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Art gone wild Environmental awareness and action are year-round concerns, but this fall the exhibit Within the Lines aims to showcase local artists, composers and photographers. It also calls for continued protection of our wild areas as the 1964 Wilderness Act celebrates 50 years. COVER DESIGN Laura Barry (image based on the WPA posters of the 1930s) PHOTO (LEFT) Linville Gorge, by Lori Kincaid

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Don’t throw buskers under the bus As the city considers different ideas for the proposed “enhancement” of downtown (see the 2014 Downtown Enhancement Plan at avl. mx/0gw), please don’t throw buskers under the bus. Many of Asheville’s creative community — not only musicians but artists of all kinds — depend on street performance as part of their livelihood. Visitors and locals experience the street scene as charming and vibrant, an essential part of the village atmosphere that people want to slow down for a minute to enjoy. As the city grows and changes, this is Asheville’s chance to declare

Corrections In the Sept. 10 issue of Mountain Express, [“Goombay is Back”], Gloria Howard Free should have been identified as the original founder of the festival. In a news story in our Sept. 17 issue, “Council, Developer Butt Heads over Sardis Road Project,” we incorrectly identified Council woman Gwen Wisler as “Gene” Wisler in the photo caption.

this a community that truly supports and cherishes its artists. When the rising cost of living equals increased difficulty making ends meet for those in the arts, busking is one accessible option. Overregulation is unnecessary and works against creating a thriving arts economy. When creating or changing any ordinance that revolves around the “enhancement” of downtown, listening to the needs of the creative community, rather than dictating to them, will create a truly enhanced shared space. Let street entertainers do what they do best without forcing undue regulation. Sumer Grace and Amy Hamilton Asheville

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raped. When men speak out about their experiences, we react with disbelief, shock or even disdain, delegitimizing their experience and deeply hurting them. This discourages men from reporting when they are raped. Between 90 and 95 percent of male rape survivors remain in the shadows, but anonymous surveys have found that as many as 38 percent of rapes have male victims. The official statistics of reported sexual violence against males hovers between 5 and 10 percent. So what can we do to help the men and boys who are suffering in silence? First, we need to stop discouraging boys from feeling emotions that we perceive to be weak: sadness, compassion, empathy, grief. Without the capacity to grieve, nobody can recover from a devastating, terrifying violation such as rape. Secondly, we need to let male rape survivors know that we are there for them. Nobody should feel like they are an anomaly or that by being raped they are somehow less of a man or less of a human being. Stand up for ALL survivors of sexual violence. Our VOICE (a local rape crisis center) has a program that specifically meets the needs of male rape survivors. This program once served men from North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. Now, it is struggling to find funds. To support this program, call Our VOICE Inc. at 252-0562, visit them on the Web at www.ourvoicenc.org or fax them at 252-8601. Kayleigh Rhatigan Asheville Editors’ reply: This a great point, and thank you for calling attention to this issue. Anyone inter-

ested can also read more about Our Voice’s One in Six program and the challenges faced by male survivors of sexual assault in Lea McLellan’s article Breaking the Silence, available on our website at avl.mx/0gx.

Why the lack of diversity in Asheville’s breweries? Having visited all of Asheville’s celebrated breweries, I’ve noticed a glaring lack of staff diversity. Is there a cogent, explicable, rational reason for this phenomena? Dennis Hill Asheville

Publish entire series on Asheville events What a great series on old Asheville concerning events that were not long ago at all. Change is swift in this country. The latest trends are sometimes weekly and quarterly. We suggest that you publish the entire series of articles, “Looking Back 20 Years,” including the relevant letters to the editor. These articles, of course, have historical value besides being interesting and fun. Alberto Colonia and George Hunker Asheville The series is available online at mountainx.com — look for the “20th Anniversary” and “Asheville Groove” buttons in the righthand column of our homepage.

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CARTOON BY BRENT BROWN to be a small part of it back when. I know it’s always been a team effort at Mountain Xpress, but Jeff Fobes deserves mountains of credit for what he achieved against all odds. Bob Rufa Black Mountain Thank you, Bob. Readers can find the entire collection (and longer versions of some of the articles) at mountainx. com (look for the “20th anniversary” and “Asheville Groove” buttons in the righthand column).

Love your annivessary issue Love, love, love your “XX YEARS Anniversary Issue.” Living here since 1987 has indeed been a good ride, and the Greenline/ Xpress has definitely figured into the mix. It’s so interesting and amusing to read the various takes from an assortment of writers, directors and outlaws. I particularly enjoyed reading Michael Plemmons’ story [“The Day Hazel Fobes Showed Me Up,” Aug. 27, Xpress] regarding Hazel Fobes (“One of the most colorful and diligent figures in the area.”) and her steadfast commitment to local causes. Leslee Reiter Asheville

Biology, history surround ‘foot etiquette’ and hookworms After reading letters like Kriss Sands’ on being barred from the Mountain State Fair for going barefoot [“Why I Won’t Be Attending Mountain State Fair This year,” Sept. 10, Xpress] and also seeing people disregarding the “No Shoes, No Service” public health codes in Asheville stores and restaurants, I feel people need a little biology and history lesson on the very good reasoning behind such laws and “foot etiquette.” Let’s start with one word: hookworm. Hookworm larvae and other intestinal parasites burrow through soles of unshodden feet from contaminated soil. Once in a person, the individual can spread it through their saliva and excrement (aided through hand-to-hand transactions, etc.). Hookworm and intestinal parasites can cause low immune system and malnourishment and even lead to death (as it often does in many poor countries today where shoes are a luxury).

We were once a much poorer nation, too (think the Great Depression). Many people, especially children, didn’t have shoes. Yes, stomach parasites, illness and death were a problem in the U.S. then, and so, you guessed it, we passed and encouraged health ordinances so people did not contract and spread worms in public places (like a “state fair,” let’s say). We have far less infection today due to ordinances like this, but worms still surely exist in the U.S. Kriss Sands may or may not have worms, but chances of contracting

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them are far greater going around barefoot in public, and in turn we all would have greater chances of contracting and spreading them if we all chose this “lifestyle.” This sort of “pro-barefoot” rant would be Portlandia laughable if it wasn’t so ignorant of facts and dismissive of the health of others. If Kriss does now have a few spare pairs of shoes lying around, there are currently people in a long list of countries that would be too happy to have them. Chalk this one up to “USA — We’ve come so far we’re regressing.” G.J. Cage Asheville

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The Gospel According to Jerry Tit for tat

This year’s Go Topless rally, the bare-busted parade that annually turns Pritchard Park into Hooterville, has sent shock waves through our town that have reverberated all the way to Raleigh. Many people are beating their chests in outrage over this display of titillating torsos. My bosom buddy Boyle, the celebrated columnist for the Asheville Citizen-Times, has milked this subject in several of his pieces, declaring in his last one that we must do something about this exposure. Scores of papilla-parsing politicians have tried to get out in front of this affronting parade, demanding live action. Our own beloved Machiavellian mammary maligner, Mayor Manheimer, is frustrated and desperately trying to keep abreast of this challenging situation. And Former City Council member Carl Mumpower seems to be particularly outraged. This exposed chest candy makes Carl’s case for “kinder” corruption compelling. Meanwhile, down at the Legislature, Rep. Tim Moffitt is noodling around with a new nascent nipple negation that would nullify this notorious nudity. I recommend to Tim a different solution. While most conservatives are opposed to new taxes, this idea might be acceptable.

Why not impose a Titty Tax that would be levied on both men and women who want the privilege of exposing their bare chests? As evidence of payment, they’d be given official little silver-star pasties to cover their awesome aureoles. This would not only mitigate the mammary muddle but also help offset the state budget deficit. How can I forget, during my very early formative years, those graphic photos in National Geographic of Nubian women, bare breasts exposed, as they walked along barefoot, each balancing a basket of fruit on her heads and clutching a baby to her bust. (Note for you young people: Go to your grandparents’ house and root around in the basement. You’ll find stacks of those periodicals, because no one ever threw them away. Just look for the dogeared pages. I think the photos were the reason those magazines were so cherished and preserved. In reality they were the hottest thing published before Playboy came along and stole their allure.) For me, these pictures, plus those tiny little X-rated comic books of Maggie and Jiggs and Blondie and Dagwood, were pretty much the extent of my sex education. Still, it is curious that in Europe and South America, women parade topless at the pool and on the beach and are barely noticed by anyone except us redneck tourists, who’ve been mercifully sheltered from such depravity.

Why not impose a Titty Tax that would be levied on both men and women who want the privilege of exposing their bare chests?

And while children are present at these venues, I am not sure there is any empirical evidence that this has caused any more child immorality than we experience here in America. After all, any teenager is now about one click away from porn perversion on the Internet. And where are our plucky police in all this? Standing there peeping behind their Polaroids, failing to either protect us from this prurient public pestilence or pacify the petulent preachers The munificent Boobmeister Jeff Johnson of jan-

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gling jugs fame — who brought all these boobies to boggle the minds of the boorish boobs who came out to ogle and behold — claims constitutional benefits, encouraging men and women alike to “man up” and show their mammillae. So when does this stop? Only when the media stop nattering about these nasty ninnies, thus nullifying their momentary notoriety. As for me, I can only hope that, after this article comes out, they’ll refuse to udder another word on the subject. X

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Art gone wild Local exhibit urges activism, preservation and transformation

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“I had hiked to the top, going from 3,500 to 11,000 feet. ... I sat there looking over this valley; I could see for miles. The feeling of the insignificance of me in the world was tremendous — but such a grand setting, the immensity of it all, was overwhelming. And then I realized, ‘This is my church; this is my cathedral.’” — Gerard Voos, UNC Asheville director of Graduate Studies In the wild, where all the trappings of our culture are stripped away, the primitive landscape serves as a mirror that reflects our most fundamental identities. Communing with wilderness, therefore, can help us to understand the wilderness within. The experience can transform and inspire — provided we protect and preserve those areas. “I had no idea how being in the woods would help me,” says Sarah Blair Jenkins, who was a wildernesstherapy client at SUWS Carolinas in the winter 2007-2008. “I learned to be present out there. For the first time, I had to be present with my pain and also with my joy.” Such transformative experiences inspire creative interpretations, too — Lori Kincaid’s photography of wild areas like Shining Rock and Linville Gorge; Robert Cox’s fanciful paintings, based on wilderness scenes; composer Stephen Wood’s music, infused with natural rhythms. “I went out there [to the wilderness] to find a great connection with nature, away from humanity and modern society,” says Wood of one particular experience. “But what I came to realize, understand and embrace was that all my perceptions were of humanity. All my observa-

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tions were being formulated as a human being.” These are some of the artists whose work is featured in a local exhibit and its accompanying discussion series, Within the Lines: Creative Perspectives on Wilderness. The exhibit showcases visual artists and photographers; the panel discussions take it further (an Oct. 3 forum features regional writers, educators, leaders and activists). As part of LAND/SCAPE, an ongoing project of the Southern Appalachian Office of The Wilderness Society, the exhibit draws attention to the intersection of art and nature by featuring the work of regional artists, writers and poets who are inspired by nature. Within the Lines, specifically, implores us to protect those wilderness areas. “The woods are one of the few places I can go and be disconnected from the outside world,” says Cox, an artist who both participated in and helped

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STILL WILD: Linville Gorge, pictured in this photo, was one of the first wilderness areas protected by the 1964 Wilderness Act. Shining Rock was another. (Photo by Lori Kincaid)

to organize the exhibit. “Wilderness has the power to inspire a lot of people, and wilderness areas have a quality that cannot be found anywhere else.” Within the Lines, in particular, calls on us to reconnect with nature and save what wilderness we have left. Hosted by HandMade in America, the exhibit also marks the 50th anniversary of the Wilderness Act — a federal program that, so far, has set aside some 109 million acres

of wilderness that can’t be logged, turned into subdivisions or developed for commercial use (see “Celebrating the Bond”). The act started by protecting 9.5 million acres, mostly in the West. But notably, two key, then-remote areas were in Western North Carolina: Shining Rock and Linville Gorge. As one of the featured photographers in Within the Lines, Lori Kincaid, a Hot Springs resident whose photos often include scenes of both WNC areas, says, “My work speaks to my own deep and personal connection with nature and the emotions I experience in wilderness — whether of sheer joy at the dawn of a new day or sadness and loss in the presence of a majestic hemlock dying from a woolly adelgid infestation. My hope is [that my art] will speak to others too.” “I have a horse trail on our property that I walk nearly every day, and there

is a swale that I look up into that is like a woodland cathedral,” says the exhibit’s watercolor artist Elizabeth Ellison, who lives on 46 acres bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Bryson City. “I always stop and commune with a power greater than I am, and it just feels right. … It makes things meaningful to me. With my painting, I try to share this love and hope it will make people aware of the beauty that we have and that we all need to protect so that it will be here for future generations.” Wood says, “We’re conservationists and have a passion for our environment. As artists, we have a unique role as … communicators for a cause.” Ellison puts it another way: “I talk softly and use a big brush.” They’re each speaking, through their various art media, about our connection to the environment. RE-WILDING TO SAVE OUR SOULS “Genetically, we have more in common with what is growing in nature than not. But we have separated ourselves from that, and that’s problematic,” says Gerard Voos, director of UNC Asheville’s graduate studies. “We are nature,” he says. “To me, it’s about more people needing to get somewhere where daily distractions aren’t interfering — somewhere where they can blend with something else that’s bigger than they are. All of their technology and all of their ‘things’ mean nothing out there.” Mark Harvey, an environmental psychologist as well as a UNCA professor, says the need runs deeper: Connecting with nature is essential to the human psyche. “So much of our lives, in our digitally dominated, industrialized world, are consumed by the focused processing and manipulation of symbols. Time spent in forests and parks helps us recover from that,” he says. Harvey also speaks about the evolutionary roots of humanity’s need to commune with the natural world, noting several theories that try to explain this aspect of our psyche. Wilderness has the power to “re-wild” the human consciousness, Harvey suggests. “Wilderness provides opportunities for experiencing the raw, untamed, yet selforganizing aspect of our human nature,” he says. Wilderness-therapy programs rely on this connection and put

“My work speaks to my own deep and personal connection with nature and the emotions I experience in wilderness — whether of sheer joy at the dawn of a new day or sadness and loss in the presence of a majestic hemlock dying from a woolly adelgid infestation.” — photographer Lori Kincaid (photo by Claire Waller)

the theories to practice. “One of the first things that wilderness therapy does is put kids back in contact with the wilderness,” says Shawn Farrell, executive director of SUWS of the Carolinas. The program helps young people overcome behavioral issues, he explains. Being in the wilderness “reduces distractions and provides people a place to sit with themselves. At times that can be really scary, and at times that can be really comfortable,” Farrell says. “One of the tenets of wilderness therapy is just to provide a place where people can get away from everything else and figure out, ‘Who do I want to be?’” Farrell says. There’s the inherent challenge of surviving in the wilderness — how factors exist that are beyond people’s control (insects, weather, the need for food and shelter), and how those factors force people to take action. In surmounting those challenges, people achieve a sense of accomplishment and self-esteem, he explains. Sarah Blair Jenkins came to SUWS when she was 17 years old, “experiencing a high level of despair and dejection” and depression in the winter of 2007-2008. Tossed into a wilderness setting, she recalls being “at first

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“I went out there [to the wilderness] to find a great connection with nature, away from humanity and modern society,” says composer/naturalist Stephen Wood of one particular wilderness experience. “But what I came to realize, understand and embrace was that all my perceptions were of humanity. All my observations were being formulated as a human being.” — composer, naturalist and performer Stephen Woods

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terrified.” Now — after coming back to SUWS as a staff member and working in the mental-health field — she says, “The woods completely changed my life [and] led me to be the person I am today.” “People who come to wilderness therapy are struggling with some aspect of their lives that is out of control,” Farrell says. “Doing things in the wilderness teaches people that they can control things in their lives and that they can make decisions that will make their lives better.” He also posits that one of the reasons the U.S. government created its system of national parks, forests and wilderness areas in the first place was to provide people with a refuge from an increasingly industrialized world. “The government realized that there was a need to go back and protect these areas, so that people could sit and visit with nature and with themselves,” Farrell says. In other words, millions of tourists visit wilderness areas each year for a very primal reason. “I had hiked to the top, going from 3,500 to 11,000 feet,” Voos recalls of one wilderness excursion. “I sat

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there looking over this valley; I could see for miles. The feeling of the insignificance of me in the world was tremendous — but such a grand setting, the immensity of it all, was overwhelming. And then I realized, ‘This is my church; this is my cathedral.’” To overlook such moments, or to take the need to do so for granted, would be a travesty. And so, says Harvey, “Repealing or reducing the scope of the Wilderness Act would be … catastrophic.” ART AND ACTIVISM “Wilderness is as relevant today as it has ever been. It’s like a lung for this region. It’s where we get our drinking water from; it’s where we get our beer from,” says Brent Martin, regional director of The Wilderness Society’s Southern Appalachian office in Sylva. To mark the Wilderness Act’s 50th anniversary, President Obama named September “National Wilderness Month,” Martin mentions. And Wilderness Society founder Howard Zahniser drafted the 1964 legislation, signed

by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Modern-day environmentalists like Martin are looking to the future, especially in WNC and the Southern Appalachians. Although 65,000 acres of wilderness have been set aside in WNC’s national forests, that’s less than 7 percent of the total land available for protection, Martin says. “We’re thinking about what the landscape will look like 50, 500, even 1,000 years from now,” he says. Calling for continued protection, he remarks, “Wilderness is something we are all connected to.” During a Sept. 5 panel discussion about the Within the Lines exhibit, Martin asked the featured panelists if they thought of themselves as activists as well as artists. The answer was a resounding “yes.” In the ensuing discussion, Ellison said, “I know these areas aren’t going to be here unless The Wilderness Society protects them. And they have to be protected.” “Nature and art both touch all of us deep in our souls,” Kincaid joined in. “As artists, what we’re trying to do is bring the wilderness to people.” “A lot of people don’t go out into the

“Wilderness has the power to inspire a lot of people, and wilderness areas have a quality that cannot be found anywhere else.” — artist Robert Cox

woods. You have to bring awareness, and that’s what we do,” said photographer Charles Seifried. Kincaid elaborated on his theme. “After a while, I realized that people didn’t go into the woods and didn’t know what was at stake — what they were losing. If I can use photography as a means of sharing how important this is, it’s going to be something that more people can relate to,” she said. Several of the artists — who spend much of their time observing and recording nature — said that they had come to realize that the more society advanced technologically, the less time people spent communing with nature. “I’m really concerned about how much of our lives are spent in cyberspace,” said painter Robert Johnson (and just as he finished his sentence, someone’s cell phone started ringing). “I’m concerned about losing contact with real space. Wilderness areas connect us with raw spaces as they really are, and I think it is important to keep that connection with basic nature in its pure state.” Wood summed it up: “Connecting with nature is something that is vital to the sustainability of everyday life. Wilderness

preservation is most definitely a part of that connection.” LOOKING TO THE FUTURE The first 50 years of the Wilderness Act has been successful in a number of ways, but many challenges loom on the horizon, say the exhibit artists, organizers, scientists and advocates. “Climate change can wreck everything as we know it,” says Voos, who teaches courses in UNCA’s climatecertification program. Wilderness areas also become islands, isolating wildlife populations, he adds. “Many wilderness areas are located in the middle of national forests where logging, road-building and other developments are permitted,” Voos says. Others face encroachment from urban development. “The end result is that [these] areas — and the plant and animal species that flourish [there] — are separated from one another,” he explains. To counter this “island” effect, Voos advocates creating wildlife corridors and buffer zones that would connect the existing wilderness areas. In this system, “Wildlife could live their lives in a realistic manner — without being restricted to these islands,” he says.

Martin says, “As Western North Carolina grows — coupled with energy, water and infrastructure demands — more and more pressure will be placed upon our public lands. We need to protect our public lands to the highest degree possible to ensure that wild places exist for future generations.” Harvey notes similar concerns and suggests that a life lived in harmony with nature is likely to be more profitable in the long run. He also mentions studies showing that people who spend time in the wilderness (and away from technology’s conveniences) become more self-reliant, experience greater personal benefits and live in a more sustainable manner. In other words, people who connect with nature also tend to work toward preserving it. As Wood points out, protecting and promoting wilderness areas is about more than hugging trees – it’s about connecting with the very essence of our humanity. “Of course, I am human. Of course, my perception comes from humanity. What I am speaking of, though, is not a perspective that separates humanity from the elk, bear, mountains and trees. I [feel] a great connection with being a human in our world, connected to all the great societies of this Earth. My humanity is something that doesn’t have to be in conflict with the world.” Within the Lines continues through Wednesday, Nov. 26, at Handmade in America (125 S. Lexington Avenue, Suite 101). Artists with works in the exhibit include Robert Cox, Elizabeth Ellison, Marianne Hall, Lori Kincaid, W.T. Dooley, Doris Gabel, Robert Johnson and Charles Seifried. The next panel discussion — “Interdisciplinary” — will be held Friday, Oct. 3, at HandMade (see below). For more info, go to avl.mx.0gz. .X

Celebrating the bond: The 1964 Wilderness Act “If future generations are to remember us with gratitude rather than contempt, we must leave them a glimpse of the world as it was in the beginning, not just after we got through with it.” — President Lyndon Johnson The 67th time is the charm. That was the case when President Lyndon Johnson signed the Wilderness Act in 1964. It may have taken eight years and 66 drafts to get it right, but when the ink had dried, the Wilderness Act had set aside 9.5 million acres of land for preservation. Since that time the act’s purview has only grown, with nearly 110 million acres protected. Shining Rock and the Linville Gorge areas were among the first sodesignated areas. “North Carolina was one of two states in the entire Eastern U.S. to have preserved wilderness as a result of the 1964 Act,” says Brent Martin, regional director of the Southern Appalachian division of The Wilderness Society. Today, Western North Carolina boasts six tracts of wilderness area in the Pisgah and the Nantahala National Forests. To qualify as a wilderness area, lands must be free of motorized vehicles and commercial enterprises, and they must offer significant recreational, educational, historical or scientific value. Written by The Wilderness Society founder Howard Zahniser, the original Wilderness Act legally defined “wilderness” in the United States for the first time. The act also created the National Wilderness Preservation System, which encompasses the National Park Service, the U.S. Forest Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management. — Erik Peake

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back, and CSC has only been at this for about a year,” she continues. Already, CSC’s website lists 32 campaigns nationwide, two of which are actively seeking funding and seven of which have fully repaid the loans. The company accepts campaigns spanning many industries and boasts $434,000 in loans from 2,750 “squareholders” — people who purchase one or more of a campaign’s $50 incremental loans, called squares. Henzel says working with Hewitt and the CSC staff has been great, since the whole team is “very professional and resourceful.” Plus, according to the entrepreneur, CSC’s platform has provided a wider audience for the campaign, and the staff provided a lot of support in putting the campaign together. “It’s a real paradigm shift for people,” says Hewitt, describing a general hesitance for people to move their investments away from traditional financial institutions. “It’s amazing how people have given up control of their money. There’s been some serious brainwashing that convinces people that they’re not smart

enough to handle their own money,” she says. Hewitt adds that community loans actually perform very well in terms of payback because they leverage the power of “relationship lending.” Companies that borrow money through CSC can see a list of squareholders, and are thus likely to personally know several of the individuals providing the loan. The 5th Sun campaign represents the first North Carolina-based project, but Hewitt sees CSC taking off in Western North Carolina because the region is “an extremely entrepreneurial community.” So it’s not a donation, because you get it back; but it’s not an investment, either, because there isn’t any interest. Hewitt knows the road to educating North Carolina citizens will be a long one, but she hopes community members will become intrigued as they come to understand the concept and how it could improve their lives directly. “We’re just hoping that this will be kind of addictive. It has been for me,” she admits. “This isn’t about making money. This is about supporting businesses in our community we care about.” X

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In July, Buncombe County administrative staff began implementing a retirement incentive plan aimed at generating savings of $1 million annually. The incentive has two parts: a year’s worth of salary (paid over three years) and covering health insurance premiums for one year. Eligible employees had until Aug. 22 to accept the incentive; those doing so must leave their jobs by Sept. 30. Retirement incentive plans are nothing new. Buncombe County did one in 2006, and the city of Asheville used the same strategy last year. The idea is to trim the fat, creating recurring cost savings by consolidating positions and

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bringing in younger (and therefore cheaper) replacements for highersalaried older workers. A list requested by Mountain Xpress shows 125 employees taking the incentive — six fewer than the 131 that have been widely reported. The discrepancy, says Human Resources Director Rob Thornberry, is due to six employees whose positions may be eliminated: If they are, those workers would be eligible for the incentive despite having missed the deadline. State, county and municipal workers, including those in public education, pay into the statewide retire-

ment system during their working years; when they retire, those who qualify receive either a full or reduced lifetime pension. The rules are complicated, and pension amounts vary depending on the employee’s age, years of service and how much they were paid in their top earning years. Police, meanwhile, have their own, somewhat different retirement rules. To be eligible for the county’s incentive plan, employees first had to qualify for one of the pension options. All told, the 125 employees on the list are paid about $6.1 mil-

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People Power

CITY PEOPLE: The Asheville Disclaimer honored Asheville’s artists, politicians, businesspeople and civic activists in a Bobbleheaded satire in 2009.

PART 4 “Asheville will never get ahead while you have so many people voicing their own opinions,” a frustrated consultant once told Asheville City Council (in words to that effect) about 15 years ago. The consultant clearly failed to understand Asheville’s signature M.O. Our creative discord is the sign of thousands of strong-willed individuals who see themselves as participants, not bystanders. Of course we have lots of dissent! Asheville was built — and is being built — by dreamers and doers, from the ground up rather than by a cadre of city fathers decreeing top-down, engineered plans. Asheville’s decentralized, somewhat anarchistic tendencies are, like democracy, inherently messy. But the resulting community is more resilient and authentic – which makes us less prey to franchises and chains with cookie-cutter business plans. Xpress continues its look this week at how Asheville has evolved, as seen by some of the remarkable activists who have been part of the process. — Jeff Fobes

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Saving the French Broad River Naysayers, start paddling

PARK BUILDING: Today RiverLink has over 1,700 volunteers who believe the river is the best place to live, work and play. Above, the French Broad River Park under construction, with flooding damage. Photo courtesy of RiverLink

BY KAREN CRAGNOLIN

For most people, their sense of “history” begins when they arrive somewhere. So, here is my history of the French Broad River and what has evolved along it since 1986, when I started working for RiverLink. When I arrived in Asheville, I didn’t even know there was a river. The downtown was dead and scary, and the town’s general atmosphere was what I call 1929 “Depression melancholy hangover,” with just a few folks thinking Asheville could ever become a vibrant city. The river wasn’t on anyone’s radar. No one could tell me the name of the river’s many bridges with any certainty. And the river was a place to avoid, which was easy since there was nothing to do when you got there. And it was, and can still be, difficult to find.

