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C O NT E NT S OUR 26TH YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 26 NO. 15 NOV. 6 - 12, 2019

WNC distillers embrace new liquor legislation

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PAGE 8 UNDER THE PALE MOONLIGHT In his latest book, UNC Asheville history professor Daniel Pierce offers readers a sweeping view of the moonshine industry, from its illicit start in the 19th century to its recent (and now legal) revival.

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REMEMBERING: Alyce Knaflich, director of Aura Home Women Vets, front row at left, with local recipients of Quilts of Valor, a nationwide effort to give service members and veterans thank-you quilts, on Veterans Day last year. Photo courtesy of Aura Home Women Vets

Don’t forget the women vets Imagine that you are a graduating high school girl with no chance at further schooling or a decent career, and a smartly dressed recruitment officer offers you a great career, travel and a chance to let Uncle Sam pay for your higher degree.

This officer also tells you that once you are in the service, the Veterans Affairs organization will take care of you for life.

Sounds pretty good, no?

Fast forward 10, 20 or 30 years, and now you are out of the service and suddenly there is no one to tell you how to live, how to buy groceries, how to buy a car, how to budget. Add to that the fact that you have witnessed your teammates being blown up, children suffering, and

you having recurring nightmares from PTSD or MST (military sexual trauma).

You may be injured physically or mentally. Your family and friends expect you to fit right back in to “normal life.” When you try to get counseling at the VA (if you are lucky enough to have one near), they tell you there is a two-month wait.

Your life can cascade pretty quickly into homelessness, depression and suicide.

Currently in the entire state of North Carolina, there is not one VA-provided bed/residence for homeless women vets.

It is estimated that there are over 6,000 homeless women veterans in this state, yet the VA only has official housing for male vets. If you have no permanent address, you can’t apply for housing aid, food stamps or veteran benefits. You can’t eat a healthy diet because you have no way to cook fresh food. You may even lose your car for lack of registration or insurance, limiting you even more.

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180 women veterans of all ages. Aura Home Women Vets has received calls from Greyhound stations, interstate truck stops and even the VA. Currently, Aura Home Women Vets is raising funds to turn a former nursing home into a 12-bedroom transitional housing center with counselors and educational and basic skills programs.

To learn more about the needs of women veterans in Western North Carolina, you can contact Aura Home Women Vets at aurahomewv@ gmail.com or view the webpage at aurahomewomenvets.org.

Aura Home Women Vets is happy to provide speakers for your group to bring awareness of the plight of our women veterans right here in Western North Carolina. Most importantly, please do not forget our sisters who are veterans in need. Don’t forget the women vets.

— Betty Sharpless Asheville

Climate action should be a priority It’s exciting to see that Buncombe County is in the middle of develop-

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ing its strategic plan. Their website homepage highlights the process and current public participation opportunities. Commissioners have identified the following focus areas: environmental stewardship, educated and capable community, vibrant economy and resident well-being. There’s obviously a lot of room to fit in many different goals within these parameters, and it will be interesting to see the results.

For me, a significant issue is climate, and I believe we need to be very proactive because the issue is so massive and far-reaching. We can probably agree that local county goals may help us to become more resilient, but real change in the way we live and work needs to happen on a national and global scale.

Fortunately, there appears to be a growing realization that a massive, warlike mobilization effort is needed to combat the climate crisis. And although the county’s strategic plan may not be the answer, there is a current opportunity at the door. House Bill 763, also called the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, is a bipartisan, revenue-neutral bill that is gaining momentum in the U.S. Congress. In a nutshell, the bill would tax carbon and give the revenue back to the public in a monthly check. It turns

out that about 60% of check recipients would get more money back than they would lose from the increased costs of good/services.

We need to begin reducing our emissions and to do so very fast. The emergency bells should be ringing every day. We can and should be involved in shaping the county strategic priorities toward a better future, but let’s not forget the bigger picture: Everyone depends upon a planet that supports life.

You can join the groundswell of support for the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. Visit the Citizens Climate Lobby (www.citizensclimatelobby.org) today!

— Vaidila Satvika Asheville

City shouldn’t force residents to drink fluoridated water The city of Asheville is putting a known neurotoxin in our water supply. The city of Asheville states on its website that our “pristine” water supply is fed by pure mountain streams protected from contaminants and pollution. The website even has a picture of a beautiful lake surrounded by trees and mountains.

If the water department markets clean, natural water, why do they add industrial-grade fluoride to our drinking water? Fluoride is a chemical derived from the phosphate fertilizer industry — not exactly pristine.

Fluoride is the same kind of pollution that our water department claims it is working to protect us from.

Fluoride was recently listed in Lancet Neurology (a prestigious medical journal) as one of 12 known chemicals that “cause developmental neurotoxicity in human beings.” Other neurotoxins on this short list include lead and mercury.

[In August], JAMA Pediatrics journal published an article with the following finding: “Fluoride exposure during pregnancy was associated with lower IQ scores in children aged 3 to 4 years.”

According to this study, ingesting fluoride at the same levels that Asheville puts in our drinking water lowers IQ in children. Our children are actually dumber because the water department adds a neurotoxin to our drinking water. In total, 53 studies worldwide have linked fluoride ingestion to reduced IQ in children.

Andrew Young, civil rights activist, former confidant to Martin Luther King Jr. and former mayor of Atlanta, recently called for an end to water fluoridation,

in part because the harmful effects of fluoride have been shown to disproportionately affect African Americans. ...

For these reasons and many, many more, 97% of Europe has already banned fluoride from its water supply.

The list goes on and on. The science is clear and consistent — every day we are drinking a known neurotoxin at levels that are scientifically shown to be harmful. Every day, Asheville’s beer is brewed with a known neurotoxin. Every day, our award-winning restaurants prepare food with a known neurotoxin.

The use of fluoride in drinking water in Asheville is an attempt to reduce tooth decay. If fluoride is meant to prevent tooth decay, why are we forced to swallow it? Can’t we just put it in our toothpaste? Or mouthwash?

If you want to use fluoride on your teeth, you have that right. But the city of Asheville has no right to force its residents to ingest and swallow a known neurotoxin that is on the same short list with lead and mercury for its neurotoxic effect on humans.

— Lakota Denton, attorney Asheville Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx. com. For more info about the JAMA study, see NPR’s Aug. 19 coverage (avl.mx/6nv). Xpress also contacted the city with the letter writer’s points and received the following response from spokesperson Polly McDaniel: “Asheville residents twice voted for fluoridation of the drinking water in the 1960s. The first time was May 1965.

Thus, the city has to continue fluoridation until or unless there is a vote by referendum to stop it. “‘I can’t speak to the comments regarding the studies as I have not read the scientific articles they refer to. I can state that in January 2011, the CDC lowered the recommended level for fluoride to 0.7 mg/l,’ said Asheville Water Production/Quality Manager Leslie Carreiro. ‘The city immediately made those changes prior to the EPA or State Public Water Supply making the same recommendation.’

“At city water treatment facilities, fluoride levels are checked manually by staff three times a day and the chemical feed system checks it 12 times a day.

“Also ... [regarding the claim the city adds ‘industrial-grade fluoride’]: Product is ANSI/NSF-60 certified and is not industrial-grade. [And that the fluoride is ‘derived from the phosphate fertilizer industry’]: This product comes out of Western North Carolina. It is a coproduct of a quartz process. This product is not imported nor is made in conjunction with fertilizer.” X

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UNDER THE PALE MOONLIGHT New book chronicles the history of moonshine in North Carolina

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located stills simply by following streams to their source. The subterranean waterway afforded the user of this site an extra level of protection.

Pierce’s discoveries that day, he says, invigorated his research.

Accordingly, his book aims to refute the cliche of the lazy moonshiner while challenging the industry’s own proclivity for mythmaking.

Granted, Tar Heel Lightnin’ contains its share of high-speed car chases and violent episodes. But cheap thrills aside, readers also come to understand the very real economic hardships that drove most folks into the business.

tcalder@mountainx.com What do wildcats, chemists and coppers have in common? All three terms were once nicknames for unlicensed distillers. Then as now, however, most folks referred to these outlaw entrepreneurs as moonshiners.

In his latest book, Tar Heel Lightnin’: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World, UNC Asheville history professor Daniel Pierce offers readers a sweeping view of the industry, from its illicit start in the 19th century to its recent (and now legal) revival.

In between, Pierce serves up a nuanced look at a subject that has so often been caricatured, evoking new insight into the roles that women, African Americans and Native Americans played within the trade.

The historian also skillfully spotlights major external factors — including two world wars and the Great Depression — that impacted both the practice of this criminal activity and the way it was perceived by the general public.

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STILL LIFE: Historian Daniel Pierce takes readers through the state’s illicit distilling industry in his latest book, Tar Heel Lightnin’: How Secret Stills and Fast Cars Made North Carolina the Moonshine Capital of the World. Illustration by Derek Anderson and Joel Anderson; photo by Robin Parrish

In spring 2018, Pierce spent an afternoon hiking in Montreat. Although he’s an avid outdoorsman, research is what motivated this particular trek: He was on the hunt for old moonshine still sites.

The expedition proved fruitful.

Pierce and his companions, who live in the area, found old stone circles

that had been used as furnaces; one of them still had a rusty steel drum inside.

And meanwhile, the steep climb to reach these sites put into perspective the physical demands the old-time moonshiners had to contend with.

“It was a real revelation,” the writer says. “It was enough just to haul your-

self up there, much less a still and sacks of sugar.”

One site also drove home those distillers’ ingenuity. Perched high atop a mountain, it has a water supply that flows back underground just beyond where the furnace would have been.

Law enforcement, Pierce explains, often

Many moonshiners, notes Pierce, were ordinary farmers just trying to get by. For some, it was almost the only way to survive the harsh winter months. And once spring arrived, most of these part-time criminals simply left the business behind.

Admittedly, a majority of these seasonal distillers were young white males, but Tar Heel Lightnin’ reveals a surprising diversity among practitioners of the banned craft. Beginning in the late 19th century, says Pierce, savvy women took advantage of the country’s patriarchal legal system.

Aware that female prison facilities were in short supply, many women carried out their illegal activities with a sense of impunity. And when they were caught, the historian writes,

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“Many moonshiners were ordinary farmers just trying to get by.”

— Daniel Pierce, author and UNC Asheville history professor “Judges and juries often either acquitted them or suspended their sentences.”

Many of these women were widows or divorcees; some distilled, while others operated underground liquor houses. Wives and daughters also served as lookouts, making moonshining a family affair.

Meanwhile, during Prohibition, some Native American cultures decided to apply a communal approach to the whiskey trade. In eastern North Carolina, the Lumbee and Tuscarora formed networks, pooling production so they could get top dollar from the distributor.

Most African American moonshiners, on the other hand, operated sites owned by whites and received only a percentage of the still’s earnings. And with the coming of the automobile, African Americans were often hired to undertake the risky job of delivering the contraband.

Newspaper clippings from the Jim Crow era offer readers a glimpse into the nature of the industry during that period. A July 3, 1919, article in The Asheville Citizen, for example, stated: “Men with money … are taking advantage of ignorant negroes desire to earn large sums with little work by using them as transporters. … The negroes, feeling they must protect the men higher up, take their punishment

in silence while those who held out big rewards for them in the event of success let them suffer alone in failure.”

MORE TO THE STORY Even within the black community, there were exceptions, however. A stand-alone section in Pierce’s book highlights Asheville businesswoman Ada Thompson. Born in South Carolina, she and her husband arrived in Asheville during the Great Depression.

Thompson, says Pierce, spent much of her adult life as a domestic worker but supplemented her income by running an illegal liquor house on Weaver Street in the East End neighborhood.

There’s typically little documentation for African American involvement in the illegal liquor trade, notes Pierce.

But in Thompson’s case, a 2008 multimedia project inspired by local resident Andrea Clark’s photographs proved to be a key source. Along with those historical images, “Twilight of a Neighborhood: Asheville’s East End, 1970” contains oral histories, including an interview with Talven “Sugarboy” Thompson, Ada’s son, that Pierce says was crucial for developing that section of his book. Available in the North Carolina

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Room at Pack Library, “Twilight” was directed by Karen Loughmiller, then with the West Asheville branch.

But while Tar Heel Lightnin’ makes a good start, stresses Pierce, “There is still a lot left to tell” concerning the roles of women, African Americans and Native Americans in moonshining. “I was able to piece together some bits and pieces,” he explains, “but I think these stories can be further fleshed out.”

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And if certain aspects of the industry’s history remain shrouded in mystery, Pierce’s book does illuminate the illicit trade’s far-reaching influence. From folk music to movies, from NASCAR to reality TV, moonshine was and still is an influential and iconic topic.

Tar Heel Lightnin’ also offers a unique perspective on major historical events.

During World War I, for example, Prohibition campaigns depicted alcohol consumption as unpatriotic and pro-German. And high prices for sugar, grain and gas during World War II had an impact on the trade as well.

Lastly, like all powerful historical accounts, Pierce’s book both humanizes

GOOD OLD MOUNTAIN DEW: This 1930 photo features folklorist and musician Bascom Lamar Lunsford, left, at a still in the mountains, according to the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library. The other individual is unidentified. In 1928, Lunsford wrote the ballad “Good Old Mountain Dew,” later adapted by Scotty Wiseman. Photo by George Masa, courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library and complicates its subject. Stripping away cliches, it reframes moonshining as not merely a symbol of rebellion but also as the fruit of considerable ingenuity and a fundamental drive to survive.

Editor’s note: Antiquated and offensive language is preserved from the original 1919 Asheville Citizen quote, along with peculiarities of spelling and punctuation. X

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by Daniel Walton

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WHERE FROM HERE? The longest economic party in U.S. history isn’t quite over yet, economist Bernard Baumohl told a capacity crowd at the Metro Economy Outlook hosted by the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 24. Over 200 area business leaders and elected officials had gathered at The Venue in downtown Asheville to hear Baumohl, recognized by The Wall Street Journal as the most accurate economic forecaster of 2018, prognosticate about what risks and opportunities might lie ahead.

Although market fundamentals remain strong into the 11th consecutive year of American economic expansion, Baumohl said, he sees “a clear undercurrent of fear and anxiety and concern” about a possible recession among his economist colleagues. And if the U.S. and China fail to resolve their ongoing trade disputes, he predicts a 35% chance of economic downturn during 2020.

“It is really difficult — very, very difficult — for a $22 trillion, free-market,

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Mixed messages mark Metro Economy Outlook lowest unemployment rate in the state (2.6% in September, the most recent month for which data is available).

According to the N.C. Justice Center, the number of jobs in the Asheville metropolitan statistical area grew by 5.6% from August 2018 to last August, North Carolina’s best year-over-year improvement.

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TELL IT LIKE IT IS: Economist Bernard Baumohl addresses the crowd at the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce’s Metro Economy Outlook on Oct. 24. Photo by Daniel Walton

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open, highly liquid economy to actually have a recession,” Baumohl emphasized.

But just like the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s and the subprime mortgage crisis that caused the Great Recession, he said, “acts of human folly” could derail continued growth.

TRADE TROUBLES One impact of the trade war, Baumohl said, had already become evident in the hospitality and hotel industry, among the most important sectors of the Western North Carolina economy. Leisure travel from China to the U.S. has “shut down,” he explained, cutting off the flow of Chinese tourists and their average spending of $6,000 to $7,000 per visit — twice as much money as is spent by visitors of any other foreign nationality.

In 2018, the Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority reported on an attempt to court the Chinese market through a familiarization trip for 16 international travel buyers called “Southern Pearls.” No such effort is included in the BCTDA’s sales and marketing plan for the current fiscal year.

Companies of all sorts, Baumohl added, are wrestling with increased uncertainty about U.S. economic policy. He’d recently talked with the head of a major supply chain firm, he said, who summed up attitudes toward what the business community sees as “erratic, impulsive” decisions coming from the administration of President Donald Trump. “‘I can’t plan for crazy,’” Baumohl recounted as the CEO’s take. “‘And this is crazy.’”

However, the economist noted that several key domestic indicators are still positive. Fuel prices are low, Baumohl said, keeping more money in consumers’ pockets. And unemployment is at a historic low, with more job openings available nationally in August than there were unemployed laborers to fill them in September.

That trend holds in Buncombe County, which continues to boast the

Another national trend of particular interest to the region is the weak consumer spending Baumohl has observed among millenials. People between the ages of 20 and 39 make up a disproportionately high percentage of Asheville’s population compared with statewide averages, with 9.2% of the city’s residents in the 25-29 range, more than any other five-year division.

