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OUR 17TH YEAR OF WEEKLY INDEPENDENT NEWS, ARTS, & EVENTS FOR WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA VOL. 17 NO. 40 APRIL 27 - MAY 3, 2011

WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES p. 18

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p. 10 The YWCA’s Stand Against Racism The Asheville YWCA’s annual event has pulled in more participating partners than any other YWCA in the U.S. Perhaps that’s because, as one organizer says, more residents are willing to talk about a sense of de facto segregation in the city. With activities all around the county, events began Thursday, April 21 and run through Sunday, May 1.

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14 buncombe commissioners

County leaders open the door to more asphalt plants

17 Good news, bad news CTS neighbors give EPA an earful

18 the beat: Walk a Mile in her shoes

Annual event focuses on ending domestic violence; APD Chief Hogan retires

19 ncmatters: Redistricting

State legislators dive into the numbers game

arts&entertainment 51 love will keep us together

Inaugural Big Love festival celebrates Asheville in all its DIY glory

53 sound science

Mixing live bands and analog gear, Moog Music debuts a new series

54 taking a second look at the underdog poet Paul Bonesteel debuts, at long last, The Day Carl Sandburg Died

55 unto da beat konducta Producer/DJ Madlib plays Halfway to Moogfest weekend

features 5 Letters 6 Cartoon: Molton 8 Cartoon: brent brown 9 Commentary 20 GREEN SCENE WNC eco-news 22 GREEN thumb Farm+garden 24 Community Calendar 29 FreeWill Astrology 34 Conscious party Benefits 35 News of the Weird 36 edgy mama Parenting from the edge 38 wellness Health+wellness in WNC 44 Food The main dish on local eats 48 Small Bites Local food news 50 brews news WNC beer news 56 PROFILER Which shows to see 58 smart bets What to do, who to see 60 ClubLand 66 Asheville Disclaimer 67 cranky hanke Movie reviews 72 Classifieds 79 NY Times crossword

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letters Smoking is not a protected right It’s spring and the weather is perfect for a nice long walk around downtown Asheville. I love walking down the sidewalk on Broadway, seeing the trees in bloom and breathing in the sweet mountain air ... blech, cough cough! Oh wait, what do you know? Another rude person standing and smoking on the sidewalk, ruining everybody’s air and endangering everyone’s health all because they’re having a nic-fit. The recent legislation banning smoking in restaurants is another example of completely impotent lawmaking. Nobody in Asheville smoked in restaurants anyway, or at least in the good restaurants. Every time I am sitting outside at [some local restaurants], or even inside at [some others], I am accosted by the poisonous exhalations from some smoker who can even be as far as 5 to 10 feet outside of the restaurant’s exterior. Cigarette smoke is pervasive, repulsive and a conclusive source of cancer-causing carcinogens. Whenever a nonsmoker, someone who has made a conscious decision to protect their health, walks downtown or tries to eat outside at one of the many wonderful downtown restaurants, their lifestyle and very life is assaulted by the wanton, careless and destructive decision of smokers to smoke in public. I think the recent antismoking bill should be amended to classify secondhand smoke as a form of assault. And in this criminalization of secondhand smoke, I think that nonsmokers should be granted certain liberties for the

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Unless something is done soon, the new budget will force all prison chaplains in the state to be laid off, effective July 1. For more than four years, we at the One Love Foundation have visited several faith groups in North Carolina prisons, often on a monthly basis. We have also sponsored several concerts attended by hundreds of inmates. All our visits and concerts serve to remind the inmates to teach and learn love, even behind prison walls. The chaplains are essential in creating a healing and redemptive atmosphere within the prisons. They organize chapel gatherings for all faiths, especially during their holy days; they host and coordinate the many volunteers who unselfishly offer their help. They give direct personal counseling and advice to inmates in times of crisis and often to the prison staff as well. They are the heart and hearth of the institution. Every prison superintendent can vouch for the need of a caring chaplain to operate an effective and rehabilitative institution. To remove the chaplains would also be a grave mistake in several other ways, including possible financial impacts. Without the on-site support and counseling from the chaplains, violence in the

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institutions, as well as recidivism, will increase as true rehabilitation decreases. On a financial level, lawsuits from inmates not given their mandated faith-based services can cost the state much more than the savings created by removing all the chaplains. We all know that there are many troubled and lost souls in prisons (as there are everywhere), but to leave these people without any permanent, reliable spiritual comfort is to abandon them spiritually and emotionally. Is this the kind of state, the kind of society, we want to be? How would we react if we were told that our church, synagogue or temple would no longer have a pastor, rabbi or minister? I implore the Appropriations subcommittee and Gov. Bev Purdue to rethink this budget cut and, with human compassion and kindness, reverse the decision. As Jesus reminded us in reaching out to those in distress: “I was naked, and you clothed me. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you visited me.” — Julia and Robert Roskind Blowing Rock

How capitalism will help save the planet That’s right, you heard me; I used the “C” word in conjunction with environmentalism. But before you dismiss the idea as elitist, corporate propaganda, hear me out and try to keep an open mind. It seems to me we have two choices for creating an indefinite state of abundance: we can continually reduce our rate of consumption and have faith that technology will save us as the human population increases, or we can voluntarily reduce our global reproduction rate in order to increase the ratio of resources to consumers (notice I said “voluntarily”; no genocide required). The modern environmental movement seems to almost exclusively focus on the former, while

avoiding the unpopular, and no doubt emotional, issue of human population. Since I’m not seeking to increase my donor base or run for political office, I’m going to tackle the unpopular population issue head-on and propose that, in a world of 800 million people instead of 8 billion, we could all drive Hummers and live in McMansions, if we so chose, without any long-term repercussions to the environment. And that’s an easy sell to folks on all sides of the political spectrum. For those of you who would prefer to live in your 300-square-foot box on .03 acres, knock yourselves out. Here’s the punch line: as nations increase their standard of living, they also reduce their reproductive rates. This is not theory; this is fact. Wealthy people, by and large, do not have 10 children. Relatively free markets (there is no such thing as a purely free market), when managed intelligently and fairly by governments not bought and paid for by their corporate masters, actually do result in greater wealth for most people. Greater wealth undeniably leads to reduced populations, and reduced populations will lead to greater environmental sustainability (not to mention a whole host of other beneficial side effects, which are too numerous to list here). And a free market system need not result in the kind of corruption and inequity that has manifested itself in modern day American “capitalism.” — Tom Adams Asheville

correction In the April 20 letter “Proposed ID Policy Threatens Voter Participation,” we misprinted the phone number for the Constituent Services Office of Gov. Bev Purdue. The correct phone number is 800-6627952.

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by Jerry Sternberg Two recent Asheville Citizen-Times articles really caught my attention. One said that Rep. Heath Shuler had co-sponsored a bill to withdraw government funding from Planned Parenthood. The other reported that state Rep. Patsy Keever, with whom I’ve had serious political differences, bravely cast the lone vote against a law banning anyone considered a sex offender — including 18-year-olds who have consensual sex with someone 14 — from working as an emergency-services provider. Apparently, Shuler isn’t familiar with his district, or he’d know that this bill could drive a stake through the heart of our Planned Parenthood Health Center here in Asheville, which serves most of Western North Carolina. He should visit this facility and meet the dedicated staff who provide thousands of women with testing for cervical cancer, breast cancer and sexually transmitted diseases while offering very low-cost, immediately available assistance with family planning and birth control. Their nonjudgmental approach encourages many young people to seek help and counseling there.

The media, the Internet, music and entertainment venues glorify sex 24/7, making abstinence a tough choice, especially for teenagers. Keever, an outstanding Buncombe County schoolteacher for many years, had ample opportunity to observe teenage behavior. The real solution to many of these problems is sex education. For me, it began when I heard the illiterate workmen, forgetting that a young boy was present, brag about their sexual exploits in such obscene and graphic terms that I couldn’t believe my parents would ever do such a terrible thing. Then there were those tiny books that were passed around the schoolyard, depicting cartoon characters like Jiggs and Maggie or Blondie and Dagwood in pornographic encounters. Incorrect information disseminated by older kids and National Geographic photos showing bare-breasted African women pretty much rounded out my sex education. I don’t recall ever having a conversation about sex with my parents or any other adult. I was so naive that when I was walking to Claxton School one day with a more sophisticated fellow student and he said, “Look, there’s a rubber!” I

Planned Parenthood does more to avoid unwanted pregnancies and prevent abortions than all the Bible thumpers the congressman could ever hope to muster. Keever’s point was that the sex-offender law paints with too broad a brush. No one wants to encourage teenage sex, but some historical perspective may be in order. When my dad was born, girls were rarely educated past the sixth grade, and high schools had only 10 grades. My dad attended UNC at age 15. Upon finishing school, these teenagers were encouraged to get married, go to work and start a family, which obviously required having sex. Now we’ve extended the school year to 12 grades for both sexes, but we forgot to mention this to Mother Nature so she could delay the onset of raging hormones. In our high schools, 14-year-olds mingle with 18-year-olds, but if an 18-year-old boy has sex with his 14-year-old girlfriend, he could be convicted as a sex criminal and branded as a pariah for life. (An 18-yearold girl who has sex with a 14-year-old boy is also committing a felony, but just try getting a conviction on that with any men on the jury.) Under current law, how many of our servicemen who were called away to war right out of high school and decided to have sex with their young girlfriend (whom they might marry later) would come home to find themselves accused of a felony?

thought he was talking about an overshoe. I have to wonder what kind of sex education Shuler had as a handsome young jock. Were he and his fellow varsity players, who we know are deemed “hotties” in high school, informed about the responsibilities and precautions necessary for sexual activity? Congressman Shuler, you need to know that Planned Parenthood provides one of the most important benefits to our society, teaching young people about sexual responsibility and preventing unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases. Rep. Keever is trying to educate this community about our laws concerning sexual activity. She recognizes that predatory sex and sexual abuse are heinous crimes that should be punished to the full extent of the law, but she also knows that sometimes, the law goes way too far. “Everybody who knows me knows that I’m not supporting sex offenders, teenage sex or any of that,” the article quoted Keever as saying. “I just don’t want somebody’s life ruined because they did something natural but stupid.” Suppose that 18-year-old boy doesn’t take precautions, and his 14-year-old girlfriend

becomes pregnant. He’s convicted of a felony, and he can’t support his child even if he wants to, because he’s in prison. Even after he’s released, he can’t take his child to school, because convicted sex offenders are barred from school grounds. Meanwhile, if the girl wants to terminate her pregnancy and is denied by law, she must either hunt up some back-alley abortionist or find some way to support and raise this child alone. If this portion of the law is strictly enforced, our already-crowded prisons will be overflowing, and the number of parole officers required to enforce sex-offender regulations will increase exponentially. Shuler has been very outspoken about his religious opposition to abortion. Planned Parenthood is on the same page, striving to dramatically reduce the number of abortions in this country, which should please him. Planned Parenthood does more to avoid unwanted pregnancies and prevent abortions than all the Bible thumpers the congressman could ever hope to muster. Sex is a natural activity. Let’s treat it with respect and pragmatism, not punishment and disgrace. As I write this, conservatives in Congress, including Shuler, are trying to eliminate funding for Planned Parenthood and other affordable medical services needed to protect the lives of low-income American women, assist with family planning and promote reproductive health. They claim they’re doing this to balance the federal budget — while continuing to authorize billions of dollars’ worth of subsidies and tax breaks for big agriculture, big oil and multinational corporations, and pouring 200 to 300 missiles into Libya at $1 million apiece. How do we spell MISOGYNY? X

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by David Forbes The YWCA’s Stand Against Racism didn’t get its start here, but the Asheville edition is in the national spotlight this year. The YW’s Trenton, N.J., chapter, unveiled the first Stand — a series of community events highlighting cultural diversity and the continuing struggle against racism — in 2007; the concept went nationwide last year. And Asheville is leading the charge, with more groups (157) signed up to take part than in any other city in the country. Participants include small businesses, nonprofits and activist groups as well as local governments, UNCA, the Asheville Area Chamber of Commerce and Mission Hospitals (see sidebar, “Stand and Deliver”). “We’ve gone about it in a different way this year,” says Kathryn Liss, the coordinator for Asheville’s Stand Against Racism. “We felt it was important to involve as many people as we possibly can. We made it really easy for people to sign up, and they have.” Why this level of response now? “A lot of folks in this community are really, sincerely interested in seeing our relationships around race change,” says Liss. “I frequently run into people who say to me, ‘Where are all the black people?’ We live in a community that’s supposedly diverse, and yet when you walk around downtown, where are all the black people? What is it about Asheville that, despite the large number of African-American children in school

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Starting young: Last year’s Stand Against Racism included a children’s march, coordinated by the YWCA. This year’s events have more groups involved than anywhere else in the country. photos by Michael Muller

and African-Americans who live in this community, we hardly ever see African-Americans in the places that I frequent?” Liss, who moved here in 1993 and started working for Building Bridges, a nonprofit that focuses on improving racial relationships, recalls being told, “If you want to have other than all-white encounters in this community, it requires being intentional.” And though the latest census data show that more than 20 percent of Asheville’s population is either African-American or Hispanic, the racial situation hasn’t changed much. The hope, she notes, is that having so many partners and facets to this year’s Stand Against Racism will help the issue gain new prominence. The series includes educational events, religious services, community forums, performances and fairs (see sidebar, “Stand and Deliver”). “We’re making a statement that the white folks who are in a position to influence what’s happening care enough to stand up and be counted,” Liss explains. “Last fall, there were three incidents of racial harassment in the county. It would be real easy for people to say that people in this com-

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Asheville native Tim Smith understands the sense of de facto segregation Liss describes. In the past year, Smith’s Drinks and Dialogue gatherings have tackled the questions “Is Asheville segregated?” and “Why is Asheville so segregated?” An April 29 Drinks and Dialogue potluck at the Hole-N-Da-Wall on South Market Street will revisit the topic. The YWCA, says Smith, approached him about being part of this year’s Stand Against Racism. “I’m already for the cause,” he notes. “We’re going to raise this discussion again, and I hope [attract] some new people along with our veterans, so we can get some different opinions.” “You can feel the shift in Asheville even since we had the first Drinks and Dialogue,” continues Smith. “It seems like people are talking more

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stand&deliver This year’s Stand Against Racism runs Thursday, April 21 through Sunday, May 1. To view a full list of major events, see the April 20 Xpress. For more information, call the YWCA at 2547206, ext. 203, or visit the nonprofit’s website, ywcaofasheville.org.

Thursday, April 28 5:30 p.m., a panel discussion on race. Black Mountain Town Hall. 7:00 p.m. Traces of the Trade, a filmscreening co-sponsored by the Mountain Area Interfaith Forum (MAIF), the Ethical Society of Asheville (ESA) and the YMI. A discussion will follow the film. YMI Cultural Center.

Friday, April 29 10 a.m., City of Asheville Walking Tour. City employees will lead a tour of historic places related to race in Asheville. City Hall. Diversity Fair & Discussions at the YMI 10 a.m.-all day. There will be representatives and information from local organizations working on racial justice and discussions about racism. YMI Cultural Center. 11:30 a.m. Artist Rally at the Phil Mechanic Building Noon Issac Dickson third- through fifthgrade students will march from their school at noon to an event in Pack Square Park. Isaac Dickson in Pack Park. Noon Rally at Kenilworth Presbyterian. Noon Children’s Singing at the JCC. Maccabi Academy will host the community. Jewish Community Center

— they’re pushing; they’re willing to talk and address these issues. I hope Asheville stands up, and I want people to keep pushing for this to become a more diverse city. We all do wrong, but we can make corrections too.” In addition to the main public events, each participating group is also organizing something special for its own employees or members. One of the biggest participants, the city of Asheville, will lead employees on a downtown tour highlighting the area’s racial and ethnic history. The city’s Public Works Building, for example, was built on the site of African-American homes demolished in the name of “urban renewal” in the 1970s. “The point is to give employees a little more perspective on the history of the places within a stone’s throw of City Hall,” explains Special Projects Coordinator Kendra Turner, who organized the tour. Beginning with The Block (the historically African-American neighborhood adjacent to City/County Plaza), the tour will continue down Biltmore Avenue and around downtown. En route, it will also acknowledge the contributions of Asheville’s Irish, Jewish, Islamic, Greek and other immigrant populations over the centuries, stressing “how important that influx of immigrant perspective and culture is to keep our community sustainable and thriving.”

2 p.m. Aston Park Rally. Participants share feelings about the Civil War marker that is being changed; bring photos. Aston Park. 4 p.m. Rally at Jubilee. Jubilee, downtown Asheville 5 p.m. Celebration of Community at the YWCA. Family-friendly celebration of diversity. Music, Latin dance and group art. Performances by children from the YWCA, Shiloh Center and the Reid Center. DJ Twan. Hop Ice Cream and Hardcastle Hot Dogs will be for sale at the event. YWCA of Asheville (South French Broad Avenue). 7 p.m. American Violet; a Consciousness Cinema film, Maitri Center for Women, 41 Clayton St. Stand Against Racism Community Concert, featuring the Bethel Seventh-Day Adventist Chorale and other community groups. Bethel Seventh-Day Adventist Church. 238 S. French Broad Ave. 8 p.m. Drinks & Dialogue. A conversation hosted by Social Life Times. Attendees are encouraged to bring a potluck dish. Hole-NDa-Wall, 44 Market St.

Saturday, April 30 9 a.m. Service at Beth Israel Synagogue.

Sunday, May 1 9 a.m. Special services will be held at several locations: Black Mountain Presbyterian, Could Cottage Community of Mindful Living, Swannanoa Valley Friends, Unitarian Universalist Church of Black Mountain, Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, Thomas Chapel AME Church in Black Mountain.

In 2010, more than 200 city employees participated in the tours; this year, Buncombe County staffers can participate as well. A centerpiece event is the April 29 Diversity Fair at the YMI Cultural Center, smack in the middle of The Block. Featuring group dialogues, videos and presentations, the fair is targeting small businesses and the general public, “to give them the opportunity to participate on a much larger scale than just wearing the [Stand Against Racism] pin,” YMI Interim Director Dan Johnson explains. “They can come together and have an open dialogue.” Johnson, who helped organize this year’s Stand, attributes the unprecedented surge in participation to improved coordination and outreach. “It’s the collaborative effort of the organizations here locally,” he notes. “We all have a lot to offer — not just the large organizations, but the small companies and groups too. ... We’ve brought partners in — the Chamber is actively involved — we’ve marketed it in an effective way. The response has been overwhelming: It’s a team effort.” X David Forbes can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 137, or at dforbes@mountainx.com.

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The Buncombe County Board of Commissioners voted 3-1 on April 19 to allow asphalt plants in more areas. Previously permitted only in the more rural â&#x20AC;&#x153;open useâ&#x20AC;? districts, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll now also be allowed in â&#x20AC;&#x153;employmentâ&#x20AC;? zoning districts, thanks to a change in the zoning ordinance. (Board Chair David Gantt cast the lone opposing vote; Vice Chair Bill Stanley was absent.) The board also established safeguards aimed at minimizing the impact of the plants on surrounding areas. Proposed asphalt plants would have to â&#x20AC;&#x153;employ the most current, state-of-the-art methods, systems, techniques and production processes available in order to achieve the greatest feasible air- and odor-emissions reductions, including fugitive emissions and fugitive dust.â&#x20AC;? In addition, they would need to: be located at least 2,640 feet from any medical facility, school or park; maintain â&#x20AC;&#x153;buffer stripsâ&#x20AC;? along the property lines; and have â&#x20AC;&#x153;sufficient access to a major highway so as to minimize truck travel through residential neighborhoods,â&#x20AC;? among other requirements. All new plant construction will still have to be approved by the Board of Adjustment and the WNC Regional Air Quality Agency. Those restrictions didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t satisfy Gantt, however. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a healthy community, and I just donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think I can support adding the potential for more asphalt plants to Buncombe County,â&#x20AC;? he said, pointing out that the ordinance doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t specify any additional setback from residential areas and mandates only a 100-foot buffer between asphalt plants and private drinking-water wells. Gantt also voiced a more general concern: â&#x20AC;&#x153;While I appreciate the [Planning Boardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s] efforts, I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t support it, because it seems like something weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re doing for one individual. And I think thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always bad policy,â&#x20AC;? he asserted.

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Although it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t directly acknowledged during the meeting, the county began re-examining its asphalt-plant policy in response to a request by the WNC Pallet & Forest Products Co. to rezone land it owns on the Smoky Park Highway in Candler from â&#x20AC;&#x153;employment districtâ&#x20AC;? to â&#x20AC;&#x153;open use.â&#x20AC;? The request was denied, but the board instructed staff to reconsider the issues surrounding asphalt plants. After about four months of study, both the Planning Board and county staff recommended the ordinance change, which could enable WNC Pallet to build an asphalt plant adjacent to its facility at 1414 Smoky Park Highway. The company is the largest forest-products supplier in Western North Carolina. Commissioner Holly Jones hesitated before voting for the measure. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I was the one who encour-

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“You’ve already got CTS; it sounds like this could be the makings of another one of those. Hazardous material shouldn’t be that close to a well.” — county resident Jeff Turner

aged this community conversation to see where asphalt plants can be built,” she noted. “But I’m struggling with the process, because this is kind of a big deal.” After her call to delay the vote for “a couple of weeks to do a gut check” went unseconded, Jones ended up praising the measure’s safeguards, pointing out that until now, there’d been no specific rules governing asphalt-plant construction in open-use districts. “I am going to be supportive of this today,” she told county planner Debbie Truempy, who presented the measure to the board. “A lot of concerns have been addressed in your standards.” Five people spoke during the hearing; the only one who clearly favored the change was attorney Craig Justus, who represents WNC Pallet, though he didn’t identify himself or his connection with the company during the hearing. “The 100-foot [requirement] from a well is scary,” asserted Jeff Turner, who recently served on the county’s Soil & Water Conservation Board. “You’ve already got CTS; it sounds like this could be the makings of another one of those. Hazardous material shouldn’t be that close to a well.” Justus countered that the ordinance had come out of “lots of meetings,” observing, “Unanimous recommendation from the Planning Board is a miracle unto itself. “The bottom line here is the Planning Board covers everything that could happen,” he asserted. “The state of North Carolina has decided that 100 feet is sufficient. … The risk of flooding is very small.”

Lights, camera, legal action?

During the meeting’s lengthy public-comment period, several producers and board members from The WNC Community Media Center pleaded with the commissioners to provide more funding for URTV, the county’s public-access channel, which the nonprofit manages. The center announced April 1 that it would shut down April 30 unless additional funding was immediately forthcoming. After hearing from several URTV representatives and John Howell of Telecommunications Consulting Associates (who advises the county on media issues), however, the commissioners took no action at their April 5 meeting. The Media Center also threatened to shut down last year due to financial problems (see “Broke,” June 9, 2010 Xpress). During the April 19 meeting, Bob Horn, who is vice president of the media center’s board, cast

the present situation in dire terms, charging that the county is illegally withholding funds from the channel and threatening legal action. Reading from a press release the nonprofit had distributed among the audience, Horn explained: “WNCCMC will not be closing its doors at this time as originally announced. The Board ... is looking at legal and financial obligations and responsibilities of due process. Due to monies owed WNCCMC and the fiscal responsibility (culpability) by contract with Buncombe County Board of Commissioners, WNCCMC requests that bills and funds be paid.” Veering off the script, Horn added, “This commission is still in a position to release the PEG moneys already owed to WNCCMC/URTV to avoid legal action presently planned on the part of all aggrieved parties by agreement before the close of this session and delivered by 10 a.m. Wednesday [April 20].” Horn explained later that “Basically, what we’re doing is forcing the issue. … If we close, it will be like we gave up.” He also noted that the center is considering sending its bills directly to the county. Gantt instructed County Attorney Michael Frue to prepare a memo analyzing the legal issues involved and make it available to the public. “We want to make sure we’re not missing anything,” he said. “We’re going to follow the law.”

Conserving green space

In other business, the commissioners unanimously approved allocating more than $1.2 million in the 2012 budget (which begins July 1) to help fund conservation easements shielding some 1,634 acres of land throughout the county from development. The protected areas include 506 acres in Fairview’s Little Pisgah Mountain area and 235 acres in the Broad River area, the longtime home of the now defunct Camp Woodson. The Land Conservation Advisory Board, the Agriculture Advisory Board for Farmland Preservation, and the Soil & Water Conservation District all endorsed the measure. The commissioners voiced enthusiastic support. “I’m overwhelmed that we have the opportunity to preserve this much land,” Gantt exclaimed. “We don’t have these opportunities every day: They come and go fast. … We can’t save it all, but what we choose to protect and save is good land.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials thought they were bringing good news to neighbors of the highly contaminated former CTS of Asheville site on Mills Gap Road. The officials tried to tell the long-suffering residents about technical-assistance grants and further testing services that may soon become available, and encouraged them to create an EPAsponsored community advisory group to help access additional support. But the residents — some of whom now suffer from cancer and other health problems as well as diminished property values — had bigger fish to fry at the April 14 community meeting. And despite the best efforts of two EPA staffers and a paid facilitator, the discussion remained focused on neighbors’ outrage over the continuing lack of cleanup at the former electroplating facility, the site of alleged chemical dumping. “We already have a technical-assistance group,” noted Barry Durand, one of several residents who’ve led the charge against the various state and federal agencies that they say have repeatedly and negligently failed to protect public health and the environment. And the very idea of the EPA’s staging yet another community meeting while an emergency plays out nearby is “a colossal joke with no punch line,” Tate MacQueen proclaimed. Margaret Riddle agreed, declaring, “If you don’t clean up the source” — referring to the high levels of contaminants still flowing from the site and presumed to lurk beneath the shuttered plant — “We’re wasting our time here.” Neighbors have complained about chemical odors in their backyards and basements, and high levels of contaminants, including trichloroethylene, continue to be found in local springs and streams. A soil-vapor extraction system installed in 2006 recovered some 6,500 pounds of volatile organic compounds before it was disabled by presumed copper thieves who broke into the plant last year. Meanwhile, Lori Murphy, who lives near the site, worries that something’s wrong with the water in the home she shares with her husband and pregnant daughter. “In the last two weeks, you wash your hair and it comes out oily. We have rashes on our skin” after showering, she told the crowd at the Skyland Fire Department. “It’s like an endurance test,” MacQueen told Xpress later, adding that the EPA’s failure to initiate an emergency cleanup is “like trying to use a mop while the hose is still running. It’s ridiculous.” Last month, after decades of such complaints, the EPA proposed adding the CTS property to the National Priorities List, which would make it eligible for cleanup under the Superfund program. The process begins with a 60-day publiccomment period, which ends May 9 (see box,

BOOK YOUR APPOINTMENT NOW! “Speak Up”). The listing is expected to become official this fall, when the EPA publishes its biannual update in the Federal Register. But the responsible parties weren’t present at the meeting, so angry residents turned the full force of their frustration on the public officials. “We need you to get the toxins out from under the building and the barrels out of the ground,” Judy Selz said bluntly. “Will you do it?” “You have the authority to protect human life and the environment, and you are choosing not to invoke it,” Durand told officials. “We have an ongoing release under way. There’s a source that’s migrating. You’re moving to the aftermath phase — remediation.” Pounding his fist on the table, an agitated Durand said: “You’ve missed your mission. You’re catering to the contaminators. You’ve lost the moral authority to act!” MacQueen went even further, charging that the EPA wants to cover up the site’s history rather than admit the agency’s own role in the chain of events that led to the construction of the housing development known as Southside Village to be built on contaminated former CTS property. After numerous attempts to bring the discussion back to its intended focus, Remedial Project Manager Samantha Urquhart-Foster admitted that her agency could undertake an emergency-removal action concurrently with the slower Superfund process. She also said the EPA estimates it’s spent about $6 million on the CTS case to date. But with a cleanup still off in the indefinite future, MacQueen pressed his point, demanding, “Will you advocate for concurrent action?” “Yes, I will,” Urquhart-Foster replied. X

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Locals take a stand against sexual assault; APD Chief Hogan retires Rallies, protests, demonstrations, buskers and public gatherings — it must be spring in Asheville. Concerned taxpayers rallied on Monday, April 18, and presented a $3.95 billion “tax bill” to a surprised clerk at the downtown Asheville branch of Bank of America. Meanwhile, a national event makes its second run, er, walk, in Asheville on Saturday, April 30: Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, “the one where the men walk through downtown wearing women’s heels to take a stand against sexual assault,” says Robin Payne, development coordinator for local nonprofit Our VOICE. Organizers will lead a group of 20 “Poster Men” (wellknown Ashevilleans such as Buncombe County Board of Commissioners Chair David Gantt, City Council members Cecil Bothwell and Gordon Smith, musician Billy Jonas and more), along with 300 others who are willing to “walk a mile” to show their support for the women in their lives. The participants plan to do a one-mile jaunt throughout downtown. Our VOICE operates the Buncombe County Rape Crisis and Prevention Center. According to Our Voice, one in six American women are victims of sexual assault. “That means someone you know, someone you care about, has or will become the victim of sexual violence,” says Payne. “It may be your mother, sister, friend, girlfriend, wife, coworker or daughter. No one is unaffected.” The event starts at Pack Park (registration at 9 a.m. and the walk at 10 a.m.) is open to the public, and Payne encourages “men, women and children of all ages to register for the walk” at www.walkamileasheville.org.

