” he says. “All your stress melts away as soon as you get on your tube.” X
WHAT World tubing record attempt and zombie float on the French Broad River. HOW Preregistration and a signed waiver form are required. Free tickets and waivers are available at ashevillezombiefloat.com. The tickets will instruct registrants where to unload and park; participants must provide their own inner tubes. Dressing as a zombie is encouraged but not required, and makeup artists will be available on-site before the event. No alcohol allowed on the river. WHEN Saturday, Sept. 20. Check-in will run from 9 to 11:30 a.m. The Salvage Station (665 Riverside Drive) will host a daylong “after-party” from 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. featuring food trucks, local beer and music by DJ Molly Parti, Lyric and The Krektones. Admission is free.
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Council, developer butt heads over Sardis Road project
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Contention sprung from unexpected corners at the Asheville City Council meeting on Sept. 9, as Council members and a land developer stared each other down on rental rates and safety commitments for a proposed residential development on Sardis Road. Complicating the debate was the fact that about half the development falls within the city limits. The applicant — WinstonSalem Industries for the Blind — seeks a rezoning of its property adjacent to the agency’s existing complex on Sardis Road. If adopted, the rezoning would change the property from industrial and commercial-use classifications to RM-16 — residential, multifamily high-density development (up to 16 units per acre).
The proposed rezoning would allow the agency to build Greymont Village, a 356-unit, 14-building apartment complex. At first, Vice Mayor Marc Hunt made a motion to approve the request. But Council members hesitated as they learned more about conditions that the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission had called for. P&Z had recently recommended approval of the agency’s request, but on a split vote (4-3), city staff reported. The P&Z members who voted against it did so because the applicants would not commit to four conditions: keeping rents at “workforce” rates, setting aside 20 units for visually impaired residents, making an accessible path
to the Industry for the Blind complex on the adjacent lot, and finally, installing a higher-standard sprinkler system than proposed. Randy Buckner, Industries for the Blind Asheville Division director, assured Council members that the agency had addressed two of those issues — the pathway and setting aside units for visually impaired residents. But the agency and the developers wouldn’t budge on workforce rents and sprinkler systems. “The unwillingness not to commit to those [rent levels] is a little tricky,” said Councilman Gordon Smith. “We’ve worked with a lot of builders up here who have been able to commit. … It’s a bit confusing to hear someone say ‘can’t.’ Doing some envelope math here, could you perhaps commit to doing an 82 percent of median? So it would move with the market?” Workforce rent in Asheville is about $1,200 for a one-bedroom, just over $1,400 for a two-bedroom, and about $1,500 for a three-bedroom, the agency noted in its presentation. Lou Bissette, attorney for the applicant, insisted that the rents would remain lower than workforce levels — $877 for a one-bedroom, for example — but that committing to a specific rate for a specific period of time would be difficult, if not impossible: “You’ve got to make these units work from an economic point of view,” he said. “I don’t think it’s something this owner is prepared to do. I wish it were possible, but it’s not.” Bissette pointed out that one of the conditions for the building — the higher-standard sprinkler system — was prohibitive at “about $750,000 of additional cost.” One of the project developers, Dennis Burton, agreed: “The way this project was put together, we can’t put on economic restrictions.” But Council members Gwen Wisler and Chris Pelly voiced their concern. “It seems like the developer is intent on doing the right thing,” said Wisler. “But without a commitment, I think it sets up a pretty unfortunate precedent with changes in zoning — it’s like ‘well, just trust me.’ I think it puts us in a difficult position in the future,” she explained. The estimated $750,000 cost of installing an National Fire Protection Association 13R sprinkler system instead of the proposed one could be avoided simply by adding another access road, which “surely would cost less than
$750,000, said Council member Cecil Bothwell. Council member Jan Davis was the only Council member to support the proposal: “I had hoped we could find enough votes to make this happen. This is substantial housing, and it puts it in an area where there’s not a lot of affordable housing. ... Things that have been said about this Council, and how hard it is to develop in Asheville, are partly coming true this evening.” If denied, the developer could not submit another proposal unless it was “substantially different” than the original. With defeat of the proposal looming, Mayor Esther Manheimer asked the applicant to take a moment and “reconsider.” After a short recess, Bissette told the Council that they would be open to discussing the rent issue. Council voted unanimously to to continue the discussion at the Oct. 14 meeting. IN OTHER BUSINESS Riverside development On an unanimous vote, Council approved the Riverside Drive Redevelopment Plan for several sections of underutilized city-owned property in the River Arts District on Riverside Drive. City staff reported that $14.6 million in federal grants will offset the $30 million price tag of the various proposals in the plan, which calls for such “visitor amenities” as public restrooms, open space and “a place where one can always find some arts and culture programming happening.” The development plan also calls for several projects and incentives for refurbishing and re-using historic buildings, installing a wetlands area for stormwater management, and commercial and residential development.
There will be six different types of zoning, each with its own particular “feel.” The traditional district in the heart of the corridor, for example, will only allow a limited range and scale of development, and buildings that rise no higher than two stories, while the “expansion” district is mixed-use and designed for a wide range of commercial buildings, with a fourstory limit. Citizens voiced their concerns about the zoning plan, such as how it relates to congestion on Haywood Road, building heights and spillover onto neighborhood streets, where patrons of Haywood Road businesses already park when visiting the area. “If you look at the plans, every two stories, there’s a ‘step-back’,” said Glines, responding to their concerns. “This reduces the scale. And not every property is actually going to be sized to fit a four-story building. Even if it’s in a district that allows four stories or taller, it still has to fit on the lot.” In response to the traffic question, Glines said, “If we make this
area pedestrian-friendly, we’re really supporting our transit. We also have to cooperate with the [state] Department of Transportation, and we’ll be partnering with them section by section.”
Affordable Housing appointments Council also named reappointments and appointments to the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee: Reappointed Jayden Gurney and Mae Creadick; appointed Randall Barnett, James Mastrogiacomo and Laura Simmelink. Next meeting The next formal meeting of the Asheville City Council will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 23, beginning at 5 p.m. At 4:15 p.m. Council members will meet in the First Floor North Conference Room in City Hall for a tour of the 7th & 8th floors of City Hall. X
Form-based code for Haywood Road Council also approved rezoning most of Haywood Road in West Asheville. From Patton Avenue to the French Broad, the corridor will be under form-based zoning codes which, according to city planner Alan Glines, “emphasize building form and character and their defining features and placement in relation to street and sidewalk to create a strong neighborhood context.”
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CAPITAL VISIT: U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx, left, and Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer, right, celebrated a $14.6 million grant award at a Sept. 12 event in the River Arts District. Photo by Cindy Kunst
U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx visited Asheville on Sept. 12 to award the city a $14.6 million federal grant that will help the city complete an interconnected, sixmile network of pedestrian, bicycle, roadway, and streetscape improvements in the River Arts District. The grant had been announced a couple days earlier by local officials as they approved a $30 million Riverside Drive Redevelopment Plan that also calls for public restrooms and a mixed use development. The infusion of federal money covers nearly half the cost of the total plan and Asheville Mayor Esther Manheimer hailed the award. “This is a huge win for Asheville,” she said. “These funds will provide for the continued revitalization of our River Arts District, creating a shared community vision of expanded greenways, streets and
sidewalk improvements, and development opportunities that will continue to generate economic growth for Asheville.” The city was initially notified of the award by Sen. Kay Hagan, who sent a letter to Sec. Foxx — a former Charlotte mayor — in support of Asheville’s application, according to a press release from her office. “This investment will allow Asheville to modernize its transportation system and provide new access for area residents to jobs, education and services,” said Hagan in a written statement. “Innovative projects like the East of the Riverway project will boost economic development by enabling easier transport to the River Arts District and downtown Asheville for residents and visitors.” X
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Sound impact Economic study: Moogfest generated $14 million
This year’s Moogfest generated $14 million for Buncombe County, according to an analysis by the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County and the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. The five-day April event injected about $696,000 back into the local and state tax base, with the report concluding that Moogfest provided a return that more than doubled the $180,000 in local government incentives it received. The festival aimed to celebrate the synthesis of technology, art and music as well as spark economic development. Mostly funded with private capital, it cost about $2.74 million to produce and lost roughly $1.5 million. “This report is a concrete measurement that Moogfest had a strong return on investment for Buncombe County in the short term,” says Moog Music Inc.’s CEO Mike Adams in a press release. “Looking at the big picture, it’s been proven that dynamic cultural events help to attract talent to an area, and talent draws new business. If community leaders embrace events like Moogfest, they could play an integral role in energizing our economy in the long term.” The Economic Impact Study found: • $4.7 million additional labor income was generated for residents in Buncombe County. • State and local tax revenues increased by approximately $696,000. • Federal tax revenues increased by approximately $996,000. • 147 jobs in Buncombe County were supported, and for every job supported directly, another 1.1 jobs were supported indirectly. • Out-of-town visitors stayed an average of 4.6 days and spent an average of $910 per person over the course of their stay.
• Total economic output, which includes labor income and tax revenues, increased by approximately $14 million. The Economic Impact Study also found that hotels were one of the local industries most positively affected, with a sales increase of $1.7 million generated from outside visitors attending Moogfest. To explore this further, the Economic Development Coalition for Asheville-Buncombe County and the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce produced a year-overyear analysis of Buncombe County hotels that found that throughout the four-nights of Moogfest: • The average daily rate increased by 13 percent, revenue per room went up by 25 percent, and occupancy increased by 10 percent. The traditional and social media garnered by Moogfest made it one of the “Top 25 Buzzed about Festivals in 2014,” according to a recent report by Eventbrite. The event generated 1.3 billion impressions and positive references to Asheville appeared in dozens of international news and culture outlets, including the New York Times, Time magazine, The Huffington Post, BBC, Newsweek, People magazine and many others. In July, Moogfest organizers announced that it would become a biennial event, skipping 2015 and returning to Asheville in 2016. To view the full report, go to avl. mx/0gt. X
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Creating and cherishing our sense of place PART 3 For well over a century, Asheville has attracted creative people. So, whatever good deeds have been done in the recent past should be seen as growing out of the incredible mountains around us and as gifts from prior generations, the Cherokees and hard-scrabble Southern Appalachian settlers and Asheville’s new urbanists from the mid-19th century onward. Xpress continues its coverage of Asheville’s evolution, this week seen from the point of view of an historian, an urban planner, a financial planner, an activist, an urban planner, a drummer and a poet. If you would like to contribute your views to Xpress’ ongoing retrospective, please email publisher@mountainx.com or add your comments to any of the many articles in our coverage online at mountainx.com. — Jeff Fobes
HEART OF THE CITY: This historic postcard shows a thriving Pack Square in the early 20th century, including what was then one of the country’s first electric-trolley systems. Photo courtesy of the N.C. Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville, NC
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How Asheville became (and continues to be) the most exciting small city
THE RISE OF LOCAL VIBE: Blue Moon Bakery opened to lines on its first day, wowing Ashevilleans with its superb French breads and cosmopolitan but down-to-earth coffee shop. The business was eventually sold and became City Bakery. File photo
BY MILTON READY
Does anyone remember the early 1990s in Asheville, a time when Bill Clinton was president, Jim Hunt the governor of North Carolina, and there wasn’t a parking or traffic problem at all? Mountain Xpress wouldn’t come into being until 1994, the year before Gannett Co. bought out the Asheville Citizen-Times. Fine cuisine? Mark Rosenstein had just begun that tradition in Asheville with The Market Place. You could enjoy coffee and a live mic at Beanstreets, savor some of the best vegetarian dishes at the Laughing Seed (an ingenious name for a restaurant), buy beads and bangles on Wall Street, hang out at the eclectic Malaprop’s Bookstore, come to a burgeoning outdoor festival oddly called Bele Chere, and enjoy gourmet
sweets at the Chocolate Fetish. It was all just the beginning. Within a few short years, Asheville had gained its “new age” identity, while North Carolina had lost its image as a progressive Southern state. When conservatives swept most state and national offices, the Mountain Xpress had grown to 80-or-sopage issues, the city actually had a club scene, and Asheville had become a granola ghetto in one of the South’s most reactionary states. It still is. Perhaps no one chronicled Asheville’s evolution better than Rolling Stone magazine. In the spring of 2000, one of its young writers, Erik Hedegaard, came visiting “the rustic town of Asheville.” There he found not a miniature Charlotte or Atlanta but instead, “America’s new freak capital.” It wasn’t, of course, but it did qualify as one of the most interesting places Rolling Stone had come across, remarkable in itself. Hedegaard fairly gushed at the number of “hippies, neo-hippies ... witches, pagans, the homeless and the lost, ... braggarts, ... crys-
tal worshippers, ... anarchists, performance artists,” Rastafarians, Native American wannabees and dreadlockers in strange conical hats and beards — all of whom had flocked to Asheville in the closing decades of the 20th century. So had a great many well-dressed, well-connected, well-mannered and well-heeled visitors, many of whom stayed. They, too, fairly gushed at Asheville’s uniqueness. At the Fresh Market in North Asheville, one older, retired Floridian supposedly turned to her husband and said, “Harry, when one of us dies, I’m moving to Asheville.” Many did. But why? Hedegaard typically found that the new hippies and retirees came not only for “the majestic, electrifying charge of the Blue Ridge Mountains,” but because Asheville promised the best natural high in the nation, an unspoiled, un-urban uncongested, unpolluted, yet still manageable small city. When combined with lots of empty buildings from the 1970s, reasonable housing, small-town amenities and a tolerant majority culture, Asheville seemed to have hit upon a mystic formula that would make it the most interesting small city in America, at least for a Camelot moment. Perhaps no one was more astonished at Asheville’s new millennium incarnation than the city fathers themselves. They had envisioned and planned a revitalized city built around streetscapes, a downtown health adventure, a state-ofthe-art performance theater, museum, urban trail, upscale restaurants, downtown condos, some indoor/outdoor sidewalk cafés, a restored Grove Arcade and a protected historic district. For them, Asheville once again would be the cultural, artistic, literary, commercial, political and crafts center of Western North Carolina, just as it had been in the 1920s — a tourist haven, but assuredly not the nation’s new freak capital. Asheville’s visionaries did not foresee a born-again hippie culture that resembled that of the 1960s, only with more pierced body parts and less political angst. Asheville’s subsequent history became that of two cultures. The new Asheville that emerged in the last two decades at first successfully avoided the chains, franchises and corporate clones that clogged faceless cities like Charlotte. In saving the city’s downtown from the mall and franchise frenzy of the 1980s and 1990s, Asheville’s leaders instead inadvertently had encouraged smaller, unique, locally owned businesses to locate in scores of half-empty buildings. Locate they did. Meanwhile, the ubiquitous bookstore chains like Barnes & Noble, the trendy “McBurgers” eateries like MOUNTAINX.COM
Applebee’s and Chili’s, and the typical cineplexes offering the same six movies chose instead to line Tunnel and Hendersonville roads just outside downtown —whether due to codes, coincidences or corporate indifference. Downtown, a new ambience emerged that reflected the feel of Beanstreets, the Mystic Café, Malaprops, Wings, the Captain’s Bookshelf and Laurey’s — the quintessential Asheville café and caterer. Soon distinctive specialty shops like Indo, Ad Lib, Constance’s Boutique, and more massage, natural health, healing and yoga clinics than any normal stress would suppose sprouted up throughout downtown Asheville. Yet the hole-in-the wall boutiques and shops weren’t just gaps in Asheville’s new cultural and economic renaissance, but rather their mainstay. Soon small condos and converted loft apartments followed. But would it last? The greatest threat to Asheville’s culture of eclectic, dynamic young neo-hippies and new middle-class urbanists came not from its city fathers, but rather from the good life these people enjoyed. A commercial as well as a cultural phenomenon, Asheville quickly made the nation’s top-10 list of just about everything. It became a target for corporations, commercial franchises, expensive condominiums, upscale restaurants and tourist hotels. Chain operations, like Subway, Aloft and Starbucks, sprouted around Barley’s and Tupelo Honey Café, with more to come. Rents skyrocketed and suddenly Asheville became unaffordable to many. Julian Price, who tirelessly advocated for affordable housing in the downtown area, would have been dismayed. Lexington Avenue, “the oasis of otherness,” became just another downtown street. Was Asheville’s Camelot moment ending? Not really. Perhaps the best barometer of what has happened to Asheville since 1995 can be found in the pages of Mountain Xpress and along Haywood Road in West Asheville. The new urban streetscape in West Asheville looks astonishingly like Eric Hedegaard’s Lexington Avenue of 2000, while the best weathervane of contemporary Asheville still can be found in the Xpress’ letters to the editor, club scene, advertisements, articles and coverage of local politics. Mountain Xpress’ first cover featured a crack-smoking rabbit and a more recent one depicts the best brews in the mountains, both challenging us appreciate what makes Asheville one the best natural highs in the nation. Retired UNC Asheville history professor Milton Ready lives in Mars Hill. X SEPTEMBER 17 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
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Lining the streetscape with trees
Remember when, Asheville
POWER OF THE PURSE: As downtown Asheville and the surrounding area were revived in the 1980s and 1990s, Self-Help Credit Union and its regional director, Joyce Harrison, assisted small businesses and renovated the Public Service Building on Wall Street. Photo courtesy of Joyce Harrison
PLANTING & APPRECIATING: Quality Forward, now Asheville GreenWorks, worked with St. Lawrence Basilica in the ’90s to beautify its parking lots along Haywood Street and Page Avenue. An old rusty chain link fence came down, concrete was cut and trees were planted. There was even an Arbor Day celebration out on the point where roses and benches grow today. Dogwoods now line the bank behind the Battery Park Apartments where there were just eroded ditches, trash and utilities. The future of this site is up on the air, but in the meantime the precious trees, such as the maples pictured above, just keep on keepin’ on. — Susan Roderick, former director, Asheville GreenWorks
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Remember when Stone Soup was the happening place to be seen eating lunch and the Gilberts greeted you with a smile every day with their homemade bread and soups? Remember when Wall Street was deserted (no foot traffic)? Self -Help Credit Union, with the help of Julian Price (and other donors) helped to rehab the Public Service Building — which now has a waiting list for tenants? Remember when Leslie Anderson was the city’s downtown-development director and she was recruiting new businesses to fill the empty spaces? Most ventures were too risky for bank financing, and then she discovered Self -Help Credit Union. Many referrals came from her office, and new businesses started filing the downtown buildings. Remember when the S&W Cafeteria opened up for business — nice lunches,
reception and meetings? People working downtown could walk to lunch meetings and gatherings. Remember when the parking was free along the street and we did not have to worry about getting a parking ticket or getting towed? Remember when The Block had Mr. Gene’s and you could get some good soul food (fried chicken, fish dinner, home cooked veggies and homemade desserts)? Remember when it seemed like Jeff Fobes was Mountain Xpress, the editor, publisher and copywriter? Although we can remember a lot of things about what was happening in the ’90s, we need to remember that without change we could not and would not be the Asheville that we are today. Joyce Harrison is native Ashevillean. She retired in 2011 as regional director of Self-Help Credit Union. X
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It takes a village How a cast of thousands transformed downtown Asheville
BY LESLIE ANDERSON
If you’ve ever wondered whether miracles still happen, a drive through today’s downtown Asheville offers plenty of affirmative evidence. Many people seem to think that in the 1990s, businesses simply moved into old buildings, set up shop and watched the customers flow in. Others mistakenly believe that a small number of affluent, committed white men made it happen. Often the substantial role of city and county government is minimized or forgotten. This revisionist history diminishes the true story, wiping away valuable lessons that we need to remember and others might find instructive. Our revitalization saga really spans four decades. The Asheville Mall opened in 1973, helping create the “ghost town” of the next 15 years or so. I participated in the turnaround of the mid-1980s to ’90s, and I’ve been thrilled by the subsequent growth and vibrant activity. In the early years, the naysayers’ voices were loud and persistent. Few people believed downtown could rebound, and the transition from a wasteland of vacant, dirty streets, lifeless buildings, and adult bookstores and theaters to the “top 10” lists in just about every category is truly a miracle. Our transformation story is multifaceted, wide and deep, with contributions from hundreds of caring citizens. The following reflections merely scratch the surface. ROOTS IN THE 1980S Today’s downtown Asheville had its roots in the 1980s. After several failed attempts at downtown revival, a number of vectors came together, including advocacy by down18
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town property owners, visionary Roger McGuire, and various nonprofits. Over 500 people attended a talk by Mary Means, the founder of the National Trust’s Main Street program, and even the 1980s water agreement played a role. These forces drove the 1985-86 Asheville City Council to concentrate on downtown and hire Doug Bean as city manager. Doug’s success with Morganton’s downtown revival and his love of downtowns made him the right choice for Asheville. Doug quickly began assembling the pieces of downtown’s public/private partnership. City Council appointed a new Downtown Commission with Bob Carr of Tops for Shoes as chair. I was hired as director of the new Downtown Development Office. The Asheville Downtown Association, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last year, was created and nurtured by the city. A small staff worked out of our office, and Doug charged every city department with accountability for downtown development. Starting in the mid-1980s, an endless succession of planning meetings, committees, boards, design charrettes, surveys, fundraising efforts, input sessions and volunteer stints engaged hundreds of citizens. Amenities that would open in the 1990s were hatched in the late ’80s, including Pack Place, streetscape improvements, and the arts and culture focus. The city recruited and incentivized three major developers, launching an agonizingly long and disruptive construction period that saw numerous multibuilding projects simultaneously underway. Local and state government agencies made pivotal decisions to stay or relocate downtown. The county rehabbed the Sears building for the Department of Social Services; the city decided to seriously upgrade historic McCormick Field; the City Schools leased administrative space in Pack Plaza. These early choices provided customers and sent an undeniable signal of support. Tops for Shoes’ recommitment to downtown with an expanded footprint provided another major anchor. Other developers, notably Don Martell, cleared out decades of guano, cobwebs and dirt to reposition buildings for later repurposing as residences. Through it all, numerous entities signed on to a comprehensive vision MOUNTAINX.COM
URBAN MEMORIES: Asheville’s Urban Trail, spearheaded by Grace Pless, is just one example of how the community came together to transform downtown. Photo courtesy of Leslie Anderson
statement: create an environment where both civic life and commerce flourish. We spent the late ’80s and all of the ’90s making that vision reality. REALITIES AND BARRIERS Banks and other lenders weren’t inclined to invest in any downtown project. Thus, many were self-financed, creating additional major pressure to succeed. North Carolina offered few development incentives and tightly restricted cities’ options. In the downtown historic district, the federal tax credit was helpful, and local landmark designations provided incentives for developers who agreed to incorporate high-quality design standards. Eventually the state added a tax credit. These barriers created conflicting dynamics. The Schneider Group’s huge Pack Plaza project stalled in 1987 when the developer went bankrupt. Ted Prosser stepped in and secured financing through the Bank of Scotland. Renegotiating this complex public/private deal occupied three floors of the City Building for a week. The current residential construction on “The Block” (the Eagle/Market streets area) was decades in the making. Developments were planned or refinanced, then lost support; federal grants were secured, then local agreements were scuttled. Yet eventually, the revi-
talizing spirit prevailed. Similarly, the Grove Arcade project spanned at least 10 years, with numerous ups and downs. But the arcade reopened in 2002 and recently celebrated full occupancy. CREATIVE SOLUTIONS In the late 1980s, an ordinance allowing outdoor dining, street vendors and entertainers on city sidewalks cost almost nothing yet generated thousands of hours of enjoyment and hundreds of thousands of dollars in sales. And as more people began exploiting those opportunities, they helped create surprises and the Asheville vibe. Pack Place was envisioned as a downtown entertainment and educational hub, comprising several small museums and a new theater. The high-profile location donated by the Schneider Group was perfect, though the hoped-for collaboration among the various entities proved challenging. Led by the indefatigable Roger McGuire, volunteers worked diligently to drum up private funding for this huge project, eventually raising $12 million — the most by any Buncombe County capital campaign at that time. The Arts Council and Downtown Development Office provided staff support; a city bond issue and annual county allocations helped sustain it. Julian Price came to Asheville in 1990. Realizing that smart investments others
couldn’t or wouldn’t make could have a significant impact, he founded Public Interest Projects, a for-profit development company that successfully tackled various downtown projects. We learned early on that despite sufficient downtown parking, there was a perception problem. Several decks were built, though squeezing them into the existing landscape proved extremely difficult and contentious. We overlaid downtown parking data on a scale map of the Asheville Mall, proving that mall patrons walked much farther than people shopping downtown. City Council’s courageous investments in parking incentivized subsequent development, and profits from the two cityowned decks continue to fund urbanrelated projects. As the 1990s got rolling, the various complicated projects, testy political dynamics, policy conflicts and glimmers of downtown’s potential collided head-on. Meanwhile, amazingly, small businesses began filling the newly rehabbed spaces. Infill projects were equally important. On Biltmore Avenue, John Cram saved four buildings. Across the street, the Mast General Store is one of the busiest spots downtown. Salsa’s, which grew out of a tiny storefront taco shop, was another early success. Most of these projects applied the historic preservation standards promoted by the Downtown Commission and City Planning. But compliance was not required, leading to today’s eclectic look. The city renovated a building on Haywood Street, giving our office a street-level home while providing a walkway between Haywood Street and the new Rankin parking deck. This project boosted businesses and increased our office’s productivity and visibility. Asheville’s renown as a beer destination got its start downtown. In the early ’90s Oscar Wong asked the Downtown Commission for a conditional use permit allowing him to make beer in the central business district. Although skeptical of his basement endeavor, the commission approved the permit. Oscar’s brews, first available on tap at Barley’s upstairs, are now sold in nine states. Festivals and special events were a central downtown marketing strategy to build awareness and sales. The ADA and the Downtown Development Office produced a steady stream of diverse events, such as: First Night Asheville (a ticketed, nonalcoholic New Year’s Eve party); Downtown After 5 (still going strong); Oktoberfest (now enjoying a
renaissance); Light Up Your Holidays (a monthlong celebration with white light decorations throughout downtown); Tell It in the Mountains (captivating stories); Gallery Crawls throughout downtown; and Independence Day fireworks and activities. In the ’90s, the Bele Chere festival expanded rapidly, generating a substantial countywide economic impact each year. (A 1994 intercept survey pegged that year’s number at $10 million — $16 million in today’s dollars.) And while some have since claimed that its sole intent was to facilitate downtown revitalization, Bele Chere also incubated numerous businesses, was a training ground for hundreds of volunteers, offered fundraising opportunities for local nonprofits, and provided a free opportunity for locals to gather in the community “living room” and have fun. Numerous streetscape and landscaping projects were another focus in the ’90s, planting trees and significantly improving lighting, street furniture and cleanliness. Pritchard Park finally stopped serving as a bus depot when the city built the Coxe Avenue transit hub, opening the door for the subsequent park overhaul. And in the latter ’90s, initial planning began for what are now Pack Square Park and Roger McGuire Green. PERSEVERANCE THROUGH ADVERSITY Despite these achievements, in the early ’90s political support for downtown grew fractured and contentious as jealousies arose over power, leadership, priorities, wealth and recognition. The Downtown Development Office began working in other commercial districts, especially West Asheville and Biltmore Village, to help them benefit from downtown’s lessons. The Council of Independent Business Owners emerged, City Council’s makeup changed, and these conservative voices expressed dissatisfaction with downtown’s progress and the amount of public money spent. During the 1993 City Council race, there was no mention of City Manager Doug Bean’s performance, yet five minutes after being installed, the new Council fired him on a 4-3 vote. Council members Gary “Rock” McClure, Carr Swicegood, Herb Watts and Vice Mayor Chris Peterson voted to fire Doug; Mayor Russ Martin, Leni Sitnik and Barbara Field opposed it. No one who was there will forget activist Minnie Jones, the last speaker in a three-hour hearing, telling Council, “You’ve done tore this town up.” The crowd erupted in cheers, and Minnie’s prediction proved true. Doug became director of the massive Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities District and completed his career there. A large MOUNTAINX.COM
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but unsuccessful campaign sought to recall the Council members who’d voted to fire Doug; all four lost their seats in the 1995 election. Most of the city’s management team departed shortly after, and the turmoil negatively affected downtown’s development momentum for several years. City Manager Jim Westbrook, hired after the 1995 election, promptly dismantled the Downtown Development Office. After 10 years, I left city employment on Bele Chere Sunday in 1995, and the services the Downtown Development Office had provided were never fully replaced. Despite political distractions and their serious implications, volunteer-led projects continued to thrive. The Asheville Urban Trail, spearheaded by volunteer Grace Pless, raised over $1.5 million to gradually install 30 stations along a circular 1.7-mile route, using public art and narration to tell fascinating mini-stories about Asheville. It was yet another strategy for making downtown a compelling urban space and another example of the public/private partnership model we used repeatedly downtown. Meanwhile, the Downtown Association organized property owners, small-business owners and residents; marketed downtown as a viable business district; led joint
DOWNTOWN VIEWS: Both city and county leaders, such as Gene Rainey, former chair of the Buncombe Board of Commissioners, recognized downtown’s potential. In 1996, Asheville’s Downtown Vision Project opened on Haywood Street at the city’s development office. File photo
sales campaigns; published and widely distributed downtown news updates, and ran a “myth busters” campaign to combat misinformation continuously released by detractors. Throughout the turbulent 1990s, many decisions were made about investments, policies, events, leadership and design. And though we tried to rely on proven techniques, we were also conscious of the need to retain Asheville’s funky personality; encourage assorted options in food, music, retail and entertainment; use diversity and local talents to our advantage; and ensure that those decisions were realistic, commercially feasible and distinctly Asheville. ACHIEVEMENT EXAMPLES It was thrilling to watch locally owned businesses grow and succeed. Informal yet effective local mores discouraged chain restaurants and retail from locating downtown. An important force in downtown revitalization was the numerous arts, civic, religious and social offerings that remained or relocated there. The churches were a constant generator of traffic and goodwill. The creation of Jubilee! Community on Wall Street certainly sparked new believers in downtown. The Asheville Community 20
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Theatre, HandMade in America, Asheville Symphony, Shindig-on-the-Green, Be Here Now, buskers, various Civic Center events and other entertainment all helped create a pulsing, effervescent atmosphere. Organizations such as the Junior League of Asheville, the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, The Community Foundation of WNC, the Preservation Society, Trinity Place, Quality ’76 (now Asheville GreenWorks), the United Way, ABCCM’s shelter and numerous others invested in downtown and provided access points for important public offerings and services. Here are a few measures of success during that period: • State records show that from 19762003, 135 income-producing buildings — almost all of them downtown — were rehabilitated using federal and state tax credits. That was 15 percent of all such projects in the state, and the most by any county, in those years. • Asheville’s central business district generates by far the highest percentage of total property tax revenue among North Carolina cities, when land area and real estate value return are considered. • Data gathered several years ago showed that Asheville’s CBD contributed almost $6 million to city and county coffers: the fourth highest total in the state.
