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The Cathedral of All Souls provides limited funding to small non-profit organizations incorporated in NC who serve the homeless, young, elderly, poor and disenfranchised in Western North Carolina.

A slumping economy and far-reaching changes in the nation’s health-care infrastructure have increasingly put independent, small medical practices at risk. The trend toward large-scale hospitals and systems buying up or partnering with smaller ones has come to the Asheville area. Xpress spoke to several local physicians wrestling with what it all means for them.

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$10 million in incentives seals deal with Canadian manufacturer Linamar

16 ASHEVILLE CITY COUNCIL

City, Housing Authority partner for grant for Lee-Walker Heights

A special thank you to all local non-profits who serve our community everyday.

18 THE BEAT: BILTMORE AVE. BLAZE CLAIMS FIREFIGHTER’S LIFE

Capt. Jeff Bowen dies; nearly a dozen others injured; investigation under way

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letters Thank you for making Asheville diverse and exciting Thank you, Loida Ginocchio-Silva, for working so hard to educate yourself and for having the courage to speak up for immigrant students [“Stymied,” July 6 Xpress].

I appreciate that, in spite of bad policies that make it nearly impossible, you haven’t given up on getting your education. Stopping you from going to college wouldn’t help me at all because then you would be stuck in a low-paying job and most likely wouldn’t buy much pottery (which I make for a living). [Furthermore], I wouldn’t get to benefit from your talents. How very lame.

Since much of America’s wealth was acquired in nasty ways, I don’t think it’s mine to horde.

Since many of the current economic policies that we prosper from are weakening economies elsewhere, I expect folks to come here so they can prosper too.

It would be downright hypocritical of me to make a fuss about immigration since my greatgrandparents were immigrants. In fact, it’s the dynamic mix of different cultures that is one of America’s greatest strengths and a big piece of our national identity.

America has much to gain from the strong work ethic, creative problem-solving skills and courage that so many immigrants bring, especially from countries that live less luxuriously than we do.

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Thank you for being here! Thank you for making Asheville diverse and exciting. Thank you for sharing your language, food, music and traditions with us. Thank you for refusing to give up on your dreams. Determined, brave, smart young people like you are the hope of America.

— Zoe Taddie Asheville

Bring back the middle class Thank you for publishing Martin Ramsey’s wonderfully succinct and well-reasoned letter “No Borders” [July 20 Xpress].

Given the ever more polarized and vocal ravings, both locally and nationally, of the self-centered, greedy, ignorant, delusional and immature, and their championing of right wing “causes” that are utterly opposite to their own best interest (due in no small part to decades of public-education cuts, thus successfully fostering an easily manipulated, uninformed power base, whose zealousness can be choreographed by the likes of Rupert Murdoch, Fox News and their henchmen, the Tea Party). It would seem we need a simple thing to renew the brightest aspirations of this country, as well as to again make ignoble and base what has become so edified and predominate in blatant corporate greed and venality.

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I would like to comment on the July 20 Mountain Xpress article “Gay is the New Local.”

Having enrolled in the sixth grade at Swannanoa Elementary in 1961, I consider myself a local, even though I lived in five states and two foreign countries before the age of 12 (Air Force brat). I know the value of being welcomed to a new community, as I was often the new kid in town until I finally arrived here. I make it a habit to welcome newcomers as long as they seemed to embrace local culture.

When I was building a new house, a friendly guy from Boston offered his services as an electrician if I needed one. I thanked him and told him I was covered on that and asked, “By the way, where are you from?” “Boston,” was his thickly accented reply. I said, “Welcome to the Smokies.”

“Oh, I’ve been heeah four ye-ahs aweready,” he proudly announced. My reply: “Like I said, welcome to the Smokies.” He laughed and I had made a new friend.

In the article, the authors state: “Many of the things that make Asheville great, the vibrancy of art, the culinary innovation, the preservation of the landscape, the delightful range of family life, are brought to you by LGBTQ Ashevillians.”

This comment seems a bit presumptuous. True, we welcome the gay community’s contributions, and many they are, but this community has been being built for decades and continues not because it’s gay, but because of the peripheral view held by the locals and all those newcomers that come here because it’s already cool. Credit is not taken, it is given where it’s due. And by the way, “Welcome to the Smokies.”

— Bruce McTaggart Mars Hill

Sustainable? Sounds like a fish story In “Go Fish,” Mackensy Lunsford shows that it can take a good deal of effort to identify so-called environmentally friendly seafood choices [July 20 Xpress]. Yet it’s much more difficult than she noted. Scientists using DNA technology recently revealed that 20 to 25 percent of seafood products are fraudulently labeled, with the rates of fraud in some species found to be as high as 70 percent.

The report by Oceana, “Bait and Switch, How Seafood Fraud Hurts Our Oceans, Our Wallets, and Our Health,” is available at avl.mx/45.

Should you somehow identify “sustainable” seafood, keep in mind that commercial fisheries employ giant vessels the size of football fields, using nets that are miles in length. Accordingly, today’s “sustainable” choice is tomorrow’s endangered species. And then there is the issue of “bycatch,” since most commercial fishing operations

seek a specific species and dispose of the rest.

For example, for every shrimp caught by nets dragged behind boats in the Gulf of Mexico, over four times its weight is made up of by-catch. Now factor in the fossil fuels used by refrigerated ships, planes, trains and trucks to bring fish to America from the far corners of the world. Does all this fit into your definition of environmentalism?

During a 2007 talk at Warren Wilson College, world-renowned oceanographer Dr. Sylvia Earle expressed her view that man’s callous disregard for marine life has brought the future of ocean life to the brink. She thought we had, perhaps, a 10year window of opportunity to save the oceans.

As noted by food author Michael Pollan, “The single most important thing any of us can do to shrink the environmental footprint of our eating is to cut back on our meat eating. Doing so has a bigger impact than eating local or organic.”

— Stewart David Asheville

Services or taxes – which is it?

Jeff Gerber’s July 20 letter, “Study Hard, N.C. Legislature,” perfectly illustrates the conservative mindset about government revenue and spending. He says, “making cuts to the law-enforcement and judicial system is ludicrous,” and “conservatives never raise taxes.” Money doesn’t grow on trees; it has to come from somewhere. In the case of government-provided services such as law enforcement, that money comes from taxes.

So which is it? Law-enforcement services or no raised taxes?

The glaringly obvious thing here is that conservatives have no problem with spending. They don’t want to spend it on what they don’t want to spend it on. I pay the same taxes that Mr. Gerber does, but I would rather that my money go to support the community in positive, constructive ways rather than on incarceration. It is far more expensive to arrest, try and incarcerate for many crimes, especially for things like drug possession, then it is to put that person through rehab.

He says, “Make the cuts where cuts are needed, and leave the rest alone.” This is where the conservative argument breaks down every single time. OK, where are they needed? Education?

Health care? Infrastructure? All of these things are valuable government services that very few people would argue against. The problem for conservatives is that they want the services, but don’t want to pay for them. So which is it?

— Jim Konczyk Marshall

No one likes unexplained rules Recently there have been notifications of a “new Asheville trash system” in our neighborhood. There have been notifications placed on top of the rolling trash carts, and then this Wednesday, July 20, our street received handouts saying what the city would do if we did not follow your “orders.” I am wondering as to why we were not notified before all this scrutiny occurred.

Did the city have an official business meeting to determine how many more ways you could get money from tax-paying customers? Was this done to increase efficiency and lower your costs?

The people on our street have various working

For other Molton cartoons, check out our Web page at www.mountainx.com/cartoons shifts. I can understand a trash cart placed in the street directly being a safety factor. If trash pickup were done more consistently, then compliance with all those “rules” would be easier to maintain. In the future, before the city implements new “changes,” please let’s have a neighborhood watch meeting to discuss. No one likes rules that are handed out without the explanation. Please do not harass your already taxed-strapped customers. We try our best.

— Marci McGowan Asheville

Bring high-speed Internet to Mills River I am grateful to the town of Mills River for providing a very nice new library and town hall (and soon a wonderful park) with high-speed Internet access available during weekday business hours.

The library has been a big help to me as my work as a freelance writer and editor requires a highspeed connection. I wonder, however, when … high-speed infrastructure will expand to the rest of Mills River.

All winter long, through rain and snow, crews dug ditches installing fiber out on North Mills River Road. Linemen working on this project told me that we would be able to receive high-speed Internet once this installation was complete (I was told this would be in early May) and cableconditioning work was finished. More than two months later, we are still waiting and wondering.

Access to high-speed Internet is critical for the many small-business owners and entrepreneurs who work from home in today’s information economy. Failure to provide these services

inhibits economic growth and earning potential for business owners. We hope something can be done about this problem soon, as cell-phone service in our area is insufficient for high-speed access.

— Harrison Metzger Mills River

Let’s see some receipts, Raleigh State Republicans claim to be saving the state money, but it just isn’t adding up.

As part of the new state budget, Republicans cut expenditures of the Capitol Police force in half, from 4 million to 2 million. Now 40 of 89 officers are on the unemployment line. Seven of 14 patrol cars sit idle.

The Capitol Police were formed in 1967 to patrol 160 Raleigh-area government offices. They also monitor over 1,000 alarm systems throughout the state.

According to Republicans, the Raleigh Police will pick up the slack. However, Raleigh Police Chief Harry Dolan testified that his agency is already spread thin. That’s why Raleigh City Council has asked the city’s attorney to draft a letter asking the state to pick up the tab for the new areas. Cost? $1.7 million. So much for savings.

Lastly, Republicans have just approved $3 million to put in new metal detectors and other security devices at the North Carolina Legislature. We can’t spend a penny for teachers, yet we can find money for this?

As I said, it just doesn’t add up.

— Jeff Israel Canton

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commentary High flier

Airport director trashes taxpayers, Fire Department

by Mike Marshall Asheville Regional Airport Director Lew Bleiweis is prepared to waste millions of taxpayer dollars due to an illogical bias.

He recently pulled the plug on a proposed joint venture with the city of Asheville that would have added an Asheville Fire Department crew to the airport’s existing response team. The agreement would have represented the ultimate win-win-win.

Bleiweis would have won, because he’d be bringing the Asheville Fire Department permanently on-site, thereby enhancing the safety of both airport customers and surrounding areas.

The nationally accredited agency already provides medical and fire protection at the airport, but those firefighters are now based at a station on Hendersonville Road.

The Fire Department would have won by being able to respond much faster to any fire, auto accident or medical problem at or around the airport.

And city taxpayers would have won, because the joint venture would have saved up to $5 million, based on current cost estimates.

So why does Bleiweis want to turn this into an all-around losing proposition?

In killing the negotiations, he reportedly said that union employees would never work side by side with his safety team. But whether you are pro-union, anti-union or just don’t care, Bleiweis’ unfounded concerns will cost you money.

The airport and environs are already the Fire Department’s responsibility, and the agency will eventually have to assign a crew to the area.

According to preliminary in-house research, that could be accomplished by spending up to $5.5 million buying land, hiring a slew of contractors and constructing a brand-new building — or simply by adding 1,500 square feet to the airport’s existing facilities, at far lower cost. According to early feasibility studies, a shared facility would

Money aside, Bleiweis is playing fast and loose with something even more important: public safety. also save the airport money through reduced operating expenses.

Meanwhile, the distance between the current station and the airport hinders the Fire Department’s ability to respond to service calls quickly. Slower response times hurt a department’s ISO rating; this increases insurance rates for residents and businesses (which must pass those costs on to customers, who are thus doubly penalized).

Money aside, however, Bleiweis is playing fast and loose with something even more important: public safety. ISO ratings reward faster response times because, in a fire or health emergency, every minute counts. City Council adopted 5:12 as the optimal response time, based on national standards; within the city limits, the Fire Department achieves this 90 percent of the time. But the average response time from Hendersonville Road to the airport is 7:20. To give just one example of how this could affect you, cardiac patients’ chances of survival are 30 percent lower if it takes more than 5:12 to begin resuscitation efforts.

History has shown that our firefighters can work together effectively, despite many differences — including union membership. Currently, about 80 percent of Asheville firefighters belong to Local 865, meaning one in five aren’t union members. Yet these employees work side by side every single day, live together one-third of each year, and entrust one another with their lives. To my knowledge, there has never been a single personnel problem attributed to union-membership disputes.

Furthermore, since the late 1980s, we’ve shared a station with the Skyland Fire Department. Union membership is not and never has been an issue there. We also provide mutual aid to every sur-

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Further undermining Bleiweis’ argument is the fact that both airline pilots and Transportation Security Administration personnel are unionized.

Is the airport director suggesting that his staff will refuse to work with any of these professionals?

Pilots flying into Asheville Regional Airport don’t want to think they’re entering enemy territory.

Bleiweis doesn’t deserve to hold a position where he can treat taxpayer money and the airport’s budget so frivolously. The Airport Authority’s board should demand his resignation. .

Mike Marshall, a retired former captain in the Asheville Fire Department, is president of the Asheville Firefighters Association, Local 865.

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When Dr. Robert Fields and Dr. Andy Runkle opened Vista Family Health in 2003, Mission Medical Associates wasn’t even a blip on the radar. For Fields, Vista represented the culmination of a long-held dream.

Growing up in a Puerto Rican family in the U.S., Fields longed to open a practice that could serve both Latinos and the community at large. So, while completing his residency in family medicine at Asheville’s Mountain Area Health Education Center, he worked closely with Runkle to create the practice they thought would best satisfy the need for primary care in south Asheville. To that end, Fields divided his time between clinical rotations with patients and meetings with a business consultant. By the time he graduated from MAHEC in 2003, he was ready.

“We decided to try it on our own, because it seemed like there was enough demand to make it work,” Fields explains. “We were hoping to recognize both demand and our desire to ... structure our patient care in our environment in a specific sort of way that may have been different than other practices.”

But a slumping economy and far-reaching changes in the nation’s health-care infrastructure have increasingly put independent, smallscale practices at risk. Across the country, large-scale hospitals and health systems are buying up private practices as a way to expand outpatient care while achieving economies of scale.

So, last October, Vista decided to come under the umbrella of Mission Medical Associates, sacrificing some autonomy in the name of keeping the doors open and continuing to offer patients the kind of care they’d envisioned in starting the practice. An arm of Mission Health System, Mission Medical has 185 doctors.

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Feeling the squeeze At first, the demand was there. About 100 new patients came through the doors each month, and after three years, the practice hired a third doctor. By 2010, Vista had expanded to include five physicians. In the meantime, however, the Great Recession had taken its toll.

“When the economy turned, our volume decreased,” says Fields. “The number of new patients didn’t really decrease, but the visits per day decreased, and that really put us in a position where we were struggling financially, despite growth and despite new patients. It

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“The challenges I face are still the same as somebody that owns any other business down the street.”

— DR. ROBERT FIELDS, VISTA FAMILY HEALTH PHOTO BY JONATHAN WELCH

became an issue of cash flow.”

At that point, Fields and Runkle faced a tough choice. Finding that they could no longer serve their patients the way they wanted to, the partners opted to sell the practice to Mission Medical.

“Maybe [a medical practice] has a bigger impact, because it affects so many people in terms of the work we do,” Fields observes. “But it’s still a business, and we still have to make decisions based on the monetary value of what we do.”

Joining Mission Medical has given Vista’s physicians more resources to support their patients’ health, Fields explains. For example, his office now has a clinical pharmacist available to educate patients about medications, which would have been unimaginable before.

“There’s very little reimbursement for that,” Fields explains. “It would have been another investment for no reimbursement, and that’s the struggle for a small practice.”

A question of values Dr. Joshua Bernstein understands that struggle all too well. Unlike Fields, however, Bernstein, who launched Asheville Medicine & Pediatrics in 2005, says he has no plans to team up with a big medical system.

After completing his residency at Harvard’s combined internal medicine and pediatrics program, Bernstein spent six years providing primary care at Cambridge Family Health in Massachusetts. When Bernstein came on board, the practice had recently been acquired by a hospital.

“When we were just purchased, it was very similar to some of the models I see here, where the hospital buys the practice but it still functions as a private practice to some degree,” he explains. “But as each year went on, you saw erosion in the private-practice model.”

As a result, he says, everything became more regulated. When Bernstein wanted to give a patient a medication sample, for example,

“In the last six to eight years, two new family-medicine practices were started by our [residency-program] graduates ... but since then, we haven’t had any [who] have started their own practice.”

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it had to be logged in a specific way. Items that hadn’t previously been under guard now resided in a locked cabinet. And if a nurse quit, the hospital sent over a new one the next day.

When Bernstein moved to Asheville in 2005, he knew he wanted something different — even if it meant taking a pay cut. So he rented office space, sent out fliers to prospective patients, and opened his private practice. One year later, Asheville Medicine & Pediatrics moved to its current location in Arden, and Bernstein acquired a partner, Dr. BouaSy Huneycutt.

The next summer, they hired a third doctor, W. Victoria Morehouse.

But Bernstein still aimed to stay small. “I try to have each staff member who works here have more than one job: A front-desk receptionist may also be a referral person or do billing part time,” he explains. “Our practice manager does lots of different tasks that other practice managers may divvy out to other people.”

Keeping overhead relatively low has enabled the business to operate successfully despite declining Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement rates. “I think, in medicine, it’s really important to have a low overhead,” he notes.

“You only get paid a certain amount per

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“I try to be optimistic [about the business’s future]. We keep people healthy, we keep people out of the hospital, we keep children safe and healthy and we decrease ER visits.”

— DR. JOSHUA BERNSTEIN, ASHEVILLE MEDICINE & PEDIATRICS

patient in our current model of reimbursement, and it’s hard to make those things change significantly.”

For Bernstein, private practice is ultimately a better fit with his own nature. “I’m not counting on the fact that if I ever wanted to join the hospital, I’d be able to, because they may not be able to support me,” he explains.

“But again, I try to be optimistic, and I think we provide a really good service.

“We keep people healthy, we keep people out of the hospital, we keep children safe and healthy, and we decrease ER visits. As long as society and the administration who helps our society run recognize that, then I think we’ll be valued as a specialty and should be OK.”

The end of an era?

Dr. William Hathaway of Asheville Cardiology Associates doesn’t share his colleague’s optimism. Asheville Cardiology was acquired by Mission Medical Associates last year, and Hathaway believes this is the wave of the future for most private practices.

Statistics seem to back him up. In 2005, twothirds of all medical practices in the U.S. were physician-owned, according to data from the Medical Group Management Association, a Colorado-based professional organization. A mere three years later, however, physician ownership had dropped below 50 percent.

“The days of just being able to be completely out there on your own, except for a few specialties which can still do that, is going to be different. With declining reimbursement, you’re just not going to be able to float the boat on your own anymore,” Hathaway maintains.

Like Bernstein, Hathaway initially aimed for independence. Before moving to Asheville, he worked for a private practice in Wisconsin; when it could no longer function as a standalone, he moved here, joining Asheville Cardiology Associates in 1999. Little did he know the Asheville practice would eventually confront the same dilemma.

Some physicians, says Hathaway, were reluctant to join Mission Medical, questioning what it would mean for their autonomy and quality of care. Hathaway, however, says he had a change of heart.

“It’s what you bring to the alignment strategy, not what the alignment strategy brings to you,” he maintains. “And we have an obligation, as the people who are the immediate interface with the patients and are responsible for them, to bring a lot to that alignment.”

Opportunity knocks Amid this uncertainty, some physicians are also wondering how the next generation of

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doctors will see things. Increasingly, today’s graduates are opting for employment rather than going out on their own, notes Dr. Blake Fagan, the director of MAHEC’s family-medicine residency program.

“In the last six to eight years, two new family-medicine practices were started by some of our graduates: One is Vista Family Health, and the other is North Buncombe Family Medicine,” Fagan reports. “But since then, we haven’t had any graduates that have started their own practice.” In a typical year, the program has about eight or nine graduates.

And though Fields launched his own private practice eight years ago, he doesn’t know how many of today’s grads share that desire.

“The entrepreneurial spirit that was maybe true 40 years ago is absolutely not there now for physicians, and for good reason,” Fields asserts. “They’re smart folks, and they understand the pitfalls of small business in terms of stress, in terms of lifestyle. Most of them, across all specialties, are choosing lifestyle over business independence. By far, the trend is to be employed by, not necessarily a hospital, but by some practice,” he maintains.

Meanwhile, there’s a nationwide shortage of doctors that’s only expected to get worse as the population ages and more physicians retire. By 2025, the U.S. will face a shortfall of some 124,000 to 159,000 physicians, the Association of American Medical Colleges estimates.

“I think the reality is that medicine is not as fun as it used to be for prospective college students,” Bernstein notes. “They know they’re not going to make as much money as doctors used to make; they work long hours, have to be on call, and you could be sued at any time.

I love my job, but I wonder if my kids would be happier doing something else that’s less stressful.”

Even as the medical profession continues to evolve, however, Hathaway finds comfort in a conversation he had with a health-care consultant a few years back.

“I asked him, ‘Why are you still doing this, and how long are you going to keep it up?’

“He said: ‘What do you mean? This is the best time ever. There is so much change; there is so much opportunity to make things better.

This is not something to be lamented — it’s an opportunity.’”

After a pause, Hathaway adds: “We have challenges. We’ll always have challenges, but we have to be masters of our own destiny in that regard and take advantage of what we can.” .

UNCA senior Caitlin Byrd is new-media editor for The Blue Banner, the campus paper.

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by Jake Frankel The Buncombe County commissioners unanimously approved a $10 million economic-incentives package for Linamar Corp. July 26, as part of an agreement with the Canadian auto-parts manufacturer announced last month.

On June 28, the commissioners agreed to buy the former Volvo plant in Skyland for $7 million.

Two days later, they announced plans to sell the 65-acre site and 405,108-square-foot building to Linamar. The company will buy the property early next year, leasing it from the county in the meantime for about $548,000. The $8 million purchase price will include the lease payment.

As part of the deal, Linamar agreed to invest $125 million in the facility and create at least 400 full-time jobs with an average wage of roughly $39,000 per year — about $5,000 more than the county’s current annual average.

In exchange, the county will give the company $10 million in incremental grants over the next three years. The money will be forfeited if the company doesn’t fulfill its obligations by Dec. 31, 2020. And the increased property-tax revenue the county will receive over the next 10 years is projected to exceed $10 million, noted County Manager Wanda Greene, who served as the county’s chief negotiator.

The deal “is just a great thing for our community,” she told the commissioners. “We wanted to be flexible: We wanted them to be in Buncombe County, and we wanted to do whatever it took to get them here and grow these jobs for our citizens.”

The city of Asheville plans to reimburse the county to the tune of $2.2 million; the state has also committed $2.7 million in grants plus $5.5 million in tax credits.

The real estate purchase and incentives package were key to closing the deal, said Greene, revealing that the county faced fierce competition from Winston-Salem and Greenville, S.C. “From our discussions, we knew that speed to market was going to be critical, and we knew that having the facility ready at the Volvo plant was going to be our biggest way to deliver that critical component to them,” the county manager explained. Praising the commissioners, she added: “It took a lot of political courage to go buy a building when there’s a global financial crisis going on and not be able to tell the public why you’re doing that. So I applaud you for taking that risk.”

Board Chair David Gantt hailed Commissioner K. Ray Bailey’s role in bringing the deal to fruition, saying his “fingerprints are all over this. …

This wouldn’t have happened without K. Ray Bailey.” And Bailey, who chairs the Economic Development Coalition, gave the nod to Greene, saying, “I think we all know and appreciate the great work she’s done.”

Bailey also raised the prospect of the company’s expanding the facility in the near future. “One of the reasons they want that property is because of the additional acreage and the way they like to

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“We wanted to do whatever it took to get them here and grow these jobs for our citizens.”

— COUNTY MANAGER WANDA GREENE, ON THE LINAMAR DEAL

Manufacturing a deal: The Buncombe County commissioners approved a big economic incentives package to ensure Linamar Corp. operates locally. Pictured here: Linamar’s Vice President for Global Sales, Nick Adams, announces the deal with county, city and state officials at the Grove Park Inn. PHOTO BY JONATHAN WELCH

cluster,” he said. “I think, in real numbers, there will probably be 800 to 1,000 people employed there not too long from now.”

More than 700 people attended the company’s job fair earlier this month, noted Greene, and Linamar has been conducting interviews since then. Only three nonlocal employees will work at the plant, she said.

Meanwhile, Commissioner Carol Peterson cited an economic “ripple effect,” saying, “If you just drive down Hendersonville Road, you’ll see on all the restaurants, ‘Welcome Linamar.’”

Seeing red Several residents weighed in during a pair of public hearings: one on the real estate deal, the other concerning the cash incentives. The few who spoke peppered the commissioners with a mix of praise and pointed questions.

In response to Commissioner Holly Jones’ comment that the deal demonstrated the county’s ability to “roll out the red-carpet treatment for business rather than the red tape,” Candler resident Linda Southard implored the board to use that approach more often, saying, “Wouldn’t it be nice if we did that for everybody and let the free market decide who should be here and who shouldn’t be here, instead of all the regulations that might put people off and prevent them from coming?”

Lisa Landis of Pisgah Forest pointed out that those numbers don’t mean the typical worker will earn $39,000 per year, because highly paid management could skew the average salary.

And longtime county watchdog Jerry Rice handed out copies of a 2006 Associated Press story reporting that Volvo was planning to double its employment at the Asheville facility in exchange for as much as $10.6 million in city, county and state incentives.

“How does that money look now?” the Candler resident asked, noting that the company had shut down its local operations last year.

Commissioners and staffers alike defended the current arrangement, however. reiterating the $39,000 average wage, Greene explained: “The breakdown of the salaries isn’t available. They’re trade secrets, and we’re not able to release those.”

Gantt, meanwhile, stressed that the deal includes strong taxpayer safeguards in case Linamar fails to uphold its end of the bargain.

“If the incentive benchmarks haven’t been met, there have been times in our history when we have not given payments,” he reported, saying that was the case with Volvo. “I don’t think we’ll have that problem here, but we do have precedent for that.” .

Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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At their July 26 meeting, Asheville City Council members unanimously agreed to join the Housing Authority in applying for a $300,000 Choice Neighborhoods Planning Grant (formerly called HOPE VI), which provides funding for a variety of community revitalization projects — many aimed at creating mixed-income housing and stimulating homeownership among low-income residents.

Redeveloping Lee Walker Heights is one key part of the grant proposal.

The poverty rate exceeds 40 percent in the complex, and it has a violent-crime rate higher than any other public housing development in the city, according to Housing Authority data, said Community Development Director Jeff Staudinger. Any redevelopment of the Heights would include a mixed-income component, “not just public housing, but some affordable workforce housing, and if the market will support it, some market-rate rental housing,” he said.

Staudinger added that despite rumors within the community, the Housing Authority doesn’t plan to put the complex on the market. “We are not selling Lee Walker Heights to anyone. We are proposing to redevelop [it] as a more modern, amenity rich, universally designed, mixed-income community that will be healthier for the public housing residents and the other residents that live there.”

He also emphasized that any public-housing residents displaced by the project would have a chance to relocate.

The city previously approved $40,038 in Community Development Block Grant funding for the planning and application process.

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In a meeting that lasted little more than an hour, Council members also unanimously passed a 19-item consent agenda that included setting an Aug. 9 public hearing to consider an economic development incentive package for the new Linamar auto-parts plant.

In late June, WLOS TV got the scoop on Buncombe County’s plan to buy the former Volvo plant off Hendersonville Road and sell it to Linamar, a Canadian manufacturer.

County officials went through with the $7 million purchase, announcing that the deal would bring about 400 jobs — with an average pay of more than $39,000 per year — to the area.

The city’s part includes $2.2 million in tax rebates to Linamar. To get the rebates, the

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company has to meet investment and payroll benchmarks. Council Member Jan Davis said, “All of us here are excited about the possibility of that many new good-paying jobs for the community. ... In a time of economic downturn, this is really, really good news.”

Other actions Council members unanimously approved: • a budget amendment allowing the $120,000 purchase of a street-milling machine — heavy equipment that grinds up asphalt that’s being recycled or repaved. In the past, the city has contracted out milling services, but staff estimate the acquisition will save $900,000 over the next five years.

• authorization to lease 47 parking spaces of the surface lot at O. Henry Avenue and Haywood Street from AT&T. The lease will cost the city $55 per space per month, totaling $31,020 for the year. The spaces are close to the Asheville Civic Center and the Grove Arcade.

• a request to rezone a portion of the lot containing Trinity United Methodist Church

at 587 Haywood Road in West Asheville from Community Business II and Residential Multi-Family Medium Density to Conditional Zoning. Rezoning will allow the church to move forward with plans to use its existing education building for a K-8 school. As part of the request, Trinity will add to an existing privacy fence and plant additional buffer trees on the eastern boarder of the property, which sits adjacent to three homes.

• a list of five questions for all of the city’s Planning & Zoning Commission candidates.

Among the questions: asking applicants to talk about their vision for growth and development in Asheville and quizzing them on how strictly they believe the Unified Development Ordinance should be applied.

• a resolution allowing the sale of obsolete water meters to Biltmore Iron and Metal Company for $32,000. The meters will be recycled, and the funds will go to the city’s Water Resources Fund. .

Christopher George can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 140, or at cgeorge@mountainx.com.

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Capt. Jeff Bowen, a 13-year Asheville Fire Department veteran, died of cardiac arrest after succumbing to smoke and intense heat while responding to a four-alarm blaze at 445 Biltmore Ave. July 28. Firefighter Jay Bettencourt was taken to an Augusta, Ga., hospital but was released.

Almost a dozen other firefighters were also injured, but no civilians were hurt.

According to information released at a press conference that evening, the building doesn’t have a sprinkler system and isn’t required to. The cause of the fire is being investigated, but early reports suggest an electrical problem. Bettencourt and Bowen were working as a team, searching for people in the building, when Bowen called out “mayday” over the radio.

The 37-year-old Bowen leaves behind a wife and three children.

The last time an Asheville firefighter died in the line of duty was 1982.

A Facebook page “in loving memory” of Bowen has been created at avl.mx/42, and the Mission Health System is matching up to $10,000 in donations made to the Fallen Firefighters Fund (mail donations to Mission Foundation, 980 Hendersonville Road, Suite C, Asheville NC 28803, or go online to missionfoundation.org).

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APD releases suspect descriptions in West Asheville home invasions On July 28, the Asheville Police Department released details, including descriptions of the suspects, in six recent home invasions in West Asheville and Montford. The incidents may be related. Public speculation and concerns about home invasions in the area have increased in recent days. Some residents formed West Asheville Watch, a Facebook page for sharing information about individual crimes, safety tips and more (avl.mx/43).

— David Forbes

Trees felled for health, not security reasons Jackie Bryson said something just felt empty when she looked outside her door July 27 and realized several trees in the complex had been cut down.

“I’ve been in this particular apartment for 21 years, and I watched them trees grow,” said Bryson, who is president of the Hillcrest Apartments Resident Council. “I didn’t know I cared about

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A tragic fire: A witness caught this shot of the 445 Biltmore Avenue blaze that injured almost a dozen firefighters and claimed the life of Capt. Jeff Bowen on July 28.

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those trees until they weren’t there anymore.”

Residents were given short notice about the tree removal, leading some to suspect it aimed to create a clearer sightline for recently installed security cameras. But Asheville Housing Authority Director Gene Bell said that wasn’t the case. In fact, a Bradford pear in front of Bryson’s apartment that survived had been marked for removal by mistake.

“One boy was holding onto the tree, saying, ‘Don’t cut it down,’” noted Bryson. “Fortunately, Mr. Bell stopped them.”

— Caitlin Byrd

Ashevile’s officially in the 10th Congressional District The first Republican-controlled General Assembly in 140 years ratified a controversial redistricting plan July 28 that split Asheville and Buncombe County in ways that are likely to benefit GOP candidates.

The law shifts almost all of Asheville’s reliably Democratic voters from the 11th Congressional District, currently represented by Democrat Heath Shuler, to the conservative 10th, presently the domain of Republican Patrick McHenry.

A bipartisan host of critics charged that it was a blatantly political move that ignores traditional geographic, cultural and economic

boundaries. Republican Rep. Tim Moffitt of Buncombe County, a member of the House Redistricting Committee, proposed an amendment July 27 to return Asheville to the 11th, but he was the only Republican member of that body who supported the measure, which failed 17-23. Buncombe Democratic Rep. Susan Fisher later introduced a similar amendment on House floor; it failed 65-51.

— Jake Frankel

Buncombe County officials set to condemn CTS building In response to requests by neighbors, Buncombe County is moving to demolish the contaminated former CTS of Asheville plant on Mills Gap Road.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has approved the move. On July 26, the Buncombe County Board of Commissioners instructed the county manager to negotiate with a private demolition company to take the structure down, board Chair David Gantt reports.

“This is a pretty big move for us. [Previously], the EPA felt they would rather do testing with the roof [intact],” he explains. “But the roof and the whole thing was such a mess that we think we need to get it done now.”

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UNCA students spark clean-energy campaign

by Susan Andrew Energized by Power Shift — an annual gathering of youth-led clean-energy and climate groups nationwide — UNCA students are hatching an ambitious vision of environmental justice and clean energy for all.

It’s a daunting agenda, but the group is employing some time-tested grass-roots strategies — and learning as they go. Earth studies major Elizabeth Goyer says she returned from her first Power Shift in 2009 ready “to get UNCA completely off coal,” she recalls wryly.

Group fervor cooled a bit in the face of hard realities (it’s tough to run a modern research program or a campus cafeteria without electricity), but these young visionaries say they quickly recognized the value of “going for the low-hanging fruit”: attacking the national issues through lobbying, while expanding awareness on campus by encouraging students and faculty alike to think about reducing their reliance on coal-fired power plants.

The oldest student organization on campus, Active Students for a Healthy Environment claims roughly 50 members, and “We can feel the momentum rising,” says ASHE member Macon Foscue, an environmental studies major who’ll be a junior this fall.

