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PAGE 8 GIMME SHELTER As Asheville becomes an evermore desirable destination, housing costs continue to rise — pricing out many artists who have helped make the city a creative hotspot and tourist magnet.

On the cover: Abby Roach, who performs as Abby the Spoon Lady, recently announced she’ll be leaving Asheville next year in her newly acquired green bus. She is pictured with her musical partner Chris Rodriguez.

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Walk out, die in and rally for climate action Dear Asheville community: At the recent first meeting of the budding local chapter of Extinction Rebellion (extinctionrebellion.us), I sat with a circle of mostly elders who have decided to step up and insist we stop pretending our governments will address the climate emergency in a useful way. There will be more connecting opportunities in a couple of weeks at a library education room in the area. You can get in touch with me if you want to know where (a_dasilva@ bellsouth.net).

Other activists are also stepping out and up for help to shortcut this mindless march into what is not glibly being called the Sixth Extinction on Earth. From Sept.

20-27, classes, demonstrations, strikes and rallies are planned, including in Asheville on the 20th a “die-in” at 11 a.m. and a rally at 5 p.m.

This is a call out to y’all that business cannot be conducted as usual if we are to change the course of madness — and that students and teachers, clerks and administrators, workers and housekeepers, all step off the familiar path and go downtown (or to a local outdoor gathering space) and turn your concern into an insistence that will be noticed. This is a totally nonviolent event designed to help folks focus on this devastating issue and to use our love and willpower to draw ourselves away from the distractions of consumer culture and the demands of our daily lives.

Forty-nine years ago, in the winter and spring of 1970, all over this continent, students began holding sit-ins in school halls and classrooms, protesting the U.S. invasion of Cambodia and demanding an end to the war against Vietnam. We didn’t even have internet at that time, but telephones sufficed to link the whole country of high school, college and university populations, including a considerable number of faculty, and make the dire situation a priority. It really did begin to turn the tide.

Surely the fact that children today have terrible things to look forward to and all of us will be hit hard in not that many years if things don’t abruptly and comprehensively shift. There are answers, however temporary at this time, to many of the climate dilemmas we face, but they have to be acted on right away. And the only way it seems the legislative will to move on them will be summoned is through the kind of insistence sit-ins, die-ins, walkouts, strikes and other citizen action have the power to provoke.

I hope you work or go to school in a place that will understand when you don’t show up on Friday the 20th or, even more demonstrably, take your things and leave before 11 a.m. to lend your voice, your will and your love to protect this planet that can’t take much more abuse.

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Support solutions for climate change The reverberations of the call by Greta Thunberg, a young Swedish student, for global climate strikes will be felt here on Sept. 20 in Pack Square at the Asheville Climate Justice Rally [avl.mx/6hv]. This is a pivotal moment to speak out about the climate crisis.

Elected leaders need to understand there is a growing groundswell of support for climate solutions. ...

I was one of around 1,300 volunteer lobbyists with Citizens’ Climate Lobby who conducted 529 meetings with members of Congress and their staff in one day. The good news from our collected reports is there are almost no climate deniers left on Capitol Hill.

Rep. Patrick McHenry wrote on his website, “We should focus on what Congress can actually do to address climate change. We should expand clean energy deployment to communities throughout the U.S. and pursue innovative, market-based solutions that help the environment.”

Congressman Mark Meadows, during a House oversight hearing, said there “is no doubt that human contributions have attributed to greenhouse gases.” He also mentioned that his staff was considering the merits of a carbon tax to address climate change.

I’m grateful our lawmakers are part of the consensus that climate change is real. But are they on board with solutions that will reduce greenhouse gas emissions quickly enough? ...

The heat wave that blasted the East Coast this summer claimed at least six lives. According to NOAA, July was the hottest month ever on record for the globe. Hurricane Dorian was the fifth Category 5 storm in the last four years. Our climate is warming faster than it has in the last 2,000 years, and the question remains, what will we do about it?

Enter Asheville’s Drew Jones, cofounder and co-director of Climate Interactive [avl.mx/4mna], a think tank that gives policymakers a realistic view of what’s needed to contain global warming below 2 degrees Celsius (and hopefully below 1.5°C). Jones recently spoke to CCL members on an international video call (bit.ly/CCL-Jones), where he demonstrated Climate Interactive’s new tool, En-ROADS. This is a powerful climate solutions simulator that can run through 38,000 equations in less than a second using the best available science to determine how well climate solutions work. ...

We looked at responses like electric cars, new technologies (e.g., nuclear 4

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fusion), growing more trees and more wind and solar. None of these were enough by themselves to keep coal and oil in the ground over the next 20 years, which is what must happen to keep temperature growth below 2°C. The lesson is that there are no silver bullets. ... The most “silverish bullet” Jones could find was CCL’s Carbon Fee and Dividend proposal to put a steadily rising price or tax on fossil fuels and return all the proceeds to household as a monthly dividend. But even this was not enough to solve climate change.

However, when other solutions like energy efficiency, planting trees and methane reduction were added into the picture, the 2°C goal was met! ...

Our lawmakers can take advantage of the political space opening in Washington, D.C., around climate to champion solutions that work. ... Climate must not be a Democratic or Republican issue. It is a bridge issue, a bridge we must have for a sustainable future.

Our job, wherever we stand on the political spectrum, is to use our passion, voices and energy to create the political will to ensure a livable world for our descendants. On Sept.

20, show up at Pack Square and connect with one of the 16 co-sponsoring organizations and choose how you will leave your kids a healthier and more just world.

— Don Kraus Volunteer Field Development Coordinator

Citizens’ Climate Lobby Asheville Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx.com.

On Day of Peace, ponder military and climate connections Thoughts to ponder on International Day of Peace (Sept. 21), whose theme for 2019 is Climate Action for Peace: Our worst enemy isn’t China, North Korea, Russia or Iran. No, our new enemy is becoming more powerful every day. Confronting this enemy won’t take guns, bombs or modern weapon systems. We are that enemy. And Mother Earth is not too happy with us. She’s losing her polar ice caps, her forests are burning, her storms more destructive, her waterways flooding and her fertile fields browning into deserts through climate change.

But we still prepare to fight other countries, unaware of our largest threat. In Asheville, we are warned of imposing disasters invading us in the form of heavy rains, increased flood-

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ing, landslides, droughts, fires, epic storms, maybe even insect plagues as climate change rages across our mountains, valleys, homes and businesses.

Not long ago, the National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center estimated collateral damage in Asheville from increased flooding.

Estimates of potential flood damage included 180 parcels of land used to provide community services — and underwater, 1,549 residential parcels — and 61 miles of flooded roads. If we

don’t prepare for such disasters, we will, like Nero, be playing the fiddle while the rains fall from the heavens, or the wildfires roar or mudslides strip our mountains.

Even though climate change is now enemy No. 1, 97 Asheville defense contractors continue to accept funds as members of the military-industrial complex. In 2018, nearly $21 million in defense contracts flowed into our city. (governmentcontractswon.com).

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How many organizations or contractors are getting federal funds to lessen the effects of climate change?

Uncle Sam doesn’t seem to publish such information. But we can compare budgets. The feds budgeted $649 billion for defense in 2018, whereas the various agencies that work on climate action received about $14 billion. If only the contractors above could transition their jobs from war to renewable energy, maybe we could slow the momentum of climate disruption marching into WNC. Unfortunately, much of our billions aimed at building weapons also cause climate change. If our military were a country, its fossil fuel use would fall one below Iraq and one ahead of Sweden at 34th, ahead of 162 other countries. And that’s only from the use of fossil fuels, not accounting for all the other ways our military damages land, air and water, and especially millions of people, whom many of us call “climate refugees.” In turn, they may become scapegoats, excuses for further armed conflicts down the road.

However, the powerful create war, not the victims.

Join us as we look at the connections of war and climate change this year when we observe International Day of Peace in Asheville and around the globe. You can find details on Facebook at WNC4Peace.

— Rachael Bliss Asheville

Can Asheville City Schools try another approach?

Does what happens in the classroom have anything to do with education?

I attended the public forum presented by the Asheville City Schools on Aug. 29. I have also tried to keep up with the discussion of the issues, as reported by the Xpress, in previous ACS forums this year.

The school system is searching for a new superintendent in the face of the reality that about 80 percent of white elementary students test proficiently in reading, math and science, while only 30 percent of black students do so.

The specific topic for citizen input at the Aug. 29 forum was a list of the desired qualifications for a new school superintendent for Asheville.

But the list, which included “racial equity training,” “cultural awareness training” and experience with “poverty,” made no mention of the

classroom or the curriculum. And this emphasis on race and society was true for previous forums.

There seems to be a consensus among education professionals that what goes on outside the classroom — family, race, history, society, politics — determines educational proficiency and that schooling should be about that. And such a view is not peculiar to Asheville public schools.

Per recent articles in The Charlotte Observer, the same consensus prevails in Charlotte.

However, the Asheville school system has already tried that approach.

With great fanfare and with much hope in 2017, Asheville public schools imported a program by two University of Wisconsin professors called Integrative Comprehensive Strategies for Equity. According to the reporting of the Xpress in May of this year, “after two years and many meetings, little progress appears to have been made.” [avl.mx/pru5] Can we try another approach? Are there educators who think that kids can learn despite their backgrounds and the effects of outside-the-school influences? If so, let’s hire them, starting at the superintendent level.

Reading is obviously and by far the most important subject in the elementary curriculum. It is the basis for all the other subjects and for advancement to the next grades.

Kids who are deficient in reading need extra instruction, not extra excuse-making and blaming of society. “I am a good reader” is the best overcoming of social disadvantage that I can think of.

What about a “qualified” new superintendent who would have it as a goal to completely revise the elementary school (3-8) curriculum to concentrate on reading?

And who would make radical changes to achieve that goal, including de-emphasizing all other subjects (except for mathematics) — social studies, science, art, music, sports — in favor of this most important and necessary subject. Double or triple the time spent on reading and associated language skills. Bring in extra tutors. Here’s a suggestion: WNC is home to hundreds (thousands?) of educated retired people. What about them volunteering to come in for an hour or two every day or twice a week to help kids one-on-one or one-on-two?

This is Asheville. Let’s challenge the education establishment, including professors of education.

— Tom Ascik Asheville

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Is Asheville’s creative community getting priced out?

BY LAURA HACKETT laurafaye15@gmail.com Local artist Kris Lars says that during the winter months when sales were down, she sometimes lived in a tent in order to hang onto her workspace.

For four years, Lars rented space in the Phil Mechanic Studios on Roberts Street, which was then one of the more affordable River Arts District properties. Discouraged by the rising rents, Lars eventually gave up her studio and took a nonarts-related job; the building was sold to a Texas investor in 2016.

Lars says she knows several artists who live in campers to avoid paying prohibitive rates for residential space.

Filmmaker and audio engineer Braethun Bharathae-Lane says, “I lived out of my car for a year until I found a property in Black Mountain.

But most of my activities are in Asheville, so I’m having to commute all the time in crazy traffic. There’s a lack of affordable parking. All these little charges start to add up.”

Meanwhile, beloved local busker Abby Roach (aka Abby the Spoon Lady) has announced that she’ll be relocating in the coming months. “I don’t see anything within the central downtown area being affordable for any artists staying here,” she says. “I lived out in Woodfin, and I was paying rent a lot cheaper. Even then, it was expensive enough that I’m not going to be paying rent anymore: I’m going to move into my bus.”

Roach, who intends to move to Wichita, Kan., in the coming months and make periodic trips back here, says she, too, knows other artists facing similar situations. “I see more and

KANSAS OR BUSK: “A good number of our venues pay less than minimum wage. That’s why our performers can’t live here,” says longtime Asheville icon Abby the Spoon Lady, who has recently moved from her rental in Woodfin into a converted bus that she plans to take to her hometown of Wichita, Kan., in a few months. She says affordability problems, along with a diminishing number of busking locations, have motivated her move. Photo by Laura Hackett more that performers who want to move and live here can’t. They’ll even be homeless for a few months trying to find a way that they can earn an income enough to keep a roof over their heads, but it ends up they can’t.”

As Asheville becomes an evermore desirable destination, housing costs continue to rise. As of June 30, the median price of currently listed homes in the city was $359,950, according to Zillow. Local rentals tell a similar story. A 2017 report

by Bowen National Research, which was commissioned by the city as a follow-up to the company’s broader 2014 regional

housing needs assessment, found that in Buncombe County, the median rent for a one-bedroom unit (not including utilities) increased 12% between 2014 and 2016, from $830 to $930. In the same period, median studio apartment rents jumped 31%, from $667 to $875.

That, of course, affects everyone, not just artists. And meanwhile, the demand for affordable rentals has remained unmet. Bowen’s 2017 report found that none of the 2,348 government-subsidized units (serving households at or below 50% of the area’s median household income) and only one of the 967 tax credit units

(for households with up to 60% of the median income) was vacant. A combined 1,187 households were on waitlists for those two types of housing.

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t think affordable housing is a top priority,” says Downtown Commission Chair Sage Turner, who’s also vice chair of the Affordable Housing Advisory Committee.

Stephanie Moore, executive director of the Center for Craft, sounded a similar note in an October 2018 press release. “We know that many artists, creatives, musicians and performers are leaving due to the rapidly increasing cost of living, putting Asheville’s culture at risk,” she said. “Collective efforts to develop affordable housing and space solutions for artists should be a key priority.”

Admittedly, the creative sector as a whole has seen significant upticks in wages and job availability, and statistically, Asheville’s creative community still looks strong. But the city’s ongoing growing pains and housing affordability crisis are increasingly threatening its long-standing identity as an arts haven.

DUELING NUMBERS Still, at least by some measures, the creative sector appears to be thriving.

In 2017, a half-dozen local entities — the Asheville Area Arts Council, the Chamber of Commerce, the city of Asheville, the Center for Craft, the River Arts District Artists and UNC Asheville — joined forces to purchase the Creative Vitality Suite, an analytical tool that annually assesses a community’s overall creative landscape.

And according to the June 2019 CVS report (based on 2017 data),

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“I’m not gonna be paying rent anymore: I’m going to move into my bus. I see more and more that performers who want to move and live here can’t.”

— local busker Abby Roach

TELL US WHAT YOU WANT: The results of a survey conducted by Artspace on behalf of the Center for Craft pointed to high demand among artists for affordable living and studio spaces. Graphic courtesy of the Center for Craft creative jobs, wages and overall vitality remained on the rise. In 2017, there were 6,347 skilled creative jobs in the city of Asheville — up 17% from 2014.

During the same period, Buncombe County saw a 16% increase. In those years, total earnings from creative jobs rose 35% in the city and 33% in the county. The report also found that Buncombe County scored 1.28 on the Creative Vitality Index, which measures the health of an area’s creative economy compared with the national index average of 1.

Many artists, however, live a barebones existence and work day jobs in order to support their creative endeavors — one of many factors that might skew the numbers. Accordingly, in 2017, the Center for Craft and the chamber also tackled the question from a different angle. They hired Artspace Consulting to determine the demand for affordable arts-based working and living spaces.

The Minneapolis-based Artspace, a nonprofit real estate developer that focuses on affordable housing, studio and performance space for artists, developed a pair of online surveys.

Based on the responses of 1,265 individual artists and 170 creative businesses, the Arts Market Study called for building up to 168 units of affordable housing for artists/creatives and up to 81 units of affordable studio space. The hope, notes Moore, is that the survey results will persuade developers and city leaders to make the needed infrastructure investments.

CITY COUNCIL GETS INVOLVED To some extent, that seems to be happening. In response to the study’s findings, the city announced that, in partnership with Artspace, it would prioritize affordable living and/or workspace for artists at the ice house site (81-91 Riverside Drive). The next step is putting out a call to developers “to submit statements of qualifications and interest in the project,” says Stephanie Monson Dahl, director of the city’s Strategic Development Office. She expects that to happen later this year.

“We have a lot of research that supports this approach being beneficial to our community. However, the developers will have to show that it can be done in an economically feasible manner.”

Janelle Wienke, the arts council’s assistant director, says the Creative Vitality Suite has helped drive home their message. “When you’re talking to the city or county about development, you start to speak their language when you talk about economic impact or salary bases, industry sales, tax revenue. Once you start to talk that language, it gives credibility.”

City Council, notes Monson Dahl, recently approved more than $3 million in Housing Trust Fund loans and modifications of existing loans to support the creation of 151 affordable apartment units, at least 11 of which will be reserved

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ARTIVISTS IN ACTION: Cleaster Cotton, left, and fellow artist Tarah Singh pose in Cotton’s studio space at the Refinery on the South Slope. Through the Youth Artists Empowered program, the duo focus on creating economic opportunities for young African American artists in Asheville with art lessons, mentorship and professional development. Photo by Laura Hackett for people who are currently homeless.

The remaining units, she says, will be affordable for people making no more than 60% of the area’s median income.

“For a two-bedroom where the tenant is paying utilities, today that means a maximum rent of $685; $900 if all utilities are included,” Monson Dahl explains.

MORE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT Some developers are also taking note of local artists’ needs. Since the Asheville Arts Market Study results were reported last October, several proposals for artsfocused, mixed-use developments have been submitted to the city.

The 22,400-square-foot, high-density Radview project, which received the city’s Planning and Design Review Committee recommendation in March, would create housing, artist studios, office and retail space on a hill behind the N.C. Glass Center on Roberts Street.

According to Laura Hudson, the project’s architect, the 26 units are “affordable by design,” with rental rates to be determined upon the project’s completion. A June 7 press release notes that the project location “pays homage to the River Arts District’s history as an incubator for artists, who repurposed neglected buildings and forged the heart of the Asheville arts scene.”

The release quoted developer Jeremy Goldstein saying, “We feel it’s critical to provide additional artist studio workspace with retail frontage in this location: housing that will be occupied by people that actually work in the River Arts District, and office space for arts-related organizations.

The goal is to infuse creative energy and life into the heart of the district by activating this site 24/7.”

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Hudson says the project’s final step in the city approval process was expected to come on Sept. 16 at the Technical Review Committee, as this issue of Xpress goes to the printer. Assuming that approval goes Radview’s way, construction could begin next spring.

Another proposed project, Create 72 Broadway, passed muster with the Downtown Commission in July. And on Aug. 7, the Planning and Zoning Commission unanimously endorsed a modified version of the mixed-use development, which would stand at the corner of Broadway and Market streets. The current configuration calls for 137 hotel rooms (down from 150) and 37 residential units, at least six of which would be designated affordable; an additional two for-sale units would be live/work spaces allocated specifically for local artists. There would also be commercial space, an art gallery, a transit shelter and parking.

The project would be a major component of the Broadway Cultural Gateway plan commissioned by the Center for Craft and UNCA, which aims to develop the surrounding block as a more prominent cultural district and downtown point of entry.

“Provided we receive approval from the city to move forward,” says Greensboro-based developer Birju Patel, “Create 72 Broadway will include six apartments designed and reserved specifically for professional creatives earning 60% of the area’s median income” — $39,840 for a family of four, according to federal data. “We want to support creative endeavors and those whose lives are enriched by their art,” he continues.

At an April 10 presentation to local news media, Patel said the six affordable

apartments would rent for “about 500 bucks. … We looked at what the average rent for Asheville was: about $2,000 a month. … We looked at what the criteria for affordable housing were, from a legality standpoint. Basically, it says that [a person] should not be spending [more than] 30% of their [area’s median income] on rent, and that breaks out to roughly $500 a month.” Patel’s company would underwrite the $1,500 a month difference, he said.

But the project stalled at a Sept. 10 public hearing before Asheville City Council after Council members Vijay Kapoor and Julie Mayfield said they wouldn’t vote for the project. Supporters of Asheville City Market, a farmers market held on Saturday mornings on North Market Street, said the hotel would imperil the market’s operations by reducing the portion of the street that could be closed for its use. After more than two hours of discussion and comments from members of the public, attorney Derek Allen asked Council to continue its consideration of the hotel’s zoning application at least until Tuesday, Sept. 24; officials voted 4-3 in favor of the request, with Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler and Council members Brian Haynes and Keith Young opposed.

At its Sept. 24 meeting, however, Council will also hold a public hearing on a proposed one-year moratorium on hotel construction throughout the city.

BEYOND HOUSING Some local artists, though, are taking a wait-and-see approach.

Although Lars says she’s encouraged that people care enough to seek out data, “I just need more physical evidence of things changing.”

Local filmmaker Ted Kendrick, who founded the digital project hub Artificial Ink Creative, sounds a similar note. “It seems like a step in the right direction; the results of the survey seem fair.” Nonetheless, he continues, “I’m considering leaving, because my rent has been raised up a good chunk. It raises every year.”

And Bharathae-Lane, the filmmaker and audio engineer, says, “I’m not excited yet, to be honest. It really depends on how well these developments play into the community.” In the case of Create 72 Broadway, he points out, “It seems like the afford-

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“Many artists, creatives, musicians and performers are leaving due to the rapidly increasing cost of living, putting Asheville’s culture at risk.”

— Stephanie Moore, Center for Craft able space could just be a bargaining chip to get the hotel approved. … For the community to really thrive, artists need to look at ways to cooperate and collaborate. We need to pay artists a living wage for the work they’re doing. I think artists should form unions and have laws in place that protect them from being exploited.”

Roach agrees. “It’s more than just housing: If the wages aren’t going up, there’s no way around it, artists will have to leave,” she maintains. “A good number of our venues pay less than minimum wage. … If you love the arts and culture in Asheville, then you have to pay for it.”

