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Asheville residents need more bang for our bucks The Sept. 26 Mountain Xpress has an article about leaf pickup and recycling, which states that Hendersonville “employs bagless collection, where citizens simply pile loose leaves curbside for pickup” [“Raking It In: Fallen Leaves Offer Great Garden Benefits”]. Wow — what a nice thing to do for its taxpaying residents. Oh wait, those of us paying outrageous Asheville city taxes used to have that. After City Council decided the trucks were too expensive, they gave us free bags we could pick up at fire stations to bag our own leaves, but that, too, was a benefit I guess deemed too costly and discontinued. This year, we get a new downtown police unit for about $1 million, which will, among other things, satisfy the hoteliers and tourists to make sure they are happy and safe while we get continued tax increases and bond payments along with less services. Where is the entity that has driven the increased temporary population and wear and tear of downtown? Oh, the TDA is spending almost $6 million to further advertise Asheville, which for those of us who have given up trying to enjoy downtown due to its overcrowding, seems like overkill. I am aware that

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their mission is to promote Asheville, but granting the city money to police/repair downtown among other things does not seem to be a bad idea, even though it is wishful thinking. I really wish Council would adjust their priorities and think of us who pay extra fees for our vehicles ($30), dog licenses ($10), chicken registration ($25) and so much more — the 2018 Fee Charges Manual is over 120 pages and is an interesting read. Yes, I am whining and have to accept the changes that have taken place over the 25 years I have lived here, but I would really appreciate a bit more bang for my buck. If we residents/taxpayers have to do more with less, then perhaps (and this is speculation) the city could reduce its ever-expanding budget and have the staff do what we are doing. — Larry Layton Asheville

The DOT must do better Thanks to Jay S. Gertz and Charmaine Strong for their letter concerning the “swath of death” as I call it, along River Road (N.C. 251) [“‘No’ to roadside herbicide spraying,” Sept. 26, Xpress]. I took and posted pictures of the eyesore on Facebook over the summer. I, too, felt extreme concern for the river and pollinators. Wild honeybees have disappeared from my flowering fruit trees in the spring over the last few years. I live in Alexander and drive 251 to Asheville to work. The swath is a good 6-8 feet wide on the cliff side and goes down toward the river on the other. They even sprayed directly above a horse barn. If that were my place, I’d be livid. Whatever the DOT sprayed with, it was superlethal, leaving a brown/gray band all along the road for miles. Only now, months later, are a few things starting to grow back. So whatever they used to kill all plant life so effectively for the whole summer can’t possibly be good for the river. We also have enough problems with rock and mudslides. And it’s just plain ugly. I have never seen the like in the 28 years I have lived out here. In a time when pollinators are in decline and environmental degradation high, surely the shredding mower can’t be that much more trouble (I hate that thing too, by the way). It hurts my heart to see this. The DOT must do better. — Troy Amastar Alexander

Rally for our health Oct. 21 When I needed emergency surgery recently, I realized how privileged I am 6

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to have access to excellent health care. The timely attention by my doctors saved my life. This isn’t available to everyone in the U.S., and it bothers me that the U.S. is the only country in the developed world not to provide either socialized or single-payer medicine. Medicare is the most popular government program. I’ve been on it for a year, and it’s a huge savings to me, accepted anywhere I go in the U.S. Medicare for All seems daunting, but something worth investing some time to learn about. I am alive because I was able to see my general practice [doctor] within hours of experiencing pain and was then admitted for surgery with someone experienced and trusted. Because of Medicare, my treatment was not prohibitively expensive. This is the quality of care that should be, and can be, available to all. The Mountain Health Rally has speakers qualified to explain this option. It’s on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2 p.m., at Pack Square. Other topics include the new for-profit [successor to] Mission Health, the opioid crisis and $15 an hour minimum wage. — Lee Wolfe Candler

We should consider climate refugees House Bill 819 (SL 2012-201) may have inhibited the city’s new Comprehensive Plan from considering all the possible impacts of climate change but, as individuals, we are not subject to its restraints. Twice in a hundred weeks now, we have watched caravans of climate refugees heading our way. Both proved to be short-lived and, given our surfeit of hotels and the thousands of short-term rentals offered through Airbnb and the like, refugees who made it this far should have had little trouble finding somewhere to sleep — although they would have had to deal with the same shortages and price-gouging as the rest of us. However, once the Outer Banks have inevitably washed away, more and more of those refugees will be looking for a place to settle. How will we see them? Will we, like characters in some trashy dystopian fiction, block the interstate exits and demand that they keep moving? If not, will we treat them as human reflections of ourselves stripped of our homes, clothes and possessions? Or, ignoring Christ’s teachings, will we seek to profit from their misfortune — regarding them rather as prey? — Geoff Kemmish Asheville

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Let us count the ways the GOP fails Here are a just few ways the GOP is failing. The GOP wants to (among other regressive schemes): • Reduce voter numbers by using the voter fraud lie, which is statistically nonexistent. (So elderly who cannot get IDs cannot vote?) • Reduce women’s rights to decide about their own physical well-being? • Put the rich U.S. oligarchs above the working and middle class! • Ignore Trump’s violations of the Constitution; threaten democracy by abdicating Congress. • Reduce “entitlements” like Social Security – which we paid for. (To help with deficit caused by GOP tax breaks to wealthy.) • Reduce number of medical care recipients. (If medical care insurance were expanded, medical costs would lessen, jobs increase.) • Continue kidnapping immigrant children! (Causing huge reunifications costs and suffering.) • Reduce environmentally friendly energy alternatives. (Getting kickbacks from oil and coal companies?) And other plans to hurt democracy, environment, decency, rule-of-law and us.

Just look at Mark Meadows aiding Trump! Does he bother to campaign here or debate Phillip Price? No. He is already paid off by big donors. Meadows endangers our national security by releasing documents — to benefit Trump — when they may damage our security [see avl.mx/5dc]. No matter — he’s not working for us. Vote for Phillip G. Price, U.S. House (N.C. District 11)! — Peri David Hendersonville

Meadows stands up to special interests in Farm Bill Congressman Meadows deserves credit for standing up for taxpayers and against special interests in the Farm Bill. The SNAP debate around expanding work requirements and job training for able-bodied adults overshadows a giant loophole that rewards “Facetime farmers.” Currently, you can claim “active management” and get subsidies — up to $125,000 annually, double for married couples — without ever stepping foot on a farm. Management can simply be deciding what to plant, securing financing or even navigating USDA subsidy paperwork. In 2015, absentee managers received $260 million. The most egregious

operation qualified 25 members plus 10 spouses as “managers” to gobble up $3.7 million in farm subsidies. Rep. Meadows wants to close this loophole so that only those actually working on the farm qualify for subsidies, while limiting operations to no more than one “farm manager.” The Senate bill includes this amendment, but House leaders refused to even allow a debate. Congressman Meadows understands that business-as-usual farm bills are no longer an option, and that starts with work requirements for everyone. This isn’t a partisan perspective, it’s simple commonsense. At a time when that seems in short supply, District 11 constituents should be proud their congressman has some. — Joshua Sewell, Taxpayers for Common Sense Nan Swift, National Taxpayers Union Washington, D.C.

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Kiss and say goodbye BY ALAN MUSKAT There’s a saying that goes, “If you don’t like the heat, stay out of the kitchen.” On International Overdose Awareness Day in Asheville, the people did just that. Since then, I’ve been mulling over what happened and what we might learn from it. Let me set the scene. The event was scheduled on the last day in August, the Friday of Labor Day weekend, from 5 to 8 p.m. Not exactly the time when people most want to face reality. At 5 p.m., most people were just getting off work. Then there’s traffic to deal with. Even that doesn’t explain why, come 5 p.m., aside from those who were working on the event, the grand total of attendees, not including those who came to support their friends, was not 500 as hoped, not 100 to 200 as expected, but one or two dozen, some of whom might happened to have been hanging out in the park already. By 7:30, about 100 people had come by, including a few who stayed more than a few minutes. The turnout can’t be blamed on lack of promotion. It was advertised on social media, in the papers and on the radio. I know; I helped put it on. It wasn’t headline news, but there’s no question that at least several thousand people knew it was happening. There was another problem: It was 5 o’clock in late August, in a huge, paved pavilion in the middle of downtown. And the stage faced directly west. The canopy offered no protection from the sun, blaring through ozone depletion on the plaza and directly at the stage.

ALAN MUSKAT Those who eventually trickled in stayed off to the sides, in the shade. They couldn’t take the heat. The presenters spoke to the sun, to the biggest spotlight you could ever ask for, alone. In the middle of the deadliest drug crisis in American history, you hold an annual Overdose Awareness Day, and practically no one shows up. Of course not. When I first heard of Overdose Awareness Day, I cringed. My first reaction was, “Eww, gross, boring, depressing. It sounds like something you’re forced to attend in the auditorium in high school. Who would want to go to that?” The people who get involved with overdose awareness usually have no

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choice. They’ve already been punched in the face by reality. Either they almost died from drugs themselves, or they had it take away their spouse or their child. In this culture, addiction is an illicit affair. It comes from denial — denial of its effect on our lives. That’s true of the user, and it’s even more true of society. Eww. We turn away. We turn on the TV. We watch drama mediated, packaged into entertainment. But we don’t go see the real thing. Why would we, when just beyond the pavilion, the city was hopping with people lined up to overindulge in food and/or alcohol? When we’re all addicted, when the world is going down the tubes, the last thing we want is awareness. So of course we stay in the dark. The truth isn’t just light, it’s heat. And it’s too much to bear. That’s why that late afternoon, the only people staring into the setting sun were the presenters. And they got off the stage as soon as they could. Is there another way? There were a couple of photographers taking pictures. I recognized one. “How do I know you?” I asked.

“I walk my dog past your house.” For close to three years, I’d seen him go by. I asked him, “Did you catch the rainbow?” No, he hadn’t seen it. It was low, as if setting like the sun. I don’t know if anyone else there noticed it. I know I was trying to stay focused on the presenters, trying to reassure them that someone was listening. Addiction comes from disconnection. If we were connected to each other, I would’ve known my neighbor. If we were connected to nature, we would have realized that the pavilion was going to be blazingly hot. If we had been connected, we could have stopped pretending the world was listening, sat in the shade and watched the rainbow and the sunset. If we’re going to solve the addiction problem, we can’t just treat the symptom; we have to address the cause. We have to face each other as we are. Otherwise, all we’ll have left to say is goodbye. X Alan Muskat is director of development for SeekHealing, a new local nonprofit healing addiction through reconnection.

RAINBOW CONNECTION: Far fewer people than expected attended the International Overdose Awareness Day event held recently in Asheville. Essayist Alan Muskat offers his thoughts on the event, what it says about the larger picture of addiction and how to address the problem. Photo courtesy of Muskat 8

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ONE HUNDRED YEARS LATER Charles George VA Medical Center celebrates its centennial BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com Over the years, its name has changed. What began in 1918 as the U.S.A. General Hospital No. 19 is today the Charles George VA Medical Center. The facility’s treatment focus has shifted as well. During World War I, tuberculosis drove the site’s initial construction. These days, the center treats physical and mental health issues impacting the 48,000 veterans it serves each year. On Friday, Oct. 26, the Charles George VA will celebrate its centennial at its grand reopening of building No. 9. Formerly the white nurses’ dormitory, the 1932 structure sat vacant for the last 44 years. But in 2016, a $9 million restoration project paved the way for the building’s latest rendition as the Hope and Recovery Center. With a focus on mental health, the site’s top priority is suicide prevention. The ribbon-cutting, says Armenthis Lester, the medical center’s public affairs officer, will include remarks from VA leadership, as well as information on available programs. The gathering will also feature a Cherokee warrior dance, along with displays and exhibits of historical images and artifacts from the site’s former days. The N.C. Department of Natural and Cultural Resources Western Office, which occupies the former black nurses’ dormitory adjacent to

HOPE AND RECOVERY: On Friday, Oct. 26, the Charles George VA Medical Center will celebrate its centennial at its grand reopening of building No. 9, known today as the Hope and Recovery Center. Photo by Joe Pellegrino the Hope and Recovery Center, will also participate in the grand reopening. Heather South, lead archivist at the Western Regional Archives, says she and her colleagues have had the unique opportunity to watch the former sister dormitory slowly be brought back to life. “To see it go from abandoned shambles to revived services has been an amazing transformation,” she notes.

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EARLY UNREST “There’s a lot history here,” says Rod Doty, the VA’s digital library technician. Not surprisingly, he adds, the facility has seen plenty of change. The original wood-frame structures once scattered across the site’s former 346 total acres have all been razed, although a few relics do remain, including an original foundation on the southern slope of Bull Mountain. In 1918, Doty says, that entire section of the mountain was clear-cut. Since then, Mother Nature has gradually reclaimed parts of the VA’s former property (which today totals a muchreduced 64 acres). “What you’re seeing now [on Bull Mountain] is 100 years’ worth of growth,” he explains. While Doty’s historical knowledge stretches the entirety of the hospital’s 100 years, his focus for the centennial has been on the site’s earliest days. A completion report from June 1, 1919, has provided him with a detailed account of the original project’s scope, as well as some of the challenges faced during constructions initial stages.

Work officially began on March 25, 1918. Local construction crews were hired, and local car owners were solicited to transport these men to and from the site. Compensation began at 15 cents per passenger, but disgruntled drivers soon demanded and received increased pay. Unrest quickly spread beyond the weary drivers. Carpenters, electricians, plumbers, steamfitters, sheet metal workers, plasterers and painters all demanded higher wages. In each case, the government eventually acquiesced to avoid labor shortages that might impede the site’s timely completion. By August, the original project’s 1,000-bed enterprise was 97 percent done. That November, all remaining duties — including completion of the remaining dorms, sewage system, water supply, heating distribution, outside electric wiring and vehicle roads — were wrapped up. Additional wards were built in 1919. Upon their completion, the site had 102 total structures, including offices for the YMCA, Red Cross and Knights of Columbus (see

“Asheville Archives: ‘Blue Monday,’” page 21, Xpress). “They had everything,” Doty exclaims. But only after the infirm soldiers arrived did the city within a city truly take shape. ‘AN UNSEEN ENEMY’ “It begins to look like most of us have been chosen to help our country by fighting tuberculosis rather than by fighting the Germans,” wrote Maj. W.G. Turnball, in the Nov. 9, 1918, debut publication of The Oteen, a weekly paper published by General Hospital No.19. “To many this has been a disappointment. The glamor, the excitement, the hero-worship are lacking, and we feel we are not having a direct part in the great victory that is being won. We do not deny that this work is necessary and that someone must do it, but it is not exactly what we wanted to do ourselves.” For a year, The Oteen sought to keep patients and staff motivated and up to date on the latest news both on and off the General Hospital No. 19 campus. The publication included hospital gossip and previews of upcoming social

activities, as well as pertinent information regarding their illness, treatment options and Army benefits. For contemporary readers, the publication also provides unique insight into the daily lives and worries surrounding the VA’s original patients. Time and again, the paper seeks to address and reassure soldiers of their latest mission: recovery. Unlike German foes, tuberculosis was “an unseen enemy.” No vaccine existed at the time. Instead, hospital doctors called for plenty of rest, air, food and exercise, or as The Oteen put it, “the quartet of legs that the cure for tuberculosis rests so securely upon.” The war was over by the time The Oteen published its second issue. Germany surrendered on Nov. 11, 1918. But in keeping with its motif, the paper asserted that the battle against tuberculosis carried on. “It is just as deadly and to some of you it means that you will have to fight as hard as though you were or had been in the front line trench,” the paper declared. Although Doty believes the publication was limited to on-site distribution, some of its articles suggest a broader audience. One piece, published in the issue of Dec. 7, 1918, implores family

OFFICIAL WEEKLY: For a year, The Oteen weekly publication sought to keep patients and staff motivated and up to date on the latest news, both on and off the General Hospital No. 19 campus.

members to help establish a more positive outlook among patients through their letters. “It is a difficult problem to care for men in a hospital whose one great desire is to go home,” the article states. “This problem is too often made doubly difficult by the nature of the letters which the men receive from home. If, instead of thinking up every possible home trouble to write these men, the people at home would write cheerful letters, it would do much toward maintaining a cheerful atmosphere in the Hospital and thereby helping each man on to a cure.” In another issue, contributing writer Capt. B.L. Hayes offers a detailed account of the daily activities and duties for those enrolled. The piece, titled “A Letter for the Folks at Home,” concludes with an assessment of the men’s overall attitude toward the institution. “It is not unlike that of the pupils in a boarding school,” Hayes writes. “It has been well summed up in the following words: ‘Taking things as they find them. Vaguely understanding. Caring less. Grumbling by custom. Cheerful by

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N EWS of a tribal treasure and a national hero that are facing each other,” DuPree explains. “There is tremendous power in that.” Both statues, he adds, look from a great distance toward the Yellow Hill Veterans Cemetery, where both George and Spratt are interred.

nature. Ever anxious to be somewhere they are not. Ever anxious to be somewhere else when they get there.’ Living through a period which in after years will be remembered as the happiest of their lives.” WARRIOR’S LEGACY The images and artifacts at the Oct. 26 ribbon-cutting for the Hope and Recovery Center will focus primarily on the VA’s original days as U.S.A. General Hospital No.19. But the ceremonial Cherokee warrior dance will call attention to the region’s original inhabitants, as well as the medical center’s namesake, Charles George. George, a member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, served in the Army during the Korean War. On Nov. 30, 1952, the private first class died in battle after throwing himself onto a live grenade to save the lives of two fellow infantrymen, Marion Santo and Armando Ruiz. Two years later, George was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor — one of only 32 Native Americans to have received the highest personal military decoration.

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UNITED AS ONE: Warren DuPree, pictured, served as a member of the Charles George Memorial Project Committee, which secured funds for the creation of the lifesize bronze statue of Charles George at right. Photo by Thomas Calder On Nov. 15, 2007, the former VA Medical Center was officially renamed the Charles George VA Medical Center. Warren DuPree, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee and a retired Navy veteran who served in both Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm, remembers the day. “Native Americans have always been a warrior society,” he says. “So naturally the Cherokee people were extremely proud … to have [Charles George’s] name remembered forever in a medical facility that provides services to the men and women of the United States Armed Forces.” Eight years later, DuPree helped establish the Charles George Memorial Project Committee. Over the course of several months, the organization raised $50,000 for the creation of two life-size bronze statues of the fallen hero. Throughout the process, the project’s sculptor, James Spratt (a retired Vietnam veteran), was undergoing treatment for bone cancer at the VA. On Sept. 24, 2016, the first sculpture was unveiled at the medical center. At that time, Spratt was receiving hospice care at the facility’s Community Living Center. “He passed away 10 minutes after we began the dedication,” DuPree remembers. “It was very emotional.” That November, on Veterans Day, the second sculpture was dedicated at Cherokee Veterans Memorial Park. “We now have these two bronze sculptures

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As Doty approaches the recently completed Hope and Recovery Center, he takes a moment to consider what the building once was compared to what it now is. Not that long ago, he remembers, parts of the structure’s slated roof were caving in. Vines climbed down from the building’s gutters, gathering at its center to create a sort of widow’s peak. But these days, Doty observes, “it’s pretty majestic.” The new facility, notes Lester, will help the Charles George VA continue to serve the approximately 8,000 veterans who seek treatment each year through its outpatient mental health clinic. According to the latest available VA National Suicide Data Report, the suicide rate among veterans in 2016 was 1.5 times greater than that of nonveteran adults. That year, 7,298 current and former service members took their own lives, and suicide rates among veterans ages 18-34 years old continue to increase. Treatment for those struggling with suicidal thoughts is available through the Charles George VA, Lester emphasizes. The ongoing goal for the organization, she says, “is to get to zero suicides.” Information on enrollment and eligibility will be available at the ribbon-cutting ceremony. Lester sees the day’s events as a bridge between the site’s past, present and future. “We’re really excited about the connection that we have with the Cherokee Nation and the history of the area,” she says. The Hope and Recovery Center, she adds, is simply the latest in the organization’s longstanding effort to improve the lives of service members. “The building cares for our current warriors and those who will come in the future,” she says. For South, a similar connection exists. “They built what amounts to a small city from sprawling farmland in a matter of months,” she notes. “Veterans are still being served 100 years later on the same grounds. Nurses, doctors, visitors — think about the number of people that have had a connection to this exact place. It is impressive. I am just glad that I can be part of that continued history and help preserve some of the story for the next century.” X

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N.C. parties weigh in on proposed constitutional amendments give more strength to the “incredibly gerrymandered General Assembly” rather than the statewide-elected governor. “We believe this is another dangerous overreach by the Republican majority, using our constitution as a tool to take power away from the governor simply because he is a Democrat,” he says. But Mumpower maintains that the amendments will apply equally to Republicans and Democrats and spread power within the larger body of the General Assembly instead of concentrating it with the governor. “Republicans like amendments that support the idea of big people over big government,” he says.

The six state constitutional amendments up for consideration in this year’s general election have already faced an uphill climb to the voting booth. In August, North Carolina’s legislature rushed back to Raleigh for a special session to rewrite ballot descriptions for two amendments after a panel of Superior Court judges ruled their language to be misleading. As late as early September, lawsuits by Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper and the N.C. NAACP sought to keep four amendments off the ballot. But those hurdles have now been cleared, and voters will have the final say as to whether the six amendments — each proposed and put on the ballot by Republican members of the General Assembly — become law. The lawmakers elected in this year’s midterms will then be tasked with writing the enabling legislation that will put the amendments into practice.

