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Waking Life owners need to learn women’s true value This is my response to the apology issued by the owners of Waking Life Espresso after they were exposed for for creating a blog, Twitter [account] and podcast designed to essentially celebrate being sexual predators. Their goal was to sleep with as many women as possible and later review those personal sexual encounters in lewd detail. …

Here is a direct quote from Jared Rutledge’s blog … : “The biggest barrier to commitment with most of these women wasn’t their sexuality or their femininity. It was either that I didn’t find them beautiful enough or interesting enough to warrant commitment. …”

The above shows [he] is a standard (and confused) chauvinist who believes a woman’s only value is beauty and sexual desirability while still claiming that her intelligence and interestingness are somewhere on the priority list.

Clearly they are not, since those qualities would “be a compromise where beauty is concerned.” …

As a relatively smart woman myself, I’d like to assume that the smart, empowered women they never added to their tally didn’t sleep with them because of some major red flags which become apparent in such men. …

As for the good, smart women they did charm and connive into having sex, well, if those women didn’t already regret it, they certainly will once it comes out that [they] publicly reviewed them in a crass and demeaning way. …

Women are intelligent, valuable human beings with a greater purpose than existing to visually and sexually please men. We have skills, talents, ideas, dreams, feelings, desires and personalities — all of which [they] are discounting by [their] actions and subsequent commentary.

Good luck with your apology …

You clearly showed that you think women are just flesh-objects with a few useful orifices and that those flesh-objects better keep looking good in order to remain valuable for men like yourselves.

It was also clear in your apology that the shame you feel is in response to being caught. …. I genuinely hope you stop reading garbage like The Game and Red Pill

and learn that women are humans and not something to be hunted and categorized. …

We are all mad at you as a community of men and women, because we agree this is not an acceptable way to view women, nor is it acceptable way to treat women, and we do not want someone like you as a prominent business owner within our community.

— Cynthia Brodowska Leicester editor’s note: A longer version of this letter can be found online at mountainx.com.

St. Lawrence Green offers line in sand I have been tapped as the Best Local Politician in the Mountain Xpress poll for six years running — ever since I was elected to Council. That’s entirely because I try to vote the interests of those who elected me.

Unfortunately, many elected officials forget they are representatives and imagine they know better than the people who elected them. It often seems to require superhuman efforts to get Council to listen. (Think of the apartments in Kenilworth, which cost neighbors thousands to defeat. Or those on Fairview Road who failed.)

This year’s election offers a chance to change the direction of City Council.

St. Lawrence Green offers a line in the sand. City staff is peddling the land opposite the Civic Center for a highrise development, another high-rise in a forest popping up like toadstools.

Some Council candidates offer wishywashy mumbles suggesting that we can sell the land but still create a public space. The plaza they are proposing is not green and not public — it would be privately owned and controlled.

Brian Haynes, Rich Lee and Keith Young have endorsed preservation of St. Lawrence Green as a public space.

That’s one of many reasons I have endorsed them for Council. We need them on City Council, and I could use the help.

— Cecil Bothwell Asheville

Candidates should renounce St. Lawrence Green associations I call for a point of order on the events of this City Council campaign and the public image of my church

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as used as a bludgeon against Marc [Hunt], Lindsey [Simerly] and Julie [Mayfield] in a four-page, blackinked flier left at my doorstep.

Of course I am “for” the St. Lawrence Green; however, their campaign strategy has triggered revulsion among people of the faith and needless division and polarization within our community.

First came the glossy populist lawn cards in spring, then a petition drive over the summer. I get that.

With this week’s outrage, St. Lawrence Green has used the image of my church as a colorful, wistful backdrop to leverage political attacks, channeling what was a noble and worthy pursuit into the gutter of what on the surface is cutthroat politics.

Council must censure members who cross the line into the

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A young man decided an ArchiScape gift certificate was perfect for “the grandmother who has everything,” thinking she would send a photo of the longtime family home in which she was still living. Instead, she sent an old, blurry photo of the beach house she visited as a child.

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machinations of church, state and civil religion.

We here in the city may not yet have home rule, but we have city limits.

Within this city, our government is nonpartisan, an innocent immersed in a cesspool of acutely partisan county, state and federal swamps. This legislature has many legislative enemies, and the covert and overt association of sitting nonpartisan councilman flies in the face of their fiduciary responsibility to me to function within the decorum of the office.

I appeal for each candidate who has been endorsed by St. Lawrence Green to renounce any association, as this movement has created tensions and anxieties among those of us who demand of our Council members more than manipulating my Catholic church and the public image of the basilica.

City Council works very hard with the city manager and staff to formulate proactive solutions from a professional, nonpartisan mission. The St. Lawrence Green as a proxy of Cecil Bothwell has duped every one of us this week and stripped the credibility from its original populist crusade.

Now they are misinforming, maligning and attacking decent people who want to make Asheville better for everyone.

— Michael Blankenship Asheville

Young voters should consider Mumpower for Council Younger voters tired of politicians who say one thing and do another may want to consider Carl Mumpower as a candidate for Asheville City Council.

You may not always agree with Carl, but I know that he is a man who thinks things through and stands for what he believes is right instead of just saying what people want to hear. He works hard at whatever he does, treats everyone the same and is indifferent to the pressures of the power and money people who seem to run Asheville.

Carl is a principle-over-party type of guy. As a young man trying to make it in a very costly city like Asheville (I am 25), I have come to realize that the city spending is out of control, and it is property owners who take the biggest hit. Even if you are paying rent, if the landlord has to pay more in taxes each year, he will be forced to increase the cost of rent. We need someone who can make the tough decisions and help

make our city more affordable to live in.

I agree with Carl when he says the city lacks balance. We have all progressive Democrats who control everything, so no one really challenges them. Having someone on the Council to challenge the status quo will inevitably make for vigorous debate; therefore, you will have more critical thinking leading to better policy for city taxpayers. Carl has a proven record from serving on the Council from 2001-09.

Carl is a big animal lover. You often see him with his dog, his faithful companion, Pepper. I always say you should be cautious of someone who can’t reach out and love an animal. Carl is a kind man, a good man. He is greatly needed on our Asheville City Council. Please consider Dr. Carl Mumpower when you vote. The city of Asheville is ready for a positive change. Thank you!

— Tim Elkin Asheville

Major change proposed to subdivision ordinance For a number of years, I have been a fairly regular attendee at the Buncombe County Planning Board meetings (first and third Mondays of the month). When there are no rezoning requests or subdivisions up for preliminary approval, there are usually only two of us from the public and a Council of Independent Business Owners representative attending Planning Board meetings!

As you may be aware, all nine members of the Planning Board are recent appointees.

Recently, the Planning Department proposed changes to the subdivision ordinance in a 43-page document. One of the proposed changes would allow duplexes in the three single-family residential districts, which are R-LD (residential low density), R1 (single-family residential) and BDM (Beaverdam low-density residential district). The Planning Department justifies this proposed change by saying it would “solve a small problem”: Currently, if a resident wishes to add an independent living unit in a single-family residential district, it must be in a independent structure.

Permitting duplexes in all single-family residential districts will degrade these districts. Duplexes

are currently permitted in eight other districts where they belong.

Copies of the proposed changes are available at the Planning Department on Valley Street.

To the best of my knowledge, this very significant proposed change to the Buncombe County subdivision ordinance has not been brought to the public’s attention. I hope that you will publicize this issue so that citizens have the opportunity to have their voices heard.

The Planning Board meets the first and third Monday of each month, and public comments are accepted at the start of each meeting. The meeting agenda can be found at www.buncombecounty.org (click on County Services and then Planning Board).

— Al Gumpert Asheville

Local governments should require power line burial ... Duke Energy is attempting to string overhead wires of 230 kilovolt from our little city of Asheville down to Campobello [S.C.] … The lines will mar the landscape, and the

C A R TO O N B Y B R E N T B R O W N towers are 150 feet tall. Worse, they will emit radiation.

The government (both federal and state) is not protecting the public again. There are scientific studies that show that EMF (the term used for electromagnetic radiation) has a “demonstrable effect” on the human body What those long-term effects are, is unclear. Leukemia is one of the possible side effects.

There is, of course, an easy (but more expensive) option: Bury the lines and route them down the federally owned I-26 corridor. That would reduce radiation … as well as do away with the eyesore problem. …

Why would Duke not take this option? Two reasons. First, North Carolina is pretty much controlled

by Duke Energy. The governor spent 28 years with the company before becoming governor and has proven his loyalty to Duke by shifting the costs to the taxpayer when the recent environmental disaster caused a coal ash pond to rupture, dumping millions of gallons of pollutants into North Carolina rivers. The Utilities Commission, which has some oversight, seems to not be doing its job in regulation of the industry and its practices. …

So, Duke will not take the option because they have the freedom to do what they want without regard to the local community’s wishes or health.

They do it daily, as heavy metals leech into the French Broad River from their coal ash pond at Lake Julian …

The second reason Duke will not choose the burial option is that no local city attorney has the guts to pass an ordinance regulating either the eyesore problem or the EMF problem.

They state that they cannot, because of the “mother-may-I” structure of North Carolina laws, which prohibits local governments from regulating anything that the state government hasn’t addressed. However … a very good argument can be made that if the state of North Carolina refuses to protect its citizens, the citizens in a local government have every right to pass regulations for the public good. …

Will the local governments attempt such a move? I think they should. It is the right thing to do. Plus, any regulation at all would force Duke to take the option of burying the transmission lines. … Those readers who wish to support this cause can contact UTL directly at planetwatchdog@hotmail.com.

— Alan ODonnell Underground Transmission Lines Asheville

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Dogs, lightning and statistics In reference to Chris Tarantino’s [letter], “Give ‘bully breeds’ a chance” [Sept. 9, Xpress]: Mr. Tarantino states that you are five times more likely to be killed by lightning than killed by a dog. I went looking for these statistics and was also interested in how many people visit emergency rooms due to dog bites.This is what I found and where I found it.

The odds of being struck by lightning in a given year are about one in 1 million. Lightning kills about 33 people a year in the U.S. (http://www.lightningsafety.noaa. gov/odds.shtml).

The odds of you going to the ER in a given year for a dog bite is about one in 1,000. Dogs kill about 33 people a year in the U.S. Pit bulls and Rottweilers account for about 75 percent of these deaths (http:// www.dogsbite.org/).

So you are about as likely to be killed by lightning as killed by a dog. You are 1,000 times more likely to be bitten by a dog, requiring an ER visit, as being hit by lightning.

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Sierra Club backs Hunt and Mayfield for City Council The Sierra Club looks at a broad range of environmental issues. After reviewing questionnaires and interviewing candidates, the Sierra Club has endorsed Marc Hunt and Julie Mayfield for Asheville City Council.

Both Marc and Julie have a long history of environmental accomplishments and leadership.

Both Mayfield and Hunt join the Sierra Club in their commitment to: •Closing the local coal-powered electric plant and replacing it with a combination of renewable energy, energy conservation, and limiting the size of a gas-powered replacement plant.

•Implementation of city’s plan to reduce its carbon usage by 80 percent by 2030.

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•Building more greenways, bike lanes and sidewalks to make our city more livable.

•Reducing urban sprawl.

•A public space, either a park or a plaza, across from the Basilica of St. Lawrence downtown and oppose another hotel or high-rise building on that space.

— Ken Brame WNC Sierra Club Political Chair Leicester

Liston, Grady and Payne offer hope for rent moderation I was just pleasantly surprised when I found the powerful overpopulation statement on Council candidate Richard Liston’s website under affordable housing. He looks able to understand how effectively municipal contraception can reduce rents, though it does make contraception a major threat to property values, so I hope he’s a tenant.

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Others are right that St. Lawrence Square is a bellwether issue. If that lot becomes a park, so will every other city-controlled lot; and if that happens, rents will skyrocket. Not only will parks limit the housing supply, but they will also increase demand as affluent gentry from all over outbid local tenants to enjoy all the new parks.

Meanwhile, Asheville workers will be forced to break their gas budget commuting in from trailers in Landrum, S.C. So vote against antihousing candidates like [Brian] Haynes and [Keith] Young because they have promised to raise your rent. [LaVonda] Payne, Liston, and [Joe] Grady show the best hope of moderating rents.

— Alan Ditmore Leicester

Neighborhoods should unite to vote for Lee As Asheville faces unprecedented growth, and neighborhoods are increasingly impacted, we need a City Council that will be responsive to neighborhood concerns on issues ranging from development and sidewalks to traffic calming. In Kenilworth, it took 3 1/2 years for residents to challenge an inappropriate 100-unit development on a steep 30 percent to 45 percent slope!

Rich Lee is the only candidate I have seen who has regularly attended Coalition of Asheville Neighborhood (C.A.N) meetings. Through those interactions, C.A.N. members have gotten to know a caring individual who is intent on creating better solutions to addressing our neighborhood concerns, such as helping to negotiate a better route for a new brewery’s rumbling trucks to thinking of new ways to create affordable housing.

After reading Rich’s open letter on why he supports the green space in front of the Basilica [of St. Lawrence], I believe that he has the financial savvy to help our city go forward without sacrificing our quality of life.

I base my support for Rich Lee on the fact that he is doing the homework needed to better understand the issues Asheville will be facing in the next four years, and I urge my neighbors to vote for him in the upcoming primaries and elections!

— Valerie Hoh Asheville

Reality check needed in debate over city-owned lot Congratulations to the writers of many letters expressing their desire to create a park near the Basilica of St. Lawrence; they are passionate and persistent. They fear anything other than a park.

What is lacking is a reality check on the situation. But first, allow me to stipulate two things: (1) I like parks  I view them and use them and appreciate them in all their majesty; and (2) I really like the basilica  it’s beautiful and significant, and I’ve toured it inside and out.

Now for the reality. The basilica is located directly across Flint Street from the U.S. Cellular Center, an important multipurpose facility that was built in 1974 in a style that might be called mountain contemporary. OK, I’m being charitable, but the architects had to encompass the old Municipal Auditorium into the complex, so it had to be difficult to design and build.

The result is that the basilica is less than 100 feet from an incredibly different kind of structure, and a really big one at that, and it still manages to more than hold its own.

The basilica is also immediately adjacent to Interstate 240, where about 70,000 vehicles per day roll by with their accompanying noise, vibration and air pollution. And yet the basilica survives.

And to the west and southwest are less-than-lovely surface parking lots that are not owned by the city of Asheville, but rather by the Basilica of St. Lawrence, that are used commercially to raise funds for the parish: $65/month, $30/week or $10/day.

My conclusion: no matter what City Council decides to do with the city-owned property to the south, the basilica will survive and probably flourish. It would be nice if a solution could be found that would create an income-producing land use on the property that benefits the civic center, has an open space element and respects the basilica’s unique design.

How about a city-sponsored design competition to get the juices flowing?

— Paul B. Kelman Asheville

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Planned Parenthood is an organization people either love or hate.

Like many of the other women in my Asheville book club, I’m pro-choice.

Yet we were alarmed by the tone of this summer’s shocking Center for Medical Progress videos, which purport to show Planned Parenthood affiliates illegally profiting from selling tissue from aborted fetuses to researchers, among other things.

Alarm, of course, is exactly what the videos were meant to provoke, bolstering a push to defund the nonprofit.

Investigations by various state and federal agencies have found no evidence of wrongdoing on Planned Parenthood’s part; nonetheless, political maneuvering in both houses of Congress continues to wield the threat of shutting down Planned Parenthood.

At the same time, however, those of us who’ve long supported the organization are starting to see some good come out of this ugly mess: public dialogue emphasizing that reproductive health decisions are personal and complex, and that we have a long way to go in preventing unintended pregnancies.

In Western North Carolina and elsewhere, Planned Parenthood provides a wide range of services for both men and women, including birth control, screenings for cancer and sexually transmitted

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This graphic shows the breakdown in patient-care services provided by Planned Parenthood affiliate health centers from Oct. 1, 2012, to Sept. 30, 2013, according to the organization. Planned Parenthood reports that it provided 10.6 million medical services for 2.7 million people and helped to prevent approximately 516,000 unintended pregnancies in 2013. Source: Planned Parenthood Fact Sheet. diseases, and other forms of preventive care. These services are funded

by Medicaid. Abortion services — which account for just 3 percent of the health care the organization provides — are privately funded. That’s because, despite women’s legal right to safe abortions, federal legislation prohibits using federal funds to pay for abortions.

And if Planned Parenthood does close its doors, the people in Asheville and WNC who will be the most hurt are precisely the ones who most need the sex education the organization provides. These are the folks who have the least voice in our community — young and low-income women, women of color, minority women — and they don’t have the same access to reproductive health and abortion services that middle-class and wealthy women have. Without Planned Parenthood, they’ll have a much harder time finding those services, which have helped protect the health of low-income children and families during the economic downturn.

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According to NC Child’s 2013 Child Health County Data Card, Buncombe County children have experienced improvement in several key health areas where Planned Parenthood provides services, including insurance coverage, teen pregnancy and even high school graduation rates.

The members of my book club also work, learn and volunteer at MANNA FoodBank, Children First, Communities in Schools and dozens of schools, nonprofit day care centers and churches. They read to kids, coach after-school sports teams, help people navigate insurance forms, teach cooking classes and Bible study. They make space in their rich, full lives and their beautiful and tastefully decorated homes for local teenagers, children, women and families that are struggling. They know firsthand the price women pay when they can’t take care of their children and when they’re facing an unintended pregnancy.

Buncombe County has one of the highest child poverty rates in the U.S. Just imagine how much worse

things would be without Planned Parenthood and the many other local agencies and volunteers that are working to keep us from sliding even further down the rankings.

In other states, blocking Planned Parenthood funding has increased unplanned pregnancies and other public health problems.

Contraception remains the best anti-abortion, poverty-prevention tool we have. Addressing the situation into which children are born needs to be a key component in our fight against poverty in Asheville and across the country.

One thing both sides on the abortion issue can agree on is that we must improve knowledge and attitudes about preventing unintended pregnancies so women can make better-informed decisions. One approach would be to direct the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Population Affairs to use Title X moneys to pay for educating women — particularly low-income

women between the ages of 15 and 30 — about the safety, effectiveness and convenience of long-acting, reversible contraceptives. If the current controversy sparks that kind of action, it could help end the polarized deadlock over measures to improve women’s health.

Carly Fiorina, the only woman in the Republican presidential race, could have distinguished herself in the second GOP debate by standing up

for women and offering fair, evidencebased solutions, instead of twisting the issue of women’s health to boost her brand-building ambitions.

Ironically, however, by making reproductive justice an election issue, those videos and their proponents may wind up helping keep the doors open at Planned Parenthood.

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Strong, fair public safety Focus on small business Open and inclusive Asheville

Asheville is a growing city with unique and diverse needs that arise as the city develops and changes. Though there are many that will come to our attention, I believe the issues we must focus on in particular are sustainable economic development; a city-wide anti-discrimination policy; and the relationship of our police force with the community. By addressing these issues, City Council can ensure that Asheville is a safe and inclusive community for everyone that visits or calls it home- something that is very important to me and my family. I believe we can do BETTER TOGETHER!

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goALS: Sustainable economic development by way of small-business growth and bringing in a diverse group employers who pay a living wage. Passage of a citywide anti-discrimination policy that would prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity, which we do not currently have.

Improving the relationship of the police force with the community. houSIng: I support the current

density bonus. I’m also for requiring new developments to set aside a portion for

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low-income earners in Asheville. We have to look at smart development as well. For instance, if we’re trying to take an old building and turn it into an apartment complex, like on Eagle Street, we have to make sure we’re not wasting resources. We could take a flat piece of land and develop it instead, inexpensively. Then we could offer incentives to a developer to keep some of the new development aside for affordable housing.

rECEnT DECISIonS: I disagree

with the 2-cent tax increase. I think [if] we made enough efficiency cuts, that combined with the increase in solid waste fee would make up the difference in the projected budget shortfall. The sales tax redistribution from the state Legislature failed, which is what the increase was supposed to answer. I didn’t think the sales tax increase was necessary.

TourISm: I think there is a role for gov-

ernment to play, but it’s through quasigovernmental organizations like the TDA and the Chamber of Commerce. But while it’s important that we support them, we shouldn’t focus all our attention on tourism; we should do things like recruit a diverse group of employers to come here and pay living wages to our citizens. I think we spend a good amount of money and time on tourism, and we are obviously doing very well in that industry, so I’d like us to focus elsewhere.

TrAffIC: We have to look at alternative modes of transportation and encourage people to use bus routes and bikes.

Make it easier to access those things: Put in more bike lanes, and try to make sure our bus routes are on main thoroughfares where new development’s taking place. We’re not going to be able to keep developing the way we are with the infrastructure we currently have.

We need to be smarter and look at more sustainable growth to prevent sprawl.

That’ll help congestion a lot.

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goALS: I would cut the tax rate by 3 1/2 cents. I would review two key planning documents (the Five Year Capital Improvement Plan and the 2025 Plan) and get back to focusing on providing basic city services. Finally, I would do a more in-depth analysis than current City Council members have been doing on the annual budget presented by the city manager. houSIng: First of all, don’t raise taxes, fees and rates all

in the same year, as Council has done the past two years.

Landlords pass those costs on to tenants, which means the city has been part of the problem rather than the solution. We should also involve landlords and employers in dealing with this crisis. We are finding different ways to build more cheaply, smaller and more efficiently, so we need to re-examine our old ways of doing things.

rECEnT DECISIonS:

I disagree with City Council’s handling of the demise of Pack Place. I would have kept that organization in place and continued the lease between the city and Pack Place. I would not have used tax money to fund

Ken michalove • Employment:Retired • Party affiliation: Registered unaffiliated, votes in democratic primaries • Previous candidacy: Former Asheville mayor and city manager

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• Website: joegrady.com • Employment: Sales specialist & Community Commander at Best Buy, Former Keller Williams real estate broker; former City Council member in North Canton, Ohio.

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TourISm: Our economy used to be a three-legged stool:

health care, tourism and manufacturing. Now we’re lopsided: We need to restore the manufacturing leg. It’s important to be a diversified economy. Growth in Asheville has been choked by actions of the General Assembly over the past 40 years. We’ve been surrounded by a lot of small communities (Montreat, Black Mountain, Mills River, Fairview, Weaverville) which the General Assembly has permitted to incorporate, meaning we can’t grow outward.

TrAffIC: The major streets through and around Asheville are state-controlled, so we’re at the mercy of the state Board of Transportation there. Downtown, traffic is less of a problem than finding a parking place. I would be looking at possible new parking decks. We also need to make sure we have good sidewalks downtown.

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goALS: First, I would address solutions for affordable housing. That will involve challenges and sacrifices for the entire community. Second, maintain public services and become the leader in providing public services in N.C. The fire, EMS and police departments need our support so they can do the best job for our citizens. Third, build consensus within the community. We can’t pit one group against another. We can’t stop growth and time, but we can become wiser as we grow older and more experienced as a city.

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renovations of the Asheville Art Museum. I was a consultant to Pack Place for 18 months; I resigned so I could speak independently about my views on how the city mishandled this situation.

houSIng: I am the one candidate who’s pledged to visit every street and neighborhood in the city before Oct. 6. I’m two-thirds of the way there. I’m doing that so I can say I know this city. We need to educate people that finding solutions for affordable housing affects everyone. It’s not just Section 8 housing, it’s where will college graduates working in the retail and hospitality industries live? We need to look at the Unified Development Ordinance with a view toward the next 20-25 years. rECEnT DECISIonS: City Council didn’t stand up for

the people in this city when it defended police Chief William Anderson. If he had been vetted correctly by Council, he would never have been made police chief. I realize I was not in the same position as an elected official in February 2014, but I called for his resignation at that time.

TourISm:

I support travel and tourism, but I’m disappointed that the Chamber of Commerce is focused on making us No. 1 at everything. It’s time to make Asheville residents No. 1. The 75 percent of hotel tax proceeds that are devoted to marketing are making outside advertising firms rich. We need to use that money for affordable housing, parks and greenways. Even if we stopped advertising altogether, people would still come to Asheville.

TrAffIC: Increased traffic is already a reality. Changing certain streets (like Wall Street) to pedestrian-only from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. would help congestion. Changing other streets to one-way traffic at peak times of day should be explored.We need to work more on signalization and traffic flow, because more growth is coming whether we want it or not.

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goALS: The city has been seeking a lot of outside development, and I would like us to go the opposite direction. Help local businesses develop and advance. Offer incentives for [them] to expand and grow. No. 2: The Basilica green space. We have a very limited green space in our city, and we need to save every bit of it we can. Once we develop it, we can’t go backward. The next issue is overdevelopment. I would like to see us slow down our development and certainly see no more hotels being built. When we overdevelop and build hotels and promote the tourist industry, we’re actually hurting other aspects of the city.

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houSIng: If we put emphasis on local investment, that would create well-paying jobs that would help us deal with the affordable housing issue. Currently the city invests in large, multifamily, affordable housing units. That’s a way of dealing with the problem, but I think we need to seek as many possible ways as we can: tax incentives for landlords to keep their rentals affordable, volunteer-based single-family building, expanding into the perimeters of surrounding communities.

There’s a limited amount of space here, and we need to find space where we can. We could seek development of a tiny house neighborhood.

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Brian haynes • Website: brianhaynesforavl.com • Employment: Showroom assistant manager at Habitat for Humanity • Party affiliation: Registered unaffiliated, votes in democratic primaries

rECEnT DECISIonS: I’m not in favor of the way the city is going after short-term rentals and

fining them $500 a day. I think that’s a mistake, and I think Council is overreaching by doing that.

