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Save money by going green [In response to the letter “Gospel Jerry Is Not Really Gospel,” Oct. 23, Xpress:] If I have learned anything over the past 35 years learning about “climate change,” it is that we Americans are becoming more and more entrenched in and emphatic about our beliefs on the subject. ... That is why I believe we need to shift the conversation to one that, no matter which side we are on, considers the economic merits for why we should be all in on building a green economy. ... First, if someone told you that for a $10,000 investment, they could guarantee a 7% minimum return on your investment for 50 years, would you take it? Shortly after moving to the area, that is exactly what we did. With some impressive federal and Duke Energy Progress rebates, we installed solar panels on our Asheville home and are now getting that rate of return in savings on our electric bill. So why have a savings account drawing 2% (if you can find it) when there might be a much greater way to invest that money? My second example: ... Five years ago, my wife and I purchased our first of two electric cars: an electric Ford Focus. ... With the $7,500 federal rebate, our final cost was almost exactly the same price as the gas-powered Focus equivalent,

the Titanium, which offers a wonderful vehicle comparison. In the five years we’ve owned our Focus Electric, we have spent a total of $125 on maintenance: $110 for a new 12-volt battery (replaced a few months ago) and $15 to have the tires rotated. ... And fuel costs? Given the miles driven and knowing the average kilowatthours of electricity we used per mile, we have spent under $750 charging our Focus. When compared to the gas-powered Titanium getting 26 mpg city and $2.50 for the price of gas, driving electric over the gas has saved us more than $3,000! When you consider other maintenance costs for gas-powered vehicles not required for electric ones, like oil changes, we’ve saved at least $5,000 ($1,000 a year) over the Titanium. And this does not consider three critical factors when considering long-term operating costs. First, in comparison to volatile gasoline pricing, electricity costs are stable, as prices are regulated by the state. ... Second, electric cars don’t have parts considered problematic in gaspowered vehicles. ... And third, Kelley Blue Book estimates our electric version is worth over $3,000 more than the gas-powered Titanium. ... And this has to make one wonder if the advantages of driving a gas-powered vehicle are really worth the extra cost, especially when funds are tight.

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When your solar panels are charging your electric car, you are literally driving for free. And, with the right equipment, you could be immune from long-term power outages as well as gas shortages. ... Here is my point. One’s decision to save money by going green shouldn’t hinge on whether we are saving the planet (though it is true that I do sleep better at night knowing I’m not contributing to Blue Ridge haze or support wars on the other side of the globe). Believing in climate change is not a precondition for saving money and breathing cleaner air, especially when it is so convenient and easy to do! As I see it, we have a choice to make: Continue to engage in endless and fruitless debates for another decade with those who disagree with the ethical, moral or religious virtues of our convictions, or take advantage of the economic incentives that already exist for green technologies and that don’t require we believe in anything else. The choice is ours. — Jim Hart Asheville Editor’s note: A longer version of this letter will appear at mountainx.com.

rium; I’m focused here on the sharing of those proceeds — yes, a redistribution (however slight) of the wealth so that local workers can at least afford to live here. As real estate prices climb and cost of living goes up and up, the only solution is to pay workers more. You can’t make the argument that this wage increase would cripple a hotel that’s getting $600 a night even part of the year. My two cents. — Mark H. Bloom Asheville

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Downtown hotels should pay living wage I just read that the newly defined living wage in Buncombe County is $13.65 per hour ($12.15 with health insurance). It may be beyond the city’s power to enforce this wage (thanks to our dysfunctional parent, the state of North Carolina), but perhaps protests and group efforts could force at least the downtown hotels to pay all their employees at least this amount. All the talk about the benefits of tourism on Asheville is justified, as anyone who remembers Asheville of the 1990s can attest, but those benefits haven’t been distributed equally to residents. A living wage would go a long way to correct that. And I believe the current room rates support this raise. If downtown hotels are getting $600 a night (a night!), then some of that money should trickle down to the workers supporting that establishment. I’m not commenting on the hotel morato-

In regard to last week’s article on a proposed tax for later buses next summer [“New Delays Expected for Transit Hours Extension,” Oct. 30, Xpress], I want to voice support for whose opinion was in the issue two weeks ago that outlined the need for more frequent buses [“Asheville Bus System Needs Cash Infusion,” Oct. 23, Xpress]. If we focus on a more frequent sustainable transit system (and that doesn’t have to be all day), more people might be attracted to the idea of riding the buses and then be in more support of the quarter-cent tax. This seems more important than later bus hours. — Drew Angstead Asheville

Demand that your reps hold Trump accountable So, he’s done it. America, under the direction of Donald Trump, has started a war. No not a war between us and Iran, (not yet) but between Turkey and the Kurds, who, ironically, gave him the victories over ISIS in Syria. I am heartbroken watching the news. Over 100 people have already died there, as Turkey has rolled in to slaughter the Kurds. And it is all because Trump, after a phone call with Erdogan of Turkey, suddenly made the decision to stop supporting the Kurds. I can’t help but wonder what Erdogan has on Trump, besides his real estate in Turkey.

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C A R T O O N B Y B R E NT B R O W N Because we are not committing our troops to this fight, will our citizens wake up to the horror of what is happening? So far, I have called [Sens. Richard] Burr and [Thom] Tillis and [Rep. Patrick] McHenry and demanded an answer to whether they support this incompetent president. Have had no reply. Please call your Congress people and demand that they hold Trump accountable for this disaster. Not only has this been a total betrayal of our Kurdish allies, but the results will be devastating. We may recall watching the agony of the citizens of Aleppo and other Syrian cities: Infants being pulled from the rubble. Now we will witness it being

done to our allies. There is already a mass exodus happening, which will create more refugees fleeing to other countries, including Europe, which will then lead to more nationalism and elections of people like Trump. Additionally, there is a very real possibility that the thousands of ISIS prisoners will be released to once again rain terror on the area and across the globe. And [Secretary of State Mike] Pompeo has the nerve to say to Judy Woodruff on PBS that the Trump administration’s goal is to keep America safe. — Erica Burns Black Mountain

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BY BILL BRANYON If you want to take a hilarious look at many of the major issues facing Asheville during the last 10 years, while savoring robust, quirky characters rollicking through a rip-roaring plot, go see local playwright Honor Moor’s play In the Nick of Time: Mountain Political Action Committee Meets Again! It’s currently running at the intimately professional Magnetic Theatre through November. In addition, you’ll leave the performance with that most rare of feelings these sad political days — hardnosed, but concrete, hope. And if that isn’t enough, you’ll also get to see one of your current or former City Council members do stand-up comedy. After intermission at a recent show, City Council member Julie Mayfield hammed up lines like, “Let’s move the Vance Monument back to Vance’s home and leave it in his front yard” with the aplomb of a droll George Carlin. She even announced that the obelisk will be temporarily renamed “The Leader’s Monument,” without spending “a single penny of taxpayer money.” City Council comedians on the bill for other nights include Mayor Esther Manheimer, Council member Vijay Kapoor, plus former Council members Cecil Bothwell and Gordon Smith. So many issues are covered that one might conclude the play could be politically tedious, but down-home, colorful dilemmas such as the hair problems caused by cat adoption and how to handle high-gravity beers without DWI-ing through downtown crowds break up the bigger issues with such adroit timing that the politics go down like the smoothest lobster bisque. The play gallops between superficial and profound discussion, between highbrow jokes and unibrow slapstick in the august tradition of the films Best in Show, Nashville and other devastating but sidesplitting satires.

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BILL BRANYON ‘A GIANT ERECTION IN AN INTERSECTION’ The production brings back characters from Moor’s Mountain Political Action Committee (aka MoPAC), performed in 2018, in which MoPAC prevents the post-Trump-election harassment of LBGTQ people in Asheville. The plot of the current play centers on a group of local liberals who band together under the leadership of the irrepressible Velma, uproariously played with an incredibly funny Southern accent by Delina Hensley. She’s discovered that her cousin Vernon is planning to turn Asheville into what she thinks is the next Charlottesville, complete with a fascist march lit by tiki torches. So she reconvenes MoPac with hysterical

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Support the Arc of Buncombe County “And if that isn’t enough, you’ll also get to see one of your current or former City Council members do stand-up comedy.” managers, sheriffs who “refuse to uphold the law” and roads that “are parking lots … yet we fret over bike paths, and infrastructure is forgotten.” A funny discussion about giving Charlotte Street a “road diet” — reducing it from four lanes to two — ensues, whereas the group prefers a “road buffet.”

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HEALING WOUNDS WITH BUFFOONERY I wish Moor had been a little more sympathetic to the Libertarian Tea Partiers. Nevertheless, she is an equal opportunity mocker. Liberals are made satirical fun of often and with a deftly wielded stiletto that made the crowd groan frequently and knowingly. Further plot twists involve a heartwarming deus ex machina, played sagely and soothingly by Doug Shaw, combined with the infamous former Buncombe County Manager Wanda Green, sweet iced tea and Bradford pear trees. After leaving the play, I was struck with the fact that, even with an impeachment hearing that may split America into two permanent warring camps, Moor remains somehow optimistic, at least in her play. In her introductory remarks, she claimed that both sides care about their country. Outside of the theater, she also helps administer a Facebook group called WNC Common Ground, which strives to bring differing viewpoints peacefully together. Regardless, via In the Nick of Time, Moor has dignified and transcended our everyday, relatively small-town squabbles by microscoping them into a fast, entertaining two hours and telescoping them into a national perspective. And watching the play allows the viewer

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WHAT GIVES? Local nonprofits adjust to tax code changes

ON THE LINE: A formerly homeless client signs a lease for his own home after receiving assistance from Homeward Bound of WNC. The nonprofit says it’s under stress due to recent changes in federal tax laws. Photo courtesy of Homeward Bound

BY DANIEL WALTON dwalton@mountainx.com Homeward Bound of WNC has experienced a lot of change this year. In October, the nonprofit bought an apartment building on Short Michigan Avenue, its first foray into direct property ownership. The move came in response to the area’s continual shortage of affordable housing. “We’ve never been in this business before, so it takes a different skill set for our staff, a different skill set for our board,” says Eleanor Ashton, senior resource development director for the organization, which works to combat homelessness. But on top of that pivot in programming, Ashton says, her nonprofit is also contending with instability in the landscape of donations. In the first quarter of its fiscal year, contributions have been lower than usual, she reports, adding that the shift may be due to tax code revisions mandated by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017. “We were all expecting it last year, that we would feel this slowdown in donations, but we didn’t,” she explains. 10

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“What I think might have happened was people saw that they couldn’t deduct certain things that they had been able to before, and they saw how it affected them when they did their taxes last year. So they’re just being a little more conservative this year.” Among the law’s biggest changes, explains David Heinen of the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits, was almost doubling the standard income tax deduction. Individuals can now deduct $12,200 from their taxable income without itemizing, rather than $6,350; married couples filing jointly can deduct $24,400, up from $12,700. The law also eliminated the personal exemption, however, which for many taxpayers sheltered an additional $4,050 or more, depending on their income level and number of dependents. This higher itemization threshold, says Heinen, meant roughly 22 million fewer people claimed a tax benefit from their charitable giving in 2018 than in 2017. Many donors, he continues, thus had less of an incentive to open their wallets. According to a study by Giving USA, a Chicago-based foundation, indi-

DELAYED REACTION? Not everyone saw a significant change last year, however. Rollin Groseclose, vice president of tax services at the Asheville accounting firm Johnson Price Sprinkle, says most of his company’s clients gave comparable amounts to charity in 2017 and 2018. “The tax tail doesn’t seem to be wagging the dog too much on that, from what we’re seeing,” he observes. But Groseclose says he received a lot of questions about all aspects of the new law, which President Donald Trump has touted as a signature policy accomplishment, during the last tax season. Taxpayers may not have understood the implications of their decisions until it came time to pay Uncle Sam, he suggests, but they most likely know

now that charitable itemization won’t benefit them. Although the changes triggered by the law are complex — Groseclose jokingly calls it “the CPA Job Security Act” — he says the folks most affected by the increased standard deduction are typically those who have only a moderate amount of deductible expenses. People accustomed to claiming mortgage interest, property taxes and medical expenses, he says, are among those most likely to no longer itemize. Ally Wilson, development director at Pisgah Legal Services, points to another tax code tweak with uncertain consequences: a doubling of the threshold for wealth subject to an estate tax that tops out at 40%. Over $11 million of a deceased person’s assets — up from $5.5 million — can now be passed on to inheritors tax-free. “Before the 2017 bill, some families might have been choosing between giving that money to charity or giving it to the federal government through the estate tax, which made it appealing to choose a charity that was close to their heart,” Wilson explains. “But that has changed, so more people might not necessarily see the benefit of giving to a charity in their estate plan.” And while her organization doesn’t rely on bequests as a regular income stream, notes Wilson, Pisgah Legal does hope to grow its endowment through planned giving to help support the nonprofit’s future. It might take years, she

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Because of this uncertainty, says Wilson, her organization isn’t leaving donations to chance. In anticipation of the end-of-year giving season, Pisgah Legal will host “Drink Wine and Talk Taxes,” a free charitable planning event for donors, at its Charlotte Street office on Wednesday, Nov. 20. “We are trying to be a resource for our donors, to help them navigate different ways to fulfill their charitable intent — obviously always with the caveat that we’re not tax experts,” she cautions. Other local nonprofits are also stepping up their donor education efforts. Phil Leonard, treasurer of the Asheville Poverty Initiative, says his group plans to include new information about the tax benefits of contributing directly from retirement accounts in its fundraising outreach. Ashton, meanwhile, notes that Homeward Bound is planning an entire e-newsletter on the topic. Nonetheless, Ashton maintains that the basics of fundraising haven’t changed all that much. Homeward Bound issues

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EXPERT OPINION: Pisgah Legal Services senior staff attorney Bill Whalen advises clients Bethann and Steve. Pisgah Legal is also helping its donors navigate changes to the tax code. Photo by Evie White, courtesy of Pisgah Legal regular updates on its accomplishments and hosts three annual events for major donors, she says, in an effort to build rapport with key supporters. Heinen agrees. “It’s really establishing a relationship with your donors and not just making the contribution a

transactional thing,” he says. “Because if you’re just giving money mostly for a tax break, you’re probably not going to keep giving.” As a result, continues Heinen, nonprofits that have traditionally relied on a year-end appeal may need to reconfig-

ure their fundraising. A food pantry, for example, might choose to tie requests for support to a goodwill-generating canned goods drive in July rather than waiting until the holidays. “Some organizations that maybe hadn’t done galas or 5K runs or other types of fundraising events before, they’re realizing that maybe those make more sense now,” he adds. “When you’ve got people in the room, they’re more likely to give more than if they’re not a captive audience.” MAKING IT WORK Despite the changes, there are still ways that folks with charitable inclinations can make their money work for the community while reducing their tax liability. Groseclose, a certified public accountant, advocates “doubling up”: giving two years’ worth of donations every other year, so the total in those years exceeds the standard deduction. Combined with a similar approach to property tax payments and discretionary medical expenses, he says, “You might be able to get some extra goodies that you wouldn’t if you just paid it the way you always have.”

Pisgah Legal, notes Wilson, has several donors who have let the nonprofit know that they’ll be using this approach in the future. “It’s great for us when people do communicate with us, so we can plan in terms of what we can expect annually,” she emphasizes. But accounting strategies aside, Groseclose suggests that, at least for those donors whose itemized deductions don’t exceed the expanded standard amount, it may simply be a question of exchanging one benefit for another. “The standard deduction is a free deduction: You didn’t pay for it, so you aren’t really losing a deduction; you’re just swapping it out for something else,” he points out. For her part, Ashton says she hopes Homeward Bound’s donors understand that, whatever the vagaries of Washington lawmakers, homeless folks in Asheville still need safe places to lay their heads. “Homelessness is a community issue, and we really need community support in order to make a difference,” Ashton declares. “I think that our supporters are so passionate about ending homelessness that they’re not going to let these changes in the tax code really impact their donations to us.” X

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NEW BEGINNINGS: On Nov. 7, WNC Bridge Foundation (formerly the CarePartners Foundation) broke ground on its new home at 294 Overlook Road in Asheville. The ceremony followed the foundation’s recent announcement of over $3 million in funding awards to 44 nonprofits across Western North Carolina. Photo courtesy of WNC Bridge Foundation “There is nothing wrong with change … if it is in the right direction.” — Winston Churchill Change is a fact of life for the many nonprofits pursuing charitable missions in Western North Carolina. Behind the scenes, dedicated teams are busy trying to mold the forces of change into positive outcomes against a backdrop of constantly shifting needs. When the time comes, then, for a new leader or a new strategic direction, nonprofits recognize that those decisions have a big impact on an organization’s ability to drive positive change in the community. That’s why Mountain Xpress took a look at a spectrum of local nonprofits that have recently experienced significant changes or are in the midst of transformative shifts in management or focus. And when things are changing, a great big bag of money sure helps smooth the process, so it’s pertinent 14

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to note some of the recent large infusions of funding to local nonprofits.

Who’s at the helm In August, Asheville Humane Society announced that Jody Evans will serve as its new executive director. She joined the organization after more than 20 years in nonprofit radio, holding positions from journalist to CEO. Jessica Whitehill, the former director of philanthropy for Our VOICE, was named executive director of Jewish Family Services of WNC in July. The same month, the Asheville Jewish Community Center hired Ashley Lasher, who was the CEO of the Literacy Council of Buncombe County for over six years, as its new executive director. Likewise, the Literacy Council welcomed a new executive director in early October: Cindy Threlkeld. She moved to the area in 2011 to

take the commensurate position at MANNA FoodBank. After Asheville Area Arts Council’s past executive director left last winter to take a position at the N.C. Glass Center, the council undertook a search and found Katie Cornell, who was previously the development director for the Center for Craft and has been working in the Asheville arts sector for 18 years. After conducting a search, Asheville City Schools Foundation appointed one of its own as executive director in June. Asheville High School alumna Copland Rudolph assumed the leadership position after serving as the foundation’s development director since 2017. Also in June, the board of directors of Western North Carolina Community Health Services, aka Minnie Jones Health Center, named Kim Wagenaar as permanent CEO following her service in the interim role. Some local nonprofits remain in the market for leaders: • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Western North Carolina’s executive director of 27 years, Robin Myer, announced

this summer that he will retire in May; the organization is undertaking a nationwide search. • On Nov. 8, Pardee UNC Health Care in Hendersonville announced that Kim Hinkelman, executive director of Pardee Hospital Foundation, will retire at the end of December after eight years in the role. • Four Seasons Compassion for Life Foundation has posted a job description for an executive director. • Green Opportunities announced it had found a new executive director but after a miscue, the organization is back on the hunt. • United Way of Transylvania County CEO Louis E. Negrón, announced his plans to relocate and tendered his resignation in September; the organization’s board appointed board member Rick Houck to be the interim executive during a search for a permanent replacement.

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The proceeds of the sale of the area’s former largest nonprofit, Mission Health, to for-profit Hospital Corporation of America, created the area’s now-largest nonprofit, Dogwood Health Trust. The newly created nonprofit foundation’s board comprises former Mission Health leaders and community stalwarts from across WNC. DHT hired its first CEO, Antony Chiang, who most recently served as president of the Empire Health Foundation in Spokane, Wash. [See Philanthropy 3.0, Page 32]. Prior to its shift to for-profit status, Mission Health committed up to $15 million to the former Mission Health System foundations. Those entities have transformed into six different organizations that now serve to bolster the social determinants of health in their home communities rather than supporting individual health care facilities. The Nantahala Health Foundation, Pisgah Health Foundation, WNC Bridge Foundation, Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation, Gateway Wellness

Foundation and AMY Wellness Foundation, which serve various constituencies in Western North Carolina, also chose boards and, in some cases, executive directors this year. The organizations tend to have working boards and small numbers of staff members. Lori Bailey, the executive for Nantahala Health, comes from the health nonprofit world, working in mental illness and disabilities, as well as child welfare. When Transylvania Regional Hospital Foundation became Pisgah Health Foundation, its top executive, Lex Green, stayed on. Likewise for Robin Tindall at Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation and the CEO of Ashevillebased WNC Bridge Foundation, Scott Buchanan. Luke Howe, who had been a fundraiser for Mission Health foundations, is now serving as the executive director of both the Gateway Wellness and AMY Wellness foundations.

