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p. 10 Down and out in Asheville Glitzy billboards and tourism brochures depict an Asheville with no hint of poverty. But the hard numbers tell a far different story, contradicting the paradisal image that’s being peddled nationwide.

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18 inside air force one Former steward Howie Franklin shares what it was like to serve a line of U. S. presidents.

19 fabricated? Ex-wife claims she didn’t endorse N.C. GOP vice chair. while visiting Asheville.

arts&entertainment 50 prosthetic limbs and inflatable penguins Chuck Palahniuk comes to town to Tell All

52 keeping up with the joneses Norah Jones and Sharon Jones play Asheville in the same week

54 handcranking out of downtown The iconic underground space is moving out; holding a giant sale

56 love in the city of lights Asheville Ballet presents An American in Paris

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letters Test your behavior using your own ethics, not those of animal-right activists I was disappointed that the Obamas’ recent Asheville visit began with a meal of factoryfarmed ribs. They clearly adore their dog Bo, and it’s hard to understand why people who care about a certain species can be so indifferent to the suffering of others. Pigs, after all, are smarter than dogs.

Many think the government regulates animal agriculture. Think again. Most states specifically exempt “standard agricultural practices” from their cruelty statutes, no matter how violent and depraved the procedure. Animals routinely have their body parts (genitals, toes, ears, tails, horns etc.) mutilated or severed while they are fully conscious, and no pain relief is provided. Most animals are crammed indoors and inside enclosures so tight they can’t turn around — or, in the case of chickens, spread a wing. The Humane Methods of Slaughter Act doesn’t apply to birds, who represent 98 percent of the animals slaughtered for food. And it’s seldom enforced for other animals.

Countless animals are hacked apart while fully conscious, or scalded alive.

Most consumers support factory farms and slaughterhouses with their food dollars, which provides a sense that it must not be all that bad.

Yet history is full of outrageous social injustices: evil can, indeed, be the norm. If you think I’m exaggerating, take a peek behind the closed doors that hide the institutionalized cruelty of food pro-

duction by visiting www.meat.org. If you treated a dog or cat this way, you’d go to jail.

A 2008 Gallop poll noted that 97 percent of Americans believe that animals should be protected from abuse. Yet most people eat animals who have been treated abominably. Contrary to common criticisms, animal activists are not trying to force our views on others. We seek to shine a spotlight on carefully hidden cruelty so that people will make lifestyle choices in accordance with their own ethical standards. Most people, including the Obamas, would not do these horrific things to animals. Where’s the integrity in paying others to do it for them?

Does a culinary preference to eat corpses outweigh another individual’s interest in not becoming one? Does might make right?

— Stewart David Asheville

More to small biz than caught Flaum’s eye It is obvious that Jonathon Flaum didn’t give us all the details of his downtown small-business walk last week in the small-business edition of the Mountain Xpress [Commentary, ”A Walk on the Wild Side,” April 14]. Please allow me to fill in the gaps of his stroll.

Apparently he must have meandered up into Chicken Alley where he proceeded to score and smoke a fat one. I surmise this because as he walked back up Lexington Avenue, he failed

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Correction In last week’s Xpress, we incorrectly reported that Rocky Owenby, Democratic candidate for Buncombe County sheriff, attended the grand opening of the local Republican Party’s new headquarters. He did not; it was instead Dickie Green, Republican sheriff candidate.

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Then, as he was cruising back down Lexington, he failed to mention that his paranoia set in, as a group of gutter punks changed his course, and he completely circumnavigated and avoided the corner of Lexington and Walnut. In skipping this corner and hopping over to the courtyard, he passed up Cornerstone Minerals, one of Asheville’s best educational opportunities, and one of Lexington’s greatest highlights. Granted, it is down below in the “cave,” but what he passed up surely would have surprised him. It is technically a gallery, but essentially is a museum. Cornerstone boasts a massive 30,000 year old cave bear skull in the back that is not to be missed. In addition, there are thousands of stones in every variety, a diversity of meteorites, and a fossil collection that would make a paleontologist drool. Not to mention a great selection of jewelry and prices that are highly competitive.

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America. The gallery has been open for 5 years, 7 days a week, 362 days a year.

I know that not all retail establishments can be mentioned in such a small highlight of locallyowned businesses downtown. But for Jonathon to miss so many of Lexington’s major highlights warrants a second thought to a pit stop in Chicken Alley before going on his stroll.

— Nicole Bassett Asheville

Don’t just complain; take action Dear Cindy Hady of Fairview: As long as you just sit around weeping for Mother Nature and writing letters to the local paper [”The Developers of the Cliffs Need to Stop This Tragic Development,” April 28] your interests will continue to be ignored and

steamrolled.

Wake up! This country has a long history of revolutionary and political action, which has done much more for the people than complaining has.

Of course they are ignoring you! If you really feel so strongly about the negative impact of development on your life and your community, then you had better take action and make them listen. If you’re at a loss as to how to actually fight for what you believe, I suggest starting with Saul Alinsky’s classic book, Rules for Radicals. If you don’t stand up and fight, business and government will keep on doing what they do, regardless of your letters and suggestions. Good luck!

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It’s early Monday morning, and some 20 to 30 people stand clustered in front of the EblenKimmel Charities, an off-white building tucked back near the West Asheville Sam’s Club and the state lottery office. They are male and female, young and old, of differing ethnicities and races.

Some carry purses or water bottles; others clasp forms closely to their chest or tap the rolled-up papers against the palm of one hand.

One by one, they approach a man in shirt and tie who checks over those precious clutches of documents.

“Come on. Come on. And how are you today?” he says, quickly scanning each piece of paper before allowing its owner to proceed. But however many people he lets in, the line never seems to diminish, as more keep arriving, on foot or dropped off by car, to join the crowd.

The documents confirm these people’s eligibility for help with the most basic of needs. The nonprofit’s nutrition program distributes up to 5 tons of packaged food per month to folks who otherwise simply could not afford to eat.

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Glitzy billboards and Tourism Development Authority brochures depict an Asheville with no hint of poverty. But the hard numbers tell a far different story, contradicting the paradisal image that’s being peddled nationwide.

As of 2007 (the most recent census figures available), fully 20 percent of the Asheville Metro Area’s population was living below the federal poverty line. That means the poverty rate for residents of Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Haywood counties was almost 50 percent above the state average of 14.3 percent. And that was before the brunt of the global economic melt-

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Keeping her home: Marie Messer, a 79-year-old retiree, in the kitchen of the West Asheville home she nearly lost due to mounting mortgage payments photo courtesy of pisgah legal services

down really kicked in here.

“We were seeing some pretty significant increases before, but the beginning of 2008 is when we really saw the impact start to hit us,” notes Tim Rhodes, economic-services program administrator for the Buncombe County Department of Social Services.

Charts provided by the DSS show the demand for assistance skyrocketing. In 2007, the agency calculates, 18,021 county residents were receiving food stamps. Currently, that number stands at 29,500 — “and it’s going to grow much higher than that,” Rhodes predicts. In 2007, the county spent a total of $21 million on food assistance; this year, it’s on track to exceed $46 million.

Demand has increased so much, so fast, that agency staff have had to manually write in the current levels, which have broken the scale of the graphs used to measure such expenditures since the late ’80s.

It’s not just people trying to put food on the table, either. The demand for new adult protective services — people seeking relief from abuse or exploitation — has risen 62 percent over the past two years.

“We’re definitely seeing more exploitation cases come in due to the economy,” reports Angela Pittman, social-services program administrator at DSS. “Families are moving in together or somebody moves in to take care of their older parent or relative, and if that person has resources, they may use those for purposes other than care.”

Meanwhile, the Asheville-based Pisgah Legal Services, which offers free assistance to those who can’t afford it, has seen its caseload jump 25 percent compared with last year, with a 54-percent rise in domestic-violence cases and even sharper increases in housing-related disputes. “We see more foreclosures, more homelessness as a result of the housing crisis,” explains Communications Manager Katie Miller.

And in domestic-violence cases, adds staff attorney Mae Creadick, “People are waiting longer to leave, until the violence is worse, because ... they don’t have anywhere to go. They might be facing homelessness for themselves and their children. ... Shelters are full, more than we’ve seen before.” And that’s not even mentioning the unknown numbers of local folks who are subsisting in intolerable conditions, says Creadick.

“I don’t think a lot of middle-class people have a conception of how some people are living,” notes Miller. “One of our clients was living in a mobile home that was 30 years old: There were holes in the floor of her kids’ bedroom. You can’t keep that warm if there are holes in it. There are conditions out there that you can’t imagine.”

Another client lived in a shed with no bathroom — and was facing eviction from even this, Miller recalls. “The substandard housing conditions people are living in are alarming. ... People ... have no idea how bad it is.”

At the same time, Asheville’s unemployment rate remains well below the state average (9.4 percent compared with 11.1 percent), meaning

stat One in five people in the Asheville metro area lived below the federal poverty line before the recession began. many of the local poor are employed — and still can’t make ends meet. According to DSS numbers, 28 percent of local food assistance goes to people working full time, and 69 percent to those with some kind of earned income. Many of these people were already stretched thin, but the recession has pushed them over the edge.

“It’s really amazing how the face of those seeking our help has changed,” says Pittman. “It’s those working people — people who’ve never had to ask for help before.”

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Christopher Head has lived in Ashevile for 11 years. The 21-year-old says he’s been “marginally employed” at the Carmike 10 movie theater for about a year. Before that he slept on friends’ couches for seven months. “It beats being out on the street, but it still sucks,” he says with a laugh.

Early last year, he was laid off from his job at the Double Decker Coffee Co. due to flagging revenues. “It was nice; I loved that job, and then winter came,” says Head. “They had to let someone go, and I was the least-tenured employee there.”

Since then, he’s submitted hundreds of applications to local businesses, “going door to door.

Most of the places you go there’s not a chance in the world, but you still go in, just in case. It’s not even about first impressions or resumés: It’s about having a friend who can vouch for you, who can get you into the place where they work.

That’s how I’ve gotten all my jobs.”

Head now lives “in a house with a bunch of friends. ... That’s basically the only reason I can afford to live in a house right now, because we have a lot of people and so rent is ridiculously cheap.”

And though the downturn has certainly hurt, he notes, “Things have always been tight. ... At best you’re getting by, maybe putting a couple hundred dollars in the bank. But then something happens, and that money has to cover whatever happens.”

None of Head’s jobs have offered benefits, yet, “I’m fortunate enough to have provided everything I need for myself without government assistance,” he stresses. “I’ve never had food stamps, even though I’ve been thinking lately that it would be a good idea.”

And though he describes his current living situation as “incredibly lucky,” there’s still no security. Head’s previous living situation ended in eviction after he and his roommates had endured “nine layoffs between four people. Even though the rent wasn’t that expensive, we didn’t have any money. There’s no cushion for an emergency.

“That says something about this town,” he maintains. “We say we’re local here, but we were all working for local businesses, and they

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“There’s a couple ways I’ve had to adapt,” he continues. “Learning to live without stuff: You go out shopping, you buy necessities and nothing else.”

Still, Lynch says he’s “pretty happy. I’ve learned what I didn’t need. But I want to be a more productive member of society. The mainstream media has a lot of stories about the turnaround, but I’m just not seeing it. I’m seeing everyone still struggling pretty hard.”

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just weren’t doing well enough to support their workers.”

Head says all he wants is “simple, honest work.

I don’t mind not making very much money, but I’d like to not have to worry about paying rent every single month. I don’t feel that these lowerpaying jobs are worthless: Someone has to do them. I’m not saying we should make tons of money, but since someone has to do these jobs, they should be able to afford to live [in exchange] for working all the time.”

He does think things are picking up “a little — but not as much as they’d like you to believe.”

The professional

Not so long ago, David Lynch, a self-employed graphic designer, had an office in the Flatiron Building and business was good.

“I moved here in 1997 from Los Angeles;

to hang onto the house they’d bought together only 18 months before. “It seemed like one of us should stay,” he explains. “I figured I could keep it for three years, let it build a bit of equity, and walk out of it with what I walked into the marriage with. In the meantime, the house’s value plummeted: It probably lost between 10 and 15 percent below what I owed on it.”

After trying everything he could think of, including getting a housemate, Lynch went for credit counseling. “I expected they’d say, ‘Well, here’s how we can help you out; here’s how we can negotiate things,’” Lynch recalls. “By then, my business was down about 40 percent but still going. They said, ‘Get out from under your house. Short-sell it, and if that doesn’t give you enough relief from your bills, then go Chapter 7.’ I was dumbfounded — I expected something

“It’s really amazing how the face of those seeking our help has changed. It’s those working people — people who’ve never had to ask for help before.”

— Angela Pittman, Buncombe County DSS everything was great,” he recalls. “When I was on the West Coast, I made it through the Bush I recession. I made it through earthquakes; the Rodney King riots were right at the doorstep of my studio back then. I survived a lot of stuff.”

After Lynch moved here, he explains, “I thought I had diversified; I didn’t have all my eggs in one basket. I was doing pretty well.”

Then, about two years ago, “Some of my biggest clients went bankrupt,” he recalls. “Chapter 7 for me too: My business is down more than 75 percent.”

The only upside, notes Lynch with a laugh, is that “I have more time.” Back then, he often worked 70 to 80 hours a week.

Meanwhile, Lynch’s marriage also unraveled.

But after he and his wife split up, Lynch tried

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better.”

But Lynch’s mortgage, he says, contained a clause enabling the bank to collect the remaining debt — about $40,000 — even after the sale. “That was one of the reasons [for] going into Chapter 7, so they couldn’t come after it,” he reveals.

These days, Lynch lives and works out of his fiancee’s home, making “just enough to trickle by.” It’s not a situation he’s used to.

“I started out being a pretty middle-class guy,” notes Lynch. “I was brought up in middle-class suburbs in Los Angeles, always had a certain level of lifestyle it seemed like I would be able to keep for the rest of my life. At least in a big city, when times got tough, bigger companies would try to tighten their belts and [switch to] a smaller

Local service providers believe the struggles will continue for some time to come.

“We’re not predicting much of a slowdown [in demand] in the next two years,” Buncombe County DSS Director Mandy Stone reports.

“There’s one in eight Americans on food stamps; one in four children. You apply those locally and it’s not slowing down.

“We’ve learned we have to be agile,” she adds.

And for those on the edge, Asheville’s high cost of living and shortage of better-paying jobs deliver a devastating one-two punch — “especially if it’s a single-parent household,” notes Rhodes.

“We are fortunate, when you look at our unemployment numbers, to be below a lot of counties and states, but we also see people who are underemployed,” stresses Stone. “We see a lot of people who are employed in several parttime jobs — frequently unbenefited.”

Creadick, too, says, “The majority of [Pisgah Legal’s] clients have jobs — they just don’t earn much, or it’s off-and-on work. ... People have had to leave their jobs because of health problems or mental illness they can’t afford.”

And the DSS’s social-work cases, says Pittman, are becoming “more complex, especially around mental health or around services people need but don’t have the funds to access. We’re finding ourselves supporting families more with concrete means, just to keep kids in good homes. Families and kin are strained now, so they have to rely on us.”

Even the area’s attractiveness can prove a double-edged sword. “Because it’s such a desirable place to live, working-poor families can’t afford to live here,” says Creadick. “The need for affordable housing is extreme: It’s urgent.”

Predictably, this is pushing more and more people into substandard dwellings. “I had a client who was living with her 5-year-old son in a house that had one portable heater — so essentially, the whole house was not heated,” says Creadick. “Her son and her were sick the whole winter. They had a rat infestation, they had leaks and mold. We ended up suing that landlord to repair all those things, to reimburse her.”

The DSS, too, is seeing more formerly middleclass people needing aid. “We’ve seen numerous folks that have faced foreclosure,” notes Rhodes.

“Fortunately a lot of them are temporary, but

stat 29,500 Buncombe County residents are on food stamps.

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The senior citizen

Marie Messer, 79, has lived in her West Asheville home since 1977. After renting for more than a decade, she and her husband bought the house in 1990. But he succumbed to Alzheimer’s and died in a nursing home in 2004.

A former secretary at the Blue Ridge Assembly in Black Mountain, Messer is long retired; her only income is her pension and Social Security.

The mortgage payments ate up most of it, leaving little to pay for basics such as food or medicine (at one point, Messer was subsisting chiefly on peanut butter and crackers).

“I was having a hard time making my house payments,” she explains. “I worried I was going to be homeless. I couldn’t pay my light bill, my water bill, my phone bill. All that was more than I could afford and put gas in my car. Then I had

to file for bankruptcy: That cost $1,000.”

After trying various social-service agencies in vain, Messer contacted Pisgah Legal. They helped her cut her mortgage payments in half, which she says has made a huge difference.

“I still make it; I’m going on,” she says, smiling. “Pisgah Legal called me the other day, asked if I needed anything else. ‘Nope, I’m OK now,’ I told them.”

“It’s hard to do anything when you’re my age.

It’s hard to get out of bed in the morning,” she adds with a chuckle. “But I’m in good shape for the shape I’m in.”

The mother

Alicia Martinez had worked at Mission Hospitals for four years, helping families and children with disabilities “navigate the system” to get what they needed, she explains.

But after Martinez lost her job in January and couldn’t find another, she found herself having trouble navigating and fell behind in her rent. “In many senses I was like a social worker, helping families, but I didn’t know how to help myself,” she observes.

Martinez shares her rented Haw Creek home her son, Isaiah, a special-needs child. “There was a time I was wearing earmuffs,” she recalls, “because I thought every car that was approaching was the sheriff’s deputies coming to evict me.”

Two of her co-workers came to her aid. “They called me one day and said: ‘Alicia, we are five minutes away from your house. Pick any corner, any restaurant, and we’ll meet you there.’ I tried to tell them no, but they wouldn’t take no for an answer. ‘We are not leaving until you come.’ At that point I knew I had to get out of the house.

They came with a list of resources, people that could help me.”

With a boost from Pisgah Legal and the EblenKimmel Charities, Martinez was able to avoid eviction, start collecting unemployment and get food and rent assistance. By the time she went to Pisgah Legal, she was down to half a gallon of gas

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And it can be scary, stresses Creadick, for such people to suddenly confront a whole new set of problems. “Clients who used to be making a good living, lived in a nice house — nicer than any of us have — are going through foreclosure, lost their jobs, now applying for food stamps. They’re immediately thrown into needing all these safety nets and not knowing how to navigate them.”

Meanwhile, federal and state agencies facing their own budget crunches often pass financial burdens down the ladder, leaving cities and counties that much more strapped. The economic crisis has also wiped out many people’s savings, making them more vulnerable.

“During the ice storm, we had families in shelters who, historically, you wouldn’t have seen there, because they would have been able to get through it on their own,” Stone explains. “If they used to have relatives they could move in with, now those relatives are strained. If we see people without power for five days, people can’t refill their food supply. This was a whole new element of the population who are living paycheck to paycheck, with no margin for disaster.”

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in her car and $1.50 in her bank account.

Eblen-Kimmel, meanwhile, “found a program for me; I was very, very fortunate,” she says. But getting through the hoops to receive those services proved difficult.

“A lot of the agencies are willing to help you, but only if other agencies have already helped you,” she notes. “It’s like a giant circle.”

Martinez says she knows what it’s like “to scratch through your jeans and purse, looking for some change, to shop at the dollar store, even though you know the food’s not as healthy, because it’s better than an empty tummy.”

And though she’s managed to stay in her home, it flooded last month.

“It’s like it just hasn’t stopped,” she says.

“Because of stress, my blood pressure was in the 170s. It was one of those things I had to come to terms with: I can’t afford to become sick right now. Not only financially — I’ve got a child to take care of.

“Look at all this white hair: All of this has been in these three months,” she reveals. “There’s a shame in society in talking about this that I think we have to get past.”

Martinez, though, is happy to share her story and offer what help she can to others because of the incredible generosity she’s experienced.

“Yes, agencies can help us, but only so much,” Martinez maintains. “Even in my poverty, there’s $20 I can donate that can do a lot for a family of four. It means a loaf of bread, a meal, eggs. Even in our lack of money there’s always things we can share.”

In between job-hunting, Martinez volunteers to help others in need. And despite her undeniable struggles, she emphasizes, everyone from agencies to Evergreen Charter School to the local Hispanic community “has been extremely kind to me. I feel very fortunate how the community has responded.”

Don’t despair

However dire the situation may be, most local service providers say it’s rarely hopeless.

stat 28 percent of families on food stamps work full-time.

69 percent have some form of income.

Changes in federal law have raised the earnings ceiling to qualify for food stamps and exempted retirement and investment accounts from asset limits. “The idea,” says Stone, “is that Americans losing their jobs don’t have to deplete all their resources in order to access services. That’s a real change from the old days.”

And despite the massively increased demand, she notes, the DSS is managing to turn around requests for help in about the same time (nine days) as it did before the crisis hit, helped in part by electronically submitted forms.

Another new federal law requires landlords whose properties are in foreclosure to let tenants live out their leases. Many poor people have only oral agreements, notes Creadick, but even they now get 90 days to vacate. Additional stimulus funds are helping pay rent, keeping more impoverished people from ending up on the street.

What’s more, says Miller, Pisgah Legal has “a lot of success in these substandard-housing cases. If people get to us, if they know we’re a free service, we’ll enforce the local housing ordinances,” she reports. “We’ll sue the landlord, in addition to [getting] inspectors breathing down their neck.” And if her agency can’t help, adds Creadick, Pisgah Legal refers clients to other local nonprofits.

But sadly, stresses Miller, the whole reason these groups exist is that the problems aren’t new. “Even in normal, great times, there are plenty of people really struggling.” X David Forbes can be reached at dforbes@ mountainx.com or at 251-1333, ext. 137.

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by David Forbes Among the many strategies Asheville has embraced to balance next year’s budget is cutting aid to local groups. Part of that approach — requiring event organizers to pay a greater share of the costs — loomed large at Asheville City Council’s April 27 session.

Thirty-three outdoor events meet the city’s criteria for assistance. A proposed measure singled out six — the Asheville Drum Circle, Greek Festival, Holiday Parade, Downtown After 5, Goombay and Shindig on the Green — reducing their fee waivers by 50 percent to save the city an estimated $57,148 annually.

Apparently, Council members didn’t view the move as controversial; the new requirement, which would take effect July 1, was on the consent agenda, a list of routine matters approved en masse at the beginning of Council meetings.

But a bevy of groups came forward seeking exemptions from the cuts.

Marie Shirley asked Council to exempt the Alzheimer’s Association’s Mountain Memory Walk, which she termed not simply an event but “an opportunity to start a conversation.”

Oralene Simmons of the Martin Luther King Jr. Association stressed the importance of the group’s annual events celebrating King’s legacy.

“This is the only event sponsored by the city of Asheville that is a local, state and federal holiday,” she pointed out. “We would urge support from City Council for the waiver of fees for this event that we would like to produce for our citizens as we have for the past 29 years.”

Downtown Association President Byron Greiner sounded a similar note on behalf of Downtown After 5 and the Holiday Parade, saying, “We’ve created events that energize downtown and bring people here. A discussion of [the changes to event fees] should really be brought before the Downtown Association for review.”

Kitty Love of Arts2People, which coordinates the Lexington Avenue Arts and Fun Festival, also opposed the measure, saying, “I think it’s the wrong time to start cutting back on social programming that’s produced via the community.

Cities and states all over the country are starting to recognize that funding arts and culture pays back.”

Council members seemed sympathetic but uncertain how to proceed. Cecil Bothwell made a motion to proceed with the cuts, but it failed to find a second.

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“We’re creating more antagonistic feelings as opposed to allies,” she said. “We can’t keep changing the rules.” Bellamy and Vice Mayor Brownie Newman proposed treating the next fiscal year as a transition period for event organizers.

Council member Jan Davis, conceding that “We’re in a tight time,” fondly recalled his experiences at Downtown After 5 and felt the city should offer some support for the Holiday Parade, which it had handed off to the Downtown Association as a prior cost-cutting measure.

“We’re going to have some stark choices to make — [whether] to support this type of programming or find a way to do it outside the city,” observed Council member Gordon Smith.

In the end, Council unanimously opted to postpone a decision till its May 25 meeting. But that wasn’t quite the end of it.

“I’d like to point out the elephant in the living room throughout this budget year [that], based on economic predictions, may well be an elephant for the next several years,” said Bothwell. “That’s the decision about whether we’re going to be a lower-service community or not. The alternative to that is to raise taxes, and that is something that’s pretty much off the table as far as most people on Council are concerned.”

If residents want to maintain the current level of services, he added, they should press Council for a modest tax increase.

The Downtown Association had more success with a push to continue waiving usage fees for

the arts events held in Pritchard Park. Advocates maintained that events such as hoop dancing make the park safer and more accessible. Council members mostly agreed, voting 6-1 (with Smith opposed) to extend the waivers through June 30. Then, in a separate action, Council further extended the waivers through the end of 2010 on a 5-2 vote, with Smith and Bothwell opposed.

Smith had proposed extending fee waivers for the events through next summer. Bothwell, meanwhile, felt Council was making a “value judgment” by favoring the Pritchard Park events, but proponents argued that the safety concerns make this a unique situation.

“We’re supporting this because we’re trying to reclaim our park from being a very troubled area,” noted Newman.

Smoked out (again)

A new state law banning smoking inside bars and restaurants took effect Jan. 1. The law also empowers municipalities to approve even stricter rules, and on April 27, City Council did so, banning smoking on all municipal property, including parks and greenways, on a 6-1 vote.

Bothwell, the lone dissenter, had worried earlier about the ban’s implications, asking, “Is this going to infringe on the beer festival?” He also cited the difficulty of enforcing the law and said it was hypocritical for the city to have smoking areas for its own employees (which the ban exempts) but punish someone for smoking in a secluded part of a park.

Smith, noting that Buncombe County had passed an even stricter ban with no exemption for employees, said, “They have yet to write a single

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“We’re sending a message,” chimed in Council member Esther Manheimer. “As a mother of three kids, that’s the real important part to me.”

For Asheville resident Jeff Turner, however, the ban smacked of fascism. “I’m a veteran, and this sounds like Nazi Germany up here,” he declared. “I’m willing to put my life on the line to be able to smoke, and you people are sitting up here like you’re in some Third World regime taking away people’s rights with your dictating.”

Turner swore he’d be among the first to violate the new ordinance. During the public-comment period, however, Turner apologized for his “spirited outburst” and praised Council for its “fiscal responsibility” in tackling budget issues.

necting them with jobs, connecting them with health care,” Transit Commission Chair Hanna Raskin observed. “You have the opportunity to do right by our citizens once more by supporting this.”

“This is a good start,” said commission Vice Chair Paul Van Heden, adding that Council should also adopt other proposals in the city’s Transit Master Plan, such as expanded hours and Sunday service.

But Fairview resident Mike Fryar took a dim view of the marketing campaign, saying, “I don’t know why the city would want to keep wasting money like this.”

Balancing act

The city also appears close to closing the remaining $1 million budget gap through a vari-

“We’re creating more antagonistic feelings as opposed to allies. We can’t keep changing the rules.”

— Mayor Terry Bellamy Smoking is still allowed on sidewalks and public streets. And though it does have a wider reach — smoking was previously prohibited only inside city buildings — the ordinance (which takes effect July 1) also lowers the fine from $200 to $50.

Beefed-up buses

Council unanimously approved a series of transit-improvement measures, including running buses every 30 minutes on the most-used routes and following the same routes for day and evening service. But Council member Bill Russell balked at supporting a $150,000 marketing campaign to promote the changes (which was approved 6-1), citing concerns about the cost in tight times.

All told, the marketing and route changes will cost an estimated $163,000, with $130,000 coming from federal stimulus grants and the rest from savings due to more efficient routes and ending evening service a half-hour earlier.

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ety of measures staff presented in a pre-meeting work session.

An eleventh-hour offer of $480,000 in Federal Transit Administration moneys averted the need to tap the parking fund to keep the transit system afloat. Other proposals include freezing the salaries for 15 mid- to upper-level positions and eliminating cost-of-living increases for staff making more than the area’s median income (about $41,000).

Council members praised staff for finding ways to avoid further cuts in services. Over the past two months, Council members have given the nod (albeit sometimes tentatively) to cuts and fee increases to make up a projected $5 million budget gap.

After further deliberations and public hearings in May, Council members will finalize the budget in June. X David Forbes can be reached at dforbes@mountainx. com or at 251-1333, ext. 137.

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President Nixon, I think, ate cottage cheese with ketchup.

How did the different presidents spend their They’re all on salads and low-fat now. ... time when they were on Air Force One? Did With Ronald Reagan, a breakfast meal consisted they work a lot? Did different ones have dif- of, if we were coming out of California, heavy ferent hobbies and things they’d spend their scrambled eggs with cream cheese to make time on? them even creamier. And large country sausagMost of them were working. I’ve heard presi- es, almost like Italian sausages, with sourdough dents talk about how they like to be on Air bread and hash brown potatoes and probably Force One, because they can get things done. some fruit and a big, fresh Danish. That was a It’s a flying White House. … The flight atten- standard breakfast. dants, our job was to provide a professional but Nowadays it’s fresh fruit, yogurt and a bran comfortable atmosphere. That means when you muffin. came back to the airplane, whether you were the president or you were the staff, we wanted What about Bill Clinton? you to feel like you were at home. You know, He liked his food, but he had to watch what he when you get home and take your shoes off and ate. ... He’s got allergies, so he’s not able to eat relax. dairy products and doesn’t drink alcohol. …

One of the favorite meals in the winter time, What kind of luxuries and resources does the on Air Force One, was a Reuben sandwich with plane have? navy-bean soup. … Everybody liked that. …

There’s private executive jets that are much Another thing the presidents had in common more elaborate than Air Force One, [which] is was they all liked butter-pecan ice cream. an office complex. … They had at least 85 to When we got into low-fat, I would use 87 telephones, and under ideal conditions they rye bread and peppercorn turkey, and low-fat could make up to 22 phone calls at one time. Monterey jack, even though it calls for Swiss.

And they have secure voice — that’s a key issue And then we’d take low-fat Thousand Island on Air Force One. dressing and we’d mix it with sauerkraut, and we’d build this big sandwich and we’d grill it.

What were some of the presidents’ favorite Sometimes I remember the Clintons saying drinks or snacks? to me, “We’ll just each have a half,” and by the Yeah, well, the reality is — and a lot of people time we’d finish the trip, each of them would fall into this category now — presidents can of have three halves. course afford to eat anything they want, but — Jake Frankel they can’t afford to eat it. They’re all on diets, photo by Jonathan Welch

Howie Franklin was an Air Force One flight steward for 18 years, serving under Presidents Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton. That makes him the only person ever to work for five consecutive U.S. presidents.

Franklin now travels the country offering an inside perspective on life aboard the fabled plane.

In the wake of President Obama’s recent Asheville visit, Franklin will share some insights in a free presentation at the Mills River United Methodist Church Tuesday, May 18, starting at 7 p.m. Here’s a preview of what he’ll share.

Mountain Xpress: Did you find that presidents were more demanding than bosses at other jobs you’ve had, or less demanding?

Howie Franklin: About the same. Presidents are less demanding than vice presidents or people at a lower level. [Those] people ... are demanding, and they’re trying to get to the top level.

Were there particular presidents or vice presidents that were harder or easier to work for?

Nobody was real demanding or negative or anything like that. They were all mild-mannered, very nice, polite and appreciative, with different profiles. President Ford had not been elected, so he didn’t have the ego of an elected president.

Was there a noticeably higher level of ego among presidents that were more popular?

Let’s say, if they were more popular, they felt more secure.

One thing I can tell you is these presidents, the person we have now and the former presidents, work long, long hours. And seven days a week. Someone was getting on Obama for

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Ex-wife: N.C. GOP vice chair fabricated my endorsement During Tim Johnson‘s ultimately successful 2009 bid for vice chair of the North Carolina Republican Party, controversy arose over a domestic-violence conviction involving his ex-wife. Johnson, who was then the Buncombe County GOP chair, produced a statement purportedly from his ex supporting his candidacy. Now, however, Ofelia Felix-Johnson says she never made that endorsement and didn’t find out about it until after his election.

“I absolutely did not say that,” FelixJohnson maintains. “This was not done with my consent, and I didn’t even know about it.

I didn’t appreciate him putting my name out there when I had nothing to do with it.”

Felix-Johnson, who now lives in Nebraska, says a family friend who was trying to find contact info for her Googled her name and then alerted family members about her exhusband’s claim.

Johnson released the statement last June after the news broke — in the midst of his campaign for state vice chair — that he’d pleaded guilty to aggravated assault in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, in 1996. He was given an 18-month suspended sentence and ordered to move to Toledo and undergo domestic-violence counseling.

The statement, allegedly from Felix-Johnson, read as follows: “I have been made aware that my ex-husband is a candidate for the job of Vice Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party which I whole heartedly support and were I a resident of that state I would vote for him. It has also come to my attention that people in the Republican party are trying to use potential issues from our marriage in an attempt to smear Tim’s reputation and chances to win the race. When we took our marriage vows, we like so many including President Reagan, former speaker Newt Gingrich or even John McCain hoped that the union would last. Differences sometimes occur and words and actions may happen which require a separation; however, the love and regard for the people involved doesn’t change. My ex-husband has met his obligations to me and our children, our relationship is cordial and I support whatever positive endeavors Latessa and Tim may choose to engage in.

Sincerely, Ofelia Felix-Johnson Omaha, Nebraska” But Felix-Johnson now asserts, “He wrote it — or someone else did — saying it was me speaking, but it wasn’t me.” She also says

she’s contacted state GOP Chair Tom Fetzer about the matter but has gotten no response.

Felix-Johnson first contacted Xpress some months ago, initially requesting that all articles with her name linked to Johnson be removed. After further questioning, FelixJohnson explained that she wanted the articles removed because she hadn’t written or even had any knowledge of her alleged endorsement of Johnson’s campaign, and she agreed to go public with this information. FelixJohnson made these statements (on more than one occasion, more than a month apart) both to this reporter and to then Managing Editor Jon Elliston, both of whom questioned her at length.