I became interested in the river in two ways. I went to the local Chamber of Commerce when I arrived and told them I had started a chamber in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, and was looking to get involved in something in Asheville, my new home. They told me the river was at the end of Patton Avenue. They also gave me a key to a building and introduced me to the folks at the French Broad River Foundation. From that confluence, RiverLink was born — when economic interests (the chamber) and environmental interests (Jean Webb) met. Jean Webb was also my neighbor and became my best friend, my mentor and my hero. NAYSAYERS AND BELIEVERS I can remember Jerry Sternberg telling me the urban riverfront was just like Humpty Dumpty and couldn’t be fixed! I, of course, believed the more fitting nursery rhyme or metaphor to be the tortoise and the hare. The river was no longer a place to make a quick buck as the hare wanted. It was more a place for the tortoise to keep plodding along, project

by project, property by property, plant by plant, to win the race to save the indomitable French Broad River. During the ’80s and a lot of the early ’90s, Jerry’s animalrendering plant on Riverside Drive oozed a horrible smell from that permeated the air throughout the city, depending on which way the wind was blowing. If you can imagine, there were even more junkyards then than there are today. After a successful charrette that RiverLink hosted in 1989 to develop the Riverfront Plan, we announced a French Broad River Yacht Club dinner and asked Asheville historian Milton Ready to be the speaker. He spoke about the French Broad and called it Asheville’s answer to Bangladesh — the poorest, most forgotten and neglected part of our city. Dr. Ready’s comment prompted Jerry Sternberg to hoist a sheet outside his A-frame on Riverside Drive proclaiming his building as Bangladesh City Hall. Jerry then presented me with a baseball cap, made in Bangladesh, with the words “Mayor of Bangladesh” scribbled in Magic Marker across the front of the cap. Other folks were even less encouraging about the likelihood of the river becoming a destination for people to live, work and play. I can’t tell you how many civic leaders told us it was just too far from the downtown and was too hard to find and too far gone to ever be a viable community asset. Those same people thought that West Asheville would always be Worst Asheville and couldn’t imagine it becoming the vibrant neighborhood it has become today. But for all the naysayers, there was a committed group of volunteers like Jean Webb, Wilma Dykeman, Peggy and Jim Brazell, Marylyn and Jim Seyler, Marjorie Maxwell, Marge Turbot, Mr. Greene, Harriet Haith, Julian Price, The Preservation Society, Jim Samsel, OE and Pat Starnes, Dennis and Barb Hodgson, Luther Smith, Ed Metz, the whole Mathews clan and hundreds of others who put their hearts, pocketbooks, vast life experiences and intelligence to work on behalf of the rebirth of the French Broad. Today RiverLink has over 1,700 volunteers who believe the river is the best place to live, work and play, and are putting their hearts, energy and pocketbooks into that rebirth. I have some wonderful photos of Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt with Jean Webb in a canoe (we made the front page of the Washington Post with that photo) and with Wilma Dykeman at French Broad River Park after Secretary Babbitt floated our river. RiverLink was trying to have the French Broad named an American Heritage River. The designation would give the river preferential treatment under a President Bill Clinton MOUNTAINX.COM

initiative for federal funding. Somehow we got the governors of both Tennessee and North Carolina — a Republican and Democrat — to agree the French Broad was a worthy candidate for this recognition, and both endorsed our application. This was a big deal, because the two states were locked in a legal battle over the effectively dead Pigeon River. Unfortunately, our application was never reviewed because of a hysteria that overtook Western North Carolina about the American Heritage River Initiative, complete with billboards, talk shows and TV ads proclaiming that the designation would result in a loss of property rights and predicting that the United Nations would invade us. I am not making this up. The New River took the French Broad’s place as an American Heritage River and has benefited from over $20 million in federal grants as a result. So far, no sightings of a U.N. takeover on the New River. WHAT IF THE NAYSAYERS HAD WON? Twenty years ago, very few could imagine the French Broad as it is today. Can you imagine how different and far behind in our efforts to become a green multimodal sustainable city would be if RiverLink had not bought the old Speedway and raised an additional $1 million to turn it into Carrier Park? Or if the old EDACO junkyard on Amboy Road were still operating as a junkyard instead of being remediated as a brownfield using EPA stimulus funds to conduct a highly sophisticated and replicable phytoremediation? Or if the N.C. Department of Transportation had not funded a 1.2-mile greenway from Carrier Park to Hominy Creek Park? We have come such a long way in 20 years. But the new $14-plus-million grant announced from Tiger funds and the $5 million from the French Broad Metropolitan Planning Organization and the fact that the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay is the No. 1 priority for the MPO make us all feel gratified and excited about the future implementation of the plans. What about the “blue buildings” on Riverside Drive? Does anyone remember those across from the Cotton Mill? They were 26,000 square feet of really ugly bright blue when we bought them. To reclaim that riverfront space, we recycled about 25 percent of the materials to help artists rehab their studios in the Phil Mechanic Building and then turned the property into the RiverLink Performance & Sculpture Park, where today we host RiverMusic and all sorts of events to enrich our community and attract people to the river. Can you imagine not having the French Broad River Park and the dog park? Lots of folks were puzzled by RiverLink’s design SEPTEMBER 24 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

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to start the greenway project on the west bank of the river. It has taken almost 20 years, but French Broad River Park will finally extend along all the Duke Energy land on the west bank and connect up with the New Belgium site. The 1992 plan that we commissioned Edward D. Stone Jr. to develop showed that linkage and envisioned pedestrian bridges and a four-mile greenway loop encompassing both sides of the river. That plan showed an artificial whitewater course instead of New Belgium on the site. We even hosted officers from the U.S. Olympic Organizing Team and tried to have the French Broad be named the site of the 1996 Olympic whitewater trials, rather than the isolated Ocoee River in Tennessee where it ended up being held. We are thrilled to have New Belgium now building on that site. We are proud partners in the rebirth of the old landfill site, which will demonstrate the very best management practices for stormwater controls,

thanks to a $400,000 grant we received from the Clean Water Trust Fund to assist with the New Belgium project. I have to pinch myself to remember it’s not a dream that, when we wanted to buy the Warehouse Studios in 1991, banks were reluctant to give us a loan. Bankers couldn’t imagine artists’ studios in old industrial buildings creating enough cash flow to support a mortgage. Julian Price gave us a balloon-payment loan to buy the Warehouse Studios. Four years later, we paid him back and were able to finance the building commercially, having proved that artists make enough money to pay rent and those rents could support a mortgage. THE RIVER TODAY The riverfront today boasts 14 artistowned buildings, showing once again that arts and crafts are economically viable. I am pretty sure that Asheville’s riverfront is the largest “artist-owned” arts district in the country. The fate of the river continuing to be an arts destination rests with the will-

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ingness of the artists who own buildings to not cash out — to keep the rents low enough for other artists. It’s the tortoiseand-the-hare parable again. Do we want to make quick bucks or make a longer investment — of time, heart and wealth to authentically and organically continue to build community and long-term sustainability for the arts scene? Today, banks are willing and competing to lend money to investors in the river. A riverfront building we and the Preservation Society sold in 1995 for $50,000 was recently resold for $1 million. There is rare consensus in our community in support of the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay Plan, which sees our river corridors as future high-density, mixed-use, mixed-income multimodal transit corridors — our next development frontier. But choices will have to be made. In 2011, RiverLink acquired an old tire store at Pearson Bridge. Do you remember what an eyesore that build-

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brew·pub [broo-puhb] ing was? Trash, discarded tires and graffiti ruled. An outdoor-recreation business operates there now that has allowed 2,500 people, so far this year, to float, paddle board, enjoy and discover our magnificent resource — the French Broad. The bus tours we started giving in 1986 were all about dreaming and planning for the future. Today, almost 30 years later, those plans and dreams are coming true and our bus tours are still filled with people who want to dream with us about the next 30 years, as well as see what progress has been made in the past 30 years. THE RIVER TOMORROW OK, so looking ahead — what’s next for our rivers? The Swannanoa River is surely on the community “to do” list, as outlined in the Wilma Dykeman RiverWay. Let’s put greenways and bike paths on both sides of the Swannanoa through the Biltmore Village area. If we open up Thompson Street, which runs parallel to Swannanoa River Road, we can relieve congestion in

the village, provide transportation alternatives, celebrate the Swannanoa River as the native trout stream that it is and stimulate more sustainable economic development that is mixed-use and mixed-income. Imagine if we had greenways and bike paths on both sides of the Swannanoa River, and if Thompson Street and Swannanoa River Road both allowed multi-modal traffic flow. Imagine how that would increase our tax base and transit options and improve the health of the river. The new motto for lots of us who have been involved in the rebirth of the French Broad River watershed for over 30 years is “in our lifetime.” We hope to see a greenway all along the river that links at one end with the Appalachian Trail in Madison County and at the other end with the Mountains-to-Sea Trail on the Swannanoa River. When that’s accomplished, we’ll print a T-shirt proclaim-

ing, “From Maine to Manteo — on the French Broad.” We hope to see a greenway and multimodal transportation, from the headwaters in Transylvania County, with links to the Ecusta Trail, all the way to Madison County; a greenway along Hominy Creek that links to Haywood County; the reintroduction of passenger-train traffic along the river all the way to Knoxville, just as the popular Carolina Special used to do; the rebirth of our beloved Cotton Mill, twice struck by arsonists; and, and, and — and lots more. Yes, I really do think it is the tortoise that will prevail, not Humpty Dumpty.

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Karen Cragnolin has been the executive director of RiverLink since it was founded in 1986. She is a recovering tax attorney who has lived and worked on three continents and is thrilled to call Asheville and WNC home.

PLAN IN PROGRESS: We’ve come a long way in 20 years, says RiverLink founder Karen Cragnolin. Many of the features in this 1992 plan for greenways and parks on the French Broad River have been built (see the updated map below), making the riverfront a popular destination for residents and visitors alike. Image courtesy of RiverLink

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Asheville was a mostly boarded-up dead zone. Bele Chere was smaller and more intimate. Everyone knew everyone, and I don’t recall much violence and trashing of downtown. I actually liked it better then than with the much larger crowds of later years. I hung out a lot at McDibb’s in Black Mountain, which hosted some amazing acts. I was actually friends with David Wilcox, who got his start there. We contra danced at the Old Farmer’s Ball out near Warren Wilson College every Thursday night. This shack of a building, where we sweated profusely in the summer and froze in the winter, finally collapsed. But until then, it had a long history of mountain folks kicking up their heels to local bands playing traditional music! On weekends I would check out the music at 45 Cherry, Thomas Woof Music Hall (where Jubilee! is now) and, years later, Be Here Now. I couldn’t afford to eat out much, but we did go to a Turkish restaurant called Ike’s that actually served up good veggie burgers. Ike would whip out his balalaika and play songs from his homeland, entrancing us all. His place was located on North Merrimon, under what is now Stein Mart, I think. There was also Stone Soup and that Mexican restaurant down in Biltmore, Pedro’s or something. I want to give a shoutout to Joe Roberts, who around ’85 or ’86 got the bug to make some clay doumbeks, a Middle Eastern drum. Friends would gather round and jam on the drums he had made. Connections brought amazing drum teachers Daryl Rose and the famous Babatunde Olatunji. Joe switched to making wooden West African ashiko drums, taught some others how to make them and the drum community in Asheville was born! And downtown began to change in the ’90s and grow in amazing ways. I remember attending Goombay in ’84 or ’85. The event was in its second or third year, and I had the unsettling experience of being the ONLY white face in the crowd. I realized in that moment how a black (or any minority) could feel in a sea of white faces. I remember wondering if I was welcome there. I really wanted to hear and see the steel drums being played. A guy who MOUNTAINX.COM

EARLY MEMORIES: “I hung out a lot at McDibb’s in Black Mountain,” says Troy Amastar, center, pictured here with Daryl Rose, right, in the ‘80s. “It had a long history of mountain folks kicking up their heals to local bands playing traditional music.” Photo courtesy of Troy Amastar

was standing in front of me turned to me and said, “Here, step up here so you can see better,” as he moved aside. My question was then answered, and I relaxed and enjoyed the show! But, you know, even in the ’80s, there was a lot to do. Malaprop’s brought in wonderful authors, and spiritual centers held workshops and talks. There was no end to the hiking, swimming or biking. I love many of the exciting things that sprouted up in Asheville in the last 20 years. It took a lot of guts and work to revitalize a dead downtown. And it was done tastefully, and it looks beautiful. But with all this progress there has been a downside. As Asheville’s popularity has grown, so has the number of developers who want to rape the mountaintops and build homes that mainly serve the wealthy. I got involved with Mountain Voices Alliance because my stomach was literally tearing up witnessing the devastation of the mountains I loved so much! Traffic has clogged downtown to the point of gridlock, and I don’t see how the infrastructure can handle much more. I now live in Alexander, too far out of town to ride a bike. Buses don’t come out here and, frankly, they take way too much time. I find myself just gritting my teeth as I try to get to the French Broad Food Co-op to shop and get back out.

There are so many restaurants popping up that some close before I ever set foot in them. And I used to know everyone. Now I am lucky if I see one or two familiar faces. Rent has mostly become unaffordable for the kinds of service jobs that prevail in the area. For all my hard work, my income has remained at poverty level. Hikes up on the parkway were once a way to get away from it all and hardly see another soul on the trails. Now it’s practically a steady stream of people. I guess there is always a consequence to becoming unique and popular and living in a very beautiful place! Still, I have sunk my roots deep. I bought my place, gave birth to my daughter in my little house that I worked on for years (never finished), built a pottery studio (also never finished), and worked hard trying to homestead while raising my daughter, working odd jobs to supplement my business — all as a single parent. I found my spiritual community, which took me to other countries around the world, as well as many parts of the U.S., was an active volunteer for the environment and planet, and often picked up abandoned dogs and cats, as well as unfortunate injured or orphaned wildlife along the roads. I have found my place here and I love it very much despite any hardships. And, no — there has never been a dull moment!

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A LOOK BACK 20+ YEARS

From scratch: Mountain BizWorks’ humble beginnings BY TIM RICHARDS

Mountain Microenterprise Fund began in 1989 as a small demonstration project to a shortage of financing for small businesses, particularly those owned by women and minorities. MMF started out as part of Warren Wilson College’s Black Swan Center, which some may remember for its “Green Pages” directory of small businesses in Swannanoa/Black Mountain (the area’s first “go local” guide). MMF began operations in a cramped basement office on campus, supported by a two-year grant of $25,000 from the N.C. Rural Economic Development Center. In order to make loans to small start-up businesses, MMF had to apply for its own loans — $2,000 at a time — from the Self-Help Credit Union and the N.C. Rural Center. On its tiny budget, Chris Just was hired as MMF’s first executive director, bringing to bear his Peace Corps experience and graduate studies that focused on the Grameen Bank, an innovative microloan group in Bangladesh. MMF’s first classes of would-be entrepreneurs met in homes and at a local church. By the end of 1989, MMF had five clients. They studied each other’s business plans and voted on the most feasible one to receive a loan. The winner of the first loan, to everyone’s dismay, disappeared with the money and was never seen again. Thankfully, most future loans were fully repaid. After 12 months of operation, MMF had established five “groups,” representing 25 Buncombe County business ventures, and had made nine loans. MMF’s peer-lending model — which was based on the Grameen Bank’s approach — caught the attention of Grameen’s founder (and Nobel Peace Prize winner) Mohammed Yunus, who visited Asheville and attended an MMF peer group meeting at the Mystic Eye. One Friday night in 1992, Chris received a phone call at home from Asheville philanthropist Julian Price.

Chris listened as Julian said he liked the mission of the organization, wanted to help and asked how much was needed. After catching his breath, Chris said, “Next year’s budget is $75,000.” Without hesitation, Julian said he’d have a check on Monday. Prominent people in the community, such as Mimi Cecil, Roger McGuire, Joyce Harrison and Carol King, joined MMF’s board or served as advisers. Pat Whalen, representing Julian Price and Public Interest Projects, asked if the organization would like to move downtown and offered a “sweetheart” rental agreement. Successes followed, and entrepreneurs — such as Joe Eckert, former owner of City Bakery and co-owner of Laughing Seed and Jack of the Wood, and Hector Diaz, owner of Salsa’s, Modesto and Chorizo — were important clients whose businesses have prospered. Diaz’s initial business plan envisioned food carts at weekend festivals! Foundations like Janirve, Z. Smith Reynolds and Mary Reynolds Babcock provided funds to support MMF’s communitybuilding operations. When MMF’s future executive director, Greg Walker-Wilson, took an interest in the group in 1997, Chris crossed the hall from his office to that of Public Interest Projects, where Julian Price happened to be sitting, and said, “We have a man here who can write the proposal for a $150,000 Mott Foundation grant that we’ve been asked to apply for. What do you think?” Julian responded, “Would $10,000 help us to hire him?” By the year 2000, MMF had grown to a staff of seven with a $351,000 budget and had served more than 770 entrepreneurs in 11 WNC counties, providing them business training and loan capital. Two years later, the budget had doubled, the thousandth entrepreneur had graduated from MMF’s nationally recognized “Foundations” training course and the U.S. Treasury had certified the organization as a Community Development Financial Institution. MMF also opened the MountainMade store in the Grove Arcade to provide a retail outlet for locally made crafts. MMF’s budget topped $1 million in 2004 and it raised its maximum loan amount to $25,000.

In 2007, MMF rebranded itself as Mountain BizWorks to reflect its expanded mission and community impact. That year Aspen Institute named BizWorks as one of eight highest-performing microenterprise programs in the nation, and Greg WalkerWilson provided testimony on SBA Small Business Program Reauthorization, demonstrating its reputation beyond WNC. To date, Mountain BizWorks has provided $10 million in small-business loans to more than 750 WNC businesses and helped create more than 3,500 jobs. Tim Richards was lucky enough to move to Asheville from upstate New York in 1982. He worked in community and economic development at Land of Sky Regional Council and Western Carolina University and is currently the senior program officer at The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina. He served on the Bele Chere board of directors 1986-2000, and was chair of Mountain Microenterprise Fund 1991-2001. Tim lives in Fairview with wife Mary Anne and several rescued canine companions.

EARLY TO RISE: Early Girl Eatery founders Julie and John Stahling, got help from Mountain BizWorks program in the early 1990s. The restaurant has thrived ever since. File photo

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Explore how the current prison-industrial complex was birthed out of the “exception clause” of the 13th Ammendment, which creates a legal loophole that allows slavery to continue to exist in the US. We will examine history from “free” slaves arrested under the “slave codes” and leased back to work the plantations, through our current for-profit private system - where labor is ancillary, and only their bodies are needed to extract profits from “correctional housing units.” All are invited to stay through the evening, for free food at 8pm and a riveting spoken word performance at 9pm by Max and Tribal Raine of Colombia, SC, to open the evening’s open mic. Brought to you by: Noble Kava Bar “We Know our Roots.”

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A LOOK BACK 20+ YEARS

The drum circle’s early beats began at Vance Monument BY TERRY LEE EDGERTON

Thank you for allowing me to share a bit of true Asheville history, at least my recollections of the origins of Asheville’s drumming and how the Pritchard Park drum circle came about. I was born and raised in Asheville. I was taught percussion at South French Broad Middle School. My love for percussion instruments has been with me my entire life and led me to teach the art of drumming at many different venues throughout Western North Carolina and elsewhere. I had the opportunity to read the Sept. 17 article in Mountain Xpress regarding the origins of the Pritchard Park drum circle [“A Call to Drums”]. Having grown up in Asheville, I can speak with certainty about the origins of drumming here. It has been here, thriving for many years, particularly in the AfricanAmerican community, where the origins of drumming go back many generations. I began teaching African drumming in Buncombe County schools to elementary, middle and high school students in the early 1990s. My students showcased their skills by performing at different venues. I also had predecessors who were drumming and teaching drumming in Buncombe County long before I came along. In 1990, I was hired by the YMI Culture Center to teach a class called the Ancestor Legacy Tours, in which I taught drumming, making shekeres, adrinka cloths and other arts and crafts related to African culture. At the same time, I was teaching African drumming in classrooms at Asheville Middle School and a few of the elementary schools in Buncombe County, and I led workshops in Ashe County and at the McDowell County Center for the Arts. Over time, the Ancestor Legacy Tours classes at the YMI grew and the focus of the classes changed from arts and crafts to djembe drumming.

Over those years, I amassed a large collection of djembe drums, as well as other types of hand drums and instruments, to accommodate the various sizes of my workshops and classes. One night in August 1997, while driving home from one of my drum workshops, I contacted several friends and suggested that we go hang out downtown and drum. I provided all the drums. They agreed. There were initially six of us: Michael Forney, Gaford Funderbird, Terrance Johnson, Darius Edgerton, Dave Johnson and me, all African-Americans. We met up downtown at the fountain near Pack Place that sat right behind the Vance Monument. The fountain is no longer there. However, this is where the first public drumming started in Asheville. There were no other groups doing this outdoors in the downtown area. After this first spontaneous drum session with my friends, we began meeting at this spot regularly on Fridays, usually after I would finish up my workshops in Ashe County. Starting around 7 p.m., we would drum for an hour or two, always drawing a large crowd from all walks of life. Slowly, others (some friends, some strangers) would join us to drum. Our beats were resonating and full of spirit, and the spectator crowd grew much quicker than the actual drummers. My friends and I met up that year every Friday from August through October. Occasionally, if it got too late, or if I finished work early and wanted to come out earlier than normal, my friends and I would go to The Block, aka Eagle Street. This area was more isolated and did not draw the racially diverse crowd that we would get at the fountain, but we could drum all night if we wanted to. Funny thing is, we were never harassed in this area by business owners, police or anyone else for that matter. However, we loved the diverse

seasoned drummers, began gathering in the park — starting with nothing but seasoned drummers and “facilitators” but quickly gathering momentum and attracting the tourist crowd. I participated occasionally, but not as often as I used to. I didn’t have any great expectations when I went. Through the years, I’ve known what I am in for when I get there: There are still facilitators, a handful of seasoned drummers and many amateurs trying to catch hold of a seasoned drum beat … their heart beat ... a tap ... their place in the beats ... their own special rhythm ... they’ve got it, they now are part of the group. Not everyone can drum, but they try. Everyone has fun. This is all that matters. The energy and positive vibrations

BASIC BEATS: Terry Lee Edgerton, right and below at an Asheville Middle School after-school program, taught drumming for many years. “My students showcased their skills by performing at different venues.,” he says. Photos courtesy of Terry Lee Edgerton

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that pour out from the drum circle are inspiring. Everyone there for the same purpose — positive energy and good feelings and connection. My wife is from the Midwest and had never seen a drum circle before we were married in 2010. I brought her to Pritchard Park to see the drum circle there. As we got closer and closer to the park, she said she could feel the energy. As the rhythmic sound of the drums, resonating through the air, got louder and louder and, at the moment when she was finally able to see the crowd that was gathered, she said, “This, to me, is equivalent to wolves howling at the moon. It’s hypnotic.” What more can I say. Quite an analogy.

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crowd that would gather at the fountain, making it our first preference. By the end of 1997, the downtown crowd was large, with many stragglers joining in (strangers showing up with their own drums). People who just wanted to dance and others who just wanted to watch came to hang out with us to join in on our beats. It was also in October 1997 that the KKK marched through Asheville. I remember this vividly because I went downtown and drummed a wild beat while the KKK was marching. As serious as this situation was, it was comical, because, as they came around the corner near where I was drumming, they couldn’t stop themselves from marching to the beat of my drum. Imagine that — the KKK marching to the beat of an African djembe drum! Poignant. One night in late October 1997, we were approached by the Asheville police. There had been complaints

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from surrounding businesses about the crowds, and the resonating beats from the drums were causing a “disturbance,” the police said. At that time, the officers suggested we move our drum group to Pritchard Park. The park had not yet been renovated; that wouldn’t occur until 1999. The police also suggested that I facilitate the group. However, moving to the park meant there would be restrictions, particularly date and time restrictions. Considering all the business obligations I was committed to, I wasn’t interested in heading up the move. After that night, my friends and I stopped drumming at the fountain — although we did continue to get together and jam on the drums on The Block and in other areas where we could jam without being harassed. After Pritchard Park was renovated, a few of my friends that I had been drumming with, particularly Michael Forney and Dave Johnson, as well as other MOUNTAINX.COM

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A LOOK BACK 20+ YEARS

Mountain Xpress: persistently progressing progressivism BY BILL BRANYON

I was scrounging for a master’s in history from Western Carolina and buying beer at Cullowhee’s Speedwell General Store when there it was on the checkout counter: Green Line … a newspaper that, a few years later, became Mountain Xpress. Finally, here was a paper based on the environmental principles of the Green Party! It could fight the pro-development principles of the Asheville Citizen,

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which stood for the “upbuilding” of Asheville, as its motto announced. A few months later I found and joined the paper and its editor, Jeff Fobes, in a dilapidated, two-story Montford home. In addition to writing, editing and delivering papers, my duties occasionally included walking the family mutt. Green Line flourished, Jeff moved it downtown to the Miles Building,

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and it confronted one of its first editorial crises: whether to allow Meredith Hunt, a radical pro-life advocate, to amplify his views in our paper. Jeff consulted all of the paper’s contributors at the time, including Andrea Helm, the late Jack Chaney, Rusty Sivils, Laura Gordon, Wally Bowen, Miles Tager and many others. Opinion was divided, but we narrowly decided to expand our voice beyond strict adherence to Green Party ethics and allowed the story to run. That caused the loss of some readers. And though every one of those mentioned above was firmly pro-choice, our open stance on this and many other issues helped lead to the much broader readership that Mountain Xpress now enjoys. Thus when naysayers accuse Xpress of being a food-and-booze rag today, I remember how immersed Jeff and everyone else was in Green Party politics, and I know that’s proof that there’s a bedrock of progressive editorial zeal in the paper. That ironclad progressive dedication can also be seen in Jeff’s helping subsidize my trip to cover the Green Party Convention in Estes Park, Colo., in 1990. Further zeal is revealed in some of the magazine titles in the now defunct Alternative Reading Room, which shared staffer Paula Davidson with Xpress: Covert Action Bulletin, Z Magazine, The Raven: An Anarchist Quarterly, The Human Life Review, American Atheist, Death Penalty Exchange, Off Our Backs, Fugitive Pope, Lies of Our Times, and Heterodoxy. One day I was fizzing in the Reading Room, foraging for ways to finance an advertisement in the Citizen for a teachin on the first Gulf War, when a tall man suddenly appeared, saying, “I’ve come to Asheville to finance such ideas. How much do you need?” “Six hundred dollars,” I groused. He immediately wrote a check and, partly as a result, a packed UNC Asheville lecture hall got to listen to a panel of distinguished experts, including Jeff’s father, Jack Fobes. The former deputy director-general of UNESCO, Jack was heavily involved in trying to get the U.S. back into the organization after Ronald Reagan took the country out of it. The plot thickened. Of course, the tall man was Julian Price, and with his financial backing and political savvy, we covered countercultural protests against the Haliburton-owned Superfund site near Warren Wilson College, which had dangerous chemicals leaching into the groundwater, perhaps including the nerve gas BZ, described as a “hallucinogen a hundred times more potent than LSD.” But we also reported on “straight” culture affirmations, such as Asheville’s

July 4 hyperpatriotic celebrations after the Gulf War. Eventually Julian took his money out of Xpress and, worse yet, he died at 60 years young. Somewhere in there we had another editorial crisis due to the arrival of Peter Gregutt. He and Jeff imposed the reverse-pyramid journalism style, much more rigorous fact checking, and an editing style that made it seem a comb had passed through your writing. We were a real newspaper now! Regardless, it seemed as if we were a vanguard of the environmental, labor and peace revolutions, and the excitement was often glorious. During one Bele Chere weekend, for instance, Wally Bowen, some other now-forgotten soul and I played four games as part of the Xpress three-on-three basketball team. In between games, Jeff got excited about our chances but even more so about a ruckus going on at the federal courthouse. He sent me there to interview Rodney Webb and David Wheeler as they were being arrested for protesting clear-cutting in Pisgah National Forest, while the WNC Alliance’s Ron Lambe presented a 100-foot-long petition opposing the move. Although some team eventually beat us on the b-ball court, the excitement felt like a James Bond chase scene during Carnival in Rio. Other rousing stories included: protests against Gen. William Westmoreland of Vietnam War fame, who was speaking at UNCA; the latenight decapitation of the Fuddruckers hamburger sign adjacent to Interstate 240 downtown (perp still undiscovered); and a diverse coalition of bear hunters, hippies and yuppies that saved Bluff Mountain in Hot Springs from clear-cutting. In 1997, Asheville elected a Jewish woman, Leni Sitnick, as mayor. A guiding spirit behind Asheville’s progressive politics, she seemed to be the apotheosis of Mountain Xpress’ values. Yet ironically, the very success of Asheville and Xpress had attracted predatory developers from all over the world. Standing up to the growth deluge has become a full-time and probably fruitless activity. Yet somehow the mountains and culture of Asheville have so far been able to absorb all that invading money and retain their bohemian character and natural vitality. Hopefully Xpress will live on, continue to harness its old Green Party spirit and fight future environmental disasters for another 20 years — or 200, if necessary.