According to Artspace, which has 52 properties in operation and seven more in the works in communities across the country, its developments in locations such as Council Bluffs, Iowa, and Washington, D.C., have galvanized creativity, often even persuading out-oftown artists to emigrate to those places.

Hard data concerning the success of subsidized artist housing is limited, but a 2007 report by the Urban Institute cited community benefits ranging from beautification and increased pedestrian and automotive traffic to diversified development strategies and a smallscale increase in job opportunities. For artists, the upside included strengthened networks, increased feedback and mentoring, and heightened visibility.

The report, however, also noted that such arts-oriented development can boost real estate values, “leading to revitalization or gentrification.”

INSTITUTIONAL RACISM That, in turn, can have an outsize impact on artists of color, who already face additional challenges, notes Cleaster Cotton. The Asheville-based artist, who leads the Youth Arts Empowerment workshops, says she welcomes efforts to create affordable working and living spaces here — provided that it’s done with “sen-

And if you’re able, notes Cotton, just purchasing a piece of art can have implications that go far beyond the dollars spent. “If you come and buy a painting, you’re helping at a grassroots level,” she says. “I have cried for joy from the looks on my students’ faces when they make a sale.”

THE BOTTOM LINE

MOONLIGHTERS: About three-quarters of all Asheville-area artists surveyed by Artspace for the Center for Craft said they were also employed in a noncreative occupation. Graphic courtesy of the Center for Craft sitivity to people in the community who are indigenous, who you may not see anywhere else except where black Ashevilleans have been displaced to.”

Unless there’s “proper communication and relationship between black people and those who are coming in with money to help economic and housing situations,” she continues, “you won’t have black people moving in. So a lot has to be done to repair those circumstances.”

One possible solution might be allocating some of the proposed new affordable units for Asheville natives who have historically been displaced by things like gentrification, redlining and urban renewal. At least one successful local artist voices support for that approach.

“I think it would be good if there were more affordable spots for artists to make stuff, but I also think that maybe there’s people who are in more need of support than us,” says West Asheville resident Dustin Spagnola, a muralist and painter.

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more important thing to consider than thinking about whether or not transplants like us have a place to be.”

IT TAKES A COMMUNITY At the end of the day, artists aren’t exempt from the demands of economics, and depending on the nature of their work, they may have special requirements that further strain the budget.

Business sponsorships and grant programs such as those available through the arts council can give working artists an additional income stream. In many cases, though, those efforts go only so far toward underwriting the cost of residential and studio space.

In November, the Center for Craft will unveil its new National Craft Innovation Hub, a renovation and expansion of the nonprofit’s historic property at 67 Broadway. The facility will offer 7,000 additional square feet of coworking, workshop and gallery space.

In the meantime, says Kendrick, there are simple, inexpensive things individuals can do. Support an artist on social media with a like, share or subscription, the filmmaker suggests. The next time you see a work of art you admire, tag the artist on social media. Tip a street performer who brightens your day.

But while those actions can certainly give artists a boost, increasing the supply of affordable housing and studio space will take time and will require a comprehensive and creative array of organizational partnerships.

“While nonprofit and missiondriven developers are always striving to build more affordable units, they can’t do it all,” stresses Monson Dahl. All private developers, she maintains, should take advantage of city programs such as the Housing Trust Fund, fee rebates, land use incentive grants and building on city-owned land.

“If all of the market rate developers over the last four years had designated 20% of their units affordable, we would have an additional 400 affordable units,” Monson Dahl points out. And community members, she continues, can help by attending Affordable Housing Advisory Committee and/or Housing and Community Development Committee meetings and learning about the obstacles to creating affordable housing.

Sage Turner, a major advocate for affordability, says that if she had three wishes for the next steps our community takes, they would be: voting yes on more affordable housing bonds; either removing all single-family zoning or making multifamily zoning more accessible; and granting county property tax rebates to projects that include affordable housing, which she believes would spur additional development.

“Much of our problem is housing supply,” she says. “We simply don’t have enough units on the ground.”

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APD Chief Chris Bailey resigns; felony charges surface Less than 45 days after beginning his position as the head of the Asheville Police Department, Chief Chris Bailey has announced his resignation from the force, citing “personal reasons.” Bailey moved to Asheville in June from Indianapolis, where he previously served as the deputy chief of criminal investigations for the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department.

“I appreciate the opportunity and confidence the City Manager and selection committee had in me to lead the great women and men of the Asheville Police Department,” Bailey said in a Sept. 11 press release from the city. “I cannot say enough great things about my experience here.

The support I have received from the police department, city management and community has been incredible.

It has been heartbreaking for me to come to this decision after being embraced by so many.”

Bailey’s resignation will take effect on Friday, Sept. 27, with Robert C. White to serve as interim chief beginning Tuesday, Oct. 1, according to the press release. Currently retired, White has previously held the police chief role in Denver, Louisville, Ky., and Greensboro.

The announcement comes after social media reports that Bailey would quit in light of an investigation by the N.C. Department of Justice. Chad Nesbitt of SKYline News alleged on Sept. 10 that the DOJ’s Criminal Justice Education and Training Standards Commission found that Bailey had been charged with a felony and pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor during his time in Indianapolis, a history that Nesbitt said had been overlooked by city leaders.

Asheville officials acknowledged that Bailey had been “involved in an incident that resulted in a misdemeanor” but denied that the charge was tied to his resignation. Details about the incident, according to the city’s press release, had been “voluntarily shared by the chief at the beginning of the interview process.” The press release also noted that Bailey had “an exemplary record in his service as a law enforcement officer.”

A July 10, 2004, story published in The Indianapolis Star details how Bailey was arrested and charged with residential entry and intimidation —

OVER AND OUT: Police Chief Chris Bailey will resign his post after serving less than two months. Photo courtesy of the city of Asheville both felony charges — as well as two counts of battery, both misdemeanors.

According to the newspaper, Bailey allegedly punched a male friend of his estranged wife and threatened his life while displaying a handgun.

The Star article notes that Bailey was placed on administrative duty with the IMPD and subjected to an internal investigation after the incident. He then continued to serve with the department, climbing the ranks to deputy chief; a Sept. 11 story from Indy Star says that Bailey hopes to return to the agency.

In a Sept. 11 email to Asheville City Manager Debra Campbell, April Burgess-Johnson, executive director for Asheville-based domestic violence agency Helpmate, said she felt “deeply disappointed” in the city’s appointment of Bailey despite the incident.

If Bailey “had written a bad check, bought a beer when he was 18 or ran over his neighbor’s trash can, I would worry much less about those infractions which could be a correctable and temporary error in judgment,” Burgess-Johnson wrote. “However, domestic violence is a

class of crime that tells us much about a person’s character and has been shown to be quite predictive of future actions including capacity to misuse power and violence in other settings.”

On Sept. 13, Campbell shared her emailed response to Burgess-Johnson with Xpress. While the city manager agreed that domestic violence is “without question, a serious problem,” she stood by her decision to hire Bailey based on his more recent job performance in Indianapolis.

“I am a staunch believer in second chances. And from his track record of promotions, it appears that the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department also had high confidence in Chris Bailey’s ability to perform his duties and demonstrate leadership with high integrity,” Campbell wrote. “It is unfortunate that his decision to respond to the needs of his family has been overshadowed by the unfortunate circumstances that occurred in his past.”

Campbell, who took office Dec. 3, was tasked with replacing former Chief Tammy Hooper after the chief announced her resignation on Nov. 7. That move came after the publication of body camera footage showing former APD officer Chris Hickman beating Asheville resident Johnnie Jermaine Rush.

Campbell tapped Bailey after conducting a search early this year, which included two community input meetings, an online survey garnering 228 responses and street teams that engaged residents in various Asheville neighborhoods.

Campbell also hired the Police Executive Research Forum, a Washington, D.C.based consultancy that specializes in police research and management services, to organize the search and provide guidance to the city for $35,000.

According to the city’s press release, the same firm will be used to recruit Bailey’s replacement. The city expects to have the position filled by January 2020.

“While this news is unfortunate, we continue to be committed to hiring a police chief who demonstrates the ability to meaningfully connect with the community and fellow police officers,” Campbell said in the press release. “I hate to see Chris go but I respect his decision.”

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Create 72 Broadway decision delayed After a nearly three-hour public hearing during the Sept. 10 meeting of Asheville City Council, developers of the Create 72 Broadway hotel, retail and residential project still don’t know whether officials will approve the nine-story building proposed for the northern end of downtown. Council members voted to continue the hearing, which is now tentatively scheduled for Tuesday, Sept. 24 — the same meeting at which Council will consider enacting a temporary hotel ban.

Before the vote, Council members Vijay Kapoor and Julie Mayfield announced that they would not support the project, citing the need to diversify the use of building sites downtown.

“Where my concern is about this is not necessarily on the [Asheville City] Market, with all due respect to the folks here,” said Kapoor, referencing community concerns that the hotel might displace vendors at the popular weekly farmers market. “It’s more a concern about the saturation of hotel rooms downtown.”

“I share Vijay’s concerns and echo what he said about the good things about this project; there are many,”

RACING AGAINST THE CLOCK: The Create 72 Broadway project, which includes 137 hotel rooms and 37 residential units, is hustling to gain approval from Asheville City Council before a temporary ban on hotel construction, also under consideration, takes effect.

Graphic courtesy of the city of Asheville Mayfield added. “But I also do share the concerns about the concentration of rooms downtown.”

Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler and Council members Keith Young and Brian Haynes opposed the motion to continue the hearing but did not comment on whether they supported the project.

During the same meeting, Council members unanimously approved a motion to set a public hearing to consider a moratorium on hotel development approvals within the city. The temporary ban, they said, would give the city time to develop new policies for considering hotel proposals.

In February 2017, Council tightened the standards for hotels and large buildings seeking approval within city limits.

Until then, projects of up to 175,000 square feet and 145 feet in height had previously been approved by the city’s Planning and Zoning Commission. The new rule required that hotel projects of more than 20 rooms, as well as any building over 100,000 square feet, receive Council approval.

Since that change went into effect, Council (including previous and recently elected members) has approved eight of the nine hotel projects that have come before it, with few individual members voting along consistent lines. The proposed hotel moratorium could address a “lack of concrete policies” within the city’s approval process, according to a presentation from Planning & Urban Design Director Todd Okolichany. Council will also examine strategies to reduce the impacts of hotels on the community.

City Attorney Brad Branham told Council members that, should the city move forward with the ordinance, the hotel ban should last no longer than a year and that officials must use the time to develop new policies for approval. While Branham said hotels that have already been approved by Council or received a valid building permit have legally vested rights to continue development during the ban, the future of Create 72 Broadway remains uncertain.

“I’m not sure I would say that Create 72 already has a vested [right] at this point,” Branham told Xpress before the meeting. “However, I would say that if City Council denies this application, then [the developers] would not have a vested right, because [Council] had reached a final decision prior to any moratorium taking effect. That final decision would be binding.”

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by News staff | news@mountainx.com STATE HOUSE COMMITTEE UNVEILS NEW HOUSE DISTRICT MAPS The N.C. General Assembly’s House Redistricting Committee has released a map containing newly proposed House districts, including those for Buncombe County’s three representatives. As currently drawn, the proposed districts would shift representation for large areas of Buncombe County; Democratic Reps. Brian Turner and Susan Fisher would be placed within the same district.

According to the General Assembly’s website, the state committee is still requesting public comment on the district drafts ahead of the 2020 election.

A 2011 state law required that districts for the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners match those of the county’s House representatives. As currently drawn, the maps would move Commissioner Jasmine Beach-Ferrara from District 1 to District 2, shift Al Whitesides from District 1 to District 3 and reassign Amanda Edwards from District 2 to District 1.

ABDALLAH NAMED PEACEMAKER OF THE YEAR Said Abdallah was named 2019’s Peacemaker of the year by WNC 4 Peace, Veterans for Peace Chapter 099 and Elder and Sage Community Gardens. A public celebration of his achievement takes place during the 10th annual International Day of Peace on Saturday, Sept. 21, beginning at 11 a.m. at the Elder and Sage Community Gardens at 37 Page Ave. Asheville City Council member Brian Haynes will read the city’s Peace Proclamation, which brings together 30 local

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FINE LINES: The newly proposed map for Buncombe County’s N.C. House districts would place Democratic Reps. Brian Turner and Susan Fisher in the same district.

Graphic courtesy of the N.C. General Assembly organizations supporting efforts for peace in the community. Other speakers will include N.C. Rep. Susan Fisher, Voices for Creative Nonviolence founder Kathy Kelly and human rights attorney Daniel Kovalik.

EASTERN BAND RE-ELECTS SNEED AS PRINCIPAL CHIEF The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians re-elected Principal Chief Richard Sneed to serve another four-year term, defeating challenger Teresa McCoy by a 10 percentage point margin. Alan B. Ensley was elected to serve as vice chief, besting challenger Jim Owle. The Eastern Band also elected six Tribal Council seats and three school board representatives; full election results are available at avl.mx/6il.

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION AWARDS $380K IN FOCUS AREA GRANTS On Aug. 28, The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina awarded nearly $380,000 in grants to six regional projects. Grant recipients

include the Mountain Area Health Education Center, McDowell Local Food Advisory Committee, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, Green Built Alliance, National Trust for Historic Preservation and RiverLink.

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Officials plan to treat the area, which is contaminated by the volatile organic compound trichloroethylene, by injecting chemicals into the ground to break down the toxin into harmless byproducts like carbon dioxide and water. The interim cleanup, which is expected to take several years and cost a total of $9 million, will be followed by a final site-wide cleanup to address any remaining contamination. X

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City Council declares Asheville a bird sanctuary, 1947 In the spring of 1945, the Asheville Bird Club officially launched. “Purpose of the club will be to study the protection of birds and the education of persons interested in birds,” The Asheville Citizen reported on April 25.

Early activities included monthly meetings, film screenings and guest speakers. Members also wrote letters to the editor, promoting the organization’s cause. “So accustomed are we to the service of birds that we take them for granted,” declared one constituent, who identified simply as A Bird Club Member. “Little hope would there be for mankind were it not for the natural enemies of insects, chief among which are the birds,” the writer continued.

By December, the club held its inaugural bird count. In total, 58 observers tallied 3,622 birds of 57 species. The list included 577 English sparrows, 458 juncos and 240 chickadees among others.

Perhaps the club’s most impactful contribution, however, came in 1947, when it teamed with local garden organizations to form a committee that advocated for the city’s formal designation as a bird sanctuary. Such a move, the committee insisted, came with no risk and plenty of rewards. “It means joining an important educational movement in America to protect our desirable birds and conserve our natural resources generally,” the committee declared in a statement published by the Asheville Citizen-Times in its Feb. 23, 1947, Sunday edition.

In addition to educational benefits, the committee continued: “It has definite advertising value to a community, especially to tourists and recreational centers. ... Interest in birds has definite therapeutic value for the sick. Birds have great economic value — farmers and gardeners couldn’t get along without them.”

On Feb. 27, 1947, City Council unanimously passed the resolution. The designation prohibited “illegal shooting or other molestation of harmless birds,” while also calling “to make parks and public grounds more attractive to desirable birds[.]”

By August, the paper reported that new signs were posted “at all highway entrances to the city … which inform the traveler, and remind the resident, that the city is a sanctuary for birds.”

Some confusion did arise, however.

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BIRDS OF A FEATHER: “Because nature has been so lavish in her gifts to this mountain section we have been reckless with our inheritance,” declared a Feb. 23, 1947, editorial in the Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times. “We have been slow to recognize the value of our native wildlife and backward in providing protection and adequate conservation measures.” Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville; photo embellishment by Norn Cutson the sanctuary itself,” the Asheville CitizenTimes’ Sunday edition reported on Aug. 3, 1947. “Is it a cage? — where is it? — what kinds of birds are in it?”

The paper clarified that in fact there were no cages. The designation simply guaranteed Asheville birds “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”

But not all local residents abided by the new resolution. “In my opinion we have not

yet reached a proper goal with regard to bird protection,” declared one Dr. Charles A. Shull, in an opinion piece featured in the March 7, 1948, Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times. “Too many bows and arrows walk around, leading thoughtless boys by the hand; too many BB guns are seen putting evil notches into the minds and hearts of their boy companions.”

Further, Shull lambasted the city’s feline inhabitants. “Bird sanctuaries and cats running wild are incompatible,” the writer declared. “If we want bird song, we should be willing to forego the cat’s meow.”

Despite the organization’s initial enthusiasm, its influence waned by the early 1950s. “The Bird Club, so far as this writer can determine, has fallen into a sad state of inactivity,” proclaimed one C.R. Sumner in a Feb. 8, 1953 article published by the Asheville Citizen-Times.

A number of contributing factors endangered the city’s birds, Sumner continued. Ongoing development depleted natural resources for the winged creatures. Meanwhile, youngsters and stray cats continued to terrorize the animals.

“How much better it would be if the children, instead of being given a gun with which to shoot their little feathered friends, would instead be offered an opportunity to decorate a Christmas tree for the birds,” the writer mused.

Sumner was not all doom and gloom, though, noting that hundreds of bird feeding stations were popping up in yards throughout the city.

Nevertheless, he concluded his piece by stating “that Asheville as a bird sanctuary has fallen into a state of neglect, for a lack of leadership.”

In 1973, a new version of the Asheville Bird Club launched. Coverage of the group’s activity was sparse; it is unclear when the group disbanded. In 1986, the Elisha Mitchell chapter of the Audubon Society formed and continues to operate to this day.

Since its designation in 1947, the city of Asheville has remained a bird sanctuary.

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

Celebrating 30 years On Sunday, Sept. 22, 1-4 p.m., the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society will celebrate the 30-year anniversary of the Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary, 1020 Merrimon Ave. The free event will include kids activities, naturalists stations along the boardwalk and a birdhouse raffle. Featured speakers will include state Rep. Susan Fisher and Asheville Vice Mayor Gwen Wisler.

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ACTIVISM CLIMATE JUSTICE RALLY • FR (9/20), 5:30pm - Climate Justice Rally with music, information and speakers. Free.

Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE • SA (9/21), 11am - Outdoor event to recognize the Peacemaker of the Year. Elected officials will read the Proclamation of Peace.

Free. Held at Elder & Sage Community Gardens, 37 Page Ave. PEACE DAY KICKOFF • FR (9/20), 7-8:30pm - Prem Rawat Foundation’s peace education program with videos and presentation. Free.

Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. VIGIL FOR IMMIGRATION REFORM • 3rd THURSDAY, 4-4:30pm - Progressive Alliance of Henderson County holds a silent vigil to promote Immigration Reform policies.

Held at Henderson County Courthouse, 200 N. Grove St., Hendersonville WE THE PEOPLE MARCH • SA (9/21), 5:30pm We the People Solidarity March, a peaceful, fully transparent First Amendment assembly in unity with 60+ cities.

Info: avl.mx/6id. 68 Haywood St.

ANIMALS ASHEVILLE ANIMAL RIGHTS READING GROUP • 3rd FRIDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Animal Rights Reading Group.

Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road BEAVER LAKE BIRD SANCTUARY • SU (9/22), 1-4pm - Family-friendly 30th anniversary celebration with activities for children and adults and ice cream. Free. Held at Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary, US-25 HAYWOOD COUNTY RABIES CLINICS • Through FR (9/20), 5-6:30pm - Rabies clinics conducted by Haywood County Animal Services, information: 828-456-5338. $9. Held at various locations throughout Haywood County.

PUPPY ADOPTION EVENT • TH (9/26), 11:30am2pm - Puppy adoption event. 10 percent of yoga class fees benefit Charlie's Angels Animal Rescue. Free to attend/ Class fees apply. Held at Asheville Yoga Center, 211 S. Liberty St.

BENEFITS A TASTE OF THE VINEYARD • FR (9/20), 6:30pm - Proceeds from A Taste of the Vineyard barbecue dinner with local wines, live auction and live music benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Henderson County. $50.

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KING OF THE ROAD: Southern Vintage Trailer Friends host the Vintage Camper Show Saturday, Sept. 21, 11 a.m.-3 p.m., at Stonebridge Campground in Maggie Valley. More than 50 trailers are on display with owners on hand to answer questions. Tickets are $5 and kids under 12 are admitted free. All proceeds benefit Haywood Waterways Association’s youth education programs. Photo courtesy of Southern Vintage Trailer Friends (p.19) Vineyards, 408 Appleola Road, Hendersonville BARNS, BARN ART & MORE • TH (9/18), 5-8pm Proceeds from The Artists of The Saints of Paint show on this Third Thursday benefit the Appalachian Barn Alliance. Additionally Taylor Barnhill presents a talk on the barns featured in Our State magazine.

Held at Madison County Arts Council, 90 S. Main St., Marshall BENEFIT PIANO RECITAL • FR (9/20), 7:30pm Proceeds from this piano recital by Dr. Leslie Downs, playing works by Montsalvatge, Ravel, Dohnányi and Granados, benefit the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville. $30. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS GOLF CLASSIC @ THE CLIFFS • TU (9/25), noon Proceeds from the Boys & Girls Clubs Golf Classic charity golf event benefit the Salvation Army Boys & Girls Club of Buncombe County. Registration: erin.c.wilson@

uss.salvationarmy.org or 828-450-6202. Registration at 10:30am. $1250 foursome/$2500 sponsorship.