Economists, Baumohl said, have hoped that millenials would take up the spending baton as baby boomers enter their retirement years, simplify their lives and reduce their household expenses. But the data on spending among the younger generation, he continued, suggests that shift is not taking place.

“They are really budget conscious — they have to be,” Baumohl said of millenials. High levels of college debt, concerns over the solvency of safety net programs such as Social Security and Medicare and lingering trauma from the Great Recession, he explained, have made young people especially cautious about making big purchases.

“They saw friends, families, neighbors lose their homes and declare bankruptcy,” noted Baumohl about the recession’s legacy for millenials.

“For the first time, they got to see that no, home prices do not have this divine right to appreciate.”

Countering millennials’ reluctance to spend, Baumohl said, is the growth of e-commerce. The ease of online shopping and widespread availability of digital payments, he noted, has led to an unprecedented uptick in impulse buying. “That’s what’s keeping consumer spending so active,” he said.

TAKE COVER Many of the current threats to prosperity, Baumohl acknowledged, are beyond the influence of business.

Geopolitical flashpoints such as the

South China Sea, Iran and Kashmir could trigger strife that spooks the global economy, he said — and those in power may not have learned their lessons from previous conflicts. “My concern always is that people who are making policy have a historical memory that goes back a little further than breakfast,” he quipped.

In response to the threat of cyber attacks, Baumohl’s top-listed worry, the economist urged firms of all sizes to buy cyber theft insurance, upgrade

software and have their operations tested for vulnerability. “There are only two types of companies out there: those that have already been hacked and those that don’t yet know they’re being hacked,” he said.

With the world situation so uncertain, Baumohl said, business leaders should prepare for unexpected shocks and be ready to operate under disruptive circumstances.

“Buckle up, because it’s going to be quite a bumpy ride,” he said. X

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Miller, feds spar over ICE detainer compliance According to Andrew Murray, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents were pounding the pavement throughout Buncombe County on the “yucky” afternoon of Oct. 30 in search of Marvin Torres. Just the day prior, he said, ICE had known exactly where to find the undocumented alien: the Buncombe County Detention Center, where Torres was being released after over two years in jail awaiting trial for a felony charge of indecent liberties with a minor. Torres was convicted and sentenced to time served by Superior Court Judge Alan Thornburg on Oct. 28.

But because Democratic Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller had refused to honor an ICE detainer

request for Torres, Murray continued, the sex offender reentered the community before federal authorities could take him into custody. During a press conference at the federal courthouse in Asheville, Murray chastised the sheriff for what he called a “dangerous policy” of noncompliance with immigration officials.

“As law enforcement, our mission is to protect the public and to seek to provide justice to victims of crime. Sheriff Miller’s current policy serves neither [purpose],” Murray said. “It also breeds mistrust among law enforcement agencies and puts in danger the very communities it purports to protect.”

Miller announced in February that he would no longer honor ICE detainers without a valid criminal warrant.

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SERVING NOTICE: Andrew Murray, U.S. attorney for the Western District of North Carolina, chastised Buncombe County Sheriff Quentin Miller for refusing to honor Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainer requests. Photo by Daniel Walton

Detainers — administrative requests that are issued under federal regulations and are not associated with criminal charges — ask local law enforcement agencies to hold inmates suspected of being in the country illegally for up to two days after they would normally be released. In July, Democratic Buncombe County Commissioners Brownie Newman, Jasmine BeachFerrara, Al Whitesides and Amanda Edwards signed letters supporting Miller’s stance.

“If ICE is aware of an individual that they have determined to be a danger to the public safety of Buncombe County, then ICE should obtain a warrant for their arrest,” Miller stated in a press release about the Torres case. “Once that warrant has been secured, my deputies will work to apprehend that individual.”

Murray claimed, however, that legal circumstances had prevented ICE from obtaining a warrant. Firsttime illegal entry into the U.S. is treated as a civil offense, he explained, and Torres had no other outstanding criminal charges. “That is the mechanism that ICE has, the detainer, in order to for 48 hours put him on hold and verify he is the person they think he is,” the attorney said.

When asked why Torres should be subject to detention outside of judicial due process, Murray responded, “He’s an illegal alien. That puts him in a different status.” The Citizen Times reported that Torres was taken into federal custody later in the afternoon of Oct. 30.

The case has attracted national attention, with Republican Sen. Thom Tillis issuing his own statement that charged Miller and other North Carolina sheriffs with “dereliction of their duty” for denying ICE detainers. Earlier in the day, Tillis and other Republican lawmakers had introduced the Immigration Detainer Enforcement Act, which they said “will help stop sanctuary cities” by cutting some federal funds for jurisdictions that do not comply with ICE requests.

In August, Republican members of the N.C. General Assembly passed HB 370, which would have required sheriffs to cooperate with ICE detainers on penalty of removal from office. However, Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper immediately vetoed the bill, saying the legislation was “simply about scoring partisan political points and using fear to divide North Carolina.” Lawmakers have yet to override the governor’s veto.

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TDA approves $100,000 for Chow Chow festival

BRINGING HOME THE BACON: The economic impact of the inaugural Chow Chow festival included an increase in overnight stays, business spending and nationwide publicity for Asheville and Western North Carolina. Data provided by Tourism Economics in conjunction with Explore Asheville. Graphic courtesy of Katie Button Restaurants The Buncombe County Tourism Development Authority approved a $100,000 contribution toward next year’s Chow Chow culinary festival at the board’s Oct. 30 meeting. The money represents a $25,000 increase over the BCTDA’s support for the event’s debut this September.

“For the first year, the challenges are so significant in generating attendance because you don’t have any photography [and] nobody really understands the quality of the event,” said Stephanie Brown, president and CEO of the Explore Asheville Convention & Visitors Bureau. “I think the event has an extraordinarily strong foundation moving forward and I think [when] we’ll look back [in] 10-15 years, we’ll have an event that’s even more successful.”

Chow Chow: An Asheville Culinary Festival took place Sept.12-15 and featured a mix of chef demonstrations, food and beverage tastings, handson activities and panel discussions.

According to a presentation by Katie Button, the chef and owner of Cúrate and president of the Chow Chow board of directors, and Meherwan Irani of Chai Pani Restaurant Group, roughly 3,200 people attended the festival’s inaugural weekend, 66% of whom were from the local community.

Button and Irani reported that the first-year festival stimulated almost $2 million in total business spending and $135,952 in local taxes. Chow Chow also resulted in national media coverage with a value of $1.3 million, along with 2.8 million social media impressions. The event boosted overnight stays in the area by 1,600 rooms.

“It was, if you could imagine, such a challenge to get this kind of impact

from a festival that had never been done before, and you see the results from that,” Irani said. “Can you imagine what the impact will be next September?”

Button added that planning is underway for Chow Chow’s second year, which has a projected budget of $700,000.

The event is tentatively scheduled for Thursday-Sunday, Sept. 10-13, with final dates to be confirmed in November.

Last year, the BCTDA contributed $75,000 to Chow Chow through its event development incubator fund. The event remains the only festival to be supported through that source rather than the agency’s Festival and Cultural Events grant program, which helps fund events such as Downtown After 5 and LEAF Downtown AVL and has a total budget of $85,000 for the current fiscal year.

Both funding sources are derived from earned income from paid advertising on Explore Asheville’s website, not the nearly $23 million occupancy tax budget.

During the meeting, Brown suggested increasing the contribution for Chow Chow to $100,000. She pointed

to approximately $150,000 in earned income, carried over from the previous fiscal year but not included in the authority’s current budgeted spending, that could cover its support for the festival. The unanticipated surplus of funds, she said, was the result of a transition to a new accounting system.

“We had some undesignated money that’s been commingled. We’ve been working with [BCTDA financial officer] Don [Warn] to get a better appreciation of the difference between our operation surplus and our undesignated surplus,” Brown said. “We have the capacity right now, outside of the existing approved budget, of $150,000.”

BCTDA board member Andrew Celwyn raised concern over that revelation, claiming that he did not have a thorough understanding of the mistake that led to the surplus. He also said that, while he supported funding the festival, he wanted to investigate where the money came from.

“I’m probably not comfortable voting to spend any of that money until I understand a little bit more where that was coming from and what bookkeeping errors or omissions [there] were that kept us from understanding that we had that money to spend in the first place,” Celwyn said. “My apologies to the folks at Chow Chow, who did an awesome job. I don’t want to hold them up at all, but I feel like, if it’s extra money that we’re allocating, I don’t feel comfortable with that right now.”

Brown pushed back on the assertion that the accounting process lacked transparency and encouraged BCTDA board members to review the latest financial reports for clarification. The board subsequently approved the motion, with Celwyn dissenting.

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“The present jail has long been notoriously inadequate to the demands on it and it is a matter of only a short time before a new jail will be an imperative necessity,” declared The Asheville Citizen on Aug. 31, 1906.

Located on Eagle Street, the structure was designed to house a maximum of 36 inmates, the paper reported. Yet, the article continued, “It has been made to hold 108 at one time.”

In November of that year, a grand jury was summoned to investigate the site. The panel’s recommendation to the judge was unanimous: A new jail was urgent. Overcrowding and lack of “disinfecting facilities” made it “impossible to keep out vermin,” the report read.

The county wanted the new jail built adjacent to the 1903 courthouse.

But commissioners forgot one crucial detail: The late George Willis Pack, who deeded the land to the county in

1901, strictly forbade the construction of a jailhouse on the 4-acre plot. In February 1907, the previously overlooked clause was rediscovered, and the project was “temporarily abandoned,” the paper wrote.

By April, The Asheville Citizen reported that a new site was selected on Marjorie Street, “in the rear of the present jail.” Construction began that August. According to newspaper accounts, the structure cost between $30,000 and $40,000 (or roughly $819,400 to $1,093,000 in today’s dollar).

Over the next year, sporadic updates on the project appeared in the paper.

Finally, on June 6, 1908, The Asheville Citizen reported that the new jailhouse was nearly complete. The five-story brick structure, the paper wrote, “is fitted out with all the most modern and convenient improvements.” Features included electric lighting, steam heat-

ing and ventilators in the ceilings of all cells. In addition, the new jail featured “strong wire screening … placed over all the windows so that no outsider will be able to toss notes, weapons or implements of any kind through to the occupants.”

Original plans called for the demolition of the old jail. But by 1908, the structure still stood. The June 6 article stated the county planned to use the site “for insane prisoners, women and small boys.”

On Aug. 17, 1908, after a twomonth delay, “Jailer Mitchell ... transferred his flock of ‘birds’ from the old county jail into the new,” reported The Asheville Citizen in the following day’s paper. “All morning the prisoners swept floors, washed windows and cleaned their new domicile as scrupulously as if it were to be their permanent abode,” the article continued.

Unlike the old site, the new jail’s walls “were dull and uninteresting,” the paper reported. “They lacked all the old autographs that have come down from past generations of prisoners[.]”

According to the North Carolina Room at Pack Memorial Library, the jail closed in 1928. For a period thereafter, the site functioned as a storage space for the county. The building was stripped of its metal for military purposes during World War II. In 1951, the structure was razed.

The North Carolina Room records also note the jail had an unused hanging trap. Ironically, the method of execution was outlawed in 1909 (replaced by the electric chair, with all state executions taking place in Raleigh).

The hanging trap is alluded to in the Aug. 18, 1908, article.

The paper writes: “As the prisoners became accustomed to their surroundings they explored the building probably with a view to selecting the quarters they liked best. They wandered from room to room and from cell to cell and looked out from the windows just as a prospective purchaser would to examine the view. Few of them made any minute examinations of the black trap door with the large leaver … in the side hall on the first floor.

The door leads to somewhere, but none of them had any curiosity to find out where.”

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ANIMALS Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 BLESSING OF THE ANIMALS • SA (11/9), 10amnoon - Blessing of our Animal Companions, group and individual blessings for pets with Rev. L. Leigh Love.

Well behaved, leashed and crated pets welcome. Free. Held at Crystal Visions, 5426 Asheville Highway, Hendersonville 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 Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 PANCAKE BREAKFAST FOR HOMINY VALLEY CRISIS MINISTRY • SA (11/9), 8-10am - Proceeds from this pancake breakfast benefit the Hominy Valley Crisis Ministry. $10. Held at Fatz Cafe, 5 Spartan Ave. 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 ROWDOWN THROWDOWN • SA (11/9), 10am-2pm - Proceeds from this rowathon with teams of 10 rowing a marathon benefit the Buncombe County Special Olympics and the South Slope CrossFit Adaptive Athlete Program. Reg istration: bit.ly/32VSJGT. $50 per person/$500 per team. Held at South Slope CrossFit, 217 Coxe Ave., Suite B

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY A-B TECH SMALL BUSINESS CENTER 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler, 828-3987950, abtech.edu/sbc • 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.

• SA (11/9), 9am-noon - How to Find Your Customers, seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

• TU (11/12), 9-11am - Deep Dive Lab: The Native American Medicine Wheel and Your Business Wheel/ Plan, seminar. Registration required. Free.

• TU (11/12), 3-6pm - Using Wordpress to Blog for Your Business, seminar. Registration required. Free.

SING IT, SISTER: The Wild Asheville Community Chorus, led by Suzannah Park, celebrates the fall season with three shows featuring 80 singers performing songs from America, South Africa, Russia, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria. The first performance is planned for Thursday, Nov. 7, 7:30 p.m., at Black Mountain United Methodist Church.

Two concerts are planned at First Congregational United Church of Christ, one on Saturday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m. and one on Sunday, Nov. 10, 4 p.m. Tickets are available at the door for a sliding scale of $5-$15, and children are admitted for free. Photo courtesy of Wild Asheville Community Chorus (p. 37) GAME DESIGNERS OF NORTH CAROLINA • TU (11/12), 5-9pm - Meeting for game designers to discuss board game design, playtest each others games and learn more about the industry. Free to attend.

Held at Hillside Games, 611c Tunnel Road

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 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 CHESS CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome. Begin-

ners lessons available. Free.

Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASHEVILLE NEWCOMER'S CLUB • 2nd MONDAYS, 9:30am - Monthly meeting for women new to Asheville interested in making friends and exploring the community. Free to attend.

Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. ASHEVILLE ROTARY CLUB • THURSDAYS, noon1:30pm - General meeting.

Free. Held at Renaissance Asheville Hotel, 31 Woodfin St. ASHEVILLE TAROT CIRCLE • 2nd SUNDAYS, noon General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road 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

BINGO NIGHT • 2nd SATURDAYS, 6pm - Bingo. Free to attend/25 cents per game. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • THURSDAYS, 10:30amnoon - 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. • Every other TUESDAY, 4pm - Basic computer skills class. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. GENEALOGY CLUB • 2nd TUESDAYS, 3pm - Genealogy Club. Free.

Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure KOREAN WAR VETERANS CHAPTER 314 • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, noon - Korean War Veterans Association, General Frank Blazey

Chapter 314, general meeting. Lunch at noon, meeting at 1pm. Free to attend. Held at Golden Corral, 2530 Chimney Rock Road, Hendersonville LANDLORD LUNCH & LEARN • TH (11/7), 11am-1pm 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 Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER BOARD MEETING • 2nd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Public board meeting.

Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • 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.

• MO (11/11), 5:307pm - Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it.

Improve it. Seminar.

Registration required.

Free.

• WE (11/13), noon1:30pm - Budgeting and Debt, class.

Registration required.

Free.

• TU (11/14), noon1:30pm - Budgeting on a Fluctuating Income, seminar. Registration required. Free.

PARDEE UNC HEALTH CARE JOB FAIR • FR (11/8), 4-6pm - Job fair for health care positions at Pardee Hospital. Free to attend. Held at First Citizens Bank, 539 N. Main St., Hendersonville SUNDAY SCRABBLE CLUB • SUNDAYS, 12:304:30pm - Scrabble club. Information: ashevillescrabble.com.

Free. Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. UNCA DISCOVERY DAY • SA (11/9) - UNC Asheville Open House with campus tours and opportunities to meet students, faculty, staff, and discuss academic programs, financial aid, scholarships and the application process.

Registration required: unca.edu/admission/ visit/discovery-day.

