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letters GOP is worried about votes of the living, not the dead So the Republicans are back in control of the North Carolina General Assembly and immediately they began to speak in code. The most egregious local example was an interview in the Jan.19 Mountain Xpress, “Front Row Seats: A New Start for N.C.’s Grand Old Party.”

Former Buncombe Republican chair Bill Keller’s first advice to the state GOP, after its 113 years in the legislative wilderness, is to institute photo identification of North Carolina voters (apparently to ensure against the “dead people” vote).

I would be the last person, dead or alive, to suggest that some deceased voters don’t actually make it to the polls. Of course we have some voter fraud, but a bit of research shows that most “dead voters” are folks whose names have remained on the register after their passing. Rarely do they vote.

One current study done in Connecticut found that, statewide, of the 9,000 names of deceased folks that remained on the poll lists, only 300 actually voted.

Hardly enough to change the will of the people. For that you would need to look at a December 2000 ruling by the Rehnquist court.

As Mr. Keller, the good Republican that he is, surely knows, the idea of photo I.D. at the polls is a staple Republican scheme that would make it difficult for living minorities to vote — people of color, poor people, those without driver’s licenses and the elderly, for example. It might eliminate some of the dead voters, but I guarantee it would eliminate a lot more of what Mr. Keller calls the living, “Big D” voters.

Surely, after being out of power for over a century, there must be more pressing issues that the GOP could attack. Perhaps the $4.3 billion state structural shortfall predicted over the next 26 months by the Civitas Institute. Well actually no, Keller goes on to suggest that the local GOP could best serve the cause by ensuring “fair, accurate, reliable, safe elections.” To achieve this, he says that the GOP must find enough Republican workers for the polls and properly train them. Presumably to identify and deter those “dead people” from voting.

— Rick Vogel Asheville

Local GOP should focus on identifying voters’ concerns In your Jan. 19 [article] “Front Row Seats,” I read about [former GOP chairman] George Keller.

I was astounded by his top two priorities: To require photo identification for voting and to work on redistricting. He stated he was embarrassed about “the division of this state.”

I agree he should be embarrassed, but the embarrassment should be about being so completely out of touch with the issues facing the voters who elected him. What about creating jobs?

Business growth? Helping stop the devaluation of real estate properties? Securing more funding for education? Controlling government spending?

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a way to allow it to be used for less than fivehour increments, according to Parking Services Manager Harry Brown.

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An opposing view on the “hidden hazards” of nuclear waste Your recent coverage of the Savannah River Site and Sandy Mush is one-sided, and doesn’t seem to have been fact-checked [“Local Matters Special Edition: Talking nuclear with Ned Ryan Doyle and Jerry Nelson,” an online-only feature, Jan. 20, mountainx.com]. There is no plan to consider Sandy Mush as a waste repository site, which is a pretty important fact considering the amount of press this issue has received.

There are members of the community who support nuclear energy as a much safer, cleaner alternative to coal. I am an artist, an environmentalist and a member of the Burton Street Community. I also happen to actively support nuclear energy, as do many of my friends and many top scientists. It would be great to have our perspective and some real facts heard in the public local dialogue about energy.

— Suzanne Hobbs Asheville Editor’s note: In the 1980s, Sandy Mush was considered as a possible nuclear-waste repository site, but it’s not clear whether the location is again under review. Our online-only podcast, Local Matters, recently focused on a bus trip taken by a group of local activists who attended a January meeting of the Blue Ribbon Commission on America’s Nuclear Future. Convened almost a year ago by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, the commission is charged with overseeing management of the country’s nuclear fuel and waste.

Handicapped parking: Empathy expired?

I am a downtown employee who uses an electric wheelchair. I disagreed (and still do) with the decision to require handicapped drivers to pay for parking. The financial hardship that accompanies the most severe disabilities is

being ignored. One in three disabled Americans live at or below the poverty line.

A few individuals abused parking privileges. Now the rest of us are being penalized.

[Furthermore], no solutions for the parking issue were created prior to the implementation of penalties.

[But] wait: Correction. There is a solution in the form of the pre-purchased parking passes that the city is offering. And they’re a total joke.

Each pass costs $5 and is valid for five hours.

You mark the little numbered bubbles that correspond to the year, month, day and time, display the pass in your window, and you’re good for the next five hours. Since parking is $1 per hour, this is fair, no?

Well, no. The pass is only good for a single use, and you pay $5 for each pass regardless of how long you actually stay in town for. If you’re just running errands for an hour, you’ve just lost $4. That might not seem like a lot but, using conservative figures, let’s say you come downtown an average of three days a week — that’s $15 per week, $60 per month and a whopping $720 each year. If you don’t stay in town for the full five hours, that’s a lot of [wasted] money.

I wonder if City Council and the downtown businesses who pushed for this penalization might have given the issue more thought if they had spent even a day trying to live their lives with dignity in the face of an overwhelmingly anti-disabled society. Having lived in Third World countries, Europe, tiny New England towns and cities from Los Angeles to Boston, it saddens me to say that it is in Asheville that I’ve experienced the most outright hostility towards the handicapped.

Sorry. Next time I’m born, I’ll be sure to do so without this pesky disability.

— Katherine McCrory Asheville

I have owned a downtown bead store, Beads and Beyond, for 27 years. The business is somewhere between retail and wholesale. I support the “Buy Local” [campaign] and feel I provide a service to the crafters in this area. Lately I have had a growing number of artists who complain about [my] prices. “I can get it cheaper online,” they say.

A customer came in — he ran out of silver wire. He asked my price and told me he can get it online for less from Reo Grande Co., a giant company. So we call Reo to find out their price and it is $2 less, plus $5 shipping. I told him I would match their price. So what did he do? He calls REO from my store and ordered from REO. Now I never want a customer to pay too much for something, but really.

[Shortly thereafter], a glass artist came in to see if I would like to purchase her work. I purchased some items for the shop.

There are so many businesses downtown with goods that can be ordered online. I also compete with two wholesale bead shows at the Civic Center each year, so it is difficult to compete as it is.

So I would like the artists in the community to remember that Buy Local is a two-way street.

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The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s end of that would be $14.1 million in borrowed money â&#x20AC;&#x201D; $4.56 million to purchase two parcels from Public Interest Projects plus an estimated $9.54 million to build the deck.

McKibbon will then build a hotel and retail space on top of the deck.

The second parcel is the site of the Hot Dog King restaurant.

In the weeks leading up to the vote, a heated public debate emerged. In an e-mail, the grassroots group People Advocating Real Conservancy branded the project a â&#x20AC;&#x153;boondoggleâ&#x20AC;? and sharply criticized the developer, seeking to rally the projectâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s opponents. Council members reported being flooded with e-mails, many opposing 51 Biltmore. The cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s approach was outdated, opponents said, the price (which is higher than the landâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s current estimated market value of $4.4 million) was too high, and the city parking revenue that would be used to service the debt would be better spent on new sidewalks or improved transit.

But 51 Biltmore had no lack of supporters, either, and to them â&#x20AC;&#x201D; particularly people owning businesses in the area â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the project represented a long-overdue boost to downtownâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s density and economic vitality.

When the fateful night arrived, the Council chamber was packed, with still more folks relegated to an overflow room downstairs.

Administrative Services Director Lauren Bradley made city staffâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s case for the project: According to their estimates (which assumed that the city decks would continue to be used at their current levels), total city parking revenues would be sufficient to pay off the debt and leave more than $400,000 per year available for other projects. Bradley also touted the economic impact of the estimated 405 temporary construction jobs and 118 permanent hotel jobs 51 Biltmore would create.

Bradley also defended paying a premium for the land â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a major sore point for critics â&#x20AC;&#x201D; by asserting that the city will save $800,000 in con-

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Decked: Over two and a half hours, a parade of citizens and business owners made arguments for and against the 51 Biltmore project. In the end, Council, including Mayor Terry Bellamy and Vice Mayor Brownie Newman (at top) voted 5-2 for the project. photo by Jonathan Welch

“This project costs zero tax dollars, pays for itself over time, creates badly needed jobs ... increases density and tax revenue, and will create more tax revenue around it.”

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struction costs by acquiring the Hot Dog King parcel, and an overall site they felt was too ideal for this project to pass up.

“We can’t run a city on make-believe,” declared Pat Whalen, president of Public Interest Projects.

Parking decks, he pointed out, played a major role in downtown’s revitalization in the 1980s and ’90s. “This project costs zero tax dollars, pays for itself over time, creates badly needed jobs both in construction and in the future, increases density and tax revenue, and will create more tax revenue around it,” Whalen maintained.

He also criticized opponents who dismiss staff estimates that the deck will turn a profit at the 25- and 50-year marks, yet believe that “saying no one will drive cars in the future is not too longterm. They’re so sure that instead of switching to hybrid and electric cars, we’ll all be riding the bus.”

“We’ve needed this for 16 years,” asserted Barley’s Taproom owner Jimi Rentz, one of a number of Biltmore Avenue business owners to voice support for the project. John Ellis, managing director of the Diana Wortham Theatre, maintained that the performance venue has lost potential customers due to inadequate parking nearby. John Cram, who owns the neighboring Fine Arts Theatre, also endorsed the project, as did the Asheville Downtown Association.

On the other side, however, Asheville resident Robert Eidus accused the city of “looking at old stats to do a new project. What our progressive city needs is a solution outside of the standard old box.” Instead, he suggested placing “fringe parking” at interstate exits, where people could catch a shuttle into downtown.

“We are not opposed to parking decks; we are opposed to this parking deck,” resident Linda Brown explained in urging Council to vote against 51 Biltmore. “Is this a moneymaking proposition? It is for Mr. Whalen; it is for Mr. Marriott; it is not for the city. Don’t use public money for private property: The city could build many wonderful things with this revenue stream.”

Resident Kimberly Kambicki predicted that “Parking will be an infinite problem as long as we keep adhering to the view that more cars is more profit. These resources would be better spent on improving [mass] transit, bike lanes and rewards for the people that use them. Do we really need another hotel downtown? It’s going

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to create jobs cleaning toilets and waiting on tourists. Are those really the kind of jobs we want to attract?”

Chris Pelly, president of the Haw Creek Community Association, argued: “The reason we most often hear for why there aren’t more sidewalks is that there’s not adequate funding available. Our concern with this proposal is that the city of Asheville, by taking on $14.1 million [in debt], takes us years down the road before any meaningful sidewalk construction is possible.” He added that he wished Council would pay similar attention to infrastructure needs outside of downtown.

Those arguments found some traction among the city’s elected leaders, as Council member Cecil Bothwell — who’s made no secret of his opposition to the project — questioned staff at length about the details of the deal.

“The only things anyone seems to agree on are that it will cost $14.1 million and there will be 412 parking spaces; everything else relies on assumptions or points of view,” said Bothwell.

“The truth is, if we’re paying $1 million a year in debt service, that’s $1 million that could be spent somewhere else.

“In these very uncertain financial times, it seems the best option is to hold off: Don’t borrow the money,” he continued. “The Great Recession is still reverberating throughout our economy: Banks are failing; one in 12 homes in Buncombe is in foreclosure; the General Assembly is about to cut jobs across Western North Carolina. Making assumptions about the next 25 years based on the last 25 years seems, to my mind, not a really bright thing to do.” According to a study by the

“Do we really need another hotel downtown? It’s going to create jobs cleaning toilets and waiting on tourists.

Are those really the kind of jobs we want to attract?”

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nonprofit N.C. Justice Center, however, one in 79 Buncombe County homes was in foreclosure last year.

Vice Mayor Brownie Newman, meanwhile, made the case that the project is a necessary component of creating a more sustainable city.

“I believe the single greatest threat we have to the environmental integrity of Buncombe and our region is the pattern of sprawl development that is rapidly consuming the forestlands and farmlands of our mountain region,” Newman declared. “I believe the single most powerful solution to that is promoting the successful pattern of development we have in our downtown.”

Newman added that he also supports greater investment in mass transit and sidewalks, asserting that the city will still have parking revenue left over to devote to other purposes. “It seems clear to me the project will not just pay for itself but be a significant asset to the city of Asheville,” he observed.

The dispute over projected revenues seems to hinge on whether one believes individual car (and, thus, parking deck) use will decline, as Bothwell predicts, or remain more or less steady,

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as proponents of 51 Biltmore assert.

Council member Esther Manheimer also shot back at critics, arguing, “It’s not through inaction that downtown has become a vibrant place — it’s through action, development and investment.”

Failing to approve the deck, she warned, could endanger related contracts while harming the city’s reputation.

A somewhat frustrated-sounding Mayor Terry Bellamy emphasized that the 51 Biltmore location was chosen, in part, because prior attempts to site decks downtown had triggered public backlash.

“We haven’t made it a secret that there’s a desire to put a deck on this lot,” the mayor pointed out. “We heard, ‘We don’t want a deck where we know it’s a deck,’ so we wrapped this project with development. We heard, ‘Go down instead of up’ — this deck goes down. We stopped on decks before because some of the same people said it didn’t fit their core values. So we put together a deck that would.”

“There are no property-tax funds, in any scenario, that go to this deck,” she stressed, adding that one of the reasons the vast majority of the city’s parking revenue comes from downtown

is that Council has honored residents’ requests to keep on-street parking free elsewhere in Asheville.

Council member Gordon Smith joined Bothwell in opposing the deck, but for different reasons. If the city had dedicated funding streams for sidewalks and mass transit, said Smith, he would probably have supported this project.

In the end, the parking deck was approved 5-2, with Bothwell and Smith on the short end of the vote. The deal will go before the state’s Local Government Commission in late February; if approved, construction will start in March.

Getting and spending

In other business, Council: • Unanimously approved selling the W.C. Reid Center to the Asheville Housing Authority for $254,500. While the deal is contingent on the agency’s receiving a federal grant, it would enable the Authority to convert the facility into a training, education and green-jobs center housing multiple nonprofits under one roof. The city plans to build a new recreation center in the area in the coming years.

• Approved $480,000 in capital-project funds for Civic Center renovations, including scoreboards, increased meeting space, better locker rooms and more concession stands. The improvements are part of a deal to bring the Southern Conference basketball tournament to Asheville for the 201214 seasons. X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 137, or at dforbes@mountainx.com.

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by Jake Frankel A few hours before the Asheville City Council’s Jan. 25 meeting, about 25 local faith leaders and several Council members gathered at the First Congregational United Church of Christ on Oak Street to advocate for “full equality for all Asheville citizens.” The resolution pushed by People of Faith for Just Relationships calls on City Council to take four specific actions, including “extending the city’s employment nondiscrimination clause to include sexual orientation, gender, and gender identity or expression.”

“Today we are asking the city to act to the full extent of its powers to recognize same-sex relationships,” explained the Rev. Joe Hoffman, speaking on behalf of People of Faith. (The group’s members represent various traditions.)

“As clergy and faith leaders, we experience firsthand the hardships and the struggles of people who are directly affected by these inequalities. And we say it is time to honor the full diversity of our city with full equality for all.”

The resolution also calls for enacting an anti-bullying ordinance covering all city institutions and grounds; creating a domestic-partner registry to recognize same-gender relationships in regard to assisted-living facilities, funeral rights, health care fights and other areas; and “endorsing and supporting the rights of same-gender couples to share fully and equally in the familial rights, responsibilities and commitments of civil marriage.”

The Rev. Shannon Spencer — like Hoffman a pastor at First Congregational United Church of Christ — blamed her own faith for some of the problems people of different genders and sexual orientations have faced. “Historically, it has been the Christian faith that has been used to marginalize and scandalize and oppress the LGBT community,” she declared. “In our attempt to bring about what we thought was righteousness, we failed to remember God’s love, forgiveness, justice and mercy.”

The Rev. Mark Ward of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville noted that although things are getting better, society still has “a long way to go toward equality.

“We live in an amazing time, when most gay and lesbian and bisexual and transgender people are out and about in more ways than has ever been seen,” he observed. “We see this in business, in government, in politics and in entertainment. But the truth is, most of these people are still living as second-class citizens.”

Ward described the resolution as “a small step — just a little thing we can do … to make Asheville stand as an example of what it means to be a compassionate city.”

The roughly 50 supporters who turned out to endorse the measure included a voting majority of City Council members: Cecil Bothwell, Gordon Smith, Esther Manheimer and Brownie Newman. Bothwell said he expects Council to formally vote on the resolution in about a month, saying, “It’s pretty likely to be a done deal.”

Council voted to support domestic-partner benefits in principle last February, but the city is still working out how to implement the policy.

To view the full resolution, go to mountainx.com/xpressfiles/ equality_resolution.X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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Stand up for your rights: Local faith leaders are pushing Asheville City Council members to adopt a resolution that would expand the rights of LGBT citizens. photo by Jonathan Welch

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by Nelda Holder The new Republican majority in the state Legislature came ready to play on Jan. 26, the first day of the 2011 session, immediately introducing bills to forbid contraints on â&#x20AC;&#x153;health care freedomâ&#x20AC;? and to amend the state constitution to prohibit the use of eminent domain for economic development. Sen. Tom Apodaca of Hendersonville, representing the 48th District, even changed the traditional rules of the game.

Apodaca, the incoming rules chairman, added a new layer of control in the permanent Senate rules adopted for 2011-12 by establishing the position of parliamentarian, to be appointed by the president pro tempore, Sen. Phil Berger of Eden (26th District). The new position will allow legislators to appeal rulings made by the presiding officer (the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s lieutenant governor, currently Democrat Walter Dalton of Rutherfordton). â&#x20AC;&#x153;This is nothing but a partisan power play,â&#x20AC;? was Daltonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s response to the rules change, as quoted by State Government Radio.

In the past, the lieutenant governor has been the final arbiter of parliamentary procedure in the state Senate.

The new rules do allow the parliamentarian to be overruled by a two-thirds majority vote.

In other first-day action, freshman Rep. Tim Moffitt of Buncombe County (116th District) was one of three Western North Carolina cosponsors introducing a bill titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act to Protect the Freedom to Choose Health Care and Health Insuranceâ&#x20AC;?

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sored the bill, which is designed to circumvent provisions in the U.S. National Health Care Act by prohibiting any law compelling a person to enroll in a public or private insurance plan. It would also forbid the imposition of a penalty, fee or tax on those who fail to do so.

The eminent-domain bill, titled â&#x20AC;&#x153;An Act to Amend the Constitution of North Carolina to Prohibit Condemnation of Private Property to Convey an Interest in that Property for Economic Development and to Provide for the Payment of Just Compensation with Right of Trial by Jury in All Condemnation Casesâ&#x20AC;? (HB 8), was put forward by McGrady as one of three sponsors, with Frye, Moffitt, David Guice of Brevard (113th District) and Roger West of Marble (120th District) among 53 co-sponsors.

Other House action included the introduction of a bill to appeal a 2009 annexation approved for the city of Kinston (HB 5), and a bill to disapprove the closure of the stateâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dorothea Dix psychiatric hospital in Raleigh (HB 4).

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The North Carolina General Assembly continued to claim the spotlight last week as Republicans took control of both the House and Senate for the first time in more than a century.

In a series of articles, the Asheville Citizen-Times reported “Statehouse Power Shift to Usher in Changes.” Republicans “appear poised to lift the cap on charter schools, require identification at the voter’s booth, tighten regulations on forced annexation, reduce business regulations and start the redistricting process,” according to the paper.

Despite a projected $3.7 billion budget shortfall, party leaders have vowed to close the deficit without raising taxes. That includes letting a temporary sales-tax increase expire at the end of the fiscal year in June. It could mean big funding cuts in everything from education and human services to infrastructure improvements.

“The budget is clearly the thing that will consume a majority of our time,” said Thom Tillis, a Mecklenburg County Republican who’s the new speaker of the House.

But the first bill Republicans chose to file when they took charge Jan. 26 attacked provisions of federal health care reform. In “Republicans in North Carolina General Assembly Target Health

Topping the list: Fodor’s travel guide ranked Asheville “one of 21 places we’re going in 2011,” imploring readers to visit “while it still feels local and before it goes global.” photo by Jonathan welch

Care Mandate,” the Citizen-Times reported that the proposed state law would nullify the federal requirement that Americans buy health insurance beginning in 2014, as well as any penalties they would face if they failed to comply. If passed, it’s unlikely that Democratic Gov. Bev Perdue would sign the bill. And even if she did, it’s unclear how it would be enforced since, under the U.S. Constitution, federal laws trump state laws.

In the online post “Republicans Step up to Bat,” Xpress reported that freshman Buncombe County Rep. Tim Moffitt was one of three cosponsors of the bill. During his first day on the job, the Republican also co-sponsored a bill that would amend the state constitution to prohibit the use of eminent domain for economic development.

In a sit-down with the Citizen-Times, Sen. Martin Nesbitt — the Buncombe County legislator who’s the new Senate minority leader — said that even though conservatives are now set to drive the agenda, his party is prepared to fight for its own priorities. “What you can’t let happen is a budget that cuts $3 billion out and affects health care and public schools and universities,” said Nesbitt.

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In other political news, “Shuler Appointed to Budget Committee,” Xpress reported in an online post.

In the wake of his recent challenge to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, 11th District Rep. Heath Shuler nabbed a spot on the powerful House Committee on the Budget. The committee helps determine the country’s spending priorities and develop the massive federal budget.

“I look forward to using my position on the committee to find common ground between Republicans and Democrats to balance our budget, cut wasteful spending, and restore fiscal discipline and restraint in Washington,” Shuler said in

a statement.

It wasn’t all good news for the congressman last week, however. In another online post, Xpress reported that “Doonesbury Takes Aim at Rep. Heath Shuler.” Last week’s run of the nationally syndicated comic strip made fun of “his action hero-level firearms prowess,” according to the article. The cartoon references Shuler’s recent announcement that in the wake of the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, he would carry a concealed weapon to constituent meetings.

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In national attention of a more positive sort, Xpress joined news outlets nationwide in reporting that “Fodor’s Lists Asheville as One of ‘21 Places We’re Going in 2011.’”

Imploring its readers to “get a taste of Asheville while it still feels local and before it goes global,” travel guide Fodor’s website listed our city as one of “21 places we’re going in 2011,” along with international destinations like Tokyo, Stratfordupon-Avon and Mozambique.

Asheville was featured first on the site’s lineup, under the heading “Sample Arty Appalachian Culture,” though the list doesn’t give specific rankings for the destinations. Other American destinations on the list included New York and Los Angeles.

“On the edge of the alluring Smoky Mountains, the food and drink scene of the recently dubbed ‘Beer City USA’ is the perfect compliment to the scenery,” the article gushes, before noting the vibrant arts-and-music scene along with Pack Square Park. The Inn on Biltmore Estate and Hotel Indigo get recommendations for would-be travelers to stay the night.

And in case you were unaware, Fodor’s suggests that the the best time to visit is “late September to early November.” For the leaves, naturally.

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by Margaret Williams Wellness as we know it means an active exploration of any and all ways we can each seek to be healthier and happier, whether we’re taking time for a hike, tending to someone who’s ill, or looking for a little tenderness in our later years.

In this week’s Wellness from the Ground Up: Part Two, we go beyond the statistics to take a peek at some ways Western North Carolinians pursue that overarching goal. Edneyville resident Martha Clyburn offers a look at what caregivers need themselves as they look after loved ones.

Health care advocate Leslie Boyd says we need to “get real” with how we think about disease (and the people who suffer from one). Our look at pet health continues, and Mountain Xpress food writer Mackensy Lunsford provides another perspective on the school cafeteria.

In the coming weeks and months, look to our new weekly Wellness section for a variety of healthrelated articles, musings and experiences, ranging from straight news to first-person accounts.

contents part two

pg 8 Get real about health care

by Leslie Boyd

pg 0 Beyond chicken nuggets

by Mackensy Lunsford

pg Been there, still doing that

by Michele & Tom Scheve

pg The holistic approach

by Karen Oelschlaeger

Wellness Online Every week, Xpress posts a variety of wellness news, from tidbits gathered by contributor Wade Inganamort to news from the many health providers and services in the area. You can follow our Wellness news on Twitter (http://twitter.com/ mxwellness). Please submit WNC health and wellness info with the hashtag #avlhealth or by e-mail to Inganamort (mxhealth@mountainx.com) or to our news department (news@mountainx.com).

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As a percentage of gross domestic product, the U.S. spends more on health care than any other country, and one of the main objectives of health care reform is lowering costs.

Right now, however, health care costs are being lowered on the backs of physicians and other care providers. Here in Buncombe County, Project Access pairs people in need with specialty physicians who donate care.

Mission Hospitals gives away millions of dollars’ worth of discounted and free care each year, as do local physicians and other providers. That’s great for the patients and their families, but it doesn’t solve the larger problem.

Meanwhile, Project Access is overburdened, as more and more people lose their jobs and their health insurance. Expecting physicians and hospitals to offer free care is not a sustainable solution to rising costs.

At the same time, we’re told we can lower costs by staying well: “Wellness” is cited as a goal in nearly every health care conversation.

Eat right, get exercise, don’t use tobacco or too much alcohol, get plenty of rest and everyone will be fine, right?

Not really.

Putting the onus on the person is just blaming the victim. No matter how well we take care of ourselves, some of us will get sick, from environmental toxins or perhaps a genetic predisposition to a specific illness. Even a fitness saint can’t avoid something that’s genetic.

Getting sick is not an indication of a lack of moral character.

Much of the most expensive care wouldn’t be necessary if chronic illnesses were managed early on instead of waiting for a crisis to occur.

Managing blood-glucose levels in someone with diabetes is far more cost-effective than waiting for them to have a stroke, go blind, go into renal failure or require an amputation.

And though the supplies may be too expensive for people who lack health insurance, they’re much, much cheaper than the cost of treating some of these complications.

The real problem is that crisis care is more profitable than managing chronic illnesses.

If you doubt this, consider the results of the Asheville Project, which gives city employees incentives and the means to manage five illnesses: depression, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and asthma.

The project pays pharmacists to help people manage these illnesses, and since it was instituted, the city’s costs have dropped dramatically. But dialysis is much more profitable, and as long as the incentive is there, you can’t really blame the medical-industrial complex for cashing in.

People who don’t have insurance are far more likely to die of cancer — after long, painful and expensive treatment — because they’re

Getting sick is not an indication of a lack of moral character. typically not diagnosed early on. By the time you feel a lump in your breast or have digestive problems, your cancer may well be too advanced to cure.

And while improved technology can keep people alive longer, it’s hideously expensive and will probably postpone the inevitable by only a few days or weeks.

A policy that might have saved billions of dollars — allowing Medicaid patients a paid consultation with their physicians about end-of-life care — was instituted Jan. 1 and rescinded days later after some people revived the specter of “death panels.” Rather than wage a truth campaign, the federal government deep-sixed the policy. As a result, more people will receive extremely costly, life-prolonging care because they didn’t specify otherwise.

Conversations about end-of-life care should be a part of any wellness policy. Everyone should have a living will and appoint a health care proxy who will follow their wishes before they get sick (you can find everything you need at fivewishes.org).

Mental illness is probably the most dramatic illustration of what can happen when disease management is lacking. Simple depression becomes severe depression and the person can’t function, loses his or her job and often winds up on the street. Timely care will often slow or halt the progress of even more serious forms of psychiatric illness.

According to a 2006 study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 64 percent of local jail inmates, 56 percent of state prisoners and 45 percent of federal prisoners show symptoms of serious mental illness. Walk through the Buncombe County Jail and you’ll see such conditions firsthand.

This reality is inappropriate and inhumane, not to mention expensive, but states’ mental health budgets have been slashed, and there are few other places for people to turn. In these hard economic times, caring for people with mental illness is just not a priority for government.

It’s time to define “wellness” as something beyond exercise and diet. Real wellness is also about making sure that people have access to primary care — and, if they do get sick, that they can get the care they need before serious complications develop. X Former newspaper reporter Leslie Boyd is president of Life o’ Mike, a nonprofit health care advocacy-and-education agency. She can be reached at lifeomike@gmail.com.

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Start with baby steps, Xpress learned after eating with kids in a local elementary school, talking with school administrators like Lynette VaughnHensley and quizzing restaurateur Laurey Masterton about her 2010 summer trip to the White House.

Masterton visited D.C. last year to learn about Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign, an effort to encourage healthier youth through healthier lifestyles. Let’s Move calls for such initiatives as installing salad-bar equipment in elementary schools and putting chefs in front of students to help them learn about healthy food.