Held at The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, 158 Walnut Valley Parkway, Arden CELEBRATION OF CONSERVATION • SA (9/21), 4-8pm - Proceeds from the Celebration of Conservation with a pre-event hike, live music by the Jim Peterman Quartet, live and silent auctions, a trip raffle drawing, a gourmet dinner and cash bar benefit Conserving Carolina. $125. Held at Caitlyn Farms, 286 A.R. Thompson Road, Mill Spring CLAY SHOOTING TOURNAMENT • FR (9/20) - Proceeds from this clay shooting competition, raffle and silent auction benefit the Friends of the Smokies. Registration online: $1000 per team of four. Register for location; friendsofthesmokies.org CLEAN WATER FOR NC • SA (9/21), 1:30-5pm - Proceeds from this anniversary celebration with presentations, informational meeting and refreshments

benefit Clean Water for NC. Tickets: bit.ly/2lRXz77. $15. Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. ELIADA CORN MAZE • Through SU (10/27) - Proceeds from this annual corn maze event with activities for kids and hay rides benefit Eliada. See website for full schedule and prices: EliadaCornMaze.com. Held at Eliada, 2 Compton Drive LIP SYNC BATTLE ROYALE • SA (9/21), 7:30pm - Proceeds from this lip syncing contest featuring local improv comedians benefit Attic Salt Theatre's children's theater programs.

Tickets: atticsalt.org. $20.

Held at Attic Salt Theatre, The Mills at Riverside, 2002 Riverside Drive, Suite 42-O ROCKIN' FOR RESCUE • SA (9/21), 1-9pm - Proceeds from donations and sales at Rockin' for Rescue live music event featuring Grand Theft Audio, The Analog Playback, The Remainders and 2 Broke Kings benefit the Asheville Humane Society. Free to attend. Held at Bold Rock Hard Cider, 72 School House Road, Mills River

THE RUBY BALL • SA (9/21), 9:30pm - Proceeds from this costumed ball with live music and performances benefit the Asheville Area Arts Council. See website for full list of pre-ball events taking place at various locations. $35. Held at Funkatorium, 147 Coxe Ave. UNITE AT NIGHT • SA (9/21), 7:30pm - Proceeds from this fundraising event with group walk, raffle, live music, games and snacks benefit research for Chiari Malformation, Fibromyalgia and Ehlers Danlos Syndrome. Information: give.classy.org/ asheville19. Free to attend.

Held at Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa USED BOOK SALE • SA (9/21), 10am - Friends of the Weaverville Library's best art and coffee table books for this sale coinciding with Art in Autumn.

Free to attend. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S • SA (9/21), 9am - Proceeds from donations at this 1-2

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CONSCIOUS PARTY BROTHERS AND SISTERS: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Henderson County hosts A Taste of the Vineyard, planned for Friday, Sept. 20, 6:30 p.m., at Point Lookout Vineyards. The evening features appetizers and barbecue with a complimentary glass of wine, a live auction featuring getaway trips and ballgame tickets as well as live music by Letters to Abigail. All proceeds go to Big Brothers Big Sisters of Henderson County’s mentoring programs. Tickets are $50, avl. mx/6ic or 828-693-8153. (p. 17)

mile walk benefit The Alzheimer’s Association work for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Information: act.alz.org/Ashevilleor.

Free to attend. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. WINE & DAHLIAS • FR (9/20), 5-7pm - Proceeds from this evening with wine, hard cider and hors d’oeuvres in the dahlia garden benefit Bullington Gardens. Registration required by Thursday, Sept. 19. $40/$100 patron tickets. Held at Bullington Gardens, 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (9/18), 1-4pm Effective Fund Development Strategies, seminar.

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Registration required.

Free.

• SA (9/21), 9am-noon Write A Better Website (Copywriting), seminar.

Registration required: conta.cc/2lgTJ7k. Free.

• MO (9/23), 9am-noon Marketing Your Business, seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Madison and NCWorks Career Center, 4646 US Hwy 25/70 Marshall • TU (9/24), 1-4pm - How to do Business Financials,

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• WE (9/25), 5:30-8:30pm - Grant Writing 101, seminar. Registration required. Free.

FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden GAME DESIGNERS OF NORTH CAROLINA • FR (9/20), 6-10pm Meeting for game designers to discuss board game design, play-test each others games and learn more about the industry.

Free to attend. Held at The Wyvern's Tale, 347 Merrimon Ave. SCORE: TAX PLANNING FOR BUSINESS • WE (9/18), 11:30am1pm - Tax Planning for Business, seminar.

Registration required.

Free. Held at LenoirRhyne University, 36 Montford Ave.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS A PEACE DAY KICK-0FF SPONSORED BY PIPNC (PD.) Friday, September 20 at 7 - 8:30 pm North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Asheville, NC 28804 Please join us to learn more about The Prem Rawat Foundation's Peace Education Program and other ongoing efforts to promote personal peace. This FREE event will feature video presentations focused on local

and worldwide efforts being made to help all of us get back in touch with our humanity.

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

HANDSTANDS on Thursdays 6:30pm.

PARTNER ACROBATICS on Sundays 6:30pm.

AERIAL CONDITIONING on Thursdays 1:00pm.

AERIAL FLEXIBILITY on Thursdays 5:15pm and Saturdays 1:00pm. INTRO TO POLE FITNESS on Mondays 6:15pm, Tuesdays 7:15pm, and Saturdays 11:30am.

EMPYREANARTS.ORG. PEACE-WHAT IS IT, WHERE IS IT, AND HOW CAN I GET IT? (PD.) The Peace Education Program, currently presented in over 80 countries worldwide, will be offered freely in Asheville at the North Asheville Recreation Center at 37 E. Larchmont Rd. Beginning Tuesday, September 24, 10 weekly video based 1 hr. classes will be held each Tuesday evening at 6:30 pm thru November 26. Please email or call to register for the free 10 week course at pep.Asheville@gmail,com or 828-777-0021 On FB: Peace Education Program Asheville Sponsored by Peace is Possible NC, www.peaceispossiblenc. org SEPTEMBER SUNDAYS 7, 15, 22 & 29 @ CANDLER CABOOSE! (PD.) Yoga 12-1pm, two craft/ art/DIY sessions ($10+, kid-friendly) 1:30-3:30 & 4-6pm & 7pm movie +

lawn games, fire pit + drinks for sale.

ANTI-TRAFFICKING SUMMIT • SA (9/21), 8am-3pm Educational summit with three speakers, break-out sessions and panel discussions. Registration required: bit.ly/2kFubks. $10.

APPALACHIAN DOWSERS • SA (9/21), 11am-3pm - Introduction to dowsing class, quarterly meeting and dowsing class, The Body's Energy System As A Dowsing Tool. $10/ Free for members. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road ASHEVILLE FRIENDS OF ASTROLOGY • FR (9/20), 7-9pm - Spiritual Journey Through the Zodiac, general meeting and presentation. Free to attend. Held at EarthFare - Westgate, 66 Westgate Parkway ASSOCIATION OF FUNDRAISING PROFESSIONALS • WE (9/18), 11:45am - Sara Coplai, Legacy Foundations Operations and Dogwood Health Trust, presents on legacy foundations and their strategies, including an overview of Social Determinants of Health. $30/$20 members. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER BOARD MEETING • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm Community center board meeting. Free. Held at Big Ivy Community Center, 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville

C OMMU N IT Y CA L EN D AR BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm Sit-n-Stitch, informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. CHAI CHATS SERIES • SA (9/21), 3-4pm - Clearing Money Blocks to Wealth, workshop with Lisa Lemley. $5-$25. Held at OM Sanctuary, 87 Richmond Hill Drive COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR ADULT CARE HOMES • 3rd FRIDAYS, 9-10:30am - Committee meeting. Registration: julia@landofsky.org.

Free. Held at Land of Sky Regional Council Offices, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140 DOCUMENT SHRED AND DRUG TAKE BACK DAY • FR (9/20), 10am-1pm - Document shred and drug take back event.

Free. Held at United Community Bank, 50 United Bank Drive, Etowah DOLL SHOW AND SALE • SA (9/21), 9:303:30pm - Land O'Sky Doll Club annual doll show and sale. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

Held at Hominy Valley Recreation Park, 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler LEICESTER HISTORY GATHERING • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting.

Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ASHEVILLE • 4th TUESDAYS, 6pm - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen and their

families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave. 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (9/18), noon1:30pm - Budgeting and Debt, class.

Registration required.

Free.

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

• TH (9/19), 5:307pm - Planning For Your Financial Future.

Registration required.

Free.

• TU (9/24), noon1:30pm - Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

• TUESDAYS (9/24) & (10/1), 5:30-8pm Basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning, saving strategies and tracking spending series. Registration required. Free.

• WE (9/25), 5:307pm - Assessing Your Insurance Needs.

Registration required.

Free.

• TH (9/26), noon1:30pm - Women's Money Club. Registration required. Free.

• TH (9/26), 5:30-7pm - Budgeting and Debt, class. Registration required. Free.

PEACE EDUCATION COURSE • TUESDAYS, (9/24) through (11/26), 6:30-7:30pm - 10-week course developed by the Prem Rawat Foundation. Registration required: pep.Asheville@ gmail,com or 828777-0021. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road

organization. Spanish translation provided. Free/ Bring a potluck dish to share. Held at Carrier Park, 220 Amboy Road WELCOME TABLE FREE MEAL • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table, community meal.

Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

FESTIVALS ASHEVILLE VAN LIFE RALLY • FR (9/20) through SU (9/22) - Outdoor van focused festival with vehicle tours, live music, yoga, workshops, clinics and food/beer vendors.

Schedule: bit.ly/2WIqPL0. $25 day pass tickets.

Held at Elysium Center, 111 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher CHEROKEE HERITAGE FESTIVAL • SA (9/21), 10am-3pm - Festival with traditional

hoop dancing, arts and culture demonstrations, storytelling and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Cherokee Homestead Exhibit, 805 Highway 64 Business, Hayesville TOUR DE FAT • SA (9/21), 11am-6pm - Proceeds from Tour de Fat a commitment to cycling culture party with parade, float competition, live music and give-aways benefit Asheville on Bikes.

Free to attend. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St. VINTAGE CAMPER SHOW • SA (9/21), 11am-3pm Vintage camper show with over 50 trailers. Proceeds benefit Haywood Waterways Association’s youth education programs. $5/Free under 12. Held at Stonebridge Campground, 1786 Soco Road (Highway 19), Maggie Valley

2019 Blue Ridge Pride Festival & Welcoming WNC Procession Saturday, September 28, 2019 | Pack Square Park | Asheville NC 2 nd Annual Welcoming WNC Procession 10:00am-11:00am (walkers gather at 9:00am)

11th Annual Blue Ridge Pride Festival 11:00am-7:00pm

Performances by

Asheville Gay Men’s Chorus, Modern Strangers, Beer City Sisters, and many more!

DR AG & JR. DR AG SHOWCASES • MERCHANTS, FOOD & BEV ER AGE V ENDORS

FOOD & BEER FOOD POLICY COUNCIL • TH (9/26), 5-7pm - Meeting of the Whole, family-friendly potluck picnic with presentations and information about the

Welcoming political and community service organizations, social and support groups, employers, health care providers, and communities of faith

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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING • TU (9/24), 5pm - City Council public hearing.

Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza DEMOCRAT WOMEN OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY • TH (9/19), 5:15pm - September dinner meeting.

by Deborah Robertson

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

Held at Henderson County

Democratic Party, 1216 6th Ave. W., Suite 600, Hendersonville HENDERSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL CONVERSATIONS • MO (9/23), 6pm - Public community conversation with Hendersonville City Council members.

Free to attend. Held at St. Paul's Tabernacle Church, 813 6th Ave. W, Hendersonville

LET'S TALK: HOUSING • TH (9/19), 6:30-8pm Let's Talk Series: Housing, community discussion forum with representatives from the City of Asheville, Pisgah Legal Services, Mountain Housing Opportunities and the Asheville Housing Authority. Free.

Held at Dr. Wesley Grant Sr. Southside Center, 285 Livingston St.

Retail wine shop & wine bar in Historic Biltmore Village

Something for Everyone Wine Tasting September 21, 2-5pm Meet Stacy Strong from Empire Distributors pouring an eclectic mix of 6 wines . $5/person. See website for details.

5 All Souls Crescent, Asheville NC 28803 (Off-street parking in rear of building) (828) 552-3905 • ashevillewinesalon.com

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PROUD TO BE BROWN PROCLAMATION • TU (9/24), 5pm - Asheville City Council makes proclamation written by the Proud to Be Brown group in celebration of Latinx Heritage Month.

Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza SONG & EQUALITYNC • SU (9/22), 12:30-2:30pm - Southerners on New Ground and Equality North Carolina WNC, meet and greet with presentations. Information: southernersonnewground.org or equalitync.org. Free to attend Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

KIDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (9/20), 4pm - Sign up to read for 15-minutes with J.R. the therapy dog.

Registration required.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • WE (9/23), 4pm - Lego building, ages 5 and up. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm - Homeschoolers' book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (9/24), 3pm - Graphic Novel Book Club, ages 8-12. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (9/24), 4-5:30pm - Read with Olivia the Therapy Dog. Registration required: 828-250-6482.

Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (9/25), 11am - Yoga for kids. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up.

Registration required: 828-250-4720. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

JUNIOR APPALACHIAN MUSICIANS • SA (9/21), 3-4pm - Register for Junior Appalachian Musicians, old-time mountain music to children 4th grade and up for Haywood County residents. 2019-20 school year held Tuesday afternoons, (9/10) through (5/19), 4-5:30pm. Lessons: $95/semester (~$6 per class), siblings $50/ semester. Information: 828-452-0593 or bmk.morgan@yahoo. com. Application: avl.mx/6dq. Held at Waynesville Branch of Haywood County Public Library, 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville LITTLE EXPLORER'S CLUB • 1st & 3rd FRIDAYS, 9-10am - Little Explorer's Club, science topics for preschoolers. $7/Caregivers free. Held at Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave. MADELYN LANTZ PRESENTS ‘THE SINGING POOL’ • WE (9/25), 10am - Madelyn Lantz reads her book, The Singing Pool. For children 8 years and older. Free to attend.

Held at Malaprop’s, 55 Haywood St. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • TH (9/19), 9-11am - Nature Nuts: Life Cycles, class for ages 4-7.

Registration required.

Free.

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

• FR (9/20), 9am-3pm - Class open to ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free.

• TU (9/24), 10am-3pm - Level one class for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free.

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy the sun rising over Lake Lure from the top of Chimney Rock during the Park’s Annual Passholder Spring Sunrise Annual Passholder Breakfast on Saturday,Oct.5. Registration required. Info at chimneyrockpark.com ASHEVILLE ASTRONOMY CLUB • FR (9/20), 7:30pm Asheville Astronomy Club community stargazing.

Registration required: lookoutobservatory. unca.edu. Free. Held at Lookout Observatory, 1 University Heights ASHEVILLE URBAN TOUR • SA (9/21), 10am-noon - Guided-walk through downtown Asheville with Chris Joyell, Director of the Asheville Design Center. Presentation focused on Asheville's history and present design challenges. $5-$15. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square CULLOWHEE CANOE SLALOM • SA (9/21), 9am - Tenth annual Cullowhee Canoe Slalom. Registration: learn.wcu.edu/ canoe-slalom. $8 to race/ Free to attend. Held on the Tuckasegee River, Cullowhee FRYING PAN TOWER HIKE • FR (9/20), 10am - Guided, easy to moderate, 1.5-mile round trip hike.

Free. Meet at MP 409.6, Blue Ridge Parkway

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LAND NAVIGATION CLASS • SU (9/22), 1-3:30pm - Land Navigation, concepts to help aid in not getting lost and/or self-rescue. Registration required: fb.me/finescreekorg. $20.

Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde

• TH (9/26), 4:30pm Learn about hydroponics and indoor growing. Help start the tower garden.

Free. Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure

LOOK HOMEWARD RIVERSIDE CEMETERY TOUR • SA (9/21), 10am-noon - Look Homeward Riverside Cemetery guided walking tour. $5.

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • SA (9/21), 9am-3pm - Women’s Intro to FlyFishing class open to ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free.

• TU (9/24) & WE (9/25), 6-9pm - Hunter Education Course class open to all ages. Registration required. Free.

PARENTING BABY GYM • TUESDAYS, 11am - Play time with baby and toddler toys, tunnels and climbing structures. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

PUBLIC LECTURES ‘INSIDE POLITICS’ WITH JUDY WOODRUFF • TH (9/19), 6:30-8pm - Inside Politics, public lecture with news anchor and managing editor, Judy Woodruff. $10.

Held at Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College, Brevard CULTURAL CRASH COURSE • WE (9/18), 5:30-8pm - WCU professor, Dr. Christina Reitz talks about the compositional history of Jennifer Higdon’s opera Cold Mountain, a musical adaptation of Charles Frazier’s novel of the same name set just outside Asheville during the civil war. $10. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville FASCISM: WHAT IT IS AND HOW TO FIGHT IT • TH (9/26), 6:30pm - Ed Hightower, of the Socialist Equality Party, gives a talk titled Fascism: What It is and How to Fight It. Free. Held at Asheville Botanical Gardens, 151 WT Weaver Blvd.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE PRESENTATION • SA (9/21), 1pm - Presentation by Kathy Kelly regarding the dangers of war against Iran. Free.

Held at Battery Park Apartments, 1 Battle Square

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural and outdoor activities. Visit www.ashevillenewfriends. org A MATTER OF BALANCE • Through MO (9/30) - Open registration for Managing Concerns About Falls, class series focused on preventing falls. Held MONDAYS, (10/7) through (12/2).

Registration: stephanie@ landofsky.org or 828251-7438. Free. Held at Fletcher Town Hall, 300 Old Cane Creek Road, Fletcher CAREGIVER WORKSHOP • TU (9/24), 10-11:30am Powerful Tools for Family Caregivers, interactive workshop to empower family caregivers to take care of themselves while caring for a relative or friend. Registration required: aarp.cvent. com/PowerfulTools2019.

Free. Held at Land of Sky Regional Council Offices, 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140 CHAIR YOGA • THURSDAYS, 2pm Chair Yoga. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. COUNCIL ON AGING, MEDICARE CLASS • WE (9/25), 2-4pm Medicare Choices Made

Easy. Free. Held at Black Mountain YMCA, 25 Jane Jacobs Road, Black Mountain • FR (9/20), 2-4pm - Medicare Choices Made Easy.

Free. Held at Goodwill Career Training Center, 1616 Patton Ave.

SPIRITUALITY ANATASATI MAGGA (PD.) Sujata Yasa (Nancy Spence). Zen Buddhism.

Weekly meditations and services; Daily recitations w/mala. Urban retreats.

32 Mineral Dust Drive, Asheville, NC 28806.

828-367-7718. info@ anattasatimagga.org.

ANATTASATIMAGGA. 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. Stellar Counseling Services. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

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

LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st

Re-Imagine Senior Living

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

A COURSE IN MIRACLES STUDY GROUP • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - A Course in Miracles, study group.

Information: 828-7125472. Free. Held at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road ARAMAIC TONING, PRAYER AND SILENCE CIRCLE • Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm - Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation. Admission by donation. Held at The Center for Art and Spirit at St. George's Episcopal Church, 1 School Road DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE • 3rd SATURDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - Spiritual group dances that blend chanting, live music and movement. No experience necessary.

Admission by donation.

Held at Haw Creek Commons, 311 Old Haw Creek Road ROSH HASHANAH FARMERS MARKET • SU (9/22), 11am12:30pm - Children explore traditional foods from Rosh Hashanah at farmer's market-like stands. Registration: chana@chabadasheville. org. $10. Held at Chabad House, 127 McDowell St. SERVICE EVENT FOR YOUTH • Through MO (9/30) - Open registration for Mission Earth, service

workshop for middle and high school youth groups about faith and the environment. Registration: cristi@youthmissionco. org. $15. Held at First Presbyterian Church Asheville, 40 Church St. SONGS & SILENCE, ALL FAITH TAIZE SERVICE • THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:15 pm - All faith Taize service of meditation and music. Free. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville TRINITY EPISCOPAL CHURCH WORKSHOP • SA (9/21), 9am-2:30pm - Clarion Call: You Can Make a Difference; Together, We Can Change the World, workshop. Registration required: 828-253-9361. $25. Held at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church St.

conservingcarolina.org or 828-697-5777 x211.

• TH (9/26), 10am-2pm - Volunteer to remove non-native invasive species from this rare bog habitat. Registration required: volunteer@ conservingcarolina.org or 828-697-5777 x211.

and refreshments. Registration: hannah.robinson@ girlsontherun.org. Held at Archetype Brewing, 265 Haywood Road

CORN MAZE • Through (10/27) - Volunteers needed to work three hour shifts at the Elida Corn Maze. Information: EliadaCornMaze.com.

Held at Eliada, 2 Compton Drive

HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC • THURSDAYS, 11am - See the Hope Tour, find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how you can help. Registration required: tours@ homewardboundwnc.org or 828-785-9840. Free.

Held at Homeward Bound of WNC, 19 N. Ann St.

GIRLS ON THE RUN OF WNC • SA (9/28), 9am-noon 20+ volunteers needed at Race to the Taps 5K, Girls on the Run. Free t-shirt

HUMPHREY FARM WORKDAY • FR (9/20), 10am-2pm - Volunteer to remove non-native invasive plants.

Register for location:

volunteer@ conservingcarolina.org or 828-697-5777 x211.