Big money Dogwood Health Trust is expected to begin awarding $50 million or more per year to nonprofits and govern-

ment initiatives. The foundation has committed $25 million to the state over five years to battle addiction and reduce overdose deaths, and it announced its first funding opportunity for local nonprofits on Nov. 5. DHT’s Leverage Fund will pay for the services of professional grant writers to help WNC nonprofits pursue grant opportunities of $100,000 or more with the potential to improve health outcomes for the region’s residents. Other foundations that formed or evolved from the Mission foundations have hit the ground running, doling out funds to a variety of area nonprofits this year. In October, WNC Bridge Foundation announced $3.3 million in grants to 44 local nonprofits working in three focus areas: emergency wellness, elder care and youth development. The largest grant of $500,000 was awarded to Asheville Buncombe Community Christian Ministry’s Medical Ministry and will provide operational support to expand access to medical and dental care, which the organization provides at no charge to patients. Meanwhile, Pisgah Health Foundation awarded $6 million,

AMY Wellness Foundation awarded $2.5 million and Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation awarded $1.3 million. Those grants went to well over 100 organizations in 14 counties. Nantahala Health Foundation and Gateway Wellness Foundation have not announced the awards for their first funding cycles. After more than 10 years of advocacy for the creation of a greenway along an inactive rail corridor running between Kanuga Road in Hendersonville and Brevard, Conserving Carolina got a sizable boost to its support for the Ecusta Trail project in August. The N.C. Department of Transportation approved a $6.4 million grant to Conserving Carolina toward the purchase of the corridor, which has been inactive since the Ecusta cigarette paper plant closed in 2002. The organization and its partners must contribute $1.6 million in matching funds. A Save America’s Treasures grant from the National Park Service was awarded to the Asheville Art Museum in October. The award of $196,935 will be used to support the conserva-

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N EWS tion of the museum’s Black Mountain College collection. Asheville Greenworks received $100,000 from the Duke Energy Foundation in July for its Love our Trees campaign. The grant will support education, training neighborhood tree keepers, launching a public relations campaign on the benefits and care of urban trees, strengthening the Treasured Trees program and spring and fall events to give away 800 trees to Asheville residents. The foundation annually provides over $30 million in charitable grants across Duke’s service area. The North Carolina-based Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation named the YWCA Asheville a grantee on behalf of Asheville’s Racial Justice Coalition in June. The grant provides $150,000 per year for two years. At the end of its fiscal year, the Community Foundation of Western North Carolina announced that grant distributions for the year reached an all-time high, exceeding $20 million. One of its largest contributions, $120,000 to the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project over

three years, is slated to increase direct farmer sales. In September, CFWNC announced $379,787 in focus area grants to support regional projects in early childhood development, food and farming, and natural and cultural resources, as well as $200,000 over two years for OnTrack WNC’s SECURE Matched Savings program, which will offer approximately 200 low-income people support in establishing emergency savings accounts.

New directions Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity opened a second ReStore for Buncombe County in Weaverville in August. According to Habitat, each store provides the community with a source for affordable home improvement products while diverting 1,800 tons of usable material from the landfill each year. Proceeds from sales support the organization’s mission to provide affordable housing. Homeward Bound purchased a neglected multifamily building on Asheville’s Short Michigan Avenue. Now renamed Key Commons, the

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FUNDING WITH FEELING: Many area nonprofits secured significant funding this year. One was the YWCA, which received a $300,000 grant on behalf of Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Racial Justice Coalition. File photo courtesy of YWCA Asheville building will be renovated to provide housing for 14 residents earning below 30% of annual median income and who also have significant case management needs.

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together and learn how to live with the Earth,” according to an announcement, has taken the plunge into nonprofit status to pursue a larger mission with community support. Warren Wilson College launched two projects that will change the campus landscape. In a departure from its usual traditional farm fare, the institution planted its first industrial hemp crop in July, joining other colleges and universities across the U.S. in researching industrial hemp. The school has also undertaken to restore its streams, which farmers channelized in the 1920s. The project, funded in part by stream mitigation credits purchased by the state government to offset the negative effects of construction of the I-26 Connector project, is intended to dramatically reduce the amount of sediment flowing into the Swannanoa River during heavy rain events. X

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BUNCOMBE BEAT

Henderson challengers find success in 2019 municipal elections The morning after Election Day 2019, Buncombe County’s political landscape remained exactly the same as it had been the morning before. With a turnout of just over 5%, incumbents were reelected in all four county races; in only one of those contests, that for the Woodfin Board of Aldermen, had the current office holders faced an opponent. Things looked much different in Henderson County, Buncombe’s southern neighbor. Incumbents were vulnerable in all five of the races in which they were challenged, with Democrats ousting Republicans in the city governments of Hendersonville and Saluda (which also lies partially in Polk County). Turnout was 18.4%, with 4,766 of 25,897 eligible voters casting their ballots. Republican Jennifer Hensley and Democrat Lyndsey Simpson were the top two vote-getters in the contest to govern Hendersonville, the county’s largest city; Republican incumbent Steven Caraker finished in last place,

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behind Democratic challenger Debbie Roundtree. Simpson will now become the only Democrat to serve on the Hendersonville City Council. In Saluda, Democratic challenger Bob Ross and incumbent Republican Stanley Walker took the two available City Commission seats, defeating the other incumbent in the race, Republican Leon Morgan. Mills River Town Council member Wayne Carland, also a Republican, lost his seat with a third-place finish behind two other Republicans, fellow incumbent Roger Snyder and challenger Randy Austin. Unaffiliated incumbent Ginger Brown lost her District 2 seat on the Flat Rock Village Council to unaffiliated challenger Anne Coletta, who had previously served on the body from 2013-17. Running on a slate with Republican Thomas Carpenter and unaffiliated David Dethero, Coletta’s primary issue was opposing the controversial North Highland Lake Road expansion.

ROAD TO VICTORY: Unaffiliated challenger Anne Coletta, who had previously served on the Flat Rock Village Council 2013-17, regained a seat on that elected board by campaigning against the controversial North Highland Lake Road expansion. Photo courtesy of Coletta

And Preston Blakely, a firsttime Democratic candidate and the grandson of Western North Carolina civil rights leader Oralene Simmons, repeated his primary success in the race for Fletcher Town Council District 3. Blakely earned nearly 72% of the vote in a landslide victory over unaffiliated incumbent Hugh Clark. However, incumbents remained in control in Laurel Park, where unaffiliated Mayor J. Carey O’Cain and council members George Banta and Robert Vickery ran unopposed. In the only referendum taking place in Henderson County, Saluda voters approved the expanded sale of mixed alcoholic beverages by a margin of more than 55 percentage points. Full election results for Buncombe County are available online through the N.C. State Board of Elections at avl.mx/6oz. Henderson County results are available at avl.mx/6p0. For a deeper look at the region’s 2019 municipal elections, see “Year Off Plenty,” Xpress, Oct. 30.

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Solar plans win Buncombe commission approval

POWER IN NUMBERS: Asheville High School senior Maeve Goldberg speaks in favor of Buncombe County’s solar proposal as other students and advocates wait to address the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners. Photo by Daniel Walton “This shouldn’t even be in here right now,” remarked Commissioner Mike Fryar, as the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners prepared to vote on a request for proposals to install more than $2.9 million in solar panels on county-owned facilities. Noting that solar wasn’t explicitly mentioned among the top priorities in Buncombe’s still-developing vision for the next five years, he said, “This was not on a plan. Period.” The commissioner’s colleagues, however, soundly disagreed with his assessment. In a 6-1 decision, with Fryar as the lone dissenting vote, the board approved the RFP at its Nov. 5 regular meeting. Chair Brownie Newman said the county had previously prioritized clean and renewable energy and that the move was an important step in Buncombe’s plan to power all government operations with renewable energy by 2030. “It’s a modest step. We still have a lot of other things we’re going to need to do just to get to our own government goal,” Newman acknowledged. “But getting to that 100% goal — you have to get started.” During public comment on the plan, students from the county’s high schools and UNC Asheville delivered several petitions with hundreds of signatures backing renewable energy. They were supported by representatives from Asheville GreenWorks and the Western North

Carolina Sierra Club, as well as local activists representing the national Sunrise Movement. Many of the speakers urged the commissioners to act even more decisively on transitioning away from fossil fuels in the context of climate change. Chloe Moore with the Sunrise Movement referenced a scientific paper, published earlier that day, in which over 11,000 scientists from 153 countries declared a “climate emergency” and warned of “untold suffering due to the climate crisis” if stronger measures were not taken. “They didn’t do this to make money or to gain political power — they did this because the way we are living is putting our whole world in danger, and the science is extremely clear,” Moore said. “This motion is not enough. We need to go further than that. … It is your responsibility, because our safety is in jeopardy.” IN OTHER BUSINESS Board members wrapped up several additional loose ends over their nearly four-hour meeting. In another 6-1 vote with Fryar in the opposition, commissioners approved changes to the county’s Strategic Partnership Grant program first discussed on Oct. 15. Commissioner Amanda Edwards had spearheaded the revisions in an

effort to create more transparency and fairness for nonprofits seeking county support. Fryar, however, argued that the language was “not totally understandable” and needed more explicit detail around how projects would be funded equitably across commission districts. After almost an hour of discussion, the commission voted unanimously for a series of modifications to its contract with residential waste collection contractor Waste Pro designed to ease residents’ worries about bear-proof containers and service in rural areas. Fryar and Commissioner Joe Belcher, however, remained concerned that a program to subsidize premium service for 700 elderly, lowincome residents with a “difficult driveway” wouldn’t meet demand. Belcher proposed an amendment to the contract, which his colleagues approved, to include a review of that program’s capacity on Monday, April 1. And although it criticized the proposal in December, the board unanimously funded an extension of Asheville’s transit service beyond city limits along Leicester Highway. Roughly $29,000 from the county’s federal grant funds will be directed to the city for the new route, which is estimated to serve 690 residents and give access to 190 jobs.

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As North Carolina prepares to become on Dec. 1 the 50th state in the union to stop treating 16- and 17-yearolds as adults in the criminal justice system, Chief District Court Judge Calvin Hill has launched an effort to reduce the involvement of local juveniles with the court system as a result of school misconduct. Hill convened a group of judicial, law enforcement, school and community leaders to discuss the formation of a school justice partnership for Buncombe County on Oct. 29. “There is no way we can say we are serious about the success of our children and ignore the staggering statistical information concerning the negative effects that sending kids to court can and does have,” Hill told the group. While some students will continue to require court involvement, he wrote in an invitation to the meeting, the goal of the proposed partnership is to reduce the number of student interactions with the justice system to those that are “absolutely necessary.” According to the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, 55% of juvenile complaints in the Buncombe County court system during the 2017-18 school year were related to school-based incidents. That’s compared with a statewide average of 42%. Those numbers,

the organization points out, only reflect youths under 16, since those 16 and older were and continue to be automatically charged as adults until the Dec. 1 change. Hill cited statistics that reveal large racial disparities in youth involvement with North Carolina courts, including that youths of color are more than 2 ½ times as likely to come into contact with juvenile court and 1 ½ times more likely to be confined to secure detention facilities as white youths. Those statistics, Hill said, “are really scary if you are concerned about our children in Buncombe County being successful.” Therefore, he continued, the proposed school justice partnership — which will involve the creation and implementation of a nonbinding memorandum of understanding among community partners including law enforcement, schools and the justice system — is “something that we cannot fail on. We have to be successful with this school justice partnership. Many other jurisdictions in North Carolina have implemented [them], so I know that they can be done and I know that we will do it in Buncombe County, because we care about the success of our children in our schools.”

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‘A magnificent achievement’ The Asheville Art Museum launches, 1948

STILL STANDING: The former Grove Park office became the original location of the Asheville Art Museum in 1948. Today, The Preservation Society of Asheville and Buncombe County operates out of the building. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville From the early 1930s up to the late 1950s, the Asheville Artists Guild, a local nonprofit, played a pivotal role in promoting area artists and bringing national exhibits to the city. In 1948, the organization was also responsible for creating the Asheville Art Museum. A year before the museum’s formation, guild President Ralph Hollars outlined the organization’s future goals in a written statement published in the group’s winter exhibit program. In it, Hollars wrote: “Making Asheville a nationally-known art center is a primary and necessary project of the Asheville Artists’ guild, which will benefit our city through greater national recognition, more visitors to this scenic wonderland and mountain vacationland, and attract well-known artists to this area to paint the natural beauty that we live in.” The following year, in October 1948, the guild leased a small stone structure from the Grove Park Commission at the corner of Charlotte Street and Celia Place. According to the Oct. 31 Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times, the vacant site (“formerly used as an office by the E.W. Grove interests”), was being transformed into “a permanent art center and museum.” Within two months, renovations for the new Asheville Art Museum were nearly complete. The first exhibit was scheduled for Dec. 26. “Hollars, in announcing the

opening, said that the museum represents the fulfillment of a dream which members of the guild have been working on for several years,” The Asheville Citizen wrote on Dec. 22, 1948. “We think we have made a wonderful start,” Hollars told the paper. “And we are proud of our building but, frankly, it is small. The important fact is that this is a good solid beginning in something that Asheville needs badly and we are confident the public will appreciate[.]”

The Asheville Art Museum’s opening show featured paintings by artists F. Ballard Williams, Albert T. Reid, Wilford S. Conrow and Nils Hogner. “The work of Williams especially is expected to attract wide attention during the time that the show is open here,” The Asheville Citizen wrote on Dec. 25, a day before the exhibit’s launch. “He is regarded as one of the foremost landscape artists in the country.” According to the paper’s Dec. 27 recap, several hundred people, including Asheville Mayor Clarence E. Morgan, attended the grand opening. Coverage of the event continued into the new year. “The achievement of this museum as a reality is the result of hard work by a small group of members of the Asheville Artists Guild,” wrote columnist C.R. Sumner in the Jan. 2, 1949, Sunday edition of the Asheville Citizen-Times. “The fact that that building, although small, has been placed in first class condition and that plans are being made to have it in continuous operation, is in itself a magnificent achievement that should prove to be a source of satisfaction to all who were connected with the venture.” Today, the Asheville Art Museum is located on Pack Square, inside the 1926 Italian palazzo-style landmark that once housed Pack Library. Meanwhile, the museum’s original site now houses the office of The Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County. As it did 71 years ago, the Asheville Art Museum will celebrate its latest opening, this time on Thursday, Nov. 14, following a threeyear renovation project. Editor’s note: Peculiarities of spelling and punctuation are preserved from the original documents. X

ARTS ADVOCATE: This 1943 photo features Asheville Artists Guild president Ralph Hollars, left, and his wife, Adelaide Brown Hollars. Photo courtesy of the North Carolina Collection, Pack Memorial Library, Asheville

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ACTIVISM WORLD BEYOND WAR • TH (11/21), 6:30pm World Beyond War, a new chapter launch highlighting WBW campaigns for divestment from weapons, closing bases, educational outreach and disseminating A Global Security System report and waging peace. Held at West Asheville Public Library, 942 Haywood Road

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BENEFITS AFTER-HOURS PARTY • SA (11/16), 8pmmidnight - Proceeds from this after-hours dance party with live music from Crocodile Smile and refreshments benefit the Asheville Art Museum. $75. Held at Asheville Art Museum, 175 Biltmore Ave.

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ASHEVILLE AREA PIANO FORUM • SU (11/17), 3pm - Proceeds from this piano concert featuring classical and jazz works from local pianists benefit the Asheville Area Piano Forum. $25/$50 patrons/$5 students. Held at Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place BARN PHOTO WORKSHOP • FR (11/15) through SU (11/17) - Proceeds from the Barn Photo Workshop with Don McGowan benefits The Appalachian Barn Alliance. Workshop limited to 10 participants. $150/$125 for ABA members. Workshop takes place in Mars Hill area. BOUNTIFUL GARDEN • SU (11/17), 3-8pm Proceeds from Bountiful Garden with cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and demonstrations benefit Bountiful Cities. Tickets: oakleafstyle.com. $45-

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$50. Held at Oakleaf of Asheville, 1000 Hendersonville Road DE RUMBA FOR CAMILA • FR (11/15), 9pm - Proceeds from the De Rumba dance party benefit 11-year-old Camila and her thyroid surgery. $5. Held at Urban Orchard Cider Co. South Slope, 24 Buxton Ave. FUNDRAISER FOR GLENIS REDMOND • FR (11/15), 6:308:30pm - Proceeds from this raffle of a Julyan Davis painting valued at $14,000 benefit the Glenis Redmond medical fund. $30 raffle tickets. Held at Julyan Davis Studio, 2004 Riverside Drive LIBERTY CORNER BENEFIT • SU (11/17), 3pm - Proceeds from this Richard Shulman piano concert benefit Liberty Corner Enterprises. $10. Held at The BLOCK off

FLAMENCO VIRTUOSO: Mariana Martinez, on tour from Barcelona, Spain, stars in an evening of traditional and contemporary flamenco dance performance along with Dennis Aberde on Spanish guitar. Admission includes tapas y vinos (appetizers and wine). Planned for Sunday, Nov. 17, 6 p.m., in the auditorium at Black Mountain Center for the Arts. $20/$10 for beginner and intermediate flamenco workshop attendees. Photo courtesy of the artist (p. 67)

biltmore, 39 S. Market St. SILENT ART AUCTION • FR (11/15), 5:30-7:30pm - Proceeds from this silent auction of the art of Sallie Ellington Middleton with live music and refreshments benefit the St. Luke's building fund. $10. Held at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, 219 Chunns Cove Road SPA DAY WITH PRESCHOOLERS • WE (11/20), 9am-noon - Proceeds from the St. Paul preschoolers day spa with treatments from 4 and 5-year-olds that include manicures ($10), shoulder massages ($5), hair braids and styling ($5), facials and a raffle raise funds to continue making weekly meals for the homeless at Haywood Street Congregation. Information: 863-838-7488 or CorinaCasanovaNC@ gmail.com. Held at St. Pauls United Methodist Church, 223 Hillside St. TRYON HALF MARATHON • SA (11/16), 8am - Proceeds from this half marathon benefit Thermal Belt Outreach Ministry. Registration: tryonrunners.blogspot. com. $70. Held at Harmon Field, 430 Harmon Field Road, Tryon Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30

BUSINESS & TECHNOLOGY CREATIVITY IN SMALL BUSINESS • SA (11/16), 9amnoon - Creativity in Small Business, seminar. Registration required. Free. Held at A-B Tech Small Business Center, 1465 Sand Hill Road, Candler SOCIAL IMPACT • TH (11/21), 6pm - Business AVL Style, the theme for Social Impact Week with Dr. Ralph Griffith. Registration: avl.mx/6ol. Free. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & EVENTS EMPYREAN ARTS WEEKLY CLASSES (PD.) AERIAL KIDS (5-12) on Wednesdays 5:00. IRON CORE CONDITIONING on Wednesdays 5:15. INTRO to AERIAL FLEXIBILITY 40+ on Wednesdays 6:15pm. INTRO to HANDSTANDS on Thursdays 7:45pm. PARTNER ACROBATICS on Sundays 6:30pm. AERIAL YOGA YIN on Mondays 6:30pm. EMPYREANARTS.ORG. 828.782.3321 ASHEVILLE CHESS CLUB • WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Sets provided. All ages and skill levels welcome. Beginners lessons available. Free. Held at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Road ASHEVILLE FRIENDS OF ASTROLOGY • FR (11/15), 7-9pm - Benjamin Bernstein presents his annual astrological forecast. Free to attend. Held at EarthFare - Westgate, 66 Westgate Parkway HOMINY VALLEY RECREATION PARK • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - Hominy Valley board meeting. Free. Held at Hominy Valley Recreation Park, 25 Twin Lakes Drive, Candler 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 LAND OF SKY REGIONAL COUNCIL 339 New Leicester Highway, Suite 140 • 3rd FRIDAYS, 9-10:30am - Community Advisory Committee for Adult Care Homes meeting. Registration: julia@ landofsky.org. Free. • TH (11/21), 8:3010:30am - Safe and Accessible Modifications for Independence

Training, workshop for professionals who are likely to encounter older adults, and others, hoping to age in place. Information: udinstitute. org/sami. Free.

organization lobbying for a bipartisan federal solution to climate change. Free to attend. Held at Paulsen Lodge at Asheville School, 360 Asheville School Road

LEICESTER HISTORY GATHERING • 3rd THURSDAYS, 7pm - The Leicester History Gathering, general meeting. Free. Held at Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester

FOOD WASTE SOLUTION SUMMIT • TH (11/14), 9am-4pm - Food Waste Solutions Summit is a regional gathering to disrupt food waste issues facing our communities, expand our networks and inspire dynamic solutions. Registration: avl.mx/6oa. Free. Held at UNC Asheville Reuter Center, 1 University Heights

ONTRACK WNC 50 S. French Broad Ave., 828-255-5166, ontrackwnc.org • 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. • MOs (11/18 & 11/25), 9am-12:30pm - Basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize goals, saving strategies and tracking spending. Registration required. Free. • MO (11/18), 5:30-7pm - Emotions & Spending, seminar. Registration required. Free. • TU (11/19), 5:30-7pm - Understanding Credit. Get it. Keep it. Improve it. Seminar. Registration required. Free. • TH (11/27), noon1:30pm - Women's Money Club. Registration required. Free. TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE • WE (11/20), 6pm - 20th International Transgender Day of Remembrance to honor and memorialize nonbinary and transgender victims of transphobic violence. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30

ECO ASHEVILLE CITIZENS' CLIMATE LOBBY • 3rd MONDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - General meeting for non-partisan

220 Grandview Lane, Hendersonville Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30

FOOD & BEER FAIRVIEW WELCOME TABLE • 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Commu-

nity lunch. Admission by donation. Held at Fairview Christian Fellowship, 596 Old US Highway 74, Fairview FREE HEALTHY COOKING CLASS • MO (11/18), 5-6pm Cooking class focused on learning how to make slow cooker meals. Registration required: 828-697-8422 x.120 or hparks@thefreeclinics.org.