Hot Topics: Amid controversy, APD Chief Bill Hogan announces retirement

At 4:59 p.m. on April 18, Asheville Police Department Chief Bill Hogan announced his retirement, effective May 13. The step came amid public criticism over his handling of an investigation into missing evidence and the settlement of a sexual harassment lawsuit involving a still-employed APD officer. “After 36 years in law enforcement, I am looking forward to retirement and a new chapter in my life. I strongly value public service, and I am grateful to have spent a career serving the law enforcement profession,” Hogan said in an official announcement from the city of Asheville. “It has been an honor to serve with the professional and dedicated men and women of the Asheville Police Department. I have the utmost confidence in the level of service they will continue to provide to the citizens of Asheville.” What the announcement did not note, however, is that Hogan has recently been under fire after the State Bureau of Investigation shut down the APD evidence room and began an investigation into missing evidence, including guns, drugs and money. District Attorney Ron Moore publicly criticized the APD leadership at the April 12 City Council meeting, saying he was not adequately notified when a partial audit of the evidence room indicated missing items in early March. At that meeting, Hogan said the evidence room issues were due to “one individual who betrayed the trust.” Mayor Terry Bellamy promised that “changes should be made, and will be made,” though she didn’t specify what those changes would be. Due to the investigation, Moore has delayed cases involving

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Have heels, will travel: On Saturday, April 30, local nonprofit Our VOICE sponsors its second-annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes. Perhaps the most visible local event held during Sexual Assault Awareness Month, it aims to “promote active consent and increase community accountability for sexual violence.” photo by Michael Muller

APD evidence, and a full audit of the property room is currently under way. The same day, the city settled — to the tune of $52,100 — a sexual harassment lawsuit from former APD Officer Cherie Byrd involving explicit and racially offensive text messages sent by her then-superior, Sgt. Eric Lauffer. The lawsuit alleged that Hogan and city staff ignored Byrd’s complaints. While the APD demoted Lauffer, he remains employed by the department. — Staff reports

ncmatters Playing the numbers The state redistricting game by Nelda Holder With the 2010 census numbers now in hand, the state Legislature has begun redrawing the lines for N.C. House and Senate, as well as congressional districts. May 15 is the target date for producing new district maps; public hearings are now being held around the state, with a visit to Western North Carolina slated for Saturday, April 30 (see box, “Hearing Aid”). The redistricting process is something of a tightrope walk, with a host of partisan pitfalls on one side and the shadow of past racial discrimination on the other. And then there are all those numbers to account for. North Carolina’s increased population (9,535,483 — a new high) means substantially more constituents per legislator. Each of the 50 state senators will represent 190,710 people, roughly 30,000 more than before. The 120 state representatives will each be accountable to 79,462 people, a jump of about 12,400. And each of the state’s 13 members of Congress will now represent 733,499 constituents, an increase of about 114,300. Accordingly, the Legislature must now devise new district boundaries that fit these numbers. The Legislator’s Guide to North Carolina Legislative and Congressional Redistricting (see box, “Redistricting 101”) outlines both the process and the legal mandates. Citing landmark U.S. Supreme Court cases concerning North Carolina’s past redistricting methods, the guide highlights both the importance and cumbersomeness of carving up the state to ensure appropriate citizen representation. Under the Voting Rights Act of 1965, for example, 40 of the state’s 100 counties must under-

go a federal review before the redistricting plan can become law. (In Western North Carolina, this affects only Jackson County.) There must be no intent to discriminate, and minority voters must not be put in a “worse position than prior law.” Additionally, the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause outlaws gerrymandering based on either race or political affiliation. Meanwhile, heavy population gains in the Piedmont will mean a heavier concentration of state legislators from those areas — and commensurate losses elsewhere. Wake County, for example, grew by more than 43 percent and Mecklenburg County by 32 percent, according to a March 8 analysis by Associated Press writer Gary D. Robertson. The piece quotes Ferrel Guillory, the director of UNCChapel Hill’s Program on Public Life, who said: “Political power is going to follow people. Whether you’re talking about congressional districts or ... legislative districts, these two big counties and the areas around them ... are going to be like giant magnets.” The people who have to figure all this out are the 16 members of the Senate and 43 members of the House standing committees on redistricting. The former group includes WNC Sens. Martin Nesbitt (a Buncombe County Democrat) and Republicans Tom Apodaca (Buncombe/Henderson counties) and Ralph Hise (Avery/Haywood/Madison/ McDowell/Mitchell/Yancey). Serving on the House committee are Republicans Roger West, one of three vice chairs (Cherokee/Clay/Graham/ Macon) and Tim Moffitt (Buncombe), plus Democrats Susan Fisher (also Buncombe) and Ray Rapp (Haywood/Madison/Yancey). In an email to Xpress, Moffitt said, “Politics

Dog Training In Your Home has not been that big a part of my life, and I have not really delved into the redistricting issue.” The freshman legislator said he’s looking forward to the redistricting experience, which he hopes “and expects” will be “fair and legal.” Buncombe County, he continued, is “pretty fortunate in that we will still have three districts,” though the boundaries will have to change to fit shifts in population density. Many eyes will be watching as the process moves forward, including those of Nesbitt, the Senate’s minority leader. During a March 30 Redistricting Committee meeting, Nesbitt repeatedly asked that two Democratic members be allowed to step down and be replaced by fellow Democrats Dan Blue (Wake County) and Dan Clodfelter (Mecklenburg), as reported online by John Rustin for the N.C. Metropolitan Mayors Coalition. Nesbitt cited Blue and Clodfelter’s “experience and expertise in past redistricting efforts.” But Mecklenburg County Republican Bob Rucho, the committee’s chair, denied the requests based on “geographic representation” and “the preference that the committee not be stacked with lawyers.” Rustin speculated that Nesbitt and Rucho were already engaged in building a record for a “potential legal challenge” to the redistricting process down the line. X

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redistricting101 Every 10 years, the N.C. General Assembly redefines the voting districts for Congress as well as the state Senate and House. Redistricting is meant to ensure equal representation — one person/one vote — as the population changes. Newly drawn districts must also meet federal guidelines that prohibit discrimination based on race or party affiliation. Once federally approved, the new districts will take effect for the 2012 primaries. For more information, download the Legislator’s Guide to North Carolina Legislative and Congressional Redistricting at http://bit.ly/epHEn7.

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The Western North Carolina Green Building Council turns 10 Staff reports “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has,” anthropologist Margaret Mead said. The Western North Carolina Green Building Council — its founders and its members — demonstrates the truth in those words. The council started as a conversation between two people, a decade ago. It then grew into a group of several people, but the goal remained the same: How to increase green building in the region. From that humble start, the council helped make WNC a leader in the green-building movement. About 85 percent of the NC HealthyBuilt homes in the state are here. The council just certified its 500th such home and was an integral part in the national-level certification of Asheville’s first Platinum LEED home (the highest ranking offered by the U.S. Green Building Council). But back in the beginning, Boone Guyton remembers “going to the [Western Carolina] Home Show and looking for people with any green products or services. Cindy MeehanPatton was there, and we had our first conversation about the possibility of a green-building group.” According to Duncan McPherson, another WNCGBC founder, “The primary need was education at that point, which included educating the city, inspectors, builders and architects. ... We needed to provide the general public with a single resource for reliable information. … About a year after our first meeting, we were pulling together the first Green Building Directory; we had about 15 or more folks showing up at meetings and [we] were forming multiple committees.”

party! The Western North Carolina Green Building Council will hold its annual Green Building Directory release party on Thursday, April 28, from 5:30 to 9 p.m. at Pack Place in downtown Asheville. The event is free and open to the public; it includes door prizes and refreshments from local businesses. The event is sponsored by Craggie Brewing, Posana Café and Sherwin-Williams. More than 100 green businesses will be present, offering information and answering questions. For more information, call 254-1995 or email info@wncgbc.org

Ten years later, WNCGBC is a well-established, respected entity with hundreds of members, and its signature publication, the annual Green Building Directory, published in partnership with Xpress, is going strong. New groups from all over North Carolina have called to ask, “How did you do it?” according to WNCGBC Director Matt Siegel. It’s hard to outline how it all came about, or how to quantify the accomplishments of an organization that educates and advocates, he notes. But here are a few highlights, which feature the many partnerships and collaborations that have made it all possible. • First HealthyBuilt Homes in North Carolina: As part of a State Energy Office grant, WNCGBC helped green the Mountain Housing Opportunities development Prospect Terrace and certify it as the first NC HealhyBuilt Home development in the state. • LEED for Homes: Since becoming a provider, WNCGBC has certified seven homes and registered more than 20. • Appalachian offsets: As the nation’s first locally based carbon-offset program, the council has helped offset more than 2,600 tons of carbon through local projects paid for through local donations. • Neighbor Saves: Thanks to a grant from the Community Foundation of WNC, the WNCGBC will launch an innovative new self-help program to encourage energy efficiency in existing homes. (Check out the music video at neighborsaves. org). • Classroom training: More than 2,000 building professionals and homeowners have attended the organization’s classes and expanded their knowledge of the many facets of green building. • Weatherization program: Thanks to a Community Development Block Grant from the city of Asheville, WNCGBC partnered with Asheville Green Opportunities and Community Action Opportunities to weatherize 60 lowincome homes. • Hometown green: With help from a State Energy Office grant, the council produced and distributed a 16-minute video on how to begin the process of greening a small town. • Community projects: Volunteers completed a green bus stop on Clingman Avenue, with support from a grant from the Community Foundation of WNC.

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Green it, build it: The annual directory features articles by local green-building experts and listings for green-building services and companies. This green home was designed by Scott W. Bartholomew Architecture and built by Doug Keefer, SAGE Builders (photo by Peak Definition). • Permit-fee reductions: WNCGBC worked with the town of Black Mountain and the city of Asheville to get permit-fee rebates for certified green homes. Through community outreach, the annual Green Building Directory and its many advocacy projects, the WNCGBC has helped green-building businesses in the region grow, says Siegel, and remains committed to promoting green building through rising demand and supporting its business members. “The council has been a great resource,” says Rob Motley, owner of RS Motley Construction. The local builder has completed about six HealthyBuilt homes and says it’s sheer luck that his latest project became the 500th certified by the council. Noting that it’s been tough times for builders in the past few years, Motley reports that he got his newest construction proj-

ect because his clients toured the council’s Green Home Tour last fall, saw some of his work and tracked him down. “Asheville’s at the epicenter of green building in the state, and that’s exciting.” Homeowner Douglas Campbell agrees. A retired architect, he found the council’s staff very helpful in getting his Asheville home LEED-certified. “It’s an intimidating process, but they went over the requirements, what our options were and what our chances of certification were,” says Campbell. He encourages homeowners, builders and business owners to consider the council a “go-to place for anything to do with green building. They’re a warehouse of knowledge.” And most likely, that warehouse is green. X Send your environmental news to Susan Andrew at sandrew@mountainx.com or call 251-1333, ext. 153

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Botanical Gardens Annual Spring Plant Sale (pd.) April 29th 12:30 - 6pm, April 30th 8:30 - 3:00pm. Rain or Shine. Plants from many regional vendors and stock from the BGA greenhouse. ashevillebotanicalgardens.org Asheville Green Drinks A networking party that is part of the self-organizing global grassroots movement to connect communities with environmental ideas, media and action. Meets to discuss pressing green issues. Info: www.ashevillegreendrinks.com. â&#x20AC;˘ WEDNESDAYS - Socializing begins at 5:30pm, followed by a presentation at 6pm. Held at Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave., in downtown Asheville. Earth Day Eco Flea Market â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30), 8am-noon - Black Mountain Recreation and Parks host this flea market and recycling-collection event at the public parking lot on Highway 9, adjacent to Sun Trust Bank, in Black Mountain. Rental space is available for $20. Rainbow Recycling will be on site collecting styrofoam and plastic greenhouse pots. Boogie Down Electronics will collect computers, cell phones, regular and rechargeable batteries, fax machines, printers, VCRs, DVD players and small TVs (no big screen or cabinet units). Info: 669-8610 or www.bmrecreation. com Blue Ridge Community College Info: www.blueridge.edu. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30), 10am-3pm - The 41st anniversary of Earth Day will be celebrated at Blue Ridge Community College. The free, day-long festival will celebrate the strides made to protect mother earth. All are welcome to attend the festivities, which include student programs, lectures, music, workshops, agreen Olympic game. Earth Day Celebration At Blue Ridge Community College in Flat Rock. Info: 692-0385 or www.eco-wnc.org. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30) - ECOâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Earth Day celebration will feature music, storytelling, performance art, educational workshops, sustainable gardening discussions, a green Olympic-games challenge, events for children, a recycling exchange to get rid of energy-wasting bulbs in exchange for CFLs, a tailgate market, healthy food and much more. Directions: www.blueridge.edu. ECO Events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. W., in Hendersonville. Info: 692-0385 or www.eco-wnc. org. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30), 8pm - â&#x20AC;&#x153;DIY Solar Energy,â&#x20AC;? a workshop held in honor of Earth Day featuring and address by Ned

Doyle. Doyle will show participants how to build simple solar panels to heat water or rooms, and how to design entry-level photovoltaic systems. Registration required. $15 at door. RSVP: eco@eco-wnc.org. Hominy Creek Clean-Up â&#x20AC;˘ SU (5/1) - Hominy Creek clean-up presented by Friends of Hominy and Second Gear. Call for details and info: 252-8474, ext. 11 Preservation Society Events The Preservation Society of Asheville & Buncombe County promotes and supports the preservation of the historic, architectural and cultural resources of Asheville and Buncombe County. Info: 254-2343 or www.psabc. org. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (4/28), 5:30-8pm - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Adaptive Reuse,â&#x20AC;? a presentation on the preservation technique that rehabilitates and re-purposes historic buildings for the contemporary world, will be held at 10 S. Main St., in Weaverville. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The greenest building is one thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s already built.â&#x20AC;? Free and open to public. UNCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spring Wildflower and Bird Pilgrimage â&#x20AC;˘ FR (4/29) through SU (5/1) - Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 39th annual Spring Wildflower and Bird Pilgrimage, sponsored by UNCAâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Biology Department and the Botanical Gardens at Asheville, will be held. Participants will gain greater appreciation for the beauty of the regionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s wildflowers and bird life at slideshow presentations, guided walks, birding hikes and more. Registration will be held on Friday at Robinson Hall lobby at 6:30pm on the UNCA college campus, 1 University Heights. $5 for adults/$1 for students. For a complete schedule of events: http:// biology.unca.edu/wildflower-pilgrimage. WNC Sierra Club Members of the WNC Sierra Club Chapter work together to protect the community and the planet. The mission of the Sierra Club, Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, is to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth. Info: www.nc.sierraclub.org/wenoca or 251-8289. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (5/4), 7-9pm - Monthly meeting, featuring a discussion of off-shore wind energy and economic development for North Carolina with Brian Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hara, president of the North Carolina Offshore Wind Coalition. Held at the Asheville Unitarian Church, on the corner of Charlotte Street and Edwin Place.

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The 2011 Spring Herb Festival returns to the WNC Farmers Market April 29 through May 1. Each spring, the festival, now in its 22nd year, attracts more than 25,000 herb lovers seeking information and products from professional growers and retailers. This year, with newly built booths (and new restrooms, too!), nearly 60 vendors will fill the lower level of the Farmers Market, making this the largest gathering of its kind in the Southeast. Expansion is the big news this year: The Market added three new covered bays (equal to six new booth spaces) and new restroom facilities. There will be seven more vendors than last year, for a total of 58 individual businesses, and of course Linda Blueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s volunteers from the Master Gardenerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s program will be there, too. Throughout recorded history, herbs have been part of the human diet, used widely in both cooking and healthcare. Every good cook relies on such staples as basil, oregano, dill and parsley, and many keep a variety of herbs in their kitchens. In recent years, conscientious consumers have also discovered the wide range of uses for herbs in medicines, soaps, lotions, salves and essential oils. Every cook wants herbs at hand, the fresher the better. For many, that means growing their own. And, in todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s economic climate, the savings can be almost as attractive as the convenience of stepping out to harvest fresh herbs from the garden, to say nothing of the pleasure of eating something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve grown yourself.

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gardeningcalendar Calendar for April 27 - May 5, 2011 Art & Garden Bazaar • SA (4/30), 9am-4pm - This annual event will feature vendors specializing in plants and garden art. Flowers, shrubs, birdhouses, decorative art and accessories will be on sale. Held on McCown Street in downtown Tryon. Free. Info: marianne@ tryonarts.org. Botanical Gardens at Asheville This 10-acre nonprofit nature preserve at 151 W.T. Weaver Blvd. (next to UNCA) is dedicated to preserving and displaying the native flora of N.C. Info & event registration: 252-5190 or www.ashevillebotanicalgardens.org. • FR (4/29) & SA (4/30) - A variety of vendors will offer trees, shrubs, annuals, perennials and natives for spring planting needs, rain or shine. Info: 645-2714 or LFrasche@aol.com. Flat Rock Tailgate Market • THURSDAYS, 3-6pm (starting 5/5) - Locally-grown produce and much more will be available at this weekly market, held in the parking area behind the Cherry Cottage and next to Hubba Hubba Smoke House along Little Rainbow Row in Flat Rock. • Interested in becoming a vendor? Call 698-8775, 693-0781 or 698-8149. N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays. Info: 665-2492 or www.ncarboretum.org. • SA (4/30) & SU (5/1), noon-5pm - Hundreds of blooming rhododendrons and azaleas will be on display at the annual American Rhododendron Society’s showcase. Regional Tailgate Markets For more information, including the exact start and end dates of markets, contact the Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. Info: 236-1282 or www.buyappalachian.org. • SATURDAYS, 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, in the parking lot of the Public Works Building at 161 S. Charlotte St., Asheville. Spring Herb Festival The largest gathering of herb enthusiasts in the Southeast. Huge selection of herb plants, herb soaps, herb crafts, medici-

For the seasoned herb lover, new varieties appear at the festival every year, courtesy of the growers and scientists who crossbreed different species for improved flavor, size, pest resistance, appearance and other important qualities. Healthconscious consumers and naturopathic and alternative healers can find fragrant herbal soaps, lotions and medicinal products. And who can walk past a bouquet of fresh or dried herbal arrangements perfect for home decoration or gifts.

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Besides being readily available for cooking and medicinal purposes, many herbs provide a variety of colors, fragrances, textures and shapes to a home garden. They mix well with many flowering plants, edible flowers and ground covers; being drought-hardy, most herbs don’t put additional strain on a gardener’s resources. Many of the common, familiar herbs — such as basil — have Mediterranean origins, so they’ve evolved to thrive in rocky soils, hot sun and even drought conditions. For modern gardeners, that means that the herbs they want to plant are versatile and easy to grow, whether in a professionally designed garden, a spare corner of a yard, a raised bed or containers on a sunny deck. “A lot of herbs are perennials,” notes festival founder Rick Morgan. “Once they’re established, even after a year, perennials use less water than

nal herbs, herbal arrangements and more at the WNC Farmers Market, 570 Brevard Road. Info: 301-8968, 253-1691 or www.ashevilleherbfestival.com • FR (4/29) & SA (4/30), 9am-5pm; SU (5/1), 10am-3pm This year’s festival will feature nearly 60 vendors of plants and herbal products in newly-built booths. Spring Plant Sale • FR (4/29) and SA (4/30), 10am-4pm - A spring plant sale, with perennials, herbs, heirloom vegetables, small trees and shrubs and unusual annuals will be held at the Bullington Center, 33 Upper Red Oak Trail in Hendersonville. Info: 6986104. 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. Transylvania Tailgate Market • SATURDAYS, 8am-noon - The market is located off East Main St., in downtown Brevard, on the corner of Johnson and Jordan Streets. Info: 877-3796. Tryon Art & Garden Bazaar • SA (4/30), 9am-5pm - Gardening vendors, artists and informational material will be featured at this bazaar. Partial proceeds benefit ArtScapes project for the Carolina foothills. Info: http://greenbladesgardenclub.org or www.tryonarts.org.

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Community Events & Workshops A-B Tech Continuing Ed Classes

Classes are free, unless otherwise noted. Info & registration: www.abtech. edu/ce/registration. • TU (5/3), 6-8pm - Join clinical herbalist Heidi Berkovitz as she discusses her favorite herbal remedies for first aid and demonstrates how to make a first aid kit using common weeds, garden plants and everyday kitchen ingredients. Held at A-B Tech’s Madison campus, room 126 Ramsey. $5. Asheville Design Center An exhibit and meeting space at 8 College St., Asheville. Info: www. ashevilledesigncenter.org. • WE (4/27), 6-7:30pm - Celebrate National Landscape Architecture Month with ADC. All members of the design community are encouraged to attend and join the discussion about local ASLA

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efforts and what’s happening at ADC. Sponsored by NCASLA. Asheville Homeless Network Meetings take place at Firestorm Cafe & Books in downtown Asheville. Info: 552-0505. • TH (4/28), 2pm - Asheville-Buncombe Coalition for the Homeless meeting. “Creativity & Education” • WE (4/27), 6-7pm - The Fine Arts League and TEDx Asheville present internationally renowned speaker on creativity and education, Sir Ken Robinson. Robinson will discuss “creativity, innovation and human potential” at the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium, in the Asheville Civic Center. $25/$14 students. Info: 252-5050, www.ashevillenc.gov or www.fineartsleague.org. NCCALL Inc. 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. Nominations for the YWCA’s TWIN Award • Nominations for the 20th annual YWCA Tribute to Women of Influence (TWIN) award will be accepted. A ceremony will be held on Sept. 15 at Diana Wortham Theatre. Info: www.ywcaofasheville.org or 254-7206, ext. 206. Stand Against Racism Events • TH (4/28), 7-9pm - The Ethical Society of Asheville and Mountain Area Interfaith Forum will join in Take a Stand Against Racism by showing the film Traces of the Trade, about New England’s hidden enterprise, the slave trade. Held at the YMI Cultural Center

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on S. Market Street, Asheville. Info: 687-7759 or www.aeu.org. • FR (4/29), 11:30am12:45pm - “Artists Against Racism” will be held as part of the YWCA’s annual Stand Against Racism. Meet at the Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., Asheville. Info: www.ywcastand.org or 231.5355. WNC Green Building Council The nonprofit promotes environmentally sustainable and health-conscious building practices through community education. Info: 254-1995, info@ wncgbc.org or www.wncgbc.org. • TH (4/28), 5:30-9pm - Join the WNC Green Building Council to celebrate its 10th anniversary, the Green Building Directory release, the 500th certified Healthy Built home and the first LEED Platinum Home in Asheville. Held at Pack Place in downtown Asheville, featuring free refreshments, door prizes and a raffle. Free.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Action South: Nonviolent Direct Action • FR (4/29), SA (4/30) & SU (5/1), 8:30am4:30pm - A peer-to-peer exchange of tactics and strategies for nonviolent direct action in Southeast, featuring a panel, storytelling, skills sharing and more. Sponsored by the New South Network of War Resisters and UNCA Students for a Democratic Society. Saturday’s event will be held at Jefferson House, 21 Edwin Place in Asheville, adjacent to the Unitarian Universalist Church. Donations appreciated. Info and other locations: www.newsouthnetwork.org, 301-6683 or newsouthnetwork@gmail. com. Artistic Asheville Singles Group • WEEKLY - Meeting locations vary. For single people under 35. Info:

weeklypicks Events are FREE unless otherwise noted. Visitors are invited to "capture views of the buildings, animals, flower gardens and landscape" on

wed Wednesday, April 27, 9 to 2:30 p.m. at Art Day on Historic Johnson Farm in Hendersonville. Art will then be on display at a May exhibition. Info: 891-6585 or historicjohnsonfarm.org.

More than 100 local restaurants will donate a portion of daily sales to the WNC AIDS Project on Thursday, April 28 as part of Dining Out for Life. WNCAP provides prevention, education and thur outreach for men, women and youth at risk for HIV/AIDS. Participating restaurants: wncap.org or 252-7489.

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Join Scott Jurek and Christopher McDougall, author of Born to Run, for a 3-4 mile run on the trails and roads of UNCA. Held at the UNCA track on Friday, April 29 at 5 p.m. Learn about nearly barefoot running (though shoes are welcome). Info: malaprops.com.

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Fire On the Mountain returns to downtown Spruce Pine to celebrate the history of blacksmithing in WNC and broaden awareness of contemporary iron work. The festival will be held on Saturday, April 30 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. featuring master blacksmiths, demonstrations and more. Info: downtownsprucepine.com

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Celebrate local businesses with the Big Love Fest at Pack Square in downtown Asheville on Sunday, May 1 from 1 to 8 p.m. The afternoon will feature music by Floating Action, Mad Tea Party, members of Reigning Sound and more. LaZoom will also offer comedy tours throughout the day. Info: loveasheville.org

Haven't heard of pickleball? Head over to Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St., in Asheville, on Monday, May 2 at 9 a.m. to try out the ping pong/tennis hybrid. Groups meet mon weekly on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ashevillenc. gov.

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The public is invited to join clinical herbalist Heidi Berkovitz on Tuesday, May 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. as she discusses herbal remedies for first aid and demonstrates how to make a first aid kit using common weeds, garden plants and everyday kitchen ingredients. Held at A-B Tech's Madison campus, room 126 Ramsey. Info: abtech.edu/ce/registration.

coolspiritualartistic@ gmail.com. Buncombe Young Democrats Monthly Meeting • 1st TUESDAYS, 5:307pm - Have an interest in politics? Are you a supporter of President Obama? Interested in meeting new people or community service? Come out to the French Broad Chocolate Lounge, 10 S. Lexington Ave., for one of our monthly meetings. 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. Events at Wall Street Coffee House • TUESDAYS, 7pm Game night will be held at 62 Wall St., in downtown

Asheville. All are welcome to enjoy old-fashioned fun. New games are played each week. Info: http://on.fb.me/e4GpE8. First Friday Meetup • 1st FRIDAYS, 7-9:30pm - First Friday is a monthly gathering for individuals who are passionate about ending extreme poverty and injustice around the world. Topics vary monthly and feature keynote speakers, movies, discussions and Q&A sessions. Held at Firestorm Cafe & Books, 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: www.firstgeneration.org. Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. All classes are free. Info: http:// tinyurl.com/6j3nxw9. • WE (4/27), 7:30pm Community potluck at 128 Swannanoa Ave. Celebrate three months of great classes and socialize with Freeskoolers. • SA (4/30), 3-5pm Raising Rabbits at 72 Dale

St. Bonnie will be teaching the third class on raising and harvesting backyard rabbits. 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. • SU (5/1), 5-8pm - An anniversary celebration featuring music by Blue Jay Way, a raffle and testimonials, will be held at Westville Pub, 777 Haywood Road. Info: 2259783. Donations encouraged. Model Railroad Show and Swap Meet • SA (4/30), 10am-3pm - Spring Rails 2011, a model railroad show and swap meet, will be held

at the Whitmire Activity Building, Lily Pond Road in Hendersonville. $5/Free for scouts in uniform under 13. Info: 685-2726.

YMI Cultural Center Located at 39 South Market St., the community-based organization seeks to enhance the cultural and economic lives of people in WNC, particularly minority and low-income residents. Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-5pm. Info: 2524614 or www.ymicc.org. • FR (4/29), 10am-4pm - The YMI Cultural Center, in conjunction with the YWCA, hosts a Diversity Fair, featuring panel discussions about racism and representatives from local organizations working on racial justice. Following this event, “Drinks and Dialogue” will be held at Hole ‘n’ Da Wall, 44 S. Market St. Bring a dish to share. Info: www.ywcaofasheville.org.

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Government & Politics Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Info: 2558115 or www.firestormcafe.com. • SA (4/30), 7pm - May Day Jamboree featuring performances by local artists including a May Day choir presenting “songs about labor and revolutionary history.” New South Network of War Resisters • FR (4/29) through SU (5/1) - Members of the New South Network of War Resisters will discus tactics towards ending wars, racism, sexism and exploitation of the human and natural world. Opening reception on April 29 at the Battery Park Rooftop Garden, 57:30pm. Call for complete schedule of events: 3016683. Swannanoa Valley Friends Meeting • WE (4/27), 6:30pm - Screening of Occupation Has No Future, about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Held at the Swannanoa Valley Friends Meetinghouse located at 137 Center St., Black Mountain. Free. 6693616.

Seniors & Retirees 60+ Exercise Smarter (pd.) Learn better ways to exercise. Make every movement lighter, freer, easier. Personal attention, two instructors. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Noon-1:15pm. $15 or 10 sessions for $130. 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 Fitness at Battery Park Apartments • FRIDAYS, 10:4011:40am - 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 Manheimer Room at UNCA’s Reuter Center. Info: 251-6140. • FR (4/29), 11:30am - Fab Friday: “Happy Feet: Learn How to Keep Them That Way,” a talk by Pamela Allen, MD, at the Manheimer Room in the Reuter Center.