PRE/POST WALK SEASON • Volunteers needed for Walk to End Alzheimer's to load/unload trucks and site set-up. Info: dyoung@ alz.org or 828-254-7363.

SALUDA VOLUNTEER FAIR • SU (9/22), 3-5pm - Fair with at least 15 organizations sharing community volunteer opportunities.

Information: caseysaluda@ gmail.com or 828-7721504. Free. Held at Saluda Center, 64 Greenville St., Saluda

TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Monthly meeting to prepare packages of books and zines for mailing to prisons across the US. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road WNC BIG SWEEP RIVER CLEAN UP • Through FR (9/20) - Signup to volunteer for the WNC Big Sweep river clean up event at various river locations around WNC on Saturday, Sept.

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VOLUNTEERING TUTOR ADULTS IN NEED WITH THE LITERACY COUNCIL (PD.) Give someone another chance to learn. Provide reading, writing, and/ or English language tutoring and change a life forever. Volunteer orientation 10/7(5:30pm) or 10/10(9am) RSVP: volunteers@litcouncil. com. Learn more: www. litcouncil.com.

CONSERVING CAROLINA carolinamountain.org • WE (9/18), 10am-2pm - Adopt-a-Highway volunteer cleanup and hike.

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Telehealth delivers crucial rural access to care

BY LAURA HACKETT laurafaye15@gmail.com The future of health care is starting to look more and more like an episode of “The Jetsons”: mobile, seen on screens and often available at a moment’s notice.

As medical providers across Western North Carolina work to expand access, especially in rural communities where it’s notoriously lacking, telehealth has emerged as a promising new solution for patients in areas that lack local resources.

Although rudimentary, hospital-based remote medical care has been around since the late 1950s, when a closed-circuit TV link was established between the Nebraska Psychiatric Institute and Norfolk State Hospital. Telehealth has seen a dramatic rise in popularity as the technology has evolved and access to specialty health care has diminished.

An estimated 7 million patients in the United States will use telemedicine services this year, a December 2018 article in the Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine predicted, and demand will continue to rise. The piece also noted that from 201213, the telemedicine market grew by 60%.

“As we become more digital in our daily lives, it makes more sense, from a provider’s perspective, to interact with folks in that realm,” says Shane Lunsford, practice manager at the Ashevillebased Center for Psychiatry and Mental Wellness. “Often we can reach folks better through technology than we can face to face,” says Lunsford, whose facility — an arm of the Mountain Area Health Education Center — is about to roll out a new telepsychiatry program. “This is a way to make that access to health care happen and treat patients’ conditions before they have to go to the emergency room or call 911.”

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That kind of tech-driven outreach is critical in a region where, according to the WNC Health Network, 88% of counties are considered rural. The nonprofit corporation has 17 member hospitals.

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HELP IS JUST A PHONE CALL AWAY: A video appointment with Range Urgent Care on Merrimon Avenue costs $99, a $50 savings over the cost of an in-person appointment. Some patients prefer the convenience of connecting directly with a provider from home or wherever they happen to be, says Range CEO Mathew Trowbridge, who, with his wife, Dr. Stephanie Trowbridge, established the local startup in 2017. Photo courtesy of Range Urgent Care Meanwhile, MAHEC data shows shortages of primary health care providers in all 16 of the westernmost North Carolina counties, and regionwide, the estimated shortfall for those providers plus general surgeons stands at 85. Even Asheville, the home base for most of the area’s primary care providers and specialists, is prone to shortages, the data shows, and beyond that epicenter, access may become painfully sparse.

That’s particularly true for behavioral services. In Jackson, Mitchell, Transylvania and Yancey counties, there are no providers that accept Medicaid and Medicare for patients with mental health or substance abuse disorders, according to a report by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. And Cherokee, Clay, Graham, Macon and Madison counties each have only one

“Often we can reach folks better through technology than we can face to face.”

— Shane Lunsford, Center for Psychiatry and Mental Wellness such provider. In contrast, Buncombe County tops the list with 34, followed by Henderson County with four.

With no easy way to access those services, rural residents have suffered from higher rates of drug and alcohol use, injury, teen births and preventable hospitalizations, according to North Carolina Health News. Additionally, notes MAHEC, an estimated 20% of adults in WNC have a behavioral health diagnosis; opioid-related injuries and deaths in our region are among the highest in the state and nation; and the suicide rate is significantly higher than national benchmarks.

TELEHEALTH TO THE RESCUE? That’s where telehealth could make a world of difference, proponents say.

Over the last few years, a number of local providers — including Mission Health, MAHEC, Pardee UNC Health Care and Range Urgent Care — have launched or are in the process of establishing a range of telehealth offerings.

Things like live two-way video, online questionnaires, instant messaging platforms and, in some cases, specialized equipment such as digital stethoscopes or heart rate monitors can help patients connect remotely with hardto-reach specialists. This significantly reduces commuting time for patients and overhead costs for providers.

“Telehealth programs allow patients to stay in their local hospital to receive care they need, providing faster treatment for emergencies such as stroke and neonatology at a lower cost,” says Amy Roberts, executive director of virtual care at Mission Health. “Families can spend less time traveling and more time visiting loved ones.”

Mission’s program covers an impressive amount of ground in terms of both depth and scope. Current services include an emergency stroke consult, behavioral health and telepsychiatry assessments and a virtual clinic, which is basically an online input form that covers common urgent care issues and is available for $25 a session. Mission also provides digital access to specialists in psychiatry, neonatology, infectious disease, nursing wound care, diabetes management, genetics, heart failure, pediatric cardiology and varicose veins.

“Many of these programs are available in regional hospitals or clinics and do require some assistance by a nurse or clinician in the facility,” Roberts explains. “They may require some spe-

cialized video or audio equipment, such as a digital stethoscope to hear heart sounds, that’s not readily available at home.” But despite those limitations, she continues, “These programs are at least closer to home for patients in rural parts of the region and can help avoid a costly hospital transfer or drive to and from Asheville.”

“Most carriers do have some type of coverage for telemedicine services,” notes Gina Banks, the director of MAHEC’s central business office. But the “requirements, guidelines, reimbursement and claims processing vary from carrier to carrier.”

BILLS, BILLS, BILLS

Mathew Trowbridge, who founded Range Urgent Care, has developed a unique health care model that’s managed to sidestep the problem of insurance providers: He just doesn’t use them. Instead, Range gives patients the option to pay either a subscription fee or a flat rate per visit.

For Trowbridge, the decision to offer medical consultations via video chat was a no-brainer. When it comes to diagnosing simple issues such as a rash, allergy or urinary tract infection, a video appointment saves time and money for patient and provider alike, he explains. And unlike the hospital model, which typically requires clients to travel to the facility and have a nurse present during the consultation, Range’s program enables patients to connect directly with a provider from the comfort of their home or wherever else they happen to be. Since its launch in 2017, Range has offered the service at a flat rate of $99 — $50 less than the cost of an in-person appointment.

The system, notes Trowbridge, also reduces congestion in the office and helps patients needing multiple followup visits. “Say you came in for a concussion, which is something we like to follow up with at least two times after,” he explains. “It can be burdensome to have you come in that many times. Being able

While Mission’s telepsychiatry program focuses exclusively on crisislevel mental health, the pilot program that MAHEC plans to launch in late September will offer more routine behavioral health sessions at a satellite site in Cullowhee. If the pilot is successful, says Felicia Hipp, MAHEC’s director of nursing operations, her organization will add substance abuse treatment and maternal fetal medicine across the region. Once the program proves to be technologically viable from a broadband and programming perspective, says Hipp, the biggest hurdle for success will be finding a way to deal with insurance providers’ low reimbursement rates.

Although rules for reimbursement are evolving, telemedicine still represents only a tiny fraction of overall health care expenditures, the Cleveland Clinic Journal article points out. In 2015, for instance, Medicare spent approximately $14.4 million on such services — less than 0.01% of total health care spending. One reason for the low reimbursement rates is that Medicare requires the telemedicine services to be provided at specific sites such as physicians’ offices, hospitals, rural health centers or skilled nursing facilities.

That helps explain the approach MAHEC is taking with its pilot program. “Right now, we’re starting with current providers who are volunteering their time,” Hipp explains. “That way we can map out what it would look like but we don’t have to worry about whether or not the billing will work.

Meanwhile our billing team is digging deep into that component.”

Another hurdle is that because North Carolina is one of the 19 states that haven’t passed a telemedicine parity law, insurance providers aren’t required to reimburse virtual care the same as they would in-person treatment. And though the major private providers — Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Humana and UnitedHealthcare — all offer some form of coverage for telemedicine, the specifics vary.

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to handle that follow-up virtually helps us stay open for new appointments and saves time for patients.”

But as video appointments grow in popularity, cautions Trowbridge, digital providers might have a tendency to overprescribe antibiotics. “When you’re on a video chat, it’s tempting for providers to put their eyes on you and think it’s strep throat,” he explains. “You’re more prone to do less testing, because you can’t, and therefore might be led to cut more corners in order to meet your patient’s needs.”

Overall, though, Trowbridge couldn’t be more excited about the future of telehealth services. “Our focus is on creating great patient experiences, and this is one way we can provide a hyperconvenient option,” he says. “I think health care will look completely different in 10 years.” Both the technology and providers’ ability to treat different conditions remotely, he believes, “will continue to grow exponentially, and access will continue to grow.”

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FINDING THE BANDWIDTH Despite telehealth’s considerable promise, however, its biggest hurdle may be the very thing that’s made providing rural health care access so challenging to begin with: the remoteness of the areas needing service. Sara Nichols, a regional planner for the Land of Sky Regional Council, knows this better than most.

Based on the results of a survey she orchestrated recently that targeted residents of Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania counties, about 13% of the 8,523 respondents reported not having broadband access. And in more rural areas, Nichols explains, the figure was much higher. In Madison County, for example, it was 22%. But because it’s harder to track down survey participants who lack broadband, she continues, the actual number is probably closer to 30%. The survey identified underserved pockets in rural areas, some of which are now getting attention thanks to this project. Broadband providers, though, are only going to go where it makes business sense, stresses Nichols.

This is especially true when it comes to installing fiber optic cable, which requires digging deep trenches.

“Our environment is challenging: The mountains and winding roads get in the way, and the rockiness in the ground can be unpredictable. All the things we love about here are challenges to overcome,” she reflects. “With this project, we’re interested in seeing if we can connect the dots between substance abuse, rural health care and broadband, instead of treating them as separate issues.”

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One solution, Nichols suggests, might be installing telehealth clinics in community centers that already have a reliable broadband connection and are gathering places for local residents.

Another concept Nichols is considering is a van or bus equipped with a fixed wireless internet setup. Such a vehicle, she notes, could travel around to different locations once a week and, if there were no tall objects blocking the signal, provide really affordable internet access.

“I don’t love the bus idea for those people who might be sick on the wrong day, but in public policy we have to take steps where we can,” she points out.

Nichols, though, isn’t the only one searching for answers. In March, the Appalachian Regional Commission awarded nearly $100,000 in new

funding to assess telehealth infrastructure in 20 WNC counties. The grant went to the N.C. Department of Information Technology’s Broadband Infrastructure Office and the state Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Rural Health, which will partner with local and state organizations to conduct a 12-month study of opportunities, challenges and gaps in broadband and health care infrastructure in those counties.

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BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com As John Garcia points out, there’s no shortage of reasons to combat climate change. Extreme weather events, wildlife losses and poverty are all expected to become more common as the world continues to heat up, according to the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Ask the owner and brewer of Lookout Brewing Co. in Black Mountain why he’s taking his own stand on the issue, and Garcia shares a more personal motivation. “Just a couple of degrees change, and now the hop world changes — and without hops, I don’t really like beer that much,” he says. “My IPAs will suffer, and if IPAs will suffer, then I’m against it!”

Garcia’s interests led him to sign the Brewers’ Climate Declaration, a petition started by the local chapter of national advocacy group Citizens’ Climate Lobby. But the global scale and broad effects of climate change leave room for activists of all passions.

The Asheville Climate Justice Rally, taking place at the Vance Monument from 5:30-7:30 p.m. on Friday, Sept.

20, brings Garcia’s group and 14 other area organizations together in a call for change.

Led by the Western North Carolina chapter of national nonprofit The Climate Reality Project, the rally will feature a lineup of speakers such as Anita Simha with the North Carolina Poor People’s Campaign, Lucia Ibarra of Dogwood Alliance, the Rev. Scott Hardin-Nieri from the Creation Care Alliance, UNC Asheville assistant professor Evan Couzo and Sunrise Movement member Shane McCarthy.

Informational tables, voter registration, live art and musical performances will also be included.

Beyond those local collaborations, the rally is being organized in solidarity with the Global Climate Strike, an outgrowth of the Youth Climate Strike movement started last year by teenage Swedish activist Greta

SPEAKING OUT: The Sept. 20 rally takes place in conjunction with the Global Climate Strike, an outgrowth of the Youth Climate Strike movement. Asheville students participated in that effort during a March 15 event at Pritchard Park, pictured. Photo by Daniel Walton Thunberg. Over 2,800 actions across the world, all taking place on Sept.

20, aim to “disrupt business as usual in order for people to know that this is a really serious moment,” says rally co-organizer Ashley McDermott, who also heads the Asheville chapter of the national Sunrise Movement. “[The climate crisis] can be very overwhelming and can leave a lot of people feeling like they don’t know what to do or that they’re hopeless and don’t know who to connect with,” McDermott says.

“These types of bigger demonstrations are a great way to bring more people into the movement and build a community.”

ALL HANDS ON DECK The diversity of approaches represented at the upcoming rally marks a new phase of the climate movement, suggests local Climate Reality Project co-chair Kelsey Hall. With global awareness of the crisis at an all-time high in the wake

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of last year’s U.N. report, which sets 2030 as a target date for drastic reductions in carbon emissions to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, she says advocacy groups must refine their missions and learn to support each other’s efforts.

“One of our biggest challenges was the fact that — and it’s certainly not a negative thing — there’s already a lot of groups here who are doing very similar work,” Hall says about founding the local Climate Reality Project chapter in March.

“Our struggle has been to figure out our niche, what our goals are and where the space is for us to have the most potential for change.”

Hall’s group decided to focus on environmental education outside of what she calls “the Asheville bubble.” Although based in the city, Climate Reality Project members have given presentations in Cherokee, Franklin and Marshall over the past several months. “We didn’t feel the need to reinvent the wheel or take away from any of the other amazing

work that’s being done in Asheville,” she says.

Similarly, McDermott emphasizes that the Sunrise Movement, which only established a local chapter in February, has differentiated itself through concentrating on young people. “This is an organization that is built specifically on letting youth lead the charge, telling their personal stories of how they’re feeling the effects of the climate crisis right now and that it’s existential,” she says.

Long-running local groups are also tweaking their tactics. The Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, a co-sponsor of the Sept. 20 rally, has been preserving land in Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee since 1974, notes Angela Shepherd, the organization’s spokesperson. But in recent years, SAHC has partnered with national organizations such as the Wildlands Network and The Nature Conservancy to view projects through the lens of climate resilience.

After working with those nonprofits to analyze animal migration patterns and the expected impacts of climate change, Shepherd explains, SAHC is prioritizing properties along wildlife connectivity corridors. The resulting networks of protected land, she says, preserve the “stage” for wildlife “players” to find suitable habitats.

“As things are heating up and different patterns are starting to emerge, it helps to look at that national scale,” Shepherd says. “This is how things are moving in a big picture — what can we do in our little tiny slice? Where can we fit into those puzzle pieces?”

DIVIDES TO CONQUER Steffi Rausch, lead organizer for the local Citizens’ Climate Lobby chapter, also aims to build a coalition for climate action. A large part of her group’s work, she explains, is bringing together people who have tradi-

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G REEN SC E N E tionally viewed themselves as being on opposite political sides.

“The left believes that whatever they say, at least in this town, to our conservative legislators, that they’re not going to listen to them,” Rausch says. “We’re trying to help them step out of their skin and get comfortable with having a good dialogue.”

Rausch points to a June meeting at Garcia’s Lookout Brewing Co. between mostly liberal local brewers and Republican Rep. Patrick McHenry, who represents most of Asheville in the U.S. House, as an example of that dialogue. After the brewers shared their reasons for supporting the bipartisan Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, she says, McHenry — a vice chair of the congressional Small Brewers Caucus — expressed both willingness to listen and caution about the political realities.

“A lot of people thought they’d be butting heads with this guy, and in turn, he really got a lot of people thinking,” Garcia recalls. “[McHenry is] a member of a much bigger organization, the Republican Party, and he can’t jump out there with these ideas. ... You have to have the whole com-

BREWING UP A SOLUTION: U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry, fifth from right, met with local brewers in June to discuss their support of the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. Photo courtesy of the Citizens’ Climate Lobby munity behind it, because his voice is just merely an extension of his voters.”

That’s a lesson Rausch encourages other groups to keep in mind. “We fully support the efforts of the Green New Deal and Sunrise Movement because they have brought notoriety to the subject, and that was greatly needed,” she says. “However, I do think it has unfortunately become sort of a political football, being more partisan.”

McDermott counters that Sunrise is a nonpartisan effort. While Democrats are more likely to be at the forefront of climate discussions, she adds, both major parties have been to some degree compromised by donations from the fossil fuel industry, and her group has

strongly criticized national Democratic leadership in recent months over its unwillingness to support a climate debate for presidential candidates.

What no activists should be willing to compromise on, McDermott continues, is the need for immediate action. “At the end of the day, according to the U.N., we have 11 years to transition away from fossil fuels,” she says, referencing the IPCC report’s conclusion that a 45% cut in carbon emissions from 2010 levels by 2030 is needed to avoid the worst effects of warming. “Incremental approaches aren’t going to work and aren’t going to get us to where we need to be in time.”

MARCHING ON Shepherd with SAHC hopes that the rally will create a greater spirit of teamwork among climate activists. Just

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gathering together in the midst of the region’s mountains, she says, should remind people that the stakes are too high for division.

“We have our conservation focus; other environmental organizations work on different aspects. For us to all come together — that’s where solutions are found, when we’re working together as a team,” Shepherd says.

Meanwhile, McDermott sees the event as a springboard for further activism. Sunrise, along with local nonprofit Community Roots and other groups, is coordinating a walkout from local schools and businesses earlier on Sept. 20. During that action, marchers will ask Asheville City Council to pass a resolution declaring a climate emergency. Students from at least five area high schools, A-B Tech, Lenoir-Rhyne University and UNCA currently plan to participate, she says.

“We’re not OK with just waiting for things to shift,” McDermott says.

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FRESH STARTS: Hickory Nut Gap Farm will host a free dinner event to provide networking and community-building opportunities for young and aspiring farmers. Pictured is Suzannah Bryant, former Hickory Nut Gap Farm intern and future grower. No name was available for the goat. Photo courtesy of Hickory Nut Gap Farm The average farmer in the United States is nearly 58 years old, and that number continues to climb, according to the 2017 Census of Agriculture. In support of fostering a new generation of young farmers to steward the land in Western North Carolina, Hickory Nut Gap Farm will join forces with the National Young Farmers Coalition to host a free dinner and networking event for new and future farmers on Thursday, Sept. 26.

Part of the mission of the NYFC, which bills itself as an “advocacy network of young farmers fighting for the future of agriculture,” is to work for state and federal policy change.

But HNGF co-owner and co-founder Jamie Ager makes it clear that the upcoming gathering is not really about politics. “This is more about

young folks in agriculture supporting each other and seeing agriculture as an opportunity to build community,” he says. “Our mission [at HNGF] is to build community through agriculture, and what we really mean is that we want to connect the dots between soil health and animal health and human health and how all that stuff matters.”

The event has a strong focus on fun and fellowship — there will be drinks and a free buffet of farm-raised barbecue and other dishes prepared by the HNGF culinary team along with guided square dancing and live music by Bull Moose Party. But in addition, a representative of the NYFC will talk about the organization’s lobbying efforts in Washington, D.C., on behalf of young farmers.

Other groups, including the Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy, N.C. Extension/FarmLink, Organic Growers School and the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project, will also be there with guest speakers and information booths.

Ager points out that the get-together is not just open to those who are actively engaged in farming. “This is for folks who are wanting to pay attention to agriculture, see what opportunities are out there, explore new marketing options and creatively think about how we can solve those big-picture problems and get back on the land, because, at the end of the day, that’s the most important thing, I think,” he says. “We’re in a whole paradigm shift, rethinking the whole way that people relate to food. We need all the help we can get, and young people have a lot of energy.”

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One of the downsides of a restaurant city like Asheville is that, despite the annual flood of new restaurant openings, there are always a handful every year that pull the chain on the open sign for the last time. If you’ve spent enough time living in the city, you are guaranteed to be able to recall a long-closed lunch joint or bar that you desperately miss.

The restaurant industry is a tricky game, where the success rate can be shockingly low. With constant changes in trends and tastes, it’s a hard business in which to remain relevant, not to mention the razor-thin margins and the million ways to financially misstep. But then again, there are some dogs that just won’t quit kicking, and after a while, you really start to wonder what keeps them going.

“I’m sometimes amazed. I think about it, and g*d damn it, I’ve been coming into this restaurant for almost 16 years,” says Peter Slamp, co-owner of downtown staple Zambra. “I have the best job in the world, though, so I can’t complain.”

Originally opened in 2001 by Salsa’s owner, chef Hector Diaz, Zambra began as a Spanish tapas shop, doling out small plates before the trend had started to spark in Asheville.