Goyer, a fifth-year senior, helped found the statewide NC Student Energy Network this past spring. And at the 2009 Power Shift, Goyer got involved with the Sylva, N.C.-based Canary

Coalition “and ended up getting arrested at Duke Power’s headquarters in Charlotte along with 45 others, aged 14 to 70-something.” Back on campus last fall, she realized, “I had gotten shoved into a leadership role because everyone else had graduated, and I figured the best thing I could do is get as many younger students to Power Shift as possible.”

Foscue was one of them. “I turned around and Macon had started this campaign that’s going to take off in the fall,” Goyer reports. Dubbed “Flip the Switch,” ASHE’s multifaceted campuswide energy-conservation crusade will target student dorms. A companion program, “Teach in the Sunlight,” will enlist professors willing to turn off artificial lighting in classrooms with ample daylight. Participating faculty will get their names published on a list, thus scoring “cool points,” says Foscue.

A weekend leadership training in August aims to help young activists “get better at doing things like talking to media, lobbying local officials, asking for money from their [college] administration and fundraising in the community,” Goyer reports. Cultivating relationships with local elected officials, she explains, comes in handy when key pieces of energy legislation need a push.

Looking ahead, a daylong Sept. 24 event will include a concert, silent auction, potluck supper and other activities to raise funds for the Southeast Student Renewable Energy Conference later this fall. The September fundraiser coin-

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cides with Moving Planet day, the latest series of global events organized by well-known activist and author Bill McKibben and 350.org (see “Building a Movement,” Sept. 14, 2010 Xpress).

ASHE is also gearing up for the Renewable Energy Conference, which will bring student activists from across the region to UNCA Nov. 4-6. Goyer nominated her school as the conference site — and was surprised when it was chosen. “At first it was really scary,” she reveals.

“I went to the university and said, ‘We’re gonna have 500 people here.’ It took a little negotiating, [and] we’re still trying to get them to waive the room fee, which is a big part of our budget for the conference.” But it’s an impressive effort for a student group: Meeting weekly via conference call this summer, these young activists pulled together a budget, an agenda and sponsors.

And despite the considerable environmental

challenges ahead, Goyer takes some inspiration from Tim DeChristopher, the keynote speaker at this year’s Power Shift, whose message went something like this: “There is very little about the youth movement right now that suggests we are prepared to cope with the collapse of our society in the face of our lack of sustainability. Reducing emissions is not going to be enough — the damage is already done. But when the collapse comes, it could be our chance to build something better: Green power could be what we base our civilization on. Our job as the youth climate movement is to start over with something different.” .

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Now retired, Bir worked for many years at the Mountain Horticultural Crops Research and Extension Center in Fletcher. In the late ’70s, his initial task was assisting the Christmas tree industry. Later, he focused on nurseries, specifically on propagating and growing native plants for the landscape. Bir’s many awards testify to the esteem in which his peers held him.

Most recently, Bir received the Liberty Hyde Bailey Award, one of 12 Great American Gardeners awards the American Horticultural Society presents annually to individuals, organizations and businesses judged to represent the best in American gardening. Recipients have made significant contributions in at least three of the following horticultural fields: teaching, research, communication, plant exploration, administration, art, business and leadership.

“If dinner was a part of the deal, we’d be assured of a crowd.”

— RICHARD BIR ON HIS EFFORTS TO PROMOTE NATIVE PLANTS

Bir follows in the footsteps of some pretty impressive names — and deservedly so, both his peers and, more importantly, the region’s growers maintain. Brad Martin of the Southeastern Native Plant Nursery in Candler, for example, says it’s thanks to Bir’s research that he can grow his woody and herbaceous species. For 25 years, Bir worked with county agents and nurserymen to evaluate, select and grow better landscape plants — particularly shrubs and trees.

But his primary contribution was with native azaleas, rhododendrons and mountain laurels. Bir was also instrumental in establishing the influential Native Plant Conference in Cullowhee, beginning in 1984. He continues to speak at the annual event, which has since spurred native-plant movements in Pennsylvania and Alabama as well.

A people person, Bir forged a close rapport with both growers and county agents, doing the research and then sharing the findings. In the process, he helped develop a community support structure for nurseries.

Bir says he spent a lot of time speaking in churches, community centers and courtrooms, recalling with a laugh, “If dinner was a part of the deal, we’d be assured of a crowd.” Bir’s eagerness to share his knowledge garnered him yet another honor: the 2007 International Plant Propagators Society award. Bir says he’s proudest of that accolade, which speaks so directly to his work (the society’s motto is “to seek and to share”).

But it was in the everyday arena that Bir appears to have enjoyed his job the most. He downplays his countless awards, but he can tick off the names of growers, when they started their business, a million funny stories about them and, sadly, if and when they shut down. Bir helped fledgling nurserymen every step of the way. His on-farm studies led to best-management practices that many growers still follow today. His extensive published work includes more 500 articles, and his textbook, Growing and Propagating Showy Native Woody Plants, is considered a classic.

When Bir’s career began in 1979, the 25 mountain counties had an estimated 1,436 acres in nursery crops, generating $7.7 million in farm income

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The seeds of love: He may be retired, but longtime horticulturist Dick Bir hasn’t stopped propagating, starting with his first job working with Christmas trees.

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(about $5,374 per acre). By 1990, there were 3,297 acres producing $59.3 million in farm income (almost $18,000 per acre). That’s a 130 percent increase in acreage, a 668 percent increase in income and a 235 percent increase in income per acre. Many attribute these impressive numbers to Bir’s extension efforts.

Clearly, Bir’s is a career to be proud of. But his greatest achievement may be something all the numbers and the honors can only hint at. “Bir has a wealth of knowledge about plants,” notes landscape designer Mary Hiers, who met him when she was teaching horticulture at Haywood Community College. “But the best thing about him is his welcoming personality. I felt like he helped create a tight-knit plant community in Western North Carolina, one that is ongoing today.”

And that’s a compliment Bir would probably value more than all his awards. .

Cinthia Milner gardens in Leicester.

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(pd.) KENNY’S PERENNIALS • Beautiful, homegrown, affordable plants. Over 60 varieties. $2.50 each. Visit me at the North Asheville Tailgate Market on Saturdays, 8am-noon and the Greenlife Tailgate Market on Sundays, 10am-3pm. Details: Facebook page Kenny’s Perennials. 828-280-9479. kenjack@ charter.net 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, 8-11am - Stecoah Tailgate Market, 121 Schoolhouse Road, Robbinsville.

—- 8am-noon - Transylvania Tailgate Market, on the corner of Johnson and Jordan Streets in downtown Brevard. —- 2-6pm - Asheville City Market - South, Biltmore Town Square Blvd. —- 2-6pm - Montford Farmers Market, Asheville Chamber of Commerce parking lot. —- 2-6:30pm - Wednesday Coop Market, 76 Biltmore Ave. —- 2:30-6:30pm - Weaverville Tailgate Market, behind the yellow community center on Weaverville Highway.

• THURSDAYS, 10am-2pm - Mission Hospital Tailgate Market, at the back entrance of Mission Hospital’s Heart Center on the Memorial Campus.

—- 3-6pm - Flat Rock Tailgate Market, in the parking area behind Cherry Cottage and next to Hubba Hubba Smoke House along Little Rainbow Row. • FRIDAYS, 4-7pm - Riceville Tailgate Market, Groce United Methodist Church’s parking lot, at the corner of Beverly Road and Tunnel Road.

• SATURDAYS, 8am-noon - Transylvania Tailgate Market, on the corner of Johnson and Jordan Streets in downtown Brevard. —- 9am-noon - Big Ivy Tailgate Market, in the parking lot of the old Barnardsville fire station, across from the post office on Highway 197. —- 9am-noon - Black Mountain Tailgate Market, 130 Montreat Road.

—- 8am-noon - North Asheville Tailgate Market, at UNCA (take W.T. Weaver Boulvard and follow signs). —- 8am-1pm - Asheville City Market, in the parking lot of the Public Works Building, 161 S. Charlotte Street. —- 9am-1pm - Madison County Farmers and Artisans Market, at the corner of Highway 213 and Park Street.

• SUNDAYS, 11am-3pm - Greenlife Sunday Market, at the Greenlife Grocery parking lot. —noon-4pm - Marshall Farmers Market, on the island in downtown Marshall.

• TUESDAYS, 3:30-6:30pm - West Asheville Tailgate Market, 718 Haywood Road, in the parking area between Grace Baptist Church and Sun Trust Bank.

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calendar categories community events & workshops / social & shared-interest groups / government & politics / seniors & retirees / animals / technology / business & careers / volunteering / health programs / support groups / helplines / sports groups & activities / kids / spirituality / arts / spoken & written word / festivals & gatherings / music / theater / comedy / film / dance / auditions & call to artists CALENDAR FOR AUGUST 3 - 11, 2011 Unless otherwise stated, events take place in Asheville, and phone numbers are in the 828 area code.

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

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

Community Events & Workshops Attention Young People 1730 • Weekend Gathering • August 18-21 (pd.) Come connect, share, and learn from each other around the fire during Ritaka:

Embracing Our Vision, Raising Our Voices for Our World, sponsored by the Sacred Fire Community. • Learn from a African shaman and a primitive skills expert.

• All meals and camping included, $100. • Contact: Ritaka2011@gmail.com www.sacredfirecommunity. org/ritaka Facilitation Training at The Mediation Center (pd.) Hands-on practice running effective meetings. August 19, 2011. $100/person, includes lunch.

Scholarships available.

Registration: contact Allison allisonc@mediatebuncombe. org / 251-6089 Information: www.mediatebuncombe.org Water Fitness Instructor Certification Course (pd.) At the YWCA, 185 S. French Broad Ave., on Saturday, September 24.

Register by September 3.

Info: www.uswfa.org or 516732-9908.

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

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

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

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

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

Please limit your submission to 40 words or less.

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

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

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

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

Asheville Affiliates Fundraisers This group of young professionals holds fundraisers for nonprofits in Buncombe County with food, beer, wine and raffles. $25/$30 at the door. Info: www.affiliatesofasheville.com.

• MO (8/8), 5:30-8:30pm A summer social will be held at The Magnetic Field, 372 Depot St. $10.

AshevilleConnects • TH (8/11), 9:30-11:30am - AshevilleConnects, a local initiative to strengthen the community, will meet at 34 Wall St. Info: 231-5565.

Canning Workshop • TU (8/9), 3pm - A canning workshop will be held at Etowah Library, 101 Brickyard Road. Info: 8916577.

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.

• TUESDAYS through SUNDAYS - A demonstration of Mrs. Sandburg’s dairy operation and cheese making techniques will be offered Tuesday through Friday at 2:15pm and Saturday and Sunday at 3:15pm, through August 13.

• SATURDAYS, 2:15pm Walking tours will be offered through August 6.

Events at A-B Tech • JUNE through AUGUST - A series of classes and summer camps for children, teens and adults will be offered through Destination Exploration, including a visiting artist series. Camps in art, computers, drama and culinary arts are open to children ages 8 to 18.

Adults may take workshops in humanities, languages, music, practical skills and other subjects. The Visiting Artist Summer Series will feature three-day workshops on photography, drama and art. Info: www.abtech.edu.

Freeskool Events & Classes A teaching and learning network by and for the community. All classes are free. Info: http://tinyurl. com/6j3nxw9.

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• TH (8/4), 7-9pm Permaculture, part six, will be held at 408 Pearson Drive.

• TH (8/11), 6-7pm - “City Goats 101” will feature live pygmy goats. Held at 75 Covington St. Safety Day at Valley Springs Middle School • SA (8/6), 10am-3pm Safety Day will include hands on events covering texting/ distracted driving, drinking and driving, seat belts and more. The event will also include presentations on social media bullying, bicycle safety, drug prevention and crime awareness. Open to the public. Held at Valley Springs Middle School, 224 Long Shoals Road in Arden.

Info: http://bit.ly/qBCfVW. WNC Agricultural Center Located at 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414.

• SA (8/6) & SU (8/7) Dressage horse show.

Social & SharedInterest Groups Gal Pals Of Asheville (pd.) Come join Asheville’s Most Fabulous group: Lesbian Social Group for Women, ages 35-55. • Group attendance requirement; All members are active. • For more info: groups.yahoo.com/group/ GalPalsofAsheville Older Lesbian Energy (OLE) (pd.) Meets second Saturday each month, 1pm, potluck and event planning. OLE: Fun group for lesbians over 50. • Join us! Information: Catherine: (828) 545-9698.

Tuesday Nights! • Single And Looking For Something Fun? (pd.) Try AVL Speed Dating!

Events start at 6:30pm and are held monthly at Neo Cantina (Biltmore Village) • Next events: Tuesday, August 9, All Ages (21+) Mix and Mingle Event, September 13 (21-39 age group) and October 11 (3549 age group). • To make a reservation or for more info, call (828) 242-2555 or see AVLSpeedDating.com Asheville Singles Golf Association (ASGA) -Asheville Chapter

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Follow the yellow brick road to The Hop North, 640 Merrimon Ave., for scenes from The

wed Wizard of Oz on Wednesday, Aug. 3 from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Students from Emmanuel Lutheran School will bring this classic musical to life. Info: thehopicecreamcafe.com.

A dash of cinnamon in a frothy pint of beer might not seem like a natural fit, but Asheville

thur Brewing Company has found some unique flavors to mix with its popular brews. This week’s

infusor night will combine mesquite and cinnamon with ABC’s Escape Artist Pale Ale. Held at Asheville Brewing Company, 77 Coxe Ave., on Thursday, Aug. 4. From 5-9 p.m. Info: ashevillebrewing.com.

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Join storyteller and balladeer Sheila Kay Adams for an afternoon of Pickin' on the Porch on Friday, Aug. 5 from noon-2 p.m. Held on the first Friday of the month through October at Thomas Wolfe Memorial, 52 North Market St. Info: wolfememorial.com.

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Hear top-notch bluegrass and enjoy fresh baked goods at a Back-to-School Bluegrass festival. Proceeds will provide Hominy Valley children with back-to-school supplies. Bring gently-used children’s books and school supplies to donate. Held on Saturday, Aug. 6 from 3-6 p.m. at Hominy Baptist Church, 135 Candler School Road. Info: hominybaptist.com or 667-4541.

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Enjoy all-vegan food vendors, educational speakers, kids' activities, dancing and more as Asheville VegFest takes over Battery Park Avenue on Sunday, Aug. 7 from noon-7 p.m. Info: ashevillevegfest.org.

Downtown Hendersonville hosts a free evening of music and dancing by Bobby and Blue

mon Ridge Tradition and the Forever Young Cloggers on Monday, Aug. 8 from 7-9 p.m. in front of the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St. Info: historichendersonville.org.

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Do you have what it takes for the stage? Find out when the Montford Park Players hold auditions for Romeo and Juliet on Tuesday, Aug. 9 from 6-9 p.m. at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville. Info: 254-5146 or montfordparkplayers.org.

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 5:45pm - Singles who enjoy playing golf are invited to a social meeting at Travinia’s Italian Kitchen in Biltmore Park.

Info: www.asheville.singlesgolf.com.

Asheville Toastmasters • THURSDAYS, 6:15-7:30pm - If you’ve been thinking about improving your communication skills, Asheville Toastmasters is for you.

Newcomers welcome; no pressure to speak. Held at Denny’s, 1 Regent Park Blvd.

Info: capollak@hotmail.com.

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

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 7:30pm - Meet at Baba’s Restaurant, 1459 Merrimon Ave. Courthouse Tours • WEDNESDAYS (8/3) through (10/6), 2pm Historic courthouse tours will depart from 200 North Grove

St. Hendersonville. Free. Info: 694-5003.

Events at Wall Street Coffee House • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Game night will be held at 62 Wall St. in downtown Asheville. All are welcome to enjoy old-fashioned fun. New games are played each week.

Info: http://on.fb.me/e4GpE8.

Ground Breaking Ceremony • TU (8/9), 10am - Dodd Meadows ground breaking ceremony will be held on the corner of Blue Ridge and Crest Roads, East Flat Rock.

Info: www.habitat-hvl.org or 694-0340.

Laurel Chapter of the Embroiderers’ Guild of America Holds monthly meetings and smaller groups dedicated to teaching different types of needlework. The chapter is also involved in numerous outreach projects. Guests are always welcome. Info: 654-9788 or www.egacarolinas.org.

• TH (8/4), 9:30am-noon - Meeting and needlework project, “Santa’s Coming to Town.”

Veterans for Peace The public is invited to the regular business meeting of the WNC Veterans for Peace Chapter 099. Info: 2581800 or vfpchapter099wnc. blogspot.com.

• TH (8/4), 6:30pm - Meeting VFP HQ at the Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St. (the corner of Haywood and Roberts), Asheville. Info: http://vfpchapter099wnc.blogspot. com.

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

• WE (8/3) - Auto Cross.

Government & Politics Community Conversations: Today’s Nuclear Establishment • 1st SUNDAYS, 7-9pm - “Community Conversations: Historical and Political Economic Origins of Today’s Nuclear Establishment,” will be held at Marshall Arts, 7609 Hwy 25/70 in Marshall.

Info: www.marshallcommunityarts.com.

Green Party Meeting • SA (8/6), 10am-noon - An open business meeting will be held upstairs in the Fortune Building, 729 Haywood Road in West Asheville. Info: 225-4347.

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

Personal attention, small, focused class. Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, 12:00pm. $15 or 10 for $130. 117 Furman. 2253786. FormFitnessFunction. com Fun Bunch for Singles • This social club for 50+ singles in the WNC area meets six to seven times each month for activities like dining out, day trips, movies and more. $15 per month. Info: www.meetup. com/FunBunch4Singles,

Fun4Singles@aol.com or 699-8180.

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RSVP Volunteer Center for Second Half of Life • TH (8/4), 9:30-11am - Are you a retiree or boomer looking to volunteer and don’t know where to start? Let RSVP point you in the right direction at this information session. This month’s topic is “volunteering to support educational programs in our community.” Held at UNCA’s Center for Creative Retirement, Room 205.

Registration encouraged.

Info:www2.unca.edu/ncccr.

Brother Wolf Animal Rescue A no-kill organization. Info: 808-9435 or www.bwar.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 6-8pm - Bring home your new furry best friend and meet dozens of cats and kittens looking for new homes at this weekly cat adoption event. Held at PetSmart, 150 Bleachery Blvd. in Asheville.

• SATURDAYS, noon-4pm - A pet adoption event for dogs and cats will be held at PetSmart, 150 Bleachery Blvd. in Asheville. Info: 5053440.

Community Partnership for Pets This nonprofit’s primary goal is to provide affordable spay/ neuter services to communities in/around Henderson County. Info: 693-5172 or www.communitypartnershipforpets.org.

• 4th SATURDAYS, 10am2pm - Vouchers for free and low-cost spay/neuter services will be available to Henderson County residents at Tractor Supply Company, 115 Four Seasons Blvd. in Hendersonville.

• 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, 10am-2pm - Vouchers for free and low-cost spay/

neuter services will be available to Henderson County residents at Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. in Hendersonville.

• 1st & 3rd SATURDAYS, noon-3pm - Vouchers for free and low-cost spay/neuter services will be available to Henderson County residents at the Blue Ridge Mall, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd. in Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance).

Mills River Presbyterian Church Located at 10 Presbyterian Church Road in Mills River.

Info: 891-7101.

• SA (8/6), 10am - The Blessing of the Pets.

Business Corporate Wellness Programs (pd.) Affordable. Uniquely designed to employee needs. Increase productivity and worker satisfaction.

Reduce time away from work and insurance costs.

Pilates, Human Ergonomics, Running and Walking programs. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Arts2People Artist Resource Center Offering business management workshops for artists

at 39 D S. Market St., downtown Asheville. Classes, unless otherwise noted, are $35. Info and registration: www.arts2people.org or info@arts2people.org.

• The Arts2People Artist Resource Center seeks instructors with business management skills. Classes are geared towards creative professionals. Info: info@ arts2people.org or www. ashevillearc.com.

Straight Talk: What the VIX? • WE (8/10), 9:15-10:15pm - Join a discussion about the VIX and how it impacts investment portfolios. The event will examine current

market volatility relative to historical levels and how this impacts investment decisions. Held at Galileo Planning, Suite 260 in the Grove Arcade. Free. Info: www.galileoplanning.com.

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

• MONDAYS, 12:15pm Mac OSX Basics.

• TUESDAYS, 12:15pm iPhoto Basics.

• WEDNESDAYS, 12:15pm - iPad Basics.

• THURSDAYS & FRIDAYS, 12:15pm - Advanced/paid classes (see website for schedule).

• SATURDAYS, 12:15pm - Protecting Your PC. • SUNDAYS, 12:15pm GarageBand.

Investigative Technology and Internet Safety • TU (8/9), 7:30-9am - “Investigative Technology and Internet Safety,” with John Letterhos and Joe Zadik of the FBI. Presented as part of the Asheville Buzz: Summer Breakfast Series.

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Plaza Resort. Registration ends August 4. Tickets and info: www.leadershipasheville.org/asheville-buzz.

Volunteering Big Brothers Big Sisters of WNC Located at 50 S. French Broad Ave., Room 213, in the United Way building.

The organization matches children from single-parent homes with adult mentors.

Info: www.bbbswnc.org or 253-1470.

• Big Brothers Big Sisters is currently seeking adult mentors for bi-monthly outings. Activities are free or low-cost. Volunteers are also needed to mentor 1 hr./wk. in schools and after-school programs.

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

• MO (8/8) - 7-8:30pm - Cookie Night: Help bake cookies for families staying at the Lewis Rathbun Center, which provides free lodging for out-of-town families who have a loved one in an area hospital. Supplies provided.

Helpmate Provides services to victims of domestic violence and their families in Buncombe County. Info: 254-2968.

• Seeking volunteers to help with hotline advocacy (bilinguals needed), reception assistance, childcare, building/grounds work and fundraising. People of color are encouraged to volunteer.

Training required. Info: 2542968, ext. 12 or cprice@ helpmateonline.org.

Invasive Species Clean-Up • FR (8/5) & SA (8/6), 9am3pm - Southern Appalachian Cooperative Weed Management Partnership will lead a volunteer event to control invasive plants on the Appalachian Trail. Held at Sam’s Gap, N.C. 23A. Free carpool from Asheville departs at 8am. Info and registration: bob@wnca.org or 258-8737.

March of Dimes • Through (9/15) Volunteers are needed for the Signature Chefs Gala and Auction through September 15.

Pisgah Center for Wildlife Located in Pisgah National Forest, 10 miles from Brevard off of US Highway 276 N. Programs are free, but registration is required.

Info: 877-4423 or www. ncwildlife.org.

• Through WE (11/30) - Volunteers are needed to answer phones, help with the gift shop and answer visitor questions.

• Through FR (9/30) - Fly fishing volunteers are needed for one to three hours of instruction.

Outdoors Quality Training Program (pd.) Completely personalized small group training.

Weekly run. Individual goal setting. Beginners to Advanced. Weaver Park.

Two Groups: Sundays, 8:30am or 9:30am. $65 for 6 weeks. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Blue Ridge Parkway Hike • FR (8/5), 10am - An easyto-moderate one-mile, oneway hike will travel to the site of Vanderbilt’s old hunting cabin. The hike departs from Buck Springs Gap Parking Overlook, MP 407, and ends at the Pisgah Inn parking lot. Participants are encouraged to plan shuttles or may retrace their steps back to Buck Springs Gap. Bring water, close-toed shoes and be prepared for inclement weather. Info: 298-5330.

National Park Service • SA (8/6), 10am-3pm - “Blue Ridge Parkway: Celebrating Heritage and Communities” will feature music, clogging, storytelling and more. Held at Waterrock Knob Visitor Center, MP 451.2. Info: 456-9530.

WNC Sierra Club Members of the WNC Sierra Club Chapter work together to protect the community and the planet. The mission of the Sierra Club, America’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, is to explore, enjoy and protect the wild places of the earth.

Info: www.nc.sierraclub.org/ wenoca or 251-8289.

• WE (8/3), 7-9pm - A program on the history of the national parks and current Sierra Club involvement in park issues will be presented by club outings leader Lisa McWherter at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1 Edwin Place in Asheville.

Sports Groups & Activities Transform Your Form (pd.) Run with a lightness and ease you’ve never known! Alexander Technique will turn your arms into wings! Thursdays, 6:30pm.

$100 for 6 sessions.

Ongoing. (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Events at Pardee Hospital All programs held at the Pardee Health Education Center in the Blue Ridge Mall in Hendersonville. Free, but registration is required unless otherwise noted. Info and registration: www.pardeehospital.org or 692-4600.

• MONDAYS, 10:3011:30am & FRIDAYS, 1011am - Low impact aerobics class. $6. Registration not required.

• MONDAYS, 5:30-7pm - “Flow and Let Go” yoga class. $10. Registration not required.

Jus’ Running Weekly coach-led runs. Meet at 523 Merrimon Ave., unless otherwise noted. Info: www. jusrunning.com.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Fivemile group run, 10-11 minutes per mile.

•TUESDAYS, 6:30pm - Run from the store to the UNCA track for a maggot track workout. There will also be a post-workout get together at a local restaurant.

•WEDNESDAYS, 6:30pm - Eight-mile group run.

•THURSDAYS, 6pm - Onehour run from the Rice Pinnacle parking lot at Bent Creek. Easy, moderate and fast levels.

Pickleball • MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS & FRIDAYS, 9-11am - Pickleball is like playing ping pong on a tennis court.

Groups meet weekly at Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St., in Asheville. For all ages/levels. $1 per session. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ ashevillenc.gov.

Step Aerobics Class • TUESDAYS & THURSDAYS, 5:30-6:30pm - Enhance cardio, strength and flexibility at this step aerobics, weights and stretch class. Meets at StephensLee Recreation Center, 30 G.W. Carver St., in Asheville.

Open to all levels. Free. Info: 350-2058 or stephenslee@ ashevillenc.gov.

Kids The Little Gym (pd.) Free open house on Friday, Aug. 19 from 6-8 pm, including games, refreshments and door prizes.

Located at 1000 Brevard Rd. Call 828-667-9588 or www.tlgashevillenc.com for details.

Blue Ridge Parkway Ranger Programs Free and open to the public.

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• TH (8/4), 7pm - Join Rangers at the Parkway Visitor Center, MP 384 in Asheville, to learn about the birds, bees, bats and flying squirrels that live in local forests. Afterwards, participants can make stunt airplanes to mimic the animals’ flight. Free, but registration is required. Info and registration: 298-5330.

Cradle of Forestry Events Experience the natural and cultural history of the Southern Appalachians at the birthplace of scientific forestry. Located on Route 276 in Pisgah National Forest.

Info: 877-3130 or www. cradleofforestry.org.

• THURSDAYS, 10:30amnoon - Woodsy Owl’s Curiosity Club, for children ages 4-7, blends investigation and creativity. Each week a different forestrelated theme is explored to engage children in the natural world. Held rain or shine.

Reservations requested. $4/$2.50 adults.

• SA (8/6), 11am-2:30pm - In honor of Smokey Bear’s birthday, the Cradle will host an afternoon of games, children’s music, crafts, firefighting tools and birthday cake. The event will also include an appearance

by Smokey Bear and a live animal program at 1:30pm.

Picnics welcome.

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

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

• Through FR (8/5), 10:30am-12:30pm - Comedy camp for kids. Final performance on Friday at 12:30pm. $35/$30 members.

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

• SA (8/6), 8am-8pm & SU (8/7), 8am-3:30pm - “WEE Trade” children’s consignment sale will feature clothes, shoes, bikes, books and more for kids up to age 15. Info: www.wee-trade.net.

Youth Open Mic Night • 1st & 3rd THURSDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Children and teens are invited to perform music, recite poetry or present other arts at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St. in downtown Asheville. Get creative and come show off your talent. Info: http://on.fb. me/e4GpE8 or wallstreetcoffeehouse@gmail.com.

Spirituality Aquarian Compassionate Fellowship (pd.) Metaphysical program inspired by spiritual growth topics of your choice.

Meditation, potluck, St. Germain live channeled piano music. • Second and Fourth Wednesday. 6:30pm. • Donation. (828) 658-3362.

Asheville Center for Transcendental Meditation (“TM”) (pd.) Inner peace, stress relief, mind-body health.

TM allows you to effortlessly transcend the active mind to experience your innermost Self – awakening your awareness to its full, unbounded potential.

Clinically proven to reduce anxiety, depression, addiction, and ADHD, and improve brain function. • Free Introductory Class: Thursday, 6:30pm, 165 E. Chestnut • Topics: Meditation and brain research • How meditation techniques differ • What is enlightenment?

(828) 254-4350. www.

MeditationAsheville.org Asheville Meditation Group (pd.) Practice meditation in a supportive group environment. Guided meditations follow the Insight/ Mindfulness/Vipassana practices. Insight meditation cultivates a happier, more peaceful and focused mind.

Our “sangha” (a community of cool people) provides added support and joy to one’s spiritual awakening process. All are invited. • By donation. • Tuesdays, 7pm8:30pm: Guided meditation and discussion. • Sundays, 10am-11:30am: Seated meditation and dharma talks.

• The Women’s Wellness Center, 24 Arlington Street, Asheville. • Info/directions: (828) 808-4444. • www. ashevillemeditation.com Astro-Counseling (pd.) Licensed counselor and accredited professional astrologer uses your chart when counseling for additional insight into yourself, your relationships and life directions. Readings also available. Christy Gunther, MA, LPC. (828) 258-3229.

Avalon Grove (pd.) Services to honor the ancient Celtic Christian holidays. Intuitive Spiritual Counseling to see your path more clearly. Workshops, artwork and books about Faeries. Call (828) 645-2674 or visit avalongrove.com Compassionate Communication (pd.) Learn ways to create understanding and clarity in your relationships, work,

and community by practicing compassionate communication. Great for couples!

Group uses model developed

by Marshall Rosenberg in his book “Non-violent Communication, A Language of Life.” Free. Info: 299-0538 or www.ashevilleccc.com. • 2nd & 4th Thursdays, 5:006:15—Practice group for newcomers and experienced practitioners.

Free Women’s Spirituality and Expressive Arts Workshop (pd.) Sunday, August 28, 3pm-5pm. Cultivate soul in creative community in a safe, supportive space. • For artists/non-artists. • All materials provided. • Discounts on future workshops. Downtown Asheville. • Registration/ information: bloomconsultingandeducation@gmail.com Mindfulness Meditation Class (pd.) Explore the miracle of healing into life through deepened stillness and presence. With consciousness teacher and columnist Bill Walz. Info: 258-3241 or www.billwalz.com.

• MONDAYS, 7-8pm Meditation class with lesson and discussion of contemporary Zen living. Held at the Asheville Friends Meeting House, 227 Edgewood Road (off Merrimon Avenue).

Donations encouraged. 26 Weeks - $156.

Open Heart Meditation (pd.) Learn easy, wonderful practices that opens your life to the beauty within and connects you to your heart.

• Free. 7pm, Tuesdays. 6455950 or 296-0017. http:// www.heartsanctuary.org A Course in Miracles • 2nd & 4th MONDAYS, 6:30-8pm - Join “a loving group of people” to study A Course in Miracles at Groce United Methodist Church, 954 Tunnel Road in Asheville. Open to all. Info: 712-5472.

Awakening Practices Group • 2nd & 4th WEDNESDAYS, 7-9pm - Awakening Practices Group will meet at Insight Counseling, 25 Orange St. Info: Trey@ QueDox.com.

Daoist Meditation • TUESDAYS, 6-7:30pm & SUNDAYS, 9-10:30am - Four Winds Daoist Center in Whittier will offer meditation followed by discussion. Info and directions: 788-6730 or fourwindsdaoism@yahoo. com.

Energy Health Workshops • SATURDAYS, 5-6:30pm - Learn to work with your guardian angels and spirit guides to transmute energetic blockages, detrimental

imprints, negative beliefs, trapped emotions, psychic traumas and past life issues.

Replace low vibration energies with high intentions.

Classes held in Weaverville. $20. Info and directions: 337-1852.

First Congregational United Church of Christ • SU (8/7) & (8/14), 9:15am - Dr. Jill Bierwirth will discuss the history of the United Church of Christ at the First Congregational United Church of Christ, Fifth Avenue W. and White Pine Drive, Hendersonville. Info: www.fcchendersonville.org or 692-8630.

Integral Vision • 2nd THURSDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - Meditation, reading and a discussion of Ken Wilber’s Principles of Evolutionary Culture. Held at Network Family Chiropractic, 218 E. Chestnut St. Info: fred.miercort@gmail.com.

Introduction to Theatre Tantra • MO (8/8), 7-9pm - Learn about a transformative program involving breathwork, meditation, movement, psycho-drama and more at this introduction led by Swami Virato and Ma Dhiraja. Held at a local retreat. Free. Info and location: virato@att. net or www.newfrontier. com/nepal.

Kundalini Tantra • MONDAYS, 7-8:45pm - The principles and practice of Kundalini Tantra with Madhyanandi. Info and directions: madhyanandi@gmail. com.

Meditation in the Park from The People’s Ashram • SUNDAYS, 8-10am - Bring a mat or zabuton and stay for 20 minutes or two hours.

Held at French Broad River Park, 508 Riverview Drive.

Info: madhyanandi@gmail. com.

Montreat Conference Center 401 Assembly Drive, Montreat. Info: www.montreat.org or 669.2911.

• SU (8/7), 10:30am - A worship service with guest preacher Rev. Dr. Lewis F. Galloway.

Mountain Zen Practice Center • TUESDAYS, 7-8:30pm Explore the “how” of moment by moment peace, joy and freedom through the practice of Conscious Compassionate Awareness. Meditation and group discussion. Info and location: www.mountainzen. org or 450-3621.