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SECRET LIFE OF TREES • TH (11/14), 6:30-8:30pm - Steve Pettis, Henderson County Commercial and Consumer Horticulture Agent, talks about tress, forests and development and how to keep Henderson County green. $20/$30 couple. Held at Henderson County Extension Center, 100 Jackson Park Road, Hendersonville Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30

FARM & GARDEN FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE BREAKFAST • TU (11/19), 7am - Breakfast and presentation by Smithson Mills regarding the Buncombe Farmland Protection Plan. Free. Held at WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road POLK COUNTY FRIENDS OF AGRICULTURE BREAKFAST • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8am - Monthly breakfast with presentations on agriculture. Admission by donation. Held at Green Creek Community Center, 25 Shields Road, Columbus WASTE NOT: WOOD ASH • TH (11/19), 6-7:30pm - Waste Not: Wood Ash, workshop discussing the uses for wood ash. Registration required. $10. Held at Living Web Farms - Biochar Facility,

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CONSCIOUS PARTY GO GREEN: Biophilia (love of life) and the concepts of biophilic design are now a part of building certification programs promoting human health and well-being, as well as planetary healing by holistically integrating nature back into the built environment. Designing with Biophilia is a workshop hosted by the Green Built Alliance on the biophilic design process with Elizabeth Freeman Calabrese. Planned for Wednesday, Nov. 20, 1-5 p.m., at Lenoir-Rhyne University. Registration required: greenbuilt.org. $50/$40 members. (p. 30)

Free. Held at The Free Clinics, 841 Case St., Hendersonville HELP 4 HENDO • MO (11/18), 9am-noon - Saluda Hair Garage offers free haircuts, Sanctuary: food, Humane Society: pet supplies, Free Clinics: information and services and Goodwill: employment skills. Also clothing and toiletries for those in need. Held at Sanctuary Brewing Co., 147 1st Ave., Hendersonville LEICESTER COMMUNITY CENTER 2979 New Leicester Highway, Leicester, 828774-3000, facebook.com/ Leicester.Community. Center • 3rd TUESDAYS, 2:30pm - Manna food distribution. Free. • WEDNESDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Welcome Table, community meal. Free.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS BLUE RIDGE REPUBLICAN WOMEN • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - General meeting. Free to attend. Held at Yao, 153 Smoky Park Highway DEMOCRAT WOMEN OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY • TH (11/21), 5:15pm November meeting with dessert and beverages. Registration: buncombedemwomen@ gmail.com. $15. Held

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at Buncombe County Democratic Headquarters, 951 Old Fairview Road 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 Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30

KIDS CHRISTINE DAVISON PAGE PRESENTS ‘NAUGHTY NOEL’ • SA (11/16), 4pm Christine Davison Page presents her children's book, Naughty Noel. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road CRAFTY HISTORIAN • SA (11/16), 10:30am12:30pm, - Crafty Historian, use up leftover supplies. Bring objects to decorate with beads, sequins or decoupage. Registration: avl.mx/6op. $5. Held at Smith-McDowell House Museum, 283 Victoria Road

FAMILY ART PARTY • SA (11/16), 1-4pm Hands-on activities with artists featured in our the juried exhibition, Appalachia Now. Admission fees apply. Held at Asheville Art Museum, 175 Biltmore Ave. FLETCHER LIBRARY • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Family story time. Free. Held at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road, Fletcher KID YOGA AND MOVEMENT STORYTELLING • WEDNESDAYS until (12/4), 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 at Henry LaBrun Studio, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave. ‘MAGIC TREE HOUSE: THE KNIGHT AT DAWN KIDS’ • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (11/15) until (11/17) - Mary Pope Osborne’s Magic Tree House: The Knight at Dawn KIDS, fantasy adventure. Fri.: 7:30pm, Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $7. Held at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. MAKE YOUR OWN SLIME • MO (11/18), 4pm Make your own slime,

ages 8-18. Registration required. Free. Held at Mountains Branch Library, 150 Bill's Creek Road, Lake Lure MISS MALAPROP'S STORY TIME • WEDNESDAYS, 10am - Miss Malaprop's Story Time for ages 3-9. Free to attend. Held at Malaprop's Bookstore and Cafe, 55 Haywood St. TEEN DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS • 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. Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30

OUTDOORS CONSERVING CAROLINA’S FALL HIKING SERIES • SA (11/16), 9am - A 6-mile, moderate, loop hike in Walnut Creek Preserve, a 2,100-acre private equestrian conservation community near Lake Lure. Registration: avl.mx/6mu. Free. Meet at Anne Elizabeth Suratt Nature Center at Walnut Creek Preserve.

C OMMU N IT Y CA L EN D AR GRASSLAND STAR GAZE • SA (11/16), 5:22pm - A public stargazing party at a private observatory. Gate code provided the day of by 4:30pm. Free. Held at Grassland Mountain Observatory, 2890 Grassland Parkway, Marshall PISGAH CENTER FOR WILDLIFE EDUCATION 1401 Fish Hatchery Road, Pisgah Forest, 828-8774423 • SA (11/16), 10am2pm - Outdoor Cooking, class for ages 12 and up. Registration required. Free. • TU (11/19), 10am-3pm - On the Water, fly-fishing workshop for 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

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PARENTING BREASTFEEDING A-Z • TH (11/14), 7-9pm - Breastfeeding A-Z. Registration required. Free to attend. Held at Haywood Regional Medical Center, 262 Leroy George Drive, Clyde

PUBLIC LECTURES 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 GLOBAL REGENERATIVE DESIGN • TU (11/19), 6:30-8:30pm - Global Regenerative Design, a talk by Joel Glanzberg. Learn to choose patterns of thinking and actions that best influence larger systems. Registration:

avl.mx/6oo. Free. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. 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. SOCIAL JUSTICE AND TRAUMA: MY STORY • SU (11/17), 2:30-4pm Social Justice and Trauma: My Story presented by Cindy Henry McMahon. Free. Held at Asheville Friends Meetinghouse, 227 Edgewood Road WHAT GEOLOGISTS DO • TH (11/21), noon-1pm - Lecture by Brad Worley of Summit Design and Engineering Services regarding what geologists do for a living and how they use their degrees to build a career. Free. Held in Rhodes Robinson Hall, Room 125, UNC Asheville

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SENIORS ASHEVILLE NEW FRIENDS (PD.) Offers active senior residents of the Asheville area opportunities to make new friends and explore new interests through a program of varied social, cultural and outdoor activities. Visit www.ashevillenewfriends. org ASHEVILLE ELDER CLUB • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 11am2pm - 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, 11am2pm - 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 Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30

SPIRITUALITY ANATASATI MAGGA (PD.) Sujata Yasa (Nancy Spence). Zen Buddhism. Weekly meditations and services; Daily recitations w/ mala. Urban retreats. 32 Mineral Dust Drive, Asheville, NC 28806. 828-367-7718. info@ anattasatimagga.org. ANATTASATIMAGGA. ORG ASTRO-COUNSELING (PD.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself,

your relationships and life directions. Stellar Counseling Services. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229. DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE • 3rd SATURDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - Spiritual group dances that blend chanting, live music and movement. No experience necessary. Admission by donation. Held at Haw Creek Commons, 311 Old Haw Creek Road INTERFAITH THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION • SU (11/17), 5pm Interfaith Thanksgiving celebration featuring live music by Billy Jonas and David LaMotte. Free. Held at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave. MONTHLY SPIRITUALITY GROUP FOR TEEN GIRLS • 3rd SUNDAYS, 11:30am - Monthly group for teen girls ages 13-18 from any background or tradition

to recognize spiritual gifts and a sense of purpose. Facilitated by Sharon Oxendine, an elder from the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina. Free. Held at Unity of the Blue Ridge, 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River OPEN SANGHA • THURSDAYS, 7:309pm - Open Sangha night. Free. Held at Urban Dharma, 77 W. Walnut St. SONGS & SILENCE, ALL FAITH TAIZE SERVICE • THURSDAYS, 6:30-7:15 pm - All faith Taize service of meditation and music. Free. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville

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two hours per week with adults who want to improve reading, writing, spelling, and English language skills. Free. ASHEVILLE PRISON BOOKS • 3rd SUNDAYS, 1-3pm - Send books to inmates in NC & SC. Information: avlcommunityaction.com or ashevilleprisonbooks@ gmail.com. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road TRANZMISSION PRISON PROJECT • Fourth THURSDAYS, 6-9pm - Monthly meeting to prepare packages of books and zines for mailing to prisons across the US. Free to attend. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road Some events from this section may be found in the Give!Local calendar on p. 30 For more volunteering opportunities visit mountainx.com/ volunteering

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• Free Biscuits & Gravy during weekend brunch from Copper Crown • A one-topping pizza slice from Asheville Pizza and Brewing Co. • A cup of coffee from Izzy’s Coffee • Free admission for one child to the Asheville Museum of Science • A slice of pizza from Barley’s Taproom • A kiddie scoop of ice cream from Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream • One order of chips and salsa from The Cantina at Historic Biltmore Village • A pint glass from Highland Brewing Co. • A free sound healing group session or a group drum lesson at Skinny Beats • A pint glass from Upcountry Brewing Co. • A cup of coffee from Zuma Coffee in Marshall • One classified ad from Mountain Xpress PLUS: discounts, BOGOs and “free with purchase” offers from other local businesses. Kids who donate $5 or more (with help from an adult) will receive a kid-friendly version of the voucher book. Donors giving $300 or more will get all that, plus other rewards from some of Give!Local’s business partners, including: HomeGrown, The Grail Moviehouse, Foothills Butcher Bar, The Bier Garden, Hopey and Co., Asheville Brewing Co., Bhramari Brewing Co., Old Europe, 12 Bones Smokehouse, Neo Burrito, Highland Brewing Co., Jack of the Wood, Laughing Seed, Mangum Pottery and more. Want to get in on Give!Local? Go to givelocalguide.org to learn more and to donate. If you know of a nonprofit that would like to be considered to be part of next year’s Give!Local campaign, have them fill out the application form at avl.mx/6o8.

GIVE!LOCAL NONPROFITS’ CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS This week the Community Calendar is highlighting events that are sponsored by nonprofits that are participating in the Give!Local campaign. The campaign is raising money for 30 worthy local nonprofits that make a big difference where we live. These events are wonderful examples of some of the great work that these nonprofits do within our communities! ART NORTH CAROLINA GLASS CENTER 140 Roberts St., Suite B, 828505-3552, ncglasscenter.org • WE (11/13), 4-7pm - Free glass workshop for veterans and active service members. Registration: 828-505-3552. Free. • WE (11/20), 7-9pm - Veggie burner demonstration and meet and greet for glass artists and Organic Combustion Systems. Free to attend.

BENEFITS GINGER’S REVENGE 829 Riverside Drive, Suite 100, 828-505-2462, gingersrevenge.com/ • TH (11/14), 6:30-8:30pm - Proceeds from this event featuring House of Magick NY with guest speakers, live music by Emma’s Lounge and raffle benefit Our Voice. Free to attend.

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ECO GREEN BUILT ALLIANCE greenbuilt.org • WE (11/20), 1-5pm - Designing with Biophilia, workshop for participants to experience the biophilic design process step by step with Elizabeth Freeman Calabrese. Registration required. $50/$40 members. Held at Lenoir-Rhyne University, 36 Montford Ave. 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

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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.

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN HIGHLANDS CONSERVANCY 180 Mag Sluder Road, Alexander, 828-253-0095, appalachian.org

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• TU (11/19), 3:30-5pm - Farm Workshop: Value-Added Products De-mystified, workshop. Registration required. $20. • TH (11/21), 2-5pm - Farm Workshop: Season Extension, workshop. Registration required. $20.

GOVERNMENT & POLITICS MOUNTAINTRUE 828-258-8737, mountaintrue.org • WE (11/20), 3:30-5pm Plugged in Buncombe: Attend a Sustainability Advisory Committee on Energy and Environment meeting with MountainTrue. Free. Held at Asheville Fire & Police Department, 100 Court Plaza

KIDS ASHEVILLE MUSEUM OF SCIENCE 43 Patton Ave., 828-254-7162, colburnmuseum.org • 1st & 3rd FRIDAYS, 9-10am Little Explorer’s Club, science topics for preschoolers. $7/ Caregivers free. 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. Free.

SENIORS COUNCIL ON AGING OF BUNCOMBE COUNTY, INC. 828-277-8288, coabc.org • TH (11/14), 9:30-11am Medicare benefits screening and enrollment. Register: 828277-8288. Free. Held at First Baptist Church of Weaverville, 63 N. Main St., Weaverville • FR (11/15), 2-4pm - Medicare Choices Made Easy, class. Free. Held at Goodwill Career Training Center, 1616 Patton Ave. • FR (11/15), 2-5pm - Medicare benefits screening and enrollment. Register: 828-277-8288. Free. Held at DisAbility Partners - Asheville Office, 108 New Leicester Hwy, Asheville • WEDNESDAYS (11/6) & (11/20), 1-4pm - Medicare benefits screening and enrollment. Register: 828-277-8288. Free. Held at Goodwill Career Training Center, 1616 Patton Ave. • WE (11/20), 2-4pm - Medicare Choices Made Easy,

class. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Community Health Services, 2579 Chimney Rock Road, Hendersonville • TH (11/21), 1-4pm - Medicare benefits screening and enrollment. Register: 828-2778288. Free. Held at Ferguson Family YMCA, 31 Westridge Market Place, Candler

SUPPORT GROUPS MEMORY LOSS CAREGIVERS network@memorycare.org • 3rd TUESDAYS, 1-3pm – Held at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3070 Sweeten Creek Road

VOLUNTEERING FRIENDS OF THE SMOKIES 828-452-0720, friendsofthesmokies.org, outreach.nc@ friendsofthesmokies.org • WE (11/13), noon - Volunteer to hike while carrying tools up to 4 miles and perform strenuous manual labor to help clear and maintain trails and land. Registration required: 828-497-1949 or adam_monroe@nps.gov. GIRLS ON THE RUN 828-713-3132, gotrwnc.org

• Until SU (12/8) - Volunteer to assist at this family-friendly 5K run and walk. Held at Asheville Outlets, 800 Brevard Road HOMEWARD BOUND OF WNC 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. TUTOR ADULTS IN NEED WITH THE LITERACY COUNCIL (PD.) Give someone another chance to learn. Provide reading, writing, and/or English language tutoring and change a life forever. Volunteer orientation 11/14 (9am) or 12/2 (9am) RSVP: volunteers@ litcouncil.com. Learn more: www.litcouncil.com.

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

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Dogwood Health Trust CEO Antony Chiang on creating a $1.5 billion foundation from scratch

BY VIRGINIA DAFFRON vdaffron@mountainx.com Antony Chiang is a pretty soughtafter guy. Less than a month into his new job leading the Dogwood Health Trust — which is poised to spend $50 million to $75 million a year to dramatically improve health outcomes and health equity in 18 Western North Carolina counties and on the Qualla Boundary of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians — Chiang, 51, spoke to Xpress in an exclusive conversation for this fall’s nonprofit special issue. Before we dive into what’s on the horizon for you and Dogwood Health Trust, let’s take a moment to look back at your previous position as founding president of the Empire Health Foundation in Spokane, Wash. What aspects of your 10-year leadership of Empire are you proudest of? I’m going to answer that on two levels. At the highest level, what I’m most proud of is helping, in partnership with the founding board, to write the DNA of an organization that fundamentally cares about moving the needle — and moving the needle on health equity. Neither one of those is a given. I think when most people ask that question, what they mean is, are we proud of the reduction of the uninsured from 17% down to 3%? Yes, amazingly proud of that. Are we proud of reducing the number of kids entering foster care by about 15% this year so far, toward a 50% goal? Absolutely proud of that.

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PROUD PAPA: In Antony Chiang’s office at Dogwood Health Foundation’s space on Hendersonville Road, the new nonprofit’s CEO is eager to show off the artwork of his 6-year-old daughter, Camille. Photo by Virginia Daffron Reducing out-of-school suspensions by 64% in three years at the lowest-income high school in Spokane? Absolutely proud of these different initiatives to the point that, because of my first answer, it’s hard to choose. Sixty percent increase in primary care physicians being trained in the

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region. What’s nice is I can just rattle these off. For me, it’s about how we created the DNA of Empire’s approach to the work. Both our community partners and the board now expect that from the staff. It’s not OK to just shotgun the money out: We have to think about

our toughest issues and how to change them permanently. What drew you to the opportunity at Dogwood? The main thing that’s driven my career decisions has always been asking the question: Will this new oppor-

tunity allow me to have more impact and make a bigger difference than the one that I’m potentially leaving? So I looked at the incredible passion and readiness of this board — especially over DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] and health equity — and an opportunity to, again, build an organization from scratch. People label me a startup person, and I do love startups. I find it exciting to build, so certainly a huge factor was the opportunity to start something. But I have to give a lot of credit to this board: I would not be here if it were not for the passion of this board. As you may have seen looking at the work at Empire Health Foundation, a lot of incredible things are happening there. The potential had to be even higher here for me to leave. Like Dogwood Health Trust, Empire came into being as the result of the acquisition of a nonprofit health system by a for-profit company. Over 10 years, you more than tripled Empire’s effective assets. How was that possible? It just recently went up by $20 million. We were able to enforce some

charity care covenants with CHS, the equivalent of HCA — a publicly traded hospital system that had acquired the nonprofit health system that had created the Empire Foundation. After some 2 1/2 years of litigation, and going into the trial stage with an extremely strong position, CHS settled, and part of that settlement was adding $20 million effectively to the endowment. Additionally, when we began to have early wins on the impact work — reducing childhood obesity early wins, or reducing the uninsurance rate early wins — that’s very appealing to co-investors. So we were able to attract even more funding to the region. When I left, Empire Health Foundation was governing or managing about $70 million per year, about 90% of which was other people’s money, both public and private. At Dogwood Health Trust, you are charged with overseeing Gibbins Advisors, the independent monitor for the transaction. How will you

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hold them accountable for what they committed to. The independent monitor, which we did not have in eastern Washington, gives a wonderful platform for that dual role. I’m pleased that the choice was approved by the attorney general, and I’m looking forward to working with Gibbins as independent monitor. There’s a lot of wonderful structure that we didn’t have in eastern Washington, and so Empire Health Foundation had to wear all the hats at the same time, which was much more challenging than I think it’ll be in this situation. Believe me, I just got done with three years of litigation — we will absolutely do whatever is necessary here at Dogwood [to hold HCA accountable], but [we will] have a structure where it’s not about personalities, it’s not about, “Well, we don’t want to offend so-and-so because

we’re partnering with them on such and such,” which is a real possibility. Here, we have someone else to say, “Here are the standards, here’s what’s in the contract. We see a yellow flag.” Will the independent monitor look back at the moves HCA has made since the transaction closed? Yes. What’s the outlook on hiring for the foundation? We will need to build a team. It’ll be a lot of fun: I love building teams! From a governance point of view, what will this board decide are the key priorities to tackle? And how many? Staffing up to tackle three key issues is very different from staffing up to tackle six or 12. How we approach the work will be really critical. For example, we already know we have one strategic initiative, which is addiction — the commitment to the state for $25 million over five years. A Philanthropy 1.0 approach would be: Let’s write a $5 million grant check to the state. That would fulfill our obligation. Say it takes 10 minutes to write that check. But will it create the kind of

results the community’s hoping for around opioid deaths and community prevention and all the different things? Very unlikely. Instead, we want to build trusted relationships in 18 counties with law enforcement, first responders, public health, K-12 — whoever the key partners are who will help us both in substance abuse prevention and in preventing opioid deaths. When you think about what it will take to replicate and scale up best practices, it requires high engagement. Tell me more about your approach to grant-making. Oftentimes a foundation will do what I call 1.0 grant-making or Philanthropy 1.0. It’s fine, it serves a purpose, but it’s shotgunning the funding out there. It’s a great way to be popular, but not necessarily a great way to resolve long-standing social issues. Philanthropy 2.0 is where usually larger foundations come up with a big strategy — what they call a theory of change. They write a bunch

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not that simple. If any funder that had already been here could write a $100,000 check or a $500,000 check or even a million-dollar check and have erased that educational attainment disparity for African Americans, wouldn’t somebody have written that check? Can you just write a check and solve our toughest social issues? You can’t. You have to do it in collaboration, and you have to do it in very meaningful ways that are not about numbers served or some of these other more traditional metrics. What are the root causes of why it is that way? Can we tackle that root cause? How are you taking care of your own health and wellness as you’re transitioning into this new role? And how are you modeling that for your team? As the CEO of a health foundation, the phrase “You have to walk the

$750 WINTER ROLLBACK talk” is literal, not metaphorical. Are we encouraging walking meetings as opposed to sitting meetings? We did them all the time in Spokane. All our desks were adjustable, and I would say staff mostly stood at their desks. Can we be a role model in terms of benefits and wellness? What are we doing to incentivize wellness here? It’s actually a wonderful motivator to have this role — the accountability. So it’s all the things that you would expect: lots of physical activity, lots of time with my kids. My mom has meditated for 50 years, but I just picked up meditation about a year ago. I have a very dedicated, faithbased and spiritual life. Just like we’re approaching the work of the foundation, I think of health as multifaceted. There’s the physical exercise and getting enough sleep and brushing your teeth. But is your relational health where it should be? Is your emotional mental health where it should be? Is your spiritual health, if you have such faith or leanings or inclination, is that where it should be? So in the same way that I look at the impact work in a multipronged system, I try to think about my own

health more broadly than just my physical health. Did anything surprising come out of Dogwood’s three community listening sessions in October? We tried to design them in a way so that at least 50% of the session was engaging with the community members that attended. I asked people to write down the number of communities that we should go out to in the first year on substance use and addiction. The lowest was one and the highest was 19, but the spread was heavily weighted toward 19. When I asked individual community members, audience members, why they said that number, it made perfect sense: They wanted to make sure that Dogwood is being inclusive, that we are touching every community, not just focusing on Buncombe, for example. That’s really influencing us. So people want to feel that everybody’s going to get something?