After winning the state vice-chair race handily, Johnson resigned as Buncombe County chair and moved to Durham.

Asked on April 30 about the authorship of Felix-Johnson’s supposed endorsement, Johnson declined to comment. “I’ll have to talk to her; I have no idea about this statement,” he told Xpress.

Asked again if Felix-Johnson had written the endorsement, Johnson said: “The statement, in and of itself, I’m not going to answer that. I’m confused as to why this is coming up again right now. There’s a primary race taking place, and I don’t know why anyone’s concerned about a statement from my ex-wife.”

He expressed doubt that Felix-Johnson had in fact spoken with Xpress.

Asked if he could produce an e-mail or similar document confirming that his ex-wife had written the disputed statement, Johnson replied: “I’m not showing that; I’m not going through that. I’m the vice chair, and I don’t have to explain anything that has to do with my relationship with my ex-wife. That doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.”

Advised that the issue is the validity of a public statement he’d ascribed to her, Johnson said: “OK, then that’s what she’s saying. I’ve had reporters communicate with her, and that’s as much as I’m going to involve my exwife at this point.”

After news of Felix-Johnson’s claims was first published on the Xpress Web site April 30, a comment made in Tim Johnson’s name said, “I just spoke with my ex-wife and she tells me that she did not make this statement.”

The commenter also demanded that Xpress retract the story, threatening legal action.

At press time, calls to both of them had not been returned. Felix-Johnson had not contacted Xpress to retract her statements, nor had Johnson verified that the Web comment had, in fact, come from him.

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Tears of Color hosts “Abolishing Human Trafficking” When people think of human trafficking, they often associate it with distant locales like Thailand or Eastern Europe, notes Elena Fesiuk, the director of Tears of Color, an organization working to educate the community about human trafficking. Unfortunately, however, victims of human trafficking — which the organization calls “the modern version of slavery” — are found across the country, closer to home than anyone would wish to acknowledge.

“North Carolina is a primary destination state,” says Fesiuk: Victims (mostly teen girls) are brought to the state and used for labor and, most often, forced into prostitution, she explains. Most of these women are lured into slavery with false promises of work; many are runaways or come from troubled families, Fesiuk continues. And others are sold into sexual slavery. There are more than 27 million people living in slavery today, 80 percent of which are women, the organization reports.

In an effort to educate the community and create a safe space to talk openly about this serious, emotionally weighted topic, Tears of Color will host a concert-for-a-cause called Abolishing: Human Trafficking, slated for Friday, May 7, at The Orange Peel. The evening will feature Americana/roots songstress Shannon Whitworth and pop/rock/ classical-opera singer Mariya Fesiuk (sister in-law of Tears of Color’s director). In addition, Center Stage Dance Studio will present a dance piece focusing on the issue of trafficking. Art donated by Blend Photography, Jonas Gerard, Bernie Smolnik Photography, Vadim Bora Studio-Gallery and Mozingo Photography will be auctioned throughout the evening.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the global

organization The A21 Campaign, aimed at abolishing injustice in the 21st century, and will also support a Western North Carolina organization called the Hope House Project.

The Hope House shelters teenage women who were victims of human trafficking. The organization provides counseling, therapy and educational support for victims to help them recover from physical and psychological abuse. A video documentary focusing on the story of a young woman recently sheltered at the Hope House — an American teen whose father sold her into sexual slavery for $5,000 — will be screened, and a community discussion will follow.

“Her story is absolutely tragic,” says Fesiuk.

“This young girl began working for a pimp — 10 hours a night — starting at the age of 12.” In sharing this story, Fesiuk hopes to “educate the community about this issue and tell people how they can get involved.”

“It’s shocking because you look at these girls and think, you should be getting ready for your prom, thinking about college, living a normal life,” says Fesiuk, who works as a volunteer at the Hope House. “That’s why it’s so important for us to come together and stand up for this cause.”

Abolishing Human Trafficking will be held on Friday, May 7. The silent auction begins at 6 p.m. and the evening program kicks off at 7 p.m. at The Orange Peel (101 Biltmore Ave., Asheville). Cost: $15. Tickets: theorangepeel.net. For more information, see www. tearsofcolor.com, www.hopehousenc.com and www. thea21campaign.org.

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New festival highlights local resurgence of “cottage” businesses Spring always heralds new beginnings. And this year, the season comes with a brand-new springtime festival.

The Cottages of Spring Mountain festival will be held on Saturday, May 8, at the Spring Mountain Community Center in Fairview, aimed at showcasing the entrepreneurial spirit and endeavors of area residents involved in cottage industries. The term “cottage industry” references a time before modern factories, when products and services were home-based and distinctive rather than factory-based and mass-produced.

Partly due to growing concerns about our environment, partly because of the current economic climate, cottage industries are experiencing a renaissance everywhere -- and the Asheville area is no exception.

“Hopefully our efforts will benefit the local entrepreneurs and educate [locals] about the richly varied goods and services available right in our community,” says Carolyn Smith, the community center’s co-president.

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a two-story building, picnic pavilion, and a paved fitness track through a park-like setting, all of which help the meet its goals of enhancing neighbor relationships and improving the health and welfare of their community.

Smith hopes to have about 20 to 30 cottageindustry vendors at the event. To date, exhibitors include jewelry makers, metal workers, textile artists and painters, as well as farmers selling goods like jams and preserves. Area bakers will offer special Mother’s Day cakes for sale, and attendees also will find booths filled with flea-market, estate-sale and collectible items.

While supporting the efforts of local artisans and entrepreneurs is the free festival’s main goal, it’s also a great excuse for locals to get outdoors and mingle.

The family-friendly event will have food and beverages for sale.

Smith calls the festival is the perfect chance to “enjoy a walk in our park, meet friends and neighbors, and pick up a unique gift or two for the special women in your life.”

— Maggie Cramer

Closing down: The Asheville Area Arts Council is closing its gallery and selling its building on 11 Biltmore Avenue. photo by Jonathan Welch

Arts Council to close downtown gallery, sell building After a six-year run, the Asheville Area Arts Council recently announced plans to sell the building it owns at 11 Biltmore Ave. which has showcased emerging artists.

Board Chair Tom Hayes blamed the nonprofit’s decision on tough economic times. “This is not our first choice. This is just something that was financially necessary,” Hayes told Xpress.

“We wrote a lot of grants last year, and we were not very successful.”

Since opening in 2004, the Front Gallery has hosted hundreds of public shows by local artists, but it was never able to generate enough income to break even, Hayes explained. “I know we’re a nonprofit and we’re not there to make money, but we have to cover our expenses.”

Operating expenses for the 1,400-square-foot gallery average $4,000 a month, according to the Arts Council — a target the group says it hasn’t met by “a long shot.”

Hayes said the sale should close in June. He declined to reveal who has the property under contract, except to say their vision would fit well with downtown Asheville. The building sits in between Posana Cafe and Mast General Store.

According to Buncombe County tax records, the property at 11 Biltmore is valued at $357,100.

The organization plans to use the money from the sale to pay off debts, including the mortgage on the adjacent building at 13 Biltmore (which

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The organization sold another building about three years ago, noted Hayes, calling it “a necessary sale.”

The decision comes as part of an overall revisioning and restructuring by the group, which was founded in 1952 as the Civic Arts Council. The nonprofit has experienced a series of wrenching changes recently. Last year saw the departure of both Executive Director Angela Martinez and board Chair Janice Lierz.

Martinez resigned in September, citing her father’s declining health, and the Arts Council has been without an executive director since then. Lierz stepped down to focus on her family and her business, according to a press release sent out at the time. The council also canceled its popular fundraiser, the annual Color Ball, last year due to the difficult economy.

Hayes said the Arts Council hopes to hire a new director by early fall and get the organization to a healthy and sustainable place.

“We’re trying to figure out what the community needs,” he explained. “We’re hoping that this is going to position us to fulfill our role in the future. So hopefully the outcome is going to be a positive one.”

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Hanging on the wall near the cash register at The Mediterranean Restaurant in downtown Asheville is a black-and-white framed photograph of two dapper young men in narrow ties and dark suits. It’s the kind of picture you might find in your parent’s attic, depicting a time when everyone looked happy and people still dressed up to travel.

It was 1967, and the two were aboard the Queen Anna Maria, en route from Greece to the U.S. and a new life. And though it’s a stretch to spot the resemblance now, the guy on the right is Pete Apostolopoulos.

The Med has been in its current location on College Street for 40 years, and Pete and his wife, Paula, have owned it for 36.

It’s not a fancy place, just a long lunch counter and maybe a dozen booths, and apart from a fresh coat of paint now and then, nothing much has changed. The menu, which is also pretty stable, offers affordable comfort food served up hot and fast. No trendy veggie burgers or vegan plates here, and it’s strictly breakfast and lunch.

But perhaps the biggest draw is Apostolopoulos himself (I’ll just call him Pete, because everybody does). You’re about as likely to find him dispensing relationship advice, getting riled up about politics or talking sports as frying up a big slab of country ham at the grill. The lively banter continues all day long, and with his black

mustache and white apron, Pete is the star of the show.

His Greek accent hasn’t faded. Pete came to the States not knowing a word of English, so he took classes and worked at McDonald’s for a year to learn the language. He’s a real character — a “lovable grouch,” his wife calls him — drawing you in with a devilish grin and a funny story, punctuated with a gravelly shout and a wave of his hand.

The couple works six days a week. Pete gets there at 5 a.m. and leaves around 4 p.m., while Paula, who handles the money and serves as the de facto manager, often stays later to make sure everything’s shipshape. A tight team, they complete each other’s sentences and even correct each other’s memories. They’re the Greek aunt and uncle you never had, and in 36 years, they’ve never taken a sick day.

Pete and Paula will regale you with tales of old Asheville. “Lexington Avenue was so run-down in those days that all you could see were winos and prostitutes!” Pete recalls.

“I got to know all of them by name, and we had an understanding. I told them [he leans in and stares as if this were meant for me], ‘If you’re sober and you’re hungry, I’ll feed you. But if you’re drunk ... stay away!’”

Sitting back, he continues, “They respected that over the years; I never had trouble with any of them.”

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“Yes, but you still fed them,” says Paula, rolling her eyes and shaking her head. “You just told them they had to take it to go.” They both laugh.

The couple’s love for what they do is matched only by their love of Asheville and its people. Pete was buying local before “sustainability” became a buzzword. He visits the WNC Farmers Market every day to get the freshest fruit and local grocery stores for meat, doing his best to avoid using big national food distributors. Pete explained: “I have a guy on Lexington Avenue ... he sells the feta cheese. They could deliver tomatoes to me, but I know a guy out at the Farmers Market who sits there all day, trying to make a living out of it, so I try to do as much of that as I possibly can. The distributor, he comes to me and says, ‘Well, I got milk; I can bring you milk.’ But I said to him, ‘Yeah, but there’s a guy that delivers my milk every day: That’s his job. If I start buying from you, he’s not going to have a job around here.’ I get into arguments with the Cisco man all the time — he says, ‘You can buy this from me, you can buy that from me,’” notes Pete, waving his hand dismissively. “Me, I still like to have my milkman come by, my bread man too.”

Over the years, that approach has won him many customers. Blue-collar folks, professionals and the unemployed; black, white, old and young — a real cross section of Asheville, typically talking politics, sports or the weather. City Council member Jan Davis and his wife, Ann, are regulars, and Pete can rattle off a local who’s-who as readily as the day’s specials. “You can always tell it’s election time, because you see all these politicians come in here hoping for a little PR,” he notes. “I tell them to stay away, but they keep coming back!”

The Mediterranean doesn’t advertise; there’s no Web site or Facebook page, and when I mention Twitter he looks at me blankly. “We advertise by word of mouth,” Paula adds, laughing. “I guess we don’t like change.”

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got to stick with it through the good times and the bad,” Pete says simply. That includes the current economic downturn, which Pete and Paula believe every business has felt to some degree. They haven’t lost customers, but they don’t see a lot of them as often as before. “More people are bagging their lunch,” he notes.

But Pete remains characteristically bullish on the local economy. “It will pick up, but I think this will have a lasting effect,” he predicts. “The people who lost their jobs, the people who have found themselves in a bind, they’ve learned a lesson. They’re going to say, ‘I won’t let this happen to me again.’

And that’s not a bad thing! If anything good comes out of this, it’s that. I hope that people will start living for tomorrow instead of just living it up for today.”

Paula puts it a bit more succinctly, saying, “You’ve got to be able to manage your money. When business is good, you have to save up for the rainy days.”

Paula and Pete are both thankful for what they have. “We’ve lived the American dream. I came as a guy from Greece, and out of this place, I got married, I raised two kids, I put two kids through Chapel Hill — one’s going to come out with a doctoral degree — and we built our house. It’s been a blessing.” His only regret? Not having more time to spend talking to his customers, whom the couple consider part of their family in what’s become a second home for them.

Asked about retirement, Pete laughs and says, “Somewhere down the road, I guess I’ll need to be replaced.” Then, leaning in, wagging his finger and looking me straight in the eye, he declares, “But this Greek son of a bitch isn’t going anywhere yet!”

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In 1997, Thayer spent her 60th birthday trekking alone in Antarctica. Thayer will be in Asheville and environs May 12-15 (see box).

Mountain Xpress: How do your adventures relate to your readers’ lives?

Helen Thayer: My expeditions are like life itself.

I need to plan carefully before taking the first step. It takes patience and versatility. Regardless of whom we are and what we want to achieve, the same aspects apply. With planning, a dream becomes a goal. My message applies to everyone.

Why do you go on these trips?

I was born in New Zealand and have been climbing mountains since I was 9. My parents were close friends with Sir Edmund Hillary. [In 1953, Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to climb Mount Everest.] My parents and Ed got me started; I got the idea of sharing these adventures with others, and I created [the nonprofit] Adventure Classroom. We produce material for children K-12 based on our travels.

When I walked to the pole alone, polar bears could have done me in, but [my dog] Charlie did his job well.

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What will you be emphasizing in your talk?

In Asheville, I’ll be talking about my second book, Three Among the Wolves. My husband, Bill, and I traveled to the Canadian Yukon, where we lived within 100 feet of a wild wolf den. Our dog, Charlie, became the star, because he’s part wolf and was raised with wolves. Without Charlie, we couldn’t have done this.

What will be your next adventure?

My husband and I leave in November for Africa. We’ll be spending several weeks with the Sukuma tribe, the largest culture in Tanzania. This is our third time in Africa. These tribes don’t want tourists. We’re respected as

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Artic traveler: Renowned adventurere Helen Thayer pauses with her trusty dog Charlie, who accompanied her on a walk to the magnetic north pole. photo courtesy Helen Thayer

elders, but we feel we have nothing to teach them; they have a lot to teach us.

Were there times when you felt you were going to die?

When I walked to the pole alone, polar bears could have done me in, but Charlie did his job well. We were confronted by seven polar bears, one at a time, and Charlie saved my life more than once.

In the Gobi Desert, we almost died because of lack of water, and I understand that’s not a pleasant way to die. We push the envelope but we don’t let it fall off the table.

At 72 years of age, do you ever say, “This is my last such trip”?

No. One trip leads to another.

What do you say to older folks who feel they cannot have adventures?

Age is no barrier to setting goals. Retirement is moving from one phase of your life to another.

It’s never too late to change your way. Get a good pair of walking shoes. Walk and listen to birds, then increase the speed and mileage. Take the dog with you; make it pleasurable. Never say, “Darn, I have to walk.” Say, “Wow, I’m going to walk.” At home, I stretch, I weight-train and follow a fitness program. I hit the hills hard.

I’m constantly working out.

How would you like to be remembered?

That I lived life to the fullest. I emphasize goal setting. We’ve taken care of ourselves, and that’s why we can do these adventures. Kids need to look ahead and make good choices, with an active lifestyle and eating right. How are they going to make a mark in the world? You have to go out and work for it. In order to be successful, you have to figure out what it takes. Am I up to it? You need to plan and know what to do. If Plan A doesn’t work, you have to go to Plan B. X Hike leader and outdoors writer Danny Bernstein is the author of Hiking North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Heritage. She can be reached at danny@hikertohiker. com.

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• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 6pm & SATURDAYS, 8am (5/4 through 7/22) - Train for Bele Chere 5K with ATC’s Beginning Runners Program at Carrier Park. All fitness levels and ages from 11+ welcome. Walking and Fit Families kids programs also available. Info: 665-7526.

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

Best of Panthertown Valley • SA (5/8), 11am-1pm - Join Nina Elliott of Friends of Panthertown Valley and Burt Kornegay, author of A Guide’s Guide to Panthertown, to learn about Panthertown Valley, from hikes to campsites. At REI in Asheville. Free. To register: www. rei.com/asheville.

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• SUNDAYS - Folk Art Center Road Ride. Departs in the p.m. from the Folk Art Center on the Blue Ridge Parkway. This is a show-n-go ride, meaning there may not be a ride leader. Info: 713-8504 or billcrownover@bellsouth.net.

Burnsville Fit Families 5K • SA (5/8), 9am - Race starts. A scenic, certified 5K to raise funds for Graham Children’s Health Services of Toe River. $30/$10 students. Free children’s races at 10:30am. Free Health Expo 9am-1pm. Info: powell.ron@gmail.com.

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The N.C. Bowhunters Association • SA (5/8), 9am - Archery tournament and membership drive at Headwaters Outfitters’ Hannah Ford outpost. Fifteen full-sized, 3-D foam animals will be the targets. $20 entry fee. Info: 5530083.

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by Melanie McGee Bianchi

They tell me he’ll grow out of it, but I’m afraid some fears run blood-deep.

When I watch my little boy cover his head and screech in terror at the approach of this season’s particularly zealous, dive-bombing bees, it’s pure déjà vu. At 64, my otherwiseunflappable father still paws the air like a B-movie grizzly and hisses incongruously when a stinging insect enters his orbit.

And he’s not even allergic to them.

People are funny when it comes to bees.

Besides the garden-variety phobics and those unfortunates for whom encounters can truly be deadly, there are scores of ordinary folks who style themselves experts on the habits of barbed bugs. These naturalist wannabes dispense advice with a smugness implying

You can’t tell me those little sycophants didn’t have it in for me. an unequaled intimacy with nature. They’re down with the bees, man — clueless city slickers need to wake up and smell the superiority.

Stranger at the garden store: “Tell your son not to worry. It’s only a bumblebee, and bumblebees won’t sting you. They’re only interested in gathering nectar.”

Stranger at the Botanical Gardens: “They’re really swarming today, huh? But they’re only carpenter bees, and carpenter bees won’t sting you. They’re only interested in boring into that piece of wood.”

Stranger at the N.C. Arboretum: “That’s just a little sweat bee, and sweat bees won’t sting you.” (Unless you’re perspiring, pre-

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Keep your distance: From honeybees to bumblebees, people are funny about bees of any stripe. photo courtesy of Carl Chesick

sumably. But perhaps not even then.)

Strangers everywhere (with dismissive shrugs): “There’s no need to be afraid of them. Bees won’t bother you if you don’t bother them.”

I take particular exception to that last salvo. I was once sitting on my future husband’s porch in Haywood County doing nothing whatsoever that could be construed as “bothering” — neither eating nor drinking nor moving a muscle, merely gazing at the back side of Cold Mountain — when a couple of hornets zeroed in on my mouth and stung the lollapalooza out of it. Perhaps they’d just gotten lost and irritable on their way back to indulge their beloved queen, wherever she may have been lurking. But you can’t tell me those little sycophants didn’t have it in for me.

Seeking the advice of a bona fide expert, I recently caught up with Jon Christie, who runs Wild Mountain Apiaries deep in Madison County. The business provides beekeeping supplies, instruction and related products and services (such as removing intact hives from private property).

His specialty is honeybees, whose dwindling numbers are a whole other story that’s prompted a virtual cottage industry in Western North Carolina and beyond. But even this committed preserver of the species won’t pretend that they don’t sting. In fact, says Christie, honeybees “are the only ones with a barbed stinger which results in their death when they sting mammals. [But] they can sting each other and some animals with-

out being disemboweled.”

Refreshingly, Christie admits he “only knows a little about other types of bees.”

But once asked — this is key — he is happy to share what he’s learned. Take, for instance, those fuzzy picture-book bees that so love to linger over a choice sprig of clover: “There are lots of bumblebee species,” notes Christie. “And many do sting. But they’re not easily provoked.”

Sounds reasonable. Yellow jackets, however — the sinewy, aggressive ones that like to zigzag over an otherwise merry picnic — “have the numbers,” he concedes. Pest-eaters rather than pollinators, they are nonetheless fatally attracted to anything sweet and sticky that comes in an aluminum can. A female yellow jacket can sting multiple times, and she rarely travels alone.

As for big, gnarly hornets and hovering clouds of wasps, their sting, says Christie, “hurts like hell.”

Resolved: Cows moo. Hounds bay. Humans war. And bees sting — all kinds of them, for various reasons.

Now that that’s out of the way, I’m ready to attend to the buzz of regional beekeeping and the crucial role these creatures play in the food chain. And I’d be happy to write the honeybees’ story — from a respectful distance, of course. I won’t bother them if they don’t bother me. X Melanie McGee Bianchi is a contributing editor at Carolina Home + Garden.

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The 8th Annual Whole Bloomin’ Thing Festival Local Growers • Plants & Herbs Area Artists • Handicrafts • Music & Entertainment Food • Community Groups • Kids’ Activities No dogs allowed

Saturday, May 8th 9am-4pm Historic Frog Level

Sponsored by the Historic Frog Level Merchants’ Association

Help Support Our Local Economy!

Paid for by Haywood County Tourism Development Authority 1-800-334-9036 • www.visitncsmokies.com • no dogs allowed

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Sow True Seed (pd.) • Asheville, NC. Open-Pollinated, Heirloom and Organic Vegetable, Herb and Flower Seed. Free catalog. www.sowtrue.com 828 254-0708 Rain Barrel Sale (pd.) The Black Mountain Beautification Committee is sponsoring a sale of 80 gallon rain barrels made of 20% recycled plastic. Price per barrel is $ 100.00 (plus tax). Only 200 will be sold at this low price, so place your order soon. Call 828 713 2622 for more information.

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.

• SA (5/8), 8am - “Lake Junaluska Bird and Wildflower Walk,” with Lou Dwarshuis and Marilyn Kolton. $25/$30 nonmembers. All proceeds benefit the Botanical Gardens. Rain date: May 10. Call to register.

• SU (5/9), 8:30-10:30am - Naturalist Walk: “Basic Botany and Plant Identification” with Elisabeth Feil.

Free. Meet in front of the visitor center.

Buncombe County Cooperative Extension Center Located at 94 Coxe Avenue, Asheville. Info: 255-5522.

• MO (5/10), 8:30am-4pm - Poultry Production Workshop at the Mountain Horticulture Crops Research and Extension Center in Mills River. $25, includes lunch and resource materials.

Events at The Bullington Center This nonprofit horticultural learning center is located at 33 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville. Info: 6986104 or www.bullingtoncenter.org.

• SA (5/8), 1-4pm - “Wildflower ID,” a hands-on session on identifying native wildflowers. $12.

• MO (5/10), 10am-4pm - Heritage plant sale of heirloom tomatoes, herbs, native ornamentals and more.

Center guides will also be offering 30-minute programs on historical uses of gourds, culinary herbs and native plants.

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 (5/8) & TU (5/11) - The Carolinas Dahlia Society and the N.C. Chrysanthemum Society Spring Dahlia Tuber and Cuttings Sale. Chrysanthemum cuttings will be for sale only on May 8; tubers and dahlia plantlets will be for sale on May 11.

Plant Clinics Buncombe County Master Gardeners will be available to look at plant problems and pests and answer gardening questions. Info: 255-5522.

• 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 11am-2pm - The Master Gardeners will be set up at the WNC Farmers Market in the breezeway between the retail buildings. Stop by and visit.

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.

• WEDNESDAYS, 2-6pm - Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd. —- 3-6pm Victory Tailgate Market, in the parking lot adjacent to ABCCM Veterans Restoration Quarters on Tunnel Road, Asheville —- 2:30-6:30pm - Weaverville Tailgate Market, on the hill overlooking Lake Louise —- 3-7pm - Market on South Main, in the parking lot between Good Stuff and the Marshall Presbyterian Church —- 2-5:30pm - Spruce Pine Farmers Market, on Pollyanna’s Porch on Upper Street.

• WEDNESDAYS & SATURDAYS, 8am-1pm - Haywood’s Historic Farmers Market, located in Waynesville at the HART Theater and Shelton House parking lot on Pigeon Street —- 8am-Noon Waynesville Tailgate Market, at the American Legion, just off S. Main Street —- WE, noon-5pm & SA, 8am1pm - Cashiers Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of Cashiers Community Center.

• THURSDAYS, 10am-2pm - Mission Hospital Tailgate Market, at the back entrance to the Mission Hospital Heart Center on Memorial Campus —- 3-6pm - Flat Rock Tailgate Market, located in the parking area behind the Hand in Hand Gallery in Flat Rock —4-6:30pm - Tryon Tailgate Market, on Trade Street.

• FRIDAYS, 4-6:30pm - Saluda Tailgate Market, Westend city municipal parking.

• SATURDAYS, 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, in the parking lot of the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte St. —- 9am-Noon - Big Ivy Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of the old Barnardsville fire station on Hwy. 197 —- 9am-Noon - Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Road —- 8am-Noon - North Asheville Tailgate Market, on the campus of UNCA, commuter lot #C —- 9am-Noon - Riceville Tailgate Market, adjacent to the parking area of the Riceville Community Center —- 7am-Noon - Henderson County Tailgate Market, 100 N. King St., Hendersonville —- 9am-Noon - Mills River Farm Market, directly off of NC 280 in the Mills River Commons Shopping Center —- 9am-Noon - Jackson County Farmers Market, in the municipal parking lot next to Bridge Park —- 9am-1pm - Madison County Farmers and Artisans Market, across from the football fields on the Mars Hill College campus —- 8am-Noon - Bakersville Farmers Market, in the Bakersville Community Medical Clinic parking lot —- 8-11:30am - Columbus Tailgate Market, Courthouse Street in front of the Polk County Courthouse —- 8:30am-12:30pm - Yancey County Farmers Market, Highway 19E at S. Main Street, Burnsville.

• SUNDAYS, 9am-1pm - Greenlife Sunday Market, 70 Merrimon Ave., Asheville —- Noon-4pm - Sundays on the Island, cross the river at the Courthouse on Main St. in downtown Marshall and turn right onto the island.

• MONDAYS, 3-6pm - Hendersonville Community Co-op Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of the Hendersonville Community Co-op.

• TUESDAYS, 3:30-6:30pm - West Asheville Tailgate Market, 718 Haywood Road —- 5-7pm - Green Creek Tailgate Market, on Rte. 9 in Green Creek, Columbus.

• TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS & SATURDAYS, 8am-2pm - Hendersonville County Curb Market, on Church Street, directly across from the old courthouse in Hendersonville —- TU, 3-6pm & TH & SA, 8am-1pm - Transylvania Tailgate Market, in the parking lot behind the corner of Jordan and Johnson Streets.

• TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS, 7am-Noon - Canton Tailgate Market, in the muncipal parking lot on Park Street.

Weaverville Garden Club • 2nd TUESDAYS (Sept.-May), 9:30am - Meets at the Weaverville Town Hall, 30 S. Main St.

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

Community Events & Workshops 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.

• TU (5/11), 10am-4pm - Hourly preservation tours exploring the architectural history of the main house, including changes and renovations made during its 170-year history. $5 adults/$3 seniors.

East End Community Discovering A New Vision • THURSDAYS (5/6 & 20 and 6/3 & 17), 6:30-8:30pm - East End Neighborhood Association. Join in discovering a new vision for the community. Bring a dish to share, joyfulness, memories and ideas. Meet at St. James Fellowship Hall, 44 Hildebrand at MLK. Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. Community members offer free classes to other community members. Info: www.freeskoolasheville.org.

• SA (5/8), 1-5pm - Thai massage, yoga, whole

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foods cooking classes at 40 Congress St. Great Minds, Great Moments The series will feature video and live satellite programs from the 92nd Street YMCA in New York City. Held at Congregation Beth HaTephila, 43 N. Liberty St. $12/$20 for two people. Reservations and info: 253-4911.

• TH (5/6), 8pm - Video program: Hear a live address

by Jeffrey R. Immelt, CEO of General Electric, on restoring the strength of American business.

Joint Legislative Commission • TH (5/6), 6-8pm - The public is invited to address the legislative commission on dropout prevention, highschool graduation and the N.C. Youth Accountability Planning Task Force during a public hearing in the auditorium at the N.C. Arboretum.

The age of juvenile jurisdiction will be discussed. Info: davisla@ncleg.net or sarak@ ncleg.net.

National Preservation Month Events Info: www.ashevillenc.gov/ preservationmonth.

• TH (5/6), 5-7pm - Kickoff gathering at Pack’s Tavern, Pack Square Park. An opportunity for preservation professionals and enthusiasts to get together. Bring questions; find out who does what. Light snacks.

Swannanoa Valley Museum Located at 223 W. State St., Black Mountain. Info: 6699566 or www.swannanoavalleymuseum.org.

• Through SU (10/31) - A Flood Runs Through It, an exhibition focusing on historic floods and storm tracks in the Swannanoa Watershed. $2.

Walking Tour of Churches • TH (5/13), 9am-1pm - Seven Hendersonville churches will open their doors. Tour their sanctuaries and learn the history of the buildings and congregations.

A self-guided tour. $5. Tickets available in advance at the Visitor’s Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville.

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one or more relationships in their lives. Classes held last Sunday each month, 7pm9pm. • Learn more! (828) 645-0999 or www.meetup. com/CreatingYourIdealRel ationship Alternative Currency • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 5:307:30pm - Informal social gathering at Westville Pub for people who find an alt. paper currency intriguing, but have questions/concerns, and for those who understand the insand-outs and want to share their knowledge with others.

Family-friendly event.

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

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

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

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

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 9:30am - Meeting with speakers from local organizations.

Blue Ridge Toastmasters Club Meets once a week to enhance speaking skills both formal and impromptu. Part of an international proven program that takes you through the steps with fun along the way. Network with interesting people of all ages and professions. Info: www.blueridgetm. org or 926-4600.

• MONDAYS, 12:20-1:30pm - Meeting.

Financial Therapy Groups • TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - Try out new ways of living and of being, supported by others with similar circumstances, for the collective wisdom of the group to enlighten all, while lightening the burden of each. $8. Info: www.financialtherapygroups.com.

French Broad Mensa Western North Carolina’s chapter of American Mensa, a nonprofit organization. Info: 253-8781 or wstanko@ charter.net.

• SA (5/8), 1:30pm - Mensa, the high IQ society, is offering the Mensa Qualification Test.

French Broad Mensa will host the local test in the community room of the North Asheville

weeklypicks Events are FREE unless otherwise noted.

Join in the all-ages Zumba Cinco de Mayo dance party Wednesday, May 5, from 6:30 to

wed 8 p.m. at the YMCA, 30 Woodfin St., Asheville. There will be prizes and snacks. $5 YMCA members/$8 nonmembers. Info: 210-9622.

Get together with historic preservation professionals and enthusiasts at the National

thur Preservation Month kickoff gathering Thursday, May 6, from 5 to 7 p.m. at Pack's Tavern on

Pack Square Park in Asheville. Bring questions. Light snacks will be offered. Info: http://www. ashevillenc.gov/preservationmonth.

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Thomas Wolfe Memorial's Front Porch Series begins Friday, May 7, from noon to 2 p.m.

Brooke and George Buckner will pick on the porch of the Old Kentucky Home, located at 52 N. Market St., Asheville. Info: 253-8304.

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Free hot-air balloon rides at RiverLink's French Broad River Fins and Gills Classic Fishing Tournament Saturday, May 8, from 9 to 11 a.m. at the Asheville Outdoor Center, 521 Amboy Road. The event will continue till 2 p.m., with kayaking, storytelling, a casting contest and more. The fishing tournament launch site will be at Bent Creek Park ($10). Info: 252-8474.

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All are welcome to join Elisabeth Feil on a "Basic Botany and Plant Identification" naturalist walk Sunday, May 9, from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. at the Botanical Gardens at UNCA. Info: 2525190.

Volunteer with Hands On Asheville-Buncombe Monday, May 10, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Help

mon bake cookies for families staying at the Lewis Rathbun Center. The center provides free lodging for families from out of town who have a loved one in an area hospital. Supplies provided. To sign up, visit www.handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1.

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A scientific panel discussion on "Climate Change, Local Wildlife and Plants" will be held Tuesday, May 11, from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at Diana Wortham Theatre. A reception will follow at the Colburn Earth Science Museum. Info: kodavis@colburnmuseum.org

Library, 1030 Merrimon Ave. Reservations are necessary.

Local RV Camping Club • 2nd WEEKENDS (April through Oct.) - The club meets. Seeking new members who share a love of the outdoors, good company, great food and a roaring campfire.

Info: 369-6669.

OLE Older Lesbian Energy, a group of women over 50, meets monthly for a potluck to socialize and plan other events. Info: 545-9698.

• 2nd SATURDAYS, 1pm - Potluck.

Scrabble Club Come play America’s favorite word game SCRABBLE. Info: 252-8154 or www.ashevillescrabble.com.

• SUNDAYS, 1-5pm - Meets at Books-A-Million in Asheville. Also meets at Barnes & Noble on Wednesdays at 6:30pm. We have all the gear; just bring your vocabulary. No dues the first six months.

Sons of the American Revolution • 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-2pm - The Blue Ridge Chapter

meets bi-monthly at Ryan’s Steakhouse, 1000 Brevard Road, Asheville. Info: 5451222.

Spring Mountain Community Center Located at 807 Old Fort Road, Fairview. Info: carolyns4kids@att.net.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 10amNoon - Quilting Bee. Make premie quilts to donate. Free crochet, knitting, sewing & craft lessons. Some 4th Tuesdays. Info: 628-7900.

• 2nd & 4th TUESDAYS, 1-4pm - Doll-Making Bee. Beginners welcome. Bring your tools and supplies. Info: 628-1045.