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DIFFERENT VIEWS: At an Oct. 11 event hosted by the League of Women Voters of Asheville-Buncombe County, state Sen. Terry Van Duyn, left, and Carl Mumpower shared the Democratic and Republican perspectives on six proposed constitutional amendments. Photo by Virginia Daffron While the proposals originated in Raleigh, they will apply across all of North Carolina, and Asheville’s political leaders have strong views about their impacts. To cover this range of opinions, Xpress sought comment on the amendments from the local leadership of each state-recognized political party: Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, Green and Constitution. Carl Mumpower, chair of the Buncombe County Republican Party, sees the six amendments as a bulwark against an “unprecedented attack on our state’s historical values and system of governance” and encourages voters to support them all. In contrast, both Democratic and Green party leaders aim to “nix all six,” while the Libertarians support only a lower constitutional cap on state income taxes. (David Waddell, a member of the N.C. Constitution Party executive committee, said the party had not developed official positions on the amendments due to its convention being postponed by Hurricane Florence.) GOVERNORS’ BRAWL Perhaps the two most controversial amendments on the ballot would 14

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transfer power from the governor to the General Assembly — moves publicly denounced by all five of North Carolina’s living former governors, Republican and Democrat alike. As explained by the state’s bipartisan Constitutional Amendments Publication Commission, the first would make the governor choose from legislature-appointed candidates for judicial vacancies instead of picking a replacement directly. The second amendment would replace the existing nine-person Bipartisan Board of Ethics and Elections, currently selected by the governor, with an eight-person board nominated by legislative leaders. The reduction in size would come from removing the board’s politically unaffiliated representative, whom the governor currently picks from nominations provided by the other board members. Additionally, the CAPC suggests that this change “could drastically reduce early voting opportunities” due to 4-4 tie votes along party lines. If the state board fails to rule on a county elections board’s disagreement about early voting sites, then according to current law, only the county’s election office is a valid site. Buncombe County Democratic Party Chair Jeff Rose says that these changes

Another of the proposed amendments would require voters to display photographic identification to poll workers before voting in person. The CAPC notes that the ballot item contains no further details about acceptable and unacceptable forms of ID, leaving the General Assembly free to determine those rules through future legislation. Mumpower says the amendment is critical to protect the democratic process from “unscrupulous individuals, political movements and special-interest groups who know no boundaries in attempting to secure their ideations.” He adds that ID is already necessary for everyday actions such as air travel and purchasing alcohol. Other party leaders, however, are skeptical of the Republican rationale. “We see no fraud in the election cycles that needs rectifying [and] are not afraid of a mythical immigrant who fills his time by voting in elections to increase the welfare that he does not qualify for,” says Charles Lanahan, chair of the Libertarian Party of Buncombe County. “The historical decentralized control of the voting process is better than a state-mandated ID to qualify for the very fundamental act of a citizen in a free republic.” Western North Carolina Green Party Chair Camille McCarthy calls the amendment “a thinly veiled attempt to disenfranchise voters, particularly minorities.” The Green Party platform, she adds, hopes to expand voting access by making Election Day a holiday and reversing felon disenfranchisement.

Rose also has concerns about disparate impacts on nonwhite voters from the amendment, which was challenged by an NAACP lawsuit. He points to a 2016 ruling by a federal appeals court that a previous Republican-authored state voter ID law chose its restrictions to specifically target African-Americans. “Since there is no enabling legislation in this amendment, the legislature could bring that same ID law back,” Rose argues. “The photo ID amendment has the potential to strip hundreds of thousands of legally registered voters of their rights in our state,” Rose continues. “Voters already prove their citizenship and identity when registering to vote, and adding those same checks to the ballot box will mean thousands of people cannot vote.” MARSY’S LAW The amendment to the current victims’ rights amendment is modeled after Marsy’s Law, a piece of legislation first passed by California voters in 2008. CAPC explains that the new language would expand the rights of crime victims to be heard throughout the legal process, as well as expand the scope of offenses triggering those rights to “all crimes against the person and felony property crimes.” Enforcing the law would cost state taxpayers an estimated $11 million annually. Rose is concerned that this amendment would “slow down the justice system” and “lead to more families taking on roles in prosecutions.” He says North Carolina already requires courts to notify victims of many steps in the legal process, including court dates and the potential parole of offenders. While Lanahan calls the underlying law “an admirable undertaking,” he says it’s an overreach to enshrine expanded victims’ rights as an amendment. “It removes discretion from the prosecutors and judges in regards to the balance between the rights of a victim of a crime and the rights of any citizen to be presumed innocent,” he argues. Mumpower believes this balance is already tilted in favor of criminals. The amendment, he says, would prevent victims from suffering further at the hands of the justice system. “Increasingly in our society, criminals are afforded extraordinary protections that prioritize rights over responsibilities,” Mumpower says. “Republicans believe those harmed by crime deserve considerations at least equal to those who commit those crimes.”

PERMANENT CUTS In the only point of agreement between Republican positions on the amendments and those of other parties, Lanahan and the Libertarians support an amendment that would cap state income tax rates at 7 percent. The change would not reduce current taxes — 5.499 percent for individuals and 3 percent for corporations — but would lower the existing cap of 10 percent. “We are generally against all unnecessary taxes in general and advocate limited government wherever possible,” Lanahan says. “That being said, this cap would be symbolic if not actually needed, and it’s a symbol the Libertarian Party would be glad to stand behind.” Mumpower’s explanation for his party’s support of the amendment takes a more confrontational tone. “This amendment seeks to impair political movements who believe in robbing one set of pockets to fill another of their choosing,” he says. “Republicans believe in keeping the lion’s share of earned money in the pockets of those who work for that money.” The Democrats and Greens both object to the tax cap reduction on economic justice grounds. The two parties claim that limiting income taxes disproportionately benefits wealthy citizens and reduces the government’s ability to respond to unexpected crises. “[The amendment] limits the ways our lawmakers can raise revenues to sales tax, which disproportionately impacts lower-income and middle-class North Carolinians. It’s another example of Republicans using their supermajority to protect the wealthy at the expense of the rest of the state,” Rose says. Meanwhile, McCarthy believes the tax cap will move the state’s spending plans in the wrong direction. “We need health care, high-quality education, a higher minimum wage and renewable energy, not tax breaks for the rich,” she says. “This benefits monied interests at the expense of the majority of our citizens.” WILD RIGHTS The final amendment affirms the rights of North Carolina’s citizens to hunt, fish and harvest wildlife. As previously covered in Xpress (see “Hunting for votes,” July 4), the proposal’s language establishes hunting and fishing as “preferred means of managing and controlling wildlife” and does not impact existing laws about trespassing, property rights and eminent domain.

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vest with a cart in a grocery store are seeking to undermine the rights of those who do so with a gun or pole out in nature,” he explains. “Republicans recognize we do not secure a healthy future by betraying our past.” More information on the amendments is available at the CAPC website (avl.mx/5de). Referenda on all six amendments will appear on ballots for early voting and on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 6. X

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HAT TRICK: On Oct. 1, more than 600 employees of Bahnson Mechanical Systems and its client BorgWarner donned pink hats to form a giant pink ribbon launching Breast Cancer Awareness Month with a visible call to action. The event was held at BorgWarner’s plant in Arden and included elected officials and breast cancer survivors. Photo courtesy of EMCOR Group REGAN JOINS ASHEVILLE CHAMBER Ryan Regan has joined the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s economic development team as director of business development. Regan previously worked for North Carolina’s Southeast, a regional economic development partnership based in the Wilmington area, where he marketed 18 counties to attract new jobs and investment to the region. As director of business development, Regan will focus on recruiting new businesses to the Asheville area in accordance with the AVL 5x5 economic development strategy, which targets the creation of new, high-paying jobs in advanced manufacturing, health care, and science and technology. $20,000 UP FOR GRABS AT HATCH THIS Returning for its second year, Hatch This combines techie business tropes including an accelerator, a hackathon and, of course, a party. Participants will compete for $20,000 in prizes, including a $5,000 seed funding package. According to a press release, “Participants should come ready to pitch

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a business idea or be eager to offer their skills by joining a team. Once teams form, the real work begins: In small groups, they build a prototype, get real user feedback, pitch their deck in front of real investors and compete for prizes.” The accelerator events will take place Friday-Sunday, Nov. 2-4, at Hatch at 45 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville. Tickets are $75 and include all activities, food and swag. The general public is invited to attend the final pitch event Sunday, Nov. 4, at 5 p.m. at the Asheville Social Hall, 81 Broadway; tickets are $10. For the full agenda, mentor lineup, and ticket details, visit www. hatchavl.org/hatchthis. ON THE JOB • Attorney Phillip T. Jackson of Roberts & Stevens has become a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. • Dusty Allison joined Carolina Mountain Sales of Asheville as a real estate broker. • Aaron Kreizman, Brad Mcclain, Ryan Pepper, Reis Rose, Claire Sonnier and Ashley Witherspoon joined EXIT Realty Vistas in Arden.

• Rebecca Herron and Kris Salvatore joined EXIT Realty Vistas in Weaverville. TECH FUNDING PROGRAM ACCEPTS APPLICATIONS The One North Carolina Small Business Matching Funds Program is accepting applications through June 30 for the program’s 2018-19 fiscal year funding cycle. Under the program, the state awards matching grants of up to $50,000 to businesses that have recently won a highly competitive Small Business Innovation Research or Small Business Technology Transfer grant. These federal SBIR and STTR grants are the single largest source of early-stage technology development and commercialization funding for small businesses nationally. North Carolina is among a handful of states with a matching program to leverage federal technology funding. The N.C. Board of Science, Technology & Innovation administers these grants. Program information and application instructions are available at nccommerce.com/sti. X

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some other people I knew, to try and fill that void.” In addition to a series of presentations in the morning and afternoon on Friday, UNC Asheville will recognize four retired faculty members, Dolly Jenkins-Mullen and her husband, Dwight Mullen, and Charles James and his wife, Deborah Grier-James, by naming the campus humanities building in their honor. The building will be called the Mullen & James Humanities Hall. Waters says the four were among the first black professors at the university. “Their work, I think, has been … groundbreaking in paving the way for other minority faculty who have come behind them,” he says. The two couples faced hostility and racism early in their careers, the university said in a press release about the renaming. Mullen received death threats as a result of his political commentaries, and Charles and Deborah were denied housing near the UNC Asheville campus soon after they graduated from the university in the 1970s. The four were eventually hired by the university in 1984.

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PAST TO PRESENT: UNC Asheville professor Darin Waters speaks during the fourth annual African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia Conference. He hopes this year’s conference will continue to put a spotlight on the history of African-Americans in the region, which has been long overlooked. Photos courtesy of UNC Asheville

Throughout his career, Darin Waters has worked to counter a false understanding of local and regional history. “For a long time,” says Waters, a professor of history at UNC Asheville, “there was this fallacy that there wasn’t much of an African-American presence in the region.” That impression is still “a very dominant theme,” but it is changing, he says. Along with the work of Waters and other scholars, high-profile conferences such as the African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia — which takes place Thursday through Saturday, Oct. 18-20, in Asheville — have contributed to a growing awareness of the significance of black contributions to the development of this region. The fifth annual conference will focus on a theme of “Making the invisible visible” to continue the work of shining new light on local African-American history. Waters cites recent controversies over Civil War monuments as one outcome of the imbalance between dominant historical narratives and those which have been overlooked. “We as a community and as a nation have multiple histories, and some of those histories … in the larger narrative of American history have been kind of marginalized,” Waters says. “This is an effort to bring those marginalized stories more to the center of the stage.” The event’s Thursday night keynote address will be delivered by William H. Turner, a professor emeritus at Prairie View A&M University in Texas, whom Waters described as “essentially one of the pioneering scholars on blacks in Appalachia.” Turner, who delivered a lecture at UNC Asheville in February about the civil rights movement in Appalachia, told Xpress earlier this year that he became aware of the lack of black representation in the region’s historical record while studying at the University of Kentucky in the 1960s. “The long-standing impression was that there basically weren’t any black people of any significant numbers in the mountains of the South,” he said. “I took it upon myself, along with

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NEWS notes that many of Simone’s songs ruminate on difficult aspects of American history. “The lyrics of those songs tell a story that the United States doesn’t necessarily want to look in the mirror and admit to,” she says. Archie moved to Asheville in July 2017 to serve as the city’s equity and inclusion manager. She lived in Charlotte before that and is originally from Seattle. Archie arrived in Asheville just in time for last year’s conference and cleared her schedule to attend. “I’m doing work that is important to the people that live here, so it was important for me to go,” she says. Past conferences have featured keynote speakers including James Ferguson, an Asheville native and prominent Charlotte-based attorney, and Superior Court Judge Yvonne Evans, who grew up in Hendersonville and attended Allen High School. Seeing prominent local figures reconnect with the community can have a galvanizing effect, Waters says. “I think history can serve as a source of encouragement,” Waters says. “When you see people who have gone on to do some really big things, it lets you know that there’s possibilities for you as well.” History, Archie says, tends to repeat itself when people are ignorant of it — especially the negative parts. “If you don’t understand the events that have brought us to the current situations that we’re in,” Archie says, “we’re doomed to repeat them.” X

FEELING GOOD: Famed jazz singer and pianist Nina Simone was born in Tryon and attended Allen High School on College Street in Asheville. She will be honored during a celebratory brunch Saturday at UNC Asheville. Photo courtesy of the Nina Simone Project

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE Unless otherwise noted, all events will be held in the Ingles Mountain View Room in UNC Asheville’s Wilma M. Sherrill Center. All events except the Friday, Oct. 19 performance at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center are free.

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• 6:30-8:30 p.m. — Opening reception at the YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St., Asheville. The event will include a lecture by William H. Turner, who co-edited the 1985 anthology Blacks in Appalachia, an awards presentation honoring Keynon Lake, the founder of the local nonprofit My Daddy Taught Me That, music from The Ink Well and catering by Delia’s Tea Time.

• 9 a.m-4:15 p.m. — Presentations about various aspects of local African-American history. Organizers have divided the presentations into a morning panel 9:15-11:45 a.m. on “African-Americans and Education,” an early afternoon panel 1-2:30 p.m. on “Arts, Archives and Activism,” and a late afternoon panel 2:45-4:15 p.m. on “Place and Narrative.” • 4:30-6 p.m. — Naming of the Mullen & James Humanities

Hall, which will honor four of UNC Asheville’s most influential African-American faculty members. • 8-10 p.m. — Jace Clayton, AKA DJ / rupture, will perform “The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence” at the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center at 120 College St. Tickets can be purchased at blackmountaincollege.org. SATURDAY, OCT. 20 • 9:15-10:45 a.m. — Panel in partnership

with Mountain BizWorks, “Developing Long Tail Ecosystems and Value Chains that Start and Sustain Social Enterprises in Appalachia.” • 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.— Brunch honoring Allen High School and Nina Simone, one of the school’s most famous graduates. The event will feature a talk by Sylvia Pate, a 1965 graduate of the school. • 12:45-2:15 p.m. — “Crafting Affrilachia” roundtable in partnership with the Cen-

ter for Craft. Roundtable will include Sharon Jones of SJ Studios, Jd Harrison of Studio H Designs and Viola Spells of Zenobia Studio. • 2:30-4:30 p.m. — Screening of the documentary film What Happened, Miss Simone? with Larry Reni Thomas, a writer, radio announcer and lecturer. • 7-11 p.m. — CoThinkk Awards Night at The Collider, Suite 401, 1 Haywood St. Register at cothinkk.org.

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MAKING A STAND: Reid Thompson went before Asheville City Council to discuss his request to rezone two properties for short-term rental use. Photo by Daniel Walton Reid Thompson has lost the most recent battle in his 13-plus-year fight with the city of Asheville. On Oct. 9, Council voted to deny his application to rezone two of his properties, 28 and 32 Maxwell St., for short-term vacation rental, a move Thompson said was necessary only because city staff hadn’t stopped a nearby Whole Foods (formerly Greenlife Grocery) from illegal truck loading and other activities that drove away long-term renters. But the war, suggested Thompson’s representative and urban planner Joe Minicozzi, is far from over. “He’s got to file a civil suit to get his civil rights upheld,” he told Xpress immediately after Council’s decision. “It’s the 14th Amendment of the fucking Constitution: equal protection under the law. You can’t enforce the law on one side of the street and not enforce it on the other.” In the public hearing on the issue, Minicozzi said the city had issued no notices of violation against the grocery despite regular complaints from Maxwell Street residents, which he has documented since 2005. Meanwhile, Thompson has been fined $1,500 for each day he operates his Airbnbs in violation of city ordinances, with an estimated accrued total of more than $1 million. Thompson has also been issued a violation for allowing a shrub to grow eight inches over the edge of a city sidewalk.

Several previous long-term tenants of Thompson’s properties testified at the hearing in his support. Meg Jamison, who first moved to Maxwell in mid-2007, said she left in spring 2008 because of disturbances from the grocery loading dock. “I was 25 — I liked to stay up all night, but not day in and day out,” she explained. City staff, however, maintained that Thompson’s request for rezoning should be considered in isolation from the problems with Whole Foods. “The city has taken direct, specific action in this year… to prohibit short-term vacation rental use in almost every zoning district,” said city urban planner Jessica Bernstein. She expressed concern that approving the request would set a dangerous precedent and erode that enforcement effort. Council member Brian Haynes, the sole dissenting vote in the 4-1 decision — Mayor Esther Manheimer asked to be recused because The Van Winkle Law Firm, her employer, had previously represented Thompson in this case, while Vijay Kapoor had a scheduled absence — disagreed with the rezoning’s potential for setting a precedent. “I think this is a special case. I can’t think of any other person in the city who this would apply to,” he said. Speaking for the majority, Council member Julie Mayfield agreed with

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N EWS staff’s logic on the issue. “Allowing these houses to be used as short-term rentals, in complete violation of every direction that this Council has gone in terms of that policy, doesn’t fix the problem,” she said. Instead, focusing on Whole Foods’ behavior would make Thompson’s properties usable for their currently zoned purpose. Mayfield, who was elected to Council in 2015, responded by email to an Xpress request for comment on how she would succeed at bringing the gro-

cery into compliance when previous Councils have not done so. She said she’d been advocating for a solution for “well over a year” and has met extensively with Minicozzi to discuss the details. “This is not just a staff-level issue — Whole Foods needs to understand that the city leadership considers this a significant problem that needs to be fixed,” Mayfield wrote. “I don’t know why the previous efforts failed, but I do know that I don’t plan to let go of trying to get Whole Foods to make changes.” Regarding whether staff would be held accountable for failing to enforce violations on the store, leading to conditions for Thompson she had called “inexcusable” during the meeting, Mayfield responded that it was time for the city to move forward. “Most of us weren’t here and can’t understand what dynamics were at play or why things happened the way they did,” she wrote. Meanwhile, Maxwell Street resident Brandee Boggs suggested that Council’s lack of previous action was tied to state Rep. Brian Turner, D-Buncombe, whose family owns the land on which the grocery sits. Speaking after the meeting, she said the initial decision to place truck access adjacent to the residential area was due to the Turners’ influence. “In the beginning, when they opened it, [we were told] that they didn’t have time to move the loading dock to the other side because they needed to make money for the property owners,” Boggs said. “It was financially driven.” Mayfield said she spoke with Turner after the Oct. 9 meeting about “who exactly owns the property (five family shareholders) and if his family would be willing to be part of finding a solution.” She added that he directed her to the family’s property manager, Asheville-based Leslie & Associates, to avoid creating “any question about him or his family exerting improper influence on Council.” In a phone interview with Xpress on Oct. 10, Turner confirmed that Leslie & Associates manages regular operations of the property. “It’s the tenant’s responsibility to be in compliance with all the ordinances, and we rely on our property manager to work with our tenants to make sure that they are,” he said. “I’m not involved in the day-to-day operation of the management of that property.”

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‘Blue Monday’ Construction begins on U.S.A. General Hospital No. 19

SEEKING REST: Nurses and patients gather on a sleeping porch in this undated photo taken at U.S.A. General Hospital No. 19. Photo courtesy of The Massie Collection of Photographs of Oteen Hospital, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, UNCA Before hopping into this week’s Archives, a few pertinent facts follow to avoid confusion. In 1918, the area that is today known as Oteen was referred to as Azalea. Further, what is today the Charles George VA Medical Center began as U.S.A. General Hospital No. 19 (also referred to as Azalea Hospital). Lastly, the infirmary’s original purpose was to treat World War I soldiers infected with tuberculosis. On March 19, 1918, The Asheville Citizen reported at least 1,000 men were needed for work on the new Azalea Hospital. Advertisements for general labor soon followed. The job paid 25 cents per hour with time and a half for overtime. Free transportation was also included. By May, hundreds of general and skilled laborers were feverishly working on the hospital’s infrastructure. During this time, however, a series of accidents left some wondering if the project was jinxed. On May 14, The Asheville Citizen detailed seven injuries incurred by workers the previous day. It began with a car crash that sent two to Mission Hospital. Another laborer fell into a 12-foot ditch, leaving the man “considerably bruised and suffering a partial paralysis.” Meanwhile, a carpenter was struck in the head by a hammer (resulting in a severe cut), another man injured his hand with a nail, and two additional workers slipped off a roof and scantling, respectively. “No apprehension is felt for any of the seven men injured in this series of ‘blue Monday’ accidents,” the paper declared. “[A]ll are expected to be able to return

to their work in a few days, or a few weeks at most.” Despite this supposed jinx, the project remained ahead of schedule. On May 30, the paper reported that 30 percent of the hospital’s 70 total structures were completed (later reports would place the total number of buildings above 100). Curious residents could see some of the facilities from the road, the paper wrote, “while others are concealed by the forest.” The same article included a detailed account of the patients’ wards. In winter, the property’s two steam plants would generate heat for all hospital rooms. During the warmer months, however, patients would reside on the wards’ sleeping porches. Because no vaccine existed, fresh air was considered a crucial element for the treatment of tuberculosis. “Most picturesque of the building sites is that of the eight wards which will crest the high wooded hill at the father edge of

the grounds,” the article continued. “Elevated hundreds of feet above the general level it commands a far stretching view of mountains and river valley, and its nearest building makes a conspicuous show against the sky line.” The article goes on to describe the day-to-day duties of the roughly 1,500 employees. Some dug ditches for sewer systems, while others spread concrete for roads. Meanwhile, “[g]reat piles of material, wood, brick, stone, plumbing equipment, radiators, sewer pipe, and the great boilers for the heating plant are in sight,” the paper reported. But the most fascinating element of the workday, the newspaper asserted, came each evening at 6 o’clock, when hired drivers arrived to transport the men home. According to the article: “When the whistle blows there comes a rush of men, anxious to get home. From up on the hill they come running to hand in the tickets they had gotten in the morning, passing through the turnstiles, a long procession. The autos are quickly jammed with living freight and the Azalea police force is there to keep them from jamming into an inextricable mass. Everybody is good humored but everybody wants to be somewhere else at the same time. Some passengers sit and others sit on them while others stand and belated arrivals grabbing at the flitting car stand on the standdees feet.” The infirm began arriving at the hospital in September. Meanwhile, the first round of construction continued into November. By December, the site was deemed a permanent government institution. The following year, additional wards were built. According to that year’s completion report, a total of 102 buildings made up the property’s 346 acres. Today, none of the original structures of the former U.S.A. General Hospital No. 19 remain. Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents. X

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BENEFITS APPALACHIAN BARN ALLIANCE appalachianbarns.org • FR (10/19), 9amnoon - Proceeds from this tour of historic barns benefit the Appalachian Barn Alliance. Registration required: info@appalachianbarns.org or 828-380-9146. $40. ASHEVILLE AFFILIATES ashevilleaffiliates.com • TH (10/25), 6-9pm - Proceeds from Base Camp Bash 2018 event with live music, food and beverage vendors benefit Streets to Peaks. $30/$25 advance. Held at Smoky Mountain Adventure Center, 173 Amboy Road ASHEVILLE BROWNS BACKERS CLUB 828-658-4149, ashevillebbw@gmail. com • SU (10/21), 1pm Proceeds from this social gathering to watch the Cleveland Browns benefit local charities. Free to attend. Held at The

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Social, 1078 Tunnel Road ASHEVILLE BUNCOMBE COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES 828-259-5300, abccm.org • Proceeds from the Rebuild The Village Music Festival with live music by Billy Jonas, The Styrofoam Turtles, The Big Ez, The Royal Suits, SunsingStar, West Sound, William L. Massey and Chris Rosser benefit ABCCM. Admission by donation. Held at Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • SA (10/20), 10am2pm - Proceeds from this annual costume sale benefit Asheville Community Theater. Free to attend. ASHEVILLE MUSIC PROFESSIONALS facebook.com/ ashevillemusicprofessionals • TH (10/25), 6-10pm - Proceeds from AMP Rocks Asheville event featuring three bands benefit Asheville Music Professionals. $10. Held at The Grey Eagle, 185 Clingman Ave. ASHEVILLE SISTER CITIES 828-782-8025, ashevillesistercities. org, ashevillesistercities@ gmail.com • WE (10/17), 7-9pm - Proceeds from the World Wide Wednesday event featuring Scottish music, drinks, food and a presentation about Scotland benefit Asheville Sister Cities. $10. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 South Market St. CARRIER PARK 220 Amboy Road, 828-251-4024 • SA (10/20), 10amnoon - Proceeds from the Acupuncture Walk for Awareness

FROM TIBET, WITH LOVE: UNC Asheville’s fall 2018 Cultural Events Series begins with a residency by the monk artists of The Mystical Arts of Tibet. Part of a world tour endorsed by the Dalai Lama to promote global peace and healing, the visit by the residents of Drepung Loseling Monastery from South India runs Monday, Oct. 22, to Friday, Oct. 26. Offerings include multiple lectures on spirituality, the weeklong creation of sand mandalas in Highsmith Student Union and a ticketed concert featuring sacred music and dance. For more information and to purchase tickets, visit unca.edu/events. Photo courtesy of UNCA 2-mile walk benefit efforts to educate NC Lawmakers and the general public about the benefits of acupuncture. Information: ncsaam.org. Admission by donation. CONSERVING CAROLINA carolinamountain.org • WE (10/17), 5pm Proceeds from this 2-mile hike followed by all-levels outdoor yoga benefit Conserving Carolina. $25. Held at Laughing Waters Retreat Center, 3963 Gerton Highway, Gerton ELIADA 828-254-5356, eliada.org, info@eliada.org • Through SU (10/28) - Proceeds from this annual corn maze event with activities for kids and hay rides benefit Eliada. See website for full schedule and prices: EliadaCornMaze. com. Held at Eliada, 2 Compton Drive GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828-298-6195, groceumc.org • SU (9/30) through WE (10/31) - Proceeds from sales of pumpkins at this pumpkin patch benefit Groce United Methodist Church. Mon.-Sat.: 10am-7pm.