St. Mark’s Lutheran Church Located at 10 N. Liberty St., Asheville. Info: 273-5420 or http://stmarkslutheran. net/thisMonth.pdf.

• SU (8/7), 5pm - Cross and Wired contemporary service.

Casual dress.

Swannanoa Valley Unitarian Universalist Church • THURSDAYS, 7-8am - Cloud Cottage will present mindfulness-based meditation at Swannanoa Valley Unitarian Universalist Church, 500 Montreat Road. Bring a cushion. Donations encouraged. Info: cloudcottage@ bellsouth.net or 669-0920.

Transmission Meditation • SUNDAYS, 5:45-7pm - A “World Service” will be held at Insight Counseling, 25 Orange St., Asheville. Free.

Info: www.transmissionmeditation.org, pcope@yancey. main.nc.us or 675-8750.

United Research Light Center A nonprofit center “dedicated to prayer for personal and planetary transformation.”

Located at 2190 NC Highway 9 South in Black Mountain.

Info: 669-6845 or www. urlight.org.

• WEDNESDAYS, 10am - “Gentle Yoga,” with Karen Barnes —- 3:30-5pm Lectures with Jim Gore and “World Peace Prayer.”

• THURSDAYS, 11am Silent prayer.

• 1st SUNDAYS, 3-4pm “World Peace Prayer.”

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

Contemporary music by Lytingale and The Unitic Band. Located at 2041 Old Fanning Bridge Road, Mills River. Info: 684-3798, 8918700 or www.unitync.net.

• WE (8/3), 7pm - “Gems of Spiritual Wisdom.”

• WE (8/10), 7pm “Mellowing Your Drama,” with Rev. Chad O’Shea.

Donations accepted.

Unity Church of Asheville Unity of Asheville explores the “deeper spiritual meaning of the scriptures, combined with an upbeat contemporary music program, to create a joyous and sincere worship service.” Located at 130 Shelburne Road, West Asheville. Info: 252-5010 or www.unityofasheville.com.

• SUNDAYS, 11am Spiritual celebration service —- 12:15-1:30pm - A Course in Miracles, with Rev. Gene Conner.

Zen Buddhist Services • TUESDAYS, 6:30-7:30pm & SUNDAYS, 9-9:45am - Anattasati Magga offers meditation, services, Dharma lectures, retreats and meditation supplies. Located at 12 Von Ruck Court, Asheville.

Info: www.anattasatimagga. org or 242-2405.

Art GALLERY EXHIBITS & OPENINGS 16 Patton Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm and Sun., 16pm. Info: 236-2889 or www.16patton.com.

• Through SU (8/7) Paintings by Mark Henry.

310 ART Gallery Located at Riverview Station, 191 Lyman St., #310, in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 776-2716 or www.310art.com.

• Through WE (8/31) Encaustic paintings by seven artists.

American Folk Art and Framing The gallery at 64 Biltmore Ave. is open daily, representing contemporary self-taught artists and regional pottery.

Info: 281-2134 or www. amerifolk.com.

• Through WE (8/17) Transitions.

• TH (8/4) through WE (8/24) - Simple Inspirations, paintings by Liz Sullivan.

• FR (8/5), 5-8pm - Opening reception.

Art at Eclipse Salon

Located at 16 Wall St., in downtown Asheville. Info: 285-0019.

• Through MO (8/15) - Treasures Old and New, works by Elizabeth Henderson.

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

• Through FR (8/12) - Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef will feature “crochet models of healthy coral and coral stressed by environmental threats.”

Held at UNCA’s Center for Craft, Creativity and

Design, 1181 Broyles Road, Hendersonville. Info: www. craftcreativitydesign.org or 890-2050.

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

• Through WE (8/31) - Looking Back: 60 Years of Collecting with the Asheville Art Museum.

• 1st WEDNESDAYS, 3-5pm - Free admission.

• Through SU (9/25) - Artists at Work: American Printmakers and the WPA. • Through SU (11/6) - Color Study will be on display at the Appleby Foundation Gallery.

Atelier 24 Lexington: A Gallery of Local Art Located at 24 Lexington Ave., Asheville. Info: www. atelier24lexington.com.

• Through WE (8/31) - Changing Patterns - The Recent Works of Susan H. Dunn.

• SA (8/13), 6-8pm Opening reception.

Bella Vista Art Gallery

Located in Biltmore Village next to the parking lot of Rezaz’s restaurant. Summer hours: Mon., Wed.-Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 768-0246 or www.bellavistaart.com.

• Through FR (9/30) - The works of Nancy Varipapa, Julie Wiggins and Eleanor Miller.

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, bmc-

mac@bellsouth.net or www. blackmountaincollege.org.

• Through SA (9/17) - The Accident of Choice, featuring works by Jack Tworkov, painting instructor at Black Mountain College in 1952.

Blue Spiral 1 Located at 38 Biltmore Ave., downtown Asheville.

Featuring Southeastern fine art and studio craft. Open Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm, and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: 2510202 or www.bluespiral1. com.

• FR (8/5) through SA (9/10) - Shine On Brightly, an online gallery for memorial art, presents Remains To

Be Seen: An Out of the Box Look at Modern Cremation Containers.

• FR (8/5), 5-8pm - Opening reception.

Caldwell Arts Council Located at 601 College Ave., Lenoir. Hours: Tues.Fri., 9am-5pm and Sat. by appointment. Info: 754-2486 or www.caldwellarts.com.

• Through FR (9/30) - Works by Betsy Coogler will be on display at the Caldwell Memorial Hospital Art-in-Healing Gallery, 321 Mulberry St. SW, Lenoir.

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A photo-based art gallery located at 2C Wilson Alley, off Eagle Street in downtown Asheville. Info: 255-1188 or www.castellphotography. com.

• Through FR (9/2) Uncharted Territory, featuring the work of Julie Sims.

• FR (8/5) through FR (9/30) - Observatory, works by Lauren Semivan.

• FR (8/5), 5-8pm - Opening reception.

Flood Gallery Events Located in the Phil Mechanic building at 109 Roberts St. in Asheville’s River Arts District.

Info: 254-2166 or www. floodgallery.org.

• SA (8/6) through WE (8/31) - Drawings and paintings by Larkin Ford.

• SA (8/6), 7-10pm Opening reception.

Oconaluftee Institute for Cultural Arts Located at 70 Bingo Loop in Cherokee. Info: 497-3945.

• WE (8/10) through FR (9/30) - Recent work by ceramic sculpture artist Jenny Mastin.

Odyssey Gallery Exhibits work by Odyssey Center for Ceramic Arts instructors and residents.

Located at 238 Clingman Ave. in Asheville’s River Arts District. Info: 285-0210 or www.highwaterclays.com.

• Through FR (8/5) - Opinionated Clay, featuring 12 Odyssey ceramics instructors.

Penland School of Crafts A national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located at 67 Dora’s Trail, Penland. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am–5pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www. penland.org or 765-2359.

• Through SU (9/11) - Foreign Worlds, Private Places, an exhibit of work by five artists exploring unfamiliar territories.

Pump Gallery Located at the Phil Mechanic Studios Building in the River Arts District, 109 Roberts St. Info: www.philmechanicstudios.com.

• SA (8/6) through WE (8/31) - Works by painter Hannah Dansie.

• SA (8/6), 7-10pm - Opening reception will include The SewMoe Fashion Show at 7:30pm.

SemiPublic Gallery This space for contemporary art is open Thurs.-Sun., noon-6pm and by appointment. Located at 305 Hillside St., Asheville. Info: 215-8171 or www.semipublicgallery. com • Through SA (8/6) - The Sum of 45, sculpture, paint-

ings and drawings by Donna Price on her 45th birthday.

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

• Through SU (8/14) Watercolors by local artist Sara LeVan.

MORE ART EXHIBITS & OPENINGS Art After Dark • FR (8/5), 6-9pm - “Art After Dark” will feature music by Chris Minick.

Held throughout downtown, Frog Level and Depot St., Waynesville. Free. Info: 452-9284.

Art at Ananda Hair Studio The salon, located at 22 Broadway St., hosts rotating art exhibits. Info: 232-1017.

• Through FR (9/30) - Recent work by abstract painter Neil Carroll.

• FR (8/5), 5-8pm - Opening reception featuring music by The Twilight Broadcasters.

Art at Canton Branch Library • Through WE (8/31) - Artwork by Pisgah High School students will be on display at the Canton Branch Library, 11 Pennsylvania Ave. The exhibit features sculptures, painted chairs, watercolors, oil paintings, photographs, pastels and more. Info: 648-2924.

Art at Harvest Records Located at 415-B Haywood Road, Asheville. Info: 2582999.

• FR (8/5) through WE (8/31) - Friend Me, photographs by Erin Fussell, features “imagery on the art of darkroom photography and live conversation in a digital social networking culture.”

• FR (8/5), 7-10pm Opening reception.

First Friday • 1st FRIDAYS - Historic Downtown Hendersonville will host First Fridays, featuring in-store events and specials. Held throughout downtown Hendersonville.

Info: www.downtownhendersonville.org.

Grovewood Gallery Located at 111 Grovewood Road, Asheville. Info: 2537651 or www.grovewood. com.

• Through TH (12/1) - Outdoor sculpture invitational featuring contemporary sculptures by nationally-recognized artists.

Haywood County Arts Council The HCAC sponsors a variety of art-related events in Waynesville and Haywood County. Unless otherwise

noted, showings take place at HCAC’s Gallery 86 (86 North Main St.) in Waynesville. Hours: Mon.Sat., 10am-5pm. Info: 4520593 or www.haywoodarts. org.

• FR (8/5) through SA (8/20) - “Main Street: Moments in Time” photography exhibit.

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.

• Through TU (9/6) - Botanical Chords, photographs by Terry Ashley and The Fine Art of Wood: An International Invitational Exhibition of Woodturning, featuring works by more than 40 artists from around the world, will be on display at the Baker Exhibit Center.

Public Art Display • Through SA (10/22) - Bearfootin’, “a public art display featuring outdoor fiberglass bear sculptures decorated in different themes,” will be on display on the sidewalks of Main Street in Hendersonville. Info: 233-3216.

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

• Through TU (8/30) - The Legend of Rainbow Mountain: New Works by Patch Whisky.

The Altamont Located at 18 Church St., downtown Asheville. Info: 270-7747 or www.thealtamont.com.

• Through WE (8/3) - The Ethereal Body, featuring the work of Shu Wu-Lin. The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merriman Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted.

Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224.

• FR (8/5), 6:30-7:30pm - Jarrett Rutland will display his final two pieces on the walls of The Hop West, 721 Haywood Road.

CLASSES, MEETINGS & ARTS-RELATED EVENTS The Painting Experience (pd.) Experience the power of process painting as described in the groundbreaking book Life, Paint & Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression. August 12-14.

Asheville. (888) 639-8569. www.processarts.com

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Catch the Spirit of Appalachia A nonprofit, grassroots arts organization. Classes held at Nature’s Home Preserve in Tuckasegee. $36 includes all materials. Info and reservations: 293-2239 or www. doreylart.yurtstudio.com.

• SA (8/6), 2-5pm - Art workshop, “Painting Water - Lake with Waterfall.”

First Friday Walk • 1st FRIDAYS, 6:30-9pm - Businesses in downtown Hendersonville will have extended hours as part of the First Friday Walk.

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

• TUESDAYS, 10am-noon & 1-3pm - Art with Lorelle Bacon. All levels welcome. $15/class. Registration required.

ART/CRAFT FAIRS Summer Jewelry Market • SA (8/6), 9am-4pm - Local jewelers will offer unique, hand-made creations. Located at the corner of Church Street and Third Avenue in downtown Hendersonville. Info: 6980715.

Spoken & Written Word Almost Back to School Poetry Slam • SU (8/7), 8-10pm - Poetry Slam Asheville presents the “Almost Back to School Slam” at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St. in downtown Asheville.

Champion slammer wins a $50 cash prize. Sign-up begins at 7:30pm. $5/performers and volunteers free.

Info: www.poetryslamasheville.com.

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 (8/9), 3-5pm - Book discussion: The Matisse Stories by A.S. Byatt.

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

• 2nd TUESDAYS, 6pm - Programs for aspiring and published writers of all genres.

• TUESDAYS, 10am - Book Babies. Story time for children ages 3 and younger.

Buncombe County Public Libraries LIBRARY ABBREVIATIONS Each Library event is marked by the following location abbreviations: O BM = Black Mountain Library (105 N. Dougherty St., 250-4756) O EA = East Asheville Library (902 Tunnel Road, 250-4738) O FV = Fairview Library (1 Taylor Road, 250-6484) O LE = Leicester Library (1561 Alexander Road, 2506480) O PM = Pack Memorial Library (67 Haywood Street, 250-4700) O SA = South Asheville/ Oakley Library (749 Fairview Road, 250-4754) O SS = Skyland/South Buncombe Library (260 Overlook Road, 250-6488) O SW = Swannanoa Library (101 West Charleston Street, 250-6486) O WV = Weaverville Library (41 N. Main Street, 2506482) O Library storyline: 250KIDS. • WE (8/3), 10:30am - “Sweden: Stories and Legos.” BM —- 2pm - “One World, Many Stories with the Balloon Lady.” SA • WE (8/3), 3pm - Book club: Sarah’s Key by Tatiana De Rosnay. WV —- 5-7pm - Library knitters. SW • TH (8/4), 6:30pm - Book club: Zeitoun by Dave Eggers. EA • TH (8/4), 11am - “Around the World with Mountain Story Magic.” LE —- 2:30pm - “Clowning Around with Storyteller David Novak.” SS • SA (8/6), 11am - “Asia: Tanabata Festival” will be held as part of the summer reading program. EA • MO (8/8) through WE (8/31) - The “Lend a Hand, Care for the Land” exhibit will present information about forests, invasive plants and recycling. PM • TU (8/9), 1pm - Book club: Mudbound by Hillary Jordan. LE • WE (8/10), 10:30am - “Morocco: Stories, belly dancing and Khamsa good luck” will be held as part of the summer reading program. BM • TH (8/11), 1:30pm - Book club: The Good Priest’s Son

by Reynolds Price. FV Events at City Lights City Lights Bookstore is located at 3 E. Jackson St. in downtown Sylva. Info: 5869499 or more@citylightsnc. com.

• SA (8/6), 1pm - Young adult literature panel discussion.

• 1st SATURDAYS, 7pm The Liar’s Bench: storytellng, poetry and music.

Events at Historic Johnson Farm Located at 3346 Haywood Road in Hendersonville.

There are two nature trails (free), and guided tours are offered. Info: 891-6585 or www.historicjohnsonfarm. org.

• WE (8/3), 10:30am Storytelling. Bring a blanket or chair. $8 per family/$4 per person.

Events at Malaprop’s The bookstore and cafe at 55 Haywood St. hosts visiting authors for talks and book signings. Info: 254-6734 or www.malaprops.com.

• WE (8/3), 7pm - Book club: The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov. —- 7pm - Sarah Dessen will read from her new novel What Happened to Goodbye.

• TH (8/4), 7pm - Young adult authors Stephanie Perkins, Beth Revis, Myra McEntire and Victoria Schwab will sign and discuss young adult literature.

• FR (8/5), 4:30-6pm - Freelance Friday. —- 7pm - Tom Jones, resident of sister city Valladolid, Mexico, will present recent books by Valladolid authors Rosa del Alba Cetina Quiñones and Miguel Tun Osorio.

• SA (8/6), 7pm - Richard Wirick will read for his new collection Kicking In: Stories.

• SU (8/7), 3pm - Susan Lefler, David Oates and Laura Still will read and sign their books of poetry.

• WE (8/10), 7pm - Carol Novack will read from her memoir Giraffes in Hiding: The Mythical Memoirs of Carol Novack.

• TH (8/11), 7pm - Cindy Crabb will read from her new book The Encyclopedia of Doris.

Events at Spellbound Spellbound Children’s Bookshop is located at 19 Wall St. in downtown Asheville. Info: 232-2228 or spellboundbooks@netzero. com.

• SU (8/7), 4pm - Young adult book club: Impossible

by Nancy Werlin.

Historical Book Signing • WE (8/3), 10am-noon - Elaine McAlister Dellinger will read from her new historical book Yancey County at Vance Birth Place, 911 Reems Creek Road, Weaverville. Info: elained@ yancey.main.nc.us. —2:30-6pm - A book signing for Yancey County will be

held at June Jerome Reality Office, 12215 State Highway 80 S., Burnsville.

• TH (8/4), 11am-1pm - A book signing for Yancey County will be held at the Yancey History Association, 11 Academy St., Burnsville.

Info: elained@yancey.main. nc.us. —- 3-5pm - A book signing for Yancey County will be held at Whitson Store, 273 Toe River Road, Green Mountain.

Mountain Voices Writers’ Group • 2nd THURSDAYS, 5pm - Mountain Voices Writers’ Group will meet at the Jackson County Senior Citizens Center, 100 County Services Park, Room 129.

Info: GaryContrary76@ yahoo.com or 399-9653.

Open Mic Night at The Pulp • WEDNESDAYS, 7pm - Asheville Poetry Review and Asheville Wordfest host a monthly open mic at The Pulp, located beneath The Orange Peel in downtown Asheville. $10 includes club membership. Info: http:// pulpasheville.com.

Poetry Hickory • 2nd TUESDAYS, 5pm - Poetry Hickory will follow Writers’ Night Out. Held at Taste Full Beans Coffeehouse, 29 2nd St. NW, Hickory. Info: asowens1@ yahoo.com.

Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch Award-winning storytellers present stories for all ages at Pack Place. Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Free. Info: www.main.nc.us/ asc/ or www.packplace.org.

• SA (8/6), 10:30-11:30am “Stories on Asheville’s Front Porch” will feature Becky Stone. Free.

The Writers’ Guild of WNC Visitors and new members are invited to the meetings to talk about writing and publishing.

• 2nd THURSDAYS, 1-3pm - Writers are invited to participate in a discussion about current projects.

Various tricks and techniques from published authors and aspiring writers will be presented. Held at Fletcher Public Library. Info: WritersGuildWNC@gmail. com or 296-9983.

Transylvania Writers Alliance • 1st & 3rd WEDNESDAYS, 3-5pm - Transylvania Writers Alliance will meet at BrevardDavidson River Presbyterian Church, 300 E. Main St. Park in rear. Info: wd2999@ yahoo.com.

Writers Workshop Potluck • 4th FRIDAYS, 6pm - Held at 387 Beaucatcher Road.

Info: writersw@gmail.com.

“Words Are Better Than War” • TH (8/4), 8-11pm - Poetry, music and short films — advocating global peace and multicultural harmony — will be presented at Vanuatu Kava Bar, 151 S. Lexington Ave. in downtown Asheville.

Info: 505-8118.

Festivals & Gatherings Asheville VegFest 2011 • SU (8/7), noon-7pm - The Asheville VegFest will be held in downtown Asheville on Battery Park Avenue.

Food vendors will serve an all-vegan menu; there will be product vendors, educational speakers, representatives from local nonprofits, kids’ activities (face painting, games and more), live dancing, entertainment and beer.

Info: www.ashevillevegfest. org.

Hoop Jam in the Park • TUESDAYS, 5:30pm7:30pm - Asheville Hoops partners with the Asheville Downtown Association for entertainment, exercise and instruction at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville.

Instruction provided by Melanie MacNeil; music by George Pond. Free. Info: http://on.fb.me/lYUqGg. Mountain Dance and Folk Festival The nation’s longest-running folk festival, showcasing a repertoire of mountain performers who share songs and dances that echo centuries of Scottish, English, Irish, Cherokee and African heritage. Info: 257-4530 or www.folkheritage.org.

• TH (8/4) through SA (8/6), 7pm - The Mountain Dance and Folk Festival will be held at Diana Wortham Theatre, 2 South Pack Square. $20/$10 children under twelve.

Music Song O’ Sky Show Chorus (pd.) TUESDAYS, 6:45pm - Rehearsal at First Congregational United Church of Christ (UCC) 20 Oak Street Asheville 28801.(Enter Fellowship Hall-lower level). Guests welcome. Contact: www. songosky.org Toll Free # 1866-824-9547.

African Drumming Class • THURSDAYS, 6-7pm - Jessie Lehmann from the Boom Chix presents an African drumming class at the Terpsicorp dance studio, 129 Roberts St. in Asheville’s River Arts district.

Learn West African rhythms, technique for Dun-dun, sang-

freewillastrology ARIES (March 21-April 19) Symbolically speaking, there is a Holy Grail hidden close to you, and you know it, but you haven’t been able to find it. The Grail is a golden chalice filled with medicine that could open what needs opening in you. Luckily, you will soon come into possession (symbolically speaking) of a big, thick magical wand that can give you a new advantage. Here’s what I conclude: Use your wizard stick to locate the cup of wonder so you can take a big sip.

emerged by accident from a primordial soup.

The chance of that happening was as likely as “a tornado sweeping through a junkyard [and assembling] a Boeing 747 from the materials therein.” I do think that something less amazing, but still semi-miraculous, is in the works for you, Leo. What do you imagine it might be? I’m getting a vision of a windy thunderstorm blowing through a junkyard in such a way as to assemble an impressionistic sculpture of you wearing a crown of flowers and X-Ray Specs as you ride confidently on the back of a lion.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20)

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)

Much of the work you’re doing right now is invisible to the naked eye, maybe even to your own naked eye. You’re learning a lot while you sleep, drawing sustenance from hidden reservoirs even when you’re awake, and steadily improving yourself through the arts of creative forgetting and undoing. Continue this subtle artistry, Taurus. Be cagey. Be discreet. Don’t underestimate how important silence and even secrecy may be for you right now. The healing transformations unfolding in almost total darkness should not be exposed or revealed prematurely; they should be protected with vigilance.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) Either Way I’m Celebrating. That’s the title of a poetry comic book by Sommer Browning, and I suggest that you consider it as a worthy title for your life in the coming days. The adventure you’re in the midst of could evolve in several possible directions, each with a different rhythm and tone, each with a distinct lesson and climax.

But regardless of what path you end up taking, I’m almost positive you will have good reasons to throw yourself a party at the end. Having said that, though, I also advise you to decide which version of the story you prefer, then make it your strong intention to materialize it.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) During the skunk mating season, two robust members of the species made the crawl space beneath my house their trysting place. The result was spectacular. Siren-like squalls rose from their ecstasy, spiraling up into my kitchen accompanied by plumes of a stench that I imagined the Italian poet Dante, in his book The Inferno, might have identified as native to the ninth level of hell.

Being as instinctively empathic as I am, I naturally appreciated how much delight the creatures were enjoying. At the same time, I wished they would take their revelry elsewhere. So I called on the Humane Society, an animal rescue group, to flush them out without harming them. If anything resembling this scenario takes place in your sphere, Cancerian — if someone’s pursuit of happiness cramps your style — I suggest you adopt my gentle but firm approach.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) Astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle rejected the prevailing scientific theory that life on this planet

In the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, the yellow brick road symbolizes a path leading to all of life’s answers, to a place where fantasies can be fulfilled. Dorothy and her companions follow that road in the belief it will take them to the all-powerful Wizard of Oz in the Emerald City.

While I don’t mind you playing with the idea that you may eventually find your own personal yellow brick road, for the immediate future I urge you to adopt the attitude Elton John articulated in his song, “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”: “Oh I’ve finally decided my future lies beyond the yellow brick road.” It’s time to add more nuts-and-bolts pragmatism to your pursuit of happiness.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) Some readers get enraged about the “crafty optimism” I advocate in my book Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia. Given what they regard as the miserable state of the world, they feel it’s a sin to look for reasons to be cheerful. One especially dour critic said that after reading a few pages of the book, he took it out in his backyard, doused it with gasoline, and incinerated it. You may face similar opposition in your attempts to foment redemption, smoke out hope, and rally the troops, Libra. I urge you to be extra fierce in your devotion to peace, love, and understanding.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) Of all the adversaries I will ever face, my ego is the supreme challenge. It tries to trick me into thinking its interests are exactly the same as my own. It periodically strives to bamboozle me into believing that I should be motivated by pride, competitiveness, selfishness, or judgmental evaluations of other people. When I’m not vigilant, it lulls me into adopting narrow perspectives and subjective theories that are rife with delusions about the nature of reality.

homework Imagine you have time-traveled to one of your favorite places in the year 2020. What do you see? Tell me at Freewillastrology.com. © Copyright 2011 Rob Brezsny

Don’t get me wrong: I still love my ego. Indeed, being on good terms with it is my only hope for keeping it from manipulating me. I bring this up, Scorpio, because it’s prime time for you to come to a riper understanding of your own ego so you can work out a tougher, more no-nonsense agreement with it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) Sagittarian author Derrick Jensen wrote the book A Language Older Than Words. He weaves together the tale of his abusive childhood with an angry analysis of the damage human beings have done to the earth and each other. It’s a wrenching text, but in the end it offers redemption. A review

by Publisher’s Weekly says that “Jensen’s book accomplishes the rare feat of both breaking and mending the reader’s heart.” I invite you to pursue a similar possibility, Sagittarius. Summon the courage to allow your heart to be broken by a blessed catharsis that will ultimately heal your heart so it’s even stronger and smarter than it was before the breaking.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Right now you may be feeling especially squeezed by one of the apparent contradictions in your life.

But I’m here to tell you that it’s not as contradictory as you think. Its seemingly paradoxical elements are in righteous harmony with each other at a higher level of understanding. Can you rise to that higher level so as to see what has been hidden from your view? I believe you can. For best results, let go of any temptation you might have to act as if you’re oppressively defined by your past.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Psychologist and priest David Rickey counsels people who are about to be married. “You are perfectly mismatched,” he likes to tell them.

“As much as you think you have chosen each other because of beauty or shared interests, the deeper reason is that unconsciously you know the other person is going to push your buttons.

And the purpose of relationships is for you to discover and work on your buttons.” I share Rickey’s views, and offer them to you just in time to make maximum use of their wisdom. You see, Aquarius, you’re in a phase when you have extraordinary power to learn from and adjust to the challenges that come from having your buttons pushed by those you care about.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) In his song “Crazy,” British singer Seal repeats the following line numerous times for emphasis: “We’re never going to survive unless we get a little crazy.” I recommend it as a mantra for you to rely on in the coming days. Your emotional health will depend on your ability to laugh at yourself, play along with absurdity, and cultivate a grateful reverence for cosmic riddles. Being a little crazy will not only keep you robustly sane; it will also allow you to enjoy and capitalize on the divine comedy life presents you with.

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Info: 777-5115.

An Appalachian Evening At the Stecoah Valley Cultural Arts Center. Performances include music and a “traditional Appalachian” dinner. $15/$5 students. Info: www. stecoahvalleycenter.com.

• SA (8/6), 5 & 6:15pm - Balsam Range.

Brevard Music Center • Through SU (8/7) - Brevard Music Center’s 75th anniversary season will include classical music, five opera productions and dozens of chamber and solo performances. See website for dates, times and locations. Info: www.brevardmusic.org.

Classicopia Summer Sonata Series Info: 505-2903 or www.classicopia.org.

• FR (8/5), 7:30pm - A performance of Mozart, Mendelssohn and Verdi by Sergio Pallottelli (flute).

Held at a private home in Arden. Reservations required.

Info: daniel@classicopia.org.

• SA (8/6), 7:30pm - White Horse Black Mountain, 105C Montreat Road. $15.

• SU (8/7), 4pm - The Altamont, 18 Church St. $20-$5.

Concerts on the Creek Held in the pavilion at Bridge Park in downtown Sylva from 7:30-9:30pm. Sponsored by the Jackson County Chamber of Commerce. Free. Info: (800) 962-1911 or www. mountainlovers.com.

• FR (8/5) - Balsam Range.

Groovin’ on Grovemont Presented by the Friends of the Swannanoa Library and the Swannanoa Community Council, concerts are held in Grovemont Square, adjacent to the library. All proceeds from concessions and book sales benefit the library. Info: 250-6486.

• TU (8/9), 6pm - Red June, Americana. Free.

Hendersonville Bluegrass Jam • FRIDAYS, 7-9pm - A bluegrass jam will be held at the historic courthouse in downtown Hendersonville.

Info: 233-3216.

Homegrown in the Park • THURSDAYS, 6-8pm - Enjoy local singer/songwriters at this weekly performance held at Pritchard Park in downtown Asheville. Free.

Info: http://bit.ly/l9vfgz.

Music on Main Street Live music and dancing at the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St., Hendersonville. Bring a chair.

No pets or alcoholic beverages allowed. Free. Info: 693-9708, 1-800-828-4244

or www.historichendersonville.org • FR (8/5), 7-9pm - The Crew.

Music on the Rock Concert Series Presented by Flat Rock Playhouse, 2661 Greenville Highway in Flat Rock. The concerts will span Broadway, country, bluegrass, pop and rock favorites. $20. Tickets and info: 693-0731, (866) 732-8008 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org.

• SU (8/7) through TU (8/16) - “Anything Goes: The Music of Cole Porter.”

Performances held Sun.Tues.

Open Mic Night • FRIDAYS, 8:30-11pm - Adults of all ages and performers of all genres are invited to play music, recite poetry or present other arts at this weekly open mic. Held at Wall Street Coffee House, 62 Wall St. in downtown Asheville. Info: http://on.fb. me/e4GpE8 or wallstreetcoffeehouse@gmail.com.

Pickin’ on the Porch of the Old Kentucky Home • FR (8/5), noon-2pm - This family-friendly musical event is hosted by the Thomas Wolfe Memorial State Historic Site in downtown Asheville. The featured guest will be Sheila Kay Adams.

Info: www.wolfememorial. com.

Shindig on the Green A celebration of traditional and old-time string bands, bluegrass, ballad singers, big circle mountain dancers and cloggers. Held at Pack Square Park on the Bascom Lamar Lunsford stage in downtown Asheville. Bring a lawn chair or blanket. Free.

Info: 258-6101 ext. 345 or www.folkheritage.org.

• SATURDAYS through (9/3), 7pm - A variety of musicians and dancers will perform.

Skinny Beats Drum Shop and Gallery 4 Eagle St. Info: info@ skinnybeatsdrums.com or 768-2826.

• WE (8/3), 6pm - Beginner class with Bolokada Conde, a “village-born master of the drums.” $20.

• FR (8/5), 7pm - Guinean drummer Bolokada Conde will perform with Chikomo Marimba and Skinny Beats Drum Crew at Jubilee!, 46 Wall St. $18. Info: www.skinnybeatsdrums.com.

• SA (8/6), 7pm - Guinean drummer Bolokada Conde will perform with Chikomo Marimba and Skinny Beats Drum Crew. $18. —- 1pm - Beginner drumming class. $20.

• SU (8/7), 2pm - Beginner drumming class with Bolokada Conde. $20.

Summer Music in Flat Rock Series Presented by the Flat Rock Merchants Association. The outdoor series takes place on Little Rainbow Row’s back deck. This is a casual, family-oriented, bring-yourown-lawn-chair event. Free.

Info: 697-7719 or www. flatrockonline.com.

• SA (8/6), 6pm - Sally Barris. Free.

The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merriman Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted.

Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224.

• TU (8/9), 6:30-7:30pm - Opal String Quartet.

Theater Improvisation Workshop • This Monday (pd.) August 8, 7pm-9pm at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting. Improv Games & Exercises to free the mind and body of habitual choices and to discover the joy and truth of living in the moment.

35 E Walnut St. $35 advance/$30 door. (828) 254 - 2939, x21. www.stellaadler-asheville.com Asheville Community Theatre Located at 35 E. Walnut St. Tickets and info: 254-1320 or www.ashevilletheatre.org.

• FR (8/5) through SU (8/21) - The Honky Tonk Angels.

Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm.

Sunday, 2:30pm. $22/$19 seniors and students/$12 children.

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

Reservations: 884-2587.

• TH (8/4) through SU (8/14) - Annie. Thurs-Sat, 8pm. Sun, 3pm.

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.

• WEDNESDAYS through FRIDAYS until (8/5), 10:1410:45am - Rootabaga Stories presents The World of Carl Sandburg.

Flat Rock Playhouse The State Theater of North Carolina is on Highway 225, three miles south of Hendersonville. Info: 6930731 or www.flatrockplayhouse.org.

• WE (8/3) through SU (9/4) - Shear Madness, a murder mystery comedy,

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will be presented Thursday, Saturday and Sunday at 2pm; Wednesday through Saturday, 8pm. $34.

• SA (8/6), 7pm - Ribboncutting ceremony for The Playhouse Downtown, 125 South Main St., Hendersonville.

• Through SU (8/14) Hairspray. See website for times.

Montford Park Players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.Sun. at 7:30pm at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford. Bring folding chair and umbrella in case of rain.

Donations accepted. Info: 254-5146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org.

• FR (8/5) through SU (8/7), 7:30pm - The Asheville Shakespearience, “a full evening of scenes and sonnets from the Bard’s folios.”

NC Stage Company Asheville’s professional resident theater company, performing at 15 Stage Lane in downtown Asheville (entrance off of Walnut St., across from Zambra’s). Info & tickets: 239-0263 or www. ncstage.org.

• TH (8/4) through SU (8/7), 7:30-8:30pm - I Killed My Mother, by András Visky.

Southern Appalachian Repertory Theatre Performances are held at Mars Hill College’s Owen Theatre. Tickets: 689-1239.

Info: 689-1384 or www. sartplays.org.

• Through SU (8/7) - Cheaper by the Dozen.

Prices range from $25 to $18. See website for times.

The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merriman Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted.

Search “The Hop Cafe” on Facebook or 254-2224.

• WE (8/3), 6:30-7:30pm - Curtain Call Collective presents scenes from The Wizard of Oz. Wham, Bam, Puppet Slam!

