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What happens to us in dispute between Mission and Cigna?

My family received a letter a few Saturdays ago, addressed to “The Kestner Family,” that informed us that Mission Hospital will be out of network with Cigna starting Nov. 1 unless they both can come to a settlement with each other on how much to charge or how much to pay for medical services (depending whose side you’re on).

My husband and I have two children, a boy and a girl. We own a small home and are lucky to have food on our table every day, cars that get us to our jobs, clean clothes and a job that offers health insurance. My husband pays $600 a month for said health insurance, and his employer covers the other half of the cost. In total, $1,200 a month. I’m sure this is a paltry amount to the executives at each of these industries, but for us, $600 buys a lot of groceries and pays a lot of bills.

Even though we pay into insurance each month, we are still expected to pay copays and deductibles. Last summer, when my daughter had to have the most minor of surgeries, it was well over $1,000 to the surgery center, anesthesiologist and the surgeon after what we pay out of pocket every month, and I’ve just now paid off that surgery. ...

While I understand that services must be covered, our nurses and doctors must be paid, I also under-

stand that these head-butting issues between hospitals and insurance carriers are ridiculous.

I think back to a few years ago when Mission went toe-to-toe with Blue Cross Blue Shield and all of the issues that it caused our community. ...

Cigna kindly told us which hospitals in the area we can now use, and while these hospitals are great for nonemergency needs ... if there is a large, lifealtering need for health care, Mission is the only hospital in the area that can take care of those needs. It has the only dedicated oncology floor in the area.

The only neonatal intensive care unit.

Pediatric ICU. Heart Tower. Should I go on? ...

When big corporations get into arguments such as these, I wonder if they remember what’s at stake for the people who pay for their lavish lifestyle? Do they understand the undue worry that they cause families? Do they even care?

When I called Cigna, they assured me that “usually” the hospitals and insurance can come to an agreement before the proposed deadline. I beg them to please do and to remember why this business exists. It’s not to make profits; it’s to help the community.

— Katie Kestner Candler Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx.com.

Xpress contacted Mission Health and Cigna for a response to a summary of the letter writer’s points. Holly Fussell of Cigna’s Business Communications department offered: “Cigna provides

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broad access to affordable care. We want Mission Hospital and Mission Children’s Hospital to be a part of the Cigna network. But, if they decide to keep their prices high for customers and employers in Asheville, we will help people find more affordable, convenient, quality care options that are in our network. We have given customers plenty of time to prepare if Mission decides to leave our network. Our customer service team is available 24/7, and our online provider directory is easy to navigate at myCigna.com or on our mobile app. As always, emergencies are covered at the in-network level regardless of where service is received.

We want to deliver a simple, affordable, predictable health care experience and hope that Mission will ultimately join us in that commitment.”

We received the following response from Nancy Lindell, public and media relations manager at Mission Health: “The Mission Hospital contract with Cigna continues through Oct. 31. We are actively in discussions with Cigna and hope to reach a positive conclusion on a new agreement prior to that date.

Cigna is a long-standing partner, and our goal is to reach an agreement that allows us to continue to provide quality care to those patients who have come to depend upon us. Mission Health is committed to improving the lives and health of the people of Western North Carolina. Please note that any potential impact will not affect other affiliated Mission Health hospitals, physicians or providers. If you have questions, please visit our website at missionhealth.org/ cigna for more details.”

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and Public Affairs Department, bemoaned this state of affairs in an email to Xpress. “Off-year elections are the redheaded stepchildren of electoral politics. People don’t pay attention to them, and few people participate in them on Election Day,” he noted. “This is clearly detrimental to American democracy, as these local elections are critical [in] deciding a host of issues including zoning, education, planning and taxation.

Candidates — and voters — will ignore these elections at their peril.”

Woodfin Mayor Jerry Vehaun, who has headed the town to the north of Asheville without a contested election since first winning office in 2003, says he isn’t sure why his seat has had no challengers. “I just try to serve the public out there in Woodfin the best I can,” he says. “I imagine that may have something to do with it. I like to think it does.”

The Republican mayor and Buncombe County Emergency Services director adds that he’s worked to remain accessible to all constituents during his time in office — even those who, in his words, he knows “are going to raise Cain.” Listening and responding to resident needs, he says, are at the core of public service.

The only newcomer to the Buncombe field is Linwood Nichols, an unaffiliated candidate for the Woodfin Board of Aldermen. The 25-year-old Army veteran, selfdescribed communist and head of security for Thermo Fisher Scientific says the board seat “seems like the best fit way for me to help other people.” He says he’s placed a strong focus on canvassing to increase his

dwalton@mountainx.com Much of the attention paid to Western North Carolina’s upcoming off-year municipal elections has focused on a race that won’t actually take place until 2020. The contest for Asheville City Council, which has long been run in odd years, was moved to even years by the N.C. General Assembly as part of the 2018 law that also established election districts for the city.

Although Council voted on Oct. 23 to amend the city’s charter and restore at-large elections for Asheville, the race’s date remains set. At a Jan. 22 Council meeting, Mayor Esther Manheimer said Sen. Terry Van Duyn, whose District 49 encompasses most of Asheville, had requested the change to even years on the mayor’s behalf as a way to increase voter turnout.

Other Buncombe County municipalities followed suit, leaving Woodfin and Weaverville as the only towns with elections taking place in 2019. Of the four county races still occurring this year, just one — that for the Woodfin Board of Aldermen — has more candidates running than available seats.

To Asheville’s south, however, a vibrant collection of races is underway in Henderson County. Four candidates are running for two atlarge seats on Hendersonville City Council, while contested elections are also afoot in the smaller municipalities of Flat Rock, Fletcher, Mills River and Saluda (part of which lies in Polk County). In addition,

FLAT ROCK THE VOTE: For the first time in the village’s 24-year history, voters must choose between candidates in all three Flat Rock Village Council districts. Photo courtesy of the village of Flat Rock voters in Saluda will decide whether to allow the sale of mixed beverages in restaurants.

Xpress reached out to candidates across the two counties to understand their motivations for participating in the municipal elections. Many of the topics the hopeful elected officials raised — diversity, transportation planning and preservation of smalltown character — may give WNC politicos a sneak peak at what will be important to area voters in 2020.

QUIET ON THE BUNCOMBE FRONT Buncombe voters can expect little change to result from the county’s 2019 elections. All eligible incumbents are running for their current seats; barring unexpected circumstances, the posts of Weaverville Town Council member, Woodfin Sanitary and Sewer District trustee and mayor of Woodfin will stay in the same hands as they have since at least 2015.

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Asked about his status as the sole Buncombe challenger, Nichols responds, “I’d say it means there’s a good bit of complacency that needs to be rooted out. If there’s no political competition, there will be no change.”

He also notes that he’s earned the endorsements of the Western North Carolina Central Labor Council and the North Carolina State AFL-CIO. Alderman Ronnie Lunsford, an incumbent Democrat who has served two full terms on the board, says neither he nor his two fellow incumbents up for reelection, Republican Jim Angel and Democrat Donald Honeycutt Jr., will be actively campaigning in response to Nichols’ challenge. He says the board has been doing “the right thing for the citizens of Woodfin” and looks forward to keeping tax rates reasonable while completing the Woodfin Greenway & Blueway and providing needed services.

SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL In contrast to the tepid situation in Buncombe, Henderson County is full of contested elections, including multiple challenges to incumbent officials. Perhaps the most contentious race in the region is taking place in Flat Rock: For the first time in the village’s 24-year history, voters must choose between candidates in all three of its council districts.

The wedge topic in Flat Rock, explains unaffiliated challenger

Anne Coletta, is a proposed expansion of North Highland Lake Road, one of the main arteries into the village. She charges that the project will remove numerous trees, impact historic properties and speed traffic flow — all changes to the detriment of Flat Rock’s scenic character.

Coletta, who previously served on the Flat Rock Village Council from 2013-17, also accuses several current Council members of being less than transparent about their decisions on the road and other issues. Running on a slate with Republican Thomas Carpenter and unaffiliated David Dethero, she backs unaffiliated mayoral candidate Nick Weedman, who currently serves as the village’s vice mayor and finance officer and is running unopposed.

“I have no idea what she’s talking about,” says unaffiliated incumbent Ginger Brown about her District 2 opponent’s transparency claims.

Brown says the Council has followed all applicable sunshine laws and advertised all of its meetings on the village website.

Along with Democrat Barbara Platz and unaffiliated Hilton Swing, who are respectively running for the Council’s District 1 and 3 seats, Brown supports the North Highland Lake Road project. “We have to recognize that there are things that are going to change, and it’s in our best interest to control that change,” Brown explains.

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“When this road is complete, people will look at it and say, ‘I don’t understand what the big fuss was.’”

Candidates in Mills River also differ on the future of their small town.

Council member Wayne Carland says his biggest priority is maintaining a low property tax rate, which he cites as a major attraction for businesses to move to the area. “I think that’s one contributing factor, that we’re not taxing them to death,” says the Republican incumbent.

But challenger Randy Austin, also a Republican, is more focused on the challenges that rapid development poses to his community. Although he won’t criticize specific decisions of the incumbent Council — “I’m not going to do any Monday-morning quarterbacking,” he says — the town Planning Board member says Mills River should have strategies in place to maintain its rural character.

And Democratic challenger Mark Case, who is running alongside his Republican brother, John, for the two open Council seats, wants Mills River to deliver on pledges he says date to the town’s incorporation in 2003. “The people that were running around trying to get people to vote for a township promised two things: We could get free trash service for the residents and we’d get a post office,” he says.

“We don’t have either one of those.”

Henderson County’s smallest city, Saluda, also has a contested race for its Board of Commissioners, with Democrat Bob Ross running against Republican incumbents Leon Morgan and Stanley Walker. None of the three responded to Xpress requests for comment.

NEW FACES In Hendersonville, the county’s largest municipality, three chal-

lengers are running in a field that also includes incumbent Republican Steven Caraker for two open seats on City Council. Democrat Debbie Roundtree, who also ran in 2017, says her push for a Council post is founded on a desire for diversity.

“I think that the City Council needs diversity among its members to see, recognize and accommodate the needs of all people in various religions, races and all walks of life who live here,” says Roundtree, who is African American. She points to affordable housing and homelessness as the most critical challenges for Hendersonville, placing part of the blame on loose zoning codes that allow businesses to gentrify formerly residential districts and displace current residents.

Caraker, however, praises development in areas such as Seventh Avenue, which he compares to Asheville’s South Slope. He also believes Council members should be more focused on the nuts and bolts of governance than on ideology. Should he be reelected, he says, a main priority is cooperating with Henderson County to develop a water and sewer master plan in preparation for the region’s growth.

“In my opinion, at the City Council level, you shouldn’t be about social issues,” says Caraker, who is white.

“You’re there to produce the very best police, fire, sanitation, public works. You’re there to make that environment the best you can for those citizens at a fair tax rate.”

Caraker adds that Hendersonville’s mayor, Democrat Barbara Volk, provides diversity on the otherwise all-male council.

“They [Roundtree and Democratic challenger Lyndsey Simpson] forget that the mayor is a mother and a grandmother, and although she’s been there a long time, she

Cast your vote Municipal general elections will be held at assigned precinct polling sites in both Buncombe and Henderson counties on Tuesday, Nov. 5, from 6:30 a.m.-7:30 p.m.

Voters can use the North Carolina State Board of Elections voter search tool at avl.mx/6nq to view sample ballots and find their polling place. Only registered voters are eligible to vote on Election Day. In Buncombe County, one-stop registration and early voting is available from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. at 77 McDowell St. in Asheville. The same option is available for Henderson County voters from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. at 75 E. Central St. in Hendersonville.

Early voting ends in both counties on Friday, Nov. 1.

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certainly is a female, and she interjects that kind of stuff all the time. I don’t know that their concerns are genuine,” he says of his opponents’ critiques.

The only other black candidate in this year’s elections, Preston Blakely, recorded a nearly 42 percentage point margin of victory over Hugh Clark and Julia Price-Fogel in the Oct. 8 nonpartisan primary for Fletcher Town Council District 2. The Democratic challenger will face Clark, the Republican incumbent, again in the general election.

The 24-year-old Blakely, a firsttime candidate and recent graduate of Western Carolina University’s master’s program in public affairs,

attributes his success to a “grassroots movement of meeting people and knocking on doors.” He cites improvements to the Fletcher library, affordable housing and “maintaining that small-town quality” as his three key issues. Clark did not respond to a request for comment on the race.

Blakely notes that he was partly inspired to run by the legacy of his grandmother Oralene Simmons, a longtime WNC civil rights leader. “It feels kind of like a passing of the torch, almost,” he says.

“I’m excited to be able to advocate for the community and follow in her footsteps.” X

Who’s who Candidate names are listed as they appear on ballots, and the name of each incumbent is followed by an asterisk. The party registration of each candidate is noted in parentheses: (D) for Democratic, (R) for Republican and (U) for unaffiliated.

BUNCOMBE COUNTY

VILLAGE OF FLAT ROCK VILLAGE COUNCIL DISTRICT 1

TOWN OF WEAVERVILLE TOWN COUNCIL (vote for three)

Thomas F. Carpenter (R) Barbara Platz (D)

Patrick Fitzsimmons (D)* Jeff McKenna (U)* Andrew Nagle (R)*

VILLAGE OF FLAT ROCK VILLAGE COUNCIL DISTRICT 2

TOWN OF WOODFIN MAYOR

M. Jerry Vehaun (R)* TOWN OF WOODFIN BOARD OF ALDERMEN (vote for three)

James (Jim) Angel (R)* Donald H. Honeycutt, Jr. (D)* Ronnie V. Lunsford (D)* Linwood Nichols (U) BUNCOMBE-WOODFIN SANITARY WATER AND SEWER DISTRICT TRUSTEE (vote for three)

Ivo Ballentine (D)* Sarah W. Gassaway (D)* Don Haynes (D)* HENDERSON COUNTY

VILLAGE OF FLAT ROCK MAYOR

Nick Weedman (U)

Ginger Brown (U)* Anne Coletta (U) VILLAGE OF FLAT ROCK VILLAGE COUNCIL DISTRICT 3

David Dethero (U) Hilton Swing (U) TOWN OF FLETCHER TOWN COUNCIL DISTRICT 2

Preston Blakely (D) Hugh Clark (U)* TOWN OF FLETCHER TOWN COUNCIL DISTRICT 3

Bob Davy (D)* CITY OF HENDERSONVILLE CITY COUNCIL (vote for two)

Steven A. Caraker (R)* Jennifer Hensley (R) Debbie Roundtree (D) Lyndsey Simpson (D)

TOWN OF LAUREL PARK MAYOR

J. Carey O’Cain (U)* TOWN OF LAUREL PARK COUNCIL

George W. Banta (U)* Robert Vickery (U)* TOWN OF MILLS RIVER TOWN COUNCIL AT-LARGE (vote for two)

Randy Austin (R) Wayne S. Carland (R)* John E. Case (R) Mark V. Case (D) Roger Snyder (R)* CITY OF SALUDA CITY COMMISSIONER (vote for two)

Leon Morgan (R)* Bob Ross (D) Stanley Walker (R)*

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New delays expected for transit hours extension Advocates for extending the hours that Asheville’s buses circulate the city will likely have to wait until at least July for the longer service to be implemented, Assistant Director of Transportation Jessica Morriss told Asheville City Council members during their Oct. 22 meeting.

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p.m. on Sunday, adding approximately two hours per day to the existing service times.

“We know that that’s critically important to the community,” City Manager Debra Campbell told Council members. “We would love to extend the hours; however, we don’t have the funding as of yet.”

And while the next operating budget cycle, which begins on Wednesday, July 1, could include some funding for the expanded hours, Morriss said that meeting a July deadline for service extension seems unlikely to city staff.

“If we were to try to start the next extension in July, it would be challenging for staff logistically, because it would be coming on the heels of the January one,” Morriss added. “[It’s] not impossible, but I think that, as Debra mentioned, the revenue piece of this puzzle is something that we’re waiting for and will be waiting for a few months.”

That piece has long eluded transit advocates and government officials, who have suggested everything from raising property taxes to cutting funds for other budgetary items, particularly policing. Mayor Esther Manheimer, with the agreement of Council member Vijay Kapoor, said that a countywide quarter-cent sales tax would be the “most efficient way” for the city to secure a revenue stream dedicated to expanding transit and pointed to other counties, such as Wake and Durham, that have successfully implemented such taxes.

“We’re right on the cusp of a county that might be able to do it,” Manheimer said. “I’m a little more optimistic that our county might support a referendum like this, but I still think that we need to have a conversation with our county partners about why this might be an option or why we could consider it.”

Vicki Meath, executive director of Just Economics and representative of the Better Buses Together campaign, suggested during public comment that the city could fund the transit expansion with new property taxes resulting from the sale of nonprofit Mission Health to the for-profit, Nashville-based Hospital Corporation of America. Officials estimate that transaction will generate approximately $5 million in annual tax revenues starting in fiscal year 2020-21.

“We have not dismissed the quarter-cent sales tax. … The reality is that that won’t come about for years,” Meath said. “[The sale of Mission Health] is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity when we’re getting an increase of revenue at a local level without raising taxes on the individual taxpayer.”

Council considered using the Mission property taxes to fund city transit during its March annual retreat, but members dropped the notion after revenue estimates were revised later that month to be $3 million lower per year than the original projections.

Morriss said that the city’s next steps include finalizing budget estimates for the costs of extending bus service hours; those findings will be presented to Council in December.

She added that staff members will also monitor the city’s overall budget for other sources of funding.

“We’re only 2 ½ months into this fiscal year, so we will continue to look at not only the transit budget but the city budget as a whole to see if there are any savings that might be available to extend the hours,” Morriss said.

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Residents weigh tourism positives, negatives in new survey

BY THE NUMBERS: The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority held a public forum Oct. 23 to present the results of a community sentiment survey on the effects of tourism in the area. Photo by Brooke Randle While Buncombe County residents generally view tourism as positive for the community, they also associate it with challenges such as parking, traffic, higher housing costs, homelessness and lower wages, according to a new survey report presented during an Oct. 23 forum hosted by the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority.