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The making of Asheville’s Woolworth Walk downtown. I just wanted to have a part of the downtown with hopes that it would become a great little city.” At first, Sirkin had other plans for the building. “The original idea for the building was to lease it to one user, but I was a few years ahead of the town [in terms of finding] a 20,000-square-foot tenant,” Sirkin said. “This brought on the thoughts for Woolworth Walk and the Soda Fountain.” The re-created Soda Fountain was built in its original location and adds to the building’s draw, not only for its offerings, but as yet another element of nostalgia. The menu includes a mixture of classics like the BLT, as well as modern fare such as black bean burgers. “In my generation, almost every city had a mall where friends gathered and had fun and caught a bite to eat,”

Kellem said. “Previous generations had the Woolworth 5- and 10-cent stores. The nostalgia that many customers walk in with is obvious. They are excited to be in a Woolworth’s again and excited to find over 160 local artists in such a great setting, and they are thrilled to find that they can get lunch or an ice cream treat at the Soda Fountain.” “It’s been a privilege to watch artists pursuing their creative dreams, even to the point where some have quit their jobs to be full-time artists,” Kellem said. “What an amazing source of artistic and creative talent we have in Asheville.” As far as the future is concerned, Sirkin hopes the gallery and the Soda Fountain will continue to thrive, and he has plans to someday transform the third story of the building, another 10,000 square foot, into apartments or condos.

THEN/NOW: Once a drug store with a soda fountain, downtown Asheville’s nowiconic Woolworth’s Walk showcases (and sells) the works of local artists. And it still has a soda fountain. Right photo by Erin Kellam

BY CAMILLE WICK

A 76-year-old structure is bound to have stories to tell. The F.W. Woolworth building in downtown Asheville, established in 1938, experienced civil rights in the ’60s first-hand through sit-ins held at the lunch counter. In its current incarnation, it is now Woolworth Walk, Asheville’s largest art gallery, displaying over 160 local artists’ work. Owner Scott Sirkin began renovations of the building in 2000, which took more than a year to complete and included the removal of 19,000 square foot of asbestos floor tiles and the reclamation

of the center stairwell that had been put in during the ’60s. The building has received two Griffin Awards in recognition of the restoration efforts. These renovations would have likely been delayed if Sirkin hadn’t been able to negotiate the termination of a standing 30-year lease between the previous owners and the Family Dollar. Otherwise, that retailer might still be located in the F.W. Woolworth building. However, Family Dollar decided it was not a good location, allowing Sirkin to move forward with his renovation plans. “Downtown was very depressed 17 years ago, which is hard to fathom today,” Sirkin said. “The first thought was to just own any one of the buildings

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BENEFITS ABCCM SHARING AFFAIR AUCTION abccm.org • FR (9/26), 6-8pm - Proceeds from this local art auction benefit programs at AshevilleBuncombe Community Christian Ministry. $10 to attend. Held at Covenant Community Church, 11 Rocket Drive ASHEVILLE AREA PIANO FORUM ashevillepiano.org • SU (9/28), 3pm - Showcase of 12 professional pianists to benefit AAPF educational outreach programs. $28/$50 patrons/$3 students. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square ASHEVILLE-BUNCOMBE COUNTY CROP HUNGER WALK crophungerwalk.org/ ashevillenc

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• Through (10/5) - Registration is open for this walk which supports programs that combat food insecurity. Participants agree to raise funds through donations. Held Oct. 5 at First Baptist Church. EQUINOX NIGHT CARNIVAL 231-7205, jennifer.freelance@ gmail.com • FR (9/26), 8:30pm - Tickets to this face painting, tarot reading and live music event support medical bills for local nonprofit organizer Steven Liebenhaut. $10. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road JUMPING FOR JAVA 5K jumpingforjava.com • SA (9/27), 9am - Includes fun run and coffee festival. Proceeds benefit Coffee for Education, which runs schools in coffee growing communities. $25. Held at Black Mountain Ale House, 117-C Cherry St., Black Mountain

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258-0710, ashevillearts.com/ gilded-ball • SA (9/27), 7pm - Tickets to this gala, silent auction and live music event benefit the Asheville Area Arts Council. $60/$50 advance. Held at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall, 743 Haywood Road

MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S FEAST 772-5846, organicgrowersschool.org • MO (9/29), 5:30pm - Tickets to this farm-to-table meal and screening of GMO OMG, support a project to bring bulk organic animal feed to WNC. $40. Held at The Hub, 278 Haywood Road PINK IN THE PARK pinkintheparkavl.com • Through (10/4) - Registration is open for this 5K walk/run benefitting the Ladies Night Out program. Held Oct. 4 at Biltmore Park Town Square. $30.

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THE PINK HEALS TOUR pinkfiretrucks.org • TU (9/30), 10am-7pm Haircuts and silent auction benefit local women and children battling cancer. $20. Held at Hue Thairapy, 330 Rockwood Road, Arden

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Free unless otherwise noted. Registration required. • TH (9/25), 6-8pm Quickbooks seminar. • SATURDAYS through (9/27), 9am-12pm - SCORE: Business planning workshop series. • TU (9/23) & TU (9/30), 6-9pm - eBay business seminar. • WE (10/1), 9am-12pm Monthly marketing meetup. • WE (10/1), 3-6pm Workshop on web-based resources and tools for business owners. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COALITION 258-6101, ashevillechamber. org/economic-development • WEDNESDAYS, 9am "1 Million Cups," coffee and networking event for local entrepreneurs. Free to attend. Held at Mojo Coworking, 60 N. Market St.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS A NEW ART SCHOOL IN ASHEVILLE! (pd.) Weekly classes at Astoria Art Center, East Asheville. $210 for 6 classes. Free supplies and all levels welcome. Thursdays 7-10 PM. 718-9568539 astoriaartcenter.com ASHEVILLE FRENCH SCHOOL DEBUTS CHEZ METRO WINES! (pd.) Learn to sip and speak like locals! Study French language, culture and wine. 8-week series, $175. Level I: Sundays 4:-5:30 & Level II: Thursdays 6:00-7:30. Sept. 28 - Nov. 16. ashevillefrenchschool.com, weems.allison@ gmail.com BASIC MEDIATION SKILLS TRAINING (pd.) At The Mediation Center. An interactive, handson training ideal for anyone

looking to improve their conflict resolution skills. For more info and to register: (828) 251-6089. www.mediatewnc.org ROOTS + WINGS ART AND DESIGN SEMESTER PROGRAMS (pd.) Wednesdays, 4-5pm, Visual Art Adventures, Ages 3-6 Thursdays, 4-5pm, Clay/ Mixed Media Exploration, Grades K-5 Location: All Souls in Biltmore Village (828) 545-4827. www.rootsandwingsarts.com ASHEVILLE BROWNS BACKERS CLUB 658-4149, ashevillebbw@ gmail.com • SUNDAYS - Meets during Cleveland Browns games. Contact for specific times. Held at The Fairview Tavern, 831 Old Fairview Road ASHEVILLE OBJECTIVISTS ashevilleobjectivists.wordpress.com • TU (9/30), 6:30pm - "Ethics, Virtues and Happiness," discussion of Ayn Rand's philosophy. Free.

Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. BOOTLEGGER'S CAR CLUB HELLBILLY HOOTENANNY 319-7106, facebook.com/ original.hellbillyhootenanny • SA (9/27), noon-10pm Includes tattoo, mustache and pin-up contests, car show and live music. $20. Held at A Broken Spoke Motorcycle Shop, 874 Riverside Drive BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (9/24), 10am Swannanoa sewing circle. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa DAVIDSON'S FORT HISTORIC PARK Lackey Town Road, Old Fort, 668-4831, davidsonsfort.com • SA (9/27) & SU (9/28) Historic reenactments with colonial vendors and demonstrations. $5/$2 ages 6-10.

HENDERSONVILLE WISE WOMEN 693-1523 • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - A safe, supportive group of women "of a certain age." Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville LEADERSHIP ASHEVILLE 255-7100, leadershipasheville.org Sponsored by UNCA, this series of panels focuses on community leadership development. • TU (9/30), 11:30am Annual luncheon networking event with keynote speaker Brad Wilson of Blue Cross Blue Shield of NC. $35. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. MOUNTAIN AREA VOLUNTEER LAWYERS 210-3429, morgan@pisgahlegal.org • 1st THURSDAYS, 12-2pm - "Debt 101" clinic, includes discussion of debtor rights, resources and options. Free. Held at Pisgah Legal Services, 62 Charlotte St.

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ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. • TH (9/25), 12-1pm - Workshop: "Divorce and Your Money." Free. • THURSDAYS (9/25) through (10/9), 5:30-8pm - "Manage Your Money," series on budgeting basics. Free. • SATURDAYS through (9/27), 9am-3pm - Homebuyer education series. $35. PRIDE RV & RESORT 4394 Jonathan Creek Road, Waynesville, 926-1645, pridervresort.com • SA (9/27), 1-4pm - Vintage trailer rally, open house and pancake breakfast. $5/$3 children. RURAL HERITAGE MUSEUM AT MARS HILL 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill, 689-1304 • Through SA (2/28) Exhibit: Our Story – This Place: The History of African-American Education in Madison County and the Anderson Rosenwald School.

Asheville is pretty in pink WHAT: Pink Heals Tour WHEN: Tuesday, Sept. 30, 10 a.m.7 p.m. WHERE: Hue Thairapy, Rockwood Road, Arden

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WHY: Since 2007, Pink Heals has helped women and children battling cancer by traveling across the country raising awareness and money for the support of cancer education, detection, treatment and research. From their chapter in WinstonSalem, Pink Heals will roll eight pink firetrucks into Asheville, escorted by local police and fire departments. Firefighter volunteers have either bought or been donated these trucks, which are brought to events and care centers to lift the spirits of women and children diagnosed with cancer. Cancer patients and their families are encouraged to decorate the trucks with their signatures.

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The Pink Heals program gives the community the opportunity to raise money to combat cancer, and provides a platform for the community to continue raising cancerfighting funds after the event is over. “We are hoping to make this an annual event and try to open a Pink Heals chapter here in Asheville,” says Desiree Andre, salon coordinator at Hue Thairapy. “We pride ourselves on giving back to the community. Giving back is the new black.” All proceeds from the event will help offset medical bills for female and child cancer patients of the Mission HealthCancer Center. Stylists will conduct a “Cut-a-Thon” featuring $20 haircuts, followed by food and drinks, live music by firefighter and DJ Harry Darnell, basket drawings and kids activities. A raffle and silent auction will provide additional proceeds for donation to the cancer center. For more information, call 585-5414 or email huethairapy@gmail.com — Michael McDonald

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WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA CARVERS 665-8273 • SU (9/28), 1:30-4pm Beginner and open carving presentation. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road WNC AGRICULTURAL CENTER 1301 Fanning Bridge Rd., 687-1414, mountainfair.org • TH (10/2) through SU (10/5) - NC Championship Walking Horse Show.

CLASSES (pd.) Monday 6pm Hip Hop Wkt • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 2 8pm West African • Wednesday 6pm Bellydance 3 • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid's Dance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African • Saturday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 10:30am Bellydance • Sunday 10am Intro to West African • $13 for 60 minute classes, Hip Hop Wkrt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 CIRCLE 8'S SQUARE DANCE CLUB circle8s.info, garwoods2@ yahoo.com • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Weekly dance classes. $5. Held at Oakley United Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road. TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE 101 Fairview Rd. Suite B, 505-8659, toyboatcommunityartspace.com • SUNDAYS through (9/28), 1-2pm - Focuses on Chicagostyle moves from the 1940s. $40.

ECO WNC SIERRA CLUB 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (10/1), 7pm Presentation: "Protecting NC Water from Fracking & Coal Ash.” Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

FESTIVALS DANCE BEGINNER SWING DANCING LESSONS (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www. SwingAsheville.com ROCOCO BALLROOM PARTNER DANCING (pd.) Rococo Ballroom has opened in Reynolds Mountain offering all forms of partner dancing. Call 828-575-0905 to schedule a FREE sample lesson with one of our highly trained instructors. STUDIO ZAHIYA, DOWNTOWN DANCE

ALOFT: A FALL FESTIVAL wncgstroop26@yahoo.com • SA (9/27), 4-7pm - Hosted by Weaverville Girl Scout Troop 30026. Includes hot air balloon rides and kids activities. Free to attend. Held at North Buncombe Middle School, 51 N. Buncombe School Road ASHEVILLE GREEK FESTIVAL 253-3754, holytrinityasheville. com/greek-festival • FR (9/26) through SU (9/28) - Includes traditional foods, entertainment and cultural exhibits. Fri.& Sat.: 11am9pm; Sun.: 11am-7pm. Free to attend. Held at Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 227 Cumberland Ave., Ashevile

MOUNTAIN HERITAGE DAY 227-7129, mountainheritageday.com • SA (9/27), 10am-5pm - Includes vendors, performances and demonstrations of traditional mountain music, food and arts. Free to attend. Held at WCU. OLD TIMEY FALL FESTIVAL 704-756-3321, oldtimeyfallfestival.com • SA (9/27), 10am-4pm Includes food and craft vendors, antique tractors and cars, music, dance and kids activities. Free to attend. Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 Main St., Burnsville

FOOD & BEER CALDWELL CUSINE 726-2478, kandreasen@cccti. edu Meals prepared by Culinary Arts students. Proceeds benefit Caldwell Community College. • TH (9/25), 6pm - "Farm to Table," gourmet dinner with local foods. $21. Registration required. Held at J.E. Broyhill Civic Center, 1913 Hickory Blvd. SE, Lenior

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE 258-8223, abc.nc.lwvnet.org • TH (9/25), 6-8pm - Buncombe County candidates forum. Free. Held at Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce, 36 Montford Ave. LEICESTER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 2852 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 683-3433, leicesterfire.com • TH (9/25), 6:15pm School Board and County Commissioner candidate meet and greet. NEW TOWN CENTER 2560 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville • SA (9/27), 4-6pm - Marty Katz for Sherrif campaign fundraiser and office grand opening. WEAVERVILLE TOWN HALL 30 S. Main St., Weaverville, 645-7116 • TH (10/2), 6-7:30pm North Buncombe County Democratic candidate meet and greet.

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KIDS LAKE JULIAN PARK 406 Overlook Road, Ext Arden • SA (9/27), 8:30-11:30am - Kids fishing tournament. Ages 15 and under. $10. THOMAS WOLFE MEMORIAL 52 N. Market St, 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • Through FR (9/26) Students in grades 4-12 may submit works of fiction to the Telling Our Tales writing competition. Must be inspired by The Sun and the Rain. Contact for details. TRANSYLVANIA ADVENTURE GAMES transylvaniaadventuregames. com • SA (9/27), 11am-3pm Family event with obstacles courses and challenges. Proceeds benefit Mountain Sun School. $5. Held at Transylvania County Recreation Department, 1078 Ecusta Road, Brevard TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY EXTENSION OFFICE 98 East Morgan St., Brevard, 884-3109, transylvania.ces. ncsu.edu • TU (9/30), 6-8pm "Rockets to the Rescue," an activity with PARI's SciGirls program. For girls ages 9-14. $10.

OUTDOORS CRADLE OF FORESTRY Route 276, Pisgah National Forest, 877-3130, cradleofforestry.org • SA (9/27), 9am-5pm National Public Lands Day celebration includes guided walks, gardening and service projects. Free. LAKE JAMES STATE PARK 6883 N.C. Hwy. 126, Nebo, 584-7728 • WE (9/24), 3pm "Creeking," ranger-led Paddy's Creek discovery hike. • TH (9/25), 10am - "Fall Migration Birk Trek," rangerled avian exploration. • FR (9/26), 10am - "Boat Tour," ranger-led fall color experience. Registration required. • SA (9/27), 10am - "Native Plant Gardening," ranger-led gardening workshop. • MO (9/29), 9am - "Explore Lake James by Canoe,"

ranger-led canoe instruction and tour. Registration required. • TU (9/30), 6pm "Overmountain Victory Trail Hike," short hike, storytelling and music. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 877-4423 • SA (9/27), 10am-3pm National Hunting and Fishing Day exhibits and demonstrations. Free.

PUBLIC LECTURES ASHEVILLE HISTORY CENTER 253-9231, smh@wnchistory.org • TU (10/2), 7pm - "Spiritual But Not Religious... Before Spiritual But Not Religious Was Cool: Reconsidering Hillbilly Faithfulness." Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. PACK MEMORIAL LIBRARY 67 Haywood St. • TH (10/2), 6pm - "Designing Smaller Homes that Live BIG!" with architect Tina Govan. PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted. • FR (9/26), 11:25am - "Africa in the Modern World." Lipinsky Auditorium. • FR (9/26), 11:25am - "Black Protest Thought." Humanities Lecture Hall. • SA (9/27), 8:30am - "The Heart and Science of Compassion: An Introduction to Cognitively-Based Compassion Training." Sherrill Center. • MO (9/29), 11:25am "Gender and Sexuality in Medieval Europe." Lipinsky Auditorium. • TU (9/30), 7pm - Evenings at the Cabaret Weimar series: "Why Weimar?" In the Reuter Center. PUBLIC LECTURES AT WCU wcu.edu Free unless otherwise noted. • MO (9/29), 6pm - "Teach Like a Pirate," education techniques with Dave Burgess.

SENIORS OLLI AT UNCA 251-6140, olliasheville.com, olli@unca.edu • FR (9/26), 11:30am - "The Asheville Citizen-Times' Playbook," with Josh Awtry. Held in the Reuter Center.

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ABOUT THE TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION TECHNIQUE: FREE INTRODUCTORY TALK (pd.) Thursday, 6:30 p.m., Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut. 828-254-4350 or MeditationAsheville. org ASHEVILLE COMPASSIONATE COMMUNICATION CENTER (pd.) Free practice group. Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work and community by practicing compassionate communication (nonviolent communication). 252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com • 2nd and 4th Thursdays, 5:00-6:00pm. ASHEVILLE INSIGHT MEDITATION (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays. 7–8:30pm . Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 8084444, www.ashevillemeditation.com ASHEVILLE OPEN HEART MEDITATION (pd.) Experience effortless techniques that connect you to your heart and the Divine within you. Your experience will deepen as you are gently guided in this complete practice. Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary. org.

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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

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also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

Series," Tina Barr presents butterfly poems. Free.

AWAKENING DEEPEST NATURE MEDITATION CLASS (pd.) Consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. Meditation and lessons in unorthodox enlightenment. Mondays, 6:30-7:30pm, Asheville Friends Meeting House at 227 Edgewood Ave. (off Merrimon). Donation. (828) 258-3241, healing@billwalz.com www.billwalz.com

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted. • TH (9/25), 5:30-7:30pm - Not for Children Only series: Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. Registration required. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

GREAT TREE ZEN TEMPLE 679 Lower Flat Creek, Alexander, 645-2085, greattreetemple.org • Last SUNDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Family Meditation with Rev. Teijo Munnich MOUNTAIN MINDFULNESS SANGHA mountainmindfulness.org • MONDAYS, 7-8:30pm & THURSDAYS, 8-8:40am - In the tradition of Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh. All levels. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave.

13th Annual Weave the Web Festival WHAT: A gathering of exhibitors offering intuitive/psychic/tarot readings, aura photography, art and crafts and more. WHERE: Crystal Visions, 5426 Asheville Hwy, Hendersonville WHEN: 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Saturday, Sept. 27 Mountain Xpress: How did you get started as an intuitive reader? Julie King: All of my life I have “seen” other realities, and I had a keen thirst to understand the nature of the universe and my place in it. I got my first tarot deck at 13 and began to study spiritual principles through books and teachings offered by the Theosophical society, Episcopal and Unity churches. After experimentng with many spiritual paths, I began doing readings and spiritual healing work professionally in my early 20s. What would you tell people who may be interested intuitive readings but are skeptical about

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their accuracy? How can someone be sure that practitioners are bona fide? The only way to experience something is to try it and have fun! Experiment with an open heart and mind and choose a “reader” who resonates with you. This will be the first step to having an enlightening session. No one is 100 percent accurate all of the time, especially in relationship to the future, because the future is determined by our choices made today. A good reader helps the client create a happy life by illuminating potential futures and then showing various paths to the desired outcome. This also may include some focus on situations that may be hindering progress toward the client’s fulfillment. There are numerous different types and styles of readings and readers. … One size [does not] fits all when it comes to practitioners and how “good” they are for the client. ... Sometimes an intuitive will be very accurate for one client and not so much for the next.

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SHAMBHALA MEDITATION CENTER 19 Westwood Place, 200-5120, shambhalaashvl@gmail.com • SUNDAYS, 10am-noon Morning sitting meditation. Instruction provided. Free. • 1st THURSDAYS, 6-7pm Public group sitting and Dharma reading/discussion. Free. SPIRITUAL STUDY GROUP 275-8226, washboardben@ gmail.com • TUESDAYS, 9:30-11am Shares spiritual paths, journeys and individual callings. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Rd. ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, stgeorge.diocesewnc.org • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon "Spirit Collage," making collage prayer cards. Free. UR LIGHT CENTER 2196 N.C. Highway 9, Black Mountain, 669-6845, urlight.org • SA (9/27), 7:30pm - Richard Shulman, meditative piano concert and prayer session. $15.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FR (9/26), 12pm - "Brown Bag

COURTYARD GALLERY In the Phil Mechanic Building 109 Roberts St., 273-3332, ashevillecourtyard.com • MONDAYS, 8pm - True Home Open Mic. FOUNTAINHEAD BOOKSTORE 408 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-1870, fountainheadbookstore.com • SA (9/27), 7pm Bookapalooza, bi-annual party for book lovers. $11. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted. • WE (9/24), 7pm - Discussion of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés book Women Who Run With the Wolves. • TH (9/25), 7pm - Works in Translation Bookclub: The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq. • FR (9/26), 7pm - Alan Gratz discusses his book The League of Seven. • SA (9/27), 3pm - Francine Bryson discusses her book Blue Ribbon Baking from a Redneck Kitchen. SOULSPEAK ASHEVILLE facebook.com/ SoulspeakAsheville • SA (9/27), 7pm - Open poetry slam for poets ages 12-21. $12 adults/$7 students/ free for teachers. Held at Rainbow Mountain Community School, 574 Haywood Road • SA (9/27), 3-5pm - "Mixing Comedy and Tragedy in Spoken Word," workshop for poets ages 12-21. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY 1 University Way, Cullowhee, 227-7211 • FR (9/26), 2:30pm - Spoken word workshop with poet Matthew Foley. Free.

SPORTS AMATEUR POOL LEAGUE (pd.) Beginners welcome & wanted! Choose from Asheville or Arden, Hendersonville or Waynesville. HAVE FUN. MEET PEOPLE. PLAY POOL. 828-3298197 www.BlueRidgeAPA.com ONGOING – weekly league play

VOLUNTEERING FOUR SEASONS COMPASSION FOR LIFE (pd.) New Volunteer Training. Dates: Orientation: Monday, October 6, 1-4:30 PM. Patient Care: October 8, 13, and 15 (1-4:30 PM). Training location: WCU Campus, Biltmore Park Town Square, Suite 300. 28 Schenck Parkway, Asheville. To register, please call Volunteer Coordinator Mike Garner @ 233-0948. ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION 350-6135, Julia.Shuster@asheville.k12.nc.us • FR (9/26), 4-5:30pm - Training session for volunteers interested being mentors. Held at 85 Mountain St. HANDS ON ASHEVILLEBUNCOMBE 2-1-1, handsonasheville.org • TH (9/25), 6-7:30pm Volunteers needed to bake cookies for families staying at Rathbun House. Registration required. Held at Lewis Rathbun Center, 121 Sherwood Rd. • TH (9/25), 11am-12:30pm - Volunteers needed to cook and serve homemade lunch for veterans. Registration required. Held at Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry, 1329 Tunnel Rd. • SA (9/27) - Volunteers needed to unpack and price merchandise. Held at Ten Thousand Villages, 10 College St. LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 254-3442, volunteers@litcouncil. com • WE (9/24), 9-10:30am & TH (9/25), 5:30-7pm - Information session for volunteers interested in tutoring adults in basic literacy skills including reading, writing, math and ESL. No prior tutoring experience or foreign language skills required. For more volunterring opportunities, visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

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SPOTLIGHT ON Small Towns A SENSE OF PLACE Madison County towns shine

Madison County’s towns offer as much variety as the landscape itself. Marshall (population 876) sits between the French Broad River and the edge of a mountain, its downtown distinguished by its Neoclassical Revival courthouse (designed by noted architect Richard Sharp Smith) and a lively mix of businesses. Nearby Mars Hill (population 2,061) — home to Mars Hill University — pays annual tribute to the region’s strong traditional mountain music and crafts with the Mars Hill Heritage Festival (10 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 4). And tiny Hot Springs (population 560), at the confluence of the French Broad River and Spring Creek, features rafting, the Appalachian Trail and the mineral springs for which the town is named at The Hot Springs Resort & Spa. That’s just for starters; read on to see what Xpress readers deemed the best.

Flow — voted Best Art Gallery in Marshall — fills its space with locally crafted items from more than 40 artists.

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Everything about Flow underscores the thoughtful nature of the Marshall cooperative art gallery, which is owned, operated and curated by member artists. The gallery embraces the Slow Craft movement, which involves respect for traditional methods to create distinctive, lasting objects with regional flavor. Launched in June 2010, Flow is filled with locally crafted items from more than 40 artists — including woodwork, jewelry, clothing, quilts, pottery, glass, stationery, photography, paintings, drawings, sculpture and body-care products. “We are inspired by … an increasing sense that we are in part responsible for the growth of Marshall and Madison County as a crafts destination,” says member artist Bucky Parker.

Opened in 2006 as a natural foods co-op and convenience store, Good Stuff has weathered three moves and an identity shift into a performance venue and bar. It now boasts a kitchen (Taco Tuesdays!), classic silent movie screenings, consignment art, beer and wine, and live music — hosting everything from old-time jams to nationally touring bands. As owners Amy Gillespie and Jon Curtis note: ““We’ve always just changed our business model to what people wanted us to be. When beer and wine sales were legalized, and people wanted a hangout spot more than a community grocery store, we changed to fill that niche. We just keep changing.” And in this case, change is good.

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14 Main St., Marshall 649-1686 • flowmarshall.com

38 Bailey’s Branch, Marshall 649-9711 • heygoodstuff.com

10 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1617 • zumacoffee.blogspot.com

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Over its 14 years in business, Zuma Coffee has become a treasured corner of downtown Marshall. Zuma serves up organic, fair-trade coffees, plus house-made desserts and creative, healthy comfort food, including bagel sandwiches, salads, wraps and soups. Owner Joel Friedman says customers can expect a welcoming atmosphere and smiling employees. “We host a unique blend of locals whose families have been here for generations as well as newcomers and visitors from around the country,” he says. “What we sell is community … what we serve are really good products.” It all comes together at the popular Thursday night Zuma Jam sessions — old-time and bluegrass aficionados are advised to get there well before the 7 p.m. start time to score a coveted seat. 2 Good Stuff

3 ArtiSun Gallery & Marketplace

3 Madison County Arts Council

3 Spring Creek Tavern

90 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1301 • madisoncountyarts.com 16 S. Andrews Ave., Hot Springs 622-3573 • artisungallery.com

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10 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1617 • zumacoffee.blogspot.com 90 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1301 • madisoncountyarts.com

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38 Bailey’s Branch, Marshall 649-9711 • heygoodstuff.com

145 Bridge St., Hot Springs 622-0187 • thespringcreektavern.com

38 Bailey’s Branch, Marshall 649-9711 • heygoodstuff.com 145 Bridge St., Hot Springs 622-0187 • thespringcreektavern.com

3 Hot Springs Resort & Spa 315 Bridge St., Hot Springs 622-7676 • nchotsprings.com

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38 Bailey’s Branch, Marshall 649-9711 • heygoodstuff.com

2 Iron Horse Station Restaurant & Tavern 24 S. Andrew Ave., Hot Springs 866-402-9377 • theironhorsestation.com

3 Spring Creek Tavern

145 Bridge St., Hot Springs 622-0187 • thespringcreektavern.com

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The evening stage at Mars Hill’s Lumsford Festival features such regional acts as the Cole Mountain Cloggers.