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about my issue, and I’m now leaving thinking about the whole.” This is my first couple of weeks in Western North Carolina, and folks are willing to be that authentic and that open. To me, that says these are community members who have invested 90 minutes of their time, come out of their way, and what’s on their minds is what’s best for the community over what’s best for me. And that is incredible. That was an absolute surprise. X

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SUSTAINING ESSENTIAL AND RURAL COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE • TH (11/14), 5:30pm SEARCH open meetings resume with a party/dinner/plan launch promoting affordable health care for the people of Mitchell and Yancey counties. Free. Held at Trinity Episcopal Church - Spruce Pine, 15 Hemlock Ave., Spruce Pine THE MEDITATION CENTER • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - Inner Guidance from an Open Heart, class with meditation and discussion. $10. Held at The Meditation Center, 894 E. Main St., Sylva WHEN WORDS FAIL • TU (11/19), 4-5:30pm Four Seasons hosts When Words Fail: Creative Arts to Support Grieving led by music therapist and grief counselor Cathleen Flynn. All materials provided. Free. Held at North Asheville Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Some events from this section may be found in

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 828-254-8539 or aancmco.org ANXIETY SUPPORT GROUP • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Learning and sharing in a caring setting about dealing with one's own anxiety. Held at NAMI Offices, 356 Biltmore Ave. ASHEVILLE WOMEN FOR SOBRIETY • THURSDAYS, 6:308pm – Held at YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. ASPERGER'S TEENS UNITED • For teens (13-19) and their parents. Meets every 3 weeks. Contact for details. AUTISM SOCIETY OF NORTH CAROLINA (ASNC) BUNCOMBE CHAPTER MEETING • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Support group for families of children and adults with autism to meet, share and learn about autism. Childcare provided with registration: mzenz@autismsociety-nc. org. Meet in classrooms 221 and 222. Held at First Baptist Church of Asheville, 5 Oak St.

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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. BARIATRIC SUPPORT GROUP • 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Bariatric support group meeting. Information: pardeehospital.org/ classes-events. Held at YMCA Mission Pardee Health Campus, 2775 Hendersonville Road, Arden BEN'S FRIENDS SUPPORT GROUP • TUESDAYS, 11am Ben’s Friends, support group for food and beverage industry workers dealing with substance abuse and addiction. Information: bensfriendshope. com. Held at Ben's Tune Up, 195 Hilliard ave

BRAIN TUMOR SUPPORT GROUP • 3rd THURSDAYS, 4:30-6pm - Brain Tumor Support Group for all patients and their partners/caregivers, whether in active treatment or remission. Information: 828-213-1738. Held at SECU Cancer Center, 21 Hospital Drive, Room 111/115 BRAINSTORMER'S COLLECTIVE • 3rd THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm - For brain injury survivors and supporters. Held at Kairos West Community Center, 610-002 Haywood Road CAROLINA RESOURCE CENTER FOR EATING DISORDERS 50 S. French Broad Ave., #250, 828-337-4685, thecenternc.org • 1st and 3rd Mondays, 5:30-7:30pm – Family Support Group. • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm – Adult support group, ages 18+.

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GRIEF PROCESSING SUPPORT GROUP • 3rd THURSDAYS, 4-5:30pm - Bereavement education and support group. Held at Homestead Hospice and Palliative Care, 127 Sunset Ridge Road, Clyde

NAR-ANON FAMILY GROUPS • WEDNESDAYS, 12:30pm - For relatives and friends concerned about the addiction or drug problem of a loved one. Held at First United Methodist Church of Hendersonville, 204 6th Ave. W., Hendersonville

LA LECHE LEAGUE MEETING • 3rd WEDNESDAYS (9:30-11:30am) - Breastfeeding support group for nursing parents of toddlers. Information: 828-279-4556. Free to attend. Held at Homegrown Babies, 201 Charlotte St. LIFE LIMITING ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUP • TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - For adults managing the challenges of life limiting illnesses. Held at Secrets of a Duchess, 1439 Merrimon Ave. LIVING WITH CHRONIC PAIN • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Hosted by American Chronic Pain Association. Held at Swannanoa Library, 101 West Charleston St., Swannanoa MINDFULNESS AND 12 STEP RECOVERY • WEDNESDAYS, 7:308:45pm - Mindfulness meditation practice and 12 step program. Held at Asheville 12-Step Recovery Club, 22B New Leicester Highway MOUNTAIN MAMAS PEER SUPPORT GROUP • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Held at The Family Place, 970 Old Hendersonville Highway Brevard MY DADDY TAUGHT ME THAT: MENS DISCUSSION GROUP • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm

ORIGINAL RECOVERY 828-214-0961, originalrecovery.org, riley@seekhealing.org • WEDNESDAYS, 6:308pm - Alternative support group organization meeting to discuss service projects, workshops and social events to support the recovery community. Held at Firestorm Books & Coffee, 610 Haywood Road • MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Walk in the Park, meetings at area parks. Held at Original Recovery, 70 Woodfin Place, Suite 212 OUR VOICE • Ongoing drop-in group for female identified survivors of sexual violence. Held at Our Voice, 35 Woodfin St. OVERCOMERS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE • WEDNESDAYS, noon-1pm - Held at First Christian Church of Candler, 470 Enka Lake Road, Candler

PEER SUPPORT RECOVERY GROUP • MONDAYS, TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, noon1pm - Peer Support Recovery Group. Held at Haywood Street Congregation, 297 Haywood St. PREGNANCY AND INFANT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Held at Park Ridge Health AdventHealth, South Asheville, 15 Skyland Inn Drive, Arden RECOVERING COUPLES ANONYMOUS • MONDAYS 6:307:30pm - For couples where at least one member is recovering from addiction. Held at Foster Seventh Day Adventists Church, 375 Hendersonville Road REFUGE RECOVERY • For a full list of meetings in WNC, call 828-225-6422 or visit refugerecovery.org SEEDS OF HOPE CHRONIC CONDITION SUPPORT GROUP • 2nd THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Seeds of Hope chronic condition support group. Registration required: 828-693-4890 ex. 304. Held at Grace Lutheran Church, 1245 6th Ave W., Hendersonville

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SMART RECOVERY 828-407-0460 • THURSDAYS, 6pm - Held at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave.

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Lines around the block, screaming fans, scalpers hawking questionable tickets from the sidewalk — Climate Change and Asheville’s Urban Forest, a symposium organized by Asheville GreenWorks for Thursday, Nov. 14, 5-7:30 p.m., bears none of those markers of a sold-out show. Nevertheless, the event had to be moved earlier this month from The Collider to A-B Tech’s Ferguson

Auditorium after accumulating a 150-person waitlist. That level of public interest, says Steve Rasmussen of the volunteer Tree Protection Task Force, reflects a rising sense of urgency around the fate of the city’s wooded areas. The Urban Tree Canopy Study prepared for Asheville city government, which was published in October and will be discussed publicly for the first time at the symposium, found that the city lost 6.4% of its tree cover, or 891 acres, between 2008 and 2018. The most drastic loss has occurred in Rasmussen’s own neighborhood,

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CIRCLE UP: Tree advocates gather around a magnolia outside Asheville City Hall in a 2007 protest organized by Steve Rasmussen and his wife, Dixie Deerman. Rasmussen currently serves on the Tree Protection Task Force. Photo courtesy of Rasmussen West Asheville Estates, where infill development has eliminated nearly 33% of tree cover over the past decade. He says that statistic matches up with the “constant, god-awful sound of chainsaws,” increased stormwater runoff and the hotter streets he’s recently experienced in his neighborhood. “Everybody has a story about the tree down the block, the 100-year oak that just got cut down or the forest they used to love to walk around in that’s gotten wiped out,” Rasmussen says. “Well, now we see that it’s not just you and your story: It’s your whole city.” In June, Asheville’s tree advocates suffered a setback as the city chose not to fund roughly $354,000 in requests for urban forest protection, including $250,000 for an

urban forest master plan and over $104,000 to hire and outfit an urban forester. Now, a broad coalition of organizations — nine nonprofits, Lenoir-Rhyne University and UNC Asheville’s National Environmental Modeling and Analysis Center — is rallying around the canopy study results to again request city action, emphasizing that trees are critical to help Asheville avoid the worst impacts of climate change. SEEKING SHELTER The symposium will see the debut of two new campaigns spearheaded by the Tree Protection Task Force: Cool Green Asheville and the

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G REEN SC E N E Asheville Climate Action Initiative. In the words of Stephen Hendricks, chair of the city’s Tree Commission, both efforts seek to “connect all those dots” between urban forest cover and climate resilience. “It’s not just a tree-hugging issue. It’s a conservation and climate issue; it’s a public health issue,” he says. As cities develop, Hendricks explains, they often replace vegetation with concrete infrastructure and buildings, impervious surfaces that

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lead to stormwater and pollutant runoff. Developed areas can also act as heat sinks and cause urban settings to be hotter than their surroundings; Asheville’s government expects both extreme rainfall events and heat waves to become more common as the climate continues to change. “As we get higher temperatures, particularly in the summer, [a heat island] essentially multiplies the effect of climate change,” Hendricks notes. Even if the region as a whole

experiences only a 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 degree Fahrenheit) increase in temperatures, the most optimistic target for global warming set by the international Paris climate agreement, he says, Asheville’s core could see a heat bump of four times as much or more. Beyond the public health effects of higher urban temperatures, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has said can lead to increased death rates and hospital admissions, Hendricks suggests Asheville’s lucrative tourism economy could suffer from unchecked climate change. “Imagine if we were a city 10 or 20 degrees [Fahrenheit] hotter. How many people would be coming here in the summer?” he asks. Hendricks argues that because greenhouse gas emissions, the major cause of human-driven climate change, can’t be reduced or eliminated entirely through local action, the city should focus on trees and other green infrastructure to better buffer itself. “We can do our part, but emissions are global,” he says. “We can mitigate locally with some green

solutions that will put us in a much more resilient situation.” Among the nonprofit groups backing this approach is the Elisha Mitchell Audubon Society, led by Nancy Casey. She says that a recent National Audubon Society study found that two-thirds of North American bird species could go extinct due to climate change — and she suggests that birds are a bellwether for the health of human societies. “Anything we can do to preserve and increase urban forest cover, both for bird habitat and carbon uptake, will help,” Casey says. “We believe the fate of birds is inextricably linked with our own.” ‘STOP THE BLEEDING’ Action is already underway, Hendricks notes, through Asheville city government’s reevaluation of ordinances with an eye to tree protection. He says that the process will “stop the bleeding” of continued canopy loss by fixing the biggest legal loopholes; advocates expect the changes to go before City Council sometime in the spring.

Although Chapter 20 in the city’s Code of Ordinances is devoted to trees, most of the changes under consideration are targeted at the Unified Development Ordinance in Chapter 7. Ben Woody, Asheville’s development services director, explains that the shift in focus responds to land development as the most pressing urban forest threat. “The city is currently working with the Tree Commission and Development Customer Advisory Group to implement several goals of the [Living Asheville] Comprehensive Plan by introducing a requirement that private land development projects of a certain size be required to preserve some of the existing tree canopy on site,” Woody says. “These amendments will likely fall into Chapter 7 (the UDO) rather than Chapter 20 as they apply to private land development.” Asheville has had the power to make such changes since 1985 thanks to the efforts of former state Reps. Marie Colton and Martin Nesbitt, who added Asheville to a state law that also authorized the city of Raleigh to regulate certain trees on private property. The city’s first tree

ordinance was passed in 1986, but its language has not been revised since 1997. That language, as Xpress has previously reported (See “Branching out,” March 3), lists the establishment of a master street tree plan — which Asheville interprets to be the same as the urban forest master plan — as the responsibility of the city’s Parks and Recreation Department. However, according to Chad Bandy, streets manager for the Public Works Department, all city tree crews are currently under his department; parks and recreation hasn’t had any employees responsible for tree issues for at least five years. CANOPY CONTRASTS Cindi Sullivan, the executive director and president of TreesLouisville and the keynote speaker at the upcoming symposium, says the proposed ordinance changes are a good start. Her organization has promoted similar development ordinance updates in the large Kentucky

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THE UNKINDEST CUT: Infill development has led to particularly acute losses of the tree canopy in the neighborhoods of West Asheville. Graphic courtesy of the city of Asheville city, and in 2017, Louisville added both a metro tree ordinance and a Division of Urban Forestry to oversee its enforcement. Yet Sullivan stresses that those moves are only a start. “We both are facing alarming losses of tree canopy and we both are decades behind many other U.S. cities that have been paying attention and have been working on tree canopy preservation and enhancement for years and years already,” she says of Asheville and Louisville. Asheville’s press release announcing the canopy study results took a decidedly rosier tone. According to city spokesperson Polly McDaniel, Asheville compares “favorably” to other cities in terms of canopy, with its total coverage of 44.5% in the range of seven other municipalities including Charlotte (47%), Cookeville, Tenn. (40%), and Pittsburgh (40%). However, the study only compared point-in-time canopy measurements, not losses over time, and the cities being compared differ in population size by over an order of magnitude, from approximately 34,000 for Cookeville to more than 872,000 for Charlotte. (Asheville’s city population is roughly 92,000.) When Xpress asked Bandy if Asheville had weighed its rate of canopy loss against that of other cities, he said that direct com-

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parison was not part of the scope of the study and that he did not have those numbers. ANOTHER CHANCE As a next step, Hendricks and other tree advocates are again asking the city to fund an urban forest master plan and hire an urban forester. He says the latter request is particularly important in light of the ordinance changes already in the pipeline: “To have a program comparable to other cities, you need a person to coordinate the program, train inspectors, go to development sites and get things worked out before you get to a point where the design’s already done and you can’t make any changes,” he explains. Bandy confirms that city staff will request funding for the urban forest initiatives in the budget for the next fiscal year. He says the Tree Commission has been in regular conversation with upper-level staff, including City Manager Debra Campbell, and City Council members, but that no firm commitments have been made. “I do think that management recognizes the importance of the urban forest plan,” Bandy says. “At this

point, I think they are having to weigh everything, not just this as a need and a desire, but all of the capital needs and other needs within the city.” For Hendricks, the need weighs ever more heavily on Asheville, which he estimates continues to suffer a 1% yearly loss of tree canopy. Even as other cities such as Charlotte have stopped or even reversed their canopy reductions, he says, Asheville maintains a steady rate of decline. “It’s going to keep going down unless we take some action to push it the other way,” Hendricks says. “The longer you wait, the more problems you’re going to have.” X

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BY GINA SMITH gsmith@mountainx.com It’s common knowledge that growing kids need regular, healthy meals to thrive. And, of course, good nutrition is especially crucial when it comes to fueling successful learning. But nearly one out of five children in Buncombe County live in homes that lack reliable access to fresh, wholesome food, according to 2017 data from Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap project. Federal free and reduced-price lunch and breakfast programs help ensure that the 53% of public school students who qualify are fed when they’re at school. But what happens when those kids go home for the evening or the weekend? And what about the 27% of Buncombe County’s food-insecure children who, according to Feeding America, 48

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likely aren’t eligible for those school food programs? In order to fill those gaps, many Western North Carolina schools implement food pantry programs that support hungry students, their families and, sometimes, the broader community as well. Most local schools with food pantries partner in some way with nonprofit organization MANNA FoodBank. One approach that’s seen incredible growth and success is the MANNA Packs for Kids program, which since 2006 has sent hungry students home each Friday with a bag full of nutrient-dense foods for the weekend. Last school year, 168 schools within MANNA’s 16-county service area were enrolled in the MANNA Packs program, says MANNA education and youth services coordinator Beth Stahl. MANNA volunteers packed and distributed nearly

187,000 packs to students in the 2017-18 school year. But while those prepackaged endof-the-week goody bags have been extremely well-received by elementary-age kids, the food pantry approach has proven to work better with older students. “That’s primarily why we did a major shift from middle and high school trying to do the MANNA Packs,” Stahl explains. “It just was not very private, not very discreet,” she continues. “There were a lot of positive things to starting a pantry — kids could go in at their leisure, sneak in and get what they need. A lot of schools will have it open all the time so it’s very easy for kids to not have to deal with peer pressure and whatnot.” When Stahl spoke with Xpress in October, there were 13 schools enrolled as MANNA-supported pantries. “That doesn’t include the pantries that have community sup-

port,” she says, noting that often neighborhood organizations, clubs or churches adopt schools and furnish all or part of the items for their pantries. MANNA’s pantry program is growing quickly, particularly with middle, high and charter schools. “There’s a substantial list of schools that are interested,” she says, mentioning several in Transylvania County that are poised to start pantries. “The intent this year is to really look at expansion.” Stahl is quick to admit that there’s been a learning curve in setting up the pantry program. “We’ve really had to look at what older kids want to eat, and we’ve had to refine our [food] culling process,” she says. “We don’t want to send, you know, a banana box full of just rice, so we fill each box as if we’re stocking a pantry.” She notes that foods that are popular with schools in one county don’t necessarily go over well in other parts of WNC. “It’s so culturally different. Like, there are some that want beef jerky, and some say, ‘No, we want 1-pound bags of pinto beans. It’s just kind of all over the place.” A typical delivery for a school, according to Stahl, might be several produce boxes containing a variety of shelf-stable items such as dried pasta, spaghetti sauce, biscuit mix, tuna, oatmeal, granola bars and pudding cups, which Stahl says are “very popular.” A few schools also have refrigerators available for storing fresh produce and more. The most-requested items at the end of the last school year were kid-friendly, easy-to-eat foods. “Hopefully with pop-tops,” says Stahl. “Because there are a lot of homeless kids that access those pantries. A can of ravioli with a pop-top is pretty readily available to eat.” And it’s not only edibles that can be provided by school pantries. Stahl points to Enka High School, which operates a MANNAsupported pantry program. “This pantry covers everything,” she says. “There’s clothing, there’s health and personal care, there are school supplies — and if a kid can’t afford an Enka High School T-shirt, there’s that. Then there’s food and a myriad of different items.” Enka High School social worker and pantry coordinator Lisa VonDohlen says the pantry, located in a room near the Student Services office, receives monthly food deliveries from MANNA as

well as occasional donations from local individuals and organizations. VonDohlen and school volunteers maintain the space and inventory. “It does not require a great deal of volunteer time and effort to maintain, though it does take some, of course,” she says. “We don’t have challenges maintaining the pantry, and I’m grateful for that.” Response to the program has been “overwhelmingly positive,” she adds. Students and their families selfidentify need or are referred by faculty or staff. “We always work to build trusting relationships with our students and use discretion when meeting student needs, whether it’s a basic need or academic, social or behavioral,” says VonDohlen. “A huge part of that is ensuring that we uphold the dignity of each student we serve,” she continues. “This is critical in ensuring that students are comfortable reaching out for help when they need it.” The nonprofit Woodson Branch Nature School also helps students meet their food needs, but in a much different way. Located on 30 acres in Madison County, this K-8, nonprofit, agriculturally focused experiential learning facility started out in 2008 sourcing food for student snacks and lunches from MANNA as one of its official partner agencies. But since 2016, the school has been growing its own food as part of its educational programming. Although Woodson Branch is tuition-based, founder Deborah DeLisle says about 80% of its 100 or so students are only able to attend through funding from the NC Opportunity Scholarship Program. “This is not an affluent area at all,” she says. “It makes it tricky because we have very limited resources.”

