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news 10 askville Meet new Buncombe GOP chair Henry Mitchell

16 head to head How Asheville’s salary scale compares with other cities

18 the beat Activist Claire Hanrahan saves the pear trees (for now)

arts&entertainment 60 a dizzying odyssey

Playwright John Crutchfield premiers The Labyrinth

61 rhyme and reason

Xpress’ inaugural poetry event and Asheville’s evolving poetry scene

63 widespread panic gives back with josh stack How an Ashevillean helped start the band’s charity food drives

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letters May 1 is big enough for multiple holidays I feel compelled to point out the hypocrisy in the recent letter “Green Capitalism Still Sucks” [March 30 Xpress]. The reader decried the Asheville Grown Business Alliance for co-opting a “120-year-old anti-capitalist holiday” with its May 1 Big Love Fest downtown. I would be remiss not to point out that the celebration of a May 1 holiday is a tradition in many cultures dating back many centuries, not a mere 120 years. Thus, if the AGBA is guilty of co-opting someone else’s holiday, then so too are the “anti-capitalists.” I’d offer the egalitarian notion that every day belongs to everyone, to celebrate whatever they wish — International Workers’ Day and Big Love Fest alike. To suggest otherwise is downright silly. If one wishes to condemn the excesses of capitalism, there must surely be better examples than this, and better targets than local businesspeople. — Ben Tacker Asheville

Wait, wait ... please tell me why I should support NPR Allow me to respond to Mr. Flaxman’s recent letter bemoaning the proposed legislation in Congress to delete funding for public broadcasting, and urging folks to contribute to WCQS and UNC-TV [“Don’t Let Public Media

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Go to Static,” March 23 Xpress]. I contribute to UNC-TV because the News Hour with Jim Lehrer is “fair and balanced,” with all sides of an issue represented. Not so with National Public Radio. Not only [is the coverage selective], but those speaking on a particular issue also [demonstrate] a liberal bias. What is truly bothersome are the so-called “comedy” shows whose hosts and guests continually make wisecracks of a deprecating nature about conservatives (both collectively and individually) and Republicans (collectively and individually), all the time giving a free pass to liberals and Democrats. As an unaffiliated voter with a conservative bent, I resent it, and find it in poor taste that tax dollars are being used to make fun of what often is my point of view. I refer specifically to Peter Sagal’s Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me; Michael Feldman’s Whad’Ya Know; and Garrison Keillor’s Prairie Home Companion. Why should I be expected to contribute to a station broadcasting such programs? I complained to the general manager of WCQS about these programs, and his only reply was that he had no control over them, and that I should complain directly to the originating station. Not very supportive, I must say. However, if enough managers of local stations complain about the uneven nature of the “comedy” being broadcasted, I’ll bet some changes would occur. — Bob Youngerman Brevard

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Let’s end the abortion argument I was actually a little incredulous that Mountain Xpress published Diana Ronald-Szabo’s letter, which beat the old “abortion is murder” drum [“Call Abortion What It Is: Murder,” March 9]. I was further surprised to see Erika Harrison’s response in print [“Appreciate Those Who Protect the Right to Choose,” March 23 Xpress]. Neither the most Catholic pro-lifer nor atheist pro-choice advocate wants an abortion! The issue here is: What are we women doing wrong that results in 1.25 million cases of unwanted pregnancy termination per year in the U.S. alone? We do know what causes pregnancy, don’t we? While I concede that both a male and female are required and responsible for every pregnancy, it is ultimately the woman’s decision whether to conceive, at least as long as rape is illegal. We know if we’re fertile, we know if we’re protected and we overwhelmingly have more self-control than men when it comes to the decision to copulate. There is an embarrassing amount of female stupidity and irresponsibility demonstrated by the high number of abortions in this country. It’s obvious that we’re using it as retroactive birth control. My sisters, that’s dumb. You can be sure that if it were men’s bodies that were to be burdened, even ravaged by pregnancy and delivery or abortion, there would be mandatory birth-control stations in every high school and place of employment. I think we can tackle this personal women’s issue without government or clerical intervention. Regardless of legal or religious rules, the “choice” to become pregnant is ours. This gives every woman the power to incrementally guide the genetic future of mankind. This power carries the enormous responsibility to create or not create another human life. It’s not a casual undertaking. Somewhere on the spectrum between taking a chastity vow and freebasing clomiphene, every woman can surely find her conception comfort zone, and eliminate the argument for or against abortion altogether. See? Problem solved! Now we can use abortion clinics to treat cancer, and pro-life picket signs for kindling fires to warm the homeless. — Mary Quinn Asheville

Step right up — defend the rights of animals I find myself very confused by a huge contradiction in our city. We in the Asheville area see ourselves as forward-thinking, yet we continue to allow the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus to come and perform in our city. Ringling Bros. has been cited almost continu-

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For other Molton cartoons, check out our Web page at www.mountainx.com/cartoons ously by the USDA for numerous acts of animal cruelty. They have ex-trainers who have gone on record with PETA concerning the cruelty involved in training the elephants. Animals are left in their cages (which have been cited by the USDA for being too small) for between 26 and 100 hours at a time. After all of this, we not only allow them to come perform, but we buy tickets and support this company. Is it too much to ask that we extend the kindness our city is known for to these defenseless animals? — Max McDaniel Asheville

A hardworking man is having a hard time My husband, Don, and I have been married since 1967. We have two children and four grandchildren. Don has been sick with multiple chemical sensitivities since 1988. He is now in the extreme stages of this illness. Let me tell you how it all began. He was an apprentice painter before he worked in pest control for two years, using horrible chemicals and poisons, which he handled and inhaled. He then went back into painting full time for about 24 years. To top it off, he became a volunteer firefighter in Florida for 10 years along with being a painting contractor. We now live in the Smoky Mountains in North Carolina. It is easy to understand how, being in all these toxic, life-risking professions, he has come down with MCS. He has been diagnosed with toxic inhalation syndrome, chemical bronchitis and MCS. He loved to help at the fire department; he spent many hours at the station. He would come home exhausted in the middle of the night after a rescue or fire call. He was getting bad headaches even then. One day, in 1988, he was with a fellow fireman, fighting a fire in Florida. There was an accident and his respirator mask

malfunctioned. He inhaled burning plastics and toxic smoke. Right after the accident, the fire department turned their back on him like it didn’t happen. The chief told the men not to even talk to him. The department’s liability insurance person said, “No problem, Mr. Holliday; we will take care of you.” But they didn’t follow through. So we had to get a lawyer. It went to court, but Don didn’t want to hurt the department financially. Because we could not foresee the future, we signed off the lawsuit for one month of lost wages and our doctor bills. His symptoms when he gets an allergic reaction are: a headache that stays for days; chest pains; shortness of breath; anxiety; nausea; diarrhea; blurred vision; rash; and depression. The ongoing lifestyle and isolation has really taken a toll on him and us. He is having trouble coping with it all. He said he could cope somehow if he just had a suitable, comfortable place to lay his head down at night to feel safe from it all. Somewhere, someone, somehow may have an answer to our problems. Please help us, research for us. Please respond to my letter. — Arleen Holliday Weaverville

Save the Concerts on the Quad UNC-Asheville cannot afford to put on its Concerts on the Quad series this summer. My group is trying to save this tradition. For 20 years, people have been bringing their families, pets and a picnic to enjoy these concerts; more than 1,000 [would typically attend]. At this time we need $12,500 for four concerts or, ideally, $20,000 for six concerts. We already have funds coming in from people wanting to see the concerts continue. To learn more about how you can support this series, please email me at bernieshulimson@ charter.net. — Bernie Shulimson Arden

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commentary One on one with D.G. Martin An ardent spirit

by D.G. Martin Reynolds Price wouldn’t like what the 2010 census reveals about North Carolina. The great writer and Duke professor, who died in January, had a thing about our state’s small towns. His last book, Ardent Spirits, was a memoir about his time as a Rhodes scholar in England and his early years teaching at Duke. But even far removed from his childhood in Macon, a town in rural Warren County, Price reached back there to help define who he was and to give him the setting for his first and bestknown novel, A Long and Happy Life, published in 1962. The new census numbers show that North Carolina’s urban counties are eating up the surrounding rural areas. The formerly rural Union County has traded its small-town character for intense suburban development that makes it indistinguishable from adjoining Mecklenburg. Much of Johnston County now looks like the Wake County suburbs of Raleigh. Price got me thinking about the importance of small towns back in 1989, when he gave a talk about the key role memories play in good writing. Memories develop alongside the connections of extended families and stable communities. To drive his point home, Price said, “That couldn’t happen if you moved every three years.” Here’s what I wrote in response: Our memories are our treasures; they are who we are. Looking backward, some of us see our parents, brothers, sisters, grandparents, cousins, longtime friends, teachers, preachers and the places where we knew them: home, church, school, stores and fields. Those people and places where we grew up define us. They’re our anchors, our foundations, our

The new census numbers show that North Carolina’s urban counties are eating up the surrounding rural areas. roots. At least they are if we retain those memories — if we remember where we grew up. But sadly, fewer and fewer of us know where we’re from. The average American now moves every three years. You can’t let your roots grow too deep on that kind of timeline. If you’re continually relocating to new neighborhoods where everybody else is also newly arrived, said Price, you’re not going to have the same kind of memories as people who grew up in one stable place with a history. Does it make a difference? I think it does. I can’t prove it, but look around at the people who are making a difference in North Carolina — our best business and political leaders, our premier teachers and writers. Don’t a disproportionate number of them come from small towns and farms? What explains these areas’ success in developing leaders for the rest of us? Some big-city snobs would say these exceptional individuals have had to overcome their culturally deprived backgrounds. Look at the small towns, they say: nothing happening. Backward schools, no theaters, no big libraries, no bigtime sports. Nothing there? Nothing except the stable nurturing that creates the kind of self-defining memories Price talked about.

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by Jake Frankel Longtime party activist Henry Mitchell narrowly edged out Chris Eck to succeed Chad Nesbitt as Buncombe County GOP chair. The president of the Oakley Neighborhood Association, Mitchell’s been a substitute teacher at A.C. Reynolds High School for the last 10 years. He previously worked as a horticulturist, salesman and as resource development director for Quality Forward. The native Ashevillean says party leaders, impressed by his 2010 campaign for the Buncombe County School Board, encouraged him to seek the chairmanship. Despite losing the 2010 race, Mitchell says he learned things he’ll use to help other GOP candidates. But with Buncombe’s registered Democrats outnumbering Republicans nearly two to one, he faces a tough challenge. Xpress spoke with Mitchell about his goals and more. Mountain Xpress: What draws you to the Republican Party? What issues are most important to you?

Let’s get this Party started: Henry Mitchell says that his first step as chair of the Buncombe GOP will be to try to draw the old guard back into the fold. photo by Jonathan Welch

Henry Mitchell: I think the Republican principles: standing strong on core social values, lower taxes, less government and more individual freedom and equal rights and equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of sex or age or disability. Free enterprise, encouraging individual initiative; for government to be more efficient. Your opponent, Chris Eck, was very outspoken about wanting to get what he called the more “divisiveâ€? social issues out of the forefront to help attract conservative Democrats and independents to the party. Where do you stand on that? I don’t totally agree with him. I think sometimes they push that issue too much. But if a social issue comes up, or is questioned, I think we need to make sure we stand firm on our values. ... Candidates need to make [it clear] where they stand on social issues. And as long as they’re along party principles and our platform, we’ll definitely back them on it. How will you be different than your predecessor, Chad Nesbitt? I like Chad personally, and I think he’s ... done a good job being a voice for the Republicans. ‌ I might be more of a behind-the-scenes type of guy

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than out in the forefront all the time. I don’t mind doing interviews ... but my primary responsibility is to help build the Republican Party in Buncombe County and try to change [local] elections. You’ve mentioned that there are splinters in the party. What are the biggest divisions right now? Probably losing the old guard, people that have been involved for years just getting aggravated and frustrated with the leadership we’ve had. ‌ Those are the ones I want to reach out to and bring back. ‌ There’s been a lot of just silly stuff going on. I’m not going to get in the middle of it. ‌ I can work with all of them. You’ve emphasized reaching out to the younger generation. Why is that important, and how will you do it? That’s the future of the party and the future of the country. ... There’s conservative young people out there. They might not be as conservative when they’re young as they might be when they’re older, but I think that as long as we stress our principles and show them ... we’re for lower taxes and less government and more individual freedom, then we can attract young people. ‌ I’d like to regenerate the Young Republicans Club, because it hasn’t been active the last few years.


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How will you raise money? Your predecessor tried some new appproaches, such as a telethon and the controversial rappelling fundraiser on the anniversary of 9/11. But they didn’t raise much money. The first thing we’re going to do is form a finance committee, which they didn’t have in the past. … A lot of it’s getting organized and reaching out to folks who’ve helped us in the past. I don’t have a problem asking for it; we need to look at some creative ideas ... maybe do some fun events. … One of the first things I’d like to do is send out a letter to all the Republicans in Buncombe County and some of the conservative Democrats, informing them of the change in party leadership and giving them our game plan and vision; maybe give them

a pledge card and see what kind of response we get. Do you have a game plan for this year’s City Council races? We’re working on that. … We’ve got our first executive meeting coming up, and that’s going to be a topic of discussion — trying to come up with some good candidates. Do you think a Republican candidate could get elected to City Council? It’s going to be real tough. That’s why we need to make sure we’re going to have the right kind of person running. So I don’t know; that’s a good question.

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In November, voters will face a referendum on a quarter-cent sales-tax increase that would go to A-B Tech. Where do you stand on that? I don’t totally agree with that. I think the taxpayers already support A-B Tech through our tax dollars. … I fully support A-B Tech. … My son attends A-B Tech, and I’ve taken some classes there. … But we’re taxed enough. Maybe we need to look into some alternative funding. What about Rep. Tim Moffitt’s proposal for district elections in Buncombe County? I think that’s a great idea. … And I think we also need to look at making the school board [elections] by district. We need to make sure we’re providing equal and fair representation

to all the taxpayers and residents in the county. They all deserve better representation from our local officials. Critics say Moffitt’s proposal is just a way to get more Republicans on the board of commissioners. What’s your response? I don’t agree with that. The Democrats have controlled that board for years. ... You could very well get a Democrat elected out of the districts, the same as you could a Republican. It just depends on who comes forward and who runs. X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.


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Infrastructure concerns dominate south Asheville community meeting march 30 meeting aResidents call for more sidewalks aLack of population growth impacts city’s budget

by David Forbes Even though Asheville City Council members occupied a lofty position for their March 29 community meeting — onstage in the T.C. Roberson High School theater — the gathering had a downright intimate feel. About 15 residents showed up, most of them well-versed in city issues, and due to the meager turnout, Mayor Terry Bellamy took questions from the floor. The nuts and bolts of city infrastructure dominated the session. Residents asked about sidewalks and widening Sweeten Creek Road — improvements they say are needed to support local businesses and make the area safer. “There are lots of businesses here people need to get to,” one woman noted. “Students

shouldn’t have to get off the bus onto the grass.” Council member Bill Russell, whose State Farm Insurance office is in the area, said he’s seen more foot traffic since sidewalks were installed during the past year. Infrastructure, he noted, remains a pressing issue for the city as a whole. “The first thing we look at is connecting these sidewalks that go to nowhere. There’s lots of them: You’re right. I’m someone who doesn’t like to spend money, but we can borrow money at a very competitive rate right now: We have an incredible bond rating,” said Russell. “The amount of money we put into bricks and mortar and roads and sidewalks, compared to other municipalities of our size, is pretty dismal. You may hear about bond referendums over the next year or two years, talking about big numbers — $50 million or $100 million — to make major capital investments.” Other Council members agreed. Calling sidewalks along Hendersonville Road “a top priority,” Vice Mayor Brownie Newman cautioned,

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“The amount of money we put into bricks and mortar and roads and sidewalks, compared to other municipalities of our size, is pretty dismal. — Council member Bill Russell

“Transportation is one of these arenas where there are all these wants and needs — and simply not enough dollars to do them all.” Bellamy pointed out that many roads are maintained and controlled by the state Department of Transportation, meaning improvements are out of the city’s hands. She encouraged audience members to also express their concerns to the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners (which, like City Council, is represented on the local transportation-planning body), and to voice support for the long-delayed Interstate 26 connector and the widening of Sweeten Creek Road. Plagued by controversy for years, the I-26 connector was recently put on hold indefinitely, the DOT announced. There is a “ray of hope,” however, noted Council member Jan Davis. In response to that announcement, he explained, local officials huddled with the state agency and wound up breaking the project into three separate segments, which would enable it to be done in stages. As a result, it has moved up from 21st to 12th on the state’s priority list. “There’s still no money there, but there is some hope; there is movement there,” said Davis. Council member Cecil Bothwell dissented, however, saying he believes building an eightlane connector is a bad idea. “Every time they’ve done a study, it shows less traffic going through there,” said Bothwell. “The difference between an eight-lane and a six-lane is tremendous. I’m optimistic that this delay and money problems will leave Asheville better off in the future, as we won’t have a big, major highway running through our city.” Earlier, Transportation Director Ken Putnam pointed out that the city has built or extended sidewalks on Hendersonville Road, Springside Road, Long Shoals Road and Linden Street in recent years, and that more sidewalks are planned for the area, particularly near the entrance to the Blue Ridge Parkway. Asheville has 165 miles of sidewalks, reported Putnam, and in 2005, the city determined that an additional 108 miles were needed to connect the existing segments. But sidewalks are expensive, he said, and in tight budget times, finding the money can be difficult.

And despite their concerns, the residents were cordial, repeatedly praising city staff. Tom Rightmyer called Asheville “the most open, most responsive community I’ve ever lived in.”

Body count

As is standard practice at community meetings, city staff gave a presentation on the city’s overall budget situation. Administrative Services Director Lauren Bradley emphasized that between 1990 and 2000, Asheville had the slowest growth among the state’s 17 cities with more than 50,000 people. During the same period, Buncombe County’s population has grown dramatically. The city also has the biggest discrepancy between its daytime and nighttime populations of any municipality in the state, with approximately 40,000 people commuting into Asheville to work. And unlike many other communities with a large tourist and commuter population, Asheville lacks special occupancy or food-and-beverage taxes to bring in extra revenue. That’s forced the city to rely on grants and partnerships to fund improvements, which has contributed to the current budget crunch. Meanwhile, in 2000, Asheville spent $916 per resident on services (including everything from trash pickup to police to mass transit), according to staff reports. Currently, that figure stands at $875. Meanwhile, added Bradley, Asheville also has the most emergency-service calls per capita of any city in the state. In order to bring those numbers down to more typical levels, said Bradley, the city’s population would need to grow by 51,000 people from its 2000 level. And though the 2010 census data hasn’t yet been fully assimilated, the newer numbers show that Asheville did add 14,000 of those people over the last decade. Noting that “There’s no silver bullet” for the city’s underlying situation, Newman said staff and Council members remain committed to doing what they can to address the community’s needs. X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 137, or at dforbes@mountainx.com.


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Head to head

How Asheville’s salary scale compares with other cities by David Forbes Tight budgets have made public officials’ salaries a sensitive issue. When the news broke in February that Buncombe County’s commissioners ranked among the highest-paid in the state, they unanimously voted themselves a pay cut. And an analysis by UNC’s School of Government found that long-running Register of Deeds Otto DeBruhl (now retired) and his unusually large staff were also among the highest-paid. But what about Asheville? To find out, Xpress compared selected salaries with those in two similarly sized Tar Heel cities: Jacksonville and Greenville. The results? Asheville’s elected officials make substantially more. And though the compensation for top staff is roughly comparable, Asheville has more department heads than those two cities, whose populations stand just below and above Asheville, respectively. Asheville pays its City Council members and mayor over 50 percent more than either Jacksonville or Greenville does. Mayor Terry Bellamy, for example, gets $24,897 a year, including a $6,195 expense allowance. That compares to $15,700 for Greenville’s mayor (including a $3,000 travel allowance), and $10,400 for Jacksonville’s (with a $200 vehicle allowance). Meanwhile, Asheville’s five City Council members each make $18,281 a year, including a $4,475 expense allowance. Their counterparts in Greenville receive $11,700 (including $3,000 for travel and a $1,200 vehicle allowance), and Jacksonville’s Council members get a flat $7,200. Supporters of higher salaries say they make it more feasible for nonwealthy people to serve as elected officials. Critics, however, often counter that it is, after all, the public’s money, and the demands of the job may not justify the level of compensation.

Fair and adequate?

After reviewing the numbers, Xpress asked Council members how many hours per week they spend on city business, and how they feel about their compensation. “Between 20 and 30 hours,” Gordon Smith reported. “Council meetings, committee meetings, constituent meetings, events, correspondence, planning, research and reading — there’s a lot that goes into being a responsible member of City Council.” He added that he believes the compensation is “adequate.” “I believe it’s difficult to quantify the hours a Council member devotes to the office, since much of it is up to the individual, and much of it is informal,” noted Cecil Bothwell, adding that he averages about 18.5 hours a week fulfilling his role. “I try to make time for anyone or any group with an issue they need to discuss, and every trip to the grocery or

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“The more I think about it, the more I am convinced you will not find a twin city ... to match Asheville’s service demands and management challenges per capita.” — City Manager Gary Jackson

hardware store can easily become a constituent meeting. Although I covered local government as a reporter in the years before I ran for office, I had no idea how much time the job actually entails.” Vice Mayor Brownie Newman said: “The amount of time spent on City Council work varies a lot from week to week. The week before last, for example, I had two whole days of City Council meetings. I probably spent about 25 hours that week. ... Other weeks are much lighter. I estimate I spend about 15 hours a week ... on average.” Newman added: “My understanding is that our Council is paid a little more than the average for cities our size. However, my sense is that the level of community involvement is a lot higher in Asheville. ... Although I have no direct data to back this up, I would guess that members of our City Council spend a level of time on their jobs that is more typical of the larger metro communities across the state.” Of the five Council members who had responded as we went to press (Esther Manheimer and Bellamy hadn’t), the highest time estimate came from Jan Davis, who said he devotes anywhere from 20 to 50 hours a week to his Council duties. “It is not possible to know the interruptions in my work day to answer emails, phone calls and drop-by visits, as I have a storefront and parking lot,” wrote Davis. “I serve on more than a dozen boards and commissions. ... I take them very seriously and attend most meetings, as well as numerous subcommittees and task forces.” “Presently, I don’t think there is a Council member doing this work for the compensation,” he concluded. “Our compensation benchmarks well with comparable-size cities.” Four respondents said their compensation is fair and adequate; Bothwell, however, said he believes future Council members (excluding anyone currently serving) should receive an additional $6,000 a year.

The upper echelon

However controversial elected officials’ salaries may be, the city spends far more money paying staff. Personnel costs are the city’s biggest budget item: $72.3 million — 53 percent of the current $136 million budget — is allocated for salaries, wages and benefits. Due to the continuing budget crunch, city person-

nel costs actually declined by $1.7 million this year, and city staffers haven’t had a raise in the last two years. Department heads in Asheville and Greenville receive roughly similar salaries (see chart, “The Money Conundrum”), but Asheville has more people in top-level posts — 16 (including the vacant chief financial officer position), compared with Greenville’s 12 and Jacksonville’s 10. The Asheville staffers also receive a vehicle allowance (ranging from $2,400 to $7,200 annually) or a take-home vehicle. Greenville relies more on take-home vehicles for top staffers, and some department heads in both Greenville and Jacksonville get neither. Of course, population size doesn’t tell the whole story. The cost of living, internal organization and political priorities vary widely among cities. Another key factor is length of service. Asheville department heads Roderick Simmons, Scott Burnette and Kelley Dickens, for example, are relatively new to their positions, meaning their salaries are still at the lower end of the scale. City Manager Gary Jackson takes issue with the whole idea of comparing Asheville with those other cities, which he says “are not nearly as dynamic, don’t have the number of calls, don’t require the number of people in the field, don’t require the level of supervision and, consequently, the level of executive management.” Not every city, he notes, has a facility like the Civic Center or water and transit systems, all of which require additional management. Jackson also points to Hickory and Rocky Mount, which have 17 and 18 department heads, respectively. “The more I think about it,” he continues, “the more I am convinced you will not find a twin city ... to match Asheville’s service demands and management challenges per capita.” As for city salaries, he says, “Our goal is to keep competent people and pay competitive wages. We have invested in doing the surveys to know if we’re competitive.” “Some cities just aspire to be a Wal-Mart city,” Jackson observes, adding, “Asheville aspires to be more.” X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 137, or at dforbes@mountainx.com.


THE MONEY CONUNDRUM This chart shows the salaries of elected officials and topechelon staff in Asheville and two other North Carolina cities with similar populations: Greenville and Jacksonville. Cities, of course, can vary drastically in such factors as cost of living, development, internal organization, policy goals and fiscal situation; we offer this information not as a scientific comparison but simply to provide some kind of context. All figures are from these cities’ current fiscal year budgets.

GREENVILLE

SALARY

VEHICLE ALLOWANCE

Mayor

$11,500

$1,200 / $3,000

Mayor Pro-Tem

$7,800

$1,200 / $3,000

Council Members

$7,500

$1,200 / $3,000

Assistant City Manager

$138,611.20

None

Director Public Works

$137,592.00

$3,600

Chief of Police

$126,152.00

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Chief of Fire/Rescue

$99,985.60

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Director Recreation & Parks

$126,713.60

$3,600

Director Financial Services

$127,545.60

$1,500

Director Information Technology

$127,483.20

None

Director Human Resources

$124,820.80

None

Director, Community Development

$117,478.40

None

City Attorney

$146,265.60

$2,400

City Manager

$167,377.60

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ASHEVILLE

SALARY

VEHICLE ALLOWANCE

Mayor Terry Bellamy

$18,792

$6,195

Vice-Mayor Brownie Newman

$15,596

$4,475

Council Members

$13,806

$4,475

Judy Daniel, Director of Planning and Development

$108,675

$4,800

Jonathan Feldman, Director of Information Technology

$112,753.36

$2,400

JACKSONVILLE

SALARY

VEHICLE ALLOWANCE

Sam Powers, Director of Economic Dev/Civic Center

$104,715.19

$2,400

Mayor

$10,200

$200.00

Bill Hogan, Chief of Police

$122,109.77

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Council member

$7,200

N/A

Roderick Simmons, Director of Parks and Rec

$95,000

$4,800

City Manager

$130,000

$500

Ken Putnam, Director of Transportation

$111,558.13

$4,850

Assistant City Manager

$117,808.35

$500

Stephen Shoaf, Director of Water Resources

$115,000

$4,800

Director Information Technology

$110,700.35

None

James Griffin, Director of Building Safety

$101,857.95

$4,800

Fire Chief

$105,541.33

None

Jeff Richardson, Assistant City Manager

$133,228.24

$6,000

Scott Burnette, Fire Chief

$96,809.70

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Police Chief

$102,600.62

None

Lauren Bradley, Director of Administrative Services

$95,000

$2,400

Public Services Director

$101,778.19

None

Cathy Ball, Director of Public Works and Enginering

$127,131.25

$4,800

Planning Development Services Director

$95,701.26

None

Kelley Dickens, Director of Human Resources

$95,000

$2,400

Recreation and Parks Director

$95.087.46

None

Gary Jackson, City Manager

$168,324

$7,200

Human Resources Director

$84,785.64

None

Bob Oast, City AttorneY

$135,000

$2,400

Community Affairs Director

$82,820.24

None

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Save the (blooming) trees? A look at what’s been making headlines Downtown Asheville was abuzz on March 29 — literally. Loud saws and other heavy equipment were used to remove several trees in the central business district, including a row of Bradford pears on Battery Park Avenue in front of the Haywood Park Hotel. Although they were in full spring bloom, the trees were distressed and in the process of dying, posing a danger to residents, according to a city statement. “People planted Bradford pears because they are attractive when they bloom and they are urban tolerant,” said City Arborist David Foster. “It wasn’t until they began falling apart 15 or 20 years later that people realized it wasn’t such a good idea.” But that explanation didn’t sit well with Clare Hanrahan, who bound herself to one of the trees with a bike lock. “Just look at [the trees] … it’s the fullness of spring and whatever their argument for cutting them, they could have waited to cut them down. I don’t want to see these trees come down without a ritual or acknowledgment, honoring their beauty. We have to do what our hearts call us to do,” she said.

According to the online post, “Goodbye to Some Downtown Trees,” Xpress reported that, eventually, she got her way. “After many minutes of compromise back and forth facilitated by the Asheville Police Department, it was decided that the work crew would not remove the tree (Bradford pear) until it had finished blooming. In return, Ms. Hanrahan voluntarily removed her bicycle chain which had locked her to the tree and left the area,” read a statement from the APD. “It should be noted that when responding officers gave Ms. Hanrahan her options, she was not opposed to jail and has spent time in federal prison for trespassing on a military base,” it continued. Meanwhile, local photographer Jerry Nelson was aboard a SouthWings flight, photographing the Sandy Mush community of northwest Buncombe County as part of a Nuclear Information and Resource Service study. SouthWings is a local aerial education program involved with conservation efforts across the Southeast. The Nuclear Information and Resource Service is a networking center for citizens and environmental

Live and let live: Clare Hanrahan chained herself to a blooming Bradford pear tree in downtown Asheville to prevent it from being cut down. photo by Aiyanna Sezak-Blatt

activists concerned about nuclear power, radioactive waste, radiation and sustainable energy. “The Sandy Mush area was suggested as a possible repository for nuclear waste 30 years ago, and more recently, with the recent closure of Yucca Mountain out West, some local residents are asking, ‘Is Sandy Mush back on the table for discussion?’” according to the Xpress online post, “Jerry Nelson’s Morning View: Sandy Mush.” In other news, Xpress reported in the online post “Google This,” that Kansas City will be the first city to receive the search-engine giant’s experimental high-speed Internet network. Asheville and more than 1,000 other communities across the country also bid for the service in a competitive, vote-based poll. Garnering the support of many city, county and business leaders who said the service would be a huge boon to the area’s economy, last spring’s local grassroots campaign included an Asheville City Council-endorsed “Google Moment” to encourage citizens to nominate the town.

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All hope is not lost, however. In a statement, Google added, “We’ll also be looking closely at ways to bring ultra high-speed Internet to other cities across the country.” In local politics, Asheville City Council member Cecil Bothwell announced that he’ll run for Rep. Heath Shuler‘s congressional seat in 2012 — as an independent. Coming just two days after Bothwell withdrew from the race for chair of the Buncombe County Democratic Party, Bothwell posted a link on the Scrutiny Hooligans political blog pointing to his new campaign website, bothwell4congress. wordpress.com. “This decision was jump-started by recent events in both the Buncombe County Democratic Party and Congress,” he wrote. “The election is more than 18 months away, but it will take that kind of time to build a viable grassroots campaign across the 13 counties of Western North Carolina. Position statements, organizing information and all the rest will be posted here in coming days.” — Jake Frankel


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Local agencies gear up for ozone season by Susan Andrew Warm weather means gardens growing, breezes blowing … and daily email alerts from the N.C. Division of Air Quality (see box, “Airin’ Out”). Worse yet, poor air-quality days — usually associated more with summer — are now occurring earlier in the year, according to the experts assembled at a March 30 press conference at the Land-of-Sky Regional Council. Kicking off this year’s ozone season, the event featured presentations by state and local agencies concerning local air-quality trends and programs to help address them. Found 10 to 30 miles above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects us from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. But ground-level ozone — created when volatile organic compounds interact with pollutants such as nitrous oxides in the presence of sunlight — degrades air quality. Cars, power plants, industrial boilers, refineries, chemical plants and other sources emit these pollutants. Invisible and odorless, ozone irritates the

respiratory system, aggravating chronic lung conditions such as asthma, emphysema and bronchitis. Long-term exposure can permanently damage respiratory tissues — particularly worrisome in children, who take in 50 percent more air per pound of body weight than adults, notes Ashley Featherstone of the WNC Regional Air Quality Agency. North Carolina, says Featherstone, ranks fifth among the 50 states in terms of unhealthy ozone levels; the local air agency urges residents to monitor ozone levels in their area and minimize their outdoor exposure on higher-ozone days, even if they don’t experience any symptoms. The March 30 event included an update on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s effort to tighten its standard for ground-level ozone from 75 parts per billion to somewhere between 60 and 70 ppb. Together with a stricter replacement for the so-called Clean Air Interstate Rule, the new standard — which air advocates expect will be released later this summer — will be good news for anyone who breathes. Companies such as Blue Ridge Paper in Canton, however, will

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airin’out During ozone season (April 1 through Oct. 31), the state Division of Air Quality sends out daily, color-coded forecasts covering both ozone levels and fine particulate matter (which contributes to haze). Green means good; quality declines through yellow, orange, red and finally purple, which indicates very unhealthy air. In the Asheville area, separate forecasts are provided for ridge tops (over 4,000 feet elevation), and valleys (under 4,000 feet). To sign up for the air-quality alerts, go to http://bit.ly/f3BXTR. They’re also available online at http://bit.ly/Or1OI, or tollfree at 1-888-RU4NCAIR.

Bamberger of the Division of Air Quality outlined a state rule that prohibits trucks from idling for more than five minutes in an hour. (It’s a complaint-based system: Report apparent violations at http://bit.ly/hkgdoq). Another state program seeks residents’ cooperation. Parents dropping off and picking up their kids at school now pass signs urging them to shut off their engines while they wait; meanwhile, school buses aren’t allowed to idle for more than five minutes before students board. Also at the March 30 event, Tim Owen of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville reviewed the basics of climate change and what communities can do to address it. His organization has plans (hinging on a budget request to Congress) to unite its now widely dispersed research-and-delivery functions under a proposed National Climate Service, which would offer forecasting and other functions analogous to what the National Weather Service provides. “Our region is growing,” said Bill Eaker, who’s coordinating Land of Sky’s regional Clean Air Campaign. “We must take action to reduce our emissions. A lot of good work is under way, but much more needs to be done — and we need every citizen and organization doing their part.” X Send your local environmental news to Susan Andrew at 251-1333, ext. 153, or sandrew@ mountainx.com.


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Let’s face it: We love experts. Meet a horticulturalist and pretty soon you’re quizzing them on that strange shrub in your yard, the yellow leaves on the English ivy, or what shade-loving plants they’d recommend for your frustratingly sunlight-challenged property. Have dinner with a doctor and, before the evening is out, chances are good you’ll be asking about that nagging pain in your side. Encounter a thoroughgoing techie and the next thing you know, it’s “Why is my computer doing this weird thing?” It’s a universal human tendency.

This is not generic gardening advice — it’s a collaborative effort by people who care deeply about their communities and their state. Well, good news for the gardening community: The experts have written a book. The Successful Gardener Guide: North Carolina, edited by Leah Chester-Davis and Toby Bost, compiles 10 years’ worth of research by our state’s gardening professionals, the Cooperative Extension agents. These dedicated horticulturists work for two state universities: N.C. State and North Carolina A&T. And with offices in all 100 counties and the Qualla Boundary, Cooperative Extension agents deal with such things as specialty crops, integrated pest management, nurseries, forestry and urban gardening. In 2000, Chester-Davis founded the Extension’s Successful Gardener newsletter (now called Extension Gardener) to provide Tar Heel growers with sound, research-based information. Bost later joined her as associ-

fullextension Toby Bost will give a slide show and sign books Thursday, April 7, at Malaprop’s Bookstore (55 Haywood St. in downtown Asheville), starting at 7 p.m. To subscribe to the Extension Gardener newsletter, go to cals.ncsu.edu/extgardener/about.htm.