Transition Asheville Aims to bring the community together, develop practical solutions and improve the quality of life for everyone in light of peak oil, climate change and the ensuing economic tensions. Info: colnstash@att.net.

• TH (5/6), 7pm - Get acquainted with the group at a free event held at the North Asheville Library meeting room, 1030 Merrimon Ave. • MO (5/10), 7pm - Get acquainted with the group at

a free event held at the West Asheville Library meeting room, 942 Haywood Road.

Veterans for Peace The public is invited to the regular business meeting of the WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099. The meeting is free and open to the public, and held on the 1st Thursday of each month. Info: 6262572 or 528-5180.

• 1st THURSDAYS, 6:307:30pm - Meeting at VFP099 HQ, 9 Walnut St., Courtyard Gallery (1D), Asheville.

WNC Community Media Center • WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Want your own radio or TV show? Attend a free orientation at the WNC Community Media Center. Info: www.urtv. org/index.php/coursesequipment Youth OUTright A weekly discussion group for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and questioning youth ages 14-23. Each week a new topic and activity will be led by at least two trained facilitators. Straight allies are also welcome. Info: www. youthoutright.org.

• FRIDAYS, 6:30-9pm Meets at the Jefferson House, adjacent to the Unitarian Universalist Church (corner of Edwin and Charlotte Streets) at 21 Edwin Pl.

Government & Politics Be A Local Leader • Through WE (5/5), 5pm - Application deadline for citizens interested in becoming a local leader by serving on the Asheville City Transit Commission or Recreation Board. Info: 259-5601 or mburleson@ashevillenc.gov.

Buncombe County Republican Women A group dedicated to electing and supporting conservative Republicans.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 11:30am-1pm - Meeting.

Open to women (and men) who believe and support the core principals of the Republican Party. The group is dedicated to electing conservative officials and protecting the Constitution.

Buncombe County Young Democrats

• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - Come join the Buncombe YD for, in priority order, good times, dinner and advancing the party. All ages welcome.

Meets at Three Brothers Restaurant. Info: buncombeyoungdems@gmail.com.

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

• MONDAYS, 7pm - Meets at El Chapala Restaurant off of Merrimon Ave.

Seniors & Retirees Henderson County Senior Softball League The league is always looking for new players, ages 55 and older. Weather permitting, they play year-round. Info: 6983448 or www.LJRsoftball. com.

• TUESDAYS & FRIDAYS - Daytime games at Jackson Park in Hendersonville (AprilOct.) and Leila Patterson Center in Fletcher (Nov.March). Start times may vary with season.

Senior Games & Silver Art Show Case Friendly sports and competition for ages 55+ in multiple events, including track and field, horseshoes, cycling, shuffleboard, croquet, bowling, swimming, badminton, billiards and basketball. $9.

Registration & info: 350-2051 or dblack@ashevillenc.gov.

• TU (5/11) through SA (5/15) - The 2010 AshevilleBuncombe Senior Games.

Senior Tennis Group • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 8:30-11am (May-Oct.) - Sponsored by Waynesville Parks and Rec., this tennis group for people 55 years and older will meet at the Donnie Pankiw Tennis Center. $1/day. Info: 4562030 or recathletics@townofwaynsville.org.

Walk Wise, Drive Smart Aimed at senior citizens, but open to everyone. Walks are canceled in the event of bad weather. Info: 457-6166 or www.walk-wise.org.

• TH (5/6) - Enjoy an urban walk in Hendersonville. Info: 551-6415.

Waynesville Parks and Recreation Info: 456-2030 or recoutdoorprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

• TH (5/6), 10am - Senior softball league practice at Vance Street Park. Open to all ages 55 and older. Mandatory meeting for all players interested in entering the league.

Workshop for Grandparents At Historic Johnson Farm, 3346 Haywood Road, Hendersonville. Info: 891-

6585 or www.historicjohnsonfarm.org.

• TU (5/11), 1pm - “Help the Grandkids Are Coming.”

Creative ideas on spending time with your grandchildren. $5, includes a booklet of hints, crafts, day-trips and more.

Call to reserve a spot.

Animals Asheville Kennel Club Membership is open to everyone interested in purebred dogs and responsible dog ownership. Info: 258-4833 or www.ashevillekennelclub. com.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm Breed Handling Classes. Learn how to present your purebred dog in the Show Ring. Meets at the US Army Reserve Center on Louisiana Ave. Open to the public. Details and map on the Web site.

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: 458-7778 or www.bwar.org.

• TH (5/7), 3-7pm - Adoption Fair. Meet dogs and puppies for adoption at Mast General Store, 15 Biltmore Ave. Possibly find your new best friend.

ChainFree Asheville A nonprofit, all-volunteer effort dedicated to improving the welfare of dogs living outdoors on chains and in pens in Asheville and Buncombe County. Info: www.chainfreeasheville.org or 450-7736.

• SUNDAYS, 11am-3pm - Come help a chained dog experience freedom. No experience necessary. Meets four times a month within Asheville or Buncombe County to build a fence for a chained dog.

Henderson County Animal Services Located at 828 Stoney Mountain Road in Hendersonville. Info: 6974723.

• Through SA (5/8) - Annual Dog Vaccination Clinic.

Owners of dogs can make an appointment to visit a designated veterinarian during the Dog Clinic week to receive a $7 rabies vaccination. Call for details.

Paws in the Park A day of furry fun that helps Fletcher Parks and Rec raise money for Brother Wolf Canine Rescue. Info: www. fletcherparks.org or 687-0751.

• SA (5/8), Noon-3pm Fletcher’s annual Paws in the Park at Fletcher Community Park. The day will include live music, food, dog adoptions, informational demos, games and more.

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 (through 5/29), 10am-3pm - Pet Adoption Day at 1659 S. Main St., Waynesville. Adoption fee covers rabies and spay/neuter.

Photos can be viewed at www.sargeandfriends.org or www.petfinder.com.

Technology Free Mac Computer Classes Classes are held at Charlotte Street Computers, 101 S. Lexington Ave., downtown Asheville. To register: classes@charlottestreetcomputers. com.

• MONDAYS, Noon-12:45pm - Mac OSX Basics class.

• WEDNESDAYS, Noon12:45pm - iMovie class.

• FRIDAYS, Noon-12:45pm - iPhoto class.

Macintosh Asheville Computer Society • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7pm - MACS user group meets.

Visitors welcome. Info: 6650638 or http://web.me.com/ macsnc. Check website for bad weather cancellation.

Volunteering American Red Cross • Volunteers are always welcome as canteen greeters at the WNC American Red Cross Blood Services Donation Center, 100 Edgewood Road, Asheville, and out in the community with the mobiles units.

Info: 258-3888, ext. 214 or tosettim@usa.redcross.org.

Annual Ramp Festival Each May during Mountain Housing Opportunities’ Ramp Festival, volunteers build handicap access ramps for persons with disabilities, who otherwise would not have the freedom to enter or exit their homes. To sign up to volunteer: 254-4030. Info: http://mtnhousing.org.

• FR & SA (5/7 & 8) - 16th Annual Ramp Festival.

Girls on the Run Girls on the Run is a nonprofit dedicated to educating and preparing girls for a lifetime of self-respect and healthy living.

Info: www.gotrwnc.org or girlsontherunwnc@gmail.com.

• Volunteers are needed to assist with the May 22 Spring 5K. Help needed with set-up, support, registration and takedown. Info: maggieskroski@ hotmail.com.

Hands On Asheville-Buncombe Choose the volunteer opportunity that works for you. Youth are welcome to volunteer on many projects with adult supervision. Info: www.handsonasheville.org or call 2-1-1.

Visit the Web site to sign up for a project.

• FR (5/7), 11am-12:30pm Cook and serve a homemade lunch to the men staying at the ABCCM Veteran’s Restoration Quarters & Inn. Both men and women are encouraged to participate in this project.

• SA (5/8), 10am-1pm - In the Garden: Help prepare the Emma Community Garden for fertilization, planting and harvest.

• MO (5/10), 7-8:30pm Help bake cookies for families staying at the Lewis Rathbun Center. The center provides free lodging for families from out of town who have a loved one in an area hospital.

Supplies provided.

• TH (5/13), 5:30-7:30pm - 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.

Land-of-Sky’s Retired Senior Volunteer Program RSVP places adults age 55 and older in local nonprofit and charitable agencies in Buncombe, Henderson, Madison and Transylvania Counties. Help make the community a better place for all. Info: 251-6622 or patti@ landofsky.org.

• Recruiting volunteers for the Do-Tell Storyfest on July 11 in downtown Hendersonville.

Volunteers are needed for all aspects of the event. Call to get started.

• Letter Carriers Food Drive needs volunteers at the Postal Annex behind Sam’s Club in Hendersonville. Two-hour shifts unloading postal trucks and crates & packing boxes.

Call to get started.

Health Programs Professional Help For Overshoppers/Overspenders (pd.) • 12 session group format beginning in June. Stop the pain of Overshopping/ Overspending! • Discover triggers and what you’re really shopping for • Learn specific tools and strategies to end the shame and pain • Holistic, Mindful and Compassionate approach. Call Denise Kelley, MA, LPC: 231-2107 or email: empowering.solutions@ yahoo.com Art of Intimacy Learn life-changing communication and relationship skills, drawing from the work of Marshal Rosenberg (Nonviolent Communication), Brad Blanton (Radical Honesty), Susan Campbell (Getting Real), John Bradshaw

(Homecoming) and others. $60/4-session class. Info: 254-5613 or www.theREALcenter.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - Meeting.

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

• TU (5/11), 9am-6pm - Doster Chiropractic, 179 Charlotte St., will examine and treat people free of charge.

New patients receive health screenings, while existing patients receive treatment.

Donations will be accepted with all proceeds benefiting Meals on Wheels. Info: 2362200.

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

• TH (5/6), 3-4:30pm - “Sharp as a Tack: Keeping your brain young,” with Lucy Butler, a speech therapist.

Butler will discuss the concept of “brain plasticity” and how to use this method to help prevent cognitive decline.

• FR (5/7), 2-3:30pm “Anterior Hip Replacement,” a discussion with orthopedic surgeon Amal Das. • MO (5/10), 1-2pm “Geriatric Foot Care.” Jennifer Szypczak will discuss the common problems that arise with the aging foot, signs to watch for and treatment options.

Henderson County Red Cross Red Cross holds classes in CPR and First Aid for infants, children and adults; Standard First Aid in Spanish; Babysitter Training; Pet First Aid. Located at 203 Second Ave. East, Hendersonville. Info: 6935605. : Blood Drive dates and locations are listed below.

Appointment and ID required.

Through June 30, all donors are entered to win a cruise for two.

• TU (5/11), 10am2:30pm - Life Care Center of Hendersonville, 400 Thompson St., Hendersonville.

Info: 697-4348.

Lakeview Senior Center 401 S. Laurel Circle, Black Mountain. Info: 669-8610.

• FRIDAYS (through 5/14), 2-4:30pm - Living Health Workshop. Designed for people with one or more chronic conditions. Learn to manage pain and fatigue, increase fitness and self-confidence. Free.

Living Healthy with a Chronic Condition • WEDNESDAYS (through 6/2) - Self-management program for people with chronic conditions. Learn how to take charge of your health and manage pain, fatigue, frustration and more. $30. To register: 274-2276, ext. 311.

Opportunity House Events Located at 1411 Asheville Hwy. in Hendersonville. Info: 698-5517 or 692-0575.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7-8am - Low-cost medical testing with Linda Garren, RN of Hendersonville. No appointments necessary. Info: 692-0575.

Spring Mountain Community Center Located at 807 Old Fort Road, Fairview. Info: carolyns4kids@att.net.

• MONDAYS, 7pm; WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 8:30am - Yoga. Bring a mat and blanket or towel. Improve your breathing, flexibility and stamina. $5-$7 donation per session.

Step/Weights Class Free ongoing aerobics class with step, weights, resistance bands and stretches.

Offered by Asheville Parks & Recreation to promote Asheville’s cardiovascular health. At Stephens-Lee Center (from S. Charlotte, turn on Max St. and go up the hill).

Info: 350-2058.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Step/Weights Class ending with mat work (stretches, yoga & pilates).

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Teen Pregnancy Prevention Initiative • TH (5/6), 5pm - Patricia Yancey, education director of the Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention Council of N.C., will speak at the YWCA of Asheville, 185 S. French Broad Ave. A panel discussion featuring participants of the MotherLove mentoring program will follow. Questions encouraged. Info: 254-7206, ext. 116 or www.ywcaofasheville.org.

Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOAs continue “survival” behaviors they had as children, which no longer serve them as adults. Come learn how to grow in recovery and become the person you are meant to be through this 12-step fellowship. Info: 545-9648.

• FRIDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Meets at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville.

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Al-Anon is a support group for the family and friends of alcoholics. More than 33 groups are available in the WNC area. Info: 800-2861326 or www.wnc-alanon. org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 8-9pm - Newcomers meeting and discussion: West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road, across from Ingles. Enter through parking lot door. Info: 225-0515.

• WEDNESDAYS, 12:151:15pm - Step study: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

• WEDNESDAYS, 8pm - Al-Anon in West Asheville: Meeting at West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Rd., across from Ingles. Separate Newcomers’ Meeting meets also at 8pm.

Info: 258-4799.

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

• FRIDAYS, 8pm - The Lambda (GLBT) group of Al-Anon is a gay-friendly support group for families and friends of alcoholics, and

holds their weekly candlelight meeting at All Souls Cathedral, 3 Angle St. Info: 670-6277 (until 9pm).

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

• FRIDAYS, 6:30pm - Discussion meeting for couples only: All Souls Cathedral, 3 Angle St. Info: 676-0485.

• SATURDAYS, 10am - Al-Anon North: Meeting at Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave.

• SATURDAYS, 10am - Saturday Serenity at St Mary’s Episcopal Church on the corner of Charlotte and Macon. Beginners welcome.

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

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

Info: 281-1566.

• MONDAYS, 12-1pm - Discussion meeting: First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. Park in the back of lot

between Church and Y. Info: 686-8131.

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

• TUESDAYS, 7pm Discussion meeting: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St.

ALS Group Resource and support group for people with Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (Lou Gehrig’s disease), their family and friends. Meetings are held at 68 Sweeten Creek Rd. Info: 252-1097.

• 2nd SUNDAYS, 3-5pm Meeting, with refreshments.

Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective • MONDAYS, 7-9pm Mutual aid in a world gone mad. Peer support, resources and discussion. At the YWCA, 185 South French Broad Ave. The Collective supports self-determination and choice for mental health and wellness. Everyone is welcome. Info: radmadasheville@theicarusproject.net.

Bipolar and Depression Support Group • WEDNESDAYS, 6:308:30pm - Magnetic Minds meets at Mountain House,

225 E. Chestnut St., Asheville. Peer support, empowerment, recovery and advocacy. Info: 318-9179.

Brevard-Hendersonville Parkinson’s Support Group Meets at the BrevardDavidson River Presbyterian Church, 249 Main St., Brevard. Free. Info: 862-4167 or 693-1604.

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Weekly meetings with varying subject matter, visiting guest speakers and social activities.

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Cancer Support Group for Women â&#x20AC;˘ MONDAYS, 1:30-3pm - Meetings at Biltmore United Methodist Church. Emotional support for women experiencing cancer. Facilitated

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Eating Disorders Individuals are welcome to come to one or all of the support group. Info: 337-4685 or www.thecenternc.org. â&#x20AC;˘ WEDNESDAYS, 7-8pm - Support group for adults at

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group for people grieving the death of someone close. The video seminar features recognized experts on grief recovery topics. Info: 694-3621 or www.hvlfumc.org. â&#x20AC;˘ 2nd & 4th TUESDAYS, 23:30pm - Meeting.

National Alliance on Mental Illness - Western Carolina 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: 5057353.

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Overcomers Recovery Support Group â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, 7-8pm - A Christian-based 12-step recovery program. Provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems such as alcohol, drugs, overeating, pornography, codependency, enabling. All are welcome.

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Pet Loss Support Group For anyone who has lost a pet or is anticipating the death of a companion animal. Free. Info: 258-3229. â&#x20AC;˘ 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6pm - The group meets at the Unitarian Universalist Church

of Asheville in Jefferson House, 21 Edwin Pl. Post-Polio Resource Group â&#x20AC;˘ 2nd SATURDAYS, 1-3pm - Meets at CarePartners Health Services, Seymour Auditorium, 68 Sweeten Creek Road, Asheville. Info: 254-5723.

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Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous â&#x20AC;˘ SATURDAYS, 10-11am - A 12-step, recovery fellowship for those who want to stop living out a pattern of compulsive sexual and romantic behavior. Meets at Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Park behind church and enter at front door of the annex.

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Support Groups Sessions are led by Charlene Galvin, a board certified Chaplain. Love offering. Info: 329-3187 or chargalvin@ hotmail.com. â&#x20AC;˘ THURSDAYS, 10-11:30am - Living with Life Limiting Illness â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- 1:30-3pm Caregivers Support Group.

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Asheville Kendo Club • FRIDAYS, 6-9pm Dedicated to bringing quality Kendo to the Asheville area.

Kendo, the Japanese “Way of the Sword,” develops a person’s mind, posture and spirit through the principles of Japanese fencing. Kendo is not self-defense. Info: ashevillekendo@gmail.com.

Asheville Masters Swimming Competitive, fitness and triathlon swimmers welcome.

Info: www.ashevillemasters. com • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 5:45-7:15am Practice at Asheville School.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5:45-7:15am & SATURDAYS, 7-9am Coached practices at Warren Wilson College.

Asheville Ski and Outing Club The year-round activity club organizes skiing, snowboarding, biking and hiking trips for its members. Membership is open to all ages and ability.

Info: www.ashevilleskiclub. com.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Meets at the Country Club of Asheville.

Disc Golf Check the kiosk at Richmond Hill Park for events and nearby tournaments. Info: 680-9626 or www.wncdiscgolf.com.

• TUESDAYS, 3pm Doubles at Richmond Hill Park. Random draw for partners.

Outdoor Climbing at the YMCA • Through (5/29), Noon-2pm - Outdoor climbing class for ages 6 and up at the YMCA Youth Services Center, 201 Beaverdam Road. Two climbs: $5/$20 family. Info: 253-4706.

Pickleball It’s like playing ping pong on a tennis court. For all ages. $1 per session. Paddles and balls are provided. Info: 350-2058.

• MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Meets at Stephens-Lee Rec Center, 30 George Washington Carver St. (take S. Charlotte to Max St.).

Pickup Soccer • Spoccer.com, a new soccer organization in Asheville (ABASA associated), is trying to bring some organization to pickup soccer in the area. If you are interested in playing, join the Asheville group at Spoccer.com. Info: www. spoccer.com/group/ashevillenc.

Tai Chi for Seniors (all welcome) • WEDNESDAYS, Noon - A gentle class for beginners promoting balance, strength, flexibility and calm. Basic practices, no complex movements. Upstairs at the French Broad Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave., Asheville. $10. Info: 645-9579.

Ultimate Frisbee Pickup • SUNDAYS, 4-6pm - Play ultimate frisbee with the Asheville Ultimate Community. Pickup is coed; all levels are welcome. Bring a dark and a light shirt, cleats and disc if you have them, and water. At Memorial Field (behind McCormick Stadium). Info: chris@ashevilleultimate.org.

Waynesville Parks and Recreation Info: 456-2030 or recoutdoorprograms@townofwaynesville.org.

• SA (5/8), 8am-4pm - Disc golf trip to Fontana Village.

Open to all ages. No experience is necessary. Bring snacks, water and money for lunch. $10 members/$20 nonmembers.

Kids Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free

first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org.

• TU (5/11), 11:30am-1pm - Home School Program for students in grades 1-5. $4/student. Registration required.

At The Health Adventure Free first Wed. of every month from 3-5pm. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm & Sun., 1-5pm. $8.50 adults/$7.50 students & seniors/$6 kids 2-11.

Program info or to RSVP: 254-6373, ext. 324. Info: www.thehealthadventure.org.

• THURSDAYS, 10:3011:30am - Preschool Play Date. Interactive fun just for preschoolers led by museum facilitators. Free with admission.

• SATURDAYS, 1-2pm Experiment with science during Super Science Saturdays.

Featuring hands-on activities led by museum facilitators, the programs are fun for all ages. Free with admission.

• 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 4-5pm - “My Mom Is Having a Baby.” Help your child prepare to be an older brother or sister. Learn what to expect, how to hold the new baby, and make a special present to hang over the crib. Free with admission.

• 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 4-5pm - Origami Folding Frenzy. From simple designs to complex creations, join us to learn about the Japanese art of paper-folding. Included with museum admission.

Celebration Singers of Asheville Community children’s chorus for ages 7-14. For audition/ performance info: 230-5778 or www.singasheville.org.

• THURSDAYS, 6:307:45pm - Children’s chorus rehearsal at First Congregational Church, 20 Oak St., downtown Asheville.

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

Asheville. Info: 232-2228 or www.spellboundchildrensbookshop.com.

• TUESDAYS, 10:30am - Story time for ages 3-5 —- 3:30pm - Story time for ages 5-7.

Hands On! This children’s museum is located at 318 North Main St., Hendersonville. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-5pm.

Admission is $5, with discounts available on certain days. Info: 697-8333 or www.handsonwnc.org.

• Through SA (5/8) - Make a Mother’s Day card at the gallery.

• WE (5/12), Noon - “Addressing Behavioral Challenges in Young Children,” a discussion with Park Ridge Pediatrician Dr. Charlotte Riddle. Lunch provided. RSVP: 687-3947.

• TH (5/13), 3:30pm - Meet a Hendersonville Police Officer and a police canine.

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Haywood County Public Library System The main branch is located at 678 S. Haywood St., Waynesville. The county system includes branches in Canton, Maggie Valley, Fines Creek and Cruso. Info: 452-5169 or www.haywoodlibrary.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 11am Family story time for children of all ages. Read books, sing songs, learn finger plays and more.

Hershey’s Track and Field Youth Program This program is free to all youth ages 9 to 14. Events: 50-, 100-, 200-, 400- and 800-meter dash, 1600-meter run, 4x100-meter relay, standing long jump and softball throw. This event is open to all skill levels. To register or for more info: 232-4526 or kturner@ashevillenc.gov. n Registration is now being accepted for this May 9 event.

• SA (5/8), 9am - The event will be held at Asheville

Middle School, 197 S. French Broad Ave. Contact to register.

Home School Happenings • 2nd WEDNESDAYS, 1:30-2:30pm - Experience educational programming The Health Adventure way with monthly Home School Happenings. Programs are available for various grade levels. $7/child.

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

• Through SU (5/9) - The Scoop on Poop, an interactive zoological exhibit based on the book by science writer Dr. Wayne Lynch, on display at the Baker Exhibit Center. $3 adults/$2 for children ages 5-18.

• TU (5/11), 10-11am - Wee Naturalists: “Leapin’ Lizards.”

The lesson will include ageappropriate activities for ages 2-5, such as nature walks, garden exploration, stories, crafts and visits from our classroom animals. $6.

Tiny Tykes Day Asheville Parks, Recreation and Cultural Arts Dept. presents this free festival designed for children under the age of 5. The event will be held at the Oakley Center, 749 Fairview Rd. Info: 251-4042 or oakleyrec.c@ashevillenc.gov.

• SA (5/8), 10am-1pm - The event will feature giant inflatables, Fire Engine #9, WNC Nature Center animals, crafts, face painting, balloon twists and more.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 South Caldwell St. in Brevard. Hours: Mon.Fri., 10am-4pm. Info: 8842787 or www.artsofbrevard. org.

• SA (5/8), 10am-1pm - Annual Kids Art Day. For youth ages 5-12. Kids will sit in canoes and imagine a journey down the French Broad River, then paint what they saw going down the river on murals that will be on display in the yard of TC Arts. $5/child. Call to register.

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Attention Parents • Natural Solution for ADHD & Learning Disabilities (pd.) Free 35 minute talk about how the brain processes information, and how the problems can be permanently corrected in adults and children. Tuesday, May 11, 6:30pm, Earth Fare, 1856 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. • RSVP: (828) 2164444. www.WesBeach.com Empowered Birthing (pd.) Learn how and when to use movement, relaxation, and massage during labor

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Labor Support and Comfort Measures class. At Fusions Pilates Studio. 7:15-9:30pm Tues. May 11 with Laura Beagle from Empowered Birthing. Call 231-9337 empoweredbirthing.org Involve Your Partner In Your Child’s Birth • Empowered Birthing Classes (pd.) Increase confidence, learn hands-on tools, enjoy your birth! 828-231-9227.

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Monthly classes available. www.AshevilleWomens Wellness.com Asheville Mommies Support group for moms from Asheville and surrounding areas. Info: www.ashevillemommies.com.

• WEDNESDAYS - Meet-andgreets from 11am-noon and 3-4pm at the Hop Ice Cream and Coffee Shop on Merrimon Ave. All area mommies and kids are invited to come and play.

La Leche League of Asheville • 2nd MONDAYS, 10am Monday Mornings: Meeting at First Congregational Church, Oak St. Pregnant moms, babies and toddlers welcome.

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Spirituality Art Of Tantra • Ongoing Introductory Course (pd.) 1st and 3rd Tuesdays.

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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. (828)258-3229.

Expressive Arts Playshop • Loving The Life You Live! (pd.) Manifest your dreams and make them happen!Experiential creativity: Art and the unconscious authentic movement, starts May-June. Lilla Khalsa, M.A., L.P.C. Creativity Coach, Art Therapist, Counselor: Individual, Couple, Group, Family. Information/registration: 777-1962. oakes. khalsa@gmail.com Tuesday Afternoons • Study • Meditation • Great Tree Zen Temple (pd.) Study: 3:30pm • Meditation: 5:30pm. 679 Lower Flat Creek Road, Alexander. Love offering. More information: 645-2085 or www.greattreetemple.org

A Course in Miracles Class/ Discussion Group • TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Meets in N. Hendersonville.

Info: 242-2536.

All Saints Anglican Church Located at 15 McDowell Road, Mills River. The 1928 Book of Common Prayer is used. Info: 891-7216.

• SUNDAYS, 8:30am - Holy Eucharist —- 9:45am Christian Education —- 11am - Holy Eucharist. Call for information on other weekly services.

Asheville Center for Spiritual Awareness Located in the N. Louisiana Office Park, 370 N. Lousiana Ave., Suite D-3. Info: www. csa-asheville.org.

• SUNDAYS & THURSDAYS Meditation practice in the kriya yoga tradition. Sun. mornings and Thurs. evenings. Donation basis. Info: ryan.kurczak@ gmail.com.

Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation/ Introductory Lecture: Got bliss?

The true nature of life is bliss—full abundance of creativity, health, happiness, peace. The TM technique is the most widely researched meditation, with over 600 scientific studies validating its life-transforming benefits for mind, body, behavior and environment. Info: 254-4350 or www.TM.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:158:15pm - Learn more: free public introductory talk at the Maharishi Enlightenment Center, 165 E. Chestnut St. Asheville Meditation Center Classes are held at the Greenlife Community Center, 90 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: 505-2300 or www.meditateasheville.org.

• MONDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm - Meditation for Inner Peace class. Donations accepted.

Asheville Sound Healing • 2nd & 4th SATURDAYS, 6-7pm - Chakra Toning Circle at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St. Learn how to tone the chakra sounds for health and well-being. Love offerings accepted. Info: 776-3786 or www.AshevilleSoundHealing. com.

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

• 2nd & 4th THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Meets at the EnkaCandler Library meeting room.

Bear Clan Medicine Lodge The group practices Native American spirituality. It also studies natural healing modalities. Not affiliated with any tribe or organization. Everyone is welcome. Meets at the library on Mitchell St. in Old

Fort. Info: http://seeks.spirit. tripod.com.

• 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 3pm - Meetings. Focus on our connection to All Our Relations and what this means to each of us on our personal path.

All are welcome to come and share.

Buddhist Meditation and Discussion Meets in the space above the French Broad Food Coop. April’s theme: “How to Solve Our Anger Problems.”

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

• WE (5/5), 7:15pm - “Our Precious Human Life: So what’s this all about?”

• WE (5/12), 7:15pm “Refuge from the Storm.”

Coalition of Earth Religions Events Info: 230-5069 or www. ceres-wnc.org.

• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 6:309pm - Pagans Night Out. Meet at the Bier Garden in downtown Asheville.

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.

Dances of Universal Peace Circle • 2nd SUNDAYS, 7pm - Rejuvenate your spirit and open your heart with sacred circle dancing and group singing honoring the world’s mystical traditions. No previous experience is necessary.

At Asheville Arts Center, 308 Merrimon Ave. $5 donation.

Info: 225-0515.

Free Meditation Programs Meditation with Sri Sri Sri Shivabalayogi Maharaj. Kirtan, devotional singing and an opportunity to speak with Sri Swamiji will follow each practice. Free. Info: www. shivabalamahayogi.com.

• TH (5/13), 7pm - Meditation program at Dhyan Mandir, 70 Cedar Mountain Road, Asheville. Info: cranberryc@ bellsouth.net.

Hare Krsna Sunday Feast Meets above the French Broad Food Co-op, 90 Biltmore Ave. Info: www.highthinkingsimpleliving.org or 506-2987.

• Select SUNDAYS, 6-8pm - An evening of bhajans, class on the Bhagavad-Gita and a vegetarian feast. Everyone

welcome. Refer to the Web site or call for dates.

Hendersonville First Congregational United Church of Christ Located at 1735 Fifth Ave. W. in Hendersonville. Info: 692-8630 or www.fcchendersonville.org.

• SU (5/9), 9:15am - Adult Forum: “Christians and Muslims: Beyond Extremism,” a spiritual conversation with Rev. Janet Boyd Weidler the Felix Building.

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

• SUNDAYS, 9:15am Women-led, justice-focused, family-friendly, and open to all.

Worship with Land of the Sky UCC. An unconditional church.

Mantras Cafe • 1st THURSDAYS, 6:308:30pm - Bring your favorite kirtan mantras, multi-cultural chants and soul-centered music. Open mike. Sign-up 66:30pm. At BoBo Gallery. Free or $3 donation.

May Friendship Celebration of Church Women United • SA (5/8), 9:30am - Registration and coffee —- 10am - Business and a program on the theme “Living the Vision” at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road. Salad luncheon; bring a salad to share. An offering will be taken.

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

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

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

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

Mountain Zen Practice Center Exploring the ‘how’ of moment by moment peace, joy and freedom through the practice of Conscious Compassionate Awareness. Info and orientation times: www.mountainzen. org or 450-3621.

• TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Meditation and discussion.

Mystic Gatherings Share in the community of those who are governed both by logic and observing signs

around them: gut, spirit, intuition or whatever That is. Bring your stories and experiences.

Gatherings are dynamic and diverse and range from topics such as changes in our society to defining moments in life and much more. Info: 206-2009.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Meeting.

Praying in the Presence • TH (5/13), 6:30-8:30pm - Program of OSL ecumenical group dedicated to the Christian healing ministry. At Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave., Asheville. All are welcome. Info: 242-3260 or mtn_osl@yahoo.com.

Psychic Development Class • WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Learn to use your intuition to help yourself and others.

Explore remote viewing, channeling, mediumship, telepathy, precognition and healing in a relaxed and fun-filled atmosphere. All are welcome.

Love donations accepted. Info: ecastro1@charter.net.

Releasing Your Fear Workshop • SA (5/8), 2-4pm - Learn a simple practice to recognize and release psychological fears that block your ability to live the life you desire, freeing your mind to enjoy life and solve problems. At Jubilee!, 46 Wall St. $10. Facilitated by Georganne Spruce. Info: 2981483 or 253-2500.

Revival at First Baptist Church in Swannanoa • Through WE (5/5), 11am7pm - Dr. Jim Wilson, a vocational evangelist, will hold a revival at First Baptist Church in Swannanoa. Dr. Wilson’s scriptural messages speak to life in the 21st century.

Shambhala Meditation Center of Asheville Every human being has fundamental goodness, warmth and intelligence. This nature can be cultivated through meditation and in daily life, so that it radiates out to others. Visitors welcome. Free meditation instruction at 19 Westwood Pl., W. Asheville. Info: www. shambhala.org/center/asheville or 490-4587.

• THURSDAYS, 6-6:45pm & SUNDAYS, 10am-Noon - Public meditation.

The Beatles Meet the Baptists • SA (5/8), 7pm & SU (5/16), 5pm - Ecclesia Baptist Church will present an original musical drama “Jesus Love You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah,” highlighting the Easter story through the music of the Beatles. An offering will be taken. Info: 628-9538.

Toning for Peace Experience the health benefits of a form of singing anyone can do. Generate well-being and peace within. $5-$10.

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19)

Hip hop music definitely needs to include more tuba playing. I think that’s what’s missing from it. Likewise, the sport of skateboarding would benefit from having more dogs and monkeys that can master its complexities; the state of journalism could be improved by including more babies as reporters; and you Aries folks would significantly upgrade your life by learning how to play the game of cricket. (If you believe everything I just said, you’ll be equally gullible when a little voice in your head tries to convince you to seek out things you don’t really need or adopt behavior that doesn’t suit you.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

Among the ancient Anglo-Saxons, the month of May was called “Thrimilce.” The word referred to the fact that cows were so productive at this time of year that they could be milked three times a day. I thought of that as I studied your current astrological data, Taurus.

During this year’s Thrimilce, you are almost impossibly fertile and abundant and creative.

My advice is to give generously, but not to the point of exhaustion: the equivalent of three times a day, but not four.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20)

In accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to seek out a concentrated period of sweet oblivion. Not a numb, narcotized limbo. Not a mournful unconsciousness that’s motivated by a depressive urge to give up. No, Gemini: The mental blankness that you cultivate should be generated by a quest to rejuvenate yourself, and it must have qualities of deliciousness and delight. You not only have a need to rest and recharge in a lush nowhere — you also have the right to do so.