But when it comes to children’s health, say school officials, it pays to be realistic. VaughnHensley, director of Child Nutrition Services for Buncombe County Schools, wonders how far the program’s proposed 5,000 salad bars will go toward improving children’s health. “I was wondering when I read that,” she says, “how many schools are there in the United States?”

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Vaughn-Hensley would love to see a chef in every school, she says. But in a school cafeteria, it may not be so easy matching a creative chef’s food ideas with U.S. Department of Agriculture guidelines for feeding children. “A chef lives in a world that is different,” she muses. In that world, food choices and presentations may be limited by no more than the chef’s imagination. But in the cafeteria kitchen, there are some limitations, she says, such as budget restrictions and the sheer volume of food that must be served. “Is it a great idea? Yes. Where I would recommend it is within the curriculum,” Vaughn-Hensley concludes.

And that’s where Masterton comes in. After her White House trip, the local business owner organized a Buncombe County chapter of the Chefs Move to Schools effort, a branch of Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move campaign. Masterton plans to

facilitate the campaign’s goal to get chefs in local schools, where they can serve as mentors, says Masterton, and not get down and dirty with the school-lunch program. At present, local volunteer chefs are introducing the concept of wholesome, healthy foods to students.

And, as far as Masterton is concerned, it seems to be going quite well, despite all the inherent challenges.

“When I went to the White House in June, there was only one official pairing [between schools and chefs in Buncombe] — and that was me,” she says.

The partnership with ASAP has since led to 15 solid pairings out of 30 schools, with more in the works, Masterton reports.

Under the program, chefs teach kids about foods that aren’t typically considered youth-friendly: squash, peas and turnips, for example. Contrary to popular belief, says Masterton, the kids seem quite receptive to the veggies and fruits presented to them. They’re also open to experimentation. Since

the fall, almost 1,000 children have happily taken part in a cooking class, she adds.

“The wave of the future is to continue … getting all of the schools paired in the county and the city,” she says. “What we’re doing here is tiny, but we’re trying to drive home the point that it’s really not that hard. It’s about making sure that kids see what real food is. And at least they get to mess with it a few times a year, which is not enough, but it’s something.”

And while people like Masterton and others are planting that seed on a local level, nationally the USDA is trying to implement changes to the school-lunch program, Vaughn-Hensley mentions.

What they’re proposing is an adjustment to what the cafeterias are serving to our nation’s youth: Decrease the amount of potatoes and starchy vegetables; reduce sodium and, eventually, transfats; and increase the amount of fruits, vegetables and grains served.

While there’s no rush to yank the pizza and chicken nuggets from kids’ plates and replace them with kale and quinoa, there’s a ray of hope: Some of the kids might just get it.

Xpress visited a third-grade class at Haw Creek Elementary School in east Asheville as the kids chowed down in the cafeteria. We asked them what they already knew about food and how they would handle the sorts of changes to their eating habits that the USDA proposes. You’ll find many of their answers online at mountainx.com in a video we took that day.

But here are a few morsels: Some (mostly boys) preferred chicken nuggets to chewing celery. But most kids said that, as long as they had a variety of options, they were more than willing to trade a root beer for a rutabaga. (Well, maybe.)

That’s good news, because (as many parents are well aware) to get kids to eat healthier, you’ve got to convince them that it tastes good too.

Here are some excerpted interview questions from our video with the cafeteria staff and kids (names were withheld by request of the school): Mountain Xpress: What’s your chief aim with serving the kids here?

Tim Pierce (kitchen manager): To give students what is healthy for them and to give them what they like, basically. I think our goal really is to give them healthy food and food that they like to eat.

beans and they love peas. They don’t like things that are yellow, like squash.

One child said that she liked the cafeteria’s chicken nuggets, because they were baked and not fried, so they didn’t have so many “bad oils.”

Some oils are bad, then?

Third-grade student: It depends on what kind; some are good for you and you need it; and some are bad, [so] you should kind of try to avoid it, like deep-fat frying versus baking it with a bunch of bread crumbs on it.

How do you know so much about good and bad fat?

My mom is kind of tight on that stuff. She worked here [at the school] and she would say, “Where’s your protein?” and some of the kids would actually hold up their Popsicles that might have had frozen fruit in [them]. That’s frozen fruit syrup over shaved ice, and they thought that was good for them. And sometimes even the potatoes are bad, because you cover them in sour cream or something. Potatoes are also just kind of a starch if you don’t eat the skin.

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Mating call? For women over 65, one of the top concerns is the need to find a partner â&#x20AC;&#x201D; a challenge when women live longer. image by Michele Scheve

by Michele and Tom Scheve To some, the phrase â&#x20AC;&#x153;senior citizenâ&#x20AC;? may evoke images of volunteering at polling stations, doing laps around the shopping mall or perhaps amassing a substantial collection of antique cracker boxes or porcelain ducks. But whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s to say that behind the bifocals of your friendly neighborhood bridge champion donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lie the lusting eyes of a veteran sexual conquistador?

Then again, local seniors may be stumbling and fumbling their way through matters of sex and intimacy just like the rest of us.

Still, a federally funded 2007 study of 3,005 older Americans found that nearly three-quarters of those between ages 57 and 64 had been sexually active in the previous year â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and onequarter of those ages 75 to 85. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t lose our sexual interest when we age,â&#x20AC;? says Kelley Wolfe, who runs Mountain Sexology in Asheville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have sex for a lot of reasons, not just to get pregnant: intimacy, sharing, closeness, fun, power and control. I try to help older people expand their idea of what sex is, other than â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;penis and vagina.â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;?

And while, in decades past, there wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much in the way of sex education for seniors, today, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a growing awareness of the need for resources and referral services to help Buncombe County seniors maintain happy, healthy sexual lives. â&#x20AC;&#x153;As Baby Boomers continue to age, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be hearing a lot more about older people and sex,â&#x20AC;? predicts Wolfe, who holds a doctorate in human sexuality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll become less taboo.â&#x20AC;?

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Although the Buncombe County Council on Aging doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t currently have a sex-education program for older adults, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a topic thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely on the radar. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are working on developing a replicable senior curriculum with the N.C. Center for Health & Wellness,â&#x20AC;? Executive Director Wendy Marsh reports.

For women over 65, one of the top sexual concerns is the lack of a partner, Wolfe reveals.

Because women tend to outlive men, there are more single women in their 70s, 80s and 90s, making it difficult to find suitable candidates for sexual intimacy. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Online-dating sites have proven beneficial to older people,â&#x20AC;? she notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;It makes their pool of potential partners much larger.â&#x20AC;?

But those same demographics give single, octogenarian studs a major dating advantage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which may also play a role in rising HIV rates among seniors. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In a retirement home, there may be four women to every man, so youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to have a number of men who have more than one partner,â&#x20AC;? Wolfe explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;They may have several different girlfriends they see throughout the week.â&#x20AC;? â&#x20AC;&#x153;Many people tend to think that if pregnancy is not an issue, protection is irrelevant,â&#x20AC;? says Marsh. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Which of course is not true if you are sexually active.â&#x20AC;? Accordingly, her organization has helped â&#x20AC;&#x153;distribute condoms to older individuals, especially those living in housing complexes who have more access to opportunity.â&#x20AC;?

Part of the problem is that people returning

“In a retirement home, there may be four women to every man. They may have several different girlfriends they see throughout the week.”

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to the dating scene for the first time in 50 years may not be fully aware of the risks associated with 21st-century sexuality. “They grew up in an age when the main STDs were gonorrhea and syphilis, which were pretty easy to get rid of,” Wolfe points out.

Meanwhile, physical changes, assorted medical conditions and certain medications can make sex difficult or even painful for older adults.

Wolfe, who works with both individuals and couples, advises those confronting such challenges to broaden their horizons to include oral sex, mutual masturbation, full-body contact and sensual massage.

“Orgasm is harder to achieve when you’re older, so the focus of sex should be closeness, not necessarily orgasm,” she maintains.

Bringing up the S-word

A good starting point for older adults is broaching the subject with their doctors, who can recommend educational resources, provide information about safe sex practices, refer them to specialists or prescribe drugs for erectile dysfunction.

But for a complex mix of reasons, many older adults (as well as younger ones) are reluctant to talk openly about sex. One contributing factor, Wolfe maintains, is the “incredibly negative messages of sex-ed posters” that were in vogue more than half a century ago. “The posters were always frightening and always blamed the woman: She’s this whore you’re going to get a disease from, and all your limbs are going to fall off.”

Even today, advertising and pop culture continue to deliver troubling messages, notes Marsh. “What is wrong with a wrinkle? Lots, apparently! If you are constantly bombarded by information that seems to say, ‘You don’t look good enough,’ it is a bit difficult to feel attractive, let alone sexy.”

Meanwhile, masturbation remains a sensitive topic even for the young, as politicians, educators, medical professionals and religious groups do battle over whether and how it should be presented in public-school sex-ed programs.

And aging members of the LGBT community, notes Wolfe, may face additional obstacles, such as prejudice on the part of facilities and caregivers. “Will someone who’s been ‘out’ his entire life have to go back in the closet when he moves into a nursing home?” she wonders. “Can a partner come and spend the night?”

Still, given Western North Carolina’s growing population of older residents (including retirees and second-home owners), it seems clear that senior sexuality will be increasingly prominent on the local agenda.

“We don’t pass a milestone and suddenly just lose interest,” stresses Wolfe. “I recommend older women have two masturbation sessions a week to keep the pelvic region in shape and to maintain good sexual health,” she continues.

“It’s like the old saying: ‘Use it or lose it.’” X Asheville-area residents Michele and Tom Scheve are looking forward to enjoying many years of senior sex together.

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by Karen Oelschlaeger Whether we’re talking about pets or people, a holistic health approach emphasizes the importance of looking at the big picture and treating the system as a whole, instead of addressing only specific symptoms.

In addition to reminding us that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” and that it’s “way easier to treat conditions before they become chronic,” licensed acupuncturist Nancy Hyton offers a helpful overview of the basic principles of holistic health. “By balancing and harmonizing the body overall, instead of focusing on one particular isolated symptom, a higher state of wellness can be achieved,” says Hyton, who’s also a certified herbalist and founder of the Center for Holistic Medicine. She also notes, “The body has an innate ability to heal itself and naturally strives towards balance and wellness. Conditions respond better and are less likely to return when you treat the underlying cause as well as the outward symptoms.”

These principles are key to any holistic approach to wellness, for pets or for people.

Holistic wellness also emphasizes the importance of starting with less invasive treatments before resorting to more severe measures whenever possible. For example, acupuncture or acupressure for joint problems can be helpful for pets before moving on to surgery or pharmaceuticals.

I asked veterinarian Erin Husted, who specializes in integrative medicine at Charlotte Street Animal Hospital, to tell me a bit about these alternative treatments for pets, as well as massage. “Acupuncture is best used as a preventative treatment, to maintain normal energy flow and hormone levels in the body in order to prevent diseases,” she explains. Internal harmony is one of the core values of any holistic approach to health.

“If the body is in balance, disease can be prevented or treated,” she says.

According to Husted, acupuncture points are “areas on the body that are energy-dense” — shown in studies to increase electrical conductivity and containing a high density of nerve endings,

arterioles, lymphatic vessels and inflammatory mediators. Acupuncture, she continues, increases endogenous endorphins, opioids, serotonin and norepinephrine (biochemicals that promote a feeling of well-being, in short). And it’s also been proven to cause immune suppression in allergic conditions, reduce inflammation and increase blood cell counts, she adds. “These acupuncture points can of course be stimulated by acupuncture [with tiny needles], but they can also be stimulated with manual pressure [acupressure].”

Husted teaches classes at Charlotte Street Animal Hospital on both approaches for pets.

Acupuncture and massage are two possible healing modalities that you can implement on your own at home after learning some basic techniques.

(Husted has no set dates for upcoming classes, but information on upcoming classes can be found on the Charlotte Street Animal Hospital website, www.charlottestreetanimalhospital.com.)

When asked for a sneak peek at what she teaches, Husted replies, “one useful and easyto-locate acupuncture point is an shen, which in Chinese means ‘calm the mind.’ It is located in the large depression behind the back of the base of the ear on cats and dogs. This is where many people rub or scratch behind their pet’s ears.” According to Husted, applying manual pressure to this point can help with itching due to anxiety, seizures, stiff neck, headache, nose bleeds, nasal congestion, facial paralysis, ear infection or inflammation and even deafness.

Massage is another great way to care for your pet at home. Husted informs me that it promotes Qi (pronounced “chi” and meaning “life-force” or “energy flow”) and blood flow, improves circulation, balances the organs, promotes immune function and soothes joints and sinews. “It is helpful for musculoskeletal and neurological conditions, internal medicine diseases, preventing disease by stimulating immune function and for [physical] enhancement in performance animals,” she says.

Of course, cats and dogs seem to know this already. They’re just waiting for you to find that an shen sweet spot.

If you’re interested in holistic health care for your pet, ask your vet. For more information about Charlotte Street Animal Hospital, visit charlottestreetanimalhospital.com. Haw Creek Animal Hospital also offers alternative care (hawcreekanimalhospital.com), and Andrew Fochios, a licensed veterinarian and acupuncturist, provides holistic care for pets (and their people) at People and Pets Acupuncture (peopleandpetsacupuncture.com). For more information about Husted’s practice, visit www.centerholistic.com.

For more information on natural healing and holistic care for pets, these are my three favorite books: Complete Guide to Natural Health for Dogs and Cats by Richard H. Pitcairn; The Encyclopedia of Natural Pet Care by CJ Puotinen; and The Nature of Animal Healing by Martin Goldstein. These books outline core principles of holistic health and provide a comprehensive overview of many natural treatment options including nutrition, herbs, homeopathy, flower essences, acupuncture, acupressure, massage and chiropractic care for pets. X West Asheville Dog Walking owner/operator Karen Oelschlaeger can be reached at karen@avlpetsitter. com.

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In Asheville, it’s easy to find good health in a cup of tea, whichever variety you crave. But which one to choose?

“We first ask a customer if they prefer something grassy, sweet, floral, bitter, oceanic, salty, bold or fruity,” says Andrew Snavely, owner of Dobra Tearoom, downtown Asheville’s newest teahouse.

In other words, savoring a tea (and describing it) can be a bit like picking a good wine.

First, all tea varieties come from the same species, Camellia sinesis (herbal “teas” are really infusions of flowers, leaves and roots from various plants).

In green teas, the leaves are plucked from the tree and then immediately dried. Since there is very little oxidation, these teas appear to retain the most health-promoting properties, and they’re usually visibly green. White teas are plucked from the bush, then laid in the sun to bring the juices to the surface before they are heated. Oolong is squeezed and tumbled before being baked, and black teas are tumbled and laid in beds to oxidize for longer periods than other teas, then dried at high temperatures.

Nutritionally speaking, all varieties contain high amounts of vitamin C, D, K and riboflavin, as well as calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc, sodium, nickel and fluoride.

“Many of the heath benefits of tea come from the phytonutrients, specifically, [the] flavonoids” says Sarah Elderkin at Café Ello on Haywood Street.

According to The Tea Association of the USA’s website, “Flavonoids are believed to have antioxidant properties that work to neutralize free radicals, which … over time, damage elements in the body and contribute to chronic disease. Flavonoids may also help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, heart attacks and stoke due to their impact on lipid oxidation and blood vessel functions.”

Since the oxidation process may affect flavonoids, most research focuses on green teas.

Scientific studies, natural-health experts and nutritional books all seem to agree that tea may help reduce the risk of certain types of cancers by promoting programmed cell death and inhibiting the rate of cell division. Tea appears to help prevent cancers of the stomach, small intestine, pancreas and colon; lung cancer; estrogen-related cancers, including most breast cancers; and prostate cancer.

It’s also associated with better oral, bone and skin health, as well as better immune system function, increased metabolism and regulated fluid balance. Not bad for a morning cup.

Of course, as with coffee, brewing technique really does matter. Select only the bestquality teas, say both Snavely and Elderkin.

“The better the pluck, the more backbone and flavor,” says Snavely.

That’s to say, the “pluck” — how the tea was picked and from what part of the bush — affects its flavor.

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comprises most bagged tea,” Snavely continues.

To capture the essential oils, flavors and maximum health benefits, it’s also important to steep your fresh tea with a lid. Special brewing tools include the brew-in mug used at Café Ello, an earthenware vessel — known as an aiwa — at Dobra, a tea pot as seen at The Village Tea Room or a French press, which is used by several coffee shops.

Yet, according to one local tea aficionado, the health benefits may be as much about the ceremony as it is about the plant. “The ceremony of tea forces you to slow down, which can change brain chemistry, nervous system function, and many other components of health,” says Snavely.

The Indian, Chinese and Japanese traditions are honored with a bohemian-style verve at Dobra, where folks gather to relax, engage in progressive conversation and taste the teas

of the world. Across town at the Village Tea Room in Biltmore Village, the English tradition prevails with afternoon tea (complete with cakes and finger sandwiches).

“Whether it’s the meditation or the plant, I’m not sure,” says Elderkin. “Regardless of tradition, with a hot cup of tea steaming in front of you, you begin to experience a sense of inner calm and balance.”

As with coffee, however, tea contains varying amounts of caffeine: Green tea contains about 10 to 20 mg of caffeine per 1 gram dried leaves, while black tea has about 22 to 28 mg — compared to coffee’s average of 80 mg. The brewing time will affect caffeine content. X Jacquelyn Dobrinska is an Asheville-based writer and yoga therapist working on an advanced degree in health.

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Toward Better Days combines information and what Clyburn calls “whimsy,” including poems the author penned and photographs she took.

The meat of the book, however, consists of forms: medication schedules, personal information and medical-history charts, medical-diary page and emergency contacts, to name a few.

“Every situation is different, but the forms are pretty much consistent,” Clyburn says. “When someone gets sick, often people don’t know where legal papers are or what’s required. This book puts all that in one place.”

Clyburn notes that even people who aren’t ill could use the book as a place to keep important medical information in the event that they do become sick or incapacitated.

“People who are stressed don’t have time to find all this information,” she says. “Anyone can fill in the information on themselves and keep it in a place where it’s easy to find.”

While most of the forms in the book are selfexplanatory, Clyburn says she really likes the medical-diary form. The idea is that a caregiver who is in the hospital with a patient can take notes on the patient’s status and share them with visitors and even doctors.

“It dawned on me that when people come visit sick people, they want to know how the patient is progressing, and I could just hand them my notebook,” Clyburn says, referring to her medical diary. “Everybody loved it. Even

the doctor came in and looked at it and said, ‘You take better notes than my nurses.’”

She also shares tips for helping people who are ill with issues such as administering proper medications.

“Older people can get their medications all mixed up,” she says. “I came up with a calendar, but the big thing I came up with was to colorcode bottle tops. So I use a permanent marker and mark the bottle caps with something like blue for medications to take at night, and red for morning.”

Clyburn says she’s been truly inspired by a quotation from former first lady Rosalynn Carter that reads: “There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been caregivers, those who currently are caregivers, those who will be caregivers, those who will need caregivers.”

Clyburn self-published Toward Better Days in November. The book, which retails at $17.95, is sold on Amazon, at The Open Door Christian Bookstore in Hendersonville and via Clyburn’s website (www.expressionsfromheartandhills. com). She also hopes to sell the book in hospital bookstores and other places where people in need can easily find it.

“This is my purpose in life and kind of my ministry now,” Clyburn says. X Anne Fitten Glenn is an Xpress contributing writer, who also pens the Edgy Mama column and the biweekly Brews News.

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by Jake Frankel There are few things that foster a more satisfying sense of wellness than a hike in the mountains. Here in Western North Carolina, of course, we have no shortage of such opportunities. Among the more unusual options is the Swannanoa Rim Explorer hiking series.

The tour gives participants a chance to trek the entire ridgeline that circles the Swannanoa Valley, from Jesse’s High Top through Ridgecrest and Montreat up to the Blue Ridge Parkway and down to Cedar Cliff (above Camp Rockmont). Eleven monthly day trips will cover 51 miles all told. Much of the route traverses land that’s normally offlimits to the public, and it includes remote bushwhacking treks through the Asheville watershed as well as jaunts along maintained trails.

passport The Swannanoa Rim Explorer hikes depart from the Black Mountain Savings Bank parking lot (200 E. State St.) at 8 a.m. on the third Saturday of every month except January. Preregistration is required, and there’s a limit of 30 participants per hike.

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Triumph: In December, this group of hearty souls completed a 51-mile series of hikes across the Swannanoa Rim. The educational outings start again later this month.

Photo by Van Burnette, courtesy of Joe Standaert

Sponsored by the Swannanoa Valley Museum, these excursions are designed to be educational and to raise funds.

“These aren’t just hikes: You learn a lot,” explains Van Burnette, one of the guides for the series. “We’re all quite knowledgeable in the history of the valley. We do our research.”

Retired Black Mountain resident Sharon Stenner can attest to that. One of 12 hearty souls who completed the entire series last year, she says the guides know “everything about every little mountain. They know names, they know stories, the history, the flora and fauna; it’s just wonderful.”

One of the most diverse natural environments in the Southeast, it encompasses Southern-hardwood, Northern-deciduous and spruce-fir forests that collectively feature some 50 species of trees and 1,000 kinds of flowering plants.

“Some of the trails, it’s like going from here to Canada in an hour,” notes organizer and guide Wendell Begley. “They get over 9 feet of snow up there on the high ridges a year: over 80 inches of precipitation.”

Compare that to the roughly 14 inches of snow and 48 inches of precipitation typically seen in neighboring Black Mountain, which sits in the valley at an elevation of 2,400 feet. The highest point on the hiking route is Potato Knob, at 6,410 feet.

These outdoor adventures are especially fulfilling, notes Stenner, because they unfold so close to home. “If you stand down here in the middle of Black Mountain and you look up, you can see this big rim going all the way around. I can stand down here now and say: ‘I did that. See all those ridges up there? I hiked that.’”

Organizers recommend bringing lunch, snacks and water along with appropriate clothing. But because the guides take such good photos (and share them via a Picasa Web Album), Stenner says she doesn’t see much need to tote her own camera.

“After the hikes, I often go home and soak in the tub because I’m so sore,” she explains.

“I know that when I get out, those pictures are already up there, so we can look at all of them and revisit the day. The views are gorgeous.”

And though Stenner says it takes determination to get through some of the tramps, she believes it’s well worth it.

“Some days I was really tired,” she recalls.

“But it gives you such a feeling of satisfaction to do it. When we came to the last one, and I heard it was eight miles, I said: ‘I don’t care.

If I have to crawl, I’m going to do this hike, because I’m going to finish it.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext.

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Our midwives give personal, individualized service in either setting. New Dawn midwives and staff care for and about women and their families. We specialize in natural birth and have welcomed approximately 1800 babies into these mountains.

When a woman decides to have her baby with New Dawn, she knows she has the best of both worlds — traditional midwifery care of women by women with access to medical care when that is needed.

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by Wade Inganamort Every week, Xpress posts a round up of wellness news from a variety Western North Carolina sources, gathered by contributor Wade Inganamort. Here’s a sampling of the latest tidbits, which you can find on mountainx.com.

Six people vaccinated for rabies in Asheville

“Six people are receiving post-exposure rabies vaccines to prevent infection, including five employees of the pet clinic where [a] sick cat was taken [near UNCA]. This is done as a precaution because if contracted, rabies is fatal for humans.

‘The Buncombe County Department of Health is working closely with the Asheville Police Department and Animal Control to increase surveillance and possibly capture feral cats in the immediate area where the rabid cat was recently discovered,’ said Marc Fowler, Environmental Health Director with the Department of Health.

‘Concerns about feral cats in the city limits may be referred to the APD at 252-1110.” — [Buncombe County Health Department and Mountain Xpress]

Mission requests visitor limitation due to rising flu numbers

“Rates of influenza have risen enough statewide

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and locally that Mission Hospital in Asheville is asking people not to visit patients in the hospital unless they are next of kin or their closest friend.

Visitors are also asked not to bring teenagers and children to Mission.” — [Mission Hospitals]

New clinic advances access for uninsured in Buncombe County

“Three Streams Family Health Center of Asheville will officially open its new ‘Access 4 All’ clinic with a ribbon cutting on February 2.

The clinic will allow uninsured residents to be seen during additional, non-traditional hours for primary and minor urgent care needs and will be open late Tuesday evenings, and all day Friday and Saturday. While not free, sliding-scale fees will help to promote access to care among the uninsured. ” — [NC Medical Society]

Pardee offers free program for heart month

“The free program [Know Your Heart Health Numbers”] will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 16, from 10 until 11:30 a.m., at the Pardee Health Education Center, located in the Blue Ridge Mall.

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March 4-6 Myoskeletal Alignment workshop in Asheville:

“Specially designed for the professional massage, sports and structural integration therapist, these dynamic muscle-balancing, joint-stretching and functional mobilization routines boost referrals through increased customer satisfaction.” — [erikdalton.com]

YWCA of Asheville to offer Red Cross lifeguard training in March

“The YWCA of Asheville will offer American Red Cross Lifeguard Training Wednesday, March 2 – May 4 (weekly course, one Saturday) and March 23, 25-27 (weekend intensive). The trainings will be held at the YWCA, 185 S. French Broad Avenue. The course includes lifeguarding skills, First Aid and CPR for the Professional Rescuer and more.” — [YWCA of Asheville]

Park Ridge sponsors annual Frostbite Run, Feb. 20

“The 19th Annual Frostbite 10K, 5K Run and 1 Mile Fun Run/Walk, scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 20, benefits the Park Ridge Wellness on Wheels program. WOW is a mobile medicalunit-and-care team that that offers free and at-cost health screenings, including women’s heart health assessments. In the past five years, the WOW program has provided more than 56,700 screenings in many locations throughout Western North Carolina. Approximately 25 percent of all clients screened have been identified as being at risk for developing heart disease, a stroke, prostate cancer, osteoporosis or diabetes. For more information about the race, visit www.parkridgehealth.org.” — [Park Ridge Health] X Please follow us on Twitter and submit WNC health and wellness info with the hashtag #avlhealth or by e-mail:mxhealth@mountainx.com.

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Mindful Self-Compassion: Introductory Course (pd.) If not Now, when? Being human is difficult. We find ourselves being hard on ourselves, driven to perfection and even self-improvement. We become wired for stress, depression, anxiety, over-thinking, excessive behaviors. • Learn mindful self-compassion skills to respond in an allowing and kind way to your suffering, feelings of inadequacies and self-judgments. • 8 session course: Monday evenings beginning February 2, 6:45pm-8:45pm. • Cost: $140 includes all materials. • Enrollment ends February 4. Facilitator: Denise Kelley, MA, LPC; Call 231-2107 or email: empowering.solutions@yahoo.com Park Ridge Health • February Calendar of Events (pd.) • WOW Health Screenings: Free Cholesterol Screenings Lipid and glucose profiles by finger stick, along with blood pressure and body mass index screening. For best results, fast overnight.

• Thursday, February 3 (8am-11am) Food Lion, 6 Cross Road Dr., Mills River. • Friday, February 4 (8am-11am) Ingles, 625 Spartanburg Hwy., Hendersonville • Wednesday, February 9, (8am-11am) The Body Shop Fitness Center, 580 Upward Rd., Hendersonville.

• Monday, February 21, (8am-11am) Harris Teeter, 636 Spartanburg Hwy., Hendersonville • Thursday, February 24, (8am-11am) The Rush Fitness Center, 1047 Patton Ave., Asheville Saturday, February 26, (9 am-11 a.m.) Bethel SDA Church 238 S. French Broad Ave., Asheville. • $10 PSA Screening: No appointment required. PSA blood test for men 50 years of age or older; age 40 if father or brother had prostate cancer.

Monday, February 7 (10am-1pm) Ingles, 220 Highland Lake Rd., Flat Rock. • Monday, February 28 (10am1pm) Food Lion, 800 Greenville Hwy., Hendersonville. • FREE Bone Density for Men and Women Bone density screening for osteoporosis. Please wear shoes and socks that are easy to slip off. Monday, February 7 (10am-1pm) Ingles, 220 Highland Lake Rd., Flat Rock • Monday, February 28 (10am- 1pm) Food Lion, 800 Greenville Hwy., Hendersonville • FREE Body Composition Analysis Body fat and hydration percentages, body mass index, height and weight for overall body composition.