Free to attend. Held at UNC-Asheville, 1 University Heights WEAVERVILLE'S VETERANS DAY OBSERVANCE • MO (11/11), 11am - Veterans' Day Obser-

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vance with the Land of Sky Chorus and guest speakers. Free. Held at Weaverville Town Hall, 30 S. Main St., Weaverville

ECO Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 RIVERLINK RIVERFRONT BUS TOUR • 1st THURSDAYS, 10am-1pm - Proceeds from the Riverfront bus tour benefit RiverLink. Registration: avl.mx/68a. $45.

WNC SIERRA CLUB • TH (11/7), 7-9pm - Climate Reality and What You Can Do About It, presentation

by Brad Rouse, executive director of Asheville’s Energy Savers Network. Free.

Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

FARM & GARDEN IRRIGATION DESIGN • SA (11/9), 1:30-7pm Irrigation Design, comprehensive workshop covering the simplest do it yourself designs to a range of more technical approaches.

Registration required. $15. Held at Living Web Farms - Biochar Facility, 220 Grandview Lane, Hendersonville MANAGING FARM LABOR • MO (11/11), 4-8:30pm - Managing Farm Labor, workshop.

Registration required. $40. Held at Creekside Farm and Education Center, 339 Avery Creek Road Arden

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE • 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Community lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian

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CITIZENS-POLICE ADVISORY COMMITTEE • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Citizens-Police Advisory Committee meeting. Free. Meets in the 1st Floor Conference Room, Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Yao, 153 Smoky Park Highway

CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING • TU (11/12), 5pm - City Council public hearing.

Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview

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Free. Held at Asheville City Hall, 70 Court Plaza 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

DSA FEMINIST READING GROUP • TU (11/12), 6:308:30pm - Reading club discussing socialist feminism and the books, What is Socialist Feminism, by Barbara Ehrenreich and Excerpt from Women, Race and Class, by Angela Davis.

Free to attend. Held at Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St.

ROW, ROW, ROW YOUR BOAT: Buncombe County Special Olympics and South Slope CrossFit’s Adaptive Athlete program host the Rowdown Throwdown, consisting of teams of 10 rowing a marathon (42,195 meters) for the best time. The goal is to raise $10,000, with the proceeds split between Buncombe County Special Olympics and the South Slope CrossFit Adaptive Athlete Program. Held at South Slope CrossFit, Saturday, Nov. 9, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. $50 per person/$500 per team. Photo courtesy of Victor Freitas (p. 17)

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT SERIES • TH (11/7), 4pm - Global Spotlight Series, a presentation and panel on Nationalism sponsored by the Political Science and Public Affairs Department. Free. Held at Western Carolina University, 176 Central Drive, Cullowhee IMMIGRATION SERIES • TH (11/14), 11:30am1pm - Undocumented Immigrants: Economics and Crime, panel discussion with law enforcement, agribusiness, regional economic impact and banking panelists. Free/Bring a bag lunch. Held at Immaculate Conception Church, 208 7th Ave. W., Hendersonville INDIVISIBLE COMMON GROUND-WNC • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - General meeting. Free. Held at St. David's Episcopal Church, 286 Forest Hills Road, Sylva

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at Apple Valley Model Railroad & Museum, 650 Maple St., Hendersonville BUNCOMBE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARIES buncombecounty.org/ governing/depts/library • 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 • 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 - Spanish story time for children of all ages. Free.

Held at Enka-Candler Library, 1404 Sandhill Road, Candler

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FLETCHER LIBRARY • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free. Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher

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

HOMESCHOOL ART PROGRAM • 2nd TUESDAYS, 11am12:30pm - Homeschool program for grades 1-4.

Registration required: 828-253-3227 x 124. $4 per student. Held at

Asheville Art Museum, 175 Biltmore Ave. 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. $10. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-254-6734, malaprops.com • SU (11/10), 11am - Vanessa BrantleyNewton and Constance Lombardo present their books, King of Kindergarten, Mama's Work Shoes and Everybody Says Meow. Free to attend.

• WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend.

PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-877-4423 • TU (11/12), 9-11am Bear focused class and activities for ages 4-7.

Registration required.

Free.

• TU (11/12), 1-3pm - Living Downstream, class

for ages 8-13. Registration required. Free.

OUTDOORS Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 FALL HIKING SERIES • FR (11/8), 8:30am - 10-mile, strenuous, one-way hike with a shuttle on the Weed Patch Mountain trail.

Registration: avl.mx/6ms.

Free. Meet at Ingles Market, Highway 9, south of Lake Lure FISHING FOR VETERANS • MO (11/11), 8amnoon - Veterans day of free fishing. Bring your own fishing supplies and bait. Free/Bring proof of veteran status. Held at Charles D. Owen Park, 875 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa JACKSON PARK BIRD WALK • SA (11/9), 9am - Bird walk. Free. Held at Jackson Park, 801 Glover St., Hendersonville MERCURY TRANSIT VIEWING • MO (11/11), 7:30am1pm - Mercury Transit viewing event with the Asheville Astronomy Club. Free. Held at Reuter Terrace at Pack Square Park, S. Market St. • MO (11/11), 7:30am1pm - Mercury Transit

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• TU (11/12), 10am-3pm - Casting for Beginners, workshop open to ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free.

PISGAH CHAPTER OF TROUT UNLIMITED • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - General meeting and presentations. Free to attend. Held at Ecusta Brewing, 49 Pisgah Highway, Suite 3, Pisgah Forest

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.

• TH (11/14), 7-9pm - Breastfeeding A-Z. Registration required.

Free to attend.

PUBLIC LECTURES Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE • FR (11/8), 6-7pm - Presentations from former Israeli and Palestinian combatants who have joined together to work for peace. Free. Held at Congregation Beth HaTephila, 43 N. Liberty St. • SA (11/9), 1-3pm - Presentations from former Israeli and Palestinian combatants who have joined together to work

for peace. Free. Held at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave. • SU (11/10), 5-7pm - Presentations from former Israeli and Palestinian combatants who have joined together to work for peace. Free.

Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St. CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE • MO (10/14), 7pm General meeting and talk by Phill Greenwalt on Prospect Hill, the Slaughter Pen and the Battle of Fredericksburg.

Free. Held at Waynesville Inn Golf Resort & Spa, 176 Country Club Drive, Waynesville CULTURAL CRASH COURSE • WE (11/13), 6pm - This Crash Course: A Refugee’s Journey, presentation by Dr. Cyndy Caravelis. $10. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville LEADING FROM THE FRONT • TH (11/14), 6-7:30pm - Discussion with Command Sergeant Major Gretchen Evans, ambassaddor for VETDOGS and No Barriers USA. Free. Held at Pack Memorial Library, 67 Haywood St. 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 TRANSGENDER ACTIVIST CANDIS COX • 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 UNDERSTANDING THE SECOND AMMENDMENT • SA (11/9), 1pm - Understanding the Second Ammendment, lecture by legal expert, Bob Orr.

Free. Held at Henderson County Public Library, 301 N. Washington St., Hendersonville

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‘WHY PEOPLE DIE BY SUICIDE’ • WE (11/6), 6pm - Thomas W. Joiner Jr., one of the world’s leading authorities on suicide, speaks on Why People Die By Suicide.

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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

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SENIORS Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 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 ashevillenewfriends.org ASHEVILLE ELDER CLUB • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Asheville Elder Club Group Respite program for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths.

Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Jewish Family Services of WNC, 2 Doctors Park, Suite E HENDERSONVILLE ELDER CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Hendersonville Elder Club for individuals with memory challenges and people of all faiths. Registration required: 828-253-2900. $30. Held at Agudas Israel Congregation, 505 Glasgow Lane, Hendersonville

WORLD PEACE DAY MEDITATION CELEBRATION • MO (11/11), 10:45am12:15pm - World Peace Day Meditation Celebration includes meditation, sing-a-longs, prayers and piano music with Richard Shulman and David Cutler. Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

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WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA AIDS PROJECT • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 10am-noon - Volunteer to deliver food boxes to homebound people living with HIV/AIDS. Registration: 828-252-7489 x 315 or wncapvolunteer@ wncap.org.

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WELLNESS BELOVED ASHEVILLE LIBERATION STATION 10 N. Market St., belovedasheville.com • WEDNESDAYS, 2:30-4pm - Street medic outreach clinic. Free.

MAHEC EDUCATION CENTER 121 Hendersonville Road, 828-2574400, mahec.net • WE (11/6), 5:30-7pm - Lou Hammond Memorial Evening Symposium, dinner event focused on the importance of lifestyle medicine. Sponsored by the Western Carolina Medical Society.

Registration: mahec.net/event/ register/59744. $20.

ART NORTH CAROLINA GLASS CENTER 140 Roberts St., Suite B, 828-5053552, ncglasscenter.org • WE (11/13), 4-7pm - Free glass workshop for veterans and active service members. Registration: 828-505-3552. Free.

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS NORTH CAROLINA GLASS CENTER 140 Roberts St., Suite B, 828-5053552, ncglasscenter.org • SA (11/9) & SU (11/10), 10am-6pm - Open studio with demonstrations.

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• 2nd SATURDAYS, noon-4pm Artisan market with opportunity to buy Asheville Cat Weirdos Emergency Fund merchandise and items from local artisans. Free to attend.

ANIMALS FRIENDS OF THE WNC NATURE CENTER 828-259-8092, wildwnc.org, americorps@wildwnc.org • FR (11/8), 6-8pm - Learn about wolves in this after hours event that includes a night time visit to the wolf habitats. Registration required. $20-$35. Held at WNC Nature Center, 75 Gashes Creek Road • SA (11/9), 1:20-3pm - Behind the scenes tour of the Nature Center.

Registration required. $20-$35.

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BENEFITS ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 828-251-5702, ashevillehabitat.org, emellert@ashevillehabitat.org • WE (11/6), 6:30pm - Proceeds from donations at this Christmas Jam featuring live music by The Dip and Erin and the Wildfire benefit Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity. $15/$12 advance. Held at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 100 Sierra Nevada Way, Mills River GINGER'S REVENGE 829 Riverside Drive, Suite 100, 828505-2462, gingersrevenge.com/ • TH (11/14), 6:30-8:30pm - Proceeds from this event featuring House of Magick NY with guest speakers, live

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CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 828-254-7162, colburnmuseum.org • SUNDAYS, 2:30-4pm - Tour of the night time sky in an inflatable astronomy dome. Admission fees apply. Held at Asheville Museum of Science, 43 Patton Ave. ASHEVILLE TOOL LIBRARY 55 Southside Ave., ashevilletoollibrary.org • SA (11/9), 11am-3pm - Bring dull pocket knives, kitchen knives, axes, chainsaw blades, pruning shears, lawnmower blades or any other dull tools to be sharpened by volunteers. Free.

ECO MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • TH (11/14), 5:30-7pm - Hendersonville Green Drinks: The Story of DuPont State Recreational Forest, presentation by Sara Landry, Executive Director with Friends of DuPont State Forest. Free to attend. Held at Black Bear Coffee Co., 318 N. Main St., Hendersonville THE WEDGE AT FOUNDATION 5 Foundy St., 828-505-2792, wedgebrewing.com/ location-wedge-foundation/ • TH (11/7), 6-8pm - EcoForesters annual celebration. Registration: lang@ecoforesters.org. Free to attend.

KIDS BELOVED ASHEVILLE LIBERATION STATION 10 N. Market St., belovedasheville.com • MONDAYS & THURSDAYS, 3:30-4:30pm - Spanish/ English immersion for kids from Spanish and English speaking backgrounds to come together.

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OUTDOORS FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES 828-452-0720, friendsofthesmokies.org, outreach.nc@ friendsofthesmokies.org • TU (11/12) - Difficult, 12-mile guided hike at Thomas Divide and Indian Creek. Registration required. $35/$20 members.

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY 828-253-0095, appalachian.org • SA (11/9) - Moderate, 3.5-mile guided hike at Hemphill Bald to enjoy fall foliage. Registration required. Free. Held at Cataloochee Ranch, 119 Ranch Drive, Maggie Valley

PUBLIC LECTURES MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • WE (11/6), 6-7:30pm - Building our City Speaker Series, lecture by Jeff Speck, author of Walkable City Rules: 101 Steps to Making Better Places. Held

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COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, INC. 828-277-8288, coabc.org • WE (11/6), 10am-noon Medicare benefits screening and enrollment. Register: 828-277-8288. Free. Held at Senior Opportunity Center, 36 Grove St. • WEDNESDAYS (11/6) & (11/20), 1-4pm - Medicare benefits screening and enrollment.

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Held at Goodwill Career Training Center, 1616 Patton Ave. • THURSDAYS (11/7) & (11/21), 1-4pm - Medicare benefits screening and enrollment. Register: 828-277-8288. Free. Held at Ferguson Family YMCA, 31 Westridge Market Place, Candler • TH (11/14), 9:30-11am Medicare benefits screening and enrollment. Register: 828-2778288. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Weaverville, 63 N. Main St., Weaverville

VOLUNTEERING FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES 828-452-0720, friendsofthesmokies.org, outreach.nc@ friendsofthesmokies.org • WEDNESDAYS (11/6) & (11/13), noon - Volunteer to hike while carrying tools up to 4 miles and perform strenuous manual

19 N. Ann St., 828-258-1695, homewardboundwnc.org • 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.

MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • SA (11/9), 9am-1pm - Volunteer to clear non-native invasive plants. Bring snacks, water, rain jacket and wear long pants, long sleeve shirt and closed toe shoes. Held at Richmond Hill Park, 280 Richmond Hill Drive • SU (11/10), 10am-4pm - Help save hemlocks from the wooly adelgid on the Lower Green River with MountainTrue. No Experience necessary. A limited number of boats and gear are available on a first come, first served basis. Register: avl.mx/6oj.

THE LITERACY COUNCIL OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY 31 College Place, Suite B221, 828-254-3442, litcouncil.com/ • TH (11/14), 9am - Information session for those interested in volunteering two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling and English language skills. Free.

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TACKLING THE STIGMA: Amy Upham, right, opioid grant coordinator for the Buncombe County Department of Health and Human Services, and representatives from local agencies and organizations working to reduce the harmful impacts of the region’s opioid crisis shared information and supplies with over 100 local residents at a Let’s Talk Opioids town hall meeting on Oct. 28. Photo by Brooke Randle

BY KAY WEST kswest55@comcast.net Lynette Oliver stood in front of a tall black panel in the banquet hall of the U.S. Cellular Center on Oct. 28. Dozens of small fabric squares hung from two lengths of ribbon draped across the panel, reminiscent of Tibetan prayer flags. “I’m looking for my son,” the petite woman said aloud as she scanned both rows. “I found him,” she announced, pointing to the one that read, “Michael, we love you and miss you. Father Son Brother.”

On June 18, 2018, Oliver discovered Michael — who had battled drug addiction for a decade — dead at 36 of an overdose, leaving his son without a father two days shy of his 11th birthday. The Olivers and others who lost loved ones to overdose created the prayer flags at Opioid Awareness Day on Aug. 31 in Carrier Park.

Oliver and over 100 other members of the community attended Let’s Talk Opioids, described as a “community update and conversation on opioid crisis response in Buncombe County.” In the foyer outside the banquet hall, city, county and state agencies, nonprofits, educators and representatives of medical providers staffed tables with printed materials and distributed items including refrigerator magnets with emergency contacts, overdose reversal nasal spray, CPR face shields, packets of antibacterial wipes and stress balls.

Inside, it was standing room only as in-the-trenches experts presented information, including the Mountain Area Health Education Center, Vaya Health, Asheville Fire Department, Buncombe County Health and Human Services and the N.C. Department of Justice.

Overdose statistics remain grim, particularly in North Carolina’s region 2, which includes Buncombe County. Yet panel members said they see reason for optimism and hope on the horizon. Across the state, unattended opioid-related deaths fell 5% in 2017-18; region 2, which saw a 24% leap in deaths in 2016-17, experienced a 30% decrease in 2017-18. “Let’s clap for that,” said Amy Upham, opioid grant coordinator for Buncombe County Department of Health and Human Services. “I think it’s a lot of these organizations you see here and the programming we’ve been doing.”

Upham outlined a mapping project she had worked on with the Buncombe County Register of Deeds and the local health department to identify demographics from death records, valuable information for creating and focusing programs, particularly when it comes to harm reduction education. “We are becoming a hub for naloxone training and distribution,” she said of the most widely used overdose reversal drug. “Naloxone is probably saving more lives than anything else right now, and we need to get it into more places. We are talking to libraries, the YMCA and private and charter schools and universities.”