CANCER (June 21-July 22)

A while back, I gave my readers this homework: “Tell a story about the time a divine intervention reached down and altered your course in one tricky, manic swoop.” A woman named Kelly testified as follows: “At first I was disturbed to find I couldn’t identify the last time Spirit descended into my midst with a forceful intervention. But finally I realized why: I have been working to make my whole life be guided by the Spirit of my Higher Power, as a deep undercurrent. That way I don’t need bolts of lightening to fix my course.” This is a useful lesson, Cancerian.

It’s an excellent time for you to follow Kelly’s lead. Ask yourself how you could cultivate a deep, abiding undercurrent of the good influence you want to have guide you, thereby making lightning bolts of divine intervention unnecessary.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)

The exact height of Mt. Everest has proved challenging to determine. Even using modern scientific methods, different teams of sur-

veyors have come up with varying measurements. The problem is not simply with the calculations themselves. The world’s tallest peak is definitely evolving. Shifts in the earth’s tectonic plates work to raise it up and move it northeastward. But there’s also evidence that the melting of its glaciers due to climate change is causing it to shrink. A member of one mountain climbing expedition said, “If Everest is bobbing up and down, we must hope to catch it on a low day.” I bring this to your attention, Leo, in order to offer you a metaphor for the coming weeks. Your version of Mt. Everest is shriveling. Get ready to ascend.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Have you been lusting after spiritual traditions other than your own? Have you been fantasizing about cheating on the deity you’ve always been faithful to, and seeking a taboo liaison with a strange and exciting god from another part of reality? If so, Virgo, that’s a good sign.

I suspect you could use a few adjustments to your familiar relationship with the Divine Wow. After all, you have gone through a lot of changes since the last time you hammered out your definitive theories about the meaning of life. What made good sense for you back then can’t be completely true for you any more. So feel free to let your mind wander in the direction of holy experiments.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)

When a girl is born, her ovaries already contain all the eggs she will ever have. What this means, of course, is that a part of you was in your grandmother’s womb as well as in your mother’s. Now would be an excellent time to celebrate that primal fact. Your connection with your mother’s mother is especially important these days. I suggest you meditate on what gifts and liabilities you received from her (genetic and otherwise), and how you might be able to make better use of the gifts even as you take steps to outwit the liabilities.

behavior you indulge in with manic intensity, drop it for a while. If you’ve been caught up in a vortex of excruciating sincerity or torturous politeness, shake it off and be more authentic.

Of all the good reasons you have for relaxing your death-grip, here’s one of the best: Life can’t bring you the sublime gift it has for you until you interrupt your pursuit of a mediocre gift.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)

The state of Texas is a Capricorn, having become part of the United States on December 29, 1845. At that time, it was granted the right to divide itself into five separate states at some future date. So far it hasn’t chosen to do so, and I would advise it to continue that policy. I extend the same counsel to all of my Capricorn readers. From an astrological perspective, this is not a favorable time for you to break yourself up into sub-sections. On the contrary: I suggest you sow unity and solidarity among your various parts.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)

I’m all for recycling, composting, and carpooling. Anything you and I can do to reduce our carbon footprint is brilliant. But I also agree with author Chris Hedges, who says, “The reason the ecosystem is dying is not because we still have a dryer in our basement. It is because corporations look at everything, from human beings to the natural environment, as exploitable commodities. It is because consumption is the engine of corporate profits.”

So beyond our efforts to save the earth by adjusting our own individual habits, we’ve got to revise the way corporations work. Now let’s apply this way of thinking to the specific personal dilemma you’re facing right now: It’s important for you to change yourself, yes — and I’m glad you’re taking responsibility for your role in the complications — but you will also have to transform the system you’re part of.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)

Every year Americans fork over six times as much money on buying lottery tickets as they do on going to the movies, according to the documentary film Lucky. Yet many people who actually buck the improbable odds regard their “luck” as a curse. “Winning the lottery is like throwing Miracle-Gro on all your character defects,” said one person. Let this serve as a cautionary tale for you in the coming months, Pisces. To get ready for the good things that are headed your way, you should work to purify any darkness that’s lurking in your unconscious.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)

Homework: Why is this a perfect moment?

Write to Truthrooster@gmail.com. Here’s my take on the question: http://bit.ly/ ThisIsaPerfectMoment.

Who is the person most unlike you in the world? I suggest you study that person for tips on how to improve your life. What are the healthy experiences you are least attracted to?

You might want to meditate on exactly why they’re so unappealing, and use that information to update your ideas about yourself. What are the places on the earth that you long ago decided you would never visit? I invite you to fantasize being in those places and enjoying yourself. Can you guess why I’m calling this Opposite Week, Scorpio?

Are you in a trance or a rut or a jam? If so, excuse yourself. It’s break time! You need spaciousness. You need slack. You need to wander off and do something different from what you have been doing. If there’s any

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Info: 667-2967 or www. toningforpeace.org. â&#x20AC;˘ 2nd & 4th SUNDAYS, 1:30-2:45pm - At the Light Center in Black Mountain.

Transmission Meditation Group Join in this meditation group for personal and spiritual growth, as well as the healing and transformation of the planet. Info: 318-8547. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 2pm Meditation.

Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville Located at the corner of Charlotte St. & Edwin Pl. Info: 254-6001 or www.uuasheville.org. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 9:15am & 11:15am - Services and Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Programs.

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

Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band. Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 684-3798, 8918700 or www.unitync.net. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (5/5), 7pm - Film screening: Jesus and Awakening of God Consciousness: Part II. A discussion with Deepak Chopra and Unity minister Rev. Wendy Craig-Purcell will follow. Love offering. â&#x20AC;˘ 2nd & 4th TUESDAYS, 7pm - Truth On Tap: Join Chad Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Shea at the Lexington Avenue Brewery for spiritual conversation. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (5/12), 7pm - â&#x20AC;&#x153;Intro to Quantum Touch,â&#x20AC;? with Rev. Pam Hurst. Learn to hold a high energy vibration to heal yourself or to send to another. Love offering.

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

Teachers: Lawson Sachter and Sunya Kjolhede. Main center: 580 Panther Branch, Alexander. City center: 12 Von Ruck Court. Call for orientation. Info: 645-8001 or www.windhorsezen.org. â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 9:30-11am - Meditation, chanting and a Dharma talk. â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7-9pm Meditation and chanting. â&#x20AC;˘ FRIDAYS, 5:30-7:15pm - Meditation and chanting at the City Center.

Womyn in Ceremony Co-create a sacred circle of women where we will connect, share, dream and experience inner awarenesses and empowerment.

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Meets 12 miles NW of Asheville. By donation. Info: www.RitesofPassageCouncil. com/theresa.

â&#x20AC;˘ SUNDAYS, 3:45-6pm - Gathering.

Xuanfa Dharma Center of Asheville â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, 7pm - Practice followed by a short DVD screening. Free. Call for directions: 255-4741.

Zen Center of Asheville A Soto Zen Temple in downtown Asheville offering zazen instruction, weekly lectures and a regular sitting schedule.

Info: www.zcasheville.org. â&#x20AC;˘ MONDAYS through SATURDAYS - Sittings in the mornings. Also, on Wed. evenings before lecture.

Art Gallery Exhibits & Openings 310 ART Gallery Located at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St., #310, in Ashevilleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s River Arts District. Info: 776-2716 or www.310art.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through MO (5/31) - First annual Salon by the French Broad River. This smallworks show will feature the works of more than 30 artists displayed in the French academy style, from floor to ceiling.

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. â&#x20AC;˘ Through WE (5/12) Seeing Red will be on display in the Oui Oui Gallery.

Art at UNCA Art exhibits and events at the university are free, unless otherwise noted. â&#x20AC;˘ Through TU (5/11) - The In-Betweens, plexiglass and plastic sculptures by UNCA senior Nicolette Carter-Yates, will be on display in Owen Hall, Second Floor Gallery.

Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 14pm. Located at 538 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville.

Info: 693-8504 or www. acofhc.org. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (5/7) through SA (5/29) - River District Artists group show. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (5/7), 5:30-8pm Opening reception for River District Artists show. The mayors of Asheville and Hendersonville are scheduled to speak.

Asheville Area Arts Council AAAC is located at 11 Biltmore Ave. Info: 258-0710 or www.ashevillearts.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through MO (5/17) - Paintings by Suzanne Shaffer and photographs by

Bruce Siulinski will be on display at the Hilton Hotel in Biltmore Park.

Asheville Art Museum Located on Pack Square in downtown Asheville. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-5pm and Sun., 1-5pm. Admission: $8/$7 students and seniors/ Free for kids under 4. Free first Wednesdays from 3-5pm. Info: 253-3227 or www.ashevilleart.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SU (7/11) - Nouns: Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Book Artists Look at People, Places and Things. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SU (5/9) - Lorna Blaine Halper: The Space Between will be on display in Holden Community Gallery. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SU (7/18) - Limners to Facebook: Portraiture from the 19th to the 21st Century.

Asheville Gallery of Art A co-op gallery representing 29 regional artists located at 16 College St. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 251-5796 or www.ashevillegallery-of-art.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through MO (5/31) Menagerie!, featuring original water media paintings by Jane Snyder.

Bella Vista Art Gallery Located in Biltmore Village, next to the parking lot of Rezazâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s restaurant. Open Mon.-Thurs., 11am-5pm, and Fri. & Sat., 10am-6pm.

Info: 768-0246 or www.bellavistaart.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through MO (5/31) - Feature wall artist: August Hoerr, drawings. New paintings by Sara Linda Poly.

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. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (5/7) through SU (6/20) - Art in Bloom exhibit, a curated show from area galleries. Art in Bloom event with floral interpretations of the art will be June 17-20.

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. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SA (6/12) - The Tutelary Years of Ray Johnson (1943-1967).

Blue Spiral 1 The gallery at 38 Biltmore Ave. is open Mon.-Sat.,

10am-6pm. Info: 251-0202 or www.bluespiral1.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SA (6/26) - The Golden Circle: SE Alaska and The Yukon, landscape paintings by Robert Johnson â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- Habitat: Wood, Water and Glade, interpretations of wildlife and natural surroundings by various artists â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- Ceramics by Shoko Teruyama â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- curiosities, works incorporating found objects, text and fragmented relics by various artists â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- Regional landscapes by Peggy N. Root â&#x20AC;&#x201D;- Porcelain vessels and wall-mounted tiles by Vicki Grant.

Castell Photography A photo-based art gallery located at 2C Wilson Alley, off of Eagle St. in downtown Asheville. Info: 255-1188 or www.castellphotography. com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SA (5/29) - The Lensless Image juried exhibit will be on display. In celebration of Worldwide Pinhole Day. Center For Craft, Creativity and Design Located at the Kellogg Conference Center, 11 Broyles Road. in Hendersonville. Info: 8902050 or www.craftscreativitydesign.org. â&#x20AC;˘ Through FR (8/13) - In Sunshine or In Shadow, an exhibition of works by students from UNCA, WCU, Appalachian State University and Haywood Community College.

Crimson Laurel Gallery Info: 688-3599 or www. crimsonlaurelgallery.com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through WE (6/30) Containment, a group exhibition of ceramic boxes.

Echo Gallery 8 Town Square Blvd., Suite 160, Biltmore Park in Asheville. Hours: Thurs.-Sun., Noon-6pm. Info: www.echoasheville.com or 687-7761. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SU (5/30) - Threads, an exhibition featuring works by fiber artists Jen Swearington, Libby and Jim Mijanovich and Barbara Zaretsky, among others.

Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road, Asheville. Info: 2537651 or www.grovewood. com. â&#x20AC;˘ Through SA (6/26) Remarking the Elements, an exhibit featuring mixed-metal sculptures by N.C. artist Gretchen Lothrop.

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 HCACâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gallery 86 (86 North Main St.) in Waynesville.

newsoftheweird Lead story Blair Fowler, 16, delights her frenzied fans by smartly tearing through stores and then displaying and expertly describing her purchases in Internet videos. A March dispatch from Los Angeles featured in The Times of London noted Fowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s acclaim â&#x20AC;&#x153;for her ability to deliver a high-pitched 10-minute lecture on the merits of skinny versus low-riding jeans, apparently without drawing breath.â&#x20AC;? According to The Times, at least 100,000 â&#x20AC;&#x153;haulâ&#x20AC;? videos are available on YouTube, but Fowlerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s have been viewed 75 million times by â&#x20AC;&#x153;haulâ&#x20AC;? wannabes (mostly teenage girls).

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• Through FR (5/7) - Past QuickDraw one-hour works and the work of five volunteer QuickDraw artists will be on display. Oils by Jo Ridge Kelley, Joyce Schlapkohl and Sarah Sneeden; watercolors by Ann Vasilik and QuickDraw founder Gretchen Clasby.

• FR (5/7), 6-9pm - Meet the artists of the QuickDraw exhibit at a patron’s reception during Waynesvile’s Art After Dark gallery crawl.

Penland School of Crafts A national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives.

Info: www.penland.org or 765-2359.

• Through SU (5/9) - Artist, Educator, Mentor, Rascal: Dolph Smith and Friends.

Celebrating book arts instructor Dolph Smith’s years of teaching.

Studio 103 Fine Art Gallery Located at 103 West St., Black Mountain. Info: 357-8327 or www.studio103fineartgallery.com.

• Through WE (5/26) - Encaustic paintings by Tif McDonald will be on display.

Transylvania Community Arts Council Located at 349 South Caldwell St. in Brevard.

Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-4pm.

Info: 884-2787 or www. artsofbrevard.org.

• Through FR (5/21) - New works by Christine Kosiba, Karen Swing and George Peterson.

Upstairs Artspace Contemporary nonprofit gallery at 49 S. Trade St. in Tryon. Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm and by appointment. Info: 859-2828 or www.upstairsartspace.org.

• Through SA (5/29) - Equine Expressions, celebrating the noble horse, and Seduction: Layered Interpretations, paintings and an installation that suggest temptation.

Vadim Bora Gallery At 30 1/2 Battery Park Ave. Hours: Tues.-Sat., Noon-6pm (sometimes later) and by appointment. Info: 254-7959 or www.vadimborastudio. com.

• Through SU (5/23) Asheville, Angels and Trees, works inspired by some of Asheville’s favorite landmarks by international artist Rita Genet.

Waynesville’s Art After Dark The Gallery Association of Waynesville regularly hosts gallery and artist studio events in the Waynesville area. Info: 452-9284 or

www.waynesvillegalleryassociation.com.

• 1st FRIDAYS, 6-9pm - Participating galleries stay open late, and many also host artist receptions, provide live music and serve refreshments.

WCU Exhibits Unless otherwise noted, exhibits are held at the Fine Art Museum, Fine & Performing Arts Center on the campus of Western Carolina University. Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-4pm & Sat., 1-4pm.

Suggested donation: $5 family/$3 person. Info: 227-2553 or www.fineartmuseum. wcu.edu.

• Through WE (5/5) - Pieces from the Art Students’ League 2010 exhibit and a competition to create a portrait of a former WCU instructor will be on display.

• Through SA (5/8) - Josefina Niggli portrait exhibit. Info: 227-2786.

• Through SA (5/8) - System + Structure, School of Art and Design biennial faculty exhibit.

More Art Exhibits & Openings Art and Animations • Through SA (5/29) - CIRCO DI CARTA, Luca Dipierro’s exhibition of art and animations, will be on display at Hip Replacements, 72 N. Lexington Ave. Info: www. lucadipierro.com.

Art at Aabani Salon 12 N. Main St., Weaverville.

Info: 484-8488.

• TH (5/6), 6-8pm - Wine tasting and artist exhibit, featuring paintings by Gloria Affenit.

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

• Through MO (5/31) - On Earth’s Furrowed Brow: The Appalachian Farm in Photographs, an exhibit by Tim Barnwell, will be on display in the Education Center Gallery.

Art at West Asheville Library • Through MO (5/31) - Mimi Harvey, West Asheville artist, will exhibit her paintings in acrylic, oil, watercolor and pastel for adults and art prints for children in the community room of the West Asheville Library, 942 Haywood Road.

Info: 250-4750.

Art League of Henderson County The ALHC meets and shows exhibits at the Opportunity House, 1411 Asheville Hwy. (25N) in downtown

Hendersonville. Info: 6987868 or www.artleague.net.

• Through TH (5/6) - As I See It, an exhibit by watercolor and oil artist Sandra Gates.

Asheville Community Theatre All performances are at 35 East Walnut St. Info & reservations: 254-1320 or www. ashevilletheatre.org.

• Through SU (5/23) - The work of artist Marie Hudson will be on display in the lobby.

• FR (5/7), 4:30-6:30pm - Reception for the Marie Hudson exhibit.

Blue Ridge Community College Info: www.blueridge.edu.

• Through WE (5/19) - The 3rd Annual Student Art Show will be on display in the Blue Ridge Conference Hall.

Center for Diversity Education The Center is on the UNCA campus in Highsmith Student Union. Info: jshuster@unca. edu or www.diversityed.org.

• Through MO (5/31) - The Center will display the Loving Families Exhibit: Conversations with the GLBTQ Community in WNC, which takes an intimate look at the joys and challenges of families in Asheville’s growing and vibrant GLBTQ community, at Scandals.

Grand Bohemian Gallery Located at the Grand Bohemian Hotel in Biltmore Village, 11 Boston Way. Info: www.bohemianhotelasheville. com or 505-2949.

• Through MO (5/17) - Decorative works by Canadian artist Stefan Horik will be on display.

Push Skate Shop & Gallery Located at 25 Patton Ave. between Stella Blue and the Kress Building. Info: 2255509 or www.pushtoyproject.com.

• Through TU (6/15) - small towns burn a little slower, a new collection by bluetan, a Brooklyn-based art collective.

The four members work in an array of mediums. Info: http://bluetan.com.

The DeLorean Time Machine Kicks Off Quilt Show • SA (5/8), 10am-1pm - The DeLorean Time Machine, as seen in the Back to the Future movies, will kickoff the Asheville Cotton Co. Customer Quilt Show. Donations go to the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. At 1378 Hendersonville Road, Asheville.

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by Roots + Wings School of Art. Sat. May 15. 9am-3pm.

$90. Ages 18+. Registration and more information at www.rootsandwingsart.com or call 828-545-4827.

Appalachian Pastel Society Info: www.appalachian-pastel-society.org.

• FR & SA (5/7 & 8) - Nicora Gangi, pastel artist and Syracuse University art faculty, will be the featured speaker after the general APS meeting. At the WNC Ag Center. Info & registration: 765-6001 or karen@soapshed.com.

Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 14pm. Located at 538 N. Main St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville.

Info: 693-8504 or www. acofhc.org.

• TU (5/11), 6:30-8pm - “Intimate Look at American Art & Music” presented by art historian and lecturer Olivia Shelley and Thomas Joiner, conductor of the Hendersonville Symphony Orchestra, at the Henderson County Public Library.

HandMade Creative Lab & Social Mixer WNC craft artists support and challenge each other to create a sustainable, dynamic, forward-thinking arts community. Creative Labs are held at 125 S. Lexington Ave., Suite 102. $10/$5 for members.

Mixers follow and are held at Asheville Brewing Company, 77 Coxe Ave. Info: www. handmadeinamerica.org.

• MO (5/10), 5:15-6:45pm - Lab topic: “Creative Marketing.”

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

Info: 654-9788 or www. egacarolinas.org.

• TH (5/6), 9:30am - Registration followed by a short business meeting and program. The program will be a DVD titled Sewing Double. At Cummings United Methodist Church, 3 Banner Farm Road, Horse Shoe.

Swannanoa Valley Fine Arts League Classes are held at the studio, 999 W. Old Rt. 70, Black Mountain. Info: svfal.info@ gmail.com or www.svfal.org.

• THURSDAYS, Noon-3pm - Experimental Art Group.

Experimental learning and sharing water-media techniques and collage. $20 for four sessions or $6/session.

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what: Benefit for Paul Bailey, featuring music, food and games.

when: Saturday, May 8 (4 p.m. doors. $10, or $5 for Warren Wilson students. All-ages.)

where: Pisgah Brewery, 150 Eastside Drive, Black Mountain.

why: Friends of Warren Wilson alum Paul Bailey are

getting together with a host of talented local musicians to raise money for Bailey’s massive medical bills. Once active in the WNC outdoors and climbing community, Bailey suffered a traumatic brain injury while rock climbing in Australia last October. He’s had multiple surgeries and physical therapy, and his medical bills have ballooned. Now the community’s gathering to help. Along with some great music, there will be food from local favorites Laurey’s Catering and Gourmet ToGo, and Hardcastle Hotdogs, and bocce ball, root ball and corn hole tournaments starting at 5:30 p.m. www. pailbaileyinfo.blogspot.com.

benefitscalendar Calendar for May 5 - 13, 2010 Animal Compassion Network WNC’s largest nonprofit, no-kill animal welfare organization. Find a new pet at their pet adoption events. Info: 274DOGS or www.animalcompassionnetwork.org. n Volunteers needed: volunteers@animalcompassionnetwork.org.

• 1st THURSDAYS (5/6 through 8/5), 6-8:30pm - Doggie Ice Cream Social. Pet owners are invited to bring their leashed dog for doggie ice cream treats and homemade people treats to the Hop. Proceeds will benefit Animal Compassion Network foster and adoption programs.

Asheville Area Arts Council AAAC is located at 11 Biltmore Ave. Info: 258-0710 or www.ashevillearts.com.

• TH (5/6), 7:30pm - Asheville Community Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. $20. As part of Charlotte Street Computers’ Power on Community program, all proceeds from council ticket sales will go toward the support of local artists.

“Be Beautiful, Act Now” • SU (5/9), 7-10pm - Mission Savvy presents an evening of eco-shopping and animal-welfare awareness at Rosetta’s Kitchen, 111 Broadway. Help animals, support sustainability, enjoy vegan wines and desserts. Info: missionsavvy@gmail.com.

Beauty Through Cancer Provides programs and services for breast cancer patients and survivors in the WNC area. Located at 131 McDowell St., Suite 202, Asheville. Info: 252-8558 or info@beautythroughcancer.org.

• TH (5/6), 5:30-7:15pm - Pre-party at Fiore’s Restaurant. $10, includes food —- 7:30pm - Benefit performance of Little Shop of Horrors at Asheville Community Theatre. $20.

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: 458-7778 or www.bwar.org.

• SU (5/9) - Mother’s Day Puppy-Grams. Tell mom you love her with a puppy-gram. For $40, a Brother Wolf

Animal Rescue volunteer and puppy will deliver a balloon, flower and Sugar Momma cookie to surprise mom.

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

• SA (5/8), 10am-4pm - Azalea Garden Tour, featuring some of the most beautiful azalea gardens in the Hendersonville area, some boasting as many as 3,000 azaleas and rhododendrons. $15. A fundraiser for ECO. Little Iron Man Pancake Fundraiser • SA (5/8), 9am-1pm - Pancake Fundraiser at Claxton Elementary School to benefit Marough Gardner and Neuroblastoma Research. Activities for kids and live music. 50/50 raffle and silent auction. Pancakes: $10 adults/$5 children.

Mercy For Animals A nonprofit animal advocacy organization dedicated to establishing and defending the rights of all animals. Info: 231-6859 or kaylaw@mercyforanimals.org.

• TH (5/13), 10am-10pm - Mercy For Animals benefit at Firestorm Cafe & Books in downtown Asheville. Enjoy vegan food and books.

“Name Your Own Price” Yard Sale • SA (5/22) - The sale will be held at 35 Orange St. Tables available for $10 each. Funds raised will go to Pathways of Change, a women’s recovery program. Call for more info or to reserve a space: 582-4346. n Items may be dropped off for the sale at 35 Orange St., Mon.-Fri., 9am-4pm.

New Life Center This religious/education facility will be constructed on the grounds of the Buncombe Correctional Center state minimum security prison. Info: 277-0998.

• SA (5/8), 9am - First annual golf tournament at Broadmoor Golf Links. Shot-gun start; captain’s choice format.

Paws in the Park

A day of furry fun that helps Fletcher Parks and Rec raise money for Brother Wolf Canine Rescue. Info: www.fletcherparks.org or 687-0751.

• SA (5/8), Noon-3pm - Fletcher’s annual Paws in the Park at Fletcher Community Park. The day will include live music, food, dog adoptions, informational demos, games and more.

Penland School of Crafts Benefit Auction • TH (5/6), 8pm - Auction of student and instructor work made during a Penland workshop session. All proceeds will benefit Penland scholarship programs. At the Northlight building. Info: 765-2359 or www.penland.org.

Relay for Life of Henderson County Proceeds benefit the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life of Henderson County. Events take place in Hendersonville. Info: www.relayforlife.org/henderson.

• FR (5/7), 7pm - Relay Idol Contest auditions will be held at The Elks Lodge, 546 North Justice St. Admission $5 adults/$2 students/Free for kids under 5. The contest is similar to American Idol. Info: 681-8597 or 697-0472.

Three Among the Wolves National Geographic explorer and photographer Helen Thayer will share adventures from her best-selling book Three Among the Wolves. Info: www.maststore.com/ helen.

• TH (5/13), 7pm - Discussion and reading at Diana Wortham Theatre. $5 or a donation of 5 canned goods. All proceeds benefit Manna FoodBank. (For more area events with Helen Thayer, see the calendar listing under “Spoken & Written Word.”)

who: Reigning Sound, Suttree what: Benefit for OpenDoors Asheville

when: Thursday, May 6 (8 p.m. $10.)

where: The Grey Eagle why: Two top-notch bands play

a show to benefit OpenDoors Asheville, a nonprofit dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty by connecting local children with support networks and giving them higher-education opportunities.

Proceeds will go to help fund summer activities for OpenDoors kids, including summer camps, gardening camps and reading tutorials. www.opendoorsasheville.org.

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• FRIDAYS, 10am-1pm - Open studio for figure drawing. Small fee for model.

• MONDAYS, Noon-3pm Open studio for portrait painting. Small fee for model.

The Fine Arts League of the Carolinas Located at 362 Depot St. in the River Arts District. Info: 252-5050 or www.fineartsleague.org.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 7-9pm - Open figure drawing sessions. Four 5-minute poses and four 20minute poses. $5.

Art/Craft Fairs Church of the Redeemer 1201 Riverside Drive in Woodfin. Info: 253-3588.

• SA (5/8), 8am-2pm - The Mother’s Day Spring Bazaar will feature quilts, kitchen sets, plants, homemade goodies, assorted crafts and more. $1 for raffle tickets.

Madison on Main Arts Festival Main Street in downtown Marshall will be transformed into an open-air art market.

Benefits the Madison County Arts Council. Info: 649-1301 or www.madisoncountyarts. com.

• SA (5/8), 10am-5pm - Madison on Main Arts Festival, featuring handmade and local art, crafts, food and more.

The Flat Rock Playhouse Craft Show • SA (5/8), 10am-5pm & SU (5/9), Noon-4pm - Organized and staged by InspiredArts Contemporary Fine Craft Guild, the craft show will feature basketry, ceramics, furniture, sculpture and more.

Partial proceeds will benefit Flat Rock Playhouse. $3.

Ticketed reception May 7, 6-8pm, $25; call for reservations. Info: 693-0731.

Spoken & Written Word Asheville Art Museum

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

• TU (5/11), 3pm Discussion Bound: The book club will discuss Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X. Asheville Wordfest A poetry festival featuring poets from an array of cultures and various aesthetics.

Sponsored by the Mountain Area Information Network. All events are free. Info: info@ ashevillewordfest.org or www.ashevillewordfest.org.

• WE (5/5), 2-6pm - “Writing From the Imaginative Storm” poetry workshop with Laura Hope-Gill and James Nave at Hawk and Ivy Country Retreat in Burnsville. A potluck and poetry sharing will follow.

RSVP: 626-3486.

• Through SA (5/8) - Five days of poetry focusing on the theme “Borderlands.”

Featured voices include: Mark Doty, Linda Hogan, Raul Zurita, Natasha Trethewey, David Whyte, ASL Poetry Duo The Flying Words Project, among others.

• TH (5/6), 8pm - Poetry Slam Asheville, featuring GRAMM’R, as part of WORDFEST 2010 at the Hookah Bar. $3 cover charge. Info: info@poetixonline.com.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: n BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) n EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) n FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484)

n LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 2506480) n SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) n SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) n WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 2506482) n Library storyline: 250KIDS. • WE (5/5), 11:30am - Book Club: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon. WV —- 5-7pm - Library Knitters meet. SW —- 7pm - “Writing About Vampires,” a discussion with Susan Blexrud. SS. • Through MO (5/17) - Bloggers Writing Contest.

Submit five pages of writing from your blog. Winners will be announced on May 24. BM • TH (5/6), 7pm - Book Club: Peace Like a River by Leif Enger. SW —- 6:30pm - Book Club: Serena by Ron Rash. EA. • SA (5/8), 3pm - Storyteller, musician and entertainer extraordinaire Andy Offutt Irwin will be on hand. For all ages. WV. • MO (5/10) through FR (5/14) - The Dollywood’s Penguin Players will perform dramatic adaptations of the popular children’s books in honor of Book Week.

Call your local library for information about upcoming performances.

• TU (5/11), 1-3pm - Sit and Knit. WV —- 1pm - Book Club: Firefly Lane by Kristin Hannah. LE. • WE (5/12), 6:30pm Library Knitters meet. BM. • TH (5/13), 1pm - Book Club: The Help by Kathryn Stockett. FV. Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: 586-9499 or more@citylightsnc.com.

• SA (5/8), 7pm - Ann Herendeen will read from her bisexual romance inspired by an American classic.

Herendeen’s version is entitled Pride/Prejudice: A Novel of Mr. Darcy, Elizabeth Bennet, and Their Forbidden Lovers.

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.

• SA (5/8), 7pm - Chuck Palahniuk, whose latest book is Tell All, will speak at Asheville High School’s auditorium. $30 ticketed event, includes a signed copy of Tell All. • SU (5/9), 3pm - Fred Flaxman will read from and sign copies of his book Sixty Slices of Life...on Wry. Events at Spellbound Spellbound Children’s Bookshop is located at 19 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 232-2228 or spellboundbooks@netzero. com.

• SA (5/8), 10am-Noon - As part of Asheville Wordfest, Chris Martin’s Curtain Call Collective will perform poems and skits based on the works of Shel Silverstein. If you would like to participate, prepare a song, skit, poem or any other 3-5 minute act.

All ages.

Firestorm Cafe & Books Located at 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Events are free, unless otherwise noted. Info: 255-8115 or www.firestormcafe.com.

• SA (5/8), 7pm - Co-editor Jennifer Silverman will read from the anthology My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids With Disabilities.

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• WEDNESDAYS, 1:30pm - Ready 4 Learning. A story time designed for 4 and 5-year-olds with a focus on kindergarten readiness. This story time runs Sept.-May. • TUESDAYS, 11am - Family story time at the Fines Creek Branch Library. We will read books, tell stories, learn songs and finger plays, and do a simple craft. Info: 627-0146.

• TUESDAYS, 11:15am - Family story time for children of all ages at the Canton Branch Library. We will read books, listen to songs, and learn finger plays. Info: 6482924.

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

• TH (5/6), 4pm - Local author Leanna Sain will return to the Fletcher Library Auditorium to read her sequel Return to Nowhere, the second novel in her Gate to Nowhere series.

• WE (5/12), 2pm - Local author Rose Senehi will talk about her new book, The Wind in the Woods, a romantic thriller that reveals a man’s devotion to N.C.’s Green River Valley. At the Etowah Library.

Open Mic Poetry Event for Young Writers • TH (5/6), 6-7pm - Sponsored by Asheville Wordfest and The Write Site.

Open to ages 11-17. Visit www.thewritesiteasheville. net, pick a prompt, write a poem. Bring it to the open mic reading at Firestorm Cafe, 48 Commerce St., Asheville. Free.

Door prizes.

Osondu Booksellers All events are held at Osondu, 184 North Main St., Waynesville, unless otherwise noted. Info: 456-8062 or www.osondubooksellers.com.

• TH (5/6), 7pm - Meet Ann Herendeen, author of Pride/ Prejudice and Phyllida and the Brotherhood.

• TU (5/11), 10am - Book Babies —- 6pm - Mountain Writers. New members welcome.

• TH (5/13), 1:30pm Afternoon Book Club.

Three Among the Wolves National Geographic explorer and photographer Helen Thayer will share adventures

from her best-selling book Three Among the Wolves.

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• WE (5/12), 3-5pm - Helen Thayer will talk about her experience with wolves while traveling through the Canadian Yukon territory at Mast General Store in downtown Hendersonville.

• TH (5/13), 2:30-4:30pm - Discussion at Mast General Store in downtown Asheville —- 7pm - Discussion and reading at Diana Wortham Theatre. $5 or a donation of 5 canned goods. All proceeds benefit Manna FoodBank.

Food Chabad Asheville Jewish Asheville and WNC Chabad Lubavitch Center for Jewish Life, located at 660 Merrimon Ave. Info: 505-0746 or www.chabadasheville.org.

• Through FR (5/14) - Submit your three favorite recipes for Asheville’s Kosher Community Cookbook online at www.ChabadAsheville. org or by e-mail to Chana@ ChabadAsheville.org or by mail: The Chabad House, Kosher Community Cookbook, 660 Merrimon Ave., Asheville, NC 28804. The cookbook will be available for the public to purchase.

Festivals & Gatherings Greek Orthodox Church’s Luncheon & Bake Sale At the Hellenic Hall of the Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, 227 Cumberland Ave. Info: 253-3754 or 254-7424.

• SU (5/9), 11am-2pm - Annual American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association Mother’s Day Luncheon and Bake Sale.

Greek dishes and pastries.

Plus, the Greek folk dance troupe will perform. A portion of the proceeds will benefit local charities. Takeout will be available.

Spring Mountain Community Center Located at 807 Old Fort Road, Fairview. Info: carolyns4kids@att.net.

• Through SA (5/8), 10am2pm - “The Cottages of Spring Mountain,” a festival to enable cottage industries to display and/or sell their wares or services. Farm goods, arts & crafts, collectibles, used items and services welcome. Plus, food and children’s activities. $10 per space. Free entry.

The Whole Bloomin’ Thing Festival This spring festival features local growers, art and crafts, music and entertainment, community groups, food,

children’s activities and more.