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gardeningcalendar Calendar for April 6 - 14, 2011 A Smart Gardening Seminar by Buncombe Master Gardeners (pd.) Learn best plants, techniques, edible landscaping, design ideas, for WNC gardens. • AB-Tech’s Ferguson Auditorium • Saturday, April 9. $12. Pre-registration required.(828) 255-5522 or http:// buncombemastergardener.org Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. All classes are free. Info: http://tinyurl.com/6j3nxw9. • SU (4/10), noon-4pm - Help build dry-stack stone walls at Pearson Garden, 408 Pearson Drive. This will provide an introduction to building dry-stack (no mortar, cement or concrete) stone walls in natural landscapes. Facilitated by Dylan Ryals-Hamilton. Info: livingvision@ yahoo.com. 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: 697-4725 or www.henderson.lib.nc.us. • TH (4/14), 2pm - Master gardener Diane Turner will talk about “tips for growing a great lawn” at Fletcher Library, 120 Library Road. Info: 687-1218.

ate editor. Chester-Davis credits the newsletter’s considerable success and popularity to Extension’s savvy gardening professionals, with their feet on the ground and their hands in the dirt. There were many requests for a notebook incorporating the very best articles, but Chester-Davis and Bost decided to go one better by creating The Successful Gardener Guide. The newsletter has garnered much acclaim, but Chester-Davis is most proud of the Garden Writers Association award, which speaks both to the quality of information provided and the excellent writing. Easy to read, simple to use and full of relevant know-how, the book is divided into six sections, with color headings for easy referencing. The “Top 70 Plant Picks for North Carolina” lays out choices that will work in just about any area of the state; “Garden Talk” covers subjects ranging from container gardening to lawn care. My favorite, however, is the “Q&A” section, which highlights such practical problems as “What’s the best way to discourage snakes from taking up residence around my house?” and “What number do I call before starting construction to prevent underground utility lines from being cut?” Giving credit where credit is due, each article notes its author’s name and county (Buncombe County Extension Agent Linda Blue is one of them). But wherever they may hail from, ChesterDavis stresses that “This book is specific to North Carolina; the information in it is relevant to gardeners in all parts of the state, from the seasoned gardener to the novice.”

Perennials for the Western NC Mountains • TH (4/14), 3-4:30pm - “Perennials for the Western NC Mountains.” Pam Fry and Crissy Dzielak of Fry Nursery will showcase hardy ornamental perennials that perform well in the area. Held at the Bullington Center, 33 Upper Red Oak Trail in Hendersonville. $12. Info: 698-6104. Swannanoa Community Garden A garden in Swannanoa where community members can rent plots for individual or group use. Sponsored by the Swannanoa Pride Community Coalition, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting public events and services in Swannanoa. Plots are available for $15-$25 per season. Info: 581-4064 or http://on.fb.me/dSTgpk. • Through SA (4/30) - Join the Swannanoa Community Garden.

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That intimate connection also helps to give the book a friendly feel. This is not generic gardening advice — it’s a collaborative effort by people who care deeply about their communities and their state. Gardeners love sharing advice over the back fence, and The Successful Gardener Guide achieves something few garden books manage to do: It leaves you feeling as though you’re surrounded by friends. The only difference is that these friends are the experts, and they don’t seem to mind if you pepper them with questions. If anything, you get the feeling that they thought you’d never ask. X Cinthia Milner lives in Leicester.

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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 April 6 - 14, 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 middleincome 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). Buncombe Co. Parks, Greenways & Rec. Events Events are free and held at 59 Woodfin Pl., unless otherwise noted. To register or for more info: 250-4265 or grace.young@buncombecounty.org. • TU (4/14), 8:30am - Sightseers will venture across the mountains for the annual trip to Pigeon Forge. Bring walking shoes

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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.

to browse for bargains in the outlet malls. Participants will dine at the Applewood Farmhouse Restaurant located on the banks of the Pigeon River. $38 includes transportation. Space is limited. Registration required by April 8. Info: 250-4260 or grace.young@buncombecounty.org. Child Watch Tour Adults are invited to spend a day in a child’s shoes. The tour educates participants about an issue that impacts children and promotes community action and advocacy to make a positive impact locally. Info: 259-9717 or www.childrenfirstbc.org/ childwatch.htm. • FR (4/8), 11:30am-4pm - N.C. is only one of two states that sends 16-and-17year-old youth to the adult criminal system regardless of accusation or charge. The 2011 Child Watch Tour will explore the many impacts of sending children to the adult criminal system. This meeting and discussion will be held at ABCCM Veteran’s Restoration Quarters, 1401 Tunnel Road. Info: gregb@ childrenfirstbc.org or 4230698. An option to participate in just the lunch portion is available, where the participants can learn about the issue, meet with community members and listen to speakers Mayor Terry Bellamy and Commissioner Holly Jones. Events at Historic Johnson Farm Located at 3346 Haywood Road in Hendersonville. There are two nature trails (free), and guided tours are offered. Info: 891-6585 or www.historicjohnsonfarm. org. • WE (4/6), noon - Lunch and Learn: “Tour Modern Russia,” with Alicia Dondero. Hear the long-time Johnson Farm volunteer share tales of modern post-communist Russian life observed during her recent trip. Bring a lunch. Coffee, tea and water provided. Reservations recommended. $5. Events at Big Ivy Community Center Located at 540 Dillingham Road in Barnardsville. Info: 626-3438.

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• Angel Ministry Food Buying Program allows anyone to purchase high quality, nutritional food. Orders must be placed and paid for at the Community Club on the second or third Tuesday of each month from 9-11am or 45:30pm. Distribution occurs the third Friday of each month at the Community Club. See website for menu and details: www.barnardsville.com or www.bigivy.org. Info: 231-8823. HATCH Asheville A mentoring festival for the creative industries featuring world-renowned artists. There will be panels, workshops, keynote speakers, exhibits, film screenings, performances, receptions, networking parties and more. For a schedule of events and more info: www.hatchasheville.org. • TH (4/14) through SU (4/17) - HATCH events will be held at venues throughout Asheville. This year’s guest speakers include authors and writers Sylvia Plachy and Gerald Slota, among others. HATCH panel passes are available for $25. Tickets: www.hatchexperience. com/tickets. Hunger Week Events at Mars Hill College Hunger Week is an annual event designed to raise awareness and provide practical support for local agencies and charities which address food insecurity in Madison County and beyond. Info: www.mhc.edu or (866) MHC-4-YOU. •WE (4/6), 5-7pm - “Empty Bowls Dinner” in the Fellowship Hall of Mars Hill Baptist Church. $10 will purchase dinner and a bowl made by MHC pottery students. All proceeds will go to Neighbors in Need. •TH (4/7), 7-8:30pm - “Food for Fashion Show.” Cans of food or cash donations will benefit Neighbors in Need. A speaker, following the fashion show, will talk about hunger issues in the county. • SA (4/9), 8:30am-noon - Fields of Hope Service Project. Volunteers will plant potatoes for distribution through Neighbors in Need and MANNA FoodBank. NCCALL Inc.

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The Sierra Club presents a forum on nuclear power and renewable alternatives on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:30 p.m., at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, 1 Edwin Place. Dot Sulock of UNCA, and Mary Olson, Southeast Regional Coordinator for the Nuclear Information and Resource Services, will be the featured speakers. Info: teachingnonproliferation.org.

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The community is invited to a discussion on grassroots organizing at 40 Congress St., in Asheville, on Thursday, April 7 at 6:30 p.m. Learn what tactics, strategies and methods have the most leverage and what grassroots organizers can do to truly affect change. Info: lovestopsfear@gmail.com.

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Celebrate the spoken word on Friday, April 8 as the Xpress hosts the 2011 Poetry Show at The Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St., in downtown Asheville. Featured poets include Laura Hope-Gill, Matt Owens, Mesha Maren, Matthew Mulder, Brian Sneeden and the top 10 finalists of the 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize. Festivities conclude with a performance by Keith Flynn and the Holy Men. 7 p.m. Info: mountainx.com/mxcore/poem/tickets.

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All are invited to share in the beauty of the sky at Stars on the Square, an evening of stargazing in downtown Burnsville on Saturday, April 9, beginning at 7 p.m. Chief Hubble telescope engineer Mark Turczyn will open the evening with a presentation at the Burnsville Town Center. Patrons are welcome to bring their own telescopes and local astronomers will also be on hand to share theirs. Info: 6827331.

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The Community Orchestra of Hendersonville presents a concert at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St., Hendersonville, on Sunday, April 10 at 3 p.m. The concert will feature a performance by viola soloist, Brenda Phetteplace, a concerto for two trumpets by Peter and Pamela Voisen and much more. Directions: www.trinitypresnc.org.

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Transition Asheville presents "Sustainable Transportation: A Future Worth Creating," a presentation at the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road, on Monday, April 11 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The discussion will be led by UNCA engineering professor Dave Erb with a Q&A to session follow. Info: 296-0064.

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A screening of General Della Rovere, a 1959 classic Italian film by Roberto Rosselini, will be featured at Foreign Film Night at Weaverville Library on Tuesday, April 12 at 7 p.m A short discussion will follow the film. Info: 250-6482.

A WNC nonprofit dedicated to helping persons living with autism. Info: www. nccall.org. • Through SU (4/30) - In celebration of Autism Awareness Month, North Carolina Creative Autistic Living and Learning invites the public to visit its booth at the Whistle Stop Artisans Mall in Franklin to learn about autism and view “Autwork” created or reconditioned by persons on the autism spectrum. Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute (PARI) Info: 966-4097 or www. pari.edu. • FR (4/8), 7pm - “Saturn: The Ringed Planet,” a presentation on the NASA Cassini mission to Saturn. Plus a campus tour and celestial observations using PARI’s optical or radio telescopes. $20 adults/$15 seniors and military/$10 for children under 14. Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted.

• TH (4/7), 5pm - “Nuovo Forno Etrusco Project in Italy: Constructing an Ancient Etruscan Kiln,” a lecture by Don Davis, ceramicist and professor of art at Eastern Tennessee State University, at Owen Hall, in the third floor conference room. Sponsored by the UNCA’s Classics Department and the Archaeological Institute of America. Info: 251-6290. • FR (4/8), 11:25am - Humanities Lectures: “The Rise of Totalitarianism in the Interwar Years,” with John McClain at Lipinsky Auditorium and “Globalization,” with Surain Subramaniam at the Humanities Lecture Hall. • MO (4/11), 11:25am - Humanities Lectures: “Rome,” at Lipinsky Auditorium and “Can We Know Them by the Songs They Sing? Musical Mirrors: Reflections of War, Turmoil and the Human Spirit” with Dr. Melodie Galloway at the Humanities Lecture Hall. • TH (4/14), 7pm - “Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South,” with

by Marcie Cohen-Ferris at the Humanities Lecture Hall —- 7pm - “Celebrating Life in the Mountains,” a discussion that looks at culture and history of our mountain region, at the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. Speaking Truth to Power • SA (4/9), 8pm - Join Gareth Porter, investigative journalist and historian, and Ray McGovern, former Army intelligence officer and CIA veteran, for an evening of thoughtful commentary. U.S. veterans Conor Curran, Ethan McCord and Josh Steiber will also share personal stories and perspectives on war and its true costs. Held at Diana Wortham Theatre in downtown Asheville. Tickets are $18/$10 seniors/$10 students. Info: http://speakingtruthtopowerseries.wordpress.com. Tickets: www. dwtheatre.com or 257-4530. Stars on the Square • FR (4/9), 7pm - Stars on the Square, a free evening of stargazing for astronomy aficionados, will

open at the Burnsville Town Center with a presentation by chief Hubble engineer Mark Turczyn. Patrons are welcome to bring their own telescopes and local astronomers will be on hand to share theirs. Info: 6827331. Stewards of Children: Empowering People to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse • 2nd TUESDAYS, 911:30am - This workshop is designed to educate adults on how to prevent, recognize and react responsibly to the reality of child sexual abuse. Authorized facilitator Kelley J. Wolfe, Ph.D. Held in the Community Room at Westgate Earth Fare. $30 includes workbook. Scholarships available. Registration required: 3014460 or www.darkness2light.org. Take A Walk In Her Shoes • SA (4/9), 11:30am12:30pm - All Haywood County men, along with their families and friends, are invited to participate in the third annual “Take A Walk In Her Shoes” sexual assault


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awareness event in front of the Historic Haywood County Court House. This event is sponsored by the Haywood County Domestic Violence/ Sexual Assault/Elder Abuse Task Force, REACH of Haywood, the 30th Judicial Alliance and Daydreamz Project. Sponsors will provide women’s shoes for participants who need them, both heels and flats, as well as signs and refreshments. Face painting and toe-nail polishing. Info: www.Daydreamzproject at 476-4231. Talks and Lectures at A-B Tech Unless otherwise noted, all events are free. Info: 2541921. • TH (4/14), 7pm Megalithic women with necklaces: these very ancient monumental women are omitted by nearly all histories and minimized even in many archaeological surveys. Examine a visual overview of the female menhir-statues of France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Sardinia, Germany, Greece and Ukraine. Explore the recurrent symbolism of breast and necklaces, vulva signs and the “ancestorface.” Get a visual taste of these foundational matrifocal societies, a rarely-seen side of European history. Held in A-B Tech’s Simpson Theater. $20/$10 sliding scale. Info: www.suppressedhistories.net/events.html or 285-9927.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Older Lesbian Energy (OLE) (pd.) Meets second Saturday each month, 1pm, potluck and event planning. OLE: Fun group for lesbians over 50. • Join us! Information: Catherine: (828) 545-9698. Tuesday Nights! • Single And Looking For Something Fun? (pd.) Try AVL Speed Dating! Events start at 6:30pm and are held monthly at Neo Cantina (Biltmore Village) • Next events: Tuesday, April 12, ages 21-39 and May 10,ages 35-49. • To make a reservation or for more info, call (828) 242-2555 or see AVLSpeedDating.com Artistic Asheville Singles Group • WEEKLY - Meeting locations vary. For single people under 35. Info: coolspiritualartistic@gmail.com. Asheville Front Runners Asheville Front Runners is group of LGBTQ Ashevillans and straight allies who strive for equality. Info: www.ashevillefrontrunners.com.

• SUNDAYS - Join us at Carrier Park’s picnic tables for a run or walk. Check website for time. Asheville Singles Golf Association (ASGA) -Asheville Chapter • 2nd TUESDAYS, 5:45pm - Singles who enjoy playing golf are invited to a social meeting at Travinia’s Italian Kitchen in Biltmore Park. Info: www.asheville.singlesgolf.com. Cathedral of All Souls Located at 3 Angle St., in Biltmore Village. Info: 2742681, kyle@allsoulscathedral.org or www.allsoulscathedral.org. • TU (4/12), 7-9pm - Learn about the true story of Thailand’s famed transgender kick boxer, Parinya Charoenphol, who mastered the sport of kickboxing to earn money for gender reassignment surgery. Info: grammariour@gmail.com. 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 The 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. Equality N.C. Meeting on LGBT Issues At 60 N Market St. • TH (4/14), 6pm - Town hall meeting to discuss the latest LGBT issues, including SB106, the anti-LGBT constitutional amendment. Meet our staff and find out how you can help fight for equality. Held at 60 N. Market St., in downtown Asheville. Free Hugs for Equality • THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS (through 4/15), 5-8pm - Give free hugs and collect signatures for Equality N.C., an organization dedicated to equal rights and justice for LGBT people. Materials provided, you bring the hugs! Meet at Sisters McMullen Bakery, across from Vance Monument in downtown Asheville. Info: www.equalitync.org or paul@equalitync. org. Freeskool Events & Classes

A teaching and learning network by and for the community. All classes are free. This week’s events are held at 40 Congress St. Info: http://tinyurl.com/6j3nxw9. • TH (4/7), 6:30-8pm - “Grassroots Organizing,” a community discussion at 40 Congress St. What can grassroots organizers do to truly effect change? What tactics, strategies and methods have the most leverage? Info: lovestopsfear@gmail. com. • SA (4/9), noon-3pm - “Building a Solar Batch Heater,” Start building with an old water heater, old refrigerator and reclaimed lumber. • MO (4/11), 6:30-7:30pm - “Experiential Herbalism: A different approach to understanding herbal medicine,” with Liat Batshira. • WE (4/13), 6:308:30pm - “Compassionate Communication,” a presentation/workshop on the fundamental techniques and principles of nonviolent communication. Info: lovestopsfear@gmail.com. Helios Warriors Health Care Program for Veterans A nonprofit alternative therapy program for veterans. Info: 299-0776, info@ helioswarriors.org or www. helioswarriors.org. • FRIDAYS & SUNDAYS - Offering complementary/ alternative therapies. Needed: professional licensed/insured practitioners willing to offer a minimum of three hours per month of their service. Just Economics An Asheville-based nonprofit dedicated to working toward closing the gap between earning a minimum wage and a “living wage,” taking into consideration the cost of living in Asheville. Info: www.justeconomicswnc. org. • Through (4/25) - Applications for “Just Brew It,” a homebrew beer festival and competition, will be accepted. Info: Markhebbard@justeconomicswnc.org. Sons of the American Revolution • SA (4/9), noon - William D. Auman, author of Pioneer Paddling Colonial Carolina, will address the Blue Ridge Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution at Ryan’s Restaurant. Info: 545-1222 or 738-9612. Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy The mission of the SAHC is to protect the world’s oldest mountains for the benefit of present and future gen-

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erations. Info: 253-0095 or www.appalachian.org. n Reservations required for SAHC hikes: claire@appalachian.org or 253-0095, ext. 205. • WE (4/6), 6-7pm - Ever wonder why Highland Brewing Company named their latest seasonal Little Hump Ale? Come hear all about Little Hump Mountain and the Highlands of Roan from Jay Leutze, Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy trustee. Free. Meet at Highland Brewing Company, 12 Old Charlotte Highway.

Government & Politics Buncombe County Republican Women A group dedicated to electing and supporting conservative Republicans. • TH (4/14), 11:30am - Meeting at Cornerstone Restaurant, 102 Tunnel Road in Asheville. Following a short business meeting at noon, Micki Cabiness from the New Life Center will be the featured speaker. The New Life Center provides guidance on living on the outside for those recently released from prison. Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 2558115 or www.firestormcafe. com. • MO (4/11), 6pm - Liberty on the Rocks hosts a screening of Waiting for Superman, a new movie by Davis Guggenheim (Inconvenient Truth), highlighting the stories of students, families, educators and reformers, to shed light on the failing American public school system and its consequences. 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 home-grown ideas steeped in traditional 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, Noon1:15pm. $15 or 10 sessions for $130. 117 Furman, Asheville. RSVP: 225-3786. www.FormFitnessFunction. com

Alexander Technique (pd.) Heard about it on NPR’s Morning Edition? Want to learn for yourself? Study privately or with a friend. Senior teacher, 25 years experience. 117 Furman. (828) 225-3786. www.FormFitnessFunction. com Events at Big Ivy Community Center Located at 540 Dillingham Road in Barnardsville. Info: 626-3438. • 2nd THURSDAYS, noon2pm - Potluck lunch, followed by Bingo and other activities. All seniors are invited no matter how young or old. Call 626-3434 for transportation. Fitness at Battery Park Apartments • FRIDAYS, 10:40-11:40am - Interested in fun exercise? Come get healthy! Chairs are available to accommodate all fitness levels. Located at 1 Battle Square, across from the Grove Arcade. Free. Info: 252-7397. 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 (4/8), 11:30am - Fab Friday: “Bury Me Naturally,” a talk on green burials by Carol Motley.

Animals Community Partnership for Pets This nonprofit’s primary goal is to provide affordable spay/ neuter services to communities in/around Henderson County. Info: 693-5172 or www.communitypartnershipforpets.org. • 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, noon-3pm - Purchase your spay/neuter vouchers at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). $25. Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation The Foundation’s mission is to save healthy, adoptable animals in the Haywood County Animal Control facility. Located at 1659 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. sargeandfriends.org or 2469050. • Through TU (4/26) - Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation is now accepting photographs for the fifth annual “Pet Photography Contest.” Categories for the contest include: dog, puppy, cat, kitten, other pets, Sarge’s rescue animal and photographers under

12. Photos must be original and done by an amateur photographer. Prizes will be awarded on April 30, 10am, at Bocelli’s Italian Eatery, 319 N. Haywood St., in Waynesville. • SATURDAYS, 10am-3pm - Adoption Days at 256B Industrial Park Drive in Waynesville. Interested in volunteering or donating to the shelter? Call: 246-9050.

Business Ready To Buy, Sell or Lease 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 A-B Tech’s Center for Business & Technology Incubation To register for seminars: 254-1921, ext. 5857 or http://abtech.edu/ce/registration/default.asp. • Applications are currently being accepted for the Young Entrepreneurial Scholars Camp, a weeklong summer day camp for rising high school sophomores, juniors and seniors interested in business ownership. The program will take place June 13-17 from 9am-3pm at the school’s Enka campus. $25. 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 (4/7), 5:30-8pm - The spring membership event will be held at The Grove Park Inn, in the Blue Ridge Dining Room. There will be an address by guest speaker Tom Wright, a cash bar, raffle and door prizes. $25 includes appetizers. RSVP: 777-2229. Carolina Real Estate Investors Association • 2nd MONDAYS, 6-9pm - Learn about buying/selling, negotiating, income properties, creative financing, foreclosures and investment topics/tactics. This educational nonprofit association itself does not invest nor provide investment, legal or tax advice. $15 for nonmembers. Info: 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. • FR (4/8), 11am-1pm NAACP Credit Reports/Credit Awareness Project. Held at the NAACP Empowerment Resource Center, 91 Patton Ave. Free. • FRIDAYS (through 4/15), 2:30-5pm - “Manage Your Money.” The basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize goals, saving strategies, and tracking spending. Free. • SA (4/9), 9am-3pm - HomeBuyer Education: A step-by-step explanation of the homebuying process. $35. Held at the Burton Street Recreation Center, 134 Burton St., Asheville. • SA (4/12), 10-11am HomeBase information session: A structured program providing financial counseling and rental education. Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted. • TH (4/14) - The second Home Development Symposium, “The Changing Lanscape of Western North Carolina,” is open to planners, policy-makers, developers, bankers, academics, community leaders, NGO representatives and citizens interested in second home development. Held at the Reuter Center. $25.

Technology 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 Basics. • TUESDAYS, 12:151:15pm - iPhoto Basics. • WEDNESDAYS, 12:151:15pm - iMovie Basics. • THURSDAYS, 12:151:15pm - iPad Basics. • 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.

Volunteering Asheville Area Habitat for Humanity Seeks Volunteers Info: volunteer@ashevillehabitat.org or 210-9377. • TUESDAYS or THURSDAYS, 5:30-8pm - Skip the gym and head to Habitat. Get your workout while volunteering in the home store warehouse.

ASSE International • Through WE (8/31) - ASSE International seeks local families to host male and female cultural exchange students between the ages of 15 and 18. Students have pocket money for personal expenses and full health, accident and liability insurance. Families can choose students from a wide variety of backgrounds, countries and personal interests. Info: 301-0794 or (800)-4730696. Hands On AshevilleBuncombe Choose the volunteer opportunity that works for you. Youth are welcome on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www. handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1. Visit the website to sign up for a project. • SA (4/9), 10am-1pm - Fair-Trade Stock-Up: Assist with unpacking and pricing merchandise for Ten Thousand Villages, a nonprofit, fair-trade retail store that sells handcrafted items made by artisans in more than 30 developing countries. • SU (4/10), 2-3pm - Knitn-Give: Make hats for newborns served by the Health Center’s Community Health Program and homeless adults served by Homeward Bound of Asheville. All skill levels welcome. • MO (4/11) - 7-8:30pm - Cookie Night: Help bake cookies for families staying at the Lewis Rathbun Center, which provides free lodging for out-of-town families who have a loved one in an area hospital. Supplies provided. • TU (4/14), 6-7:30pm - Volunteer with OnTrack: Copy and collate packets for distribution to individuals and families that benefit from OnTrack’s various financial assistance programs. • TH (4/14), 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. • SA (4/16), 9am-noon - In the Garden: Help prepare the Emma Community Garden for planting and harvest. Much of the harvest will eventually be distributed to the community through their food pantry. 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. • SATURDAYS (through 4/30) - Volunteers are needed to help renovate the Hazel Robinson Amphitheatre, home to the Montford Park Players’ summer Shakespeare season. Community efforts will “help bring the current performance space back to life, with new materials for safety, aesthetics and durability.” Call for details. Rotarians Against Hunger • SA (4/9) - Volunteers are needed to assist with Rotarians Against Hunger, a project that aims to collect food for an estimated 216,000 residents of WNC. Items will be collected, packaged, baled and readied for distribution. Tax deductible donations can be made to Mission Healthcare Foundation with a notation that they are for RAH (Rotarians Against Hunger). Checks should be mailed to Rotary Club of Asheville, P.O. Box 1954, Asheville, NC 28802. To volunteer, email rotariansagainsthunger@ yahoo.com.

Outdoors Archery Tournament • SA (4/9), 9am-3pm - The N.C. Bowhunters association will hold an archery tournament and membership drive at the Diamond Creek 3-D Archery Range, off Diamond Creek Road in Rosman. $30 includes new or renewed membership in the Bowhunters Association. Additional family members may register for $10. 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 call the leader before the hike. Info: www.carolinamtnclub.org. • WE (4/6), 8:30am Baxter Creek & Big Creek Wildflower hike. Info: 2572136 or marianneln@att.net. • SU (4/10), 8:30am Dupont Forest/Buck Forest. Hike to three waterfalls and two lakes in the Dupont State Forest. Info: 698-7119 or ashok.kudva@att.net —12:30pm - FS 816 to Skinny Dip. Info: 885-2152. • WE (4/13), 8:30am - Eastatoe Creek Heritage Preserve to Twin Falls. Info:

685-2897 or suejackfitz@ bellsouth.net. DuPont State Forest Located between Hendersonville and Brevard. Info: www.dupontforest. com. • SA (4/9), 9am - Fletcher Parks and Recreation hosts a half-marathon. Info: 6870751. National Visit a Park Day • FR (4/8), noon-5pm - Celebrate National Visit a Park Day at Karpen Soccer Field in Weaverville and Charles D. Owen Park in Swannanoa. Karpen Field was recently renovated with a new walking trail, an expanded parking lot and new sod and grass on the playing fields. Charles D. Owen Park has a new floating fishing pier, will soon be stocked with catfish and have a solar powered fish feeder installed. Info: buncombecounty.org. Old Time Plowing and Folkways at the Cradle of Forestry • SA (4/9), 10am-4pm - This “living history event,” featuring weavers, blacksmiths, soap makers, wood carvers and draft horses, will be held at the Cradle of Forestry, in Pisgah National Forest. Weather permitting, horses will plow the Cradle’s garden. Come “learn how folks worked the land the old way, and try your hand behind the plow.” Info & directions: www.cradleofforestry.com.

Sports Groups & Activities Pilates (pd.) Share it to afford it! Bring a friend or two. We will customize a class for you-your schedule, your pace. Reasonable rates. 117 Furman. Learn how: (828) 225-3786. www. FormFitnessFunction.com Soooo West Asheville! • Pilates And Ice Cream! (pd.) $1 coupon for The Hop after each class! • Mondays, 5:30pm-6:30pm. • $15, or 5 for $65. • Francine Delany School, 119 Brevard. 225-3786. www. FormFitnessFunction.com Asheville Municipal Ladies Golf Association Join the AMLGA for camaraderie on the golf course. $35 for annual dues. Info: 667-5419. • TUESDAYS, 8:30am Meeting, with golf to follow. Call for info. Asheville Sailing Club The annual fee is $30 per year. Info: 254-6877.

• SA (4/9), 1pm - “Start Points Regatta” at Lake Julian County Park in Skyland. Spectators welcome. Buncombe Co. Parks, Greenways & Rec. Events Events are free and held at 59 Woodfin Place, unless otherwise noted. To register or for more info: 250-4265 or grace.young@buncombecounty.org. • Through TH (5/26) - Signup for summer co-ed beach volleyball. Info: 250-4269 or jay.nelson@buncombecounty.org. • SA (4/9), 1-3pm - The sixth annual Adult and Child Miniature Golf Tournament will be held at Tropical Gardens Mini Golf, located at 956 Patton Ave. Open to teams consisting one adult and one child. $15. Register: 250-4260. Introductory Wing Tsun (wing chun) Class • SATURDAYS, 1-1:45pm - An introductory Authentic WingTsun (Chinese Boxing) class will be held at Asheville Dance Revolution, 63 Brook St. The class involves self-defense/fighting techniques and no experience is required. Safe and friendly training environment. Sponsored by The Cultural Development Group, a local nonprofit. Donations encouraged. Info: 277-6777. Tai Chi for Seniors & Beginners • WEDNESDAYS, 10:30am - Held at Aston Park, in the tennis center, 336 Hilliard Ave. Info: 707-6907 or astonparkfit@gmail.com.

Kids Asheville Culture Project A cultural arts community center offering ongoing classes in Capoeira Angola and Samba percussion. Other instructors, groups and organizations are invited to share the space. Located at 257 Short Coxe Ave. Info: www.ashevillecultureproject. org. • MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Kids capoeira classes with Centro Esportivo de Capoeira Angola Asheville. Children sing in Portuguese and play traditional, Afro-Brazilian instruments. Open to children ages 7-11. $5. 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. 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. • WE (4/6), 10-11:30am - African drumming with Maria. Learn drum rhythms and make a musical instrument. $15/$10 for members —- 3:30-4:30pm - Wacky Weeds Day. Learn all about invasive species in yards and forests and make a honeysuckle and ivy craft. $5/Free for members. • TH (4/7), 10:30am Kindermusik. Enjoy songs, movement activities, stories and more for children ages 0-7. $5/Free for members. • FR (4/8), 3pm - Flat Rock Playhouse’s Rising Stars will present a variety show featuring songs and poetry. • TU (4/12), 3:30pm - Ask the vet. Come meet Dr. Jull, of Etowah Valley Veterinary Hospital, and ask him questions about your pets. Learn all about being a veterinarian from an expert. Joyful Noise Theatre Playground • SATURDAYS - This weekly drama class uses theatre games to encourage creative play, while exploring artistic possibilities. Children ages 7-9 are welcome from 10-11am, and children ages 10-13 are welcome from 11am-noon. Held at First Presbyterian Church of Weaverville, 30 Alabama Ave. $10. Info: iamrebeccam@gmail.com or 2158738. Parents’ Night Out • SA (4/9), 4-8pm - The Grow With Me Learning Cooperative hosts a fundraising “Parents’ Night Out” event. Enjoy a night out while your child creates and plays at Groce Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road. $20/child, $10/additional children. Dinner is included. RSVP by April 6: 337-4710. Info: www.growwithmecoop. wordpress.com.

Spirituality A Barbara Marciniak Channeling Event • April 29, 30 (pd.) (Friday-Saturday). Barbara channels the Pleiadians who share their perspectives about our changing world. Bring your questions! • Lecture/channeling Friday, 7pm-10:30pm: $35. • Workshop/channeling: Saturday, 10am-6pm: $90. Cash or money order only. Ramada River Ridge Hotel, 800 Fairview Road,

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Asheville. • Reservations/ information: (828) 298-6300 or ashevilleclass@yahoo. com A Way of Being (pd.) Don’t let who you were overwhelm who you wish to be. Try Alexander lessons for a fresh approach to living in the Present Moment. (828) 225-3786. www. FormFitnessFunction.com Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation (“TM”) (pd.) Learn the most effective, natural way to meditate. Transcend the active levels of mind to experience pure awareness—your

peaceful, inmost Self. • Clinically proven benefits for mind, body and relationships. • Free Introductory Lecture: Sunday, 2pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: Meditation and brain research • How meditation techniques differ • What science says about stress, TM, and your health. (828) 254-4350. www. MeditationAsheville.org 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, 7pm8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion. • Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks. • The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville. • Info/directions: (828) 808-4444. • www. ashevillemeditation.com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional

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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. Avalon Grove (pd.) Services to honor the ancient Celtic Christian holidays. Intuitive Spiritual Counseling to see your path more clearly. Workshops, artwork and books about Faeries. Call (828) 645-2674 or visit avalongrove.com Awaken to the Wisdom of Your Akashic Records (pd.) Sat/Sun Apr. 9 9:30am - 5:30pm: 2-Day Akashic

Records Training Level 1, $222. RSVP: 828-281-0888 www.VoiceofYourSoul. com 60 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville. Kelly S. Jones, LLC Black Swan Counseling-New Ongoing Open Enrollment Groups (pd.) DECIPHERING INTUITIVE CLUES ‚- THE SYMBOLIC LANGUAGE OF INTUITION: 2nd Thursday of each month 6:30-8:30pm. AKASHIC FIELD TRIPS ‚- LIVE CHANNELING: 4th Tuesday of each month 6:30-8:30pm. -Claudia LeMarquand, MA, LPC Intuitive/Licensed Counselor

828.707.1185. • SOUND OF THE SACRED WORD: 3rd Wednesday of each month 6:30-8:30pm. • SOOTHING THE STRESS OF GRIEF: 4th Wednesday of each month 6:30-8:00pm. John V. Berdy, MA Psychotherapist/ Grief Specialist/Musician 828.707.1184. See website for descriptions, fees, location: blackswancounseling. com Compassionate Communication (pd.) Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communi-

cation. Great for couples! Group uses model developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book “Non-violent Communication, A Language of Life”. Free. Info: 299-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com. • 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 5:006:15—Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners. 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 St. Germain Aquarian Consciousness Fellowship (pd.) Sacred space using the St. Germain Violet Flame for ascension clearing. Live high frequency intuitive piano from classical composers on the other side. Wednesdays, 6:30pm. • Donation. (828) 658-3362. 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. • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - An evening with Spirit at 68 Grove St., suite C2. The entrance is on Hilliard Street. Asheville Circle of Solitaries • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - A discussion group for individuals interested in various aspects of occultism. Open to solitary students and practitioners from all backgrounds and traditions. The group includes Pagans, chaos magicians, healers, diviners and other assorted weirdos. Info: 777-9368. Asheville Jewish Meditation and Chanting Circle • ALT SUNDAYS - Cultivate an awareness of the Divine Presence through sitting and walking meditation, chanting and the study of Jewish and other texts. Email for location and times. Free. Info: asheJM@gmail.com. Buddhist Meditation and Discussion Meets in the space above the French Broad Food Coop. Suggested donation: $8/$4 students & seniors. Info: 779-5502 or www. meditation-in-northcarolina. org. • TH (4/7), 7:15pm “Gaining Control.” • TH (4/14), 7:15pm - “Real Courage and Strength.” Compassionate Communication Practice Group

Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work and community by practicing compassionate communication. Group uses a model developed by Marshall Rosenberg in his book Nonviolent Communication, A Language of Life. Free. Info: 252-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com. • 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 5-6:15pm - Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners. Dhyan Meditation • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Seeking to deepen your meditation practice? One hour silent meditation and singing of spiritual songs with meditation instruction included. All are welcome. Classes held in Fairview. Free. Info and directions: 299-3246, 329-9022 or shivabalamahayogi.com. Mindfulness Meditation Class Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241 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. 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.YogaSouthAsheville.com. Neterianism/”Shetaut Neter” • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Learn about Shetaut Neter, an ancient philosophy and mythic spiritual culture that gave rise to the ancient Egyptian civilization. Meetings feature lectures on the impact of African spirituality on the four major religions of the world (JudaismChristianity-Hinduism-Islam), as well as the universal teachings of Shetaut Neter to promote peace and prosperity. Held at A Far Away Place, 11 Wall St. Directions: 279-8562. Power of Soul • WEDNESDAYS - Learn and practice self healing through the teachings of Dr. Zhi Gang Sha, given by one of his qualified teachers. Held in West Asheville. Love


freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) When he was three years old, actor Charlie Sheen got a hernia from yelling too much and too loud. I definitely don’t encourage you to be like that. However, I do think it’s an excellent time to tune in to the extravagant emotions that first made an appearance when you were very young and that have continued to be a source of light and heat for you ever since. Maybe righteous anger is one of those vitalizing emotions, but there must be others as well -- crazy longing, ferocious joy, insatiable curiosity, primal laughter. Get in touch with them; invite them to make an appearance and reveal the specific magic they have to give you right now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

The hydrochloric acid in our digestive system is so corrosive it can dissolve a nail. In other words, you contain within you the power to dematerialize solid metal. Why is it so hard, then, for you to conceive of the possibility that you can vaporize a painful memory or bad habit or fearful fantasy? I say you can do just that, Taurus -- especially at this moment, when your capacity for creative destruction is at a peak. Try this meditation: Imagine that the memory or habit or fantasy you want to kill off is a nail. Then picture yourself dropping the nail into a vat of hydrochloric acid. Come back every day and revisit this vision, watching the nail gradually dissolve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

Now and then I include comments in these horoscopes that might be construed as political in nature. For instance, I have always endorsed a particular candidate in the American presidential elections. Some people are outraged by this, saying, in effect, “How dare you?! What do your political opinions have to do with my life?!” If you feel that way, you might want to stop reading now. It’s my sacred duty to tell you that the twists and turns of political and social issues will be making an increasingly strong impact on your personal destiny in the months ahead. To be of service to you, I will have to factor them into my meditations on your oracles. Now let me ask you: Is it possible that your compulsive discontent about certain political issues is inhibiting your capacity for personal happiness?