Dr. Blake Fagan, chief education officer for UNC Health Sciences at MAHEC, pointed out that concerted efforts across the state to talk to providers about writing prescriptions for painkillers appropriately or not at all have reduced the number of pills prescribed per resident from 66.5 in 2016 to 43 in 2018, or from 660 million to 430 million. “That’s still too many,” he says, “but it is going in the right direction.”

He also described training taking place in medical schools and among medical professionals across the state.

“Graduates from North Carolina medical schools in any field will have been trained to prescribe buprenorphine, a medication that is helping save lives.

Through MAHEC and a state grant we are also training nurse practitioners and physician assistants, as well as residency programs. These are our young doctors and medical providers, our future, and they are totally on board with overcoming this crisis.”

The syringe services program in the county’s public health clinic on Coxe Avenue has served 81 clients since it started in August, reported Jan Shepard, Buncombe County health director. “We find it very valuable in connecting people to other services we provide,” she said. “We’re also doing naloxone education and administration training and have educated over 300 community members, many of our social workers and public health workers in HHS. ”

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W ELL NESS She adds that the City County Opioid Task Force — a coalition of city and county governments addressing health-related issues in the community, particularly in city limits — is identifying locations with significant used needle litter for placement of two large syringe disposal units.

Holly Jones, community partnerships/outreach coordinator with the N.C. Department of Justice, noted that collaboration between the city and county is the only way to make

progress. She said that following a year of town halls conducted by Attorney General Josh Stein, the state launched a public awareness campaign this spring, More Powerful NC, at morepowerfulnc. org. “There are three main themes: get the facts, get help and get involved. We are lucky in Buncombe County that we have a wealth of resources, but a lot of communities don’t, and we hope this campaign helps that.”

Ellen Stroud, regional opioid response coordinator for Vaya Health, said Vaya collaborated with the Harm Reduction Coalition to distribute over 7,000 naloxone kits free of charge in Western North Carolina counties Vaya serves to first responders, law enforcement agencies, EMS, fire departments, direct service providers and even parents concerned for their children.

Melinda Ramage, medical director for MAHEC’s Project CARA, described medication-assisted treatment. “MAT is FDA-approved three medications to use for opioid use disorder: methadone, buprenorphine and naltrexone. They are a path to treatment and sustainability in recovery. There is no magic fix; it is part of the treatment we offer and what the medical community is doing as we step up to the plate.

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MAT is top of mind for Sarah Gayton, community integration and MAT services director for Buncombe County Sheriff’s Office’s detention division. She gave an update on the department’s plan released in May to address the opioid crisis during incarceration and post-release. “Phase 1 was initiated in July,” she said. “The first step is screening and identifying who’s using and from there providing information on harm reduction, where they can access treatment and what helps are available. Referrals will go to our new staff position, a case manager, who will connect them to resources and providers inside and out. We have also hired a peer support specialist, someone who has lived through that hell, and figured out how to step out of it. That person will work in the facility, but their primary focus will be working with those individuals on their release, to help them overcome barriers and the challenges reentry presents.”

Phase 2 is in the active planning stages and will include medication for those coming into custody on MAT. Phase 3 will start people who have opioid use disorder, are eligible and would benefit from that type of treatment on appropriate medication.

“The detained population is a critical population and pivotal juncture for meeting people where they are,” Gayton points out. “They may be in this building now, but eventually they will return to our home community. How can we best utilize that intersection of society and the criminal justice system for the benefit of our community?”

As the town hall concluded, a simple and poignant plea for empathy resonated with the crowd. Erin Bowman, director of the Julian F. Keith Alcohol and Drug Abuse Treatment Center in Black Mountain, stood to answer an audience question: How can we help?

“I think the biggest thing people can do is attack stigma anyway you can,” Bowman replied. “Speak up when people talk negatively about people who use substances, when people are not being supportive of people who are trying to remain clean from substances. Stigma is a terrible, isolating thing, and it’s the thing that kills people.

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Held at AdventHealth Hendersonville, 100 Hospital Drive, Hendersonville PARDEE SEMINAR • TH (11/14), 6-7pm - Diabetes seminar with an endocrinologist. Registration: pardeehospital.org/ classes-events. Free.

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PATH TO HEALTH & HEALING • FR (11/8), 7-9pm - A Path to Health and Healing, presentation regarding the Bruno Groening method of healing. Admission by donation. Held at Center for Spiritual Living Asheville, 2 Science Mind Way SPECIAL OLYMPICS ADAPTIVE CROSSFIT • WEDNESDAYS, 3-4pm - Adaptive crossfit classes for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Free.

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But from the perspective of the Forest Stewardship Council, the world’s leading certifier of sustainable forestry, 250 acres is almost too small to notice, even though plots of that size or less make up approximately 75% of the more than 128 million acres of privately owned forest in the Southeast.

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Given the expense and big-forest focus of FSC certification, says Andrew Goldberg of the Rainforest Alliance’s Asheville-based Appalachian Woodlands Alliance project, less than 0.1% of all small woodlands are currently certified as responsibly managed. That’s a concern for forest products companies such as Evergreen Packaging, which sources roughly 90% of the raw timber for its Canton pulp mill from smallholders and is seeing increased consumer demand for certified products.

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ment, with regular checkups on key indicators of forest health.

But many smallholders, Goldberg explains, leave their lands to nature until a once-in-a-generation harvest.

Therefore, the SAP forgoes what he calls the “babysitter model” of certification to concentrate on ensuring good forestry at the moment when trees are felled. Those best practices include checking for endangered species, properly constructing logging roads and leaving a stand of trees to regenerate the forest.

“Everyone has social and environmental values in the forest, and a lot of those are public values. A landowner will do almost nothing to impact those values until they harvest,” Goldberg says. “We’re focusing on the critical intervention that has the most impact on what’s going to happen to our region in the future.”

Richard Taylor Jr., the forest certification manager at Columbia Forest Products, which operates a plywood manufacturing plant in Old Fort, says that approach makes sense in the Southern Appalachians. Because the region’s forests are generally healthy on a macro level, he says, the SAP can reduce certification costs for small plots by zeroing in on harvest time.

“I’ve heard some people say, ‘Well, it’s a watered-down approach,’” Taylor says. “We’re not watering down anything. We’re just saying that a lot of this [good forest dynamic] already happens, so we don’t have to worry about tracking and managing it that way.”

Business partners in the SAP will offer both financial and technical support for smallholders. Derric Brown, director of sustainability for Evergreen Packaging, says his company will help participants develop a harvest plan, have their properties evaluated after harvest and complete all required paperwork for FSC certification — all at no cost to the landowner.

That investment, Brown continues, has benefits both for the environment and Evergreen’s bottom line.

“First, we want to be sure that we continue to improve responsible forest practices out there and that landowners are doing the right things on the property,” he says. “Second, we are a forestry-related business. It is our raw material, and we are looking to be sure that there’s a sustainable source of fiber into the future.”

Taylor adds that the program represents a new level of intentionality in the forest product industry’s communication to smallholders. “We’re try-

ing to reach folks with that message that we can do land management, we can put professionals on the ground who can tell you what you need to do for harvesting timber,” he says. “It’s not just the usual, ‘We’ll show up and we’ll cut your timber and then you’ll never see us again’ — the cut and run, so to speak.”

While smallholders themselves won’t see much of a price premium for their timber, Goldberg says, certification gives them greater access to buyers. “The marketplace values certified wood,” he explains. “You’re less likely to encounter a quota on wood going to the mill because the mill, as part of that value chain, also values certified wood.”

The results of the program, notes Goldberg, will be evaluated by the forest product companies themselves, Rainforest Alliance and third-party experts. If the pilot successfully maintains forest health in harvested areas, he says, the principles of the SAP may be adopted into U.S. and international certification standards.

GROWING CONCERNS Adam Colette, program director for Asheville-based forest protection nonprofit Dogwood Alliance, says his group supports the SAP as a way to encourage better forestry across the region. However, he emphasizes that due to the importance of trees in combating climate change, the industry must reconsider its practices on an even broader scale.

“In the current climate emergency in which we exist right now, certification alone is not going to be enough,” Colette says, pointing to a Dogwood report from September that found logging to be North Carolina’s third-most carbon-intensive industry. “To ignore the carbon impacts from logging, which generally speaking our system does right now and certification does not address, is not moving us toward real solutions.”

Goldberg acknowledges that forestry does have significant climate impacts and that even the best logging practices still disrupt soil carbon storage. But he also notes that certification keeps forests from being lost to development, which would be an even greater climate danger.

“As long as we’re responsibly producing products that we need and want, then I think we’re going to be managing forests,” Goldberg says. “We should all be disappointed that [forestry] is not a silver bullet, but it’s significantly better than the alternative.” X

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RAISING THE BAR: Recent state alcohol legislation has expanded opportunities for local producers like Eda Rhyne Distilling Co. in Biltmore Village. With the help of local bar star Phoebe Esmon, right, the distillery has launched a cocktail program implementing only spirits made on-site. Pictured with Esmon is Eda Rhyne co-owner Rett Murphy. Photo by Morgan Ford

BY JONATHAN AMMONS jonathanammons@gmail.com There has been much fanfare about the recent passage of major alcohol legislation in North Carolina, particularly here in Beer City. SB 290 passed 41-10 and was signed by Gov. Roy Cooper on July 29, and most provisions of the bipartisan law went into effect at the beginning of September.

While most of the celebration revolved around the changing of a rule to allow breweries and bars to serve two beers to a customer at a time, the law actually went a lot further than that, particularly when it comes to burgeoning local distilleries. Among the myriad tweaks and changes to the strict and often maligned alcohol control state laws, the bill saw the reins slackened a bit on local producers of alcohol.

“The biggest thing that it does is allow unlimited bottle sales for distilleries; it also allows us to mix cocktails and obtain those retail permits,” says Leah Howard, co-owner of Cultivated Cocktails, formerly H&H Distillery.

With a distillery in Fairview and a downtown Asheville shop and tasting room, the laws change the way Cultivated can compete with other local booze producers, such as wineries and breweries. Those mixed bever-

age permits and wine licenses will allow the company to host larger events in partnership with other area distilleries.

“That opportunity wasn’t a thing before,” says Howard. “It gives us the opportunity to really showcase one another.”

MIXING IT UP It also gives the business the ability to sell local beers and wines to satisfy nonliquor-loving customers who may just be tagging along with a friend who is there for the spirits. The tasting room will still function as such, she

says, but visitors will also be able to drop in and grab a beer or sip a gin and tonic while they shop and explore.

“The point is to showcase these products and to allow people to be able to taste them in the capacity that you would drink them anywhere else,” she notes.

“It’s a one-stop shop. You can literally get your spirits here, your beer, your wine, vermouth … and other items that are just a little more difficult to get.”

“When I look at it, the most important things are allowing us to act as a bar here,” says Eda Rhyne Distillery

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co-owner Rett Murphy. Eda Rhyne focuses on the niche amari, Italianstyle sipping bitters like Fernet, but made with Appalachian ingredients.

“Since we sell more unique products, the fact that we can now put them into a format that [customers] can understand and enjoy… people come in here, and it’s an educational experience.”

He observes that a big problem for Eda Rhyne is that visitors frequently don’t know what to do with an amaro after they buy it. It’s not as straightforward as bourbon or vodka, and while it is often consumed neat, it takes a little skill to fit it into a proper cocktail. Thus, the distillery has employed the wisdom of reputable bartenders in the area, enlisting Phoebe Esmon and Christian Gaal, who both moved to Asheville from Philadelphia, where they ran cocktail bars. Esmon headed the cocktail programs at Cúrate and Nightbell before the latter shuttered at the start of the year.

Murphy says the two plan on using the distillery as an extension of the bar, implementing only spirits made on-site, and the new laws allow Eda Rhyne to produce liquors that will be used only on the premises. This is a big improvement from the previous law, which required distilleries to sell their products to the state then buy them back from an ABC store to pour in their own tasting rooms.

So while Eda Rhyne’s new spicebush vodka might not hit the shelves of stores, it will be available at the distillery to taste in a cocktail. Distillery venues, however, have limited hours — the law requires them to close at the same time as an ABC store, 9 p.m.

Previous legislation required that any product that didn’t make a certain level of profit for the ABC system in a calendar year would be delisted and not available on the market. That hit Eda Rhyne directly, because its nocino — a walnut liqueur — was an extremely niche, timedemanding product. “We only made 1,000 bottles of it,” Murphy says. As a result, that intricately crafted product went away, not because there wasn’t a demand, but because the distillery was limited as to how much it could make, and the state required a higher yield.

GRAIN TO GLASS Not all distilleries are going the route of a full-on bar, however. At Oak & Grist, owner William Goldberg is taking things a bit slower. “We’ve introduced some cocktails in our tasting room,” he says. “We’re not going the full mixed beverage route quite yet.

“Our model has always been all about the spirits, about making it from

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scratch, grain to glass,” he continues.

“Everything else is just an add-on for us; to us it’s about the spirit.”

For Goldberg, the most important change from the new legislation is that customers are now able to purchase multiple bottles. In the past, distilleries were limited to selling one bottle to a customer per year, an attempt to limit most of the state-controlled alcohol sales to a state-run ABC store. “For us, being out on the outskirts of town, when people come and visit us, oftentimes we hear that they are coming out specifically for us,” he says. “They’ve made that drive to us.”

But it’s not all roses now for the distilleries in the region, Goldberg observes. “The biggest thing that I wish had been left in the bill was to have been able to ship directly to consumers outside of North Carolina,” he says. While wineries and breweries are able to ship, distilleries are not.

Goldberg notes that he has received requests for shipping from customers as far away as New Zealand and Israel wanting to restock on the purchases they made while visiting Asheville, but Oak & Grist cannot legally fulfill those orders.

So to both the producers and those distant customers, North Carolina liquor products feel stuck in the mountains.

Additionally, it remains to be seen how the laws will ultimately be applied.

“All of these laws will come with rules that are currently being talked over in Raleigh,” says Howard, noting that the ABC Commission has contracted attorney Walker Reagan to help establish standards under which the laws will function. That leaves distillers questioning what those finer points might look like. As Goldberg queries, though the law says distilleries can serve cocktails, will there be a size limit to those drinks? And what about their potency?

In an emailed statement to Xpress, ABC Commission spokesperson Jeff Strickland explains, “This session, the ABC Commission has identified 17 separate sets of rules that may be needed related to alcohol legislation.

We are now in the process of going through the legislation to determine what existing rules need to be changed and what new rules may be needed.”

Once the rules have been drafted and feedback has been received, they will be published in the North Carolina Register then presented at a public hearing, eventually to be adopted after approval from the Rules Review Commission. “When the law does not define what terms mean or specify the process to accomplish what the law intends, rules are needed to fill in the gaps,” Strickland notes. X

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Rooftop café opens at Asheville Art Musuem

professional trials and tribulations at the latest FED Talks: Made in Asheville on Thursday, Nov. 7. Samples will be provided. Tickets are $15.

The event runs 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 7, at Rhubarb, 7 S.W. N. Pack Square. For tickets, visit avl.mx/6o4.

Thanksgiving tasting Metro Wines will host its inaugural Thanksgiving Tasting and Customer2Customer Arts and Crafts Show on Saturday, Nov. 9. According to a press release, “shoppers can enjoy versatile wines that would be perfect for the Thanksgiving holidays while strolling the store and meeting the artists.”

The event runs noon-5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9, at Metro Wines, 169 Charlotte St. To learn more, visit avl.mx/6ob.

Asheville Drag Brunch season finale CAFE WITH A VIEW: Co-owners Tony Franco, left, and Matthew Macon will launch Perspective Café with Food Experience, a rooftop eatery at the Asheville Art Museum. The café features locally sourced food and a sculpture garden. Photo by Thomas Calder For more than a decade, Tony Franco and Matthew Macon have operated Food Experience, a local catering business. Though the idea of opening a daily brick-and-mortar restaurant was appealing, says Macon, the right location never presented itself. Until, that is, the two were offered a space inside the newly renovated Asheville Art Museum, which hosts its ribboncutting Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 1 p.m.

Surrounded almost entirely by glass, Perspective Café by Food Experience overlooks a sculpture terrace with panoramic views of the south.

The café’s menu includes a mix of small plates and snacks, as well as sandwiches, paninis, salads, soups and

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sweets. A locally sourced charcuterie board includes cheeses from Looking Glass Creamery and Three Graces Dairy, meats from Hickory Nut Gap Farm and The Chop Shop, crostini from City Bakery and condiments from Lusty Monk Mustard. Plates are generally in the $6-$15 range, and museum members receive a 10% discount on all food items.