Held at the Historic Frog Level District, Waynesville. Info: www.smokymountains.net.

• SA (5/8), 9am-4pm - The seventh annual Whole Bloomin’ Thing Festival.

Music African Drumming With Billy Zanski at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St., downtown Asheville. Drums provided. No experience necessary. Suggested donation $10 per class. Drop-ins welcome. Info: 768-2826.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginners.

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

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

• TH (5/6), 6-7pm - Barbez will perform in the Museum’s Gallery 6. The band weaves old-world cabaret, Eastern European folksong, contemporary classical and experimental rock into their soundscape. $10 members/$12 nonmembers.

Celebration Singers of Asheville Community children’s chorus for ages 7-14. For audition/ performance info: 230-5778 or www.singasheville.org.

• TH (5/13), 7-9pm - “Music Alone Shall Live” Spring Concert. Program includes a variety of musical styles: jazz, gospel, Broadway hits.

At St. Paul’s United Methodist Church, 233 Hillside Ave., Asheville. Donations at the door appreciated.

Events at Thomas Wolfe Memorial Located at 52 N. Market St. Info: www.wolfememorial. com or 253-8304.

• FR (5/7), Noon-2pm Pickin’ on the Porch: Brooke and George Buckner will perform. Free.

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

Info: 452-5553 or 452-7530 or www.haywoodcommunityband.org.

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

Land-of-the-Sky Barbershop Chorus For men age 12 and older.

Info: www.ashevillebarbershop.com or 768-9303.

• TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Open Rehearsals at Emmanuel

Lutheran Church, 51 Wilburn Pl. Open Mic • THURSDAYS, 9-11pm - Traveling Bonfires and Courtyard Gallery present an open mic at Courtyard Gallery, 9 Walnut St., Asheville. Singer/ songwriters, poets, comics, storytellers etc. are invited to perform. Pasckie Pascua emcees. Info: pasckie@ yahoo.com or purplecoca@ aol.com.

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

• MONDAYS, 6:45pm Rehearsal at Reed Memorial Baptist Church on Fairview Rd. (enter parking lot on Cedar St.). Guests welcome.

Sounds of the Chakras • SATURDAYS, 6-7pm - Sounds of the Chakras with Linda Go at Skinny Beats Drum Shop, 4 Eagle St. Learn to tone the chakra sounds for health and well-being. Info: 258-1140.

Tarheel Christian Singles Dance At Blue Ridge Community College, Industrial Skills Building. Info: 231-2831.

• FR (5/7), 7:30-11:30pm Dance. Christian singles of all denominations are welcome.

Refreshments will be provided. No smoking or alcohol allowed. $10.

Theater Asheville Community Theatre All performances are at 35 East Walnut St. Info & reservations: 254-1320 or www. ashevilletheatre.org.

• Through SU (5/16) - Little Shop of Horrors. One of the longest-running off-Broadway shows of all time. This spoof of 1950s sci-fi movies has become a household name.

Fri. & Sat., 7:30pm & Sun., 2:30pm. $22/$19/$12.

• FR (5/7) through SU (5/9), 2:30pm - The Trip to Bountiful, a Readers’ Theatre Production by the Autumn Players of ACT. The tale of the physical and spiritual journey of Carrie Watts. Fri. & Sat. at ACT. Sun. at UNCA’s Reuter Center. $5.

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

• TH (5/6) through SA (5/8), 8pm & SU (5/9), 3pm - World premiere of Birds in the Weather. Thurs. performance will be followed by a wine and hors d’oeuvres reception where audience members

can meet the author and cast. $16/$10 students.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Hwy. 225, 3 miles south of Hendersonville.

Info: 693-0731 or www. flatrockplayhouse.org.

• Through SU (5/23) - Comedy/drama Steel Magnolias, about the bond among a group of Southern women in northwest Louisiana. Wed.-Sat., 8pm & Wed., Thurs., Sat. & Sun., 2pm. $34.

Hendersonville Little Theatre At the Barn on State St. between Kanuga and Willow Roads in Hendersonville. Info: 890-3070 or www.hendersonvillelittletheatre.org.

• FR (5/7) through SU (5/23) - The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail. The play opens with Henry David Thoreau in jail for refusing to pay taxes to a government conducting what he considered a war of aggression with Mexico. Fri. & Sat., 8pm & Sun. 2pm.

Tryon Little Theater Workshop • Through SU (5/9) - Grace & Glorie by Tom Ziegler. A widow from the Blue Ridge Mountains and a hospice volunteer from New York find affection for each other.

Thurs.-Sat., 8pm & Sun., 3pm. At TLT Workshop, 516 S. Trade St., Tryon. $15/$10 students. Info: 859-2466 or www.tltinfo.org.

Film Movie Night at Wedge Brewery Located at 125B Roberts St., Asheville. Movies are free and start at dusk. Bring a lawn chair. Info: 505-2792.

• SA (5/8) - Robert Altman’s Popeye.

Dance Argentine Tango Dancers of all levels welcome.

Info: www.tangoasheville. com.

• SUNDAYS (except 1st), 7-10pm - Argentine Tango Practica at North Asheville Recreation Center, 37 E. Larchmont Rd. $5 for members/$6 for non-members.

Asheville Ballet Info: 258-1028.

• SA (5/8), 2:30pm & 7:30pm - Spring Concert: An American in Paris will be performed at Diana Wortham Theatre. $28+ adults/$18 students and children.

Asheville Culture Project A cultural arts community center offering ongoing classes in Capoeira Angola and Samba percussion. Other instructors, groups and organizations are invited to share

the space. Info: www.ashevillecultureproject.org.

• WEEKLY - Capoeira Angola, an Afro-Brazilian martial art taught and practiced through a game involving dance, music, acrobatics, theater and the Portuguese language.

Mondays, 7-9pm, beginners class; Wednesdays, 7-9pm, intermediate class; Fridays, 7-9pm, intermediate class; Saturdays, 10am-Noon, beginners class. $12 (free for first timers on 2nd and 4th Sat.). Info: www.capoeiraasheville.org.

Classes at Asheville Contemporary Dance Theatre Classes are pay-as-you-go. $10-$15 donation due to teacher after each class.

Classes are held at the New Studio of Dance, 20 Commerce St. in downtown Asheville. Info: www.acdt.org or 254-2621.

• TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 6-7:30pm - Modern classes.

By donation.

• MONDAYS, Noon-1:30pm - Fusion Flow Yoga: A blend of Hatha, improvisation and meditation. $5-10 suggested donation.

Classes at Asheville Dance Revolution Sponsored by The Cultural Development Group. At 63 Brook St. Info: 277-6777 or ashevilledancerevolution@ gmail.com.

• TUESDAYS, 8-9:15pm - Beginning/Intermediate Adult Jazz.

• FRIDAYS, 4-5pm - Boys Dance Combo Class. This is for boys interested in dance.

The class touches on all styles of dance for the male dancer —- 6-7:30pm - African dance with Sarah Yancey featuring live drumming. Open to all. $14.

Forge Mountain Cloggers Classes are held at the Old Homeplace on North Mills River Road. $25 for a fourweek session. Info: 891-2487 or www.forgemtncloggers. org.

• MONDAYS (through 7/5), 6-7pm - Beginner clogging class. Open to ages 7 and older.

InterPlay Held at 227 Edgewood Ave. Info: www.interplaync.org.

• 2nd & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 7-8:30pm - Let your own songs, stories and dances come through you in an easygoing, playful community.

“However you’re doing it, it’s the right way!”

LEAF in Schools & Streets Many of the international and acclaimed artists who perform at LEAF also reach out to the local community while they are in the area through workshops, residencies and enrichment programs. Info:

686-8742 or outreach@ theleaf.org.

• MO (5/10), 11am - The Jabali African Acrobats of Kenya present a family-friendly performance at the Orange Peel, 101 Biltmore Ave. $2 children/$3 adults. Info: www. theorangepeel.net.

Morris Dancing Learn English traditional Morris dances and become a member of one of three local teams as a dancer or musician. Music instruction provided to experienced musicians. Free. Info: 994-2094 or www.ashevillemorris.us.

• MONDAYS, 5:30pm - Women’s Garland practice

held at Reid Center for Creative Art.

Old Farmer’s Ball Info: www.oldfarmersball. com.

• THURSDAYS, 7:30-11pm - Contra dance to live music at Warren Wilson College’s Bryson Gym. No partner necessary. Beginners welcome. $6, includes dance lesson.

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

• TUESDAYS, 6-7pm - Beginner lindy-hop swing lessons. $12/person per week for 4-week series or

$10 for members. Join at SwingAsheville.com. No partner necessary. Let your inner dancer out. 11 Grove St., downtown Asheville. Classes start first Tuesday of every month.

VFW Upstairs. Open to the public.

At 5 Points, 860 N. Main St., Hendersonville. Info: 6935930.

• SATURDAYS, 6pm - Free dancing lessons —- 7pm - Live band music and dancing. $7. All singles welcome.

No partners necessary. Finger food and sweets provided. No alcohol or smoking in dancing area.

Zumba Cinco de Mayo Dance Party • WE (5/5), 6:30-8pm - Put on your dancing shoes for lively, Latin-inspired dance fitness featuring Zumba instructors from throughout Asheville.

Prizes and snacks. At the Asheville YMCA. All ages welcome. $5 members/$8 nonmembers.

Auditions & Call to Artists Arts Council of Henderson County D. Samuel Neill Gallery hours: Tues.-Fri., 1-5pm and Sat., 14pm. Located at 538 N. Main

St., 2nd Floor, Hendersonville.

Info: 693-8504 or www. acofhc.org.

• Call for artists for the annual Bring Us Your Best exhibit.

Open to original works of art in any media. $25 entry fee.

Interested artists should contact the council for more info and an application.

Attention Lovers of Local Beer • Through MO (5/24) - Pay homage to your favorite brewery or profess your love for the local beer scene by submitting art for the I Love Asheville Beer Art Show, which will coincide with the upcoming Beer City Festival.

Info & submission require-

ments: www.hotironstudios. com.

Twin Rivers Media Festival Info: www.twinriversmediafestival.com or 273-3332.

• Through FR (5/14) Accepting entries of film/video all genres, screenplays and audio art/soundtracks for the 16th annual Twin Rivers Media Festival. Enter via Web site.

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The Bent Creek Institute: Planting seeds

by Jonathan Poston Plant lovers mosey in and out of The North Carolina Arboretum every day, admiring the plants and the landscape around them. Most, though, are totally unaware of the small, twin labs tucked away in the less-visited greenhouse. The Bent Creek Institute, launched several years ago with support from groups like Mission Hospitals, the Buncombe County commissioners and the N.C. Biotechnology Center, focuses on conservation and longterm seed storage. Xpress met with Joe-Ann McCoy, director of the institute’s Germplasm Repository, to get the lowdown.

Mountain Xpress: How did you wind up at the institute?

Joe-Ann McCoy: I was always into plants as a kid. I graduated from UNCA with a degree in environmental studies, did my master’s at Clemson, where I started my medicinal-plant research, and did my Ph.D. there, also in plant physiology. I worked for the USDA at Iowa State University on a National Institutes of Health project for four years before coming here.

What’s the Germplasm Repository all about?

Germ plasm is hereditary material passed from one generation to the next. We’re following the USDA model here in developing a germ-plasm repository for medicinal and native regional plants. I have a database of 6,500 medicinal plants; I have 2,000 targeted taxa from this region. We need to get everything in the seed bank, because climate change is going to change the region. Some plants aren’t going to be able to move. For example, the spruce/fir zone. If global warming increases, where do they go? They’ve already been pushed up.

How do you collect germ plasm?

We have a very rigid method in the field. We collect GPS coordinates, elevation aspects, slope, directions to the site, associated species, number of individuals, number of flowering individuals. We dry the seeds down to about 5 to 7 percent moisture at a controlled relative humidity. Then we vacuum-seal in these trilaminate aluminum packets that are patented

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Not-so-weird science: Joe-Ann McCoy researches and collects plant species that offer possible medicinal benefits — and grow in Western North Carolina, such as black cohosh. photo by Jonathan Poston

just for seed storage; the same packaging the Nordic Gene Bank uses. Then we freeze those seeds at minus 20. That method has been proven to give the longest seed storage possible .

Some will last for 100 or 200 years.

This kind of work must keep you outdoors.

I never get outside. We do when we collect, but we’ve been behind the computer way too much lately writing grants. We’re mostly grant-funded.

Can you give an example of a grant project you’re working on?

We have a grant with WCU to develop a regional cultivar of black cohosh, which is native only to the eastern U.S. We have 20 collections representing all that range. We’ll compare the triterpene glycosides, the proposed active ingredient, in all those populations and find the two best. Then we’ll do selection and breeding and develop a regional cultivar for growers here.

Why is black cohosh so important?

Black cohosh is one of the top-10-selling dietary supplements and has a huge market in Europe, China and the U.S. It only grows in North America, but Germany has the biggest commercial product. They sell it back to us in every one of our Wal-Marts, Eckerds, etc. They were way smarter than us. We buy back from other countries; we need to be doing it here.

What does the future hold for the Bent Creek Institute?

We have an extraction lab next door. We want to develop an extract collection of all the native species here [to help identify] potential products. This region really hasn’t been looked at thoroughly, ever. Usually people want to go to Africa, South America. This is one of the most bio-diverse regions in the U.S. This is a very special place, plantwise. Since we’re collecting already, we need to make our collection useful, because you can’t fund anything just on conservation anymore. Unfortunately, it’s a really noble cause, but we can’t stay funded if it’s just conservation, if we’re just collecting the seed and storing it.

That sounds like a lot of work. Do you use volunteers in any of your projects?

We have 10 volunteers who work for us two or three afternoons per week. They sort the seed by hand and do all of our seed cleaning. They are so dedicated.

What do you say to critics of the institute?

We’re not opportunistic scavengers; I don’t make a huge salary. We want this region to develop scientifically. We work well with others. We can come up with a project with a farmer or a rocket scientist.

To learn more about volunteering, go to http:// bentcreekinstitute.org. Send your environmental news to mvwilliams@mountainx.com or call 2511333, ext. 152. X Freelance writer Jonathan Poston lives in Asheville.

ecocalendar Calendar for May 5 - 13, 2010 Bee-Ginners Organic Bee Keeping Workshop (pd.) Learn about the plight and flight of the honeybee. • Debra Roberts, documentary film producer, educator and beekeeper. Laughing Waters at Hickory Nut Forest, near Asheville. • Saturday, May 8, 10am-5pm. • Scholarships available. $100. Registration/information: (828) 712-7797 or john@HickoryNutForest.com Climate Change in 2010 A series of free public talks cosponsored by the Asheville Chapter of the American Meteorological Society and the Colburn Earth Science Museum.

Info: kodavis@colburnmuseum.org.

• TU (5/11), 7-9:30pm - A scientific panel discussion titled “Climate Change, Local Wildlife and Plants” will be held at Diana Wortham Theatre. A reception will follow at the Colburn Earth Science Museum.

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

• SA (5/8), 9am - Guided bird walk through Jackson Park in Hendersonville.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 4:30pm - Recycling Committee meeting.

Mountain Green Series

Offered by Warren Wilson College’s Environmental Leadership Center, the series consists of guest speakers and a walking tour. Programs will be held in Canon Lounge, Gladfelter. RSVP: 771-3781. Free. Info: www. mountaingreenwnc.org.

• FR (5/7), 1-2:45pm - The Green Walkabout introduces participants to the best practices for building green. To RSVP: scross@warren-wilson.edu —- 3-5pm - “Capstone Review,” with Stan Cross.

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.

• TUESDAYS & SATURDAYS, 1pm - “Walk With a Naturalist” programs. Interpretive guides will lead small groups of participants along woodland trails and through a variety of forest types. $3/$2 kids 8-17.

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Power lunch: The president and first lady mull over the menu options at 12 Bones.

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by Mackensy Lunsford Unless you live under a rock, you’re aware that the first couple recently visited Asheville.

The culinary-minded were curious to see which restaurants the Obamas would choose during their trip — and they didn’t need to wait long.

President Obama and the first lady had barely landed in Asheville before they and their entourage made a beeline for 12 Bones in the River Arts District. Barry had dined there during his first tour of Asheville, when he was still deep in the midst of his presidential campaign.

Local GFE emcee Michael Capra, who also goes by the name of Foul Mouth Jerk, was next in line to order his ribs at the beloved barbecue joint, when a Secret Service agent informed him that the president of the United States was going to have to cut in front of him in line.

Capra wasn’t sure whether to believe the man — or whether he wanted to put any distance between himself and a rack of those ribs — even for the leader of the free world.

“But when the president and Michelle Obama walked in, I totally folded,” says Capra. “Then the president looked at me, and he looked at the rest of the line, and he said, ‘These guys look like they’ve been waiting in line all day. I’ll go to the back of the line like everyone else.’ And that’s what he did. I was a little bit impressed, I won’t lie.”

When Michelle asked him what was good at the restaurant, Capra recommended the blueberry-chipotle ribs — the dish that the president

ended up ordering. “I don’t want to say because I told him to order it, I’m just saying — he did get what I suggested,” says Capra. “I’m pretty sure that, by law, that makes me a member of the cabinet.”

12 Bones owner Thomas Montgomery maintains that the whole episode was surprisingly business-as-usual. “They were just having a good time, having some lunch. If it hadn’t have been for the 30 or 40 support staff with him, you probably wouldn’t have even known the difference.”

Montgomery says that, although the restaurant staff wasn’t officially notified of the president’s arrival until minutes before he walked through the doors, there were some clues — namely in the form of 20-odd Secret Service employees that showed up to dine throughout the week.

After counting 14 Secret Service workers on Thursday afternoon, Montgomery called a staff meeting to discuss the imminent potential debacle. “We had the building locked down except for the front two doors, storage units closed up, to protect ourselves from what could be a pretty major circus,” Montgomery says, acknowledging that his staff “knew the drill already” after Barack Obama’s first visit.

Regardless, there’s a lot of difference between a presidential-hopeful and the actual president.

Wasn’t the staff slightly nervous? “We’ve got a pretty calm crew,” Montgomery says, in his even Southern drawl. “If you’ve ever seen the environment that takes place in here during a

Kathmandu Cafe Chef Owned Waiting his turn: President Obama didn’t ask for any preferential treatment, waiting his turn for his blueberry-chipotle ribs like everyone else.

Friday lunch, you kinda gotta be calm anyhow, or else you won’t last a week.”

The Obamas dined several times at the Grove Park Inn, the historic resort where they spent their weekend. The GPI’s executive chef Denny Trantham found the Obamas to be “down-toearth, relaxed and appreciative.” According to Trantham, the first lady was intrigued by the local food scene and the farm-to-table concept employed by the Grove Park’s restaurants.

At the conclusion of the meal, says Tratham, Obama requested that the culinary staff come out to his table for recognition. “It was quite an honor for myself and each and every one of my culinary brigade,” Tratham says. “These guys did an excellent job.”

Trantham admits to a small bit of anxiety in his interactions with the Obamas. “It’s no pressure at all cooking for the president, you know, whatsoever,” says Trantham, laughing. “Your heart’s in your stomach, you’re nervous — just trying to stay on point to answer his questions and make sure that the evening is flowing smooth.”

Tratham wouldn’t reveal precisely what the first couple ate – except to mention that the Obamas nibbled an amuse bouche that incorporated ramps — but he did say the menu included local items like Sunburst Farms trout, Three Graces cheeses, Carolina Organic Farms radishes and lettuces from Jolley Farms in Canton.

On Saturday, the Obamas ventured out to the Corner Kitchen in the Biltmore Village, where they dined in a private room with two other couples. The President’s reservation, incidentally, was made by a man pretending to need a private space where he could propose to his girlfriend, according to owner Kevin Westmoreland.

Westmoreland decided to offer rental of the room for half price to the proposing man as a gift — only to find out later he had offered a deal to the president of the United States.

Westmoreland says that the evening turned

out to be fairly relaxed, even with the legion of Secret Service men outside and White House staffers dining at the bar. The kitchen, it seems, might have had its work cut out for it, especially in the way of maintaining composure.

Secret Service members buzzed about the kitchen, tasting items to make sure they were safe, and scrutinizing every move the kitchen staff made. “They were literally standing over the plates as they were being plated for the president and his wife, so that was a little bit nerve-wracking, I’m sure,” says Westmoreland.

“But everyone was very calm.”

Westmoreland says that, when sous chef Joshua Weeks was asked which special items he planned to prepare, Weeks indicated that the regular menu should be up to the Obamas’ standards. “We didn’t concoct anything unusual ... which was great, because you and I could walk in there and get the same thing the President ate,” says Westmoreland. On the menu for the Obamas? The President had macadamia-nut pesto mahi-mahi with pineapple salsa, and the first lady had lobster tacos with black bean-corn salsa and jicama carrot slaw.

Prior to the first couple’s arrival in Asheville, the White House advance team dined at the Corner Kitchen, and co-owner Joe Scully asked for their assessment, says Westmoreland. “They said ‘It was great! We have to tell the boss about this place.’ That was great for him to hear, because it meant that they had actually tried the food,” Westmoreland says.

The Obamas’ evaluation of the evening? “I wouldn’t expect him to say anything differently, but he did say that he enjoyed everything,” says Westmoreland, adding that the president went out of his way to thank the kitchen personally.

“He said, ‘Guys, I really loved it — and I’m not just saying that. We really appreciate your taking care of us and being so hospitable.’” X Mackensy Lunsford can be reached at food@ mountainx.com

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Picnic in the park

Now that Pack Square Park is almost fully opened to the public, what are people to do with all that space? Anthony Cerrato of Fiore’s has a plan for those lovely spring days when a picnic seems in order.

Cerrato recently came up with a series of “Tuscan picnic baskets,” which are actually high-quality hot/cold coolers that he stuffs with a nice array of Italian meals. Four different prix-fixe menus are offered, like “The Garden,” which is offered either vegetarian or fully vegan, with almond cheeses and tofu-basil stuffed figs.

A gluten-free “Almost Italian” menu is also available, with gluten-free pizza and pasta salad.

All meals come with fresh fruit, chocolate and sparkling fruit sodas. The lunches only cost $12.50 on their own, while the blanket and thermal picnic basket carry a one-time price tag of $30 — the baskets, of course, are refillable. One Tuscan picnic meal out of every four purchased is free with a

Fiore’s frequent picnic card.

Also, did you know that Fiore’s serves brunch on Saturdays? Look for items like a massive Monte Cristo with maple-shallot glazed fries, or a breakfast pizza — topped with bacon, garlic butter and local double-yolk eggs baked right on the housemade crust — that would make Anthony Bourdain proud.

Once a month on Sundays from 1-3 p.m., Ceratto offers Italian-style cooking classes. For example, guests can learn how to make fresh mozzarella class for only $15. What’s more — participants get to take home a pound of the cheese and recipes to go along with it.

Fiore’s is located at 122 College St. in Downtown Asheville. For more information, visit www.fioresasheville.com.

Farmer to table

Laurey Masterton, owner of Laurey’s Catering, is hosting a series of dinners throughout the growing season. Her “Dinner and Conversation” series features local food, prepared with reverence. The dinner highlights guests of honor — usually farm-

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ers — as well as the items that they grow or raise.

“The important thing, however, is the conversation,” says Masterton.

The first event, to take place on Thursday, May 13, will feature Nora Pouillon from Restaurant Nora in Washington, D.C., a woman who started the very first certified organic restaurant in the United States. Masterton, who interned with Pouillon at her restaurant about eight years ago, counts her as a mentor.

Masterton is a new beekeeper, and will be hosting a Dinner and Conversation later this year that will focus on what it takes to make honey.

“Hopefully we’ll have some of my honey, too,” Masterton says.

Also in the works: a beer dinner with local brewers, as well as a North Carolina seafood dinner featuring Blue Water Seafood.

Other potential guests include the farmers of Green Toe Ground, who raise flowers, vegetables and livestock, as well as the proprietors of Looking Glass Creamery. The owners of McConnell Farms, who grow bramble fruits and apples, will likely be guests, as well as a woman who grows exotic mushrooms locally. The table, says Masterton, is still open. “I love connecting people and food, so I’ll just have to find out however many ways I can do it.”

Anything can happen when the farmers come to dinner, says Masterton. She tells a story of the owners of East Fork Farms, who she invited as featured guests at one of last year’s dinners. The farmers brought their two young daughters, both under 10, who Masterton says became the stars of the show.

“They both have jobs on the farm,” says Masterton of the little girls. The sisters had prepared a presentation for the evening that included photos of them holding the rabbits that they raised — followed by pictures of them selling the meat.

“The little girls talked about how the process was just fine with them, and how they came to terms with selling their animals for meat. It was amazing,” says Masterton. “They loved them while they were alive, but it was not heartbreaking for them to kill them.”

Masterton says that having a farmer at the table is a very moving experience “for both the farmers and the people. It’s a very special experience to have the opportunity to spend the evening conversing with the people who are buying your food, and to spend the evening with the people who are growing your food.”

Although much of the evening takes the form of a relaxed, round-table discussion over a meal, “there’s a formal component, where [the farmers] stand up and talk about themselves and the politics of farming, the science, the heart, the faith, the spirit of farming, the cultural decision to become a farmer,” she says. “It’s more than lip service to local food.”

Masterton says that the market dinners will take place on the last Wednesday of every month during the growing season. The Dinner and Conversation series will “generally take place on the third Thursday of each month, but I can’t absolutely commit to that.” The best source of up-todate information for Laurey’s events is the online newsletter, which can be found by visiting www. laureysyum.com. Laurey’s Catering and Gourmetto-go is located at 67 Biltmore Ave. in downtown Asheville.

Just a reminder

The weekly WNC Chefs Challenge competitions, hosted by WNC Magazine, kick off on Tuesday, May 18, at the Flying Frog in downtown Asheville. The Iron Chef-style challenges feature culinary teams from Western North Carolina restaurants battling in heats. The two remaining chefs and their teams will go head to head at the WNC Food and Wine Festival on August 14.

Here’s how it works: Chefs hole themselves up in the kitchen with their secret ingredient and other pantry items. Attendees will get to sample three different creations — and then declare the winner.

Challenges will run every Tuesday from May 18 through August 3. Cost is $39 per guest, not inclusive of tax, drinks and gratuity. Make your reservation by calling the Flying Frog at 254-9411, or by visiting www.wncmagazine.com. Look to the Xpress for full coverage as events unfold. X

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Green Man Brewing has changed owners. “It’s going to be the evolution of Green Man,” says new owner Dennis Thies. Thies purchased the iconic local brewery just last week from founders/owners Joe and Joan Eckert, after working for them at Green Man. He also worked for Highland Brewing Company and owned a beer distributorship before moving to Asheville from Florida.

Don’t worry; brew master John Stuart will continue to brew Green Man beers. “The main products are all staying the same,” Stuart says. “But we’re expanding our equipment, which will give us more capacity and the flexibility to produce more specialty beers for the tasting room.” The staff will remain the same also, except for Thies, and Green Man will continue to supply beer to the Eckert’s restaurants Jack of the Wood and Laughing Seed.

“We’ll branch out and add some fermenters, but we will essentially stay local,” Thies says. The brewery had to close for several days for the permitting and licensing process, which has to be redone in the new owner’s name. During that time, the staff worked to slap on some paint, spruce up and improve some

Bottom’s up: Green Man’s tasting room on Buxton. photo by Jonathan Welch

of the mechanical systems at the 23 Buxton Avenue brewery affectionately known as Dirty Jack’s. For more information, visit www.jackofthewood.com.

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Start getting your beers ready, home brewers, for a new brew-off to be held on Saturday, June 19, from 2-4 p.m. outside of Wedge Brewing.

Just Economics, a local nonprofit that educates, advocates, and organizes for a just and sustainable local economy in WNC, will host the event. I was invited to be a guest judge, but I’ll be out of town (so sad). Judges will include: Carl Melissas from Wedge, Mark Lyons of Brews Cruise, Tony Kiss from the Asheville Citizen-Times, Bill Drew of Craggie Brewing, and more (yeah, they need me

for some female beer-quaffing juju — ladies?). The party will feature music and home brew tastings.

For admittance, join Just Economics at the $15 level at www.justeconomicswnc.org. To enter your beer, email markhebbard@justeconomicswnc.org.

Wedge Brewery is located at 125B Roberts St. in Asheville’s River Arts District.

ASU beer class finals

A few weeks back, I wrote about Professor Brett Taubman’s honors class at Appalachian State University: “The Science, History, and Business of Beer and Brewing.” Taubman kindly invited me to be a community judge for the students’ final brewing projects last week. The 11 students (four female) each made five gallons of beer. There were three basic styles represented: IPAs, brown ales, and stouts. The beers ranged from a classic Stout to an ale spiced with ginger to a double-hopped IPA. “The class was a little more difficult than I expected,” says senior Krystal Trout. “There was lots of rigorous science involved.”

The quote of the day came from Catawba Valley Brewing owner/brewer and judge Scott Pyatt, who said: “This is all really good beer. I don’t think any of it is going to give me flatulence.”

Taubman and assistant Shea Tuberty are setting up a nonprofit educational brewery at the university, called Ivory To wer Brewery. Look for more to come from these talented folks once they get through the permitting obstacle course.

The Ivory Tower brewers do plan to have a couple of their beers for tasting at the third annual High Country Beer Festival on Sept. 4. Tickets are on sale now at www.hcbeerfest.com.

I clearly went to college at the wrong time. If only I were 21 again. … X Anne Fitten Glenn can be reached at brewgasmavl@ gmail.com

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arts&entertainment Prosthetic limbs and inflatable penguins Chuck Palahniuk comes to town to Tell-All

by David Forbes

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Chuck Palahniuk Chuck Palahniuk made his name with what: twisted, minimalist Book tour and reading for novels like Fight Club Tell-All and Choke (both of where: which made it to the big screen, with Fight Club Asheville High School audibecoming a cult classic). torium, 419 McDowell St. His newest book, when: Tell-All is a look into a Saturday, May 8 (7 p.m. wicked, viciously funny Tickets are $31.88 and version of Hollywood include a signed book. Get during the golden age them at Malaprop’s, or call of film and gossip, 800-441-9829) complete with rampant name-dropping (every name in the book is in bold), deceit and back-stabbing.

Palahniuk’s book tours have also become famous, including at various times prosthetic limbs, inflatable penguins and a story so shocking it made audience members faint.

Asheville will get a glimpse of the excitement (and whatever Palahniuk has up his sleeve) on May 8 when he comes to Asheville High School for a reading.

Xpress: What was the genesis for Tell-All? Palahniuk: There was a movie made from my fourth book — it was called Choke — and I was doing promotion for that movie with Sam Rockwell, who’s the primary actor, and Sam was telling me about being in the Jesse James movie with Brad Pitt, and at one point he stopped himself and he said “Listen to me, blah blah blah Brad Pitt, blah blah blah Brad Pitt. It’s almost like I have some kind of name-dropping form of Tourette’s syndrome.”

It was such a funny moment, and such a true thing to say: that name-dropping when you keep hearing it, does sound like Tourette’s syndrome. Names, proper nouns, especially celebrity names, become like exclamations or like onomatopoeia, where they really do sound like animal noises, like barking.

That comment was the moment that started the book.

The novel’s told from the viewpoint of someone who

Name-dropping: Ashevilleans will be able to say they’ve seen author / cult figure Chuck Palahniuk.

works for an aging actress, back in the golden age of movies, who is obsessed with preserving her image. The actress’ assistant says at one point that “Every movie star is a slave to someone.” That’s an interesting concept; I was wondering if you could speak a little more about that.

[Laughing] Edward Norton, when Edward signed to do Primal Fear, his first sortof breakout movie, where he played the fake split-personality killer, he signed what they call a “slave contract” where, in order to get this really juicy role, you agree to do two more unspecified pictures in the future at a very, very low wage despite how famous you might become. It was that slave contract that got Edward sued by Paramount and he was forced to come back and make a couple more movies he wasn’t very enthusiastic about. But these slave contracts are so ubiquitous, especially in movies.

Some of your work, Fight Club, Snuff, for example, and now Tell-All, can come off as exposés of cultures in our society — celebrity in this case — is that intentional?

Not so much. No, because that would be setting me up as the smart person who really has the authority to stand on the outside and say everyone else is wrong. That’s never my intent.

What is your intent?

Number one: to deal with a personal issue in a very metaphorical, disguised way and exhaust all my feelings around that issue. Number two: to create a very dynamic, compelling kind of object that will hold people’s attention long enough for them to find some aspect of their lives in that object.

What’s the personal issue with Tell-All? My mother had lung cancer last year and I took care of her for a year and she died. So basically most of the time it was me and her in her house and her sickening and her dying. So, I got a lot of writing done.

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You’ve said you get a lot of your story ideas while you’re on tour. How does that process work?

I’m thrown together with a lot of people in a lot of fairly static situations, like sitting in cars or stuck in airports or being aboard airplanes.

That lends itself to conversation, and so you find yourself thrown together with so many different people talking about so many different things. Usually I come away from tour with a dozen books I want to write, based on what people have told me.

Looking at the latest tour, there’s some fairly major cities on it. Then there’s Asheville in the middle. Why Asheville?

Asheville must have done something right.

I’m a slave to Random House, and Random House said, “You’re going there.”

Speaking of the tours, you said at some point that you wanted to inject more excitement and chaos into them. They’ve involved, in the past, prosthetic body parts and inflatable penguins. What’s next and why do you do those type of events at your readings?

This year, like every year, I try to bring something that’s specifically for the tour, so that no one is really hearing this story except for the people who bothered to come to tour events. There’s an enormously upsetting story, kind of on-par with the “Guts” story that’s so infamous.

The one that made people faint.

Exactly. This one won’t make them faint, but it’s just as strong in a different way. And there’s inflatables, and there’s contests.

One description of your work that comes up, sometimes as a criticism, is that it’s nihilistic. Do you think that’s so?

I think it’s a really easy tag or label for people to put on something they don’t fully understand. I find that if you don’t agree with what other people believe about the world, the first thing they do is either call you a fascist or a nihilist. In America they call you a nihilist, in Europe they call you a fascist. That’s the fastest way to dismiss you.