Art on the Island On Saturday, Sept. 27, Marshall’s Blannahassett Island will be the site of the annual Art on the Island festival, a family-friendly art fair with live music and kids’ activities. Located adjacent to the Marshall High Studio building, a former high school building retrofitted as artist studios, the riverside event site will showcase handmade wares ranging from functional to decorative. With 50 artists vending at this year’s fair, there is a focus on artists who live within Madison County but artists from the wider region will also be exhibiting at the event. What the organizers did is “take the event off the asphalt and put it under the trees and in the middle of the river,” says Madison County Arts Council’s program director, Erich Hubner. He explains that the festival grew out of a springtime event in downtown Marshall called Madison Celebrates Art. “After the Town of Marshall received a grant to put a stage on the island, the MCAC decided to create a new event and move it to the fall.” The stage, a project funded by The Rural Center, was constructed about four years ago.

one town, two great fall festivals

Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival • www.lunsfordfestival.com

Twelve-step itinerary “1) Leave Asheville and drive along the French Broad River. 2) End up in a town that looks like a movie set. 3) Cross the river and head onto the island- yep the island. 4) Discover and buy some great art for yourself or as a gift. 5) Have lunch. 6) Hear some great music. 7) Check out Marshall High Studios. 8) Wade in the river. 9) Fall asleep under a tree. 10) Get in the car. 11) You’ll be back in Asheville in 20 minutes. 12) Easy peasy, great day.” — Erich Hubner, Madison County Art Council program director

WHAT Art on the Island, madisoncountyarts.com

WHEN Saturday, Sept. 27, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

WHERE Blannahassett Island, Downtown Marshall

GROWING COMMUNITY

Music • Crafts • Food • Dancing • Family Fun

Madison County Heritage Festival www.marshillheritagefestival.org

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continued COFFEE HOUSE

3 Flow

1 Zuma Coffee z

14 Main St., Marshall 649-1686 • flowmarshall.com

2 Laurel River Store

1 Flow

10 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1617 • zumacoffee.blogspot.com 5150 N.E. U.S. Highway 25/70, Hot Springs 260-6462

BREAKFAST RESTAURANT

1 Zuma Coffee z x

10 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1617 • zumacoffee.blogspot.com

2 Smoky Mountain Diner

70 Lance Ave., Hot Springs 622-7571 • smokymountaindinerhotsprings.com

3 The Take-Out Riverside Grill U.S. Highway 25/70, Hot Springs 775-7676 • avl.mx/0dg

LUNCH RESTAURANT

1 Zuma Coffee z x

10 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1617 • zumacoffee.blogspot.com

2 Pork & Pie (CLOSED) 3 The Take Out Riverside Grill

U.S. Highway 25/70, Hot Springs 775-7676 • avl.mx/0dg photo courtesy of the festival

The Mars Hill Heritage Festival features traditional music, including the Trantham Family.

DINNER RESTAURANT

1 Pork & Pie (CLOSED) 2 Iron Horse Station Restaurant & Tavern 24 S. Andrew Ave., Hot Springs 866-402-9377 • theironhorsestation.com

3 Mountain Magnolia Inn, Suites & Restaurant g

204 Lawson St., Hot Springs 800-914-9306 • mountainmagnoliainn.com

SWEETS/DESSERT PLACE

1 Zuma Coffee z x

10 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1617 • zumacoffee.blogspot.com

2 Doughlicious Breads & More

133 S. Main St., Marshall 273-4862 • doughliciousbreads.com

3 The Take Out Riverside Grill

U.S. Highway 25/70, Hot Springs 775-7676 • avl.mx/0dg

REASON TO LIVE IN YOUR TOWN

1 The people 2 Hot springs 3 Mountains LOCALLY-OWNED RETAIL OUTLET

1 Penland & Sons Department Store

50 S. Main St., Marshall 649-2811

Walking through the double doors at Penland & Sons Department Store is like taking a step back in time, says owner Barbara Penland. In fact, she says, many customers exclaim: “Oh my goodness! This reminds me of my grandfather’s store!” In business for over 100 years, the locally owned shop holds true to the notion of a traditional department store, stocking clothing, books, quilts, boots, purses, jams and jellies, jewelry and more. Menswear, including the rugged Carhartt and Pointer Brand labels, counts among the most popular items. Penland & Sons honors another time-honored tradition: stocking local pottery, soaps and books pertaining to Madison County. That’s a retail trend we can all get behind. 2 Bluff Mountain Outfitters 152 Bridge St., Hot Springs 622-7162 • bluffmountain.com

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INNOVATIVE BUSINESS 14 Main St., Marshall 649-1686 • flowmarshall.com

2 Pot Pie Shop

133 S. Main St., Suite 101, Marshall 545-0664 • potpieshop.wordpress.com

NEW BUSINESS (OPENED IN LAST 12 MONTHS)

1 Marshall Container Co.

10 S. Main St., Marshall 319-5354 • marshallcontainer.com

Marshall Container Co. offers an unusual hybrid — a combination of ceramics workshop and neighborhood pub. The storefront spins records, fills growlers and serves pints of craft beer, local cider and some mean bar snacks (including house-made pickles, artisinal meats and cheeses and vegan brownies from Superseriousweets). In the back, the workshop produces beer growlers, fermenting crocks and fixtures for residential and commercial spaces. “It was important for me to be involved in the community in some way, and having the bar allows me to work independently in the studio but also have an open door for people to come in and hang out,” says owner Melissa Robinson. It all works, declare Xpress readers.

2 Pork & Pie (CLOSED) BUSINESS THAT GIVES BACK TO THE COMMUNITY

1 Zuma Coffee z

10 S. Main St., Marshall 649-1617 • zumacoffee.blogspot.com

2 French Broad Rafting & Ziplines

9800 U.S. Highway 70, Marshall 800-570-7238 • frenchbroadrafting.com

2 Hot Springs Community Learning Center P.O. Box 94, Hot Springs 28743 622-9575 • hsclc.org

STREET OR ROAD

1 Main Street Marshall

WHAT YOUR TOWN NEEDS

1 More restaurants 2 New businesses and more visitors 3 Greenways and bike paths LOCAL GOVERNMENT FAILURE

1 Parking 2 Public schools HAIR STYLING SALON

1 Pam’s Hair Design

45 Sharp Hollow Road, Marshall 649-1622

A great haircut can give your whole look a boost. And getting a smart cut starts with finding the right salon and hair stylist. For Xpress readers, that shop is Pam’s Hair Design outside Marshall. Pam Gunter opened her salon in 2001 after moving back to her hometown to continue her profession. A professional cosmetologist for 18 years, Gunter enjoys being able to change someone’s hair and see that person beam with happiness at how good they look. “It has been a pleasure bringing more beauty to my small mountain community,” she says. “I continue to strive to bring out the best!” Her fans appreciate the effort.

photo courtesy of the festival

Mars Hill’s Heritage and Lunsford festivals take place almost side-by-side downtown on Saturday, Oct. 4. Here, attendees witness old-fashioned apple butter being made.

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The rugged beauty of Mitchell and Yancey counties never fails to impress. Home to the highest peak east of the Mississippi (Mount Mitchell, 6,684 feet), this corner of Western North Carolina also boasts towns and communities buoyed by strong artsand-crafts traditions. Yancey County’s Burnsville (population 1,693), anchored by a historic town square, offers assorted shops and restaurants and, for nearly 60 years, the Mount Mitchell Crafts Fair. To the southeast, the tightly knit Celo community (home to the Arthur Morgan School) is made up of about 40 households organized around a land-trust system that runs by consensus. Meanwhile, Mitchell County’s largest town, Spruce Pine (population 2,175), is rebounding after arson fires burned six downtown buildings in 2007; work is ongoing to revitalize one of those downtown commercial spaces to create Central Park and a visitor’s center. Read on to see what Xpress readers love best about these mountain hubs.

BURNSVILLE, CELO SPRUCE PINE ART GALLERY

1 Toe River Arts Council, Spruce Pine and Burnsville galleries x 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine 765-0520 • toeriverarts.org

With recent shows that range from weaver Edwina Bringle’s vivid fiber work to Debbie Littledeer’s whimsical dancing rabbit illustrations, it’s easy to see why Xpress readers gave props to the Toe River Arts Council’s Burnsville and Spruce Pine art galleries. Monthly exhibitions highlight both traditional and contemporary work of artists and craftspeople. And the TRAC gallery gift shops feature work from over 100 local artists in a variety of media. It’s all part of the nonprofit art council’s 38-year history of promoting the arts in Mitchell and Yancey counties — which also includes art programs in the schools, studio tours and the Arts Resource Center (above the Spruce Pine Gallery), which hosts entrepreneurial workshops for artists, craft classes and more. Toe River Arts Council, Spruce Pine and Burnsville Galleries 102 W. Main St., Burnsville 682-7215 • toeriverarts.org

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2 Penland School of Crafts

67 Doras Trail (P.O. Box 37), Penland 28765 765-2359 • penland.org

3 The Design Gallery

7 South Main St., Burnsville 678-9869 • the-design-gallery.com

MUSIC VENUE

1 The Dispensary & Upper Club 271 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine 765-0050 • dispensarybar.com

What, you may ask, does The Dispensary & Upper Club dispense? Housed in the former 1950sera Day’s Drug Store — complete with an old-time soda fountain — the membership club now dispenses live music, wine, beer, mixed drinks, and assorted soups, snack plates and desserts. Recent bookings include acts ranging from the classic country of Gloria Coffey and the Old Hat Band to Boone-based rocker Melissa Reaves. The club also offers biweekly wine and beer tastings. So far, the formula seems to be working. Facebook fan Gordon Shurtleff gives the business five stars, remarking: “To me, The Dispensary and Upper Club is the evolution of the Spruce Pine neighborhood watering hole I’ve been waiting for!”

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continued along with craft and domestic beers — all with a neighborhood bar-and-grill feel. “Our family has had a long-standing passion … in the restaurant industry,” Hefner says. “We want to continue provide a good service to generations to come.“ And that’s a tradition worth maintaining.

2 Dry County Brewing Company/The Pizza Shop g 585 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine 765-4583 • drycountybrewing.com

COFFEE HOUSE Xpress readers love their coffee, and they bestowed top honors on two Mitchell County java joints.

1 Appalachian Java & Cafe photo courtesy of Spruce Pine

Population 2,175 — Spruce Pine’s small-town charm will soon be enhanced by a visitor’s center, planned where one of seven buildings were burned down in 2007. 2 Kirkwood’s Cafe

114 Main St., Burnsville 678-9362 • kirkwoodscafe.com

NEIGHBORHOOD GATHERING SPOT

1 Pack & Ship Center

962 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine 765-0220

If community is where you find it, then Xpress readers seem to have found it at Spruce Pine’s Pack & Ship Center. Although a packing and shipping company might not immediately come to mind as a neighborhood gathering spot, most people are bound to make it there eventually when it’s the only one in the county. “Pretty much everyone in town stops through,” says owner David Schultz, who didn’t hide his surprise when learning of his win. But Pack & Ship Center does it all, from UPS and FedEx services to U-Haul rentals — all with an eye toward friendly customer service. And isn’t friendliness what you want in a neighbor? 2 Dry County Brewing Company/The Pizza Shop g

765-4583 • drycountybrewing.com

The made-from-scratch pizza and in-house brewery at Dry County Brewing Co./The Pizza Shop creates enthusiastic fans. Take Robin Hale: “It’s easy to tell that lots of love (and good ingredients) go into the unique beer selection and delicious pizza,” she posted on Facebook. The brewing part of the business (under brewmaster Chad Mohr) was launched in 2010 after Spruce Pine voters approved alcohol sales the year before. The overwhelming response led the business to relocate to a space that doubled the seating. “When we moved, we extended our vision to create a community gathering spot, which feels a lot like Cheers to our regular customers, and quickly became a favorite to our newcomers,” says owner Jennifer Rambo. Cheers to that.

2 Downtown 2 Home BAR

585 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine 765-4583 • drycountybrewing.com

1 Hef’s Restaurant and Bar

2 DT’s Blue Ridge Java

Family tradition runs deep at Hef’s Restaurant and Bar, which focuses on good food, good times and good beer. “We have four generations cooking, serving and managing our business,” says co-owner Jason Hefner, noting that the family’s first restaurant, Don’s Drive-In, opened in Spruce Pine in 1958. Hef’s serves up pizza, wings, burgers and more, focusing on fresh, quality food

169 Locust St., Spruce Pine 766-8008 • dtsblueridgejava.com

SATURDAY-NIGHT HANGOUT

1 Dry County Brewing Company/The Pizza Shop g 585 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine

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89 Locust St., Spruce Pine 765-2245 • avl.mx/0d2

8 W. Main St., Burnsville 682-0120 • appalachianjava.com

Just steps from Burnsville’s town square, you can pull up a chair outside Appalachian Java & Café and watch the world go by. Coffee rules (don’t forget to ask for a warmed mug), but the café also has an extensive breakfast and lunch menu, including pastries, bagels, wraps, sandwiches, quiche, and fresh salads. Inventive monthly drink specials currently include the Arnold Palmer freeze (a tea and lemonade concoction popularized by the famous golfer), as well as a banana cream pie smoothie and a MoonPie frappe. “We have friendly service, and we’re a family-run business specializing in fun, family and good service,” says Crystal Riddle, daughter of owner Gerald Riddle. What’s not to like?

1 DT’s Blue Ridge Java

169 Locust St., Spruce Pine 766-8008 • dtsblueridgejava.com

Named for the first letter of each owner’s first name, David and Tricia Niven opened DT’s Blue Ridge Java 11 years ago — and it’s since become a Spruce Pine community gathering spot. Customers extol its friendly service, “amazingly good” food, coffee done right, and comfortable atmosphere (aah, couches). Along with coffee, tea and specialty drinks, the café features breakfast choices such as Cutler’s Calamity (a bagel topped with cream cheese, egg, bacon, Provolone cheese and oregano) and lunch offerings including sandwiches, soup and salad. “This is a gem to find in Spruce Pine and you will be glad you found it,” thegrayhair posted on TripAdvisor. Well said.

BREAKFAST RESTAURANT

1 Li’l Smoky Drive In & Restaurant 702 E. Main St., Burnsville 682-6802

Chains like Sonic and Checkers trade on the nostalgia of the drive-in era — but Yancey County landmark Li’l Smoky’s Drive-In Restaurant is the genuine article. The Burnsville eatery, with its iconic sign and umbrella-covered seating, has been slinging burgers since 1953. Xpress readers, however, highlighted the restaurant’s breakfast offerings for praise. The drive-in promotes its breakfast served all day, noting that it’s especially wise to get there early for the coveted biscuits and gravy. The business assuredly has its loyal fans, including Facebook devotee Richard L. Isaacs. “Always good and enjoyable when I visit,” posted Isaacs. “Long live Li’l Smoky’s.” LUNCH RESTAURANT

1 Knife and Fork g x

61 Locust St., Spruce Pine 765-1511 • knifeandforknc.com

At Knife & Fork, eating fresh means eating what’s in season. Chef Nate Allen — named best small-town chef in America by Cooking Light magazine in 2011 — notes that 80 percent of the ingredients and materials for his and wife Wendy Gardner’s casual fine-dining establishment come from within a 30-mile radius of the restaurant. “It is a taste of time and place,” Allen says. “The business model is similar to that of a restaurant from 100 years ago.” Spring calls for trout and rabbit, while fall menus tend to feature dishes including lamb and duck. Along with seasonal variations, the menu changes daily as well. Xpress readers — and the rest of the world — have happily taken note.

2 Garden Deli g

107 Town Square, Burnsville 682-3946 • garden-deli.com

3 El Ranchero

202 Locust St., Spruce Pine 765-6222

DINNER RESTAURANT

1 Knife and Fork g x

61 Locust St., Spruce Pine 765-1511 • knifeandforknc.com

2 Penland Coffee House at Penland School of Crafts

2 Stuart’s on the Green

Penland 765-1083 • penland.org

2360 Swiss Pine Lake Drive, Spruce Pine 765-6589 • stuartsonthegreen

3 Starbucks in Ingles-East Burnsville

3 Bubba’s Good Eats

400 U.S. Highway 19E Bypass, Burnsville 682-6272 • starbucks.com

294 E. Main St., Burnsville 678-3388 • bubbasgoodeats.com

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107 Town Square, Burnsville 682-3946 • garden-deli.com

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SWEETS/DESSERT PLACE

1 Knife and Fork g

1 Oak Avenue

61 Locust St., Spruce Pine 765-1511 • knifeandforknc.com

WHAT YOUR TOWN NEEDS

REASON TO LIVE IN YOUR TOWN

1 Restaurants 2 Bike lanes

1 Beauty 2 The arts 3 People 3 Small town

3 More downtown parking 3 Someplace to dance LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACCOMPLISHMENT

LOCALLY-OWNED RETAIL OUTLET

1 Something Special Gift Shop 12 W. Main St., Burnsville 682-9101

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Something Special Gift Shop truly does live up to its name, Xpress readers affirm. Established in 1985, the shop — housed in a historic Main Street building in downtown Burnsville — offers a plethora of enticing items. “There is a good selection of local pottery, books of local interest, assortment of candles and one of our best-selling jewelry lines, Ginger Snaps,” says owner Dennis Matelski. “Customers are surprised by the large variety of interesting items with the charm of an old country store environment.” Along with the smorgasbord of inventory, Matelski prides himself on outstanding customer service. Now there’s a winning combination.

1 Scaring away industry/job providers 2 Bike lanes 2 Failure to keep roads clean and repaired HAIR STYLING SALON

1 Mr Christopher’s Zen (CLOSED) Spruce Pine

2 Jill’s Hairport 212 W. Main St., Burnsville 682-2415

3 Pigtails 2 Robertson St., Burnsville 682-9908

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This Saturday, Sept. 27, is a chance to step back in time and enjoy a daylong outing that is simple and sweet. Burnsville’s Town Square will be the site of The Old Timey Fall Festival, sponsored by the Yancey History Association. A pie-eating contest, children’s activities, and a schedule of entertainment are all a part of the festival’s events. Take a gander at antique cars, trucks and tractors which will be paraded through town in the morning, followed by a day-long display and awards distributed later that afternoon. Along with cloggers and storytelling sessions, entertainment will include musical acts playing the rich sounds of old-time, bluegrass,

fiddling, and down home. Of special note, the Wooly Worm races begin at 2:45 P.M.

WHAT Old Timey Fall Festival, oldtimeyfallfestival.com

WHEN Saturday, Sept. 27, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

WHERE Town Square, Burnsville

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HUMOR

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Briefs Urban Outﬁtters apologizes for vintage Kent State sweatshirt that looks blood-stained

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• Kids learn backward “y’uns” instead of “y’all.” • Gee haw whimmy diddle in every classroom instead of a computer. • Neighbors look down their noses at liberal, “so-called” Klansmen. • Sex ed consists of carefully interpreting various after-dark barnyard snorts and moans. • Contact with forward-thinking Amish strictly forbidden. • Burgeoning amateur dentist population. • Impossible radio-listening choice between classic rock, pop-country or classic rock. • Cell phone reception in mountains less effective than hollering. • Staying current with one million NASCAR statistics.

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Downtown fairies fear gentriﬁcation

Face of fairy neighborhood changing with arrival of 2nd-homeowning fairies

New construction on both sides of Gelsey Pepperglow’s home.

ASHEVILLE, MONDAY — Residents of downtown’s fairy district are facing an uncertain future after an explosion of fairy homebuilding has hiked property values and taxes, leading to cries of gentrification from the borough’s original tenants. “When I moved here, there was nothing on Woodfin Street,” said Gelsey Pepperglow. “We used found materials and fairy sweat to build our curb-level home.” Woodfin Street’s first fairy residents dealt with a mixture of interest from human passersby, as well as the ups and downs that come with living downtown. “After a while, you don’t notice the smell of feet,” said Pepperglow. “But the cats in Chicken Foster Puck says vacation homes Alley were a have blocked the view from his problem. And home (lower right in photo). don’t get me started on grasshopper parking.” As more local fairies moved into the neighborhood, tourists noticed the charming fairy homes and posted pictures online, leading to increased interest from out-of-town fairies and sidewalk developers looking to build vacation homes. “Have you seen the size of the new fairy homes? Who’s living there, trolls?” asked Foster Puck, who moved to Woodfin Street before the fairy housing boom. Full-time residents have complained of the nonstop sound of construction as each new fairy high-rise goes up, but others welcome the uptick in fairy homebuilding. “We cater to high-end faeries and fays,” said Yarrow Vinebug of the Sprite Homebuilders Association. “They are attracted to the bohemian pixie lifestyle Asheville provides, and they provide work to the construction gnomes.” Nonetheless, Woodfin Street’s full-time fairy residents worry about the future. “I can’t spend six buttons every year on property tax,” said Teasel Quillglitter. “If elves start showing up, I’m moving to a meadow.”

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NEW FRONTIERS IN AMERICAN VACUOUSNESS The WE cable network disclosed in August that it had ordered a nine-episode adaptation of a British series, Sex Box, in which a couple enters a large opaque chamber on stage and has intercourse. The pair, pre- and post-coitally, are clothed and seated before a panel of probably D-List celebrities, and will respond to questions and comment on their feelings and techniques (likely enduring praise and criticisms about their “work”). The series will debut sometime in 2015. (However, as The Daily Beast website pointed out, it might also be true that still, in 2015, even a splitsecond’s glimpse of a female nipple on any broadcast TV show would create a national scandal.) THE ENTREPRENEURIAL SPIRIT • London designer Gigi Barker recently unveiled the Skin chair (priced at about $2,500), made of leather but with a “pheromoneimpregnated silicone base” that makes it feel (and smell, perhaps) like one is “lounging in the fleshy, comforting folds of a man’s belly.” The Skin was scheduled for exhibit this month at the London Design Festival. • China’s insurance companies offer some of the world’s quirkiest policies, according to a September Reuters dispatch from Hong Kong. People’s Insurance Group, for example, will pay out in case a customer’s children display disappointingly “mischievous and destructive” habits. The Ancheng company offers a policy protecting a customer in case his mouth is burned eating “hotpot.” Ping An Insurance Group (actually, the world’s second-largest by market value) has recently offered an “accidental pregnancy before honeymoon” policy, and is one of three companies that competed to sell couples compensation in case a marriage is disrupted by a “concubine.” UNCLEAR ON THE CONCEPT • New Orleans Juvenile Court Judge Yolanda King, already indict-

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ed for falsifying her home address in her 2013 campaign for office, was spotted by a Times-Picayune reporter on Aug. 20 filing three registration papers for the Nov. 4 election in which she swore (under oath) to three different addresses — two of which appeared to be clearly erroneous. Her lawyer told the newspaper that the judge, who was suspended by the Louisiana Supreme Court following her indictment, had merely “misinterpreted” the instructions. • As part of a nationwide distribution of surplus military equipment, 10 Texas school districts eagerly acquired a total of 64 M16 rifles, 18 M14s, 25 automatic pistols and magazines capable of holding 4,500 rounds of ammunition. District officials referred generally to the need to protect against school attacks such as the notorious incidents in Colorado and Connecticut, but a Houston area police chief, seeking to reassure a nervous public, promised that the equipment would be used only by tactically trained officers and would otherwise be locked in the department’s armory. A critic of the program told KHOU-TV that statistically, the typical activeshooter school situation lasts 12 minutes, hardly enough time to get to the armory and load up. LEAST-COMPETENT CRIMINALS (1) Clearwater, Florida, police pulled over a “suspicious” car on July 24 and ultimately arrested the driver and his passenger. The back seat was loaded with potted plants — in fact, potted pot plants, so crowded that the leaves and branches of some were sticking out the windows. (2) Daniel Warn, 28, was arrested in July in Costa Mesa, California, and charged with robbing an El Pollo Loco restaurant. Police were notified when Warn, wearing the same distinctive hat and bright green shirt seen on the surveillance video, later came to the restaurant to order a meal. X

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Ayurveda rising New program highlights local practice, art and training

BY EMILY NICHOLS emilynicholsphoto@gmail.com

Ayurvedic medicine came to Asheville at least 12 years ago, when Vishnu Dass opened Blue Lotus Ayurveda, a Panchakarma clinic. Back then, “There was nobody practicing clinical Ayurveda in Asheville, and very few in this entire region,” says Dass, who started teaching the art at various yoga and clinical herb schools in the area, including the Asheville Yoga Center, Blue Ridge School of Herbal Medicine and others around the Southeast. This fall, the growth and popularity of the practice and art come of age: The Asheville School of Massage and Yoga has collaborated with local practitioners like Dass to develop the city’s first Ayurveda wellness counselor certification program, a 600-hour curriculum approved by the National Ayurvedic Medical Association. “Developing the curriculum for [the program] was a natural progression of my love for this great path,” says Shala Worsley, director of the Asheville School of Massage

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HELPING HANDS: When Vishnu Dass, above, opened Blue Lotus Ayurveda in 2001, there were no other clinical practices applying the art. This fall, the area’s first Ayurveda wellness counselor certification program launches. Photo by Emily Nichols

and Yoga. The curriculum is laid out in 12 weekend workshops, weekly conference calls and a supervised Ayurveda internship, she explains. The new program suggests a significant growth in the popularity of Ayurveda as a professional alternative to traditional health care in this area, and Worsley hopes it will have a positive impact on the community. “The intention behind [the new program] is to spread the word about this amazing method of natural healthcare, so that our community can grow and thrive,” says Worsley. “Ayurveda empowers people to take charge of their own health and well-being and prevent disease with the help of diet, daily and seasonal routines as well as

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purification and rejuvenation practices.” Worsley notes that the growth of Ayurveda locally will have a positive impact on the health of the community, “as more and more of Asheville’s citizens become aware of the principles of Ayurveda and apply them to their lives by making simple, inexpensive, but deeply effective changes; our community will become stronger and healthier.” But why Asheville? One local practitioner, Uma Thomson, co-owner of Living Alchemy Ayurveda, explains that she was practicing the art in Boulder, Colo., before her husband, Marek, “basically wore me

down over the course of several years to move to Asheville, a more grassroots, affordable and conscious, creative town,” she says. And how did many local practitioners make their way to the Ayurvedic approach? Some became interested in Ayurveda as a natural extension of their yoga studies. “I was already a massage therapist and yoga teacher, and Ayurveda was like an umbrella, unifying and deepening these holistic healing arts.” says Thomson, “Although I am drawn to many forms of holistic health, Ayurveda was the system that worked the best for me to understand my unique constitution and how to orient my whole life toward health and balance.” Dass found the art through the encouragement of his yoga guru and notes that Ayurveda was attractive because “it starts with how we wake up, how we start our day. It is essentially about self-care, working in the foundation of our health rather than trying to wrangle ourselves back to health with herbs and supplements.” Worsley says, “I’m a total Ayurveda nerd. I love studying it, talking to my friends and massage students about it, and putting it to practice in my own life.” A glance at the program curriculum demonstrates the holistic nature and scope of the Ayurvedic system — in Sanskrit, “Ayurveda” means the science or knowledge of life, so naturally, workshops cover Ayurvedic history, cooking, nutrition, case-taking, herbs, cleansing and rejuvenation, fertility, body treatments and marma points — all aimed at providing students with a solid foundation in the fundamental principles of Ayurveda. The curriculum also empowers them to begin taking charge of their health with a natural and practical approach. Says Worsley, “Potentially, our community will spend less on health care costs and have more funds available to use for other purposes like education, the environment, social needs and so on.” More info: ashevillemassageschool.org, bluelotusayurveda.com, joyfulbelly.com, and livingalchemyayurveda.com. X

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‘A groundswell up’ Preserving biodiversity, one seed at a time

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A small seed in the palm of your hand may not look like much; however, within that seed there is incalculable potential. Not only do seeds carry the genetic makeup of their parent plants –– traits carefully selected by farmers throughout human history, they are also powerfully symbolic, representing regional food security, self-sufficiency, cultural heritage and independence. But in order to pass down a seed to the next generation, it must be sown and it must be saved. In Western North Carolina, the Cherokee Indians were the original agriculturists of the Appalachian Mountains. “A lot of what is considered [Appalachian] mountain agriculture actually comes from folks that came to the area learning from the Native Americans,” says Kevin Welch, who started the Center for Cherokee Plants in Cherokee, which is dedicated to saving plant varieties culturally significant to the tribe. But Welch says saving and sharing seeds was not only a fundamen-

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tal part of Cherokee culture, but of all farming cultures. “Seeds have always been shared,” he adds. “It’s actually atypical not to share seeds in our culture.” Common as the practice may once have been, Welch does report a decline in the use of heirloom seeds — or open-pollinated seed that has been preserved and passed down — in favor of commercially available hybrid seeds. Welch says he left his previous job as an engineer to focus on seedsaving — in large part because he saw a threat to the practice.