The survey, developed by Indianapolis-based Strategic Marketing and Research Insights, contained 42 questions about how local tourism impacts Asheville’s economy, taxes and resident quality of life, as well as attitudes around tourism promotion.

Ed Manning, executive director of Leadership Asheville, called for civility from the group of about 200 people in attendance at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium to hear the survey’s findings.

“Tourism has kind of become a divisive topic in not just Asheville, but around the nation, around the world,” Manning said. “I want to acknowledge that there are people with lots of different viewpoints here tonight, some of you will agree or disagree. That’s fine. What I ask you to do is do it respectfully. … We’re not looking for folks to heckle.”

Over 2,200 area residents volunteered to take the survey online or at one of three public input sessions, which SMARInsights designated the opt-in sample. The researchers also surveyed a targeted ran-

dom sample of 468 people to provide representative responses from both Asheville and Buncombe County residents. The opt-in respondents were both better educated and wealthier than the random sample.

Denise Miller, SMARInights executive vice president, presented the findings, which showed that approximately 75% of both surveyed groups agreed that tourism was good for the community. Nearly 90% of respondents acknowledged that tourism helps small businesses in Asheville.

However, the survey also found that only 54% of respondents from the opt-in sample believed that taxfunded tourism promotion benefited the community. Roughly 67% of people agreed with that statement in the random sample.

More than 80% of those surveyed said that tourism was to blame for the high cost of housing, as well as increased traffic and parking issues.

About half of respondents agreed that occupancy tax revenue has gone to build amenities in Buncombe County, but a slightly higher percentage said that tax dollars mainly provide services to visitors rather than supporting the needs of residents. Over half of respondents also said that the growing number of people visiting the area are a drain on city and county resources.

The survey was completed as part of phase one of the Tourism Management and Investment Plan, a strategy unveiled by the BCTDA earlier this year to shift occupancy tax grant funding from an application-based process to one determined by long-term planning.

Among the top issues noted by residents in the survey were housing affordability, parking, city cleanliness, sidewalks and walkability and transportation. Respondents weighted affordable housing as more than twice as important as any other topic for the BCTDA to address.

“I’d like to just say upfront that we recognize that there are impacts to the community from tourism that are negative for the people who live here,” said Stephanie Brown, president and CEO of the Explore Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau, during a panel discussion that followed Miller’s presentation. “It’s kind of a cornerstone to this approach to recognize that occupancy tax funds through the Tourism Product Development Fund are available to help ease those challenges.”

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‘A lover’s feast’

Halloween superstitions near the start of the 20th century

PASS THE SALT: In centuries past, Halloween traditions often focused on finding your soulmate, rather than scoring candy.

Methods varied from innocent practices to outright dangerous techniques. Illustration by Irene Olds Today we associate Halloween with costumes, candy and jack-o’-lanterns.

But at the start of the 20th century holiday customs were quite different. The supernatural remained a component, but a large emphasis was on romance.

“Hallowe’en is essentially a lover’s feast and its superstitions will continue to live so long as the more mysterious reality, love, has an existence,” declared the Nov. 1, 1898, edition of The Asheville Gazette.

The majority of these bygone traditions sought to identify one’s soulmate.

Information was gleaned in a variety of ways — from innocent practices to outright dangerous techniques.

Among the innocuous was a “Halloween pill,” reported by The Asheville Citizen on Oct. 30, 1902. Made from grated coconut, a small piece of cheese, half an English walnut and honey, the paper claimed the tablet would “bring about the most astonishing and satisfactory results.”

Readers were instructed to swallow “the magic pill just before going to bed.” According to the paper, “if your dreams are rosy and pleasant you will soon win a handsome and gentle lover.”

However, The Asheville Citizen warned, “If your dreams are bad you will marry

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a scamp of a highwayman or a scold, or vixen, as the case may be and will be doomed to sorrow.”

Yet another tradition involved the burning of unshelled almonds. This custom, as noted in the Oct. 30, 1901, edition of The Asheville Citizen, required participants to name each almond prior to setting them ablaze.

“The length and time that they burn is indicative of the strength of affection in the persons for whom they are named,” the paper asserted. “Total consumption by the flame of a nut means marriage.”

Meanwhile, “if the nut burns with flickering flame the person is fickle,” the paper warned.

The same article offered a series of additional superstitions. One involved an apple. If the fruit was consumed alone in front of a candlelit mirror, the paper wrote, “the face of your future companion will be seen in the glass.”

Yet another involved a blindfolded subject led to three bowls. The first bowl held water, the second was filled with a hazy water or milk, and the third bowl stood empty. “If he places his hand in the vessel of clear water, he will marry a maid, if in the cloudy water, a widow and if in the empty dish, he will not marry,” the paper wrote.

Hands down, the most bizarre and wildly dangerous superstition appeared in the Nov. 1, 1898, edition of The Asheville Gazette. Based on the report, this particular practice (“attended with something of torture”), was rather popular among young women eager “to satiate an abnormal curiosity to peep into the future.”

Declared a fallacy by the paper, the activity involved the yolk’s removal from a hardboiled egg, replaced with salt. “The egg must then be eaten, salt and all,” The Asheville Gazette reported. “If the subject survives this terrible ordeal she will be awakened in the night by the man whom she will some day marry offering her a drink of water.”

“There is no evidence to show that the methods of divination at present usually resorted to were originally regarded as limited in the efficacy to any one day,” The Asheville Citizen wrote on Oct. 30, 1902. “But on Halloween especially spirits were supposed to walk the earth, strange dreams foretold prosperity or adversity, lovers were tested by various charms, future marriages were arranged and the wilder the superstition the more current its belief.”

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ACTIVISM CITIZENS-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. LET'S ALL VOTE • TU (11/5), 6-7:30pm - 2020 voter outreach kickoff event with presentations, information and training in voter canvassing sponsored

by Indivisible Asheville.

Free. Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. MOMS DEMAND ACTION ASHEVILLE • MO (11/4), 6-7pm - Non-partisan group educating and advocating for stricter gun safety laws. Free to attend. Held at The BLOCK off biltmore, 39 S. Market St. PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE OF HENDERSON CO. • FRIDAYS, 4:30-6pm - Postcard writing to government representatives. Postcards, stamps, addresses, pens and tips provided.

Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville SHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE • TUESDAYS, 10am-noon - Educating and organizing white people for racial justice.

ASHEVILLE WOMEN IN BLACK • 1st FRIDAYS, 5pm - Monthly peace vigil.

Free. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

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Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road VETERANS FOR PEACE • TUESDAYS, 5pm - Weekly peace vigil.

Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

ANIMALS LIVING WITH FOXES & COYOTES • TH (11/7), 6:307:30pm - Presentation

by NC Wildlife Resources Commission Assistant Biologist regarding foxes and coyotes. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard

BENEFITS

A SMASHING GOOD TIME: Don’t waste those precious pumpkin nutrients. Bring them to the second annual community composting event, Smash Don’t Trash, on Sunday, Nov. 3, noon-3 p.m. CompostNow and Asheville GreenWorks team up to bring pumpkin smashing stations, kid-friendly activities and music on the lawn of New Belgium Brewing Co. All compostables, processed by Danny’s Dumpster, benefit Sand Hill Community Garden and Sand Hill Orchard and Nursery. For registration visit, avl.mx/6ny.

Free to attend. (p. 14) org. $60. Held at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St. HENDERSONVILLE YOUTH CHORUS & ORCHESTRA • Through FR (11/1) Tickets available for the youth orchestra and chorus concert and dinner taking place on Sunday, Nov. 10, 5:15pm. Tickets: 828-697-5884. $90. Held at Kenmure Country Club, 100 Clubhouse Drive, Flat Rock

7TH ANNUAL ODYSSEY AUCTION • SA (11/2), 6-9pm Proceeds from this gala with live music, catered food, silent and live auctions benefit Odyssey's Scholarship Fund.

Free to attend. Held at Odyssey Clayworks, 236 Clingman Ave.

LITTLE TOWN THAT ROCKS • SU (11/3), 2-4pm Proceeds from this rocking chair auction, silent auction and reception benefit the Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League. Free to attend. Held at Black Mountain Swannanoa Chamber of Commerce, 201 E. State St., Black Mountain

ASHEVILLE CHAMBER MUSIC WINE TASTING • FR (11/1), 5:30-7pm - Proceeds from this wine tasting benefit the Asheville Chamber Music Series. Registration: ashevillechambermusic.

PUMPKIN PATCH Through WE (11/6) - Proceeds from sales of pumpkins benefit Groce United Methodist Church.

Mon.-Sat.: 10am-7pm. Sun.: 12:30-7pm. Free to attend.

Held at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road

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SEEK HEALING FUNDRAISER • SU (11/3), 4-8pm - Proceeds from this fundraiser with a four-course farm-totable meal, silent auction, silly raffle, chair massage and live music benefit Seek Healing. Tickets & information: bit.ly/32IZawV. $90.

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-398-7950, abtech.edu/sbc • SA (11/2), 9am-noon - Outdoor Industry: Lead Your Cause, seminar.

Registration required. Free.

• WE (11/6), 9-11am - Preparing for a Small Business Loan, seminar. Registration required. Free.

• WE (11/6), 9am-4pm Using Quickbooks Online in Small Business, seminar.

Registration required. Free.

• TH (11/7), 9-11am - Deep Dive Lab: Grow Your Business Through Public Relations, seminar. Registration required. Free.

ASHEVILLE SCORE 828-271-4786, ashevillescore.org • WE (10/30), 11:30am-1pm - Advanced Tax Topics for Business, seminar. Registration required: conta.cc/2lgVkdk. Free.

Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. • SA (11/2), 9amnoon - Basics of Bookkeeping, seminar.

Registration required: conta.cc/2NUdW0C. Free.

Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler DEFCON 828 GROUP • 1st SATURDAYS, 2pm - General meeting for information security professionals, students and enthusiasts. Free to attend.

Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road GAME DESIGNERS OF NORTH CAROLINAASHEVILLE MEETING • FR (11/1), 6-10pm - Meeting for game designers to discuss board game design, play-test each others games and learn more about the industry. Free to attend.

ASTRONOMY CLUB OF ASHEVILLE • TH (11/7), 7-9pm - General meeting and presentation by Stephen C. Danford, The Wonderful Life of a Star. Free. Held in Rhoades Robinson Hall, Room 125, UNC Asheville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library

• THURSDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Modern money theory study group. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • THURSDAYS, 5pm - Spanish Conversation Group for adults. Free.

Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. LANDLORD LUNCH & LEARN • TH (11/7), 11am1pm - Presentation for landlords to learn about the VA's Housing First Model and affordable housing needs in Buncombe County. Lunch provided. Registration: 828-417-2028. Free.

Held at Goodwill Career Training Center, 1616 Patton Ave. LAUREL CHAPTER OF THE EMBROIDERERS’ GUILD OF AMERICA • TH (11/7), 10am-noon - General meeting and presentation on bead finishes and bead sizes.

Free. Held at Cummings United Methodist

Held at The Wyvern's Tale, 347 Merrimon Ave. WNC LINUX USER GROUP • 1st SATURDAYS, noon - Users of all experience levels discuss Linux systems.

Free to attend. Held at Earth Fare South, 1856 Hendersonville Road

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS WEEKLY CLASSES (PD.) AERIAL KIDS (5-12) on Wednesdays 5:00. IRON CORE CONDITIONING on Wednesdays 5:15. INTRO TO AERIAL FLEXIBILITY 40+ on Wednesdays 6:15pm. INTRO TO HANDSTANDS on Thursdays 7:45pm. PARTNER ACROBATICS on Sundays 6:30pm. AERIAL YOGA YIN on Mondays 6:30pm.

EMPYREANARTS.ORG. 828.782.3321.

ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting.

Free. Held at Renaissance

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Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • WE (10/30), 5:30-7pm or MO (11/4), noon1:30pm - Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar.

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Free.

• MO (11/4), 5:307:30pm - Budgeting and Debt, class.

Registration required.

Free.

• TUs (11/5 & 11/12), THs (11/7 & 11/14), 5:30-8:30pm - 4-part HUD-certified course offers step-by-step explanation of the home-buying process, a resource book and interaction with real estate/lending/legal professionals. Registration required. $50.

• WEs (11/6, 11/13 & 11/30), 5:30-8pm - Basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize

goals, saving strategies and tracking spending.

Registration required.

Free.

• TH (11/7), noon1:30pm - Women's Money Club. Registration required. Free.

STEM AT THE LIBRARY • WE (10/30), 1pm STEM learning event for adults. Registration: 828-287-6392. Free.

Held at Mountain Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure TRIVIA NIGHT • TUESDAYS, 7pm Trivia night. Free. Held at VFW Post 9157, 165 Cragmont Road, Black Mountain WCU OPEN HOUSE • SA (11/2), 8:15am - Open house for prospective students. Registration: openhouse.wcu.edu.

Free to attend.

ODYSSEY PRODIGY: The seventh annual Odyssey Clayworks Auction and Gala benefits Odyssey Community School’s scholarship fund, which makes educational programs accessible to all members of the community. The gala is planned for Saturday, Nov. 2, 6-9 p.m., at Odyssey Clayworks with the silent auction starting at 6 p.m. and the live auction held from 8-9 p.m. and featuring live music and catered food throughout. Free to attend. Photo courtesy of the artist, Gabriel Kline (p. 13)

FOOD & BEER KRISTEN AND CHRISTOPHER SHOCKEY PRESENT 'MISO, TEMPEH, NATTO & OTHER TASTY FERMENTS' • TU (11/5), 6pm - Kristen and Christopher Shockey present their book, Miso, Tempeh, Natto & Other Tasty Ferments. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St.

FESTIVALS ALL HALLOWS EVE CIRCUS WE (10/30), 5:308:30pm - Proceeds from the All Hallows Eve Circus with acrobats, aerialists, juggling and a silent auction benefit the founder of Asheville Aerial Arts who has breast cancer. $15. Held at Hi-Wire Brewing Big Top, 2A Huntsman Place

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ASHEVILLE FM VINYL RECORD FAIR • SA (11/2), 11am-5pm - Proceeds from the Asheville FM Record Fair, the culmination of their 10th birthday celebrations, benefits Asheville FM. $3.

A $10 VIP ticket provides access to the first pick at the vinyl, 10am. Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St. BILTMORE CHURCH HALLOWEEN ALTERNATIVE TH (10/31), 6-9pm - Outdoor, family-friendly

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Halloween event with live music, inflatables, Halloween treats and activities.

Free. Held at Asheville Mall, 3 S. Tunnel Road FROND FEST • SA (11/2), 3-7pm - Outdoor festival with live music, bouncy slide, obstacle courses, face painting, hair chalk, food trucks, beer and puppy petting. Information: bit.ly/2Kxl6Gz. Free to attend. Held at Fern Leaf Charter School, 58 Howard Gap Road, Fletcher GET OUT: HAUNTED HOUSE Through (11/3), 5-10pm - Family-friendly haunted house. Tickets: bit.ly/2oj0Pua. $15/$10 ages 12-17/$7 under age 12. Held at YMI Cultural Center, 39 S. Market St.

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HALLOWEEN BOO BASH TH (10/31), 5-7pm - Trick-or-treating at retail stores with arts and crafts activities, balloon art and photo spots. Free to attend.

Held at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road

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HAUNTED HOUSE TH (10/31), 5-10pm Proceeds from this haunted house benefit the Fines Creek Community Center.

Attendees must be 13 and up. $5. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde

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MORGANTON HALLOWEEN SPOOKTACULAR TH (10/31), 3-6pm - Family-friendly trick-or-

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KIDS APPLE VALLEY MODEL RAILROAD & MUSEUM • WEDNESDAYS, 1-3pm & SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Open house featuring operating model trains and historic memorabilia.

Free. Held at Apple Valley Model Railroad & Museum, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville

treating at downtown businesses. Event includes a costume contest, inflatables, games and activities.

Free to attend. Held at Downtown Morganton, 102 E. Union St., Morganton SMASH DON’T TRASH SU (11/3), noon-3pm Bring your old pumpkins to be composted rather than landfilled. Event includes pumpkin smashing stations, kid-friendly activities, and live music. Free to attend.

Held at New Belgium Brewery, 21 Craven St.

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TREAT STREET CARNIVAL TH (10/31), 5-10pm - Family-friendly Halloween festival with trick-or-treating, live music, costume contest, inflatables and activities.

Free to attend. Takes place along Main Street from Allen to 6th Ave., Hendersonville

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TREATS ON THE STREET TH (10/31), 5-7pm Community trick-or-treating event with candy along downtown Main St., Waynesville. Free to attend.

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

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GOVERNMENT & POLITICS CITIZENS-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free.

Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room. Held at

Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. COMMUNITY MEETING • TH (11/7), 6pm - Black Mountain community meeting to finalize Holly Jolly plans. Free. Held at Black Mountain Public Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Black Mountain HENDERSON COUNTY DEMOCRATIC PARTY MONTHLY BREAKFAST • 1st SATURDAYS, 9-11am - Monthly breakfast buffet. $9/$4.50 for children under 10. Held at Henderson County Democratic Party, 1216 6th Ave. W., Suite 600, Hendersonville INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:308pm - General meeting.

Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva PROGRESSIVE ALLIANCE OF HENDERSON CO. • FRIDAYS, 4:30-6pm - Postcard writing to government representatives. Postcards, stamps, addresses, pens and tips provided. Free to attend. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville VETERANS FOR PEACE • TUESDAYS, 5pm - Weekly peace vigil. Free. Held at the Vance Monument in Pack Square. Held at Vance Monument, 1 Pack Square

BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • WE (10/30), 11am - Yoga for kids. Free.

Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-4pm & LAST WEDNESDAYS, 4-6pm - Teen Dungeons and Dragons for ages 12 and up. Registration required: 828-250-4720.

Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. • MONDAYS, 10:30am - Mother Goose Time, storytime for 4-18 month olds. Free.

Held at Skyland/South Buncombe Library, 260 Overlook Road • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 11am-noon - Storytime + Art, project for preschool students.

Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Heroes Unlimited, role playing game for grades 6-12.