But differences with investors led to a sale in 2004, which is when Slamp and chef Adam Bannasch, now owner of East Asheville’s Copper Crown, took the place over and discovered the secret that has kept them kicking for longer than the life of a successful sitcom: adaptation.

“It didn’t really make sense for us to try to reproduce Spanish tapas because we weren’t sourcing from Spain,” says Slamp. “We were sourcing everything here, so why wouldn’t we make North Carolina or Asheville tapas?”

That approach also gave them the opportunity to stretch their legs a little and be more creative with the cuisine.

And with seasonal, local fare dropping in the kitchen each day, their menu began changing on a nearly daily basis.

Slamp credits that sense of variety and relevance for helping keep the doors open ever since.

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KEYS TO LONGEVITY: Rezaz co-owners Laura and Brian Smith met and married while working at the restaurant, which opened in 2002. In 2015, they bought the eatery from founder Reza Setayesh. “You have to understand that me and my wife accept the fact that it existed before us and it will exist after us, as long as we are good stewards of what we have and look after it,” says Brian. Photo by Luke Van Hine CHECK YOUR EGO “For me, it’s a big deal,” says William Dissen, who took over in 2009 as chef and owner of the Market Place Restaurant, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. “Forty years is like 250 years in dog years in the restaurant industry,” he jokes.

It’s also a knack for adaptation that has kept the Market Place going all these years. After 30 years as one of Asheville’s founding fine-dining ventures, Dissen took the reins from founder Mark Rosenstein in the early throes of the recession. “I thought, ‘Oh, what have I done?’” Dissen reflects.

“For me, it really sparked a sense of creativity,” he continues. “If I kept going down that path of fine dining, we were going to be a dinosaur.” He stripped the white tablecloths and hewed the menu toward more casual fare.

Dissen also found himself doing a lot of pop-up dinners. He hosted an Italian night with members from the Grammy Award-winning Steep Canyon Rangers playing Italian string music as a trio.

He got involved with the Blind Pig Supper Club and cooked with other local chefs. “We would go do pop-ups together and at each other’s restaurants

and, in essence, you end up sharing your clientele,” he says.

Rezaz Pan Mediterranean is another restaurant that not only survived the recession but has thrived in its wake.

“The restaurant is its own entity, and we’re just a part of it at this point,” says chef and co-owner Brian Smith, who bought the Biltmore Village vanguard in 2015 from founder Reza Setayesh.

“A lot of restaurants live and die with the chef. Once the chef moves on, it either withers or changes names or something else,” says Smith. “But you have to understand that me and my wife accept the fact that it existed before us and it will exist after us, as long as we are good stewards of what we have and look after it. … The restaurant is bigger than who we are.”

When Rezaz opened in 2002, there wasn’t a lot going on in Biltmore Village, but Setayesh saw potential in the location. For Smith, taking over a long-standing restaurant demanded adaptation but not the big changes required for Zambra and the Market Place. At first Smith drastically altered the menu, but the blowback from the regulars caused him to reevaluate his approach.

“It was absolutely miserable,” he says with a laugh. “You pull back and you

think and you kind of check your ego a little bit and realize that, hey, it’s a living, breathing thing, and you’ve got to massage it a little bit. ... I kind of disrespected what the restaurant was when I went through and changed everything those first few months, and so it was a big ego check, in all honesty. I think good chefs and restaurateurs have to get their ego checked every once in a while.”

DON’T GO CHANGING Even one of Asheville’s most established chefs experiences the same struggle. When Diaz opened Salsa’s in 1994, it was just a small, window-service, takeout spot. Since then, he has opened four restaurants downtown, but little has changed with Salsa’s, other than the addition of a dining room.

“I’m successful because I love what I’m doing. I wake up to this every day, and I try to stay very energized by competing with myself and what I do. I don’t like to do the same thing over and over,” he says, noting that he finds that frustrating with Salsa’s. “I can’t change the cuisine because people, they complain!”

Instead, Diaz branched out and opened his other restaurants, allowing his flagship to stay the steady course.

Some of those ventures have thrived, like his lodestar, Salsa’s, and Italian bistro Modesto with its ever-changing menu. Others ultimately didn’t — Zambra, of course, was sold in 2004, and Chorizo closed in 2016 after the Grove Arcade terminated the restaurant’s lease. Another, Bomba, had long struggled to find it’s footing, until this

year, when Diaz claims the tiny Latin café has started to see its first profits.

Diaz has certainly created some of his own hurdles in a career beset by one self-sabotaging controversy after another, including a much-publicized arrest in 2013 for assaulting an Asheville parking garage attendant. He acknowledges that these incidents have hurt his business.

“Oh, a lot! That affected me personally,” he says, referring to the 2013 arrest. “To this day it is still affecting me.”

He says that chapter of his life changed him. “In my opinion, I made a mistake. I paid for it, I’m still paying for it, but I’m becoming better,” he says. “I might think twice now. Before I was not thinking twice.”

Thinking twice seems to be part of the secret to longevity for about any long-standing restaurant — particularly when it comes to the impact a business has on the community at large. “Part of the sticking power anywhere has to do with consistency and quality in customer service and making sure people have a great time. But I think that in Asheville, that sense of supporting local and supporting your community goes a long way, too,” says Dissen. “And that is something that concerns me moving forward and into the future, that as Asheville does continue to grow and inevitably get a little more corporate, that the independent places and the corporate places still take the time to think about the people in the community and what has and does make our community great. That it’s not just the beautiful mountains around us, it’s also the amazing people that live here.” X

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Location is key for this year’s Goombay Celebration, says Ramona Young, local community organizer and owner of The Kente Kitchen Catering Co. “We wanted to bring it back to where it originated from,” she explains.

Specifically, Young notes, that place of origin is The Block — the heart of Asheville’s former African American business district.

The gathering, which runs FridaySunday, Sept. 20-22, is free to attend and will take place exclusively on Market Street, with food vendors and performers setting up between Eagle and Sycamore streets. The celebration is hosted in partnership with the YMI Cultural Center and civic nonprofit organization Just Folks.

Soul food, Caribbean cuisine and West African bites will be served at the event by vendors including Taste of International, Caribbean Passion and Grill Jamaica, among many others. Family-friendly music will also be performed.

When it comes to Asheville’s historically black neighborhoods, “so much has changed,” says Young, who was born and raised in Asheville. “There has been so much gentrification.” The latest Goombay, she continues, is a concerted effort to honor and celebrate The Block’s legacy.

It’s also a chance for residents throughout the city to come together.

“Let’s celebrate,” says Young. “Let’s learn more about each other. And let’s better understand each other.”

The Goombay Celebration runs Friday-Sunday, Sept. 20-22. Hours vary.

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Potluck picnic with ABFPC The Asheville Buncombe Food Policy Council invites community members to a potluck picnic on Thursday, Sept. 26, at Carrier Park Pavilion. The event will offer a chance to learn about the organization and its new leadership and working structure. RSVPs are required

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taste and experience the incredibly diverse flavor of Latin America.”

Fiesta Hendersonville runs noon7 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, at the Hendersonville Visitor Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville. For more information, visit avl.mx/6hz.

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ON THE BLOCK: This year’s Goombay Celebration looks to highlight and honor the legacy of The Block, says Ramona Young, local chef and community organizer. Photo courtesy of Young asked to bring a dish to share along with their own plates, utensils and water bottle.

The potluck runs 5-7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 26, rain or shine at Carrier Park Pavilion, 180 Amboy Road. To RSVP, visit avl.mx/6i1.

Fiesta Hendersonville “At Fiesta Hendersonville, we like to think outside the taco,” says Adriana Chavela, founder of Hola Carolina Magazine, which co-sponsors the event.

Empanadas, tamales, chicharrones, crepas and quesadillas are among the many food options that will be available at the afternoon festival. In addition to cuisine, Latin American music and art will also be performed and on display. Over 20 countries will be represented at the gathering. “We’re proud of our tacos and burritos, but Latin cuisine is incredibly diverse and shares many commonalities,” Chavela notes. “We want our community to

Gongfu cha is a traditional Chinese style of preparing and pouring tea. “It translates to ‘making tea with skill,’” explains Dobra Tea General Manager Miles Cramer. On Sunday, Sept. 22, the local teahouse will host a workshop on the pouring style, led by Mary Cotterman, at its downtown store. Tickets are $20.

According to Cramer, for two years, Cotterman lived in Chaozhou, a region of the Guangdong Province of China, where she studied gongfu cha. “This is a great opportunity for people to learn about a traditional style of tea ceremony that has been developed for over 500 years,” says Cramer.

The class runs 9-11 a.m. Sunday, Sept. 22, at Dobra Tea, 78 N. Lexington Ave. For tickets, visit avl.mx/6hw.

Chai Pani turns 10 Chai Pani will celebrate its 10-year anniversary on Sunday, Sept. 22, with a street party outside the restaurant’s downtown location. The event will include Bollywood music and dancing, chaat from Chai Pani, henna artists, complimentary rickshaw rides and a free photo booth station. DJ MUZ will provide music.

The revelry runs noon-4 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 22, outside Chai Pani, 22 Battery Park Ave. For more information, visit avl.mx/6hy.

Farm-to-Table Dinner on the Quad UNC Asheville will host its fifth annual Farm-to-Table Dinner on the Quad on Monday, Sept. 23. The eve-

ning meal will feature campus-grown and local produce as well as wild and indigenous foods. Tickets are $25 for residents and $10 for UNCA students. Mko’Mosé (Andrew Judge) will guest-host the event. A professor and coordinator of indigenous studies at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning in Ontario, Canada, Mko’Mosè is also the keynote lecturer at UNCA’s fall 2019 Greenfest, which takes place the following day, Tuesday, Sept.

24, in the Highsmith Student Union Blue Ridge Room. The 7 p.m. talk, A Meditation on Remembering What It Means to be Human: Knowledge for a Changing Climate, is free and open to the public.

Dinner runs 5:30-8:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 23, at UNCA’s main quad, 1 University Heights. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/6hx.

Late nights at White Moon Earlier this month, White Moon, a cafe and wine bar in Sylva, announced plans to expand its hours and menu options.

“We want to focus on other products we care about as much as coffee,” says coowner Cecelia White. In addition to its regular breakfast and lunch options, wine and small plates are now available during the eatery’s new evening hours, TuesdaySaturday 5:30-10:30 p.m. Beverage options include French, Italian and Spanish wines. Meanwhile, Mediterranean and Middle Eastern cuisine make up much of the venue’s new small plates. “We hope to offer a unique experience to the community,” says White. “Something that you can’t find anywhere else nearby.”

White Moon is at 545 Mill St., Sylva.

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Doubling down on Burnsville Homeplace Beer Co. to open second location in early 2020 Before 2010, Burnsville was a dry town. While surrounding Yancey County remains that way, Homeplace Beer Co. became the county seat’s pioneer craft beverage business in June 2017 and has transformed the local perception of what a brewery and taproom can be.

“Burnsville’s a very tightknit community, but we also want to see growth and people not from here coming through and supporting us and learning about us and the events we put on and the things we do here,” says owner/brewer John Silver, a Burnsville native with over a decade of brewing experience in Western North Carolina.

“I really just enjoy bringing a component of what Asheville is doing to this area,” he continues. “We’re not trying to be anything like Asheville as far as the brewery we’re doing. We’re trying to make approachable beers that people enjoy. We do some experimental things, but we mostly want to have a homegrown product that supports jobs and enhances the community.”

Knowing he had to quickly establish Homeplace as a family-friendly spot, Silver used his many town connections to turn the taproom into a community event space, partner with local groups to raise money for local causes and collaborate with nearby nonprofit food hub TRACTOR Food and Farms to source ingredients.

Thanks to a generally welcoming clientele eager to learn about craft beer, Homeplace has thrived, and a second location is in the works. Renovations

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ON-BRAND: The Homeplace Beer Co. staff gathers at the old rock chimney at the Burnsville brewery’s forthcoming second location. Owner/brewer John Silver, seated, sees the structure as representative of the company’s community-centered ethos and hopes it will be a magnet for similar patron snapshots. Photo courtesy of Homeplace Beer Co. are well underway at the new location at 319 W. Main St., a few blocks away from the original brewery and taproom in the Burnsville Town Center building. Silver aims for it to open around the start of 2020 and will hire 12-15 new employees.

“We always thought there might be another brewery that would show up in Burnsville one day, and there very well could be — and if that happens, great.

I think that would be good for everybody,” Silver says. “But we also wanted to cement our presence here with a space in a way that was kind of an exclamation point for this town.”

Formerly the home of Banco Lumber, the three-story structure was gutted and is undergoing a thorough overhaul, complete with a sizable square cut into the second and third floors to open up the space and tie the triune levels together.

The main bar will be on the middle floor with an entrance directly off Main Street. Similar to Hillman Beer’s partnership with Rise Above Deli, Homeplace will rent out the space at

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the back of the room to local food truck Hog Hollow Wood Fired Pizza, which will serve its namesake pies along with burgers, sandwiches, chicken wings and other pub food.

Off to the side is a deck that can seat about 80 people with a view of the property’s sprawling outdoor space. The grounds feature ample parking, fire pits and — instead of cornhole boards that have become ubiquitous at breweries — horseshoe pits.

Below the deck is a stage for live music and possibly a projector that will allow for outdoor movie and sports nights. The exterior will play host to numerous other events and perhaps next year’s No Place Like Homeplace Beer Fest. This year’s celebration of smaller, underrepresented breweries and well-known area names takes place Saturday, Sept. 28, in the courtyard of the Nu Wray Inn and on South Main Street and has already sold out its 600 tickets.

Silver says the new Homeplace location can fit close to 1,000 people — which

means plenty of photo opportunities by the old rock chimney at the corner of the property, which he plans to deck out with flowers and antique machinery. “You see a lot of breweries do this the right way, where they have a focus point and everyone wants to take a photo in front of this thing that represents their brand — like Burial [Beer Co.] does with [its mural of] Sloth and Tom Selleck,” Silver says. “We want to do something similar, where we have something that reflects our brand.”

The bottom floor features an outdoor service bar and will house Homeplace’s 5-barrel brewhouse, which will be moved from its current space. Silver says he has to time the relocation just right so he can be operational in the new spot without running out of beer.

He’ll increase his fermenters from six to 10 before opening, then eventually add four more and ideally build out to a 10-barrel brewing system.

Meanwhile, the upstairs will become an event space and sports/game room with shuffleboard, darts and multiple large TVs. The top level satisfies several community desires that the existing Homeplace taproom couldn’t accommodate — or, in the case of TVs, that Silver wasn’t interested in providing.

Though the original space has a tube screen that plays old Western films, its purpose from the start has been as a conversation room where people could connect over quality beer. That vibe will be maintained on the new location’s main floor, thereby opening the upstairs to a new set of patrons.

When the forthcoming Homeplace isn’t open to the public, the upstairs can be rented out for private events, meeting a demand the current space is unable to accommodate. Though Silver says the Burnsville Town Center is great for larger events, the new Homeplace’s ability to be reserved for a few hours with food and beverage on-site will hopefully cement it as the local go-to zone for corporate meetings, parties and other local gatherings.

As for the original Homeplace taproom, Silver plans to add a kitchen and turn it into the brewery’s version of Wicked Weed Brewing’s Funkatorium.

Dubbed “Second Home,” it will feature Homeplace’s barrel-aged and experimental beers, along with guests taps from breweries in Asheville and beyond that aren’t available in the Mitchell/ Avery/Yancey tricounty region.

“You want to support the place you came from and the community you live in,” Silver says. “It’d be nice if in 10 years we can look back and see this as the starting point of helping in some small way to get Burnsville to the next step economically and interest-wise for the broader area.” X

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PUTTING THE OOMPH IN OOMPAH Asheville’s Mountain Top Polka Band marks its 10th anniversary

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com It all started so innocently: Musicians from Asheville’s Emmanuel Lutheran Church wanted to have an Oktoberfest, so they put together a dozen songs as entertainment. “It was such a big hit,” remembers clarinet player and vocalist Adam Bennett. Through word-ofmouth, the group found itself with four gigs for the following year.

Now celebrating the decade mark, the Mountain Top Polka Band, formed from that initial church festival, now gives more than 40 performances a year. The majority of those appearances are at Oktoberfests in September and October across North and South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia and Tennessee. Local dates include Upcountry Brewing on Sunday, Sept. 22; the Emmanuel Lutheran Church Oktoberfest on Sunday, Oct. 6; and the Rotary Club of Asheville’s Oktoberfest at Highland Brewing Co. on Thursday, Oct. 10.

The group’s official 10th anniversary show will be at the Southern Appalachian Brewery Oktoberfest on Saturday, Sept. 28, in Hendersonville.

The current Mountain Top Polka lineup includes Hans Meulenberg on tuba, saxophone and bass; Lula Meulenberg on lead accordion, Heather Meulenberg on lead vocal and accordion; Steven Taylor on drums; and Kevin Lorenz on guitar and percussion. Among the band’s instruments is an 8-foot alphorn, traditional to Bavaria, that “you just buy online,”

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ROCKTOBER: The Mountain Top Polka Band plays 30 engagements during Oktoberfest season each year. “Some people say, ‘I really don’t know about polka,’ but we make it for everyone,” clarinet player Adam Bennett says. The band’s set list includes some choice covers: “This year, we threw in ‘Africa,’ by Toto.” Photo courtesy of the band

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Bennett explains, “like our outfits.”

The men wear lederhosen, and the women dress in dirndl skirts sewn by Heather Meulenberg.

“We’ve had the costumes from the beginning,” Bennett says. “We wanted to get into it, just for fun. We had no idea we’d be doing it more than a year.”

But while the band’s appearance taps German custom and its shows include cowbell playing and the Schuhplattler — a folk dance with clapping and striking of soles, performed on a bench — there’s room for modern touches within the traditional kitsch. “Some people say, ‘I really don’t know about polka,’ but we make it for everyone,” Bennett says. The band adds Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” and the contemporary German anthem “Rock Mi” (think Chumbawamba meets Queen) to its set list.

“This year, we threw in ‘Africa,’ by Toto,” Bennett says. On accordion and cowbell, naturally.

In the 10 years that the band has been together, the number of Oktoberfests has increased across the South, Bennett says. And while the proliferation of craft brewing certainly hasn’t hurt the spread of the German heritage observances, Bennett doesn’t attribute the popularity directly to beer culture. Crowds come for dachshund races, stein-hoist competitions and yodeling contests as well as a number of other Bavarian-inspired games (likely made more fun with increased beer consumption).

Mountain Top Polka Band has changed, too: At first, the musicians played seated, like traditional oompah bands, “because that’s really where you start, as a musical group,” Bennett notes. “Four years in, we started standing and we started getting a whole different vibe … getting everybody involved, which is a lot of fun.”

Along with polka favorites such as “Edelweiss” and “The Lonely Goatherd,” from The Sound of Music, Lorenz (who is also the director of music at Emmanuel Lutheran Church) has been penning original songs for the collective. Mountain Top Polka band’s latest single is “Beer City Polka,” in honor of its hometown.

“When we go into other cities, we’re able to use that song to talk about Asheville and be a voice for Asheville at those festivals,” Bennett says. “We love our city … and all the great things happening here.”

The group is currently at work on creating a polka opera. Using love songs and upbeat numbers, the project aims to lead listeners through the history of polka, from its inception to today. “We’ll probably be performing it locally soon,” Bennett says.

But first, there’s Oktoberfest season to get through and, since polka is a niche in the South, Mountain Top Polka has plenty of work — the band receives two or three requests to play per day, and usually fully books its September and October calendar by January.

Because the musicians are avid researchers of their genre, they’d love to travel to Germany for Oktoberfest one year, Bennett says.

The only problem (and it’s a good one to have) is that they’re just too busy playing polka at home. X

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by Bill Kopp

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LOOKING BACK TO MOVE FORWARD The Midnight Hour brings its sophisticated hip-hop to Asheville Evoking the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance while exploring modern musical territory, The Midnight Hour combines jazz arrangements with a decidedly hip-hop aesthetic. Led by two leading lights of American music, the group brings its carefully orchestrated yet beatcentric music to Asheville Music Hall on Friday, Sept. 20.

Both Adrian Younge and Ali Shaheed Muhammad got their start in music making use of loops and samples as opposed to “real” instruments. “But it got to the point where we wanted to move beyond that,” says Younge. “So we learned how to play instruments, learned how to compose and produce in a way that inspired us.”

The music they make on the band’s self-titled 2018 debut — as well as on its latest recording, Live at Linear Labs — is in turns sweeping, emotionally resonant and just plain sexy. Younge says that the project draws some of its inspiration from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s. “That was a time in America when blacks were prominently seen,” he says. “It gave a new sense of being for black America.”

He adds that The Midnight Hour is a way to “continue those old conversations in a new way.”

The Midnight Hour’s music may be rooted in the past, but it’s aimed at present-day listeners. “It wasn’t like we set out to specifically target younger people,” says Muhammad. “But we do believe that when you give people something that’s honest and true and pure, the younger generation will have the attention span for it.”

Muhammad concedes that in the music industry — and, he suggests, especially with regard to black artists — there’s a lot of pressure to follow trends.

“But in his entire career, Adrian hasn’t made music with that concept,” he says.

“And neither have I, even when I was making music when I was 18, 19, 20.”

