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PAGE 8 BREAKING SKIN The explosion of tattoo shops and artists in Asheville underscores the art’s increasing popularity, but some area shop owners wonder whether the local market can sustain them all. COVER PHOTO Jack Sorokin COVER DESIGN Norn Cutson

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Thirsty in Beer City The other night, I went out with some friends to celebrate at a nice, upscale Asheville restaurant. The waiter brought us the menu, the page-long wine-and-cocktail list, and asked what we would like to drink. Now, I am one of those strange people who does not drink alcohol, never liked it. So I asked what they had to drink that wasn’t alcohol, and I was offered cola products, coffee or tea, and water. Why would anybody think that I would want to pair a nice, expensive meal with a cheap, sugary soda? Even though I have lived here in the South for almost 30 years now, I have never warmed up to iced tea, sweet or unsweet. So, I told the waiter I was fine with just water. I can’t count the times that I have gone to fundraisers or other events in Asheville that offered food and alcoholic beverages, and on my question about nonalcoholic options, some friendly volunteer would cheerfully announce: “Of course, we have water!” How exciting, to go to event after event and mingle with people drinking wine or beer while clutching my bottle of water. A local independent movie theater has a whole refrigerator full of assorted local brews but, as a nonalcoholic option, only offers soda from a fountain or, you guessed, water. To add insult to injury, they charged me $3 for a small can of water. (This was not the Fine Arts Theatre. They are one of the few venues that offer a nice selection of nonalcoholic drinks.)

Why does it seem to be so difficult to put a few fun, nonalcoholic drinks in the fridge? There are so many options, from juices to ginger brews or locally made kombucha. Can somebody please get me something to drink in this town? — Monika Wengler Asheville

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What about our neighbors’ dietary habits? While it’s true that diets high in sugar negatively impact oral health, did the conservatives consider why poor folks eat diets high in sugar? Sugar is found in the cheapest foods and some “healthy” food staples, such as bread (as high fructose corn syrup). Some of our poorest neighbors live in “food deserts,” areas that lack nearby grocery stores or healthy food options. And let’s not forget the role the food industry plays, where marketing campaigns are designed to sell us unhealthy foods and “flavor chemists” engineer tastes to drive repeat purchases. Conservatives’ deflection to “personal responsibility” is a cop-out that hides their lack of solutions to this issue. Calling poor people “irresponsible” is a lazy alternative to offering any realistic fixes for the systemic issues surrounding poverty and its consequences, including poor oral health. Perhaps these people should spend less time reciting talking points and more time thinking about people other than themselves. — Mike Huttman Arden

Supporting Lee, despite disagreeing on policy I plan to vote for Rich Lee for City Council despite disagreeing with him on most questions of public policy. Allow me to explain. Given my oddball political values (libertarian) and given that all of our candidates come from a fairly narrow slice of the political spectrum, I disagree with them all in roughly equal amounts. For me, then, choosing a candidate has to be on some basis other than ideological compatibility. I find three reasons to support Rich not based in political values: 1. Though Rich supports a substantially bigger role for government than I do, I believe that he will be a fierce watchdog for cost-effectiveness for the things the city decides to do. I think he has an aversion to spending more than is necessary to achieve an objective. Sadly, for many politicians, spending other people’s money means that they don’t care much about bang for the buck. I believe Rich to be an exception. 2. I have been impressed by the breadth and depth of his knowledge of and involvement with nearly every facet of our city’s civic life and governance for the entire four years that I have lived here. He is not a Johnny-come-lately to this stuff. 3. I believe that he is a person of reason and will listen to other reasonable people — including those like me with whom he disagrees — and will be open to modifying his views if facts and logic suggest a better alternative. This is, in my experience, a rare quality among politicians. Even if I can’t get my views to prevail, I believe that with Rich in office, they would at least get a fair, open-minded hearing. That matters a lot to me. 6

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So why would I support a politician with whom I disagree so consistently? Frugality, passion and open-mindedness. — Robert J. Woolley Asheville

Dee Williams for City Council Because I vote for what candidates have done (their experience defines their qualifications) and not what they say they’re going to do, I’m voting for Dee Williams in the upcoming City Council primary on Oct. 10 and in the general election on Nov. 7. Dee’s a native of Asheville, and in her speeches, democratic values and commitment, she reminds me of FDR, MLK and JFK. She can be counted on to fight for “We the People” and for racial, economic and human justice. Dee Williams is also committed to Asheville’s image, character and culture, which ought not be for sale to the highest bidder! Dee has always advocated for good jobs and a living wage. She can be counted on to fight for our children, young people and elders! Our young people have to work two and three jobs at minimum wage and live three and four together to just pay Asheville’s excessively high rents, causing too many to give up and leave our city or move back in with their parents. This is unacceptable. Our senior citizens have suffered for years with high taxes, forcing them to sell their homes. This has to change. Dee’s past work experience includes: project manager of the Asheville Southside Economic Revitalization Program; owner of Dee Williams and Co. economic development services in North Carolina and South Carolina; licensed real estate broker; owner/operator of two public entertainment venues; 15 years as a government roads contractor; and eight years as a staff business consultant to the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. Dee recently negotiated and won a contract with the federal government to bring a million dollar grant to improve living conditions for senior citizen homeowners suffering on fixed incomes. This is the kind of leadership we need. Dee has my endorsement and vote because she has earned it, and she deserves your vote, too. Please check out Dee for yourself at “dee4avl.com.” — Joe Cobble Asheville Editor’s note: Cobble adds: “I’m volunteering for the best informed, experienced, most committed candidate for ‘We the People’ Dee Williams in many years.”

A growing Asheville needs Vijay Kapoor We all love Asheville, right? But we also know that Asheville has some issues with growth. How do we deal with traf-

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fic? How do we create an economy that supports a working class and not just tourists and retirees? How do we create affordable housing? How do we develop responsibly and keep the unique character of this city and place? I have spent many hours talking with Vijay Kapoor, who is running for City Council, and found him to have the most informed and honest answers to these questions. Vijay is a consultant for city governments, providing objective advice on how to improve services, be fiscally responsible and plan for the future. Vijay understands the nuts and bolts of how to run an effective city government, but at the same time has no business in Asheville. This impartiality is important as businesses and developers look to City Council for policies which benefit them and not the city. In the last few months, Vijay has worked with my neighbors in South Asheville to oppose a development that would have altered the nature of our neighborhoods and contributed to heavy traffic on already congested roads. Due to Vijay’s experience as an attorney and his persistent efforts to create an outcry against this, the developer revised the plans for a lower-density development. On other sticky issues, such as whether Asheville should allow short-term rentals, I have seen Vijay research extensively before taking an informed and measured stance. Over the past year, I have come to realize that Vijay has both the experience and the drive necessary to address Asheville’s growth and development issues. If you want to learn more about his impressive resume for City Council, visit www.kapoorforcouncil.org. — Catherine Rosfjord Asheville Editor’s note: Rosfjord reports that she is on Kapoor’s campaign team.

Williams will get results that Asheville needs I have worked with Dee Williams on various local issues like business economics, social justice and community development for over a year. Dee not only accepts but embraces the most difficult challenges that exist in our community. She is a critical thinker and is willing to break problems down to look at the smallest details in order to find a solution. Dee is an incredibly dedicated community member and makes a sincere effort to show up to every meaningful dialogue that the community holds. Her experience in finance and entrepreneurialism is extensive through her business experience, and her creativity is evident in her proposals to improve our community. Dee has worked hard to identify specific policies that will work for our community of Asheville. Dee will create living-wage jobs here in Asheville by revising the city’s procurement pro-

cess to encourage city staff to seek out and contract with more Ashevillebased companies. Dee will ask hotels and developers to pay their fair share by revising the hotel tax code and ensuring that developers create permanently affordable housing in sufficient quantity moving forward. Dee will keep rents affordable with a freeze on property taxes, as homeowners often pass those tax increases on to their tenants. Asheville is a beautiful, unique town. But it is becoming an area marked by an unsustainable tourism economy and an affordable housing crisis. Increased tourism will not bail us out. Only improving the way we support locals and local businesses will help. Dee Williams, an Asheville native, understands this and is ready to change Asheville for the better. I encourage voters to consider Dee Williams when you are choosing your City Council candidates. Dee shows up, puts in the time and does the work. She will get the results that our city needs right now. — Jesse Michel Asheville

Judith Smith, R.I.P. I was watching TV this morning, Thursday, Sept. 7, when on the channel I was watching came a repeat of “Haunting Evidence.” This episode looked at the mysterious death of Judith Smith, in a beautiful national [forest] near to Asheville. Her remains were found inside the [Pisgah National Forest] on Sept. 7, 1997, so this repeat, whether planned or not of “Haunting Evidence,” was broadcast on the 20th anniversary of when her remains were found. Quite spooky really, especially when one thinks it isn’t really known about in Britain, the country I am from, of all places. I have studied Judith’s case a bit on the internet and find the mystery surrounding her death interesting, yet very sad indeed, may she R.I.P. I hope her family gets closure one day and her case is eventually solved and the culprit or culprits are found and punished accordingly. Pity Sherlock Holmes isn’t a real detective! — Ian Payne Walsall England

Support a clean, green energy grid … I am writing to oppose permitting and constructing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, intended to carry fracked gas through our state. There are many reasons to oppose another program for dirty energy.

C A RT O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N Pipelines have a proven track record of environmental damage and danger. Fossil-fuel energy has a proven effect of environmental damage and danger. And both types of dirty-fuel systems are vulnerable to attack, malfunction, disruption and pollution in a way that a clean grid is not. We as a state and region need to move toward a clean energy economy now. This is an imperative for homeland security, environmental and social justice, and for participating in the worldwide economy. Of course, Duke Energy, Dominion and others don’t want to change business models. But that doesn’t change the reality of dirty energy’s dangers. The shift away from dirty energy needs to happen now. We need to actively support a clean, green energy grid — and only a clean, green energy grid — throughout our state and throughout the world. Moving into a clean energy economy is essential for homeland security, environmental justice, and for and a sane, commonsense society now and into the future. Please, say yes to clean energy. Please, say yes to independent, neighborhood-scale and third-party solar businesses. Please, say yes to energy efficiency. Please, say yes to Duke and Dominion transitioning — now — to being utility providers for a clean, green grid. Please, support on-bill financing, property-assessment financing and

other win-win methods to get solar on all our rooftops! Please, say yes to the kind of world you really want — for your children’s children’s children. Thank you so much for hearing me and for considering your role in true, deep responsibility for this planet, this economy and our people. — Michael Whitmire Asheville

Learning from Cuba This past April, I hosted the Pastors for Peace informational caravan that came through Asheville. Since 1992, Pastors for Peace has openly defied the American economic blockade and travel ban against Cuba by taking people and humanitarian aid in caravans that travel from North America through Mexico, then over to Cuba. Gail Walker, the director, traveled here, and I arranged for her to speak at Warren Wilson College, visit the office of Rep. Mark Meadows and be the featured guest at a potluck dinner at the Friends Meeting House. Inspired by the visit, I decided to go to Cuba with this year’s delegation. In July, 30 of us from the U.S., Canada and Germany met in Mexico City and flew to Havana for a two-week visit. The trip was a source of inspiration. We visited many grassroots organizations and enterprises, some of which made me

wonder what might be possible in our own Asheville area. For example: • A beautiful and spirited day center for the elderly (where residents were provided excellent free medical care, participated in all kinds of lively activities and very visibly enjoyed life with each other). They played music for us, enacted plays, then got us up to dance with them! • A very inviting home for “children without family support,” as they call these small neighborhood houses for those we would call orphans (where adults and kids sat with us in a living room as though they were a real family, talking about going to school, the daily schedule of eating, cleaning up, doing homework, play time, maybe going out on dates for the teens, etc.). There was real affection among them — in contrast to many impersonal institutions in our own country. • A mountain community that was developing a sustainable local economy with coffee-growing and tourism (supported with government grants — this place made me think of possibilities for rural areas in Western North Carolina). • An agricultural cooperative run by women (there are many voluntary and democratically run farming co-ops in Cuba that organize and provide support to farmers with crop production and animal husbandry, tools, credit, insurance and so on). • A primary health clinic in a rural village (where doctors lived locally and had the support of nurses, auxiliary nurses

and visiting specialists and surgeons). The clinic, like ubiquitous local clinics throughout Cuba, provided a wide variety of care, ranging from emergency care to vaccinations, lab tests, X-rays, ultrasound, dentistry, nutrition service, rehabilitation service and psychology; they made home visits and were intent on keeping people from having to go to the hospital in a nearby town. Only once did we meet with a government official, a diplomat from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. After saying that the recent Obama initiative was a small step forward and Trump’s policy a step backward, he reminded us of the Cuban demands for full normalization and suggested we repeat this when we got home, since our mainstream media tend to ignore them. These included the full lifting of the blockade, the end of U.S. funding intended to subvert the constitutional order of Cuba (aka “democracy building”) and the return of Guantanamo to Cuba. Returning to my home in Swannanoa, I see how much we can learn from Cuba, both locally and nationally. I’ve heard talk promoting Asheville as a sister city to a city in Cuba — Matanzas, in particular, which is charming and artsy. That would be such an opportunity for our town. Cuba, like Asheville, is a breath of fresh air. — Ken Jones Swannanoa Editor’s note: Ken Jones is a retired professor of teacher education. He can be contacted at kwjj1949@gmail.com.

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What’s in store for Asheville’s tattoo industry?

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“Sometimes I question it,” McGonigle reveals. “Should I still be doing this? That’s how difficult it is. But I genuinely want this in my heart.” Self-doubt, however, is a constant in the field, and not just among apprentices. Many established artists say it took them anywhere from three to five years to feel truly comfortable behind the needle. “There are so many chasms of knowledge in the trade,” McGonigle observes. “There’s an infinite amount to learn. It’s always humbling.”

tcalder@mountainx.com It’s late on a Thursday afternoon at Thistle & Pearl Tattoo on Merrimon Avenue. Inside, The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” is playing on the stereo. Shop owner BB June dons a pair of black latex gloves as she prepares to start work on Marcus Silva, who’s getting a shoulder cap and half sleeve on his left arm. The mechanical needle buzzes to life in June’s hand. It sounds like a colony of bees, the incessant drone slightly muted when it makes contact with Silva’s skin. But every so often, the full chorus of the machine’s metal teeth resounds as June briefly pulls away from the flesh before moving on to the next part of Silva’s bicep. And all the while, The Human League continues its plaintive lament: “Don’t you want me baby? Don’t you want me, ohh?”

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A GROWING INDUSTRY When it comes to tattoos, the answer to the 1981 pop hit’s essential question is a definite yes. According to the latest Harris Poll, three in 10 Americans surveyed said they had at least one tattoo. Perhaps not surprisingly, millennials lead the pack: 47 percent of them sport ink. Generation X is next at 36 percent. The numbers fall off sharply after that, with just 13 percent of baby boomers so adorned and a mere 10 percent of “matures.” In Asheville, meanwhile, the explosion of permitted shops and artists further underscores the art’s increasing popularity. According to Buncombe County Health & Human Services, which regulates all local tattoo establishments, the number of permitted artists has more than doubled in the last 10 years, from 49 in 2007 to 115 as of this writing. During the same period, the roster of Buncombe County parlors has mushroomed from 29 to 59. Asheville-area artists credit television and social media with driving the industry’s growth, saying the ubiquity of body ink in today’s popular culture has made the practice more socially and professionally acceptable. But while this shift has been a boon for local shop owners, some now wonder 8

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AT THE SWIPE OF A FINGER: Tattoo artists throughout Asheville point to Instagram as an industry game-changer. “You can see 200 amazing tattoos in five minutes, just scrolling,” says artist John Henry Gloyne. Photo by Jack Sorokin whether the market here can really sustain them all. CHASMS OF KNOWLEDGE Steeped in tradition, the tattoo industry strongly emphasizes respect: for the art itself, its history and its most skilled practitioners. Aspiring artists often learn the craft through apprenticeships. The details vary from shop to shop, but these are typically unpaid positions in which free labor is exchanged for education. Apprentices sometimes pay their mentor, though this is generally frowned upon. Most apprenticeships last 1 1/2 to two years, during which the rookie picks up insights on the trade and gradually learns the mechanics. Apprentices also

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assist with day-to-day business operations: opening the shop, setting up appointments and keeping things in order. Eventually, the beginner starts working with clients, who tend to be either friends or people paying a discounted rate to get tattooed by a novice. “You have to be willing to sacrifice everything,” says Megan McGonigle, who’s apprenticing with Rob Hunt of Forever Tattoo. Early on in her training, McGonigle also worked full time as a baker, averaging 90 hours a week between the two gigs. As she picked up more clients over the past year, McGonigle decided to jettison her baking position. But until her apprenticeship is finished, she says, the income from tips won’t be enough to sustain her, so she plans to start looking for another day job soon.

Kitty Love, who owns Sky People Tattoo, has been working in the industry in Asheville since 1994. Many people come to her shop seeking guidance, she says, often in the wake of an unsatisfactory apprenticeship elsewhere. Unstructured environments are a common complaint, Love reports; in response, she’s developed “an actual syllabus, broken down by month.” To date, though, only one person has completed her program. Artistic talent and a resilient ego, she notes, are essential, but those who manage to make it in the industry end up with an ideal profession: “It’s the most flexible medium that I’ve ever touched. You can do a huge range of styles and techniques and achieve the same qualities as a photograph or a painting or line art.” Robert Ashburn of Liquid Dragon Tattoo agrees, citing such styles as traditional, neotraditional, realism, tribal, new school, old school, Japanese, animation, blackwork, portraiture, watercolor — and the list goes on. “Today’s client is an educated consumer,” says Ashburn, who ranks among the area’s pioneering tattoo artists. In the past, “tattoo flash” (the stereotypical hearts and daggers that still line the walls of many local parlor waiting rooms) dominated the menu, but prospective customers now tend to have elevated expectations and more individualized tastes. Because of this, he expains, “You have to be able to work in all areas of tattoo to be truly successful.” THE RIHANNA EFFECT Local artists say the emergence of reality TV shows like Miami Ink and

BEYOND COOL: Tattoo artist BB June says the modern-day tattoo is sought for many reasons, from the ritualistic to the commemorative, the therapeutic to the cosmetic. “The reason people get them isn’t to be cool,” she says. “It’s so much more than that at this point.” Photo by Jack Sorokin Ink Master sparked the birth of the modern-day tattoo industry. But it was the advent of Instagram and Pinterest in 2010 that triggered an explosion. “Instagram changed tattooing 100 percent,” says Danny Reed, who owns Hot Stuff Tattoo. Hashtags and shared images helped propel individual practitioners to new levels while paving the way for tattoo collectors, who roam far and wide in search of something different. The added exposure also enables artists to make guest appearances at parlors around the globe. “You’re able to post, ‘Hey, I’ll be in NYC for these days,’ and you just book yourself up,” Reed explains. Before social media, notes John Henry Gloyne, co-owner of Spiderweb Tattoo on Haywood Road, “If you wanted to see a cool tattoo, you had to go buy a magazine, and you got lucky if there were two or three cool pictures in the whole thing. With Instagram, you can see 200 amazing tattoos in five minutes, just scrolling.” But if social media exposed millions to tattooing’s possibilities, these platforms have also given rise to a number of short-lived trends. Such “Pinterest tattoos,” as they’re known in the trade, have included bird silhouettes and white-ink designs. Another case in point is what Gloyne calls “Rihanna tattoos.” Over a period of three to six months, the artist says, he saw an influx of clients seeking

Roman numeral tattoos, inspired by the pop singer’s own shoulder-based design. “It is funny,” continues Gloyne. “The people who want the trend tattoo are usually the loudest about wanting to be original.” JUDGED BY THE COLORS OF YOUR SKIN Despite these seeming paradoxes, however, most local artists try to shy away from passing judgment. “I don’t dictate taste,” says Ashburn. “It’s a mistake. My job is to make people happy; I don’t tell them what to get.” In part, this philosophy may stem from the artists’ own painful experiences. Gloyne recalls his family’s disapproval and disbelief when, in the early 2000s, he announced that he intended to drop out of college to pursue a career in tattooing. Hunt tells a nearly identical tale that played out a decade earlier. Indeed, these artists say, it’s only recently that those prejudices have started to shift. According to the latest Harris Poll, 39 percent of respondents said they’d be “extremely comfortable” seeing visible tattoos on police officers. Other professions with significant approval ratings included real estate brokers (37 percent), bankers (36 percent), doctors

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N EWS (35 percent), judges (34 percent) and presidential candidates (32 percent). And closer to home, at least some employers also seem to be following that trend. Buncombe County has no formal policy on tattoos, and city of Asheville employees enjoy a comparable freedom, though the Police Department does require officers to cover tattoos while in uniform. Mission Health, the area’s largest employer, similarly requires staffers to keep large, prominent tattoos covered up during work hours. Nevertheless, many in the industry say there’s still a stigma associated with body art. Greg Phipps, the manager at Empire Tattoo, feels it when he visits his hometown of Johnson City, Tenn. “It’s only about 60 miles from here, but it might as well be 6 million, as far as that culture is concerned,” he says, adding that even in Asheville, he’ll sometimes get looks. “We still have people come by all the time and stare through our windows, like we’re animals in a cage.” ETHICAL DILEMMAS For all the benefits that online platforms and pop culture have given the industry, they’ve also brought their fair share of headaches. “In today’s environment, people expect you to do what they see on TV,” says Ashburn. “And that is to paint a masterpiece in a moment’s notice, under pressure. … You would never do that: That’s like trying to hurry up your brain surgery. It’s not realistic.”