• Sunday, February 20 (12:30pm-4pm) Lelia Patterson Center,1111 Howard Gap Rd., Fletcher EKG and Blood Pressure • Tuesday, February 8 (9am-12pm) Ingles, 1705 Brevard Rd., Laurel Park • Thursday, February 10 (1pm-4pm) Ingles 6000 Hendersonville Rd., Fletcher • Wednesday, February 23 (1pm-4pm) Rite Aid, 640 Spartanburg Hwy., Hendersonville • FREE Vision Screening for Adults and Children Vision Screenings are for near-sightedness, far-sightedness, color acuity and macular degeneration. Saturday, February 5 (10am-1pm) Wal-Mart, 50 Highland Square Dr., Hendersonville • The Baby Place Events: To register for classes or for more information on spa services, please call Sheri Gregg at 828.681.BABY or visit parkridgebabies.com. Classes are subject to change due to registration or weather.

We follow Henderson County School System closings for inclement weather. • Childbirth Classes: $90. Class cost is $90 per couple. Choose from the weekly class on Tuesday evenings for 4-weeks (beginning February 22) or a one-day class (February 21) from 9am-4pm.

• Celebrate Pregnancy/Weekend Option: $99. Saturday, February 19, 8am-Noon. Pregnancy is a time to relax, reflect and prepare mentally, physically and spiritually for the transition to motherhood. This class is an exciting twist on normal childbirth class covering important labor techniques and labor support. Lots of laughter and fun as you learn what you need to know for the big day.

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• Breastfeeding Class: $25/Couple: Tuesday, February 15, 6pm-7pm. The official word from the American

Academy of Pediatrics: Breastfeeding exclusively for the first six months is best for baby. There are benefits, though, well beyond that half year for both baby and mom, including long-term disease prevention. Our class addresses these benefits and also teaches new moms how to overcome common breast-feeding challenges ranging from latching on to proper positioning for baby.

This class is offered as part of the childbirth series but also can be taken separately. To register for this class, please call 828-681-BABY. • FREE Experience the Baby Place: Monday, February 21, 6pm. Please join us for Experience the Baby Place class where you will have an opportunity to see our new facility and all it has to offer as well ask questions about delivering here at The Baby Place. We encourage all patients who will be delivering or who want to deliver at the Baby Place to attend. Space is limited, so please register prior to attending this class. Baby Place Services, Pregnancy Massage Services The Baby Place at Park Ridge is now offering pregnancy massage services for expectant mothers. A licensed massage therapist specially-trained in pregnancy massage is available for appointments from 8am-8pm. For more information on pricing and to schedule an appointment, please call Sheri Gregg, R.N., L.M.B.T., Childbirth Educator (License #07652) at 681-BABY. • Breast Pump Services: The Baby Place Boutique now offers Medela Breast Pumps for purchase and rental. For more information, please call 681-BABY. • Acupuncture Services: The Baby Place at Park Ridge is now offering acupuncture services on Fridays. To schedule an appointment, please call 681-BABY. • Free Support Groups Breast Cancer Survivors and Friends/ “I Can Cope” Cancer Support Group: February 7, 5:30pm. Park Ridge Health Breast Center. Offered by the Park Ridge Health Breast Health Center and the American Cancer Society. Join other breast cancer survivors, friends and those at high risk for breast cancer seeking support and information. Please bring a favorite dish to share for a potluck dinner. For information, please contact Deborah Gentry, at 828.650.2790. • Alzheimer’s Association’s Henderson County Caregivers’ Support Group: February 8, 10am, Carolina Baptist Association Office (601 Hebron St., Hendersonville). Care for persons with dementia is available for those who can function in a social setting without their caregiver for over an hour.

Call Sally Griffin at 828.808.8635.

• Henderson County Stroke/Aphasia Support Group February 15, 3pm, Park Ridge Home Health offices.

Support group offered to stroke survivors coping with an aphasia disorder and for other individuals diagnosed with aphasia. Caregivers, family, and friends are encouraged to participate as well. Please call Brenda Oakley at 828.687.5261.

• Park Ridge Wellness Classes: All of the following Wellness Presentations are Free and open to the public, no RSVP required. No lunch will be served, feel free to bring your lunch from the cafe and learn while you eat.

Located in the Duke Room on the ground floor of Park Ridge. Guests may use our Free Valet Parking at the main entrance, and ask for directions to the Duke Room.

Free copy of “The Blue Zones” for all attendees.

• Women’s Heart Health: Wednesday, February 2, 12pm-1pm. Julie Palmer, Park Ridge Wellness Educator.

Julie will discuss cardiovascular disease risk factors and prevention. In addition she will talk about the distinct differences of signs and symptoms of a heart attack between and men and women.

• Mindful Eating: Monday, February 28, 12pm-1pm. Jodi Grabowski, M.A.C.P., Wellness Coordinator. Can weight loss really be as easy as paying better attention? Studies show that reducing caloric intake by just 100 calories a day can lead to loss of 12 pounds in a year. Everyday we are faced with a multitude of decisions about what to eat, where to eat it, who to eat it with. And factors such as plate size and packaging all influence what we take in. Jodi will share the importance of eating mindfully

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• Park Ridge Wellness Events: All of the following Health Presentations are Free and open to the public. Each takes place on Wednesday evening from 6:30pm- 7:30pm at the Lelia Patterson center. Sponsored by the Fletcher Seventh-day Adventist Church. RSVP by calling 828684-0332 (leave a message if no answer).

• Vitamin D-Who Cares? Wednesday, February 2.

Jeremy Pettit, PA-C. Director of Park Ridge Wellness.

Jeremy will share about the health benefits of vitamin D, the latest discoveries in vitamin D research, the options for getting tested and the means for maintaining healthy levels.

• Healthful Living: Decreasing Risk for Disease: Wednesday, February 9. Jackie Sitton, RN. Jackie will speak on diet and exercise essential for reducing and or preventing your risks for Cardiovascular Disease, including high blood pressure and diabetes.

• Menopause and Hormone Replacement Therapy, Wednesday, February 16. Justin Towle, M.D., OB/GYN with Park Ridge Women’s Services, will discuss the symptoms of menopause and options for women in all stages of menopause and answer questions from the audience.

• Foot Pain: Wednesday, February 23. Robert Garfield, D.P.M., Podiatrist with Southeastern Sports Medicine, will discuss a variety causes and treatment options of foot pain and answer questions.

• Community Events: • Love and Logic: $60/person, $100 for couples. February 21 and 28, 1pm-4:3pm. This workshop will use hands-on-learning to help you gain practical skills in the “Love and Logic” method. Love and Logic uses humor, hope and empathy to build healthy adult-child relationships. Using this win-win approach to parenting, you will learn to show love in a healthy way and establish effective control. Kids win by learning responsibility and developing coping skills for the real world by solving their own problems. The strength of Love and Logic is the practical techniques you will learn to compliment the philosophical foundation. Love and Logic emphasizes respect and dignity for both child and adult. These techniques allow you to establish a rewarding relationship with your children, built on love and trust.

• Frenzied Female Workshop: Embrace the Fabulous You Friday, February 18, 9am-3pm, (8:30 registration) Lelia Patterson Center, Fletcher. Join us for a special day of powerful speakers, practical information and applicable tools designed to motivate and empower the women of our community. Free Lunch and Learn. Reservations are required as space is limited. Please call 828-6873947 to reserve your space. Forefoot Problems Friday, February 18, 12 noon Park Ridge Health at Laurel Park.

Brian Stover, DPM Podiatrist with Southeastern Sports Medicine will speak on conditions such as bunions and hammertoes and treatment options.

• The Anti-Inflammatory Diet: Friday, February 25, 12 noon. Duke Room at Park Ridge Health Leah Swann, MD, Board-certified Family Practitioner with Park Ridge Medical Associates will discuss what the anti-inflammatory diet is, how it works and who it works for.

A-B Tech Continuing Ed Classes Classes are free, unless otherwise noted. Info & registration: www.abtech.edu/ce/registration.

• THURSDAYS (2/3 through 2/17) - “Herbs for Winter Wellness.” Learn natural, traditional and scientifically sound uses of herbs and how to incorporate familyfriendly herbs into winter meals and home remedies. At A-B Tech, Madison. $5. Info: naturalproducts@abtech. edu or 254-1921, ext. 5843.

ADD/ADHD and Meditation: Introduction Scientific findings from medical journals on the applications of the Transcendental Meditation technique for treatment of ADHD and other learning disorders.

Discussion, video and Q&A. Free. Info: www.adhdtm.org.

• WEEKLY - Meets at the Asheville TM Center, 165 E. Chestnut St. Info: 254-4350.

Doctors With a Heart The national charity donates time and services to raise money for local causes.

• TU (2/8), 9am-6pm - Doster Chiropractic, 179 Charlotte St., will examine and treat people free of charge. New patients receive health screenings, while existing patients receive treatment. Donations will be accepted with all proceeds benefiting MANNA FoodBank.

Info: 236-2200.

Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration and appointments required unless otherwise noted. To register or for info: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• TH (2/3), 3-4:30pm - Chloe Roderick, a Pardee licensed physical therapist, will discuss tips to help maintain balance and prevent falls.

• FR (2/4), 8:30am-1pm - American Red Cross Blood Drive.

• TH (2/10), 3-4:30pm - Jason Morgan, a Pardee licensed physical therapist, will discuss the many causes of shoulder pain and the range of treatments available.

Free Blood Pressure Clinic • TUESDAYS, 1-6pm - The Faith Community Nurse at SOS Anglican Mission will offer free blood pressure checks at 370 N. Louisiana Ave, Suite C1. Info: rchovey@sos.spc-asheville.org.

Free Boot Camp Classes • SATURDAYS, 8:30am - Using high-intensity interval training, this program was created to burn fat, tone and shape muscles, increase metabolism and drop pounds.

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Henderson County Red Cross Red Cross holds classes in CPR and First Aid for infants, children and adults; Standard First Aid in Spanish; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid. Located at 203 Second Ave. East, Hendersonville. Info: 693-5605. : Blood Drive dates and locations are listed below.

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• TH (2/3), 8:30am-1pm - Park Ridge Hospital, Duke Conference Room, 100 Hospital Drive. Info: 684-8501.

• FR (2/4), 8:30am-1pm - Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. Info: 692-4600.

• WE (2/9), 7:30am-4:30pm - Pardee Hospital, Jamison Conference Room, 800 N. Justice St. Info: 696-4225.

Living Healthy: A Chronic Disease Self Management Program • WEDNESDAYS (2/2 through 3/9), 9:30am - Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Take charge of your health with this six-week workshop for people with chronic health conditions and caregivers. At Carolina Village, 600 Carolina Village Road, Hendersonville. Free. Registration required: 251-7438.

Red Cross Events & Classes Red Cross holds classes in CPR/First Aid for infants, children, and adults; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid; Bloodborne Pathogens; Swimming & Water Safety; and Lifeguarding. All classes held at chapter headquarters, 100 Edgewood Road. To register, call 258-3888, ext.

221. Info: www.redcrosswnc.org. : Bloodmobile Drive dates and locations are listed below. Appointment and ID required.

• WE (2/2), 1:30-6pm - A-B Tech, Enka Campus, 1459 Sand Hill Road, Candler. Info: (704)-860-8339.

• TH (2/3), 11am-3:30pm - Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Ave. Info: 253-0299, ext. 3004 —- 2-6:30pm - Skyland UMC, 1984 Hendersonville Road. Info: 684-7283.

• FR (2/4), 11am-3:30pm - Flesher’s of Fairview, 3016 Cane Creek Road, Fairview. Info: 628-2800.

• SA (2/5), 10am-2:30pm - Lowe’s Home Improvement, 89 South Tunnel Road. Info: 299-3788.

• SU (2/6), 8:30am-1pm - St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 10 N. Liberty St. Info: 253-0043.

• TH (2/10), 11am-3pm - Renaissance Asheville Hotel - The Rotary Club of Asheville, 31 Woodfin St. Info: 768-1808 —- 2-6:30pm - Francis Asbury UMC, 725 Asbury Road, Candler. Info: 667-3950.

Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOA is an anonymous Twelve Step, Twelve Tradition program of women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info:http://adultchildren. org.

• FRIDAYS, 7pm - “Inner Child” meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. Info: 989-8075.

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution” meets at The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St., Asheville.

Open big book study. Info: 989-8075.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - “Generations” meets at First Congregational United Church Of Christ, 20 Oak St. at College, Asheville. Info:474-5120.

Al-Anon Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area. Info: 800-286-1326 or www.wnc-alanon.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Newcomers meeting 7:30pm, Discussion meeting 8-9pm: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road, across from Ingles. Enter through parking lot door. Info: 225-0515 or 258-4799.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm - Discussion meeting for parents of children with addictions: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road, across from Ingles. Info: 242-6197.

• FRIDAYS, 8pm - The Lambda (GLBT) group of AlAnon is a gay-friendly support group for families and friends of alcoholics, and holds their weekly candlelight meeting at All Souls Cathedral, 3 Angle St. Info: 6706277 (until 9pm).

• FRIDAYS, 12:30-1:30pm - Discussion meeting: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

• SATURDAYS, 10am - Al-Anon North: Meeting at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. • SATURDAYS, 10am - Saturday Serenity at St Mary’s Episcopal Church on the corner of Charlotte and Macon.

Beginners welcome.

• SATURDAYS, Noon - Weaverville discussion meeting at First Baptist Church on N. Main St., next to the library.

Enter via side glass doors.

• SUNDAYS, 5-6pm - Discussion meeting: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road. Info: 281-1566.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - Black Mountain Al-Anon: Meeting at First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), 201 Blue Ridge Road (corner of Blue Ridge Road and Hwy. 9).

Info: 669-0274.

• MONDAYS, 12-1pm - Discussion meeting: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

• TUESDAYS, 5:30pm - 12 Steps and 12 Traditions Study at Kennilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road.

• TUESDAYS, 7pm - Discussion meeting: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Alcoholics Anonymous - N.C. Mountain Central Office • This service center for AA members and groups provides 24-hour phone support for AA meetings in WNC,

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Bipolar and Depression Support Group • WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Magnetic Minds meets at 1314-F Patton Ave., in the Parkwood Business Park.

Peer support, empowerment, recovery and advocacy.

Info: 318-9179.

Crystal Meth Anonymous • MONDAYS, 8pm - This 12-step meeting welcomes anyone who has a desire to quit using crystal meth. The group meets at First Congregational Church, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-8729.

Eating Disorders Individuals are welcome to come to one or all of the support groups. Info: 337-4685 or www.thecenternc.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Support group for adults at T.H.E. Center for Disordered Eating, 297 Haywood St. Focus is on positive peer support, coping skills and recovery tools. Led by licensed professionals. Free.

I Can Cope The American Cancer Society, Cancer Centers of North Carolina and Carepartners host “I Can Cope,” a program that gives participants an opportunity to share concerns and ways to cope with the challenge of a cancer diagnosis. Patients, caregivers and family members are invited to attend. Meetings are held at Cancer Centers of North Carolina, located in Regional Medical Park, Asheville.

Free. Info: 271-6510.

• WEDNESDAY (starting 2/2), 3-5pm - Meetings feature guest speakers and professionals, such as oncologists, oncology nurses and social workers. Call to register.

Journaling Group • THURSDAYS - Want to better know yourself? The single most essential instrument for nurturing your spirit is a personal journal. Sharing a journal with others can help clarify your thoughts, your emotions, and your reactions to certain people or situations. Info: 989-9811.

National Alliance on Mental Illness Dedicated to improving the lives of persons with severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, OCD, PTSD and anxiety disorders. Free connection recovery support groups. Info: 505-7353.

• 1st SATURDAYS, 10am - Group meets at 356 Biltmore Ave., Suite 400.

Overcomers Recovery Support Group A Christian-based 12-step recovery program. Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems. Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: rchovey@sos.spc-asheville.org or 575-2003.

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm - A support group for men will meet.

Overeaters Anonymous A fellowship of individuals who, through shared experience, strength and hope, are recovering from compulsive overeating. This 12-step program welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively. Meetings are one hour unless noted.

• THURSDAYS, Noon - Asheville: Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road. (S. 25 at Yorkshire). Info: 298-1899.

• SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks & Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave. off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery mtg. Info: 686-8131.

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Meth. Church, 2567 Asheville Hwy. (Hwy. 25). Open mtg. Info: 1-800-580-4761.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Open mtg. Info: 277-8185.

• TUESDAYS, 10:30am-Noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. at Ottari. Open BBSS mtg. Info: 280-2213.

Sexaholics Anonymous SA is a 12-step fellowship of men and women recovering from compulsive patterns of lust, romance, destructive relationships, sexual thoughts or sexual behavior. Call confidential voice mail 681-9250 or e-mail saasheville@ gmail.com. Info: www.orgsites.com/nc/saasheville/.

• DAILY - Asheville meetings.

SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) • SATURDAYS, 10-11am - Do you want to stop living out a destructive pattern of sex and love addiction over which you are personally powerless? This 12-step-based recovery meeting meets at 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: www.slaafws.org or ashevilleslaa@charter.net.

Wednesday Women’s Al-Anon Meeting • WEDNESDAYS, 5:45pm - Meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. (at Gracelyn Street). Newcomers welcome. Info: 253-0542.

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by Eric Crews

Specializing in Bridge & Roadwork

The stars are still bright in the sky and a tiny sliver of new moon hovers as, just before sunrise, Ron Funderburke trudges through the freshly fallen snow with a backpack full of climbing gear. The record-breaking cold means conditions should be perfect for leading an ice route he’s been itching to tackle for weeks.

Funderburke is the head climbing guide at Fox Mountain Guides, one of the Southeast’s premier climbing instruction centers. Today’s his day off, though, and he’s headed for a little-known climbing area near Linville Gorge with fellow Fox Mountain guide Jeremy Devine.

In recent weeks, Funderburke has been making regular trips to the area, doing a few of the easier routes while scouting a series of more challenging-looking possibilities that he believes have never been climbed.

At 8:30 a.m., Funderburke and Devine shoulder their backpacks and begin the steep, technical approach to the ice-covered crag. The 10 inches of fresh snow blanketing the dry creek bed’s boulders and rocks make the hike itself a challenge, yet the two climbers move swiftly, reaching the first frozen waterfall 30 minutes later.

At the base, Funderburke drops his pack and examines the 50-foot-high mass of glacier-blue ice, crystalline in the early

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morning light. Listening closely, he discerns the sound of running water behind the thick column: Despite the frigid temperatures, the route still isn’t fully frozen.

After some consideration, though, Funderburke concludes that if he doesn’t climb it today — and soon — he probably won’t be able to this season.

He begins by wielding his ice ax like a hammer, each swing creating a barrage of falling ice chunks as the ax bounces off the frozen wall. After several tries, a satisfying thud testifies that the ax head is solidly entrenched. Gripping the curved handle, Funderburke starts to pull himself up, simultaneously kicking his crampons into the ice. Meanwhile, his free arm swings a second ax as high as he can reach, enabling Funderburke to slowly work his way up the frozen cataract.

About 20 feet up, he unclips a 6-inch-long ice screw from his harness and quickly works it into the glittering surface.

After clipping the climbing rope into a carabiner attached to the screw, Funderburke continues with methodical precision, stopping every so often to place another screw. Eventually, he executes a series of difficult, tenuous maneuvers before pulling up and over and out of sight atop the icy cliff.

The sky overhead is a brilliant, cerulean blue, and the blazing sun illuminates the icy mountainside. This is a very ephemeral sport, Funderburke observes while removing his crampons: What’s here today may be gone tomorrow. The frozen route he and Devine have just ascended is already beginning to melt, and

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TUES. Gather ye icicles while ye may: Ice-climbing is an ephemeral sport, as what’s frozen today may melt away tomorrow, say enthusiasts like Ron Funderburke. photo by Eric Crews

the sound of running water grows louder as the day begins to warm.

Over the next few hours, the two move from route to route, chasing the shade in an attempt to hit as many routes as possible. Eventually, they’re ready to pack it in.

“At the end of a good ice-climbing day, the biggest thing I feel is gratitude and satisfaction,” Funderburke explains. “It’s a special thing, to catch good ice: I have to have a day off, the ice has to be good, and I have to have a good partner. If all those circumstances come to pass, I feel damn near euphoric about the whole thing.”

The descent to their car takes the two climbers back down the steep, snowy creek bed, forsaking the unforgiving world of icy waterfalls and cliffs for the warmer, softer comforts of home. As much as Funderburke savors the physical challenges of ice climbing, he emphasizes, returning to his family safely is paramount — something he never loses sight of. X Asheville resident Eric Crews is a freelance writer and adventure-sports videographer.

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outdoorscalendar Calendar for February 2 - 10, 2011 Form/Strength Combo for Runners (pd.) Improve endurance. Unique combination of Pilates and Alexander. • Two highly experienced instructors, marathon runners. • Personal attention.

Thursdays, 9-10:30am. • $20 or 10 sessions for $175.

117 Furman, Asheville. • RSVP: 225-3786. www.

FormFitnessFunction.com Pilates for Runners (pd.) Increase flexibility, develop muscles evenly, prevent injuries. • Highly experienced instructor, marathon runner.

• Small class, personal attention. • Mondays, 6pm-7pm.

• $15 or 10 sessions for $130. 117 Furman, Asheville. • RSVP: 225-3786. www.FormFitnessFunction.com Asheville Track Club The club provides information, education, training, social and sporting events for runners and walkers of any age.

Please see the group Web site for weekly events and news. Info: www.ashevilletrackclub.org or 253-8781.

• SUNDAYS, 8:30am - Trail run for all paces. Meet at the NC Arboretum, Greenhouse Parking Area. Info: 648-9336.

Blue Ridge Bicycle Club For more information on the club, or to view a current and comprehensive club calendar: www.blueridgebicycleclub. org.

• WEEKLY - Leads road rides ranging from novice to advanced skill levels. Rides usually have a designated Ride Leader and participants will not be left behind.

Carolina Mountain Club CMC fosters the enjoyment of the mountains of WNC and adjoining regions and encourages the conservation of our natural resources, through an extensive schedule of hikes and a program of trail building and maintenance. $20 per year, family memberships $30 per year. Newcomers must

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call the leader before the hike. Info: www.carolinamtnclub. org.

• WE (2/2), 8am - South Mountains Loop. Info: 6252677.

• SU (2/6), 8am - Roans in Snow. Info: 450-6986 —9am - Coontree-Bennett Gap-Pressley Cove Lollipop.

Info: 243-3630 —- 12:45pm - Chestnut Cove to MST to Sleepy Gap to Explorer Trail. Info: 298-8413.

• WE (2/9), 8:30am - Dupont Forest: Fawn Lake and Bridal Veil Falls. Info: 299-0226.

Events at Historic Johnson Farm Located at 3346 Haywood Rd. in Hendersonville. There are two nature trails (free), and guided tours are offered.

Info: 891-6585 or www.historicjohnsonfarm.org.

• TH (2/10), 7pm - “Before You Go Outdoors,” with Gary Eblen of Diamond Brand Outdoors. Helpful hints, tips and ideas to make your future camping or hiking experiences a safe pleasure. $5. Reservations recommended.

Triathlon Training Clinic • TH (2/3), 6-7pm - Build your own training plan. Run Buddies is putting on a triathlon training clinic at Hearn’s, 28 Asheland Ave. Donations will be accepted for Run Buddies, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting adolescent obesity. Info: 253-4800.

MORE OUTDOORS EVENTS ONLINE

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CALENDAR DEADLINE

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stevedixon a life in photos

Longtime Asheville Citizen-Times photographer Steve Dixon died Jan. 22 of cancer. He had documented Western North Carolina life for 27 years. Says Xpress photographer Jonathan Welch, “Dixon’s work breached the fastpaced documentation and disciplined communication of visual journalism into the creative self-exploration of nature photography. A photographic legacy was left behind for others to share in his vision.”

“There are times when a photo seems to seek out the photographer, rather than the other way around,” wrote Dixon on his website. And, “I don’t think I have the philosophical or theological depth to understand why these things happen, but I’m truly thankful.”

above, “dixon had driven by this scene many time on the Blue ridge parkway near Mount pisgah before noticing the trees and ridges. smoke from forest fires in Tennessee lay on the ridges at sunrise that morning, giving the photo an ethereal look,” writes Citizen-Times photo editor Bill sanders. Below, late afternoon light glows in the top of bare trees around palmer Chapel in the Cataloochee Valley, dec. 21, 2008.

portrait of steve dixon in his living room before starting chemotherapy. dixon wanted a picture of his trademark beard before the treatments caused it to fall out. Below, the winter sun rises behind a bare tree in the Craggy Gardens area off the Blue ridge parkway, 2007.

TOp rIGhT phOTO By BIll saNders, OTher phOTOs By sTeVe dIxON

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calendar

your guide to community events, classes, concerts & galleries

calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists Calendar for February 2 - 10, 2011 Unless otherwise stated, events take place in Asheville, and phone numbers are in the 828 area code.

Day-by-day calendar is online Want to find out everything that’s happening today — or tomorrow, or any day of the week? Go to www.mountainx. com/events.

Weekday Abbreviations: SU = Sunday, MO = Monday, TU = Tuesday, WE = Wednesday, TH = Thursday, FR = Friday, SA = Saturday

Community Events & Workshops AARP Tax-Aide Free tax preparation for seniors and low- and middle-income taxpayers. Electronic filing available. Call the individual location for details on what to bring. Info: www.aarp. org/taxaide. Questions and

requests for homebound individuals: 277-8288.

• Through MO (4/18) - Free tax preparation available at Pack Library, 67 Haywood St., Mon. & Wed., 10am-4pm (628-3662); West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road, Tues., 9am-3pm (658-9718); Weaverville Library, 41 North Main St., Thurs., Noon-5pm (713-9381); and Black Mountain Library, 105 N. Dougherty St., Tues., 10am4pm (505-4373).

“Ask a Lawyer” Event • SA (2/5), 10am-3pm - A panel of local attorneys will be available to answer legal questions for free at Pack Memorial Library, Lord Auditorium. There will be attorneys representing a variety of practice areas.

Spanish translator from 2-3pm.

Info: 250-4700.

Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 255-8115 or www.firestormcafe.com.

Calendar deadlines:

*FREE and PAID listings - Wednesday, 5 p.m.

(7 days prior to publication) Can’t find your group’s listing?

Due to the abundance of great things to do in our area, we only have the space in print to focus on timely events. Our print calendar now covers an eight-day range. For a complete directory of all Community Calendar groups and upcoming events, please visit www.mountainx.com/events..

Calendar Information In order to qualify for a free listing, an event must cost no more than $40 to attend and be sponsored by and/or benefit a nonprofit.

If an event benefits a business, it’s a paid listing.

If you wish to submit an event for Clubland (our free live music listings), please e-mail clubland@mountainx.com.

Free Listings To submit a free listing: * Online submission form (best): http://www.mountainx.com/ events/submission * E-mail (second best): calendar@mountainx.com * Fax (next best): (828) 251-1311, Attn: Free Calendar * Mail: Free Calendar, Mountain Xpress, P.O. Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802 * In person: Mountain Xpress, 2 Wall St. (the Miles Building), second floor, downtown Asheville.

Please limit your submission to 40 words or less.

Questions? Call (828) 251-1333, ext. 365.

Paid Listings Paid listings lead the calendar sections in which they are placed, and are marked (pd.).

To submit a paid listing, send it to our Classified Department by any of the following methods. Be sure to include your phone number, for billing purposes. * E-mail: marketplace@mountainx.com. * Fax: (828) 251-1311, Attn: Commercial Calendar * Mail: Commercial Calendar, Mountain Xpress, P.O. Box 144, Asheville, NC 28802 * In person: Classified Dept., Mountain Xpress, 2 Wall St. (the Miles Building), Ste. 214, downtown Asheville.

Questions? Call our Classified Department at (828) 251-1333, ext. 335.

• FR (2/4), 7pm - First Friday: A monthly gathering of people across the city who have a passion for global poverty and injustice issues. Learn about current issues from guest speakers, watch documentaries and network.

Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (2/3), 4pm - “Creative Careers,” a panel discussion featuring David Edward Jensen, president and executive producer of Modern Beat Digital Records; Leslie Klinger, curator of interpretation at the Biltmore Estate; Jennifer Mayer, owner of Charlotte Street Computers; Sheila Steelman, associate director of communications at Asheville School; and Heather Taft, owner of the Asheville Arts Center. Held at the Highsmith University Union, Mountain Suites. Info: www2.unca.edu/ career or 251-6515.

• FR (2/4), 11:25am - Humanities Lectures “Industrialization, Capitalism and Alienation” with Jeff Konz, UNCA associate professor of economics, at Lipinsky Auditorium and “Beyond Rights: Toward Capabilities,” with Brian Butler, UNCA chair and associate professor of philosophy, at the Humanities Lecture Hall.

• MO (2/7), 11:25am Humanities Lectures: “China,” with Grant Hardy, UNCA director of humanities and professor of history, at Lipinsky Auditorium, and “The High Middle Ages,” with Gordon Wilson, UNCA professor of philosophy, at Humanities Lecture Hall.

SciGirls • TH (2/3), 6-8pm - The SciGirls program “Going Green” is sponsored by the Public Broadcasting System to engage girls in science.

Participation is $10/student and all girls ages 9-14 are eligible.

Program details, specific hours and registration details at www. pari.edu.

WNC Agricultural Center Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414.

• FR & SA (2/4 & 5) - Indoor Motorcross.

World Affairs Council Programs Info: www.main.nc.us/wac.

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• TU (2/8), 7:30-9pm - “What’s at stake in the caucasus? An overview of diplomacy and strategy in this important and volatile region,” with Tom Bertrand. Held on the UNCA college campus, Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. $8/Free for members.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Alpha Phi Alumnae • WE (2/9), 5:30-8pm - Asheville area alumnae of Alpha Phi sorority will meet at Tupelo Honey South, 1829 Hendersonville Road. Info: Jrandolph919@aol.com or 230-8764.

Artistic Asheville Singles Group • WEEKLY - Meeting locations vary. For single people under 35. Info: coolspiritualartistic@ gmail.com.

Asheville Homeless Network Meetings take place at Firestorm Cafe & Books in downtown Asheville. Info: 552-0505.

• THURSDAYS, 2pm - All homeless people and interested citizens are welcome.

Asheville Newcomers Club Women new to the city or recently retired make new friends while learning about opportunities Asheville offers.

Info: avlnewcomers@aol.com or 274-6662.

• WE (2/9), 9:30am - Meeting at New Hope Presbyterian Church, 3070 Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville. Info: newcomersclub2@aol.com or 676-1216.

CLOSER Looking for gay folks in your age group? CLOSER is Asheville’s oldest LGBT social club serving all boomers and seniors. Providing entertainment, education and fellowship. Info: 776-0109.

• TUESDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets in the library at All Souls Cathedral on All Souls Crescent in Asheville.

Concerned Bikers Association This A.B.A.T.E.of North Carolina, Buncombe County Chapter, is dedicated to protecting and promoting motorcyclist safety. “Let those who ride decide.” Info: 281-3613 or info@buncombecba.com.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Meet at Baba’s Restaurant, 1459 Merrimon Ave.

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The Sierra Club invites the community to a program with Dr. Leah Mathews at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Edwin Place, on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 7 p.m. Dr. Matthews will discuss the results of the Farmland Values Project, regarding the benefits of farmland protection. Info: nc.sierraclub.org/wenoca or 251-8289.

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All are welcome to attend a public lecture titled "Creative Careers" on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 4 p.m. The panel discussion will feature David Edward Jensen, president and executive producer of Modern Beat Digital Records; Leslie Klinger, curator of interpretation at the Biltmore Estate; Jennifer Mayer, owner of Charlotte Street Computers; Sheila Steelman, associate director of communications at Asheville School; and Heather Taft, owner of the Asheville Arts Center. Held at the Highsmith University Union, Mountain Suites. Info: unca.edu/career or 251-6515.

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Attend an opening reception for Retrospective 1990-2010, an exhibition featuring the works of artist Al Junek, on Friday, Feb. 4 at 5 p.m. Selected paintings from Junek's collection will be on display at the Asheville Gallery of Art, 16 College St. Info: ashevillegallery-of-art.com or 251-5796.

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The Land of the Sky United Church of Christ presents a screening of the film Fresh, about reinventing our food system to forge healthier, more sustainable alternatives. Held on Saturday, Feb. 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 15 Overbrook Place, in East Asheville. Childcare provided.

Optional potluck at 5 p.m. Info: landoftheskychurch.org.

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Poetry Slam Asheville turns up the heat with the first erotic slam on Sunday, Feb. 6, at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway. Sign up at 7:30 p.m. to participate; the slam begins at 8 p.m. $5 cover/free for performers and volunteers. For mature audiences. Info: poetryslamasheville.com.

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Come hear stories focused on the theme “On the Road,” at Synergy Story Slam, Asheville's communitybased, open-mic storytelling event. Held on Monday, Feb. 7, at 7 p.m. at The Magnetic Field, 372 Depot St., River Arts District. $5-$10 with partial proceeds benefiting Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project (ASAP). Info: 257-4003.

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Laura Hope-Gill, the author of The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians, will give a book talk, on Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 12:30 p.m. on the UNCA college campus, One University Heights, in the Whitman Room, Ramsey Library. Info: 232-5000.

Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 255-8115 or www.firestormcafe.com.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - Firestorm-Blitzkrieg Game Night. Bring your favorite game or come to play someone else’s.

• SA (2/5), 8pm - Mountain Justice Social Hour: Hang out and socialize with anti-mountaintop removal activists from around Appalachia.

Veterans for Peace The public is invited to the regular business meeting of the WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099. Info: 258-1800 or vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot. com.

• TH (2/3), 6:30pm - Meeting VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St. (the corner of Haywood and Roberts), Asheville.

Government & Politics Asheville Copwatch A grassroots organization formed by local residents to promote civilian police over-

sight and review. Info: 3984817 or 255-8115.

• WEDNESDAYS, 5pm - Meets at Firestorm Cafe & Books, 48 Commerce St. Buncombe County Republican Women A group dedicated to electing and supporting conservative Republicans.

• TH (2/10), 11:30am - Meet at Cornerstone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road. Mr. Kyle Carver will be speaking on “The Importance of Precinct Organization.” All (men as well as women) are welcome to attend. Info: 277-7074.

LibertyOnTheRocks.org A national nonpartisan social group connecting liberty advocates.

• MONDAYS, 7pm - The Liberty on the Rocks social meets at El Chapala Restaurant off of Merrimon Ave. Info: infinitybbc@gmail.com.

The Green Tea Party Free and open to the public. Info: 582-5180 or ts.greenjobs@gmail.com.

• THURSDAYS, 6pm - You are invited to a brewing of homegrown ideas steeped in tradi-

tional values. Meeting at Dobra Tea Room, 78 N. Lexington Ave., Asheville.

Seniors & Retirees 60+ Exercise Smarter (pd.) Learn better ways to exercise. Make every movement lighter, freer, easier.

Personal attention, two instructors. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Noon-1:15pm. $15 or 10 sessions for $130.

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FormFitnessFunction.com Senior Fitness Open House (pd.) Learn about unique Pilates and Alexander Technique (AT) programs for seniors that help increase confidence and self-sufficiency.

Wednesday, January 26, 11am-Noon. 117 Furman, Asheville. RSVP: 225-3786. www.FormFitnessFunction. com N.C. Center for Creative Retirement Unless otherwise noted, these events and classes are held in the Chestnut Ridge Room at UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: 251-6140.

• FR (2/4), 11:30am - Fab Friday: “Endocrine Disorders as You Age,” a talk by Rick Dodd, MD of Asheville Endocrinology.

Held at the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Free. Info: 251-6140.

Business Ready To Sell Or Buy A Restaurant In WNC? (pd.) We work exclusively with the food and beverage industry.

• Contact National Restaurant Properties in Asheville: (828) 225-4801. jeffnra@bellsouth. net • www.restaurantstore. com American Business Women’s Association ABWA brings together business women of diverse occupations to raise funds for local scholarships and enhance the professional and personal lives of its members. Info: www. abwaskyhy.com.

• TH (2/3), 5:30-7:30pm - Dinner meeting at Chef Mo’s, 900 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Guest speaker: Dr. David LaMond with LaMond Family Medicine. $5. RSVP: 777-2229.

Asheville SCORE Counselors to Small Business If your business could use some help, SCORE is the place to start. Free and confidential. To make an appointment: 271-4786. Our offices are located in the Federal Building, 151 Patton Ave., Rm. 259. Seminars are held at A-B Tech’s Small Business Center, room 2046. Free for veterans. Info: www.ashevillescore.org.

• WE (2/2), 1-4pm - “Accounting for Non-Accountants.”

• SA (2/5), 8:30am-Noon - “How to Develop a Website.”

CREIA Women Investors Focus Group • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - A diverse group of women meet to talk about realestate investing, share experiences, network and learn together. CREIA is a nonprofit, educational organization for people

interested in growing wealth through real estate. $15 nonmembers. Info: 779-2550 or www.creianc.org.

OnTrack Financial Education & Counseling Formerly Consumer Credit Counseling Service of WNC. OnTrack offers services to improve personal finances. Unless otherwise noted, all classes are free and held at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Ste. 222. Info: 255-5166 or www.ontrackwnc.org.

• SATURDAYS (2/5) & (2/12), 9am-3pm - HomeBuyer Education: A step-by-step explanation of the homebuying process. $35.

Technology Asheville Adobe User Group • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Free Adobe meeting. Join other Adobe users

in a discussion group. Time-saving tips and new Adobe workflows. Everyone is welcome.

Visit website for monthly meeting details: wwww.irishguy.us/adobe-user-group.

Free Computer Classes Classes are held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte St. To register: classes@charlottestreetcomputers.com.

• MONDAYS, 12:15-1:15pm - Mac OSX. • TUESDAYS, 12:15-1:15pm - iPhoto class.

• WEDNESDAYS, 12:15-1:15pm - iPad. • THURSDAYS, 12:15-1:15pm - iPad. • FRIDAYS, Noon-1:30pm - Google docs —- 2-3:30pm - Windows 7 —- 4-6pm - Facebook/YouTube.

• SATURDAYS, Noon-1pm - Protecting your PC.

• SUNDAYS, 12:15-1:15pm GarageBand.

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• TUESDAYS or THURSDAYS, 5:30-8pm - Skip the gym and head to Habitat. Get your work out while volunteering in the Home Store warehouse.

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unteer on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www. handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project.

• TH (2/3), 6-8pm - Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank to be given to agencies serving hungry people in 17 WNC counties.

• FR (2/4), 11am-12:30pm - Cook and serve a homemade lunch to the men staying at the ABCCM Veteran’s Restoration Quarters & Inn. Both men and women are encouraged to participate in this project.

• THURSDAYS (2/10 & 2/24), 5-7pm - Meals for Hope. Cook and serve a meal for 15-25 women and children who are part of New Choices, an empowerment program for displaced homemakers in need of counseling and assistance.

WNC Alliance Members of the WNC Alliance and the public are invited to be agents of change for the environment. Info: 258-8737 or www.wnca.org.

• TH (2/10) & MO (2/28), 10am - Help take water samples at the Swannanoa River Watershed to identify bacteria pollution in our local waterways. No experience necessary. Training will be provided the day of the sampling. Contact the French Broad Riverkeeper to sign up: hartwell@wnca.org or 258-8737.

WNC Nature Center Located at 75 Gashes Creek Rd. Hours: 10am-5pm daily.

Admission: $8/$6 Asheville City residents/$4 kids. Info: 298-5600 or www.wildwnc. org.

• WE (2/2), 10am-3pm - Wednesday Workday: Four volunteers are needed to collect materials and build a hide fence. Two volunteers are also needed to clean up a site near the picnic pavilion. Lunch will be provided. Volunteers must be 18 years or older and able to provide their own transportation. Info: 298-5600 or americorps@wildwnc.org.

• WE (2/9), 10am-3pm Workday Wednesday: Six volunteers are needed to clean up the barn/loft storage area. Four volunteers are also needed to construct planters at Otter Falls. Lunch Provided. Info: 298-5600 or americorps@ wildwnc.org.

Eco Land of the Sky United Church of Christ Located at Westminster Presbyterian Church, 15 Overbrook Place, in East Asheville.

• SA (2/5), 5-8pm - Land of the Sky UCC hosts a screening of the film Fresh, about reinventing our food system to

forge healthier, more sustainable alternatives. Childcare provided. Optional potluck at 5pm. Free.

Wild South Dedicated to stewarding our national forests, protecting wildlife, preserving cultural heritage sites and inspiring and empowering communities to enjoy, protect and restore the outdoors. Info: www.wildsouth. org or general@wildsouth.org.

• Nominations for the annual Roosevelt-Ashe Conservation Awards will be accepted.

Nominate an outstanding individual and/or business committed to conservation to be honored at this year’s “Green Tie Gala,” to be held on March 25. Applications are available online.

WNC Sierra Club Members of the WNC Sierra Club Chapter work together to protect the community and the planet. The mission of the Sierra Club, America’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, is to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth. Info: www. nc.sierraclub.org/wenoca or 251-8289.

• WE (2/2), 7-9pm - Social followed by a program at the Unitarian Universalist Church at Charlotte and Edwin Place in Asheville. Dr. Leah Mathews will talk about the results of the Farmland Values Project, regarding the benefits of farmland protection including local food, flood control, and ecosystem services like pollination.

Garden Buncombe Co. Parks, Greenways & Rec. Events Events are free and are held at 59 Woodfin Pl., unless otherwise noted. To register or for more info: 250-4265 or grace. young@buncombecounty.org.

• MO (2/14), 9-10am - Retired Master Gardner Peggy Calenda will talk about how to save money by planting a vegetable garden. Learn about garden space, planting and maintenance, and finding possible areas for planting fruit trees. $5. Register by Feb. 9.

Pearson Community Garden Workdays • WEDNESDAYS, 3-9pm - Gather in the Pearson Garden at the end of Pearson Drive in Montford with folks and grow some food. A potluck and produce to take home often follow the work.

Sports Groups & Activities Amateur Pool League

(pd.) WHEN YOU PLAY, PLAY POOL. Team rosters are open NOW. ALL SKILL LEVELS WELCOME. Sign-up to play 8ball or 9ball. 828-329-8197. www.BlueRidgeAPA.com Ongoing weekly league play.

Adult League Kickball Must have at least 10 players per team. The season will consist of 10 games and a league championship game with trophies for the winning team. $25/person. Info: 250-4269 or jay.nelson@buncombecounty. org.

• Through FR (3/4) - Register for the spring season. Season begins March 29. Games are played on Tues. and Thurs., 69pm at the Buncombe County Sports Park.

Filipino Martial Arts Kuntao: Traditional empty-hand system of self defense. Kali: Filipino method of stick-andknife combat. Free introductory lesson. Info: 777-8225 or http://kuntao.webs.com.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7pm - Classes at Asheville Culture Project, 257 Short Coxe Ave.

Kids At The Health Adventure Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm & Sun., 1-5pm. $8.50 adults/$7.50 students & seniors/$6 kids 2-11. Program info or to RSVP: 254-6373, ext. 324. Info: www.thehealthadventure.org.

• Through SU (5/15) - “Alice’s Wonderland: A Most Curious Adventure.”

Blue Ridge Books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000.

• TUESDAYS (through 4/26), 10am - Book Babies: Story time for children ages 3 and under.

Events at Spellbound Spellbound Children’s Bookshop is located at 19 Wall St., in downtown Asheville.

Info: 232-2228 or spellboundbooks@netzero.com.

• SA (2/5), 1-2pm - Local writer Matthew Damon reads from his book The Shadow Keep, a choose-your-own adventure story. Suggested for ages 7-12. Free.

Hands On! This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.Sat., 10am-5pm. Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: 697-8333 or www.handsonwnc.org.

• FR (2/4), 10:30am - Music & Movement with Jenny Arch.

Free for members.

• TU (2/8) through SA (2/12) - Asheville Regional Airport

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presents: “Make a Valentine.”

Free for members.

N.C. Arboretum Events for Kids Info: 665-2492, jmarchal@ ncarboretum.org or www. ncarboretum.org.

• TU (2/8), 10am - Wee Naturalist: Aquatic Animals.

Age-appropriate, nature-based activities for youngsters ages 2-5. $6.

Tea Parties at the SmithMcDowell House A hands-on program that brings American history to life.

For children ages 7-12. $15 adults/$10 children. Please make reservations one week prior to the program desired.

Reservations & info: 253-9231 or education@wnchistory.org.

• SA (2/12), 11am - Victorian Tea Party. Children will learn about Victorian manners and etiquette. Dress code will be formal. Victorian High Tea, plus a craft activity making Victorian Valentines.

Spirituality Asheville Meditation Group (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment.

Guided meditations follow the Insight/Mindfulness/Vipassana practices. Insight meditation cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind.

Our “sangha” (a community of cool people) provides added support and joy to one’s spiritual awakening process.

All are invited. • By donation.

• Tuesdays, 7pm-8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion. • Sundays, 10am11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks. • The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville.

• Info/directions: (828) 8084444. • www.ashevillemeditation.com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828)258-3229.

New Healing Stones and Crystals (pd.) We have searched far and wide to bring you new, rare and unusual Crystals.

Come and explore. Asheville, February 3rd 7-9 pm. Cost: $10.00. Call to RSVP 828257-2626 or www.pointsoflight.net Open Heart Meditation (pd.) Learn easy, wonderful practices that opens your life to the beauty within and connects you to your heart. • Free. 7pm, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

645-5950 or 296-0017. http:// www.heartsanctuary.org

What the heck is Alexander Technique?! (pd.) For 100 years AT has taught personal freedom and joy. Why be an agent of your own misery? Pause. Lighten.

Choose. Private/groups.

(828) 225-3786. www.

FormFitnessFunction.com A Mountain Mindfulness Sangha Part of the World Community of Mindful Living, inspired by the teachings of THICH NHAT HANH, the group practices mindfulness as the energy of being aware and awake to the present moment. Practicing with a “sangha” (a community) can bring both joy and support.

All are invited. Info & directions: mountainmindfulness@gmail. com, 684-7359 or 299-9382.

• TH (2/3), 7-8:30pm - Guided sitting meditation, walking meditation and silent sit.

An Evening With Spirit • MONDAYS, 6-8pm - You are invited to an evening with Spirit. Theo Salvucci channels messages from the angelic realm at The White Horse, 105c Montreat Road, Black Mountain. Donations only. Info: 713-2439.

Avatar Meher Baba “I have come not to teach but to awaken.” Info: 274-0307 or 274-7154.

• SUNDAYS, 4pm - Meetings occur most Sundays in Asheville. Share Meher Baba’s inspiring message of divine love and unity in the midst of diversity. Call for locations.

Awakening Practices Study the works of Eckhart Tolle and put words into action through meditation and discussion. Info: Trey@QueDox.com.

• 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets at Insight Counseling, 25 Orange St. Buddhist Meditation and Discussion Meets in the space above the French Broad Food Co-op.

Suggested donation: $8/$4 students & seniors. Info: 7795502 or www.meditation-innorthcarolina.org.

• TH (2/3), 7:15pm “Remaining Happy in Hard Times.”

• TH (2/10), 7:15pm “Modern Buddhism.”

Community Worship Service With Fellowship Meal • SUNDAYS, 2-4pm - Join SOS Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Asheville, for a worship service, followed by an Agape Fellowship meal.

Edgar Cayce Study Group • TUESDAYS, 2-4pm - Meet at West Asheville Unity Church, 130 Shelburne Road. Info: 298-8494 or jasonference@ bellsouth.net.

Lightworkers • WE (2/9), 6-7pm - Are you a “Lightworker” experiencing deep vibrational shifts? Feeling

called to work with the world shift in a big way? Others experiencing similar vibrations are encouraged to meet at Viva Deli, 625 Haywood Road, (across from Sunny Point).

Mindfulness Meditation Class Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 2583241 or www.billwalz.com.

• MONDAYS, 7-8pm Meditation class with lesson and discussions in contemporary Zen living. At the Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road. (off Merrimon Ave.). Donation.

Mother Grove Events Info: 230-5069, info@ mothergroveavl.org or www. mothergroveavl.org.

• SA (2/5), 7pm - Gold-Red Woman: A Celebration of Brigid of Ireland. The respectful public is invited to attend an ancient festival of Imbolc in the parish hall of Episcopal Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. in Biltmore Village. The celebration will include traditional Irish practices including walking the turas and tying clouties, as we honor Brigid through music and ritual. Love offerings encouraged.

• SUNDAYS, 10am - Drum Circle —- 10:30am - Weekly devotional service at the Temple. A simple service to ground and center you for the week. Spend some quiet time with the Goddess, with song, readings, meditation and prayer. At 70 Woodfin Pl., Suite 2.

• MONDAYS - Book discussion group, facilitated by Antiga, on the book The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lemer. Info: 285-9927.

Mountain Mindfulness Sangha at Yoga South • SUNDAYS, 7-8pm - Sitting meditation followed by walking meditation. A brief reading and discussion of the practice of mindfulness in daily lives, and how being fully present in this moment can bring us more peace and joy.

Donations optional. Info: www.

YogaSouth-Asheville.com.

Puja at Maha Shakti Mandir • SATURDAYS, 6-8pm - Gathering at Maha Shakti Mandir (Temple of the Great Goddess). Join Yogacharya Kalidas for Puja, chanting and spiritual discourse. Services offered on a donation basis.

Info: 774-1978.

Soka Gakkai International Buddhist Chanting • 1st SUNDAYS, 10am - Chanting at Holiday Inn Express off Brevard Road, World Peace Gongyo. Soka Gakkai International (SGI-USA) is based on teachings of Nichiren and promotes peace,

culture and education through chanting. Info: SGI-USA.org.

• 3rd TUESDAYS, 7pm - Chanting and study at Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road, off Merrimon Ave., Asheville.

Unity Center Events Celebrate joyful, mindful living in a church with heart.

Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band.

Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 684-3798, 891-8700 or www. unitync.net.

• WE (2/2), 7pm - “HeartFull Connections: Finding harmony with yourself and others,” with Kaleo Wheeler. Reconnect with your highest, most loving self.

Love offering.

• WE (2/9), 7pm “Introduction to Reiki Energy Healing,” with Jennifer Dale, a licensed instructor. Reiki is a technique that works with the body’s energy system to promote healing. Love offering.

Unity Church of Asheville Looking for something different? Unity of Asheville explores the deeper spiritual meaning of the scriptures combined with an upbeat contemporary music program to create a joyous and sincere worship service. Come join us this Sunday and try it for yourself. Located at 130 Shelburne Road, W. Asheville.

Info: 252-5010 or www.unityofasheville.com.

• SUNDAYS, 11am - Spiritual Celebration Service —- 12:151:30pm - A Course in Miracles with Rev. Gene Conner.

Windhorse Zen Community Meditation, Dharma talks, private instruction available Tuesday and Thursday evenings, residential training.

Teachers: Lawson Sachter and Sunya Kjolhede. Main center: 580 Panther Branch, Alexander. City center: 12 Von Ruck Court. Call for orientation.

Info: 645-8001 or www.windhorsezen.org.

• SUNDAYS, 9:30-11am - Meditation, chanting and a Dharma talk.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Meditation and chanting.

• FRIDAYS, 5:30-7:15pm - Meditation and chanting at the City Center.

Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings American Folk Art & Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary self-taught artists and regional pottery. Info: 2812134 or www.amerifolk.com.

• Through TU (2/22) - Winter is Hard will be on display in the Oui-Oui Gallery.

• TH (2/10) through MO (2/28) - The seventh annual Beloved Miniature Show, featuring work by Spencer Herr, Lucy Hunnicutt, Cornbread, Cheri Brackett, Kent Ambler and Liz Sullivan, among others, will be on display.

•FR (2/11), 5-8pm - Opening reception for the Beloved Miniature Show.

Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. unca.edu.

• Through MO (2/7) - Exhibit of West African art at Highsmith University Union Gallery. Info: 251-6991.

• Through TU (2/15) Drawing Discourse, a juried national exhibit of contemporary drawing featuring 31 works in conventional and innovative methods, will be on display in S. Tucker Cooke Gallery.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• FR (1/28) through SU (3/6) - WNC Regional Scholastic Art Awards exhibit on view at Pack Place Community Gallery.

Juried artwork by students in grades 7-12.

• Through SU (4/24) - The Olmsted Project.

• Through SU (3/13) - The Director’s Cut: 1995-2010.

• Through SU (6/26) - A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes.

Asheville Gallery of Art A co-op gallery representing 29 regional artists located at 16 College St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5:30pm. Info: 251-5796 or www.ashevillegallery-of-art. com.

• TH (2/1) through MO (2/28) - Retrospective 1990-2010, featuring works by Al Junek.

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center The center is located at 56 Broadway, and preserves the legacy of the Black Mountain College through permanent collections, educational activities and public programs.

Info: 350-8484, bmcmac@ bellsouth.net or www.blackmountaincollege.org.

• Through SA (2/5) - Paintings

by Don Alter and W.P. “Pete” Jennerjahn.

Blue Spiral 1 Located at 38 Biltmore Ave., downtown Asheville. Featuring Southeastern fine art and studio craft. Open Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm, and Sun., Noon-

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Now and then, members of other astrological signs complain that I seem to favor you Aries above them. If that’s true, I’m certainly not aware of it. As far as I know, I love all the signs equally. I will say this, however: Due to the idiosyncrasies of my own personal horoscope, I have been working for years to get more skilled at expressing qualities that your tribe tends to excel at: being direct, acting fearless, knowing exactly what you want, cultivating a willingness to change, and leading by example. All these assets are especially needed by the people in your life right now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

I’ve found that even when people are successful in dealing with a long-term, intractable problem, they rarely zap it out of existence in one epic swoop. Generally they chip away at it, dismantling it little by little; they gradually break its hold with incremental bursts of unspectacular heroism. Judging from the astrological omens, though, I’d say that you Tauruses are ripe for a large surge of dismantling. An obstacle you’ve been hammering away at for months or even years may be primed to crumble dramatically.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

My brother Tom and I used to be on a softball team in Santa Cruz. I played third base and he was the pitcher. For one game he showed up with a new glove that still had the price tag dangling. I asked him if he was going to snip it off. “Nope,” he said. “It’ll subtly distract the batters and give me an advantage.” That day he pitched one of his best games ever. His pitches seemed to have extra mojo that kept the hitters off-balance. Were they even aware they were being messed with? I don’t think so. In fact, my theory is that because Tom’s trick was so innocuous, no one on the opposing team registered the fact that it was affecting their concentration.

I suggest you try a similar strategy, Gemini

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

A famous atheist named Edwin Kagin has incorporated performance art into his crusade against religious believers. Wielding a hairdryer, he “de-baptizes” ex-churchgoers who want to reverse the effects of the baptism they experienced as children. The stream of hot air that Kagin blows against their foreheads is meant to exorcise the holy water daubed there way back when. Could you benefit from a similar ritual, Cancerian? If you have any inclinations to free yourself from early imprints, religious or otherwise, you’re in a favorable phase to do so.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

In an old Star Trek episode, a woman visits the starship’s medical facility seeking chemicals she needs to start a hydroponic garden. The chief doctor, who has a high sense of self-worth and a gruff bedside manner, scowls at her. Why is she bothering him with such a trivial request? “Now I know how Hippocrates felt,” he complains,

“when the King needed him to trim a hangnail.” (Ancient Greek physician Hippocrates is referred to as the “Father of Medicine” because of his seminal influence on the healing professions.) I suspect that sometime soon, Leo, you will be in a position similar to the ship’s doctor.