Sun.: 12:30-7pm. Free to attend. HENDERSONVILLE SISTER CITIES hendersonvillesistercities.org • TH (10/18), 6-8:30pm - Proceeds from the "Blue Ridge & Beyond: Connecting Culture Through Student Diplomacy" event with local cuisine, Italian drinks and Jordanian desserts, auction and presentation from two local students benefit Hendersonville Sister Cities’ travel scholarship program. Registration required online. $45. Held at Appalachian Coffee Company, 1628 5th Ave. West, Hendersonville NORTH HENDERSON HIGH SCHOOL 35 Fruitland Road, Hendersonville, 828-697-4500 • SA (10/20), 1-5pm - Proceeds from the Medieval Festival and Chariots of the Future Car show benefit North Henderson High School. Free to attend/$10 car entry. PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES 828-253-0406, pisgahlegal.org • TU (10/23), noon-2pm - Proceeds from Beer & Bites event featuring small plates and old world style beers

benefit Pisgah Legal Services. Registration required: Jodi@pisgahlegal.org. $15. Held at Wicked Weed Brewing, 91 Biltmore Ave. THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION 828-692-8062, saveculture.org • TH (10/25), 7pm Proceeds from"Banjo Roots and Branches," lecture and demonstration featuring George Gibson, benefit The Center for Cultural Preservation. $5. Held at Bo Thomas Auditorium, Blue Ridge Community College, Flat Rock TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF WNC 828-513-0498, tipofwnc.org • SA (10/20), 11am4pm - Proceeds from this fire truck pull and health and safety fair benefit the Trauma Intervention Program. Teams compete to pull a 33,000 pound firetruck 100 feet in the best time. Registration: tiptug.orgor 828-5130498. Held at Camping World of Asheville, 2918 N Rugby Road, Hendersonville

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • WE (10/17), 6-9pm - "Advanced Internet Marketing," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TH (10/18), 10-11am "Five Money Questions for Women Owned Businesses," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TH (10/18), 6-9pm - "What Social Media Tools Can Tell About Your Customers," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • FR (10/19), 10amnoon -"Is Exporting Right For My Business," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • SA (10/20), 9am-noon - "How to Find Your Customers," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • MO (10/22) & WE (10/24), noon-

4:30pm - "Rocket Business Plan," two-day workshop. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TU (10/23), 9am-noon "Outdoor Industry Entrepreneurship Certification Program - Create Your Way," workshop. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • WE (10/24), 6-9pm - "SCORE: Marketing Your Business with Google," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler • TH (10/25), 3-6pm - "Using Analytics to Develop Your Business Platform," seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler ASHEVILLE RENAISSANCE HOTEL 31 Woodfin Ave. • WE (10/17), 11:45am-1:30pm "Strategic Planning in an Ever-Changing World," presentation and luncheon sponsored by the Association of Fundraising Professionals Western North Carolina. Registration required: conta.cc/2O4hwoS. $25/$16 members. EAST-WEST 278 Haywood Road, 828-230-0377 • TH (10/25), 6:30-8:30pm Presentation by Santos Lopez, Executive Producer, HGTV. Sponsored by AdClub WNC. Registration required: bit.ly/2RJtySt. $25. EBLEN CHARITIES 828-255-3066, eblencharities.org • WE (10/24), 9amnoon - Refresh Leadership Simulcast, networking and leadership event featuring live broadcasts of speakers Mark King, General Colin Powell and Josh Sundquist. $25. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road

FLETCHER AREA BUSINESS ASSOCIATION jim@extraordinarycopywriter.com • 4th THURSDAYS, 11:30-noon General meeting. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden • 4th TUESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Educational monthly meeting to bring local business leaders to present and discuss topics relevant and helpful to businesses today. Free. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden THE COLLIDER 1 Haywood St., Suite 401, 1828, thecollider.org/ • TH (10/18), 5:30pm - Earth Equity Advisors' Annual Speaker Series: "Inclusion & the Next Economy: A Solutions Based Conversation," discussion with Pete Krull, Nzinga Shaw and Betsy Moszeter, Registration required: bit.ly/2A3YdTZ. Free.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS IMPROVE ACT/SAT SCORES (PD.) A trained, 8+ year ACT/SAT tutor can show you how to increase your scores in one-on-one sessions. References available. Email Kathleen at kcalby@ sbcglobal.net BLUE HORIZONS PROJECT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT MEETING (PD.) Please join us on October 25 from 5 to 7 PM at The Block off Biltmore, 39 South Market St. We will have light snacks and discuss the past, present, and future of the community engagement initiatives. bluehorizonsproject. com CLASSES AT VILLAGERS (PD.) • Intro to Tarot for Self Care. Sunday, October 21. 5:308:30pm. $30. • Plant Medicine Through Song. Wednesday, October 24. 6:30-8:30pm. $5. Registration/ Information: www. forvillagers.com

EMPYREAN ARTS CLASSES (PD.)

NAVIGATING FARM LABOR (PD.)

Weekly drop in classes: Contemporary Pole Flow on Mondays 7:30pm. Intro to Pole on Tuesdays 7:15pm and Thursdays 8pm. Sultry Pole on Wednesdays 7:30pm. Handstands on Tuesdays 6pm and Thursdays 6:30pm. Aerial Yoga on Wednesdays 8pm and Fridays 12pm. EMPYREANARTS.ORG - 828.782.3321.

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The Organic Growers School is hosting Navigating Farm Labor, a workshop on how to structure labor on a small farm through the eyes of established regional farmers. Monday, December 10th, 2018 3-8pm in Alexander, NC Register: https://organicgrowersschool.org/ farmers/navigatingfarm-labor/

ashevillefriendsofastrology.org, tfigura@verizon.net • FR (10/19) 7-9pm "Chakras, Mythology and Astrological Symbols," presentation and meeting. Free to attend. Held at EarthFare - Westgate, 66 Westgate Parkway

BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-6263438 • 4th MONDAYS, 7pm - Community center board meeting. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 4th TUESDAYS, 6-8pm - "Sit-n-Stitch," informal, self-guided gathering for knitters and crocheters. Held at

North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler, 828-242-8998, hvrpsports.com • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free. LAND-OF-SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL OFFICES 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140,

828-251-6622, landofsky.org • 3rd FRIDAYS, 9-10:30am Community Advisory Committee for Adult Care Homes, meeting. Registration: julia@ landofsky.org. Free. LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center

NCDOT TO HOLD PUBLIC MEETING ON OCTOBER 30 REGARDING THE PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS ON KANUGA ROAD (S.R. 1127) FROM U.S. 25 BUSINESS (CHURCH STREET) TO LITTLE RIVER ROAD (S.R. 1123) IN HENDERSONVILLE

STIP Project No. R-5748 The N.C. Department of Transportation proposes improvements on Kanuga Road (S.R. 1127) from U.S. 25 Business (Church Street) to Little River Road (S.R. 1123) in Henderson County. The purpose of this project is to modernize improve safety on Kanuga Road. A public meeting will be held from 4-7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 30 at the City of Hendersonville Operational Center located at 305 Williams Street. The purpose of this meeting is to inform the public of the project and gather input on the proposed design. As information becomes available, it may be viewed online at the NCDOT Public Meeting Webpage: http://www.ncdot.gov/news/public-meetings. The public may attend at any time during the public meeting hours, as no formal presentation will be made. NCDOT representatives will be available to answer questions and receive comments. The comments and information received will be taken into consideration as work on the project develops. The opportunity to submit written comments will be provided at the meeting or can be done via phone, email, or mail by November 13, 2018. For additional information, please contact Jonathan Woodard, Division 14 Senior Project Engineer at jwoodard@ncdot.gov or (828) 631-5481 or at Jonathan Woodard, Highway Division 14, 253 Webster Road, Sylva, NC 28779. NCDOT will provide auxiliary aids and services under the Americans with Disabilities Act for disabled persons who wish to participate in this workshop. Anyone requiring special services should contact Tony Gallagher, Environmental Analysis Unit, at 1598 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 276991598, by phone (919) 707-6069 or by e-mail at magallagher@ncdot.gov as early as possible so that arrangements can be made. Persons who do not speak English, or have a limited ability to read, speak or understand English, may receive interpretive services upon request prior to the meeting by calling 1-800-481-6494. Aquellas personas no hablan inglés, o tienen limitaciones para leer, ablar o entender inglés, podrían recibir servicios de interpretación si los solicitan antes e la reunión llamando al 1-800-481-6494.

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• 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting. Free. ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (10/17), noon1:30pm - "Savings & Goal Setting," workshop. Registration required. Free. • THURSDAYS (10/18) until (11/1), noon1:30pm - "Your Money Future: Vision. Protect. Invest." class series. Registration required. Free. • MO (10/22), 5:30-7pm "Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it." Seminar. Registration required. Free. PUBLIC EVENTS AT UNCA unca.edu • TH (10/18) through SA (10/20) - Fifth Annual African Americans in Western North Carolina and Southern Appalachia Conference. See website for more information and

benefit Friends of Silvermont. Information: silvermont.org. $5 parking & $5 admission.

registration: aawnc. unca.edu. TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT tranzmissionprisonproject.yolasite.com • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Monthly meeting to prepare packages of books and zines for mailing to prisons across the U.S. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • TU (10/23), 5pm - Asheville City Council public hearing. Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE fairviewwelcometable.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828-774-3000, facebook.com/

LIBRARIANS BY THE LAKE: The North Asheville Library hosts a block party and fundraiser at Beaver Lake Park on Saturday, Oct. 20, 4-7 p.m. Among the numerous activities planned for the afternoon are family-friendly mountain stories performed by storytellers David Novak and Janice Inabinett, children’s face painting, a library book sale and a raffle for Buncombe County Library tote bags with books handpicked by the branch’s staff. Food will be available for a suggested donation of $5. Attendees are invited to park their vehicles in the library parking lot and walk down to the event site. No dogs or alcohol are permitted. For more information or to volunteer, call 828-2504752. Photo of Novak courtesy of the artist

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FESTIVALS BIG IVY COMMUNITY CENTER 540 Dillingham Road, Barnardsville, 828-626-3438 • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (10/12) through (10/27), 7pm - "Peek-A-Boo Path," haunted trail for all ages. Free. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/depts/ library • SA (10/20), 4pm Library block party featuring storytelling by David Novak and Janice Inabinett, facepainting, book sale and a raffle benefit the North Asheville Library. Free to attend. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828-298-6195, groceumc.org

• TH (10/25), 6:308pm - “Trunk-orTreat,” event featuring trick-or-treating for kids. Free. MILLS RIVER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10 Presbyterian Church Road, Mills River, 828-891-7101 • WE (10/24), 6pm Trunk-or-Treat event featuring games, trick-or-treating, and a camp fire. Free. PISGAH BREWING COMPANY 150 East Side Drive, Black Mountain, 828669-0190, pisgahbrewing.com/ • WE (10/24) through SU (10/28), 6:30-9pm - Proceeds from this haunted trail for all ages (particularly ages 3-12) benefit local schools. Information: hauntedtrailwnc.com. $13/$11 children ages 4-9. SILVERMONT PARK East Main St., Brevard • FRIDAYS & Saturdays (10/12) until (10/27), 7-9pm - Proceeds from "PumpkinFest," family friendly, outdoor event with lighted pumpkin trails, music, food, games, storytelling, face painting, white squirrel scavenger hunt and historic mansion

OUR REVOLUTION - ASHEVILLE facebook.com/ ourrevolutionavl/ • SU (10/21), 2pm - Mountain Health Rally, community rally to focus on healthcare issues and featuring presentations by Senator Nina Turner, Jim Hightower, Sheila Kay Adams, Josh Goforth and Daniel Barber. Free. Held at Pack Square Park RICHMOND HILL PARK 280 Richmond Hill Drive • SU (10/21), 2-4pm - Event featuring the schematic drawings of the renovations to Richmond Hill Park. Free.

KIDS BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty. org/governing/ depts/library • WE (10/17), 4pm "Makers & Shakers: Let's Weave," cardboard looms weaving activity for ages 5 and up. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • 4th TUESDAYS, 1pm Homeschoolers' book club. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • WE (10/24), 10am - Miss Malaprop's Storytime featuring Jean Reagan reading her books for children. Free to attend. THE CENTER FOR ART AND SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, 828-258-0211

• THURSDAYS (10/25) until (12/27), 4-5pm - Kids yoga and art class integrating themes of peace. For ages three and up. Co-sponsored by Creative Peacemakers. Free for children from low-income families. Information: ashevillekidsyogaandart.com. $10-$25.

OUTDOORS CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK (PD.) Enjoy breathtaking views of Lake Lure, trails for all levels of hikers, an Animal Discovery Den and 404-foot waterfall. Plan your adventure at chimneyrockpark. com BLUE RIDGE PARKWAY HIKES 828-298-5330, nps.gov • FR (10/19), 10am - One-mile roundtrip hike to Devil's Courthouse. Free. Meet at MP 422.4 CARL SANDBURG HOME NHS 1800 Little River Road, Flat Rock, 828-693-4178, nps.gov/carl • WE (10/17), 9am5pm - 50th anniversary celebration of national historic site with open house, live music, tours and a reading of "We The People." Admission fees apply. CHIMNEY ROCK STATE PARK 431 Main St., Chimney Rock, 828625-9611, chimneyrockpark. com • SA (10/20), 7:309:30pm - "Naturalist Niche: Nature at Night," familyfriendly guided night hike. Registration required. Admission fees apply. MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • SA (10/20), 9am4pm - Educational four-mile guided hike through Pisgah National Forest with ecologist Bob Gale. Register for location. $35/$10 members. PISGAH ASTRONOMICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE 1 PARI Drive, Rosman, 828-8625554, pari.edu • SA (10/20), 5:3010pm - "Frightful Friendfest," familyfriendly event featuring hayrides,

storytelling, bonfire, optional dinner, tour and night-sky viewing. $25/$15 students.

in the Elm Building, Room 214. Held at AB Tech, 340 Victoria Road

bit.ly/2Nq1sIC. Free. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • SA (10/20), 1-4pm - Wildlife photo hunt competition for all ages. Free.

PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu • MO (10/22), 7:30pm - "Artifacts from Fort San Juan and the Stories They Tell," presented by Professor David Moore. Free. Held at UNCA’s Rhoades Robinson Hall, Room 125

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PUBLIC EVENTS AT WCU 828-227-7397, bardoartscenter.edu • WE (10/17), 11am4pm - Proceeds from this outdoor gear sale and swap benefit Base Camp Cullowhee. Free to attend. Held at A.K. Hinds University Center, Memorial Drive, Cullowhee

PARENTING CAROLINA DAY SCHOOL 1345 Hendersonville Road, 828-274-0757, alawing@carolinaday. org • WE (10/17) 9-10am - Lower school admission question and answer session. For grades K-5. Free to attend.

PUBLIC LECTURES ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE 828-687-7759, aeu.org • SU (10/21), 2-3:30pm “Conversations with America: Confronting the Divisive Challenges of Our Time,” lecture by Randy Bell. Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road LENOIR RHYNE CENTER FOR GRADUATE STUDIES 36 Montford Ave., 828-778-1874 • TU (10/23), 5:30-8pm "Communicating Science," presentation by Dr. Melissa Booth, professor of sustainability studies. Free. PUBLIC LECTURES AT A-B TECH 828-398-7852, abtech.edu, marthagball@abtech. edu • WE (10/17), 7-9pm - Local panelists explore death, dying and the soul from Buddhist, Jewish, Indigenous, Contemplative and Eastern Indian traditions. Informal discussion and snacks follow the talk. Free. Held

PUBLIC LECTURES AT WCU bardoartscenter.edu • WE (10/17), 4pm “The U.S. Army and Nuclear Deterrence, 1955-1991: A European Historical Context” presentation by David Dorondo as part of the Carolina Roundtable on the World Wars. Free. Held in Room 211, WCU’s Health and Human Sciences Building • MO (10/22), 5-6:15pm Distinguished Lecture Series: Lecture by Ken Langone, philanthropist and co-founder of Home Depot. Free. Held at A.K. Hinds University Center, Memorial Drive Cullowhee • TU (10/23), 7pm Lecture by political commentator, community organizer and independent journalist Rosa Clemente. Free. Held at A.K. Hinds University Center, Memorial Drive Cullowhee THE COLLIDER 1 Haywood St., Suite 401, 1828, thecollider.org/ • FR (10/19), 5:307pm - Science Pub: "The Opioid Crisis," lecture by Katie Leiner of MAHEC. Free.

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and to explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural, and outdoor activities. Visit www.ashevillenewfriends.org OLLI AT UNCA 828-251-6140, olliasheville.com • TH (10/18), 7-9pm - Advance care planning workshop with a panel of medical and legal experts. Participants can come away with legally executed, notarized Health Care Power of Attorney and Living Will. Inforamtion:

1 Campus View Road • MONDAYS (10/15) until (10/29), 2-4pm - “Navigating a Dementia Diagnosis,” program sponsored by The Alzheimer’s Association of Western Carolina Chapter. Registration: 1-800-272-3900. Free.

SPIRITUALITY ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Stellar Counseling Services. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. DE-STRESS, GET HAPPY & CONNECT! (PD.) Mindfulness Meditation at the Asheville Insight Meditation Center. Group Meditation: Weekly on Thursdays at 7pm & Sundays at 10am. ashevillemeditation. com, info@ashevillemeditation.com. LEARN TO MEDITATE (PD.) Introduction to Mindfulness Meditation class at Asheville Insight Meditation Center, 1st & 3rd Mondays of each month at 7pm – 8:30pm. ashevillemeditation. com, info@ashevillemeditation.com. DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE 5 Ravenscroft Drive • 3rd SATURDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm "Dances of Universal Peace," spiritual group dances that blend chanting, live music and movement. No experience necessary. Admission by donation. GRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH 1245 6th Ave W, Hendersonville, 828-693-4890, gracelutherannc.com • Fourth TUESDAYS, 10am - Volunteer to knit or crochet prayer shawls for community members in need. Free.

GROCE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH 954 Tunnel Road, 828-298-6195, groceumc.org • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - A Course in Miracles, study group. Information: 828-7125472. Free. PARISH OF ST. EUGENE 72 Culvern St., ststeugene.org • TH (10/25), 10amnoon - "What is Christian Zionism? How Does It Impact US Foreign Policy?" presntation by Rev. Donald Wagner. Free.

12 BASKETS CAFE 610 Haywood Road, 828-231-4169, ashevillepovertyinitiative.org • TUESDAYS 10am Volunteer orientation. ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS ashevilleprisonbooks@ gmail.com • 3rd SUNDAYS, 1-3pm - Volunteer to send books in response to inmate requests in North and South Carolina. Information: avlcommunityaction.com or

ashevilleprisonbooks@ gmail.com. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road DR. WESLEY GRANT SR. SOUTHSIDE CENTER 285 Livingston St., 828-259-5483 • WE (10/17), 7-8:30pm Presentation by Doctors Without Borders followed by a question and answer session. Free.

RIVERSIDE DRIVE CLEANUP fb.me/ riverside.drive.cleanup • SA (10/20), 10am2pm - Volunteer to help clean up Riverside Drive. Meet at Ingles Parking Lot, 915 Merrimon Ave. to carpool to Riverside Drive THE FREE CLINICS 841 Case St, Hendersonville • TH (10/25), 10-11am - Volunteer information session.