Many people are doing this out of necessity. We don’t want people to take advantage of the system: We don’t want people out of state buying them up and pushing our citizens out. But many people need the extra income to stay in this expensive city we have become.

TourISm: I definitely think government should play a role, but I think we’ve expanded our tourism industry faster than we can keep up with the growth. At this point, I think it’s detrimental to continue expanding our tourism industry, and I don’t think hotel taxes should go to continue bringing in visitors.

TrAffIC: I certainly won’t pretend to have the

answer to that, and I don’t know that anyone does. Our infrastructure cannot handle the people or the tourists we have now. That’s why I’m saying continuing to promote growth in the tourism industry doesn’t make sense. We have to improve our infrastructure before trying to grow at such a rapid pace. Maybe the most we can do is increase alternative transportation options. This will at least give citizens the option to take their vehicles off the road as much as possible.

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goALS: We should direct city incentives to small local

dollars on a sidewalk extension. The developer put some

companies with the desire and capacity to expand. Next, we should provide incentives for homeowners and small landlords who want to provide lower-than-market-rate rent to ease the housing shortage. Finally, we need to push to begin expanding the city’s greenway system with community-led trails similar to the Hominy Creek trail.

money toward it, but it was still a big expense for the city.

TourISm: Asheville has natural advantages, and there’s no shame in making those advantages pay for things we need through tourism. But we need to focus on other areas of economic development. Asheville has a

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houSIng: The usual approach of paying a developer of

lot of really bright and committed people. We’re known

a large-footprint project to carve out a small number of “affordable” units (that really aren’t affordable for a lot of working people) isn’t working well enough. We need to encourage our small landlords ... to be fair and do the right things for tenants. I favor small-scale infill projects scattered throughout the city. We can waive some fees (like box fees for electrical and tap fees for connecting to city water) and provide a tax rebate or discount for landlords who make rental housing available under a certain price level.

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rECEnT DECISIonS: I would have voted against the Biltmore Apartments on Fairview Road. This complex has two-story retaining walls on both ends. It was supposed to include some lower-rent apartments, but it did not include a sidewalk to Biltmore Avenue and the bus line. The city had to spend several hundred thousand

goALS: Revising the comprehensive plan and the Unified Development Ordinance to update it with the best strategies around smart growth and increasing density in appropriate areas. Asheville can’t grow out, so we need to grow in and up. And we need to do that in the best and smartest way possible. No. 2, fully funding the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. And No. 3, achieving some measure of consensus around how we are going to fund multimodal transportation improvements. houSIng: Fully funding the Affordable Housing Trust Fund. The city owns a fair amount of land that is arguably underutilized now and is well-positioned to be used for affordable housing. The city just adopted a density bonus in December: Look at that and see if it’s doing what we want it to do. Maybe even increasing that: I’ve heard some people say we could be even more aggressive on the density bonus. rECEnT DECISIonS: They approved an apartment complex on Sardis Road recently. The site straddles the city-county line, and the city was considering the units that would be on its side. The staff recommended against approval. One reason was that it didn’t meet the fire safety recommendations, because the complex had only one ingress and egress. Chief Burnett stood up at the City Council meeting and voiced his concerns. Council

anywhere, but so many of them struggle to make it here.

There are quick and cheap ways for the city to incentivize small businesses that are already here.

TrAffIC: It’s not clear that more hotels equals more traffic. A study done by Aloft Hotel showed that many of the guests who park there at the beginning of a weekend don’t move their cars again until they check out. Encouraging walking downtown reduces the traffic burden. Our first concern should be providing safe crosswalks and sidewalks. On I-240, I’ve been part of an advocacy group that supports a better crossing than the Jeff Bowen Bridge, but we don’t believe that projected traffic loads justify a widening of I-240 through West Asheville.

approved it, and I understand their reasons, but I would have found it difficult to ignore the fire chief. I would have wanted a discussion around the alternatives.

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TourISm: Government should play a role, there’s no question. There was an intentional decision to create this TDA fund for advertising to bring people here. I think Asheville is on the map in a way that it hasn’t been before, and we probably don’t need to be tooting our horn as much as we have. In other industries, I think this city can promote itself as an attractive place. We might look at suppliers for some of the industries that are already here: medical suppliers, outdoor gear suppliers, beer suppliers, art supply companies. Look at the big industries we have here and try to bring the support businesses to help make them successful.

TrAffIC: The first thing for me, always, is investing in multimodal transportation. Let’s make it easier for people to get out of their cars. Absolute No. 1 is to build out a system that allows people to do that or to have one car instead of two. I think if we made the investments in that system, even a fraction of the amount that the Department of Transportation is planning to spend on the I-26 connector project, we’d be golden.

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goALS: Fully fund the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.

Then work toward mandating the inclusion of an affordable housing component in new projects by developers.

Three cities in North Carolina have such requirements: Carrboro, Chapel Hill and Davidson. If they can implement this policy, which has proven the most effective way to create new affordable housing units nationwide, so can we. Finally, I would support after-school programming in targeted communities and seek ways to use community development block grants to pay for it.

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Lindsey Simerly • Website: lindseyforcouncil.org • Employment: Manager, WE DO campaign, Campaign for Southern Equality • Party affiliation: Democrat • Previous candidacy: Ran for Asheville City Council in 2007

We need to address this problem now rather than waiting for it to become even more daunting years down the road. First, fully fund the Affordable Housing Trust Fund at the original level: 1 cent per $100 of taxation. Second, increase density citywide by tweaking ordinances such as the one making it easier for people to build accessory dwelling units.

Third, get developers to include affordable units in new development. As the chair of the Affordable Housing Committee, I’ve been glad to see affordable housing receiving more attention recently: We are now moving toward solutions.

rECEnT DECISIonS:

I would have voted to fully fund the Affordable Housing Trust Fund this year.

TourISm:

Tourism has always been a part of Asheville and WNC, and it’s an important piece of our economic puzzle. But the industry pays many in it less than a living wage. The economic balance is off right now. The city and county get very little back from the hotel occupancy tax to help us meet the increased demands tourism places on our fire and police services, roads and parking. We need to attract and grow truly living-wage jobs for the long haul, and we need to keep our money in this community.

TrAffIC:

The best way of dealing with traffic is encouraging multimodal transportation and alternate forms of transit. Surveys show that 85 percent of our current bus riders are people who have no other choice.

Only 15 percent of our ridership is actively choosing that form of transportation The better our bus system is, the more people will ride it. We also need to look at increasing parking fees downtown to incentivize ridesharing and transit use, generate revenue for the city and reduce traffic.

HHHHHHHHHH goALS: Stabilize our Police Department, restrain careless use of taxpayer money and rededicate our mission to provide good city services. Our Police Department is suffering from years of political and administrative abuse: That’s job one. [Second], we can’t have it both ways: We can’t be extravagant, with niceties over necessities, and keep Asheville an affordable city. We need to be restrained in how we spend other people’s money.

Government [should do] for people what they can’t do for themselves: streets, sidewalks, public safety, trash collection. We’ve let some of those services suffer in recent years.

houSIng: We need to resist elitist policies. Everybody likes the idea of a Cadillac city, but that doesn’t mean we can afford it. Quit wasting money [on unnecessary projects]; quit raising taxes, all of which make Asheville more expensive. Four words represent the solution to our housing problems: density, tiny, incentives and restrained.

The taller and more dense we build, the more affordable we can make housing. Provide incentives for people to do that. Just come down to earth with our concept of what Americans have to have — providing opportunities, including zoning changes [allowing tiny homes], opening the doors to higher density.

rECEnT DECISIonS: Using public money to fund the art museum: That should be a philanthropic enterprise.

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home, help pay for it. We need to remember that when you use government money to fund things like art museums, it’s coming out of the pockets of widows on a fixed income, families working two jobs and raising three kids.

I would have raised the issue that we have to remember whose pockets we’re robbing. … It’s not about whether an art museum is good or not: It’s about who pays for it.

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TourISm: I don’t think our focus should be on expanding anybody’s industry. I think our job is to make Asheville a safe place with good city services and a reasonable tax rate. Let the other great minds cultivate Asheville as they think best. I don’t think government is the answer for everything. Let’s take care of the things that people can’t do for themselves and then get out of the way.

TrAffIC: I’m a big fan of public transit: I think transportation is our best social service. That said, I think we’ve been unrealistic in pushing people to ride buses.

People prefer driving their own cars. If we could put everybody on buses, we would solve our traffic problem, but that’s not how people want to live. That’s not going to change. The single most important thing we can do is quit robbing our parking fund, chasing the fantasy of getting everybody on buses, and start building more parking. Most cities laugh at us when we talk about our traffic problem: The big problem we have in Asheville is parking. I want us to be realistic.

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goALS: Get the kind of government [and] political appointees into positions that we need for these times at the local, state and federal levels. We need to focus on merging sustainability and economic strategy, dealing with poverty and issues like climate change, and investing in our infrastructure and education systems again. It is achievable to finish the 21st century in a much better state than we started. It’s achievable to do things like get our sidewalks in good shape in all neighborhoods, roll out anti-poverty and anti-racism strategies. These are all achievable things. They’re not all the things we need, but we can achieve them. houSIng: The existing strategies aren’t completely flawed, but the federal programs that help fund affordable housing are being cut 25 to 40 percent. The North Carolina Apartment Association has rolled back things like mandatory inspections for apartment complexes. And North Carolina has allowed the low-income tax credit to expire. We’re getting a raw deal from the federal level because of these cuts.

Renters are in a terrible position. If you’re a renter, it’s in your best interest to start talking to other renters. I’m a renter; I understand this world from the renters’ perspective. Renters should be in this mix about how things work in Asheville and what the outcomes are.

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rECEnT DECISIonS: The noise ordinance. It’s not the biggest issue, but it’s just an example of the way things get managed. They did a survey asking citizens what was their most important noise issue: People said vehicles in different ways. And the survey results never really appeared in the adjustments they made to the noise ordinance. I thought that was kind of insulting, that they had us go through all this stuff ... and the result is contrary to what people asked for. That’s the bottom line: If you’re going to change the

ordinance and ask people what they think but not say anything about that in the final result, it’s an example of poor communication.

TourISm: I’m looking forward to sharing the starting points for a sustainable tourism strategy that would address how much the occupancy tax should be and monitor all the money spent on hotels, restaurants, shopping at the mall or at downtown businesses. A 10 percent occupancy tax with three-fourths of it going to advertising isn’t necessary. If you mandate advertising, you’re starting to create this funding monstrosity where you’re always having to figure out how to sell Asheville to more people. If we adjust our economic development strategy, maybe there’s a drop-off in everyday tourists, but we may get more people who want to support us in new ways that alter the landscape of investors in sustainable businesses.

TrAffIC: I’d like to see passenger rail come to Asheville: Getting around by individual, privately owned vehicles isn’t the endgame. Redirect occupancy tax money to maintaining our sidewalks, and not just downtown. Each corner of Asheville has its own needs. If everyone tries to move here, we’re investing a whole lot in sidewalks and roads, and we’re going to sacrifice something else: Education, health care, better jobs will take a hit. It’s a bunch of question marks as far as “What is sustainability for Asheville?” But I’m more than happy to ask those questions and help merge sustainability and economic development strategy. Do we have the right people in our economic development strategy brain trust? Do you want new leaders in those positions?

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goALS: Increasing the quality of our urban communities,

educating the people and organizing some type of community center [to teach people how to remove themselves from bad situations]. I feel like that would be the base of what could grow from that. The quality of life of these people is so low. We’re not educating them to get out of the projects: That’s where we’re falling short. It’s causing drug use, causing babies to be born into families that can’t afford them, so generation after generation is falling back into this trend.

That needs to stop. There might be a lot that we can’t do, but as a community we need to educate and empower both older and younger generations.

houSIng: Affordable to who? We need to distinguish

where we’re allowing our tourists to stay on vacation and where we’re going to have affordable apartments. That’s something that can’t really be a direct answer. Compared to what you make, what I make, what she makes: What’s affordable? Raising the minimum wage just makes rents go up, and it’ll be the same issue. I don’t know much on what City Council can do, but I just want to have, if possible, certain sections of Asheville where City Council can say, “Hey, look, this is a community, and this is how far up prices can go.” The only solution is to put your foot down and say, “You can’t keep doing this.”

rECEnT DECISIonS: [Government] just irritates me

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because it’s cyclical. I don’t feel like we’ve gotten anywhere, and I don’t feel like anything’s really being done.

TourISm: We need to focus on Asheville. Tourism will always be here, as long as we have the mountains. But we need to focus on ourselves to make Asheville an even greater community where people would actually enjoy it more. Yeah, people come here for the mountains, but I can go to Black Mountain for that. People come to Asheville because it’s such a high-publicity place. But when they get here, they talk about the homeless and the druggies and the prostitutes. If we fix that, people would have no reason to not want to come back and spread even greater news about Asheville.

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You can’t. If they widen [roads], that’s just going to move people out of their homes — and we’re having a housing crisis. So we’re creating still another problem.

You just can’t, unless you put a restriction on what roads can be used for tourism, or divert Asheville tourism traffic, and this would probably never happen. But I’m a truck driver, and trust me, cars are going to do what cars want to do. Maybe if these hotels put [alternate routes] on their directions, it might help a little bit.

goALS: First of all, I expect that the three people who are elected to City Council will be people who truly, deeply care about all the members of the Asheville community.

That’s my true expectation of what will happen. So I see myself as a good bridge between worlds. There are miscommunications I can clarify and keep things focused on the principles that we all hold. I think Council will be made up of a sufficiently diverse population representing Asheville because we have a broad field of candidates. Diversity is critical to success and decision-making processes.

houSIng: Problems such as these are huge and facing

richard Liston • Website: facebook.com/RichardListonAshevilleCityCouncil • Employment:Educator and taxi driver • Party affiliation: Registered unaffiliated

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our whole nation. The reality is that there are over twice as many people on planet Earth as there were when I was born, and over three times as many as when my father was born. So people are having to find places to live. And it seems as though, until we get a handle on the larger problem, we’re simply going to have to cozy up together for a little while. And that may include solutions like rentals of properties as the resident owner sees fit — including, perhaps, checking with one’s neighbors as to whether it’s a reasonable thing to do, placing microhomes with off-street parking on some properties, and making reasonable community decisions.

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Lavonda payne • Employment: Long-haul truck driver • Party affiliation: Registered unaffiliated

rECEnT DECISIonS: Their recent hearing on a proposal by the city about homestays and short-term rentals. in my estimation, it had not been sufficiently considered before taking the time of the community members and the Council members. I would have preferred to see more and better-run community discussions, implemented with a more wise process for gathering opinions, gathering data, discussing options in an open and safe environment, and coming to agreement on a topic that is emotionally challenging for everyone.

TourISm: I think, for all the decisions that Council makes, if we ask ourselves, “Will this raise or lower the stress level of all the residents of Asheville?” then we’ll probably be doing just fine.

TrAffIC: The transportation system of the future: the National Science Foundation grant, for example. As for short-term solutions, I really don’t care whether streets are under the purview of the state of North Carolina. I think we should send some crews out there to paint them or fix them, because they are unsafe. Medium- and long-term solutions come about from people getting together and talking about them.

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• Website: votekeith.com • Employment: Deputy clerk of Superior Court • Party affiliation: Democrat • Previous candidacy: Ran for Buncombe County Board of Commissioners in 2012, 2014

goALS: Improving affordability through land banks and land trusts, improving infrastructure and improving our transit system. houSIng: Explore land banks and land trusts as well as creating permanent affordable housing. When developers come to City Council, stick to our guns on real affordable housing, not $1,000 for a one-bedroom. Take a more open approach to what city and county government can do together. A lot of people say we’ve got to increase the housing stock so the rates won’t [rise], but the folks who really need [homes] can’t afford $2,500 a month or $400,000 condos. I think we have the tools to do a lot of good things and still work sufficiently within our means. It’s time for us as a city to put skin in the game.

rECEnT DECISIonS: The McKibbon

deal for the St. Lawrence Green. A bunch of citizens are fighting to save that property for future use as green space; opponents say we can sell it to a developer, and they can put in a plaza.

It’s really very simple: Either the city owns the land and citizens have the sayso, or we sell it to a developer for private use and profit. I’m not against development and growth, but I will not sell out the citizens of this city for the benefit and profit of developers solely. Throwing

everything against the wall and seeing what’s going to stick isn’t working.

TourISm: It’s kind of hard not to support the tourism industry, considering that’s how we get most of our money, but we can balance that. It’s a threelegged stool; we can’t kick one leg away just because we don’t totally like it. Of course we also need to be looking at other things. I think the tourism industry has spawned some good things here, but we do need to look to other economic opportunities for citizens.

TrAffIC: Focus on infrastructure and affordability. Bike-share programs seem to work pretty well. A lot has to do with the DOT, and City Council can’t do much except voice our concerns. But in and around downtown, make sure there’s ample parking and encourage people to use other modes of transportation. More people move around the city in the daytime than the nighttime: That has a lot to do with our affordability situation. If they lived here and commuted by bus, that would alleviate some of the traffic. We have to put people on City Council who’ll dedicate themselves to making sure our basic needs are met.

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goALS: No. 1, make transit more efficient, to run on time. Two, institute “Ban the Box” with city jobs. [Criminal records] are a barrier to a lot of folks who need to work, or they’ll go back to prison. I am the western regional coordinator for Ban the Box. We’ve gotten the largest employers around here to drop that box, and the city can do it too. And three, put city land to use growing food, and work on some policies and procedures to enable that. All three of those are low-hanging fruit and don’t cost a whole lot. houSIng: Things need to be brought to scale. One strategy I would use is social impact bonds: Bring in investment from companies like Goldman-Sachs that would offer marketable securities. Then get somebody like a project manager who can take the various nonprofits and for-profits, give them performance metrics and let them go at it. Also, community land trusts: Take land the city already owns, put affordable housing on it and keep that housing affordable in perpetuity. Don’t let it sunset after we invest public dollars in it.

rECEnT DECISIonS: Raising taxes. The 1.5

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cent tax increase. I would have cut the budget in other ways. Whether we cut toilet tissue or toner, there’s other ways to keep from raising taxes on folks who can least afford it.

TourISm: Government should absolutely play a role. Diversity is always very good: It gives you strength. There are other areas that are higherpaying, and we need to grow and support our local businesses in doing that. We’re always looking to the outside for somebody to bring us something, but we need to grow our own and support that. Develop our own supply chains, and that will cut costs and our carbon footprint as well.

TrAffIC: Add shuttle buses to park-and-ride

lots to get some of these tourists into town.

Traffic is a safety issue and causes a lot of pollution. I guess we’re going to have to build parking decks at some point, but not right now. I think the hotels are building plenty of those, and if they’re not, then they don’t need to come to town.

Another thing we have to learn to do is negotiate with DOT. There are pedestrian things that we can get out of I-26.

Dee Williams • Website: dee4asheville.org • Employment: Small business consultant, real estate broker • Party affiliation: egistered unaffiliated, has voted in both democrat and republican primaries • Previous candidacy: Several unsuccessful bids for City Council, one for Buncombe County Board of Commissioners

H H H H H H H H goALS: First would be redevelopment for Lee Walker

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mark hunt • Website: huntforcouncil.com • Employment:Retired from Open Space Institute • Party affiliation: Democrat • Previous candidacy: Council member since 2011, vice mayor since 2013

Heights ... expanding into adjoining land and creating 325 mixed-income units, from market price to poverty-level, federally supported voucher housing. This is part of a multidecade strategy that we can continuously chip away at: transforming public housing as we know it. The second would be connecting bicycle/pedestrian greenway networks.

Right now we have fragments … I think we can start getting that on the ground in the next two years. Thirdly, overhaul our comprehensive land-use plan [and] revisit the Unified Development Ordinance. Our city is changing very dramatically; we’re under a lot of pressure to make sure that we’re planning our growth in a wise way.

houSIng: We need to transition to more compact development and more multifamily housing, particularly along transit corridors. [People want to live] close to downtown, and if you’ve got a half-acre of land for $500,000, you have to put 16 residential units on it to make it work. Only a super-wealthy person can afford that for a single-family home. Revising our land use plan and zoning ordinance will encourage more compact, multifamily housing units.

We need to incentivize developers with density bonuses to develop affordably priced rental housing. We need better partnerships with the nonprofit sector, including an urban land trust. rECEnT DECISIonS: One that I would love the opportunity to do over is the downtown business improvement district. We came fairly close to adopting a [policy] taxing properties downtown at a higher rate, with those additional funds being reinvested in downtown. We did not adopt it, mostly due to an inability to work through structural issues, but that’s something I wish we’d been able to do. A lot of times,

the vote is not the hard part: It’s crafting the policy. What we got wrong was the policy formation and development of good partnership. Downtown could sure use that sort of additional funding and services.

TourISm: Government is involved in promoting the tour-

ism industry because of our occupancy tax. I don’t agree with the decision to invest 1.5 additional cents to increase tourism marketing: The industry is doing just fine. We may be at a point where our economy is overdominated by the tourism sector; we’re really struggling with how to share this town between locals and visitors. I’m not in favor of short-term rentals; I do favor limited homestays allowing residents to make occasional income. The lodging industry is growing; state law doesn’t allow us to limit that. But increasing a tax to market something that’s so hot already really threatens the economy and livability of our city for our citizens.

TrAffIC: I feel strongly about the evolution of our trans-

portation network. The state DOT is in charge of roads like Merrimon Avenue, Patton Avenue and Haywood Road. I’m one of two Council members on the MPO, and I’ve worked hard to influence how state and federal money gets spent.

Meanwhile, the tax increase we implemented improved funding for local streets, sidewalks, bike lanes and transit.

We’re doing what we can within the constraints of our revenue base. I’ve insisted on including neighborhood connections and bicycle/pedestrian facilities [in the I-26 connector]. Our Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan has the city investing $2 million in that project, to encourage DOT to build in a way that doesn’t fragment this community. I’m running for City Council again to help shape some of that.

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can’t seem to get core services anymore without everincreasing fees indicates that they’re not managing fiscal resources well. Second is re-examining Council’s priorities in terms of riverfronts and other things while our infrastructure is crumbling. [Long-standing] neighborhoods still don’t have sidewalks. Until we’ve got the basics, we don’t have to be developing anything new. Third is a master plan. … We want to turn [Pack Place] into a museum, redo the river, add bike lanes. Council has been all over the board; it’s like watching a pinball machine. We need a vision and a plan that all these other things can or cannot be a part of.

houSIng: Affordable housing is a two-sided coin. How much rent gets charged is one side. Rents and mortgages are ridiculously high. But the one thing that can immediately be done is to get control of our spending. [In two years,] we’ve had two tax increases, and I can’t even count the fee increases. In my 30 years in city government, I never saw a Council raise taxes and fees that rapidly. If I’m a landlord and my taxes go up, I’m going to pass it on.

But affordable housing is also a function of one’s income.

Tourism defines Asheville and will continue to. But we’ve got to diversify our economic base, bringing better-paying, high-end tech and related jobs. rECEnT DECISIonS: I am still very put out over the way Pack Place was handled. Giving $2 million to an art museum is unprecedented when we don’t even have sidewalks, for heaven’s sake. We can all find some way to hobble up to the art museum and look at all the pretty

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pictures, I guess, but we can’t get there. Less than a year later, they gave public-property naming rights to a credit union so the art museum can raise even more money. I don’t understand the total fixation of spending public dollars on [this project]. Why not the Red Cross? Why not the United Way? I think it could have been done a hundred ways that would have been better.

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TourISm: I’m a free-marketer, but I also think cities

and local governments can do some things to invigorate expansion. To that extent, I would say our efforts need to be in non-tourism. With the hotel tax just increased and all this money going to the Tourism Development Authority, they’ve got more money than they know what to do with. Frankly, not any public money for tourism, but other things, possibly yes.

TrAffIC: People trying to avoid I-26 have jammed up the whole south end of town. The first priority is resolving that. The Bowen Bridge handles over 100,000 vehicles a day; I-26 must be much higher. Environmentalists have resisted expanding I-26. I contend that hundreds of thousands of trucks and cars sitting there idling put more carbon in the air than if we expeditiously moved that traffic to its destination. Meanwhile, Council is fixated on Charlotte Street. Why spend time and money doing something that three experts have advised you not to fool with, while doing nothing about things that are begging for attention? I think special interests are driving a lot of these traffic issues; that has to stop.

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John miall • Website: jmiallforcouncil.com • Employment: Retired former city risk manager • Party affiliation: Democrat • Previous candidacy: Ran for mayor in 2013

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What’s one issue no one’s talking about that you feel should be discussed?

Planned growth: Sustainable need more small-business We than Band-Aid growth. solutions.

What’s the worst thing to happen to Asheville in the last two years?

A lack of diverse kinds of jobs.

What’s the name of your neighborhood? What’s the most pressing issue for residents there?

Ballantree, South Asheville: development outpacing infrastucture

Polarization in political process: I’m the only true independent candidate.

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The influence of the hotel industry.

New strategies for ending cyclical poverty in public housing sectors.

Racial justice and inequality of opportunity.

The abysmal state of detox and rehab in our supposedly healing community.

A dedicated source of funding for multimodal transportation.

The building of more hotels.

Increasing hotel occupancy tax without addressing the costs of tourism to the community.