• TH (8/4) through SU (8/6), 7pm - Asheville’s very own puppet slam will feature a variety of short form adult puppetry. “Anything goes, as long as it rocks!” Late shows presented Fri. and Sat. at 10pm. Held at the Magnetic Field, 372 Depot St., River Arts District. $10/$12.

Comedy Comic Disorder Theatre • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9pm - Comic Disorder Theatre will present a class on improvisational comedy at Wall Street Cafe, 62 Wall St.

Info and registration: www.

ComicDisorder.org.

Disclaimer Stand-up Lounge • WEDNESDAYS, 9-11:30pm - A weekly comedy open mic is held at Athena’s, 14 College St. in downtown Asheville. Free. Info: http:// on.fb.me/mgWdtL.

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

• SA (8/6) & SU (8/7), 2pm - They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?, a film about Depression-era life.

RiverLink Summer Film Festival The public is invited to bring a picnic blanket, food, beverages and families to RiverLink’s Sculpture and Performance Park, 119 Riverside Drive, for this outdoor movie series. Films begin at dusk. Donations appreciated. Info: 545-9099 or dave@riverlink.org.

• SA (8/6) - An American Tail, an animated Disney film about a young Russian immigrant mouse who gets separated from his family.

Dance Alexander Technique for Dancers (pd.) Perform with ease.

Recover from injury. Extend your career. “The hallmarks of the Alexander Technique are creativity, spontaneity and adaptability to change.” (828) 225-3786.

FormFitnessFunction.com Beginner Swing Dancing Lessons (pd.) 4 week series starts first Tuesday of every month at 7:30pm. $12/week per person. • No partner necessary. Eleven on Grove, downtown Asheville. Details: www.SwingAsheville.com 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.

• SA (8/6), 8pm - “Untitled As Of Yet,” an evening of dance, music, poetry and performance. Held at Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St. $12/$10 members.

Carolina Shag Dance • WEDNESDAYS, 7:30-11pm - A weekly dance will be held with a live DJ at Shifter’s (formerly Bosco’s), 2310 Hendersonville Road in Arden. $5.

•SUNDAYS, 4-5pm - Weekly dance workshop and lessons. Free.

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

• FRIDAYS, 6:30-10pm Lesson followed by ballroom dance.

International Folk Dancing • TUESDAYS, 7:30-9:30pm - Circle and line dances from around the world will be hosted at Harvest House, 205 Kenilworth Road. No partner needed. Free. Info: 645-1543.

Salsa Night • WEDNESDAYS, 8:30pmmidnight - Salsa night at Creatures Cafe, 81 Patton Ave. Ages 18 and up. Free.

Info: 254-3636.

Southern Lights SDC A nonprofit square-dance club. Square dancing is friendship set to music. Info: 625-9969.

• WEDNESDAYS, 7:309:30pm - A weekly dance for new and experienced dancers will be held at the Stoney Mountain Activity Center, 800 Stoney Mountain Road, Hendersonville.

• SA (8/6), 6pm - A back to school dance will be held at Whitmire Activity Building, Lily Pond Road, Hendersonville. Advanced dance begins at 6pm.

General dance at 7:30pm.

Summer Street Dances in Hendersonville Mountain music and dancing on the street in front of the Visitors Information Center, 201 S. Main St., downtown Hendersonville. Bring a chair, but please leave pets at home. No alcoholic beverages allowed. Free.

Info: 693-9708 or www.historichendersonville.org.

• MO (8/8), 7-9pm - Bobby and Blue Ridge Tradition and the Forever Young Cloggers.

Free.

Auditions & Call to Artists Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project Info: 236-1282 or www. asapconnections.org.

• Through FR (8/5) - ASAP will accept applications for its Growing Minds, Programming and Research

fall internships through August 8. Recent graduates, community members and college students are welcome to apply. Send a resume, cover letter and two references to anna@asapconnections.org.

Arts Council of Henderson County Located at 401 N. Main St. (entrance on Fourth Street), above Flight Restaurant in downtown Hendersonville.

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

• Through TU (8/9) - Submissions for Bring Us Your Best, a juried and judged art exhibition, are currently being accepted. Area artists are invited to submit original works in any medium through August 9. $25/$15 for subsequent entries. Cash prizes will be awarded to three featured artists. Info: http://thelaurelofasheville. com.

Bloomin’ Orchard Festival • Through SA (8/20) - Bloomin’ Orchard Festival will accept applications for arts vendors through August 20. The festival will be held on August 27 in Conover, NC. Info: www.sipesorchardhome.org or 256-5056.

Brevard Gallery Walks A variety of Brevard galleries and art spots open their doors. Info: 884-2787 or www.artsofbrevard.org.

• Through FR (8/5) Brevard’s 4th Friday Gallery Walk will accept submissions from potters for the gallery walk through August 5. Info: www.artsofbrevard.org or 884-2787.

Linda Flowers Literary Award • Through MO (8/15) - The NC Humanities Council will accept fiction, nonfiction and poetry for the Linda Flowers Literary Award through August 15. Info: www.nchumanities.org.

Master Gardener Grants • Through WE (8/31) - The Haywood County Master Gardener Volunteer Association will accept applications for its grants program through August 31. Grants may be used for education or research in the environment, gardening or horticulture. Info: 456-3575.

Montford Park Players Unless otherwise noted, performances are free and take place outdoors Fri.Sun. at 7:30pm at Hazel Robinson Amphitheater in Montford. Bring folding chair and umbrella in case of rain.

Donations accepted. Info: 254-5146 or www.montfordparkplayers.org.

• SU (8/7), 1-4pm & TU (8/9), 6-9pm - Auditions for

Romeo and Juliet will be held at the Masonic Temple, 80 Broadway St.

Scarecrow Festival & Craft Show A Buncombe County Parks & Recreation Family Fun Festival at Lake Julian Park.

Free. Info: 250-4260 or grace.young@buncombecounty.org.

• Through FR (9/23) - Artists needed for the 7th annual Scarecrow Festival through September 23. $35 for nonelectric booth.

Stars and Flags Book Award • Through WE (8/31) - Submissions for the Stars and Flags Book Award, celebrating books about military-related topics, will be accepted through August 31. Info: www.starsandflags. com.

The Artery Community arts facility at 346 Depot St., River Arts District. Info: www.ashevillearts.com.

• Through TH (9/1) - The Artery will accept submissions for 2012 exhibits through September 1.

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

• Through MO (8/8) - The Transylvania Community Arts Council will accept two pieces of artwork per applicant for “Keep it Local WNC” through August 8. Info: tcarts@comporium.net.

Writers’ Workshop Events WW offers a variety of classes and events for beginning and experienced writers.

Info: 254-8111 or www. twwoa.org.

• Through MO (8/15) Submissions for The Writers’ Workshop annual fiction and nonfiction contest will be accepted through August 15. Entries must be unpublished and 5,000 words or less. $30. Mail to: Author’s Contest, 387 Beaucatcher Road, Asheville, NC 28805.

CALENDAR DEADLINE The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, one week prior to publication.

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What: Annual rummage sale to benefit the Family Resource Center at Emma, a program of Children First/Communities in Schools of Buncombe County Where: Emma Elementary School Cafeteria, 37 Brickyard Road, Asheville When: Saturday, Aug. 6, 7:30 a.m.-noon. (Free. Info: childrenfirstbc.org.)

Why: Imagine one organization that runs a food pantry and a community garden, helps more than 700 English and Latino families in crisis, offers parenting and computer classes and provides financial assistance to families in need. If this seems like a remarkably ambitious organization, well, it is. Children First/Communities in Schools of Buncombe County does all of that and more to support families in the Asheville area. “We work holistically to meet the needs of the community. It’s not just a check to help with electricity this month. It’s about finding the root of the problem,” says Executive Director Allison Jordan.

Raising funds for such an extensive organization is no easy task. Each year, Children First/CIS throws a rummage sale to bolster its Family Resource Center at Emma programming. The sale serves two purposes: it supports the resource center and provides low-income families with an inexpensive option for household items and other goods. This year’s rummage sale will feature clothes and toys for kids, furnishings, books and more. In addition to sifting through high-quality goods on the day of the sale, volunteers are encouraged to go through their closets and donate items they no longer need or want. This is the perfect opportunity to recycle, says Jordan.

Donations will be accepted through 1 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 5. Volunteer sign-up is open through Aug. 5 as well. If it’s time to clean out your closet, this rummage sale is an easy way to support the community while getting clutter out of your home. Or if you’re on the hunt for the perfect vintage T-shirt or gently used toy for your kids, you won’t want to miss this annual sale.

benefitscalendar CALENDAR FOR AUGUST 3 - 11, 2011 Back-to-School Bluegrass • SA (8/6), 3-6pm - Enjoy live music, clogging, refreshments and a bake sale at this event to provide Hominy Valley children with back-to-school supplies.

New or gently used children’s books and school supplies appreciated. Held at Hominy Baptist Church, 135 Candler School Road. Info: 667-4541.

Car Show and BBQ Lunch • SA (8/6), 10am-2pm - A car show and BBQ lunch will be held at New Morgan Hill Baptist Church, 370 Lake Drive in Candler to benefit Mission Haiti. Lunch plates $8 for adults/$5 for children/$20 for families. Info and car registration: 667-4313.

Children First/Communities in Schools Fundraiser This group’s mission is to improve the lives of children, youth and their families through community collaboration, advocacy and programming. Info: 259-9717 or www.childrenfirstbc.org.

• SA (8/6), 7am-noon - Purchase gently used clothing, books and household items at affordable prices during this rummage sale to benefit the Children First/CIS Family Resource Center at Emma. Held at 37 Brickyard Road. Info: 252-4810 or www.childrenfirstbc. org.

Join the Pack Dining Day • TH (8/11) - Participating restaurants will donate a portion of proceeds to benefit the Paws On A Mission

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pet therapy program. For a complete listing of participating establishments, visit www.missionfoundation. org.

Penland School of Crafts A national center for craft education dedicated to helping people live creative lives. Located at 67 Dora’s Trail, Penland. Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am–5pm and Sun., noon-5pm. Info: www.penland.org or 765-2359.

• MO (8/8), 8-1pm - An auction of student and instructor’s work made during a Penland workshop session will be held. All proceeds benefit Penland’s scholarship programs.

Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation The Foundation’s mission is to save healthy, adoptable animals in the Haywood County Animal Control facility.

Located at 256B Industrial Park Drive, Waynesville. Info: www.sargeandfriends.org or 246-9050.

• SA (8/6), 10am - The 6th annual Downtown Waynesville Dog Walk, to benefit Sarge’s Animal Rescue Foundation, will depart from Main Street. Sign up begins at 9am. $15/children under 12 free. Info and advanced registration: www.sargeandfriends.org.

School Supply Drive • TU (8/9) & WE (8/10) - The Leicester Community Center, 2979 New Leicester Highway, will accept donations of school supplies on Tues. from 4-7pm and Wed. from 11am-1pm. These items will be delivered directly to Leicester Elementary. Info: 774-3000.

The Franklin Blue Planet 5K for Clean Water • SA (8/6), 9am - The Franklin Blue Planet 5K for Clean Water will benefit Blue Planet Network. Held at Tassee Shelter, Little Tennessee Greenway, 537 E. Main St., Franklin. $25. Info: Franklin5KforCleanWater.com.

The Hop Ice cream, concerts and community events. 640 Merriman Ave., Suite 103, unless otherwise noted.

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• TH (8/4), 6-8:30pm - 50% of sales will benefit Animal Compassion Network.

Winesdays • WEDNESDAYS, 5-8pm - A wine tasting to benefit Rathbun House will be held at The Wine Studio of Asheville, 169 Charlotte St. $5. Info: www.winestudioasheville.com.

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newsoftheweird Lead story In January, a baby was born to Canadians Kathy Witterick and David Stocker, but seven months later, they still haven’t revealed to family or friends whether little “Storm” is a boy or a girl.

Because society tends to overvalue “boy” norms, the couple aims to raise Storm free of genderspecific cultural stereotypes such as domesticity, aggressiveness, preferences for arts or mathematics. Meanwhile, in Stockholm, according to a June Associated Press dispatch, the 33 Swedish preschoolers at the Egalia school socialize in daily environments scrubbed of all gender references.

Boys and girls alike play with kitchen toys and building materials, and when playing “family,” parental roles are interchangeable. Critics say the children will be left unprepared for the “real” world.

The entrepreneurial spirit • Who Knew? “The streets of 47th Street are literally paved with gold,” one of New York City’s gold wranglers declared as, down on all fours and manipulating tweezers, he picked specks of gold, silver and jewels that had fallen off of clothing and jewelry racks being rolled from trucks into stores. The man told the New York Post in June that he’d recently collected $819 worth in six days of prospecting.

• In June, scientists at China’s Agricultural University in Beijing announced that they’ve produced human breast milk from a herd of 300 genetically modified dairy cows created with the same technology used to produce the sheep “Dolly.” The milk is expected to be in supermarkets within three years.

Civilization in decline • Growing Up Early: (1) A loaded handgun fell from the pocket of a kindergarten student in Houston in April, firing a single bullet that slightly wounded two classmates and the “shooter.”

(2) Prosecutors in Grant County, Wis., recently filed first-degree sexual assault charges against a 6-year-old boy, stemming from a game of “doctor” that authorities say he pressured a 5-year-old girl into in 2010. (3) Lakewood, Colo., police,

attempting to wrest control of a sharpened stick that a second-grade boy was using to threaten classmates and a teacher, gave him two shots of pepper spray. (The boy had just finished shouting to police, “Get away from me, you f**kers!”)

• Judge Loretta Rush, interviewed by the Journal & Courier of Lafayette, Ind., in June, underscored parental drug use as a major risk factor in a child’s becoming a substance abuser. “I had a case where a child was born with drugs in his system,” Rush recalled. “Both parents were using. We were looking for [a relative to take the child], but both sets of grandparents were using. So greatgrandmother’s in the courtroom, and I asked her if she would pass a drug screen, and she said she would not.”

Recurring themes News of the Weird has cited various overseas prisons where crime kingpins serve time in relative comfort (whether via bribery or fear), but according to a June New York Times dispatch, Venezuela’s San Antonio prison (which houses the country’s drug traffickers) is in a class of its own. Four swimming pools frequently host inmates’ families and “guests,” who lounge around enjoying barbecue meals and liquor. Paid “bodyguards” pass the time shucking oysters for alpha-dog inmate Teofilo Rodriguez. DirecTV dishes serve the cells. Drug smuggling via guards is so prevalent that locals actually visit the prison to buy the surplus (which they carry out because guards only “search” them upon entering). Rodriguez’s enforcement is backed up by an openly displayed arsenal of guns. Said a Russian inmate (and fellow drug trafficker), “This is the strangest place I’ve ever been.”

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Armed and clumsy (all new) People Who Accidently Shot Themselves Recently: Sean Murphy, 38, destroyed most of his finger trying to shoot off a wart (South Yorkshire, England, June). A Secret Service agent assigned to Nancy Reagan shot himself in the hip holstering his gun (Ventura, Calif., February). A 17-year-old boy, playing with a gun in bed, shot himself in the testicles (Orlando, February). A training officer at the Ohio Peace Officer Academy shot himself in the thigh (December). Sheriff Lorin Nielson of Bannock County, Idaho, shot himself in the hand (December). Johnathan Hartman, 27, holstering his gun in his back pocket after threatening his girlfriend, shot himself in the butt (Billings, Mont., December). A man trying to scratch his nose with a pellet gun shot himself in the face (Amherst, Mass., November).

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Undignified deaths (1) In Detroit in June, a 24-year-old man riding a party bus for a friend’s bachelor night popped open a rooftop emergency-escape hatch to check the view on Interstate 94 and his head slammed into an overpass. (2) In June, a 59-year-old woman in Whatcom County, Wash., lost control of the steamroller she’d borrowed to help with road maintenance near her home. The vehicle went into a ditch, she was thrown and fatally crushed.

Leading economic indicators • In June, officials of California’s Alvord Unified School District announced that Hillcrest, their brand-new, $105 million high school, would remain unused this year (and perhaps beyond) because the state lacks the $3 million needed to run the school. Maintaining the building to prevent deterioration will still cost $1 million per year.

• Full-Circle Outsourcing: In May, Aegis Communications of Mumbai, India, announced that it will hire about 10,000 new employees to work in its call centers, fielding customer-service problems for U.S.-based companies. Those jobs, however, are not in India: Aegis plans to hire Americans, at $12 to $14 an hour, at nine U.S. call centers.

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Inexpensive fun with kids Another summer’s almost over here in Western North Carolina. Asheville City School students return to school on Aug. 16 — which means it will still feel like summer in terms of heat, but it won’t for the young’uns spending all day sitting in classrooms.

But we still have a couple weeks left of sweaty boredom, afternoons at the pool, summer camps, forced summer reading and juggling adult work schedules.

Between all that, here are some last minute, inexpensive summer fun activities that you can check out with your kids.

1. Waterfalls and swimming holes. WNC is awash in both. If you don’t know of any, check online at swimmingholes.org to locate. Yes, gasoline is pricey right now, but we live in a

city with two rivers running through it. There are so many places to jump in. Use common sense, please. Don’t let kids dive into murky water or walk along the tops of waterfalls.

2. Float the French Broad. Buy tubes at your local tire shop (only about $8 each). Drop one car at The Bywater. Drive the other to Hominy Creek or Amboy Park. Then jump in the river.

Take sunscreen and water bottles with you.

Also, if your kids can’t last four hours without food, take snacks in a waterproof bag.

3. Teach kids to earn their keep (or at least earn some spending money). Help them set up a lemonade stand (all you need is a table, a pitcher, lemonade, cups and some change. If your offspring are old enough, let them pull weeds or wash cars for neighbors. Challenge

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them to come up with ways to make extra cash — whether around the home or from (adult) friends and neighbors.

4. Family pajama day! My son would live in his pajamas 24/7 if we let him. In his mind, there is no bigger luxury than lolling around in his PJs. On really hot days, I’m there with him. I’m writing in PJs. He’s reading in PJs. Then we have popcorn for dinner and stream a movie — all in our PJs. It’s kind of awesome.

5. Volunteer. Teach kids to donate their time, especially since they have loads of that commodity in the summer. The Asheville Humane Society and MANNA Foodbank are two local organizations that will put kids to work — and what could be more rewarding?

Also, waystohelp.org lists thousands of volunteer opportunities that want volunteer help from kids and teens.

6. Teach kids a new skill, preferably one that doesn’t require an investment of lots of time and money. Sewing, gardening, cooking — all are life skills that kids can learn.

Yes, they’ll make messes and mistakes, but that’s OK provided they don’t burn the house

down.

7. Let them create. Bring out the art supplies. Every parent I know has random art supplies that they’ve thrown in closets or basements and forgotten about. Send your kids on a “treasure” hunt for art supplies (unless you’re so organized that you actually know where they all are — in which case, I hate you). Also, remember that stuff like cardboard, magazines, recyclables, wire and stuff from nature can be used for art projects.

Ever glued rocks and grass into patterns onto a milk carton? Why not? It’s fun.

8. Let them do nothing. Research shows that “do nothing” time sparks creativity.

Daydreaming, lying in the grass watching the clouds and just hanging out are valid and valuable. We’d all benefit tremendously from more hammock time.

Have fun these next few weeks. See y’all back in school. .

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

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by Jake Frankel Amid a tough economy and government-funding crunch, All Souls Counseling Center provides quality mental health services to folks who might not otherwise be able to afford them. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Our services are for people who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have anywhere else to go,â&#x20AC;? meaning those who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t afford to pay normal rates or whose insurance doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cover mental health, Executive Director Sue Brooks explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re the safety net for individuals, couples, families, all age groups,â&#x20AC;? she notes. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Because all of us, at one time or another, may find ourselves in a situation of needing services and not having the resources to go to a private provider.â&#x20AC;?

The nonprofit center charges a fraction of what clients would otherwise pay: Sliding-scale rates typically run $10 to $20 a session.

And as government funding for mental health programs has dried up and the economy has tanked, All Soulsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; services are needed more than ever, says Brooks. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mental health is a disaster out there,â&#x20AC;? she declares. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a constant call from people wanting services. ... Because so many people are losing their jobs, there are more people out there that need help than before.â&#x20AC;?

To help address that need, the center has grown significantly since opening its doors 11 years ago. Twenty experienced therapists now work part time at the homey building at 35 Arlington St., earning about a third of what they make in private practice.

Maureen Linneman, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worked at the center since 2002, says she likes it because â&#x20AC;&#x153;The emphasis is on the therapy, not on the paperwork. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m given the ability to work with clients who are really in need, and really spend time with people, and not fill out a lot of forms,â&#x20AC;? Linneman explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a lot of clients with anxiety and depression, which I think is often culturally based. People are isolated in their homes; they go from work to houses. ... I try to help people get back and reconnect with who they are as beings.â&#x20AC;?

That approach seems to be working, notes Brooks: Clients, she says, often report drastic improvements in mood, self-confidence and their ability to relate to others. Many patients say the therapy provided the support they needed to get their life back on track, whether it meant staying in school or getting out of an unhealthy relationship.

Brooks backs up those stories by citing Global Assessment of Functioning reports, the standardized way mental health professionals measure progress. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We have very high rates of GAF success,â&#x20AC;? she reports. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s amazing: People feel better after the first visit, because theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re able to really sit down and unload on someone whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really listening to them. ... We want to be known as the rocking-chair place, because ... in years past, people sat on their front porches and rocked and shared and supported each other.â&#x20AC;?

That success has translated into increased funding. The center is in the second year of a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Melvin R. Lane Fund; and and further support from the Sisters of Mercy, United Way and Mission Hospitals.

The centerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s roughly $500,000 annual budget enables it to provide 8,000 sessions per year, serving about 1,000 individuals. Two bilingual therapists have joined the team, and about 5 percent of those clients are now Hispanic.

Development Co-Coordinator Kitty Price hopes the center can continue to expand, noting that Mission recently completed a study showing that donating money to All Souls actually saves the hospital money in the long term by cutting down on emergency-room visits.

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Rocking out: All Souls Counseling Center â&#x20AC;&#x153;wants to be known as the rocking-chair place, because of what the rocking chair exemplified in years past, when people sat on their front porches and rocked and shared and supported each other,â&#x20AC;? says Sue Brooks, executive director (back right; others pictured left to right:Maureen Linnaman, Pam Penland and Kitty Price).

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â&#x20AC;&#x153;A mental issue in an emergency room is so expensive, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s like the health care money bomb,â&#x20AC;? says Price. â&#x20AC;&#x153;A lot of people can walk back from grief and depression. But they have to get preventative services before it gets really bad, and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s what we offer.â&#x20AC;?

Still, tracking down funding can be challenging, and â&#x20AC;&#x153;If we had more money, we could see more people,â&#x20AC;? she notes.

Clients are initially screened to determine their financial status; after that, it typically takes two to three weeks to see a therapist. Those who donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t qualify are referred to other qualified mental health services. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s never a no here,â&#x20AC;? Price explains. â&#x20AC;&#x153;And I think a lot of people hear no a lot when it comes to mental health in this community.â&#x20AC;? .

Jake Frankel can be reached at 251-1333, ext. 115, or at jfrankel@mountainx.com.

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Living Healthy: A Chronic Disease Self-Management Program â&#x20AC;˘ TUESDAYS, 2:30-5pm - Sick and tired of being sick and tired? Take charge of your health with this six-week workshop for people with chronic health conditions and their caregivers. Held at Park Ridge Health, 100 Hospital Drive in Hendersonville. $30. Registration: 687-6288.

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Park Ridge Hospital Park Ridge Hospital is located in Fletcher and hosts a number of free events, including cholesterol screenings, vision screenings, PSA screenings, bone density checks for women, lectures, numerous support groups and a Kid Power program. Info: 687-3947 or www.parkridgehospital.org. â&#x20AC;˘ WE (8/3), 1-4pm - A bone density screening will take place at The Bridge at Lake Point Landing, 334 Thompson St., Hendersonville. Free. â&#x20AC;˘ TH (8/4), 8-11am - Free cholesterol screening will be offered at Ingles, 625 Spartanburg Highway, Hendersonville.

Overnight fasting is recommended. â&#x20AC;˘ SA (8/6), 8-11am - Free cholesterol screening will be held at Emma Elementary School, 37 Brickyard Road.

Red Cross Events & Classes Red Cross holds classes in CPR/first aid for infants, children and adults; babysitter training; pet first aid; bloodborne pathogens; swimming and water safety; and lifeguarding. All classes held at chapter headquarters, 100 Edgewood Road.

To register call 258-3888, ext. 221. Info: www.redcrosswnc. org.

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Appointment and ID required. â&#x20AC;˘ FR (8/5), 8:30am-1pm - Blood drive: Pardee Health Education Center, Blue Ridge Mall, Hendersonville. Info: 692-4600. â&#x20AC;˘ 1st TUESDAYS, 12:30-1pm - The Red Cross initiative to train five million people in CPR in 2011 will be held at Pardee Health Education Center, 1800 Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville. Info: 693-5605.

wellnesscontinued Support Groups Adult Children Of Alcoholics & Dysfunctional Families ACOA is an anonymous 12-step, “Twelve Tradition” program for women and men who grew up in alcoholic or otherwise dysfunctional homes. Info: www. adultchildren.org.

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

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

Open big book study. Info: 989-8075.

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

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

• WEDNESDAYS, 5:45 & 7pm - Women’s Al-Anon meeting at Grace Covenant Presbyterian Church, 798 Merrimon Ave. at Gracelyn Road. Newcomers welcome.

• THURSDAYS, 7pm - “Parents of Children with Alcoholism,” West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road.

• FRIDAYS, 12:30pm - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 8pm - “Lambda,” Cathedral of All Souls, 9 Swan St. • SATURDAYS, 10am - “Grace Fireside,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 10am - “Saturday Serenity,” St. Mary’s Episcopal Church, Charlotte Street at Macon Avenue. —- noon “Courage to Change,” Bess Sprinkle Memorial Library, Weaverville.

• SUNDAYS, 5pm - Al-Anon and Alateen, West Asheville Presbyterian Church, 690 Haywood Road.

• MONDAYS, noon - “Keeping the Focus,” First Baptist Church, 5 Oak St. —- 6pm - “Attitude of Gratitude,” Grace Episcopal Church, 871 Merrimon Ave. —- 7pm Meeting at First Christian Church, 201 Blue Ridge Road, Black Mountain.

• TUESDAYS, 9:45am - “Serenity Through Courage and Wisdom,” St. Barnabas Catholic Church, 109 Crescent Hill, Arden. —- 5:30pm - “Steps to Recovery,” Kenilworth Presbyterian Church, 123 Kenilworth Road.

—- 7pm - “One Day at a Time,” First Congregational UCC, 20 Oak St. Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective • The Asheville Radical Mental Health Collective is a group of inclusive, non-judgmental people with diverse perspectives on mental health who respect self determination, personal choice and confidentiality. Info: radmadasheville@theicarusproject.net or 575-3195.

Black Mountain NicA Meeting • MONDAYS, 7pm - The chapel of the Black Mountain Neurological Center invites those struggling to overcome tobacco addiction to a Nicotine Anonymous meeting. Located at 932 Old US 70 (turn up drive, at top turn left). Use parking around circle. Green NicA flyer posted on metal door. Info: 669-4161.

Co-Dependents Anonymous A fellowship of men and women whose common purpose is to develop healthy relationships.

• SATURDAYS, 11am - Meeting at First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St., in Asheville. Info: 779-2317 or 299-1666.

Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous • THURSDAYS, 7:30pm - Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous will meet at Biltmore United Methodist Church, 376 Hendersonville Road, Asheville. Info: 9893227.

GriefShare features nationally recognized experts in grief-and-recovery support and meets at Calvary Baptist Church, 531 Haywood Road in Asheville. Info: 2537301 or michael.lee@calvaryasheville.com.

• SUNDAYS, 3pm - GriefShare group meeting.

MS Community Awareness Lunch • THURSDAYS, noon-3pm - Join this “inspirational and positive” community of individuals and families affected by multiple sclerosis for lunch at West End Bakery, 757 Haywood Road in Asheville. This group “empowers with opportunities and resources to enhance quality of life while strengthening relationships.” Info: mscommunitywnc@gmail.com.

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NAMI Family-to-Family Class • MONDAYS, 6-8:30pm - This 12-week class for families and caregivers of individuals with a severe mental illness will be held at Charles George VA Medical Center, 1100 Tunnel Road in Asheville. The course covers major mental illnesses and self-care. Registration required. Info: 299-9596 or rohaus@charter.net.

Overcomers Recovery Support Group for Ladies • TUESDAYS, 7pm - This Christian-based, 12-step recovery program provides a spiritual plan of recovery for people struggling with life-controlling problems.

Meetings are held at S.O.S. Anglican Mission, 370 N. Louisiana Ave., Suite C-1. All are welcome. Info: 5752003.

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

• THURSDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: O.A. Step Study group at the Cox House, 723 N. Grove St. Info: 329-1637.

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

• SATURDAYS, 9:30am - Black Mountain: Carver Parks and Recreation Center, 101 Carver Ave., off Blue Ridge Road. Open relapse and recovery meeting. Info: 669-0986.

• MONDAYS, 6pm - Asheville: First Congregational United Church of Christ, 20 Oak St. Info: 252-4828.

• MONDAYS, 6:30pm - Hendersonville: Balfour United Methodist Church, 2567 Asheville Highway. Info: (800)580-4761.

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

S-Anon • WENESDAYS, 1pm - S-Anon is a 12-step recovery program for partners, family and friends of sexaholics.

Meetings held weekly in the WNC area. Call confidential voicemail or email for information: 258-5117 or wncsanon@gmail.com.

Leah McGrath, RD, LDN Corporate Dietitian, Ingles Markets

Adapted from my blog post: http://inglesnutrition.blogspot. com/2010/11/will-sugar-alcohols-makeme-drunk.html

Yes, I really got that question. Sugar-alcohols belong in a family called “polyols” and can be recognized on the ingredient label from their -ol endings like sorbitOL, mannitOL, xylitOL etc. Sugar alcohols can occur naturally in certain foods like prunes and artichokes and are considered “nutritive sweeteners” , i.e. they have calories, though most have fewer calories than sugar. Manufacturers like to use them in sugar-free candy, cookies, cakes and syrups and no sugar added ice cream and frozen novelties that are heavily marketed to diabetics or those on “low-carb” diets.

Unlike sugar, sugar alcohols are not well absorbed in the gut - therein lies the good news/bad news. Good news - they have less of an effect on your blood sugar than other nutritive sweeteners like honey and sugar...Bad news - they can cause gas, bloating and diarrhea, especially when consumed in excess.

What’s the bottom line: Sugar-free doesn’t mean calorie-free and if sugar alcohols are present may come with quite a “price”!

SLAA (Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous) • SATURDAYS, 10-11am - Do you want to stop living out a destructive pattern of sex and love addiction over which you are personally powerless? This 12-stepbased recovery program meets at 20 Oak St., Asheville.

Info: www.slaafws.org or ashevilleslaa@charter.net.

MORE WELLNESS EVENTS ONLINE Check out the Wellness Calendar online at www.mountainx.com/events for info on events happening after August 11.

CALENDAR DEADLINE The deadline for free and paid listings is 5 p.m.

WEDNESDAY, one week prior to publication.

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

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We’ve provided four recipes for low- or nocook dishes in this section. There’s a great Champagne gazpacho from the Magnetic Field that begs for a bottle of vinho verde and some candle-lit time on the patio. We’ve also given you a quick-and-easy rotisserie chicken salad that works perfectly spooned over salad greens or into pita pockets. Serve your chicken pitas with some of Tupelo Honey’s cole slaw on the side.

And are you sick of ceviche? Try our tuna poke recipe on for size.

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Sushi grade: Heiwa on Lexington regularly serves tuna poke, a classic Hawaiian dish that’s perfectly cooling for the summer. Photo by Micah Mackenzie

Tuna poke Poke (pronounced “poh-kay”) is a Hawaiian comfort food dish that traditionally involves raw tuna. It’s a simple appetizer that requires little more than a reputable seafood source and good knife skills. Don’t feel like handling raw fish?

Heiwa regularly serves their own version of the classic cold dish on their menu, which they serve as part of a lunch box with rice, salad, wakame and mung bean sprouts on the side. Here’s our interpretation of our favorite summer bentobox star (heiwashokudo.com): 1 pound sashimi-grade tuna, small red onion (halved, then julienned or minced), 1 to 2 tbsp of soy sauce, low sodium (light), dash of toasted sesame oil, handful halved cherry tomatoes, 1 ripe avocado (cubed), Hawaiian sea salt, 1 green pepper (halved then thinly sliced), sesame seeds to garnish.

Cut tuna into 1/2-inch cubes and season with salt. Toss with remaining ingredients and refrigerate until time to serve.

Possible (and optional) additions to taste: Thinly sliced jalapenõs, dash of rice wine vinegar, squeeze of yuzu, cilantro, ground white pepper, red chili flakes.

Simple slaw: Tupelo Honey’s slaw adds red cabbage to the standard green for color. Photo by Brie Williams

Tupelo Honey coleslaw Sometimes you just want a cooling slaw, whether it’s served next to a tomato sandwich or by itself in a big bowl, served with a glass of sweet tea. Tupelo Honey’s version is an even mix of creamy and vinegary, and requires shredding and mixing skills — but absolutely no cooking. The addition of red cabbage gives it a healthy boost and a little visual interest, too. For more information, visit tupelohoneycafe.com.