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FROM EMPTY TO VIBRANT: The Haywood Park Hotel was one of many downtown buildings that got a major facelift, becoming an economic engine and a favorite of locals and tourists alike. Asheville’s central business district generates the highest percentage of total property-tax revenue among North Carolina cities, when land area and real estate value return are considered. Photos courtesy of Leslie Anderson
• In 1982, the total value of property in the CBD was $48,237,500. In 2004, after more than 20 years of concerted work and tens of millions of dollars of private investment, the taxable value was $386,834,500: a 702 percent increase. This relieved tax pressure on residential properties. • Downtown’s resurgence helped achieve higher bond ratings for both city and county government. UNSUNG HEROES As time progresses, it’s clear that one element set our rejuvenation story apart: civic engagement. A major objective of the Downtown Development Office was to continual-
ly involve many diverse participants in meaningful roles. When you’re involved, you care. You pay attention. You advocate. You shop. This approach helped sustain the initiative long enough for the change process to take hold, especially when the political winds shifted. Leadership skills gained downtown were transported all over the community and benefited numerous causes. We hear a lot about what a few individuals did, and they did a lot. But this small hard-working group could never have achieved such deep social and economic change. I salute the unselfish legions of believers and hard workers who were instrumental in creating this amazing urban transformation story. In retrospect, perhaps the most sig-
nificant achievement of the 1990s was resilience: successfully sustaining many substantial initiatives, navigating the nasty conflicts, creating enjoyable and useful volunteer opportunities, all while continuing to plan, build and co-create the district piece by piece. Downtowns are never “finished”: Although there were excellent outcomes in the ’90s, they only hinted at the future potential and joy of a unique, captivating, fun space that also succeeded in becoming Western North Carolina’s economic, social and governmental center. We knew then that an achievement of this magnitude, won over many years by thousands of players, would leverage other momentous civic and economic outcomes in Buncombe
County and beyond. Even as we planned, built and cocreated, we believed that an achievement of this magnitude would leverage other significant civic and economic outcomes in Buncombe County. And subsequent developments have shown that our hearts’ bold desires were on target: downtown is now a true miracle. Leslie Anderson served as Asheville’s downtown development director and then city development director from 1986-95. She’s now president of Leslie Anderson Consulting. X
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A call to drums A view of Asheville’s drum-circle history
BY SUNNY KEACH
I moved to Asheville in 1996 from Santa Barbara, Calif. We had a great drum circle community out there. Every Sunday at a park, down by the beach, from early afternoon until late in the night, we would gather and drum and dance and enjoy all the beauty there. I really missed the circle when I moved here. There was certainly some drumming going on in Asheville at the time. I played at some of the African dance classes, and there was a very small circle outside of the Westgate EarthFare on Sundays. It didn’t quite cut it, though, and I think after a while we were asked to stop playing there. There was a history of drumming in Asheville: I’ve heard that Babatunde Olatunji had taught classes here in the ’70s. I recall Joe Roberts and Steven Trulock teaching classes when I got here. What was lacking for me, though, was that big celebration of an open drum circle with a mix of traditional rhythms and improvisational drumming. Around 1998, River Guerguerian rolled into town, fresh from the Himalayas, as I remember, and Lonnie LaPour introduced me to him as a musical shaman. We had toddlers the same age and a mutual love for rhythm, and we hit it off. A handful of us gathered for weekly drumming and toning circles at his house in Kenilworth. I recall Joe and Debra Roberts, and Hobey and Sue Ford, Cappi Capolungo, Tata and a handful of others who would get together to make magic. Out of that came the drumming and toning circle at the newly renovated Movement and Learning Center upstairs at the French Broad Food Co-op, as I remember. Facilitation of that circle shifted over the years until it landed in the hands of Larry McDowell. And after all these years, he still gives his time every Monday night in service to the 22
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drumming community. It was under Larry’s leadership that a class was added to help those new to drumming and those who like a more structured circle. Through the years, various African and non-African drum teachers have taught in the space. Hats off to the French Broad Food Co-op for donating the space for the event all these years. I met some great drum friends playing in that space. Some of these fellow skilled drummers and I would gather at our houses to learn and practice West African rhythms. It was from this group that I would recruit the Friday night drummers. It was at the MLC drum circle one Monday night in the fall of 1999 or 2000, when the weather was much nicer outside than inside, when the concept of drumming outside was raised. We tried up at Vance Monument a couple times on Monday nights. Back then, the restaurants didn’t like the transients that hung out there and would call the cops to run any drummers off. It wasn’t all that great of a space either — too many cars and not enough room. Michael (I forget his last name) suggested the newly renovated Pritchard Park as a location and I jumped on the idea. The new park was perfect for us drummers, with the amphitheater seating, room to dance and nature present — all in the center of town. I’ve got a lot of gratitude for Asheville creating what Pritchard Park is today. That week, I made and posted some new drum circle fliers around town and called all my drumming buddies and invited them down to the park on Friday. That first night there were about 10 of us drummers and a handful of spectators taking it all in. It was great. As I recall, those in attendance in the early days were me, Serifa Markus, Daniel Barber, Jerry Donoghue, Lisa Wolfe, Eddy Greene, John Caterpillar, Kevin Staak, Andrew Weatherly, Bill Cavallaro, Michael and Larry McDowell. I’m sure I’m missing a few of you — sorry. We played traditional rhythms and some improvisational pieces and took turns playing solos. The music was MOUNTAINX.COM
WE GOT RHYTHM: A strong, local drumming community and cooperation from downtown businesses helped foster Asheville’s drum circle. Photo by Susan Hutchinson
very clean and cooperative. The Friday night circle was very much a continuation of those of us getting together to learn and practice and have fun. There was structure and discipline to it. The circle died off over the winter as the weather turned foul, but I called and got people back out in the spring and it just took off from there. I have a very vivid memory of being at the circle the next spring and taking a break from drumming and just looking up and around at all that had gathered there. There were hundreds of people having a great time, many of them having an ecstatic time. For some, it was all brand new. For others, it was a return to a drum circle they had left elsewhere. It came across as something that was missing, but people didn’t realize it until it was there. I had the thought: All this took was a few phone calls; it was an idea that was totally ready to happen and just needed the slightest of budges. The circles got huge real quick and were getting shut down due to noise complaints. We had to go through a period of getting legit with the city. We had to fight for the circle, as some of the folks who bought the new million-dollar condos at the time were complaining about the noise. The complaints seemed crazy to us: Why move into the middle of a city if you don’t like noise?
We owe a lot to Gregg Levoy, who went around and interviewed all the businesses in the vicinity of the drum circle. All the businesses were in support of us; we brought in big crowds that would eat and shop as well. A few of us met with Asheville’s police chief and city manager and presented our case. We all came to an agreement and got proper permits in place and agreed to end by 10 p.m. The Asheville Downtown Association has backed us; the city provides free use of the park and blocks out Friday nights for us solely during drumming season. The local Chamber of Commerce and other associations devoted to supporting the city’s economy have used the circle to promote Asheville. We’ve been featured or mentioned in papers all over the country at this point and recently on David Letterman. Other people have used our circle as a model for creating circles in their town. There are hundreds of YouTube videos of the circle, if not thousands. Members of the circle have jammed with Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead and opened for Smashing Pumpkins at the Orange Peel. All this “success” has had a downside though. I wasn’t really excited about the growth of the circle, to tell the truth. It has turned into too much of a good thing for me. While I’m happy to report we’ve
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managed to keep it noncommercialized and ungoverned, that lack of control has led to what many call a “thunder drum” circle. At least in the later hours of the night, it’s a bit of a cacophony. Thunder drumming is basically beating the crap out of your drum; its therapeutic and primal. Lot’s of people get lots of joy out of that. I don’t personally. The circle no longer supports my original vision and what it used to be in the early days — a music circle. Drums are instruments, and the original group was into learning how to play them well and cooperatively. We were an ensemble, in which you listen to the other players and play instruments and parts that fit together as a whole, as has been done traditionally since prehistory Drums, bells and shakers are some of the few instruments people assume everyone can play. Many think all you have to do is grab one and bang on it. While that is an option, it’s a painful option for those that have been trained to listen to the other parts and make it all work together. If someone is playing erratic and off-tempo, it takes work to block them out and try to listen to those that are playing well and in tempo. The bigger the circle has gotten, the more novice players have shown up, which in turns drives away the more experienced players, which drives the quality of the music down. It’s much more fun when the groove is thick and supported. Chaos doesn’t lead to dancers shaking their booty. My wish for the circle is that more people think of drums as instruments, like a guitar or flute, and take lessons and learn how to play them well, and then come jam out with us. ASHEVILLE DRUM CLASSES Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m. upstairs of French Broad Food Co-op with Larry McDowell Tuesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Asheville Music School, 126 College St. Wednesdays, 6 p.m. at Skinny Beats on Eagle Street, with Billy Zanski Thursdays, 6 and 7:15 p.m. at Odyssey Community School, with River Guerguerian Saturdays, 4 p.m. Carver Center, Black Mountain, with Steven Townsend Sundays, 2 p.m. at Skinny Beats on Eagle Street, with Billy Zanski Sunny Keach, co-owner of the Asheville Yoga Center, has been making and playing drums since the early ’80s and totally loves to get his groove on.X
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BY MARGARET WILLIAMS What did Asheville City Council members think were good ideas for Pritchard Park in 1995, back when Mountain Xpress started covering their weekly meetings? When Council discussed ideas for renovating Pritchard Park downtown at a Jan. 1995 work session, then-Mayor Russ Martin suggested using a 1940s trolley as a central piece to the park, for which a small task force was trying to raise money to renovate. The trolley — saved from the days when Asheville had one of the nation’s premier electric-trolley services — was just “waiting in a warehouse for us to use,” said Martin. Was restoring it feasible? Restoration might cost $40,000 or more, unfortunately. What other ideas were there for the park? Council member Leni Sitnick, who would become mayor a few years later, suggested installing life-size sculptures of bears or other public art that would “present the character of Asheville and the area,” Xpress reported. But, as with Martin’s trolley notion, interest in her idea seemed light at best. Douglas Wilson, Pritchard Park Task Force member, told Council members about the trees at the park — a rare American white birch that was thriving, despite its preference for more extreme climates (like the high elevations at Mt. Mitchell), and a red maple whose root system had been heavily impacted by
demolition and construction years earlier for a bus shelter. The maple was producing fewer and fewer leaves each year — a sign of its failing health. It might have to go, Wilson said. Wilson also noted that a donor stood ready to help fund park renovations and that the task force was seeking a local company to complete a city-funded redesign proposal. Despite Council members’ concerns about budget constraints and the cost of the many studies underway at the time, they gave the go-ahead for park planning to continue. In the years to come, Pritchard Park did get a major facelift, with the installation of a small amphitheater, benches, landscaping and pathways. Public art also came to downtown. As the Urban Trail took shape, some of its featured art included “Shopping Daze,” an iron sculpture by Dan Howacyn and Tekla, installed in front of Malaprop’s Bookstore & Café; the dancers in front of the Asheville Civic Center (now called the U.S. Cellular Center); the fanciful bench commemorating Asheville’s first woman doctor, Elizabeth Blackwell; and of course the farm animals prancing in front of Vance Monument. And today, the red maple remains big and beautiful. Margaret Williams first freelanced for Xpress in 1994 before joining the staff in early 1995. She’s now its managing editor. X MOUNTAINX.COM
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Asheville: where I found myself BY GLENIS REDMOND
In 1994, Asheville was just a weekend place that I escaped to from Greenville, S.C., with my then-husband, Blane Sherer. I thought it was just a getaway; I did not know I was looking for something, but I found it: poetry. In our hotel room, I read in the Mountain Xpress that Nikki Giovanni would be featured at the Asheville Poetry Festival. Because I had just begun putting pen to paper, because her poem “Ego Trippin’,” a creation myth, spoke to me as a teen, I
wanted to go hear her read, but I had a fibromyalgia flare-up while on our trip and was not able to attend. But I bookmarked the event somewhere in my psyche. I had an uncanny sense of belonging amongst the Cherokee Mountains on that trip, so I asked Blane to see if he would call about a job opening at Memorial Mission Hospital. He got a position at the hospital a year later. During that year, I discovered the
LET THERE BE POETRY: Local poet Glenis Redmond, right, first visited Asheville as a “just a getaway,” but plugged into the city’s blossoming poetry scene and moved to town in the mid-1990s. (also pictured, Pat Storm, left). Photo courtesy of Glenis Redmond
Asheville Poetry Slam, run by Allan Wolf at the green door down Carolina Lane. I made many trips up the mountain to read and slam there. Bob Falls — the founder of Poetry Alive! — was at every poetry slam and asked me to work for Poetry Alive! I performed contemporary and classic poetry in schools across the country — three shows a day, five days a week. It was a performance-poetry training ground. Bob had also founded the Asheville Poetry Festival on the UNC Asheville campus. I later performed there. These literary spaces created by Bob Falls and Allan Wolf, my spiritual brothers, helped me to spread my poetic wings. Our family moved to Kenilworth into a yellow Germanic Cape Cod in 1995. Our backyard edged a Confederate cemetery and was three blocks from a slave cemetery at Bethel “A” Baptist. My house was a way station for the many ancestors. When I first began my sojourn at the slave cemetery, it was abandoned and only on a few people’s radar. I have been writing about the ancestors there ever since. In one of my latest poems, “How the Dead Speak,” I write about them this way:
Arrows of black crows, pointing in a tongue so plain I can’t mistake their singing.
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Bookstore in its first incarnation, which acted as an oracle to me. Books seemed to drop off the shelves pointing me in the direction of my own spirituality and creativity. Later, I worked at Malaprop’s. I never brought home a paycheck because I had first pick of every book of interest. I became pocket poor, but book rich. When the Ku Klux Klan marched in Asheville in 1997, concerned citizens of all faiths and races protested by holding a unity rally at the Reid Center. It was a powerful day of songs, speeches and dances. I did my poem “If I Ain’t African” down the aisle. The crowd gave me a standing ovation. Peggy Baldwin and John Loyd, booking agents for artists, were in attendance. They asked to sign me on to their artist touring roster. My poetic reach turned national that day. As my poems are rooted in social justice, it was quite fitting that I was launched by responding poetically to a hate group amongst my tribe in Asheville. This is Asheville, the Asheville I remember, the town that gave me room to grow as a poet and as a person, a town that turned me into global citizen. Glenis Redmond is the poet-in-residence at the Peace Center for the Performing Arts and the State Theatre in New Brunswick, N.J., and is senior mentor poet for the National Student Poets Program.X
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BENEFITS AN EVENING WITH ELVIS 255-3066, eblencharities.org • FR (9/19), 6-10pm - Tickets to this Elvis tribute concert and dinner benefit Eblen Charities. $35/$25 concert only. Held at Crowne Plaza Resort, 1 Resort Drive ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COUNTY CROP HUNGER WALK crophungerwalk.org/ashevillenc • Through (10/5) - Registration is open for this walk that supports efforts to combat food insecurity. Participants agree to raise funds through donations. Held Oct. 5 at First Baptist Church. CONDOM COUTURE 252-7928, pphs.org • TH (9/18), 6:30pm - Tickets to this fashion show and live auction benefit Planned Parenthood. $40/$35 advance. Held at The Venue, 21 North Market St.
HISTORY ALIVE: The Burton Street Community Center will host a community party for the unveiling of a new mural by Asheville artist Ian Wilkinson honoring E.W. Pearson, the founder of the Burton Street neighborhood. The celebration includes guest speakers on Friday, Sept. 19, from 6-8 p.m., and live music, food, kids activities and the mural unveiling on Saturday, Sept. 20, from noon- 4 p.m. Image of mural mock-up courtesy of Ian Wilkinson. (p.25)
DINNER FOR FULL CIRCLE FARM 367-1620, fcfsanctuary.org • MO (9/22), 5-9pm - Donations and a percentage of sales from this vegan dinner will benefit this animal sanctuary. Held at Plant Restaurant, 165 Merrimon Ave. IT’S TIKI TIME LUAU FUNDRAISER 274-7518, ireneworthamcenter. org • WE (9/17), 6pm - Donations and a percentage of sales collected during this dinner and raffle will benefit the Irene Wortham Center. Free to attend. Held at Juicy Lucy’s Burger Bar and Grill, 620 Hendersonville Road, Ashevile KARAOKE 4 A CAUSE 458-9426, vhvwnc.org • WE (9/24), 9pm-12am - Donations collected during this live-band Rolling Stones karaoke competition benefit Veterans Helping Veterans WNC. Free to attend. Held at Ben’s Tune-Up, 195 Hilliard Ave.
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artsforlifenc.org/shuck, 712-8120 SU (9/21), 4-7pm - Tickets to this ouster roast and art auction benefit Arts for Life programs at Mission Children’s Hospital. $40. Held at Curve Studios, 6 Riverside Drive.
ROCK THE QUARRY 5K AND KIDS RUN active.com • SA (9/20), 9:30am - Proceeds from the race benefit the Black Mountain Home for Children and the Colburn Earth Science Museum. $35/ $30 advance. Registration required. Held at Grove Stone & Sand Company, 842 Old US Highway 70, Black Mountain ROOT BALL 254-1776, ashevillegreenworks. org • TH (9/18), 6:30pm - Tickets to this summer ball with live music and local foods support Asheville GreenWorks. Held at 318 Riverside Drive.
SPIRITUS STUDIO YOGA 110 Joel Wright Road, Hendersonville, 551-8545 • SA (9/20), 11:15am-12:30pm - Admission to this yoga class benefits Four Seasons Heart Songs grief support program for children. $15. Registration required. TEA IN THE ORIENT 693-9444, bgchendersonco.org • TH (9/18), 4-6pm - Tickets to this high tea event benefit the Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County. $75-$100. Held at Boys & Girls Club of Henderson County, 1304 Ashe St., Hendersonville
BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 3987950, abtech.edu/sbc Free unless otherwise noted. Registration required. • WE (9/17), 6-9pm - Seminar: “Starting & Operating a Business with Family & Spouses.” • TH (9/18), 6-8pm - Bookkeeping basics for natural products businesses. • SATURDAYS through (9/27), 9am12pm - SCORE: Business planning workshop series. • TU (9/23) & TU (9/30), 6-9pm eBay business seminar. • TH (9/25), 6-8pm - Quickbooks seminar. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COALITION 258-6101, ashevillechamber.org/ economic-development • TH (9/18), 5-7pm - Annual Asheville Metro Economy Outlook,
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ASHEVILLE MUSIC PROFESSIONALS facebook.com/ashevillemusicprofessionals WE (9/24), 6pm - “Musicians as Entrepreneurs,” panel discussion with Asheville-based professionals on how to support a music career through a companion career in the music industry. $5. Held at New Mountain, 38 N. French Broad Ave. BASIC MEDIATION SKILLS TRAINING (pd.) At The Mediation Center. An interactive, hands-on training ideal for anyone looking to improve their conflict resolution skills. For more info and to register: (828) 251-6089. www. mediatewnc.org ROOTS + WINGS ART AND DESIGN SEMESTER PROGRAMS (pd.) Wednesdays, 4-5pm, Visual Art Adventures, Ages 3-6 Thursdays, 4-5pm, Clay/Mixed Media Exploration, Grades K-5 Location: All Souls in Biltmore Village (828) 545-4827. www. rootsandwingsarts.com ASHEVILLE BROWNS BACKERS CLUB 658-4149, ashevillebbw@gmail. com • SUNDAYS - Meets during Cleveland Browns games. Contact for specific times. Held at The Fairview Tavern, 831 Old Fairview Road ASHEVILLE OBJECTIVISTS ashevilleobjectivists.wordpress. com • TU (9/23), 6:30pm - “Logic and Reason,” discussion of Ayn Rand’s philosophy. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. BURTON STREET COMMUNITY CENTER 134 Burton St., burtonstreet. org • SA (9/19), 6-8pm & SU (9/20), noon-4pm - Celebration of E.W. Pearson and unveiling of new mural. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (9/17), 3:30pm Swannanoa Knitters, knitting
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and needlework for all skill levels. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • TU (9/23), 6:30-7:30pm “Possum Party,” stories, songs and dance about the marsupials. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • WE (9/24), 10am - Sew What? Swannanoa sewing circle. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE ethicalsocietyofasheville.org • SU (9/21), 2-3pm Presentation: “The Genius of Common Sense” by Annie Butzner, Oncology/Psychiatric Clinical Nurse Specialist. Free. HENDERSONVILLE WISE WOMEN 693-1523 • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - A safe, supportive group for women “of a certain age.” Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville RAILROAD DAY AT MOUNTAIN GATEWAY MUSEUM 102 Water St., Old Fort, 6689259, mountaingatewaymuseum.org • SA (9/20), 10am-4pm Includes historic automobiles and train cars, kids activities and reenactments. Free. ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. • TH (9/18), 5:30-7:00pm Workshop: “Divorce and Your Money.” Free. • TH (9/18), 9-11:30am - Post Bankruptcy class. $35. • FR (9/19), 12-1:30pm Seminar: “Understanding Credit: Get it, Keep it, Improve it.” Free. • SATURDAYS through (9/27), 9am-3pm - Homebuyer education series. $35. • TH (9/25), 12-1pm - Workshop: “Divorce and Your Money.” Free. • THURSDAYS (9/25) through (10/9), 5:30-8pm - “Manage Your Money,” workshop series
on budgeting basics. Free. RURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM AT MARS HILL 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill, 689-1304 • SU (9/14) through SA (2/28) - Exhibit: Our Story – This Place: The History of African American Education in Madison County and the Anderson Rosenwald School. WESTERN NC QUILTERS GUILD westernncquilters.org • TH (9/18), 10am- Monthly meeting discusses the art and history of quilting. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville WESTERN NORTH CAROLINIANS FOR DEATH PENALTY REPEAL 775-9912, mjparks@bellsouth. net • MO (9/22), 7pm, & TU (9/23), 6pm - Discussion of the challenges for defendants, especially people of color, in the American legal system. Free to attend. Mon.: Held at Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road Tue.: Held at Burton Street Community Center, 134 Burton St.