EXPERT ADVICE: Spiderweb Tattoo artists, from left, Jeremy Joachim, Kris Roberts, John Henry Gloyne and Harrison Wellwood, emphasize the importance of research when choosing an artist. But they also note that once the research has been done, clients should entrust the artist with the work. Photo by Jack Sorokin Doctored images have also helped give consumers a false sense of possibilities. These days, for example, shops across Asheville say they’re getting requests for tiny tattoos from folks who don’t realize the flat-out impossibility of such designs. “Your skin is a living, breathing canvas,” Phipps explains. “It’s constantly changing. If you get tattoos that are tiny, it does disperse underneath the

skin over time. If they’re super small, it all bleeds together.” There’s also a loss of creative interpretation and communication between client and artist. “Sometimes people misuse social media to window-shop for ideas,” says Kimi Leger of Sacred Lotus Tattoo, “whereas before they might have just described an idea and let the artist create a new vision for it.” This, she says, can lead to ethical dilemmas for artists. Customers sometimes come in with a design they found online and ask for an exact copy. But while tattoo flash — say, a heart with “Mom” written across it — is intended as a kind of mass production, custom tattoos were never meant to be replicated. Ultimately, Leger maintains, it’s up to the individual artist’s integrity to refuse such requests. ITCHING FOR INK The first thing that anyone considering getting a tattoo needs to understand is that each artist’s oeuvre is unique. And while many of today’s practitioners are well-versed in a variety of styles, they all have their strengths — and weaknesses. So do your research, but remember that no one person’s portfolio can speak for the entire staff, even at the same shop. Placement is also critical. “I encourage my clients to think of the body as architecture,” says Love. “You stand in front of the mirror naked and you envi-

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sion shapes. That’s how tattoos should be planned.” This, she explains, helps the person avoid becoming a human patchwork quilt. Other key considerations, of course, are money and time. And if you’re short on either one, why rush it? “A huge percentage of what I do now is cover and repair,” says Ashburn. “I salvage something that was mediocre, done 20 years ago under a different thought process, on a limited budget, with limited time, by the wrong person.” And then there’s the matter of courtesy. There’s nothing wrong with asking about costs, notes Phipps. But once you’ve heard the store’s minimum charge (which in Asheville is typically $60-$80) and hourly rate ($120-$160), at least have the decency to step outside before calling other stores to compare prices, he urges. Perhaps most important of all, though, is making a good connection with your chosen shop. “If you’re not comfortable,” says McGonigle, “go somewhere else.” HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH? Despite tattooing’s rising popularity, however, local artists are split about the industry’s future prospects. Ashburn, for one, sees the proliferation of parlors as unsustainable. These days, he says, “Tattoo shops are like gas stations: They’re on every corner,”

leading customers to choose convenience over quality. “Sadly, what happens is people are being served by their own Walmart mentality,” he observes. “I got [a tattoo parlor] down the street: Why would I drive past it to go somewhere else?” Others, though, remain optimistic that their commitment to the city and the craft will be enough to ensure their continued success. “It’s just like restaurants,” says Hunt. “If you have a bad restaurant, it’s not going to stay in business.” Love, meanwhile, thinks it’s a nonissue. “Everybody has always said that,” she points out, noting that when she first arrived in Asheville in the mid-’90s, there were only three or four shops in town, but people deemed the market oversaturated even then. “The more fantastic works that are coming out of tattoo shops in Asheville, the more people are going to get tattooed,” Love predicts. NO LAUGHING MATTER Back at the Thistle & Pearl, June is still working on Silva’s bicep. The Human League’s “Don’t You Want Me” has given way to Steve Winwood’s “Valerie.” Silva requests a break; his eyes are watering, and what begins as a giggle gradually becomes a full-blown fit of laughter. Everyone reacts differently to the pain, notes June. But Silva’s response, she acknowledges — much to his seeming delight — is a bit unusual. Like Love, though, June believes there’s enough local business to go around. “Shops can only do so many tattoos a day,” she points out. “It’s not like any one shop can take all the people that want to get tattooed.” Silva, meanwhile, keeps laughing. “If you’re treating your clients well and being professional and giving them tattoos that you’re happy with, people are going to remember that and come back,” June adds as the laughter gradually fades and the needle buzzes back to life. But as the mother of two young children, she continues, “I do wonder if my kids are going to be antitattoo, because they’re everywhere.” Perhaps, she speculates, her kids “will rebel by not having them.” And as Silva’s skin once again begins to muffle the needle’s buzz, June, still pondering the industry’s future, murmurs, “I don’t know,” all the while continuing to color her client’s flesh. X

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Paul Cashion of Inman, S.C., is Jones’ sixth-great-grandson. A member of the Daniel Morgan chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Cashion addressed the crowds outfitted in traditional Continental Army uniform. He recounted the results of research he and Jones family historian Kenneth Israel had undertaken using records from the Daughters of the American Revolution and other sources. Jones immigrated to the colonies from Ireland around 1750, originally settling as a child with his family in the Priddy’s Creek area of Albemarle County, Va. He was recorded as wounded during the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. Jones settled in Buncombe County near the mouth of Hominy Creek with his wife, Elender, and their family in 1795. “He was 47 years

old, and he may have remembered and thought, ’Here’s a place like home that we should stay,’ and they did,” Cashion said. “They lived out the rest of their lives in the beautiful mountains that we see today. Both [Joshua and Elender] passed away circa 1839 and are buried behind us on a knoll of the Long Branch and French Broad River.” Mark C. Anthony, National Society SAR Color Guard vice commander, explained, “What a lot of these families of the time would do, generally, they would just turn a fieldstone up and that would be it. That’s why we are dedicating a cenotaph. It’s a memorial marker that denotes this area and designates Joshua Jones as a recognized patriot of the American Revolution. “This site is unique in that Patriot Jones is the only known patriot to

be buried on land that is tied to the Biltmore Estate,” Anthony continued. “The dedication ceremony allows the SAR to bring to the attention of the public the patriotic service that was essential to the founding of the nation — both by picking up arms and by providing an oath of allegiance to the early patriot government in this region.” The cenotaph, a large granite stone listing the names of Joshua, Elender and their nine children, was purchased and placed by their descendants in 2003. The memorial lies on what was originally a portion of Jones’ land on the west side of the French Broad River. The property was eventually purchased by George Vanderbilt and became part of his estate. The site is within a stone’s throw of what is now the Biltmore Sporting Clays Club. Even before the ceremonial musket salute rang out, the sound of gunfire resounded in the background throughout the event. Israel thanked the Cecil family and estate staff for making the cemetery location accessible to his family. He especially noted the assistance of Bill Alexander, Biltmore’s

landscape and forest historian. “I want you to know that I designed this stone and paid for it and had it placed here. Bill Alexander saw that we had help, people and even bulldozers, that came and put the stone in place. People were lined up all the way down Long Valley as far as you could see. There were so many of us, it was just absolutely thrilling.” Alexander also welcomed the assembled family on behalf of Biltmore and shared a bit of historical detail about the research he and his staff had done while working with the families to coordinate the care of the site. “My roots go back to the founding of the county, and my family has a lot of history here, so it’s kind of been a labor of love for me all these years, a little bit at a time,” he said. “It wasn’t necessarily a part of my job at the beginning, but I sort of built it into my job description.” In his opening to the ceremony, Anthony remarked on the importance of this and similar memorial events: “If the past is indeed a prologue, then a glimpse from the past can provide a source of inspiration and wisdom for the future.” X

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THE SOCIALIST NETWORK Vying for endorsement, 4 Asheville City Council candidates identify as socialists Of the 12 candidates contending for a seat on City Council, six showed up for a roundtable discussion at the West Asheville Library on Sept. 13 to compete for the endorsement of the Asheville Democratic Socialists of America: Cecil Bothwell, Jan (Howard) Kubiniec, Rich Lee, Kim Roney, Sheneika Smith and Dee Williams. The event was attended by about 100, with late arrivers forced to stand. At the end of the evening, members of the Asheville DSA voted on a ranked ballot to decide whom they would endorse. More broadly, the candidates are hoping they get the endorsement of voters in the Oct. 10 primary election, which will narrow the field from 12 to six, and in the Nov. 7 general election, when three of those six will be chosen to fill City Council seats. At the beginning of the forum, the moderators asked the candidates: “Do you consider yourself to be a socialist and what does that mean to you?” Four of the candidates — Bothwell, Lee, Smith and Williams — said they do indeed consider themselves socialists. BREAKING IT DOWN Lee answered first. “Yes, I do. To me it means government providing a robust network of social services and social goods,” he said. “We’re looking for enhanced bus service, we’re looking for enhanced public housing, places that people can enjoy the outdoors, and we’re looking for a government that is a champion in relieving inequity and narrowing the gap between the people that are doing best in society and the people that are struggling or falling behind in society,” he explained. “In all those senses, yes, I’m a socialist.” “Yeah, I’m a socialist, clearly, and have been for my entire political life, which goes back into the 1960s, I guess, late ‘60s,” responded Bothwell. “It seems to me that we establish gov-

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ernments to provide for the benefit of all the people. And the governments that have worked best for the people across the planet have been democratic socialist governments, places like Germany, where workers are on the boards of all the corporations, and there are limits on the differential between the CEOs and the workers.” Calling herself “a preacher’s kid” and invoking the Golden Rule, Smith explained her view of socialism: “Making sure that everybody has equal access and everybody is herded towards the best resources. And I think that takes leadership and it also takes what we call servant leadership to be amongst the people and to understand the needs of the people.” In conclusion, Smith said, “I do consider myself a socialist and I like to be among the people. And clearly here in Asheville, we have a disgusting wealth gap where there are clear winners and clear losers — or should I say clear beneficiaries and those who are outcasts.” “Yes, I am,” declared Williams. “Let me just say that everybody should have health care, everybody should have affordable housing, a decent place to live. Everybody should be able to breathe clean air that’s not full of toxins. Everybody should have access to an education, not owe $100,000 when you get done. And everybody has a right to not be shot down by the police department because you are of color or because you love somebody or you look a certain way.” Roney took a different tack in responding to the question. “I’m a longtime registered independent because I’m an anti-war advocate,” she said. At the same time, she said, “I share socialist values around wage, workers’ rights, access to health care, education and housing as a human right and I do believe it is time for us to represent people and planet over profit and party, which is why I’m asking folks to come together right now and address issues and

SPEAKING ON THE ISSUES: Asheville City Council candidates, from left, Rich Lee, Cecil Bothwell, Sheneika Smith, Dee Williams, Kim Roney and Jan (Howard) Kubiniec participate in a forum hosted by the Asheville chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America on Sept. 13. Photo by David Floyd dismantle systems of oppression so that we can start building a resilient community together.” Kubiniec said she is unaffiliated, although she thought she could be considered a “militant moderate.”

AFFORDABILITY’S EFFECT ON DIVERSITY The high cost of living in Asheville wove through the discussion as a common thread.

“The diversity of people in Asheville is under threat,” Lee said. “Asheville is … losing its population of color. … Twenty years ago you could rent an apartment on Charlotte Street for 200 bucks. The idea now that you could

get anywhere close to that as a service industry worker … is unbelievable.” Smith runs an organization dedicated to enhancing black cultural

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Xpress is working on its second special issue aimed at showcasing people who are helping make our community a better place to live. Last year’s theme was Asheville’s influentials; this year we are highlighting innovation. We want to hear about people working on the cutting edge, thinking outside the box and implementing unorthodox methods to great effect. It might be an innovative program for transitioning people experiencing homelessness into stable environments or pioneering technology like an app connecting needs with available resources. Innovation can take many forms and Xpress wants to hear about those who are creating and utilizing new ideas to shape our community. Our panel of judges will make the final decision and then feature the winners in a special issue this fall focusing on Asheville’s innovators for 2017. Nominating a candidate is easy. Just email us at dhesse@mountainx.com: 1. Name of person. 2. Name of their organization. 3. The person’s role, e.g., whether they volunteer, work for or are the founder of the organization, business, etc. 4. Nominee’s contact information. 5. A statement about how the person is using innovation in the Asheville area. Please send nominations by Friday, Sept. 15.

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identity in Western North Carolina called Date My City. She pointed to de facto segregation as one of the biggest problems facing Asheville. “When we shore up on housing to make sure there is access for people of color and people who are low-income, then I think we will see better outcomes across the board,” she said. Smith said she favors a density bonus, inclusionary zoning and rent controls — all mechanisms that she believes could help ensure affordable housing for Asheville residents by encouraging developers to create more units for lowand moderate-income workers. Williams, a local business owner and political activist, said it’s time to invest in local businesses, and she pointed to the community land trust model as an effective means of providing affordable housing. “The other thing we can do is start paying people a living wage,” she said. “Affordability is based on income. We all know that. … We need to stop inviting hoteliers and other people to pay our people subservient and slave-labor wages.” Lee agreed with Williams that affordable housing is related to the need for a living wage. “We need to diversify the kinds of jobs we have here, make sure they’re jobs that have professional career tracks and that lead to high wages, and I think we need to do it by growing businesses that already have a presence here and industries that already have a presence here,” he said.

An active member of her community in Kenilworth, Kubiniec said one of the barriers to affordability appears to be the influx of people rushing into Asheville. “There seems to be this pitter-patter about affordable housing,” she said. “We should be putting the brakes on the advertising to send the entire globe here.” Bothwell, the only incumbent at the roundtable, said the solution to the problem could lie in providing farefree transit, which would allow people to get to work without spending money on their commute. “That really affects affordability and is within the reach of the city to do,” he said. Bothwell believes the city should continue to use federal money dedicated to affordable housing but said he isn’t sure if the city should continue to use local tax money to incentivize developers to build new affordable units. Roney, who was one of the founding members of 103.3 Asheville FM and helped start a news program at the station, said housing is becoming less affordable because of increases in property taxes, a trend she says will negatively impact renters. “We’re going to have to do courageous work around housing,” Roney said. “That’s going to include land trusts, land banking, limited equity cooperative ownership, but I also realize that we need to stand up to the development that we don’t want so that we can stand up for the development policies that we do want.”

A member of the city’s Multimodal Transportation Commission, Roney is also an advocate for fair and free public transit. DIFFERING VIEWS ON POLICING Criminal justice proved a point of contention at the forum. In one question, the moderators referenced data showing that 18 percent of traffic stops in Asheville involve black drivers, even though black people only make up 13 percent of the city’s population. “I know everybody hates the police,” Kubiniec said, “but if you watch some of the things that go on in my neighborhood and some of the things in juvenile court, you realize that you actually need a police department.” In answering the question, three of the candidates at the roundtable made reference to work done by Williams, who chairs the Criminal Justice Reform Committee of the local chapter of the NAACP, to alleviate racial inequities. “We don’t hate the police,” Williams said. “That’s our police department. We just want it to be a world-class, fair police department and want folks on both sides — civilians and police — to go home every day.” Williams helped bring data in front of City Council showing that black residents of Asheville were subject to a disproportionate number of traffic stops by city police. Roney believes the city missed an opportunity to adopt policies that could have started to rectify that imbalance. “We did nothing in the end,” she said. “We need courageous leaders who can do better.” Bothwell, however, defended some of the recent actions taken by the city. “I think it’s easy for people who have come lately to the table to argue that they have picked up the ball that someone else dropped,” he said, “but

I started in 2009 when I ran for City Council the first time advocating for Asheville to become a sanctuary city.” In 2013, City Council unanimously passed a resolution brought forward by Bothwell making it clear that employers could not discriminate based on race, gender, gender identification, national origin, etc. Bothwell said as chair of the Public Safety Committee, he has also been pushing for improvements in police behavior. “Yes, there’s deeply seated racism,” he said. “Anyone who denies that is nuts, but we’ve been working on that. We’ve been working on that hard, and we will continue to do that.” AND THE WINNER IS The afternoon after the forum, the Asheville DSA announced its members’ pick for the organization’s endorsement: Dee Williams. According to the organization’s announcement: “The endorsement ballot utilized the Borda count method with each member able to choose and rank their top three choices. First choice received three points, second received two, and third received one. Then, the points for each candidate were totaled, and the endorsed candidate was the one that received the most points. Dee Williams finished first, followed by Rich Lee in second and Kim Roney in third.” A video recording of the forum is available at avl.mx/44f. The national Democratic Socialists of America, according to a statement on the organization’s website, “is a political and activist organization, not a party.” Further, “Democratic Socialists believe that both the economy and society should be run democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few.” X

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PARKING CRUNCH: This gravel lot between South Lexington Avenue and Church Street in downtown Asheville is permit-only on weekdays but open to the public on nights and weekends. At its Sept. 12 meeting, Asheville City Council eased restrictions on temporary gravel lots in an attempt to ameliorate what some see as a parking crisis. Photo by Carolyn Morrisroe After a cavalcade of downtown business owners and residents decried a lack of parking at the Sept. 12 Asheville City Council meeting, Council unanimously approved a plan to allow temporary gravel parking lots in the Central Business District. Each lot will be allowed for one year, after which the lot owner may apply for one additional year. The plan also provides a path to compliance for the numerous gravel lots that have already been put in place without approval. Until now, temporary lots have only been allowed in the district for special events and for construction staging when associated with an active building permit. The proposal is intended to ease the deficit of monthly parking for downtown residents and workers, which, according to a city staff memo “has reached a critical level of concern.” The city acknowledged that this is only a stopgap until a more permanent, longterm solution is reached. Michael Whalen, an owner of The Orange Peel, said he can’t overstate the difficulties the parking problem presents. Employees and customers 18

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often cannot find anywhere to park, even though The Orange Peel owns a small lot. “We are constantly dealing with people — although we have six signs, ‘do not park, subject to towing’ — constantly, almost nightly, dealing with people who ignore the signs and still park in the lot out of frustration and an inability to find a place to park,” he said. Whalen also lives in the area and said he frequently finds people illegally parking in the lot for his home, while he can’t convince locals to come downtown. “As a resident of downtown, I have friends who don’t live downtown and I’m constantly hearing from them that they don’t wish to drive downtown, they don’t wish to drive and try to find a place to park,” he said. The Mast General Store on Biltmore Avenue also struggles to provide parking for its staff and customers, said General Manager Carmen Cabrera. She related a story of a job candidate who recently had to pay $13 to park just to come interview at the store. “If the staff cannot get to work, we can’t fill the needs that we have to do business,” she said.

B U N COM B E B EAT HQ Adam Thome, owner of 67 Biltmore Downtown Eatery & Catering, emphasized that small businesses in the downtown area are the lifeblood of the city’s economy, supporting vendors and suppliers and providing jobs and revenue. “In order for us to succeed, we need the support of the city for this parking issue,” he said. Referring to the situation as a parking crisis, Karen Ramshaw of Public Interest Projects echoed the refrain that Asheville residents feel shut out of their own downtown due to the lack of parking. “Many in Asheville now proudly declare that ‘they never come downtown,’” she said. “So our kids aren’t playing in Splasheville and running around Roger McGuire Green, and we’re not running into friends and neighbors on the sidewalks as we listen to

local musicians or hanging out at the drum circle or wandering through the new shows at the local galleries before heading off for dinner or a coffee or a chocolate or a beer. You know — all the things that people travel here to experience.” Ramshaw asked Council to work on a big-picture, long-term plan for parking so that locals might return to downtown. “As Asheville has grown, we have failed to provide the infrastructure necessary for growth,” she said. “We have allowed an anti-hotel/ anti-tourist narrative to blind us to our own complicity in ceding our downtown to visitors.” Cabrera said she hopes the temporary lots, permitted for up to two years, are part of a more comprehensive parking fix. “My concern is that at that two years, that there’s

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some other solution, because if an employee and workforce can’t get downtown, they can’t live downtown and they can’t drive into town and find a place to park, this is going to be an even greater problem in two years, because it appears the town is growing in a wonderful way,” she said. — Carolyn Morrisroe X

Traffic concerns yield to apartments In a scene that’s become familiar, Buncombe County residents crowded a meeting room to outline concerns about how a proposed apartment complex would change the character of their community. Over the course of the past year, the Board of Adjustment has heard numerous concerns about development from citizens. The board has largely responded with stock explanations that sound the drumbeat of the board’s limited scope of power while imploring residents to reach out to other agencies for answers. The Board of Adjustment meeting on Sept. 13 played out much the same as nearly 700 apartment units received zoning approval. COMMUNITY RESERVATIONS Residents from the Fairview community showed up to plead their case against The Reserve at Charlotte Highway, a 214-unit apartment complex on 22 acres at 251 Charlotte Highway. The project needed a conditional use permit because it would include more than eight buildings. Bob Grasso, a landscape architect representing the developer, told the board, “We tried to bring all the buildings toward the interior of site… . We will do traffic counts and the NCDOT will make recommendations for improvements, if any.” He also noted he will minimize land disturbance by keeping half of the 22 acres intact and increasing landscape buffers as much as possible.

Jack McCarthy, a Village Park resident, stressed the traffic issue. “To pull out on our roads every morning, it’s just dangerous and very frustrating for people. Add another 200 more people … there’s going to be more accidents,” he said. “The value of the complex coming in will destroy our property values. We’ve all got acreage and want the view. I’ve paid my taxes to live in this beautiful place. ... We want Mayberry, we don’t want Raleigh.” “The NCDOT is bound by guidelines. When a project has less than 400 units it does not trigger a mandatory study. This is an opportunity to make sure a proper study is done,” said Ann-Patton Hornthal, a resident of neighboring Cedar Crest. Further, she requested that the board require a traffic study before approving the permit. “You imagine we have more power than we do,” said board Chair George Lycan. “It may be that they are not going to do an in-depth analysis, but that’s how we have to do business,” he said, adding that in order for the apartment complex to receive a driveway permit, it will have to satisfy NCDOT requirements. Hornthal replied that the board is the gatekeeper for mitigating traffic woes. “It is the developer’s burden to address traffic, and I don’t think they have. We should not have comfort the NCDOT will do this for us,” she argued. Board members sought clarity from County Attorney Brandon

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Freeman, who advised, “When you make the determination, you have to rely on competent evidence.” He cited language in the zoning ordinance, telling the board it must find that, “particular attention has been paid to automotive and pedestrian safety and convenience, traffic flow and control.” Asked by Lycan how the board would confirm compliance with that standard, Freeman replied, “That is the plain reading of the statute. The finding is not whether the project affects traffic, but was particular attention paid to automotive and pedestrian safety and convenience?” Grasso also noted he’s added traffic mitigation measures on past projects based on study results. Board member Cindy Weeks said other developers haven’t been required to provide a traffic study as a condition for permit approval. “It’s very difficult, without the Board of Commissioners, for us to require [a traffic study] for this one project. I wouldn’t feel comfortable doing that myself,” she argued. In regard to other concerns, Lycan added that there are built-in safeguards via county inspections. “From where we operate I feel we have to approve this. The general concept is we have agencies to cover these things.” Other board members sympathized with traffic concerns but didn’t find valid grounds to postpone or deny the

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N EWS permit. The board then unanimously approved the project. LONG WAY HOME The second apartment complex up for consideration was Long Shoals Apartments. The project features 472 units and 15,000 square feet of commercial space on 42 acres at 556 Long Shoals Road. It previously received a conditional use permit but slight alterations to the plan required the developer to reapply. David Seligman, a nearby resident, was the only person to speak against the project. “Our concern is Long Shoals Road is already crowded as is. Adding 462 cars … we are going to jam-pack it even more,” he said, noting the added

right turn lane would only be a “Band-Aid.” Seligman went on to express confusion about reaching out to the NCDOT only to have that agency refer the issue to the Board of Adjustment. “When an accident happens, I’m going to come back and quote this meeting. You are passing the buck to NCDOT, and they pass the buck to you. It will be on your head.” Lycan agreed that the apartment complex would create additional traffic stress. “We don’t have the power to shut down business development. We see if it complies with the ordinances that exist. If it meets the bar, we have to agree,” he explained. The board then unanimously approved the conditional use permit. — Dan Hesse X

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by Max Hunt | mhunt@mountainx.com ASHEVILLE ON BIKES, JUST ECONOMICS HOST CANDIDATE FORUM

PULITZER WINNER DESMOND HEADLINES POVERTY FORUM

Asheville on Bikes and Just Economics of WNC will host Step Right Up: A Primary AVL City Council Candidate Forum on Monday, Sept. 25, from 6-7:30 p.m. at the Wedge at Foundation, 5 Foundry St. The town hall-style event will focus on the candidates’ views on issues related to the city’s transportation system and policy. Ten of the 12 City Council candidates and three of the four mayoral candidates on the ballot for the Oct. 10 primary have stated that they plan to take part in the forum. More info: avl.mx/43z

Pulitzer Prizewinning author Matthew Desmond will be the keynote speaker at Pisgah Legal Services’ seventh annual Poverty Forum on Thursday, Sept. 28. The forum, titled “Evicted: Housing Crisis in WNC,” will explore the region’s affordable housing crisis and touch on possible strategies to alleviate the problem. Desmond is a professor of sociology at Princeton University. His best-selling book, Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, examines the impact of eviction on poor urban populations and how it perpetuates racial and economic inequality. Evicted won the 2017 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The keynote address begins at 7 p.m. at UNC Asheville’s Sherill Center/Kimmel Arena, following a 5:30 p.m. reception. Tickets are $50 for the reception and forum, $15 for forum attendance only. Tickets and more info: 828-253-0406 or pisgahlegal.org

BUNCOMBE COMMISSIONERS PLAN WORK SESSION The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners will hold a work session on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 12:30 p.m. at 200 College St., first-floor conference room. No official action will be taken. The public is welcome to attend. More info: avl. mx/3ws WNC REGIONAL AIR QUALITY AGENCY CONVENES SEPT. 26