From Tupelo Honey Cafe: Spirited Recipes from Asheville’s New South Kitchen by Elizabeth Sims with Chef Brian Sonoskus/Andrews McMeel Publishing Makes 4 to 6 servings 4 cups shredded green cabbage (from 1 medium cabbage), 2 cups shredded red cabbage (from 1 small red cabbage), 1 cup peeled, shredded carrot (about 2 large carrots), 2 tbsp red wine vinegar, 4½ tsp ketchup, 5 tbsp sugar, 1 cup mayonnaise, 2 tbsp Dijon mustard, 2 tbsp stone-ground mustard, a dash of hot pepper sauce, 4½ tsps Worcestershire, ½ tsp sea salt, ¼ tsp freshly ground black pepper, 1 cup canola oil Combine the green cabbage, red cabbage and carrot in a large bowl. In a separate bowl, combine the vinegar, ketchup and sugar and stir until the sugar is dissolved. Put the vinegar mixture in a food processor and add the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, stone-ground mustard, hot pepper sauce, Worcestershire, salt and pepper. Blend and slowly drizzle in the canola oil until the mixture is emulsified. Combine the vegetables with the dressing, adding the dressing a little at a time until it suits your personal slaw-to-dressing ratio. Any leftover dressing can be refrigerated in an airtight container for one week.

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Champagne gazpacho with butternut puree Like your soup a little boozy? The Magnetic Field in the River Arts District has a recipe for you. From the gin-spiked gazpacho the restaurant served recently as a brunch offering, to this Champagne-infused version, chef Liam LuttrellRowland makes daytime dishes that would make a teetotaler blush. The addition of the butternut puree in the recipe below means that a little baking has to happen, but if you choose to skip the squash, that’s your prerogative.

Whichever way you slice it, the end result is either a cooling appetizer or, with the addition of crusty bread and a substantial salad, a full summer meal. For more about the Magnetic Field, visit themagneticfield.com.

Makes 1 gallon (serves six) Soup: 1 large red pepper (seeded), 2 large ripe tomatoes (preferably heirloom), 1 English cucumber, 2 shallots (peeled), 1/2 small red onion, 1 bulb of fennel (top removed), 1/2 seedless watermelon, 1/4 cup of basil, 1/4 cup of honey, 3 tbsp of rice vinegar, 1 250 ML bottle of Champagne (the small one), salt to taste.

For the Puree: 1 large butternut squash, 1 Meyer lemon, sprinkle of salt and sugar Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees. Peel the squash, halve lengthwise, de-seed and then cut into 1/2-inch thick slices. Sprinkle lightly with sugar and salt and place on a baking sheet. Add water in the bottom of the pan to only half submerge squash. Cut the lemon into wedges and place on top of the squash.

Cover with parchment paper and bake for an hour, or until soft. Remove from the oven, let cool, then remove the seeds from the lemon and place all the solids into the blender. If tightly covered, the squash steams and the liquid it was cooked in does not evaporate. The liquid can be added to the blender slowly until a consistent, smooth puree is achieved.

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While the squash bakes, chop all the ingredients for the soup into large pieces that fit easily into your blender. You might need to do this in two batches, adding the Champagne as the liquid for one batch, and the vinegar for the liquid of the second batch. If you’re having any trouble getting it to mix evenly, just add a little warm water. Season with more salt or honey if needed.

Place in fridge until serving.

Ladle soup into bowls, and then add butternut puree into the center of the bowl.

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Moroccan cherry-chicken salad Ashley English is a local blogger (small-measure.blogspot.com) and author of the “Homemade Living” series from Lark Books (available through Malaprop’s Bookstore on Haywood Street or through her blog). English shares her recipe for chicken salad using already-cooked rotisserie chicken for when it’s just too dang hot to cook: “One of our favorite ‘it’s-far-too-ungodly-hot-to-even-look-at-the-stove’ go-to eats during the dog days of summer is rotisserie chicken salad. After picking up a cooked bird from our nearby natural foods store, we’ll strip the meat off and blend it many different ways. On my birthday, [my husband] did it up with a curried spice blend, and then served it on fresh wheat bread slathered in mango chutney. HEAVEN! The other night, we took our chicken to the Mediterranean, partnering it up with olives, cherries, cashews, capers, olive oil and lemon. For a bit of heat, we added harissa, a chili sauce commonly found in North African cuisine (if you don’t have harissa, but still want to feel the burn, just use Tabasco instead).”

The goods: The meat from 1 rotisserie chicken, skinned and cut into small bite-sized bits, 6 olives (sliced), 6 cherries (diced), 2-ish tbsp cashew pieces, 2 tbsp chopped cilantro, 2 tbsp lemon juice, 2 tbsp mayonnaise, 1 tbsp harissa, 1 tbsp capers, 1 tbsp olive oil, zest of one lemon, Moroccan spice blend (we use a concoction from Urban Accents. It’s grand. Lacking that, toss in about 2 tsp ground coriander, 1 tsp ground cumin, 1 tsp cinnamon and 1 tsp mint, dried or fresh.)

The deal: Mix the ingredients well. Serve with fresh tomatoes as a sandwich, in a pita or over lettuce.

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Snout-to-tail: Brian Canipelli of Cucina 24 focuses on buying entire animals as often as he can to make dishes like this one of suckling pig meat, pressed and seasoned with fennel pollen, then breaded and fried.

Photo by Jonathan Welch

New tasting menus at Cucina 24 offer a full-body experience Cucina 24 and chef Brian Canipelli have been presenting a special supplemental menu to Cucina’s regular offerings lately. It’s a concept that revolves around a snout-to-tail style of cooking, wherein the chef goes, literally, whole hog (or cow or lamb, for that matter).

Canipelli recently featured a seven-item menu of dishes created using local veal as the centerpiece — the meat came from just one veal calf, but the entire animal was used, from head to tail. The menu included calf’s liver crostini; veal tenderloin carpaccio with fava beans, truffle oil and Parmesan reggiano; a grilled skirt steak with butter peas, tomato salad and saba (a grapemust syrup) and a handful of other plates ranging in price from $5 to $28.

Canipelli intends to keep serving these menus, branching out to use meat from other locally (or at least regionally) raised animals. The menus will be available for a la carte selections, but the chef can craft a full, multicourse tasting upon request.

The whole-animal menus will have limited availability, says Canipelli. “I’m going to try my best, maybe just offer them on the weekends at first,” he says.

As the menus grow in popularity, he will offer them on a more consistent basis.

But, no matter what, certain cuts of the featured animals will run out first.

“I’m putting on the menu ‘subject to availability.’ Obviously, when you have a whole animal, you don’t have 50 tenderloins or rib-eyes to sell,” he says.

“There’s four to six of them on the whole side of veal. Once that part runs out, it runs out. And that’s just the nature of working with an animal.”

What pieces and parts are not being sold on the tasting menus are often turned into cured meats by the chef. Currently, Canipelli has a veal bresaola (air-dried, salted beef, generally top round, aged two to three months) hanging to cure. It should be ready to sell some time near the end of July or early August, he says.

Canipelli has lately been getting into the habit of ordering whole animals as often as possible. It’s a cost-effective — yet very labor-intensive — way to get a good variety of dishes, and employing creativity is a must. He recently ordered a half-dozen suckling pigs from which he’s been making a terrine of sorts. He presses the meat, seasons it with salt and fennel pollen, lets it firm and then fries the slices. The pigs come from Thackery Farm in South Carolina.

Canipelli has one note about that veal: He buys his calves from Headwaters of Poverty Farms, a source for humanely raised beef in Barnardsville. Canipelli says that he would never purchase meat that has been inhumanely treated; all of the veal calves raised at Headwaters are free-range and are never caged or penned in tight quarters.

Cucina 24 is located at 24 Wall St. in downtown Asheville. It opens nightly at 5 p.m. and closes on Mondays. The adjacent Cucina 24 Deli is open on weekdays from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. For more information, call 254-6170.

nice to help them advertise and get out in the community.”

New businesses at the event include Veggie Love, a local caterer that’s opening Asheville’s first all-vegan, entirely glutenfree food truck in September, as well as Asheville’s first all-veggie drive-through (opened earlier this year on Merrimon), Vegheads Drive Thru. Asheville’s first vegan restaurant, Plant (to be opened on Merrimon later this year, where Beans and Berries used to be located), will also be represented.

Don’t go to Vegfest expecting a tofu party, says Donnellan, who feels that the variety of offerings will be a pleasant surprise to vegetarians and meat-eaters alike. “It’s great to show people that there are so many options out there, that we don’t just eat tofu,” she says. “To be able to bring it all together and show people how big [the vegetarian community] really is, we hope that will help people want to be a part of it. It’s going to be a good festival.” For more information, visit ashevillevegfest.org.

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Veg out: Green Light Café owner Shannon Blair will be at the Asheville Vegfest showcasing her restaurant’s meat-free fare. Photo by Jonathan Welch

Asheville’s first vegetarian festival is here Asheville’s first all-vegetarian food festival, the Asheville Vegfest, takes over Battery Park Avenue on Sunday, August 7, from noon until 7 p.m. The free festival is presented by The Asheville Vegetarians and Goat Mountain Sanctuary, two local nonprofit, volunteer-based organizations. The festival will feature vegan and vegetarian food, speakers, live entertainment and kids’ events, including The Vegetable Circus, a group that uses Big Top-style arts to teach children fun ways to grow up healthy.

That’s not the end of the activities geared toward kids, says Carmon Donnellan, one of the event’s organizers and a member of Asheville Vegetarians. There will be a large kids’ area, she says, filled with activities for the littlest vegetarians. “I think that it’s going to have more kids’ events than the typical festival,” she says. “We really want to get families to come.”

Vegfest Vendors will include familiar faces like Firestorm Café and Books, Rosetta’s Kitchen, Laughing Seed and Chai Pani. Beer will be available from Highland Brewing Company. Avery’s Hot Dogs will be there too, vending their tofu veggie dogs. “All the big guys and more,” says Donnellan. “There are quite a few brand-new businesses too, so that will be

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Hop to it: The Hop Ice Cream CafĂŠ now makes a few ice cream flavors from local goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk.

The Hopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got your goat The Hop Ice Cream CafĂŠ recently debuted a new line of ice cream made with goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk from local HeatherLane Farms in Woodfin. The goats are raised on pastures located less than 10 miles away from The Hopâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Merrimon Avenue spot, says Ashley Garrison, who owns the ice cream shop with her husband, Greg Garrison. Ashley develops all of the recipes that the cafe uses, often employing experimentation thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s earned her the nickname â&#x20AC;&#x153;Ice Cream Ninja.â&#x20AC;?

HeatherLane Farms makes fudge with some of their goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk â&#x20AC;&#x201D; traditional chocolate, raspberry-chocolate and white chocolate â&#x20AC;&#x201D; which Ashley will incorporate into her ice cream. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Her fudge is fantastic,â&#x20AC;? she says.

The cafe offers two flavors at a time using the goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-milk base, one traditional and one a bit more experimental. The goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s-milk base, says Ashley, supports herbal and savory flavors well. One particular combination sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s considered includes oranges and fennel. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think it will be amazing with the goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk, because it already has a bit of a tanginess to it.â&#x20AC;? Sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also tried adding some of the white-chocolate goat fudge to a white-chocolate goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk base.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not surprising that Ashevilleans seem receptive to the concept of ice cream made with goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk, which is both healthy and easily sourced from local farms. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve had people ask us about it off and on,â&#x20AC;? she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Especially people that have a low lactose tolerance. Goatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk is both lower in lactose and lower in fat than cowâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s milk. You get the same creamy texture but not as many calories. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been very appealing to people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; people are really excited.â&#x20AC;? For more information, visit thehopicecreamcafe.com.

My fingers smell like Tilsit. Why? Because the stinky German cheese is available by the pound over at The Onyx Orchard Cheese Company at 89 Patton Ave. Tim Pierce, the owner, was kind enough to let me sample that cheese, as well as some Red Dragon cheddar, a manchego purple from the addition of merlot in the cheese-making process and a Mediterranean Gouda that was flavored with olives and herbs. The cheese shop also sells crackers, jellies and jams (including wine jellies and spicy pepper jams) and ice cream. The shop will begin selling sandwiches with cured meats and artisan cheeses in a few months. For more information, call 254-0340.

Get a Taste of Local at Ingles in Waynesville on Barber Boulevard on Friday, Aug. 5, from 4 to 7 p.m. Sunburst Trout Farms will provide samples of their trout dips and Annieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bakery of Asheville will offer tastes of their baked goods. At 4 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. chef Charles Hudson of Sunburst Trout Farms will demonstrate how to prepare lime-basil grilled trout and a marinated tomato salad with Kalamata olives and cheese using tomatoes from local farmer Skipper Russell of Canton.

Samples of Duplin (wine from a North Carolina Winery) will also be available. Ingles Dietitian Leah McGrath and representatives from Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project will be on hand during the event.

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Longtime local musician and radio host turns berry grower and beekeeper

by Maggie Cramer Old houses aren’t the only “fixer-uppers” out there. Just ask longtime Asheville musician and radio host Laura Blackley, who purchased neglected land in Candler with her partner, Cindy Jordan, in 2006. Their hope?

A small family farm.

“When we started, we wanted to do and grow everything, and I do mean everything,” says Blackley. But they quickly realized there was plenty of fixing to do before any growing could happen.

“I hate that we don’t have any ‘before’ pictures of when we first bought the place,” Blackley says. “It took a lot of work to turn it around. It had been left untended for several years, and all the beds and yard were overgrown.” While cleaning and clearing, Blackley noticed a small stand of raspberries and another of blackberries on the property.

She instantly fell in love with tending the bushes; pretty soon, the two small stands became 150 berry plants. Around the same time, Jordan placed a couple of beehives on the northeast corner of the property and was

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Winners of the first-ever Family Farm Tour Photo Contest: 3 (nearly 90 photos submitted) Photos in online gallery from renowned NYC photographer Aaron Zebrook (aaronzebrook.com): 40 — Have fun looking!

Browse a gallery of all Family Farm Tour Photo Contest entries online at ASAP’s Facebook page (search Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project) or at mountainx.com/dining, and stay tuned to asapconnections.org in the next couple of months for initial announcements about the 2012 tour. Find Jordan Blackley Farm, along with other u-pick berry operations with lots to offer now, in ASAP’s online Local Food Guide at buyappalachian.org.

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Farm fresh: Find Jordan Blackley Farm products at numerous area tailgate markets, like at the Wednesday Montford Farmers Market (pictured). Oh, honey: Blackberries and honey are just some of the products that Jordan Blackley Farms boasts.

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immediately hooked on the hives.

Today, berries and honey are Jordan Blackley Farm’s primary products. “Over time, we learned that — to preserve our sanity — it would be wise to do one or two things, instead of trying to branch out too quickly,” Blackley says. As a testament to how well they’ve done those two things over the past couple of years, their Certified Naturally Grown and Appalachian Grown honey took home a blue ribbon from the N.C. State Beekeeper’s Meeting in 2010.

With all the fixing-up behind them, they’ve even been able to expand, growing their berries into a pick-your-own operation that also includes blackberries and black raspberries.

In addition, they offer free-range eggs, as well as short or long-term on-farm cabin rentals.

“We both feel more confident with how far the farm has come,” Blackley says. That, she says, played a role in her and Jordan’s decision to be part of the recent Family Farm Tour hosted by Appalachian Sustainable Agriculture Project. They joined 17 other farms new to the tour this year. “We’ve had time to make plenty of mistakes and learn from them accordingly, which has helped us deepen our understanding of what we’re trying to accomplish and to be able to share what we know with the folks who come visit our farm.”

During the tour, they had a steady stream of visitors “honestly wanting to connect with the farmers who grow their food.” Visitors got to hang out with their chickens, watch their bees in action and learn about beekeeping, and explore their u-pick berry beds.

Blackley and Jordan’s favorite moments?

“Watching people’s faces when they would taste one of our fresh raspberries. It was like watching someone being swept off their feet — pretty cool stuff!”

Another favorite element? Joining with 40 other WNC farms. “I think that the agricultural community here is one of the best,” Blackley says. “One of the first things I did, before I ever bought my first raspberry plant, was contact Walter Harrill from Imladris Farm.

He’s become a really good friend to me and my family, and he knows a thing or two about growing berries!”

Blackley hopes to use all she’s learned from Harrill and fellow farmers, along with her own experiences, to continue expanding her berry operation in order to keep up with demand. Her partner, Jordan, also wants to expand the beekeeping side of the farm by setting up a business that helps new beekeepers navigate the first year of establishing their hives. Together, they could also lstart a business offering advice on how to make a diamond-in-the-rough a true gem. But, for now, they’ve got other priorities. “We both want to raise our daughter on the farm, helping her to understand and appreciate the natural cycles and processes that occur and to foster and sense of accomplishment in her from a young age.” Plus, “it’s true,” Blackley says, “kids are so much more likely to eat healthy foods if they had a hand in growing it themselves.”

Find the Farm Find Jordan, Blackley, and their farm products every week during market season at the West Asheville Tailgate Market — Tuesdays from 3:30 through 6:30 p.m. Or, purchase honey and berries directly from the farm. For more information, call 667-0120, or visit jordanblackleyfarm.com.

Didn’t make it to Candler during the Family Farm Tour? Blackley and Jordan offer farm tours seven days a week, weather permitting.

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• TH (8/11), 5-9pm - Infusor night will feature Shiva beer with curry and tamarind.

Friends of Ag Breakfast • TU (8/9), 7-8:30am - Learn what’s new in the farming world as the Buncombe Soil and Water Conservation and Cooperative Extension present the Friends of Ag Breakfast, a complimentary country meal of local food products.

Held at the WNC Agricultural Center’s Virginia Boone Building, 1301 Fanning Bridge Road in Fletcher. Info: 687-1414.

Hop Harvest Tour and Sampling • SA (8/6), 12:45pm - A local hop and beer tour will be held at Hop’n Blueberry Farm, 24 Middle Mountain Road, Black Mountain. A beer tasting will follow at Pisgah

Brewing Company, 150 Eastside Drive, Black Mountain. $8. Info: www.hopnblueberryfarm.com or www.pisgahbrewing.com.

Summer Harvest Celebration and Salsa Contest • SA (8/6), 8am-noon - The Transylvania Tailgate Market in downtown Brevard invites the community to prepare two cups of homemade salsa to be judged as part of the Summer Harvest Celebration. First prize wins a basket of “goodies” from market vendors. Info 828-877-3796.

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A bona fide beer rock star and beer fests galore Another brewmaster visits Asheville If you’re a beer geek, you’re probably on a first-name basis with as least one or two local brewers. Brewers often take on the status of celebrities to those of us who spend a lot of time quaffing and discussing their beers, especially in towns like Asheville where support for small local business verges on religion.

That said, there’s a whole level of national, even international, craft-brewer fame, beside which our brewers pale (pale is what you get spending all summer inside next to a brew kettle, y’all). The Sam Calagiones (of Dogfish Head) or Larry Bells (of Bell’s Brewery) of the beer biz have become, whether they wanted to or not, brewer rock stars. They’re stars in the suds firmament who are revered by us brewerazzi. Both Calagione and Bell have visited Asheville, which helped solidify our status as an important town in the craft beer world.

Soon we’ll have another rock star in our midst. Garrett Oliver, brewmaster for Brooklyn Brewery, will be in Asheville on Aug. 17. In addition to brewing for one of the most well-known and revered U.S. craft breweries, he’s an author and world-renowned beer expert. Oliver’s book, The Brewmaster’s Table, offers a salivatory analysis of food and beer pairings. He’s also the editor for The Oxford Companion of Beer, which will be published this fall by Oxford Press in the U.K. Oliver’s primary public appearance will take place at Pack’s Tavern on Wednesday, Aug. 17 at a five-course lunch that will run from noon until 2 p.m. The Tavern’s chef, James Balchak, has created the menu, and Garrett chose the beer pairings for the meal. The cost is $50 and tickets are available by calling Pack’s at 225-6944. Tickets will not be sold at the door.

Here’s the menu, which you shouldn’t peruse if you’re hungry (or thirsty): local goat cheese and fresh berries with sourwood honey and Cuvée de la Crochet Rouge (Riesling); fenneljicama slaw with Brooklyn Brewery Weisse; a pork belly taco with Brooklyn Brown Ale; cin-

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Swoon-worthy: Garrett Oliver, brewmaster for Brooklyn Brewery and bona fide brewer rock star, will visit Asheville on Aug. 17 for a food-and-beer pairing luncheon at Pack’s Tavern.

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namon-butter poached trout and fried apple with Brooklyn Sorachi Ace; and Stout ice cream with chocolate-covered pretzels and Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout (2010).

Fall beer festivals galore ...

Thousands of you beer lovers missed out on Brewgrass tickets this year. The 3,500 tickets sold out in three hours, despite a website that kept crashing from sheer overload. If you’re ticketless, don’t be bitter. There are other festivals and events that will be well worth your cash (and all are less pricey than the Big Daddy fest, aka Brewgrass).

The fourth High Country Beer Fest will take place in Boone, on Saturday, Sept. 3. Fifty-seven breweries represented there last year, and more are expected in 2011. Tickets are $30. Buy yours at hcbeerfest.com. As Boone’s a college town, this festival features a strong beer-education component. It should be a nice weekend to get up into the high country mountains.

Clips of Faith Beer and Film Tour, sponsored

by New Belgium Brewing, will take place at Roger McGuire Green on Friday, Sept. 9 at 7 p.m. Though the beer won’t be local, the beer tasting and amateur beer film fest is a fundraiser for Asheville on Bikes and supported by the Asheville Downtown Association. The event is free, with donations going to AoB. For more

information, visit clipsoffaith.com.

The new Oktoberfest is scheduled for Sept. 24 (the Saturday after Brewgrass) over in Kingsport, Tenn. (Different from Asheville’s Oktoberfest, which will take place on Oct. 8 downtown on Wall Street). An all-day celebration that starts with a 5K run and ends with music from rockers Velvet Truckstop, this beer fest will be rife with good brews, German cuisine, fun contests and a special Beer University component (I may have to take my half dachshund pup up there to compete in the Wiener Dog Brat Trot Race). The Craft Bier tasting portion of the day costs $29 and includes a T-shirt (while supplies last). Get tickets at kingsportoktoberfest.com.

Also on Sept. 24, the long-running French Broad River Festival debuts the first ever French Broad Fall Fest, featuring a significant craft-beer component (along with a stellar music lineup, including the Lee Boys, Yarn, Josh Phillips Folk Festival and Aaron Woody Wood). Festers can visit the beer garden tent from 4 to 11 p.m., get a five-ounce souvenir glass and taste beers offered by up to 12 breweries.

This fest takes place at the Hot Springs Campground, so you can stumble back to your tent after the tasting. Admission for camping is $60, and $15 for admission to the beer garden.

You can buy a complete $75 ticket at frenchbroadriverfestival.com. .

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by Alli Marshall Performing in the play Shear Madness must be a bit like taking on Bill Murray’s role in Groundhog Day. You do it over and over, night after night. You can attempt to alter the course of the plot (Madness has some built-in wild cards) but the end result is more or less known.

And then you show up the next day and do it all over again.

“I don’t think these kind of marathons are for everyone,” says Christopher Tarjan, who will direct the show at Flat Rock Playhouse’s new downtown Hendersonville stage, Playhouse Downtown. The play has been running 31 years in Boston and 24 years in Washington, D.C. Tarjan says he knows a performer in the D.C. production who hasn’t left the show in 15 years. Tarjan himself has been with the production off and on, and in a number of capacities, since ‘91.

Madness is a sort of Anytown, USA farce set in a hair salon. When a murder takes place in an upstairs apartment, a full-blown police investigation quickly finds everyone in the

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That means there’s a lot of improv. “You just don’t know what the audience will say,” says Tarjan. Then again, “After years of doing the show, it becomes less unpredictable.”

Hometown away from home Madness is run like a franchise by its owners Marilyn Abrams and Bruce Jordan. Originally written as the decidedly non-comedic murder mystery Scherenschnitt by German play-

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wright Paul Pörtner, Abrams and Jordan workshopped the script and unveiled its present slapstick iteration in 1979. When Madness comes to a new town (like Hendersonville), it’s Abrams and Jordan who oversee the production. They “now own the international rights,” says Tarjan. “They don’t want community theaters and high schools to do it, because it’s hard to do. They try to control it because of integrity.”

Abrams and Jordan and cast the actors from a stable of seasoned performers. This allows for the improvised parts to work. “Two-thirds of the show is a four-wall show,” says Tarjan.

The actors know when they’ll let in the audience. To prepare for all possible outcomes, the cast and director actually pretend to be the audience during rehearsals, throwing increasingly bizarre clues and suggestions at the characters on stage. “This cast, they all know what they’re doing up front,” says Trajan.

There are two big roles: The police officer and the salon owner. Tarjan cast Las Vegas actor Joe Ditmyer in the role of detective Nick Rossetti. “I always thought he should play this role, he’s played a couple of other roles in the show,” says Tarjan. “He has a hard role. That character is the one who has to stand in front of the audience and hear what they say and turn it into something the cast can use.”

While there are no local actors in the cast, Linda Edwards (who has performed in Madness in Charlotte) has a long history with Flat Rock Playhouse. And there is the matter of the hometown details that Tarjan and company will add to the Hendersonville run of Madness.

“By the time we’re a week into rehearsal, we’re all going to know a lot about Hendersonville,” says the director. “When you go into a city,

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There will be tour of the theater and a Champagne toast, along with remarks from Flat Rockâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s producing artistic director, Vincent Marini; board president Chris Ricker; and Hendersonville Mayor, Barbara Volk. you get hit by the stuff that defines a place pretty quickly. What is the â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Cow Palaceâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; or whatever? Then you realize itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a big part of the fabric of the city, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s got to be in the show somewhere.â&#x20AC;? There are also street addresses and well-known names that, according to Tarjan, will set the play squarely in downtown Hendersonville.

Downtown, waiting for you tonight One landmark that Tarjan and his crew might stumble across is the theater itself, a new addition to the Flat Rock Playhouse stable of performance spaces (thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also the 500-seat mainstage and the 130-seat cabaret space). Playhouse Downtown opened with its first production in June and Producing Artistic Director Vincent Marini says that walk-up traffic and ticket sales continue to grow each day.

The theater space, at 125 S. Main St., was formerly occupied by the Fazzio Art Gallery.

FRP moved quickly on the project, starting construction in April and opening just two short months later. â&#x20AC;&#x153;In large part the interior is complete,â&#x20AC;? says Marini, â&#x20AC;&#x153;but there are a ton of other things we want to do in the building.â&#x20AC;?

Upgrading the bathrooms and HVAC system top the list, along with someday owning the building outright.

Because FRP didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t purchase the new theater to start, the company was financially able to take on the new performance space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We were not expecting to do this right now,â&#x20AC;? says Marini. But because of the success of FRPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 2010 run of shows at the Hendersonville Courthouse, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d proved that a downtown venue made sense. Support came in the form of $100,000 from the Hendersonville City Council for FRP to develop the 250-seat performance space. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We did it at a cost and on a time table that made it feasible,â&#x20AC;? says Marini.

The decision to expand was financial, certainly. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the potential for millions of dollars in economic impact,â&#x20AC;? says Marini, who cites an â&#x20AC;&#x153;appetite for entertainment optionsâ&#x20AC;? in downtown Hendersonville. But thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also a spirit of community. Future plans for the Playhouse Downtown include a see-through facade, Wi-Fi in the lobby and free concerts.

Local musicians and local artists will also be tapped. The idea is to create an open feel to the building that will attract passers-by. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hendersonville has a lot going for it in terms of its ambiance, its restaurants and everything else on Main Street,â&#x20AC;? says Marini. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But if weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re talking about ways of really re-energizing those businesses, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be by having an anchor organization.â&#x20AC;?

Of course, FRP will maintain its previously existing performance spaces as well.

The Music on the Rock shows, currently held at the cabaret space, are likely to be moved to Playhouse Downtown. The cabaret space might find new uses as a rehearsal venue or a stage for the kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; theater program. In 2012, FRP is launching a full series including what Marini calls â&#x20AC;&#x153;counter programmingâ&#x20AC;? to whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on the mainstage. If itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Guys and Dolls on the mainstage, look for an edgy newer work downtown. The idea is that any theater-goer will be able to find something appealing at one of FRPâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s venues. The programming philosophy for Playhouse Downtown will be less traditional and will go after plays and musicals with a modern sensibility, says Marini.

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There are a number of reasons why local fashion designer Stina Andersen wanted to hold her fashion exhibition at The Artery: Andersen’s professional relationship with Arts Council Program Director Graham Hackett is one (the two worked together previously on one of Hackett’s Catalyst Productions projects).

Then there’s the proximity of the new Asheville Area Arts Council exhibit space (The Artery) to Andersen’s studio in the Wedge building. And, even better, there are Artery’s indoor/outdoor possibilities for a runway show.

“Because it’s a small space, we didn’t want to leave anyone out,” explains Andersen, who introduces Immersion: A Fashionable Experience this Saturday. The exhibit, a collaboration with Andersen’s studio-mate Kristina Benshoff, photographers Yve Adams and Bevin Coffee and writer Melinda Tennison, remains on display through the month of August. But what takes place during the Saturday opening reception is unlikely to be contained within the four walls of the Artery.

Anyone who’s been attending Ashevillebased fashion shows for the last several years knows that runways can entail anything from a catwalk at The Orange Peel to the wide central hallway of The Grove Arcade. What’s important is that the maximum number of viewers can eye the apparel. At the Artery show, viewers will be able to be inside or outside the gallery space — models will make their way into the Artery from a staging area in a neighboring building.

But the great outdoors plays a larger roll in Immersion than simply extra runway space.

Both Andersen and Benshoff incorporate nature imagery and inspiration into their clothing

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Runway shows by Stina Anderson and Kristina Benshoff, exhibiting photographers Yve Adams and Bevin Coffee, video projection by Michael Folliett, documentary story

by Melinda Tennison, music from Chris Stack, Sage Sansone and DJ Cosmo Q, dance by Belle Afrique and Cindy Bowen presents children’s book Playing with Gaia.

where:

The Artery

when:

Saturday, Aug. 6 (6-9 p.m. ashevillearts.com/artery)

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Total immersion: Fashion photographer Yve Adams collaborated with apparel designer Kristina Benshoff to capture the spirit of Benchoff’s “Ophelia’s Soliloquy” collection.

PHOTO BY YVE ADAMS

designs. “We have different styles, but we’re creating a mood or a story line between our two collections,” says Anderson.

For Benshoff’s part of the evening, her “Ophelia’s Soliloquy” re-imagines Shakespeare’s tragic heroine in a contemporary setting.

Benshoff’s daughter plays Ophelia in this dramatic runway show. “I got inspired by watching Hamlet,” says Benshoff. “I’m intrigued by the character of Ophelia — she actually dies off-stage.” (Ophelia, who uttered “The glass of

fashion and the mould of form” and “I was the more deceived” supposedly drowns in a brook.)

Benshoff’s collection will go through what she calls “the three stages of Ophelia”: love, deception and madness. The concept is light in the beginning, darker toward the end, and features motifs of water or flowers.

Botanicals and water also make their way into Andersen’s designs. “I was going into the woods and taking a lot of nature photography,” she says. “That experience was informing me

Fashion’s foundations: Stina Andersen uses a dress form to design a dress for her ARTeriographic collection, which will be sent down the runway at the Artery this week. so much that I wanted to create my new fabric around that.”

Andersen also found herself musing about Ophelia, the central character in Benshoff’s “Soliloquy.” “I was thinking, what happens afterwards?” Andersen envisioned Ophelia going deeper into the woods and having a reincarnation of sorts — what she calls “the untold story of Ophelia.” From that came Andersen’s runway show: “ARTeriographic,” described as “Ophelia’s rebirth through nature’s power and the transformation of death into new life.”

Andersen says she loves creating stories where people can be invited into a different place than they’ve been before. To create that ambiance at the Artery, musician Chris Stack and vocalist Sage Sansone will perform and Michael Folliett will do projections, which will include images that Andersen and Benshoff used to create their fabrics.

These designers not only fashion garments — they design textiles, too. Andersen uses photos or scans in a program such as Photoshop where she can manipulate the image or create repeat patters. The completed images of the patterns are then sent to a company that prints yardage. For the “ARTeriographic” collection, fabrics include a gray and green image of rock strata on cotton knit, a blue and green print taken from a photograph of a waterfall, and — for Andersen’s main character, primordial earth-goddess Gaia — a vivid red, yellow and green print from a photograph of moss.

In 2008, Andersen took a class at Penland on how to print fabric. She’s a self-trained designer, though she did go to school for sculpture and fibers. Benshoff studied fashion design at S.C.A.D. The two designers have known each other for four years (both work as art therapists for their day jobs), and last August they moved into the Wedge studio together. Previously,

Andersen and her ARTeries line had occupied a cheerful but cramped space in the Phil Mechanic building; Benshoff‘s “Provocation” line was based out of her home. “I get to work more now,” says Benshoff. “It’s always evolving.”

Immersion celebrates not just the two individual designers, but also their venture together in the shared studio space, as well as their work with other artists and the creative process itself. Benshoff’s fashion illustrations will be on display, as well as a collaboration with Adams, while Andersen is collaborating with Tennison and Coffee on a photographic documentary with some written prose, documenting the fashion experience from the customer’s point of view.

“People are seeing the end product the night of the exhibition,” says Andersen. “We want to take them all the way from the inception of an idea.” .

Alli Marshall can be reached at amarshall@ mountainx.com.

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Xpress: Your first book published was a New York Times best-seller?

Revis: First book published, but not first book written. I wrote 10 other novels before this and none of them got published. Finally, this 11th one did and it got up to No. 7 which is really cool.

Why did you choose to write for young adults?

I think YA books are better. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re more fun. You are almost guaranteed a quick-paced plot, interesting characters and twisty stories. I blow things up in my books.

Would you call Across the Universe science fiction?