TRAUMA INTERVENTION PROGRAM OF WNC 828-513-0498, tipofwnc.org • Through (10/24) Applications accepted for crisis team volunteers. Training will be held Thursday, Oct. 25 through Saturday, Nov. 3. Registration and information: tipofwnc.org or 828-5954391. Held at Skyland Fire Department, 9 Miller Road, Skyland

RIVERFRONT PARK 101 Mitchell St., Bryson City • SA (10/20), 2-9pm - I Love Jesus Fest, outdoor event featuring live music, spoken word and sermons. Free to attend. SOKA GAKKAI ASHEVILLE 828-253-4710 • 3rd SUNDAYS, 11am - Introduction to Nichiren Buddhism meeting. Free. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 610-002 Haywood Road THE CENTER FOR ART AND SPIRIT AT ST. GEORGE'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 1 School Road, 828-258-0211 • TUESDAYS 7-8:30pm - Mountain Mindfulness Sangha. Admission by donation.

SPORTS ASHEVILLE WOMEN’S RUGBY ashevillewomensrugby. com, ashevillewomensrugby@gmail.com • Through SA (11/10) - Open registration for the fall season. No experience necessary to participate. Free.

VOLUNTEERING LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION (PD.) Tue. (11/6) 5:30pm, Thurs.(11/8) 9:00am - Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling, and English language skills. Free. www.litcouncil.com

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BY KIESA KAY kiesakay@gmail.com Leigh walked into the family nurse practitioner’s office and burst into tears. She had no insurance, a toddler to raise and a serious substance use problem. Now she was pregnant with her second child. “I sat there sobbing, pregnant and scared,” Leigh remembers. “There was no way I could pass a urine drug test, and I needed help.” Drugs had wreaked havoc in her life. Leigh had faced jail time and survived an overdose. She went to that first prenatal appointment at the Mountain Area Health Education Center full of fear and expecting judgment and a lecture. Still, she was ready to risk whatever it took to seek survival for herself, her child and the baby inside her. “I had a special-needs child, zero support and no coping strategies,” she says. Her provider was Melinda Ramage, clinical director and co-founder of Project CARA, MAHEC’s perinatal substance-use treatment program. “Melinda Ramage did not bat an eye,” Leigh recalls. “She hugged me and she said, ‘We’re going to be good friends. We’re going to take such good care of you.’” Leigh had wanted a quick fix for her troubles. At MAHEC, she got quick kindness, but it took intense work to recover from her substance-use disorder. She has no regrets about reaching for help. “Project CARA saved my life,” Leigh says. “It was the first time anyone taught me to respect myself.” SAFE SPACE Project CARA stands for Care that Advocates for Respect, Resilience and Recovery for All. Leigh came to the project in its formative stages, when the co-founders were working on building a program housed at MAHEC Ob/ Gyn Specialists to decrease barriers and the stigma that prevents pregnant women with substanceuse disorders from getting quality obstetrical care as well as access to substance-use treatment. 26

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MOTHER LOVE: Project CARA enables pregnant mothers to access a variety of community-based services, including those provided by, from left, Marie Gannon and Melinda Ramage of MAHEC; Tammy Cody of Mission Hospital Perinatal Substance Use Project; Angelique Ward of Vaya Health; and Denise Weegar of Women’s Recovery Center. Photo courtesy of MAHEC Last year, Project CARA provided services to 230 women with substance-use disorders from 16 WNC counties. According to researchers working with the project, roughly 400 babies born in the Mission Health system over the same year had exposure to illicit drugs while in utero. While deliveries at Mission don’t account for all births in the region, these numbers suggest that a substantial portion of area mothers who gave birth with a substance-use disorder were offered some form of substance-use treatment during their pregnancies. MAHEC adds, “Research on the program has demonstrated that women who participated in CARA in 2017 were 36.5 percent less likely to test positive at delivery for illicit drugs than women tested at delivery prior to Project CARA’s inception in 2014.” Project CARA works with patients to create individualized action plans

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in which health takes precedence over other concerns. “If we want healthy moms, we have to give them a safe space where they can let us know they need help,” Ramage said. Project CARA, housed at MAHEC’s high-risk obstetrics unit, includes partnerships with the Women’s Recovery Center, Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center, Vaya Health and Mission Hospital’s Perinatal Substance Exposure Project. Together they provide substance-use treatment and recovery services, obstetrical care and community-based support. The team members keep each others’ numbers on speed dial, so they can make referrals to support each woman’s unique needs. “We’re taking the fear out of getting treatment,” says Tammy Cody, director of Mission’s Perinatal Substance Exposure Project. “Our collaboration strengthens obstetrical and gynecological care, and

helps us make a plan for safe care for moms and babies.” HEALTHY PREGNANCY AND BEYOND Marie Gannon, behavioral health director and co-founder of Project CARA, had worked in substance use treatment for 15 years but was first drawn to working with pregnant women during her own pregnancy. She realized then how stressful pregnancy and the postpartum period could be, especially when coupled with a chronic disease like a substance-use disorder. “Care coordination extends 18 months,” says Angelique Ward, a peer support specialist who works with Project CARA patients through Vaya Health. “We meet and work with mothers during their pregnancy for as long after delivery as they need.” Three years after Leigh first visited MAHEC, she returned to Project CARA, pregnant again. This time,

she was in sustained recovery from her substance-use disorder, and she wanted extra support to ensure she stayed clean and sober. “I had gotten off drugs and I didn’t want to go back,” Leigh says. “I had a [cesarean] section with my previous pregnancy, and I was having a hard time finding a provider who would listen to my concerns about being prescribed opioids if I needed another C-section.” Women with substance use disorders are at greater risk for relapse during pregnancy. Leigh felt so determined not to relapse that she refused to take anything but overthe-counter medications for pain relief, even when she did end up requiring a second C-section. The staff at Project CARA helped her advocate for the childbirth experience that felt safe and right for her. “Substance-use disorder is a brain-based disease, not a failure of willpower,” Gannon explains. “Chronic diseases require individually tailored medical interventions and sustained care.” Project CARA’s partners work together to remove barriers to health, whether that means providing trans-

portation to a prenatal visit or helping secure safe housing or getting a patient signed up for the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, known as WIC. They also help women heal from the trauma that underlies addiction. “You can be addicted to anything — alcohol, spending money, cookies — you can overindulge in anything,” Ward said. “We work to get to the source of the addiction.”

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the opioid epidemic, and the agencies partnering on Project CARA hope to apply some of those funds to help pregnant women. Nationwide, health care costs associated with maternal opioid use and hospital stays to treat neonatal abstinence syndrome total $1.5 billion annually, and 81 percent of that amount is paid by state Medicaid funds, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. “Success is different for every woman,” Gannon says. “For some of our patients, success is going home from the hospital with their baby. For others, it’s having extended family care for their baby while they build a stronger foundation in recovery. Whatever their goals are, we help them create a plan that supports them.” Denise Weegar, director of Women’s Recovery Center, says that Project CARA has had good results, with many mothers going home with their babies and sustaining their recovery after childbirth. Being treated with dignity and respect helps them heal. Receiving services through Project CARA also helps demonstrate mothers’ commitment to recovery, which can help them keep their families intact if social

service agencies become involved in their lives. “Women are active participants in their own plans here,” Weegar says. “We hear over and over that it’s the first time some of the women realize that they are worthy of care themselves. We build relationships, so each person can find a way back here when they’re ready.” Weegar says that Project CARA has been the starting point for many recovery journeys. She has been in her own recovery while supporting other women in theirs for more than 25 years. FINDING HER TRIBE When a person walks away from drug use, she often has walked away from her circle of friends, too. Besides helping her through two pregnancies, Project CARA has helped Leigh find community support. “I now have a tribe of support with my fiancée, aunts, uncles, grandparents and friends,” Leigh says. “A lot of good came with me being willing to talk about my substance-use disorder. Every day that I wake up sober and healthy, a mom taking care of my family, is another opportunity to rebuild trust.”

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BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com Josh Dorfman, CEO of The Collider in downtown Asheville, knows that many of the world’s biggest companies in the food and beverage industry are thinking about climate change. Drought, extreme heat, unusual rainfall events — the business leaders easily list their hazards and express their concerns. And that, he says, is a problem. Climate awareness itself is valuable, Dorfman clarifies. But too often, the corporate attitude he encounters is solely focused on some undefined future and disconnected from the data he constantly observes coming from the nearby Asheville headquarters of the National Centers for Environmental Information. “I think there’s more on the line than many people understand. Because when you’re close to the data and you’re close to the science, you understand that the climate is already changing,” Dorfman explains. “You’ve got risk in your business today.” On Tuesday, Oct. 23, the [Food + Beverage] Collider conference will bring together representatives from local, national and global companies that have started to make the move from thought to action. By creating connections among these leaders, Dorfman wants to build momentum for resilient responses to climate change. The conference takes on added importance in light of the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, released on Oct. 8 (avl.mx/5cx). The report notes that extreme weather and rising sea levels have already resulted from a 1-degree Celsius increase in global temperatures; only “rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society,” according to an international coalition of 91 scientists, would limit warming below 1.5 degrees. “It’s like the playing field that everyone’s playing on — that the economy’s playing on, that companies are playing on, that the government’s playing on — that playing field is starting to erode,” Dorfman says. A STEP AHEAD [Food + Beverage] Collider, Dorfman says, will not focus on cli30

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CLIMATE CONVERSATIONS: Downtown Asheville’s The Collider plays host to representatives from the food and beverage industry on Tuesday, Oct. 23, to discuss business adaptations in the face of climate change. Photo courtesy of The Collider mate change mitigation strategies such as moving to alternative energy or using recyclable packaging. Those actions, while critical for the planet’s coming decades, don’t address the risks that companies face in the present. “This is not the conference where we put people on stage and say, ‘Tell us your solution to climate change,” he emphasizes. Instead, The Collider has brought in business representatives who are adapting their operations to stay successful in a changing climate. Dorfman points to speaker Nick Troiano, commodity research manager and lead meteorologist for candymaker and food conglomerate Mars, as an example of this approach. Troiano creates long-term weather forecasts for areas that grow products such as peanuts and tree nuts, thus helping his company avoid expensive disruptions to its manufacturing. Other speakers include Greg Lowe, global head of resilience and sustainability for consulting firm Aon; David Kuhn, relationship manager with the World Wildlife Fund; and Svante Persson, senior operations specialist with the Inter-American Development Bank. Two attendees — Kim Ionescu of the Specialty Coffee Association and Meredith Taylor with Counter Culture

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Coffee — will discuss the caffeinated crop Dorfman calls “the canary in the coal mine” for agricultural businesses. The Collider cast a wide net for this lineup, Dorfman notes, because companies with proactive climate strategies are rare. He shares what he says is a typical story of a COO for an unnamed “very well-known food company,” who lamented his business’s inability to procure its usual California almonds due to drought. While the executive was annoyed, he found another temporary source before resuming business as usual. “‘We know [climate change] is out there, but until it starts to impact our bottom line, we’ve got other things to worry about,’” Dorfman recalls the COO saying. “The awareness is there, but it hasn’t fully translated into ‘This is risk caused by climate change that’s going to cost you money unless you deal with it.’” HERE AND NOW Local involvement in the conference comes mostly through a series of pre-event field trips to companies such as French Broad Chocolates and New Belgium Brewing, scheduled for Monday, Oct. 22. The Collider calls

Asheville “Climate City,” Dorfman says, partly because such businesses share a “cultural ethos” about climate change and environmental impact. “There’s a deeper commitment to showing that business can be a positive force for good, and that’s the kind of company we want to expose visitors to,” he explains. Sarah Fraser, sustainability specialist with New Belgium, says her tour for conference attendees will highlight the company’s LEED-certified buildings and energy-efficient brewing equipment. But she will also discuss how the campus’s very presence in Asheville is itself a conscious response to climate risk. New Belgium’s original brewery is located in the relatively arid climate of Ft. Collins, Colo., Fraser notes, and water is the most important ingredient in beer by volume. After a series of droughts in the Western United States, she says, “I think we realized our second brewery needed to be in a place where hopefully that’s not going to happen for us.” Additionally, locating in Asheville somewhat reduces New Belgium’s exposure to changes in fossil fuel prices or regulation. After the company commissioned an analysis of carbon emissions for its flagship Fat Tire ale, Fraser says, it found that transportation to East Coast

FALL IS FOR PLANTING! markets was a major contributor. The brewery’s newfound proximity to those markets saves roughly 2 million shipping miles per year. In Weaverville, attendees will be able take a farm tour with Evan Chender, better known as The Culinary Gardener. At his intensively cultivated single acre, the restaurant-oriented grower wants food company executives to get acquainted up close with the challenges climate poses to small-scale producers. Chender says this year has been particularly difficult for his farm due to the huge amounts of rainfall dumped by the remnants of Subtropical Storm Alberto, as well as Hurricanes Florence and Michael; climate change is likely making tropical storms wetter and more intense, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. He also references multiple years of unusually cold winters, which have complicated his efforts to grow crops year-round. “The lack of normalcy in climate is something that I’m very aware of,” Chender says. “I think no one can really have enough exposure to the real effort involved and the struggle — the constant struggle — in producing highquality vegetables and herbs and flow-

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G REEN SC E N E “The underlying truth of all of this is that soil is everything,” Warren says. “Who’s going to tend to soils? It’s going to be people who are in love with their land, who are in love with their communities, who are in love with all that it means to be of place.” National and global corporations, Warren argues, aren’t prepared to make truly major shifts to their production models. While some big companies might enact incremental changes like moving from synthetic to organic pesticides, she says, they are reluctant to abandon single-crop fields or embrace soil-building practices that might slow the short-term pace of growth. “Shifting significantly is what we need to do, and the big systems don’t shift significantly. They don’t shift quickly,” Warren says. “I feel like the local, the small, the grassroots, can really affect a lot of change, especially if consumers get onboard.” Dorfman sympathizes with those values, saying he often personally chooses to patronize local food businesses. But with the global food and agribusiness sector valued at over $5 trillion, he believes it’s unrealistic to expect massive changes overnight. By encouraging all businesses, including large corporations, to gradually shift in response to climate change, Dorfman and The Collider aim to smooth the transition to a new type of food economy. “What happens if some of those global companies disappear? It doesn’t mean necessarily that the world that one envisions or hopes for is what you get,” Dorfman says. “We try to help organizations of all sizes adapt and become resilient. Because the downsides of not doing that are way too severe for us to throw our hands up and not engage.”

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BOOTS ON THE GROUND: Evan Chender, better known as The Culinary Gardener, will open his operation to attendees for a farm tour the day before the conference. Photo courtesy of Evan Chender LONG ROW TO HOE Laura Lengnick, former director of Warren Wilson College’s sustainability education program and owner of consulting firm Cultivating Resilience, says all companies can play a role in climate adaptation. While not involved in the conference, she notes that the role of corporations in particular will involve a re-evaluation of business as usual. “Those companies that are genuinely investing to build wealth and improve

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natural resources and increase human capacity at the local level are part of the solution,” Lengnick explains. “That has not been the pattern of corporate behavior. It’s more been exploit, extract and accumulate wealth within the company.” According to resilience thinking, Lengnick says, distributing resources more evenly throughout a system protects the entire system from failure. Translated to agribusiness, that could mean more equitable sharing of profit between the companies that process food

and the farmers that grow it. With additional funding, she suggests, farmers would be better prepared to bounce back after climate disturbances. Chender notes that The Culinary Gardener has already experienced difficulty adapting to climate change due to shortfalls in capital. A drainage project in his fields to handle more intense rains, for example, ate up roughly half of his profits for the year, reducing his flexibility in other parts of his business. He says it’s sometimes hard to prioritize sustainability when the money gets tight. Even New Belgium, with an estimated revenue of $225 million in 2015, has yet to reckon with all the potential impacts of climate change on its business. Fraser recalls how, in 2014, unusually warm and wet conditions in Idaho led to barley — the source of malt for beer — sprouting in the field at harvest time, which made it unsuitable for anything but cattle feed. “If that had happened in consecutive years, or if it happened in multiple places where barley is grown, it definitely could’ve led to a shortage,” Fraser says. “I think we’re thinking about that; I don’t know that we’re quite there with ‘What are we going to do about it?’” Lengnick urges not only companies, but also governments, to move beyond thinking on climate change. “There is too much effort to just protect the system that we have now. I think we need to get much more courageous about the signals we’re giving to society,” she says. “Take what we know and get started. It won’t be perfect, and that’s OK.” At The Collider, Dorfman hopes the conference will inspire just that sense of action. But where such changes will take the world, he says, remains unknown. “I don’t know how that ultimately plays out. Does the economy look the same 50 years in the future as it does now? Unlikely.” X

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Slow Food Asheville and Twin Leaf Brewery raise a pint to the North Georgia candy roaster squash

Since the project began in 2015, SFA has handed out Nancy Hall sweet potato slips, Cherokee Trail of Tears beans and Cherokee Purple tomato plants for community members and farmers to grow. Volunteers for the project go to local tailgate markets and festivals each spring to give away free seeds and plants as an incentive for community members to get involved and learn about the varieties. The heritage foods are chosen for different reasons. “We wanted to pick a squash this year,” says Landry. “It’s such a cool plant to see grow and tastes so good.” Heritage varieties specific to this region tend to be more tolerant of and acclimated to local weather patterns in addition to being resistant to certain types of disease, she explains. This year, the organization distributed almost 4,000 North Georgia candy roaster seeds, Landry reports. Participants were asked to plant the seeds and invited to bring back a squash this fall to go into Twin Leaf’s special brew. When the candy roaster beer rolls out on Oct. 25, the group will hold a potluck showcasing dishes made with the squash. “It’s free and open to the public. People can bring a dish if they want to, but if you want to just come and hang out and try the beer, you can do that, too,” says Landry.

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GOING BIG: Arthur Cleary holds a giant candy roaster squash that was grown in Madison County. Slow Food Asheville and Twin Leaf Brewery celebrate the heirloom North Georgia candy roaster variety with an Oct. 25 beer release and potluck event. Photo by Cathy Cleary

BY CATHY CLEARY cathy@thecookandgarden.com As breweries all around Asheville celebrate fall with pumpkin beers, Twin Leaf Brewery will serve something a little different this year — North Georgia Candy Roaster Grisette Ale. Slow Food Asheville’s 2018 Heritage Foods Project culminates with an event honoring this large, long-keeping, sweet-fleshed variety of winter squash 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25, at Twin Leaf.

Each year, the organization chooses a particular heritage or heirloom fruit or vegetable to focus on — these are older cultivars, often isolated to a particular region or community. As SFA board President Abby Landry explains, “The goal is to highlight a food specific to this region and bring awareness to heritage varieties, ways that we can cook with it, ways that we can save the seed for the future and keep this variety around for the future because so many heritage varieties have died out over time.”

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• WE (10/24), 6-8pm Annual Gathering with presentations. $30 for non-members. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St. THE COLLIDER 1 Haywood St., Suite 401, 1828, thecollider.org/ • SU (10/21), 9am4:30pm - Climate Data Hackathon: “Global Coffee Supply,” event providing climate data for discussions. $15.

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Part of the proceeds from sales of the beer will go to a 4-H program in Cherokee that works with youths and supports programs around heritage gardening. This spring, SFA donated seeds to the group for its Three Sisters garden, which features heritage varieties of corn, beans and squash. The money raised from sales of the candy roaster beer will help expand this garden next year. Landry hopes the gathering at Twin Leaf Brewery will help SFA spread the word about this and other projects the organization facilitates. “I think we’re going to pull in a different type of audience by having it at the brewery,” she says. “We might have people there that have never heard of SFA, and it’s a good organization for people to know about.” X

WHAT Slow Food Asheville’s North Georgia Candy Roaster Celebration WHERE Twin Leaf Brewery 144 Coxe Ave. slowfoodasheville.com/events WHEN 6-8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 25

Ready for Next Year,” workshop. Registration required. Free. Held at Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Office, 49 Mount Carmel Road HENDERSON COUNTY COOPERATIVE EXTENSION OFFICE 828-697-4891 • MO (10/22), 6:30pm - “Native Plants of the WNC Mountains,” workshop. Registration required. Free. Held at Henderson County Cooperative Extension Office, 100 Jackson Park Road, Hendersonville LIVING WEB FARMS 828-891-4497, livingwebfarms.org • TU (10/23), 6-7:30pm “Introduction to the Skill of Water Dowsing,” class. Registration required. $10. Held at Living Web Farms, 176 Kimzey Road, Mills River

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If you have experienced crisp slices of persimmon on top of a salad or in an açaí bowl, or seen the baseball-sized orange globes in grocery stores, you have likely experienced a different confection altogether. Although delicious, these large, firm fruits are not American persimmons. “Asian varieties of persimmon don’t have to soften to be edible; they are much larger and not as sweet. They taste different,” explains Craig Mauney, Henderson County Cooperative Extension agent. “Asian persimmons keep longer and are easier to ship than our native species, which

hardly ever make it to grocery store shelves.” American persimmons are smaller and sweeter, but typically have more seeds and perish faster than their Asian cousins. But perhaps one of the bitterest challenges to the popularity of these orange delicacies is the astringent nature of the not-quite-ripe fruit — the unpleasant tannic flavor can turn off even the most devoted persimmon fan. A perfectly ripe or even slightly overripe wild American persimmon melts in your mouth with a “dark, earthy caramel flavor,” says Bill Whipple, farmer and founder

of the Acornucopia Project. “I have a cultivar that I pick almost daily — the ripe ones almost fall off in my hand and are really soft. Then I tug on the little hat, and if the hat comes off easily, it’s ready.” The “hat” he references is the brown caplike part of the stem that stays attached to the fruit when picked. Cultivated American varieties like the one Whipple describes are bred for certain qualities and tend to have less astringency but still need to be soft for an optimal citrusy, sweet, slightly acidic flavor. Much lore surrounds the perfect time to harvest and eat American persimmons, including the assertion that they must undergo a frost before the best flavor can be experienced. A neighbor once told me this frost can be simulated by picking ripe fruit and putting it in the freezer before thawing and eating it. Although in my experience, putting somewhat astringent per-

AUNT MILDRED’S PERSIMMON PUDDING From Cathy Cleary • 2 cups persimmon pulp, puréed • 1 stick (½ cup) butter, melted • ½ cup sugar • ½ cup sorghum molasses • 1 cup buttermilk • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract • 2 eggs • 2 cups flour • 1 teaspoon cinnamon • ½ teaspoon baking soda • ½ teaspoon salt Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix together persimmon pulp, butter, sugar, sorghum, buttermilk and vanilla. Whisk eggs into wet ingredients. In another large bowl, sift together flour, cinnamon, soda and salt. Add wet ingredients and fold together. Pour batter into a greased 9-inch by 13-inch baking pan or two 8-inch pans. Bake for 35-45 minutes until set in the center and browned on the edges.