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

If you were a poker player, the odds would now be far better than usual that you’d be voted one of the “50 Sexiest Poker Players in the World.” If you were a physician volunteering your services in Haiti or Sudan, there’d be an unusually high likelihood that you’d soon be the focus of a feature story on a TV news show. And even if you were just a pet groomer or life coach or yoga teacher, I bet your cachet would be rising. Why? According to my reading of the omens, you Cancerians are about to be noticed, seen for who you are, or just plain appreciated a lot more than usual.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

No other country on the planet has a greater concentration of artistic masterpieces than Italy. As for the place that has the most natural wonders and inspiring scenery per square mile: That’s more subjective, but I’d say Hawaii. Judging from the astrological omens, Leo, I encourage you to visit one or both of those two hotspots -- or the closest equivalents you can manage. (If you already live in Italy or Hawaii, you won’t have far to go.) In my opinion, you need to be massively exposed to huge doses of staggering beauty. And I really do mean that you NEED this experience -- for your mental, physical, and spiritual well-being.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Healer Caroline Myss coined the term “woundology.” It refers to the practice of using our wounds to get power, sympathy, and attention. Why give up our pain when we can wield it to manipulate others emotionally? “I am suffering, so you should give me what I want.” When we’re in pain, we may feel we have the right to do things we wouldn’t otherwise allow ourselves to do, like go on shopping sprees, eat tasty junk food, or sleep with attractive people who are no good for us. In this scenario, pain serves us. It’s an ally. Your assignment, Virgo, is to get touch with your personal version of woundology. Now is a good time to divest yourself of the so-called “advantages” of holding on to your suffering.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

As an American who has lived most of my life in the U.S., I write these horoscopes in English. But for years they have also been translated into Italian for the zesty Italian magazine, Internazionale. Over the years, my readership there has grown so sizable that an Italian publisher approached me to create an astrology book for Italians. Late last year Robosocopo appeared in Italy but nowhere else. It was an odd feeling to have my fourth book rendered in the Italian language but not in my native tongue. I suspect you’ll be having a comparable experience soon, Libra. You will function just fine in a foreign sphere -- having meaningful experiences, and maybe even some success, “in translation.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

You can gain more power -- not to mention charisma, panache, and love -- by losing some

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of your cool. This is one time when too much self-control could actually undermine your authority. So please indulge in a bit of healthy self-undoing, Scorpio. Gently mock your selfimportance and shake yourself free of self-images you’re pathologically attached to. Fool with your own hard and fast rules in ways that purge your excess dignity and restore at least some of your brilliant and beautiful innocence.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

This week will be a time when you might want to get a hold of a toy you loved when you were a kid, and actually play with it again; a time when you could speak so articulately about an idea you’re passionate about that you will change the mind of someone who has a different belief; a time when you may go off on an adventure you feared you would regret but then it turns out later that you don’t regret it; a time when you might pick out a group of stars in the sky that form the shape of a symbol that’s important to you, and give this new constellation a name; and a time when you could make love with such utter abandon that your mutual pleasure will stay with you both for several days.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The Norwegian film Twigson is about a boy who feels so friendless and isolated that he seeks companionship with a talking twig. In the coming weeks, I encourage you to be equally as proactive in addressing the strains of your own loneliness. I’m not implying that you are lonelier or will be lonelier than the rest of us; I’m just saying that it’s an excellent time for taking aggressive action to soothe the ache. So reach out, Capricorn. Be humbly confident as you try to make deeper contact.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

During one of 2010’s Mercury retrograde phases, astrologer Evelyn Roberts wrote on her Facebook page that she was doing lots of things you’re “not supposed to do” during a Mercury retrograde: buying a new computer, planning trips, making contracts, signing documents. Why? She said she always rebels like that, maybe because of her quirky Aquarian nature. More importantly, she does it because what usually works best for her is to pay close attention to what’s actually going on rather than getting lost in fearful fantasies about what influence a planet may or may not have. During the current Mercury retrograde, Aquarius, I recommend her approach to you.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Damon Bruce is a San Francisco sports talk show host I listen to now and then. He told a story about being at a bar and seeing a guy with a tattoo of a life-sized dollar bill on the back of his shaved head. Bruce was incredulous. Why burn an image of the lowest-denomination bill into your flesh? If you’re going to all that trouble, shouldn’t you inscribe a more ambitious icon, like a $100 bill? My sentiments exactly, Pisces. Now apply this lesson to your own life.

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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. 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, 8918700 or www.unitync.net. • WE (4/6), 7pm “Introduction to Reiki Healing Energy,” with Jennifer Dale. Reiki is a technique that works with the body’s energy system which relaxes the body to promote healing by the body’s own incredible immune system. Love offering. • SA (4/13), 7pm “Hypnosis,” with Carol MacAllister, a MSW social worker and former psychotherapist. Info: www. carolmacallister.com. 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, West Asheville. Info: 252-5010 or www.unityofasheville.com. • SUNDAYS, 11am Spiritual Celebration Service —- 12:15-1:30pm - A Course in Miracles with Rev. Gene Conner.

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Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings Functional and Art Pottery • Through SU (5/1) Functional Art and Pottery will be on display at the Rutherford County Visual Artists Center, 160 N. Main St. ShineYourLight on Sexual Abuse • WE (4/13), 6-8pm - The Shelter Home of Caldwell County will host a conceptual art show and reception for Shine Your Light on Sexual Abuse. Proceeds will

benefit the shelter and this traveling exhibit. Held at The American Legion, 401 Main St., Northwest in Lenoir. Info: Art4aPurpose.org or Art4aPurpose@charter.net. American Folk Art & Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary self-taught artists and regional pottery. Info: 281-2134 or www. amerifolk.com. • Through TH (4/28) - Spring Fling will be on display at Oui-Oui Gallery. Art at Eclipse Salon and Gallery • Through MO (4/18) Pattern on Pattern, an exhibit

of paintings and illustrations by Molly Rose Freeman, will be on display at Eclipse Salon and Gallery, 16 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. unca.edu. • MO (4/4) through TU (4/26) - Cracks, Doorways and Portals, an exhibition of photography and poetry by Tracey Schmidt and Laurent Weisenberge, will be on display in Blowers Gallery. • FR (4/8) through TU (4/19) - The annual Multimedia Arts and

Sciences exhibit, featuring 2-D, 3-D, digital and interactive works, will be on display at the Highsmith University Union Gallery. •FR (4/8), 3pm - The public is invited to an opening reception for the Multimedia Arts and Sciences exhibit. • FR (4/8) through TU (5/3) - The 44th annual Juried Student Exhibition will be on display at S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall. • FR (4/8), 6-8pm Opening reception for the Juried Student Exhibition. Arts Council of Henderson County Located at 401 N. Main St., (entrance on Fourth Street), above Flight Restaurant in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 693-8504 or www. acofhc.org. • FR (4/8) through FR (4/22) - Artists of Tomorrow: Secondary Student Exhibition will be on display at the First Citizens Bank in downtown Hendersonville. 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. • Through SU (4/24) - The Olmsted Project. • Through SU (7/10) - An Inside View will be on display at the Holden Community Gallery. The exhibition examines the notion of interior environments as depicted by a number of artists throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. • 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. • Through SA (4/30) ‚- Abstract and Cold Wax, works by Cindy Walton. Atelier 24 Lexington: A Gallery of Local Art Located at 24 Lexington Ave., Asheville. Info: www. atelier24lexington.com. • SA (4/9), 5-8pm - Spring Brings New Growth, works by Molly Courcelle. “As the child of an artist, Courcelle began cultivating her creative energy at young age by spending time in nature, noticing shape, color and composition. After her time at Wake Forest studying fine art, she became involved in floral design. Much of Courcelle’s tie to nature and

influence of floral patterns can be found in her inspiring paintings on canvas.” Free. Black Mountain Center for the Arts Located in the renovated Old City Hall at 225 West State St., in Black Mountain. Gallery Hours: Mon.-Wed. & Fri., 10am-5pm (closed Sat. during winter months). Info: 669-0930 or www. BlackMountainArts.org. • Through SA (4/30) - Emerging Artists, featuring works by students Bob Travers and Paul Harcharik. • MO (4/11) through SU (4/29) - Apron Strings: The Ties that Bind, featuring vintage aprons. • SA (4/16), 10am‚-3 pm - An opening reception, including an apron-sewing class and fashion show, will be held. 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 (6/4) - In Site: Late Works by Irwin Kremen. 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-5pm. Info: 2510202 or www.bluespiral1. com. • Through SA (6/25) - An exhibition featuring works by Ward H. Nichols (painter); Will Henry Stevens (modernist, 1881-1949); Rick Beck (glass sculpture); Kenneth Baskin (clay); Rudy Rudisill (sculpture); Marlene Jack (porcelain tableware); and Will Henry Stevens (prints, 1881-1949). •TH (4/7), 5-8pm Opening reception. Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road in Hendersonville. Info: 8902050 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. Clingman Cafe Located at 242 Clingman Ave., in the River Arts District.


• Through SA (4/30) - EARTH: FIRE: VISIONS, ceremonial clay creations by Lynn August, Stephen Biggerstaff and Blue Fire MacMahon. Constance Williams Gallery & Studios • Through FR (4/8) Mis-Community-Caution: Dioramas of Discord, clay works by Greg Vineyard, will be on display at 9 Riverside Drive in Asheville’s River Arts District. Events at the Turchin Center Appalachian State University’s Turchin Center for the Visual Arts is located at 423 West King St., in Boone. Info: 262-3017 or www.tcva.org. • Through SA (6/4) - The eighth annual Appalachian Mountain Photography Competition, featuring 46 selected images, will be on display at the Mezzanine Gallery. Info: 262-4954. Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road, Asheville. Info: 2537651 or www.grovewood. com. • Through SU (4/10) - DNA of a Handcrafted Heirloom, an exhibit that explores the building blocks of handmade furniture and accessories created today, destined to be the heirlooms of tomorrow. Kanuga Watercolor Workshop Instructors’ Exhibition The public is invited to meet the artists and view their work at the Kanuga Conference Center in Hendersonville. Info: 8852831. • Through TH (4/7) - The exhibition will be on display. Madison County Arts Council Events Located at 90 S. Main St., in Marshall. Info: 649-1301 or www.madisoncountyarts. com. • Through FR (4/29) - An exhibit of concert posters from local designers and collectors, featuring vintage and current pieces, will be on display at The Arts Center in Marshall. Odyssey Gallery Exhibits work by Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts instructors and residents. Located at 238 Clingman Ave., in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 285-0210 or www.highwaterclays.com. • Through (4/17) - Spirited Vessels, featuring ceramics by three Odyssey members focusing on “the muse and the spirit that flows into the vessels.” Penland School of Crafts A national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative

lives. Located at 67 Dora’s Trail, Penland. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat. 10am‚-5pm, Sun. noon -5pm. Info: www.penland.org or 765-2359. • Through SU (5/8) - Many Paths: A Legacy of Karen Karnes will be on display at the Penland Gallery. The exhibit features the ceramic art of Karnes and 14 artists whose lives and work have been touched by her. $8/$7 for students and seniors. • FR (4/8), 7-8:30pm - Opening reception for Many Paths: A Legacy of Karen Karnes. There will be a film screening of Don’t Know, We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes by Lucy Phenix at 4:30pm at Ridgeway Hall. Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: 669-5107 or www. sevensistersgallery.com. • Through SU (6/19) Acrylic paintings by Colleen Meechan. The Artery Community arts facility at 346 Depot St., River Arts District. Info: www.ashevillearts.com. • FR (4/8) through SA (4/30), 7:30-9pm - The 11th annual Survivors Art Show, featuring work of all mediums by those affected by sexual violence. Info: www. ourvoicenc.org or 252-0562. FR (4/8), 7-9pm - Opening reception for Survivors Art Show. Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 8842787 or www.artsofbrevard. org. • Through FR (4/22) - An exhibit of work by Transylvania County students, grades K-12. • TH (4/7), 4:30-5:30pm - Student reception. WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Thurs. 10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: 227-3591 or www.fineartmuseum.wcu.edu. • Through (4/11) - The Youth Art Month exhibit, an annual observance that emphasizes the value of art education for all children and encourages public support for quality school art programs, will be on display in the lobby of WCU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center.

• SU (4/10), 1-3pm - A reception for Youth Art Month will be held in the Star Lobby (just outside the Fine Art Museum), with an announcement of prize winners. • TH (4/7) through FR (5/6) - Annual student artwork exhibit, featuring innovative and lively art by undergraduate and graduate students, including ceramics, drawing, graphic and interior design, new media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. • TH (4/7), 4pm - An opening reception for the student artwork exhibit will be held in

the Star Lobby, adjacent to the museum. WCU Video Art Screening Series Co-curated by WCU Art History Professor Seth McCormick, this series runs throughout the spring semester, featuring a wide range of works on loan from the Electronic Arts Intermix in New York City. Screening are held at the Fine Art Museum of WCU. Open Mon., Tues., Wed. & Fri., 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thurs., 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Info: www.Fineartmuseum.wcu. edu or 227-3591. • TH (4/7) through FR (4/22) - Now by Lynda

Benglis and Super-8 Shorts by Martha Rosler.

More Art Exhibits & Openings Art at A-B Tech Located at 140 Victoria Road in Asheville. Unless otherwise noted, all exhibits are displayed at Holly Library. Hours: Mon.-Thurs., 8am-8pm; Fri., 8am-4:30pm and Sat., noon-4pm. Info: 254-1921. • Through WE (4/20) - Faces of Asheville: A Community Photo Documentary. Carl Sandburg Home

Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site is located three miles south of Hendersonville off U.S. 25 on Little River Road. Info: 693-4178 or www.nps. gov/carl. • Through TU (5/31) - Carl Sandburg’s Presidential Medal of Freedom will be on display in the bookstore. Sandburg was one of 30 citizens who received the award that year, a group that included Helen Keller, Walt Disney and John Steinbeck. It is recognized as the highest civilian award for service during peacetime.

Events at First Congregational United Church of Christ Located at 20 Oak St., Asheville. • Through SA (4/30), Words for a Just Peace, an exhibit of calligraphic art. The exhibit represents the work of over 20 scribes from both North and South Carolina and features more than 30 pieces of calligraphic art that highlight both secular and scriptural quotations on the themes of peace and justice. The gallery is open to the public Mon.-Fri. from 8am-1pm.

• FR (4/8), 5-7pm - Opening reception with artists. Flora Art at Ananda Hair Studio • Through SA (5/7) - A multi-themed, six-week contemporary floral installation, Focus on Nature, by Asheville Ikebana practitioner, Libby Campbell, will be on display at Ananda Hair Studio, 22 Broadway St. Info: lzbthcampbell296@ gmail.com. Harvest Moon Gallery & Gift Shop • Through SU (5/8) Paintings by Gary Elgin will be on display at 81 Bridge

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What: Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy’s egg hunt Where: Held at the historic Sherrill’s Inn on Hickory Nut Gap Farm, 57 Sugar Hollow Lane in Fairview When: Sunday, April 10 (2 to 4 p.m. $25 per family for SAHC members/$50 per family for nonmembers. Info: appalachian.org or 253-0095). Why: The third annual egg hunt will feature farm-fresh eggs, live music, a relay race, prizes, refreshments and, of course, an egg hunt for all ages. All proceeds from the festivities benefit Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy’s mission to “to protect the world’s oldest mountains for the benefit of present and future generations,” as stated on appalachian.org. “Founded in 1974 as a nonprofit, charitable organization, SAHC works to conserve the unique plant and animal habitat, clean water, local farmland and scenic beauty of the mountains of North Carolina and east Tennessee.” Bring the entire family and search the grounds of Hickory Nut Gap Farm for colorful treasures, all while supporting SAHC’s work to protect the natural diversity and beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

benefitscalendar Calendar for April 6 - 14, 2011 April in Asheville” Fundraising Gala • TH (4/7), 6:30-9pm - The culinary department at A-B Tech will create a “conscious cuisine” dinner, consisting of 18 different food stations, each with a different theme and wine, beer, or champagne pairing, for the inaugural “April in Asheville” fundraising gala. In addition to the dinner, there will be a silent auction. All proceeds will go to the A-B Tech Foundation and its scholarship programs. $125. Info: www1.abtech. edu. Blue Spiral Benefit for Maccabi Academy • SU (4/10), 6:30pm - Maccabi Academy’s annual fundraiser will be held at Blue Spiral 1, 38 Biltmore Ave., in downtown Asheville. The theme is “Shoots and Ladders,” and the event will include dinner and drinks, a silent auction featuring one-of-a-kind artwork from area artists, gift packages, jewelry and

more. A highlight of this year’s silent auction is an expanded children’s gallery featuring work from the Maccabi Academy students. $25/$10 for childcare. Info: www.maccabiacademy.org or 254-5660. Curves Food Drive • Through SA (4/30) - Nonperishable food and cash donations to benefit area food banks will be accepted at multiple Curves’ locations including: 99 Edgewood Road, Asheville, 350-1117; 16 H Regent Park Boulevard, Asheville, 258-5288; 142 Joel Wright Drive, Hendersonville, 697-5633; and 2270 Hendersonville Road, Arden, 651-8543. Info: www.curves.com. Habitat Hosts Food Drive for MANNA • SA (4/9), 10am-5pm - Support two important issues facing our community, housing and hunger, and donate five cans of food to the Habitat Home Store. Those who make a donation will receive twenty-percent off all purchases. Located at 30 Meadow Road. Info: 210-9377. Nuclear-Free WNC • WE (4/13), 6pm - A benefit concert for nuclear awareness and to “stop nuclear waste transport in WNC” will be held at the Grey Eagle Tavern, 185 Clingman Ave. Featured musical acts include: Zabumba (Samba drumming troupe), Honey Holler (a women’s old-time quartet), Roberta Greenspan, Deb Criss and Friends Of The Buckarettes (“cowgirl rockin’ divas”), Jibblin (world rock/gypsy, blues) and Thomas Rain Crowe (poet). $3 suggested donation to benefit No Waist in WNC: www.NoNuclearWasteInWNC.com. Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy The mission of the SAHC is to protect the world’s oldest mountains for the benefit of present and future generations. Info: 253-0095 or www.appalachian.org.

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n Reservations required for SAHC hikes: claire@ appalachian.org or 253-0095, ext. 205. • SU (4/10), 2-4pm - The third annual egg hunt, held at the historic Sherrill’s Inn on Hickory Nut Gap Farm, features farm-fresh eggs, live music, relay races, prizes, refreshments and, of course, egg hunts for all ages. All proceeds benefit Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy. $25 per family for SAHC members/$50 per family for nonmembers. Tickets: 253-0095, ext. 205. The Haven Online Auction & Benefit • Through TH (4/14) - The 14-day online auction will raise funds for The Haven, a local homeless shelter in Transylvania County. The auction is hosted by the Institute of Women in Leadership (IWIL) program at Brevard College. The webpage is updated regularly: http://bit.ly/fTxP7n. Walk MS • Step out for Walk MS and help raise funds for people with multiple sclerosis, an unpredictable, often disabling disease of the central nervous system causing symptoms ranging from numbness and tingling to blindness and paralysis. Info and to register as a volunteer: www.carolinaswalkms.org. SA (4/9) - Walk MS Hendersonville, at Henderson Elementary School. • SU (4/10) - Walk MS Asheville, at Buncombe City Sports Complex.

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St., in Hot Springs. Info: www.hotspringsnc.org. The Altamont Located at 18 Church St., downtown Asheville. Info: 270-7747 or www.thealtamont.com. • Through WE (5/25) - The paintings of Nathaniel Galka, “an array of wondrous canvasses upon which are painted Galka’s personal interpretation of nature, with all of its color, drama, and movement.” Free.

Classes, Meetings & Arts-Related Events Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www. unca.edu. • WE (4/6), 12:30pm - Mark Shapiro, editor of A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Arts of Karen Karnes, will give a lecture titled “Exquisite Torture: Research, Writing, and Publishing from a Maker’s Perspective.” This lecture will take place in UNCA’s Owen Conference Hall. 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 (4/12), 5pm Discussion Bound Reading Group: The Principles of Uncertainty, by Maira Kalman, a “collage of whimsical paintings, ideas and images which initially appear random but ultimately form an intricately interconnected worldview.” Participants are asked to bring a copy of the book. Free with museum membership or admission. Info: http://bit.ly/ewrsFl. 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. • WE (4/6), 7pm Screening of Don’t Know, We’ll See: The Work of Karen Karnes by Lucy Phenix. The filmmaker will be in attendance as will potter Karen Karnes and book editor Mark Shapiro. $7/$5 BMCM+AC members and students. Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre

For ticket information or more details: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com. • TH (4/7), 6-9pm - Artist Karen Karnes will be joined by special guests, including author Mark Shapiro and Penland-based artist Paulus Berensohn, to discuss her work and take questions from audience members. A book signing and reception will follow at the Asheville Art Museum, located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Museum galleries will remain open to ticket holders for this event from 5 to 6 p.m. $8 adults/$7 students and seniors. Info: http://tinyurl.com/4pns7mn. Phil Mechanic Studios Located at 109 Roberts St., on the corner of Clingman Ave., in the River Arts District. Houses Flood Gallery, Pump Gallery and Nook Gallery. Info: www. philmechanicstudios.com. • Community members interested in photography are invited to sign up for open hours at the Phil Mechanic Studios’ public darkroom. Beginning this month, individualized instruction will also be available. The studio provides “a comfortable learning environment for whoever wishes to gain experience in traditional and digital photography.” $20 per month includes chemicals and equipment. Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Classes are held at the studio, 999 W. Old Route 70, Black Mountain. Info: svfal. info@gmail.com or www. svfal.org. • THURSDAYS, noon-3pm - Try something new every week at the Experimental Art Group. Learn and share collage and water/mixed media techniques in a playful setting. All levels welcome. $6 per session. Info: svfal. info@gmail.com or 3578129. • FRIDAYS, 10am-1pm - A figure drawing/open studio session will be held with a live model in various poses. No instruction provided. “Working with a live model strengthens your drawing and painting abilities.” $10 fee for model. Info: greenbergfrances@yahoo.com. The Conn-Artist Studios & Art Gallery Located at 611 Greenville Highway, Hendersonville. Info: 329-2918. • TUESDAYS, 10am-1pm - Hendersonville artist Ruth Goldsborough offers portrait classes with a live model for pastel, oil or charcoal artists. Goldsborough demonstrates with a sketch portrait of


the subject, then works with each student on color, composition, lighting and facial structure. $25. Info: 890-3929 or www.conn-artist.com. {Re}HAPPENING Presented by The Media Arts Project and the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center,{Re}HAPPENING is inspired by what a typical night at Black Mountain College might have been like. Cocktails, dinner, art, dancing and more. Info: www. rehappening.com. • SA (4/9) {Re}HAPPENING. Local

restaurants and farms will cater the evening meal, which will be followed by various performance and multimedia art, music, dance and more. $40 for members. Entertainment-only tickets: $15/$10 members.

Art/Craft Fairs Art Events at WCU Held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Thurs. 10am-7pm. Free, but donations welcome. Info: 227-3591 or www.fineartmuseum.wcu.edu.

• TH (4/14), 3pm - Browse handmade items made by WCU students and staff. Items include an assortment of ceramics, scarves, teas, jewelry and knitted wear. A free appetizer and wine reception will follow. Held at WCU’s Fine Art Museum, in the Star Atrium. Mars Hill College Events Info: www.mhc.edu. • SA (4/9), 9am-5pm - The Potters of Madison County will host the first annual Madison County Potters Market on the Mars Hill College Campus, Bently Fellowship Hall. The event will be the first collective

recognition of the county’s potters and ceramic artists, featuring Jim and Shirl Parmentier, Henry Pope and Mary Mikkelsen, Emily Reason, Alex Matisse, Rob Pulleyn, Jane Renfroe, Becca Floyd, Kyle Carpenter and John Ransmeier. There will also be demonstrations on throwing, hand-building, carving and decorating techniques. Info: www.pottersofmadisoncounty.com.

Spoken & Written Word Asheville BookWorks

(pd.) April 15-16, Saturday and Sunday 10am-5pm. The Book As Oral History. This workshop focuses on developing content and narrative for bookwork through creative interview and research techniques. Instructor: Jessica Peterson Info: www. ashevillebookworks.com/category/workshops/content/ Creative Summer Programs for Young Writers (pd.) Experiential, active, multi-media and fun! • Elementary through high school. Downtown Asheville and River Arts District. Call True Ink: (828) 215-9002 or visit www.true-ink.com

Slam Camp! (pd.) With Griffin Payne, Poetry Slam Asheville; Amber Sherer, winner, 2007 Asheville Wordslam; Simon Wolf, LEAF Youth Poetry Slammaster. • 10:30am2:30pm, June 25-July 1 (High School) • July 25July 29 (Middle School). Magnetic Field Performance Space. • Registration/information: (828) 215-9002 or www.true-ink.com Asheville Storytelling Circle A nonprofit dedicated to excellence in the oral tradition that affirms various cultures through storytelling, and nourishes the develop-

ment of emerging and established artists. Guests and new members always welcome. Info: 274-1123. • SU (4/10), 2:30-5:30pm - “Here Comes the Sun! Stories for Spring,” will be held at UNCA’s Reuter Center, featuring Lloyd Arneach, Steve Boyer, Sandra Gudger, RoseLynn Katz, Sherry Lovett and Vixie Jill Glenn. $5. Blue Ridge Books Located at 152 S. Main St., Waynesville. Info: www. brbooks-news.com or 4566000. • TH (4/7), 7pm - “Music & Poetry,” an open mic night.

• SA (4/9), 3pm - Gwen Suesse will discuss and sign copies of her book Womansong: Balance & Harmony in a Feminine Key. • TU (4/12), 1pm - Author Heather Newton will read from her new novel, Under the Mercy Tree. • TH (4/14), 6pm - Celtic music night. Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756)

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n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) n LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 250-6480) n PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 2506486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • WE (4/6), 3pm - Book Club: Last Night on Twisted River by John Irving. WV —5-7pm - Knitting Group. SW. • TH (4/7), 7pm - Library Knitters. BM. • TU (4/12), 1pm - Book Club: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. LE —- 7pm - Film screening: General Della Rovere, an Italian neo-realist classic from 1959. WV —- “Tickle Your Funny Bone Tuesday.” Film critic and general cynic Peter Loewer presents a screening of The Lady Eve. PM. • SU (4/10) through SA (4/30) - Submissions for an essay contest celebrating National Library Week will be held. The essay subject is “Why We Should Celebrate Libraries,” and categories include: juveniles (0-13), young adults (13-18) and adults (18 and over). The winner in each category will receive a $25 gift certificate from Accent on Books, located on Merrimon Ave., in Asheville. The winners will be announced on May 5. WV. Info: FriendsofWeavervil leLibrary@gmail.com. • TH (4/14), 1pm - Book Club: No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin. FV. Cipher Circle Mondays • MONDAYS, 10pm - Join emcee/producer CAMPAIGN for this jazz-infused open mic catered toward spoken word artists, freestylers, improv singers and rhyme artists of all natures. Bass and drum accompaniment provided by the LikeMind Trio’s Mike Holstein and Justin Watt. Sit-in musicians welcome. Held at Hole ‘n’ Da Wall, 44 Market St., in downtown Asheville. Donations encouraged. Info: PureSavageEnt@gmail.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. • SU (4/10), 6pm - Elizabeth Sims and chef Brian Sonoskus will discuss the recipes featured in

the Tupelo Honey Cafe Cookbook. Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is at 3 E. Jackson St., in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com. • FR (4/8), 7pm - Thomas Rain Crow will read from his new poetry collection. • SA (4/9), 7pm - The Liar’s Bench. Poetry, music, storytelling and more. Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book signings. Info: 2546734 or www.malaprops. com. • WE (4/6), 7pm - Join host Jay Jacoby for a discussion of The Boy Who Loved Tornadoes by Randi Davenport. • TH (4/7), 7pm - Toby Bost, a consulting horticulturalist, will read from and discuss his book The Successful Gardener Guide: North Carolina, • FR (4/8), 7pm - Elizabeth Sims and Chef Brian Sonoskus. Wine will be served. • SA (4/9), 3pm - Gloria Houston will read from and sign copies of her novel Miss Dorothy and Her Bookmobile, the story of a woman determined to be a librarian, even where there aren’t any libraries. Houston will be accompanied by one of the area’s Bookmobiles, which will be parked in front of the store — 7pm - Mark Childress will read from Georgia Bottoms, his novel of Southern stories. • SU (4/10), 3pm - Ann B. Ross will read from her book Miss Julia Rocks the Cradle. • TU (4/12), 3pm - “EReader & E-Book,” a workshop with Charlotte Street Computers representative Matt Kane and bookseller Caroline Green. • WE (4/13), 7pm - North Carolina author Angela Davis-Gardner brings the exotic story of Madame Butterfly to a rural Illinois farm in her book Butterfly’s Child. Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Poetry Contest Open to children in grades K12 and to adults and professional writers. Poems must be about trees or forests. The contest commemorates the 75th anniversary of the dedication of the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest. All poems will be received by Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center and are judged by a panel of teachers, writers and the general public. Info: www.stecoahvalleycenter. com.

• Through TU (5/31) - Submissions will be accepted. Madison County Library • ONGOING - Donate books, movies and music to the Friends of the Madison County Library for the upcoming book sale held in June. Drop off donations at Books and Breadboard, 30 All Souls Crescent, near the entrance to Biltmore Estate. For pick-up service call: 333-3882. Donations benefit the Children’s Reading Programs at all three branches of Madison County’s Public Libraries. Periscope Magazine Release Party • FR (4/8), 8pm-2pm - Periscope Magazine, in association with HATCH Fest, will be holding its third-issue release party at Broadway’s indowntown Asheville. Live music will be performed by Sirius.B, The Critters, Albert Adams and Mutant League. Plus, a Kickstarter video about the upcoming issue will be screened. $5. Info: www.periscopemag.com or www.facebook.com/ PeriscopeMagazine. Poetry Slam Asheville presents The Grand Slam • SU (4/10), 8pm - Members of the 2011 Asheville Slam Team will be chosen at the Grand Slam Team Selection Finals, held at the Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St. $5/free for volunteers. Info: www.poetryslamasheville. com. The Mountain Xpress Poetry Show • FR (4/8), 7-10pm - The Mountain Xpress Poetry Show celebrates Asheville and WNC’s thriving poetry scene. Featured poets include: Laura HopeGill, director of Asheville Wordfest and Blue Ridge Parkway poet laureate; Matt Owens and Mesha Maren of the Juniper Bends reading series; Matthew Mulder and Brian Sneeden of the Rooftop Poets series; and the top 10 finalists of the 2011 Mountain Xpress poetry prize. The evening concludes with a live performance by Keith Flynn & the Holy Men in celebration of the release of their album, “LIVE at the Diana Wortham Theatre.” Tickets are $5 and can be purchased in advance at www.mountainx. com/mxcore/poem/tickets or at the door. WCU Literary Festival 2011 • Through TH (4/7) - The Spring Literary Festival will feature readings by Susan Vreeland, Bret Lott,

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Elizabeth Kostova, poets Kay Byer, Kathy Smith Bowers, Fred Chappell and bestselling author Alan Weisman, author of The World Without Us, among others. Thanks to a recent N.C. Arts Council grant, works by each of the visiting authors will be available in the Sylva, Franklin and Waynesville public libraries in advance of the festival. Held on the campus of Western Carolina University in Cullowhee. Info: www. litfestival.org.

Festivals & Gatherings International Day • WE (4/6), 10am-3:30pm - The thirty-second annual International Day, which encourages understanding of the world through music, dance, arts and crafts, entertainment and food from a variety of countries, will be held on the A.K. Hinds University Center lawn of Western Carolina University. Free. Info: www.wcu. edu/28443.asp, 227-2557 or copedo@wcu.edu.

Music Analog To Digital • Vinyl/ Tape To CD • VHS To DVD (pd.) Convert classic vinyl and tape to digital or CD and old VHS to DVD. Great quality! Very affordable. Call (828) 442-6211. www. vinylrecordstocd.com Asheville Symphony Orchestra All concerts are held at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium in the Asheville Civic Center. Tickets & info: 254-7046 or www.ashevillesymphony. org. • TU (4/12), 4pm - The orchestra celebrates its 50th anniversary season by launching an innovative new program: “Behind the Notes,” a musical discussion moderated by Chip Kaufmann at the Deerfield Retirement Community on Hendersonville Road in South Asheville. Discussion topic: “Differences in Interpretation, an introduction on how to listen to and further appreciate classical music.” Free. Info: 2547046. Community Orchestra of Hendersonville • SU (4/10), 3pm - Under the direction of Robert Hudson, the Community Orchestra of Hendersonville will present a concert at Trinity Presbyterian Church, 900 Blythe St. Viola soloist, Brenda Phetteplace, will perform a concerto by the

eighteenth century composer, Franz Hoffmeister. A concerto for two trumpets by Antonio Vivaldi will feature Hendersonville’s Peter and Pamela Voisen. A Leroy Anderson arrangement of Handel’s “Where E’re You Walk” will feature soloist Donnie Gibson. The concert will end with a symphony by J.S. Bach. Free. Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. All classes are free. Info: http://tinyurl. com/6j3nxw9. • MONDAYS, 6:30-8:30pm - “Community Sing,” open to singers, experienced and new, to share traditional tunes at 41 Balsam Ave. Hendersonville Children’s Chorus Concert At Covenant Presbyterian Church, Hendersonville. $5/$2.50. Info: 696-4968. • FR (4/8), 6:30pm - Spring concert. Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra Info: 697-5884 or www.hendersonvillesymphony.org. • FR (4/8), 5:45pm & TH (4/14), 4:15pm - In honor of the exhibition Artists of Tomorrow, by local secondary school students, Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra’s Youth String Quartet will perform at First Citizens Bank, 539 North Main St., in downtown Hendersonville. Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse Concerts are held at the Unitarian Universalist Church on the corner of Edwin and Charlotte St. in Asheville. $12 adults/$8 students. Info: 299-4171 or www.uuasheville.org. • SU (4/10), 7pm - Special CD Release Show: Al Petteway and Amy White. Music at Jongo Java • FR (4/8), 7-9pm - Fox Elipsus (new wave/pop/ rock) will perform in concert at Jongo Java, 117 South Main St., Hendersonville. Free. Directions: 696-9052. Info: www.elipsus.net. Music at UNCA Concerts are held in Lipinsky Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets & info: 2325000. • FR (4/8) - Symphony Talk with Daniel Meyer, conductor and music director of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra, at the Reuter Center, Manheimer Room. • SU (4/10), 4pm - The UNCA Wind Ensemble and Symphony and the Land of the Sky Symphonic Band will perform in concert. $5. Music for Lent

• FR (4/8), 7:30pm Celebrate Lent with German baroque music, including Bach and Pachelbel, among others, at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church. Free. Info: www.gcpcusa.org or 254-3274. North Henderson High School Choir • TU (4/12), 4pm - In honor of the exhibition Artists of Tomorrow by local secondary school students, the North Henderson High School Choir will perform at First Citizens Bank, 539 North Main Street in downtown Hendersonville. Performances at ASU Performances take place at Appalachian State University’s Farthing Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Ticket prices increase at the door on show nights. Info: (800) 841-ARTS(2787) or www.pas.appstate.edu. • FR (4/8), 8pm - “Acoustic Africa,” a concert by Habib Koite, Oliver Mtukudzi and Afel Bocoum. $20/$18 seniors/$10 faculty and students. Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre For ticket information or more details: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com. • FR (4/8), 8pm - Pop with an opera flair, Destino enthralls by combining the romance of opera with pop, gospel and soul selections delivered via its two award-winning, classically trained professional tenors, accompanied by piano and violin. $30. 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 in the Fellowship Hall at First Congregational Church, 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 (4/10), 3pm - The Done For the Evening Jazz Trio, with Bryan White on acoustic bass, Frank Southecorvo on alto and tenor saxophone and Brian Turner on keyboards, will perform a jazz concert. A free-will donation will be taken for the artists and for the restoration of the beautiful and historic church. Sunday Jam

• SUNDAYS, 5pm Musicians, no matter their skill level, instrument or style, are welcome to attend this community jam. Bring a dish to share for a potluck meal. Details and weekly locations: 317-1861. WCU Musical Events Unless otherwise noted, performances are held at the Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Tickets or info: 227-2479 or http://fapac.wcu.edu. • FR (4/8) & SA (4/9) - Bobby Watson will be the featured guest at the 2011 Jazz Festival. Watson and other musicians will perform and speak at a series of rehearsals, clinics and master classes on the WCU campus throughout the twoday festival. Those events are free and open to the public. Evening performances will be held at 7:30pm and feature Watson and the Libor Smoldas Quartet. Evening performances are $5. Info: www.pavelwlosok.com/wcu/ jazzfest2011. • TH (4/14), 8pm - Awardwinning country acts Eric Church and The Band Perry will perform at the Ramsey Regional Activity Center. $30/$25/$20. Wild Bodema • WE (4/6), 7pm - Wild Bodema, Asheville’s femalefronted percussionists troupe specializing in authentic West African rhythms, will perform at the Center for Spiritual Living, 2 Science of Mind Way in Asheville. Love offering. Info: drumming@ wildbodema.com or 5051810. Directions: http://cslasheville.org/directions.html.