Affordability crisis peaking, pushing lowwage earners out of the city.

Nonlocal interests have a strong foothold in Asheville.

The legislation taking Asheville’s water.

Grace neighborhood (North Asheville): insufficient sidewalk/ pedestrian transportation networks.

East West Asheville: preserve livability and walkability.

West Asheville: affordable housing.

West Asheville: vehicles, pedestrians and bicycles sharing street space.

Atticus Finch.

Buckminster Fuller, Dee Williams, Barbara Reed, Frank Kelso Wolfe.

Susan Fisher, Terry Van Duyn, Gordon Smith, Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King.

South Asheville Chicken Hill: near Deerfield streets without and Weirbridge: sidewalks and traffic with the need to a capital T. slow traffic.

Norma Good (Ohio real estate commissioner) and Herb Asher (adviser at Ohio State and friend).

Jimmy Carter, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders.

Abe Lincoln, schoolteachers, Julian Price, Gandhi, my parents.

Affordability/ economic viability at the family & individual level (housing, wage rights, transportation).

Accommodating enough expected growth Getting people to while maintaining understand economic how media diversity and works. quality of life.

Who are your heroes: local, political or otherwise?

My grandfather, Terry Sanford, Dean Smith.

What’s the biggest challenge Asheville faces over the next two years?

The reality of unsustainable development based solely around tourism.

Building consensus for win-win results.

Learning how to grow organically through investing locally.

No.

The secret ballot is sacred.

Plus, I’m not trying to build a coalition. That’s polarizing.

I’m looking at the other locally born candidates.

I am not endorsing any other political candidate.

I’m still talking with and listening to other candidates.

Safe streets and sidewalks, tax incentives for renters, low-income housing.

Public safety, transportation and infrastructure.

Affordable housing, good employment opportunities.

Are you voting for any candidates besides yourself? If so, which ones?

You’re sitting at the city’s annual budget meeting, and you have funding left for only two areas. Which two would you choose?

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Growing/ funding multimodal transportation/affordable housing.

Dee Williams; debating between Yes. I prefer not Brian Haynes, to share that.

Keith Young & LaVonda Payne.

Question isn’t well-formed enough for me to take a position.

Affordable housing, multimodal transportation.

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City can’t balance budget without constant tax and fee increases.

New city tax in 2013 to fund art museum renovation; still not spent.

$28mm(+) to subsidize a brewery.

Fees for core services.

General Assembly’s theft of airport and attempted theft of water system.

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Poverty: 57 percent of us are impacted by high housing costs.

The horrific number of addicts landing in our emergency room.

The lower class is discriminated against.

Needed renovations at Walton Street pool; achievement gap in schools.

Getting more of what we don’t want in Congress.

Political and administrative mismanagement of our Police Department.

Too much focus on tourism instead of taking care of ourselves.

Oteen: housing quality, affordability and powersharing issues affecting renters.

Sunset Mountain (North Asheville): paying taxes and dodging bears.

Ascot Point Village Apartments (South Asheville): rent increases, traffic on Hendersonville Road.

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City schools: achievement gap; accountable, elected board.

Candidates’ priorities for the property across from the Basilica.

General Streamlined Assembly Widening approval process attacking city income gaps for developrevenue sources and prolifments has left from every angle eration of neighborhoods (e.g., business low-wage jobs out of the loop. licenses).

Kenilworth: crime (mostly property crimes).

East End/Valley St.: development, traffic calming, traffic lights, community safety.

Resilient Southern families I’ve met in communities less friendly to LGBTQ citizens than Asheville.

My grandmother, who raised my brother and me.

My grandparents and parents, President Obama, Judge Robert L. Harrell, Minnie Jones, Martin Nesbitt, O.L. Sherrill, Bill Stanley.

Haw Creek (as of four months ago): East Asheville Library renovation.

Grove Park: traffic.

North Asheville: sidewalks and street maintenance.

My family, Jefferson, Kennedy, Bill Wolcott, Ken Michalove.

Former Asheville Mayor Dick Wood, who served in different capacities for around 50 years.

Holding on to water system/ balancing budget.

Keeping City Council focused on key issues of basic city government.

Meeting the needs of people at the base of the economic pyramid.

A down-trending world economy.

People feeling they can’t speak up because what they say doesn’t matter.

Increasing affordable housing units and providing more opportunity for our workforce.

High rents, high taxes, low wages, poor myopic leadership.

Balancing neighborhoods/ affordability with growth and development.

Who are you voting for?

I’m voting for myself and John Miall.

Declined to answer.

The voting booth is private for a reason.

I’m not voting for myself: That’s just [tacky].

Dee Williams, Lindsey Simerly.

Yes, but I’m not going to say who.

Declined to answer.

Declined to answer.

Spend more on basics.

Revisit 2025 Plan, Five-Year Capital Improvement Plan.

A new platform for civic engagement that enhances our democracy at the local level, provides a great example and gets things done. Revive Grow WNC.

Public safety, basic city services.

Education, [teaching communities] how to budget/ do resumes.

Increased funding for affordable housing, transportation.

Public safety, public works.

Infrastructure, transit.

Public safety, solid waste pickup.

The man and My dad, because Abraham Lincoln, woman who he taught Steve Jobs, Martin created KIVA me that even Luther King, (the microthe sky’s not Bernie Sanders. loan program). the limit.

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buzz around buncombe Compiled by Hayley Benton

Hanrahan pointed out two raised garden beds next to the fence surrounding the property. She said the beds had been donated by the team which is constructing the Cambria Suites hotel across from the Grove Arcade. The developer of that project has leased the lot from the city as a staging and storage area for construction equipment and supplies for one year.

“They’re nice,” said Hanrahan of the beds, “but they don’t mitigate the harm done by the increased traffic, noise, disruption and safety issues of having construction vehicles moving through a neighborhood made up of seniors and folks with disabilities for a year.”

— Virginia Daffron Blue ridge Pride celeBrates more than just its annual festival

86 Percent: City Councilman Cecil Bothwell presents the results of a poll showing that the majority of registered Asheville voters support a park across from the U.S. Cellular Center and Basilica of St. Lawrence. Photo by Virginia Daffron

Poll says 86 Percent of asheville residents suPPort downtown Park In a press conference across the street from the so-called “Pit of Despair,” Asheville City Councilman and Buncombe County Board of Commissioners candidate Cecil Bothwell said on Monday, Sept. 28 that a poll conducted by his campaign shows that 86 percent of likely Asheville voters favor a park on the city-owned parcel opposite the Basilica of St. Lawrence and the U.S. Cellular Center.

Bothwell said his campaign dialed 6,888 phone numbers and spoke with 1,360 registered Asheville voters on Tuesday, Sept. 22. According to Bothwell, similar polls over the past three years have yielded similar results.

More than 4,000 people have signed an online petition, and more than 1,000 homes and businesses are displaying signs supporting the park, he said.

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Of the 14 percent polled who favored selling the land, Bothwell said, “That’s not unreasonable, and those 14 percent have representatives on Council who are arguing that position. Marc Hunt and Gordon Smith have taken the lead for selling this property, and they have majority support on Council.”

But Bothwell believes the wishes of the majority of Asheville voters and residents should guide the city’s actions with regards to this parcel.

Residents of the Vanderbilt Apartments and the Battery Park Apartments attended the press conference and expressed support for the idea of a park. Clare Hanrahan, resident of the Vanderbilt apartments and a leader of Elder & Sage: Uptown Asheville Senior Gardeners, pointed out that the area surrounding the cityowned lot is actually a neighborhood with over 300 senior and disabled residents. Resident Rachel Bliss agreed, saying, “We really do need green space in this neighborhood.”

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Fresh off a Supreme Court victory for marriage equality, Blue Ridge Pride Festival 15 has even more to celebrate this year, including new participants and a new status for its sponsor.

Blue Ridge Pride, formerly an organization that existed to produce the annual pride festival, has become a full-fledged community center reaching out to LGBT people in the Western North Carolina area, according to Executive Director Yvonne Cook-Riley.

It is now connected to Center Link, a network of 172 such organizations around the country, and will expand its function to include advocacy and programs, including collaborative efforts with other agencies.

“It’s a point of contact for people coming into the community and not knowing anyone,” Cook-Riley says.

The festival, which began in 2009, will be held Saturday, Oct. 3, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Pack Square Park downtown. This year’s event will feature the American Red Cross for the first time.

Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a draft guidance on allowing gay men to donate blood. Until that point, U.S. policy, established in 1985, had been to “recommended that blood establishments indefinitely defer male donors who have had sex with another male, even one time, since 1977” due to the outbreak of AIDS and the “discovery of high rates of HIV infection in that population.”

Even men who had been in monogamous relationships for decades and who were not HIV-positive were excluded.

Amanda Edwards, executive director of the Asheville Area Chapter of the Red Cross, said she is excited to be able

to work with Blue Ridge Pride. “We are governed in who we can accept for [blood] donations by FDA rules,” she says. “But now, we have a whole new segment of the community we can reach out to and who we can serve with other programs.”

Blue Ridge Pride Center and the Red Cross hope to sponsor a number of blood drives in the coming year, including one at the center’s planned wedding exposition next April, Cook-Riley says. She and the Red Cross also are working to make the language of the agency’s literature more inclusive.

Also making a first appearance at the festival is the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Since World War II, about 114,000 men and women in the military were given dishonorable discharges from service because of sexual orientation, CookRiley said. Now, the VA is reaching out to help eligible people change discharge status, which could make veterans eligible for benefits such as housing loans, scholarships and health care.

“I served with honor during the Vietnam War era,” said Cook-Riley, who is transgender. “Maybe because I was scared … of outing myself.”

Cook-Riley believes the discharges of LGBT soldiers “disgraced their very humanity, and at Blue Ridge Pride Center, we are proud to fight for those veterans who need and deserve to be honored.”

Cook-Riley is pleased to see walls between the LGBT and straight communities crumbling, although she believes much work remains.

The nation’s military academies now sponsor support groups for LGBT students, she says, and the Charles George VA Medical Center in Asheville has two support groups.

“Equality is moving forward. We are seeing ourselves dealing with marriage and commitment, and we live in a marriage-destination town.

There’s a lot of work ahead.”

Cook-Riley said the center, a 501(c) (3) nonprofit organization, will work with other agencies to help people in the LGBT community, including sponsoring a program for elders with the Land of Sky Regional Council. In addition, the organization is hoping to find funding to open an office in the coming year.

“Right now, we have a table at Denny’s,” Cook-Riley said.

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animals trinity ePiscoPal church 60 Church St, 253-9361 • SU (10/4), 6pm - “Blessing of the Animals,” bring animals of all kinds to receive a St. Francis blessing. Free.

Benefits Benefit Barn Photo workshoP 380-9146, appalachianbarns.org • FR (10/2) through SU (10/4) Tickets to this barn photography workshop with Don McGowan benefit the Appalachian Barn Alliance. For full details see the website. $150. croP hunger walk hunger.cwsglobal.org • SU (10/4), 2pm - Donations at this 2.5 mile or 5 mile walking event benefit CROP Hunger Walk to fight world hunger. Registration at 1pm. Free to attend.   Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

‘exPeriential connections’: Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre is hosting Experiential Connections, a free dance event at the French Broad River Park on Saturday, Oct. 3, at 2 p.m. The site-specific dance, which is choreographed by Caroline E. Althof, focuses on methods people use to build and rebuild the community around us. The event begins with three movement installations located around the park and ends in a central location for a final movement piece accompanied by live musicians.

Photo of Coco Palmer, Damien Chatelain and Elizabeth Huntley by Caroline E. Althof. (p. 34)

riverlink rafting Benefit 450-4663, blueheronwhitewater.com • SU (10/4), 1:30pm - Tickets to participate in this rafting trip down Section 9 of the French Broad River with Blue Heron Whitewater benefit RiverLink.

Reservations required. $46. Held at Blue Heron Whitewater, 35 Little Pine Road, Marshall tails & trails 5k adventure run eventbrite.com/e/tails-trails5k-adventure-run-registration-18333572208 • SA (10/3), 9:30am - Tickets to this fun run for adults, children and dogs of all ages benefit the Asheville Humane Society. $20 and 2 cans of dog food. Held at Buncombe County Sports Park, 58 APAC Drive touring joara 2015 touringjoara.org, ddeal203@gmail.com • SA (10/3), 8:45am - Tickets to participate in this European and sports car tour of WNC benefit the Exploring Joara Foundation. $25 per vehicle. Held at Catawba Meadows Park, 701 Sanford Drive, Morganton

tsali adventure triathlon Benefit tsalitriathlon.com

Christine Perich. $35. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St.

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triathlon benefit MedicForce. $55/$105 team. Held at Tsali Recreation Area, Tsali Boat Launch, Almond women’s health exPo Benefit ladiesworkoutasheville.com • TH (10/8), 8-11am & 4-7pm

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Hope Chest for Women. Free to attend. Held at Ladies Workout Asheville, 802 Fairview Road #1000 worldwide vegan Bake sale Benefit • FR (10/2), 11am-4pm - Proceeds from this vegan bake sale benefit Full Circle Farm Sanctuary. Free to attend. Held at the French Broad Food Coop, 90 Biltmore Ave.

a-B tech small Business center 398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted. Held at A-B Tech Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler unless otherwise noted.

• WE (9/30), 3pm - “Time Management Tools for the Busy Entrepreneur,” seminar.

• SA (10/3), 9am - “SCORE: Simple Steps For Funding Your Startup,” seminar.

• TU (10/6), 10am - “SBA: Programs and Services for Your Small Business,” seminar.

• TU (10/6), 6pm - “Small Business Bookkeeping,” seminar.

• WE (10/7), 2pm - “Department of Revenue: Business Taxes,” seminar.

• TH (10/8), 10am - “Starting a Better Business,” seminar. Held at RiverLink, 170 Lyman St. leadershiP asheville 255-7100, leadershipasheville.org Sponsored by UNCA. • WE (10/7), 11:30am - Annual luncheon with keynote speaker

classes, meetings & events aBout the transcendental meditation technique: free introductory lecture (pd.) The most effortless meditation technique is also the most effective. Learn how TM is different from other practices (including common “mantra” methods).

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828-254-4350 or TM.org or MeditationAsheville.org amateur Pool league (pd.) Beginners wanted! Teams forming now. Any and all skill levels welcome. Meet people.

Play Pool. Have fun. Win Prizes!

828-329-8197 www.blueridgeAPA.com curB sugar & carB cravings (pd.) Want an Immune-Boosting, Hormone-Balancing, AllergyBusting Detox with a side effect of Weight Loss? Join the PreHoliday Cleanse, Oct 12th. www.

WhiteWillowWellness.com • 828-620-1188 dry stone walling workshoP (pd.) 10/24-25 9am-5pm 2-day workshop will teach the basics of traditional drystone walling through the construction of a retaining wall using local stone. $100/person. Info: livingstonemasons.com/ workshop, livingstonemasons@ gmail.com, 828-773-6955.

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com m u n i ty ca len da r event center (pd.) Just miles from downtown Asheville, Heaven’s Cloud is a unique venue for your next event! Information/reservations: (828) 225-3993. www.heavenscloudeventcenter. com THIS SATURDAY • grand oPening (pd.) embellish asheville • October 3, 10am-6pm, 59 Broadway Street. • Handmade jewelry, beautiful bags, and a bit of apothecary. We’re a small, independent, local business supporting small, independent designers and artists from all over the country. We’re excited to open and we can’t wait to meet you! asheville city schools 350-6135, julia@acsf.org • TU (10/6), 5:30-7pm “Leaders of Color in Asheville City Schools,” networking, refreshments and presentations.

Free. Held at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce Boardroom, 36 Montford Ave. asheville suBmarine veterans ussashevillebase.com, ecipox@ charter.net • 1st TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Social meeting for U.S. Navy submarine veterans. Free to attend.

Held at Ryan’s Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road asheville timeBank 348-0674, ashevilletimebank.org • FR (10/2), 6pm - General meeting, potluck, and orientation. Free to attend. Held at Burton Street Community Center, 134 Burton St. asheville women in Black main.nc.us/wib • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil. Free. Held at the Vance Monument Building Bridges buildingbridges-ashevillenc.org • THURSDAYS through (11/5), 7-9pm - Seminar series on the dynamics of racism. Registration required. $35. Held at A-B Tech, 340 Victoria Road BuncomBe county PuBlic liBraries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• THURSDAYS (10/1), (10/8), & (10/22), 3:30pm - “Learn to Download Digital Books, Audio Books and Magazines from the Library,” workshop. Different devices are covered each session. Contact for guidelines.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

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children first cis of BuncomBe county 259-9717, childrenfirstbc.org • TH (10/8), 1-3pm - 20 year celebration of the Family Resource Center at Emma. Free. Held at Children First/CIS Family Resource Center at Emma, 37 Brickyard Road city of asheville 251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TU (10/6), 6:30pm Neighborhood Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. helPmate helpmateonline.org • TH (10/1), 7-9pm - Domestic Violence Awareness Vigil. Free.

Held at Pack Square Park, 121 College St. just Peace for israel/ Palestine mepeacewnc.com • WE (10/7), 9:30am - General meeting. Free. Held at Black Mountain Presbyterian, 117 Montreat Road, Black Mountain lexington area merchants association adornrebecca@gmail.com • WE (9/30), 7pm - Regular meeting to discuss growth and identity. Free to attend. Held in Battery Park Apartments Ballroom, 21 Battery Park mountaintrue 258-8737, wnca.org • TH (10/8), 5-8pm - Annual gathering with music, drinks, and hor d’oeuvres. $10. Held at Hi-Wire Brewing, 197 Hilliard Ave. ontrack wnc 50 S. French Broad Ave., 2555166, ontrackwnc.org Registration required. Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (9/30), noon - “Reverse Mortgages: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly,” workshop.

• THURSDAYS through (10/1), 5:30pm - “Money Buddies,” money management workshop series for women.

PuBlic events at unca unca.edu • WE (9/30), 6pm - “Immigrant Realities in WNC,” forum discussion and workshop. Free.

Held in the Highsmith Union, room 224.

• WE (9/30), 7pm - Panel discussion on rape culture. Free. Held in Alumni Hall. thomas wolfe memorial 52 N. Market St, 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • SA (10/3), 9:30am-4:30pm Thomas Wolfe’s 115th birthday celebration. North Carolina

residents receive free tours of the home. $5. united christian ministries of jackson county 631-0317, ucmhelp.com • FR (10/2), 10am-6pm - Fall Food Drive. Food donations accepted. Free to attend. Held at Harold’s Supermarket, 80 West Sylva Shopping Area, Sylva ywca of asheville 185 S French Broad Ave., 2547206, ywcaofasheville.org • TH (10/1), 6:30-8:30pm Intergenerational panel discussion on racial justice. Free.

dance BELLY DANCE • clogging classes (pd.) Now at Idea Factory Inc. Dance Studio, 3726 Sweeten Creek Road, in addition to our ongoing classes for ages 2 & up. Class schedule, registration/ information: www.ideafactoryinc.org rococo Ballroom (pd.) Offering social and competitive dance instruction to couples and individuals of all levels in Ballroom, Latin and Swing. Schedule a $25 sample lesson TODAY by calling 828.575.0905 or visiting www. rococoballroom.com studio Zahiya, downtown dance classes (pd.) (pd.) Monday 5pm Ballet Wkt 6pm Bellydance/Hip Hop Fus 6pm Hip Hop Wkt 7:30pm Bellydance 8pm Tap • Tuesday 9am Hip Hop Wkt 5pm Bollywood Wkt 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm Bellydance 8pm Hip Hop Choreo 2 • Wednesday 5pm Bhangra Wkt 7:30pm Bellydance 8pm Contemporary • Thursday 9am Hip Hop Wrkt 4pm Kid’s Dance 5pm Teens Dance 6pm Intro to Bellydance 7pm West African 8pm West African 2 • Saturday 9:30am Hip Hop Wrkt 10:30am Bellydance • $13 for 60 minute classes, Wkt $5. 90 1/2 N. Lexington Avenue. www.studiozahiya.com :: 828.242.7595 asheville contemPorary dance theatre 254-2621, acdt.org • SA (10/3), 2pm - Site-specific dance performances, installations, and live music. Free to attend. Held at French Broad River Park, Amboy Road

asheville movement collective ashevillemovementcollective. org • FRIDAYS, 7:30pm - Noninstructional, free-form dances within community. $7-$15. Held at Asheville Ballet Studio, 4 Weaverville Road, Woodfin • SUNDAYS, 9am & 11amNon-instructional, free-form dance within community. $7-$15. Held at Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway joyful noise 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter. org Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave., Weaverville • MONDAYS, 6:45-7:30pm Beginner clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10.

• MONDAYS, 7:30-8:15pm Intermediate/Advanced clogging class. Ages 7 through adult. $10. southern lights square and round dance cluB 697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (10/3), 6pm - “Fall Frolic” themed dance with caller Stan Russell. Free.

Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville

Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

farm & garden haywood county master gardeners 456-3575, sarah_scott@ncsu. edu • TH (10/8), 2pm - Information seminar for the 2016 master gardener training. Free.

Held at Waynesville Branch of Haywood County Public Library, 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville henderson county cooPerative extension office 100 Jackson Park Road, Hendersonville, 697-4891, henderson.ces.ncsu.edu • TH (10/8) - Registration deadline for “Dehydrating Food Workshop” to be held on Oct. 13, 2pm. $15. men’s garden cluB of asheville 683-1673, mensgardenclubofasheville. org • TU (10/6), noon - “New Zealand Visit of a Gardener and Nature Lover,” monthly luncheon and presentation. $11 for lunch/presentation free. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

of the new community apple orchard. Free. Held at Hillcrest Apartments, 100 Atkinson St. farm city day 697-4884 • SA (10/3), 10am-4pm Family-friendly event with live music, farm equipment, arts & crafts, petting zoo, dance and demonstrations.

Free to attend. Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville

asheville green drinks ashevillegreendrinks.com Free to attend.

• WE (9/30), 6pm - “Solar Options in Western North Carolina,” presentation.

Held at Green Sage Cafe Downtown, 5 Broadway wilma dykeman Book cluB 253-8304, wolfememorial.com • TH (10/8), 5:30pm Excerpts from Dykeman’s The French Broad and discussion, “The Chateau and the Boardinghouse,” led by Dan Pierce of the UNCA Department of History.

Free. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St wnc sierra cluB 251-8289, wenoca.org • WE (10/7), 7pm - Vice Mayor Marc Hunt moderates a panel discussion regarding greenways and bikeways in Asheville. Free to attend.

Held at Unitarian Universalist

mountain music and DANCE • OCTOBER 17 (pd.) 11am-5pm. Great family fun at the Bluegrass and Clogging Festival, just $10 per car • rain or shine.

39 Spring Cove Road, Swannanoa, NC. Local bands and cloggers. Food/drinks for sale. Bring your chairs and experience this fun festival!

• Vendor spaces available.

Sponsored by Land of Sky Shrine Club. Info at 828-215-7325. resonate: asheville (pd.) SUN (10/4), 11am-7pm - Leaders in science, spirituality and wellness, featuring: ecstatic dance, sacred geometry, cymatics. Benefits Art Studio World (npo): for at risk youth. 804-517-8017 ResonateAsheville.com asheville greenworks 254-1776, ashevillegreenworks.org • SA (10/3), 3-6pm - “Fall Fest,” with apple pressings, kids activities, food, and the dedication

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ymca of wnc 210-2265, ymcawnc.org • MO (10/5), 4-7pm - One Year Celebration: open house family-friendly birthday bash. Free to attend.

Held at Fletcher YMCA, 2775 Hendersonville Road., Fletcher

food & Beer all saints anglican church 15 McDowell Road., Mills River, 891-7216, allsaintsmillsriver.org • FR (10/2), 6-8pm - Fish fry.

Dine in or carry out. $10/$8 advance.

government & Politics

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CONSCIOUS PARTY

asheville on Bikes ashevilleonbikes.com • TH (10/1), 6:30pm - “Step Right Up,” candidate forum on transportation issues. Free to attend. Held at Clingman Cafe, 242 Clingman Ave.

kids BAND • PIANO • LESSONS • TUTORING (pd.) Children • BeginnersAdvanced. Professional licensed music teacher.

Your home or my studio. • Affordable. 25 years+ experience. • Multi-child discounts.

• Call Georgia Slater, B.M.E. (828) 484-9233. asheville community theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • SA (10/3), noon - Imaginer, circus theater. $5.

BuncomBe county PuBlic liBraries buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

sPiritual journey: Perennial student of spirituality Tim Freke is traveling from the United Kingdom to Asheville, where the best-selling author will hold a weekend workshop and donation-based speech. Photo courtesy of Freke Image courtesy of Freke

Tim Freke’s spirituality talk to benefit nonprofits fighting hunger what: Time Freke’s The Deep Awake Life where: Jubilee Community Church when: Thursday, Oct. 1, 7-9 p.m.; doors at 6:15 p.m. why: “My message is essentially deep and simple,” says spirituality scholar tim freke. “How we experience life depends on how conscious we are. When we only pay attention to the surface of life, we’re only superficially awake. But when we look deeper, we can become deep awake.”

That’s the self-penned philosophy Freke will expound upon at his forthcoming presentation downtown. An author of more than 30 books (including co-writing best-seller The Jesus Mysteries) and regular speaker at international events, Freke planned his first Asheville appearance to be a threeday workshop. When that sold out, he boiled it down to a potent, two-hour

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speech to spread his life lessons further.