Unlike him, however, you should carry out the assignment with consummate grace. It’ll pay off for you in the long run -- probably in ways you can’t imagine right now.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

In Leonard Cohen’s song “Anthem,” he sings “There is a crack in everything / That’s how the light gets in.” From what I can tell, Virgo, the week ahead will be one of the best times all year for welcoming the light that comes through the cracks. In fact, I urge you to consider widening the cracks a little — maybe even splitting open a few new cracks — so that the wildly healing light can pour down on you in profusion.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

When was the last time you created a masterpiece, Libra? I’m not necessarily talking about a work of art; it might have been an exquisite dinner you prepared for people you love ... or a temporary alliance you forged that allowed you to accomplish the impossible ... or a scaryfun adventure you risked that turned you into a riper human being with a more authoritative standing. Whether your last tour de force happened seven weeks ago or seven months ago, my sense is that you’re due for another one. The cosmic rhythms are conspiring to make you act like an artful genius.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Why is everything so eerily quiescent right now? Should you be worried? Has the momentum been sucked out of your life? Have you lost your way? Personally, I think you’re doing better than you realize. The dormancy is a temporary illusion. To help give you the perspective you need, I offer you this haiku-like poem by Imma von Bodmershof, translated

by Petra Engelbert: “The great river is silent / only sometimes it sounds quietly / deep under the ice.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

I saw ex-Poet Laureate Robert Hass read and discuss his poem “Etymology.” He said that

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while many of the fluids of the human body are named with English words, at least one isn’t: the moisture of a woman who is sexually aroused. The Anglo-Saxons did have a word for it, he noted: silm, which also referred to the look of moonlight on the water. “Poor language,” Hass concluded, bemoaning a vocabulary that ignores such an important part of human experience. Your assignment, Sagittarius, is to correct for any problems caused by poor language in your own sphere. If you’ve been lazy about articulating your meaning or needs, then please activate your deeper intelligence. If there’s a situation in your life that’s suffering from a sloppy use of words, reframe its contours with crisper speech. You could even coin some new words or borrow good ones from foreign tongues.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

Stand-up comedian Arj Barker says that when he writes each of his jokes, he’s thinking that all he needs to do is make it funny enough to get at least three people in the audience to laugh at it. More than three is gravy, and he hopes he does get more. But if he can just get those three, he believes, he will always get a lot of work in his chosen profession. In accordance with the astrological rhythms, Capricorn, I urge you to adopt a similar approach. To be successful in the coming days, you don’t need an approval rating of 80 percent.

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The renegade spiritual sect known as the Church of the Subgenius values one treasure above all others: not salvation, not enlightenment, not holiness, but rather Slack. And what is Slack?

It is a state of being in which everything flows smoothly — a frame of mind so unfettered and at ease that the entire universe just naturally cooperates with you. When you’ve got abundant reserves of Slack, you don’t strain and struggle to make desired events unfold, and you don’t crave things you don’t really need.

You’re surrendered to the greater intelligence that guides your life, and it provides you with a knack for attracting only what’s truly satisfying. Happy Slack Week, Aquarius! I suspect you will have loads of that good stuff, which means your freedom to be your authentic self will be at a peak.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

“Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense,” said writer Gertrude Stein many decades ago. Isn’t that about a thousand times truer in 2011? It takes rigorous concentration not to be inundated with data. But that’s exactly your assignment, Pisces. It’s absolutely crucial for you to be a beacon of common sense in the coming days.

To meet your dates with destiny, you will have to be earthy, uncluttered, well-grounded, and in close touch with your body’s intuition. If that requires you to cut back dramatically on the volume of information you take in, so be it.

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edgymama Yoga pants rule redux Back in 2007, I wrote an ode to yoga pants.

For some reason, lots of folks still remember the column and often talk to me about ... yoga pants. Turns out that not just moms, but most women, love yoga pants and guys seem to appreciate them as well (though don’t Google that because Rule 34 — if it exists, there’s a fetish — holds true).

Because there are a whole group of new moms and new Ashevilleans who never got to read about my abiding affection for yoga pants, I’m republishing this one — with updates and edits. Because one of the most awesome things to happen in the past few years is that yogapant technology has improved! We may have been deep in a recession; the world may be going to hell; polar bears may be dying by the dozens; but some amazing people have taken the time and initiative to make yoga pants even better. Thank you, baby Jesus.

Here are my thoughts on the matter.

The genius who first mixed spandex with cotton is my hero. I’m serious. What’s one of my secrets to surviving mom hood? Yoga pants.

Yoga pants rule.

Here’s why.

They’re fitted yet stretchy. I had a pair that I wore up until I gave birth to my first kid, which was uncomfortably two weeks past my due date. I wore them for another six months until I was able to fit back into my jeans. Then I wore them until the holes in the crotch necessitated another pair of pants underneath them — so I reluctantly threw them away.

How can one pair of pants cover a 40pound weight gain and loss over one year?

The answer is Spandex, also known as Lycra.

These synthetic elastic fibers can stretch up to 600 percent without breaking and snap back to their original size over and over again. The technology is both magical and revolutionary.

When it was introduced in the early 1960s, Spandex changed our moms’ lives. The fibers were primarily used in “contour undergarments” — in other words: girdles. Before Spandex, girdles contained rubber to hold tight the jiggly bits. Rubber is hot, breaks down pretty quickly and is not porous. Spandex, on the other hand, breaths, is more durable than rubber, and it doesn’t turn a woman’s undergarment into her own personal crock-pot.

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They’re comfy as all get-out — and the Lycra somehow accentuates curves while holding in the mommy flab (why guys appreciate yoga pants). Some of my new yoga pants include this amazing technology where the fibers are woven in different directions, which means I can chase my dog down the street screaming like a harridan and there will be NO jiggle.

Seriously, they’re jiggle-proof. But these pants are still comfortable, unlike Spanx (pantyhose with built-in super control). Just getting those on is like stuffing sausages.

I’m such a yoga-pants freak that I divide mine into three categories: workout, PTA mom and dress-up. Workout yoga pants are the ones I’ve worn and washed 8,000 times and are a bit faded (although they can withstand lots of washing and drying). PTA-mom pants have only been washed 2,000 times. The spandex is still snappy and the pants look fine with a sweater and clogs for driving carpool, going on field trips and wandering around Ingles (because I don’t actually attend PTA meetings, though I do appreciate the PTA).

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Remember when most moms ran around in sweat suits? Remember the baggy, shapeless cotton, the primary colors, and the bunched ankle bottoms? We’ve come a long way, moms.

Now we get practicality plus style. We get the comfort and movement that the sweat suit gifted us — we can chase babies through grocery stores, vacuum Cheerios out of our cars and even work (most places in Asheville).

But with yoga pants, we don’t look dowdy.

We can do the Superwoman equivalent of the quick change by ripping off the T-shirt we’ve been wearing all day and throwing on a filmy top. Then we can spin out the door to a childfree event, feeling confident and cute in our yoga pants.

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• Through SA (3/26) - New Times Three, work in a variety of media by eight artists new to the gallery —- Margaret Couch Cogswell, mixed media works —- Southeastern Emerging Clay, functional and sculptural work by eight regional ceramicists —- Dirck Cruser + Robert Winkler, paintings and sculpture.

Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road. in Hendersonville. Info: 890-2050 or www.craftscreativitydesign.org.

• Through FR (4/22) - WNC Models of Sustainability in Craft Making, an exhibit featuring eight studio craft artists working in residence at EnergyXchange in Burnsville and Jackson County Green Energy Park in Sylva.

Events at the Turchin Center Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is at 423 West King St. in Boone. Info: 262-3017 or www.tcva.org.

• Through SA (3/19) - The Hemlocks! The Hemlocks!: Grief and Celebration by Lowell Hayes in Gallery B and Mayer Gallery, West Wing —- In the Void, sculpture by David Meyer in Gallery A, West Wing.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of art-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 (86 North Main St.) in Waynesville.

Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm.

Info: 452-0593 or www.haywoodarts.org.

• WE (2/6) through SA (2/26) - SweetheART Show, featuring work from seven Haywood County artist couples.

• FR (2/4), 6-8pm - Artist reception for the SweetART Show.

Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., Noon-5pm. Info: 669-5107 or www.sevensistersgallery.com.

• Through MO (3/28) - Earth and Water, oil paintings by Martha Kelley.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org.

• Through FR (2/4) - Winter Wonderland exhibit.

More Art Exhibits & Openings Art at First Congregational United Church of Christ

• SU (2/6) through MO (2/28) - Watercolor paintings by Brian Vasilik will be on display.

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Art at the N.C. Arboretum Works by members of the Asheville Quilt Guild and regional artists are on display daily in The Visitor Education Center. Info: 665-2492 or www.ncarboretum.org.

• Through MO (2/28) - Emissaries of Peace: The 1762 Cherokee and British Delegations, an exhibition on display in the Baker Center.

Art at the Red Room • Through WE (2/9) - Local artist Micah Mackenzie will present works designed around a “Valentine’s Day” theme.

The Red Room is located at 5 Biltmore Ave. Art at West Asheville Library • TU (2/1) through TH (3/31) - An exhibition by Victor Palomino will be on display.

Located at 942 Haywood Road. Info: 250-4750.

• FR (2/4), 7-9pm - Opening reception for Victor Palomino’s exhibition. More info: www. vaptart.weebly.com.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events AnTHM Gallery (pd.) Hosts nationally acclaimed artist and Black Mountain’s own Brad Stroman, Saturday, February 5th, who’ll conduct a hands-on workshop on how to create his organic ceramic Heartstones...just in time for Valentine’s Day. Lunch at the Black Mountain Bakery is included; no supplies needed. Register by calling 828.419.0049 or visit www. anthmgallery.com for more information.

VALENTINE CARD MAKING (pd.) FEB 5 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM at Quality Inn, 1 Skyland Drive, Arden Using stamps, designer papers, punches and more! Create 10 gorgeous cards w/envelopes from 5 designs. Instruction and supply fee: $25. Must RSVP and prepay 423-7617.

Collage Mandala Class (pd.) 2nd Floor Wedge. River Arts District, 129 Roberts Street. $100 includes 2 classes/all materials/one painting. • Registration/information, call Amy at LangeArt, (630) 200-9410 for details!

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• WE (2/9), 3-5:30pm - Teacher Open House. Open to any N.C. educator. The event takes place in the WNC Teacher Resource Center of the Asheville Art Museum.

Explore exhibitions and find out about programs for students.

Events at the Turchin Center Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is at 423 West King St. in Boone. Info: 262-3017 or www.tcva.org.

• WE (2/9), 7:30pm - Visiting Artist Lecture: Liz Zlot Summerfield, ceramist.

Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Holds monthly meetings and smaller groups dedicated to teaching different types of needlework. The chapter is also involved in numerous outreach projects. Guests are always welcome at meetings.

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• TH (2/3), 9:30am Registration followed by a short business meeting and a program on how to stitch a hardanger bookmark taught

by Sandy Washington. At Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe.

The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas Located at 362 Depot St. in the River Arts District. Info: 2525050 or www.fineartsleague. org.

• Vadim Bora Scholarship Fund: Donations are currently being accepted to establish a scholarship fund honoring the late Asheville sculptor and artist. A selection of Bora’s work is currently on display at the gallery. See website for details.

With Our Hands • Through TH (3/31) - Free art classes for all people affected by sexual violence presented

by Our VOICE and Arts 2 People. Clay, poetry, collage and more. Classes run Feb. through March. Info: www.ourvoicenc.org or 252-0562.

Spoken & Written Word Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• TU (2/8), 3-5pm Discussion Bound Reading Group: The Lost Painting: The Quest for a Caravaggio Masterpiece by Jonathan Harr.

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Blue Ridge Books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000.

• 1st THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Open mic night. Come a little early if you’d like to sign up to perform.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 2506480) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n WA = West Asheville Library (942 Haywood Road, 250-4750) n Library storyline: 250-KIDS. • WE (2/2), 5-7pm - Library Knitters. SW —- 3pm - Book Club: The Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver. WV. • TU (2/8), 7pm - Film Night: Blood Done Sign My Name.

WV —- 1pm - Book Club: The Painted Drum by Louise Edrich. LE —- 7pm - Reading Proust: The Captive, with Dr. John Paul McDonald. WA. • TH (2/10), 1pm - Book Club: Same Kind of Different as Me by Ron Hall and Denver Moore. FV. Erotic Poetry Slam • SU (2/6), 7:30pm - Poetry Slam Asheville turns up the heat with the first erotic slam at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway. The champion slammer wins $50 cash prize.

Sign up at 7:30pm; Slam at 8pm. $5 cover/Free for performers and volunteers. Info: www.poetryslamasheville.com.

Events at Accent on Books The bookstore is located at 854 Merrimon Ave. Events are free and open to the public.

Info: 252-6255 or www.accentonbooks.com.

• FR (2/4), 6pm - Heather Newton will discuss her book Under the Mercy Trees and talk about her writing process.

Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com.

• SA (2/5), 7pm - The Liar’s Bench: Storytelling, music and poetry with Kay Byer.

Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book

signings. Info: 254-6734 or www.malaprops.com.

• WE (2/2), 7pm - Book Club: The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa. Hosted by Jay Jacoby.

• TH (2/3), 7pm - Leanna Sain, the author of Magnolia Blossoms and Return to Nowhere, will be the special guest speaker.

• FR (2/4), 4:30-6pm - Freelance Friday: Veteran freelancers and newcomers are invited to attend.

Complimentary wine will be served —- 7pm - Hannah Pittard will discuss her book The Fates Will Find Their Way. • SU (2/6), 3pm - Poetrio: readings by Mike Smith, Earl LeClaire and another poet TBA. • MO (2/7), 7pm - Bridging Differences Book Club: The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

by Heidi Durrow. Hosted by Patti Digh.

• TU (2/8), 5:30pm - “Book Club Recommendations” with Michael Hill of Houghton Mifflin.

• WE (2/9), 7pm - Sarah Addison Allen will read from and sign copies of her new paperback The Girl Who Chased the Moon.

• TH (2/10), 7pm - Wayne Caldwell will read from his book Requiem by Fire.

Events at Montford Books & More The bookstore at 31 Montford Ave. hosts author readings and writing groups. Info: 285-8805.

• THURSDAYS (through 2/24), 7-8:30pm or SATURDAYS (through 2/26), 10:30am-Noon - Courageous Words Writing Group meets. To register: 3484505 or torrose@gmail.com.

Fountainhead Bookstore Located at 408 N Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 697-1870.

• SA (2/5), 4pm - Wayne Caldwell will read from his award-winning novel Requiem

by Fire. Also the author of Cataloochee, Caldwell will be available to sign books afterwards.

Henderson County Public Library System Unless otherwise stated, all events take place in Kaplan Auditorium of the main branch library, located at 301 N. Washington St. in Hendersonville. The county system includes branches in Edneyville, Etowah, Fletcher and Green River. Info: 6974725 or www.henderson.lib. nc.us.

• WE (2/2), 7pm - Join North Carolina hiker and author Peter Barr for a slideshow and discussion about his experience hiking the Appalachian Trail in 2010.

Literary Events at UNCA Events are free unless noted.

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• FR (2/4), 4pm - “Creative Writing Workshop,” with Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide, at Laurel Forum —- 6pm - “10 Lessons for Surviving a Zombie Attack,” a discussion at Lipinksy Auditorium. A book signing will follow.

• SA (2/5), 3pm - Elizabeth Gilbert, the author of Eat, Pray, Love, will read from her follow-up memoir Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace With Marriage. Held at Lipinsky Hall, on the campus of UNCA. Tickets available at Malaprop’s Bookstore, 55 Haywood St. Info: 254-6734.

• TU (2/8), 12:30pm - Book Talk: Laura Hope-Gill, the author of The Soul Tree: Poems and Photographs of the Southern Appalachians, at the Whitman Room, Ramsey Library.

• TH (2/10), 7pm “Generation Ageless: The Boom That Won’t Go Bust,” a discussion with author, columnist and commentator J. Walker Smith The event is co-sponsored by UNCA’s N.C. Center for Creative Retirement and the Leadership Asheville Forum. Held at the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Info: 251-6140.

Poetry at The Pulp • MO (2/7), 7pm - Asheville Poetry Review and Asheville Wordfest present this monthly poetry reading. Featured poet: Katherine Soniat, followed by an open mic. Proceeds help support Asheville Poetry Review and Asheville Wordfest.

Held at Club Pulp, 103 Hilliard Ave. (below The Orange Peel). $5 members/$10 nonmembers. Info: www.pulpasheville. com.

Writers’ Workshop Events WW offers a variety of classes and events for beginning and experienced writers. Info: 2548111 or www.twwoa.org.

• Through SU (2/20) - Words of Love Contest. Send in a creative letter, poem or story of 3,500 words or less. $25 entry fee.

• FR (2/4), 1-3pm - New Writers’ Group meeting. Open to fiction and creative nonfiction writers who already have work in progress. See website for details.

Xpress Yourself Submit a poem to the Mountain Xpress Poetry Contest. Winners will have their work published in print and will read their poem aloud on Friday, April 8 at the Masonic Temple, in downtown Asheville, and at WordFest in early May. Info: www.mountainx.com/ae/poetry/submit.

• Through TH (3/17) Submissions will be accepted.

Music Blue Ridge Books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000.

• TH (2/10), 6pm - Celtic Music Night.

•SA (212), 6-8pm - The teenrock band 32 Reasons will perform.

Concerts at Blue Ridge Community College Info: 694-1743.

• TU (2/8), 7:30pm - Blue Ridge Concert Series presents a guitar recital, Thomas Auditorium. $10/$3 students.

Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 255-8115 or www.firestormcafe.com.

• SA (2/5), 7:30-9:30pm Arthur and Katie from the URTV show A Question of Meaning will perform original songs and discuss their work.

Haywood Community Band Concerts are presented at the Maggie Valley Pavilion, adjacent to the Maggie ValleyTown Hall, and are free to attend.

Bring a picnic dinner. Info: 4525553 or 452-7530 or www. haywoodcommunityband.org.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm Rehearsals at Grace Episcopal Church, 394 N. Haywood St., Waynesville. All interested concert band musicians are welcome to attend.

Land of the Sky Chorus For men age 12 and older. Info: www.ashevillebarbershop.com or 768-9303.

• TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Open rehearsals at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Place.

Music at UNCA Concerts are held in Lipinsky Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets & info: 2325000.

• TH (2/10), 8pm - An innovative ukulele performance by Jake Shimabukuro will be performed at Lipinsky Auditorium. $20.

Song O’ Sky Chorus (Sweet Adelines International) The chorus is always looking for women 18+ who want to learn how to sing barbershop harmony. Please visit a rehearsal. Info: 1-866-8249547 or www.songosky.org.

• TUESDAYS,6:45pm - Rehearsals at First Congregational Church, in the Fellowship Hall, 20 Oak St. St. Matthias Musical Performances These classical music concerts take place at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Asheville, 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 252-0643.

• SU (2/6), 3pm - Chamber Music Concert. Featured performers include: Kate

Steinbeck on flute, Polly Feitzenger on piano and Michael Jones on the English horn. The program will include works by Debussy, William Grant Still, Bach, Laurence Perkins and Madeline Dring.

Free-will offerings appreciated.

Theater Adult and Youth (15+) Core Technique Acting Programs (pd.) The Stella Adler Studio of Acting, WNC’s only professional acting studio and an extension of Stella Adler NYC, is now accepting interviews for its Spring Adult and Youth (15+) Core Technique Acting Programs. To schedule an interview call ACT (828) 254-1320. www.stellaadlerasheville.com Weekly Monday Workshop Series (pd.) The Stella Adler Studio of Acting is starting its weekly series on Movement, Voice, Improv and Auditioning starting January 31. For more info: www.stellaadler-asheville. com Events at 35below This black box theater is located underneath Asheville Community Theatre at 35 E. Walnut St. Info: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org.

• SU (2/6), 2:30pm - Play Reading for Pleasure: The Lady’s Not for Burning by Christopher Fry. Montford Park Players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.-Sun. at 7:30 p.m. at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford.

Bring folding chair and umbrella in case of rain. Donations accepted. Info: 254-5146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org.

• TH (2/10) through SU (2/20) - Montford on Broadway Series: The Patient by Agatha Christie and The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard will be performed at the Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway. Thurs.-Sat., 7:30pm. Feb. 19 & 20, 2:30pm. $12/$15 door, with discounts available. Feb. 10 & 17: “pay-what-we’re-worth” nights.

Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre For ticket information or more details: 257-4530 or www. dwtheatre.com.

• FR (2/4), 8pm - Aquila Theatre presents Six Characters in Search of an Author, a play that explores the very nature of art and entertainment, blurring the line between reality and artifice. $35/33 seniors/$30 students/$12 for children under 12.

• SA (2/5), 8pm - Aquila Theatre presents a new production of the timeless

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What: Carpenter’s Heart presents a pancake breakfast to raise money to build an orphanage in Honduras.

Where: Fatz Café in Enka, 5 Spartan Ave. Directions: 665-9950.

When: Saturday, Feb. 5 (7:30 to 11 a.m. $7 per plate.

Free for children under 6. For info about the Honduras Orphanage Project, see http://avl.mx/2j).

Why: For each breakfast plate sold, $4 will benefit Carpenter’s Heart, a faith-based nonprofit that aims to build an orphanage in Honduras. (Additional donations and tips will benefit the organization as well). In addition to its international outreach, Carpenter’s Heart works in Buncombe County “cutting firewood, caring for the elderly in nursing homes and building wheelchair ramps for those in need,” as stated on carpentersheart. org. At the upcoming fundraiser, organization members will serve breakfast and coffee while sharing stories about their work, both locally and abroad. This Saturday, enjoy a sweet-and-savory pancake breakfast that supports a tremendous cause.

benefitscalendar Calendar for February 2 - 10, 2011 Arthur Morgan School Octopus’ Garden • SA (2/5), 7-9pm - The Arthur Morgan School hosts “Octopus’ Garden,” an evening of live entertainment with desserts, tea and coffee. All proceeds to benefit the school’s upcoming 18-day field trips. Info: www. arthurmorganschool.org.

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Fundraiser BWAR is a nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless dogs and cats find permanent homes. Info: www.bwar.org or 458-7778.

• Through SU (2/13) - Puppy-Gram: A Valentine’s Day Fundraiser. For a donation of $40, a cute-as-can-be Brother Wolf rescue dog or puppy will stop by for a visit at your honey’s home or workplace on Monday, Feb. 14 bearing a flower and personalized card, balloon and sweet treat. All proceeds benefit the shelter’s mission. Info: volunteer@bwar. org or 423-2954.

Carpenter’s Heart A faith-based nonprofit whose goal is to build relationships, just as Christ did. The organization works in Buncombe County, in any area of need (wheel chair ramps, backto-school ministries and much more). Info: www.carpentersheart.org.

• SA (2/5), 7:30-11am - Pancake breakfast at Fatz Cafe in Enka. $7 per plate. Free for children under 6. Proceeds will go to help build an orphanage in Honduras. Info: thecarpentersheart@yahoo.com.

ECO Events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. W. Hendersonville. Info: 692-0385 or www. eco-wnc.org.

• Through SA (2/5) - Heritage apple, peach and chestnut trees will be available for order.

Maintain biodiversity while raising money for ECO. $25/tree. Trees must be picked up at the Hendersonville Visitor’s Center parking lot on Feb. 5.

FAA Artful Bra Challenge • Make an Artful Bra to raise funds for Ladies Night Out, a program offered by Mission Hospital to provide free mammograms to uninsured and under-insured women in the Asheville area. Entries are due on April 5. Info: 505-8280 or shop@ Kitschfabrics.com. For more info about Ladies Night Out: 250-6119.

“Sylva Skates” Ice-Skating Party • SA (2/5) - Skating-party benefit at Scotts Creek, inspired by a century-old photograph that shows Sylva residents skating on the creek. If the creek doesn’t freeze the whole thing’s called off! Proceeds will go to

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Synergy Story Slam • MO (2/7), 7pm - Asheville’s communitybased, open-mic storytelling event. Theme of the night: “On The Road.” Slam to benefit ASAP. At The Magnetic Field, 372 Depot St., River Arts District. Search “Synergy Story Slam” on Facebook for more info. $5-$10.

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Shakespeare comedy A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Mainstage Theatre Series. $35.

• MO (2/7), 10am - Diana Wortham Theatre Young Audience Series: Aquila Theatre presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

The Magnetic Field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St., in the River Arts District.

Info: www.themagneticfield. com or 257-4003.

• Through SA (2/19), 7:30pm - When Jekyll Met Hyde, “a gleefully ridiculous take on the classic tale of passion,” written

by Steven Samuels, will be performed. The story opens with a dual production and two full casts (one set in the 1950s, one in the 1960s) running in repertory together. $12-$14.

The WNC Theatre League Unified Auditions Modeled after the Southeastern Theatre Conference auditions, this annual event allows local actors to showcase their talents in a professional audition setting for a variety of companies throughout the region. Events are held at A-B Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium.

To register early or for more info: unifieds@montfordparkplayers.org.

• WE (2/2), 6pm - Audition information workshop. At this workshop, actors will hear from a panel of directors and casting agents on effective auditioning techniques and what to expect at the auditions on Feb. 18-19.

Theater at WCU Unless otherwise noted, all performances take place at the Fine & Performing Arts Center.

Tickets & info: 227-2479 or http://fapac.wcu.edu.

• WE (2/9) through SA (2/12) - Reasons to be Pretty, a play focusing on the modern obsession with physical appearance, explores the struggles and triumphs of four working-class friends and lovers. Staged in the Niggli Theatre. $15/$10, seniors and WCU faculty and staff/$5 students.

Theatre at North Buncombe High School • TH (2/3) through SA (2/5), 7pm & SU (2/6), 2pm - North Buncombe’s High School Theatre presents How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying. $8 at the door/$5 in advance. Located at 890 Clarks Chapel Road in Weaverville. Info: 683-4477.

Film Film Screening at Weaverville Library • TU (2/8), 7pm - Blood Done Sign My Name, based on the book of the same name by Timothy B. Tyson, tells the true story of the brutal killing of an

African American Vietnam War veteran in Oxford, N.C. in 1970.

Weaverville Library is located at 41 N. Main St. Info: 250-6482.

Movies at the Asheville Art Museum Located at 2 S. Pack Square.

Showings are free with membership or museum admission.

Info: 253-3227 or www. ashevilleart.org.

• SA & SU (2/5 & 6), 2pm - Screening of Don’t Know, We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes. The film captures the work and life of ceramicist Karen Karnes.

Dance 7pm Wednesdays • InterPlay Asheville (pd.) Play with us, and tap into body wisdom, with movement, reflection, voice, and 1 minute stories. It’s easy and Fun, plus, you can’t do it wrong! (Really!) (now every Wednesday.) $5$15. • Sacred Embodiment Center, 31 Carolina Lane, Asheville, NC • downtown Asheville! Info: www.interplayasheville.org/ Dance and Sweat! (pd.) The name pretty much says it all. With easy to follow dance moves we will dance continuously for one hour to super fun music, keeping your heart rate up and making sure you leave sweaty. Dancing feels gooood! Every Tuesday at 6-7pm at Homewood, 19 Zillicoa St. Email Kathleen with questions, idodances@gmail. com Class price: $10 or 4 for $32 Studio Zahiya (pd.) • Tuesday: 9-10am: Hip Hop Fitness • 6-7pm: Beginner Bellydance • 8:10-9:10pm: Intermediate/Advanced Bellydance • Thursday: 910am: All Levels Bellydance • 6-7pm: Bollywood and Bhangra • 8:10-9:10pm: Hip Hop. • Drop-in anytime. $12/ class. • Info: (828) 242-7595 or www.lisazahiya.com Afro-Brazilian Dance Classes • THURSDAYS, 7-8pm - Classes explore dance styles from Rio and Salvador. Dropins and dancers of all levels welcome. Live drumming every week with Zabumba. $10. At Terpsicorps Dance Studio, 129 Roberts St., River Arts District.

Asheville International Folk Dancers • TUESDAYS, 7-9:30pm - We do a variety of dances from all over the world, but mainly line dances from Eastern Europe, particularly the Balkans. At Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road, Asheville. No partner, no cost. Info: 645-1543 or mmgoodman@frontier.com.

Asheville Movement Collective AMC hosts weekly dancewaves for personal and

community transformation.

First wave is free. Info: www.

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• FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Meet at the Terpsicorps Studio of Dance, above The Wedge in the River Arts District. $5.

• SUNDAYS, 8:30-10:30am & 10:30am-12:30pm - Meet at Studio 11, 11 Richland St. West Asheville. $5.

Carolina Shag Dancing • WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS, 4-5pm - Dance lesson —- 7pm - Dance along with a live DJ. $5/Free on Sat. Held at Bosco’s Sports Zone, 3210 Hendersonville Road.

Info: 684-2646.

Dance at Diana Wortham Theatre Info: www.dwtheatre.com.

• WE & TH (2/9 & 10), 8pm - Doug Varone and Dancers.