Theater Asheville Community Theatre 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, 8918700 or www.unitync.net. • THURSDAYS (4/7) through SATURDAYS (4/30), 7:30pm - Full Gallop. “Joan Atwood will electrify audiences with her portrayal of Diana Vreeland in the wickedly funny, one-woman show.” $15. Brevard Little Theatre Located in the American Legion Hall, 55 E. Jordan St., Brevard. Info: www. brevardlittletheatre.com. Reservations: 884-2587. • FRIDAYS (3/25) through SUNDAYS (4/10) - The Hallelujah Girls, a comedy about feisty older women

who decide to turn an abandoned church into a day spa, will be performed. Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Highway 225, 3 miles south of Hendersonville. Info: 6930731 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org. • Through SU (4/17) - The Music of the Night: Andrew Lloyd Webber in Concert, a tribute to one of Broadway’s greatest composers, will be presented at the Flat Rock Playhouse in Hendersonville. See website for tickets and showtimes. Runaway Circus • FRIDAYS through SUNDAYS (until 4/10) - The fifth annual community circus will be held at the Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. Performances begin at 7pm on Fridays and Saturdays and at 2pm on Sundays. $10 suggested donation. Info: www.runawaycircus.com. 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. • TH (4/7) through SA (4/30) - The Labyrinth, a verse play by John Crutchfield “about a young man’s adventure into the underworld in search of his best friend.” Shows begin at 7:30pm, with late-night performances at 10pm on Fridays and Saturdays. Tickets $12-14. Theater at UNCA Performances take place in Lipinsky Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. • WE (4/13) through SU (4/17), 8pm - Reefer Madness: The Musical. Wed.-Sat., 8pm; and Sun., 2pm. Held at Carol Belk Theater. $15. 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 (4/13) through SA (4/16) - The A Train Plays, created by various playwrights under a tight deadline in one of New York’s most famous subway lines, will be performed in Niggli Theatre. $15/$10 seniors & faculty/$5 students.

Comedy Comedy Open Mic • SATURDAYS (through 6/25), 8:30pm - Comedy open mic at the Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St.,


in downtown Asheville. Info: http://on.fb.me/e4GpE8. Stand Up Comedy • SA (4/9), 7:30pm - Stand up comedian Henry Cho will perform a family-friendly show at the J.E. Broyhill Civic Center, 913 Hickory Blvd., in Hudson. $24/ $15 children. Info: 726-2409 or www.broyhillcenter.com. The Feral Chihuahuas Asheville’s premiere sketch comedy troupe can be reached at 280-0107 or feralcomedy@yahoo.com. Tickets & info: www.feralchihuahuas.com. • SA (4/9), 9:30pm - The Feral Chihuahuas Present. A multimedia and variety comedy show featuring experimental material, long form improvisation, stand-up comedy, films and songs will be held at Broadway’s, 120 N. Lexington Ave.

Film 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.

• SA (4/9) & SU (4/10), 2pm - Film Screening: Interiors, Woody Allen’s Oscar-nominated, 1978 film about an artistic family that is disconnected from each other. Free with museum membership or admission. Info: http://bit.ly/epWNC7.

Film Screening and Discussion Group • 2nd THURSDAYS, 6pm - Meet to view and discuss the film The Weather Underground and other films related to struggle. All are welcome, including filmmakers. Location and details: 980-4037 or poppasays01@gmail.com. Foreign Film Night at Weaverville Library • TU (4/12), 7pm Screening of the film General Della Rovere, a 1959 classic Italian film by Roberto Rosselini, staring Vittorio De Sica, a swindler, caught by the Gestapo and forced to impersonate the General Della Rovere, a leader of the resistance who has just been shot by the Nazis, to be put into a political jail where he is supposed to identify another resistance leader. A short discussion will follow the film.Info: 250-6482.

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/ Beginner Swing Dancing Lessons (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www.SwingAsheville.com Dance Argentine Tango (pd.) Regional Weekend Event- April 29- May 1 Newcomers/all levels welcome! Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway, Asheville, Guest Instructors + Saturday Fundamentals Classes, social dancing and practice. Live Music with Asheville Tango Orchestra! Full Schedule and pricing: www. tangogypsies.com Karen Jaffe- kjsummit@hotmail. com 828-215-1177

Studio Zahiya (pd.) • Tuesday: 9-10am: Hip Hop Fitness • 6-7pm: Beginner Bellydance • 8:10-9:10pm: Intermediate/ Advanced Bellydance • Thursday: 9-10am: 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 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.DanceAMC.org. • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - Meet at the Terpsicorps Studio of Dance above The Wedge in the River Arts District. $5. • SUNDAYS, 8:30-10:30 am & 10:30am-12:30pm - Meet at Studio 11, 11 Richland St., in West Asheville. $5. B-Boy & B-Girl Classes

• MONDAYS, 6:30-7:45pm - Learn and practice the art otherwise known as breakdancing at the Stephens-Lee recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. Children under 16 should be accompanied by an adult. Sneakers required. Free. Info: 350-2058. Creative Technology & Arts Center Located at Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St., Asheville. Info: www.ctacenter.org. • MONDAYS (through 4/25), 5-6:30pm - A “Modern Dance & Expressive Movement” class will be taught by Claire Elizabeth Barratt. All adults and teens are welcome. $10-$20 sliding scale. Dance at Diana Wortham Theatre Info: www.dwtheatre.com. • TU & WE (4/5 & 6), 8pm Award-winning Viver Brasil takes audiences on a journey through Brazil, featuring a program of African orixas (deified ancestral saints), ceremonial celebrations, the martial arts/dance form of capoeira and lively carnaval with Feet on the Ground. $35. Danceland Ballroom • FRIDAYS, 7:30-10:30pm - Dance party with DJ

Sonny Coren at 4020 Hendersonville Road, suite D. $10. Info: www. DanceLandFletcherNC.com or 423-4653. 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 —- 7:3010pm - Dance. DJ Fred Young provides a variety of dance tunes from waltz to tango. Refreshments will be served. $5/$6 nonmembers. 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., in 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 Artists Needed!

(pd.) Stingy Jack’s Pumpkin Patch Fall Festival is looking for a few artists to help create carved art installations for our 2011 event. For details, call Jeannine at 400-2088. www.stingyjackspumpkinpatch.com Asheville Community Theatre 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, 8918700 or www.unitync.net. • WE (4/6), 6-8pm Auditions for The Dixie Swim Club will be held. See website for details. Call to Videographers: A.C.P. Short Film Festival • SA (4/9), 7:30pm - Have you created a short film that you’d like to share for feedback and reviews? Films will be limited to 15 minutes per person. The event is free for participants and viewers, but donations are always welcome. Held at the Asheville Culture Project, 257 Short Coxe Ave. Info: stefan@ steebo.com, 253-4610 or www.ashevillecultureproject. org. Spring Forward Craft Fair • “Seeking artists, crafters, food vendors, farmers, butchers, bakers, candle

stick makers” to vend at this upcoming market. Held on Sunday, April 17 at the Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa St. $25 to participate. Info: springforwardodyssey.wordpress. com, misseill@gmail.com or 772-1228.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 8842787 or www.artsofbrevard. org. • Through FR (5/27) Applications for artists and crafters interested in participating in Brevard’s 39th annual Fine Arts and Crafts Showcase will be accepted. For an application contact: 884-2787 or tcarts@comporium.net.

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newsoftheweird Lead story In February, Gen. Than Shwe of Myanmar, leader of Asia’s most authoritarian regime, made a rare public appearance — dressed like a woman. According to a report on AOL News, he was probably challenging the country’s increasingly successful “panty protests,” in which females opposed to the regime toss their underwear at the leaders or onto government property to weaken the oppressors, according to local superstition. (In Myanmar, both sexes wear sarongs, but the general’s was a women’s style.) An Internet protest site urges sympathetic women worldwide to “post, deliver or fling” panties at any Burmese embassy.

The continuing crisis

• The “F State’s” Legislature at Work: (1) Florida Senate Bill 1246, introduced in February, would make it a first-degree felony to take a photo of any farmland, even from the side of the road, without the owner’s written permission. (The bill is perhaps an overenthusiastic attempt to pre-empt campaigns by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.) (2) Despite Florida’s serious budget shortfall, Senate Bill 1846 would authorize the state to borrow money for golf courses and resorts in at least five state parks and would require that the courses be designed by golf legend Jack Nicklaus’ firm. (Proving too excessive even for Florida, the bill was subsequently withdrawn.) • No Sense of Shame: (1) Nurse Sarah Casareto resigned from Abbott Northwestern Hospital in Minneapolis in February, facing possible criminal charges after allegedly swiping the painkiller fentanyl from her patient’s IV line as he was undergoing kidney surgery (telling him once to “man up” when he complained about the pain). (2) Karen Remsing, 42, stands similarly accused after her November arrest involving an unspecified pain medicine delivered by IV at University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Children’s Hospital. But in Remsing’s case, the patient was her terminally ill, 15-year-old son. • Ordinarily, New Orleans clothing designer Cree McCree, an ardent environmentalist,

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Bright ideas

• In late 2010, a Georgia utility contractor discovered an elaborate “Internet-controlled network of web-accessible cameras” and three shotguns aimed into a garden plot on a Georgia Power Co. right of way (as reported by The Augusta Chronicle in January). The state’s Wildlife Resources Division and U.S. Homeland Security took a look, but by then, the structure had been moved. (Homeland Security speculated that it was meant to keep feral hogs away from the food stock.) • Principal Angela Jennings of Rock Chapel Elementary School in Lithonia, Ga., resigned after an investigation revealed that she’d temporarily unenrolled 13 students last year, fearing that their scores would drag down her school’s performance on the annual statewide tests. (When the test was over, Jennings re-enrolled them.) The resignation, effective in June, was revealed in February by Atlanta’s WSB-TV. • Artists Adam Zaretsky and Tony Allard told AOL News in February of their plans to create “ living bio-art” using an epoxy-preserved “glob”

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• Questionable Redemption: Jim Massen, 80, a retired television repairman and farmer in Windsor, Ontario, has perhaps salvaged his good name with two philanthropic gifts totaling $105,000. In 1990, Massen served a one-year jail sentence for molesting three teenage boys. Thanks to the gifts, a scoreboard clock, an administrative office, the street leading to the complex and a walking trail will all be named for him.

Least-competent criminals

Not Ready for Prime Time: (1) Arkeen Thomas, 19, broke into a home in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in March, but the residents were present, and one of them punched Thomas in the mouth. (Thomas fled but, minutes later, a woman identified as his mother arrived, picked up his gold teeth that had been knocked out, and left.) (2) In March, Briton Luke Clay, 21, was sentenced to eight months in prison by a Nottingham Crown Court judge for a home invasion. Luke and his brother fled the home empty-handed after the resident, 79-year-old Joan Parmenter, knocked Luke down with one punch to the jaw.

Recurring themes

Another “Sovereign” Citizen: In February, the Sarasota (Fla.) Police Department fired veteran Detective Tom Laughlin, almost a year after he’d filed formal papers identifying himself as part of the “sovereign” movement. Members believe they’re beyond the control of any government and can establish their own financial system (which usually makes them much richer, on paper), based on the “original” U.S. Constitution — not the sham version secretly introduced by President Abraham Lincoln. In a subsequent interview with the Sarasota HeraldTribune, Laughlin, who had a strong record as a homicide detective, acknowledged that maybe he’d gotten carried away.

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The battle over the car seat The AAP also suggests we keep kids in the back seat until they’re at least 13. I think I can follow this one, as my girl will turn 13 in five months and, I hope, will be hitting her pre-adolescent growth spurt by then. Motor vehicle injuries are the leading cause of death among children in the U.S., according to the Centers for Disease Control. The CDC also notes these injuries can be halved by making sure kids are in age- and sizeappropriate car and booster seats. So, obviously, if it’s safer for our kids, we should try to follow the new recommendations, whether or not our kids are happy. Although, driving around with a screaming kid in the back seat isn’t safe either. For me, that’s more distracting than almost anything — and yes, I twice bumped a car in front of me while craning to check on my

distraught girl in her car seat. Which shut her up, though she’s never let me forget either occasion. And she was 4 at the time. I realize that my mommy taxi runs are the most dangerous part of our day, yet I’m not going back to car or booster seats. One, I’ve given them away. Secondly, there’s often no going back with kids. Instead, I’m going to try to keep my two in the back seat for as long as possible, strapped in with regular old seat belts, and hope for clear, open roads and focused drivers (including myself). And be happy I no longer have a screaming babe back there. X Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects, including parenting, at www. edgymama.com.

parentingcalendar Calendar for April 6 - 14, 2011 Asheville Jewish Community Center Events The JCC is located at 236 Charlotte St., Asheville. Info: 253-0701. • MONDAYS through FRIDAYS, 7:30am-6pm - Donations of gently-used children’s items will be gratefully accepted for the annual “Kids Stuff Rummage Sale” (which will be held on April 17). All proceeds from the sale will benefit the Jewish Community Center’s early childhood programs. Donations will be accepted through April 14. Info: 253-0701, ext. 109 or caroline@jcc-asheville. org. Mothers of Preschoolers • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 9:30-11:30am MOPS is for all mothers of children from infancy through kindergarten. Meetings are held at the Biltmore Baptist Church, 35 Clayton Road in Arden. Info: 687-1111, mopsofbbc@yahoo.com or mopsofbbc.com. Parenting Classes at Pardee Hospital

All classes are held in the orientation classroom of Pardee Hospital, 800 N. Justice St., in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required. Info: (866)-790-WELL. • THURSDAYS (4/7 & 4/14), 6:30-9pm - Childbirth classes will be offered for expectant parents. The program covers the labor and delivery process, relaxation, breathing patterns, birth options, positioning and comfort measures. A tour of the Pardee Women & Children’s Center is included.

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Asheville is gaining recognition as one of the hippest yoga towns in the country. Locals see the threads woven throughout their day — from the ubiquitous Om-symbol bumper stickers to the checkout clerk who greets you with “Namaste” to your coworker’s reminder to “take a deep breath” when you’re feeling stressed. This is not surprising, given the area’s hundreds of skillful teachers, the dozen or so accomplished studios, and several regionally recognized teacher-training programs. Local practitioners can choose from Anusara, Bikram, Barkan Method, bhakti, gentle, flow, hot, jivamukti, integrative, Iyengar, kundalini and yin yoga. And that’s just on Tuesdays. But all those choices can feel overwhelming to newcomers and seasoned veterans alike. How do you know which one is right for you? “Different people need different practices to feel the most free in their body and mind,” says Cat Matlock of West Asheville Yoga and Bodhana Yoga School. “Ultimately it doesn’t really matter what it is — simply pick the practice that makes your heart sing the loudest.” Local yoga-therapy teacher Meghan Ganser shares another perspective. “Historically, a yoga practice — which includes specific physical postures, breathing patterns and points of meditation — was prescribed to an individual to bring more balance into their life. An overly active, fiery person, while drawn to a hot, fiery practice, might instead need one that cultivates more stillness and softness. Since the prescription may require them to go against their usual grain, they could feel challenged in the short term but receive the most long-term benefit.” To help people choose wisely, the Greater Asheville Yoga Association is creating a guide to the various styles and offering an opportunity to sample classes. GAYA, a fellowship of local studios, teachers and students, is hosting the second Day of Yoga and Healing Saturday, April 16 at the Laughing Waters retreat center outside Asheville. Running from 8:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., the event will feature concurrent beginner and intermediate classes with some of the area’s favorite teachers, as well as lectures, hikes and opportunities for chair massages along the creek. The cost is $25 in advance, $30 at the door; lunch from the Green Light Café will be available for purchase. GAYA has also created a website featuring a comprehensive list of Asheville-area classes. As the site grows, the group wants to incorporate descriptions of the yoga styles taught by different teachers around town, helping students connect with the practice that’s right for them — bringing more vitality into their life now while providing the most long-term balance. “In the West, most people think of yoga in terms of physical postures,” notes GAYA co-founder Timothy Burgin. “In a broad sense, this is known as hatha yoga, and it is only one part of the puzzle.” There’s also bhakti yoga (the yoga of the heart and total participation), karma yoga (the yoga of action and selfless service), jnana yoga (the yoga of philosophy and knowledge) and many others. In the U.S., there are now dozens (if not hundreds) of variations of hatha yoga. Many have roots in four schools brought over from India, beginning in the mid-1950s, by students of the celebrated and honored Krishnamacharya.

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Balance and health: Historically, yoga aimed to bring balance into the practioner’s life, says local instructor Meghan Ganser. photo by Jonathan welch

Iyengar yoga, founded by B.K.S. Iyengar, is known for using props to make poses more accessible and easier to hold for longer periods. Many of today’s therapeutic styles derived from this. Ashtanga yoga, as taught by Pattabhi Jois, is known for its more vigorous style of movement, with poses flowing quickly from one to another. Many vinyasa, flow, power and hot-style classes are partially rooted in this school. More restorative, gentle and relaxing classes have their foundation in the teachings of Indra Devi. And classes that stress function over form and pay special attention to aligning the breath with the movement of the spine may have a footing in Viniyoga, brought to America by T.K.V. Desikachar. “All of the styles and teachings of hatha yoga have the overall goal of helping people find greater balance and expand into greater parts of themselves,” continues Burgin. “To find the practice that’s right for you, sample many classes, teachers and styles. If you don’t like the first class, try not to write off yoga altogether: Try another style.” A Day of Yoga and Healing is a benefit for GAYA; for more information, visit yogaasheville.com/yogaday/. X Jacquelyn Dobrinska is vice president of the Greater Asheville Yoga Association.


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Akasha Body Basics • Today • This Weekend! (pd.) This Wednesday, April 6! • Qi-building meditation (builds life force energy) 7pm-8pm: $10. • This weekend! Medical Qigong workshop, Saturday and Sunday, 8:30am-5pm, $250. • (14 LMBT CEUs. (828) 778-4778. www.akashabodybasics.com Aromatherapy Workshop (pd.) Gain new skills. • Aromatherapy Level I workshop with Dr. Joie Power. • Massage Therapy NCBTMB Approved Provider 15 CE hours • Next Asheville 2-day workshop: May 21-22. $245.00. (828) 835-2231. www.Aromatherapy-School.com Compassion Focused Therapy (pd.) This being “human” is difficult. We find ourselves being hard on ourselves, driven to perfection, pushing harder or giving up. We become wired for stress, depression, anxiety, codependency, alcohol and drug problems, overeating, etc. • Learn effective mindful self-compassion skills to respond differently to your suffering, feelings of inadequacies and selfjudgments. Individual and group sessions. Denise Kelley, MA, LPC; Call 231-2107 or email: empowering.solutions@yahoo.com Feldenkrais/Anat Baniel Method (pd.) Reduce Tension • Alleviate Pain • Improve Flexibility and Posture. • Group Class Mondays 7:45pm - First Time is Free, Downtown Asheville. • Private sessions by appointment, East Asheville. 2998490. integrativemovement.com Park Ridge Health (pd.) Free Health Screenings with the Park Ridge Health WOW Van: Free Cholesterol Screenings Lipid and glucose profiles by finger stick, along with blood pressure and body mass index screening. For best results, fast overnight. Saturday, April 9 (8-11am), Rock Hill Missionary Church, 207 Rock Hill Road., Asheville. • Monday, April 11 (8-11am) CVS, 3450 Hendersonville Road., Fletcher. • Free Body Composition Analysis: Blood pressure, body fat and hydration percentages, body mass index, height and weight for overall body composition. Friday, April 8 (10:30 am-1:30 pm) Blue Ridge Community College, 180 West Campus Dr., Flat Rock. • $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. Thursday, April 7 (10am-1pm), Stein Mart, 213 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. Thursday, April 7 (8am-1pm), Stein Mart, 213 Greenville Hwy., Hendersonville. • Free Support Groups: Breast Cancer Survivors and Friends/ “I Can Cope” Cancer Support Group: April 4, 5:30pm, Park Ridge Breast Health Center. Offered by the Park Ridge 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. • Henderson County Stroke/Aphasia Support Group: April 21, 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. • Free Community Presentations: Osteoporosis of the Spine: How it Affects You and What to Do About It :Tuesday, April 12, Noon, Park Ridge Health at Laurel Park (1881 Pisgah Dr., Hendersonville). Brad Mast, physical

therapist with Park Ridge Health at Laurel Park, will discuss osteoporosis of the spine and offer information on how to improve your bone strength, things to avoid, reducing your fall risk and bone fractures. Space for this class is limited, so please call (828) 687-3947 to RSVP. • The Baby Place Events: Childbirth Classes: $90. Class cost is $90 per couple. Choose from the weekly class on Tuesday evenings for 4-weeks or a one-day class (beginning April 11) from 9am-4pm. To register or for more information, please call Sheri Gregg at (828) 681-BABY or visit parkridgebabies.com. • Love and Logic: $60/person, $100 for couples, April 11 and 18: 5:30-9pm. The Love and Logic workshop uses 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. To register or for more information, please call Sheri Gregg at (828) 681-BABY or visit parkridgebabies.com. • Community Events: Suffering from Sinus Issues? Free Presentation: Join Dr. Michael Stalford and Dr. Michael Neuenschwander, board-certified otolaryngologists with Park Ridge Ear, Nose and Throat, for a special free presentation discussing the causes of sinus discomfort and possible treatment options - including the innovative Balloon Sinuplasty procedure. Thursday, April 14, 6-8 pm. Hilton - Biltmore Park. Refreshments will be served. Please call 1-855-PRH-LIFE to reserve your space for this exciting opportunity. 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. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600. • TH (4/7), 3-4:30pm - “Balance & Fall Prevention.” Chloe Roderick, a Pardee licensed physical therapist, will discuss tips to help maintain balance and prevent falls —- 10am - “Mom2Mom,” a social network for nursing mothers. Joyce Maybin, RN, IBCLC, will lead discussions about breastfeeding topics and techniques. • TH (4/14), 3-4:30pm - “Help for Shoulder Pain,” a discussion with Jason Morgan, a Pardee licensed physical therapist. Free Cancer Education Classes • WEDNESDAYS through (4/27), 3-5pm - For people with cancer, family and friends. Guest speakers will discuss a different topic each week. Attend one or all classes, held at Cancer Centers of North Carolina, 20 Medical Park Drive in Asheville. Free. Info and registration: 271-6510. Living Healthy with a Chronic Condition • THURSDAYS (4/14) through (5/19), 1-3:30pm - 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. Held at Mission Health Education Center, 445 Biltmore Ave., Asheville. $30. Registration required: 251-7438. • TUESDAYS, 4-6:30pm - A Chronic Disease Self Management Program. at CarePartners Health Services, 68 Sweeten Creek Road. Free. Registration required: 251-7438. Living Healthy with Diabetes • WEDNESDAYS - A six-week self-management diabetes program will be held at MAHEC, 501 Biltmore Ave. The workshop is for people living with diabetes and caregivers. Free. Registration required: 251-7438. Osteoporosis of the Spine: How it Affects You and What to Do About It • TU (4/12), noon-1pm - Brad Mast, physical therapist with Park Ridge Health at Laurel Park, will discuss osteoporosis of the spine and offer information on


wellnesscontinued how to improve bone strength. Space is limited. RSVP for location: 687-3947. 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. • TH (4/7), 1:30-6pm - Black Mountain Community, 117 Montreat Road. Info: 669-2725, ext. 10. • MO (4/11), 2-6pm - New Morgan Hill Baptist Church, 370 Lake Drive in Candler. Info: 667-4313. • TU (4/12), 10am-2:30pm - Montreat College, 310 Gaither Circle in Montreat. Info: turpinma@montreat.edu. • TH (4/14), 2-6pm - Francis Asbury United Methodist Church, 725 Asbury Road in Candler. Info: 667-3950. “The Way Back” • THURSDAYS (through 5/26), 5:30-8pm - CarePartners presents “The Way Back,” a free educational series on aging and recovering from injury or illness. Complimentary dinner provided. Held at 68 Sweeten Creek Road in Asheville. RSVP: 274-9567, ext. 8379 or lchase@carepartners.org. Women’s Health & Education Endeavors (WHEE) • SA (4/9), noon-2:30pm - “Tai Chi and Herbal Medicine,” free workshops at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Ave. “Tai Chi,” with Liz Ridley, followed by an interactive talk on “Herbal Medicine,” including food as medicine, with herbalist Carleigh O’Donnell. Healthy snacks will be provided. Info: 50-2058 or stephenslee@ashevillenc.gov.

Support Groups 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, 5:45pm - Wednesday Women’s AlAnon meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. (at Gracelyn Road). Newcomers welcome. Attention Migraine Sufferers • WEEKLY - All are welcome to attend this new support group. Come learn about the latest treatments and research on migraines. For directions and details: 2776723. Celebrate Recovery Christ-centered, biblically based recovery ministry. Weekly fellowship and support meetings deal with reallife issues, including divorce, co-dependency, anger, control, chemical dependency, sexual addictions, hurtful relationships, eating disorders, depression and other addictive, compulsive or dysfunctional behaviors. Info: 687-1111. • MONDAYS, 7-9pm - Eye Scream Parlour, 2064 Highway 70 in Swannanoa. Info: 301-3582. • TUESDAYS, 6:15-9pm - Tired of life’s hurts, habits and hang-ups? Meetings are held every Tuesday. Starts with group dinner. Held at Mountain View Church, 2221 North Fork Road in Black Mountain. Nursery available. Info: www.mvc.cc or 298-0430. Co-Dependents Anonymous A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.

• SATURDAYS, 11am - Meeting at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St., in Asheville. The Church entrance and parking is in back. Info: 779-2317 or 299-1666. Crystal Meth Anonymous • SUNDAYS, 6:30pm - 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. Essential Tremor Support Group Open to people of all ages. Info: 329-9564 or rita@ lyda.us. • TH (4/7), 6pm - Meeting at Carepartners Hospice Center at the John Keever Solace Centerconference room, 21 Belvedere Road. GriefShare GriefShare features nationally recognized experts in grief-and-recovery support and meets at Calvary Baptist Church, 531 Haywood Road in Asheville. Info: 253-7301 or michael.lee@calvaryasheville.com. • SUNDAYS, 3pm - GriefShare group meeting. Overcomers Recovery Support Group for Ladies • TUESDAYS, 7pm - This 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. 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 otherwise noted.

• THURSDAYS, 6:30 - Hendersonville: O.A. Step Study group at the Cox House, 723 N. Grove St. Info: 3291637. • 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 meeting. Info: 6690986. • MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-4828. • MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway. Info: (800)580-4761. • TUESDAYS, 10:30am-noon - Asheville: Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., at Ottari. Info: 280-2213. 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-stepbased recovery program meets at 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: www.slaafws.org or ashevilleslaa@charter.net.

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Several years ago I did an in-store radio spot about how to get kids to eat various fruits and vegetables. I recommended dipping vegetables in Ranch dressing or cheese sauce and dipping fruit, like apples, into caramel sauce or a sweet cream cheese. One mother called me, appalled that I had suggested this.

My opinion is that parents and care providers should look at the big nutrition picture. If the goal is to get a child to drink milk and they refuse plain low-fat or fat-free milk, but will drink it with a squirt of chocolate syrup or a spoonful of chocolate powder - DO IT! The same applies to fruits and vegetables. If your child resists them unless they can dip fruit in caramel sauce or sweet cream cheese or have Ranch dressing or cheese sauce for vegetables let them do it if it means they end up eating fruits and vegetables.

Other ways to “sneak” fruits and vegetables into a child’s diet include: -Making smoothies or juicing fruits and vegetables. -Add pureed vegetables to soups, pasta sauces or even hamburger or meatloaf. If your ultimate goal is provide your child with a balanced diet the short term measures to encourage consumption are just not that big of a deal.

Asheville thrives as regional center of integrative medicine

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A midwife’s memoir: Patricia Harman reading at Malaprop’s April 22

“People from across the country now travel to attend Asheville’s herbal medicine and massage schools, something economic development groups want to promote, along with the city’s abundance of alternative medicine practitioners.” — [Asheville Citizen-Times]

“Author and longtime midwife Patricia Harman will be reading from her new book, Arms Wide Open: A Midwife’s Journey on Friday, April 22, at Malaprop’s at 7 p.m. As her publicist notes, “The new book goes back to the hippie homebirth homesteading days when she and her partner went back to the land to experiment with living sustainably.” — [Xpress Blogwire]

department as budget cuts result in the elimination of faculty as well as activity classes that have been staples of the department.” — [The Blue Banner]

“School health centers keep students healthy and healthier students are better learners. Eliminating SBHCs and making it difficult for students to access care will negatively impact academic outcomes, especially for hardest-toreach students.” — [Asheville Citizen-Times]

UNCA Health and Wellness Department loses activity classes, faculty Opinion: Closing school clinics “More studying and less sweating. That’s the future of UNC Asheville’s health and wellness a blow to student health

New N.C. flu strain spurs inquiry

“Flu season is winding down in North Carolina, but health officials are warning doctors to be on the lookout for a form of the virus less sensitive to a common anti-viral drug ... Health officials said there is a genetic change in the viruses that has not been seen in samples from other states.” — [Asheville Citizen-Times]

Buncombe ranked 17th healthiest county in North Carolina

“Buncombe County is the 17th healthiest in the state, according to the County Health Rankings project. According to the rankings, the county has excellent health behavior and clinical care but problems with morbidity and environmental quality.” — [Mountain Xpress]

Mission Hospital to host ‘Authentic Self’ workshop on Friday, April 15th

“A full day workshop called “Exploring, Sharing and Nurturing our Authentic Selves” is being offered in April by the Integrative Healthcare Department at Mission Hospital. ... Although the workshop is especially helpful to nurses and other healthcare professionals, it can benefit anyone who is seeking a better understanding of themselves and is ready to develop new approaches for personal and professional fulfillment.” — [Mission Hospitals]

Study: Yoga calms heart pace, cuts anxiety

“People who suffer from irregular heartbeat could see their episodes cut in half if they do yoga regularly, according to a study released in the United States. Doing yoga three times a week also reduced depression and anxiety while boosting people’s opinion of their own social and mental well-being, said the research presented at a New Orleans cardiology conference on Saturday.” — [AFP]

What you should know about those stickers on your fruit and vegetables

“Although they seem like a nuisance, the stickers or labels attached to fruit and some vegetables have more of a function than helping scan the price at the checkout stand. The PLU code, or price lookup number printed on the sticker, also tells you how the fruit was grown. By reading the PLU code, you can tell if the fruit was genetically modified, organically grown or produced with chemical fertilizers, fungicides, or herbicides.” — [Acupuncture Blog Chicago] 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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by Mackensy Lunsford When the word “extreme” gets coupled with something as patently uncool as coupons, saving cash may finally achieve fad status (financial planners and doting parents, rejoice). Extreme Couponing, a new show on TLC, highlights the unlikely phenomenon. In the show, shoppers roll through the grocery line with hundreds of dollars worth of food in their carts, stacks of coupons worth about as much and all the swagger of a Vegas high-roller. In the pilot, when one of the extreme couponer’s peers says she doesn’t have time to clip coupons, the couponer responds with a sassy, “Baby, you just ain’t been broke enough.” She then proceeds to buy $300 worth of groceries for $6.37, to much eye-rolling from the checkout clerk. If the phenomenon of extreme couponing brings to mind jumping out of a plane with a pair of scissors and newspaper, you’re not alone. Given the choice between more free time and tediously clipping coupons, most of the demographic outside the early-bird dinner crowd would tend to choose immediate gratification. That may be all about to change. Because baby, you may soon be broke enough. As we said in last week’s Xpress, fuel and food prices are predicted to rise in the coming year. Focusing on simple ways to fill up the cart cheaply may be in everyone’s cards — which

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is why we’re calling in the experts to get some tips. If searching for savings at the grocery store makes you yawn, local coupon diva and “Super Market Currency” blogger Shana McDowell says to suck it up. McDowell is a mother of four, a wife and a dog-owner — and she feeds the whole lot for about $60 a week. Allowing the dog $5 a week, that’s about $9 for each member of the family, which further breaks down to about $1.30 a day. That’s enough to make anyone want to take her seriously. McDowell has plenty of tricks up her sleeve, which she shares on her blog (supermarketcurrency.com). Here are a few of her favorites: • Buy only what you need. “The bulk aisle is great for that. You don’t end up with a 5pound bag of gluten-free flour that you might not like. If your recipe calls for 2 cups, you’re able to get that. Plus, it’s a great place to try things.” • If you find barley is cheap but don’t know what the heck to do with it? “We use our phones for everything else. Stand there and Google it for a second. If you’ll stand there and tweet that you’re in Earth Fare, you can stand there and look up what barley is.” • Shop the perimeter. This is a standard dietitian tip that refers to the fact that most healthy items (like produce and juice) can be found around the fringe of the store. “Then you can build your base with your non-per-


Grains of wisdom: Dried, bulk goods can reduce the grocery bill — they just take a little extra time to make. ishables and any canned good and condiments that you do prefer to use — things you do see an abundance of coupons for.” • “Stacking equals stocking,” says McDowell. What she means is that combining (or stacking) coupons with store sales gets the best savings. That’s how you get to the level of “extreme couponer.” • Can’t find what you want? Assuming you aren’t looking for foie gras and escargot, it’s likely that you can call the manufacturer

directly for savings. Just ask, says McDowell, and they’ll likely send you coupons. “Why? Because they want you to buy their product.” • Kids don’t like the meat you bought on special? Assuming it’s fresh, that’s just too bad. “The best way to save money is to make a meal plan according to what’s on sale that week. If chicken’s on sale that week, you’re not eating pork chops, you’re not eating ham.” Learn to make different recipes with one type of food, she says.

foodcalendar Calendar for April 6 - 14, 2011 Asheville Jewish Community Center Events The JCC is located at 236 Charlotte St., Asheville. Info: 253-0701. • WE (4/13), 7pm - Jewish cooking class: “Passover Macaroon Baking.” Learn how to make delicious coconut macaroons that are kosher for Passover. RSVP by April 6. $10/$20 nonmembers. Register: lauren@jcc-asheville.org or 253-0701, ext. 112. Events at Mayland Community College Located at 200 Mayland Drive in Spruce Pine. Info: www. mayland.edu. • TH (4/7), 6-9pm - “Good Agricultural Practices,” a free seminar on the necessary guidelines and practices to deal with the microbial risks of fresh produce, will be taught by Diane Ducharme, NCSU’s award-winning coordinator of GAP training programs. Cosponsored by Project Skill-Up. Register: 765-7351, ext. 249. Info: 765-7351, ext. 227. • SA (4/9), 1-5pm - The Independent Small Animal Meat Processor’s Association, in partnership with the Small Business Center, presents a free workshop on meat production and marketing. The class will be held in the Sam Center Auditorium. Breakout sessions will be available on poultry and rabbit production. Register: 765-7351, ext. 249. Info: 467-3028. Hendersonville/Flat Rock Small Plate Crawl

• WE (4/6) - Over 20 restaurants will serve “small plates,” priced from $2-$8, showing off their cuisine and chef’s talent. For a complete list of participating restaurants, crawl hours, parking information and area discounts: http://smallplatecrawl.com/how-it-works. Plus, there will be a “Kids Small Crab Crawl” featuring games, puzzles and more. Waynesville Parks and Recreation Info: 456-2030 or recprograms@townofwaynesville.org. • WEDNESDAYS, 1:30-4pm - “Cooking Around the World.” Registration includes two hours of professional instruction from chef Ambra Lowenstein and all materials are included. $30/$35 nonmembers. Chinese (April 6); Indian (April 13), Spanish (April 20) and Japanese (April 27). Info: 456-2030. Public Lectures & Events at UNCA Events are free unless otherwise noted. • TH (4/14), 7pm - “Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales of the Jewish South,” with by Marcie Cohen-Ferris at the Humanities Lecture Hall.