“Open-pollinated varieties are disappearing,” he says. “The Southern Appalachians are one of the richest, [most] biodiverse areas in the world, and we’re losing them at an alarming rate. In general, I don’t think you can put a dollar amount on seed-saving, but you can put a humanitarian value on it because it affects everyone.” With the industrialization of agriculture, heirloom varieties are being replaced by monoculture crops genetically engineered to produce higher yields in less time,

Welch explains. Most open-pollinated seeds, though they fruit a little later and yield a little less, are acclimatized to their specific area — meaning they are generally more resilient and better-suited to resist disease or withstand extremes in weather, elevation, rainfall or drought. “A lot of the species that are grown now are engineered for perfect shape, color and size, and people like that they grow faster,” Welch says. “A lot of it has to do with the quantity of food produced as opposed to quality. In the case of corn, it’s more feasible to grow engineered corn that produces more bushels per acre than open-pollinated varieties that produce less. That’s one of the reasons you’re seeing [open-pollinated varieties] disappear — it’s not because of the flavor of them, but the amount that they can produce.” According to Janisse Ray, naturalist, activist and author of The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food, all home gardeners need to be empowered to save and preserve the biodiversity of openpollinated seeds. “When we lose agrodiversity, the loss is many-fold,” Ray says. “We lose unique tastes. We lose having a full spectrum of genetic resources from which to mine genes for human needs of all kinds, but especially nutritionally. We lose our capacity to respond to disease and disaster, since we know that the less diverse any system, the greater the potential for its collapse.” So what does it take to save your own seeds? Tony Kleese, owner of Earthwise Organics and a member of the board of directors at the Organic Seed Alliance, urges aspiring seed savers to educate themselves. “I would instruct [anyone interested in seed saving] to go to the OSA website

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BOLD FALL COLOR and read the guide on how to save seed,” Kleese says. “It’s a very complicated thing, more complicated than people realize. There are isolation distances, disease issues, insect issues, drying issues: it does not make any sense to tell somebody to just select seeds from the garden and save them randomly. It’s a very significant process.” There are many factors to take into consideration when saving seeds, affirms Richard Boylan, an agriculture agent with the N.C. Cooperative Extension Service. “Seeds are the plant’s way of biding its time, waiting for the next opportunity to grow,” Boylan says. “While a plant needs plenty of water, air, heat and light, these environmental factors will degrade seed viability. “The best seed storage conditions come when seeds are cleaned well, dried thoroughly, packaged in glass jars or plastic bags and then placed into a freezer,” Boylan continues. “It’s also good to know how long a seed is likely to remain viable even under ideal storage conditions.” Seed harvesting practices are differentiated by the constitution of the plant itself, Boylan adds. Openpollinated plants strongly resemble their parent plant, whereas hybrids produce offspring that vary greatly from the parent. Annual and biennial plants produce seeds in different cycles, and biennials need a second year to produce seed. Some plants produce wet seeds, while others are dried in place on the plant. These factors, among many others including pollination methods, disease management, soil cultivation and harvest timing, greatly influence the process of seed-saving. That said, many agree that seed-saving is still an accessible practice. “It’s not rocket science,” Welch says. “In my own garden, I walk around in the summertime, and I’ll look at the plants. The ones that have the prettiest colors and what I think is the best flavor, I’ll just tie a ribbon around that plant and, in the fall when I harvest, I’ll save the seed. And that’s my seed for next year.” “It’s actually very low-tech,” he adds. “It comes from a groundswell up. It’s not something that someone invented; it comes from farmers and growers who have saved their seeds over eons.” For those interested in further seed-saving instruction, Boylan, in conjunction with the Ashe County

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Feeding a need Asheville/Charleston Underground Chef Collaborative

Asheville and Charleston chefs join forces for a cause

What: Inaugural Asheville/ Charleston Underground Chef Collaborative conceptual dinner for charity, presented by the Blind Pig and Guerrilla Cuisine supper clubs When: Sunday, Sept. 28, 6:30-9:30 p.m.

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It has been said that too many cooks spoil the broth, but four acclaimed chefs from Asheville and Charleston, S.C., will cream that sentiment on Sunday, Sept. 28, and spoil a lucky few with a six-course dinner — all for a worthwhile cause. Ivan Candido of The Admiral and Todd Woods of Seven Sows will combine their culinary skills with Charleston chefs Nate Whiting of the upcoming 492 and Shane Whiddon, most recently the executive chef at Union Provisions, in the inaugural Asheville and Charleston Underground Chef Collaborative, a production of the Blind Pig and Guerrilla Cuisine supper clubs. For $80 per person, the four chefs will serve up a six-course meal — the menu is a closely guarded secret — in a yetto-be-disclosed Asheville location. Executive chef and co-owner of Asheville’s Seven Sows, Mike Moore, who started the Blind

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STIRRING THE POT: Blind Pig Supper Club founder Mike Moore organized the Asheville and Charleston Underground Chef Collaborative to promote culinary cooperation between the two cities and raise money for worthy causes. Photo by Cindy Kunst

Pig Supper Club in 2010 as a way to give back to the community through culinary events, says he is especially excited about this upcoming dinner, because it combines the tastes and talents of chefs from two Southern cities known for their progressive and innovative culinary climate. In October, the chef collaborative will stir the pot and raise funds for charity with a supper club event in Charleston. The beneficiary of Sunday’s event is James “Mac” McCue Campbell, a 7-month-old boy, born seven weeks prematurely with a condition that meant surgeons had to place most of his digestive organs back inside his stomach cavity. He required a tracheotomy and remains on a respirator. Despite intimidating health odds, Mac has been thriving as he commutes back and forth between his Brevard home and the neonatal

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and, more recently, pediatric intensive care unit at Asheville’s Mission Children’s Hospital. Making Mac the focus of Sunday’s supper club event was a no-brainer for Moore, who first met Mac’s father, Jeremy Campbell, known to his friends as “Soup,” in 2006 when both of them kept campers fed and in check at Brevard’s Eagle’s Nest Camp and Outdoor Academy. “I just want to help them. Soup and I go way back, and I cannot even imagine what it feels like to deal with a situation like that,” says Moore. Campbell remembers that after first learning of Mac’s situation, Moore didn’t even ask how he could help — he just offered. “My first reaction, when Mike contacted me and said he wanted to dedicate the supper club to us, was ‘Holy cow,’” Campbell says, “followed by a few expletives.”X

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BABY LOVE: Proceeds from the inaugural Underground Chef Collaborative will benefit baby James “Mac” McCue. Photo courtesy of Jeremy “Soup” Campbell

FOOD

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First fruits Asheville GreenWorks Food Tree Project nurtures communities

To the undiscerning eye, the test orchard at the Buncombe County Sports Park in Candler doesn’t look like much. Just several rows of mounds and sparse, scraggly bushes and trees haphazardly lining the exposed, grassy landscape. “The conditions here are so far from ideal for an orchard,” concedes Eric Bradford, volunteer and clean communities coordinator at Asheville GreenWorks. But surprisingly, he continues, plants like the shade-loving pawpaw, which ought to have died off, have thrived, while hearty species like the beech plum that were expected to do well have struggled. “We’re all supposed tree experts, and we have no idea what they’re doing,” says Bradford. The test plot is part of the nonprofit organization’s Food Tree Project, an ambitious 20-year program developed in concert with the city of Asheville, Buncombe County and the Buncombe Fruit and Nut Club. Launched last year, the program has established four orchards so far, including the test plot; 18 more are planned. The project targets neighborhoods that lack access to fresh, healthy food; and already, these budding community assets are nourishing residents of the Shiloh community, the Asheville Terrace

HEALTHY ROOTS: Since last year, Asheville GreenWorks Food Tree Project has established four orchards in neighborhoods that have limited access to fresh food. The program is planning 18 more plots over the next two decades. Photo by Cindy Kunst

Apartments and the Pisgah View Apartments, where the orchard enhances the existing Peace Garden. To foster a sense of ownership and community involvement, GreenWorks partners with residents, who decide what they want to plant

and help care for the orchards. The test orchard was created to determine which species would survive and produce under lessthan-ideal conditions. The results will guide the planting going forward: pawpaws, blueberries, blackberries and mulberries, among other winners. Most of the plants were either donated by local nurseries, such as Southeastern Native and Carolina Native, or purchased locally with grant funds. “Asheville GreenWorks received a community recreation grant from the Parks and Recreation Department in the spring of 2013,” explains Lynn Pegg of Buncombe County Parks and Recreation. Her agency, she continues, “provided the land for the orchard and has left the upkeep to Asheville GreenWorks and the Fruit and Nut Club.” As for the aesthetics, “It’s hard to have some type of public appreciation of a wild space,” says one Fruit and Nut Club member who asked not to be identified. “People are so used to perennials and lawns that are manicured; they don’t understand or appreciate it. You gotta wait five to 10 years for it to grow.” Bradford, too, counsels patience, saying, “It doesn’t look like much now, but someday people will be throwing a football around the Sports Park and be able to wander down and pick an apple.” Sand Hill-Venable Elementary School is a stone’s throw from the test orchard, within walking distance for the students there. Children at Sand Hill will participate in cultivating the edibles, from the planting and trimming to constructing signs identifying the orchard and its resident species. GreenWorks and its affiliates maintain a strong presence in

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Buncombe County schools, promoting conservation practices. Thanks to the organization’s efforts, these students sort their lunchroom waste, keeping recyclables and compostable material out of the landfill. And in another collaboration, each classroom at Asheville’s Ira B. Jones Elementary nurtured a fruit-bearing tree. Candler resident Jillian Isele, whose son attends Sand Hill Elementary, is thrilled about what the test orchard might mean for him and her two younger sons. She’s signed up with GreenWorks to help maintain the plot, and she looks forward to bringing the boys there to play in the field and pitch in when possible. “It’s important to teach our children to take our food back. This is invaluable,” Isele says. Bradford, meanwhile, is quick to dispel any notion that having an orchard entails too much effort. “This is the laziest form or gardening: You put in a little work upfront and a little bit of trimming,” he explains. “We want people to see how easy it is and then go home and plant in their own backyards.” Isele, too, hopes her volunteer experience will prove educational. “I want to learn about gardening,” she says, adding that the family of five will most certainly be partaking of the fruits of their labors. GreenWorks, too, hopes the orchards will educate a new generation about growing their own food. And in an interesting twist of fate, Bradford once attended an elementary school that was located exactly where the test orchard is now — and he remembers the organization he works for today, then known as Quality Forward, coming to his school. Talk about influencing a child’s life: Today, he and others in the edible plant community are inspired to pass the torch. X

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Monkey business Sweet Monkey Bakery & Café opens in Marshall

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“I was born to bake,” says Hollie West, owner of Sweet Monkey Bakery & Café, a restaurant that opened this summer in downtown Marshall. As a kid growing up in Maui, Hawaii, West begged her mom to buy her an Easy-Bake Oven. “But mom said, ‘No, you have a real one to play with,’” she recalls, “and that’s where it all started.” The “all” West refers to is a lifelong culinary obsession that started with her volunteering to help the lunch ladies at her elementary school — when she moved on to middle school, she baked them bread as a thank-you gift for letting her hang out with them. Ultimately, her passion led her to a degree in culinary arts from the Art Institute of Seattle then to stints running a Wildflower Bread Co. franchise in Arizona and later as a pastry chef at L’Apogée Harwigs in Steamboat Springs, Colo., and Savoy in Asheville.

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In 2003, when asked to do a freelance baking job, she realized that four 10-inch cakes would fit in her home oven, and the Sweet Monkey Bakery was born. For more than a decade, West sold her homemade bread and pastries at local tailgate markets, gradually growing her business to include catering and weddings. Sweet Monkey eventually outgrew West’s home kitchen in Marshall (where she had installed a second oven to keep up with demand), and she moved production to the Madison County Cooperative Extension’s Madison Farms Value Added Center kitchen. Although West still maintains a presence at several local farmers markets, she made the leap in late July to open her own brick-andmortar restaurant. “I just kept outgrowing each facility I was using,” she says. “I needed a place that could do everything and anything I wanted to do, including music festivals, catering weddings

— anything involving food, folks and a great time.” Although all the bread and pastries are made in-house, Sweet Monkey — named after a term of endearment West says she used with friends in her 20s — is now much more than just a bakery. The Main Street restaurant offers breakfast, lunch, a recently added plated dinner menu and weekend brunches along with beer, wine and sake cocktails. Ingredients for most of the menu items are sourced locally. Breakfast offerings include French toast made with scratchbaked orange-cinnamon-twist bread, which sells for $7.99. At lunchtime, the Cluck Madame, a broiled chicken breast coated with Parmesan mayonnaise and served on roasted garlic-rosemary bread with tomato and bacon pesto aioli, will set you back $11.99, while a bacon-kalemayonnaise sandwich costs $8.99. One standout among the brunch items is the Sunny Side of the Day — poblano peppers stuffed with local chorizo, leeks and chevre on a bed of loaded grits and topped with eggs and house remoulade — for $13.99. The new five-item dinner menu will feature beef, pork, chicken, seafood and vegetarian dishes that will change from week to week. The sake cocktails get creative, with choices such as the Naughty Geisha — a bloody mary with sake, locally made tomato cider, wasabi, garlic, chili sauce, lime, sesame oil and soy sauce — and the Sakito, featuring sake and a house-made elixir of honeydew, cucumber, lemon, lime and mint. The Sweet Monkey Bakery & Café will have a food tent at the Art on the Island Festival in Marshall on Saturday, Sept. 27. Also, for those planning ahead, West will host a Halloween party for adults starting at 9 p.m. Friday, Oct. 31, after Marshall’s downtown children’s trick-ortreat event. Admission will be free, but costumes are required. Sadly, revelers shouldn’t plan for brunch at the Sweet Monkey the following day: “We will be closed on Saturday, Nov. 1, to recover,” she says. Sweet Monkey Bakery & Café, 133 S. Main St., Marshall. 9 a.m.9 p.m Monday and WednesdaySaturday; 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. Look for “The Sweet Monkey Bakery” on Facebook. 649-2489X

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Pour your own A new style of beer bar opens in West Asheville “I want people to come in and feel like they’re at a beer festival every day of the week,” says Nate Tomforde, owner of the new Pour Taproom in West Asheville. “We’ll have 46 taps of craft beer and eight wines, and all of them will run on the pay-by-the-ounce model. … You can come in and taste as many different beers [and wines] as you want.” The idea is a first for Asheville, and very nearly a first for the entire United States. There is currently only one bar with digital pay-per-ounce technology operating with upward of 40 taps, and it’s in San Diego. According to Tomforde, here’s the way it will work at Pour: You come in and open a tab with one of the bartenders. You show them your ID and hand over a credit card. They swipe it, and return it to you, but they don’t pour you a beer. Instead, they hand you a wristband with the Pour logo on it. The band essentially unlocks the taps and allows you to be your own bartender. From there, it’s up to you. A variety of glassware will be distributed around the taproom: Pick a Belgian tulip, a classic pint glass or a few taster-sized glasses. Then check out the wall of taps. Tomforde says the beers will more or less range from light on the left to dark on the right, so it shouldn’t be too hard to find the section you’re interested in. Then, you swipe your bracelet in front of an iPad-like screen displaying the beer at the tap below. The tap links to your account, and you’re free to pour as much or as little as you want. “Each tap has a smart-flow meter that measures the liquid coming out of the keg inside the cooler,” says Tomforde. “That means you’re never charged for foam, and the screen will be able to tell you right away how many ounces you poured.” Tomforde quickly adds that the pour-your-own model does come with some built-in limits. After 32-ounces, or about two pints,

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This year, Asheville’s Hi-Wire Brewing took the gold in the German Pilsner category with Hi-Wire Lager, and the beer went on to win second overall for Best of Show in the N.C. Brewers Cup. The brewery also took home two silvers and a bronze. Sylva’s Innovation Brewing brought back medals of its own, with golds for its ESB, Black IPA and Whiskey Sour. And Oskar Blues rounded out the local award winners with a gold for Old Chub and a bronze for Ten FIDY.X

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LET IT POUR: Owner Nate Tomforde shows off Pour Taproom’s digital screen and bracelet system, which allows patrons to pour their own beer. Photo by Thom O’Hearn

ASHEVILLE BREWING: Wet Nose Wednesday: dog day at Coxe Ave. patio 5-8pm; $3.50 all pints at Coxe location FRENCH BROAD: $7 growler fills

you have to check in with a bartender before you’re a llowed to pour another ounce. This keeps the system in compliance with North Carolina law, according to Tomforde. “It’s an important checkin,” says Tomforde, “but it also shouldn’t slow things down. We’ll have enough staff on hand where you can easily talk to someone and they can get beer back flowing from the taps for you pretty quickly.” In a town that already has plenty of options for grabbing a beer, Tomforde is hoping that both the business model and the beers he can offer with that model will prove to be draws. “I want people to be able to come here and try beers from all over the world and really rare beers,” says Tomforde. “Those beers can be expensive if you’re looking at whole bottles or pints, but it’s easy to afford a few ounces of them.” He also hopes that those looking for a variety of flavors will stop by for a beer or two. “By coming here, you’ll be able to try 10 beers but drink a total amount that’s less than 2 pints.” With cutting-edge technology, the shop will have some fun online

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options shortly after opening. While Pour won’t keep data tied to names, according to Tomforde, patrons will have the ability to sign up for online accounts in a similar fashion to the popular Untapped service. Tomforde says that unlike Untapped, where you have to manually check-in for different beers, if you drink at Pour, the data can be compiled for you. So whether you have trouble remembering a particular beer a week later or simply want to keep a running list of beers you’ve tried, the data will be there. Pour Taproom is open at 800 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Look for a grand opening event with its neighbors, Odd’s Café and Asheville Sandwich Co., later this fall. LOCAL AWARDS FROM THE NC BREWERS CUP When you think of the North Carolina State Fair’s competitions, you probably think first of the horses and livestock. Or maybe a blueribbon-winning apple pie comes to mind. However, a beer competition is now an official event in the month leading up to the fair.

GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Tin Can Pizzeria, 3pm HIGHLAND: Live music: Woody Wood (rock, soul), 5:30pm; Food: Avery’s Hot Dogs LEXINGTON AVE (LAB): $3 pints all day OSKAR BLUES: Wednesday night bike ride, 6pm; Beer Run w/ Wild Bill: group run into Pisgah, 6pm OYSTER HOUSE: $2 off growler fills WEDGE: Food Truck: Root Down (comfort food, Cajun); New Brew: XXV (V-special double IPA)

THURSDAY ALTAMONT: Live music: Paper Crowns (Americana), 9:30pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: $3.50 pints at Merrimon location FRENCH BROAD: Live music: Stephen Evans (acoustic rock), 6-8pm GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Taste & See, 3pm HIGHLAND: Live music: Mike &

Amy (acoustic), 5:30pm OSKAR BLUES: Live music: West End String Band (bluegrass), 6pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Live music: Circus Mutt (bluegrass, roots), 7-9pm WEDGE: Food Truck: Tin Can Pizzeria

WEDGE: Food Truck: El Kimchi (Korean/Mexican street food) WICKED WEED: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 11am

SUNDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Vinyl night w/ DJ Kilby

FRIDAY ALTAMONT: Live music: John Hardy Party (old-time), 9pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: Firkin Friday: Rocket Girl w/ lemon zest & blueberries CATAWBA: Brine & Brew: pickle & beer pairing, 4-7pm; Live music: Bradley Carter, 7-9pm FRENCH BROAD: Live music: Todd Cecil & Back South (rock), 6-8pm GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Root Down (Cajun, comfort food), 3pm HIGHLAND: New Brew: 20th Anniversary IPA; Live music: Mystic Vibrations (reggae), 6:30pm; Food Trucks: Mama Dukes & Vieux Carre OSKAR BLUES: Live music: Mustache Brothers (bluegrass, country), 6pm; Food truck: 3 Suns Bistro SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Live music: The Low Down Sires (jazz), 8-10pm WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales) WICKED WEED: Pickin’ & Pullin’ Fest: pumpkin beer release & 12 Bones Smokehouse food ($14, bluegrass), 5:30-8:30pm

HI-WIRE: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 12:15pm LEXINGTON AVE (LAB): Live Music: Bluegrass brunch; $10 pitchers all day OYSTER HOUSE: $5 mimosas & bloody Marys SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Live music: BlueSunday w/ Garry Segal & Michael Filappone (blues), 5-7pm WEDGE: Food Truck: Cecilia’s Culinary Tour (crepes, tamales); Live Music: Vollie McKenzie & Hank Bones (acoustic jazz, swing), 6pm

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SATURDAY ALTAMONT: Cafe Deja Brew, 2-6pm; Live music: Jam night w/ Chris O’Neill (blues), 9:30pm CATAWBA: Live music: Dave Desmelik Duo (singer-songwriter), 6-9pm FRENCH BROAD: Live music: Salt of the Earth (folk), 6-8pm GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Melt Your Heart (gourmet grilled cheese), 3pm HIGHLAND: “Crafted Keg” keg painting competition, 2-9pm; Live music: Laura Blackley (country, folk, soul), 6:30pm; Food: Locally made gelato OSKAR BLUES: Food truck: Taqueria el Azteca, noon SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN: Live music: Raising Caine (country), 8-10pm

TUESDAY ALTAMONT: Live Music: Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8:30pm ASHEVILLE BREWING: $2.50 Tuesday: $2.50 two-topping pizza slices & house cans CATAWBA: $2 off growler fills GREEN MAN: Food Truck: Farm to Fender, 3pm HI-WIRE: $2.50 house pints HIGHLAND: Bend & Brew Yoga ($15, includes beer tasting), 5:30pm OYSTER HOUSE: Cask night WEDGE: Food Truck: Tin Can Pizzeria

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Queen of bounce It’s Big Freedia’s world, and we’re just twerking in it

BY PATRICK WALL

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It’s just after noon on the final day of 2013’s South by Southwest in Austin, Texas. The fatigue that the marathon music festival inflicts is readily evident in a grand ballroom in Austin’s labyrinthine convention center. A small crowd has gathered to watch New Orleans rapper Big Freedia (pronounced FREE-duh) perform a daytime set, but their energy is clearly flagging. Big Freedia — who plays New Mountain in Asheville on Tuesday, Sept. 30 — invites everyone to bumrush the stage during the raucous, rambunctious “Azz Everywhere” and let loose with their most outrageous moves. But it’s early, and most of the audience members are nervous. “Don’t be scared, y’all,” Freedia says, her strong voice ensconced with authority. “It’s just a little a**-shaking.” Then Freedia turns around, raises her hands over her head and twirls her own butt in oddly hypnotic circles. All of a sudden, the energy in the room picks up, and a throng of brave souls hops onstage to shake it with Freedia’s backup dancers. Freedia — who was born Freddie Ross but uses the feminine pronoun for her stage persona — is the reigning queen of bounce music. The aggressively glitchy and uptempo

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KNOW HOW TO WORK IT: Big Freedia, one of the only bounce artists with prominent national exposure, teaches fans to lose themselves in the music with sage advice such as “release your wiggle.” Photo courtesy of the musician

strain of hip-hop originated in New Orleans in the early ’90s. Built for a party, bounce favors punchy tempos, heavy bass and call-and-response vocals. Like crunk and trap (from Memphis and Atlanta, respectively), two other regional rap genres that exploded past their Southern roots into mainstream consciousness, bounce is growing in the popular zeitgeist. It’s misunderstood largely because of twerking and the uproar following Miley Cyrus’ employment of the hypersexualized dance move.

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But those who follow bounce culture, Freedia says, know that twerking is just a small part of a much bigger movement. “There’s a whole culture that comes before it,” she says. “It goes way back even before New Orleans, with the style of dancing music that’s called Mapouka that comes from [the Ivory Coast]. We just inherited it in New Orleans. We learned it, we studied it, and now we own it. No matter how horrible anybody may think it is, this is New Orleans, and this is how we roll.”

Today, Freedia’s one of the only bounce artists with prominent national exposure. Released in 2011, her longtime club jam “Azz Everywhere” was a surprise hit. She, along with friend and former mentor Katy Red (Freedia started performing as one of Katy’s backup singers), appeared on the HBO series Treme, set in New Orleans. She’s working on a bounce music workout DVD. Last September, Freedia led a group of 358 dancers in New York City’s Herald Square, setting a Guinness-certified world record for simultaneous twerking. It was the centerpiece of the first season of her Fuse-aired reality show Queen of Bounce, which recently debuted its second season. The reality show has “made me a whole lot more famous,” Freedia laughs. It’s also paid concrete dividends, exposing Freedia and bounce music to a sizable new audience. “It definitely makes me work harder,” she says. “It makes me attack things that I need to attack and keep pushing forward. I have a lot of people on my trail, and being the queen and the ambassador [for bounce music], I have to keep focused.” Freedia’s coronation, seemingly, was the release of Just Be Free in June. Her star power, as evidence by magnetic performances and the success of her reality show, is natural, and Just Be Free is an attempt to bring her music to that level. Made without samples (on which many bounce records are based) Just Be Free skirts potential legal issues while retaining the inherent soul and energy of the genre. Consider the lead single “Explode,” a furious drum machine-and-vocal assault where Freedia implores you to “release your wiggle” and lose yourself in the music, no matter the proportions of your posterior. “Even if you gotta skinny a**, you just gotta know how to work it,” she says. “No matter what type of a** you got, everybody can move it. We got a lot of skinny people here in New Orleans, and some of the skinny ones can dance better than the ones with all that a**. It’s all about how much you wanna get into it, how much you wanna move.” X

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Solid gold Asheville Area Arts Council celebrates a big year with the Gilded Ball The past year has been an especially successful one for the Asheville Area Arts Council. In addition to receiving record funding from the city of Asheville and Buncombe County, the AAAC was assigned the county’s disseminator of arts programming funds through the state’s Grassroots Arts Program, helping to further its mission as the collective local voice for the arts. Entrusted with these important public funds and in search of a theme for its annual color ball fundraiser, inspiration struck when the AAAC moved from its Depot Street offices in the River Arts District to the Grove Arcade in August. Finding parallels between her new downtown surroundings and the Biltmore House, executive director Kitty Love likewise saw similarities between the AAAC’s role in the county art scene and that of the Vanderbilts circa 1900 — a time when art played a crucial role in the way many locals thought of themselves. “The Vanderbilts did a lot to encourage a very aesthetic group of folks to focus on and enjoy Asheville,” Love says. “As we move forward in our work, it’s important for us to reiterate the importance of culture and the arts and what it means as a community’s identity.” Celebrating that golden age’s elegance and energy, the Gilded Ball will take place on Saturday, Sept. 27,

WHAT Asheville Area Arts Council’s Gilded Ball, ashevillearts.com WHERE Isis Restaurant & Music Hall WHEN Saturday, Sept. 27 7 p.m.-midnight. VIP $100; general admission $50; $10 at 10 p.m.