The expressive speaker says he’ll explore “the paradoxical nature of reality that can utterly transform how we experience the adventure of life. This is so serious that I like to approach it very playfully — so that waking up is fun.”

Aftereffects of achieving Freke’s recommended state of being, as described on his website, include feeling present in the moment, observing deeper levels of personal identity and finally, experiencing a feeling of being “immersed in an ocean of love.”

“Then, if we really immerse ourselves in the deep awake state,” he writes, “life becomes WOW!” A portion of proceeds from the $10 suggested donations at the door will go to Jubilee’s Hunger Fund, which benefits local nonprofits MANNA FoodBank, Meals on Wheels and Loving Food Resources. Visit jubileecommunity.org or timfreke.com for more information. X

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c ommunity c ale ndar • FR (10/2), 3:30pm - Young Novel Readers Club: Discussion of The Candymakers by Wendy Mass. For 5th & 6th graders. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville fletcher liBrary 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 687-1218, library. hendersoncountync.org • MO (10/5), 4:30-5:30pm - “Read to Virgil the Library Dog.” Registration required: 687-1218. Free. hands on! children’s museum 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville, 697-8333 • TH (10/1) and FR (10/2), 1-5pm - “Mad Hatter Afternoon,” halloween hat decorating. $4 entrance fee. joyful noise 649-2828, joyfulnoisecenter.org • MONDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Capriccio String Orchestra for intermediate players. $10. Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road • MONDAYS, 6:15-6:45pm - “Movement and Dance,” class for 5 and 6 year olds. $10. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave, Weaverville malaProP’s Bookstore and cafe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (10/3), 3pm - Ben Hatke presents his children’s book Little Robot.

• WE (10/7), 5:30pm - Sheila Turnage presents her children’s book book, The Odds of Getting Even. sPellBound children’s BookshoP 50 N. Merrimon Ave., 708-7570, spellboundchildrensbookshop.com • SATURDAYS, 11am - Storytime for ages 3-7. Free to attend.

outdoors Blue ridge Parkway hikes 298-5330, nps.gov • FR (10/2), 10am - “Life’s a Beech,” 2-mile easy ranger-led hike to learn about beech trees. Free. Meets at Glassmine Falls Parking Overlook, MP 361.2.

Blue ridge Parkway ranger Programs 295-3782, ggapio@gmail.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (10/3), 7pm - “Let’s Talk Turkey,” presentation about wild turkeys. Held at the Julian Price Campground Ampitheater, MP 296. eliada home 2 Compton Drive, 645-7190 • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (10/31) - Eliada Home Corn Maze. See website for full schedule. Discounts for volunteers. $10/$8 seniors/$7 children age 4-11. lake james state Park 6883 N.C. Highway. 126, Nebo, 584-7728 Programs are free unless otherwise noted.

• FR (10/2), 9am - Ranger led canoe excursion. Registration required.

• SU (10/4), 3pm - “Amphibians,” ranger presentation and .75 mile hike.

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mills river liBrary 124 Town Center Drive Suite 1, Mills River, 890-1850, library.hendersoncountync.org • SA (10/3), 11am - “Cold Blooded Critters,” class about snakes with Steve Longenecker.

Free.

Parenting carolina day school 1345 Hendersonville Road, 2740757, alawing@carolinaday.org • TU (10/6), 8:30am - Inside the Classroom: Interested families can observe middle and upper school grades. Free to attend.

PuBlic lectures

in the National and International Immigration Debate,” lecture by retired Ambassador Gwen Clare.

Free. Held in the Humanities Lecture Hall.

seniors aarP smart driver classes 253-4863, aarpdriversafety.org • WE (9/30), 12:40am - Driving refresher class. $20. Registration required: 708-7404. Held at Madison County Library, 1335 N. Main St., Marshall • FR (10/2), 11:30am - Driving refresher class. Registration required: 708-7404. $20. Held at the Reuter Center, UNCA olli at unca

BuncomBe county PuBlic liBraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (9/30), noon - “Hungry for History: The Roaring Twenties in Asheville,” presentation. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. PuBlic lectures at unca unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• TU (10/6), 7:30pm - “From Humanitarian Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect: the Evolving Discourse on Human Protection,” lecture by George Andreopoulos. $10. Held at the Reuter Center.

• TH (10/8), 12:15pm - “Issues

251-6140, olliasheville.com • FR (10/2), 11:30am - Fab Friday Lunch & Learn: “Balance and Prevention of Hip and Knee Replacements.” Held in the Reuter Center at UNCA.

sPirituality asheville insight meditation (pd.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation. Learn how to get a Mindfulness Meditation practice started. 1st & 3rd Mondays.

7pm – 8:30. Asheville Insight Meditation, 29 Ravenscroft Dr, Suite 200, (828) 808-4444, www.ashevillemeditation.com

astro-counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. crystal visions Books and event center (pd.) New and Used Metaphysical Books • Music • Crystals • Jewelry • Gifts. Event Space, Labyrinth and Garden. 828687-1193. For events, Intuitive Readers and Vibrational Healing providers: www.crystalvisionsbooks.com oPen heart meditation (pd.) Experience and deepen the spiritual connection to your heart, the beauty and deep peace of the Divine within you. Increase your natural joy and gratitude while releasing negative emotions.

Love Offering 7-8pm Tuesdays, 5 Covington St. 296-0017 heartsanctuary.org RETREAT: ISLE OF IONA • scotland (pd.) • June 9-19, 2016. A Thin Place, 9-day pilgrimage, sponsored by Asheville First Congregational UCC. Join us for a week of retreat, reflection, recreation and renewal, led by Dr. JP Newell, internationally acclaimed for work in Celtic Spirituality. • Registration deadline for Iona pilgrimage is October 28, 2015.

• Information/Registration: Revltuenge@gmail.com or www.uccasheville.org

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com m u n i ty ca len da r shamBhala meditation center (pd.) Meditation and community on Thursdays 7:00 to 8:30 PM and Sundays 10-12 noon. By donation.

Asheville.Shambhala.org, 828200-1520. 60 N Merrimon #113, Asheville, NC 28804 WORSHIP SERVICE • LEARN how to exPress the creative PrinciPle of soul (pd.) “To be the creative dreamer is to work with the creative principle of Soul. Soul is a spark of God. The creative principle that we are trying to learn to express is the creative power of God. As one learns to express these creative abilities, he becomes a Co-worker with God. No matter what comes up, no matter how difficult the circumstance, he finds a way to make the situation a little bit better. He is able to come out of it a little bit happier than when he went into it.” • Experience stories from the heart, creative arts and more, followed by fellowship and a pot-luck lunch. (Donations accepted). • Sunday, October 4, 2015, 11am to 12 noon, Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. www.eckankar-nc.org first congregational ucc of hendersonville 1735 5th Ave. W., Hendersonville, 692-8630, fcchendersonville.org • SU (10/4), 9:15am - Adult Forum: Discussions of Bishop Spong’s lectures. Free. grace lutheran church 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville, 693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • WEDNESDAYS through (10/14), 9:30am - Women’s Book Study: All the Places to Go

by John Ortberg. Registration required. $9.

• MONDAYS through (11/23), 1pm - Biblical Book Study: 66 Love Letters by Larry Crab.

Registration required. $15 book fee. juBilee community church 46 Wall St., 252-5335, jubileecommunity.org • TH (10/1), 7pm - Presention and open discussion with author Tim Freke. $10. kairos west community center 742 Haywood Road, 367-6360, kairoswest.wordpress.com • TUESDAYS through (12/29), 9:30am - Spirituality discussion group open to all faiths and practices. Free. trinity united methodist church 587 Haywood Road, 253-5471 • SU (10/4), noon-2pm - Open

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house tour, movie, and lunch. word Free. asheville Bookworks 428 1/2 Haywood Road, 2558444, ashevillebookworks.com • SA (10/3), 7pm - Vandercooked Poetry Night Broadside & Reading: Poet Sebastian Matthews reads.

BuncomBe county PuBlic liBraries buncombecounty.org/governing/ depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (10/1), 6:30pm - East Asheville Book Club: Discussion of The Bees by Laline Paull. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road • TH (10/1), 6pm - Swannanoa Book Club: Discussion of A Confederacy of Dunces, by Peter Kennedy Toole. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • FR (10/2), 4pm - Barbara Kingsolver Book Club: Discussion of Animal Dreams. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain • TU (10/6), 7pm - Evening Book Club: Discussion of The Catcher in the Rye by JD Salinger. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (10/7), 7pm - Book Club: Discussion of Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan. Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler • WE (10/7), 3pm - Afternoon Book Club: Discussion of The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (10/8), 1pm - Afternoon Book Club: Discussion of Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview city lights Bookstore 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva, 586-9499, citylightsnc.com • FR (10/2), 6:30pm - Marly Yuma’s presents her novel, Maze of Blood. Free to attend.

• SA (10/3), 3pm - Kelly S. Jones presents her book Akashic Records of Soul Dialogues. Free to attend. firestorm cafe and Books 610 Haywood Road, 255-8115 • WE (9/30), 7pm - Other Worlds are Possible Book Club: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler.

Free to attend.

• TH (10/8), 7-9pm - Alex Sheshunoff presents his book, A Beginner’s Guide to Paradise. Free to attend.

malaProP’s Bookstore and cafe 55 Haywood St., 254-6734, malaprops.com Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (9/30), 7pm - Constance Lombardo discusses her illustrated series, Mr. Puffball: Stunt Cat to the Stars.

• FR (10/2), 7pm - Julia Elliot presents her novel The New and Improved Romie Futch.

Blue Ridge Books • SA (10/3), 3pm - Gwen Hyman Rubio presents her book, Love & Ordinary Creatures.

• SU (10/4), 3pm - Poetrio: Poetry readings featuring Sally Keith, Rose McLarney and Debra Kaufman.

• MO (10/5), 7pm - S.C. Gwynne presents his book, Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson.

• Tu (10/6), 7pm - Jeanne Charters presents her novel, Shanty Gold.

• TH (10/8), 7pm - David Levithan presents his novel Another Day and Will Walton presents his novel Anything Could Happen.

PuBlic events at unca unca.edu • SA (10/3), 10am - “Publishing Poetry: Finding a Home for your Work,” workshop. Registration required: 250-2353. $35. synergy story slam avl.mx/0gd • WE (10/7), 7:30pm - Storytelling open mic night on the theme “Moving.” Free to attend. Held at Odditorium, 1045 Haywood Road

volunteering homeward Bound of wnc 218 Patton Ave., 258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 1st THURSDAYS, 11am “Welcome Home Tour,” tours of Asheville organizations that serve the homeless population.

Registration required. Free to attend.

Pisgah legal services 62 Charlotte St., 855-733-3711 • FR (10/2), 1pm - New volunteer information session. Free. trauma intervention Program of wnc 513-0498, tipofwnc.org • WE (10/21) - Registration deadline for October volunteer training academy. See website for full details.

For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

news of the weird

by Chuck Shepherd lead story — from cuBa, with love One of the remaining 116 Guantanamo Bay prisoners (a man suspected of having been close to Osama bin Laden) has a dating profile on Match.com captioned "detained but ready to mingle," the man's lawyer, Carlos Warner, told Al Jazeera America in September.

Muhammad Rahim al-Afghani has relentlessly proclaimed his innocence, and Warner released a series of charming letters from his client intended to humanize him.

Al-Afghani commented on Lebron James, Caitlyn Jenner, the Ashley Madison website and, for some reason, South Dakota — but with the recent publicity, Match.com appears to have suspended the account. the continuing crisis • "Let me get this straight," wrote an incredulous commenter in September. "(T)hose who oversee" the Matthaei Botanical Gardens in Ann Arbor, Michigan, have the park "populated with snakes that can bite and inflict serious wounds."

The remark was in response to a visitor's having been bitten by one of at least 27 rattlesnakes loose (by design) on the grounds. (The Eastern Massasauga rattler is protected by state law.) On the other hand, the park has posted many snake warning signs, and the woman who was bitten had removed her shoes to walk in the lush grass.

• Aluminum Foil Makes a Comeback: (1) City officials in Tarpon Springs, Florida, scrambled in May to find an ordinance that artist Piotr Janowski might have violated when he covered two palm trees, and then three sides of his rented home, in heavy-duty aluminum foil, to the consternation of neighbors. Janowski is a graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and his work has been shown in that city's Polish Museum of America. (2) National Forest Service officials announced success in fire retardation in August by protectively sealing a remote structure near an Idaho wildfire in multi-ply foil. (3) And then there is Arthur Brown, 78, also "successful" in having kept his house in Hermitage, Pennsylvania, free of "aliens" by sealing it in foil (although neighbors griped in September about falling property values). mountainx.com

latest self-declared right Officials in Carroll County, Maryland, finally released a woman in August after she had been detained for 67 days — just for declining to give her name to a traffic patrolman (who had stopped her for a broken taillight). In her idiosyncratic understanding of the U.S. Constitution's Fifth Amendment, to "not be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against (herself)" means keeping her identity hidden from police. Eventually, sheriff's deputies captured her fingerprints, and since they matched no outstanding warrants, she was released. leading economic indicators • Adam Partridge Auctioneers in Liverpool announced in September that the equivalent of $10,000 would be the starting bid on a two-pound mass of whale vomit (hardened into a chunk by aging in ocean waters) picked up by a beachcomber in Wales. BBC News reported that a six-pound hunk once sold for the equivalent of $150,000; when aged into "ambergris," the putrid waste product turns waxy and sweetsmelling and proves valuable to "highend perfume houses."

• An international property rental service recently found a seven-bedroom castle on 200 acres in Ringuette, France, for the equivalent of $2,925 a month — which San Francisco's KNTV immediately contrasted with the listing of a 401-square-foot apartment in the city's Lower Haight district, offered at $3,000 per month. Another French castle (six bedrooms, a pool, three-acre garden, "several lawns") rents for the equivalent of $4,940 — about what a three-bedroom on Collins Street in San Francisco goes for.

• Marie Holmes tearfully disclosed in March how the $88 million Powerball lump sum she had won would allow her to finish college and help her four kids (one with cerebral palsy). Right away, though, her boyfriend, Lamar "Hot Sauce" McDow, was charged with drug trafficking and needed $3 million bail, which she took care of. Then, in August, in Brunswick County, North Carolina, "Hot Sauce" was arrested again, for selling heroin, and reporters surmised that Holmes must have been the one who posted that $6 million bail. (Holmes addressed her critics on Facebook: "What Y'all need to be worried about is Y'all money ....") september 30 - october 7, 2015

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wellness

YOGis CORneR

Asheville’s ’wellness block’ creates synergistic community

by emily nichols emilynicholsphoto@gmail.com There are few places where a yoga center, raw-foods cafe, herbal apothecary, martial-arts studio and vegetable garden line a single neighborhood street. But Asheville’s healthoriented community has created the “wellness block” on South Liberty Street. Located near downtown, it’s tucked away from Merrimon Avenue traffic and anchored by The Asheville Yoga Center. The block is a unique model for wellness-fueled community development. ‘no mud, no lotus’ Fourteen years ago, sunny and stephanie Keach took their chances on South Liberty, where empty bottles of alcohol and drug needles regularly littered the doorsteps of the art deco, brick building they had chosen for their small studio, The Asheville Yoga Center.

Sunny Keach recalls that the block “was definitely a neglected and unpolished gem in those days.”

Cars were often broken into, people relieved themselves near the trash cans behind the studio, and graffiti embellished the outside of the building, he says.

Nonetheless, the couple were determined to create “a refined, yoga-specific setting that would attract better teachers.” So they went for it. “Every dime we owned and could borrow at the time went into the renovation,” says Keach.

By 2010 the business had taken off but was outgrowing the space. Two years later, a few doors down on South Liberty, the Keaches opened an additional space that could accommodate more classes, trainings and events. The expansion in yoga offerings, as well as the availability of free parking and proximity to downtown, notably increased traffic to the area.

Another 2012 shift came when robert glasgow bought the old brick structure that housed AYC’s original studio. Former owner of the The Beaufort House Inn, a bed-and-

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in the neiGhborhood: Sunny and Stephanie Keach brought the Asheville Yoga Center to South Liberty Street almost 15 years ago, helping create the “wellness block.” Photo by Emily Nichols

breakfast a few blocks away, he recalls feeling uneasy and a little scared when he checked the upstairs apartments in the building. “Everything reeked of smoke,” he recalls. And Glasgow suspected that most of the alcohol and drug use was happening above the shop.

He renovated, aiming to draw a new tide of tenants and businesses to the block.

“I advertised as ‘Apartments above Yoga Studio,’ and that brought in likeminded people, yogis and individuals who were interested in a wellness lifestyle,” Glasgow says.

Since the makeover, Silver Leaf Natural Medicine and Elements Real Food have come to the block. Glasgow met Elements (and Roaming in the Raw food truck) owners Zach bier and jenni squires at a local farmers’ market. “I liked them right away, and I wanted juice on the street,” he says.

Glasgow welcomed their food truck in the pocket park on Liberty, which provided the opportunity “to test the waters and start building relationships with many of our current customers,” says Biers.

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circle of health These days, South Liberty Street thrives. Students walk to and from yoga class, lugging their sticky mats.

Acupuncturists blend tea at the Chinese apothecary. People get their hair cut at the salon. Friends sit at picnic tables and sip brightly colored juices. Vegetable gardens spill plump tomatoes onto the street. Often, a badminton game gets underway in the small green space.

The wellness bug has spread into neighboring Central Avenue, Orange Street and Chestnut Street, too.

Massage therapists, ayurvedic practitioners, herbalists and counselors hang their placards beside legal offices and nonprofit agencies. Spas and meditation centers dot the neighorhood as well.

Is it possible that yoga could have been the catalyst in creating this wellness neighborhood? Or at least a factor? evan bussanich, who owns Silver Leaf, has been running his business on Liberty Street for three years. He recalls being drawn by the

neighborhood’s proximity to downtown, the art deco style of the main building and the yoga center.

Health-oriented shops have definitely expanded, with a lot of healthy overlap, says Bussanich. “Alex teaches yoga, Marcie takes her daughter to martial arts, and we love to have lunch at Elements,” he says.

The cafe has definitely been aided by the surrounding businesses, says Bier, “especially the yoga center, because our target audience is already coming to our street for more reasons than just our business,” he says.

“Liberty Street [was] the perfect place for a healthy food business [like ours], because the people who desire [our] type of food are already coming for yoga, acupuncture and nearby spas like Still Point Wellness,” says Biers. “And even people at nearby Greenlife and Trader Joe’s are hearing about [us] because of the circle of

health [we] are geographically situated in.”

The circle of health also illustrates the positive impact businesses can have on a community. “If every street had this abundance of healthy food and like minds, that powerfully positive force would help shape communities for the better,” says Bier. new kids on the Block teah bledsoe owns Well Fit, an indoor cycling studio set to take over the yoga center’s old donation space. “Finding this location was a huge deal,” she says. “AYC has made the space a landmark in the yoga and fitness community, which is a great omen for our business,” Bledsoe adds.

She plans to offer classes geared toward general fitness as well as race training. “We will also offer TRX [suspension system] strength and conditioning, strength-training circuit classes, small-group training classes for older adults and ‘MetaZone,’ an ayurvedic system that boosts power and endurance and produces an incredible-in-thezone experience,” she says.

“Liberty Street has the feel of an intentional community,” says Bledsoe. She adds that she hopes the addition of a cycling studio will complement the other wellness offerings on the block.

By early next year, dylan glasgow, son of Liberty building owner Robert Glasgow, plans to open The Liberty House Coffee and Cafe — in the appropriately espresso-colored house next to the Asheville Yoga Center. The younger Glasgow, who grew up in the neighborhood, says he always envisioned opening a coffee shop, but never imagined it would be “in his ‘hood.”

The house has been permitted, and renovations are underway.

“It is my goal to fit the neighborhood,” Dylan Glasgow says.

“Everyone who comes to this neighborhood says they love this street.

It has a good feeling to it. The people are blissed out from yoga, and all the business owners are like a little family.”

The new coffeehouse will provide a very comfortable setting with high quality food and coffee from a North Carolina provider — Counter Culture, says Glasgow. The food, he says, will be up to the standards of local foodies, with a simple, local, organic menu and a big selection of

distinct baked goods, such as quinoa berry scones and zucchini pineapple muffins. Many of the recipes he’ll be using are his mother’s special concoctions from her time as Beaufort House co-owner. yogi Power The wellness block will also be seeing more yoga-accelerated growth this year: AYC will unfold its third expansion this fall. Located around the corner at 62 Orange St. in space that once housed the FemCare clinic, the new site will connect to the Liberty studio via a walkway featuring edible landscaping.

Keach says the new location will become the home base for yoga trainings and events, while all daily yoga classes remain at 211 Liberty St., and Well Fit takes over the old studio.

The new space will also host more trainings for yoga teachers.

The Keaches say they hope to develop an Asheville equivalent to major American retreat centers like Omega, Esalen and Kripalu.

The ultimate vision, says Keach, is to create “a yoga campus, a center for higher education devoted to knowing oneself and interacting more fully and beneficially in the world.”

Dylan Glasgow, meanwhile, sums up the wellness block with this observation: “It’s really unique, one of a kind, to find all these businesses committed to wellness side by side; there really is a synergy going on here.”

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nc sickle cell syndrome conference 257-4475, mahec.net • FR (10/2), 8:45am-4:30pm - Presentations and lectures regarding sickle cell disease. Separate workshops and pricing for health professionals. Free to attend.

Held at MAHEC Biltmore Campus, 121 Hendersonville Road PuBlic lectures at unca unca.edu Free unless otherwise noted.

• WE (9/30), 6:30pm - Native health panel with speakers from across the country.

Topics include elder care, chronic illness, youth health, and food pathways. Free.

Held in the Sherrill Center. red cross Blood drives redcrosswnc.org Appointment and ID required.

• WE (9/30), 8am-12:30pm - Appointments & info: 259-5636. Held at Asheville Fire & Police Department, 100 Court Plaza • TH (10/1), 1:30pm-6pm - Appointments & info: 669-2725. Held at Black Mountain Presbyterian, 117 Montreat Road, Black Mountain • FR (10/2), noon-4:30pm - Appointments & info: 1-800-REDCROSS. Held at Lowe’s 2201, 19 McKenna Road, Arden wnc Birth center 390 South French Broad, wncbirthcenter. com • SA (10/3), 2pm - Tour of the birth center before renovations begin. Registration required. Free. autumnal aromatheraPy: seasonal suPPort with essential oils (pd.) THUR. 10/8, 6-8pm. Explore this natural, non-invasive support as we navigatemood shifts, sleep patterns, allergies, colds,

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suPPort grouPs adult children of alcoholics & dysfunctional families adultchildren.org • Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings. al-anon/ alateen family grouPs 800-286-1326, wnc-alanon.org • A support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. For full listings, visit mountainx.com/support. alcoholics anonymous • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 254-8539 or aancmco.org asheville women for soBriety 215-536-8026, womenforsobriety.org • THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S French Broad Ave. asPerger’s teens united facebook.com/groups/ AspergersTeensUnited • For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks. Contact for details.

Brainstormer’s collective 254-0507, puffer61@gmail.com • 1st THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Led by brain injury survivors for brain injury survivors and supporters. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road caring for the soul 581-0080 • 1st MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Support for people with mental illness diagnosis and/or family members and loved ones. Meets in the brick house behind the church. Held at Black Mountain United Methodist Church, 101 Church St., Black Mountain codePendents anonymous 398-8937 • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm & SATURDAYS, 11am – Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. • TUESDAYS, 8pm – Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite G4 deBtors anonymous debtorsanonymous.org • MONDAYS, 7pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. dePression and BiPolar suPPort alliance 367-7660, magneticminds.weebly.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm & SATURDAYS, 4pm – Held at 1316-C Parkwood Road emotions anonymous 631-434-5294 • TUESDAYS, 7pm – Held at Oak Forest Presbyterian Church, 880 Sandhill Road food addicts anonymous 423-6191 or 301-4084 • THURSDAYS, 6pm - Held at St. George’s Episcopal Church, 1 School Road

• SATURDAYS, 11am- Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite G4 gamBlers anonymous gamblersanonymous.org • THURSDAYS, 6:45pm - 12-step meeting. Held at Basillica of St. Lawrence, 97 Haywood St. heart suPPort 274-6000 • 1st TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - For individuals living with heart failure. Held at Asheville Cardiology Associates, 5 Vanderbilt Drive hendersonville wise women ravery09@gmail.com • 1st WEDNESDAYS through (11/4), 1:30-3:30pm - Non-denominational support group supporting life transitions for women “of a certain age”. Registration required. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 Sixth Ave. W., Hendersonville life limiting illness suPPort grouP 386-801-2606 • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - For adults managing the challenges of life limiting illnesses.

Free. Held at Secrets of a Duchess, 1439 Merrimon Ave. men working on life’s issues 273-5334; 231-8434 • TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - Contact for location. mindfulness and 12 steP recovery avl12step@gmail.com • WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-8:45pm - Mindfulness meditation practice and 12 step program.

Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 370 N. Louisiana Ave. Suite G4 mission health family grouP night 213-9787 • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30pm - For caregivers of children with social health needs or development concerns. Held at Mission Reuter Children’s Center, 11 Vanderbilt Park Drive nar-anon family grouPs nar-anon.org • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm - Held at First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville, 204 6th Ave. West, Hendersonville • TUESDAYS, 7pm - Held at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road national alliance on mental illness wnc 505-7353, namiwnc.org, namiwc2015@ gmail.com Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. • 1st SATURDAYS, 10am - For family members and caregivers of those with mental illness.