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• If you aren’t the clipping type, McDowell says, coupons can be found at plenty of local grocery retailers on the shelves and by the entrances. And it may surprise you to learn that, if you look hard enough, you can often find savings on local goods through some natural foods markets or co-ops. • While many of us don’t imagine ourselves to have time for perusing the paper with a pair of kitchen shears, we do seem to have plenty of time to piddle away on the computer. Visit the websites of products that you frequently buy and grocery stores where you often shop to search for coupons. While it may take time, it could mean money in your wallet. “A lot of people tell me that time is their biggest restraint as far as couponing, saving money, doing anything with their family that will cause them to live a better life,” says McDowell. “You just have to manage your time, is really what it is.” X Send your food news to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com.

moredeals Still think couponing sounds a little quaint? Perhaps a little bit of technology will help you feel more in this century? Check store websites for coupons. Xpress did a little unofficial online research, visiting the sites of three local grocery stores: Earth Fare (earthfare.com), Greenlife (wholefoodsmarket.com) and Ingles (ingles-markets.com). While we can’t exactly promise that your shopping list will look like ours, we found that — even while being slightly finicky about our selections — we could save about $20 off a regular grocery bill after printing out the coupons available on the stores’ websites. Honorable mention: While the French Broad Food Co-op (frenchbroadfood.coop) doesn’t offer coupons, they do advertise their monthly deals and specials online.

recipe Want to save even more? Ingles Dietitian Leah McGrath recommends cooking with beans for value. “Anything with beans is a good choice — soups, stews and chilis — you can really stretch those types of things and have them with rolls or breads or salads. That’s what we do at home.” Some people may shy from cooking beans, even though they’re one of the cheapest sources of protein on the planet. “I think that dried beans are intimidating to people,” says McGrath, who adds that, even thought they aren’t quite as cheap, canned beans are still economically priced — and good for a quick meal. Want to save money and have dinner ready quick? Try lentils, says McGrath. “Lentils cook so fast. I think that the big stumbling block with people and dried beans is that they think, ‘I have to rinse them, I have to drain them, then they’ll take a couple of hours to cook.’ They don’t realize that lentils are super-fast cooking compared to other dried beans.” McGrath’s lentil stew can be served with salad and bread for a cheap but filling meal.

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Ten years ago, West Asheville was a very different place. While it wasn’t exactly a tumbleweed-filled ghost town, there was no U-Joint, Admiral or Desoto. The West End Bakery, however, put down its roots in a spot that would eventually become a social hub for the community — an anchor of a burgeoning district. This month, the West End Bakery celebrates a decade of business with in-store deals, “opening day” prices and 10-cent coffee. “We’ll be giving out samples of things, having certain specialty breads and things like that,” says Cleary, one of the bakery’s four owners along with Krista Stearns, Reid Chapman and Lewis Lankford. “There will definitely be something new featured every week,” she says. And what’s it like watching an area come to life? Amazing, says Cleary. At the age of 28, when she began looking in the area for a place to house her bakery, there wasn’t much on the block other than Beanwerks (a coffee roastery), a cluster of barber shops and “lots and lots of appliance stores.” “When we got this building, it was a storefront church — called ‘God’s Filling Station.’ That’s appropriate for a store-front church, across the street from a gas station,” Cleary laughs. West Asheville: You’ve come a long way,

baby. And so has the West End Bakery. Want to see how far? Visit the bakery to see a display of photos, both old and new, of Haywood Road’s revitalization. The bakery is also requesting that residents and business owners contribute their own memories and photos to the collection. West End Bakery is located at 757 Haywood Road. For more information, visit westendbakery.com.

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West End Bakery participates in the local food movement and shares a passion for working with local farmers and producers whenever possible. In fact, they’re one of seven WNC bakeries (including Annie’s Naturally, Farm and Sparrow, Flat Rock Village Bakery, Loafchild Breads, Wake Robin Farm Bread, Wildflour Bakery and Natural Bridge Bakery) working together to kick-start a flour mill that would process North Carolina-grown grains. The project, Carolina Ground, aims to link Western North Carolina farmers, millers and bakers, with the goal of producing local, stoneground flour for an all-local loaf of bread. “The impetus for Carolina Ground came in the wake of the 2008 spike in the price of wheat, where ... costs rose as much as 130 percent,” says the organization’s website. “This was due, in part, to drought in Australia, floods in Northern Europe, and the displacement of wheat for corn


On the rise: WNC is fortunate to boast a number of craft bakeries, including Annie’s Naturally, which just moved the wholesale facilities from Sylva to Asheville. for ethanol in the U.S.� What led to the profound spike in the price of wheat could be traced back to the creation of the Commodity Index Fund by Goldman Sachs in 1991, and the ensuing dramatic change in U.S. monetary fund policy that paved the way for escalated speculation. Add the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates, the decline in the value of the dollar, the increase in the price of oil, which prompted a rush from investors globally to trade dollars for commodities — it was truly a perfect storm.� The coalition of bakeries is looking for donations to get their mill up and running — but the group only has until Saturday, April 16, to reach its goal (you can pledge as little as $10). To learn more, visit Carolina Ground’s Kickstarter campaign (kickstarter.com/projects/1139809766/ carolina-ground-farmer-miller-baker-nc-grownbread).

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Crème Bakery is now serving lunch Monday through Saturday, from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. The bakery partners with Colorful Palate Catering to serve a cafe-style lunch that changes on a weekly basis. The menu includes sandwiches on Crème’s daily bread selections or their pret-

zel rolls, which reportedly have a bit of a cult following. “In addition, we’re serving filled rolls, such as our Florentine Focaccia filled with spinach, onion and mozzarella and a variety of savory pies,â€? says co-owner Jitra Neal. At lunchtime at Crème, expect to find Colorful Palate’s chicken salad and ever-changing flavors of pimento cheese and hummus, which the catering company sells to The Soda Fountain at Woolworth Walk. Pimento cheese flavors include horseradish-havarti, chipotle-cheddar and smoked gouda, which can also be purchased directly from Crème. Crème is located at 640 Merrimon Ave., Suite 201. For more information, call 350-9839.

says Jon Fisher, a partner in the business with Joe and Annie Ritota, The new plant occupies the old Square D facility, says Fisher, and enables for greater regional expansion of their bread distribution. Annie’s breads can currently be found at Greenlife, Fresh Market, Ingles and other local groceries. “We can go at least tenfold the size now,� says Fisher. “We’re trying to move from a local bakery to a regional, much larger-scale bakery.� Ingles is the bakery’s primary customer — Annie’s currently delivers their fresh-baked breads to 25 Ingles stores, four times a week. “And we’re looking to add four to five Ingles every quarter,� says Fisher. The bakery also supplies local restaurants and catering companies — the largest wholesale account that they have, outside of Ingles, is the Biltmore Estate. “We’re doing all six restaurants there,� says Fisher. “It’s a large account — especially when they have a million visitors a year.� Fisher says that Annie’s, which is working on getting their all-organic certification, will remain a regional bakery with no real plans to go national. And with so much demand in the area, it seems like there’s not much reason to get any bigger. “We’re really glad to be in Asheville right now.� For more information about Annie’s Naturally, visit anniesnaturallybakery.com. X

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Local farmstead cheeses are ready for their close-up this month by Maggie Cramer Western North Carolinians may not don foam cheese hats at Tourists’ games, but we’re a cheese-loving and cheese-making region all the same. That’s why Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project is putting the focus on local farmstead cheese this month in its Get Local initiative, which brings together farmers, chefs and community members to celebrate a single seasonal ingredient. In fact, we’re so steeped in appreciation for our local cheese makers that it may be difficult to imagine a time when no one had heard of local, handcrafted cheeses. But, that was the landscape not too long ago. “We’ve been licensed since 1986,” says Bruce DeGroot of Yellow Branch Pottery and Cheese in Robbinsville. “At that time, the idea of artisan cheeses practically didn’t exist.” DeGroot and his partner, Karen Mickler, actually started making cheese for themselves a few years earlier. “We got our first cow in ’81,” Bruce says, adding, “After she calved the first time, we had more fluid milk than we knew

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what to do with, and Karen started making cheese for us.” In the ‘80s, the term agritourism just wasn’t used, but Bruce and Karen were onto something there as well. Around the same time they began experimenting with cheese making, Bruce built a space for Karen to house her original passion, pottery. “It just occurred to us that we might be able to do something with our milk, to create another product we could sell wholesale,” he says. “The pottery building was conceived as a showroom, and we were already trying to get people to come visit. We thought, this might just work.” And it has. Yellow Branch started out making roughly 1,000 pounds a year of their signature cheese, a recipe developed after Karen took cheese-

making courses in Canada and Wisconsin. Several years later, artisan cheeses became a full-fledged craze, sought after by connoisseurs and general consumers alike (a boom that, according to Bruce, began at the end of the ‘90s). Now, Yellow Branch milks five cows to produce more than 6,000 pounds a year. Karen’s pottery has also taken off, and Bruce has assumed all cheese-making duties — of course, honoring Karen’s recipe. “We make what we consider an original cheese, which is Yellow Branch Farmstead. It gets compared to cheddar and havarti,” he says, noting that while it may share some properties with those standards, it speaks for itself. But, Bruce has put his own spin on things. He now creates a pepper-and-basil version


of their original — with pepper and basil he grows himself — and creates a natural-rind cheese, aged without wax for a minimum of 120 days. And he’s got more up his sleeve. “I’m bringing online some natural rinds aged longer, a year or two years. The two-year is almost like a Parmigiano-Reggiano.” He’s also working with Heinzelmännchen Brewery in Sylva to create beer-infused and soaked options. Area cheese makers’ willingness to experiment excites our local chefs. “It’s amazing the variety we have,” says Peter Pollay, executive chef and owner of Posana Café in downtown Asheville. “We speak with our producers at least once a week, if not more. They’re telling us what is at the best ripeness, what is at the best point in the aging progress, or you really should have a cheese this week. We’re even in a position to say we want them to make a cheese with a certain mixture of milk because those are the flavors we really like. It’s pretty much a chef’s dream.” Pollay says these relationships have gotten stronger and stronger. Shortly after ASAP’s Marketing Opportunities for Farmers (MOFF) conference, held at Warren Wilson College in late February, he was able to fill Posana’s cheese plate with entirely locally produced cheeses. And, he’s well on his way to featuring all local cheeses in all of the salads on his menu. While farmstead cheese lends itself to many dishes, Pollay likes it best “alone, to get the full flavor from the cheese itself and the milk the producers use.” He adds, “Of course, a glass of wine goes really well with it.”

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ASAP is the Wine Studio of Asheville’s featured nonprofit for April at their Winesday events — opportunities for area wine lovers to get together, socialize and try new wines. In honor of Get Local’s farmstead cheese focus this month, it’s also a chance to sample the artisan products of our area’s talented cheese makers. One dollar from each attendee’s $5 ticket benefits ASAP. Looking Glass Creamery kicks off the month, on April 6, followed by Three Graces Dairy (April 13) and Spinning Spider Creamery (April 20) — all three of which Pollay sources. Yellow Branch cheeses close out the month on April 27. In addition to offering samples, cheese makers will sell their products so that you can recreate the pairing you loved in the store, located at 169 Charlotte St. The events are held from 5-8 p.m. For more information about Winesdays, visit winestudioasheville.com. And find a list of all participating Get Local eateries, plus more information about ASAP’s initiative, at asapconnections.org/getlocal.html. To learn more about Yellow Branch Farmstead Cheese, visit yellowbranch.com, or call 479-6710. Posana Café is located at 1 Biltmore Ave. in downtown Asheville and can be reached at 505-3969, or found on the web at posanacafe.com. To find more information on the other cheese producers mentioned here, and even more located around the region, visit ASAP’s online Local Food Guide at buyappalachian.org and search by product. X

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arts&entertainment {RE}Happening all over again Interdisciplinary performance festival embraces the legacy of BMC by Ursula Gullow The year is 1951. Dusk has fallen. Strains of music and conversation echo across the campus of Black Mountain College. Students and faculty dine on vegetables harvested from on-campus gardens. In a nearby building, a dancer covered in iridescent powder moves in time to an ambient soundtrack produced on site. The year is 2010, and performances spill out onto the front lawn of the Black Mountain college campus. Known internationally for its interdisciplinary approach to the arts and sciences, the former Black Mountain College (1933-1957) influenced a legion of artists, many of whom went on to gain worldwide recognition. Experimental approaches to learning were encouraged at the school, including spur-of-the-moment events that later became known as “happenings.” Merce Cunningham did them, John Cage did them, and this Saturday, April 9, more than 60 artists will be doing one on the original grounds of Black Mountain College. While transcribing oral histories of BMC students a couple of years ago, local arts advocate Jolene Mechanic kept hearing about the “Saturday night dinner parties” that took place in the dining hall at BMC. “They were outrageous, wonderful and totally unpredictable,” says Mechanic. “One night you might have Charles Olson doing spoken-word stuff, another night it might be Merce Cunningham and his dance company, or John Cage and his crew doing something. I thought, what a party! I would have wanted to be there.” Inspired, Mechanic enlisted the help of artist Gene Felice to organize a night of performances and site-specific installations at the college in March of last year — the original {Re}Happening. That event served up a multicourse dinner, poetry, music, dance and more. All told, more than 30 artists participated. This year’s {Re}Happening has expanded its scope to include even more of the original Black Mountain College campus, and twice the number of artists. “The idea is that art is ‘happening’ all around us simultaneously. It’s up to us to determine how we experience it,” says Felice. Produced as a collaborative effort between Black Mountain Museum and

where & when WHO: {Re}Happening WHAT: An evening of performance, multimedia, art, music and more WHERE: The former campus of Black Mountain College, at Camp Rockmont in Black Mountain WHEN: Saturday, April 9. Dinner tickets sold out. Other events run from 8:30 p.m. to midnight, and include drinks, snacks and art. $15, tickets on sale at BMCM+AC (56 Broadway), and Harvest Records (415 Haywood). rehappening.com.

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Beestly fun: Wildebeest presents The Mountain Goat and Musk Ox (Tina Matthews and Eve Warnock), from last year’s {Re}Happening.

photo by jon leidel

Arts Center and The Media Arts Project, {Re}Happening is a fundraiser for both organizations, and encourages interdisciplinary approaches to art making. The merging of various disciplines and schools of thought — such as mathematics, visual art, astrology and literature — was essential to the Black Mountain College curriculum. That’s a model that can ultimately serve to create a sustainable economy, says Felice. “I grew up in an era of specialization, where a person is known for being good at one thing. But that is a mode that is outdated. Specialization leads to extinction,” he says, citing his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pa., as an example. “The city was all about specializing in steel manufacturing, and when that industry left Pittsburgh, the city basically fell apart.” Felice’s own work combines technology, science,

biology and design, which he says are not exclusive of each other. This year at {Re}Happening, he is planning a performance and installation that will take place on Lake Eden, combining the work of two dancers, an architect, a video projectionist and a musician. As Felice sees it, the lake itself is a primary player in the project, as are the historic grounds of Black Mountain College. The relationship between The BMCM+AC and The MAP is a logical one, considering that the first organization seeks to preserve the school’s legacy while the latter cultivates innovative forms of technology in Western N.C. “It’s not about old school vs. new school,” says Felice. “We should cherish the interdisciplinary traditions of BMC and bring them out into the current era of technology.”


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The Masonic Temple have art, will travel: City cultural arts superintendent Diane Ruggiero and artist Mark Koven stand in front of Easel Rider, a former bread truck turned mobile arts lab. photo by jonathan welch

A brand-new mobile arts laboratory is in town. It’s called Easel Rider, and it’s Asheville’s first multimedia art facility on wheels. This Saturday, artist Mark Koven, who was instrumental in the development of Easel Rider, plans to use the vehicle to project temporary light graffiti (laser tagging) on the fabled Bauhaus Studies Building of the former BMC campus. The Easel Rider is equipped with a 4,000-watt generator, a complete PA sound system, a laptop computer and a projector that can cast images up to 400 feet away. It is also stocked with art materials like paints, sketchpads, crayons and ceramic supplies, as well as tables, chairs and tents. “Basically, the mobile arts lab allows us to pull up anyplace and have an art event,” says Koven. Foreseeing city-wide budget cuts, Diane Ruggiero, superintendent of Asheville’s Cultural Arts Department, came up with the idea of the mobile arts lab as a way to streamline arts spending while extending the city’s reach into the creative community. She called on Koven to convert and outfit the former bread truck, a 1984 Chevy, due to his extensive knowledge of digital technology and mechanics. The city is considering applications they received last month from 35 artists who expressed interest in utilizing the Easel Rider. A second call to artists will be announced later this year. “When there’s a festival or a meeting, the mobile arts lab can become a place where kids can do things while the parents are busy,” says Koven, who is himself interested in using the van to teach children how

to make pinwheels that can be used to generate electricity. An assistant professor of sculpture and extended arts at UNCA, Koven creates interactive sculptures dealing with relational aesthetics through sound, biology, digital media and mechanical structures. “Basically, I’m a geek who knows how to wield a hammer,” he says. A recent exhibit of his work at the Asheville Area Arts Council’s Artery Gallery included motion sensory water ionizers suspended from the ceiling that created clouds in the gallery. His Communal Blow sculptures require two participants to blow on a wind turbine to make the wings of a mechanical dragonfly flutter. Microbes and fungi have also made their way into Koven’s work. Spit Culture, an interactive installation from 2008, invited participants to “spit into 3-foot petri dishes prepared with agar — the standard medium used by biologists to culture bacteria,” according to Koven’s website. The dishes were then arranged according to the participants’ gross income, “to show the parallel between the growth cycle of bacteria and the cycle of worldwide economic markets.” Currently Koven serves on the board of directors at BMCM+AC, The MAP and Asheville’s Public Art Board. “About a third of my work is about trying to involve the public,” says Koven. “It’s important for me to be engaged with what’s going on around me. That’s basically the whole underlying philosophy of my work and my teaching.”

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WHEN NO ONE KNOWS WHAT’S GOING ON

follow me: Composer Elisa Faires will lead a procession through the woods, ending with a live vocal performance at a clearing known as “The Council.” photo by jonathan welch

At last year’s {Re}Happening, Elisa Faires played a prank. Together with partner Chandra Shukla, she taped contact microphones to the tables in the dining hall so she could record the sounds of people while they ate dinner. As guests dined on an elaborate meal prepared by Matt Lee (Lee will be preparing dinner again this year), Faires and Shukla collected the sounds of banter, mirth and clinking tableware. “We took the sound and played it back, recorded it, added effects, slowed it down, sped it up and made a piece of music as the dinner was happening,” says Faires. When it was played over the speakers, the music made the room 10-times louder. “People had no idea it was going on. Our installation had been so much a part of the dinner that people didn’t even realize it was happening. I think they probably weren’t even paying attention,” she

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says. “It’s kind of funny to have art happening that no one even knows is going on.” Faires will be performing at {Re}Happening again this weekend, except this time no pranks will be played. Instead, Faires plans to create a sound installation called Photosynthesis: Songs of the Trees, based on her experience of singing to trees. Later in the evening she will lead a ritual-based procession through the woods, which will end with a live vocal performance at a clearing known as “The Council.” A trained musician, Faires has studied opera and classical singing, but has strayed away from those modes in favor of experimental performance. “‘Experimental’ is such a general term,” says Faires. “I have used a lot of nonconventional ways of creating and composing music. I like to mix genres and sounds. I’m always trying to explore new things.”


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Though she lives in Roanoke, Va., Janice Lancaster has been connected to Western North Carolina through past projects with BMCM+AC. In 2009, she and husband Adam Larsen produced Black Whole, a multimedia dance performance that took place at the Food Lion Skate Park. Video projection transformed the skate park into an otherworldly portal, and audiences were transfixed by the dancers’ interactions with webs of light rays. This year, Lancaster will perform intermittently with Kathleen Hahn and Claire Elizabeth Barratt inside a 6-foot-diameter geodesic dome, developed by Gene Felice and Lou Gargiulo, that will float on Lake Eden. This is the first time a geodesic dome has been created on the campus of BMC since Buckminster Fuller’s initial attempts in 1948 and 1949.

The new dome’s creation involved help from a variety of people, including seamstress R. Brooke Priddy, who showed Felice how to sew four-way stretch spandex around the structure. Projections by Megan McKissack and sound by Kima Moore will infuse the installation. “The elements of our project are striking — luminescent floating dome under moonlight, reflected on a body of water that is surrounded by rolling hills and forests,” writes Lancaster in an e-mail. “I like imagining the students at BMC connecting with the land. I recently saw rare archival footage of Katherine Litz improvising among those trees, responding to shadows and sunlight. I wonder if she felt the valley rise to envelop her as I do when on the old campus. It’s beautiful.” X Ursula Gullow writes about art for Mountain Xpress and her blog, artseenasheville.blogspot.com.

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A dizzying odyssey

Playwright John Crutchfield premiers The Labyrinth by Tracy D. Hyorth John Crutchfield always felt like he had to write by the rules. Restriction was second nature. But in 2003, he decided to throw out those rules and play around with his words and imagination, letting a story and the flow of language lead him to where an experienced, educated poet had not fully ventured. The result was a wild ride through a dramatic piece titled The Labyrinth. It had not been so difficult to give up his trusted constraints in writing that script: Crutchfield just wasn’t all that crazy about the outcome. So the locally and regionally produced playwright put the 200-page draft away, in some forgotten pile he thought he’d never look at again. That is, until seven years later, when Steven Samuels, artistic director of the Magnetic Field theater in the River Arts District, put out a call to Crutchfield for scripts. Any scripts. The result? An Asheville (and world) premier of another Crutchfield play, one the author describes as coming from a place of “twisted feelings, like

info who:

The Labyrinth by John Crutchfield

where:

The Magnetic Field, 372 Depot St. 257-4003 or themagneticfield.com

when:

Previews (public dress rehearsals with an $8 ticket and a $5-off voucher for future performances): April 7-9. Opening: April 15. Performances continue April 16, 2123, 28-30, at 7:30 nightly, with late shows on Friday and Saturday at 10 p.m. $12 for Thursdays and late shows, $14 for Friday and Saturday 7:30 performances.

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Lisa Smith as Megan and Ira Sargent as Chris in John Crutchfield’s diabolical comedy The Labyrinth. Photo by Peter Brezny

the creepiness of dreams, sometimes deliberately sadistic … all making sense in a ‘dream logic’ sort of way.” Samuels’ excitement to bring The Labyrinth to stage has given Crutchfield a new appreciation of his first exploration into a play written without so many rules. “I’m really excited to see [The Labyrinth] come to the stage. I have not had a ‘first’ show done in a while,” Crutchfield says. It’s been four years, to be exact. “This is my most ambitious play, with the most people in it, and I certainly am very happy with the man directing it.” That man, of course, is Samuels. He and Crutchfield are getting rather used to working together. Samuels has directed some of Crutchfield’s other plays, as well as directing Crutchfield onstage, the most recent collaboration being The Songs of Robert, written by and starring Crutchfield. The show won an Outstanding Solo Performance Award at the 2009 New York International Fringe Festival. Unlike Songs of Robert, The Labyrinth “is going to be very, very trippy,” Samuels says. And just what does “trippy” mean? Imagine a young man traveling to and through everywhere “from a mental hospital to a graveyard, a desert, a boat on the River Styx, a television studio and more,” looking for his best friend. An odyssey that incorporates a grave digger, a coal miner, an aging jam band, a topologist of knots and even Atticus Finch, from To Kill a Mockingbird, all taking place mostly in a vast underworld of weirdness. “If one tried to imagine a mash-up of Dante’s Divine Comedy, Ibsen’s Peer Gynt and the fiction of Haruki Murakami, this unique, riveting, and improbably funny play might just be the result,” Samuels says of

The Labyrinth. The now 8-year-old draft did need some revising, however. Crutchfield and Samuels worked together to fine-tune the piece, originally written to help Crutchfield deal with a painful life experience. It is a work of love, passion and healing. His note on the original script include a comment about the “seriousness of tragedy,” a statement that gained meaning as time progressed. The seriousness of this show also expresses what the writer and director call the “comedy of tragedy.” “There is no way not to respond to [The Labyrinth] as a comedy, except you’re always aware that it’s made of some of the most serious stuff imaginable,” Samuels says. Crutchfield describes the combination of tragedy and comedy by referring to Samuel Beckett, the avant-garde writer, dramatist and poet known for his absurdist examinations of the anxiety of modern life, among other themes. Beckett’s work offers a grim outlook on human culture, wrapping it all up in ridiculousness. “Tragedy and comedy are yoked together in the way that knowing that in tragedy, you realize the deep prescription of knowing the comedy, the absurdity of a situation. Comedy is deeper and wiser, more modest (than tragedy),” Crutchfield says. Lest we get too serious here, there’s a promise from Samuels: “The late-night shows should be wild.” X Tracy D. Hyorth is a freelance writer who has written about Asheville and Western North Carolina since 1985. She can be reached at outnaboutwnc@gmail.com


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Rhyme and reason

Xpress’ inaugural poetry event and Asheville’s evolving poetry scene

Poetic license: Keith Flynn, who has been part of the local literary scene since before the Renaissance of the 1990s, performs a poem to the music of his band, the Holy Men.

by Alli Marshall “I write poetry to stay current with myself. I read poetry to stay current with the world,” says local poet, Asheville Wordfest organizer and Blue Ridge Parkway poet laureate Laura Hope-Gill. It’s her motto, as a writer, but it’s also an especially poignant dictum: Lately, Hope-Gill has been writing poetry about Japan and its recent traumas. “My great grandparents were in a prison camp in China and were freed by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki,” she says. She’s been haunted by that bit of her ancestry, but the earthquake and tsunami last month helped her to process her feelings and to realize that “I have to live a powerful life to balance out losses elsewhere. That’s what drives me.” Hope-Gill will share some of her poems about Japan at the Mountain Xpress Poetry Show on Friday, April 8. Hope-Gill is a featured poet at the show, representing Western N.C.’s rich and enduring poetic and literary scene. She says she’s moved to Asheville four times, starting as a child in the 1970s. She was here during the ‘90s poetry renaissance — the heyday of the Green Door on Carolina Lane, where local poets honed their slam skills and an Asheville team won the National Poetry Slam in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1995. But much has changed in Asheville in the past decade-and-a-half — along with it the poetry milieu. Many of the key players of the 1990s moved away or became involved in the raising of children and other projects by the early 2000s. “Graham Hackett kept it alive during the slow years, with his Poetix Lounge,” says Hope-Gill. “He kept a pulse going. Now that has grown into a thriving scene. I go to the slams and I go to the rooftop, and I keep my eye on all of it because I want include as many parts of it in Wordfest as I can.”

Ushering in the next genertion

By “the rooftop,” Hope-Gill means the Rooftop Poets, a collective that performs readings in venues like the Roof Garden of the Battery Park Hotel. Founders of that group, Matthew Mulder and Brian Sneeden, will also perform at the poetry show. The Rooftop Poets came together when Sneeden, Mulder and Barbara Gravelle read together at the Flood Gallery. “Our poems seemed to complement each other,” says Sneeden. Last October, the group (along with Cabaret singer Vendetta Creme) held an event atop the Battery Park Hotel. The ticket price included a chapbook of the poets’ work. While the Rooftop Poets are currently on hiatus, Sneeden says that, in the future, they plan to hold an event every three months, during the full moon.

info what:

Mountain Xpress Poetry Show, featuring the winners of the Xpress Poetry Contest, readings from Laura Hope-Gill, Matt Owens and Mesha Maren of Juniper Bends, and Matthew Mulder and Bryan Sneeden of Rooftop Poets. Also featuring a performance from Keith Flynn and the Holy Men

where:

Masonic Temple (80 Broadway St., Asheville)

when:

Friday, April 8 (7-10 p.m., $5, advance tickets at mountainx.com/ mxcore/poem/tickets)

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The readings will include a published book and introduce at least one new poet. Also relatively new to the local literary environment is Matt Owens, who co-hosts the Juniper Bends reading series with Mesha Maren (they will also read at the April 8 poetry show). Owens, who has worked on UNC-Asheville’s literary journal for the past three years, says that it was Downtown Books & News manager Julian Vorus who approached him and Maren about starting a series. The idea for Juniper Bends was to “represent all writers who are hard working” and to draw from prose and poetry writers, new and veteran writers, young and mature writers. “I wanted to demystify what could be seen as a closed-society event,” says Owens. Keith Flynn — who grew up in the area and dates his involvement with local poets back to the 1980s — says something similar about Poetry at the Pulp, an open mic he and Hope-Gill started last September. “I had hoped we could build the Pulp series as a sort of a poetry laboratory,” he says. “I can invite very well-known poets to come and read. After the featured poet we have 15-20 people signed up to read, and everybody’s very excited about it.” Poetry at the Pulp gives readers access to Flynn (who created and has edited the Asheville Poetry Review for the past 18 years) and Hope-Gill (who co-founded literary festival Wordfest, now in its fourth year). The event, according to Flynn, also draws some big names: “Charles Frazier stopped by the other night. Lee Smith popped in one night. We even got Wayne Caldwell out of his cabin.” While Flynn is enthusiastic about that monthly event (indeed, his calendar overflows — he says that since National Poetry Month was inaugurated in ‘96, he barely has a moment to spare during April), his current passion is his new album, LIVE at Diana Wortham Theatre, recorded with his band The Holy Men, and set to be released at the poetry show.

What’s song and what’s poetry

During Asheville’s rock explosion of the 1990s, Flynn fronted rock-soul-poetry outfit Crystal Zoo. The Holy Men (guitarist Bill Altman and percussionist Richard Foulk) is a leaner, jazzier backing band, but the group’s mission remains the same: “Trying to blur the boundaries between what’s song and what’s poetry,” says Flynn. And what sets his sometimes-gospel-tingedlyric, sometimes-spoken-word apart from other artists (Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Sekou Sandiata) who have attempted the same marriage of music and verse? “Some of it is sophistication,” says Flynn. “A lot of poets would love to do it, but they can’t necessarily sing. A lot of singer/songwriters would like to do what we’re talking about but they’re not necessarily poets.” He attributes much of what works on LIVE (recorded by sound engineer Dann Wojnar during an August 2010 performance) to his years of collaboration (going back to Crystal Zoo) with Altman. Some of the tracks of LIVE, according to Flynn, had never been set to music before. Others which made the cut (the album represents a 110-minute concert edited to fit on a 66-minute CD) were chosen for their intensity. “What’s important is to support the architecture of all the words with as much variation in groove, tempo, color and texture that we can with the chord changes and percussion textures.”

finalists The finalists in the 2011 Mountain Xpress Poetry Prize are: James Cox “By the Lake in Northern Michigan” James Davis “Sourwood” John Eells “Sleep And Dreams” Jessica Claire Newton “Two Weeks Deep Into the Dirty Laundry” Randal Pride “Coal Palace” Andrew Procyk “Life and Death” Jesse S. Rice-Evans “Taking A Bath In Frida Kahlo’s Tub” Jessie Shires “Corpus unum” Brian Sneeden “The Temple” Tamsen Turner “Sestina” The overall winning poet will be announced Friday, April 8 at the Mountain Xpress Poetry Show. The next installment of the Juniper Bends Reading Series is set for Friday, May 13 at Downtown Books & News (67 N. Lexington Ave., Asheville). Learn more at http://avl. mx/2v. Poetry at the Pulp takes place on Tuesday, April 5 at 7 p.m. The Pulp is located below the Orange Peel (101 Biltmore Ave., Asheville) — enter from Hilliard Ave. $5 members/$10 non-members. pulpasheville. com. Asheville Wordfest is a free poetry festival in downtown Asheville, scheduled for Wednesday, May 4-Monday, May 9. Find the complete schedule and information at ashevillewordfest.org. Find more poetry events at mountainx. com/events, click “Spoken & Written Word” under the Arts section. — A.M.

Of the 20-minutes-long “Apostrophes,” Flynn says, “the percussion is so interesting and inventive and tells so many stories in the context of my voice.” That track is based on a poem that Flynn wrote in 1991. “Blindman’s Garden,” which the band performed as an encore, dates back to the mid-1980s. “If it worked in ‘86, it’ll probably work in ‘96 and it’ll probably work in 2026,” says Flynn. “Really good material doesn’t ever let you down.” Hopefully that will be the experience of the 10 Mountain Xpress poetry contest finalists, who will be reading their winning poems at the show. For some, this might be their first time reading publicly. Flynn, who served as the final judge in the contest (the overall winner will be named at the show), suggests that there are reasons why a winning poem won’t let its creator down. “I’m not looking for a hook or a certain style,” he says of what stands out during judging. “I’m looking for a mastery of the language, which has a musical component to it. How do the abstract ideas marry to the music of the language? I’m always looking for a rhythmic dexterity.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.


arts X music

Widespread Panic gives back with Josh Stack How an Ashevillean helped start the band’s charity food drives

by J. Sylvester McDermott Have you ever been to a trippy canned-food drive? If not, here’s an example from an event organized by Widespread Panic’s own John Bell and The Sautee Community Association. Four months ago, a massive black-and-white labyrinth created from hanging colored spotlights shined on the floor of a gymnasium in Sautee, Ga. People entered the light-maze with

show&after who:

Widespread Panic, with special guests J.J. Grey and Mofro

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Asheville Civic Center

when:

Friday, April 8 and Saturday, April 9 ($43.40. ticketmaster.com or Civic Center box office) After parties: Velvet Truckstop, 10 p.m. Friday, April 8 at the LAB. Jahman Brahman with the New Cosmic Band at Mo Daddy’s, Saturday, April 9. $5. Shane Pruitt Band on Friday, April 8, at Mellow Mushroom. $7. Consider the Source on Saturday, April 9, at Mellow Mushroom. $6. The Mantras on Saturday, April 9, at Emerald Lounge. $5 with Widespread ticket stub, $10 without. Know of other Panic after-parties? Share ‘em at mountainx.com.