Wine, beer and a limited bar selection are also available, and PennyCup Coffee Co. is supplying the café with a special brew. Patrons are invited to bring their beverages onto the rooftop sculpture garden.

With a rotating selection of artwork displayed inside the eatery, Macon sees Perspective Café by Food Experience

as an extension of the museum’s main exhibits. “It’s really about coming and settling in and reflecting on everything you’ve seen,” he notes. “We want people to relax and enjoy the experience and take their time.”

Perspective Café by Food Experience is at the Asheville Art Museum, 2 S. Pack Square. Hours correspond with those of the museum. For details, visit avl.mx/6od.

FED Talks: Made in Asheville The founders of Roots Hummus, Looking Glass Creamery, Firewalker Hot Sauce, Postre Caramels and Munki Food Co. will share their personal and

On Sunday, Nov. 10, Asheville Drag Brunch will host its final 2019 event at Banks Ave. AUX Bar will provide the food. The season finale is a fundraiser for the six nonprofits the organization sponsored this year: Blue Ridge Pride Center, Youth OUTright, BeLoved Asheville, Tranzmission, Our VOICE and Beer City Sisters, Abbey of All Souls. Tickets are $25.

Brunch runs 1-2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, at Banks Ave., 32 Banks Ave. For tickets, visit avl.mx/6o5.

Asheville Mac Attack The Barrelhouse, HomeGrown, The Lobster Trap and Laughing Seed are just a few of the local restaurants competing in the Asheville Mac Attack competition on Sunday, Nov. 10. Produced by All American Food

Transport Your Senses Fights as a fundraiser for Asheville Music School, the event will include live music, drink specials and samples of macaroni and cheese for purchase.

General admission is $8 in advance or $12 at the door. VIP tickets are $45 and include free samples of macaroni and cheese and unlimited beer. Children ages 10 and younger enter free.

The competition runs 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 10, at Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive. For tickets, visit avl.mx/6o6.

Thanksgiving pies Baked Pie Co. is now taking preorders for Thanksgiving pies. The company has 15 flavors to choose from, including honey pecan, chocolate bourbon pecan and pumpkin. The deadline to order is Tuesday, Nov. 12.

Baked Pie Co. is at 4 Long Shoals Road, Arden, and 50 N. Merrimon Ave., Woodfin. To pre-order a pie, visit avl.mx/6oe.

Food Waste Solutions Summit Bringing together local businesses, organizations and university leaders, the second Food Waste Solutions Summit takes place Thursday, Nov. 14.

Along with local participants, this year’s gathering will feature Barbara Alfano of the Southeast regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency and Jonathan Bloom, author of the book American Wasteland. Preregistration is required to attend the free event.

The summit runs 9 a.m.-4 p.m.

Thursday, Nov. 14, at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights. To register, visit avl.mx/6oa.

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Sweet Cheesus at Sweeten Creek Brewing Sweet Cheesus food truck owners Jodi Kuller and Moriah Tuck recently took over the kitchen at Sweeten Creek Brewing in South Asheville.

The restaurant specializes in raclette, a cheese that is melted and served over various foods. Along with its new brick-and-mortar site, the company will continue running its food truck and catering operations.

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Space-rockers Daydream Creatures stage a bandiversary show

BY ALLI MARSHALL amarshall@mountainx.com Not to oversimplify, but bands play shows and make albums. Some make concept albums, some even play concept shows. But local, selfdescribed “space-mo” collective Daydream Creatures not only makes conceptual records and plays fanciful concerts: The group is producing a show that serves as a narrative bridge between its past and forthcoming recording projects. That concert — billed as “An Interplanetary Evening” — set for Saturday, Nov. 9, at Ambrose West, also serves as the group’s “bandiversary” in celebration of six years as an entity.

While each band birthday is special, says lead guitarist (and Xpress staffer) Brooke Randle, right now “we’re in this cool place. … We’ve just released an album that we’re really proud of, plus we’re writing all this

CLOSE ENCOUNTERS: For Daydream Creatures’ anniversary show at Ambrose West, “We wrote a theatrical-musical-play sort of thing,” says songwriter and band cofounder Jessica Korn. “The story takes place across multiple planets and possibly also dimensions.” There will also be costumes, puppets and guest appearances. Photo courtesy of Daydream Creatures stuff, and it seems like there’s a lot of momentum right now. It’s very exciting, and we’re pushing ourselves into completely new territory.”

Last year, the collective put out its fulllength debut, Qalupalik, which showcases the range of styles in which co-founders, vocalists and songwriters Jessica Korn and Loren Carty write, as well as the band’s collaborative approach to layering sounds and textures. It also introduces the character of Qalupalik, and some of her cohorts (“the web would look crazy if you drew it all out,” Korn admits of the elaborate storytelling involved) will be featured on a yet-to-be-recorded project. The name Daydream Creatures comes from the brief but memorable lead track on the album — a fantastical blend of beach rock and space rock with hits of flute (Carty) and the tart smack of a snare that suggests the impetus to rock is as prevalent as the theatrical spectacle.

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and new work. “It’s very much about the characters we’ve written and created: where they come from and where they end up,” says Korn. “We wrote a theatrical-musical-play sort of thing. The story takes place across multiple planets and possibly also dimensions.”

This is the premise for the Ambrose West performance: “Our main character [was exiled] from her home planet and she’s crash-landed and she’s trying to figure out how to navigate this new place she’s in,” says Randle. “There’s love, heartbreak, betrayal and a battle scene.”

There will also be puppets from Puppet Club & Street Creature Puppets, plus interpretive dance and burlesque from Tribe Dance & Pole studio. Daydream Creatures will play two sets of music spelled by an intermission during which local medieval rave band Grendel’s Mother will perform.

Another reason for the celebration, says Korn, is a sense of stability within Daydream Creatures. When Korn and Carty started collaborating, the

two passed an acoustic guitar back and forth. Their sound was folky, though they wanted to rock. Randle, who plays electric guitar, joined in 2015 and convinced Korn and Carty to take up the bass; the two co-founders still take turns singing lead. The new configuration necessitated a drummer. A.J. Donahue came to the group through a Craigslist ad — “We joke about, ‘Who else would put up with this gaggle of girls and costumes and talking?’” Korn says with a laugh. The most recent addition is multi-instrumentalist Jeff Mettee, who also performs with Donahue in the indie-rock project Glass Bricks.

In fact, Donahue and Mettee go along willingly with the band’s penchant for elaborate onstage outfits.

Earlier in the collective’s history, the three frontwomen did coordinate their attire for performances (“Like Destiny’s Child-style,” Korn notes), but it was for a 2016 valentine’s show at Isis Music Hall that Randle insisted on head-to-toe matching costumes.

“Our current thing is that the three women are matching and the guys are matching,” Randle says. “The dressing up makes it a lot less pressure, in some way.”

“It allows us to have a distance — a stage persona,” Korn explains. “But, of course, we never want to compromise the music.”

The elaborate outfits have included skeleton bodysuits, pastel wigs and ’60s girl-group-reminiscent dresses. Often, an element from one show’s costumes will be a jumpingoff point for the next performance’s ensemble. Planning involves extensive text messages, intensive collaboration and a few pointed vetoes.

Randle describes herself as “very anti-tutu,” while Korn points out that “the final costume is not something any one of us would have come up with [on our own].”

That whole-is-greater (or weirder)than-the-sum-of-its-parts result describes not only the garb the musicians wear, the lush harmonies they sing and the intricate and cinematic songs they write but the very experience of being in a band.

“We’re pretty dedicated about meeting each week for band rehearsal,”

says Randle. “We still love hanging out with each other all the time, even outside of rehearsal.”

“The band is my family here in Asheville and my best friends in the world,” Korn agrees. “This idea of having hard conversations … in order for this to continue, we have to be honest, we have to show each other respect and prioritize our friendship over the band.”

She continues, “The band wouldn’t exist if we didn’t all feel safe and comfortable. … And then you get up onstage and you’re vulnerable together, in front of people, and that’s exhilarating.” X

WHAT Daydream Creatures presents: An Interplanetary Evening WHERE Ambrose West 312 Haywood Road ambrosewest.com WHEN Saturday, Nov. 9, 8 p.m. $5 advance/$8 day of show

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by Kim Ruehl

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MAKING ART FROM ART The 2019 N.C. Writers’ Network Conference will kick off Friday, Nov. 8, with a free, open-to-the-public tailgate event at the Flatiron Writers Room.

Later that evening, at the DoubleTree Asheville-Biltmore, local award-winning author Charles Frazier will deliver a keynote conversation, followed by a book signing, and the weekend will unfold with all manner of literary goodness from there.

Scheduled classes and workshops include sessions on writing of all kinds: screenplays, poetry, fiction and nonfiction, and various elements of the publishing industry. Writers can learn about book design and the ins and outs of working with small, independent presses. They can polish their chops on comedy and mystery writing and expertly querying agents.

And, though most of these topics are standard for such gatherings, folks who attend this year’s conference will be treated to the opportunity to learn from some of the finest literary minds in the Southern mountains, courtesy of the Great Smokies Writing Program and various local groups (among them, Xpress A&E editor Alli Marshall will moderate a panel on the performance of written work.)

One workshop that stands out as different from the fare of many literary conferences is a session on ekphrasis, titled Growing Art from Art (poetry), with Eric Tran.

A psychiatry resident who grew up near San Francisco, Tran earned his bachelor’s degree in English and felt drawn to a writer’s life but also always knew he wanted to work in health care.

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INSPIRATION IS EVERYWHERE: Before pursuing a career in psychiatry, local writer and doctor Eric Tran completed an MFA in poetry. His workshop on ekphrasis — writing in response to a piece of art — will be offered as part the annual fall North Carolina Writers’ Network Conference, which returns to Asheville this year. Photo courtesy of Tran

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parities,” he says. “I wanted to be on the front lines doing the work, versus doing the research about the work. But I knew that medicine is fairly demanding in its training … so I decided that if I was going

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to go on a path that would be 10 years of intensive training in medicine, I wanted to take the time to pursue my art first.”

Tran moved to Wilmington to pursue an MFA in creative nonfiction but soon discovered that “I really loved writing sentences — really beautiful, methodical sentences. I spent all three years doing that: writing very slowly and very little.

And then I realized that, like, ‘Oh, maybe you’re actually just a poet, dude.’”

After a while, he shifted his focus and finished his MFA in poetry. Tran has since written two chapbooks, Revisions and Affairs with Men in Suits, and won the 2019 Autumn House Press Emerging Writer’s contest. His first full-length collection of poems, The Gutter Spread Guide to Prayer, is due out next spring.

The book, he says, grapples with “the death of a friend who was gay and Asian, basically similar to me, with depression, contending with mental health, race, sexual identity, desire, and how all those things roll into each other.”

The way so many things might impact a person’s life and well-being is certainly fertile ground for poetry, but it’s also of interest to Tran’s other life path: psychiatry. And while there has been no shortage of medical doctors venturing into the world of fiction — Robin Cook, Khaled Hosseini, Abraham Verghese, for example — Tran’s view of mental health medicine and poetry is one of twin disciplines.

“I don’t think there’s ever a way to have one without the other,” he says of his relationship to his two fields. As with psychiatry, “writing is very invested in and very interested in language.

Not just language in terms of how do we talk to each other day to day, but how do we invent language? Why is what’s accepted with language the only way to do it? Are there alternative ways?

More beautiful ways? Are there more interesting or more expressive ways of using language?”

These questions are also at the heart of the workshop that Tran will be leading during the Writers’ Network Conference. Ekphrasis is, according to Merriam-Webster, “a literary description of or commentary on a work of art.” It’s the word for how an artist moves from being inspired by a piece of art to then creating a new piece of art.

Tran clarifies further. “If [you and I] look at the same piece of art,” he says, “we can have these experiences and talk about the experiences, but our way of processing it is very different. Trying to express that in a different art form is … such a great way to capture the nuance of how we experience art.

“People think of art as being in genres, as separate things,” he adds, “but writing has a very painterly quality.

We talk about images and sensory stuff, as in visual art. Music has rhythm, and isn’t that a huge part of poetry, too?” X

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by Kai Elijah Hamilton

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IT’S ALL RELATIVE The Sublime Theater premieres ‘My Crazy My Love’ Over the years, actor/director Steven Samuels and playwright John Crutchfield developed a deep admiration for each other’s work.

Their friendship started around 2008 when Samuels, then new to the Asheville area, saw Crutchfield perform his original work, The Songs of Robert, at N.C. Stage Company.

That play was later restructured and stripped down to become the first performance in The Magnetic Theatre’s original location.

“I had always dreamed of having a little company, and Steve had experience with that. So we formed The Magnetic Theatre with some other folks and had a good run of it there for a number of years.” Crutchfield says. “They are still going and doing their thing. But, yeah, that is where we really cut our chops together as a collaborative team.”

Their journey at The Magnetic Theatre ended when a behindthe-scenes conflict maturated with Samuels and the board. The Sublime Theater was formed last year, dedicated to original, established and neglected works, as well as world premieres. The company mounts its most ambitious production yet with My Crazy My Love opening Thursday, Nov. 7, at The BeBe Theatre.

The play launches The Sublime Theater’s second season. Though they have worked together multiple times, Samuels is particularly ecstatic because My Crazy My Love marks the very first time Crutchfield has written a role specifically for him.

“The character I play, Bub, is constantly referring to himself as ‘a Jewboy from Brooklyn,’” Samuels says. “And that he married a ‘penniless debutante of dubious character from Memphis.’”

That dubious character is Julia Finckelstein (played by Kathy O’Connor). It seems Julia expected to lead a glorious, posh life in New York City once Bub graduated from law school. However, her dreams were shattered when Bub suddenly took an advance on his inheritance to buy, as she puts it, “3,000 acres of snake-infested Lunsford County wilderness.”

ALL IN THE FAMILY: Kathy O’Connor plays Julia, a “penniless debutante of dubious character from Memphis” — one of many quirky family members in the wildly ambitious play My Crazy My Love. Photo courtesy of The Sublime Theater The play begins with the cantankerous couple living in Southern Appalachia after 30 years, where Bub settled with plans to devote himself to the fiddle. On the eve of Bub’s 60th birthday, his mismatched family reunites. This includes his three divergent daughters (played by Olivia Stuller, Lydia Congdon, and Emmaleigh Moriniti). Bub declares it’s going to be his last night on

earth, and a dark family secret is about to be revealed.

Crutchfield elaborates: “Fundamentally, I think it’s about this idea that families struggle to see each other for who they really are.”

While the story may sound like a linear drama, it’s more beguiling than that. A press release describes My Crazy My Love as a “domestic phantasmagoria, with song and dance,” rendering the play a wild melting pot of genres — largely comedic — with surrealistic touches. “It’s not a classical plotline,” Crutchfield says. “It’s more of a kaleidoscopic look at this family from individual points of view.”

There are also seven original songs of various styles that each character performs according to his or her personality. Throughout Crutchfield’s writing process, his brother-in-law — local singer-songwriter Holiday Childress — was part of the project. Choreographer Kristi DeVille adds to the show’s distinct and often absurdist flavor, along with onstage contributions from Julian Vorus and Art Moore.

When directing and acting in the same project, Samuels has a practice of standing outside of himself. But, while in a scene performing with the other actors, Samuels feels he can best guide and motivate the troupe to his intended comedic vision because the other performers can play off his acting style. “If all I had ever focused on was me and my career and my art, I would be in a very different position than I am,” Samuels says. “I really do care about other artists. That’s what The Sublime is.

It’s really a collective.” X

WHAT My Crazy My Love WHERE The BeBe Theatre 20 Commerce St. mycrazy.brownpapertickets.com WHEN Thursday, Nov. 7-Saturday, Nov. 23.

Thursdays-Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. $15

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Rubble Becomes Art As part of the yearlong celebration of its 20th season, Asheville-based chamber music collective Pan Harmonia commissioned an original work for mezzo-soprano, flute, guitar and bassoon. The result is Rubble Becomes Art — three songs centered on healing, reconciliation and transformation — that feature music by Knoxville, Tenn.based composer Dosia McKay and poetry from North Carolina writers Sally Atkins (“Dark Sister, Sing”), Valerie Foote (“The Secret”) and Cathy Larson Sky (“Lemniscates”). The works will be performed by Kate Steinbeck (flute), Brittnee Siemon (mezzosoprano), Amy Brucksch (guitar) and Rosalind Buda (bassoon) on Friday, Nov. 8, 7:30 p.m., at St. James Episcopal Church in Black Mountain, and Sunday, Nov. 10, 3 p.m. at Biltmore United Methodist Church. The program also includes music by Katherine Hoover, Frederik Holm and Gabriel Fauré. $10-$20 advance/$25 day of show/$5 students. panharmonia.org. Photo

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Constance Lombardo and Vanessa Brantley-Newton Fans of picture books have a big day ahead of them on Sunday, Nov. 10, when a pair of North Carolina illustrators unveil and discuss their latest works at Malaprop’s.