Animals Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: 808-9435 or www. bwar.org. • SA (4/30) & SU (5/1), 11am-5pm - The Spring Adoptathon will be held. Meet dozens of dogs and cats, kittens and puppies who need loving homes. Plus, there will be informational booths, games for kids, raffle prizes and a pet first aid demonstration by the American Red Cross. Keep pets safe with $10 microchipping courtesy of Banfield, the Pet Hospital. 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 246-9050. • SATURDAYS, 10am3pm - Adoption Days at 256B Industrial Park Drive in Waynesville. Interested in volunteering or donating to the shelter? Call: 246-9050. Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St. in Tryon. Hours: Tues.Sat., 11am-5pm and by appointment. Info: 8592828 or www.upstairsartspace.org. • TU (5/3), 7pm - Bird expert Simon Thompson will give a lecture on crows. WNC Agricultural Center

Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414. • SU (5/1) - Carolina Classic Horse Show. WNC Alliance Members of the WNC Alliance and the public are invited to be agents of change for the environment. Info: 258-8737 or www.wnca.org. • TH (5/5), 8-10am “Introduction to Birding,” with expert ornithologist Simon Thompson at Beaver Lake in north Asheville. Meet at the Bird Sanctuary on Merrimon Ave. To reigister: lori@ wnca.org or 258-8737. Free. Bring binoculars, a pen and paper.

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 Ready To Sell Or Buy A Restaurant In WNC? (pd.) We work exclusively with the food and beverage industry. • Contact National Restaurant Properties in Asheville: (828) 225-4801. jeffnra@ bellsouth.net • www.restaurantstore.com A-B Tech Small Business Events Info & registration: 2541921, ext. 5857 or www. abtech.edu/sbc/jumpstart. asp. • TH (4/28), 4-6pm - A-B Tech’s Center for Business and Technology Incubation will host Small Business Jump Start Day on the second floor of the Haynes Conference Center on the college’s Enka campus. Current business owners will be available to answer questions and share best practices on topics like loans, business plans, identifying your market, advertising, licenses, finding a space to rent, accounting and taxes, doing business with the city and insurance coverage. Free. Info: 254-1921, ext. 5849 or jsparks@abtech.edu. • TH (5/5), 6pm - “How to Successfully Sell Your Natural Products to Retailers and Wholesalers.” Topics include product pricing; promoting and selling products with small

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budgets, building relationships, researching and analyzing the market, and the common obstacles to marketing and selling natural products. Info: http://abtech.edu/ce/registration/default.asp 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 (5/5), 5:30-7:30pm - Meeting at Chef Mo’s, 900 Hendersonville Highway. Laurie Knowles, from OnTrack Financial Education and Counseling, will be the featured guest speaker. $5. Info: 7772229. CREIA Women Investors Focus Group • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - A diverse group of women meet to talk about real-estate investing, share experiences, network and learn together. CREIA is a nonprofit, educational organization for people interested in growing wealth through real estate. $15 nonmembers. Info: 779-2550 or www.creianc.org. Events at A-B Tech • TH (4/28), 9am-1pm The 2011 graduating class of the A-B Tech Hotel and Restaurant Management Program hosts the annual Hospitality Job Fair in the Brumit Center for Culinary Arts and Hospitality on the college Asheville campus. Job seekers can network and speak with recruiters. Employers such as the Biltmore Estate, Grand Bohemian, 131 Main and Texas Roadhouse will offer positions ranging from entry level through management. This year’s event will also include the first Green Hospitality Expo. Info: mball@abtech. edu or 254-1921, ext. 852. Financial Health Clinic • SA (4/30), 9am - A free financial counseling clinic will be held at the United Way office on South French Broad Street. The event will be conducted by financial and legal experts, providing an opportunity for members of the community to learn how to manage financial matters and help them to understand alternatives. Info: www. FinancialHealthClinic.org.

International Association of Administrative Professionals • 4th THURSDAYS, 5:30-7pm - The monthly chapter meeting will be held at Arden First Baptist Church, Sweeten Creek Road. Park in the lower level in the back parking lot. Meetings feature presentations and guest speakers. Free. Info: smesser@morrowinsurance.com. 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., suite. 222. Info: 255-5166 or www.ontrackwnc.org. • MONDAYS (5/2 through 5/23), 5:30-8:30pm HomeBuyer Education: A step-by-step explanation of the homebuying process. $35. • WEDNESDAYS (5/4 through 5/18), 5:30-8pm - “Manage Your Money.” The basics of budgeting, setting goals, planning spending to realize goals, saving strategies and tracking spending. Free. Stecoah Valley Center Events Located at 121 Schoolhouse Road in Robbinsville. Info: 4793364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com. • TH (4/28), 6-9pm - “Setting Up a Home Office.” Free.

Technology Asheville Adobe User Group • 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Free Adobe meeting. Join other Adobe users in a discussion group. Time-saving tips and new Adobe workflows. Everyone is welcome. Info: wwww. irishguy.us/adobe-usergroup. Free Computer Classes Classes are held at Charlotte Street Computers, 252 Charlotte St. To register: classes@ charlottestreetcomputers. com. • MONDAYS, 12:151:15pm - 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, 12:151:15pm - GarageBand.

Volunteering Asheville SCORE Counselors to Small Business If your business could use some help, SCORE is the place to start. Free and confidential. To make an appointment: 271-4786. Our offices are located in the Federal Building, 151 Patton Ave., room 259. Seminars are held at A-B Tech’s Small Business Center, room 2046. Free for veterans. Info: www. ashevillescore.org. • You can help start small businesses in WNC. Give back and have fun doing it. Volunteers are needed in all business areas. Minorities and women are encouraged to apply, as are individuals in Buncombe, Swain and McDowell Counties. 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. CarePartners Hospice Bereavement Offers one-on-one grief counseling, support groups, grief education classes, a monthly grief support newsletter and semi-annual memorial services (available to anyone who is suffering a loss through death). Located at 68 Sweeten Creek Road. Call 2510126 to set up an initial visit with a counselor. • TH (4/21) through TH (5/26) - CarePartners Hospice and Palliative Care will offer volunteer training sessions in the Solace Center. Opportunities include answering phones, assisting with clerical work, visiting patients, helping families and assisting with fundraising events. Free. Applications are available online. Info: dannyj@

carepartners.org or 2552870, ext. 8344.

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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. • TH (4/28), 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. • TH (4/28), 4-6pm - 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. • SA (4/30), 1-3pm Help sort and pack food at MANNA FoodBank to be given to agencies serving hungry residents of 17 WNC counties. Literacy Council of Buncombe County Located at 31 College Place, building B, suite 221. Info: 254-3442, ext. 205. • Volunteer tutors are needed for the Augustine Project, which seeks to improve academic achievement of lowincome students in grades 1-12 who are performing below grade level in reading, writing or spelling. Tutoring will takes place 2 to 3 times a week (oneon-one sessions). Info: literacytutors@litcouncil. com. WNC AIDS Project Info: www.wncap.org or 252-7489. • TH (4/28) - Volunteers are sought to work a breakfast, lunch or dinner shift at participating local restaurants for Dining Out for Life Day, an event to help fund Outreach Education & Prevention programs of the WNC AIDS Project. Ambassadors will greet diners, inform them about the event and offer a donation envelope. Info: www.wncap.org/dofl/volunteer, wncapvolunteer@ wncap.org or 252-7489, ext. 315.

Art Retreat • Nature Workshop • May 12-15 (pd.) Join renowned artist Robert Johnson for a nature workshop at Wildacres Retreat Center in Little Switzerland. • Hike wilderness, learn to see nature with new eyes and create art. • No talent required. • Registration/ information: (828) 587-9453 or http://bit. ly/natureworkshop Beautiful Lake James (pd.) Annual Boat Slips available, covered and uncovered. Cabin rentals also available. Call (828) 584-0666. mountainharbourmarina.com Bikes and Beers • 1st & 3rd SUNDAYS, 4:30pm - Join the Asheville Pedal Punks on a social ride for all skill levels (beginners encouraged). Rides begin at the corner of Hillside Street and Mount Clare Avenue and conclude with a drink at The Bywater on Riverside Drive. Info: www.ashevillepedalpunks. blogspot.com. Free. 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 (4/27), 8am - Hawkbill Flower Hike. Info: 667-0723 or CarrolKoepp@bellsouth. net. • SA (4/30), 7:30am - Sugarland Mountain Trail. Info: 628-6712 or knies06@att.net. • SU (5/1), 8:40am Blackrock Mountain and Yellowface via Rocky Face. Meet at Westgate to carpool or meet leader at rest area beyond Waynesville on US 23/74. Info: 638-3686 or tedsnyderjr@bellsouth.net —7am - Birding at Tesentee Farm. Info: 231-2198 or bjsmucker@gmail.com — - noon - Big Creek in the Smokies. Info: 298-9988 or rerikkers@aol.com. • WE (5/4), 8:30am Craggy to Little Snowball. Info: 684-8656 or CLWorley@bellsouth.net.

Junior League of Asheville A local nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the potential of women, improving the community through various projects and promoting volunteerism. Info: www.juniorleagueasheville.org, jlofa@charter. net or 254-5608. • SU (5/1), 2pm - Spring into Action 8K. The Junior League of Asheville is teaming up with Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy to host a 1-mile fun run, 5K and 8K at Fletcher Park. All participants will receive a T-shirt. See website for registration details. N.C. Arboretum Events The Arboretum hosts a variety of educational programs. Unless otherwise noted, all events are free with parking fee ($8/vehicle). No parking fees on 1st Tuesdays. Info: 665-2492 or www. ncarboretum.org. • SA (4/30), 10am-2pm - Outdoor Adventure Day will feature presentations on local wildlife, nature walks, geocaching activities, a “make-and-take craft” and much more. The whole family is encouraged to attend and learn about programs and educational opportunities at the Arboretum. Gem mining activities will cost $4/Tubing will cost $6 for children and $8 for adults. Run With Barefoot Tarahumara Runners • FR (4/29), 5pm - All are welcome to join Scott Jurek and Christopher McDougall, author of the Born to Run, for a 3-4 mile run on the trails and roads of UNCA. Come learn more about nearly barefoot Tarahumara runners. Meet at UNCA’s track. Info: www.malaprops.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. n Reservations required for SAHC hikes: claire@ appalachian.org or 2530095, ext. 205. • SA (4/30), 10am - A naturalist guided wildflower hike will be held at High Knob in Yancey County. Are welcome to come learn about this old growth preserve.

RSVP: claire@appalachian.org or 253.0095 ex. 205. Spring into Action 8K • SU (5/1), 1pm Carolina Mountain Land Conservancy and the Junior League of Asheville are teaming up to host a 1 mile fun run, 5K and 8K at Fletcher Community Park. Early bird registration ends April 28. Info: www. carolinamountain.org.

Sports Groups & Activities Circuit Breaker Fitness Class MONDAYS and THURSDAYS, 5:306:30pm - The Circuit Breaker class will combine a variety of forms of exercise, to be disclosed on your first day of class. Not for beginners. $30 for eight sessions. Info and registration: 687-5290. 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, 5:30pm6:30pm. • $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. Burnsville Metric Ride • SA (4/30), 9am-3pm - The Metric Century Ride, a fully supported trip through scenic countryside, is a fantastic way to start the cycling season. A 22-mile family ride for all ages will also be held. The ride begins and ends at the Burnsville Town Square. $27/$35; $20/$30 for students; $15/$17 for family ride. Info and registration: burnsvillemetric. com. ChiRunning and ChiWalking Training Group • WEDNESDAYS, 5:30pm (starting 4/20) - Join ChiLiving team members at Carrier Park for an hour-long training session with a

certified ChiRunning and ChiWalking instructor. This is a free opportunity to learn how to run and walk injury-free and more efficiently. Info: 252-9828, Facebook.com/ ChiRunning or nicole@ chiliving.com. Special Olympics Buncombe County Info: 250-4265 or grace. young@buncombecounty. org. • TH (5/5), 9:20am - The Special Olympics spring games will be held at T. C. Roberson High School, 250 Overlook Road in Asheville. Opening Ceremonies begin with a Parade of Athletes and the lighting of the Olympic Torch. Track and field events immediately follow. 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 Community Theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets & info: 2541320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org. • SA (4/30), noon-2pm - WNC Magic Club and Asheville Homeschool Odyssey of the Mind present a Vaudeville Magic show. Lobby party with food, fun and fantastic balloon creations begins at noon. Benefits NC champion OM team’s trip to the World Finals. Asheville Puppetry Alliance A nonprofit arts organization bringing quality puppet theater to WNC. Info: 628-9576 or www. ashevillepuppetry.org. • SA (4/30), 10am-4pm - The Asheville Puppetry Alliance and the Southern Highland Craft Guild present the 13th annual National Day of Puppetry, a day of puppet shows, puppet themed games and puppet-building activities for the entire family. Held at the Folk Art Center, Milepost 382, Blue Ridge Parkway. $7/Free for children under 2. Buncombe Co. Parks, Greenways & Rec. Events Events are free and held at 59 Woodfin Pl., unless otherwise noted. To register or for more info: 2504265 or grace.young@ buncombecounty.org. • SA (4/30), 8:3011:30am - The semi-

annual Kids Fishing Tournament will be held at Lake Julian Park. $5 per child. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Prizes will be awarded. Info: 684-0376 or david. blynt@buncombecounty. org. Hands On! This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm. Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: 697-8333 or www.handsonwnc.org. • WE (4/27) - National High Five Day. Come give high fives to everyone. • TH (4/28), 10am11:30pm - African drumming with Maria. Learn drum rhythms and make a musical instrument. $15/$10 for members. •FR (4/29), 3:30-4:30pm - “Recycled Physics Phun!” Use recycled objects to see physics in motion and make a physics craft to take home. • TU (5/3) through SA (5/7) - Make a card for Mother’s Day. 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 215-8738. N.C. Arboretum Events for Kids Info: 665-2492, jmarchal@ncarboretum. org or www.ncarboretum. org. • TU (5/3), 10am & 1:30pm - Wee Naturalist: The Water Cycle. Ageappropriate, nature-based activities for youngsters ages 25. $6.

Spirituality A Conscious Evolution (pd.) Why live just surviving from crisis to crisis? Let Alexander Technique awaken your innate ability to realize your fullest potential. Don’t survive — thrive! (828) 225-3786. www. FormFitnessFunction.com Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation (“TM”)

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(pd.) No need to clear your mind of thoughts— just transcend. TM makes it easy to go beyond active thinking to experience your peaceful, innermost Self. • Clinically proven to: reduce anxiety, depression, addiction, ADHD, and to improve creativity, clarity, and mental performance. • Free Introductory Lecture: Thursday, 6pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: Meditation and brain research • How meditation techniques differ • What’s enlightenment? (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, 7pm-8:30pm: 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 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 • Sunday, May 1 Service (pd.) 3pm-4pm, Beltaine service, Weaverville. Held outdoors, weather permitting. Services to honor the ancient Celtic Christian holidays. Intuitive spiritual counseling. Call (828) 645-2674 or visit avalongrove.com Black Swan Counseling & Mentoring (pd.) I am a Facilitator of Transitions. Who are YOU becoming? Let’s develop your potential together. Claudia J. LeMarquand, LPC Intuitive Consultant/Archetypal Pattern Analyst 828-7071185 • I specialize in mentoring creative people

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who are seeking harmony, insight and inspiration. John V. Berdy, MA Psychotherapist/Musician/ Spiritual Mentor 828-7071184 • For information about our Asheville location, ongoing groups and other services, see: blackswancounseling.com Compassionate Communication (pd.) Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work, and community by practicing compassionate communication. 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 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 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 Co-op. Suggested donation: $8/$4 students & seniors. Info: 779-5502 or www.meditation-innorthcarolina.org. • TH (4/28), 7:15pm - “An Introduction to Tantra.” • TH (5/5), 7:15pm - “The Technology of Tantra.” Celebration of Hope

• SUNDAYS (through 5/17), 10am - Exodus is a new community of Christian Faith. Celebrate Easter Sunday or enjoy weekly worship service with singing, reflection and biblical teaching at Asheville Community Theatre, 35 E. Walnut St. Children of all ages are encouraged to participate. Info: www.exodusasheville.com. 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. Events at First Baptist Church Located at 5 Oak St. (corner of Charlotte St. and I-240) in downtown Asheville. Info: www.fbca. net or 252-4781. • SA (4/30), 4pm - “Hear the word of God through music” at this bluegrass and gospel concert. 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-HinduismIslam), 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 offering. Info & directions: 2589584. 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. United Research Light Center Located at 2190 NC Highway 9 South in Black Mountain. Info: 669-6845 or www.urlight.org. • 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 1-2:45pm - Toning for Peace. “Lift your voice in free-form expression in a loving, safe space to generate well-being and peace for the greater benefit of our ever-evolving planet.” $5. Info: 667-2967 Unity Center Events Celebrate joyful, mindful living in a church with heart. Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band. Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 684-3798, 891-8700 or www.unitync.net. • WE (4/27), 7pm - “Healer’s Night.” Minihealing sessions will be offered by several of Unity’s Healers, featuring massages, EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), myofascial trigger point therapy, reiki, omega bodywork, therapeutic touch, a molecule enhancer and more. Facilitated by Sue Moll. Love offering. • SA (4/30) - Montessori Cooperative School will hold a Spring Festival at Unity. Info: www.Montess oriCooperativeSchool.com or 891-6335. • WE (5/4), 7pm - “Gems of Spiritual Wisdom,” with Rev. Deborah-Marie Diamond.There will be drumming, chanting and storytelling as Diamond guides participants towards “awakening your

Inner Buddha.” Love offering. Info: www.deborahmdiamond.com. 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.

Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings E.A.S.T. East of Asheville Studio Tour • May 14 and 15 (pd.) 2011 Spring Tour. Artists of the Black Mountain, Swannanoa, East Asheville and Fairview area, present the East of Asheville Studio Tour. The studio tour takes place twice a year, Spring and Fall. Everyone is welcome to visit any or all of the studios during the tour, whether they are serious art patrons or just browsers of beautiful and interesting works. Saturday and Sunday, 10am-6pm. Boundless: Selections from the Book Arts Collection • Through (6/24) Boundless: Selections from the Book Arts Collection, will be on display at the WCU Fine Art Museum. The exhibit explores a wide variety of formats and structures of the Artist Book, a synthesis of form and content which provides a bridge between traditional books and contemporary art. Info: fineartmuseum. wcu.edu. 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. • TH (4/28) through WE (5/25) - The Lusty Month of May will be on display at the Oui-Oui Gallery.

Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: www.unca.edu. • Through TU (5/3) - Missing Parts: The Fragmented Form, an exhibition of slab-built ceramics by Kevin Payne, will be on display at Owen Hall, in the second floor gallery. • Through TU (5/3) - The 44th annual Juried Student Exhibition will be on display at S. Tucker Cooke Gallery, Owen Hall. Arts Council of Henderson County Located at 401 N. Main St. (entrance on Fourth Street), above Flight Restaurant in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 6938504 or www.acofhc.org. • Through SA (5/14) - The Arts Council of Henderson County’s Member Show will be on display at the Burnsville Gallery of the Toe River Arts Council. The exhibition features local and regional Arts Council members. Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm 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 (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. • FR (4/29) through SU (9/25) - Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA will be on display. • FR (4/29), 5-7pm - Opening reception for Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA. Free with museum membership or admission. Asheville Gallery of Art A co-op gallery representing 29 regional artists, located at 16 College St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am5:30pm. Info: 251-5796 or www.ashevillegalleryof-art.com. • Through SA (4/30) - Abstract and Cold Wax, works by Cindy Walton. Bella Vista Art Gallery

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) To convey my vision of how best to proceed in the coming week, I’ll offer the following metaphorical scenario: Imagine that you are not a professional chef, but you do have a modicum of cooking skills. Your task is to create a hearty, tasty soup from scratch without the benefit of a recipe. You will need a variety of ingredients, but on the other hand you don’t want to just throw in a welter of mismatched ingredients without regard for how they will all work together. To some degree you will have to use a trial-and-error approach, sampling the concoction as it brews. You will also want to keep an open mind about the possibility of adding new ingredients in the latter stages of the process. One more thing: The final product must not just appeal to you. You should keep in mind what others would like, too.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Many artists want “to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye,” says Brian Eno, a Taurus genius renowned for his innovative music. He prefers a different approach. He’d rather “shoot his arrow” wherever his creative spirit feels called to shoot it, then paint the target around the place where it lands. That’s why his compositions don’t resemble anyone else’s or fit into any traditional genre — it’s Brian Eno-like music. Can I talk you into trying a similar strategy in the coming weeks and months, Taurus? I’d love to see you create a niche for yourself that’s tailored to your specific talents and needs.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

When World War I ended in 1918, the victorious nations demanded crushing financial reparations from the loser, Germany. It took 92 years, but the remaining $94 million of the debt was finally paid last October. I hope this story serves as an inspiration to you, Gemini. If entities as notoriously inflexible as governments can resolve their moldering karma, so can you. In the next few weeks, I’d love to see you finally clean up any messes left over from your old personal conflicts.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

I know how secretive you Cancerians can be because I’m one of your tribe. Sometimes the secrecy is a bit neurotic, but more often it serves the purpose of sheltering your vulnerable areas. I’m also aware of how important it is for you to be self-protective. No one is better than you at guarding your goodies, ensuring your safety, and taking care of your well-being. I would never shame you for expressing these talents and I would never ask you to downplay them. Having said that, though, I want to make sure that in the coming weeks they don’t interfere with you getting the blessings you deserve. It’s crucial that you allow yourself to be loved to the hilt. You simply must let people in far enough so they can do that.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

With a fortune of $27 billion, business tycoon Larry Ellison is the sixth richest person in the world. His monumental sense of self-importance is legendary. One of his colleagues says, “The difference between God and Larry is that God does not believe he is Larry.” Ellison seems to be what astrologers call an unevolved Leo — an immature soul whose ego is a greedy, monstrous thing. Evolved Leos, on the other hand, are very different. Are you one? If so, you do a lot of hard work on your ego. You make sure that in addition to it being strong, it’s beautiful and elegant. It’s not just forceful; it’s warm and generous. It gets things done, but in ways that bless those who come in contact with it. For you evolved Leos, this is Celebrate Your Ego Week.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Seventy-five percent of all adults confess they would like to have sex in the woods at least once in their lives, and yet only 16 percent say they have actually enjoyed that thrill. If you’re one of the 59 percent who would like to but haven’t, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to make it happen. Your capacity for pleasure in wild places will be at a peak, as will your courage for exotic adventures. In fact, I suggest that between now and May 21 you consider carrying out three fantasies that have been marinating in your imagination for many moons.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

It’s time for the Big Squeeze. All the contradictions in your life are coming up for review. You will be asked to deal more forthrightly with enigmas you’ve been avoiding, and you will be invited to try, try again to unravel riddles you’ve been unable to solve. Does all that sound a bit daunting? It could be. But the end result should be evocative, highly educational, and maybe even exhilarating. The scintillating play of opposites may caress you with such intensity that you’ll experience what we could refer to as a metaphysical orgasm.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

In the coming weeks, I would love to see you get excited about many different people, places, animals, and experiences. And I hope you will shower them with your smartest, most interesting blessings. Do you think you can handle that

big an outpouring of well-crafted passion? Are you up for the possibility that you might blow your cover, lose your dignity, and show how much you care? In my opinion, the answer is yes. You are definitely ready to go further than ever before in plumbing the depths of your adoration for the privilege of being alive.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Here’s poet James Schuyler: “It’s time again. Tear up the violets and plant something more difficult to grow.” In my opinion, that’s almost the right advice for you these days. I’d prefer it if you didn’t actually rip out the violets to make room for the harder-to-grow blooms. Would it be possible to find a new planting area that will allow you to keep what you already have in the original planting area? One way or another, I think you really should give yourself a challenging new assignment.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

“Dear Dr. Brezsny: For five years my wife and I have been married but still have made no children. We have consulted uncountable physicians with no satisfying result. Please predict a happy outcome for our troubles. When will the stars align with her womb and my manhood? She: born December 31, 1983 in Chakdaha, India. Me: born January 7, 1984 in Mathabhanga, India. - Desperate for Babies.” Dear Desperate: I’m happy to report that you Capricorns have entered a highly fertile period. It’s already going strong, and will culminate between May 16 to May 23. I suggest you jump on this sexy opportunity. You couldn’t ask for a better time to germinate, burgeon, and multiply.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

“Welcome home, beautiful!” I hope you hear those words or at least experience those feelings very soon. In my astrological opinion, you need to intensify your sense of belonging to a special place or community. You’ve got to grow deeper roots or build a stronger foundation or surround yourself with more nurturing — or all of the above. And that’s not all. As you bask and thrive in your enhanced support system, you also deserve to feel better appreciated for the wonderful qualities you’re working so hard to develop in yourself. Ask and you shall receive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

Whatever you have been trying to say, it’s time to say it stronger and clearer. You can no longer afford to hope people will read your mind or guess what you mean. Your communications must be impeccable and irresistible. A similar principle holds true for the connections and alliances you’ve been working to ripen. It’s time to raise your intensity level — to do everything you can to activate their full potentials. Starting today, you’d be crazy to tolerate shaky commitments, either from yourself or others. Be sharp and focused and unswerving, Pisces — keen and candid and to the point.

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Located in Biltmore Village next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Winter hours: Mon., Wed., Thurs., 10am-4pm, and Fri. & Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 768-0246 or www. bellavistaart.com. • Through SA (4/30) Feature wall artist: Nicora Gangi, Small Still Lifes in soft pastel. New encaustics by Tif McDonald, glass by J. David Norton and figurative sculptures by Angelique Brickner. 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. • Through SU (4/29) - Apron Strings: The Ties that Bind, featuring vintage aprons. 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., 10am6pm, and Sun., noon5pm.Info: 251-0202 or www.bluespiral1.com. • Through SA (6/25)Five exhibitions featuring works by Ward H. Nichols (painter); Will Henry Stevens (modernist, 1881-1949); Rick Beck (glass sculpture); Kenneth Baskin (clay sculpture); Rudy Rudisill (metal); Marlene Jack (porcelain tableware); and Ink & Imagery, by eight printmakers. 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. 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. 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. Info: 245-4000. Haen Gallery Located at 52 Biltmore Ave., downtown Asheville. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am6pm, Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: 254-8577 or www. thehaengallery.com. • Through TU (5/31) Surface Tension, an exhibition of work by Stephen Pentak and Steven Seinberg. Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of art-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 (86 North Main St.) in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 452-0593 or www. haywoodarts.org. • WE (5/4) through MO (5/30) - 310 ART: Contemporary Works from the River Arts District, featuring work by artists at the 310 Art Gallery at Riverview Station in Asheville’s River Arts District. The mission of the gallery is to support experimentation and growth as a primary focus. • FR (5/6), 6-9pm Opening reception. Madison County Arts Council Events Located at 90 S. Main St., in Marshall. Info: 6491301 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. Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts

Located at 70 Bingo Loop in Cherokee. Info: 4973945. • Through SU (5/1) Southwestern Community College Student Art Show. 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. SemiPublic Gallery This space for contemporary art is open by appointment only. Located at 305 Hillside St. Asheville. Info: 215-8171 or SemiPublic305@gmail. com. • Through WE (5/4) Good Stuff, an exhibition of mixed-media art, posters, cards and more. Seven Sisters Gallery This Black Mountain gallery is located at 117 Cherry St. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10am-6pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: 669-5107 or www.sevensistersgallery.com. • Through SU (6/19) - Acrylic paintings by Colleen Meechan. Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am4pm. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org. • FR (4/29) through FR (5/27) - Photography by the Waterfalls Camera Club. Info: www.lowccnc. com. • FR (4/29), 5-7pm Opening reception. Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St. in Tryon. Hours: Tues.Sat., 11am-5pm and by appointment. Info: 8592828 or www.upstairsartspace.org. • Through SA (5/28) The exhibitions Something To Crow About and New Waves: Western Carolina University MFA Graduates will be on display. WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine &

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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 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.

More Art Exhibits & Openings A Memorial Exhibition for Ellen Pasay • Through SU (5/29) - An Unfinished Woman, a memorial art exhibition featuring the work of Ellen Pasay, a young woman who suffered from mental illness and took her life at the age of 28, will be on display in the Adler Gallery at Posana Cafe, 1 Biltmore Ave., in downtown Asheville. May is Mental Health Awareness month. Directions: 5053969. Art at Over Easy • Through SA (4/30) - An exhibition of photography by Ethan Burns will be on display at 32 Broadway St., in downtown Asheville. All photographs were taken in the Himalayas, on the border between India and Tibet. Info: www.yogacowboyphotography.com. 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. Coop Gallery • SU (5/1), 7-11pm - A gallery opening titled Makers and Lovers will be held at 25 Carolina Lane in downtown Asheville. The event will feature 15 local artists, a harpist, a blacksmith and more. Donations encouraged.