Yes. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a sci-fi set in space. I have two main point-of-view characters, one a girl, one a boy, and the book alternates between the two. Amy is cryogenically frozen and sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sent on this mission and then Elder is of the group that is born generation after generation on the ship. Amy wakes up 50 years early, somebody has unplugged her, and she barely escapes death.

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Where do you get the inspiration for your stories?

Really the question, â&#x20AC;&#x153;What if?â&#x20AC;? Like what if there was a murder mystery in space? What if we were on a spaceship and we were trapped? Part of my inspiration for Across the Universe was Agatha Christieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Mousetrap.

Arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t book tours typically arranged by your publishing house?

I did do a national book tour where my publisher sent me. It was called the â&#x20AC;&#x153;Breathless Readsâ&#x20AC;? tour and they sent me with Brenna Yovanoff who wrote The Replacement, Ally Condie who wrote Matched, Kirsten Miller who wrote The Eternal Ones, and Andrea Cremer who wrote Nightshade.

Then, I went on a writing retreat organized by Maggie Stiefvater. I met Myra McEntire and Victoria Schwab there and we started talking about where we were from because I noticed Myra had a real Southern accent.

Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from Nashville. I said, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from Nashville and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m from kind of near Asheville, why donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t we do something where we take a little road trip together and visit bookstores on the way.â&#x20AC;? From that this whole tour grew up. Theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re flying down to see my house. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting in the car, driving, having a little road trip and hitting all the bookstores along the way.

Is this more for the love of it than any sort of reward?

Yeah. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re funding the whole thing ourselves. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really a way to give back

info who:

Beth Revis (and Victoria Schwab, Myra McEntire, Julie Kagawa, Ruta Sepetys, Rachel Hawkins, Stephanie Perkins, Alan Grantz and Michelle Hodkin)

what:

Southern YA Authors tour

where:

Malapropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bookstore and Cafe in Asheville (Thursday, Aug. 4, 7 to 9 p.m.) and City Lights Bookstore in Sylva (Saturday, Aug. 6. 1 to 3 p.m.) More information and full schedule at ash2nash.blogspot.com.

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Breathless reads: Author Beth Revis gets inspired by the What ifs, she says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Like, what if there was a murder mystery in space?â&#x20AC;?

to the kids. They do get book tours in Asheville, but weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to Sylva and some of the other smaller places too where book tours never come. We thought it would be really neat if we gave back to where weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re from and we take the tour to them. Everywhere we could we tried to do an independent bookstore.

What will you talk about on the tour?

We set it up so that at every stop weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have a panel. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m kind of copying the Breathless Reads tour. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll do about an hour long Q and A and then hope that the audience will come with some really good questions. In all of our packets that we sent to the bookstores we said specifically, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The key is to bring in the audience discussion.â&#x20AC;? We have a moderator at each stop who is going to have questions.

Who is your moderator for the Malapropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s event?

Caroline Green, the childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bookseller at Malapropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s. Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to be talking about writing and publishing. Even if you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t necessarily like YA, if you want to be a writer it would also be a good place to come learn about that.

What is the line up for Malapropâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s on Aug. 4?

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s me, Myra McEntire who wrote Hourglass by Egmont, Victoria Schwab who wrote The Near Witch (which is being published by Disney Hyperion), and Stephanie Perkins whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a local author â&#x20AC;&#x201D; she wrote Anna and the French Kiss and that book also reached the New York Times best-seller list.

It sounds like you have fantasy, science fiction and romance?

Mineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the sci-fi. Myraâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hourglass is a time travel. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not like Star Trek worm-hole time travel, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s modern-day kids and reminds me of the old television show Sliders. Victoriaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s book The Near Witch is a fantasy in its own world where thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a mystery that involves magic. Then in Anna and the French Kiss a girl goes to Paris and kisses a lot of boys. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the difference between Stephanie and me, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both published by Penguin but her editor says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;add more kissing,â&#x20AC;? and my editor says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;kill more people.â&#x20AC;? .

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by Ursula Gullow

Color Study

Art Museum’s exhibit mixes it up “If one says “red” (the name of the color) and there are 50 people listening it can be expected that there will be 50 reds in their minds. And one can be sure that all these reds will be very different.”

— Josef Albers, The Interaction of Color

by Ursula Gullow After huffing it up the stairs to the third floor of the Asheville Art Museum, I was immediately absorbed into a sea of blue canvas — Kenneth Noland’s “North South East West.” The blue — calm, deep and mysterious — beckons the viewer, as an ocean at dusk, to plunge into its comforting waters. The painting is breathtaking and a brilliant introduction to the Asheville Art Museums latest exhibition, Color Study.

From Noland’s piece, my eye wandered eastward on the wall to “Chance of Flurries,” a stained and stitched piece by local artist Nava Lubelski. Considering the contemporary concepts behind Lubelski’s work, it is somewhat strange to see her piece presented alongside a color field painting, but oh well.

Because of the context of the show, I note the colors Lubelski uses — a canvas of pale blue and grey, with black, cream and royal blue stitches; webbing and knots meander through it, accentuating a lone red dot. It is dazzling to think she did all this by hand, but that is a digression from the original notion of the exhibit: color.

Next is a study in color-depth, “Jabd,” made with a spray gun by Jules Olitski in 1965. Beside that hangs a painting in pastel hues, “Untitled,” by Gayle Paul, and a majestic piece by Daniel Nevins, “Number 7,” in which opposing yellow-and-blue planes hold dark psychedelic bouquets that emphasize Nevins’ luscious palette.

This is the point of the exhibit where I start getting confused, and the next piece, “Wall Circle” — an experiment with unstretched canvas by Sam Gilliam — seals the deal. Roaming from one generation of artists to the next (from one genre of art into the next), dilutes the overall concept of the show. It seems to be more a study in nonrepresentational artwork than a study in color.

The curator’s statement reads, “The works in this exhibition use color as their primary means of expression. Whatever their stance on these issues, the artists in Color Study all share a steadfast devotion to the exploration of color.” I’m not so sure. Only the pieces by the actual color theorists and color-field painters, such as

Noland, W. P. Jennerjahn and George Lee Bireland, use color as their primary means of expression.

Not that the other paintings are bad. On the contrary, most are quite spectacular.

I’m just not convinced that color was the motivational factor behind their inception.

Certainly all the pieces utilize color in some way, but to connect them with this thread seems arbitrary.

I opted to navigate the show with Josef Albers’ teachings as my guide. A pioneering theorist on color, Albers’ book, Interaction of Color, puts forth that color is the most relative element in art. Everyone sees color differently and attaches different meaning to it. The colors themselves appear different according to their surroundings and the light cast upon them.

From this perspective, I can appreciate such paintings as Julian Stanczak’s “Flirtation Cerise,” which vibrates with varied lavender hues and orange squares, or Joseph Fiore’s gestural “Blue” painting.

A painting by Oli Sihvonen also stands out. The use of blues and reds on one half, and oranges and purples on the other, creates tension in spite of their orderly arrangement. It recalls a mass of differing personalities, tightly arranged in a linear format that begs for visual release.

Overall, Color Study includes some very impressive work, and I commend the curator for including paintings by local artists, which is rare for exhibits at The Asheville Art Museum. For those who have never thought about color and its use in art, Color Study is a great primer.

After visiting the exhibit again, it seems clear that the curator chose to group artists according to their respective palettes.

Unfortunately, for a show that claims to be all about color, the works of the color vanguard run the risk of being overlooked when presented alongside contemporary pieces that demonstrate more conceptual or gestural elements.

Color Study will be up through Nov. 6 in the Appleby Foundation Gallery. Get more information at ashevilleart.org. .

Ursula Gullow writes about art for Mountain Xpress and her blog, artseenasheville. blogspot.com.

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A great primer to color: Above, David Appleman’s “Summer Sunrise,” acrylic on canvas.

Below, Maud Gatewood’s “Lake Road,” oil on canvas.

PHOTOS COURTESY ASHEVILLE ART MUSEUM

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Lonely Tonight OK, first impression not so great. Did you really think you’d get away with putting all your wet boxers in my dryer? I mean, how long do you think it takes a girl to smoke one cigarette? Anyway, the fact that someone had sewn your name, Harold Melkins, into every pair touched me, though less so after you introduced yourself as Jason.

I was more than happy to help out when you told me the laundromat couldn’t change your fifty, and it was sort of fun folding all your clothes (brought back those days at the mall when I was a Gap girl) while you ate my almond butter and honey sandwich. I love it that it’s your favorite, too! I think the universe wanted us to find each other, and it seems you may have accidentally taken all of my knee socks. If the police found who stole your car, drive to Black Mountain and join me at Underhill Rose.

Underhill Rose is fronted by Eleanor Underhill and Molly Rose Reed, formerly of the Barrel House Mamas. They play a crowd-pleasing style of soulful singer/songwriter, at Pisgah Brewing Company on Saturday, Aug. 6 at 7 p.m.

Helping disoriented romantics navigate the sea of love

by Becky Upham Although Becky will continue to write periodic Profilers, her weekly column will now include new features such as Musical Missed Connections, Have You Seen this Band? and the occasional Personality Quiz. Contact her at beckyupham@gmail. com.

Everywhere I Go

The Way You Do the Things You Do

First, I spot you outside Broadway’s handing out flyers offering a free nose piercing with the purchase of any tattoo. An hour later you’re at the Shell station debating the clerk about which is healthier, Corn Nuts or Funions. Finally, we meet again at 51 Grill where I overhear you offering several colorful alternatives for the adjective “hand-cut” to a man getting ready to change the sign. Without so much as a word you walk straight over to me, fish a Five-Hour Energy out of your bag, pop it open and pour it into my mouth which happens to be open on account of how smoking hot you are. Thanks to your generosity, I was able to drive around aimlessly with my friends until 3:30 in the morning without feeling the slightest bit drowsy. Please wear those shorts again, put on your black lipstick and find me at The Hollywood Undead.

Your booming baritone voice filled the room of my YWCA Silver Sneakers class as you asked the instructor, “Are men allowed in here?” When you put your 3-pound hand weights next to mine, my legs quaked like I was coming out of a deep-knee bend. Our eyes met in the mirror, and it suddenly seemed as if I had known you for a lifetime.

The Hollywood Undead is a hard rock/rap band from Los Angeles whose members perform wearing hockey masks; the band’s second studio album, American Tragedy, was released earlier this year. Find them at the Orange Peel on Thursday, Aug. 4 at 8 p.m.

As we put our mats away, I blurted out, “What does ‘Shawty burning on the dance floor’ mean, anyway?” The next hour flew by as you not only explained the term and its origin, but also why Tyler Perry movies are actually really funny, the possible implications of an NBA lockout and that Cee Lo and Randy Jackson are not the same person. As Randy himself might say, Dawg, you blew my mind! If you want to keep building this bridge and see where it leads us, meet me at Smokey Robinson.

Smokey Robinson was an original member of one of Motown Records’ first vocal groups, The Miracles. His hits include “Shop Around,” “Tears of A Clown” and “Cruisin’.”

He will be performing at the Biltmore Estate on Friday, Aug. 5 at 8 p.m.

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Djembefola Bolokada Conde It’s not every day you get to meet a West African djembefola (master drummer), but on Friday, Aug. 5, Bolokada Conde — a percussionist and performer from Guinea — will appear at Jubilee! He’ll play with Asheville’s Chikomo Marimba and the Skinny Beats Drum Crew at 7 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 6, he’ll do another show at Skinny Beats Drum Shop (4 Eagle St.). Conde “has a passionate style of drumming that connects the audience with a loving and genuine expression.” Tickets are $18 in advance/$ 22 at the door for each show and can be purchased by phone at 768-2826 or at Skinny Beats Drum Shop. Conde will also lead group drum classes for beginners at Skinny Beats on Wednesday, Aug. 3, 6 p.m.; Saturday, Aug. 6, 1 p.m. and Sunday, Aug. 7, 2 p.m. skinnybeatsdrums. com

I Killed My Mother at NC Stage Edgy, contemporary play I Killed My Mother opens at North Carolina Stage Company on Thursday, Aug. 4 (with complimentary tiramisu in the lobby on opening night).

The production, by Theatre-Y, runs through Sunday, Aug. 7, with a talk-back with the actors after each performance. The Romanian play (playwright Andras Visky, with English translation by Alisha O’Sullivan) is about orphan Bernadette and her soulmate, Clip. $15, 7:30 p.m. nightly. ncstage.org.

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The Secret B-Sides and ArtOfficial Local soul/funk/hip-hop outfit The Secret B-Sides headlines the One Stop stage on Thursday, Aug. 4, performing its brand of “flower-poweredfuture-soul for your earholes.” They’re joined on the bill by ArtOfficial, an underground hip-hop act from Miami. According to ArtOfficial’s website, their “setup alone beckons the question, ‘What does a live band with two emcees sound like?’ Well, imagine Soulive with a harder edge or The Roots, but jazzier, and wildly spontaneous.” Showtime is 10 p.m., $5. ashevillemusichall.com. Photo by Karla Garcia

Sew Moe Need another fashion fix this weekend? Moe Erin Donnelly (aka Sew Moe) shows a number of new pieces from her fall/winter collection during a gallery art opening for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden at Pump in the Phil Mechanic Studios.

The show combines Sew Moe’s apparel design work with a brief fashion show. Visual artist Hannah Dansie also exhibits her stylized, fashion-forward work. Educated at Central Saint Martins University in London, UK, before relocating to Asheville, Dansie works in a variety of media but considers herself a painter at heart. Saturday, Aug. 6, opening from 7-9 p.m., fashion show at 7:30 p.m. free. sewmoe.com.

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Art Opening August 1st

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

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•To qualify for a free listing, a venue must be predominately dedicated to the performing arts. Bookstores and cafés with regular open mics and musical events are also allowed.

•To limit confusion, events must be submitted by the venue owner or a representative of that venue.

•Events must be submitted in written form by e-mail (clubland@mountainx.com), fax, snail mail or hand-delivered to the Clubland Editor Dane Smith at 2 Wall St., Room 209, Asheville, NC 28801. Events submitted to other staff members are not assured of inclusion in Clubland.

•Clubs must hold at least TWO events per week to qualify for listing space. Any venue that is inactive in Clubland for one month will be removed.

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Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul)

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Grove Park Inn

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Good Stuff

Westville Pub

Grove Park Inn

Wild Wing Cafe

Jon Corbin (“sonic scientist”) Open mic

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am Haywood Lounge

Open mic

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jus One More

Live bluegrass

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

The Go Devils (psychobilly, punk) Olive or Twist

Cadillac Rex (suft, rockabilly), 8pm

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

One Stop Bar

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Red Room

Duende Mountain Duo Dance party w/ DJ Steele

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Juan Benavides Trio (flamenco), 8-10pm

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Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Jammin’ w/ Funky Max Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

THU., AUGUST 4 Barley’s Taproom

Alien Music Club (jazz jam) Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, bluegrass, country) Blue Note Grille

Taylor Moore (singer/songwriter) Boiler Room

Local DJ Exposure Night (electronic, dance) Craggie Brewing Company

Open mic, 6-9pm

Digital Natives Collective

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am Haywood Lounge

Throwback Thursday w/ DJ Go Hard Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Hot at Nights (jazz, experimental) w/ Mississippi John Doude Olive or Twist

West Coast Swing Dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm One Stop Bar

The Secret B-Sides (hip-hop, R&B, soul) w/ ArtOfficial Orange Peel

“Holy Hip-Hop” w/ DJ Besbleve

Hollywood Undead (rock, metal, hardcore) w/ All That Remains & Hyro Da Hero

Emerald Lounge

Pack’s Tavern

Firestorm Cafe and Books

Pisgah Brewing Company

Creatures Cafe

Dead Night w/ Phuncle Sam Mysterious Rabbit Puppet Army (puppets, theatre)

Laura Michaels (acoustic, country) The Blue Dragons (experimental, folk, rock)

Markley & Balmer

Dance party w/ DJ Steele Red Step Artworks

Open mic

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Open mic w/ Greg Speas, 7-10pm Root Bar No. 1

Jay Brown (Americana, folk) Straightaway Cafe

Homesick Elephants

TallGary’s Cantina

Asheville music showcase The Get Down

Free Lunch w/ Albert Adams & Neapolitan Children Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Peggy Ratusz & friends

Vanuatu Kava Bar

Pasckie Pascua & Caleb Beissert (poetry) Vincenzo’s Bistro

Ginny McAfee (singer-songwriter) Westville Pub

The Brave New Gravelys (pop, rock, folk) Wild Wing Cafe

Dance party w/ DJ Moto

FRI., AUGUST 5 Athena’s Club

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

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Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

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Blue Note Grille

Eric Congdon Blues Quartet Boiler Room

Pocket the Moon (indie, rock) w/ Liam McKay Craggie Brewing Company

Grammer School (indie) Creatures Cafe

World Vision benefit Eleven on Grove

Zumba “In da Club” dance party, 8pm-midnight Salsa dance, midnight-3am Emerald Lounge

Disc Oh! (dubstep) w/ Bassharp & Jer-Bear Fred’s Speakeasy

Dubstruck

Every Wednesday Open Mic Throw Back Thursday w/ DJ Go Hard

FIVE DOLLAR FRIDAY (Top Shelf $5)

-F:@8C -8KLI;8PJ Slow Down Sundays

Brian Turner (jazz piano)

Deli Hours: Wed-Sat 11am-5pm Club & Deli Hours: Wed-Sun 10pm-2am

Garage at Biltmore

590 Haywood Rd. West Asheville, NC • 828.232.4938

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Fractal Phono, Pan Door, Olaf & Spaghetti Man

Featuring the Artwork of

Adam Tetens Open Reception August 13, 6-9pm

heady glass, local art & funky fashion 426 Haywood, West Avl • thecircleasheville.com 254-3332

Good Stuff

iamlove (“electro folk”) Grove Park Inn

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am Handlebar

George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic w/ Craig Sorrells Project Highland Brewing Company

48 Madison (rock, fusion)

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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

Dave Desmelik (Americana) Jack of Hearts Pub

The Jolly Beggars (Celtic) Jack of the Wood Pub

The Vespers (folk)

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Danielle Howle & George Fox (singer/songwriter) Olive or Twist

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm One Stop Bar

Gas House Mouse (blues, funk, soul) Orange Peel

Gillian Welch (folk, Americana, country) Pack’s Tavern

Micah Hanks Duo (bluegrass, rock) Pisgah Brewing Company

Big Something (rock, alternative) Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day or DJ Drea Root Bar No. 1

Kevin Scanlon (bluegrass, folk) Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Straightaway Cafe

Circus Mutt (acoustic rock) TallGary’s Cantina

Twisted Trail (country) The Chop House

Live jazz, 6-10pm

The Get Down

Dead Yet w/ Ritual & Old Mountain The Market Place

Live music

Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub

4 Rounds Left (rock)

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Russ Wilson & His Mighty Mighty Men Vanuatu Kava Bar

Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam) Vincenzo’s Bistro

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

Lyndsay Wojcik, Molly Rose Reed & Utah Green (folk, roots, singer/songwriters) Wild Wing Cafe

Country Fried Fridays w/ Hoss Howard Band

SAT., AUGUST 6

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Altamont Brewing Company

Kill Baby Kill w/ The Monterreys (surf rock), 10pm Athena’s Club

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Barrie Howard (one-man-band) Blue Note Grille

Anon Dixon Day (singer-songwriter) Craggie Brewing Company

Ashley Jo Farmer Band (adult contemporary), 6pm Ken Kiser (“new folk”), 8pm Creatures Cafe

Season Sounds w/ Sarah McCoy Eleven on Grove

Laura Michaels (acoustic, country)

Micah Hanks Duo

(bluegrass, acoustic, rock)

Sat 8/6

Marc Keller

The Vespers (folk)

Westville Pub

Big Daddy Love (Americana)

Jack of the Wood Pub

Justin Kalk Orchestra (“jazzgrass & hiprock”) Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Back stage: dep (electronic, dance) w/ Red Super Giant & Kie Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Zydefunk (funk, Latin, jazz, blues) Olive or Twist

The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm Pack’s Tavern

Lee Griffin Band (blues, rock)

White Horse

Classicopia feat: Daniel Weiser & Sergio Pallottelli Wild Wing Cafe

Once (Pearl Jam tribute)

SUN., AUGUST 7 5 Walnut Wine Bar

Jerome Widenhouse & friends (jazz), 7-9pm Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Second Breakfast

Purple Onion Cafe

French Broad Chocolate Lounge

Red Room

DJ Spy-V

Two Guitars (classical), 10am-noon Bob Zullo (jazz, pop), 6:30-10:30pm

Garage at Biltmore

Root Bar No. 1

Hotel Indigo

Good Stuff

Scandals Nightclub

Underhill Rose (country, folk, soul) Bucktown Kickback

Lorraine Conard Band (Americana, country, blues)

Thur 8/4

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Jack of Hearts Pub

Emerald Lounge

Chachillie (hip-hop) w/ Yuung T & Campaign

LIVE MUSIC... NEVER A COVER

Nate McCoy (acoustic, country, rock)

Peggy Ratusz & Daddy Longlegs (soul, blues, dance)

Pisgah Brewing Company

Ten Cent Poetry (acoustic, folk)

fine foods • 30 brews on tap • patio sports room • 110” projector event space • Sunday Brunch 11-2pm

Iron Horse Station

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Tango lesson & dance w/ Asheville Tango Orchestra, 8pm-midnight Mikeflo (of Dead Prez)

DOWNTOWN ON THE PARK

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

Chris Wilhelm (folk, rock) DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12am

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Shovelhead Saloon

Grove Park Inn

Straightaway Cafe

Kovacs & the Polar Bear (indie, folk, rock) NC Thumbpickers, 2-5pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Broadcast (funk, rock, soul), 8-11pm Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am

Gary Cody w/ Desperado Pat Flaherty (blues, country, folk) TallGary’s Cantina

Jarvis Jenkins (psychedelic, rock) The Chop House

Live jazz, 6-10pm

Handlebar

The Get Down

Traveling Without Moving w/ Stereo Reform

Love Six w/ Them Teasters

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

The Market Place

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

Live music

Hotel Indigo

The Recovery Room

Live music

Boiler Room

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

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (“sonic scientist”), 7-10pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Irish session, 3 & 5pm

Luella’s Bar-B-Que

Jon Corbin (of Firecracker Jazz Band), 1-3pm Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Jeff Coffin & the Mu’Tet (funk, jazz, fusion) Root Bar No. 1

Brother Wolf benefit show Scandals Nightclub

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

Straightaway Cafe

Chris Wilhelm (folk, rock) The Bywater

“Miriam Allen’s Garden Party Music,” 5-8pm The Recovery Room

Fri 8/5

Lee Griffin Band

(blues, rock, acoustic)

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Open 7 Days... 11am - Late

imagine... over 40 gorgeous & tantalizing girls... up close & personal Ladies & Couples Welcome Sports Lounge feat. UFC on big screen Now featuring area’s only “Spinning Pole” Great Drink Specials Every Night

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

see for yourself at

20 S. Spruce St. • 225.6944

TheTreasureClub.com

PacksTavern.com

Off Biltmore Ave. in the new Pack Square Park.

64 AUGUST 3 - AUGUST 9, 2011 • mountainx.com

520 Swannanoa River Rd, Asheville, NC 28805 • Mon - Sat 5pm - 2am • (828) 298-1400

clubdirectory 5 Walnut Wine Bar 253-2593 The 170 La Cantinetta 687-8170 All Stars Sports Bar & Grill 684-5116 Altamont Brewing Company 575-2400 Asheville Civic Center & Thomas Wolfe Auditorium 259-5544 Athena’s Club 252-2456 Avenue M 350-8181 Barley’s Tap Room 255-0504 Beacon Pub 686-5943 Black Mountain Ale House 669-9090 Blend Hookah Lounge 505-0067 Blue Mountain Pizza 658-8777 Blue Note Grille 697-6828 Boiler Room 505-1612 BoBo Gallery 254-3426 Broadway’s 285-0400 The Bywater 232-6967 Clingman Cafe 253-2177 Club Hairspray 258-2027 The Chop House 253-1852 Craggie Brewing Company 254-0360 Creature’s Cafe 254-3636 Curras Nuevo 253-2111 Desoto Lounge 986-4828 Diana Wortham Theater 257-4530 Dirty South Lounge 251-1777

The Dripolator 398-0209 Dobra Tea Room 575-2424 Ed Boudreaux’s Bayou BBQ 296-0100 Eleven on Grove 505-1612 Emerald Lounge 232- 4372 Fairview Tavern 505-7236 Feed & Seed + Jamas Acoustic 216-3492 Firestorm Cafe 255-8115 Frankie Bones 274-7111 Fred’s Speakeasy 281-0920 Fred’s Speakeasy South 684-2646 French Broad Brewery Tasting Room 277-0222 French Broad Chocolate Lounge 252-4181 The Garage 505-2663 The Get Down 505-8388 Good Stuff 649-9711 Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern 232-5800 Grove House Eleven on Grove 505-1612 The Grove Park Inn (Elaine’s Piano Bar/ Great Hall) 252-2711 The Handlebar (864) 233-6173 Hannah Flanagans 252-1922 Harrah’s Cherokee 497-7777 Havana Restaurant 252-1611 Haywood Lounge 232-4938 Highland Brewing Company 299-3370 Holland’s Grille 298-8780

The Hop 254-2224 The Hop West 252-5155 Iron Horse Station 622-0022 Jack of the Wood 252-5445 Jerusalem Garden 254-0255 Jus One More 253-8770 Laurey’s Catering 252-1500 Lexington Avenue Brewery 252-0212 The Lobster Trap 350-0505 Luella’s Bar-B-Que 505-RIBS Mack Kell’s Pub & Grill 253-8805 The Magnetic Field 257-4003 Midway Tavern 687-7530 Mela 225-8880 Mellow Mushroom 236-9800 Mike’s Side Pocket 281-3096 Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill 258-1550 Northside Bar and Grill 254-2349 Olive Or Twist 254-0555 O’Malley’s On Main 246-0898 One Stop Bar 236-2424 The Orange Peel 225-5851 Pack’s Tavern 225-6944 Pisgah Brewing Co. 669-0190 Poppie’s Market and Cafe 885-5494 Posana Cafe 505-3969 Pulp 225-5851 Purple Onion Cafe 749-1179

Live DJ

Phillip Roebuck (one-man-band)

Village Wayside Bar and Grille

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Wayside Sound (acoustic jazz duo)

Lotion (“aggressive lounge”)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Red Room

White Horse

The Bywater

Wild Wing Cafe

The Get Down

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals) Drum circle w/ Steven Townsend, 2-4pm Acoustic on the Patio

MON., AUGUST 8 5 Walnut Wine Bar

No Jacket Required (covers), 8-10pm Altamont Brewing Company

Roots jam w/ Kevin Scanlon Grove Park Inn

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop, guitar), 6:30-10:30pm Handlebar

clubland@mountainx.com

Open mic

“Asheville’s Best Bluegrass Jam,” 8:30pm The Fastboys (rock) w/ Dos Tornados, The DiMarcos Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

Vocal jazz session w/ Sharon LaMotte, 7:30pm Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller

Westville Pub

Open mic

TUE., AUGUST 9

Rankin Vault 254-4993 The Recovery Room 684-1213 Red Stag Grill at the Grand Bohemian Hotel 505-2949 Rendezvous 926-0201 Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill 622-0001 Root Bar No.1 299-7597 Scandals Nightclub 252-2838 Scully’s 251-8880 Shovelhead Saloon 669-9541 Skyland Performing Arts Center 693-0087 Shifters 684-1024 Smokey’s After Dark 253-2155 Straightaway Cafe 669-8856 TallGary’s Cantina 232-0809 Red Room 252-0775 Thirsty Monk South 505-4564 Tolliver’s Crossing Irish Pub 505-2129 Town Pump 669-4808 Tressa’s Downtown Jazz & Blues 254-7072 Vanuatu Kava 505-8118 The Village Wayside 277-4121 Vincenzo’s Bistro 254-4698 Wedge Brewery 505 2792 Well Bred Bakery & Cafe 645-9300 Westville Pub 225-9782 White Horse 669-0816 Wild Wing Cafe 253-3066

5 Walnut Wine Bar

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

Open mic w/ Zachary T, 8:30pm

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, bluegrass, country) Creatures Cafe

Singer/songwriter showcase Eleven on Grove

Swing & Tango lessons, 6:30pm — Dance w/ Michael Gamble & His Rhythm Serenaders, 8pm Garage at Biltmore

Phat Tuesdays

Wed. Aug 3rd

Duende Mountain Trio 10pm $3

__________ Thur Aug 4th

Secret B Sides w/ Art Official 10:00 pm $5

__________ Fri. Aug 5th

Gas House Mouse 10pm $5

Project ReDirectory July 7 - August 18

BRING in your outdated AT&T Real Yellow Pages!

__________ Sat. Aug 6th

TBA __________

Tues. Aug 9th

FUNK JAM! 50¢ Wings!

10pm Free!

NEW VENUE

The CENTER that collects the MOST outdated directories will receive a $500 CASH PRIZE!

Tues. Aug 16th

FUNK JAM!

50¢ Wings! • 10pm Free!