simmons in the freezer did seem to reduce tannic flavors, horticulturist and permaculture designer Monica Williams says that’s not necessary for all varieties. “This whole thing of persimmons needing to undergo frost to be good — well, that’s not true,” she says. “We’ve been eating persimmons for weeks now, and it’s the beginning of October.” Christopher Parker, forager and owner of Asheville Fungi, corroborates this story. “I don’t necessarily have a favorite variety, because I’m collecting wild persimmons,” he says. “But I do have trees that I go back to year after year because they consistently have sweet, not bitter, fruit, while another tree 10 feet away will be bitter.” He thinks it’s possible that frost is helpful, but that notion may really be connected with what time of year persimmons are ripe. “I think that’s where the idea comes from, because they typically are ripe around the time of the first frost.” Wild persimmons often have lots of seeds, while some cultivated American varieties are virtually seedless. When asked the best way to process a persimmon to remove the seeds, Williams says, “In my mouth with my tongue.” Mauney has a different approach. “We call it pulping out. You can use a machine — there’s machines that do that,” he says. “Most people locally or small growers use a colander to separate the seeds and the skins from the pulp. Food mills work, too.” Once persimmons are processed, the pulp resembles orange-colored apple butter. Many historical references talk about baking persimmons into a pudding, a moist cake with the consistency of a really good brownie. Squares of persimmon pudding are sold at the Colfax Persimmon Festival, held each fall just outside Winston-Salem. “There’s also persimmon ice cream, cookies and bread,” says event host Gene Stafford. “We show people how to process the pulp, and we sell that, too.” Stafford spends weeks before the festival harvesting wild persimmons on his farm and the surrounding woods, freezing them as he goes. “We give out samples of frozen persimmons,” he says. “They are like candy.” Mauney goes to the festival each year and often buys 50 or 60 pounds of persimmons just to have in the freezer. He then pulls out what he

needs to make ice cream, cookies and puddings throughout the year. Some people feel that cooking persimmons causes them to lose their delicate flavor. Whipple prefers them raw, saying roasted chestnuts and persimmons are a good pairing. “They come in at the same time of the year; of course, that’s always nice,” he says. After thinking for a minute, he adds, “You could do a ‘Tuscalachian’ dessert plate with persimmon, roasted chestnuts, some goat cheese and maybe a sprig of rosemary to make it really pretty, maybe a fig.” Whipple is making it up as he goes along, but his catchy-sounding Tuscalachian dish would probably do well on menus at Asheville’s upscale eateries. Diospyros, the botanical name for persimmon, means fruit of the gods. And Williams says, “It makes so much sense. It really is this amazing fruit if you eat them at the right time.” X

PERSIMMON VENISON BACKSTRAP AND BLEWITS From Christopher Parker • ½ pound or so of fresh blewit mushrooms, sliced • 1 cup of persimmon pulp (American persimmons, of course) • 4 tablespoons butter • 1½ pounds venison backstrap

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What do coq au vin, falafel and dandelion jelly have in common? Answer: They’re all dishes that help make up the culinary history of the John C. Campbell Folk School, and they’re all featured in the school’s latest cookbook. Released in late July, The Folk School Cookbook: A Collection of Seasonal Favorites from John C. Campbell Folk School is the third compilation of recipes the Brasstown school has published since it was established in 1925 by Olive Dame Campbell and Marguerite Butler. (Favorite Recipes of the John C. Campbell Folk School came out in 1971, followed by Recipes for Creative Living in 1991.) The hefty, self-published volume beautifully shares a sense of the school’s Danish folkehøgskole, or folk high school, ethos through lush color photographs and seasonally organized recipes neatly interspersed with concise, informative text. Fostering community through preparing and enjoying food together is central to the folkehøgskole concept, says author Nanette Davidson, who began her relationship with the folk school as a teenager in the 1970s. Folkehøgskole encourages a cooperative, noncompetitive learning environment where students feel free to try new things without pressure to achieve perfect results. “The process, to us, is as important as the end product,” says Davidson. “Meal times are really important for helping people continue to build this feeling of community.” After her initial, life-altering experiences as a young person at the folk school, Davidson went on to be a production craftsperson and weaver as well as a cook, food preserver and gardener at the school. In 1999, her husband, Jan Davidson, who served as executive director of the school for 25 years, added culinary courses to its existing crafts curriculum. “I was given the task to create the cooking program and help outfit the studio with all the equipment we needed and design the program and source instructors and all that kind of stuff,” says Nanette. Since then, she has also worked closely with the dining hall chefs, who serve three meals a day to students housed on-site for the weeklong programs at the remote Western North Carolina campus. In compiling the cookbook, Davidson drew on her nearly two decades of experience in selecting and creating

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A new cookbook tells the nearly century-old culinary story of John C. Campbell Folk School

CULINARY CHRONOLOGY: In the recently released Folk School Cookbook, Nanette Davidson explores the history and community-focused ethos of the John C. Campbell Folk School through its recipes and food traditions. Photo by Keather Gougler recipes for classes, as well as her relationships with the folk school’s dining hall staff from the 1970s to the present. She also sourced historic recipes from the school’s previous two collections. “So the story kind of unfolds as you read the recipe and chapter introductions and sidebars,” she says. “I know people sometimes just look at the pictures and maybe cook a recipe, but the words kind of help tell the whole story as well.” As one might expect of a nearly century-old craft school in Appalachia, there are a number of tried-and-true comfort food recipes to be found,

including one for whole-wheat bread that’s been served weekly in the dining hall for at least five decades, plus buttermilk fried chicken, apple upside-down cake, sorghum-glazed baked ham and the like. But many of the dishes feel fresh, light and global — grilled tempeh and shiitake salad, masoor dal and Moroccan chicken stew, for example. This diversity, says Davidson, reflects the school’s beginnings as an Appalachian farm school and its evolution into a craft school with a broad-ranging curriculum and multicultural base of students from all

over the nation and world. A major development was the addition of meatless entrées to the dining hall’s family-style meals. “We recognized that there are a lot of amazing vegetarian foods in international cuisines — Indian, Mediterranean and other parts of the world where meat is not consumed as wholeheartedly as it is here in the American South.” The folk school culinary curriculum currently offers 38 weeklong intensives per year and four weekend classes. “We just run the gamut of any kind of cookery technique we think is interesting,” says Davidson, listing courses in cheesemaking, charcuterie, chocolate-making, fermenting and home preserving, wood-fired oven management and ethnic cuisines ranging from French to Indian to Scottish. Cooking instructor Barbara Swell, one of many Asheville culinary professionals who teach (and attend) classes at the folk school, consulted on and helped edit the cookbook. “I just love it,” she says. “My own shelves are crowded with cookbooks — some I refer to, some are old friends — and this Folk School Cookbook is one that inspires me often, because the recipes are for the sorts of things whose ingredients most home cooks are likely to have in their pantries.” Notable is the book’s rich variety of photos depicting not only the food, but also daily life on campus throughout the seasons. Many of the images are the handiwork of folk school marketing and communications director Keather Gougler, who dipped into a huge backlog of gorgeous photography she’d done for course catalogs over the years. Gougler was also responsible for the cookbook’s design and layout. The book, which is now in its second printing, has been available at the school’s shop and online, as well as at Malaprop’s and Villagers in Asheville and City Lights in Sylva. But Davidson would like to see it go farther afield. “We want people to learn about this folk school concept and how sweet it is,” she says. “This is a way to try and embrace strangers — people don’t know each other when they come into this environment, and they are literally thrown together. ... But they really get to know each other pretty well in a week, and it changes people’s lives.” For details on the John C. Campbell Folk School and The Folk School Cookbook, visit folkschool.org. X

NANETTE’S APPLE CHUTNEY

CAN DO: Nanette Davidson, author of The Folk School Cookbook, created this fall chutney recipe, which is good either for refrigeration or canning. Photo by Keather Gougler From The Folk School Cookbook Makes 6-8 pints • Three lemons • 3 pounds cooking apples, peeled, cored and diced • 1 cup white sugar • 2 tablespoons oil • Two red onions, minced • 1½ cups brown sugar • 1½ cups cider vinegar • Two cinnamon sticks • 1 tablespoon mustard seeds • 1 teaspoon salt • Eight whole cloves • 1 pound raisins, currants or chopped dried figs In a large ceramic or glass bowl, place the grated zest and juice of the lemons. Add the apples and toss well to coat. Stir in white sugar. In a nonreactive, shallow jam pan, cook the oil and onions together over medium heat until the onions are translucent and tender, five to eight minutes. Add the apples to the pan along with the brown sugar, vinegar, cinnamon sticks, mustard seeds, salt and cloves. Cook gently at a simmer for about 10-15 minutes. Add raisins, currants or figs, then cook for another 10 minutes or until well-blended and slightly thick. The chutney will continue to thicken as it cools. Taste for proper balance of sweet, sour and salty. Store tightly covered in the refrigerator for up to one month, or follow safe water-bath canning methods to process in pint jars with ½-inch headspace for 15 minutes. Allow to cool before storing. (NOTE: If canning, follow exactly as written. Recipe may be halved, but do not double it.)

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ROLLING ALONG: Katie Button plans for her new bagel shop on South Lexington Avenue to be open by the end of October. Photo by Paul Clark Katie Button, whose Asheville Spanish tapas restaurant, Cúrate, has garnered international attention, is set to open a bagel shop downtown. Button & Co. Bagels launches later this month on South Lexington Avenue on the ground floor of Nightbell, a small-plates restaurant that Button owns and runs in conjunction with Cúrate. Like the other two restaurants, Button & Co. Bagels will incorporate local ingredients into its offerings. Button was born in South Carolina but grew up in New Jersey, “and you can’t live in the New Jersey, New York area without developing an extreme passion for bagels and all things bagels,” she says. “We moved to Asheville because it’s a wonderful place to live, but a bagel shop where you can get smoked fish and a pastrami bagel sandwich is definitely something I always really wanted.” Button & Co. Bagels will specialize in New York-style bagels, boiled and 38

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baked. The flour it will use will combine low-gluten spring wheat from Carolina Ground in Asheville with high-gluten winter wheat used in bagels up north. The bagels, naturally leavened from the restaurant’s own starter, will get their sheen from being boiled with a bit of locally made sorghum, replacing the barley malt they’re boiled in in New York and the honey in Montreal. The restaurant, which will seat about 30 people, is partnering with Three Graces Dairy in Marshall to create a topping “that’s better than cream cheese,” Button says. A version of sable, which is traditionally seasoned with paprika, will be made with smoked trout from Sunburst Trout Farms and Western North Carolina sumac. The café will also make its own jams and pickles and will offer sweet treats, too. Recently, Button was testing a caramel swirl brownie and a sweet potato pie. She is also working up a recipe for

that staple of bagel shops, the black and white cookie — a half-chocolate, half-vanilla cakey confection. Button & Co. Bagels will serve Counter Culture drip coffee but no espresso. (“We want to be about the bagels, and we want to make sure the line is moving,” Button says.) It will also offer beer, hard cider, rosé in a can and house-made sodas, as well as a blueberry-lavender shrub. Button & Co. Bagels is scheduled to open at the end of October at 32 S. Lexington Ave. Hours will be 7 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday-Friday and 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. For updates, visit katiebuttonrestaurants.com.

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Cheese Championship 1:30-3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 24. Five judges will sample spreads and dishes from 15 competitors. Sponsored by local food writer Stu Helm and Takeout Central, the event isn’t open to the public, but the videos will be available afterward on Facebook. Read more at avl.mx/5cv.

Pie bragging rights Got a great pie recipe? Find out how it stacks up against others at the South Asheville Pie Contest at Ivory Road Café & Kitchen in Arden on Saturday, Nov. 3. Now in its second year, the event invites home bakers and professionals of all ages to enter a pie. Tantalizing the contestants will be cash and gift basket prizes for Judge’s Choice, People’s Choice, Best Home Baker vs. Best Bakery and other categories. Pie bakers are asked to bring extra whole pies to be sold in a silent auction that benefits FEAST Asheville, a nonprofit organization that helps young people and families grow and prepare fruit and vegetables. The public is welcome to help taste and judge. Coffee, tea and milk will be provided for this familyfriendly event. The contest starts at 2 p.m., and winners will be announced by 3:30 p.m. “It was a blast last year, so we thought we have to do it again,” says event organizer and restaurant owner Jill Wasilewski. “It’s really fun to let people show what they can do.”

The South Asheville Pie Contest will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 3, at Ivory Road Café & Kitchen, 1854 Brevard Road, Arden. Entry fee is $15. For details and to register, contact Jill Wasilewski at jill@ivoryroadavl.com.

Asheville Pizza hosts chef Michel Baudouin Family-owned and -operated Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co. is collaborating with chefs from other local restaurants to create a series of specialty pizzas, available only at the pizzeria’s North Asheville location. After the success of the Chestnut pizza in September, Asheville Pizza & Brewing invited chef Michel Baudouin of Bouchon to design a French-inspired pie with fresh, local ingredients. The pizza tops a light pesto base with marinated local tomatoes, shaved fennel, Foothills Meats ham, gruyere cheese and organic eggs over medium finished with a fresh basil garnish. A limited number of Bouchon pizzas are on Asheville Pizza’s menu each day starting at 5 p.m. through the end of October. The collaborations continue with Strada Italiano (November), Aux Bar (January ) and Cúrate (February). The collaboration pies are available only at Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co.’s 675 Merrimon Ave. location. X

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The Norman way Around Western North Carolina, hard cider can be found in supermarkets, gas station convenience stores and even at local beer breweries. But to fully experience Appalachian Ridge Artisan Hard Cider, there’s no substitute for the cidery itself. While a few local outlets carry the product, Appalachian Ridge owner Alan Ward has no interest in large distribution. He prefers to entertain visitors at a cider house that occupies an old barn on his property, just a few miles from downtown Hendersonville, and considers it strictly an orchard-tobottle operation. “We don’t buy apples from anyone,” Ward says. “We don’t bring juice in. The apples all come from right here.” More specifically, they’re grown on Ward’s land and the nearby orchard belonging to his cousin and cidermaker Wayne Barnwell. Appalachian Ridge uses apple trees imported from Normandy, France, and the cider is made in the Normandy style, which is crisp, effervescent and similar in many ways to Champagne or sparkling wine. Ward grew up on the land, which his family has owned for nine generations. Apples were introduced to the property in the 1920s but have been used for purchasable ciders for only five years. Ward also operates the adjoining St. Paul Mountain Vineyards and sees numerous overlaps between the two products. “Cider is a wine,” he says. “A lot of people misunderstand cider, [but] we make it like a wine. That kind of got us started. We were trying to perfect it.”

of your growing space for traditional apples and really make a difference in your income.” Famed for its apples, Henderson County is an ideal growing area for fruit in general, according to Ward. “We have geological diversity,” he says. “We have a lot of elevations where you can grow apples and grapes, [plus] we have cool evenings, and that makes apples have flavor in them.” THE WELCOME MAT

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have respect. Since we have been making ciders, a lot of [other] people have been making ciders. The interest has picked up, [but] we haven’t seen what we hope to see, which is a lot of people open cideries and grow the apple trees and pressing their cider. [And] there aren’t tasting rooms in the orchards.” Ward is returning to Normandy in early 2019 to bring back another 5,000 trees for his orchard. The trees will be flown back to Hendersonville — an expensive endeavor, but one that he believes is well worth the effort. “This is no different than the grapes that come from Europe,” he says. “We are getting varieties that are 500-600 years old. These are cider apples.” Ward says he’s the only grower in the country to have these Normandy varieties. In an effort to boost the local industry, he intends to begin propagating and selling the trees to “people who are serious about cider.” He also notes that traditional apples “are not bringing a lot per ton,” but that the “cider variety apples do quite well price-wise. You can take part

Appalachian Ridge makes six ciders, plus a sherry and a brandy. The ciders are in the 8 percent ABV range. Ward keeps his spirits at under 25 percent alcohol by volume so he can sell them himself and not use state ABC stores. The spirits are instead classified as fortified wines. In addition to enticing visitors with these beverages, Ward leads a hike on the property each Saturday morning. He also keeps the cider-tasting barn open year-round, including Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s Day, but notes that fall is a particularly great season to visit since it’s when the apples are harvested. “We want people to come out to the farm,” he says. “We want people to see what we are doing. We are an active farm. We want to be sustainable [and] we want to help the local apple and agricultural economy.” While it’s easy to drive right past the cidery and winery without noticing it, the two operations hum with visitation. Ward credits much of the traffic to social media and websites like TripAdvisor, though a sign along Interstate 26 also helps. “Most of the people who come here are from out of town,” he says. “We get a ton of people from Upstate South Carolina, Charleston, Columbia and Charlotte.” The work keeps Ward busy from morning to night, and though he rarely gets time to simply sit back and enjoy his own property and ciders, he seems content with his current schedule. “I just enjoy being outdoors and growing something,” he says. Appalachian Ridge Artisan Hard Cider is at 749 Chestnut Gap Road in Hendersonville. Tasting room hours are noon-6 p.m., Sunday-Friday, and noon-7 p.m. Saturday. X

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TURN IT UP Woodworker Steve Noggle is featured at the 71st annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands

YOU SPIN ME RIGHT ROUND: Steve Noggle is this year’s featured maker at the 71st annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands. “I always tell people what I really love [about wood turning] is that you can cut a chunk out of a log in the morning and have a bowl the same day,” he says. Photo by Jonathan Carlson

BY THOMAS CALDER tcalder@mountainx.com Long before woodworker Steve Noggle took the first spin on his lathe, the former timber cruiser spent his days in the Pacific Northwest working alongside the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. But in 1980, following the death of his grandmother, Noggle returned to Morganton, where he purchased the family property and eventually transformed part of the space into his studio. Another 21 years passed, however, before the craftsman discovered the art of wood turning. In 2001, happenstance led him to a demonstration inside a wood shop. Captivated by the process, he purchased a cheap lathe and set of tools that day. Today, Noggle is the featured maker at the 71st annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands, which runs Friday-Sunday, Oct. 19-21, at the U.S. Cellular Center. As is the case with each year’s featured maker, Noggle was selected by the Fair Committee of the Guild. 42

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“We literally go through a few hundred images that are submitted to choose one that exemplifies the mastery of skills that our members are known for,” explains committee member and maker Ruthie Cohen. “Steve’s work illustrates a seasoned skill set of wood turning. His attention to detail balances well with his commitment to finishing his pieces for handling.” Fellow committee member and maker Shirl Parmentier echoes Cohen’s observations, noting the immediate appeal of Noggle’s work. “I saw a beautiful piece of a completely raw material and exquisite craftsmanship,” she says. “The natural edging on the bowl and the feet on the bottom were executed perfectly to show the beauty of the wood.” Noggle, who continues to operate out of his family property in Morganton, creates both decorative and functional pieces. His studio, a Depression-era clapboard building, was originally used as his grandparents’ produce store. These days, the site is filled with cuts of oak, cherry, sycamore, poplar, hickory and maple. Along with Noggle, more than 170 makers will exhibit at the fair, includ-

ing fellow regional woodworkers Brian Brace, Jason Green, Ray Jones, Mark Gardner, Chris Kamm, Joe Hunnicutt and David Scott. The weekendlong event, which drew more than 7,500 visitors last October, will also feature a number of demonstrations. From doll making to tartan weaving and from silk painting to raku glazing, visitors will have the chance to observe artists at work. Meanwhile, outside the U.S. Cellular Center, exhibitions will continue with the North Carolina ArtistBlacksmiths Association. “We really want to educate people on how long it actually takes to forge and hammer these items,” says Hannah Barry, director of marketing for the Southern Highland Craft Guild. Education, Barry continues, is a major priority at this year’s fair. She sees the demonstrations as a nod to the event’s earliest days, when makers would have set up shop as opposed to booths. Along with observing makers, guests will also have an opportunity to try out their pottery skills with an interactive workshop led by The Village Potters. “So much about craft

is connecting people back to this kind of creative medium using raw materials,” Barry says. In addition to educating fairgoers, Barry notes the guild’s own ongoing research into the industry’s past. The group is seeking to learn when the craft focus began shifting away from functional use and toward more decorative designs. This movement, Barry points out, is slowly circling back around. Millennial makers, she says, show a greater interest in functional pieces. “One could say the younger generation is more of a mobile generation, so the things that they’re going to build and make are going to be things they’ll actually use as opposed to acquiring stuff to place in their house,” Barry explains. No matter the intention, medium or age, what all makers have in common, says Noggle, is a dedication to their craft. The self-taught wood turner remembers that his own development came through simple repetition. “I basically did my thing over and over again until I got better and better at it,” he says. Over the last 17 years, Noggle adds, his fascination with the process

hasn’t wavered. “I always tell people what I really love [about woodturning] is that you can cut a chunk out of a log in the morning and have a bowl the same day,” he says. Of course, there’s more to the overall production, Noggle notes, including sanding and finishing. But at the very least, the essential transformation can be witnessed and achieved in a single day’s turn. “That’s what I really like about the whole thing,” he says. “The freedom to make those forms from the natural materials that we have in our woods.” X

WHAT The 71st annual Craft Fair of the Southern Highlands WHERE U.S. Cellular Center 87 Haywood St. southernhighlandguild.org

FINE-EDGED BOWLS: Steve Noggle is “well-known for these very delicate, very contemporary forms,” says Hannah Barry, director of marketing for the Southern Highland Craft Guild. She adds that Noggle pushes the medium to a higher level, creating unique bowls with bark on their rims. Photo by Robert Batey

WHEN Friday and Saturday, Oct. 19 and 20, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. and Sunday, Oct. 21, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. $8 general admission/ free for children 12 and younger

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by Edwin Arnaudin

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ONE LOVE Healing Tide, the powerful, soulful new album from Albion, Mich.based husband-and-wife duo The War and Treaty, feels like a wholly unified effort. The complementary voices of Tanya Blount-Trotter and Michael Trotter Jr. seem so concerted that it might come as somewhat of a surprise to learn that Trotter wrote every track on the album alone. Blount-Trotter is also a songwriter — Trotter says she’s actually the better of the two in that regard — and the two frequently performed one of her works during their 2016 shows. Trotter says they’ll “let a couple slip out of the bag every now and then” — perhaps at their Friday, Oct. 19, stop at The Orange Peel — and he’s “very excited to be able to share some of those songs in time to come.” But when their approach shifted to what Trotter calls “more of this soulful, folk, country kind of sound” and the hyperpersonal mission of The War and Treaty grew clearer, it made sense for him to be the lone songwriter.