Asheville-based author Constance Lombardo will be on hand to launch her debut picture book, Everybody Says Meow (which she also wrote), a fable of inclusion in the animal world. She’ll share the occasion with veteran Charlotte-based illustrator Vanessa Brantley-Newton and her books The King of Kindergarten (by Derrick Barnes, about a boy’s first day of school) and Mama’s Work Shoes (with an accompanying story from Caron Levis that chronicles a toddler’s adjustment to her mother’s return to the office). The event begins at 11 a.m. Free to attend. malaprops.com. Photo of Lombardo, left, by Chris Chromey. Photo of Brantley-Newton courtesy of the artist

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Bask Thanks to its Appalachian-tinged mix of heavy and progressive rock, Asheville-based quartet Bask has won over fans across the East Coast and beyond. Now signed to the Paris-based Season of Mist — one of the more prominent indie metal labels — Scott Middleton, Jesse Van Note, Ray Worth and Zeb Camp are ready to unleash their new record, III. Produced by the band and Matt Bayles (Pearl Jam; Mastodon), III was tracked at Echo Mountain Recording and will be feted with an album release show on Friday, Nov. 8, at The Mothlight. The evening kicks off at 9 with opening sets by Savannah, Ga.-based swamp metal trio Black Tusk and the Johnson City, Tenn., rock band HAAL. $15. themothlight.com. Photo by Jameykay and Arlie Huffman

Clybourne Park Warren Wilson College has been around for 125 years, and to commemorate the occasion, its theater department has chosen The Power of Place as its theme for the forthcoming performance season. First on the schedule is Bruce Norris’ Clybourne Park, famous for being the only play thus far to win a Pulitzer Prize, a Tony and an Olivier award. Directed by Candace Taylor, the 2010 drama is a sequel of sorts to Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, with scenes that take place in 1959 and 50 years later in the same Chicago house. Weaving together fictional and historical events, Norris’ exploration of racial relations and real estate hits the Kittredge Theatre stage at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 9; Sunday, Nov. 10; Saturday, Nov. 16; and Sunday, Nov. 17. Free to Warren Wilson faculty and staff and high school and college students with valid ID/ $10 general public. warren-wilson.edu. Image by Kris Hernandez

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A & E CALENDAR ART Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 20 ASHEVILLE PASTEL SOCIETY • SA (11/9), 10amnoon - All Framed Up: Presenting Your Pastel Paintings in the Best Light, bi-monthly meeting and presentation.

Free. Held at Grace Community Church, 495 Cardinal Road, Mills River CHIMNEY ROCK PAINT-OUT • 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 DISCUSSION BOUND BOOK CLUB • TU (11/12), noon Discussion Bound Book Club: Fewer, Better Things by Glenn Adamson. Free to attend.

Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. GROWTH THROUGH GENEROSITY • TH (11/14), 5-6:30pm - Growth through Generosity, event honoring artist Jennifer Mills, Betty Taylor Award recipient.

Free to attend. Held at The Wrinkled Egg, 2710 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock PERSPECTIVES • WE (11/13), noon1pm - Lunchtime Conversations, presentation

by Curt Cloninger, Associate Professor of New Media at UNC Asheville. Free to attend. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St. SECOND SATURDAY FOLKMOOT MARKET • 2nd SATURDAYS, 6-9pm - Second Saturday Market featuring vendors, live music, dance lessons, food and beverages.

Free to attend/$10-$15

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

Registration required. $40/$35 members.

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

ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 02

ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 175 Biltmore Ave., 828-253-3227, ashevilleart.org • WE (11/13), 1pm - Ribbon cutting ceremony and public preview for the grand reopening. Free.

• TH (11/14), 11am9pm - Grand opening celebration. Admission fees apply.

ASHEVILLE CITY SCHOOLS CRAFT FAIR • SA (11/9), noon-7pm - Craft fair featuring work from local artisans associated with and benefiting Asheville City Schools. Free to attend. Held at Salvage Station, 468 Riverside Drive AUTISTICS UNITED LAUNCH PARTY & CRAFT FAIR • WE (11/13), 4-7pm - Arts and crafts fair featuring art from autistic artists with a launch party for Autistics United. Information: autistics-united.com.

Free to attend. Held at The Autism Society, 306 Summit St.

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A NIGHT OF CREEDANCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL • SA (11/9), 7:30pm - Ross Osteen Band plays Creedance Clearwater Revival. $20.

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

ELEMENTARY, MY DEAR: This year, teams from Claxton Elementary, Asheville Primary, Hall Fletcher Elementary, Ira B. Jones Elementary, Vance Elementary and Isaac Dickson Elementary join for the Asheville City Schools Craft Fair at Salvage Station on Saturday, Nov. 9, noon -7 p.m. Enjoy local live music, food and beverages, and the opportunity to support local artists and craftspersons as well as staff, students and ACS families. Photo courtesy of Asheville City Schools (p. 36)

for dinner/$5 per dance lesson. Held at Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville

ANNUAL HOLIDAY ART MARKET • SU (11/10), 10am6pm - Holiday art market with artwork, ceramics, photography, jewelry and one of a kind decor. Proceeds from raffle benefit Asheville Community Yoga. Free to attend.

Held at Asheville Community Yoga Center, 8 Brookdale Road

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FALL STUDIO STROLL • SA (11/9) & SU (11/10), 10am-5pm - River Arts District gallery walks and open studios featuring more than 200 artists. Information: riverartsdistrict.com. Free to attend/Free trolley. Held at River Arts District • 2nd SATURDAYS, 11am5pm - Second Saturday Celebration, event with food, music and artist demonstrations. Free to attend. Held at Odyssey Cooperative Art Gallery, 238 Clingman Ave. LAKE LURE ARTISTS • SA (11/9), 9am-4pm - Lake Lure Artists, art show and sale. Free to attend. Held at Lake Lure Municipal Building, 2948 Memorial Highway, Lake Lure MADISON COUNTY HOLIDAY MARKET • SU (11/10), noon-5pm Artisans of Madison County Holiday Market, fair with over 25 local vendors. Free to attend. Held at The Forest Faire, 144 Mountain View Road, Marshall PATCHWORK CRAFT SHOW & SALE • FR (11/8) & SA (11/9), 9am-4pm - Patchwork Craft Show and Sale, featuring juried creations by local and regional artisans. Free to attend. Held at Masonic Lodge Brevard, 174 E Main St., Brevard

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ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St.

AUDITIONS & CALL TO ARTISTS ARTISTS & CRAFTERS NEEDED • 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 at Historic Downtown Hendersonville, 145 5th Ave. E., Hendersonville

DANCE LEARN COUNTRY TWO-STEP 6-WEEK DANCE CLASS STARTING WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH (PD.) 7-8 PM: Level-One (Beginner). Asheville Ballroom.

Register online at: www.

DanceForLife.net $70/pp or pay at door $75. 828333-0715, naturalrichard@ mac.com

FAMILY DANCE • 2nd SUNDAYS, 3-5pm Family contra/square dances for families with children ages 6-12. All ages welcome. Free.

Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road HARVEST HOUSE 205 Kenilworth Road, 828-350-2051 • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - International folk dancing, dances from around the world. No partner needed.

Info: 828-645-1543. Free.

• WEDNESDAYS, noon-2pm - Intermediate/advanced contemporary line dancing. $10.

MONDAY NIGHT CONTRA DANCE • MONDAYS, 7:30-10:30pm - Community contra dance. $7. Held at The Center for Art and Spirit at St. George's Episcopal Church, 1 School Road WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-2574530, worthamarts.org • TUESDAYS and THURSDAYS until (11/26), noon - Ballet Discovery for Adults with Heidi Longwith, is for adult beginner or intermediate. Registration: avl.mx/6m5. $10. 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. $12. 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. $15. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

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

• WEDNESDAYS until (11/27), 5:30pm - Pantomime course with Otto Vazquez, traditional pantomime done to music. Registration: avl.mx/6m9. $10. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio.

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 BROADWAY BOOTCAMP FALL SHOWCASE • FR (11/8), 7:30pm & SA (11/9), 2:30pm - Showcase of Broadway themed music and cabaret style performances from ages 12-17. $7. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY • 2nd SUNDAYS, 1pm - Classical Guitar Society meeting followed by a potluck and musician's jam. Free to attend.

Held at Asheville Guitar Bar, 122 Riverside Drive

AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.)

DEBUSSY: HIS FRIENDS & ENEMIES • MO (11/11), 7:30pm - Debussy: His Friends & Enemies, concert featuring pianist, Matthew Graybil.

Tickets: chopinproject. com/tickets. $35. Held at First Presbyterian Church Asheville, 40 Church St.

Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome.

• Drums provided. $15/ class. (828) 768-2826. www. skinnybeatsdrums.com

DEEPER THAN THE SKIN • WE (11/13), 7-9pm - Conversation and concert about race and friendship, featuring musicians Reggie Harris

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and Greg Greenway.

Tickets: bit.ly/2PtRGd5. $20. Held at Historic Sunnydale Cabin, 334 S. Trade St., Tryon FROM PARIS WITH LOVE • SU (11/10), 3pm Four Seasons Chamber Orchestra presents masterpieces by Mozart, Bizes, Debussy, and Delibes. $10. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville JOE PENLAND IN CONCERT • SA (11/9), 7:30pm - This May be the Last Time, Joe Penland in concert. $15 + tax. Held at Madison County Arts Council, 90 S. Main St., Marshall OLE TYME PICKERS FRIDAY BLUEGRASS • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 7pm - Ole Tyme Pickers, bluegrass concert. Free. Held at Big Willow Community Building, Willow Road, Hendersonville PAN HARMONIA 828-254-7123, panharmonia.org • FR (11/8), 7:30pm Rubble becomes Art, concert featuring mezzo soprano, flute, guitar and bassoon. $25/$20 advance/$5 student.

Held at St. James Episcopal Church, 424 W. State St., Black Mountain • SU (11/10), 3pm Rubble becomes Art, concert featuring mezzo soprano, flute, guitar and bassoon. $25/$20 advance/$5 student.

Held at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 378 Hendersonville Road PUBSING • 2nd SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Gospel jam and sing-along. Free to attend. Held at Zillicoah Beer Co, 870 Riverside Drive, Woodfin SYMPHONY OF SERENITY • TH (11/14), 7-8:30pm - The Symphony of Serenity Sound Healing Meditation Journey, concert featuring Kennedy OneSelf. $5-$25.

Held at OM Sanctuary, 87 Richmond Hill Drive

US CELLULAR CENTER 1043 Patton Ave., 828258-0000 • TH (11/7), 8pm - Louis the Child, concert. $22.

• FR (11/8), 8pm - Cody Jinks, concert. $40.

VIOLA & VIOLIN CONCERT • SA (11/9), 7:30pm - Concert featuring violist, Karen Dreyfuss and violinist, Glenn Dicterow. $20. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon WILD ASHEVILLE COMMUNITY CHORUS 828-258-0675, suzannahpark.com • TH (11/7), 7:30-8:30pm - Concert featuring a chorus of 80-singers performing songs from America, South Africa, Russia, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria. $5-$10.

Held at Black Mountain United Methodist Church, 101 Church St., Black Mountain • SA (11/9), 7:30pm & SU (11/10), 4pm - Chorus concert featuring over 80 singers performing songs from America, South Africa, Russia, Serbia, Croatia and Bulgaria.$5-$10/Free for children. Held at First Congregational UCC of Asheville, 20 Oak St. WORLD PEACE DAY MEDITATION CELEBRATION • MO (11/11), 10:45am12:15pm - World Peace Day Meditation Celebration includes meditation, sing-a-longs, prayers and piano music with Richard Shulman and David Cutler.

Free. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828-255-8115, firestorm.coop • 2nd & 4th FRIDAYS, 2:30pm - Wild Words writing group. Free to attend.

• SA (11/9), 3pm - Andre R. Frattino presents his book, Simon Says: Nazi Hunter. Free to attend.

FLETCHER LIBRARY 120 Library Road, Fletcher, 828-687-1218,

library.hendersoncountync.org • 2nd THURSDAYS, 10:30am - Book Club.

Free.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1:30pm - Writers' Guild.

Free.

HISTORY'S MYSTERIES • TU (11/14), 7pm - Paula Withrow presents on unsolved crimes, missing persons, conspiracies and aliens. Free. Held at Weaverville Public Library, 41 N. Main St., Weaverville MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • 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.

• MO (11/11), 6pm - Jane S. Gabin presents her book, The Paris Photo.

Free to attend.

• MO (11/11), 7pm - Mystery Book Club: Discussion of Case Histories: A Novel

by Kate Atkinson.

• TU (11/12), 6pm - Marc Grossberg presents his book, The Best People: A Tale of Trials and Errors.

Free to attend.

• WE (11/13), 6pm - Chris McDougall presents his book, Running with Sherman: The Donkey with the Heart of a Hero.

Free to attend.

• TH (11/14), 6pm Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne presents her book, Holding on to Nothing.

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 PAIGE CHRISTIE’S NEW LEGACIES OF ARNAN NOVEL • FR (11/8), 6:30pm Paige L. Christie present the latest in her Legacies of Arnan series, book

three, Long Light. Free to attend. Held at City Lights Bookstore, 3 E. Jackson St., Sylva

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

SPEAK EASY STORY SLAM • TH (11/7), 7pm - Stories on the theme of questioning authority. Information: bit.ly/32VIT7U. Held at Sly Grog Lounge, 271 Haywood St.

'MOUNTAIN POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE MEETS AGAIN' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS 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.

VISITING WRITERS SERIES • TH (11/14), 7-8:30pm - Jericho Brown reads his poetry. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Ballroom, 1 University Heights WEDNESDAY BOOK CLUB • WE (11/6), 3pm - Book Club: Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. Free.

Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road

THEATER 'CLYBOURNE PARK' • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS (11/9) until (11/17), 7:30pm - Clybourne Park.

Tickets: brownpapertickets.com/ event/4351460. $10/ Free for students. Held at Kittredge Theatre, Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa DEEP DIVE WITH DIFFERENT STROKES! • TUESDAYS until (11/26), 1:30pm - Deep Dive with Different Strokes!: Character Study and Script Analysis with Stephanie Hickling Beckman.

Registration: avl.mx/6m6. $12. Held in Henry LeBrun Studio. Held at Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. 'DINNER WITH FRIENDS' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS 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 'MIXED FANDANGO' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS (11/7) until (11/23), 7:30pm - Mixed Fandango, directed by Stephanie Hickling Beckman. $21/$18 advance.

'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. 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. 'SHE KILLS MONSTERS' • THURSDAY through SATURDAY (11/14) until (11/16), 7:30pm and SU (11/17), 2pm TheatreUNCA performs an entirely student-run production of She Kills Monsters, a fantasy play written by Qui Nguyen.