Info: http://coopasheville. com 505-0791. 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. • SU (5/1) through TU (5/31) - Images of Bliss: Photography by Rachael Bliss. Bliss records what is blissful and hopeful, from nature itself to the passionate activism so visible on everyday streets. Gallery is open to the public Mon.-Thur., 8am-1pm. Info: www. uccasheville.org. Events at Montford Books & More The bookstore at 31 Montford Ave. hosts author readings and writing groups. Info: 2858805. • FR (4/29) through TU (5/31) - The colorful abstract works of Henning Erben will be showcased, from his structural oldworld and medieval buildings to the current vibrant, introspective mixed-media paintings. FR (4/29) 6-8pm - An opening reception for Henning Erben’s exhibition will be held. 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 St., in Hot Springs. Info: www.hotspringsnc. org. May Day Muses • SU (5/1), 6pm - Cilla Vee Life Arts presents music, poetry and dance by artists in residence at Marshal’s French Broad Institute. Held at 68 North Main Street in Marshall. $10 suggested donation. Info: www.cillavee.com 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 Arts2People Artist Resource Center Offering business management workshops for artists at 39 D S. Market St., in downtown Asheville. Classes, unless otherwise noted, are $35. Email info@arts2people. org to register. Info: www. arts2people.org. • WE (4/27), 6-8pm - “Self Care for SelfStarters: Preventing Burnout for Artist Entrepreneurs.” • TH (4/28), 10am-1pm - “Do it Yourself Audio Visual Portfolio.” • MO (5/2) & MO (5/9) & MO (5/16), 10am-1pm - “Presenting Your Art: Portfolio Planning to Booth Design.” Part one will be held on May 2. Part two will be held on May 9. Part three will be held May 16. Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www. ashevilleart.org. • FR (4/29), noon-1pm - Art Break: A docent-led tour of A Chosen Path: The Ceramic Art of Karen Karnes. Free with museum membership or admission. Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Holds monthly meetings and smaller groups dedicated to teaching different types of needlework. The chapter is also involved in numerous outreach projects. Guests are always welcome. Info: 654-9788 or www.egacarolinas.org. • TH (5/5) - Monthly meeting at Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road in Horse Shoe. Participants make no-sew fleece blankets for Project Linus, a nonprofit organization which provides blankets to children in crisis. Registration begins at

9:30am, followed by a short meeting and program until noon. Info: 697-8198. 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. • THURSDAYS, noon3pm - 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 357-8129. • 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. The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas Located at 362 Depot St., in the River Arts District. Info: 252-5050 or www. fineartsleague.org.

• MO (5/2), 9am “Making It Last: Building a Painting from the Ground Up” and “Color Theory and Practice,” with George O’ Hanlon of Natural Pigments Inc. $30.

Art/Craft Fairs American Cancer Society Relay for Life Helping make cancer research possible. Info: www.relayforlife.org. • Through SU (5/1) - Call for entries for a “REELLAY Good Craft Show” to benefit Relay For Life. The show will be held in the Brevard Elementary School cafeteria. $25 for registration. Info: 8842001 Operation Toasty Toes Chapter 7 Makes yarn comfort items that are sent to troops deployed overseas. Info: 696-9777 or www.operationtoastytoes.org. • SA (4/30) - Toasty Toes presents a craft sale at CARZ Auto Repair shop on 64 West Horse Shoe Road. Spring Market • FR (4/29), 10am6pm - Come see what’s blooming at the 2011 Spring Market. There will be discussions and displays by regional and local vendors, children’s items, fine food, crafts, home decor, jewelry and more. Held at the WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: www.ashevillespringmarket.com.

Spoken & Written Word 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. • 10:30am-2:30pm, June 25-July 1 (High School) • July 25-July 29 (Middle School). Magnetic Field Performance Space. • Registration/information: (828) 215-9002 or www. true-ink.com Weekend Storytelling Workshop

(pd.) Nationally acclaimed storyteller, Connie Regan-Blake, offers her weekend workshop “Story Treasures: Writing & Telling Our Stories” in Asheville on May 6-8. All levels welcomed. Early bird discount. www. storywindow.com 828258-1113. Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS - Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n EC = Enka-Candler Library (1404 Sandhill Road, 250-4758) n PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 2506488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 2506486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 250-6482) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • 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. The winners will be announced on May 5, and the names will be posted at the library. WV. • FR (4/29), 10am-6pm - Used book sale. Books for children and adults will be for sale at bargain prices. EC. • TU (5/3), 7pm - Book Club: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. WV —- 7pm - Book Club: The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. EC • WE (5/4), 3pm - Book Club: Still Alice by Lisa Genova. WV —- 5-7pm - Swannanoa Library Knitters SW —- 10am2:30pm - Red Cross Blood Drive. PM. • TH (5/5), 6:30pm - Book Club: Remarkable Creatures by Tracy Chevalier. EA —- 6-8pm - Skyland Knitting Group. SS —- 7pm - Book Club:

Moloka’i by Alan Brennert. SW. Cipher Circle Mondays • MONDAYS, 10pm - Join emcee/producer CAMPAIGN for this jazzinfused 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 City Lights City Lights Bookstore is at 3 E. Jackson St., in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com. • FR (5/27), 7pm - Tim Spira presents a program based on his book titled Wildflowers and Plant Communities of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book signings. Info: 254-6734 or www.malaprops.com. • TH (4/28), 7pm Andrea Reusing, a chef at the acclaimed Chapel Hill restaurant called Lantern, will discuss her book Cooking in the Moment. • FR (4/29), 7pm - Chris McDougall will discuss his book Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen. • SA (4/30), 7pm - Robin Oliveira will discuss her Civil War tale of a midwife determined to pursue a medical career against all odds, My Name is Mary Sutter. • SU (5/1), 3pm - Poetrio. Featured poets Diana Pinckney, the author or Green Daughters; Barbara Gravelle, Poet on the Roof of the World; and Matthew Mulder of Rooftop Poets —- 5pm - Jim Shepard will read from and sign copies of his collection of short stories titled You Think That’s Bad. • MO (5/2), 7pm Bridging Difference Book Club: The Faith Club by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver and Priscilla Warner. Hosted by Patti Digh.

• TU (5/3), 6-8pm - “Anti-Nuclear Waste.” Learn about Mountain Protectors Campaign’s mission to stop radioactive waste in WNC, enjoy music by Dan and Kim Keyser and a reading by local author Kenneth Butcher (who will read from his book The Middle of the Air, which features a radioactive shipment hijacking in the WNC mountains). • WE (5/4), 7pm - “Localism & Social Enterprise.” Join Chris Sullivan of Home Free Bagels as she discusses social entrepreneurship. Learn how vital this type of business is to our community, and how you can be a part of it —- 7pm - Join host Jay Jacoby for a discussion of Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis. • TH (5/5), 7pm - Gary Shteyngart will read from and sign copies of his book Super Sad True Love Story. Events at Spellbound Spellbound Children’s Bookshop is located at 19 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 232-2228 or spellboundbooks@ netzero.com. • SA (4/30), 1-3pm - “Celebrate Diversity In Books & In Life,” an event held in conjunction with the YWCA’s Stand Against Racism. Stories, music, snacks and door prizes. Free. All ages welcome. • SU (5/1), 4pm - Book Club: Uglies by Scott Westerfeld. Suggested for ages 12 and up. Fountainhead Bookstore Located at 408 N Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 697-1870. • SA (4/30), 3-5pm 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. Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest Poetry Contest Open to children in grades K-12, 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. Literary Events at UNCA Events are free unless noted. Tickets & info: 232-5000. • FR (4/29), 5:30pm - Christopher McDougall will read from and sign copies of his book Born to Run at Lipinsky Auditorium. Tickets are required and are available at Malaprop’s Bookstore in downtown Asheville. Info: 254-6734, (800) 4419829 or www.malaprops. com. $22.19 includes a paperback copy of the book. 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. Mother Grove Info: 230-5069 or info@ mothergroveavl.org. • FR (4/29), 7-10pm - “From Brigid’s Well.” Celebrate National Poetry Month with an evening of modern poetry. Featured readers include Annelinde Metzner, Barbara Gravelle and Teresa Cline, among others. All proceeds benefit Mother Grove Temple, including its food pantry and prison ministries programs. “The evening of “transformational poetry, invocations and prayers” will be held in the Park Building, 70 Woodfin Place, off Charlotte Street.” $15/$25 for two. Reservations recommended. Light refreshments provided. Info: www.mothergroveavl.org. WNC Mysterians Critique Group • TH (4/28), 6-8pm - The WNC Mysterians Critique Group meets at Booksa-Million lounge area, Tunnel Road. For serious mystery/suspense/thriller writers. Info: 712-5570 or wncmysterians.org. WORD Slam 2011 • SA (4/30), 5pm - This spoken-word poetry competition for youth will

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be held at the Altamont Theatre, 18 Church St., in downtown Asheville. Middle and high school youths engage in a multi-round tournament, showcasing their original writing and verbal expression for a live audience. Winners of the WORDSlam will be invited to perform at The Lake Eden Arts Festival (LEAF) and at Asheville WORDFEST alongside nationally acclaimed poets. Info: heather.burrows@artspacecharter. org. Writers’ Workshop Events WW offers a variety of classes and events for beginning and experienced writers. Info: 254-8111 or www.twwoa.org. • Publication opportunities are available for writers, including a call for papers on “Southern Literature and Culture,” “Southern-Themed Writing,” poetry, fiction and much more. For a complete list of awards, grants, fellowships and “calls to writers,” see the Writers’ Workshop’s website. • SA (4/30), 10am-4pm - “Writing to Grab the Reader,” a fiction workshop with Dale Neal at 387 Beaucatcher Road in Asheville. Sliding scale/$35 average.

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Festivals & Gatherings 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. • SA (4/30), 10am-noon - The Fine Art Museum at WCU will host a Family Day featuring a scavenger hunt, art activities and refreshments. Free. Big Love Fest • SU (5/1), 1-8pm Asheville Grown Business Alliance, The Big Crafty and Just Economics will present a festival to highlight local businesses. Live music by Floating Action, members of Reigning Sound, Mad Tea Party and others. LaZoom will offer comedy tours throughout the day. Held at Pack Square in Asheville. Free. Info: www.loveasheville.org

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Enchanted Fairy & Gnome Masquerade/5K Run • SA (4/30) - Enchanted Forest events include a 5K run, field games, local music, kids crafts and food. Held at the Unity Center in Mills River. Sponsored by the Montessori Cooperative School. www.montessoricooperativeschool.com. Events at Historic Johnson Farm Located at 3346 Haywood Road in Hendersonville. There are two nature trails (free), and guided tours are offered. Info: 8916585 or www.historicjohnsonfarm.org. • SA (4/30), 10am-4pm - Annual Spring Festival at the Farm, featuring food and fun for the whole family. Festivities will also include a craft sale, pound cake sale, house tours, wagon and tractor rides, live bluegrass from The Lonesome Road Band and local cloggers. $6/$4 students/preschoolers free. Festival of Follies and Flings • SA (4/30), 8am-2pm - Rummage sale, games, contests, live music, door prizes, a bake sale, plant sale, cake walks and much more. Held in the parking lot at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 500 Montreat Road. All proceeds benefit UUC’s partner church in Romania and other local nonprofits. Info: 669-8050. Fire on the Mountain Blacksmith Festival • SA (4/30), 8am-4pm - Fire On the Mountain returns to downtown Spruce Pine to honor and celebrate the deep history of blacksmithing in WNC and broaden awareness of quality contemporary iron work. The festival will feature master blacksmiths, demonstrations and exhibitions of world renowned metal art and tools. Info: www.downtownsprucepine.com. Henderson County Courthouse Events Info: 694-5003. • TH (4/28), 10am - The Mayor will sign a proclamation for Hendersonville making the last Thursday in April every year “Pay It Forward Day.” Participating merchants will be giving discounts that day to anyone wearing a pay it forward bracelet. Junior League of Asheville A local nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the potential

of women, improving the community through various projects and promoting volunteerism. Info: www.juniorleagueasheville.org, jlofa@charter. net or 254-5608. • FR (4/29), 6pm - Enjoy barbecue, beer and bluegrass at the “Best of the BBQ, Beer and Bluegrass Bash.” Throw back fresh microbrew drafts from Asheville’s Highland Brewing Co., chow down on award-winning barbecue and jam with local bluegrass band Brushfire Stankgrass. Held at the WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. 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. • SU (5/1) - The “Just Brew It” homebrew beer festival and competition will be held at Roger Mcguire Green in Pack Square. In order to attend, individuals must become members of Just Economics at the $16 level. May Faire • SU (5/1), 3-6pm Trinity United Methodist Church and the Waldorf Community will hold a May Faire. There will be crafts for kids, a May pole, and a potluck meal. Held at 587 Haywood Road, Asheville. Donations appreciated. Info: MayFaire@ LittleRoundSchoolhouse. com. Vance International Children’s Festival • SA (4/30), 11am3pm - Celebrate world cultures with arts and crafts, games, student performances, food and inflatables at Vance Elementary’s International Children’s Festival and 5K Rocket Run. The 5K Run begins at 9am. Held at 98 Sulpher Springs Road in Asheville. Info: elizabethpendleton@charter.net.

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442-6211. www.vinylrecordstocd.com Blue Ridge Ringers • SU (5/1), 4pm - The Vocal Choir of Sacred Heart Catholic Church and The Blue Ridge Ringers, a community handbell ensemble, will perform at 4 Brain Berg Lane in Brevard. Free-will offering. Info: 862-8666 or 692-4910. Blues in the Hollow • SU (5/1), 5-8pm - Finger-picking and slideblues guitar player Paul Geremia will perform in concert. A potluck meal at will precede the concert at 4pm (bring a dish to share) and a May Day bonfire will follow the night’s entertainment. $15 suggested donation. Held in Celo. RSVP: 675-1864 or millarddesign@ccvn. com. Classical Guitar Concert • SA (4/30), 10am - The Asheville Classical Guitar Society presents Jackson Field performing the music of Mauro Giuliani and other classics at Filo Pastries and Coffee, 1155 Tunnel Road in Asheville. Info: www.ashevilleclassicalguitarsociety.com. Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. All classes are free. Info: http:// tinyurl.com/6j3nxw9. • MONDAYS, 6:308:30pm - “Community Sing,” open to singers, experienced and new, to share traditional tunes at 41 Balsam Ave. Hendersonville Bluegrass Jam • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - A bluegrass jam will be held at the Historic Henderson County Courthouse in downtown Hendersonville. Info: www.blueridgenow. com. Hendersonville Chamber Music Concerts take place at First Congregational Church of Hendersonville. $17/Free for students. Info: 890-4411 or www. hendersonvillechambermusic.org. • SU (5/1) - The Bill Gerhardt Trio, featuring bassist Zack Page, drummer Sonny Thornton & vocalist Sharon LaMotte, will perform. Performances at Diana Wortham Theatre For ticket information or more details: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com. • FR (4/29), 7:30pm The Blue Ridge Orchestra

presents its final concert of the season, “An Evening with Billy Jonas.” Info: www.blueridgeorchestra.org. St. Matthias Musical Performances Classical music concerts take place at St. Matthias Episcopal Church in Asheville, 1 Dundee St. (off South Charlotte). Info: 252-0643. • SU (5/1), 3pm - The Reynolds-Miller Chorale, under the direction of Treva Chavez, will perform a concert of classical works and spirituals, and will be accompanied by an organ, piano and a string quartet. A free-will offering will be taken 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.

Theater Arts Council of Henderson County Located at 401 N. Main St. (entrance on Fourth Street), above Flight Restaurant in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 6938504 or www.acofhc.org. • TH (4/28) through SA (4/30), 8pm - The Lady with All the Answers, a one-woman show about 20th century American icon Ann Landers, will be presented upstairs at Mikes on Main, 303 N. Main St., in Hendersonville. A special Mother’s Day matinee will be presented May 8 at 2 p.m. $20/$15 members. Info: www.acofhc.org or 693-8504. Asheville Community Theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets & info: 2541320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org. • THURSDAYSSATURDAYS (through 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. • FRIDAYS (4/22) through SUNDAYS (5/1) - Arsenic and Old Lace, a “delightful comic concoction which combines the cozy charm and deft plotting of an Agatha Christie whodunit.”

Fri.-Sat., 7:30pm & Sun., 2:30pm. $12/$19/$22. Asheville Playback Theatre An improvisational theatre experience building a community of neighbors and honoring personal stories. $10/$5 students (but no one turned away). Info: www.ashevilleplayback.org. • FR (4/29), 8pm - Performance at the Asheville Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St. Different Strokes! Performing Arts Collective • TH (5/5) through SA (5/14), 7:30pm - Love! Valour! Compasison!, by Terrence McNally, will be performed at 35 E. Walnut St. $15. Proceeds benefit Western North Carolina AIDS Project (WNCAP). Reservations strongly recommended. Info: differentstrokesavl@gmail. com or 490-1405. 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 (5/8) - Ron Hutchinson’s Moonlight and Magnolias, the hilarious tale of a director, producer and screenwriters frantic attempt to rewrite Gone With the Wind. Sugar Shack Burlesque • TH (5/5), 7pm - Southern Exposure, featuring “international performers and burlesque darlings of NYC,” will be performed at N.C. Stage Company, 15 Stage Lane. Info: www.ncstage.org or www.sugarshackburlesque.com. Synergy Story Slam Asheville’s communitybased, open mic storytelling event at The Magnetic Field, 372 Depot St., River Arts District. Search “Synergy Story Slam” on Facebook for more info. $5-10. • MO (5/2), 7pm - This event will be the “slam series finale.” The Magnetic Field A cafe, bar and performance house located at 372 Depot St., in the River Arts District. Info: www. themagneticfield.com or 257-4003. • Through SA (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. • THURSDAYS (5/5) through SATURDAYS (5/28) - The Family Tree, by local playwright and Magnetic Theatre artistic associate Lucia Del Vecchio, is a dark comedy about eco-activism and familial relations. Preview performances will be held on May 5 and 6. Shows will be held at 7:30pm and 10pm. $12/14. Theater at Blue Ridge Community College Performances are held in Patton Auditorium at BRCC, Flat Rock. Tickets & info: 694-1849 or jennifers@blueridge.edu. • TH (4/28) through SU (5/1) - The drama department presents the Pulitzer-Prize winning play How I Learned to Drive. $7-$5. Reservations recommended: 694-1197. 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. • SU (5/1), 3pm Popovich Comedy Pet Theater will perform juggling and European-style comedy featuring cats and dogs (all rescued from animal shelters). Titan Theatre Company • TH (5/5) through SU (5/8) - The Titan Theatre Company presents the musical You’re A Good Man Charlie Brown, based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Held at McDowell High School Auditorium, 600 Mcdowell High Drive. Thur.,-Sat., 7:30pm and Sun., 2:30pm. $10 adults/$8 students. Info: 652-2440.

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.

Film Premier of “World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements” • WE (5/4), 7:10pm - The award-winning documentary film, World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements, set in a Virginia public school, depicts the transformation that happens as a class of

students try to solve all of the earth’s crises with a balanced budget. The film will be screened at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 S. Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Following the screening, teacher/the film’s main character John Hunter and director Chris Farina will host a Q&A and open dialogue with local leadership in education. $16/Free to teachers in K-12 public or private schools. Info: www.worldpeaceavl.com or 257-4530.

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 Jaffekjsummit@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) 2427595 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, 8:3010:30am & 10:30am12:30pm - Meet at Studio 11, 11 Richland St., in West Asheville. $5. B-Boy & B-Girl Classes • MONDAYS, 6:307:45pm - 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. Danceland Ballroom • FRIDAYS, 7:3010:30pm - Dance party with DJ Sonny Coren at 4020 Hendersonville Road, suite D. $10. Info: www. DanceLandFletcherNC. com or 423-4653. 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 For Bakersville Creek Walk Arts Festival September 24 (pd.) 10am-5pm. • Application fee $10.• Booth fee $75. Application deadline: August 15. • Contact Dawn Dalto: bakersvillefestival@gmail. com or (828) 216-9929. • Application available on our website: http://www. creekwalkfestival.com

Arts Council of Henderson County Located at 401 N. Main St. (entrance on Fourth Street), above Flight Restaurant in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 6938504 or www.acofhc.org. • Through TU (8/9) Submissions for Bring Us Your Best, a juried and judged art exhibition, will be accepted. Area artists are invited to submit original works of art in any media.$25/$15 for subsequent entries. Cash prizes will be awarded to three featured artists. LAAFF Lexington Ave Arts and Fun Fest (LAAFF) is a free street festival held on N. Lexington Ave. between College St. and the 240 overpass. The festival is a fundraiser for local nonprofit Arts2People. Free and kid-friendly. Info: 776-6248, www. arts2people.org or www. lexfestasheville.com. • Through SU (5/15) - LAAFF is seeking local artists to create poster art for the 10th annual festival, held the first weekend in September. Interested applicants must include a brief artist statement and 3 to 5 portfolio images, or a link to a website. Submissions should be sent to LAAFFasheville@ gmail.com, ATTN: LAAFF Poster Art, by May 15. Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 S. Caldwell St., Brevard. Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am4pm. Info: 884-2787 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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The reception will feature an auction showcasing these funky bras, plus donations from regional artists and local businesses. Refreshments will be served throughout the gathering, and prizes will be awarded to the artists who raise the most money for their submission.

What: Artful Bra Challenge, a benefit for Mission Hospital’s “Ladies Night Out” Where: Kitsch Fabric and Craft, 742 Haywood Road in West Asheville When: An auction and awards celebration will be held on Saturday, April 30, at 6 p.m. ($1 suggested donation to vote for your favorite bra! Info: 505-8280, kitschfabrics. com or info@kitschfabrics.com)

All proceeds from the event benefit “Ladies Night Out,” which offers free preventative-health services for women at Mission Hospital on the first Thursday of every month. “Ladies Night Out closes the gap between federally funded and local health programs,” with the goal of providing mammograms and physicals to uninsured women, as stated on missionhospitals.org. Take this opportunity to see some truly wild women’s underwear while supporting this worthy cause. These beautiful bras have not gone the way of the girdle!

Why: Area artists have created “embellished bras” (think decorative plush monkeys, sunflowers and other wild, weird and untraditional undergarments) for the Artful Bra Challenge, an exhibition that benefits women’s health. Bras of every size and color will be on display at Kitsch Fabrics, and the public is invited to come and vote for their favorite creation.

benefitscalendar Calendar for April 27 - May 5, 2011 Artful Bra Challenge • Through SA (4/30) - The public is invited to come to Kitsch Fabrics, 742 Haywood Road, and vote for their favorite “Artful Bra.” The Artful Bra Challenge is a fundraiser for Ladies Night Out, a program offered by Mission Hospital to provide free mammograms to uninsured and under-insured women in the Asheville area. Info: 5058280, 250-6119 or shop@Kitschfabrics.com. $1 per vote. An awards ceremony will be held on April 30 at 6pm. Bountiful Cities Project A nonprofit that creates, manages and, in some cases, owns community gardens on Asheville’s urban land. Info: 257-4000 or info@bountifulcitiesproject.org. • SU (5/1), 4pm - Bountiful Cities hosts “Rites of Spring,” with food, beer, wine, live music, Maypole dancing, children’s activities and a bonfire, at the Pearson Drive Community Garden in the Montford. This party is the last fundraiser to pay off the mortgage on the land at Pearson. Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Fundraiser BWAR is a nonprofit dedicated to helping homeless dogs and cats find permanent homes. Info: www.bwar.org or 458-7778. • TU (5/3), 5:30-8:30pm - “Spay-ghetti and No Balls Dinner,” a three-course spaghetti meal, with music by Jenna Lindbo, a raffle and cash bar, will benefit Brother Wolf Animal Rescue. Held at Mayfel’s Restaurant, 22 College St., in downtown Asheville. $20/$10 children under 6. Tickets available at Brother Wolf Adoption Center, 31 Glendale Ave., Asheville. Info: 505-3440. CarePartners Benefit and Variety Show • TH (4/28), 11:30am-1:30pm - The variety show will be hosted by “Gilligan & Ginger,” (Ken & Tammy from 96.5 WOXL), and will feature a silent auction, music and dancing. Lunch provided by Carrabba’s Italian Grill and dessert by Arista Cakes. Proceeds benefit brain injury and spinal cord injury patients served by CarePartners Rehabilitation

Hospital. Renaissance Hotel, 31 Woodfin St., Asheville. $40. Info: www.carepartners.org/varietyshow or 2774815. Craft Fair Fundraiser • SA (4/30), 8am-noon - Come shop for great Mother’s Day gifts at this fundraiser for the Candler Elementary School PTA. Booth spaces available for $15. Held at the school, 121 Candler School Road. Info: 670-5018. 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 Blvd., Asheville, 258-5288; 142 Joel Wright Drive, Hendersonville, 6975633; and 2270 Hendersonville Road, Arden, 651-8543. Info: www.curves.com. ECO Events The Environmental and Conservation Organization is dedicated to preserving the natural heritage of Henderson County and the mountain region as an effective voice of the environment. Located at 121 Third Ave. W., in Hendersonville. Info: 692-0385 or www.eco-wnc.org. • SA (4/30), 8pm - A special Earth Day concert will be held at the Blue Ridge Conference Hall, on the Blue Ridge Community College campus. The performance benefits ECO. $15members/$20nonmembers. Info: www. blueridge.edu. Experience The Extraordinary • SA (4/30), 8pm - “Experience The Extraordinary,” a performance by magician Craig Karges. All proceeds benefit Diana Wortham Theatre, providing “vital financial support for the ongoing programs of theatre.” $75-$50. VIP tickets available. Info: 257-4530 or www.dwtheatre.com. HeartStrings Heath Event • SA (4/30), 9am-noon - The YMCA and the WNC/ Buncombe County Medical Society team up at Reuter Center, 3 Town Square Blvd., to offer exercise for a cause. Proceeds benefit Project Access (a pro-

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gram through the Buncombe County Medical Society Foundation). Individuals and teams participate in zumba, kickboxing, cycling, a boot-camp class and walking/jogging. Info: www.bcmsonline.org/heartstrings. Helios Warriors Health Care Program for Veterans A nonprofit alternative therapy program for veterans. Info: 299-0776, info@helioswarriors.org or www.helioswarriors.org. • SU (5/1), 5pm - The first anniversary celebration for Helios Warriors will be held at Westville Pub, 777 Haywood Road in West Asheville. “We are raising awareness for this great program dedicated to helping veterans heal.” Music by BlueJay Way. Plus a raffle, with proceeds benefiting Helios Warriors. Henderson County BBQ Expo • SA (4/30), 10am-4pm - The second annual Henderson County BBQ Expo will be held in the Hendersonville High School stadium. The event is a family-friendly festival with vendors, competitions, children’s activities, crafts and entertainment. Proceeds benefit the Henderson County Education Foundation. $6/free for children under 12. Indoor Mini Golf Tournament • SU (5/1), 1-6pm - The first annual Indoor Mini Golf Tournament will be held at Biltmore Square Mall, 800 Brevard Road, to benefit Special Olympics Spring Games and the athletes who participate. The event will also include live music, a silent auction and raffle, door prizes, goody bags and more. $65 for a four-person team or $20 individuals, if registered before April 22; $70/$25 after deadline. Junior League of Asheville A local nonprofit organization dedicated to developing the potential of women, improving the community through various projects and promoting volunteerism. Info: www. juniorleagueasheville.org, jlofa@charter.net or 254-5608. • SA (4/30) & SU (5/1) - Join the Junior League of Asheville at the WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher, for the spring market, featuring gardening supplies, children’s items, food, crafts, home

continued decor and jewelry. Area service providers will be on hand to answer questions and talk about their products. • SA (4/30), 10:30am - Every Buggy Brunch. “Miss Ladybug and friends” invite children of all ages to enjoy garden-themed fun at the WNC Agricultural Center, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road, Fletcher. A healthy buffet-style lunch will be provided by EarthFare. $20 for one adult and one child/$10 each additional adult/$5 each additional child. Info: Juliep543@aol.com. National Alliance on Mental Illness Dedicated to improving the lives of persons with severe mental illnesses, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, clinical depression, OCD, PTSD and anxiety disorders. Free connection recovery support groups. Info: 505-7353. • SA (4/30), 11am-5pm - The second annual NAMI Walk, a fundraiser for the National Alliance on Mental Illness’s free education, support and advocacy programs, will be held at Carrier Park, off Amboy Road in West Asheville. To join or donate to “The Asheville Stargazers” team: www.naminc.org/walks. 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. • TH (5/5) An auction of student and instructor’s work made during a Penland workshop session will be held. All proceeds benefit Penland’s scholarship programs. QuickDraw Live Art Charity Demo & Art Auction A live art event and benefit auction at the Waynesville Golf Resort & Spa. Artists work in the public eye and sell their work at auction to benefit art education in schools and college scholarships. Advance ticket sales only. Info: www.wncquickdraw.com or 7345747. • SA (4/30), 4-9:30pm - Over 40 artists will create works on the spot. Held at Laurel Ridge Country Club, 788 Eagle Nest Road in Waynesville. The WNC Historical Association (WNCHA) Operates out of the Smith-McDowell House Museum. Info: 253-9231. • TH (4/28), 6pm - The third annual Fernihurst Dinner will be held at A-B Tech’s Culinary Arts Facility, featuring herbed duck prepared by students of the Culinary Arts program. Proceeds benefit the SmithMcDowell House Museum. $75. WNC AIDS Project Info: www.wncap.org or 252-7489. • TH (4/28) - More than 100 local restaurants will donate partial proceeds of daily sales to the WNC Aids Project as part of the ninth annual Dining Out for Life benefit. WNCAP provides prevention, education and outreach for men, women and youth at risk for HIV/AIDS, as well as supportive services for those already infected with HIV in the 19 counties of Western North Carolina. For a complete list of sponsors, participating restaurants and volunteer opportunities visit www.wncap.orgor call 828-252-7489.