GREEN OPPORTUNITIES GAINS $910,655 YOUTHBUILD GRANT

The Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency board of directors will meet Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 4 p.m. at the Buncombe County Planning and Development boardroom, 30 Valley St. The meeting, originally scheduled for Sept. 11, was postponed due to Hurricane Irma. Meeting agenda: avl. mx/446

The Ashevillebased nonprofit Green Opportunities has received a $910,655 YouthBuild grant from the U.S. Department of Labor. The threeyear grant will support GO’s efforts to train young adults in trade work and build affordable housing. The organization hopes to increase enrollment of young

adults, ages 16-24, in its construction and culinary trade programs in the coming years. These programs provide unemployed and underemployed residents of Asheville and Buncombe County with technical training, life skills support, GED instruction and other resources. GO’s YouthBuild full-time training program will begin Oct. 9. The nonprofit is currently hosting hourlong information sessions on the program each Thursday in September at the Arthur R. Edington Education & Career Center in Asheville’s Southside neighborhood. More info: greenopportunities.org ASHEVILLE REGIONAL AIRPORT RECEIVES $5M GRANT Asheville Regional Airport has been awarded a $5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to help fund its airfield redevelopment project. The ongoing rehabilitation project, titled Project SOAR, will result in a new replacement runway and a new taxiway. Asheville Regional Airport recently reported more than 100,000 passengers for July, the busiest month on record for the facility. The new runway is scheduled to open by early 2018. More info: avl. mx/447 X

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ASHEVILLE ARCHIVES by Thomas Calder | tcalder@mountainx.com

‘More than a citizen’ Dr. Samuel Westray Battle’s time in Asheville Certain names ring a bell when it comes to Asheville’s history: George Washington Vanderbilt, E.W. Grove and George Willis Pack are among the old-timers who come to mind. Others have since been lost in the pages of history (or in many tragic instances, never written about or recorded in the first place). Dr. Samuel Westray Battle was certainly not among the latter, but speak his name today and you’ll likely receive a blank stare. Born Aug. 4, 1854, in Westrayville, N.C., Battle served 10 years as a Navy surgeon before launching a private practice in Asheville in 1885. Some of his earliest patients are among those old, familiar Asheville names. Mrs. W.H. Vanderbilt came to Western North Carolina in the late 1880s, seeking the doctor’s professional services. She was accompanied by her youngest son, George, who, needless to say, took a liking to the area. Grove also sought out Battle’s expertise; like George Vanderbilt, he saw potential in the mountain town. On Jan. 2, 1888, Battle presented a paper before the County Medical Society at Asheville. The presentation was titled “Climate; And the Climatic Treatment of Disease with Special References to the Merits of The Asheville Plateau.” In it, Battle addressed the ideal temperature, humidity levels and amount of wind, rainfall and atmospheric pressures believed to play a role in curing such respiratory infections as tuberculosis. After offering his detailed findings on the ways in which Asheville met all the requirements for “climato-therapy,” Battle noted: “[L]et us briefly sum up [Asheville’s atmospheric] advantages without bestowing indiscreet or over zealous praise. [Asheville’s climate] is pre-eminently a suitable one for the early stages of pulmonary phthisis, especially for such subjects as can and will get out in the air, and are determined to take benefit of the dry, tonic, invigorating, bracing qualities thereof — and keep good hours. Conditions which seem to favor germ propagation and prolong the species of the genus Bacterium do not exist here. ... “The mortality from pulmonary phthisis is not large in any part of North Carolina, being, according, to the Mortality Tables of the Tenth Census (1880). 13.4 for every 10,000 of population throughout the State. But it is interesting to note that the mountain counties show a mortality of only 10.6 in every 10,000 of population, as against 16.1 for every 10,000 of population of all the other counties of the State in the aggregate; or in other words, in a State where pulmonary

MANY HATS: Dr. Samuel Westray Battle began his career as a Navy doctor. He moved to Asheville in 1885, promoting the area as an ideal place to recover from respiratory illnesses. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Public Library, Asheville phthisis does not figure prominently in the mortality tables, the death rate is still fifty per cent less in the mountain section than in the other lower-lying portions of the State.” Throughout his tenure in Asheville, Battle held office in a number of buildings. Among these were the original Battery Park Hotel, the Miles

Building (see “No Girls Allowed: The Asheville Club Moves to Haywood Street, 1901,” Sept. 13, Xpress) and the Jackson Building. On April, 29, 1927, Battle died at Rex Hospital in Raleigh. In a 1938 Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times, reporter James B. Caine reflected on Battle’s life. Caine wrote, “Dr. Battle was more than a citizen of Asheville; he was an institution. He came here while this community was yet in its infancy; he watched, and materially aided in its growth with pleasure and pride.” In the same Aug. 14, 1938 article, Caine went on to note the doctor’s sense of style, writing: “Strikingly individual in all things, Dr. Battle was particularly so in his attire. He never followed fashions; he set his own, and no matter what he wore, it always seemed a part of him, rather than an external decoration. His favorite headgear, outside of the formal evening silk ‘topper’ was a soft felt hat of the wide-brimmed variety. In winter he wore a cape, reaching almost to his knees; a white flannel suit, with a black silk sash in lieu of a waistcoat, was his usual summer attire. … Always he carried the small rattan cane so popular with English and Indian army officers. Who of the old-timers here cannot mentally see him now? Dressed with meticulous care; with pointed moustachios and carefully trimmed Vandyke, and a military air withal; with cape and cane swinging as he came down Battery Park hill, across Haywood and up the avenue, is it any wonder that fellow members, sitting in the windows of the old Asheville club, watched him with admiring interest until he disappeared around the corner?” X

BATTLE SQUARE: A patient of and friend to Dr. Battle, E.W. Grove named the street in front of the present-day Battery Park Senior Apartments after the doctor. Photo by Thomas Calder

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Blind Pig Supper Club benefit Eliada. $100. Held at The Omni Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave.

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EMPTY BOWLS DINNER mannaevents.org • MO (9/25), 11am-1pm - Proceeds from this event where attendees choose a handmade bowl by local artisans to eat a meal of soup, bread, and dessert benefit MANNA Food Bank. $40. Held at DoubleTree by Hilton, 115 Hendersonville Road

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ANIMALS ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY 14 Forever Friend Lane, 828-761-2001, ashevillehumane.org • FR (9/22), 3-9pm Proceeds from a portion of sales at the “Doggie Ice Cream Social,” with ice cream for dogs benefit the Asheville Humane Society. Prices vary. Held at The Hop Creamery, 167 Haywood Road • SA (9/23), 1:30-3pm Behind-the-scenes tour of the Humane Society and Buncombe County Animal Shelter. Free. • SA (9/23), 1-5pm Proceeds from a portion of sales at the “Pints and Paws,” event with pet adoption opportunties, games, contests, dog nail trims and grooming demonstrations benefit the Asheville Humane Society. Free to attend. Held at Sweeten Creek Brewing, 1127 Sweeten Creek Road FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115 • Fourth FRIDAYS, 6pm - Animal rights reading group. Free to attend.

BENEFITS A TIME TRAVELING GALA • SEPTEMBER 23 (PD.) Presented by the Preservation Society. • The Dance Through Time begins at YMI, where you will be whisked away

on trolleys for visits to historic Zealandia Castle and the Arts and Crafts Sondley Estate. • 3 parties in one! • Tickets online: PSABC.org

MEALS ON WHEELS mowabc.org/ • FRIDAYS, 6-8pm Proceeds from donations at the Antique, Classic Car & Bike Cruise-In benefit Meals on Wheels. Free to attend. Held at Blossman Gas, 170 Sweeten Creek Road

ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • SU (9/24), 5pm Proceeds from the “Sundays Live at Aloft” concert series featuring The Caribbean Cowboys benefit the Asheville Area Arts Council. $5. Held at Aloft Hotel, 51 Biltmore Ave. ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 828-251-5702, ashevillehabitat.org, emellert@ ashevillehabitat.org • SU (9/24), 2pm Proceeds from “The Chairman’s Cup,” golf tournament benefit Habitat for Humanity. Registration: secure. actblue.com/donate/ hcdpgolf. $80 includes lunch. Held at Broadmoor Links Event Center/ Golf Course, 101 French Broad Lane, Fletcher • TH (9/28), 4-10pm - Proceeds from the third annual Van Life Rally featuring over 100 adventure vehicles on display and live music by Pleasure Chest and DJ Marley Carroll benefit Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity. Free to attend. Held at Wedge Foundation, 5 Foundy St., Asheville

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MONARCH BUTTERFLY DAY: As part of a national effort to stave off the decline of monarch butterflies, the North Carolina Arboretum is hosting its third annual Monarch Butterfly Day on Saturday, Sept. 23, from 10 a.m.-2 p.m. The winged event includes a full day of monarch releases, crafts and tours of the Winged Wonders butterfly exhibit. In addition, butterfly photographer Mickey Hunt will be on-site to present his newest book, A Pictorial Guide to the Monarch Butterfly Migration Over the Southernmost Blue Ridge Parkway. For more information, visit ncarboretum.org. Photo courtesy of Mickey Hunt (p. 26) ASHEVILLE GREENWORKS 828-254-1776, ashevillegreenworks.org • SA (9/23), 6:30-10pm Proceeds from the Root Ball, featuring live music, food and drinks, benefit Asheville Greenworks. $25. Held at 14 Riverside Drive, 14 Riverside Drive BLUE RIDGE PRIDE 828-338-8277, blueridgepride.org • TH (9/28), 5pm Proceeds from the ninth Annual Miss Blue Ridge Pride Pageant with cocktail party benefit Blue Ridge Pride. Tickets: MissBlueRidgePride.com. $10-$15/$8-$12 advance.

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Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • FR (9/22), 6-8pm Proceeds from “Bid to the Beat Haw Creek” fundraising event with silent auction, hot hors d’oeuvres, live music and dancing benefit the Friends of the East Asheville Library. $20. Held at St. John’s Episcopal Church, 290 Old Haw Creek Road

COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, INC. 828-277-8288, coabc.org • SA (9/23), 9am-5pm Proceeds raised at this event featuring fundraisers rappelling down a 100 foot building benefit the Council on Aging of Buncombe County. Free to attend. Held at 29 N. Market St. ELIADA 828-254-5356, eliada.org, smcdonald@eliada.org • SA (9/23), 6pm Proceeds from the “Light the Path for Eliada Kids,” event with hors d’oeuvres, local beverages, silent auction and dinner with the

PISGAH LEGAL ANNUAL POVERTY FORUM pisgahlegal.org • TH (9/28), 7pm Proceeds from this reception and keynote speech “Evicted: Housing Crisis in WNC,” by Pulitzer Prize winning author, Matthew Desmond, benefit Pisgah Legal Services. Cocktail reception at 5:30pm. Keynote presentation at 7pm. $15 forum/$50 reception & forum. Held at UNC Asheville Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE AND BUNCOMBE COUNTY 321-271-4593, psabc.org • SA (9/23). 6-10pm Proceeds from the “Time Travaleing Gala” featuring three different era inspired parties at three different historic locations with trolley rides between locations benefit the Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County. $100 and up. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 South Market St.

PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU 828-227-7397, bardoartscenter.edu • SU (9/24), 3pm Proceeds from the “Friend-Raising” concert featuring Balsam Range and the WCU Wind Ensemble benefit The Western Carolina University Friends of the Arts. $25/$10 students. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive RAISE YOUR HAND BENEFIT AUCTION & GALA wncapgala.org • SA (9/23), 6pm Proceeds from the fundraising event featuring live and silent art auction, reception and dinner benefit the Western North Carolina AIDS project. $150. Held at Asheville Event Centre, 991 Sweeten Creek Road THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE 39 South Market St., 828-254-9277, theblockoffbiltmore.com • SU (9/24), 3-5pm - Proceeds from the “WNC Solidarity Concert Series,” with live music by the Tyler Kittle Quartet and the Paula Hanke Quartet benefit Planned Parenthood. $10. THE FREE CLINICS 841 Case St, Hendersonville • FR (9/22), 10-1pm - Donations of used bicycles benefit The Free Clinics‘ Bikes for Life program. THE JEEP CREW thejeepcrew.org • TH (9/21), 6pm Donations at this “Bring Your Jeep and Show it Off,” event for jeep enthusiasts benefit The Jeep Crew. Free to attend. Held at the Steak & Shake Weaverville, 11 Bett Stroud Road, Weaverville THE SOCIAL facebook.com/ events/153689068530869

• SA (9/23), 4-10pm - Proceeds from the “Jammin’ for Jugs,” with live music by The Shrunken Heads, Moan Deep, Rory Kelly and Gutterhound benefit Alicia Riddle Hughey’s breast cancer treatment. $5. Held at The Social, 1078 Tunnel Road VINTAGE CAMPER BENEFIT facebook.com/ events/115598205774728 • SA (9/23), 11am-3pm - Proceeds from this vintage camper show featuring over 50 trailers benefit Haywood Waterways Association’s youth education programs. $5/ Free for children under 9. Held at Stonebridge Campground, 1786 Soco Road (Highway 19), Maggie Valley YOUTH OUTRIGHT 866-881-3721, youthoutright.org • TH (9/28), 7pm Proceeds from “Young Voices Vaudeville” event featuring multiple area performers, food and drink, a silent auction and photography benefit Youth OutRight. $20. Held at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (9/20), 11am-1pm - “Finding the Money to Grow Your Business,” seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TH (9/21), 6-9pm - “How to Find Merchandise to Sell Through Your Online Business,” seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • SA (9/23), 9am-noon - “SCORE: Becoming the Boss of the Best and Keeping Them,” seminar.

Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • MO (9/25), 1-3pm “Insuring Your Home Based Business,” seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TU (9/26), 3-6pm “Using Analytics to Develop Your Business Platform,” seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (9/27), 6-9pm “SCORE: Basic Internet Marketing,” seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION jim@ extraordinarycopywriter. com • 4th TUESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Educational monthly meeting to bring local business leaders to present and discuss topics relevant and helpful to businesses today. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon - General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden G&W INVESTMENT CLUB klcount@aol.com • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 11:45am - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Black Forest Restaurant,

2155 Hendersonville Road, Arden HEMPX ASHEVILLE hempxasheville.com • FR (9/22), 11:30am-2pm - Presentations regarding entrepreneurship in the hemp industry. Registration required: martymclemons@gmail.com. Free. Held at HatchWorks, 45 S. French Broad WESTERN WOMEN’S BUSINESS CENTER 828-633-5065, carolinasmallbusiness.org • WE (9/20), 11am1pm - “Finding Money,” workshop focused on Carolina Small Business Development Fund loan program, requirements and loan application walk through. Registration: jhanks@carolinasmallbusiness.org or 828-633-5065. Free/Bring your own lunch. Held at the A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (9/27), 11am1pm - “Market Analysis, Competition, pricing, target market,” workshop. Registration: jhanks@ carolinasmallbusiness.org or 828-633-5065. Free/ Bring your own lunch. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.) BEGINNING POLE weekly on Tuesdays 5:15pm, Wednesdays 5:30pm, and Thursdays 11:00am. POLE SPINS & COMBOS week-

ly on Sundays 5:45pm. INTERMEDIATE POLE weekly on Mondays 3:45pm and Wednesdays 6:45pm. FLEXIBILITYCONTORTION weekly on Tuesdays 8:00pm, Thursdays 1:00pm, and Saturdays 2:30pm. BREAK DANCE weekly on Fridays 6:00pm. FLOOR THEORY weekly on Wednesdays 8:00pm. For details & sign up go to empyreanarts.org or call/ text us at 828.782.3321. MORE THAN MINDFULNESS CONFERENCE: EDUCATION AS A SACRED ART (PD.) Educational conference at Rainbow Community School, October 6 and 7. Explore ways to integrate to mindfulness, holistic curriculum and heart centered educational practices into your classroom, organization and home. Register today at rainbowcommunityschool. org or call coordinator West Willmore at (931) 808-3722. AARP 828-380-6242, rchaplin@aarp.org • WE (9/20), 10-11:30am “HomeFit,” workshop on making affordable changes to make a home more accessible for all ages and ability levels. Free. Held at Mars Hill Library, 25 Library Drive, Mars Hill • WE (9/20), 7-8:30pm “HomeFit,” workshop on making affordable changes to make a home more accessible for all ages and ability levels. Registration: 828-380-6242. Free. Held at The Laurel Room @ High Vista Country Club, 88 Country Club Road, Mills River

BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-6263438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm Community center board meeting. Free.

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BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (9/20), 1-3pm - The Edward Buncombe Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, highway marker dedication ceremony at 2:30pm. Presentations take place before and after the dedication ceremony. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library - Lord Auditorium, 67 Haywood St. • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - “Sit-n-Stitch,” informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TU (9/26), 6-8pm “Knitting Night,” evening workshop for adults and children to learn how to knit. Some supplies available. Free. Held at Leicester Library, 1561 Alexander Road, Leicester CAROLINA PUBLIC PRESS carolinapublicpress.org • MO (9/25), noon-4pm - Public activation forum sponsored by Carolina Public Press and HuffPost for people to share their personal stories as part of the “Listen To America” bus tour. Free. Held at Wedge Foundation, 5 Foundy St. HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org

Saturday, September 23, 10am-5pm & Sunday, September 24, 10am-4pm WNC AG CENTER, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher, NC 28732, Gate 5

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Asheville GreenWorks’ Root Ball WHAT: A Dance Party by the River fundraiser for Asheville GreenWorks WHEN: Saturday, Sept. 23, 6:30-10 p.m. WHERE: 14 Riverside Drive WHY: While coordinating more than 200 projects with over 3,000 volunteers each year, the Asheville GreenWorks staff rarely takes time to relax, reflect and enjoy themselves — which makes the annual Root Ball all the more special. “This is one of the few times each year that we get to hang out with GreenWorks volunteers when we’re not getting dirty planting trees or hauling tires out of the river,” says Executive Director Dawn Chávez. “The popularity of the event year after year shows that volunteers and supporters enjoy this opportunity as well.” Now in its fifth year, the casual, fun, family event is set for Saturday, Sept. 23 at 14 Riverside, the city of Asheville’s new Arts & Culture Center. Locals who are passionate about caring for their community are invited to spend a warm, early autumn evening dancing under the stars to live music by Randy Flack. Other activities include a silent auction for outdoor gear and trips — such as a Navitat canopy tour, passes to the U.S. National Whitewater Center and a sevenday trip to anywhere Resort, Travel & Exchange goes — and a raffle for plants and trees from from GreenWorks new tree nursery and Southeastern Native Nursery for winners to take home. Food donated by Hickory Nut Gap Farm and Smiling Hara Tempeh will be prepared by Clarence Robinson of Cooking with Comedy, while Oskar Blues Brewery and New Belgium Brewing — noted supporters of keeping local rivers clean — are providing beer that will be served from a “beer canoe.” But while the Root Ball serves as a fundraiser for the nonprofit, Chávez is quick to also call it a friend-raiser. “It’s important to build relationships with individuals and celebrate all the hard work of taking care of the environment,” she says. “We’re especially excited

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ROOT DOWN: Asheville GreenWorks’ numerous conservation efforts include tree plantings, urban agriculture and river cleanups. The organization’s annual fundraiser party, the Root Ball, takes place Sept. 23 at 14 Riverside Drive, the City of Asheville’s new Arts & Culture Center. Photo by Pat Barcas to raise funding and support for the Trash Trout project, which traps litter floating down Mud Creek, so we can expand this innovative pollution control device to other rivers and streams. We also are raising funds to provide ongoing maintenance of the eight community orchards we’ve installed throughout the county as part of our Food Tree Project. In addition to funding, we’re cultivating interest among volunteers to take an active role in these projects.” The fifth annual Root Ball takes place from 6:30 - 10 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 23, at 14 Riverside Drive. $25. www.ashevillegreenworks.org X

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• 3rd THURSDAYS, 4-6pm - General meeting. Free. Held at Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce, 204 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville

Ground (SONG) to share about the Bail Out project. Free to attend. Held at Habitat Tavern & Commons, 174 Broadway St. Asheville

HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 828-242-8998, hvrpsports.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm Hominy Valley board meeting. Free.

TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT tranzmissionprisonproject. yolasite.com • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6pm - Tranzmission Prison Project. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Cafe and Books, 610 Haywood Road

LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester history gathering general meeting. Free. MARINE CORPS LEAGUE ASHEVILLE 828-273-4948, mcl.asheville@gmail.com • Last TUESDAYS - For veterans of the Marines, FMF Corpsmen, and their families. Free. Held at American Legion Post #2, 851 Haywood Road PEOPLES PARK ASHEVILLE facebook.com/ peoplesparkAVL/ • TUESDAYS, 9am - “Keep Asheville in Stitches,” gathering of people who crochet, cross-stitch, knit and otherwise puncture the status quo. Free. Held at 68 Haywood St. PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • FR (9/22) through SU (9/24) - Homecoming events including parade, sporting events, alumni gatherings and public activities. See website for full schedule, locations and costs: hfw.unca.edu/. Held at UNC-Asheville, 1 University Heights PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU 828-227-7397, bardoartscenter.edu • WE (9/20), 11:15am12:15pm - WCU strategic plan committee town hall for public input on revisions to the “2020 Vision” strategic plan. Free. Held in the Health and Human Sciences Building, Cullowhee • TH (9/21), 4-5:30pm - WCU strategic plan committee town hall for public input on revisions to the “2020 Vision” strategic plan. Free. Held at WCU at Biltmore Park, 28 Schenck Parkway. Suite 300 SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE showingupforracialjustice. org • WE (9/27), 6-9pm Monthly accountability thru action meeting with potluck, introductory information and presentation by Nicole Townsend of Southerners on New

UNITED COMMUNITY BANK 50 United Bank Drive, Etowah • FR (9/22), 10am-1pm - Document shredding and drug take back event sponsored by TRIAD Henderson County, HOPE RX and the Henderson County Sheriff’s Office. Free. WNC4PEACE wnc4peace.com • TH (9/21), 11:30am - International Peace Day event with time of silence, reading of the Proclamation of Peace by State Representative Susan Fisher and interpretive dance led by Kathy Meyers Leiner. Free. Held at the peace pole between Pack’s Tavern and the Asheville City Building, 20 Spruce St. YMCA OF WNC 828-210-2265, ymcawnc.org • WE (9/20), noon-1pm - Multicultural potluck lunch. Free. Held at Reuter YMCA, 3 Town Center Blvd.