Widespread acclaim: In February, the State of Georgia’s legislature passed resolutions in honor of the band’s 25 years of music, service, charity and longevity. a canned good, placing it somewhere along their walk. The physical labyrinth of food was then collected by The Foodbank of Northeast Georgia. Widespread Panic is currently on its spring tour, and will continue to host food drives at all the April shows. (It is also the band’s 25th anniversary since its start in Athens, Ga.) Such charitable efforts have been part of the band’s fan base since 1999, when Panic Fans for Food was created. Its founder? Joshua Stack, current marketing coordinator of Asheville’s MANNA FoodBank. “Hunger is a universal problem we can all relate to,” says Stack. “Hunger has a cure.” With this belief in mind, Stack decided to bring this cause to the forefront of the music he loved. The food drives he proposed to Panic would be focused locally; all donations would go to residents of the immediate counties the food banks worked with. Panic accepted, and the first food drive was held at a 1999 New Orleans show. The food drives grew to become a staple at each show. “The [food drives] became a way to address local issues and affect change where we were,” says Stack. “It is a way of giving back to the cities the band played at, and from there a relationship grew.” Panic Fans for Food has raised more than 13 tons of food, generated more than $70,000 and worked with food banks in 28 different cities. The organization was called to the international spotlight at the 2002 Jammy Awards, when Joshua Stack won the Mimi Fishman Community Service Award for outstanding fanbased services.

“When people become proactive, things start to change,” Stack says. “To see that continue to happen, and when people invest in the cause and are proud of it — that’s the seed-change you want.” In 2008, Stack moved to Asheville and was offered a job with MANNA FoodBank as the communications and marketing coordinator. It was then that Panic Fans for Food moved from the hands of the fans into the hands of the musicians. John Bell and Widespread Panic took the reins of the organization. The upcoming Asheville Widespread Panic food drives will distribute to the 16 counties MANNA serves. Feeding America reports that over 106,000 Western North Carolinians (or one in six) receive food through MANNA’s network. (MANNA FoodBank is a member of Feeding America, the nation’s largest hunger-relief organization.) “If we didn’t need to distribute 9 million pounds across these counties, we wouldn’t,” Stack says. “My ultimate goal is to put ourselves out of business.” Though Stack works full time with MANNA, he still attends food drives “for old time’s sake” and checks in to make sure things are still running as they should be. With so much of the population in need of food assistance, there are many working to support this cause. Thanks to bands like Widespread Panic and their dedicated fans, music is being used to give a meaningful voice to and generate awareness about the major problems citizens are facing. X John McDermott can be reached at jmcdermott@ warren-wilson.edu.

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“A certain energy”: All three members of Megafaun got their start playing jazz, but Brad Cook says living in Raleigh and being exposed to “contemporary folk bands from the South” has been highly influential on the trio’s direction. Photo by D. L. Anderson

Megafaun has secured a unique place within the indie scene, admired by fans and fellow artists for its willingness to push the limits of a style that melds Appalachian-tinged folk, psychedelic rock, jazz and pop with remarkable ease. But the band’s determination to experiment carries on. Their latest effort, Heretofore, features a 13-minute instrumental track that was pulled, unedited, from a four-hour improv session that initiated the recording. Generally, Megafaun writes entire albums in the studio, making “gut” decisions on the spot and learning the songs after the record is complete. The band just completed its third full-length, which Brad describes as a very “inviting” collection. The latest experience was no exception. Over time, he says, the childhood friends have come to trust their instincts and let the songs develop far beyond the recording process. “With any other band we’ve ever been in, I think we were much more about documenting our songs,” he explains. “With Megafaun, we decided since we had nothing to lose, we’d just immediately start recording our first record and then learn how to play those songs after the fact. So our process has been more about creating than it has been about documenting. “And in that regard, I think we’ve gotten really good at trusting our decision making. It helps us not feel overwhelmed by possibilities if we put a bunch of deadlines on ourselves and try to make gut reactions in terms of it being a creation. Then we can spend the whole year we tour on something getting into the identity of those songs and really trying to understand them and explore them more.” On the road, Megafaun nearly always per-

forms on stage with its tour mates, and the band has earned a reputation for its frequent collaborations and highly personal performances. Shows vary widely from night to night, and audiences can always expect a unique experience. “For us, it’s all about having that variable night to night where you can really adjust to the room,” Brad says. “And it’s not just tweaking a set list; it’s talking to the crowd and trying to figure out who is at these shows, who is here to see your music. I think people have come to appreciate that about us. They can count on us to give them an experience every time that’s true to their night.” Don’t get the wrong idea though: Megafaun is no jam band. Its albums are pop-friendly and accessible, focused and consistent. All three members earned their chops in high-school jazz ensembles, but Brad says moving to Raleigh had a profound impact on the band’s direction. While there is an undeniable spontaneity to the process, Megafaun is also rooted in traditional songwriting. Sort of. “When we were in Wisconsin, Phil had been playing banjo already, and we had been studying some folk stuff, but I think being around the culture and the energy … you know, where we were living, we weren’t exposed to the Avett Brothers, for example,” Cook says. “A band like that showed us exactly what it meant to be a contemporary folk band from the South. I think being around a certain energy here has been really influential to us.” X Dane Smith can be reached at dsmith@ mountainx.com.


smartbets The Third Other

It’s been a while since graphic designer Travis Medford worked at Xpress (he’s now a designer at Lark Crafts), but his posters still decorate the walls around Xpress offices. They’ll also hang on the walls of Push Skate Shop & Gallery: Medford’s art exhibit, The Third Other, is a collection of new works on wood and limited-edition silk-screened art prints inspired by comics, band fliers, skateboard graphics and more. The opening reception is Friday, April 8, 7-10 p.m. pushtoyproject.com.

Fitz & the Tantrums

You might have caught L.A.-based Fitz & the Tantrums (the MoTownsounding retro-pop outfit led by soul duo Michael Fitzpatrick and Noelle Scaggs) when they opened for Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings last year. Since then, the band’s full-length album Pickin’ Up the Pieces has gotten tons of radio play. There have been appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live and tour dates with Maroon 5. Fitz & the Tantrums returns to the Orange Peel as a headliner on Monday, April 11, 8 p.m (April Smith & The Great Picture Show opens). $12 advance/$14 doors. theorangepeel.net.

Al Petteway and Amy White

It takes a little doing to explain the sound of locally based acoustic duo Al Petteway and Amy White. “Their repertoire includes original, traditional, contemporary Celticand Appalachian-influenced music with occasional nods to rock and jazz,” says a press release. In concert, between them, they play acoustic guitar, mandolin, Celtic harp, piano, banjo, lap dulcimer and percussion. Oh, and they sing. They’ll do all of this at the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville’s Mountain Spirit Coffeehouse on Sunday, April 10, 7 p.m. $12-$15 adults/$8-$10 students. uuasheville.org/Coffeehouse.php.

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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theprofiler

by becky upham

Deciding which shows you should see, so you don’t have to The Suspect: Citizen Cope

The Suspect: Mount Kimbie

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After releasing two wellreceived EPs in 2009, this duo from London came out with a full-length album, Crooks & Lovers, on the Hot Flush label last summer. The band comes at its ambient trip-hop from a dubstep perspective and is possibly even the first band in the “post-dubstep” genre. Pitchfork says Mount Kimbie’s “headphone” music’s effect “creates a sonic space somewhere between Stars of the Lid and Burial.” Can Be Found: The Grey Eagle, Friday, April 8. RIYD: Caribou, James Blake. You Should Go If: Your favorite weather is fog; you and your girlfriend share jeans; the only parts of you that ever sweat are your palms; you’re using your tax refund to buy … oops, you’re still being claimed as a dependent.

The descriptions of fan qualities and quirks are intended to be a playful take on what’s unique about all of us. The world would be a better place if everyone went out to see more live music.

The Suspect: Fair to Midland

This alternative metal band from Texas is touring in support of its upcoming release, Arrows and Anchors, the band’s fourth studio album. A van accident last year left the group shaken and with much of its equipment destroyed, but the band made the best out of the experience with the release of a short video of post-accident footage along with a demo snippet of a new song. Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Saturday, April 9. RIYD: Deftones, Evanescence. You Should Go If: You were your preschool’s thought leader when it came to eating things that aren’t actually food; you go to the Roller Derby for the music; you are emphatic to the point of scaring people; you’re using your tax refund to buy … your own smoke machine.

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Memphis-born Citizen Cope (Clarence Greenwood) had difficulty finding a label that fit as he bounced from Capitol to Dreamworks to Artista to RCA, until finally founding RainWater Recordings. Though he hasn’t experienced the commercial success those labels expected, he’s had 19 songs featured in commercials, television shows and movies. Expect a mellow vibe for this solo acoustic performance on the final third of a massive international tour. Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Sunday, April 10. RIYD: Easy All-Stars, G. Love, Jack Johnson. You Should Go If: You have a visceral reaction to the Energizer Bunny; Locks of Love turned down your hair; even though you never exercise, your resting heart-rate rivals Lance Armstrong’s; you’re using your tax refund to buy … hemp necklaces, hemp necklaces, and more hemp necklaces.

The Suspect: Toad the Wet Sprocket

Formed in 1986, the band is known for its ‘90s hits, “Walk on the Ocean” and “All I Want.” When the band split in 1998, frontman Glen Phillips pursued a solo career; he’s released three albums on his own and opened for Brett Dennen earlier this year. TTWS began touring as a band again in 2006 and working on material for what would be its first studio album in almost 15 years. Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Tuesday, April 12. RIYD: Gin Blossoms, Counting Crows. You Should Go If: You send group texts to acknowledge major holidays, “this day in history” and really pretty full moons; your co-workers torture you by rearranging objects on your desk while you’re in the bathroom; Harrison Ford is your celebrity lay; you’re using your tax refund to buy … the 18 things you circled in the SkyMall catalog after visiting your parents in Florida.


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clubland

where to find the clubs • what is playing • listings for venues throughout Western North Carolina Clubland rules

DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK restaurant • bar • patio sports room • events space creative, local cuisine over 30 beers on tap

•To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed. •To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue. •Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Dane Smith at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland. •Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed. •The Clubland Editor reserves the right to edit or exclude events or venues. •Deadline is by noon on Monday for that Wednesday’s publication. This is a firm deadline.

Jazz jam

Front stage: Shane Perlowin

BoBo Gallery

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Hannah Seng w/ Jackson Delany Craggie Brewing Company

Juan Benavides Trio, 8-10pm

Orange Peel

Craggie Brewing Company

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Chris Cornell (acoustic, rock, alternative) w/ William Elliott Whitmore

Open mic, 6-9pm

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Pisgah Brewing Company

Larry Keel (Americana, roots)

Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am

Fresh 2 Death w/ Quetzatl, Crunky Brewster, Solomon Grungy & more

Red Stag Grill

Eleven on Grove

Good Stuff

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Jenne Sluder (acoustic, folk) Garage at Biltmore

Open mic

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Destroyer (indie, rock) w/ War On Drugs & Surf City Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm

Jack Of The Wood Pub

live music …never a cover

Blue Note Grille

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Micah Hanks

[rock/pop/classics/more]

Sat 4/9

Old-time jam, 6pm

[acoustic/rock/variety]

Crocodile Smile

Fri 4/8

DJ Moto [live DJ!!]

Thursday, April 7

Open 7 Days... 11am - Late

*Thirstdays*

Friday, April 8

Whitewater Bluegrass Company Saturday, April 9

Honey Fed Worms (Free Show)

& Fly Fishing Film 8:00 Film Tickets @ Hunter Banks Fly Shop

FREE Parking weekdays after 5pm & all weekend (behind us on Marjorie St.)

no cover charge (4-8pm)

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944

PacksTavern.com

Off Biltmore Ave. in the new Pack Square Park.

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Handlebar

Crunktastrophe w/ DJ Ark, Total Recall, Carlie Bravo, Frenzy & Mes

huge selection of WNC craft beers

Thur 4/7

dep (electronic)

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

RavenRage presents Dubstep

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Athena’s Club

BoBo Gallery

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Boiler Room

Drive By Truckers (Southern rock) w/ Dylan LeBlanc

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Olive or Twist

Paul Cataldo (acoustic, folk, roots)

Swing dancing w/ The Firecracker Jazz Band, 7:30pm

Matt Williams & friends

Handlebar

Wed., April 6

Soul/jazz jam feat: Dave Yoke

Blue Note Grille

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Open mic w/ Brian Keith TallGary’s Cantina

Open mic, 7:30pm The Get Down

Toxic Lab Rats (punk, rock) w/ Strip District & The DiMarcos Town Pump

Open mic w/ David Bryan Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Jim Arrendell & the Cheap Suits (dance) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Thu., April 7

Zydeco dance lesson, 7pm Dance w/ DJ, 8:30pm Emerald Lounge

Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam Feed and Seed

Sista Otis & the Gospel of Rock & Roll French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Gabrahm Vitek (pop, roots, soul) Garage at Biltmore

Amarru feat: Andrew Kirk, Miles Cramer, Will Little, Edwin Leskin & Sarah Fluharty Good Stuff

Gene Peyroux (rock, funk, soul) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Soulgrass Rebellion (reggae) w/ The Bridge (Americana, roots, soul)

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: Galen Kipar (Americana, folk) w/ Chelsea Lynn LaBate Mike’s Side Pocket

Open mic w/ Greg Terkelsen Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Diane Durrett & Yonrico Scott (soul) Olive or Twist

Ballroom dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band, 7:30pm Orange Peel

Gogol Bordello (gypsy punk) w/ The Constellations Pack’s Tavern

Micah Hanks (bluegrass, rock) Pisgah Brewing Company

Sirius.B (gypsy folk, world) Purple Onion Cafe

Alexa Woodward


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

Jay Brown (Americana, folk) Scandals Nightclub

T h u r . april 7

galen kipar prOject

WED

Shifter’s

W/ chelsea lynn labate

4/6

The Get Down

F r i . a p ril 8

THU

EDM Exposure w/ Terrence Young, Techoa & Gyromite Open jam

Gringo Star (rock, pop, alternative) Town Pump

Clear Mule (old-time, bluegrass) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzo’s Bistro

Aaron LaFalce (piano) Westville Pub

Dave Desmelik & Josh Gibbs (Americana)

VelVet truckstOp

Widespread panic afterparty

cOl. bruce hamptOn Mariachi MondayS

Live Mariachi Band $2 Tacos & Mexican Beer Specials

The Sharkadelics (pop, rock), 9:30pm

Blue Note Grille

SundayS

TueSdayS

FRI

4/8

WedneSdayS

Jake Hollifield Shane Perlowin Piano | 9pm 9pm

Geniass Presents:

soulGrass rebellion & the bridGe • 9PM

Mount KiMbie • 9PM j Mascis

w/ Kurt vile

4/9

& the violators • 9PM

SUN

Mountain Goats

4/10

O n t h e f r O n t s ta g e

Aaron Price 1pm | Piano

4/7

SAT

Widespread panic afterparty

Allstars Sports Bar and Grill

Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

PBR Tallboys

Backstage!

SaT. ap ril 9

Fri., April 8

Athena’s Club

$2

destroyer

w/ war on druGs & surf city • 9PM

WED

4/13

w/ MeGafaun • 8PM

benefit for nuclear awareness • 7PM danielson | bill frisell |langhorne slim Kim richey | Matt costa | the Gourds

Anon Dixon Day (singer-songwriter) BoBo Gallery

Earthtone Soundsystem Boiler Room

Burnstitch (metal) w/ Ironside & A Road Eternal

2

WED. 4/6

Music & EvEnts friday, aPril 15 - 9PM - $10

everTon Blender saTurday, aPril 23 - 9PM - $10

PiMPs of Joy TiMe

TiCkeTs on sale • shoW daTe 6/1/11

JAMMIN’ W/ MAX & MILES Real New Orleans Po Boys $1 off all Whiskey

DAVE DESMELIK & JOSH GIBBS

gritty americana (davedesmelik.com)

FREE SHOW! $1 off All Vodkas

FRI. 4/8

TRIVIA NIGHT 9 pm • Prizes

Open 11am • $3.50 Gin & Tonics

BIG DADDY LOVE

appalachian rock (myspace.com/bigdaddyloveband)

$5 Robo Shots

SUN. 4/10

Mon - Wed 4pm - 9pm | Thurs - saT 2pm - 12am | sun 2pm - 9pm

advanced Tickets Can Be Purchased @ Pisgahbrewing.com

Voted Best Local Brewery.

TUES. 4/12

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• All-You-Can-Eat Breakfast All Day! • $1 Off Bloody Mary’s & Mimosas

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LIVE MUSIC! 11PM - 2AM, DOORS AT 10PM

Broadway’s

The Critters (psychedelic, rock) w/ SiriusB, Albert Adams & Mutant League Craggie Brewing Company

The Real Local Singles (indie rock), 6-8pm Creatures Cafe

FRIDAY • 4/8 • $7

THE SHANE PRUITT BAND (Post Panic Show) SATURDAY • 4/9 • $6

CONSIDER THE SOURCE (Post Panic Show)

THURSDAY • 4/14 • $5

YARN

Dan Keller & friends (jazz)

ERIC LINDELL

THURSDAY • 4/28 • $5

FREEKBOT

Over 70 Beers on Tap

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Violin River (Grateful Dead covers) Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Straightaway Cafe

Cary Fridley & Down South (blues, country, roots)

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Mo-Daddy’s

Back stage: Col. Bruce Hampton (jam, jazz, Southern rock)

Front stage: Aaron Price (piano) Starving Artists Open Mic Orange Peel

Harvest Records

The Skull Defekts (post-punk, minimalist) w/ Zomes Iron Horse Station

Open mic w/ Jesse James, 7-10pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime)

Destino (pop, opera, soul)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Consider the Source (post-Panic show)

An intimate, solo performance w/ Citizen Cope (rock, soul, blues)

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Scandals Nightclub

Orange Peel

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

Toad the Wet Sprocket (rock, pop) w/ Carbon Leaf

Olive or Twist

Shifter’s

Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

West Coast swing dance, 7:30pm

“Tuesday Rotations” w/ guest DJ

Orange Peel

The Get Down

Town Pump

Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

Drunk-Gypsy presents BPM’s & costumes

Frank Beeson (Americana) Town Pump

Sam Robinson (rock, blues) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Big Daddy Love (Americana)

Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays)

Fairview Tavern

White Horse

Emerald Lounge

Circus Mutt (rock, Grateful Dead covers), 8pm Feed and Seed

Trip-O-Lee

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Youth poetry slam warm up

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Classicopia: “Spring Song” feat: Katherine Sandoval & Daniel Weiser Wild Wing Cafe

Country Fried Fridays w/ Brandon Pruitt

Sat., April 9 Athena’s Club

Jahman Brahman w/ New Cosmic Band (jam, rock, electronic) Jazz night w/ The 42nd Street Jazz Band Fair to Midland (rock, alternative) w/ Periphery, Scale the Summit & The Great Liars Pack’s Tavern

DJ Moto

White Horse

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:30pm

Red Stag Grill

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Wed., April 13

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Fred’s Speakeasy

Dance party w/ live DJ

Gary Segal (singer-songwriter)

Garage at Biltmore

BoBo Gallery

Root Bar No. 1

J. P. Delanoye (roots) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Broadway’s

Mount Kimbie (electronic, fusion)

The Feral Chihuahuas (variety, comedy, music)

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics and standards), 5:30-7:30pm

Craggie Brewing Company

Handlebar

Broken Yesterday

Chris Wilhem (folk), 6-8pm Mountain Feist (bluegrass), 8-10pm Creatures Cafe

Al & the Black Cats (punk, rockabilly) w/ The Codependents, The Go Devils, Rekless Youth & Graven Hand

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Harrah’s Cherokee

Emerald Lounge

Live DJ, 12-2am

Highland Brewing Company

White Water Bluegrass Company

Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am The Mantras (funk, fusion, rock) Feed and Seed

County Farm

Marc Keller

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Jason Moore (jazz)

Temptation’s Wings w/ Carolina Chupicabra & Slam (hard rock)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Red Room

Pierce Edens & Jesse James (country, folk rock, roots)

Good Stuff

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Mon., April 11

Blue Note Grille

Boiler Room

DJ Chubby Knuckles (pop, dance), 9pm

The Real Nasty (“country fried rock ‘n’ roll”)

The Lone Tones (roots, Appalachian)

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Big Nasty

The Pocket

Westville Pub

Purple Onion Cafe

Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am

Don Winsley EP release w/ Galdytron, Punchdrunkk & Arco Velo

Amarok (metal)

The Klavenauts (afrobeat)

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Pierce Edens and the Dirty Work (alt-country, blues, rock)

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Dawn Humphrey (blues, soul) Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am Shifter’s

Gypsy (rock) Stella Blue

The Greyhounds, 1pm

No Jacket Required (covers), 8-10pm Waiting for Superman (film & discussion) Movie night

Handlebar

Mark Webb w/ Simultaneous Groove Hole-N-Da-Wall

Cipher circle, 10pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Mariachi band

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Bobby Miller & the Virginia Daredevils (bluegrass) Orange Peel

Straightaway Cafe

Scott Murray

Fitz & the Tantrums (rock, soul, R&B) w/ April Smith & The Great Picture Show

TallGary’s Cantina

Root Bar No. 1

The Get Down

Shifter’s

Unnamed Suspects (rock) Vampirates (hardcore, punk) w/ KSE & Konami Code The Pocket

Primal Soul & DJ Chadwick (deep house, live percussion), 10pm

Open jam session

West Coast swing dance, 7:30pm The Get Down

Open mic

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Blues jam

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Juan Benavides Trio, 8-10pm Athena’s Club

Disclaimer Stand-Up Lounge (comedy open mic), 9pm Blue Note Grille

Jazz jam

BoBo Gallery

Utah Green (eclectic folk) Craggie Brewing Company

Matt Williams & friends

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Good Stuff

Open mic

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Benefit for nuclear awareness

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Handlebar

Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit (indie rock) w/ Hayes Carll & Shovel + Rope

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Ellen Trnka (jazz, blues)

Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm

Town Pump

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Tue., April 12

Westville Pub

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Sanctum Sully (Americana, bluegrass)

Lost in Bass feat: Psychoanarchy, Bassharp, Morefiend, Nicodemus & more

5 Walnut Wine Bar

Big Daddy Love (Americana)

Corbin & Bones (jazz, swing), 8-10pm

Front stage: Dave Turner

White Horse

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Good Stuff

Blue Note Grille

Live local music

Soul/jazz jam

BoBo Gallery

Olive or Twist

Holland’s Grille

Carolina Rex (blues, rock) Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Iron Horse Station

Jenne Sluder (acoustic, folk) Jack Of The Wood Pub

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Lyndsay Wojcik (folk, roots, soul)

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Matt Getman (jazz, pop, soul) Garage at Biltmore

Gabrahm Vitek (“groove in your face”) Marc Keller

Back stage: Velvet Truckstop (Americana, rock)

Jenne Sluder (acoustic, folk)

Kat Williams (blues, jazz, soul)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Wild Wing Cafe

Mellow Mushroom

The Shane Pruitt Band (rock, roots)

J. Mascis (rock, indie) w/ Kurt Vile & the Violators

Appetite for Destruction (Guns N’ Roses cover band)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Sun., April 10

Big Something (rock, jam) Olive or Twist

Live jazz or swing Orange Peel

Lubriphonic (blues, funk, soul) Pack’s Tavern

Crocodile Smile (dance) Purple Onion Cafe

50 Broadway • Asheville, NC 236-9800

Root Bar No. 1

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

Mellow Mushroom

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Most Draft Beer in Asheville!

Ron Moore (Americana, folk)

Screech Owl Serenade (country, Western swing)

Diana Wortham Theater

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

FRIDAY • 4/15 • $12 adv.

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist) Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day Red Stag Grill

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Bill Covington (piano classics and standards), 5:30-7:30pm Harrah’s Cherokee

Barley’s Taproom

The Hipbones

Marc Keller

DJ Kool Bear

Craggie Brewing Company

Vinyl Tuesday

Creatures Cafe

Organic jam

Eleven on Grove

Live band, 7-10pm Live DJ, 10pm-2am

Dirty South Lounge

“Sunday Sessions” w/ Chris Ballard

Beginner swing & tango lessons, 6pm Dance w/ live DJ, 8pm

Highland Brewing Company

Emerald Lounge

Honey Fed Worms (blues, rock, jam)

Rumblebucket Orchestra (indie, afro-beat)

Garage at Biltmore

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Fred’s Speakeasy

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Punk rock Sundays, 6pm

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Hotel Indigo

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm

Mountain Goats (indie folk, pop) w/ Megafaun

Iron Horse Station

Hotel Indigo

Phat Tuesdays w/ Selector Cleofus & guests

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack Of The Wood Pub

Old-time jam, 6pm

Swing dancing w/ The Firecracker Jazz Band, 7:30pm Orange Peel

All That Remains (hard rock) w/ Nonpoint, Surrender the Fall & Telic Pisgah Brewing Company

Snarky Puppy (jazz, funk, fusion) Red Stag Grill

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Open mic w/ Brian Keith

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm

TallGary’s Cantina

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Town Pump

Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm

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Fairview Tavern 505-7236 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Speakeasy 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 (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 The Hangar 684-1213 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Harrah’s Cherokee 497-7777 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780 The Hop 254-2224 The Hop West 252-5155 Infusions 665-2161 Iron Horse Station 622-0022

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Garage at Biltmore

Amarru feat: Andrew Kirk, Miles Cramer, Will Little, Edwin Leskin & Sarah Fluharty

Rendezvous 926-0201 Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill 622-0001 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scully’s 251-8880 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Shifters 684-1024 Stella Blue 236-2424 Stephanie’s Roadhouse Bistro 299-4127 The Still 683-5913 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 Switzerland Cafe 765-5289 Tallgary’s 232-0809 Red Room 252-0775 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 Vincenzo’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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Gene Peyroux (rock, funk, soul)

Sticky Mulligan (funk, soul) w/ Jonathan Sexton & the Big Love Orchestra

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Mitch Barrett (singer-songwriter)

An evening w/ Slaid Cleaves (Americana, singersongwriter)

Olive or Twist

Blue Note Grille BoBo Gallery

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Orange Peel

Craggie Brewing Company

Handlebar

Pack’s Tavern

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Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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Jack Of The Wood Pub

Purple Onion Cafe

Mellow Mushroom

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Ghost to Falco (indie, rock, ambient) w/ Aan, Abraham Leonard & Easy Company Open mic, 6-9pm

Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Feed and Seed

Susan Gibson (singer-songwriter) French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Matt Walsh (blues, rockabilly)

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Chris Knight (singer-songwriter, country) Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Bluegrass jam, 7pm Yarn (Americana)

Ballroom dancing w/ Heather Masterton & The Swing Station Band, 7:30pm Taj Mahal Trio (blues, roots, world) w/ The Dirty Guv’nahs Scott Raines (acoustic, rock) Valorie Miller (Americana, folk)

Moors & McCumber (Americana) Dance Lush w/ DJ Moto

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Billy Sheeran (piano) Red Step Artworks

Open mic

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

monday

Root Bar No. 1

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues / Wild Wing Cafe

Scandals Nightclub

tuesday

Shifter’s

Jus One More / The Pocket / Red Room

The Get Down

wednesday

Steve Whiddon (“the pianoman”) Chris Wilhelm (folk, rock)

EDM Exposure w/ Sub Genre, Disc-Oh & Nicodemus Open jam

Tennessee Jed (Americana, bluegrass, rock) Town Pump

David Zoll (jazz) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzo’s Bistro

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Aaron LaFalce (piano) Westville Pub

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Beacon Pub / Buffalo Wild Wings / Fred’s Speakeasy / The Hangar / Midway Tavern / O’Malleys on Main / Holland’s Grille

thursday Cancun Mexican Grill / Club Hairspray / Harrah’s Cherokee Fairview Tavern

Allstars Sports Bar and Grill

friday

Athena’s Club

Fat Cat’s Billards / Mack Kell’s Midway Tavern / Shifter’s / Shovelhead Saloon / Tallgary’s Cantina

The Sharkadelics (pop, rock), 9:30pm Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Note Grille

Brian McGee (Americana, rock) Boiler Room

Blitch w/ New 22 & Overmind (rock)

saturday

Creatures Cafe

The Hangar / Holland’s Grille Jus One More / Midway Tavern / Rendezvous / Shovelhead Saloon / The Still

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

sunday

Craggie Brewing Company

Jordan & Joe (from Pow Pow Hawks), 7-9pm Lisa Penrose

Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show, 8pm-1am Eleven on Grove

ULTRA Asheville w/ In Plain Sight

Cancun Mexican Grill / The Hangar The Get Down / Shifter’s

Emerald Lounge

Do it to Julia (folk rock, indie) w/ David Mayfield Parade & Veelee

Turntable (rock)

Fairview Tavern

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Circus Mutt (rock, Grateful Dead covers), 8pm Feed and Seed

Deep River

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Nikki Talley (acoustic, indie, rock) Garage at Biltmore

Secret Beats Stash 2 Good Stuff

Joe Randolph Band Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Danielson (indie, pop, gospel, rock) w/ Eugene Chadbourne Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics and standards), 5:30-7:30pm Handlebar

The Winter Sounds (indie rock) w/ Today the Moon Tomorrow the Sun, Junior Astronomers & East/North Harrah’s Cherokee

Live DJ, 12-2am

Highland Brewing Company

Stumpwater (bluegrass) Holland’s Grille

Twist of Fate (classic rock) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Iron Horse Station

Doc Hill (traditional Appalachian) Jack Of The Wood Pub

Two Man Gentlemen Band (Americana) Jus One More

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Back stage: Nataraj (dance, world) Mellow Mushroom

Eric Lindell (blues, soul, R&B) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Stereofidelics (alternative, rock) w/ Eyes of the Elders Olive or Twist

Live jazz or swing Pack’s Tavern

WestSound (dance, R&B) Pisgah Brewing Company

Everton Blender (reggae) Purple Onion Cafe

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist) Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day Red Stag Grill

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) Root Bar No. 1

Impeach Dixon (folk, Americana) Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am Stella Blue

VibeSquad

Straightaway Cafe

Jenne Sluder (acoustic, folk) The Get Down

Honky w/ Karma to Burn and Crank County Daredevils (Southern rock) The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Gone Coastal (rock, country, island)


Town Pump

Sumilan (jam, funk, rock) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Jim Arrendell & the Cheap Suits (dance) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Peggy Ratusz (1st & 3rd Fridays) Ginny McAfee (2nd & 4th Fridays)

Sat., April 16 Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (singer-songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Note Grille

Damian LeMaster (jazz piano) Boiler Room

26 Ways w/ Melodious Earth (funk, jazz) Craggie Brewing Company

Japan relief concert feat: stephaniesid, Kovacs & the Polar Bear, Taylor Martin’s Engine & The Greasy Beans

Dance party w/ live DJ

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Bill Covington (piano classics and standards), 5:30-7:30pm Handlebar

The Note Ropers (country) w/ Caleb Fletcher Harrah’s Cherokee

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Hotel Indigo

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist�), 7-10pm Iron Horse Station

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Emerald Lounge

Brushfire Stankgrass (acoustic, bluegrass) Feed and Seed

The Neighbors

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Peggy Ratusz (blues, jazz, soul) Garage at Biltmore

On the 8 Day feat: Chronicles of Landsquid, Dubvirus, Kameleon & more Good Stuff

Dave Turner (Americana) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Root Bar No. 1

Linda Mitchell (blues, jazz)

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Creatures Cafe

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Ric Ledford & the Reems Creek Incident (bluegrass)

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12:30am

David Earl (blues, folk, soul), 6-8pm

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Scandals Nightclub

Live band, 7-10pm Live DJ, 10pm-2am

Sherri Lynn & Mountain Friends (bluegrass, country)

Relentless Flood

Red Stag Grill

Miriam Allen & the Passionistas (Latin, Americana, folk) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Straightaway Cafe

Gary Segal (singer-songwriter)

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Neon Piss (punk, rock) The Pocket

Primal Soul & DJ Chadwick (deep house, live percussion), 10pm The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Letters to Abigail (Americana, country)

Back stage: The Secret B-Sides (hip-hop, R&B, soul) CD release party

Town Pump

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Chompin’ at the Bit (bluegrass, old-time)

Japan Red Cross benefit w/ guest DJs

Olive or Twist

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Jazz night w/ The 42nd Street Jazz Band

Marc Keller

Orange Peel

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Beats Antique (electronic, world, roots) w/ Eskmo Pack’s Tavern

Dave Desmelik Trio (Americana)

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Due to possible last-minute scheduling changes, moviegoers may want to confirm showtimes with theaters. n Asheville Pizza &

Brewing Co. (254-1281) Please call the info line for updated showtimes. Black Swan (R) 7:00, 10:00 Tangled (PG) 1:00, 4:00 n Carmike Cinema 10

(298-4452)

Arthur (PG-13) 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40 Hanna (PG-13) 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Insidious (PG-13) 2:35, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00 Limitless (PG-13) 1:05, 3:35, 6:10, 8:35 The Lincoln Lawyer (R) 1:25, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 Paul (R) 3:45, 9:00 Rango (PG) 1:10, 3:40, 6:15, 8:45 Red Riding Hood (PG-13) 1:15, 6:30 Soul Surfer (PG) 1:20, 4:05, 6:50, 9:25 Source Code (PG-13) 1:30, 3:50, 7:05, 9:20 Strawberry Shortcake (G) 100 Sat-Sun only Your Highness (R) 1:50,, 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 n Carolina Asheville

Cinema 14 (274-9500)

Arthur (PG-13) 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:25 Cedar Rapids (R) 12:20, 3:15, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 (No shows Fri-Sun) Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) 11:40, 2:10, 4:25, 7:05, 9:25 (No shows Fri-Sun) Hanna (PG-13) 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:35, 10:05 Hop (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 Insidious (PG-13) 11:35, 1:55, 4:55, 7:45, 9:50 (Sofa Cinema) The King’s Speech (PG-13) 12:35, 3:20, 7:40, 10:15 (No shows Fri-Sun) Limitless (PG-13) 11:45, 2:05, 4:20, 7:15, 9:30 The Lincoln Lawyer (R) 12:15, 3:00, 7:20, 10:00 Paul (R) 7:45, 10:20 (No shows Fri-Sun) (Sofa Cinema) Rango (PG) 11:35, 2:15, 4:45 (No shows Fri-Sun) (Sofa Cinema) Soul Surfer (PG) 12:05, 2:20, 4:35, 8:00, 10:25 (Sofa Cinema) Source Code (PG-13) 12:25, 2:35, 4:55, 7:55, 10:15

Sucker Punch (PG-13) 11:55, 2:25, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 (No shows Fri-Sun) Your Highness (R) 12:30, 2:55, 5:25, 8:00, 10:25 n Cinebarre (665-7776)

Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (PG-13) 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:50 (no 9:50 show Mon-Thu) Black Swan (R) 7:05, 9:45 (no 9:45 show Mon-Thu) The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (PG) 1:00, 4:00 Drive Angry (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 (no 10:05 show Mon-Thu) Take Me Home Tonight (R) 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:55 (no 9:55 show Mon-Thu) Unknown (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 (no 10:00 show Mon-Thu) n Co-ed Cinema

Brevard (883-2200) Arthur (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 n Epic of

Hendersonville (693-1146) n Fine Arts Theatre

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A Matter of Size (NR) Thru Tue Apr. 12 only 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, Late show Fri-Sat 9:00 Today’s Special (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, Late show Fri-Sat 9:30 n Flatrock Cinema

(697-2463)

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (R) 3:30, 7:00 (no 7:00 show Mon) n Regal Biltmore

Grande Stadium 15 (684-1298) n United Artists Beaucatcher (298-1234)

Battle: Los Angeles (PG-13) 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 9:55 Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules (PG) 12:50, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Gnomeo and Juliet (G) 12:55, 3:05, 5:20, 7:40, 9:50 Hop (PG) 1:00, 1:45, 3:15, 4:00, 5:30, 7:20, 7:50, 9:40, 10:05 The King’s Speech (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sucker Punch (PG-13) 1:30, 4:20, 7:30, 10:15

For some theaters movie listings were not available at press time. Please contact the theater or check mountainx.com for updated information.