Registration required.

Free. Held at Fairview Library, 1 Taylor Road, Fairview KID YOGA AND MOVEMENT STORYTELLING • WEDNESDAYS until (11/27), 9:45am - Kid Yoga and Movement Storytelling with Miranda Watson, weaves in animal, nature and humanity-themed yoga postures with storytelling. Registration: avl.mx/6m8. Free in Oct./$10 in Nov. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave.

LITTLE EXPLORER'S CLUB • 1st & 3rd FRIDAYS, 9-10am - Little Explorer's Club, science topics for preschoolers. $7/Caregivers free.

Held at Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave. PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • MO (11/4), 9-11am Bear focused class and activities for ages 4-7.

Registration required.

Free.

• MO (11/4), 1-3pm - Living Downstream, class for ages 8-13.

Registration required.

Free.

PLAYDATES • MONDAYS, 9-10am - Playdates, family fun activities. Free to attend. Held at Whole Foods Market, 4 S. Tunnel Road STEM AT THE LIBRARY • TH (10/31), 4pm STEM learning event for ages 10-17. Registration: 828-287-6392.

Free. Held at Mountain Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure YOUTH ART CLASS • SATURDAYS, 10:30-noon - Youth art class. $10. Held at Appalachian Art Farm, 22 Morris St., Sylva

OUTDOORS BEAVER LAKE BIRD WALK • SA (11/2), 9am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary, US-25 HUNTER SAFETY COURSE • MO (11/4) & TU (11/5), 6-9pm Hunter Safety Course, certification class sponsored by the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.

Registration required: ncwildlife.org. Free.

Held at Haywood Community College, 185 Freedlander Drive, Clyde

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-8774423 • FR (11/1), 9am-3pm - Intro to Fly-Fishing, workshop for ages 12 and up. Registration required.

Free.

• TU (11/5) through WE (11/6), 6-9pm - Hunter education c for all ages.

Registration required.

Free.

• WE (11/6), 10am-3pm - Fly fishing class on the Tuckasegee for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free.

PARENTING HAYWOOD REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde, 828-452-8440, myhaywoodregional.com • THURSDAYS, 11:30am1:30pm - Social gathering for mothers and their babies. Registration required. Free to attend.

• TH (11/7), 7-9pm - Your Amazing Newborn.

Registration required.

Free to attend.

PUBLIC LECTURES ETHICAL HUMANIST SOCIETY OF ASHEVILLE • WE (10/30), 7:30pm - The Biological Origins of Spiritual Longing, presentation by John Wathey. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. LIVING WITH FOXES & COYOTES • TH (11/7), 6:30-7:30pm - Presentation by NC Wildlife Resources Commission Assistant Biologist regarding foxes and coyotes. Free. Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard PUBLIC LECTURES AT UNCA unca.edu • TU (11/5), 7:30-9pm - Canada-US Trade Relationship: A 21st Century Partnership, lecture by Consul General Nadia Theodore of Canada’s southeastern consulate in Atlanta. $10. Held at UNC-Asheville Reuter Center, 1 Campus View Road

• TH (11/7), 7pm - This is Me, lecture by transgender activist Candis Cox. Presented by the university’s student Sociology and Anthropology Club. Free. Held at Lipinsky Auditorium at UNC Asheville, 300 Library Lane ‘STORIES BEYOND BORDERS’ • SU (11/3), 4pm - Stories Beyond Borders, film screening and panel discussion regarding immigrant justice sponsored by the Carolina Jews for Justice and the ACLU of NC. Free. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE CENTENNIAL • WE (11/6), 3:30-8pm - Women's Suffrage Centennial, exhibition of documents pertaining to women’s suffrage from the State Archives with presentations. Free. Held at The Ramsey Center in Renfro Library, 100 Athletic St., Mars Hill

SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural and outdoor activities. Visit www.ashevillenewfriends. org CHAIR YOGA • THURSDAYS, 2pm Chair Yoga. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville FOCUS ON FLEXIBILITY • TUESDAYS, 2:30pm - Focus on Flexibility, exercise class focused on stiffness, balance and body alignment. Information: 828-299-4844.

Free. Held at Haw Creek Commons, 311 Old Haw Creek Road

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

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

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ANATTASATIMAGGA. ORG ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Stellar Counseling Services.

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

ECK LIGHT AND SOUND SERVICE: WAS THAT A GIFT FROM GOD? (PD.) Explore your own direct connection with the Divine within this service, an engaging blend of insightful stories, uplifting creative arts, and contemplative exercises.

Experience the Light and Sound of God and the sacred sound of HU, which can open your heart to divine love, healing, and inner guidance. Fellowship follows. Sponsored by ECKANKAR. Date: Sunday, November 3, 2019, 11am, Eckankar Center of Asheville, 797 Haywood Rd. (“Kings and Queens Salon” building, lower level), Asheville NC 28806, 828-254-6775. (free event). www.eckankar-nc.org DREAMING A NEW DREAM MEDITATION • 1st FRIDAYS, 7pm Dreaming a New Dream, meditation to explore peace and compassion.

Free. Held at Center for Spiritual Living Asheville, 2 Science of Mind Way MEDITATION CLASS • 1st SUNDAYS, 10am - Meditation class sponsored by Science of Spirituality. Information: 828-348-9123 or avlmeditation@ gmail.com. Free. Held at Veda Studios, 853 Merrimon Ave., (Upstairs) MOUNTAIN MINDFULNESS SANGHA • TUESDAYS 7-8:30pm - Mountain Mindfulness Sangha. Admission by donation. Held at The Center for Art and Spirit

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ASHEVILLE RIDE FOR KIDS RALLY • SA (11/2), 5-7pm Volunteer information rally to learn to help kids with brain tumors. Registration: AshevilleRideforKids@ gmail.com or 828-9257080. Information: RideforKids.org/Asheville.

Free. Held at Cane Creek Middle School, 570 Lower Brush Creek Road, Fletcher HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC • THURSDAYS, 11am - See the Hope Tour, find out how Homeward Bound is working to end homelessness and how you can help. Registration required: tours@ homewardboundwnc.org or 828-785-9840. Free.

Held at Homeward Bound of WNC, 19 N. Ann St. LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION SESSION • MO (11/4), 5:30pm - Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling and English language skills.

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TH (10/31), 6:30pm - Halloween meet-up for young-adults focused on volunteering to benefit the community and make friends. Free to attend.

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KICKIN’ IT: Festivities at Salvage Station Oct. 24 kicked off the fifth annual Give!Local campaign. BeLoved Asheville was one of about 40 nonprofits getting to know potential supporters. Photo by Laura Hackett Asheville’s own one-stop platform for philanthropy, Give!Local, takes flight this week. Xpress readers will find the Give!Local Guide inserted in this week’s issue, marking the formal beginning of the two-month fundraising project.

In 2017, 300 people gave over $120,000 to 37 local nonprofits via the campaign, and last year raised $130,000 for 40 nonprofits. “This year’s goal is to inspire giving to the next level, with 400 or more donors infusing $200,000 into area nonprofit work,” says Give!Local coordinator Able Allen.

“In a year when tax law has ceased to benefit small donors,” says Allen, “Give!Local is poised to offer rewards to those who give, those grassroots-motivated people who see good being done in their community and want to pitch in.” Instead of a tax write-off, Give!Local donors who give $20 or more get a voucher book that offers even more in rewards, like free ice cream, pizza, biscuits and gravy and more.

Larger donations, those over $300, get additional reward packages.

Not only that, there are also contests for all who give $20 or more.

The heart of the program is a web platform where donors can learn

about this year’s 45 participating nonprofits, make a donation to any, many or all of them, and complete the process with a single credit card payment.

Every penny raised goes to the nonprofits, says Jeff Fobes, publisher of Mountain Xpress. Even the credit card fees are covered, thanks to Give!Local advertisers and Mountain Xpress. “When you give through Give!Local, all the money goes to the nonprofits so they can do the good work they do,” Fobes adds.

The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina has continued its support of the project this year offering $10,000 to encourage donations to the campaign’s animal welfare nonprofits.

Give!Local was started by Mountain Xpress, and the program has grown each year. Give!Local’s mission is to make giving easy, and encourage and reward locally focused giving, especially from new donors.

Interested in giving? Go to givelocalguide.org to learn more and to donate. If you know of a nonprofit that would like to be considered to be part of the 2019 Give!Local campaign, fill out the application form at avl.mx/6o8. X

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FACES OF HEALING: While honoring four women for their courage in overcoming breast cancer and other serious health challenges, the Pardee Hospital Foundation also raised over $142,000 for health services for uninsured or underinsured women at an Oct. 18 event. Photo courtesy of Pardee Hospital Foundation At its 22nd annual Women Helping Women luncheon on Oct. 18, the Pardee Hospital Foundation announced this year’s Woman of Hope award recipients, each of whom has overcome a breast cancer diagnosis or other serious health challenge. Joni MahaffeyRauschenbach, Carolyn Collins, Tangie Justice and Sally Boyd were the honorees.

The event raised over $142,000 to help uninsured or underinsured women receive a mammogram or other important health services.

Open enrollment for health care coverage begins Nov. 1 The Affordable Care Act health care marketplace will begin accepting reenrollment of current ACA plan members and will sign up new members beginning Friday, Nov. 1, and continuing through Sunday, Dec. 15.

Consumers can explore plan options and sign up at healthcare.gov.

Pisgah Legal Services will again provide free, unbiased, in-person assistance for those in need of information about insurance options and assistance with enrollment. “This year we have more capacity than ever before and are scheduling daytime, evening –

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even weekend – appointments,” said Shannon Cornelius, the organization’s Health Justice Program director, in a press release.

Appointments can be made online at pisgahlegal.org or by calling 828-210-3404.

The nonprofit will also offer drop-in events, including a Saturday, Nov. 2, clinic at Pisgah Legal’s Asheville location, 62 Charlotte St., 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

Mission raises minimum wage Mission Health announced that it has raised its minimum wage from $11 to $12.50 an hour as of October. The move is part of a corporate change by HCA Healthcare, the Nashville-based for-profit hospital chain that acquired Mission earlier this year.

In a press release, Mission Health clarified that the changes will affect employees in its lowest-wage categories of C (new wage is $12.50 per hour); D (new wage is $12.75 per hour); and E (new wage is $13 an hour). Only employees making below the new minimum wage in each of those categories will see an increase in their hourly compensation.

Hampton presents recovery program Nov. 5 HopeRx, a coalition to address substance use in Henderson County, presents a program with Ryan Hampton at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 5, at the Blue Ridge Community College technology building.

Hampton is four years into recovery from a 10-year opioid addiction, according to a press release. A former White House staffer, he has worked with nonprofits and political campaigns and now focuses on changing the national conversation around addiction. He is also the author of American Fix: Inside the Opioid Addiction Crisis — and How to End It. Tickets are available for $5 at avl.mx/6nr. Limited sponsorships are available. For more information, contact hoperxhc@gmail.com.

Four Seasons receives telehealth grant Nonprofit hospice and palliative care provider Four Seasons received a two-year grant from the Agency of Healthcare Research and Quality to provide telehealth services for people with serious illnesses in rural areas of Western North Carolina.

The new grant will build on a previous pilot project and will allow for greater collaboration between pharmacists and other members of the hospice and palliative care team. Using the ADAPT Health platform, pharmacists will be able to interface with the electronic medical record to identify possible drug interactions, make prescribing recommendations and track side effects of medication.

According to a press release from Four Seasons, “The use of telehealth in hospice and palliative medicine allows patients and care teams to better communicate about health care concerns and needs and improves response times to patient needs, especially in rural areas with little access to health care options. The addition of a pharmacist to this care team is unique and one that has the potential to significantly affect care in a seriously ill population.”

State seeks consultant for women and youth involvement in WNC

The N.C. Department of Administration is seeking applicants

for a human services program consultant for a multicounty region in the western part of the state. The hiring agency, the N.C. Council for Women and Youth Involvement, advises state leaders and agencies on the status and needs of women and works to improve the state’s response to domestic, family, dating and sexual violence.

According to the job posting, the position is “responsible for assessing the needs of women and their families in the region and communicating those needs for the purposes of program and policy change.” More information is available at avl.mx/6ns.

New in health and wellness • Mission Hospital, along with other HCA Healthcare hospitals in the region, collected over 22 pounds of opiate medications during its Crush the Crisis opioid takeback day on Sept.

7. Community members participated in the event by dropping off unused and expired prescription medications.

• The Food and Drug Administration provides an online tool for finding drug takeback locations near you at avl.mx/6nx. Public locations accepting unneeded medications include the

lobby of the Buncombe County sheriff’s substation at 339 New Leicester Highway; the lobby of the Buncombe County Courthouse, 60 Court Plaza; and the lobby of the Asheville Police Department, 100 Court Plaza.

• Many retail pharmacies also offer a drug takeback service. Asheville Discount Pharmacy provides a locked deposit for unneeded medication at 76 Patton Ave. • Givens Communities, a collection of nonprofit senior living communities in Western North Carolina, provided its team members with a three-month training program in LGBT cultural competency through SAGECare. Givens obtained a platinum-level credential, the highest available from SAGECare.

• Dr. Benjamin Doolittle, a board-certified family medicine physician, joined Pardee Mills River Family Health Center, 156 Cross Road Drive in Mills River.

• Cassidy Ford joined AdventHealth Medical Group Family Medicine at Black Mountain, formerly known as Parkway Medical Group Black Mountain. She is a familiar face to many there, having worked as a medical assistant with Dr. Robert Barker at this office for three years prior to becoming a certified physician assistant.

• Physician assistant Adalie Padgett joined the AdventHealth Medical Group Hospitalists at Hendersonville.

Buncombe Council on Aging offers Medicare classes The Council on Aging of Buncombe County, in conjunction with the N.C. Department of Insurance’s Seniors’ Health Insurance Information Program, is offering classes on Medicare enrollment, how to avoid penalties and ways to save money.

The classes are free and open to the public and are appropriate for those who are new to Medicare, caregivers and others who help senior citizens.

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Programs will be held: • Friday, Nov. 15, 2-4 p.m. at Goodwill, 1616 Patton Ave., Asheville.

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CAREGIVER DEMENTIA EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR • 1st MONDAYS, 11-11:45am - Caregiver dementia educational seminar. Free. Held at Lakeview Community Center, 401 Laurel Circle Drive, Black Mountain EVENING WITH RYAN HAMPTON • TU (11/5), 7pm - Public lecture by advocate, author and champion for the recovery movement, Ryan Hampton.

Sponsored by HopeRx, Advent Health, Pardee UNC Health and Henderson County Government. $5. Held in the Technology Building at Blue Ridge Community College - Health & Science Center, 805 6th Ave. W., Hendersonville GENTLE FLOW YOGA • MONDAYS, 5:306:30pm - Gentle Flow Yoga. $5. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

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RICEVILLE COMMUNITY WORKOUT • THURSDAYS, 6pm - Community workout for all ages and fitness levels. Bring yoga mat and water. Free. Held at Riceville Fire Department, 2251 Riceville Road SPECIAL OLYMPICS ADAPTIVE CROSSFIT CLASSES • WEDNESDAYS, 3-4pm - Adaptive crossfit classes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Free. Held at

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SIGHTS AND STEWARDSHIP Transylvania County Tourism funds environmental conservation

WIN FOR THE WOODS: Pisgah Conservancy founder John Cottingham, center, joins Transylvania County Tourism Development Authority Executive Director Clark Lovelace, fourth from right, and other community leaders at a ribbon-cutting for the Cantrell Creek Trail project in the Mills River area, which was partly funded by Transylvania County occupancy taxes. Photo courtesy of the Pisgah Conservancy

BY BROOKE RANDLE brandle@mountainx.com The mountains surrounding Asheville have long drawn nature lovers for their beauty and potential for hiking, backpacking and other outdoor excursions.

But as the Western North Carolina hub continues to ride a decadeslong tourism wave, Transylvania County, just to the southwest of the city, has also started to receive an influx of new visitors — and the challenges that go along with becoming a popular tourist destination.

Clark Lovelace, executive director of the Transylvania County Tourism Development Authority, says he remembers a particularly busy tourist season in the summer of 2016 that saw the area’s parks reaching or surpassing the recommended number of visitors per day.

“That was when you just started to hear the phrase ‘getting loved to death,’” says Lovelace. “The best example would be at Sliding Rock. Their parking lot is full most of the day during most of the summer, so you have people going and wanting to enjoy it that actually can’t enjoy it. It creates less of an enjoyable user experience, [and] in some cases, can create a less safe experience.”

In 2017, the county’s tourism board launched the Transylvania Always initiative, which has since invested thousands of occupancy tax dollars into everything from hiking trail restoration to French Broad River cleanup. That nature-focused approach,

says Lovelace, may offer other county tourism agencies new insight into promoting visitation while maintaining the integrity of the region’s unique mountain landscape.

“I really don’t know of anywhere else, particularly anywhere else of our small size, that is doing anything similar,” says Lovelace. “I think for a variety of reasons, our board has focused on going beyond marketing and promoting and bringing visitors here, and saw our role as one that goes a little deeper.”

and national parks, including Gorges

as Transylvania County began to grow in popularity among tourists and adventure seekers, the rising number of visitors took a toll on the parks’ wildlife habitats, according to John Cottingham, founder and executive director of the Pisgah Conservancy, a nonprofit dedicated to protecting Pisgah National Forest.

“Over the last few decades, you’ve seen significant increases in usership and decreases in federal funding, and so there’s been degradation on trails and some negative effects on aquatic life in the rivers,” Cottingham explains.

After a 2016 meeting with state and national park representatives, Lovelace says that the seven-member TCT board saw its role shifting from strictly promoting tourism in the area to stewarding one of the area’s greatest economic drivers. The following year, the board decided to concentrate funds on protecting Transylvania County’s natural resources.

“As visitors and users of our recreational assets, unfortunately, we do have an impact,” Lovelace says.

“We want to help deal with the

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Two-thirds of the TCT’s occupancy tax revenue — roughly $922,000 in the last fiscal year — must be used for tourism advertising and public relations efforts, compared to 75% for the BCTDA. The remaining 33% is allocated for other tourism-related expenditures.