DANCE BEGINNER SWING DANCING LESSONS (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www.SwingAsheville. com ROCOCO BALLROOM PARTNER DANCING (pd.) Rococo Ballroom has opened in Reynolds Mountain offering all forms of partner dancing. Call 828-575-0905 to schedule a FREE sample lesson with one of our highly trained instructors. STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (pd.) Monday 6pm Hip Hop Wkt • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop
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Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm West African • Wednesday 6pm Bellydance 3 • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African • Saturday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 10:30am Bellydance • Sunday 10am Intro to West African • $13 for 60 minute classes, Hip Hop Wkrt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya. com :: 828.242.7595
CRADLE OF FORESTRY Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • SA (9/21), 2-5pm Conservation activist Ina Warren presents a program on monarch butterflies. $5.
CIRCLE 8’S SQUARE DANCE CLUB circle8s.info, garwoods2@ yahoo.com • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Weekly dance classes. $5. Held at Oakley United Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road.
NATIONAL DRIVE ELECTRIC WEEK EVENTS 606-8939, facebook.com/ groups/blueridgeevclub Owners of electric cars will discuss their vehicles. Free. • WE (9/17), 2:30-6:30pm Held at Weaverville Tailgate Market, 60 Lake Shore Drive, Weaverville • WE (9/17), 6-8pm - Held at Oskar Blues Brewery, 342 Mountain Industrial Drive, Brevard • FR (9/19), 5:30-7:30pm Held at Southern Appalachian Brewery, 822 Locust St. Suite 100, Hendersonville • FR (9/19), 8-10:30am - Workplace vehicle charging workshop. Registration required. Held at Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. • SA (9/20), 10am-6pm - Held at the Weaverville Arts ‘N Autumn Festival in downtown Weaverville. • SA (9/20), 8am-1pm - Held at Asheville City Market Downtown, 161 S. Charlotte St. • SU (9/21), 1-4pm - Electric Car Show. Held at Asheville City Market - Downtown, 161 S. Charlotte St.
SOUTHEAST B-BOY CHAMPIONSHIP southeastbboy.com • FR (9/19) & SA (9/20) - HipHop dance workshops, competition and raffle. $18.59 Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (9/20), 6pm - “Boot Scootin’ Boogey,” dance. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE 101 Fairview Road, Suite B, 505-8659, toyboatcommunityartspace.com • SUNDAYS through (9/28), 1-2pm - Focuses on Chicagostyle moves from the 1940s. $40.
ECO BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • TU (9/23), 7pm - A specialist with Monarch Watch presents a program on Monarch butterfly conservation. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain CATAWBA RIVERFEST 464-0405, heritagealliance.org • SA (9/20), 10am-3pm Festival highlighting river conservation. Free to attend. Held at Lake James State Park, 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo
GREEN GRANNIES avl.mx/0gm • 3rd SATURDAYS, 5pm - “Sing for the Climate,” demonstration. Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square
RIVERLINK 252-8474, riverlink.org • TH (9/18), 11:45am-2pm Riverfront Bus Tour, discusses economic development and the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan. $20/ free for members. Held at Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. • FR (9/19), 3-5pm - Salon Series: President of Carolina Native Nursery discusses native landscape design. Free. Registration required. Held at 170 Lyman St.
FESTIVALS CELTIC CHRISTIAN HOLIDAY OBSERVANCE 645-2674, avalongrove.org • SA (9/20) 3pm - Celebration of Mabon, the autumn equi-
nox. Optional potluck follows. Free. Held in a private home. Contact for directions. INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE CELEBRATION 252-0121 • SU (9/21), 5-7pm - Includes food, music and a screening of Peacemakers. Held at Handmade in America, 125 S Lexington Ave #101
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FOOD & BEER CALDWELL CUSINE 726-2478, kandreasen@cccti. edu Meals prepared by Culinary Arts students. Proceeds benefit Caldwell Community College. • TH (9/25), 6pm - “Farm to Table,” gourmet dinner with local foods. $21 plus tax. Registration required. Held at J.E. Broyhill Civic Center, 1913 Hickory Blvd. SE, Lenior COOKING WITH FALL VEGETABLES CLASS 250-6480 • WE (9/17), 6:30pm With Chef Donna McCrain. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 692-6424, myhcdp.com • WE (9/17), 11:30am - Social and BYO lunch with 11th Congressional District candidate Tom Hill. Meets at 905 Greenville Highway, Hendersonville. LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL 251-6622, landofsky.org • FR (9/19), 9am-4pm Workshop focusing on transportation options for all citizens. $30. Registration required. Held at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church St. LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE 258-8223, abc.nc.lwvnet.org • TH (9/25), 6-8pm Buncombe County candidates
Sing your heart out WHAT: Karaoke 4 a Cause WHEN: Wednesday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m.-midnight WHERE: Ben’s Tune Up, 195 Hilliard Ave. WHY: In April 2013, Veterans Helping Veterans WNC embarked on their mission of reintegrating veterans into society. “VHVWNC is an opportunity for us to get right what we got so very wrong as a country after Vietnam,” says Outreach Coordinator Timothy Sadler. “[We] want to roll out the red carpet for veterans to help them transition back into civilian life.” At VHVWNC, veterans farm chickens, rabbits and vegetables with equipment donated by Asheville Urban Farms as part of a farm therapy and sustainable agriculture training program. The organization will build three duplex cabins in 2015, part of an initiative to provide housing for
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veterans in crisis, and helps veterans obtain benefit information, deal with family issues and acquire job skills in a variety of fields. To help support the organization’s mission, Ben’s Tune Up and VHVWNC have partnered to present “Karaoke 4 a Cause,” a singing competition featuring Rolling Stones’ songs. Competitors will be judged by a panel of local celebrities and will be competing for a grand prize of a recording session at Echo Mountain Recording Studio, valued at $500. “Get here early to reserve your song,” Sadler urges. All proceeds from the event will go toward building the organization’s community center, which will hold its ribbon-cutting on November 11, 2014, which, appropriately enough, is Veteran’s Day. Noble Cider has also created a special surprise flavor that will be revealed at the event. Proceeds from the sale of the cider will also benefit VHVWNC. For more information, contact Sadler at 458-9426 or timothy.s.sadler@gmail. com. — Michael McDonald
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KIDS ASHEVILLE HISTORY CENTER 253-9231, smh@wnchistory. org • SA (9/20), 10:30am-12:30pm - “Crafty Historian,” making beaded gourd percussion instruments. $15. Registration required. Located in the Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road BUNCOMBE COUNTY SPORTS PARK 250-4269, 58 Apac Circle • SA (9/20), 9am-12pm - “Play Daze,” family games and activities. Free. FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • MO (9/22), 3:30-4:30pm - 'Crazy Chemistry” presentation with Hands On!. Registration required. Free.
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KIDS’ ACTIVITIES AT THE LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library • WE (9/17), 3:30pm - Create play toys for animals at Asheville Humane Society. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • TH (9/18), 4:30-5:15pm Yoga for ages 4-9. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N Main St., Weaverville • FR (9/19), 4-5:30pm - Teen Awesome Group planning meeting. For 6th grade and up. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N Main St., Weaverville THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL 52 N. Market St, 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • Through FR (9/26) Students in grades 4-12 may submit works of fiction to the Telling Our Tales writing competition. Must be inspired by The Sun and the Rain. Contact for details.
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OUTDOORS BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY RANGER PROGRAMS 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com • FR (9/19), 10am - “Bridges Camp Gap Trail,” ranger-led 2.5 mile hike discussing water resources and human impacts. Meets at MP 417. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • WE (9/24), 3pm “Creeking,” ranger-led Paddy’s Creek discovery hike. Free. • TH (9/25), 10am - “Fall Migration Birk Trek,” rangerled avian exploration. Free. SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM HIKES 669-9566, swannanoavalleym@bellsouth.net • SA (9/20), 10am - Moderate hike to Ridgecrest in the Swannanoa Valley. $30/$20 members.
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PARENTING FREE TALK ABOUT ADD, ADHD, DYSLEXIA & LEARNING DISABILITIES (pd.) Learn how the brain processes information, and how the problems can be permanently corrected in adults and children with no drugs or supplements. Monday, September 22, 6:30 pm • North Asheville Buncombe Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. and Thursday, September 25, 6:30 pm • Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Rd., Asheville. RSVP: 828-216-4444 or Wes@ WesBeach.com READING OR READING COMPREHENSION IMPROVEMENT (pd.) Free talk about how to improve your ability to read and/or comprehend. If you or your child hates to read, this talk is for you. Thursday, September 25, 6:30 pm • Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road, Asheville RSVP 828-216-4444 or Wes@WesBeach.com
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC 2 Doctors Park Suite E 417 Biltmore Ave., 253-2900 • WE (9/17), 7pm-8:30pm - “The Parental Toolbox,” workshop on power struggles and esteem-building. Free. Reservations advised.
PUBLIC LECTURES PUBLIC LECTURES AT MARS HILL 866-642-4968, mhu.edu • TH (9/18), 7pm - “The Middle East Cauldron.” Moore Auditorium. PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted. • FR (9/19), 11:25am - “The Contagion of Freedom: AntiSlavery, Women’s Rights, and Economic Justice.” Lipinsky Auditorium. • FR (9/19), 11:25am - “Poverty & Plenty.” Humanities Lecture Hall. • MO (9/22), 11:25am - “African Cultural Spheres.” Lipinsky Auditorium.
PUBLIC LECTURES AT WCU wcu.edu. Free. • WE (9/17), 7-8:30pm “Are Two Better than One? Comparing our Rights (and Responsibilities) under the North Carolina and United States Constitutions.” Bardo Arts Center.
SENIORS OLLI AT UNCA olliasheville.com • FR (9/19), 11:30am - “Aging in Place,” workshop and discussion. In the Reuter Center. Free.
SPIRITUALITY 13TH ANNUAL “WEAVE THE WEB” FESTIVAL (pd.) Presented by Crystal Visions on Saturday, September 27, 11 am-5 pm. Featuring dozens of participants offering Intuitive, Healing and Creative Arts. Entrance is free. Individual fees may apply. 5426 Asheville Hwy, 28791. www.crystalvisionsbooks.com
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ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (pd.) Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org AIM MEDITATION CLASSES (pd.) Ramp up your meditation practice with AIM’s Meditation’s Classes: Mindfulness 101- Basics of Mindfulness Meditation, Mindfulness 102 - More advanced, intermediate class. Class dates and times: www. ashevillemeditation.com/ events, (828) 808-4444 ASHEVILLE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 2520538 or www.ashevilleccc. com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:00pm. 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 ASHEVILLE OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience effortless techniques that connect you to your heart and the Divine within you. Your experience will deepen as you are gently guided in this complete practice. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org. 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. AWAKENING DEEPEST NATURE MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. Meditation and lessons in unorthodox enlightenment. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm,
Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. (828) 258-3241, healing@billwalz.com www.billwalz.com MINDFULNESS MEDITATION (pd.) ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION Deepen your authentic presence, and cultivate a happier, more peaceful mind by practicing Insight (Vipassana) Meditation in a supportive community. Group Meditation. Thursdays, 7pm8:30pm. Sundays, 10am11:30pm. 29 Ravenscroft Dr., Suite 200, Asheville, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com MOUNTAIN MINDFULNESS SANGHA mountainmindfulness.org • MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm & THURSDAYS, 8-8:40am - In the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. All levels. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave. PARISH OF ST. EUGENE 72 Culvern St., 254-5193, steugene.org • MO (9/22), 7pm - Peace Vigil to commemorate International Peace Day. Free. SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER 19 Westwood Place, 2005120, shambhalaashvl@ gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 10-noon Morning sitting meditation. Instruction provided. Free. SPIRITUAL STUDY GROUP 275-8226, washboardben@ gmail.com • TUESDAYS, 9:30-11am - Shares spiritual paths, journeys and individual callings. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, stgeorge. diocesewnc.org • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon “Spirit Collage,” making collage prayer cards. Free.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • TH (9/18), 2:30pm - Book Club: Hotel Du Lac by Anita Brookner. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road. • SA (9/20), 10am-3pm Art and coffee table book sale from Friends of the Library. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N Main St., Weaverville • TH (9/25), 5:30-7:30pm - Not for Children Only series: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Registration required. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave SW, Lenoir, 754-2486 • TU (9/23), 7pm - NC Poet Laureate Jospeh Bathani reads. Free. CANTON BRANCH OF HAYWOOD COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 11 Pennsylvania Ave., Canton, 648-2924, haywoodlibrary.org • TUESDAYS through (10/14), 4pm - Memoir writing class. Registration required. Free. CITY LIGHTS BOOKSTORE 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 5869499, citylightsnc.com Free unless otherwise noted. • TH (9/18), 10:30am - Coffee with the Poet series: Teresa Robbins discusses her book God Speaks. • SA (9/20), 12pm - Emily Joanne Hoover discusses her book Hold on to Your Panties and Have Fun. COURTYARD GALLERY In the Phil Mechanic Building 109 Roberts St., 273-3332, ashevillecourtyard.com • MONDAYS, 8pm - True Home Open Mic.
301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 697-4725, • SU (9/21), 1-4pm - 100th anniversary celebration. Free. MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (9/17), 7pm - Laird Hunt discusses her book Neverhome. • TH (9/18), 7pm - Katy Simpson Smith discusses her novel The Story of Land and Sea. • FR (9/19), 7pm - Local witches discuss The Goodly Spellbook. • SA (9/20), 7pm - David Madden discusses his book The Last Bizarre Tale. • SU (9/21), 3pm - Great Smokies Writing Program’s “Writers at Home Reading Series.” • TU (9/23), 7pm - Carol Bradley discusses her book Last Chain on Billie. • WE (9/24), 7pm - Discussion of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés book Women Who Run With the Wolves. • TH (9/25), 7pm - Works in Translation Bookclub: The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq.
SPORTS AMATEUR POOL LEAGUE (pd.) (pd.) Beginners welcome & wanted! Choose from Asheville or Arden, Hendersonville or Waynesville. HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. 828-329-8197 www.BlueRidgeAPA.com ONGOING – weekly league play
BLUE RIDGE BOOKS 152 S. Main St., Waynesville • SA (9/20), 3pm - Beginner journal making workshop. $3. BUNCOMBE COUNTY
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als at OnTrack WNC, 50 S. French Broad Ave. • MO (9/22), 5:30-7:30pm Volunteers needed to clean toys at The Mediation Center of Buncombe County, 40 North French Broad Ave. Suite B • TH (9/25), 6:00-7:30pm Volunteers needed to bake cookies for families staying
ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 350-6135, Julia.Shuster@ asheville.k12.nc.us • MO (9/22), 4-5:30pm - Training session for volunteers interested in being middle and high school math and literacy coaches • TU (9/23), 4pm-5:30pm - Training session for volunteers interested in being elementary math and literacy coaches. Held at 85 Mountain St.
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BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC 253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TU (9/23), 5-7pm - Drop-in information session for those interested in being mentor or volunteers. Held at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave. • TU (9/23), noon-1pm Information session for prospective volunteers. Held at United Way of Asheville & Buncombe, 50 S. French Broad Ave.
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FRIENDS OF HENDERSON COUNTY LIBRARY 697-4725 • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (9/12) through (9/20), 10am4:430pm - Fall Book Sale benefits the library. Includes CDs, DVDs and other mediums. Held at 1940 Spartanburg Highway. GRATEFUL STEPS 159 S Lexington Ave., 2770998, gratefulsteps.org • FR (9/19), 5:30-7:3 - Elise and Phil Okrend discuss their book Messages to the Heart: Reflections of Beauty and Truth.
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121 Sherwood Road • TH (9/25), 11am-12:30pm - Volunteers needed to cook and serve homemade lunch for veterans. Registration required. Held at Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, 1329 Tunnel Road LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY litcouncil.com, 254-3442 (9/25), 5:30-7pm - Information session for volunteers interested in tutoring adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and English as a Second Language. No prior tutoring experience or foreign language skills required. PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES 62 Charlotte St., 210-3424 • SU (9/19), 1pm - Training session for volunteers interested in being Affordable Care Act navigators. For more volunteering opportunities, visit
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Briefs Pentagon confirms drone strike on leader of Al ShaBaab
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Date set for 2014 Taste of Asheville culinary event
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75% more likely to be frequent restaurant diners
Ghost Town amusement park declares successful summer, having remembered to use blanks in performers’ guns ‘probably most of the time… usually’
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Condom couture event raises money for Planned Parenthood with contraceptive costumery Following after-party, ‘gently used’ outfits to be donated to Goodwill
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The one that got away Jim Moore, candidate for district attorney in a seven-county area in WNC, has been roundly criticized for “forgetting” a warrant in a capital case for two months during his term as Assistant DA. Among his excuses: • The dog ate my affidavit. • Is it Thursday already? • That was during my surrealist phase as a jurist. • Do-over! • I was on the two-month religious holiday of, uh … RastafarHalloPassovaMcChristmas. • Traffic tie-up following combination rockslide/deer hit by car/jack-knifed 18-wheeler/got distracted by boobs. • Assisted in emergency 1,440–hour childbirth. • The last thing I remember was a sharp blow to the head and … who are you people? • Sorry dudes, too many hits to the old snooze alarm.
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Asheville Greek Festival 2014 September 26, 27, & 28 Friday & Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
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STANDING TALL Weaverville and Woodfin thrive with art and commerce Though only minutes from Asheville, Weaverville stands on its own as a community. Named for early settler John Weaver, the town was incorporated in 1875. (And perhaps presaging the sometimes-prickly relations the region still has with Raleigh, the town was temporarily dissolved for five years in the early 1900s to force the state of North Carolina to do roadwork on Main Street.) Now home to 3,216 residents, Weaverville boasts a lively downtown and a thriving art scene. Meanwhile, Woodfin (population 6,123) was named for another early WNC resident: 19th-century attorney Nicholas Washington Woodfin. The town boasts its own distinct businesses, along with beautiful river views — and trolley rides on the restored Craggy Mountain Line. Read on to see what Xpress readers highlighted via the Best of WNC poll.
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Miya Gallery owner Jennifer Jenkins credits her 10-year-old “constantly evolving” gallery’s success to the 80-plus artists and craftspeople represented there. And they span the gamut — from Nancy Darrell’s subtle woodcut prints of birds to Bill Weldner’s shimmering, computeraltered mountain and seaside photographs to Jenkins’ own glittering jewelry creations (plus the paintings, fiber, metal sculpture, art glass, leather goods, ceramics, carved wood sculptures, furniture and more). “We only represent local and regional artists, and we have a super staff,” Jenkins says. “We want to serve our community and make them proud to have an interesting and beautiful shop on Main Street that represents our town.” Done.
Blue Mountain Pizza and Brew Pub scores as a neighborhood hangout — a laid-back place to enjoy a pie, take in some local music and partake of the American and Belgian-style ales from its own brewery. “We like to look at Blue Mountain Pizza and Brew Pub as a gathering place, a place to go alone and feel welcome or with a group of friends for an evening to enjoy a great meal and experience live music,” says owner Matt Danford. The community has also taken note of Blue Mountain Pizza’s generosity: Since opening in 2004, its Third Thursday Fundraising program has donated more than $100,000 to local nonprofits and those in need. We’ll raise a glass to that.
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10-B S. Main St., Weaverville 484-8663 • allgoodcoffee-nc.com
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3 Main Street Grill 5 S. Main St., Weaverville 645-5500 • mainstreetgrillweaverville.com
55 N. Main St., Weaverville 658-8777 • bluemountainpizza.com
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3 Lake Louise Park Lake Louise Drive, Weaverville 645-0606 • avl.mx/0d6
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1 Blue Mountain Pizza and Brew Pub 55 N. Main St., Weaverville 658-8777 • bluemountainpizza.com
2 Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store 10-C S. Main St., Weaverville 645-1111 • MaggieBsWine.com
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1 Blue Mountain Pizza and Brew Pub 55 N. Main St., Weaverville 658-8777 • bluemountainpizza.com
2 Main Street Grill
5 S. Main St., Weaverville 645-5500 • mainstreetgrillweaverville.com
3 Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store 10-C S. Main St., Weaverville 645-1111 • MaggieBsWine.com
3 Thirsty Monk Reynolds Village c 51 N. Merrimon Ave., Woodfin 424-7807 • monkpub.com
COFFEE HOUSE
1 Well-Bred Bakery & Café z 26 N. Main St., Weaverville 645-9300 • wellbredbakery.com 6 Boston Way, Asheville 774-5307
WEAVERVILLE & WOODFIN continued Well-Bred Bakery & Cafe has been wowing customers for 12 years with its made-from-scratch baked goods, including its famed gigantic mountain chocolate éclairs (best shared and accompanied by a steaming cup of java), plus curried chicken salad and other lunch offerings — all served in an airy, light-filled space on North Main Street. The admiration is mutual: Owners Judy Glicken and husband Ruben Tirado say they’re grateful to have loyal friends as their customer base. The café’s monthly supper club, featuring a four-course meal created by chef Laura Bogard, is already a hit. And they’re now experimenting with hosting live music, plus storytelling and game nights. What’s next? We can’t wait to find out.
2 Allgood Coffee 10-B S. Main St., Weaverville 484-8663 • allgoodcoffee-nc.com
3 Asheville Coffee Roasters 85 Weaverville Highway, Woodfin 253-5282 • ashevillecoffeeroasters.com
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1 Well-Bred Bakery & Café z 26 N. Main St., Weaverville 645-9300 • wellbredbakery.com 6 Boston Way, Asheville 774-5307
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“Saints and Sinners” room, thanks to its icons (including the Virgin Mary), relics and art. Could it get any better?
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1 Well-Bred Bakery & Café z 26 N. Main St., Weaverville 645-9300 • wellbredbakery.com 6 Boston Way, Asheville 774-5307
55 N. Main St., Weaverville 658-8777 • bluemountainpizza.com
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26 N. Main St., Weaverville 645-9300 • wellbredbakery.com 6 Boston Way, Asheville 774-5307
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DINNER RESTAURANT
1 Stoney Knob Café
337 Merrimon Ave., Weaverville 645-3309 • stoneyknobcafe.com
Stoney Knob Café impresses locals and visitors alike: Rapturous reviews extol both the restaurant’s menu of American, Greek and European cuisine and its eclectic décor. For example: “Inviting, fun fresh atmosphere, wonderful service, creative menu, wonderful execution, delicious meal!” gushed 2014EJG recently on TripAdvisor. Gus Dermas, a native of Greece, and his wife, Ismini, ran the restaurant for 30 years until sons Yotty and John took over in the early ‘90s. They’ve since renovated the cafe and added the Red Room, with its tiled fireplace and leather chairs, and the Mediterranean Room, aka the
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3 Allgood Coffee
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REASON TO LIVE IN YOUR TOWN
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and unusual ceramic tables and mixed-media clocks, they also can peek into the working studio in the back of the shop. Rob and Beth Mangum formed their pottery studio back in 1989 after graduating from design school; they moved to the Asheville area in 1997. “We strive to find the union between heritage and contemporary design,” says Beth. “The convergence of nature and spirituality inspires us.” Along with their shop, the couple also is invested in the community. “We love Weaverville and this community,” Beth says. “We’re going to stay here as long as we can.”
2 Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store 10-C S. Main St., Weaverville 645-1111 • MaggieBsWine.com
3 Curtis Wright Outfitters 24 N. Main St., Weaverville 645-8700 • curtiswrightoutfitters.com
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1 Mangum Pottery
16 N. Main St., Weaverville 645-4929 • mangumpottery.com
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Art in Autumn
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On Saturday, Sept. 20, Weaverville’s Art in Autumn event showcases local businesses and artists.