Kinetically thrilling dance that makes essential connections and mines the complexity of the human spirit, commanding attention for its expansive vision, versatility and technical prowess. $35.

English Country Dance Located at the Asheville Arts Center, 308 Merrimon Ave. Dance as they do in film adaptations of Jane Austen novels, such as Pride and Prejudice.

No partner necessary. Wear comfortable shoes and clothing. Live music and caller. $6/$5 for Old Farmers Ball members. Info: www.oldfarmersball.com.

• 1st & 3rd SUNDAYS, 35:30pm - Dancing.

Father-Daughter Semi-Formal Dance • FR (2/4), 6-8:30pm - The fourth annual dance sponsored by the Downtown Sylva Association will be held at the First United Methodist Church of Sylva Christian Life Center.

Light refreshments and door prizes. $25 per couple, $5 for each additional daughter/$30 per couple at door, includes photo. Registration: www. downtownsylva.org. Info: 586-1577.

Hendersonville Ballroom Dance Club Meets in the ballroom of the Elks Lodge, 546 N. Justice St., Hendersonville. Yearly membership is $10. Couples and singles of all ages are welcome. Info: 692-8281.

• FRIDAYS, 7-7:30pm - Dance lessons —- 7:30-10pm Dance. DJ Fred Young provides a variety of dance tunes from waltz to tango. Refreshments. $5 admission for members/$6 nonmembers.

Moving Map of the Heart • SA (2/5), Noon-3pm Movement workshop exploring the space within the heart.

At Studio Terpsicorps in the Wedge building, River Arts District. $30/person. Info: 215-2410.

Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club.

Square dancing is friendship set to music. Info: 694-1406 or 681-1731.

• SA (2/5) - A “Purple Passion” dance will be held at the Whitmire Activity Building in Hendersonville. Wear something purple. Advanced dance at 6pm; early rounds at 7pm; and squares and rounds at 7:30pm.

Swing Asheville Info: www.swingasheville.com, 301-7629 or dance@swingasheville.com.

• TUESDAYS, 6-7pm Beginner swing dance lessons at Eleven on Grove, 11 Grove St. Downtown Asheville. $12 per week for a four-week workshop. No partner needed.

Classes start first Tuesday of every month. Swing dance from 8pm-11pm every Tuesday night.

Auditions & Call to Artists Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre Performances are held at BeBe Theatre, 20 Commerce St., Asheville. Info & tickets: 254-2621.

• Dancers are needed to participate in ACDT’s annual 48 Hour Dance Project, which begins on Feb. 25. Paired with choreographers of different stylistic backgrounds, participants work to master a dance in just two days. The project culminates with a public performance at the BeBe Theatre on Feb. 27. Open to adults with dance experience only.

Respond with name, email and phone number. Info: office@ acdt.org.

Brevard Little Theatre Located in the American Legion Hall, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard. Info: www.brevardlittletheatre.com. Reservations: 884-2587.

• SA (2/5) & SU (2/6), 2-4pm - Auditions will be held for the The Hallelujah Girls, a comedy about feisty older women who decide to turn an abandoned church into a day spa. The cast includes six women, at least 50 years of age, and two men also in their 50’s.

Info: 890-1495 or aedick87@ gmail.com.

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Do Ask, Must Tell (and Show): The Turkish military’s legendary homophobia (rare among NATO countries) comprises both zero tolerance for homosexuality among service personnel and the requirement of rigorous proof by anyone seeking exemption from service by claiming to be gay (the only disqualifier for able-bodied men.) In personal experiences recounted for Foreign Policy magazine in December, some gay men seeking exemptions were ordered to verify their claims by producing witnesses to their homosexual acts, or by photographing themselves fully engaged — and to be persuasive, the conscript had to be depicted in the “receiving” position.

The entrepreneurial spirit

• Daring New Products: (1) Introduced at a New York food fair in January (and planned for U.S. distribution later this year): Great Scot International’s haggis-flavored chips. (2) Burger King U.K.’s Christmas-season special this year (available briefly in December): a regular Whopper, garnished with a generous helping of brussels sprouts.

• The notoriously isolated North Korean economy allows new products to be sold only as needs arise, and in December (according to a report by Agence France-Presse), the ministries began allowing Western-style “skinny jeans,” having relaxed the rule requiring female workers to wear skirts. Also recently for sale: human fertilizer (owing to the attrition of the animals that previously produced manure for family gardens).

• The SEGA video company’s Japan division began test-marketing its new Toylets game in January, designed for men’s urinals. With sensors in the basin and a video screen at eye level, men score points based on the strength and accuracy of their streams. Among the suite of games: sumo wrestling (squirt the opponent out of the circle), graffiti-erasure (strong streams wipe out more graffiti), and skirt-raising (the stronger the stream, the higher a woman’s skirt is “blown” upward).

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• Good to Know: Too many late nights at Japan’s National Institute for Materials Science perhaps inspired the recent “testing” of superconductor metals by submersion in alcoholic beverages.

Yoshihiko Takano and his colleagues developed experiments to soak the metals to see if resistance to electricity is decreased (and, thus, conductivity increased). They found success with whiskey, sake, beer and the vodka-like shochu, but red wine worked best, improving conductivity by 62 percent.

• Flip a Coin: Among the human-procreation technologies soft-pedaled to tamp down controversy is surgeons’ ability to selectively abort some, but not all, fetuses in a womb in cases where in vitro fertilization has overproduced (usually involving mothers expecting triplets or greater, which pose serious health risks). More controversially, according to a December National Post report, a Toronto-area couple told their physician that their artificially created “twins” would be too much for them to care for, instructing the doctor to terminate one fetus (randomly chosen?) and leave the other.

Weird animals

Writing in the journal Evolution in November, British researchers described how drongo birds in Africa’s Kalahari Desert appear to acquire food by running a “protection racket” for other birds.

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Leading economic indicators

Extreme: (1) The North Dakota Supreme Court ruled in September that the nearly $12,000 overdraft fee Quality Bank of Fingal, N.D., charged customer Lynette Cavett was nonetheless legal because it was disclosed to Cavett in advance.

(2) Automaker BMW of Germany announced testing in December of a new technology (“flash projection”) in which an ultra-bright light sears the company logo into a viewer’s vision, where it lingers even if the viewer subsequently closes his eyelids tightly.

Fine points of the law

(1) A Roman Catholic Church tribunal in Modena, Italy, ruled in November that a marriage should be annulled even though the woman apparently only “thought about” having an affair.

Her now ex-husband believes she never actually followed through on her desire for an “open marriage.” (2) Due to conflicting laws, New York state prisoners who win lawsuits against guards who have injured them keep the entire amount of the award, but when New York state mental patients win similar lawsuits, the hospitals can reclaim a large portion of the money as repayment for the daily cost of providing “care.” The dual system is unique to the state, The New York Times reported in December.

Least-competent criminals

Questionable Judgments: (1) A 26-year-old man was arrested in San Pablo, Calif., in December and accused of stealing a taxi after tricking the driver into momentarily exiting the cab. The man then drove to a Department of Motor Vehicles office, where he attempted to register ownership of the car. (2) Kyndric Wilson, 19, was being booked into jail in Fort Walton Beach, Fla., in December on a misdemeanor charge when a routine search revealed a bag of cocaine. As deputies then began processing the more serious drugpossession charge, Wilson was heard saying, “[Expletive], I knew I shouldn’t [have] brought that in ... [expletive].”

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by Mackensy Lunsford What’s an aphrodisiac? It’s anything, usually a foodstuff, that reportedly increases certain desires in those who consume it. Some examples can be a bit wild — think tiger penis in China, for example.

Chocolate is a classic love food on its own, and some local chocolate-makers even enhance their chocolate with aphrodisiacs around Valentine’s Day. Don’t worry, however, we found no evidence of raw oysters — yet another reported libido-enhancer — in any of the confections.

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Jael and Dan Rattigan, the chocolate making couple behind The French Broad Chocolate Lounge, box up their Aphrodisiac Collection

specifically for Valentine’s Day. The assortment is filled with natural moodenhancing ingredients, the couple says. There’s the Kama Sutra-approved cardamom in the Indian kulfi, for example. There’s a touch of stimulating cayenne in the canela picante and libido-boosting star anise in the cabernet and anise truffle.

Also in the box is the delicate-looking Cosmic Love Potion truffle, made with a love elixir created by local herbalist Christa Hebal. “The recipe literally came to her in a dream,” says Jael, who adds that the potion is also available bottled at the French Broad Chocolate Lounge.

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“In cacao, there is a lot of magnesium, which is the main mineral the heart needs, which is why I believe chocolate is seen as a love food — it feeds the heart,” says Green. “When you eat it, you automatically feel openness in that part of the body.”

Chocolate is also rich in phenylethylamine, also known as PEA or the “love molecule,” says Green. It’s also rich in anandamides, aka “bliss chemicals.” That explains why chocolate cravings can strike strongly when the body needs a boost of those mood helpers.

“Chocolate has a lot of psychoactive ingredients in it, and that’s what makes it a natural mood elevator,” Green says. “And our chocolate is more like medicine, really.”

So it’s like love medicine? “Yes! And we could use more heart energy in this world, so it’s a good thing.”

And, she adds, “If you’re buying chocolate for a person that you really love, wouldn’t you want to give them something that is healthy instead of something that’s bad for them?”

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The makers of Black Mountain Chocolate consider themselves to be “explorers into the world of cacao.” David Mason, the founder of Black Mountain Chocolate is a purist of sorts, importing and roasting his own cacao. The process is enough to make the heart of any chocolate lover flutter.

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So it comes as no surprise that the chocolatier does not currently sell chocolate enhanced with aphrodisiacs or herbal elixers. “Chocolate, in itself, is an aphrodisiac,” he says. “It has moodenhancing qualities, to say the least.”

This year, Black Mountain Chocolate will offer chocolate online as always, as well as host a Chocolate Maker’s Market at the chocolate factory (131 South Ave. in Swannanoa) on Saturday, Feb. 12. Sounds so very Willy Wonka.

The market will last from 9 a.m. until noon, when Mason and company will pack it up and head to south Asheville’s Appalachian Vintner.

There, Black Mountain Chocolate will host a chocolate and wine tasting from 3 until 7 p.m., and will have chocolate for sale.

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The chocolate shop’s Ecstasy Truffle line is full of aphrodisiacs like the cayenne in the lightly spicy Ancient Pleasures truffle, and a sumptuous confection enriched with French red wine and essence of rose. X Send your food news to food@mountainx.com

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Ready for something quick, affordable and still good for you? Capitalizing on the public’s increasing desire for healthy fast food, Nicole Diamantis and her partner Ryan Jeffries are opening Asheville’s first vegetarian drive-through. The business, VegHeads Drive-Thru, will open in early March in the old Backyard Burger location at 705 Merrimon Ave., says Diamantis.

Diamantis and Jeffries are not vegetarians, but share a love of food and an extensive background in the restaurant business. In fact, they met while waiting tables together at local Mediterranean foodie favorite, Rezaz.

The first question on many minds must be how late the drive-through will stay open. North of 51 Grill, there just isn’t much to eat late at night. The hours for the eatery have not yet been nailed down, says Diamantis, but the couple is considering quick, after-hours nibbles for night owls. “We were thinking 10 a.m. until 10 p.m.,” says Diamantis.

“But we might extend it if we felt like there were enough people that wanted to come by later than that.”

Diamantis notes that most everything has been ripped out of the 900-square-foot building and replaced — so no worries, vegetarians. There will be no burger remnants in your falafel. She adds that there is also no dine-in seating at VegHeads Drive-Thru, though a cluster of tables outside the restaurant will allow for al-fresco dining in mild weather. The restaurant will allow walk-up traffic

as well.

Though the menu is still in development, Diamantis is clear on her central concept: The food that is served through that pass-through window at VegHeads will be affordable, recognizable and portable. It will also, she says, be simple enough to lend itself toward a menu that can be eventually sold as par of a franchise package — which also means consistency for the consumer. “We’ve built the restaurant to franchise, so we’re not going to change any of these recipes as we go,” says Diamantis. “It’s going to be, like any other drivethrough, fast and friendly and consistent.”

Just like any other drive-through, except for the abundance of house-made vegetarian options, as well as vegan, gluten-free and raw items. “I don’t want to make vegetarian food new, or reinvent the wheel,” says Diamantis. “I want it to be very accessible. We’re not trying to bring other people over to a way of thought or a lifestyle, so much as to just say that we understand that people are in a rush and they don’t want to eat McDonald’s.

This is food that people are familiar with.” Items include veggie burgers, falafel and spanakopita.

“Things that they really know and recognize pretty quickly,” says Diamantis. “But there’s also things tucked in there for really die-hard vegetarians who know their stuff and are serious about their food.”

To that end, she lists seaweed salad and goji-berry ginger tea. There will also be a value menu for kids — think ants on a log, for example.

No matter what, she says, every item will be recognizable. That’s good news when you’re waiting

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The new Arcade bar has taken off like an Excitebike. However, the first incarnation of the menu needed some work. The new bar is responding to customer feedback by ramping up the offerings — replacing all regular mustard with Lusty Monk mustard and putting bacon in damn near everything, for starters. That’ll keep them happy — until the cholesterol check.

There’s a bacon bruschetta, a bacon pimento cheese sandwich, a smoked gouda macaroni and cheese with an option to add bacon and jalapeños, double pork sliders (with bacon) and a grilled peanut butter and grape jelly sandwich with (yes really) bacon. Yes, the kitchen has also added a new salad and a few flat-bread pizzas for vegetarians.

But then, there’s the pizza panini made with two grilled-cheese sandwiches stuffed with pepperoni.

It’s kind of awesome in an artery-clogging way. It certainly provides a counterpoint to Rosetta’s, the completely vegetarian late-night food fixture on Lexington Avenue.

“It’s the opposite of Rosetta’s. It’s like the worst shit for your body you can eat,” says owner Joshua Aaron. “And that’s kind of what we’re going for.”

“We’re buying defibrillators and installing them in the bathroom,” quips Arcade marketing manager Kelly Gold.

It’s possible that some medical attention might be necessary after a plate of the chili-cheese tator tots the bar is now serving, washed down with a Kirby — a deceptively innocent tasting bubble -gum cocktail named for the pink video-game character.

Also, in a continued effort to destroy your health in the most fun way possible, Arcade has introduced “Sunday Funday.” Every Sunday, all food

and drinks are half-price.

Arcade is located at 130 College St. in downtown Asheville. For more information, visit the Arcade Asheville Facebook page.

China Palace celebrates the New Year

There will be no rabbit served at China Palace for the Chinese New Year, but there will be dragon.

This year, China Palace is throwing a celebration on the eve of the Year of the Rabbit, Wednesday, Feb. 2, at 6:15 p.m. The celebration will include a special buffet of traditional Chinese good luck food for the year ahead, as well as a Dragon Dance, another tradition for prosperity in the new year.

The Dragon Dance is a cultural event that dates back to the Han Dynasty. It will be performed by martial artists from local dojos moving a long, colorful dragon to the beat of live drummers.

China Place is located at 4 S. Tunnel Road. For more information, call 298-7098.

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Ruth’s Chris is coming to south Asheville. The steakhouse, part of an upscale nationwide chain, will sit at 26 All Souls Crescent, not far outside of the gates of the Biltmore Estate. The restaurant will open in the fall of this year, and the official groundbreaking takes place Thursday, Feb. 3, finalizing a two-year effort to bring the internationally renowned brand to the Western North Carolina market.

There will be seating for more than 200 in the Tudor-style building, with employment opportunities for approximately 70 people. Founded in New Orleans by Ruth Fertel in 1965, Ruth’s Chris specializes in USDA prime-grade steaks. Asheville Prime LLC, the ownership group of the Asheville location, includes local developer and entrepreneur John Bell, CEO of The Columbus Group, Inc. and Ruth’s Chris franchisee Paula Conway.

Interesting timing, considering Steak & Wine closed just last month.

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by anne fitten glenn

West Asheville getting a new brewery, recapping Winter Warmer West Asheville to be home to Beer City’s 10th brewery

The more craft beer, the better, I say. As long as it’s exceptional brew. And brewer Gordon Kear, co-owner of the forthcoming Altamont Brewing Company on Haywood Road, knows how to brew exceptional beers. He’s been the brewer for Flagstaff Brewing Company in Flagstaff, Ariz., for the past six years. There he crafted an array of ales and seasonals, from an IPA to an English Brown Porter to an ESB. Now Kear and business partner Ben Wiggins are opening a brewpub/music venue to bring a little more cool to the western end of Haywood Road. Other businesses that have opened in recent months in the same area are music venue The Get Down and restaurant Pizzeria Ritrovo.

“Asheville has always been home for me,” Kear says. “I wanted to bring what I learned in Flagstaff back home.”

Kear grew up in eastern N.C., and came to the mountains to attend Warren Wilson College.

He stayed on in the area for a number of years after college before moving to Flagstaff and taking on his first professional brewing job. While at Warren Wilson, he befriended Wiggins, the other half of Altamont Brewing. Wiggins has been working construction and running a beer and wine shop in Nantahala. While Kear focuses on brewing, Wiggins will book music and handle marketing. He’s also overseeing renovation and construction on the building at 1042 Haywood Road (formerly the Low Rider shop, an automobile renovation business now located on Patton Avenue).

Kear and Wiggins initially want to focus on making their place a haven for local beer lovers.

“There’s no brewery in West Asheville, and we’re going to really focus on having a brewpub/bar for local clientele to come into to drink,” Kear says. “Some day we’d like to distribute, but that’s down the road.”

The goal is to have the place open this spring, perhaps even in late March, though Kear may not be brewing by then. Licensing, as always, can take a while. Nor has he ordered his brewing equipment yet. But there’s always a chance that he could get a beer or two brewed by renting some tank space from one of Asheville’s other breweries.

When I ask Kear about starting a business in an area with a glut of brews (Asheville has one of the highest brewery-to-population ratios in the U.S.), he isn’t fazed.

“The market here is still not saturated,” he says. “The craft-beer market continues to expand because not one brewery is ever going to take over. The beers are all a little different, and more options [mean] more education about craft beer.”

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Pouring gold: LoneRider Brewing Company from Raleigh served their Sweet Josie Brown Ale at the Winter Warmer Beer Festival. The beer was a gold medal winner at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival.

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The brewery’s name has to be one of my favorites, though Kear says most people don’t get the allusions.

Altamont is Thomas Wolfe’s fictional name for Asheville in his novels. It’s also the name of an infamous concert that took place in California in 1969, headlined by The Rolling Stones.

“We want to represent Asheville with our name and with what we’re doing,” Kear says.

“Plus there are great stories behind the name — from Thomas Wolfe to California.”

Learn more about Altamont Brewing Company on their Facebook page.

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For the most part, the new venue in Asheville’s Civic Center Exhibition Hall was an improvement on the former site at the Haywood Park Hotel. There was more room to move around so the hall didn’t feel as packed. There were areas near the stage that got clogged with the beer-drinking masses, but those spots were easily navigated. The highlights of the fest were all the lovely, yummy craft beers — all the WNC breweries represented, as well as some N.C. breweries from the plains, SweetWater from Atlanta, R.J. Rockers from Spartanburg and Yazoo from Tennessee to round it out.

I was thrilled to get a taste of Foothills

Brewing’s 2011 Sexual Chocolate, which will be released here on Feb. 1 at Barley’s Taproom & Pizzeria. The Sexual Chocolate is one of two N.C. beers to win a gold medal at the 2010 Great American Beer Festival. It will be available on tap at several restaurants and bars around WNC — but it always goes fast.

Sweet Josie Brown, from two-year-old upstart Lone Rider Brewing out of Raleigh, also got the gold. Sweet Josie is available in six-packs at Ingles and local beer stores.

That said, Winter Warmer’s new venue did have a few problems — the biggest being bathroom scarcity. I expected that other areas of the Civic Center would be available, but that wasn’t the case. And no portable toilets were brought in. As a result, the lines for bladder relief, for both the men and women, were epic.

The other problem was that while food from Fiore’s Ristorante Toscana was included in the ticket price, and I hear it was delicious, there was only one food table, and the line for that was also quite long.

Suffice it to say, I neither ate nor used the facilities, but I’m thankful that Rosetta’s Kitchen was on my way home. X Send your brews news to Anne Fitten Glenn at brewgasmavl@gmail.com.

eatininseason The bees freeze

While we warm up with tea and their honey, beekeepers hope their bees survive the winter

by Maggie Cramer For lovers of local food, the new year is off to a sweet start — sorghum and honey are the first featured local items on Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project’s Get Local calendar. For the area beekeepers behind the sugary stuff, 2011’s snowy, how-low-can-itgo start isn’t exactly ideal.

“There is a little finger crossing involved,” admits Jon Christie of Wild Mountain Apiaries and Beekeeping Supply in Madison County. By early November, he had readied his bees for the coming cold. But, he notes, “Sometimes you can do everything right in preparing your colonies for winter and still not come through with live bees.”

Christie has seen his fair share of winters as a beekeeper. Seven to be exact, not counting the years he spent as a child around his father’s hives. And he’s weathered them well. Over the past seven years, his operation has grown from just three to more than 100 hives.

This past year was a good one. “I had more hives than ever and made a great honey crop,” he shares.

Wild Mountain Apiaries offers up a variety of honeys, including the rare regional specialty and perennial favorite, sourwood.

“The majority of sourwood honey is produced here in WNC and eastern Tennessee,” he says. “We generally only get a sourwood crop every two to three years.”

And that’s okay with him. “There are other [varieties] which I like just as well, maybe even better,” he notes. “Basswood — or Lin as it is known locally — is a very fine honey. It’s golden in color and gives a buttery citrus sensation often with a slight minty aftertaste.” He also includes black locust on his list, which he says can be clear and is thus often mixed with the darker honey of the tulip poplar.

Like many local beekeepers, Christie manages his hives without the use of hard chemicals; he opts to use and raise good, diverse genetic stock, divide his colonies often and turn to herbal essential oils instead.

Carl and Joan Chesick’s honey is Certified Naturally Grown. The couple own and operate Green Goddess Farm in West Asheville.

“You can’t absolutely control what a honeybee will bring back to the hive (they fly for three miles), but you can control what you put into the hive as a beekeeper,” Carl says.

It’s a certification he’s proud of. In fact, he’s generally proud of Asheville’s beekeeping scene and beekeepers — he seems to know, or know of, all of them. “We have more natural beekeepers than anywhere else in the world, I would think,” Chesick beams.

“People here are interested in saving bees.”

Chesick sees flocks of inquiring and new beekeepers at the Beginning Bee School every year; the Buncombe County Beekeepers Chapter, of which he’s the director, hosts the annual event. This year’s school takes place March 12 and 13 at the Folk Art Center, and those behind the event have hopes of extending it by offering follow-up, hands-on educational opportunities for attendees into the summer, once the bees are out of hibernation.

While he credits Ashevilleans as being the type to embrace and preserve bees, he also credits Asheville and WNC with being an ideal honeybee place. “The honey flow starts in February and continues through the end of October. A lot of places are more short term.” Thus, there’s a buzz about Asheville. That buzz, he hopes, will help make our area “the center of the world for honeybee interest and projects.” He acknowledges that’s big talk and big thinking. “But,” he says, “there’s no reason why it can’t be!”

Jon Christie of Wild Mountain Apiaries and Beekeeping Supply was all smiles at the recent Holiday Bazaar at the North Asheville Tailgate Market thanks to his great 2010 honey crop. Find his honey now on the shelves of places like Asheville’s Downtown Market and Good Stuff in Marshall, or direct from his farm.

Photos courtesy of ASAP

Although Chesick and Christie are playing the waiting game, you can still enjoy the fruits of their labor — well, of Christie and other area beekeepers; Chesick is all sold out until later this year. Wild Mountain Apiaries’ sourwood, basswood and wildflower blend are available at the Downtown Market in Asheville, Stacie’s on Main Street in Weaverville, Good Stuff in downtown Marshall and the Wild Mountain Beekeeping Supply store in Madison County (directions at website listed below). Christie also has beeswax, beeswax candles, propolis, propolis tinctures, fresh frozen bee pollen, nucleus colonies and queens for sale. Chesick, too, sells nucleus bee colonies and other value-added supplies.

For more information about Wild Mountain Apiaries and Beekeeping Supply, wildmountainbees.com. To reach Carl Chesick, call 779-7047 and find more information about Green Goddess Farm in ASAP’s Local Food Guide at buyappalachian.org. Learn more about Asheville’s Beginning Bee School at wncbees.org. Find out what’s in season this month and beyond at asapconnections.org/getlocal.html. X

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arts&entertainment Marry, marry, quite contrary

Author Elizabeth Gilbert returns to Asheville to talk about her surprising love story

by Alli Marshall Author Elizabeth Gilbert says that 15 years ago, she believed love was something she would stumble onto “like an Antiques Roadshow treasure kind-of thing. ‘Oh my God! Look what I’ve found! Something really valuable right here in this bar!’” And of course it would be love at first sight. It was these sorts of romantic notions and expectations that lead to some huge disappointments for Gilbert, including a painful divorce that she eventually parlayed into the bestsellerturned-Julia Roberts vehicle Eat Pray Love. These days, Gilbert is a bit more realistic: “The real, lasting loves are stories that are unfolding. It’s something that you make and grow and work on, it’s not necessarily something that you find.

You can find the opportunity for it, but then it’s up to you to make it.”

In fact, since Eat, Gilbert has fashioned one heck of a romantic love story of her own. The man she called Felipe, whom she met in Bali (the “Love” section), turned out to be much more than a memoir’s final chapter. Gilbert and the Brazilian-born, Australian-national gem salesman quietly went about creating a life together that, due to their different nationalities, involved a lot of passport milage. They were happy with the arrangement, however, because it meant the pair, both burned by divorce, would never marry. And then the Department of Homeland Security decided otherwise: Make it official, or Felipe would be, in essence, deported. (“The government would not be issuing an actual shotgun with all the paperwork, but it did have that sort of feeling,” Gilbert wrote, her trademark wit intact.)

So Gilbert decided that, if she was going to get married again, she was going to enter matrimony with as much knowledge as possible, which brings us to Committed: A Love Story.

“Just to reassure myself that I was a mature and

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sober-thinking person, it meant a lot to me to give marriage as much thought as I did,” she says. Committed is a dense, 279-page exploration of marriage through the lens of culture, history, religion and personal analysis. “Even the very word ‘matrimony’ comes to us from the Latin word for mother. We don’t call marriage ‘patrimony.’ Marriage carries an intrinsic assumption of motherhood, as though it is the babies themselves who make the marriage,” she writes in the chapter “Marriage and Women.” And, “The marital kitchen can become something like a small linoleum temple where we are called up daily to practice forgiveness, as we ourselves would like to be forgiven.”

Committed (released in paperback on Feb. 1) has a slightly different title — the hardcover is called Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage. And that suggests that, since publication (indeed, since Gilbert and Felipe’s peremptory marriage), Gilbert has softened her views on matrimonial vows.

“So much of that book is an attempt to calm a pressing anxiety and that anxiety turned to vapor after the event because nothing happened,” says the author. “I had demonized marriage so much, in a way. It turned out that our love story was in tact.”

Committed was written during the months of travel while waiting for fiancé visas (they had to live abroad in order to be together,

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which meant cheap digs in various Southeast Asian locales). Gilbert taps the knowledge of the Hmong women in Vietnam; she’s inspired by novice monks in Laos; visits newly weds in Luang Prabang and seeks insight (with mixed results) in Cambodia. Gilbert works over the subject of marriage (for better or worse) like a worry doll, offering up her own thoughts. On gay marriage: “So why not welcome them in?

Why not recruit them by the van-load to sweep in on heroic wings and save the flagging and battered old institution of matrimony from a bunch of apathetic, ne’er-do-well, heterosexual deadbeats like me?” and coming to her own conclusions: “The only thing marriage has ever done, historically and definitionally speaking, is to change. Marriage in the Western world changes with every century, adjusting itself constantly around new social standards and new notions of fairness.”

By her own account Gilbert was “so assiduously avoiding even the language of marriage” that it’s almost surprising to hear her now, four years since she said, “I do,” sounding so at ease with the institution. “It turned out well, but by the same token there are lessons that I gathered that have been consistently helpful,” she says.