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G RE EN S CE N E impact that the visitor has on some of these natural recreational assets and we also want to create a safe and enjoyable user experience.”

A SHARED MISSION That new focus led the tourism board to partner with established conservation leaders, such as the Pisgah Conservancy and the Pisgah Chapter of Trout Unlimited, to develop what Lovelace calls “shovel-ready projects” that benefited the county’s tourism economy and aligned with local sustainability efforts.

The first such collaboration was an extensive waterfall safety campaign aimed at informing visitors and reducing injuries in the area’s parks.

Over three years, TCT spent roughly $35,000 on media days, public service announcements, digital advertising and other safety promotion efforts.

“This was the primary common concern amongst all three [parks]: waterfall safety,” Lovelace says. “Because we’re not an amusement park with a ride attendant holding your hand as you get on, it is something that is a challenge to manage. We want to make it as safe as possible, so we said, ‘Let’s make that our first focus.’”

Last year, the authority invested approximately $50,000 — over 16% of the roughly $304,000 available for tourism-related expenditures — toward sustainability projects in the area, including $10,000 to supplement county funds for debris removal in the French Broad River by the Transylvania County Soil and Water Conservation District and $20,000 to support the recently completed Cantrell Creek Trail project in Mills River, which was rerouted to reduce its wildlife impact.

Lovelace notes that $100,000 is budgeted toward Transylvania Always for the current fiscal year.

“A lot of these species require clear, cold water to thrive, and when you get the sedimentation down in the water, it sort of fills the little gaps in the stream where the little creatures live — bugs and things that the fish and hellbenders and larger species live on,” Cottingham says about the Cantrell Creek project.

“We moved the trail up to the slope above the stream, and so now we’ve got those two segregated in a way that is really good for the environment. It’s a beautiful new trail as well.”

“That’s directly dealing with the impact of the visitor,” adds Lovelace.

APPLES AND ORANGES? Like the TCT, the BCTDA is required by state law to use the majority of its occupancy tax revenue — approximately $23 million last year — toward tourism advertising. The remaining 25% of funds flow into the agency’s Tourism Product Development Fund to support tourism-related capital projects.

Unlike those of its southern counterpart, however, the BCTDA’s investments have largely centered on community-based cultural and arts projects, including grants to the YMI Cultural Center and the African American Heritage Museum. Stephanie Brown, president and CEO of the Explore Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau, says that difference reflects each area’s specific strengths and challenges.

“Every community is different and has different priorities,” Brown wrote in an Oct. 18 email to Xpress. “Our TPDF program is inherently community-based because the applications come from community organizations. … Transylvania County Tourism faces different challenges — they ‘own’ waterfalls, which have specific public safety issues.”

Brown also points to BCTDA funding for outdoor projects, such as $25,000 to RiverLink in 2014 to

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create river access at the Pearson Bridge in Asheville, $2.25 million for the Woodfin Greenway and Blueway in 2017 and $6 million in 2018 for the Enka Recreation Destination — which includes a greenway and riparian protection along Hominy Creek in addition to several new sports facilities — as efforts to promote outdoor recreation in Buncombe County.

“It’s also worth noting that the quality of the French Broad has dramatically improved as the number of people who have wanted access to it has increased,” Brown wrote. “The marketing and promotion the TDA has done that brings customers to spend money at locally [owned] businesses has supported a tremendous growth in outfitters, plus infrastructure like water access. Our marketing has made it much easier for these tourism entrepreneurs to start up and be sustainable.”

BREAKING GROUND Back in Transylvania County, Lovelace notes that the authority’s sustainability initiative has largely been embraced by the area’s residents.

“A very nice bonus has been [that the initiative has] definitely showed a

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lot of locals that Transylvania County Tourism is willing and able to do meaningful things to help our area — not just our local economy, but also help ensure that these incredible natural recreational assets that we have are going to be here for years to come,” Lovelace explains.

“I think it’s right on target,” adds Cottingham. “There’s an appreciation for these things, and I just think it’s entirely appropriate for these kinds of funding mechanisms to support those resources. It’s really enhanced the tourist experience and maintained the resources that they’re all coming to see in the first place.”

While Lovelace says that other regional county tourism agencies may begin to follow TCT’s lead, he acknowledges that factors such as local governments and area-specific assets make it hard to compare destinations.

“I think there are many destinations that are also starting to realize that they have a role that is more to play than is just marketing and promoting,” he notes. “At the same time, I think everywhere is a little different.

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KITCHEN AID

Local cooking classes are aimed at every skill level and culinary interest

BY KAY WEST kswest55@comcast.net Chef Brian Ross, owner of The Asheville Kitchen, is clear when he says his cooking classes are handson. “In the French macaron class, everyone has their own station and makes everything from start to finish,” he says.

But not everyone who attends his classes follows through. “I had a guy in a class who knew how to cook and had a blast. When he was leaving, I reminded him to take his recipes and he laughed and said, “I’m never going to make this at home!’”

Not surprisingly for an area so passionate about food and farm, there is a plethora of cooking workshops, demonstrations and classes available, both rooted in regional cuisine and spanning the globe, suited for both experienced home cooks and complete novices.

The most challenging task for the culinarily curious may be finding an opening — classes fill quickly, and many listed on individual websites have already sold out. All instructors urge interested participants to contact them directly by phone or email as new classes are frequently added when the first sells out, and custom classes for self-formed groups can almost always be arranged.

Thankfully, with the holiday entertaining season approaching, there is still time to learn how to bake a pie and create an impressive spread of hors d’oeuvres. Here are a few of Western North Carolina’s many options, some tried and true and some rather new to the scene.

THE ASHEVILLE KITCHEN Ross says his Asian cooking classes — among them Bao + Bahn Mi, Ramen and Thai Street Food — are among the most popular, but at this time of year, he also tries to accommodate special requests for holidayfocused themes, such as additional coconut cake or pie classes. ”Last year I had a group of 16 who just made Christmas cookies,“ he notes. theashevillekitchen.com

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If your idea of amore is Italian food, Wally Maria Mazzucco Wyatt has a place for you in her kitchen. Originally from Italy, just north of Venice, she met her Waynesville-born husband at the nearby U.S. Air Force base and moved with him to the Asheville area 30 years ago. New American friends who loved her food asked for recipes but were frustrated when it came to execution, so she began offering classes in their home in Weaverville, where she can accommodate as many as 10 in a class and at her table. “A class is four dishes and about four hours depending on the menu,” she says. “It is hands-on, but I have people who want to sit back and drink wine and watch me work, and that’s fine, too.” discoveritalian.com

Ofri Gilan’s home kitchen is indeed in the mountains, but her decades of cooking experience are worldly. “I have traveled and lived in many places,” she says. “I teach Asian, European, anything from the Mediterranean and, of course, American, as long as it’s healthy.” As her business has grown, she has segued from open sign-ups for classes to working with pre-organized groups and building a class to meet their interests. “I get a lot of corporate groups, families — including children 8 and over — and bachelorette parties,” she says. Classes last about three hours, and the fee of $350 covers five people and includes an apron, appetizers, drinks and a meal of five or six dishes. ashevillemountainkitchen.com

Lenore Baum says she and her husband built their house in Weaverville around the kitchen, and she builds her classes on gluten-free, vegan, plant-based whole foods, using no cane sugar, dairy or meat. “My classes are not just cooking but teaching a healthy lifestyle,” she explains.

“I’m studying herbal medicine, so I’ll be incorporating that into future classes. We grow our own food, so it is very pristine.”

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KEEPING IT TASTY: Demetria Honeywell, owner of Woodland Keep, overcame her pie anxiety working at Four and Twenty Blackbirds pie shop in New York. She now wants to encourage others to conquer the crust through classes she will offer at Half Moon Market in Black Mountain. Photo courtesy of Honeywell and New York,” he says. “I wanted a less exhausting life but also wanted to continue doing food. I had taught some classes in the past and loved it.” The couple started hosting a farm-to-table monthly supper club on their farm six years ago, and the demand for classes grew from those. “We do two a week and can create custom classes when requested. We recently added a pho class that is really popular, and I’m working on a Mexican menu. Classes are a combination of demo and hands-on, and then we all sit to eat.” thefarmershands.com SEASONAL SCHOOL OF CULINARY ARTS When Susi Séguret describes her monthly Appalachian Culinary Experience classes as hands-on, she means it. Taking place on her 200-plus acre farm in Madison County, students not only cook the food, but they gather it, too. “It’s a seven-hour stretch,” she says.

“We meet at 2 in the afternoon, wander the trails on the farm, collect what’s available, come back to my kitchen, prepare, cook, then sit down together for a multicoursed wine-paired meal at my long table.” She also offers an annual weeklong intensive summer session at Warren Wilson College with classes,

Ashley Capps, the Buxton Hall Barbecue pastry chef known for her classic, old-school pies, is determined to show the much-maligned fruitcake some love. “I grew up with that fruitcake we all hated,” she says. “When I started getting into old Appalachian cookbooks, there were so many recipes for preserved fruitcake or boozy fruitcake. When I worked at Rhubarb, I made preserved fruitcakes in October, and we’d put it on the charcuterie board in December.

I started making them for Buxton, and people actually buy them!” On Sunday, Dec. 1, she and her friend and fellow pastry chef Cynthia Payne will teach a preserved fruitcake class at the Walnut Schoolhouse in Marshall. “We’ll use local flour, local eggs, have an arsenal of dried fruits to pick from, and they can choose the liquor they want to use,” she says. On Sunday, Dec. 8, she’ll partner with Walnut Schoolhouse baker Brennan Johnson for a class on rye breads and smoked, cured fish. On Saturday, Dec. 21, Capps and her partner, chef Travis Schultz, team with pie baker Keia Mastrianni and her partner, farmer Jamie Swofford, for an experiential/educational winter solstice dinner and the next morning, a baking workshop. Follow Capps on Instagram at acallcapps for times, sign-up announcements and baking classes planned for 2020. Visit walnutschoolhouse.com for additional baking classes by Johnson.

WOODLAND KEEP Demetria Honeywell overcame her pie anxiety working at Four & Twenty Blackbirds pie shop in New York City.

She now wants to encourage others to conquer the crust through classes she will offer at Half Moon Market in Black Mountain, which she and her husband Justin Honeywell recently purchased.

She has developed an avid following for her beautiful decorative cut pies, and she intends to share those skills and offer kids baking classes in the market’s café, though start dates are still uncertain. “I’m due to have my first baby any minute,” she says. “I hope to post my workshop schedule on my website soon. It’s a little up in the air right now.” woodlandkeep.com Editor’s note: Susi Séguret writes a regular column about food for Xpress, Appetite for Life. X

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by Thomas Calder | tcalder@mountainx.com

WNC Fermenting Festival When Meg Chamberlain launched the WNC Fermenting Festival in 2017, she wasn’t sure anyone would show up. But to her surprise, over 1,000 people attended. When she brought the festival back in 2018, she worried the inaugural event’s success would turn out to be fluke. Her concern was unfounded — once again, over 1,000 people showed up.

On Sunday, Nov. 3, the third annual free festival returns to the Madison County Cooperative Extension Center featuring, as in years past, local and regional fermenters, vendors and farmers, along with demonstrations, talks and a raffle benefiting local Madison County food pantry, Beacon of Hope.

Feeling more grounded this time around, Chamberlain says one of the main goals for the 2019 happening is “to start having fun with things.” Part of that fun, she explains, involves collaborations between vendors, such as The Hop Ice Cream and DoughP Donuts, who will partner to offer a unique, probiotic-rich ice cream and doughnut sundae.

“I call it the NASCAR effect,” says Chamberlain. “When multiple businesses come together to bring a special product that you wouldn’t find elsewhere. I really wanted to foster

BACK IN THE MIX: Lori Jenkins, owner of Sister of Mother Earth, is one of several vendors returning to the third annual WNC Fermenting Festival. Photo courtesy of Meg Chamberlain that this year and create a space for more of that to happen.”

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in making fermented foods, including cheeses, sourdough, sauerkraut, tempeh, kombucha, mead, wine and beer, to name a few.

Chamberlain says fermenters, who are part-foodie, part-mad scientist, share a common trait: curiosity. Those who attend are encouraged to bring questions and share ideas. Because if there is something that has yet to be fermented, Chamberlain promises, “this group of people will try to find a way.”

The festival runs 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

Sunday, Nov. 3, at the Madison County Cooperative Extension Center, 258 Carolina Lane, Marshall. For more infor-

Murder mystery and costume contest

Point Lookout Vineyards in Hendersonville will celebrate Halloween on Thursday, Oct. 31, with a murder mystery dinner and costume contest. The buffet-style meal will include dishes such as bloody spinach and cherry tomatoes, zombie short ribs and roasted baby chickens.

Guests will also receive a glass of Point Lookout wine. Attendees are encouraged to wear Halloween costumes, and awards will be handed out to the best dressed. Tickets are $55.

Dinner runs 6:30-9:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at Point Lookout Vineyards, 408 Appleola Road, Hendersonville. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/6n1.

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Halloween candy buyback

Foothills Butcher Bar Black Mountain will host its third annual Pre-Trick-or-Treat Party on Halloween. A hot dog cart will be set up on the back patio, and the event will feature a candy buyback deal: For every pound of sugary treats brought in, Foothills Butcher Bar will offer a pound of ground beef or a voucher for a kid hot dog or burger.

The event runs 3-9 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 31, at the Foothills Butcher Bar Black Mountain, 107 Black Mountain Ave. To learn more, visit avl.mx/6n3.

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Rise Southern Biscuits and Righteous Chick will offer free sweet treats to those who visit the

Tunnel Road location dressed in their Halloween costumes on Thursday, Oct. 31.

Rise Southern Biscuits & Righteous Chicken is in the Peaks Shopping Center on Tunnel Road. Hours are 7 a.m.-3 p.m. For more information, visit avl.mx/60x.

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Fall flavors will be served at Hole Doughnuts during its All Hallows at Hole event on Friday, Nov. 1. Flavors include hard apple cider, black garlic, pumpkin sorghum and black walnut.

The same flavors will be available as vegan and gluten-free options.

The event runs 2-8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at Hole Doughnuts, 168 Haywood Road. To learn more, visit avl.mx/6n4.

Asheville Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival The third annual Asheville Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival returns to the Asheville Outlets on Saturday, Nov. 2. The event will feature 25 trucks, including Lil Pete’s BBQ, Sweet Plantain and The Usual Suspects. New Belgium Brewing Co., Hi-Wire Brewing and Highland Brewing Co. are among the participating breweries. The event will also feature live music, games and an artisan village. Entry is $5 for ages 13 and older, free for kids age 12 and younger, first responders and active or retired military personnel.

The festival runs noon-5 p.m.

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Sunil Patel will host a three-course Japanese supper at the Asheville Beauty Academy on Saturday, Nov. 2. The menu includes goma tofu (sesame tofu, no soy), teishoku (tonjiru, mushroom-chestnut rice, mixed pickled vegetables, catfish kabayaki, miso glazed kabocha and spinach ohitashi) and mizu yokan (red bean and chestnut sweet treat). Tickets are $38.

Dinner runs 7-10 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 2, at Asheville Beauty Academy, 28 Broadway. Tickets are available at avl.mx/6n8.

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WNC’s honeymoon with mead One of the most ancient alcoholic beverages known to humankind, mead is the stuff of romance and legend. As Charlie Papazian wrote in his essential The New Complete Joy of Homebrewing, “the ancient Greeks, Romans, Egyptians, Scandinavians and Assyrian people procured this legendary drink as a vehicle for saturnalian revelry unmatched today.”

Papazian notes that both the Aztecs and Incas also held a reverential attitude toward the honey-based drink.

And mead is inextricably entwined with the origins of a worldwide cultural tradition. A brief essay (“Mead and the Honeymoon”) on meadist. com explains: “Mead was often consumed during the wedding celebration as a toast to the bride and groom.

After the wedding the couple was given enough mead to continue the toasting for … one cycle of the moon — hence the term ‘honeymoon.’”

But mead’s appeal extends beyond the first month of wedded bliss. Still, while the do-it-yourself nature of most every form of spirit evolved into a commercial industry, mead-making is among the last to go mainstream. In some ways, that’s surprising, because mead is among the simplest of all alcoholic beverages. At its most basic, mead contains a mere three ingredients: honey, water and yeast. The three are combined, and the yeast consumes the sugars — specifically fructose and glucose — in the honey, excreting alcohol.

As recently as a decade ago, finding a commercial meadery in Western North Carolina would have been exceedingly difficult. But right

BEYOND BEER: Jason Russ of Fox Hill Meadery started out making beer at home in the mid-1990s, but eventually decided he wanted to do something different.

“Then I discovered mead,” he says. “And I was like, ‘This is more interesting; I like the history of it.’” Photo courtesy of Russ along with the growth of interest in beer and craft cocktails, mead-making has gained a foothold in the region; today, there are more than a dozen meaderies in the state. And things have changed greatly since 1984, when Papazian asserted, “If you can find commercially made mead, it’s likely to be sweet, old and stale, smelling like wet cardboard or old garbage.”

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If you’ve never tried mead, consider this: It tastes like honey without the sweetness (if you can imagine such a thing). “Though there is a lot of bad mead, apparently, being given out at Renaissance fairs,” says David Bowman of Black Mountain Cider & Mead.

His wife, Jessica Bowman, is the resident mazer, and she agrees that mead has to overcome some preconceived notions: “People who come in either love mead, or they’re like, ’I had a bad mead once. I’m not sure about this.’”

Mead typically has about 6% or 7% ABV — just a bit higher than lager beers. As a result, in the British Isles, mead developed a somewhat dodgy reputation. “It got the connotation that when people drink it, they fight,” Jessica says with a chuckle. (A typical porter or stout has roughly the same ABV as mead; wines are higher still.)

Because they’re served on tap, Black Mountain’s meads have a slight effervescence. Aged for about three months, they remain intentionally simple concoctions.

“We don’t filter or clarify or anything, and we don’t pasteurize,” says David.

“Sometimes meads are like children.

Some are going to take care of themselves; others need more attention.”