• 1st SATURDAYS, 10am - Connection group for individuals dealing with mental illness. our voice 44 Merrimon Ave. Suite 1, 28801, 252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Ongoing drop-in group for female identified survivors of sexual violence.

• 1st TUESDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - For survivors of sexual violence, ages 18+.

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overcomers of domestic violence 665-9499 • WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm - Held at First Christian Church of Candler, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler overcomers recovery suPPort grouP rchovey@sos-mission.org • MONDAYS, 6pm - Christian 12-step program. Held at SOS Anglican Mission, 1944 Hendersonville Road overeaters anonymous • Regional number: 258-4821. Visit mountainx.com/support for full listings. recovering couPles anonymous recovering-couples.org • MONDAYS, 6pm - For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Held at Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 375 Hendersonville Road

at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. • SUNDAYS, 7pm - Info: 925-8626. Held at Crossroads Recovery Center, 440 East Court St., Marion sunrise Peer suPPort volunteer services facebook.com/sunriseinasheville • TUESDAYS through THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Peer support services for mental health, substance abuse and wellness. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 742 Haywood Road sylva grief suPPort melee@fourseasonscfl.org • TUESDAYS, 10:30am - Held at Jackson County Department on Aging, 100 Country Services Park, Sylva

refuge recovery 225-6422, refugerecovery.org • FRIDAYS, 7-8:30pm & SUNDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Buddhist path to recovery from addictions of all kinds. Held at Urban Dharma, 29 Page Ave.

t.h.e. center for disordered eating 337-4685, thecenternc.weebly.com Held in the Sherill Center at UNCA • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm – Adult support group, ages 18+.

• 1st MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Teaches parents, spouses & loved ones how to support individuals during eating disorder treatment.

s-anon family grouPs 258-5117, wncsanon@gmail.com • For those affected by another’s sexual behavior. Confidential meetings available; contact for details.

underearners anonymous underearnersanonymous.org • TUESDAYS, 6pm - Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St.

shifting gears 683-7195 • MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Group-sharing for those in transition in careers or relationships. Contact for location.

us too of wnc 273-7689, wncprostate@gmail.com Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. • 1st TUESDAYS, 7pm - Prostate cancer support forum for men, caregivers and family members.

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Green scene

CROP hunger walk aims to bolster area food supplies

by Pat barcas pbarcas@gmail.com Even in Foodtopia, hunger is a big problem. Last year, MANNA FoodBank distributed 15 million pounds of food through 248 agency partners in 16 counties in Western North Carolina.

Just more than 100,000 people were served from MANNA alone in about 40,000 households.

3 Since 1969, the “granddaddy of walk-a-thons” has been steadily easing hunger pangs locally and world-

wide, and the CROP Hunger Walk will take place once again in Asheville on Sunday, Oct. 4. The walk was started

by Church World Service as a means of crop relief for farmers suffering in Europe and Asia post World War II. It slowly spawned into this modern event, with more than 2,000 hunger walks taking place nationwide throughout the year.

“This event, the spirit of walking, means coming out to walk in solidarity with people who have to walk for their basic necessities every day,” said Kevin McCoy, Southeast representative for Church World Service. “This is a great way for the community to come

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together and remember our neighbors around the world.”

Four local food relief agencies will receive 25 percent of the proceeds from the walk: MANNA FoodBank, Loving Food Resources, Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry and Meals on Wheels. The remaining money is used by Church World Service to alleviate hunger and poverty throughout the world, as well as for disaster relief.

Funds raised from past CROP Hunger Walks were used to help people after disasters such as the recent Texas floods, Hurricane Sandy, the earthquake in Nepal and the ongoing famine in Africa. The program also supports long-term self-help projects in the world’s poorest communities: agricultural training, health clinics, microbusinesses, schools and freshwater wells in Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Walkers in Asheville have raised a cumulative $835,000 since the walk began here in 1979.

“There are so many wonderful organizations partnered here. Walkers can be confident the money is well-spent,” said Daniel Dudde, the 2015 Asheville CROP Hunger Walk chairperson, who said none of the money raised goes toward administrative costs. “This is very important to us, and Asheville is such a great town for helping the poor,

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so we’re expecting a great turnout.”

Dudde said local interest in the walk has steadily increased with each passing year.

Along with the 300 people who are estimated to walk the 5-mile route Oct. 4 along Oak street, another group will be taking a more secluded stroll the day before, with the aim of not only helping those who are hungry, but strengthening their own minds and bodies.

“Last year, we had 299 men who walked 3,246 laps around the ball field, or 812 miles. Donors contributed a record $1,701 for the men’s efforts,” said Jean Clayton, chair of the Community Resource Council at Craggy Correctional Center on Riverside Drive in Asheville, which has a capacity of 408.

The men in the medium-security prison are not allowed out on passes, explains Clayton, so participating in the CROP Hunger Walk through a walk of their own is one of the few ways they get to give back to the community. The Hunger Walk at Craggy is just one of the social programs the Community Resource Council helps bring to the prison. The council was started in 1984 throughout prisons in North Carolina as a way to help rehabilitate those incarcerated and prepare them for an improved life upon release.

“We like to expose the men to many events to stimulate and educate them — happy memories that they can share with friends and family,” said Clayton. “Our purpose is a bridge between the outside community and the prison community. This is a way for others to see the men as real people, not just a number in a jumpsuit.”

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The Asheville event is encouraging teams and individuals from all faith groups, schools, colleges, clubs and organizations, civic groups and area businesses to participate in this community-wide event.

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He also recommends bringing prepackaged grocery store condiments to further spice things up. fire it uP Once you’ve decided what to eat on the trail, it’s time to choose a stove, says dan phillips, outdoors department manager at Mast General Store in Asheville. There are many different kinds, and they’re typically distinguished by the type of fuel they use: • Isobutane.

• Propane.

• Denatured alcohol.

• Solid fuel cubes.

• White gas.

“There are others, but these represent what we sell,” says Phillips. Each type has advantages and disadvanges.

“For example, isobutane stoves are relatively easy to get and light for backpacking, but they don’t burn well in cold temperatures. Propane is easy to find, but the canisters are heavy and better suited for car camping. Denatured alcohol stoves are superlight, but cook times are about twice as long. The best thing about denatured alcohol is that it burns quietly,” he explains.

Factors to consider when selecting a backpacking stove include: • Fuel type and availability.

• Stove weight and efficiency.

• Cooking time.

• Cost (prices range from about $40 to $140).

• Cold weather performance.

• Ease of use. cook it uP

out to eat: Dan Phillips, outdoors department manager at Mast General Store, demonstrates how to set up a backcountry cooking station with minimal time, effort and space. Photo by Liisa Andreassen

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Western North Carolina is a backpacker’s paradise, but all that walking can really fire up your appetite.

To be sure, space and weight concerns impose some limitations when you’re carrying your kitchen on your back, but there’s still no reason you can’t enjoy a delicious dinner after a long day on the trail.

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class it uP “The meal is often the highlight of a backpacker’s day,” notes claude matkin, who teaches free hands-on courses at REI Asheville that show backpackers, campers and other outdoors enthusiasts how to build a camp kitchen, design a menu and prepare enjoyable, nutritious meals.

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the actual meals, made from a mix of freeze-dried and fresh ingredients, that are prepped, cooked and shared.

“These classes help people take it up a notch,” says Matkin. “It’s not just about Clif Bars anymore. If you plan and prep, it’s really pretty easy to have a tasty meal on the trail.”

Using freeze-dried items, he continues, “It’s now common to enjoy dishes such as cold-smoked pesto salmon with olive oil, curry and lentils or a Cuban coconut chili with black beans and fresh plantains.”

Whenever possible, Phillips favors whole foods such as fruits, meats and eggs. “But that’s more for the short term,” he says. “It comes down to how long the trip is and how long the food needs to be kept cold.

“For me, bacon and hot coffee are must-haves. Of course, freezedried is the easiest and the lightest, because you only need boiling water, and the options and flavors have come a long way.”

Kurt shoemaker, the manager at Black Dome Mountain Sports, recommends a plastic egg carrier. He also suggests eating the heavier items the first night. Fresh food should be

vacuum-packed, so it doesn’t require cold storage and takes up less space. clean it uP Leave-no-trace backpacking applies to cooking as well. Collapsible sinks, which fold up into a packet about the size of a wallet, make it easy to clean all your utensils at once.

But Shoemaker also recommends “reducing litter at the source — before you leave town. Leave excess packaging at home and plan rations to avoid leftovers as much as possible.”

A storage plan is also key. Matkin says REI Asheville has gone from selling practically no bear canisters to moving a couple of hundred per week. Many areas now require them, he notes, and if you’re found hiking without one, you’ll be fined.

“Plus, it’s just a good habit to keep things well-stored and clean.”

So whether you’re preparing for a weekend jaunt or a more extensive trek, take some tips from the experts, and you can please your palate while you nourish your soul. X

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Heading west Asheville-area brewers travel to Colorado to take part in the 34th annual Great American Beer Festival

silver medalists: The team from Wicked Weed Brewing Co. claimed a silver medal in the Great American Beer Festival’s competition for American-style India pale ales. The brewery’s Pernicious IPA beat nearly 350 entries from across the U.S. in the highly competitive category. Photo by Tim Reese If biggest equals best, the Great American Beer Festival is tops among beer events in the nation.

The GABF is the largest collection of U.S. beers served in a public tasting event and is attended by about 60,000 people who come to sample the more than 3,800 beers available, says the Brewers Association, which hosts the event.

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in Denver. Representing Asheville and WNC were Pisgah Brewing Co., Thirsty Monk Brewing Co., Twin Leaf Brewery, Hi-Wire Brewing Co., Burial Beer Co., Green Man Brewery, both Wicked Weed Brewing Co. and the Wicked Weed Funkatorium, Nantahala Brewing Co., Boojum Brewing Co., Oskar Blues Brewing Co. and Morganton’s Fonta Flora Brewery.

This year’s GABF featured 92 competitive categories highlighting 145 beer styles with entries from more than 1,550 breweries from all 50 states

and Washington D.C. — a 20 percent increase in participation over last year’s festival. Some WNC breweries took part in the competitions with two bringing home awards. Fonta Flora claimed a gold medal in the Field Beer category with its Beets, Rhymes and Life saison. Wicked Weed also won bragging rights, earning a silver medal against nearly 350 competitors from across the nation in the most heavily entered category — American-style India pale ale.

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dickinson describes its winning IPA — Pernicious IPA — as “extremely dry.”

“In the past, people have always thought of the East Coast IPAs as being these sweeter, maltier, hoppier beers,” says Dickinson. “We’ve veered away from that and decided to go down the route of creating a beer where you don’t notice the alcohol in it because it finishes so clean. The bitterness maybe isn’t quite as high as you’ll find in the West Coast IPAs, but the hop flavor is really what we’re focusing on, and that’s what to me an IPA is all about.

It’s all about getting that hop flavor and aroma, not so much the just the intense bitterness on the tongue.

They’re huge hop bombs.”

“I think every brewer, regardless of where you’re located, benefits from the competition,” says joe rowland, owner of Nantahala Brewing and president of the Asheville Brewers Alliance. “It encourages us to continue to make high-quality products and helps to drive innovation. Plus it’s just fun. With the number of brewers entering the competition skyrocketing, it’s a tough competition. So, even if you don’t bring home a medal, it’s great to see our North Carolina and Southeast neighbors snag a few.”

But the GABF isn’t just about going toe to toe for medals — the festival also offers three days of workshops, tastings, food pairings and social opportunities as well as hundreds of satellite events held in conjunction with the festival throughout the city. joanna postlethwaite of Thirsty Monk, who participated in a draft quality-management workshop, says the educational opportunity was “eye opening.” Along with classes, Postlethwaite says the chance to explore beers that are ordinarily unavailable in the Asheville area and

growing strong: About 60,000 people attended the 2015 Great American Beer Festival, and participation in its competitive beer events increased 20 percent from 2014. Photo by Tim Reese learn more about the industry make the trip to the festival worthwhile.

Meanwhile, Rowland agrees there are plenty of reasons for Asheville brewers to make the trek west for the GABF. Along with the exposure to other brewers and craft beer fans and an opportunity to show others in the industry what Asheville is doing, Rowland says another motivation for attending is “the opportunity to see our

West Coast friends. … There’s no other event that showcases so many brewers.

It’s like going to the largest art gallery in the world and getting a chance to experience art from every corner of the world in one place at one time. Each year, we find inspiration from tasting many of the beers that we’d [normally] never get a chance to taste”.

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Taste of Sylva supports town’s development

and experienced farmers from WNC, Tennessee, Virginia, Georgia and South Carolina are welcome to apply at organicgrowersschool.org/farm-beginnings. amBroZia and fisher vineyards’ wine dinner

a sylva samplinG: About a dozen eateries — including Lulu’s on Main, pictured — will participate in this year’s Taste of Sylva self-guided food tour. Photo courtesy of The Main Street Sylva Association Hosted by The Main Street Sylva Association, the sixth annual Taste of Sylva is a foodie excursion with a side of amusement, and it’s “aimed at anyone who wants to come enjoy all of the great culinary options Sylva has to offer,” according to organizer russ harris.

A majority of participating restaurants will serve samples from the comforts of their own downtown kitchens.

Those include City Lights Cafe, Cosmic Carry-out, Guadalupe Cafe, Lulu’s on Main, Mad Batter Food & Film, Evolution Wine Kitchen, Signature Brew Coffee Roasting Co., Papou’s Wine Shop & Wine Bar, and Sylva Convenient Market and General Store.

Additionally, Eric’s Fish Market will host a fish and beer pairing at Tonic “The tour is self-guided,” Harris says, adding that previous vendors have exceeded the 3-ounce minimum portion size by leaps. “Each participant gets a ticket with a map on the back and a list of the establishments so that it can be marked as they go.

The event lasts from 1-5 p.m., so participants have time to fully enjoy the event without feeling like they have to rush.”

But the hub of activity is at McGuire Gardens, where Jack the Dipper and Harris Regional Hospital will hand out their samples alongside kid-friendly activity areas, including a healthy eating game and community-sourced

youth art display called The Art of Healthy Eating.

Rounding out the entertainment are ongoing live performances provided by “local, traditional musicians who wander the street and play,” according to Harris.

Taste of Sylva is at McGuire Gardens, 553 W. Main St., and surrounding restaurants on Saturday, Oct. 3, from 1-5 p.m. Information and tickets ($20/$25 for adults and $10 for kids 12 and younger) are available at mainstreetsylva.org.

Proceeds from the event will be used

by The Main Street Sylva Association for economic development initiatives in downtown Sylva.

Wine Country-based, family business Fisher Vineyards is “small in size but great in scope with both mountain and valley estate vineyards,” according to proprietor fred j. fisher. And Asheville’s Ambrozia Bar & Bistro holds a similar ethos, focusing on a seasonally rotating, locally focused menu. The two are pairing up for an elaborate fivecourse dinner, with andy hale of Metro Wines presenting Fisher’s libations from 2012 and 2013. Wild boar flank steak with pinot noir, anyone?

The collaborative dinner is at Ambrozia, 1020 Merrimon Ave., on Monday, Oct. 5, from 6-9 p.m. Call the restaurant at 3503033 to reserve a seat, which costs $75 plus tax and tip. taste of asheville tickets on sale Tickets are on sale now for Asheville Independent Restaurant’s Taste of Asheville. Forty AIR-affiliated chefs bring a mix of traditional and modernized bites to the food festival in addition to wine, hard cider and beer from friends of AIR. Proceeds from the event support

the Chefs of Tomorrow scholarship fund at A-B Tech.

Taste of Asheville is at The Venue on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 6-9 p.m.

Tickets cost $75 for general admission ($100 for VIP) and are available at airasheville.org. X

Food writer Jonathan Ammons lets us in on his favorite dish du jour. the fried-chicken biscuit at tod’s tasties café: A massive homemade biscuit with a huge plank of crispy, crunchy chicken. Drown it in hot sauce — Warning: They don’t have Crystal hot sauce, though — and enjoy. Priced around $7, it’s a perfect way to start your day with a food coma.

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flock together: Although the craft galleries of WNC are competitors, they collaborate to promote the region’s handmade heritage during American Craft Week. Seen here, “Congregation” by glassblower Shane Fero, is on display in Blue Spiral 1’s Showcase Gallery. Photo courtesy of Blue Spiral 1

by alli marshall

amarshall@mountainx.com When sherry masters first heard about American Craft Week, which launched in 2010, she saw it as an opportunity. “In our field, crafts, people don’t have to go buy that. It’s not groceries,” she said. During the recession, she saw craftspeople and crafts gallery owners retiring early or closing their businesses. Masters heard people saying, “It would be great if we could compete a little more with the big-box stores.” Out

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of those conversations came the idea to pool everybody’s small advertising budgets to create a big impact.

Though Masters was busy with her own job — she’s a former buyer for the Grovewood Gallery — she thought it would be sad if nobody from Asheville participated in the inaugural American Craft Week. So she reached out to 30 gallery owners and managers and suggested that together they do something to attract craft-enthusiast tourists to the area.

“I realized if Grovewood Gallery participates, it wouldn’t be noticed, but if the whole region participated

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together, it would be. So that’s what we did,” she says.

American Craft Week actually spans 10 days — from Friday, Oct. 2, to Sunday, Oct. 11 — with participating organizations in every state. Many states, however, only have an event or two. North Carolina boasts 40 entries on the American Craft Week website. So many of those (34) are based in Western North Carolina that the region is just one of three with its own Web page.

In an American Craft Week-led poll to determine the top 10 towns in the U.S. for craft lovers, Asheville came in No. 5.

“It brought all of us together [though we] used to sometimes be competitors in the different craft stores,” Masters says of Craft Week. “It’s one event we all work on together [and this] became a great networking group. We all realized we each had something to contribute, and we could all help out while doing our own businesses.” After her success spearheading the group of WNC-based participants, Masters was asked to be on the board of American Craft Week. And though she’s never been a craftsperson herself, Masters, who is from Mars Hill, has long worked on the business end of the craft industry. She currently runs Art Connections Tours, which connects art lovers with art makers.

The WNC participants in American Craft Week have come up with another way to bring the region’s craft heritage to collectors and admirers. Through a partnership with the Convention and Visitors Bureau, the group is producing three short videos. “We’ll be sharing some of our craft history in one video, giving viewers an insight as to why Western N.C. has so many artists, craft schools, galleries and supporting organizations,” says the WNC page of the American Craft Week website. “Another video will show you what is happening in the area currently that you can experience when you visit. Finally, we will video our participation in the American Craft Week celebration.”

The project received a grant through the Asheville Area Arts Council and began talks with videographer Jared Kay of Amplified Media in January. The videos an be viewed on exploreasheville.com.

Another addition to this year’s celebration: a theme. Actually, it’s more of a fill in the blank — “Craft creates...” The WNC group thought of lots of ways to finish that sentence but decided the ultimate statement was “Craft creates community.” To illustrate that point, members of the group are working on a large banner with nine organizations (Local Cloth, Village Potters, Mountain Made, John C. Campbell Folk School, Haywood Community College, the Folk Art Center, Asheville Art in the Park, Yummy Mud Puddle and the Madison County Arts Council) with each making one of the letters in the word community.

The crafting of the banner takes place, appropriately, during American Craft Week. After that, it will be displayed at the Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands and may travel the region. Another Craft Week extension is the online exhibit, Masterpiece, for which one artist from each state was invited to participate. The display, which can be seen at acwgalleryshop.com, runs for a month, ending Sunday, Oct. 11.

It includes potter Cynthia Bringle from Penland.

“That should be an impressive opportunity to see the whole country,” says Masters. But starting closer to home is just fine, too. Plan a driving tour to area craft galleries, or just take in exhibits, demos and events in downtown Asheville — where American Craft Week comes just once a year, but every day is craft day. X

Craft happenings by alli marshall amarshall@mountainx.com The 2015 iteration of American Craft Week is held Friday, Oct. 2, to Sunday, Oct. 11, so it’s really a weekplus. That’s a good thing, because with more than 30 Western North Carolina-based craft galleries and organizations involved, it’ll take all 10 days to visit each showroom and explore every exhibit. But even if you can’t make every stop, plan to celebrate Craft Week by checking out an artist demonstration, attending an opening reception or perhaps even purchasing a locally made piece. Learn more at americancraftweek.com. american craft week exhiBits and events: • art on main fine art / fine craft festival, Main Street, Hendersonville, acofhc.org The Arts Council of Henderson County holds its 56th annual Art on Main Fine Art / Fine Craft Festival on the streets of downtown Hendersonville Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4.

Work on display and for sale includes clay, metal, glass, fiber, wood, painting, photography, jewelry and more.

• asheville area arts council and local cloth, ashevillearts.com, localcloth.org The Asheville Area Arts Council hosts Connections, a textile exhibit produced by Swannanoa-based nonprofit Local Cloth. View and purchase locally made hats, scarves, wraps, cowls, mittens, bags and more. Local yarn will also be available. The display runs through Saturday, Oct. 31, with an an opening reception Friday, Oct. 2, 5-8 p.m.

• asheville art in the park, Pack Square, ashevilleartinthepark.com This handmade market for professionals finishes out the season with events Saturdays, Oct. 3, 10 and 17, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Asheville Art in the Park donates 10 percent of its proceeds to a community grant to support local artists.

• blue spiral 1, 38 Biltmore Ave., bluespiral1.com Artists Shane Fero and Elizabeth Brim show individual and collaborative

pieces in lamp-worked glass and forged iron in the Showcase Gallery through Friday, Oct. 23. “An acclaimed glassblower, Fero has concentrated the past few years on sculptures featuring vividly patterned birds,” says a press release. “As a female blacksmith working in a traditionally male-dominated medium, Brim’s work often explores issues of gender.”

• the center for craft, creativity & design, 67 Broadway, craftcreativitydesign.org Current exhibition, Made in WNC, “examines the designer-maker movement through a regionally specific lens, considering how particular histories, geography, economics, technology and education inform an international movement on a local level,” according to the CCCD website. Twenty-six N.C.-based studios are participating or collaborating.

An artist installation by Daniel Johnston of Seagrove is on display Thursday, Oct. 1, to Thursday, Oct. 29. The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.

• grovewood gallery, 111 Grovewood Road, grovewood.com The gallery hosts events each Saturday of American Craft Week, including an opening reception for Vessels of Merriment — “an intoxicating exhibition of handcrafted drinking vessels by artists around the country,” according to a press release — Oct. 3, 3-6 p.m. (on view through Thursday, Dec. 31).

Take a self-guided tour of artist studios on the Grovewood grounds Oct. 10, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.

• heartwood gallery, 21 E. Main St., Saluda, heartwoodsaluda.com During American Craft Week, the gallery hosts a special exhibit, American Craft Serves Well, featuring serving pieces in ceramics, glass, metal and wood. An opening reception and 30th anniversary celebration takes place Saturday, Oct. 3.

• john c. campbell folk school, 1 Folk School Road, Brasstown, folkschool.org More than 240 craftspeople will participate in the folk school’s 42nd fall festival.

The festivities also include live music and dance, craft demonstrations, food and more. Saturday, Oct. 3, and Sunday, Oct. 4, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

• mica, 37 N. Mitchell Ave., Bakersville, micagallerync.com Current exhibit, Forged and Foraged, the art of metalworker Paige Davis and “trash assemblagist” John D. Richards,

cheers: A beer mug by ceramist Charlie Tefft, on display as part of Grovewood Galley’s Vessels of Merriment exhibit. Photo courtesy of Grovewood Gallery is on display through Saturday, Nov. 14.

During American Craft Week, the gallery celebrates Customer Appreciation Week with cider and cookies.

• mountain made, Grove Arcade, mtnmade.com During American Craft Week, the gallery will highlight baskets made by David Cook. The artist has been working the native smoke vine, aka Dutchman’s pipe, for 20 years. Check the website for dates and times of demos.

• spruce pine potters market, 31 Cross St., Spruce Pine, sprucepinepottersmarket.com Potters and clay artists from around the region gather at the historic Cross Street Building in Spruce Pine Saturday, Oct. 10, and Sunday, Oct. 11.

• tyson graham pottery, 6148 Peniel Road, Tryon, tysongrahampottery.com Tyson Graham hosts a fall open house at Little Mountain Pottery Saturday, Oct. 17, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

ParticiPating galleries and Businesses: • allanstand craft shop at the folk art center, Blue Ridge Parkway, Milepost 382, avl.mx/1ir • appalachian craft center, 10 N. Spruce St., Suite 120, appalachiancraftcenter.com • flow, 14 S. Main St., Marshall, flowmarshall.com

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• guild crafts, 930 Tunnel Road, avl.mx/1is • haw creek forge, 2000 Riverside Drive, #6, hawcreekforge.com • haywood community college, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde, creativearts.haywood.edu • mh libram woodturning, 191 Lyman St., Suite 165, woodbowls.net • new morning gallery, 7 Boston Way, newmorninggallerync.com • parkway craft center at moses cone manor, Blue Ridge Parkway, Milepost 294, Blowing Rock, avl.mx/1iu • river arts district artists, riverartsdistrict.com • river oaks studios, 191 Lyman St., #160, matttommey.com • seven sisters gallery, 117 Cherry St., Black Mountain, sevensistersgallery.com • southern highland craft gallery at Biltmore Village, 26 Lodge St., avl.mx/1it • turtle island pottery, 2782 Bat Cave Road, Old Fort, turtleislandpottery.com • the village potters, 191 Lyman St., thevillagepotters.com • van dyke jewelry and fine craft, 29 Biltmore Ave., vandykejewelry.com • who Knows art, whoknowsart.biz • yummy mud puddle, 264 Clear View Lane, Burnsville, yummymudpuddle.com X

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Focused on Fiber Regional textile crafts gain momentum “I don’t know where fiber art will lead me next, but I am energized and inspired to keep exploring,” says selinde lanier, a textile artist based in Madison County. Lanier is one of the member artists of Flow Gallery in Marshall, which will be celebrating American Craft Week with an exhibition themed around the concept of surface. “I plan to exhibit three new pieces exploring the idea of fabric as

skin, the surface of ourselves,” says Lanier.