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newsoftheweird Lead story A tank and several armored vehicles with dozens of SWAT officers and a bomb robot rolled into a quiet Phoenix neighborhood March 21, startling the residents. Knocking down a wall, deputies raided the home of Jesus Llovera, who was suspected of running a cockfighting business. They did find 115 chickens inside, but Llovera was alone and unarmed, and his only previous connection to cockfights was a misdemeanor conviction in 2010 for attending one. “We’re going to err on the side of caution,” said Sgt. Jesse Spurgin.

The entrepreneurial spirit

New sign-ups for higher-end Dish satellite TV systems at the Radio Shack in Hamilton, Mont., also receive a free Hi-Point .380 pistol or a 20-gauge shotgun (after passing a background check, paid for by the store). The owner said his business has tripled since introducing the premium in October. • A Chinese Capitalist’s Learning Curve: In the early hours of the March catastrophe at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant, rumors abounded that millions of people might need iodine products to fight off radiation. Seeing the price of iodized table salt rise dramatically, Guo, a restaurateur in Wuhan, China, bought 4.5 tons of it and trucked it to his home, where it filled half the rooms. According to a March 25 China Daily report, the price has returned to preFukushima levels, and Guo can neither return the salt (lacking documentation) nor sell nor transport it (lacking the proper licenses).

Weird science

• “Forty million years ago, a female mite met an attractive partner, grabbed him with her clingy rear end, and began to mate — just before a blob of tree resin fell on the couple, preserving the moment for eternity,” Discovery.com reported in March. Researchers from the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology discovered the mites recently, noting that while, in those days, the female dominated mating, evolution has reversed that role. • Medical Marvels: (1) The Guinness Book

of World Records recently named 11-year-old Supatra Sasuphan of Bangkok the world’s hairiest girl. Taunted at school for her wolflike facial hair, she nonetheless told a reporter in February that the Guinness Book recognition has actually increased her popularity at Ratchabophit school. (2) According to a team of University of Montreal psychologists, a 23-year-old man, “Mathieu,” is the first documented case of a person wholly unable to feel a musical beat or move in time with it. Mathieu, the scientists report, sings in tune but merely flails with his body, bouncing up and down much more randomly than people who are merely poor dancers. • A 52-year-old woman undergoing a routine colonoscopy was shown on the screen to have a cockroach in her traverse colon, physicians at Philadelphia’s Albert Einstein Medical Center reported in the September 2010 issue of Endoscopy. A literature review revealed previous cases of ants, wasps and bees, but no cockroaches. The doctors acknowledged that in some countries, the insect is considered a delicacy. • Scientists Just Wanna Have Fun: A team of whimsical researchers at the University of Osaka Graduate School of Frontier Biosciences has produced a strain of mice prone to “miscopying” DNA — making them susceptible to unexpected mutations, such as their recently born mouse that tweets like a bird. Lead researcher Arikuni Uchimura told London’s Daily Mail that he’d expected to produce an oddly shaped animal, rather than the “singing mouse” that emerged. The team previously produced a mouse with short, dachshundlike limbs.

Leading economic indicators

• People With Too Much Money: An unidentified “coal baron” in northern China recently bought an 11-month-old, 180-pound red Tibetan mastiff from a breeder in Qingdao for the equivalent of about $1.52 million. “The price is justified,” said breeder Lu Liang. “We have spent a lot of money raising this dog, and we have the salaries of plenty of staff to pay.” • What Federal Cutbacks? In March, DailyCaller. com reported finding more than 1,000 federal-government job listings in Washington,

D.C., including a Facebook manager for the Interior Department ($115,000 annually), a student internship at the Housing Finance Agency ($48,000 — the same salary listed for Pentagon mailroom clerks), and managers of equal-opportunity employment programs at the Peace Corps ($155,000) and the Transportation Department (almost $180,000).

Smooth reactions

In March, a suspicious wife living apart from her husband due to work requirements flew to the couple’s principal home in Wilmette, Ill., and found her husband’s new girlfriend’s clothes hanging in their closet. After scissoring out the crotch area on all the pants (damage: about $2,000), she left the remnants in the driveway before returning to her East Coast home. No complaints were filed, police said.

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Waiting rooms are the first circle of parenting hell (yes, the one known as limbo) If you’re looking for a reason not to have kids, here’s one: You’ll spend an inordinate number of hours over the next 16 years sitting in waiting rooms with them. More offspring equals more hours and more years. I’m writing this as I sit in a pediatric dentist’s office. I’ve been here for two hours already with my two kids. There’s a woman here with four kids. She’s most likely going to be here until midnight. To start with, waiting rooms are typically bleak — even when they’re “kid-friendly.” They always smell like disinfectant. That’s good, because you want the nasty contagious stuff that other kids are spewing into the waiting room to be destroyed. I’ve always wondered why doctors’ offices don’t have some kind of disinfectant spray subtly misted into their waiting rooms every few minutes. As if we’re all sitting on the produce shelf at the grocery store. Let’s break these rooms of hell down further. First, there are the doctor’s waiting rooms. If your kids are anything like mine, by the time they’re 5 years old, you’ll count their pediatrician and Ear, Nose and Throat doc among your closest friends.

And you’ll count the doctor’s front desk receptionists among your enemies. Not that they aren’t great people — they’re just great people with the vile job of gatekeeper. Frontdesk receptionists clearly should be paid handsomely for having to deal with sleep-deprived scared moms with crying, feverish babies on their hips. Or, as just happened in the waiting room I’m sitting in, with a pissed-off dad cussing out his teenager on the phone for not being on time. Front-desk receptionists are the folks who have to deal with the angry parents who’ve been trying to keep their toddlers from creating mayhem while they wait for the nurse to call them back. Or the parents like me, who think that their time is important too, and have no problem letting everyone else know it. Also, in doctors’ waiting rooms, sick people surround you, hacking germs into the air around your already ill kid. Plus, kids are kids, so they’ve got their hands everywhere and in everything, and even though it smells like disinfectant, you know some flesh-eating bacteria got away and is just waiting for your kid to unearth it and then pick his nose with it.

Then, there are the dentists’ offices. At a certain age, as a parent, you’re no longer allowed into the back room with your kid. Which is kind of nice, particularly when the dentist has your son in a headlock while the boy tries to kick the hygienist. While it’s great not to see other people putting sharp instruments into your kid’s mouth (my mantra: they’re trained professionals), it’s not much fun to have to stay in the waiting room with everyone else’s unhappy and annoying kids, especially when all the People magazines have been ripped up. That said, I’d happily spend a couple hours in the dentist’s waiting room, as opposed to the Surgery Center or the ER. Knowing your kids are under the knife, and you can’t bust through those surgery doors to check on them, may be some of the most difficult hours many of us parents survive. Those hours do tend to take a little chunk out of our hearts, even if the kid emerges completely OK.

X Anne Fitten “Edgy Mama” Glenn writes about a number of subjects,including parenting, at www. edgymama.com.

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And the waiting rooms just keep coming. I’ve been sitting in ‘em for almost 13 years, and I reckon I’ve got a good many more hours and years to endure. Orthodontist? Been there. Will be there for years. Dermatologist? I’ve had skin cancer, so that’s a requirement for my kids. Speech therapist? Yup. Various other specialists, including a neurologist, developmental pediatrician and endodontist? Yes, yes and yes. Of course, by the time my kids can drive themselves to their appointments, it’ll be about time for me to start sitting in waiting rooms without them as I start on the downhill slide past middle-age. Yes, I’ll be by myself, and I won’t have to referee arguments or answer the question, “When can we go?” anymore. Which, despite all my complaining, makes me teary.

Pardee Hendersonville Family Health Center Medical Office Building, 709 North Justice St. Babies and children welcome. Registration required. • THURSDAYS (5/5 & 5/12), 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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Going Gluten-Free.... It seems like many restaurants and bakeries in Western North Carolina and especially Asheville advertise “glutenfree” offerings ranging from gluten free pizzas to gluten free desserts. At Ingles you can find over 1200 gluten-free items identified with brown tags. Gluten is the protein found in wheat, barley and rye so often the alternative breads, crackers or pastas use flours comprised of soy, tapioca or rice flours. Leah McGrath, RD, LDN Corporate Dietitian, It’s commonplace to encounter movie stars and just ordinary Ingles Markets people talking about the supposed merits of going glutenfree… “weight loss”... ”had more energy”... or “just feel better”. Some mistakenly think that a gluten-free diet is a remake of the Atkins diet and involves low carbohydrate (no bread, pasta or cereal) meals, it does not. People who can make a choice to be gluten-free have done a favor for the many for whom a gluten-free diet is a medical necessity; those with celiac disease, dermatitis herpetiformis and gluten intolerance or a sensitivity to gluten. The popularity of a gluten-free diet, for both those that need it and those that choose it, has resulted in major manufacturers like General Mills developing gluten-free products and the overall improvement of the quality and price of gluten-free products.

I highly recommend some resources like: - The Asheville Gluten Free Fair on Saturday, April 30th from 11am-2pm at the Doubletree on Biltmore Avenue sponsored by Ingles Markets and the Asheville and Hendersonville Gluten Free Support Groups. More information at www.ingles-markets.com/ask_leah. - Shelley Case’s “Gluten Free Diet” book - Shelley is a Canadian registered dietitian who knows her stuff! She explains about a gluten-free diet and how to get the nutrients you need and also includes recipes and specific products and where to find them. www.shelleycase.com - Joining a local support group to find out more about the gluten-free lifestyle, gluten intolerance and celiacdisease http://www.gluten.ne/ in Asheville: www.ashevillegig.org - Find a gastroenterologist in your area that specializes in celiac disease and get tested to make sure you don’t have celiac disease or gluten intolerance and if you do, to see if you have any vitamin and/or mineral deficiencies.

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A job well done: After working for 23 years at the Buncombe County Department of Health — as a physician and most recently as the medical director — Dr. Cynthia Yancey is leaving to join many of her former co-workers at Western North Carolina Community Health Services. PHOTO BY JONATHAN WELCH

by Jake Frankel Amid tight budgets and tough economic times, the Buncombe County Health Department continues to implement major changes. “We’re in the process of redesigning and refocusing the work we do to really focus on the core public-health issues in our community,” Health Director Alma “Gibbie” Harris reports. The reconfiguration involves shuffling departments, services and staff. By January 2012, the department expects to leave its longtime home at 35 Woodfin St. in downtown Asheville, relocating to the renovated Human Services Building (40 Coxe Ave.). Meanwhile, the department is operating out of several interim sites (see sidebar, “At Your Service”), it’s relying more and more on outside partnerships to deliver primary care. In January 2010, many of the department’s physicians and prenatal services were transferred to the nonprofit Western North Carolina Community Health Services, which qualifies for a higher federal-reimbursement rate. And Cynthia Yancey, a staff physician for 23 years before she took over over as the county’s medical director last year, says she’s preparing to follow many of her former co-workers “back into the trenches” at WNCCHS; she’s retiring from her Health Department job and will start work as a prenatal physician at the nonprofit in July. The change, she explains, “is not only logical for all of us but will help to assure safety-net

care over there, because I’ve done it here for so long, and I’ll just be doing it under a different roof. It’s another logical transition for me, toward the end of my career, to help others take that over. … WNCCHS is a good clinic.” Jennifer Mullendore will replace Yancey as medical director; come July, she’ll be the only physician left at the Health Department. The county will also lose three nursing positions: One is retiring; the others have accepted jobs elsewhere, notes Harris, adding, “We’re not quote-unquote ‘laying folks off.’ … When it’s all said and done, they’ll all still be employed if they choose to be. … The reduction of those three nurses should not hurt us.” Ten of the department’s 49 remaining nurses will see their duties change as part of the redesign, she says. The plan is to focus their efforts on “really core public-health issues that we need to deal with,” such as sexually transmitted and communicable diseases, family planning and student health. “Our teen-pregnancy rate is a little more than double what the national benchmark is for that. And our STD rate is three to four times higher,” notes Harris. At the end of this school year, the department plans to close its student health centers at Asheville and Erwin middle schools and Asheville High. To help with the transition, three county nurses will be placed in those schools full time. Still, Harris acknowledges that the change will cut the county’s ability to deal

with “episodic care — the sore throats, the ear infections, the sports physicals, those kind of things.” Instead, the focus will shift to prevention: “Working specifically with those high-risk and special-needs children to make sure they’re getting the care they need,” she explains. “Working with families to make sure their children are vaccinated so they can be in school.” Buncombe County, notes Yancey, has the highest immunization-exemption rate in North Carolina: As of last year, 4.02 percent of the county’s children weren’t vaccinated. Statewide, the average is 0.82 percent. Many of those cases, she explains, involve parents who claim religious or medical exemptions, fearing that immunizations do more harm than good. Yancey believes this has contributed to the continuing local pertussis outbreak: 66 cases have been reported over the last six months. In response, the county has launched a marketing campaign to educate the public on the importance of immunizations, and has formed an immunization-exemption committee to study the issue further. Despite all the challenges, both Yancey and Harris say they’re hopeful about the future. “I think this recession is one of the hardest times that I’ve lived through in public health,” Yancey acknowledges. “But with all of this integration and innovation, I think there’s real possibilities for focusing and doing more good for the public’s health than ever before. We have studied so hard the core services that public health has to ensure in this county.” Harris echoes those sentiments. “The intent behind all of this is to focus our work and do what we do really well,” she maintains. “Our focus has to be on prevention and education, and working with specific populations to make sure they’re as healthy as they can be.” X Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

service As part of a major reshuffling, the Buncombe County Health Department will move from 35 Woodfin St. to the Human Services Building (40 Coxe Ave. in downtown Asheville) next year. In the meantime, the department is providing services at these interim sites: Administrative offices and vital records (59 Woodfin Place) Family planning, prenatal health, breast and cervical cancer and Wise Woman programs (53 S. French Broad Ave.) Immunizations and disease control (still at 35 Woodfin St. but now on the lower level)

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A Matter Of Balance (pd.) Many older adults experience concerns about falling and restrict their activities. • A Matter of Balance is an award-winning program designed to manage falls and increase activity levels. Brought to the community by The Land of Sky Regional Council, and presented in collaboration with Home Instead Senior Care and Park Ridge Home Health. • Workshop begins May 16 at Park Ridge. Classes are held twice a week for 4 weeks, 2 hours each. • For more information, please call Heather: (828) 2744406. Home Instead Senior Care. Akasha Body Basics (pd.) Pilates • Reiki • Massage • Vibration Therapy. Private and small groups • Lectures, Workshops. • Body work • Energy work and much more! Come on in . . . tap into your true potential! (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. (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 self-judgments. 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. 299-8490. integrativemovement.com A Stroke/Aphasia Awareness Event • SU (5/1), 1:30-5pm - This public awareness event will feature an address by Alex Schneider, M.D., and Ruby Drew, Ph.D. A film screening of A Stroke of Genius will follow at 2:30pm. Closing reception and refreshments provided. Held at MAHEC Auditorium in Asheville, 501 Biltmore Ave. Info: www.machec.net. Chronic Disease Self-Management • WEDNESDAYS (5/4 through 6/8), 1-3:30pm - Live Healthy: “Chronic Disease Self-Management,” at Pack Memorial Library in downtown Asheville. Sponsored by WNC/Buncombe County Medical Society, Land-ofSky Regional Council Area Agency on Aging and Pack Memorial Library. $30 includes educational materials. Info: bcmsonline.org. Doctors With a Heart The national charity donates time and services to raise money for local causes. • TU (5/3) - Doster Chiropractic, 179 Charlotte St., will examine and treat people free of charge. New patients receive health screenings, while existing patients receive treatment. Donations will be accepted with all proceeds benefiting Meals On Wheels. Info: 236-2200. Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration and appointments required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600. • TH (4/28), 12:30-2pm - “Exercise 101.” Emily Van Eman, medical wellness coordinator with the Pardee Rehab and Wellness Center, will discuss how to start and energize an exercise routine.

• MO (5/2), 10am-noon - “Look Good, Feel Better,” a workshop dedicated to helping female cancer patients cope with the appearance-related side effects of chemotherapy and radiation treatment —- 11am-12:30pm - “Good News About Hip and Knee Pain,” with Duane Young. • MONDAYS (5/2 through 5/23), 2-3pm - “It Works,” a 12-step program for individuals struggling to overcome food addiction. All are welcome. Info: 489-7259. • TU (5/3), 12:30-1pm - American Red Cross presents “Citizen CPR,” a hands-only CPR workshop. Free. Register: 693-5605. • TH (5/5), 3-4:30pm - “Sharp As A Tack: Keeping Your Brain Young,” with Lucy Butler, a speech therapist with Pardee Hospital. 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. Free Health Events With Dr. Reilly Held at Fairview Chiropractic Center, 2 Fairview Hills Drive. RSVP required: 628-7800. • TH (5/5), 5:30-6:30pm - “Science Based Nutrition.” Learn about optimizing diet while integrating nutritional and detoxification protocols. Pickleball • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Pickleball is like playing ping pong on a tennis court. Groups meet weekly at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St., in Asheville. For all ages/levels. $1 per session. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ashevillenc.gov. 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 (4/28), 2-6:30pm - Mount Carmel Baptist Church, 201 Mount Carmel Road. Info: 712-0217. • SA (4/30), 8:30am-1pm - Asheville Masons, Nichols West Asheville Lodge #6, 22 Brevard Road. Info: 2525489 —- 8:30am-1pm - Reynolds Fire Department, 235 Charlotte Highway. Info: 298-4426. Step Aerobics Class • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Enhance cardio, strength and flexibility at this step aerobics, weights, stretch class, which meets at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St., in Asheville. Open to all levels. Free. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ashevillenc.gov. “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.

Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, “Twelve Tradition” program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info:http://adultchildren. org. • FRIDAYS, 7pm - “Inner Child” meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville.Info: 989-8075. • SUNDAYS, 3pm - “Living in the Solution” meets at The Servanthood House, 156 E. Chestnut St., Asheville. Open big book study. Info: 989-8075.

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•Full Moon Spirit Fest May 18, 7-10pm •Warren Grossman Book Reading & Signing June 23, 7pm at Malaprop’s www.warrengrossman.com

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• MONDAYS, 7pm - “Generations” meets at First Congregational United Church Of Christ, 20 Oak St. at College, Asheville. Info:474-5120. Al-Anon Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area. Info: 800-286-1326 or www.wnc-alanon.org. • WEDNESDAYS, 5:45pm - Wednesday Women’s AlAnon meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. (at Gracelyn Road). Newcomers welcome. Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective • The Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective is a group of people with diverse perspectives on mental health. We are inclusive, non-judgmental and respect self determination, personal choice and honor confidentiality. For info and locations of meetings: contactradmadasheville@theicarusproject.net or 575-3105. Bilingual Support Group • MONDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Center for New Beginnings, a nonprofit victim services agency, will meet monthly for the Latino Community at 12 1/2 Wall St., suite P in downtown Asheville. Info: www.centerfornb.net. Celebrate Recovery Christ-centered, biblically-based recovery ministry. Weekly fellowship and support meetings deal with real-life 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 start with a group dinner. Held at Mountain View Church, 2221 North Fork Road in Black Mountain. Nursery available. Info: www.mvc.cc or 2980430. 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. 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. 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.

Man to Man/Prostate Cancer Support • TU (5/3), 7pm - Man to Man, a prostate-cancer support group for men and caregivers, will hold its first meeting at the American Cancer Society, 120 Executive Park in Asheville. Meetings will continue monthly on the first Tuesday of each month. Info: 254-6931. Nutrition Seminar • WEEKLY, 1-3pm - Get fit for life, lose pounds and keep them off by changing eating habits. Learn new recipes and enjoy healthy food samplings. Donations welcome. Info and location: 277-6723. 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: 329-1637. • 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-step-based recovery program meets at 20 Oak St., Asheville. Info: www. slaafws.org or ashevilleslaa@charter.net.

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The Artery, the Junction and the juice Why the RAD is so rad Modern American i n D ow n tow n A s h ev i l l e Breakfast beginning at 8:30 am, lunch and dinner Closed Mondays

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Larry of Papas & Beer announces the opening of a great new Mexican restaurant in West Asheville!

Just ducky: Laura Reuss and Ben Mixsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new venture, the White Duck Taco Shop, is like â&#x20AC;&#x153;a taco truck in a building,â&#x20AC;? says Reuss. The salvaged doors shown here will become table tops. Photos by Jonathan Welch

by Mackensy Lunsford

El Que Pasa Come enjoy delicious food and drinks in a convenient new location at the SavMor Center on Patton Ave.

The River Arts District and its residents exude a crackling yet subdued sort of excitement. The up-and-coming neighborhood hums with the energy particular to that relatively narrow margin of time between abandoned and overbuilt. Artists and young entrepreneurs â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the type that invest more sweat than capital â&#x20AC;&#x201D; buzz around, fixing things. But not too much. You can feel more coming, almost see the invisible outlines of the condos that may eventually crowd the area. But for now, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mostly a modest and scrappy community. The Skittle-toned Pink Dog Creative on Depot Street holds a cloister of chambers, including the new base for the Asheville Area Arts Council, The Artery. Everything is freshly painted and refurbished, but still shows roots from when this district was a hot spot for nothing but warehouses. Look closely, and youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll notice that thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a burgeoning food scene here as well.

The Junction

Open 7 Days â&#x20AC;˘ Mon. - Thurs. 11-9:30 â&#x20AC;˘ Fri. - Sat. 11-10

(828) 255-2227 â&#x20AC;˘ 891 Patton Ave. Asheville 44 APRIL 27 - MAY 3, 2011 â&#x20AC;˘ mountainx.com

Just a few doors away from the Artery, Tanya Triber, with her husband Charles, is sprucing up a space for the opening of The Junction, a pub that will feature mixology-style cocktails, and unpretentious yet high-quality food. The walls show exposed and cracked plaster and

reclaimed shipping palates. The new bar-top is made of shiny, poured concrete set over weathered steel with a rust patina achieved by purposefully leaving it outside to weather. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a perfect example of the vibe of the RAD. The polish-in-the-midst-of-decay look is part of what makes the River Arts District so appealing in the first place. Triber says the resulting aesthetics of the Junctionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s renovation are not only meant to blend in, but accurately reflect the coupleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sensibilities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re environmentally conscious and conservative â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and budget-conscious as well,â&#x20AC;? she says. Triber says that chef Camp Boswell will make dishes that the equally budget-conscious can enjoy. If the menu stays cost-effective, this looks like a good place for those with Champagne tastes and PBR budgets. A preliminary draft of the lunch menu shows a Southern shrimp BLT with pickled fried green tomatoes, grilled shrimp, arugula and bacon. A baby greens salad holds breakfast radishes and boursin crostini. At night, expect charcuterie and cheese plates and â&#x20AC;&#x153;fried yummy things,â&#x20AC;? like green tomatoes, shrimp and corn fritters and tempura whole-cluster cherry tomatoes with preserved lemon-basil aioli. The Junction should be open in May, says Triber. At first, the restaurant may have evening service only and expand to provide lunch once things are more fully under way.

A taco truck in a building

Laura Reuss and Ben Mixsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new venture, the White Duck Taco Shop, is a little off the â&#x20AC;&#x153;main drag,â&#x20AC;? if there is one in the RAD. The taco shop is opening late this spring in the Hatchery Studios, at the corner of Roberts and Haywood streets. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s part of the revitalization of the Hatchery building by Asheville local John Bryant. Once complete, the Hatchery will include a number of artistsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; studios, including a pottery collective. Planned additional updates for the site include a courtyard and a plot for a weekly farmers market â&#x20AC;&#x201D; though thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s yet to be confirmed. The interior of the White Duck Taco Shop feels welcoming and inviting, even under construction. Catalina blue and avocado-green accent walls; chocolate-brown benches and plenty of bright white give the dining area a breezy feel, especially with the wide, sunny windows that look out over where the courtyard will sit. Reuss and Mixson want a comfortable, funky environment. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve framed doors salvaged from an old mica factory in the Biltmore area to make tables. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve hauled in worn but brightly colored china cabinets â&#x20AC;&#x201D; that shabby-chic style. Though Reuss is a classically trained chef who was schooled primarily in French cuisine, and Mixson is a former Jean-Georges Vongerichten sommelier. Donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t let the fancy-pants credentials fool you; the couple wants the food to be as comfortable as the vibe of the soon-to-be artist collective. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s somewhere that weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d want to hang out,â&#x20AC;? says Reuss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we want to create â&#x20AC;&#x201D; just chill, hang out with your friends, have a few beers, some chips and salsa and some tacos. We donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t want to take ourselves so seriously.â&#x20AC;? The menu is in the works, but Reuss says to

expect fusion tacos, like naan bread folded over curried meats and mahi tacos with mango-barbecue sauce, or barbecue carnitas with baked-bean spread and slaw. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Just crazy off-the-wall stuff that, of course, tastes good,â&#x20AC;? says Reuss. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My background is French culinary, but my eating habits are food trucks. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re really just a taco truck in a building.â&#x20AC;?

Nia and the juice

Back on Depot Street, across from The Junction is a little studio called Nourish and Flourish, a center for healthy living that features Nia workshops, spinal care, massage â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and juice. Juice concoctions are all-organic and named after flowers, like the Dahlia, with apple, celery, fennel, cucumber and mint thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s supposed to be good for the skin. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also delicious. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a bad drink on here,â&#x20AC;? says Dr. Brian Lumb, who owns the shop with his wife, Jenny. â&#x20AC;&#x153;None of them taste like hay.â&#x20AC;? The logo for the studio and juice bar, after all, is a hummingbird, says Lumb. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And hummingbirds are all about the sweetness of life.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s magnetic

Just down the street from the juice and The Junction is The Magnetic Field, a theatre, cafĂŠ and bar that seems to be flexing its culinary muscles these days. A new menu boasts recently amped-up options. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a gazpacho with butternut puree, tomato and cucumber salad crowned with a deeply delicious truffle mousse crouton â&#x20AC;&#x201D; itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the crouton that turns something good into something exceptional. Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a salad with caramelized artichoke hearts and a pink-peppercorn-crusted seared tuna with grapefruit and fennel and a BLT salad with Neusky bacon and whipped goat cheese. A mol-

foodcalendar Calendar for April 27 - May 5, 2011 Events at Big Ivy Community Center Located at 540 Dillingham Road in Barnardsville. Info: 6263438. â&#x20AC;˘ 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 4-5:30pm. 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. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (4/28), 6-9:30pm - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Canning and Preserving Made Easy,â&#x20AC;? an introduction to canning, pickling, making jams and jellies, freezing, drying and storage, will be held in Barnardsville. $10 includes materials. Pre-registration required. Info: 626-3438. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30), 6:30pm - Hunterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Supper. $20. Farm Day & Locavore Potluck â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30), 1pm - Three Arrows Farm, 228 Vincent Place in Flat Rock, presents Farm Day, featuring live country music, pony rides for kids, a potluck (think local meat and grilled local vegetables) and more. RSVP: naturalfoodchoicesevents@ gmail.com. Stecoah Valley Center Events Located at 121 Schoolhouse Road in Robbinsville. Info: 4793364 or www.stecoahvalleycenter.com.

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â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30), 9:30am-noon - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ramps - From Good - Ole Boy to Gourmet.â&#x20AC;? Ramps are a spring delicacy in the Appalachian Mountains and add a wonderful and uniquely pungent flavor to soups, egg dishes, casseroles, rice dishes and potato dishes. Mountain folks have been gathering and enjoying them for generations, and theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re now gracing the tables of fine restaurants around the country. Chef Michael Gentry teaches participants to prepare ramps in traditional Appalachian and â&#x20AC;&#x153;gourmetâ&#x20AC;? recipes. $40. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (4/30), 5pm & 6pm - An all-you-can-eat family â&#x20AC;&#x153;ramp dinnerâ&#x20AC;? will be served. Live music by Honey Holler (a femalefronted folk band) will follow. Dinner: $17.95/$7.95 kids. Music: $10/$5 children. Waynesville Parks and Recreation Info: 456-2030 or recprograms@townofwaynesville.org. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (4/27), 1:30-4pm - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cooking Around the World: Japanese.â&#x20AC;? Info: 456-2030.

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If you would like to submit a food-related event for the Food Calendar, please use the online submission form found at: http://www.mountainx.com/events/submission. In order to qualify for a free listing, your event must cost no more than $40 to attend and be sponsored by and/or benefit a nonprofit. If an event benefits a business, or cost more than $40, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll need to submit a paid listing: 251-1333.

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Dinner and a show: The Magnetic Field has a kitchen that’s turning out surprisingly good food, thanks to chef Liam Roland. Here, a very good gazpacho made excellent with the addition of a truffle mousse crouton. ten chocolate cake sits in a pool of dark chocolate laced with sea salt. And that’s just the lunch menu. Bartender Ken Klehm’s creations are approaching certifiably outrageous. Case in point: The Las Angelitas with homemade bitters containing smoked habeñero, cumin and orange peel, or the cheekily named RAD Gentrification, a $9 cocktail containing St. Germain, Hendricks gin, muddled strawberry and Meyer lemon.