DANCE EXPERIENCE ECSTATIC DANCE! (PD.) Dance waves hosted by Asheville Movement Collective. Fun and personal/community transformation. • Fridays, 7pm, Terpsicorps Studios, 1501 Patton Avenue. • Sundays, 8:30am and 10:30am, JCC, 236 Charlotte Street. Sliding scale fee. Information: ashevillemovementcollective.org LEARN THE COUNTRY TWO-STEP (LEVEL 1-2) (PD.) Saturday, September 23, 1-3pm, All Souls Cathedral, Biltmore Village. 2 hour Workshop with Richard and Sue Cicchetti. $15 preregistration. $20 at door. 828-333-0715. naturalrichard@mac.com www.DanceForLife.net POLE FITNESS AND DANCE CLASSES AT DANCECLUB ASHEVILLE (PD.) Pole Dance, Burlesque, Jazz/Funk, Flashmobs! Drop in for a class or sign up for a series:• Monday: 5:15-Adv. Beg. Spin Pole, 6:30-Sexy Chair Series, 6:30-Stretchy Flexy, 7:30-

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Adv. Beg. Pole• Tuesday: 12PM-Pole $10, 5:30-Pole, 6:30-Jazz/Funk Series, 7:30Pole• Wednesday: 5:30Pole, 6:30-Pole Tricks, 7:30Pole• Thursday: 5:30-Jazz/ Funk Series, 6:30-Exotic Poleography, 7:30-Beg. Spin Pole• Friday: 11-Open Pole, 12-Floor Play• Saturday: 1:30-Intro/ Beg. Pole $15Visit the website to learn more: DanceclubAsheville.com 828-275-8628 - Right down the street from UNCA - 9 Old Burnsville Hill Rd., #3 SQUARE DANCE WITH THE CANE CREEK HELLBENDERS (PD.) At Hickory Nut Gap Farm, Friday, September 22, 6pm-9pm. Wear your dancing shoes! $6. • Kids under 5 free. Dinner and drinks available. www.hickorynutgapfarm. com STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE CLASSES (PD.) Monday 12pm Barre Wkt 4pm 5pm Bellydance Drills 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bellydance Special Topics 7pm Contemporary 8pm Sassy Jazz Series • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 12pm Sculpt-Beats Wkt 4pm Kids Creative Movement 5pm Modern Movement 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm Advanced Bellydance • Wednesday 5pm Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Bhangra Series 7pm Bollywood 8pm Ballet Series • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 4pm Kids Hip Hop 5pm Teens Hip Hop 6pm Bellydance Drills 7pm Vixen 8pm West Coast Swing Series • Friday 9am Hip Hop Wkt Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wkt 10:45 Buti Yoga Wkt • $14 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $8. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya. com :: 828.242.7595 PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • TU (9/26), noon-1pm - “Gestures and Rhythms of Bharata Natyam: Exploratory Dance Class,” with dancer and choreographer Malini Srinivasan. Open to all experience levels. Held in room 213A. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Campus Recreation, 1 University Heights

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FOOD NOT BOMBS HENDERSONVILLE foodnotbombshendersonville@gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 4pm Community meal. Free. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., Rosdon Mall, 318 N Main St., #5, Hendersonville LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table meal. Free. MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • FR (9/22), 6pm - Maryn McKenna presents their book, Big Chicken: The Incredible Story of How Antibiotics Created Modern Agriculture and Changed the Way the World Eats and Bryant Simon presents their book, The Hamlet Fire: A Tragic Story of Cheap Food, Cheap Government, And Cheap Lives. Free to attend.

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FLETCHER COMMUNITY PARK 85 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher • SA (9/23), 3pm - Fletcher Family Festival with inflatables, fire trucks and police car viewing, activities for kids, BINGO tent, business expo, music by Caribbean Cowboys and Carolina Rex, local craft vendors and evening fireworks show. Fireworks at 8pm. Free to attend. HOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH 227 Cumberland Ave., 828-253-3754, holytrinityasheville.com • FR (9/22) & SA (9/23), 11-9pm & SU (9/24), 11-4pm - Greek Festival with traditional greek food and beverages, music, dancing, kid’s activities and vendors. Free to attend.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS FAIRVIEW DEMS COMMITTEE mprescottwalsh@yahoo. com, betty@liftoffleadership • SA (9/23), 5-8pm “Democratic Hoedown,” candidate meet and greet with community square dancing and music by

the Cane Creek Mud Dogs and the Fairview Cloggers. Registration requested. Free. Held at Old Sherrill’s Inn, 50 Clarke Lane, Fairview HENDERSON COUNTY LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS lwvhcnc.org • TH (9/28), 4-5:30pm - General meeting with presentation about the voting process by Beverly Cunningham, director for the Henderson County Board of Elections. Free. Held at Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce, 204 Kanuga Road, Hendersonville LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS 828-258-8223, abc.nc.lwvnet.org • Through TU (10/3) Open registration for “We the People” six-week constitution study taking place Tuesdays, (10/3) through (11/14), 7-8:30pm. Registration required: We.people.us@gmail.com. Free. Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • WE (9/27), 7pm - Utilities Commission hearing regarding Duke Energy’s

plan to raise electric bills to pay to clean up coal ash. Free. Held at Buncombe County Courthouse, 60 Court Plaza

KIDS ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 43 Patton Ave., 828-2547162, colburnmuseum.org • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 9-9:45am - “Little Explorers Club,” guided activities and free play for preschoolers. $3.50 per child/Free for caregivers. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (9/20), 4pm - Makers & Shakers: Insects activities for ages 5 and up with the NC Arboretum. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - “Mother Goose Time,” storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Spanish story time for children of all ages. Free. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler

• MO (9/25), 4-5pm “LEGO Club,” for ages 5 and up. LEGOs provided. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm - Homeschoolers’ book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • WE (9/27), 4pm - “Fact or Fiction,” wildlife true or false game for ages 5-11. Free. Held at EnkaCandler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • TH (9/28), 4pm - “After School Board Games,” event for ages 7 and up. Free. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa BUNCOMBE COUNTY RECREATION SERVICES buncombecounty.org/ Governing/Depts/Parks/ • SA (9/23), 8:30am - Kids catch and release fishing tournament for ages 15 and under. $10. Held at Lake Julian Park, 406 Overlook Road, Ext. Arden CHIMNEY ROCK AT CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK 431 Main St., Chimney Rock, 828-625-9611, chimneyrockpark.com • SA (9/23), 5pm through SU (9/24), 10am - “Take a Child Outside Week: Ranger led overnight

FAIRY PARTY: AUTUMN CELEBRATION (PD.) This coming Sunday, September 24, 11am-4pm. Celebrate Fall with fairy dress-up and crafts! $10. • Kids under 5 free. Dinner and drinks available. www. hickorynutgapfarm.com ASHEVILLE JUGGLING FESTIVAL ashevillejugglingfestival. com • FR (9/22) through SU (9/24) - Festival with large indoor juggling space, variety shows, workshops and a space for non-jugglers to receive instruction. See website for full schedule, registration and locations. Free. ETOWAH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 110 Brickyard Road, Etowah, 828-891-4360, etowahumc.org • SA (9/23), 5-8pm “Brickyard Bonanza,” community festival featuring free food, music by The Stepchild Band, games, petting zoo, pony rides, face painting, balloon artist and cider pressing. Free. FIESTA HENDERSONVILLE holacarolina.com • SU (9/24), noon-6pm “Fiesta Hendersonville,” celebration of Latin American culture. Organized by Hola Carolina Magazine. Free to attend. Held in Historic Downtown Hendersonville, 145 5th Ave. E, Hendersonville

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HANDS ON! A CHILDREN’S GALLERY 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-6978333 • WE (9/20) & WE (9/27), 11am-noon - “Nature Nuts,” family-friendly nature walk on the Oklawaha Greenway. Free. Held at Berkeley Park, 69 Balfour Road, Hendersonville • WE (9/20), 4-5pm - “Mad Scientists on Wheels,” science activities for grades 3-6. Registration required: 828-890-1850. Free Held

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at Mills River Library, 124 Town Center Drive Suite 1. Mills River • MO (9/25), 3:30-4:30pm - “Mad Scientists on Wheels,” science activities for kids. Registration required: 828-687-1218. Free. • TU (9/26) through FR (9/29), 10am-4pm - “Alphabet-mania,” alphabet related activities for all ages. Admission fees apply. • WE (9/27), 4-5pm - “Mad Scientists on Wheels,” science activities for kids. Registration required: 828697-4725. Free. Held at the Hendersonville Public Library, 301 N Washington St., Hendersonville • TH (9/28), 11am-noon - “Blue Ridge Humane Day,” animal visitation and special activities. Admission fees apply. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126 Nebo, 828-584-7728 • MO (9/25), 9am - Take A Child Outside Week ranger guided canoe excursion. For children seven and older (with parents). Registration required: 828584-7728. Free. • WE (9/27), 8am - Take a Child Outdoors Week, ranger guided birdwatching Hike. Free. • WE (9/27), 2pm - Take a Child Outdoors Week, ranger guided creek exploration. Free. MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • SU (9/24), 2pm - Alan Gatz presents his middle grade books, Ban This Book and Refugee. Free to attend. • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop’s Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. SPELLBOUND CHILDREN’S BOOKSHOP 640 Merrimon Ave., #204, 828-708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • TU (9/28), 6-7pm - Kerri Maniscalco and Sarah

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Lemon present their books Hunting Prince Dracula and Done Dirt Cheap. For ages 14 and over. Free to attend. SWANNANOA VALLEY MUSEUM 223 W State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-9566, history.swannanoavalleymuseum.org • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 2-4pm - Historically oriented crafts and activities for children. Free to attend. THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL 52 North Market St., 828253-8304, wolfememorial.com • Through SA (9/23) - “Telling Our Tales” student writing competition for grades 4-5, 6-8 and 9-12. Guidelines and information: wolfememorial. com/for-teachers/studentwriting-contest/.

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal Discovery Den and 404foot waterfall. Plan your adventure at chimneyrockpark.com ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS ashevillenewfriends.org • TU (9/26), 9-11:30am - Carpool to a threemile hiking spot on the Mountain to Sea trail near the N.C. Arboretum. Free. Meets at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov • FR (9/22), 10am - Blue Ridge Parkway Hike of the Week: “Gearing Up For Winter,” easy to moderate, 1.4 mile round trip hike to Black Balsam Knob. Free. Meets at Art Loeb Trail, MP 420.2. ELISHA MITCHELL AUDUBON SOCIETY emasnc.org

• TH (9/28), 6:45pm “Swift Night Out,” chimney swift viewing event. Free. Meet on the fifth floor of the US Cellular Center Parking Deck, 87 Haywood St. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Highway 126 Nebo, 828-584-7728 • FR (9/22), 9:45am Autumn ranger guided boat tour. Registration required. Free. • SA (9/23), 7:30pm - “Astronomy for Everyone,” outdoor night-sky gazing event with the Catawba Valley Astronomy Club. Registration required. Free. • TU (9/26), 9:45am Autumn ranger guided boat tour. Registration required. Free. NC ARBORETUM 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, ncarboretum.org • SA (9/23), 10am2pm - Annual Monarch Butterfly Day with monarch releases, crafts for children, monarch book presentation by author Mickey Hunt, and tours of the Winged Wonders butterfly exhibit. Admission fees apply. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-8774423 • SA (9/23), 10am-3pm - National Hunting and Fishing Day event featuring hands-on, interactive exhibits and demonstrations with fishing, outdoor cooking, fly casting, fly tying and wild game taste sampling. Free. PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu • MO (9/25), 12:301:45pm - “Adventure = Growth,” presentation by Jennifer Pharr Davis about her experiences as a solo thru-hiker. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive • MO (9/25), 3-5pm Backpacking workshop with solo thru-hiker

Jennifer Pharr Davis. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive • MO (9/25), 7pm “Stories from the Trail,” presentation by solo thruhiker Jennifer Pharr Davis about her three-month hike of the Mountains-toSea Trail in North Carolina. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive PUBLIC LECTURES AT WCU bardoartscenter.edu • TH (9/28), 4:30pm CULLOWHEE – “The Legacy of a Mountain Man: True Adventures in the Smokies,” presentation by outdoors writer and enthusiast Jim Casada about mountaineer Sam Hunnicutt, a Swain County resident known for his wilderness prowess. Free. Held at Western Carolina University Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, Cullowhee

PARENTING GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-6934890, gracelutherannc. com • WEDNESDAYS through (11/15), 5:30-7:15pm When is the Right time for “The talk,” series for parents of children ages 9-12. $25 donation to Children and Family Resource Center to cover cost of materials. Registration required. HOPE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 2443 Spartanburg Highway, East Flat Rock • Through WE (9/27) Open registration for a foster parent training class with the Henderson County Department of Social Services. Training begins on Wednesday, Sept. 27, 6-9pm. Registration: 828-694-6252 or families4kids@ hendersoncountydss.org.

PUBLIC LECTURES GRANDFATHER MOUNTAIN 2050 Blowing Rock Highway Linville, 828-7334337, grandfather.com • MO (9/25), 6-8pm Presentation by author Leigh Ann Henion about her book, Phenomenal: A Hesitant Adventurer’s Search for Wonder in the Natural World. Registration required: judi@grandfather.com or 828-733-2013. $20. PEOPLES PARK ASHEVILLE facebook.com/ peoplesparkAVL/ • MONDAYS, 6pm “Asheville Past in the Park,” lectures and discussions regarding local history. Free. Held at 68 Haywood St. • WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - “Science in the Park” lectures and discussions regarding popular science, environmental and natural phenomena.. Free. Held at 68 Haywood St. PUBLIC LECTURES AT MARS HILL mhu.edu • TH (9/21), 7pm Lecture by Zena Howard regarding her work as the senior architect for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Free. Held at Mars Hill University, 265 Cascade St., Mars Hill PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu • MO (9/25), 11-noon - “South Asian Danced Storytelling Samples,” lecture by dancer and choreographer Malini Srinivasan. Free. Held at UNC Asheville, Humanities Lecture Hall, One University Heights • TU (9/26), 1:20-2:35 pm - “Music and Social Identity,” master class with professor Toby King, Malini Srinivasan and musicians. Free. Held at UNC Asheville, Lipinsky Hall, 018, 300 Library Lane

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY 828-884-3151, library.transylvaniacounty.org, lisa. sheffield@ transylvaniacounty.org • TH (9/28), 6:30 p.m. Lecture by author Jon Meacham. $10. Held in the Porter Center at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive Brevard

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests. Activities include hiking, golf, book clubs, diningout, special events, and more. Visit www.ashevillenewfriends.org JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF WNC, INC. 2 Doctors Park, Suite E. • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30.

SPIRITUALITY ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION® TECHNIQUE • FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (PD.) Deep within everyone is a wellspring of peace, energy and happiness. With proper instruction anyone can effortlessly transcend the busy or agitated mind and directly experience that rejuvenating inner source. Learn how TM® is different from mindfulness, watching your breath, common mantra meditation and everything else. NIH-sponsored research shows deep revitalizing rest, reduced stress and anxiety, improved brain functioning and heightened well-being. Thursday, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville TM Center,

165 E. Chestnut. 828254-4350. TM.org or MeditationAsheville.org ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Suite H, ASHEVILLE, NC, (828) 808-4444, ashevillemeditation.com. ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. FAMILY MEDITATION (PD.) Children and adult(s) practice mindfulness meditation, discuss principles, and engage in fun games. The 3rd Saturday monthly. 10:30am – 11:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 175 Weaverville Road, Asheville, 828-808-4444, ashevillemeditation.com. OPEN HEART MEDITATION (PD.) Now at 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 212. Tuesdays 7-8pm. Experience the stillness and beauty of connecting to your heart and the Divine within you. Suggested $5 donation. OpenHeartMeditation. com SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER (PD.) Wednesdays, 10pmmidnight • Thursdays, 7-8:30pm and Sundays, 10-noon • Meditation and community. By donation. 60 N. Merrimon Ave., #113, (828) 200-5120. asheville.shambhala.org AVALON GROVE 828-645-2674, avalongrove.org, avalongrove@gmail.com • SA (9/23), 3-4pm Outdoor Celtic Christian holiday service to honor Mabon and the autumn equinox. Held in a private home, contact for directions: 828-645-2674. Free to attend. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF HENDERSONVILLE 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 828-6928630, fcchendersonville. org • TH (9/21), 5-6pm Prayer vigil for personal respite after a stressful period. Open to all faiths. Free.

GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-6934890, gracelutherannc. com • Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls for community members in need. Free. MOTHER GROVE GODDESS TEMPLE mothergrove.org/ • SU (9/24), 7-10pm - “Sacred Balance: a Harvest Labyrinth,” seasonal celebration of equinox with chanting and labyrinth walk. Free/ Food donations accepted. Held at All Souls Cathedral, 9 Swan St. PEACE WEEK EVENTS, CENTER FOR ART & SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE 1 School Road, 828-2580211 • Through FR (9/22), noon - Daily Peace Week prayer service with leadership shared by members of various faith communities. Free. • 4th FRIDAYS, 10amnoon - Contemplative Companions, meditation. Free. • TH (9/21), 9:3011:30am & FR (9/22), 12:30-3:30pm - World Peace Village open for self-guided tours with materials provided. Free. • FR (9/22), 7:30pm - “Heart Wisdom,” Dances of Universal Peace and applied Sufi practice. Admission by donation. • Last Tuesdays, 7-9pm - Aramaic, Hebrew and Egyptian vocal toning, breath work and meditation. Admission by donation.

Black Mountain Library, 105 N Dougherty St, Black Mountain FIRESTORM CAFE AND BOOKS 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115 • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Queer Women’s Book Club. Free to attend. HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS 174 Broadway St. Asheville, habitatbrewing.com • WE (9/20), 7-8:30pm - Malaprop’s Bookstore and Building Bridges of Asheville present a discussion of the graphic novel MARCH: Book 1 by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin and Nate Powell. Free to attend. HENDERSONVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-6974725 • WE (9/20), 3-4pm Ruthie Rosauer presents her poetry and photography book, These Trees Poemscapes. Free. MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com

• WE (9/20), 6pm - Eileen Myles presents her book, Afterglow. Free to attend. • TH (9/21), 6pm - Young Adult Literature Festival presents Sarah Prager, author of Queer, There and Everywhere: 23 People Who Changed the World. Free to attend. • SA (9/23), 6pm - Literary karaoke, banned books edition, co-hosted by Hilary Chiz from the ACLU. Free to attend. • MO (9/25), 6pm - Stephanie Perkins presents her young adult book, There’s Someone Inside Your House and Kristin Cashore presents her young adult book, Jane, Unlimited. Free to attend. • WE (9/27), 6pm - Celeste Ng presents her book, Little Fires Everywhere, in conversation with Tommy Hays. Free to attend.

SPORTS ASHEVILLE WOMEN’S RUGBY ashevillewomensrugby@ gmail.com • Through SA (9/30) Open registration for rugby club. No experience necessary.

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ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 828-350-6135, Julia.Shuster@ asheville.k12.nc.us • WE (9/20), 5-7pm Information event for those interested in volunteering through Asheville City Schools for the Partners for Achievement and Growth through Education volunteer Program. Held at Asheville City Preschool, 441 Haywood Road

100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, Asheville, ncarboretum.org • TH (9/21), 6-8pm - Amy Stewart reads from her book, Wicked Plants: The Weed that Killed Lincoln’s Mother and other Botanical Atrocities. $12/$10 members.

ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION 828-251-9973, ashevilledowntown.org • Open registration to volunteer with Asheville Oktoberfest on Saturday, Oct. 7, 1-6pm. Registration: tinyurl.com/

y8b5xsxr or volunteer@ ashevilledowntown.org. BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave. Ste. #213., 828-253-1470, bbbswnc.org • TH (9/28), noon - “100 Mentors in 100 Days,” recruitment drive information session for those interested in volunteering to share their interests twice a month with a young person from a single-parent home or to mentor one-hour a week in elementary schools and after-school sites. EAST COAST MIGRANT HEAD START 2 Sugarhill Drive, Hendersonville • TUESDAYS through (10/3), 5-7:30pm Volunteers needed to assist with watching children while Latino parents learn English. Registration: leah.charbonneau@dpi. nc.gov. FOOTHILLS FOLK ART FESTIVAL facebook.com/ FoothillsFolkArtFestival • Through SA (10/7) Register to volunteer for the Foothills Folk Art Festival, held in downtown Newton on Saturday, Oct. 7. Registration: foothillsfolkartfestival.com.

HANDS ON ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE 212001, handsonasheville.org • TH (9/28), 11am12:30pm - Volunteer to cook and serve a homemade lunch to the men staying at the ABCCM Veteran’s Restoration Quarters. Registration required. • TH (9/28), 4-6pm Volunteer to assist with unpacking and pricing in a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store. Registration required. HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 218 Patton Ave., 828-258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • THURSDAYS, 11am “Welcome Home Tour,” tours to find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how the public can help. Registration required: tours@homewardboundwnc.org. Free. LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 31 College Pl., Suite B-221 • WE (9/27), 5:30pm & TH (9/28) 9am - Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling and English language skills.

TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF WNC 828-513-0498, tipofwnc. org • Through TH (9/28) Open registration for a ten-day training academy for those interested in volunteering as part of a team of volunteers who provide immediate emotional and practical support to survivors of traumatic events. Academy takes place Thursday, Sept. 28 through Saturday, Oct. 7. For information or registration: 828-513-0498. WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIDS PROJECT 828-252-7489, wncap.org • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 10am-noon - Volunteer to deliver food boxes to homebound people living with HIV/AIDS. Registration: 828-252-7489 ext.315 or wncapvolunteer@wncap.org. For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

UR LIGHT CENTER 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 828-6696845, urlight.org • SU (9/24), 2:30-4:30pm - Fall equinox concert and meditation with Richard Schulman. $25/$20 advance. URBAN DHARMA 29 Page Ave., 828-2256422, udharmanc.com • SU (9/24), 11am12:30pm - “We’re Moving,” ceremonial procession of sacred images to new location at 77 W. Walnut St. Free.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • MO (9/25), 5pm - Scott Reintgen reads from his young adult novel, Nyxia. Free. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road • MO (9/25), 7pm - Let’s Talk About It Book Discussion: Time’s Witness by Michael Malone. Free. Held at

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instead of having to travel to a separate clinic in addition to a clinic for treatment of psychiatric illness. For low-income patients, many of whom don’t get paid for time off, it means a couple of hours away from work instead of a full day.

leslie.boyd@gmail.com After the drowning death of her 2-year-old daughter, Sue Poston attempted to ease the pain of her loss with opioid pills. It seemed the only way to dull the post-traumatic stress and depression that were overwhelming her. But the pain of addiction only added to her misery. Opioid addiction is one of the most powerful illnesses one can have, says Poston, who has been in recovery four years and now works as program director for Sunrise Community, a peer-run drop-in recovery community center in Asheville that helps people move into and stay in recovery. Health and law enforcement officials in North Carolina are trying to deal with an epidemic of opioid addiction, and they’re moving away from criminal prosecution for substance use disorders. Instead, the newer model is to coordinate care across the divide between physical and behavioral health “silos” (separate areas of service provision). HELPING MOMS AND BABIES At MAHEC, obstetrics practitioners ask women whether they have used drugs. “Five years ago or five minutes ago, it doesn’t matter,” says family nurse practitioner Melinda Ramage. “We’re not here to judge. We’re here to help.”