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POSSIBILITIES: Combining the sweeping orchestration of film music, the sophistication of jazz and the energy and vitality of hip-hop and rock, The Midnight Hour — led by soundtrack master Adrian Younge, left, and A Tribe Called Quest’s Ali Shaheed Muhammad — draws on the past as it looks to the future. Photo courtesy of Art Don’t Sleep “Microphone Check,” a podcast for NPR. More recently, he took part in a Tribe Called Quest reunion that yielded a tour and the group’s farewell set, We Got it From Here...Thank You 4 Your Service.

Younge, a multi-instrumentalist, scored his first film soundtrack, Black Dynamite, in 2009. Working with an array of artists, including Ghostface Killah, Jay-Z, Wu-Tang Clan and Talib Kweli, he has released dozens of records. He’s acclaimed for his atmo-

spheric and evocative albums, often released in versions with and without vocals. With Muhammad, he created the soundtrack for the web television series “Luke Cage.”

Like the best hip-hop, The Midnight Hour’s music proudly showcases variety. On the studio album, the track “Redneph in B Minor” is equal parts Stevie Wonder-styled funk, cool jazz fusion and sweeping string arrangements that recall the early days of disco. On the live album, fuzztone gui-

tar, a heavier beat and a cacophonous string section add a psychedelic rock vibe to the same piece.

The group tours with vocalists Loren Oden and 16-year-old rising star Angela Muñoz. But most of the music is instrumental. And Muhammad admits that “the challenge with instrumental music is to have people understand what the mood is.” But he says that the group’s overall goal is “to take people on a journey. And in that journey, there’s the feeling of freedom, of being exceptional, of being in an environment that’s classy … one of intellect, one where you definitely have fun.”

There’s no telling what direction the songs will take onstage. The size and character of the band vary from night to night, depending on the venue.

“There are some places where we’ll have a full string section,” Younge says. “Some places, we’ll just have our rhythm section, vocalists and horns.”

As to what will happen in Asheville, Younge demurs. “We don’t know yet, to be honest. Because right now all we’re focusing on is trying to finish up as much of the [next album] as possible.” He categorizes discussions about the band’s configuration on any given night as “next-week thinking.”

Younge refers to the band’s music as “sophisticated hip-hop,” drawing on the sounds and textures of ’70s jazz and soul records that were sampled by hip-hop artists. “We’re looking back at that time of black excellence and giving it a new light for today with our music and our brand,” he says. “We’re looking back to move forward.”

Muhammad agrees. He recalls the thinking when he and Younge put the group together: “Let’s just go in and make the most honest, best music we can make. And with that, there’s hope that it will affect and touch upon people’s hearts and souls.” X

WHO The Midnight Hour WHERE Asheville Music Hall 31 Patton Ave. ashevillemusichall.com WHEN Friday, Sept. 20, 9 p.m. $17 advance/$20 day of show

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by Edwin Arnaudin

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CINEMATIC CITIZENSHIP Maryedith Burrell plays an integral role in a new Molly Ivins documentary

MOLLY’S ARMY: Asheville writer/actor/educator Maryedith Burrell, second from right, reunited with her Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins crew at the Sundance Film Festival in January. The award-winning documentary opens Sept. 20 at Grail Moviehouse. Photo courtesy of Burrell A new prize-winning film with potential Academy Award appeal has a strong local connection.

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Asheville-based multihyphenate Maryedith Burrell, whose experience includes work as a screenwriter, actor and educator, served as creative consultant on Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins, a new documentary about the late nationally syndicated political columnist and author. The film opens Friday, Sept. 20, at Grail Moviehouse, where Burrell will be in attendance on opening night to participate in a postscreening Q&A. Burrell met director Janice Engel in 1981, and the two have worked together on several projects, including the Discovery Channel documentaries The Road to Miss America (2000) and NYC Inside Out (2010). When Engel asked Burrell if she wanted to collaborate on a film about Ivins, she quickly accepted the offer.

“Molly helped me be a better citizen,” Burrell says. “For her, citizenship is a verb. It’s not ‘You’re born, you’re automatically a citizen.’ No — you’ve got to work at it. It’s beyond voting.”

Inspired by the 2010 play Red Hot Patriot, a one-woman show that opened with Kathleen Turner as Ivins, Engel began seeking funding for the film around 2012 and was told no one wanted to see a biodoc — especially about someone who was no longer living.

Engel’s pursuit was years before 2018, when Won’t You Be My Neighbor and RBG became box office hits.

While the independent project allowed the filmmakers to craft the work they wanted without strings attached, Burrell says the crew went into busi-

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ness early on with the American Civil Liberties Union, to whom Ivins left a significant portion of her estate. Burrell feels that “creative consultant” is a fair catchall for her various roles in shepherding the film to completion and notes that the title helped simplify contracts and salary details.

“I did a little bit of everything on the project. You do whatever it takes. I lineproduced a shoot in Austin, [Texas], I helped write some structures for the film, I did some PR, I raised completion funds — whatever needed to be done,” Burrell says. “The main thing with my job on this project was being another set of eyes for Janice and giving notes on all the cuts and suggestions for ways to go with the story.”

Indeed, finding a road into Ivins’ large life proved challenging. Burrell was tasked with going through the prolific writer, lecturer and frequent TV show guest’s existing written material, books and footage — which Engel dubbed “the mountain that is Molly.” Burrell combed through numerous editions of the same speech given at different times and locations, as well as interviews on C-SPAN, “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “The Tonight Show.”

Dedicated to telling Ivins’ story in her own words, Engel leaned on Burrell’s comedic background to edit Raise Hell for humor.

Once Burrell found the best version of a video snippet, obstacles occasionally arose. For example, Dan Rather, one of the film’s interview subjects, said the crew was clear to use any clip from

“60 Minutes,” though CBS had other ideas. Navigating the various completion funds to license footage and music were further complicated by the disparity between the relatively low rate for copyrighted material’s use at film festivals compared with the commercial rate once the film is picked up for distribution.

“This is why no one ever makes money on a documentary,” Burrell says.

Once the funny yet informative and moving work was accepted for the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, the crew panicked, having a mere six weeks to raise enough funds for licensing. Burrell says Sundance proved to be the magic word when she called financiers who’d initially passed on the film. The team met its goal in 24 hours.

Following what she calls a “family reunion” at Sundance, where Raise Hell received an “overwhelmingly positive reception,” the film won the SXSW Audience Award in the Festival Favorites category and was booked at other major film festivals — including Full Frame in Durham.

Magnolia Pictures then came on board in June as a distributor and vowed to release the documentary by this autumn, before the elections — a promise that thrilled the filmmakers.

Also a cause for celebration is the new wave of Ivins fans that Burrell sees at enthusiastic Q&As around the country. While many millennial viewers were previously unaware of Ivins and her work, they’re inspired by her message of active citizenship. Burrell feels that such efforts as the Year of the Woman and #MeToo have helped pave the way for Raise Hell’s success.

“The two messages [about the film] that stick out for me are politics in this country isn’t right to left, it’s top to bottom, and the idea that this country is run by us,” Burrell says. “These people are just people we’ve hired to drive the bus for a while. It’s our job, it’s not somebody else’s job, to make sure things are going right.” X

WHAT Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins WHERE Grail Moviehouse 45 S. French Broad Ave. grailmoviehouse.com WHEN Friday, Sept. 20, 7 p.m. $7.50-$10

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ART IN ACTION “You can’t design something without imagination,” says community activist and facilitator Cortina Caldwell. “Innately, we all have this power and capacity to be creative.”

Late last year, Caldwell and her collaborators launched Artists Designing Evolution, aka adé PROJECT, a “home for artistic liberation across the Southeast centering an inclusive approach to organizing across the spectrum of identity, and age,” according to the collective’s website.

“Art gives us a way to see things we couldn’t see before and have conversations we couldn’t have before,” says Caldwell, the project manager. “It’s not that art is the endgame; it’s the fuel, it’s the catalyst.”

Adé PROJECT is at work on such initiatives as Celebrating African Americans Through Public Art. That effort, formerly known as the city of Asheville’s Visiting Artists Project, has been rebranded to deepen the focus on African American heritage and issues. Caldwell is the project manager for that venture, too, which currently seeks local artists to work collaboratively on a mural and installations honoring the history of The Block, Asheville’s historic black business district.

The launch party for adé PROJECT was Triumph for Trayvon in February — a Black History Month celebration that incorporated storytelling, a candlelight vigil, spoken word, music and dance. The group’s most recent offering, an Art + Wellness Weekend at the end of July, brought a screening of the documentary Silence Sam, workshops for students and a dance party to the YMI Cultural Center.

The goal is equity — the opportunity for excellence, says Caldwell. Adé PROJECT works toward that mission from five directions: creative facilitation, entrepreneurship, service, storytelling, and training and education.

By studying research, such as that of the Annie E. Casey Foundation (which seeks to improve the futures of children at risk of poor educational, economic, social and health outcomes), Caldwell determined that “the way the educational system has been designed, it has extracted creativity, imagination, artistic expression, culture, heritage … the things that create a sense of identity [and] personal expression,” especially among nonwhite youths. “Students of color

Adé PROJECT seeks creative solutions to issues of inequity

CREATING CHANGE: Adé PROJECT works toward a mission of equity from five directions: creative facilitation, entrepreneurship, service, storytelling, and training and education. “Art gives us a way to see things we couldn’t see before and have conversations we couldn’t have before,” says project manager Cortina Caldwell, pictured with her artwork at the Up/Rooted exhibition at REVOLVE. Photo by Cindy Kunst achieve the most when they are being engaged creatively.”

Another aim for adé PROJECT is to work with as many artists of color as possible, using a cooperative model. “We often are left out of decision-making processes or not invited to the table where decisions are being made,” Caldwell explains. “So it feels really important for the work to be driven by the community it seeks to serve.”

Early on, she made a list of all the artists of color she knew of and/or had been working with in Asheville and realized many of those creatives weren’t known by many in the broader community.

Caldwell refers to them as “the invisible of the invisible.” The work of adé PROJECT has been informed by the needs and challenges of such local makers. Examples include amplifying paid artist opportunities and providing youth engagement opportunities.

“This is something that came out of my lived experience as a woman of color and someone who is queer,” she says of the impetus for adé PROJECT. “I get how hard it can be to access resources.”

Caldwell grew up in Morganton, where her first job was at her grandmother’s catering business that served, among other events, Asheville’s long-running

and now defunct Bele Chere festival.

“It wasn’t until I started this work and I really started reflecting on my journey [that] I realized how much I had learned from her and how much she had taught me as a businesswoman,” Caldwell says.

After years away from her home state, in Oakland, Calif., San Francisco and Chicago, Caldwell realized she needed to bring her ideas home. “I have a lot of hope for Asheville,” she says. “We have to say we’ve tried everything we could, and I don’t know that we’ve tried the arts and creativity in this way that I see is so possible.”

So, among its many undertakings, adé PROJECT is looking to shift the traditional model of working with the arts and business communities. Rethinking the call-for-artist process, which is seen as impersonal to some, is one such step. Other navigational tools include assistance in such small tasks as “filling out an application for a contract,” says Caldwell, “because these things might be no-brainers for some of us, but for those who haven’t had access to the language of the information, it can be a barrier.”

She adds, “We see this pattern of huge disparity with the black community” — Caldwell notes the State of Black Asheville study, among other sources

— “so we want to start there, to give this opportunity of advancements and gradually grow more inclusive of other folks.”

Another program in the works, in response to the need for racial equity facilitators of color (and frequent calls for local leaders of color to serve on boards, staffs and ventures that seek diversity) is training for 10-15 community members. This pilot program, in its first year, already offers paid opportunities for those who have completed the training. It’s funded primarily through the Government Alliance on Race and Equity and a grant from Race Forward. Applications from members of the black community are being accepted through the end of this month.

“This is our response and way of training up other folks in our community [who] can use a creative lens to look at [challenges] differently,” says Caldwell.

Learn more at theadeproject.org. X

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Direct from Melbourne, Australia, the four women of Parsnip craft thoughtful, poppy punk on their debut album, When the Tree Bears Fruit. Lyrics primarily come courtesy of Paris Richens (bass), who points to children’s verse and nursery rhymes as her main source of musical inspiration. In turn, Carolyn Hawkins (drums), Stella Rennex (guitar) and Rebecca Liston (keys) enjoy reminding Richens that those innocent jumping-off points are almost always darker than they seem. The band’s first U.S. tour includes a stop at Static Age Records on Wednesday, Sept. 25. The music starts at 9 p.m. with a bill that also includes Nashville-based blues rockers Dirty Fuss, Asheville rockers The Half That Matters and Anywhere From Here, which the host site describes as a “three-piece emo/post-hardcore band from Canton.” $10. facebook.com/static.agerecords.7. Photo by Charlotte Tobin

Winners of the 2016 Band Contest at MerleFest, Asheville-based progressive bluegrass group Fireside Collective has made good on that seal of approval with a steady stream of charismatic shows and its well-received 2017 album Life Between the Lines. Currently composed of Joe Cicero (guitar), Alex Genova (banjo), Jesse Iaquinto (mandolin), Tommy Maher (resonator guitar) and Carson White (upright bass), the band recently returned to the studio and is poised to share its latest creations with fans. Fresh off the release of new single “She Was An Angel,” with more tracks to follow leading up to a full album release in spring 2020, Fireside Collective headlines The Grey Eagle on Saturday, Sept. 21. New England-based string band Twisted Pine warms up the stage at 9 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of the band

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Art in Autumn On Saturday, Sept. 21, Main Street in Weaverville plays host to 114 juried artists from across the Southeast as the Art in Autumn Outdoor Arts and Crafts Festival returns for its 13th year. Booths featuring an array of disciplines will overtake the asphalt while tunes from regional musicians provide the day’s soundtrack.

Judging the works will be Nikki Josheff, curator of Collections and Exhibitions for the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She’ll award prizes of $1,000 for Best of Show, $500 for second place and $300 for third, as well as four $50 honorable mentions.

The family-friendly event runs 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Free to attend. visitweaverville.com.

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In what may prove to be one of the year’s most creative pairings, Brooklyn-based folk-noir duo Charming Disaster is heading to Asheville to team with local painter Julyan Davis for what’s being billed as “a murder ballad-themed art studio concert.” The band’s cheeky duets about love, death, crime, mythology and the supernatural nicely complement Davis’ depictions of the American South, which include takes on the traditional murder ballads that inspire his friends’ songs. The collaborators previously worked together on Charming Disaster’s 2016 single “What Remains,” whose cover features Davis’ artwork, and will reunite Tuesday, Sept. 24, at the Mill at Riverside, Unit Z. Attendees are invited to browse Davis’ paintings and meet the artists at 7 p.m., followed by music at 8 p.m. Admission by donation. julyandavis.com.

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A & E CALENDAR ART TWO DAY WORKSHOP PAPERMAKING & LAMP BUILDING (PD.) Pam Granger Gale, Saturday, October 5, 10 am-3 pm, Sunday, October 6, 12 noon-4 pm, Enter the world of handmade paper in this two day class focused on creating beautiful papers which will become the sides for a lamp! You will learn how to make paper and press leaves in the sheet. You will build the wood structure support of the lamp and learn simple electrical wiring to light up your paper.

Lighting the lamps will be the finale of the class!! Where--Majik Studios, 207 Coxe Ave. Cost--$240 includes supplies, Call: 828-2731816, Website: majik-studios.com, Email: majikstudios207@gmail. com ARTIST GRANT • TU (9/24), 5:30pm - Regional Artist Program, grant workshop.

Free. Held at Jackson County Public Library, 310 Keener St., Sylva ASHEVILLE ART THEORY READING GROUP • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - Asheville art theory reading group.

Free. Held at Revolve, 821 Riverside Drive, #179 BARNS, BARN ART & MORE • TH (9/18), 5-8pm - Proceeds from The Artists of The Saints of Paint show on this Third Thursday benefit the Appalachian Barn Alliance. Additionally Taylor Barnhill presents a talk on the barns featured in Our State magazine. Held at Madison County Arts Council, 90 S. Main St., Marshall IKENOBA IKEBANA SOCIETY • TH (9/19), 10am - Monthly meeting and demonstration of Shoka Shofutai hanging flower arrangements.

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Community College, 180 W. Campus Drive, Flat Rock ARBOR EVENINGS • THURSDAYS, 6-9pm Arbor Evenings, weekly outdoor live music event with refreshments available. Free parking pass available online.

Held at NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way

MOUNTAIN LANDSCAPES THREE WAYS • TH (9/19), 6-8:30pm Mountain Landscapes Three Ways: Making Art of our Mountains, workshop with Nate Barton. $35. Held at Black Mountain Center for the Arts, 225 W. State St., Black Mountain THE PRAYER SHAWL MINISTRY • Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls for community members in need. Free.

Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville WEEKLY OPEN STUDIO • WEDNESDAYS, 2-4pm - Weekly Open Studio art classes with Betina Morgan. $20.

Held at Haywood County Arts Council, 86 N. Main St., Waynesville

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS ART & CRAFT SHOW • SA (9/21), 10am5pm - Fairview Area Art League juried art and craft show. Free to attend. Held at Fairview Community Center, 1357 Old Charlotte Highway (US 74A), Fairview HERITAGE WEEKEND • SA (9/21), 10am4pm & SU (9/22), noon-5pm - Art and craft festival featuring the annual World Gee Haw Whimmy Diddle competition, traditional dance and music and demonstrations.

Schedule: craftguild. org/heritageweekend.

Free to attend. Held at Folk Art Center, MP 382, Blue Ridge Parkway OPEN STUDIO ART TOUR • SA (9/21), 11am-4pm - Walking tour of artist studios. Free to attend.

Held at Grovewood

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OUT FOR A STROLL: The Open Studio Tour of Henderson County, a self-guided tour of more than 60 artists, is planned for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 21-22, 10 a.m.5 p.m. There is also a preview party at the Center for Art and Inspiration on Thursday, Sept. 19, 4-7 p.m. Meet and greet the artists, view their work and participate in the art raffle, which benefits Backpacks for Kids. Open Studio Tour map booklets are available as well as downloadable maps and information at hcost.org. Photo of the watercolor titled Muted courtesy of the artist, Jane Voorhees (p. 42)

Village, 111 Grovewood Road OPEN STUDIO TOUR OF HENDERSON COUNTY openstudiotourhc.com • SA (9/19), 4-7pm - Preview party for the Henderson County Open Studio Tour.

Event includes artwork, refreshments and art raffle. Free to attend. Held at The Center for Art & Inspiration, 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville • SA (9/21) & SU (9/22), 10am-5pm - Free self-guided driving tour of over 40 fine art and craft studios in Henderson County. Showcases the work of local artists in painting, sculpture, pottery, jewelry, fiber and metal arts, woodworking and glass. Visit the website for map. Free to attend.

SHOP & SIP THIRD THURSDAYS • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5:309:30pm - Pop-up art show featuring 5-10 artists and makers. Free to attend. Held at Mad Genius Studios, 121 Cozy Rose Lane, Candler

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS A CALL TO ARTISTS (PD.) The Fairview Area Art League is now accepting applications for the second annual "FAAL for Art Show" which is a juried show on September 21, 2019 at the Fairview Community Center. Applications can be found on the Fairview Area Art League Facebook or email FAArtLeague@gmail. com Non refundable 10x10 booth fee: FAAL Members $40 ($25 to join FAAL) FAAL Non-Members $50 'ANYTHING GOES… EVERYTHING SHOWS!' • Through MO (10/7) - Mailin submissions accepted for the Anything Goes…

Everything Shows, mail art exhibition. Contact for full guidelines: floodgallery. org. Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain

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'THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE' • FR (9/20) & SA (9/21) Auditions for The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe.

Information: frpstudio52.org/ auditions. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse Studio 52, 1855 Little River Road, Flat Rock

• 3rd THURSDAYS, 5-8pm - Gallery openings, studio tours, shops, food and drinks. Free to attend.

Held at Downtown Marshall, Marshall

SURVIVORS’ ART SHOW • Through TU (10/15) - Submissions accepted for the Survivors’ Art Show. Registration online: ourvoicenc.org.

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DANCE TWO 2-HOUR DANCE CLASS - TWO-STEP & WALTZ (PD.) Saturday, September 28th: 12-2PM at Grey Eagle, Asheville. Take one or both. $15 each or $25 for both.

Info & online discount at: www.Danceforlife.net, naturalrichard@mac.com, 828-333 0715.

DANCE NIGHT • SA (9/21), 6-10pm - Mountain dancing with live music

by Running Wolfe and the Renegades. Food available for purchase. $5. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde FALL INTO DANCE: AN ARTISTIC HARVEST FR (9/20) & SA (9/21), 7:30pm - The Asheville Ballet’s Fall Into Dance: An Artistic Harvest. Free. Held at Pack Square Park

701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB • SA (9/21), 6pm - Football Frenzy, themed dance.

Advanced dance at 6pm.

Early rounds at 7pm. Plus squares and rounds at 7:30pm. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums. com

IMPROVER CONTEMPORARY LINE DANCING • THURSDAYS, noon-2pm - Improver contemporary line dancing. $10. Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave.

'CINEMATASTIC: THE MUSIC OF THE MOVIES' • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/13) until (9/28) Cinematastic: The Music of the Movies, musical revue. Wed., Thurs. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $17 and up. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock

OLD FARMERS BALL CONTRA DANCE • THURSDAYS, 7:30-11pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $8/$7 members/$1 Warren Wilson Community.