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pickoftheweek Insidious JJJJ

Director: James Wan (Saw) Players: Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey, Leigh Whannell Horror

Rated PG-13

The Story: When malevolent spirits follow the Lambert family to another home, they bring in an exorcist who finds that their comatose son is the point of demonic interest. The Lowdown: A funhouse ride of a horror picture that revels in all the tropes of the genre — as well as its own absurdity, but manages to be pretty-darn creepy at the same time. James Wan’s Insidious is an improbable concoction in that it manages to have it both ways. It’s undeniably overheated and ridiculous in its attempts to make the viewer jump with shock cuts and loud blasts of music. But at the same time the approach not only works on the viewer’s nerves, but it makes you unprepared for its moments of intense creepiness. Yes, it’s wildly derivative, plucking things with abandon from other movies. And it’s not always wise in this regard, but it invariably puts some quirky personal spin on the things it borrows, in turn creating one of the most enjoyably eccentric horror movies in quite some time. Insidious is more than a little bit like an old spook-house ride at an amusement park. In fact, the old lady with the wild hair put me in mind of the cheesy clockwork mannequin witch outside the horror ride at the old Myrtle Beach Pavilion that both fascinated and appalled me when I was quite a young child. The difference is that the actual ride promised much more than it delivered, while Insidious delivers somewhat more than its atmospheric trailer promised. In fact, if I’d seen this when I was the age I was when I saw that spook house, it’d have scared the hell out of me. The film is a fairly basic haunted-house story. It has the wisdom to start slowly and build its atmosphere of dread in the creepy old house that Josh (Patrick Wilson) and Renai Lambert (Rose Byrne) have just moved into with their three children. The early portions of the film slightly resemble a far more stylish take on the Paranormal Activity (2007) approach, which is not surprising since that film’s director, Oren Peli, is one of this film’s producers. But don’t get the idea that Insidious is anything like Paranormal Activity. It’s not. It’s more like a less ambitious — and

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Leigh Whannell (who also wrote the screenplay) and Lin Shaye get a look at something nasty in James Wan’s spook-house ride of a movie Insidious. more successful — version of Wan’s underrated Dead Silence in terms of style and atmosphere. As the story progresses, their oldest child, Dalton (Ty Simpkins), suffers a fall while exploring — being drawn to — the attic, and slips into something like a coma that the doctors are powerless to explain the next day. The house proceeds to get creepier and seemingly more openly malevolent after this, so they move to a new house, only to find it’s not the house that’s haunted, it’s Dalton. The explanation for this is forthcoming when Josh’s mother (Barbara Hershey) calls in an exorcist friend of hers, Elise Rainier (Lin Shaye). That probably sounds more improbably convenient than it plays, because the script explains the relationship — though I won’t reveal how. There’s been a good bit of criticism that Insidious is too like Poltergeist (1982). That may be true, but for me, Insidious is much more effective — perhaps because it lacks the massive Spielberg budget of the earlier film. I’ve also seen criticism that the red-faced demon that appears in the film looks like Darth Maul, but that never occurred to me while watching the film. In fact, it seemed to have much more in common with the monster from Jeepers Creepers (2001), especially when we see it in its lair in the nether world the movie calls “The Further.” Frankly, I have no serious complaints about Insidious — except maybe that now I’ll never be able to think of Tiny Tim’s recording of “Tiptoe

Through the Tulips” as anything but sinister. Maybe it always was. Rated PG-13 for thematic material, violence, terror and frightening images, and brief strong language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

Even the Rain JJJJ

Director: Iciar Bollain (Take My Eyes) Players: Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri, Cassandra Ciangherotti Drama

Rated NR

The Story: A film company on location in Bolivia finds itself embroiled in an uprising against a government plan to privatize the water supply. The Lowdown: Compelling, entertaining and persuasive drama — with one pitfall — that dares much, usually to good results, thanks to solid acting and characterization. A movie as daring and ambitious as Iciar Bollain’s Even the Rain can be excused for being a little pleased with itself — and there’s little denying that Even the Rain enjoys a sense of its own worth. Why shouldn’t it? This intricately crafted tale gets far more right than it doesn’t, as it tells the story of movie crew, its visionary director and his


startingfriday ARTHUR

OK, here’s what you’ve got: It’s a remake of a much-loved Dudley Moore movie. It also stars Russell Brand, whose movies to date have not been all that impressive. The director, Jason Winer, is from TV (Modern Family). Helen Mirren is a definite plus. The fact that the Arthur character seems to be just weird and spoiled in the trailer might be an improvement over Moore’s funny alcoholic schtick, but Brand has yet to indicate he has Moore’s appeal. Another consideration is it hasn’t been screened. (PG-13)

HANNA

This action thriller with Saoirse Ronan as a 16-year-old trained assassin looks positively ludicrous until you start looking at its pedigree -- not only Ronan, but Eric Bana and Cate Blanchett, plus Joe Wright (Pride & Prejudice, Atonement) in the director’s chair. Then you start to wonder if there’s more here than meets the eye. Throw in the fact that its early reviews are on the positive side, though there aren’t enough credible critics in the bunch to really tell much yet. But it’s worth noting that both The Hollywood Reporter and Variety reviewers gave it positive marks. (PG-13)

A MATTER OF SIZE

One of the best-received and most popular films from this year’s Asheville Jewish Film Festival gets a limited booking (through Tuesday only) at the Fine Arts this week. The film from Erez Tadmor and Sharon Mayman is a charming and touch-

long-suffering pragmatic producer out to make a film painting a damning portrait of Christopher Columbus as an imperialist oppressor. Its major shortcoming is simply that it falls victim to the same trap it sets for its fictional filmmakers, and that slightly tarnishes its own righteousness. Few recent films have tackled anything as complex and weighty as Even the Rain. The selling point of the movie with American audiences is Gael Garcia Bernal who plays Sebastian, the dedicated filmmaker, but it’s ultimately more Luis Tosar as Costa, his theoretically more practical producer/partner, who carries the film. Bernal is fine — he even has moments of greatness — but Tosar’s character is simply the more interesting. He’s also quite possibly the more admirable of the two, even though the film starts out with him seeming anything but admirable. It’s Costa who has brought the film to Corachamba, Bolivia — largely against Sebastian’s wishes — in order to take advantage of the labor costs there. Both men are smart enough to realize that this means that they are exploiting the natives just as Columbus did, albeit in a different way. Costa, however, appears

ing comedy about a group overweight Israelis who gain self-acceptance through the improbable idea of becoming sumo wrestlers. What could be a one-joke -- and not a very funny one -- premise turns into an audience-pleasing movie that works, because it respects its characters. Since this won’t be reviewed, we’ll go ahead and note here that it’s rather special. (NR)

SOUL SURFER

The director who gave us Bratz (2007) is back with the fact-and-faith-based Soul Surfer starring AnnaSophia Robb as reallife one-armed surfer Bethany Hamilton. It’s all about how Hamilton lost her arm to a shark, and her return to surfing after a period of getting her head together and learning how to surf all over again. The intent is to be uplifting, of course, and Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt are around to help. (PG)

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Having finally attained some mainstream success with Pineapple Express, former indie director David Gordon Green is having another go at something not too similar, but clearly not art-house fare. It’s apparently a kind of medieval stoner comedy that Green and star Danny McBride came up with when they were in film school. McBride has described his character as someone who “gets stoned and kills dragons.” They’ve managed to wrangle Natalie Portman, James Franco and Zooey Deschanel into this, too. It hasn’t been screened. (R)

to be more comfortable with this. Sebastian tries to salve his conscience by treating his extras well — or as well as possible on their two-dollar-a-day pay scale — and retreating into the importance of the statement of his film. He even goes so far as to hire a key performer, Juan (Juan Carlos Aduviri), despite realizing the man is clearly going to be trouble. Costa argues against this with more reason than he can possibly know at this point in the narrative, but relents because, yes, the man is perfect for the part. Of course, the reason he’s perfect for the role of the Indian who most distrusts and sees through Columbus because he is that character in real life. The difference is that his modern-day Columbus is an international company that is taking over the water supply in the area, so that no water — even the rain — will not be paid for. And he’s one of the prime agitators against this affront — and, by his nature, he’s equally suspicious of the film company, and with good reason. The story then becomes the attempts to make this film about exploitation by the use of exploitation against the background of even greater exploitation — a background

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Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham Carter, Guy Pearce, Derek Jacobi, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon Historical Drama The story of Britain’s King George VI and his attempts—with the help of an unorthodox therapist—to overcome his speech impediment to become the wartime voice of his people. An improbable subject becomes a magnificently enjoyable and moving film experience that needs to be seen. Rated R

Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules JJJJ

Limitless JJJJ

Zachary Gordon, Devon Bostick, Rachael Harris, Steve Zahn Family Comedy Our wimpy kid returns, a year older and with a whole new set of problems, including his first crush and the tribulations of a conniving older brother. A wholly likable, light-hearted and honest look at the family dynamic, which comes off entertaining for both children and adults. Rated PG

Even the Rain JJJJ

Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Tosar, Karra Elejalde, Juan Carlos Aduviri, Cassandra Ciangherotti Drama A film company on location in Bolivia finds itself embroiled in an uprising against a government plan to privatize the water supply. Compelling, entertaining and persuasive drama—with one pitfall—that dares much, usually to good results, thanks to solid acting and characterization. Rated NR

Gnomeo & Juliet JJJ

(Voices) James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Maggie Smith, Jim Cummings, Jason Statham Animated Gnome Movie The Story It’s Romeo and Juliet with garden gnomes. Really, what more do you need to know? Well, it’s pretty lame, too. Rated G

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James Marsden, Russell Brand (voice), Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria (voice), Gary Cole, David Hasselhoff Frantic Seasonal Kiddie Fantasy The next Easter Bunny has headed to L.A. to be a rock drummer, labor disputes are plaguing the Bunny candy factory, and it looks like Easter is gravely imperiled. Everything you’d expect and more from the man who brought you Alvin and the Chipmunks, meaning it’s truly painful. Rated PG

Insidious JJJJ

Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne, Ty Simpkins, Lin Shaye, Barbara Hershey, Leigh Whannell Horror When malevolent spirits follow the Lambert family to another home, they bring in an exorcist who finds that their comatose son is the point of demonic interest. A funhouse ride of a horror picture that revels in all the tropes of the genre—as well as its own absurdity, but manages to be pretty-darn creepy at the same time. Rated PG-13

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Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Anne Heche, Isiah Whitlock, Jr., Stephen Root, Alia Shawkat Comedy Innocent insurance agent Tim Lippe gets a lesson in life at an insurance convention in Cedar Rapids. By turns raunchy and charming, this unassuming little comedy is a breath of fresh air in its sweet-natured approach to its story and characters. Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14. Rated R

I Saw the Devil JJJJ

Byung-hun Lee, Min-sik Choi, Gook-hwan Jeon, Ho-jin Jeon, San-ha Oh Extremely Violent Revenge Horror Thriller A Korean special police agent takes the law into his own hands when his fiancee is murdered by a serial killer. Brutal, violent, disturbing revenge horror that’s not for all tastes, but is nonetheless more than a mere “torture porn” horror picture. Rated NR

Bradley Cooper, Abbie Cornish, Robert De Niro, Andrew Howard, Johnny Whitworth Thriller A lazy writer comes across a pill that unlocks all of his potential, but which isn’t without its own side effects. An entertaining enough thriller that’s all polish and little substance. Rated PG-13

The Lincoln Lawyer JJJJ

Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei, Ryan Phillippe, William H. Macy, Josh Lucas Crime/Courtroom Drama A slick lawyer gets hired to help a rich kid beat an assault rap, but quickly learns there’s more to this case than he knew. An engaging, convoluted, formulaic crime drama that’s a bit on the flimsy side, but remains entertaining. Rated R

Paul JJJJ

Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman, Blythe Danner Sci-fi Comedy Two Brit sci-fi geeks find themselves helping an alien escape from the U.S. government. A genial, casually raunchy and occasionally pointedly satirical comedy about, by, and for sci-fi nerds, but one smart enough not to depend on in-jokes for its laughs. Highly recommended. Rated R

Rango JJJJJ

(Voices) Johnny Depp, Isla Fisher, Abigail Breslin, Ned Beatty, Alfred Molina, Bill Nighy Movie Savvy Animated Comedy A stranded pet chameleon masquerades as a Wild West hero—and then has to live up to his story. Beautifully made, perfectly cast, fast-paced, very funny animated comedy blessed with weird and wonderful invention. Rated PG

Source Code JJJJ

Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright Intelligent Sci-Fi Thriller An Air Force pilot must find a bomber using secret government program that can place someone in the last eight minutes of another ’s life. An intelligent, entertaining piece of sci-fi filmmaking. Rated PG-13

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Emily Browning, Abbie Cornish, Jena Malone, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Carla Gugino Uber-stylized Sci-Fi Videogame Action Mess A young girl fantasizes about escape from an insane asylum while she waits for her lobotomy. Flashy, trashy, barely coherent mish-mash of a lot of better movies with lashings of low-grade porn, creepiness and long stretches of videogame boredom. Rated PG-13

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Aasif Mandvi, Naseeruddin Shah, Jess Weixler, Harish Patel, Madhur Jaffrey, Kumar Pallana Comedy When an ambitious young chef’s father has a heart attack, he finds himself forced to temporarily take over the family’s shabby restaurant. An old-fashioned story that more than gets by on charm and sweetness of nature. Don’t let the lack of star power or its unfamiliar title keep you from catching this. Rated R

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Director: Tim Hill (Alvin and the Chipmunks) Players: James Marsden, Russell Brand (voice), Kaley Cuoco, Hank Azaria (voice), Gary Cole, David Hasselhoff Frantic Seasonal Kiddie Fantasy Rated PG

The Story: The next Easter Bunny has headed to L.A. to be a rock drummer, labor disputes are plaguing the Bunny candy factory, and it looks like Easter is gravely imperiled. The Lowdown: Everything you’d expect and more from the man who brought you Alvin and the Chipmunks, meaning it’s truly painful. Two things kept Tim Hill’s Hop from having ranked up there as one of the most torturous movie experiences of the year thus far — three, if you count the slightly hysterical brouhaha over this dumb movie’s “blasphemy,� but that’s another matter. The first came when a small child had to be taken from the theater screaming (I understood his or her pain). The second came near the end when a boy of about 9 blurted out, “I wanted the rabbit to die!� (That lad is eaten up with perspicacity). Now, you may notice that while the experience of seeing Hop was responsible for these outbursts of passing entertainment, the film itself managed none whatever so far as I am concerned. I have nothing against the Easter Bunny. Indeed — and despite the fact that he brought less impressive gifts and provided far less school-holiday time — I always found the concept of a human-sized rabbit that walked upright much more entertaining than a tubby old gent in a red suit. Nowhere did I find anything of my notions — largely drawn from a 1940s photo of my cousin Eddie with a department-store man-in-abunny suit that hung in my Aunt Lillian’s hall — of this fanciful rabbit in Hop. Instead, I found something that might be viewed as Bugs Bunny on speed. The plot involves the intertwined destinies of E.B (voiced by Russell Brand), the

hare-apparent to the Easter Bunny mantle, and Fred O’Hare (James “When You Can’t Get James Franco� Marsden), a barely youngish man, who had a close encounter of the rodent kind with the Easter Bunny that apparently has marked him for life. Even allowing for the difference between movie age and real age, there’s something really creepy about the 37-year-old Marsden playing a guy who’s still living with his parents, has no job, no friends, no girlfriend or boyfriend (he’s apparently sexless), and no interests — apart from his Easter Bunny fixation. Naturally, their paths will cross when E.B. ditches everything to try to make it as rock ’n’ roll drummer in Hollywood, and, of course, messes up Fred’s life in the process. Look, I doubt you care any more than I do about how this plays out. Let’s merely note that E.B. defecates jelly beans and David Hasselhoff makes a way-too-extended appearance. There’s a ghastly — and unbelievably thoughtless — interruption of Fred’s adopted sister’s (Tiffany Espensen) bad rendition of “Here Comes Peter Cottontail� during a school play with a singalong version of “I Want Candy� from E.B. and Fred. There’s an attempted coup on Easter Island at the Bunny’s workshop by head chick Carlos (voiced by Hank Azaria). (Of course, labor trouble would come from that Hispanic chick.) There’s the interesting assertion that the Easter Bunny has been delivering candy for 4,000 years. There’s a solution for Fred’s aimless life that defies belief. And, most importantly, there are also at least half-adozen better movies at theaters near you. Rated PG for some mild rude humor. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

Source Code JJJJ

Director: Duncan Jones (Moon) Players: Jake Gyllenhaal, Michelle Monaghan, Vera Farmiga, Jeffrey Wright Intelligent Sci-Fi Thriller Rated PG-13

The Story: An Air Force pilot must find a bomber using secret government program that can place someone in the last eight minutes of another’s life.

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Director: Josef von Sternberg (Shanghai Express) Players: Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Cary Grant, Dickie Moore, Rita La Roy, Robert Emmett O’Connor Romance Drama with Musical Numbers Rated NR Any movie that has Marlene Dietrich clamber out of a gorilla suit, don a blonde Afro, and sing “Hot Voodoo� in front of a chorus line of African warrior dancing girls is OK by me — and Josef von Sternberg’s utterly preposterous Blonde Venus (1932) is that movie. I reviewed Blonde Venus a couple of years back — http://www.mountainx.com/movies/review/ blonde_venus — and you might want to check that review out for a more detailed look at the film. It’s everything a Sternberg film should be, though it isn’t entirely persuasive as drama, and it certainly lacks the emotional resonance of Shanghai Express (1932). It is, however, a fascinating work that showcases both its star and its director’s obsessions, all within the confines of its weird drama of sacrifice and mother love. The sacrifice starts with Dietrich returning to the stage as “the Blonde Venus� (“Come Early, Stay Late�) in order to pay for husband Herbert Marshall’s treatment for radium poisoning. She then further sacrifices herself by becoming Cary Grant’s mistress (not everyone would consider that a sacrifice), which Marshall doesn’t appreciate for some reason. There’s more, but it really has to be seen to be believed. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screenBlonde Venus Tuesday, April 12, 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.

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Director: Hal Ashby (Being There) Players: Bud Cort, Ruth Gordon, Vivian Pickles, Cyril Cusack, Charles Tyner, Ellen Geer Cult Comedy Romance Rated PG Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude (1971) is 40 years old, and it wears its years effortlessly. It feels as cheeky and fresh now as it did when it first appeared, and that’s pretty remarkable when you consider that the film is every inch a product of that counter-culture era. It has all the elements of its time in its anti-war, anti-establishment sensibility, yet it feels just as relevant now as it ever did. Even its all Cat Stevens soundtrack retains its freshness. Why? That’s not so easy to say, but I think it comes down to the fact that true irreverence never really grows old — and the even greater fact that its generation-spanning romance between young Harold (Bud Cort) and elderly Maude (Ruth Gordon) also spans the years, because it remains true. It also remains a little bit shocking, though not in itself, but in the fact that it forces the viewer to rethink his or her own conventional notions of what is or isn’t an “acceptable� romance. Of course, the additional fact that the story is a very quirky, biting, dark comedy plays a part, too. And still, it’s really the film’s emotional resonance that sold it 40 years ago and sells it today, keeping it a living classic work. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society presents a special benefit theatrical screening of Harold and Maude at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, April 8, at The Carolina Asheville. Admission is $5 for AFS members and $10 for non-members. The film’s stunt coordinator and friend of the director, Buddy Joe Hooker, will do a Q&A upstairs in the Cinema Lounge after the film.

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that threatens to not remain in the background. And, of course, it’s not going to stay background, but will become the main event of Even the Rain. What is most remarkable in all of this is the depth of characterizations all the way around. Everyone has some unexpected side that will surface before the drama is fully played out. The film can’t, however, escape the suspicion that its filmmakers are fully as exploitative of its extras as the filmmakers in the film. Does it diminish the surprising power of Even the Rain? No, but it’s impossible to completely overlook. If you’re interested in seeing this film, make all possible haste, since it seriously underperformed this weekend and will be gone come Friday. Not Rated, but contains adult themes, violence and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Fine Arts Theatre

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lookhere Don’t miss out on Cranky Hanke’s online-only weekly columns “Screening Room” and “Weekly Reeler,” plus extended reviews of special showings, the “Elitist Bastards Go to the Movies” podcast, as well as an archive of past Xpress movie reviews — all at mountainx. com/movies. much of a companion piece to the director’s previous film, playing with the same theme of identity even while shooting for a more mainstream audience. The movie works on the admittedly farfetched idea that a secret government project, named Source Code, has learned how to send people’s minds into the “afterglow” of a recently deceased person. Basically, this means one person can inhabit the last eight minutes of another person’s life. In this case, we have Air Force pilot Colter Stevens (Jake Gyllenhaal) being beamed into the brain of a teacher named Sean Fentress, who was just blown up on a commuter train by an unknown terrorist. Colter’s mission is to figure out — via the last eight minutes of Sean’s life — who bombed the train so that another attack can be thwarted. Eight minutes isn’t a lot of time, so Colter continually gets transported back into Sean’s mind by his government overseers: his handler (Vera Farmiga) who’s constantly giving

him direction, and the callow scientist (Jeffrey Wright) in charge of the operation. As Colter repeatedly goes through same scene, it’s easy to be reminded of Groundhog Day (1993), but Source Code takes the underlying nightmarish aspects of that film — like the idea of living the same day over and over — and instead turns it into something more palpably grievous and sad. A lot of this comes out as we learn the true nature of not only the Source Code project, but of the ways in which those who control it are willing to take advantage of Colter for their own gain. This ties into Moon’s theme of what lengths those in power are willing to go to take advantage of others. And like Moon, Source Code isn’t a dour film, instead finding the humanity in these subtly grotesque realities it sets up. This sets Source Code apart from many other films in the science-fiction genre, particularly those of the blockbuster variety. Although there is an occasional indulgence of an action scene, there’s also a kind-hearted, almost genteel zeal for exploring the film’s fundamental questions. As a result, the film works best when it’s not bogged down inside the mystery that pushes the plot forward, but rather when its examining ideas of the true nature of life and destiny. This isn’t quite enough to make the film great, but it does make Source Code a worthy piece of entertainment. Rated PG-13 for some violence including disturbing images, and for language. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

actionfest The Big Bang: ActionFest Returns Those deafening thunderbursts of explosions, staccato blasts of gunfights, whining squeals of car chases and the general cacophony of bloodlust coming from South Asheville are nothing to fret over — it’s just ActionFest 2011. Returning to The Carolina Asheville from April 7 through 10, this second installment promises everything you might expect — plus a little extra — from what’s touted as the only film festival in the world dedicated solely to action movies. Where last year’s fest saw the everpopular Chuck Norris honored with the Lifetime Achievement award, this year ActionFest will be bestowing it on legendary stuntman Buddy Joe Hooker. While he may not have the immediate name recognition of Norris, Hooker — with nearly five decades working in film and approximately 200 titles to his credit — has certainly made his mark on cinema. Browsing through the man’s filmography is a who’s who of the last 50 years of film, working with names like Sam Peckinpah, Hal Ashby, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, William Friedkin, Brian De Palma and Quentin Tarantino. It’s nearly impossible for even the most casual of filmgoers to have missed a film Hooker has had a hand in. “It’s been an unbelievable thing to think about, to be honored for doing all the stuff you’ve loved to do your whole life,” Hooker told Xpress via telephone. “I think the most exciting part for me is that other people appreciate what I’ve been doing.” To commemorate Hooker’s work, ActionFest will be presenting a free screening of the 1978 Burt Reynolds’ vehicle Hooper, which is based on the real-life feats of Buddy Joe and Hal Needham, the film’s director. In addition, the Asheville Film Society will present Hal Ashby’s Harold and Maude (1971), at 7:30 p.m. on Friday,

April 8, with a Q&A with Hooker, who was a friend of Ashby’s and worked as the film’s stunt coordinator. In addition to this, there are all of the fan-friendly festivities festival-goers have come to expect, including a free stunt show in The Carolina parking lot at 2 p.m. on Sunday, April 10, and various panel discussions throughout the weekend. The real draw, however are the films. ActionFest kicks off on Thursday, April 7, with Jonathan English’s medieval battle epic Ironclad (featuring Paul Giamatti and Brian Cox), and closes Sunday, April 10, with 13 Assassins, the new samurai actioner from prolific Japanese director Takashi Miike. Between those two screenings will be a huge variety of action films, from neo-grindhouse movies to kung-fu flicks — and even a handful of documentaries — with all proceeds going to Chuck Norris’ charity, Kickstart Kids. Highlights include: exploitation fun with Jason Eisner’s wonderfully titled Hobo with a Shotgun (starring Rutger Hauer as — surprise — a hobo with a shotgun); James Gunn’s over-the-top superhero comedy Super; Little Big Soldier, written by and starring Jackie Chan; and the first official American screening of Kinji Fukasaku’s Japanese cult favorite Battle Royale, to name just a few. For those on a budget, there are a handful of free events, including screenings of ActionFest’s Action Movie of the Year, Robert Rodriguez’s wonderfully absurd Machete (which also includes stunt coordination from the fest’s Stuntman of the Year, Russell Towery), and a midnight show of blaxpoitation spoof — and cult hit — Black Dynamite, with star Michael Jai White there in attendance. It all adds up to a film festival that has something for nearly every breed of action cinephile, from the casual fan to the white-knuckle action connoisseur.

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Director: Preston Sturges Players: Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, William Demarest, Eugene Pallette Screwball Romantic Comedy Rated NR Preston Sturges’ The Lady Eve (1941) marked the writer/director’s move into the realm of the full-blown A picture with A-list stars — Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck — and the Paramount high gloss his first two films had lacked. The result was one of Sturges’ most popular films and probably as close as he ever allowed himself to get to a traditional romantic comedy. Of course, traditional is a very elastic term and this isn’t your standard rom-com — even of that somewhat more sophisticated era. It’s the story of a babe-in-the-woods herpetologist (Fonda) who falls in love — via a shipboard romance — with the daughter (Stanwyck) of a professional card sharp (Charles Coburn). When he finds out the truth about her, he breaks things off, so she decides to get even by masquerading as the Lady Eve Sidwich, getting him to fall for her again, marrying her and then ... well, that’s best left to the film itself. I’ve never kept track, but I suspect that Henry Fonda takes more pratfalls in this one film than in the entire rest of his career. And each one is funny. reviewed by Ken Hanke Film historian Peter Loewer and Pack Library will screen The Lady Eve at 6 p.m on Tuesday, April 12, in the newly renovated Lord Auditorium.

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Director: Kaneto Shindo Players: Nobuko Otowa, Jitsuko Yoshimura, Kei Sato, Jukichi Uno Horror Rated NR Kaneto Shindo’s Onibaba (1964) is generally considered to be a classic of Japanese horror — and not without reason, though I’m not entirely convinced it quite deserves its reputation. It is undeniably unsettling and, unlike many Japanese films of the era that get tagged as horror, this one unquestionably is. And it’s not especially subtle about it — for instance, the shock-effect musical sting with the title card (not unlike the one on the new film Insidious). It’s also lit like a horror film, and is surprisingly gory for the era. The story of two women in 14th century Japan eking out a bare existence by murdering hapless — sometimes wounded — samurai warriors, stripping them bare, dumping their bodies down a mysterious hole, and selling their armor is also horrific. (Had they eaten the corpses, Kaneto Shindo would have made the first Japanese hillbilly cannibal movie.) Still, the film just doesn’t entirely work for me — in part due to the sometimes grating musical score — but this is a film I’d still suggest giving a try, especially if you’re a fan of Japanese cinema. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Onibaba at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 8, at Phil Mechanic Studios (109 Roberts St., River Arts District, upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 2733332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

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Director: Stuart Burge (Julius Caesar) Players: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, Derek Jacobi, Joyce Redman, Robert Lang Shakespearean Drama Rated NR Stuart Burge’s impossibly stagebound and rather stuffy direction all but kills the dramatic value of the Laurence Olivier Othello (1965). (In a few years Burge would achieve his apparent aim of actually embalming the Bard — with an assist from Charlton Heston — with Julius Caesar.) As filmmaking, almost any other version of the play — particularly Orson Welles’ 1952 film — is a better bet, but this version does preserve Olivier’s Othello and Frank Finlay’s Iago, and is worth noting for that. Once you get past Olivier in blackface (somehow more jarring than Welles) and his reliance on his bag of tricks and distractions (like playing much of the first scene smelling a rose), it’s impossible not to realize that, for all his faults, Olivier was an actor of great power, deserving of at least most of his immense reputation. Finlay’s Iago may even be better, though he occasionally seems defeated by the leaden direction — something that doesn’t faze Olivier. For the acting, the film has its points. As a movie, it’s strictly canned theater of the sort that gets shown to high school English classes. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show Othello at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 10, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville).

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CHICKEN HILL BUNGALOW Funky 2BR, 1BA cottage, built c. 1919 on an extra large lot. Plenty of Southwestern sun for gardening and urban homesteading! Popular Chicken Hill is located above the River Arts District and walking distance to downtown and local schools. The house has been stripped out inside and is ready for your custom up-fit. www.ChickenHillNC.com Contact: Whit Rylee (828) 280-8884.

RENOVATED 1915 MONTFORD CLASSIC Short walk to downtown, 4BR, 2BA, 1830 sq. ft. $399,000 (firm). Large front porch, 4 fireplaces. all wood floors. Great room addition. New kitchen. Lots more. See pics at 60cumberland.com. Call 828-231-7925. 60cumberland.com

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SWANNANOA-BEE TREE • Unique river rock cottage. Recently renovated. 3BR, 1BA, office, large loft. .3 acre lot. A home with real personality. Walk to Owen District Park, 1 mile to Warren Wilson College. $148,500. Owner, 828-337-0873 or 828-298-6634.

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18 ACRE ORGANIC FARM Just 8 miles from Asheville in a highly desirable section of Leicester by the South Turkey Creek loop. Beautiful 2500 sqft, 3BR, 2BA, 2 car garage house, originally a 100 year old dairy barn with 8 additions, the most recent 1995. • Big barn and silos. • 4 acres of bottom land, 5 acres of woods, the rest very fertile pasture. Gentle hills. Creeks, spring fed cistern and tubs for watering animals, dressage field for horses, more than a mile of electric fences. Great for farm, cattle, horse ranch, private estate, or development. Septic in on another building site. • At least 5 good building sites with the roads already graded in. • Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, apples, pears and very fertile ground. • Reduced! $579,000 or best offer. Call Ron at (828) 683-5959 or ronkane@bellsouth.net

30 ACRE FARM Hwy 25/70. Beautiful! Beautiful new listing. National forest boundary. Pasture. Views. House (as is). $300,000. Call (828) 206-0785. laurelriverrealty.com LAND FOR SALE • 4 acres, gently rolling, mostly wooded, long range views. Candler. Terry 828-216-5101. MADISON COUNTY LAND Several beautiful pieces of land for sale, 5-50 acres. (828) 206-0785. Visit laurelriverrealty.com

Out-Of-Town Property $69,000 • LIVE AND WORK • MOORESBORO 2 story studio/apartment including all kitchen appliances. 3,000 sqft. 1 hour to Asheville. Call (803) 493-8734. Kingr@comporium.net OWN 20 ACRES, Only $129/mo. $13,900 near growing El Paso, Texas (safest city in America!) Low down, no credit checks, owner financing. Free map/pictures. 866-257-4555. www.sunsetranches.com (AAN CAN)


Home Services

Lawn & Garden ACE GRADING AND LANDSCAPING Custom grading, driveways, lots cleared. • Mulch • Gravel • Views • Tree removal • Storm cleanup • Retaining walls. 15 years experience. Insured. Free estimate. (828) 216-0726. LAWNS MOWED Best prices in town. Free estimate. Asheville area. (828) 505-1092

Heating & Cooling MAYBERRY HEATING AND COOLING Oil and Gas Furnaces • Heat Pumps and AC • Sales • Service • Installation. • Visa • MC • Discover. Call (828) 658-9145.

Kitchen & Bath ACCESSIBUILT RESIDENTIAL REMODELING Custom bath and shower/tub conversion for safety and accessibility. • 20 years experience. • insured. Reliable. • Free inspection/estimate. • Authorized Best Bath® dealer.(828) 283-2675. accessibuilt @bellsouth.net

Handy Man APPLIANCE ZEN • The best choice for appliance repair in Asheville. With over 12 years in appliance repair. The choice is easy. Locally owned. Fast. Friendly. Honest. • All brands washers, dryers, refrigerator, dishwasher, and small appliances. • Licensed. Insured. Bonded. • Sabastian, 828-505-7670. www.appliancezen.com HIRE A HUSBAND Handyman Services. 31 years professional business practices. Trustworthy, quality results, reliability. $2 million liability insurance. References available. Free estimates. Stephen Houpis, (828) 280-2254.

Computer CHRISTOPHER’S COMPUTERS • Computer Slow? Call Christopher’s Computers at 828-670-9800 and let us help you with PC and Macintosh issues: networking, virus/malware removal, tutoring, upgrades, custom-built new computers, etc. ChristophersComputers.com

Home A&B CONSTRUCTION is a leader in quality, craftsmanship and dependability for a wide range of building services here in Western North Carolina and the Upstate of South Carolina. We specialize in cost-sensitive, client oriented, residential and commercial renovation/remodeling, new construction, and repair services. Please call 828-258-2000 or visit our website at www.a-b-construction.com PEACE OF MIND FOR YOUR MOUNTAIN VACATION HOME Don’t give your second home a second thought! Raymark Property Services provides bi-weekly peace of mind walkthroughs, arrival and departure, concierge and project management services. Visit raymarkpropertyservices.co m for more information or call 828-545-7766 to schedule a free estimate for your custom Peace of Mind plan. PERSONAL COOK AT YOUR DOOR Healthy Food • Great Company • What You Want To Eat To Feel Great. For Special Occasions or to Treat Yourself. For 1 or 2 people only. Serving Asheville and Buncombe County. 828-318-3810.

Commercial Property COMMERCIAL BUILDING FOR SALE on busy Haywood Road corridor in thriving west Asheville. Building has loads of character w/hardwood floors and tin ceiling. High ceilings and clean functional (unheated) basement w/concrete floors. Parking behind the building. $399,000 . Call The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663 COMMERCIAL LIVE/WORK POTENTIAL Office Building on Merrimon Avenue w/in one mile of downtown. Recently renovated. Great floor plan, could work for multiple tenants. $339,900. or lease $2450 /month Call The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663 COMMERCIAL/RESIDENTI AL 2nd floor of the Leader Building! Great potential for office, residential or both. Hardwood floors, exposed brick, two electrical panels in place. Plans for 3 residential units or two office suites convey. Also includes the right to create a rooftop terrace $439,000. Call The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663 HENDERSONVILLE. Urban flex space on historic 7th Ave. Live, work. 9,000 sq. ft. for only $349,000. Bank owned. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024, POTENTIAL LIVE/WORK Arts & Crafts House w/Modern Cottage, MultiUse Commercial Property, Currently Income Producing Property as a Hostel in the Heart of West Asheville’s Business District! $399,000. MLS# 480982 Call The Real Estate Center 828-255-4663

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LANDSCAPE SERVICE Maintenance, installations, and clean-ups. Competitive prices. Owner operated. Call Jon 458-1243

Commercial/ Business Rentals DOWNTOWN OFFICE SUITE FOR RENT 1,150 sf renovated downtown office suite in historic building. Lots of character, windows, skylights, fireplaces, hardwood floors. Upstairs facing Pritchard Park. $1,275/month. Call Patti: 828-254-5853 or 828-230-3210. FULLY FURNISHED AND NEWLY REMODELED OFFICE SPACE FOR COMMERCIAL LEASE Please visit http://9elkmtn.com/ for complete information and photos on this premier property priced to lease cheap! lease@9elkmtn.com http://9elkmtn.com RIVER ARTS DISTRICT 1500 SQ.FT. STUDIO Lots of windows, tall ceilings. $975 a month includes electric. 828-231-7120 info@riverviewstation.com SPACE FOR RENT • Near Sam’s Club (off Patton Ave.) in busy shopping center. 1,150 sq.ft. Suitable for office or retail. Call 828-231-6689.