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STUNNING REVERSAL: Jesse Smathers of Vaya Health, right, shows Gov. Roy Cooper how to assemble a Narcan kit during Cooper’s recent visit to the agency’s administrative office. Narcan reverses the effects of opiate overdose. Photo by Leslie Boyd Too often, women with substance use disorders live under the threat of losing their babies and landing in jail. “How do you expect a woman who has had her baby taken away to react?” says Dr. Blake Fagan, chief education officer for the Mountain Area Health

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In rural areas, care for addiction and behavioral health issues is even more difficult to coordinate because such areas too often have high need but few practitioners. To help address that problem, MAHEC has added a psychiatry residency program, funded by a state grant, that will place residents in family practices and clinics beginning in their second year of the five-year program. Dr. Steve Buie, the psychiatrist who oversees the program for MAHEC, says it will help address the large and growing shortage of mental health services across Western North Carolina. “We have seen an overall erosion of mental health services since the 1980s,” Buie says. The attempt to reform mental health services a decade ago led to near-catastrophe, Buie says. Inpatient beds were reduced across the state, and service providers closed one after another in the ensuing chaos of constant rule changes and funding decreases. The Asheville area alone has lost 300 mental health inpatient beds in the past 25 years, with the closing of Appalachian Hall in 1999 and Highland Hospital in 1993, Buie notes, forcing people to travel to Hickory, Thomasville and Kings Mountain for care. Broughton, the state psychiatric hospital in Morganton, is always filled to capacity. And changes to the mental health system a decade ago closed hundreds of additional beds at state psychiatric hospitals across the state, putting even more stress on the system. “Imagine the uproar if someone who needed cardiac catheterization had to travel that far,” Buie says. But the dearth of behavioral health funding and services has made providers more creative, Buie adds. MAHEC’s residency program will attract psychiatrists to the moun-

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pain pills,” Fagan says. “That’s likely enough to get him addicted because the younger a person is, the more likely they are to become addicted.” Fagan has educated hundreds of doctors on the best way to prescribe opiates, and he holds classes on how to prescribe and manage Suboxone. COORDINATION = SAVING AND LENGTHENING LIVES Probably the most important aspect of integrating physical, behavioral and substance use care is that it saves — and lengthens — lives, says Brian Ingraham, CEO of Vaya. “Huge amounts of analysis show that people with severe and persistent mental illnesses have a life expectancy 20 years less than the rest of the population,” Ingraham says. “In large part, that’s because care has been unavailable or inappropriate for that person.” People with severe and persistent mental illnesses tend to not be able to get care for other chronic conditions such as diabetes, high blood pressure and asthma, he continues. Too often, they wind up in the emergency room or even intensive care or jail — all of which are many, many times more costly than managing their conditions in the first place. “These people don’t just go away,” he says. Rhonda Cox, chief population health officer for Vaya, is charged with finding ways to integrate the care of people who have behavioral health, developmental and substance use issues. “Of course, it’s bigger than just health issues,” she says. “It’s whether people live in a safe place, whether they have access to adequate nutrition and healthy activities.” Cox cites the case of a woman who has a severe psychiatric illness and who hadn’t seen a dentist in several years. She had several infected teeth and was in constant pain but was afraid to go to the dentist. One of her providers helped her make a dental appointment and went with her to make certain she was OK. “It wasn’t a matter of telling her to go to the dentist.” Cox says. “It was helping her to get there. She got help addressing her fears and transportation. She wouldn’t have gotten there otherwise.” Since people with substance use disorder are much more likely to also have a psychiatric disorder as well, they tend to neglect their health. All of their issues need to be addressed if treatment is to succeed, Cox says. “We do that by treating — not demonizing — the person.” X

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BY DANIEL WALTON danielwwalton@live.com For most people, a single raptor soaring overhead is enough to draw stares, hushed gasps and pointing fingers. Birds of prey such as hawks and eagles are impressive enough in the regal, solitary flight that makes them symbols of power around the globe. But Lauren Lampley, naturalist with the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation, is disappointed if she doesn’t see a couple hundred of them daily. Her goal isn’t unrealistic, at least during this time of year. Throughout early fall, millions of raptors from the U.S. and Canada are on the wing to overwintering sites in Mexico and South America. Grandfather Mountain lies directly on the Central Appalachian raptor migration corridor, and regional bird watchers converge on the park’s Linville Peak each day in September to take in the spectacle. Since 2008, the Grandfather Mountain Hawk Watch has recorded data on the number and species of migrating raptors that pass through the area. Official counters such as Lampley work with more than 40 volunteer spotters to tally as many birds as possible. “We’ve seen over 9,000 hawks come by in one day, bald eagles fly about 200 feet above our heads, peregrine falcons and ospreys,” says Lampley. Amy Renfranz, director of education and natural resources at Grandfather Mountain, explains that the site is uniquely suited for a raptor census. “It’s the same reason Grandfather Mountain was once a hot spot for hang gliding: all the exposed rocky

RAPTOR ROSTER: Emily Kimmel keeps her eyes on the skies during a previous Hawk Watch at Grandfather Mountain. Binoculars and cameras aid in viewing the migrating raptors, but most birds are visible with the naked eye. Photo courtesy of the Grandfather Mountain Stewardship Foundation outcrops,” Renfranz says. “Air warms up along those rocky places and starts to rise, creating strong upward winds that attract these large birds.” The relatively treeless ridgetop also provides unbroken views in all directions on clear days.

ID CHECK Although the mountain may boast ideal conditions, correctly picking out different raptors can still be difficult. Lampley, who is entering her third sea-

son as an official counter, puts the challenge like this: “Take American kestrels, which are about the size of a blue jay, and ospreys, which are about three times that size. At two miles away through a spotting scope, they both look like tiny little specks,” she says. Counters must instead rely on other clues to determine a raptor’s true identity, such as silhouette and flight behavior. Even from far away, skilled birders can distinguish American kestrels by their sharply pointed wings and direct, speedy flight; Lampley calls them “the fighter jets of the bird world.” In contrast, ospreys have gulllike wings designed for takeoff from water and sometimes hover before diving from their flight to catch fish. The most striking behavior belongs to the broad-winged hawk. This unusually gregarious raptor migrates in huge groups known as kettles (a long-used birding term that finally entered the American Heritage Dictionary this year). Groups of hundreds or thousands spiral together around thermals to gain altitude, resembling a cauldron of birds brought to a rolling boil. Kettling makes broad-winged hawks easy to identify, but actually counting their massive numbers requires special approaches. Lampley usually performs a full count for one field of view through her spotting scope, then multiplies that amount by the number of fields needed to cover a rotating kettle. If the birds are coasting from one thermal to another, she’ll instead lock her scope on a single point of sky and wait for them

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to move across. “We have a clicker and count them individually as they glide by — it’s almost like a highway of hawks,” Lampley says.

Brown emphasizes that the success of HawkCount depends on volunteers like those at Grandfather Mountain. While a number of watch sites are operated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, widespread coverage of North America would be impossible without the help of amateur bird watchers. “It’s the largest migration database in the world, and it’s all based on independent people who like looking at raptors,” she says. Grandfather Mountain offers several incentives for Hawk Watch volunteers. Anyone who helps with the watch for four hours between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. receives free admission to the park for the day. Those who volunteer for a total of 40 or more hours earn a complimentary annual pass. For Renfranz, however, the greatest reward of the watch is the experience itself. “Last year I was up on the peak early in the morning, and this bald eagle soared by at eye level,” she recalls. “I’m 6 feet tall, and it had a wingspan the same as mine — everyone was just in awe.” X

FLOCKING TOGETHER Grandfather Mountain contributes all of these observations to HawkCount, an online database of over 300 watch sites managed by the Hawk Migration Association of North America. Stretching from Eureka, Alaska, in the northwest to Panama City, Panama, in the southeast, this network of raptor enthusiasts helps scientists learn more about the health of bird populations across the continent. “A lot of raptor species are elusive and hard to track with breeding bird surveys or winter counts. That’s why migration data are so important,” says Julie Brown, monitoring site coordinator for HMANA. “All the sites together paint a picture of how species are doing in different regions and how migration routes are changing.” With this information, conservationists can make better decisions about what areas and birds are most crucial to protect. The past decade of HawkCount data gives a mixed status report for raptor species. Although bald eagles, merlins and peregrine falcons have increased in number, sharp-shinned hawks, ospreys and Cooper’s hawks have declined. The American kestrel has also suffered major losses, primarily due to human development of its grassland habitat. Renfranz adds that raptor counts have scientific importance beyond the birds alone. “Based on the presence of these top predators, we know that there’s a balanced ecosystem below them, like how wolf packs mean there are probably elk or deer,” she says. “We know there’s a habitat available to support everything from the producers to the top consumers.”

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Undercover farmers Workshop shares knowledge for raising crops on the forest floor BY ABLE ALLEN aallen@mountainx.com In dappled patches of sunlight beneath the Appalachian forest canopy, certain flora thrive and gardens adapted to woodland conditions can flourish. Cultivated plants and fungi suited to forest farming have a range of uses from medicinal to nourishing to decorative, and those with access to woodlands might be surprised at what they can grow among the trees. For those wanting to explore the possibilities of farming in the forest, Organic Growers School presents an intensive workshop Saturday, Sept. 30 and Sunday, Oct. 1, in concert with the Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmer Coalition and Warren Wilson College, held on the college’s campus. The instructors and topics represent an array of regional know-how on all facets of running a forest-based growing business, including production and marketing. Already in counties across Western North Carolina, says event organizer Margaret Bloomquist of the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center, farmers have been expanding their cultivation of native plants in a wild setting. And, she says, those efforts have generated vital farm income while spreading knowledge and raising “awareness of our native allies, bringing wisdom back to new landowners in the area, as well as being a huge win for our regional environment and the sustainability of the species themselves.” Cameron Farlow, farmer programs director at the Organic Growers School, says boosting farmers’ income and profits is a key goal for the workshop. “Being able to make better use of parts of your land not suitable for traditional farm crops and creating diversified income streams are crucial for farmers of all stages,” says Farlow. “We’d like to see more farms on the ground, and more farmers meeting their income goals. Forest farming can be an important piece of that puzzle.”

WOODLAND BOUNTY: Goldenseal, a popular forest farming crop, is grown for medicinal use. Photo courtesy of Appalachian Beginning Forest Farmers Coalition

Woodland wisdom WHAT Organic Growers School’s Forest Farming Intensive WHEN Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 30 and Oct. 1 WHERE Warren Wilson College 701 Warren Wilson Road Swannanoa WHY Learn how to develop new sources of income by maximizing land use while benefiting the natural environment DETAILS $100 per person, includes lunch and dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday. Choice of 17 classes and hands-on field sessions. Some scholarships are available. For more information and to register, visit avl.mx/43b

A beginners’ track for those with up to two years of experience farming in wooded areas will provide an overview of growing in lower-light conditions, as well as the business side of developing forest-grown products. For seasoned forest farmers, an intermediate to advanced track will explore practical propagation methods and tips for processing the bounty. The track will also offer a broader view of the economics of forest farming for regional growers and guidance on regulation and certification.

While the technical information presented at the workshop is critical for growers’ success, Bloomquist says the opportunity to network with the teaching team and others interested in forest farming promises to be equally valuable. “We hope [participants] will take away a well-rounded view of the opportunities and challenges surrounding all aspects of growing, harvesting, processing, and marketing forest medicinals such as black cohosh, goldenseal, ramps and ginseng,” she says. X

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Wake up, Western North Carolina. It’s almost time for the second Asheville Coffee Expo. And since the festival’s inaugural go-round last fall, organizers have been percolating some careful plans for intentional growth. “We’re superexcited to expand the expo, not just physically, but with two new concepts,” says local food writer and radio personality Stu Helm, who coordinates the festival with Coffee Crate owner Angie Rainey. While the event returns to PennyCup Coffee Co. and Ralph Street in the River Arts District, its footprint stretches this year to include part of Depot Street as well. The additional space will accommodate a Tea Pavilion and Zen Zone at the Eco Depot Marketplace and a Roasters Cupping Tent in the parking lot at Sarver Realty Group. The Tea Pavilion and Zen Zone is the brainchild of Sara Stender, owner of 3 Mountains Tea and founder of the international wellness- and resiliency-focused nonprofit Africa Healing

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Exchange. Stender, who describes her career path as “heart work,” partners with tea farmers in Rwanda in cooperation with her nonprofit to source organic, fair trade tea while helping rebuild the country’s economy, which was decimated by its 1994 genocidal civil war. A yoga enthusiast as well as a tea importer, Stender says the new pavilion is a natural addition to the festival, providing a “nice area to pause and connect” outside of the caffeinated bustle of the coffeecentric activities on Ralph Street. There will be chair massages available, and Hot Yoga Asheville will set up a covered outdoor yoga space by the Eco Depot. In addition, Sunnyside Trading Co. plans to create a peaceful seating area for relaxation. “We’ll have some cushions and some music, and it’ll be a calm area where people can come and chill. Tea and coffee go well together,” says Stender. In the pavilion, guests can learn about the work of the Africa Healing Exchange and try samples of 3 Mountains’ new product, Silverback on Tap, a readyto-drink, kegged product named after the endangered Virunga gorillas of

Rwanda. Other local tea businesses will be on hand as well, including Asheville Tea Co., AppalaChai, Dobra Tea and Herbiary along with Asheville Bee Charmer and RAD juice café Nourish and Flourish. Root Down food truck will be in the vicinity serving a coffeeinspired brunch menu. Also on Depot Street, Summit Coffee will host the Roasters Cupping Tent, which will serve as a networking space for local roasters and offer a series of cuppings for the public focused on global coffee-growing regions. Cuppings are in-depth coffee-tasting events that explore flavor profiles and aromas. “It’s usually something roasters do behind closed doors when they’re trying to decide what beans to buy from importers or what roast levels to use for certain beans, so doing it in public is something of a newer thing,” says Rainey. The expo’s competitions promise to offer another exciting element. Like last year, PennyCup will host barista throwdowns in which local baristas will go head to head to see who can create the best latte art, cappuccino and freestyle espresso beverage. The freestyle competition, in particular, says Helm, challeng-

es baristas to get inventive. Competitors can use any ingredients they want as long as no alcohol is involved — last year’s contest included such things as homemade gelato and rosewater. “It’s fun for the baristas, and it’s fun for the audience, and it promotes this idea that you can get specialty beverages at the cafés,” says Helm, who says his emceeing duties for the events will include making a playlist of punk rock songs to “keep things moving.” Space is limited for competitors, so baristas are encouraged to preregister for the events. Baristas can participate in as many events as they like, with prize packages provided by FRS and Coffee Crate. All coffee vendors at the expo will also compete for the House Cup people’s choice award where attendees can vote for their favorite cup of coffee. Last year’s reigning champion, Dynamite Roasting Co., will defend its title and the honor of keeping the giant coffee cup trophy for another year. With more than 40 vendors scheduled for this year’s event, coffee lovers will find plenty of familiar favorites like Vortex Doughnuts, Trade and Lore, Izzy’s Coffee Den and Ultra Coffeebar. But there will also be some newcomers like Qualla Java Café and Tribal Grounds Coffee, which both hail from Cherokee, and Kona Kaffee, a West Asheville-based company that grows its own coffee on a farm in Kona, Hawaii. Another new addition is the Audubon Society, which will be there to educate the public about how shade-grown coffee supports bird migration from North Carolina to coffee-growing regions. Food-wise, aside from Root Down’s brunch fare, snacks will be plentiful, with local businesses offering chocolates, ice cream, doughnuts, baked goods, pretzels and more. Oskar Blues Brewing Co. will also bring its B. Stiff and Sons line of artisan sodas to sell along with its Hotbox Roasters coffee. Although dogs are only allowed in the Tea Pavilion area (canines are banned from Ralph Street, which will be closed to traffic for the event), the festival is kid-friendly. Buncombe County Special Olympics athletes will again participate in the festival, selling bottled water and hosting family-friendly activities to round out the organization’s monthlong Coffee for Champions fundraising initiative. Also, Well Played Board Game Café is expected to bring some large lawn games to add to the fun. After the festival wraps up at 2 p.m., another new addition will kick off at Burial Beer Co. on the South Slope — an after-party featuring the release of a coffee beer featuring Counter Culture coffee. The party, which is hosted by Counter Culture, was added to give

vendors a place to unwind and connect with each other, but it’s also open to the public. Salt & Smoke will have food for sale. While Rainey and Helm created the expo with the goal of eventually making it a well-known event within the national coffee community, Helm says he also hopes it will help make Asheville’s coffee industry less competitive and more collaborative. “The way the local breweries work with each other was really my model for this,” he says. “I wanted to address what I saw as a need for more camaraderie among our cafés and other businesses — not that it doesn’t exist, just that I felt like it needs to be solidified and really gel around an event that they could all rally behind and where they could meet each other face to face.” X

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THE WAITING IS THE HARDEST PART DIY bar infusions repurpose food scraps, preserve flavors There is an ingrained ethos in the Appalachian mountains of “waste not, want not.” After all, these hills have developed a cuisine dependent on saving every scrap, preserving every piece of fruit, pickling every dilly bean and curing every unused cut of pork. We often integrate these practices into our home cooking, saving bones and the ends of onions, carrots and celery leaves to make stocks, with that which cannot be used going into compost for our gardens. But what about the home bar? How can these do-it-yourself methods and preservation elements work their way into homemade cocktails? TRASH TO TREASURE My roommate puts lemon in his water every morning. I eat an orange almost every morning. After weeks of watching the fruit flies buzz around the trashcan day after day, it occurred to me that these scraps of fruit peel — combined with the simple purchase of a few large Mason jars and a couple of handles of inexpensive vodka — were actually quite a valuable ingredient for the home bar. With the lemon peels, simply soak them in vodka for one to two weeks, strain and add some simple syrup (one part sugar dissolved in one part water) to make a homemade limoncello. As for the orange peels, soak them in the vodka for the same amount of time with a cinnamon stick and about a dozen whole allspice berries, strain, add the syrup,

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BREAKING AWAY: Many Asheville bartenders, including Rhubarb bar manager Spencer Schultz, create flavorful liqueurs using traditional and modern infusion techniques that translate easily to the home bar. “It’s a lot of fun working with those more dynamic liqueurs instead of just using vodkas or whiskeys,” says Schultz. “You can really start to produce some strange and beautiful things when you start to break away from typical base spirits.” Photo by Cindy Kunst and you’ve got an orange liqueur perfect for margaritas and a little cheaper than a store-bought version. It’s possible to get insanely picky about executing these processes, if you choose, and there is plenty of fodder on the internet for that. But for most of us, just doing it quickly, efficiently and well enough will do. These techniques are nothing new. Bartenders have been infusing things into high-proof hooch since the 1800s in America and even longer in Europe. In the colonies, slaves used to infuse allspice, cloves, cinnamon and other spices into rum so they could cook with the liquor and stretch their limited provisions, according to food historian Michael Twitty, author of The Cooking Gene. (Try cooking sweet

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potatoes with spiced rum sometime — it is incredible.) In Asheville, restaurants like Rhubarb have been using traditions like these, as well as more modern methods, to pack new flavors into tried-and-true cocktails. “We have a rhubarb-infused benedictine which just came out beautifully,” says bar manager Spencer Schultz. “It is a lot of fun working with those more dynamic liqueurs instead of just using vodkas or whiskeys. You can really start to produce some strange and beautiful things when you start to break away from typical base spirits.” INFUSING IN THE FAST LANE It is easy to stick some liquor in a jar with fruit, herbs or spices and

let it all sit, but that can often take weeks or months to produce a solid result. Modern technology can sometimes come to the rescue to hurry things along in many of these efforts. For starters, Schultz recommends using dehydrated fruits, as he did in the rhubarb infusion. “We dehydrate the rhubarb and then infuse that into benedictine for about three weeks, and that just comes out beautifully in a Vieux Carré. You can really do a lot with it,” he says. Prices for dehydrators start at around $50 and work their way up from there, but they can be quite useful for preserving all manner of fruits, veggies and even meats. Freeze-dried fruits also work well for infusing without interfering with dilution levels in the booze.

Another method to help speed things up is through nitrogen infusion using a whipped-cream gun. As intimidating as that may sound, cream whippers with nitrous oxide chargers are a rather common kitchen tool and a fantastic way to rapidly infuse liquors, with a

price tag of around $60. This technique works well with more delicate herbs and spices such as lemongrass, rosemary, fennel and other leafy or seed-based flavors. Simply pour liquor into the reservoir to the fill line, add the desired infusion, seal and charge.

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It’s important to diffuse the charger outdoors, pointed upward (so kitchen walls don’t accidentally get sprayed) to release the gas. Some infusions will require more than one charge. The nitrogen method doesn’t work so well for barks, roots and denser flavors that require extended soaks. Instead, Schultz recommends a sous vide machine, a molecular gastronomy toy that has recently leapt from the pages of the Sharper Image catalog and into kitchen stores and home kitchens across the country. “It works really well for stronger infusions that would take longer, like barks for bitters,” he says. Available in a price range from about $80 to more than $600, the gadgets provide a low-temperature water bath that helps cook vacuum-packed ingredients at an even temperature. Most people use them to cook steaks, but

they work quite well for making bitters as well. But if high-tech gadgets are too much for you, and if you are the patient type, there’s always the simple, oldfashioned approach of putting everything in a Ball jar and letting it sit for a spell. Just keep in mind that the more pungent the flavor, the more deeply it will infuse. As Schultz says, “It’s hard to go wrong; you’ll know pretty quickly if it is not going to taste good.” For further reading on infusions, check out Bitters by Thomas Parsons or The Drunken Botanist by Amy Stewart. For more on sous vide and nitrogen infusions, see The Curious Bartender by Tristan Stephenson. Also recommended is The Flavor Bible by Andrew Dorenburg and Karen A. Page, which provides great lists of flavors that pair well together and are perfect for infusing. X

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BITTER TRUTH: A jar, high-proof liquor, citrus peels, herbs, spices and time are all it takes to make bitters at home. Photo by Jonathan Ammons • 2 cups high-proof bourbon or rye whiskey • 1 vanilla bean, split down the middle • 1-2 sprigs mint • Peel from 1 orange (try to avoid getting the pith in there) • 1 star anise • 5-6 whole cloves • 1/2 teaspoon whole allspice berries • 6 cracked cardamom pods • 2 cinnamon sticks (I prefer the widebarked Cassia cinnamon available at Asian markets) • 1 teaspoon gentian root (available at Herbiary on North Market Street) • 1 dried or freeze-dried cherry (sour cherries work best, but Bing cherries will do in a pinch) • 1/2-1 ounce concentrated syrup* Add everything but the syrup to a Mason jar, seal it and let it macerate for two weeks in a dark place. Pick it up and shake it every few days, if you think of it, but other than that, just leave

it alone. After two weeks, it should be significantly darker. Strain the liquid into another jar and set aside. Add the solid ingredients to a sauce pan or skillet and toast on the stovetop until they start to brown. Marry the liquid and toasted solids back in the jar and let them rest again, smelling or tasting for strength and shaking occasionally. After one or two more weeks, strain out the solids through a fine mesh strainer and some cheesecloth, add 1/2-1 ounce of concentrated demerara syrup (recipe below), depending on the taste and texture you want. (Just don’t make it too sweet — these are bitters, after all.) Bottle and dash on cocktails at will. *Concentrated syrup: Raw sugar works best, as it develops not just a sweet flavor but a velvety texture that adds viscosity to bitters. In a saucepan, mix 2 cups of demerara or turbinado sugar with 1 cup of water over medium-high heat. Stir until the sugar dissolves, bottle and store in the refrigerator. X

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Church of the Advocate celebrates serving others Since 1997, the Church of the Advocate has worked to improve the lives of people experiencing homelessness in Asheville through job placement programs, mental health services and free Sunday lunch offerings. Prepared by volunteers with donations from MANNA FoodBank, the Sunday lunches feed 100-150 people each week, says Janet Smith Moore, the church’s director of marketing and development. And those receiving the free meals aren’t required to attend religious services at the church. “Whether you come to our service or not, you will be fed,” she says. On Thursday, Sept. 21, the church will celebrate 20 years of service with a fundraising dinner aimed at supporting the organization’s ongoing work in the community. “There are a lot of folks who have gotten involved over the last 20 years,” says Moore. “That gives us a great deal of satisfaction, to see how many other faith communities — whether they’re based here in downtown Asheville or not — see the need to address the problems of homelessness in our community.” The event will feature appetizers by Pack’s Tavern and 67 Biltmore with the main course by Travinia Italian Kitchen. The menu will feature artisan bread; a salad with a three-herb vinaigrette; pasta mianona with asiago cream sauce, chicken, mushrooms and tomatoes; sausage and peppers; and seasonal miniature desserts. Travinia Italian Kitchen, says Moore, has been extremely generous. “They are donating all of the food for dinner and the dessert, which is a huge help to us,” she notes. Along with the meal, the evening will include a musical performance from Rhoda Weaver and a silent auction. French Broad Chocolates, Baked Pie Co., Asheville Independent Restaurant Association, Navitat Canopy Adventures and Lexington Glass are among the organizations contributing items to the auction. Moore says that even at the 20-year mark, the Church of the Advocate continues to grow. “We feel like we