Showing its roots

The Roots Cafe opened in the Grey Eagle Tavern and Music Hall earlier this year. The eatery previously operated a different cafe in the RAD which closed last year to make way for increased wholesale production — the little tubs of hummus you see in the grocery store, for example — in the wake of a regional distribution deal. Matt Parris, the owner of Roots, is now putting renewed energy and focus into his Grey Eagle location, which seems to flow right along with the energy of the neighborhood. To that end, Roots is now open for lunch and is considering moving into breakfast service in the future. “Essentially what we’re doing is trying to change the way that people perceive the Grey Eagle from solely a music venue to a hub of the arts district with music food and drink,” says Parris. “It’s an awesome location with a great space. To start moving in that direction, we’ve changed from being open just during shows to being open consistently.” Parris says that the lunch traffic is already there, especially with the following that Roots already has and the pre-existing daytime traffic in the neighborhood. “Dinner is going to take some time for people to get used to that, but lunch should have a pretty good growth rate,” he says. Roots features comfortable fare that utilizes local ingredients. “The main thing that I’m trying to emphasize is that we really do local,” Parris says. “We source all of our meat locally and the vast majority of what we do is organic, because our wholesale source is organic. The quality of ingredients is tough to beat with the prices.

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Parris says that he will work to bring daytime events into the Grey Eagle in the future. “I think there’s a huge demographic in this town that wants to be home by 8 p.m., but see some music too,” says Parris. “I want to make this the meeting spot for the neighborhood. It’ll take time, but it’s happening little by little.”

Blooming right along

Roots isn’t the only cafe in the RAD growing with the neighborhood. The Clingman Café will now offer seasonal dinner specials to supplement their lunch and breakfast. The café now boasts expanded outdoor seating as well as beer and wine. “My family and I moved to Asheville four years ago because of the strong sense of community we found here,” says owner Trip Howell. “We are so thankful to expand as the area continues to bloom.” X Send your food news to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com.

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The popular fundraiser Dining Out For Life is back. What’s not to like? By eating out (at a participating restaurant, of course) on Thursday, April 28, you’re raising money for the Western North Carolina AIDS project. That’s because those restaurants donate 20 percent of their gross sales from that day. You can do breakfast, lunch, dinner — or all three. Venues include favorites like the Admiral, Boca and Chai Pani. Last year, DOFL raised more than $120,000 for WNCAP. Not too shabby. This year, there are more restaurants, in more areas, than ever before. “Although the base of participating restaurants is in the Asheville area, this year we have added additional restaurants in many of the outlying areas, like Black Mountain, Brevard, Hendersonville, Maggie Valley, Saluda, Sylva, Waynesville, Weaverville and Woodfin,” says Harry Brown, event chair for DOFL. What’s more, with a receipt proving that you dined out for a good cause on Thursday, you get free admission to the DOFL Appreciation Afterparty, hosted on all three levels of the Grove House. It promises to be quite the event, starting at 7 p.m. and going until the wee hours. Entertainment includes Asheville Comedy, blues maven Kat Williams, expert jugglers Forty Fingers and a Missing Tooth, the variety acts of Asheville Vaudeville and more. The Grove House is located at 11 Grove St. in downtown Asheville. For a full list of DOFL restaurants, visit diningoutforlife.com/ asheville/participating.

Finally, a taste of Lebanon — in WNC

Gypsy Queen Cuisine Lebanese Street Food (GQC for short) is now fully operational. Suzy Phillips, one of the pioneers of the foodtruck movement in Asheville, is now selling her brand of Middle Eastern cuisine from her truck, nicknamed “Spartacus.” Spartacus and Phillips can be found at The Bywater (796 Riverside Drive, Monday and Thursday nights and

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Saturdays during the day) and on Haywood Road in West Asheville in the Grace Baptist Church parking lot across from Ingles (Wednesdays and Fridays, lunchtime). Phillips’ core menu features Lebanese cuisine, all made fresh daily. Customers should always expect to find falafel on the truck, as well as garlic dip, which is usually served with a lamb kofta. Hummus, baba gannouj and salad — either tabouleh or fattoush — can always be found as well. Not familiar with fattoush? “It’s a chopped salad with a sumac vinaigrette and toasted pita chips, like croutons,” says Phillips. “It’s traditionally made with purslane and parsley.” Purslane grows as a weed around here, says Phillips, but it’s difficult to purchase for food service. You can’t just go serving yard weeds out of a food truck, she says. “I saw them at the farmers market once and asked the farmer to keep bringing them to me — so I had the guy happily selling me his weeds,” she laughs. And not just the weeds are local. Phillips also uses local lamb (from East Fork Farms) and chicken. “I’m using everything local as much as I can, so my prices are not street food prices. They’re still fairly reasonable and they’re about to drop, because I’m finding resources that are a little cheaper,” she says. A rotating list of specials features creative offerings.

been extra problematic, says the chef. “We’re just working out the kinks. Last night, my generators died and I can’t have them fixed until Thursday.” Phillips reports that it’s interesting to adapt to a truck-sized workspace. “It’s fun, but quite challenging and a lot of hard work.” But with all of the challenges, there are plenty of good parts, she says. “It’s like feeding your friends at a backyard party most of the time. That part is fun.” Phillips says she will soon be located across from the Dripolator on Broadway, so she’ll be even closer to downtown. For up-to-date information about Gypsy Queen Cuisine specials, locations and other news, visit GQC Lebanese Street Food on Facebook or follow @GQCstreetfood on Twitter.

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All eyes: At the Take the Cake stand at the West Asheville Tailgate Market, one young customer looks like that’s exactly what’s on her mind. On a roll: Suzy Phillips and Spartacus, the truck out of which Phillips serves GQC Lebanese Street Food, can now be found at the Bywater and on Haywood Road in West Asheville. top PHOTO BY MACKENSY LUNSFORD / Bottom Photo by Jonathan Welch

Fried chicken skins were a hit last week at the Bywater, says Phillips, adding that she hopes to start serving fried sardines soon. “Being Lebanese, you have to use every part, every single ingredient. I didn’t know if those chicken skins were going to fly, but they were a hit,” she says. “It sold out within an hour.” If chicken skins and sardines sound like a stretch, wait until you get a load of Phillips’ future plans. “Brain is coming, liver is coming, sweetbreads, quail — those are all the things that I want to put on the truck as specials.” Are people ready for brains off of a truck? “We’ll find out! I didn’t think people were going to be ready for fried chicken skins,” says Phillips. Phillips says that the Lebanese way of preparing brains makes them taste very much like

bone marrow. “There’s an art to it that I still need to perfect — I wish that my mom was closer to help me,” says Phillips. The great debate about whether to allow food trucks in the central business district of Asheville has not yet been resolved, by the way. Both of the locations in which Phillips currently sells are outside downtown limits. Phillips says that talks on that particular matter are progressing. “Nothing has changed just yet, but there are discussions and hope,” she says. Now that Phillips’ truck is up and running — even if she isn’t located in the most prime of locations — is being a food-truck operator everything she’d imagined? “It’s going great. But we have our days, like discovering things don’t work on the truck,” she says. The generators in particular have

Street food is not all that Phillips has in the works. Market dinners headed by Jeremy Hardcastle (of Hardcastle Handmade Hot Dogs, which recently got a nod in the May issue of GQ) at the West Asheville Tailgate Market will feature local chefs cooking with the produce culled from the market — literally in the market. And Phillips is lending Spartacus to the cause as a venue in which the chefs will prepare the food. “I would love to be involved with anything that has to do with food in the community,” says Phillips. “And Spartacus would love that,” she adds. Hardcastle says that he would like to see all of the profits from the dinners go back to the WATM. Details are still coming together, but Hardcastle says that he’s thinking the meals will include “meat and cheese, entree, pie and all the sun tea you can drink — all family-style — for 20 bucks.” The dinners will take place after the market ends at 6:30 p.m. “It would be a good way for farmers and cooks and the community to get together and eat and do what they’re supposed to do with the stuff they’re selling at the market.” The first market dinner, on Tuesday May 10, will feature Drew Maykuth, co-chef at the Admiral in West Asheville. Xpress will keep you posted as more information is available. X Send your food news and story ideas to Mackensy Lunsford at food@mountainx.com.

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The second qualifying round of the Asheville Beer Masters Tournament was held on April 18 at Brixx Pizza in Biltmore Park. Curt Arledge won that round and will move on to the semi-finals on Sunday, May 15, at Wedge Brewing. First runner-up is Jeff Erhardt. All who played and lost are welcome to try again. The next qualifying round took place at Thirsty Monk on April 25, but results came too late for print. Next week will see four rounds: the first at Jack of the Wood on Tuesday, April 26 at 7 p.m.; then Pack’s Tavern on Thursday, April 28 at 7 p.m.; Barley’s Taproom on Monday, May 2 at 6:30 p.m.; and The Bywater on Wednesday, May 4 at 7 p.m. Come out to play, or just take in some great beer trivia.

Will Asheville keep its Beer City title?

We won last year. We tied the year before, with the great beer city of Portland, Ore. (which has a population about seven times that of Asheville). Who will reign this time around? The third annual online competition to crown a town “Beer City, USA” is coming soon: voting opens on Monday,

Beer-y trivia: Each Asheville Beer Masters Tournament round will have a slightly different group of judges, mostly pulled from the local beer industry and community. At the qualifying round at Brixx Pizza, a few of the judges, from left to right: Erica Nelson of Highland Brewing, Adam DeBoer of Highland Brewing and Doug Riley of Asheville Brewing. Photo by Anne Fitten Glenn

May 2, and goes through Sunday, May 8. Beer guru Charlie Papazian hosts the unscientific but fun poll. Our area’s active social media network and serious craft beer lovers had much to do with Asheville’s victory last year. The designation Beer City USA, regardless of its import, has been credited with helping make WNC a beer destination and bringing in the brew tourists. To vote or follow the poll, visit examiner.com. Tickets are still available for Asheville’s Beer City Fest on Saturday, June 4, at Roger McGuire Green in downtown Asheville. Visit your local brewery or Barley’s Taproom to purchase. The first Asheville Beer Master will be crowned at the festival.

How did WNC breweries fare at the Hickory fest?

Pretty well, it turns out. Regional breweries brought home 35 medals from the Carolinas Championship of Beer competition at the Hickory Hops Brew Fest in Hickory, N.C. on April 16. Congrats to Lexington Avenue Brewery for their seven medals, including three golds for American Pale Ale, Donkey Weizen Dunkelweizen and Goldle Belgian Tripel. LAB got silvers for Blondle Pilsner, Wefeweizen and Witbier, and a bronze for their Oktoberfest Marzen. Pisgah Brewing was just behind the LAB with six medals: five silvers for Valdez Stout, Bacon Stout, Helles, American Pilsner and Schwartzbier; and a bronze for Vortex I Imperial IPA.

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Highland Brewing and Green Man Brewing both netted five. Highland won silver for Barrel Aged Gaelic, PSA Pilsner, and Tasgall Ale. They also got bronzes for LAMA Legato Saison and Little Hump Spring Ale. Green Man silvered for Kill Devil Stout and Green Man Stout, and bronzed for Green Man Pale, Green Man Porter and The Dweller Stout. Craggie Brewing brought home a silver for Burning Barrel Chipotle Ale and a bronze for Toubab Brewe German Lager, while French Broad Brewing took three bronzes for Gateway Kolsch, Abbey Belgian Ale and Wee-Heavier Scotch Ale. Wedge Brewing earned a gold for Raspberry Imperial Stout and two silvers for Julian Price Pilsner and Abbey Belgian Ale. Asheville Brewing got a gold for Ninja Porter. Nantahala Brewing of Bryson City won a gold for German Pilsner, a silver for Monday IPA and a bronze for Bryson City Brown Ale. The best of show awards went to other North Carolina-based breweries. Best of Show went to Natty Green’s (Greensboro) for the Woody and Barrel Aged Sour Ale. Second to Olde Hickory’s Irish Walker Ale (Hickory), and third to Duck Rabbit’s Barleywine Ale (Farmville), with an honorable mention to Foothills Barrel Aged Sexual Chocolate Stout (Winston-Salem). The entries were judged a few weeks ago and awards were presented at the festival. X Send your brews news to Anne Fitten Glenn at brewgasmavl@gmail.com.

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Love will keep us together The inaugural Big Love Festival celebrates Asheville in all its DIY glory by Alli Marshall “The bottom line is, it’s a love story about Asheville Grown Business Alliance and the Big Crafty loving each other and loving what we do,” says Justin Rabuck. “And truly loving the community with all of our heart and wanting to have a party for everyone who participates.” Rabuck is the co-creator of twice-yearly indiecraft festival The Big Crafty. He and Franzi Charen, director of Asheville Grown, brainstormed a new kind of festival — one that combined artist and crafter booths from Big Crafty with the independently owned businesses of AGBA, local beer and music. Its name? Big Love. Since launching The Big Crafty in 2008, Rabuck has been regularly approached by both the community and the crafters to expand the event. (It began in the Grey Eagle and quickly grew to encompass two floors of Pack Place as well as outdoor space, each June and December.) “Asheville Grown Business Alliance has been supporting independent business and independent micro-enterprises in the community,” says Charen. The two entities seemed a natural match . Locally made ceramics, note cards and bottle-cap earrings aren’t just hobbies, they’re independent businesses. So Charen and Rabuck combined their passions — like chocolate and peanut butter, papier and mâché, Cheech and Chong. The festival is set for Sunday, May 1, at the Roger McGuire Green of Pack Square Park. It’s got the usual festive components: music, food, beer and family- friendly activities. It’s also got a seriously local theme, starting with the arts and craft booths. “We have some artists from Greenville and nearby, but with this, Asheville gets priority,” says Rabuck of the planned 90 crafter tents. “Then Buncombe County and Western North Carolina. Really, there are only three or four who are outside of Buncombe County.” And then there are about 20 local independent business that “either source their items locally or

WHO Big Love Festival

WHAT A celebration of independent Asheville, with music including Floating Action, Joshua Carpenter, Mad Tea Party, Kovacs and the Polar Bear, Red June and Rubber Cushions, along with crafters, food and more

WHere Roger McGuire Green at Pack Square Park

WHEN Sunday, May 1 (1-8 p.m., free for festival. $16 membership to Just Economics required for entry to Just Brew It homebrew tasting area. loveasheville.org.) have an activity that visitors can participate in,” says Charen. The idea is to get away from local vendors selling sunglasses made in China. “We’re looking at a handful of restaurants participating that have foods or meals on the menu that are locally sourced. That was one of the stipulations to get into the festival — they had to offer at least one menu item that was sourced locally.” The local sticking point is more than just a theme: It’s an ideology. A revolution, even. AGBA, the grassroots organization behind the cute “Love Asheville: Buy Local” posters and T-shirts, is far more than a well-designed slogan. (Though Charen does point out that her store Hip Replacements, owned with partner Kip Veno, has sold $8,000 worth of the black, white

Cheers to this: Big Love includes the Just Brew It homebrew competition, along with bands, food and crafts — like these glasses by Asheville-based studio Etchville. photos courtesy big love

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A local spin: You’ve heard DJ Dr. Filth (aka Whitney Shroyer) at previous Big Crafties — and Saturday nights at the Admiral. Catch him at Big Love. and red “Buy Local” shirts.) “Asheville Grown Business Alliance has created a starting point for a conversation,” says Charen. While the campaign is relatively new — it was launched about a year and a half ago — Charen and Rabuck suspect it’s making a difference by raising consumer awareness. “During the winter when it’s usually slower, I was hearing from businesses that they were doing better than usual,” says Rabuck. In the future, a database will be able to track the progress of AGBA. The organization (which doesn’t currently charge membership fees) boasts a newsletter list of 400, with more than 200 businesses displaying AGBA posters in their windows. A recent survey by the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (a national nonprofit research and educational organization) ranks Asheville in the top 15 percent for independent retail activity among more than 360 American metropolitan areas. “The survey by the Institute for Local SelfReliance gathered data from 2,768 independent businesses, including retailers, service providers, restaurants and others,” says a press release. “It found that those in places with a ‘buy local’ initiative reported revenue growth of 5.6 percent on average in 2010, compared to 2.1 percent for those elsewhere.” “The posters in the window and all that — people come in and they know this is a local, independent town. I hear people say, ‘Put your money where your heart is,’” says Charen. That’s another slogan of the campaign, along with “Local is the new black.” According to Rabuck, Big Crafty is 100-percent micro-businesses. “There’s no super-bigtime. There are people who make a living off their art, but it’s face-to-face with the artist.” He’s heard Big Crafty visitors comment on how great it is to meet the artist in person.

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Big Love offers another opportunity to meet crafters in person — that’s at the Just Brew It homebrew beer competition. Now in its second year (the inaugural homebrew competition was held outside of Wedge Brewery), the event is a fundraiser for Just Economics (“whose mission is to educate, advocate and organize for a strong and sustainable economy that works for all in Western North Carolina”). The contest brings out some inspired and sublime small-batch beers; awards include “people’s choice” and “brewgasm” (the latter selected by Xpress contributor Anne Fitten Glenn). Anyone interested in tasting the homebrew selection can gain admittance to the special section of Big Love by joining Just Economics in advance of the festival. A $16 membership includes complimentary entry to Just Brew It. Even without a sample of homebrew (that contest and tasting only takes up a corner of the festival and only accounts for a fraction of the indie businesses involved), there’s plenty to do. The LaZoom bus will provide half-hour comedy tours focusing on stories of Asheville’s sordid past. Gypsy-punk collective Sirius.B joins LaZoom for the evening rides. Musical acts including Floating Action, Kovacs and the Polar Bear, Joshua Carpenter, Mad Tea Party, Red June and Rubber Cushions will provide a soundtrack to the day. “The goal is to bolster, inspire and incubate small businesses,” says Charen. “Artists and crafters are some of the most skilled people we have [in Asheville]. If somebody’s passionate about what they’re doing, that inspiration is contagious.” X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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Mixing live bands and analog gear, Moog Music concocts fascinating new online video series

by Miles Britton It’s an idea so simple it’s genius: Pack a room wall-to-wall with analog Moog equipment, invite an adventurous band touring through Asheville to drop by, lock said band in said room, feed them beer and pizza, and let the sonic mayhem ensue. Hit record, and voilå! You’ve got yourself the Moog Sound Lab, the live video performance series debuting this month on Moog Music’s revamped website, moogmusic.com. “They’re like kids in a candy store,” says Emmy Parker, commercial marketing manager at Moog Music, about the musicians that have stepped into the Sound Lab studio so far (e.g.,Tegan and Sara, OK Go, The Dandy Warhols, Kylesa, to name a few). “You have no idea what it’s going to end up sounding like, so it’s been really exciting. And I don’t think the bands have much of a clue of what it’s going to sound like, either. It’s an experiment, and every single one has come up with something really unique.” Before the taping, each band gets a quick demonstration on how to use the array of Moog toys scattered around the room, which includes everything from staples like the Minimoog Voyager and Little Phatty synths to more exotic fare like the window-rattling Taurus Bass Pedal or the E-bow-sounding Moog Guitar. Then, with cameras rolling, the band launches into a few of their songs, exploring and oftentimes completely reinventing their sound. “It’s a whole different view of a band,” says Jason Daniello, Moog’s artist relations manager. “Each band has been so different, but they’ve all been open to stepping out of their boundaries, stepping out of their normal, everyday gigging routine.” To say that the bands have taken the concept to heart would be an understatement. Tegan and Sara walked through the Sound Lab doors carrying nothing but an acoustic guitar. And Jamie Lidell and his band? Hell, they didn’t carry in anything.

Like kids in a candy store: Jamie Lidell, who recently played the Orange Peel, brought his band over to Moog. “It was a brilliant day out,” he says of their Moog Sound Lab session. photo copyright moog music inc.

“They didn’t even bring in a drummer,” says Parker about the band’s all-analog performance. “They used the synths to form every facet of the sound. It was really neat. Every single session that I’ve sat in on, I’ve gotten goosebumps. “ And the musicians are equally as enamored with the ongoing series. Just ask Jamie Lidell. “I thought I was going to lose my bandmates for days in that little room,” the British electrosoul singer jokes over the phone with Xpress. “When you get there it’s like, “Ooh, I want to play that one! No, I want that one!” Get one they did. After the band’s raucous set, Lidell was so smitten with the Voyager synth he’d been messing around with that he bought it on the spot. “It was just a brilliant day out for the band,” he says. “Those kind of events are really special on the road, because you’re just working so hard all the time doing shows, and it just gets kind of repetitive. So this seemed like a cool opportunity to do something really insane.” Artists like Lidell got the idea for the Sound Lab series percolating in the first place. Unbeknownst to most people outside the Moog offices, musicians from around the world visit the Moog factory on an almost daily basis. Some stop by to pick up gear or test out new equipment; others just want to meet the engineers and watch their favorite instruments being built by hand. “It was just a natural fit for us,” says Parker, “because bands come into our factory all the time, but nobody outside of Moog really knows about it. The way that Bob Moog built all his instruments, he collaborated with musicians all the way through the design and building process — because ultimately that’s what we’re doing, we’re building tools for musicians. So we’ve got bands coming in the factory pretty much everyday, giving us feedback on the stuff we’re

developing and working with us on stuff that’s already in the marketplace. So at a certain point we were just like, ‘Hey, wait a second, we’ve got to share this with everybody else.’” True to the Moog Music spirit, every facet of the Sound Lab series — from the roving camera crew and the engineer behind the sound board to all the post-perfomance mixing and the editing — is done entirely in-house. They even bring in students from UNCA’s multimedia department as interns (at least one of whom has already been officially hired). And local bands will be far from left out. In fact, Parker says they’re starting a Sound Lab series focused entirely on Asheville musicians. Experimental outfits RBTS Win, Sonmi Suite and Hello Hugo are already slated to play in the near future. But the best part for music fans is what still lies ahead. Soon, when Moog Music moves into its new, glass-fronted headquarters on Broadway Street, anyone walking by will be able to stop and watch through the windows as their favorite band cooks up a live Sound Lab set. “It makes the Moog factory a little bit more accessible,” says Parker, “so it’s not such a big secret, so we’re not so separated from everyone else. We want Asheville to be a part of everything that’s going on with Moog.” Sure, but with all that noise, it’s got to be hard to work, right? “I don’t think that’s really possible here,” Parker says, laughing. “We’re kind of all about that. As long as we’re shaking the windows we know we’re doing good over here at Moog.” X Miles Britton can be reached at milesbritton@ gmail.com.

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ARE YOU READY TO RAMBLE? Mother’s Day Weekend Saturday, May 7, 2011 8:00 am www.ramblerun.com PRODUCED BY:

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A second look at the underdog poet

Paul Bonesteel debuts the documentary The Day Carl Sandburg Died by Justin Souther “I always kind of knew I was going to make a film about Carl Sandburg — that’s the truth,” documentarian Paul Bonesteel tells Xpress about his latest project, The Day Carl Sandburg Died. “There’s a huge amount of satisfaction with this, partly because it’s been hanging over me for 25 years. And I don’t mean in an intimidating way. It’s just been there.” For the past couple of decades, the idea of a film about the life and — maybe more importantly — the times of legendary poet Carl Sandburg was something that gestated with Bonesteel, but never quite came to fruition. “I thought about making a film then,” he says, thinking back to the late ‘80s and early ‘90s, when the idea first began to form. But limitations, both within the subject matter and in his own experience, kept Bonesteel back at the time. “It was too complicated, I didn’t think I was ready. I wasn’t ready to take on anything like that.” A combination of things, however, made the nagging notion of this project a reality. Partly a matter of accrued experience as a filmmaker — including well-received documentaries like The Great American Quilt Revival (2005) and The Mystery of George Masa (2002) — the film also came into being a decade ago due to changes in the political climate. “In the early part of the 2000s, the way the world was headed — politically, socially — it really began to bug me,” Bonesteel says. “And I realized that Sandburg was a vehicle to address things that I felt people weren’t talking about and people didn’t have a historical perspective on. From art, to poetry, to expression, it just seemed like, ‘OK, now’s the time to fire this up and make this happen.’” The result is a film that’s definitely political, but not overtly so; a movie that allows the audience to draw its own conclusions. “I like using historic figures to make relevant statements,” says Bonesteel. “I try to be true to Sandburg’s work, and in that is politics.” Sandburg’s socialist politics are well documented, and even famously immortalized in his Chicago Poems — but for Bonesteel, focusing on that only illuminates one facet of a very complicated man. “I discovered, for myself, how much more activist and radical Sandburg was than I thought,” Bonesteel points out, while also noting that at the same time, there was more involved in Sandburg’s view of the world. “I think Sandburg’s politics are fairly centralist in its entirety. Some people would laugh at that. But with a bigger lens, he was really encouraging democracy in its most efficient use. He talked about the need to continually work towards a democracy. He’s really patriotic in that regard, in the classic sense of patriotism. He had a message and a purpose in what he was doing, and it was not anarchistic — it was to some degree propagandistic, but pro-American.” But with The Day Carl Sandburg Died, Bonesteel is attempting to do more than just talk politics — he’s also attempting to expose people to a poet he’s admired since childhood, and a poet who, over the years, has fallen both in and out of favor with critics. “In his latter years, Sandburg was

info who: The Day Carl Sandburg Died

what: ASHE-

Film premiere from Paul Bonesteel

where:

Fine Arts Theatre

when:

Thursday, Tuesday, May 3 (7 p.m., part of Asheville Wordfest. Q & A and reception to follow at YMI Drugstore, Market and Valley streets). Also May 7 (1 p.m. $10) Info at bonesteelfilms.com

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Message and purpose: “I discovered how much more activist and radical Sandburg was than I thought,” says filmmaker Paul Bonesteel of his latest subject. photo courtesy university of illinois at urbana-champaign, special collections, by dana steichen

perceived as being sweet, kind of sentimental, and a little old school, especially in the ‘60s and ‘70s. Change occurred. Sandburg’s now the underdog poet. He needs a second look,” says Bonesteel. “I felt it was more my obligation to expose people to it. I think that the substance is there and the film just scratches the surface.” Unfortunately, Bonesteel’s desire to tell the story of Sandburg wasn’t any easy accomplishment, especially in the same economic climate that motivated the director in the first place. The totality of such an undertaking took work — and interviews with people like legendary folk singer Pete Seeger and radio personality Studs Terkel — pieced together over six long years. For Bonesteel, the biggest hurdle wasn’t the effort needed to complete the film, but rather the uncertainty of its effect. “The hard part, honestly, is building a house you’re not sure anyone’s ever going to live in. In the background is this lurking question of futility. It’s terrifying to stare in the face and go, ‘Did I just spend six years of my life wasting my time?’” But the justification to all that time, effort and pangs of doubt always came from his subject. “Sandburg always answered that question for me. I could always go to Sandburg, pick up a book, the biography or something, and I’d feel better about what I was doing.” Now, after more than half a decade of toil, the film’s recent premiere at the RiverRun International Film Festival in Winston-Salem, and a couple of upcoming local screenings, Bonesteel can look forward to the less nerveracking, more satisfactory aspects of filmmaking — presenting his work to an audience. “That’s the fun part. The lights go down and everyone’s there to see your movie. That’s what it’s all about.” X Justin Souther can be reached at the.running.board@gmail.com.

arts X music

Unto da Beat Konducta

Producer/DJ Madlib plays the Halfway to Moogfest weekend MADLIB’S MUSIC ADVOCATES THE SMOKING OF THOUGHT AND OF THE TIME IT TAKES TO SMOKE IT

IN 2010 HE LAUNCHED AN ALMOST-ONE-ALBUM-A-MONTH SERIES OF MADLIB MEDICINE SHOWS ON MADLIB INVASION

EACH VOLUME COMPOSES A THEMATIC, MUSICAL ARTERY FROM THE HEART OF HIS FOURTON RECORD COLlECTION

I DOUBT THEY SOUND AS FUN IN SOME PLACE* AS THEY DO IN THE COMFORTs OF OUR HOME — WE ARE FREER AT HOME

* MADLIB pLAYS THE ORANGE PEEL ON SATURDAY, APRIL 30 AT 9 PM FOR 23 BONES, part of halfway to moogfest

RONEY

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Deciding which shows you should see, so you don’t have to

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Tune In to Cranky Hanke’s Movie Reviews

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The Suspect: Plain White T’s

The Suspect: Fish Out of Water

This trio has spent the last 10 years perfecting their style of RoPhunk RaeHop, a combination of rock, funk, reggae and hip-hop. They’ve shared the stage with G. Love, Fishbone and The Wailers, winning over audiences with their high energy and funky beats. Can Be Found: Mo Daddy’s, Friday, April 29. RIYD (Recommended if You Dig): G. Love, Sublime. You Should Go If: For the love of God, why does everyone always assume it’s your laundry day?!; Exam week … time to dust off the ol’ devil sticks; one man’s walk-in closet is another man’s bedroom; Your word of the moment is … “Chillaxing.” It’s actually been your word for the last four-and-a-half years.

The Suspect: Matt Costa

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.