Married duo The War and Treaty plays The Orange Peel

“When it comes to where we are at the moment, we have something very targeted that we want to say and we want to speak first from our standpoint, our vantage point,” Trotter says. They weren’t closed to collaborations, but Trotter had a stockpile of 400plus songs, some of which he’d written while serving in the U.S. Army during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Other songs chronicled the rejuvenation he experienced after returning home and falling in love with the woman who became his wife. Recording and releasing a tenderloin collection of those creations became their priority. Upon going over the lyrics, producer Buddy Miller agreed that the duo didn’t need to explore co-writing, especially seeing as the songs capture their shared experiences. “When you see it live, you can see pure honesty because it’s coming from the artist who wrote it,” Trotter says. “Oftentimes, you get a song that’s written by six-10 different folks, and the artist really didn’t have a hand in it, so

UNITED FRONT: Husband-and-wife duo Michael Trotter Jr. and Tanya Blount-Trotter make up The War and Treaty. “We let the integrity and the honesty of the music speak to us. Our voices are just responding to what the music is already saying,” Trotter says. Photo by David McClister the artist is doing his best to interpret for someone else. But when it comes to The War and Treaty, for this project I think that it came straight out of our hearts, straight out of our living room conversations, straight out of our love, our arguments, our disagreements. You’re getting everything from the horse’s mouth.” In determining who should take the lead on each song, the couple employ 44

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what Trotter calls “a formula.” For example, when he heard “Are You Ready to Love Me?” in his head and started writing it out, he waited to see if he heard himself anywhere in it. He never did, but instead heard his wife loud and clear. (“Tanya was so gracious to allow me to sing on the hook, but that was her song,” he says.) Conversely, for “If It’s in Your Heart,” Trotter heard

himself throughout the writing process. He kept waiting to hear Blount-Trotter and didn’t, though once it was completed, he suggested she come in at one point with some ad-libbing and “a little bit of vamp,” and she did just that. “We let the integrity and the honesty of the music speak to us. Our voices are just responding to what the music is already saying,” Trotter says. “And then we have a lot of moments where we hear ourselves — we hear each other. Like, ‘Hearts’ ... ‘One and the Same’ and ‘Here Is Where the Loving Is At.’ You will catch us being more inseparable because the music says, ‘I want you to be inseparable here.’” The latter track features not just the couple’s voices, but that of Emmylou Harris. Trotter says Miller and Harris (the producer’s longtime friend) are both YouTubers who “go down rabbit holes of poor, young struggling artists like The War and Treaty and just watch us and make notes. Then they tell you that they love you, and you realize you’re in the presence of royalty.” In Trotter’s case, the connection resulted in Harris making him “delicious” brownies for his birthday — some of the best he’s ever had — and the revelation of her bashfulness in the studio.

“There is no kind of arrogance in her body, and she has yet to grasp how powerful and how well-known and wellliked and loved she really is,” Trotter says. “Long story short, we weren’t even able to stay in her recording session. She was so nervous — and we were the ones shaking and trembling in our boots because this is the legend herself.” Though Trotter says “there was nothing on that track she could have done that was wrong,” Harris’ insistence on getting her part right and her overall attitude continue to resonate with him: “To be able to see that kind of humility, but also that kind of shyness still come from the queen of Americana music is powerful and deep within itself.” X

WHO The War and Treaty WHERE The Orange Peel 101 Biltmore Ave. theorangepeel.net WHEN Friday, Oct. 19, 8 p.m. $18 standing/$25 seating

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by Alli Marshall

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THESE BOOKS WERE MADE FOR WALKING New guided tour explores Asheville’s literary landscape Although the recently launched Asheville Literary Tour doesn’t include a Britney Spears singalong or a nun on a tall bike, it’s easy enough to spot: Guides and co-founders Sarah Giavedoni and Jim MacKenzie wear distinctive hats. The fedoras, trimmed with a reading lamp-style appendage extending from the band, were inspired by The Bookworm from the 1960s “Batman” TV series and, according to MacKenzie, “My favorite villain.” There are a few villains on the 90-minute walking tour, too, which takes place Wednesdays, Saturdays, Sundays and by special arrangement. There’s a murderer, for one. There’s a librarian who refused to carry the book of a notable local author and a development group that would have razed a significant portion of downtown Asheville were it not for the efforts of a meddling novelist. It’s that last story — when Wayne Caldwell, author of Cataloochee, and other activists led a grassroots effort to save 11 acres of the city’s downtown — that surprised MacKenzie while doing research for the tour. “About 37 years ago there was a movement to demolish downtown and turn it into a mall,” he says. “The city remains intact and the way it has looked for decades and decades because of a local author. I had no idea.” Giavedoni says she enjoyed learning about the area’s women authors. “We know Zelda [Fitzgerald] stayed here … but also the first female medical school graduate in [the U.S.] lived in Asheville.” That doctor penned a number of books, essays, theses, lec-

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READ ALL ABOUT IT: There’s always room for one more tour. “Our goal was to showcase Asheville over the years through these different authors so [people] could see it from a slightly different perspective,” says Asheville Literary Tour co-founder Sarah Giavedoni, left, with her partner Jim MacKenzie. Photo by Luke Van Hind tures and articles. And the woman who received one of the largest advances for a debut novel is connected to this city as well, Giavedoni says. Want to find out who they were? The curious can do a Google search, but taking the tour is more entertaining. The idea came about for Giavedoni and MacKenzie — who both attended college in Asheville and have lived here since the early 2000s — because they like to go on guided excursions when they visit other cities. “I love history tours, I

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love beer tours, I love ghost tours,” says MacKenzie. “We think Asheville has a wide variety of offerings and culture and tours. … We wanted to [create] one more category in which people could talk about Asheville because right now we seem to be Beer City — that seems to be our big draw. I don’t want our cultural history to be overshadowed by that.” Giavedoni adds, “Our goal was to showcase Asheville over the years through these different authors so [people] could see it from a slightly different perspective.” But because there aren’t many literary tours to look to for guidance (most, in other cities, are based around the homes of famous authors, such as Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House in Concord, Mass.; or the Langston Hughes House in Harlem), Giavedoni and MacKenzie had to build much of theirs from the ground up. The tour is likely to morph over time as the guides gain even more knowledge and refine their presentation. Plus, Asheville’s literary landscape continues to evolve. “There are emerging authors right now,” MacKenzie notes. “Four years ago I hadn’t heard of Wiley Cash. Now he’s the go-to guy.” The author of A Land More Kind than Home

and, most recently, The Last Ballad, Cash attended UNC Asheville and is now a professor of English and the writer-in-residence at his alma mater. “Sarah doesn’t know this, but I’ve already added four names” for future tours, MacKenzie admits with a laugh. Other contemporary writers made the current mix, as did poets and actors, and the scenes that those literary luminaries participated in or helped to cultivate. The tour also points out landmarks such as the location of the African-American public library during the era of segregation. So why has this town attracted and produced so many writers — both historically and in the present day? “There’s a history of Asheville being like a mini-New York City,” says Giavedoni. “We’ve got the influence from the Vanderbilt family and the people who vacationed here over the seasons. We’ve got our Broadway and our Flatiron Building. [Patrons] of the art community … visited here and saw how great it was, just like all tourists to Asheville.” MacKenzie adds, “We were also called the Paris of the South. Paris was influential with expats in the 19th century [such as] Gertrude Stein and Hemingway.” Perhaps, he muses, the Paris of the South designation helped to shape the literary reputation. So who are the favorite authors of the Asheville Literary Tour’s guides? Giavedoni points to contemporary YA writer Megan Shepherd (who didn’t make the tour roster since she lives in Brevard). But for MacKenzie, it’s the original flapper: “I’m a dyed-in-thewool Zelda Fitzgerald fan,” he insists. “I’ll praise her until the day I die.” X

WHAT Asheville Literary Tour WHERE Leaves from the fountain at Pack Square, covers about 24 downtown blocks on foot WHEN Wednesdays at 6 p.m., Saturdays and Sundays at 4 and 6:30 p.m. $25 adults/$15 children ages 5-12. Purchase tickets and learn more at avllitmap.com

THEATER REVIEW by Jeff Messer | upstge@yahoo.com

‘Frost/Nixon’ at N.C. Stage Company he was humbled by it. You can’t help but wonder if future presidents, when faced with scrutiny and the guilt of potential crimes, will be so cool under the glare of that spotlight. In the current political climate, Frost/ Nixon seems especially resonate. X

WHAT Frost/Nixon WHERE North Carolina Stage Company 15 Stage Lane ncstage.org

HOT SEAT: In the late 1970s, British talk-show host David Frost, played by Willie Repoley, left, conducted a series of interviews with former U.S. present Richard Nixon, played by Michael MacCauley, right, five years after Nixon’s resignation. The drama unfolds in the N.C. Stage Company production Frost/Nixon. Photo courtesy of N.C. Stage Company Could you imagine feeling sympathy for Richard Nixon and ultimately finding him to be likable? North Carolina Stage Company poses that question and many more in Peter Morgan’s riveting and entertaining Frost/Nixon. The show runs through Sunday, Nov. 4 — up to this year’s midterm election, which surely isn’t a coincidence. In the late 1970s, British talk-show host David Frost conducted a series of interviews with Nixon. These took place a couple of years after Nixon’s resignation as president of the U.S. under the scrutiny of the Watergate scandal. Not overtly political, Frost simply wanted the exclusive interview and the potential fame that came with it. Nixon, under the advice of his team, wanted a chance to rehabilitate his image. The ugliness of pure partisanship rears its head in the form of some of Frost’s team, who simply want to get a confession out of Nixon and essentially convict him in the public eye. They are riled when Frost seems content to get a more humanized version of Nixon on tape, showing a sad, flawed-yet-likable man. They are elated when Frost elicits the famous quote from Nixon: “Well, when the president does it, that means it is not illegal.” Willie Repoley was born to grow a groovy ’70s head of hair and wears it well as Frost. He also holds the center of the

WHEN Through Sunday, Nov. 4. Wednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. Sundays at 2 p.m. $17-34

play as a TV personality who is desperate for success. Repoley’s Frost is the beating heart of the show and allows the audience to shake loose some of their more jaded political views as they see Nixon through Frost’s eyes. As Nixon, veteran actor Michael MacCauley may not look like the former president, but he so flawlessly inhabits the essence of Nixon that you are transfixed by his every word and gesture. The play begins with his resignation speech. As the scene changes, MacCauley rises and exits the stage, and, in silhouette, he so resembles Nixon it caused this reviewer to do a double take. This performance is a crowning achievement for MacCauley. Director Angie Flynn-McIver sets a brisk pace and trusts her actors and the material to keep the audience on the edge of their seats. She has also assembled a tight ensemble of actors who fill out myriad other roles in the show. Performances from Marc Cameron, Carin Metzger, Samantha LeBrocq, Chandler Vance, Ben Mackel and especially John Gripentrog, Scott Keel and Catroi Swann serve as the glue that holds the lean show together. It’s emotional to watch Nixon become an eloquent and measured man who ably defends his position in a reasonable way. The notorious president was a flawed person, and he knew it. And, in many ways, MOUNTAINX.COM

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Ghost-Note Kipyn Martin and Kirsten Maxwell On Thursday, Oct. 18, a pair of female indie-folk artists bring their smooth voices, acoustic guitars and original songs to the Isis Music Hall’s upstairs lounge. A native of West Virginia, Kipyn Martin was singing harmony before she learned to speak and has been playing guitar since the age of 8. When she’s not performing her own tunes, she tours with Allison Shapira as Joan & Joni, a musical tribute to Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell. Often compared to those two legendary singers, Kirsten Maxwell is originally from New York and now calls Nashville home. Her new self-titled EP was released over the summer and features full-band arrangements of her latest intimate works. The double bill begins at 7 p.m. $15. isisasheville.com. Photo of Martin by Brian Komatz

Having already established themselves as respected percussionists in the jazz-fusion band Snarky Puppy, Grammy winners Robert “Sput” Searight and Nate Werth sought a new project to highlight the diversity of their fellow talented Dallas-based musicians. The result is Ghost-Note, which dropped its debut album, Fortified, in 2015. Sophomore collection Swagism followed in April, featuring more than 20 guest musicians, among them master saxophonists Kamasi Washington and Karl Denson. In addition to Searight and Werth, the current touring ensemble is composed of Dywane “MonoNeon” Thomas Jr. (bass), Xavier Taplin (keys), Vaughn “V.Keys” Henry (keys), Peter Knudsen (guitar) and Jonathan Mones (alto sax/flute). The Texans take to the Asheville Music Hall stage on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 10 p.m. $10 advance/$15 day of show. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo courtesy of the band

The Man from Earth For its next trick, Attic Salt Theatre Company presents the science fiction play The Man from Earth. Written by Jerome Bixby, who penned episodes for the original “Star Trek,” the story centers on a college professor who reveals that he’s actually 14,000 years old and spins a wild yarn to convince his skeptical colleagues that he’s telling the truth. The production stars such local actors as Allen Law, Devyn Ray and Cary Nichols, is directed by Ryan Martin and will be staged outdoors around a campfire. In Martin’s words, “A fire with friends is just the right setting to make anyone think to themselves, ‘But, could it be?’” The show runs Fridays and Saturdays, Oct. 19-27 at 7:30 p.m. at the Attic Salt Theatre Arts Space. $15. atticsalt.org. Photo of Law courtesy of Attic Salt Theatre Company

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Kikagaku Moyo With its fourth album, Masana Temples, the members of Kikagaku Moyo (Japanese for “geometric patterns”) found that they create music apart just as well — perhaps even better — than when they’re consistently together. Formerly based in Tokyo, where most of the five artists lived in a communal house, several players moved to Amsterdam while others ventured to new parts of Japan. The psychedelic band then reconnected in Lisbon to unite its disparate ideas and record with jazz musician Bruno Pernadas. In the studio, the musicians’ individual perspectives proved even more connected than they’d anticipated as they channeled their new influences into a renewed cohesive whole. The ensemble shares these sonic revelations at The Mothlight on Saturday, Oct. 20, at 9:30 p.m. Asheville’s own Sarah Louise opens. $12 advance/$14 day of show. themothlight.com. Photo by Jamie Wdziekonski

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OUT AND ABOUT: The Dance Program at UNC Asheville presents Moving Voices, a series of site-specific dances and a community dialogue about experimental dance, Saturday, Oct. 27, to Monday, Oct. 29. Program director Celia Weiss Bambara will co-direct and co-choreograph the works alongside visiting German scholar Jana Schmueck, and the pieces feature UNCA dance students and community dancers. Performances take place Oct. 27 at Pack Square at 3 p.m., and Oct. 29 at noon outside UNCA’s Brown Hall and at 5:30 p.m. on the Ramsey Library steps. All events in the series are free. For more information, visit dance.unca.edu. Photo by Leslie Frempong

ART ASHEVILLE AREA ARTS COUNCIL 828-258-0710, ashevillearts.com • SA (10/20), 1-4pm Drawing workshop for veterans with Joseph Pearson. Registration required: ashevillearts. com. Free. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. • WE (10/24), 2-3:30pm & TH (10/25), 5:30-7pm “Social Media for Artists,” workshop. Registration required. $25/$10 members. Held at The Refinery, 207 Coxe Ave. ECHOVIEW FIBER MILL 76 Jupiter Road, Weaverville, 828-6934237, echoviewnc.com • SA (10/20), noon-4pm - “Not Everybody Goes to Rhinebeck,” event featuring crafts, food, games, yarn exchange and potluck. $10. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N Main St., Waynesville, 828-4520593, haywoodarts.org/ • SA (10/20) 10am4:30pm - Painting demonstration with Jo Ridge Kelley. Free.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS SHOW & TELL FALL POP UP SHOP (PD.) 10/19-28, 10am-8pm in the River Arts District. Shop local/indie craft, design, and vintage. Opening party 10/19, 6-9pm w/ Bhramari beer. showandtellpopupshop. com • 14 Riverside Dr. 28801 ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 337 Charlotte St. • SA (10/20), 9am-3pm - Fall craft fair. Free to attend. THE BASCOM 323 Franklin Road. Highlands, 828-526-4949, thebascom.org • FR (10/19) through SU (10/21), 10am-5pm - Barn sale featuring handmade pottery sales and demonstrations of wheel throwing, sculpture, hand building, carving and sgraffito. Free to attend. THE CRAFT FAIR OF THE SOUTHERN HIGHLANDS southernhighlandguild. org • FR (10/19) & SA (10/20), 10am-6pm & SU (10/21), 10am-5pm - Juried craft fair featuring over 170 booths and work in clay,

wood, metal, glass, fiber, natural materials, paper, leather, mixed media and jewelry. $8 per day/$5 students/Free for children under 12/$12 weekend pass. Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS GRACE CENTER 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River • Through WE (10/17) Submissions accepted for the Grace Centre Gallery 16th Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Information: gracemillsriver.org/artgallery.

ST. MARY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH 337 Charlotte St. • Through TH (10/18) - Art and craft vendors accepted for the annual fall craft fair at St Mary’s Episcopal Church. Registration: 828-3013596.

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OUR VOICE HEART WORKS SURVIVORS ART SHOW 828-252-0562, ourvoicenc.org • Through WE (10/31) Submissions accepted for the 17th annual Survivors’ Art Show. Information: arts@ourvoicenc.org.

COUNTRY DANCE W/ TWO-STEP LESSON (PD.) Friday, October 19th, 7-10:30pm. Theme “Buckle Up”. Asheville Ballroom, 291 Sweeten Creek Road. Two-step lesson 7-8pm. • Free Raffle Prizes. Dance 8-10:30 Ballroom & Country dances to great country music. Dance Performances. • Admission includes Dance, Lesson & Raffle ticket: $12. 828-333-0715, naturalrichard@mac. com • www.DanceForLife.net

PAN HARMONIA 828-254-7123, panharmonia.org • Through TH (11/15) Submissions accepted for the Pan Harmonia 2018 Music and Poetry Fusion Competition for NC women writers. Full guidelines online: panharmonia.org.

ASHEVILLE BUTOH FESTIVAL ashevillebutoh.com • TH (10/25) through SU (10/28) - 12th Annual Asheville Butoh Festival. Performances featuring Julie Becton Gillum, Seisaku and Yuri Nagaoko. Workshops by Seisaku and Yuri

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Nagaoko. Tickets: bit.ly/2Cad4NV. $18/$15 students & seniors/$40 workshops. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St. OLD FARMER’S BALL oldfarmersball.com • THURSDAYS, 8-11pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $7/$6 members/$1 Warren Wilson Community. Held in Bryson Gym Held at Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB 828-697-7732, southernlights.org • SA (10/20), 6pm “Monster Mash,” themed dance. Advanced dance at 6pm. Early rounds at 7pm. Plus squares and rounds at 7:30pm. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center,

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MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS DRUM SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. skinnybeatsdrums.com ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY BAND ashevillecommunityband. com • SU (10/21), 3:30-5pm “Mountain Majesty,” fall concert. $12/Free for students and children. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (10/17), 3-5pm - Ukelele jam for all skill levels. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (10/18), 3-5pm “Learn to Play the Ukulele: Strum and Sing for Beginners,” class. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (10/25), 3-5pm “Learn to Play the Ukulele: Strum and Sing for Beginners,” class. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • TH (10/25), 6pm - Up Jumped Three, jazz concert. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

CITY OF ASHEVILLE 828-251-1122, ashevillenc.gov • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.

HAZEL ROBINSON AMPHITHEATRE 92 Gay St. • TH (10/18), 6:30-10pm - Outdoor concert featuring Sanctum Sully and Brushfire Stankgrass. Free.

DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE 18 Biltmore Ave., dwt.com • TU (10/23), 8pm BoDeans, concert. $29.50 and up.

HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-6974725 • MO (10/22), 6pm Brew Davis, Americana concert. Free.

FLAT ROCK PLAYHOUSE 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock, 828-693-0731, flatrockplayhouse.org • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/18) until (10/28) - “Pickin’ and A Grinnin’: A Night at the Opry,” concert. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $20 and up.

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HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-692-1082, hendersonvillelittletheater.org • SA (10/20), 7:30-10pm - The Eli Carlan Band and the Ross Osteen Band, blues concert. $20. HENDERSONVILLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA 828-697-5884, hendersonvillesymphony. org • SA (10/20), 7:30pm - “Bernstein, Barber and Brahms,” concert. $40. Held at Blue Ridge Community College, 180 W Campus Drive, Flat Rock J.E. BROYHILL CIVIC CENTER 1913 Hickory Blvd SE. Lenior, broyhillcenter.com • FR (10/19), 7:30pm Brass Transit, concert. $20/$12 children. MUSIC AT UNCA 828-251-6432, unca.edu • WE (10/17), 7pm “Lights and Shadows in the Songs of Sepharad,” music and lecture by Neil M. Frau-Cortes. Free. Held in the Mountain View Room. Held at UNC Asheville Sherrill Center, 227 Campus Drive MUSIC AT WCU 828-227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • TH (10/18), 7:30pm - “Meta Music: A Celebration of Song,” choral music concert. Free. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 1 Edwin Place, 828-254-6001, uuasheville.org • SU (10/21), 7pm Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio, concert. $20. WOMANSONG OF ASHEVILLE womansong.org • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Community chorus rehearsals open to potential members. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

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SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 43 Patton Ave., 828-254-7162, colburnmuseum.org • TH (10/25), 6pm Rachael Sparks presents her book, Resistant: A Novel. Free to attend. BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (10/18), 2:30pm Skyland book Club: The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure. Free. Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • FR (10/19), 10am-5pm & SA (10/20), 10am-3pm - Antique and collectible book sale. Free to attend. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • SA (10/20), 4pm Library block party featuring storytelling by David Novak and Janice Inabinett, facepainting, book sale and a raffle benefit the North Asheville Library. Free to attend. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • TH (10/23), 7pm Friends of the Fairview Library meeting. Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview • TH (10/25), 6:30pm Meet local horror author Nathan Ballingrud. Free. Held at East Asheville Library, 902 Tunnel Road JACKSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 310 Keener St., Sylva, 828-586-2016, fontanalib.org/sylva/ • TH (10/18), 6:30pm - Sylva storyteller Gary Carden performs, “Blow the Tannery Whistle.” Free. MALAPROP’S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • TH (10/18), 6pm - David Williams presents his book, When the English Fall. Free to attend. • TH (10/18), 7pm Notorious HBC (History Book Club): The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez. Free to attend. • SU (10/21), 3pm Writers at Home Series: Tina Barr presents her book, The Green Target. Free to attend. • MO (10/22), 6pm Stella Vinitchi Radulescu and Luke Hankins present their book, A Cry in the Snow and Other Poems. Free to attend. • TU (10/23), 6pm - Chris Highland presents his book, A Freethinker’s Gospel. Free to attend. • TH (10/25), 6pm - Rachel Haley Himmelheber presents

her book, The Lucky Ones Get to be People. Free to attend. • TH (10/25), 7pm Works in Translation Book Club: Epitaph of a Small Winner: A Novel by Machado de Assis, translated by William L. Grossman. Free to attend.