ALL THAT GLITTERS: The Asheville Area Arts Council holds its annual color ball fundraiser, this year called the Gilded Ball, at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall. Expect music, performance arts and live and silent auctions. Photo from last year’s Emerald Ball by Micah Mackenzie

at Isis Restaurant & Music Hall. Consistent with past iterations, such as the ’20s themed Tangerine Ball in 2012, attendees are encouraged to dress accordingly. “Gold, silver or any metallic color would be nice. Bronze or copper would stand out,” Love says. “It would be neat to see a mix of colors, actually, and/or if you wanted to dress era — Victorian, Edwardian, turn of the 20th century. Moulin Rouge is probably the easiest reference — big hats, big feathers.” As for choosing an appropriate venue, the AAAC selects a location that fits with the feel of each year’s ball. The nooks, corners and beautiful upstairs piano of the Isis do just that. The venue will

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be filled with music and entertainment largely focused on the evening’s theme. Providing the tunes is Asheville quartet Resonant Rogues, whose old-fashioned originals evoke early 20th-century sounds, and DJ Cosmo Q, sporting an eclectic repertoire of audio cocktails that includes what he calls “a side of Gypsy beats.” Additional performances come courtesy of fireball spitter Sneaky McFly, costumer and belly dance movement mainstay Claire Dima, acro-yoga artist Ani Oakley and hula hooper Paul Van Heden. Other Gilded Ball highlights are silent and live art auctions, curated by AAAC board member Michael Manes. This year marks Manes’ first time curating the art auction, but he grew up in a household full of nonprofit directors and volunteers and has been helping out with auctions almost his entire life. Works were donated by over 25 local artists, the majority of whom are represented by Blue Spiral 1 gallery, where Manes serves as assistant director. The pieces encompass everything from painting to printmaking, sculptural work, ceramics, glass and wood fire vessels, and though the artists committed to donating before the color ball’s motif was released to the public, the selection nonetheless rings true to the evening’s ideals. “By having the caliber of work this year, it really resonates with the theme anyway,” Manes says. “The artists are extremely skilled, and these works represent that.” X

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by Paul Clark

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Classic(al) rock Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs Paul McCartney’s compositions When you think about it, it’s not a stretch that the co-creator of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band would go on to write classical music. Paul McCartney has written oratorios, chamber music, sound collages and even an orchestral piece for a video game, all of which make the name of the upcoming concert by the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, The Many Moods of McCartney, perfectly apt. New York City producer and McCartney associate Dennis D’Amico is bringing the classical cabaret of sorts to Asheville, putting together a show of McCartney music that spotlights the composer’s abilities in both the pop and classical realms. McCartney is, D’Amico says,

WHAT Asheville Symphony Orchestra’s The Many Moods of McCartney ashevillesymphony.org WHERE Thomas Wolfe Auditorium WHEN Saturday, Sept. 27, 7:30 p.m., $38.15-$111.13 (includes fees)

“one of the most ingenious writers alive today.” He continues, “People don’t know his classical music at all. They know his pop music, but when they see the full dimension of who this man is, they’ll see his classical music is brilliant.” The Saturday, Sept. 27, concert will start out with well-known pop piece “Michelle,” conducted by musical director Byron Olson, who has worked with Peggy Lee and Johnny Mathis. Roger Kellaway, an Academy Award-nominated and Grammywinning maestro, will then conduct the McCartney classical work “Nova,” first produced by D’Amico in Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Afterward, ASO musical director Daniel Meyer will lead the Asheville Symphony Orchestra in “Tuesday.” Much more will follow, including a solo piano performance of McCartney’s “A Leaf” by Yongmei Hu, a Chinese-born pianist from California whose work has been praised since she was 5 years old. Of McCartney’s classical compositions, D’Amico says, “They don’t follow things that he did with The Beatles. These are really straightahead classical pieces that have got that McCartney [sense of] melody. They can stand on their own.” McCartney gets invitations all the time, but he’s not likely to show up at the Asheville gala, D’Amico says. “His schedule is usually [planned] three years out. But it’s not really about him. It’s about his music and

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IN THE MOOD: Asheville Symphony Orchestra, directed by Daniel Meyer (who just celebrated his 10th anniversary as conductor) expands its programming with a concert of Paul McCartney music. The evening’s offerings range from pop to classical; the Beatle is a composer as well as top-40 hit maker. Photo by Michael Morel

doing some positive goodness for the city of Asheville. And giving the symphony some spotlight.” There will be guest artists, however, such as Broadway singer Lisa Sherman and Oscar-winning singer/composer Franke Previte, who wrote “Time of My Life,” the theme song from the movie Dirty Dancing. Also scheduled to appear are country singers Samantha Landrum and Emily West, as well as singer Bobby Caldwell, internationally known for his multiplatinum hit “What You Won’t Do for Love.” Kellaway, who has worked with Elvis Presley, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Yo-Yo Ma, Joni Mitchell and many others, will direct the world premiere of his piece, “The Many Moods of McCartney,” with jazz pianist Peter Beets. “No matter what kind of music you favor, you’ll walk out of there very fulfilled,” D’Amico says. “The interpretation and delivery of the McCartney pieces will be incredibly entertaining.” The producer worked on this particular show for about a year. It started with a visit to a friend in Asheville, which led to a meeting with David

Whitehill, the executive director of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra. That went well, and D’Amico went back to New York City, where he raised the sponsorship money to bring the concert to town. The producer has the diverse background that enabled him to put together the concert in Asheville. Formerly a soap opera actor, he has cast Broadway shows and written, directed and produced TV commercials. He has also served as executive director of The Garland Appeal USA, McCartney’s sanctioned charity created to honor his late wife, Linda. Much like the work he did for that organization, D’Amico now produces charity events that raise money to combat breast cancer and children’s cancer and in support of animal rights. D’Amico has selected four organizations to benefit from the Asheville concert — MANNA FoodBank, Asheville City Schools Foundation, Asheville Symphony Orchestra and Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. X

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DARK ANGELS: Penland-based ceramicist and sculptor Cristina Córdova showcases mystics, martyrs and subtle magical realism at her self-titled show. Pictured: “Que Mamen!,” photo by Kyle Sherard

by Kyle Sherard

and blue patterning that appears on each piece. The artist has placed this coloration on two hats — one modern, one seemingly ancient — and on the inside of a reversed face mask identical to the figure depicted in “Mito del Origen.” Each offers a lighter, alternative view into the otherwise resigned persona. In “Imperio,” a free-standing floor piece, a battered torso sits atop a minimalistic steel pedestal. This hulk may well be a corpse as it’s riddled with dozens of gold-lined bullet holes. One arm has been hacked away, revealing a similarly gold-lined radius and ulna. Thick glazing drips down from an open head wound and hollow eyes. It flows down the expanded, cracked and scarred white clay chest in waves, as if the figure is waterlogged. Despite the shear girth of this otherwise strong character, that soggy appearance renders him fragile. Córdova swaps out the lumpy, porcelainlike skin and dystopic suffering for ashen matte blackness

and a subtle magical realism in her two final pieces, “Que Mamen!” and “Colonia.” Each takes on the form and posture of a Madonna, though they border on the mystical — even sinful — rather than the religious. “Que Mamen!” depicts a could-be virgin and child. However, the artist has abandoned the traditional seated, cradling position. Instead, the two figures are frozen in a free fall, with mother and child looking way from each other. “Colonia,” a childless Madonna, is perched with a swooning hip atop a gold leaf-covered stone. Beneath her, four other stonelike forms trail off toward the floor. She’s bordered by a thin, angular steel wire that forms a cloud silhouette above her head before wrapping around her. One arm is tucked by her side, the other is lackadaisically tilted upward in a way that all but says “come hither.” For more information visit bluespiral1.com X

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“Quilts: From Inspiration to Creation”

Cristina Córdova at Blue Spiral

This is the final week of viewing for a small self-titled exhibit by Penland-based ceramicist and sculptor Cristina Córdova. The show, on view through Saturday, Sept. 27, at Blue Spiral 1, marks the artist’s first exhibition in downtown Asheville in nearly eight years. Córdova’s work occupies only three small walls in the back of the gallery’s main floor. But despite its seemingly minimal presence tucked behind the dozens of glass, ceramic and metal works from Blue Spiral’s

principal summer exhibition, Ahead of the Curve, Córdova’s collection has an undeniable allure. Seven ceramic figures hang in suspended balance in the artist’s own supernatural dystopia. They’re mystics and martyrs, somber gold-slicked priests and priestesses of some unknown ideology and landscape. Each seems to have experienced a lifetime of hard work or suffering. These figures seemed lived-in, textured by grief and contemplation. A series of four small busts lining one wall, each no taller than 8 or 9 inches, lament over matters unseen. They have cold, deadpan stares and stiff upper lips. Their seriousness, though, is broken by the abstract and festive red, white

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Mountain Heritage Day Break out the candles! Western Carolina University celebrates its 125th year during the 40th annual Mountain Heritage Day festival, a free event to recollect WCU’s rich history. Two stages and a dedicated dance floor will host clogging team performances and concerts (including Grammy Award-winner David Holt), and more than 100 vendor booths will sprawl into a haven of arts, crafts and food. This is your chance to experience Cherokee stickball, shapenote singing, beard and mustache competitions, tractor joy rides, a chainsaw match, an antique auto show and horse- or mule-drawn wagon rides all in one place and all for the sake of cultural enlightenment. Mountain Heritage Day unfolds on WCU’s campus on Saturday, Sept. 27, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Free admission and free parking. mountainheritageday.com. Photo of Bailey Mountain Cloggers courtesy of WCU

The Grand Ole Uproar Greensboro-based The Grand Ole Uproar describes its live show as “cosmic Americana [that] conjures up the Texas twang of Waylon Jennings ... the improvisation of the Grateful Dead and the laid-back swampy sound of J.J. Cale.” And, while the band calls the Piedmont home, it’s already hit up a number of Asheville venues as well as touring the Southeast and putting in appearances on shows like Blue Plate Special (Knoxville) and Balcony TV (Nashville). The Grand Ole Uproar’s new album, Good Long Spell, “explores the ingredients of rock ’n’ roll from zydeco and the music of Louisiana, to blues flavored with early electric Dylan and country influenced by the Texas Tornado Doug Sahm” — a good mix for the Jack of the Wood stage. That’s where the band will perform on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 9 p.m. jackofthewood.com. Photo by Alex Forsyth

Shimshai “I gotta get my Asheville fix!” writes Shimshai on his own concert’s Facebook page, where several giddy fans have already responded with victorious tales of acquiring admission tickets. The California-based mantra musician, a self-described “seeker of truth,” sends lyrics into the crowd on gentle waves of finger-picked guitar, leaving plenty of inspired devotees in the wake of his acoustic serenades. His uplifting melodies are the perfect mode of transport for the accompanying messages of pacificity, and Shimshai’s performances are a fine method of rejuvenation for a blissedout Ashevillean — or anyone who wants to become just that. Shimshai plays the Altamont Theatre with special guests Luna Ray and Aaron Kaczmarek on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 7:30 p.m. $15/$18. thealtamont.com. Photo by Jamie Soja

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The Ballroom Thieves While every band doesn’t need a drum set, sometimes powerful percussion is exactly what elevates an interesting indie-rock outfit above the sea of competition. And making that drum set portable is even more important, which is why Boston-based The Ballroom Thieves are smart to travel with a kit formed from a djembe, floor tom and auxiliary percussion. The superrhythmic trio also includes guitar, cello and fierce vocals: “Put my love to the test, unbridled and undressed, made its bed in a hornet’s nest, and we both got stung,” sings Martin Earley on “Droves,” from the band’s new EP. A heady mix of folk and rock sounds and energizing and haunting songs, The Ballroom Thieves have been racking up rave reviews. They put in an appearance at New Mountain on Saturday, Sept. 27, at 8 p.m. $10. newmountainavl.com. Photo courtesy of the band

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by Carrie Eidson & Michael McDonald GALLERY DIRECTORY FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library.hendersoncountync.org • WE (9/24), 2pm - Gary Ballard & Cabin Creek Review, bluegrass. Free. MUSIC AT UNCA 251-6432, unca.edu • WE (9/24), 7pm - A Tribe Called Red, native electronica. $22/$8 Asheville-area students/$6 UNCA students. Held in Lipinsky Auditorium.

ESSENCE: American Folk Art and Framing will host an exhibit of woodcut pieces by Kent Ambler opening Thursday, Oct. 2, and running through Wednesday, Oct. 22. In his artist’s statement, Ambler writes that he is “inspired by the simplicity of idea and image addressed by genuine folk artists.”

ART ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • WE (9/24), 6-7:30pm - Up for Discussion: lecture and presentation with artist Adrianne Wortzel. Admission fees apply. ASHEVILLE PUPPETRY CLUB 367-4910 • TH (10/2), 6pm - Workshop with guest speaker Hobey Ford of Golden Rod Puppets. Free. Held at the North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASHEVILLE QUILT SHOW • FR (9/26) through SU (9/28) - Includes quilt displays,vendors, demonstrations and kids activities. Fri.&Sat.: 9am-5pm. Sun.:10am-4:30pm. $6. ASHEVILLE URBAN LANDSCAPE PROJECT 458-0111, ashevillearts.com/asheville-paint-outs Open air painting events, held in public green spaces. Free. • TU (9/30), 9:30am-12:30pm - With Sarah Sneeden. Held at N.C. Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way BAMBOO CRAFT DEMONSTRATIONS 685-3053, haikubamboonursery.net • FRIDAYS through (9/26) - With artist Keiji Oshima. Free to attend. Held at Haiku Bamboo Shop, 20 Tuttle Road, Hendersonville TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 884-2787, tcarts.org • 4th FRIDAYS, 5-9pm - Fourth Friday Gallery Walk through businesses in downtown Brevard. Free.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS

CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 754-2486, caldwellarts.com • Through TU (9/30) - Applications will be accepted for up to three outdoor sculpture installations. Contact for guidelines. NC STAGE 15 Stage Lane, 239-0263, ncstage.org. Contact for guidelines and appointments. • WE (9/24) - Open auditions for Annapurna. • TH (9/25) - Open auditions for Amadeus. THE HEART OF HORSE SENSE heartofhorsesense.org • Through (11/5) - Artists may donate works to be displayed and auctioned at Zuma Coffee in Marshall. Proceeds benefit this nonprofit animal therapy program for veterans and at-risk youth. Contact for details.

OLLI AT UNCA 251-6140, olliasheville.com, olli@unca.edu • FR (9/26), 3pm - Opera Talks: a behindthe-scenes tour of the operatic world. Free. Held in the Reuter Center. PAN HARMONIA 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org, office@panharmonia.org • SA (9/27), 7:30pm - "L'Ange et la Diable: Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray," French Baroque concert. $22/$16.50 advance/$5 students. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Asheville, 40 Church St. TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (9/25), 7pm - Noah Guthrie, bluesy pop. Admission by donation. • TH (10/2), 7pm - Shaun Hopper, fingerstyle guitar. Admission by donation.

THEATER MUSIC ASHEVILLE PLAYBACK THEATRE AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS • SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (pd.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. No experience necessary. Drums provided. $12/class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com BLUE RIDGE ORCHESTRA • SA (9/27), 4-5pm & SU (9/28), 2pm- "An Afternoon of Chamber Music." Free. Sat.: Held at St Giles Chapel, In the Deerfield Episcopal Retirement Community 1617 Hendersonville Road. Sun.: Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

232-7954, marilyndesigns@charter.net • Through (10/11) - Artists may reserve spaces in a plein air painting and art show to be held next to

FLETCHER COMMUNITY CHORUS 651-9436, fletchercommunitychorus.com • THURSDAYS, 7pm - Fall season rehearsals, open to the pubic and interested members. Held at Calvary Episcopal Church, 2840 Hendersonville Road, Fletcher

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BLACK MOUNTAIN FINE ART SHOWCASE

Dobra Tea in Black Mountain. $20.

MUSIC IN THE MOUNTAINS FOLK FESTIVAL 682-7215, toeriverarts.org/events/music-inthe-mountains-folk-festival • SA (9/27), 5:40-9:30pm - A celebration of mountain music and culture with performances by bluegrass and oldtime musicians. Contact for full schedule. $14/ $12 students & seniors. Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 Main St., Burnsville

273-0995, ashevilleplayback.org • FR (9/26) & SA (9/27), 8pm - Improvised theatre based on audience stories. $10/$5 youth. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 884-2587, brevardlittletheatre.com • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (9/25) to (10/5) - Over the River and Through the Woods. Thu.-Sat.: 8pm; Sun.: 3pm. $16/$11 students. FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS (10/2) through SUNDAYS (10/26) - A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Wed.-Sun.:8pm; Thu., Sat., Sun.: 2pm. $40

AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • TH (10/2) through WE (10/22) - Essence, woodblock prints by Kent Ambler. ANANDA WEST 37 Paynes Way, Suite 5, 236-2444, anandahair.com • Through MO (10/20) - Oh, Baby; Oh, Baby, paintings by Anna Jenson. ART AT BREVARD COLLEGE 884-8188, brevard.edu/art • Through FR (9/26) - Running on Tybee, works by Tim Murray. In the Spiers Gallery. ART AT MARS HILL mhu.edu • Through TU (9/30) - Cardiac Comfort, large-scale sculpture installation by Jason Adams. ART AT UNCA art.unca.edu • Through TU (9/30) - Honoring Chuck Marting, black and white photography by the Asheville Traditional Photographers Group. In the Blowers Gallery. • Through WE (10/15) - Works by Luis Martinez Cruz, Victor Palomino, Victor H. Verde and Gustavo Villota. In the Highsmith Student Union. • TH (9/25) through TU (11/4) - Works by Penland School of Crafts' resident artists. In the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery. Opening reception: Sept. 25, 6pm. ART AT WCU 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu • Through FR (11/7) - Teetering on the Edge of the Uncanny, street art and murals displayed throughout the campus. • Through FR (10/17) - Forest/City, graphic installation by Gary Kachadourian. In the Bardo Arts Center. • Through FR (11/7) - Abstract Autobiography for a Fractured Narrative, works by Rebecca Ringquist. In the Bardo Arts Center. ARTETUDE GALLERY 89 Patton Ave., 252-1466, artetudegallery. com • Through SU (9/28) - Abstractions, works by Barbara Fisher, Robert Winkler and Pat Zalisko. ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 N. Pack Square, 253-3227, ashevilleart.org • Through SA (1/4) - Humans and Machines: The Robotic Worlds of Adrianne Wortzel, mixed media. • Through Su (1/11) - Hands, Hearts, Mind: Cherokee Artistry, basket weaving, ceramics and sculpture. • Through SU (2/8) - X, Y, Z: Dimensions in Sculpture, contemporary three-dimensional works. • FR (9/26) through SU (1/18) - Finding My Way Home, works by Mary Frank. Opening reception: Sept. 26, 5 p.m. ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegalleryof-art.com • Through TU (9/30) - Paintings by Sahar Fakhoury.

• WE (10/1) through FR (10/31) - Small Works Show, works smaller than 12 X12 inches.

tography by Dana Moore. Artist's reception: Oct. 4, 5 p.m.

BENDER GALLERY 12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • TH (10/2) through SU (11/30) - Spirits of the Flame, flameworked glass sculpture. Opening reception: Oct. 2, 5-8pm.

238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook. com/odysseycoopgallery • ONGOING - Gallery members' ceramics.

BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 6690930, blackmountainarts.org • Through FR (10/3) - Bring Back the Monarchs, butterfly-related works by regional artists. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through SA (1/10) - Dan Rice at Black Mountain College: Painter Among the Poets, abstract expressionism paintings. CALDWELL ARTS COUNCIL 601 College Ave SW, Lenoir, 754-2486 • Through FR (9/26) - Concertina, Interpreted, works by 30 artists in response to the poetry of Joseph Bathani. COURTYARD GALLERY In the Phil Mechanic Building 109 Roberts St., 273-3332, ashevillecourtyard.com • Through (10/29) - Anything Goes Everything Shows, mixed media from mail-in submissions.

ODYSSEY COOPERATIVE ART GALLERY

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 225-5509, pushtoyproject. com • Through FR (10/10) - Systems and Portraits, works by Lance Turner.

THE JUNCTION 348 Depot St., 225-3497, thejunctionasheville.com • Through TU (10/14) - On the Wall, works by The Village Potters Collective. TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 765-0520, toeriverarts.org • SA (9/27) through SU (11/1) - Fiber Optics, basketry and photography by Billie Ruth and Doug Sudduth. Held at Burnsville TRAC Gallery, 102 W. Main St., Burnsville

310 W. State St., Black Mountain, 699-0351, svfalarts.org • Through MO (9/29) - Shapes and Shadows, works by Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League members.

TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • FR (9/26) through FR (10/17) - Works by Shellie Lewis-Dambax and George Peterson. Opening reception: Sept. 26, 5 p.m.

SEVEN SISTERS GALLERY

TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER

117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, 669-5107, sevensistersgallery.com • Through (11/2) - Folk art paintings by David Bryan

34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts. org • Through SA (10/11) - Handmade rugs and tapestries from Mills Mosseller Studio.

THE CENTER FOR CRAFT, CREATIVITY & DESIGN 67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org • Through SA (1/10) - Gee’s Bend: From Quilts to Prints, quilts and quilt-inspired printmaking.

WEST ASHEVILLE LIBRARY

RED HOUSE STUDIOS AND GALLERY

942 Haywood Road • Through TU (9/30) - Variations on a Theme, works by Vilia Marshall. Contact the galleries for hours and admission fees.

SAT, SEPT 27 Shimshai LIVE 7:30 PM l $15/$18

SAT, SEPT 28 Bradford Lee Folk and The Bluegrass Playboys 7:00 PM l $10/$12

SUN, OCT 5

An Evening with:

Noam Pickelny & Stuart Duncan

7:00 PM l $30/$35

HALLOWEEN NIGHT A very special Evening with:

Pure Prairie League

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GREEN SAGE CAFE - WESTGATE 70 Westgate Parkway, 785-1780, greensagecafe.com • Through WE (10/15) - ZOOM IN: An Exhibition of Asheville Street Photography, works by six local photographers. HANDMADE IN AMERICA 125 S Lexington Ave #101, 252-0121, handmadeinamerica.org • Through WE (11/26) - Within the Lines: Creative Perspectives on Wilderness, works by regional artists. IZZY'S COFFEE DEN 74 N. Lexington Ave., 258-2004 • Through TU (9/30) - Along the Way, long exposure photography by Chukk Bruursema. LUSH WORKS 26 1/2 Battery Park Ave., 919-649-2483, lush-works.com • ONGOING - A Soothing Silence, photography by Brian Olson MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 90 S. Main St., Marshall, 649-1301, madisoncountyarts.com • Through FR (9/26) - Linear-Geometric Abstraction & Geometric Color Field Painting, a Resurrection and Resurgence, works by Matthew Zelder. MICA FINE CONTEMPORARY CRAFT 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, 6886422, micagallerync.com • Through FR (11/14) - What I Know, pho-

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C L U B L A N D CROW & QUILL Resonant Rogues (gypsy, old-time, swing), 9pm

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24

DOUBLE CROWN 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

185 KING STREET Abryn w/ Bryon Rice, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Wine tasting w/ Drayton & The Dragons (folk), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (Latin), 8pm

DUGOUT Open mic, 9pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Dave Desmelik (singer-songwriter), 9pm

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Fireside Collective (bluegrass), 9pm

BEN’S TUNE-UP Live band karaoke w/ The Diagnostics, 9pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Stephen Evans (singer-songwriter, acoustic rock), 6pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Buncombe County Boyz (folk, bluegrass), 7:30pm

GOOD STUFF Dawn Humphrey (singer-songwriter, acoustic), 7pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open mic w/ Mark Bumgarner, 7pm BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Kid Congo & The Pink Monkey Birds (rock, rock, rock), 9pm

CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Amy & Mike (acoustic duo), 5:30pm

DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN OK GO (rock), 9pm

DINNER-AND-A-SHOW: “Sirius.B brings to you the finest absurdist gypsy-folkfunk-punk that the world has to offer,” reads a line from an Isis Restaurant and Musical Hall press release. The band brings together an eclectic mix of harmonies and worldy instruments such as cello, violin, African percussion, charango, flamenco guitar, banjo and kazoo. Along with Leigh Glass and the Hazards, Sirius.B will perform on Friday, Sept. 26, at 9 p.m. Come early for dinner; stay late for the music.

GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm IRON HORSE STATION Mark Shane (R&B), 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Acoustic on the Patio w/ Taylor Martin & friends, 7pm Trio Guggino (Italian themed, dinner music), 7:15pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm LEX 18 The Roaring Lions (jazz), 8pm

MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Release AVL w/ Dam Good (dance party), 9pm

NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Dulítel DJ, 7pm

TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm

NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

ODDITORIUM Crazy Tom Banana Pants (ska), 9pm OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9pm

LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

MOJO KITCHEN & LOUNGE DJ Molly Parti “Get Over the Hump-day” dance party (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Steady Flow w/ Steepwater Band (funk, rock), 10pm ORANGE PEEL Tycho w/ Christopher Willits, 9pm

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

SEPTEMBER 24 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Aereo-Plane (newgrass), 6pm ROOT BAR NO. 1 Smith & Weeden (rock), 8pm STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Circus Mutt (rock), 6pm TALLGARY’S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm

URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Lenny Petenelli (high-energy piano), 7pm WILD WING CAFE Karaoke, 9pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesday w/ J LUKE, 6pm

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Laura Cantrell (singer-songwriter), 7:15pm Rebecca Frazier w/ Tellico (bluegrass), 9pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass jam, 7pm LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens & Simone Bernhard (jazz, chanteuse), 8pm LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones (“The man of 1,000 songs”), 7pm MARKET PLACE Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm MILLROOM Stereo Reform & New Color (“dance-afunk-a-rock-a-tronic”), 9pm NEW MOUNTAIN Juniper Rising w/ Warm the Bell (rock, country), 10pm ODDITORIUM The Egg Eaters, Bulgogi & Lords of Chicken Hill (punk), 9pm OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST West Coast swing lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 7:30pm Pop the Clutch (beach, jazz, swing), 8:30pm

185 KING STREET Josh Brister, 8pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Phish ‘n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm Hard Proof w/ TBD (afrobeat, funk), 10pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Hank West & The Smokin’ Hots (jazz exotica), 8pm

ORANGE PEEL Rubblebucket w/ Body Language (artpop), 9pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic night, 7pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY West End String Band (bluegrass), 6pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Paper Crowns (Americana), 9:30pm

PACK’S TAVERN Howie Johnson & Eric Congdon (acoustic rock), 9pm

THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Revivalists w/ The Black Cadillacs (rock ‘n roll), 10pm

THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY Bart Williams Zink (indie), 5:30pm

PURPLE ONION CAFE Roy Schneider Duo (Americana), 7pm

THE STRAND @ 38 MAIN Linda McRae (roots, country, blues), 7:45pm

BLUE KUDZU SAKE COMPANY Trivia night, 8pm

RENAISSANCE ASHEVILLE HOTEL Carver & Carmody (Americana), 6:30pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN Sean Dail (classic punk, power-pop, rock), 10pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Patrick Fitzsimons, 7pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Porch 40 (rock, blues, jam), 8pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Circus Mutt (bluegrass, roots), 7pm

DUGOUT Project X (rock), 9pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Iggy Radio, 7pm

ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Country Night w/ Hearts Gone South, Motel Radio, Pie Walk (country, dancing), 8pm

FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Paper Crowns w/ Oso Rey (Americana, rock), 10pm

THE PHOENIX Dave Desmelik Duo (singer-songwriter), 8pm

FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Todd Cecil & Back South (rock), 6pm

THE SOCIAL Open mic w/ Scooter Haywood, 8pm THE SOUTHERN DJ Leslie Snipes (dance), 10pm THE STRAND @ 38 MAIN Linda McRae (roots, country, blues), 7:45pm TIGER MOUNTAIN New Wave dance w/ Cliff (80s pop, postpunk, punk-rock, synthpop), 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Unity Thursdays w/ Asheville Drum ‘n’ Bass Collective, 9pm TOWN PUMP Phil Lomac (indie-folk, rock), 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The Westsound Revue (Motown, blues), 9pm URBAN ORCHARD Stevie Lee Combs (acoustic, Americana), 6:30pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Ginny McAfee (guitar, vocals), 7pm

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 185 KING STREET Mipso, 8pm 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Shake it Like a Caveman (rock ‘n’ roll), 9pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Amos & The Mixx Live, 9:30pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY John Hardy Party (old-time), 9pm ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Sun Ra Arkestra directed by Marshal Alle (tone scientists), 9pm ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY Gene Reyroux (Americana), 5:30pm ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BEAR CREEK MARINA Buick MacKane Band (Southern rock), 6pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7pm BOILER ROOM Thera Roya, Radient Beings of Light, Uninhabitable & MRSA (metal, punk), 9pm BYWATER Krewe De Guza (folk, punk, New Orleans Americana), 9pm CATAWBA BREWING CO. Bradley Carter, 7pm CLASSIC WINESELLER Bohemian Jean w/ Jessi Stone & Matt Welborn (pop, soul, country), 7pm CREEKSIDE TAPHOUSE Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm

GOOD STUFF Get Money Stop Hatin’ Tour, 9pm GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Olivier (jazz, pop), 6:30pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN The Revelers (swap-pop, cajun, country), 8pm IRON HORSE STATION Barb Turner (R&B), 7pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Sirius.B w/ Leigh Glass and the Hazards (rock, pop), 9pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Nora Jane Struthers & The Party Line (folk, Americana), 9pm JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm LEX 18 Up Jumped Three (jazz), 8pm

OPEN MON-SAT 12PM-8PM

LOBSTER TRAP Calico Moon (Americana), 7pm

EXTENDED HOURS DURING SHOWS FOR TICKET HOLDERS

OPEN AT 5PM FOR SUNDAY SHOWS

MARKET PLACE The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

WED 9/24

NANTAHALA BREWING COMPANY Fritz Beer & The Crooked Beat (acoustic rock), 8pm NEW MOUNTAIN K Theory (hip-hop, bass), 10pm

THU 9/25

NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Resident Dulítel DJ (indie-tronic), 11pm NOBLE KAVA Samuel Paradise & Friends (ambient electronica), 8:30pm O.HENRY’S Drag show, 10pm ODDITORIUM Benefit for Steven Liebenhaut w/ Red Honey (rock, blues), 9pm

OK gO

9pm • $14/$16

kId congo Powers (of the cramps and Bad seeds)

and the Pink monkey Birds w/ ouroboros Boys & the shine Brothers • 9pm $10/$12

Fri 9/26

tHe reVelers

SAT 9/27

JOHn COWAn, JOHn McFEE & FriEnDS

9pm • $10/$12

An Evening With

8pm • $25/$28/$50VIP

OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm

SUn 9/28

OLIVE OR TWIST Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm Psylo Joe w/ Wave Lynx (psychedelic, funk-rock), 10pm

TUE 9/30 WED 10/1

ORANGE PEEL Greensky Bluegrass w/ Swear and Shake (indie, bluegrass), 9pm OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mustache Brothers (bluegrass, country), 6pm

THU 10/2

J MASCiS

w/ Purling Hiss 9pm • $18/$20

PomPlamoose 9pm • $10/$12

of montreal w/ Pillar Point 9pm • $15/$18 TAJ WEEKES & ADOWA 9pm • $12/$15

PACK’S TAVERN DJ MoTo (dance hits, pop), 9pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Fred Whiskin (piano), 7:30pm ROOT BAR NO. 1 Dulci Ellenburger (indie), 8pm

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CLUBLAND

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Steady Flow w/ Steepwater Band 10PM $5 21+

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY The Low Down Sires (jazz), 8pm SPRING CREEK TAVERN The Moonshine Racers, 9pm STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Chris Smith, 6pm

Hard Proof

10PM $8/$10/$5 with The Revivalists 21+

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Mile High (country), 9:30pm

The Revivalists w/ The Black Cadillacs

THE MOTHLIGHT Pile w/ Fax Holiday, Big Mess, War Journal (rock, grunge), 9pm

10PM $12/$15 21+

Psylo Joe w/ Wave Lynx 10PM $3 21+

THE PHOENIX Aaron Burdett Band (Americana), 9pm

An Evening with Sun Ra Arkestra directed by Marshal Allen 9PM

THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

$18/$22 21+

TIGER MOUNTAIN Devyn (psychedelic, indie, metal, rock), 10pm

Kings of Belmont w/ Aliver Hall 10PM $5 21+ Same as it Ever Was 10PM

TIMO’S HOUSE M.P. Pride (trap, dance, hip-hop), 10pm

$10 21+

Metaphonia w/ Special Guests

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The Brown Bag Songwriting Competition 7:30pm $3 to enter, Free to

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TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Renegade Show, 10pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Nikki Calloway & Friends, 7pm The Nightcrawlers, 10pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Annie Sellick (cabaret jazz), 8pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27

TAVERN

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Patrick Fitzsimons (jazz, world), 6pm The Blood Gypsies (gypsy blues), 9pm

Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 13 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard • Darts Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night

ALLEY KATS TAVERN The Twisted Trail Band, 9:30pm

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ANDREWS BREWING CO. Mangas Colorado (Americana, bluegrass, folk-rock), 6pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Jam night w/ Chris O’Neill, 9:30pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Same As It Ever Was (talking heads tribute), 10pm

THU. 9/25 Howie Johnson & Eric Congdon (acoustic rock) FRI. 9/26 DJ MoTo (pop, dance hits)

ASHEVILLE SANDWICH COMPANY John Hardy Party (old-time), 5:30pm ATHENA’S CLUB Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, Americana, blues), 7pm BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Crooked Pine (folk, Americana), 9pm BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7pm

SAT. 9/27 Three Cool Cats (rock n’ roll) BE

BOILER ROOM Amnesis, Skinn Jakkitt, Redefind & Here’s to All (benefit for Stephen Paris, metal), 9pm

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BYWATER Low-Down Sires (big band, jazz), 9pm

CATAWBA BREWING CO. Dave Desmelik Duo (singer-songwriter), 6pm

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PACK’S TAVERN Three Cool Cats (rock ‘n’ roll), 9pm

CROW & QUILL DJs Nareau & Grave-Rose (horror night, “terror from space”), 9pm DOUBLE CROWN DJ Lil Lorruh (50s, 60s R&B, rock), 10pm DUGOUT Fine Line (classic rock), 9pm ELAINE’S DUELING PIANO BAR Dueling Pianos, 9pm FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Greenliners w/ David Blackman (bluegrass), 9pm FRENCH BROAD BREWERY TASTING ROOM Salt of the Earth (folk), 6pm

ROOT BAR NO. 1 Bull Moose Party (old-time, bluegrass), 8pm SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm SCULLY’S DJ, 10pm

THE ADMIRAL Soul night w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 11pm

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Laura Blackley (country, folk, soul), 6:30pm

THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

IRON HORSE STATION Ben Wilson (Americana), 7pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN IIIrd Wave dance night w/ Lynnnn & Sarah K (avant-dance, disco, darkwave), 10pm

LOBSTER TRAP Crossroads String Band (jazz, blues, bluegrass), 7am MARCO’S PIZZERIA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6pm MARKET PLACE DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Dance party w/ Franco Nino (trap, dance, top 40s), 10pm TOWN PUMP Wink Keziah (honky-tonk), 9pm TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Juggling Extravaganza (80s dance, juggling party), 7:30pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES The King Zeros (blues), 7pm Free Flow, 10pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 28

MCGOURTY’S PUB Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues), 9pm

185 KING STREET NFL Sunday potluck, 12pm

NEW MOUNTAIN Camel City Collective w/ Oteil Burbridge, Marvelous Funkshun (alien jazz, funk), 7pm The Ballroom Thieves (high energy rock), 8pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Black Robin Hero (rock ‘n’ roll), 7pm

NIGHTBELL RESTAURANT & LOUNGE Cpt. Hyperdrive (future soul), 9pm ODDITORIUM Des Ark & Impossible Vacation, 9pm OFF THE WAGON Dueling pianos, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST 42nd Street (jazz, swing), 8pm Late Night DJ (techno, disco), 11pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Reggae Family Jam, 2pm

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TALLGARY’S CANTINA Carolina Rex (rock), 9:30pm

THE PHOENIX Matt Townsend & The Wonder of the World (Americana), 9pm

LEX 18 Michael Jefry Stevens Trio (jazz), 8pm

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STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Violin River (jam band), 6pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN John Cowan w/ John McFee & Friends (newgrass, folk), 8pm

JERUSALEM GARDEN Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

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SPRING CREEK TAVERN Carolina Ceili (Irish), 4pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Reptar w/ New Madrid (pop, indie), 9:30pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Left Lane Cruiser w/ Grand Ole Uproar, Shake it like a Caveman (Americana, oldtime, rock, twang), 9pm

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SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Raising Caine (country), 8pm

GREEN ROOM CAFE & COFFEEHOUSE Evalina & Marty (folk, blues), 6:30pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Asheville Area Arts Council (Gilded Ball), 7pm

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Outdoor Stage Season Closer w/ Root Down, Bombus, DOGS (celebration, WNC times), 5pm PURPLE ONION CAFE Shana Blake Band (R&B, soul, funk), 8pm

CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Postal Express Street Riders Dance Party, 9pm

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ORANGE PEEL Bonobo w/ Jim E-Stack (DJ set), 9pm

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GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN J Mascis of Dinosaur Jr w/ Purling Hiss (songwriter, indie, rock), 9pm

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY BlueSunday w/ Garry Segal & Michael Filappone (blues jam), 5pm

HOOKAH JOE’S Bellydancing, 8:30pm

SPRING CREEK TAVERN Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 2pm

IRON HORSE STATION Mark Bumgarner (Americana), 6pm

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Jay Brown, 5pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Jazz showcase, 6pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Jason Brazzel (acoustic), 6pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish session, 5pm Quinn Tsan w/ Johnny Lewis (folk, acoustic), 9pm

THE MOTHLIGHT All Them Witches w/ Across Tundras, Nate Hall (rock, blues, psych), 9pm

MILLROOM Service Industry Night, 9pm

TOY BOAT COMMUNITY ART SPACE Asheville Juggling Festival, 10am-6pm

MOJO KITCHEN & LOUNGE Sunday night swing, 5pm

VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

ODDITORIUM Hospital Call, Roamer X, Aloonaluna (experimental, psychedelic), 9pm

YACHT CLUB Steely Dan Sunday, 5pm

ONE STOP DELI & BAR Bluegrass brunch w/ The Pond Brothers, 11am Metaphonia w/ Special Guests (jazz, funk), 10pm

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THE SOCIAL ‘80s night, 8pm TOWN PUMP Sunday jam, 4pm

OLIVE OR TWIST Shag & swing lesson w/ John Dietz, 7pm Oldies & dance DJ, 8pm

TUES • SEPT 30 MEADOW OPEN 4-8

THE PHOENIX Up Jumped 3 (jazz), 12pm

LOBSTER TRAP Woody Wood (folk, jazz, bluegrass), 7pm

OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9pm

(Tasting Room closed for private event)

SEPTEMBER 24 - SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

ANOTHER SHOW AT ISIS: Rebecca Frazier and Hit & Run performs with Tellico on Thursday, Sept. 25, at 9 p.m. for an evening mix of bluegrass, acoustic Americana and old-time. A blurb for the show on the music hall’s website notes that Frazier “achieved notoriety in the bluegrass world as the first woman ever to appear on the cover of Flatpicking Guitar Magazine. She will appear at Isis with her award-winning Colorado-based band, Hit & Run.”

LEX 18 Andrew J. Fletcher (silent movie w/ piano accompaniment), 12pm Drayton & The Dreamboats (jazz), 8pm

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Get Right Band (funk, rock, reggae), 8pm ALLEY KATS TAVERN Open mic, 8pm ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Old-time jam, 8pm

ORANGE PEEL TOKiMONSTA (electronic, dance, hip-hop), 9pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ by Alex Krug, 7:30pm

SCANDALS NIGHTCLUB DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Bluegrass jam w/ The Big F’n Deal Band, 7pm

BYWATER Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 9pm

BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Trivia, 7pm

COURTYARD GALLERY Open mic (music, poetry, comedy, etc.), 8pm

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7pm

DOUBLE CROWN Punk ‘n’ roll w/ DJ Leo Delightful, 10pm FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Lowcut Connie (rock), 9pm GOOD STUFF Riverside Trivia Show, 7pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Contra Dance, 7pm JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo, 7pm LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller & Friends (fast bluegrass), 7pm ODDITORIUM Doomster, The Baby Magic & Mondays (punk), 9pm OFF THE WAGON Open mic, 8pm ORANGE PEEL Summer Movie Series (Donnie Darko), 8pm

BUFFALO NICKEL Trivia night, 7pm BYWATER Fire-spinning night, 9pm CLUB ELEVEN ON GROVE Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 6:30pm Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm CORK & KEG Honkytonk jam w/ Tom Pittman & friends, 6:30pm DOUBLE CROWN Punk ‘n’ roll w/ DJs Sean & Will, 10pm GOOD STUFF Celtic Night, 7pm GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Pomplamoose w/ John Schroeder (rock, indie, fun), 8pm IRON HORSE STATION Open mic w/ Kevin Reese, 6pm ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Bluegrass session, 7:30pm

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6pm

LEX 18 HotPoint Duo (gypsy swing), 8pm

THE MOTHLIGHT Fly Golden Eagle w/ This Mountain (garage rock, indie), 9pm

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown (Americana, folk), 7pm

THE PHOENIX Jeff Sipe & Friends (jam-fusion), 8pm THE SOCIAL Hartford bluegrass jam w/ Ben Saylor, 8pm TIGER MOUNTAIN Honky-tonk (classic country & rockabilly) w/ DJ Lil Lorruh & David Wayne Gay, 10pm TIMO’S HOUSE Service Industry Night w/ Nex Millen (dance party), 9pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm WESTVILLE PUB Trivia night, 8pm WILD WING CAFE Team trivia, 8:30pm

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Wed HOSTED BY TAYLOR MARTIN AND AMANDA ANNE PLATT FREE • 7PM 9/24 TRIO GUGGINO $10 • 7:15 PM LOUNGE

Thu AN EVENING WITH LAURA CANTRELL $10 • 7:15PM LOUNGE 9/25

REBECCA FRAZIER AND HIT & RUN BLUEGRASS W/ TELLICO $10/$12 9PM

Fri 9/26 SIRIUS. B WITH LEIGH GLASS AND THE HAZARDS $8/$10 9pm Sat THE ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL GILDED BALL 9/27 VIP TICKET $100 / GENERAL ADMISSION $50 ADV/$60DOOR 7PM

MARCO’S PIZZERIA Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz), 6:30pm

wed SWEET CLAUDETTE: WEDNESDAY LOUNGE SESSIONS IN OCTOBER $7/$7 10/01 AN EVENING WITH ALASH $12/$15 9PM

MARKET PLACE The Rat Alley Cats (jazz, Latin, swing), 7pm

thu 10/02 AN EVENING OF CELTIC MUSIC W/ THE HANZ ARAKI BAND $10 7PM Every Sunday JAZZ SHOWCASE 6pm - 11pm Every Tuesday BLUEGRASS SESSIONS 7:30pm - midnite

NEW MOUNTAIN Big Freedia (bounce, hip-hop), 8pm

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ODDITORIUM Comedy open mic w/ Tom Peters, 9pm OFF THE WAGON Rock ‘n’ roll bingo, 8pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Tuesday night techno, 10pm

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SCULLY’S Open mic night w/ Jeff Anders, 9pm TALLGARY’S CANTINA Jam night, 9pm THE SOCIAL Ashli Rose (singer-songwriter), 7pm TIMO’S HOUSE 90s Recall w/ Franco (90s dance, hip-hop, pop), 10pm

5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys (ragtime, jazz), 8pm

TOWN PUMP Max Garcia Conover (guitar), 9pm

ALLEY KATS TAVERN Bluegrass Tuesday, 8pm

TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Early Tuesday w/ Pauly Juhl & Oso, 8:30pm

ALTAMONT BREWING COMPANY Open mic w/ Chris O’Neill, 8pm

VINCENZO’S BISTRO Steve Whiddon (classic piano), 5:30pm

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11pm

WESTVILLE PUB Blues jam, 10pm

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BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Buncombe County Boyz (folk, bluegrass), 7:30pm BYWATER Soul night w/ DJ Whitney, 8:30pm

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CORK & KEG Irish jam w/ Beanie, Vincent & Jean, 7pm DOUBLE CROWN DJs Greg Cartwright & David Wayne Gay (country), 10pm

NEW MOUNTAIN Sons of Bill w/ Israel Nash (Americana, folk), 8pm Judah & the Lion w/ Penny & Sparrow (Americana, folk), 8pm NOBLE KAVA Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm ODDITORIUM Cliffs, Scrap Randi & Aunt Sis (punk-rock, experimental), 9pm OFF THE WAGON Piano show, 9pm OLIVE OR TWIST Swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm ONE STOP DELI & BAR Third Nature and Feel Free (electronic, reggae), 10pm ORANGE PEEL We Came As Romans Tour w/ For Today, The Color Morale, and Palisades, 7pm PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Dalton Dash (Americana, bluegrass), 6pm

DUGOUT Karaoke, 9pm

TALLGARY’S CANTINA Open mic & jam, 7pm

GOOD STUFF Dallas Danger (punk, folk, Americana), 8pm

THE MOTHLIGHT The Mike Dillon Band w/ Rational Discourse (electrifying percussion), 9pm

GREY EAGLE MUSIC HALL & TAVERN Of Montreal w/ Pillat Point (indoe, electronic, pop), 9pm

THE PHOENIX Jazz night, 8pm

GRIND CAFE Trivia night, 7pm

THE SOCIAL Get Vocal Karaoke, 9:30pm

IRON HORSE STATION Jason York (Americana), 6pm

THE SOUTHERN Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

ISIS RESTAURANT AND MUSIC HALL Acoustic on the Patio w/ Taylor Martin & friends, 7pm Wednesday Lounge Sessions w/ Sweet Claudette (Motown, singer-songwriter), 7pm An Evening with Alash (Tuvan throat singing), 9pm

TIGER MOUNTAIN Sean Dail (classic punk, power-pop, rock), 10pm

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old-time session, 5pm LOBSTER TRAP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet, beats), 7pm MILLROOM Gardens & Villa w/ SANDY Alex G (indie-rock), 9pm MOJO KITCHEN & LOUNGE DJ Molly Parti “Get Over the Hump-day” dance party (funk, soul, hip-hop), 5:30pm MOUNTAIN MOJO COFFEEHOUSE Open mic, 6:30pm

TIMO’S HOUSE Release AVL w/ Dam Good (dance party), 9pm TOWN PUMP Open mic w/ Aaron, 9pm TRESSA’S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm URBAN ORCHARD Poetry on Demand w/ Eddie Cabbage, 6:30pm VINCENZO’S BISTRO Lenny Petenelli (high-energy piano), 7pm WILD WING CAFE Karaoke, 9pm WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Skinny Wednesday w/ J LUKE, 6pm

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PICK OF THE WEEK

THEATER LISTINGS

The Skeleton Twins

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2

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Due to possible scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters.

DIRECTOR: Craig Johnson (True Adolescents) PLAYERS: Bill Hader, Kristen Wiig, Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell, Joanna Gleason

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COMEDY DRAMA RATED R THE STORY: Following a failed suicide attempt, a gay man goes to stay with his equally damaged sister in their old hometown. THE LOWDOWN: This is how comedy-drama is done. There are a couple of false steps, but overall this is a splendid film with terrific star turns from Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig.

Craig Johnson’s The Skeleton Twins stands a pretty good chance of becoming an art house title with solid mainstream appeal — and it would be nice to see that happen, since this is one of the most appealing films to come along this year. Oh, it’s not perfect. At least one scene stands out in my mind as a misfire, and there’s an aspect of the ending that is so inconclusive that it feels like something is missing. But for anything it gets wrong, it gets so much more right that I feel downright churlish for complaining. There is, in fact, one scene — quite ridiculous on the surface — that’s a little piece of cinematic nirvana. Now, I know that stories involving dysfunctional families are now down to a nickel a dozen (a dime would be overcharging), but this is something new, something fresh, something in an altogether different league. The writing is sharp. The direction is

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assured and slyly stylish in a way that uses symbolism without calling attention to itself. And the performances are frankly outstanding. Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig star as Milo and Maggie, the skeleton twins (fraternal) of the title. When the film begins, Milo — a depressed, lonely gay man who is not making a go of an acting career in L.A. — attempts suicide. (As a barometer of his loneliness, his suicide note is headed, “To whom it may concern.”) Fortunately, the fact that he’s turned his music up causes complaints and an intervention. At the same time on the East Coast, Maggie is just about to swallow a handful of sleeping pills when the call alerting her about Milo comes through. Though they haven’t seen each other — or apparently talked — for 10 years, she flies out to California, receives a chilly reception but ultimately finds it pretty easy to convince Milo to come home with her. It would be hard to say that being back in his old hometown thrills him. For that matter, Maggie’s altogether too tolerant and

utterly bland husband, Lance (Luke Wilson), both amuses and appalls him. Plus, there is a very unresolved relationship lurking there for Milo. The shrewdness and blissfulness of the film lies in the way it slowly and effortlessly peels back the layers of truth about its characters. It spends very little time dealing with their dysfunctional past. We learn that their father — who seems to have doted on them — committed suicide. We briefly meet their mother (Joanna Gleason), who is so self-absorbed that she only stopped by to see her children because she was on her way to an event in nearby Woodstock. These things only serve as background to the issues of the twins, who are quite capable of being dysfunctional without the need of other family members. As it turns out, Maggie is secretly taking birth control pills while pretending to be trying to have a child with Lance. And though Lance is a really good guy — maybe too good — she is a serial adulteress. Milo, on the other hand, is still obsessed with his old English teacher, Rich

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(Ty Burrell), with whom he had an affair when he was 15. Rich, however, is now a deeply closeted man with a son and a girlfriend, quietly running a bookstore — and who very much does and doesn’t want to see Milo. It’s not a healthy situation, and it doesn’t get more so — at least for a long while. How all this plays out is constantly surprising while always seeming inevitable — a neat trick. When all the brush is cleared away, it’s really all about the relationship of Milo and Maggie. It sometimes feels like a contest to see who’s the most damaged. (I’d call it a draw.) But it never feels phony or forced, thanks in no small part to Hader and Wiig, who are always real and convincing. OK, yes, the scene in the dentist’s office feels like a sketch for its first half. On the other hand, the improbable scene where Hader pulls her out of a funk by getting her to join in lip-syncing Starship’s “Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now” is amazing — funny, touching, redemptive and beautifully staged — and worth seeing the film for on its own. But so much of the film is so good that there’s more here than that. It’s special and rather wonderful. Rated R for language, some sexuality and drug use. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and Fine Arts Theatre. reviewed by Ken Hanke

A Walk Among the Tombstones HHHHS

DIRECTOR: Scott Frank (The Lookout) PLAYERS: Liam Neeson, Astro, David Harbour, Dan Stevens, Eric Nelsen NOIR MYSTERY RATED R THE STORY: A retired cop and unlicensed detective gets hired to track down a group of sadistic kidnappers who target drug dealers. THE LOWDOWN: A stylish noir detective story that’s both welcomely self-aware and intelligent.

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Scott Frank’s A Walk Among the Tombstones has been marketed as yet another entry in Liam Neeson’s rebirth as a tough guy action star. This is unfortunate, since it’s likely damaged its appeal by appearing to be more of the same, something it’s definitely not. Tombstones is much, much more than anything Neeson’s done in this newest phase of his career — from the goofy Taken movies to the trite profundity of The Grey (2011). While never managing to reinvent the detective movie, writer/director Frank clearly understands that stories about detectives are always more interesting than detective stories. There is a genuine sense of human empathy here, conveyed perfectly by Neeson as world-weary private dick Matt Scudder. Matt is a retired cop and a recovering alcoholic; the reasons for both are often hinted at in the film’s opening (the way these flashbacks unfold are similar in structure to Frank’s overlooked The Lookout (2007)) — one that harkens back to ‘70s hard-boiled exploitation flicks and acts as a comment on a kind of Dirty Harry vigilante cop. As the plot kicks in, it’s 1999, the specter of Y2K is constantly around (more for window dressing and to set up a passing comment on the nature of evil by one of the film’s villains), and Matt is an unlicensed private detective. Because of his standing outside the law, he’s persuaded by a junkie named Howie (TV actor Eric Nelsen) to help out his brother Kenny (Dan Stevens, The Fifth Estate), a drug trafficker whose wife Carrie (Razane Jammal) was kidnapped, held for ransom and chopped to bits despite Kenny paying the ransom money. Matt reluctantly takes the case and starts to track down the kidnappers, quickly finding that this isn’t their first murder. Tombstones unravels in a fairly straightforward manner as far as the plot goes, and it doesn’t necessarily cover any new ground. Occasionally, it feels like a pared down True Detective shorn of all the weird metaphysical concerns (that the film wasn’t marketed in a similar fashion was a mistake), while some of the detective work feels a bit too much like an episode of Law & Order. But what sets Tombstones apart is its own nuance. I don’t think there’s a better word for it either, since the film’s at its best in its understatedness. This isn’t a movie concerned with car chases, overlong gunfights or heavy-handed philosophiz-

Liam Neeson stars in Scott Frank’s solid noir mystery A Walk Among the Tombstones -- definitely not your average Neeson action fare.

ing. Instead, it’s a violent crime film about the human toll violence and crime can take, and the place where good inhabits that world. Tombstones can be a grim movie but — thankfully — never a nihilistic or self-serious one. For the first time I can remember, Neeson’s given a character with a sense of humor and a sense of humanity. He’s no killing machine (despite what the trailer tells you, Matt has a very understandable aversion to guns), and his reasons for continuing with the case have much more to do with the victims and a sense of justice than the money being paid to him by Kenny. Neeson’s playing a real-life human being, one with compassion and sympathy, and it’s a role he nails. On top of this, Frank shoots everything with an understated style, one that’s never fussy or distracting, but is obviously the mark of a man trying his damnedest to make something that stands out, and which suits the nature of the material. Combined, it’s these aspects that often raise A Walk Among the Tombstones above the basic potboiler it could’ve easily become, to something occasionally near great. Rated R for strong violence, disturbing images, language and brief nudity. Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Justin Souther

Kelly & Cal HHHH

DIRECTOR: Jen McGowan PLAYERS: Juliette Lewis, Jonny Weston, Josh Hopkins, Cybill Shepherd, Lucy Owen ROMANTIC DRAMA RATED NR THE STORY: A 30-something housewife becomes involved with a boy half her age. THE LOWDOWN: From a technical standpoint, this is very well crafted — especially for an indie — and its leads are outstanding from start to finish. Unfortunately, it is otherwise populated with nothing but caricatures, who bring it all down a notch.