Do you usually do most of your writing by yourself or while you’re traveling?

Both. I’m pretty much always writing. If I’m not writing, then I’m thinking and wishing I had a pen. But I’m always, always writing. X David Forbes can be reached at dforbes@ mountainx.com.

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Keeping up with the Joneses

Norah Jones and Sharon Jones both play Asheville

by Alli Marshall

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The Welsh surnames Norah Jones of distinctively nonwhere: Welsh vocalists Norah Thomas Wolfe Auditorium and Sharon Jones are the on Tuesday, May 11 (8 p.m. same, but there’s little $43-$58. ticketmaster.com or common ground when 259-5544) it comes to their most who: recent musical offerings.

While Norah’s Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings November 2009 album where: The Fall is a departure The Orange Peel on for the dusky-voiced Wednesday, May 12 (9 p.m. jazz singer, Sharon’s $20 advance/$22 door. theorjust-released I Learned the angepeel.net or 225-5851) Hard Way is a revisiting.

Yes, Hard Way continues along the trajectory of pitch-perfect soul-revivalist style for which Sharon and her band, The Dap Kings, are known, but it also delves deeper in the 1960s and ‘70s sound with a vision and focus keen enough for historical preservation. In fact, the Dap Kings’ sound emanates from vintage recording equipment (Hard Way was captured on an Ampex eight-track tape machine and released on vinyl) and is explained by bassist/ Daptones Record label co-creator Gabriel Roth on the liner notes of 2005’s Naturally.

“Somewhere between banging on logs and the invention of M.I.D.I. technology we have made a terrible wrong turn,” he writes. “We must have ridden right past our stop. We should have stepped down off the train at that moment when rhythm and harmony and technology all culminated to a single Otis Redding whine. That moment of the truest, most genuine expression of what it means to be human.”

Norah’s album, on the other hand, instead of sinking more deeply into the soulful, sleepy (yes, she’s been called “Snorah”), molasses-thick style for which the singer has been known — since she burst onto the adult contemporary charts in 2002 with her debut, Come Away with Me — lifts free of much the languid murk that has been her trademark. Snappy, clever lyrics, poppy instrumentation, and a chic short hair cut complete Norah’s makeover.

What hasn’t changed is her low, slightly hoarse vocal and her casual, almost bashful delivery. But at this juncture, almost a decade into a career that seemed to take off like a cannon shot and, really, hasn’t slowed much, it’s a bold move for Norah to suddenly turn out a pop album. The risk? Alienating her adult contemporary audience. Especially now that Norah, at 31, is closer to that demographic herself than she was as a 22-yearold upstart. So far, critics and audiences seem to agree it was a chance worth taking.

Would Sharon take that sort of risk? The soul/funk vocalist started her own career as a young woman. She went from singing gospel in church to singing with funk bands in the ‘70s, but without a recording contract (according to news network True/Slant, Sharon was “told she was too dark-skinned and too fat to make it in the music industry”), she worked blue-collar jobs, including a 16-month stint as a corrections officer on Rikers Island. These days, Sharon shares the stage with (and easily outshines) Michael Bublé, but — at 54 — she’s finally gained due recognition for a style she solidified decades ago.

Okay, so the two performers — both of whom play Asheville this week — have radically different trajectories. Norah can claim a famous lineage (more about that in a minute), though when she broke into pop music, it was her not-so-famous mother’s last

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Separated at birth? Not really, but musicians Norah (top) and Sharon, share more than a last name (and unusual press-photo poses). above photo by autumn dewilde, below photo by steven dewall

name that she chose to use. Sharon, on the other hand, came from obscurity. But take one look at her shaking what her mama gave her on Austin City limits (seriously: The woman kicks off her heels and dances the dance of the possessed) and it’s obvious that she was never meant to take back stage to anyone.

So, besides a shared name and coincidentally timed tour stops, what else do these two unlikely kindred spirits have in common?

Turns out, lots.

• The mama connection: On Fall, Norah sings “Tell Yer Mama”; Sharon performs “Mama Don’t Like My Man” on Hard Way. • The dad connection: Both performers come from musical backgrounds. Norah (famously) is the daughter of Indian sitarist Pandit Ravi Shankar and dancer Sue Jones.

Both performers were raised by their mothers.

Sharon told eMusic.com, “My mom and dad separated when I was a baby; my mom would let me go down south to be with my father in the summers ... Mama used to play the piano; my father sang in a [group].”

• Six degrees of Michael Bublé: Sharon & the Dap-Kings are featured on Bublé’s 2009 album, Crazy Love, in the track “Baby (You’ve got what it takes);” Norah is often pigeonholed with Bublé, but their single shared effort seems to be on French import album Saint-Germain-Des-Pres Cafe, Vol. 7: The Finest Nu-Jazz Selection & Ladies In Nu-Jazz.

• The youth connection: Norah sings (appropriately) “Young Blood” while Sharon sings (appropriately)”She Ain’t A Child No More.”

• The “cool guy in the background” connection: Norah met singer/songwriter Jesse Harris while she was a student at University of North Texas. The two later started the band that went on to record Come Away. Sharon met collaborator Roth when she was the only backup singer to show up to a session (organized by Roth) for funk/soul artist Lee Fields.

• The Brooklyn connection: Norah was born in Brooklyn, grew up in Texas, and now is based out of Brooklyn again. Sharon was born in Georgia but moved to New York pretty much as soon as she could. She and the Dap Kings call Brooklyn home.

• The name game: Sharon was born “Sheron Lafaye Jones” and was credited during her early years as a singer as “Lafaye Jones.”

Norah was born “Geethali Norah Jones Shankar” and at age 16 had her name legally changed to Norah Jones.

• The big-screen connection: Sharon played a juke-joint singer in the 2007 Denzel Washington/Forest Whitaker vehicle The Great Debaters. Nora’s filmography includes a role in the 2007 Jude Law vehicle My Blueberry Nights and cameos in Two Week’s Notice, Life.

Support. Music and Wah Do Dem. And then there’s just the simple fact that both of these ladies, with their very different styles and sounds and collaborators and audiences, are both at the top of their respective games.

X Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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Iconic underground space leaving Tingle Alley digs, holding blowout junker sale

by Whitney Shroyer Another iconic Asheville landmark is exiting the scene, but it’s going out with an appropriately eccentric finish.

HandCranked Studios is moving from its Tingle Alley location to a new home office in Haw Creek. But it’s celebrating a five-year reign as one of the coolest unofficial hangouts in downtown Asheville with a day-long, inoffice blowout. It promises to be the junker’s event of the season.

“It’s going to be the coolest combination yard sale and thrift sale and art sale and furniture sale,” says HandCranked proprietor Lance Wille.

He’s not joking. If you care about unique stuff at all, be it homespun art, craft supplies, quirky furniture, found objects of rare brilliance, and/or the world’s largest Mr. T collection, you owe it to yourself to be at the HandCranked Letterpress studios sale, if only to grab a piece of underground Asheville history. Freaks of Asheville, mark your calendars.

“You wouldn’t believe some of the stuff they’ve got in there,” says long time HandCranked collaborator Jason Krekel.

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Because Lance Wille and Suzie Millions are world-class junkers, and are consolidating their business and home into one new location, giving up a large amount of their “scores” in the process.

Wonder Emporium: HandCranked Letterpress holds a moving sale that promises to be the junker event of the year. Maybe the decade. photos by jonathan welch

Wille and his wife, Suzie Millions, are the principal caretakers of the Tingle Alley space.

Although it’s been co-occupied by a number of artists, filmmakers, and musicians over the years, these two are primary in making the place such a welcoming, weird and wonderful location.

“I think the magic of the space is dependent on Lance and Sue’s aesthetic,” says Krekel.

“That and their killer record collection.”

It’s true. The HandCranked business HQ has been many things — part business, part art-collective, part practice space, part hangout and crash-pad. But it’s the décor that overwhelms you when you step into the large, high-ceilinged, Lexington-loft space — it’s a crazy museum of amazing pop-cultural cast-offs.

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Examples of HandCranked’s work line the rafters. Millions’ work space, the “experimental lab” for her Lark book The Complete Book of Retro-Crafts, is full of an array of professional and intuitive craft supplies: glitter, beads, google eyes, pom-poms, and other tiny items. The bathroom is full of a hilarious array of defaced record jackets. Weird homemade paintings line the walls. Stacks of 45s and LPs dominate a large portion of the room. The band practice space in the back is mocked out like a miniature nightclub, with a bamboo bar, old beer signs and several vintage tables and couches. And most of it’s going up for sale.

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gotten since we moved to Asheville. It’s going to be like: You went to the thrift stores every week for the last five years, and you got all the cool stuff that was there, but only kept 10 percent of it, and sold the other 90 percent to your friends.”

“But we’re making cuts that hurt,” adds Millions.

Here’s a story that illustrates the type of stuff stored at Hand-Cranked, and the serendipitous alchemy often associated with the space: When Reigning Sound recently played ActionFest at the Orange Peel, keynote speaker Chuck Norris casually mentioned his first movie, Wrecking Crew, a 1969 film featuring Dean Martin as secret agent Matt Helm. Reigning Sound guitarist Greg Cartwright turned to Wille (the drummer for the group) and said he was fairly sure that he’d seen a poster for the film at the loft.

“I ran back to the space,” Millions says. “And I grabbed the poster. It was a French language version original. I ran back to the Peel and gave it to Chuck Norris to sign. He was amazed.”

HankCranked Studios has been operating out of the Tingle Alley flat for the last five years, providing quick-and-dirty analog-style letterpress flyers and posters for many an artshow, band performance, CD cover, or benefit.

Affectionately just called “Tingle Alley” by anyone hoping to drain a quick PBR before heading to a rock ‘n’ roll show downtown, it’s served as practice space for bands like Reigning Sound and the Krektones, studios for artists like Lorruh Vilhite, Tara Jensen and Tim Saunders, the meeting space with the Blue Ridge Craft Clatch, the editing space for the film We Won’t Bow Down, a video and photoshoot location for many different bands, and the locale for many “Pulitzer-Prize winning” parties.

“We’ve worked at a loss just to have the space, because it’s been so much fun,” says Wille.

The couple is taking the consolidative move as an opportunity to refocus their artistic energies. Millions hopes to shift her work methodology from an accumulative style of amassing craft supplies, to a more “find-it-as-you-needit” method, while Wille hopes to shift the HandCranked aesthetic more towards fine art prints. And while they’re visibly excited about the possibilities of the future, it’s also evident that they’re going to miss their Tingle Alley location.

“The collaboration in proximity is what I’m going to miss,” Wille says. “All the artists who work here are really inspirational, and it wasn’t always just a place to hang out and listen to records. You’d come in, and they’d be working, and you’d grab a PBR and set to doing something yourself. The creative energy was fantastic. You could really feel it.”

“I’m going to miss the spontaneity of the place,” says Millions. “You’d come here on the weekend and you just would never know what was going to happen. People’d come by here, and then bring friends back to share it.

More than one person told me this place was inspirational, and I can’t think of anything an artist would want more than to inspire other people.” X

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;We wanted to do a quintessentially American story,â&#x20AC;? says Ann Dunn, director and choreographer of the Asheville Ballet, describing the impulse that inspired the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upcoming performance. A light bulb of possibilities went off when co-choreographer Lyle Laney suggested An American in Paris: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It was like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Ding,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? says Dunn, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a great idea!â&#x20AC;?

The acclaimed 1928 composition by George Gershwin, inspired by his travels through the City of Lights, features a score of beloved classical songs such as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Build A Stairway to Paradiseâ&#x20AC;?; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve Got Rhythmâ&#x20AC;? and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Someone To Watch Over Me.â&#x20AC;? The composition also narrates a beautiful love story set in one of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most romantic cities. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We are very attracted to Gershwin,â&#x20AC;? says Dunn, â&#x20AC;&#x153;If youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a choreographer, you just see dance: You hear a horn or a saxophone and you see [movement of the] hips and legs.â&#x20AC;? For Laney, who, in addition to choreographing, will be performing the lead role in the production, Gershwinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s symphony is an absolute joy to work with, inspiring the balletâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s style, mood and theatrical quality. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The music is so fantastically wonderful,â&#x20AC;? he says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;and the style of the movement comes out of the music.â&#x20AC;?

Combing classical ballet with modern dance, jazz and sexy French cabaret styles â&#x20AC;&#x201D; while creating decidedly different choreography from Gene Kellyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s, featured in the 1951 musical film An American in Paris â&#x20AC;&#x201D; the production is quite an ambitious undertaking. For the Asheville Ballet, the challenge makes the creative process all the more rewarding, says Dunn.

Set in the late 1940s, in the aftermath of World War II, the ballet tells the story of an American G.I. named Jerry, performed by Laney, who stays in Europe after the war to pursue his dream of becoming an artist.

Painting on the streets beside the Seine Riverâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; where lovers often strollâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; he meets a sophisticated art collector named Milo, performed by Allison Hertzberg, who takes great interest in his art, and in him.

Together, Milo and Jerry go to a concert in a basement cafĂŠ. With people dancing around them and a jazz band performing in the corner,

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Diana Wortham Theatre

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Friday and Saturday, May 7 and 8 (7:30 p.m. $25 adults/$20 students/$15 children. Info: 257-4530, dwtheatre. com or ashevilleballet.com.)

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Lovestruck: â&#x20AC;&#x153;It will make you want to travel to Paris,â&#x20AC;? says Ann Dunn. photo by jonathan welch

Jerry looks across the room and sees a young, strikingly beautiful Parisian woman, Lise, performed by Sarah McGinnis. Locking eyes, the dancers are immediately compelled to each other: The love story begins. Little does Jerry know then, however, that Lise is engaged to marry one of Parisâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; most respected singers, a man named Henri, performed by Jaimon Howell.

On cobblestone streets beside the Seine River, Jerry and Lise confess their feelings in a seven-minute pas de deux, a loverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s duet choreographed by Laney. Sensual and filled with tension, the dance â&#x20AC;&#x153;expresses so tenderly and beautifully the innocent and powerful attraction between Jerry and Lise, that, when the audience discovers that she must marry Henri, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tragic,â&#x20AC;? says Dunn. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The choreography is beautiful: It demonstrates the essence of love.â&#x20AC;?

Laney hopes that the duet will remind the audience of what it feels like to fall in love for the first time. The duet ends with Lise running from Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s arms, torn between her commitment to Henri and her desire for Jerry.

To bring the flavors, sounds and ambiance of Paris to the stage, the company will perform in front of an elaborate set: A colorful Parisian street scene, with the Eiffel Tower shining in the background. The ballet opens with a street scene that strives to set the mood for the concert as a whole. â&#x20AC;&#x153;There are vendors, people carrying baskets of fruit and bread, wait-

resses waiting tables at outdoor cafes, children laughing, taxi cabs [honking] and intellectuals dressed in black and discussing philosophy, â&#x20AC;? says Dunn, as she hums and sings the various tunes associated with each character.

Costumes also add to the productionâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s European atmosphere. Young ladies in the company will wear black, sleeveless turtleneck shirts (a classical Parisian look) coupled with ballet skirts. Men will wear white pants and red-and-white striped vests with straw boater hats, a look that combines French fashion styles with classical ballet attire. Lise performs in a red-and-white striped dress, and Jerry, a true American, wears a polo shirt and baseball cap.

The last scene in the production is an epic 17-minute finale. Jerry, after watching Lise leave with Henri, picks up a rose, waves it across his face and has a vision. In a dream-like state, Jerry reflects on his many experiences in Paris. In these last minutes of the show, every dancer returns to the stage as characters in Jerryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s vision, attacking him, swirling around him and bombarding him. When Jerry emerges from his thoughts a resolution reveals itself. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And,â&#x20AC;? says Dunn, â&#x20AC;&#x153;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a happy ending.â&#x20AC;?

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Animating the macabre through paper and paint.

Artistic violence sometimes reveals its true power in how it stands the test of time. A sensationalized video of gore and explosions, for example, may shock viewers one day, but after a few years it runs the risk of appearing campy. Consider, for a moment, how the sweetly disturbing illustrations of Edward Gorey or the videos of The Brothers Quay have been able to quietly provoke viewers long after their creation.

Such is the case with artist Luca Dipierro, whose paintings and video art are enchanting and macabre all at once. Aesthetically reminiscent of Mexican Day of the Dead Folk Art, antique circus posters and old comic books, Dipierro’s work quietly infiltrates the mind through the disarming characterization of nuns, sailors, acrobats, hanged creatures, caskets and detached limbs. “The art I am interested in is one that is little, but adventurous,” he says.

To produce his animations, Dipierro first creates paper characters using just acrylic paint and markers. Each paper cut element is rather small — no bigger than 4 or 5 inches, but often Dipierro must create multiples of something to establish movement in his work. Blood emanating from a hand in one animation required 80 red paper drops. “Some animators would just make a loop out of five or 10 drops,” he says. “Instead, I cut the 80 drops.

On a subliminal level, people understand that they’re all different.”

It is essential to Dipierro that the hand-made element be prevalent in his work. “There’s a sort of obsessive quality you reach when you work on things that small,” he says. “The art carries the traces of what you had to go through, and the viewer sees how crazy it was to make.”

After the paper cuts are documented by camera, Dipierro finds homes for them in his visual art, created on found objects like book covers and

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boards. Paintings like “Three Annunciations” have nostalgic appeal with their line-drawn illustrations and straightforward use of primary and secondary colors. His dead-pan characters add an element of dark humor in their indifference to all that surrounds them. In “Tomorrow You Will Not Wake Up,” a nun presides over a coffin covered in Italian writing — a short story Dipierro has written himself. “Resurrection of 14 Birds” depicts birds flying out of a casket in singular formation, flanked by two acrobats in striped shorts.

Dipierro recalls that as a child growing up in Moreno, Italy, he would visit a church where glass caskets held the skeletal remains of bishops. The robes and jewels that decorated the bishops’ bodies (along with art of the Catholic Church, the Northern European Gothic architecture of his hometown, and Italian Puppet Theater) left an impression. He got his start illustrating posters for rock bands in his teens while living in Italy. “I’d almost prefer to have my art on a record cover than in a museum,” he says.

In 2006, Dipierro moved to the U.S. and he lived in Brooklyn before moving to Marshall, six months ago. He recently relocated to Asheville with Leni Zumas, a writer, with whom he frequently collaborates. The two have begun work on an illustrated story entitled “Until I Find It,” which can be viewed in installments online at thegiganticmag.com.

Dipierro plans to screen his animations in Asheville later this year.

For now, his paintings are on display at Hip Replacements in downtown Asheville. DVDs of his videos are also available for purchase, and they are a must-see. The enlargement of his images through video adds dimension to the drawings, as does the haunting music/narration that accompany each vignette. Paper fibers, cut edges, brush strokes and shadows are more apparent at this scale than with the naked eye. “Animations are art plus time,” says Dipierro, “it’s not just telling a story — it’s a painting that moves.”

Luca Dipierro’s exhibition Circo Di Carta is currently on display at Hip Replacements, 72 N. Lexington Ave. www.lucadipierro.com X

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smartbets Richie Tipton & The First Kings

Singer/songwriter/guitarist Richie Tipton is something of a mad genius. “Romiet loved Julio / Her hair half-teased with room to grow / she won’t drink but I will too / to be highly over you,” he sings on his new album, recently recorded at Echo Mountain. Tipton has been the tour de force behind some of Asheville’s great rock bands over the last couple decades (Praying for Rain, Rail). His new band, The First Kings, continues the tradition of well-crafted country-tinged rock with coiled energy and catchy hooks. The band plays a CD release party at Lexington Avenue Brewery on Thursday, May 6. 9 p.m. $5. You Dirty Rats and Matthew Knights Williams also perform. lexavebrew.com.

Eco-fashion at Rosetta’s

Animal-welfare advocacy and eco-fashion company Mission Savvy hosts a stylish evening at vegetarian restaurant Rosetta’s Kitchen. “The event is designed to create an intimate evening, showcasing some of the toughest issues in animal welfare, while providing consumers with the power of change through consumerism,” explains a press release. “Profits from Mission Savvy are donated to animal rescue and wildlife conservation efforts around the world.” Along with dessert, wine and a fashion show, a local drumming group performs. Sunday, May 9. 5-8 p.m. Free. missionsavvy.com

The Glitch Mob

Festival faves The Glitch Mob — without the glitch?

“We made this album with very little, if almost none, of our traditional studio production tricks ... We wanted it to sound like us, but without gimmicks — no glitches, crazy edits or bizarre effects,” say members of the band about their new album, Drink The Sea, set to drop May 25. The California-based electronica/dance music trio is known as much for its heady backbeats and limitless influences, as for its ability to evolve and pioneer new sounds. Download new tracks at theglitchmob.com; or just see the Glitch Mob (with Free the Robots, Deru, Gift and GalaxC Girl) at Club 828 on Wednesday, May 12. 10 p.m., $15 advance/$20 doors. club828.com.

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smartbets Little Shop of Horrors Little Shop of Horrors is among the longestrunning off-Broadway musicals for a good reason: An R&B-singing, man-eating plant with designs on world domination is awesome. (Take that, all you phantoms, dancing street gangs and talking cats.) Asheville Community Theatre produces the show, with local comedian Michael Sheldon starring as Seymour Krelborn, the luckless Skid Row florist who discovers “Audrey II,” the plant with a penchant for human flesh. Shows run through Sunday, May 16; Fridays and Saturdays at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 2:30 p.m. $22 adults/$19 seniors & students/$12 children. ashevilletheatre. org. Photo by Halima Flynt.

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“Swear like a fishwife,” is the expression, because women who sold fish — fishwives — were loud and coarse. And probably pretty funny. Sort of like the characters that local artist Alli Good paints: colorful, emotive and kind of cartoonish but in a super-relatable way. Good manages to translate all that’s awkward and uncomfortable about life (relationships, arguments, braces) into quirky-cool images. She also paints animals (unicorns, rabbits, fish-people). And she paints on bottles and hats and records — the latter is especially appropriate for her upcoming show, Fishwife, at Harvest Records. Friday, May 7, 7-10 p.m. alligoodart.net.

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Wages

If you’ve been missing Arizona — the muchhyped indie rockers who relocated to Asheville a couple years back and then ... disappeared, here’s good news: Arizona minus singer Ben Wigler has reformed into self-described “New Impressionist” band Wages. Nick Campbell (guitar), Alex Hornbake (bass) and James DeDakis (drums) share vocals and layer shimmery strings over rock drums. Not wasting any time, Wages has already recorded an EP and will celebrate that album’s release at Lexington Avenue Brewery on Saturday, May 8. 9 p.m. $5. The Houstons and Gift Horse also take the stage. wageswages.com

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BLITCH (rock, alternative) w/ Lake Effekt

Paul Cataldo (singer/songwriter)

Belly dancing w/ live music

Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Scandals Nightclub

Lobster Trap

The Protomen (other, other)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;Exposureâ&#x20AC;? DJ night

Live music by local artists

Craggie Brewing Company

Temptations Red Room

Mellow Mushroom

Derek Pritzl (Americana, blues, acoustic)

â&#x20AC;&#x153;80s Dance Partyâ&#x20AC;? w/ DJ Chubby Knuckles

The Odd Meters (jazz, other)

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

The Hookah Bar

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Greg Olson (folk)

Taylor Martinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Engine w/ Big AL Hall & Marching Rams (Americana)

Emerald Lounge

Pisgah Brewing Company

Nikki Talley (indie, rock) Purple Onion Cafe

The Stereofidelics (retro, alt-rock)

Red Step Artworks

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Mack Kellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Grill

Anne Coombs (jazz, swing)

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Emerald Lounge

Johnsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossroad (acoustic, Americana)

Red Stag Grill

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Salsa & Mambo Dancing, 10pm-2am Dance Lessons, 10:30pm

Hank Bones

Southern Silk Duo (jazz, blues)

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Open mic Rocket Club

Asheville Poetry Slam Town Pump

Melanie Dekker (indie, roots) Tressaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz and Friends (blues) Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Aaron LaFalce (acoustic guitar, singer/songwriter) Westville Pub

Circus Mutt (covers) Zuma Coffee

Thursday night bluegrass jam

Fri., May 7

Back Room

Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Malleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s On Main

Ritaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gift (alternative, indie, rock) w/ Alarm Conspiracy & The Zealots

Caleb Burress (vocals, guitars) & friends

Fairview Tavern

Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz)

Fifth & The Machiavillains (progressive, punk, rock)

Orange Peel

Feed and Seed

Tears of Color presents â&#x20AC;&#x153;Abolishing Human Traffickingâ&#x20AC;? feat: Shannon Whitworth, Mariya Fesiuk & Center Stage Dancers

Still Brook

Pisgah Brewing Company

Garage at Biltmore

Olive or Twist

Derek Pritzl (Americana, blues, acoustic)

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

Tennessee Hollow (country, roots, rock)

Purple Onion Cafe

Papadosio (electronic) w/ DJ Medisin & Magma Blood

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist)

Good Stuff

Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

Red Stag Grill

DJ night

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter)

Shinola Troubadours of Possum Splendor (acoustic) w/ the Demijohn Varmints

Back Room

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Chalwa (reggae, roots)

Rewind Blue (Southern rock)

Horse Feathers (indie, folk) w/ Barton Carroll

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Rocket Club

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Acoustic Swing Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine Bar

SuperCollider (ambient, experimental) w/ Silver Machine & DJ Adam Strange

Cary Fridley & Down South (old-time country, blues)

Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm

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Jerusalem Garden

dArol Anger, $12

BoBo Gallery

Peace Jones (rock, reggae, funk)

Belly dancing w/ live music

Nigel One (soul, psychedelic, tape)

Stella Blue

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

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Boiler Room

Against All Means

The Surf Church (surf, rock) w/ Machiavillians

Straightaway CafĂŠ

Wages CD release party w/ Gift Horse & The Houston

Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Dave Turner (rock, pop)

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Floating Action (surf, club) & Giant Cloud

Tallgaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s College Street Pub

Big AL Hall & Marching Rams (Americana)

Craggie Brewing Company

Ghost Mountain (rock)

Nine Mile

Pipapelli (blues, jam)

Temptations Red Room

Ras Berhane (acoustic, reggae)

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

DJ Drea

Olive or Twist

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

The Hookah Bar

42nd Street Jazz Band

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clubdirectory The 170 La Cantinetta 687-8170 Asheville Ale House 505-3550 Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 259-5544 Athena’s Club 252-2456 The Back Room 697-6828 Barley’s Tap Room 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 The Blackbird 669-5556 Blue Mountain Pizza 658-8777 BoBo Gallery 254-3426 Bosco’s Sports Zone 684-1024 Broadway’s 285-0400 Club 828 252-2001 Club Hairspray 258-2027 Courtyard Gallery 273-3332 Craggie Brewing Company 254-0360 Curras Nuevo 253-2111 Desoto Lounge 986-4828 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530 Dock’s Restaurant 883-4447 The Dripolator 398-0209 Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ 296-0100 Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar 252-2711 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge 232- 4372

Fairview Tavern 505-7263 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Parkside Pub & Grill 281-0920 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 The Garage 505-2663 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn 252-2711 Guadalupe Cafe 586-9877 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 The Hangar 684-1213 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780 The Hookah Bar 252-1522 Infusions 665-2161 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Laurey’s Catering 252-1500 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luella’s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805

Magnolia’s Raw Bar 251-5211 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mike’s Tavern 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill 258-1550 New French Bar Courtyard Cafe 225-6445 Old Fairview Southern Kitchen 277-7117 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 O’Malley’s On Main 246-0898 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s Tavern 225-6944 Pineapple Jack’s 253-8860 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179 Rankin Vault 254-4993 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Red Step Artworks 697-1447 Rendezvous 926-0201 Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill 622-0001 Rocket Club 505-2494 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Ruby’s BBQ Shack 299-3511 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scully’s 251-8880

Temptations Red Room

Singer/songwriter night feat: Jeff Santiago, Jason Daniello & John Crutchfield

DJ Spy V

Purple Onion Cafe

Live music w/ singer-songwriters

Jeff & Vida (bluegrass, acoustic duo)

Town Pump

Red Stag Grill

Paul Edelman & Jangling Sparrows (folk, soul)

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

The Free Flow Band (funk)

Rewind Blue (Southern rock)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Live music w/ Marc Keller

Kemistry (Southern rock)

Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

Rocket Club

Paul Cataldo (Americana, country, roots)

Umoja Orchestra (world, Afro-beat, funk)

White Horse

Seawhistle (rock, indie) Straightaway Café

Sherri Lynn (contemporary bluegrass, country) Tallgary’s College Street Pub

TSY (rock)

Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Stella Blue 236-2424 The Still 683-5913 Stockade Brew House 645-1300 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 Switzerland Cafe 765-5289 Tallgary’s College Street Pub 232-0809 Temptations Red Room 252-0775 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 TGI Friday’s 277-4080 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vaso De Vino Wine Bar & Market 254-4698 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 The Watershed 669-0777 Waynesville Water’n Hole 456-4750 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066 Xcapades 258-9652

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King of Kazoo (family show), 2pm Ol’ Hoopty (funk, blues, jazz) w/ Rob Morsberger & band

Sun., May 9 Athena’s Club

DJ night Barley’s Taproom

Jason DeCristofaro Trio (jazz, classical, other) Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Luke Wood (acoustic) Bosco’s Sports Zone

Shag dance & lessons Feed and Seed

Bill Mallonee (Americana, indie) Hangar

Comedy open mic Jack Of The Wood Pub

Irish session, 5pm Tom Waits time, late Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Aaron Price (piano) Lobster Trap

Chris Rhodes

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Luella’s Bar-B-Que

Hank & Johnny (from Firecracker Jazz Band), 11:30am-2pm New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Singer/songwriters Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Vinyl at the Vault” w/ Chris Ballard Tallgary’s College Street Pub

Thursday, May 6th - 7pm

Nikki Talley

Friday, May 7th - 8pm

Derek Pritzl

Open 4 - 9pm Mon. - Wed. • 2pm - until Thurs. - Sat.

Dennis (acoustic) Town Pump

Pickin’ at the Pump, open acoustic jam Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Mike Pelz (rock)

Norah Jones (singer/songwriter, pop, jazz)

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Town Pump

Makia Groove (funk, reggae, fusion)

James Harrell & Kelly Mae Redmond

BoBo Gallery

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Secret B-Sides (soul, hip-hop) w/ Kahaln David Morrison

Benefit for Vivica Dupree!

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Eleven on Grove

Marc Keller & Company (variety)

Swing & Tango lessons and dance

Westville Pub

Emerald Lounge

Blues Jam w/ Mars Fariss

Tuesday Night Funk Jam

White Horse

Feed and Seed

Will Ray’s Mountain Jam

Irish session, 6:30pm Open mike w/ Parker Brooks, 8:30pm

Iron Horse Station

Wild Wing Cafe

Open mic w/ Yorky

Club 828

Laurey’s Catering and Gourmet To

Metal Monday feat: guest artists Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Contra dance Orange Peel

Jabali African Acrobats of Kenya, 11am Rocket Club

Asheville Jazz Orchestra (swing, jazz) Town Pump

Paco Shipp (roots, blues) w/ David Bryan, Steve Blanton & Jerry McNeely Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

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Jorma Kaukonen (fingerstyle guitar) & David Bromberg Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Rock Records

Bosco’s Sports Zone

Shag dance Broadway’s

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thursday Beacon Pub / Cancun Mexican Grill Chasers / Club Hairspray Shovelhead Saloon

saturday Club Hairspray / Holland’s Grille Infusions / Shovelhead Saloon The Still

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Getaway’s (Eleven on Grove) Mike’s Side Pocket Tallgary’s College Street Pub

Fairview Tavern / Infusions Mack Kell’s / Shovelhead Saloon Stockade Brew House The 170 La Cantinetta

Open mic w/ Pierce Edens

Back Room

tuesday

friday

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Tue., May 11

Mack Kell’s Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Chameleon Soul Food

Spoken word, music & poetry night hosted

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Selector Cleofus w/ special guests DJ Betty Toker, DJ Stankfoot, Selecta BigSpliff & Brother Justin

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‘80s Night, 10pm

Temptations Red Room

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Lobster Trap

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Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mark Knight (singer/songwriter)

College Street Pub

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Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

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Ukelele jam w/ Lyn Llewellyn

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Wed., May 12

D Mack Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Marc Keller & Company (variety)

11PM - 2AM, DOORS AT 10PM

Bluegrass & clogging

Mon., May 10

karaoke

Wed., May 5th Soul Jazz Jam

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Thur., May 6th Erika Jane & Remember the Bees Fri., May 7th Ralph Roddenbery Sat., May 8th Woody Pines Mon., May 10th Jenny Juice’s Brown Bag Songwriting Competition • No Cover!