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Woods (indie, rock) w/ White Fence & Naked Gods Grove Park Inn

WE

SANDWICHES

For additional info contact Curbside Managment 828-252-2532 • customerservice@curbie.com

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

2

Tuesday swing dance, 7pm Gene Dillard Bluegrass Jam, 8:30pm Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Pow Pow Hanks (alt-country)

Bring Your Instrument $1 off all Whiskey

THE BRAVE NEW GRAVELYS (Folk, Pop, Hillbilly, Rock & Blues)

FREE SHOW! $1 off All Vodkas

Thursday, Aug 4th

Closed

FRI. 8/5

Private Party

TRIVIA NIGHT 9 pm • Prizes

$3.50 Gin & Tonics • Bring A Team

BIG DADDY LOVE

Friday, Aug 5th

(Appalachian Rock)

www.bigdaddylove.net

48 Madison

$5 Robo Shots

Rock • Outdoor Stage FREE • Doors @ 4pm show is 6-8pm

SUN. 8/7

Saturday, Aug 6th

Closed

(Hosted by Amanda Platt of The Honeycutters)

Buy 1, Get 1 Half Off Appetizers $4 Margaritas

no cover charge (4-8pm) music on new outdoor stage - weather permitting

TUES. 8/9

SAT. 8/6

One Stop Bar

tuesday

PULP

Jus One More / The Pocket / Red Room

The Prids (indie, rock, pop) Rankin Vault Cocktail Lounge

Tuesday Rotations w/ Chris Ballard & guests, 10pm Red Room

Aaron LaFalce (acoustic, rock), 6:30pm The Bywater

Open mic w/ Taylor Martin, 8:30pm The Get Down

Black Lips (garage rock) w/ The Treatment Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues

DJ Eklipse

TUESDAY OPEN BLUES JAM W/ WESTVILLE ALLSTARS Shrimp ‘n Grits • $1 off Rum Drinks

777 HAYWOOD ROAD • 225-WPUB (9782)

www.westvillepub.com

friday

WED., AUGUST 10 5 Walnut Wine Bar

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

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

Creatures Cafe

sunday

Open mic, 9pm

Salsa night (free lessons, followed by dance)

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am Handlebar

Destroy All Sweaters (Weezer tribute) w/ Everlasting Earle Haywood Lounge

BILLIARDS

Open mic

Food

UFC FIGHT S A T U R D A Y, A U G U S T 6 NO COVER

FRIDAY NIGHTS

KARAOKE BY SOUND EXTREME SATU R DAY NIGHTS

DJ BY SOUND EXTREME WEEKLY DRINK SPECIALS

MONDAY - $2.50 LOCAL BREWS TUESDAY - $5 WHISKEY, $4 MARTINIS & WINE, 50¢ WINGS, LADIES SHOOT POOL FOR FREE WEDNESDAY $2 DOMESTIC DRAFTS

THURSDAY NIGHTS BIKE NIGHT $2 BEERS • 35¢ WINGS FAT CAT’S BILLIARDS ON FACEB OOK 2345 HENDERSONVILLE ROAD

828-681-0555

Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm

MUSIC & EVENTS THUR, AUGUST 4 • 8:00PM - FREE

BLUE DRAGONS

FRI, AUGUST 5 • DOORS 7:30PM/SHOW 8:30PM - $5

BIG SOMETHING

SAT, AUGUST 6 • DOORS 8:00PM/SHOW 9:00PM - $6

UNDERHILL ROSE

THUR, AUG 11 • DOORS 8:00PM/SHOW 9:00PM - $12/$16

TR3 FEAT. TIM REYNOLDS WED, AUGUST 3

WET HOP BEER RELEASE 6 TAPS AT 6:00 THIRSTY MONK (DOWNTOWN & SOUTH) BRUSIN’ ALES, BARLEY’S & MELLOW MUSHROOM

SAT, AUGUST 6

HOP’N BLUEBERRY FARM & PISGAH BREWING DUAL HOP TOUR 1:00 @ FARM - $8

Details & Advance Tickets: pisgahbrewing.com

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saturday

Blue Note Grille

Open mic

Grove Park Inn

Darts

Fat Cat’s Billards / Mack Kell’s Midway Tavern / Shifter’s / Shovelhead Saloon The Hangar / Holland’s Grille Jus One More / Midway Tavern / Rendezvous / Shovelhead Saloon / The Still

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Open mic

Billiards

thursday

White Horse

Blues jam

Good Stuff

Sport’s Bar

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

Westville Pub

Irish Sessions, 6:30pm Open mic, 8:45pm

MON. 8/8

wednesday

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

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Marc Keller

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

OPEN MIC IS BACK! Sign up at 7pm

Private Party

Tressa’s Downtown Jazz and Blues / Wild Wing Cafe

Funk jam

THUR. 8/4

monday

Olive or Twist

Al Coffee McDaniel (blues, soul), 8pm

JAMMIN w/FUNKY MAX

WED. 8/3

karaoke

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

The Go Devils (psychobilly, punk) Olive or Twist

Cadillac Rex (suft, rockabilly), 8pm Orange Peel

Underoath (rock, metal) w/ Times of Grace, Stray from the Path & Letlive Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ Steele TallGary’s Cantina

Open mic/jam, 7pm The Get Down

Dope Body w/ HUME Vanuatu Kava Bar

Open mic

Cancun Mexican Grill / Fred’s Speakeasy South / The Hangar The Get Down / Shifter’s Creatures Cafe

“Holy Hip-Hop” w/ DJ Besbleve Emerald Lounge

The Legendary JC’s (funk, R&B, soul) Good Stuff

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul) Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ (Southern rock) Grove Park Inn

Bob Zullo (jazz, pop guitar), 5:30-7:30pm Killer B’s (favorites by request), 8-11pm Non-stop rock ‘n’ roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaine’s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am Handlebar

Toad the Wet Sprocket (rock) w/ Mark Kano Haywood Lounge

Throwback Thursday w/ DJ Go Hard Horizons at Grove Park Inn

Lajos Pagony (piano), 6-10pm Jack of the Wood Pub

Bluegrass jam, 7pm

Lexington Ave Brewery (LAB)

Vincenzo’s Bistro

Steve Whiddon (piano, vocals)

Back stage: Songs of Water (acoustic, folk, world) w/ Troubel & Brett Harris

Westville Pub

Mo-Daddy’s Bar & Grill

Jammin’ w/ Funky Max

Avery County (bluegrass)

Wild Wing Cafe

Olive or Twist

Wing of Fire w/ Jeff & Justin (acoustic)

West Coast Swing Dancing w/ The Heather Masterton Quartet, 8pm

THU., AUGUST 11

Orange Peel

Barley’s Taproom

Pack’s Tavern

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Pisgah Brewing Company

Boiler Room

Purple Onion Cafe

Craggie Brewing Company

Red Room

Alien Music Club (jazz jam) Patrick Fitzsimons (blues, folk, roots) Local DJ Exposure Night (electronic, dance) Open mic, 6-9pm

Johnny Winter (rock, blues) w/ Damon Fowler Howie Johnson (rock, acoustic) TR3 feat: Tim Reynolds

One Leg Up (jazz, swing) Dance party w/ DJ Steele

Red Step Artworks

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

Rock Bottom Sports Bar & Grill

Olive or Twist

Straightaway Cafe

One Stop Bar

Ralph Roddenbery w/ L.J. & Papa String Band

One Leg Up (jazz, swing), 2-5pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm Kellin Watson (folk rock, pop, soul), 8-11pm Non-stop rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am

TallGaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cantina

Orange Peel

Handlebar

Open mic

Open mic w/ Greg Speas, 7-10pm Grace Adele (Americana, country) Asheville music showcase

Tinsley Ellis (blues)

Live jazz, Motown & rock, 8pm

The Get Down

Doc Aquatic (indie, rock) w/ Big Hungry & The Critters

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

Marc Keller Duo (classic rock)

If You Wannas (indie, pop, rock) Peggy Ratusz & friends Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

Ginny McAfee (singer-songwriter)

Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern Red Room

Dance party w/ DJ D-Day or DJ Drea Scandals Nightclub

Westville Pub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 1am

Wild Wing Cafe

Straightaway Cafe

Zoll/Marsh Duo (jazz) Dance party w/ DJ Moto

Neal Crowley (Americana, blues, country)

FRI., AUGUST 12

Southern Experience

Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

Mark Appleford (singer/songwriter, harmonica, guitar), 8-10pm DJ, 10pm-2am Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Acoustic Swing

TallGaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cantina The Chop House

Live jazz, 6-10pm

The Get Down

Ocoai w/ Old Mountain & Judas Horse The Market Place

Live music

Boiler Room

Mechanaut (rock) w/ Air to Burn & Digital Natives Collective Creatures Cafe

Tennessee Jed (Americana, bluegrass, rock) Eleven on Grove

Zumba â&#x20AC;&#x153;In da Clubâ&#x20AC;? dance party, 8pm-midnight Emerald Lounge

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

Tolliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Crossing Irish Pub

Moses Atwood, Liam Mckay & Chris Wilhelm (singer/songwriters) Vanuatu Kava Bar

Space Medicine & the Mystic Ferrymen (ambient, folk, jam) Vincenzoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Bistro

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

Garage at Biltmore

Classicopia: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mellow Celloâ&#x20AC;? feat: Daniel Weiser & Anna Wittstruck

Good Stuff

SAT., AUGUST 13

Grey Eagle Music Hall & Tavern

Athenaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club

Telic (metal) w/ As Sick as Us & more The Rose Familiar (rock) Uncle Mountain (indie folk) CD release show w/ ES Guthrie Grove Park Inn

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

Donna Germano (hammered dulcimer), 2-4pm Bill Covington (piano classics & standards), 5:30-7:30pm The Business (Motown funk), 8-11pm Non-stop rock â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;nâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; roll sing-a-long party show @ Elaineâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Dueling Piano Bar, 8pm-1am

Blue Mountain Pizza Cafe

Handlebar

Boiler Room

Kelen Heller (hard rock) w/ Dogfight & Riot to Fail Highland Brewing Company

Grant DaSantos Band (rock, soul, blues) CD release party Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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

Ron Moore (Americana, folk) Jack of Hearts Pub

Jeff & Vida (Americana, bluegrass) w/ Ryan Cavanaugh Jack of the Wood Pub

The Hooligans (Celtic)

Mark Bumgarner (Americana, bluegrass, country) BoBo Gallery

A Ghost Like Me (instrumental, rock) w/ Graviton (live electronica) & Two Planes Hydraphonic (rock, jazz, experimental) Craggie Brewing Company

Joshua Lee (folk, soul), 7pm Creatures Cafe

Kings of the Foxfire Emerald Lounge

The Nova Echo (ambient, electronic, rock)

Grove Park Inn

Johnny Winter (rock, blues) w/ The Marvin & Marcus King Band Horizons at Grove Park Inn

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

Sunset Sessions w/ Ben Hovey (â&#x20AC;&#x153;sonic scientistâ&#x20AC;?), 7-10pm

Jack of Hearts Pub

INFORMATION: JULIE SMITH, OWNER/BROKER

Open at 3 pm M-Th and Fri-Sun at 11 am

Now You See Them (folk, indie, pop) Jack of the Wood Pub

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

JULIEPMDAVIS@AOL.COM

4 College Street â&#x20AC;˘ 828.232.0809

jWbb]Whoi$Yec

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

Reluctant Saints (country, rock, jam) Olive or Twist

The 42nd Street Jazz Band, 8pm Packâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern

DJ Moto (dance, pop) Pisgah Brewing Company

The Broadcast (funk, rock, soul) Purple Onion Cafe

Aaron Burdett (acoustic, roots) Red Room

DJ Spy-V

Root Bar No. 1

Illicitizen (indie, rock, R&B)

LOCAL FOOD, BEER & MUSIC

Scandals Nightclub

DJ dance party, 10pm Drag show, 12am

LUNCH!

Straightaway Cafe

COME FOR ERY DAY OPEN AT NOON EV

Chompinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; at the Bit (bluegrass, old-time) TallGaryâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Cantina

Chatterbox

The Chop House

Live jazz, 6-10pm

The Get Down

Nick Coward and the Last Battle w/ Ryan Sheffield & Sleeping Weather The Market Place

Live music

The Recovery Room

Live music

Friday, August 5th

Thirsty Monk South

Gene Peyroux & the Acoustalectric Pedals of Love (rock, funk, soul) Marc Keller

Westville Pub

White Horse

MONDAYS Quizzo! 8-10pm WEDNESDAYS Old-Time Jam 6pm & Green Man Pint Special THURS Bluegrass Jam, $1 off Bourbon FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS Shows at 9:30 SUNDAYS Irish Session 5-8pm 8p FRIDAY 8/5

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Good Stuff

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theaterlistings FRIDAY, AUGUST 5 - THURSDAY, AUGUST 11

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

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Candyland (G) 12:00 (Sat-Sun) Cars 2 2D (G) 12:05, 2:40 Cowboys & Aliens (PG-13) 12:25, 1:10, 3:20, 4:05, 6:15, 7:00, 9:05, 9:50, Late show 10:30 Fri only Friends with Benefits (R) 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 3D (PG-13) 11:50, 2:45, 5:45, 8:45 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2D (PG-13) 12:45, 2:05, 3:40, 5:05, 6:35, 8:10, 9:30 (no 3:40 or 6:35 8/9) Horrible Bosses (R) 12:35, 2:55, 5:20, 7:40, 10:15 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D (PG-13) 2:20, 5:30, 9:25 Transformers: Dark of the Moon 2D (PG-13) 5:10, 8:35 Zookeeper (PG) 1:40, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 O CAROLINA ASHEVILLE CINEMA 14 (274-9500)

Buck (PG) 11:50, 4:50, 9:30 (Sofa Cinema) Captain America: The First Avenger 3D (PG-13) 11:30, 10:30 Captain America: The First Avenger 2D (PG-13) 2:15, 5:00, 7:45 The Change-up (R) 12:10, 2:35, 5:05, 7:55, 10:25 Cowboys & Aliens (PG-13) 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Crazy, Stupid, Love (PG-13)

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11:20, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Friends with Benefits (R) 11:55, 2:25, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 (Sofa Cinema) Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 2D (PG-13) 12:20, 4:00, 7:20, 10:15 Horrible Bosses (R) 11:25, 1:50, 4:20, 8:00, 10:20 (Sofa Cinema) Midnight in Paris (PG-13) 11:45, 1:55, 4:15, 7:40, 10:25 Page One: Inside the New York Times (R) 2:20, 7:10 (Sofa Cinema) Project Nim (PG-13) 12:15, 2:40, 5:10, 7:55, 10:10 Rise of the Planet of the Apes (PG-13) 11:40, 2:05, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 The Smurfs (PG) 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:00, 9:25 The Tree of Life (PG-13) 12:05, 3:25, 7:05, 10:05 The Trip (NR) 11:20, 1:55, 4:25, 7:50, 10:20

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pickoftheweek PROJECT NIM +++++

DIRECTOR: JAMES MARSH (MAN ON WIRE) PLAYERS: NIM CHIMPSKY, HERBERT TERRACE, STEPHANIE LAFARGE, LAURA-ANN PETITTO DOCUMENTARY

RATED PG-13

The Story: Documentary about the chimp who was part of a 1970s experiment to teach an animal to communicate through sign language.

The Lowdown: Entertaining, compelling, maddening and finally heartbreaking documentary. Highly recommended.

James Marsh’s new film Project Nim may not be as giddy an entertainment as his Man on Wire (2008), but it’s a work made with a similar vision. (And a similar tendency to resort to recreated footage to make his points on occasion.)

What at first appears to be a slyly amusing film about an experiment that sounds mostly just goofy turns into a reasonably serious indictment — not only of those conducting the experiment, but humanity’s arrogance — and this probably plays a role in why Nim is less fun than its predecessor, The Nim of Project Nim is a chimpanzee named Nim Chimpsky (a nod to ground-breaking linguist Noam Chomsky). Why? Well, the supposed idea behind the project — initiated by Columbia University professor Herbert Terrace — was to disprove Chomsky’s belief that language and the ability to communicate through it is distinctly and uniquely human. The concept was that if a chimp could be taught to communicate through sign language, Chomsky’s belief would be disproven. So Terrace got himself a chimpanzee from a compound in Oklahoma — the baby wrenched away from his tranqulized mother — and plopped him down in the fancy home of Stephanie LaFarge on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

The reasons for choosing LaFarge seem to consist of nothing greater than the fact that Terrace had once had an affair with the woman.

Whatever the case, it was a stunningly bad idea — and certainly the antithesis of scientific. LaFarge and her family — described in the film as “rich hippies” — represented the worst of 1970s counterculture permissiveness.

(And, frankly, the woman comes off no less ditsy in modern interview footage.) Basically — apart from the very dubious business of her breastfeeding the chimp — they dressed him up like a human, diapered him and let him do whatever he wanted. If there were any actual lessons in sign language from her, I never saw them. A somewhat more structured existence with actual lessons took place in Nim’s next

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Nim Chimpsky with his teacher Laura-Ann Petitto in James Marsh’s excellent new documentary Project Nim. home, but the overall problem with the whole idea of raising a chimpanzee like a human child remains.

Worse, there’s the fact that the basic viability of the experiment — and safety of his caretakers — lessens as Nim ages. It doesn’t help matters that Terrace was remarkably hands-off — except perhaps when it came to a photo op.

It isn’t long before Terrace kills the project, returning Nim to the animal compound in Oklahoma. From there, it’s a long slide into ever-worsening circumstances for the animal.

There are some bright spots for Nim, mostly courtesy of Bob Ingersoll, who truly befriends the chimp and helps redress some of the damage done.

The tale has been called Dickensian by a few critics, and that’s not far off the mark.

Nim’s travails would certainly be at home in a Dickens novel. Marsh, however, never works at creating a Dickensian villain — though, interestingly, Terrace inadvertently paints himself as one. It becomes obvious in interviews with the man that none of Nim’s tribulations meant much to him. His memory of specific events is so sketchy and so distracted (he often says what he “thinks” he did, not what he did) that you wonder whether the experiment was ever remotely more than a passing idea that he lost interest in as soon as it started. Ultimately, it’s impossible to have much, if any, sympathy for the man. Nim, on the other hand, earns our full sympathy. Rated PG-13 for some strong language, drug content, thematic elements and disturbing images. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

ASSASSINATION GAMES ++

DIRECTOR: EDDIE BARBARASH PLAYERS: JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME, SCOTT ADKINS, KEVIN CHAPMAN, IVAN KAYE ACTION

RATED R

The Story: Two assassins team up — for wholly different reasons — to kill a crime boss.

The Lowdown: A low budget, competent actioner that’s negligible and forgettable.

Assassination Games probably won’t be in theaters much past the time this review is printed.

Even at that, it’s in nary a theater — locally or nationwide — to begin with. It’s a film that’s obviously built for DVD sales, not the climactic competition of summer movies. Judged within those simple confines, the film is perfectly acceptable action entertainment. People get shot, maimed and punched. That’s the gist of what happens in the film, actually, and that’s pretty much all you need to know when deciding if it’s for you or not.

The only other thing you really need to know is that this film stars Jean-Claude Van Damme, who is currently in the midst of a modest, latecareer renaissance. What we get in this film is a hard-boiled Van Damme, one who is at least attempting to act. (He even lets an unconvincing tear roll down his cheek at one point, like he’s in an anti-littering PSA.) He’ll still never be mistaken for a great actor, but he’s much more palatable here than he was in his mulleted, mini-Schwarzenegger, “Muscles from Brussels” days. He’s also trying to prove he’s capable of

nowplaying ASSASSINATION GAMES ++

HORRIBLE BOSSES ++++

JEAN-CLAUDE VAN DAMME, SCOTT ADKINS, KEVIN CHAPMAN, IVAN KAYE Action Two assassins team up—for wholly different reasons—to kill a crime boss.

A low budget, competent actioner that’s negligible and forgettable. Rated R

JASON BATEMAN, CHARLIE DAY, JASON SUDEIKIS, KEVIN SPACEY, JENNIFER ANISTON, COLIN FARRELL Comedy Three friends decide to murder their truly awful bosses. A solidly entertaining comedy that succeeds solely on the will of its cast. Rated R

BEGINNERS ++++

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS +++++

EWAN MCGREGOR, CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER, MÉLANIE LAURENT, GORAN VISNJIC, KAI LENNOX Comedy Drama Romance A man has to come to terms with both his father’s death and the old man’s late-in-the-day admission—and embracing—of his gayness, while at the same time trying to understand why he sabotages his own relationships. A very good movie that’s almost a great one. Its problem is that one aspect of its story simply doesn’t work as well as the rest of the film. Rated R

OWEN WILSON, MARION COTILLARD, RACHEL MCADAMS, KATHY BATES, COREY STOLL, ALISON PILL, KURT FULLER, MICHAEL SHEEN Romantic Comedy Fantasy A young Hollywood writer with a nostalgia for the 1920s Paris art scene finds himself introduced to his heroes at midnight in an obscure part of town. Whimsical, magical, delightful and about as perfect as it’s possible for a movie to be. A major must-see. Rated PG-13

BUCK +++++

PAGE ONE: INSIDE THE NEW YORK TIMES ++++

BUCK BRANNAMAN Documentary Documentary on “new school” horse trainer Buck Brannaman. A surprisingly involving and even moving film that doesn’t require any particular interest in horses to work with the viewer. Rated PG

DAVID CARR, BILL KELLER, BRIAN STETLER, BRUCE HEADLAM, JIMMY WALES, CARL BERNSTEIN Documentary Documentary covering a year at the New York Times as it fights for its survival in a changing media landscape. Compelling, constantly watchable, but somewhat unfocused documentary that is held together by the subject and the personality of media reporter David Carr. Rated R

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER ++ CHRIS EVANS, HAYLEY ATWELL, HUGO WEAVING, TOMMY LEE JONES, TOBY JONES Comic Book Action During World War II, a skinny weakling is given super powers by the U.S. government, and becomes the superhero Captain America. Goofy comic-book action that’s a couple of steps away from being wholly disastrous, but just barely. Rated PG-13

COWBOYS & ALIENS ++++ DANIEL CRAIG, HARRISON FORD, OLIVIA WILDE, SAM ROCKWELL, PAUL DANO, ADAM BEACH, KEITH CARRADINE Western Sci-Fi When aliens kidnap loved ones and relatives, a gang of cowboys—and later Indians—set out to rescue the victims and put down the invasion.

It’s called Cowboys & Aliens. It has both. It’s hardly great cinema, but it’s mostly fun within its aims. Rated PG-13

PROJECT NIM +++++ NIM CHIMPSKY, HERBERT TERRACE, STEPHANIE LAFARGE, LAURA-ANN PETITTO Documentary Documentary about the chimp who was part of a 1970s experiment to teach an animal to communicate through sign language. Entertaining, compelling, maddening and finally heartbreaking documentary. Highly recommended.

Rated PG-13

THE SMURFS + NEIL PATRICK HARRIS, HANK AZARIA, JAYMA MAYS, SOFIA VERGARA Half-animated Kiddie Flick Several tiny blue beings and their tormentor Gargamel get swept through a portal to modern-day New York. So bad that it makes you dream of sitting through Mr. Popper’s Penguins again—twice. Rated PG

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE ++++

SUBMARINE +++++

STEVE CARELL, RYAN GOSLING, JULIANNE MOOE, EMMA STONE, ANALEIGH TIPTON, JONAH BOBO, MARISA TOMEI Romantic Comedy Drama When his marriage goes on the rocks, a middle-aged man lets himself be “remade” by a younger, successful ladies’ man. Invariably pleasant, entertaing romantic comedy—with drama—that comes off better than the script probably deserved thanks to the performances and direction. Rated PG-13

CRAIG ROBERTS, NOAH TAYLOR, SALLY HAWKINS, PADDY CONSIDINE, YASMIN PAIGE Cominng-of-Age Comedy Drama The story of a young man trying to save (he thinks) his parents’ faltering marriage while also attempting to find a girlfriend and lose his virginity. Effortlessly quirky, endlessly creative coming-of-age comedy from a fresh and vital new filmmaker. This goes in the must-see column.

Rated R

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS ++++

THE TREE OF LIFE ++++

MILA KUNIS, JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, PATRICIA CLARKSON, JENNA ELFMAN, RICHARD JENKINS, WOODY HARRELSON, EMMA STONE Romantic Comedy Two friends decide to enter into a nonromantic sexual relationship with predictable results that are presented in unpredictable ways. Yeah, it’s another R-rated romantic comedy, but it’s the best of its kind—slyly self-aware, charming and not relying on the usual gross-out gags. Rated R

BRAD PITT, SEAN PENN, JESSICA CHASTAIN, HUNTER MCCRACKEN, LARAMIE EPPLER Deep-dish Drama à la Malick Sprawling drama that runs the gamut from creation to a look at a single family. A fascinating film that works part of the time, doesn’t work part of the time, and is at least interesting all of the time. Beware of a non-traditional narrative structure, a deliberate pace and no payoff in the traditional sense. Rated PG-13

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS: PART 2 +++++

THE TRIP ++++

DANIEL RADCLIFFE, RUPERT GRINT, EMMA WATSON, MAGGIE SMITH, ALAN RICKMAN, RALPH FIENNES Horror Fantasy The final entry in the Harry Potter series and the big showdown between Harry and Voldemort is here. A strong, worthy last chapter in the remarkable run of 10 years of Harry Potter movies. Not the best in the series, but not too far off and essential for anyone who cares about the story or the characters.

Rated PG-13

STEVE COOGAN, ROB BRYDON, CLAIRE KEELAN, MARGO STILLEY, REBECCA JOHNSON Comedy Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on a tour of restaurants in Northern England. A preposterous idea for a movie that turns out to be remarkably entertaining and a good deal deeper than the concept sounds. Rated NR

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startingfriday THE CHANGE-UP

The trailers for this return of the body-switching comedy (remember those?) are interesting, since the red-band (or R-rated) trailer has a lot of swearing and some sex talk, but eschews all the baby crap and other bathroom humor found in the green-band trailer. Which is really more offensive, Jason Bateman saying the “f word” or getting shot in the face by projectile baby feces? The tough call was made for us by the MPAA. Anyway, essentially domesticated Jason Bateman and party boy Ryan Reynolds find themselves in each other’s bodies (no, not that way) and have to pretend they’re each other till this can be set to rights. Directed by David Dobkin of Wedding Crashers fame. No, there aren’t any reviews yet. Imagine that. (R)

PROJECT NIM

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

Yep, The Planet of the Apes gets a reboot with this origins story (really?) from up-and-coming director Rupert Wyatt. The film stars James Franco, Freida Pinto, Brian Cox, John Lithgow and a motion-capture Andy Serkis as Caesar the wonder chimp. No reviews yet. The folks at Fox tell us, “An origin story in the true sense of the word, Rise of the Apes is set in present day San Francisco. The film is a reality-based cautionary tale — a science-fiction/science-fact blend where mankind’s hubris leads to the development of intelligence in apes and the onset of a war for supremacy.” (PG-13)

THE TRIP

See review in “Cranky Hanke.”

being humorous, and even a bit human on a couple of occasions.

All of this is another way of saying that Van Damme is actually kind of respectable.

That may also be the best way of describing Assassination Games: respectable. It’s got a weak, skimpy plot about a couple of assassins after the same target. The first (Van Damme) is in it for the money, presumably to maintain his collection of decorative violins, and to feed his pet turtle. The other (Scott Adkins, Undisputed III: Redemption) is out to avenge his comatose wife. The plot is purely an excuse to move from action scene to action scene — all of which are fairly bloody — as all types of baddies and English-speaking Ukrainians get their comeuppance in gruesome, violent ways. I’m not talking a Robocop (1987) level of gore or body count, but Assassination Games is a pretty nasty film at times. In fact, it might have the highest percentage of characters dying in a film since Titanic (1997).

The film’s biggest problem is that it simply doesn’t offer enough. Not enough action, and not enough cleverness in the action that we do get. The film is barebones, competent and not embarrassing, but there’s little on the table beyond that. Sure, the fight scenes are coherent, but they’re not too terribly imaginative — let alone fun — while the storyline is a parade of flimsy tropes and flimsier archetypes. Worst of all, Assassination Games is often kind of dull, taking its time getting to its bread and butter — the action. At times, the production looks and feels more like a poorly planned skin flick, but with better acting. Unless you’re the most diehard of Van Damme-devoted action fans, this film isn’t for you. Rated R for strong brutal and bloody violence, torture, language and some sexuality/nudity reviewed by Justin Souther Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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COWBOYS & ALIENS ++++

DIRECTOR: JON FAVREAU PLAYERS: DANIEL CRAIG, HARRISON FORD, OLIVIA WILDE, SAM ROCKWELL, PAUL DANO, ADAM BEACH, KEITH CARRADINE WESTERN SCI-FI

RATED PG-13

The Story: When aliens kidnap loved ones and relatives, a gang of cowboys — and later Indians — set out to rescue the victims and put down the invasion.

The Lowdown: It’s called Cowboys & Aliens. It has both. It’s hardly great cinema, but it’s mostly fun within its aims.

Jon Favreau’s Cowboys & Aliens may not be everything it could have been, but for a movie boasting six credited writers and sixteen producers, executive producers, associate producers and co-producers (with names like Spielberg, Brian Grazer and Ron Howard among them), it’s better than it has any right to be. With that pedigree, it’s actually remarkable that the resulting film feels like there’s even a drop of Jon Favreau’s style in it. Amazingly, the film feels about 75 percent Favreau — a pretty good average considering. Not surprisingly, the other 25 percent is where most of the problems lie. And, unfortunately, those problems come mostly in the final section of the film.

What we have is a hybrid of Western and scifi B movies. That’s not entirely a new concept.

Sci-fi elements — and even more horror ones — have crept into westerns for a very long time.

Anyone remember Gene Autry — in between radio broadcasts — dealing with the technologically-advanced (ray guns and robots) denizens of the underground kingdom of Murania in the 1935 serial The Phantom Empire? Of course, these days, this concept has to be gussied up a good bit, although the updates work better with the Western end of things than the sci-fi.

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There’s only so much you can do to tart up a Western and leave the basic — and rather spare — elements in place. The sci-fi aspect of the film works most of the time in the earlier parts of the film, where the elements are more limited and we don’t see that much of the aliens.

Conceptually, we have the “bug-eyed monsters” of the old-school sci-fi realm as our baddies, and the design of the monsters is mostly in keeping with aesthetic. Later in the film, however, the temptations of CGI start to kick in. I have no qualms about special effects being improved on, and it suits the film as Cowboys & Aliens slowly turns into a big-budget variant on William Cameron Menzies’ Invaders from Mars (1953) in the final act. I’m good with the impressiveness of the settings — even though these too are primarily computer created. But I do have a problem with how our bug-eyed monsters quickly succumb to scurrying about in the same ho-hum manner of most CGI aliens and monsters. The nifty retro identity goes South during the climax, and the effectiveness of the monsters go with it. (Even Favreau’s own 2005 film Zathura did this better.)

However, this almost feels like carping when the overall movie is so much fun. The committee-created screenplay is at least straightforward, appropriately cliched and agreeably kind of dumb — just like the sort of films that inspired it. The basic idea of an alien invasion in the Wild West is amusing, and the idea of an alien gold-rush mentality somewhat more so.

Considering that the aliens have no trouble at all knocking off humans, it’s certainly a stretch that there’s any reason for them to be abducting folks to “study their weaknesses.” But, hey, that’s the kind of plot these movies usually had, and it fits. The Western tropes — the drifter who’s lost his memory (Daniel Craig), the ruthless rancher who’ll turn out OK (Harrison Ford), the clueless boob who becomes a hero (Sam Rockwell), the worthless son of the rancher who gets snatched by aliens (Paul Dano) etc. — all work. And they work, in part, because they’ve always worked.

It helps to no end, of course, that the film is so well cast. That’s one of the good things about a big production: It can afford the best cast money can buy. And in this case, it bought a perfectly chosen one. A great movie? Oh, not in the least.

But it’s a good time at the movies — something all these summer releases aim for, but very often don’t achieve. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of western and sci-fi action and violence, some partial nudity and a brief crude reference. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carmike 10, Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE ++++

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DIRECTOR: GLENN FICARRA, JOHN REQUA (I LOVE YOU, PHILLIP MORRIS) PLAYERS: STEVE CARELL, RYAN GOSLING, JULIANNE MOOE, EMMA STONE, ANALEIGH TIPTON, JONAH BOBO, MARISA TOMEI ROMANTIC COMEDY DRAMA

RATED PG-13

The Story: When his marriage goes on the rocks, a middle-aged man lets himself be “remade” by a younger, successful ladies’ man.

The Lowdown: Invariably pleasant, entertaing romantic comedy — with drama — that comes off better than the script probably deserved thanks to the performances and direction.

Crazy, Stupid, Love is a good film that never quite becomes a very good film, even though it sometimes flirts with greatness — especially when Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone are onscreen. It’s a film that tries to do too much, and tries to do it too neatly. The problem lies with Dan Fogelman’s screenplay. It has merits — clever dialogue, some good characters, a pleasingly humanistic tone — but it also suffers from a more-than-slightly sitcom mentality that insists everything can be nicely tidied up (assuming we forget some subordinate characters) in two hours of movie. The idea of tackling a multi-character set of love stories (the types described by the title) isn’t unreasonable. Richard Curtis did it splendidly with Love Actually (2003). Garry Marshall did it with considerably less success with Valentine’s Day (2010). Thankfully, this is closer to the former, though still a long way from being in that league.

Cal (Steve Carell) is — he thinks — a happily married man. At dinner one night, his wife Emily (Julianne Moore) tells him she wants a divorce. On the ride home, she insists on confessing that she’s slept with a co-worker, David Lindhagen (Kevin Bacon).

Cal does the only sensible thing — he jumps out of the car. Talked back into the car by Emily, he returns home with her where he announces the situation to son Robbie (Jonah Bobo, Zathura), daughter Molly (Joey King, Ramona and Beezus) and babysitter Jessica (Analeigh Tipton, The Green Hornet). (As it turns out Robbie has a crush on Jessica, who in turn has a crush on Cal.) Soon Cal has moved into a featureless apartment and has taken to going to a bar, drinking to excess and telling anyone who will — and in some cases won’t — listen about his wife and David Lindhagen. This changes when Jacob (Ryan Gosling) — a very successful ladies’ man who never leaves the bar alone, either takes pity on Cal, or is simply fed up with hearing about David Lindhagen — takes him under his wing and remakes him into at least a potential babe magnet. Using a mix of Jacob’s advice and his own ideas, he manages to score with a lonely — and ultimately rather odd — schoolteacher, Kate (Marisa Tomei), starting him down the path towards an easy, if not exactly fulfilling, dating life.

THE SCARLET EMPRESS +++++

DIRECTOR: JOSEF VON STERNBERG PLAYERS: MARLENE DIETRICH, JOHN LODGE, SAM JAFFE, LOUISE DRESSER, C. AUBREY SMITH STYLIZED HISTORICAL DRAMA RATED NR Josef von Sternberg’s penultimate Marlene Dietrich film finds the object of his obsession playing Catherine the Great. That should be enough to get you to want to see The Scarlet Empress (1934) by itself, but there’s more — very much more. Sternberg called his film a “relentless excursion into style,” and he wasn’t just whistling the “1812 Overture” (though he would conduct a symphony orchestra playing that — and “Ride of the Valkyries” — before the production was over). Supposedly based on “a diary of Catherine II” (which is almost certainly pure moonshine), what he made is a phantasmagoria of sex, sadism, political intrigue and more sex — not to mention Dietrich in an array of Travis Banton gowns (and one all-white army uniform). And it all takes place in a Russia that never existed outside the imaginings of Sternberg’s mind. Grotesque statuary, ikons and gigantic doors in structures somewhere between, in Sternberg’s words, “a barn and a palace” — all full of candles, incense smoke and net curtains. There was nothing like it before and would be nothing quite like it ever again. It has to be seen to be believed, as either Sternberg’s masterpiece or the grandest folly any filmmaker ever got away with at a major studio. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Asheville Film Society will screen The Scarlet Empress Tuesday, August 9, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted by Xpress movie critics Ken Hanke and Justin Souther. Hanke is the artistic director of the A.F.S.

THE STRANGE CASE OF DR. RX / THE LAST WARNING ++++ DIRECTOR: WILLIAM NIGH / ALBERT S. ROGELL PLAYERS: PATRIC KNOWLES, ANNE GWYNNE, MANTAN MORELAND / PRESTON FOSTER, FRANK JENKS, KAY LINAKER HORROR/MYSTERY RATED NR The Thursday Horror Picture Show is having an old-style “Shock Theater” package this week. In other words, it’s exactly like one of the Friday late-show double features you would have seen on TV back in the 1960s. In fact, it’s programmed exactly after that fashion — one horror movie with The Strange Case of Dr. Rx (1942) and one plain mystery-comedy with The Last Warning (1938). It was apparently thought that the Universal logo on a mystery qualified it as part of the “Shock” package, which was useful for broadening youthful cinematic horizons if nothing else. Actually, these are both more mystery than horror, though Dr. Rx is a mystery with horror trappings (movies with hooded scientists with electrical gizmos and a pet gorilla aren’t quite your average mystery) and one horror star in Lionel Atwill (whose character name would give away his function) in what amounts to be a bit part. Both it and The Last Warning, however, are slick, fast and fun — not to mention sometimes funny.

That’s especially true of Dr. Rx, with not only Mantan Moreland (he steals the show), but also Shemp Howard on hand. The Last Warning, however, boasts some pretty fine repartee between detectives Preston Foster and Frank Jenks, along with the Southern-fried ditsiness of comedienne Joyce Compton. It all makes for a fun evening of movies. reviewed by Ken Hanke The Thursday Horror Picture Show will screen The Strange Case of Dr. Rx and The Last Warning on Thursday, August 4, at 8 p.m. in the Cinema Lounge of The Carolina Asheville and will be hosted

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Now, off to the side of this is Hannah (Emma Stone), a woman that Jacob unsuccesfully hit on before, and who is devoted to Richard (Josh Groban) for some inexplicable reason. Circumstances, however, find her finally taking Jacob up on his earlier offer, which, owing to the kind of movie we’re in, ends up meaning more to both of them than either ever imagined. Even though this is such a foregone conclusion that there are no surprises, their relationship and performances are quite the best thing in the movie. It would be unfair to ignore that part of why this works is Fogelman’s dialogue, but it’s Gosling and Stone that really make these scenes shine.