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Part of its five-year plan is to raise enough money to build a teaching and prep kitchen for classwork and turning campus harvests into daily student meals. Until then, DeLisle says, the school keeps a small portion of the bounty its farming program produces — which includes all kinds of vegetables, elderberries, blueberries, garlic, fresh eggs and more — and donates the rest to the community. “We kind of got inspired by MANNA,” she says. “We take about 20% of [the food grown on campus] and disburse it to our families, we cook with it, make projects with it, teach kids how to preserve the food, and the rest of our produce goes to Beacon of Hope, which is our local food bank here in Madison County.” The middle school students are actively involved in the partnership with Beacon of Hope. “It’s been really moving and meaningful to watch these 12- and 13-year-old kids get in there and hand food out, knowing that they grew it, that they had a part in that,” says DeLisle. Though Woodson Branch currently isn’t able to serve lunches, it maintains its MANNA partnership,

CARE PACKAGE: MANNA FoodBank education and youth services coordinator Beth Stahl says that for stocking local middle and high school pantries, MANNA volunteers do their best to assemble boxes of shelf-stable, calorie-heavy foods that appeal to teens. Photo by Gina Smith sourcing paper products and other supplies for the school as they’re available. These are also shared with families and staff when there’s an abundance. Since it’s impractical to maintain a pantry space on campus for the fresh, seasonal foods the school makes available to its families, distribution is accomplished via a pop-up market model. “When parents come to pick their kids up, we’ll go right to their cars and ask them if they want anything,” DeLisle explains. “So parents can plan on getting nice bonuses and surprises.” X 50

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North Carolina, Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, Jubilee! Community Church, Mother Grove Goddess Temple, Islamic Community Members, Unitarian Universalist, Urban Dharma, Warren Wilson College Spiritual Life Community and WNC Baptist Fellowship Church. Along with sharing cultural and religious expressions of gratitude, the event will feature a reception with live music from Billy Jonas and David LaMotte. Finger foods will be provided by Beth Israel, including pastries, quiche and dips. The gathering will also host a food drive benefiting BeLoved Asheville, a local nonprofit that serves marginalized people. Attendees are encouraged to bring nonperishable food items to donate. By evening’s end, Walton hopes participants will better appreciate the common threads that exist across religious beliefs and cultural traditions. “Gratitude is something we all bring to whatever tables we gather around,” she says.

She also hopes the gathering will promote dialogue. “I think heading into an election year, how we choose to be with each other really matters. I’m hoping this will be something that reminds us of who we are as we gather — of the privileges that we have in this country, but also the responsibility to keep listening to each other.” The celebration begins at 5 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17, at Congregation Beth Israel, 229 Murdock Ave. For more information, contact Nancy Walton at nwalton@wnccumc.net.

Wizards of Mixology Antidote cocktail lounge will be transformed into the School of Mixology on Thursday, Nov. 14, as four local bars battle for the House Cup. The Harry Potter-themed event will feature bartenders from Asheville Beauty Academy, The Greenhouse, Sovereign Remedies and The Times, each working with a North Carolina spirit to create a signature house punch. Themed food will be provided

by Polanco, and Bhramari Brewing Co. will create a butterbeer for the occasion. Tickets are $30. The battle begins at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 14, at Antidote, 151 Coxe Ave. For tickets, visit avl.mx/6ou.

S’mores and stouts Lookout Brewing Co. will celebrate fall with an evening stout takeover around the fire pit, featuring live music, s’mores and five stouts on Friday, Nov. 15. Participants are asked to bring camp chairs and blankets. S’mores supplies will be provided. The event is family- and dog-friendly. The event runs 6-9 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15, at Lookout Brewing Co., 103 S. Ridgeway Ave., Black Mountain. To learn more, visit avl.mx/6oq.

Potluck and community workday The South Asheville Cemetery Association will host a community workday and potluck on Saturday, Nov. 16, at the South Asheville Cemetery, a former slave burial ground. Participants will perform general maintenance, including raking leaves and grass seed planting. Guests are invited (but not required) to contribute a dish to the potluck. Additional food will be provided by St. Johns-A-Baptist Church. “All are welcome at this workday,” writes event organizer Ellen Holmes Pearson in a press release. “Come for an hour or come for the entire time.” RSVPs are encouraged. The workday runs 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 16, at the South Asheville Cemetery, 20 Dalton St. To RSVP, email epearson@unca.edu.

Spaghetti Western The Blind Pig Supper Club will host a spaghetti Western-themed dinner on Sunday, Nov. 17, featuring Tex-Mex and Italian entrées prepared by chefs David Santos, Rich Parente and Mike Moore. The undisclosed location will be shared with guests prior to the event. Seating is limited. Tickets are $65. The dinner runs 5:30-8:30 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 17. To purchase tickets, visit avl.mx/6or.

Bourbon Club The Cut Cocktail Lounge in Sylva will host a bourbon and meat pairing event on Wednesday, Nov. 20. The $40 tickets include six 1-ounce bourbon pours paired with meats from The Chop Shop Butchery. Reservations are required. The event runs 6-7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 20, at The Cut Cocktail Lounge, 610 Main St., Sylva. To RSVP, visit avl.mx/6os.

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Ales of the macabre Halloween has come and gone, but Burning Blush Brewery is out to provide gothic-themed ambiance — and quality beer — throughout the year. The creation of head brewer Whit Lanning and his family, the Mills River operation, tentatively set for a December opening, takes its name from the Edgar Allan Poe poem “Song.” “I’ve been a huge Poe fan for forever,” Lanning says. “He was sending letters back and forth to a woman he was interested in, and her father knew Poe was an editor and not making much money, so he intercepted the letters. She goes on to marry someone else and invites Poe to the wedding, sees him and gets a ‘burning blush’ on her cheek.” A graduate of T.C. Roberson High School, Lanning earned a chemistry degree from N.C. State University in 2009. While at college, he began homebrewing, and for a graduation present, his father, Jim Lanning, agreed to send him to brewing school. After a four-month education at Brewlab in Sunderland, England (near Newcastle), Lanning returned to Asheville and brought an idea to his father, who started at Ingles Markets as a service clerk in 1975 when he was 16 years old, worked his way to company president in 2003 and added the role of CEO in 2016. “As soon as I got out of brewing school, I wanted to open a brewery,” Lanning says. “But my dad, being the genius businessman that he is, was like, ‘Heck no! Work somewhere for 10 years, then we’ll talk.’” With the 2010 Asheville-area brewing industry not as job-rich as its cur-

RAVEN APPROVED: Inspired by an Edgar Allan Poe poem, Burning Blush Brewery in Mills River is tentatively set for a December opening. Pictured, from left, are owners Ryan, Catrina and baby Banks Lanning, Melody Lanning, Brewer the dog (aka Brew-Brew), Jim Lanning and Whit Lanning. Photo courtesy of Burning Blush Brewery rent form, Lanning went to Greenville, S.C., and was hired at Thomas Creek Brewery. He stayed there for six years, then gained additional experience at fellow Greenville brewery Birds Fly South Ale Project and then Carolina Bauernhaus in Anderson. Two years ago, as the decade of prescribed practice neared its end, Lanning became serious about striking out on his own. Along with his family, he purchased land at 4891 Boylston Highway — around the bend from the long-standing Mills River Restaurant — in July 2017, and the high-ceilinged structure, which has a maximum occupancy of nearly 180, was built from the ground up. As for the beer that will be made on his 15-barrel system, Lanning — a

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self-described “big hop guy” — will feature plenty of New England and West Coast IPAs and pale ales on the brewery’s 16 taps. He’s also a huge fan of lagers and barrel-aged beers and looks forward to using the wild ale practices he learned at Birds Fly South and Carolina Bauernhaus. The English-style influences from his time at Brewlab and a continued interest in the efforts of Britain’s famous Campaign for Real Ale, or CAMRA, will also shine through. Lanning hosted a regular cask night at Thomas Creek and plans to bring that long-standing tradition to Burning Blush, along with cider and wine options. “We’re going to hit the whole gamut, for sure,” he says. “We want to be known for our beer. We’re going to be hitting everything traditional while also exploring more radical approaches and techniques.” Beyond the brewery’s name, the Poe influence extends to the taproom’s Victorian castle aesthetic, beginning with its stone exterior, hanging glass lanterns and a period-appropriate giant wood door. Inside, the bar features beautiful stained glass that was manufactured in the 1930s and used in a Chicago pub. Many of the wooden chairs have slim, high backs, and 10 are clustered around a large table in the center of the room to offer improved large group conversation over the typical rectangular configuration.

“We want to create a European vibe with the community tables so that instead of people being on phones all of the time, they conversate and talk to new people,” Lanning says. “It might not be as trafficky as downtown Asheville, but you can park your car, bring in your dogs and kids and relax.” Burning Blush will open with Lanning’s mother, Melody Lanning, as operations manager. Once Burning Blush has been open for a few months, Lanning plans to hire an assistant brewer and will bring in more employees after a canning line is up and running. A variety of food trucks will rotate outside, and he eventually hopes to construct an outdoor stage for live music to complement the venue’s wealth of indoor events. With Bold Rock Hard Cider and Mills River Brewery’s forthcoming Banner Farm Road expansion nearby, it’s an exciting time for the local brewing industry — and Lanning says the town of Mills River may want to make it even more accessible to patrons by connecting the three businesses via a “fermentation trail.” Though town manager Daniel Cobb notes that no specific decisions have been made to link the breweries, plans are underway to develop bicycle and pedestrian paths and, considering the business’ proximity to property the Town currently owns, it’s possible that the locations could be connected in the future. X

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CERTIFIED ORGANIC C. Shreve the Professor and Madelyn Ilana take natural paths while crafting new albums

PATIENCE PRACTITIONERS: C. Shreve the Professor, left, and Madelyn Ilana each took their time to create their latest albums, resulting in their richest works thus far. Shreve’s photo by Lillian Seibert. Madelyn’s photo courtesy of the artist

BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN earnaudin@mountainx.com For his latest album as C. Shreve the Professor, Deep Gap-based rapper Chris Shreve strove to let the music come together as naturally as possible. Sifting through a range of beats from artists based in Greensboro (Kevo Beats), New Zealand (ThiefofBaghdad) and various spots in between, he took his time selecting the production that most inspired him, then allowed each set of lyrics to evolve organically out of his connection to the corresponding rhythm. Opting to speak truthfully from where he is as an artist — which Shreve considers “a place of maturity, yet still growing and learning” — over adhering to a defined conceptual structure, he refrained from naming the project until near its completion. At that point, it felt right to call the collection Grown. “The title is a reflection of the song process — allowing things to just grow into themselves — and also of my own 56

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journey as a human/artist,” Shreve says. “I’m not saying that I’m all the way grown, as in complete; I’m saying that I’ve been growing my whole life and that my art is a reflection of that growth.” Shreve (a founding member of the hip-hop collective Free the Optimus) will celebrate the album’s release on Saturday, Nov. 16, at The Mothlight. Considering all that the MC, husband and father of a 9-year-old son has going on in his life — by day he’s a senior lecturer in Appalachian State University’s public health department — it’s somewhat miraculous that the album exists. Though the schedule flexibility of academia, the ability to teach online and efficient class preparation learned over his 12 years of teaching have allowed him to remain a prolific recording and touring artist, consistently taking care of himself remains a struggle. “Finding balance is the real challenge of my life right now. For a long time, I made things work by depriv-

ing myself of sleep. I went for a good three years functioning on around five hours of sleep per night, and eventually it really took its toll on me mentally and physically,” he says. “I still stay up somewhat late — that’s when I feel most creative and when I can zone in on things with no distractions, but I’ve learned to not push till 3 every time because it really affects the next day.”

WHO C. Shreve the Professor, Jarv, Mike L!VE and Foul Mouth Jerk WHERE The Mothlight 701 Haywood Road themothlight.com WHEN Saturday, Nov. 16, 9 p.m. $10

Other recent changes include adjusting to the closing of Timo’s House. Shreve says Free the Optimus steadily built the downtown venue into a “home space” over the course of five years and has “kind of been recalibrating Asheville this whole year,” gig-wise. Fellow FTO rapper Mike L!VE’s move to Charleston, S.C., however, hasn’t put a dent in either’s productivity or the health of FTO, both which Shreve feels are stronger than ever. THE INTENTIONAL DREAMER In many ways, Madelyn Ilana’s songwriting is an attempt to recapture the purity of her first musical memory. The upstate New York native distinctly recalls being in preschool and taking to a big, fallen tree on the playground that she’d often walk across like a gymnast on a balance beam. “In the memory, it’s a really sunny day, and I’m watching my feet as I walk across the log, and I just am improvising words and the melody,” Madelyn says. “I think that’s something many children do, but I think somewhere along the line, we lose that — we lose space for that. It’s not cool to be the creative kid.” Madelyn gained formal training at the age of 8, playing violin in the school orchestra. Now based in Asheville, she shares the joy of music by teaching the instrument in multiple programs, including MusicWorks at Hall Fletcher Elementary School and in her own original creations, which she describes as “ambient dream folk.” Awake Dreaming, her first proper studio recording, receives an album release show on Sunday, Nov. 17, at Ambrose West, where Madelyn’s voice, violin and guitar will join forces with multi-instrumentalist Chris Rosser and percussionist Brian T. Carter. Recorded at Rosser’s Hollow Reed Studio, the collection is the follow-up to Daydreams

and Dreamscapes, a DIY project that Madelyn says she needed to complete before leaving Florida, where she attended college. “It was a different time in my life, but also an important time of waking up and freeing my creativity,” she says. “It was giving myself permission to come back to that childhood way of just playing and singing words that come out and not having to know why or what they mean.” Writing from what she calls “a place of feeling,” Madelyn’s newer works carry an “overarching theme of wanting to understand what it means to be well, both personally and collectively.” They also explore finding “a sense of belonging in this world” and how to be a better friend, lover and steward of the natural world. Full of questions and humility, Awake Dreaming is also primed to reach listeners at a moment when its messages could have maximum impact. “I was intentional about this timing, to have the release be around the harvest time of year — around the time of year that we are more conscious in practicing gratitude for all that we have. It’s a time of year that we also come into more generosity,” she says. “It’s felt really good to be in a flow with this and not be in a hurry. For me, the creative process has its own timeline.” X

WHO Madelyn Ilana with Scarvves WHERE Ambrose West 312 Haywood Road ambrosewest.com WHEN Sunday, Nov. 17, 7 p.m. $12 advance/$14 day of show/ $15 VIP

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IN THE WRITE PLACE Growing up in Spartanburg, S.C., back when “it didn’t have a vibrant downtown,” the goal for award-winning writer Latria Graham was just to get out. She did, attending Dartmouth College before completing an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from The New School in New York City and going on to win multiple awards for sportswriting and journalism. Graham returned to Spartanburg in 2013 to care for her ailing father and stayed because she had established contacts in the New York publishing world and realized she could work from anywhere. “If you told me at 25 I’d be back in South Carolina, I’d be like, ‘There’s no way,’” she says. “But the area has grown, and I’ve grown as a person. … I’m interviewing people [who are] sometimes in their 70s and 80s, [so] I feel like I really am, at times, capturing the last of a way of life.” Graham will speak at a Mountain of Words art and literary event pre-

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PUT IT ON PAPER: “Some days are better than others, but if you’re sitting at a desk, you’re a writer,” says journalist and creative nonfiction author Latria Graham, whose work examines topics such as the New South and how African American voices are strategically omitted from that movement. “Everybody’s a storyteller — you just have to find your medium.” Photo courtesy of Graham sented by Word on the Street/ La Voz de los Jovenes, a bilingual online arts and culture magazine created by young artists. Graham describes Word on the Street (under the Asheville Writers in the School and Community umbrella) as “a brilliant program I wish had been around when I was a teen.” She’ll be joined at the Saturday, Nov. 23, reading and discussion by author and editor Juan G. Sánchez Martínez, a UNC Asheville professor originally from Colombia; and spokenword artist Cara Forbes, an enrolled member of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. “My goal is to be the adult I needed,” Graham says. She plans to introduce her talk with the story of how she paid for Dartmouth in watermelons: “I had a pretty good scholarship, but I needed food and clothes,” she says. “So my dad set up his pickup truck and filled it with watermelons, and he was like, ‘Everything you make, I’ll match.’” As customers requested more and more produce, Graham’s family reopened their farm. Some in her hometown see her only as the farmer’s daughter, she says, but those roots have given her perspective on the role of nonwhite people in Southern foodways — one of the exigent topics she

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addresses. “America breaks my heart a little bit with every story I write,” she admits. But, “I write [for my family] to be able to say we were here.” Graham is attracted to challenging subjects because “I want to understand them,” she says. She’s covered the water crisis in Flint, Mich., and the Dakota Access Pipeline protests. While in college, she began exploring her personal experience as a woman of color with an eating disorder, “writing back against the idea that black women don’t have them, [because] if I can help someone else suffer less, then I’ve done something.” Working in both journalism and creative nonfiction, she notes that rule No. 1 for reporting is “I don’t appear in the piece” in order to remain objective. But there are times for breaking that rule, such as a story that will appear in Oxford American’s South Carolina music issue, for which Graham visited singer/actor Eartha Kitt’s hometown. Graham’s light complexion parallels Kitt’s experience as a person of mixed race: “The editor said, ‘There’s something missing,’ [so] I had to appear in it because it gives you some sense of the isolation [Kitt] faced.” One piece of advice Graham shares with fellow writers is the importance

of support systems. Especially for a freelance writer, “This job will kill you — the pressure is on you as a sole proprietor,” she says. “When you isolate yourself, you lose the sense of the importance of the work.” Graham relies on feedback from her family as well as an online network. Social media can help, too: Through Twitter, Graham discovered other writers sharing work in process and building their personas and brands. Growing up, she admits, she had focused on playing clarinet because, although she loved books, she didn’t consider literature a viable career.

WHO Latria Graham, Juan G. Sánchez Martínez and Cara Forbes read from and discuss their writing for Mountain of Words WHERE YMI Cultural Center 20-44 Eagle St. ashevillewritersintheschools.org WHEN Saturday, Nov. 23, 6-9 p.m. Free

“We were reading Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. When we did read women, it was Emily Dickinson. They were dead white people [who] all became famous after they were dead,” she says. “I was like, ‘I don’t have time for that. … I have to be able to [make a living].’”

When Graham did find her way to a career in writing, she realized it was not only financially viable, but an important platform for underrepresented stories — a message she hopes to share with the students of Word on the Street and the larger literary community. X

Jericho Brown In his latest collection, The Tradition, poet Jericho Brown explores survival, abuse, violence and the ways love exists within those darknesses. He also offers a number of duplex poems, a form of his own invention that combines the sonnet, the ghazal and the blues. It’s a slight but powerful expression weaving dissonant images into a stunning big picture. Brown — an associate professor and the director of the Creative Writing Program at Emory University — shared the title poem from The Tradition at one of Asheville BookWorks’ beloved Vandercooked Poetry Nights. The book is a finalist for a National Book Award, to be announced on Nov. 20. Before that,

he’ll give a reading at Blue Ridge Room in UNC Asheville’s Highsmith Student Union on Thursday, Nov. 14, 7 p.m. Free. english.unca.edu. Photo courtesy of Brown

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MAKING SPACE Center for Craft celebrates its grand reopening

NEW DESIGN: Stephanie Moore, executive director of the Center for Craft, stands inside the building’s renovated second floor. The large-scale tiered textile installation is one of the space’s several custom-made designs. Photo by Thomas Calder When Stephanie Moore joined the Center for Craft in 2010, the nonprofit operated on a 55-acre site in Hendersonville, close to the community of Horse Shoe. “I saw it had a really big mission — to advance the understanding of craft — but it was tucked away,” remembers Moore, who serves as the organization’s executive director. “We might have had 300 people visit each year.” Today, the center is anything but tucked away. Having relocated to the northern edge of downtown Asheville in 2013, the nonprofit sees an estimated 60

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11,000 visitors per year. And with its recent renovations, which added 7,000 square feet to the space, Moore is optimistic the site will only continue to attract more visitors and makers alike. On Saturday, Nov. 16, after nearly a year under construction, the Center for Craft will celebrate its grand reopening. The free event will feature new exhibits, a building tour, future-themed immersive installations, hands-on activities, music and food. The building’s main floor, Moore pointed out during a recent preview tour, has nearly doubled in size. The

augmented space now includes two galleries as well as a craft study collection featuring center-funded publications and research. “It used to be that you’d come in and we would be dark for a couple of weeks to get the exhibition up,” she says. But with an additional gallery in play, she continues, the lights will always be on for at least one of the displays. Exhibits for the Nov. 16 reopening include Craft Futures 2099 and Making Meaning. The former features 10 national makers, all exploring ideas of what craft might look like in another 80 years. “You’re going to see a lot of neon, a lot of digital, a lot of holograms,” says Moore. Meanwhile, the latter exhibit includes 14 UNC Asheville alumni, “whose work shifts our perceptions of material, method and meaning,” a recent press release states. A major portion of the project’s $3.9 million went toward gutting the building’s entire second floor. “We’re calling this whole level the National Craft Innovation Hub,” Moore explains. The coworking space offers options from private offices to part-time flexdesks to day passes. “The goal here is to create a space where creatives come together. This isn’t where mak-

ing happens,” she emphasizes. “This is where the business or office side of making occurs.” Custom-built furniture fills the various new rooms and work areas. A back lounge features whimsical, anthropomorphic chairs by contemporary artist Tanya Aquiñiga. On the other side of the building, near the reception desk, a large-scale tiered textile installation is suspended from the ceiling. Created by local design studio Shelter Collective, the piece consists of thousands of individual strands of cotton sourced from Echoview Fiber Mill and dyed with local plants. In addition to meeting spaces and offices, the second floor (along with the building’s mezzanine), features flexible work stations, allowing the Center for Craft to flip its larger rooms for evening events. Workshops and lectures will be the focus for these nighttime gatherings. The mezzanine will also be used for board meetings and more intimate get-togethers. “The goal of this project was to be as flexible as possible,” Moore says. “Expand and contract based upon demand.”