Rentals

Apartments For Rent 1 GREAT APARTMENT • BLACK MOUNTAIN Nicely renovated bath, kitchen, 1BR, sunroom, dining room. 9’ ceilings. • Abundance of natural light. • Hardwood floors. Short walk to downtown. • $600/month includes heat, water, Wifi. • Smoke free. 280-5449. 1-2-BR, 1-2BA SOUTH • 90 Beale St. Central heat/AC, dishwasher. $585$675/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1-2BR, 1BA • North, 403 Charlotte. $810-$850. Hardwood Floors, Patio. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Landscaping ARTISAN OUTDOORS Complete landscape services for the Asheville area. Design, installation, and free estimates. Over 20 years experience. (612) 250-8025

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Commercial Listings

RIVER ARTS DISTRICT • Commercial Storefronts 372 Depot St., Glen Rock Depot 800 - 3500 sq.ft. storefronts. Free Parking, LEED registered, 60 families living upstairs. Current commercial tenants: Café/theater/bar and hair salon. Russ Towers 828-274-2479. www.glenrockdepot.com

1-3BR, 1-3BA NORTH • 265 Charlotte St. Hardwood floors, central A/C. $695$1,285/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1,800 SQ.FT BASEMENT APT. • Close to downtown Asheville and the hospitals. High ceilings, separate. entrance/parking, gas fireplace and utilities incl. No smoking. $850/month. Call Lisa (828) 768-2851.

1BA/STUDIO • 85 Merrimon. Spring Special! All utilities included. $600/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA ARTISTIC FLARE IN WEST ASHEVILLE • Near downtown. W/D hookup. $450/month + security deposit. No pets. 828-551-0017. 1BR, 1BA EAST • 28 Hillendale. Sunporch, coinop laundry. $525/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA HENDERSONVILLE • 1225 Highland. Coin-op laundry, elevator. $450/month. 828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA HENDERSONVILLE • 825 4th Ave. Hardwood floors, off-street parking. $475/month. 828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA NORTH • 12 Golf. Hardwood floors, cats ok. $$625/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1Br, 1BA NORTH • 37 Sunset. Porch, mountain and city views. $455$595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA NORTH • 82 Merrimon. Hardwood floors, heat included. $525$605/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2 GREAT DOWNTOWN APARTMENTS Live, work and play downtown! • Studio: $595/month. • 2 bedroom: $725/month. Call (828) 254-2029. 2BR, 1.5BA EAST • 532 Warren Wilson. Patio, pets ok. $720/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA HENDERSONVILLE • 805 Wilken. Garage, W/D connections. $595/month. 828-693-8069. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA NORTH • 172 Macon. Dishwasher, covered parking. $750/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA SOUTH • 30 Allen. A/C, patio, storage. $665/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA EAST • 7 Lindsey. A/C, porch. $635/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1BA NORTH • 501 Beaverdam. W/D hookups, pets ok. $565/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 87 Wild Cherry. Carport, W/D hookups. $635/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 198 Kimberly. Patio, heat included. $750/month. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA WEST • 17 King Arthur. A/C, deck. $650/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com BLACK MOUNTAIN • 1BR, 1BA. Heat pump, Central A/C, W/D connections. Very nice. $595/month. 828-252-4334. CANDLER • Small 2BR, 1BA. Carpet, electric heat. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty. GREAT DUPLEX APT Beautiful, peaceful, country-like setting in Weaverville with open spaces and mountain views a few steps away. It is only 10 minutes from Asheville. The 900 sq.ft. apt. has 2BR and 2BA, an attic w/300 sq.ft storage, W/D, ceiling fans, 300 sq. ft. storage, elegant crown molding, a covered deck and a large yard. No smoking, pets okay. $790/month. Available May 1. Call Thomas, 828-250-0458 or cell 828-545-2981. HENDERSONVILLE • 1BR, 1BA. Near Main St. On bus line. Only $395/month. 828-252-4334. HIP WEST ASHEVILLE 1 Bedroom garage apartment! Great space with nice deck, fresh and comfortable with so much around the corner! Just off Haywood Road. • Washer and dryer connections too! $525/month. Call (828) 215-2865.

NORTH ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 1BA Townhouse apartment. 1 mile from downtown off Merrimon Ave. Special at $495/month. 828-252-4334. STUDIO, 1BA SOUTH • 1010 Hendersonville Rd. A/C, all utilities included. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Homes For Rent

STUDIO • Hendersonville. Near Main St. On bus line. Only $350/month. 828-252-4334. UNFURNISHED 2BR, 1.5BA WEST ASHEVILLE • Water, garbage included. Swimming pool onsite and on bus line. $725/month. Call 828-252-9882. WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $800/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent NEAR AIRPORT • 2BR, 1.5BA. Hardwoods and carpet, heat pump. Convenient to everything. $775/month. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty. WEST ASHEVILLE CANTERBURY HEIGHTS: CONDO FOR RENT Condo: 2BR, 1.5BA. Split level. Appliances include washer and dryer. Pool, exercise area, convenient location. $720/month. No pets. (828) 275-8704.

1 GREAT HOUSE • LAKESHORE DRIVE 3BR, 2BA, North Asheville, very nice neighborhood. Newer kitchen, fireplace, Bonus Room, WD connections. • Fenced backyard, Hot tub. $1200/month. References. Lease/deposit. • Pets considered. (828) 216-8181. 2BR, 1BA EAST • 2484 Riceville Rd. Porch, Central A/C. $615/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA • Near Biltmore Village. Renovated. W/D hookup, all appliances. Central A/C, gas furnace. Hardwoods and ceramic tile. Wrap-around covered porch. $835/month + security. 828-230-2157. 2BR, 2BA NORTH • 37 Maxwell. A/C, bonus room. $990/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Affordable Downtown Living! For Seniors 62 and Over, Disabled Individuals, Moderate to Low Income* • Accessible Apartments • Studios • 1 BR • All Utilities • High Speed Internet • Laundry On-Site • Parking Available

MONTFORD EFFICIENCY • Small, bright basement apartment. Walk to town. Available 5/1. W/D, includes utilities. Quiet non-smoker. $600/month+ security and last months. 828-254-6642. Indoor cat considered. NEAR HAW CREEK • 3BR, 2BA single floor apartment for rent. Nice appliances, fans, heat pump, brick sidewalks, covered porch, extensive landscaping. Quiet, upstairs unit in Maple Springs Villas duplex community. Available April 1st, $900/month. We love cats, sorry, no dogs. 828-299 7502.

WEST ASHEVILLE CANTERBURY HEIGHTS • 44 Beri Dr. Updated 2BR 1.5BA. Split level condo, 918 sqft. Fully applianced kitchen. Pool, fitness room. $700/month. Security Dep. Application Fee. Mike 919-624-1513.

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jobs 2BR/1BA MONTFORD CARRIAGE HOUSE 2-story, very cozy, wood floors, W/D, deck, patio, large master, storage bay. On quiet Cumberland Alley. $1100/month incl. water, sewer, trash. michael @mcdonougharchitect.com 2BR/1BA MONTFORD CARRIAGE HOUSE Fully furnished and equipped for move-in, cozy, wood floors, deck and patio, W/D, all utilities included. On quiet alley, walk to downtown. $1800/month. michael @mcdonougharchitect.com 3 BEDROOM, 2.5 BATH • EAST ASHEVILLE Near Warren Wilson. Newer construction. Large deck. $1250/month. (828) 776-1118. www.bassandroyster.com 3BR, 2.5BA • Split level living. 1,800 sq.ft. heated space. 2-car garage. Fireplace with gas logs. 0.4 acre fenced lot, welllandscaped front yard. Heat pump. Quiet neighborhood. 2.8 miles from Patton Ave. $925/month. Call 828-231-6689. 4BR, 3BA NORTH • 161 Chatham. Central heat and A/C, large deck. $$1,425/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com ALWAYS GREAT RESPONSE “I advertise my rental properties in Mountain Xpress because of the quality and quantity of great calls it produces!” Pauline T., Asheville. • You too can find quality renters! Call 251-1333, Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace.

AN INCREDIBLE BUNGALOW • WEAVERVILLE Partially furnished 2.5BR, 1BA, available mid-June. Very special 1000 sqft cottage on 2.3 acres. • Private: dead-end road. Woods, lovely gardens, small creek. • Greatroom/kitchen combo w/big windows. • Deck, porch. Perfect for 2! • Woodstove, central oil heat, Spring drinking water. Hammock hooks ready near creek. Good references and be willing to mow, etc. • Non-smokers. • $950/month includes electric/water. First, last, purchase oil, and $200 deposit required. • (731) 742-3143 or (828) 712-3350. karen@bradfordbb.com BEAUCATCHER HOUSE CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN AND MALL. Spacious and light-filled, 2BR/2BA. 4th floor inside unit that overlooks the courtyard and swimming pool with great mountain views. Fireplace and onsite Fitness Center. $1,100/month. For appt: 768-7098, James Wilson. beaucatcherhouse.com BEAUTIFUL DOWNTOWN VIEWS 2BR, 1.5BA, bonus room, new appliances, TED laundry room,ENhardwood R floors, gas fireplace, AC. Nice deck overlooks downtown. $950/month. 687-1954. BLACK MOUNTAIN, HOUSE FOR RENT 1500+sq-ft, 3BR/2BA, all appliances, HVAC, unfinished basement, large kitchen, living/dining room. Master bedroom with private bath/shower. W/D hookups, easy access with carport. 1 yr. lease, $1200/month plus deposit. Small pets OK. Call 828-777-5897 or 828-215-6581. BUNGALOW • WEST ASHEVILLE Available now. • 2BR, 1BA. Hardwood floors. Front/back porch. Non-smokers. $850/month. Robert: 230-9412. ashpro@charter.net

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CAMELOT • LEICESTER HIGHWAY 3BR, 1.5BA, remodeled, like new. Awesome deck. Full basement. $995/month. Sorry, no dogs. 215-2865. COTTAGE • MONTFORD 2BR, 1BA. Cute, small 2 story. Includes stove/fridge, washer, water. Gardens. Off street parking. Quiet neighborhood. Walk downtown/UNCA. No pets. $650/month, $650 deposit. References. (828) 281-2357. NEAR UNCA: 2BR, 1BA Two bedroom, one bath home with wood floors, large rooms and plenty of storage. Convenient location. Pets negotiable. 828-691-8793/ 828-298-5088. RESORT LIVING AT LAKE LURE 2800 sq.ft. stream, waterfall. 3BR/3BA, W/D, recent updates, deck, walk to lake, some resort amenities. No pets, no smoking. $950/month. $950/deposit + $200. Credit check, references. 828-697-8166. eagleborne@morrisbb.net SMALL COTTAGE NEAR LAKE TOMAHAWK • Clean with brand new highefficiency heat and air system. Hardwood and ceramic tile floors, screened porch, off-street parking and privacy fence. No smoking $625/month. 828-298-3933. STONE COTTAGE CENTRALLY LOCATED Stone cottage fully renovated walking distance to downtown, hospital, city park, and McCormick field. 3BR, 2BA with great front porch and large privacy fence in back yard. Stainless appliances, central heat and air, stone fireplace and hardwood floors. $1,450/month. One year Lease. More pics available upon request. Available April 15th. benrip@gmail.com 828 380-0841 WEST 3BR, 1BA • On 10 acres, full basement, part fenced. Pets ok. $750/month. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.

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Vacation Rentals A BEACH HOUSE AT FOLLY 20 minutes from historic downtown Charleston, SC. • The legendary dogfriendly Rosie’s Ocean View and Kudzu’s Cottage, across the street from the beach!Visit www.kudzurose.com or call (404) 617-1146. BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

Short-Term Rentals ATTENTION EXECUTIVES • HOUSEHUNTERS Don’t spend $90/night for a tiny hotel room! • $50/day = 1300 sqft completely equipped (just bring your bags) apartment. • 1-3 month rentals. • 15 minutes from downtown. • 1-2 non-smoking persons. • See us on Facebook: Asheville Hideaway. 258-8539 or 713-3380. ashevillehideaway. netfirms.com SUMMER RENTAL ASHEVILLE Available 6/168/16. Bright and sunny furnished townhouse. Price is $750/month includes internet and all bills. Dates flexible. Susan 828-713-6902. westwoodcohousing.com

$$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1800-405-7619 EXT 2450 easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN)

PAID IN ADVANCE • Make $1,000 a Week mailing brochures from home! Guaranteed Income! FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN)

100 WORKERS NEEDED Assemble crafts, wood items. To $480/week. Materials provided. Free information package. 24 hours: (801) 264-4984.

SEASONAL TREE AND SHRUB SALES ASSOCIATE BB Barns is looking for an enthusiastic, experienced individual. • Qualified candidates will have tree and shrub knowledge, a positive attitude, and ability to sell.• Minimum two years retail experience. Applications currently accepted at 3377 Sweeten Creek Road, Arden, NC or fax resume to 828-6507303. No phone inquires, please. BB BARNS.

BB BARNS, THE GARDEN COMPANY is looking for an enthusiastic, responsible, and industrious individual to fulfill a P/T Customer Service, split shift Loader position loading plants into cars.All positions are seasonal employment. Currently applications are being accepted at 3377 Sweeten Creek Rd. Arden, NC 28704 or Fax Resume to 828-650-7303 ATT. TAF. No phone inquiries please. BE A RAFT GUIDE • USA Raft French Broad, Nolichucky and Nantahala Rivers is training/hiring guides. We’re also seeking experienced guides, photographers, store staff and drivers. www.usaraft.net CAB DRIVERS Needed at Blue Bird; call JT 258-8331. Drivers needed at Yellow Cab; call Buster at 253-3311.

Employment

General ABLE TO TRAVEL Hiring 10 people, Free to travel all states, resort areas. No experience necessary. Paid training & transportation. OVER 18. Start ASAP. 1-970-773-3165 (AAN CAN)

ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT • FULL-TIME Seeking a polished and experienced person to perform a variety of administrative tasks for a commercial real estate office. Must be a good communicator, have a diplomatic style, and be comfortable on the phone and with last minute requests. While the position works mostly within the office, some business and personal errands are also required. Knowledge of commercial real estate a plus. Send cover letter and salary requirements to holli @spakerealestate.com

CINEBARRE (Biltmore Square Mall) is now hiring for all positions. Fill out an application at theater or online at www.cinebarre.com

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Administrative/ Office

EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES • Call (828) 225-6122 or visit: biltmore.com HIRE QUALITY EMPLOYEES “Our employment advertisements with the Mountain Xpress garner far more educated and qualified applicants than any other publication we have used. The difference is visible in the phone calls, applications and resumes.” Howard Stafford, Owner, Princess Anne Hotel. • Thank you, Howard. Your business can benefit by advertising for your next employee in Mountain Xpress Classifieds. Call 251-1333.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE • A forprofit family social services agency, seeks a dynamic, computer-competent and client friendly person to join our support team. Duties include reception, filing and computer entry. Email your resume and/or letter of interest to jdomansky@fpscorp.com. PART-TIME CUSTOMER SERVICE REP 10-15 hours/week @ $13/hour to start. Must have strong written/verbal skills and 3-5 years minimum experience in a customer service environment. Please email your cover letter and resume to info@christinekane.com and tell us why you are the perfect person for the position. Include CSR in the subject line of the email. If you’re a match to our needs, we will be in touch. No phone calls, please. Thanks!

Sales/ Marketing

RECRUITER NEEDED • Join a visionary company dedicated to helping children succeed! Eliada Homes in Asheville, NC is seeking a talented, experienced team player to recruit exceptional staff. The recruiter will assume responsibility for filling all vacancies within the agency. Major responsibilities include designing and running effective ads, receiving and evaluating applications, conducting and scheduling interviews, face-to-face recruiting at various job fairs, and communicating with all hiring supervisors to fill vacancies in a timely manner. Qualifications: Must have a Bachelor’s degree coupled with a minimum of one year experience in the HR field. You must be an experienced interviewer with excellent oral and written communication abilities. Position requires proficiency in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc. Only experienced candidates need apply. Send resume to eweaver@eliada.org, or fax to 828-210-0361. STAFF ACCOUNTANT FOR COMMUNITY CARE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA Part-time (25-30 hrs/wk) position located in Asheville will be responsible for AP, preparing monthly recurring and adjusting journal entries, labor distribution, bank reconciliations, assisting with month-end close and budget preparation, input and balancing, payroll backup, and assisting with outside auditors. Accounting degree or business degree with accounting emphasis preferred. Competency in Microsoft applications required, knowledge of PeachTree a plus, attention to detail and ability to multi-task an asset. Requires a minimum of 3-5 years experience. Submit resume to hr@ccwnc.org or fax to 828-259-3875.

Salon/ Spa SENSIBILITIES DAY SPA • Now hiring full-time and part-time massage therapists, nail technician, and front desk. Bring resume to 59 Haywood St.

ATTENTION The largest senior financial planning team in the Country is interviewing professional Salespeople. • Training Provided • 4-6 Leads provided daily • Most competitive products in the industry • Monthly bonuses • Advanced commissions • First Year potential income $40-$60K! • To schedule an interview, call Kim: (828) 684-1477. Learn more about us at www.amerilife.com SEEKING SALES PEOPLE Currently expanding our local offices. Seeking high energy, confident sales people. Candidate will work with financial professionals in casual, entrepreneurial environment. (828) 277-6988. admin@thurmondco.com

Restaurant/ Food 5 POINTS • EXPERIENCED WAITSTAFF Full and parttime. Apply in person, 258 Broadway, Asheville. Ask for Tommy. 5 Points Restaurant.

Hotel/ Hospitality B&B HOUSEKEEPER Part-time. • Weekends required. Established and reputable B&B seeks clean, responsible, honest selfstarter with • attention to detail. Mature attitude and takes pride in a job well done. Experience preferred. • Good pay, great work environment. 545-8750. CONCIERGE/FRONT DESK Full-time. Ability to deliver 5 Star service. • Prior hospitality experience helpful. • $11/hour. To apply in person call (828) 350-8000. The Residences at Biltmore Hotel.

Medical/ Health Care CERTIFIED DENTAL ASSISTANT Our practice is now looking for an experienced and organized “people person”, comfortable in assisting with both nonsurgical and surgical procedures. Position is part time (1.5 to 3 days/week), Asheville West End. X-ray certification required. Call 828.712.8290.


CERTIFIED DENTAL ASSISTANT Our practice is now looking for an experienced and organized “people person”, comfortable in assisting with both nonsurgical and surgical procedures. Position is part time (1.5 to 3 days/week), Asheville West End. X-ray certification required. Call 828.712.8290. EXPERIENCED DENTAL ASSISTANT NEEDED • Part time X-Ray Certification required. Needs to be detail oriented and organized. Apply to kdjackson2@att.net or Fax resume to 828-277-6820. FULL-TIME RN Families Together Inc. is now hiring a full-time RN to provide assessments and case management with medically fragile children in the Community Alternatives Program (CAP-C). • Must have 1 year of pediatric nursing experience; case management experience preferred. • Solid computer skills for paperwork intensive position. • Will cover 8 county area in WNC, transportation required. www.familiestogether.net

Human Services ALTERNATIVE FAMILY LIVING (AFL) PROVIDER The Autism Society of North Carolina is looking for an unlicensed Alternative Family Living (AFL) provider for an adult on the autism spectrum. • An AFL provider must be willing to provide long-term residential supports and be able to be on call 24 hours a day for the individual who they take into their home. • Minimum qualifications: You must be at least 18 years of age, have a high school diploma or GED, current drivers license, one year of experience working with individuals with developmental disabilities (ASD experience preferred), and pass a criminal background check and home inspection. • To apply or for more information please contact Joe Yurchak at jyurchak @autismsociety-nc.org

CAREGIVER • CNA POSITIONS The world’s trusted source of nonmedical home care and companionship services, including personal care. AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Haywood County: Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have four years of psychiatric nursing experience. Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell @meridianbhs.org Case Manager (QMHP) Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience working with adults with mental illness. Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell @meridianbhs.org Jackson County: Clinician Child & Family Services: Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Please contact Chris Cruise, chris.cruise @meridianbhs.org Jackson, Swain, Graham counties: Case Manager (QMHP) Child & Family Services: Must have mental health degree and two years experience. Please contact Chris Cruise, chris.cruise @meridianbhs.org Cherokee County: Clinician Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have Master’s degree and be licenseeligible. Please contact Patty Bilitzke, patricia.bilitzke @meridianbhs.org Clinician Offender Services Program: Part-time position (20 hours per week): Program includes a Sexual Abuse Intervention Program (SAIP) and Domestic Violence Intervention Program (DVIP). Must have a Master’s degree and be licensed or license-eligible. Please contact Diane Paige, diane.paige @meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

Home Instead Senior Care. homeinstead.com/159 COMMUNITY RELATIONS SPECIALIST Become a part of the Consumer and Community Relations team of Western Highlands Network. Make an important contribution to the overall management of publicly funded mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities services in our eight county region: Madison, Mitchell, Yancey, Buncombe, Rutherford, Polk, Transylvania and Henderson. • Duties include responding to consumers and families in order to assure client rights concerns, appeals, and complaints are resolved. Position serves as WHN spokesperson with County Health Departments, DSS and similar stakeholder organizations. • Bachelor’s degree in a human service field and two years of related supervised human services experience. QP required as well as knowledge of mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disabilities services and of the communities we serve. • Send E-mail PD-107 Application to: jobs@westernhighlands. org or send to HR, 356 Biltmore Avenue, Asheville North Carolina. Application and information about our organization is available on our website, westernhighlands.org • $31,802-$41,732, DOE. An Equal Opportunity Employer. Minorities are encouraged to apply. DIRECT CARE RESPITE HOURS • For woman with developmental disabilities; available during the week, mostly afternoons. Please contact Rachel at

AVAILABLE POSITIONS Substance Abuse Counselor: Must have LPC or LCSW (not provisional) • ACTT RN • QP MH prefer CST experience. Competitive benefits and salary mgeorge @octoberroadinc.com • www.octoberroadinc.com

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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

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF ASHEVILLE is seeking QMHPs to provide Targeted Case Management to child consumers. Email csimpson@fpscorp.com

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF HENDERSONVILLE • Seeks a licensed or provisionally licensed therapist for our adult and child population. We offer a competitive compensation and benefits package for the right credentialed, energetic team member. Please email resume and/or letter of interest to jdomansky@fpscorp.com. FT THERAPIST • To supervise adolescents in Day Treatment Program for behavior and substance disorders. FWD resume to aspireapplicants @yahoo.com

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • PART-TIME Food for Fairview, Volunteer position. Send resume no later than April 15, 2011, to lhornthal@charter.net

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LPNs NEEDED • Eliada Homes seeks LPNs to work night shift in our residential facilities. If you’re an LPN who wants to work in a setting that will allow you to help children succeed, then this is the job for you! May be some day shifts available periodically, and all PRNs have potential to move into full time. Nurses work with students ages 717 in our Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facilities. Please submit resume to eweaver@elaida.org or fax to 828-210-0361

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided). • If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Nicole at (828) 696-2667 ext 13 or e-mail Nicole: nicole.toto @thementornetwork.com. • Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting. NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.

OUR VOICE SEEKS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Our VOICE, Inc., the Rape Crisis Response and Prevention agency, located in Asheville, NC, is seeking an experienced Executive Director. Our VOICE is dedicated to providing support, advocacy, and prevention services to residents of Buncombe County through direct client support, prevention education and outreach, in a collaborative and financially responsible manner. Responsibilities include managing staff, interns, and volunteers, organizational leadership, financial management, overseeing programmatic and overall agency operations. Must have excellent communication skills, understanding of, and sensitivity to, sexual violence and the issues involved in delivery of service and education, demonstrated ability to conduct successful fundraising events, and a high degree of financial literacy. Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years experience in a related field required (Mental Health, Public Health Social Services, Administration). Master’s degree preferred.Application deadline is April 29, 2011 and proposed start date is in June 2011. Relocation assistance is not available. Salary range is $30,000$40,000. Complete the online application form at www.ourvoicenc.org. Only application, cover letter, and resumes will be accepted, and all submissions must be made by email to application@ourvoicenc.org Please no calls or faxes. Equal Opportunity Employer

PARKWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH HAS IMMEDIATE OPENINGS FOR THE FOLLOWING POSITIONS • Full time position for LCASProvisional or LCAS staff. Experience working with State-funded and Medicaid consumers preferred. Two evenings required. Free Supervision provided for candidates seeking licensure. • Hendersonville Office: Full-time licensed or provisional Counselor to work with MH and dual S/A-MH Consumers for individual therapy, etc.. LCSW and Knowledge of working with Medicaid and IPRS clients would be preferred. Free Supervision provided for candidates seeking licensure. Parkway is an excellent, stable company and offers competitive salaries, excellent benefits, medical insurance, PTO, free Supervision and CEUs for Licensure/Certification and much more for full time staff. Send resume to: slayton@parkwaybh.com RESIDENTIAL COUNSELOR Supervises and interacts with individual and groups of adolescent male students to improve social and life skills. • Physical requirements of the position include lifting up to 60 pounds, hiking, backcountry backpacking. Responsible for immediate physical health and safety of students. Work 7 days on, 7 days off. Works with team to develop student goals and progress. High school diploma or GED required. • College level courses in social sciences preferred. • Minimum of one year in youth corrections, residential treatment, or other related environment required. • Must demonstrate competency in crisis intervention. SMS is an EEOC employer. Send resume with cover letter to cfitzgerald @stonemountainschool.com

THERAPIST POSITIONS AVAILABLE Licensed Therapists needed in Jackson and Haywood Counties to provide therapy to children and their families in the school, home and community. Competitive salary, flexible hours, excellent benefit package. Must possess a NC Therapy or Provisional License. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! Submit resume via email or fax to: Tracey Elliott,telliot@jcpsmail.org, fax 828-586-6601. www.jacksoncountyps.org

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UNIVERSAL MH/DD/SAS is currently seeking Licensed and/or Provisionally Licensed Therapist for Community Support Team Lead, Intake Coordinator, Outpatient Therapist, and Substance Abuse Therapist at our Forest City Office. Please send resume to Patra Lowe at plowe@umhs.net or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net

32 hours/week; $26,500

COORDINATOR Council on Aging of Buncombe County; recruit, train, and support volunteers for agency Call A Ride, Minor Home Repair, and other services. Must have excellent communication and organizational skills, be comfortable with public speaking and working in a team-oriented environment.

plus benefits, DOE; send resume and cover letter by April 13 to Council on Aging, 46 Sheffield Circle Asheville, NC, 28803. No phone calls. WEEKEND RESPITE PROVIDER • Must have a handicapped accessible

UNIVERSAL MH/DD/SAS is currently seeking Licensed and/or Provisionally Licensed Therapist for Intake Coordinator, Intensive in Home Team Lead, Outpatient Therapist and Substance Abuse Therapist at our Asheville Office. Also seeking a paraprofessional for PSR. Please send resume to Patra Lowe at plowe@umhs.net or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net. UNIVERSAL MH/DD/SAS is currently seeking Qualified Professional for Targeted Case Management for I/DD and Mental Health populations. Please send resume to Emily Sherlin at esherlin@umhs.net or visit us on the web at www.umhs.net

home, reliable transportation and experience in the human services field. Home must pass internal safety inspection. Contact Claudia at cmnorton@hotmail.com or 828-281-9998. WILDERNESS THERAPY PROGRAM • Field Staff: Following training, facilitate safety and implement treatment plan designed by group therapist for teens struggling with emotional and behavioral issues. Staff work week on/week off in the woods of North Georgia. • Qualifications: 21 plus,

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CPR and First Aid certified, experience with backpacking and adolescents, willingness to commit 8 months, WFR recommended. • Benefits: Health/Dental, Bonus, Salary increases with Level. • Training: May 13-19. • Contact: Andy or Tyson, Second Nature Blue Ridge. (706) 212-2037. www.snwp.com

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Professional/ Management ASHEVILLE AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY • Seeks a Director of Development responsible for the overall fundraising strategy and implementation for the organization. Principal activities include developing and implementing strategic and creative fundraising strategies; cultivating, engaging and soliciting potential donors; coordinating effective donor recognition; and providing day-to-day leadership to the Fund Development team. Requirements: 7-10 years of demonstrated fund-raising leadership experience with proven success in increasing both the number of donors and annual gift totals; excellent analytical and communication skills; and proficiency in public speaking. Salary compensation based on education and experience. Excellent employee benefits package. Pleases submit resume with cover letter to lkraus@ashevillehabitat.org . No phone calls or walk-ins accepted. EOE. CARE MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR FOR COMMUNITY CARE OF WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA This full-time position is in Asheville and will work closely with our Care Management Director in shaping and leading the Care Management team. RN required, with at least a BSN preferred. Minimum of 5 years management experience, previous care management experience and experience with electronic charting and/or an Electronic Health Record system required. Commercial payer experience, excellent verbal and written communication skills, and strong interpersonal skills also required. Send resume to hr@ccwnc.org or fax to 828-259-3875.

Arts/Media CAMP WALT WHITMAN A co-ed, traidtional, sleepaway camp located in Piermont, NH seeks a qualified Woodshop Director. www.campwalt.com/staff kathryn@campwalt.com FREELANCERS WANTED • Xpress is looking for savvy freelancers for the A&E section, for features on music, art, theatre, dance and literature with a local focus. If you can write with flair, abide word counts, pitch offbeat stories and hit deadlines, please send a short email with links to writing samples to ae@mountainx.com.

INSTRUCTORS NEEDED Arts2People seeks instructors to teach a variety of Business Management Skills at the Artist Resource Center. Teacher stipends vary. Inquire at info@arts2people.org 828505-3883 XPRESS CALENDAR EDITOR • Mountain Xpress is looking for a calendar editor, responsible for compiling and editing the Community Calendar online and in print. • Candidates should be detail-oriented, well-organized and community-centered. The position requires patience and courtesy, along with the ability to communicate well with the public. • This is a 30/hr a week position with medical, dental and 401K. • Send resume and cover letter to ae@mountainx.com.

Computer/ Technical ENTRY LEVEL DATABASE ADMINISTRATOR ASHEVILLE We are looking for a trustworthy and motivated entry level Database Administrator to join a fast growing software company that specializes in web-based business management software targeted towards health clubs and training facilities. This is a great opportunity to get hands-on experience in a start-up software company. For more info and requirements download: www.getshape.net/docs/ DatabaseAdministrator Asheville.pdf or email tgrotenhuis@getshape.net SYSTEMS SUPPORT TECHNICIAN - ASHEVILLE PART-TIME: We are looking for several trustworthy and motivated individuals with strong computer skills (Microsoft) to join a fast growing software company that specializes in webbased business management software targeted towards health clubs and training facilities. This is a great opportunity to get hands-on experience in a start-up software company. Up to 20 hours/week. Hourly Rate based on experience. Please contact Tim for more info. 828-278-0213; tgrotenhuis@getshape.net; http://www.getshape.net

Teaching/ Education CLASSROOM EDUCATOR Mountain Area Child and Family Center is a model learning environment where young children thrive, families flourish, and early childhood professionals excel. This 5-star child development center is currently accepting applications for a full-time Classroom Educator position for our Asheville location on Riceville Road. • Qualified candidates will have experience working with children birth to kindergarten in a licensed center and have an Associates/Bachelors degree in early childhood development or BA/BS in a related field that includes 18 hours focusing on early childhood education/development. • Our Classroom Educators provide children with varied learning experiences that will help them develop socially, intellectually, physically, linguistically, and emotionally using age and developmentally appropriate techniques. Our full-time positions offer opportunities for growth/professional development and a competitive benefits package. **Part-time substitute positions also available • To apply, please submit an cover letter with 3 references and resume to mfoley@macfc.org and/or complete an application online www.macfc.org PT TEACHER • Grades 612. Must be NC licensed in English/Math. FWD resume to aspireapplicants @yahoo.com

Jobs Wanted ESTHETICIAN Experienced, licensed and insured in North Carolina. Recently relocated to Asheville. Seeking a career opportunity with an established spa or salon. Please contact me at 410310-4817 or melissavodak@yahoo.com

Employment Services UNDERCOVER SHOPPERS Get paid to shop. Retail and dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality and customer service. Earn up to $100/day. Please call 1800-720-0576.


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#1 AFFORDABLE COMMUNITY CONSCIOUS MASSAGE CENTER • 1224 Hendersonville Road. Asheville. $29/hour. • 15 Wonderful Therapists to choose from. Therapeutic Massage: • Deep Tissue • Swedish • Sports • Trigger Point. Also offering: • Acupressure • Energy Work • Reflexology. • Save money, call now! 505-7088. thecosmicgroove.com MASSAGE/MLD Therapeutic Massage. Manual Lymph Drainage. Lymphedema Treatment. $45/hour or sliding scale for financial hardship. 17+ years experience. 828-254-4110. NC License #146. www.uhealth.net SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town—- or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; melt in our sauna; then get the massage of your life! 26 massage therapists. 299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com

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Musicians’ Bulletin Local Guitarist Wanting to form or join Rock band. Classic rock, newer rock. Call Brian: (828) 581-0131.

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Lost Pets A LOST OR FOUND PET? Free service. If you have lost or found a pet in WNC, post your listing here: www.lostpetswnc.org

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Ali is an easy going and affectionate six-month-old little guy. He is choosy about his doggy friends, but once he decides he loves to play. Ali walks well on the leash. He is looking for a forever home filled with the love he so much deserves. Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony located at 803 Fairview Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 to shop for all your pet supplies KITTENS LOOKING FOR A LOVING HOME - Approx. 5 months old (Born approx. mid October)- Both maleCurrent on all vaccinations (rabies, distemper, lukemia)- Negative FIV & feline lukemia- Foster family is willing to pay for neuters of both kittens (surgery already scheduled for a mid-April.)- Very loving, social, friendly & playful- Would love to go together, but can go individually to good homes.- If interested, call 684-6779.

Star is a two-year-old who will light up your world. This sweet little girl wants nothing, but to give and receive attention. With her beautiful coat and loving disposition she surely lives up to her name. Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony located at 803 Fairview Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 to shop for all your pet supplies

Pets For Sale Dachshund Wirehaired Puppies. Miniature AKC. Champion bloodlines. Beautiful & healthy. Rare Piebald pattern. 8 weeks. 1st vaccs. 828-713-1509 davarner@bellsouth.net

Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away. Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

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Wanted: Several body parts for Toyota Pickup, 1984-89 model. Also parts for Honda car, 1973-77. Call 665-0889, after 6pm.

Automotive Services • Honda and Acura repair. Half price repair and service. ASE and factory certified. Located in the Weaverville area. Please call 828-275-6063 for appointment.

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ATTENTION QUILTERS! Tin Lizzie 18 long arm quilter. New. Fully assembled. Stitch regulator, light, DVD, birch frame. Warranty. Extras, patterns, king size capacity. $6500. Call (252) 331-3980.

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