Of course, the film also has to contend with the Jessica-Robbie plotline, the Jessica-Cal plotline, the Emily-David Lindhagen plotline and the inevitable Cal-Emily plotline. Some of this works. Some of it doesn’t quite. And some of it feels perfunctory and sitcomish.

The performances help, as do a couple of amusing surprises (that, in retrospect, were obviously set up from the start), but a lot of what keeps the film agreeable is the clever direction of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa.

That anyone can mostly compress the requisite romantic-comedy gloomy bits into a series of stylish moving shots from one character to the next is a notable accomplishment. Yes, I went in wanting to love this film and came out only liking it, but these days that’s not too shabby.

Rated PG-13 for coarse humor, sexual content and language. reviewed by Ken Hanke Playing at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14, Epic of Hendersonville, Regal Biltmore Grande, United Artists Beaucatcher Cinema 7

THE SMURFS +

DIRECTOR: RAJA GOSNELL (BEVERLY HILLS CHIHUAHUA) PLAYERS: NEIL PATRICK HARRIS, HANK AZARIA, JAYMA MAYS, SOFIA VERGARA HALF-ANIMATED KIDDIE FLICK

RATED PG

The Story: Several tiny blue beings and their tormentor Gargamel get swept through a portal to modern-day New York.

The Lowdown: So bad that it makes you dream of sitting through Mr. Popper’s Penguins again — twice.

For those who claim that if I don’t like a movie, they know it’s good — has Hollywood ever got a treat lined up here! It’s the latest hairball of a movie hacked up by Raja Gosnell, a director whose reputation for massively tasteless, awful movies is only enhanced by it.

Yes, it’s The Smurfs. It’s everything you probably feared and then some. The “then some” comes mostly from the movie’s attempts to cast itself in post-modern terms, desiring to be a movie that cashes in on the old cartoon series, while being snarky about it and positioning itself as better and smarter than the thing it mines. This mostly comes across as being cynically contemptuous of its source material.

Mindful of all that cabbage Alvin and the Chipmunks raked in (for whatever unfortunate reason), The Smurfs opts not to make an

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actual Smurf movie, but one that transports the annoying little blue creatures — and their now live-action nemesis Gargamel (Hank Azaria hiding behind a fake nose and a bald cap that keeps puckering where it’s glued on) — to modern day New York City and a cast of, you know, actual human actors.

As a result, only the very first part of the movie takes place in Smurftopia or whatever it’s called. According to the film, a blue moon opens a portal between a waterfall in the Smurf world and a fountain in Central Park. And where the main Smurfs go, the villainous Gargamel and his mostly CGI cat henchman Azrael (voiced by Frank Welker) follow. Of course, while logic would hint that the remaining Smurfs are pretty much at Gargamel’s mercy with Papa Smurf (voiced

by Jonathan Winters) out of the way, the plot demands that the baddies must go as well.

Once the action moves to New York, the Smurfs get themselves mixed up — and involved — with beleagured ad man Patrick Winslow (Neil Patrick Harris) and his pregnant wife Grace (Jayma Mays, TV’s Glee).

Patrick is already stressed by a two-day deadline to deliver an ad campaign to “comically” terrifying boss Odile (Sofia Vergara, TV’s Modern Family) — not to mention his innate fear of fatherhood. Now, he’s got Smurfs on his hands — Smurfs who crash his place of business and put his job in jeopardy (see also Mr. Popper’s Penguins and Hop, two liveaction/CGI kiddie films from this year with practically identical premises). Grace, on the other hand, bonds with the blue beings. Of course, Patrick will too before it’s all over.

He’ll also learn What Really Matters and blah, blah, blah. It’s all remedial kiddie flick 101, which might be fine if you’re 5-years-old and seeing your first movie. (Sadly, that misses me by 51 years and several thousand movies.)

Yes, that awful “La La La” Smurf song is present — something they try to defuse by having characters comment on how annoying it is. (Personally, I think it’s a tie as to whether it or the also-present Vampire Weekend song “Holiday” wins in the annoying category, though the latter wore out its debatable value in nonstop Honda ads some time back.) This kind of commentary is one of the gimmicks meant to make the movie somehow appealing to adults. In that same vein, we have a Brokeback Mountain (2005) reference and — of all things — a Dustin Hoffman impression from Midnight Cowboy (1969). Really? I figure maybe six people who actually watched this got that one — and they were all 50-plusyear-old movie critics.

But honestly, it’s a big-screen Smurf movie.

It’s a big-screen Smurf movie made by the guy who gave us Bevery Hills Chihuahua, both Scooby Doo movies and Yours, Mine and Ours.

What were the odds that it wasn’t going to be pretty awful? Rated PG for some mild rude humor and action. 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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DIARY OF A COUNTRY PRIEST +++++

DIRECTOR: ROBERT BRESSON PLAYERS: CLAUDE LAYDU, JEAN RIVEYRE, ADRIEN BOREL, RACHEL BĂ&#x2030;RENDT, NICOLE MAUREY DRAMA RATED NR Like all of Robert Bressonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work, appreciation of Diary of a Country Priest (1951) comes down to a matter of taste. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the kind of spare, slow cinema that is easier to admire than it is to actually enjoy. The film â&#x20AC;&#x201D; based on a novel by Georges Bernanos â&#x20AC;&#x201D; tells the story of a priest (Claude Laydu) who comes to take over a parish that has, by all evidence, thoroughly gone to seed. This is a cruel, unfriendly place and an almost impossible one for the naive young priest â&#x20AC;&#x201D; especially, since the man is also sick. As you can tell from that setup, this isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t exactly a happy movie â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and that should be borne in mind. This is a film about faith and suffering, and also the lack of faith. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about a man who appears to be determined to martyr himself, and about the people he seems to be incapable of helping. Ironically, his one success with reaching another human being through his faith will be instrumental in his own undoing. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all pretty powerful stuff, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s definitely for specialized tastes. reviewed by Ken Hanke Classic World Cinema by Courtyard Gallery will present Diary of a Country Priest at 8 p.m. Friday, August 5, at Phil Mechanic Studios, 109 Roberts St., River Arts District (upstairs in the Railroad Library). Info: 273-3332, http://www.ashevillecourtyard.com

THE TRIP ++++

DIRECTOR: MICHAEL WINTERBOTTOM PLAYERS: STEVE COOGAN, ROB BRYDON, CLAIRE KEELAN, MARGO STILLEY, REBECCA JOHNSON COMEDY

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The Story: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon go on a tour of restaurants in Northern England.

The Lowdown: A preposterous idea for a movie that turns out to be remarkably entertaining and a good deal deeper than the concept sounds.

There is no earthly reason why Michael Winterbottomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s The Trip should work, and several reasons why it shouldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t. Remarkably, it does work. First of all, the film is a cut-down version of a BBC TV series, and with a concept that might not travel well. It consists of several days of Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon driving around the North of England and eating at posh restaurants so that Coogan can write an article for The Observer. That doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t sound like much, but it turns out to be very entertaining and even surprisingly moving.

It should be noted that the film isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t documentarian in nature. Neither Coogan nor Brydon are playing themselves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; or not exactly. They are playing characters called Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, and are given their real backgrounds, histories, resumes etc. Plus, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no script, so theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re speaking in their own words.

But it would be fairer to say that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re here playing versions of themselves â&#x20AC;&#x201D; with a good deal of dramatic license. This actually adds a level of interest, since itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impossible to tell the real from the fictional. And for that matter, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard to tell if either of them quite know where reality leaves off and fiction takes over. Right or wrong, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s difficult to escape the sense that just perhaps theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re revealing considerably more truth than they realize or intend.

The set-up is played strictly for laughs.

Coogan took this assignment at the urging of

girlfriend Mischa (Margo Stilley), and it was supposed to be a romantic getaway. However, she bailed out, and no one else wants to go. So heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s reduced to asking Brydon. Brydon may or may not be Cooganâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best friend, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that they donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like each other all that much, and each finds the other aggravating. Coogan in particular finds Brydonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apparent inability to not constantly do impressions exasperating.

What makes this much worse is that Coogan is convinced that his own impressions of the same people â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Michael Caine, Sean Connery, Richard Burton, Ian McKellen etc. â&#x20AC;&#x201D; are superior to the ones heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s being subjected to. This, in fact, becomes the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s running gag â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s one that works better than it sounds, much like the film overall.

There is, as you might guess, no plot beyond the situation, but what is most surprising is the way in which the film gets at the layers of insecurity beneath the surfaces of both men. (In this regard, I suspect the edited feature film may actually work better than the TV series it came from.) Both men are trying not to come to terms with the fact that theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re in their mid-40s, and are very likely as famous as theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re going to get. Coogan, in particular, still harbors leadingman notions and desires to be a serious actor, but realizes that these things probably arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t going to happen. That Brydon at least seems more comfortable with this fact about himself only serves to make him that much more irritating to Coogan.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the suggestion of this something more going on beneath the surface of the two characters that keeps The Trip from simply being a movie about bickering friends driving, eating and trying to one-up each other in terms of impressions. If that was all there is to the film, my guess is that The Trip would become tiresome very quickly â&#x20AC;&#x201D; and I never once found it that. In fact, quite the opposite. Not Rated, but contains sexuality, language and drug use. reviewed by Ken Hanke Starts Friday at Carolina Asheville Cinema 14

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2BR, 1.5BA HENDERSONVILLE • 912 Hillcrest. Garage, deck. $605/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

Apartments For Rent 1 BEDROOM/1 BATHROOM, Hendersonville, 2010 Laurel Park, $505, Off-Street Parking, Coin-Op Laundry.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1 LARGE ROOM STUDIO APT. • WEAVERVILLE Furnished detached garage apartment, ground level.

Near park. Walk to town.

Clean. $480/month, electric included, 1 year lease. 1st and last months + cleaning deposit required. • No smoking/pets.

828-683-5463 / 828-216-4100.

1.5BR, 1BA NORTH • 346 Montford. Hardwood floors, coin-op laundry. $695/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1920’s CLOSE TO DOWNTOWN AND UNCA • Hillside St. Spacious and light-filled. 2BR/1BA with hardwood floors, large windows, good closet space. $725/month includes heat, hot and cold water. Tenant pays for electricity. Laundry included. Plenty of off-street parking. For appt: 775-1193, Debra.

1BA/STUDIO • 85 Merrimon. Summer Special!

All utilities included. $650/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA FLETCHER • 9 Pearson. Central A/C, deck. $535/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 1BR, 1BA HENDERSONVILLE • 411 Buncombe. Hardwood floors, fireplace. $455-$550/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

1BR, 1BA SOUTH • 30 Allen.

A/C, patio, storage. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

2BR, 1.5BA NORTH • 30 Clairmont. Coin-op laundry.

Great location. $675/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA EAST • 7 Violet Hills. D/W, pets ok. $595/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 20 Brookdale. Central A/C, deck. $650/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 1BA 1746 Tunnel Rd. Central A/C, W/D hookups. $615/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA EAST • Starting Sept. 15. W/D, window A/C, pool. Spacious and conveniently located. Must see. For more info call: 5053603 or 423-2780 or feder2@webtv.net 3BR, 1BA DOWTOWN • 68 N. French Broad. Hardwood floors, central A/C. $1,145/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com CHARMING BASEMENT EFFICIENCY Between downtown and UNCA- close walk to town and Greenlife.

Gas heat, A/C unit. Lots of off-street parking. $495/month includes hot and cold water. Security deposit, year’s lease, credit check and references req. 1 cat ok w/fee. For appt: Graham Investments 253-6800.

1BR, 1BA NORTH • 16 Westall. Great location, W/D hookups. $575/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

NEW APARTMENT VILLAGE IN NORTH ASHEVILLE Brand new mixed-use village with gorgeous one, two and three bedroom apartments.

Washer/dryer included. Pool, hot-tub and sauna. Move-in specials! (828) 225-6621 theloftsatreynoldsvillage.com

1BR, 1BA NORTH • 198 Kimberly. Patio, carport. $625/month. 828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

NORTH ASHEVILLE • 3BR, 1BA. 1 mile to downtown. On busline. $595/month.

828-252-4334.

SPACIOUS AND CHARMING 1BR APARTMENT IN BLACK MOUNTAIN Access to 1,600 acres of hiking trails.

Extraordinary mountain views. Ten minutes from Black Mountain. Beautifully landscaped garden.

Washer/dryer furnished.

Includes all utilities. $150/month includes all utilities: Central H/A, free cable hook-up. Seeking quiet, non-smoking individual without pets.

Apartment located in private residence with separate entrance. $600/month.

828.713.2163.

UNFURNISHED 3 AND 4BR APTS • In West Asheville.

Water, garbage included.

Swimming pool on site. On bus line. $699-$769/month month. Call 828-252-9882.

WEST-ACTON WOODS APTS • 2BR, 2BA, 1100 sq.ft. $800/month. Includes water and garbage pickup. Call 253-0758. Carver Realty.

CENTRAL • 1BR, 1BA. Hardwood floors. $550/month 253-0758.

Carver Realty.

Mobile Homes For Rent FLETCHER SINGLEWIDE 2BR, 2BA with large, fenced yard and covered deck.

Great location close to I-26, schools, and shopping. $595/month. Security deposit required. Call David, 828-777-0385.

WEST ASHEVILLE • 2BR, 2BA. W/D connections. Close to downtwon. Quiet park. $595/month. Accepting Section 8. 828-252-4334.

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.

Homes For Rent 2BR, 1BA NORTH • 41 Henrietta. Central A/C, basement. $995/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com 2BR, 2BA • LOG HOME In wooded setting. Hardwood floors, cathedral ceilings, front and back porches, large yard. Hi speed internet.

Quiet community, only minutes from Weaverville and Asheville. Pets considered. $900/month with deposit. 828-649-1170.

3BR, 2BA FLETCHER • 62 Old Johnson Farm. A/C, large yard. $975/month.

828-253-1517. www.leslieandassoc.com

jobs 51 WEST CHAPEL ROAD • OAKLEY AREA 3BR, 2BA house convenient to South Asheville and Oakley.

TED REN large Hardwood floors, fenced back yard.

Washer/Dryer included.

Central A/C. Available August 1 • $1025/month.

(828) 279-7699.

ARDEN • 3BR, 2BA Central heat/air, all electric, all appliances, city water, basement, storage building, large lot w/big backyard! $1000/month, lease plus deposit. (828) 230-5872.

BLACK MOUNTAIN • Original Arts and Crafts stone cottage, lovingly restored keeping all architectural details. 4 bedroom, 2 bath. New highefficiency HVAC system.

Hardwood floors, privacy fence, fireplace, great neighborhood. No Smoking. $1200/month.

828-298-3933.

HOUSE IN COUNTRY ON 80 ACRES 2-3BR/2BA. Spring water, Leicester area. 1 of 2 houses on 80 acres.

Washer/dryer/dishwasher included. 1-2 yr. lease, $700/month. Horses possible, stocked pond.

Available Aug.1st.

828-230-3164, hwboessenkool@yahoo.com NORTH ASHEVILLE • 3BR, 1BA. 1 mile to downtown. On busline. $595/month.

828-252-4334.

RESORT LIVING AT LAKE LURE 2800 sq.ft. stream, waterfall. 3BR/3BA, W/D, recent updates, deck, walk to lake, some resort amenities. No pets, no smoking. $950/month. $950/deposit + $200. Credit check, references.

828-697-8166. eagleborne@morrisbb.net SWEET 3BR, 2BA LOG CABIN • With bonus room.

Quiet on 3.70 acres. Mars Hill. $1250/month. 1st, last, security and 1 yr lease.

Photos: SouthernLifeRealty.com Contact: Sandy@ SouthernLifeRealty.com

Vacation Rentals BEAUTIFUL LOG CABIN Sleeps 5, handicap accessible. Near Warren Wilson College, Asheville, NC. (828) 231-4504 or 277-1492. bennie14@bellsouth.net

Short-Term Rentals 15 MINUTES TO ASHEVILLE Guest house, vacation/short term rental. Newly renovated, complete with everything including cable and internet. Weaverville area. • More information: (828) 658-9145. mhcinc58@yahoo.com

Roommates ALL AREAS ROOMMATES.COM. Browse hundreds of online listings with photos and maps. Find your roommate with a click of the mouse! Visit: http://www.Roommates.com.

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LOOKING FOR A PEACEFUL ROOMMATE Pet friendly, $430 a month not including utilities, washer/dryer, 24/7 gym,pool,club house, trails, balcony/patio, dish washer, microwave, fireplace, wireless Internet, A/C private bathroom and walk-in closet.

Fmale preferred. Available 8/1. 305-304-0113.

ROOMMATE WANTED Ecofriendly on dead-end street, convenient to UNCA, 19/23/26. Hardwoods, airy, WiFi, laundry, great gardens. $400/month + 1/2 utilities.

Available Aug 1st.

828-281-1778.

Employment

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Mountain Xpress is looking for an experienced freelance graphic designer who has the proven ability to create edgy, effective advertising and assist in the layout of our weekly print publication.

The ideal candidate thrives in a fast-paced environment, has a strong attention to detail, an exceptional creative eye and a desire to ensure the high quality output our readers expect.

This is a freelance position that requires flexible hours and the possibility to progress to part or full-time.

Candidates must: • Be highly creative and motivated • Be able to create advertising and editorial designs in a fast-paced work environment • Be able to work with advertising representatives to ensure ads exceed client expectations • Be able to simultaneously handle multiple projects • Be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite programs (InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop) • Be fluent in the Mac OSX platform • Have 2-3 years graphic design experience minimum • Any newspaper work, prepress experience and web design experience a plus.

Email cover letter, resume, and portfolio in PDF format to designer@mountainx.com. URLs to portfolios also accepted.

No applications or portfolios by mail or phone calls please.

Mountain Xpress is an Equal Opportunity Employer

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ACTORS/MOVIE EXTRAS Needed immediately for upcoming roles $150$300/day depending on job requirements. No experience, all looks.

1-800-560-8672 A-109.

For casting times/locations.

(AAN CAN) BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY 50 yr old Distribution Company looking for online trainers. Flexible hours, work from home. www.2dreambigger.com hatchellburt@aol.com CAB DRIVERS Needed at Blue Bird; call JT 258-8331.

Drivers needed at Yellow Cab; call Buster at 253-3311.

MANUFACTURING JOBS First and second shift. Call (980) 295-9104 or (704) 604-2587, between 12pm-5pm.

PAID IN ADVANCE • Make $1,000 a Week mailing brochures from home!

Guaranteed Income! FREE Supplies! No experience required. Start Immediately! homemailerprogram.net (AAN CAN)

Administrative/ Office

Sales/ Marketing

OFFICE ASSISTANT To burn, stock, package, and ship DVDs. Computer speed and number accuracy is very important. Background check required. $8/hour.

MWF, 10am-4pm, West Asheville. mattmorgan0@gmail.com ON-CALL MANAGER A New Hope Home Care (www.anewhopehomecare.c om) is looking for an on-call manager to handle incoming messages after hours and on weekends. The weekly pay is $50 to $250 and is based on total case load hours.

Targeting a mid to late August start date. If interested contact Chuck Lee at chuck@ anewhopehomecare.com PARKWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: Job opening for a Medicaid/State Billing Specialist to work with funding sources. Staff will be located in our Hendersonville or Asheville Offices. Position is full-time and Parkway offers excellent competitive salary and benefits. Send resume and cover letter to: bclark@parkwaybh.com.

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

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Hospitality

Health Care

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AT DOWNTOWN INN Starting salary $9/hr. Full time Desk clerks needed at Downtown Inn. Apply at 120 2011 UNITED WAY ANNUAL CAMPAIGN Help make your community better and make professional connections that last a lifetime. United Way of Asheville and Buncombe County seeks a team of energetic and talented individuals to assist in the 2011 annual campaign. • Key experience and skills needed are: Fundraising, Sales, Public Speaking; Teamwork, Project Management, Math and Computer skills. These fulltime/temporary positions run 8/22/11 - 11/4/11. • For more information and to apply visit unitedwayabc.org/employ ment-opportunities PROFESSIONAL SALES Fortune 200 company recruiting sales associates in this area. • $30-$50K possible first year. • Renewals • Stock Bonuses • Training. For an interview, call (828) 670-6099 or e-mail resume: CandiceAdms@aol.com SALES PROFESSIONALS Start a career in Executive Recruiting. • Training provided. • Office setting. • Commission driven. Draw possible. • 3 openings. Call today: (828) 277-6988. resumes@ thurmondco.com

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TRANSPORTATION AND

Work hours are Monday-

TAXI SERVICE, INC. •

Friday, 9am-5 pm (with one

Seeking drivers. Mature person for F/T or P/T. Serious inquiries only. Call today.

828-713-4710.

Retail FULL-TIME STOCKPERSON

hour paid lunch break) and No evening, weekend or holiday work required. We offer a very competitive salary, along with an excellent benefits package.

Tops for Shoes is accepting

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time position which offers

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mail to Director of Human

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Resources, P.O. Box 338,

a lunch allotment. Applicants must be willing to work Saturdays. Please apply in person at 27 N. Lexington Ave, Downtown Asheville on

Human Services

ASSISTANT Western NC

experience required.

Drivers/Delivery

FAMILIES TOGETHER INC. Due to continuous growth in WNC, Families Together, Inc is now hiring licensed professionals and Qualified Professionals in Buncombe, McDowell, Madison, Rutherford, Henderson, and Transylvania Counties. • Qualified candidates will include • LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s, LCAS’s, PLCSW’s, or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified Professionals. • FTI provides a positive work environment, flexible hours, room for advancement, health benefits, and an innovative culture. • www.familiestogether.net • Candidates should email resumes to humanresources @familiestogether.net

Asheville, NC 28802, or complete application at 257 Biltmore Ave., Asheville, NC 28801. WNCCHS is an equal

Mondays or Wednesdays

opportunity employer.

through Fridays from 4pm to

Racial/ethnic minorities are

5:30pm with Dean Peterson.

encouraged to apply.

CLINICIAN • OFFENDER SERVICES PROGRAM Is recruiting for a licensed or license eligible Clinician to provide group and individual treatment to sex offenders and domestic violence abusers within the Sexual Abuse Intervention Program and the Domestic Violence Abuser Program. Experience is preferred. • A broad range of mental health and substance abuse issues are addressed in this integrated treatment program. Please send application and resume w/cover letter addressing how your experience prepares you for this position to Diane Paige, Offender Services Coordinator at diane.paige @meridianbhs.org.

• For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org DirectCare Community Base Service • Due to continuous growth, DirectCare Community Base Service, LLC is now hiring licensed and provisional licensed professionals in Buncombe and Rutherford counties, who will provide clinical expertise and oversight for the Intensive In-Home Team and Community Support Team.

Qualified candidates will include; LPC’s, LCSW’s, LMFT’s LCAS’s PLCSW’s or LPCA’s and Bachelor’s and Master’s Qualified. www.directcare.com.

Candidates should email resumes to Barrance.roberts @directcare.com or fax to 828-245-9511

AVAILABLE POSITIONS • MERIDIAN BEHAVIORAL HEALTH Clinician Offender Services Program Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Experience is preferred. Please contact Diane Paige, diane.paige@ meridianbhs.org Haywood County: Registered Nurse (RN) Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Must have four years of psychiatric nursing experience. Please contact Mason Youell, mason.youell@ meridianbhs.org Clinician Recovery Education Center Must have Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Please contact Katie Goetz, katie.goetz@meridianbhs.org Cherokee County: JJTC Team/Intensive In-Home Team Member Position open for Licensed Clinician/Provisionally Licensed Clinician, or QMHP. Will function as third member of 3 person team providing JJTC services to Cherokee/Clay Counties.

Please contact Vicki Sturtevant, vicki.sturtevant@ meridianbhs.org Clinician Assertive Community Treatment Team (ACTT) Must have a Master’s degree and be license-eligible. Please contact Ben Haffey, ben.haffey@meridianbhs.org Transylvania County: Case Manager Recovery Education Center Must have mental health degree and two years of experience.

For more information, please contact Caroline Carter, caroline.carter @meridianbhs.org • For further information and to complete an application, visit our website: www.meridianbhs.org

LAKE HOUSE ACADEMY • Hiring for the following position: PT (possibly moving to FT) Direct Care Residential Coach with direct care experience with Asperger’s Syndrome. All shifts available: weekend, weeknight and weekday.

Please email resumes to careers@lakehouseacademy. com, subject line “Residential Coach”.

MAKE A DIFFERENCE NC Mentor is offering free informational meetings to those who are interested in becoming therapeutic foster parents. The meetings will be held on the 2nd Tuesday 6:30pm-7:30pm (snacks provided) and 4th Friday 12pm-1pm (lunch provided).

• If you are interested in making a difference in a child’s life, please call Rachel Wingo at (828) 6962667 ext 15 or e-mail Rachel at rachel.wingo@thementornet work.com• Become a Therapeutic Foster Family. • Free informational meeting.

NC Mentor. 120C Chadwick Square Court, Hendersonville, NC 28739.

Arts/Media

RECOVERY EDUCATION CENTER CLINICIAN Position available for a mental health/substance abuse clinician to work to an innovative recovery-oriented program in Haywood County.

• Our Recovery Education Centers have earned a statewide reputation for excellence in combining a person-centered approach to mental health and substance abuse service delivery within an educational structure in order to engage individuals in their own recovery. • Candidate must have Master’s degree and be license eligible. • Please send application and resume w/cover letter to Katie Goetz, katie.goetz@meridianbhs.org • For more information and to complete an application, visit www.meridianbhs.org

THE ASHEVILLE OFFICE OF FAMILY PRESERVATION SERVICES • Is seeking the following for Adult service lines: Certified Peer Support Specialist, LCSW, LCAS/CCS or CSAC, QDDP and an RN/QMHP. Please send resumes to csimpson@fpscorp.com.

Caregivers/ Nanny PERSONAL ASSISTANT Reliable, responsible person needed to perform household chores, driving, errands, cooking. • Computer skills a plus.

Hourly pay. • Background check. Call 424-7203.

FREELANCE GRAPHIC DESIGNER Mountain Xpress is looking for an experienced freelance graphic designer who has the proven ability to create edgy, effective advertising and assist in the layout of our weekly print publication. • The ideal candidate thrives in a fastpaced environment, has a strong attention to detail, an exceptional creative eye and a desire to ensure the high quality output our readers expect. • This is a freelance position that requires flexible hours and the possibility to progress to part or full-time.

Candidates must: • Be highly creative and motivated • Be able to create advertising and editorial designs in a fastpaced work environment • Be able to work with advertising representatives to ensure ads exceed client expectations • Be able to simultaneously handle multiple projects • Be proficient in Adobe Creative Suite programs (InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop) • Be fluent in the Mac OSX platform • Have 2-3 years graphic design experience minimum • Any newspaper work, prepress experience and web design experience a plus. Email cover letter, resume, and portfolio in PDF format to designer@mountainx.com.

URLs to portfolios also accepted. No applications or portfolios by mail or phone calls please.

Computer/ Technical WEB MASTER • Part-time.

Need to build e-commerce website and develop innovative online techniques.

Carrot Flash Mobs, etc.

Raising funds for families with autistic children. lroof@ languageofflowers.com

Teaching/ Education AFTER SCHOOL COUNSELOR For ArtSpace Charter School. • Part-time, $10/hour. • Qualified applicants must be creative, energetic, dependable and experienced with children, grades K-8. Duties include planning and leading group games/crafts and homework assistance. Applicants must be available 3-6pm, Monday-Friday and/or Wednesdays, 12-6pm. • Other schedules will be considered on a substitute basis. • Email resume to: tami.magidson @artspacecharter.org

LOVE AND LEARNING CHILDCARE CENTER • Two positions available • Lead Teacher for Infants and Toddlers. • Lead Teacher for 4 Year Olds. Must have early childhood credentials. Email resume: hermis3@yahoo.com

Jobs Wanted EMPLOYMENT NEEDED! Laid off over a year. We are trying to stay in Asheville.

Mature responsible lady seeking part-time clerical/receptionist, gal Friday-type of work. Benefits hopeful. 25+ year’s experience. Good basic computer skills. Great with people. Reliable, conscientious, fun, hard working, fast learner.

Available weekdays only.

Open to other type jobs also.

Give me opportunity; I will give you my best!

Call 828-683-3936.

Career Training EARN $75 - $200/HOUR • Media Makeup Artist Training. Ad, TV, Film, Fashion. One week class.

Stable job in weak economy.

Details at http://www.AwardMakeUpSc hool.com 310-364-0665.

(AAN CAN).

Employment Services UNDERCOVER SHOPPERS Get paid to shop. Retail and dining establishments need undercover clients to judge quality and customer service. Earn up to $100/day. Please call 1-800-720-0576.

Business Opportunities RESTAURANT FOR LEASE • Established turnkey business. Good client base, 4 miles from downtown Asheville. Unique Eatery • Full Service • Private Events • Catering. Good terms.

Reasonably priced.

828-337-8116.

Announcements PREGNANT CONSIDERING ADOPTION? • Talk with caring agency specializing in matching birthmothers with families nationwide • Living expenses paid. Call 24/7 • Abby’s One True Gift Adoptions • 1-866-413-6293. (AAN CAN)

Classes & Workshops GESTALT THERAPY: AN INTENSIVE TRAINING PROGRAM Offered by the Appalachian Gestalt Training Institute (AGTI) in partnership with the Gentle Bio-Energetics Institute.

• For professionals and non-professionals alike.

• Enhance your existing therapy practice using Gestalt theory and techniques • Deepen personal growth, emphasizing whole personal awareness.

• 3 overnight sessions • 5 Saturday sessions: September 2011-May 2012. • Locations: Black Mountain and Asheville, NC. • Cost: $995.

• For more information regarding training or registration, please call: (828) 508-4539 or visit the AGTI website: www.agti.org

Mind, Body, Spirit

Bodywork GENTLE FLOW AND YIN YOGA • Tues. and Wed. nights 5:45-6:45. Donation Based. 70 Woodfin #320.

707-0988 or tamisbliss.com MASSAGE/MLD Therapeutic Massage. Manual Lymph Drainage. Lymphedema Treatment. $45/hour or sliding scale for financial hardship. 17+ years experience. 828-254-4110.

NC License #146. www.uhealth.net YOGA 101 • Learn breathing technique basics, gentle poses, and guided relaxation. Sat. Aug 6th 1011:30am OR 6-7:30pm. 70 Woodfin Pl. for more info or to reserve tamisbliss.com or 707-0988.

Musicians’ Xchange

Musical Services

AWESOME GUITAR FOR SALE Rickenbacker 620.

Solid body, sunburst finish, high gain single coils and stereo output. Bought new in 2000. Great condition w/original hard case. $1000.

David: (828) 919-9551 or dcsweet24@gmail.com

Branwen, Brigid, Dylan (pictured), Maeve and Rosmerta. Five little orange and white tabby siblings who are waiting for their forever home. And what’s better than one kitten? Two! For this month only, come to Pet Harmony and adopt one kitten and receive half off the adoption fee of a second kitten. Stop by Animal Compassion Network’s store for rescued pets, Pet Harmony located at 803 Fairview Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28803 to shop for all your pet supplies.

Pets For Sale

Pet Xchange

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

Pets for Adoption

MEET SWEET LENA Healthy, nine-year-old Lena has all shots and checkups. Needs to be someone’s new BFF. LOVES a couch—better, a lap! 828-645-2747. dunlaroylin@gmail.com PLEASE HELP ME AND ADOPT SUGAR Sugar is a 4 year old female Shepherd/Chow mix, who needs a loving home. Owner has developed a disability and is unable to provide the necessary walks and exercise. Sugar loves cats, kids and people. Small adoption fee. Please call 667-4150.

LISA’S DOGGIE WALKABOUT & PET SITTING Servicing the N. Charlotte Street area and downtown Asheville (where I live and work). Dog walking/pet visiting. $10 a walk or visit. Great references. Call LIsa at 828-691-5472.

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

DACHSHUND MINIATURE • AKC Registered. Black and Tan. Home raised. Beautiful, healthy, playful and ready for his forever home! Must be neutered. 5 months old. All vaccs done. Health guarantee. Call 828 713.1509 or email davarner@bellsouth.net for photos and more information. $375

Automotive Services

Pet Services

For Sale

ASHEVILLE PET SITTERS Dependable, loving care while you’re away.

Reasonable rates. Call Sandy Ochsenreiter, (828) 215-7232.

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR PETS • Free or low cost spay/neuter information and vouchers. 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month 123PM at Blue Ridge Mall, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville (at the Kmart entrance). • 4th Saturday of each month 10AM - 2PM at Tractor Supply, Four Seasons Blvd., Hendersonville.

828-693-5172.

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surfing, adult Trek bike, black leather frame bed and box springs, Chinese side table, Tibetan chest, red

leather chairs. 10 month membership at Body Shop Fitness Center. Please call 828-318-3810.

Adult Services DREAMSEEKERS Your destination for relaxation.

Call for your appointment: (828) 275-4443.

MEET HOT SINGLES! Chat live/Meet & Greet www.acmedating.com 18+

ROUND REVOLVING STORAGE BIN FOR KIDS • 8 Fabric Colored bins red, blue, yellow, green. Great for small toys, books, etc. $30.

Call 337-2076.

All Levels Welcome Rental Instruments Available

seating; good for ocean

black laquer legs, two white

Furniture

• Fiddle • Mandolin • Guitar

yellow kayak-one seater/top

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WE’LL FIX IT AUTOMOTIVE • Honda and Acura repair.

Half price repair and service.

ASE and factory certified.

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ONE WORLD MEDIA STUDIO • Music and Video Production • In Studio • Live Venue • HD Video • HQ Audio. Call (828) 335-9316.

On the web: 1worldmediastudio.com

Equipment For Sale

Sales

Call 828-333-7557.

A PERSONAL TOUCH • Call now to book your appointment. 713-9901.

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