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FREE LUNCH: Every Sunday at 1:30 p.m., the Church of the Advocate serves a free meal to those struggling with homelessness. This year the church celebrates 20 years of service in downtown Asheville. Photo courtesy of the Church of the Advocate are actually in a period of discernment right now,” she explains. “We’re assessing what the community needs from us because it changes over time.” Throughout its two decades, though, community-building has remained a focal point within its mission. “We kind of forget in this age of social media and the internet that community is really about looking another person in the eye and talking to them, holding their hand, helping them through grief or struggle,” Moore says. “That is a big part of what community does for us. And that’s a big focus for us — building a community of trust for many in the community who have lost trust.” The celebration runs 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 21, at Trinity Episcopal Church, 60 Church St. Tickets are $35 each, $60 for a pair or $300 for a table that seats nine. For details and tickets, visit avl.mx/43f. FALL HARVEST PIES, POPCORN AND PINTS Whisk AVL, Rayburn Farm and Twin Leaf Brewery will come together for an evening of Fall Harvest Pies, Popcorn

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and Pints on Saturday, Sept. 23. Pie and pint pairings will include bourbon peach pie with the Peachy Arsonist, Southern pecan pie with the Grand Cru and pumpkin and ganache pie with MDXXI Mexican Chocolate Stout. A fourth pairing will feature Asheville Tea Co.’s hot teas with a tiny apple pie. Rayburn Farm will offer fresh popcorn grown at the farm. Twin Leaf will also celebrate its Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation Find Your Pint release, with a percentage of the proceeds benefiting the foundation. Apples, jams and other fresh local goods will be for sale as well. The beer and pie pairing runs from 2-7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 23, at Twin Leaf Brewery, 144 Coxe Ave. For details, visit avl.mx/43j. SUNDAE SUNDAY On Sunday, Sept. 24, Sugar & Snow Gelato will host Sundae Sunday, a fundraiser for the West Asheville Tailgate Market. House-made gelato sundaes with toppings including hot fudge, whipped cream, brownie bites and cherries will be $5.50 for adults,

$3.50 for kids. All proceeds will benefit the market. Sundae Sunday runs noon-5 p.m. at Sugar & Snow Gelato, 1446 Brevard Road. Visit sugarandsnowgelato.com for details. REAL FOOD REVOLUTION DINNER 2 The UNC Asheville Student Environmental Center and Active Students for a Healthy Environment will host the second Real Food Revolution Dinner on Monday, Sept. 25. The goal of the event is to raise awareness about the Real Food Challenge, an initiative that engages university students in helping to create a healthy, fair and green food system. The free dinner will include food and drinks from Buchi Kombucha, Neo Burrito, Roots Hummus, Green Sage Café, Mountain Food Products and Vortex Doughnuts. DJ Red Spinach will provide the evening’s entertainment. The meal is firstcome, first-served. Real Food Revolution Dinner 2 runs 5-8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 25, at 138 Sevier St. For details, visit avl.mx/43h. WINE DINNER AT CHESTNUT WITH MOUNTAIN BROOK VINEYARDS Chestnut is teaming up with Mountain Brook Vineyards for a wine dinner on Tuesday, Sept. 26. Highlights from chef Brian Crow’s five-course meal include Sunburst Trout Farms trout salad, grilled venison tenderloin and a local cheese plate. Featured wines include NV Rambuntious Rosé, 2014 chardonnay, NV cabernet sauvignon, 2013 petit verdot and 2016 pinto grigio. Dennis Lanahan will discuss the wines. The dinner runs 6:30-10 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 26, at Chestnut, 48 Biltmore Ave. Tickets are $105, including tax and gratuity. For details, visit avl.mx/43k. PRIDE FAMILY PICNIC The LGBT Elder Advocates of WNC will host the annual Pride Family Picnic on Wednesday, Sept. 27. Hot dogs will be provided. Guests are asked to bring a side dish or dessert to share. Musical instruments are encouraged as well. The event is free to attend, but RSVPs are required. Pride Family Picnic is 3-5 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 27, at Weaver Park, 200 Murdock Ave. To RSVP, email stephanie@landofsky.org or call 828251-7438. X

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DOWN BY THE RIVER: The patio at New Belgium Brewing’s Liquid Center tasting room is popular year-round. Photo courtesy of New Belgium Brewing The return of fall colors to the Western North Carolina mountains is a great time to sit outside and enjoy a few beers while soaking up the surroundings. Among the many local breweries that offer an opportunity to take in natural and man-made scenery through patios or outdoor open spaces is Highland Brewing Co., which has a meadow used for concerts and a rooftop beer garden with views of both Mount Pisgah and Cold Mountain. “It was a dream of mine to have something on top [of the brewery],” says Highland founder Oscar Wong. He notes that the roof space was designed to cast a shadow in the seating area and block as much

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of the blazing sun as possible. The brewery’s latest addition is open to ages 21 and older and can handle 375 visitors. Meanwhile, the meadow, when it’s not hosting nationally touring musical acts such as Primus or Phantogram, sports a family-friendly vibe with food and copious space for kids to spread out and play. Both the rooftop area and the meadow have beer taps. A few miles away downtown, Green Man Brewery was the first taproom and beer production facility in what became known as the South Slope brewing district. An expansion about 18 months ago included a tasting room that can accommodate nearly 400 guests. But it’s the covered thirdfloor patio with its impressive views of

the area — including mountains and the McCormick Field baseball park — that’s become a customer favorite. “It was a lot of work getting it open, but people really enjoy it,” says Green Man owner Dennis Thies. “It was an architectural challenge. The building is on a slope, and we had a finite amount of square footage. To make it work, we had to go up [in construction]. It just sort of worked out. We got really lucky [with the view].” Over in the River Arts District, New Belgium Brewing’s big riverfront patio wraps around the Liquid Center tasting room, offering visitors a great view of the French Broad River. When the brewery purchased its site, which had once been a stockyard, Liquid Center manager Tyler

Foos says “a great experience for [its] guests” was high on the brewery’s list of priorities. Original plans called for a smaller deck, but ultimately one was designed to handle 200 visitors with room for another 187 indoors. Overall, the brewery property can accommodate up to 5,000 people for special events. “The deck seems to be popular no matter what time of year,” Foos says. But to provide extra comfort, he and the staff added umbrellas for shade and bought heaters for fall and winter weather. Though New Belgium’s expansive river charms are enticing, more modest-sized breweries next to smaller bodies of water provide a different allure. Situated next to Scott’s Creek in Sylva, Innovation Brewing has a big, partially covered patio that is both kid-friendly and pet-friendly. Nicole Dexter, who owns the brewery with her husband, Chip Owen, says they were intentional about creating a patio that would turn the creek into a focal point of the facility. “We wanted to make sure there was room for people to sit out there and enjoy it,” she says. The patio can handle about 40 visitors at a time, and while it’s open year-round, the space is not currently heated, although there are plans to change that. “It’s always the first place [at the brewery] to get busy,” Dexter says. “You’ve got the creek on one side, and on the other, there’s a big wooded hillside. That whole area changes color [during fall].”

Likewise thriving on the periphery of the Asheville brewery scene, Ecusta Brewing Co. has two locations in Transylvania County. Ecusta on Main in downtown Brevard combines a taproom with a small brewery, while the production brewery at the entrance to Pisgah National Forest provides outdoor seating beside the peacefully babbling Davidson River. Brewery co-owner Bill Zimmer says the Pisgah Forest spot is popular with hikers, bikers and campers, and thanks in part to the open air setting, it’s seen a steady increase in business since opening last August. However, not all scenic attractions at breweries rely on natural wonders. Over in the River Arts District, Wedge Brewing Co.’s original location and its new Foundation site both have views of an active Norfolk Southern rail line. When Wedge opened 10 years ago, brewery owner Tim Schaller figured his company would mostly do wholesale business and never really considered it would become a popular draw. “My neighbors told me that they would never go down [to the undeveloped riverfront],” he says. Nevertheless, a former loading dock at the original Wedge became a popular hangout. The new Wedge has more indoor space, but like its sister site, customers prefer to be outside. “There are not a whole lot of places [in Asheville] that feel industrial and where the trains roll by,” Schaller says. “It’s unique. The train view [at the new Wedge] in some ways is better because [the rail line] sits up on a hill.” X

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OVERTURES AND FINALES Daniel Meyer conducts his last concerts with the Asheville Symphony BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com “I’m not sure there ever is a right time to move on from the Asheville Symphony,” says Daniel Meyer. The conductor and music director of the local orchestra since 2004, Meyer is also currently music director of the Erie Philharmonic, artist adviser of the Westmoreland Symphony Orchestra, and the new director of orchestral activities at Duquesne University. His tenure with the Asheville Symphony will conclude with the New Year’s Eve Gala. He conducts his final Masterworks concert — the season opener for the symphony’s 2017-18 season — on Sunday, Sept. 24. That performance features pianist Yefim Bronfman on “Emperor,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5. “We had the opportunity to bring one of the world’s greatest pianists,” says Meyer. “I thought, ’Why not use the rest of the program to show off how good this orchestra’s become?’” He selected “Les Préludes” by Franz Liszt and “Capriccio Espagnol” by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In the show notes for the concert, the conductor describes the Liszt piece as “harnessing the rich sounds of each section of the orchestra.” The Rimsky-Korsakov composition, he says, “spotlights the individual soloists of the orchestra as well as each section on its own.” At the end of his tenure, the local orchestra can now play anything in the repertoire, Meyer says. “They come to things with a passion. … We really try to bring each piece to life as the composer intended, which is to say we haven’t developed a characteristic Asheville Symphony sound outside of the fact that we try to play everything with a high degree of precision, with a degree of fire in the belly.” Meyer regards his departure from his role in Asheville as bittersweet. “I feel very close to this orchestra and our staff, and I’ve made some very good friends among its supporters,” he says. “Asheville has certainly played a critical role in my development as an artist, and I hope to make some happy

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FOND FAREWELL: “Everyone on that stage has spent a lifetime mastering their instrument. … They truly treasure their membership in the orchestra,” says outgoing Asheville Symphony conductor and music director Daniel Meyer of the local orchestra. “Asheville has certainly played a critical role in my development as an artist, and I hope to make some happy returns.” Photo by Michael Morel returns.” But his career has led to exciting opportunities to conduct throughout North America and Europe. He spoke to Xpress from the monthlong Lucerne Festival in Switzerland, where he was accompanying his wife, Mary Persin, who is the vice president of artistic planning for the Pittsburgh Symphony (for which Meyer used to be resident conductor), and serving as an unofficial adviser to that symphony’s music director. “I always conceived of moving on when things were in really great shape,” says Meyer. Asheville Symphony has successfully launched a biannual festival of its own, produced recording projects in collaboration with local bands and has grown its educational compo-

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nent to bring classical music into area schools. The future looks bright. Meyer’s departure opens the door for a new conductor to bring fresh ideas and innovations to the symphony. This season serves as an audition for six finalists — Rei Hotoda, Darko Butorac, Garry Walker, Nicholas Hersh, Jayce Ogren and Jacomo Bairos — who will each conduct a Masterworks concert featuring a guest soloist and programming of their choosing. Hotoda — the sole woman in the group — is bringing in renowned tabla player Sandeep Das as her soloist. And Scottish-born Walker has planned an evening of music celebrating his homeland, from Malcolm Arnold’s 1957 composition, “Four Scottish Dances,” to

Felix Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, aka “Scottish.” “They’re in a very lucky place,” Meyer says of these potential next music directors. “They’re stepping into an orchestra that’s very eager to work hard. … They’re stepping into a community that loves the orchestra and will pretty much do anything to make sure that it thrives into the next decade and beyond.” Plus, he points out, Asheville is a vibrant community and a place where people are eager to visit and stay. To the next music director of the symphony, Meyer says, “Your possibilities are pretty much boundless.” There is a challenge, Meyer points out: The performance space. Whether it’s a new building or a refurbishment of the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, the symphony needs to “find a home that truly enables the orchestra to sound the way it can,” he says. He was disappointed that the efforts to build a new hall came a decade ago, when the economy was collapsing. Both the city and the orchestra deserve an “acoustically superior” space that is also more audience-friendly, Meyer says. But Meyer will conduct his final concert in his current role at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. That New Year’s Eve program features Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana.” “I wanted to assemble as big of a cast as we could onstage and throw as big of a party as we could,” he says. That particular composition, complete with operatic soloists and the Asheville Symphony Chorus, “is actually the piece I first conducted with the orchestra, as music director,” Meyer says. “So we’re coming full circle.” X

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GILDED REBELS In ‘The Last Castle,’ Denise Kiernan tells the story of the Biltmore Estate

GOOD CASTLEKEEPING: “I’ve always liked interesting houses,” says local author Denise Kiernan. Her latest book, ‘The Last Castle,’ weaves letters, journals, public records and newspaper archives together to present a picture of two people — George and Edith Vanderbilt — who refused to fall in with the expectations and distractions of the Gilded Age. Author photo by Scott Treadway/Treadshots Asheville-based author Denise Kiernan has an obvious passion for history and an impulse to personalize it. Asked what the land George Vanderbilt bought in the mountains of North Carolina would have looked like, she imagines how Frederick Law Olmstead, the landscape architect Vanderbilt brought on to help design the estate, might have reacted. “Olmstead showed up,” Kiernan says, laughing, “and George was about 2,000 acres in, and Olmstead says, ’This looks really crappy!’” And yet, she explains, Olmstead’s familiarity with the forests in the surrounding mountains induced him to take on the the task of extending that distant outlook into Vanderbilt’s land. Kiernan launches her book on Biltmore — The Last Castle: The Epic Story of Love, Loss, and American Royalty in the Nation’s Largest Home — at Malaprop’s on Tuesday, Sept. 26.

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As it happens, the author has some things in common with the historical figures whose story she tells. Like Vanderbilt, Kiernan was born in New York City and, like the scion and his wife, Edith, Kiernan traveled widely (including a stint in Italy reporting on soccer for ESPN) before settling in Asheville. When she and her husband arrived here, however, it wasn’t for the first time. “I’ve always liked interesting houses,” she says, recalling her first visit to the Biltmore Estate, taken with her family when she was in high school. “But what really struck me there was just the sheer amount of land, and the views, and the gardens. As soon as we came back, that was certainly one of the places that I wanted to spend time.” For that reason, writing about the estate seemed like a natural next step for Kiernan, who has penned several

books of narrative history, including The New York Times best-seller The Girls of Atomic City. The Washington Post praised that book’s “deep reservoir of intimate details,” and a reader finds much the same intimate focus in Castle. Kiernan uses Biltmore as a lens to examine the rise and fall of the Gilded Age, and she weaves letters, journals, public records and newspaper archives together to present a picture of two people — George and Edith Vanderbilt — who refused to fall in with the expectations and distractions of the time. “George grew up in the midst of this extravagant mayhem,” Kiernan says, “but he was a quiet rebel. A lot of people of his ilk were into travel and art, but he pursued it with authentic passion.” For Edith, being an orphan shaped her character. “She and her sisters were quite adventurous and

quite spirited,” Kiernan says. “It was almost inevitable that [she and George] were going to end up on a ship somewhere with some guy trying to play matchmaker.” According to Kiernan, George and Edith also connected in other, unexpected ways. Edith’s instinct toward philanthropy reinforced George’s. And, despite its grandeur, their Appalachian home also brought them down to earth, eventually putting them in touch with a craft culture that inspired even George’s refined admiration. That led to one of the first legacies of their marriage: their significant influence in making homespun housewares mainstream as the American aesthetic scaled down for the more democratic age that followed. Ironically, these two rebels against the Gilded Age ended up preserving one of its greatest monuments. “It is hard to maintain that amount of wealth when financial crises come along,” Kiernan says. And yet, “even when money was a challenge, what Edith ended up buying was time.” At her death in 1958, the house had progressed beyond being, in Kiernan’s words, “a giant limestone albatross.” Instead of falling to the wrecking ball, like so many other great estates, it endured to become America’s largest private home. As a result, the Biltmore Estate offers a unique experience in comparison with the other surviving homes of that era. “When you walk around the

Biltmore house, it’s a very intimate visit,” Kiernan says. A visitor can look at a room and see it exactly as it was when it was first used: “They were sitting here, having tea, and looking at these very tapestries.” Kiernan concludes Castle from the perspective of the estate’s acreage. Her visits now focus on the grounds of Biltmore — walking and kayaking on the property. She suggests that that the extension and preservation of the surrounding forests may be the Vanderbilts’ greatest legacy. “I don’t think Asheville would be the place it is today if those 87,000 acres of forest hadn’t been preserved,” Kiernan says. “We talk about what George built bringing people to town, but what George didn’t build also brings a lot of people.” X

WHO Denise Kiernan presents The Last Castle in conversation with Karen Abbott WHERE Malaprop’s 55 Haywood St. malaprops.com WHEN Tuesday, Sept. 26, 6 p.m. Tickets are $32 and include a copy of the book

Even more readings by regional authors September is a big month for books. Best-selling Books Day takes place on Sunday, Sept. 17, and Banned Books Week begins on the last Saturday of September. It’s also the month when mainstream publishers roll out many new titles — and that means there are even more opportunities than usual for bibliophiles to hear favorite authors share their work. • New York Times best-selling author Alan Gratz will launch two books, Ban This Book and Refugee, at Malaprop’s on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. • Author Scott Reintgen, from Raleigh, presents Nyxia, his debut young adult science fiction novel, at the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road, on Monday, Sept. 25, at 5 p.m. • Stephanie Perkins, New York Times best-selling author of Anna and the French, will launch her new YA horror novel There’s Someone Inside Your House at Malaprop’s on Monday, Sept. 25, at 6 p.m. (This is a joint event with author Kristin Kashore, who presents Jane Unlimited.) • Knoxville, Tenn.-born writer Kerri Maniscalco shares her suspense novel Hunting Prince Dracula at Spellbound Children’s Bookshop, 640 Merrimon Ave., on Tuesday, Sept. 26, at 6 p.m. (This is a joint event with Sarah Lemon, who presents YA novel Done Dirt Cheap.) X

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by Daniel Walton

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OVER TROUBLED WATERS

Stephen Evans and the True Grits revisit the past with a new EP

Twenty years ago, Stephen Evans wasn’t sure if he’d ever play with a band again. The breakup of Mean Season, the rock group with which he’d hoped to make it big, had driven the singer-songwriter from Atlanta to Asheville in search of a new start. Evans dove into hiking, classes at UNC Asheville and bartending work — music became a sporadic hobby of informal jams and open-mic nights. That change didn’t last. “I got into some pretty serious depression because I didn’t know what I wanted to do, otherwise,” says Evans. “I needed something to get my juices flowing again, and I decided to give music another try.” At The Grey Eagle on Sunday, Sept. 24, Evans and his current band, the True Grits, release an EP claiming those troubles are (in the words of its title) under the bridge. The new record revisits songs that Evans first crafted during his transition between cities. “After the band broke up, I played solo for a while,

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TRIBUTES AND TRIBUTARIES: On his new EP, local singer-songwriter Stephen Evans, second from left, looks back over the past 20 years to the life circumstances and musical influences that brought him to where he is today. The record, released with his current band, the True Grits, revisits songs that Evans first crafted during his relocation from Atlanta. Photo by Neal McClure and I was writing a lot of songs during that time,” he says. “I was in the middle of relationship stuff, as well, so I had a lot of material,” he adds with a laugh. The music on Under the Bridge does show its roots in the middle of the 1990s. Although the instruments are mostly acoustic, the jangle of guitar and Evans’ expressive tenor evoke the era’s grunge aesthetic. The results on songs such as “Waiting” give a vibe not unlike Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged set, or the Foo Fighters’ Skin and Bones acoustic album. Other tracks on the EP reveal how Asheville worked its way into Evans’ songwriting after his move. “I was just impressed with the surroundings here. When I got into hiking in the mountains, I found that it was very peaceful and relieved you of the stress of your day-to-day stuff,” he says. “Cherokee Hills,” in particular, recounts the healing he found in his new home. Evans sings, “Mountain laurel, you glow like a pearl / how you open my eyes / Mountain laurel, your flowers unfurl / and take me to the sky,” as a heavy, folksy waltz backs up the sentiment. Throughout the record, Evans’ bandmates in the True Grits pull the sound in

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the folk-rock direction they first explored in their 2005 debut, Something to Bleed. Brian Shoemaker (bass/lead guitar/ backing vocals) and Sam Hess (drums) make a steady, unfussy rhythm section, while Woodstock (mandolin) fills out the music’s high end with tremolo lead lines and complementary chords. For the EP, Evans also drew from two other bands. The first is The Floating Men, the Nashville-based indie group in which his older brother, Scot Evans, played bass. “My brother’s band influenced me a lot with their writing, especially through my younger years,” he says. In tribute to that early influence, the True Grits cover The Floating Men’s “A Rose for Emily,” based on the short story of the same name by William Faulkner. The second band is Mean Season — the group whose breakup originally led Evans to make the Asheville move. Former Mean Season guitarist Shawn Duxbury is featured in the lead acoustic part on “Waiting,” contributing an intricate lick over his old bandmate’s strumming. “That’s kind of a salute to my past too because it led to where I am now,” says Evans. “Shawn was a big part of my musical growth, so I wanted to have him there.”

Reflecting on his development between when he first wrote the songs on Under the Bridge and now, Evans says the years have mellowed his approach. “Fame isn’t really the goal. We just want to keep making better and better records and having fun with it,” he explains. That goes for the style of the music as well. When asked how his self of two decades ago would have responded to the new EP, Evans says, “I think he would be a little surprised that I went in this direction — he was definitely more of a rock guy.” But, he adds, “I think he would still like it.” X

WHAT Stephen Evans & The True Grits EP release show WHERE The Grey Eagle 185 Clingman Ave. thegreyeagle.com WHEN Sunday, Sept. 24, 8 p.m. $7 advance/$10 day of show

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by Bill Kopp

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LIKE A HURRICANE It’s not unheard of for a band to change its style as it grows and develops. But Houston-based band The Suffers make soul music that’s far more compelling than — and completely different from — the group’s original vision. Fresh from the ordeal of Hurricane Harvey, The Suffers perform at The Diana Wortham Theatre on Friday, Sept. 22. Even a quick spin of “Make Some Room,” the opening track on The Suffers’ self-titled 2016 debut, reveals a tune deeply immersed in a 1970sera soul vibe. But when bassist Adam Castaneda and keyboardist Pat Kelly first put the band together in 2011, soul music wasn’t part of their plans. Instead, explains lead singer Kam Franklin, the band’s goal was to play “reggae, ska, rock-steady covers of traditional pop music.” In those early days, The Suffers played only a few originals alongside the covers. “But we started realizing that there were more originals within us,” Franklin says. “And the desire to play more original music was there. So instead of forcing that off, we just kind of went with it.” The band made the transition smoothly, but some of the group’s earliest fans in Houston had trouble accepting the new direction. “A lot of people had gotten used to us playing full-on cover sets,” Franklin says. “And we didn’t want to get to a place where that was what we were known for.” She admits that it was hard, at first, to win over those fans, but The Suffers did the work to “make the sets fun without feeling like we were cheating that audience,” Franklin says. “And once we started working more on evolving that original sound, things got much easier.” With eight people onstage — guitar, bass, drums, keys, a three-person horn section and Franklin out front on vocals — it could be a challenge to keep The Suffers’ arrangements from being noisy and overly busy. But they’re a tight ensemble. “We try not to get on top of each other,” Franklin says with a laugh. “But at the same time, it’s just become a part of our natural flow.” She explains that, from the band’s very beginning, there was a collective decision “not to showboat. Everybody here is capable of creating amazing sounds,” she says, “but the point of The Suffers is to try and create a space, musically, for all of us to shine.”