Jason Russ of Fox Hill Meadery started out making beer at home in the mid-1990s; he eventually considered opening a brewery. Becoming bored with what he describes as “the 10 millionth IPA,” he decided he wanted to do something different.

“Then I discovered mead,” he says.

“And I was like, ‘This is more interesting; I like the history of it.’”

Russ takes a high-end approach to mead-making. His small facility is 20 minutes’ drive outside Asheville, beyond Leicester, and it’s very nearly a one-person operation.

Whenever possible, local mazers source their honey locally. But it’s not always practical. “When you’re buying 2,000 to 3,000 pounds of honey at a time, not everybody can supply you,” Russ says.

For his meads, he prefers darker honeys. “I like the caramel, earthy flavor,” he says. The Bowmans select from a wider range, depending on the type of mead they want. “Wildflower and clover honeys are our two goto’s,” says Jessica. “But we sometimes use sourwood because that’s special to this area.”

While a simple, straightforward mead is delightful, mazers often apply their creativity in developing flavored varieties. Fox Hill offers blackberry, ginger-apricot and peach flavors, along with a special reserve made with buckwheat honey. That variety gives the mead a character “very reminiscent of port or sherry,” Russ says. Fox Hill’s meads are available in 750-milliliter bottles, sold in many local wine shops.

The Black Mountain mead makers explore a wider palate; among the most notable are Viking Blood (clover blossom honey and cherry, aged in oak) and The Privateer (blueberry mojito-flavored). And while it’s currently unavailable, the Bowmans say their patrons rave about a pistachio mead. “As far as I can tell,” David says, “Jessica invented the idea of a nut mead.” Their varieties are made in comparatively small quantities — typically 15-31 gallons — so any given flavor might run out within days of being made available.

Black Mountain Cider & Mead hasn’t yet moved into the retail world; its meads are currently available only on tap. But that will soon change. “We just got a little canning machine,” Jessica says, “so we’re going to can both cider and mead.”

Still, owing to their creativity and the versatility of honey as a base ingredient, the Bowmans still face a serious challenge. “We’re still working out which meads should be in the cans,” Jessica says. “There are so many.” X

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CURVE Studios & Garden commemorates 30 years

MANY HAPPY RETURNS: Among the 30th anniversary festivities at CURVE Studios & Garden was the unveiling of a chair arch created

by Silver River Center for Chair Caning. CURVE founder Pattiy Torno is pictured, at front in hat, with fellow CURVE artists, from left, Maria Andrade Troya, Mary Timmer, Amber Mahler, Brandy Clements, Dave Klingler, Angelique Tassistro, Cassie Butcher and Melanie Merenda.

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BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com “I used to say that my attention span for working on public projects was a year and a half,” says Pattiy Torno. So CURVE Studios & Garden, a collection of artists’ workplaces tucked into the bend where Lyman Street meets Riverside Drive, morphed from a punk club to a live-work space to its current iteration as a River Arts District destination, complete with a lush urban garden. “But to have this little Shangri-La instead of the gravel parking lot [that previously dominated the site] takes a long time,” Torno points out.

Still, those decades it took for the crepe myrtle trees on the property to mature — and for the RAD to find its footing in Asheville’s creative landscape — passed, Torno says, “in the blink of an eye.” CURVE Studios & Garden recently celebrated its 30th anniversary and will be part of the River Arts District annual Studio Stroll on Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 9 and 10.

Currently, CURVE is home to Torno (a clothing designer, fiber artist and pho-

tographer), along with ceramics artists Cassie Butcher and Angelique Tassistro, studio potter Maria Andrade Troya, Brandy Clements and Dave Klingler of Silver River Chairs, and jewelry makers Olivia De Soria, Amber Mahler, Melanie Merenda, Alice Scott, Mary Timmer and Pamela White.

With its collection of tidy buildings and luxuriant landscaping, it’s easy to get the impression that CURVE has always been exactly this. But, in fact, the River Arts District — as a branding for the group of makers who work in the area — has only existed for a decade and a half. While Torno doesn’t take credit for coming up with the name, in 2005 she walked into a Convention & Visitors Bureau meeting about wayfinding with the goal “to say ‘River Arts District’ five times,” she says, which started the conversation about the difference between River District Artists, a private organization, and River Arts District, a milelong stretch of riverfront where a confluence of artists set up shop. While the CVB couldn’t promote the RDA as an entity, it could promote the RAD as an area of town.

“From having worked on the River District Design Review Committee for the city for two or three years at that point, what became clear to me was … we needed to locate ourselves and delineate where we were on the entire [14-mile-long riverfront within the city’s boundaries],” Torno says. “The result of that meeting was we got 16 signs saying, ‘River Arts District this way.’”

These days, more than 200 makers keep studio hours in more than 20 buildings, according to the River Arts District’s website. A number of those edifices are now on the National Register of Historic Places.

When Torno (who moved to Asheville in the mid-’80s, attracted by the city’s creative culture and health consciousness) purchased the former Standard Oil distribution center, “this was out in the middle of nowhere,” she says. At the time, musician Danni Iosello was running an under-the-radar club in downtown Asheville. When the city shut it down, she and Torno went in search of a new location and the then-out-of-the-way Riverside Drive spot seemed like a good fit. Torno had recently sold her Tornado Clothing Co. and had cash to purchase the real estate that became Squashpile.

The venue was able to pay its bills but little else (including salaries), and “I realized I wasn’t a night person,” Torno admits. “The reason I bought the buildings was I liked the physical space they encompass. It was a matter of how to make it functional [and] I thought, ‘I’d want to live and work in the same place, and this would be a good place for that.’”

She adds, “The phrase that I use for myself is that I’m an opportunist. I can look and go, ‘Oh, there’s an opportunity. Let’s go do that.’”

But in the flooding of 2004, which caused $200 million in damage across Western North Carolina, artists who had first-floor residences at CURVE lost everything. Not wanting to risk that happening again, Torno decided

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A &E to discontinue the live-work option. That ushered in CURVE’s current iteration, which includes a strong retail component, with business hours six days a week.

Instead of viewing the shift as a loss, Torno says, “That incremental, organic change suits my personality. When you’re a creative person, that’s where the joy in life comes from — having an idea and doing the experimentation to see if it’s possible. Some things work, others don’t, but it creates a life worth living.”

Torno does admit that, most likely, gone are the days of artist-owned buildings in the RAD. The Cotton Mill Studios, adjacent to CURVE, sold for $1.95 million in 2017 — a price out of reach of many local makers and unimaginable two or three decades ago. The Phil Mechanic Studios building, for example, was assessed at $200,000 in 2001 and just under $2 million this year, according to county property records.

And, as the River Arts District Transportation Improvement Project’s walking and cycling-friendly greenways are completed, “There’s going to be more pressure from recreation on this location,” Torno says. Those upgrades have already brought changes to Lyman Street; a newly installed roundabout

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near CURVE resulted in the studios and garden getting a new address: River Arts Place. People ask Torno if the road is a good or bad thing: “That remains to be seen,” she says. In the future, a bike rental shop or similar enterprise might turn out to be the best use of CURVE Studios.

But for now, art enthusiasts outnumber those in search of outdoor activities.

“Overall, we still get an art-buying public,” Torno says. “There are still people who walk in the door who clearly have an aesthetic.” X

WHAT River Arts District annual Studio Stroll riverartsdistrict.com WHERE Various locations through the RAD; CURVE Studios & Garden is at 3 River Arts Place curvestudios.org WHEN Saturday and Sunday Nov. 9 and 10, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. daily

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by Edwin Arnaudin

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QUALITY CONTROL To EP or LP? That is the question facing many young bands as they get their music out into the world during their formative years.

For Asheville-based neo-soul/ hip-hop quintet Natural Born Leaders, who formed in 2016, the decision to keep their new collection, Abominable Creatures, to six songs came down to the desire to put out professional-grade material on a budget — hopefully exceeding expectations in the process.

“We want people to be able to put it in the mix with all of the other tunes they’re listening to, from artists who are spending thousands of dollars on their songs, and also be able to stand out,” says lead singer and songwriter Mike Martinez. “We want to put out quality, always.”

Those goals are very much met on Abominable Creatures, which receives a local album release show on Saturday, Nov. 2, at The Mothlight.

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FREAK FLAG FLYERS: From their synthesis of hip-hop, rock, soul and other styles, to their radical political beliefs, Natural Born Leaders are proud to defy expectations. “We’re all a bunch of weird-ass dudes, and our music displays that,” says lead singer and songwriter Mike Martinez, second from left. “We wear our weirdness on our sleeves.” Photo by Michael-Jamar Jean Francois tice to, in Martinez’s words, “make sure that we could go in [to Echo Mountain Recording] and just lay everything down as solid as possible,” the band did just that in one day with producer Patrick Doyle. The foundation in place, the collaborators reconvened at Doyle’s Oakley studio for various touchups, but the vast majority of the EP derives from that single session.

“Patrick introduces order to our chaos. He’s been a fantastic mentor to us, too, just in the industry in general, and a great resource,” Martinez says.

“He’s told us his goal is to put a glossing over us — to influence us to bring out our better sides.”

Doyle’s approach consisted of identifying aspects about the song at hand that he liked, then letting Natural Born Leaders incorporate those compliments as their members saw fit. While Martinez appreciates that style, he’s also thankful for notes that helped curb the band’s “tendency to go a little long” and “be a little grittier than we need to” when it may not be necessary, such as encouraging him to sing instead of growl.

“If it weren’t for Patrick, we probably would have put out all our songs, but they would not be of the quality at which they are,” Martinez says.

He adds that Natural Born Leaders is definitely working toward an LP — if not the next release, then the follow-

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ing one — and is considering doing a concept album, something they’ve already tinkered with on a broad level.

Debut EP About Time centered on the notion of, well, time, while Abominable Creatures is galvanized by “a little darker and a little more realistic portrayal of human emotions,” consistent with the musicians’ collective mindset during the writing period. Despite being “a bunch of weird-ass dudes” whose oddball interests are reflected in their music, Martinez says that he and his bandmates can’t help but draw inspiration from the current “gloom and doom world” and the present political landscape.

“I try to use what I expect the future to look like, what the present looks like and previous experience to talk to the political nature of our society and try to wrap it all in a palatable package — which is not always palatable, and that’s kind of intentional as well,” Martinez says. “There’s some shock value in saying certain things that are realistic. I’m a pretty radical thinker, beyond even left- or right-leaning politics. I wouldn’t say that I subscribe to either side, and I hope that our music conveys that.”

The synthesis of the above components has allowed Natural Born Leaders to thrive as an Asheville-based band, and audiences around the U.S. are starting to take notice, too. The group

hit more than 20 states while touring this year and, according to Martinez, made fans in each one. Further stirring interest is the buzz earned in August at the Mile of Music Festival in Appleton, Wis., which featured more than 250 acts and saw Natural Born Leaders play six sets in three days.

“That really was a game-changer for me,” Martinez says. “It opened my eyes to what could be, and by the end of the weekend, we had people there who had come to see us three or four times, which to me is a huge testament that we’re doing something right. People want to see us. Our last show there was the most packed show we played the whole weekend. I view that as what our trajectory could be in the real world.” X

WHO Natural Born Leaders with Musashi Xero and Shutterings WHERE The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Saturday, Nov. 2, 9 p.m. $10 advance/$12 day of show

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NOT A DRAG Elio Gonzalez can say with certainty he will not be changing the name of Miss Gay Latina Asheville, the drag pageant he started in the city a dozen years ago. The event’s Latinx heritage, after all, is paramount to its pedigree.

Before he even moved to Asheville from Charlotte, Gonzalez launched the event to coincide with National Hispanic Heritage Month. And, for years, the audience predominantly tapped Western North Carolina’s Latinx communities.

But, after more than a decade producing Miss Gay Latina Asheville, Gonzalez can also say with certainty that the event has now moved beyond the boundaries its name might suggest.

To wit, it returns to the Diana Wortham Theatre stage at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts on Saturday, Nov. 2, more than two weeks after Hispanic Heritage Month has ended.

And, in 2017, Dorae Saunders became the contest’s first black winner; this year, the expanded field even includes a performer traveling from Canada.

The crowd’s racial diversity has shifted, too, says Gonzalez, so that there’s more balance. When the entertainers parade across the stage, dressed in the customary attire of another country, they are welcome to represent any nation, inside or outside of Latin America. Per its mission statement, Miss Gay Latina Asheville is now open to “any performer, regardless of sexual orientation, nationality, or gender identification.”

“The beauty of this pageant is that it doesn’t matter if you are skinny or heavy, the most beautiful or not,” says Gonzalez, a social worker in Asheville by day. “Whoever comes with the strongest package — the interview, the costume, the talent, the evening gown — is going to walk away with the crown. If I look at all my former contestants, I have all types and shapes and colors and forms.”

For Gonzalez, the steady stretch of the pageant’s limitations reflects a regional ethos of inclusion, a primary impetus from the start. Asheville has always been receptive to the pageant and its diversity, Gonzalez notes, a proud host of such a wide cast. For outsiders, it may come as a surprise that such pockets of inclusion exist in North Carolina, its reputation recently hamstrung by backward bathroom bills and legislated sexism — especially at the edge of the Appalachian Mountains.

Miss Gay Latina Asheville pageant continues to expand beyond its name Asheville: “As long as you are putting yourself out there, honing your skills and making sure you are putting out a beautiful package that says, ‘It’s all about me,’ you’ll shine.”

That is the essence of inclusion, after all, and that is the essence of Miss Gay Latina Asheville. X

WHAT Miss Gay Latina Asheville WHERE Wortham Center for the Performing Arts 18 Biltmore Ave. dwtheatre.com WHEN Saturday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m. $30 general/$75 VIP (includes admission to the pre-event celebration on Friday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m., at Contemporaneo Asheville Gallery)

CROWING GLORY: Designer, “Project Runway” contestant and former North Carolinian Garo Sparo, right, will judge Miss Gay Latina Asheville. “The beauty of this pageant is that it doesn’t matter if you are skinny or heavy, the most beautiful or not,” says contest founder Elio Gonzalez. Winners, including last year’s titleholder Kassandra Hylton, pictured at left, are the contestants with the strongest overall presentation. Hylton’s photo by Tios Photography, Sparo’s photo courtesy of the designer But Garo Sparo, a long-thriving New York couture designer who has worked with the likes of Gwen Stefani and Nicki Minaj, knows better. When he was a teenager, his family left Long Island for North Carolina’s Triangle area, where his father worked for a high-tech firm.

Sparo designed and crafted dresses for his high school friends in Apex, a passion he eventually honed as a college student in UNC Greensboro’s fashion program. The acceptance and encouragement he found in the state helped push him to New York, where he went from designing for “drag personalities and socialites, kind of the same thing,” to recent work for “Miss Universe” and “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” He returns to North Carolina this year to judge Miss Gay Latina Asheville.

Sparo arrives in Asheville — a city he visited every autumn with his family while living in the Triangle, for sojourns along the Blue Ridge Parkway to take in the seasonal color — after an especially busy year. In late May, he wrapped the 17th season of “Project Runway,” the

popular Bravo reality series where fashion designers compete by creating new looks with specific themes or material constraints in mind.

Sparo emerged from the “nonstop insanity” in third place from a field of 16. He added royal blue, stegosauruslike spikes to one model’s shoulders for an episode called “The Future Is Here” and fused the fashion of Bootsy Collins and Elton John during a tribute to the piano rock royalty. In his quartercentury in the fashion industry, he’d done plenty of judging himself, ranking contestants in enormous drag pageants called “Goddess Balls” and at futuristic “cyber-style” shows in the ’90s, but he’d never been critiqued in that way himself until arriving on television.

Those evaluations were revelatory experiences for Sparo, giving him new insight into what it takes mentally and manually to be reviewed and ranked in such a frank way. And in making the transition from the judged back to the judge, he has this advice for this year’s contestants in Miss Gay Latina

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Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St.

LEICESTER COMMUNITY ART NIGHTS • 1st TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Community art night for children and adults. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

• TH (11/7), 9am-1pm - Paint-Out for artists of all ages and skill levels to paint sights from Chimney Rock along the Broad River. Free to attend. Held at Hickory Nut Gorge Brewery, 461 Main St., Chimney Rock COPPERSMITHS • SA (11/2), 10am3pm - Demonstration by coppersmiths Andy Brinkley and Mark Shrum. Free to attend.

Held at New Morning Gallery, 7 Boston Way in Historic Biltmore Village HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL 86 N. Main St., Waynesville, 828-452-0593, haywoodarts.org/ • SA (11/2), 1-4pm - Artist demonstration of creating a handmade, stacked-glass Christmas tree. Free.

• TH (11/7), 10am Travel painting class.

Registration required. $40/$35 members.

19TH ANNUAL JURIED ART & CRAFT FESTIVAL • SA (11/2), 9am-3pm - 19th annual juried art and craft festival featuring over 40 artisans.

Free to attend. Held at First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville, 204 6th Ave. W., Hendersonville ART AFTER DARK • 1st FRIDAY, 6-9pm - 7 galleries open late for Art After Dark. Free to attend. Held in Downtown Waynesville ETOWAH HOLIDAY FAIR • SA (11/2), 9am-2pm - Art and craft fair with handmade holiday gifts and decorations, hand sewn garments, wood crafts, homemade soup and baked goods.

Free to attend. Held at Etowah United Methodist Church, 110 Brickyard Road, Etowah FIRST FRIDAY ART WALKS • 1st FRIDAYS, 5-8pm - Downtown Asheville First Friday Art Walks with more than 25 galleries within a half mile radius of historic downtown Asheville.

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ARBOR EVENINGS • THURSDAYS, 6-9pm Arbor Evenings, weekly outdoor live music event with refreshments available. Free parking pass available online.