• FR (10/19), 8pm - “The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence,” video and performance by Jace Clayton. Presented in conjunction with African Americans in WNC & Southern Appalachia Conference. $10/$8 members and students.

PUBLIC EVENTS AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • TH (10/25), 7:309:30pm - Storyteller event featuring musician Jim Lloyd Appalachian ghost stories, campfire and s’mores. Free. Held at The Ramsey Center in Renfro Library, 100 Athletic St,, Mars Hill

BREVARD LITTLE THEATRE 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard, 828-884-2587, TheBrevardLittleTheatre. org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/12) until (10/28) - Deathtrap. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $18/$12 student/$6 children.

SALUDA HISTORIC DEPOT 32 W. Main St., Saluda, facebook.com/ savesaludadepot/ • 3rd FRIDAYS, 7pm - Saluda Train Tales, storytelling to help educate the community of the importance of Saluda’s railroad history and the Saluda Grade. Free.

THEATER ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE 35 E. Walnut St., 828-254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/5) until (10/28) - Avenue Q. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. Additional performances TH (10/18) & TH (10/25), 7:30pm. $15-$26. ASHEVILLE OUTLETS 800 Brevard Road, shopashevilleoutlets.com • WE (10/24) through SU (11/11) - Venardos Circus, Broadway style circus performance featuring aerialists, acrobats, juggling, balancing, comedy, daredevilry, magic and music. Full schedule and tickets: VenardosCircus. com. $25/$15 children. ATTIC SALT THEATRE The Mills at Riverside, 2002 Riverside Drive, Suite 42-O • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (10/12) through (10/27), 7:30pm - The Man from Earth, by Jerome Bixby. $15. BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/19) until (11/4) - The God Game, by Front Porch Theatre. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $20. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 120 College St., 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org

DIFFERENT STROKES PERFORMING ARTS COLLECTIVE 828-275-2093, differentstrokespac.org • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (10/4) until (10/20) - Twelve Angry Jurors. Thurs.Sat.: 7:30pm. $21/$18 advance. Held at Asheville High Arts Theater, 419 McDowell St. MAGNETIC 375 375 Depot St., themagnetictheatre.org • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/12) until (10/28) - Grave Lullaby. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $18. NORTH CAROLINA STAGE COMPANY 15 Stage Lane, 828-239-0263 • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS (10/10) until (11/4) - Frost/Nixon by Peter Morgan. Wed.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $18$36/$10 for students. THE ACTOR’S CENTER OF ASHEVILLE 104 Eastside Drive, Black Mountain, 828-357-8475, theactorscenterasheville. com/home/ • FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS (10/19) through (10/27) Examination, thriller. $15/$12 advance. THEATER AT WCU 828-227-2479, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • SU (10/21), 3pm Follies, musical by James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim broadcast live from New York. $10. Held at Western Carolina University, Fine Art Museum, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon, 828-859-8322, tryonarts.org • TH (10/18), 7pm -Mike Wiley presents the one-man play, One Noble Journey. $20/$10 students.

GALLERY DIRECTORY 22 LONDON 22 London Road • Through SU (10/28) - Say It Loud, exhibition of contemporary art from the collection of Hedy Fischer and Randy Shull. AMERICAN FOLK ART AND FRAMING 64 Biltmore Ave., 828-281-2134, amerifolk.com • Through WE (10/24) - Bowls, Bowls, Bowls, exhibition of handmade bowls by five regional artists. ART AT MARS HILL UNIVERSITY mhu.edu • Through FR (11/2) Exhibition of art by Randy Shull. Held at Weizenblatt Art Gallery at MHU, 79 Cascade St, Mars Hill ART AT WCU 828-227-2787, bardoartscenter.wcu.edu • Through WE (11/7) - The Way We Worked, Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit. Held at Mountain Heritage Center, Nantahala National Forest, Cullowhee ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART 82 Patton Ave., 828-251-5796, ashevillegallery-of-art.com • Through WE (10/31) Textures . . . Colors, exhibition of the paintings of Kate Thayer. BENDER GALLERY 29 Biltmore Ave., 828-5058341, thebendergallery.com • Through FR (10/26) Cameras: Interpreters of Reality, exhibition of kiln cast glass cameras by Joshua Hershman. BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 120 College St., 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • Through TH (1/31) Between Form + Content: Perspectives on Jacob Lawrence and Black Mountain College, exhibition. CAROLINA MOUNTAIN SALES 10 Brook St., Suite #235 • TH (10/18) through MO (12/31) - Exhibition of art by Philip DeAngelo. Reception: Thursday, Oct. 18 4-6pm. DISTRICT WINE BAR 37 Paynes Way, Suite 9 • Through TH (11/1) - Haus of Blues, exhibition of paintings by Mark Bettis and Jacqui Fehl. DOUBLETREE BY HILTONASHEVILLE-BILTMORE 115 Hendersonville Road, 828-274-1800, doubletree3. hilton.com/en/hotels/northcarolina/doubletree-by-hiltonhotel-asheville-biltmore-AVLBMDT/index.html • Through MO (12/31) Exhibition of paintings by Valentino Bustos. FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13 • Black Mountain, 828357-9009, floodgallery.org

PUNK STYLE: In her work with recycled materials, local artist Isabella Jacovino combines aesthetics of steampunk and dieselpunk — focusing on the counterculture nature of each genre — with street art and inventive interpretations of retro-futurism. These artistic interests come together in her show A Life In Pieces: Alchemy & Creative Maladjustment Explorations in Mixed Media, currently on display in the Backstreet Gallery Room of Gallery 1 in Sylva. The show runs through Saturday, Dec. 1. For more information, visit gallery1sylva.com. Photo of Atropos courtesy of Gallery 1 • Through (10/20) - Anything Goes…Everything Shows!, group mail art exhibition.

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

FLOW GALLERY 14 South Main St., Marshall, avl.mx/aw • Through WE (11/7) - A Sense of Place: Interpretations, exhibition of photographs and quilt works by Kari Morton and Lauren Rutten.

OUTPOST

GALLERY 1 604 W. Main St., Sylva • Through FR (12/7) - Exhibition of works by Isabella R. Jacovino.

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GREEN SAGE CAFE WESTGATE 70 Westgate Parkway, 828-7851780, greensagecafe.com • TH (10/18) through TU (1/15) - Street Perspectives, exhibition of photography by Dena Porter and Reggie Forster. Reception: Thursday, Oct. 18, 5-7pm. GROVEWOOD GALLERY 111 Grovewood Road, 828253-7651, grovewood.com • Through SU (10/28) - Animal Attraction, group exhibition. HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org • Through SA (10/27) ARTQUEST, exhibition of artworks from the upcoming tour of 12 Haywood County artist studios. Information: ArtQuestHaywood.com.

62 South Main St. #2 Marshall, outpost-marshall.com • TH (10/25), 5-8pm - Grand opening and reception for the portrait series, Flora, by photographer Jack Sorokin.

67 Doras Trail, Bakersville, 8 28-765-2359, penland.org • Through SU (11/18) Exhibition of sculptural works by Maggie Jaszczak. PINK DOG CREATIVE 348 Depot St., pinkdog-creative.com • Through SU (11/11) - _i_u_, exhibition of works by Kenn Kotara. PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY 25 Patton Ave., 828-225-5509, pushtoyproject.com • Through FR (11/2) - Exhibition of paintings, photographs and ephemera by Eerie Von. RAMP STUDIOS 821 Riverside Drive, 828-5480090, therampstudios.com • Through TU (11/6) - Flags on the Floor and Other Popular Transgressions, exhibition of works by Tim Lewis.

SMITH-MCDOWELL HOUSE MUSEUM 283 Victoria Road, 828-2539231, wnchistory.org • Through SA (11/3) - Victorian Mourning, exhibition of clothing, jewelry, art and photography. THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL 360 Asheville School Road, 828254-6345, ashevilleschool.org • Through WE (10/31) - The Way I See It, exhibition of contemporary art by Nan Davis. THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE 4021 Haywood Road, Mills River, facebook.com/ thegreenhousemotocafe/ info/?tab=page_info • Through TH (11/1) Exhibition of the photographic work of Robin Anderson. THE REFINERY 207 Coxe Ave., ashevillearts.com • Through FR (10/26) Reflections: Exploring Inspiration, exhibition featuring works by NC Glass Center Artists • Through FR (11/30) - Drawing From Life, exhibition of work by students at AC Reynolds High School. TOE RIVER ARTS COUNCIL 828-765-0520, toeriverarts.org • Through SA (11/3) - Exhibition of paintings, woodworks and drawings of Paul and Kim Fuelling. Held at Spruce Pine

TRAC Gallery, 269 Oak Ave., Spruce Pine TRACEY MORGAN GALLERY 188 Coxe Ave, TraceyMorganGallery.com • Through SA (11/3) - The Lost State of Frankland, exhibition of photography by Mike Smith. TRANSYLVANIA COMMUNITY ARTS COUNCIL tcarts@comporium.net • Through FR (10/19) - Seeking Home, exhibition of works by artists Bianca Mitchell, Stephen P. Jackson, Costanza Knight and Fred McMullen. Held at Transylvania Community Arts Council, 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard WOOLWORTH WALK 25 Haywood St., 828-254-9234 • Through WE (10/31) Exhibition of paintings by Joy and Stephen St. Claire. ZAPOW! 150 Coxe Ave., Suite 101, 828575-2024, zapow.net • SA (10/20) through SA (11/17) - Divining - Major & MINOR Arcana, group exhibition. Reception: Saturday, Oct. 20, 7-9pm.

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COMING SOON WED 10/17 7:00PM–CARLY TAICH (ASHEVILLE) W/ MY ONE AND ONLY (NASHVILLE DUO) 8:30PM–RACHEL BAIMAN AND ALEXA ROSE

THU 10/18 7:00PM–KIPYN MARTIN AND KIRSTEN MAXWELL 8:30PM–TOWNE AND ZOE CHILD

FRI 10/19

7:00PM–KARYN OLIVER AND CAROLANN SOLEBELLO

9:00PM–RHYTHM FUTURE QUARTET

SAT 10/20 7:00PM–THE NOVEAUX HONKIES

SUN 10/21

FREE SPIRITS: One of the biggest hits of Wisconsin-born BoDeans was “Closer to Free,” which became the theme song for the TV series “Party of Five” and opened six seasons of the show, while other singles landed on “Dawson’s Creek.” After a 35-year career and 12 studio albums, the band continues to tour year-round, led by founding member and lead vocalist Kurt Neumann. Maxx Music presents the alt-rock outifit at The Diana Wortham Theatre on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 8 p.m. Tickets range $29.50-35.50. dwtheatre.com. Photo courtesy of band

5:30PM– JENNER FOX 7:30PM–THE GEORGIA FLOOD & LAUREN BEELER

TUE 10/23 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS W/ SWANNANOA

WED 10/24 7:00PM– SEAFOAM GREEN 8:30PM–LAURA CORTESE & THE DANCE CARDS

THU 10/25 7:00PM–DAYMARK- IRISH MUSIC WITH SWAGGER

8:30PM–ITALIAN NIGHT W/ MIKE GUGINO & BARRETT SMITH

FRI 10/26 8:30PM– MIKE MATTISON AND SCRAPOMATIC

SAT 10/27 7:00PM–THE MISTY MOUNTAIN STRING BAND

8:30PM– ASHLEY DAVIS, COLIN FARRELL, & DAVE CURLEY

SUN 10/28 5:30PM– MOLLY STEVENS/ HERE AND NOW TOUR 7:30PM– DIRTY LOGIC: ASHEVILLE’S ALL-STAR TRIBUTE TO STEELY DAN

TUE 10/30 7:30PM–TUESDAY BLUEGRASS SESSIONS HOSTED BY UNSPOKEN TRADITION

WED 10/31 7:00PM– TILDON KRAUTZ- ANTI-RATIONAL RABBIT FOLK

9:00PM–EMPIRE STRIKES BRASS: “NIGHT OF THE LIVING DISCO”

THU 11/01 7:00PM– KATHERINE RONDEAU 8:30PM–LIVE FROM WVL RADIO THEATER: THE HEADLESS HESSIAN OF SLEEPY HOLLOW

FRI 11/02 7:00PM–THE DANBERRYS

SAT 11/03 7:00PM–MARK MANDEVILLE & RAIANNE RICHARDS 9:00PM–SOL DRIVEN TRAIN

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Spoken Word Open Mic, 8:00PM

BEN'S TUNE UP Open Bluegrass Jam w/ The Clydes, 6:00PM

NANTAHALA BREWING ASHEVILLE OUTPOST Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 8:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats (rock n' roll dance party), 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, klezmer), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays w/ Dog Whistle & DJ, 9:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 5:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Carly Taich w/ My One And Only, 7:00PM Rachel Baiman & Alexa Rose, 8:30PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Mic Night w/ Caleb Beissert (sign up at 7:30PM), 8:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition 2018, 5:00PM Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Jason Whitaker, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Voodoo Visionary (funk), 6:30PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY French Broad Mountain Valley Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim, 10:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Mini Puppet Fest (all ages), 6:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 7:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE World Wide Wednesday: DunkeldBirnam, Scotland w/ music by Doug & Darcy Orr, 7:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Larkin, 5:00PM Ellis Dyson & the Shambles w/ Clint Roberts (old-time, jazz, swing), 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Low Keys, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Natalie Prass w/ Stella Donnelly, 9:00PM THE WINE & OYSTER The Memphis Montrealers, 7:00PM THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Aziz Ansari: Hurricane Florence Relief Fund (comedy, benefit), 7:00PM TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night: The Vicious Queen and Her Boys, 6:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH New South Rising, 9:30PM

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST G.A.M.E. (Dead jam), 8:30PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray & The Space Cooties, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Ghost-Note w/ Jonathan Scales Fourchestra (jazz, hiphop, funk), 10:00PM BARLEY'S TAPROOM & PIZZERIA Alien Music Club (jazz), 9:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Ionize, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Mic w/ John Duncan, 7:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL Peggy Ratusz, 8:00PM

CROW & QUILL Carolina Catskins (gritty ragtime jazz), 9:00PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Throwback Thursday w/ Molly Parti, 8:30PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Roll Vinyl w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Dream Eaters (dreampop) w/ Pretty Pretty & ROND, 8:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic (6pm sign-up), 6:30PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Random Animals (funk, jam), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Matt A. Foster (banjo blues), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Universal Sigh, 8:30PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Sylvia Rose Novak, 7:00PM HAZEL ROBINSON AMPHITHEATRE Sanctum Sully & Brushfire Stankgrass, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY The Patrick Dodd Trio, 6:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Kipyn Martin & Kirsten Maxwell, 7:00PM TOWNE & Zoe Child, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (rock 'n soul vinyl), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Vinyl Night, 8:00PM NOBLE KAVA Cuttlefish Collective: Beat Workshop & Show, 9:00PM OWL BAKERY Thursday Night Jazz, 7:30PM ODDITORIUM Party Foul: Drag Circus, 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Karaoke w/ Franco, 10:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM Roxy Roca, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING Roots & Dore Band (blues), 9:00PM PULP Slice of Life Comedy Open Mic w/ Cody Hughes, 9:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Steve Moseley Duo (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Up Jumped Three, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Suitecase Junket, 8:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE The Lonesome Road Band, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Billy Litz, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Okapi, Sleepy Poetry & Shutterings, 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Lau Magie & The Moon Dogs (soul, funk, folk), 9:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Trivia Night, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Chris Wilhelm, 5:00PM Eilen Jewell w/ Hillfolk Noir & Carly Taich, 7:30PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Burger Kings, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT The Moth: True Stories Told Live (Theme: Disguises), 7:30PM TOWN PUMP Dirty Dead, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Jesse Barry & The Jam (blues, dance), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Craft Karaoke, 9:30AM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Old Sap, 8:00PM

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Purple (funk, jazz, pop), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Peter Tosh B-Day Bash w/ Chalwa & PMA (Reggae), 9:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Big City Blues Jam, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Clozee - Night One (electronic), 9:30PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Hot Club of Asheville, 5:30PM BEN'S TUNE UP Throwback dance Party w/ DJ Kilby, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Flashback Band, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@THE AC HOTEL DJ Zues, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Peggy Ratusz & Daddy LongLegs, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Sparrow & Her Wingmen (swing jazz), 9:00PM DIANA WORTHAM THEATRE Rodney Crowell, 8:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rock 'n' Soul Obscurities w/ DJ Greg Cartwright, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Punk Karaoke, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Dirty Dead (funk, jam), 10:00PM FRACTALS Fractals Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Todd Cecil & Backsouth (Americana, blues), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Billingsley, 8:30PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Karyn Oliver & Carolann Solebello, 7:00PM Rhythm Future Quartet, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Moonbees (psychfolk), 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Hot 'n' Nasty Night w/ DJ Hissy Cruise (rock & soul), 10:00PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Acoustic Music & Open Mic, 8:00PM MARSHALL CONTAINER CO. Fork in the Road: Patti Waltz & Friends (folk), 7:00PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN The Paper Crowns, 7:00PM NEW BELGIUM Dirty Grass Band, 5:30PM NOBLE KAVA Michael Jefry Stevens Trio, 9:00PM ODDITORIUM Asheville After Dark Presents: Perversions Kink Night, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays w/ members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Tenth Mountain Division, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL The War and Treaty, 8:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ Dayo, 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Fortune & Glory, 7:00PM SALVAGE STATION The Garcia Project, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Jangling Sparrows, 8:00PM SILVERMONT PARK Pumpkin Fest at Silvermont, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Quanstar, The Last Wordbenders & Dr. Ho-Tron Beats, 9:00PM

W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Sarah Tucker, 8:00PM

GINGER'S REVENGE Ginger's Revenge, 7:30PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Vinylly Friday, 6:00PM Open Mic, 7:00PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Chatham Rabbits, 7:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Mike Montrey Band, 7:00PM

THE ACTOR'S CENTER OF ASHEVILLE Examination, 8:00PM

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C LUBLAND THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE SeepeopleS ("antigenre"/alt/rock), 10:00PM

G.A.M.E. [Dead Jam]

THU

*** NO COVER *** DOORS: 8PM / SHOW: 8:30PM

10/18

Peter Tosh B’day Bash

FRI

w/ Chalwa & PMA

10/19

DOORS: 8PM / SHOW: 9PM

“Love Is A Rose”

Celebrating the music of Linda Ronstadt w/ Peggy Ratusz & Paula Hanke

SAT

10/20

DOORS: 7PM / SHOW: 8PM

90’s Dance Party

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10/22

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Steve Moseley Duo

Fright Night Bash

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FRI. 10/19

Asheville’s Largest Halloween Party

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SAT. 10/20

Grand Theft Audio (classic hits)

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THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Shane Parish, 5:00PM Pete Lee (comedy), 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ sets, 9:00PM THE MAGNETIC THEATRE Grave Lullaby, 7:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Chris is Dead: MC Chris w/ Dual Core & LEX the Lexicon Artist, 9:30PM THE WINE & OYSTER Jesse Junior & The Asheville Jazz Quartet (jazz jam & open mic), 7:00PM TOWN PUMP Riverbend Reunion, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Josh Singleton and Patrick Dodd (blues, country), 7:30PM Westsound, (R&B, motown), 10:00PM W XYZ BAR AT ALOFT Bell Hop Bop Karaoke, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Buddy K Big Band, 8:00PM WHITESIDE BREWING CO. Geoff McBride, 5:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function, 9:00PM

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Chris Jamison’s Ghost (Americana), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST Love Is A Rose: The Music of Linda Ronstadt w/ Peggy Ratusz & Paula Hanke, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Performance, 5:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Clozee - Night Two (electronic), 9:30PM

BANKS AVE SES: Satisfaction Every Saturday, 9:00PM BLACK MOUNTAIN ALE HOUSE Roots & Dore (blues, roots), 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7:00PM BLUE RIDGE COMMUNITY COLLEGE Hendersonville Orchestra: Bernstein, Barber and Brahms, 7:30PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Mojomatic (southern soul), 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9@ THE AC HOTEL Special Affair, 9:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Miss T. & The Radwagon w/ No Restraint, 7:00PM CHESTNUT Jazz Brunch, 11:00AM CORK & KEG Zydeco Ya Ya, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Jeff Howlett & Bette Machete (burlesque, tintype photography), 9:00PM DISTRICT WINE BAR Saturday Night Rock Show, 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Weston Smith, George Admanson & Oariana, 9:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Ethan Hellar & Friends (soul, jam), 10:00PM FRENCH BROAD BREWERY Stephan Evans & The True Grits (acoustic, indie), 6:00PM FUNKATORIUM Pickin' & Pullin', 2:00PM HABITAT TAVERN & COMMONS Tina & Her Pony Video Release Party & Art Opening, 8:00PM HENDERSONVILLE COMMUNITY THEATRE The Eli Carlan Band w/ Ross Osteen Band (blues), 7:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Justin Cody Fox, 7:00PM

MG ROAD Late Night Dance Parties w/ DJ Lil Meow Meow, 10:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 The Nouveaux Honkies, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Allman Brothers Night w/ Jarvis Jenkins Band, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy Night: Totally Exhausted Women, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Rock 'n' Roll Vinyl w/ DJ Alien Brain, 10:00PM LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Tunes & Brunch at the LAB , 11:30AM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Synth & Modular Tunes, 8:00PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Leo Johnson's Gypsy Jazz Brunch, 1:00PM

SALVAGE STATION Big Smo w/ HayStak, 9:00PM

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ODDITORIUM Cantelope, Mr. Mange, TEEM (rock), 9:00PM

SILVERMONT PARK Pumpkin Fest at Silvermont, 7:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Space Kadet, 10:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Pre-Halloween Hellbash, 7:00PM

TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES Lenny Pettinelli, (jazz, pop, evergreens), 7:30PM What The Funk w/ Melissa Raines, (modern funk), 10:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING Captain EZ - The Vibe Conductor (DJ, Dance), 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST West End Trio (rock, soul, Americana), 9:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Carolina Bound, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Saturday Salsa & Latin Dance Party Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Gaelic Storm, 9:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Patio Show: Hunter Grigg, 5:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Grand Theft Audio (classic hits), 9:30PM

THE MAGNETIC THEATRE Grave Lullaby, 7:30PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR FWUIT, 7:00PM