INNOVATIVE BUSINESS
1 Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store 10-C S. Main St., Weaverville 645-1111 • MaggieBsWine.com
Over the past seven years, Weaverville has embraced Maggie B’s Wine & Specialty Store. A first for the town, the charming shop and deli is named not for its owners, Elspeth and Andy Brown, but for their beloved 11-year-old yellow Labrador retriever. Maggie B’s sells wines from small vineyards off the beaten path — including selections from South Africa, Uruguay, France and New Zealand — plus beer, meats, cheeses, wine accessories, and wine and beer by the glass. Wine tastings happen weekly — along with the occasional “Paint Your Pet” portrait sessions with Wine and Design that combine the love of art, pets and adult beverages. Win-winwin. NEW BUSINESS (OPENED IN LAST 12 MONTHS)
1 Soba Sushi and Noodles
76 N. Main St., Weaverville 484-7557 • sobaweaverville.com
Housed in a former bank building, Soba Sushi and Noodles is winning folks over with its sushi, scallops, Asian ribs, fried-rice dishes and more — served in its airy dining room and on an elevated patio. The menu also includes a number of gluten-free options, including pad Thai and miso soup. Building owner Russ Roberson, who counts himself among Soba’s fans, says there’s nothing else like it in town. “They’re just so good at what they do,” Roberson declares. “Their ingredients are fresh … I probably go there a 34
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couple of times a week. They really care about what their customers think.” For any business, that counts as a winning recipe. 2 ALDI 58 Weaver Blvd., Weaverville aldi.us 1334 Patton Ave., Asheville 470 Swannanoa River Road, Asheville For more locations, see bestofwnc.com.
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BUSINESS THAT GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY
1 Blue Mountain Pizza and Brew Pub 55 N. Main St., Weaverville 658-8777 • bluemountainpizza.com
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Offering our own craft-brewed beer, hand-tossed pizza with fresh local ingredients, & our own homemade ice cream
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Blue Mountain Pizza & Brew Pub Extensive menu, Fresh local ingredients Live music every night from 7-9 55 N Main St downtown Weaverville www.bluemountainpizza.com Tuesday-Sunday 11am to 9pm with extended hours Friday & Saturday until 10pm 828.658.8778
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1 Aabani Salon
12 N. Main St., Weaverville 484-8488 • aabani.com
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It’s customers like Suzy Atkinson — who recently posted on Facebook, “Beautiful business, beautiful people!” — that help give Aabani Salon its good name. The Weaverville shop (which uses Aveda products) not only offers cuts, styling, coloring and texturizing, but also spa services that include facials, waxing and makeup. The business, owned by Jim Kitchens and Edward Lee, has earned national kudos as well: Trade publication Salon Today magazine recognized it as one of the top 200 salons in the country. Locally, Aabani Salon belongs to the Weaverville Business Association and joins in the Enchanted Animal Affaire, an annual event that highlights and promotes community, businesses and the arts in Weaverville. Enchanting, indeed.
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ART IN AUTUMN Crafts, commerce and community in Weaverville By Steph Guinan The first brainstorming session for Weaverville’s Art in Autumn festival took place in December 2006. “We were desperately seeking ways to bring more foot traffic to the downtown area of Main Street,” remembers Sherrye Perry, a Weaverville Business Association member. With Beth Mangum, Perry organized what would become a successful annual event. “It seemed a natural migration to focus on the arts in some form or another, and a one-day festival seemed to be a manageable endeavor.” Now in its eighth year, the festival will take over Main Street on Saturday, Sept. 20. The juried festival has grown from about 70 artists the first year to 114 artists on the 2014 roster. Displayed works include a range of mediums, from glass to ceramics to photography and more, as well as a series of live music performers throughout the day. This year, expect to see more artists from beyond Western North Carolina as a result of listing the event with Zapplication, an online art fair application platform which exposed the event to a wider group of artists. “The core group of organizers of this festival are artists and craftspeople seasoned in the craft show business,” says Mangum. Because of their familiarity with how much hard work it can be to vend at an art fair, they have some innovative ideas on how to make it an artistfriendly festival. “We have a crew of people in place to help the artists unload their vehicles and set up their booths,” 36
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says Mangum. “The artists love this service, and many of them say it is their favorite show because of this.” Support also comes in the form of food: “Our local businesses and community are extremely supportive, with the local Presbyterian Church providing 250 boxed lunches for all of our artists and their helpers,” says Perry. During Art in Autumn, seven awards totaling $2,000 will be presented to selected artists for best in show and runners up. This year’s judge, Becky Anderson, was the founding director of HandMade in America after serving as director of economic development for the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce. “I believe that our community involvement speaks loudly that we are 100 percent committed to the financial health of a quaintly artistic small town and her townspeople,” says Perry. X
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WHERE Saturday, Sept. 20, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Free. visitweaverville.com/ art-in-autumn
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Musical mission Exploring the art of sound healing
BY EMILY NICHOLS
emilynicholsphoto@gmail.com
“Sound healing” — what exactly is it? If you have been in Asheville for longer than a week, you’ve probably heard of it or seen a flyer for musical healing offerings. Seeking to learn more, I contacted local musicians, therapists and yoga teachers. I quickly found that sound is perhaps one of the most intangible subjects to write about, given that its very nature is vibrational, subjective and experiential. This fall, a new local festival, Resonate, is launching with a specific emphasis on sound healing. In the Asheville area, there are large numbers of health care professionals who have recognized and adopted the therapeutic application of music for client health. Do they think there’s an innate difference between sound healing and music? I interviewed several individuals who use sound in a professional application for health and well-being. “Music has an almost immediate effect on our physical and emotional experiences. Music can open our heart faster than anything,” says Linda Cammarata, a nurse and musician for over 20 years. For example, try listening to Beethoven’s “Ninth Symphony” followed by a song by Limp Bizkit and you will probably experience two profoundly different physical, emotional and mental responses, she suggests. As a nurse, Cammarata has witnessed music therapy provided to hospice, mental-health, neurological, rehabilitation and geriatric patients. In most cases, soothing music was a method to move people out of pain and into a state of well-being, she says. Now working with clients who suffer from insomnia and sleep deprivation, Cammarata has found that “chronic sleep issues can be
SOUND HEALERS: World-music sound-healing ensemble Strings of Lumina (left to right, Billy Zanski, Linda Cammarata and Larry Cammarata) will perform at OM Sanctuary on Saturday, Sept. 20. Photo by Emily Nichols
relieved with deeply relaxing repetitive sounds.” Imagine listening to crickets lightly chirping before bed versus a fire alarm. While extremes, these two sounds will have opposing affects on your nervous system and ability to fall into deep sleep. Her husband, Larry Cammarata, a therapist who also teaches qi gong and tai chi, regularly incorporates music in sessions with his clients and students. “Some therapists assist their clients to use their own voices in ways that activate specific emotional states, not just for catharsis, but also for purposes of identifying and expressing emotions that may be consciously suppressed or unconsciously repressed,” he says. “For example, an individual may sound a soft sigh in response to talking to their therapist
about a challenging relationship.” In the qi gong classroom, students practice intonations and experience the sounds within their own bodies as a meditative and awareness exercise. Imagine the stillness and tranquility felt in listening to a heartbeat or following the light sound of your own breathing. “In a sound-healing setting, healing sounds are intentionally created to induce a state of open, safe, comfortable receptivity, which makes it relatively easy and enjoyable to relax into a state of peaceful harmony,” he says. Similarly, Kristin Luna Ray, a musician and a yoga teacher, regularly sings and introduces mantras, or sacred meditative sounds, into her yoga classes and albums. “Mantra is a way to infuse sound
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with deep intention,” she says. During the course of a class, Luna Ray uses her own songs, which are generally written in Sanskrit and English, to create a theme or emotional experience for her students. “Many students have told me that the music allows them to access a deeper place during their yoga practice” she says. Billy Zanski, owner of Skinny Beats Drum Shop and Gallery, hosts a sound-healing session every Sunday at noon with Linda GO at his shop on Eagle Street. “I’ve seen a lot of people find their way into my store that don’t know a thing about sound being healing,” says Zanski, “It is pretty mysterious.” Zanski comments that the person or people playing the instruments play a factor. “If they are playing with happiness, joy or the intention to create a safe space, then that comes through the performance,” he says. Talking further about the difference between music and sound healing, Zanski explains, “How many musicians do you know that call themselves a healer? Once you make a statement like that, you have to back it up with being healthy yourself. You can get really mental about ‘intention,’ but when a band is playing a really great song and everyone is happy, that’s sound healing.” So the verdict is in. Sound healing can be found in a therapist’s office, a yoga class, within your own body, or at a bar with your friends in the wee hours of the night. How we relate to sound in our life can be the difference between a state of healing or a state of imbalance. To learn more about sound healing, check out these events: Strings of Lumina at OM Sanctuary (87 Richmond Hill Drive) from 7-9 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20. Strings of Lumina is a world-music, soundhealing group that includes Larry Cammarata, Linda Cammarata and Billy Zanski. Cost: $15. Resonate Festival at New Mountain (38 N. French Broad Ave.) happens from 1-10 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 4. Tickets $30. Includes worldrenowned artists Paradiso and Rasamayi, Linda GO and more. X
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WELLNESS CALENDAR
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WELLNESS ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY LECTURE (pd.) Healing and Transformation Through Transcendental Meditation. Learn about the authentic TM technique. It’s not concentrating, trying to be mindful, or common mantra practice. It’s an effortless, non-religious, evidence-based technique for heightened well-being and a spiritually fulfilled life. The only meditation recommended by the American Heart Association. • Topics: How the major forms of meditation differ—in practice and results; What science says about TM, stress, anxiety and depression; Meditation and brain research; What is Enlightenment? • Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828254-4350 or MeditationAsheville.org
AL-ANON/ ALATEEN FAMILY GROUP A support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. Info: wnc-alanon.org or 800286-1326. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.
OPEN HOUSE • DAOIST TRADITIONS COLLEGE ACUPUNCTURE CLINIC (pd.) Saturday, October 4, 1-4pm. Free to the public. Free mini treatments, health tips, raffle, and more. Treatment specials available for purchase. For details,visit www.daoisttraditions.edu
ASPERGER’S TEENS UNITED facebook.com/groups/ AspergersTeensUnited • SATURDAYS, 6-9pm – For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks starting June 28.
ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY YOGA CENTER 8 Brookdale Road, ashevillecommunityyoga. com • THURSDAYS through (9/25), 6-7:30pm Yoga for trauma recovery. $40 for series.
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PARK RIDGE HEALTH EVENTS 100 Hospital Drive, 684-8501, parkridgehealth.org • WE (9/17), 4pm - Seminar and support group for cancer survivors who have completed treatment within the past year. Free.
ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, stgeorge.diocesewnc.org • MONDAYS through (10/27), 2:30-3:30pm Tai Chi for arthritis. All levels. $10.
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OUR VOICE TRAUMA EDUCATION SERIES 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org/trauma-educationseries • TUESDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Workshop and support group, “Understanding the Mind, Body and Spirit after Sexual Violence.” Free. Held at Our Voice, 44 Merrimon Ave. Suite 1, 28801
SIDE-BY-SIDE SINGING FOR WELLNESS sidebysidesinging.wordpress.com • WEDNESDAYS, 1:30-3pm - For people with dementia, Alzheimer’s or brain damage and their care-partners. Free. Held at Unitarian Univeralist Fellowship of Hendersonville, 2021 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville
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FIT AFTER 50 505-3990, ymcawnc.org/centers/woodfin • SA (9/20), noon-4pm - Includes lectures, health screenings, games, massages and dancing for Baby Boomers. Free. Held at YMCA of Woodfin, 30 Woodfin St.
SUPPORT GROUPS ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS & DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILIES For people who grew up in an alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional home. Info: adult-
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 2548539 or aancmco.org. ASHEVILLE WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY 215-536-8026, www.womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8 p.m. – YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. ASPERGER’S ADULTS UNITED facebook.com/WncAspergersAdultsUnited • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 2-4:30pm - Held at Hyphen, 81 Patton Ave.
CHRONIC PAIN SUPPORT deb.casaccia@gmail.com or 989-1555 • 2nd SATURDAYS, 12:30 p.m. – Held in a private home. Contact for directions. CODEPENDENTS ANONYMOUS 398-8937 • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm & SATURDAYS, 11am-12:15 pm - First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Use back door. • TUESDAYS, 8pm - Asheville 12 Step Recovery Club, 1340-A Patton Avenue DEBTORS ANONYMOUS debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7 p.m. – First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 101 DEPRESSION AND BIPOLAR SUPPORT ALLIANCE magneticminds.weebly.com or 367-7660 • WEDNESDAYS, 7 p.m. & SATURDAYS, 4 p.m. – 1316-C Parkwood Road DIABETES SUPPORT laura.tolle@msj.org or 213-4788 • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3:30pm – Mission Health, 1 Hospital Drive. Room 3-B. EATING DISORDER SUPPORT GROUPS Info: thecenternc.weebly.com or 337-4685. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings. ELECTRO-SENSITIVITY SUPPORT For electrosensitive individuals. For location and info contact hopefulandwired@gmail. com or 255-3350. EMOTIONS ANONYMOUS For anyone desiring to live a healthier emotional life. Info: 631-434-5294 • TUESDAYS, 7 p.m. – Oak Forest Presbyterian Church, 880 Sandhill Road FOOD ADDICTS ANONYMOUS 423-6191 or 301-4084 • THURSDAYS, 6 p.m. – Asheville 12 Step Club, 1340A Patton Ave.
HEART OF RECOVERY MEDITATION GROUP Teaches how to integrate meditation with any 12-step recovery program. asheville. shambhala.org • TUESDAYS, 6 p.m.- Shambhala Meditation Center, 19 Westwood Place. HEART SUPPORT For individuals living with heart failure. 274-6000. • 1st TUESDAYS, 2-4pm – Asheville Cardiology Associates, 5 Vanderbilt Drive. LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association. 776-4809. • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30 p.m. – Swannanoa Library, 101 W. Charleston Ave. MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS For caregivers of those with memory loss or dementia. network@memorycare.org • 2nd TUESDAYS, 9:30am – Highland Farms Retirement Community, 200 Tabernacle Road, Black Mountain MEN WORKING ON LIFE’S ISSUES 273-5334 or 231-8434 • TUESDAYS, 6-8pm – Held in a private home. Contact for directions.
• WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm – The First Christian Church, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler. OVEREATERS ANONYMOUS Info: 258-4821. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings. RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Info: recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS, 6pm – Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 376 Hendersonville Road.
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S-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For those affected by another’s sexaholism. Four confidential meetings are available weekly in WNC. For dates, times and locations contact wncsanon@gmail.com or 258-5117. SMART RECOVERY Helps individuals gain independence from all types of addictive behavior. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings. ST. GEORGE’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH • SATURDAYS, 6-9pm - Asperger’s Teens United. For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every three weeks.
MISSION HEALTH FAMILY GROUP NIGHT For caregivers of children with social health needs or development concerns. 213-9787 • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30 p.m. – Mission Rueter Children’s Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive.
STRENGTH IN SURVIVORSHIP For cancer survivors. Strengthinsurvivorship@yahoo.com or 8087673 • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 11am-noon – Mills River Library, 124 Town Drive, Mills River
NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS For relatives and friends concerned about the addiction or drug problem of a loved one. Info: nar-anon.org. Visit mountainx. com/support for full listings.
SYLVA GRIEF SUPPORT Hosted by Four Seasons Compassion for Life. melee@fourseasonscfl.org • TUESDAYS, 10:30am. - Jackson County Department on Aging, 100 Country Services Park, Sylva
NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS For people living with mental health issues and their loved ones. Info: namiwnc.org or 505-7353. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings.
UNDEREARNERS ANONYMOUS underearnersanonymous.org • TUESDAYS, 6 p.m. – First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St., Room 102
OVERCOMES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE For anyone who is dealing with physical and/or emotional abuse. 665-9499.
To add information about your support group, call 251-1333, ext. 114. Support groups must be free of charge to be listed.
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ASAP Farm Tour September 20-21st 37 farms in 7 counties
purchase your car pass on-line at asapconnections.org Photo contest: 1. There are FOUR farmers that supply Ingles who will be a part of the tour: • Sunburst Trout (Canton) • Hickory Nut Gap Meats (Fairview) • Imladris Jams (Fairview) • New Sprout Farms (Black Mountain) 2. Visit any of those farms and snap a photo of yourself at the farm (so we can tell you are at THAT farm). Be sure and tag it with #ASAPfarmtour AND #Ingles and then tweet it and you’ll be entered to win a $25 Ingles gift card!
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Upcoming Fall Lecture Series: CAMELLIAS THE SOUTHERN DARLING OF THE WINTER GARDEN! It’s Camellia month at B.B. Barns! Join Barn Bryant for a delightful seminar on the 30+ varieties of Autumn, Winter and Spring blooming, hardy Camellias. Learn the proper planting & care techniques, the benefits of installing camellias & propagation of blooms. Don’t forget your Wilt Stop: protection for your Camellias! Saturday September 20th 2014 at 11:00am
PUTTING YOUR GARDEN TO BED Fall Garden Clean Up In preparation for Winter gardening season, Cinthia Milner, will help you create your “Autumn Garden To Do List” so your plants are resting happily for the Winter. You can have color in the landscape all year round! Hellebores and Pansies NOW! Saturday September 27th 2014 11:00am • Cinthia Milner
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BY CARRIE EIDSON Send your garden news to ceidson@mountainx.com
Like many communities, the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians has “suffered from the excesses of modern living,” writes Principal Chief Michell Hicks in an opinion editorial for The News & Observer earlier this spring. Hicks writes that the Cherokee are working to overcome poor eating habits, a lack of exercise, substance abuse and domestic violence. And while the tribe has addressed these issues by expanding health care and education programs, it also implemented a more grassroots solution — literally. “In the end, it all came down to simply planting a garden,” Hicks writes. This year, the tribe celebrated the 10th anniversary of a community garden kit program that Hicks launched in 2004, funded solely through the tribe’s general funds. With the help of the EBCI Cooperative Extension office, the tribe distributes kits containing vegetable seeds and an edible shrub designed to help families grow their own produce while encouraging physical activity and increasing access to healthy foods. “Farming and agriculture have always been a part of our people, but I saw how we were getting away from that,” Hicks says in an interview with Xpress. “There were fewer gardens being planted, so I wanted to find a way to reenergize agriculture in our community.” In the program’s first year, 350 kits were distributed, though extension agent Sarah McClellan-Welch says that number could not match the demand. The program expanded each year, with 750 kits passed out in 2014. The extension office had to distribute the kits at four
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GROWING WELLNESS: “In the end, it all came down to simply planting a garden,” writes Principal Chief Michell Hicks of the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. The chief’s garden kit program has increased gardening in the community by an estimated 60 percent. Image courtesy of EBCI
locations in order to combat long lines and waiting time, she adds. “The response has been huge,” she says. “It’s the most popular and well-received program that I’m involved with here.” Overall, she says, the extension office credits the garden kits with an estimated 60 percent increase in gardening in the community, though McClellan-Welch says she believes the percentage is actually greater. “Part of that is based on a survey we conduct each summer, and part of that is just based on driving around,” she explains. “Driving down the road, you’ll see more and more gardens where there hadn’t been gardens for years. And we’re seeing more elders gardening with their grandchildren.” Hicks notes that getting children involved was always a goal of the
program, which he saw as a way to teach kids the value of healthy eating and physical activity in a community that sees higher obesity and Type 2 diabetes rates than the general population in North Carolina and in the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “[Gardening] gives the kids something to do that keeps them staying active, instead of being planted in front of a television or playing video games,” Hicks says. The kits are also a way to preserve Cherokee agricultural heritage, as they contain seeds for crops such as corn and climbing beans that have historical significance to the Cherokee, Hicks says. McClellan-Welch adds that the kits also introduce “something new” by including
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Beneath a sheltered patio off Heritage Drive in West Asheville, a small group of people assemble their goods. Cans of colorful jam are stacked on top of each other, homemade pickles float in herb-infused brine, bouquets of magenta lamb’s quarters are piled beside red bell peppers, tomatoes, freshly cut basil, and tiny, wild mountain apples. This colorful bounty, however, is not for sale. Money will buy you nothing at the Asheville Food Swap. The goal and mission of the food swap is to “create an outlet for sharing surplus homemade or homegrown food while offering an alternative to storebought items, helping swappers eat locally, sustainable and affordably,” notes the group’s website. After canning 20 pounds of peaches with her mother last summer, Nellie Getz, the founder of this monthly event, realized she had more than enough to share. “I thought, ‘I’ll find a food swap and I’ll go.’ But there wasn’t one so, I figured, I’d just start
one.” Though the initiative began last summer, the group has only recently secured a location and set a consistent time for gathering. “People take a lot of pride in the things that they grow and the things that they make,” says Getz. “I think it’s just a better way to eat, to get things from people that come togeth-
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PROUD PROVISIONS: “I think it’s just a better way to eat,” says Asheville Food Swap organizer Nellie Getz, “to get things from people that come together with a mutual respect and love for food.” Photo by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt
er with a mutual respect and love for food. Instead of buying pickles from the store, you can trade with someone who grew them and made them.” Jody Friedman, offering applesauce from an early-fruiting tree on her street, homemade tomato sauce and herbs, is a regular at these swaps. “I always came back with so much more than what I brought,” says Friedman. “But other people don’t feel that way because they value my dried herbs and shou shen, a Chinese herb that grows wild in my garden. I love meeting neighbors here, and I love
the fact that we’re circumventing the money system.” Jennifer Wear, co-founder of the event, smiles from behind her display of canned goods. “I brought a few types of jam, canned fruit, pickles, some peppers and apple moonshine,” she says. Michael Gentry, a wild-foods forager and owner of Sustainable Gourmet, offers an amazing array of fresh produce from his garden. Gentry says that this event is “an extension of our ever-growing food web here in Western North Carolina.” Grinning beneath a wide-brimmed straw hat, he continues, “People have the opportunity to opt out of the normal paradigm and come out and create our own culture built around trade and community rather than dollars and cents. This is the kind of economy that makes great sense.” The Asheville Food Swap meets at 5:30 p.m. on the third Sunday of each month at 23 Heritage Drive, Building B. For more information, see avlfoodswap.com.X
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ON THE GO: Colleah Habif, owner of Mountain Mojo Coffee Shop, offers a variety of healthful snack and meal options at her drive-thru and dine-in spot in Fairview. Photo by Cindy Kunst
The search for healthy drive-thru options in Asheville
Every parent has been there: a hungry child in the backseat, a forgotten snack and several errands left to run before heading home. The bigname fast food chains make these moments so effortless to resolve with a quick sprint through the drive-thru. But with dietary restrictions and food allergies becoming more common, fast food is not a viable choice for some parents. When VegHeads closed last year, the drive-thru solution for many parents disappeared along with it. Fortunately, depending on where you are when you find yourself in this predicament, there are a few options in the Asheville area for
healthy, fresh snacks on the run. Edna’s of Asheville on Merrimon Avenue is one business that is on top of the dilemma. On the topic of the abundance of unhealthy drive-thru snack choices for children, general manager Bryan Giudici says, “I think it’s a huge issue. There is a ton of fast food available here, and everything is just supercondensed on Merrimon Avenue. There are a lot of opportunities to get really [unhealthy] food.” As an alternative, Edna’s offers a variety of made-to-order healthy wraps and sandwiches through its drive-thru window. “All of our stuff either comes from local suppliers or reputable wholesalers,” says Giudici. “We get our hummus from Roots. We make all of our baked goods here every day. Every sandwich is made to order. Nothing is fro-
zen and nothing has been sitting around too long.” Edna’s offers nondairy, glutenfree and vegan alternatives to many items, and sandwiches can be made on gluten-free bagels. Fruit-juice smoothies are also on the menu and can be a good choice for an afternoon pick-meup. Menu items geared specifically toward children are in the works at Edna’s. Prices range from $3.25 for a gluten-free bagel to $7.95$9.95 for wraps. On the east side of town, Mountain Mojo Coffee Shop off of Old Charlotte Highway in Fairview has a number of kid-friendly offerings. ”Everything here is fresh and local,” says owner Colleah Habif. “We try to carry gluten-free options to whatever we are doing.” In the morning at Mountain Mojo, you can find fresh croissant breakfast sandwiches, a variety of personal-sized mini-quiches, yogurt, granola, freshly prepared baked goods and real fruit smoothies. Sandwiches, house-made soups and a rotating selection of homemade turnovers can offer a quick lunchtime or snack solution in the afternoon. Expect to pay $4.75 for a sandwich, $3.50 for a mini-quiche, and $4.50 for a fruit smoothie. Looking to the south, an innovative new drive-thru eatery opened earlier this month in a building that formerly housed a McDonald’s on Hendersonville Road. Asia Wrap offers an assortment of creative, Asian-themed wraps, salads, sushi and rice bowls. Kids menu items, priced at $3.99, include a peanut-butter-and-jelly wrap or rice bowls with a choice of fried or grilled teriyaki chicken or hibachi vegetables on brown, white or fried rice with either fries or applesauce. Side options, such as steamed edamame, Asian slaw and sweet carrots, could serve as a cheap and nourishing snack at just $1.39. General Manager Chris St. Onge says word is still getting out about Asia Wrap’s drive-thru, but with a newly installed, state-of-the-art speaker and headphone system, “we’re ready for it to kick in and evolve.” However, given that the restaurant also has a brand-new indoor playground and two 800-gallon fish tanks in its dining room, families may find themselves seduced into dining in from time to time. In a pinch, if a substantial meal is not needed, the south side also offers drive-thru coffee shops such
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as Biltmore Coffee Traders and The Coffee Depot, both also on Hendersonville Road, that can come to the rescue with fresh fruit smoothies or a bagel for a snack. Perhaps budding food entrepreneurs will take note of the dearth of independent, health-conscious drive-thru restaurants and follow the path paved in recent years by the local food truck industry. Could there be a drive-thru boom in Asheville’s future? Edna’s of Asheville, 870 Merrimon Ave. Hours: 7 a.m.-10 p.m. MondayFriday, 7 a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, 7 a.m.-8 p.m. Sunday. 255-3881 Mountain Mojo Coffee Shop, 381 Old Charlotte Highway, Fairview. Hours: 7 a.m.-5 p.m. MondaySaturday. 702-9699 Asia Wrap, 1915 Hendersonville Road. Hours: 10 a.m.-9 p.m. MondayThursday, 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, closed Sunday X
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FLIGHTS OF FANCY: West End Bakery and Café will highlight its dessert flights at a Patio Party on Saturday, Sept. 20. Photo courtesy of West End Bakery and Café
PATIO PARTY AT WEST END BAKERY & CAFÉ Back in July, West End Bakery & Café embraced the summer season by adding a covered outdoor seating area to its landmark West Asheville property. Around the same time, the bakery’s dessert chef, Meg Schearer, introduced dessert flights to the menu — a sampling of sweet items in tiny portions on one plate — and the eatery
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rolled out evening hours on Fridays and Saturdays along with a beer and wine menu. Now that summer is drawing to a close, West End Bakery plans to celebrate the enlarged space and highlight the new nighttime offerings with a family-friendly, neighborhood Patio Party on Saturday, Sept. 20. The event also kicks off a new monthly Youth Open Mic Night, which will happen 6-9 p.m. the third Saturday of every month. Kids ages 18 and younger are welcome to perform their music, poetry, storytelling or stand-up comedy. Live music will follow the open mic 9-11 p.m. West End co-owner Krista Stearns says adding entertainment, beer and wine and dessert flights — an idea that came from relatives living in larger cities who noted the growing dessert-flight trend — is an effort to bring attention to the café as an evening destination for families. “We have so many bars and restaurants in West Asheville,” says Stearns, who has two young children, “but we wanted [to create] a spot where families could come and be in the evenings and hear a little music
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The French Broad Vignerons, a service and support organization for vineyards, orchards and their products, is making efforts to expand its involvement with noncommercial, hobbyist winemakers. The group, which founded the Best of the Appalachians wine program and judges the Asheville Wine and Food Festival wine competitions, also hopes to increase its connections with people who are interested in learning to grow grapes and make wine but have no experience. According to a press release, the Vignerons will help people assess their property to determine the best location for a vineyard, select grapevines and plan how they will make their wine. The group also offers two events annually where amateur vintners can get feedback on their wines from experienced judges. frenchbroadvignerons.org or Facebook.com/FrenchBroadVignerons FREE HELP WITH FOOD SYSTEMS PROJECTS The Food Systems team at the Carolina Farm Stewards Association is launching a new Food Systems Projects Program. Each year, the program will accept a small number of projects in North and South Carolina to receive oneon-one assistance toward implementation and sustainability as a business. The team will offer free consulting services such as feasibility assessments, market chan-
nel development, business planning assistance, investment/lending matching, product sourcing assistance and legal structure guidance. The deadline for applications is 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 6. Visit carolinafarmstewards.org/ food-systems-consulting-services or contact Ben Filippo at 919-542-2042 or ben@carolinafarmstewards.org TEMPEH BARBECUE CHALLENGE Last year it was tacos. The year before it was Reuben sandwiches. This year, Smiling Hara Tempeh has announced that the theme of its annual Tempeh Challenge will be barbecue. On Sunday, Oct. 26, local chefs will square off at The Boathouse in the River Arts District to see who can make the most delicious barbecue tempeh creation. For the cost of a $15 ticket ($12 in advance), guests will be able to sample and vote on the competing dishes. Children ages 12 and younger are free. The family-friendly event will also feature live music, and Smiling Hara is promising a big announcement at the bash. The event will donate 25 percent of its proceeds to the Growing Warriors program, which trains and equips veterans to grow produce and hemp. Tempeh Challenge, 2-6 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 26, The Boathouse, 318 Riverside Drive. Facebook.com/smilingharatempehllc HARVEST AT THE RIVER FESTIVAL With autumn in the air, harvest celebrations are in order. Accordingly, the Mills River Farmers Market will host its Harvest at the River Festival on Saturday, Sept. 20. The bash will include displays of animals and farm equipment, live music and entertainment, and cooking and craft demonstrations. Market vendors will also be selling their items, which include locally grown produce and locally produced cheeses, meats, jams, jellies, fresh-cut flowers and handmade arts and crafts. The market accepts credit and debit cards as well as EBT/SNAP. Harvest at the River Festival, 8 a.m.-noon, Saturday, Sept. 20, G&B Energy Plaza, 5046 Boylston Highway, Mills River. 891-3332 X
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Blog all about it Beer Bloggers Conference announces Asheville as its host city for 2015
Photos of the Biltmore Estate, Highland Brewing Co. and Hickory Nut Gap Farm flooded food blogs and social media during the annual Food Blog Forum event, held Aug. 17-19 this year. It was the first time the event was held in Asheville, and more than 100 food bloggers showed our city a lot of love. In 2015, the Food Blog Forum moves on — to Disney World in Orlando, Fla. However, next summer, Asheville will host another small but influential group of bloggers for the first time: The Beer Bloggers Conference will descend upon the city July 17-19. The conference, held in San Diego this year, is an annual meetup for both “citizen beer bloggers,” also known as non-industry beer bloggers, and those in the craft brewing industry. In 2014, attendees included dozens of regional beer bloggers as well as representatives from Lagunitas, Firestone Walker, The Kitchn and Craftbeer.com (run by the Brewers Association). “The conference itself is pretty structured. … There are a variety of seminars,” says Abby Dickinson, who attended this year’s conference and is Wicked Weed’s marketing director. “But there’s a trade show of sorts where a bunch of breweries share beer … and one of the sponsor breweries throws a party for the bloggers at the event. It was a great opportunity to meet with a variety of people who work with beer.” That Asheville is following San Diego, a legendary beer city home to an estimated 90-plus breweries including Stone, The Lost Abbey and Ballast Point, is less surprising now that our large craft breweries are coming online. They provide big anchors — and often financial support — for events like this. In fact, Ken Grossman,
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BLOG CITY: Food bloggers converged for a tasting event at Highland Brewing Co. as part of the annual Food Blog Forum in August. Beer bloggers will descend on Asheville next summer for the Beer Bloggers Conference. Photo by Kat McReynolds
founder and owner of Sierra Nevada, is the one who announced that 2015 would be Asheville’s year at this year’s conference. So, as you might expect, Sierra Nevada will play a large role in hosting the BBC in 2015, including a dinner at the brewery. Oskar Blues has already committed as a sponsor of BBC 2015 as well. The event will also give local breweries a chance to share the spotlight even if they aren’t official sponsors. “[The Wicked Weed team] got there a day early to explore the beer scene … and a lot of bloggers will do the same here in Asheville,” says Dickinson. “If you’re traveling somewhere [as a beer blogger], you’re going to spend the extra day on either side of the conference to explore the scene.” The multiday event still has a lot of details to announce, including most conference speakers. As in past years, the conference is limited to 150 attendees. The price to attend the event itself is $120 for bloggers who commit to two posts about the event and $320 for those just wanting to attend. For more information or to register, visit http:// www.beerbloggersconference.org.