Held at NC Arboretum, 100 Frederick Law Olmsted Way

DAWN SWAN: The Russian Ballet Theatre’s production of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake is planned for Thomas Wolfe Auditorium on Saturday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m. Swan Lake is based on the tragic love story of Prince Siegfried and the Swan Princess, Odette, cursed to be a swan by day but a young woman at night. The performance features Olga Kifyak as Odette and Evgeny Svetlitsa as Prince Siegfried, with choreography

by Nadezhda Kalinina, production design by Sergey Novikov and special effects/ makeup by Irina Strukova. For tickets visit, russianballettheatre.com. Photo courtesy of Russian Ballet Theatre (p. 32)

Free to attend. Held in Downtown Asheville GIFTS OF HOPE HOLIDAY FAIR • SA (11/2), 10am-4pm - Holiday fair featuring fair-trade gifts and crafts for sale from Ten Thousand Villages. Baked goods, homemade soups and tamales for sale. Free to attend. Held at St. James Episcopal Church, 766 N. Main St., Hendersonville SYLVA FALL MARKET • SA (11/2), 10am-2pm - Art and craft fair. Free to attend. Held at LifeWay Church, 31 Allen St., Sylva TC ROBERSON HOLIDAY MARKET • SA (11/2), 9am-3pm - Art and craft fair with 90+ artists. Free to attend. Held at TC Roberson High School, 250 Overlook Road

AUDITIONS & CALLS TO ARTISTS LITTLE JUMBO CALL FOR ARTIST PROPOSALS • Through FR (11/1) - Proposals accepted for Little Jumbo’s Weird Art Installation for 2020. Information:

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Held at Little Jumbo, 241 Broadway MILLS RIVER ARTISTS & CRAFTERS • Through SA (12/7) Applications accepted for arts and crafts vendors for a craft show and sale taking place Saturday, Dec. 7.

Regsitration: 803-360-2975.

Held at Mills River Presbyterian Church, 10 Presbyterian Church Road, Mills River HENDERSONVILLE ARTSCAPE BANNER PROJECT • Until mid-January - The 2020 ArtScape Banner project features 40 Henderson County artists and four young artists (6-11 and 12-17). Visit artscapehvl. org for application. Held in Historic Downtown Hendersonville ‘THE LAST NIGHT OF BALLYHOO’ • TU (11/5), 10:30-2:30pm - Open auditions for the production of The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Contact for more information. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St.

DANCE SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB • SA (11/2), 6pm - Tribute to Veterans, themed dance with the ROTC from North Henderson High School presenting colors followed by a Grand March.

Advanced dance at 6 pm.

Early rounds at 7 pm.

Squares and rounds at 7:30 pm. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310 Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville ‘SWAN LAKE’ • SA (11/2), 8:30pm - Swan Lake, ballet performed by the Russian Ballet Theatre. $28 and up. Held at US Cellular Center, 87 Haywood St. WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-2574530, worthamarts.org • WEDNESDAYS until (11/27), 5:30pm Pantomime course with Otto Vazquez, traditional pantomime done to music.

Registration: avl.mx/6m9.

Free in Oct./$10 in Nov. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

• TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS until (11/26), noon - Ballet Discovery for Adults with Heidi Longwith, is for adult beginner or intermediate. Registration: avl.mx/6m5. Free in Oct./$10 in Nov. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

• MONDAYS until (11/25), noon - Office Worker's Warm Up with Coco Palmer Dolce helps relieve stress by releasing back, neck and shoulders. Registration: avl.mx/6m2. Free in Oct./$12 in Nov. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

• MONDAYS until (11/11), 4pm - Story Choreography with Barrie Barton, personal exploration and community collaboration through weaving story with movement. Registration: avl.mx/6ma. Free in Oct./$15 in Nov. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

• TUESDAYS until (12/3), 5:30pm - Hip Hop 101 with Otto Vazquez, popular social dances. Registration: avl.mx/6mb. Free in Oct./$10 in Nov. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. ATOS TRIO • FR (11/1), 8pm - Atos Trio, chamber music concert featuring works by Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Shostakovich. $40. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place BRASS YOUR HEART • WE (11/6), 7-8:30pm - Open house for Brass Your Heart, radical marching band dedicated to providing street support to grassroots social justice open house.

Information: amyers@ workingfilms.org. Free.

Held at Kairos West Community Center, 610-002 Haywood Road BREVARD MUSIC CENTER 828-862-2105, brevardmusic.org • SU (11/3), 3-5pm - Duos, concert with violists Paul Huang and Danbi Um featuring works by Glinka, Moszkowski, Tchaikovsky and Sarasate. $35. Held at Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard • MO (11/4), 12:30pm - Concert featuring bassoonist

William Ludwig and pianist Futaba Niekawa playing Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Charles Koechlin, Alain Bernaud, Oscar Morawetz, and Carl Maria von Weber.

Free. Held at Porter Center for Performing Arts at Brevard College, Brevard • 1st MONDAYS, 12:30pm - Community concert series. Free.

Held in the Porter Cente, Brevard College, 1 Brevard College Drive, Brevard FALL CONCERT • SA (11/2), 7:30pm - Love and Marriage, chorus concert featuring works by Daniel Pinkham, Benjamin Britten and Eric Whitacre. $25/$15 youth. Held at Arden Presbyterian Church, 2215 Hendersonville Road, Arden LOUIS THE CHILD • TH (11/7), 8pm - Louis the Child, concert. $22.

Held at US Cellular Center, 1043 Patton Ave. MOZART GROUP • FR (11/1), 7:30pm - MozART Group, slapstick comedy and classical music. $35-$40.

Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon ‘RUBBLE BECOMES ART’ • FR (11/1), 2pm - Flutist Kate Steinbeck and guitarist Amy Brucksch play music and speak about Rubble Becomes Art. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights • SA (11/2), 12:30pm - Flutist Kate Steinbeck and guitarist Amy Brucksch play music and speak about Rubble Becomes Art. Free. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St. WILD ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY CHORUS • TH (11/7), 7:308:30pm - Concert featuring a chorus of 80-singers performing songs from America, South Africa, Russia, Serbia, Croatia and

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induce Torvald to legally divorce her.

It’s a bold move to take on a sequel to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House, but Austin and Flynn-McIver deliver N.C. Stage Company accepted the passionate, grounded performancchallenge with A Doll’s House: Part es and are well-matched in their 2, which examines what happened to final showdown.

Nora Helmer after she left her hus The standout confrontation, howband of eight years, her three young ever, is the one between Anne Marie children and her prosperous life in (Jane Bushway), the family nanny late 19th-century Norway. The proand housekeeper, and Nora. The duction is onstage through Sunday, supposed solidarity between women Nov. 17. is fractured. Nora seeks an ally to Initially, it seems that the story help her persuade Torvald to divorce picks up 15 years after Nora (played her. But what about the wreckby Jennifer Austin) slammed the age she left behind? Anne Marie door on her marriage. She faced an cleaned that up, too. Bushway’s uncertain future, and surely her character is foul-mouthed and prospects were grim given the angry because Nora fails to options for women in the 1870s. acknowledge Anne Marie’s Laws, religious beliefs, limited own lack of choices in life. education and family expecNora’s privilege blinds her tations shaped women’s lives to what Anne Marie had then and offered few rights to accept. The rage bubor freedoms. bling inside Anne Marie Playwright Lucas Hnath redirects the portrait shakes up audience expecof marriage toward a tations, especially with the reminder that sistertime period. The sumptuhood is more slogan ous costumes lead us to than reality. think we’re in the Norway

Director Anne of 1894, but Torvald Thibault assembled (Charlie Flynn-McIver) a powerful cast. Their enters his home carenergy onstage draws us rying a laptop comtoward a conclusion that puter. Daughter Emmy is surprising and true to PRISON REFORM: Nora, played by Jennifer Austin, returns home Ibsen’s idea that freedom (Emma Lenderman) sips 15 years after escaping her unhappy marriage in the Tony-nominated from a Starbucks to-go requires sacrifices. X play A Doll’s House: Part 2. Photo courtesy of N.C. Stage. cup. The dissonance signals we’ve entered a story and a few pieces of furniture complete whose themes resonate WHAT the room. today. This family’s disintegration A Doll’s House: Part 2 Anticipation builds as Nora and looks disturbingly contemporary.

Torvald prepare to confront each Gender wars that date back more WHERE other. She has returned for the divorce than a century continue.

N.C. Stage Company he never filed. Now a successful writer, Set design is sparse, yet symbolic.

15 Stage Lane Nora lives well and enjoys speaking Most prominent is the blue and white ncstage.org her mind. However, since she wrote wall with a large door in the center.

WHEN under a pseudonym and championed The elegant, blue wallpaper lacks Through Sunday, Nov. 17. the end of marriage in her works, a paintings, a clock, and other decoWednesdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. judge plans to reveal her true identity. rative elements. Torvald removed and Sundays at 2 p.m., The judge’s wife left him after readthem because they reminded him with additional matinees on ing one of Nora’s books, probably the of Nora, but the outlines remain.

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Lee Fields North Carolina native Lee Fields got his start as a soul musician in the 1960s (though it could easily be argued the art form has been his lifelong pursuit).

Along the way, he offered a leg up to fellow soul artists Sharon Jones and Charles Bradley; Fields performed with the likes of Kool & the Gang, B.B. King and Dr. John. His own career nearly ended in the 1980s.

He was prepared to open a restaurant when “my wife stopped me, man, she told me, ’Stick to what you know,’” he says. Now Fields is at the height of the soul revival, and this year he released It Rains Love with his band, The Expressions, with whom he’ll perform at Salvage Station on Friday, Nov. 1. The Artisinals open the 9 p.m. show. $20. salvagestation.com. Photo courtesy of Fields

Dinner with Friends The winner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Donald Margulies’ Dinner with Friends was adapted one year later into an HBO production, directed by Norman Jewison (In the Heat of the Night) and starring Dennis Quaid, Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette. Now, the funny yet touching look at two married couples over the course of a few months heads to the Attic Salt Theatre Arts Space.

The local production is directed by Jeff Catanese, who also plays soon-to-be-divorced Tom opposite Christy Montesdeoca as his wife, Beth. Rounding out the cast are the real-life couple Lara Hollaway and Matt Edwardsen as Karen and Gabe, food writers who seem to have constructed the perfect life. Dinner with Friends opens Friday, Nov. 1, at 7:30 p.m., with shows on Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday matinees at 2:30 p.m., through Sunday, Nov. 10. $20. atticsalt.org.

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The Big Damn Blues Revolution Tour While not quite the arena-filling draw of Beck, Cage the Elephant and Spoon on their Night Running Tour this past summer, the three acts that compose The Big Damn Blues Revolution Tour carry their own distinct appeal to more modest-sized venues this fall.

Combining forces over their dedication to blues, roots and folk music, The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, former Carolina Chocolate Drops member Dom Flemons and J.D. Wilkes (of Legendary Shack Shakers) will each get the opportunity to share their talents with audiences in standalone spotlight sets. Following those showcases, they’ll all unite onstage for a jam session to see how their artistic gifts work together. The triple bill’s monthlong tour begins Wednesday, Nov. 6, at 8 p.m. at The Grey Eagle. $17. thegreyeagle.com. Photo of The Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band courtesy of the musicians

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Like Madonna and Beyoncé before her, Marianella Rojas has earned the right to go by a mononym — in this case, Nella. She is a native of the Venezuelan island of Margarita and, over the past decade, has found a sweet spot combining her homeland’s folkloric roots, traditional music of Spain’s Andalusian region and modern influences.

While attending the Berklee College of Music, she caught the attention of faculty member Javier Limón, a Spanish guitarist/composer/producer who recently recruited her to work with him on music for Asghar Farhadí’s film Everybody Knows — a collaboration that led to her appearance in the movie itself. Limón also produced Nella’s debut album, Voy, which netted her a nomination for Best New Artist at the 2019 Latin Grammys. Nella swings by Diana Wortham Theatre on Friday, Nov. 1, for an 8 p.m. performance. $20-$35. dwtheatre.com. Photo by Nina Rodrigues

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• SU (11/3), 7:30pm - Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives, concert. $39.50 and up.

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD BANNED BOOK CLUB • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am - Banned Book Club. Free to attend.

Held at Blue Ridge Books, 428 Hazelwood Ave., Waynesville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • TH (10/31), 6-7:30pm – Hear men read aloud Eve Ensler's, The Apology. Free. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road • SA (11/2), 10am-3pm - Annual half-priced used book sale. Free to attend.

Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville • WE (11/6), 3pm - Book Club: Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. Free.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road ‘LETTERS TO JARGON’ • WE (10/30), 7pm Andrew Rippeon presents the book, Letters to Jargon. Free. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St.

B MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • SU (11/3), 3pm - Kathryn Kirkpatrick, Michael Hettich and Rose McLarney read poetry. Free to attend.

• MO (11/4), 6pm - Readings by recipients of the 2019-2020 literature fellowship from the North Carolina Arts Council. Free to attend.

• WE (11/6), 6pm - Debra Diamond presents her book, Diary of a Death Doula: 25 Lessons the Dying Teach Us About the Afterlife. Free to attend.

• TH (11/7), 6pm - Ken Woodley presents his book, The Road to Healing: A Civil Rights Reparations Story in Prince Edward County, Virginia. Free to attend.

NEW DIMENSIONS TOASTMASTERS • THURSDAYS, noon1pm - General meeting.

Information: 828-3294190. Free to attend. Held at Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity, 33 Meadow Road POLITICAL PRISONERS LETTER WRITING • First SUNDAYS, 5pm - Political prisoners letter writing. Free to attend.

Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road STEVE KEMP WRITER’S RESIDENCY • Until (11/1) - Great Smoky Mountains Association's call for applications to the Steve Kemp Writer’s Residency.

Information: avl.mx/6jg TFAC PECHAKUCHA • SU (11/3), 3pm - TFACs 50th anniversary celebration with eight arts groups presenting on the art history of the Foothills.

Reservations: avl.mx/6nz.

Free. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon

2:30pm. $7. Held at Asheville Community

'DINNER WITH FRIENDS' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/1) until (11/10) - Dinner with Friends, by Donald Margulies. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $20. Held at Attic Salt Theatre, The Mills at Riverside, 2002 Riverside Drive, Suite 42-O

Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St.

'MIXED FANDANGO' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (11/7) until (11/23), 7:30pm - Mixed Fandango, directed by Stephanie Hickling Beckman. $21/$18 advance.

Held at Tina McGuire Theatre at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave.

Hendersonville

'MOUNTAIN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/1) until (11/24) - In the Nick of Time: Mountain Political Action Committee Meets Again, local comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $20/$10 students. Held at The Magnetic Theatre, 375 Depot St. 'MY CRAZY MY LOVE' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (11/7) until (11/23), 7:30pm - My Crazy My Love, production by The Sublime Theatre. $15. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St.

• FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/3) - The Addams Family, musical. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm, Sun.: 2pm. $30.

Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St.,

'THE GOD OF HELL' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/1) until (11/17) - The God of Hell, production by the Ellipsis Theatre Company.

Fri.&Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $20. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. 'THE TURN OF THE SCREW' • WEDNESDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/2) - The Turn of the Screw, thriller. Wed. & Thurs.: 7:30pm. Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. Fri. & Sat.: 8pm. $20 and up. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock ‘URINETOWN’ • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (11/7) until (11/10), Urinetown, musical. Thurs.-Sat.:

‘REFLECTIONS AND REPERCUSSIONS’ • WE (11/6), 7pm - Reflections and Repercussions, multi-media performance

by Aki Onda. $15/$10 members. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St.

7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm.

'ROCKY HORROR' • TH (10/31), 7:30pm - Rocky Horror Picture Show, film screening with live performance. $15/$5 students. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee

18 Biltmore Ave., 828-257-

'THE ADDAMS FAMILY' • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (11/1) until (11/3) - The Addams Family, production by the Tanglewood Production Youth Class. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.:

$20/$10 students and children. Held at Western Carolina University, Hoey Auditorium, Cullowhee WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 4530, worthamarts.org • SA (11/2), 7:30pm - Miss Gay Latina Asheville, pageant. $30 and up.

• TUESDAYS until (11/26), 1:30pm - Deep Dive with Different Strokes!: Character Study and Script Analysis with Stephanie Hickling Beckman. Registration: avl.mx/6m6. Free in Oct./$12 in Nov. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

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PRAYING MAN: Big K.R.I.T.’s From the South with Love tour brings him to The Orange Peel on Sunday, Nov. 10. Born Justin Lewis Scott, the Mississippi rapper (whose name is an acronym for King Remembered in Time) was formerly signed to Def Jam Recordings but now independently releases his music. In 2012, he collaborated with late blues legend and fellow Mississippian B.B. King. North Carolina-based hip-hop artist Rapsody and Domani Harris from Atlanta open the show at 8 p.m. $26 advance/$28 day of show. theorangepeel.net. Photo by Jessica Xie

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30 12 BONES BREWERY Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

FUNKATORIUM Grass at the Funk feat. the Saylor Brothers, 6:30PM

27 CLUB Ghost Stories w/ David Voyles, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 6:00PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis,(African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke hosted by Kari, 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST Carolina Hemp presents: A New Romance Goth Ball, 9:00PM

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ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Dance Party w/ Peggy Ratusz & Paula Hanke, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Jazz Trio, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Open Mic, 6:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Billy Owens, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Black Sea Beat Society (Balkan, Klezmer & Turkish dance party), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ live Honky Tonk, 9:00PM

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FLEETWOOD'S Groovy Movie Night!, 7:00PM

LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bluegrass Jam hosted by Gary Mac Fiddle, 6:00PM ODDITORIUM Grey Heron (electronic), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition, 5:00PM Disclaimer Lounge Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Latin Dance Night w/ DJ Oscar (Bachatta, Merengue, Salsa), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Nosferatu & A Page of Madness, 7:30PM PINHEAD'S GRAVEYARD Pinhead's Graveyard Outdoor Haunted House, 8:00PM

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SANCTUARY BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Weird Wed Jam, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM SOVEREIGN KAVA Poetry Open Mic w/ Caleb Beissert (7:30PM Sign Up), 8:00PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Weekly 9 Ball Tournament (sign ups at 7:00PM), 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Classic Guitar Solos w/ Albi, 6:00PM Ruby's Blues Jam, 9:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY BREVARD Rocky Horror Picture Show, 7:30PM

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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 27 CLUB 2nd Annual Halloween Party & Blood Wrestling, 9:00PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM ALOFT HOTEL Thursday Night Flicks, 8:00PM ANTIDOTE Pimps of Pompe (Gypsy jazz hip-hop), 7:00PM ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Halloween Dance Party, 9:00PM

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THE FOUNDRY HOTEL 3 Cool Cats, 7:30PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 7:00PM

THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Live Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray and the Space Cooties, 7:00PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM John Prine: The Tree of Forgiveness World Tour, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP David Bryan's Open Mic, 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Music Bingo, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Travers Brothership Halloween (Primus & Zappa sets) w/ April B. & the Cool, 9:00PM

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ASHEVILLE OUTLETS

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Bash at Asheville Outlets, 5:00PM

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30 BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Howl-o-Ween w/ Blue Ridge Humane Society (pet, adult & kids costume contest), 4:00PM

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BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths, Mitch Hayes, 7:30PM BUXTON HALL BBQ

B Halloween Dance party & Costume Contest, 10:00PM

CATAWBA BREWING TASTING ROOM Rotaract Asheville Halloween Meetup, 6:30PM

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CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Music Bingo, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Plague Themed Halloween Party DJ Dr. Filth, Burlesque with Bette Machete, 8:00PM

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DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM DOWNTOWN MORGANTON Downtown Morganton Halloween Spooktacular, 3:00PM

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FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Halloween Party w/ Random Animals (funk, jam), 10:00PM

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FUNKATORIUM Gypsy Jazz feat.