When a broken leg kept skateboarder Matt Costa from turning pro, he turned his focus to writing songs and playing guitar. A frequent collaborator and tourmate of Jack Johnson, his third album, Mobile Chateau, was released on Johnson’s Brushfire label in the fall of 2010. Can Be Found: The Grey Eagle, Saturday, April 30. RIYD: Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Josh Rouse. You Should Go If: You watched your life backwards it would be the story of someone who started out broke, spent his days playing on rivers and trails, graduated from college, moved in with his parents and finally had some spending money; you can eat a tray of Reese’s peanut butter eggs in under 10 minutes; you can’t read The Giving Tree without crying; Your word of the moment is … “Skick,” used when something is both sick and sketchy.

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Those who never heard of this Chicago pop band until their 2007 hit, “Hey There Delilah” may be surprised to know that the band had been together for 10 years before they found mainstream success. The Music Cycle calls PWT’s 2010 release, Wonders of the Younger, “a fun album from start to finish.” Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Monday, May 2. RIYD: All-American Rejects, Jimmy Eat World. You Should Go If: You get scolded at least once a week for not picking up your dog’s poop; Steve Carrell leaving The Office is of deep concern to you; your current job has allowed you to take your Scrabble game to a whole new level; your word of the moment is … “Equinox.” (You get a 50 point bonus for using all your letters!)

The Suspect: Femi Kuti and the Positive Force

Kuti recorded his April 2011 release Africa for Africa in the historic Decca studio in Lagos, Nigeria. Although he’s been playing on his own with Positive Force since 1985, he spent much of his early career playing in the band of his father, Fela Kuti, widely considered to be a founder of Afrobeat music. Can Be Found: The Orange Peel, Tuesday, May 3. RIYD: Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade. You Should Go If: It really bums you out that gay people have taken over rainbows, and you sincerely hope they leave unicorns alone; you have a personal mission statement, and you’re not afraid to use it; you were making clothes out of curtains before you ever saw The Sound of Music; your word of the moment is … “Apolcalyptic.” It really gets people’s attention!

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Fair Trade Fashion Event Saturday, FAIR T R A D E FA S H I O N S H O W & CONSIGNMENT EVENT

May 7 1-4pm

at The LAB

39 N. Lexington Avenue

FREE Admission Men’s Women’s and Children’s clothing

smartbets French Broad River Festival

It’s officially festival season: The 14th annual French Broad River Festival takes over Hot Springs with a weekend’s worth of the great outdoors, water, sports and music. Headliners include BoomBox, The Bottle Rockets, Great American Taxi and Snake Oil Medicine Show. Tickets ($75) include camping, bands, registration fees for whitewater and biking events (if you B.Y.O. boat or bike) and a raffle ticket. Friday, April 29-Sunday, May 1. frenchbroadriverfestival.com.

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Mount Moriah

Mount Moriah is not (as Google would have us believe) a Baptist church. Instead, it’s a Durham-based indie/folk rock band. But they do list “secular gospel” in their description and the haunting-soft voice of vocalist Heather McEntire can certainly move the spirit. The band’s self-titled debut LP was called, by Indyweek.com, “a dark country record in the classic confessional sense.” It’s accompanied by a moody/arty DVD of videos that take both the dark and the country to the next level. Mount Moriah plays the LAB’s backstage on Friday, April 29 with Kovacs & the Polar Bear and The Tender Fruit. 10 p.m. lexavebrew.com.

Artisan from Ghana wearing Global Mamas Panel Skirt

Dining Out For Life after-party

First you get to raise funds for the Western North Carolina AIDS Project by dining out at any of 100 local restaurants (all of whom donate 20-percent of their sales on Thursday, April 28, to the local organization). Then you can celebrate with the Dining Out For Life Appreciation After Party at the Grove House complex. DOFL participants get in for free ($8 otherwise), entertainment includes Russ Wilson & his Nouveau-Passé Orchestra, Kat Williams, Asheville comedians, acts from the Runaway Circus and many more. And 20-percent of sales will go to WNCAP. 7 p.m.-3 a.m. thegrovehouse.com.

Club phone numbers are listed in Clubland in the (828) area code unless otherwise stated; more details at www. mountainx.com/clubland. Send your Smart Bet requests in to ae@mountainx.com for consideration by the Monday the week prior to publication.

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smartbets Young Couples

Young Couples formed in Asheville three years ago, when they were even younger. And known as Pavane and Galliard. Fronted by songwriting team Jared Hooker and Lauren Habenicht, the band blends classical training with a heady mix of pop, Caribbean, jazz and rock influences for a sound that’s chic, fun and all their own. They release their debut CD at the Grey Eagle on Thursday, April 28. 8:30 p.m. $8. (Millie Palmer and Will Beasley, and Common Foundation also perform; Young Couples plays the middle set.) thegreyeagle.com.

World Peace and Other 4th-Grade Achievements

This documentary “depicts the transformation that happens as a class of students at a neighborhood public school work to solve all of the earth’s crisis with a balanced budget.” (Hint: The fourth grade didn’t face a shut down.) It premiered at South by Southwest in 2010, and now the film is on tour. It makes a stop at Diana Wortham Theatre on Wednesday, May 4 at 6:45 p.m. The documentary’s star, John Hunter, and director, Chris Farina, will host a Q&A after the screening. A panel discussion with local education leaders follows. $16 non-teachers/free for K-12 teachers. All proceeds benefit the World Peace Game Foundation. worldpeaceavl.

Rites of Spring Bountiful Cities and French Broad Food Coop team up for Rites of Spring, an outdoor celebration featuring food, beer and wine, live music, kids’ activities and a Maypole dance. The fun starts at 4 p.m. with a May Day ceremony, and music (from Jason Daniello, Shane Perlowin and Silver Machine) kicks off at 5 p.m. Say organizers, “May Day began as an ancient celebration of fertility and new growth, and, more recently, is known as International Workers’ Day, celebrating organized labor movements all over the world. The communities that make up Bountiful Cities and French Broad Food Coop think that it’s the perfect holiday to celebrate 35 years of our community-owned grocery store and 10 years of community-based urban agriculture in Asheville!” $10 for food, $2 wristband to drink, drinks by donation. More details at bountifulcitiesproject.org.

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where to find the clubs • what is playing • listings for venues throughout Western North Carolina C l u bland r u les

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LIVE MUSIC... NEVER A COVER

•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.

Wed., April 27 5 Walnut Wine Bar

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

• Dining Out for Life

Thur 4/28 • Beer Master’s Tournament - Live Music -

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

Front stage: Dave Turner

Blue Note Grille

Jazz jam

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Soul/jazz jam w/ Jeff Sipe & Mike Seal

BoBo Gallery

Greg Brown

Olive or Twist

Matt Williams & friends

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

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Orange Peel

Craggie Brewing Company

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

Owen Tharp (jazz, pop)

White Horse

Emerald Lounge

Wayne Erbson & Niall Toner (bluegrass, old-time)

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Chris O’Neill (blues, country)

Fred’s Speakeasy

Red Stag Grill

Thu., April 28 Barley’s Taproom

Alien Music Club (jazz jam) Blue Note Grille

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Root Bar No. 1

Kim Richey & Elizabeth Cook (singersongwriters)

Stuart McNair & Jay Brown (Americana, folk, acoustic)

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

TallGary’s Cantina

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

Open mic, 7:30pm

Highland Brewing Company

The ARC of Buncombe County fundraiser feat: The Crop Dusters

Jeff Michaels (singer-songwriter)

Sat 4/30

Early Morning Morning

Good Stuff

Boiler Room

Gene Peyroux (rock, funk, soul)

Spork! (jazz, funk, soul) Town Pump

Broadway’s

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Dirt Daubers (folk, alt-country) w/ Suttree Craggie Brewing Company

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

Open mic, 6-9pm

Handlebar

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Blackberry Smoke (Southern rock, country) w/ The Piedmont Boys

Open mic w/ David Bryan

Jack Of The Wood Pub

The Free Flow Band (funk, soul)

Old-time jam, 6pm

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

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

Fri 4/29

fri. a pril 29

Open 7 Days... 11am - Late

Wednesday, April 27 ARC Fundraiser with 48 Madison

Thursday, April 28

Thirstdays! Friday, April 29

48 Madison

(Rock)

Saturday, April 30

Blind Lemon Phillips (Rock w/Horns)

kOvacs & the POlar Bear w/ mt. mOriah

W ed. may 4

BOw thayer & Perfect trainwreck w/ Dave Desmelik mariachi mondayS

Live Mariachi Band $2 Tacos & Mexican Beer Specials O n t h e f r O n t s ta g e

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no cover charge (4-8pm)

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944

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Off Biltmore Ave. in the new Pack Square Park.

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Garage at Biltmore

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

The Magnetic Field

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

[dance]

Carolina Rex (blues, rock)

Dining Out for Life after party feat: Sweet Lips McGhee & Magnolia Spice, The Tacky Annies, Kat Williams & more

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

96.5 House Band

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

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

[rockin’ acoustic jam]

[blues]

Heavy duty Eric spins DOOM

BoBo Gallery

Jeff Anders & Friends

The Nightcrawlers

Simplified (rock, jam, fusion) Liam McKay & friends (acoustic)

Open mic w/ Brian Keith

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

The Max Welner Orchestra

Dining Out for Life after party feat: Sweet Lips McGhee & Magnolia Spice, The Tacky Annies, Kat Williams & more

Westville Pub

Soulive (blues, rock, soul, jazz) w/ Nigel Hall

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Open mic

Eleven on Grove

Kon Tiki (reggae), 5-7pm

Wild Wing Cafe

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues)

Good Stuff

Wedge Brewing Co.

SundayS

Aaron Price 1pm | Piano

TueSdayS

Jake Hollifield Piano | 9pm

WedneSdayS

Shane Perlowin 9pm

Young Couples (indie pop, jazz) CD release show

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

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

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Dining Out for Life after party feat: Sweet Lips McGhee & Magnolia Spice, The Tacky Annies, Kat Williams & more

Lobster Trap

Shifter’s

Xist Promotions showcase

Open jam

Emerald Lounge

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Mellow Mushroom

Freekbot Mike’s Side Pocket

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

Jarvis Jenkins Band (psychedelic, rock) Olive or Twist

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

Guster (rock, alternative) w/ Good Old War Pack’s Tavern

Jeff Anders & friends (rock) Pisgah Brewing Company

Wooden Toothe (punk, rock)

Gypsy night

Sound Summit XI: Asheville reggae/dancehall collective

Town Pump

Fairview Tavern

Josh Fields Band (country, rock)

Circus Mutt (rock, Grateful Dead covers), 8pm

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Feed and Seed

Peggy Ratusz & friends

Common Ground

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Aaron LaFalce (piano)

Ben Maney (folk rock, jazz, experimental)

Westville Pub

Fred’s Speakeasy

Troubaduo (Americana, soul)

Sin w/ Dirty Bird Chamberlain & Jeff Markham

Fri., April 29

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

The Get Down

Allstars Sports Bar and Grill

The Sharkadelics (pop, rock), 9:30pm Athena’s Club

Greg Klyma

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

Red Room

Blue Note Grille

Purple Onion Cafe

Dance Lush w/ DJ Moto

Eleven on Grove

Letters to Abigail (Americana, country)

Electronic Voice Phenomena (ambient, electronic, jazz)

THURSDAY • 5/26

MR. LIF

WITH VICE SQUAD

Mac Arnold’s 5th Annual Cornbread & Collard Greens Blues Festival Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Harrah’s Cherokee

Live DJ, 12-2am

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Tim Barry w/ Jenny Owen Young, Morgan Stickrod & Ryan Sheffield

Steve Whiddon (“the pianoman”)

Craggie Brewing Company

48 Madison (rock)

Root Bar No. 1

Bloodroot Orkaestarr (gypsy folk), 7-10pm

Holland’s Grille

Blind Boy Chocolate & the Milk Sheiks (jugband, old-time)

Creatures Cafe

Unnamed Suspects (rock)

Nick Flora

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Scandals Nightclub

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Open mic

FREEKBOT

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Broadway’s

Red Step Artworks

THURSDAY • 4/28 • $5

Michael Cody (singer-songwriter)

Disco ‘75

Billy Sheeran (piano)

BoBo Gallery

11PM - 2AM, DOORS AT 10PM

Good Stuff

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

Red Stag Grill

LIVE MUSIC!

Highland Brewing Company

#1 Outdoor Dining!

Most Draft Beer in Asheville! Over 70 Beers on Tap

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J. J. Ball (alternative blues)

So’Lar (Christian hip-hop) w/ Africa Nicole (Christian R&B)

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

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

Shifter’s

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

Gypsy (rock)

Emerald Lounge

Rose Hill Drive w/ Mother Soul (rock, metal) Straightaway Cafe

Lobster Trap

Mandolin Orange (folk, indie) w/ Maggie and Her Mistakes

Hill Billy Diamonds (rock, honkey-tonk)

Feed and Seed

New Outlook

The Chop House

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Fish Out of Water (funk, reggae, hip-hop)

Firestorm Cafe and Books

O’Malley’s On Main

May Day Jamboree

Slow Train Home

Wooden TooThe

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Olive or Twist

Live music

friday, aPril 29 - 8:30PM $13/$15

Live jazz or swing

Garage at Biltmore

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

Orange Peel

As Sick as Us (metal) w/ Wretched

Halfway to Moogfest feat: Atmosphere, Blueprint, Sab the Artist, DJ Abilities & Grieves w/ Budo

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Good Stuff

Kyle Sorenson (singer-songwriter)

Utah Green (eclectic folk)

Town Pump

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Ruff (Rush covers)

Pack’s Tavern

The Nightcrawlers (blues, rock)

An acoustic evening w/ Matt Costa (indie, rock, pop)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Pisgah Brewing Company

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

Iron Horse Station

The Hooligans (Celtic, fusion, rock) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

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The Pocket

Asheville Rock Academy “Give to the Music” benefit, 8-9pm Carolina Rex (blues, rock), 10pm Joel Cornes (singer/songwriter)

Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day

Mac Arnold & Plate Full O’ Blues w/ Taylor Moore & John Hartness

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Red Stag Grill

Harrah’s Cherokee

Westville Pub

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter) Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Rewind Blue (Southern rock)

Live band, 7-10pm Live DJ, 10pm-2am Highland Brewing Company

Blind Lemon Phillips Band (R&B) Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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

Village Wayside Bar and Grille

Marc Keller Chris O’Neill & friends White Horse

Bob Margolin (blues guitar) Wild Wing Cafe

Kemistry (Southern rock)

Sun., May 1

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

5 Walnut Wine Bar

2nd anniversary party w/ Carribean Cowboys (Southern rock, tropical)

Iron Horse Station

Dirty South Lounge

The Chop House

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Straightaway Cafe

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Lifecurse (metal) w/ Division

Handlebar

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

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The Get Down

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist)

Scandals Nightclub

WNC’s Largest Spirit Selection Nightly Drink Specials Ladies / Couples Welcome

Live jazz, 6-10pm

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

Joe Randolf Band (blues, jazz, rockabilly)

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Greg Terkelson

Purple Onion Cafe

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Stella Blue

Glenn Spayth (singer-songwriter)

Live jazz, 6-10pm

Seth Walker Band (roots, blues)

The Get Down

Lobster Trap

Stagefright Therapy w/ Louis Turnout & Blowtorch Circumcision (punk, metal)

Jazz night Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Wine Cellar at Saluda Inn

Ian Harrod (Americana, folk, soul)

Brushfire Stankgrass (acoustic, bluegrass) w/ Fifth House

Town Pump

O’Malley’s On Main

Evergreen (“dirt rock”)

Steve Croaston & J.J. Martin

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Olive or Twist

Gashouse Mouse (blues)

Jazz night w/ The 42nd Street Jazz Band

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Orange Peel

Sunday Jazz, 7-9pm “Sunday Sessions” w/ Chris Ballard Fred’s Speakeasy

ER Airplane (punk, rock) w/ Monkey in Podship Garage at Biltmore

Rusko after party Hotel Indigo

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

Front stage: Aaron Price (piano) Lobster Trap

Leo Johnson (swing guitar) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

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

Halfway to Moogfest feat: Madlib (DJ set) & Washed Out

White Horse

Pack’s Tavern

Scott Dameron, Jay Ladd & Chris Rosser (singersongwriters)

96.5 House Band (covers) Purple Onion Cafe

Wild Wing Cafe

Russ Wilson Quartet

Country Fried Fridays feat: The Lacs

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

Red Room

Shifter’s

Sat., April 30 Athena’s Club

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

Tony Campbell Craggie Brewing Company

John Wilkes Booth & the Black Tooth (folk, rock), 7-9pm Creatures Cafe

Dance party w/ live DJ Red Stag Grill

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Starving artists open mic Orange Peel

Rusko (dubstep) w/ Doorly Scandals Nightclub

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

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

The Critters (psychedelic, punk, rock) w/ The Treatment

Live DJ

The Pocket

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

DJ Chubby Knuckles (pop, dance), 9pm

JJ Ball (indie, alternative blues)

Village Wayside Bar and Grille

Root Bar No. 1

The Wayside Sound (acoustic jazz duo)

Madre (rock) w/ Netherfriends (psychedelic pop)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Scandals Nightclub

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Mon., May 2

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Emerald Lounge 232- 4372 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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Vincenzo’s Bistro

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Marc Keller

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Cipher circle, 10pm Lobster Trap

Dave Desmelik (singer-songwriter, Americana) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Broadcast (funk, rock, soul) Orange Peel

Plain White T’s (pop, rock) w/ Parachute Root Bar No. 1

Open jam session Shifter’s

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

Open mic Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

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

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5 Walnut Wine Bar

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

Vinyl Tuesday Creatures Cafe

College night w/ Creatures Cafe Band Garage at Biltmore

Neoteric Vision: A New Moon Creative Catalyst Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

The Civil Wars (folk, Americana) w/ Amy Speace Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

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 The Village Wayside 277-4121 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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Front stage: Jake Hollifield (blues, ragtime) Lobster Trap

Jay Brown (Americana, folk) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

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

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

Open mic Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Front stage: Shane Perlowin (guitar) Back stage: Bow Thayer & Perfect Trainwreck (“greasy, soulful, modern mountain music”) w/ Dave Desmelik Lobster Trap

Valorie Miller (Americana, folk) Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Soul/jazz jam

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Horizons at Grove Park Inn Jack Of The Wood Pub

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Olive or Twist

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

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

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

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

Orange Peel

Sleigh Bells (rock, pop) w/ CSS & Bosco Delray Red Stag Grill

Thu., May 5

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues)

Barley’s Taproom

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Alien Music Club (jazz jam)

Open mic w/ Brian Keith

BoBo Gallery

TallGary’s Cantina

Tina & Her Pony (Appalachian folk) w/ Melissa Hyman

Open mic, 7:30pm

Craggie Brewing Company

Town Pump

Open mic w/ David Bryan Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Wedge Brewing Co.

Kon Tiki (reggae), 5-7pm

Open mic, 6-9pm Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar

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

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

Underskore Orchestra (gypsy jazz, swing) w/ Firecracker Jazz Band & Sugarfoot Serenaders 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

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

Bluegrass jam, 7pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: You Dirty Rats (rock) w/ Richie Tipton & Matthew Knights Williams Lobster Trap

Hank Bones (“man of 1,000 songs”) Mike’s Side Pocket

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

DJ Oskar

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The Growlers (indie, rock) w/ Electric Owls

May Day Jamboree

Grove Park Inn Great Hall

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

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Harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cherokee

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Highland Brewing Company

One Leg Up (jazz, swing)

Bobby Miller & the Virginia Daredevils (progressive bluegrass)

Uncle Mountain (folk rock, pop, indie)

Purple Onion Cafe

Hollandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Grille

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Carolina Rex (classic rock)

Hotel Indigo

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

The Wood Brothers (roots, blues, Americana) w/ Abigail Washburn Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern

Scott Raines & Jeff Anders (acoustic, rock) Pisgah Brewing Company

Greg Koons Red Room

Dance Lush w/ DJ Moto Red Stag Grill

Billy Sheeran (piano) Red Step Artworks

Open mic Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Steve Whiddon (â&#x20AC;&#x153;the pianomanâ&#x20AC;?)

Harrahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cherokee

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

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Sons of Ralph (bluegrass)

David Earl & the Plowshares (Americana, rock)

Lobster Trap

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Kon Tiki (swing, tropical)

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Mo-Daddyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bar & Grill

Pierce Edens (country, folk rock, roots) w/ The Delta Saints

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Kevin Scanlon (acoustic, folk)

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Beth McKee Trio (boogie-woogie, roots, rock) w/ The Gravelys

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Lee Griffin Band

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Bobby G (blues)

The Get Down

Beaucoup Blue (Americana, blues, folk)

Olive or Twist

DJ Champale w/ Abu Dissarray

Red Room

Jazz night w/ The 42nd Street Jazz Band

Town Pump

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day

Orange Peel

The Roses (rock) w/ Cecil Thompkins (bluegrass)

Red Stag Grill

Tressaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Chris Rhodes (singer-songwriter)

Chase Rice w/ Brian Davis & Florida-Georgia Line (country)

Peggy Ratusz & friends

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Westville Pub

Straightaway Cafe

Cindercat (progressive rock)

Kevin Scanlon (acoustic, folk)

Wild Wing Cafe

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Caribbean Cowboys (classic rock, tropical) w/ DJ Paco

The Get Down

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The Sharkadelics (pop, rock), 9:30pm Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

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

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

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The Story: A group of monks in a small town in Algeria must decide whether or not to leave in the face of terrorist attacks that increasingly threaten them. The Lowdown: What might have been a preachy tract of a movie emerges instead as a thoughtful, compelling, human drama of considerable power. Xavier Beauvois’ multiple-award-winning Of Gods and Men is one of those increasingly rare things in modern cinema — a deeply-felt, powerful film about religious faith that has no interest in peddling the gospel to the viewer. Perhaps that’s because the eight monks at the center of the film appear far more concerned about helping the Islamic people in the small Algerian town they inhabit than they are in converting them to Christianity. Indeed, they go out of their way — especially in one particularly dramatic instance — to note the connections between the two religions rather than concentrate on its differences. The film is based — loosely by its own admission — on the lives of the Cistercian monks of Tibhirine in Alegeria who were kidnapped in 1996, and is as much a political drama — flirting with being a political thriller on occasion — as it is drama about faith. The brothers — headed up by Christian (Lambert Wilson, Flawless) — find their region more and more threatened by Islamic-fundamentalist terrorists. The threat to them personally has grown so great that the army wants to station soldiers at their little monastery to protect them, something that Christian rejects out of hand — not entirely to the satisfaction of all the others, and definitely not to the satisfaction of the army. As the situation deteriorates — with more

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Jacques Herlin and Michael Lonsdale in Xavier Beauvois’ remarkably powerful Of Gods and Men. and more acts of terrorism in the surrounding area — it becomes a point of debate as to whether the monks oughtn’t either return to France, or at least relocate to a safer spot in North Africa. This is the point where the film genuinely establishes itself as a more intelligent drama than it might easily have been. The easy path would have been for Of Gods and Men to have presented the monks as uniformly heroic, presenting a united front against the idea of leaving, and never wavering in what could have come across as — well, willful wrongheadedness. But the film takes a very different path, a much more satisfying and believable one. Despite Christian’s general determination that they stay, not all the monks are sold on the wisdom of this — one going so far as to state he has no desire to be a martyr. For that matter, Christian himself isn’t single-minded on the topic. We find him waffling when the government makes the case for them leaving. We also find him being convinced of staying — at least for the time being — not by religious conviction and the idea that God will protect them (they’re all too human to quite buy into that), but by locals who view the humanitarian monks as “the branch on which we’re perched.” There may be no real surprises in the way the events play out, but Beauvois and his cowriter Etienne Comar have devised several key sequences of both immense power and beauty — a Christmas Eve interrupted by a terrorist seeking medical aid, a tense scene of the brothers singing while an army helicopter hovers ominously over them, a simple scene where they listen to part of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake while seated at dinner. And then there’s the film’s ending, about which I’ll say little except

that it straddles the literal with the allegorical while never actually departing from reality. In other words, see this movie. Rated PG-13 for a momentary scene of startling wartime violence, some disturbing images and brief language (based on a re-screening; originally rated R for a scene of graphic violence). reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

African Cats JJ

Director: Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey Players: (narrator) Samuel L. Jackson Nature Documentary Rated G

The Story: A tale of lions and cheetahs living — and surviving — in Africa. The Lowdown: A basic nature documentary gussied up with dull narration from Samuel L. Jackson. For the third Earth Day in a row, Disney has carted out yet another nature documentary. 2009’s Earth was somewhat majestic if dramatically inert, while last year’s Oceans was a sometimes-spectacular piece of honest-to-goodness filmmaking. What do we get this year with African Cats? Unfortunately, it’s easily the worst of the lot — a dull, corny look at lions and cheetahs and other various critters. Instead of the often-grand visuals of Disney’s previous nature docs, African Cats is straight-up Wild Kingdom voyeurism, the kind of hiding-inthe-bushes photography that’s been peddled on PBS for decades now. There’s nothing new going on here, besides all these savage beasts being made pretty uninteresting for the sake of

Soul Surfer (PG) 11:55, 2:25, 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 (Sofa Cinema) Super (NR) 12:30, 2:55, 5:10, 8:00, 10:25 (Sofa Cinema) Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (PG-13) 11:35, 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:05 Water for Elephants (PG-13) 11:45, 3:00, 7:20,10:10 n Cinebarre (665-7776)

Arthur (PG-13) 12:05 (Fri-Sun), 2:25, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (PG-13) 12:10 (Fri-Sun), 2:35, 5:00, 7:25, 9:45 Hanna (PG-13) 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 (no 1:30, 4:10 shows on 5/3) Insidious (PG-13) 12:55, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:25 (Fri-Sat only) (no 5:45, 8:10 5/4) Rio 3D (PG) 12:00 (Fri-Sun), 2:20, 4:35, 6:50, 9:00 Rio 2D (PG) 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 7:35 Scream 4 (R) 12:15 (Fri-Sun), 2:40, 5:05, 7:30, 9:55 Soul Surfer (PG) 1:40, 4:05, 6:30, 8:50 Source Code (PG-13) 12:50, 3:05, 5:40. 10:05 Strawberry Shortcake (G) 12:00 (Sat-Sun) Water for Elephants (PG-13) 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Your Highness (R) 9:30

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Arthur (PG-13) 9:35 (Sofa Cinema) Atlas Shrugged (PG-13) 11:40, 2:10, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 The Conspirator (PG-13) 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:50 Dylan Dog: Dead of Night (PG-13) 12:10, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30 Fast Five (PG-13) 12:25, 4:00, 7:55, 10:15 Hanna (PG-13) 11:35, 2:05, 4:45, 7:35, 10:05 (Sofa Cinema) Hop (PG) 12:00, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15 (Sofa Cinema) Jane Eyre (PG-13) 11:50, 3:10, 7:30, 10:15 Of Gods and Men (PG-13) 12:15, 4:25, 7:40, 10:20 Prom (PG) 11:30, 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 Rio 3D (PG) 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 (No matinee Sat.)

The Adjustment Bureau (PG-13) 7:30, 10:00 (Fri-Sun) Gnomeo and Juliet (G) 1:00, 4:00 I Am Number Four (PG-13) 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:50 (Fri-Sun) The King’s Speech (PG-13) 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 (Fri-Sun) Paul (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:35, 10:05 (Fri-Sun) Red Riding Hood (PG-13) 1:35, 4:35, 7:00, 9:55 (Fri-Sun)

Rio (PG) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00

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Jane Eyre (PG-13) 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 (no 7:00 p.m. Thu, May 5), Late show Fri-Sat 9:30 Win Win (R) 1:20, 4:20, 7:20 (no 7:20 p.m. Tue, May 3), Late show Fri-Sat 9:40

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Soul Surfer (PG) 1:00 (Sat-Sun only), 4:00, 7:00 (no Mon 7 p.m.)

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

The 5th Quarter (PG-13) 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fast Five (PG-13) 1:00, 1:30, 3:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 9:55, 10:25 Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil 3D (PG) 3:05, 5:15, 7:40, 9:50 Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil 2D (PG) 12:55 Hop (PG) 1:40, 4:40, 7:20, 10:15 Limitless (PG-13) 1:10 Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family (PG-13) 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45

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a family audience. All of the general nastiness of the animal kingdom is cut short or cut out, while Samuel L. Jackson’s narration is easily the most embarrassing thing the man has done in a career not exactly marked by consistent quality. While Jackson has been in his fair share of bad movies, he’s not boring. African Cats, however, has turned everyone’s favorite BMF into a hokey, whitebread parody of himself. Jackson’s lifeless narration is the most disappointing aspect of the film, not to mention a succinct summation of the film itself, since it’s so dreadfully dull and listless. Mixed in with all the nature footage is the story of a pride of lions and a family of cheetahs and their humanized fights for survival, which wavers between clunky and clichéd. Sure, this all works fine for the film’s target demographic of young kids, but there’s no justification for a wide-release documentary backed by a company like Disney to be merely “fine.” With little else going on here, it all adds up to a pretty lame attempt at a nature documentary. Rated G. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Regal Biltmore Grand

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The Story: Young Jane Eyre is hired as a tutor at a grim English manor owned by a gloomy, mysterious man with a dark secret.