Tickets: drama.unca. edu. $12/$10 faculty and seniors/$7 students, OLLI and alumni. Held at Belk Theatre, UNC Asheville Campus, One University Hts, CPO1700 'THE GOD OF HELL' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS 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. 'URINETOWN' • THURSDAY through SUNDAY (11/7) until (11/10), Urinetown, musical. Thurs.-Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 3pm. $20/$10 students and children. Held at Western Carolina University, Hoey Auditorium, Cullowhee

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IN THE FLESH: In 1952, musicians Reggie Harris and Greg Greenway were both born in Richmond, Va., three days apart. This connection is one story they cover (as well as sharing ways to create hopeful dialogue about race and community through storytelling and song) as part of their Deeper Than Skin concert. CommUnity Coffee House of the Carolina Foothills hosts the concert at the historic Sunnydale Cabin in Tryon on Wednesday, Nov. 13, at 7p.m. $20. uufcf.org. Photo courtesy of the musicians

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ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Adair Arbor & Jesse Barry's Tribute to Johnny Cash, 7:00PM Old Time Night w/ Frank & Allie Lee and Emily Schaad, John Herrmann & Meredith McIntosh, 8:30PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 6:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Music Bingo, 6:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Acoustic Wednesdays: Kyle Travers, 6:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SIERRA NEVADA BREWING CO. Christmas Jam Session Ale Release ft. The Dip, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Monthly Monster Maker, Exquisite Corpse, 6:00PM 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 STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Ian Taylor, 6:00PM 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 Hemp Yeah Cannabis Kitchen (live music, Q&A, vegan dinner), 6:00PM Ruby's Blues Jam, 9:00PM THE FOUNDRY HOTEL 3 Cool Cats, 6:00PM THE GOLDEN FLEECE Scots-Baroque ChamberFolk w/ The Tune Shepherds, 7:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band w/ Dom Flemons & JD Wilkes, 8:00PM TOWN PUMP David Bryan's Open Mic, 9:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dead & Company Live Stream, 7:00PM Music Bingo, 8:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN UNCA Xtet (directed by Bill Bares) and the UNCA Brazilian Ensemble (directed by Zach Page), 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH The Realtorz, 8:30PM

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pleasure Chest, (blues, rock, soul), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST The Moon and You w/ The Secret B- Sides, 8:00PM APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy (Chicago style blues), 7:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray and the Space Cooties, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL The Movement of the Late Ones & the Elevators, 9:00PM

OPEN MIC NIGHT WED LULA WILES 13 + DYADO

WED THE REVEREND PEYTON’S

BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM

MARKET PLACE Bob Zullo (pop, rock, jazz & blues), 6:00PM

BLACK MOUNTAIN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH Wild Asheville Community Chorus Concert, 7:30PM

ODDITORIUM Party Foul Drag Circus, 9:00PM

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Chris Jamison, 7:00PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS NC Songsmiths, Alex Krug, 8:00PM CORK & KEG The Horsenecks w/ Joseph Decosimo, 8:00PM CRAFT CENTRIC TAPROOM AND BOTTLESHOP Music Bingo, 7:30PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (western swing & ragtime), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM EXPLOREASHEVILLE. COM ARENA AT U.S. CELLULAR CENTER ASHEVILLE Louis the Child: Here For Now Tour, 8:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Penny, Babers, Sacred Daisy, 9:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Jon Shain and FJ Ventre, 7:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Cherith Fuller, 8:00PM LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION , 10:00PM

THIS WEEK AT AVL MUSIC HALL & THE ONE STOP!!!

LOBSTER TRAP Hank Bones, 6:30PM

THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Paula Hanke & In the Pocket, 8:30PM

ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Shaken Nature Presents, 8:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE Ter-rific Trivia, 7:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Classical Guitar, 7:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL 1st Thursday's feat.

Jointkiller Brass Band, 5:00PM Mitch's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM

THE GREY EAGLE Kelsey Waldon w/ Darrin Bradbury & Chelsea Lovitt, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL The Infamous Stringdusters w/ Kitchen Dwellers, 9:00PM

THE MOTHLIGHT Emily Easterly Album Release Show w/ Larkin, 8:00PM

ORCHARD AT ALTAPASS Sound Traveler, 1:45PM PACK'S TAVERN Steve Moseley Duo (acoustic rock), 8:00PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Up Jumped Three, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Lazybirds, 8:00PM POLANCO RESTAURANT DJ Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone Collective, 10:00PM PRIVATE STUDIO HENDERSONVILLE NC PeaceFULL Mini Midweek Sound ReTuning, 7:30PM PURPLE ONION CAFE The Paper Crowns, 7:30PM RHUBARB EVENT SPACE Made in Asheville, 5:30PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Speak Easy Story Slam: It's time to "Question Authority!", 7:00PM Netherlands w/ Night Beers, Rat Broth, Junt, 9:00PM

THE IMPERIAL LIFE The Roaring Lions (jazz), 9:00PM

THOMAS WOLFE AUDITORIUM Incubus: 20 Years of Make Yourself & Beyond Tour, 7:00PM TOWN PUMP Meagan Jean and KFB, 9:00PM US CELLULAR CENTER Louis the Child: Here for Now Tour, 8:00PM WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, HOEY AUDITORIUM Urinetown: The Musical, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Acoustic Karaoke, 10:00PM ZAMBRA Dinah's Daydream, (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 27 CLUB The Sisters Show: A Goofy Interactive Game Show, 9:30PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Rebecca & The Reckoning, (Americana), 9:00PM

STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Acoustic Jam, 6:30PM THE 63 TAPHOUSE Weekly 8 Ball Tournament (sign ups at 7:00PM), 8:00PM

APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy (Chicago style blues), 7:00PM

w/ The Late Ones & The Elovaters

THU, 11/7 - SHOW: 8:45 pm (DOORS: 8 pm) - 18+ adv. tix : $15

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Aqueous w/ LeSpecial, 8:30PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Dinah's Daydream (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

AQUEOUS w/ Lespecial FRI, 11/8 - SHOW: 8:30 pm (DOORS: 7:30 pm) - adv. tix: $15

BIG DAMN BAND

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THE JAPANESE HOUSE

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COREY HARRIS + TODD ALBRIGHT

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BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Acoustic Swing, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Noah Proudfoot and the Botanicals, 6:00PM

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CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 9:00PM

MONDAY NIGHTS

Watch NFL games on our 18 foot screen. Free Pizza!

CORK & KEG Vaden Landers Band, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Hannah Juanita & the Mose Wilson Band (Nashville honky tonk), 9:00PM

THURSDAY NIGHTS

College Greek Night FRIDAY NIGHTS

Latin dancing

EVERY SATURDAY

DJ plays the best 90’s & 2000’s music

DOUBLE CROWN Rotating Rock 'n' Soul DJs, 10:00PM

AMBROSE WEST Love Letter: A Tribute to Bonnie Raitt feat. Peggy Ratusz, 8:00PM

THE MOVEMENT

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR The Travelling Pilsburys of Asheville, 8:00PM

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EXPLOREASHEVILLE. COM ARENA AT U.S. CELLULAR CENTER ASHEVILLE Cody Jinks, 8:00PM

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FLEETWOOD'S Jaguardini, Bad Ties, & The OSYX, 8:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB Paper Crowns (folk, soul), 10:00PM GASTRO PUB AT HOPEY DOWNTOWN The Mic is Open hosted

by Heather Taylor, 7:00PM

FREE PARKING Located in the heart of Downtown AVL

38 North French Broad Ave

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Shabudikah

(2 Sets ft. Downtempo Set)

FRI, 11/8 - MUSIC: 10 pm [FUNK] DONATION BASED COVER

SAT, 11/9 - SHOW: 10 pm (DOORS: 9 pm) - adv. tix: $18

+ David Starfire

TUB & FRUTE SAT, 11/9 - MUSIC: 10 pm [FUNK] DONATION BASED COVER

SUN, 11/10 - SHOW: 9 pm (DOORS: 8 pm) - tix: $18

LOCAL THURSDAY SHUFFLE - 10pm

Free Dead Friday - 5pm

SUN

Mitch’s Totally Rad Trivia - 6:30pm

FRI

disclaimer comedy - 9:30pm Brown Bag Singer-Songwriting Competition - 5:30pm

THU

Tuesday Early Jam - 8PM Tuesday Night Funk Jam - 11PM Electrosoul Session - 11:30PM

WED

TUE

11/15 - Ton of Hay [Aoxomoxoa/LiveDead Tribute] • 11/16 - Off with your Radiohead • 11/17 - The Trifinity - Yheti x Toadface x Mt. Analogue • 11/21 - 2019 Brown Bag Singer Songwriting Competition FINALS • 11/22 - AVL All-Stars ‘Dylan is Dead’ Tribute World Famous Bluegrass Brunch - 10:30am-3pm Shakedown Sundays - 4pm-7pm MOUNTAINX.COM

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C LUBLAND HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Brother Smith, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Rod Picott, 7:00PM Amy Steinberg, 8:30PM

COMING SOON 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

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM Dirty Dead, 9:00PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Sofiya Alexandra Night I, 9:00PM 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 Vinyl Night (bring yours to share!), 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

9PM–BRIAN ASHLEY JONES & JAMIE MCLEAN SUN 11/10 6:00PM–CATHY FINK & MARCY MARXER W/ SPECIAL GUEST BETH LEE

ODDITORIUM Burlesque Battle, 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM Shabudikah, 10:00PM ORANGE PEEL Jimmy Herring and the 5 of 7 w/ Roosevelt Collier, 8:30PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Songwriters in the Round: Dulci Ellenberger, Amanda Anne Platt & Melissa Hyman, 6:00PM

7:30PM–IRISH FIDDLE VIRTUOSO FRANKIE GAVIN W/ TOMMY MCCARTHY & LOUISE COSTELLO

7:30PM–TUES. BLUEGRASS W/ STIG & FRIENDS

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Brady Jacquin, 7:00PM

7:00PM–CHRIS FRISINA & EARLEINE 8:30PM–SAWYER FREDERICKS W/ BETH BOMBARA

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Liz Teague & Friends, 8:00PM

TUE 11/12 WED 11/13

ISISASHEVILLE.COM DINNER MENU TIL 9:30PM LATE NIGHT MENU TIL 12AM

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PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep (dance party), 9:30PM

SALVAGE STATION Savannah Smith & Southern Soul, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Hustle Souls, 8:00PM

SLY GROG LOUNGE Area 51 Show, 9:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Utah Green, 6:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Thomas Yon, 7:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Beyond Blue, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE The Japanese House, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat.

Phantom Pantone, 10:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Bask Album Release w/ Black Tusk & Haal, 9:00PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Andrew J. Fletcher (solo jazz piano), 2:30PM TOWN PUMP Aaron Jaxon Band, 9:00PM US CELLULAR CENTER Cody Jinks, 8:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dead & Company Live Stream, 7:00PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE UO Friday Night GETDOWN W/ Cousin TL, 8:00PM WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, HOEY AUDITORIUM Urinetown: The Musical, 7:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN The Hogslop String Band, 8:00PM WILD WING CAFE Blaze the City, 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function Acoustic, 9:00PM ZAMBRA Jason Moore, (jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 27 CLUB Ellen Siberian Tiger w/ Hoo:Lumes, 9:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Matt Walsh, (blues, rockabilly), 9:00PM AMBROSE WEST An Interplanetary Evening with DayDream Creatures, 8:00PM

APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy (Chicago style blues), 4:00PM

LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Sofiya Alexandra Night II, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Todd Day Wait followed by DJ Lil MeowMeow, 8:00PM

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

ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step band followed by Hard Rocket & Modern Strangers, 5:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Soohan (II sets) w/ David Starfire, 10:00PM ASHEVILLE YACHT CLUB Iggy Radio, 3:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Gene Holdway, 7:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Brooke & Nick, 6:00PM BROWN MOUNTAIN BOTTLEWORKS Andrew, 7:30PM CORK & KEG Sparrow & Her Wingman, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL Kylie B. & the Birds (exotica & jazz), 9:00PM CROWNE PLAZA RESORT 3rd Annual Asheville Dance Classic, 5:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FINES CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER Fines Creek BINGO Night, 6:00PM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF ASHEVILLE Wild Asheville Community Chorus Concert, 7:30PM FLEETWOOD'S Nervous Dater, Hit Like a Girl, Do Nothing!, 8:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB For Def (jam, improv), 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Laura Blackley and the Wildflowers, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Brian Ashley Jones & Jamie McLean, 9:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB West King String Band, 9:00PM

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!

LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Cantina Acres, Mordaga, Ambient Eye & Ultrabillions, 8:00PM

THU. 11/7 Steve Moseley Duo

PACK'S TAVERN Carolina Lowdown Band (classic rock, dance), 9:30PM

FREE Parking on Eagle/Charlotte Streets 39 S. Market St. • 254-9277

FRI. 11/8 DJ RexxStep

(dance hits, pop)

SAT. 11/9 Carolina Lowdown Band (classic rock, dance)

ORANGE PEEL King Princess w/ Girlpool [SOLD OUT], 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Union Specific (indie country), 6:00PM

at night in ASHEVILLE!

(acoustic rock)

ODDITORIUM Steel & Stone Metal Fest, 7:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL TUB & Frute, 10:00PM

DANCE

17 Taps & Domestics • Nightly Drink Specials

FULL KITCHEN • TIKI BAR AWARD-WINNING WING SPECIALS Sun., Tue., Wed. & Thur. • 6-8Pm

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PISGAH BREWING COMPANY C2 and the Brothers Reed, 9:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Gigi Dover & Big Love, 8:00PM REVOLVE STUDIO Revolve Sound: The Mute Sphere w/ Websites, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION Asheville City Schools Craft Fair w/ live music, 12:00PM Same as It Ever Was, 9:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Eric Congdon Electric Trio, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Safari Room, Tin Foil Hat & Loved Ones, 8:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Jeremy Davall, 6:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Community Salsa/ Latin Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (lessons at 9:00PM), 9:30PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE The Blake Ellege Showcase Band, 6:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Dirtwire, 9:00PM

TINSLEY ELLIS AND TOMMY CASTRO & THE PAINKILLERS

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WE MOVE ALONG: Polka, swing or two-step your way through the Moth Ball Country Dance. This year’s lineup includes performances by local acts Julia Sanders (pictured), Vaden Landers, The Stinging Nettles and Woe Rounder, with DJ sets closing the evening. There will also be a themed photo booth pop-up at The Mothlight event.

Friday, Nov. 15, at 9 p.m. $10. themothlight.com. Photo courtesy of the artist

THE MOTHLIGHT RBTS WIN w/ Marley Carroll & Eleventyseven, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP Djanky Delanie, 9:00PM

UPCOMING SHOWS: DOORS 7PM

NOV 8

DOORS 7PM

NOV 9

DOORS 4:30PM

NOV 10

DOORS 6:15PM

NOV 11

DOORS 8PM

NOV 14

LOVE LETTER:

A TRIBUTE TO BONNIE RAITT FEAT. PEGGY RATUSZ

AN INTERPLANETARY EVENING WITH

DAYDREAM CREATURES

SHOW 8PM

NOV 8

SHOW 8PM

NOV 9

MIND-FULL: STORIES OF A RELUCTANT MEDITATOR

SHOW 5PM

1111 HIGHER VIBES YOGA + HIP HOP

SHOW 6:30PM

W/ KATHY RAMIREZ

FREEWAY JUBILEE W/ RANDOM ANIMALS

NOV 10 NOV 11

SHOW 8:30PM

NOV 14

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TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective (rotating DJ's), 11:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Dead & Company Live Stream, 7:00PM WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, HOEY AUDITORIUM Urinetown: The Musical, 7:30PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Amici Music presents: Four-hand American Piano, 2:00PM White Horse 11th Anniversary Show w/ Abby the Spoon Lady, BJ Leiderman, The Belfast Boys, Dr. Daniel Weiser, Tracey Schmidt, Hollander Blue & Bob Hinkle, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH Post Game Karaoke w/ DJ Razor, 9:30PM ZAMBRA Killawatts, (jazz), 8:00PM

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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 10 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Pimps of Pompe, (Gypsy jazz, hip-hop), 7:00PM AMBROSE WEST Mind-Full: Stories of a Reluctant Meditator, 5:00PM ARCHETYPE BREWING Post-Brunch Blues, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY SIN Sunday's w/ DJ JuanBounce, 4:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Vaden Landers (bluegrass, country), 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Classical Guitar Society Meeting 1:30PM Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL theNEWDEAL, 8:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Pimps of Pompe Trio (Gypsy jazz hip-hop), 2:00PM BOLD ROCK HARD CIDER Sunday Brunch w/ live music, 12:00PM

CAPELLA ON 9 @ THE AC HOTEL Low-Fi brunch feat.