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with craft’s history and contributions to the region, she explains, the city’s tourism industry allows the center to reach a larger, less informed audience. “It’s really important for people to know there is this tactile, physical aspect of making that they can find here and that they can research here and that they can discover here,” she says. Further, Moore sees the Center for Craft as just one of several enti-

ties contributing to what she deems Broadway’s “cultural corridor.” Pointing toward the busy thoroughfare, which turns into Biltmore Avenue, she enumerates some of the additional sites: The Moogseum, The Wortham Center for the Performing Arts and the Asheville Art Museum. “This is a very rich, for lack of a better word, density of cultural activity that you don’t get on Patton Avenue,” she continues. “But directly from here to The Orange Peel, if not a little bit farther, you just have all of these incredible venues — and this in a small city of 90,000.” X

WHAT Center for Craft’s grand reopening WHERE 67 Broadway centerforcraft.org WHEN Saturday, Nov. 16, 2-6 p.m.

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Just in time for Thanksgiving, Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective serves up Mixed Fandango, a new romantic comedy by Asheville playwright Travis Lowe about three Baltimore couples navigating a Turkey Day fraught with mishaps. It runs through Saturday, Nov. 23, at the Wortham Center for the Performing Arts’ Tina McGuire Theater. Madison and Dylan are newlyweds in their first house. She’s anxiously cooking her first turkey for family arriving from across the country. He’s anxiously looking for bolts to fix a wonky toilet seat. Longtime couple Ray and Luis have taken a break from their usual big dinner with friends. Now Ray is missing the party. Luis is missing his family in Portugal. They’re both missing pie. Recently widowed Roger has hired his favorite Uber driver, Emily, to take him to Schultz’s crab house for what looks to be a lonely meal. A detour and a dance by a racetrack, however, will change all that. But the playwright has more than farce in his playbook. The pleasure of this play is the crafty way Lowe choreographs these couples out of their bubbles and mixes them up in the lively, flirtatious dance that the title suggests. His canniest ploy is a new technique this reviewer has never seen before, a kind of live-theater split-screen showing different couples at different places at different times in different combinations. No camera tricks required. To say more would spoil the fun. Stephanie Hickling Beckman, the play’s director and the founder of Different Strokes, meets the challenge of this Rubik’s cube of a script. She keeps her actors moving briskly in a game of musical chairs, though we may not always be clear about who has landed where. She has gathered an engaging cast: Emmalie Handley and Jason Williams as Madison and Dylan, Molly Graves and Aaron Ybarra as Emily and Roger and David Mycoff and Phillipe Andre Coquet as Ray and Luis. As of opening night, Handley’s Madison was not as frantic about her family’s impending arrival as her words suggested. And you may wonder why she has so little prep to do for this big dinner. You may also be confused by Laura

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TALKING TURKEY: Clockwise from left, David Mycoff, Phillipe Coquet, Molly Graves, Aaron Ybarra, Jason Williams and Emmalie Handley are Thanksgiving bound in Mixed Fandango by Different Srokes! Performing Arts Collective. Photo by Jenn McCormack Lowe’s setting, which puts the oven right behind the living room sofa. Handley and Williams were not comfortable with the physical playfulness of newlyweds in their first scene together, but by the second act they had found their spark. When they stopped their car to talk suggestively about a tub of whipped cream and a radical organic battery (Dylan is a chemist), Handley’s throaty giggle was especially telling. Graves’ Uber-driving Emily, a philosophy graduate who never made it much past Camus, radiates the sweetness and the sass that are attracting Ybarra’s Roger. And his wide, near-constant grin is as winning as his belief that all the people he meets are good. Mycoff and Coquet as Ray and Luis are both affectionate and snippy. Their small gestures and attitudes — Ray’s throwaway caressing of Luis’s bald head, the love-light shining in Luis’s eyes — give the playwright’s words of love their real meaning.

Hickling Beckman believes theater can change hearts and minds and in Mixed Fandango she sometimes lets the play’s seriousness overshadow its silliness. Nevertheless, she sends us out humming “Love Is All You Need.” If she can push the play’s other message, “Love Can Make You Stupid,” Different Strokes has a holiday hit. X

WHAT Mixed Fandango WHERE Wortham Center 18 Biltmore Ave. differentstrokespac.org WHEN Through Saturday, Nov. 23. Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m. $16.20-$18

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Soul on Fire Founded in 1983 by local art educator Shirley Whitesides and her fellow Delta Sigma Theta sorority members, Delta House provides a safe learning environment for those in need, focusing on character development and empowering students to become confident, responsible and caring citizens. On Saturday, Nov. 16, the fundraiser Soul on Fire seeks to help continue those efforts with an evening that celebrates heritage through art, culture and music. Offerings include an opening reception for My Soul Looks Back, an art exhibit featuring Whitesides’ work from the past 50 years; live painting by her former student, tattoo artist Miya Bailey; and two sets of dancing to the tunes of the Free Flow Band. It all takes place at A-B Tech’s Conference Center, 5-11 p.m. $30-$75. avl.mx/6om. Photos of Whitesides, left, and Free Flow Band courtesy of the artists

Healer by Day/ Hooker by Night Known for her crystal bowl sound bath classes, Asheville-based artist Kristin Reitter reflects on those kinds of vibrations as well as others in her hourlong cabaret Healer by Day/Hooker by Night. Advertised as “perfect for bachelor/bachelorette parties,” the show features 11 new songs that Reitter will perform with a band composed of Matt Foglia (piano), Sam Cobb (drums), Susie Comet (bass) and Michale Heinerth (guitar). Profanity and “hysterical content that may involve waving vibrators in the air, promoting safe sex and healthy boundaries” are also very much likely, while dancing and laughter are promised. All of the above converges at The BLOCK off Biltmore on Saturday, Nov. 16, at 7:30 p.m. $15. theblockoffbiltmore.com. Photo by Erica Mueller

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A strong candidate for Album of the Year, Fruit Bats’ Gold Past Life offers an intoxicating mix of tempos and styles. Over the course of 10 expertly crafted songs, Eric D. Johnson takes listeners from the upbeat jams of “Drawn Away” and the title track to the contemplative ballads of “Cazadera” and “Ocean” before cranking things back up with “A Lingering Love” and sending listeners off with the peaceful, sonic bliss of “Two Babies in Michigan.” Released in the warm glow of summer, the collection’s sunshine remains potent as winter’s cold becomes increasingly present. Johnson brings this extraordinary versatility to The Mothlight on Tuesday, Nov. 19. The evening begins at 8 p.m. with a set by Merge Records label-mate Joyero, the side project of Wye Oak’s Andy Stack. $17 advance/$20 day of show. themothlight.com. Photo by Annie Beedy

Missy Andersen A native of Detroit, vocalist Missy Andersen has been fronting bands since she was a teenager. Shortly thereafter, she began booking studio sessions and became an indemand backup singer, eventually making her way to San Diego. There, she met Heine Andersen, a veteran guitarist in town from Denmark. The two wound up marrying and formed the band Tell Mama. Now touring under the moniker “Missy Andersen and Her One-Man Band,” the duo presents stripped-down versions of originals and covers that explore numerous corners of blues and soul traditions. The unified team swing by White Horse Black Mountain on Sunday, Nov. 17, at 7:30 p.m. $12 advance/$15 day of show. whitehorseblackmountain.com. Photo courtesy of Andersen

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ART/CRAFT STROLLS & FAIRS 26TH ANNUAL MISSION CRAFT BAZAAR • FR (11/15), noon-7pm & SA (11/16), 8am-6pm - 26th Annual Mission Craft Bazaar, featuring 24 local artisans and food for sale. Free to attend. Held at Weaverville United Methodist Church, 85 N. Main St., Weaverville ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM 2 S. Pack Square, 828253-3227, ashevilleart.org • WE (11/13), 1-6pm Ribbon cutting and public preview celebrating the grand reopening of the Asheville Art Museum. Free. • TH (11/14), 11am9pm - Grand opening celebration. Admission fees apply. 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. CENTER FOR CRAFT GRAND REOPENING • SA (11/16), 2-6pm Grand reopening with lectures, panel discussions, tours, live music and food trucks. Free to attend. Held at Center for Craft, 67 Broadway SHOP & SIP THIRD THURSDAYS • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5:30-9:30pm - Pop-up art show featuring 5-10 artists and makers. Free to attend. Held at Mad Genius Studios, 121 Cozy Rose Lane, Candler THIRD THURSDAY IN MARSHALL • 3rd THURSDAYS, 5-8pm - Gallery openings, studio tours, shops, food and drinks. Free to attend. Held at Downtown Marshall UMW ANNUAL ARTS & CRAFTS BAZAAR • SA (11/16), 8:30am1:30pm - Arts and crafts fair featuring local artists. Free to attend. Held at Abernethy United

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DANCE LEARN COUNTRY TWO-STEP 6-WEEK DANCE CLASS STARTING WEDNESDAYS STARTING NOVEMBER 13TH (PD.) 7-8 PM: Beginner level. Asheville Ballroom. Register online at: www. DanceForLife.net $70/pp or pay at door $75. 828333-0715, naturalrichard@ mac.com FINES CREEK DANCE NIGHT • SA (11/16), 7-10pm - Dance with live music by Running Wolfe & the Renegades. Dinner at 6pm. $5/$7 dinner. Held at Fines Creek Community Center, 190 Fines Creek Road, Clyde FLAMENCO PERFORMANCE AND MASTER CLASSES AT BLACK MOUNTAIN CENTER FOR THE ARTS 225 W. State St., Black Mountain, 828-669-0930, blackmountainarts.org/ • SU (11/17), 6pm - Mariana Martinez, from Barcelona, Spain, stars in an evening of traditional and contemporary flamenco dance performance along with Dennis Aberde on Spanish guitar, plus tapas y vinos (appetizers and wine). $20/$10 for flamenco workshop attendees, beginner and intermediate. • MO (11/18) through WE (11/20), 7:30-8:30pm - Beginner Flamenco lessons with Mariana Martinez, from Barcelona, focusing on technique, corporal expression and choreography. Registration: semillacosmica1787@ gmail.com or text 786327-9548. $30/class. • MO (11/18) through WE (11/20), 8:30-9:30pm - Intermediate Flamenco lessons with Mariana Martinez, from Barcelona, focusing on rhythm, technique and choreography. Registration: semillacosmica1787@ gmail.com or text 786327-9548. $30/class.

HENRY LABRUN STUDIO AT WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 18 Biltmore Ave., 828-257-4530, worthamarts.org • WEDNESDAYS until (12/4), 5:30pm - Pantomime course with Otto Vazquez, traditional pantomime done to music. Registration: avl.mx/6m9. $10. • MONDAYS until (12/2), noon - Office Worker's Warm Up with Coco Palmer Dolce helps relieve stress by releasing back, neck and shoulders. Registration: avl.mx/6m2. $12. • 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. • TUESDAYS until (12/10), 5:30pm - Hip Hop 101 with Otto Vazquez, popular social dances. Registration: avl.mx/6mb. $10. IMPROVER CONTEMPORARY LINE DANCING • THURSDAYS, noon2pm - Improver contemporary line dancing. $10. Held at Stephens Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. INTERMEDIATE/ ADVANCED CONTEMPORARY LINE DANCING • WEDNESDAYS, noon-2pm - Intermediate/ advanced contemporary line dancing. $10. Held at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road OLD FARMERS BALL CONTRA DANCE • THURSDAYS, 7:3011pm - Old Farmers Ball, contra dance. $8/$7 members/$1 Warren Wilson Community. Held in Bryson Gym, Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa SOUTHERN LIGHTS SQUARE AND ROUND DANCE CLUB • SA (11/16), 6pm - Give Thanks Dance. Advanced dance at 6 pm. Early rounds at 7 pm. Squares and rounds at 7:30 pm. Free. Held at Whitmire Activity Center, 310

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MUSIC AFRICAN DRUM LESSONS AT SKINNY BEATS SOUND SHOP (PD.) Wednesdays 6pm. Billy Zanski teaches a fun approach to connecting with your inner rhythm. Drop-ins welcome. • Drums provided. $15/class. (828) 768-2826. www. skinnybeatsdrums.com ACCENT ON YOUTH • SU (11/17), 3:30pm - Accent on Youth, concert featuring tenor Alexander Harrelson singing a variety of secular and sacred music. Free. Held at The Episcopal Church of Saint John in the Wilderness, 1905 Greenville Highway, Flat Rock

ASHEVILLE DRUM CIRCLE • FRIDAYS, 6-9:50pm - Asheville outdoor drum circle. Free. Held at Pritchard Park, 4 College St. BLUE RIDGE SYMPHONIC BRASS • SU (11/17), 3pm - 20+ member brass choir, Blue Ridge Symphonic Brass, led by maestro Jamie Hafner. Admission by donation. Held at First Baptist Church of Brevard, 94 S. Gaston St., Brevard BROADWAY NOW AND THEN • SU (11/17), 3pm Reuter Center Singers showcase selections from Hamilton, Grease, Showboat, Oliver, Fiddler on the Roof and more. Admission by donation. Held at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 378 Hendersonville Road CHEROKEE CHAMBER SINGERS • TH (11/21), 7pm - Si Otsedoha (We're Still

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BIG BRASS BAND: Maestro Jamie Hafner leads the Blue Ridge Symphonic Brass, a 20-plus-member brass choir, dedicated to sharing their symphonic brass repertoire. Planned for Sunday, Nov. 17, 3 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Brevard, the concert program showcases the range of the brass ensemble, including Baroque, Classical and chamber music as well as ragtime. The concert is free, and donations are accepted. Photo courtesy of Don Wauchope (p. 68)

Here), performance by the Cherokee Chamber Series. $15/$10 members. Held at Black Mountain College Museum & Arts Center, 120 College St. DEEPER THAN THE SKIN • WE (11/13), 7-9pm Conversation and concert about race and friendship, featuring musicians Reggie Harris and Greg Greenway. Tickets: bit.ly/2PtRGd5. $20. Held at Historic Sunnydale Cabin, 334 S. Trade St., Tryon ‘FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE’ • SA (11/16), 8pm - From Russia with Love, concert featuring works by Glinka, Lalo and Tchaikovsky with guest cellist, Zlatomir Fung. $22.50 and up. Held at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 N. Market St. PUBSING • SU (11/17), 3-5pm Gospel jam and sing-along. Free to attend. Held at Zillicoah Beer Co, 870 Riverside Drive, Woodfin

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SHANTYTOWN • SA (11/16), 7pm - Shantytown, concert featuring the band composed of Mitchell and Yancey county residents playing original tunes. $12. Held at Burnsville Town Center, 6 Main St., Burnsville SYMPHONY OF SERENITY • TH (11/14), 7-8:30pm The Symphony of Serenity Sound Healing Meditation Journey, concert featuring

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Kennedy OneSelf. $5-$25. Held at OM Sanctuary, 87 Richmond Hill Drive WCU WIND ENSEMBLE • FR (11/15), 7:30pm - Maestra Margaret Underwood directs the last concert of the semester for the Wind Ensemble as well as the last concert for 8 soon-to-graduate seniors. Free. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee

SPOKEN & WRITTEN WORD A PIEDMONT HOME COMPANION • TU (11/19), 7pm - Stories by Kathryn Thorson Gruhn. $5. Held at Tryon Fine Arts Center, 34 Melrose Ave., Tryon AN EVENING WITH DAVID SEDARIS • TU (11/19), 7:30pm - Author David Sedaris presents readings of new material, a question and answer session and book signings. $25. Held at The WCU Bardo Arts Center, 199 Centennial Drive, Cullowhee FIRESTORM BOOKS & COFFEE 610 Haywood Road, 828255-8115, firestorm.coop • MO (11/18), 6-7:30pm Hear men read aloud from Eve Enslers, The Apology. Free. • 3rd TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Womxn's

Empowerment Bookclub. 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. FOLKMOOT USA Folkmoot Friendship Center, 112 Virginia Ave., Waynesville, 828-452-2997, folkmootusa.org • SA (11/16), 6pm Mountain Memories No. 1: A Hazelwood Gathering, storytelling with a focus on the historic Hazelwood School. $20. • TH (11/21), 6pm Courtney Lix shares stories of the women featured in her book, No Place for the Weary Kind: Women of the Smokies. Event includes supper. $20/$18 advance. LISTEN TO THIS • TH (11/21), 7:30pm - Listen to This, hosted by Tom Chalmers, is stories and songs from local writers, performers and citizens. $15. Held at 35below, 35 E. Walnut St. MALAPROP'S BOOKSTORE AND CAFE 55 Haywood St., 828-2546734, malaprops.com • 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. • SU (11/17), 3pm - Writers at Home, monthly reading series featuring work from UNCA’s Great Smokies Writing Program and The Great Smokies Review. Free to attend. • MO (11/18), 6pm - Lee Smith and Samia Serageldin present the anthology, Mothers and Strangers. Free to attend. • TU (11/19), 6pm - Melanie Falick presents her book, Making A Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Were Meant to Live with local weaver Jessica Green. Free to attend. • TH (11/21), 6pm - Randy Johnson presents his book, Southern Snow: The New Guide to Winter Sports from Maryland to the Southern Appalachians. Free to attend. • TH (11/21), 7pm - Notorious History Book Club: Discussion of Chief Joseph & the Flight of the Nez Perce: The Untold Story of an American Tragedy by Kent Nerburn. Free to attend. • TH (11/21), 7pm - Works in Translation Book Club: Discussion of The True Deceiver by Tove Jansson, translated by Thomas Teal. Free to attend.

VISITING WRITERS SERIES • TH (11/14), 7-8:30pm - Jericho Brown reads his poetry. Free. Held at Blue Ridge Ballroom, 1 University Heights

THEATER 'CLYBOURNE PARK' • SATURDAYS & SUNDAYS until (11/17), 7:30pm - Clybourne Park, satire. Tickets: brownpapertickets. com/event/4351460. $10/Free for students. Held at Kittredge Theatre, Warren Wilson College, 701 Warren Wilson Road, Swannanoa 'ESCANABA IN DA MOONLIGHT' • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (11/15) until (11/24) - Escanaba in da Moonlight, comedy. Fri. & Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2pm. $25. Held at Hendersonville Community Theatre, 229 S. Washington St., Hendersonville

'MY CRAZY MY LOVE' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (11/23), 7:30pm - My Crazy My Love, production by The Sublime Theatre. $15. Held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce 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, One University Heights 'THE LION, THE WITCH, AND THE WARDROBE' • FRIDAY through SUNDAY until (11/17) - C.S. Lewis’ The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, children's fantasy. Fri. & Sat.: 7pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2pm. $14/$28. Held at Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Highway 225, Flat Rock

'MIXED FANDANGO' • THURSDAYS through SATURDAYS until (11/23), 7:30pm - Mixed Fandango, directed by Stephanie Hickling Beckman. $21/$18 advance. Held at Tina McGuire Theatre, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave.

35BELOW 35 E. Walnut St., 828254-1320, ashevilletheatre.org • FRIDAY through SUNDAY (11/15) until (11/17) - The Magic Treehouse: The Knight at Dawn, youth production class performance. Fri.: 7:30pm. Sat. & Sun.: 2:30pm. $7. • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS until (11/17) - The God of Hell, drama, production by the Ellipsis Theatre Company. Fri.&Sat.: 7:30pm. Sun.: 2:30pm. $20.

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

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 at Henry LaBrun Studio, Wortham Center for the Performing Arts, 18 Biltmore Ave.

GALLERY DIRECTORY ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM • AppalachiaNow!: An Interdisciplinary Survey of Contemporary Art in Southern Appalachia, featuring a collective survey of contemporary Southern Appalachian culture. Nov. 14-Feb. 3 175 Biltmore Ave.

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ASHEVILLE GALLERY OF ART • Reflection and Interpretation, exhibition of paintings by Michael Robinson. Nov. 1-Nov. 30 82 Patton Ave. CENTER FOR CRAFT • Making Meaning, 14 UNC Asheville alumni whose work shifts perceptions of material, method and meaning, creating new vocabularies in clay, digital media, photography, printmaking, assemblage and textiles. Nov. 16-Jan. 7 67 Broadway

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GALLERY 101 • Exhibition of teapots created by Catharine Healy and Tori Motyl. Nov. 1-Nov. 30 56 S. Lexington Ave. Unit 101 GROVEWOOD GALLERY • Landscapes of Southern Appalachia, oil paintings by Shawn Krueger. Oct. 19-Dec. 31 111 Grovewood Road HAEN GALLERY ASHEVILLE • Exhibition of paintings by Lynn Boggess. Oct. 26-Nov. 30 52 Biltmore Ave. HARVEST RECORDS • Exhibition of works by Harvest Records staff. Nov. 1-Nov. 30 415-B Haywood Road HAYWOOD COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • It's a Small, Small Work, exhibition of 240+ works. Nov. 1-Jan. 4 86 N. Main St., Waynesville MADISON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL • Swept Away, an exhibit of brooms from the collection of Tom Bailey. Oct. 17-Dec. 9 90 S. Main St., Marshall MARK BETTIS STUDIO & GALLERY • Larger Than Life, exhibition featuring the works of 12+ artists.