Last year’s exhibition during American Craft Week won Flow Gallery a national award for the most innovative event concept. The showing included seven weavings by Lanier, inspired by seven scents developed by Katie Vie, an aromatherapist and Flow Gallery member artist.

Similar to the way that a musician might get comfortable by playing cover tunes, Lanier began her practice as a

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studio fiber artist by connecting to the region’s roots, using traditional coverlet patterns as a starting point for her designs. She came to studio work in 2007 following a 2004 layoff due to the downsizing of the commercial textile design industry. “[It] can be so freeing as to be almost terrifying,” Lanier says of the transition from commercial work to a studio practice. “The box you work in becomes four walls, and you find yourself in there alone, with nothing but yourself and your tools to keep you company.” To facilitate the creative process, she constructed self-imposed guidelines. “Those phenomenal patterns produced by mountain weavers 100 years ago or more provided the box I was used to having to work within,” she says.

Before her industry job and before her studies, Lanier’s textile trajectory began with the realization that the material’s seemingly old-fashioned forms could be reinterpreted. This was demonstrated by the women weavers at the Bauhaus school in Germany during the early 1900s, whose work suggested “the empowering potential of weaving as a mode of expression,” says the artist. In recent years, Lanier

continues to work on the loom, but also incorporates felting, embroidery and burnout, a chemical process to create a semitransparent pattern.

“I consider myself quite fortunate to still be doing this at all, given the economics of global textile production,” she says.

Meanwhile, the organization Local Cloth is working to build the case that the area’s textile arts and local fiber production are positioned for economic growth. An exhibition titled Connections, on display at the Asheville Area Arts Council through Saturday, Oct. 31, shows the results of partnerships between local fiber farmers and artists. All works on display include at least some local material components.

Kitty love, director of the arts council, says the exhibit is “absolutely beautiful and tactile in the extreme.” But the show’s thesis goes beyond the visual display. “As the AAAC moves deeper into making a case for the economic power of arts and culture, fiber arts represents a relevant case study,” says Love.

Local Cloth was founded in 2012 by judi jetson, formerly of HandMade in America, who says

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Paula Woods mixed media artist

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Functional and decorative pottery with a nature theme.

Clay sculpture and art prints focusing on the human form

Eclectic wall art and small quilted handbags.

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got it covered: The Connections exhibition at the Asheville Area Arts Council includes student entries from both Haywood Community College Professional Crafts Fiber program and the Warren Wilson College Fiber Crew. Pictured, Warren Wilson students wrap up in coverlets they wove incorporating wool from the college’s sheep. Photo courtesy of Warren Wilson College

that the region has “more fiber artists per capita than anyplace else in the U.S.” The numbers loom large — the organization cites that within a 100-mile radius from Asheville, there are 405 professional fiber artists, 2,500 fiber art hobbyists, 83 textile-related retail outlets, 462 fiber animal farms, 21 cotton farms, 12 textile mills and seven learning institutions.

This fall, the Local Cloth website will offer a directory of the area’s fiber resources. “There is a growing international demand for sustainably produced textiles, especially clothing, and our region is rich in resources to meet this demand,” says Jetson.

One of the area’s resources, the fiber program at Haywood Community College, has seen an increase of out-ofstate students moving to the area specifically for the program, says director amy putansu. “Not only are textiles practical, textiles root us in history, connecting us to one another locally and globally.”

In conjunction with American Craft Week, an exhibition of the 2015 Haywood graduates in Professional Craft Studies will be on display at

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the school. It runs through Tuesday, Dec. 8, and was also exhibited this summer at the Folk Arts Center.

Despite being just a two-year course of study at a community college, Haywood’s fiber program remains competitive with national four-year schools. The Dendel Scholarship of the Handweavers Guild of America, a national award, was captured by Haywood’s students in 2012, 2013 and 2015. This year’s winner is Diane Ardanowski of Asheville.

“I have become ever more passionate about the relevance of textiles in our lives today and throughout history,” Putansu says. Both she and Local Cloth members have compared the area’s fiber supply chain to the local foods movement.

“There is a growing appreciation for handcrafted beer and food ingredients and understanding the supply chain,” says Putansu. “This attitude is beginning to permeate all areas of lifestyle, including the clothing we wear and the fabrics we surround ourselves with.” X

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by Doug Gibson

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southern appalachia’s first craftspeople Nearly 2,000 years ago, Native Americans in the Southern Appalachian Mountains established a seasonal gathering place in what is now a neighborhood outside Canton.

Discoveries at this site, known as Garden Creek, suggest it served as a home for native craftspeople who produced artifacts for a religious and cultural movement that swept ancient North America. alice wright, an archaeologist at Appalachian State University who served as director of the Garden Creek Archaeological Project, believes excavations done at the site in 2011-12 show Native Americans in the Blue Ridge had closer ties than previously thought with the Hopewell culture. Those native populations were named by archaeologists for a site in southern Ohio that was the source of some early finds.

The culture flourished between 100 and 400 B.C. and is marked by its architecture (ceremonial mounds and ritual enclosures marked off by earthworks) and the artifacts used in religious ceremonies. Astonishingly, excavations at sites in the center of this culture have unearthed artifacts crafted from exotic material — copper from Canada, seashells from the Gulf Coast, huge deposits of obsidian ferried all the way from Wyoming and ritual artifacts cut from mica mined here, in the Southern Appalachians.

Until recently, Wright says, archaeologists thought that any traces of Hopewell culture found at the sources of these materials proved only that these far-flung communities of people had adopted a thin veneer of Hopewell ritual on top of their local traditions. But, based on the discoveries made by the team at Garden Creek, Wright says, “I’m convinced that local Appalachian communities were much more involved.”

Southern Appalachia, where mica was mined on an industrial scale in the 19th and 20th centuries, long seemed the obvious source for the quantities of the mineral used in

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digging deeP: Archaeologists at Garden Creek unearthed evidence of an enclosure bordered by a ditch and rampart, a pattern seen at other Hopewell sites. Photo courtesy of Alice Wright Hopewell rituals. But the excavations at Garden Creek provided some of the first compelling evidence that indigenous people may have crafted the artifacts at the source.

In particular, digs at Garden Creek revealed traces of two large enclosures bordered by earthworks. These echo similar structures in the Hopewell center and may have marked off areas for performing ceremonies and ritual tasks. Excavations in and around these enclosures unearthed significant deposits of mica, mostly scraps bearing evidence of having been deliberately cut away from larger sheets. This suggests that craftspeople manufactured artifacts in and around these enclosures. “When the site was in use, and when the site was abandoned, there were ritual activities going on,” Wright says. “And crafting was a part of these ritual activities.”

No finished mica artifacts have been found at Garden Creek. Their absence suggests that whoever manufactured

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the artifacts unearthed at the Hopewell center carried the finished items on an arduous 500-mile journey to what is now southern Ohio, possibly as a form of pilgrimage.

“How would people in North Carolina know that there was this incredible explosion of religious activity in Ohio?” Wright asks. “What would compel them to go check it out? I don’t know.” What role the artifacts might have played in Hopewell ritual is likewise a subject of speculation.

Wright is more sure about why Native Americans found mica so fascinating.

Calling the cut mica art pieces “incredibly beautiful,” Wright says, “You’re digging into the earth, and that’s a significant symbolic thing.

Also, [mica has] natural qualities. It can be light and dark at the same time, it’s reflective, it’s got this translucence to it. Different sorts of qualities may have given it symbolic import that made it worthy of ritualization.”

Centuries ago, the artwork of Garden Creek was in demand half a continent away

handmade history: Objects crafted at Garden Creek may have been used in shamanic rituals. This mica hand was found at a site in Ohio. Photo courtesy of Alice Wright Garden Creek may not be the only crafting site waiting to be discovered. Remains of a roughly contemporary settlement have been found on the Biltmore Estate, and farming and development have likely claimed other sites. Indeed, Wright points out that the Garden Creek site was only discovered as land was cleared for a house. But, just as today’s Appalachian craftspeople are now revealed as stewards of a tradition that goes back two millennia, the residents of Garden Creek have chosen to preserve the traces of culture that have come to light almost literally beneath their feet.

“I’m grateful for it,” Wright says.

“And I hope future generations of archaeologists will be grateful for it, too.” X

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the humBle FiddleR

New documentary showcases memories and music of Roger Howell

strings attached: Co-director Rebecca Jones films Roger Howell for A Mighty Fine Memory: Stories and Tunes from the Fiddler of Banjo Branch. Photo by Hannah Furgiuele When it comes to knowledge of Southern Appalachian music, Madison County fiddler roger howell is in a league of his own.

As evidenced by the 532 fiddle tunes he’s recorded for Mars Hill University’s Southern Appalachian Archives — aka the “Roger Howell Memory Collection,” another list of which is in the works — he’s happy to share his experiences. What he doesn’t do is toot his own horn or bow his own strings (or whatever the instrument-appropriate equivalent of that idiom may be).

The man and his recollections have been further preserved in A Mighty Fine Memory: Stories and Tunes from the Fiddler of Banjo Branch, a new documentary film that debuts Saturday, Oct. 3, at the annual Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival in Mars Hill. Culled from over 600 minutes of footage, the 26-minute film is produced by the Liston B. Ramsey Center for Regional Studies at MHU under the guidance of program coordinator hannah furgiuele, also the director of the Lunsford Festival.

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Furgiuele grew up playing classical violin and started taking fiddle lessons from Howell in early 2012 to help immerse herself in regional music. One day as she was driving to her lesson, she saw her instructor walk down his driveway to his mailbox and then turn into his fiddle shop. The simplicity of the scene and the introspective way he was walking down the hill deeply resonated with her.

“He was surrounded by the hills and the forests, and Bailey Mountain sat high behind him. The image sort of caught me. I am a photographer, and there was something really beautiful about it,” Furgiuele says.

At that point, her graduate studies in Appalachian culture from Appalachian State University kicked in and got her thinking about the broader significance of that sight, as well as its potential.

Having developed a strong friendship with Howell, she knew him to be a traditionalist who believes in self-sufficiency, family and understanding the land where one lives.

“With the music as the focal point, the work he has done to preserve the tunes and stories and names of the

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people from whom he learned, in combination with the way he lives his life — it just seemed like a story that needed to be told,” Furgiuele says.

“To share the complex person he is and to understand the music and the community that he lives in, it seemed that a documentary was the best-suited medium. There are so many layers to Roger and his music, and video allows to show that, whereas still images, while my passion, don’t quite allow for the storytelling that seemed best for Roger’s story.”

Furgiuele brought up the potential project at her next staff meeting. Both her supervisor, Karen paar, and the Ramsey Center faculty chair, Kathy newfont, were immediately supportive and encouraging. Howell, however, required a bit more coaxing and remained convinced that plenty of other folks would make more compelling subjects.

“I think he was self-conscious about the attention and worried that other people wouldn’t think he deserved it,” Furgiuele says. “He told me later that he just wasn’t sure why I would choose him to do it. I had to keep pointing out

why and how many other people supported him.”

Proof of that community backing was soon evident in the numerous letters of support gathered for a grant from the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area. The proposal was submitted in October 2014, and the project was awarded $5,000. As part of the grant, Furgiuele and her colleagues were required to provide a one-to-one match. In December, they held the sold-out Winter’s Tune: Music to Warm an Appalachian Night concert to raise funds and begin filming.

In Furgiuele’s words, production took place “at all times: day, night, festivals, in the shop, in the woods — whenever something was happening that needed to be included, we were there.” Graduate school friend rebecca jones, who has collaborated with Ken Burns, joined the crew. Jones and Furgiuele worked as a team to develop the story. While Furgiuele conducted interviews with Howell and community members, Jones handled the filming, lighting and audio. Archival photos and field recordings and clips from Howell’s memory collection were also incorporated.

Beyond the Lunsford Festival screening, a second showing is being planned for spring 2016 when DVDs, soon to be available for preorder, will be mailed out. As for Howell seeing the film, Furgiuele has offered him the option of a sneak peak, but as of press time, she says he’s waiting to watch the final cut with everyone else. X

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by Corbie Hill

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Make it your own Jayme Stone delves into the Lomax catalog Over the past three years, jayme stone has listened to thousands of folk songs from alan lomax’s celebrated archive. And that’s just a fraction of what’s available. The overall collection, Stone says, contains some 30,000 field recordings.

That’s a lot of music.

Stone listens for those irresistible songs, the ones that catch him on first listen, but he also keeps a careful ear out for songs with potential. Some may have a melody or lyric that can be drawn out or explored, even if the original recording isn’t altogether remarkable. Accordingly, Stone’s repertoire of Lomax songs is constantly growing and evolving as he and his sphere of collaborators put new touches on old music. The result is the album Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, an ongoing collaboration with 20-odd musicians, three of whom join Stone at Isis Restaurant and Music Hall Thursday, Oct. 1.

Lomax, a folklorist and ethnomusicologist, was a collector of folk music. He recorded thousands of songs and interviews for the Library of Congress’ Archive of American Folk Song, and is credited with contributing to the folk music revivals in the U.S. and U.K. during the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. He visited Western North Carolina, photographing local folklorist bascom lamar lunsford and performing onstage at the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival in Asheville. Lomax’s collection at the American Folklife Center, amassed with his father and many others, “encompasses more than 100 collections and includes 700 linear feet of manuscripts, 10,000 sound recordings, 6,000 graphic images and 6,000 moving images,” according to the Library of Congress. It’s fertile ground for a contemporary musician to dig into.

Stone, a banjo player and composer originally from Canada, is no stranger to seeking out inspiration. He traveled to Mali to study the African roots of his instrument of choice and released the album Africa to Appalachia in 2008. For the Lomax Project, he and his friends sifted through thousands of field recordings, seeking songs on which they could place their own stamp. That’s the nature of folk music.

“There is this continuum of people getting together and making music,” Stone says. “Before there was recorded music, if you wanted music, you had to make it yourself.” He describes neighbors getting together to shuck corn, after which they’d get out their instruments and hold a square dance. Players collaborated, and songs developed and evolved.

“That approach is easily lost in a world where things have been highly commodified,” Stone says. “I want to have that as part of my life, just as a human being.” The songs of the Lomax Project grow out of retreats at Stone’s Longmont, Colo., house, where a revolving cast of musicians gathers. Someone would bring an old Lomax recording, one that’s either arresting as is or had some hidden kernel that needed to be brought to light, and the group will develop an arrangement. In concert, they play at least half of the songs from Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project, while the other selections from the setlist might be new arrangements of recent discoveries. The record, Stone says, is not the ultimate expression of the project — the collaborative sessions are.

“That, for me, is the heartbeat of the project,” he says. “Touring and records are just one manifestation.” At his retreats, the process is alive. Recently, Stone says, composer and folk singer moira smiley brought the song “Hey Lolly Lolly Lo,” which Stone thought sounded a lot like “Lazy John” — the chords and melody were just too similar. “Lazy John” was already on the record, but Stone wondered how the song would sound slowed down and played like a dark ballad, Miles Davis-style. He wrote fresh chords, and now “Hey Lolly Lolly Lo” behaves like a jazz standard. Today, the original version sounds odd to Stone.

“We realized then that there was this smoldering undertone to the lyrics. There was this clandestine love affair,” he says. “Now I can’t imagine it being done any other way.”

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found sounds: By borrowing inspiration from Alan Lomax’s field recordings, contemporary musician and composer Jayme Stone helps to keep the folk music tradition alive. “There is this continuum of people getting together and making music,” he says.

“Before there was recorded music, if you wanted music, you had to make it yourself.”

Photo by Michael Wilson With some songs, the original recording isn’t entirely compelling, but the song itself — the structure, the melody, the lyric — almost demands to be teased out and given attention. “Shenandoah,” Stone says, appears in the archives as a rendition by a retired sea captain, recorded in Staten Island in 1939.

For the Lomax Project, the song is transformed. It opens like an ethereal ballad, with margaret glaspy’s vocals only loosely accompanied at the start. Soon, instruments join in, and a counterpoint emerges between the euphoric bounce of Stone’s banjo and the sweeping laments of brittany haas’ fiddle. It’s at once jubilant and bittersweet.

Stone and his collaborators made “Shenandoah,” “Hey Lolly Lolly Lo” and other Lomax recordings their own. The songs are still familiar, recognizable as traditional tunes with

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rich histories, but they also reflect the tastes and personalities of the people playing them at the time.

“That’s what I think the folk tradition is all about,” Stone says. “You get handed this dented little baton and you get to carry it around for your lifetime, and work it and rework it, and then pass it along.” X

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LGBT Night with Beth Sacks

The Employee Handbook Revision Committee Offices are havens of productivity where logic triumphs, order prevails and any incidental inefficiencies quickly succumb to the momentum of forward progress. If the previous sentence had any effect on your brow line (or your gut reflex), consider yourself among the target audience for local playwright Lucia Del Vecchio’s latest comedy The Employee Handbook Revision Committee. Her office-based story follows a new hire, the boss’s volatile niece, a firebrand from human resources and other calculating, airheaded, aggressive or otherwise compromised workers as they set out to revise the employee manual. Put on by a cast of local actors, productions are at The Magnetic Theatre Thursdays to Saturdays, Oct. 1-24, at 7:30 p.m. (no performances Thursday and Friday, Oct. 8 and 9). $18/$21. themagnetictheatre.org. Image courtesy of Del Vecchio

Asheville’s LGBT Night event series may hop from venue to venue, but the goal remains constant: bringing a high-energy lineup with a big-city clubbing feel to Asheville’s LGBT community. An upcoming iteration, which serves as an after-party for the Blue Ridge Pride festival, kicks off with a kings-and-queens drag show featuring local talents Ashley Nicole Michaels, Harmony Blake and Victoria Grantty among others, plus Kenya Michaels of the TV series “RuPaul’s Drag Race.”

DJ Eric Scott (the themed-night’s founder) and DJ Stratos (12-year music man at Scandals) will also perform before a headlining set by internationally acclaimed house artist Beth Sacks takes over the stage shortly after midnight. Asheville Music Hall hosts the 18+ event Saturday, Oct. 3, at 9 p.m. $15. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo of Sacks courtesy of the artist

Beach House It’s back to the basics for frontwomen Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally of Beach House. In a media release, they say that the band’s momentum on the touring circuit “naturally drove us toward a louder, more aggressive place — a place further from our natural tendencies.” The musicians’ vocals and synth-y soundscapes retain their mystic quality on the new album, Depression Cherry, but drums take the back seat to a gentler final product.

The existential explorers call the LP “a color, a place, a feeling, an energy … that describes the place you arrive as you move through the endlessly varied trips of existence.” Beach House is performing those new, natureinspired meditations in more than 50 cities across the globe, including Asheville. Jessica Pratt opens the show at The Orange Peel Wednesday, Oct. 7, at 9 p.m. $25/$28. theorangepeel. net. Photo by Liz Flyntz 62

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Resonate: Asheville Organizer Liz Cox calls Resonate: Asheville’s fusion of science, wellness and spirituality “an incredible experiment in consciousness and culture.” The weekend gathering, which culminates with a full day of programming at New Mountain, covers myriad topics like the collective consciousness, intentional toning, science of sound, ancient chants, architecture of the universe and more. During one session, art veteran Charles Gilchrist will introduce attendees to the sacred geometry used in his mandalas before leading an openeyed mandala meditation. Other workshops, panels and talks can be as participatory as the individual desires. New Mountain hosts this meeting of minds Sunday, Oct. 4, from 11 a.m.-8 p.m. $20/$25. Pre-purchased tickets include admission to events at the Apeiron Center Friday and Saturday, Oct. 2 and 3, from 6-9 p.m. newmountainavl.com. Photo of Gilchrist courtesy of the artist mountainx.com

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• SU (10/4), 7:30pm - “I’m Proud of You Variety Show,” comedy. $12/$10 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B

music 5PM • FREE • RIVERMUSIC • friday octoBer 9 (pd.) RiverLink’s finale RiverMusic event features legendary funk master, Fred Wesley and the 7 piece New JB’s for an evening of funky excitement.

Opening is Asheville’s own Lyric and sacred steel gospel group, the Lee Boys. Come on out and enjoy great music, food, beer and wine on your river! african drum lessons at skinny Beats drum shoP (pd.) Sundays 2pm, Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. No experience necessary. Drums provided. $12/class. (828) 768-2826. www.skinnybeatsdrums.com AUSTRIA TO FRANCE • AN AFTERNOON OF chamBer music (pd.) Weber and Gounod performed by the Blue Ridge Orchestra Chamber Players: • Saturday, October 3, 3pm, St. Giles Chapel, Deerfield, 1617 Hendersonville Road, Asheville; • Sunday, October 4, 3pm, Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, One Edwin Place, Asheville. • Free admission; donations welcome. Further information: blueridgeorchestra.org caldwell community college 2855 Hickory Blvd., Hudson, 726-2200, cccti.edu • WE (10/7), noon - Faculty concert featuring David Smith. Free. Held on the Watauga Campus, Building W372.

‘young frankenstein’: Start getting in the spirit of Halloween at Asheville Community Theatre with its musical adaptation of Mel’ Brooks comedy film Young Frankenstein. The show will run Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. and Sundays at 2:30 p.m. from Oct. 2-25. Tickets are $25 for adults, $22 for seniors and students, and $15 for children. Photo courtesy of Asheville Community Theatre. (p. 65) art

Bearfootin’ PuBlic art walk 2015

auditions & call to artists

downtownhendersonville.org/bearfootin-public-artsiP and doodle (pd.) “Everyone leaves with a Painting” Sip your favorite drink and have fun painting. Ask about - Private Parties (Birthday, Anniversary, etc.) $25.00 with this AD. (828) 712-1288 asheville area arts council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • TU (10/6), 10am-noon - Artist Business Brainstorms: “Time Management Tools for Busy Entrepreneurs,” with Boomer Sassmann. Registration required. Free. asheville sister cities 33 Page Ave., ashevillesistercities.org • FR (10/2), 5:30-8pm - Memories of Mexico, photography exhibit of Mexican sister cities Valladolid and San Cristobal de las Casas. Free. asheville urBan landscaPe Project 447-4772, ashevilleurban.com, coleen55@gmail.com • TUESDAYS through (10/20), 9:30am-12:30pm - Plein air painting demonstrations by local professional artists. Held at Vance Birthplace, 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville

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walk-2015 • (10/1) through (10/23) - Exhibit of fiberglass out-

door bear sculptures. Free. Held along Main Street in Downtown Hendersonville n.c. arBoretum 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way, 665-2492, ncarboretum.org • Through SA (1/3) - The Robot Zoo, exhibit featuring

giant-size robots and interactive displays to teach biomechanics of animals. $12 per vehicle.

art/craft fairs

asheville community theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • MO (10/5) & TU (10/6) - Open call auditions for The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Contact for full guidelines and times. Free. st. mary’s ePiscoPal church 337 Charlotte St., 254-5836, stmarysasheville.org • Through FR (10/9) - Call for art/craft vendors for Christmas Craft Fair that will be held Nov. 21. Contact for guidelines and registration: jeanne@jeanneshair.com the writers’ workshoP 254-8111, twwoa.org • Through MO (11/30) - Submissions will be accepted for the 20th Annual Memoirs Contest. Contact for guidelines. $25.

arts council of henderson county 693-8504, acofhc.org

comedy

• SA (10/3) & SU (10/4), 10am-5pm - “Art on Main,”

fine art and craft show. Free to attend. Held on Main St. in Downtown Hendersonville.

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anam cara theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com

first BaPtist church of asheville 5 Oak St., 252-4781, fbca.net • TU (10/6), 12:05pm - “Bach’s Lunch,” 30-minute organ recital. Free. flat rock Playhouse downtown 125 S. Main St., Hendersonville, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • THURSDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/8) until (10/18), 8pm - Music on the Rock: The Music of Chicago. $25. olli at unca 251-6140, olliasheville.com • SU (10/4), 3pm - Sundays with BMC: Benjamin Sung (violin) and Benjamin Karp (cell0). Free. Held in the Reuter Center.