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THIRSTY MONK ANNOUNCES OPEN BREWING Last month, the Thirsty Monk team announced they were closing their Gerber Village location for a new venture to be unveiled in September. They said the new business will be an original concept unlike anything currently operating in the United States. The new project, called Open Brewing, may well deliver on that promise. Owner Barry Bialik calls it “the first commercial brewpub in the country dedicated to open-source brewing.” Essentially he views it as a sort of incubator for homebrewers to develop and reformat recipes on a large scale. They can share their beers with a wider audience and receive feedback. No numbers have been released, but Bialik says homebrewers will be paid a royalty for each pint. “As the craft-beer industry has taken off, so has homebrewing, and we have had a great relationship with the local homebrewing community [through Thirsty Monk] over the years,” said Bialik. ”Our intent is to create an avenue where homebrewers can reach new audiences, experience the brewing process on a larger scale and gain
opportunity in the beer world that might not otherwise be available.” Of course, what’s a brewpub without patrons? Bialik sees Open Brewing as a place where Asheville’s adventurous beer drinkers can find a constantly rotating tap list with “unique brews they may never have the opportunity to drink twice.” Open Brewing will accept applications from homebrewers to come and brew their beer in September via hello@obrewing.com. A tasting panel including Norm Penn (Thirsty Monk’s brewer) and Matt McComish (Thirsty Monk’s head beer buyer and certified cicerone) will choose the beers. Open Brewing will be at 20 Gala Drive, No. 101 in Gerber Village on Hendersonville Road, the location of the former Thirsty Monk South. The opening date has not yet been announced, but is expected to be early this fall.X
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THURSDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Jason Kenney (Americana, rock), 9pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: $3.50 pints at Merrimon location
FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: Live Music: Ron Ireland (folk, country, blues), 6pm GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Underground Bakery, 3pm
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: HowieFest: Fundraiser for Howie Johnson to help w/ medical bills. Live music: Eric Congdon, Howie Johnson, Ellen Trnka & Woody and more, 5-10pm
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WEDGE: Food Truck: El Kimchi (Korean/ Mexican street food)
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HI-WIRE: New Brew: Ringmaster’s Reserve Series: barrel-aged Russian imperial stout
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Live music: Ellen Trnka (singer-songwriter), 5-7pm
HIGHLAND: New Brew: Thunderstruck release party, 4-9pm; Live music: Delta Moon (blues), 6:30pm; Food Trucks: Farm to Fender, Pho Ya Belly
WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales)
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Blue Ridge EV Club information session w/ electric cars
MONDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Old-time jam, 8pm
WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales)
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ALTAMONT: Cornhole w/ Highlands & Terrapin, 3pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: New Brew: Papa Icky’s Oktoberfest Ale FRENCH BROAD TASTING ROOM: Live Music: The Moon & You (folk), 6pm GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Melt Your Heart (gourmet grilled cheese), 3pm GREEN MAN: New Brew: Gose 11 series; Food Truck: Vieux Carre HI-WIRE: Soccer & English Breakfast: Aston Villa v. Arsenal, 10am; West Ham United v. Liverpool, 12:30pm HIGHLAND: Brewgrass; For Love of Beer & Mountains: hike up to Clawhammer Mountain HIGHLAND: Live outdoor music: Gaelic Storm (celtic), 8-10pm; Food Trucks: Farm to Fender, Pho Ya Belly OYSTER HOUSE: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys
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The biggest challenge to making a movie about the busking scene in downtown Asheville, says Erin Derham, was knowing when to stop. New buskers cycled through town all summer, giving the filmmaker endless possibilities to flesh out her story on the subculture these musicians inhabit. Superorganized and deadlineoriented, Derham gave herself six months to complete the film. The result, Buskin’ Blues, will premiere at The Orange Peel on Sunday, Sept. 21. The event will also feature live performances by some of the musicians from the documentary. A freelance videographer and editor, Derham launched the selffinanced project eight months before she actually started shooting. Initially, it was about Asheville’s coolness factor. What made the city fascinating, she says, was its buskers and the interest that the larger busking world has in Asheville. Derham, who moved to town two years ago, comes from what she considers a privileged background, at least compared to most street musicians. But as the daughter of a guitar player and the mother of two little
WHAT Buskin’ Blues premiere, with performances by Andrew Fletcher, The Resonant Rogues, To All My Dear Friends, Flat Pennies and Chris Rodrigues. Silent auction to benefit Asheville Music Professionals (AMP) WHERE The Orange Peel, the orangepeel.net WHEN Sunday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m. $15
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ones, she’s not so distanced from her subjects. Like them, she works for herself, shooting and editing for the PBS affiliate in Charlotte, and for the Levine Museum of the New South. She can be really busy one month and not have much work the next. Derham knew her workload would be light this summer, so she developed the idea for the film. She thought she stood a good chance at grant funding, given the shaky, amateur nature of many busker videos she’d seen online. “I was mainly interested in how buskers interact with each other, how they know where to go, what rules to follow, the hierarchies, how they interact with the city — all that,” she says. Her break came one night when she went to a house party and met the opening act, a busker in town. Derham mentioned the film idea.
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DIRECT SHOT: Filmmaker Erin Derham, right, interviews musician Andrew Fletcher, left, at 5 Walnut Wine Bar. He often performs there, and on the sidewalk, pushing his piano on a dolly to his location. Also pictured: director of photography Shane Peters and audio mixer Adam Johnson. Photo by Paul Clark
The busker was eager to participate and said he’d introduce her around. Derham decided not to wait for grant money, funding the project herself instead. She assembled a local team, going out many evenings with a videographer and a sound technician. Lots of people volunteered to help, from production
to post-production, and that collaborative nature shows up in the film. “The reason buskers choose this town over other towns is how welcoming [other] buskers are — telling each other where the best spots are, how long they can stay, what they can do to get people’s attention,” Derham says. “That doesn’t happen in New Orleans or in other cities.” Many musicians busk in Asheville because people here treat them well, Derham was told. “And not just other buskers, but businesses in general and the city,” she says. “And the tourists love them.” The more good buskers stick around, the more not-so-good ones leave, “because there is somebody Orange Peel-quality playing 40 feet away from them,” Derham explains. The four high-volume, crowd-ready
places to play are Pack Square, in front of Spiritex and in front of Woolworth Walk, both on Haywood Street, and at the flatiron sculpture on Wall Street. Derham says people started calling her with tips. They told her about a musician who pushes his piano on a dolly all over downtown. “I figured I was going to see this really grungy kind of dude,” she says. But it turned out to be the impeccably dressed Andrew Fletcher, who plays keyboard in a number of bands around town. “Something that people like about Asheville is community spirit, and buskers have that,” Derham says. “There’s this guy, Jimbino Vegan from London, an amazing clarinet player. He’s traveled all over the world with a couple of buskers in town. He was doing his own little tour up the East Coast, and he got to Asheville and asked Big Nasty Jazz Band if he could play with them. He immediately had a place to hang out, a place to busk, money, a place to sleep, parties, drinks,
everything.” Derham knows this because she followed him around for a day. Vegan and Fletcher opened her eyes to “superbands” — bands that buskers put together to help other musicians who have lost instruments, had medical problems, maybe need rent money. “It’s like their union. They all come together to donate the money to that one person,” Derham says. “[Vegan] is doing it to get his friend out of the Ukraine. His goal is to raise $10,000, and he’s almost made it from busking.” In an interview for the film, Vegan says that if the buskers don’t help each other, nobody’s going to help them. “That is when it really hit home for me that this is a genuine subculture,” says Derham. “This isn’t just me tacking on some anthropological phrase to what busking is. They were genuinely their own community.” For more information on Derham and Buskin' Blues, visit her website at thehistoryboutique.com X
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by Alli Marshall
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Street corner symphony To All My Dear Friends funds new album, Bloom, through busking
If the band name To All My Dear Friends doesn’t ring familiar, the music will: It’s the indie-classical project of violinist Marc Hennessey, who performs on the streets of Asheville. He works loops and effects with a stripe-socked foot while crafting emotive melodies that soar above the busy streets and stop crowds of tourists in their tracks. But Hennessey, who is often joined by percussionist Josh Newton, is relatively new to busking. Before picking Asheville as
his home base more than three years ago, the Florida native was touring nonstop, as well as scoring films and taking commissions for ballets. “Street performing, for me, evolved in Asheville,” he says. Faced with sacrificing sound quality to play outside while surrounded by commotion, he updated his gear, including special amplifiers. He also puts in a lot of time developing his sound so that, when he plays on Pack Square or in front of Spiritex, it’s concert-hall quality. “I didn’t expect the response on the street to be so similar to the response in venues,” Hennessey says. Bolstered by the passionate reactions of passersby, he decided to finance his new album, Bloom, with money earned from busk-
PLEIN AIR PERFORMANCE: “I didn’t expect the response on the street to be so similar to the response in venues,” says To All My Dear Friends violinist Marc Hennessey. Photo by Taylor Johnson
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To All My Dear Friends’ album release for Bloom toallmydearfriends.com
Sunday, Sept . 28 • 4pm - 8pm
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Join us on Air Level for prizes from Diamond Brand Outdoors, beer from Highland Brewing along with cocktails and live music from Hank West and The Smokin’ Hots.
The Landing, 68 Kentucky Drive, West Asheville, on Saturday, Sept. 20, at 10 p.m. Donations at the door WHERE Buskin’ Blues screening event at The Orange Peel, on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 6 p.m. $15
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ing. Forget Kickstarter: “I call it analog crowdfunding, without the use of a computer,” says the musician. “It’s true grassroots. People just want to see you succeed.” The album releases with two local shows, on Saturday, Sept. 20, and Sunday, Sept. 21. It will be available beginning Friday, Sept. 12, at To All My Dear Friends street performances. The violinist is featured in the locally based documentary, Buskin’ Blues. Of his fellow buskers he says, “A lot of us are good friends, and it’s not easy to make money on
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the streets of Asheville. [But] if you’re willing to do something unique that grabs people, then they will respond to it.” Some of what Hennessey has learned from his time busking comes from the instant feedback of his constantly revolving audience. “When you have a crowd of 100 people, they’re all elevating together with you. Once I could feel that, I could play with it in the music, and it brought about a shift in me,” he says. “I feel like I’m in a blossoming period.” Hence the name of his album. Much of Bloom was written just as Hennessey was getting into street performance; some was composed in that setting. The album was recorded in four studios with a Grammy-winning engineer, but the violinist also plans to record a live street album in the future. “There’s all this noise and stimulation on the street, and people are desensitized,” he says. “But if I can get their attention for just 10 minutes, if my music can bring clarity to their personal situation, then I’ve succeeded in my goal.” X
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by Edwin Arnaudin
edwinarnaudin@gmail.com
Pop, lock and roll Southeast B-Boy Championships return to Asheville
NICE MOVES: Performers and judges from the 2013 Southeast B-Boy Championships. From the left, all-styles runner-up Genesis, judges Aquaboogy and Kunstruct, all-styles winner Montahje, judge Venicia and executive producer Brett Rock. Image by J. Wharton Photography
former professional bass fisher who sold his boat to fund the inaugural edition. “Dancing is good for you no matter what the style. Breaking, popping, locking and the dancing that has come out of those three original styles — there is a healthy scene for it across the country and really worldwide. It’s entertaining to watch, but it’s more fun to do.” In line with similar jams (a term that dates to New York City park jams in the ’70s when DJs would hook up sound systems and have parties) the battle element of the championships is an open competition where anyone can sign up, regardless of age. Dancers choose from three separate categories — 1 vs. 1 B-boy; 3 vs. 3 B-boy; and 1 vs. 1 all-styles. Battles begin with a preliminary round where the judges see every dancer before they confer on who they want to see in the bracket round. It’s not unusual for a teen to face off against someone pushing 40, Rock says. “You sign up, and the best dancer shall win, that’s the bottom line,” Rock says. “We don’t play favorites. Don’t say you’re not good enough to compete with the big guys. Just go in there and have at it.” Top talent is expected now that the Southeast Championships is the lone U.S. qualifier for the
WHAT Southeast B-Boy Championships southeastbboy.com WHERE Masonic Temple
Three of hip-hop culture’s four pillars — MCing, DJing and graffiti writing — are alive and well in Asheville. As for B-boying, while it has flourished in Raleigh, Charlotte, Greensboro and even Fayetteville, the fourth pillar is largely absent on the local scene. “It just hasn’t soaked in so much,” says Brett Rock, a local DJ. “If you’re looking to spin fire or do aerial acrobatics or belly dancing, it’s great. And there’s a good bit of formal dance here, but as far as street dance, it hasn’t fully reached this area.” Hard at work building a foundation, Rock’s friend Joe Adams leads a free B-boy class each Wednesday from 6-8 p.m. at the Stephens Lee Recreation Center for youth of all ages. Out of these sessions rose the Underdog Crew, composed of
roughly 20 dancers, most of them around 12 years old. Though these youngsters’ dedication to street dance bodes well for the future, the current lack of a true hometown squad makes Asheville a good neutral location for the annual Southeast B- Boy Championships. Attracting dancers from more saturated markets like New York, Atlanta and cities in California and Florida, the event’s fifth iteration takes place Friday, Sept. 19, and Saturday, Sept. 20, at the Masonic Temple. “We keep the B-boy championships here because we’re trying to give people in Asheville an opportunity to see that the scene does exist and that it’s worth getting involved in,” says Rock, who produces the event with founder Mike “Frantic Chef” Pelletier — a
WHEN Friday, Sept. 19, 3-11 p.m. (workshops); Saturday, Sept. 20, 1-11 p.m. (competitions). $20 covers all events both days. Ages 10 and under are free
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U.K. B-Boy Championships in Birmingham, England held in late October. The winner of the 1 vs. 1 B-boy battle receives a plane ticket and $400 to cover the competitor’s weekend abroad as he or she represents the U.S. on the global level. “Overseas it’s super spreadout,” says Pelletier, now based in Columbia, S.C. “Every region has its own scene, but England is definitely one of the top places. It’s been happening since 1996. It’s one of those events that’s considered kind of like a world championship.” Experts and judges at the local event will also lead workshops that cover such styles as breaking, popping (led by Asheville’s own Aquaboogy, who Rock calls “one of the foremost poppers out there”) and hip-hop choreography. Furthering that diversity and inclusivity is the all-styles competition, which aims to give everyone a shot at participating. “A roomful of B-boys is great, but we don’t want to alienate other street styles,” Rock says. “I would love to see people from Asheville who aren’t street dancers but have studied dance sign up and see what happens. If you want to come out and belly dance, cool. It’s all styles; we’ll take anything.” No stranger to competition (he B-boyed with Pelletier in Asheville’s now dissolved Hunab Kru), Rock admits that battling can be nervewracking at first due to a roomful of people watching each dancer’s moves. But he says the community’s strong mutual respect and passion for dance makes for a friendly, intentional atmosphere. “Once you’re in there and meet some people and see what’s going on, it’s a welcoming environment,” Rock says. “People want you there and want to network and connect.” X
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by Kim Ruehl
kim@nodepression.com
Scary, ugly, perfect Asheville Butoh Festival presents thoughtprovoking modern dance A woman stands in a ragged white kimono. Her dark hair is vehemently disheveled. Her mouth hangs open in her painted-white face. Music begins over the speakers, and she conducts an invisible symphony — briefly, frantically — before slowly crumpling to the floor. The collapse is so drawn out and nuanced, you might start to wonder if she’s OK. This is not your mama’s modern dance. It’s an example of what you’re likely to encounter during the annual Asheville Butoh Festival, held at the BeBe Theatre, Thursday-Monday, Sept. 18-22. In this case, the woman is
renowned New York-based butoh dancer Vangeline of the Vangeline Dance Company. She comes to town thanks to local festival organizer Julie Becton Gillum. A co-founder of the Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre 35 years ago, Gillum has worked closely with ACDT and BeBe Theatre’s head couple, Susan and Giles Collard, ever since. Long a champion of modern dance in Asheville, Susan says that butoh makes her feel introspective and vulnerable. Her husband, Giles, adds, “Butoh makes me feel closer to nature.” Despite the dance form’s dark
WHAT Asheville Butoh Festival ashevillebutoh.com WHERE The BeBe Theatre WHEN Thursday, Sept. 18-Monday, Sept. 22. Shows Thursday-Saturday, at 8 p.m., and Sunday, at 7 p.m. $17 advance, $20 at the door, $12 seniors. $10 students. Workshops Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-2 p.m., and Monday, 6-9 p.m. $30 each
themes, these are not infrequent observations — butoh was created by Japanese modern dancers who, in the wake of World War II, were interested in dance that was vulnerable, natural and extreme to a point where there was no logical reaction besides introspection. A modern dancer by training, Gillum came to butoh after seeing a performance in New York in 1997. Before that, as she made her way through the world of professional dance, she says her work faced criticism. “People said that my work was ugly and that when I danced it was scary,” she laughs. “When I saw butoh, I said, ‘Oh! Scary and ugly — that’s where I belong. I love it. It’s perfect.’ So, I started studying, training and going everywhere
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SLOW DANCE: New York-based dancer Vangeline performs and leads workshops at the annual Asheville Butoh Festival. Butoh was created by Japanese modern dancers who, in the wake of World War II, were interested in dance that was vulnerable, natural and extreme. Photo by Michael Blase
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I could to work with Butoh artists.” Gillum has been to Japan and Mexico, across Europe and the U.S., exploring the possibilities inherent in embracing butoh. Given Asheville’s bohemian arts culture and penchant for modern dance — and the Collard’s interest in exploring all avenues of it — it seemed only a matter of time before butoh took hold at ACDT and in the local dance scene. For one performance at the 2010 Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, Gillum dressed in full butoh gear — white face and kimono — but with very high, wedged cork heels. In another dance, her face entered the spotlight, tired and confused, before she removed the top half of her costume, turned her back to the audience, and flopped her long, tangled ponytail back and forth. She rippled her torso like an ocean wave, then manipulated her entire body into one thin center line. “In butoh, time is altered,” Gillum says. “It’s very abstract. It comes from a relationship with the German expressionists, from surrealism and dada. It was founded on European modern dance principles.” Indeed, where many Western dance styles call for students to learn the steps and positions that compose much of traditional choreography — even modern dance has
its collection of standard movements — butoh, often called the “dance of death,” is aimed at approximating the liberation of ultimate mortality. Gillum says that “training involves as much experience with the body as you can develop. … It’s mostly about the vulnerability of the artist, which is when you’re at your most creative. It is extremely physical and extreme in whatever it is. It may be extreme stillness, or extreme frantic movement, extreme tension. People don’t usually say, ‘Oh, you know, it’s just your usual butoh performance.’ They either love it or hate it.” But, as festivalgoers will discover, butoh isn’t always about daring mortality or exploring the darkness. As Gillum says, “It can be very funny. I had an artist who saw my work at a butoh festival in [Colorado]. He said, ‘I like your work. It’s stupid. Butoh needs stupid.’” Gillum says she appreciates the hidden compliment in this potentially offensive language, noting that the insight one gains from embracing offensiveness is part of what butoh is about. Regardless, whether stupid, ugly or scary, Gillum says, “We’re just going to keep doing it — bringing interesting, provocative performers and teachers to Asheville.” X
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A Tribe Called Red It’s tricky to find a clique of electronic musicians whose message resonates as much as the bass it’s dubbed over. A Tribe Called Red, composed of three likeminded Canadian DJs, tours the country on a quest to promote empowerment and reverence for native culture. DJ NDN, Bear Witness and 2oolman juxtapose chants and drumming samples of indigenous people with ultra-modern electronic music to bridge the gap between these seemingly disparate arts. Bear Witness’ self-made political videos add a dynamic visual backdrop to the musical performance. The trio stops at UNC Asheville on Wednesday, Sept. 24, from 2-3 p.m. for a free master class panel discussion in the humanities lecture hall. The group also performs a concert in Lipinsky Auditorium at 7 p.m., with tickets ranging from $6 for UNCA students to $22 for the general public. uncatickets.com. Photo by Nadya Kwandibens
OK Go Sure, vocal tracks often have an intelligible rhythm, but frontman Damian Kulash nearly drives the drum set to obsolescence with his staccato vocals in OK Go’s latest tune, “Turn Up the Radio.” The pop number, from the band’s 2014 EP Upside Out, drifts into a stripped-down interlude only fleetingly before the Los Angeles rockers steer the song back toward their signature tactic — an unabashedly popdriven chorus that echoes in the brain. Professional achievements by the four-piece include a host of awards for quirky music videos, accolades for about a dozen creative marketing campaigns and — if we’re saving the best for last — a recent Twitter mention by President Obama. OK Go plays The Grey Eagle on Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 8 p.m. $14/$16. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of the band
Heritage Weekend This September marks the 34th year for Heritage Weekend, a free festival that explores traditional Appalachian customs like beekeeping, coopering, heritage toy making, broom and furniture making, spinning and natural dyeing, all sponsored by the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Both Saturday and Sunday offer a full lineup of crafts, dance and mountain-inspired music with fare from Granny’s Country Kitchen food truck. But the real action happens at 2 p.m. on Saturday with the Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle Competition — a rivalrous game that tests competitors’ prowess at spinning two notched rhododendron sticks. The stakes are high, with winners snagging a Moon Pie to accompany their bragging rights. The Folk Art Center (located at Blue Ridge Parkway Milepost 382) houses the festival on Saturday, Sept. 20 (10 a.m. to 4 p.m.), and Sunday, Sept. 21 (noon-5 p.m.). craftguild.org. Photo of Jim McGie by Diana Gates
BookOpolis If it sounds massive that’s because, when it comes to book arts, creativity incubator Asheville BookWorks is a really big deal. The West Asheville-based center hosts BookOpolis — three days of exhibits, demonstrations, talks and workshops. An opening reception, held on Friday, Sept. 19, at 6 p.m., showcases books by local and international artists and music by William Oldfather. Saturday, Sept. 20, includes a printed paper toy souvenir demo table, and a 2 p.m. talk by Elisa Pellacani, an artist from Spain. Pellacani’s Asheville appearance “reciprocates a visit to Spain by Laurie Corral and Gwen Diehn earlier this year [and] honors a wonderful on-going exchange between book-arts communities in both WNC and Barcelona,” according to a press release. Pellacani leads the workshop “book seeds: small but powerful” on Sunday, Sept. 21, 1-5 p.m. Cost for the workshop is $70; other BookOpolis events are free. ashevillebookworks.com. Photo courtesy of Asheville BookWorks
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Held at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library. hendersoncountync.org • WE (9/24), 2pm - Gary Ballard & Cabin Creek Review, bluegrass. Free. MUSIC AT BREVARD COLLEGE 884-8211, brevard.edu/fineartsevents • SA (9/20), 7:30pm - Music faculty showcase recital. Free. In the Porter Center. MUSIC AT UNCA
CAPTURING MOMENTS: New downtown Asheville gallery Lush Works will host “A Soothing Silence,” an exhibit of photographs by Lush Works founder Brian Olsen. Olsen’s work includes images from South and Central America, as well as the United States. Image courtesy of Lush Works. (p.55)
ART ART IN AUTUMN FESTIVAL facebook.com/artinautumn • SA (9/20), 10am-6pm - Juried art, food and live music. Free to attend. Held in downtown Weaverville. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • WE (9/24), 6-7:30pm - Up for Discussion: lecture and presentation with artist Adrianne Wortzel. Admission fees apply. BAMBOO CRAFT DEMONSTRATIONS 685-3053, haikubamboonursery.net • FRIDAYS through (9/26) - Bamboo craft demonstration with Keiji Oshima. Free to attend. Held at Haiku Bamboo Shop, 20 Tuttle Road, Hendersonville OPEN STUDIO TOUR OF HENDERSON COUNTY openstudiotourhc.com, • SA (9/20) & SU (9/21), 10am-5pm - Self-guided tour of Henderson artists’ studios. Free to attend. Contact for locations.
AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ANAM CARA THEATRE 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • Su (9/21), 6:30pm - Walk-in auditions for Identity XYZ. Free to attend. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road, Suite B BLACK MOUNTAIN FINE ART SHOWCASE 232-7954, marilyndesigns@charter.net • Through (10/11) - Artists may reserve spaces in a plein air painting and art show to be held next to Dobra Tea in Black Mountain. $20. CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 754-2486, caldwellarts.com • Through TU (9/30) - Applications will be accepted for up to three outdoor sculpture installations. Contact for guidelines.
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MOUNTAIN GLORY FESTIVAL 652-2215, mtngloryfestival.com • Through FR (9/19) - Local craft artisan applications for this downtown Marion festival will be accepted. Apply online. READING ANIMALS avl.mx/0e9, simkha@riseup.net • Through TH (9/18) - Writers are asked to submit fiction, creative nonfiction or poetry on animals and animal rights for upcoming public reading. Contact for guidelines. THE HEART OF HORSE SENSE heartofhorsesense.org • Through (11/5) - Artists may donate works to be displayed and auctioned at Zuma Coffee in Marshall. Proceeds benefit this nonprofit animal therapy program for veterans and at-risk youth. Contact for details.
MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS • 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 AMICIMUSIC 802-369-0856, amicimusic.org • SU (9/21), 3pm - “Chopin - The Romantic Heart”, multimedia show. Held in a private home. Directions given with reservations. $35. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/21), 2pm & 8pm - The Music of James Bond. $30. No matinee on Fridays. FLETCHER COMMUNITY CHORUS 651-9436, fletchercommunitychorus.com • THURSDAYS, 7pm - Fall season rehearsals, open to the pubic and interested members.
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251-6432, unca.edu • WEDNESDAYS through (9/17), 7pm - Blue Ridge Orchestra open rehearsal. Held in the Reuter Center. Free. • FR (9/19), 3pm - Symphony talk with music director Daniel Meyer. In the Reuter Center. Free. • WE (9/24), 7pm - A Tribe Called Red, native electronica. $22/$8 Asheville-area students/$6 UNCA students. Held in Lipinsky Auditorium. MUSIC AT WCU 227-2479, wcu.edu • FR (9/19), 7pm - Bill Gaither & Gaither Vocal Band, gospel. $26/$23 seniors & children. In the Ramsey Center. • TU (9/23), 7:30pm - Asheville Symphony Orchesetra and WCU School of Music classical string performance. $10/$5 students & children. In the Bardo Arts Center. PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY 321-271-4593, psabc.org • SU (9/21), 4pm - Classical harp concert with Linda Barton Paul. $20. Held at Cathedral of All Souls, 3 Angle St. RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES 233-3216, facebook.com/rhythmandbrewshendersonville • TH (9/18), 5-8pm - Blue Dogs, Americana. Free. Held in downtown Hendersonville. ST. MATTHIAS CHURCH 1 Dundee St., 285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com • SU (9/21), 3pm - Harry Schultz, jazz vocalist. Free. TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH 60 Church St., 253-9361 • SU (9/21), 5pm - Joshua Messick, hammered dulcimer. $10/$5 for ages 12 and under. TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (9/18), 7pm - Daryle Ryce, jazz. Admission by donation. • TH (9/25), 7pm - Noah Guthrie, bluesy pop. Admission by donation. UR LIGHT CENTER 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 6696845, urlight.org • SA (9/20), 7:45pm - Jonn Serrie, space music. $15.
THEATER ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • TH (9/18), 7:30pm - Listen to This: Stories in Performance. $15. • SA (9/20), 7:30pm - Story for Life, stories of Asheville’s local senior citizens. $15/$10 students. DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 2 South Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • FR (9/19), 8pm - Yesterday and Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience. $30/ $25 student/ $5 child. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/20), 7:30pm - Coriolanus. Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE 101 Fairview Road Suite B, 505-8659, toyboatcommunityartspace.com • FR (9/19) & SA (9/20), 7:30pm - Twelfth Night. $12. TRYON LITTLE THEATER 516 S. Trade St., Tryon, 859-2466, tltinfo.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/11) until (9/21), 8pm - 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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ANANDA WEST 37 Paynes Way Suite 5, 236-2444, anandahair.com • Through MO (10/20) - Oh, Baby; Oh, Baby, paintings by Anna Jenson. Opening reception: Sept. 20, 7pm. ART AT BREVARD COLLEGE 884-8188, brevard.edu/art • Through FR (9/26) - Running on Tybee works by Tim Murray. In the Spiers Gallery. ART AT MARS HILL mhu.edu • Through TU (9/30) - Cardiac Comfort, large-scale sculpture installation by Jason Adams. ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • TU (9/2) through TU (9/30) - Honoring Chuck Marting, black and white photography by the Asheville Traditional Photographers Group. • Through WE (10/15) - Works by Luis Martinez Cruz, Victor Palomino, Victor H. Verde and Gustavo Villota. Highsmith Student Union. • Through FR (9/19) - Exhibition of works by UNCA faculty. In the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. • TH (9/25) through TU (11/4) - Works by Penland School of Crafts’ resident artists. Opening reception: Sept. 25, 6pm. ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu • TH (9/4) through FR (11/7) - Teetering on the Edge of the Uncanny, street art and murals displayed throughout the campus. • Through FR (10/17) - Forest/City, graphic installa-
tion by Gary Kachadourian. Bardo Arts Center • Through FR (11/7) - Abstract Autobiography for a Fractured Narrative, works by Rebecca Ringquist. In the Bardo Arts Center. ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery.com • Through SU (9/28) - Abstractions, works by Barbara Fisher, Robert Winkler, and Pat Zalisko. Artists’ reception: Sept. 19, 6-8pm. ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GALLERY 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (9/20) - Camped Out on Greasy Grass: A Series of Portraits, works by artists from closed Lyman Avenue studios. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SA (1/4) - Humans and Machines: The Robotic Worlds of Adrianne Wortzel, mixed media. • Through Su (1/11) - Hands, Hearts, Mind: Cherokee Artistry, basket weaving, ceramics and sculpture. • Through SU (2/8) - X, Y, Z: Dimensions in Sculpture, contemporary three-dimensional works. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art. com • Through TU (9/30) - Paintings by Sahar Fakhoury. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • TH (9/18) through FR (10/3) - Bring Back the Monarchs, butterfly-related works by regional artists. Opening reception: Sept. 18, 6pm. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through SA (1/10) - Dan Rice at Black Mountain College: Painter Among the Poets, abstract expressionism paintings.
LUSH WORKS 26 1/2 Battery Park Ave., 919-649-2483, lushworks.com • ONGOING - A Soothing Silence, photography by Brian Olson MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 90 S. Main St., Marshall, 649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com • Through FR (9/26) - Linear-Geometric Abstraction & Geometric Color Field Painting, a Resurrection and Resurgence, works by Matthew Zelder.
* 9.20.14, 5-9 Herbs for Winter Wellness with Mountain MotherBear Herbals 5-9pm Register to win the Mabon Cornucopia Giveaway.
ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • ONGOING - Gallery members’ ceramics. PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through FR (10/10) - Systems and Portraits, works by Lance Turner. RED HOUSE STUDIOS AND GALLERY 310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 699-0351, svfalarts.org • Through MO (9/29) - Shapes and Shadows, works by Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League members.
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THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (1/10) Gee’s Bend: From Quilts to Prints, quilts and quilt-inspired printmaking. THE JUNCTION
COURTYARD GALLERY In the Phil Mechanic Building 109 Roberts St., 273-3332, ashevillecourtyard.com • Through (10/29) - Anything Goes Everything Shows, mixed media from mail-in submissions.
765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (9/20) - Works by Barbara Littledeer. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville
IZZY’S COFFEE DEN 74 N. Lexington Ave., 258-2004 • Through TU (9/30) - Along the Way, long exposure photography by Chukk Bruursema.
* 9.20.14, 12-4 Friendship Tea Caravan with Sumitra from Panther Moon Tea Co. 12-4pm
37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 688-6422, micagallerync.com • Through FR (11/14) - What I Know, photography by Dana Moore.
348 Depot St., 225-3497, thejunctionasheville.com • TH (9/18) though TU (10/14) - On the Wall, works by The Village Potters Collective.
HANDMADE IN AMERICA 125 S Lexington Ave #101, 252-0121, handmadeinamerica.org • Through WE (11/26) - Within the Lines: Creative Perspectives on Wilderness, works by regional artists.
* 9.18.14 Drumming and Chanting Workshop 7-9pm
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CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave SW, Lenoir, 754-2486 • Through FR (9/26) - Concertina, Interpreted, works by 30 artists in response to the poetry of Joseph Bathani.
GREEN SAGE CAFE - WESTGATE 70 Westgate Parkway, 785-1780, greensagecafe.com • Through WE (10/15) - ZOOM IN: An Exhibition of Asheville Street Photography, works by six local photographers.
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TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through (9/19) - Drawing from the Human Form, works by Ben Long, James Daniel and Angela Cunningham. TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • Through SA (10/11) - Handmade rugs and tapestries from Mills Mosseller Studio. WEST ASHEVILLE LIBRARY 942 Haywood Road • Through TU (9/30) - Variations on a Theme, works by Vilia Marshall. Contact galleries for hours and admission fees.
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C L U B L A N D JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 7pm
185 KING STREET Sherman Lee Dillon (blues, roots), 8pm
MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm
5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ The Moodees (rock), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm
NEW MOUNTAIN Caveman w/ Jeff Thompson (rock), 9pm
BEN’S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm
NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Dulítel DJ, 7pm
BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Buncombe County Boyz (folk, bluegrass), 7:30pm
ODDITORIUM Cocu, King Jesus, Scrap Randi (rock, punk, experimental), 9pm
BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Billy Owens, 7pm
OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm
BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm
OLIVE OR TWIST West Coast swing lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 7:30pm Pop the Clutch (beach, jazz, swing), 8:30pm
CLASSIC WINESELLER “Here’s Looking at You, Kid” wine tasting w/ Wendy Dunn, 6:30pm
ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish ‘n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm
CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Brothers Comatose w/ Locust Honey (folkrock, string), 8pm GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Acoustic on the Patio w/ Taylor Martin & friends, 7pm The Harris Brothers (Americana, dinner music), 9pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm
MADMAN AT THE MILLROOM: Singer-songwriter Sean Rowe seems like a pretty cool guy. He’s got a dry sense of humor, and it shows. “The show is about an hour and a half long,” reads a passage from his website. “Afterwards, Sean sticks around to meet with the guests, have a beer and steal from your record collection.” NPR music even praised Rowe’s work, saying “He can just crush granite with that voice. It is so powerful.” Rowe will open for Ethan Johns at the Millroom on Sunday, Sept. 21, at 8 p.m.
Open mic, 6:30pm NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm
LEX 18 The Roaring Lions (jazz), 8pm LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm
PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Grits & Soul (bluegrass, Americana), 6pm
MOJO KITCHEN & LOUNGE DJ Molly Parti “Get Over the Hump-day” dance party (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm
STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE The Dirty Badgers, 6pm TALLGARY’S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm
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.
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PACK’S TAVERN Steven Poteat (acoustic jam), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Movie Night (you pick ‘em), 8pm PURPLE ONION CAFE One Leg Up (jazz), 7pm
ORANGE PEEL Matisyahu w/ Radical Something (reggae, hip-hop, rock), 9pm
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ORANGE PEEL Real Estate w/ Regal Degal & Quiet Life (indie), 9pm
THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN Sean Dail (classic punk, power-pop, rock), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Release AVL w/ Dam Good (dance party), 9pm TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Lenny Petenelli (high-energy piano), 7pm WESTVILLE PUB Brewery Night (Foothills), 7pm WILD WING CAFE Karaoke, 9pm
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WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesday w/ J LUKE, 6pm
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 185 KING STREET John the Revelator (blues), 8pm
RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL Chris Rhodes (rock, classic covers), 6:30pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm THE MOTHLIGHT Third Thursdays Mingle, 5:30pm Tina & Her Pony w/ The Moon & You, Amanda Platt (Americana, folk), 9pm
5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm
THE PHOENIX Bradford Carson & Will Knight (mountain music), 8pm
ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm
THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm
ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Jason Kenney (Americana, rock), 9pm
THE SOUTHERN DJ Leslie Snipes (dance), 10pm
ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY Jim Ruch (jam, blues), 5:30pm
THE STRAND @ 38 MAIN Open mic (sign-up opens at 6), 7pm
BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 8pm
TIGER MOUNTAIN New Wave dance w/ Cliff (80s pop, post-punk, punk-rock, synthpop), 10pm
BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7pm BYWATER Bywater 4th Birthday potluck, 7pm
TIMO’S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum ‘n’ Bass Collective, 9pm
CROW & QUILL Carolina Ceili (celtic), 8pm
TOWN PUMP Sister Mary & Judas Brooks (cosmic country, blues), 9pm
DOUBLE CROWN 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm
TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm
DUGOUT Open mic, 9pm
URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm
ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Drayton & The Dreamboats (jazz), 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Ron Ireland (folk, country, blues), 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Ram Mandlekorn, Tim Philpott & Claude Coleman (funk, jazz, reggae), 6:30pm Le Rex with Shane Parish Quartet (rhythm’n’blues), 8:30pm
VINCENZO’S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (guitar, vocals), 7pm
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 185 KING STREET Carolina Wray (Americana), 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR What It Is (jazz), 9pm
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ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Round the Fire BearWaters band (covers), 9:30pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Space Capone w/ TBD (funk, soul), 9pm ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY John Fullum (fiddle), 5:30pm ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm
PACK’S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance, hits, pop), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Jerry Garcia Cover Band (Garcia covers), 9pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Fred Whiskin (piano), 7:30pm
BOILER ROOM Through the Fallen & Epic SuperFail (rock), 9pm
SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm
BYWATER Jangling Sparrows (Americana), 9pm
SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm
CLASSIC WINESELLER Daniel Shearin (pop, originals), 7pm
SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Vinyl night w/ Robin Tolleson, 8pm
CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE DJ Jam (old-school hip-hop, R&B, funk), 9pm Ladies night w/ Antonio Folston & DJ Twain (oldschool hip-hop, R&B, soul), 10pm
SPRING CREEK TAVERN The Lost River Cavemen, 9pm STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Eric Congdon (Americana, world), 6pm THE PHOENIX Jamboogie Band (jam band), 9pm
DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm
THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm
DUGOUT Fine Line (classic rock), 9pm
TIGER MOUNTAIN Devyn (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm
ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm
TIMO’S HOUSE Illogic, Bobby White, FTO, Quanstar & Coach K (hiphop), 10pm
FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Jason Kenney Trio (Americana), 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Alarm Clock Conspiracy (rock), 6pm GOOD STUFF Straw Man (rock, prog-rock), 8pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Ray Wylie Hubbard w/ Kelley Mickwee (Americana, country), 8pm IRON HORSE STATION Jamie Paul (Americana), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Front Country with Zoe and Cloyd (bluegrass), 9pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Aaron Burdett w/ The Villagers (Americana, folk-rock), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm
TOWN PUMP Justin Payne (singer-songwriter, indie-folk), 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Twelfth Night, 7:30pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Patrick Dodd Band (blues, rock), 7pm Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues, soul), 10pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 185 KING STREET Skymonk (alt-rock, blues), 8pm
LEX 18 Xpresso (Latin jazz), 8pm
5 WALNUT WINE BAR David Earl Tomlinson (acoustic rock), 6pm Pleasure Chest (rock ‘n’ roll), 9pm
LOBSTER TRAP Buncombe County Boys (bluegrass), 7pm
ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm
MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm
ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Asheville Comic Expo After Party (multiple artists), 7pm Runaway Gin (Phish tribute), 9pm
NEW MOUNTAIN Lolipop Records Tour w/ FROTH, Mr. Elevator & The Brain Hotel, Wyatt Blair, Corners (psych-rock), 9pm NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Resident Dulítel DJ (indie-tronic), 11pm NOBLE KAVA Steve Karla (gypsy jazz), 8:30pm ODDITORIUM Morbids Record release w/ Total War & Dogtooth (rock), 9pm OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm
SEPTEMBER 17 - SEPTEMBER 23, 2014
ORANGE PEEL Local Metal Showcase w/ Vic Crown, MindShapeFist, & Amnesis (metal), 9pm
BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Bob Zullo, 7pm
DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Yesterday & Today: The Interactive Beatles Experience, 8pm
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ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Asheville All-Stars Downtown After 5 After Party (rock, jazz), 9pm
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ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE The Great Smoky Mountain Bluegrass Band, 9pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Rocket Science, 7pm BYWATER Zombie Float, 12pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Joe Cruz (Beatles, Elton John covers), 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Lil Lorruh (50s, 60s R&B, rock), 10pm
185 KING STREET 877-1850 5 WALNUT WINE BAR 253-2593 ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY 575-2400 THE ALTAMONT THEATRE 348-5327 ASHEVILLE CIVIC CENTER & THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM 259-5544 ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL 255-7777 ATHENA’S CLUB 252-2456 BARLEY’S TAP ROOM 255-0504 BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE 669-9090 BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA 658-8777 BOILER ROOM 505-1612 BROADWAY’S 285-0400 THE BYWATER 232-6967 CORK AND KEG 254-6453 CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE 575-2880 ADAM DALTON DISTILLERY 367-6401 DIANA WORTHAM THEATER 257-4530 DIRTY SOUTH LOUNGE 251-1777 DOUBLE CROWN 575-9060 DUGOUT 692-9262 ELEVEN ON GROVE 505-1612 FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM 277-0222 GOOD STUFF 649-9711 GREEN ROOM CAFE 692-6335 GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN 232-5800 GROVE HOUSE THE GROVE PARK INN (ELAINE’S PIANO BAR/ GREAT HALL) 252-2711 HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY 299-3370 ISIS MUSIC HALL 575-2737 JACK OF THE WOOD 252-5445 LEX 18 582-0293 THE LOBSTER TRAP 350-0505 METROSHERE 258-2027 MILLROOM 555-1212 MONTE VISTA HOTEL 669-8870 MOONLIGHT MILE 335-9316 NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB 581-0480 NIGHTBELL 575-0375 NOBLE KAVA BAR 505-8118 ODDITORIUM 575-9299 ONEFIFTYONE 239-0239 ONE STOP BAR DELI & BAR 255-7777 O.HENRY’S/TUG 254-1891 THE ORANGE PEEL 225-5851 OSKAR BLUES BREWERY 883-2337 PACK’S TAVERN 225-6944 THE PHOENIX 877-3232 PISGAH BREWING CO. 669-0190 PULP 225-5851 PURPLE ONION CAFE 749-1179 RED STAG GRILL AT THE GRAND BOHEMIAN HOTEL 505-2949 ROOT BAR NO.1 299-7597 SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB 252-2838 SCULLY’S 251-8880 SLY GROG LOUNGE 255-8858 SMOKEY’S AFTER DARK 253-2155 THE SOCIAL 298-8780 SOUTHERN APPALACIAN BREWERY 684-1235 STATIC AGE RECORDS 254-3232 STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE 669-8856 TALLGARY’S CANTINA 232-0809 TIGER MOUNTAIN 407-0666 TIMO’S HOUSE 575-2886 TOWN PUMP 357-5075 TOY BOAT 505-8659 TREASURE CLUB 298-1400 TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ & BLUES 254-7072
GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE The Woody & Johnson Duo (pop, blues), 6:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN River Whyless & Loamlands (folk-rock, naturepop), 9pm
THE MOTHLIGHT The Damned Angels w/ 21st Century Goliath, Gutterhound (high-octane, rock), 9:30pm THE PHOENIX Carrie Morrison (Americana), 1pm Bradford Carson & Friends (mountain music), 9pm THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm TIGER MOUNTAIN IIIrd Wave dance night w/ Lynnnn & Sarah K (avant-dance, disco, darkwave), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Dance party, 10pm TOWN PUMP Bullfeather (“Appalachian bourbon-grass”), 9pm
ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Saturday Classical Brunch w/ “Songs of Nature” by Laura Dawalt, 11am
TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Twelfth Night, 7:30pm
JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Big EZ’s w/ Savannah Smith, Crying Wolf (singer-songwriter, Americana), 9pm
TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7pm Ruby Mayfield & The Friendship Train (blues, soul, R&B), 10pm
JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm
VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm
LEX 18 HotPoint Trio (gypsy swing), 8pm
WESTVILLE PUB Veterans Helping Veterans w/ various busking all-stars, 6pm
MARCO’S PIZZERIA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6pm
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21
MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm
5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Moon & You (cello folk), 7pm
MILLROOM Lydia Loveless w/ Leigh Glass & The Hazards (Americana), 9pm
ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Vinyl night w/ DJ Kilby, 9pm
NEW MOUNTAIN Bassville w/ Disc-Oh! & DJ Bowie (dubstep, electronic), 9:30pm NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE DJ Rezrekt (electronic, indie), 11pm NOBLE KAVA Cigarette Umbrella (improv), 8:30pm
ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Thriftworks w/ ElectroChemical & Splynter (electronic), 10pm BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Karaoke & brunch, 2pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7pm
ODDITORIUM Golden Pelicans, Joyband & Future West (rock, punk), 9pm
BYWATER Leo Rondeau & His Honky Tonk Band (honky-tonk, outlaw country, singer-songwriter) w/ Sammy Guns, 5pm
OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm
DOUBLE CROWN Karaoke w/ Tim O, 9pm
OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street (jazz, swing), 8pm Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm
HOOKAH JOE’S Bellydancing, 8:30pm
ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm ORANGE PEEL The Wood Brothers w/ Chris Kasper (Americana, folk-rock), 8pm PACK’S TAVERN A Social Function (rock ‘n’ roll, classic hits), 9pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Th Lazybirds (old-time jazz, swing, blues), 8pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB
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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm Driftwood Soldier (folk), 9pm
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THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm
IRON HORSE STATION Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 7pm
LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio (jazz), 7pm
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SPRING CREEK TAVERN Al Coffee & Da Grind (blues), 9pm
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them HHHHS
FRIDAY, MARCH 20 THURSDAY, MARCH 26 Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.