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Asheville Ale House / Bosco’s Sports Zone / Cancun Mexican Grill The Hangar / Getaway’s (Eleven on Grove) / Mack Kell’s Temptations / Wing Cafe Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter) Good Stuff

Open mic Holland’s Grille

Marc Keller (singer/songwriter) Jack Of The Wood Pub

Old Time Jam, 6pm Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Old Avenue (acoustic, rock) New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Screaming J’s (folk, experimental, blues) Nine Mile

Ras Berhane (acoustic, reggae) Olive or Twist

Shag & swing dancing w/ DJ Ron Blankenship Orange Peel

Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings (gospel, soul, funk) w/ Fitz & The Tantrums

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Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

“Hits & Shits” w/ Jamie Hepler Red Stag Grill

Robert Thomas (jazz standards, blues) Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Open mic w/ Peirce Edens

Rocket Club

French Broad Brewery Tasting Room

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

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Bailey Cook (roots, Americana)

Peggy Ratusz & Daddy Long Legs (blues)

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

The Blackbird

Shannon McNally & Hot Sauce w/ Kaiser Cartel

MĂŠnage (indie, rock)

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Aaron LaFalce (acoustic guitar, singer/songwriter)

The Hookah Bar

Bluegrass Jam, 7pm

Westville Pub

Open mic w/ rotating local hosts

Lobster Trap

Paco Shipp & Billy Cardine (acoustic)

Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Irish Pub

Hank Bones

Zuma Coffee

â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;80s night

Mack Kellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Pub & Grill

Thursday night bluegrass jam

Town Pump

Marc Keller (acoustic, variety)

Open Mic w/ David Bryan

Mela

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

Belly dancing

The Free Flow Band (funk)

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

Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Saint Solitude w/ Lewis

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

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Westville Pub

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Jamminâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; with Funky Max

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Fri., May 14 Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

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Moonshine Babies (American folk) Beacon Pub

Julia Ann Roberts Band Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

The Expendables (reggae, punk) w/ Tomorrows Bad Seeds (reggae), Dirty Penny & Big B

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Acoustic Swing Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine Bar

Pisgah Brewing Company

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Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm

Gaslight Street (Southern soul)

Back Room

Stephen Simmons (alternative, country, Texas troubadour) Beacon Pub

Boiler Room

Purple Onion Cafe

Shell Shock (Goth, industrial)

Jonathan Byrd (folk, acoustic)

Broadwayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s

Red Stag Grill

Ear Pwr (alternative, punk, country) & Love Craft

Anne Coombs (jazz, swing)

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Red Step Artworks

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

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Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk)

Ritual (progressive, black metal) w/ Built to Fall

Rocket Club

Boiler Room

Night Driving in Small Towns (indie, rock) Boscoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Sports Zone

Craggie Brewing Company

The Legendary Shack Shakers (country, rock) w/ The Pine Hill Haints

Wellhouse Band (blues) Curras Nuevo Cuisine

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Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Sprat (blues, folk)

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Diana Wortham Theater

Scandals Nightclub

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Karan Casey Band (Celtic)

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Eleven on Grove

Stella Blue

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Salsa & Mambo Dancing, 10pm-2am Dance Lessons, 10:30pm

The Native Sway (rock, funk)

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Temptations Red Room

Mark Guest (jazz guitar)

Emerald Lounge

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Eleven on Grove

Vortex Cabaret (music, burlesque & more) Frankie Bones

Chris Rhodes (singer/songwriter)

Snake Oil Medicine Show (psychobilly, bluegrass)

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Ike Stubblefield & friends

Pineapple Jack’s

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Millie and the Sirs (indie, rock)

Brushfire Stankgrass (electro, acoustic, bluegrass)

Sat., May 15

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Purple Onion Cafe

Athena’s Club

Ray Wylie Hubbard (country, Southern rock)

Fred Whisken (jazz pianist)

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Mother Soul (rock, metal) w/ Opus Grey

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Pat Flaherty (folk, country)

Underhill Rose (soul, Americana)

Tallgary’s College Street Pub

Garage at Biltmore

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Sonic Boom (alternative, experimental)

Temptations Red Room

Good Stuff

DJ Spy V

The Brooke Clover Band (Americana, roots)

The Hookah Bar

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

The Melanaster Band w/ Rio Bravo

Sam Quinn (of the everybodyfields)

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

Jack Of The Wood Pub

Live music w/ singer-songwriters

The Lazybirds (rag time)

Town Pump

Mac Comer (singer/songwriter)

Live music

Rendezvous Restaurant & Bar

Beacon Pub

Highland Brewing Company

6 Toed Possum Babies (classic rock)

Lyndsay Wojcik (soul, folk)

The Casserole (bluegrass, reggae), 6-8pm

Rocket Club

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Holland’s Grille

Paul Cataldo (Americana, country)

Spectrum (rock)

Nova Echo (alternative, electro) w/ The Shoreline

Blue Ridge Dining Room & Wine

Jerusalem Garden

Union County (rock, acoustic)

Iron Horse Station

Stella Blue

Bar

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Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Blues

Jesse & Isobel (Americana) Johnny Falstaff (rockabilly) Jerusalem Garden

Belly dancing w/ live music Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

The Go Devils (psychobilly, punk, swing) w/ Poontanglers

Chris Rhodes (r&b, blues, pop), 5:30-10pm

Straightaway Café

The Lazybirds (alternative, progressive)

FANATICON after party w/ The Falcon Lords & How I Became the Bomb

Tallgary’s College Street Pub

Broadway’s

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Noise In Print (post punk, indie, shoegaze) w/ Grammer School

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Caleb Caudill & the Bayonetts w/ Josh Roberts & the Hinges

Temptations Red Room

Lobster Trap

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

DJ D-Day

Craggie Brewing Company

Nikki Talley (singer/songwriter)

Live music by local artists

Live music w/ singer-songwriters

New French Bar Courtyard Cafe

Town Pump

Today the moon, tomorrow the sun (electro, indie)

South French Broads (experimental, fusion) Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and

O’Malley’s On Main

Blues

Curras Nuevo Cuisine

Greg Olson (folk)

Ruby Mayfield and Friends (blues, rock)

Olive or Twist

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Sharon LaMotte Band (jazz)

Bobby Sullivan (piano)

Orange Peel

Well-Bred Bakery and Cafe

starts at 9 pm

Eleven on Grove

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Director: Raymond De Felitta (The Thing About My Folks) Players: Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer, Dominik García-Lorido

Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) 1:00, 4:00

The Losers (PG-13) 10:50, 1:15, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55

She’s Out of My League (R) 7:00, 10:15

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Babies (PG) 11:40, 1:45, 3:45, 7:25, 9:25

The Lowdown: A well-acted little comedy/drama that’s never anything more than adequate.

While there are much worse ways to spend your time and your money at your local multiplex, I’m not exactly excited about Raymond De Felitta’s City Island. It’s one of those movies where — on paper — everything is just about right. The acting is fine, the direction is well done (if unspectacular) — the movie is perfectly entertaining. The problem is, however, that even though it does things right, City Island rarely excels at anything, becoming more of an exercise in competency than anything else.

The film takes place on the titular island and follows the Rizzos, a blue-collar New York City family. On the surface, the Rizzos aren’t all that surprising beyond a high level of family dysfunction that propels the plot. No one has the ability to be honest with any other family member. For the most part, this boils down to nothing more than the entire family having smoking habits that they keep hidden from everyone else, but these are just symptoms of deeper secrets, you see. The biggest offender is the family patriarch, Vince (Andy Garcia), a correctional facility officer who sneaks off to acting classes by telling his wife (Julianna Margulies) that he’s going to poker games.

But that’s not Vince’s greatest secret. As we soon find out, he has an illegitimate son named Tony (Steven Strait, 10,000 BC), who just happens to be locked up in the prison Vince works at. The bulk of the plot deals with Tony’s entrance into the collective lives of the Rizzos, while no one involved — besides Vince — knows the truth about who he is or his relation to the Rizzos.

All of this tangles itself with the family’s other dysfunctions and deceits, usually in light comedic terms, but this also means you have to sit through a lot of grating bickering and shouting around the dinner table. The movie also has a tendency to gravitate towards the far-fetched (like Vince finding his long-lost son in the prison he guards), the convenient (Vince’s audition for a Scorsese picture) and melodramatic — the surprise secret of Vince’s acting partner (Emily Mortimer).

You might be wondering, at this point, what

The Back-up Plan (PG-13) 11:55, 2:30, 5:00, 7:45, 10:15

Either Katie Cassidy has just awakened from a Freddy Krueger nightmare or she has read the reviews for Samuel Bayer’s rehash of A Nightmare on Elm Street. the movie has going for it. The short of it is Andy Garcia, who gives the type of performance that makes you wonder why he hasn’t had a better career. He is assured and natural (especially in his scenes opposite Mortimer) and carries the bulk of the film. But what he is doing isn’t flashy. Besides the film’s big tearjerking ending, it’s all rather unspectacular, but it’s what the film calls for. That’s exactly the type of movie City Island is — there’s nothing amazing going on, but it does work within its own limited means. Rated PG-13 for sexual content, smoking and language. reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Regal Biltmore Grande 15.

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Director: Roger Kumble (College Road Trip) Players: Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ken Jeong, Matt Prokop, Ricky Garcia, Wallace Shawn Anthropomorphic Animal Comedy With Bodily Functions Rated PG

The Story: Forest critters take their revenge on land developers.

The Lowdown: Incredibly, impossibly, irredeemably, inescably, indescribably terrible.

Had audiences in 1895 any notion that the flickering images presented by the Lumière brothers would one day evolve into the medium that would bring the world Furry Vengeance, they’d have dragged the brothers

into the street and hanged them. (Well, being in France, I guess they’d have guillotined them.)

If the Spanish Inquisition were still in business, they’d probably dig the Lumières up and subject what’s left of them to some retroactive atrocities. This is the kind of movie that makes you ashamed to like movies at all. We’re not even halfway through the year yet, but it’s going to be a struggle to beat this one for Worst Picture of the Year. This isn’t just bad. This is mind-rottingly reprehensible and vile — not to mention stupefyingly unfunny and embarrassing.

If you’ve been lucky enough to miss the trailers (in which case, you might think the movie is about some esoteric dress-up games — it’s not), Furry Vengeance presents us with the story of Dan Sanders (Brendan Fraser). Dan has uprooted his wife Tammy (Brooke Shields) and son Tyler (Matt Prokop, High School Musical 3) from their Chicago home to rusticate in the wilds of Oregon, where he’s overseeing the construction of an “ecologically friendly” housing development. The family objects to being there. The woodland creatures object to them being there — especially after learning that Dan’s boss, Neal Lyman (Ken Jeong, All About Steve), plans to develop the entire forest out of existence.

The upshot of all this? The animals — with the aid of truly awful animatronics and the worst CGI I have ever seen — are going to revenge themselves on Dan. By my reckoning, this consists of Dan suffering three shots to the crotch, two dousings of skunk spray in the face, innumerable attacks of bird droppings, a bout

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nowplaying Alice in Wonderland JJJJJ

Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Crispin Glover Fantasy In this sequel to Alice in Wonderland, the young adult Alice is lured back to the land of her youthful adventures to help defeat the tyrannical Red Queen. A visually striking, emotionally involving, highly Burtonized take on the Alice in Wonderland stories that sometimes soars without quite striking the gong, but is never less than entertaining. Rated PG

The Back-Up Plan JJ

Jennifer Lopez, Alex O’Loughlin, Michaela Watkins, Eric Christian Olsen, Anthony Anderson Romcom/Drama No sooner does pet-store owner Zoe get artificially inseminated than she meets Mr. Right. Complications follow. It’s not very romantic.

It’s not very funny. It’s not very dramatic. By my count, that’s three strikes against any romcom/drama. Rated PG-13

City Island JJJJ

Andy Garcia, Julianna Margulies, Steven Strait, Emily Mortimer, Dominik García-Lorido Family Comedy/Drama A Bronx family must deal with the fact that they’re not wholly honest with one another. A well-acted little comedy/drama that’s never anything more than adequate. Rated PG-13

Clash of the Titans JJJ

Sam Worthington, Liam Neeson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Flemyng, Gemma Arterton Effects-Driven Fantasy The demigod Perseus sets out to detach the head of Medusa so he can use it to turn a giant monster to stone and save the people of Argos. Every bit as silly as it sounds, Clash of the Titans, nonetheless, offers passable, if far from extraordinary, entertainment. Rated PG-13

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Steve Carell, Tina Fey, Mark Wahlberg, Common, James Franco, Mila Kunis Thrill Comedy A dull married couple pretend to be other people to get dinner reservations, causing them to be mistaken for those people—who just happen to be in bad with the mob. The cast—especially Steve Carell and Tina Fey—raise this otherwise ordinary thrill comedy to the level of agreeable entertainment. Rated PG-13

Death at a Funeral JJ

Chris Rock, Martin Lawrence, Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Danny Glover, Tracy Morgan Farce Comedy The funeral for a family’s well-respected father goes off the tracks when his black-

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Brendan Fraser, Brooke Shields, Ken Jeong, Matt Prokop, Ricky Garcia, Wallace Shawn Anthropomorphic Animal Comedy With Bodily Functions Forest critters take their revenge on land developers. Incredibly, impossibly, irredeemably, inescably, indescribably terrible. Rated PG

The Ghost Writer JJJJJ

Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall, Olivia Williams, Tom Wilkinson Psychological Political Thriller A ghost writer is hired to polish the memoirs of a former British prime minister after the mysterious death of the original writer. A complete return to form for Roman Polanski—a quietly intense psychological and political thriller that ranks up there with the filmmaker’s great works. Not to be missed. Rated PG-13

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo JJJJJ

Michael Nyqvist, Noomi Rapace, Lena Endre, Peter Haber, SventBetril Taube, Ingvar Hirdwall Mystery/Crime/Thriller A disgraced journalist and an enigmatic computer hacker with a history of problems investigate a 40-year-old mystery involving the disappearance of a 16-year-old girl. A rivetting mystery thriller with solid plotting, strong performances and characters—and something more than entertainment beneath it all. Rated NR

Greenberg JJJJ

Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig, Rhys Ifans, Merritt Wever, Jennifer Jason Leigh Bitter Comedy/Drama A disaffected misanthrope tries to avoid finding himself while housesitting for his brother. An unlikely film with an unlikely—and largely unlikable—main character, but one with some bitter humor and a sense of greater understanding than appears on the surface. Rated R

How to Train Your Dragon JJJJJ

(Voices) Jay Baruchel, Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill Animated Adventure/Fantasy A young Viking wounds a dragon and, in dealing with the creature, learns that everything his people think they know about dragons is wrong. A thoroughly appealing animated fantasy from the duo who made Lilo & Stitch. Rated PG

Kick-Ass JJJJ

Aaron Johnson, Chloe Moretz, Nicolas Cage, Christopher MintzPlasse, Mark Strong Postmodern Comic-Book Flick A mild-mannered teen—and comic-book nerd—decides to try his hand at becoming a superhero, only to find himself in over his head with the mob and other masked heroes. A gory, often funny, slickly made attempt at reimagining the superhero genre that never hits the right tone. Ultimately, the movie is unable to balance realism with absurdity and subversiveness with clichés. Rated R

The Losers JJ

Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Zoe Saldana, Chris Evans, Idris Elba, Columbus Short, Jason Patric Comic-Book Action A group of soldiers left for dead in Bolivia try and get revenge against the CIA agent who double-crossed them. A generic actioner that’s never as stylish as it wants to be, nor as clever as it thinks it is. Rated PG-13

Mother JJJJJ

Hye-ja Kim, Bin Won, Goo Jin, Yoon Jae-Moon, Mi-sun Jun, YoungSuck Lee, Mun-hee Na Crime/Thriller A mother decides to find the truth on her own when her son is arrested for murder. An absolutely splendid—nearly perfect—crime thriller built around a mystery that almost always surprises and a title character unlike any you’ve ever seen.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street JJ

Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker Half-Baked Horror Reboot A reworking of the 1984 film with razor-gloved-madman-from-beyond-thegrave Freddy Krueger dispatching meat-on-thehoof teens. Uninspired, unscary and just not very good at all. Rated R

North Face JJJJ

Benno Fürmann, Florian Lukas, Johanna Wokalek, Georg Friedrich, Simon Schwarz, Ulrich Tukur Drama A fact-based story of a 1936 attempt to climb the supposedly unscalable north face of the Eiger.

A generally absorbing mountain-climbing saga that either benefits from the story’s political background or suffers from it, depending on your outlook. Rated NR

Oceans JJJJ

Pierce Brosnan (narrator) Nature Documentary An intimate look at all types of different sea life. A run-of-the-mill nature doc that’s really worth seeing for its beautiful photography alone. Rated G

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The fact that it’s a documentary is another matter. The film follows four babies from different parts of the world — the U.S., Japan, Namibia, Mongolia — for the first year of their lives. The world’s fondness for babies and the Mothers’ Day tie-in may boost it.

Early word is good, but there’s not much of it yet. The fact that it’s only 79 minutes long suggests it won’t outstay its welcome. (PG)

IRON MAN 2

And here it is, the first official big “summer” release: Iron Man 2 from director Jon Favreau, and with the original stars — Robert Downey Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow — on board (with Don Cheadle replacing Terrence Howard).

Also, added to the party are Mickey Rourke (with a Russian accent), Scarlett Johansson and Sam Rockwell. How does it look? Well, the reviews so far are pretty enthusiastic — with some indication that the first film’s weak finale is no longer an issue for the sequel. The film opened earlier in Europe and Australia — and has already raked in $100 million. Chances are that money will continue to be made when it hits the U.S. this Friday. And if you just can’t wait till daylight on Friday, the Carolina has officially announced a midnight show. (PG-13) Early review samples: • “Iron Man 2 hums along quite nicely. The big FX scenes don’t kill the pace, the way they did at the end of the original and in virtually all of Spider-Man 3.” (David Edelstein, New York Magazine) • “To find a comic-book hero who doesn’t agonize over his supergifts, and would defend his constitutional right to get a kick out of them, is frankly a relief.” (Anthony Lane, The New Yorker)

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Certainly, the first is the most twisted — to a degree that it’s remarkable that it got past the censors. At a brisk 65 minutes, it manages to include mass murder, Satanism, necrophilia, a human skinning and a chess game of death that beat Bergman by 23 years. The second, while a lesser film, is hardly lacking in outrageousness — of a kind that helped to provoke a moratorium on all horror movies the next year. And it’s all in the name of Edgar Allan Poe, whose short story and poem have nothing whatsoever to do with the films.

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Director: Andrzej Wajda Players: Jerzy Radziwilowicz, Krystyna Janda, Marian Opania, Irena Byrska Drama/Documentary Rated PG Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Iron (1981) is one of those movies that is far easier to admire than to wholly embrace. The very fact that Wajda made a film about a moment in history as that history was happening (some of the footage is, in fact, documentary) is remarkable in itself — with or without the story that Wajda was still editing right up to the film’s premiere at Cannes. That Wajda was making a film that was openly critical of the communist government in Poland while that government was in power was also daring. But it is so Polish and so sure of the viewer’s knowledge of what was then going on that it’s less involving and even a little confusing for the outsider.

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of poison ivy, a bath in Porta-John effluvia and a golden shower in the mouth from a raccoon.

This is the state of “family entertainment” in 2010. There is also a battle of wits between Dan and a crow. (Since Fraser agreed to appear in this film, it’s no contest.) To add to the alleged hilarity, no one but Dan and the audience sees what’s going on, so it’s assumed by everyone else in the movie that he’s losing his mind.

(Insert unfunny, pointless cameo by Wallace Shawn as a shrink here.)

Of course, before it’s all over, Dan will learn that his boss is a lying scumbag, Dan will teamup with the animals, his family will learn he’s not crazy — and everyone will perform “Insane in the Brain” in parodies of music videos to accompany the ending credits. This last presupposes anyone is still in the theater, which strikes me as extremely wishful thinking.

It’s impossible to convey just how bad the screenplay by Michael Carnes and Josh Gilbert is. Even realizing that these are the boys who wrote Mr. Woodcock (2007) cannot prepare you for the wretchedness of this thing. On top of everything else, they penned a scene where Matt Prokop manages to say “What up, brother,” “dude” and “bro” in two lines of dialogue.

The Geneva Convention people should be made aware of this.

Roger Kumble’s direction is no better. It apparently consisted of arriving on the set thinking, “How can we humiliate Brendan Fraser today?” and “Is there a bodily fluid we haven’t used yet?” His creative inspiration otherwise seems to consist of sticking the Electric Light Orchestra’s “Don’t Bring Me Down”

on the sound track for no very good reason — except to possibly counteract the aggressive use of blandly generic alt-rock songs and the horribly “cute” score by Edward Shearmur.

(Then again, I understand Kumble used the same song on his last movie, so maybe he just likes it a lot.) Beyond that, the film feels excessively cheap. It even manages to recycle the same footage of the animals’ Rube Goldberg device later on in the movie for rolling a boulder onto oncoming cars.

And then there is the cast. I understand why Brooke Shields looks annoyed: She had to make the movie. I only watched it and I’m annoyed.

Fraser, however, is just appalling in his nonstop mugging, and it’s very hard to understand why he insists on showing off how out of shape he is whenever possible. The days when he sometimes made films like Gods and Monsters (1998) and The Quiet American (2002) are but a rapidly dimming memory. I wish I could say the same for this movie. Rated PG for some rude humor, mild language and brief smoking. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7.

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Director: Samuel Bayer Players: Jackie Earle Haley, Kyle Gallner, Rooney Mara, Katie Cassidy, Thomas Dekker Half-Baked Horror Reboot Rated R

The Story: A reworking of the 1984 film with razor-gloved-madman-frombeyond-the-grave Freddy Krueger dispatching meat-on-the-hoof teens.

The Lowdown: Uninspired, unscary and just not very good at all.

High on the list of movies that don’t need remaking is Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984). High on the list of people who should be forcibly restrained from having anything to do with movies is Michael Bay. It follows, of course, that Bay and his factory o’ pointless remakes, Platinum Dunes, would in fact undertake such a proposition. While the results here are not quite as bad as other Platinum Dunes rehashes, they are eye-glazingly pointless and totally underwhelming.

Where the original was a monument of creativity and subtext over budget, this is an object lesson in overproducing, bad casting and a dearth of creativity. Nearly everything that can go wrong does, while the one interesting idea the movie has is squelched soon after its arrival.

The new version is essentially the old version with a different — and unnecessary and less effective — backstory, along with bad CGI goosings of the original’s effects. For an isolated example, look at the scene in Craven’s film where Freddy Krueger (Robert Englund) leans into view — thanks to a latex wall — to hover over a sleeping victim. It was brief and it was creepy as hell. Here we have a CGI variant

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that goes on too long, is stupidly punctuated by a roar, looks cartoonish and isn’t creepy in the least. In fact, there’s a checklist you can go down of things that worked in the original that don’t work here.

It’s almost as if the things that made Craven’s first film genuinely scary have been carefully taken out in favor of evoking the less horrific sequels. Where is the suggestion of Freddy’s ability to extend his arm length in nightmarish fashion? The self-mutilation demonstrations of his utterly debased evil? The fact is that there’s no hint of them, but there’s no shortage of the Chatty Kathy-doll version of Freddy of the sequels. In the original, Freddy had very few lines, and they were mostly menacing, e.g. “I’m gonna kill you — slow.” The nonstop wisecracks came in the sequels, which were clearly more interested in being “fun” than in being scary.

Transforming Freddy (Jackie Earle Haley) from a child murderer into a pedophile might have been reasonable had it been handled differently or actually gone anywhere other than down a blind alley. As it stands, parents discover something’s “not quite right” about the friendly gardener who dotes on preschool children by finding 10-inch-long claw marks on little Nancy’s (Kyra Krumins) back — a highlight of unintentional comedy. And raising the prospect that maybe he was innocent — only to discover he wasn’t and seemingly justify burning him to death — isn’t just pointless, it subverts Craven’s subtext that the supernatural horror of Freddy is the product of vigilanteism.

The plotting is haphazard. The sense of Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) from the original film slowly piecing together the idea that she can bring Freddy out of the dream world and into reality is replaced here with Nancy (Rooney Mara) just realizing it. But then the characters in this movie are generally dumber than their earlier counterparts. One of them even pauses to lock the doors on her convertible VW, even though the top is down. Oh well, this is a movie in which a character meets a spectacularly bloody end in a jail cell and it’s merely noted by the authorities that he was found dead in his cell.

The casting doesn’t help. Rooney Mara evidences none of Langenkamp’s innate intelligence. Kyle Gallner (The Haunting in Connecticut) as the hero (more or less the old Johnny Depp role) is weak and always looks like he’s about to be unwell. Thomas Dekker (TV’s Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles) as the “bad boy” appears to be sulking over the fact that he looks too much like Zac Efron to register on his own, but not enough like Efron to be him. And what of Haley’s Freddy Krueger? Apart from sometimes looking distractingly like Ron Perlman in his makeup, he’s remarkably unremarkable.

Haley’s Krueger doesn’t boost the film in any way, but it’s probably the performance the movie deserves. Rated R for strong bloody horror violence, disturbing images, terror and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike Cinema 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Cinebarre, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande 15.

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• The Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com HENDERSONVILLE. Urban flex space on historic 7th Ave. Live, work. 9,000 sq. ft. for only $405,000. Bank owned. G/M Property Group 828-281-4024, WELL MAINTAINED 4-UNIT PROPERTY On corner lot in good location, convenient to Hendersonville. $310,000. www.SouthernLifeRealty.com Sandy@SouthernLifeRealty.com 828.273.9755.

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Owner will upfit for Class A office. Call G/M Property Group, 828-281-4024. jmenk@gmproperty.com ASHEVILLE DOWNTOWN OFFICE SPACE Historic Miles Building. 2 Wall Street. Large and small suites available.

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1-2BR, 1BA • 68 N. French Broad Ave. A/C, mountain views. $870/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1-2BR/1-2BA ARDEN, GLEN BEALE, 2nd Month RENT FREE, AC. $555-$655/month. 828253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA NORTH • 51 Lee. Hardwood floors, porch. $450/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc. com 1, 2, 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS From $525$1500. • Huge selection! • Pet friendly. (828) 251-9966.

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14 DOGWOOD COURT Castle Keepers, Property Management: (828) 255-0032. • 2BR, 1BA. $575/month.

16 SHOREWOOD ROAD Castle Keepers, Property Management: (828) 255-0032. • 2BR, 2BA, Master Suite, spacious! $850/month.

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Porch, free heat. $655/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA NORTH • 11 Murdock. Porch, hardwood floors. $555/month. 828-2531517. www.leslieandassoc.com

1BR, 1BA NORTH • 83 Edgemont. Sunroom, A/C, hardwood floors. $685/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR/1BA NORTH • 82 Merrimon. $575/month.

Hardwood floors, water included. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1.5BA ARDEN • 110 Colony. Pool access, patio. 828253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA DOWNTOWN WEAVERVILLE • A/C. Excellent location and condition. $675/month. 828-775-9434.

2BR, 1BA EAST • 2484 Riceville Rd. Porch, W/D hookups. 828-263-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 304 Charlotte St. Bonus room, carport. $650/month. 828-2531517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 365 Weaverville Highway. Carport, washer/dryer hookups. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA WEST • 9 King Arthur. Patio, carpet. $625/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA EAST • 744 Bee Tree Lake. A/C, W/D. $675/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA SOUTH • 19 Ravenscroft. Fireplace, patio. $735/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/1BA NORTH 501 Beaverdam, $525/month.

Mountain Views, Washer/Dryer hookups, 828-253-151. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/1BA WEST • 217 Bear Creek. $615/month. Central A/C - Heat, deck. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR/2BA, ARDEN • 216 Weston, A/C. $725/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 2BA duplex near Haw Creek. New, modern duplex community next to Bell School, Tunnel Road, East Asheville. Rooms on one level; 1/3 acre lot. Cats or 1 small dog okay. $875/month. Park-like setting, flower beds, huge trees. June 1st. 299-7502.

82 MACON AVENUE Castle Keepers, Property Management: (828) 255-0032. • 1BR, 1BA, lower unit, hardwood floors. $750/month.

1BR, 1BA NORTH • 346 Montford. Historic, hardwood floors. $595. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

ACTON WOODS APARTMENTS • Beautiful 2BR, 2BA, loft, $875/month. • 2BR, 2BA, $775.

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1BR, 1BA NORTH • 42 Albermarle. Pine floors, high ceilings. $595/month. 828-2591517. www.leslieandassoc.com

BENT CREEK • 2BR, 1BA. Garage. $725/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

1BR, 1BA NORTH • 42 Gracelyn. Bonus room, heating included. $665/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

BLACK MOUNTAIN • SPECIAL • 2BR, 1BA. Heatpump, central air, W/D connection. Nice area.

Only $575/month.

828-252-4334.

BLACK MOUNTAIN Nicely renovated (new: bath, kitchen), 1BR, sunroom, dining room. 9’ ceilings, abundance of natural light. Hardwood floors. Short walk to downtown. • $610/month includes heat, water, Wifi. • Smoke free.

80-5449.

EFFICIENCY 289 E. Chestnut.

Ground floor units. MOVE IN SPECIAL 2nd month free + 6 month lease. $425/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com GLEN BRIDGE APTS - 1BR. 1BA Arden. Includes water. MOVE IN SPECIAL 2nd month free + 6 month lease. $450/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com HENDERSONVILLE • SPECIAL • Studio apartment. Walking distance to Main St. Includes water. $350/month. 828-2524334. WNC Rentals LARGE 2BR, 2BA • At The Racquet Club. Fireplace, large master closet. Includes full club membership and water. Private deck. Available May 1. Year lease, sec. dep., credit check. $950/month. Elizabeth, 828253-6800.

LEICESTER • 2BR, 1BA $550/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com MOUNTAINTOP RETREAT • Charming, round Deltec home on quiet mountain. 2 BR, 1BA, office/study, all-season porch with floor to ceiling windows.

Vaulted ceiling in living room.

Washer/dryer. House has two levels with separate entrances.

Upper level available May 1, 2010. $850/month, $850 security deposit. Pets welcome with deposit. (828) 319-9560.

NORTH ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 1BA. Central air. Includes water. $595/month. 828-252-4334.

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NORTH ASHEVILLE • SPECIAL 2BR, 1BA. Heatpump, central air, W/D connections, D/W. Near Beaver Lake. $575/month. 828252-4334. WNC Rentals.

NORTH ASHEVILLE 2BR, 1BA. Kimberly Ave. area. H/W floors.

Includes water/garbage/heat. $750/month. www.arcagencyasheville.com NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES • Special • Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. 1BR, 1BA $495/month.

2BR, 1BA $525/month. 3BR, 1BA $595/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334. WNC Rentals.

NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES • Special • Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. 1BR, 1BA $495/month. 2BR, 1BA $525/month. 3BR, 1BA $595/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334. WNC Rentals.

SOUTH • Forestdale. 1-2BR, 1BA. D/W, storage. $525$625/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

SPRING SPECIAL • WOODRIDGE APARTMENTS Sign a lease in May and take advantage of our Spring Special at Woodridge Apartments! Visit our office at 61 Bingham Road in Asheville for details! • Dishwasher, WD connections, all appliances. • Water, garbage and sewer included in rent. • Pet friendly. • Handicap accessible units. • No application fee, bus service every hour. 1, 2, 3 and 4BR homes! • Section 8 welcomed!

Equal Housing Opportunity.

(828) 250-0159. Professionally Managed by Partnership Property Management.

UNFURNISHED 1 and 3 BEDROOM APARTMENTS • Available in West Asheville.

Water, garbage included.

Washer/dryer connections available. Swimming pool on site. $529-$649. Call 828-2529882. rbaker@orionra.com WEST ASHEVILLE 1BR, 1BA. Large unit, top floor. H/W floors, new windows. Includes water/geat/garbage. $675/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com WEST • 1BR, 1BA. $550/month.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

WEST • 1BR, 1BA. $550/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com WEST • 2BR, 1BA. $595/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com 2 ROOMS AND BATH Private entrance, small, 10 minutes from downtown Asheville, Asbury Rd Candler. Laundry access. Some appliances. 1 person only. Private $220 every 2 weeks. Includes all plus satellite. 828-242-4321.

BEST OF CITY LIFE: HUGE YARD AND CLOSE TO EVERYTHING! Adorable two story cottage close to best of W. Asheville. Big kitchen, plenty of storage plus shed. Huge fenced yard, pets welcome. $1000/month. 828-545-2036.

Downtown Asheville Condo Located at Lexington Station.

2BR/2BA with 1250 sq ft unfurnished featuring hardwood floors, stainless appliances, granite counter tops, washer/dryer and garage parking space. $1,450/month.

Contact Erin at 828-230-8370.

HOUSE FOR RENT: WEAVERVILLE Weaverville 3BR house for rent. Private one acre, two car garage, nice view, washer/dryer, 15 minutes from Asheville. Call 828-242-7220 LOG CABIN Beautifully remodeled log cabin in Marshall 2 bed plus loft; 1 bath, wrap around porch, HW floors, W/D, DW, easy access 30 minutes to asheville $800/mo. No pets preferred 828-380-9006 SAY “YES” TO THIS WEST ASHEVILLE HOME! Available May. 2BR, 1BA + room. Cheery, remodeled home. Great backyard, fence for dog, front/back porch, private/quiet street. Excellent condition.

W/shed. New. appliances/windows. Yes to pets. 1 yr/lease. $890/month. stefaniniparade@hotmail.com or 215-439-8595.

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Mobile Homes For Rent 2BR • WEAVERVILLE $450/month. Call APM: (828) 254-2029.

2BR, 1BA MOBILE HOME in quiet park. Close I-26 and I-40. $400/month includes water, garbage pickup and lawn care.

Security deposit required. Call David, 828-777-0385.

MOBILE HOME • 2BR, 1BA. $425/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

Mobile Home Lots MOBILE PAD FOR RENT Weaverville. $200/month. Call APM 828 254-2029.

Condos/ Townhomes For Rent A BIG THANX! “Thanx Xpress!

The recent rental ad attracted a steady stream of quality applicants, thanks to your quality publication.” Mark K. • You too can find quality renters by placing an affordable ad in the pages of Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace: 251-1333.

DOWNTOWN CONDO Top floor unit 2BR, 2BA, views of Mount Pisgah, hardwoods, stainless appliances, granite countertops, jet tub, balcony, fitness center, 2 parking spaces, $1475/month.

The Real Estate Center, (828) 255-4663. www.recenter.com NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES • Special • Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. 1BR, 1BA $495/month. 2BR, 1BA $525/month. 3BR, 1BA $595/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334. WNC Rentals.

SOUTH CARRINGTON • 3BR, 2BA. $1050/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com WINDSWEPT • 2BR, 2BA. $850/month. www.arcagencyasheville.com 828-350-9400.

DOWNTOWN, LUXURY 2 BEDROOM, 2 BATH CONDO 2 blocks from Pack Square. Quiet side street of churches.

Reserved parking. Too many amenities to detail. No pets.

828-582-1919. $1700/month.

Less for right tenant.

Homes For Rent 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE • 4BR home PLUS attached 1BR in-law APT. Lovely 2-story traditional home: 2.5 baths, fireplace, hardwood floors, wainscoting and French doors.