Pan harmonia 254-7123, pan-harmonia.org • SU (10/4), 3pm - The Asheville Baroque Concert Series: “Music for a While,” featuring guest soprano Margaret Carpenter. $20/$15 advance/$5 student.   Held at Oakley United Methodist Church, 607 Fairview Road smoky mountain center for the Performing arts 1028 Georgia Road., Franklin, 524-1598, greatmountainmusic.com • FR (10/2), 7:30pm - Travis Tritt, country. $35. song o’sky chorus • SA (10/3), 3pm - “LAFF IN!” Musical spin off of on an old show. $15/students free. Held at AC Reynolds High School, 1 Rocket Drive

st. matthias church 1 Dundee St., 285-0033, stmatthiasepiscopal.com • SU (10/4), 3pm - Sue Yingling (piano), Brent Yingling (violin) and Ron Lambe (cello) play Clara Schummann and Mozart. Admission by donation. tryon fine arts center 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 859-8322, tryonarts.org • SA (10/3), 8pm - Annie Moses Band. $35/$12 student.

theater anam cara theatre 545-3861, anamcaratheatre.com • FR (10/2) & SA (10/3), 8pm - Accordion Time Machine presents Grown-Up Things. $15/$12 advance. Held at Toy Boat Community Art Space, 101 Fairview Road Suite B asheville community theatre 35 E. Walnut St., 254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS, SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS (10/2) through (10/25) - Young Frankenstein, musical. $25/$22 seniors & students/$15 children. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. diana wortham theatre 2 S. Pack Square, 257-4530, dwtheatre.com • SA (10/3), 8pm - The Passing Zone Saves the World, family friendly comedic action theatre. $38/$33 student/$20 child. flat rock Playhouse 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/1) through (10/25) - Pump Boys & Dinettes, musical theater. $15-$40. Wed., Thur., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm.

Wed. - Sat.: 8pm. olli at unca 251-6140, olliasheville.com • FR (10/2), 1:30pm - Behind the Scenes at NC Stage, presentation. Free. Held in the Reuter Center. the autumn Players 686-1380, www,ashevilletheatre.org, caroldec25@gmail.com • SA (10/3), 10am - General meeting. Free. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. All Souls Cathedral • SU (10/4), 7pm - “Freud’s Last Session.” Readers theatre and discussion. $8.

Held at 9 Swan St. theater at warren wilson college inside.warren-wilson.edu/blogs/theatre • TH (10/8) through SA (10/10), 7:30pm - Exit, Pursued by a Bear. $10. Held at Kittredge Theatre. theater at wcu 227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (10/1) until (10/3) - Pop! Who Shot Andy Warhol?, musical comedy. $21/$10 students. Thur. - Sat.: 7:30pm.

Sat.: 3pm. Held in Hoey Auditorium. theater at unca • TH (10/8) & FR (10/9) and WE (10/14) through FR(10/16) 7:30pm - UNCA student production of Fefu and Her Friends. $12/$7 student. Held at Homewood, 19 Zillicoa St.

G Al l ERY DI RECTO RY vessels of merriment (pd.) Grovewood Gallery in Asheville presents Vessels of Merriment, an intoxicating exhibition of handcrafted drinking vessels by 25 artists from around the country.

Opening reception October 3 (3 – 6pm). On view through December 31, 2015. Sponsored by Metro Wines and Noble Cider.

Nature, watercolor and ink paintings by Sandra Brugh Moore.

• TH (10/1) through SA (10/31) - Fall Light, exhibition featuring the oil landscapes of Judy Rentner. Opening reception: Oct. 2, 5-8pm.

310 art 191 Lyman St. #310, 776-2716, 310art.com • TH (10/1) through SU (12/15) - Openings, exhibit featuring gallery members. Opening Reception: Oct. 10, 3-5pm.

12 S. Lexington Ave., 505-8341, thebendergallery.com • FR (10/2) through MO (11/30) - Abstracted Movement, glass works by Karsten Oaks.

american folk art and framing 64 Biltmore Ave., 281-2134, amerifolk.com • TH (10/1) through TH (10/22) - The Myth, the Man & His Paintings, paintings of John “Cornbread” Anderson.

Artist’s Reception: Oct. 2, 5-8pm.

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

art at asu 262-3017, tcva.org • Through SA (12/19) - Photography by Endia Beal, multimedia art by Kirsten Stolle, and mixed media paintings by Ruth Ava Lyons. Artists’ reception: Nov. 6, 6-10pm. Held in the Turchin Center.

• FR (10/2) through SA (2/6) - At the Junction of Words & Pictures: The Tenth Anniversary of The Center for Cartoon Studies, exhibit features the artwork of CCS faculty, students, and alumni. Held in the Turchin Center Gallery. art at unca art.unca.edu • Through FR (10/30) - With a Mighty Hand: Torah Paintings + Abstraction, illustrations by Daniel Devins.

Held in Owen Hall.

• Through (10/15) - Hispanic Heritage Month Art Exhibition, with works by Victor Verde, Chris Corral and Victor Palomino. Held in the Highsmith Art Gallery. art at warren wilson college warren-wilson.edu Exhibits are held in Elizabeth Holden Art Gallery, unless otherwise stated.

• Through FR (10/9) - A Way of Working, weavings by Robin Johnston and the Warren Wilson Fiber Arts Crew.

Artists’ reception: Oct. 1, 5–7pm. art at wcu 227-3591, fineartmuseum.wcu.edu Held in the Bardo Fine Arts Center unless otherwise noted.

• Through FR (10/30) - Tomb to Taller: Maya Collection, exhibition of contemporary Maya artist books.

• SU (10/5) through TH (10/16) - MFA Thesis Exhibit: Laura Sellers.

• Through SU (5/8) - Unexpected Beauty: Views from the Lens of Steve McCurry, photography exhibition.

• Through SU (2/28) - INTERCONNECTED: Tangible Dualities, sculpture & assemblage by Joël Urruty.

• Through SU (1/10) - Nature … In High Definition, large

format aluminum prints by photographer Wink Gaines.

Bender gallery

Black mountain center for the arts

Artist reception: Nov. 6, 6-8pm.

odyssey cooPerative art gallery 238 Clingman Ave, 285-9700, facebook.com/odysseycoopgallery • Through WE (9/30) - Ceramic art of Barbara Quartrone and Dyann Myers.

• TH (10/1) through SA (10/31) - Exhibit featuring ceramic art by Anna Koloseike and Christine Sams.

Black mountain college museum & arts center

the center for craft, creativity & design

56 Broadway, 350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through TH (12/31) - Convergence/Divergence: Exploring Black Mountain College + Chicago’s New Bauhaus/Institute of Design, exhibition.

• Through SA (1/9) - Made in WNC, textile, furniture,

BlackBird frame & art 365 Merrimon Ave., 225-3117 • Through (10/31) - The Art of the Print, stone lithographs

by Vico Calabro and etchings by Graziella Da Gioz.

BuncomBe county PuBlic liBraries buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (10/1) through SA (10/31) - Nature’s Light, photographs of Chris and Bonnie Allen. Held at West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road

67 Broadway, 785-1357, craftcreativitydesign.org ceramics, and art exhibit exploring how craft, design, and production relate.

• TH (10/1) through TH (10/29) - Wood fired ceramics

installation by Daniel Johnston. Artist reception & talk: Oct. 1, 6pm.

the french Broad artists saharfakhoury@yahoo.com • Through WE (9/30) - Autumn plein air landscape paintings group show. Held at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St. transylvania community arts council 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard, 884-2787, tcarts.org • Through FR (10/16) - A Walk in the Woods, paintings

by Ray Byram and wood sculpture by Mark Gardner.

carlton gallery 10360 Highway 105 S., Banner Elk, 963-4288, carltonartgallery.com • Through SU (11/15) - Celebrating a Lifetime of Art, autumn group exhibition showcasing the work of Warren Dennis. chiesa restaurant 152 Montford Ave., 552-3110, chiesaavl.com • Through MO (11/23) - Asheville Urban Landscape Painters exhibit.

ymi cultural center 39 South Market St., 252-4614, ymicc.org • Through SA (11/7) - Americans Who Tell the Truth,

life sized portraits of American heroes and heroines by acclaimed artist Robert Shetterly. $10.

ZaPow! 21 Battery Park Suite 101, 575-2024, zapow.net • Through SU (10/11), Heroes and Villains!, a member artist group show.

hickory museum of art 243 3rd Ave. NE, Hickory, 327-8576

Contact the galleries for admission hours and fees.

asheville area arts council 1 Page Ave., 258-0710, ashevillearts.com • Through SA (10/31) - Connections, textile exhibit and sale produced by Local Cloth Inc. Opening reception: Oct. 2, 5-8pm. asheville Bookworks 255-8444, ashevillebookworks.com • Through WE (11/25) - PrintOcracy: PLAY!, printmaking portfolio exchange from artists across the country. Held at Asheville Bookworks, 428 1/2 Haywood Road • SA (10/3) through SA (10/31) - Colossal Cuts: Steamroller Prints, exhibition of large prints made with steamrollers. Free. Opening reception: Oct. 3, 4-6pm.

Held at Odd’s Cafe, 800 Haywood Road asheville gallery of art 16 College St., 251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through WE (9/30) - Renewal: Meditations on

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clubland wednesday, sePtemBer 30 185 king street 185 Movie Night, 7pm 5 walnut wine Bar Wine Tasting w/ Sean Gaskell (world), 5pm Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8pm altamont theatre Mikaela Davis w/ Lauren Shera (indie, folk, pop), 8pm asheville music hall The Brown Bag Songwriting Competition w/ Debrissa McKinney (all genres), 7:30pm Ben’s tune-uP Asheville Country Music Review w/ Town Mountain, The Honeycutters & John Stickley Trio, 5pm Black mountain ale house Play to Win game night, 7:30pm Blue mountain PiZZa & Brew PuB Open mic, 7pm dirty south lounge Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm douBle crown Classic Country w/ DJs Greg Cartwright, David Gay, Brody Hunt, 10pm foggy mountain BrewPuB John and Zack (Americana), 9pm funkatorium John Hartford Jam (folk, bluegrass), 6:30pm good stuff Karaoke!, 7pm grind cafe Trivia night, 7pm highland Brewing comPany Woody Wood Wednesdays (rock, soul), 5:30pm iron horse station Kevin Reese (Americana), 6pm isis restaurant and music hall The Cheeksters (pop, rock, soul), 7pm jack of the wood PuB Old-time session, 5pm Honky-tonk dance party w/ Hearts Gone South, 9pm

muddy melodies: Hailing from the street corners of Portland, Maine, Muddy Ruckus blends Americana and rock ’n’ roll in a sonic explosion that belies its minimalist ethos. Maine Today magazine describes the duo’s music as “[touching] on the sacred, hint[ing] at the profane and encapsulat[ing] everything in between, all to the sound of an infectiously toe-tapping backbeat.” Muddy Ruckus brings its stripped down folk-rock to The Root Bar in Swannanoa on Friday, Oct. 2 starting at 8 p.m.

laZy diamond Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10pm lex 18 Patrick Lopez Experience (modern, Latin jazz), 7pm

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loBster traP Ben Hovey (dub-jazz, trumpet), 6:30pm

one stoP deli & Bar Lip sync karaoke, 10pm

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mountain mojo coffeehouse Open mic, 6:30pm

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noBle kava Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert, 9pm

one world Brewing Billy Litz (Americana, singer-songwriter), 8pm

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o.henry’s/the underground “Take the Cake” Karaoke, 10pm odditorium A Cinematographer’s Party (indie, country, rock), 9pm off the wagon Piano show, 9pm olive or twist Intermediate swing dance lessons w/ Bobby Wood, 7pm Beginning swing dance lesson w/ Bobby Wood, 7:30pm 3 Cool Cats (vintage rock), 8pm

Pisgah Brewing comPany Wilhelm Bros CD release (folk, Americana), 6pm PulP Rad Lou (rock, soul, punk), 9pm rejavanation cafe Open mic night, 6pm room ix Fuego: Latin night, 9pm root Bar no. 1 Scrapyard (rock), 9pm scully’s Sons of Ralph (bluegrass), 6pm

Black mountain ale house Bluegrass jam w/ The Big Deal Band, 8pm Bogart’s restaurant & tavern Eddie Rose & Highway Forty (bluegrass), 6:30pm

orange Peel Dawes w/ John Moreland (folk, indie, rock), 9pm oskar Blues Brewery Eric Congdon (Americana, blues), 6pm Pack’s tavern Hope Griffin Duo (acoustic folk), 9pm Pisgah Brewing comPany Trampled By Turtles w/ Dr. Dog (indie, folk, rock), 7:30pm renaissance asheville hotel Maddy Winer (jazz, pop), 6:30pm room ix Throwback Thursdays (all vinyl set), 9pm sanctuary Brewing comPany Matt Jackson (acoustic covers), 7pm

crow & quill Carolina Catskins (ragtime jazz), 9pm

sly grog lounge Open mic (musicians, poets, comedians & more welcome), 8pm

foggy mountain BrewPuB The Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock), 9pm

tallgary’s at four college Electric blues open mic w/ Gentle Jones, 7pm

isis restaurant and music hall Noah Larssen (singer-songwriter, rock, blues), 5:30pm Jayme Stone’s Lomax Project (Americana, Appalachian, folk), 8:30pm

the southern Throwdown Thursday w/ Jim Raves & Nex Millen (DJ, dance party), 10pm

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peacock 10/11 alice & peter mulvey

Aldridge, 10/13 Hannah David Mayfield &

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the mothlight Lush Agave w/ Absolute Fantasy, Chiffon & ELON (experimental, classical, electronic), 9:30pm

8PM dooRs

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10/6

sol Bar new mountain Dank (earth rock, space funk), 8pm sPring creek tavern Open Mic, 6pm

good stuff Rural Academy Theater on the island (film, performance art, puppetry), 8pm

Blind Boy Paxton + The Down Hill Stugglers

scandals nightcluB Miss Blue Ridge Pride Pageant, 9pm

elaine’s dueling Piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

french Broad Brewery Season3 (indie, jam), 6pm

Gangstagrass + Grand ole’ ditch

7PM dooRs

one world Brewing Sarah Tucker (singer-songwriter, rock, folk), 8pm

cluB eleven on grove Tango lessons & practilonga w/ Tango Gypsies, 7pm Swing lessons & dance w/ Swing Asheville, 7:30pm

douBle crown 33 and 1/3 Thursdays w/ DJs Devyn & Oakley, 10pm

10/4

8PM dooRs

one stoP deli & Bar Phish ’n’ Chips (Phish covers), 6pm

7PM dooRs

Barley’s taProom AMC Jazz Jam, 9pm

olive or twist Dance lesson w/ Ian & Karen, 8pm DJ (oldies, Latin, line dance), 8:30pm

8PM dooRs

altamont theatre Cheryl Wheeler w/ Don Henry (folk, country), 8pm

Willie Watson

8PM dooRs

5 walnut wine Bar Lyric (acoustic soul), 8pm

off the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

7PM dooRs

thursday, octoBer 1

10/3

odditorium Dr. Sketchy Presents, 6:30pm

7PM dooRs

wild wing cafe south Skinny Wednesdays w/ J Luke, 7pm

Dex Romweber + Red Honey

A Very Special Evening with jerry joseph & the jack-mormons + patrick sweany

8PM dooRs

tressa’s downtown jaZZ and Blues Blues & soul jam w/ Al Coffee & Da Grind, 8:30pm

FRI

trailhead restaurant and Bar Acoustic jam w/ Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, old-time, folk), 6pm

10/2

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town PumP Open mic w/ Parker Brooks, 9pm

odd’s cafe Edibles, Audibles & Applaudables w/ Brian Claflin (Americana), 7pm

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

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

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tiger mountain Flux (’80s & ’90s dance party), 10pm

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the southern Disclaimer Comedy open mic, 9pm

new mountain theater/ amPhitheater Cornmeal w/ Soldier’s Heart (progressive bluegrass, jamgrass), 8pm

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the Phoenix Jazz night, 8pm

market Place Ben Hovey (dub jazz, beats), 7pm

FRI

the mothlight Gnarl Scar w/ Pallor & Veldt Chasm (metal, rock), 9:30pm

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

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the joint next door Bluegrass jam, 8pm

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lex 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 6:30pm Michael Andersen (honky-tonk piano), 10pm

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tallgary’s at four college Open mic & jam, 7pm

juBilee community church Tim Freke (author, lecture), 7pm

TUE

sol Bar new mountain World Wednesdays, 8pm

jack of the wood PuB Bluegrass jam, 7pm

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sly grog lounge Word Night (trivia-ish), 8pm Cards Against Humanity Game Night, 10pm

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timo’s house Dance Party w/ DJ Franco Nino, 10pm

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town PumP Jeremiah (blues, rock), 9pm

jerusalem garden Middle Eastern music & bellydancing, 7pm

trailhead restaurant and Bar Cajun & western swing jam w/ Steve Burnside, 7pm

laZoom Bus tours Pleasure Chest (rock ‘n’ roll), 2pm

tressa’s downtown jaZZ and Blues The Westsound Revue (Motown, soul), 9pm

13 TV’S, Football, Burgers, Pizza, an d Beer!

twisted laurel Karaoke, 8pm

THU. 10/1 Hope Griffin Duo

FRI. 10/2

market Place The Sean Mason Trio (groove, jazz, funk), 7pm

wild wing cafe Throwin’ Down Thursday w/ DJ Ramin, 5pm

moe’s original BBq woodfin The Free Flow Funk Band, 12pm

wxyZ lounge at aloft hotel Russ Wilson & Friends (swing), 7:30pm

DJ OCelate

(pop, dance hits)

friday, octoBer 2

SAT. 10/3 The Daniel Martin Band (rock&roll)

Community Night featuring MANNA Food Bank and music

by Woody Wood

5 walnut wine Bar Coconut Cake (jazz, rhumba), 9pm

odditorium Paakii (Finnish punk), 9pm

athena’s cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

off the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

Back yard Bar Karaoke w/ Get Vocal Entertainment, 9pm

one stoP deli & Bar Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam (jam), 5pm

Boiler room Rebirth 24 w/ DJ Luis Armando (electronic dance music), 10pm

Pisgah Brewing comPany Virginia & The Slims (swing, jazz), 8pm

douBle crown DJ Greg Cartwright (garage & soul obscurities), 10pm dugout Mojomatic (blues, funk, rock), 9pm

Tasting Room is closed for private event

elaine’s dueling Piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm

Sun • October 4 Reggae Sunday –

foggy mountain BrewPuB The Krektones (surf rock), 10pm french Broad Brewery Sidecar Honey (rock), 6pm

1:00pm

Tue • October 6 Meadow open!

good stuff Dallas Danger (roots, folk, punk), 8pm grey eagle music hall & tavern Dex Romweber & Red Honey w/ Daydream Creatures (rockabilly, rock, blues), 9pm

Tasting Room is closed for private event

isis restaurant and music hall An evening w/ Slaid Cleaves (folk), 7pm Randall Bramblett CD release (folk rock, pop, acoustic), 9pm jack of the wood PuB The Singing Butcher w/ Matt Townsend & the Wonder of the World (Americana, folk, country), 5pm The Phantom Playboys w/ The Blind Owl Band (surfabilly, ’50s rock ’n’ roll, string music), 8pm

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oskar Blues Brewery West End String Band (bluegrass), 6pm Pack’s tavern DJ OCelate (dance hits, pop), 9pm

crow & quill Blue Ribbon Healers (folk, old-time, ragtime jazz), 9pm

Sat • October 3 Meadow open with David Earl & The Plowshares, 7:00 pm

orange Peel SOJA w/ J Boog (reggae, rock), 9pm

Blue mountain PiZZa & Brew PuB Acoustic Swing, 7pm

cork & keg The Gypsy Swingers (jazz, Latin, ’30s pop), 8:30pm

Fri • October 2 Porch 40, 7:00pm

noBle kava An evening w/ Earth Medicine (electrocoustic, ambient, improv), 8:30pm o.henry’s/the underground Drag Show, 12:30am

Black mountain ale house Hustle Souls Duo (soul, alt-country), 7:30pm

Wed • September 30

new mountain theater/ amPhitheater The Polish Ambassador w/ The Human Experience (funk, electronic), 5pm Official TPA afterparty w/ Wildlight & Ayla Nero (indie rock, pop), 10pm

185 king street Noche Latina, 7pm

Ben’s tune-uP Woody Wood (acoustic, folk, rock), 5pm

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lex 18 Ray Biscoglia Duo (jazz standards), 6:30pm Lenny Pettinelli (pop, jazz), 9pm

white horse Black mountain David Roth (singer-songwriter), 7:30pm

wild wing cafe south Live DJ, 9pm

(acoustic folk)

laZy diamond Sonic Satan Stew w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10pm

root Bar no. 1 Muddy Ruckus (rock), 9pm sanctuary Brewing comPany Letters To Abigail (Americana), 7pm scandals nightcluB Zumba Fitness in Da Club w/ Be Bad Hip Hop, 7pm DJ dance party & drag show, 10pm scully’s DJ, 10pm sly grog lounge TOLO (soul, funk, rock ’n’ roll), 10pm tallgary’s at four college Unit 50 (rock), 9:30pm the admiral Hip Hop dance party w/ DJ Warf, 11pm the mothlight GGsIE w/ æsc CPI, Michael Flannigan & Andy Loebs (improv, synth, percussion), 9:30pm the social Steve Moseley (acoustic), 6pm tiger mountain Dark dance rituals w/ DJ Cliffypoo, 10pm town PumP The Jonny Monster Band (rock), 9pm twisted laurel Live DJ, 11pm white horse Black mountain Rod Abernethy & Bob Hinkle (folk, country, bluegrass), 8pm

wild wing cafe south A Social Function (acoustic), 9:30pm

market Place DJs (funk, R&B), 7pm

wxyZ lounge at aloft hotel Zapato (funk, jazz fusion, groove), 8pm

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

ZamBra Zambra Jazz Trio, 8pm

new mountain theater/ amPhitheater Moose Kick w/ Psylo Joe & Dr. Bacon (rock ’n’ roll), 9pm

saturday, octoBer 3 5 walnut wine Bar Riyen Roots & Kenny Dore (blues, roots), 6pm The Phantom Playboys (swinging rockabilly), 9pm asheville music hall LGBT Pride Party w/ DJ Eric Scott, DJ Stratos & Beth Sacks (dance), 9pm

noBle kava An evening w/ The Kavalactones, Caleb Beissert & Max Melner (electro-coustic, improv), 8:30pm odditorium The Chickenhawks w/ Jacques Le Coque (rock), 9pm off the wagon Dueling pianos, 9pm

athena’s cluB Dave Blair (folk, funk, acoustic), 7pm

olive or twist 42nd Street Band (big band jazz), 8pm Dance party (hip-hop, rap), 11pm

Back yard Bar Back Yard House Band (variety), 9pm

one stoP deli & Bar Cranford Hollow (Americana), 10pm

Ben’s tune-uP Gypsy Guitars, 2pm

orange Peel Emancipator Ensemble w/ Wax Tailor & Yppah (electronica, trip-hop, ambient), 9pm

Boiler room Blue Ridge Pride Celebration w/ DJ Barry Harris, DJ Hugo & DJ Rexxstep, 8pm cluB eleven on grove Blue Ridge Pride Celebration w/ DJ Barry Harris, DJ Hugo & DJ Rexxstep, 8pm cork & keg An evening w/ Katy Moffatt (singer-songwriter), 8:30pm crow & quill Andrew Fletcher (ragtime piano), 10pm douBle crown Rock ’n’ Soul w/ DJs Lil Lorruh or Rebecca & Dave, 10pm dugout Flashback Sally (Southern rock), 9pm elaine’s dueling Piano Bar Dueling Pianos, 9pm foggy mountain BrewPuB Murmuration (funk, rock), 10pm french Broad Brewery Tina & Her Pony (indie, bluegrass), 6pm good stuff Lucky James (blues, jazz, folk), 8pm grey eagle music hall & tavern Willie Watson w/ Heather Maloney (bluegrass, folk), 9pm iron horse station The Wilhelm Brothers (folk rock), 7pm isis restaurant and music hall An evening w/ Maybe April (indie, folk, country), 7pm Miss Tess & the Talkbacks w/ Raising Caine (roots, country, singer-songwriter), 9pm

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(254-1281) ant-man (pG-13) 7:00, 10:00 sHaun tHe sHeep movie (pG) 1:00, 4:00

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black mass (r) 11:05, 1:40, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 everest 3d (pG-13) 11:30, 5:05, 10:25 everest 2d (pG-13) 2:15, 7:45 Grandma (r) 12:20, 2:20, 4:15, 6:15, 8:10, 10:10 tHe Green inFerno (r) 2:30, 4:55, 7:35, 10:15 Hotel transylvania 2 3d (pG) 1:00, 5:15, 9:40 Hotel transylvania 2 2d (pG) 11:00, 3:00, 7:00 tHe intern (pG-13) 12:05, 2:45, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 maze runner: tHe scorcH trials (pG-13) 12:30, 3:20, 6:10, 9:05 tHe martian 3d (pG-13) 3:00, 9:00 tHe martian 2d (pG-13) 12:00, 12:55, 2:00, 4:00, 5:00, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00 pawn sacriFice (pG-13) 11:25, 2:10, 4:45, 7:40 sHaGHai (r) 12:10 sicario (r) 11:20, 2:05, 4:40, 7:25, 10:05 sleepinG witH otHer people (r) 12:15, 2:55, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35 tHe visit (pG-13) 10:20 p.m. a walk in tHe woods (r) 11:35, 1:50, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30

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Alison Brie and Jason Sudeikis in Leslye Headland’s stylish — and very R-rated — Sleeping with Other People, a witty, smart movie that can’t quite subvert its rom-com roots, but has much to offer.

sleeping with other People HHHH Director: Leslye Headland (Bachelorette)

classic terms with two characters who decide to be “just friends.”