Houston soul ensemble returns to Asheville

NO SHOWBOATING: Winner of 11 Houston Press Music Awards in 2015, The Suffers make heartfelt, traditional-minded soul music for modern audiences. After sets at The Grey Eagle and Downtown After 5, the group returns to Asheville for a concert at Diana Wortham Theatre. Photo by Greg Noire The group’s eponymous album is sequenced very much like a live performance, and that’s no accident. “We wanted it to feel like an experience where the listener goes through all the emotions in that order,” Franklin says. And in an age of ProTools and potentially unlimited overdubbing, The Suffers was recorded live in the studio. The product of that live approach is less a document of The Suffers’ current stage show than what Franklin calls an introduction. “When we wrote and recorded the album, we weren’t touring,” she says. In the subsequent months on the road, the band’s sound improved further. Franklin says that when fans hear the group live, they often say things like, “Wow. Y’all sound even better than you do on the album!” As far as the hurricane that struck Houston last month, Franklin says that those in and around the group remained safe and accounted for. “Everyone’s been volunteering and — as much as we can — trying to provide emotional support to those who have lost everything,” she says, characterizing the response to Harvey as one big, citywide effort. “Everybody’s hurting,” she concedes. “But at the same time, everybody’s very strong and knows that we’re all gonna come out of this OK.”

And the band members’ experiences with Harvey are likely to influence the character of The Suffers’ next album, already in progress. The new songs “focus on everything from spiritual relationships to the relationships that we have with our parents, with our friends, and the way that we choose to treat others and ourselves,” Franklin says. “So, after this hurricane, I’m sure it’s gonna be even more emotional stuff. I have a lot of things on my mind that I haven’t even had a chance to write about.” X

WHAT An Evening with The Suffers WHERE Diana Wortham Theatre 18 Biltmore Ave. dwtheatre.com WHEN Friday, Sept. 22, 8 p.m. $35 general admission $30 students/$20 children $10 student rush

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Fortune Feimster If you pay attention to the latest happenings in the comedy world, odds are good that you’ve seen Fortune Feimster on screen at least once. The Charlotte native and alumna of LA’s legendary Groundlings Theater’s Sunday Company made it to the semifinals of “Last Comic Standing” in 2010 and broke through as a performer and writer on “Chelsea Lately.” More recent credits include the recurring role of nurse Colette on “The Mindy Project” (which recently began its final season on Hulu), a spot in the comedic Who’s Who ensemble of Office Christmas Party and playing Donald Trump in the comedy short Decision Election 2016 All-Star Clusterf***. Channeling the skills that earned her a featured performer spot in an episode of Netflix’s summer series “The Standups,” Feimster visits The Grey Eagle for 7 and 9:30 p.m. shows on Friday, Sept. 22, and Saturday, Sept. 23. $16 advance/$18 day of show. thegreyeagle.com. Photo courtesy of Feimster

Fiesta Hendersonville “Latinos love to passionately tell our stories and share our rich cultures and traditions with people of all ages,” says Adriana Chavela, founder of Asheville-based Hola Media. “And while sharing our stories, it allows us to learn even more about ourselves and how we can best weave ourselves into the communities where we live.” Such spirit will be in full display at Fiesta Hendersonville, a daylong celebration of the people, music, art and food of over 20 Latin American countries. Performers include salsa band Orquesta Mayor, Brazil’s Fusion Dance Company and a troupe of Aztec dancers while Mexican-, Peruvian- and Venezuelan-inspired cuisine will also be featured. The festival is free to attend and takes place Sunday, Sept. 24, noon-6 p.m. near the visitors center in downtown Hendersonville. holacarolina.com. Photo by Stephen Kindland

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While working together in a River Arts District community studio space, five ceramic artists started discussing the need for a local festival to celebrate work within their discipline from around the country. Cognizant of the city’s magnetism in attracting talented craftspeople, they organized the North Carolina Ceramic Arts Festival, which features more than 20 artists from across North Carolina and the East Coast. Along with local festival staples like food trucks and live music, the inaugural event highlights the work of Joe Frank McKee as its featured potter. The part-time instructor at Southwestern Community College specializes in fume pots, which are created in specific atmospheres of varying degrees of oxidation in order to produce wild surface patterns seen in raku and horsehair pottery. The festival is free to attend and takes place Saturday, Sept. 23, 10 a.m.5 p.m. at French Broad River Park. ncceramicartsfestival.wordpress.com. Pottery by Joe Frank McKee

King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running The creation of the play King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running: Songs and Stories from the Carolina Coast and its path to the stage feel ever so close to a “big fish” tale. It all started in 1984 when beach music group The Embers hired the team of Bland Simpson, Jim Wann and Don Dixon to write songs and material. The resulting yarn of good old boy singing fishermen The Coastal Cohorts was too ambitious for the band to stage, so the writers performed it themselves, and it’s remained a regional favorite for more than three decades. The trio of Charlie Flynn-McIver, Ben Mackel and Joel P. Rogers headline the play at North Carolina Stage Company under the direction of Neela Muñoz. The show runs Wednesday, Sept. 20, through Sunday, Oct. 8, Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. with additional Saturday matinees on Sept. 30 and Oct. 7. $16-34. ncstage.org. Photo by Nina Swann Photography

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SHOZO FAMILY CIRCUS: Award-winning visual performing artist Tim Arem’s popularity reflects a personal commitment he believes in strongly – sharing education and entertainment with children and adults of all ages. He is bringing a rare family performance of his Japanesethemed show, SHOZO, to the Altamont Theatre on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. The unique performance includes shadow puppetry, audience participation, magic, mime and a postshow question-and-answer session. For more information or tickets, visit thealtamonttheatre. com. Photo courtesy of Tim Arem. (p. 50) ART COLLEGE LEVEL COMMUNITY ART COURSES IN ASHEVILLE START OCTOBER 4 (PD.) • Image and Text: 10-week class at Rainbow Community School. • Intermediate-Advanced Painting: 8-week class at Jewish Community Center. Fees: $200$250. Contact Glenn Hirsch 415.987.1226. glennhirsch@earthlink. net • www.glennhirsch. com ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • TH (9/21), 2-4pm Weaving demonstrations. Free. Held at Western Carolina University Hunter Library, 176 Central Drive, Cullowhee ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • FRIDAYS (9/22) through (12/15), 1-4pm - “Pottery for Veterans,” class for veterans living in Buncombe County. Registration required:

ashevillearts.com. Free. Held at Odyssey Clayworks, 236 Clingman • SA (9/23), 10am-5pm North Carolina Ceramics Arts Festival. Free. Held at French Broad River Park, Amboy Road

774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center • SA (9/23), 9am-2pm - Community craft fair. Free to attend/$20 vendor fee.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org/ • FR (9/22), 6:30-7:30pm - Lecture by sculptor Dustin Farnsworth. Registration required. Free.

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openstudiotourhc.com • SA (9/23) & SU (9/24), 10am-5pm - Free selfguided driving tour of over 30 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. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • FRIDAYS, 5-8pm Brevard 4th Friday gallery walk with open galleries, art stores, restaurants, live music and refreshments. Free to attend. Held in Downtown Brevard

YMCA - BLUE RIDGE ASSEMBLY 84 Blue Ridge Assembly Road, Black Mountain, 828-669-8422, blueridgeassembly.org • FR (9/22), noon-6pm & SA (9/23), 10am-6pm - “ArtFusion,” public art sale featuring the work of professional decorative painters. $5.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS HOT WORKS FINE ART SHOW ASHEVILLE 941-755-3088, patty@hotworks.org • Through WE (2/7) Submissions accepted for the Hot Works’ Asheville Fine Art Show, exhibition of nationally juried art works. See website for full details: bit. ly/2x3AZeX. OWEN MIDDLE HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR owenmiddlecraftfair. weebly.com • Through WE (10/18) Applications accepted for arts and crafts vendors for this holiday craft fair taking place Saturday, Dec. 9. Registration online. Held at Owen

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MUSIC A TIME TRAVELING GALA • SEPTEMBER 23 (PD.) Presented by the Preservation Society. • The Dance Through Time begins at YMI, where you will be whisked away on trolleys for visits to historic Zealandia Castle and the Arts and Crafts Sondley Estate. • 3 parties in one! • Tickets online: PSABC. org AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com ASHEVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC SERIES 828-259-3626, ashevillechambermusic. org • FR (9/22), 8pm - Dover String Quartet concert featuring works by Mendelssohn, Schumann and Tchaikovsky. $38. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place ASHEVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 828-254-7046, ashevillesymphony.org • SU (9/24), 4pm - Yefim Bronfman joins the symphony for Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto. $24 and up. Held at Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, 87 Haywood St. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • SA (9/23), 2pm - “The Jazz Hour,” with the Michael Jefry Stevens Trio. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-10pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.

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DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-2574530, dwtheatre.com • FR (9/22), 8pm - Concert with The Suffers, soul. $35/$30 student/$20 children. • SA (9/23), 8pm - The Kingston Trio: 60th reunion tour concert. $40/$35 student/$20 child. ETOWAH UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 110 Brickyard Road, Etowah, 828-891-4360, etowahumc.org • SU (9/24), 6-7pm - “Brickyard Music Jamboree,” concert of traditional and contemporary Christian music and old fashioned hymn sing-along. Dessert reception follows. Admission by donation. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE DOWNTOWN 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 828-6930731, flatrockplayhouse. org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/28) until (10/8) - “The Music of Lionel Richie & Diana Ross.” Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm $15-$30. HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY 905 S. Greenville Highway, Hendersonville, 828-6926424, myhcdp.com • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7pm “Strings and Things,” folk pop music jam. Free. MUSIC AT MARS HILL mhu.edu • FR (9/22), 7:30pm Guest flutist recital. Free. Held in Broyhill Chapel, Mars Hill University, 265 Cascade St., Mars Hill MUSIC AT UNCA 828-251-6432, unca.edu • TH (9/21), 7-9pm Music Faculty Showcase. Free. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane MUSIC AT WCU 828-227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • TU (9/26), 7:30pm - Western Carolina University’s School of Music concert featuring clarinet and piano with performances of 20thcentury masterworks. Free. Held at Western Carolina University Coulter Building, Cullowhee MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS FOLK FESTIVAL 828-682-7215, toeriverarts.org/events/ music-in-the-mountainsfolk-festival/ • SA (9/23), 5:30-8:30pm - Folk music festival featuring bluegrass and traditional music, ballad singing, storytelling and dancing. Includes performances by Bruce Greene,

Loy McWhirter, Don Pedi, Bobby McMillon, Carol Rifkin, Jeanette and Mark Queen and Jonah Riddle and the Carolina Express. $14/$12 advance. Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 Main St., Burnsville REVOLVE 122 Riverside Drive • FR (9/22), 8pm - Concert by c ellist Daniel Levin, with Sonic Parlour, Constance Humphries and Denise Carbonell. $10. RHYTHM & BREWS CONCERT SERIES 828-233-3216, facebook. com/rhythmandbrewshendersonville • TH (9/21), 5-9pm Outdoor concert with The Dirty Soul Revival and Backup Planet, R&B/jazz/ funk/roots. Free. Held at South Main Street, 301 S. Main St., Hendersonville TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts. org • TH (9/28), 7pm - Dean Trakas, concert. Admission by donation.

THEATER ALTAMONT THEATRE 18 Church St., 828-2748070 • SU (9/24), 2pm “Shozo,” family-friendly shadow puppetry, magic and mime by Tim Arem. $10/$8 advance. ASHEVILLE BALLET 828-252-4761, ashevilleballet.com • FR (9/22) & SA (9/23), 7:30pm - “Fall Into Dance: An Artistic Harvest,” outdoor performance. Free. Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAY through SUNDAY until (9/24) You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown. Thurs., Fri. & Sat.: 7pm. Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. SA (9/9): 8pm. $12.50-$25. • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/30) Amadeus. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $15 and up. HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater. org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (10/1) W;t. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $22/$18 students/$15 youth.

J.E. BROYHILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd SE. Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • THURSDAY through SATURDAY (9/28) until (9/30) - Foothills Performing Arts presents The Complete History of America (Abridged). Thurs.-Sat.: 7pm. Sat.: 2pm. $14/$12 students/$7.50 for children under 13. MAGNETIC 375 375 Depot St., themagnetictheatre.org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (10/7) Better Strangers, drama. 7:30pm. $10-16. MONTFORD PARK PLAYERS 828-254-5146, montfordparkplayers.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (9/23) The Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged). Free. Held at Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, 92 Gay St. NC STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, 828-2390263 • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/20) until (10/8) - King Mackerel and the Blues Are Running, tall tales and songs. Wed.Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $16-$34. PACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY - LORD AUDITORIUM 67 Haywood St. • WE (9/27), 6:30pm Select scenes from Every Tyrant Needs a Martyr, a modern adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, performed by Charlotte Abell and Sasha Hetherington. Followed by a Q&A. Free. PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • WE (9/27), 7pm “Rhythms of Love: Dancing for Krishna,” performance by dancer and choreographer Malini Srinivasan. $5-$15. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane THEATER AT BREVARD COLLEGE 828-884-8211 • WE (9/27), FR (9/29) & SA (9/30) - Brevard College Theatre presents Our Town, by Thornton Wilder. Wed., Fri. & Sat.: 7pm. Sat.: 2:30pm. $10/$5 students. Held in the Porter Center at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard THEATER AT WCU 828-227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • WE (9/20) through SA (9/23), 7:30pm - Angels in America, student production. $20/$15 students. Held at Western Carolina University Hoey Auditorium, 176 Central Dr, Cullowhee

GALLERY DIRECTORY 22 LONDON 22 London Road • Through SA (10/14) - !VIVA!, exhibition of contemporary Latin American art. ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (9/22) - Fluent: 25 Years of Painting, Drawings, and Album Covers, exhibition of the art of Daniel Nevins. Held at Mars Hill University, Weizenblatt Gallery, 79 Cascade St., Mars Hill ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through FR (9/22) Exhibition of the work of Adam Cable. Held at UNC Asheville - Owen Hall, 1 University Heights • Through FR (9/22) UNC Asheville faculty art exhibition. Held at UNC Asheville - Owen Hall, 1 University Heights • Through SU (10/1) Obscura, multimedia installation by Peter Kusek. Held at UNC Asheville - Ramsey Library, 1 University Heights ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through FR (9/22) - Man and Nature: Pathway to Renewal, exhibition curated by Joseph Pearson. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ASHEVILLE BOOKWORKS 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 828-255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com

of mixed-media work with gemstones by Heather Taylor.

• Through WE (11/1) Grain, works in print by members of Asheville Printmakers.

JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 310 Keener St., Sylva, 828-586-2016, fontanalib.org/sylva/ • Through SA (9/30) Exhibition of works by Jan Boyer.

ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-2515796, ashevillegallery-ofart.com • Through SA (9/30) Radiant Fall, paintings of Judy Rentner. BLACKBIRD FRAME & ART 365 Merrimon Ave., 828225-3117 • FR (9/22) through TU (10/31) - Staff and alumni art exhibition featuring 11 artists. Reception: Friday, Sept. 22, 6-8pm.

MORA CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY 9 Walnut St., 828-5752294, moracollection.com • Through SA (9/30) - Exhibition of jewelry by Erica Stankwytch Bailey.

DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL RESOURCES WESTERN OFFICE 176 Riceville Road, 828296-7230 • Through SA (9/30) Photos by Brenda Scott of scenes from the Vance Birthplace. Part of the UNC Asheville Zebulon B. Vance Reconsidered Symposium.

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY 238 Clingman Ave., 828285-9700, facebook.com/ odysseycoopgallery •Through SA (9/30) Exhibition featuring the ceramic art of MaryJane Findley and Dot Burnworth. REVOLVE 122 Riverside Drive • Through SA (9/30) Portrait, new paintings by Mark Ouellette.

GALLERY 1 604 W. Main St., Sylva • Through SA (9/30) - The Art of James Smythe, exhibition. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-4520593, haywoodarts.org/ • Through SA (9/30) - 40 Years at HCAC, exhibition of works by Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Program alumni. IZZY’S COFFEE DEN 976 Haywood Road • Through TU (10/31) Vibrant Trees, exhibition

40 YEARS OF ART: The Haywood County Arts Council is celebrating its 40th anniversary this year along with the Haywood Community College professional crafts program. To celebrate, the arts council is hosting a juried show from alumni and faculty of the professional crafts program through Saturday, Sept. 30. “Haywood Community College is a wonderful community partner to us,” says HCAC Executive Director Lindsey Solomon. “They produce some of the finest craft artists in our region. This show is a can’t-miss look back at 40 years of art.” Photo of Laurel Blackwell Pottery courtesy of HCAC

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SWANNANOA VALLEY FINE ARTS LEAGUE 828-669-0351, svfalarts.org • Through TU (11/7) - Images and Words, group exhibition. Held at Red House Studios and Gallery, 310 W. State St., Black Mountain SWELL SALON 9 W. Walnut St., Unit 2 • Through SA (9/30) Exhibition of the art of Tessa Lang.

THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 828-254-6345, ashevilleschool.org • Through TU (10/31) Parallel Play, exhibition of the work of Julie Armbruster. THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY AND DESIGN 67 Broadway, 828-7851357, craftcreativitydesign.org/ • Through (1/6)- Crafted Strangers, group exhibition. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 828-884-2787, tcarts.org • FR (9/22) through FR (10/20) - As the Crow Flies, invitational art exhibition featuring works by Christine Kosiba and friends. Reception: Friday, Sept. 22, 5-8pm. TRYON ARTS AND CRAFTS SCHOOL 373 Harmon Field Road, Tryon, 828-859-8323 • Through TU (10/31) - Encore: The Black & White Show, group exhibition. WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828254-9234 • Through FR (9/29) Exhibition of paintings by Karen Keil Brown. ZAPOW! 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101, 828-575-2024, zapow.net • Through SA (9/30) Tentacles & Intoxication, group exhibition. Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees

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LIVING THE DREAM: From a happenstance encounter with a guitar in a college dorm room to a top-ten single on the iTunes’ Singer/ Songwriter charts, Columbus, Ohio’s Anthony Mossburg let’s his music do the talking. It’s a language that twirls on the edge of a husky voice and heartbreaking melodies reminiscent of Johnny Cash, with a dash of Iron & Wine mixed in. Jump on the bandwagon of this budding star when Mossburg takes the stage at White Horse Black Mountain on Thursday, Sept. 21 for a 7:30 p.m. show. Photo courtesy of event promoters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 185 KING STREET Vinyl Night, 7:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk), 8:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Karaoke, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Kon Tiki w/ Hank Bones & Ling Ling, 7:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Dr. Brown's Team Trivia, 8:30PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Jeff Thompson Trio (rock 'n' roll), 7:00PM BLACK BEAR COFFEE CO. Anthony Mossburg (singersongwriter), 7:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul, funk), 5:30PM

BURGER BAR Double Trouble Karaoke w/ Dee and Quinn, All day

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 An evening w/ Dylan Earl & His Reasons Why, 7:00PM Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers w/ Dori Freeman, 8:30PM

CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock 'n' roll, dance), 7:30PM CREPE BOURREE Gypsy Duets, 7:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Classic Country Vinyl w/ DJ David Wayne Gay, 10:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Pendulum Trio, 6:00PM Morning Teleportation w/ Late Night Episode, 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MG ROAD Salsa Night w/ DJ Mexicano Isaac, 7:00PM

THIS WEEK AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL

NC STAGE COMPANY King Mackerel & the Blues Are Running, 7:30PM

POST 25 Albi & The Lifters (American swing, French chanson), 7:00PM

ODDITORIUM Dead Flowers Circus Sideshow w/ Stray Cat Sideshow, 9:00PM

POUR TAPROOM Music Bingo, 7:00PM

OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJs Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition, 5:30PM Evil Note Lab, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Carver & Carmody (Americana), 9:00PM PULP #40Boyz Hip Hop Showcase, 8:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Gypsy Guitar Trio, 6:00PM

SALVAGE STATION RnB Wednesday Jam Night w/ Ryan RnB Barber & friends, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Indivisible Asheville, 5:30PM Female Artist Spotlight Night w/ Peggy Ratusz, Aileen Pearlman, Nicole Lund & Maddie Schuler, 7:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Redleg Husky w/ Alexa Rose, 9:00PM

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THU 10pm The Space Cats [Jam/Funk] SAT 10pm Randomanimals [Neo Soul/Blues] SUN 10pm Southeast B-Boy Championship After-Party w/ DJ Bowie and Bret Rock UPCOMING SHOWS - ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL:

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TIMO'S HOUSE Beats 'n' Rhymes w/ Nex Millen (open mic), 8:00PM

GOOD STUFF Jim Hampton & friends perform "Eclectic Country" (jam), 7:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Malpass Brothers, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (live jazz), 9:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Unihorn w/ members of Empire Strikes Brass, 7:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ben Phan (singer-songwriter), 7:00PM BURGER BAR Burger Bar Boogaloo!, All day TRIVIA! w/ Ol'Gilly, 7:00PM BYWATER Well Lit Strangers, 6:00PM The Underhill Family Orchestra, 8:00PM CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Reggae Thursdays w/ Station Underground (reggae, rock, jam), 8:00PM CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Kozak and the Poets (folk, Americana), 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Ty Alan & Friends, 6:00PM

Jason Whitaker

5-9PM–all you can eat snow crab legs 6:30-9PM–Music on the Patio (free)

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Laid Back Thursday w/ Ram Mandelkorn Trio, 7:00PM “Lovers Leap” w/ Sally & George and Mary & William, 7:00PM

7PM– dylan earl and his reasons why

FRI. 9/22

the gatherers with dori freeMan thu 9/21

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Clydes pre-jam, 7:00PM Bluegrass Open Jam Session, 9:00PM

sally & george and Mary & williaM 7-9PM–laid back thursday:

LAZY DIAMOND Heavy Night w/ DJ Butch, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB Saylor Brothers, 7:00PM NOBLE KAVA Vinyl Night, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM The Rocketz w/ The Silver Shine & The Go-Devils (rockabilly, punk), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia Night, 7:00PM The Space Cats (feline funk), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING The Coteries, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Broken Social Scene w/ Belle Game, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Bradley Carter (bluegrass rock), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Jason Whitaker (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY C2 & the Brothers Reed, 8:00PM POUR TAPROOM Tunes at the Taps w/ Window Cat, 7:00PM

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HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY East Side Social Ride, 6:00PM Roots & friends open jam (blues, rock, roots), 7:00PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Asheville Art Trio (jazz), 7:30PM

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STEPHEN EVANS & THE TRUE GRITS EP Release Show! w/ The Helio Sequence

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DAVID COOK w/ Kathryn Dean

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C LUBLAND PURPLE ONION CAFE Justin Watt Trio, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Craig Campbell (country), 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Big Sam's Funky Nation w/ Victor Wainwright & The Train, 9:00PM SEBC..."The Great 8" w/ DJ Blesone, 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Tyler Herring, 7:00PM

BARTACO BILTMORE DJ Phantom Pantone, 5:30PM

SWEETEN CREEK BREWING Vinyl Night, 6:30PM

BEN'S TUNE-UP Vinyl Night w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Cocktails & Creations, 7:00PM Smudgecamp w/ The Ones, 2X Machina & Chachillie, 10:00PM