Steve Karla & Friends, 6:00PM

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The Hope Griffin Duo, 8:00PM

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PARADOX NIGHTCLUB At Night Costume & Twerk Party, 10:00PM

HAIKU I DO Spooktacular Soiree w/ DJ Bowie, DJ Brett Rock, DJ Cotton Kandy & Captain Hyperdrive, 9:00PM

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FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM

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JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Two Day Halloween Party: Spooky Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

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THURSDAY 10/31: LENNY PETTINELLI 9PM SPECIAL HALLOWEEN SET

LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION, 10:00PM

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WEDNESDAY 10/30: SALSA LESSON &

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM MARKET PLACE Bob Zullo (pop, rock, jazz & blues), 6:00PM

LATIN DANCE NIGHT W/ DJ OSCAR 9PM THURSDAY 10/31: SPECIAL HALLOWEEN ONE WORLD FAMILY EARLY JAM 8PM

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FRI. 11/1: 1ST FRIDAYS W/ KAIZEN 9PM

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(JEFF SIPE, MIKE BARNES, & MARK MCDANIEL)

Foul Drag Circus, 9:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING OWB Downtown: Lenny Pettinelli (special Halloween set), 9:00PM

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PURPLE ONION CAFE West End String Band, 7:30PM

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Dirty Logic: A Steely Dan Tribute, 9:00PM

FINES CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER Haunted House of Horrors, 5:00PM

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SALVAGE STATION Halloween w/ the Screaming J's & Phuncle Sam, 7:00PM

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HILLMAN BEER Hill-o-ween Bash (costume contest & DJ Sets), 6:00PM

Kidnapper (haunted house themed escape room), 7:00PM

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POLANCO RESTAURANT Halloween Party, 10:00PM

B Pinhead's Graveyard B Outdoor Haunted House,

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

B Asheville Alleyway

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY G.A.M.E. (Grateful Asheville Music Experience, 8:00PM

FREE PATIO SHOW AT 6PM

KREKEL & WHOA

SATURDAY 11/2: IN FLIGHT 9PM

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MONDAY 11/4: JAZZ NIGHT 8:30PM

HOSTED BY: ONE WORLD RAY RING BREWING WEST JASON DECRISTOFARO HOUSE SET - 8:30pm CONNOR LAW JAZZ JAM TO FOLLOW

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Halloween Jam w/ One World Family Band, 9:00PM

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ORANGE PEEL Billy Strings, 8:00PM

Travers Brothership Halloween party (Primus/Zappa Set) w/ April B & the Cool

THU, 10/31 - SHOW: 9:30 pm (DOORS: 9 pm) - adv. tix : $12

JAZZ S! MONDAY

CONNOR LAW www.oneworldbrewing.com

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Halloween

w/ Ethan Heller and The Gremlinz

Funk You w/ Doctor Ocular

THU, 10/31 - SHOW: 10 pm [PSYCHEDELIC JAM] DONATION BASED COVER

FRI, 11/1 - SHOW: 10 pm (DOORS: 9 pm) - adv. tix : $10

First Fridays w/

Dirt y Dead

Aslan Benefit The Jared Stout ft. Strut, Natural Healing,

Band

GFE & High Plain Drifters FRI, 11/1 - SHOW: 10 pm SAT, 11/2 - SHOW: 10 pm [Hi-ENERGY GRatEFUL dEad] [BLUES/COUNtRY/SOUL/ROCK] SAT, 11/2 - SHOW: 8 pm CA$H DONATION$ AT THE DOOR 18+ - (DOORS: 7pm) - tix : $20 CA$H DONATION$ AT THE DOOR

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C LUBLAND SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Halloween 2019 w/ Scott Moss & $100 Handshakes, 7:30PM

ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Big Dawg Slingshot followed by LatinX Dance Party, 8:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Freaks & Follies, Halloween Premiere, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 7:00PM

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SOVEREIGN KAVA Halloween Party & Costume Contest w/ live music, 7:00PM

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COMING SOON WED 10/30 7:00PM–KELLY HUNT FEAT. STAS’ HEANEY

THU 10/31

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM

ASHEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Haunted High, 10:00PM

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

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Funk You w/ Doctor Ocular, 10:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE David Searra (Spanish guitar), 6:00PM, Halloween Surprise Party, 8:00PM

BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

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9:00PM–DIRTY LOGIC - HALLOWEEN YACHT ROCK DANCE PARTY FRI 11/1 7:00PM–JEFF BLACK 8:30PM–THE APPALUCIANS WITH QUEEN BEE & THE HONEYLOVERS

SAT 11/2 7:00PM–CHRIS TRAPPER WITH MARY SCHOLZ 8:30PM–PEGGY RATUSZ WITH DADDY LONGLEGS DANCE PARTY

SUN 11/3 6:00PM–IDENTIKIT DOES NOT UNDERSTAND JAZZ 7:30PM–RUSS WILSON’S ANNUAL SWINGIN’ BIRTHDAY BASH!

TUE 11/5 7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS W/ HOLLY HILL RAMBLERS

WED 11/6 7:00PM–ADAIR ARBOR & JESSE BARRY’S TRIBUTE TO JOHNNY CASH 8:30PM–OLD TIME NIGHT WITH FRANK & ALLIE LEE AND EMILY SCHAAD, JOHN HERRMANN, & MEREDITH MCINTOSH

THU 11/7 7:00PM–JON SHAIN AND FJ VENTRE

FRI 11/8 7:00PM–ROD PICOTT 8:30PM–AMY STEINBERG

SAT 11/9 7:00PM–DONNA HOPKINS FEAT. THE AIN’T SISTERS WITH TAYLOR MARTIN 9:00PM–BRIAN ASHLEY JONES & JAMIE MCLEAN

SUN 11/10 6:00PM–CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER W/ SPECIAL GUEST BETH LEE 7:30PM–IRISH FIDDLE VIRTUOSO FRANKIE GAVIN WITH TOMMY MCCARTHY & LOUISE COSTELLO

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ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Vince Junior Band (refreshingly soulful blues), 8:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE Halloween Trivia, 7:00PM Rock ’N Reggae Costume Party w/ IONIZE, 9:00PM

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THE GREY EAGLE Unknown Hinson's Halloween Extravaganza w/ Barnyard Stompers, 9:00PM

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THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions (jazz), 9:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Live Music on the Rooftop, 9:00PM TWISTED LAUREL Halloween Party, 10:00PM

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BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Me & Dave, 6:00PM CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective (rotating DJ's), 9:00PM CORK & KEG The Gypsy Swingers, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Russ Wilson & His Kings of Jazz 12 Piece Jazz Orchestra, 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Rotating Rock 'n' Soul DJs, 10:00PM ESCAPE OUT

B Asheville Alleyway Kidnapper (haunted house themed escape room), 7:00PM

UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dead & Company Live Stream, 7:00PM

GINGER'S REVENGE Melodic AF (soul, jazz, country, blues, roots, rock), 7:30PM

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Land of Sky Symphonic Band Halloween Show, 7:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY First Friday Dance Party, 7:00PM

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WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 10:00PM ZAMBRA Dan Keller, (jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Jesse Barry & The Jam, (blues, funk), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST An Evening w/ Randall Bramblett Band (Americana, roots rock), 8:00PM APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy (Chicago style blues), 6:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Jeff Black, 7:00PM The Appalucians & Queen Bee and the Honeylovers, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM Two Day Halloween Party: Chelsea Lovitt & Boys (costume contest), 9:00PM

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LAZY DIAMOND Nu Disco w/ DJ Strongmagnumopus, 10:00PM Slayed & Fade w/ DJ Ethan M (rockers & soul), 10:00PM LIQUEFY Les Amis (African folk music), 8:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Hot Club of Asheville, 6:30PM

LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Hieronymus Bots & Illumination Station, 8:00PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Friday Night Live Music Series, 8:00PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Friday Night Live Music Series, 8:00PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE Tina Collins Duo, 6:00PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY Joe Hott, 5:30PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM First Fridays w/ Dirty Dead, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Kaizen (Jeff Sipe - Drums, Mike Barnes - Guitar, Mark McDaniel), 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL The Cinematic Orchestra w/ Photo & PBDY, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Randy Flack & The Butterbean Band, 1:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY West End String Band, 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep (dance party), 9:30PM PINHEAD'S GRAVEYARD Pinhead's Graveyard Outdoor Haunted House, 8:00PM

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Jonathan Robinson, 9:00PM REVOLVE STUDIO 7 Deadly Sins in the Border performed by Edwin Salas, 8:00PM RUSTIC GRAPE WINE BAR Nick Gonnering (singersongwriter), 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Lee Fields & the Expressions, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Todd Cecil & The Back South, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE

B Absurdist Parade: Wake The Dead, 6:00PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE DJ Smokifantastic Fridays, 6:00PM Freedom’s Friday Halloween Costume Party, 9:00PM

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THE BARRELHOUSE Ben Phan, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Brian Turner Birthday Bash w/ Virginia and the Slims, 5:30PM Seth Walker, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat.

Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM

TAVERN Downtown on the Park Eclectic Menu • Over 30 Taps • Patio 15 TV’s • Sports Room • 110” Projector Event Space • Shuffleboard Open 7 Days 11am - Late Night WE

H AV E FO O O N O U R T BA L L 15 SCREENS!

THU. 10/31 Hope Griffin Duo (acoustic rock)

FRI. 11/1

THE MOTHLIGHT Dylan LeBlanc & Night Moves, 9:00PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Andrew J. Fletcher (solo jazz piano), 2:30PM THE WYVERN'S TALE Game Designers of North Carolina-Asheville Meeting, 6:00PM

DJ RexxStep

(dance hits, pop)

SAT. 11/2 Rewind House Band (classic hits, rock)

TOWN PUMP The Dusty Travelers, 9:00PM TRYON FINE ARTS CENTER MozART Group at TFAC, 7:30PM UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE ATOS TRIO, 8:00PM

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UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dead & Company Live Stream, 7:00PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE De' Rumba w/ DJ Malinalli, 9:00PM WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Nella, 8:00PM ZAMBRA Jason Moore (jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 27 CLUB 2nd Annual Voodoo Like We Do sponsored by Asheville Mardi Gras, 7:00PM

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5 WALNUT WINE BAR The Mug, (blues), 9:00PM APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy (Chicago style blues), 4:00PM ARDEN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Love and Marriage w/ the Asheville Symphony Chorus, 7:30PM

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POUND THE PAVEMENT: Brass Your Heart, a self-described “radical marching band,” is hosting an open house to recruit new members and practice tunes. The project, launched in 2017, provides peaceful street support for grassroots social justice causes. Organizers can request the group for marches, protests, rallies and more at avl.mx/6no. The Brass Your Heart Open House takes place at Kairos West Community Center on Wednesday, Nov. 6, 7 p.m. Free. avl.mx/6np. Photo by Julio Jmpro

ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Austin Barrett Solo Act followed by DJ Lil MeowMeow, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy, 4:00PM

GINGER'S REVENGE Mitch Hayes (folk, rock, country, blues), 2:30PM

ASHEVILLE HIGH SCHOOL Haunted High, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Clint Roberts, 7:00PM

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ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL A Family Reunion Benefit for Aslan feat Natural Healing, Strut, GFE & High Plain Drifters, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE OUTLETS 3rd Annual Asheville Food Truck & Craft Beer Festival, 12:00PM

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FLEETWOOD'S Call the Next Witness, Quarantine Tarantino, Skunk Ruckus, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER 28 Pages, 6:00PM CORK & KEG The Old Chevrolet Set, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL The House Hoppers (swing jazz & hot jazz), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM ESCAPE OUT

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Chris Trapper, 7:00PM Peggy Ratusz & Daddy LongLegs Dance Party, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB The Carmonas, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Reena Calm, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Slushie Saturdays w/ Los Dos Krektones (instro-surf rock), 2:30PM Raw Funk, Stomp, Rock, Groove, & Skank w/ DJ The Bogart, 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM NEW BELGIUM BREWERY 10th Birthday Party & Asheville FM Record Fair (VIP tickets available), 10:00AM

B Asheville Alleyway

ODDITORIUM Secret Pool, State Park Ranger, Circle Verse (rock, indie), 9:00PM

FERN LEAF CHARTER SCHOOL Frond Fest, 3:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Jared Stout Band, 10:00PM

Kidnapper (haunted house themed escape room), 7:00PM

FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF ASHEVILLE Music Explorations Class, 11:00AM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST In Flight, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Secret Agent 23 Skidoo w/ Firecracker Jazz Band, 12:00PM Cosmic Charlie w/ Dark Side of the Dead, 9:00PM ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Roan Mountain Moonshiners & Sam McKinney, 1:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Dale & Darcy Band (Americana), 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN Rewind House Band, 9:30PM PARADOX NIGHTCLUB Ashanti (R&B), 9:00PM PINHEAD'S GRAVEYARD Pinhead's Graveyard Outdoor Haunted House, 8:00PM

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Hunter Begley & Eric Ledford, 8:00PM POLANCO RESTAURANT Ultra Lounge: Food, Music, Lounge w/ DJ Phantome Pantone, 10:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Citizen Mojo, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Big Something w/ Los Colognes & Midnight North, 7:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Stray Mutt w/ Ashley Bean, 8:00PM

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ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy Jazz), 8:00PM

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ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL World Famous Bluegrass Brunch, 10:30AM Smash Out Sundays w/ Mike T & JJ Smash, 9:00PM

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ORANGE PEEL Thievery Corporation w/ Brazilian Girls, 8:00PM

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MOVIE REVIEWS

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Michelle Keenan

Countdown HHH DIRECTOR: Justin Dec PLAYERS:Elizabeth Lail, Jordan Calloway HORROR/THRILLER RATED PG-13

Midnight Traveler HHHHS

DIRECTOR: Hassan Fazili PLAYERS: Hassan Fazili, Nargis Fazili, DOCUMENTARY NOT RATED After opening an art café in Afghanistan in 2015, filmmaker Hassan Fazili angered the Taliban and a bounty was put on his head. Hassan, his fellow filmmaker/wife Fatima and their two young daughters were forced to flee their homeland to seek political asylum in the EU. Filmed on cell phones over the course of three years, Midnight Traveler documents their arduous journey.

Winner of a special jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the documentary is wonderfully honest and illuminating. The Fazili family’s plight takes them on a 3,500 mile adventure through Tajikistan, Iran, Turkey, Bulgaria and Serbia. Filming during everyday family life as well as instances fraught with danger, Midnight Traveler never feels staged, manipulative or contrived.

Fazili creates a sparse but compelling narrative, letting organic moments do most of the storytelling. Ultimately, he presents viewers with a video diary that captures universally relatable human experiences and makes the refugee crisis more tangible to an (opinionated but often ignorant) Western audience.

Starts Nov. 1 at Pisgah Film House REVIEWED BY MICHELLE KEENAN REELTAKES@HOTMAIL.COM

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Black and Blue HHHS DIRECTOR: Deon Taylor PLAYERS: Naomie Harris, Tyrese Gibson ACTION/CRIME RATED R In many U.S. cities like New Orleans, where this film is set, African Americans identify as black or “blue” (a police officer), but not both. So when rookie officer Alicia West (Naomie Harris, Moonlight) witnesses a murder by some corrupt detectives, she’s stranded in limbo: hunted by corrupt cops, shunned by the black community who could help her — save for one dubious convenience store manager named Mouse (Tyrese Gibson).

Stereotypes abound — most of the other African American characters are gangbangers or undifferentiated poor people — but as a crime action drama, Black and Blue isn’t terrible. It moves the action briskly along, doesn’t always take the easy plot turn and figures out moderately creative answers to the various traps into which it drops Alicia. Let’s just hope the next movie that’s focused on a black woman cop will also allow her to show off how well she can do her job, not just avoid the bad guys.

REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

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Countdown contains a pinch of light humor, a scratch of predictability, a touch of romance and a lot of nerveracking disturbances. Centered on an app that predicts the exact moment of each user’s death, the film appeals to viewers who enjoy a bit of unsettling skin crawl and delivers the goods just in time for this week’s holiday.

In typical horror fashion, the story begins harmlessly enough at a high school party with kids just joking and poking around in a modern day ouija board scenario. As the app becomes popular globally, the results aren’t as predictable as the premise suggests. The film actually has some welcome surprises and jewels sprinkled throughout, and even manages to address workplace gender equality as well as sexual harassment.

Even more impressive is that its uncomfortable content brings its characters closer to loved ones — and gets viewers thinking along the same lines.

If you enjoy demons and sunshine sharing the same field, go see Countdown.