Players: Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Amanda Peet, Jason Mantzoukas, Adam Scott

the lowDown: Smart, lively, funny, raunchy, blessed with two terrific leads and a writer-director with real style.

Downside: It can’t entirely escape its rom-com tendencies.

romantic comeDy Rated R the story: Modern romance in

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It is said that writer-director Leslye Headland has a tattoo on her wrist reading, “How would Lubitsch do it?” (The same query used to hang on Billy Wilder’s office wall.)

After watching Sleeping with Other People, I’m inclined to believe that — at least cinematically speaking — she has taken that daunting question to heart. Like the work of Ernst

Lubitsch, her film boasts a slyly amused, classically formal style with her camera always making the best move (it’s an incredibly fluid movie) or choosing the right composition to make it work. In fact, I watched the film twice just to appreciate the way it was made — and also to see if I could figure out why I didn’t quite love it.

That second look brought me closer to loving it, but it also brought home the suspicion that somewhere, on a perhaps less-exposed part of Ms. Headland’s anatomy, there must be an ode to Nora Ephron, who is more than a few rungs lower on the ladder of film than Herr Lubitsch.

It isn’t deadly, but it signals a more traditional (and less interesting) rom-com lurking beneath its sophisticated surface. There is something of a disconnect between a film that had earlier concluded a raunchy sex scene, with a witty inversion of Lubitsch’s trademark use of doors closing to comic effect, and one that rehashes the orgasm bit from When Harry Met Sally in a scene about masturbation. It’s not that the R-rated factor is so different from Lubitsch’s world (though it is), nor is it that the scene isn’t funny. It’s that the sophistication has become rather ordinary. That’s the central issue with Sleeping with Other People — it’s a witty, sophisticated, stylish film wrapped around a largely (but not entirely) basic romantic comedy.

The basic setup is fine. Jake (Jason Sudeikis) and Lainey (Alison Brie) have a more than usually volatile “meet-cute” back in 2002 when she — none-too-soberly — tries to rouse the unresponsive object of her ardor in Jake’s dorm room. (No, it’s not that easy to buy the nearly 40-yearold Sudeikis as a college student.)

One thing leads to another, and they end up losing their virginity to each other. Boy-meets-girl stuff. But he loses her immediately, and the film jumps ahead to the present day with pathologically unfaithful Jake being dumped by his current girlfriend, while Lainey kills a relationship by telling her boyfriend that she cheated on him — 16 times. It is this “lifestyle” that gives them a second meetcute at a sex-addiction meeting. One date, and they decide that the like each other too much to mess it up — as each is wont to do — by becoming romantically involved. How this will work out is obvious, but the trip is uncommonly enjoyable.

As things have worked out, Lainey is still hung up on Matthew Sobvechik (Adam Scott), the guy

who ignored her in the film’s opening and who is aptly summed up by Jake as having “all the charm of a broken Etch-a-Sketch.” Sobvechik is now an upscale, unlikable gynecologist who is still ignoring her — except when he texts her to have quick sex. The fact that it’s impossible to imagine why she’s all a-dither over him is actually a point in the film’s favor as concerns a sense of reality with the characters.

But the film has so many bright spots — and a few odd ones — that singling things out is hard.

The dialogue manages to be funny and insightful all at once (“No dude thinks like that — except Aaron Sorkin,” and “You actively stalked someone today. Your perception of normal might be a little skewed” ).

Sometimes it can be almost heartbreaking, as when Jake responds to the advice that he should let people really know him by saying, “I don’t think I like me enough to introduce him to other people.” There’s a marvelously giddy use of David Bowie’s “Modern Love” (yeah, Leos Carax and Noah Baumbach already used it, but not this way). A lot comes down to the performances. This is the first time I’ve really liked Sudeikis and the first time I actually noticed Brie. Truthfully, the whole cast is good, and it’s nice to see Amanda Peet get a really solid role. So, yes, there’s a certain rom-com basic to it. And, yes, its trajectory is obvious.

But the compensations are immense.

Rated R for strong sexual content, language including sexual references and some drug use.

Starts Friday at Carolina Cinemas and UA Beaucatcher. reviewed By ken hanke khanke@ mountainx.com

Hotel transylvania 2 HHS Director: Genndy Tartakovsky (Hotel Transylvania) Players: (Voices) Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg, Selena Gomez, Kevin James, Steve Buscemi, David Spade animateD horror comeDy Rated PG

the story: Dracula tries to bring out the vampire in his half-human grandson. the lowDown: If you saw the first film, you know what to expect. It’s a largely bland, extremely frantic animated horror comedy aimed at kids and Adam Sandler completists.

Here we have an essay in relativity.

You see, I didn’t think much of Hotel Transylvania 2 while I was watching it. For that matter, I still don’t, and I didn’t think much of the first one either. But about five minutes after Hotel Transylvania 2, I was watching The Green Inferno, and it wasn’t long till the good points of Hotel 2 shone out like a beacon. Or maybe not.

But it made me feel positively kindly toward the cartoon. Plus, the cartoon got two (intentional) chuckles out of me (both involving a GPS system with a Peter Lorre voice). In the bargain, I greatly enjoyed the folks on the IMDb message boards fretting over the possibility that Dracula’s daughter Mavis (Selena Gomez) and her fellow, Jonathan (Andy Samberg), had an out-of-wedlock child and whether Mavis could even go into a church.

(It seems to bother no one that Mavis doesn’t have a pulse.) Does this mean I’m recommending Hotel 2? Only as an alternative to The Green Inferno.

Otherwise — as Bela is my witness — no, I am not.

Basically, this is your average, undistinguished CG-animation — except with classic horror characters reconfigured for the ... er ... talents of Adam Sandler (as Dracula) and his coterie of friends. That they are less annoying in disembodied form is a marginal improvement.

You still have to spend 90 minutes with Sandler doing a bad Lugosi impression. In other words, it’s not entirely unlike 90 minutes with Count Chocula. Bear that in mind.

The whole film is about Dracula desperately trying get his halfhuman grandson to show his monster side by sprouting fangs and learning how to fly so that Mavis won’t take the kid to Santa Cruz to live among “normal” people. (And you can relax — nuptials take place, and a full year elapses before this child is born, so the fabric of society is not challenged. That they aren’t exactly a same-species couple is no concern of mine.) That’s pretty much it, though it’s festooned with mediocre jokes and so-so animated slapstick shenanigans — not to mention Mel Brooks as a distinctly Borscht Belt Grandpa Vlad. I’d say — based

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on the audience I saw it with — it’s the sort of thing that will entertain the kids. Their parents did not seem displeased, and it is, I admit, largely painless. Now, having said that, I notice a Canadian critic writing about the terror-stricken children in the audience he saw it with.

I grant you that, when I was five (1959-ish), it would have scared me, but I tend to think of today’s youth as more jaded than I was back then.

Watching the audience file into this movie prompted me to tell my wife, “See? Having a movie critic for a husband is like having a small child. You still have to go see things like this.” I can, however, guarantee you that this downside of her life paled into insignificance one movie later. Even critics’ hapless wives are subject to relativity. Rated PG for some scary images, action and rude humor.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher. reviewed By ken hanke khanke@ mountainx.com

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START I N G FR I DAY The Martian Ridley Scott may or may not have regained his critical status with The Martian, but he’s likely got a hit on his hands.

The early word was very strong, and this sci-fi yarn with Matt Damon stranded on Mars does have a raft of positive early reviews, but at this point, the most powerful critics have yet to way in. It doesn’t matter much, though, since this is almost certainly fated to be the week’s big movie (though the expansion of Sicario ought to worry it a bit), and with it, the fall movie season has arrived.

(PG-13)

Sicario Denis Villeneuve’s Sicario is a daunting competitor for the week’s big movie — an unexpected wild card almost. The director is best known for art films, but this (like Prisoners) promises to be a crossover.

It opened on 59 screens last weekend and exploded with an average of $30,000 a screen.

That’s very impressive. It, too, comes with a lot of good reviews (a lot of them heavy hitters). What is Sicario exactly? The studio says: “In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent (Emily Blunt) is enlisted by an elite government task-force official (Josh Brolin) to aid in the escalating war against drugs.

Led by an enigmatic consultant with a questionable past (Benicio Del Toro), the team sets out on a clandestine journey forcing Kate to question everything that she believes in order to survive.” (R)

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The Green Inferno S Director: Eli Roth Players: Lorenza Izzo, Ariel Levy, Aaron Burns, Kirby Bliss Blanton, Magda Apanowicz, Daryl Sabara cannibal horror Rated R The Story: South American cannibal tribe eats American environmentalists.

The Lowdown: Trashy, boring, stupid — and on the fast track to worst movie of 2015.

I encounter more than my share of donkey crap movies over the course of the year — even with palming some off on other reviewers. That is nothing new, nor is it even unusual (see The Visit from a couple weeks back).

What is unusual is to find a movie that earns the phrase “I hate this movie” — simply because a lousy movie strikes me as a waste of such a powerful emotion. Eli Roth’s The Green Inferno has no trouble being on the receiving end of that rare accolade. None at all.

Now, before Mr. Roth gets all pleased with himself for having outraged or offended or nauseated me — or whatever emotional response he was after — let me set the record straight. I was not outraged, offended or nauseated.

No, mostly I was bored beyond human endurance, cheesed over having wasted my afternoon and slightly embarrassed by being a member of the same species as the makers of this extract of cinematic effluvia. I once denounced a Nicolas Cage movie as a “moose fellation party.” This is more like a moose fellation orgy — but with entrails.

As I had expected, The Green Inferno was about a bunch of people you never heard of (and Daryl Sabara — generally known as “that boy from Spy Kids”) being eaten by a bunch of extras you never heard of. Of course, since it was made by the king of torture porn, Eli Roth, the entrées are subjected to various indignities involving humiliation and torture. In Roth’s world, this passes for characterization. There’s also some kind of attempt at a story — or at least a situation that puts these folks on the bill of fare at the Cannibal Hilton.

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HHHHH = max rating practices are inimical to good fellowship. It’s a toss-up as to whether Roth’s sneering attitude toward environmentalist activists or his 1950s jungle-movie view of Peruvian Indians is more repugnant. The fact that none of this can be taken seriously perhaps makes it not matter very much.

The film’s actual raison d’être of course is to shock and horrify the viewer. At least, I can only assume that’s the idea, because the movie is never even slightly scary — it’s simply gross, confusing the merely repellent with the horrific. I suppose that The Green Inferno might prove shocking — even a real stomach-churner (assuming that can be considered desirable) — for someone who has never encountered this kind of bath-full-of-bloodand-a-bucket-of-giblets moviemaking.

However, at this point in time — over 40 years after The Exorcist and Flesh for Frankenstein and over 50 years after the gore-sploitation drive-in fodder of Herschell Gordon Lewis — what horror movie maven is likely to be even slightly startled? Hell, the business of cutting out an eye and eating it dates back to 1934’s exploitation “classic” Maniac, though there it was cat’s eye (or more correctly, a grape masquerading as one). Tormenting a victim by covering them with something sweet and staking them to an ant mound is older than movies. The idea that all this is an homage to 1980’s Cannibal Holocaust — perhaps the movie least in need of such a thing — excuses nothing.

Throwing in a little female genital mutilation is perhaps a new wrinkle, but not one we needed or wanted — and it’s so vaguely depicted that we only know what’s going on because of a college lecture in the movie’s interminable opening scenes. There’s also a dumb wanking gag that makes little sense. There’s an even dumber bit involving distracting the cannibals by shoving a small bag of marijuana down the throat of a soon-to-be-roasted victim. Yeah, it gets them high, but it also gives them the munchies — with predictable results. The less said about the diarrhea business (talk about Montezuma’s revenge!) the better. Is all this repulsive? Of course it is. Is any of it scary or entertaining? Not in the least. The only scary thing here is that since The Green Inferno has been gathering dust since 2013, we are down for another Eli Roth movie — Knock Knock — in two weeks. Looks like another wasted afternoon is soon to be mine. On the plus side, it can hardly be worse than this thing. Rated R for aberrant violence and torture, grisly disturbing images, brief graphic nudity, sexual

content, language and some drug use.

Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Cinemas, Epic of Hendersonville. reviewed by Ken Hanke khanke@ mountainx.com

The Intern H

Director: Nancy Meyers Players: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo, Anders Holm, Andrew Rannells dramatic comedy Rated PG The Story: A bored, lonely retiree gets an internship at a Brooklyn startup.

The Lowdown: A wandering, cheesy, maddeningly treacly tale of people feeling good about themselves. Pure pap.

Writer-director Nancy Meyers is a maniac. And not in the good, fun way. In a sort of middle-American, incredibly bland, yet abhorrently overbearing kind of way, like a tidal wave of mayonnaise washing over you. Her latest, The Intern, is fully in line with her general aesthetic (no one ever said auteur theory meant the movies would be good) of a plot centered around affluent white people, a running time at least 20 minutes too long and a title no one can seem to remember. I still remember working at the Carmike 12 years ago and moviegoers calling Something’s Gotta Give (2003) “The Jack Nicholson.” She’s aggressively dull, bringing vapidity to heights no other filmmaker’s quite scaled.

From the first scene, it’s obvious that The Intern is going to be something special. Sitting in front of a camcorder is Ben (Robert De Niro), a lonely, bored, widowed retiree, who’s applying for an internship focused on bringing in experienced senior citizens with too much time on their hands to work with an upand-coming online clothing retailer.

Here, he espouses some wisdom on hard work and gives his most sincere reasons for wanting to have a place to work at and fit in during his twilight years. It’s the kind of maudlin junk that’ll give you cavities and also

features perhaps the worst acting in De Niro’s career. And this is a guy who’s spent the better part of two decades cashing paychecks. It’s magnificent how bad he can be in just a couple minutes of screen time.

After this, things settle down into a lukewarm miasma of vague, solvable problems. Ben gets his internship and quickly gets assigned to Jules (Anne Hathaway, who’s actually pretty good — which just makes De Niro look worse), the overworked founder behind the company. She’s immediately put off by Ben because, since she doesn’t get along with her mother, she can’t stand the elderly.

Meyers’ strong suit obviously isn’t character motivation, but we do what we can. Slowly, Ben ingratiates himself not only into the lives of the 20-somethings he works with — giving sage advice and hearty friendship — but into Jules’ stressful personal life, too. He’s sort of a magic old man, here to teach all these kids a thing or two about life with all kinds of hoary nonsense.

The entire film feels like one big smirk, as Meyers gets to philosophize on the decline of the American male and their lack of suits (ignoring the fact that Ben dresses like a church usher) and padding the film with a lot of extraneous set pieces.

There are chunks of the movie that could be shorn off (like a whole idiotic escapade where Ben and friends break into a house). Not because they’re pointless, but because they’re just not good. It’s all just so painfully

corny and middlebrow and innocuously inoffensive that The Intern manages to circle the earth and become offensive — at least as concerns the idea of good taste, and it’s definitely not the kind of thing to be taken seriously.

Rated PG-13 for some suggestive content and brief strong language.

Playing at Carolina Cinemas, Co-ed of Brevard, Epic of Hendersonville, Flatrock Cinema, Regal Biltmore Grande, UA Beaucatcher.

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reviewed By justin souther jsouther@mountainx.com

film BuncomBe county PuBlic liBraries buncombecounty.org/governing/depts/library Free unless otherwise noted.

• SA (10/3), 2pm - Jeepers Creepers Film Series: Night of the Hunter. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TH (10/8), 6:15pm - Documentary Film Series: Resurrect Dead: The Mystery of the Toynbee Tiles. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road film at unca 251-6585, unca.edu • WE (9/30), 6pm - “Created Equal: America’s Civil Rights Struggle,” documentary series.

Free. Held in the Highsmith Union Grotto. wnc film society wncfilmsociety.com • TU (10/6), 7pm - Film Screening and discussion of Of Mind and Music. $12/$10 advance.

Held at Grace Center, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River

Orson Welles in Carol Reed’s classic The Third Man is playing from a brand new 4K restoration for one show only on at 8 p.m. Wed., Sept. 30 at The Carolina. Tickets are $6 for Asheville Film Society members and $8 General Admission.

out of this world: The Asheville Popcorn Movie Group will see The Martian, starring Matt Damon, at the Carolina Cinemas Friday, Oct. 9. A discussion at a nearby restaurant follows the screening. Photo courtesy of Twentieth Century Fox Twice a month, the Asheville Popcorn Movie Group gathers at a local theater to watch a new release and then discuss the film over a meal at a nearby restaurant. The Meetup.com group began in May 2009 as a way to have fun, discuss movies and meet new people.

“We have regular attendees that you get to know as friends,” says maria w., the group organizer.

“Members often feel the discussion is as fun as seeing the movie.”

Most attendees are from Asheville, but others travel from surrounding counties. Nearly all of them are also members of other Meetup groups and discovered the Popcorn Movie Group through a search on the social website.

To join, a person must first create a free Meetup profile. On the Movie Group page is a “Join Us” button to request membership, which brings up a short questionnaire and a prompt to read the group guidelines. Once the form is completed and submitted, Maria W. can approve the request.

Meetups are scheduled on Friday nights, late Saturday afternoons or midday Sundays to encourage maximum participation. The Carolina Cinemas, Regal Biltmore Grande and Carmike are the most frequented theaters due to ease of scheduling and parking, but meetups also occur at Beaucatcher and the Fine Arts Theatre. The group also has one to

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two potluck parties per year at a member’s home.

In choosing what to see, Maria W. listens to member requests and researches new releases. The group saw Black Mass at Carmike on Sept.

26 and will see the The Martian on Friday, Oct. 9, at the Carolina, tentatively at 7 p.m. Future titles of interest include Bridge of Spies, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Part 2 and Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

“I try to keep things varied from action, sci-fi, comedy, drama, love stories, etc.,” says Maria W. “We usually don’t see hardcore horror, but we did see Mad Max.” Once the film concludes, the 12 members who’ve signed up for the post-film discussion are asked to save their comments until after the food order is placed at the restaurant. To best hear one another, they try to sit no more than six to eight people to a table, which occasionally necessitates multiple groups. Maria W. often starts the discussion, but all members share the floor and allow one another to speak, keeping the talk focused on the film. Afterward, there is often further discussion online so that those unable to attend — including some members who have moved away but wish to stay connected to the group — may chime in.

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A Man of No Importance HHHHS Director: Suri Krishnamma Players: Albert Finney, Brenda Fricker, Rufus Sewell, Michael Gambon, Tara Fitzgerald, David Kelly COMEDY-DRAMA Rated R Suri Krishnamma’s A Man of No Importance (1994) is one of those marvelous little movies that almost no one knows. It came out on VHS and laserdisc and was played frequently on the Sundance Channel back in the 1990s (with the unenticing plot synopsis, “A Dublin bus conductor tries to stage Oscar Wilde’s Salome in 1963”) and then promptly vanished. Considering the cast, that’s even more curious. Perhaps the problem lies with that old plot synopsis. Yes, it is about a Dublin bus conductor, Alfie Byrne (Albert Finney), trying to stage Wilde’s Salome in a church parish hall. But it’s considerably more than that as well. The synopsis doesn’t bother to mention that Alfie feels a special kinship with Wilde because he’s a closeted gay man — something that not even his sister (Brenda Fricker) or his supposed good friend Ivor J. Carney (Michael Gambon) know. Moreover, he’s a middle-aged closeted gay man who has never had any kind of relationship and is hopelessly in love with young bus driver Robbie Fay (Rufus Sewell).

He’s also an innocent and innately good man, who takes a young woman, Adele (Tara Fitzgerald), under his wing as his Salome. The Asheville Film Society will screen A Man of No Importance Tuesday, Oct. 6, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

A Nightmare on Elm Street HHHHH Director: Wes Craven Players: Heather Langenkamp, Ronee Blakley, John Saxon, Robert Englund, Johnny Depp, Amanda Wyss HORROR Rated R The Thursday Horror Picture Show starts its two-film tribute to the late Wes Craven with A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984), one of the classics of the modern horror film — and one of those that holds up best. It’s a film of surprising complexity — especially given its subtext about the fallout from vigilante justice and the corruption beneath the surface of picture-book normalcy (two years before David Lynch’s Blue Velvet) — that blew away audiences and the usually horror-resistant critics alike. It’s easy to see why, because Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) was such a radical departure from the slasher “characters” of that era. Along with Don Mancini’s Chucky, Craven’s Freddy was the only horror figure of the time who wasn’t almost wholly interchangeable with the others (Is there really any significant difference between Leatherface, Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees?).

Freddy had a personality and — at least in this initial outing — was scary as hell. Even today, the Freddy of the first film is unsettling, to say the least. The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen A Nightmare on Elm Street Thursday, Oct. 1, at 8 p.m. in Theater Six at The Carolina Asheville, hosted by Xpress movie critic Ken Hanke.

Jules et Jim HHHHH Director: François Truffaut Players: Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Marie Dubois DRAMA Rated NR Along with Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (1960), François Truffaut’s Jules et Jim (1962) is probably the essential French New Wave film — and it’s possibly even more essential than Breathless, since it had a greater impact on content.

Where Godard’s film was essential in defining the style of the New Wave movement, Truffaut’s defined both style and theme in ways that still seem fresh today — and, unlike many New Wave films, it never once threatens to become a parody of itself. The staples of French cinema from that era have been so parodied in the intervening years that the originals sometimes verge on unintentional comedy. Somehow — and I suspect it’s because the film is so generously alive — Jules et Jim has escaped that, despite the fact that iconic aspects of the movie have been parodied (Marie Dubois’ famous cigarette-smoking “steam engine,” for example). In essence, the film is little more than a love triangle concerning two young men — Jules (Oskar Werner) and Jim (Henri Serre) — who are both in love with the same girl, Catherine (Jeanne Morreau). But Truffaut takes all this to places such stories had almost never gone before. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Jules et Jim Friday, Oct. 2 at 8 p.m. at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 828-273-3332, www.ashevillecourtyard.com

Lost Horizon HHHH Director: Frank Capra Players: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Margo ADVENTURE FANTASY Rated NR Even in the early 1970s, when I was in high school and was really keen on Frank Capra because of his then-recent (and none-too-reliable, I later realized) autobiography, The Name Above the Title, I was never as fond of his Lost Horizon (1937) as I was supposed to be. Seeing it on a screen in college helped, but it all seemed a little too preachy and obvious — and, worst of all, lacking any real sense of mysticism or fantasy. I still feel that way — even more so in its “restored” version, with still photos for missing scenes grinding the whole thing to a halt every so often. This is not to say that the film is without merit or doesn’t deserve its classic movie status. The cast is first-rate — it’s hard to go wrong with Ronald Colman in the lead — and the production values have not lost their power to impress. Plus, the whole idea of the hidden world of Shangri-La, where life is extended, peace reigns and the finer things in the world are preserved, is hard to resist. (I’m sure it was even more appealing in a world edging toward World War II.) A classic, yes, but don’t expect much in the way of revelation. Just take it as a cozy fable from another time. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Lost Horizon Sunday,Oct. 4, 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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FREEwIll ASTROlOgY aries (march 21-april 19): The next seven weeks will NOT be a favorable time to fool around with psychic vampires and charismatic jerks. I recommend you avoid the following mistakes, as well: failing to protect the wounded areas of your psyche; demanding perfection from those you care about; and trying to fulfill questionable desires that have led you astray in the past. Now I'll name some positive actions you'd be wise to consider: hunting for skillful healers who can relieve your angst and aches; favoring the companionship of people who are empathetic and emotionally intelligent; and getting educated about how to build the kind of intimacy you can thrive on. taurus (april 20-may 20): You may have seen websites that offer practical tips on how to improve your mastery of life's little details. They tell you how to de-clutter your home, or how to keep baked goods from going stale, or why you should shop for shoes at night to get the best fit. I recently come across a humorous site that provides the opposite: bad life tips.

For instance, it suggests that you make job interviews less stressful by only applying for jobs you don't want.

Put your laptop in cold water to prevent overheating.

To save time, brush your teeth while you eat. In the two sets of examples I've just given, it's easy to tell the difference between which tips are trustworthy and which aren't. But in the coming days, you might find it more challenging to distinguish between the good advice and bad advice you'll receive. Be very discerning. gemini (may 21-june 20): On a windy afternoon last spring I was walking through a quiet neighborhood in Berkeley. In one yard there was a garden plot filled with the young green stems of as-yet unidentifiable plants.

Anchored in their midst was a small handwritten sign.

Its message seemed to be directed not at passers-by like me but at the sprouts themselves. "Grow faster, you little bastards!" the sign said -- as if the blooming things might be bullied into ripening. I hope you're smart enough not to make similar demands on yourself and those you care about, Gemini. It's not even necessary. I suspect that everything in your life will just naturally grow with vigor in the coming weeks. cancer (june 21-july 22): "I am rooted, but I flow," wrote Virginia Woolf in her novel The Waves.

That paradoxical image reminds me of you right now. You are as grounded as a tree and as fluid as a river. Your foundation is deep and strong, even as you are resilient in your ability to adapt to changing circumstances. This is your birthright as a Cancerian!

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Pisces (feb. 19-march 20): Pablo Neruda's Book of Questions consists entirely of 316 questions. It's one of those rare texts that makes no assertions and draws no conclusions. In this spirit, and in honor of the sphinx-like phase you're now passing through, I offer you six pertinent riddles: 1. What is the most important thing you have never done? 2. How could you play a joke on your fears? 3. Identify the people in your life who have made you real to yourself. 4.

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