DIRECTOR: Ned Benson PLAYERS: Jessica Chastain, James McAvoy, William Hurt, Isabelle Huppert, Ciarán Hinds, Viola Davis, Bill Hader
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ROMANTIC DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: A look at a young couple’s marriage as they struggle to find themselves in the wake of a tragedy. THE LOWDOWN: A beautifully cast, literate, perceptive film that recognizes the power of suggestion and ambiguity. Definitely a mustsee drama for discerning viewers.
Ned Benson’s debut film The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them presents something of a problem. This was originally two movies — The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him — that showed the same story from two points of view. But Harvey Weinstein told Benson he needed to recut the film into one more-tractable feature. This is what Benson delivered. However, it doesn’t end there, because Weinstein plans on releasing the other two films separately — in a more limited release — a little later. So what we end up with are three movies, but only one of them is currently available to us. The only reasonable approach is to take The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them on its own, even though it’s hard to dismiss the fact that there’s more to come. The thing is, I’m pretty well satisfied with this combined 122-minute version, which is something of a shock, since my level of interest going into the film was
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JESSICA CHASTAIN and JAMES MCAVOY in Ned Benson’s startlingly good debut film The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them.
below sea level. Rarely have I been so agreeably surprised. Now, I can’t help but wonder if the jumbled timeline and delicious ambiguities of this version won’t be lost upon extended examination, but that’s a consideration for another time. On its simplest level, this is an examination of the disintegration of the marriage of Conor Ludlow (James McAvoy) and Eleanor Rigby (Jessica Chastain) in the wake of a shared tragedy that drove Eleanor to attempt suicide — after which she “disappears” by going home to her parents. The film doles out its information in very small pieces, carefully avoiding what is behind all this — including the nature of the tragedy (though that isn’t hard to guess pretty early on). That may not sound all that exciting, but the film is so beautifully detailed, so literate in its writing and so perfect in its casting that it completely transcends its fairly simple story to become a remarkably rich moviegoing experience. The main characters, their families and friends come across as real people that it’s
possible to relate to — and yet, it suggests far more than it states. You feel that you know these people, but — much as in real life — what you know, or think you know, is pieced together over a period of time. By the film’s pretty brilliant — and tantalizingly inconclusive — final shot, they feel complete, even if that sense is founded more on impression than fact. The casting is a major factor in what makes The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them work. McAvoy and Chastain could scarcely be better, but much of the film’s tone comes from the characters that surround them and their relations with those characters. William Hurt and Isabelle Huppert make such believable parents for Chastain that their dubious decision to name her after perhaps the saddest character in pop music is as understandable as it is ill-considered. These are possibly wonderful people, but they’re far from perfect — both are qualities conveyed over time. The same is true for Ciarán Hinds as McAvoy’s father — a seemingly distant man who
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is more awkward than cold. Even more sketched-in characters like Bill Hader as McAvoy’s friend and partner in a failing restaurant and Viola Davis as a not-as-tough-as-she-seems professor offer the illusion of reality. But, in fairness, none of this would work if McAvoy and Chastain didn’t — or if the writing wasn’t first rate. I have deliberately detailed very little of the plot, because what I found most appealing about the film was the sense of it constantly veering from the obvious — even if only slightly. It does this so effortlessly that I was startled when I realized that the movie was nearly over and I was still filling in the blanks and wondering about some of the more ambiguous details. For example, Eleanor appears to be largely oblivious to the song from which her name was derived — to the point that she supposedly doesn’t recognize the source when lyrics are quoted to her. Yet, very late in the film we see a blowup of the Revolver cover — The Beatles album the song is on — festooning the wall of her apartment. As with so much in the film, there is more here than appears on the surface. It may not be perfect, but it’s so close that it hardly matters — especially when it soars. Rated R for language. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke
Love Is Strange HHHHH
DIRECTOR: Ira Sachs (Keep the Lights On) PLAYERS: John Lithgow, Alfred Molina, Darren E. Burrows, Marisa Tomei, Charlie Tahan, Cheyenne Jackson, Christian Coulson DOCUMENTARY RATED R THE STORY: An aging gay couple loses their apartment and are forced to live apart. THE LOWDOWN: An absolutely beautiful, quietly intense, moving love story about love and marriage that is nothing short of a small masterpiece. John Lithgow and Alfred Molina are sublime, and so is this poignant, tender film. A pure must-see.
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JOHN LITHGOW as one half of an aging gay couple who are split up when they lose their apartment in Ira Sachs’ beautiful Love Is Strange.
Ira Sachs’ Love Is Strange comes to us with a 97 percent approval rating — 75 positive reviews vs. a measly two negative ones — and this beautiful film deserves that kind of accolade. What astonishes me is that so few of the reviews I’ve encountered recognize that this little gem of a movie is essentially a variation on Leo McCarey’s classic Make Way for Tomorrow (1937) in modern terms and with an aging gay couple — and a dollop of autobiography. The basic trajectory of the film — elderly couple loses their home, and none of their family or friends can accommodate them both — is the same. Even some of the specifics are virtually interchangeable — right down to the couple’s night on the town and their parting when one gets on a train (a subway in this case). I point this out not to denigrate Sachs’ film, which is one of the most beautiful movies I’ve seen this year, but to put it in a larger context that makes the accomplishment — and its differences — even greater. The film tells the story of Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina), who after nearly 40 years together get married when New York law recognizes same-sex marriages. What they haven’t reckoned on is that the Catholic diocese that had previously turned a blind eye to their relationship no longer does so once they’re legally married — considering this a violation of George’s contract as the music teacher at the school that had long employed him. As a result, George finds himself without a job, and the two of them with insufficient means to make the
payments on their apartment. Their plans for using the profits from its sale come to nothing when they learn that various commissions and fine print details don’t leave them with all that much to work with. Worse, the only member of their family — real and extended — who can take both of them lives in Poughkeepsie, which is too far from George’s private music lessons, especially for two New Yorkers who don’t drive. The upshot is that Ben goes to live with his nephew, Elliot (Darren E. Burrows), his wife, Kate (Marissa Tomei), and their son, Joey (Charlie Tahan), whose bottom bunk Ben inherits. George, on the other hand, ends up on the sofa of their gay friends (Cheyenne Jackson and Manny Perez), who are a hard partying, Dungeons and Dragons playing, generally loud pair of cops. The situation is far from ideal. What makes the film work so beautifully is its simple humanity. Though the film is obviously not in favor of the church’s stance on the marriage — or the basic hypocrisy underlying it — this is not a militant gay rights work. In fact, Ben and George are casually accepted by everyone in the film — apart from the diocese powers that be — and while their sexuality is certainly central to the story and their characters, it’s not the issue. The issue is the universal tragedy of the combination of old age and a lack of money — something just about everyone can relate to one way or another. At the same time, Love Is Strange isn’t without a bitter irony. Most romances work toward a “happy ending” with a wedding. This one opens with that supposed happy ending, which proves to be anything but happy. Casting plays a tremendous part in the movie’s success. I cannot imag-
STARTING FRIDAY ine better actors than Lithgow and Molina for these roles. There isn’t a false moment between them. We immediately accept them as an old, established couple — something that’s even more incredible when you realize how little screen time they actually share. However, when they do appear together — especially the scene at the bar with its discussion of Lithgow’s history of infidelity, and the one that follows it outside the subway entrance — they are positively magical in their reality of being Ben and George. It’s a pity that the film is almost certainly too small to capture Oscar attention for them. But in many ways, this is a director’s film — no matter how subtle the directorial style may be. Love Is Strange is Sachs’ sixth feature — and the first to play locally — and it’s the work of man who has mastered the art of film. His camera may do nothing all that adventurous, but it always looks at just the right things for just the right length of screen time. The shot outside the subway entrance — one lengthy long-shot, perfectly composed and set to a Chopin nocturne — is probably the most beautiful thing I’ve seen in a movie all year. (His overall use of a primarily Chopin soundtrack is a terrific blend of music and image.) It is this — and a hundred other finely crafted moments, as well as a good sense of the value of ambiguity — that makes Love Is Strange something of a masterpiece. See it. Rated R for language. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke
No Good Deed S DIRECTOR: Sam Miller PLAYERS: Idris Elba, Taraji P. Henson, Leslie Bibb, Kate del Castillo THRILLER RATED PG-13 THE STORY: An escaped convict terrorizes a woman home alone. THE LOWDOWN: For such a sleazy concept, the outcome is especially tedious, something that doesn’t do much for the general dunderheaded character of the script.
Earlier in the week, I got an email informing me that all press screenings of No Good Deed had been canceled. There’s a twist toward the end of the film, the email said, that the producers don’t want spoiled by early reviews. My obvious joke to make, of course, was that the twist was that the movie sucks. I wasn’t too far off because, well, the movie does suck, and the sudden yanking of press screenings was just a blatant attempt at preventing people from knowing this. (That the actual twist is less a twist and just something somebody thought was clever proves my point.) Thus, the idea was to squeeze every possible ticket from opening weekend before word-of-mouth kicks in. And it seems to have worked, too, since No Good Deed topped the weekend box office, but that probably has more to do with the consistent success of films with black leads to uniformly make money — something a lot of execs and theaters still can’t seem to wrap their heads around. The pity lies in the fact that these black actors are given such shoddy films to make these box office statements with. No Good Deed’s Idris Elba and Taraji P. Henson have been consistently great throughout their careers, and even occasionally manage to make a movie as hackneyed as this one rise just a bit above the junk heap. That such talented actors have to waste their time and ours with such thoughtless garbage is exhausting to think about, while no one seems to understand the kind of money you could make if you put them in an actually good movie. Unfortunately, this is the movie everyone’s stuck with, as Elba plays Colin, who — as we’re told via clunky, lazy exposition as the film opens — is a sociopath locked up for murder, and who’s apparently responsible for the disappearance of five women years earlier. He manages to break out of prison, murder his ex-girlfriend and wreck his stolen truck before ending up at the home of Terri, a former prosecutor with two kids and a stale marriage to a husband (TV actor Henry Simmons) who’s out of town. Colin, with the help of a dangerous storm, manages to charm his way into Terri’s home. Brit TV director Sam Miller tries to ratchet up the suspense at this point as Colin’s charisma places
This is Where I Leave You The Maze Runner The latest in the seemingly endless stream of YA sci-fi film adaptations, The Maze Runner actually looks a little better than most. (Looks can be deceiving, of course). The cast isn’t stellar — the biggest names are probably Will Poulter and Thomas Brodie-Sangster — but that may mean nothing. The studio blurb tells us: “When Thomas wakes up trapped in a massive maze with a group of other boys, he has no memory of the outside world other than strange dreams about a mysterious organization known as W.C.K.D. Only by piecing together fragments of his past with clues he discovers in the maze can Thomas hope to uncover his true purpose and a way to escape.” (PG-13)
A Walk Among the Tombstones The world’s most unlikely action star, Liam Neeson, is back in another thriller, but this one marks the first directorial film by writer-director Scott Frank since The Lookout (2007). So this might be a different proposition. Also, unlike most of Neeson’s actioners, this one went for the full R rating. (Since it was adapted from one of Lawrence Block’s Matthew Scudder novels, this was probably a given.) The story involves Scudder (Neeson) agreeing to track down the men who murdered a drug kingpin’s wife. (R)
The Disappearance of Elanor Rigby: Them See review in “Cranky Hanke.”
Love is Strange See review in “Cranky Hanke.”
Tusk
Last Weekend
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The critics — very few at this point — are split as concerns this R-rated comedy from hackmeister Shawn Levy. Yeah, it’s got a great cast — Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Rose Byrne, Kathryn Hahn, Connie Britton, Timothy Olyphant, Dax Shepard — but a dysfunctional family comedy about everyone gathering for a funeral from Shawn Levy? (R)
Community Screenings
ASHEVILLE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT ashevilleempowermentproject.com • TU (9/23), 5:30pm - Screening of the documentary The Empowerment Project. Held in UNCA’s Highsmith Student Union. $7. CLASSIC WORLD CINEMA FOREIGN FILM SERIES 273-3332 Free unless otherwise noted. • FR (9/19), 8pm - Where the Green Ants Dream. Held at Courtyard Gallery, In the Phil Mechanic Building 109 Roberts St. GROOVY MOVIE CLUB 926-3508, johnbuckleyX@gmail.com • FR (9/19), 7pm - Belle. Free. Held in a private home. Contact for directions. JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 310 Keener St., Sylva, 586-2016 • FR (9/19), 6:30pm - War is Beautiful: An American Ambulance Driver in the Spanish Civil War, screening and discussion. Free to attend. MOVIES IN THE PARK kperez@ashevillenc.gov, ashevillenc.gov/ Parks • SA (9/20), 6:30pm - E.T. the ExtraTerrestrial. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. NATIONAL DRIVE ELECTRIC WEEK EVENTS 606-8939, facebook.com/groups/blueridgeevclub. Free. • WE (9/17), 2:30pm - Revenge of the Electric Car, screening and discussion. Free Held at Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Dr., Clyde • WE (9/17), 6:30pm - Who Killed the Electric Car? screening and discussion. Held in the Physics Lecture Hall at UNCA. Free. • TH (9/18), 6:30pm - Revenge of the Electric Car, screening and discussion. Held in the Physics Lecture Hall at UNCA. SOCIAL JUSTICE FILM NIGHT 1 Edwin Place, 254-6001, uuasheville.org • FR (9/19), 7pm - Puzzles: When Hate Came to Town, screening. Free.
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him in the good graces of Terri. But it’s handled with no spark or verve, instead dragging the movie down into tedious meandering. There are huge swaths of the film where nothing’s happening. And when stuff is happening, it’s distasteful. It’s little more than a generic slasher film, playing off home invasion paranoia and violence against women. No Good Deed takes itself too seriously for any of this to be fun, instead making a morass of inefficient plotting and flavorless set pieces — creating a movie that somehow manages to be both unengaging and abhorrent. Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, menace, terror and for language. Playing at Carmike 10 and Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Justin Souther
Last Weekend HHS
DIRECTOR: Tom Dolby, Tom Williams PLAYERS: Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Booth, Devon Graye, Joseph Cross, Alexia Rasmussen, Chris Mulkey, Jayma Mays FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: An overprivileged family has a bad Labor Day weekend when the whole gang gets together. THE LOWDOWN: Tone-deaf, tineared drama about largely unlikable people with lots of money and a lot of self-indulgent problems.
This debut film from Tom Dolby (son of audio genius Ray Dolby and unrelated to musician Thomas Dolby) and Tom Williams has all the earmarks of having been made by the overprivileged about the overprivileged and for ... damned if I know who. This is a film where the central drama — to the degree there is one — hinges on whether or not Celia (Patricia Clarkson) and Malcolm Green (Chris Mulkey) should sell one of their vacation homes. This is not exactly a hotbutton issue for most of us. It’s as if Messrs. Dolby and Williams took that line from The Philadelphia Story about
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one of the finest sights in this world being “watching the privileged classes enjoying their privileges” too much to heart — and forgot that the characters needed to be likable and housed in a stylish comedy for that to work. If I could make myself believe that Last Weekend was meant to be a satirical jab at the vacuously wealthy and their sense of entitlement, I’d have more use for their film. But this seems to be dead earnest about the woes of these insufferably out-of-touch upscale folks and their absurd First World problems. It’s a film that seems less illintended than just utterly clueless. As the title implies, the film covers the last weekend at the family’s summer retreat (well, one of them anyway) — the one on Lake Tahoe. (If it looks familiar, it’s the same house George Stevens used in A Place in the Sun, his 1951 version of An American Tragedy.) It’s Labor Day weekend — and, of course, possibly the last weekend the family will ever spend here, though Celia and Malcolm have kept this to themselves — and, it seems, most of the neighbors. It is, however, being kept from their children, who are visiting for the holiday. The older son, Theo (Zachary Booth), arrives with a veritable entourage — his boss (Rutina Wesley), her husband (Fran Kranz), the star (Jayma Mays) of the TV show he writes for, and, last and possibly least, Theo’s new boyfriend, Luke (Devon Graye). Why the parade? Well, Theo’s boss is reading his attempt at a screenplay. (Don’t worry. Like most things in the film, this will go nowhere.) Then there’s the younger son, Roger (Joseph Cross), who has just been canned for losing his firm $30 million (something he wants to hide from the folks). He comes with girlfriend Vanessa (Alexia Rasmussen), who is out to get Malcolm to carry her line of designer water in his chain of fitness centers. Filling out the already crowded cast are the caretakers, Hector (Julio Oscar Mechoso) and Maria (Julie Carmen), a couple of bitchy family friends (Shelia Kelley and Mary Kay Place), and a next-door neighbor (Judith Light), whom the Greens look down on as tastelessly nouveau riche. But most of these folks exist to goose the plot or wander in for purposes of exposition. Of course, the weekend is a disaster — otherwise, there’d be no point in the movie. No, this isn’t one of those clever, if brittle, affairs where a dysfunctional family trades witty barbs. There is, in fact, a notable absence of wit. In its place we get whining, furtiveness, cluelessness — and the occasional dead-end subplot. (See Roger’s abor-
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tive extramarital fling and the largely pointless upscale fundraiser party.) We get a near tragedy when Luke has an allergic reaction to a salmon dinner — an event made annoyingly incomprehensible by Celia not wanting to use an EpiPen because of the expense. (Celia wasn’t very tolerable before this, and her character never recovers from this scripting blunder.) Hector gets electrocuted and airlifted to a hospital where Maria joins him, leaving the family and guests without servants. And ... oh, it hardly matters. The movie wanders around — despite attempts to give it some kind of form by announcing the days as if this was The Shining — while we watch unlikable characters say and do unlikable things. Finally, the weekend ends and everybody can go home — including the audience. Technically, the movie is competent, but never inspired. The cast is entirely too good for the material but is helpless to elevate it. I’ve often said that all movies could be improved by ending with a stampede of monkeys. Here’s one that needed our simian friends at the 15-minute mark. Not Rated, but contains adult themes and language. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke
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DIRECTOR: Charles Martin Smith (Dolphin Tale) PLAYERS: Harry Connick, Jr., Nathan Gamble, Cozi Zuehlsdorff, Ashley Judd, Morgan Freeman UPLIFTING ANIMAL DRAMA RATED PG THE STORY: A marine hospital struggles to find a partner for a tailless dolphin after her surrogate mother passes away. THE LOWDOWN: Innocuous, dull familycentric drama that’s the kind of pap better suited for basic cable.
If you really get down to it, besides the obvious financial gains, 90 percent of sequels have no reason for existing — and as I sit here and think about it, I might be feeling a bit generous in
this regard, too. This is especially, unarguably true about Dolphin Tale 2. And not just because if it had never been made I wouldn’t have had to sit through it, but because who the hell was clamoring for a sequel to Dolphin Tale (2011)? The thing didn’t even make that much money, but here’s part two, a lasting monument to bad decisions and wastes of time and money. Dolphin Tale 2 picks up a few years after its predecessor, with the Clearwater Marine Hospital becoming a full-blown tourist attraction thanks to Winter the dolphin and her prosthetic tail, which was at the center of the first movie. With this new fame comes a whole host of problems, from investors who have only the hospital’s bottom line in mind, to head vet Clay (Harry Connick, Jr.) trying to keep the welfare of the animals in focus. All of this is compounded by the death of Panama, Winter’s surrogate mother, which pushes Winter into a deep depression and sends the hospital scrambling to find her a new companion. This isn’t just a movie about dolphin depression (possibly the first such account in the history of cinema, a monumental achievement), it’s also about familial angst. Clay is constantly struggling with his daughter, Hazel, and her friend Sawyer (Cozi Zuehlsdorff and Nathan Gamble, respectively, who now have this movie to thank for fully documenting their awkward, early teen years). They help him run the hospital, but want to have a bigger voice in Winter’s future. Regardless, it’s all pretty dramatically listless, since this is the type of family-friendly affair that’s not going to head towards any truly dark places. If it weren’t for the fiveminute Morgan Freeman cameo, Dolphin Tale 2 would’ve made its premiere on basic cable. Honestly, even with Freeman, it’s still Movie of the Week material with a higher budget. Obviously, this sort of thing is probably fine for young kids, with its cute animals and low stakes. But that doesn’t change Dolphin Tale 2 from being dull and — at 107 minutes — overlong pap. Yeah, it’s harmless, but that harmlessness, in turn, makes the movie unabashedly mawkish and tedious. Rated PG for some mild thematic elements. Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Justin Souther
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Tusk
HHHS DIRECTOR: Kevin Smith PLAYERS: Michael Parks, Justin Long, Genesis Rodriguez, Haley Joel Osment, “Guy Lapointe” HORROR RATED R THE STORY: A podcast host falls into the clutches of a surgically-inclined madman who proceeds to transform him into a walrus. THE LOWDOWN: Every bit as screwy as it sounds, Tusk gets high marks for novelty and chutzpah, but wears out its welcome with excessive footage. However, it’s certainly worth a look for genre fans and Kevin Smith admirers.