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IT TAKES A VILLAGE: Salvage Station will host the Rebuild the Village Music Festival, supporting Transformation Village, ABCCM’s solution to housing Buncombe County’s home-insecure women and children. The event includes the final exhibition of Marc Pierre LeMauviel’s photography series, Faces of Homelessness, and local musical acts such as Billy Jonas, The Styrofoam Turtles, The Big EZs, Royal Suits (pictured), WestSound, William L. Massey and Chris Rosser. Rebuild the Village Festival runs Sunday, Oct. 21, 4 p.m.-midnight. salvagestation.com. Photo by Sandlin Gaither

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BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Canongate's Highland Games w/ Clan Pisgah, 2:00PM Twelfth Fret (acoustic duo, rock), 2:00PM BYWATER Bluegrass Jam w/ Drew Matulich, 4:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Valorie Miller, 6:00PM CORK & KEG Sunday Matinee Show w/ Steam Machine (roots, bluegrass), 3:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Jared Logan & Kara Klenk (comedy), 9:00PM FUNKATORIUM Bluegrass Brunch w/ Gary Macfiddle, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 1:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Jenner Fox, 5:30PM The Georgia Flood & Lauren Beeler, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Traditional Irish/Celtic Jam, 3:00PM JARGON Sunday Blunch w/ Mark Guest & Mary Pearson (jazz), 11:00AM LAZY DIAMOND Punk Night w/ DJ Chubberbird, 10:00PM LEXINGTON AVE BREWERY (LAB) Tunes & Brunch at the LAB , 12:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM The Savannah Sweet Tease Burlesque Revue (18+), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Bluegrass Brunch w/ Woody & Krekel & Bald Mountain Boys , 10:30AM ORANGE PEEL Seven Lions w/ MitiS & Jason Ross, 9:00PM

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam, 6:30PM SALVAGE STATION ABCCMs Rebuild The Village Music Festival, 4:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Lucky James, 1:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Piano Hang, 1:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Open Mic, 6:00PM THE GREY EAGLE The Wind & The Wave w/ Shawn James Swells, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Select DJ sets, 9:00PM THE MAGNETIC THEATRE Grave Lullaby, 3:00PM TOWN PUMP Low Key Life, 9:00PM WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, FINE ART MUSEUM Follies by James Goldman and Stephen Sondheim, 3:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Belfast Boys, 7:30PM

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MONDAY, OCTOBER 22 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Siamese Sound Club (R&B, soul, jazz), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST 90's Dance Party, 9:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Old-Time Jam, 6:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Mondays, 7:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM BYWATER Baile w/ Shift Mojo, Konglo, & Scripta, 12:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Open Mic hosted by Jon Edwards, 6:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim O, 10:00PM

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions: Swannanoa, 7:30PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING COMPANY Open Mic w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Styrofoam Turtles, 20 Watt Tombstone & The Maness Bros., 9:00PM THE ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy, 6:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night, 6:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson Trio (vintage jazz), 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Shadow Show Album Release Party w/ Mr. Mange, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Derek Curtis, 9:00PM

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henry's (hot jazz), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Gypsy Jazz Jam Tuesdays, 7:30PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday night funk jam, 11:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Synth Jam, 8:00PM NOBLE KAVA Open Jam, 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Open Mic Comedy Hosted by Tom Peters, 9:00PM

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis (African folk music), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE OUTLETS The Venardos Circus, 12:00AM BEN'S TUNE UP Open Bluegrass Jam w/ The Clydes, 6:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM BYWATER Open Can of Jam, 8:00PM CORK & KEG 3 Cool Cats (rock n' roll dance party), 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, klezmer), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesdays w/ Unholy Trio & DJ, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Fleetwood’s Official Dead Moon Party, 8:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesday, 5:30PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 7:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

THE GOLDEN FLEECE The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ Tim, 10:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE William Elliot Whitmore w/ Raye Zaragoza & Zack DuPont, 8:00PM

NOBLE KAVA Open Mic Night w/ Caleb Beissert (sign up at 7:30PM), 8:00PM ODDITORIUM Ashes, Shutterings, Loved Ones & 80 Unlacey (rock), 9:00PM OLE SHAKEY'S Sexy Tunes w/ DJ's Zeus & Franco, 10:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition 2018, 5:00PM Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING The Dirk Quinn Band (funk, jazz), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Trevor Hall w/ Will Evans, 8:00PM

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THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Matthew Schüler w/ Mariella Kraft (pop, singer-songwriter), 8:00PM

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Haunted Trail At Pisgah Brewery, 6:30PM Roosevelt Collier Group w/ Shane Pruitt & TJ Jeter Duo, 9:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Seafoam Green, 7:00PM Laura Cortese & the Dance Cards, 8:30PM

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

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THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Low Keys, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Guerilla Toss w/ Space Heater, & Kreamy 'Letric Santa, 9:30PM TOWN PUMP Open Jam w/ Billy Presnell, 9:00PM TRESSA'S DOWNTOWN JAZZ AND BLUES JJ Kitchen All Star Jam (blues, soul), 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Jazz Night: Roberta Baum Tribute to Mae West, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Showers on Mars, 8:30PM

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MAX RATING Xpress reviews virtually all upcoming movies, with two or three of the most noteworthy appearing in print. You can find our online reviews at mountainx.com/movies/reviews. This week, they include: BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE

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FREE SOLO (PICK OF THE WEEK) HHHH GOOSEBUMPS 2: HAUNTED HALLOWEEN HHS TEA WITH THE DAMES HHHS

Documentarians Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyl and Jimmy Chin capture climber Alex Honnold’s historic El Cap ascent in Free Solo.

Free Solo HHHH DIRECTOR: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin PLAYERS: Alex Honnold DOCUMENTARY RATED PG-13 THE STORY: Rock climber Alex Honnold achieves the unthinkable by scaling the 3,000-foot El Capitan with no ropes. THE LOWDOWN: A visually stunning and almost unbearably tense documentary that chronicles one of the greatest accomplishments in the history of rock climbing. I feel a heavy note of caution is in order when it comes to recommending Free Solo — it’s a very good documentary about a very bad idea. There’s no denying that filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have pulled off a truly remarkable cinematic feat, utilizing drone footage and a camera crew

suspended halfway down a 3,000foot cliff face to capture rock climber Alex Honnold’s historic ascent of Yosemite’s El Capitan Wall without a rope. The climactic sequence showing the actual climb is nothing short of nerve-wracking — even though you know Honnold makes it, Free Solo’s inherent suspense would be impossible to duplicate in a narrative film. But for the love of all that’s holy, do not try this at home. That statement does not constitute a spoiler — Honnold’s success was reported widely when it happened last year, and this isn’t a Faces of Death reboot, after all — but what’s more shocking than the outcome is the amount of tension Free Solo builds leading up to its final act. Knowing how it ends does nothing to diminish the sense of mortal danger that Chin and his team capture every time Honnold shows up without a harness on. The film is structured in such a way that the history

of risk associated with free soloing is well-established through interviews and archival footage of other climbers — most no longer living — but it’s Honnold’s climb that we came to see, and Chin’s execution is nothing short of exceptional. The technical achievement alone is worth the price of admission, but there’s more to Free Solo than just some fancy camera work. Unfortunately, the development of psychological context is where the film is at its most uneven, vacillating between solipsistic navel-gazing and armchair analysis while occasionally pausing to remind the audience that what this man has in mind is absolutely nuts. It’s fascinating to hear a neuroscientist talk about Honnold’s underactive amygdala or to listen to Chin speculate on what impact the film crew’s presence might have on the climb’s success and the moral implications of possibly catching Honnold’s

death on film, but do we really get anything out of seeing a group of high school kids ask a professional rock climber how much money he makes? Or watching him shop for a refrigerator? A significant proportion of Free Solo’s first hour feels like padding, material included to stretch the film to feature length while saving the main attraction for the last 15 minutes. Digressions aside, Free Solo supplies ample fodder for climbing aficionados while providing enough background to bring the uninitiated into the fold. It’s difficult to imagine anyone coming away from the film with anything less than slack-jawed admiration for the herculean accomplishment that Honnold’s climb represents. Yes, as a National Geographic production, Free Solo will end up on TV sooner than later, but the sheer scale of the sweeping vistas on display here really do benefit from the big-screen experience. Those looking for a deeper understanding of what makes someone like Honnold tick will gain some cursory insight, even if he remains largely enigmatic. But the adrenaline junkies out there looking for a frontrow seat to one of the most impressive athletic challenges ever surmounted will be well-rewarded. Rated PG-13 for brief strong language. Opens Friday at Grail Moviehouse. REVIEWED BY SCOTT DOUGLAS JSDOUGLAS22@GMAIL.COM

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Colette HHHH DIRECTOR: Wash Westmoreland PLAYERS: Keira Knightley, Dominic West, Denise Gough, Fiona Shaw, Al Weaver BIOPIC RATED R THE STORY: The early life and career of French writer Colette and her marriage to the author Willy. THE LOWDOWN: What could’ve been a simple biopic instead becomes a tale of art, authorship, love, sexuality and gender, with a wonderful cast and a thoughtful approach. On paper, saying there’s a biographical movie about 19th-century French writers, you’d likely expect something a bit stodgy and likely pretentious, with sharp costuming but little else to offer. Luckily, Wash Westmoreland’s Colette is anything but that, instead being a movie that’s sensual, emotionally complex and strikingly topical. This is Colette’s greatest attribute: its ability to remember the humanity

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and relatability of the past and not view it as musty history. The film lays out the early years of the famous French writer Colette (Keira Knightley) before her greatest successes as an author in the 20th century. It opens with Colette being courted by Henry (Dominic West), a well-off writer who goes by the pseudonym Willy, but who really works more as a brand manager, coming up with ideas and sending others off to write them down. This is the world he brings Colette into, which includes not only the salons of Paris but also its decadence, something Willy can’t resist, attempting to keep up a lifestyle the couple can’t afford. It’s not till desperation hits that Willy convinces Colette to begin writing about her life, something that leads to the first Claudine novel, published under the Willy moniker. While it becomes an instant hit and gives the couple an amount of financial flexibility and fame, all of the credit is given to Willy as Colette toils in the background. And it’s especially grim work, as Willy locks Colette away, forcing her to write while he spends their money on women and gambling. Colette, however, sees their work as a partnership. His treatment of Colette oscillates between domineering and endlessly affectionate, and he does encourage his wife to explore her queerness. Their relationship is really what drives the narrative forward, this push and pull between love and manipulation as Colette slowly begins to understand her own power, not only as a woman but as a writer and a talent. Unfortunately, the film gets a little bogged down in the minutia of Colette’s life and commits the grave mistake so many biopics do of trying to cover too much of a life instead of focusing on a moment. This causes the movie to feel a bit too drawn out and a bit too long, but it doesn’t sink things, mainly because it has a pulse. Plus, the film has an obvious care and love toward this specific era of French writing — something that’s not required for viewer to share, but which certainly doesn’t hurt. Rated R for some sexuality/nudity. Now playing at Fine Arts Theatre. REVIEWED BY JUSTIN SOUTHER JSOUTHER@MOUNTAINX.COM

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MOTHER AND CHILD REUNION: Tiana enjoys a moment with her child in a still from Zero Weeks. Highland Brewing Co. hosts a screening of the paid family leave documentary on Oct. 23. Photo courtesy of Yellow Wing Productions • Bold Rock Hard Cider, 72 School House Road, Mills River, continues its October Movie Series on Thursday, Oct. 18, at 7 p.m. with the original Ghostbusters. The screening takes place in the outdoor cider garden. Limited seating is provided, or viewers may bring a blanket and sit on the lawn. Special movie treats will be available to purchase. Free to attend. boldrock.com • The Columbus Public Library, 1289 W. Mills St., Columbus, screens Three Identical Strangers on Friday, Oct. 19, at 1 p.m. Complimentary popcorn will be provided. Free. polklibrary.org • The Strand, 38 Main St., Waynesville, will show John Carpenter’s original Halloween (1978) on Friday, Oct. 19, at 5 p.m. Tickets are $1. Attendees are invited to see the new Halloween sequel at 7 p.m. at the regular admission rate. 38main.com • Designed to allow viewers to use film as their window into the minds and culture of Israel, the monthly Israeli Film Series — a collaboration between Grail Moviehouse and the Asheville Jewish Community Center — continues Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. with Aida’s Secrets. The 2016 documentary profiles a man born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and chronicles the search for his birth family. A discussion will follow the film. Tickets are $8 and

FILM BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE MUSEUM & ARTS CENTER 120 College St., 828-350-8484, blackmountaincollege.org • FR (10/19), 8pm - "The Jacob Lawrence of Jacob Lawrence," video and performance by Jace Clayton. Presented in conjunction

with African Americans in WNC & Southern Appalachia Conference. $10/$8 members and students. HENDERSON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville, 828-697-4725 • TU (10/23), 2-3:30pm Heroin(e), documentary film screening with discussion by Hope RX. Free.

available online or at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com • Highland Brewing Co., 12 Old Charlotte Highway, Suite 200, hosts a screening of Zero Weeks on Tuesday, Oct. 23. Documentarian Ky Dickens was inspired to make a film about paid leave after experiencing financial depletion, emotional turmoil and a sense of guilt due to insufficiently funded time off after the birth of her first child. The evening begins at 6:30 p.m. with a panel discussion on paid leave with representatives from Just Economics, NC Justice Center, Women AdvaNCe and MomsRising. The film starts at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 and available online. avl.mx/5cy • On Tuesday, Oct. 23, at 7 p.m., Asheville Pizza & Brewing Co., 675 Merrimon Ave., presents a screening of The Breach. The documentary by Seattle-based fishing guide and filmmaker Mark Titus tells of his journey to discover where dwindling populations of wild salmon in his native Pacific Northwest have gone and the conditions that could bring back the most sustainable wild food remaining on the planet. Titus and several fishermen from Bristol Bay, Alaska, will participate in a post-film Q&A session. Tickets are $8 and available online and at the door the night of the event. All proceeds support efforts to save wild Alaskan salmon. avl.mx/5cz X

PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES 828-253-0406, pisgahlegal.org • TH (10/25), 6:30pm - Priced Out, documentary screening and panel discussion on the intersection of gentrification and poverty. Co-hosted by Habitat for Humanity. Registration required: bit. ly/2CCU23J. Free. Held at Asheville Area Habitat

for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 1 Edwin Place, 828-254-6001, uuasheville.org • FR (10/19), 7pm Environmental & Social Justice Films: Legalize Equality, film screening and discussion. Free.

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Halloween Highly anticipated horror reboot from director David Gordon Green and co-writer Danny McBride, with original director John Carpenter producing. According to the studio: “Jamie Lee Curtis returns to her iconic role as Laurie Strode, who comes to her final confrontation with Michael Myers, the masked figure who has haunted her since she narrowly escaped his killing spree on Halloween night four decades ago.” Early reviews positive. (R)

The Hate U Give Adaptation of author Angie Thomas’ best-selling YA novel, directed by George Tillman Jr. According to the studio: “Starr Carter (Amandla Stenberg) is constantly switching between two worlds: the poor, mostly black, neighborhood where she lives and the rich, mostly white, prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressures from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what’s right.” Early reviews positive. (PG-13)

The Old Man and the Gun Drama from writer/director David Lowery, and allegedly star Robert Redford’s final onscreen role before retirement. According to the studio: “Based on the true story of Forrest Tucker (Redford), from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are detective John Hunt (Casey Affleck), who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman (Sissy Spacek), who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.” Early reviews positive. (PG-13)

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Gaslight HHHS DIRECTOR: Thorold Dickinson PLAYERS: Diana Wynyard, Anton Walbrook, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell SUSPENSE THRILLER Rated NR No, this is not the Gaslight you’re thinking of — this is the 1940 original that you’ve probably never seen, starring Diana Wynyard and Anton Walbrook in the roles Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer would make famous four years later for MGM. Directed by Thorold Dickinson, this version is definitely not as polished as George Cukor’s 1944 remake. That said, it’s not without its own charms, and I personally prefer Walbrook’s take for its more unabashed griminess. While there can be little doubt that the remake is superior, this one was at least good enough that MGM tried to expunge its existence in advance of the ’44 release, and though comparisons are unavoidable, the original still holds up better than you might expect. The Hendersonville Film Society will show Gaslight on Sunday, Oct. 21, at 2 p.m. in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Taxi HHHH DIRECTOR: Jafar Panahi PLAYERS: Jafar Panahi DOCUMENTARY COMEDY Rated NR There’s censorship, and then there’s the Iranian government’s treatment of director Jafar Panahi. Despite a 20-year ban on making films or writing screenplays, Panahi has continued to work and rack up festival awards, smuggling his films out of the country in defiance of all efforts to silence him. Winner of the 2015 Berlin International Film Festival Golden Bear award, Taxi, is a case in point, a direct act of artistic protest against a repressive regime. Think classier Michael Moore with more cogent content, as Taxi is a slightly fictionalized account of Panahi, playing a taxi driver while barred from his true calling and still under house arrest, driving around Tehran and commenting on his own situation while interacting with what appear to be everyday citizens. Funny, disarming and audacious, Taxi is the right kind of statement to make in response to fascistic dictatorships hellbent on controlling their own narrative. Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Taxi on Friday, Oct. 19, at the new Flood Gallery location in Black Mountain, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Humraaz is a word in the Urdu language. Its literal meaning is “secret sharer.” It refers to a confidante, a person in whom you have full trust and to whom you can confess your core feelings. Is there such a character in your life? If so, seek him or her out for assistance in probing into the educational mysteries you have waded into. If there is no such helper you can call on, I advise you to do whatever’s necessary to attract him or her into your sphere. A collaborative quest may be the key to activating sleeping reserves of your soul wisdom. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus author Roberto Bolaño suggests that the world contains more beauty than many people realize. The full scope and intensity of this nourishing beauty “is only visible to those who love.” When he speaks of “those who love,” I suspect he means deep-feeling devotees of kindness and compassion, hard-working servants of the greater good and free-thinking practitioners of the Golden Rule. In any case, Taurus, I believe you’re in a phase when you have the potential to see far more of the world’s beauty. For best results, supercharge your capacity to give and receive love. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Once upon a time you were walking along a sidewalk when a fairy floated by and whispered, “I’m willing to grant you three wishy-washy wishes for free. You don’t have to do any favors for me in return. But I will grant you three wonderfully wise wishes if you perform three tasks for me.” You asked the fairy, “What would those three tasks be?” She replied, “The second task is that you must hoodwink the devil into allowing you to shave his hairy legs. The third task is that you must bamboozle God into allowing you to shave his bushy beard.” You laughed and said, “What’s the first task?” The fairy touched you on the nose with her tiny wand and said, “You must believe that the best way to achieve the impossible is to attempt the absurd.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): You Crabs tend to be the stockpilers and hoarders of the zodiac. The world’s largest collections of antique door knobs and Chinese restaurant menus and beer cans from the 1960s belong to Cancerian accumulators. But in alignment with possibilities hinted at by current astrological omens, I recommend that you redirect this inclination so it serves you better. How? One way would be to gather supplies of precious stuff that’s really useful to you. Another way would be to assemble a batch of blessings to bestow on people and animals who provide you with support. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Chinese mythology tells us there used to be 10 suns, all born from the mother goddess Xi He. Every 24 hours, she bathed her brood in the lake and placed them in a giant mulberry tree. From there, one sun glided out into the sky to begin the day while the other nine remained behind. It was a good arrangement. The week had ten days back then, and each sun got its turn to shine. But the siblings eventually grew restless with the staid rhythm. On one fateful morning, with a playful flourish, they all soared into the heavens at once. It was fun for them, but the earth grew so hot that nothing would grow. To the rescue came the archer Hou Yi. With his flawless aim, he used his arrows to shoot down nine of the suns, leaving one to provide just the right amount of light and warmth. The old tales don’t tell us, but I speculate that Hou Yi was a Leo. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You now have maximum command of a capacity that’s a great strength but also a potential liability: your piercing brainpower. To help ensure that you wield this asset in ways that empower you and don’t sabotage you, here’s advice from four wise Virgos. 1. “Thought can organize the world so well that you are no longer able to see it.” — psychotherapist Anthony de Mello 2. “Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable.” — poet Mary Oliver 3. “I like to wake up each morning and not know what I think, that I may reinvent myself in some way.” — actor and writer Stephen Fry 4. “I wanted space to watch things grow.” — singer Florence Welch

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time,” wrote Libran author Oscar Wilde. “The reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a long time after the answer.” That’s the weird news, Libra. You have been waiting and waiting to understand a project that you set in motion many moons ago. It has been frustrating to give so much energy to a goal that has sometimes confused you. But here’s the good news: Soon you will finally formulate the question your project has been the answer to. And so at last you will understand it. You’ll feel vindicated, illuminated and resolved. SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Many seekers who read horoscope columns want commonsense advice about love, career, money and power. So I hope I don’t disappoint you by predicting that you will soon have a mystical experience or spiritual epiphany. Let me add, however, that this delightful surprise won’t merely be an entertaining diversion with no useful application. In fact, I suspect it will have the potential of inspiring good ideas about love, career, money or power. If I had to give the next chapter of your life story a title, it might be “A Thousand Dollars’ Worth of Practical Magic.” SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In 1962, when she was 31 years old, Sagittarian actress Rita Moreno won an Academy Award for her role in the film West Side Story. In 2018, she attended the Oscars again, sporting the same dress she’d worn for the ceremony 56 years before. I think the coming weeks will be a great time for you, too, to reprise a splashy event or two from the past. You’ll generate soul power by reconnecting with your roots. You’ll tonify and harmonize your mental health by establishing a symbolic link with your earlier self. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): The Committee to Reward Unsung Good Deeds hereby acknowledges your meritorious service in the trenches of the daily routine. We praise your tireless efforts to make life less chaotic and more coherent for everyone around you. We’re grateful for the patience and poise you demonstrate as you babysit adults who act like children. And we are gratified by your capacity to keep long-term projects on track in the face of trivial diversions and petty complaints. I know it’s a lot to ask, but could you please intensify your vigilance in the next three weeks? We need your steadiness more than ever. AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You need a special pep talk that’s best provided by Aquarian poet Audre Lorde. Please meditate on these four quotes by her. 1. “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation. 2. ”We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.“ 3. ”You cannot use someone else’s fire. You can only use your own. To do that, you must first be willing to believe you have it.“ 4. ”Nothing I accept about myself can be used against me to diminish me.“ 5. ”The learning process is something you can literally incite, like a riot.“ PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Warning: My horoscopes may interfere with your ability to rationalize your delusions; they could extinguish your enthusiasm for clichés; they might cause you to stop repressing urges that you really should express; and they may influence you to cultivate the state of awareness known as ”playful wisdom.” Do you really want to risk being exposed to such lavish amounts of inner freedom? If not, you should stop reading now. But if you’re as ripe for emancipating adventures as I think you are, then get started on shedding any attitudes and influences that might dampen your urge to romp and cavort and carouse.

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