REVIEWED BY KEVIN EVANS K.A.E.0082@GMAIL.COM

Dolemite Is My Name HHHH

DIRECTOR: Craig Brewer PLAYERS: Eddie Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Wesley Snipes BIOPIC/COMEDY RATED R I haven’t felt this good about a movie with a majority black cast since Black Panther. It’s not just my delight in Eddie Murphy’s return to film, but because Dolemite Is My Name should be seen in order to appreciate a man whose movies were never meant to be seen — at least not outside the African American communities in Los Angeles.

Murphy, who became an instant icon when he was cast at age 19 on “Saturday Night Live” and later starred

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in blockbusters such as Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America, now shines as another icon: Rudy Ray Moore. An Arkansas-born singer and comedian, Moore combined stubbornness, charm

STARTING FRIDAY Harriet (PG-13) HH Midnight Traveler (NR) HHHHS (Pick of the Week) Motherless Brooklyn (R) HHHS Where’s My Roy Cohn?

(PG-13) HHHHS JUST ANNOUNCED Arctic Dogs (PG) In this animated adventure, an arctic fox strives to become a revered mail courier Terminator: Dark Fate (R) Sarah Connor and an enhanced super-soldier from the future try to protect a young woman from a new, deadly Rev-9 Terminator.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS Abominable (PG) HHHH The Addams Family (PG) HH Becoming Nobody (NR) HHH Black and Blue (R) HHHS Countdown (PG-13) HHH The Current War: Director’s Cut (PG-13) HHHS Dolemite Is My Name (R) HHHH Downton Abbey (PG) HHHH Fantastic Fungi (NR) HHHH Gemini Man (PG-13) HS The Great Alaskan Race (PG) H It Chapter Two (R) HH Joker (R) HHHS Judy (PG-13) HHS The Lighthouse (R) HH Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (PG-13) HHS The Lion King (PG) HHH Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (PG) HHHS Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (R) HHHHS Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (PG-13) HHH Western Stars (PG) HHHH Zombieland: Double Tap (R) HHHS

and an unfaltering belief in himself and in black people to become a superstar of blaxploitation films as the character Dolemite, a pimp with a big gut and even bigger dreams.

Murphy and the supporting cast gel wonderfully in this hilarious, raunchy, heartfelt salute. Welcome back, Eddie!

You’re right on time.

Now playing at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY MELISSA WILLIAMS

some) and his all-star cast — including Willem Dafoe, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Alec Baldwin and Cherry Jones — seem content to play dress-up amid convincing period details, solving the myriad connected mysteries without expelling more effort than what’s required.

The results are, of course, nowhere near the highs of the Polanski classic — which may never be exceeded — but for an honorable homage, viewers could do a lot worse.

Starts Nov. 1 at Grail Moviehouse

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REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

DIRECTOR: Kasi Lemmons PLAYERS: Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom Jr., Joe Alwyn BIOPIC/DRAMA RATED PG-13

The Current War: Director’s Cut HHHS

The fact that there’s finally a widely available biopic about Harriet Tubman is a major achievement, but the Lifetime movie treatment that the typically reliable Kasi Lemmons (Mudbound; Talk to Me) provides in Harriet is a disservice to the great woman’s legacy.

In her first starring role, Cynthia Erivo (Widows) is lifeless and uncharismatic as our heroine, whose surprisingly dull path to the Underground Railroad is marred by a distracting trope of visions from God steering her decisions and further cheapened by a non-R rating that yields a bizarrely soft look at slavery.

Told via boring, boilerplate visuals and cloying musical cues, Tubman’s daring deeds deserve better than this significant step back for the cast and crew that’s also an insult to slave narratives overall.

Starts Nov. 1 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

Motherless Brooklyn HHHS

DIRECTOR: Edward Norton PLAYERS: Edward Norton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Willem Dafoe DRAMA/CRIME RATED R Written and directed by Edward Norton and starring the acclaimed actor as a private eye with Tourette’s syndrome, Motherless Brooklyn is allaround good enough but never aspires to greatness.

That’s a shame, considering what a more imaginative filmmaker could do with this labyrinthine, Chinatownlight story of murder and corruption in 1950s New York City. Instead, Norton (whose verbal tics quickly grow tire-

volunteers to run the longest leg of an emergency relay trip to deliver antitoxin to Nome, his far-flung Alaskan hometown on the brink of a diphtheria epidemic in 1925.

Based on actual events, the script is pedestrian and period-inappropriate, the acting is subpar, and the cuts between scenes abrupt and awkward.

Rather than pack in the action and adventure that the title suggests, the film spends the bulk of its 87 minutes in a loop of poorly written dialogue as the townspeople of Nome fret and await the arrival of the lifesaving serum.

The 1925 serum run to Nome is a gripping story, but as The Great Alaskan Race, it’s a dramatization far less entertaining than its Wikipedia

DIRECTOR: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon PLAYERS: Benedict Cumberbatch, Michael Shannon, Nicholas Hoult BIOPIC/DRAMA RATED PG-13 It’s the 1880s, and famous inventor Thomas Edison (Benedict Cumberbatch) begins a battle against George Westinghouse (Michael Shannon) for domination in the nascent public electricity market.

The film that details this historical “war” is directed by Alfonso GomezRejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl), who tries to keep it dynamic with canted cameras, fragmented time lines and other cinematic tricks. But the real energy of the film comes from its remarkable true story, told with top production values (fine, detailed sets and costumes), an engaging cast (Tom Holland and Nicholas Hoult are the coleads), luminous cinematography and lots of scenes in fancy railway cars and lavish hotels.

It’s no Reds, but viewers unfamiliar with how the country moved from gaslight to electricity in the late 19th century will be fascinated by the conniving of Edison and Westinghouse, and by the unusual events that decided the outcome.

REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

DIRECTOR: Brian Presley PLAYERS: Brian Presley, Treat Williams, Brad Leland ACTION/ADVENTURE RATED PG The Great Alaskan Race stars writer/ director Brian Presley as Leonhard Seppala, a renowned dog musher who

REVIEWED BY MELISSA MYERS MELISSA.L.MYERS@GMAIL.COM

Western Stars HHHH DIRECTORS: Bruce Springsteen, Thom Zimny PLAYERS: Bruce Springsteen DOCUMENTARY/CONCERT FILM RATED PG The most affordable and intimate Bruce Springsteen concert experience one is likely to have, Western Stars brings The Boss’ latest album to screens instead of arenas.

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by Edwin Arnaudin | earnaudin@mountainx.com Rollins, Ian MacKaye, Cynthia Connolly and others. Co-director James June Schneider will be in attendance and participate in a post-film Q&A. Tickets are $10 and available online and at the Grail box office. grailmoviehouse.com

CIVIC CYCLING: The Dream Riders is one of five short films in the immigrant justice showcase Stories Beyond Borders that will screen Nov. 3 at A-B Tech. Photo courtesy of Working Films • Grail Moviehouse, 45 S. French Broad Ave., hosts a screening of Punk the Capital: Building a Sound Movement on Wednesday, Oct. 30, at 9:30 p.m. The documentary chronicles the evolution of Washington, D.C.’s distinct punk rock scene 1976-83, centering on such bands as Bad Brains and Minor Threat and featuring interviews with Henry

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intro and will almost certainly leave theatergoers underwhelmed.

• TU (11/5), 7pm Alice’s Restaurant, 1969 American comedy. $6. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon ‘BLOOD FOR DRACULA’ • FR (11/1), 8pm Blood for Dracula, classic camp comedy.

Free to attend. Held at

Flood Gallery Fine Art Center, 850 Blue Ridge Road, Unit A-13, Black Mountain FILMMAKING WORKSHOPS • SA (11/2), 9am12:30pm & 2-5:30pm Low-budget, hands-on, filmmaking workshops for ages 10 and up.

Registration required. $35/$30 members.

Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St.

• The ACLU of North Carolina, Carolina Jews for Justice and Working Films co-host a screening of Stories Beyond Borders on Sunday, Nov. 3, at 4 p.m. at Asheville–Buncombe Technical Community College’s Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road. The program is composed of five short films that, according to the event description, “show a more complete picture of the attacks on immigrant families and communities” and “lift up real stories of resilience and strength, while illustrating some of the ways people can give their time, energy and resources to support organizing led by immigrant communities.” A discussion will follow the screening. Register online. Free. avl.mx/6ng X ‘GUARDIANS OF OUR TROUBLED WATERS’ • SA (11/2), 10:30am - Guardians of Our Troubled Waters, documentary. Free.

Held at Transylvania County Library, 212 S. Gaston St., Brevard ‘ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW’ • WE (10/30) & TH (10/31), 7:30pm and 10:30pm - Rocky Horror Picture Show, screening and costume contest with prizes.

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Props provided. Held at Upcountry Brewing Company, 212 King St., Suite B, Brevard ‘STORIES BEYOND BORDERS’ • SU (11/3), 4pm - Stories Beyond Borders, documentary and panel discussion regarding immigrant justice sponsored by the Carolina Jews for Justice and the ACLU of NC. Free. Held at AB Tech, Ferguson Auditorium, 340 Victoria Road

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M OVIE RE V I EW S Performed in its entirety in the picturesque and acoustically blessed barn on his California ranch, the titular record may not be the catchiest of his creations, but lensed by active cameras and edits that nicely cycle through the 30-piece orchestra, the live takes of the 13 new songs yield steady charms.

Bridging the tunes are hokey-butinsightful introductions — overly scripted musings that clash with the authenticity of the show, especially when paired with slow-mo images of Springsteen driving or walking around his property. Fun archival footage of the artist in the studio or with his wife, Patti Scialfa, work far better, but it’s all window dressing for the music, the undisputed main attraction that merits the price of admission.

REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

Where’s My Roy Cohn?

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DIRECTOR: Matt Tyrnauer PLAYERS: Roy M. Cohn, Roger Stone DOCUMENTARY RATED PG-13

As polemical documentaries go, Where’s My Roy Cohn? makes its case with an abundance of evidence: President Donald J. Trump, it asserts, learned everything about the ruthless exercise of power from disbarred lawyer Roy Cohn, who launched his career as chief counsel to Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

Director Matt Tyrnauer’s sources include a lot of Cohn’s friends and relatives and others who dealt directly with Cohn, so the filmmaker can’t be justifiably accused of talking only to Cohn’s enemies. His team clearly did its homework in digging up archival footage — perhaps to a fault as some clips linger needlessly.

Still, the film is must-see viewing for anyone who wants to better understand the world that produced Trump — a world, the film depicts, of lies, cheats, mobsters and egocentric celebrities where Cohn thrived for decades.

Starts Nov. 1 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

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edited by Will Shortz 21 Leisurely pace 23 African antelope 25 Ones considering which brand of ice cream to buy?

29 Defeat 30 Exist 31 Pioneer in I.M.’ing 33 Middle name of Sean Lennon 34 Subject of a 2016 U.K. referendum … or a hint to 16-, 25-, 41- and 55-Across 37 Lupino of “High Sierra” 38 Target of a knee M.R.I. 39 What means 40 “Good heavens, old chap!”

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46 Low, sandy island 47 Parts of shirtsleeves

puzzle by Natan Last, Andy Kravis and the J.A.S.A. Crossword Class 48 One-legged, single-minded sea captain 51 Idle 52 “Big Little Lies” network 55 Food for thought?

59 Ingredient in Worcestershire sauce 60 “Honest!”

61 They may accompany winks 62 Guys’ partners, on Broadway

DOWN 1 Site of Napoleon’s exile 2 What might be tipped at a bar 3 Highlight of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” 4 Much graffiti 5 Zoom past 6 “The very thought!”

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8 Indian honorific 9 First responder, for short 10 Gather 11 Upscale London district 12 Dunkable treat 13 “Empty ___” (1980s-’90s sitcom) 17 Robust 22 Crossed 23 Spice Girl ___ Halliwell 24 Moscow turndown 25 Setting for the “Forrest Gump” movie poster 26 Charlie Parker’s instrument, informally 27 Complains vociferously 28 Fizzy drinks 29 Prop for the dancer Gypsy Rose Lee 32 Nonclerical 34 The Who’s “___ O’Riley” 35 Golfer McIlroy

36 Just manage, with “out” 40 Financial arm of the U.N., for short 42 Ally in a bygone legal drama 43 Chastises 44 1950s blacklisting grp.

45 Cross a line, say 48 Performs

No. 0925 49 Get better 50 Fighting unit 51 Like hair after rain 53 Abandon an effort, in slang 54 Cheers at a corrida 56 “My man!”

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Do you have any skill in fulfilling the wishes and answering the prayers of your allies? Have you developed a capacity to tune in to what people want even when they themselves aren’t sure of what they want? Do you sometimes have a knack for offering just the right gesture at the right time to help people do what they haven’t been able to do under their own power? If you possess any of those aptitudes, now is an excellent time to put them in play. More than usual, you are needed as a catalyst, a transformer, an inspirational influence. Halloween costume suggestion: angel, fairy godmother, genie, benefactor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Author Amy Tan describes the magic moment when her muse appears and takes command: “I sense a subtle shift, a nudge to move over, and everything cracks open, the writing is freed, the language is full, resources are plentiful, ideas pour forth, and to be frank, some of these ideas surprise me. It seems as though the universe is my friend and is helping me write, its hand over mine.” Even if you’re not a creative artist, Taurus, I suspect you’ll be offered intense visitations from a muse in the coming days. If you make yourself alert for and receptive to these potential blessings, you’ll feel like you’re being guided and fueled by a higher power. Halloween costume suggestion: your muse.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): More than a century ago, author Anton Chekhov wrote, “If many remedies are prescribed for an illness, you may be certain that the illness has no cure.” Decades later, I wrote, “If you’re frantically trying to heal yourself with a random flurry of half-assed remedies, you’ll never cure what ails you.

But if you sit still in a safe place and ask your inner genius to identify the one or two things you need to do to heal, you will find the cure.” Halloween costume suggestion: physician, nurse, shaman, healer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian artist Marc Chagall (1887–1985) was a playful visionary and a pioneer of modernism. He appealed to sophisticates despite being described as a dreamy, eccentric outsider who invented his own visual language. In the 1950s, Picasso observed that Chagall was one of the only painters who “understood what color really is.” In 2017, one of Chagall’s paintings sold for $28.5 million. What was the secret to his success? “If I create from the heart, nearly everything works,” he testified. “If from the head, almost nothing.” Your current assignment, Cancerian, is to authorize your heart to rule everything you do. Halloween costume suggestion: a heart.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “One language is never enough,” says a Pashto proverb. How could it be, right? Each language has a specific structure and a finite vocabulary that limit its power to describe and understand the world. I think the same is true for religion: one is never enough. Why confine yourself to a single set of theories about spiritual matters when more will enable you to enlarge and deepen your perspective? With this in mind, Libra, I invite you to regard November as “One Is Never Enough Month” for you. Assume you need more of everything. Halloween costume suggestion: a bilingual Jewish Santa Claus; a pagan Sufi Buddha who intones prayers in three different languages.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In his novel Zone One, Scorpio author Colson Whitehead writes, “A monster is a person who has stopped pretending.” He means it in the worst sense possible: the emergence of the ugly beast who had been hiding behind social niceties. But I’m going to twist his meme for my own purposes. I propose that when you stop pretending and shed fake politeness, you may indeed resemble an ugly monster — but only temporarily. After the suppressed stuff gets free rein to yammer, it will relax and recede — and you will feel so cleansed and relieved that you’ll naturally be able to express more of your monumental beauty. Halloween costume suggestion: your beautiful, fully exorcised monster.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice,” testified poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. “Had I abided by it, I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.” This is excellent advice for you. I suspect you’re in the midst of either committing or learning from a valuable mistake. It’s best if you don’t interrupt yourself! Halloween costume suggestion: the personification or embodiment of your valuable mistake.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Cleopatra was an ancient Egyptian queen who ruled for 21 years. She was probably a Capricorn. All you need to know about her modern reputation is that Kim Kardashian portrayed her as a sultry seductress in a photo spread in a fashion magazine. But the facts are that Cleopatra was a well-educated, multilingual political leader with strategic cunning. Among her many skills were poetry, philosophy and mathematics. I propose we make the REAL Cleopatra your role model. Now is an excellent time to correct people’s misunderstandings about you — and show people who you truly are. Halloween costume suggestion: your actual authentic self.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Dead Sea, on the border of Jordan and Israel, is far saltier than the ocean. No fish or frogs live in it. But here and there on the lake’s bottom are springs that exude fresh water. They support large, diverse communities of microbes. It’s hard for divers to get down there and study the life forms, though. The water’s so saline, they tend to float. So they carry 90 pounds of ballast that enables them to sink to the sea floor. I urge you to get inspired by all this, Leo. What would be the metaphorical equivalent for you of descending into the lower depths so as to research unexplored sources of vitality and excitement? Halloween costume suggestions: diver, spelunker, archaeologist.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Around the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th sign of the zodiac, Aquarius, will be capable of strenuous feats; will have the power to achieve a success that surpasses past successes; will be authorized to attempt a brave act of transcendence that renders a long-standing limitation irrelevant. As for the 11 days and 11 hours before that magic hour, the 11th sign of the zodiac will be smart to engage in fierce meditation and thorough preparation for the magic hour. And as for the 11 days and 11 hours afterward, the 11th sign should expend all possible effort to capitalize on the semi-miraculous breakthrough. Halloween costume suggestion: 11.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “We have stripped all things of their mystery and luminosity,” lamented psychologist Carl Jung. “Nothing is holy any longer.”

In accordance with current astrological omens, Virgo, your assignment is to rebel against that mournful state of affairs. I hope you will devote some of your fine intelligence to restoring mystery and luminosity to the world in which you dwell. I hope you will find and create holiness that’s worthy of your reverence and awe. Halloween costume suggestion: mage, priestess, poet, enchantrix, witch, alchemist, sacramentalist.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Author Robert Musil made a surprising declaration: “A number of flawed individuals can often add up to a brilliant social unit.” I propose we make that one of your mottoes for the coming months. I think you have the potential to be a flawed but inspiring individual who’ll serve as a dynamic force in assembling and nurturing a brilliant social unit. So let me ask you: What would be your dream-come-true of a brilliant social unit that is a fertile influence on you and everyone else in the unit? Halloween costume suggestion: ringleader, mastermind, orchestrator or general.

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