Whatever else can be said about it — pro or con — Kevin Smith’s Tusk is exactly what it has been promoted as — a movie in which a mad surgeon transforms Justin Long into a walrus. That’s also useful for weeding out potentially inappropriate viewers. Let’s face the fact — some people just don’t want to see Justin Long turned into a walrus. I know that’s hard to believe, but I’m sure it’s true. And those of you who don’t — and you know who you are — should take note. Those of you who might like to see such a thing (I include myself in that group) would still do well to approach Mr. Smith’s latest with a degree of caution — and reined-in expectations. While it delivers — and quite well — on its promise, that’s about all it has going for it. That may or may not be enough. A taste for Kevin Smith’s sense of humor will help. How much is open to question. When our stalwart little band of reviewers wandered out into the hallway of The Carolina after the 9 a.m. press screening, one of our number (Chip Kauffman) referred to it as “The Devil Bat for the 21st century.” Fair enough, but the bargain basement 1940 Bela Lugosi film had the good sense — and common decency — to run only a few minutes past the 60-minute mark. Tusk insists on going on for 102 minutes that it can’t really support. If the film lost most of its background material about Wallace Bryton’s (Long) relationship with girlfriend Ally Leon (Genesis Rodriguez, Identity Thief), it would have helped. (I mean nobody really cares, especially in this kind of picture.) The film would also have benefitted by being less enamored of its special guest star (a famous actor in heavy makeup here bill-
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ing himself as “Guy Lapointe”) whose scenes tend to drag on unnecessarily. Somewhere inside Tusk is a solid 80-minute, amusingly warped horror movie. You can find it, but there’s a lot of excess blubber on this walrus. The film opens with the obviously preposterous claim that it was inspired by true events. Those true events, however, extend only to the fact that Smith came up with the idea (based on a bogus ad) on his podcast and allowed listeners to vote on whether it should be made into a movie. Obviously, the ayes had it. So we have Long’s Wallace as a kind of onscreen alter ego for Smith. That works well enough. Wallace heads to Canada (cue the “aboot” jokes) to interview the Kill Bill Kid (Doug Banks), who has become an Internet sensation for accidentally cutting off his own leg and posting the video online. But things don’t go as planned, and rather than return home with nothing, Wallace contacts a man who has put up a sign promising free room and board to anyone who will live with him and listen to his lifetime’s worth of stories. This turns out to be Howard Howe (Michael Parks), who drugs Wallace and sets out turning him into an ersatz walrus. Unsurprisingly, Wallace is not in the least happy when he wakes up minus a leg and strapped to a wheelchair. All of this works pretty well, with Parks having a fine time as the loony walrus fancier. He alone would make the movie worthwhile. The major downside is that Smith has the tendency to aspire to creating those Quentin Tarantino monologue arias, and his writing skills aren’t on that level. This also plagues the scenes with “Guy Lapointe.” The character — an unhinged and discharged (or in his term “excused”) homicide detective obsessed with tracking down serial killer Howe — is fine, but it all goes on too long and is not nearly as clever as Smith thinks. Similarly, while the business with Ally and Wallace’s podcast sidekick (Haley Joel Osment, to whom adulthood has not been kind) tracking down Wallace is necessary to the plot, it isn’t all that interesting. In short, the whole thing is a mixed bag, but one sufficiently twisted — and with enough goodies in that bag — to be worth a look. That’s assuming the basic premise intrigues you. And, yes, the Fleetwood Mac song suggested by the title shows up. Rated R for some disturbing violence/gore, language and sexual content. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke
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The Drop HHHH
Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, James Gandolfini, Matthias Schoenaerts, John Ortiz Crime Thriller Complex crime yarn about a Chechen-owned bar used as a money drop slated to be robbed on Super Bowl night. Wonderfully well-cast with a pleasingly involved story, The Drop is certainly a good film, but not the great one its writing, directing and acting pedigree suggests it could have been. Rated R
The Trip to Italy HHHHS Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Rosie Fellner, Claire Keelan, Marta Barrio Comedy-Drama Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on another tour of upscale restaurants — this time in Italy. Similar in most respects to the original The Trip, this sequel fills all its expected requirements, but has a much more pronounced undercurrent of sadness that makes for a richer experience. Rated NR
As Above, So Below H Perdita Weeks, Ben Feldman, Edwin Hodge, François Civil, Marion Lambert Subterranean Supernatural Hooey A search for the philosopher’s stone in the Paris catacombs turns deadly in a supernatural way. Pretty bottom-of-the-barrel horror made that much worse by nausea-inducing shaky-cam and often incoherent direction. Rated R
Land Ho! HHHH Earl Lynn Nelson, Paul Eenhoorn, Karrie Crouse, Elizabeth McKee, Alice Olivia Clarke Comedy Drama Two aging ex-brothers-inlaw go on a road trip in Iceland. A somewhat
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meandering, not terrifically adventurous but thoroughly likable little character study that benefits from sharp performances and Icelandic scenery. Rated R
Mood Indigo HHHHH Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy, Aïssa Maïga, Charlotte Le Bon Romantic Comedy Tragedy Fantasy The fanciful — and doomed — romance of a wealthy young man and the girl he falls for. There is more pure invention in the first five minutes of Mood Indigo than in just about all the other films this year put together. That’s both its magical greatness and why some viewers will find it altogether too much. For those up to it, though, it’s wonderful. Rated NR
The November Man H Pierce Brosnan, Luke Bracey, Olga Kurylenko, Bill Smitrovich, Amila Terzimehic Espionage Thriller A retired spy is pulled back into action and hunted by a former protégé. A generally unlikable, convoluted, silly and worn out espionage thriller that’s needlessly overwrought and brainless. Rated R
The One I Love HHHH Mark Duplass, Elisabeth Moss, Ted Danson Romantic Comedy-Drama Sci-Fi Fantasy A couple whose marriage is disintegrating is sent on a weekend getaway that has unexpected results. When it works, this highconcept look at the nature of relationships works beautifully. But it doesn’t always work. Even then, it remains interesting, but delivers less than it promises. Rated R
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Love Me Tonight HHHHH Director: Rouben Mamoulian Players: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Myrna Loy, Charles Ruggles, Charles Butterworth, C. Aubrey Smith MUSICAL COMEDY Rated NR With apologies to Ernst Lubitsch, Rouben Mamoulian’s Love Me Tonight (1932) is far and away the best of all Maurice ChevalierJeanette MacDonald musical comedies — and one of my top three films of all time. The combination of Mamoulian’s nonstop inventiveness, a barrage of terrific Rodgers and Hart songs (four of which became standards), wonderful supporting players (including Myrna Loy as an overt nymphomaniac) and its two stars giving career-best performances make it one of the most exhilarating entertainments ever made. The sly and witty — and very pre-code — screenplay by Samuel Hoffenstein, George Marion, Jr., and Waldemar Young — doesn’t hurt, and neither does that luminous 1930s Paramount sophistication. The Asheville Film Society will screen Love Me Tonight Tuesday, Sept. 23, 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 Ghost of Frankenstein HHHH Director: Erle C. Kenton (Island of Lost Souls) Players: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Ralph Bellamy, Bela Lugosi, Lon Chaney Jr., Lionel Atwill, Evelyn Ankers HORROR Rated NR The fourth — and last really good — entry in Universal’s long-running Frankenstein series is also the first one without Boris Karloff as The Monster. In his stead we have Universal’s new all-purpose horror star Lon Chaney, Jr. (who would eventually have a go at nearly all of the studio’s monsters). While he’s no Karloff, he doesn’t try to be and presents the character in new terms. A slick, compact script (this is 30 minutes shorter than its cumbersome predecessor) helps, but it’s really Bela Lugosi reprising his Ygor role — along with the Hans J. Salter score and solid production values — that sells the movie. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Ghost of Frankenstein Thursday, Sept. 18, 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 Lady Vanishes HHHS Director: Anthony Page Players: Elliott Gould, Cybill Shepherd, Angela Lansbury, Herbert Lom, Arthur Lowe, Ian Carmichael THRILLER Rated PG Reasonably efficient — but pretty unnecessary — remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1938 classic, the 1979 The Lady Vanishes boasts a good performance from Cybill Shepherd, some nice supporting turns and extremely good process work to give the illusion of being on a moving train. On the other hand, Elliott Gould has no business being in a period piece, and the almost exact duplication of the Hitchcock film’s screenplay makes it all pretty superfluous. The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Lady Vanishes Sunday, Sept. 21, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.
Where the Green Ants Dream HHHH Director: Werner Herzog Players: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Roy Barrett, Norman Kaye DRAMA Rated R Minor Werner Herzog, but make no mistake, Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) is still Herzog, and any movie by cinema’s most idiosyncratic — sometimes just short of lunatic — filmmaker is worth at least one look. It’s a kind of shaggy tale of the cri mes against the Aborigines by the Australian government — in this case, involving the destruction of one of their sacred grounds by a mining company. Of course, since this is Herzog, the entire mythology of the green ants is palpable nonsense made up by the filmmaker. The whole thing is rather slight, but some moments transcend the thin and somewhat hackneyed premise. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Where the Green Ants Dream Friday, Sept. 19, 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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COMMERCIAL/ BUSINESS RENTALS 2,000 SQFT +/- WAYNESVILLE, NC • Ideal office/warehouse/workspace downtown Waynesville. Decor would support craft-oriented use, distributor or low-traffic store. Negotiable. Call (828) 2166066. goacherints34@gmail. com 650SQFT WEST ASHEVILLE ARTIST STUDIO, GREAT LIGHT & 112SF PRIVATE DECK, ALL UTILITIES INCLUDED: $650 Non-residential West Asheville Artist Studio: 336sf main floor, exceptional light, natural wood floors, private bathroom. 160sqft spacious loft for office, drawing studio, etc. ample head space. 112sf private deck. Sam @828-2304970 828-230-4970 OFFICE • RETAIL SPACE 5 REGENT PARK BOULEVARD (Off Patton Ave. / Near Sams Club) 1,150 Square Feet, High traffic area. Located in 10-unit Shopping Center • Available Immediately. (828) 231-6689.
EMPLOYMENT GENERAL AFRICA • BRAZIL WORK/ STUDY! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply now! www.OneWorldCenter. org (269) 591-0518. info@OneWorldCenter.org (AAN CAN) AUTO DEALERSHIP LOT MAINTENANCE Lot maintenance position is available at local auto dealership. Position is part-time and requires applicant to be a self-starter with the ability to perform multiple tasks in a timely manner. Applicant must possess a valid NC Driver’s License and be 19 years or older. Call 828707-0513 for more information or apply in person at 1473 Patton Avenue.
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SHORT-TERM RENTALS 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental in beautiful country setting. • Complete with everything including cable and internet. • $150/day (2-day minimum), $650/week, $1500/ month. Weaverville area. • No pets please. (828) 658-9145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com
VACATION RENTALS CHARMING 2BR/ 1BA BUNGALOW Near Downtown Asheville. Huge deck overlooking Downtown/Mts. Koi Pond. Fully furnished with W/D and satellite. $150/day (3-day min). $950/wk. $2,800/ mo. No Pets. 828-687-0089 kappamanmsu@aol.com
ROOMMATES ROOMMATES ALL AREAS - ROOMMATES. COM . Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Roommates.com. (AAN CAN) SEEKING A happy / healthy home and housemate-peaceful, chemical-free. Prefer natural, homey, country, farm,
FULL TIME PET GROOMER WANTED Pet Supermarket Asheville Seeking Full Time Pet Groomer Full-time professional grooming experience Benefits included, Medical/ Dental/ Paid Time Off &Employee; Discount! EEO and Drug Free Work Place. 828-254-4481
ADMINISTRATIVE/ OFFICE OFFICE MANAGER OneWhoServes, Inc. is seeking a self-motivated Office Manager. Extreme attention to detail, professional and confident attitude, and excellent phone and customer service skills required. Position includes answering phones and providing customer service and scheduling, and administrative support to management. Send your resume to jobs@ onewhoserves.com or fax to 828-251-1108. No phone calls please. RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Needed Immediately. MANNA Food Bank Is seeking a Part-time, 20 hour/ week Resource Development Assistant. Competitive pay. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office. Job Description, requirements and application on www.mannafoodbank.org • E-mail resume and cover letter to: sschwartz@mannafoodbank.org No phone calls. EOE
SALES/ MARKETING AUTO SALES PERSON Sales Person needed for busy auto dealership. No experience is required for this part-time position, we will provide training. Candidate should enjoy interacting with clients and have a positive attitude as well as being a team player. Position requires attention to detail, willingness to learn, problem solving and the ability to multi-task. Must be able to work Saturdays, possess a valid NC Driver’s License and be 19 years or older. Call 828707-0513 for more information or apply in person at 1473 Patton Avenue. SALES ACCOUNT MANAGER We are looking for a fulltime aggressive inside sales employee to join our team. Candidate will be responsible for sales to new and existing retail store accounts. Duties also include order entry and customer service responsibilities. Our business is fast paced, so the ideal candidate must be outgoing, very organized and have excellent verbal and computer skills. We are looking for someone who is self motivated, positive, focused, reliable and detail oriented. Previous sales experience is preferred. Benefits include competitive pay with commission incentives, comfortable atmosphere w/casual dress, holiday and vacation pay, and great office hours. Interested parties please fax or email resume and cover letter, Attn: Jacqui fax# 828-2362658 or email: Jacqui@afgdistribution.com
RESTAURANT/ FOOD LINE COOK 131 Main has a from-scratch kitchen in which you will learn many techniques of food preparation and presentation. We are looking for professional, experienced or entry-level cooks that are hard-working and eager to learn. Apply at www.131-main. com or call at 828-651-0131
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ASHEVILLE HEALTH CARE CENTER Is currently hiring for: Dietary Aide, CNA, RN, and LPN. All interested individuals can apply online by visiting www.mfa.net CNAS (CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANTS) NEED IN BUNCOMBE, MADISON, AND YANCY COUNTIES www.bayada.com ASH-team@bayada. com 828-681-5100
HUMAN SERVICES BLUE RIDGE TREKS, LLC SEEKS PART-TIME CONTRACT THERAPIST Blue Ridge Treks is excited to hire a licensed therapist to fill a contract position providing therapy in the Asheville community. Part-time with room for growth. Send resume to blueridgetreks@gmail.com. BSW SOCIAL WORKER/ CASE MANAGER Full-time. Jewish Family Services of WNC, Inc. (JFS), seeks an experienced Bachelor’s level Social Worker/Case Manager to provide assistance and coordination of services to individuals and families at all life stages. This person identifies client needs to develop and monitor appropriate client service plans and outcomes. • Requires BSW degree, excellent communication and computer skills, and relevant experience, including with older adults and group programs. Knowledge of WNC resources, and familiarity with Jewish culture preferred. Must be team player And able to work independently, with a focus on helping people to help themselves. This is Not a clinical position. • Email resume and cover letter to info@jfswnc.org or mail to: JFS, 2 Doctors Park Suite E, Asheville, NC 28801. No phone calls please. Application deadline: 9/19/2014. • A copy of the full job description is available on the JFS website at www.jfswnc.org DIRECTOR, T.H.E. CENTER FOR DISORDERED EATING Director will lead T.H.E. Center in our mission & strategic plan. Includes program dev, volunteer mngt., fundraising, and managing daily oper. 30 hrs/wk as an indep contractor. 828-337-4685 centerdirectorsearch@gmail.com www. thecenternc.org LIBERTY CORNER ENTERPRISES is seeking Support Team Members to work in residential homes and the community with people who have disabilities. • Applicants
LOOKING FOR DIRECT CARE STAFF to provide services to persons(s) with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Several positions available. Training, supervision, and benefits available. Evidence of high school graduation is required. Please apply online at www.turningpointservicesinc.com; specify Asheville as the location. “We are an equal opportunity employer” MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR (LCSW/LPC) with Substance Abuse Credentials (CSAC/LCAS). Established Counseling Center seeking licensed therapist looking to establish private practice. While building your client base, you’ll be conducting Assessments and leading groups. Experience and work background in substance abuse highly desired. Please contact Bruce directly at (828) 777-3755 and email resume to trcbruce@gmail.com PART-TIME RN Nurses – RN Help make your community a better place. Mountain Area Recovery Center is growing and we are currently seeking an RN to work PRN as a medicating nurse at both Asheville and Clyde facilities. Some requirements are early morning hours, flexible schedule, and some weekend hours. Candidate must be dependable. Criminal background check required for all final candidates. EOE. Please e-mail resume to rhonda. ingle@marc-otp.com or fax to 828.252.9512, ATTN: RHONDA INGLE. www.marc-otp. com
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RECOVERY GUIDE Red Oak Recovery, a young adult Substance Abuse Treatment Program located in Leicester, NC is seeking highly qualified individuals for direct care positions. Recovery Guides work on a rotating week on/week off schedule. Treatment takes place in a residential setting with wilderness adventure expeditions. WFR, CSAC, or a degree in a human services field preferred. Personal or professional experience with 12 Step Recovery, Substance Abuse Treatment, Mental Health Treatment and/or Wilderness Therapy is required. We offer competitive pay, health benefits, professional substance abuse and clinical training. Substance abuse and clinical supervision are available. Please submit resumes to jobs@redoakrecovery.com
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ARIES (MARCH 21-APRIL 19) These horoscopes I write for you aren’t primarily meant to predict the future. They’re more about uncovering hidden potentials and desirable possibilities that are stirring below the surface right now. When I’m doing my job well, I help you identify those seeds so you can cultivate them proactively. Bearing that in mind, I’ll pose three pertinent questions: 1. What experiments might stir up more intimacy in the relationships you want to deepen? 2. What could you change about yourself to attract more of the love and care you want? 3. Is there anything you can do to diminish the sting of bad memories about past romantic encounters, thereby freeing you to love with more abandon? TAURUS (APRIL 20-MAY 20) The old Latin motto “Gradu diverso, via una” can be translated as either “Continuing on the same road, but with a different stride” or “Going the same way, but changing your pace.” I think this is excellent advice for you, Taurus. By my reckoning, you are on the correct path. You’re headed in the right direction, but you need to shift your approach — not a lot, just a little. You’ve got to make some minor adjustments in the way you flow. GEMINI (MAY 21-JUNE 20) For years, Donna and George Lewis used a 33-pound, oval-shaped rock as a doorstop in their Tennessee home. Later they moved it to their garden. Then one day George analyzed it with his metal detector and realized it had unusual properties. He took it to scientists who informed him it was a rare and valuable 4.5 billion-year-old meteorite. With this as our subtext, Gemini, I’m asking you if there might be some aspect of your life that’s more precious than you imagine. Now is a favorable time to find out, and make appropriate adjustments in your behavior. CANCER (JUNE 21-JULY 22) I’ve got a radical proposal, Cancerian. It might offend you. You may think I’m so far off the mark that you’ll stop reading my horoscopes. But I’m willing to take that risk, and I’m prepared to admit that I could be wrong, though I don’t think I am. Here’s what I have to say: There’s a sense in which the source of your wound is potentially also the source of the “medicine” that will heal it. What hurt you could fix you. But you must be careful not to interpret this masochistically: You can’t afford to be too literal. I’m not saying that the source of your pain is trustworthy or has good intentions. Be cagey as you learn how to get the cure you need. LEO (JULY 23-AUG. 22) The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study whose conclusion might seem more at home in a tabloid newspaper or satirical website. It said there’s a correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes. Countries whose citizens eat more chocolate have produced an inordinate number of Nobel laureates. So does this mean that chocolate makes you smarter, as some other studies have also suggested? Maybe, the report concluded. And since it’s especially important for you to be at the height of your mental powers in the coming weeks, Leo, why not experiment with this possibility? LIBRA (SEPT. 23-OCT. 22) When Libra-born Mohandas Gandhi was 19, he moved to London from his native India to study law. He soon got caught up in attempting to become an English gentleman, taking elocution lessons and learning to dance. He bought fine clothes and a gold watch chain. Each morning he stood before a giant mirror, fussing with his hair and necktie until they were perfect. In retrospect, this phase of Gandhi’s life seems irrelevant. Years later he was a barefoot rebel leader using nonviolent civil disobedience to help end British rule in India, often wearing a loincloth and shawl made of fabric he’d woven himself. With this as your inspiration, Libra, identify aspects of your current life that contribute little to the soul you must eventually become. SCORPIO (OCT. 23-NOV. 21) This might be controversial, but I suspect that for now your emphasis shouldn’t be on sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll. Instead, your specialties
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VIRGO (AUG. 23-SEPT. 22) I rarely waste my time trying to convert the “skeptics” who attack astrology with a hostile zeal that belies their supposed scientific objectivity. They’re often as dogmatic and closed-minded as any fundamentalist religious nut. When I’m in a tricky mood, though, I might tell them about the “Crawford Perspectives,” a highly-rated Wall Street investment publication that relies extensively on astrological analysis. Or I might quote financier J.P. Morgan, who testified that “Millionaires don’t use astrology; billionaires do.” That brings us to my main point, Virgo: The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to put in motion plans to get richer quicker. Take advantage!
should be hard-earned intimacy, altered states that are solely the result of deep introspection, and music that inspires reverence and other sacred emotions. You’re entering a phase when crafty power is less important than vigorous receptivity; when success is not nearly as interesting as meaningfulness; when what you already understand is less valuable than what you can imagine and create. SAGITTARIUS (NOV. 22-DEC. 21) You are entering a phase when you will reap rich rewards by nurturing the health of your favorite posse, ensemble or organization. How’s the group’s collective mental health? Are there any festering rifts? Any apathetic attitudes or weakening resolves? I choose you to be the leader who builds solidarity and cultivates consensus. I ask you to think creatively about how to make sure everyone’s individual goals synergize with the greater good. Are you familiar with the Arabic word taarradhin? It means a compromise that allows everyone to win — a reconciliation in which no one loses face. CAPRICORN (DEC. 22-JAN. 19) The good news is that America has more trees than it did 100 years ago. Aggressive efforts to replace the decimated old-growth forests have paid off. The bad news is that the new forests contain far fewer tree species than the originals, and they’re often crowded into smaller spaces, so wildfires are more massive and devastating. And because so many of the forests are young, they host a reduced diversity of plant and animal life. All in all, the increased quantity is wonderful; the lower quality not so much. Is there a lesson here for you? I think so. In your upcoming decisions, favor established quality over novel quantity. AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18) When Pope Francis isn’t traveling, he comes out to meet the public in St. Peter’s Square every Wednesday. During one such event last January, he took a few moments to bestow tender attention on a talking parrot that belonged to a male stripper. I foresee a comparable anomaly happening for you in the coming days. A part of you that is wild or outré will be blessed by contact with what’s holy or sublime. Or maybe a beastly aspect of your nature that doesn’t normally get much respect will receive a divine favor. PISCES (FEB. 19-MARCH 20)“My definition of a devil is a god who hasn’t been recognized,” said mythologist Joseph Campbell. “It’s a power in you to which you haven’t given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds up and becomes dangerous to the position you’re trying to hold.” Do you agree, Pisces? I hope so, because you will soon be entering the Get Better Acquainted with Your Devil phase of your astrological cycle, to be immediately followed by the Transform Your Devil into a God phase. To get the party started, ask yourself this question: What is the power in you to which you haven’t given expression?
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SEEKING A LICENSED AFL PROVIDER for a 16 y/o male client. Must be able to pass agency requirements: High School Diploma or GED with test scores, valid - DL, auto registration, and auto insurance, background check, CPR/FA training (provided), ability to physically assist individual, and home inspections. If interested please contact Megan Halperin at 828-6929600 THERAPISTS NEEDED FOR CHILD/ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH POSITIONS IN JACKSON, HAYWOOD, & MACON COUNTIES Looking to fill several full-time positions. Therapists needed to provide Outpatient, Day Treatment or Intensive Inhome services to children/ adolescents with mental health diagnoses. Therapists must have current NC therapist license. Apply by submitting resume to telliot@jcpsmail.org
TEACHING/ EDUCATION ARE YOU INTERESTED IN MAKING A DIFFERENCE? Come join our team where you can have a positive, lasting impact on youth from across the country. Our programs are steadily growing and we continue to seek qualified applicants to join our programs. Experienced Spanish Teachers, teaching license required. Classroom, Special Education or therapeutic experience a strong plus, but not required. • This position is an hourly, Tutoring position. Our beautiful 24-acre campus provides a safe setting for our students to transform their lives. Asheville Academy for Girls is a residential treatment center for girls ages 10-14 and Solstice East is a residential treatment center for girls ages 14-18. Check out our websites for more information: http://www. ashevilleacademy.com and http://www.solsticeeast.com • Please send a resume and cover letter to the link above. Asheville Academy for Girls and Solstice East are both Equal Opportunity Employers. No phone calls or walkins please.
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RETAIL RETAIL STORE MANAGER - FLETCHER, NC Klingspor’s Woodworking Shop is seeking a “Retail Store Manager” to join our newest location in Fletcher, NC (near Asheville). The ideal candidate will have a broad understanding of woodworking tools and techniques plus experience in retail sales and customer service. Responsibilities include hiring, training and supervising staff; plan monthly work schedules; and manage daily expenses, plus others. Candidates must maintain a very flexible schedule and should possess computer experience with Windows-based programs. Must have outstanding work history with stability and excellent attendance history. Applicants must be teamwork oriented; possesses attention to detail; and be self-motivated. We offer competitive wages and an excellent benefit package to include: medical/life/STD/ LTD, dental, 401K, holidays, vacation, and more. Qualified candidates should fax resume and cover letter to include salary requirements/history to: (828) 327-4634 or mail to: Klingspor’s Woodworking Shop, Attention: Human Resources, P.O. Box 3737, Hickory, NC 28603-3737. RETAIL STORE MANAGERBREVARD Outdoor store is seeking an experienced retail manager: Responsible for training and managing staff, improving sales, meeting customer service goals. Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, self-discipline, initiative, strong leader, organizational abilities and problem solver. Send resume and references to Outdoor Retailer, P.O. Box 1673, Brevard 28712.
XCHANGE GENERAL MERCHANDISE BIG BEN WIND UP CLOCKS Asking $15/each. 692-3024. FOUNTAIN PENS Shaffer, Wherever, Montifiore. $5 each. 692-3024. NATIVITY SCENE From 1940’s. Very good condition. $25, obo. 692-3024.
FURNITURE A NEST OF TABLES Glass tops. Excellent condition. Very nice. $85 for all three. Call 692-3024. LARGE MIRROR With shelves and drawers to put over buffet or dresser. Perfect condition. $35, obo. Call 692-3024.
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YARD SALES COMMUNITY YARD SALE Help us clean out our closets! Clothes, Furniture, Books and More! Saturday, 9/20/14, 8am-1pm. Kensington Place Apartments. 3176 Sweeten Creek Road.
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TRANSPORTATION BEST MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES David’s Transportation Services for elderly and physically disabled, non emergency transportation anywhere in the USA. Certified Nursing Assistant and Spanish translator available. For more information please contact 828-2150715 or 828-505-1394. www. Cesarfamilyservices.com
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SALSA CLASSES! Salsa Classes every Wednesday ! Salsa classes going on now, and new 6wk will start September 17th! Beginners Salsa 7:30-8:30pm and Intermediate Salsa 8:30-9:30pm! Location: Extreme Dance Studio, 856 Sweeten Creek Rd. Asheville ! $10/class or $40/6wk More Info: 828-674-2658, Jenniferwcs@aol.com or www.facebook.com/2umbao SILK REELING SPIRAL POWER QI GONG BLACK MOUNTAIN Cultivate essence, energy and spirit through spiraling movement, Taoist meditation & circle walking. Wednesdays 5:30-6:30pm at Dobra Tea Black Mountain & Fridays 4:00-5:00pm at The Carver Community Center. Contact Mela 828-419-0393 / mela@ melaluna.net. SPOON CARVING CLASS AT WARREN WILSON COLLEGE Spend a weekend with artisan spoon carver Tim Manney, September 20/21. Cost: 100.00. Includes all materials and a professional carving knife. Call 828-3011158 to register
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