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2019 TEA FOR TWO: A new exhibition space called Gallery 101 has opened in downtown Asheville. Jun Seo, local artist and gallery owner, invited ceramic artists Catharine Healy and Tori Motyl to exhibit their two very different takes on the teapot. The exhibit runs throughout November. Photo courtesy of the artist, Catharine Healy. Nov. 9-Nov. 25 123 Roberts St.

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MARS HILL UNIVERSITY, WEIZENBLATT GALLERY 79 Cascade St., Mars Hill • Colby Caldwell photographs. Nov. 20-Dec. 20 • Nine Potters of Madison County making functional and sculptural ceramics. Oct. 30-Nov. 14

PUSH SKATE SHOP & GALLERY • Foggy Notion, group show curated by Maxx Feist. Reception: Friday, Nov. 15, 7-10pm. Nov. 15-Dec. 31 25 Patton Ave.

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PINK DOG CREATIVE • Evoke, a collaborative multi-sensory installation created by Christie Calaycay, metals, and Holly de Saillan, ceramics. Nov. 8-Nov. 30 348 Depot St.

THE ASHEVILLE SCHOOL • TransFormNation, Cleaster Cotton's show on civil rights, human rights and inequities. Nov. 6-Dec. 13 Held at the Walker Arts Center, 360 Asheville School Road

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 12 BONES BREWERY Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 7:00PM 185 KING STREET NC Songsmiths: Laura Blackley, 8:00PM 5 WALNUT WINE BAR Les Amis, (African folk music), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kari, 9:00PM

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ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Brown Bag Songwriting Competition, 5:00PM Disclaimer Comedy Open Mic, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL Turnover & Men I Trust w/ Renata Zeiguer, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Music Bingo, 6:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Acoustic Wednesdays: The Jacktown Ramblers, 6:00PM

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

SANCTUARY BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM

LOBSTER TRAP Cigar Brothers, 6:30PM

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MOE'S ORIGINAL BBQ WOODFIN Bluegrass Jam hosted by Gary Mac Fiddle, 6:00PM NORTH CAROLINA GLASS CENTER Veteran's Hot Glass Day, 4:00PM ODDITORIUM Hard Rocket, John Kirby and The New Seniors, Deathbots (rock), 9:00PM

SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Classic Guitar Solos w/ Albi, 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 Lula Wiles, 8:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Monolord w/ Blackwater Holylight, Sang Sarah, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL LOUNGE Pimps of Pompe, 9:00PM TOWN PUMP David Bryan's Open Mic, 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Open Mic Night, 7:00PM UPCOUNTRY BREWING COMPANY Wednesday Night Bluegrass Jam, 7:00PM

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AMBROSE WEST Freeway Jubilee w/ Random Animals, 8:30PM

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

ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY Cuban Night w/ Simón Y Las Reglas, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Cello, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Will Ray and the Space Cooties, 7:00PM BEN'S TUNE UP Offended! Comedy Open Mic, 9:30PM BLUE RIDGE BALLROOM Visiting Writers Series: Poet Jericho Brown, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Big Dawg Slingshots (western swing & ragtime), 10:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Old Gold w/ DJ Jasper (soul 'n' rock 'n' roll), 10:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Grace Joyner, WYLA, Homestead, 8:00PM FLOOD GALLERY FINE ART CENTER True Home Open Mic, 6:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Third Nature, 6:00PM Lyric, 8:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tracy Grammer, 7:00PM Roman Street, 8:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Quizzo Pub Trivia, 7:30PM LAZY DIAMOND 80's INVASION, 10:00PM

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PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Dave Desmelik, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Bald Mountain Boys, 7:00PM

ZAMBRA Turkish Delight, (Gypsy jazz), 7:00PM

POLANCO RESTAURANT DJ Dance Party w/ DJ Phantome Pantone Collective, 10:00PM

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SLY GROG LOUNGE Rod Hamdallah, 8:00PM

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

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ODDITORIUM Curious Folk Present: Wild Realms Medieval, 7:00PM ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Free Dead Fridays feat. members of Phuncle Sam acoustic, 5:30PM City Dirt Trio, 10:00PM ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: Cactus Punch, 9:00PM ORANGE PEEL A Brother's Revival feat. members of Allman Brothers Band, Dickey Betts & Great Southern, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Downtown Abbey & the Echoes, 6:00PM PACK'S TAVERN DJ RexxStep (dance party), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR The Realtorz, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY The Jauntee, 8:00PM RUSTIC GRAPE WINE BAR Ryan Furstenberg, 7:30PM SALVAGE STATION Vintage Trouble, 8:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Scoundrel's Lounge, 8:00PM

SOVEREIGN KAVA Bad Comedy Night hosted by Justin Blackburn, 9:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE DJ Smokifantastic Fridays, 6:00PM Freedom's Friday (Drip Edition), 9:00PM THE BARRELHOUSE Jesse Harman, 7:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Carolina Lowdown, 7:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Corey Harris & Todd Albright, 9:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat. Phantom Pantone Collective, 10:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT 2nd Annual Moth Ball Country Dance (DJs, photo booth, costumes encouraged), 9:00PM THE OMNI GROVE PARK INN Andrew J. Fletcher (solo jazz piano), 2:30PM TOWN PUMP The Hilltop Revival, 9:00PM URBAN ORCHARD CIDER CO. SOUTH SLOPE De' Rumba w/ DJ Malinalli, 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Chuck Brodsky, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE Showers on Mars, 9:00PM WILD WING CAFE SOUTH A Social Function Acoustic, 9:00PM WORTHAM CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Canadian Brass, 8:00PM ZAMBRA Jason Moore, (jazz), 8:00PM

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 185 KING STREET The Super 60s, 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Local Music Western Carolina Writers, 8:00PM APPALACHIAN COFFEE COMPANY Mr. Jimmy (Chicago style blues), 4:00PM ASHEVILLE CLUB Mr. Jimmy, (blues) 4:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Swing Step band followed by Feed the Dog - Travelling Wisconsin Band, 5:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Off with Your Radiohead, 10:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Erin Kinard, 7:00PM CORK & KEG The Big Dawg Slingshots, 8:30PM CROW & QUILL The Burger Kings (photo rock n' roll), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Soul Motion Dance Party w/ DJ Dr. Filth, 10:00PM FINES CREEK COMMUNITY CENTER Running Wolfe and the Renegades, 6:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Fleetwood's Record Show and Sale, 11:00AM Fleetwood's Garage Psych-Out Fest, 6:00PM FOGGY MOUNTAIN BREWPUB J.J Hipps and the Hideaways (soul, R&B), 10:00PM FOLKMOOT FRIENDSHIP CENTER Mountain Memories No. 1: A Hazelwood Gathering, 6:00PM GINGER'S REVENGE Laura Blackley (Appalachian blues and soul), 2:30PM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Hustle Souls, 6:00PM Get Right Band, 8:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Roger Street Friedman, 7:00PM Eliot Bronson and Sarah Peacock, 8:30PM LAZOOM ROOM LaZoom Comedy: Chanel Ali, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Slushie Saturdays w/ Los Dos Krektones (instro-surf rock), 2:30PM Raw Funk, Stomp, Rock, Groove, & Skank w/ DJ The Bogart, 10:00PM

PACK'S TAVERN Gotcha Groove (rock, party covers), 9:30PM PILLAR ROOFTOP BAR Riyen Roots, 7:00PM PISGAH BREWING COMPANY 3rd Annual Holiday Craft Fair w/ live music, 11:00AM Barnes Sanders & Rhodes, 9:00PM PURPLE ONION CAFE Lonesome Road Band, 8:00PM SALVAGE STATION 2nd Annual: Live to Breathe, Rock to Live, 4:30PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Jangling Sparrows, 8:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE All Night w/ Mike, 9:00PM STREAMSIDE CONCERTS Melanie Safka Woodstock 50th w/ Melanie, 7:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Kristin Reitter and the Vibra-tones, (comedy, music), 7:30PM Community Salsa/ Latin Night w/ DJ Edi Fuentes (lessons at 9:00PM), 9:30PM

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LOBSTER TRAP Sean Mason Trio, 6:30PM

TOWN PUMP The Blue Ridge Busketeers, 9:00PM

ODDITORIUM Asheville Cat Weirdos Food Drive, 9:00PM

TWISTED LAUREL DJ Dance Party w/ Phantom Pantone DJ Collective, 11:00PM

ONE WORLD BREWING WEST OWB West: The Coal Cave Hollow Boys, 9:00PM

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PAWS, CLAWS AND BREWS: Hendersonville group The Gathering Dark (Josh Dunkin and Steven DuRose) will join Mt. Holly singer-songwriter David Childers (pictured) for a benefit concert to support new local nonprofit, Teddy and Friends Animal Rescue. The organization will host the Fall Festival at Southern Appalachian Brewery in Hendersonville on Sunday, Nov. 16. Other aligning businesses include Heart of Appalachia Animal Rescue, Esther Neonatal Kitten Alliance and Wags & Whiskers Pet Styling. Expect raffles, games and a candy bar at the event, which kicks off at 5 p.m. Free to attend. sabrewery.com. Photo by Daniel Coston

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AMBROSE WEST Madelyn Ilana w/ Scarvves, 7:00PM 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 Pot Luck & Musician's Jam, 3:00PM BATTERY PARK BOOK EXCHANGE Pimps of Pompe Trio (Gypsy jazz hip-hop), 2:00PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Larry Dolamore, 7:00PM 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

DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ Hannah Juanita & The Hardliners & live Honky Tonk, 9:00PM FLEETWOOD'S Queer Comedy Party ft. Bobby Higley, 8:00PM FUNKATORIUM Gary "Macfiddle" Mackey (bluegrass), 1:00PM HEMINGWAY'S Riyen Roots, 11:00AM HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Reggae Sunday w/ Chalwa, 2:00PM Sidecar Honey, 7:00PM ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Julie McConnell Quintet, 6:00PM The Red Clay Strays, 7:30PM JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Irish Session, 3:00PM Soul Blue, 9:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Noiz Oasis w/ DJ Salty Stax (post-punk), 10:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Phil Alley, 6:30PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE Sunday Brunch w/ Hank Bones & Jon Corbin, 12:00PM Friday Night Live Music Series, 8:00PM LUELLA'S BAR-B-QUE BILTMORE PARK Sunday Live Music w/ Leo Johnson, 1:00PM

NEW BELGIUM BREWERY REI Twinkle Roast & Film Fest, 4:00PM ODDITORIUM NeverFall, Tone STS, Behind The Sun, Lythronaxas (metal), 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 Waltz Night, 6:00PM 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 SOVEREIGN KAVA Reggae Sunday w/ PopUp Dinner, 4:00PM STRAIGHTAWAY CAFE Lucky James, 1:00PM STREAMSIDE CONCERTS Melanie Safka Woodstock 50th w/ Melanie, 3:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Richard Shulman, 3:00PM Sunday Blues Dance (lessons at 7:30PM), 8:00PM

THE BARRELHOUSE Weekly Original Music Open Mic, 6:00PM THE GREENHOUSE MOTO CAFE Tools on Stools, 3:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Paul Cauthen, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE DJ Dance Party feat. Phantom Pantone Collective, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Chastity Belt w/ Strange Ranger, 9:00PM TWIN LEAF BREWERY Movie Mondays, 7:00PM UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION OF ASHEVILLE 19th Annual Fall Benefit Concert, 3:00PM UNITY OF THE BLUE RIDGE Richard Shulman Trio, 9:00AM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Missy Anderson & Her One Man Band, 7:30PM WILD WING CAFE NFL Sundays w/ DJ Razor, 1:00PM ZAMBRA Kessler Watson, (jazz), 7:00PM

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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 18 5 WALNUT WINE BAR CaroMia, Cary Fridley, Laura Blackley (folk, R&B), 8:00PM 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 OLE SHAKEY'S Live Band Honky Tonk Karaoke, 9:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY Mountain Music Mondays (open jam), 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Open Mic Night w/ It Takes All Kinds, 7:00PM SOVEREIGN KAVA Stage Fright Open Mic (7:30pm Sign up), 8:00PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Ambigious Roots w/ Jamar Woods, Brennan Dugan & Adam Chase, 9:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Open Mic Night (6PM sign-up), 7:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Leo Johnson Trio, 9:00PM THE MOTHLIGHT Titus Andronicus w/ Partner, 9:00PM WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Local Live, 7:00PM

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 19 5 WALNUT WINE BAR The John Henrys, (hot jazz), 8:00PM ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Open Mic, 8:00PM ASHEVILLE BEAUTY ACADEMY The Salon w/ Ida Carolina, 7:00PM Drayton & Friends, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Izzy (singer, songwriter), 7:00PM

TWIN LEAF BREWERY Robert's Twin Leaf Trivia, 8:00PM

ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR Evening of Classical Guitar - 1st & 3rd Tuesdays, 8:00PM

ONE STOP AT ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL

WHITE HORSE BLACK MOUNTAIN Irish Music Circle, 6:30PM Open Mic, 8:30PM

Brown Bag Songwriting Competition, 5:00PM

ASHEVILLE MUSIC HALL Tuesday Night Funk Jam, 11:00PM

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20

BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Billy Litz, 7:00PM

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

CORK & KEG Old Time Moderate Jam, 5:00PM

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

DOUBLE CROWN Sonic Stew w/ DJ Lil Side Salad & Seymour, 10:00PM

ALLEY CAT SOCIAL CLUB Karaoke w/ Kari, 9:00PM

HAYWOOD COUNTRY CLUB Turntable Tuesdays hosted by VTT, 10:00PM

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

ISIS MUSIC HALL & KITCHEN 743 Tuesday Bluegrass Sessions hosted by ClayBank, 7:30PM

ARCHETYPE BREWING Old Time Jam, 5:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Jackson Grimm, 7:00PM LOBSTER TRAP Jay Brown, 6:30PM MAD CO BREW HOUSE NC Songsmiths, Melissa Hyman, 6:00PM MARKET PLACE Rat Alley Cats (instrumental jazz), 6:30PM ODDITORIUM Odditorium Comedy Night, 9:00PM

ASHEVILLE CLUB Live Jazz Trio, 7:00PM ASHEVILLE GUITAR BAR AGB Open Mic, 6:30PM BLUE MOUNTAIN PIZZA & BREW PUB Open Mic hosted by Mark Bumgarner, 7:00PM CROW & QUILL Resonant Rogues (ballads for wanderers), 9:00PM DOUBLE CROWN Western Wednesday w/ live Honky Tonk, 9:00PM

ORANGE PEEL Jimmy Eat World w/ Pronoun, 8:00PM OSKAR BLUES BREWERY

PISGAH BREWING COMPANY Acoustic Wednesdays: Kyle Travers, 6:00PM SANCTUARY BREWING CO. French Broad Valley Music Association Mountain Music Jam, 6:00PM SLY GROG LOUNGE Weird Wed Jam, 9:00PM SOUTHERN APPALACHIAN BREWERY Jazz Night hosted by Jason DeCristofaro, 6:30PM THE BLOCK OFF BILTMORE Classic Guitar Solos w/ Albi, 6:00PM Democratic Debate Watch Party w/ Indivisible Asheville, 8:00PM

HIGHLAND BREWING COMPANY Woody Wood Wednesdays, 6:00PM

Ruby's Blues Jam, 9:00PM

SANCTUARY BREWING CO. Team Trivia w/ host Josh Dunkin, 7:00PM

HIGHSMITH STUDENT UNION Iranian Classical Music Concert by Bahman Panahi, 7:00PM

3 Cool Cats, 6:00PM

THE GOLDEN PINEAPPLE Robert's Totally Rad Trivia, 8:00PM THE GREY EAGLE Small Town Titans w/ Rip Haven, 8:00PM THE IMPERIAL LIFE Andrew J. Fletcher (solo jazz piano), 9:00PM THE MARKET PLACE RESTAURANT AND LOUNGE Rat Alley Cats, 6:30PM THE MOTHLIGHT Fruit Bats, 8:00PM THE SOCIAL Open Mic w/ Riyen Roots, 8:00PM

JACK OF THE WOOD PUB Old Time Music Jam Session, 5:00PM LAZY DIAMOND Killer Karaoke w/ KJ TimO, 10:00PM

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

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Ali McGhee

Who are the parasites in this movie? The Kims, who abandon themselves to snatching what they can? The Parks, who take for granted the invisible labor of the toiling lives below them? Perhaps it’s the human race itself, feeding on its own and the world to the point of extinction. Starts Nov. 15 at the Fine Arts Theatre REVIEWED BY ALI MCGHEE ALIMCGHEE@GMAIL.COM

Doctor Sleep HHHHS

Parasite HHHHH DIRECTOR: Bong Joon-ho PLAYERS: Song Kang-ho, Chang Hyae Jin, Park So-dam, Choi Woo-shik DRAMA/COMEDY/THRILLER RATED R When Bong Joon-ho’s Palme d’Orwinning Parasite opens, the members of the Kim family are eking out their existence below the lowest stratum of Korean society. Figuratively and literally, they occupy a derelict “half-basement” underneath Seoul’s street level and fold pizza boxes for a living. From here, the film tenderly follows them to the unreal luxury of that city’s moneyed and oft-satirized Gangnam district, where son Ki-woo (Choi Wooshik) cons his way into tutoring guileless Da-hye (Ziso Jung), daughter of the ultrawealthy Parks. Ki-woo and his ruthless sister, Ki-jung (Park So-dam) unspool an intricate, hilarious plan, and soon they and their parents — mother Chung-sook (Chang Hyae Jin) and sweetly bumbling father Ki-taek (Song Kang-ho) — replace the household help at the Parks’ estate, a glittering modern home designed by a famous architect that shockingly contrasts the Kims’ shabby lifestyle. The plot that unfolds is a joy to watch, even when the Kims act unspeakably to preserve the domestic illusion on which they’ve staked their future hopes. 76

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DIRECTOR: Mike Flanagan PLAYERS: Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson, Kyliegh Curran HORROR RATED R Doctor Sleep may be based on the recent Stephen King novel, but it’s more precisely a follow-up to Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 movie masterpiece, The Shining, which diverged considerably from King’s 1977 book. Danny Torrance (Ewan McGregor), the boy from The Shining, is now a recovering alcoholic, largely suppressing his psychic gifts. A teenage girl named Abra (Kyliegh Curran) reaches out to him via telepathy, and the pair decide to take on a supernatural coven that feeds off the torture of psychic children — and that soon targets Abra. Writer/director Mike Flanagan can’t re-create Kubrick’s incredible mastery of space and time, but he can re-create Kubrick’s vision of the Overlook Hotel, where he sets the final confrontation involving Danny and Abra and Rose the Hat (a mesmerizing Rebecca Ferguson), the powerful leader of the evil coven. Once the chase begins, the tension doesn’t waver, and Flanagan ratchets it up with economy (despite the 151-minute length). The result is a taut supernatural story with a few splashes of gore — more thriller than horror film. It’s brimming with finely drawn, believable characters, impressive but wisely restrained CG effects and a fully satisfying ending. REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

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Ford v Ferrari HHHHS

DIRECTOR: James Mangold PLAYERS: Matt Damon, Christian Bale, Caitriona Balfe, Josh Lucas, Tracy Letts BIOPIC/ACTION-ADVENTURE RATED PG-13 When was the last time Christian Bale got to show off his cheerful side? And how long has it been since an auto-racing movie had the potential to entertain audiences that could care less about the fastest cars on the track? James Mangold’s Ford v Ferrari unites both of those assets via high-quality, oldschool Hollywood filmmaking that balances plentiful thrills and laughs with commendable grace. The fact-based tale of the titular, mid1960s battle for automotive supremacy at the 24 Hours of Le Mans harnesses grand tension not merely from revered car designer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and wild-card driver Ken Miles (Bale) matching wits and talents with their Italian competition, but in battles against their shortsighted Detroit employers. Among its many rich showdowns, the film’s screenwriting team crafts a terrific rivalry between Shelby’s crew and Leo Beebe (Josh Lucas), a Ford executive with a stick up his butt and a frustrating inability to see that success lies beyond brand consistency. But while the sharp human drama is key to establishing bonds with characters risking their lives (and livelihoods) to chase greatness, it’s primarily an inroad to the racing itself — and Mangold doesn’t disappoint, turning each moment in the driver’s seat into an absolute blast. Starts Nov. 15 REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

Last Christmas HHHH DIRECTOR: Paul Feig PLAYERS: Emilia Clarke, Henry Golding, Emma Thompson ROMANCE/COMEDY RATED PG-13 Once Halloween hits, it’s down with the ghosts and up with the reindeer. If you’re not quite in the holiday spirit, the unconventional romantic come-

dy Last Christmas might be exactly what you need. Take the confident direction of Paul Feig (Bridesmaids); a sweet yet nonsaccharine story co-written and developed by Emma Thompson; hilarious turns by Emilia Clarke (HBO’s “Game of Thrones”), Henry Golding (Crazy Rich Asians), Michelle Yeoh and Thompson herself; add the fantastic music of George Michael — and you’re in for some magic. That doesn’t mean Last Christmas isn’t full of holiday tropes, but it utilizes them to tell a heartwarming story of hope, recovery and redemption. By looking on the macro elements of Brexit — specifically the removal of refugees — in conjunction with Christmas, the film examines the message within the holiday while also serving as a jumpingoff point to explore Clarke’s character and her own disassociation of identity after surviving a severe health crisis in an honest, heartfelt way. Read the full review at elementsofmadness.com REVIEWED BY DOUGLAS DAVIDSON ELEMENTSOFMADNESS@GMAIL.COM