Held in Bryson Gym Held at Warren Wilson College,

AN EVENING OF CHEROKEE CULTURE • TH (9/26), 7pm - An Evening of Cherokee Culture with Matthew Tooni, musician, storyteller and dancer. $10. Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge

ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (9/18) & (9/25, 3:30pm - Ukulele jam, all levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville CHARMING DISASTER • TU (9/24), 7pm - Open studio and concert by Charming Disaster, folk/pop. Admission by donation. Held at Julyan Davis Studio, 2004 Riverside Drive EQUINOX CONCERT • SU (9/22), 2:30pm - Interactive concert, meditative experience and prayer session for World Peace and inner peace with pianist Richard Shulman. $25/$20 advance. Held at UR Light Center, 2196 NC-9, Black Mountain FALL CONCERT SERIES • FR (9/20), 7pm Chatham Rabbits, concert. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard FLOR DE TOLOACHE • WE (9/18), 7-9pm - Flor de Toloache, all-female mariachi concert. Free. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY PRESENTS • SA (9/21), 2pm - Concert featuring Letters To Abigail and Mountain Heart. $18/Free for

children. Held at Blue Ghost Brewing Company, 125 Underwood Road. Fletcher LIVING MIRAGE TOUR • TH (9/26), 8pm - The Head and the Heart, concert. $32.50 and up. Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. MAXXMUSIC SERIES • FR (9/20), 8pm - Rodney Crowell, Americana roots concert. $34.50 and up. Held at Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. MOUNTAIN MUSIC IN GLENVILLE • SA (9/21), 11am-3pm Guitar, mandolin, banjo and dulcimers plus clogging, fiddling and the Junior Appalachian Musicians. Information: 828 743-1658. Free.

Held at Glenville Area Historical Society, Highway 107, Glenville RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES • TH (9/19), 5:309:30pm - The Rad Trads and Honey Island Swamp Band, outdoor concert. Free to attend.

Held at South Main Street, 301 S. Main St., Hendersonville SYMPHONY MASTERWORKS • SA (9/21), 8pm - Exotico! Concert featuring the music of Ginastera, Piazzola, Revueltas and Ravel with guest violinist, Blake Pouliot. $25 and up. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St. THE FOLKLORE OF APPALACHIAN BALLADS • TU (9/24), 3:304:45pm - Presentation by a ballad singer, folklorist, documentarian and illustrator, Saro Lynch-Thompson. Free.

Held at The Ramsey Center in Renfro Library, 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD 'LISTEN TO THIS' • TH (9/26), 7:30pm Listen to This, hosted by Tom Chalmers, is stories and songs from local writers, performers and citizens. $15. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. BOOK SALE BENEFIT • SA (9/21, 10am-4:30pm - Proceeds from this large book sale benefit the Friends of Henderson County Public Library.

Free to attend. Held at Friends of Henderson County Public Library, 1940 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville BOOKS & BITES • WE (9/25), 11am1:30pm - Proceeds from this lunch event with presentation from author Sarah McCoy benefit the Friends of the Mountains Branch Library. Registration: 828-287-6392. $25.

Held at Lake Lure Inn and Spa, 2771 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (9/18), 3pm - Afternoon Book Group, read a 20th century book set in the South. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • WE (9/18), 3pm - History Book Club: The Johnstown Flood by David McCullough. Free.

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

by Christina McMorris.

Free. Held at Skyland/ South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • SA (9/21), 2pm - Writing coach Nina Hart guides you through a 90-minute Gateless Method Writing Salon. Writers of all experience levels welcome. Registration required: online or

828-250-4752. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • MO (9/23), 3:30pm Hola, Asheville is a group for bilingual/bicultural families to get together and play, read and socialize in Spanish. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. LITERARY FICTION CONTEST • Through MO (9/30) Submissions accepted for the annual Literary Fiction contest. See website for full guidelines. Held at The Writer's Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Road MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • WE (9/18), 6pm - Rob Christensen presents his book, The Rise and Fall of the Branchhead Boys.

Free to attend.

• TH (9/16), 6pm - Dan Kovalik presents his book The Plot to Overthrow Venezuela: How the US is Orchestrating a Coup for Oil. Free to attend.

• TH (9/19), 6pm - Daniel Kovalik reads from his book, The Plot of Overthrow Venezuela.

Free to attend.

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

• MO (9/23), 6pm - Susan Steinberg presents her book, Machine, in conversation with Sebastian Matthews. Free to attend.

• WE (9/25), 6pm - Jon Sealy presents his book, The Edge of America.

Free to attend.

• TH (9/26), 6pm - John Shore presents his book, Everywhere She's Not. Free to attend.

• TH (9/26), 7pm - Works in Translation Book Club discusses, The Woman Destroyed by Simone De Beauvoir. Free to attend.

MARTIN TUCKER PRESENTS 'VIETNAM PHOTOGRAPHS FROM NC VETERANS' • TU (9/26), 6:30pm Photojournalist Martin Tucker presents his book, Vietnam Photographs

from North Carolina Veterans. Free to attend.

Held at City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva MYSTICAL POETRY • FR (9/20), 7:30-9:30pm - Poetry readings by Tracey Schmidt and Terri Crosby. $15. Held at Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River ORISON BOOKS READING • SA (9/21), 6:30pm - John Fry presents his poetry collection, With the Dogstar as My Witness, and John Fry presents his story collection, Oceanography.

Free to attend. Held at Archetype Brewing Broadway, 174 Broadway SALUDA TRAIN TALES • 3rd FRIDAYS, 7pm - Saluda Train Tales, storytelling to help educate the community of the importance of Saluda’s railroad history and the Saluda Grade. Free. Held at Saluda Historic Depot, 32 W. Main St., Saluda SOUTHERN STORYTELLERS SUPPER SERIES • TH (9/26), 5:30pm Supper with storyteller and author David Joy. $23/$20 advance. Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain STORYCORPS FOUNDER DAVE ISAY • TH (9/19), 7:309pm - Presentation by StoryCorps Founder Dave Isay. Free. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane WRITERS AT WOLFE WITH DALE NEAL • TH (9/19), 5:30-7pm - Dale Neal presents his new novel, Appalachian Book of the Dead. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St.

THEATER BASIC ACTING FOR ADULTS (PD.) Come explore how acting works, discover hidden talents and skills. Participate in acting exercises, warm-ups, improvisations

and monologues. Find a new creative freedom!

5 classes, Saturday 2-4, Sept.21-Oct.19. $50.00 61 1/2 Main Street, Canton, NC (Haywood Dance Studio upstairs) 912-224-8589. 12 students.

‘FATHER ABRAHAM: THE TESTAMENT OF MAJOR RATHBONE’ • SA (9/21), 6pm - Father Abraham: The Testament of Major Rathbone, the third in the triptych of historical dramas about our 16th President. Free with reserved seating for $5. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St. ‘THE EDUCATION OF TED HARRIS’ • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (9/28), 7:30pm - The Education of Ted Harris. $21/$18 advance. Held at Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. ‘THE MOUSETRAP’ • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (9/26) until (9/29) - The Mousetrap.

Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sun.: 3pm. $20/$15 seniors/$10 students.

Held at Western Carolina University, Hoey Auditorium, Cullowhee ‘TRUTH BE TOLD!’ • FRIDAYS and SATURDAYS until (9/21), 7:30pm - Truth Be Told, two one act plays addressing the struggles of sexual abuse and the healing. $20.

Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. ‘WHAT HAPPENS AFTER MANHATTAN’ • SA (9/21), 7:30pm - What Happens After Manhattan, staged reading workshop producation. $13. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. ‘WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOLF?’ • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/13) until (9/22) - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $20/$15 youth and student. Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville

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GALLERY DIRECTORY MARK BETTIS STUDIO & GALLERY • Seen and Unseen: Guardians in Glass, solo exhibition by Deb Williams.

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Sept. 21-Oct. 5 123 Roberts St. MARS HILL UNIVERSITY, WEIZENBLATT GALLERY 79 Cascade St., Mars Hill • Southern Murder Ballad paintings by British-born artist Julyan Davis.

Sept. 25-Oct. 18 • United State of Inequity, contemporary, primitive multimedia by Cleaster Cotton.

Aug. 28-Sept. 19 MOMENTUM GALLERY • A New Leaf, group exhibition featuring works exploring the subject of foliage. Sept. 12-Nov. 9 24 N. Lexington Ave.

BEWITCHED: Spirits of Autumn, A Magical Gathering of Artists, is an invitational of 10 local artists working in ceramics, glass, painting, weaving, fiber, sculpture, jewelry and photography.

Held upstairs in the Arts Resource Center of Spruce Pine Gallery of the Toe River Arts Council, the show and sale begin Friday, Sept. 20, noon-7 p.m., with a reception from 5-7 p.m. and continuing Saturday, Sept. 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Photo of Ready for Halloween by Dorann Nelson courtesy of Robert Batey ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY • Cleaster Cotton Art Exhibit - United States of Inequity Exhibit runs through September 19Weizenblatt Gallery Sept. 4-Sept. 19 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART • Taking the Ordinary to the Extraordinary, exhibition of paintings by Bill Cole.

Sept. 1-Sept. 30 82 Patton Ave. BELOVED ASHEVILLE LIBERATION STATION • Indigenous art exhibition.

Sept. 13-Sept. 30 10 N. Market St. GALLERY 101 • Natural Disaster, exhibition of ceramic art by Seung Jun. Sept. 5-Oct. 27 56 S. Lexington Ave., Unit 101

GROVEWOOD GALLERY • Spoonin’: A Showcase of Handcrafted Spoons, exhibition.

Sept. 14-Oct. 13 111 Grovewood Road HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • ArtShare, exhibition of works that have been donated or consigned to the Haywood County Arts Council.

Sept. 6-Sept. 28 86 N. Main St., Waynesville

PINK DOG CREATIVE • Barbara Fisher exhibition, Tangled Mapping: Memories of the Future, acrylic on canvas.

Aug. 23-Sept. 22 348 Depot St. TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL • Spirits of Autumn: A Magical Gathering of Artists, group exhibition.

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21, 5-7pm.

Sept. 20-Sept. 30 269 Oak Ave, Spruce Pine WINDOW • Feed, exhibition of site specific work by Kirsten Stolle as part of the Terrain Biennual.

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

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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, (African Folk Music), 8:00PM AUX BAR (80s/90s Dance Music) Wednesday Night Warmup, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Open Mic, 6:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Dog Whistle & live Honky Tonk, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Mammabear, Rickolus, Sleepy Poetry, 8:00PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Trivia!, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM The Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Back to the 80's (new wave, synth, post punk), 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series w/ Fwuit, 6:00 P.M. Brennen Leigh & Noel McKay, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Music Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM

LIPINSKY AUDITORIUM AT UNC ASHEVILLE Flor de Toloache in Concert, 7:00PM

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

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

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

MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bluegrass Jam hosted by Gary Mac Fiddle, 6:00PM ODDITORIUM Wham Bam Glitter Glam Burlesque, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Billy Litz (multi-Instrumentalist), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar (Bachatta, Merengue, Salsa), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Yung Gravy w/ Savage Realm & TIIIIIIIIIIP, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Get Weird Wednesdays!

An Evening of Electronic Collaboration, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM SOVEREIGN KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Circus Mutt, 6:00PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk with The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Brady Jacquin, 5:00PM Buffalo Gospel, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Warren Givens w/ Joshua Carpenter & Billy Sheeran, 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Mic w/ David Bryan, 9:00PM TREEROCK SOCIAL CIDER HOUSE Witty Wednesday Trivia, 7:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH New South Rising, 8:00PM

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 185 KING STREET Red Wine (bluegrass, gospel, swing), 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (Blues/ Rock/Soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST Supatight with STIG, 8:30PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 7:00PM

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BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison, 7:00PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths, Paul Edelmen, 7:30PM CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Music Bingo (Boy Bands), 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (Hot Jazz & Western Swing), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Girls On Grass//The Red Barons//Morgan Geer, 9:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Chris Titchner, 7:00PM FUNKATORIUM Hot Club of Asheville, 6:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Blackberry Smoke, 6:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Isis Lawn Series w/ Rahm & Friends, 6:00 P.M. Ben Paley, 7:00PM The Contenders: Featuring Jay Nash and Josh Day, 8:30PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Dance Your Asheville Off w/ Swing Step, 8:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Reverend Finster: Acoustic R.E.M. Tribute, 5:00PM Shook Twins, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings (rock n' roll), 9:00PM The Roaring Lions (jazz), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live (Theme: Lessons), 7:30PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Redleg Husky, 10:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream, (Gypsy jazz)., 7:00PM

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 185 KING STREET The Brothers Footmen, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Back South, (Roots/ Rock), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Midnight Hour feat. Ali Shaheed Muhammad (of Tribe Called Quest), 9:00 P.M. AMBROSE WEST The Screaming J's, 8:30PM APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Travelling Pilsbury's of Asheville, 8:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP DJ Kilby Spinning Vinyl, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective (rotating DJ's), 9:00PM CORK & KEG Old-Time Jam, 7:30PM

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MAD CO BREW HOUSE Vaden Landers, 6:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Cam Monroe, 6:00PM Daniel Norgren, 9:00PM

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ODDITORIUM Curios Folk Presents: Wild Realms Medieval (Free), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Drip of Silver, 10:00 P.M.

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Heavy Mountain Festival Pre- Party: Municipal Waste w/ Yautja, WVRM & Cloud City Caskets, 8:00PM

THE WYVERN'S TALE Game Designers of North Carolina-Asheville Meeting, 6:00PM

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SOVEREIGN KAVA Comedy Night w/ Justin Blackburn, 9:00PM

De’rumba w/ dj malinalli Friday, September 20th 9:30pm-2am @ South Slope

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ORANGE PEEL 80's VS. 90's Dance Party feat. Molly Parti & DJ Oso Rey, 9:00PM

ORCHARD AT ISIS MUSIC HALL & ALTAPASS KITCHEN 743 Utah Green, 1:45PM Swearingen and Kelli: Album Release Show, PACK'S TAVERN 7:00PM CHARLIE TRAVELER PRESENTS: DJ RexxStep (dance An Evening of Lynyrd A SOLO ACOUSTIC EVENING WITH hits, pop), 9:30PM Skynyrd with The GRAMMY WINNER MIKE FARRIS Artimus Pyle Band, PISGAH BREWING 9:00PM COMPANY Mike Rhode's JACK OF THE WOOD Fellowship, 8:00PM PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM RUSTIC GRAPE WINE BAR 5J Barrow, 9:00PM Thomas Kozac (folk), LAZOOM ROOM 7:30PM LaZoom Comedy: Valerie Tosi (Night One), SALVAGE STATION 9:00PM The Big Ol' Nasty Getdown w/ April B. & LAZY DIAMOND The Cool and Henry + Nu Disco w/ DJ The Invisibles, 9:00PM Strongmagnumopus, SANCTUARY 10:00PM BREWING CO. LIQUEFY Daddy Rabbit, 8:00PM Les Amis (African folk SLY GROG LOUNGE music), 8:30PM Kooley High w/ Sk, LOBSTER TRAP Mike L!Ve, Musashi Mark Bumgarner, Xero, Freedom, 6:30PM 8:00PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP DJ Tape Fire, 8:00PM

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Free. ashevilledowntown.org. Photo by Tom Farr

TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Matt Walsh, (blues, rock), 9:00PM

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY Fall Concert Series, 7:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Magic City Hippies w/ Sego, 9:00 P.M.

UNITY OF THE BLUE RIDGE An Evening of Mystical Poetry w/ Tracey Schmidt and Terri Crosby, 7:30PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Old Sap Album Release Party, 8:00PM

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URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE De' Rumba Dance Party w/ DJ Malinalli, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Blues w/Jimmy, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step Band, 5:00 P.M. Reverand Finster, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM BLUE GHOST BREWING COMPANY Hendersonville Symphony: Mountain Heart, 2:00PM

WICKED WEED WEST WW West: Pronounced Heroes, 5:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM

WILD WING CAFE A Social Function, 9:00PM

BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Rockin' for the Rescue (benefit for Asheville human Society), 1:00PM

WILD WING CAFE SOUTH 2 Broke Kings w/ Ross Childress, 9:00PM A Social Function, 9:00PM WILKES HERITAGE MUSEUM & THE BLUE RIDGE MUSIC HALL OF FAME Carolina in the Fall Music & Food Festival, 10:00AM WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Rodney Crowell: The Texas Tour, 8:00PM ZAMBRA Jason Moore, (jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 185 KING STREET The Bill Mattocks Quartet feat. Howie Johnson, 8:00PM

CORK & KEG Rebecca & the Reckoning, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Laurel Lee & the Escapees (Local Honky Tonk), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FINES CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER Dance Night in Fines Creek, 6:00PM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF ASHEVILLE Music Explorations Class, 11:00AM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Colby Dietz Band (funk, jam), 10:00PM

FOLK ART CENTER Heritage Weekend (music, crafts, demonstrations), 10:00AM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Bird Dog Jubilee, 9:00PM

FRENCH BROAD RIVER BREWERY Up Jumped Three, 7:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Heavy Mountain II, 4:30PM

FROG LEVEL BREWERY Cuddle in the Cosmos (duo, violin, mandola, unique vocals), 7:00PM

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Town & Country and Jonah Riddle, 1:00PM

HAW CREEK COMMONS Asheville Dances of Universal Peace, 7:30PM

PACK'S TAVERN Marsha Morgan Band, 9:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Alarm Clock Conspiracy, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Sally Barris and the Birmingham Boys, 7:00PM Jesse Barry & the Jam Dance Party, 9:00 P.M. JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Johnny 7 and the Black Crabs, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Valerie Tosi (Night Two), 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Slushie Saturdays w/ Los Dos Krektones (instro-surf rock), 2:30PM Raw Funk, Stomp, Rock, Groove, & Skank w/ DJ The Bogart, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY New Belgium Brewing's Tour de Fat, 11:00AM ODDITORIUM Party Foul Drag Circus, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Official DTA5 Afterparty w/ Yam Yam, 10:00 P.M.

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Velvet Truckstop, 9:00PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Official Bombay Festival After Party, 9:00 P.M. POLANCO RESTAURANT Ultra Lounge: Food, Music, Lounge w/ DJ Phantome Pantone, 10:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Roots & Dore, 8:30PM SALVAGE STATION The Polish Ambassador, 9:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Emotion General, Weird God, Scamtron, Black Powder, Mike&Ethan, 9:00PM SOVEREIGN KAVA Micheal Jefry Stevens Quartet, 9:00PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Karaoke, 9:00PM THE BARN AT PAINT FORK Pam Tillis Trio w/ Jody Medford, 6:00 P.M THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Community Salsa/Latin Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (lessons at 9:00pm), 9:30PM

THE GREY EAGLE Clean Water for NC 35th Anniversary feat/ Fruit of Labor Singing Ensemble, (three sets, 1:15 p.m., 3:00 p.m., 6:00 p.m.) 1:00 P.M. Fireside Collective, 9:00 P.M.

BYWATER Sunday Bywater Bluegrass Jam, 4:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Les Filles de Illighadad w/ Sarah Louise, 9:00PM

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

THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL Exotico!, 8:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Tiger Dance Party Nights, 10:00PM TRYON INTERNATIONAL EQUESTRIAN CENTER Tryon Resort’s Saturday Night Lights (music, carousel, face painting), 6:00PM TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective (rotating DJ's), 11:00PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE Local Love Outdoor Concert Series, 4:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Post Game Karaoke, 9:30PM WILKES HERITAGE MUSEUM & THE BLUE RIDGE MUSIC HALL OF FAME Carolina in the Fall Music & Food Festival, 10:00AM

CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Loft Brunch feat.

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FLEETWOOD'S Karaoke in Broad Daylight, 1:00PM Comedy at Fleetwood's: Sam Evans, 8:00PM FOLK ART CENTER Heritage Weekend (music, crafts, demonstrations), 10:00AM FRENCH BROAD OUTFITTERS HOMINY CREEK Jarvis Jenkins, 4:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Gospel Sunday, 1:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, 6:00PM Italian Bluegrass with Red Wine, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM

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ODDITORIUM Castle Black, Mr. Mange, Sane Voids (rock), 9:00PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:00PM ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Good Vibes Sunday w/ The Luv Boat, 6:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Matt Sellars, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Sunday Brunch w/ live music, 12:00PM Logan Marie, 3:00PM

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LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Drew Matulich and friends, 6:30PM

AMBROSE WEST Ayla Nereo- Singing Life Workshop + Acoustic Show, 1:00PM

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

ZAMBRA Kessler Watson, (jazz), 8:00PM

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ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Smash Out Sundays w/ Mike T & JJ Smash, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Local Natives w/ The Gloomies, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Randy Flack & Rockabillys, 1:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Travers Sunday Jam w/ Edge Michael, 6:00PM SALVAGE STATION G. Love & Special Sauce, 5:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE September Pop Up Music Co-Op Showcase, 3:00PM Sly Grog Lounge The Most Open Mic, 6:00PM SOVEREIGN KAVA Aaron Woody Wood, 8:00PM

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STRADA ITALIANO Jazz Guitar Brunch w/ Dan Keller, 11:00AM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Lucky James, 1:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Bahamas Benefit Bash w/ The Big Benefit Band, 4:00PM Sunday Blues Dance w/ DJ Bingading (7:30 p.m. lessons, 8:00-9:00 p.m. medium/fast tempo blues, 9:00-10:00 p.m. slow dancing blues, 10:00-11:00 p.m. trippy baby blues), 8:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Jangling Sparrows, 3:00 P.M. Bob Mould, 8:00 P.M. THE BARRELHOUSE Weekly Original Music Open Mic, 6:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Mr. Jimmy & Bill Loftus, 3:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat.