Phantom Pantone Collective, 2:00PM CROW & QUILL Helen Gillet (ambient looping cello & vocals), 8:00PM CROWNE PLAZA RESORT 3rd Annual Asheville Dance Classic, 5:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Killer Karaoke w/KJ Tim O, 9:00PM FIRST CONGREGATIONAL UCC OF ASHEVILLE Wild Asheville Community Chorus Concert, 4:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Comedy at Fleetwood's: Kelly McInerney & Jon Durnell, 8:00PM FUNKATORIUM An Afternoon of Bluegrass Feat. Gary "Macfiddle" Mackey, 1:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk), 10:00PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Sunday Brunch w/ Hank Bones & Jon Corbin, 12:00PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Sunday Live Music w/ Leo Johnson, 1:00PM ODDITORIUM Day & Dream, No Swoon, Sleepy Poetry (indie, pop), 9:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL World Famous Bluegrass Brunch, 10:30AM Smash Out Sundays w/ Mike T & JJ Smash, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Big K.R.I.T. w/ Rapsody & Domani Harris, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 2:00PM Sidecar Honey, 7:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY La Terza Clase (Italian bluegrass), 2:00PM Trivia Night, 5:00PM

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer w/ Beth Lee, 6:00PM Irish fiddle virtuoso Frankie Gavin w/ Tommy McCarthy & Louise Costello, 7:30PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Open Mic Night w/ Laura Blackley, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Pisgah Sunday Jam hosted by Paper Crowns Electric Band, 6:00PM

Visit Asheville’s

PURPLE ONION CAFE Hayes Carll, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Asheville Mac Attack Benefit for AMS w/ live music, 1:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Mr. Jimmy Duo, 5:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Fraser Fuller, 2:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Weekly Original Music Open Mic, 6:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Eric Condon and Howie Johnson's Guitar Buffet, 3:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Wild Nothing, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat.

Phantom Pantone Collective, 9:00PM WESTERN CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, HOEY AUDITORIUM Urinetown: The Musical, 3:00PM WILD WING CAFE NFL Sundays w/ DJ razor, 1:00PM ZAMBRA Dan Keller, (jazz), 7:00PM

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 11 5 WALNUT WINE BAR CaroMia, Cary Fridley, Laura Blackley (folk, R&B), 8:00PM AMBROSE WEST 1111 Higher Vibes Yoga (w/ live hiphop), 6:30PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Improv, 7:00PM CATAWBA BREWING SOUTH SLOPE Musicians in the round hosted by Jon Edwards, 6:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Country Karaoke w/ KJ Tim-O, 10:00PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Trivia Night, 6:00PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Pub Trivia, 7:30PM Open Mic Night, 9:30PM LOBSTER TRAP Bobby Miller and Friends, 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Risque Monday Burlesque hosted

By Deb Au Nare, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL The New Pornographers w/ Lady Lamb, 8:00PM

MARKET PLACE Bob Zullo & Grant Cuthbertson (vocal jazz), 6:00PM

PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Rhoda & the Risers, 7:00PM

OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6:00PM

ODDITORIUM Odditorium Comedy Night, 9:00PM

THE GOLDEN PINEAPPLE Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 8:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Open Mic Night w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night (6PM sign-up), 7:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Early Jam, 8:00PM Electrosoul Sessions w/ strongmagnumopus, 11:30PM

only urban winery to experience

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THE MOTHLIGHT Ona, Mo Loada & the Humble, 8:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM

289 Lyman Street pleburbanwinery.com

THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson Trio, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT This Will Destroy You w/ Christopher Tignor, 9:00PM

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 12 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Drayton & Friends, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Izzy (singer, songwriter), 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Gypsy Jazz Jam w/ Steve Karla & Phil Alley, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Stew w/ DJ Lil Side Salad & Seymour, 10:00PM HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Turntable Tuesdays hosted

by VTT, 10:00PM HILLSIDE GAMES Game Designers of North CarolinaAsheville Meeting, 5:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by Stig and Friends, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Honky Tonk Tuesday w/ Tom Pittman, 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM LOCAL 604 BOTTLE SHOP Asheville Synth Club, 9:00PM

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MOVIE REVIEWS

Hosted by the Asheville Movie Guys HHHHH

= MAX RATING

EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com

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THIS WEEK’S CONTRIBUTORS

BRUCE STEELE bcsteele@gmail.com

Kristina Guckenberger

port to a particularly nasty ancestor of Beatlemania, I knew we were in smart satirical hands. Did the humor work for you?

KG: Definitely. I’d categorize this film as a broad dark comedy — not the slapstick Hitler satire a lot of people seem to think it is — with its humor deriving from witty, original writing. I found myself legitimately laughing out loud in the theater and tearing up during the most emotional moments — a feat, considering this is a Nazi-mocking film led by an unknown child actor.

Read the full review at mountainx.com/ movies/reviews Opens Nov. 8 at the Fine Arts Theatre

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DIRECTOR: François Ozon PLAYERS: Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, Swann Arlaud CRIME/DRAMA NOT RATED

Edwin Arnaudin: The latest comedy from Taika Waititi (Thor: Ragnarok), centers on the titular Hitler Youth (Roman Griffin Davis) as he experiences significant growing pains at the end of WWII. Upon exiting our press screening, I believe your first words were something like, “That made my little German heart so happy.” Mind elaborating on that reaction, Fräulein?

The victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests — who were seen so fleetingly but left such a poignant impres-

EA: I’ve had complete faith in Waititi since Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016) and from Jojo’s outset felt predisposed to love it. Sure enough, from the opening credits montage featuring archival footage of excited Nazis cued to the Fab Four’s “Komm, gib mir deine Hand,” in turn equating the fever of Hitler supNOV. 6 - 12, 2019

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DIRECTOR: Taika Waititi PLAYERS: Roman Griffin Davis, Thomasin McKenzie COMEDY/DRAMA RATED PG-13

Kristina Guckenberger: With a last name like mine and five years of studying the language (and a brief student exchange in Dresden), I’m a sucker for all things German. Add an adorably affecting (albeit deeply misguided) blond boy, a wildly eccentric portrayal of Hitler as his imaginary friend (played by Waititi himself) and a fantastic soundtrack of pop classics sung in German and I’m sold.

What was your reaction to Jojo?

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sion in the Oscar-winning Spotlight — take center stage in the French film By the Grace of God. Another fact-based story, this one begins in 2014, when a banker in Lyon discovers that the priest who assaulted him 30 years earlier is still ministering to children. The banker takes his complaint to the local bishop who ultimately does nothing. The movie’s narrative later passes to another victim and then to a third man — giving writer-director François Ozon a chance to use this real-life pursuit of criminal justice to explore the dynamics of several French families of differing character and social status, and how the long-past sexual abuse has deformed all of them in some way.

With a pulsing soundtrack and warm, velvety cinematography, the film constitutes a landmark achievement in humanizing this difficult subject and manages to be just as gripping as Spotlight. Much has happened in the case since the movie’s release, but that’s for you to discover on Google after you see it. And see it you must.

Opens Nov. 8 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

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Arctic Dogs HHHH DIRECTOR: Aaron Woodley PLAYERS: The voices of Jeremy Renner, Anjelica Huston, Alec Baldwin ANIMATED/COMEDY • RATED PG If you are looking for a hilarious time, you should check out Arctic Dogs.

Swifty the Arctic fox, who is the star of the movie, is bright white, which makes it easy for him to hide in the snow. However, more than anything, he wants to be seen.

He thinks that he can become important if he gets a job as a Top Dog. Three Top Dogs (who are legitimate dogs) deliver packages on heavy sleds in the Arctic. These dogs are famous to the other animals. One Top Dog, Duke, is Swifty’s idol, even though he mistakenly called him Shifty and Sifty when he was little.

Things get bad when the evil Otto Von Walrus tries to use B.A.D. Gas to melt the Arctic. Otto commands thousands of cute-yet-mean puffins to spread the gas. The puffins are the most hilarious things about the movie because they fight one another a lot. The puffins actually kidnap the Top Dogs, creating an opportunity for Swifty to deliver the packages, becoming a Top Dog (who’s actually a fox)! Swifty’s lifelong friend Jade, an engineer fox, helps Otto by sending him mechanical parts for his massive drill, although she does not know he is using the parts to do bad things.

There are funny action scenes where the characters have to dodge snowballs, shot from cannons controlled by the puffins. The ending delivers a weird twist that helps us better understand why Otto is so bad. I liked this movie a lot.

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DIRECTOR: Justin Folk PLAYERS: Adam Carolla, Dennis Prager DOCUMENTARY RATED PG-13

More celebratory than informative, more reportage than narrative, Making Waves is not quite what you’d expect from a documentary. It plays more like something you would screen at a film-industry trade convention, providing an opportunity for industry employees to get together and receive special recognition for their achievements.

This may be of interest to film buffs, but general audiences might have to stifle yawns.

Making Waves opens with glowing descriptions of the magic of film sound and its power to give reality to film images. It goes on to illustrate how the trick is done, at some cost to the magic itself. Instead of wizards who make sounds, you have a steep hierarchy of competent professionals doing a tedious and laborious job. Walter Murch (The Godfather) and Ben Burtt (Star Wars) sit at the very top. And below, an assortment of skilled tradespeople expand on the techniques pioneered by Murch and Burtt, which were themselves inspired by what the French New Wave had already started doing the previous decade.

But in managing to go in-depth, Making Waves gives special notice to the technical achievements of Ordinary People, Top Gun and other films that, while significant, may not warrant documentaries of their own.

It’s in this special recognition that the film makes itself worthy of a casual viewing.

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This documentary focuses on a campaign by conservative talk-radio host Dennis Prager and comedian and podcast superstar Adam Carolla to counter the vocal, sometimes vio-

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STARTING FRIDAY By the Grace of God (NR) HHHHS Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) HHHHH (Pick of the Week) Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (NR) HHH No Safe Spaces (PG-13) HHS JUST ANNOUNCED Doctor Sleep (R) Ewan McGregor plays adult Danny Torrance in this sequel to The Shining.

Last Christmas (PG-13) Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones) plays a department store elf who keeps crossing paths with a handsome suitor (Henry Golding, Crazy Rich Asians).

lent left-wing activists who are silencing opposing voices on American college campuses.

Whether or not you like or agree with the self-promoting hosts, the film raises a lot of vital questions worth examining, and first-time director Justin Folk has assembled a slick package, full of stimulating case studies and intelligent assessments of what “freedom of speech” should mean in practice.

In the end, the film makes a good case for favoring even heated, occasionally uncivil debate over the silencing of unpleasant speech.

But it also suffers somewhat from the “very fine people on both sides” problem: It acknowledges that some speech can be censored for inciting violence but doesn’t want to grapple with any messy definitions, and it never attempts to draw a clear line between speech and action — a necessary starting point to finding workable solutions.

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High art it certainly isn’t, and since most of the plot and storyline are lifted straight from the first two films, it’s also not particularly high concept. What it is, though, is a lot of fun. It’s safe to say something is going right when a movie about killer cyborgs from the future has this jaded cynic munching popcorn and grinning like his 14-year-old self watching Terminator 2: Judgement Day for the first of many times. These days, effectsdriven action films are a dime a dozen, so when one comes along that manages even a semblance of a decent story or character development, it’s hard not to take notice by comparison alone.

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Midway (PG-13) Roland Emmerich (Independence Day) directs this latest take on the titular WWII battle.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries psychologist James Hillman said we keep “our images and fantasies at arm’s length because they are so full of love.” They’re also quite flammable, he added. They are always on the verge of catching fire, metaphorically speaking. That’s why many people wrap their love-filled images and fantasies in metaphorical asbestos: to prevent them from igniting a blaze in their psyches. In my astrological opinion, you Aries folks always have a mandate to use less asbestos than all the other signs — even none at all. That’s even truer than usual right now. Keep your images and fantasies extra close and raw and wild.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet James Merrill was ecstatic when he learned the Greek language. According to his biographer, he felt he could articulate his needs “with more force and clarity, with greater simplicity and less self-consciousness, than he ever could in his own language.” He concluded, “Freedom to be oneself is all very well; the greater freedom is not to be oneself.”

Personally, I think that’s an exaggeration. I believe the freedom to be yourself is very, very important. But for you in the coming weeks, Taurus, the freedom to not be yourself could indeed be quite liberating. What might you do to stretch your capacities beyond what you’ve assumed is true about you? Are you willing to rebel against and transcend your previous self-conceptions?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Musician Brian Eno made a deck of oracular cards called Oblique Strategies. Each card has a suggestion designed to trigger creative thinking about a project or process you’re working on. You Geminis might find it useful to call on Oblique Strategies right now, since you’re navigating your way through a phase of adjustment and rearrangement.

The card I drew for you is “Honor thy error as hidden intention.” Here’s how I interpret it: An apparent lapse or misstep will actually be the result of your deeper mind guiding you to take a fruitful detour.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): We devote a lot of energy to wishing and hoping about the meaningful joys we’d love to bring into our lives. And yet few of us have been trained in the best strategies for manifesting our wishes and hopes. That’s the bad news. The good news is that now is a favorable time for you to upgrade your skills at getting what you want. With that in mind, I present you with the simple but potent wisdom of author Maya Angelou: “Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it.” To flesh that out, I’ll add: Formulate a precise statement describing your heart’s yearning and then work hard to make yourself ready for its fulfillment.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are the key parts of your life —t he sources and influences that enable you to be your most soulful self? I urge you to nourish them intensely during the next three weeks. Next question: What are the marginally important parts of your life — the activities and proclivities that aren’t essential for your long-term success and happiness?

I urge you to corral all the energy you give to those marginally important things and instead pour it into what’s most important. Now is a crucial time in the evolution of your relationship with your primal fuels, your indispensable resources, your sustaining foundations.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When she spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue supporting the epidermis,” wrote short story author Robert Musil. He was describing a conversation between a man and woman who were on different wavelengths. “When she mentioned love,” Musil continued, “he responded with the statistical curve that indicates the rise and fall in the annual birthrate.” Many of you Virgos have the flexibility to express yourself well on both of those wavelengths. But in the coming months, I hope you’ll emphasize the beauty and love wavelength rather than the fatty tissue and statistical curve wavelength. It’ll be an excellent strategy for getting the healing you need.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger Ana-Sofia Cardelle was asked, “What is your signature perfume?”

She said she hadn’t found one. But then she described how she would like to smell: “somewhere between fresh and earthy: cinnamon and honey, a rose garden, saltwater baked in the sun.” The coming days will be an excellent time to indulge in your own fantasies about the special fragrance you’d like to emanate. Moreover, I bet you’ll be energized by pinpointing a host of qualities you would like to serve as cornerstones of your identity: traits that embody and express your uniqueness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Studies suggest that on average each of us has a social network of about 250 people, of whom 120 we regard as a closer group of friendly acquaintances. But most of us have no more than 20 folks we trust and only two or three whom we regard as confidants. I suspect that these numbers will be in flux for you during the next 12 months, Scorpio. I bet you’ll make more new friends than usual and will also expand your inner circle. On the other hand, I expect that some people who are now in your sphere will depart. Net result: stronger alliances and more collaboration.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I blame and thank the Sagittarian part of me when I get brave and brazen enough to follow my strongest emotions where they want to lead me. I also blame and thank the Sagittarian part of me when I strip off my defense mechanisms and invite the world to regard my vulnerabilities as interesting and beautiful. I furthermore blame and thank the Sagittarian side of me on those occasions when I run 3 miles down the beach at dawn, hoping to thereby jolt loose the secrets I’ve been concealing from myself. I suspect the coming weeks will be a favorable time to blame and thank the Sagittarian part of you for similar experiences.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Persian polymath Avicenna (980–1037) wrote 450 books on many topics, including medicine, philosophy, astronomy, geography, mathematics, theology and poetry. While young, he tried to study the Metaphysics of Aristotle but had difficulty grasping it. Forty times he read the text, even committing it to memory. But he made little progress toward fathoming it. Years later, he was browsing at an outdoor market and found a brief, cheap book about the Metaphysics by an author named al-Farabi.

He read it quickly and for the first time understood Aristotle’s great work. He was so delighted he went out to the streets and gave away gifts to poor people.

I foresee a comparable milestone for you, Capricorn: Something that has eluded your comprehension will become clear, at least in part due to a lucky accident.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In addition to being a key figure in Renaissance art, 15th-century Italian painter Filippo Lippi had a colorful life. According to legend, he was once held prisoner by Barbary pirates but gained his freedom by drawing a riveting portrait of their leader.

Inspired by the astrological factors affecting you right now, I’m fantasizing about the possibility of a liberating event arriving in your life. Maybe you’ll call on one of your skills in a dramatic way, thereby enhancing your leeway or generating a breakthrough or unleashing an opportunity. (Please also re-read your horoscope from last week.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Stand high long enough and your lightning will come,” writes Piscean novelist William Gibson. He isn’t suggesting that we literally stand on top of a treeless hill in a thunderstorm and invite the lightning to shoot down through us. More realistically, I think he means that we should devotedly cultivate and discipline our highest forms of expression so that when inspiration finds us, we’ll be primed to receive and use its full power. That’s an excellent oracle for you.

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