“Turns out it really does make a difference who

you’re married to, as far as how you experience marriage. And there’s something to be said about the difference between getting married at 23 and getting married at 39. The entire thing is shaped and altered by that.”

There have been other shifts in Gilbert’s life, like her subject matter. In the intro to Committed she talks about first being told that she “wrote like a man” (she wrote for GQ and Spin, her book prior to Eat, Pray, Love was The Last American Man about WNC naturalist Eustace Conway) and then being classified as a “chick lit” author. (Having Julia Roberts play you in the dramatization of your memoir will do that.)

Now: “Really what I’m interested in is plants and gardening, and so that’s why I’m writing a novel about 19th-century botanical exploration,” she says. And she’s not joking.

“There was a fascination I had in men that really informed a lot of my late teens, 20s and early 30s,” says Gilbert. ”And them, I turned my attention to trying to sort out my own life.

Knock on wood, there’s nothing more about myself that I feel like exploring in print.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@mountainx.com.

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Mountain Medley

Local musicians parlay temp jobs into a new local music compilation and a brand-new beer from Highland

by Dane Smith Beer and music partnerships are a longstanding tradition in America, and Asheville’s breweries are no exception. Week in and week out, local tasting rooms host a seemingly endless stream of regional talent, usually for free.

But Highland Brewing Company has gone a step beyond providing a room to perform; the local hop-house actually employs a variety of local artists at its east Asheville factory. That relationship has given birth to a local music compilation, sponsored by the brewery, with a release party to be held at, you guessed it, Highland’s newly opened Tasting Room.

The project began when Now You See Them drummer and event co-organizer Jason Mencer heard the Xpress’ 2008 local music compilation and decided a similar project was overdue. The idea remained on the back burner for several months until one afternoon, when working the Highland factory line, Mencer realized there was an album’s worth of talent in that very room.

“There were just amazing bands being represented,” he remembers. “So I thought, ‘This is the perfect opportunity!’ I started talking to Highland about it, and they were on board from the very start, just saying, ‘What can we do? Let’s make this happen.’”

But even with the unwavering support of the area’s largest brewery, compiling the disc was no small task. Mencer says he and fellow event organizer Gene Dolan have been at work on the project since early last summer.

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all this was,” he recalls. “Overall, I would say just to get to this point now, we’ve probably been working on it for seven months.”

Now, at long last, the project has come to fruition. Though short by compilation standards, The Mountain Medley Mix CD — which borrows its name from the Mountain Medley 12-packs its contributors assemble at the Highland factory — boasts a wide range of Appalachian sounds from artists including Johnson’s Crossroad, The Honeycutters, Grant Desantos & Fatback, Josh Phillips Folk Festival, Lyndsay Wojcik and Modo. As an added bonus, it even features previously unreleased tracks from Underhill Rose, Uncle Mountain and Now You See Them.

The release party, too, promises to be a medley of sorts, with food from Bistro 1896, Fiore’s and Mela included in the $10 admission. A host of other local businesses — including Malaprop’s, Organic Mechanic, Virtue, Asheville Pizza and Brewing Company, Burgermeister’s and the Asheville Fine Arts Theatre — have also chipped in with items for a silent auction.

The event will serve as the official debut of Highland’s latest specialty beer, the LAMA Legato Saison, which bears the name of Mencer and Dolan’s newly established LAMA music management agency. The pair were instrumental in crafting the brew, and Mencer says legato was added to reflect the experience of organizing such an inclusive Asheville event. “[Now You See Them singer/guitarist] Dulci [Ellenberger] actually came up with the legato,” he notes. “It’s a musical term meaning tied

together, which is perfect because we just wanted to make this a local event and incorporate the community and basically tie everybody together. It’s just worked so well, as we knew it would.”

If a brand-new Highland offering isn’t enough, The Hop will be on hand with a new specialty flavor based on the LAMA Legato Saison.

As for the music, Mencer says the performance will be more of an “impromptu jam” than a formal show. A LAMA Festival with proper sets from each of the album’s nine artists is scheduled for March 26 at the Grey Eagle.

“We’ll just basically have jam sessions,” he says of the Highland event. “All of these musicians know each other and all of us know at least some of each others’ songs. So it will be fun to hop up and play with everyone.”

And even though the inaugural event has yet to take place, Mencer admits he and Dolan are already looking to the future.

“I don’t know if it’s necessarily going to be a compilation every time, but based on how much time we have and how much work all of this is, we’d like to turn this into a bi-annual festival. Maybe spring and a fall. I don’t know how big we’re looking to grow or exactly what’s going to happen, but we would at least like to do something like this two times a year.”

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by miles britton

What’s on the iPods and record players of local characters Jim Barkley knows cars. But you might be surprised to learn that the local Toyota dealer has had his brushes with musical greatness. While Barkley was growing up in north Florida, Tom Petty was a year ahead of him at Gainesville High School. In the ‘60s, Barkley’s older brother Bobby played in the band the Swinging Continentals, who often shared the stage with folkie Stephen Stills (pre-Crosby and Nash days). And legendary rock ‘n’ roller Bo Diddley, who lived outside Gainesville, bought a car from Barkley in the early ‘80s.

So safe to say, Barkley knows music, too.

Hey Jim Barkley, what’s your spin?

Listening to now: I’m a musical chameleon of sorts.

Whatever is playing I generally enjoy. But one TV show [my wife] Iris and I try to watch each week is Glee. The music is outstanding. The plot I can take or leave. At times during the show, which we TiVo, Iris and I will rewind a segment over and over just to listen to a particular song.

Most recent album/song bought: I recently downloaded about 50 Beatles song from iTunes. When I hear a song from my high school or college days, I have a unique gift that allows me to remember where I was, who I was with, what I was doing, who I was dating, etc. This drives Iris and our kids crazy.

Most recent concert attended: Dolly Parton, and she was wonderful. When our girls were married, the song played for the father-daughter dance was “I Will Always Love You” by Dolly. When I turned 60, Iris and our girls

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gave me an album that they sang and produced in Nashville just for me. The title: We Will Always Love You. The lead song which Iris sang solo was Dolly’s “I Will Always Love You.” First concert ever attended: My first concert was in Alligator Alley (the old U of F basketball arena) sometime in the mid-’60s. I snuck in to watch James Brown live. I was maybe 14 at the time. Watching the college girls take their clothes off and throwing them to James was almost as good as the show.

Favorite local/regional act: Iris and I enjoy the drummers on Pritchard Park, and if we happen to be downtown on Friday evening will make a point of walking to the park. Sometimes we hang around and other times just walk by. Whatever the mood brings.

Favorite artist/band of all time: The Beatles. As much because of what was happening in my life at the time as the greatness of their music. The 1960s were a wonderful time to grow up in north central Florida.

The Beatles bring back so many happy memories.

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Deciding which shows you should see, so you don’t have to The Suspect: Mystic Vibrations

Though frontman Ric Williams is originally from Jamaica, the group now resides in Gaston, S.C. They released their first recording People Get Ready in 1993 and they’ve been spreading their message of love and unity ever since. Mark Harris of Reggae Reviews calls the band’s 2004 re-release, Busy Street, “a modern classic, a gorgeous testament to the power of music.”

Can Be Found: Stella Blue, Friday, Feb. 4.

RIYD: Steel Pulse, John Brown’s Body.

You Should Go If: You feel naked without a sack on your head; you’ve had to claim your toddler at the “lost and found” of more festivals then you care to remember; you have a real gift for helping family and friends develop really clear boundaries; your idea of a successful Super Bowl party is … waking up just as the game is finishing and devouring all the leftover food.

The Suspect: Abigail Washburn

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The Suspect: Larry Keel and Natural Bridge

Keel grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, and there began his love and deep appreciation for mountain music culture. After a seven-month stint as a bluegrass musician at Tokyo Disneyland, Keel returned to the states and took up playing on the East Coast festival circuit. Countless awards and accolades have been showered on Keel and his bands over the years as he continues to wow audiences with his flat-picking guitar playing.

Natural Bridge was formed in 2005 with Larry’s wife, Jenny Keel, mandolinist Mark Schimick and banjo player Andy Thorn.

Can Be Found: Pisgah Brewing, Thursday, Feb. 3.

RIYD (Recommended if You Dig): Del McCoury Band, Yonder Mountain String Band.

You Should Go If: Your wife keeps a blog about coupon clipping and the joys of home schooling your six children; people often underestimate your towering intellect due to your quiet nature, Santalength beard and rainbow suspenders; your idea of a successful Super Bowl party is … everyone raving over your grandmother’s squirrel chili and not revealing the recipe until the end of the night.

She’s a Nashville-bashed clawhammer banjo player whose musical journey has taken her to Tibet and China as a bluegrass ambassador of sorts. In addition to her solo career, she’s been a part of Uncle Earl and The Sparrow Quartet (with cellist Ben Sollee, fiddle player Casey Driessen and Washburn’s husband, Bela Fleck.) Currently, she has an impressive new cast of collaborators: musicians from My Morning Jacket, the Decemberists, Old Crow Medicine Show and Turtle Island Quartet join her on her latest project set for an early 2011 release.

Can Be Found: The Grey Eagle, Saturday, Feb. 5.

RIYD: The Wailin’ Jennys, The Ditty Bops.

You Should Go If: Not to sound immodest, but you’re kind of like the Steve Jobs of your office; In order for you to drive your seat has to be positioned at a ninety degree angle; You didn’t realize Ricky Martin was gay until you heard it on NPR; Your idea of a successful Super Bowl party is…filled with debates about gross consumerism and whether or not football players are the gladiators of the 21st century.

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The Suspect: Dr. Dog

Guitarist-vocalist Scott McMicken and bassist Toby Leaman met in their Philadelphia eighth-grade classroom. After years of “practicing in basements, performing in barns and tweaking knobs on cassette four-track machines,” they released their first record, Psychedelic Swamp. Their big break came in 2004 when My Morning Jacket’s Jim James heard the group and decided to take them on tour. According to Pitchfork, the band’s latest release, Shame, Shame “embraces a bigger, more charismatic sound ... the songs are best at their springiest, with ragtime-y pianos, blooming back-up harmonies and a healthy injection of ‘70s AM gold.”

Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Tuesday, Feb. 8.

RIYD: The Band, The Beatles, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes.

You Should Go If: You’ve never let go of your dream of wanting to be a hobo when you grew up; whenever you go sledding someone in your party always ends up in the E.R.; you gave up smoking for the New Year and now you only have two friends left, neither of whom live in town; your idea of a successful Super Bowl party is … one in which both men and women whole-heartedly embrace traditional gender roles (i.e. your girlfriend brings you beers all night.)

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spork A goodbye to Bad Ash

The local radio host and ardent music supporter leaves Asheville for Maui

Ten poets will be chosen to read at the Xpress Poetry Show, Friday, April 8 at The Masonic Temple & late night at Wordfest 2011.

Go To: MountainX.com/poetry2011 for details!

“Bad” girl makes good: Ashley Davis promoted local music through her radio shows, Homegrown and Local Licks. photo by rebecca d’angelo

It’s sad but true: Ashley Davis (a.k.a. Bad Ash), on-air radio personality for Asheville Radio Group stations 98.1 The River and 105.9 The Mountain and host of both Homegrown and Local Licks programs, is leaving Asheville. Her last day on-air will be Monday, Feb. 7.

“I’m moving to Lahaina, Maui, and starting my new voice over/music blog website, Bad Ash Voice,” she tells Xpress. “Also, I will be writing for a site out of San Diego called Songwriters Marketplace.”

Davis is originally from Illinois; she started working part-time in radio at age 18 and began doing voice-over work during college.

She earned the nickname “Bad Ash” for her nononsense, fun-loving rocker attitude.

Davis will be replaced on Homegrown by Heather Anders and on Local Licks by Aaron LaFalce. Her last local show on Sunday, Feb. 6, will be co-hosted by local singer/songwriter and Broomstars guitarist Jeff Santiago. For her final on-air shift on Feb. 7 she says there will be “no special programming. I might invite

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some friend in the studio, but it will just be me shootin’ the shit with the listeners.”

Davis has been a major supporter and promoter of local music, working to represent Asheville’s growing music scene on a radio station that plays predominantly national and international pop and indie music. She’s made countless appearances at local events as a spokesperson, talent judge, emcee and fan. She’s also interviewed numerous local and nationally touring artists in-studio. Her contribution to local music really can’t be overstated, and her presence in Asheville will be greatly missed.

See Davis off at the Bad Ash Big Game Bash, a pre-Super Bowl party at Wild Wing Café on Sunday, Feb. 6, 4-6 p.m. There will be “Better than Bad Ash Trivia” and prize giveaways including a TV and recliner during the game.

(Follow her on Face Book at facebook.com/ pages/Bad-Ash-Voice/171357429574476 and Twitter at twitter.com/BadAshVoice.)

Farewell, Bad Ash! Good luck on all of your future endeavors and keep in touch. X

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But if any band were up to the task this frigid evening, it was the Critters.

Wasting no time with niceties, the band leaped into its rowdy set, opening with a choppy punk number that had the room leaping and swaying before the smokers outside could funnel in from the barâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crowded patio. From there, it was a fury of what can only be categorized as eclectic rock. The band barreled through a crowd-pleasing hour that touched on blues-infused psychedelia, angsty post-punk, poppy garage rock and even some Weezer-inspired indie. But whatever the genre, the increasingly tight (and sweaty) crowd responded with adoration and enthusiasm, singing the hooks between songs and waiting with open arms for whatever was to come next.

In an impressive display of well-roundedness, the band made a habit of swapping instruments throughout the set, trading guitars for bass, drums

for guitars, bass for drums and ... well, you get the idea. Drummer Josh Martier â&#x20AC;&#x201D; dressed in a Tshirt emblazoned with a wolf, waterfall, rainbow and a Native American woman (perhaps the busiest and most awesome shirt this reporter has seen) â&#x20AC;&#x201D; channeled his inner Levon Helm, handling a hefty chunk of lead vocal duties from behind the kit and splitting frontman duties with guitarist Harry Harrison. But, not to be outdone, bassist Tom Peters and guitarist Jesse Myers also lent a hand, taking over the occasional lead vocal and chiming in on the sometimes dissonant, often rich backing harmonies.

While it was difficult to make out lyrics over the fuzzy P.A. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which The Critters had pushed to its sonic limits â&#x20AC;&#x201D; judging from the rest of the experience, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fair to assume they were clever, playful and whole lotta fun. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Up next, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Oxygenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; and â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gee Golly,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? said Harrison nearing the end of the set. Then, acknowledging his unusual phrasing, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s right, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to play two songs next.â&#x20AC;?

By this point, it was apparent that a large portion of the crowd â&#x20AC;&#x201D; now singing along with the band in unison â&#x20AC;&#x201D; was well-versed in the Crittersâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; antics. Though relatively new on the scene, this band has already become a local staple. And why not? Anyone who likes rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll and having a good time is going to love the Critters. X Find out more at facebook.com/TheCritters.

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Surprise discoveries Current show at Blue Spiral 1 unearths Southeastern talents If you want to look at impeccable contemporary craft and fine art, Blue Spiral 1 is the place to go. This is not an arena where you will find threadbare installations or experimental video collage projected on the walls. If an artist is dealing with conceptual subject matter at Blue Spiral 1, expect serious craftsmanship to dictate the work.

The newest showcasing of BS1 artists, however, reveals a few unexpected blips within the gallery’s modus operandi.

On the main floor is a selection of artists never before shown at Blue Spiral 1. There is the standard smartly crafted work on display like the prints of local artist Andy Farkas, whose delineations of line and space are quite astounding.

There are mixed- media sculptures by Jeffrey Lloyd Dever.

Each is accompanied by a sign desperately warning the viewer against touching the uber-fragile works. Dever weaves colored plastic-coated copper wire into intricate organic forms and podlike polymer beads. The copper wire recalls electronic cables, as if it was salvaged from an old television, though I doubt very much that it was.

I can imagine the Blue Spiral 1 team took a leap of faith with Dever. His materials are a little off the charts — copper wire and polymer clay are generally reserved for jewelry found at jam-band concerts, but Dever has masterfully executed his sculptures (and those signs don’t let you forget it). His colors aren’t too bright, nothing is overly garish; everything is appropriate and in order in spite of his unconventional choice of material.

Most surprising in New x 3 are the paintings by Lillian Garcia-Roig. Sure, they are landscapes, but they burst with technicolor greens and dense applications of paint. They are thick and messy, though it is clear that she is in control of her medium. Amidst all the other scrupulously plotted artwork on the floor, these impulsive paintings come as a visual relief.

Ceramic is a medium of a thousand aesthetic possibilities, and this is exemplified through the exhibition of eight emerging Southeastern clay artists in Blue Spiral 1’s Showcase Gallery. Noah Riedels’ functional Asiatic stoneware pots are displayed near stately figurative work by Alex Irvine while the playful earthenware figurines of Leslie Hinton hang nearby.

Hinton’s animated characters appear more naïve than they actually are; technical wizardry breezily emanates from the multi-headed, animal/human hybrids. They are deities with elongated necks, jocular faces and a multitude of toes. The risqué subject matter is quelled by her endearing stylization of these little beasts.

Delicate porcelain wreckages by Lauren Gallaspy introduce her as another of the aforementioned “messy but controlled” artists in Blue Spiral’s line up. Her small sculptures and vessels appear as piles of fragile bone and sticks unearthed from a murky underworld. Each is marked by illustrations that create an alternative dimension upon the surface. For this exhibit Blue Spiral mostly displays Gallaspy’s functional forms — I hope a showing of her larger sculptural work is in the gallery’s future plan.

Current exhibitions at Blue Spiral1 are up until March 26. In the downstairs gallery: abstract paintings by Asheville’s “Energy Loop” designer, Dirck Cruser and geometric sculptures by Robert Winkler.

The overlapping of these distinct artistic visions invites contemplation on the viewer’s part. Info at Bluespiral1.com X

Leap of faith: “Serendipity,” Jeffrey Lloyd Dever. Polymer clay, steel wire, plastic-coated copper wire.

Photos courtesy blue spiral 1

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Larry Keel’s homegrown combination of Blue Ridge Mountain bluegrass heritage and innovative technical skill makes Larry Keel and Natural Bridge a vehement force to be reckoned with. The flat-picking virtuoso, along with his wife, Jenny (fiddle, lead and harmony vocals) and mandolin player/vocalist Mark Schimick, will be playing in Black Mountain at the Pisgah Brewing Tap Room. The trio will be gracing Pisgah Brewing’s outdoor stage on Thursday, Feb. 3. 8 p.m., $10 advance/ $13 doors. pisgahbrewing.com.

Pick Your Switch

Local singer/songwriter Paul Edelman, formerly of The Jangling Sparrows, returns with a new rock trio called (in either a reference to corporal punishment of electronic gadgetry) Pick Your Switch. (The band sounds neither brutal nor techy, but comes out of the gate with a heavy Americana wall of sound.) The band shares a bill with the Dave Desmelik Trio and AutoWolfe (formerly Jeff Markham & The Last Call, playing an acoustic set) at the LAB’s back room. Thursday, Feb. 3. 9:30 p.m. $5. lexavebrew.com.

Discordian Society

Asheville’s Discordian Society describes itself as “an eclectic combination of funk, jazz and rock, with influences that range from Zappa and John Zorn, to Jaco Pastorius and Les Claypool” and promises “tasty recipes, daring choices, and excellent keyboards and saxophone.” Get all of that and more when Discordian Society opens for Josh Roberts & The Hinges at Mo Daddy’s on Thursday, Feb. 3. 9 p.m. $8. modaddysbar.com.

Club phone numbers are listed in Clubland in the (828) area code unless otherwise stated; more details at www. mountainx.com/clubland. Send your Smart Bet requests in to ae@mountainx.com for consideration by the Monday the week prior to publication.

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Micah Mackenzie at The Red Room

Local artist Micah Mackenzie (you’ve probably seen his photos around, including recent work for PUSH Asheville Fashion and the HATCHBash) has a little something up his sleeve. It might be his heart. Mackenzie will present (according to Temptation’s Red Room where the show will be held) “a gallery of works specifically designed around Valentines, the Red Room and sultry Awesomesauce that is Mr. Mackenzie.” Wednesday, Feb. 9. 6:309:30 p.m. Free. temptationsredroom.com.

Ceramic Heartstones for your Valentine

Looking for a personal gift for your sweetie?

Black Mountain-based artist Brad Stroman leads a workshop on making ceramic heartstones, from forming and firing to handpainting for an earthy, natural look. The workshop is held at AnTHM Gallery on Saturday, Feb. 5. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Lunch is included in workshop fee, no supplies are required. $55 person/$100 couple. anthmgallery.com.

When Jekyll Met Hyde

According to The Magnetic Theatre, “Drawing on every written, dramatized, and filmed version of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic imaginable, and relevant 19th century literary and philosophical classics, When Jekyll Met Hyde features an unusual feminist twist and a surprise ending.” And to add to the fun, two productions are mounted simultaneously — one set in the 1950s and the other in the ‘60s, each with a different cast. Through Saturday, Feb. 12. Thursday-Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and Friday-Saturday at 10 p.m. $12/$14. themagneticfield.com.

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Stouthog Day w/ Chalwa (roots, reggae), 8pm

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Robin Trower (rock) w/ David JacobsStrain

Open mic w/ Brian Keith The Blackbird

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David Lowery (frontman of Cracker & Camper Van Beethoven) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

JJ Grey & Mofro (blues, rock) w/ Ponderosa

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Zydeco dance lesson, 7:30pm Zydeco dance, 8:30pm

Back stage: Pick Your Switch (rock, Americana, pop) w/ Dave Desmelik & Jeff Markham

The Honeycutters (Americana, blues, country)

Emerald Lounge

Lobster Trap

Town Pump

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Open mic w/ David Bryan

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Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Grateful Dead night w/ Phuncle Sam

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Donna Germano (hammer dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

Mike’s Tavern

Westville Pub

Fish Net Stalkers w/ The Bators Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Aaron Berg & the Heavy Love (folk, experimental)

Josh Roberts & the Hinges (country, soul, funk) w/ Discordian Society

Fri., February 4

Olive or Twist

Athena’s Club

The Movement (rock, reggae) w/ Villanova & Stereo Reform

Ballroom dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band, 7:30pm

DJ, 10pm-2am

Heavenly Spirits Wine Bar

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Leo Converse (jazz)

Pack’s Tavern

Acoustic Swing

Scott Raines (acoustic, rock)

Highland Brewing Company

Blue Note Grille

Brushfire Stankgrass (acoustic, bluegrass)

Pisgah Brewing Company

Steven Whiteside (singer-songwriter)

Holland’s Grille

Larry Keel & Natural Bridge (Americana, roots) PULP

Dep (electronic) Purple Onion Cafe

Brian McGee (rock, Americana) Red Room

Dance Lush w/ DJ Moto Red Stag Grill

Billy Sheeran (piano) Red Step Artworks

Open mic Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Steve Whiddon the pianoman Root Bar No. 1

Dave Turner (Americana) Scandals Nightclub

Boiler Room

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Craggie Brewing Company

Iron Horse Station

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

“Decadance” w/ RavenRage Promotions Emerald Lounge

Sci Fi (fusion, jazz, psychedelic) w/ Cinder Cat Feed and Seed

Lazybirds (blues, country, jazz) French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Paul Cataldo (Americana, roots) Jack Of The Wood Pub

Cry Baby (swing, R&B) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Waller (alt-country, folk) w/ Ryan Sheffield Lobster Trap

Space Heaters (country swing) Mellow Mushroom

Now You See Them (folk, pop, indie)

EDM Exposure w/ Sub Genre & Morefiend

High Gravity Jazz Trio (jazz, soul)

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Good Stuff

Ike Stubblefield & Jeff Sipe (jam, experimental)

“Meet the Artist” w/ BJ Precourt, 7pm

Screaming Jays (blues, experimental, folk)

Olive or Twist

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Live jazz or swing

Malcolm Holcombe CD release show (folk, Americana) w/ Jared Tyler

Pack’s Tavern

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Pisgah Brewing Company

Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzo’s Bistro

Aaron LaFalce (piano)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

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The Messengers (funk, rock, jazz)

Heady Glass

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Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) Root Bar No. 1

Honey Fed Worms (rock, folk) Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party & drag show Stella Blue

10th Annual Bob Marley B-Day Bash feat: Mystic Vibrations (dub, reggae) & Common Foundation Straightaway Cafe

Tim Marsh (singer-songwriter) The Hop West

Barbie Angell (poetry), 6:30pm The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Gone Costal (acoustic funk) Town Pump

Hangover in the Hangar: “Bring your vinyl and we’ll spin it; Bring your own food and we’ll grill it,” 2-8pm

Heavenly Spirits Wine Bar

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Leo Converse (jazz) Highland Brewing Company

Classical guitar duo, 10am-12:30pm Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm

Mountain Medley Mix CD release w/ Now You See Them (folk, indie, pop) w/ Overflow Jug Band, The Honeycutters, Uncle Mountain & more

Hotel Indigo

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Hotel Indigo

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm Iron Horse Station

Jason York (Americana)

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm Front stage: Aaron Price (piano) Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party & drag show Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Mon., February 7

Firecracker Jazz Band (dixieland, jazz)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Jerusalem Garden

Bob Zullo (jazz, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm

Belly dancing w/ live music

Handlebar

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Tickle Switch (rock)

Mountain Feist (bluegrass)

Back stage: Caleb Caudle & the Bayonets (Americana, rock) w/ The Ocean

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Lobster Trap

Root Bar No. 1

Jazz night w/ The Working Otet

Open jam session

Midway Tavern

Stella Blue

Live music

George McConnell & the Nonchalants (exWidespread Panic)

Gashouse Mouse (blues) Vanuatu Kava Bar

Space Medicine (ambient, folk, jam) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays) White Horse

Asheville Jazz Orchestra Wild Wing Cafe

Country Fried Fridays w/ Broken Road

Sat., February 5 Athena’s Club

DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Note Grille

Corinne Gooden (singer-songwriter) Craggie Brewing Company

David Earl (blues, folk, soul), 6pm Men From Uncle (garage, rock), 8pm Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Emerald Lounge

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Klavenauts (afrobeat)

Sirius.B (gypsy folk, world) w/ The Bloodroot Orkaestarr

The Get Down

Olive or Twist

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Jazz night w/ The 42nd Street Jazz Band

Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm

Orange Peel

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Who’s Bad (Michael Jackson tribute) w/ Mosadi Music

Marc Keller

Pack’s Tavern

DJ Moto (pop, dance) Purple Onion Cafe

Shane Pruitt Band (blues, jam, jazz) Red Room

Dance party w/ live DJ Red Stag Grill

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) Root Bar No. 1

LAMA Mountain Medley afterparty w/ The Sweeps (rock)

Bob Marley Birthday Bash w/ Chalwa, Dub Cartel, Kinjah & Soundpimp

Scandals Nightclub

Fat Cat’s Billiards

Stella Blue

DJ dance party & drag show

Sound Extreme DJ

From the Ashes (metal)w/ Mindshapefist

Feed and Seed

Straightaway Cafe

Carolina Blue (bluegrass)

Caleb Bost

Firestorm Cafe and Books

The Warehouse Live

A Question of Meaning w/ URTV’s Arthur Hancock & Katie Brugger, 7:30pm

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Live music

Masters Bluegrass Jam

Tue., February 8 Eleven on Grove

Beginner swing & tango lessons, 6-7pm Dance w/ Blue Heaven, 8pm Emerald Lounge

Tuesday Night Funk Jam Firestorm Cafe and Books

Jubal’s Kin (“Appalachia-infused cosmic Americana”), 8pm Frankie Bones

Aaron LaFalce (alternative, acoustic) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm Handlebar

Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm Iron Horse Station

Open mic w/ Jesse James, 7-10pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime)

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Dale Rucker (acoustic fusion)

Pierce Edens (country, folk rock)

Town Pump

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Tater Family Traveling Circus (Southern rock)

Chelsea Lynn La Bate (blues, folk, roots)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Garage at Biltmore

Ruby Slippers (jazz, indie, pop)

Humble Thumb (alt-bluegrass, folk, punk) w/ Hurricanes of Love

Mochipet w/ Aligning Minds, Stephen Jacobs & Quetzatl

Westville Pub

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Good Stuff

White Horse

Phyllis Tanner Frye (gospel, rock, folk)