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THE MOTHLIGHT Blackfoot Gypsies w/ White Oak Splits, 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY GIANT Jenga Tournament, 12:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY West Asheville Oktoberfest with Mountain Top Polka Band, 3:00PM WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Rhiannon Giddens with Francesco Turrisi, 7:00PM

ZAMBRA Cynthia McDermott, (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 5 WALNUT WINE BAR CaroMia & Friends (Americana, soul), 8:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the Round, 5:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and friends, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque Hosted By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Open Mic Night, 7:30PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Jazz Monday, 12:00AM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Open Mic Night: It Takes All Kinds w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Monday Soul Jam w/ Jamar Woods of the Fritz, 9:00PM THE GOLDEN PINEAPPLE Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Monday Night Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Alley Cat Karaoke, 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Gypsy Jazz Jam w/ Steve Karla & Phil Alley, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan, 7:00PM CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Trivia Night, 7:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Tuesday Matinee Show Series feat. Local Bands, 6:00PM Sonic Stew w/ DJ Lil Side Salad & Seymour, 10:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by The Amanda Cook Band, 7:30PM

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LAZY DIAMOND Psych Night w/ DJ Marcula (projections and vinyl), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Synth Jam, 7:00PM MARS HILL UNIVERSITY The Folklore of Appalachian Ballads, 3:30PM ODDITORIUM Dragula Season 3 Viewing Party, 12:00AM Free Open Mic Comedy, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Early Jam, 8:00PM Electrosoul Sessions w/ strongmagnumopus, 11:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Team Trivia w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM SOVEREIGN KAVA Open Jam (sign up at 630 p.m9), 8:00PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Weekly 8 Ball Tournament (sign ups at 7:00 p.m.), 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Swing AVL Dance w/ Queen Bee & the Househoppers (beginner swing lesson at 8:00 p.m., 9:00PM Late Night Blues Dance w/ DJ Bingading, 11:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Andrew J. Fletcher (solo jazz piano), 9:00PM Leo Johnson (Gypsy Jazz), 9:00PM THE SOCIAL Open Mic w/Riyen Roots, 8:00PM TIGER MOUNTAIN Tigeraoke Tuesdays (karaoke night), 10:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Music Circle, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Sons of Ralph, 3:00PM

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Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins HHHHS DIRECTOR: Janice Engel PLAYERS: Molly Ivins, Rachel Maddow, Dan Rather DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED Molly Ivins was so cool, funny and smart that she turned C-SPAN into must see TV. This and other water-to-wine achievements are at the heart of Raise Hell, Janice Engel’s energetic biodoc about the late, great syndicated columnist that takes traditional nonfiction components and arranges them in a thoroughly engaging manner.

The cradle-to-grave approach suits Ivins’ active life, tracing her journey from a tradition-oriented Texas upbringing to realizing her destiny as an active citizen and polarizing, free-thinking journalist.

Utilizing copious archival footage from the aforementioned typically snoozy political network, late night talk shows and elsewhere, Engel and a crackerjack crew (including Asheville’s own Maryedith Burrell, serving as a catchall “creative consultant”) tell Ivins’ story in her own words so that viewers get the purest distillation of her wit and charms — at least in a film constructed by other people.

Interviews with contemporaries (e.g., Dan Rather) and next-generation report-

ers (e.g., Rachel Maddow) further help convey Ivins’ cultural impact, one that’s sadly evaporated since her death in 2007, which coincided with the sharp decline in print media and its celebrity journalists, and therefore her currency with millennials and Generation Z. But in Raise Hell, Ivins’ magnetism and her many human assets and flaws shine through in a compact, enthralling cinematic package — and is just the type of creative work with the potential to spark a new generation of Ivins acolytes and civic-minded Americans.

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electrical surge wreaks havoc on Earth, Maj. Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) is tapped by U.S. Space COM to investigate and stop further such incidents that threaten to destroy the planet, all emanating from the last known location of McBride’s decorated military father, Clifford (Tommy Lee Jones).

What unfolds is an interstellar adventure that requires rumination in order to fully grasp the deep layers of metaphor director James Gray (The Lost City of Z) and co-writer Ethan Gross (FOX’s “Fringe”) heap upon audiences. Ad Astra is more than a quest to save the Earth; it’s a quest to save a soul.

It’s also not action packed, but if that news feels like a letdown, know that Gray and cinematographer Hoyte Van Hoytema (Interstellar) will visually knock you absolutely flat. In an opening sequence, Roy steps out onto a platform of the International Space Antennae floating at the edge of the upper atmosphere. The audience sees the black of space on top with Earth below and, as Roy climbs down a ladder, the camera follows, sending the audience on a slow descent behind him.

As your stomach lifts from the anxietyinducing height, you can’t help but be filled with awe at the sight. It’s one of several moments in the film that blend peaceful wonder with the harsh realities of life, bringing to the forefront the bittersweet duality of man’s relationship with nature, told within a relatable father-son story.

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Picking up shortly after the 1920sset story’s final episode left off, the film brings the narrative’s core players back to contend with the King and Queen of England’s visit to the titular estate. The textbook intelligent writing by series creator Julian Fellowes once again expertly juggles a large cast of ladies, lords and servants, hopping between conflicts with a remarkable ease that keeps entertainment at the forefront.

Consistent with the series’ egalitarian distribution of attention, each character feels represented within the ensemble, though chauffeur turned son-in-law Tom Branson (Allen Leech) receives a generous number of heroic moments, and Maggie Smith is granted her usual bevy of zingers as the scene-stealing Dowager Countess.

While the visuals are no more or less cinematic than the show, the royal visit proves a worthy excuse for a reunion.

Other than abrupt endings to a few scenes and some foggy drama concerning Princess Mary (Kate Phillips), the film’s main oddity is the paltry use of Lady (Elizabeth McGovern) and Lord Grantham (Hugh Bonneville). Still, the couple have received their fair share of focus on the small screen, and it’s a pleasure to see certain supporting characters and a few new ones in the spotlight.

Accessible to newcomers and a treat for viewers who’ve seen every episode multiple times, Downton Abbey is like an NBA all-star game, in which cherished players are thrust into heightened situations and get a chance to showcase the skills that earned them adoration. The jaw-dropping alley-oops and long-coveted

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DIRECTOR: James Gray PLAYERS: Brad Pitt, Liv Tyler, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga ADVENTURE/DRAMA RATED PG-13

DIRECTOR: Michael Engler PLAYERS: Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville DRAMA RATED PG

Set in a near future where commercial travel to the moon is fairly common and the U.S. Space Command has sent missions to Jupiter and Saturn, nothing seems out of the realm of possibility in Ad Astra. When a strange

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M OVI E R EVI EWS showdowns are all there, and it’s a pleasure to witness it all.

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Hustlers HHHS DIRECTOR: Lorene Scafaria PLAYERS: Constance Wu, Jennifer Lopez, Julia Stiles COMEDY/DRAMA RATED R

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Based on a true story and Jessica Pressler’s 2015 article for The Cut, Hustlers follows a pack of New York City strippers as they navigate the lavish landscape of the 2007 stock market boom and the crippling aftermath of its subsequent crash. With their once lucrative profit streams quickly disappearing, the dancers devise a devious plan to bleed the lusty wolves of Wall Street dry, reap the monetary benefits and regain their independence. Together, they vow to swindle the men who’ve swindled the economy into collapse, with charm, drugs and skyhigh credit card bills.

Hustlers’ screenwriter/director Lorene Scafaria (The Meddler) has assembled a truly stellar cast, with Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu (Crazy Rich Asians) leading the pack. Ramona (Lopez), the seasoned stripping veteran and indisputable queen bee of the club, zeroes in on Destiny (Wu) and her newcomer naiveté and begins to school her in the art of the hustle. The ways by which Ramona and Diamond (rapper Cardi B, a former pole dancer) teach Destiny the moves she must make (on and off the pole) to instill an unwavering sense of confidence in herself suggests that this sleazy, cutthroat environment is actually an incubator for sisterhood.

But even with all that onstage charisma, Scafaria’s script doesn’t give Lopez much in the way of heavy emotional lifting. In fact, none of the actresses seem

to get a fair shot at substantial character exploration. Though Destiny is touted as the film’s protagonist, she has far less to do in the dramatic department than expected and her talent feels largely overshadowed by her character’s inability to fully express her motivations: Is she really a good person who was corrupted by circumstance and opportunity or is she just playing us? While intriguing, this moral ambiguity unfortunately lends an unfinished air to each of the characters and their storylines.

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Official Secrets HHHS DIRECTOR: Gavin Hood PLAYERS: Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes, Matthew Goode BIOPIC/DRAMA RATED R In Official Secrets, a dramatization of British whistleblower Katharine Gun’s efforts to avert the baseless 2003 invasion of Iraq, director Gavin Hood and his cowriters distill a mountain of facts into a dialogue-heavy but palatable script. As with 2016’s Eye in the Sky, Hood smartly focuses on the humanity of the story, not the politics. Shaping the narrative not just around Gun, but also The Guardian’s newsroom (where her story first broke) and her legal defense team, the filmmaker gives context and richness to the layers of unfolding drama.

Looking pale and nervous as the almost passive Gun, Keira Knightley delivers one of her best performances to date. She leads a strong cast, including Matt Smith (BBC’s “Dr. Who”), Matthew Goode (Downton Abbey), Rhys Ifans (Snowden) and Adam Bakri (Omar), plus Ralph Fiennes as defense attorney Ben Emmerson.

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In many ways, Official Secrets is an understated production and somewhat dry as suspense/espionage thrillers go.

There’s a simplicity at work here that’s frequently lost in modern day moviemaking; when the act of printing an email conjures such high suspense and anticipation, you know the filmmakers are doing something right.

It’s ironic that no one has ever been held accountable for the manipulation and blatant lies that led to the invasion of Iraq, while the life of the woman who had the moral conviction to stand against the lie will be forever upturned.

In an age of rampant political corruption, Official Secrets reminds us to pay attention — and viewers would be wise to do so through the epilogue titles for one final nugget.

Now playing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY MICHELLE KEENAN REELTAKES@HOTMAIL.COM

insecure Theo and the id-driven, impulsive, charismatic Boris, and the movie captures a mild version of that. Played as adults by Ansel Elgort (Theo) and Aneurin Barnard (Boris), Theo is less of a mess than he needs to be, and Boris is less of a cyclone than he should be. In what might be termed the “Masterpiece Theatre” effect, Crowley and Straughan treat The Goldfinch with perhaps a touch too much reverence, capturing the essence of the story and its central themes without injecting them with an energy particular to the movies.

Of course, the movie is meant to play chiefly to those who have not read the book. Such audiences are likely to come away from the

story having followed its labyrinthian course well enough and still be curious about the book’s stellar reputation.

Turning Theo’s long internal soliloquies into bits of dialogue may get across some of the book’s themes — the power of certain artworks to transcend time and

make sense of tragedy, for one — but the filmmaking, however lyrical at times, doesn’t quite embrace that eloquence.

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The Goldfinch HHH DIRECTOR: John Crowley PLAYERS: Ansel Elgort, Nicole Kidman, Jeffrey Wright DRAMA RATED R It’s a thankless task, adapting a nearly 800-page contemporary literary masterpiece to the screen, but director John Crowley (Brooklyn) plows ahead with authority and constructs a passable Reader’s Digest gloss on Donna Tartt’s great novel.

The screenplay, by Serious Film adaptation master Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy), boils down and reorders the narrative with remarkable seamlessness. The smartest decision, though it seems odd at the start, is removing the book’s first flashback sequence — when 13-yearold Theo Decker loses his mother in a terrorist bombing on a museum, in the chaos of which he also steals the tiny 400-year-old painting of the title — and spreading it throughout the film in fragments, like the painful memory it is to Theo.

Teen actor Oakes Fegley (Pete’s Dragon) makes a fine young Theo, a presumed orphan taken in by the rich and dysfunctional Barbour family, a matriarchy led by the icy but sympathetic Mrs. Barbour (Nicole Kidman).

The Barbours, though, are just a waystation on Theo’s journey, and it’s a long stretch before he reaches Las Vegas and meets his platonic soulmate, the Ukranian delinquent Boris (Finn Wolfhard, Netflix’s “Stranger Things”).

The novel’s chief dichotomy is between the repressed, overthinking,

Rambo: Last Blood (R) Sylvester Stallone returns as Vietnam vet John Rambo, this time to rescue his kindnapped niece from a Mexican cartel.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS Aladdin (PG) HH Angel Has Fallen (R) HHS The Angry Birds Movie 2 (PG) HHHHS Brittany Runs a Marathon (R) HHHH David Crosby: Remember My Name (R) HHHHS Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) HH Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw (PG-13) HHHHH The Goldfinch (R) HHH Good Boys (R) HHHH

MIRROR, MIRROR: A still from In Fabric. Grail Moviehouse hosts an advance screening of the horror film on Sept. 18 as part of Art House Theater Day. Photo courtesy of A24 • Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave., is a host site for the nationwide Art House Theater Day on Wednesday, Sept. 18. The festivities begin at 7 p.m. with a screening of the Ruth Bader Ginsberg documentary RBG, followed by a panel discussion with representatives from Planned Parenthood South Atlantic. Free, but online reservations are required.

At 9:15 p.m., there will be an advance showing of In Fabric, currently slated for an early December theatrical release. The latest horror film from Peter Strickland (The Duke of Burgundy; Berberian Sound Studio) follows a woman who purchases a cursed red dress and stars Marianne Jean-

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• TH (9/26), 7pm - Hidden Rivers, documentary film screening. Free.

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Luce (R) HHHHS Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (NR) HHHH Official Secrets (R) HHHS Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood (R) HHHHS The Peanut Butter Falcon (PG-13) HHHS Ready or Not (R) HHHH Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG-13) HHH Yesterday (PG-13) HHHH

'GUARDIANS OF OUR TROUBLED WATERS' • WE (9/18), 7pm - Guardians of Our Troubled Waters, film screening. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights

'LATINX HISTORY FOR MORONS' • TH (9/19), 5:30-8pm - Latinx History for Morons, documentary screening followed by a presentation by Ponkho Bermejo. Free to attend.

Held at BeLoved Asheville Liberation Station, 10 N. Market St. 50/50 ON THE WATER FILM TOUR • WE (9/25). 7pm - North Carolina Council of Trout Unlimited presents 50/50 On The Water Film Tour, a series of short independent films showcasing women fly fishing. $8. Held at New

Baptiste (Spy Game) and Gwendoline Christie (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”).

Local actor/screenwriter Jennifer Trudrung and local horror author Nathan Ballingrud will lead a post-screening discussion. Regular admission rates apply.

Tickets may be purchased online and at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com • Asheville-based videographer Rebecca MacNeice’s work on “Deadliest Catch” has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography for a Reality Program.

The ceremony takes place on Sunday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m., and will air on Fox. X

Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (9/20), 3pm - Bookto-Movie Program: Gone Baby Gone, a gritty thriller based on the novel

by Dennis Lehane and directed by Ben Affleck, rated R, ~2 hours. Free.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • FR (9/20), 7pm Outdoor screening of a PG rated, Jim Henson, fantasy-adventure film.

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Free. Held at Grovemont Square, 101 W. Charleston Ave., Swannanoa • TU (9/24), 6pm - The final film in the Billy Wilder Film Series: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970), rated PG-13, 125 minutes. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview FILMS AT FLOOD • FR (9/20), 8pm Nobody Knows: 2004, film screening. Free to attend. Held at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): We’re in the equinoctial season. During this pregnant pause, the sun seems to hover directly over the equator; the lengths of night and day are equal. For all of us, but especially for you, it’s a favorable phase to conjure and cultivate more sweet symmetry, calming balance and healing harmony. In that spirit, I encourage you to temporarily suspend any rough, tough approaches you might have in regard to those themes. Resist the temptation to slam two opposites together simply to see what happens. Avoid engaging in the pseudo-fun of purging by day and bingeing by night. And don’t you dare get swept up in hating what you love or loving what you hate.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.” So said singer and activist Nina Simone. But it’s doubtful there ever came a time when she reached the perfect embodiment of that idyllic state. How can any of us empty out our anxiety so completely as to be utterly emancipated? It’s not possible. That’s the bad news, Taurus. The good news is that in the coming weeks you will have the potential to be as unafraid as you have ever been. For best results, try to ensure that love is your primary motivation in everything you do and say and think.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Some things don’t change much. The beautiful marine animal species known as the pearly nautilus, which lives in the South Pacific, is mostly the same as it was 150 million years ago. Then there’s Fuggerei, a walled enclave within the German city of Augsburg. The rent is cheap, about $1 per year, and that fee hasn’t increased in almost 500 years.

While I am in awe of these bastions of stability and wish we had more such symbolic anchors, I advise you to head in a different direction. During the coming weeks, you’ll be wise to be a maestro of mutability, a connoisseur of transformation, an adept of novelty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Granny Smith apples are widely available. But before 1868, the tart, crispy, juicy fruit never existed on planet Earth. Around that time, an Australian mother of eight named Maria Ann Smith threw the cores of French crab apples out her window while she was cooking. The seeds were fertilized by the pollen from a different, unknown variety of apple, and a new type was born: Granny Smith. I foresee the possibility of a metaphorically comparable event in your future: a lucky accident that enables you to weave together two interesting threads into a fascinating third thread.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Every masterpiece is just dirt and ash put together in some perfect way,” writes storyteller Chuck Palahniuk, who has completed several novelistic masterpieces. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, you Leos have assembled much of the dirt and ash necessary to create your next masterpiece and are now ready to move on to the next phase. And what is that phase? Identifying the help and support you’ll need for the rest of the process.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1959, scandal erupted among Americans who loved to eat peanut butter.

Studies revealed that manufacturers had added so much hydrogenated vegetable oil and glycerin to their product that only 75% of it could truly be called peanut butter. So began a long legal process to restore high standards. Finally there was a new law specifying that no company could sell a product called “peanut butter” unless it contained at least 90% peanuts. I hope this fight for purity inspires you to conduct a metaphorically comparable campaign.

It’s time to ensure that all the important resources and influences in your life are at peak intensity and efficiency. Say NO to dilution and adulteration.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 1936, the city of Cleveland, Ohio, staged the Great Lakes Exposition, a 135-acre fair with thrill rides, art galleries, gardens and sideshows.

One of its fun features was The Golden Book of Cleveland, a 2.5-ton, 6,000-page text the size of a mattress. After the expo closed down, the “biggest book in the world” went missing. If it still exists today, no one knows where it is. I’m going to speculate that there’s a metaphorical version of The Golden Book of Cleveland in your life. You, too, have lost track of a major Something that would seem hard to misplace.

Here’s the good news: If you intensify your search now, I bet you’ll find it before the end of 2019.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In 1990, the New Zealand government appointed educator, magician and comedian Ian Brackenbury Channell to be the official Wizard of New Zealand. His jobs include protecting the government, blessing new enterprises, casting out evil spirits, upsetting fanatics and cheering people up.

The coming weeks will be an excellent time to find your personal equivalents of an inspirational force like that. There’s really no need to scrimp. According to my reading of the cosmic energies, you have license to be extravagant in getting what you need to thrive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “Do silly things,” advised playwright Anton Chekhov. “Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.” I think that’s a perspective worth adopting now and then. Most of us go through phases when we take things too seriously and too personally and too literally. Bouts of fun absurdity can be healing agents for that affliction. But now is NOT one of those times for you, in my opinion.

Just the reverse is true, in fact. I encourage you to cultivate majestic moods and seek out awe-inspiring experiences and induce sublime perspectives. Your serious and noble quest for a meaningful life can be especially rewarding in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Before comedian Jack Benny died in 1974, he arranged to have a florist deliver a single red rose to his wife every day for the rest of her life. She lived another nine years and received more than 3,000 of these gifts. Even though you’ll be around on this earth for a long time, I think the coming weeks would be an excellent time to establish a comparable custom: a commitment to providing regular blessings to a person or persons for whom you care deeply. This bold decision would be in alignment with astrological omens, which suggest that you can generate substantial benefits for yourself by being creative with your generosity.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Actress and author Ruby Dee formulated an unusual prayer. “God,” she wrote, “make me so uncomfortable that I will do the very thing I fear.” As you might imagine, she was a brave activist who risked her reputation and career working for the civil rights movement and other idealistic causes. I think her exceptional request to a Higher Power makes good sense for you right now. You’re in a phase when you can generate practical blessings by doing the very things that intimidate you or make you nervous. And maybe the best way to motivate and mobilize yourself is by getting at least a bit flustered or unsettled.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Syndicated cartoon strip “Calvin and Hobbes” appeared for 10 years in 2,400 newspapers in 50 countries. It wielded a sizable cultural influence. For example, in 1992, 6-year-old Calvin decided “The Big Bang” was a boring term for how the universe began and instead proposed we call it the “Horrendous Space Kablooie.” A number of real scientists subsequently adopted Calvin’s innovation, and it has been invoked playfully but seriously in university courses and textbooks. In that spirit, I encourage you to give fun new names to anything and everything you feel like spicing up. You now have substantial power to reshape and revamp the components of your world. It’s Identify-Shifting Time.

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