Midway HS DIRECTOR: Roland Emmerich PLAYERS: Woody Harrelson, Patrick Wilson, Luke Evans, Ed Skrein HISTORICAL DRAMA/THRILLER RATED PG-13 Roland Emmerich’s cinematic telling of the Battle of Midway (a skirmish that marked a massive turning point in World War II) is a big, loud and extremely dopey action movie — one that feels like an ugly throwback to the trashy, late-’90s Hollywood disaster epics that launched the director’s career. While the film certainly isn’t lacking in patriotic symbolism, Midway seems to have little concern for giving real-life vets any personality or motivation outside of the few Hollywood archetypes it feels so intent on repackaging. Screenwriter Wes Tooke (USA’s “The Colony”) has provided Emmerich with just the right amount of clichés and machismo with which the Independence Day director has always been obsessed. Sadly, the inherent intrigue that comes from such a harrowing true story becomes lost in the film’s endless shouting and explosions. The supporting cast is a Who’s Who of big names — ranging from Woody Harrelson to Nick Jonas — and, in most cases, a cast like this would be the film’s one saving grace. However, most of the actors are forced to spout expository gibberish or deliver cringe-inducing oneliners while standing in front of poorly

lit soundstages or green screens with completely unconvincing CGI. REVIEWED BY JOSH MCCORMACK JMCCORMA@UNCA.EDU

Pain and Glory HHHH DIRECTOR: Pedro Almodóvar PLAYERS: Antonio Banderas, Penélope Cruz, Cecilia Roth DRAMA RATED R Pedro Almodóvar’s most autobiographical film, Pain and Glory is heavy on the pain and light on the glory. A melancholy Antonio Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, a filmmaker suffering from the same ailments as Almodóvar, with the addition of a fictional opioids addiction. Feeling creatively tapped out, Salvador aimlessly reconnects with people from his past — an actor he alienated, a former lover and so on. At the same time, childhood memories are bubbling up, particularly of his first crush, at age 10, on a hunky laborer he taught to read and write. The present day sequences are disturbing yet somewhat drained of feeling, as Salvador’s malaise seems to infuse the filmmaking. But the flashbacks are vibrant, colorful and enthralling, in part because the radiant Penélope Cruz portrays Salvador’s mother and in part because the setting — a home in a whitewashed cavern with a skylight open to the sun and rain — is so distinct. By the end, past and present merge in the discovery of a drawing, and the fragmented movie itself is suddenly made whole. Redemption is suggested, if not guaranteed. This is, after all, an Almodóvar film. Starts Nov. 15 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY BRUCE STEELE BCSTEELE@GMAIL.COM

Playing with Fire H DIRECTOR: Andy Fickman PLAYERS: John Cena, Judy Greer, Keegan-Michael Key, John Leguizamo COMEDY RATED PG The top movies currently in theaters feature killer robots, evil fairies, zombies and psychotic clowns, leaving a welcome space for something family-friendly like Playing With Fire. No, this movie isn’t for everyone. Those without kids or who aren’t kids themselves probably won’t find it appealing. But there aren’t many comedies currently in theaters, either. So if you’re looking for laughs — even cheap, juvenile ones — and a tug on your feelings, you could find some entertainment here.

John Cena leads a team of smokejumpers (firefighters who parachute or rope-jump via helicopter into blazes inaccessible by truck) who suddenly find themselves needing to care for three children rescued from a cabin fire. As you can guess, tough-guy firefighters who fearlessly leap into blazes can’t handle kids playing with hoses and flare guns indoors. And you know diaper changes will be a problem. That’s the entire joke, one that director Andy Fickman has tackled before in comedies like Parental Guidance (2012) and The Game Plan (2007). Cena, John Leguizamo, KeeganMichael Key and Judy Greer are all talented actors. They probably received nice paychecks for this one. Go see their other movies instead.

collaborator of Steven Soderbergh who somehow hasn’t directed a feature since 2006’s “Breaking Bad”esque Russian radiation drama, Pu-239. His ability to funnel complex operations through an easily digestible package is a massive achievement and results in one of the year’s most important and compelling films. Starts Nov. 15 at Grail Moviehouse REVIEWED BY EDWIN ARNAUDIN EARNAUDIN@MOUNTAINX.COM

STARTING FRIDAY Ford v Ferrari (PG-13) HHHHS Parasite (R) HHHHH (Pick of the Week)

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Pain and Glory (R) HHHH

The Report HHHHS DIRECTOR: Scott Z. Burns PLAYERS: Adam Driver, Annette Bening, Jon Hamm DRAMA/THRILLER RATED R

The Report (R) HHHHS JUST ANNOUNCED Charlie’s Angels (PG-13) Kristen Stewart takes the lead in the latest reboot of the TV series. Elizabeth Banks writes, directs and co-stars.

A crackling retort to Zero Dark Thirty and its argument for the benefits of torture in a post-9/11 world, the procedural thriller The Report spits in the face of government corruption and encourages viewers to rethink a key chapter of recent political history. Playing real-life Senate Intelligence Committee investigator Daniel Jones, Adam Driver fortifies his claim to the title of his generation’s best actor with a nuanced performance of a man driven to do the right thing in the face of incredible interference. His multiyear journey of extreme dedication finds validation from a handful of allies — namely his boss, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (Annette Bening) — and opposition from numerous others. The film moves between these key characters and storylines with impeccable smoothness, keeping the pace active without losing sight of its featured players. Shepherding it all forward is Scott Z. Burns, a longtime screenwriting

The Good Liar (R) Helen Mirren plays a well-to-do widow who becomes entangled with a career con artist, played by Ian McKellen. Bill Condon (Beauty and the Beast; Mr. Holmes) directs.

CURRENTLY IN THEATERS The Addams Family (PG) HH Arctic Dogs (PG) HHHH By the Grace of God (NR) HHHHS Countdown (PG-13) HHH The Current War: Director’s Cut (PG-13) HHHS Doctor Sleep (R) HHHHS Dora and the Lost City of Gold (PG) HH Fantastic Fungi (NR) HHHH Harriet (PG-13) HH Jojo Rabbit (PG-13) HHHHH Joker (R) HHHS Last Christmas (PG-13) HHHH The Lighthouse (R) HH Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (PG) HHHS Midway (PG-13) HS

FILM RESILIENCE: THE BIOLOGY OF STRESS & THE SCIENCE OF HOPE • WE (11/13), 5:30pm - Resilience: The Biology of Stress & the Science of Hope, documentary. Light supper and childcare included. Registration: avl.mx/6on. Free. Held at Grace Church in the Mountains, 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville

Motherless Brooklyn (R) HHHS No Safe Spaces (PG-13) HHS Playing with Fire (PG-13) H Spider-Man: Far from Home (PG-13) HHHH Terminator: Dark Fate (R) HHHH Zombieland: Double Tap (R) HHHS

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): If there are any potential Aries heroes or leaders or saviors out there, the coming weeks will be a favorable time for you to fully bloom and assert your practical magnificence. The lessons you have learned while improvising workable solutions for yourself are ripe to be applied to the riddles that are puzzling your tribe or group or gang. I want to let you know, however, that to achieve maximum effectiveness, you should be willing to do good deeds for people who may not be able to pay you back. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when it’s crucial that your receptivity be as robust as possible. To guide you in this delightful but perhaps challenging work, here are good questions for you to pose. 1. Do you know what help and support you need most, and are you brave and forthright enough to ask for it? 2. Is there any part of you, perhaps unconscious, that believes you don’t deserve gifts and blessings? 3. Do you diligently cultivate your capacity to be refreshed and restored? 4. Are you eagerly responsive when life surprises you with learning experiences and inspirations? GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Many people will not be honest because they fear loss of intimacy and togetherness,” writes self-help author Henry Cloud. But the truth, he adds, is that “honesty brings people closer together,” because it “strengthens their identities.” Therein lies the tender paradox: “The more you realize your separate identities, the closer you can become.” Living according to this principle may not be as easy or convenient as being deceptive and covert, but it’s ultimately more gratifying. Henry Cloud concludes, “Telling loved ones what is really on your mind and telling others what you really think is the foundation of love.” CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization,” said poet Kenneth Rexroth. That’s the opposite of the conventional wisdom. For many people, the process of growing up and becoming a seasoned adult means trying to fit in, to find one’s category, to be serious and steady and stable. Rexroth, on the other hand, suggested that when you fully ripen into your potentials, you transcend standard definitions; you don’t adhere to others’ expectations; you are uniquely yourself, outside and beyond all pigeonholes and classifications. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to practice and cultivate this sacred art. LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Is there an event from your past that would be empowering for you to remember in detail? Is there a neglected but still viable dream you could resurrect, thereby energizing your enthusiasm for the future? Are there old allies you’ve lost touch with but who, if you called on them, could provide you with just the boost you need? Is there a familiar pleasure you’ve grown numb to but could reinvigorate by visualizing the original reasons you loved it? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to meditate on these questions. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Catholic saint St. Francis (1181–1226) loved animals and the natural world. According to one folkloric tale, he was once traveling on foot with several companions when they came upon a place where the trees were filled with birds. Francis said, “Wait for me while I go preach to my sisters the birds.” He proceeded to do just that. The birds were an attentive audience for the duration of his sermon, apparently captivated by his tender tones. Seven centuries later, author Rebecca West offered a critique of the bird-whisperer. “Did St. Francis preach to the birds?” she asked. “Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.” In the coming weeks, Virgo, I encourage you to do the metaphorical equivalent of preaching to both the birds and the cats.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Every now and then I authorize you Libras to shed your polite, tactful personas and express the angst you sometimes feel but usually hide. That’s now! To egg you on, read this mischievous rant by Libran blogger Clary Gay (claryfightwood.tumblr.com): “We Libras are constantly thinking about how to make everyone else comfortable and happy. There’s not a minute going by when we’re not worrying about radiating a soothing and comforting aura so everyone can have a good time. If a Libra is cranky, it’s because they snapped! Because of some non-Libra who doesn’t appreciate them! If a Libra is mean to people, it’s their own damn fault!” SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Poet Robert Bly tells us that the door to the soul is unlocked. You don’t have to struggle through any special machinations to open it or go through it. Furthermore, the realm of the soul is always ready for you. Always! It harbors the precise treasure you need in order to be replenished and empowered. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I think that during the next two weeks, you should abide as much as possible in the soul’s realm — the cornucopia of holy truths and ever-fresh riches. SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): In my estimation, what you’ve experienced lately has been akin to a fermentation process. It’s as if you’re undergoing a transformation with resemblances to the way that grapes turn into wine or milk becomes yogurt or dough rises before being baked into bread. You may have had to endure some discomfort, which is the case for anything in the midst of substantial change. But I think you’ll ultimately be quite pleased with the results, which I expect will be ready no later than 10 days after your birthday — and quite possibly sooner. CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Many books have been written about Joan of Arc, a 15th-century teenage peasant girl whose improbable ascent to military leadership, under the guidance of her divine visions, was crucial in France’s victory over the English. Among the many miraculous elements of her story was the fact that less than a year before she led troops into battle on horseback, she didn’t know how to ride a horse. She learned by riding around her father’s farm astride his cows. I foresee an equivalent marvel in your future, Capricorn. By this time next year, you will have developed an aptitude that might seem unimaginable now. (P.S. There’s evidence Joan was a Capricorn.) AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The Divine Comedy is one of history’s greatest literary works. Its author, Dante Alighieri, was 43 when he began writing the Inferno, the first part of his three-part masterpiece. Up until that time, he had published just one book and a few poems and had also abandoned work on two unfinished books. Early on in the Inferno, the not-yet-renowned author presents a fictional scene in which he meets with the spirits of antiquity’s most famous authors: Virgil, Homer, Horace, Ovid and Lucan. Those illustrious five tell Dante he is such an important writer that he ranks sixth, after them, in his excellence. I’m going to encourage you to dare indulging in behavior like Dante’s: to visualize and extol — and yes, even brag about — the virtues and skills that will ultimately be your signature contribution to this world. PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Latin word for sea is mare. Flustra is the calm sea. Undisonus means “resounding with waves.” Caeruleus is the sea’s deep shade of blue, aestus is the tide, and aequoreus means “connected with the sea.” My hope is that as you meditate on these lyrical terms, you’ll be moved to remember the first lakes, rivers and oceans you ever swam in. You’ll recall your time floating in your mother’s womb and your most joyous immersions in warm baths and hot springs. Why? It’s a favorable time to seek the healing and rejuvenating powers of primal waters — both metaphorically and literally.

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LEGAL NOTICES NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, RUTHERFORD COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by Nguyen Lam Tang and Lisa M. Tang, dated November 14, 2013, recorded on November 14, 2013, in Book 1164, Page 780 of the Rutherford County Public Registry conveying certain real property in Rutherford County to Western North Carolina Service Corporation, Trustee, for the benefit of Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems Inc. as nominee for Hometrust Bank. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 27, 2019 at 10:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following

described property situated in Rutherford County, North Carolina, to wit: Situate, lying and being in Sulphur Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being the same and identical property as described in Deed recorded in Deed Book 836, Page 358, Rutherford County registry, and being described according to said deed as follows: Situate, lying and being in Sulphur Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being the same and identical property as described in Substitute Trustee' Deed recorded in Deed Book 816, Page 121, Rutherford County registry, and being described according to said deed as follows: Situate, lying and being in Sulphur Springs Township, Rutherford County, North Carolina and being Lot 11 of the Town and County Subdivision as shown on Plat recorded in plat Book 6, at Page 161, Rutherford County registry and being described herein according to a survey prepared by Nathan Odom, R.L.S. and dated October 21, 1994 as follows: BEGINNING at a new iron pin located 32.1 feet from the centerline of North Carolina State Secondary 2234 (Lawndale Drive), and also being located in the southeastern corner of the property of Darell O. Ficklin, et ux as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 316, page 313, Rutherford County registry, said Ficklin property being Lot 12 of the said subdivision, and running thence with the eastern boundary of the said Ficklin property North 03 degrees 27 minutes 44 seconds West 207.71 feet to a new iron pin located in the northeastern corner of the said Ficklin property and the southern boundary of the property of Arthur Doggett, et ux as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 334 at Page 531, Rutherford County registry; thence running with the southern boundary of the said Doggett property of South 86 degrees 13 minutes 48 seconds East 85.00 feet to an existing iron pin located in the northwestern corner of the property of Raymond Allen Geiser as described in deed recorded in Deed Book 531, at Page 773, Rutherford County Registry, said Geiser property South 03 degrees 50 minutes 00 seconds East 200.65 feet to an existing iron pin located in the southwestern boundary of the said Geiser property and also being located 30.9 feet from the centerline of North Carolina State Secondary Road 2234 (Lawndale Drive); thence running South 88 degrees 58 minutes 08 seconds West 85.70 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING; and containing 0.40 acres, more or less. Being the same property as that described in Deed Book 820, Page 573, Rutherford County Registry. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 144 Woodside Drive, Forest City, NC 28043; tax parcel 1303517 A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, payable to Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, PLLC, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered

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ACROSS 1 Pilgrim’s journey 5 Big name in water filters 10 Verse-vs.-verse event 14 Vacation destination 15 Elizabeth I was the last one 16 North Sea feeder 17 *Storefront cover that’s totally busted? 19 Dem. or Rep., e.g. 20 Feature of many a mailbox 21 Facial hair for Uncle Sam and others 23 Stir up 26 *Army camp that stinks to high heaven? 27 *Old Seattle sports page headline? 30 Extremely small 31 Bio datum 32 Lead-in to cast 33 Nothing but for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to any and all superior liens, including taxes and special assessments. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are Nguyen Lam Tang and Lisa M. Tang. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29, in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination [N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(b) (2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be

void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Cape Fear Trustee Services, LLC, Substitute Trustee ___ ____________________________ ___, Attorney Aaron Seagroves, NCSB No. 50979 W. Harris, NCSB No. 48633 5550 77 Center Drive, Suite 100 Charlotte, NC 28217 PHONE: 980-201-3840 NOTICE OF FORECLOSURE SALE NORTH CAROLINA, TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY Under and by virtue of a Power of Sale contained in that certain Deed of Trust executed by NOAH'S A.R.C., Inc. dated February 24, 2006, recorded on February 28, 2006 in Book 336, Page 133 of the Transylvania County Public Registry conveying certain real property in Transylvania County to MTNBK, LTD, Trustee, for the benefit of Carolina First Bank. Default having been made of the note thereby secured by the said Deed of Trust and the undersigned, having been substituted as Trustee in said Deed of Trust, and the holder of the note evidencing said default having directed that the Deed of Trust be foreclosed, the undersigned Substitute Trustee will offer for sale at the courthouse door of the county courthouse where the property is located, or the usual and customary location at the county courthouse for conducting the sale on November 25, 2019 at 10:00 AM, and will sell to the highest bidder for cash the following described property situated in Transylvania County, North Carolina, to wit: BEGINNING at an iron pin located in the eastern margin of Ecusta Road (SR 1512) and South 00 deg. 12 min. 53 sec. East 583.69 feet from NCGS Mon. “Olin,” having grid coordinates of N 572877.781 and E 894079.626, and running thence from said point of beginning, South 82 deg. 00 min. 50 sec. East 269.50 feet to an iron pin; thence South 09 deg. 51 min. 27 sec. East 196.80 feet to an iron pin; thence North 87 deg. 56 min. 05 sec. West 324.29 feet to a point in the eastern margin of Ecusta Road (SR 1512); thence, with the eastern margin of Ecusta Road, North 06 deg. 06 min. 23 East 220.09 feet to the point and place of BEGINNING, and containing 1.40 acres, more or less,

and also being all of that property depicted as “Noah's ARC Tract” on plat of record in File 11, Slide 616 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Transylvania County, North Carolina, reference to which plat is hereby made for a more particular description. THERE IS ALSO CONVEYED an easement for the purposes of ingress, egress and regress from the eastern margin of the above described property to Ecusta Road (SR 1512), said easement lying across that unnamed road leading from Ecusta Road to the northeastern corner of the above described tract as shown on that plat of record in Plat File 11, Slide 616 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Transylvania County, North Carolina, reference to which plat is hereby made for a more particular description. BEING a portion of that real property described indeed of record in Document Book 183, at Page 713 in the Office of the Register of Deeds for Transylvania County, North Carolina. Save and except any releases, deeds of release or prior conveyances of record. Said property is commonly known as 451 Ecusta Road, Brevard, NC 28712 A cash deposit (no personal checks) of five percent (5%) of the purchase price, or Seven Hundred Fifty Dollars ($750.00), whichever is greater, payable to Bell Carrington Price & Gregg, PLLC, will be required at the time of the sale. Following the expiration of the statutory upset bid period, all the remaining amounts are immediately due and owing. THIRD PARTY PURCHASERS MUST PAY THE EXCISE TAX AND THE RECORDING COSTS FOR THEIR DEED. Said property to be offered pursuant to this Notice of Sale is being offered for sale, transfer and conveyance “AS IS WHERE IS.” There are no representations of warranty relating to the title or any physical, environmental, health or safety conditions existing in, on, at, or relating to the property being offered for sale. This sale is made subject to any and all superior liens, including taxes and special assessments. To the best of the knowledge and belief of the undersigned, the current owner(s) of the property is/are

NOAH'S A.R.C., Inc. An Order for possession of the property may be issued pursuant to N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.29, in favor of the purchaser and against the party or parties by the clerk of superior court of the county in which the property is sold. Any person who occupies the property pursuant to a rental agreement entered into or renewed on or after October 1, 2007, may, after receiving the notice of sale, terminate the rental agreement by providing written notice of termination to the landlord, to be effective on a date stated in the notice that is at least 10 days, but no more than 90 days, after the sale date contained in the notice of sale, provided that the mortgagor has not cured the default at the time the tenant provides the notice of termination. The notice shall also state that upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination [N.C. Gen. Stat. § 45-21.16(b)(2)]. Upon termination of a rental agreement, the tenant is liable for rent due under the rental agreement prorated to the effective date of the termination. If the trustee is unable to convey title to this property for any reason, the sole remedy of the purchaser is the return of the deposit. Reasons of such inability to convey include, but are not limited to, the filing of a bankruptcy petition prior to the confirmation of the sale and reinstatement of the loan without the knowledge of the trustee. If the validity of the sale is challenged by any party, the trustee, in their sole discretion, if they believe the challenge to have merit, may request the court to declare the sale to be void and return the deposit. The purchaser will have no further remedy. Cape Fear Trustee Services, LLC, Substitute Trustee _____________________ _____________, Attorney Aaron Seagroves, NCSB No. 50979 W. Harris, NCSB No. 48633 5550 77 Center Drive, Suite 100 Charlotte, NC 28217 PHONE: 980201-3840 NORTH CAROLINA IN THE GENERAL COURT OF JUSTICE SUPERIOR COURT DIVISION BEFORE THE CLERK

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