This latest in a long, long line of movies based on Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is one of the better ones — and in some ways it may be the best of the lot. A case can certainly be made for that, especially in the casting of Mia Wasikowska (Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland). She’s probably the closest the movies have ever come to capturing the character, particularly as concerns the age of the character. Whatever may be said of the 1944 version — generally considered the best previous take on the novel — Joan Fontaine’s Jane seems too old and too sophisticated for the role. However, the problem with the film for many may simply lie in the (over)familiarity of the story. This is somewhat borne out by the fact that I found the film very good, but traversing ground I knew well, while my viewing companion, who was unfamiliar with the story in any form, found it more compelling. Perhaps the most notable thing about Cary Fukunaga’s (Sin Nombre) film — apart from its undeniably finely wrought atmosphere — lies in its structure. The film opens in full-blown gothic mode with Jane fleeing Thornfield Hall in the middle of the night across the moors (how intrinsically gothic can you get?). From here, it follows her being taken in by St. John Rivers (Jamie Bell) and his sisters. Only after she

has been established as the teacher at a charity school does the narrative turn to Jane’s early life, her background (which can only be called Dickensian) and the events that brought her to that mad flight over the moors. The change in structure is a good one (although it may be little more than inspired by the prologue of Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights) in that it immediately plunges the viewer into the drama of Jane’s life, and creates a mystery about it (assuming you don’t know the story). The center of the story, of course, is Jane going to Thornfield Hall and her experiences in the creepy old place — and, of course, her peculiar romance with the generally distant and considerably older master of the manor, Edward Rochester (Michael Fassbender), whom she first meets by accident on the road — an event that frightens his horse and causes him to thrown from the animal. (Is this the 1847 version of “meeting cute?”) Assuming you’re familiar with the story, nothing very surprising is going to happen here, though it’s impossible not to admire the craftsmanship, the acting (the leads and Judi Dench are very effective), and the general romantic appeal of the story. All this is good and — if you aren’t familiar with the story — the mystery of Thornfield’s dark secret is well developed, But this brings up another point — one that you may want to skip in the next paragraph if you don’t know know the story. The build-up to the dark secret is splendidly done, but the secret itself is another matter. Oh, there’s nothing wrong with Bronte’s concept of the insane wife (Valentina Cervi, Miracle at St. Anna) locked away out of sight in the recesses of the old dark house. And it’s been played up nicely, especially when we see the wounds she’s inflicted on her visiting brother (Brit TV actor Harry Lloyd). Then when we actually see her for ourselves — well, she’s simply not particularly menacing or memorable. This is the one area where the film truly misses the boat, especially in terms of gothic horror, and that’s particularly strange in a movie so imbued with that atmosphere. Don’t misunderstand: This is a good, solid, worthy version of the story, but in one key respect it falls short of its potential. Even if you don’t know the story, I can’t imagine this one thing not being a bit anti-climactic. Regardless, it’s certainly a movie that’s worth a look. Rated PG-13 for some thematic elements including a nude image and brief violent content. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14 and Fine Arts Theatre

Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family JJJ

Director: Tyler Perry Players: Tyler Perry, Loretta Devine, Cassi Davis, Shannon Kane, Isaiah Mustafa, Natalie Desselle Reid, Shad “Bow Wow” Moss Comedy-Drama a la Tyler Perry Rated PG-13

The Story: A previously unseen Madea family member is dying of cancer and has to rely on Madea to get her dysfunctional family together to break the news.

startingfriday DYLAN DOG: DEAD OF NIGHT

Every so often — but very rarely — Freestyle Releasing gets their hands on something of at least possible interest, and then manage to louse up its chances with bad promotion and seeking no potential critical help in the matter. Of course, they’re mostly associated with titles that wiser mortals would avoid — Dragon Wars: D-War, Nobel Son, I Want Your Money, Uwe Boll’s In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale — and that may be the case with Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. But this film adaptation of Tiziano Sclavi’s Italian comic book series about a supernatural detective at least looks like it could be more interesting than most — despite being directed by Kevin Munroe (TMNT (2007)) and starring Brandon Routh (Superman). But since it hasn’t been show to critics, who can get any kind of feel at all? (PG-13)

FAST FIVE

The Brit and Aussie reviewers are being surprisingly kind to the lastest Fast and the Furious entry. Well, it’s the latest to be made, but it somehow supposedly takes place before the Tokyo Drift entry, which means — who knows what? What we do know is there’ll be a lot of fast driving, stuff blowing up, and Vin Diesel and Paul Walker. We are

The Lowdown: Standard Tyler Perry mix of shrill comedy and soap opera, somewhat brightened by a strong performance from Loretta Devine. As expected, the underwhelming box office and critical scorn that greeted last fall’s For Colored Girls finds Tyler Perry back in drag as Madea in Tyler Perry’s Madea’s Big Happy Family, a typical Perrython of Perryisms aimed at the most Perrynacious viewer. This means steaming melodrama, low comedy and a dash of Jesus. It gets bonus points for Loretta Devine’s amazingly sober performance in a sea of hysteria, but loses points for too much of the Browns (Tamela J. Mann and David Mann), and even more points for the presence of Teyana Taylor (Stomp the Yard 2: Homecoming) as the most shrill, obnoxious and singularly unfunny character in the history of Perry’s movies. Perry completists will understand just what an accomplishment that truly is. The story finds Shirley (Loretta Devine), the long-suffering mother of three fairly awful children, finding that the cancer that was thought defeated has come back. But since she’s good with the Lord, she’s pretty OK with that. Her big desire is to gather all her children around the dinner table and break the news. I’m not real clear how this is supposed to work — “Now that I’ve got you here, I want to tell you I’m dying, and would you pass the cornbread?” — but it hardly matters since she never gets to put the idea into practice. The problem, you see, is that daughter Kimberly (Shannon Kane, TV’s All My Children)

also promised that there will be an “epic” battle between Mr. Diesel and guest villain Dwayne Johnson. Those interested already know their intentions as concerns seeing this. (PG-13)

HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL

This sequel to Hoodwinked is supposed to open this Friday, but it has as yet not shown up on any bookings. Whether there really is a market for a sequel to the snarky, drab first film is open to question. It was not, however, open to question to Anne Hathaway, who voiced Red Riding Hood in the original. She flatly turned down a chance to reprise the role. There’s only one review so far — from Ed Gonzalez at Slant Magazine). He says it’s not bad; it’s witheringly awful. (PG)

OF GODS AND MEN

See review in “Cranky Hanke”

PROM

Also unreviewed by anyone is Disney’s PG-ified coming-of-age yarn Prom, which is about going to the prom (quelle surprise!). It stars nobody you’ve probably ever heard of and was directed by Joe Nussbaum, who you may be trying to forget if you sat through his last movie, Sydney White. (PG)

is an uppity, ice-cold snob who barely tolerates her husband, Calvin (Isaiah Mustafa), and can’t stand her family. Well, it’s not hard to understand why she doesn’t like sister Tammy (Natalie Desselle Reid), a screaming shrew with two obnoxious children and a much abused husband, Harold (Rodney Perry). Then again, there’s baby brother Byron (Shad “Bow Wow” Moss), a reformed, fresh-out-of-jail drug dealer with a greedy “baby mama,” Sabrina (the aforementioned Teyana Taylor), and a not-much-better new girlfriend, Renee (Lauren London, I Love You, Beth Cooper), who wants him to go back to dealing. I wouldn’t want to have dinner with these people either. All that’s left is for dope-smoking Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis, TV’s House of Payne) to call in Madea to set things right. This, of course, is accomplished with typical strong-arm Madea tactics, which don’t entirely payoff, since she blurts out a painfully obvious family secret at the dinner, yet again breaking up the party before Shirley can impart her news. In the midst of all this Brown (Mann) has a prostate-cancer scare and Cora (the other Mann) learns something about her parentage. Perry does a little schtick as Joe, but it’s mostly Madea’s show — at least when it doesn’t belong to Shirley and her family, which it mostly does. Typically, all problems are solved too easily — except for one question that serves as a cliffhanger for another entry. Now, Perry has claimed he’s over doing Madea movies — and it’s true that there aren’t any on the slate — but that doesn’t exactly fit this ending. Maybe I’m just a skeptic. Overall, this one’s just Perry basic — apart

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filmsociety The Fearless Vampire Killers JJJJJ

Director: Roman Polanski Players: Jack MacGowran, Roman Polanski, Sharon Tate, Ferdy Mayne, Alfie Bass Horror Comedy Rated NR Roman Polanski’s The Fearless Vampire Killers (or Pardon Me, But Your Teeth Are in My Neck (1967) is a movie I’ve loved since I first saw the heavily bastardized and severely cut TV print on the CBS Late Show in a college dorm back in 1972. It was years before I was able to see Polanski’s original version (the one being shown), but it only increased my fondness for this unusual film, which, depending on the day of the week, is often my favorite Polanski. This is a rare movie in that it works both as a horror spoof (ultimately, a pretty black one) and as a horror movie in its own right. Owing much to both Eastern European art (especially Marc Chagall) and folklore — along with something of the Hammer horror movies — it’s one of the most fairy tale-like films ever made. The plot is a simple enough set-up that has crackpot vampire hunter Prof. Abronsius (Jack MacGowran) and his assistant, Alfred (an unbilled Polanski) traveling “deep into the heart of Transylvania” to help stamp out vampires. What Polanski and co-writer Gerard Brach (not to mention composer Krzysztof Komeda and cinematographer Douglas Slocombe) do with that is something else again — a funny, spooky, visually and aurally stunning horror comedy unlike anything else. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Fearless Vampire Killers Thursday, April 28, 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.

Five Star Final JJJJJ

Director: Mervyn LeRoy (I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Players: Edward G. Robinson, Marian Marsh, H.B. Warner, Aline MacMahon, Boris Karloff Newspaper Drama Rated NR One of the most gripping and powerful of all newspaper dramas, Mervyn LeRoy’s Five Star Final (1931) is a movie that has virtually fallen through the cracks despite being centered on a blistering indictment of tabloid journalism and built around one of Edward G. Robinson’s most compelling performances. Why? I suspect the reason extends all the way to its title. I mean who today even knows what a “five star final” is? Who remembers when newspapers were important enough to warrant multiple editions — from the early “bulldog” edition to the five-star final edition of the title — during the day? That’s a pity because Five Star Final is a terrific movie — hard as nails in its refreshing and often very funny pre-code dialogue and uncompromising in its depiction of the callousness and hypocrisy of the tabloid press. Using the story of one such paper dredging up an old murder case and destroying several lives in the process, the film takes no prisoners where the fourth estate is concerned. As such, it’s still relevant 80 years later. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen Five Star Final Tuesday, May 3, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther. Hanke is the artistic director of the AFS.

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from Loretta Devine — and your fondness for it relies entirely on how you feel about everything that implies. But it’s hard not to notice that this mostly feels like treading water. Rated PG-13 for drug content, language and some mature thematic material. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

Water for Elephants JJJ

Director: Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend) Players: Robert Pattinson, Reece Witherspoon, Christoph Waltz, Paul Schneider, Hal Holbrook Romantic Drama Rated PG-13

The Story: A circus worker during the Great Depression gets entangled with the show’s star attraction — who just happens to be the boss’ wife. The Lowdown: A slick-looking romantic drama that lacks the right amount of whimsy or electricity to really work. As soon as Water for Elephants ended, my primary reaction was that most people’s mothers would like it. My theory was backed up pretty quickly after my own mother informed me of how much she enjoyed the film. Now, I do need to point out — and not just because my mom will probably read this and regardless of my mother’s exquisite taste (she did birth me, after all) — that stating that Water for Elephants is a film your mother will like is not a slight against the film, but merely an indication of the type of movie we’re dealing with here. It’s well-made and often slick, heavy on romance, and trades in black-and-white morality, doing everything you expect — and in some cases want — it to do. But at the same time, this perfectly well-produced veneer of austerity keeps the film in need of chemistry and fireworks, two things that ultimately restrain the film from being anything more. In a lot of ways, Water for Elephants is very much in the vein of James Cameron’s Titanic (1997) (though, thank heavens, much, much shorter), not just in its aims and the overall mood, but in the way the narrative is built and how it runs. Like Titanic, the story is framed within the tale of an elderly person, as they reminisce on a tragic event tied to a romantic

interest in their life. In this case, a great big boat sinking is replaced by a circus disaster, told through the narration of Jacob (Hal Holbrook, who transforms into Robert Pattinson in flashback), who, during the Depression, ran off and joined the circus after the death of his parents. Jacob, who almost finished veterinary school, soon finds work treating animals at the behest of the circus’ boss, August (Christoph Waltz), a showman and cutthroat businessman — to the point he throws people off his train in order to save money. August’s wife, Marlena (Reece Witherspoon), is the show’s star attraction, and of course — this being the type of movie it is — Jacob finds himself falling for her, despite that sort of romantic entanglement being completely forbidden, and constantly causing the film to veer on the edge of tragedy. None of this is particularly original, meaning the way the material is handled is what makes the movie. Director Francis Lawrence has made a fine-looking film, and juggles the story’s elements well, which is a surprise looking at the man’s pedigree of music videos and CGI-heavy sci-fi. But, like a lot of music-video-turned-film directors, Lawrence doesn’t quite have a handle on the human aspects of the story, placing a premium on visuals while foregoing any sense of narrative whimsy or true emotion. Not all of this is Lawrence’s fault. There’s an occasional clunkiness evident in the screenplay, which oscillates between the far-fetched and the mawkish, while the characters’ motivations always feel at the mercy of the script’s needs rather than anything organic or realistic. Then there’s the cast, which isn’t quite so bad as it is unexciting due to a real lack of chemistry between Witherspoon and Pattison. Even Cristoph Waltz’s maladjusted bad guy is a disappointment, because we’ve seen this role from him twice already (earlier this year in The Green Hornet, and most notably in 2009’s Inglourious Basterds). Does all this mean that Water for Elephants is a bad movie? Not at all. It can even be pretty entertaining if you’re in the mood for its prepackaged romantics, but don’t go in expecting anything approaching cinematic electricity. Rated PG-13 for moments of intense violence and sexual content. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

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specialscreenings Sans Soleil JJJJ

Director: Chris Marker Players: Florence Delay (narrator, French version), Alexandra Stewart (narrator, English version) Documentary Rated NR Calling Chris Marker’s Sans Soleil (1983) a documentary — or alternatively a travelogue — is deceptive, though it qualifies as both, after a fashion. It might be more correct to call it an essay film, but even that is tricky, since the filmmaker distances himself from how the proceedings evoke his impressions about the things he sees by presenting them as letters written by a “Sandor Krasna” being read by a woman. Marker keeps himself at bay throughout, yet it’s clearly him. As the mysterious Krasna notes at one point, “We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten,” and that seems to be the core of the film and its approach. It sometimes goes further since the San Francisco that filmmaker wants is less the reality than it is the San Francisco of Hitchcock’s Vertigo (1958). Whether or not it completely works will depend on the viewer’s taste for experimental/ non-narrative film, but it’s never less than fascinating. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Sans Soleil at 8 p.m. on Friday, April 29, at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District, upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

The Spirit of the Beehive JJJJJ

Director: Victor Erice Players: Fernando Fernan Gomez, Teresa Gimpera, Ana Torrent, Isabel Telleria Allegorical Drama Rated NR Friends have tried to get me to watch Victor Erice’s The Spirit of the Beehive (1973) for ages. One even sent me a copy, but I never got around to actually watching it, so I was glad to be forced into doing it by this screening. The upshot of my viewing, however, is a sense of a movie that I admired much more than I actually liked. And I’m not sure why. It is, after all, the story of the impact a traveling movie show has on a young girl, Ana (Ana Torrent), when it brings James Whale’s Frankenstein (1931) to her little Spanish town in 1940. It’s visually striking. It evokes something of Buñuel and more than a little of Bryan Forbes’ allegorical Whistle Down the Wind (1961). It looks forward to Alejandro Amenabar’s The Others (2001) and very much (albeit in a much less fanciful manner) to Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth (2006). So what’s not to like? Nothing really, but the film doesn’t quite resonate with me, despite its haunting quality and the fact that it never gives up its secrets. Perhaps the most interesting aspect is the fact that nearly everyone who writes about the film reaches a different conclusion as to its meaning. In that regard alone, it’s a film very worth experiencing for yourself. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Hendersonville Film Society will show The Spirit of the Beehive at 2 p.m. on Sunday, May 1, in the Smoky Mountain Theater at Lake Pointe Landing Retirement Community (behind Epic Cinemas, 333 Thompson St., Hendersonville).

World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements Director: Chris Farina Players: John Hunter

Documentary Rated NR This is not a review. Rather it is the announcement of the single screening — the Asheville premiere — of the new documentary World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements, which is described by the sponsors as “an award-winning documentary film set in a Charlottesville, Va., public school” that “depicts the transformation that happens as a class of students at a neighborhood public school work to solve all of the Earth’s crises with a balanced budget. During the game, students assume the roles of world leaders confronted by an ongoing series of military, economic and environmental crises teaching students the ‘work of peace.’ The goal is to free each country from dangerous circumstances and attain global prosperity with the least military intervention possible.” More at http://www.worldpeaceavl.com reviewed by Ken Hanke World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements screens on Wednesday, May 4, at 7:10 pm at Diana Wortham Theatre in Pack Place. Following the film, teacher/star John Hunter and director Chris Farina will host a Q&A and open dialogue with local leadership in education. Doors open at 6:45 p.m. Admission is $16, but is free to K-12 teachers, though RSVP is required.

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1BR, 1BA EAST • 28 Hillendale. Sunporch, coinop laundry. $525/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA HENDERSONVILLE • 825 4th Ave. Hardwood floors, off-street parking. $475/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

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GREAT DUPLEX APT Beautiful, peaceful, countrylike 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, 828-2500458 or cell 828-545-2981. HENDERSONVILLE • 1BR, 1BA. Near Main St. On bus line. Special! Only $350/month. 828-252-4334. NORTH ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 1BA Townhouse apartment. 1 mile from downtown off Merrimon Ave. Special at $495/month. 3BR, 1BA $595/month. 828-252-4334. STUDIO, 1BA SOUTH • 1010 Hendersonville Rd. A/C, all utilities included. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com STUDIO • Hendersonville. Near Main St. On bus line. Special! Only $295/month. 828-252-4334. WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $800/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.

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Administrative/ Office ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE AND LEGAL ASSISTANT The Southern Environmental Law Center is expanding its Asheville NC office from 2 attorneys to 4 and is opening a new position for administrative support. As the Administrative Office and Legal Assistant, this team member will assist in dayto-day office management and provide administrative and litigation support to the attorneys. • Applicants must have a bachelor’s degree and be proficient in all Microsoft Office applications. • The ideal candidate will have prior office administration experience, prior litigation support experience and enthusiasm for environmental protection and natural resource conservation. To learn more about this unique opportunity and our organization, please visit our website: http://www.southernenviron ment.org/about/jobs/. • To apply, please mail your resume with cover letter to: Administrative Office and Legal Assistant; 601 W. Rosemary Street, Suite 220; Chapel Hill NC 27516-2356. No telephone calls please. EOE CUSTOMER SERVICE REPRESENTATIVE Book distributor seeks customer service rep, 30-40 hours per week, M-F. Order processing, advising customers, and invoicing. Must have computer skills and enjoy working with customers on the phone. Some travel. Email letter and resume to jm@comground.com

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.

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Weekends and holidays are required. Experienced only apply in person, MondaySaturday, 2pm-4pm: 337 Merrimon Avenue, Weaverville. Stoney Knob Cafe. TUPELO HONEY CAFESOUTH Accepting FOH positions. Busy, fun and website for a printable application and drop it at our South store between 2PM-5PM. Please don’t email your resume or call application. Management will contact you for an interview. Experience and reasonable availibility a must. www.tupelohoneycafe.com

SALES ASSOCIATE/ MANAGER AFLAC (A fortune 200 Company, named Fortune best places to work, $80 billion in assets) has immediate opportunity available for sales coordinator trainees and business-to-business sales associates to participate in our highly visible national advertising campaign. Candidates would be responsible for sales planning, marketing development, and businessto-business sales. We offer our representatives:$30$60k possible first year • Excellent compensation and benefits • Comprehensive training • The latest in sales automation technology • Travel and stock incentives. #1 in payroll marketing. Please call us at 828-6650522 or email s_russell@us.aflac.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. resumes@ thurmondco.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@families together.net

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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.

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DUTIES: Provide leadership and coordination for departments and programs of Arts & Science division. Oversee, implement, and evaluate the A.A., A.S., A.F.A., and Biotechnology programs. Ensure all courses and programs support College mission and meet educational needs of students, transfer institutions and employers. Recruit faculty. Supervise and evaluate faculty and staff performance. Coordinate and administer annual planning, evaluation and budget processes. Develop and administer division/ department budgets supporting educational goals and priorities. Coordinate development of division course schedule. Provide leadership

in the assessment of general education student learning outcomes. Provide highly responsible staff assistance to VP of Instructional Services. Perform other duties as assigned. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: Master’s degree in a discipline of Arts & Science Division. Teaching experience at the college or university level. Three years of college-level administrative experience. Excellent oral and written communication skills. Excellent organizational skills. Ability to use appropriate technology tools to manage work and create reports. Demonstrated collaborative and team building experience. Salary $69k - $85k

OTHER POSITIONS: ENGLISH INSTRUCTOR MOVES AND SETUP TECHNICIAN GROUNDSKEEPER (MAIN OR ENKA CAMPUS) INSTRUCTOR, BUSINESS COMPUTER TECHNOLOGIES More job listings and application can be found on A-B Tech’s website: www.abtech.edu/jobs

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MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF LOCAL YOUTH • If you are experienced in working with youth, particularly the mental health population, Eliada Homes could be a great fit! We are a local nonprofit seeking PRN staff. We have availability mostly on second and third shift, and there is potential to move into a full-time benefited position. Must have high school diploma/GED and some experience working with youth or special needs population. Must be able to pass drug and criminal check. Please send resume to speck@eliada.org

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Technical Assistant, Serials & Resource Sharing Warren Wilson College is accepting applications for the library staff position of Technical Assistant, Serials & Resource Sharing. The person in this full time, twelve month position will divide his/her time between serials operations and resource sharing responsibilities and also serve as library building manager. Work hours are Monday and Friday, 8-5 and Tuesday to Thursday, 9-6. Serials: recruits, trains, supervises and evaluates student workers in the following tasks: receive and process all library mail; prepare and process incoming journals, newsletters, and newspapers; shelve materials and maintain current and bound periodical stacks; record the journal titles circulation usage for annual statistics report; process deselected, discarded and/or withdrawn periodicals; shift and inventory periodicals stacks, as necessary. Performs all functions necessary to manage the library’s serials subscriptions, including the following: check in all journals using the III Millennium Serials module; claim lost, missing, or damaged issues; process serials invoices; update serials holdings lists regularly; prepare statistical and ﬁnancial reports of serials usage and budget, as needed; prepare journals for binding; work with the appropriate maintenance contract providers to keep the microformat reading/printing equipment in good working condition and assist users in its operation. Resource sharing: assists with the technical processing of materials loaned to and borrowed from other libraries. This may include but is not limited to: the retrieval, opening, sorting, and packaging of postal mail, retrieval of books and articles for loan to other libraries, cataloging of borrowed materials for use by our patrons, contact with other libraries and our patrons regarding missing, delayed, or overdue materials, and general ofﬁce upkeep and organization. Also supervises student crew in the resource sharing operation, as assigned.

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Building Manager: processes and tracks work orders for repairs of the building and its inventory; monitors the building for needed repairs; serves as liaison between the library staff and facilities management; consults with the library director about building-related issues. General: opens the library Mondays and Fridays, staffs the reference desk Tuesdays to Thursdays 5:00 to 6:00 p.m. and other times, as needed; tallies copier use; participates in library staff meetings; performs other duties, as assigned. Qualiﬁcations: Bachelor’s degree; Experience with automated systems in a work environment and general computer applications, including word processing and spreadsheets; Strong oral and written communication skills; Strong organizational skills with ability to pay attention to detail; Strong interpersonal skills; Ability to perform multiple tasks and cooperate in a ﬂexible team environment. Desirable: Experience with serials or resource-sharing functions; Experience with electronic serials and document delivery; Work experience in a library, especially in a college or university; Experience training and supervising college students. Warren Wilson College is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of its community. Electronic submissions are required. Review will begin immediately. A priority will be given to applications received by May 11, 2011. Please send cover letter, résumé, and contact information for three professional references by email to hr@warren-wilson.edu

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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@thementornetwo rk.com. • Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting. NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739. OVER NIGHT SUPPORT • CooperRiis has an immediate need to fill an Over Night Support position at its Asheville campus. Position is Part-Time, approximately 27 hours per week; Thurs thru Sat nights from 10pm-7am. Applicants should be reliable, empathic, and generally interested in improving the lives of individuals suffering from mental health challenges. Interested individuals should submit a resume and cover letter to hr@cooperriis.org 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/AMH 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

RECOVERY SERVICES MANAGER Meridian Behavioral Health Services, nestled in the Smoky Mountains of western North Carolina, is an organization dedicated to quality and innovation in the delivery of rural behavioral health services. • We are seeking a passionate, values-driven and dynamic professional to oversee our Recovery Education Centers. These programs reflect a unique design which integrates educational, clinical and peer support components in a community college-like milieu. • To be considered, applicants must be wellversed in the recovery paradigm of mental health and substance abuse services and must have experience with program development and implementation. • A Master’s degree, license eligibility and previous supervisory experience are also required. For more information about Meridian and our Recovery Education Centers, go to www.meridianbhs.org. • If interested, please email your resume to Kim Franklin, Ph.D., Clinical Director at kim.franklin@ meridianbhs.org 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 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

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

Professional/ Management DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATION • The national office of The American Chestnut Foundation located in Asheville, NC, is seeking a Director of Public Relations and Communications. Applications will be accepted through May 4, 2011. To apply, please send cover letter and resume to betsy@acf.org. Position description and desired qualifications are posted on the TACF website at www.acf.org No phone calls please. HYDROPONICS GROW ROOM MANAGER Seeking individual to manage dayto-day business and overall management of hydroponics Grow Room in downtown Asheville. Project in the development phase; provide technical expertise for design and layout of equipment. • Must have considerable knowledge and experience with hydroponics grow systems and operations; plant propagation and management. Written and verbal communication skills a must. • Responsible for marketing and delivery of product, inventory control, budgets and maintenance of records. Must be organized and able to juggle multiple tasks at the same time. Must be able to communicate with all levels of the organization. • Must have minimum High School Diploma or Equivalent and NCDL. Degree in agriculture preferred. • Send resume to Jenny Reggi, 147 Coxe Avenue, Asheville NC 28801 or apply in person at Liberty Corner Enterprises, Inc., 147 Coxe Ave., Asheville, NC. EOE

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Frankie, a three-year-old Himalayan is loving and curious. He does fine with dogs. Frankie is very verbal and would love a forever home where he can cuddle up and tell you what he thinks. Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony located at 803 Fairview Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 to meet Frankie and shop for all of your pet supply needs.

DACHSHUND WIRE HAIRED PUPS • AKC Registered. 2 are rare piebald pattern and 1 is solid red. Home raised around children. Beautiful, healthy, playful and ready for their forever home! Up to date on shots. Health guarantee. I’m a show breeder and these are prime quality pups. Call 828 713.1509 or email davarner@bellsouth.net for photos & more information. $525.

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Sally is a two-year-old Hound Mix who is a loving, sweet and eager to please little girl. Sally would do better in a home with older children. Her foster reports, “She’s as good as gold!” Sally would love to be part of your household. 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 and find out when you can meet Sally.

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

Automotive Services WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair. Half price repair and service. ASE and factory certified. Located in the Weaverville area. Please call 828-2756063 for appointment.

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Lawn & Garden For sale: Bought new, used 2 seasons: 16” double disk Ford plow, 4 section 4 disk. Also: Trailer hitch. Also: hay rake. All in excellent condition. Call 665-0889, after 6pm.

R.E.A.C.H. Your Regional Emergency Animal Care Hospital. Open MondayFriday, 5pm-8am and 24 hours on Weekends and Holidays. • 677 Brevard Road. (828) 665-4399. www.reachvet.com

Sow True Seed HAND SELECTED GARLIC SEED, PLANT NOW THROUGH NOVEMBER! Heirloom and Organic Vegetable, Herb and Flower Seed. 100%OpenPollinated (non-hybrid) varieties. Free catalog. 146 Church St, Asheville, NC, 28801 www.sowtrue.com 828 254-0708

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General Merchandise

Autos Wanted: Several body parts for Toyota Pickup, 1984-89 model. Also parts for Honda car, 1973-77. Call 6650889, after 6pm.

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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Yard Sales Forest Lake Subdivision Spring Community Garage Sale. April 30, 2011, 8am12pm. GROUP YARD SALE • THIS SATURDAY! April 30, 8am2pm. (Rain date: May 7) at MAHEC, 118 WT Weaver Blvd, just down the road from UNC-A. LARGE YARD SALE MONTFORD Large Yard Sale - Sunday, May 1, 2011 at 149 Courtland Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801. Starting at 9:00 AM. 828-350-9960. THIS SATURDAY • YARD SALE Saturday, April 30, 8am-1pm. St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 233 Hillside Street off Merrimon Avenue, opposite Claxton School. • Set up your booth for $15. Bake sale, hot dogs, furniture and many miscellaneous “stuff”. Call 254-2415 for more info.

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