The things that are good about Jen McGowan’s debut feature Kelly & Cal are so very good that it would be altogether too easy to overpraise the film — and that would do no one any favors. It is a small-scale film. Its ambitions are not overwhelming — nor are its reasonably modest ambitions always achieved. What is achieved is a splendid character piece concerning a mid-late 30s woman and a dis-

abled 17-year-old boy — splendidly acted by Juliette Lewis and Jonny Weston (John Dies at the End). That the characters surrounding them don’t really work matters very little whenever they’re onscreen together or by themselves — and fortunately that accounts for most of the movie. However, it’s impossible to just ignore that the movie loses ground every time the supporting cast intrudes. Lewis plays Kelly, a former punk rocker who is now a housewife with a baby. Josh (Josh Hopkins), the artist she married, now works in advertising and has become extremely inattentive since the birth of their child. He even seems slightly horrified by the prospect that they can have sex again a mere six weeks after childbirth. To say that this is not a good situation would be fair. Enter into her world Cal (Weston), a 17-year-old in wheelchair. There’s no way around noting that they have a “meet cute” where he bums a cigarette off her, compliments her breasts and is sent packing — before she realizes he’s in a wheelchair (he was behind a fence), making her feel bad about being so abrupt with him. They meet again — essentially her doing — when she’s taking the baby out in a stroller. She likes him because he’s attentive — and enthused over the fact that she was once in a punk band. He likes her because, unlike most people, she looks him in the eye and takes him at face value. Naturally, this friendship leads to more of a relationship than Kelly intended — and one that certainly means more to Cal than is appropriate in light of their respective ages. Not surprisingly, the age thing neither bothers, nor deters him. For Kelly it’s more awkward, but the impact is undeniable, since it provides companionship that allows her to delve into who and what she wanted to be rather than who and what she’s become. When she shows up at a family function, horrifying everyone with her freshly-dyed electric-blue hair, mother-in-law Bev (Cybill Shepherd) and sister-in-law Julie (Lucy Owen) attempt to stage a kind of intervention. They have no idea — nor does Josh — that Cal is involved in any way, and, in fact, their combined efforts actually make it just that much easier for Kelly to spend time with Cal. This is basically sound — up to a point. The problem is that every character who isn’t Kelly or Cal is effectively a clueless boob

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The Boxtrolls As is often the case with animated movies, this one of being sold on the strength of a studio brand — in this case Laika — and not on the actual creative forces behind the specific movies. Yes, Laika made Coraline and ParaNorman, but the people who actually wrote and directed those are not here. Early word started out less than stellar, but has steadily grown. The blurb tells us that the film is about “a community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs (voiced by Isaac Hempstead-Wright) in the amazing cavernous home they’ve built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town’s villain, Archibald Snatcher (Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley), comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, “into the light,” where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnifred (Elle Fanning).” (PG)

The Equalizer Early word is reasonably strong for the big screen version of the old CBS TV series The Equalizer. The property has been altered to fit Denzel Washington and goosed in the violence department because, well, it was made by Antoine Fuqua. It’s all about Washington going after Russian (of course) mobsters after they nearly kill his hooker friend (Chloé Grace Moretz). The real potential problem here would seem to be the fact that the movie is 131 minutes long, which is a bit hefty for this sort of thing. (R)

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of a caricature. The in-laws may be well-intentioned — and they are sometimes amusing — but they’re too ridiculous to believe. Josh isn’t much better, though he’s more of an uncomprehending bore than ridiculous. Cal’s mother (Margaret Colin) is equally oblivious. Even minor characters like a neighborhood mothers’ group are nothing but props to make Kelly’s relationship with Cal look not just like good judgment, but the only rational choice she could make. If the film actually followed through in this manner, it might work, but, of course, it doesn’t. It’s going to ultimately bring Kelly to her senses, because, well, it’s a movie and follows what movies are supposed to follow, especially when the alternative is improper and not sensible. Overlooking this, however, the two leads are terrific and share mismatched chemistry that’s otherwise lacking in the film. Watching their relationship is very worthwhile, and the dialogues between them feel real — even when the film edges toward the inevitable. Similarly, Jen McGowan’s filmmaking is a breath of fresh air in the world of indie film. Here is someone working in that realm who actually knows what a tripod is and isn’t afraid to use one. Oh, there are some handheld shots — mostly late in the film — but they’re not distracting or deliberately shaky. It will be very interesting to see what she does next. Not Rated, but contains adult themes and language. Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas. reviewed by Ken Hanke

The Maze Runner HHHS

DIRECTOR: Wes Ball PLAYERS: Dylan O’Brien, Aml Ameen, Ki Hong Lee, Blake Cooper, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, Kaya Scodelario, Patricia Clarkson YA SCI-FI FANTASY RATED R THE STORY: YA sci-fi about a group of boys trapped at the center of a maze. THE LOWDOWN: Better than average for its type, but not without problems of its own, The Maze Runner still manages to create a world of disturbing menace with better than expected characters.

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I really wanted to like The Maze Runner more than the film allowed me to. In terms of just about everything, I like the idea of it far more than the massively popular Hunger Games movies. And when it’s at its best, I think it’s considerably better than those, but it is unfortunately not always at its best. I don’t object to the fact that it spends a good deal of time detailing the world of the film. I expected that and don’t really see any way around it, especially with the target audience in mind. I’m mostly OK with the WWII-bomber-crew casting of ethnically diverse types, since the film doesn’t play to the ethnicity of the characters. I do, however, object to the fact that I could rightly guess — in the first 20 minutes — just which character would almost, but not quite, make it to the end for a tug at the heartstrings. I also find it peculiar, to say the least, that there’s not even a hint of sexuality in a story with all these hormonal teenage boys trapped in a confined space, nor is there any particular interest in the arrival of a girl. But what I really take issue with is all the uninspired running away from the movie’s rather clunky, giant CGI spider monsters. It’s a case of when the action cranks up, the interest goes down. In many respects, this is just another look into a dystopian future complete with the requisite “chosen one.” (I always expect someone to announce at the end of these things, “And how can this be? For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!”) And while it is better than most — and poised to take the weekend box office — interest in it suffers from the inevitable YA dystopian sci-fi fatigue. The setup for this one places this group of boys in a glade in the middle of a maze. The maze is the only possible avenue of escape, but it comes with built-in perils. Not only does it close — and reconfigure itself — at sundown, but after dark, these deadly things called “grievers” (the monster spider things) come out. This, of course, means that until the arrival of the movie’s chosen one, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien, TV’s Teen Wolf), no one has ever survived a night in the maze. Chances are you can pretty much figure out where this is going, especially since there are more than a few passing similarities to The Hunger Games. But there are differences, and those are not without their interest.

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Without getting into the realm of spoilers, it’s fair to report that these boys — finally joined by one girl, Teresa (Kaya Scodelario, who bears an unfortunate resemblance to Kristen Stewart) — have no idea why they’re here. They also have no memory of their lives prior to this existence, which makes their plight more desperate and interesting. It’s also of note — without saying too much — that this is no kind of bread-and-circus entertainment to appease the appetites of some jaded ruling class. And somehow — thanks to the production design and the direction — this becomes less simplistic and more disturbing. There’s no hint of easy social commentary here — despite the obvious parallel to Lord of the Flies. Several things make this an improvement over run-of-the-mill movies of its type. The screenplay is generally intelligent — with a notable lapse or two. The characters are surprisingly welldefined, and the acting is definitely above average. The stills for the film make Dylan O’Brien look like a graduate of the Corey Haim School of Mouth Breather Acting, but that’s deceptive. He comes across much better in the actual film — and unlike Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games series, he’s actually likable. And while there’s no getting around the fact that Kaya Scodelaria looks like an imitation Kristen Stewart, she’s a far more appealing performer. Thomas Brodie-Sangster is the key supporting actor, giving the role more depth than appears on the page. The weak link is Will Poulter — or more to the point, the way his character is written. His misgivings about Thomas and the sense of jealousy about his own loss of status are one thing, but his final eruption into what can only be called lunacy feels forced and unmotivated. Much has been written about the ending being a letdown. I admit it contains a cliche of alarming proportions, but I didn’t feel let down at all. Rather, I felt intrigued by where it might go in the sequel, which is no mean accomplishment. Rated PG-13 for thematic elements and intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, including some disturbing images. Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande. reviewed by Ken Hanke

This Is Where I Leave You HS DIRECTOR: Shawn Levy (The Internship) PLAYERS: Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Adam Driver, Jane Fonda, Rose Byrne DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY DRAMA COMEDY RATED R THE STORY: After the death of their father, four siblings return home to deal with his death and their own THE LOWDOWN: A flimsy, dull look at modern life, through the lens of vaguely sad middle-class Americans that says nothing new.

Every so often, some movie with a big ensemble cast of Band C-list performers helmed by a lesser director comes out. With the exception of J.C. Chandor’s Margin Call (2011), they’re almost all a monument to mediocrity, dull and forgettable. Shawn Levy’s This Is Where I Leave You — from its unremarkable, bland title to its cast and its complete inability to say anything worthwhile — fits into this mold quite firmly. I’ve liked Levy’s work exactly once, in Real Steel (2011), a movie about robots punching one another. Here, instead of fighting robots, we get a lot a whole slew of actors demonstrating why they’ve never quite been able to carry a movie by themselves. And while Levy’s direction is perfectly adequate, the script he’s shooting from isn’t. From the screenplay by Jonathan Tropper based on his novel of the same name, my dislike of This Is Where I Leave You has as much to do with the script as it does Levy’s uneventful direction of the flaccid cast. While I’m not familiar with Tropper’s work, he seems to be ailed by the same affliction that’s hindered so much American writing. He wants desperately to say something, anything, about the modern American condition — something that translates into the vague sadness of white middleclass city-dwellers coming to grips

with their suburban upbringings. Here, this is seen through Jason Bateman’s Judd, a man whose wife is cheating on him and whose father has just passed, the latter of which forces him to head to his hometown and spend a week with his shrill, often obnoxious dysfunctional family. Levy and Tropper have nothing really to say about how these people live. While sadness, heartbreak and mourning are natural human emotions everyone can relate to, the film turns them into the jokey, the quirky or the mundane. The rest of the film’s inner workings don’t help things much. Tropper has this tendency toward heavy-handed plotting, where every little tidbit or overlong conversation between characters becomes a literal Chekhov’s gun that comes back around to seem clever or profound (as someone paying off student loans for his creative writing degree, I can tell Tropper’s got an MFA and teaches writing). Instead, once you catch onto the ham-fisted way in which the film’s being rolled out, every minute becomes totally predictable, making an already lengthy film all the more drawn-out. Then there’s that cast, which — at their best — never grow beyond simply adequate. Jason Bateman’s firmly entrenched in full-on smart-assed Bateman mode, while Timothy Olyphant is so horribly miscast that I thought he was Taylor Kitsch for half the movie. The most unfortunate turn is Tina Fey, who — if she knows what’s good for her — needs to stay far, far away from dramatic roles. She keeps getting handed all of these deep emotional scenes that she simply can’t carry. She can’t even get the tear ducts going. The only member who comes across as vaguely impressive is Adam Driver (Frances Ha), and this is for giving the film its only half-second of genuine emotion in a film filled to the rafters with detached, mawkish and insincere sentiment. Rated R for language, sexual content and some drug use. Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed by Justin Souther

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Help! HHHHH Director: Richard Lester Players: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Leo McKern, Eleanor Bron, Victor Spinetti, Roy Kinnear ROCK MUSICAL COMEDY Rated NR Though largely denigrated at the time of its release in 1965 as inferior to A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Richard Lester’s second film built around The Beatles, Help! has been pretty completely vindicated by time. It has also been championed by no less a figure on the film scene than Martin Scorsese, who has compared the film to the works of Truffaut, Antonioni, Godard and Fellini, calling it “just as exciting.” Taken with A Hard Day’s Night, Help! was a cheerful and cheeky death knell for traditional standards of well-crafted filmmaking from the previous decade. It was a youth film — a rock ‘n’ roll film — that actually spoke to youth on their own terms, putting forth a cry for freedom — both artistic and personal — in fun terms that no one had ever seen before. The Asheville Film Society will screen Help! Tuesday, Sept. 30, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Reptilicus HHH Director: Sidney Pink (Journey to the Seventh Planet) Players: Bent Mejding, Asbjorn Andersen, Poul Wildaker, Ann Smyrner GIANT MONSTER HORROR Rated NR Reptilicus (1961) is probably the best film Sidney Pink ever made. And if you’ve seen it, you will realize the enormity of that statement. It’s also the best giant monster movie ever to come out of Denmark. It’s also the only one, so that doesn’t keep it from being easily the most laughably bad giant monster movie ever made, which is its major charm. The title horror is so poorly conceived that even Toho technicians — nay, even the guys who created The Giant Claw (1957) — must have laughed. That it spits green radioactive slime is a plus. It must be seen to believed. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen Reptilicus Thursday, Sept. 25, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

Stolen Kisses HHHHS Director: François Truffaut Players: Jean-Pierre Léaud, Delphine Seyrig, Claude Jade, Michel Lonsdale COMEDY-DRAMA Rated R The third film in François Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series, Stolen Kisses (1968) is probably the best after the original, which none of the sequels topped or even equaled. It’s lightweight (a curiously insubstantial affair considering the political and cultural turmoil surrounding its making) and somewhat rambling, but very appealing and still embracing something of the New Wave style that the original film, The 400 Blows (1959), helped define. Essentially, it just follows the adventures of Antoine (Jean-Pierre Léaud) when he’s discharged from the army — adventures mostly concerning a variety of odd jobs and his romantic affairs, which, as usual, are very disordered. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Stolen Kisses Friday, Sept. 26, at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

Waterloo HHH Director: Sergey Bondarchuk Players: Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Orson Welles, Jack Hawkins, Virginia McKenna WAR EPIC Rated G Riding on the artistic success of his 400-plus minute War and Peace (1966), Soviet director Sergey Bondarchuk was handed this English-language multinational production of more tractable length but equal spectacle. It was a huge flop when it appeared in 1970 — perhaps because spectacle was its only real selling point. And on that basis, it is impressive. Otherwise, well, we get Rod Steiger as a very sweaty, very Method-acting Napoleon — and while that’s a spectacle in itself, it’s not of the desirable kind. Christopher Plummer’s coolly detached Duke of Wellington fares better, but the film’s basically a plodding affair of doubtful practical value — apart from its sheer size. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Waterloo Sunday, Sept. 28, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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GENERAL AFRICA • BRAZIL WORK/ STUDY! Change the lives of others while creating a sustainable future. 1, 6, 9, 18 month programs available. Apply now! www.OneWorldCenter. org (269) 591-0518. info@OneWorldCenter.org (AAN CAN) SEASONAL • Enjoy Retail but not the hours? Hickory Farms specialty Christmas Gift Centers with nationally advertised products is hiring managers and staff for Asheville Mall and Blue Ridge Mall. • Good pay, flexible hours, discounts. • Call 1-800-888-8140.

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ROOMMATE WANTED FOR E. ASHEVILLE DUPLEX Unfurnished rm with bath. $435/per month, includes utilities. No pets, drugs, heavy alcohol. Smoking outside. Background check & dep. required. Avail Oct 1st. sylvia_m@aol.com

LOG CABIN • HOT SPRINGS/ MARSHALL Great views, private mountain. Newer construction, 2BR/1BA, 2 acres. 2 covered porches. Wood: floors, walls and ceilings. Energy efficient. WD. Fire pit. $750/ month. (954) 559-8287. hippierealestate@gmail.com

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FULL TIME PET GROOMER WANTED Pet Supermarket Asheville Seeking Full Time Pet Groomer Full-time professional grooming experience Benefits included, Medical/Dental/ Paid Time Off &Employee; Discount! EEO and Drug Free Work Place. 828-254-4481

ADMINISTRATIVE/ OFFICE CIVIL ESTIMATOR/ ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT Fulltime first shift position with highway/ bridge construction company in Asheville, NC. Must be able to study blueprints, project specifications, and related documents to compile all quantities for work to be performed for thorough project analysis/ bid preparation. Aid project managers with subcontracts, purchase orders and invoice processing. Must be very detailed oriented with strong analytical and math skills. Experience with: AGTEK estimating software, blueprint reading, autocad, excel, word, microsoft project. Drug test and e-verify required. Benefits offered. An EEO employer including those with disabilities and protected veterans. Fax resume to: 828-418-1646

CUSTOMER SERVICE REP OPPORTUNITIES AT GAIA HERBS Gaia Herbs is in need of Customer Service Reps at our Mills River facility. This position is responsible for entering customer orders, responding to product information requests, entering credit requests, setting up new accounts, and promoting sales. The ideal candidate will have an understanding of sales and data processing systems, effective telephone techniques, strong computer and data entry skills, and the ability to answer customer questions and resolve problems efficiently and effectively. High school diploma or equivalent and 3-5 years of experience in Customer Service required. Apply on-line at www.gaiaherbs.com. EOE RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANT Needed Immediately. MANNA Food Bank Is seeking a Part-time, 20 hour/ week Resource Development Assistant. Competitive pay. Must be proficient in Microsoft Office. Job Description, requirements and application on www.mannafoodbank.org • E-mail resume and cover letter to: sschwartz@mannafoodbank.org No phone calls. EOE

RESTAURANT/ FOOD COOK Red Oak Recovery, a young adult substance abuse treatment program in Leicester, NC, is seeking a full time cook. We offer treatment in a residential setting with an emphasis on healthy food, gardening and cooking classes. • Qualified candidates will have experience in meal preparation for up to 50 people, be creative and flexible in the kitchen, and possess basic baking skills. Gardening and teaching experience are a plus. We are looking for responsible, dependable candidates who are organized, friendly, and compassionate. Please submit resumes to jobs@redoakrecovery.com

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ASHEVILLE HEALTH CARE CENTER Is currently hiring for: Dietary Aide, CNA, RN, and LPN. All interested individuals can apply online by visiting www.mfa.net CNAS (CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANTS) NEED IN BUNCOMBE, MADISON, AND YANCY COUNTIES www.bayada.com ASH-team@bayada. com 828-681-5100 REGISTERED NURSE - PARTTIME Madison Home Care & Hospice has an opening for a Part-time Registered Nurse, 32 hours per week . This position offers a excellent benefits package, great working environment and friendly, family oriented atmosphere. Must have 1 year experience. Please send your resume to Hot Springs Health Program, Attn. Freda Hylemon, HR Director, PO Box 69, Marshall, NC 28753 or Fax–649-3786. E-mail: employment@hotspringshealth-nc. org, or apply online at www. hotspringshealth-nc.org or in person to 590 Medical Park Dr, Marshall.

HUMAN SERVICES BLUE RIDGE TREKS, LLC SEEKS PART-TIME CONTRACT THERAPIST Blue Ridge Treks is excited to hire a licensed therapist to fill a contract position providing therapy in the Asheville community. Part-time with room for growth. Send resume to blueridgetreks@gmail.com. BSW SOCIAL WORKER/CASE MANAGER Full-time. Jewish Family Services of WNC, Inc. (JFS), seeks an experienced Bachelor’s level Social Worker/Case MANAGER to provide assistance and coordination of services to individuals and families at all life stages. This person identifies client needs to develop and monitor appropriate client service plans and outcomes. • Requires BSW degree, excellent communication and computer skills, and relevant experience, including with older adults and group programs. Knowledge of WNC

resources, and familiarity with Jewish culture preferred. Must be team player And able to work independently, with a focus on helping people to help themselves. This is Not a clinical position. • Email resume and cover letter to info@jfswnc.org or mail to: JFS, 2 Doctors Park Suite E, Asheville, NC 28801. No phone calls please. Application deadline: 9/19/2014. • A copy of the full job description is available on the JFS website at www. jfswnc.org LIBERTY CORNER ENTERPRISES is seeking Support Team Members to work in residential homes and the community with people who have disabilities. • Applicants must have a high school diploma or equivalent, a North Carolina driver's license, proof of insurance and a reliable vehicle. Sign language skills are a plus. • Positions are available in Swain, Haywood and Buncombe counties. Pay rate based on experience. Apply in person at Liberty Corner Enterprises: 36 Haywood Street, 4th Floor, Asheville, NC 28801 or www. libertycornerent.com LOOKING FOR DIRECT CARE STAFF to provide services to persons(s) with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. Several positions available. Training, supervision, and benefits available. Evidence of high school graduation is required. Please apply online at www. turningpointservicesinc.com; specify Asheville as the location. "We are an equal opportunity employer" MENTAL HEALTH COUNSELOR (LCSW/LPC) with Substance Abuse Credentials (CSAC/LCAS). Established Counseling Center seeking licensed therapist looking to establish private practice. While building your client base, you'll be conducting Assessments and leading groups. Experience and work background in substance abuse highly desired. Please contact Bruce directly at (828) 7773755 and email resume to trcbruce@gmail.com PART-TIME RN Nurses – RN Help make your community a better place. Mountain Area Recovery Center is growing and we are currently seeking an RN to work PRN as a medicating nurse at both Asheville and Clyde facilities. Some requirements are early morning hours, flexible schedule, and some weekend hours. Candidate

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by Rob Brezny

ARIES (March 21-April 19): It’s no secret: The wealthiest 1 percent of the population has been getting progressively wealthier. Meanwhile, the poor are becoming steadily poorer. I’m worried that there is a metaphorically similar trend in your life. Am I right? If so, please do all you can to reverse it. Borrow energy from the rich and abundant parts of your life so as to lift up the neglected and underendowed parts. Here’s one example of how you could proceed: For a while, be less concerned with people who think you’re a star, and give more attention to those who accept and love your shadow side. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I choose a lazy person to do a hard job,” says Bill Gates, the world’s second-richest man, “because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it.” That’s good counsel for you right now, Taurus. You’d be wise to get in touch with your inner lazy bum. Let the slacker within you uncover the least stressful way to accomplish your difficult task. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, there’s no need for you to suffer and strain as you deal with your dilemma. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you don’t identify and express your conscious desires, your unconscious desires will dominate your life. Let me say that again in different words, because it’s crucial that you understand this principle: You’ve got to be very clear about what you really want, and install a shining vision of it at the core of your everyday life. If you don’t do that, you’ll end up being controlled by your habits and old programming. So be imperious, Gemini. Define your dearest, strongest longing — and be ruthlessly devoted to it. CANCER (June 21-July 22): Influential French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a pioneer of photojournalism who helped transform photography into an art form. In 1986 he was invited to Palermo, Sicily, to accept a prize for his work. The hotel he stayed in seemed oddly familiar to him, although he didn’t understand why. Only later did he discover that it was the same place his mother and father had stayed on their honeymoon: It was where he was conceived. I foresee a comparable development on the horizon for you, Cancerian: a return to origins, perhaps inadvertent; an evocative encounter with your roots; a reunification with an influence that helped make you who you are today. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): With expert execution, musician Ben Lee can play 15 notes per second on his violin. Superstar eater Pete Czerwinski needs just 34 seconds to devour a 12-inch pizza. When Jerry Miculek is holding his rifle, he can get off eight crack shots at four targets in a little more than one second. While upside-down, Aichi Ono is capable of doing 135 perfect head spins in a minute. I don’t expect you to be quite so lightning fast and utterly flawless as these people in the coming weeks, Leo, but I do think you will be unusually quick and skillful. For the foreseeable future, speed and efficiency are your specialties. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I am a seed about to break,” wrote Sylvia Plath in her poem “Three Women.” That’s how I see you right now, Libra: teeming with the buoyant energy that throbs when a seed is ready to sprout. You’ve been biding your time, gathering the nourishment you need, waiting for the right circumstances to burst open with your new flavor. And now that nervous, hopeful, ecstatic moment is about to arrive. Be brave! SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The English verb “cicurate” is defined as either “to tame or domesticate” or “to make mild or innocuous.” But it once had an additional sense: “to reclaim from wildness.” It was derived from the Latin word cicurare, which meant “to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness.” For your purposes, Scorpio, we will make cicurate your theme, but concentrate on these definitions: “to reclaim from wildness, to bring back from madness, to draw out of the wilderness.” In the coming weeks, you’ll be exploring rough, luxuriant areas of unknown territory. You’ll be wrangling with

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): As the makeup artist for the film Dallas Buyers Club, Robin Mathews had a daunting task. During the 23 days of shooting, she had to constantly make lead actors Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto appear either deathly ill or relatively healthy. Sometimes she had to switch them back and forth five times a day. She was so skillful in accomplishing this feat that she won the Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Her budget? A meager $250. The film was a shoestring indie production. I’m naming her your inspirational role model for the next few weeks, Virgo. I believe that you, too, can create magic without a wealth of resources.

primitive, sometimes turbulent energy. I urge you to extract the raw vitality you find there, and harness it to serve your daily rhythm and your long-term goals. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence,” proclaimed psychologist Carl Jung. Extrapolating from that idea, we can hypothesize that the more willing and able you are to be influenced, the greater your influence might be. Let’s make this your key theme in the coming weeks. It will be an excellent time to increase your clout, wield more authority, and claim more of a say in the creation of your shared environments. For best results, you should open your mind, be very receptive, and listen well. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Congratulations, Capricorn. Your current dilemmas are more useful and interesting than any you have had in a long time. If you can even partially solve them, the changes you set in motion will improve your entire life, not just the circumstances they immediately affect. Of the several dividends you may reap, one of my favorites is this: You could liberate yourself from a messed-up kind of beauty and become available for a more soothing and delightful kind. Here’s another potential benefit: You may transform yourself in ways that will help you attract more useful and interesting dilemmas in the future. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): British author Alan Moore wrote the graphic novels Watchmen and V for Vendetta. He’s now nearing completion of Jerusalem, a novel he’s been working on for six years. It will contain more than a million words — almost double the size of Tolstoy’s War and Peace, and 200,000 words longer than the Bible. “Any editor worth their salt would tell me to cut two-thirds of this book,” Moore told the New Statesman, “but that’s not going to happen.” Referring to the author of Moby-Dick, Moore adds, “I doubt that Herman Melville had an editor. If he had, that editor would have told him to get rid of all that boring stuff about whaling: ‘Cut to the chase, Herman.’” Let’s make Moore and Melville your role models in the coming week, Aquarius. You have permission to sprawl, ramble and expand. Do NOT cut to the chase. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): For a long time, an Illinois writer named ArLynn Leiber Presser didn’t go out much. She had 325 friends on Facebook and was content to get her social needs met in the virtual realm. But then she embarked on a yearlong project in which she sought face-to-face meetings with all of her online buddies. The experiment yielded sometimes complicated but mostly interesting results. It took her to 51 cities around the world. I suggest we make her your inspirational role model for the coming weeks, Pisces. In at least one way, it’s time for you to move out of your imagination and into the real world. You’re primed to turn fantasies into actions, dreams into practical pursuits.

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PROFESSIONAL/ MANAGEMENT CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER MANNA FoodBank seeks a Chief Financial Officer with expertise in nonprofit finance and accounting. Leadership position with direct implementation of finance areas, plus oversight of administration, HR, and IT. Job description available on website www. mannafoodbank.org • Cover letter and resume by e-mail to SSchwartz@mannafoodbank.org

TEACHING/ EDUCATION PRE-SCHOOL TEACHER NEEDED Are you a preschool teacher who is tired of having too many students in your classroom? Join the teaching staff in our little school and help us to nurture small groups of children ages 2-5 years old. Entry level job pays $12.00 per hour to start, with the right education. Send resume to: bellsschoolforpe@ bellsouth.net Immediate opening for the right person.

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RETAIL RETAIL SALES ASSISTANT Have a strong interest in music and electronics • Truly believe the customer always comes first • Know what it means to give outstanding customer service • Like to work in a cooperative team atmosphere • Want longevity in employment • Full and part-time • send resume to becky@musiciansworkshop.com RETAIL STORE MANAGERBREVARD Outdoor store is seeking an experienced retail manager: Responsible for training and managing staff, improving sales, meeting customer service goals. Requires strong interpersonal and communication skills, self-discipline, initiative, strong leader, organizational abilities and problem solver. Send resume and references to Outdoor Retailer, P.O. Box 1673, Brevard 28712.

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57 “My Way” lyricist 58 Brand known as Dreyer’s in the West 61 “Hel-l-l-lp!” 62 Things Coke and Pepsi have: Abbr. 63 Work tables?

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