Plus spacious, bright daylight basement apartment: full kitchen, full bath, fireplace, separate driveway, parking and entrance (or lockable access from inside home). On beautiful, semi-rural .5 acre in Mars Hill, near college. Views, flowers, organic gardens, natural woods.

Rivers, hot springs, skiing nearby. $1,875/month. 828689-4737; cell 828-713-4030.

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jobs 1ST CALL US! 2, 3 and 4BR homes from $700-2500. • Pet friendly. • Huge selection! (828) 251-9966 Alpha-RealEstate.com 2BR, 1BA WEST • 15 Eliada.

Great house, A/C. $935/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA • LOG HOME Next to stream. Hardwood floors, cathedral ceilings, front and back porches, large yard. Hi speed internet. Quiet community, only minutes from Weaverville and Asheville. Pets considered. No smoking. $925/month with deposit. 828649-1170 3BR, 2BA WEST • 92 Martin.

Hardwood floors, fenced back yard. $828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 3BR, 1BA EAST • 22 Reynolds School Rd. Basement, dishwasher. $850/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 4BR, 2BA EAST • 179 Chunns Cove Rd. Basement, A/C, heat pump. $1,065/month. 828-2531517. www.leslieandassoc.com ALL AREAS - HOUSES FOR RENT. Browse thousands of rental listings with photos and maps. Advertise your rental home for FREE! Visit: http://www.RealRentals.com (AAN CAN) AMAZING! I have always used Mountain Xpress as advertising for our rental house. I’m amazed each time by the number of responses and the caliber of people it attracts.

Thanks, John S. You too can get great results! Call 251-1333.

Mountain Xpress Classified Marketplace.

AVAILABLE JUNE 1 West Asheville Bungalow. 2BR (possibly 3), 1BA, 9’ ceilings, hardwood floors, full basement.

• Fenced backyard, pets considered. Great location near West Asheville Library. $950/month. Application, lease, deposit required. Robert: (828) 230-9412. ashpro@charter.net AWESOME LOCATION • WEST ASHEVILLE 3BR, 1BA near River Arts District, downtown and West Asheville shops.

Hardwood floors, big kitchen. • Back porch, room for garden. $975/month. 712-1675 BEST TIME IS NOW! Best time to buy, pay less than rent, 1% rebate from Buyer Agent Commission, see www.BuncombeRealty.com, 301-2021.

BILTMORE LAKE • 4BR, 3BA. $2400/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com BLACK MOUNTAIN 2BR, 2BA. Nice house in quiet subdivision. $750/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

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BRIGHT, SUNNY LOG CABIN WITH VIEWS On Private 3 acre lot! 2500 sq. ft. 3BR, 2.5BA with 2 separate living areas and bonus 20X20 loft area. Available 5/1. $1150/month. Call Sandy 828-273-9755. See photos at: www.SouthernLifeRealty.com CANDLER 3BR, 2BA. New unit. $1,100/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

EAST RIDGE SUBDIVISION 2BR, 2BA. Wonderful unit, like new. Spacious office/bonus room. No pets. $1,150/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com EAST • 3BR, 2BA $895/month.

828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

NORTH ASHEVILLE TOWNHOMES • Special • Off Merrimon. Walking distance to town. 1BR, 1BA $495/month. 2BR, 1BA $525/month. 3BR, 1BA $595/month. Includes water. 828-252-4334. WNC Rentals.

RUMBLING BALD AT LAKE LURE 2800 sq.ft. stream, waterfall. 3BR/3BA, W/D, recent updates, deck, walk to lake, some resort amenities. No pets, no smoking. $950/month. $950/deposit + $200. Credit check, references. 828-6978166. eagleborne@morrisbb.net

STONE COTTAGE FOR RENT • OPEN HOUSE SALE MAY 8-9, 9am-4pm. 2BR/2BA cottage with fireplace, living room, hardwood floors, garage, W/D, A/C, DW, big yard, across from public golf course. Pets okay. 1 yr lease. Availabke. 6/15. $1000 plus utilities. Save $50 per month if signed during Open House. 16 Fairway Dr. East Asheville. Call Cate 978-270-4113.

GORGEOUS NEW CONSTRUCTION 3BR, 2.5BA with garage. Great South location. • Lease/purchase options now available. Why rent when you can own! Call (828) 676-0677 for details. www.123newhomenow.com

WEST ASHEVILLE - 3BR, 2BA. Off Haywood Rd. Fenced back yard. Bonus room. Fireplace.

One pet with deposit. $895/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

KENILWORTH 3BR, 2BA house w/possible 4th BR. Hardwood and ceramic tile floors, AC, gas heat, dishwasher, washer/dryer, fenced yard. $1275/month.

(828) 255-4663. The Real Estate Center.

WEST ASHEVILLE • Spacious 1BA, 1BA. Remodeled, new carpet and paint. Deposit, references, credit check required. $650/month. 404372-0186. fayreed@bellsouth.net

NORTH NEAR RICHMOND HILL INN • 3BR, 2BA. Large porch.

828-253-0758. Carver Realty.

NORTH • 2BR, 1BA $950/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com NORTH • 3BR, 2BA. $1000/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

MAY 5 - MAY 11, 2010 •

Short-Term Rentals BUSINESS TRIPS • VACATION • RELOCATING? Convenientlylocated charming 1BR cottage, in historic Asheville neighborhood. • Completely furnished, includes linens, TV, internet. (2 week minimum). norwoodcottage@gmail.com

Wanted to Rent RESPONSIBLE, QUIET PROFESSIONALS In search of a house to rent in North, West, Central or East Asheville. 2 Bedrooms or more, preferably a house rather than apartment although we would consider some apartments or duplexes.

Must allow cats. Must be in the range of $850/month or under.

Please contact avlpigeon@yahoo.com

Roommates

SWANNANOA - 3BR, 2BA. Cherry Blossom Cove subdivision across from ACA. $950 month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

NEW LOG HOME • 3BR/2BA with hardwood floors and cathedral ceilings. Enjoy the wrap around porch in woods with views. High-speed internet avail. 25 min. from Asheville. $995/month with deposit. Call 828-649-1170.

FRONT DESK CLERKS NEEDED Front Desk Clerks needed at Downtown Inn and Suites. Apply at 120 Patton Ave.

General

CENTRAL REAL ESTATE SERVICES AVAILABLE • Rentals • Rental Management • Sales • Listings. • The City Solution! 828.210.2222.

AshevilleCityRealEstate.com EAST ON GOLF COURSE 3BR, 2BA. Brand new home. H/W floors, fireplace, laundry area. $950/month. 828-350-9400. www.arcagencyasheville.com

Hotel/ Hospitality

Employment

Charming Bungalow in Oakley.

Beautiful trees, gardens. Very private, fenced 3/4 acre. 2BR, 1BA, large kitchen, large living room, fireplace, skylights, hardwood floors, large deck.

Approved pet ok. $825/month.

258-8637.

Vacation Rentals BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

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$350 ROOM IN MONTFORD Two recent graduates looking to share a 3BR/2.5BA house on Westover Drive. Full details online. 304-839-6029.

1 ADULT Sublet for 1-2 months.

Available May. Furnished BR. Share household with 2 1/2 other residents. Eco-friendly household. $450/month includes utilities, DSL. See westwoodcohousing.com (828) 273-3775.

Don’t see what you’re looking for? Please go to www.mountainx.com for additional listings.

ROOMMATES.COM • Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of a mouse! Visit http://www.roommates.com.

(AAN CAN) SHARE A GREAT HOME IN HAW CREEK with creative, fun and very minimally-uptight professional female. 2-story home, renovated kitchen, bedrooms on sep. floors, 1/3 acre fenced-in yard. Bedroom for rent is large w/private bath.

2 levels of decking, house is peaceful, yet only 7 minutes to downtown. $500/mo + 1/2 utilities, all energy-star rated appliances. Call 828-280-4373 for more details.

SHARE GREAT Haw Creek home, 7 minutes to downtown, w/fun, professional female.

Awesome kitchen, BRs on separate floors, huge decks. BR is large w/private bath. $500/month plus 1/2 utilities, energy-star appliances. Call 280-4373. $495 INCLUDES EVERYTHING, 2 ROOMS, PRIVATE BATH+FRIDGE, 4.5 MILES OUT LEICESTER HWY Ranchmarried couple at far end, 2 acres, gardens, wood stove. One person, pet fee. Washer/dryer, storage. Hot tub, deck, porch.

Non-toxic. Laura 337-5845

$$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 1-800-4057619 EXT 2450 http://www.easyworkgreatpay.com (AAN CAN) 5 POSITIONS AVAILABLE DUE TO UPCOMING EXPANSION Our company is seeking individuals for inside sales positions in our Asheville office. 40 hours per week, $11.15/hour, benefits, paid training, weekly profit sharing.

Career advancement, permanent positions. Please contact our Human Resources Supervisor at 828-236-2530.

ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY • Seeks dedicated and dependable person for care of shelter animals. Requires hard work and sincere commitment to animal welfare. Provides adoption consultations to ensure proper animal placement, assists general public with questions about animal care and behavior. Good customer service skills and interest in working with the public a must.

Must demonstrate low absenteeism and be able to work weekends and holidays.

Apply in person. 72 Lee’s Creek Road, Asheville.

ATTENTION MASSAGE THERAPISTS New detox clinic, West Asheville, seeks experienced, licensed therapists. Call (828) 290-2470.

BE A RAFT GUIDE! USA Raft French Broad, Nolichucky, Watauga and Nantahala Rivers is training whitewater rafting guides. • We’re also hiring Seasoned Guides and Trip Leaders, Photographers, Store Staff and CDL Bus Drivers. 1866-USA-Raft. www.usaraft.net FIND QUALITY EMPLOYEES FAST! We found more than a dozen highly qualified job applicants in less than a week with just a single classified ad in the Mountain Express. • Chris Dennen, PhD, President of Innovative Healing Inc. • Your business can quickly and affordably find the right employee. Call 251-1333, Mountain Xpress Marketplace!

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

WE BUY HOUSES IN ANY CONDITION FOR CASH OR TERMS. Visit www.SuccessfulHomeSolutions. com for a free report on how you can sell your house in 7 days.

Employment Opportunities • Call (828) 225-6122 or visit: biltmore.com

Administrative/ Office STUDENT SERVICES COORDINATOR Position available. Full-time.

40hrs/week. Exceptional customer service skills and attention to detail required.

Send email to msp@landmarklearning.org for application details.

828-293-5384. msp@landmarklearning.org www.landmarklearning.org

Salon/ Spa JOIN OUR TEAM IN VIBRANT DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE • Eclipse Salon is located on beautiful, historic Wall Street in the heart of this lively city. We are looking to add a stylist to our unique and talented team.

We are a friendly and chic Bumble and Bumble salon offering modern techniques and style to an eclectic clientèle.

Benefits include: • Competitive rate for booth rental • Commission on products • Fulltime concierge reception • Laundry service provided • Stylish decor and local art gallery • Convenient public parking available on Wall Street.

Be a part of a team who love what we do and care about the clients we serve. Call 828-2850019 or email Jen at info@eclipseasheville.com for an interview.

STYLISTS Now is your opportunity to join a busy and growing salon with 3 locations.

Each of our 21 stylists average 300 clients a month.

Guaranteed hourly plus commissions, benefits and great tips. We are hiring both full time and part time. Call today for your confidential interview. 828768-9968.

Sales/ Marketing 5 POSITIONS AVAILABLE DUE TO UPCOMING EXPANSION Our company is seeking individuals for inside sales positions in our Asheville office. 40 hours per week, $11.15/hour, benefits, paid training, weekly profit sharing.

Career advancement, permanent positions. Please contact our Human Resources Supervisor at 828-236-2530.

AMERILIFE AND HEALTH WANTS YOU! Join the largest senior financial planning team in the country! • Training provided • 5-7 quality leads daily • Local market • Monthly bonuses and incentive. 1st year average $40K-80K!!! Call Lindsay Rowe, Lead Recruiting Specialist: (828) 684-1477.

PREPRESS AND DATA TECHNICIAN Position open at MMS Direct, a progressive printing and mailing facility in Asheville. We’re looking for a highly motivated individual with planning and problem solving skills, as well as the ability to manage multiple projects in a fast paced environment to join our team; management skills a plus for the right individual. • Professional print industry experience preferred. Must be self motivated, and proficient with all Adobe and Microsoft Office programs. Full-time position with benefits package.

Email resume to cindy@mailmanllc.com SALES PROS • Time to get paid what you are worth AND have a life. Call 1-888-700-4916.

EVENT STAFFING / PROJECT MANAGEMENT Highly impactful organization with 10-year history seeks to add a highenergy and ambitious individual to its’ Operations Team as an Account Executive.

828-280-7039. jball@eventprostrategies.com

Restaurant/ Food BLACK MOUNTAIN BBQ Competent, friendly (experienced preferred) people to help with • customer service, • some cooking and catering.

Valid NC driver license and all shift availability necessary. • Apply in person: 400 East State Street, Black Mountain, NC. State Street BBQ. EXPERIENCED LINE COOK For casual fine dining. Non-smoking environment. • Apply in person, 2pm-4pm, Monday-Saturday, 337 Merrimon Avenue, Weaverville. Stoney Knob Cafe.

Medical/ Health Care ART THERAPIST • Work with women in recovery from eating disorders. Looking for experienced individuals who effectively use art as tool for healing. scarlson@appcounseling.com CNA • EXPERIENCED CNA with clerical skills for our Hendersonville office. Clean background and drug screening required.

Call Kathy: (828) 891-2261.

Stacie’s Personal Care Services.

Apply online: www.staciespcs.com FULL-TIME OFFICE MANAGER Medical office background a must, strong computer skills, familiarity with alternative healing modalities, extreme multi-tasking, and customer service/client care. Please contact Source at 669-8800 or source@ sourceforwellbeing.com LPC/LMFT/ LMH FAMILY THERAPIST NEEDED • Work with women in recovery from eating disorders and their families. Eating Disorder or Family Therapy Experience needed. Great organization. scarlson@appcounseling.com REGISTERED NURSE RN to work PRN for our new Hendersonville Office. Be selfmotivated and able to work independently. Experience in Home Health and Hospice preferred. Send resume to: PO Box 67, Marshall, NC, 28753.

Stacie’s Personal Care Services.

RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS NEEDED • Creative, positive, flexible people with therapeutic background needed. Work with women in recovery from eating disorders. www.tapestrync.com resumes to scarlson@appcounseling.com

Human Services

HOST/ESS • SERVER Now hiring. Apply in person: 2 Hendersonville Road, Biltmore Station, Asheville. 252-7885.

Ichiban Japanese Steak House MOUNTAIN X JAMS! As a growing business that relies on the face put forward by our employees, Mountain Xpress Classifieds is where we turn to find them. The volume of highquality applicants replying to our ads can be hard to choose from, and it is always worth our investment. Thanks Mountain X! Rebecca and Charlie, owners, Tomato Jam Cafe.

FAMILIES TOGETHER FTI is a local mental health agency providing child, adult, and family centered services in WNC. FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. Go to www.familiestogether.net for employment opportunities.

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF ASHEVILLE is seeking licensed therapists and QMHPs to provide mental health services to children, families and adults. Email csimpson@fpscorp.com

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is looking for foster parents in Western North Carolina. Be a hero in your community and open your home to a child in need. We provide training, 24 hour support, internal respite as needed and a generous stipend. Please call Nicole at 828-696-2667 ext 14.

Together we can make a difference in our community.

Visit our web site at www.ncmentor.com • Do you know someone who is interested in becoming a therapeutic foster parent?

FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES OF POLK COUNTY Is seeking therapists to provide mental health services to children, families and adults.

Please email resume to mswann@fpscorp.com.

FOSTER CARE PROGRAM DIRECTOR • Be a part of a small and growing program in local non-profit agency with 100 years of history! Eliada Homes is committed to providing the highest quality foster care possible. Duties: Develop and implement progressive and effective family and therapeutic foster care services. Oversee all foster care operations including recruitment and licensure of new foster homes, supervision of consultants working directly with foster parents, ongoing training program for foster parents, community liaison, on call support, and administrative tasks. Will serve as member of treatment leadership team for agency’s mental health services and supervise therapeutic foster care services in collaboration with assigned clinician.

Requirements: Master’s degree in human services, Qualified Professional status, 5 years experience in foster care/mental health settings, and 3 years supervisory experience. Position available late May. Full-time with benefits. Please reply to eweaver@eliada.org with your resume if you qualify.

MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH • Haywood County • QMHP: Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have mental health degree and two years of experience working with adults with mental illness.

Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell@meridianbhs.org Clinician/Recovery Coordinator, Recovery Education Center: Must have Master’s degree and be license eligible.

Please contact Jon Esslinger, jon.esslinger@meridianbhs.org Jackson, Swain, Macon County Clinician: Assertive Community Treatment Team.

Must have master’s degree and be license eligible. Please contact Kristy Whitaker, kristy.whitaker@ meridianbhs.org RN Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have four years of psychiatric nursing experience.

Please contact Kristy Whitaker, kristy.whitaker@ meridianbhs.org Clinician/Recovery Coordinator: Recovery Education Center.

Must have Master’s degree and be license eligible.

Please contact Caroline Bradford, caroline.bradford@ meridianbhs.org Cherokee, Clay, Graham County Therapist/Team Leader: Child and Family Services. Masters degree and license eligible.

Please contact David Hutchinson at david.hutchinson@ meridianbhs.org RN Assertive Community Treatment Team: Must have four years of psychiatric nursing experience.

Please contact Patty Bilitzke: patricia.bilitzke@ meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

RESIDENTIAL COUNSELORS NEEDED (PRN and Night Shift) • Do you have experience working with youth and a desire to help at-risk students succeed? If so, Eliada Homes may be a great fit for you! PRN Residential Counselors work within our cottages, typically on 2nd shift (2pm-11pm) and help implement a safe, therapeutic environment in which students are able to overcome various social and behavioral differences. While day counselors start as PRNs (working as needed) they often move into full-time. Night Shift counselors are required to be awake during the evening to perform bed checks and do routine documentation and maintenance as needed. Please note that night shift is Sun-Wed or Wed-Sat and is a full-time benefitted position!!

Requirements: Prefer a bachelor’s degree in the human service field, but will also consider individuals with an AA/GED/High School Diploma with comparable experience in the mental health field. Some experience working with mental health population, particularly adolescents, strongly preferred.

May consider individuals with less experience for night shifts.

Must have a valid NCDL and be prepared to pass a drug screening and criminal background check. Position starts at $10/hr. All qualified individuals please send a resume to eweaver@eliada.org or visit www.eliada.org for more information.

TEACHING FAMILY MODEL PROGRAM Supported by Appalachian Family Innovations looking for live-in married couples to provide care and treatment in community-based 5 to 6-bed group homes.

Located in western North Carolina, one home is in the Pisgah Forest near Brevard, the other home is off I-40 in Morganton. Salary, benefits, and time-off are competitive.

Requirements: Bachelors Degree in Human Services preferred. Applicants with degrees outside of Human Services plus experience working with children considered. High school diploma with certification in TeachingFamily Model or similar experience also will be considered. For more information, contact Heather Fry at heather.fry@familyinnovations.o rg and/or see www.teachingfamily.org and/or www.familyinnovations.org.

WNC GROUP HOMES FOR AUTISTIC PERSONS provides residential services for people with autism and developmental disabilities. We are currently recruiting for full and part time positions in direct care, as well as a Group Home Manager.

Applicants must have HS Diploma or equivalent, and a valid Driver’s License. Group Home Manger applicants must have experience in management and/or Intermediate Care Facilities. Find out more by visiting our website: www.wncgrouphomes.org or stop in at 28 Pisgah View Ave in Asheville, or call Gaby at 274.8368. WNC Group Homes is proud to be a drug free workplace.

WNC GROUP HOMES Is recruiting for the Summer Activity Program for 8 of our school aged kids. The goal of this program is to provide the kids with fun summer activities, while supporting their cognitive, social and emotional needs. The program hours are 8:30am3:00pm, beginning on May 26 and ending when school starts at the end of August. Continued employment after program available. Applicants must have a driver’s license, diploma or equivalent. More information available at www.wncgrouphomes.org or stop in to apply at 28 Pisgah View Ave, Asheville NC 28803.

WAYNESVILLE - HOUSE MANAGER FOR GROUP HOME FOR ADULTS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES Full time with benefits. 7 days on/7 days off.

Overnight sleep shift. Must have experience with D/D adults in group home. Submit application to ESC for The Arc of Haywood County, or email to khetzler@arcofhaywood.org

Professional/ Management DIRECTOR Friends of the WNC Nature Center Seeking experienced non-profit professional to manage small office operations including administration, financial bookkeeping on Quickbooks, special events and other fund raising, and working with Board of Directors. Website maintenance, Twitter, Facebook and Microsoft Office software experience essential. Video production skills a plus. Fulltime with benefits. Salary dependent upon experience. E-mail cover letter, resume with three references postmarked by May 17th to friendsdirectorposition@gmail.c om. No calls please.

INSURANCE SALES Bankers Life and Casualty Company.

Bankers Life and Casualty Company is a growing insurance company and needs skilled licensed professionals.

Agents are trained in a nationally recognized program and earn an average of $35,000 to $75,000 per year with opportunity to earn bonuses totaling over $30,000 per quarter. Call Brittany at 828350-8002 ext 0 or email: brittanybarrett@bankerslife.com to apply.

NONPROFIT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR • Just Economics seeks an Executive Director to lead our efforts to build a sustainable local economy in WNC. Full-time, competitive salary and benefits. For full details: www.justeconomicswnc.org.

PISGAH LEGAL SERVICES, ASHEVILLE NC A communitybased, non-profit legal aid program seeks domestic violence screener/legal assistant/social worker w/good communication and people skills. Bilingual English/Spanish skills preferred.

Data entry, word processing, interviewing, advocacy tasks.

Salary DOE; excellent benefits.

Email resume, cover letter by May 16, 2010 to employment@pisgahlegal.org or mail to Screener Search, Pisgah Legal Services, POB 2276, Asheville, NC, 28802. EOE. Racial minorities, women, elderly, disabled encouraged to apply.

Computer/ Technical WEB PRODUCER Web design and management, SEO, database management and project management, for green event series. Salary from $39k to $44k. glenn@sevenstarevents.com

Teaching/ Education ANATOMY • PHYSIOLOGY • PATHOLOGY INSTRUCTOR Seeking knowledgeable and dynamic teacher for our massage school program. • Part-time. Must have education in human anatomy, great communication skills and a passion for teaching. Knowledge of massage therapy helpful, but not necessary. $30/hour.

Resume to: info@centerformassage.com or Center for Massage & Natural Health, 530 Upper Flat Creek Road, Weaverville, NC 28787.

BILINGUAL EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS Looking for a great place to work that offers training, benefits and opportunities for advancement?

Mountain Area Child and Family Center is currently accepting applications for a full time InHome Educator. Experienced, caring individuals with knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice needed.

Experience with infants and toddlers and knowledge of community resources for families is needed. • A degree in ECE, Child Development or related field is preferred. • Preference will be given to bilingual (English/Spanish) candidates for position.

Applications are available at www.macfc.org EEOC Workplace.

STONE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL Positions available: Field Instructor, Full-time for yearround schedule. We are looking for confident, flexible, and enthusiastic leaders to be part of a great team. • Field Instructors work 3-4 day shifts both on campus and on adventure trips. Clean driving record and drug screen mandatory. One year commitment vital. Benefits possible at 3 months including 401k, paid time off, certifications, and job training.

Pay is commensurate with industry standards. Stone Mountain School operates under a Special Use permit issued by the U.S. Forest Service in the pristine wilderness of the Pisgah and Nantahala National Forests.

• Fax resume to Program Director at (828) 669-2521. stonemountainschool.com

Jobs Wanted EARN INCOME PT/FT Around your schedule. Home based business. Full training. 919225-6558.

CULINARY TECHNOLOGY CHEF INSTRUCTOR Full-time Position available. An A-B Tech application is required for consideration. Applications/info: www.abtech.edu • (828) 2541921, extension 167 or email hr@abtech.edu • EOE. EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATORS Looking for a great place to work that offers training, benefits and opportunities for advancement?

Mountain Area Child and Family Center is currently hiring for Teachers. Experienced, caring individuals with knowledge of developmentally appropriate practice needed. Must have prior experience with infants and toddlers. A degree in ECE, B-K, Child Development or related field required.

Candidates completing a degree program may be considered.

Applications are available at www.macfc.org

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Benefits: • Medical, dental and vision insurance after 90 days • Retirement Income Plan and 401K • Paid vacation after six months • Sunday premium pay of an additional $1.00 per hour

Requirements: • High School Diploma / GED • Drug Test and Background Check To Apply: An ALDI representative will be available for you to apply in person from 7am to 2pm on Wednesday, May 5, 2010 at 480 Swannanoa River Road, Asheville, NC 28805.

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Autos GEORGIA ON MY MIND Georgia is a mixed breed puppy who is searching for a loving home. For more information on the adoption process, call (828) 505-3440 or visit www.bwar.org

MASSAGE/MLD Therapeutic Massage. Manual Lymph Drainage. Lymphedema Treatment. $45/hour or sliding scale for financial hardship. 17+ years experience. 828-2544110. NC License #146. www.uhealth.net

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Health & Fitness AUTHENTIC QIGONG AND TAI CHI CLASSES Classes taught by nationally recognized health professional. Friendly, supportive learning atmosphere. Calm mind, relax body.

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Bodywork **ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE MASSAGE!** Perfect pressure!

Caring, intuitive, professional therapist. Tranquil sanctuary just 3 blocks from Greenlife & downtown. Introductory Special for Locals: $35! Open Mon thru Sun. 9am to 8pm by appt. only.

Brett Rodgers LMBT #7557. www.vitalitymassage.net (828) 255-4785.

#1 AFFORDABLE COMMUNITY CONSCIOUS MASSAGE CENTER We’ve moved: • 1224 Hendersonville Road. Asheville. $29/hour. • 20 Wonderful Therapists to choose from.

Therapeutic Massage: • Deep Tissue • Swedish • Sports • Trigger Point. Also offering: • Acupressure • Energy Work • Reflexology. • Save money, call now! 505-7088. www.thecosmicgroove.com $30 MASSAGES EVERYDAY at Center for Massage & Natural Health at our Downtown Therapy Center! Call (828) 2520058 for your appointment!

MASSAGE FOR EVERY BODY • Relaxing and therapeutic, great rates, MC/Visa accepted.

Asheville location with free parking, ground floor and wheel chair accessible. Call Patty LMT# 7113, 828-275-5497.

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MARSHMALLOW Female/Spayed Domestic Shorthair/Mix 5 years 1 month.

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SHOJI SPA & LODGE • 7 DAYS A WEEK Looking for the best therapist in town—- or a cheap massage? Soak in your outdoor hot tub; melt in our sauna; then get the massage of your life! 26 massage therapists. 299-0999. www.shojiretreats.com

Retreats GETTING ANSWERS: A THERAPEUTIC JOURNEY OF SELF DISCOVERY IN NATURE. www.tothewoods.org May 2124 Each of us has the ability to access the answers we seek.

Designed by a counselor, this retreat integrates transpersonal, eco, and experiential therapies.

Spiritual FREE ADVICE! • ONE WEEK ONLY! Ask Nina: (828) 2537472 or email: asknina@excite.com

PIANO-GUITAR-DRUMS-BASSMANDOLIN-BANJO-SINGING Learn what you/your child wants to learn. Knowledgeable, flexible, enthusiastic instructor.

828-242-5032.

VIDEO AND RECORD YOUR MUSIC Or band to CD, DVD or any internet destination, in our studio or on location. • Affordable and Professional Production. Call (828) 3359316.

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Musicians’ Bulletin Don’t see what you’re looking for? Please go to www.mountainx.com for additional listings.

Upright Jazz Bassist Needed by jazz guitarist to form strong nucleus for eventual jazz group project. Standards, modal jams, originals. cbaybass@yahoo.com

TAROT Answers your life’s essential questions or you don’t pay me. Lil’lei, 828-275-4931.

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Musical Services ASHEVILLE’S WHITEWATER RECORDING Full service studio services since 1987. • Mastering • Mixing and Recording. • CD/DVD duplication at the best prices.

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Found Pets MR. BOJANGLES Is an orange tabby cat who is searching for a loving home. For more information on the adoption process, call (828) 505-3440 or visit www.bwar.org

FAIRVIEW AREA • SPANIELLAB MIX Beige male dog showed up at our house on Carriage Drive in Fairview, NC around 9am, March 31. Young and looks like a Spaniel-Lab mix. Beige colored collar with no tags. He is very friendly and loving. Please call: (828) 4589195, before 9pm.

FOUND FRIDAY APRIL 9 Merrimon and Murdock, North Asheville. • Black and white, adult male, Pointer mix, no collar, no chip. Call Asheville Humane Society: 253-6807 or 778-5318.

HOUND SHEPHERD MIX Older male, neutered. Black and tan.

Subaru collar, no tags. Found: Monday morning, April 19, corner Haywood Road and Louisiana Avenue, West Asheville. Please call: 216-3284.

Pets for Adoption

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

LOST YOUR PET? FOUND A PET? Call Asheville Humane Society, (828) 253-6807, to fill out a missing or found pet report. Visit 72 Lee’s Creek Road, Asheville. www.ashevillehumane.org 3 LOST CATS, MONTFORD, PLEASE HELP! All gray adult female spayed. “SHMITTEN”, neutered adult male, black w/white chest mark “FURROCIOUS”, spayed calico kitten “CHOOPY” 610-207-3077 MONTFORD AREA LOST CAT! Catsby is a white, grey and black adult male cat.

Last seen near Lakeshore/Merrimon, North Asheville. Contact (828) 275-9758.

AUTUMN was named after Asheville’s autumn leaves with her beautiful orange and white coat. As a dignified adult (Autumn is eight), she does not have the nerves for the three dogs and new baby boy in her guardian’s household. To adopt Scout or see other available cats and dogs call 258-4820. animalcompassionnetwork.org BOMBAY KITTY Batlike head, small sausage body, 4 years, super affectionate, very playful, loves people/dogs, hates cats, spayed, blind. Needs loving lap of her own. Evenings: 676-1510.

FIND THE LOVE OF YOUR LIFE! Cats, dogs, & other small animals available for adoption at Asheville Humane Society • 72 Lee’s Creek Road • Asheville, NC • (828) 253-6807 www.ashevillehumane.org

2007 TOYOTA HYBRID HIGHLANDER LIMITED EDITION 4WD Excellent condition. GPS/6 CD changer. 3 seats, front/rear A/C, sunroof.

Call Amanda 8am-10pm 828450-9380 with questions. $25,599.

2006 HYBRID TOYOTA HIGHLANDER White, Limited edition, loaded excellent condition 59K miles. $25K 828-273-7188 2005 HONDA CIVIC EX SEDAN $9000 Immaculately kept.

Silver, 95K miles. Clean title.

Automatic everything, moonroof.

Pioneer sound system, speakers, ipod jack.

Maintenance records available.

828-380-1823.

Motorcycles/ Scooters 50cc Vento “Triton” 2007 Road Scooter. Good condition, runs well. Includes helmet and battery charger. $650, paid $1800. Call 337-0700.

SCOUT • This big boy just wants to snuggle and be loved on. He knows how to sit, lie down, and stay on command.

He learned all of this in 1 week!

He does need a fenced in yard for exercise and someone who can work with him on leash walking. He loves children and his foster’s 3 month old puppy.

His new family will need to be consistent and demonstrate a strong leadership role. He is a quiet dog and will do anything for a treat. To adopt Scout or see other available cats and dogs call 258-4820. animalcompassionnetwork.org FREE TO A GOOD HOME 11 year old Akita/Chow mix free to good home. Huge sweetheart and gets along great with other dogs. Call 828-772-0153 FREE GOAT TO A GOOD HOME Fixed male free to home with other goats. We don’t want him to get eaten. Call Morgan @ 352-327-3702.

Pet Services ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away. Reasonable rates.

Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

LISA’S DOGGIE WALKABOUT SERVICES • Fresh air and exercise for your dog. $12 for 45-minute walk. Price for longer treks negotiable. References available. Call Lisa at 691-5472.

PET SITTING • I will care for your small dog, cats, fish or birds in your home or mine for a donation to Friends of Pritchard Park. Please contact: mrsmawest@yahoo.com or 828 242-5456.

Furniture MATTRESSES Pillow-top: queen $250, king $350 • Extra firm: queen $175, king $275 • Full: $150 • Twin: $99. New, in plastic. 828-277-2500.

Lawn & Garden TOP QUALITY TOPSOIL Top Quality Topsoil from 50 year old dairy farm. $15 per cubic yard.

Delivery available from Asheville. Call Mike 215-8523

General Merchandise DELUXE MASSAGE TABLE Very high quality. Extra options. Like new. Paid over $700, asking $375. Call (828) 215-6744.

DIRECTV FREE Standard Installation! FREE SHOWTIME+STARZ (3 mo)!

FREE HD/DVR upgrade! Ends 7/14/10. New Customers Only, Qual. Pkgs. From $29.99/mo.

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2000 SUZUKI SV650 LOADED! Plenty of throttle for the twisties! Lowered w/ aftermarket windscreen, seat, heated grips, handlebar weights, G2 Tamer Throttle, 12v DC accessory outlet, SW Motech luggage mounts, tank bra & bag. 38,883 mi. Asking $3K http://tinyurl.com/y6vtsbl

DOWNSIZING: Inflatable twin mattress, sleeper couch, shredder, Lexmark printer, Singer portable sewing machine, antique chairs, table, blender. All good/excellent condition. Prices/viewing, call 254-9154, 9am-5pm.

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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 828-275-6063 for appointment.

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YARD SALE - KENILWORTH CHURCH - SATURDAY, MAY 8 Huge yard sale. Kenilworth Church Fellowship Hall and Lawn. 123 Kenilworth Rd, 2528872. Donations welcome by Friday PM.

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Building Supplies FIREPLACE GAS LOGS Natural gas. Good condition. Runs well. $50. Vented unit.

(828) 273-5834.

Clothing 3 big buildings full of good used clothing and accessories.

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