Lazybirds (blues, country, jazz)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Sun., February 6

Abigail Washburn (singer-songwriter, folk) Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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Joshua Radin (folk, pop) w/ Anya Marina & Andrew Allen

Handlebar

The Brooke Clover Band (psychedelic folk)

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Shag dance & lesson, 4pm Craggie Brewing Company

Lobster Trap

Jay Brown (one-man-band) Mike’s Tavern

Lyric (R&B, soul) O’Malley’s On Main

Open mic Orange Peel

Dr. Dog (folk, rock, experimental) w/ The Head and the Heart & Buried Beds Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Vinyl at the Vault” w/ Chris Ballard

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Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fredâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parkside Pub & Grill 281-0920 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate Lounge 252-4181 The Garage 505-2663 The Get Down 505-8388 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn (Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 The Hangar 684-1213 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cherokee 497-7777 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Hollandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grille 298-8780 The Hop 254-2224 The Hop West 252-5155 Infusions 665-2161 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Jack of the Wood 252-5445

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Jerusalem Garden 254-0255 Jus One More 253-8770 Laureyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Catering 252-1500 Lexington Avenue Brewery 252-0212 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luellaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Grill 253-8805 Midway Tavern 687-7530 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mikeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern 281-3096 Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill 258-1550 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On Main 246-0898 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern 225-6944 Pineapple Jackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 253-8860 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Posana Cafe 505-3969 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rendezvous 926-0201

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill 622-0001 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scullyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 251-8880 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Stella Blue 236-2424 Stephanieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Roadhouse Bistro 299-4127 The Still 683-5913 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 Switzerland Cafe 765-5289 Tallgaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 232-0809 Red Room 252-0775 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Jazz &â&#x20AC;&#x2C6;Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro 254-4698 The Warehouse Live 681-9696 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Well Bred Bakery & Cafe 645-9300 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066

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Boscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Zone

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Juan Holladay & Eliza Sidney (funk, indie, soul), 6pm

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Town Pump

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Bob Burnette (folk, singer-songwriter)

Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dueling Piano Bar

Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

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Marc Keller

Non-stop rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Westville Pub

Fairview Tavern

Blues jam

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Swing dancing w/ The Firecracker Jazz Band, 7:30pm

White Horse

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Orange Peel

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:30pm

Dave Desmelik (singer-songwriter) Good Stuff

Galactic (jazz, funk, rock) w/ Corey Glover, Corey Henry & Orgone

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Red Room

Micah Mackenzie art show

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Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

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Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Jim Arrendell & the Cheap Suits (dance) Vanuatu Kava Bar

Open mic w/ Caleb Beissert Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Westville Pub

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Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm Handlebar

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Leo Converse (jazz) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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The Congress (rock, jam) w/ Sam Robinson Olive or Twist

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Yonder Mountain String Band (bluegrass, rock, jam) Pack’s Tavern

Rocky Lindsley (acoustic, rock) Pisgah Brewing Company

Space Capone (funk, R&B, soul, rock) Purple Onion Cafe

Chuck Brodsky (Americana, folk) Red Room

Dance Lush w/ DJ Moto Red Stag Grill

Billy Sheeran (piano)

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Allen Thompson (Americana) w/ Don Gallardo

Mike’s Tavern

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

The Eskatones (rock, reggae, funk)

EDM Exposure w/ Drea, Nicodemus & Reverend Jude

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Bill Covington (classics), 6-7pm Maddy & Masterpiece (requests), 7-11pm

Chomping at the Bit (bluegrass, old-time)

Handlebar

Town Pump

Olive or Twist

Scandals Nightclub

Coles Whalen

Live jazz or swing

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Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Orange Peel

Heavenly Spirits Wine Bar

Yonder Mountain String Band (bluegrass, rock, jam)

Highland Brewing Company

Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzo’s Bistro

Leo Converse (jazz)

Pack’s Tavern

One Leg Up (jazz, swing)

The Business (Motown funk)

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Funknastics (funk, jazz)

Red Room

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Fri., February 11

Dance party w/ live DJ

Hotel Indigo

Red Stag Grill

Aaron LaFalce (piano) Westville Pub

Athena’s Club

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

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Iron Horse Station

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

The Sporks (acoustic)

Doc Hill (traditional Appalachian)

Acoustic Swing

Scandals Nightclub

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Blue Note Grille

20th Annual Miss Sweetheart Pageant

Anon Dixon Day (singer-songwriter)

Stella Blue

Boiler Room

Project Object feat: Ike Willis & Denny Walley

“Music at the Speed of Dark” w/ Orgavin (industrial, dubstep), Mecanikill (electronic) & Headstone Hollow Craggie Brewing Company

Bobby Bare Jr. (rock, alt-country) Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock’n roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Costume & BPMs w/ Samuel Paradise, Selector Cleofus & Olof Emerald Lounge

Big Daddy Love (Americana) Feed and Seed

Straightaway Cafe

Ian Harrod (Americana) The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Frank Beeson (blues, Americana) Town Pump

Allen Thompson & Don Gallardo (Americana, country, folk) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Ruby Mayfield & friends (blues, rock) Vincenzo’s Bistro

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Director: Mike Leigh (Topsy-Turvy) Players: Jim Broadbent, Lesley Manville, Ruth Sheen, Oliver Maltman, Peter Wight, David Bradley Drama-Comedy Rated PG-13

Carmike Cinema 10 (298-4452) n

The Story A year in the lives of an aging, but devoted, middle class British couple and their circle of friends.

The Lowdown: Penetrating character study on the nature of happiness, marked by fine performances and a deep sense of compassion and humanity.

Definitely not destined to be called one of the feel-good movies of the year, Mike Leigh’s slice-of-middle-class-British-life character drama Another Year is a penetrating study of happiness, the search for happiness, and the impossibility of happiness for some.

It was made in Leigh’s unique fashion, which is to say that he started out with a premise and characters, discussed what he wanted with his actors, and sent them off to develop their characters on their own. After that, he took what they’d come up with and crafted the screenplay. The results have the realism of improvisation without the drearily uninteresting, unfocused dialogue that marks most such movies. And the results in this case are deeply compassionate — even for characters who may not “deserve” that compassion.

The film follows a year — divided into four seasons — in the life of Tom (Jim Broadbent) and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a slightly past-middle-aged, seemingly content, slightly above middle class couple. Both are employed. Tom is a geological engineer and Gerri works as psychologist for the National Health. In fact the film opens with a vignette of Gerri trying to counsel a catastrophically depressed patient, Janet (a cameo for Imelda Staunton), who rates herself one on one-to-10 scale.

When asked what would improve her life,

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Jim Broadbent and Ruth Sheen as the “happy” couple in Mike Leigh’s penetrating character study Another Year. she responds almost inaudibly by saying, “Another life.” In a sense, this is the key scene in the film, because the film is about that elusive thing called happiness. In the context of the film, Tom and Gerri are at least near the top of the scale, while Janet has reached the very bottom. Most of the characters we meet are somewhere inbetween, edging toward one end or the other.

Tom and Gerri are the connecting threads for the other characters, most of whom seem drawn to them because of their happiness.

Tom and Gerri have a pleasant home. They garden together at a community garden. They work at their careers. They cook for their friends and always seem to be there for them in a nonjudgmental manner. If they are a little pleased with themselves and the apparent happiness they’ve achieved, they don’t show it — nor do they let any sense of exasperation they feel toward their friends show. The most consistently difficult of these is Gerri’s coworker Mary (Lesley Manville), whose situation provides the film with its dramatic arc.

We first meet Mary at work and tag along as she and Gerri go out for a drink. Mary is someone who describes herself — with unconscious irony — as someone who sees the glass half-full. It quickly becomes apparent that she’s so desperately obsessed with finding that other half that she’s constantly draining glasses and bottles of wine. All the while, she’s pretending to be have a good time, plotting her schemes for attaining happiness — and becoming a public embarrassment in the bargain. She drinks too much, talks too loudly, stays too long, and has an alarming tendency to think that men who

aren’t interested in her are. This even extends to Tom and Gerri’s 30-ish son, Joe (Oliver Maltman). Mary may be a few years younger than his parents, but she pretends she’s much younger and acts (she thinks) accordingly.

Tom and Gerri never quite complain — even to each other — about Mary, even when she passes out and has to sleep over, or shows up in a confused, drunken state on their doorstep. They mostly adopt a “What can you do?” attitude or make nonspecific comments between themselves about how “It’s too bad about Mary.” In a way, they’re passive enablers of her actions. Then again, without them it’s unclear what Mary has. Attempts to have her socialize with their other friends aren’t major successes. The one who shows an interest in her is hardly a catch, but then neither is she. All the same, she responds to his advances with outrage. And so it goes, but that’s how it’s bound to be in a movie like this, which is, as the title says, simply Another Year.

Nothing earthshaking is going to happen.

This isn’t a movie about plot, but about characters and small (to us, at least) daily dramas.

It can almost be said both nothing and everything happens within its confines, especially since the self-deluded Mary appears to be possibly on the verge of opening up to the most taciturn character in the film at the very end, but that possible story would be for yet another year. Rated PG-13 for some language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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No times available The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader 2D (PG) The Fighter (R) The Green Hornet 2D (PG-13) Little Fockers (PG-13) The Mechanic (R) No Strings Attached (R) The Roommate (PG-13) Sanctum 3D (R) Sanctum 2D (R) Season of the Witch (PG-13) Tangled 2D (PG) Yogi Bear 2D (PG)

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127 Hours (R) 2:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15 (Sofa Cinema) Another Year (PG-13) 12:15, 3:05, 7:35, 10:20 Biutiful (R) 12:05, 3:10, 7:00, 10:05 Black Swan (R) 11:45, 2:15, 4:40, 7:20, 9:45 Blue Valentine (R) 11:50, 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 The Dilemma (PG-13) 11:35, (Sofa Cinema) The Fighter (R) 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00 (Sofa Cinema) The Green Hornet 2D (PG-13) 12:00, 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20 The King’s Speech (R) 11:45, 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 The Mechanic (R) 12:10, 2:30, 4:45, 7:45, 10:05 (Sofa Cinema) No Strings Attached (R) 11:40, 2:20, 4:45, 7:25, 9:50 The Rite (PG-13) 11:55, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20 Sanctum 3D (R) 12:20, 2:50, 5:15, 7:55, 10:25 True Grit (PG-13) 11:30, 2:05, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55

The Way Back (PG-13) 12:20, 3:30, 7:10, 10:05

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Burlesque (PG-13) 1:10 (Fri-Sun), 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 (Fri-Sun) Due Date (R) 1:20 (Fri-Sun), 4:20, 7:30, 10:00 (Fri-Sun) Fair Game (PG-13) 1:00 (Fri-Sun), 4:00, 7:20, 10:05 (Fri-Sun) Get Low (PG-13) 1:30 (Fri-Sun), 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 (Fri-Sun) The Social Network (PG-13) 1:15 (Fri-Sun), 4:15, 7:15, 10:10 (Fri-Sun) n Co-ed Cinema Brevard (883-2200)

The King’s Speech (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 n Epic of Hendersonville (693-1146)

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Blue Valentine (R) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:30 The King’s Speech (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 (no 7:20 show on Thu. Feb. 10)

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True Grit (PG-13) 1:00 (Sun), 4:00, 7:00 n Regal Biltmore Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) n United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)

Black Swan (R) 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:05 The Dilemma (PG-13) 1:40, 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 Gulliver’s Travels 3D (PG) 2:00, 4:45, 7:50, 10:00 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (PG-13) 1:00, 4:15, 8:00 The Rite (PG-13) 1:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 TRON: Legacy 3D (PG) 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50 True Grit (PG-13) 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45

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Anthony Hopkins, Colin Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones, Rutger Hauer Horror The Story A young seminary student gets a lesson in faith from a stint in exorcism school. A good cast canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t save a tepid exorcist yarn and a weak leading man from being possessed by a case of humdrummery. Rated PG-13

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Lena Dunham, Laurie Simmons, Grace Dunham, Jemima Kirke, David Call Comedy A college grad heads home from Ohio to Manhattan and tries to acclimate herself to adult life. An occasionally funny, vaguely astute pseudo-comingof-age tale that suffers from a meandering plot and static direction. Rated NR

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Jeff Bridges, Hailee Steinfeld, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin, Barry Pepper Western/Drama A young girl, a drunken U.S. Marshal and a self-satisfied Texas Ranger pursue the murderer of the girlâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s father into Indian Territory. A stunner of an entertaining movie from the Coen Brothersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;one of their best and one of the best films of the year. Rated PG-13

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Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell, Saoirse Ronan, Mark Strong Adventure Drama Survival tale of a group of men who escape from a Soviet labor camp in Siberia during the early years of WWII and attempt to make their way to freedomâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;4,000 miles away. Easily the best film to hit town since the big Christmas releases and a return to something like greatness for filmmaker Peter Weir, this is a strongly compelling work about the human spirit. Rated PG-13

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Director: John Ford Players: Margaret Mann, James Hall, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr., George Meeker, June Collyer Drama Rated NR Four Sons (1928), a late silent film from John Ford, clearly shows a heavy influence of the work of F.W. Murnau and Frank Borzage, who were at the time realizing William Fox’s dream of film as a true art form. The general tendency is to merely cite Murnau, but as we now know Murnau and Fox fed off each other’s ideas during this period — stylistically, if not necessarily thematically — so it’s unfair to lay it all on Murnau.

It’s certainly Murnau’s city set from Sunrise (1927) that shows up here, and there’s little doubt that the postman (Albert Gran) is a manifestation of Murnau’s German star Emil Jannings from The Last Laugh (1924). This is Ford at his most visually baroque. The content, however — a German mother (Margaret Mann) and her four sons (James Hall, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr., George Meeker), three of whom stay and fight for the Kaiser during WWI, one who emigrates to America — is pure Ford at his honest sentimental best. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show Four Sons at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 6, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas), 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

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Director: Jean-Luc Godard Players: Anna Karina, Saddy Robbot, Andre S. Labarthe, G. Schlumberger Drama Rated NR Jean-Luc Godard’s fourth film Vivre Sa Vie (1962) may ultimately — or inevitably — recall his debut film Breathless (1960) by veering off into a crime drama, but it’s generally a very different sort of work, one that illustrates the filmmaker’s efforts to expand the language of film, to shape it into something new. It’s also a film that wants the viewer to be wholly conscious of the presence of the camera, to realize that you are watching a movie. Of course, it may be said that Godard had been doing that from the beginning by shooting and editing Breathless in a style that drew attention to itself. But here — in this story of a woman’s (Godard’s then-wife Anna Karina) descent into prostitution — the ante has been upped, not only by the presence of a camera that seems to be taking in its surroundings for their own sake, but by breaking the film up into 12 tableaux or chapters, each introduced by a title. The effect is distancing, yes, but against the odds, the cumulative impact is anything but. Perhaps that was the real experiment all along. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Vivre Sa Vie at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 4, at Phil Mechanic Studios (109 Roberts St., River Arts District, upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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Director: Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Babel) Players: Javier Bardem, Marciel Alvarez, Hanaa Bouchaib, Guillermo Estrell, Eduard Fernandez, Diaryatou Daff Drama

Rated R

The Story Grim study of a dying man in search of redemption — and a secure future for the children he’s going to leave behind.

The Lowdown: Part realistic grit, part mystical wondering, and all unrelentingly downbeat, yet it’s hard to ignore the quality of the filmmaking and impossible to ignore the power of Javier Bardem’s performance.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu may have abandoned the fractured narrative approach of Amores Perros (2000), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006), and he may have split with the writer of that trio, Guillermo Arriaga, but this doesn’t keep his latest, Biutiful, from being nearly two-and-a-half hours of the kind of grim hard luck that only Inarritu can provide.

I can’t fault the film — except for being too long and excessive in its ugliness — as filmmaking. I certainly can’t deny that star Javier Bardem gives a brave performance that elevates the film several notches. But I can fairly say that this is probably the most depressing movie you’re likely to see all year. You really ought to know that going in.

Bardem plays Uxbal, a low-rent scammer from the seediest side of Barcelona (the city is shot to look as ugly as possible). Uxbal has problems — and that’s putting it mildly. He has a more-or-less estranged bi-polar wife (Marciel Alvarez), and two children to support in a crummy apartment. He scrapes together what passes for a living through a scheme involving fake designer goods that are actually manufactured by illegal aliens in a sweatshop. (The guilt he feels about the workers drives much of the film.) To augment this dodgy income, he occasionally exploits his ability to commune with the recently dead — at least if they have some kind of message to pass on to a loved one. Life is not a bed of roses, but it gets worse when he finds out he has terminal cancer. His problem then becomes how to amass the money to take care of his children, find some measure of redemption for his transgressions, and deal with his deteriorating health. Oh, yeah, he’s none too fond of himself either. It doesn’t get any more Les Bas-fonds than this.

The world envisioned by Inarritu is an inhospitable, ugly place where even a bid for redemption is probably going to end badly.

This is first indicated when a dead person wants expiation for some minor sin, the revelation of which is met with disbelief and anger. The idea plays out large when Uxbal tries to do something good for the sweatshop workers and only succeeds in creating massive tragedy through his good work. Why this should be, Inarritu doesn’t say, making it a kind of “when bad things happen to good

people” yarn minus bromide payoff. In itself, that’s OK. For that matter, Uxbal isn’t really a good man. He’s more a bad man with a sense of guilt. Perhaps this is why redemption is seemingly out of reach? Or is it? The opening and closing scenes that bracket the film suggest otherwise.

What holds the film together more than anything is Bardem. He plays Uxbal with energy in a performance with a willingness to undergo any manner of degradation to make the point. It’s brave, unglamorous and powerful, and it makes the film worthwhile. It is Bardem who makes Uxbal’s burden palpable — almost to the point that the film at least seems profound, though I’m unsure it actually is.

The thing is that Inarritu is a remarkable filmmaker, but he’s also a remarkable filmmaker who doesn’t seem to know when too much is too much. Things can’t just be bad.

They have to be really bad, and he insists on examining every unpleasantness he can dream up. Technically, the man is a master at what he does. Each of his films — including this one — has been filled with great moments.

Each has fallen a little shy of what it could have been through joyless overkill. He strains so hard for seriousness that he undermines himself by overshooting his own greatness.

One day Inarritu may produce a masterpiece.

For now, he’s given us another film where the whole doesn’t equal the individual parts. But there’s no denying the mastery in those parts.

Rated R for disturbing images, language, some sexual content, nudity and drug use. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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Director: Simon West (When a Stranger Calls) Players: Jason Statham, Ben Foster, Donald Sutherland, Tony Goldwyn Action

Rated R

The Story: A hitman begins training the son of his best friend.

The Lowdown: Your standard actioner that’s fine while onscreen, but is ultimately pointless and never as clever as it thinks it is.

You want me to like your action movie?

Here’s what you do: Be fun, don’t be afraid to be a bit goofy, please revel in absurdity (it’s one of the few genres where you can get away with it), and — for the love of all that is cinematic — do not take yourself too seriously. You can break most of those rules, have a few inanimate objects blow up here and there, and there’s still a good chance I’ll get something out of your dumb action movie. Just don’t get all pompous and pretend you’re making high art, because that’s the quickest route to boredom, the cardinal sin of movies.

Simon West’s The Mechanic commits that last unforgivable offense. Which is a pity, since it stars Jason Statham, a man who — after two Crank films, three Transporter flicks and a glut of other junk — is the prime action hero working today who’s not afraid to make ridiculous

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filmsociety The Brood JJJJ

Director: David Cronenberg Players: Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle, Henry Beckman, Nuala Firzgerald, Cindy Hinds Horror Rated R The Brood (1979) may reasonably be considered the first of David Cronenberg’s mature films.

It’s undeniably the first that afforded him the presence of two actual stars — Oliver Reed and Samantha Eggar. It’s also the first that is clearly about more than it seems, which only serves to make its excursions into Cronenbergian “body horror” even more horrific. The premise has disturbed wife and mother Nola Carveth (Eggar) undergoing a series of experimental treatments at a controversial, unorthodox center run by Dr. Hal Raglan. Raglan’s approach is to externalize — quite literally — the patients’ problems and anger. The question is whether he mightn’t be succeeding too well. The bulk of the film’s mayhem comes from murderous small creatures in hooded Dr. Denton’s who aren’t children — or even human — yet resemble nothing else. That sounds amusing, but it doesn’t play that way. More disturbing, though, is the fact that, underneath, the film is about child abuse. The levels in which it deals with the topic are varied — ranging from the fantasticated (the idea of the rage of an abused child literally manifesting itself) to the disturbingly suggestive (that the pattern will continue from generation to generation). Few horror films have ever dared to explore such territory. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Brood Thursday, Feb. 3, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of the Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther.

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Director: Charles Laughton Players: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Sally Jane Bruce Drama Thriller Rated NR From my 2009 review: Being somewhat resistant to 1950s movies, I put off seeing Charles Laughton’s only directorial effort, Night of the Hunter (1955), for years. Then one evening I bumped into it by chance and thought I’d at least watch the beginning of it. From the moment I saw Lillian Gish superimposed over a night sky like the floating princess in David Lynch’s Dune, I knew this was not your standard 1950s movie. It’s actually not a whole lot like any movie from any time. While it borrows heavily from the best of silent-film technique — in an attempt to make it seem like a film from an earlier time, rather than just being about an earlier time — it’s certainly not limited to that style. It seems like a film from a much later era, while also seeming like an earlier one, and not just because some of the sexual symbolism is surprising for its time. In terms of cinematography alone (Laughton’s vision is accomplished

by Stanley Cortez), the film is absolutely breathtaking. It’s that look — the stylized beauty of its black-and-white imagery — which gives the film much of its haunting quality.

To read the full review go to: http://www.mountainx.com/movies/review/night_of_the_ hunter reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen The Night of the Hunter Tuesday, Feb. 8, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of the Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther. Hanke is the artistic director of the Asheville Film Society.

— yet entertaining — garbage. The biggest problem with this film is that it’s a remake of a 1972 Michael Winner film of the same name starring Charles Bronson, and the updated film acts like it must treat its predecessor with some sort of reverence, even if all this accomplishes is to create a movie with all the personality and freshness sucked from it. This includes Statham, who has long managed to make a career in these sort of meatheaded action roles, all while showing some acting chops and remaining personable. But this time out, he’s channeling Bronson’s wooden, tough-guy persona, and film wilts under this stone-faced demeanor.

The Mechanic starts off promisingly enough, getting the basics of the original down without being an exact transcription. Statham plays Arthur Bishop, a humorless loner of a hitman who calls himself a “mechanic” since he’s in the business of fixing problems, with a specialty in complicated hits that look like accidents.

After getting hired to knock-off his long-time friend and boss Harry (Donald Sutherland), he decides — out of either loyalty or guilt — to train Harry’s son Steve (Ben Foster, Pandorum) in the ways of being a hitman.

The story then focuses on even-keeled Arthur teaching hotheaded Steve the ropes.

The movie clearly wants to be about the relationship between the two men, but it’s never fleshed out properly. We just have just hints here and there at something more. We’re told that Arthur is a lonely man, his only interpersonal connection being with a prostitute (Mimi Anden, My Best Friend’s Girl), and we’re shown that Steve obviously has daddy issues.

It’s not like there weren’t opportunities in the script to examine the two mens’ connection.

For instance, there are a few scenes where Steve seduces a male hitman in an attempt to kill him, yet despite all the subtext that could have been drawn out of this, none is. Instead, the relationship between Arthur and Steve just flounders aimlessly as we shift from one shaky-cam action scene to another.

None of this is helped by the film’s perfunctory twist ending, which — without getting into spoilers — completely undermines everything we’ve sat through. This itself is an issue, since this ending feels like nothing more than the idea that if Bronson’s Mechanic had a twist ending, this needs one, too. It’s a balancing act between a remake that wants to be its own movie and one that can’t get away from the original. It never has the wherewithal to distance itself from its source, and the result is an action flick with no identity whatsoever. Rated R for strong brutal violence throughout, language, some sexual content and nudity. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

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Director: Mikael Hafstrom (1408) Players: Anthony Hopkins, Colin O’Donoghue, Alice Braga, Ciaran Hinds, Toby Jones, Rutger Hauer Horror

Rated PG-13

The Story A young seminary student gets a lesson in faith from a stint in exorcism school.

The Lowdown: A good cast can’t save a tepid exorcist yarn and a weak leading man from being possessed by a case of humdrummery.

No, it’s not good, and, no, I’m not recommending The Rite, but I can’t bring myself to actually dislike a movie that includes Satan’s mule. Now, had it been a talking mule, I might have been persuaded to recommend the film.

But since the death of Chill Wills, I guess mule voice actors have become scarce, so they opted for a silent approach. Granted, this is a very serious mule — especially with his CGI glowing-red eyes — but it’s not enough. And it’s a real downer when the film’s not-all-that-big climax climaxes before the beast in question kicks down the door to lend the demon a hoof.

All this probably gives you a fair indication of the sort of movie we’re dealing with here.

The movie gives Anthony Hopkins top billing as cantankerous old exorcist Father Lucas Trevant, but the real star is Irish TV actor Colin O’Donoghue as Michael Novak, a seminary student with faith issues. Unfortunately, the two are an uneven match. While Hopkins

is having a lot of fun chewing the scenery (to prove it, he pukes up nails at one point), O’Donoghue has about one more expression than the mule — and his eyes don’t glow, so it’s a wash. It doesn’t help our lead that he’s also up against Ciaran Hinds, Alice Braga, Toby Jones, and Rutger Hauer.

Anyhow, the situation is Religious Horror 101, or Exorcist Lite, if you prefer. You see, young Kovak — in order to get out of the family mortuary biz (when your father is Rutger Hauer, such a trade is perhaps expected) — has opted to take advantage of a free education into the priesthood from the Jesuits. His plan is to bail on them before taking his vows, but after getting his degree, of course. Ah, but wily old Father Matthew (Toby Jones) blackmails Michael into going to exorcist school in Rome by threatening to convert his free education into $100,000 worth of student loans.

Seems there’s a great need for exorcists these days and Fr. Matthew thinks Michael has what it takes — even though the lad doesn’t believe in demonic possession.

Well, since Fr. Matthew’s old seminary buddy Fr. Xavier (Ciaran Hinds) isn’t getting very far with Michael, he sends him to the craftiest old exorcist of them all, Fr. Lucas, to cure his unbelief. Fr. Lucas is, of course, what you call, unorthodox, which means it’s a showy role tailored for a showy actor. The old eccentric is curmudgeonly and matter of fact (“What did you expect? Spinning heads and pea soup?”), but he’s a handy man with the holy water — even if he doesn’t bother turning off his cell phone during exorcisms. He’s also just the man to cure Michael’s disbelief, of course, but it takes good deal of unfortunately not-very-impressive demon stuff — including Satan’s mule — before Michael turns all Bert Lahr and confesses, “I do believe in spooks. I do, I do, I do.”

The fact is that there’s nothing all that wrong with The Rite. It’s simply that it’s, well, just sort of there. Apart from the mule, there’s nothing here that you haven’t seen done before and that you haven’t seen done better. It all has that recycled feel to it — the kind that gives you the sense that you almost must be watching a movie you’ve seen before.

The biggest problem, I think, is that it it takes itself too seriously and thinks the audience is going to take it seriously, too. I guess if you already buy into the whole exorcism idea that might be barely possible, but it otherwise isn’t all that persuasive. That its biggest scene falls with a dull thud — possibly in the name of “realism” — pretty much cooks its goose. The additional fact that the scene is a weak-tea rehash of the finale of The Exorcist III (1990) only proves — if proof were needed — that Colin Donoghue is no George C. Scott. There are worse ways to kill an evening of moviegoing, sure, but there are better ones, too. Rated PG-13 for disturbing thematic material, violence, frightening images, and language including sexual references. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

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Homes For Rent 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 68 Wild Cherry. Carport, W/D hookups. $635/month.

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3BR, 2BA • Fletcher, 607 Woodberry, $1020. Garage, Fenced Yard.

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NEW HOUSE • 3BR/2BA, 1440 sq.ft. Heat pump, stainless appliances, large closets, quiet street. 221 Old Home Rd, Woodfin.

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WEST 2BR, 1BA • Hardwood floors, heat pump. $650/month. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.

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FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC, Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals and Qualified Professionals in Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified Professionals. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • www.familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources @familiestogether.net

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