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

THE FAIRVIEW TAVERN Live Band Karaoke & Open Jam w/ Old School, 9:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Capellas on 9 w/ DJ Malinalli, 9:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT The Long Distance Relationship w/ Carpal Tullar, 8:30PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Clint Black (country), 8:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Drew's Birthday w/ The Last Wordbenders, 8:00PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Chris Jamison’s Ghost (Americana), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Modern Day Society, 9:00PM ALTAMONT THEATRE An Evening w/ The Lost Chord (Moody Blues tribute), 8:00PM

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WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Anthony Mossburg (singer-songwriter), 7:30PM

185 KING STREET The Remarks w/ Arson Daily, 8:00PM

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CORK & KEG Texas T & the Tumbleweeds (Western swing), 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Carpathian Spruce (klezmer), 9:00PM DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE The Suffers, 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock & Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Circus Mutt (folk, jam), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Leigh & Corey (Americana), 6:00PM GOOD STUFF Scott Bianchi (singersongwriter), 8:00PM GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Fortune Feimster (early show, comedy), 7:00PM Fortune Feimster (comedy), 9:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Chris Rattie & The New Rebels (Americana, rock 'n' roll, country), 7:00PM HOT SPRINGS CAMPGROUND & SPA 1st annual Deep Water Soul Fest w/ Donna The Buffalo, Lukas Nelson & The Promise of the Real, Alanna Royale and more, 1:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Josh Blake Organ Trio, 6:30PM Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards, 7:00PM An evening w/ The Randall Bramblett Band, 9:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Urban Pioneers w/ The Carmonas (Western swing, rockabilly), 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Rotating rpm rock 'n' soul DJ, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon, 6:30PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Derek Lane, 7:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bald Mountain Boys, 6:30PM NATIVE KITCHEN & SOCIAL PUB Steelin' Time, 7:30PM NEW MOUNTAIN THEATER/ AMPHITHEATER The Dead South, 9:00PM NOBLE KAVA Michael J Stevens Trio, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Rye w/ The Franks (folk, rock), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Friday w/ members of Phuncle Sam, 5:30PM Random Animals (neo soul, blues), 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Paula Hanke & the Perfect Mix (Motown, R&B), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Drive-By Truckers w/ Lydia Loveless (rock), 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Daddy Rabbit (blues rock), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ Moto (dance hits, pop), 9:30PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Leftover Salmon's Blue Ridge Jam, 6:00PM REVOLVE Daniel Levin (cello), 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Taylor Martin & Band w/ Neon Moon, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Further To Fly, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Unite! Open Mic Night, 7:30PM April B. & The Cool (R&B, neo-soul, groove), 10:30PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Jonathan Atkinson w/ Hearts Gone South & Vaden "Papa Vay" Landers, 9:30PM THE SUMMIT AT NEW MOUNTAIN AVL SOL Vibes, 9:00PM TIMO'S HOUSE Trap House w/ DJ Drew, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP Sulphur Spring String Dippers, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Duane Simpson Duo (live music), 7:00PM Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 10:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Appalatin, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Shotgun Gypsies (rock, Americana, blues), 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:00PM WXYZ LOUNGE AT ALOFT HOTEL WXYZ electric w/ DJ Phantom Pantone, 8:00PM

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23 14 RIVERSIDE DR GreenWorks 5th Annual Root Ball, 6:30PM 185 KING STREET Chris Moyse & friends, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Shake It Like A Caveman (rock n’ roll), 9:00PM 550 TAVERN & GRILLE Justified Vibe, 9:00PM BEN'S TUNE-UP Gypsy Jazz Trio, 3:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Duane Simpson & JC Mears (jazz, funk, blues), 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM BURGER BAR AshevilleFM DJ Night, All day BURNSVILLE TOWN CENTER 32nd Annual Music in the Mountains Folk Festival, 5:30PM

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MONDAYS Quizzo – Brainy Trivia • 7:30pm Open Mic Night • 9pm WEDNESDAYS Asheville’s Original Old Time Mountain Music Jam • 5pm THURSDAYS The Clydes • 7pm Bluegrass Jam • 9:30pm Bourbon Specials

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mother! HHHHH DIRECTOR: Darren Aronofsky PLAYERS: Jennifer Lawrence, Javier Bardem, Ed Harris, Michelle Pfeiffer, Domhnall Gleeson, Brian Gleeson, Stephen McHattie, Kristen Wiig HORROR? RATED R for strong disturbing violent content, some sexuality, nudity and language. THE STORY: A couple trying to conceive find their bucolic life upended by unexpected guests.

THE LOWDOWN: Aronofsky goes full Buñuel in a career-defining work of symbolist genre-defiance, a polarizing magnum opus that requires an open mind and a strong constitution. I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever attended a screening with an audience so palpably frustrated as the small crowd with which I shared my first experience of Darren Aronofsky’s mother! I say “first experience” because a) I’m going to have to see it again, and b) the film is definitely an experience, more ordeal

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Jennifer Lawrence watches the world burn in Darren Aronofsky’s gut-wrenching esoteric allegory mother! than idle entertainment. For some — OK, many — that may be enough to dissuade any further interest. It certainly proved to be too much for the half-dozen walkouts I witnessed at my screening. But for those who are willing to dig for meaning and forgo all expectations of easy answers, mother! may well prove to be Aronofsky’s masterpiece. In light of the film’s current “F” rating on CinemaScore, I feel the need to belabor the obvious point: mother! is not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. If you don’t like Buñuel or Jodorowsky, you’re going to hate this movie. If you’re looking for the Aronofsky of The Wrestler or Requiem for a Dream, you’re going to hate this movie. In case you haven’t guessed yet, I loved it. This is Aronofsky in the mode of The Fountain or Noah, both of which were similarly divisive with critics and audiences — and as was the case in those films, the point here isn’t so much story as myth. Specifically, mother! functions as a Gnostic allegory, less explicit in its antecedents than Noah, more directly Judeo-Christian than The Fountain. Intimate knowledge of Greco-Egyptian Hermeticism and Neoplatonism or Lurianic Kabbalah is not a prerequisite for getting what Aronofsky’s on about,

but it definitely helps. In layman’s terms, and not to put too fine a point on it, this film is about the role of the Sacred Feminine in esoteric cosmology — and not in some lazy Dan Brown sense. It’s an important work, and I’m glad somebody’s doing it. The writer/director has insisted on audiences seeing the film with as little advance knowledge of its workings as possible, and I’m inclined to agree with him (realistically, I’ve said too much already). To that end, I’m only going to offer up the barest of bones in terms of plot synopsis — which should be sufficient, because getting too hung up on traditional narrative will do you absolutely no favors with this one. Jennifer Lawrence plays an unnamed woman, Javier Bardem her unnamed husband. They share an idyllic existence, with her restoring their farmhouse while he struggles with his poetry in total isolation. Isolated, that is, until Ed Harris shows up. And then his wife, Michelle Pfeiffer. And then their feuding sons, Brian and Domhnall Gleason. And then … a bunch of people. That’s it, that’s all you’re getting out of me. The cast is uniformly exceptional, and I don’t have the room here to grant them the accolades they deserve. The filmmak-

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ing is, from a technical and stylistic perspective, perhaps the best of Aronofsky’s career. It bears the mark of influences ranging from Eraserhead to Rosemary’s Baby, though it’s about Motherhood rather than motherhood. But trying to assess the mechanics of a film like this, a work that’s so much more than the sum of its constituent parts, would be tantamount to Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. mother! is a trial by fire, and in the alchemical sense of that phrase, you’ll come out the other end transformed. Unless you show up late and only stay for 30 minutes like the 20somethings who sat next to me. Seriously, don’t do that. Now playing at Grail Moviehouse. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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DIRECTOR: Eliza Hittman PLAYERS: Harris Dickinson, Madeline Weinstein, Kate Hodge, Nicole Flyus, Anton Selyaninov, Frank Hakaj, David Ivanov, Harrison Sheehan, Erik Potempa DRAMA RATED R for strong sexual content, graphic nudity, drug use and language. THE STORY: A Brooklyn teen struggles to accept his homosexuality in the face of pressure from family and friends. THE LOWDOWN: A film more interesting than enjoyable, redeemed largely by a remarkable performance from star Harris Dickinson and exceptional camera work from cinematographer Hélène Louvart. As a film about finding beauty in the depths of ugliness — at least from a visual standpoint — Beach Rats is a success. As a film about, you know, characters, it’s an abject failure. Playing something like a Calvin Klein commercial directed by Harmony Korine, writer/ director Eliza Hittman reaches for Claire Denis but ends up with cut-rate Larry Clark. That’s not to say that the film is without any redeeming qualities, but those merits can be almost exclusively

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ascribed to star Harris Dickinson and cinematographer Hélène Louvart. Dickinson stars as a closeted teen in Brooklyn, splitting time between partying with his douchebag friends at Coney Island and trolling the internet for covert assignations on a remarkably specific website called “Brooklyn Boys.” His father’s dying of cancer, and a young girl is interested in dating him, but none of this ever really amounts to much in the way of narrative stakes. The majority of the conflict takes place internally, and Dickinson displays some remarkable acting chops in his ability to convey this psychological turmoil through subtle gestures and facial expressions. He also displays every inch of his heavily manscaped anatomy — frequently — which at times seems to supersede story and character in Hittman’s list of priorities. Louvart’s Super 16 work is remarkable, exploiting the grainy immediacy of the format in tight close-ups and handheld tracking shots that lend a simultaneous sense of veracity and otherworldliness to the film’s location shoots. Amusement park rides and vape bars take on a surreal significance that creates more depth of characterization than anything in Hittman’s script. Pulling off some remarkable low-light shots, Louvart is able to engender a fly-on-thewall cinéma vérité feel to many of her setups that renders the film beautiful even if many of the events on screen are fundamentally ugly. And that’s not to say that there’s anything remotely ugly about homoerotic sensuality — but whereas Moonlight succeeded on the basis of its heartbreaking characterization of a young man struggling to come to grips with his sexual identity, Beach Rats takes a similar premise, strips out the racial element, and populates its world with inherently unlikable characters. I want to sympathize with Dickinson as a protagonist, but it’s more or less impossible when his only friends are utter trash and he consistently mistreats everyone in his life who doesn’t have a penis. Hittman is clearly an interesting director with a good eye and the capacity to coax strong performances out of her cast, but as a writer, she needs some work. When Laura Mulvey was talking about the male gaze in the ‘70s, it was a feminist ral-

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CITY OF MORGANTON MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM 401 South College St. Morganton, commaonline.org • TH (9/21), 7pm - Dirty Dancing, movie screening. $5. PUBLIC EVENTS AT WWC 828-298-3325, warrenwilson.edu • FR (9/22), 7pm Chasing Coral, film

lying cry against decades of systemic objectification of women at the hands of male filmmakers — and she was absolutely correct. So is the point here that if that objectifying gaze is turned toward other men, it becomes acceptable? Or that men, regardless of sexual orientation, are only capable of viewing the world in terms of disposable objects for their personal gratification? I was left with the lingering feeling that I’ve missed something here. As an exercise in gay eroticism, Hittman’s film works, but as a narrative feature, it leaves something to be desired (if little to the imagination). Opens Friday at the Fine Arts Theatre. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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DIRECTOR: Alejandro González Iñárritu PLAYERS: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael Garcia Bernal, Kôji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza Rated NR Alejandro González Iñárritu and his writing partner Guillermo Arriaga made their bid to move into the mainstream with Babel (2006), a film that was nothing if not ambitious. Taking their standard approach of multiple stories that ultimately connect to create a larger picture, they moved a step further by making the stories global — the U.S., Mexico, Morocco and Japan. They also attempted to become grander in terms of theme, trying to create a movie that examines the difficulty humans have in communicating with each other. And in the main, they succeed. But at what? They made a film that’s more to be admired than liked, more to be thought about than felt. It’s a good film — maybe close to a great one — but one that I have no desire to revisit. This excerpt was taken from a review by Ken Hanke published on Oct. 7, 2014. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Babel on Friday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m. at Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 2160 U.S. 70, Swannannoa.

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DIRECTOR: Louis Leterrier PLAYERS: Jesse Eisenberg, Mark Ruffalo, Morgan Freeman, Woody Harrelson, Mélanie Laurent HEIST ADVENTURE Rated PG-13 Louis Leterrier’s 2013 Now You See Me basically has all of the elements that I hate in a film — it’s an exercise in style over substance with effectively no attention payed to character or story, the cinematic equivalent of a cheap off-Strip Vegas floorshow. Which is why I’m surprised that I don’t hate it, at least not completely. Despite my distaste for both Jesse Eisenberg and the lesser Franco brother, they’re both pretty unobjectionable here. Woody Harrelson and Mark Ruffalo do what they can with what they’re given, and at least director Leterrier isn’t in full-on Transporter mode. It’s 90 minutes of mindless fun that works more often than it doesn’t, as long as you don’t think about it too deeply (or at all). But come on — it’s a flashy heist movie about stage magicians. You don’t need me to tell you if you want to see it or not. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Now You See Me on Sunday, Sept. 24, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville. 60

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HIGH-STEPPING: The titular hip-hop dancers of the documentary Martha & Niki will be among the stars showcased at Grail Moviehouse’s Art House Theater Day. Photo by Tora Mårtens • Peace Day Asheville celebrates the International Day of Peace with a double feature on Thursday, Sept. 21, at Grail Moviehouse. The documentary Inside Peace, which centers on four inmates at Dominguez State Jail in San Antonio, who enroll in its Peace Education Program, begins at 6:30 p.m. It will be followed by Together for Peace, the 2017 Peace Day Global Broadcast, which combines music, inspirational speeches and news about communities finding ways to solve humanity’s greatest challenges. $7 for students and senior citizens/$9 for the general public. grailmoviehouse.com • On Friday, Sept. 22, at 8 p.m., the Hendersonville Family YMCA hosts a Family Movie Night screening of Zootopia. Free. ymcawnc.org/centers/hendersonville • Grail Moviehouse is a host site for the second Art House Theater Day on Sunday, Sept. 24, which celebrates the legacy of independent theaters as advocates for cinema arts. The day begins with a 1 p.m. screening of Revolting Rhymes, animated interpretations of Roald Dahl’s retellings of classic fairy tales. The animated French short film The Sense of Touch and the featurelength documentary Martha & Niki, about two French teens who compete in Paris’ prestigious Juste Debout street dance contest, screens at 3 p.m. The theater’s namesake comedy, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, will be shown at 5 p.m. The 7 p.m. show is actor John Carroll Lynch’s directorial debut, Lucky, which follows the

spiritual journey of a 90-year-old atheist (Harry Dean Stanton) and the eccentric characters that inhabit his remote desert town. The day concludes with a 9 p.m. screening of recently departed director Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Tickets range from $5 to $9 or $25 for a day pass. Prizes will also be given away throughout the day. grailmoviehouse.com • The Movies & Meaning festival presents a new monthly series of life-giving films and community conversation led by team members Brian Ammons and Gareth Higgins. The first selection is Smoke at White Horse Black Mountain on Monday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. The 1995 dramedy about friendship and moving forward stars William Hurt, Harvey Keitel, Stockard Channing, Ashley Judd and Forest Whitaker. Suggested donation: $5-10. whitehorseblackmountain.com • Mechanical Eye Microcinema hosts a screening of video artist Madsen Minax’s Kairos Dirt & the Errant Vacuum on Monday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. According to the film’s website, the work “follows the strange happenings of two middle school lunch ladies, an androgynous student, a lesbian hospice provider, a grieving ministry worker, a transgender elder, a mystical mortician and an astrologer/life coach/phone sex operator as their lives intertwine to skirt alternate dimensions amid the postindustrial decay of the American South.” Minax will participate in a postfilm Q&A. Suggested donation: $5. mechanicaleyecinema.org X

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Friend Request

Low-budget social media horror flick. According to the studio: “Enjoying college life as a popular student, Laura shares everything with her more than 800 friends on Facebook. But one day, after accepting a friend request from a social outcast named Marina, Laura’s life is cursed, and her closest friends begin dying cruel deaths. Before her time is up, Laura must solve the mystery behind Marina and her Facebook profile, in order to break the deadly spell.” Early reviews negative. (R)

Kingsman: The Golden Circle

Sequel to 2014 surprise hit Kingsman: The Secret Service, directed by Matthew Vaughn and starring Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Taron Egerton, Mark Strong, Halle Berry, Elton John, Channing Tatum and Jeff Bridges. According to the studio: “When their headquarters are destroyed and the world is held hostage, the Kingsmen’s journey leads them to the discovery of an allied spy organization in the U.S. called Statesman. In a new adventure that tests their agents’ strength and wits to the limit, these two elite secret organizations band together to defeat a ruthless common enemy.” No early reviews. (R)

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May It Last: A Portrait of the Avett Brothers

Documentary from directors Judd Apatow and Michael Bonfiglio chronicling North Carolina band the Avett Brothers’ decade-and-a-half rise and 2016 collaboration with producer Rick Rubin on the critically-acclaimed album “True Sadness.”

The Lego Ninjago Movie

Animated kids’ movie starring Dave Franco, Justin Theroux, Fred Armisen, Abbi Jacobson, Olivia Munn, Kumail Nanjiani and Jackie Chan. According to the studio: “The battle for Ninjago City calls to action young Master Builder Lloyd, aka the Green Ninja, along with his friends, who are all secret ninja warriors. Led by Master Wu, as wise-cracking as he is wise, they must defeat evil warlord Garmadon, The Worst Guy Ever, who also happens to be Lloyd’s dad.” No early reviews. (PG)

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Historical drama from director Gurinder Chadha (Bend It Like Beckham) starring Hugh Bonneville as Lord Mountbatten, the last Viceroy of India, who is tasked with returning sovereignty to the nation from the British crown. Also starring Gillian Anderson. Early reviews negative. (NR)

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Psychologists say most people need a scapegoat — a personification of wickedness and ignorance onto which they can project the unacknowledged darkness in their own hearts. That’s the bad news. Here’s the good news: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to neutralize that reflex and at least partially divest yourself of the need for scapegoats. How? The first thing to do is identify your own darkness with courageous clarity. Get to know it better. Converse with it. Negotiate with it. The more conscientiously you deal with that shadowy stuff within you, the less likely you’ll be to demonize other people. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If the weather turns bad or your allies get sad or the news of the world grows even crazier, you will thrive. I’m not exaggerating or flattering you. It’s exactly when events threaten to demoralize you that you’ll have maximum power to redouble your fortitude and effectiveness. Developments that other people regard as daunting will trigger breakthroughs for you. Your allies’ confusion will mobilize you to manifest your unique visions of what it takes to live a good life. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried,” declared comedian Steven Wright. My Great Uncle Ned had a different perspective. “If at first you don’t succeed,” he told me, “redefine the meaning of success.” I’m not a fan of Wright’s advice, but Ned’s counsel has served me well. I recommend you try it out, Gemini. Here’s another bit of folk wisdom that might be helpful. Psychotherapist Dick Olney said that what a good therapist does is help her clients wake up from the delusion that they are the image they have of themselves. CANCER (June 21-July 22): What is home? The poet Elizabeth Corn pondered that question. She then told her lover that home was “the stars on the tip of your tongue, the flowers sprouting from your mouth, the roots entwined in the gaps between your fingers, the ocean echoing inside of your ribcage.” I offer this as inspiration, Cancerian, since now is a perfect time to dream up your own poetic testimonial about home. What experiences make you love yourself best? What situations bring out your most natural exuberance? What influences feel like gifts and blessings? Those are all clues to the beloved riddle “What is home?” LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re most likely to thrive if you weave together a variety of styles and methods. The coming weeks will be a highly miscellaneous time, and you can’t afford to get stuck in any single persona or approach. As an example of how to proceed, I invite you to borrow from both the thoughtful wisdom of the ancient Greek poet Homer and the silly wisdom of the cartoon character Homer Simpson. First, the poet: “As we learn, we must daily unlearn something which it has cost us no small labor and anxiety to acquire.” Now here’s Homer Simpson: “Every time I learn something new, it pushes out something old.” VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Filmmakers often have test audiences evaluate their products before releasing it to the masses. If a lot of viewers express a particular critique, the filmmaker may make changes, even cutting out certain scenes or altering the ending. You might want to try a similar tack in the coming weeks, Virgo. Solicit feedback on the new projects and trends you’ve been working on — not just from anyone, of course, but rather from smart people who respect you. And be sure they’re not inclined to tell you only what you want to hear. Get yourself in the mood to treasure honesty and objectivity. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The poet E. E. Cummings said, “To be nobody-but-yourself — in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else — means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” On the other hand, naturalist and writer Henry David Thoreau declared that “We are constantly invited to be who we are,” to become

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“something worthy and noble.” So which of these two views is correct? Is fate aligned against us, working hard to prevent us from knowing and showing our authentic self? Or is fate forever conspiring in our behalf, seducing us to master our fullest expression? I’m not sure if there’s a final, definitive answer, but I can tell you this, Libra: In the coming months, Thoreau’s view will be your predominant truth. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “When you do your best, you’re depending to a large extent on your unconscious, because you’re waiting for the thing you can’t think of.” So said Scorpio director Mike Nichols in describing his process of making films. Now I’m conveying this idea to you just in time for the beginning of a phase I call “Eruptions from Your Unconscious.” In the coming weeks, you will be ripe to receive and make good use of messages from the depths of your psyche. At any other time, these simmering bits of brilliance might remain below the threshold of your awareness, but for the foreseeable future they’ll be bursting through and making themselves available to be plucked. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Author Barbara Ehrenreich has done extensive research on the annals of partying. She says modern historians are astounded by the prodigious amount of time that medieval Europeans spent having fun together. “People feasted, drank, and danced for days on end,” she writes. Seventeenth-century Spaniards celebrated festivals five months of each year. In 16th-century France, peasants devoted an average of one day out of every four to “carnival revelry.” In accordance with current astrological omens, you Sagittarians are authorized to match those levels of conviviality in the coming weeks. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Kittens made French Emperor Napoleon III lose his composure. He shook and screamed around them. Butterflies scare actress Nicole Kidman. My friend Allie is frightened by photos of Donald Trump. As for me, I have an unnatural fear of watching reality TV. What about you, Capricorn? Are you susceptible to any odd anxieties or nervous fantasies that provoke agitation? If so, the coming weeks will be a perfect time to overcome them. Why? Because you’ll be host to an unprecedented slow-motion outbreak of courage that you can use to free yourself from long-standing worries. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “The brain is wider than the sky,” wrote Emily Dickinson. “The brain is deeper than the sea.” I hope you cultivate a vivid awareness of those truths in the coming days, Aquarius. In order to accomplish the improbable tasks you have ahead of you, you’ve got to unleash your imagination, allowing it to bloom to its full power so it can encompass vast expanses and delve down into hidden abysses. Try this visualization exercise: Picture yourself bigger than the planet Earth, holding it tenderly in your hands. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I got an email from a fan of Piscean singer Rihanna. He complained that my horoscopes rarely mention celebrities. “People love astrological predictions about big stars,” he wrote. “So what’s your problem? Are you too ’cultured’ to give us what we the people really want? Get off your high horse and ’lower’ yourself to writing about our heroes. You could start with the lovely, talented and very rich Rihanna.” I told Rihanna’s fan that my advice for mega-stars is sometimes different from what it is for average folks. For Piscean mega-stars like Rihanna, Justin Bieber, Ellen Page and Bryan Cranston, for example, the coming weeks will be a time to lay low, chill out and recharge. But non-famous Pisceans will have prime opportunities to boost their reputation, expand their reach and wield a strongerthan-usual influence in the domains they frequent.

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